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WWE Raw 5/4/26 Review | Last Raw Before Backlash, Oba Femi OPEN CHALLENGE Begins! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1: What is going on, guys? It is another Monday night.
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Speaker 1: I am the solom Monster. This was the final raw
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Speaker 1: tonight before Backlash. It feels like wrestle Mania. Just then.
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Speaker 1: We already have another ple coming up this weekend, so
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Speaker 1: this was the go home We're all before the show
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, and they really are giving us a five
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Speaker 1: match card. I thought maybe there was a chance they
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Speaker 1: would add a new match tonight, Women's World title match,
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Speaker 1: Women's Intercontinental title match, lest they do it after the fact,
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Speaker 1: there was no hint of that. So we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: five matches on Saturday, and we know that at least one,
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Speaker 1: very likely two matches are going to be taking place
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Speaker 1: on the ESPN hour. ESPN two will be simulcasting the
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Speaker 1: first hour of the show. If it follows the same
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Speaker 1: pattern of WrestleMania both nights, we'll get two matches in
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Speaker 1: that first hour. That would mean that we would have
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Speaker 1: three matches for the remainder of the show, which technically
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Speaker 1: means that if you do not have ESPN Unlimited for free,
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Speaker 1: as some of us don't, that means that you would
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Speaker 1: be paying thirty dollars for three matches, and so that
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Speaker 1: breaks down to ten bucks per match. Now, do you
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Speaker 1: think that they will even give Eo Sky an Oscar
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Speaker 1: ten minutes on the show. We should take bets on this.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure they're going to get ten minutes
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Speaker 1: for their match. You would think on a five match
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Speaker 1: card that wouldn't be an issue, but I'm not convinced
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Speaker 1: of that. Tonight we had a contract signing for the
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Speaker 1: main event on Saturday. It will be a World Heavyweight
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Speaker 1: Championship match. Roman Reigns defends his title against Jacob Fatu. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I am well aware that half the show will be adds. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I know it was a rhetorical question. Well, Eo and
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Speaker 1: Oscar get ten minutes, Probably not think about it. Ten
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Speaker 1: bucks per match is what it breaks down to. It's insane,
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Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's Craig Cray, Roman and Jacob Fatu. Though
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Speaker 1: they were in the closing segment tonight as they were
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Speaker 1: last week. Tonight they signed the contract for their World
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Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship match, and it ended again with Roman Reigns
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Speaker 1: being put down. Now second week in a row that
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Speaker 1: he has been put down by Jacob Fatu. Probably doesn't
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Speaker 1: bode well for Jacob fa two on Saturday, now does it.
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Speaker 1: We also on this show had the start of the
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Speaker 1: Oba Femi Open Challenge. This was the open challenge that
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Speaker 1: he talked about last week. It commenced tonight. Doesn't look
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Speaker 1: like Becky Lynch is going to be continuing hers, which
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Speaker 1: is good. You don't want to have dueling open challenges
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Speaker 1: on the same show. So we'll talk about how things
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Speaker 1: went there. Soul Ruka signed her Raw contract officially now
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Speaker 1: a member of the Raw roster, and kicked off what
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Speaker 1: looks to be her first feud, which I actually am
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Speaker 1: very happy with and it will not be what Liv Morgan.
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Speaker 1: On the whole, I thought it was a solid show.
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Speaker 1: There were some boring stuff on the show. It was
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Speaker 1: a mixed bag. It was not all good, But I
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Speaker 1: think on the whole it was solid. I appreciate the
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Speaker 1: fact that it actually ended early. Tonight didn't even go
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Speaker 1: to ten thirty. I think by my clock it was
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Speaker 1: over by ten eighteen. And it's somebody who has to
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Speaker 1: sit here and suffer through three hours of SmackDown every week.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate when Raw doesn't overstay, it's welcome, I will
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Speaker 1: say that. So I thought overall it was solid, if
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Speaker 1: not unspectacular. It started hot. I thought the show open hot.
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Speaker 1: It dragged in different parts during the middle. I thought
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Speaker 1: the closing angle was fine. I don't know that that's
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Speaker 1: going to really entice anybody who was on the fence,
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Speaker 1: you know, watching backlash? Do I watch it? Do I
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Speaker 1: not watch it? Oh my god, I can't believe what
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Speaker 1: happened in the closing segment. I got to tune in
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Speaker 1: to see what's going to happen. Not really, I don't
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Speaker 1: really think it's going to move anybody. It kind of
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Speaker 1: moved things along in terms of getting to where they
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Speaker 1: wanted to be with the match, but they didn't do
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Speaker 1: anything outlandish. There wasn't some you know, gigantic, you know
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Speaker 1: brawl that we haven't seen any other week. It was
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Speaker 1: fine the OBA Open Challenge thing, for as brief as
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Speaker 1: it was, I thought Ashley ended up being a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun. So we'll get into what happened. This is
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Speaker 1: to commence the review and talk about this raw show
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Speaker 1: and get you out here as quickly as I can.
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Speaker 1: Not the most exciting show, not offensively bad. Although there
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Speaker 1: was thing on the show. There was one thing on
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Speaker 1: the show that I think just is fucking awful. I'll
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Speaker 1: let you guess what it is. But this show is
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Speaker 1: not offensively bad like SmackDown is. There is definitely just
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Speaker 1: this huge gap between these two shows in terms of quality.
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Speaker 1: Raw in some weeks is actually a very good show
6:54
Speaker 1: and can be a very enjoyable show, and then you
6:57
Speaker 1: have weeks where the show is kind of boring and
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Speaker 1: there may be is a whole lot going on. It's
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Speaker 1: still not as offensively bad as SmackDown. That's the big
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Speaker 1: glaring difference right now between these two television shows. But
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Speaker 1: Roman Reigns arrived at the beginning. He got to the building.
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Speaker 1: He was not in a good mood. He always seems
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Speaker 1: to be in a bad mood, you know, for somebody
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Speaker 1: like him who hasn't made I mean, this guy was
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Speaker 1: champion for thirteen hundred days, makes all this money. He
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Speaker 1: travels around in style, he's surrounded by his family members.
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Speaker 1: He's the OTC. Everybody acknowledges him. He's eleven straight WrestleMania
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Speaker 1: main events. You would think the guy would have a
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Speaker 1: big smile on his face. Rarely does he smile. He
7:36
Speaker 1: always seems to be annoyed. Maybe he should start a podcast.
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Speaker 1: So he was in no mood tonight, which at least
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Speaker 1: tonight is understandable because last week he had the Tonguan
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Speaker 1: death grip was applied. They have brought back the Tonguan
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Speaker 1: death grip. They're really trying to put this thing over
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Speaker 1: as some sort of just lethal maneuver. So he was
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Speaker 1: in no mood and he made it all the way
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Speaker 1: to the gorilla position. He was going to march his
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Speaker 1: way out to the ring and Adam Pearce is trying
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Speaker 1: to tell him he's trying to stop him, just would
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Speaker 1: just stop and just listen to what I have to say.
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Speaker 1: He tells him Jacob Fatu is not here yet. So
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Speaker 1: Roman stopped in his tracks. He wasn't very happy. Then
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Speaker 1: he turned and he finds Seth Rollins is standing there.
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Speaker 1: So we got a little face off here between Roman
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Speaker 1: and Seth, and Seth said you're in my way. So
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Speaker 1: Roman kind of stepped aside, and it was Seth Rawlins
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Speaker 1: instead who made his way out to the ring. And
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Speaker 1: he got as far as getting to ringside without actually
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Speaker 1: getting in the ring when he got jumped from behind
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Speaker 1: by Bron Breaker. And so now we have this just
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Speaker 1: big brawl outside the ring here to kick things off,
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Speaker 1: Breaker press slammed him onto the barricade, and here come
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Speaker 1: all the Secure people and they're out there and they're
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Speaker 1: they're just huddled all around Breaker. He's shoving some of
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Speaker 1: them aside. He keeps attacking Rollins, and so briefly they
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Speaker 1: were able to kind of put a stop to this,
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Speaker 1: but then he sprinted right past them into the ring
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Speaker 1: where Rollins was and cut him down with a really
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Speaker 1: good spear, really wicked spear. Takes Rollins down to the
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Speaker 1: mat and then finally he leaves, even though the fans
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Speaker 1: were chanting one more time they wanted to see him
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Speaker 1: destroy this man, but he left and that was the
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Speaker 1: end of that. So it was brief, nothing terribly special,
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Speaker 1: but it was a hot start to the show. It
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Speaker 1: was all action, not a lot of talking, but we
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Speaker 1: got a lot of action here packed into the opening whatever.
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Speaker 1: This was three minutes of the show, so I did
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Speaker 1: like that. But we obviously had a very clear tease
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Speaker 1: here for Roman Reigns and Seth Rolin. Now, at some
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Speaker 1: point down the road, we will get another match between
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Speaker 1: Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. It is inevitable and there
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Speaker 1: is a wealth of history there between the two of them,
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Speaker 1: and it will be a big match when the time
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Speaker 1: is right. It is not a match that I really
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Speaker 1: would like for them to do this year. It is
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Speaker 1: not a match that I want to see in these
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Speaker 1: next few months. It is not a match that I
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Speaker 1: want to see. It's SummerSlam to me. It's old hat.
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Speaker 1: I watched this show and one of the more enjoyable
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Speaker 1: things about the show tonight, and we'll talk about it
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Speaker 1: more when we get there. There was a tag team
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Speaker 1: match in the middle of the show where you had
10:29
Speaker 1: people like Ethan Page and Javon Evans doing their thing. Now,
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Speaker 1: Javon Evans is super young, right, Ethan Pages and as
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Speaker 1: young as Javon Evans, but he's a new face on
10:39
Speaker 1: the show. Javon Evans still a new face on the
10:42
Speaker 1: show right, part of this big youth movement that they're
10:45
Speaker 1: trying to push now in WWE, and they're out there
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Speaker 1: and they're doing their thing in the crowded Omaha. Tonight
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Speaker 1: was hot for a lot of the stuff on the show,
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Speaker 1: which was nice to see. And I'm watching that and
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it because it's different and it's not just
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Speaker 1: the same old shit. So I'm not going to sit
11:02
Speaker 1: here and go, man, you know, I really want to
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Speaker 1: see Roman reigns and Seth rollins again. Really do we
11:08
Speaker 1: need to go back to that. That's why I'm sitting
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Speaker 1: here and I'm pitching ideas like Roman in Oba or
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Speaker 1: like I'm trying to put together different match combinations that
11:17
Speaker 1: are not just the same old stuff that we're used
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Speaker 1: to seeing and that I genuinely have an interest and
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Speaker 1: an excitement to see. So they can tease it all
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Speaker 1: they want to, and you'll hear the fans in the
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Speaker 1: background cheering, because look, I'm not gonna say it's not
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Speaker 1: a big match. It's not a match that I have
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Speaker 1: any intention of sitting here and saying, Oh, I'm super
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Speaker 1: excited to see it anytime soon. You give me the
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Speaker 1: choice between Roman and Seth or Roman in Oba for
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Speaker 1: example at Summer Slim, I'm choosing Roman and Oba ten
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Speaker 1: times out of ten. Give me something new, give me
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Speaker 1: something fresh, give me something different, give me fresh matchups
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Speaker 1: that we haven't seen before. That's what I'm hoping for.
12:03
Speaker 1: Even Cody and Punk. Yeah, it's two old guys, so
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Speaker 1: what to match we haven't seen before. That's probably the
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Speaker 1: biggest possible match they could do. Honestly, even bigger than
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Speaker 1: Roman and Seth. That'd be okay to me. That'd be
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Speaker 1: a hell of a one to two punch for Summer
12:21
Speaker 1: Slim this year. Romanoba, Cody, Punk sure sold would love
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Speaker 1: to see it. Backstage, we had the judgment day and
12:35
Speaker 1: they were all meeting up. Liv Morgan said, Stephanie Vicaire
12:39
Speaker 1: is out injured now and so we don't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about her anymore, which is true. They wrote her
12:44
Speaker 1: off television last week, they claimed that she suffered a
12:48
Speaker 1: sprained ac joint in her shoulder. I believe that is
12:50
Speaker 1: a legitimate injury and she's not gonna need surgery or
12:54
Speaker 1: anything like that. I don't believe, but the expectation is
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Speaker 1: that minimum six weeks and the hope is that she
13:01
Speaker 1: will be back in time for SummerSlam. So she's going
13:03
Speaker 1: to miss a good chunk of time here over these
13:06
Speaker 1: next couple of months, so she's out of the picture.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea who they're gonna line up next
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Speaker 1: for Live Morgan unless they go within the judgment day
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Speaker 1: something happens with Raquel. They're clearly building tension between Live
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Speaker 1: and Roxanne. It seems to me like that may well
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Speaker 1: be the direction Live In Roxanne may be headed for
13:22
Speaker 1: a Women's World Championship match in these next you know,
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Speaker 1: two three months, because again, like Stephanie's out, we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about Becky and Soul a little bit later
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Speaker 1: on here. A lot of the other women are tied
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Speaker 1: up in the tag team stuff. There is no obvious
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Speaker 1: next challenger right now outside of Roxanne, and they're taking
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Speaker 1: their time telling that story. It's not something that's going
13:43
Speaker 1: to happen to, you know, clash in Italy for example,
13:47
Speaker 1: outside of Roxanne, I genuinely don't know. I don't know
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Speaker 1: who they're gonna go to next for Live. But Live says, look,
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Speaker 1: I watched the show and she's talking to Roxanne now,
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Speaker 1: and she said, as you know, last week, she allowed
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Speaker 1: Finn Balor into the clubhouse. If you remember, Balert kind
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Speaker 1: of slipped in there and he had a conversation with
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Speaker 1: with Roxanne, and she wanted to know, first of all,
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Speaker 1: why is he in there, why are you talking to him?
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Speaker 1: And why didn't you tell me about it? So Roxanne said, well,
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Speaker 1: I made it clear to Finn to leave and never
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Speaker 1: come back, and Live made her promise that she won't
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Speaker 1: keep secrets from the family again. And Roxanne was like,
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Speaker 1: I promise I won't keep secrets from the family. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: silently within her, she's like, you fucking bitch. So they're
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Speaker 1: they're they're building the tension more and more with each
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Speaker 1: passing week between these two. We had up next Finn
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Speaker 1: Balor one on one with JD McDonough. I saw this
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Speaker 1: and I said, oh, okay, all right. We had this
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and it turned out to
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Speaker 1: be very disappointing because they didn't give them a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of time, and it was just like it was
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Speaker 1: not the match that I envisioned the two of them.
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Speaker 1: So I see that they're running it back, and I'm
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Speaker 1: hopeful now that this may be is this is gonna be.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna go out there, They're gonna go balls to
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Speaker 1: the wall. Neither man has a match on the pl
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Speaker 1: This is like their PLI let them go out there
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Speaker 1: and do their thing. Didn't exactly work out that way.
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Speaker 1: Balor got tripped by Dominic from the outside. Jessica Carr
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Speaker 1: was the referee. She didn't see any of this. So
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Speaker 1: Roxan Perez comes out to the ring and now also
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Speaker 1: Live Morgan is out there, and Raquel Rodriguez is out there.
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Speaker 1: Valor eventually knocked dom off the apron when he tried
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Speaker 1: to interfere again. McDonough followed with a Spanish fly standing
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Speaker 1: Spanish fly for a near fall, and Balor took this
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Speaker 1: terrible bump. It looked like right on top of his
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Speaker 1: head on the landing. Even Corey Graves had to acknowledge it.
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Speaker 1: They showed a replay of it. It was a nasty landing,
15:49
Speaker 1: so Dom ends up tripping Baler up on the apron
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Speaker 1: and finally there's like the third or fourth time this
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Speaker 1: fucker is interfered in this match. So finally the referee
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Speaker 1: sees this and she tosses him, tosses him, well, tosses him.
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Speaker 1: You know, I am reminded from time to time by
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Speaker 1: my UK viewers that different words have different meanings in
16:18
Speaker 1: different places. And I remember once I was talking about
16:21
Speaker 1: the hell in a Cell match at the King of
16:24
Speaker 1: the Ring in ninety eight Undertaker of Mankind, and I said,
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Speaker 1: you know, Undertaker, you know toss folly off, and I
16:32
Speaker 1: had somebody who lives over in the UK. They go, yeah,
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Speaker 1: solo monster, that means something very different over here as
16:39
Speaker 1: compared to what it means over that go, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean? This is years ago. I have no idea
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about. And then I realized I read
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Speaker 1: up and I realized what he was talking about. I go, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, yes, well that definitely is not what happened.
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Speaker 1: He tossed him off the cage, so I have to
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Speaker 1: be careful when I say these things. She tossed him
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Speaker 1: out of the ringside area, not the other members of
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Speaker 1: the judgment. They only Dom, so Dom got tossed. Mcdonoughh
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Speaker 1: went for a moonsaw. Balor got his knees up on
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Speaker 1: the landing. Now Live Morgan is up on the apron
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Speaker 1: and she is distracting the referee and she has the
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Speaker 1: bell hammer, the ring bell hammer, and referee doesn't see it,
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Speaker 1: and she very covertly kind of tosses it to Roxanne Perez.
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Speaker 1: Perez takes the hammer, goes around to the other side
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Speaker 1: of the ring and whax Balor with it. Referee didn't
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Speaker 1: see it. Referees don't see anything. They're blind. So not
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Speaker 1: only did Balor get hit with the ring bell hammer,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as he gets hit with the ring
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Speaker 1: bell hammer, we have JD. McDonough who follows through with
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Speaker 1: this running head butt with his giant you know, funko
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Speaker 1: pop head and then he collapses on top of Balor
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Speaker 1: and he gets the three in ja McDonough picks up
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Speaker 1: the win. You know, they're very lucky that this match
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Speaker 1: here had a hot crowd, which it did. The crowd
18:06
Speaker 1: was really into what was going on here in this match,
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Speaker 1: by and large, and the match wasn't bad, but the
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Speaker 1: fact is they ran it back again, and I really did.
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Speaker 1: I thought that this meant we were going to get
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Speaker 1: more of a proper match between the two as compared
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Speaker 1: to what we had gotten two weeks ago, and instead
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Speaker 1: what we ended up getting was this revolving door of interference. Now,
18:29
Speaker 1: I know it's the Judgment Day, so you kind of
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Speaker 1: come to expect it. It's the resident house of torture
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Speaker 1: here of WWE, so you're always going to have interference
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Speaker 1: and distractions and all this bullshit. There was a lot
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Speaker 1: of it here in this match. And now these two
18:43
Speaker 1: men are knotted up at one win apiece, which gives
18:45
Speaker 1: me at least some optimism that they will have a
18:47
Speaker 1: third match. It probably will not be on a pl
18:51
Speaker 1: but imagine if they had a third match between Finn
18:53
Speaker 1: Balor and JD McDonough in Italy Clash in Italy. I
18:59
Speaker 1: think the crowd would actually respond very well. You let
19:01
Speaker 1: these two guys go out there, give them actual time
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Speaker 1: to go out there and just have a great match,
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Speaker 1: and you could still play out, you know, whatever story
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Speaker 1: you want to play out outside with Live and Rock Sand.
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Speaker 1: You can still use that match to further the Judgment
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Speaker 1: Day stuff. I would just love to see these guys
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Speaker 1: go out there and just handcuffs off and just do
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Speaker 1: what they do best. And I'm sure Balor, you know,
19:25
Speaker 1: he'll win the rubber match. Hopefully we'll get a rubber
19:27
Speaker 1: match at some point between these two. But the constant
19:29
Speaker 1: interference is just that's just ridiculous. So I can't sit
19:33
Speaker 1: here and tell you this was some great man. I mean,
19:35
Speaker 1: it was fine for what it was, but not with
19:38
Speaker 1: all the extra bullshit. That's about the best I could say.
19:43
Speaker 1: Jackie Redman interviewed Seth Rollins in the back, still licking
19:47
Speaker 1: his wounds after what happened earlier in the show, and
19:50
Speaker 1: are you gonna be okay for backlash? He said, the
19:53
Speaker 1: show's in five days, so I'll be fine. He said
19:57
Speaker 1: he told Breaker last week that if he took chances,
19:59
Speaker 1: he better be able to finish the job. But I'm
20:01
Speaker 1: not dead yet, and he walked off. They aired highlights
20:07
Speaker 1: after this of the closing segment from Raw last week
20:09
Speaker 1: where Jacob FAUGHTU applied the tongue in death grip. They
20:16
Speaker 1: have busted out the tongue in death grip with these
20:19
Speaker 1: two Samoans and he put down Roman Reigns with it.
20:24
Speaker 1: So they showed highlights of that, and then they cut
20:26
Speaker 1: back to the announcers who really sat there and they
20:29
Speaker 1: tried to put over just how lethal a maneuver this is.
20:34
Speaker 1: They explained that it was made famous by the legendary
20:37
Speaker 1: Haku and it targets the atoms apple, So basically, when
20:42
Speaker 1: you reach for the throat, you're squeezing the atoms apple
20:46
Speaker 1: and you're cutting off the flow of oxygen and eventually
20:49
Speaker 1: you go out. Now I'm listening to Michael Cole, you know,
20:53
Speaker 1: talk about this and this is all very goofy, but
20:56
Speaker 1: I kind of like it because they're taking a simple move.
21:00
Speaker 1: They're trying to get it out and it's out of nowhere,
21:02
Speaker 1: but they're taking a simple move like the tongue in
21:05
Speaker 1: death grip, and they're trying to make it seem deadly. Really,
21:09
Speaker 1: what this is is very basic, old school pro wrestling.
21:14
Speaker 1: So as silly as it all seems, I kind of
21:17
Speaker 1: like it because we don't really have enough of this
21:19
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and you don't need some overly dangerous
21:24
Speaker 1: maneuver where you know, oh my god, they're going to
21:26
Speaker 1: be on the top rope, but he's going to do
21:28
Speaker 1: a triple somersault onto the announced then like, no, it's
21:32
Speaker 1: the fucking tongue in death grip. And if they can
21:34
Speaker 1: get that over as a believable finish, great. The only
21:38
Speaker 1: problem is I don't see Jacob Fatu wedding on Saturday,
21:41
Speaker 1: So if he uses the tongue in death grip, he's
21:43
Speaker 1: not going to win the title with it. Yeah, look,
21:46
Speaker 1: if he does, I'll eat my hat. And I don't
21:47
Speaker 1: even wear a hat, but I appreciate the little nod
21:52
Speaker 1: to old school wrestling. We go back to last week
21:59
Speaker 1: and Henry he remember last week he sang about the
22:03
Speaker 1: firing of Logan Paul and he got attacked by Austin
22:08
Speaker 1: Theory and Logan Paul and then the Street Profits made
22:11
Speaker 1: their return. They made the save. So in the back Live,
22:15
Speaker 1: bron Breaker is talking shit about Seth Rollins to Logan
22:19
Speaker 1: Paul and Austin Theory and he's mocking him. He sounds
22:21
Speaker 1: like a dock. He's pinching his nose, he's mocking his voice.
22:25
Speaker 1: Paul Haman waddles in and he wants to know why
22:29
Speaker 1: Rollins is still breathing. So Logan says that he wants
22:33
Speaker 1: to make sure that Joe Henry is no longer breathing.
22:35
Speaker 1: He wants to kill this man tonight, and Hayman says
22:40
Speaker 1: no because he doesn't want to see him get suspended.
22:42
Speaker 1: So instead, tonight it's going to be Austin Theory against
22:45
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry. After this, we had the tag team match
22:49
Speaker 1: that I mentioned earlier. One of the highlights of the night,
22:52
Speaker 1: Penta and Javon Evans tag team partners against Russev and
22:56
Speaker 1: Ethan Page. Fun match here, crowd was very loud for it,
23:01
Speaker 1: super into it. Penta knocked Russev off the apron. Rusev, though,
23:06
Speaker 1: yanked Evans off the apron to avoid the tag as Penta.
23:11
Speaker 1: It's funny too, because Penta had to like there was
23:13
Speaker 1: nobody there. Javon Evans is on the apron waiting for
23:16
Speaker 1: the hot tag and Penta has to wait for Russev
23:20
Speaker 1: to get in position on the outside to do what
23:22
Speaker 1: he's going to do, so he has to sort of
23:24
Speaker 1: slow himself down and stumble around like he's punched drunk,
23:28
Speaker 1: and then finally he goes in for the tag and
23:31
Speaker 1: Russev pulls Evans off the apron, so Jravon did end
23:37
Speaker 1: up getting the tag and he ran wild and he
23:39
Speaker 1: got the fans all fired up with the whole flurry
23:42
Speaker 1: of offense. The red dot connects tag back out to Penta,
23:46
Speaker 1: who hits a tornado DDT on Ethan for a two count.
23:50
Speaker 1: Russev broke it up, but then he got sent outside
23:52
Speaker 1: and Evans hid this big dive out onto Russev on
23:56
Speaker 1: the floor, and so Russev ends up being set up
23:59
Speaker 1: or laid out, I should say, on top of the
24:02
Speaker 1: announced desk, and he he being Javon, is looking he's
24:07
Speaker 1: gonna go up top. So now he's gonna do something crazy.
24:11
Speaker 1: So he goes to head up top, Ethan knocks him off,
24:15
Speaker 1: and while Ethan distracts the referee, Russev suplexes Penta onto
24:19
Speaker 1: the announced desk, then quickly rolls Penta back into the
24:22
Speaker 1: ring and all Ego hits a variation of a Fisherman's
24:26
Speaker 1: suplex for a three count, not even his finish. He
24:29
Speaker 1: tried to go for a twisted grin a couple of
24:31
Speaker 1: times in this match. Both times it got foiled, and
24:34
Speaker 1: so instead of finally hitting his finish and winning with it,
24:36
Speaker 1: he hit some wacky fisherman's supplex variation, but he got
24:40
Speaker 1: the win. He pins the Intercontinental Champion, and they immediately
24:45
Speaker 1: cut to a shot of Russev on the outside and
24:48
Speaker 1: he's smiling. They told him, they go, look, we're gonna
24:50
Speaker 1: put the camera on you. You gotta smile, something we don't
24:53
Speaker 1: see very often. And then he got in the ring
24:56
Speaker 1: and Ethan was all excited. He wanted a hug and
24:58
Speaker 1: Roussev was like you, I don't think so. But for
25:00
Speaker 1: one night anyway, these two were. They were getting along okay.
25:06
Speaker 1: So the real standouts here in this match were Javon
25:08
Speaker 1: Evans and Ethan Page. And this goes to what I
25:10
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier, where you have these two new faces. Right.
25:14
Speaker 1: Evans has been on ROW for a few months now,
25:15
Speaker 1: but he's still relatively new. Ethan is brand new. I
25:18
Speaker 1: mean he's been on the show for like two weeks.
25:21
Speaker 1: And it's nice to see some fresh faces on the show.
25:24
Speaker 1: It's nice to see that energy that Javon bring you
25:27
Speaker 1: cause it's easy to tell why the crowd gets so
25:30
Speaker 1: excited because he's fun to watch. He's bouncing around all
25:34
Speaker 1: over the place. He's kipping up, he's doing this, he's
25:36
Speaker 1: doing that. He's a ball of energy out there and
25:39
Speaker 1: there aren't too many people on the show who are
25:41
Speaker 1: flying around like that. So I had a lot of
25:45
Speaker 1: fun watching this match. The crowd obviously had a lot
25:47
Speaker 1: of fun with this match. This is the sort of
25:50
Speaker 1: thing I'd like to see more of on these shows,
25:51
Speaker 1: and you never know what kind of crowd you're going
25:53
Speaker 1: to get from week to week, but here in Omaha tonight,
25:56
Speaker 1: they were very lively for this, and look ethan page
25:59
Speaker 1: Pin Penta clearly is going to put him in a
26:01
Speaker 1: position to challenge soon, sooner than I thought. By the way,
26:05
Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental, because I did make the comment a
26:08
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I said, inside of six months,
26:10
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the Intercontinental Champion. I don't know that
26:14
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it now. If he's wrestling Penta, let's
26:17
Speaker 1: say this month. I'm not saying he's gonna win it
26:19
Speaker 1: now necessarily, but it would be. It would be a
26:22
Speaker 1: little bit quicker than I thought, but I wouldn't be
26:24
Speaker 1: totally shocked because I just from the moment he debuted
26:27
Speaker 1: on the show, I said, this guy's gonna be Intercontinental
26:30
Speaker 1: Champion inside of this year, like it's gonna happen. But
26:34
Speaker 1: they seem to be getting to it. A lot quicker
26:36
Speaker 1: than I thought. So so far, Ethan Page is doing great,
26:40
Speaker 1: Soul Ruki I think is going to do great. Opa
26:43
Speaker 1: Femi is doing well. Trick Williams is doing well. I mean,
26:46
Speaker 1: it's nice to see some of these NXT call ups. Yeah,
26:51
Speaker 1: sometimes you're lucky if you get one that really sticks.
26:54
Speaker 1: And they have a few of them that so far,
26:56
Speaker 1: so good, and I think in more than one case,
26:59
Speaker 1: you know they're doing well enough where you can see
27:02
Speaker 1: the vision of where they're going and that they could
27:05
Speaker 1: be big, big stars and big big contributors on these shows.
27:08
Speaker 1: In the end, it all depends on the booking, of course,
27:11
Speaker 1: But yeah, so far, so good. Oh but Trick, all
27:14
Speaker 1: these people, this is what we need more of. They
27:17
Speaker 1: waited too long to call some of these people out.
27:20
Speaker 1: Ricky Saints just got called up, Blake Monroe is coming up.
27:25
Speaker 1: It's like they're all coming at the same time. They
27:28
Speaker 1: should have called some of these people up a little
27:30
Speaker 1: bit sooner instead of having this whole cluster of people
27:32
Speaker 1: coming up, all of ones. But now that it's happening,
27:35
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, well, this is something that is sorely
27:38
Speaker 1: needed on these shows. Yeah, these shows have been the
27:41
Speaker 1: same old, same old for so long. It's nice to
27:43
Speaker 1: have some fresh faces that are doing well. So we
27:47
Speaker 1: have the raw gm Adam Pierce out to the ring
27:51
Speaker 1: after a break after all this, and he said that
27:55
Speaker 1: when he was a coach in NXT, his favorite days
27:58
Speaker 1: were when you had these blue chip, can't miss prospects
28:03
Speaker 1: that were getting the big call up to raw or
28:06
Speaker 1: smack down. He said, today is one of those days.
28:09
Speaker 1: And he pitched it to a Soul Ruka video package
28:12
Speaker 1: his various highlights for Soul. So then soul Ruka makes
28:17
Speaker 1: her way down to the ring and Adam Pierce congratulates
28:20
Speaker 1: her and hands her the contract bind her and she
28:23
Speaker 1: didn't really have a chance to say a whole hell
28:25
Speaker 1: of a lot before she was interrupted by the Women's
28:27
Speaker 1: Intercontinental Champion, Becky Lynch, wearing the puffiest jacket that you
28:33
Speaker 1: will ever see. It was a jacket five times too
28:35
Speaker 1: big for her. It's like she raided her husband's closet.
28:39
Speaker 1: And she makes her way down to the ring, she
28:40
Speaker 1: blows right past Soul, completely ignores her even though this
28:44
Speaker 1: is her big moment, and she makes a beeline for
28:48
Speaker 1: Adam Pears and yes, she does have new music. She
28:51
Speaker 1: has been deaf rebeled. She does have new theme music.
28:55
Speaker 1: De mean, you had to know this was coming. It's
28:59
Speaker 1: too early to say whether or not it's good, like
29:01
Speaker 1: an upgrade or if it's a downgrade. I'm kind of
29:05
Speaker 1: in the middle on it. But she does have new music.
29:10
Speaker 1: So Becky said, look, this was meant to be my time.
29:13
Speaker 1: She had a monumental win at WrestleMania. She had to
29:16
Speaker 1: then fight Eo Janetti in a Poor Marty twenty twenty six.
29:23
Speaker 1: This is already the second Marty Janetti diss that we
29:27
Speaker 1: have gotten on television this year. This poor bastard still
29:32
Speaker 1: getting disrespected after all these years you've been jeanettied Eo Janetti.
29:38
Speaker 1: She said she had a wrestle in that Open Challenge
29:40
Speaker 1: last week and it was an unscheduled match and she
29:44
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it. She says she won the match
29:47
Speaker 1: despite Adam Pearce's meddling. Then she started to lapse into
29:51
Speaker 1: her Sports Illustrated Bleacher Report. Bit Soul interrupted and asked,
29:56
Speaker 1: are you done, and Becky said that I'm not. She
30:00
Speaker 1: gloated about being a New York Times bestselling author. Ruca
30:03
Speaker 1: said that not everything is about you She said, she
30:07
Speaker 1: knows who Becky is and what she's accomplished, but she
30:09
Speaker 1: didn't expect to find out that she's exactly what everybody says.
30:12
Speaker 1: She is a rude, big headed bitch and it's not
30:18
Speaker 1: just her saying that. So Becky asked the Pierce and
30:22
Speaker 1: then the fans, you're gonna let this woman talk to
30:26
Speaker 1: me like that. So Ruca then went and signed her contract,
30:30
Speaker 1: so now she's officially on Monday Night row and Becky
30:36
Speaker 1: asked her, like, who the hell are you? And she goes,
30:38
Speaker 1: I'm soul, Ruka, and if you ever interrupt me again,
30:41
Speaker 1: not only will I kick your ass, I'll snatch your soul,
30:46
Speaker 1: which was like okay, I mean the fans shared the line,
30:49
Speaker 1: but okay. So Becky went to go throw a punch
30:56
Speaker 1: at her soul, dodges it, and instead Becky inadvertently punches
31:00
Speaker 1: Adam Pierce in the jaw. And she's very apologetic about this. Oh,
31:03
Speaker 1: I didn't mean it, and Pierce is He's not apologetic.
31:07
Speaker 1: He's apoplectic. I mean, he's not happy about this. Are
31:11
Speaker 1: you fucking serious? He didn't say fucking, but you know
31:15
Speaker 1: he was thinking it, so he was not very happy.
31:17
Speaker 1: I see. I thought he was going to make a
31:19
Speaker 1: match on the spot and go, oh, you want to
31:20
Speaker 1: punch me in the face. I'll tell you what. You're
31:22
Speaker 1: gonna put your title on the line this Saturday of
31:24
Speaker 1: Backlash against Soul Ruka, and that was going to be
31:27
Speaker 1: match number six. See, but we can't have that though.
31:32
Speaker 1: Five's the limit, so he just left the ring. I
31:35
Speaker 1: guess we'll have to wait until next week to find
31:37
Speaker 1: out what the punishment is going to be for putting
31:40
Speaker 1: her hands on Adam Pierce. So as she's standing there
31:45
Speaker 1: and she's got her back turned, Soul is standing behind her,
31:48
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, is she setting up for the
31:50
Speaker 1: Soul Snatcher? And sure enough, she goes to go for
31:53
Speaker 1: the Soul Snatcher. And of all the nights of all
31:57
Speaker 1: the Knights for her to fuck this up, this was
32:00
Speaker 1: not the best spot for it to happen. She goes
32:04
Speaker 1: with a Soul Snatcher, she goes to jump to the
32:07
Speaker 1: middle rope and she slipped. Now, she quickly recovers, it's
32:11
Speaker 1: not like she fell on her ass or anything like that,
32:13
Speaker 1: but that momentary slip, it was like ah, and she
32:17
Speaker 1: she went and did the move anyway, and it didn't
32:20
Speaker 1: really connect right, I mean, Becky was almost like Becky
32:22
Speaker 1: didn't go down fast enough for it. It did not
32:24
Speaker 1: look good, and so the fans didn't really react in
32:27
Speaker 1: the way that they you would expect them to, or
32:30
Speaker 1: that they did a few weeks ago when she hit
32:31
Speaker 1: the move. So it's it was unfortunate. Let's just say
32:35
Speaker 1: that it is never a good moment to fuck up
32:37
Speaker 1: in the ring. Nobody wants to fuck up. But yes,
32:41
Speaker 1: that was a very unfortunate botch. Let's just say but
32:47
Speaker 1: I am, however, very excited to see Becky Lynch against
32:51
Speaker 1: soul Ruka. I loved the idea of putting these two
32:54
Speaker 1: together because outside of I thought maybe they would have
32:58
Speaker 1: her working with liv Morgan. That would obviously be the
33:01
Speaker 1: best spot, right because the Women's World Championship, But why
33:04
Speaker 1: rush her into that. This is the next best spot
33:07
Speaker 1: for her to be in. You know, she could do
33:10
Speaker 1: a program for a few months with Becky and feud
33:12
Speaker 1: over the the IC title, and the payoff here could
33:15
Speaker 1: be Sole winning the title. Let's say it's Summer Slam
33:18
Speaker 1: because we're in May. So if you're first kicking this
33:21
Speaker 1: thing off, now you know you've got clash in Italy.
33:25
Speaker 1: You've got a Saturday Night's main event coming up later
33:27
Speaker 1: this month. You've got a Night of Champions next month.
33:30
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're doing anything in July, and
33:32
Speaker 1: then boom the beginning of August. You got two nights
33:35
Speaker 1: of Summer Slam. To me, that's the match, like, that's
33:37
Speaker 1: the Summer Slim match, Like the WrestleMania match for Becky
33:41
Speaker 1: Lynch was very clear was always going to be Becky
33:43
Speaker 1: Lynch and aj Lee the match for Summer Slam. As
33:47
Speaker 1: I look ahead, I go Becky and Soul. It just
33:49
Speaker 1: makes all the sense in the world. This is the
33:52
Speaker 1: perfect person for her to be working with, so I
33:55
Speaker 1: like it. But this is this is just the kickoff here.
33:59
Speaker 1: But again, a small part of me thought maybe there
34:01
Speaker 1: was a possibility they were gonna set the first matchup
34:04
Speaker 1: for this weekend. Backstage, Jackie Redman caught Jimmy and Jay
34:11
Speaker 1: Usso before they were about to walk into Roman's locker room,
34:15
Speaker 1: and she asked them for comment on tonight's contract signing,
34:18
Speaker 1: and Jimmy said that they love Fatu, but he needed
34:20
Speaker 1: to understand how Roman handled his business, and Jay warned
34:25
Speaker 1: Jacob that he's swimming in the deep water. Now the
34:28
Speaker 1: blood line has been drawn, and Fat two would find
34:30
Speaker 1: out who he was messing with at backlash. Still very
34:36
Speaker 1: interesting that over the last couple of weeks on SmackDown,
34:38
Speaker 1: when the ussos have appeared during Jacob matches or Jacob segments,
34:42
Speaker 1: they have not come to blows. They have not put
34:45
Speaker 1: their hands on Jacob Fatu. Very interesting. We had Joe
34:50
Speaker 1: Hendry out and they went into a commercial break. He
34:53
Speaker 1: started singing his song. They had a whole microphone set
34:56
Speaker 1: up for him in the ring, and he had his
34:58
Speaker 1: guitar and he starts singing a song which ended with
35:02
Speaker 1: you know, fire Logan Paul or can we fire Logan Paul?
35:06
Speaker 1: Same shit he was singing last week When they came
35:08
Speaker 1: back from the commercial break, he was still in mid song, right,
35:11
Speaker 1: so he's still singing this stuff. Logan then comes out
35:15
Speaker 1: with theory and he's again like last week, he's over
35:19
Speaker 1: acting again and acting all angry and talking about how
35:23
Speaker 1: I'm unfireable. TKO can't fire me. I'm on fire. Of
35:29
Speaker 1: course TKO can't fire him. You know why, because he
35:31
Speaker 1: would qualify as a celebrity. Some people would call him
35:36
Speaker 1: an influencer. He's not really a big celebrity. He kind
35:38
Speaker 1: of is a celebrity, and you know how TKO feels
35:41
Speaker 1: about their celebrities. The last person they're going to fire
35:44
Speaker 1: is a celebrity. If you're a wrestler, you're always on
35:47
Speaker 1: the bubble, but if you're a celebrity, you're okay. So
35:51
Speaker 1: I don't think Logan needs to worry about being fired
35:53
Speaker 1: anytime soon. They're pretty much untouchable. This was not much
35:56
Speaker 1: of a match. It was Theory and Joe Hendry, and
35:59
Speaker 1: this went maybe three minutes. Maybe nothing happened until Logan
36:05
Speaker 1: Paul jumped into ambush Henry as he was doing his pose.
36:08
Speaker 1: He turned around, the camera zoomed in on him and
36:10
Speaker 1: then you could see Logan Paul attack him in the background,
36:13
Speaker 1: so that caused the disqualification. Again, we were three minutes
36:17
Speaker 1: into this match, so the vision beats up Henri until
36:20
Speaker 1: montes Ford Angelo Dawkins they come running out to make
36:23
Speaker 1: the save. Bron Breaker though runs out and he spears
36:28
Speaker 1: and supplexes both street profits and he absolutely launched montese
36:32
Speaker 1: Ford out over the top rope, and boy did he
36:36
Speaker 1: gets some height on that backdrop or throw whatever it was,
36:41
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite brock Lesner and Shannon Moore from SmackDown,
36:47
Speaker 1: but it was. It was one of those throws where
36:49
Speaker 1: it was just this wild throw out over the top
36:52
Speaker 1: and he just comes crashing and burning on the floor. Man,
36:54
Speaker 1: that Brocklesner and Shannon Moore. Things still lives rent free
36:57
Speaker 1: in my head. The fact I'm even sitting here in
37:01
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and I still remember this fucking match
37:05
Speaker 1: with Brackelesner and Shannon Moore, and it had to be
37:07
Speaker 1: what two thousand and three. It's like, are you kidding me?
37:12
Speaker 1: He gave him a belly to belly overhead souplex from
37:16
Speaker 1: the ring out to the floor. You couldn't pay me
37:20
Speaker 1: enough to take that, because if I ever took that move,
37:23
Speaker 1: he'd be the last move I would ever take because
37:26
Speaker 1: I would be in traction for the rest of my life.
37:29
Speaker 1: You couldn't pay me enough to take that. Breaker set
37:33
Speaker 1: up Dawkins for a spear seth Rollins, though showed up.
37:36
Speaker 1: He dragged Breaker out under the bottom row and he
37:39
Speaker 1: beat him up. So anyway, he was about to give
37:43
Speaker 1: Breaker a curb stomp, but montes Ford gets back in
37:47
Speaker 1: the ring and from one corner he sprints towards the
37:52
Speaker 1: corner where Rollins is getting ready to hit the stomp.
37:56
Speaker 1: He jumps over Rollins and hits this huge flip dive
38:00
Speaker 1: over the post and wipes out the heels out on
38:03
Speaker 1: the floor, and this distracts seth Rawlins, so instead of
38:07
Speaker 1: hitting a stump, he ends up turning around and getting
38:09
Speaker 1: cut down with a spear. The crowd was going crazy
38:12
Speaker 1: for all the postmatch stuff, especially the montes Ford dive,
38:16
Speaker 1: which looked spectacular again, as did him being tossed out
38:21
Speaker 1: of the ring by bron Breaker. The match itself nothing
38:25
Speaker 1: a waste of time. It was all about the post
38:26
Speaker 1: match stuff. Now. In the back, Jackie Redman interviewed the
38:30
Speaker 1: Judgment Day where Quel Rodriguez called out the women's tag
38:34
Speaker 1: team champions Bribella and Page. Imagine my disgust when I
38:40
Speaker 1: was watching SmackDown back. I didn't get to see it live,
38:44
Speaker 1: but when I caught up with SmackDown on Saturday, which
38:47
Speaker 1: what a waste of time that was. I see Bribella
38:50
Speaker 1: come out, and I hear brem Mode and she comes out,
38:54
Speaker 1: and then the music stops and they play it a
38:57
Speaker 1: second time. It's almost like they knew he's gonna watch
39:00
Speaker 1: the show, so let's stop and play it again just
39:04
Speaker 1: to annoy him. You know, the only thing worse than
39:08
Speaker 1: hearing Brimode on SmackDown hearing Bremode once is hearing Bremode twice.
39:15
Speaker 1: So they're throwing down the gauntlet. Here to Page and
39:17
Speaker 1: Brie Bella come to our show. Show up on Monday night,
39:22
Speaker 1: Row So Bailey and Lyra Valkyria. They walk in. Bailey
39:26
Speaker 1: told them that she and Lyra would not be easy
39:29
Speaker 1: to get rid of. Okay, bout end, I don't really
39:35
Speaker 1: have anything else to say about what happened here. Then
39:40
Speaker 1: we had the Oba Femi Open Challenge. He threw the
39:45
Speaker 1: open challenge out last week. This was week one. He
39:49
Speaker 1: struts down to the ring and here comes the Alpha Academy.
39:58
Speaker 1: Tozawa walks out, flanked by Otis and Maxine Dupree, and
40:04
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this and I'm like, You've got to
40:06
Speaker 1: be fucking kidding me. Not Otis Tozawa is going to
40:11
Speaker 1: get in the ring and accept the open challenge. He
40:14
Speaker 1: gets into the ring and he goes face to chest
40:17
Speaker 1: with Oba, and he realizes, I've made a terrible mistake,
40:22
Speaker 1: so he slowly backs away. Otis Is on the apron
40:24
Speaker 1: and he basically nods to Otis, and it's like, okay,
40:27
Speaker 1: Otis is going to accept the open challenge. And I
40:30
Speaker 1: know they don't do anything with Otis, but I can
40:32
Speaker 1: accept this. I looked at this and I said, Okay,
40:35
Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun. It's not gonna last very long,
40:38
Speaker 1: but this is gonna be fun. So they get in
40:40
Speaker 1: the ring and shoulder tackles and nobody moves. It's like
40:45
Speaker 1: a stalemate between these two. There was a spot here
40:49
Speaker 1: where oba Femi hit the ropes and he came off
40:52
Speaker 1: with this running uppercut. I mean, we talk about bron Breaker,
40:57
Speaker 1: they talk about twenty three miles an hour, right and
41:00
Speaker 1: clocked running the ropes, and that's fast. But you know what,
41:05
Speaker 1: as scary as that is, and we've seen bron Breaker
41:09
Speaker 1: charge down a long ramp and he did that at
41:11
Speaker 1: Wrestle Media, right seventy five yards down the ramp. As
41:14
Speaker 1: scary as that is, imagine a man the size of
41:18
Speaker 1: Oba Femi hitting the ropes at about the same speed.
41:21
Speaker 1: He was fucking lightning fast coming off these ropes with
41:24
Speaker 1: that uppercut. Holy shit. So then he picks up Otis
41:30
Speaker 1: and I don't mean, like in a body slell. He
41:32
Speaker 1: just picks him up like a baby, and then he
41:37
Speaker 1: had a lawn dard him, but he basically just tossed it.
41:39
Speaker 1: He bealed him and he lands on his back, just
41:42
Speaker 1: throws him three hundred and fifty pounds men and he
41:44
Speaker 1: just throws him halfway across the ring. So then after this,
41:48
Speaker 1: oba Is he's pondering whether or not he's going to
41:51
Speaker 1: give this man the Fall from Grace, and he's thinking
41:56
Speaker 1: about it, but he pops a mentos and points at
41:59
Speaker 1: his head. He's got an idea, So he puts Otis
42:04
Speaker 1: on the middle rope. He slides underneath him, which makes
42:09
Speaker 1: it easier for Oba to get him up in a
42:11
Speaker 1: power bomb position. And it looked like he was struggling
42:14
Speaker 1: at first, but then he got him right. He got
42:16
Speaker 1: him rock solid on his shoulders and he walks to
42:21
Speaker 1: the middle of the ring and he delivers the Fall
42:23
Speaker 1: from Gray. Actually we'll call it the not so Fall
42:26
Speaker 1: from Gray. It wasn't really a fall from grace. He
42:30
Speaker 1: wasn't able to really kind of, you know, prop him
42:33
Speaker 1: up there the way he did Brockelesner. But it was
42:35
Speaker 1: basically a form of a fall from grace and it
42:38
Speaker 1: got a big reaction and he pinned Otis to win
42:41
Speaker 1: the match. You know again, when I saw Tozawa come
42:45
Speaker 1: out initially and it looked like they were actually going
42:47
Speaker 1: to do Tozaua and Oba, I just rolled my eyes
42:52
Speaker 1: because I sat here last week and said, you know,
42:54
Speaker 1: this open challenge is not It's not a bad idea.
42:57
Speaker 1: The only thing is we see so many open challenge
43:00
Speaker 1: ju It's just ridiculous in and of itself. Though. It's
43:03
Speaker 1: not a bad way to get Oba on the show
43:05
Speaker 1: and get him some action until you know they're ready
43:08
Speaker 1: to do whatever is going to be next with him.
43:12
Speaker 1: And then I saw Tozao and I'm like, Okay, this
43:14
Speaker 1: is exactly what they should not be doing. Weeks and
43:17
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks of him in the ring. It's like
43:19
Speaker 1: we see Royce Keys on SmackDown and they're just starting
43:23
Speaker 1: to establish him and so that's fine. It's like what
43:26
Speaker 1: they did with Rye back many years ago. They had
43:28
Speaker 1: him beaten two three jobbers at once and it got
43:30
Speaker 1: him super over. It's not a terrible idea, but somebody
43:33
Speaker 1: in the position that Oba is in now, you're going
43:35
Speaker 1: to have to do better than that. Otis at least
43:38
Speaker 1: is a big guy, and so it looks super impressive
43:40
Speaker 1: the way OBUs throwing him around and power bombing him.
43:43
Speaker 1: It was to set up all these power spots that
43:46
Speaker 1: they could do, and it worked and it got over
43:49
Speaker 1: and for the two minutes that this lasted, and this
43:51
Speaker 1: should not have gone any longer than that. For the
43:53
Speaker 1: two minutes it lasted, it was fun. I had no
43:57
Speaker 1: issue with it. I granted this is only week. They
44:00
Speaker 1: don't have a roster full of Otises. I'm wondering if
44:05
Speaker 1: they intend to do this every single week, how long
44:09
Speaker 1: they could keep this going. This should not be a
44:12
Speaker 1: long term, like months long thing. I think you do
44:16
Speaker 1: something like this where he's on the show, if not
44:18
Speaker 1: every week, most weeks, they could skip a week. They
44:21
Speaker 1: don't have to have him on the show every single week.
44:24
Speaker 1: You can get to the end of June. June is
44:27
Speaker 1: when they're going to Saudi for Night of Champions. If
44:29
Speaker 1: the plan was to do another King of the Ring tournament,
44:33
Speaker 1: I think Oba is the perfect person to put Over
44:37
Speaker 1: in that tournament. That all you need to do is
44:39
Speaker 1: do the open Challenge gimmick for like six weeks. You
44:43
Speaker 1: can do that and then you terminate it as soon
44:47
Speaker 1: as you wins King of the Ring. You don't have
44:48
Speaker 1: to do open challenges anymore, and you set him up
44:51
Speaker 1: for a major match at Summer Slam. That's the path
44:54
Speaker 1: that this man should be on. So you do six
44:57
Speaker 1: weeks of open challenges, Okay, that's fine. He's still got
45:01
Speaker 1: to come up with some fun opponents for him, though,
45:04
Speaker 1: And I don't mean Grayson Waller, which we've already seen.
45:08
Speaker 1: I don't mean Tozawa or Ryo or Bravo Okay, none
45:13
Speaker 1: of that bullshit. But this, I thought this was fun.
45:18
Speaker 1: Now in the back seth Rollins blew one of the
45:23
Speaker 1: referees naked, dry Chicken, thank you for the super chat.
45:27
Speaker 1: Blew one of the referees off when they were trying
45:30
Speaker 1: to check on him and his condition and see how
45:33
Speaker 1: he was, and he said, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
45:37
Speaker 1: He's continuing to sell the effects of this spear from
45:40
Speaker 1: bron Breaker. So the Street Profits and Joe Hendry show
45:43
Speaker 1: up and montes Ford said, nobody trusts you, and roll
45:48
Speaker 1: I don't even trust myself because but we're fighting the
45:51
Speaker 1: same fight against the vision. But then he contradicted himself
45:55
Speaker 1: and he said, you stay out of my way and
45:58
Speaker 1: I'll stay out of yours. I'm like, what what are
46:03
Speaker 1: you talking about? Like come on, we need to band together,
46:08
Speaker 1: but stay out of my way? Like what that doesn't
46:10
Speaker 1: make any sense? That was kind of goofy is what
46:19
Speaker 1: is wrong with you? In the chat? What is going
46:21
Speaker 1: on here? What is going on here? So earlier today
46:31
Speaker 1: OSCA and Eosky they sat down for a face to
46:35
Speaker 1: face interview with very dramatic music playing in the background
46:39
Speaker 1: and we had the English subtitles as well. EO says
46:44
Speaker 1: that she's avoided this fight for years. Osca is her SENDPI.
46:49
Speaker 1: She never wanted it to come to this, but Oscar
46:51
Speaker 1: has changed. The Osca that she looked up to is
46:55
Speaker 1: no longer here and now she has to fight her.
47:00
Speaker 1: So then Oscar talks and says the EO that she
47:02
Speaker 1: taught is no longer in front of her. She doesn't
47:04
Speaker 1: know anyone that is this disrespectful. Oscar says that EO
47:09
Speaker 1: is her biggest disappointment and it backlash. She will cut
47:13
Speaker 1: EO out of her life for good. And then EO says,
47:17
Speaker 1: I am ready for Osca. So they lean in very
47:21
Speaker 1: close and they cut to Oscar, they cut to EO.
47:24
Speaker 1: They cut to Oscar, and it's very dramatic, and it's like, Okay,
47:27
Speaker 1: what's going to happen here? And then all of a sudden,
47:30
Speaker 1: Osca blows blue mist in her face. The blue goo
47:35
Speaker 1: is dripping, and EO is selling this, and Adam Pierce
47:39
Speaker 1: shows up. He's yelling for a doctor. We need a medic.
47:44
Speaker 1: I know they wanted to use subtitles for this, so
47:47
Speaker 1: I'm sure that played into why they wanted to do
47:49
Speaker 1: a face to face, But I am sure they did
47:53
Speaker 1: not want these two women out in front of the
47:55
Speaker 1: crowd in the event that they broke into chance of
47:59
Speaker 1: we Want Kyrie, So this was also a way for
48:01
Speaker 1: them to avoid having to deal with any of that
48:04
Speaker 1: by having them in a pre tape, not like you
48:06
Speaker 1: could hear the crowd. They had music in the background,
48:09
Speaker 1: so they didn't have any we want Kyrie or Kyrie
48:11
Speaker 1: saying chance right, because maybe there would have been some,
48:15
Speaker 1: so this was a way to avoid that. I thought
48:18
Speaker 1: this was really good up until the missed part. I
48:21
Speaker 1: don't know. This was like a serious promo for ninety
48:25
Speaker 1: seconds and then she blows you know, the fucking blue
48:28
Speaker 1: goo in her face, and Eo doesn't cell it very well.
48:31
Speaker 1: I mean the way Eo sells it, it's actually very entertaining,
48:34
Speaker 1: but in like a comedic way, which I don't think
48:38
Speaker 1: this is meant to be comedic because every time she
48:41
Speaker 1: gets missed it in the face, the way she sells
48:43
Speaker 1: it is just it's just hilarious to me. So I
48:46
Speaker 1: was liking the serious nature of this up until the
48:49
Speaker 1: very end. There. Yes, Eo was turned into a smurf
48:52
Speaker 1: yet again. Remember when Ryo was turned into a smurf.
48:57
Speaker 1: Now Eo is turned into a smurf. We had what
49:02
Speaker 1: they called a trios match, because this is the Lucha
49:07
Speaker 1: match of the night. You know, sometimes people get very
49:10
Speaker 1: angry at me when we have a six man tag
49:13
Speaker 1: on these shows and I call them a trios match
49:15
Speaker 1: like they do in AW It's not a trios match,
49:17
Speaker 1: it's a six man tag. Really, shut the fuck out.
49:22
Speaker 1: They called it a trios match with El Grande Americano, Kaiser,
49:28
Speaker 1: Ryo and Bravo against the og El Grande Americano and
49:33
Speaker 1: his new Men Los Americanos Hermanos Julio and Bruto Julius
49:42
Speaker 1: and Brutus Creed. Yes, I couldn't tell you the last
49:45
Speaker 1: time I saw them on Monday Night Raw. They have
49:47
Speaker 1: reappeared after months of being off the show under masks.
49:53
Speaker 1: They re emerged for this shit. It's not as if
49:58
Speaker 1: we have a tag team division that is do week
50:00
Speaker 1: by week, especially as they continue to fire various tag teams. Wait,
50:05
Speaker 1: I mean, we only lost two of the biggest tag
50:07
Speaker 1: teams in the company over the past week. Let's take
50:10
Speaker 1: these two men and bring them back and put them
50:12
Speaker 1: under masks. Let's do that. Actually, we have four men
50:16
Speaker 1: under masks if you want to count to Pete Dunn
50:18
Speaker 1: and Tyler Bait. I look, I don't like this stuff.
50:23
Speaker 1: I really don't like this stuff. It works in Triple A.
50:27
Speaker 1: The Americanos have a hot feud going right now, and
50:30
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a hot blowoff in a couple of
50:33
Speaker 1: weeks or however, low three weeks, whatever it is. This
50:38
Speaker 1: shit absolutely sucks on these show I'm just gonna say it.
50:41
Speaker 1: I mean, this shit is awful. It is overdone. It
50:45
Speaker 1: has been dragged out for far too long, and they
50:49
Speaker 1: keep adding new mask men to this. It's like they're
50:52
Speaker 1: expanding the universe here. I don't need to see it
50:56
Speaker 1: on these shows. Keep this shit in Triple A. It's
51:00
Speaker 1: actually over there. They got a good thing going there
51:03
Speaker 1: for these next few weeks with these two guys focus
51:06
Speaker 1: on it there. I don't want to see it on
51:08
Speaker 1: these shows. So they have this match. Everybody's hitting, moves
51:13
Speaker 1: on everybody else. Gable hits the chaos theory and he
51:17
Speaker 1: goes up top. He hits the diving head butt on
51:19
Speaker 1: Ryo for the win. There you go. This shit can't
51:24
Speaker 1: end soon enough. They closed the show with the contract
51:28
Speaker 1: signing for backlash. Roman reigns out to the ring first,
51:34
Speaker 1: and then we had Jacob Fatu making his way out.
51:38
Speaker 1: They each take a seat. Roman of course, sat at
51:41
Speaker 1: the head of the table. He asks Omaha to acknowledge him.
51:49
Speaker 1: No MFTs that you get more masks. Yeah, I said,
51:54
Speaker 1: I wanted the end of the MFTs and the Wyots.
51:57
Speaker 1: I meant the feud. I didn't necessarily mean the literal
52:01
Speaker 1: end of the MFTs and the Wyats. And basically, the
52:06
Speaker 1: Wyots are gone and the MFTs are almost entirely gone.
52:09
Speaker 1: We're down to three. We were five, and now we're
52:13
Speaker 1: down to three. This Americano stuff is basically the MFTs
52:20
Speaker 1: of Monday nightra get it. Off my TV. I don't
52:24
Speaker 1: want to see it. So Roman says, you hear that,
52:30
Speaker 1: because that's not just love, that's the sound of respect.
52:34
Speaker 1: Jacob was grinding for what twelve years? Well, I've been
52:38
Speaker 1: here for over twelve years because I was the one
52:42
Speaker 1: that had my foot holding the door open for Solo says,
52:46
Speaker 1: Solo was the one who brought you in, right, Well,
52:50
Speaker 1: I brought Solo in, which means I brought you in also.
52:53
Speaker 1: And I'll be damned if there isn't going to be
52:55
Speaker 1: respect for me. There's got to be some kind of code,
52:59
Speaker 1: some kind of system with our family. There has to
53:02
Speaker 1: be a system of conduct that we can hang our
53:04
Speaker 1: hat on. He said. The tongue in death grip Jacob
53:08
Speaker 1: disrespects him with something that is to be saved for
53:11
Speaker 1: desperate measures. He goes, what are we in the bar?
53:14
Speaker 1: At three am? And they're surround at eight to one?
53:18
Speaker 1: Is that like Shawn Michaels with the nine Marines? I
53:22
Speaker 1: love how that number expanded somehow it blew up to
53:27
Speaker 1: nine Marines beat up Shawn Michaels in Syracuse even though
53:31
Speaker 1: it was like two, we'll call it nine. So he's like,
53:37
Speaker 1: what are we in the bar like that's when you
53:39
Speaker 1: use the Tonguan death grip. See, so I want everybody
53:42
Speaker 1: watching this to remember that the next time you find
53:45
Speaker 1: yourself in the bar at two o'clock in the morning
53:47
Speaker 1: and your boy is being harassed by somebody or he's
53:50
Speaker 1: being ganged up on by a bunch of people. I
53:52
Speaker 1: don't want you to break a beer bottle. I don't
53:54
Speaker 1: want you to bust out a gun or a knife
53:56
Speaker 1: for brass nuts or anything like that. You got to
53:59
Speaker 1: use the top death grip. That's when the Tonguan death
54:03
Speaker 1: grip is to be used, because I'm sure if you
54:08
Speaker 1: have a whole gang of people, you can just take
54:10
Speaker 1: him out like that with one tongue in death grip.
54:12
Speaker 1: You try that and see how that works out for you.
54:16
Speaker 1: Jacob goes, You've got it all wrong. Yeah, I'm desperate. Yeah,
54:21
Speaker 1: I feel like it's me against the world and my
54:23
Speaker 1: back is against the wall. So I have no other
54:25
Speaker 1: choice but to take you out and take that title
54:28
Speaker 1: and everything that comes with it. And then he's gonna
54:31
Speaker 1: put a chokehold on this game and squeeze out every
54:34
Speaker 1: dollar in every cent, just the way this company's been
54:38
Speaker 1: doing to their family for decades. What he says all gas,
54:44
Speaker 1: no breaks. He means moving forward and never going back
54:47
Speaker 1: to where he came from. So yes, Roman, I am desperate,
54:50
Speaker 1: desperate enough to do anything for his household, even if
54:53
Speaker 1: he's got to run through his own blood. So Roman
54:57
Speaker 1: cut him off and said, let's just get this out
54:59
Speaker 1: of the way, so quickly he signs the contract. Roman said,
55:02
Speaker 1: Jacob's worried about seven kids. I'm worried about one hundred
55:06
Speaker 1: and seventy kids in our family. That's probably an underestimate
55:11
Speaker 1: there of the number of people in this family. It's
55:13
Speaker 1: this never ending family tree. I think he's underestimating the
55:16
Speaker 1: number of kids. But he's got to worry about the
55:19
Speaker 1: entire family because he's the one that can do that.
55:22
Speaker 1: He's got the proof of concept. This is all his,
55:26
Speaker 1: this is his ring. In this family, they're equals, they're
55:29
Speaker 1: of the same blood. But in this ring, you're beneath me.
55:33
Speaker 1: And as soon as he said that Jacob was beneath him,
55:36
Speaker 1: Fa too hurt enough and he attacked him. Roman hit
55:39
Speaker 1: him in the head with one of the announcer chairs.
55:41
Speaker 1: But Jacob went to apply the Tonguan death grip, and
55:46
Speaker 1: he didn't get it locked in. Roman went for a
55:49
Speaker 1: Superman punch right into the Tonguan death grip though out
55:52
Speaker 1: of mid air. Boy, they're really abusing this move, aren't they.
55:57
Speaker 1: So he got the death grip on him and then
56:00
Speaker 1: he put Roman through the table with or he went
56:02
Speaker 1: to go put him through the table with it, except
56:04
Speaker 1: the table did not break. No cooperation from the table here,
56:08
Speaker 1: so he just kind of flipped the table over onto him.
56:11
Speaker 1: And then Jacob signed the contract and you heard some
56:14
Speaker 1: pockets of fans chanting Fatu fa tu, which was good
56:18
Speaker 1: because last week he got booed after he put his
56:20
Speaker 1: hands on Roman. I'm like, what the fuck are you
56:22
Speaker 1: boeing this guy? For so at least this week the
56:25
Speaker 1: people in Omaha had some sense about them, and they
56:27
Speaker 1: were chanting for Fatu. I thought that this was a
56:31
Speaker 1: fine go home angle for Saturday. And for the second
56:34
Speaker 1: straight week. I will point out to you Roman gets
56:37
Speaker 1: put down. The ussos are in the building. They already
56:40
Speaker 1: established that they were there. The extent to which they
56:43
Speaker 1: were used on the show was that one little backstage
56:46
Speaker 1: segment with Jackie Redman that was it never came out
56:50
Speaker 1: though to help Roman. Second week in a row and
56:55
Speaker 1: as I pointed out earlier, all the times that they
56:57
Speaker 1: have ended up in the same spot with Jacob fat
56:59
Speaker 1: Tou come face to face, right, there's been these standoffs,
57:03
Speaker 1: no physicality between them. Jacob hasn't attacked them, They haven't
57:06
Speaker 1: put their hands on Jacob. There's a path, there is
57:10
Speaker 1: a path here for Jacob Fatu to win the World
57:12
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship and for the USOS to align with fa Tu,
57:17
Speaker 1: especially if Roman Reigns is in fact going to be
57:20
Speaker 1: gone for the entire month of June a clerical error.
57:24
Speaker 1: Apparently he was never supposed to be listed for those dates. Oops,
57:29
Speaker 1: my bad. So if he's gonna be off television for
57:33
Speaker 1: the entirety of June, I don't want him walking around
57:36
Speaker 1: with the World Heavyweight Championship. If it were up to me,
57:40
Speaker 1: I get that fucking belt off him as soon as possible.
57:43
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. Though. There's a path,
57:46
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna go ahead and take
57:49
Speaker 1: that opportunity. I just don't see them doing it. I
57:52
Speaker 1: don't think they have the balls. They just put the
57:54
Speaker 1: belt on him two weeks ago, two weeks ago. You
57:58
Speaker 1: really think they're gonna use Roman Ragins as a transitional
58:01
Speaker 1: champion to get the belt from CM Punk to Jacob Fatu,
58:06
Speaker 1: And that's how they're going to use Roman reigns. I mean,
58:08
Speaker 1: I would imagine if Roman was willing to kind of
58:11
Speaker 1: do the honors like that for anybody who would be
58:13
Speaker 1: a member of the family. But still I just realistically
58:15
Speaker 1: can't see them doing that. And so I wonder, you know,
58:18
Speaker 1: what happens when when Jacob loses? You know, how are
58:22
Speaker 1: they going to continue pursuing this story when he loses?
58:28
Speaker 1: Because to me, that's the question. You know, does he
58:30
Speaker 1: fall in line and join with them on Raw That
58:33
Speaker 1: would be fucking boring, is it? You know, one and
58:36
Speaker 1: done and he goes back to SmackDown, because that would
58:39
Speaker 1: also be very dumb. So what is the end goal here?
58:43
Speaker 1: You know? See, I'm Punk after WrestleMania, came out on
58:46
Speaker 1: this show and said I'm not going anywhere. I'm not
58:47
Speaker 1: going on vacation and then proceeded to disappear for two weeks.
58:52
Speaker 1: He wasn't on the show last week, he wasn't on
58:54
Speaker 1: the show tonight, he wasn't on SmackDown, probably won't be
58:57
Speaker 1: on SmackDown this week. Either, and if he's not going
59:02
Speaker 1: to smack Down, then I would presume that Fat two
59:05
Speaker 1: is going to be staying there. I think they should
59:08
Speaker 1: swap them. I think Punk should go to smack Down.
59:10
Speaker 1: I think Fat two should slide over to Raw again.
59:13
Speaker 1: That's the move I would make. But I thought on
59:16
Speaker 1: the whole it was a solid show, a bit of
59:18
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. Again, there was some stuff in the
59:20
Speaker 1: middle that I thought was boring and dragged it down
59:22
Speaker 1: a little bit. We got a fun tag team match
59:25
Speaker 1: though with the Intercontinental Champion all of his contenders, or
59:29
Speaker 1: at least some of them. We had the Oba Open Challenge.
59:33
Speaker 1: I thought that was enjoyable for what that was meant
59:36
Speaker 1: to be. The Americano stuff, I'm just I'm done. I'm
59:40
Speaker 1: done with that soul rook m Becky Lynch. I love
59:42
Speaker 1: that as a direction going forward whenever they do that match.
59:46
Speaker 1: And then we had the closing angle, you know, which
59:49
Speaker 1: sets up the main event for Saturday. They didn't really
59:53
Speaker 1: do anything out of out of the box here. It
59:55
Speaker 1: was pretty much more of the same. The contract has
59:58
Speaker 1: been signed and so we'll say, yeah, this is gonna
1:00:01
Speaker 1: be the biggest match of Jacob Fatu's life. He's getting
1:00:04
Speaker 1: a p l E main event against Roman Reigns for
1:00:06
Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight Championship. This is the biggest match of
1:00:09
Speaker 1: his career, win or lose. This is gonna be a
1:00:12
Speaker 1: big night for him on Saturday. And I think they're
1:00:14
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and I think they're gonna I
1:00:15
Speaker 1: think they're gonna kill it. You know, we saw the
1:00:17
Speaker 1: match that Roman had with Punk at wrestle Mania. There's
1:00:20
Speaker 1: no reason these two can't go out there and have
1:00:21
Speaker 1: a killer match. So whatever the outcome is, whether it's win, loser, draw,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: I expect these two to go out there and have
1:00:28
Speaker 1: a quality main event. But I am just genuinely very
1:00:31
Speaker 1: curious they rushed into this. Nobody was predicting this for
1:00:35
Speaker 1: the Backlash main event, and so they're doing it. It
1:00:39
Speaker 1: just feels to me like they're doing it for a reason.
1:00:41
Speaker 1: It just can't be a one and done type thing
1:00:44
Speaker 1: where he beats him and then they all just kind
1:00:46
Speaker 1: of go their's separate ways. There's got to be something
1:00:48
Speaker 1: else going on here, and the USO's are gonna be involved.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: The only question is what is it gonna be. I
1:00:56
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. We'll find out together anyway,
1:01:02
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. I hope you enjoyed the review. I wish,
1:01:05
Speaker 1: I wish the overall show is more exciting, but we
1:01:09
Speaker 1: can pick out the things we like and the things
1:01:12
Speaker 1: we don't like. Hope they improve upon them next week.
1:01:15
Speaker 1: At least it's not SmackDown. It's the best compliment I
1:01:18
Speaker 1: can pay this show. At least it's not SmackDown. We
1:01:23
Speaker 1: got two more months by the way of three hour smackdowns.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: We gotta get through June before it goes back to
1:01:30
Speaker 1: two hours, so we got a ways to go. Unfortunately, Hey,
1:01:38
Speaker 1: look at that. I just noticed six out of ten
1:01:40
Speaker 1: on the bonus goal. Are we actually going to get
1:01:43
Speaker 1: a bonus be the booker tonight? I thought it was
1:01:46
Speaker 1: going to be a slow night, But I don't know.
1:01:49
Speaker 1: It may be doable, It might just be possible. Oh,
1:02:01
Speaker 1: what's the goal? Yeah, somebody wanted another goal. I think
1:02:03
Speaker 1: four to seventy five is the goal? Right, Yeah, we
1:02:04
Speaker 1: already beat the goal. We're five to forty five, so yeah,
1:02:08
Speaker 1: we already beat the goal. We got gmb bet it
1:02:14
Speaker 1: was miss who asked or was asked about the pay cut.
1:02:18
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm not going to speculate. I don't,
1:02:20
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to start throwing names
1:02:22
Speaker 1: out there. We don't know who it was. I'm going
1:02:26
Speaker 1: to talk more about that on the Young Crown Wrestling
1:02:28
Speaker 1: Show tomorrow. We got some news today, some more TKO bullshit,
1:02:35
Speaker 1: so I will weave that into the show tomorrow. By
1:02:40
Speaker 1: the way, congrats to the Knicks Game one. Now they
1:02:46
Speaker 1: move on to Game two. A lot of happy Knicks
1:02:49
Speaker 1: fans here in New York Lakers pats. Having to take
1:02:53
Speaker 1: a fifty percent pay cut while paying for your own
1:02:55
Speaker 1: expenses and healthcare is crazy. TKO is ruining or running
1:03:00
Speaker 1: ww Well, they're ruining it, but they're running WWE like
1:03:03
Speaker 1: an NFLGM trying to get under the salary cap. Yes,
1:03:15
Speaker 1: the sheltered kid with a nine ninety nine. I've been
1:03:17
Speaker 1: watching WWE since the age of three. I am now
1:03:19
Speaker 1: twenty been. Oh he met the New Day. Meeting the
1:03:24
Speaker 1: New Day with my dad meant a lot. WWE don't
1:03:27
Speaker 1: feel the same now. I'm not sure if I should
1:03:29
Speaker 1: throw in the towel on WWE, but I'll always support
1:03:32
Speaker 1: you Solo. Well, that's what I like to hear. Now.
1:03:36
Speaker 1: I feel you, man, I mean There's a lot of
1:03:37
Speaker 1: people I've heard from who feel the same way. They're
1:03:39
Speaker 1: just like, man, I want to keep up with what's
1:03:41
Speaker 1: going on, but I can't bring myself to watch it anymore.
1:03:45
Speaker 1: It's bad. It's just bad. You know. A lot of
1:03:48
Speaker 1: the fun has been sucked out of it. Sucks. You know,
1:03:53
Speaker 1: when you have something like that that you've been a
1:03:54
Speaker 1: fan of and you've watched for a long time and
1:03:56
Speaker 1: then you see it just change or it's just not
1:04:01
Speaker 1: the same anymore, sucks. You know. It's a shitty feeling. Deathsith.
1:04:08
Speaker 1: When KOFE and Woods turned on Big Ee once he
1:04:10
Speaker 1: left the ring, Kofee and Woods should have turned on
1:04:13
Speaker 1: each other, effectively ending the New Day. The moment would
1:04:16
Speaker 1: have even surpassed Seth turning on the Shield. Yeah, but
1:04:26
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have changed anything. It wouldn't have changed the
1:04:28
Speaker 1: outcome because if you split them all up, then you
1:04:32
Speaker 1: would have had two individuals that would have been doing
1:04:34
Speaker 1: nothing on the show instead of being a tag team
1:04:36
Speaker 1: doing nothing on the show. It clearly had no plans
1:04:39
Speaker 1: for either one of these guys. They never should have
1:04:43
Speaker 1: re signed last year. They should have said, you know what,
1:04:45
Speaker 1: we're gonna go We're gonna go somewhere else. Robbie h five,
1:04:51
Speaker 1: John Cen is history making news. Guys. Let me tell
1:04:55
Speaker 1: you where Wrestle Minnie of forty four might be taking place.
1:04:58
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see. Yeah, John Cen is gonna make some
1:05:03
Speaker 1: big historic announcements on Saturday. Yeah. Sure, I'm sure it's
1:05:13
Speaker 1: Club WWE related this their new fan club. Also, Robbie says,
1:05:20
Speaker 1: they just put the Creed Brothers in masks. Are you
1:05:23
Speaker 1: still sure about your prediction for the mask versus mask match?
1:05:26
Speaker 1: Remember this is WWE making sense out of the senseless.
1:05:32
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to lose their mask, and I just don't
1:05:35
Speaker 1: see it being Kaiser because Kaiser is still super over.
1:05:41
Speaker 1: I would think that if this was the decision being
1:05:43
Speaker 1: made from above, the Undertaker would try to convince them otherwise.
1:05:47
Speaker 1: We need this guy. Just get the mask off of
1:05:50
Speaker 1: Gable and be done with that already. There's no need
1:05:54
Speaker 1: for this man to be kept under a mask for
1:05:56
Speaker 1: another six months. It's ridiculous. At this point, Dry Chicken
1:06:03
Speaker 1: says money and greed over logic and common sense from TKO,
1:06:10
Speaker 1: I tried to give Nick Con the benefit of the doubt,
1:06:12
Speaker 1: but after hearing his garbage coming out of his mouth.
1:06:14
Speaker 1: He can piss off. Yeah. I talked about that on
1:06:17
Speaker 1: the sound off too this weekend. If you missed it,
1:06:20
Speaker 1: go check that out. Barry MK says guest. WWE gave
1:06:23
Speaker 1: up on Natty and Maxine. Oh, they gave up on
1:06:27
Speaker 1: them after week one. Yeah, it was basically over. I
1:06:30
Speaker 1: think they ran it back once more, but yeah, it
1:06:33
Speaker 1: was over. It was over from the first night. And
1:06:37
Speaker 1: as I feared from the very beginning quote unquote blood Sport,
1:06:40
Speaker 1: Natty was never gonna work in WWE. They were always
1:06:44
Speaker 1: it was a half asked, half hearted attempt to actually
1:06:47
Speaker 1: do something with her. They were never going to allow
1:06:52
Speaker 1: it to be anything more than what you saw on TV.
1:06:56
Speaker 1: It was a gigantic waste of everybody's time. Hey, Oscar,
1:07:04
Speaker 1: with rumors of salary cuts, I just want to say
1:07:07
Speaker 1: one thing. Know you're worth I say it all the time.
1:07:13
Speaker 1: You know, stand up for yourself. And if you feel
1:07:16
Speaker 1: that you're worth something, and you know the company you
1:07:19
Speaker 1: work for feels otherwise, stand up for yourself. You know
1:07:25
Speaker 1: what you're worth death sith. Randy Orton has publicly stated
1:07:33
Speaker 1: he needs to get in the ring with CM punk
1:07:35
Speaker 1: at some point. Before it's all said and done. We've
1:07:39
Speaker 1: never had a program between Heal Orton and baby Face Punk,
1:07:42
Speaker 1: especially after the first pipe bomb. Yeah, I don't know
1:07:46
Speaker 1: if we're ever gonna get it. Honestly, I know Orton
1:07:49
Speaker 1: wants to wrestle until he's fifty, but I don't know
1:07:54
Speaker 1: Heal Orton and baby Face Punk. I don't know that
1:07:56
Speaker 1: the stars are going to align for that one. Dry
1:08:00
Speaker 1: Chicken says, break out the tequila and happy. Cinco de
1:08:03
Speaker 1: Mayo Ye says, I'm just so sad for Tonga Loa superfan.
1:08:17
Speaker 1: You know, when Togaloa was out with his injury, Togoala
1:08:21
Speaker 1: superfan was all over these superchats and then he came
1:08:25
Speaker 1: back to TV and he disappeared. So I wouldn't be
1:08:30
Speaker 1: shocked if we see the return very soon of Toga
1:08:33
Speaker 1: Loa superfan. Alex with a five out of all days
1:08:37
Speaker 1: for Michael Cole to say trouble in Paradise. He chooses
1:08:40
Speaker 1: to say it on the first show without Kofe. Good job,
1:08:43
Speaker 1: wwe Death's I can't believe my superchat last week started
1:08:51
Speaker 1: a horror movie debate, which reminds me I know a
1:08:53
Speaker 1: Batman villain that would make a great horror movie, Ventriloquist
1:08:57
Speaker 1: and Scarface. I'm just looking forward to Clayface later this year. Also,
1:09:10
Speaker 1: he says, and their theme song should be Sad but
1:09:13
Speaker 1: True by Metallica because the lyrics were inspired by the
1:09:16
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight horror film Magic, which features a ventriloquists
1:09:20
Speaker 1: dummy controlling its owner. Really, that sounds interesting. I don't
1:09:25
Speaker 1: think I ever saw that. I definitely never saw that.
1:09:32
Speaker 1: Is that worth looking into Bobby's world? When I first
1:09:35
Speaker 1: heard about Jacob and the Mystery Caller, I went with
1:09:39
Speaker 1: this shit again face palm moment. But I've had too
1:09:41
Speaker 1: many concussions in my life. It's not worth it. Yeah,
1:09:46
Speaker 1: you know, they showed that on their social media on Friday.
1:09:48
Speaker 1: There was no mention of that tonight. Hopefully they've abandoned
1:09:51
Speaker 1: that dumb whatever the fucking idea was, fucking rehashing stories
1:09:58
Speaker 1: from six weeks ago. This is where we are now
1:10:00
Speaker 1: with this company. It's not enough to rehash stories from
1:10:03
Speaker 1: like six years ago, and now we're rehashing there from
1:10:06
Speaker 1: six weeks ago, and not even good ones. No mention
1:10:11
Speaker 1: of that tonight, by the way, No no Mystery phone Caller.
1:10:16
Speaker 1: Joe Law with a nineteen ninety nine look at this
1:10:20
Speaker 1: guy showing off solo? My dog loved the podcast from Detroit.
1:10:24
Speaker 1: Is set the best number one technical wrestler but number
1:10:27
Speaker 1: two character of his generation. How long before we see
1:10:31
Speaker 1: Omas against Oba? I think there's a very good chance
1:10:35
Speaker 1: that Omas will accept the open challenge one of these weeks.
1:10:38
Speaker 1: I think probably a few weeks, and then we get it.
1:10:44
Speaker 1: It's set the best number one technical wrestler and number
1:10:47
Speaker 1: two character. You know what he may be. I think
1:10:52
Speaker 1: you may be onto something there. Time we see Tangaloa
1:11:02
Speaker 1: is the botch falling off a t Yeah. That will
1:11:06
Speaker 1: go down as the final Toangloa appearance, which is actually
1:11:08
Speaker 1: very appropriate. On SmackDown last week, he was placed on
1:11:12
Speaker 1: the table outside the ring the announced desk, and Jacob
1:11:15
Speaker 1: was gonna splash him off the barricade, but he fell,
1:11:19
Speaker 1: He rolled, he fell off the table, so Jacob had
1:11:22
Speaker 1: to climb back down and place him back on the team.
1:11:26
Speaker 1: A very appropriate final appearance for Tongaloa. Dried Chicken says
1:11:30
Speaker 1: tag team wrestling is dead in WWE. It's like the Titanic, Dude,
1:11:34
Speaker 1: It's not even the Titanic. It's like finding a dead
1:11:38
Speaker 1: body buried after it's been you know, buried six feet
1:11:42
Speaker 1: under for six months. You know, the rig of mortis
1:11:46
Speaker 1: has set in. The worms were crawling out of the
1:11:49
Speaker 1: eye sockets. It's been dead for a while. Justin g
1:11:55
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1:11:59
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Speaker 1: Deputy Dog makes a great point Toangaloa. Watched his debut
1:13:27
Speaker 1: and his final appearance. That's why I call him the
1:13:30
Speaker 1: Great Tangaloa. Who else can pull that off, but Tangaloa
1:13:34
Speaker 1: he did. He batched his debut at Backlash a couple
1:13:38
Speaker 1: of years ago, whatever it was, and then he botched
1:13:41
Speaker 1: his finale. That takes talent uh mactub rank based on
1:13:52
Speaker 1: their work in the attitude there at Triple A Folly
1:13:55
Speaker 1: in Taker h Well Foley's Number one Folly did so
1:13:58
Speaker 1: much for so many rock Triple H just by working
1:14:03
Speaker 1: with them Undertaker, you know, at a time when Undertaker
1:14:07
Speaker 1: didn't really have any adversaries quite like him. It's just
1:14:09
Speaker 1: a lot of big stiffs. Yeah, Fully Fully number one,
1:14:16
Speaker 1: Triple H and then Taker Jr. Shaer H O G
1:14:20
Speaker 1: A t L. Why so much blowing and grinding today.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're asking me. I'm just I'm
1:14:27
Speaker 1: just describing the show to you. You'd have to ask
1:14:30
Speaker 1: WWE and the writers. As far as H O G
1:14:36
Speaker 1: A t L. I can tell you this, It's actually
1:14:40
Speaker 1: funny you bring that up. I just had an we
1:14:42
Speaker 1: just had a conversation about that today. As a matter
1:14:44
Speaker 1: of fact, nothing scheduled, but it definitely is on the agenda.
1:14:50
Speaker 1: We will we will make our way out to Atlanta,
1:14:54
Speaker 1: guaranteed at some point. I just can't tell you exactly when,
1:14:59
Speaker 1: but it's been discussed. Mac tub Greater Legacy, Personal Choice,
1:15:09
Speaker 1: Punk Brian. I mean, I don't know what does that
1:15:12
Speaker 1: even mean. Legacy, I mean legacy. I guess i'd go Punk.
1:15:15
Speaker 1: Personal choice, I mean personal choice, I'd probably go Brian.
1:15:24
Speaker 1: But you know, both very important influential figures in that
1:15:28
Speaker 1: twenty tens era of WWE, very, very influential. Big Hoss
1:15:35
Speaker 1: Los Garza's should have been in the vision, not Paul
1:15:38
Speaker 1: and Theory. No, they never would have put them in
1:15:41
Speaker 1: the vision. The vision is an actual priority for them
1:15:44
Speaker 1: on the television show Lost Garza was never going to
1:15:47
Speaker 1: be a priority for them. Never. There was a zero
1:15:53
Speaker 1: percent chance it even came up in any conversation of
1:15:55
Speaker 1: having them in the vision. Dried Chicken says I wish
1:15:59
Speaker 1: Oba f was an IWGP champion for New Japan. Oh,
1:16:03
Speaker 1: that would be something I'm sure Ghetto would love to
1:16:05
Speaker 1: get his hands on. Obafemi, wouldn't that be something justin
1:16:13
Speaker 1: g anyone else smells something cooking for backlash, don't make
1:16:21
Speaker 1: the mistake of getting your hopes up. It feels like
1:16:24
Speaker 1: something in the main event should be should be cooking.
1:16:28
Speaker 1: But I've long stopped giving these people the benefit of
1:16:32
Speaker 1: the doubt. I'm not even I'm not even gonna go
1:16:39
Speaker 1: down that road. Oh, look at this Tonga Loa super
1:16:43
Speaker 1: fan is with us with a ten dollars super chat.
1:16:50
Speaker 1: Oh Man. May third is officially the darkest day in
1:16:54
Speaker 1: pro wrestling history. Toga Loa, the wrestler of our generation,
1:16:58
Speaker 1: has been let go. WWE just lost the beating heart
1:17:02
Speaker 1: of the company hashtag then Loa forever you forgot together
1:17:11
Speaker 1: at the end. We'll all get through this together. I'm
1:17:16
Speaker 1: very sorry, Tanga looa superfan. I know that you're in
1:17:19
Speaker 1: deep mourning right now. We're all thinking about you. Don Stony,
1:17:29
Speaker 1: second time in a live sole Monster chat and still
1:17:32
Speaker 1: enjoying this shit. Keep on keeping on, thank you, Don Stony.
1:17:37
Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoy it. I will keep keeping on
1:17:43
Speaker 1: with these super chats here because we've got Alexander who
1:17:45
Speaker 1: says you think TKO will take WrestleMania to North Korea? Well,
1:17:50
Speaker 1: if Kim Jong un could give them a tax incentive
1:17:53
Speaker 1: and cut a check big enough, yes, I do. I
1:17:56
Speaker 1: think that they would bring it to North Korea. Togolo
1:18:02
Speaker 1: is superfan. I could hear the tears in your voice.
1:18:04
Speaker 1: You were holding back when you talked about Togaloa's release yesterday.
1:18:08
Speaker 1: Don't worry Solo. We all felt the same was it
1:18:11
Speaker 1: was tough. It was tough, but I got through it somehow.
1:18:18
Speaker 1: Uh super camfit. How hard is mcdonnaugh's skull. Finn stood
1:18:22
Speaker 1: after the hammer, but that's true, he actually got hit
1:18:28
Speaker 1: with a hammer. The hammer didn't knock him down. But
1:18:33
Speaker 1: JD mcdonne's head did. That's a that's a big head.
1:18:36
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's a giant head. It's that reminds
1:18:40
Speaker 1: me of when Prince Albert used to come out on
1:18:43
Speaker 1: raw and Jim Ross wouldn't shut up about how big
1:18:46
Speaker 1: his head was. Oh eight and three eights every fucking
1:18:50
Speaker 1: time you would come out, old eate in three eights.
1:18:56
Speaker 1: He's got a big head. You may as well use it.
1:19:01
Speaker 1: Nine out of ten, look at that on the goal.
1:19:03
Speaker 1: One more. We're gonna get double B the Booker tonight.
1:19:07
Speaker 1: But anyway, super camfit. Thank you. No, we got a
1:19:15
Speaker 1: few more here, don't we me refresh this list. Let's
1:19:22
Speaker 1: see who we have left. Who wants to get in
1:19:25
Speaker 1: on the party? Johnny Boy to twenty two the four
1:19:36
Speaker 1: ninety nine. He says, sorry to burden you, but my
1:19:39
Speaker 1: girlfriend broke up with me and I'm crushed. I tried
1:19:43
Speaker 1: so hard not to break down in tears. Please give
1:19:46
Speaker 1: me encouragement. I'm empty. Well is it you tell me?
1:19:55
Speaker 1: Is it over over? Do you think? Or is there
1:19:59
Speaker 1: still a chance like is this something that's happened before
1:20:05
Speaker 1: or is this something that kind of caught you by surprise.
1:20:07
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's something that caught you by surprise
1:20:11
Speaker 1: and it's probably over. And so my advice to you
1:20:13
Speaker 1: would be, there's nothing I could say right now that's
1:20:16
Speaker 1: gonna make you feel any better. You're gonna feel like shit,
1:20:19
Speaker 1: which is totally normal and it sucks. But what I
1:20:23
Speaker 1: can tell you, I know it sounds cliche, but there
1:20:28
Speaker 1: are a lot of options out there. It's a big
1:20:31
Speaker 1: sea with a lot of creatures in the sea. Some
1:20:35
Speaker 1: of the creatures are very scary. They are they'll bite
1:20:39
Speaker 1: you on the nuts. But then you have other creatures
1:20:42
Speaker 1: in the sea that are actually very nice. They're nice
1:20:44
Speaker 1: to look at. They let you get close. You will
1:20:49
Speaker 1: find the creature that belongs to you. She's out there somewhere,
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Speaker 1: I promise you. So don't let this get you down
1:21:00
Speaker 1: for too long, because you gotta get back out there
1:21:04
Speaker 1: and you will find that right person. Everybody in the
1:21:06
Speaker 1: chat will will agree with me, and they will tell
1:21:08
Speaker 1: you the same thing. San Juan Wolf in nineteen ninety nine,
1:21:20
Speaker 1: Go ahead, golden, Golden Lovers. I wasn't gonna say that
1:21:26
Speaker 1: one man's one man's trash is another man's treasure. I mean,
1:21:31
Speaker 1: come on now, I was trying to be what was
1:21:33
Speaker 1: trying to be nice about this? Ah, San Juan Wolf says,
1:21:37
Speaker 1: up solo, just getting off work and realized I missed
1:21:40
Speaker 1: damn near the entire stream. Still wanted to pop in
1:21:43
Speaker 1: quick to say what's up and show some love. Well,
1:21:45
Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing that, and the stream will be
1:21:47
Speaker 1: here for you in its entirety when we are done,
1:21:51
Speaker 1: so you will get to go back and check out
1:21:54
Speaker 1: all the good stuff that you missed. That's right. You
1:21:58
Speaker 1: gotta get back on that horse, Johnny. Don't let it
1:22:02
Speaker 1: keep you down for too long. The worst thing you
1:22:05
Speaker 1: could do is obsess over it and let it just
1:22:10
Speaker 1: ruin your your your life for weeks on end. That's
1:22:14
Speaker 1: not going to do anybody any good. We have true
1:22:19
Speaker 1: crime unleashed. Stevie Richards showed praise to you today. Yeah,
1:22:25
Speaker 1: I got a lot of messages about that. I appreciate that.
1:22:29
Speaker 1: I appreciate Stevie. He's good people. Toga Loa superfan with
1:22:37
Speaker 1: another ten Tanga Loa will now be the hottest free
1:22:40
Speaker 1: agent in over a decade. Heck Tony is frothing at
1:22:45
Speaker 1: the mouth of running back Loa and Okada Awe inspirings.
1:22:50
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're inspiring match from the g One
1:22:53
Speaker 1: climax now, but in an aw ring, I had forgotten
1:22:56
Speaker 1: about that. Just reminded me about that match. We just
1:23:01
Speaker 1: hit the bonus call, by the way, But yeah, I
1:23:06
Speaker 1: had forgotten about that g One match. God, what year
1:23:09
Speaker 1: was that? I don't even remember what year that was.
1:23:17
Speaker 1: It was a while ago though, justin g between Becky
1:23:23
Speaker 1: and j D. The Irish couldn't get a break about
1:23:26
Speaker 1: having big heads tonight I got nothing. Also, ten out
1:23:30
Speaker 1: of ten? Hell yeah, man, ten out of ten. Now
1:23:35
Speaker 1: we got to get eleven out of ten, twelve out
1:23:38
Speaker 1: of ten death side. I bet Randy Orton watched I
1:23:42
Speaker 1: bet Randy Orton watched Elfin liede Elfin Lied sometime in
1:23:48
Speaker 1: the late two thousands, looked at Lucy and said to himself,
1:23:51
Speaker 1: that's my gimmick going for What the hell is Elfin Lied?
1:23:55
Speaker 1: I thought that said elden Ring for a second, because
1:23:57
Speaker 1: I know Randy Orton's a big elden Ring guy. I
1:23:59
Speaker 1: never heard of. Is that a movie? Elfin Lied? What
1:24:04
Speaker 1: the fuck is that? Arabian night? No La night tonight?
1:24:12
Speaker 2: Uh?
1:24:12
Speaker 1: Oh, to be honest, he should you know? You know
1:24:14
Speaker 1: why we didn't get any La Night Tonight. Oh it's
1:24:17
Speaker 1: an anime. How am I supposed to know that? The fuck?
1:24:26
Speaker 1: Come on now expect me to know this. It's called
1:24:33
Speaker 1: elf Elphine Lead. It's like Luis writing in and asking
1:24:40
Speaker 1: me questions about yu Gi. Oh what the fuck are
1:24:43
Speaker 1: you asking me this for? Well, thank you for clarifying. Yeah,
1:24:51
Speaker 1: but the reason we didn't see La Night to Night,
1:24:53
Speaker 1: you know why, because they had they changed their minds
1:24:57
Speaker 1: and they had gunned through attack Cody Roads on Fridays.
1:24:59
Speaker 1: So that little confrontation with La Knight and Gunther in
1:25:02
Speaker 1: the back last week that never happened. It never even happened.
1:25:11
Speaker 1: You didn't see nothing. EJ Slim Buyer Cell, which absurd
1:25:18
Speaker 1: match stipulation would actually be great AJ Styles versus William
1:25:22
Speaker 1: Regal low Blow or June Akayama against Jado in a tuxedo.
1:25:29
Speaker 1: I don't want to see either one of these matches. Actually,
1:25:31
Speaker 1: you know what, I take that back, AJ Styles and
1:25:33
Speaker 1: William Regal low Blow. I'll watch that alright. Let's refresh
1:25:44
Speaker 1: this again, get them all on screen so you guys
1:25:48
Speaker 1: can follow along with me. Here, here we go. Uh
1:25:56
Speaker 1: Tonga loa super fan. The way he entered the company
1:26:01
Speaker 1: is the same way that he left the company, by
1:26:04
Speaker 1: putting smiles on everyone's face is watching. At the very least,
1:26:08
Speaker 1: we will have his Hall of Fame induction to look
1:26:10
Speaker 1: forward to. Tongaloa will return. It's gonna be a hell
1:26:18
Speaker 1: of a speech. Accidentally knocked the podium over, it'll just
1:26:22
Speaker 1: collapse on stage. Larry Jester, do you think Dan Hausen's
1:26:31
Speaker 1: partner could be Papa Shango but he misses his cue?
1:26:35
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll do what Braun did at WrestleMania at thirty
1:26:38
Speaker 1: four and pick the referees, kid, I mean, based on
1:26:43
Speaker 1: current WWE creative That sounds about right as far as
1:26:46
Speaker 1: something that they would do. I know Godfather was not
1:26:53
Speaker 1: a fan of the Papa Shango gimmick. I don't know that. Well,
1:26:58
Speaker 1: for a payday, he probably would sidrow. Hey, soh sidro
1:27:04
Speaker 1: my god, look at this? Oh well well well, well
1:27:08
Speaker 1: well well look what the cat drug in. Why is
1:27:15
Speaker 1: your nose in the middle of your face because it's
1:27:17
Speaker 1: the center s c E E E E A E
1:27:25
Speaker 1: I oh h s C E n T e r haha.
1:27:29
Speaker 1: And what do you call a joke made in the
1:27:31
Speaker 1: fifth month of the year a may Zing. All right,
1:27:39
Speaker 1: you won me back with that one. You won me
1:27:45
Speaker 1: back with that last one. Dried chicken, burritos, tacos, nachos,
1:27:52
Speaker 1: and quesadillas. Pick one to eat. I don't eat any
1:27:57
Speaker 1: of them. Sorry, that's not the question for me. If
1:28:05
Speaker 1: you force me, though, I mean, I go burrito. I
1:28:10
Speaker 1: guess I'll go burrito and then uh fuck, I don't
1:28:16
Speaker 1: know taco. You can't enjoy any of that stuff though.
1:28:20
Speaker 1: Without the cheese, I'd have to have cheeseless. Case of
1:28:23
Speaker 1: the is and cheeseless. What's the point. There's no point
1:28:26
Speaker 1: in having any of them if you can't fully enjoy
1:28:29
Speaker 1: them the way they're meant to be enjoyed. I gotta
1:28:32
Speaker 1: I gotta go over for and say no, I don't
1:28:35
Speaker 1: need any of those. I'm sorry, can't do it the
1:28:42
Speaker 1: average grunt. I'm starting to think that they should just
1:28:45
Speaker 1: kill all the tag titles for good and focus exclusively
1:28:49
Speaker 1: on singles. It's clear now more than ever that tag
1:28:51
Speaker 1: team Wrestling and ww E peaked at Wrestle Mini at
1:28:55
Speaker 1: thirty nine. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's dead in
1:28:59
Speaker 1: this company. There's no need for two sets of tag belts.
1:29:02
Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's really a reason to have one
1:29:05
Speaker 1: set of tag belts. They do more with the women's
1:29:10
Speaker 1: tag belts at this point anyway. So I mean, just
1:29:16
Speaker 1: just get rid of them, seriously, just get rid of them.
1:29:19
Speaker 1: Death Sith says, it's an anime and it's extremely violent,
1:29:24
Speaker 1: and Lucy is cold and calculating, and she can strike
1:29:27
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and she hears voices in her head. Hmm. Interesting,
1:29:36
Speaker 1: Don Stony hashtag solo mangah ej Slim buy or sell
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Speaker 1: absurd versus serious Ai generated be the booker Nick Wayne
1:29:52
Speaker 1: versus bashn Booker or Satoshi ko Jima versus Steve Blackman.
1:29:59
Speaker 1: I'll take Steve Blackman and Satoshi Kojima that see that
1:30:03
Speaker 1: match would would kick all kinds of ass. I think
1:30:07
Speaker 1: you can. You can have your bastion booger. I want
1:30:16
Speaker 1: no part of that. I don't think Nick Wayne wants
1:30:18
Speaker 1: any part of that either. So we hit our goal,
1:30:23
Speaker 1: and we hit the bonus goal. You guys did your part,
1:30:28
Speaker 1: which means it is now time. It is now time
1:30:32
Speaker 1: to be the booker. It this is how you want
1:30:46
Speaker 1: to start the week. You want to start the week.
1:30:49
Speaker 2: Uh, it will be the booker action going on? Yeah,
1:30:57
Speaker 2: all right, tag team, be the booker. Here we go.
1:31:01
Speaker 2: I want to book some matches. That's what I want
1:31:03
Speaker 2: to do. I want to book. This just makes me sad.
1:31:07
Speaker 2: This just makes me say, you know, what's even sadder.
1:31:12
Speaker 2: For as much as I've advocated for this a Luca
1:31:14
Speaker 2: Brothers reunion, I don't want to see it anymore. I
1:31:18
Speaker 2: don't want to see it. There's no point in doing
1:31:20
Speaker 2: a Luca brothers reunion in ww anymore. Do it in TRIPAA.
1:31:23
Speaker 1: But doing it in WWI doesn't make any sense because
1:31:26
Speaker 1: they have nobody to work with. Who they going to
1:31:27
Speaker 1: work with? The USOS? I guess it's about it. There's
1:31:33
Speaker 1: no division, there's nobody for them to work with. It
1:31:37
Speaker 1: would be a downgrade for Penta. But guess what, we
1:31:45
Speaker 1: have them here and be the booker because we actually
1:31:47
Speaker 1: have a division here. Penta and Ray Phoenix are going
1:31:51
Speaker 1: to be taking on Penta and Ray Phoenix. How about that?
1:31:58
Speaker 1: How about that? This is gonna be Luca madness. Holy fuck,
1:32:06
Speaker 1: we have the Luca brothers against the Luca brothers. That's
1:32:10
Speaker 1: how we start. Be the booker tonight. What just happened here?
1:32:16
Speaker 1: I don't know but I know it's gonna be very
1:32:20
Speaker 1: hard for me to keep notes during this match with
1:32:22
Speaker 1: all the shit that's gonna be going on. It's gonna
1:32:26
Speaker 1: slap your damn right. It is holy. She's gonna be
1:32:29
Speaker 1: the match of the year. I wasn't expecting that. Oh
1:32:39
Speaker 1: my god, how many Mexican destroyers. Yes, the answer is yes,
1:32:47
Speaker 1: thunder Rosa. We just had thunder Rosa in an House
1:32:52
Speaker 1: of Glory on Friday. She made her hog debut, very
1:32:55
Speaker 1: successful debut over Britney Brooks, had a good match, and
1:33:02
Speaker 1: now she's here. Thunder Rosa gonna go one on one
1:33:16
Speaker 1: with Priscilla Kelly, give that the bell. Don't know that
1:33:23
Speaker 1: that match has ever taken place before. I think that
1:33:27
Speaker 1: would be a first time ever. And now our main event,
1:33:38
Speaker 1: our Night one main Events, because we got one more
1:33:40
Speaker 1: to come. Boy, this guy, let me tell you something.
1:33:45
Speaker 1: We are seeing him more in retirement than we did
1:33:48
Speaker 1: when he was active. He's popping up at WrestleMania, He's
1:33:52
Speaker 1: popping up at Backlash this weekend. Now Johnson is getting
1:33:55
Speaker 1: back in the ring. He's going full jeorts and T
1:33:59
Speaker 1: shirt and hat, the whole nine yards. John Cena is
1:34:04
Speaker 1: in our main event. Can we book a better match
1:34:09
Speaker 1: for him than Triple H did on his retirement tour?
1:34:13
Speaker 1: To find out, Randy Orton forces Adam Pearce to add
1:34:24
Speaker 1: a stipulation to your match. My god, I got scared.
1:34:30
Speaker 1: I thought we were doing John Cena versus Randy Orton.
1:34:33
Speaker 1: I was just gonna throw my hands up in the air.
1:34:36
Speaker 1: We're not going with Randy Orton. We have to pick
1:34:38
Speaker 1: a stipulation. So before we can pick Seena's opponent, we
1:34:43
Speaker 1: need to know what kind of match it's gonna be.
1:34:49
Speaker 1: This match is going to be a strap match. Okay,
1:34:55
Speaker 1: Actually John Cena had a strap match, did he not?
1:34:59
Speaker 1: With that man right there with Umaga. A very memorable one,
1:35:05
Speaker 1: although I don't know if it was a strip. It
1:35:06
Speaker 1: wasn't a strap match, was it. It wasn't. It was
1:35:10
Speaker 1: last man standing, I think, but there was. Oh you
1:35:13
Speaker 1: know what, now I'm thinking of the rope that he
1:35:15
Speaker 1: wrapped around his throat. It wasn't a strap match. It's
1:35:18
Speaker 1: the last man's standing match. Anyway. Now we have our
1:35:22
Speaker 1: stand Now we just need to pick an opponent. Oh
1:35:32
Speaker 1: my god, that what a horrible match. Oh my god,
1:35:38
Speaker 1: the stuff of nightmares. Ah, John Cena against the giant Gonzales.
1:35:50
Speaker 1: That sounds awful, absolutely awful. This guy, he's got fur
1:36:00
Speaker 1: all over his body. He's got fur on his crotch,
1:36:05
Speaker 1: air brushed abs. Who leads the match? Who's the ring
1:36:11
Speaker 1: general here? I'm predicting that John Cena will tap out
1:36:18
Speaker 1: with a smile on his face at the end of
1:36:20
Speaker 1: the match. We were very close to a clean sweep,
1:36:25
Speaker 1: and then the old Jorge over here had to ruin
1:36:27
Speaker 1: it for us. What a horrendous match this would be,
1:36:35
Speaker 1: Oh god, be awful. The good news, though, is that
1:36:40
Speaker 1: because we unlocked a second round, we don't have to
1:36:42
Speaker 1: end here. We don't have to end on such a
1:36:45
Speaker 1: sour note. Don't you dare be sour because we got
1:36:48
Speaker 1: one more round? Here be the booker, come in your way.
1:36:51
Speaker 1: But this time we get to pick stipulations. Those are
1:36:56
Speaker 1: the rules. A good old fashioned steel cage match is
1:37:05
Speaker 1: going to guide us here into a tag team bout.
1:37:09
Speaker 1: We've there have been many great tag team cage matches
1:37:12
Speaker 1: over the years. Choose two single stars to form a
1:37:20
Speaker 1: makeshift team on my favorite thing, makeshift tag teams. Okay,
1:37:34
Speaker 1: we got to pick four individual stars, so we'll go
1:37:37
Speaker 1: with Ricochet. The now former ae W national champion. All right,
1:37:46
Speaker 1: you got you gotta go to work, Ricochet put the
1:37:48
Speaker 1: phone down, no more tweeting Ricochet and his partner The
1:37:55
Speaker 1: Beast Mortosoo, Beast Mortals and Ricochet. What a team that is? Huh?
1:38:14
Speaker 1: We'll call them Bald and the Beast. How's that for
1:38:17
Speaker 1: a tag team name? Bald and the Beast are going
1:38:22
Speaker 1: to be taking on Hangman Adam Page and his tag
1:38:32
Speaker 1: team partner, The Learning Tree Chris Jericho, Hangman and Jericho
1:38:48
Speaker 1: against Ricochet and the Beast Mortos. I you know, I
1:38:51
Speaker 1: like that match. I think that'd be a good tag
1:38:54
Speaker 1: team match. That is weird. How it's it's it is
1:38:57
Speaker 1: an entirely aw match. How the hell did that happen?
1:39:00
Speaker 1: I spun the wheel four times here and we lend
1:39:04
Speaker 1: it on all aw guys. What are the chances of that?
1:39:12
Speaker 1: Tony Kahan is he's already the graphic is being made
1:39:15
Speaker 1: as we speak. It's gonna be your main event next
1:39:19
Speaker 1: week on Dynamite. There it is bookt all right, Well,
1:39:25
Speaker 1: we got our tech team match. Now we need a
1:39:27
Speaker 1: women's match, a women's hardcore match. Ladies are gonna get
1:39:35
Speaker 1: down and dirty tonight. Someone's getting hurt. Someone's gonna bleed.
1:39:44
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, someone's gonna bleed. All right, Naya Jacks is
1:39:47
Speaker 1: in the match. Better be careful to wear a suit
1:39:50
Speaker 1: of armor here when you come down to the ring.
1:39:53
Speaker 1: Nya Jacks in a hardcore match. Who wants to get
1:39:58
Speaker 1: hardcore with Na Jacks? Let's find out. Julia and Naya
1:40:05
Speaker 1: Jackson a hardcore match. Julia is gonna fuck her up.
1:40:10
Speaker 1: I want stardom Julia. She don't need no Kendo stick.
1:40:18
Speaker 1: Just let Julia be Julia. I'm giving that the bell.
1:40:27
Speaker 1: We got one more. Our main event of the evening
1:40:32
Speaker 1: is going to be the always entertaining and exciting stretcher
1:40:36
Speaker 1: match Sting. Not just any Sting. This is crow Sting.
1:40:46
Speaker 1: This is black and white Sting in a stretcher match.
1:40:54
Speaker 1: But against who you motherfucker Elgonde Americano and Sting. Now,
1:41:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna get that's a sweep.
1:41:15
Speaker 1: That's a sweep. And the only reason I'm giving it
1:41:17
Speaker 1: a bell is because Chad Gable is awesome and despite
1:41:21
Speaker 1: the gimmick, I think Chad Gable and Sting would be
1:41:27
Speaker 1: a very good match. But I am so done with
1:41:32
Speaker 1: this gimmick. Now it's now, it's pop. Now it's tormenting
1:41:35
Speaker 1: me after what I said about it earlier. Look at this,
1:41:38
Speaker 1: this is what pops up on my screen. Ridiculous and
1:41:50
Speaker 1: that is double be the booker. Yeah, that is a
1:41:53
Speaker 1: world that's a world heavyweight title match. You saw sting
1:41:55
Speaker 1: in the graphic. You have the world title over his
1:41:57
Speaker 1: shoulder Arabian Night. More releases are imminent. Worried for La
1:42:06
Speaker 1: and Julie. There is speculation out there that there are
1:42:09
Speaker 1: more releases coming. Nothing confirmed, but it's it's not looking good.
1:42:16
Speaker 1: I said after Julia lost that US title to Tiffany Stratton,
1:42:20
Speaker 1: I had a bad feeling for her. I hope I'm wrong.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says Luca Brothers versus Luca Brothers on Sinko
1:42:33
Speaker 1: de Mayo. Yeah, I didn't even notice that Dan Housen
1:42:41
Speaker 1: should curse the Braves. I agree. I think Dan Housen
1:42:45
Speaker 1: should transfer the Mets curse over to the Braves. EJ
1:42:51
Speaker 1: Slent by cell Rent Lucre Bros. Versus Luca Bros. Adam
1:42:56
Speaker 1: Cole twenty thirteen against Adam Cole twenty sixteen or Dusty
1:42:59
Speaker 1: Rhodes versus Dusty Rhodes. Those have all been booked, I
1:43:04
Speaker 1: believe and be the booker, but I'm buying on the
1:43:09
Speaker 1: Lucha Bros. Of course, and then Dusty and then Adam Cole.
1:43:14
Speaker 1: Dried chicken, says Nia Jacks again Stardham, Julia loser has
1:43:20
Speaker 1: to eat hot spicy peppers. Tell me, man, just just
1:43:25
Speaker 1: let Julia go in there and do her thing. And
1:43:30
Speaker 1: Craze cays. Can't wait for ad Lash this Saturday. Yeah,
1:43:40
Speaker 1: this is just awful, so bad. Can't wait for us
1:43:43
Speaker 1: to get our dose of commercials with a little bit
1:43:47
Speaker 1: of wrestling sprinkled in. Can't wait. Be well, stay safe,
1:43:53
Speaker 1: have yourselves a great rest of your nights, and I
1:43:57
Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow for the Uncrowned Wrestling Show TNT
1:44:01
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and then back here on this channel on
1:44:04
Speaker 1: Wednesday night for aw Dynamite the post show. Until then,
1:44:09
Speaker 1: take care, guys,