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WWE Backlash 2026 Review | John Cena Makes His "HISTORIC" ANNOUNCEMENT And More! · Solomonster Sounds Off

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well that was a quick show. This is your Backlash review.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: You know the show is over early? Not even three
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: hours long? Was this pl which tells me that they
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: really wanted to make sure that this show was over
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: before the UFC pay per view started number one and
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: which started at nine o'clock and number two probably also
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: the Laker game, but more so UFC because I know
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: there is a UFC show tonight. I don't have any
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: issue with it. I thought it was great in and
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: out just like that. But yes, we have to talk
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: about Backlash tonight, and we got a bunch of stuff
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: to dive into, which will be kind of nice because
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: if you were with me last night for the SmackDown review,
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: we had to talk about the funeral of the gingerbread men. Yes,
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: and not just one segment. It was a story threat
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: throughout the entire night. So now we could put that
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: in the rear view and we can talk about this show,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: which included a main event of Roman Reigns defending the
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: World Have Youweight Championship against Jacob Fatu, not a match
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: where I expected to see Roman Reigns lose the championship.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: He did not lose the championship, just won it three
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. Realistically, they were not taking the title off
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: of Roman Reigns three weeks after winning it a wrestle media.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: But the thing I kept mulling over, and you heard
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: me talking about on many of the streams, is I
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: wonder what finish they're gonna go with, and who, if
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: anybody is going to show their face and get involved
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: in the finish of the match. He's going to be
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: a one and done where Roman just beats him one, two,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: three and that's it. And I actually like the way
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: they did the finish tonight because they did the finish
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: in a way where we got a clean match between
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: the two of them. We did not have the ussos,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: We did not have some big surprise solo soko, and
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: nobody liked that. We had a one on one battle,
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: a war between these two men that ended with Roman
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Reigns pinning FA two in the middle of the ring,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: and Fa too when the match was over, absolutely losing
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: his mind, going nuts like a madman and putting Roman
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: down multiple times with the Tonguan death grip. Really trying
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: to get that Tonguin death grip over. He's got the
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: fingers taped and everything. Now this is his new gimmick,
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: and he was a wild man out there. He even
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: took Adam Pierce when he came out to try to
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: settle him down, threw him out of the ring. And
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: I know it came across like, okay, so long, Roman,
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: We're not going to see you for a few months.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: That would be awful. Of course, since he's the world
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: heavyweight champion. Roman is scheduled for clash in Italy at
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: the end of this month. I can't say that he's
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: going to be on Raw this week or next week
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: or the week after that, but he is scheduled to
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: be on the next pl sounds like we're going to
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: get two different world title matches on that show, and
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: I would figure they would want Roman on that show
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: in Italy, kind of like Julia honestly. I mean, he's
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: got some family ties. He's gotten Italian side of his family, right.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: I believe that's where his mom is from. But yeah,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: so what was pretty well established when this match was
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: over is that they are going to run this back,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: which is great. And now they have established Jacob fa
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: too as this just unstoppable, dangerous individual who can snap
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: at a moment's notice, and it did come across like
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: this was more of a full on heel turn for
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: him here. Nothing they've done on TV in recent weeks
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: would indicate that, but his behavior when this match was
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: over would indicate that this probably was meant to be
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: a heel turn for Jacob fa too. And we'll see
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: where it goes as far as the ussos are concerned,
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: because you know, he cut that off last night on
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: SmackDown and said, you better not be thinking about getting
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: involved in my match. Stay away, and they did. As
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: far as we know, they were not even there today.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: How are they going to react to this? Right, Roman's
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: still the champion, but you know, Jacob put him down.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: How are the USO's gonna, you know, react to this
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: and what's their response going to be? So that's going
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: to be the story now coming out of this until
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: we get the rematch, and we will be getting a rematch.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure between these two there was nothing blowaway in
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: the ring tonight. I thought the main event was very good.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Eoski and Oscar was also very good to me. They
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: had the match of the night, and maybe the most
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: wild stat of all when we talk about this backlast show,
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: is the fact that Eoski and Osca actually got more
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: time in the ring than Roman Reigns and Jacob Faughtu did,
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: if you can believe it. They both went about the
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: same amount of time, But I think EO and Oscar
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: got maybe thirty seconds longer than they did in the
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: main event, which is crazy, more than enough time for
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: both matches, more than enough time for both these matches
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: and the people involved to go out there and tell
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: the story they needed to tell. EO and Oscar I
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: always knew they were going to have a very good match.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: I never for one second doubted the quality of the
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: match they would have when they were out there. What
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: I question was what would the feeling be with them
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: out there fighting and Kyrie saying nowhere to be found?
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: And I was kind of hoping that maybe they could
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: work out some sort of arrangement with Kyrie just to
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: get her into at least finish out this story, you know,
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: with her two friends. I understand if they did go
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: to her and she said no, I probably would have
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: said the same thing. I would have said, piss off.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they went to her or not.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing not. When the match was over, that that
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: really was the one big thing that was missing. As
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: good as the match was, great match, right, but there
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: was an actual story here and you watch them out there,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: and you watch the finish of the match, and something's
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: missing because there was a story that was being told
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: on television for many months, and again we never got
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: the payoff to it. This was supposed to be it.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Tonight was supposed to be the night, and it wasn't there. Now,
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: had they done this MATCHIA, ain't no way They're going
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: out there and getting eighteen minutes. Okay, so they actually
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: got more time tonight than they would have a WrestleMania.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: But the trade off here is that even if they
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: would have gone to wrestle WrestleMania got half that if
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: they got nine minutes of WrestleMania. Kyrie was still employed
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: at that time, I believe, and so they could have
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: actually finished the story off with Kyrie saying on that
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: show and I would rather have that than nine more minutes.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: I would rather them go out there and have a
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: good match instead of a very good match, but give
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: us that payoff at the end. So that was the
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: one thing that was missing. I'm like, ah, man, this crowd, man,
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: they would have gone crazy. If they would have done
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: this in a way where Kyrie finally stood up to Oscar,
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: and what a great ending that would have been. So
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: unfortunately tonight we didn't get it. That was the one
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: thing that was missing there was when the match was over,
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: the two women came together, there was a reunion between
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: the two of them, EO and Oscar. They put their
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: differences aside. And the way Oscar was acting, the way
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Oscar was behaving, the way Oscar was kind of waving
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: to the crowd, there's something a little more than just
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: the ending of a match and hey, you know, paying
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: respect to my opponent going on here, there was something
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: going on here where I'm not sure if I don't
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: want to say this was her last match, but it
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: just it came across to me like Osca, if she
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: isn't done, maybe winding down very soon. I hope I'm wrong,
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: because I still feel like she's got a lot to contribute.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: I know she's been there for a long time. I
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: hope it's not the end for her, but it's just
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: that that vibe. I got that vibe with what was
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: going on there in the postmatch. But I hope I'm wrong,
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: But Dan Housen actually got a match here on this show.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Dan Hausen has been all over the place, He's been
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: all over the TV shows, and the fans love him.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: He's over. He sells a lot of merch, so of
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: course they're gonna run him into the ground until people
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: are sick of seeing him. So we got a match
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: on this show. Now we came into this pl only
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: five matches were announced for this show, not a single
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: Women's championship match on the show. But they had time
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: for Dan Housen and a mystery partner against the Miz
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: and Kit Wilson. And there were a lot of people
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: talking about who the mystery partner was going to be.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of people thinking it was going
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: to be cm punk. I had people tweeting me all
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: the betting odds, about the betting od I don't give
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: a fuck about the betting odds. The fuck do I
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: care about the betting odds. Don't give a shit. It
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: was never gonna be cm punk. I don't know why.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know where this narrative came from, other than
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: the two of them were friends. They were not going
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: to use cmpunk for this. Jelly Roll is the one
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: that I kept coming back to because he actually had
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: involvement with these men in this story leading into WrestleMania.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Had things gone differently, he very likely was going to
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: be in the main event of this show, or one
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: of the main events. Think about that, had things gone
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit differently with Randy Orton and Pat McAfee,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: and it was not jelly Roll. It was not jelly Roll,
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: It was not cmpunk, it was not Royce Keys, it
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: was none of these people. In fact, who it turned
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: out to be was not exactly a big name, literally,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: no one big. Let that be a clue. Let that
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: be a small clue as to who his tag team
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: partner was. I think my perspective on this may actually
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: be quite different than you're going to hear from a
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: lot of other people. Maybe maybe not, I don't know,
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: especially coming off my diatribe last night during the SmackDown
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: review when it came to the gingerbread garbage. I didn't
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: hate this the way that I think some people may
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: end updating it now. Don't get me wrong. It had
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: no business being on this show. When you are so
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: limited that you only have five matches to fill on
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: your premium live event, this should not be one of
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: those matches. And I understand, Oh you want to have
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: that one come down match or the comic relief. Yeah,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: not on a card that has five matches. Not when
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: so many other performers on your show. Not when so
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: many other wrestlers are left out in the cold with
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: no spot on the card whatsoever. This match should have
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: been on SmackDown. It was a television match, through and
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: through anybody who's upset with the fact that this ended
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: up on the pla over some of the other stuff
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: that we could have had one. I feel you, I
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: feel you, But I did not hate what they did
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: here we'll talk about what ended up happening. You combine
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: all of this though, with the other matches on the show.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: I thought backlash overall it was it was good. It
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: was a good show. It was not a great show.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what number I would give to it,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: not anything terribly high, but it was it was good.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: I mean again, the actual interring action we got in
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: most of the matches was good, but that wasn't all
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: we got because the biggest thing that they were hyping
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: up for this show was John Cena, who retired in December.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: He was the host of WrestleMania three weeks ago already
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: he was back. I think he lives in Tampa. I
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: said this the other day. For him, it's easy because
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: he could probably go home and sleep in his own
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: bed tonight. And he had been hyping on his social
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: media that there was going to be some sort of
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: epic and these are words that he was using. Okay,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not just pulling this out of my ass here.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: He was using words like epic. He was using words
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: like historic history making it was going to rock the
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: very foundation of WWE. When you start doing that and
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: you start using words like that, nine times out of ten,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: there is no way you are going to be able
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: to live up to your own hype. So I don't
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: know why they do this. They've done this before, they
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: continue to do it. I know they're trying to sell,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: you know, ESPN subscriptions, but they never do themselves any
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: favors by using words like that, because invariably, you're gonna
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: just leave people very disappointed no matter what it is
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: that you announce, and I'm sure it will be the
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: same tonight. However, most people, myself included, figure, well, this
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: is going to be tied into this new Club WWE
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: thing that they seem to be making scene of the
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: face of it's their new fan club. They haven't rolled
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: it out officially yet. We still don't know what the
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: membership fee is going to be and all that, And
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people figured that it was
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: tied into that. That's why Sena was going to be
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: on the show. Must be tied into Club WWE. And
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: who's to say, by the way, that it won't be.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: We don't know for sure that there won't be some
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: sort of Club WWE tie in here, but that's not
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: what it was. The announcement from John Cena tonight was
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: that coming soon. He didn't even tell us when. We
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: have no date. We have no date, we have no location,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: we have no time, We have no additional details as
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: of yet on this. Maybe tomorrow, but there is going
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: to be an event titled the John Cena Classic. You know,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: at NXT we had the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Of course, tag team wrestling is dead in WWE, so
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: we don't have any tag team classics anymore. But there's
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be the John Cena Classic, and basically the theme
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: of it is going to be very similar to what
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Sena pushed for on his final show, on that Saturday
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Night's main event that we had in December, where there
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: were people in the company, one person in particular, Bruce,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: who wanted John Cena to have his match with Gunther
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: and that was going to be the one match on
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: that show, an entire show built around John Cena, no
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: other matches except John Cena against Gunther. And it was
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Sina as a shoot legit who pushed for the idea
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: of having matches on the card that showcased talents from NXT.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: That's how we got Cody Rhodes against Obafemi. That's how
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: we got soul Ruka against Bailey, That's how we got
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: aj Styles and Dragon Lee against Leon Slater and Javon Evans.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: And it's a good thing they did that because those
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: are the matches that really ended up carrying the show
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: in many ways. So this is basically following the same concept,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: only this event, Seen is attaching his name to it.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: It's going to be an annual well, he hopes it
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: will be an annual event. He honestly, he admits he
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't even know if it's going to work. The idea
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: is that it's going to be a one time event,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: but hopefully they'll do it maybe once a year going forward,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: and it'll pit WWE main roster talents and matches against
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: NXT talents. Again, very similar to what we saw a
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: few months ago. I don't believe he ever used the
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: word tournament or you know, it's not like a Survivor
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Series style match or anything like that. He just said
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: that there will be matches hitting talent from main roster
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: against NXT and that is the idea behind it. Yeah, somebody,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: somebody in the chat mentioned Mason Rook. Mason Rook, that's
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: that's his new name. Huh? Will? Uh? What's it? What's
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: what's the guy's name again? Will? Will? Is it not
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Will Cruiz. I already forgot the guy's last name. I'm
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: already calling him Mason Rook. I forgot his other name.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Seene is a big fan of that guy he just
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: debuted on NXT. Seen it was posting stuff on social
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: media about him. You can tell he's a big fan
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: of that guy. I see. I think someone like him
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: is gonna end up doing real well on a show
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: like this. Cruise, Thank you, Will Cruise. I was right, Okay,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: it is Will cruise. So the idea is that they're
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: gonna have these matches and there's going to be a championship,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: which just what we need, the creation of more championships.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I know in this case, if it's a championship that's
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: more of a trophy, it's not a championship that's meant
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: to be defended. Yeah, kind of like the owen Hart
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Foundation belt that you get if you win the owen
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Hart Tournament in aw or if you win the Andre
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, you get the Andre the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Giant Trophy. We see it one night, we never see
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: it again. If it's something like that, fine, it's basically
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the equivalence of a trophy or a medal or something
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a certificate of achievement, something to that effect. What we
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: don't need is some sort of championship that is to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: be defended. We don't need that. But there's going to
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: be a belt made in his name, and the winner
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: of this competition is going to become the John Cena
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Classic Champion. How do you win this competition? This is
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: going to be the point of contention. Now we don't
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: have all the details yet, but the way that he
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: described it, which is very weird. The way that he
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: described it is that there's going to be a series
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: of matches. However, the key here is that they're going
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to implement fan voting. The fans will be able to
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: make their voices heard as far as who they like,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: who they don't like. Everybody who qualifies for this Everybody
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: who is going to be wrestling on this show is
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: automatically qualified to be voted on by the fans as
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the John Cena Classic Champions. So you could go out
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: there and have a match or matches on this show
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and lose every single match, and it doesn't matter because
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: if the fans like you enough and they vote for you, you
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: will supersede everybody else and you will win the competition.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: So basically, it's a popularity contest. Having the actual matches
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: is meant to be a showcase for people, but the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: wins and losses here they don't matter, which is why
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I think the idea of even having a championship in
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the first place is incredibly fucking dumb. I mean, why
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: even bother having a belt, the hell do you need
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a belt for, assuming it is going to be a belt,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he didn't call it a belt.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: He called it a championship. I hear championship, I think belt.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot that we still have to learn
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: as far as exactly how this thing is gonna work.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Is this epic? Right? I mean, is this an epic announcement?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Some people will say it is. I'm not one of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: those people. No, it is not epic. Is it historic?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Not really? Not really, because again it's just basically playing
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: off what we already saw in December. This is not
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a new concept. And also the idea of fan voting
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: is something that we've also seen before in WWE many
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: years ago. We had Taboo Tuesday, we had Cyber Sunday,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and those shows did so well that they got rid
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of the concept. And I think the only time they
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: brought it back. I think they brought it back for Telion.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And I've always said, like, I'll get a question in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the mailbag every now and then, maybe maybe even every
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: couple of years from somebody asking me about, oh, should
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: they bring back Cyber Sunday, And I'm like, no, I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was never a big fan of it. I didn't like it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't care for it. When those pay per views
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: wererolled around, I was like, Eh, let's just get this
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: over with. That's just me. I wasn't really a big
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: fan of the way they used to, you know, implement
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the fan voting and do those shows. I always thought,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you know what, this gimmick works a lot. But plus again,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it's a pay per view. So part of it for
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: me is like when I was going into a pay
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: per view back then, I wanted to know what the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: fucking card was and we never knew. Back then. It
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was like, well, the fans are going to vote, we
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: didn't know what the matches were going to be. To me,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that's a TV gimmick. You can do that on an
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: episode of Raw. You can do that on an episode
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of SmackDown. That's fine. I mean, fuck, we go into
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: SmackDown on most weeks and we don't even have most
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of the card put together. Four matches are being made
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: during the show itself, so there's no harm and doing
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a concept where you put it to fan vote. So
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: now they're basically taking the old taboo Tuesday and cyber
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Sunday concept and they're reviving it, just in a different
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: kind of way. There's nothing really historic or epic about it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I think here's what I like about it. I liked
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the idea of shining a spotlight on talents from NXT,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: which again is like what they did in December. That
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was big for Obafemi to get in the ring with
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Cody Roadse. That was big for Soul Ruka to get
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a win, right, a Vlushi one over Bailey Javon Evans,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Leon Slater. I know Leon's a TNA guy, but you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: they went out there and they were you could tell
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like they knew that was a big opportunity for them
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in front of a big audience to show up and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: show out, and they did. So I like that and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: doing it once a year. There's no harm in doing that, right,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It's a special, one night only thing. They think of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: evolution last year the Old Women's Show, right, and that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a great show. So I think
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the concept could work as a showcase. When it comes
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to the fan voting and them picking the winner or
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the winners and having a championship of some kind, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: what the competition actually looks like. Is it tournament style?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Is it just a series of random matches? Do the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: fans vote on who gets to be in the matt
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This is where I'm a little confused about how all
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of this is going to work, So they have to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: flesh this out first before I can make a full
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: judgment on how I really feel about it. But I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: don't hate the idea. That's fine. I mean, if they're
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: looking for something unique to do for one night, as
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: long as it doesn't take away from what they're doing,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you know, with the main roster stuff, then that's fine.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And you could tell that this was a John I mean, like,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to John Cena pitching this idea and he
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: keeps saying, like, you know, hopefully this will be an
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: every year thing, and I really hope it works. Like
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you could tell the this is something he came up with.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that this is something that was brought
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to him and they said, hey, can you put your
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: stamp on this, We'll put your name on it. This
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: is something that he wanted to do. I think he
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: wants to still be involved in some way. We hear
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: stories about him showing up at the performance Center and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: giving advice to people. He showed up at the Dungeon,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know where Natty and TJ are training people. He
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: showed up I think at Bailey's first the Lodestone seminar,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the all women's seminar that she did. So I believe
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that he genuinely cares about that sort of thing it
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: wants to be involved in some way. And maybe the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: company went to him and they said, well, look, if
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you have an idea for what you want to do,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: come up with an idea, come back to us and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. Not unlike what AJ Styles did?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know? AJ Styles retired and AJ Styles was like, well,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: what do I want to do now? I don't want
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to just necessarily be a coach at the performance center.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: He came up with this idea of like what his
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: role in WWE should be. He wants to be the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: guy who goes out there and basically helps. His role
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is kind of multifaceted. He wants to help like recruit
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: talent from the indies, but also like he wants to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: go around backstage and just check in with people and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: see how they're doing, almost like a guidance counselor like
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a mental health counselor how you doing, how you feeling?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Is everything going okay. They're coming up with this stuff
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on the fly because these guys are retiring, but they
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: still want to have one foot in right, one foot out,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: one foot in, But what does that look like like?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: What role is that? There's no current position that exists
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: for what aj Styles is doing. They've kind of created this,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: this niche role for him. And the sense I get
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is that it may be a similar situation with John Cena,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, you've earned the right to try
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to come up with, you know, an idea that you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: think you might want to go with and come to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: us and we'll see if we can make it work.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And I think that this is the product of that,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and so it may be imperfect, but for them, it's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a way to keep John Seena in the fold. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure TKO and wwe would love to keep John
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Seena in the fold. And if this is what he
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: wants to do, then fuck it. We'll give him a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: one night event and we'll make him happy. And that's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: what I think is going on here. But nothing he
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: was going to announce tonight was ever going to be
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: able to live up to the to the hype around
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it over the past week. But again, it's admirable that
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he wants to help shine a spotlight on the stars
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of tomorrow can't hate on that. I do think there
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: is a very big issue though in ww and I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: talked about this last night on the Smack Demery. I mean,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues in WWE, but one of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the issues I have, and I've seen it with Ricky
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Saints over the last couple of weeks. It's great that
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: they can call people up. Night one, they're in there
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: with Cody Rhodes, Night one, Boom, they're in there with
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Live Morgan, right putting a big spotlight on them. Obafemi,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: my god. He debuted and he accepts the open challenge
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: for WrestleMania with brock Lesner. That's great. What we need
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to see more of, though, is actual character development, character
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: development vignettes on television over the course of many, many
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: weeks as you prepare to debut somebody new, so that
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: when they arrive, people not just a few people who
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: watch NXT, but a lot of people will be more
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: familiar with them, and hopefully that will help in terms
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of like when they debut, the reactions they get, whether
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: they get booed, cheered, whatever it may be. Instead of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: some of these people debuting to crickets and it just
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: feels like man they're not over what's wrong here? Well,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: because you haven't taken the time to educate people about
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: this person, like who are they, what's their persona, what's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: their character? They're not doing enough of it. They're doing
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it with some people, but they're not doing it with enough.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: My fear is that by doing more of this type
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: of stuff, you're gonna have an event like this and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you're just gonna throw a bunch of people in there
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and they'll have some cool matches and some of them
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: will get over and some of them won't, and some
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of them then make it called up to the main
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: roster and then you kind of throw them in there
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and it's like now what. I just hope they take
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the time to really do a better job of just
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: developing these characters on television on Raw or SmackDown, not
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: NXT before they show up, because I do think there's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a distinctly different audience between the two. I mean, I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: used to watch NXT every single week. I pay attention
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: only to very limited things now that appeal to me.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: When it comes to that show. I don't watch NXT
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: week two week. If there's somebody who stands out to me,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'll pay attention to what they're doing. But I think
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you have a lot of people out there who are
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: fans of Wwe call them casual, I mean, call them
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: whatever you want, who aren't watching n XT week to week,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and they genuinely don't know who Ricky Saints is, They
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: don't know who Ethan Page is. They can look at
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Obafemi and they don't really need to know too much
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: about him, because God, this guy's fucking awesome. Look how
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: cool this guy looks soul Ruka, I don't know. She's
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: got kind of that Lda Jeff Hardy vibe going on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: She was over from day one, right, But it doesn't
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: work that way for everybody. So I just hope that
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this is not going to make that problem worse by
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: just throwing a bunch of people into the deep end
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of the pool before they're ready and the audience is
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: just like eh, all right, and then certain people end
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: up not getting over because of it. Anyway, let's talk
• 27:28
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• 27:36
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  Speaker 1: and we are at four seventeen. I'm feeling pretty good
• 28:27
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• 28:41
  Speaker 1: worthy mood. Yeah, Unfortunately there was no Kyrie tonight. This
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: is the only place you're ever going to hear that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Now you do realize that we'll never hear it again
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: on WWE television, But everything that I'm talking about tonight
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you know where it happened. It happened at Backlash. I
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: always love that Triple H video. Get a close up
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of his face with that weird ass beard of his
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: er Backlash. At Backlash, they tried to recreate it. They
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: had some some of the current stars doing it. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: saw Dan Housen doing it the other day. Why should she?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: She got released? Hey, I'm telling you man. If wwe
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: went to Kyrie and said, hey, we'd love to have
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you in because we really would love for you to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: make it appear into Backlash. If I'm her, I mean,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: unless they're offering me a really good payday for it,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I'm telling them to fuck. I'm not even answering the phone.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I'm letting it go to voicemail. That's what I'm doing.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: So if she, if she turned them down, good for her,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: all right. The first hour of this show aired live
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: or simulcasted live on ESPN two. We had seth Rollins
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: against bron Breaker, which would have at one point been
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the WrestleMania match. They wanted to keep Breaker out a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: little bit longer, though, and do the match on this
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: show instead out I have to say this, outside of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the ri odd season logos, that they had on the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: mat in each of the four corners. I was digging
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the cleaner look for tonight's show, and especially compared to WrestleMania.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just total sensory overload. But if
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you'll notice you're watching this show, outside of those four
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: logos on the mat in the corner, you had the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: giant WWE logo in the center of the ring, you
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: had WWE logos on all the urn buckles. Right, they
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: didn't even have ads on the urn buckles. They actually
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: were able to hold back on all the advertising tonight
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: on the ring and around the ring. It was kind
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: of nice put more of the focus on what was
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: going on inside the ring. So Breaker charged in for
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a spear right out of the gate. Rollins, though leap
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: frogged him. There was a spot midway through this where
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Breaker went outside. He did the slow stalking charge towards
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Rolins like he was about to build up speed. He
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: was going to go for a spear, but Rollins cut
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: him off with a superkick. Then inside, Rollins had him
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: set up for a stomp, but instead he ended up
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: delivering a running knee strike to the face. The Breaker
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: was he was kind of had his head tilted down.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: So what I'm thinking here is that he was supposed
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to go for a stomp and they just fucked up
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the spot. And I don't know Breaker was at a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: position or whatever it was, and so I don't think
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: this went off quite the way that they had intended
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: it to, So Rollins may have had to call an
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: audible there. There were actually a few moments in this
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: match like that that looked off or were a little rough,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like this spot Rollins came off the ropes now he
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: attempted to do. I'll call it me personally, because he's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the only guy who I really see doing this on
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a regular basis, and it's always very impressive when he does.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I call it the will Osprey spot where Rollins came
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: off the ropes and Breaker had his arm out like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: in a close line position, and I'm gonna every week
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: just to piss you off. Wasn't the Big Dave, you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: know Big Dave? If he was to watch between the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: ending of SmackDown last night and what we had with
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen tonight, I can hear Batista's voice in my
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: head from that promo he cut in the Hollywood Dave
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: phase where It's like, what has happened to this business?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: What has happened to this business that I love? I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: don't recognize it anymore. So Breaker had his arm out
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in position like he was going to go for a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: clothes line, and the idea the year was that Rollins
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was going to as he was coming in kind of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: flip over onto his feet. I'm guessing into a position
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to hit a pedigree right, maybe double underhook. And when
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: we see Osprey doing it usually it's into like a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: tiger driver or a set out power bomb. It's a
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: cool spot. Rollins tried to do it here and he
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: fucked it up. It didn't work. So he was trying
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to get that rotation and he couldn't get it, and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: it was kind of in slow motion. He landed on
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: his head. It sounds worse than it was. He didn't
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: really get spiked on his head. There was a little
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: bit of a delay. He kind of gently came down
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: on his head. Then he immediately grabbed his head like
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: he was selling like he was hurt. I'm sure his
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: ego was more hurt than anything else. I'm sure he's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: probably a perfectionist. And so instead Breaker did a standing
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: moon salt, and they just moved on, because that's all
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you can do, You just move on in a situation
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: like that. There was a spot where Rollins he ran
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the corner to bring Breaker down from the top with
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a superplex. Now, usually Rollins will do that into a
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: falcon arrow. In this case, it was bron Breaker who
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hit the falcon arrow, and the fans popped big for
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: that spot and it looked cool. But I'm also watching
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: this going. You pulled this man off the top rope
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: for a superplex, which he proceeded to totally no sell, which
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: had no effect on him whatsoever. So he just popped
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: right up into a falcon arrow like okay, now we're
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: just no selling superplexes. So it looks cool. I mean,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it's not the first time I've seen that spot done
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: in a Seth Rollins match, but I still think it's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: very dumb. So a Breaker pulled Rollins down from the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: top a short time later with his Brakensteiner. He calls
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: it and then he went for another one in the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: opposite corner, but this time Rollin's kind of sort of
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: but not really landed on his feet. He dropped Breaker
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: with a pedigree, but again not really. You know, he
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: let go of the arms halfway through, so it really
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it's like he gave up on the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: move midway through, kind of the way Triple H was
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: doing it in the last like five years of his career,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and the guy just kind of falls down on his
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: own face first. I don't I'm trying to think the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: last time I saw a real decent looking pedigree, I
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: don't know, it's been a while. I don't think I've
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: seen a good pedigree in years. I kind of wish
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: people would stop doing the move altogether. If you're not
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: going to hit the pedigree the way the Triple H
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: used to do it many years ago, you know people
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: are afraid to take it or it's not safe, then
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: just don't do the move. Am I the only one
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: who thinks that move looks like shit these days? So
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: down goes breaker face first. Rollins then hint the stomp,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and at this point, Paul Hayman recognizes that we got
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a situation here, so he gets up on the apron.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: He starts shouting at Rollin's trying to get his attention.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: He's trying to, you know, distract him. Rollins goes outside
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the ring because he could sense that something's about to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: go down. He goes outside the ring and he pulls
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: a chair out from underneath. It's like he knew. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: at that moment, Austin Theory shows up, and Logan Paul
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: shows up, and so Theory got hit with the chair,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: as did Logan. Paul stomp to Theory on the floor.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Now Logan is is, he's on his butt, he's begging off,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and Rollin's chased him. Probably halfway down the aisle. Rollins realizes, Okay,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I got a match going on here. I got to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: get back to the ring, and so he sprints back
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: down to the ring and as soon as he gets
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: into the ring, Breaker cuts him down with a short spear.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: He covers him, Seth kicks out though before three. So
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Breaker hits the ropes a few times back and forth.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: He comes off for a spear, but as he dove in,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Rollin's jumped up, and funny enough to the point that
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I just made he jumped up into the air just
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: as Breaker dove in, and so he caught him effectively
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: in a pedigree, which is very different than a traditional pedigree. Right,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: so you know I'll allow it. This looked cool, so
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: down goes Breaker in this pedigree here. Rollins then headed
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: up top. He came off the top rope for what.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the idea was here.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: If he was going for a stomp it shirt didn't
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: look like it. But he comes diving off the top
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: rope and out of mid air. He gets speared by Breaker,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and finally Breaker hits the ropes a few times. Chris
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: crosses back and forth, cuts Rollins down with one final
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: spear and pins him to notch. What the announcer said
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: was the biggest win of bron Breaker's career, which is
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: probably true. He hasn't won any world championships yet on
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the main rosters. Wrestled some big names. He's been in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the ring with Cmpunk and people like that on occasion,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: but I don't believe he's beaten any of them, So sure,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: this was the biggest win of his career to date.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good match. It was not
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: without a few bumps in the road along the way.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: The crowd was hot for it. I mean, as far
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: as an opening match goes, the crowd was perfect. This
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: is the kind of crowd you would want for your opener,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: and it was a long match too. I mean they
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: got just over twenty minutes. This had to be the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: longest match on the entire show. I said earlier, like
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the Oscar Eo match got maybe thirty seconds more than
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Roman and Jacob did, and they both got between eighteen
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and nineteen minutes. So they gave these guys like twenty
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: one minutes in the opener, so they had plenty of
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: time to do their thing. By the way, this was
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: also longer than most of the matches on either night
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: of WrestleMania this year. Now, I know it's a pl
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: you would expect that there wouldn't be commercial interruptions during
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the matches the way you see un SmackDown and Raw,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: but I'm so conditioned lately with this WWE product and
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: just the way things are that when it was over,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, we had no interruptions during this
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: match because it aired on ESPN, so you never know.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't believe they interrupted anything on the
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: ESPN hours for WrestleMania, but I was kind of waiting
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: for it, Like the longer this match went, I'm like, oh, sure,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: surely they're going to take a break in here. Somewhere,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: but they didn't, so you know, that was nice, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, boy, the bar the bar is very low
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: with these WWE shows now when it comes to this
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: where it's like I'm praising it for not having a commercial,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm praising them for not having a commercial in the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: middle of a fucking pl match. This is where we
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: are now. Most importantly, it was the right outcome. Bron
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Breaker needed this win more than Seth Rollins. I understand
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins came back at WrestleMania and he lost to Gunther. Well,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: this was bron Breaker's first match in a few months,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: and it's still Rollins is a made guy in this company.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Rollins loses nothing by losing this match, but I think
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you want to get break or re established in a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: major way. To do that, he has to win. So
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it's exactly what you know, I would have hoped they
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: would do, would be to give him the win. I
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: thought that was the right outcome, but they did it
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: in a way where you know, the Vision tried to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: get involved and it kind of gives Rollinson out, But
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the interference it wasn't over like overbearing or overwhelming in
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the way that it is with the Judgment Day where
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: it's just constant. You know, you could have fucking Dom
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: interfering three or four times in one match, and that's
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: to say nothing of Live or Raquel or Roxanne or
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: JD or anybody else. So it was fine. It was fine.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: They didn't overdo it on the vision stuff. Second match
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: of the ooh there's Vince say hello. Everybody just saw
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that super chap pop up, very creepy. Second match of
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the ESPN Hour had Trick Williams defending his United States
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Championship against Sammy's ad. I said my piece pieces on
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the gingerbread stuff last night. I thought it was ridiculous
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that this was the focal point of the entire three
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: hour show. I thought it was just embarrassing and the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: less set about it the better. But it all led
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: to this, It all led to where we are here tonight,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and I came into this thinking, you know, if you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: want to keep this going, because this thing feels like
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: it still has some legs to it, they really should
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: put the belt back on Sammy. I wouldn't have taken
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the belt off him in the first place a WrestleMania.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I would have kept it on him a little bit
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: longer had Trick, you know, kind of scratch and claw
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit more to really just put this guy
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: in the dirt once in and then win the championship
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and then be done with Sammy and move on. They
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: had other ideas here on the show. Right now, it's
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: just all about establishing the new faces. That's the most
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: important thing, and it is important, it is important here.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: But I just thought there was more runway for these two,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and after what they did here tonight, there is no runway.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: That's it. It's over. If they try to continue this,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I see no point in doing so. Zaan went to
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: go use the steel steps early on, but Lil Yati,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: who was out there with Trick, he got in the
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: way and that prevented him from doing so. We got
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a blue thunderbomb and hear from Sammy for a near fall.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Then he faked a knee injury after a springboard off
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the ropes, and when Trick came in after him, Sammy,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of course, playing possum, rolled him up for the near fall.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yachty climbed up on the apron to argue with the referee.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: At one point, Sammy grabs the kendo stick that Yachty
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: had brought to the ring with him the gingerbread kendo
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: stick or candy cane kendo stick, whatever it was. So
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he grabs this thing and he hits Trick with it
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: and Sammy covers him. Only got a two count out
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: of it. So Sammy goes to the corner and he's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: gearing up for the halluva kick. Referee goes over to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: check on Trick Williams and as this is going on,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Yady takes possession of the kendo stick and gets on
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the apron and kind of whacks Sammy across the back
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: with it. Trick then drops Sammy with a spin kick.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: He covers him, got a good near fall out of it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: The two of them end up on the floor outside
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: and Sammy drops Yah. He goes over to where Yachty
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: is and he just fucking drops him with a punch
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and he starts just working him over with the kendo stick.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Trick goes over to Sammy and he the steel steps
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: for there, and the bottom half was exposed, the flat
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: part of the steps, so Trick was setting up for
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a yuragi on the steps. He was going to plant
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Sammy onto them. Instead, Sammy fought out of it and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: he gave him a ddt onto the steps instead. So
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: he puts Trick back in the ring and he was
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: about to follow him in, but he looks over and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he sees a little Yachti and he's back up on
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: his feet and he's standing in. I know, he's like
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: interacting with people in the front row. I don't know
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. He just got his ass kick. He's
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: already back up on his feet. So Sammy sees this
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and he charges in and he delivers a halluva kick
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: from behind. So a halluba kick to the back of
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Yachti's head. And the way he sold this was was
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: kind of comical, the way he kind of flopped onto
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: the floor right. But Sammy wiped him out with his finish,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and you would think that's the end of YACHTI. Yachty
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: should be carried out of here. Okay, this man just
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: gave him a halluva kick. Sammy goes back to the ring.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: He tried for the kick on Trick, Trick, avoided it,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: ran the ropes, dropped him with the trick shot knee
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: and pinned him. That's it. One, two three. He pins
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Sammy's aying to retain the United States Championship and when
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the match is over, Lil Yachti gets back in the
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: ring to celebrate with Trick Williams. Thereby no selling. Sammy's
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: finished that he was just dropped with about forty five
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: seconds prior. So he gets in the ring and he
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: starts making it. He's making it rain, right. You see
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the dollar bills are flying and Trick is posing on
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the ropes with the belt, and Yachty's just going like
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, that's a cool visual, right, but
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: they zoom in it's all one dollar bills. I'm like,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this going, man, maybe there's some twenties
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: and fifties in there, maybe some hundreds. Nope. Yeah, it's funny.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Back in the day when the million dollar man would
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: come out, he would come out, he'd have hundreds, right,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: he would be getting he would call fans out, Look,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: if you could bounce this basketball ten times, I'll give
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: you five hundred dollars, right, And he's flashing the money
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and everything. Remember fucking Tiger Ali sing and Babboo I
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: think was his assistant, and they had fans coming into
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the ring and if you lick bab booze ToeJam on
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: his feet. We'll give you a fucking five hundred. Yeah,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: this is the kind of sick shit they were doing
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: back then. But see this is the tko aera now.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: So they went to Yadi and go, look all we
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: have for you. We have one dollar bills. We're not
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: giving out hundreds here. That's not how it works here
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: in the TKO era. Back then, man, he'd have all
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: those CE notes in his hand. Yeah, RV D RVD. Legitimately,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: he kissed Debiyassi's foot. He was a fan that got
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: called out of the crowd at a live event, and
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: he got down on his hands and knees and he
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: kissed the feet because he wanted the money. You had
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: two dollars bill. I have a two dollar bill, official
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: legal tender. I still have a two dollar bill somewhere.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Don't remember where I got it from, but I still
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: have it. I don't know if you could find those anymore.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I thought the match itself, it was a solid enough match,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: a little bit better actually than their wrestle Menia match.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: A little bit longer too. I think this was about
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: five minutes four or five minutes longer maybe than their
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: wrestle Menia match. I enjoyed this more than I did
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: that one. Lil Yahi, though he was involved enough in
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: this match to where he was getting more of the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: spotlight than either of the two men in the ring.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: They may as well have made this a triple threat match,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that's how much he was involved. I'm not really sure
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: what the point of all the gingerbread stuff was. I
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, the way the gingerbread garbage
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: ended last night, I thought, for sure, Okay, maybe they
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: really are going to put this belt back on Sammy
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: here and keep this going a little bit, because it's
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: been all tricks so far, so if you wanted to
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: continue it, you had to give Sammy something. But clearly
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: they have no intent of continuing this. And if the
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: idea is that they're not done yet and they're going
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: to get another match out of it, I have no
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: fucking idea what the point of this was. This felt
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to me like we're blowing this shit off and we're
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: moving on, and hey, okay, great, you want to move on.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe we get Trick and Carmelo Hayes. Last time we
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: saw Carmelo Hayes, he was literally in the trainer's room
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: talking to Trick Williams saying I'm coming after you next,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm coming after that belt. So maybe that's what
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: we'll get next. Maybe we'll get Trick and Mellow. I
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: still feel like, or feel I still felt like there
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: was more to do with these two, but I don't
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: see how you continue it after this. This felt like
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the period at the end of the sentence to me,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: he's been beaten twice. The goal here seems to have
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: been we have to just make clear to the fans
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: that what happened to WrestleMania was not a fluke. Trick
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: is the real deal, and he just beat this man
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: twice back to back three weeks. Okay, cool. I don't
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: know what that means for Sammy. I have no idea
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: where Sammy's aing goes now, But as far as Trick,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: he's going to move on now. Whether it's Carmelo Hayes
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: or somebody else, it looks like he's moving on to
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the next. So at that point they signed off of
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: ESPN two. Will Money in the Bank happen this year? Tomas,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: You got to pay attention, brother. Money in the Bank
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: is on September sixth, Labor Day weekend, end of the summer.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be the latest money in the bank has
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: ever been held. So the ESPN two portion of things
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: was over and I was watching this on Netflix. So
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: before we got to the next match, we had more
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: clips of the Hulk Hogan documentary, got a little bit
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: of that, and then we got a three minute or
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: maybe three and a half minute we'll be right back
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: countdown screen heading into the remaining three matches on this show.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: We only had three matches left. This felt like an
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: in your house is what this felt like. Up next
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: was Dan Housen and his mystery partner against the Miz
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: and Kit Wilson. This got a long video package. Now,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: remember what I talked about during WrestleMania. I said, the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: only matches that got any video packages here were the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: two main events. We had all this dead time on
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: these shows, and I'm like, nothing else got a video package.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: But of course it's not dead time to TKO. That's
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: commercial airtime, and that's much more important to them. So
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: it's funny to me that they kicked off the ESPN
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: app portion of the show and we got this like
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: extended video package. It's so important to recap the events
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: that have led us to Dan Housen against the MIZZ
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and Kit Wilson. This is what they gave I come
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: to think of it, I don't think any of the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: other matches on this show got a video. Oh, actually
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the main event did, but I was just I was
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: floored by this. I was like, they're going chapter and
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: verse through every single aspect of this feud, like we
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: need to make sure that all of you watching this
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: know everything that's happened up until this point. And so
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Miss and Kit Wilson were out first, then the video,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and then it was time for Dan Housen to come out.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: And he came out in his dan Housen Mobile. Whatever
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the fuck they're called. What does it have a name?
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. We'll call it the dan Housen Mobile.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: He drives out and he gets out of the car
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and on stage is the giant box we saw it
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown last night. It's the machine that he was
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: going to use to clone himself because in the backstage
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: segment on SmackDown, Kit Wilson said that nobody wants the
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: team with you, and he held his mirror up and
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: he said, this is the only person that would ever
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: team with you. And it gave Dan Housen this idea like, oh,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: he's gonna clone himself, right, So he opened the deprized
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the door open and we're going to find out who
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: his tag team partner is. And out pops a Mexican
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: mini who was actually played by Mascarita Segrata. If you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: don't know who Mascarita Segrata is, maybe you'll remember El
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Torrito from WWE many years ago, with him and the
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Mattadors part of one of the greatest segments in the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: last twenty years of Monday Night Raw when Bo Dallas
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: was doing his run. Remember he had his arms up
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: in the air and he's doing his run around the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: ring and didn't realize that El Tourito was outside, and
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: El Tourito didn't see him coming because his back was
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: turned that he got bumped by Bo's ample posterior and
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: got he got bumped to the side. I laughed way
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: harder than I should have. That's like my one loan me. Actually,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: that's not true, that's not true. That's one of my
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: two memories of El Turito from back in the day.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: The other one had to be welc right, because it
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: was I'm pretty sure it was him against Hornswoggle and
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: welc Yes, okay, So anyway, he was the one. He's
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: like forty he's like forty four. Now it's crazy. Anyway,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: he was the Mexican mini. He was Mini Housen because
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: he was out there and he had the makeup and
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: everything done just like Dan Housen. So they both got
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: in the Dan Housen mobile and they wrote around ringside.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Mes of course, is laughing at this. Kit Wilson is
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: laughing at this. I'm just looking at this, trying to
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: figure out, like, again, what am I doing with my life? Now?
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Two days in a row we go from the funeral
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: of the gingerbread Man to Minni Housen. It hasn't even
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: been twenty four hours yet. It's like I'm living in
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: a fever dream. Now. You could hear booze from the crew.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Was it like overwhelming, like booze raining down upon these men?
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: But there were booze there once the music stopped and
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: the match was about to begin, Because of course you
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: have people in the crowd who were, like you were
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: building up the mystery of this for the last couple
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: of weeks, and it's a pl e and so of course,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: people's their minds are going to start racing as to like, Okay, well,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: who could this be? Is it going to be somebody
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: new that's debuting, Is it going to be a big name?
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be again? I thought the one
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: that would have made sense was Royce Keys because he's
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: new to SmackDown and again he's an ass kicker. He
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: can go out there and for one night right beat
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: the fuck out of the Mizzen Kit. Wilson gets him
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: a spot on the show. Why not Jelly Roll was
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the one who I thought it would end up being
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: because of all the reasons I mentioned earlier, I for one,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: am happy that it wasn't Jelly Roll, and I don't
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: have anything against jelly Roll. You know, his involvement largely
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: in these shows hasn't really been terror. It hasn't been
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been too terrible, So I don't have anything
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: against him being involved at different points in time. But
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the idea of him coming out and being the mystery
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: partner was fucking dumb. I didn't want to see jelly
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Roll in this. I don't know who I wanted to
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: see in this. I really didn't want to see this
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: at all. If it were up to me, it wouldn't
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: have been on the fucking show. But for the people
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: who thought it was going to be CM Punker, it
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: was going to be some kind of big name, I
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: don't know why. Why would you let yourself Why would
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: you allow yourself to believe that it was going to
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: be a big name like that. It was never going
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to be. And it also it's WWE, so you should
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: know by now you have to temper your expectations. It's
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: like the John Cena announcement. You have to temper your
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: expectations because they will always let you down. So honestly,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: this was pretty much in line with what I would
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: have expected from WWE. So the match begins and Wilson
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: he kicks Mini Housen down as Wade Barrett on commentary
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: is wondering is that a thing or is that a child?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: And Michael calls said, well, it's not, it's not a child,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: and he goes, well, it better not be, because if
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: it is, this company's going to be in a hell
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: of a lot of trouble. I hate to break it
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: to Wade, It's a good thing that Barrett wasn't around
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: back in the eighties or else Yeah, that's a whole
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: other can of worms right there. In fact, there's an
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: ongoing lawsuit as we speak about some problems this company
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: ran into with kids back in the eighties, but we'll
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: leave that alone for now. So Minny Housen ended up
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: in a tree of woe and he sat up to
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: avoid a running charge. Dan Housen was in and he
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: cleaned house here for a little bit. Minnye Housen tagged
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: himself back in. He knocked the miss out of or
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: off one of the corners, and there was a top
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: conrana that sent Kit Wilson outside. There was a suicide dive.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: So Minniehausen is chasing Kit Wilson up the aisleway and
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: he ends up being sent into the cloning box, and
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Kit slams the door shut and he's like, finally I'm
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: rid of this little fool. And he turns around and
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: he's got this feeling of relief on his face. But
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: you can see that there's stuff going on there with
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the machine. And I'm like, okay, well, now I'm expecting
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: someone of a normal average height to now emerge from
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the box. And now I'm thinking, okay, maybe now it's
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: going to be somebody from SmackDown. Who's it going to be? Right?
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: My mind is wondering who's going to pop out of
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: the box. Silly me. It's a cloning machine. So we
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: have more mini Housings that come out of the machine.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Now there's a whole army of them. There's like a
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: whole fleet of them. They multiplied, That's what happened here,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: the gremlins. So they come out of the machine, the machine.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about it like it's a real fucking thing.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: They come out of the box and in the ring.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: So now there are attacking Kit Wilson in the ring.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I should also point out that on commentary Michael Cole
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: was like it works. The box works, thank you, Michael.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: So in the ring, the og mini he got kit
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Wilson up in position for an airplane spin. He gave
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: this man an airplane spin into the old Wade Barrett
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Wasteland move. And Barrett absolutely lost his shit over this.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: He couldn't believe that this little shit stole his move.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: He was flipping his wig. On commentary he called him
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: a dirty little goblin. So Minnie Housen was about to
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: curse Kit Wilson, who instead held up a mirror, so
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: it would be as if he was cursing himself, so
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: he was able to stop the curse. I can't believe
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: him talking about that, but he's holding up the mirror
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: to prevent the curse from occurring. And honestly, the best
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: part of this entire thing, and I'm not going to
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that it made the whole
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: thing worth it, because it didn't. But the best part
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: of this entire thing was miss sneaking up from behind
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Minniehausen and lifting him up high into the air and
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: dropping him with the skull crushing finale that I enjoyed,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and he covered him. Dan Housen almost was too late
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: on the save, but he did manage to break up
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the pen attempt, so then dan Housen ends up tagging
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: into the match. Officially, he gave Miss a FS press.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: I hesitate to even call it that it got fucked up.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened here. Mis was too close
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: to him. He just sort of I don't even know,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: like I'm sure. First of all, Number one, stone Cold
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Steve Austin, I bet I was to say, I would
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: bet my left nut, I would put both nuts on
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the line. That stone cold Steve Austin was not watching this.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I would bet both nuts that stone cold Steve Austin
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't even watch the product anymore, because why the fuck
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: would he. There's not a chance in hell he watches
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: this product week to week. But if he was by
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: chance watching this show tonight and he saw this attempted
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: as press that Dan Housen gave to the biz, he
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: needed to bust out a couple of IPAs and down
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: them on the spot because this was hard to watch.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: It's very hard to watch. But he tackles miss Miss
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: though ended up outside the ring, and he reaches underneath
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: the ring and all the mini Housen's are out there,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and they're standing on the announced desk and everything, and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Mis pulls out a fire extinguisher and he looks at
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: them and he goes, you are cursed, and he goes
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: to spray them, but nothing's happening because the Miz has
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: been cursed. So what happens? The Miz holds the nozzle
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: up to his face and then magically the white ship
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: comes out all over his face. Oh what have I
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: done with my life? Why am I saying the things
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that I'm saying? Why What have I done to deserve this?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? The white ship that comes
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: out of the fire exting. We sure it's all It's
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: all over the Miss's face. Now he's spraised him. He
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: spraised himself. I don't leave me alone of coourse some
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: board this should drink here? Is that? That's what I'm
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: gonna do. We don't need to be talking about mis
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: like that anyway. So he's been he's been sprayed. He's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: been sprayed, and the Mis ends up back in the
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: ring and Minnie Housen. He wipes out Kit Wilson with
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: a crossbody dive. Dan Housen hits Mis with a pump kick.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Apparently this is dan Housen's finishing move. It's like his
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: own broad kick, and he covers Miz and he wins
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the match. Michael Cole said that I just got a
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: text from a friend saying this is wrestling. This is wrestling.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: He says, yeah. Wade Barrett disagreed. He sounded disgusted with
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: all this, and he asked what has happened to the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: business that I love? To which I say this to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Wade Barrett, that business is dead. It doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: I've asked myself the same question watching many of these
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: shows over these past few months. That version of WWE,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: that version of the business, it's over. It doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: It's dead, especially now in the TKO. This is a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: new era. This is a new business. I'm not sure what, frankly,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be, but I'm sure it's sponsored
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: by something or other. And you may be shocked to
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: hear this. Despite whatever MS was doing with that fire extinguisher,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't hate this. I actually got a kick out
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: of different parts of this year. My issue with it
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: was that it was one of only five matches on
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: this show. This is supposed to be a premium live event, right,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: whatever that even means these days? What really is premium
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: not a lot of the stuff that we've been getting
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: on these premium live events. We only had five matches
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: on this show. Do you know how many people did
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: not have a spot on this show? Do you know
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: any championships were left out, not defended on this show?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: And in place of all of the other things that
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: could have been put on this show, we ended up
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: with this. That's my issue with it. Save this shit
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: for TV when real estate is so precious on a
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: show like this. And I get they like Dan Hausen
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: and he's over. I get it, I get it, But
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: a match like this does not belong on this show.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: And if you want to do this match on the show,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: then you got to add a couple more matches, that's all.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: But they're not gonna do that because they need to
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: get their ads in, they need to get their plugs,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: that's why. And we had the John Cena announcement right,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: he was gonna announce his a little special event. But
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna do shit like this, to me, it
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: would be a lot more tolerable if we had six
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: or seven matches on the card, not five. To me,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. And again it didn't help that it was
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: coming the night after the gingerbread stuff. You go from
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: one goofy thing to the next. Now, the crowd loved it. Again,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't hate it the crowd at first. They won
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: the crowd over because again they were noticeable booze. By
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: the time this was over, they had won a lot
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of the fans over. I think the fans buy and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: large they liked Dan Housen, but it just it wouldn't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: be so glaring to me if the rest of the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: product was firing on all cylinders and if they were
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: delivering and everything else that they're doing, and they're not.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Just the opposite, they're not delivering, And so then we
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: see something like this and it's like like, you know,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: what are we doing here? But for what they tried
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: to make this, it worked. I thought the comedy worked.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: It was amusing. Mascarita Cigrat is actually very talented. He
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: won a lot of the fans over with some of
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: his moves tonight, So I was sports entertained by it.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: But man, there was a better time and place for this.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: This really wasn't it now. Michael Cole at this point
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: pitched it to a special announcement, which was not John
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Cena's announcement. This was a commercial. There's an ad to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: announce the first ever in history to night triple Mania
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: coming in September. So triple Mania thirty four to Night
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: one is going to be on Friday night, September eleventh,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Triple Mania Night two is going to be on Sunday,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: September thirteenth, So they're not even doing it back to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: back nights, first to night triple Mania. That's not even
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: consecutive nights, which is certainly different. Only a matter of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: time before we get that to night Royal rumble. I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: think I first said that, I'm sure everybody pretty much
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: figures it's coming by now, But I remember first mentioning that,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: like a year and a half ago. I said, it's
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: only a matter of time. They had already announced the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: Saudi one, so I knew it wasn't happening this year.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: But I still feel like twenty twenty seven could be
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: the first two night Royal Rumble. If it's not twenty
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, then twenty twenty eight for sure. EO sky
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: one on one against Osca. Immediately the beginning of this match,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: we have chance of we want Kyrie. And then they
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: kind of petered out, and then I would say, maybe
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: not even a minute later, they roared back, and they
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: were even louder this time, And so at different points
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: during the first half I would say, of this match,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: we had chance of we want Kyrie. So her presence
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: or lack of thereof, was definitely felt by a good
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: chunk of people in the crowd. Oscar tried for an
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: arm bar early on, EO slipped out. She applied her
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: own version of the Oscar lock until Oscar got a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: rope brake, so Oscar went to the top. Eo though
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: pulled her down with her karana and Oscar rolled through
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: into a cradle for a near fall. EO drop kicked
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: her out to the floor. Oscar they'll block the dive attempt,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: and then placed EO on top of the announced desk.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: And so now they're both standing on top of the
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: desk and Osca spits the blue mist at EO. But CEEEO,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: she had a plan. She picked up Wade Barrett's pad.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: It looked like a laptop, but he said it was
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: his notepad, no notes on it, but it was his pad,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: and she held it up like a shield and she
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: shielded herself from the mist. So you know, if only
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Thomas Jane had been able to do that in the movie,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: just hold up a pad just to shield himself from
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the mist, we could have avoided the most depressing ending
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: in movie history. But you see, the blue goo is
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: like dripping down the pad. Eo trips up Oscar, so
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: she ends up falling face first on top of the desk,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and then she dove off the desk with a crossbody
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: onto Oscar. Then there was the Asai moon salt, the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: springboard moon salt from the ring to the floor by EO,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and she got none of it. She completely missed Osca
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: on the lane. I'm just happy that when she landed
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: she didn't go right back and smack her head on
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: the fucking desk like JD McDonough did that time. I
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: don't understand why anybody does an a Siei moon salt
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: on that side of the ring, especially after what happened
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: to McDonough. Why in God's name would you do it
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: on that side of the ring. Not only was there
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: an announced desk there, but there's like there's a barricade,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: there's any number of things that are there, and it's
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: just so dangerous. I mean, it's dangerous enough to do
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: that move on any side of the ring, but why
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: you would do it over there when there's a fucking
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: desk there and they've reinforced these desks now they barely break.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Can we not do it on that side of the ring? Please?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Back inside? Osca avoided a moon salt locked in an armbar.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: EO countered, but Osca caught her in the oscar lock.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Eo looked like she was going ninety nine. For a
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: second there, I bought on this. I thought she was
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: going out, but all of a sudden she got a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: burst of energy. She was able to roll out of it. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: he got a collapse lung from that. It was brutal.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: It was brutal when when he landed, he kind of
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: rolled backwards and he smacked the back of his head
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: on that desk. It was nasty. It was very, very sae.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: He finished the match, by the way, didn't realize he
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: had a collapse lung. He still finished the match. I
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: think he even did a moon salt onto Ivar or
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: whoever it was. Oscar blocked a kick into a German.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Leo came back with a German suplex of her own,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: than the running Meteora in the corner, and then finally
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: the over the moon salt lands on Oscar. Eo gets
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the pin and she picks up the victory. And when
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: the match was over, Eo was paying respect to her Sendpi.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: She bowed to Oscar. Oscar looked very emotional. Didn't know
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: what she was going to do, if she was going
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: to spit more missed at her, or attack her or
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: just walk away. Instead, she hugged her, she embraced her,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: EO earned her respect. Now, if you remember in the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: video package leading into this match that we saw on Monday,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: or I guess Monday would have been the sit down,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: But at some point in the build up to this,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Oscar mentioned that she being EO was her greatest disappointment.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: So we went from Oscar believing that EO was her
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: biggest disappointment, to her embracing her and forgiving her and saying,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: you know what I was wrong, You've earned my respect.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: So it was all lovey dovey, all nothing but positive
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: vibes here between these two, and the match was over.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: But what was weird about this is they both kind
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: of looked emotional, more so Osca and EO raises you know,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Oscar's arm, and they hugged again and Oscar blew a
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: kiss to her and waving to the crowd. Just I
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: don't know, the way this came off to me felt
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: like OSCA is either done or may very well be
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: done soon. Now. I know OSCA has been there for
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: a very long time. Osca has been in this company
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: now for a decade actually maybe longer, maybe about eleven years.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. How old she is off Hannah, she's
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: like mid forties. I don't know what her plans are
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: as far as how long she plans on working. She
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: may want to wrestle for another five years. I don't know,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: but just the way this came off to me, it
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: actually felt like she could be on her way out,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: and I just hope that's not the case. Oscar's fantastic.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: I know we're very far removed from nxt OSCA, you
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: know that run that she was on back then, But
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I still think she has a lot to contribute, and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I think if she were to leave, or if they
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: were to let her go, that would be that would
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: be a loss. I know, she hasn't been the focal
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: point of the women's division for a very long time.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, things would roll on without her, but it
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: would it would be loss to lose her and Kyrie
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: would be a big loss to that roster. So I
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: hope that isn't the case. She's forty four going on
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: forty five this year. Yeah, yeah, that's about the average
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: age I think of your WWE main eventor she could
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: still go another five or six years, But I don't
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: know what her plans are, but that was the vibe
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: that I got when this match was over. This was
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: a one and done this. Clearly they're not running this
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: back again, and really, what's the point. There's no sense
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: in doing so. Everything was built around the Kyrie stuff,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: and once Kyrie went away, to be honest with you,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even sure we were going to get this match.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: So now we got it. It was very good. It
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: was the match of the night, the best match on
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: the entire show to me. And it's over, and I
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: don't know where Oscar goes from here. Maybe she goes home.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: But I did feel coming into this that EO more
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: so than Oscar needed this win. After this, they showed
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Dan Spivey in the crowd. Holy shit, I wasn't expecting that.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: I think Dan Spivey actually has a new book out.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Somebody go look up the title of it. I'll give
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: it a plug, but I'm pretty sure he has a
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: new book. That's how Whaling Mercy in the house, know
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: what I mean. Lives are going to be in Whaling
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: Mercy's hands. So he was there. And also Steve Kern
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: was shown with a woman who I assume was his wife,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: and if he is married, and that wasn't his wife then?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Uh oops, but I'm sure it was. So he was
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: there as well in the crowd and again in the
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: Tampa area. I mean Steve Kerr used to run Florida
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Championship Wrestley, which was their developmental territory, which bled right
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: into the creation of NXT, so that was his tie
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: of course. Also he was Skinner. We can't forget the
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: alligator Man from the Everglades. So after this, it was
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: time for John Cena in his spiffy pinstripe suit looking
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: like a young Vince McMahon, his three piece pinstripe suit,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: making his way down to the ring for this epic
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: history making announcement that he has been promising all week long.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: And he says, he's been wondering, you know what will
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the next phase of my WWE career be? Ever since
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: I retired, I've been asking myself that question. So the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: crowd began to chant one more match at him. He
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: says he thinks a lot about that last match that
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: he had with Gunther, and the crowd boo, this is
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: what I loved. As soon as he mentioned the last
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: match he had, the fans began to boo because as
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: I told all of you that night, and I will
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: continue to our until my dying breath. I'm glad John
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Cena is at peace with it. It was probably his idea,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: and you know what, at the end of the day,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: it's his retirement. And if he's happy with it, then cool.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: But that finish sucked on Saturday night's main event, and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: I had to listen to so many people, Oh, it's
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: such a wonderful moment, A beautiful moment, What a beautiful moment.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: It sucked, and so the crowd boos and he kind
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: of laughed at it, and he goes, he's here, he
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: hears us, he hears the fans. He knows some people
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: were upset, but he was happy because what was most
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: important to him that night is that they made it
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: something bigger. They made it an evening of opportunity. Says
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: that he asked for them to give chances to NXT
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: stars to show what they can do. And on that night,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: for the first time, we saw Soul Ruka, and we
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: saw Javon Evans, and we saw Obafemi. Obafemi debuts in
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: December and four months later he strutting and he's kicking
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesnar's asster WrestleMania, So then it hit him. He's like, damn,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: we gotta do this again. So here we are. He
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: is honored tonight to announce the John Cena Classic, an
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: entire evening of the best of today against the best
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: of tomorrow, an entire event where WWE stars and NXT
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: stars give us all they have in the hopes of
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: being crowned a champion. They have a brand new event
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and a brand new championship in WWE. Just what we
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: fucking need? More championships in WWE, and not just any championship.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: He says, this is an event and a title that
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: he is personally putting his name on. So he is
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: going to strive for a certain level of excellence and
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: he's gonna do everything he can to make it special.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: So on top of all of that, for the first
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: time in history, the fans' voices will be heard louder
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: than ever because we, the audience, will vote to crown
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: the champion of the John Cena Classic. Yes, this has
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: never been done before in the history of WWE. Forget
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: everything you remember about the fan voting on all those
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: pay per views back in the two thousands. It never
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: ever happened. Nothing like this has ever taken place in
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: the history of WWA. He says, every participant qualifies, which
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: also means, for the first time in history, a superstar
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: might not win their match, but their hustle could win them.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: The fans vote, and the fans can still crown that
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: person the John Cena Classic Champion. So basically, what he's
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: saying is, no matter what the matches are that night,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: whether you win, whether you lose, you could be the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: biggest fucking loser on the show. If you get over
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: with the audience, if you can buy enough votes, if
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: you get stuffed the ballot box, you could become the
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: John Cena Classic Champion. I have a feeling we're gonna
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: need a recount here. I don't trust this voting. You're
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: gonna put the decision in the hands of the fans.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Do you see some of these people on social media?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: These are the people that you're gonna put the power
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: in their hands. Really, this sounds like a terrible idea,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: but he says it's a single event that embodies everything
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: he stands for. But he doesn't want to do just one.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: He wants to do this next year and the year
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: after that and the year after that. He wants this
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: to be a thing that's gonna be for years to come.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: So he thanked WWE for taking a chance on the idea.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: He hopes it works, and he thanked the fans for everything.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: He will see us at the John Cena Classic. How
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: is that like the Arnold Classic? And now it's time
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: for our main event. Before we get to the main event,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: that was the end of John Cena for the night.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: As I said at the beginning of the review, was
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: it some epic historic announcement? Not really. I mean, there
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: are obviously elements to this that would be considered historic
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: that they haven't really done before, in terms of having
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: this one night where even if you lose your match
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: you could still win, the fans can vote you in.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: It's like a fucking reality show. That's basically what it is.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: And again I get the impression, just based on the
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: way he's been talking about this and the way he
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: was talking about it tonight, that this legitimately is a
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: John Cena idea. And he went to them and said, look,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: this is what I would like to do, this is
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: how it would work. I really want to try to
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: make this reality And so they're indulging him and they're saying, Okay,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: we'll work with you on this, because of course they
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: want John Cena to be excited and they want him
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: to be involved. And you're going to have this event
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: and John Cena. I'm sure John Cena will be there.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: He might even be the host the event. And so
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: now you can promote another event with John Cena. He
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: may end up having as many appearances this year as
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: he did last year the way things are going. So look,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's very admirable that he wants to help
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: put that spotlight back on some of those people in NXT,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: people that I'm sure he's met being down at the
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Performance Center again. He's a big mark for Will Cruz, right,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: Mason Brook, I'm sure he'll be a big part of
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: that event. I'm sure John Cena has got his eye
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: on that guy. I enjoyed the matches they did on
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: Saturday Nights main event. I like the idea of having
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: WWE talent against NXT talent, not all the time, but
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: as like a once a year thing. I think that
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: could work. I just think the format, the stakes, the
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: fan voting aspect of it, A lot of it has
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: to be fleshed out. I still feel like there's a
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: lot we don't know. We don't know who's going to
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: be a part of it, we don't know when the
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: event is going to be. We don't know is it
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: going to be a ple e. Is it going to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: be like a peacock only event, like Saturday Nights made event.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: I get the sense it will be a ple e,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: you know, on the ESPN app and all that, but
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: we don't know. I don't believe they have any pl
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: e schedule for July unless they do another Evolution show,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: and there's been no mention of them doing another women's
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: Evolution show this year. I don't know if they would
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: have a Saturday Nights main event in July. They might,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: they might. I believe they had one last May, and
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: then they definitely had one in July because that was
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: Goldberg's last match, So maybe it's a Saturday Night's main event.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So all that to say, we don't
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: have all the details fleshed out just yet. As far
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: as this idea of them doing a whole series of
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: matches where it doesn't really matter who wins and loses.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: This John Cena Classic Champion is going to ultimately be
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: decided on by the fans. It's gonna end up being
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: a popularity contest, and maybe that's exactly the way the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: company wants it. This is a way for the company
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: to say, Okay, we're gonna fast track whoever the fans
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: tell us they really like and want to see. Use
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: this as an opportunity to identify that person and maybe
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: fast track them to the main roster. Like, at the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: end of all of this, does the John Cena Classic
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: Champion get an automatic call up to the main roster?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Is it just some special belt that they get and
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: they go right back to NXT Again, we don't know.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: We don't know what the stakes and the end result
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: are are going to be here. I just I don't
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: like the idea of having a series of matches like
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: this that just don't mean anything outside of yes, it's
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: a showcase for people to show what they can do
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: and wow the audience and try to get over that way.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: But I just feel like it kind of just defeats
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: the purpose that people are just going to vote on
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: whoever they like. It sounds dumb, so we have to
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: wait and see what all of the details are. I
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: don't hate the concept though, And look, if you don't
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: like it, if you're not a fan of it, that's fine.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: It's a one night thing, you know. I mean, this
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: could have been any number of things. This could have
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: been some new thing they're gonna do weekly on the shows.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: It could have been you know, it could have it
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: could have been anything. There's a lot more offensive things
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: that this could have ended up being. To me, again,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's nice what he's trying to do here.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's actually gonna work. And frankly,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think he knows if it's gonna work. That's
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: why he literally said during his promo, I don't know
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: if this is going to work. We'll all find out together.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: I just got to flesh out those details a little
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: bit more. But it was already made of end time
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: on this show because we had Roman Reigns defending the
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship against Jacob Fatu. Now in running down
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: Fatu's career during the ring intros. Actually Roman was already
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: making his intro and Michael Cole was talking about Jacob Fatu,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: and in the course of doing so, Michael Cole gave
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: House of Glory a shout out on Backlash. My ears
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: perked up as soon as I heard House of Glory
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: mentioned here on this show. He said that for years
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Fatu toiled in promotions like West Coast Pro, House of
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: Glory and Game Changer Wrestling. Jacob Fatu was our world
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: heavyweight champion for over two hundred days so and had
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: some really good matches during that run. So that was
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: a very cool thing to hear on the On the
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: show tonight, crowd was hot for this one really. From
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: the opening bell, Fatu sent Roman to the floor. During
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes, he went for a suicide dive.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Roman of avoided it. Fatu, though, applied the Tonguan death grip.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: They've really been trying to get this hold over as
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: this lethal maneuver, so he goes to put on the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Tonguan death grip, gets it applied. He backs Roman into
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: the ring post, and then inexplicably, he releases the hold.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure why he would do that. Back in
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: the ring, Fatu went for a splash in the corner
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: that Roman avoided. Raine dropped him with a big boot.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: He blasted him with a superman punch. He went for
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: a cover and immediately Fatu kicked out. He no sold
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: the Superman punch and he got right back to his feet.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: Only family could get away with that. Ain't nobody else
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: gonna get away with no selling the Superman punch like that?
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu though it's okay, and Rain's had this look
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: of shock on his face. Oh yeah, no mention of
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: MLW G I wonder why. I'm sure it has nothing
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: to do with the twenty million dollars settlement that m
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: one from WWE. Because Jacob, I mean, honestly, even more
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: than Hog out of all the promotions. I mean, he
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: had the biggest run in MLW. He was the champion there, right,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: he had the contra unit faction. Jacob fa too is
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: like on some kingshit over there in MLW and they
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: didn't get any love from WWE tonight, but Hog did.
• 1:27:23
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  Speaker 1: so Fatu dropped Roman with a big boot. He connected
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: on a running hip attack in the corner and Fatu
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: hits the ropes. He got cut off though with another
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: superman punch, and this time he actually sold it and
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: to count only. Though Fatu rolled to the floor. Roman
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: followed caught him with a drive by Fatu though got
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: the Tongan death grip reapplied, and then he released it
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: again and he power bomb Roman through the announced desk
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: and we had a little bit of a We had
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a delayed breakage there, but the
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: desk did finally break. But he had to get Roman
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: back in the ring quickly because you can't win the
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: title outside the ring and you don't want to get
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: counted out. So he rushed Roman back inside and he
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: got into the ring as well and he charged it Roman,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: but he got cut down by a spear and we
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: got a great near fall for Roman. Moments later, Rain
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: set up for another spear. Jacob though popped him up
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: into the air. He caught him coming down with a
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Samoan drop. Followed that with the Mighty Moon Salt, to
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: which Michael Cole said, we're gonna have a new champ.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: I forgot if it was we've got a new champion
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: or we're gonna have a new champion, I'm like, thank you, Michael.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: So now I know we don't have a new champion,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: and sure enough he kicked out. Is that? I mean,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: it would have been nice if it wasn't telegraph, But
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: they always have the announcers do this, and I don't
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: understand why. I don't know why why do they do this?
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: If you hear the announcer say we're gonna have a
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: new champion, guaranteed you're not gonna have a new champion.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: So he kicked out. Both men traded punches from their knees,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: and as they got back to their feet, fat Tu
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: caught him with a pair of hip attacks in the corner,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: and then he signaled yet again for the Tonguan death grip.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: He got it applied. Roman started to fade, but he
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: sprang back to life. He hulked up and he got
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: out of it. Fa Tou, though, popped him up again,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: but this time Roman connected with a superman punch on
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: the way down. Then came the spear. He covered Fa
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Tu again, only for a near fall, and this one, honestly,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: this one should have been three. This is one of
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: those spots where like the ref kind of had to
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: hold up a little bit. Really should have been a
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: three combo whatever. So FA two again with the tongue
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: in death grip and Roman held on to the top
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: turn buckle, and in the struggle here the ped came
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: flying off. Fatu still had the whole applied. Roman, though,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: shoved him headfirst into the exposed buckle, followed with one
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: final spear to win the match and retain the championship,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: and that was it. I mentioned earlier, Oscar and Eo
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: actually got slightly more time than these two did, which
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: is just incredible to think about, considering they weren't even
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: on the WrestleMania card. But in the end they both
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: got about the time that they needed. They got more
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: than enough time in both cases to tell the story
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: that they were out there to tell. Fatu was not
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: happy about the loss. He did not take it very well.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: He put Roman back in the tongue in death grip.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: This had to be like the fifth fucking time he
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: puts him in this tongue in death grip. And the
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: referee is trying to get Fatu to release the hold
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: and he shoves the refere he reapplies the hold. Referee
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: intervened again. Fa Tou finally puts him down with a
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: pop up Samo and drop. Nobody can stop this man.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce is out there with a bunch of producers.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: I think I saw Shane Helms and Ken Done. Maybe
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know. There were Pat Buck. There were a
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: bunch of people out there and they're all trying to
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: get Fatu off of this man. In fat Tou, he
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: tosses Adam Pierce through the ropes out to the floor,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: reapplies the tongue in death grip again. Pierce gets back
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: in the ring and he joins with the others and
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: trying to pull this man off, and Fa Tou finally
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: releases the hold. He looks into the camera and he says,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: I told him, I told him three times. He said this,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: So Fatu leaves the ring. In Roman, they show Roman
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: on the mat and Roman is spitting up all over himself.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Remember the way that people used to sell the Mandible
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: club when Mankind first debuted in ninety six. I'll never
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: forget the first night in Night After WrestleMania, he wrestled
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Bob Holly good old spark plug Bob Holly. He put
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: the mandible klawn for the first time, and I just remember,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: like he's like frothing at the mouth. He's spitting up
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: all over his fucking disgust. He's spitting up all over himself.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: I want to say that lasted a few weeks and
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: then they stopped doing that because he was just too disgusting.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: So Roman is he's spitting up all over the place,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: trying to sell this hold. Fatu though, gets back in
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: the ring and yet again he reapplies the Tonguan death grip,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: and this time Adam Pierce is grabbing at his braids.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: He's trying to pull him off. Finally he lets go
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: of the hold. He picks up the World Heavyweight title,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: holds it up above his head, and he gets booed
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: as the show goes off the air. This certainly felt
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: like a full blown heel turn here, even though again
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is a heel. I know, people cheer him
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: like he's the biggest baby face in the Company's a
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: fucking heel, But Jacob's gonna end up being the heel
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: in this scenario because that's just the way it is.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like what they did here for
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: the finish, I was wondering, how are they going to
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: do this? There was no chance Roman was losing this,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: so how do you do this finish without having interference
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: and a bunch of bullshit at the end. They found
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: a way to do it. You know, he won, Roman
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: did clean, but then you just have fought to go
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: off the deep end. He finally snaps. This is what
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: pushes him over the edge. He looked like a killer
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: out there. He kept reapplying this devastating hold. And if
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: people were trying to stop him and he's popping them
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: up into the air and he's throwing them out of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: the ring and he's knocking him on their ass. Nobody
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: could control this man, right. He was just the most
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: dangerous men in WWE. He looked like and that was
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: the point to establish him in that role. Coming out
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: of this match. Even the Roman won and is still
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: the champion, they now set things up for a rematch.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: I know it looks like, okay, Roman's gonna go away
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: for a while. He may go away for a few weeks.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we're going to see him on
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: TV for a while. But last I heard he is
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: scheduled to be on the classes Clash in Italy card,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: and we'll probably my guess is get the rematch on
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: that show. Probably get Fat too in Roman for the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: world title and Cody against Gunther for the WWE Championship,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: both on that show. So when I'm done with Roman
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: until you know, deep into the summer or anything like that,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: he is going to be back in a few weeks.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: I will say this if he is going to be
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: gone for an extended period of time coming out of
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Clash in Italy, if I knew, like this guy's not
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: going to be around for like two months, I would say,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: fuck it, just take the belt Ofphin. Just take the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: belt of them. You know, we don't need that. We
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: don't need the championship on someone if they're not going
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: to be there for an extended period of time. I
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: believe the idea is that he will be in Italy
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: and then we won't see him again for a month.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: I don't believe he is scheduled for another show after
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: that until June twenty ninth, which I want to say,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: is Philly. I know that's Monday Night Raw. So we're
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: facing the possibility that Roman could beat him again and
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: then vanish for a month, and even that, like, I
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: don't want to see that. I don't want to see that.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: I almost hope they do put the belt on Jacob,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: but I'm not convinced they're going to do that because
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna want Roman in that World Championship
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: match at Summer Slam. And look, if Roman and Oba
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: is the goal here, then stay the course, because I
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: think that should be the ultimate goal at Summer Slam.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: But man, you know, when the champ is not around,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: it just makes things that much more boring. And so
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: I can only hope that if he's not going to
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: be around for a while, you know, a month or
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, that they have someone who can kind
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: of step in there and take his place and just
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: keep things interesting on TV, because we have hours and
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: hours of television, you know, every week, and when your
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: big guns are not there, when you're champion is not there,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: it just makes things harder because you got to work
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: around it. And I get that that's what the ussos
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: are for, right, but you can only do that for
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: so long. So clashing Italy feels to me like that's
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: where we will get the rematch here where the usso's
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: are going to stand in all this. We'll have to
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: wait until raw Monday night and find out they were
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: not present at all on this show. Doesn't feel like
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: Jacob is getting that belt anytime soon, but it does
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: feel like he will get it at some point. Jacob
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: is a future world champion, not a doubt in my mind.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: Jacob bron Breaker Oba feme like these these are going
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: to be those those guys that are going to be
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: in that mix, in this company for many years to come,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: and so at some point it will happen. I don't
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: get the feeling it's happening anytime soon. I don't get
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: the feeling perhaps it's even happening this year, but I
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: think at some point it will. But I'm like I'm
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: watching him standing there holding that belt up above his head.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: At the end, I'm like, Okay, book bookmark this. You
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: know we'll come back to this at some point. This
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: will become a reality at some point. It just doesn't
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know this this summer is going to
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: be the time for that. So on the whole I
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: thought it was good. Again, they didn't give you a
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: whole lot, But I think the stuff we got was good,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: Rollinson Breaker was good EO and Oscar was good. Roman
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: in Fatu was good. The Dan Housen match, it was
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: what it was. I didn't hate it the way some
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: people are gonna hate. I also won't call it good,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: but I didn't hate it the way that some people
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: may have hated it, although I completely understand it. So
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: on the whole, you know, again, it was good. And
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: we'll see what role Fatu is in going forward. Is
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: he on SmackDown at all? Is he just exclusively going
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: to be a raw guy because we know Gunther has
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: moved over to spack down, So who does raw at
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: Ra's got to get somebody. Jacob Fatu is right there.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: If Jacob Fatu is going to wrestle Roman Reigns again
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: anyway in a few weeks, he may as well just
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: make the move, make it official. But why would Adam
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: Piers want him now? Adam Piers got beaten up by
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: him tonight. Adam Piers literally got thrown out of the
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: ring by this man. If Adam Pierce shows up on
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: Raw Monday Night with a fucking contract binder, I'm gonna
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: bang my head against the wall. Welcome to Raw, Jacob Fatu,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: don't worry about what happened on Saturday. I forgive you now.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: They've made it a little bit harder to buy into
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: the idea that he would even want him on Monday night. Raw.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to navigate that, but
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out. Let's take a look at
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: your super chats. Toya says, I don't think Jacob turned
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: heel really. I don't know, man. He beat up the
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: most popular babyface in the company, tried to kill him
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: multiple times, stood over his body in the middle of
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: the ring with the championship held high, and got booed
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: by the fans in Tampa. Kind of sounds like a
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: heel turned to me. But maybe you're right. Does the
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: Miz and Dan Housen feud remind you of the feud
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: between Bam Bam Bigelow and Doink the Clown? Yeah, in
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: a way it does. And look it ain't nineteen ninety four.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of very silly gimmicks and feuds
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: back then. You know, back then it was also a
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: Doink and Dink. I was cool with like evil heel
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Doink douynk and Dink. That that was not my jam.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: I was not a fan of Doynkin dink fuckdink. I
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: have nothing against Tiger Jackson, but fuck think Death's if
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: I did listen to it after you told me about
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: it was okay. It's okay, not a bad tune. The
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: antagonist for a four ninety nine sas thank you, solo
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: monster fan for eleven years. Wow, I rarely watch wrestling,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: belove your reviews. Is WWE creatively bankrupt? Tonight will be interesting? Yeah?
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: I mean I've been saying that now for a while.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you watch the shows? You watched the
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: shows just like I did. You tell me? Yeah? Arnold
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Arnold Arnold says it's like JD doubting Swerves heel t Yeah,
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: No matter how many times I said it, he was
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: convinced Swerve hasn't turned heel. I go really and I
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: ran down all the reasons, like all the awful things
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: he had done. I'm not convinced he's turned heel. I
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: wonder he may. He may still not be convinced that
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: Swerve is a heel. Lakers Pat says, does Sina do
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: the ANOCHI slap to the winner? I don't think he
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: has it within him to do it the way he
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: would always is like apply the STF and everything. S
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: Sena is not strong style and the way that Anochi was,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: So I don't think so. No, Jimmy says, I'm almost
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: upset that we didn't get Jelly Housen. Yeah, I'm not
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: upset about that at all. In fact, I'm I'm totally
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: fine with it. Venom Ktetsu rank these New New York
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: shows Becker, Seinfeld and spin City. Uh never watch spin City,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: never really watch Becker either, although I am a Ted
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: Danton Finn so I'll go Seinfeld, Becker and then Spin City.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: Solo's favorite Siko is with us. Says can't contribute too
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: often because I'm at risk of having my disability cut off.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: But you've been a bright spot during bad times. Much
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: loves Solo. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: that all works out. That's pretty shitty, but I am here.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: I am here to be the bright spot that you
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: need in your day. Thank you. Brother Moore says Darby.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: Im Pac was fucking insane. You have to watch it.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: H I will have to try to check that out.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: Uh GMB with a four ninety nine says you have
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: to watch a match catalog where every wrestler includes a
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: certain first initial. For example, mine would be be Brett,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: Brian Bautista, Bianca, Bandito. I'll take that same match catalog.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: I know it's an easy, cheap cop out answer, but
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: you got bretton there, you got you got a bunch
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: of good people in there. Yeah. Yeah, uh, although maybe
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. Man, that's a pretty it's a
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: pretty good one that you put together there. I don't
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: have to think about that. Uh. Dry Chicken says Oscar
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: needs some Lebron music after her match with EO Lebron music. Hey,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: Lebron is awesome. In case you were wondering at the
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: beginning of the review, that is Lebron call me Golden Boy.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: In other news, Mark Davis beat Jungle Boy for the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: national That did he? Mark Davis beat Jungle Boy for
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: the national title? Hell fucking yeah, Mark Davis with some
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: gold and not Trio's gold. Some singles gold. I'm a
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Mark for Mark Davis, So I'm very happy to hear
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: that he's getting he's been gay a push, he said, well,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: something of a push. I'm I'm very happy to hear
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: that I'm happy for him fast Ad. He says, solo
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat two was great. I'm ready for Masters of
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: the Universe. Yeah. I enjoyed Mortal Kombat two. I just
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: thought yesterday I enjoyed it. It was just some some
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: dumb fun and I also am looking forward to Masters
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: of the Universe and the back Rooms. Before we do
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: Masters of the Universe, we have the back Rooms on
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: May twenty ninth, Toya says, oh, joy, another classic. That's
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: all we need. This is the John Cena Classic. After
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: that it'll be the AJ Styles Classic Z Ray with
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: a fifteen dollars super Jeddio versus Oscar was the best
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: match of the night. But I agree with you that
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: it seemed like it was Oscar's retirement or final match
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: in WWE. Yeah, I mean it had that vibe if
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: it was. If it wasn't the end for her, it
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: felt like it might be coming very soon. I hope not.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Though Alexander says, whoever wins that Sena Championship will gain
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: the ability to not be seen more championships. Dry Chicken says,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: thank goodness John Cena didn't announce WWE creating their own
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: version of Forbidden Door. Yes, that is because they will
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: never do a proper version of forbidden Door, because there
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: is only one door that is forbidden, and that door
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: will not be opened anytime soon. Brody says, finally made
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: it to a live stream a little late because I
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: had to start the pay per view later. Been a
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: fan for a couple of years now. Thank you for
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: everything you do, Brody. I appreciate the nineteen ninety nine.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here with us tonight. Welcome to
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: the party, Osco welcomes you too. That's just her way
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: of initiating you into the family here. Dried Chicken at
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: backlash at back Yeah, well, there's a lot of different
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: ways you could say it. Thank you, dried Chicken. Thank
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: you for the double drop, the greatest housend the nineteen
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: ninety nine. Grew up watching Memphis wrestling in the seventies
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: and eighties. The Oscar Eo match had the same type
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: of psychology and intensity that those matches had back then,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: even down to the foot on the ropes save great match.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: You know, back then you also had the classic Tupelo
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: concession stand bra I think Eo and Osca could probably
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: get one more match out of if they really wanted to.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: They could have their own version of a Tupelo concession
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: stand bra a falcon star. That's not weird at all. Brother,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: we're all friends here. A golden boy, says a geez.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: Darby thrown off a balcony like twenty feet through four tables.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: This guy is gonna off himself doing that. Is that
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: what happened in the match with Pack tonight? That's just
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: another night for Darby Allen fallen exposure. They should put
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: us on the payroll if they want us to scout
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: for new talent for them. Yeah, they're just they're out
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: sourcing their own work to us. Plus Ultra Adrian, what's
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: going on? Leoper Toews pause Infinity War. Oh man, look
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: at this guy getting shoved around here. Watch what this
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: guy does. This is my favorite part. Watch this, Watch this,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. There
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: you go. That's right, that's right. Toya says, Oscar is leaving.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: I believe boots again with a ten here to answer
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: the Be the Booker Double Be the Booker Open Challenge. Well,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: we're six out of fifteen on that goal. Dry Chicken
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: says of ww we cut EO and Oscar's match short,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: EO and Oscar would have been would have beaten up
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: the entire crew from the gorilla position. I don't doubt
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: that they can do it. You don't mess with those Joshi's.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: Did you see what Eo did in there with Penta
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: and Luke Jonderground, Toya says, I don't think Jacob turned heel.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out this week, won't we. We'll
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: get our answer very soon. Uh Andre Jefferson Hey Solo
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: or the USO's being affected by the dismantling of the
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: tag team division. They haven't wrestled since WrestleMania, and that
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: was a six man tag. All they have been since
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: is a wall between Jacob and Roman. Well, I mean
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: it's been three weeks since WrestleMania and the focus has
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: been this story with Roman and Jacob, of which they
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: have become parts. So them not wrest Linson's WrestleMania. I
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: mean that doesn't really mean a whole lot to me
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: because it's only been a few weeks and they've been
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: involved in the World Heavyweight title story. And then you
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: add to that that, yes, the tag team division is
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: dead and they have nobody to work with. So between
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: those two things. I'm not shocked that they haven't had
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: any matches. Neither has La Night. He was part of
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: that match too. Nick Grosso, what are your thoughts on
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: Dark Side of the Rings season seven? Yeah, I'm gonna
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: run down all those topics and my thoughts tomorrow. I
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: have that plan for the sound off, so we will
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: talk about that on the podcast. Thank you, Nick, along
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: with by the way, one episode that had been rumored
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: and ended up not being on the list. I'll mention
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: that one too, plus Ultra Adrian. I heard Stephen King
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: prefers the missed movie ending. I don't blame him one bit.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah he does. He actually prefers the movie ending to
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: his own ending. I could see why. It's very very upsetting.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: It's very yeah, yeah, no it will. It will not
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: put you in a very good mood. But it is
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: a great I have to admit it is a great ending.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: And j R. Vischer oscar on ig earlier today she
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: had my way playing did she are we talking? Limp Biscuit?
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: My way? Are we talking? Frank Sinatra? I did it much?
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: Which my way are we talking about? Those are two
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: very different my ways. A Staliano the renegade is going
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: to be a topic, Yes, he will be, and Meta
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Metamorphia by Sell, Rent RVD, Hurricane or Daniel Brian as
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: Cain's partner. The only correct answer to this question is
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: x PAC and he's not even listed here. Actually no,
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Undertaker of course, but Undertaker or x pocs
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: far As Kane tag team partners. Those are the only
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: acceptable answers to me. Not Big Show, not Hurricane, even
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: Team Hill. Know. I wasn't the biggest fan of Team
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: He'll know, But of the options you've given me, I
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: have to go Daniel Brian, RBD and Sell on a Hurricane,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Golden Boy. Wednesday's match between Darby and Okata change to
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: Darby against Takeshta. Okata is in Japan for family business.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: Is that part of the storyline or is there like
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: a family emergency that he had to tend to hopefully
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: hopefully not hopefully not in the emergency? Oh, Javeli is
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: with us, greetings. Haaveli says this is the twentieth anniversary
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: of Backlash two thousand and six. Thoughts on the McMahon
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: versus HBK and God, Thoughts on Takahashi might be going
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: to WWE, and who is most likely to win King
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: of the Ring Seth or Randy. I hope neither of them.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: But if it were to come down to Seth Rollins
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: or Randy Orton, then Randy Orton so that way we
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: can get a proper match run back at some point
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: with him and Cody. I have no interest in seeing
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins when King of the Ring. We don't even
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be doing King of the Ring. Uh. Yeah,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: Horomu is coming to w w A, probably gonna end
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: up in NXTA. In fact, that name that people thought
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: was being given to evil, which ended up he ended
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: up getting a different name altogether. That name could very
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: well be Takahashi's name when he comes in. As far
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: as Backlash six, yeah, the Vincent God stuff, I mean,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't give a shit about it. I just thought
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: it was very stupid. I thought it was very dumb.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: That's my thought on that. Yes, the time mister McMahon
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: would not put over God. Wasn't there some kind of
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: segment or skit or whatever they did in like a
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: church with Vince and Shane and something with holy water.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, all right. Well, we're we're we hit seven
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: out of fifteen on the bonus call. So it's not
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: looking like a double B the booker, but the like skull.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: If you remember the wheel here there it is five
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen likes. We are currently sitting at seven fifty.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: We crushed it. So on that note, let's be the booker,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: Here we go. We booked some we booked some interesting
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: matches last night in the SmackDown review. See what we
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: come up with you here tonight. Tag Team Wrestling may
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: be dead in WWE, but it's alive and well here
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: in the Sola Monster universe. Who just mentioned Daniel, Brian
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: and Kane Are you kidding me? Look who popped up
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: on my screen? Team? Hell no, but we're not picking
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: them because it is choose two single stars to form
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: a makeshift team. I just mentioned these two as a
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: team and they pop up on my screen. It's like
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: it knows, there's no way for it to know, but
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: somehow it does. All right, So we got to pick
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: four single star. That's what we're gonna do. This is fate.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, that's what exactly what it is. It's
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: all fate. Be the booker as tired of the tag
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: team division as well. It's rapidly losing interest in tag
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: team wrestling. It's not drawing the way it Easter. Earthquake.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: He got a dark Side of the Ring episode previously,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: even though there's not really a lot dark about his career.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: His passing though, that was very dark. Earthquake is going
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: to be teaming with that. Can't be Typhoon because I
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: know Typhoon is not in here, but it will be
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: Earthquake and Razor Ramone as a tag team. Interesting, what
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: do we call that team? Can't call them the natural Disasters?
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: So what do we call them? Earthquake and Razor against
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: Christian Cage and his tag team partner Ray Phoenix. Ray
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: Phoenix is just happy to be booked. He is ecstatic.
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: He's actually gonna work. He's actually booked. Come on over, Ray,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: You're always welcome here. That's a very interesting match. All right,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: women's be the booker. We got our tag team match,
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: now we need a women's match. Well, I know the
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: chat will of course be very excited about this, but
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: we have Nikita Lyons, who I don't even believe is
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: on NXT anymore. I think she's down and Evolve. I'm
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who that is underneath her, and
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't tell who it is. I can't
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: tell who that is anyway, there she is now. Nikita
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: lyons he is going to go one on one with
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: who let's find out should have been me with Julia
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: from Stardom, which is the best version of Julia. But
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know about this match. I mean, how good
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: can she be if she was sent down from NXT
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: to Evolve? Should I approve this? What do you think
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: can Stardom Julia get a really good match out of this?
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: I have hopes. I have hopes. Oh she was on
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: NXT last week? Okay, yeah, but was that the first
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: time in a while or is she back in NXT?
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: Lost it? I isy, Dame Julia will make it work.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: I think she will too. I think she'll be extra
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: motivated to make that work. And in our main event
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: of the evening, Yeah, we picked Julia a lot in
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: this be the booker is trying to communicate something here. Yeah,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: our main event has austin theory. I can already see
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: where this is going. I can already see where this
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: is going. Oh oh no, wait a minute, this changes
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: everything here. Wow, a little swerve there, we got a
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: swerve hold on. I was not expecting that. Sean Michaels
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six Shawn Michaels against Austin Theory. Well, that
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: just changed my entire perspective on this match. Yeah, that
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: would be good. That would be a good match. Look
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: at that. You got yourselves a clean sweep. EJ. Slimp says,
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: I watched the Patterson slaughter Alley fight. The vault just uploaded.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: Hell of a match. If Hiromu goes to WWE, is
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: Daryl coming to or is he staying in Japan? I
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: believe that Daryl is having work visa issues, and so
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: Darrel will not be making the trip unless they can
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: get those visa issues worked out very quickly. I mean,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: you don't want Daryl to come over without a proper
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: work visa and then he gets caught, he gets deported.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: It's like a five year ban. That's what happened to Speedball.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: He got banned from the US for five years. That's
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: why he's working so much these days. It's making up
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: for lost time. I remember it was Wrestleman. I think
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: it was the first WrestleMania a week after he was
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: allowed back into the States, so this was a few
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: years ago. And Speedball, he worked like that. One week,
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: he worked like ten matches. It was like something crazy
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: like that. Like I have all this time I have
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: to make up for and Clone Force with twenty four
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: months of channel membership, Can I get a birthday shout
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: at him turning twenty seven tomorrow? Yes, you may, Happy birthday,
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: Clone Force, Happy twenty seventh birthday. In fifteen minutes, it
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: will be your birthday. Yeah, that's right. Ali was also
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: supposed to win the North American title from Dominic. That's right.
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: In NXT. Sean Michaels was using him in NXT, he
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: was gonna win the championship. They had a pl match
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: announced and they cut him, like Kyrie saying in the
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: middle of the story, they cut her. They cut Ali
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: and this guy just he just had no luck in
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: that company. Man, But I'm glad to see him doing
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: well in other places. He's a great talent. Don't stay
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: in the twenty seven club. Yeah, yeah, isn't that the
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: River Phoenix and and all those guys. Is that the
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh club. Yeah, you don't want to be in
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: that club. You need to get to twenty eight as
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: quickly as possible. Stay away from that. Tried Chicken says,
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: if I would work with brock Lesnar and Match, I
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: would purposely go into business for myself while Vince is
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: in charge, was in charge, Like, ah, you would go
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: into business for yourself against brock Lesner. Rest in peace,
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: Dry Chicken. It was nice knowing you and Philly Town.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: If you could pick the biggest problem in WWE and
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: fix it, what would it be? The biggest problem in
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: WWE is unfixable because it's called it's three initials TKO.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: And you know from that stems you know, the high
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: ticket prices, the over commercialization, it all goes back to TKO.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: Those are honestly the biggest issues right now with WWE.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: Then you get into the creative, and creative is a
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: subjective thing, and we could talk about the you know,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: we could talk about the lack of a tag team
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: division or you know, women's division on certain shows, or
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: the character building stuff I talked about before. I mean,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: there's lots of like little issues like that. The bigger issues, unfortunately,
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: are unfixable right now, you know, given who's in charge,
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: Starboy Bebop. Did you ever watch Mortal Kombat Legacy? I
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: did not know, And Sean Waters could have sworn when
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: Sina was doing the Oba strut in the suit, I
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: saw Vince McMahon doing this struck. I told you he
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: reminded me very much of a younger Vince McMahon, including
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: when he did destrut. I don't know if that's a
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: good thing or a bad thing. Hey, tomorrow, a brand
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: new episode of the Sound of Episode nine sixty two
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: is going to be dropping later in the afternoon. We'll
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: talk about the fallout from Backlash. Got some news on
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: Nick con from the WWE financial side, and a lot
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: to say about the passing of Ted Turner, which was
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things when it comes to wrestling,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: actually a very very important figure in the history of wrestling.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk about him. And I got some legal
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: news to go over putting our friend Alberto back in
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: the news and Rajah Jackson. So that'll be tomorrow. On
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: episode nine sixty two, Twisted Rister, it was Frank Sinatra
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: my way for Oscar. Well, that's not good Javeli with
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: a seven. If wrestle Mania thirty eight wasn't a title
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: for title winner take all between Brock and Roman, what
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: would be the WWE Championship match? What would the match
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: had been? Happy Mother's Day? Thank you Solo Monster, the
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: goat favorite rap group? I ho if we just stuck
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: that in there at the end there it's hard, but
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: it's like as well stuck that in there at the end.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: What and thank you Solo Monster? And by the way,
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: what is the Pythagorean theorem? I'm not sure how early
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: favorite rap group? I mean, I can go n w A.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know. There's a lot to choose
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: from Wu Tang. I mean Wu Tang is a good choice.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: Can't go wrong there. What was the other question? Oh,
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: if it wasn't a title for title match, I have
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: to put my myself back in the uh back in
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two right twenty twenty two roster man.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Brock
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: had the belt that belonged to Raw. He took the
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: belt from Bigie. I believe Biggie maybe goes into Mania
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: as the champion against Rollins. Does that sound about right.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what was going on at that time.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: Let's see Brody. A piece of music from the Dark
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: Night soundtrack came on Shuffle the other day. Aggressive expansion
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: gives me chills every time. Yeah, the Main I'll have
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: to look that one up. The Main score, the soundtrack
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: for that is just fantastic. So was the soundtrack for
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: The Batman. After I watched the movie finally, I was like,
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: let me pop on over to Spotify and just listen
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: to some of the soundtrack. That's very good. Z Ray,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Zra with one, with two, with three.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: Look it's z Ray. He's going crazy and would you
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: believe it? Z Ray got us to fifteen out of
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: fifteen on the goal. Look at his crazy sob one
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: right after the other. Look at all these ten spots here.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: He really wanted that double be the booker. This is, officially,
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: by the way, the z Ray Classic. Althoughjaveli is nipping
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: at his heels here Haavely is right behind him. But
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: forget the John Cena Classic, we have the z Ray Classic. Tonight,
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: I am officially naming this next round to be the
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: Booker after z Ray and Brian Finelli too coming into
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: with the assist. Thank you Brian, Brian doing his part too.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: This is what a team effort looks like. This is
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: great teamwork here. CMJ World says Backlash felt like more
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: of a Saturday Nights made event than a pl e
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't disagree with you on that. I
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: thought WrestleMania felt more like a Saturday Night's Mad event,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: let alone Backlash. Night one of WrestleMania this year felt
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: like a Saturday Nights main event and garbage. Pale kid.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: I had a weird dream that Bushy Road bought WWE.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: What does it mean? Is it a message? I would
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: love it if Bushy Road bud WWE? Actually maybe not.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: They're very uh, they're very strict when it comes to
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: content creators. That might not be a good idea. Actually
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: it's not even really a Bushy Road thing. That's more
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: TV Asahi. So sure, maybe Bushy Road can buy it
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: from TKO. What do you think? I doubt they could
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: afford it, Alexander, we need a third night of Giant Gonzales.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's right, this would be this would be
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: the third time this week, right, we had Giant Gonzales
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: against John Cena. On Monday, we had Giant Gonzales again
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: and be the booker last night, although I don't remember,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who his opponent was. Oh, it was
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: carrying cross and so this could very well be. This
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: could be the third night of the Giant Gonzales. Let's
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: find out. Let's go back. Now, shut up, I got
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: to turn all that off. Okay, you have unlocked the
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: bonus round. And when we do this, what is Bushy wrote?
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: Bushy Road owns New Japan Pro Wrestling and stardom. I
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: think Startdom. There was some sort of ownership change recently,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: but anyway, that is the parent company of New Japan
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: Pro Wrestling. For those who don't know my planning on
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: seeing Masters of the Universe. Yes a m I was
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: a big, big, big he Man fan as a kid.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: I saw the first movie, first live action movie, saw
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: the cartoon as a kid. Used to have all the
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: toys he Man and Man at Arms orco Battle Cat
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: skeletor Trap Jaw. All right, here we go. Stipulation for
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: our first match. It's going to be a monsters ball match.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, Bushy Road sold stardom. That just
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: happened recently. That's what I was trying to remember. All right,
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a I guess what a tag
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: would be? The tag team match first, I guess? So yeah,
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: tag team monsters ball match. We get too many of those,
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: the shield seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose in a Monster's ball. Oh,
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: this is right up Moxley's alley. He's gonna bleed. There's
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be some blood here in this Monster's Ball match.
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: They're gonna take the Booker t and gold Dust. That's
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: a fine match. We got some we got some stars,
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: we got some names. Moxley will absolutely bleed. Our second match,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: our women's match, Oh my god, are you kidding me again?
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: What is the obsession with eyes? We land on this
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: far too often, eye for an eye, and with the
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: women know us too. I feel like we've had a
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: bunch of women's eye for an eye matches. I don't understand. Well,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: one of the one of the ladies is losing an eye.
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: It's like Kano and Mortal Kombat. All right, let's see
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: who's who's who's losing an eye here? Hi Karushida. Look
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: at the look on her face. It looks like she
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: already lost one she looks like she's in great pain.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: It looks like she lost her left eye because there's
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: some green goo. It looks like there's some green goo
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: leaking out of her her left eye. Her eyes are closed,
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: but it looks like there's I don't know, some sort
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: of I don't know what that puss or or something
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: that's leaking out. Anyway, to find out who her opponent
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: is going to be, Mina and Mariah want to make
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: this a three way match. Okay, well, then I guess
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: we have two opponents to pick instead of one. You
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: better get to it. Opponent number one for Shida Trish Stratus.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: That'd be a great match, But we have one more.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: We're not done yet. We have Hikarushida. We have Trish Stratus,
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: and we have Chris Statlander, who is literally at the
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: moment in a Team Slash program story with Hikarushida, who
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: is likely going to go heal on her any week now.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: And what a match that is, even though the stipulation sucks.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: How am I gonna give a buzz to a match
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: with Trish Stratus, Karashida and Chris Statlander? Are you kidding me? Unfortunately,
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: Shida is losing an eye, So she's gonna have to
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: start wearing an eyepatch going forward for Shida. That's the
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: that's just the way it goes. And in our main event,
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: unless our boys z Ray goes crazy again and gets
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: us a triple a triple bonus, it all boils down
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: to this. We got to pick a good one here,
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: no eye for an eye. Can you imagine we land
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: on that again? Okay, I can live with this. A
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: ladder match, a good old fashioned ladder match. So they
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: announced on Collision tonight that there is a four way
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: for the women's title, a double or nothing, with Tekla
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: defending against Statlanders and Jamie Hayter. Okay, well that's definitely
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: an angle alert. Something's going down there with Chida and Statlander. Ugh,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: look at this Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner. Look at
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: those arms. Ugh, it's disgusting, like he's a storing food
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: for the winter inside his bicep. What is that? They
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: look like by step implants. But he is your hookup
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: holler if you hear him. And now we must pick
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: an opponent for Big Papa Pump, Eddie Guerrero and Scott
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: Steiner in a ladder match. Back to back back to
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: back sweeps. The other thing is Scott Steiner should not
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: be in a ladder match. Big Papa Pump should not
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: be in a ladder match, especially if he has drop
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: foot syndrome. He should not be climbing ladders. That is
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: not going to end well. Let Eddie do the climbing. Well.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: I would say that's a hell of a card we
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: put together right there. I'm glad we had that bonus
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: round that was better than the first one that we did,
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: and no giant Gonzales. The streak is over Philly Town.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite ECW memory? And you missed the last one?
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: Let's find out. Ah, there it is. Are you afraid
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: that WWE will start sending Sena out in a suit
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: every pay per view to milk announcements and attendance numbers.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: Then I going to send him out there for every
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: pay per view. But I do think that they will
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: want to use him as much as they possibly can,
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: and I think that he'll be willing to do it
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: as long as he's available, because he usually says yes
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: to whatever they need him for. I get the sense
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: that he very rarely says no to them. I think
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: the key with him is just not to not to
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: put him out there too many times. You don't want
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: to overexpose him. But what's your favorite ECW memory? You
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: know what? For me, I think it would probably be
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: at the One Night's the first One Night Stand in
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Sandman's entrance, just hearing that song again,
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: seeing him up in the balcony at the Hammerstegn and
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: making his way through everybody singing along to the song.
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: And it's one of those moments I wish I was
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: there that night, And I've been in that building like
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: so many times in the years after that. I was
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: in that building for Ring of Honor. I'm like, man,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: why didn't I go to that show? Like to be
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: in the crowd for that moment would have been electric.
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: It would have been unbelievable. Javeli thirty four months of
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: channel membership. Any chance of House of Glory going overseas
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: maybe Australia. No international travel plans right now, nothing planned
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: right now. Right now, we're focusing on us expansion. We
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of cities that we plan on running,
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: so we'll take it one month at a time. No
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: plans for global domination just yet. Have you watched season
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: three of LFG? I have not. Have you listened to
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: the Undertaker podcast with John Cena? Was that the one
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: that they did over wrestle many a week? I did,
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: I did, Dried Chicken, Moxley and Rollins against Booker and
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: gold Dust. Match ends in a no contest because a
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: zombie apocalypse breaks out. Both teams will help you survive
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: for a monsters ball mash. That sounds about right. We've
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: got Navy forty one eighty one. Hope Ventura comes back
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: for Saturday night's main event. What kind of bs is
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: that walking out the door. He's too honest for them.
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: He's too honest for them. They don't like that. Wwe
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: will buy House of Glory before that happened before before
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: we go to Australia. Probably they're gonna they're gonna buy
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: h O G. And then and then what happened to
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: the commissioner? The commissioners out of a job. I better
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: get that that note cut clause put into my contract
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: very soon to protect me Irenzo. The John Cena Classic
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: Winner reward is we never see them again? Well, hey,
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: the first female winner of LFG Season one, right, Big
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: LFG winner and they cut her, she is gone. It's
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: very possible that could happen Chicago for m b K
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: one of our brand new members first month. Really awesome
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: to be part of your community. Well, we're very happy
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: to have you, so enjoy your stay and and the
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: sweet emojis by the way, that you now have acts too, also, Louise,
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: we go from a first month member to Louise who
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: was a fifty nine month member. Wwe better keep an
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: eye on this Andy's hantavirus situation. Yeah, I don't think
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: they're too worried about it right now. They're all trying
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: to play it down. But I guess we'll see. Where
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: is that cruise ship by the way, did it doc anywhere?
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think they were doing any kind of contact
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: tracing for the people who left the ship. They just
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: walked off the ship and went home. I'm like, oh,
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: that's great now. I'm not too worried about this one
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: right now, though, based on what they're saying, EJ Slim
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: Buyers sell more ridiculous than hilarious Darby against mocks, some
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: hold barred blood band or Eddie Kingston against e she
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: Chops barred. If you bar the chops I don't know that.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a match. What do they
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: do if you if you ban the chops in an
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: Eddie Kingston e Shi match, what does that match look like?
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: Raccoon City is where it docked? Uh oh, what could
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: go wrong? I'm gonna buy on. I'm actually gonna buy
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: on on Eddie and Ehi because I'm very curious what
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: that match looks like in twenty twenty six. If you
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: bar them from throwing a single chop, I'll bug Wattie
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: Hope lash legend starts using the old atomic drop. Yeah,
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: nobody uses the atomic drop anymore. I'd like to see
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: someone start using the atomic drop again. That or the
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: atomic Wedgie either one. Z Ray said Channel member man
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: z Ray is killing it tonight. Dry Chicken says, with
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: twenty one months of membership, we love you solo. Here's
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: Jack and Coke for tomorrow. I just had one during
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: backlash tonight. Funny you should mention that actually in the
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: giving anything major away here, but in that Mortal Kombat
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: movie there actually is a reference. There is a Jack
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: and Coke reference, and I popped. I might have been
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: the only person sitting in the movie theater who popped
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: for a fucking Jack and Coke reference in the middle
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: of a Mortal Kombat movie Philly Town. I met RVD
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: and Enzo in Vegas during WRESTLEMANI a week. Do you
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: think they both should have been pushed more? I think
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: RVD could have had a World Heavyweight Championship run, and
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: I believe he was supposed to, and things happened behind
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: the scenes and then Triple H retained. It's funny how
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: that works. As far as Enzo, it just felt like
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: Enzo was his own worst enemy. They're in their first
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: run Oofman with sixty one months also wondering if you
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: can give a birthday shout out to missus UF today.
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: Jenny is a proud, solid monster girl. Oh it is.
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: That's the second birthday we have, right, we have someone
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: turning twenty seven and we have someone else now celebrating
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: a birthday. Do you feel him, sir? And Cody Rhodes
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: feels you, and so do I. Happy birthday, Jenny, I
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: hope it's a great one. Thank you for all the support.
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: My gift to you is going to be the sound
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: off later in the day tomorrow. Brett would have liked
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: that note chops match. If Brett Hart was the commissioner,
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: he would institute a rule all chops banned. Can you
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: imagine like in a modern day wrestling promotion if you
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: band all chops and all dives out of the ring.
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like the wrestling business would just come to
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: a standstill. They would be standing in the ring and
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: they would be looking around like they don't know what
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: to do with each other. There's certain rules that need
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: to be implemented. Brody says, I'm in the Baltimore Hertford
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: County area. If HG comes to the area, may I
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: suggest the umbc Arena. Have been to a couple of
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: Ring of Honors shows there and it was fun. Yeah,
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: I've been made aware of that building. I don't know
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: what the capacity is, you know, first time in the
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: market like that. You don't want to run a building
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: that's too big. Yeah, all things are on the table.
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: Link Master Ax Gunther should have retired the New Day
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: and Don Stony shout out to Don Tony Wrestling, Soup
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: and Spitball Media, and as always rip keV Castle. Yes, indeed,
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: it was hard to believe last month was the anniversary,
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: but shout out to all the boys, all ogs in
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: the community. Thank you, don Stony Gumpher needs to retire
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: OSCA before she calls it a career. I think Oscar
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: should retire gunther If. If he's going to retire, Oscar
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: shan't going down without a fight. I can promise you
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: that anyway. Thank you, guys. This has been a fun stream.
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: You guys killed it on the chats on the questions
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: we did double be the booker. I think we booked
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: some pretty good matches tonight, better than Backlash again sound
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: off episode nine. Oh my god, I'm actually, uh actually
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: taking the under on the number of episodes I've done.
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: Nine sixty two is dropping tomorrow, and I believe this
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: week we have all of our usual streams. We have
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: Raw the post show on Monday. We have a brand
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: new episode of The Young Crown Wrestling Show on Tuesday.
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, no TNT this week on Tuesday. That's what
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: it is. There's no Tuesday Night Titans, but I believe
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 1: we are bumping it to Thursday, so the initial still work.
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: I think this week it's Thursday Night Titans. Dynamite post
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: show smacked out all the usual stuff, so it's gonna
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 1: be a loaded week. Hope you all joined me for it.
• 2:33:11
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