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WWE Raw 6/29/26 Review | KOTR Stipulation JUNKED In Favor Of MASSIVE Hell In A Cell Match · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: But here we sit in twenty twenty six and we
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  Speaker 1: are talking yet again about the Shield, and we are
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  Speaker 1: now looking at a main event for SummerSlam, or one
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  Speaker 1: of them anyway, where we are going to see Roman
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  Speaker 1: Reigns defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Seth Rollins. Fourteen
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  Speaker 1: years after the formation of the Shield, the fall of
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  Speaker 1: the Shield, they all go their separate ways. We are
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: still talking about Roman Reigns in Seth Rollins and they
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: are still fighting over world championships here in WWE. It
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  Speaker 1: just feels to me like the more things change, the
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  Speaker 1: more they stay the same. I looking at this King
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  Speaker 1: of the Ring tournament we were going into it had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of excitement about the possibility, right the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that maybe we could end up with something like Oba
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  Speaker 1: Femi winning King of the Ring and challenging for the
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: World Championship. But it seemed like there was a very
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: real possibility that we could end up with Roman Reigns
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  Speaker 1: in Seth Rollins because there were earlier in the year
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  Speaker 1: that that was going to be the Wrestle Media main event,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the Wrestle Media main event that WWE
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do this year. Roman reigns and seth Rawlins
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  Speaker 1: now Rollins injury last year threw all of their plans
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  Speaker 1: out of whack, and so we went through about a
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  Speaker 1: gazillion different potential WrestleMania matches that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: do this. They wanted to do that, but this person
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  Speaker 1: got hurt, and on and on and on, and so
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  Speaker 1: we ended up what we ended up with this year.
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  Speaker 1: And so I kind of looked at it and said, realistically, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to set up Roman reigns and seth Rawlins,
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  Speaker 1: you've got fourteen years worth of actually fourteen plus years
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  Speaker 1: worth of history to draw from. Right, it is certainly
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  Speaker 1: a story that is rich with history between the two
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  Speaker 1: of them. Seth Rollins, also, who made the same point
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  Speaker 1: in as promo tonight, did not lose the World Heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: Championship last year. Right, He was stripped of the title
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  Speaker 1: because of an injury, and therefore he never technically got
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  Speaker 1: beat for the belt. So the natural story when he
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  Speaker 1: eventually came back was chasing for the title that he
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  Speaker 1: never lost. All of that makes sense. So when I
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  Speaker 1: saw bron Breaker and I saw Seth Rollins on opposite
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  Speaker 1: ends of the bracket and the King of the Ring tournament. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, if they're going to set up Roman
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  Speaker 1: and Seth for SummerSlam, they could just build to a
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  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins bron Breaker final in the King of the
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  Speaker 1: Ring tournament. They could blow off their feud there in
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  Speaker 1: a match that has big steaks on the line, because
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  Speaker 1: we know that the winner of the King of the Ring,
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  Speaker 1: they've established the winner of the King of the Ring
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  Speaker 1: and Queen of the Ring will go on to challenge
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  Speaker 1: for the championship of their choosing at SummerSlam. And so
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  Speaker 1: it all seemed to align and makes sense right. Predictable, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but that would have made a whole lot of sense
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  Speaker 1: Oba Femi being in the King of the Ring. The
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  Speaker 1: issues with brock Lesnar brock Lesner coming back to screw
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  Speaker 1: Obafemi out of the Crown. Sure, predictable, but I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at it and going, Okay, you gotta do part three.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you get to it. You have him screw
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  Speaker 1: Oba out of the Crown. Oba now is just infuriated.
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  Speaker 1: You've taken something away from him that was within his
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  Speaker 1: grasp and you blow it off at Summer Slam. And
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  Speaker 1: if that's how they wanted to set up this summer
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  Speaker 1: slim cards. You know what, that would have made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense to me. Instead, they went a completely
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  Speaker 1: different way with it, where they bounced Seth Rollins out
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  Speaker 1: of the first round and they bounced bron Breaker out
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  Speaker 1: of the first round, all in the name of doing
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  Speaker 1: a steel cage match between them on that show that
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  Speaker 1: we saw on Saturday in Riai. They got bounced out
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  Speaker 1: of this tournament early, and so they ended up building
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  Speaker 1: to a final between Obafemi and jay Uso, which is
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  Speaker 1: a final that very few I will say nobody asked for. Right,
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  Speaker 1: There's always someone out there, but I'm gonna say nobody
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  Speaker 1: asked for a final this year of Obafemi and jay Uso. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it could have gone a very different way on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy that it didn't. I'm very happy that
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  Speaker 1: Obafemi beat jay Uso and he won the crown and
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  Speaker 1: out the other way around. But I'm watching this show
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  Speaker 1: tonight and I see Obafemi out there with brock Lesner,
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  Speaker 1: who returned on the show tonight. We were all waiting
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  Speaker 1: for him to show up during the tournament. He waited
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  Speaker 1: until after the tournament was over to finally come back,
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  Speaker 1: and by the time their segment was over. At the
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  Speaker 1: top of the show, we had a major match made
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  Speaker 1: for SummerSlam this year. It will be brock Lesner and
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  Speaker 1: Obafemi Part three in Minnesota at SummerSlam inside Helen a Cell.
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  Speaker 1: Huge match and a great way to blow off a feud.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like this is a feud worthy of a
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  Speaker 1: hell in a Cell blowof I don't even remember the
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  Speaker 1: last time we had a hell in a Cell match.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be at least a couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been even longer than that since we've seen
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  Speaker 1: brock Lesner in one opa. Femi is having himself quite
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  Speaker 1: the year. Debuts on the main roster, beats brock Lesner
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  Speaker 1: in his first WrestleMania, wins the King of the Ring
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  Speaker 1: his first time out. Now he's already getting his first
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  Speaker 1: Helen a Cell match, right, Things are progressing nicely for Obafemi.
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  Speaker 1: That's a major match to do on that show, and
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  Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be a great match too. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: spent too much time in the ring together, but the
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  Speaker 1: two matches they've had have been just smash mouth, NonStop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, exciting right finisher spam in the last match Shore.
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  Speaker 1: But they've been fun, right, and I have no doubt
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  Speaker 1: in my mind that Helena cell Is is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: fun as well. Thank you, Punk and Drew. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: two years ago that was the last time we had
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  Speaker 1: a Helen of Selm. But what a fucking Helen a
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  Speaker 1: Sale match? That was too Punk and Drew. That was
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, thank you. So I like the I'm
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  Speaker 1: fine with the idea of them doing a Helen of Sell.
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  Speaker 1: That's a major attraction that's gonna sell some tickets, right,
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  Speaker 1: which is the name of the game. Still may not
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  Speaker 1: be the most important metric anymore like it used to be,
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  Speaker 1: but you still want to sell tickets to these shows, right.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets is still a major metric when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: how well business is doing. That will sell some tickets
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  Speaker 1: at Summerslim. But in order to do this, Oba Femi
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  Speaker 1: had to take his guaranteed championship match at SummerSlam, which
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  Speaker 1: is the second biggest event of the year. They're get
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  Speaker 1: a big stadium show, right, fifty thousand people, Probably not quite,
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  Speaker 1: but let's just say fifty thousand people, and he's taking
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  Speaker 1: his championship match. Based on what we heard tonight and
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  Speaker 1: the announcers back this up, and he is voluntarily he
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  Speaker 1: is voluntarily putting his guaranteed shot aside, I guess for
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  Speaker 1: a rainy day, and instead it's more important to him
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  Speaker 1: to squash this beef with Brock and so instead of
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  Speaker 1: a title match, he's going to do hell in a cell.
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  Speaker 1: And I could sit here and tell you how ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: this sounds, of course, because we just sat through an
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  Speaker 1: entire fucking month of tournament matches to build to a
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  Speaker 1: finals where the winner would be challenging for a world
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  Speaker 1: championship at SummerSlam, and now in this case, that will
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  Speaker 1: no longer be happening. So is that stupid? Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: very stupid. What makes it even dumber, though, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to really kind of think about this logically, is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you have a two night Summer Slam. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that a perfect scenario would be to
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  Speaker 1: have Oba go in there and wrestle twice, but you
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  Speaker 1: have Obafemi saying, you know what, we're gonna put that
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  Speaker 1: on the side. I gotta squash this. I gotta take
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  Speaker 1: care of this guy once and for all, right, on
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  Speaker 1: a show where you have, logically you have two nights,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't really have to put your championship match aside.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you look at it and you go, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what he's gonna be getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: brock Lesnar inside hell at a sale. He's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in the right frame of mind, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: he wants to win a world championship, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: be laser focused on the champion. It's like, okay, but
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  Speaker 1: you also have a show coming up before SummerSlam, since
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  Speaker 1: now everything's out the window apparently, and you can cash
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  Speaker 1: in your title shot anytime you want to. They do
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  Speaker 1: have an important show coming up at Madison Square Garden
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  Speaker 1: in a few weeks where if Yea logically, if he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, he could kind of say, hey, let me
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  Speaker 1: get my title match on that show. And I understand
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why that's not gonna happen because there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of big names and loading brock Lesner
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  Speaker 1: who were probably not going to be on that show,
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  Speaker 1: but it just, you know, it makes it You look
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  Speaker 1: at it and it just makes you shake your head.
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  Speaker 1: Why did they even have Obafemi in this tournament to
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  Speaker 1: begin with? If we were just going to get to
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  Speaker 1: the same place anyway, where we're getting Oba in a
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  Speaker 1: non title situation against Brocklesner, which we all knew we
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  Speaker 1: were going to get, and Roman Reigns against Seth Rolins.
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  Speaker 1: They were in the tournament. You could have built the
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  Speaker 1: tournament to a finale that Seth Rollins wins. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how he gets his championship match at Summerslim. He chooses
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  Speaker 1: Roman and here's why. And Seth went out there tonight
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  Speaker 1: in the main events segment when he confronted Roman and
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  Speaker 1: cut the mother of all promos. He laid it all
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  Speaker 1: out for the entire world, the entire history between them,
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  Speaker 1: It all goes back to twenty fourteen when he put
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  Speaker 1: that chair in Roman's back, and every time in a
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  Speaker 1: major match of any significance for any championship, when these
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: two found themselves in the ring together, or even not
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  Speaker 1: for a champion, but in the night one main event
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: last year of WRESTLEMANI is Seth Rolins every single time
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  Speaker 1: has proven to be the itch that Roman Reigns cannot scratch.
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  Speaker 1: He has been a thorn in this man's side. He
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  Speaker 1: has been a pain in this man's ass. And so
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is in the same situation that seth Rawlins
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  Speaker 1: is in where they're closer to the end than the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and this may be their last shot, This may be
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  Speaker 1: their final dance together. Of course, this is WWE, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it won't be, but this could be the
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  Speaker 1: last opportunity that Roman has to finally put this man down,
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  Speaker 1: the one guy that he has not been able to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of, the one man he has not been
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: able to figure out. Right, it's a simple story. It
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Like I said, there's a lot of history there,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're going to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have a really good match. But I
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  Speaker 1: just cannot shake this feeling that we just sat through
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: a King of the Ring tournament, and King of the
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Ring is near and dear to me. And maybe it
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be, because you know, there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of crap over the years when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to King of the Ring. You know, poor tournaments,
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  Speaker 1: poor finals, it's not always great. But I've been a
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: big fan of King of the Rings since the moment
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  Speaker 1: they brought it to pay per view back in ninety three,
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  Speaker 1: and so I love when they brought it back with
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: that stipulation that the winner gets a championship match at SummerSlam. Right,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: it's very similar to the Rumble. The Rumble winner gets
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: to go on to the main event of WrestleMania. And
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: so now, I mean it's like everything's up in the
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  Speaker 1: air now, I mean, hell, what's stopping the Royal Rumble
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  Speaker 1: winner from doing the same thing? And say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I think I could get my championship match some other time.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: I got bigger business to deal with with this guy
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  Speaker 1: over here. It's just preposterous. It's just preposterous. So Oba
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  Speaker 1: Fembi will not be challenging for a championship at SummerSlam.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns will defend his title against Seth Rollins. Those
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: were the two major matches that were confirmed for SummerSlam.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: We already had one confirm the other night. Eo Sky
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: made her choice instantly a Knight of Champion. She said,
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  Speaker 1: Live Morgan, who she just beat, I'm coming after you
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  Speaker 1: and I want that Women's World Championship. So we have
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  Speaker 1: three matches now that are confirmed for SummerSlam, with a
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: fourth that is likely to happen because we got an
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: update on the show tonight. For those of you who
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: may have missed it. They shot an angle on social
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: media after Night of Champions on Saturday, where Gunther confronted
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Nick Alldo in the back, the general manager of SmackDown.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: He was very upset about what happened and Gunther dropped
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: at f bomb on and they had to be pulled apart.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Nick Alldos is on administrative leave, so for the foreseeable future,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce is going to be handling both Raw and SmackDown.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: He will be handling the GM duties for both shows,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: which can only mean one thing. Why would Nick all
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  Speaker 1: this be placed on administrative leave Because he's finally going
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: to wrestle, And I'm sure he's been waiting a very
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  Speaker 1: long time for this opportunity, probably since the moment he
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: put pen to paper and signed with WWE. He's wanted
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: to get in the ring. He's a wrestler, he wants
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  Speaker 1: to wrestle, and it feels like he's finally going to
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  Speaker 1: probably you know, have his chance to do so at
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  Speaker 1: Summerslim against Gunther. But boy, I mean, you look at
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  Speaker 1: where Gunther was at the beginning of this year and
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  Speaker 1: if this is going to be what they have in
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  Speaker 1: mind for him at SummerSlam. What a fall What a
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  Speaker 1: fall off for this guy from the beginning of the year.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: By the way, you know I'm mentioning all this championship stuff,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Sammy Zain is the new WWE champion. He may well
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: be out there in the middle of the ring in
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Atlantic City right now because the reason Raw aired early
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: tonight six pm start is because they're taping SmackDown as
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  Speaker 1: we speak, SmackDown is in progress because they want to
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: give all the talent off for July fourth at the
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: end of the week, so they're taping SmackDown right now.
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  Speaker 1: We had Jay Usso who lost in the King of
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  Speaker 1: the Ring five. And by the way, before I even
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  Speaker 1: go on, can I address the people that I saw
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  Speaker 1: on my mentions before I went live who were floating
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  Speaker 1: the idea that well, since Oba is foregoing his championship
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  Speaker 1: match for now, then the person who should get the
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  Speaker 1: championship match at Summer Slim is the runner up. It's
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: the person who lost to Oba Femi. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: are you out of your fucking mind? Like why would
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  Speaker 1: you even suggest that, Why would you even put that
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  Speaker 1: out into the world, Why would you put that out
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  Speaker 1: into the atmosphere. Nobody wants to see that. It was
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  Speaker 1: bad enough to prospect that Jay Uso is gonna win
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  Speaker 1: King of the Ring and then challenge Roman or challenge Cody.
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  Speaker 1: At Summerslim, jay Uso lost, and there are people who
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  Speaker 1: are suggesting, well, they should have just gone with Jay
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  Speaker 1: anyway because he was the runner round. So Jay Ussi
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  Speaker 1: will get a title match after having lost in the
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  Speaker 1: King of the Ring. Holy shit? Can we please? Can
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: we please put this shit to bed? But I bring
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: up Jay Uso because Jay told Jacob fa to tonight
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  Speaker 1: on the show that Sammy's Ain is the new WWE champion,
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  Speaker 1: and so Jacob's going to SmackDown to deal with the
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Solo Socoa problem, and Jay said, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: think I'll come. I'll be there too. I'm gonna confront
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  Speaker 1: Samy because I think I should be next to line
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  Speaker 1: for a shot at the championship. Can you imagine they
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: end up getting what they want anyway? Opa Femu was
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: in the toy. Here's what I think happened here. I
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: have a theory about this. I have a theory about this.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they could have avoided all of this by
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  Speaker 1: just not putting Oba in the King of the Ring
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. But my theory about this is they
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: put him in the King of the Ring. They did
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  Speaker 1: not want to beat him, right. They wanted to crown,
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  Speaker 1: literally crown Oba Femi is the King of the Ring.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't want to give him a championship match
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  Speaker 1: just yet. Maybe they want to save it for WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they want him to marinate a little bit more so,
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  Speaker 1: how do we do this? How do we give him
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a win and crown him king but not give him
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  Speaker 1: the title shot? Well, here you go. They came up
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: with a way to do it, and instead we may
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  Speaker 1: be looking at a situation potentially where Oba is not
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: getting a title shot at Summer Slim, but Jay Uso is.
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  Speaker 1: Now do I think that Jay Usso will be the
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  Speaker 1: one challenging for the WWE title at Summer I sure
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  Speaker 1: as fuck hope not. I don't. Maybe they would, Maybe
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: they would do something like Jay and Sammy on a
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Saturday night's main event. I don't see that being the
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Summer Slam match. But even even the idea of it
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: is just so fucking ridiculous to me. Don't and don't
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  Speaker 1: think that I wasn't that the thought didn't cross my
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: mind watching this, knowing that they were taping television in
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: this building for both shows, that sammy'sz Ain would come
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  Speaker 1: out after Raw ended, come out on Smack That and
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: put out some sort of open challenge where brock Lesner
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: was in the same fucking building. Don't think that thought
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: didn't cross my mind for a moment. But then I
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: thought to myself, is brock Lesnar really going to come
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  Speaker 1: out for the opening segment on Raw and hang around
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: for that long. He's already home. I'm sure he's already
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  Speaker 1: home by now. He was already home before Roman Reigns
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  Speaker 1: hit the ring for the closing segment on the show tonight.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: You know, I did have a thought though of actually
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: to go back to Gunther and all this for a second.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Gunther is still, you know, calling himself the career killer.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: This may be the one and only match if they
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: do this match, This may be the one and only
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: match that Nick all This has and they may have
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Gunther kill his career his one match in WWA. Those
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: are the big developments on the show, but there was
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: more than happened, and we get to talk about it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: If this is your Monday Night Raw review for the
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: final time in the month of June. It is June
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: twenty ninth. And now that I say that date out loud,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: do you know what happened on this date in nineteen
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: ninety eight, right in the thick of the Attitude era.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: This was a big deal. This is a big Raw
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: on June twenty ninth. I'm pretty sure it was nineteen
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: ninety eight, the night after the King of the Ring
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: when Caine beat Austin to win the championship. On Raw.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Twenty four hours later, Cain's run came to an end.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Sammy's ain better be taken notes, he better make himself
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: scarce on SmackDown tonight. But on this night, on this night,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: was it twenty eight years ago? Steve Austin beat Kane
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: to win back the WWE championship and the building went wild.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I remember there being a sign there was in the
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Gun Arena in Cleveland, and I know that because there
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: was a person holding a side in the crowd that
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: said send help. The gun does on fire. And indeed
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the gun was on fire. Atlantic City was not, definitely not.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Atlantic City was not on fire tonight for this show,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Like and subscribe, super chats are open thank you for
• 17:07
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• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to the twelve hundred plus and growing on a Monday night.
• 17:11
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• 17:14
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• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the wheel says here. I'll bring the wheel up here
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in a second. I did want to show you guys
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: one thing before we put the wheel up. I want
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to put this photo up on the screen. I noticed
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: this during raw. This popped up on my timeline. Is
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: this is not AI or photoshopped. That is a photo
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that John Cena posted on his X account, and I
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: assume maybe also his actually probably not on his Instagram,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: but he posted this on his X account. That is
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: his doctor, his doctor that has helped him regrow his hair.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Which is a little odd because in this photo, as
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you could see, John Cena is bald and apparently he's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: having whatever this next procedure is in his hair journey.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I guess it required him to go bald for it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I have not seen bald sena. I don't think since
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the prototype days in OVW. So it was a little
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: jarring seeing this image. But I'm looking at this and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I said to myself, I go, you know, this is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: not a bad look. He should have gone he should
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: have gone bald for the heel run last year. We
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: could have gotten bald John Cena as a heel. I
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why he didn't think of
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: it then. But anyway, so this is what John Cena
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: looks like right now. And I'm sure soon he'll he'll
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: have a brand new head of hair. But in the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: meantime you can enjoy bald John Cena. He thought he
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: thought it was Ai, says Isaiah. I thought so too,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: until I saw that it came from John Cena himself.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Let's bring up the wheel here. See what we're spinning
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: for tonight. How many likes do we need to be
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the booker? No, no, no, no. We got to give
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: this a manly spin. We got to give it a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: real spin. There we go. What are we looking at here?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We're looking at six hundred, that's what we're looking at,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: all right, We're looking at six hundred likes. We were
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: at three eighteen. Can we do it? Can we pull
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it out. You guys can make that happen. Thank you,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: by the way for hanging out with me on Saturday
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: for the Night of Champions review. I thought we covered
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of ground there and had a lot of fun,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: so I thank you for that. Ricky says, might cut
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: my hair bald. Well, you don't cut your hair bald.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You shave your head bald. And I'm not going to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: give you advice one way or the other. You do
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: whatever makes you happy. So after highlights from Night of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Champions open the show tonight, Oba Femi, the King of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the Ring, shrudded his way down to the ring to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: open things up here tonight and he said he got
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a great reaction from the crowd in Atlantic City. And
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he said, oh wait, we have an update here. We
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: have breaking news, breaking news from Scorpion Deathlock in the chat.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Forbidden Door has just ended. Okay, great. I was wondering.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I was wondering if it was over yet or not.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Apparently Forbidden Door just ended. It just went off the air.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you Scorpion Deathlock for the update. It's good to know.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Opah said that that's a reaction that is befitting of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a ruler. But now the fans have to give him
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a reception befitting of a king, and so they did.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: He said, Destiny has not done with him yet, though
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: he has a choice to make. But before he can
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: make that choice, we heard brock Lesner's music and I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: thought to myself, boy, this escalated quickly. They're going right
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to Final Jeopardy. Here out comes brock Lesner. He's got
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman with him. We have not seen Paul Hayman
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: since he was speared through the barricade by bron Breaker,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: or technically we haven't seen him since he sat down
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: with Chris van Vliet. He looked pretty good in that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: interview that was only a few weeks ago, though I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: don't know when they recorded that. So he circled the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: ring as he usually does, he climbed inside and he
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: gave Oba a very happy, sarcastic intro as the new King.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: He was very open and honest here in this segment.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: He said the most honest thing that he's probably ever said.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: He told Oba, he goes he hasn't watched the show.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: He said, I apologize, but I haven't watched the show.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: But he congratulated Oba, and he also pointed out that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: he too won King of the Ring once before, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Paul tells him that OBA has a big decision. First
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of all, can you blame brock for not watching the show?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He's admitted this on the actual television show before. This
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is not the first time that brock Lesner has gone
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: on TV and said I don't watch the show. I
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: appreciate the honesty, I do. I actually am quite envious
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of him, But Brock is not the one who has
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to sit here every single week and talk about this
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and dissect it and analyze and discuss with all of you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesner can't be bothered with any of that shit.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But because he doesn't watch the show, he's been brought
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: up to speed on things by Paul Hayman. Paul keeps
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: him in the loop and Paul tells him that OBA
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: has a big decision to make. He also tells him
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that OBA has been calling him names, so, for example,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: when he's not here, Paul tells him that OBA is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: calling him a coward, he calls him a bitch. He
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: also tells him that he cuts a great promo, which
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he never really could, but that's why he's got mister
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Hayman over here. Funny enough, I actually thought that this
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: was one of the best probos brock Lesner ever cut.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: For a guy who came out on television tonight and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: admitted that he can't cut provos, I thought this was
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: one of the better brock Lesnar probos from start to finish.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He goes, but Oba, you know what they say, talk shit,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: get hit, And he didn't hit him. He kicked him.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: He kicked him low, He kicked him in the dick.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesner knows all about that. Actually, the last time
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he was in the hell in a cell probably was
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: with the Undertaker. That was during their feud where Undertaker
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: was just going around Dick kicking him left and right.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So he kicked him in the crotch and then he
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: picked him up and he dropped him with an F five.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And then Lesner left the ring and Hayman was talking
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to him outside and Hayman just told him, now, that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: was a great promo, and Brock smiled and said thank you,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and the two of them shook hands. That was great.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So they were going to leave Oba, though holding his groin,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: he grabbed them microphone. He stood back up. He said,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: this is what brock always does. He shows up, he
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: has fives and he leaves and you said, I called
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you names behind your back. Well guess what you're in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: front of me, and you're still a bitch. So here's
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the deal. We can play cat and rat forever, or
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we can settle the score, me and you one on
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: one Oba Femi versus brock Lesner at SummerSlam. What's it
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: going to be? And Brock said he accepts, but there's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: one condition. SummerSlam Minneapolis hell in a cell And I'm like,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: whoa hold on here, It's been a while since we've
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: gotten one of those. Last time we got one, it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was one of the best hell of a sell matches
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this company's ever done. They got some big shoes to fill.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Now after the break, I'll just lump all this together here.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: After the break, Hayman was with Adam Pierre in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: back and he was putting over what a big attraction
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he just delivered to him for somers Let we gotta
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sell so many tickets with this, And Pierce said, well,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I would have liked to have just gotten a heads up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: At least he was upset. Austin Theory showed up. He
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: was shocked to see Hayman back. Apparently Hayman wasn't returning
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: his calls. Hayman wasn't returning his text messages. I wouldn't
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: either if Austin Theory was texting me NonStop. So he
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: was just very surprised to see him there. Now, Theory
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: was the only member of the Vision not named Paul Hayman,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: who is actually on the show tonight. Bron Breaker was
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not there, Logan Paul was not there. Bronson Reid was
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: not there. This is what the Vision has been reduced to.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Can you blame Paul Hayman. He's got one foot out
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the door. He doesn't need the Vision anymore. The Vision
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: is going the way of Curtis Axel and Csorrow and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Rye Back in terms of Paul Hayman. Guys, all right,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you could see the writing on the wall. Hayman doesn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: need this, he doesn't want anything to do with this anymore,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: because the Vision more or less doesn't exist anymore. But
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Hayman said, well you didn't know I was here, Well
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: now you do. He just walked away. He sounded very
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: annoyed with Austin Theory, and Pierce then excused himself because
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he spotted Obafemi off in the distance, So yeah, you
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: get to go back to Haymen. Han's good. That's the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: next step. Han's going to be on bended knee begging
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns to police, take me back, take me back.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Pierce walks over to Obafemi and he asked him. He goes,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure I heard this right, Like,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: are you sure that this is what you want? And
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Oba said yes. He said the title will always be there,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: but I need to end things with Lesner, me and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Brock Helen is Cell and so it's been since then,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it's been made official and they're gonna have a Helen
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of Cell non title obviously Helen is Cell match at
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Summer Slim. So opa Femi is foregoing his championship match
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: on that show to finish the feud once and for
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: all with this man again, even though Summer Clima is
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: two nights, even though there's another major show, kind of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: major between now and then, there are other opportunities between
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: now and then, if not that weekend for him to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: collect on his championship opportunity. He is going to do it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Nobody else has ever done. He basically this really was.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It was very much like the Rock and Cody thing
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago, where Cody was willing
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to voluntarily give up his guaranteed championship match at WrestleMania,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: which he earned by winning the Royal Rumble in order
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to step aside and allow the Rock to take his place, which,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to believe Nick Cohn was the plan all along. Everything
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: went exactly according to the way that we wanted it
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to because we're all geniuses. Look at the big brain
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: on these guys, so basically we have sort of a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a version of that here. Obviously, this is going to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: be a very big match on that show. I think
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a great match. I don't know
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: if it's going to be brock Lesner's final match. I'm
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: sure some people will look at this and go, well,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: this is potentially a much bigger deal, right to be
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: able to go down as the man who retired brock
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Lesner after what we saw at WrestleMania, though, you know what,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot to convince me that
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Brock really would be winding it down at SummerSlam. There's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: been nothing said about that. I don't know if that
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: might be a stipulation that gets added to it. If
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I don't beat you, then I don't deserve to be
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: doing this anymore, and I'm going to walk away, right.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: They could still add something to the match, but anybody
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: who's talking about the possibility of this being brocks last match,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it's all just speculation. And it all goes back to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: John Cena, his comment that he made when he was
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: interviewed by CVV last year. We don't know if this
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: is going to be Brock's last match or not, but
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be big. I just I don't like how
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in this case, for this year, it has rendered pointless.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Might be too strong of a word I am. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: am left to assume that Obafemi will still have a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: guaranteed championship match whenever he wants it, like in six months.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: If he shows up on RAW one night and says
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to Adam Pierce, hey, you know what, I think it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: about time I get that title match that I earned
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: by winning King of the Ring, then they may have
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to make a championship. I don't know how this is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: going to work now. I don't know if they know
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: for sure how this is gonna work. I'm assuming, I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: assuming he's not foregoing the title shot. He's foregoing it
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: at summerslim So it's not completely pointless if that's how
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it works out, because he would still have that in
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: his back pocket. But to me, for now anyway, it
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: really does make King of the Ring just seem kind
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of pointless and trivial, and like we just sat through
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a month of matches that we're building to the big
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: finale to find out who was going to be the guy,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and now it's just rendered it's rendered meaningless for now,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and Seth Rollins just steps in and gets a World
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship match anyway, and then you know, Sammy's ain
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: will be defending his title against Cody or whoever it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: going to be. On the other side that I don't like.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It marginalizes King of the Ring at least for the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: time being anyway in my eyes, that I don't like.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And I just think it was it was probably the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: best way to go, but only because they booked themselves
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: into the situation. Like there are other ways they could
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: have gone about this that I'm not too hot on.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I might have ended up making the same decision, you know,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: given the conditions that we were dealt with here, But
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they booked themselves into this situation. It didn't have to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: be this way. You could have had a coherent King
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of the Ring tournament where the winner is going to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Summer Slim the challenge for the title, and it could
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: have been Seth Rawlins. And yes, you would have had
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: people who would be like, oh, why is Seth winning
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: King of the Ring? What does he need King of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the Ring for? Right, You're never going to be able
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to please everybody, but at least in that situation, it
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: would have made more sense. They did this to themselves.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You know, they wanted to give Oba the big win,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but they weren't quite ready to go all the way
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: with him, and so this is what we ended up
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: with here now Seth Rollins. It felt to me when
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: this segment was over, like, well, we're going to get
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Roman in Seth. And obviously we got our answer at
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the end of the show. On the SmackDown side, it's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a little more unpredictable, and I like that coming out
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of Night of Champions, we don't know for sure what
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the match is going to be on the SmackDown side
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: at Summer Slammer, which night it's going to be. It
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: could still be the Night too main event, especially if
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Punk were to be involved, where seam Punk at a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: factor into this, Do we get Sammy and Cody to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Sammy even make it to summer Slim as the WWE champion.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I hope so, I hope he does, you know, I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: think it would be ridiculous if he didn't. But it's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: it's a little harder to predict ultimately what that match
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is going to be. Maybe we'll find out before the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: night is over. Maybe before the night is over, you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown this week, which will be airing on Friday.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll we'll have our answer on that. After this,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: we had Raymysterio one on one with Ethan Page. Page
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: had a side suit plex onto the top turn buckle
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: just dropped him down. Ray fell to the floor outside
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: after a break, Ethan charged at him, got low bridged
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: out to the floor. Ray followed with that sliding splash
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that he does. Page mowed him down later with a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: big boot and a power slam for a near fall,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and Ethan picked up Mysterio on his shoulders in a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: fireman's carry position, got up to the middle rote. Ray
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: was able to counter out into an avalanche Hurri Karana
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: six yet nine frog splash. That's all she wrote. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: ray Masterio picks up the wind because that's really a
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: win that he needed. That's really a win that he needed. Yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: it's bad enough that bron Breaker lost the feud to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Seth Rawlins, and we know why because they were setting
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: up Seth to challenge Romans, so it made sense that
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Seth would get the win. It's not ideal though in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a perfect world, it wouldn't have come down to that
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and bron Breaker would have been able to win the feud.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So it's bad enough. We saw that on Saturday, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: now I'm watching Ethan Page lose to ray Masterio. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: there's no shame in losing to ray Mysterio. But we're
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: trying to build up some new faces here on this show.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I could only hope that we get a little win
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: streak going for Ethan because I think he could be
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a big player on this show this year. Hopefully he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: can string together some way. I think last week he
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: beat Dragonly. I want to see him string together some wins.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: He did tell Kathy Kelly during one of the commercial breaks,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: she interviewed him, and he said that he guaranteed that
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: he will be draped in gold. I hope so. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: hope he'll be raped an intercontinental gold. At some point
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'd rather Chad Gable get there before him, But at
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: some point I hope he is. Meanwhile, Dominic Mysterio and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: JD McDonough they entered Dan Housen's science lab backstage. They
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: were looking for him. They were bitching about all the money,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the one hundred thousand dollars that he owes, which is
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: still hilarious to me because that segment aired on social media.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: It never aired on the television show. I don't believe
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: they ever even showed it. I don't think they ever
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: replayed it. We're just told that he stole one hundred
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: grand from the judgment day and they want their money back.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: So they couldn't find him. Dom though he found a
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: giant frame. Now from behind it looked like a giant
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: frame poster. It was some sort of gift. You could
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: tell because on the back it said that it was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: from the New York Knicks. They had gifted something to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: dan Hausen. We just couldn't see what it was. So
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: dom took dan Hausen's gift and McDonough said, hey, we
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: should the place, Joe Hendry was back, and you know
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what that means. That means he gets no entrance. This
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is a recurring theme here on this television show. When
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: he actually shows up, he doesn't get an entrance. The
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: entrance is like the most important part of his whole act.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: It's the song, and they never air it on TV.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I don't understand it. Occasionally, sure, I could
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: see that every single time he comes out during the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: commercial break. By the time they come back, maybe you
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: hear the tail end of the song, but he's already
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: in the ring. And that's what they did here, no
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: televised entrance for Joe Hendry. He asked the fans if
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: they were ready for another concert, and then he introduced
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the new World Tag Team Champions, the Street Profits, who
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: made their way down to the ring, and we had wait,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: what is it breaking in Brie Bella will be competing.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, can't wait, can't wait. Let's not be talking
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: about SmackDown though, no SmackDown spoilers in the chat. Save
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: SmackDown for another time. So the Street Profits come down
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to the ring and the fans tell them, you know,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: they deserve it. Montes Ford thanked Seth Rollins and Angelo
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Dawkins backed them up on that. They thank Seth, and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: then Tes said we have to thank the man himself though,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that man being Joe Hendry, and Joe Hendry broke out
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: into song. So I'll read you. I will not sing you,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I will read you the lyrics to this song. He said,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they've got new tag Team champs. Everyone makes some noise.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: They're in Atlantic City, a celebration with all the boys.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: There will be no Obron Breaker, and we won't hear
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Logan talk. There will be no Paul Hayman because he's
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: occupied with Brock. And that leaves Austin Theory. Austin Theory
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: cries himself to sleep at night since John Cena destroyed
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: him on the mic. And I'm sitting here wondering, why
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: are we referring to something that happened three years ago
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: here that led to a shitty match at WrestleMania. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: don't know. Not Austin Theory's finest hour anyway, his terrible song,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: This was not his best work. His terrible song was
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: interrupted by Austin Theory and he said, Joe mentioned John Cena,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the same John Cena that he beats at WrestleMania. Meanwhile,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the prophets are jumping around celebrating. He's already talked to
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce and next week there is going to be
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a rematch for the World Tag Team Championships. Oh Joy
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Dawkins Theory if he really wants to get the Dog
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: hurt again, because bron Breaker was all beat up. He's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: all bloody coming out of that cage match on Saturday.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: He wasn't there on the show tonight. By the way,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Theory said that next week the Dog's going to be
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: off the leash, and he said he appreciates Joe making
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: his last song about him, and just like he said
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Sina destroyed him on the mic, He's going to destroy
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Joe in the ring tonight. So Hendry said, you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: we could wait until later, or they could do this
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: right here, right now, which usually when somebody says that,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you know, it's intended to get a big reaction from
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the crowd, and it didn't get much of a reaction.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, can you blame the fans?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a match with Austin Theory. He's the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: fall guy for the Vision. Everybody knows that. So Not
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: only does Joe Hendry get his entrances cut from the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: television show right, his entrances take place during the commercial breaks.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Apparently that's also where his matches begin as well, because
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: when they came back, they joined his match already in progress.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: So in case you were wondering where this man is
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: slotted on the show, they're making it very very clear
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: to you without actually saying it. They're showing you. They're
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: showing you where he's at. So Hendry caught Theory off
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a cross body. He dumped him with a fallaway slam.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Hendry then hit a discus lariot, which Michael Cole called
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the hit Single, only for a near fall. Theory hit
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: a neck breaker out of a vertical suplex, also for
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a near fall. Hendry came back with the standing ovation
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: the uranagi for the win. Well, look, I mean, it
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't much of a match, but at least he won.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It could have been worse. He could have been Ethan paged.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: At least he won this match. Here again, I don't
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: understand the point of cutting his entrance every time we
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: see him on TV. You know, we could laugh at
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: it and have fun with it, but I genuinely don't
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: understand why every single time that happens, because his entrance
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: is like the biggest part of his act. That's his song,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that's the song that got him over. You want the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: fans to sway and sing along to it when they
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: come out, and that's fine, and I guess in the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: building you would hope they would do it. But that's
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: something that should be airing at least occasionally on television.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been on the show very often to really
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: establish it. There are people watching RAW who don't know
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: who the fuck this guy is. They didn't follow him
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: in TNA, maybe they didn't follow him in NXT. I
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: don't know why. He's just defaulted to the commercial guy here,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: like he's never gonna be like the world heavyweight champion
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: in the World Heavyweight Championship picture. I get that, but
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: it just baffles me that every single time we see him,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: they they just cut his entrance out. It's just weird
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: to me. Anyway. Backstage, Raquel Rodriguez was asking Adam Pierce
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: why she hasn't gotten a shot at the intercontinental title.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Pierce said that she's not the only one asking for
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. Maxine dupri Has asked for one, and she said, well,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: if Maxine has an opportunity, then I'm going to go
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: straight through her to get her shot. And Pierce then
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: booked Raquel against Maxine for the show Tonight Live. Morgan
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and Roxane Perez walked in and Live didn't seem terribly
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: upset over. I thought maybe on television this week she
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: would be upset at the two of them for not
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: coming out to help her at Night of Champions, but
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: she was basically her her usual self. She was more
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: concerned over EO Sky now coming after her World Championship
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: at SummerSlam, and the money that Dan Housen owes them,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: and she was more concerned about all of this than
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Raquel getting her Intercontinental title match. Rakel told her, look,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: don't worry about Dan Housen, don't worry about any of
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: this stuff. I got your back with EO. So after
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the break, the Queen, not Charlotte Flair, the actual Queen
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: EO Sky made her way out to the ring. She
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: placed the crown upon her head, told us how and
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I quote, how super duper grateful she is to come
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: back to the US as the Queen of the Ring.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: She says, she beat Liv Morgan and it's Summer Slam.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: She's gonna beat her again and she will be the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: women's World champion again. Live Morgan interrupted. She asked THEO
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: if she's proud of herself, because the way that she's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: bragging about beating her on Saturday is if she did
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: so fair and square. It's making her sick. The only
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: reason that she won is because Liv got cursed by
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Dan Hausen. So at SummerSlam, she promises things are going
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: to be different because now she doesn't respect THEO. Now
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: EO has pissed her off, so she's gonna remind EO
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: what happens when she gets on Live's bad side. She says,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Finn Balor turned on by his own group. When's the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: last time you saw Stephanie Vaquier around here? Exactly? And
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley. She took everything from Ria and she hasn't
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: been the same since. It's SummerSlam. She's going to absolutely
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: destroy EO when she's going to become the greatest women's
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: World Champion of all time. But in the meantime, EO's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: in for a whole lot of trouble and all of
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: a sudden Raquel and Roxanne. They appeared on the apron
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: EO lowbridge Raquel out to the floor. She knocked Roxanne
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: out to the floor with a punch. Liv got in
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the ring. She tried for oblivion and EO was able
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to avoid it. She dropped her with the German suplex
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: lives on her knees. Now EO kicks her right in
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the back of the head. EO headed up top. She
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: was going to go from the moonstaw, but Raquel cut
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: her off and EO fell and she was hung upside
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: down by her and her knee was basically draped and
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: trapped over the top rope, and so they all started
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: pounding away on her injured leg that I guess in
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: storyline anyway, Live had injured it in their matching Night
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: of Champions. She was limping when she first came out,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: and then they held her for Live to hit oblivion.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: This got very little reaction, and then Live applied her
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: new finishing move, which is a half crab, and EO
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: started tapping out. A referee got in the ring to agents,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: one of whom I noticed was Old Ken Done Tavari
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: might have been the other I don't remember, but they
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: got in the ring to get live off of her.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Not much to say about. I mean, look, this was
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the first match that they made official and set up
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the other night for Summer Slam, So we know what
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the Women's World title match is going to be. If
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: this is an indication of how they're going to be
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: building this match, it's going to be a very long,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: very long four or five weeks. Not much to this, Yeah,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it, but just you know, even the
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: crowd wasn't terribly excited to see it. La Knight again,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: j Jimmy used so La Knight. He simply cannot quit
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: this family every single week. If he's not talking about that,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: if he's not arguing with them, he's fighting them. If
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: it's not Jimmy, it's j If it's not Jay, it's Jimmy.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: It's not Jacob, it's Solo. If it's not Solo, it's Jacob.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: It's never Roman. You ever noticed that, outside of that
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: one time a few years ago, it's never Roman. Jay
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: usso wandered out there before them. He didn't get a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: formal entrance, but he wandered out there before the match began.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: He got on headset to join Michael Cole and Corey Graves.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Knight spotted him out there before the match began, so
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: he went outside and he kind of walked over to
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: j and they exchanged some words and he got back
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: in the ring to start the match. Crowd was very
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: quiet for most of this match, probably figuring that Jay
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: was going to get involved at some point, Otherwise, why
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: else was he out there, So they were just kind
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: of waiting for it. Jimmy dump Knight with a Samoan drop.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: He went for the running hip attack. Night moved out
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: of the way and then Knight went for a top
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: rope elbow. Jimmy was able to avoid it. He hit
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a spear for a near fall. Jimmy went to the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Knight cut him off, superplexed him, and Jimmy rolled out
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: to the floor over by the announced desk, so Knight
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: was over there. He made like he was gonna throw
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Jimmy into j but he stopped short. He just wanted
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to scare him, and he smiled and Jay he was
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: flapping his gums on headset when Knight went back over
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: and just wiped him out with a boot. I laughed
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: at this, I'm like, good, thank you, La Knight. So
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: back inside Knight hit the top row elbow. Jay got
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: up on the apron and he was basically Knight dropped
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: him with the right hand, but that was enough to
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: distract him long enough for Jimmy to roll him up
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: for the wind the always exciting distraction roll up, and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: that is how this match came to an end a
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: WWE special. After the match, Night attacked Jimmy, Jay jumped
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: in for the save. He double leg Night down to
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the mat. He started throwing bombs. Meanwhile, Solo Sokoa. He
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: showed up I guess out of the crowd. He got
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: up on the apron and he spiked Jimmy in the
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: throat again. That's what he did last week. He did
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: it again here. And this was great because Jay now
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: looks up and he notices Solo on the apron, and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Solo he's smiling, and he just looks at Jay and
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: then the most condescending mocking way, he just goes ye
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: and then he jumps down from the apron and he
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: bails out into the crowd. That was great, and then
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Night he dropped Jay with the BFT as he caught
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: sight of Solo in the crowd. The second week in
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: a row, that Solo Socoa has provided some sort of
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: assist to La Knight, the same La Knight who flat
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: out turned him down and told him no in no
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: uncertain terms on Friday, when Solo floated the possibility of
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the two of them basically being kind of like partners
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: and looking out for each other. I said this in
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: my review on Friday. Obviously the mft's were just they
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: were awful. They were awful, and I'm glad that they're
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: splitting up Solo Socoa though what they had him doing
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: on Friday. Now that he's on his own, he's like
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a lone wolf. Now all his family has deserted him,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: He's got nobody else. I am more intrigued now to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: see where they go with Solo so Co and what
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: they do with them than I was at any point
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: during the MFT stuff. And so he comes out and
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: he does it's just like the little things that he
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: does because he's a very personable guy. We just didn't
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: have a chance to see it a lot, because he's
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: got to be very stoic, you know. He's, like I said,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: he's like a mob boss and we're supposed to take
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: him seriously like a little mini Roman On Fridays, and
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: that's just not that's not who he is. But when
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: he's acting like a cornball and a goofball and he's
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: out there doing stuff like this, that's where he's actually
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: very entertaining. The stuff with him in La Night, I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: just can't imagine they end up with some sort of alliance.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to see where, if anywhere, this is actually Like,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: is it leading to something concrete? Is it leading to
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: a one off match on television one week and that's it?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Night is very confused. He's obviously very
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: caught off guard by all this. He doesn't know what
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: his ulterior motive is or what his true motivation is.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: But I, for the first time in a very long time,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: am genuinely curious to see where they are going to
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: take Solo Socoa on these shows. I paid him a compliment.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: They replayed the Gunther and Nick all this angle that
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: was shot backstage after Night of Champions on Saturday. If
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: you missed it, Gunther just walked right up to him
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and just was yelling at him and cussing at him,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: and he was very upset about being screwed over yet again.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Out of the world Championship and so they had to
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: be separated. Very unprofessional of nick Aldis to engage with
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: this man, and so we got the update from the announcer.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: As an official statement from WWE headquarters, Gunther and nick
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Aldis have both been sent home and while all this
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: is at home, he will be under administrative leave for
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the foreseeable future, which means in the meantime, Adam Pierce
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: will assume his responsibilities as the general manager of Smackdowns.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: So for the time being, he is now the GM
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: for both Raw and SmackDown. Good luck with that. I
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: don't know if this means that at some point they're
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: going to replace him and bring in somebody new, or
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: it's just a temporary thing because they're going to do
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: a match at SummerSlam now. I mean, look, the stage
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: is set, right. We've been down this road before with
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: all this, where they've teased people having issues with him.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: They did this with Randy Orton at one point, and
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: it was like, oh, maybe he's going to wrestle, you know,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: maybe he's going to actually work a match. They never
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the extra step though, to place him on administrative leave,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: so it feels like we're probably going to get him
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: in the ring for the first time, and it's going
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: to be against Gunther at SummerSlam. And if you would
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: have told me six months ago, if you would have
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: told me five months ago, if you would have told
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: me three months ago that the SummerSlam match that we
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: would be looking at for Gunther at SummerSlam, who a
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: year ago at SummerSlam was defending the World Heavyweight Championship
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and then later in the year beat John Cena and
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: then beat aj Styles, that he would be wrestling the
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: general manager at SummerSlam. I would have called you crazy,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: But you know this is the this is the Paul
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: lovec Era, and anything can happen. So here we are.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I guess we know what Gunther is going to be
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: doing at SummerSlam. Look, there are worse things he could
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: be doing. I suppose it's the nicest thing I could
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: say about it. Now, when he beats Nick All this
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: what they do with him coming out of Summerslim. See,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: that's the question, because they built him up so much
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: with the career killer stuff that it just feels like
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: he's above feuding with those guys in the mid card,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: like a Carmelo Hayes or a Trick Williams or something
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: like that, Like it just feels beneath him. At this point,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: he's kind of trapped in this weird spot now where
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: anything other than him competing for a world championship, and
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like there's really space for him right
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: now at the top of that in that realm is
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: going to feel like it's it's beneath him. It's going
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: to feel like a letdown. I don't know. After a commercial,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the usso's found Jacob Fatu in the back. They asked him,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: what the hell were you and he reminded them that
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: I don't take orders from either of you, especially Jay's
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: punk ass, but a message from the OTC. He's sending
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Jacob to SmackDown to take care of the solo Socoa problem.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Jay told him, then, I'll see you there. Because Sammy's
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: ain now is the WWE champion and he ain't got
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: no challenger. I'm like, oh my god, good grief. We
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: can't get it. We can't get away from this. We
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: can't get away from this. We're still trying to make
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: this a thing. We got a Lyra Valkyria promo promo video,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: specifically where she wondered why and I don't think she
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: was wearing any makeup. She looked a little bit different
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: where she wondered why everyone was on her back over
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: what happened in London when she beat the crap out
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: of Bailey. She says she spent the last year being
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the better person. She's not proud of what happened, but
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: she's not losing any sleep over it either. She's carried
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the load and sacrifice for her success, or sacrificed her
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: success over and over and over again because she wanted
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: to take Bailey with her. Everyone already knows that she
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: could do it by herself. She was the first ever
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: win Iman's Intercontinental Champion. Now there's this huge gap between
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: who she is and who she could be. She never
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to hurt Bailey, but last week it felt so
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: good to close that gap just a little. She's an
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: angry bird. We're going to see how the Lyra Valkyria
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: heel turn goes. Does she have it in her? Does
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: she have a good heel run in her? More importantly,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: do they give her the opportunity to show that she
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: can have a good heel run? I think that's the
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: bigger question. How long do they go before this fizzles out,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: I hope not. I hope it works out. I think
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Lyra's great. In the back Live, Maxine Dupree walked by
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Chad Gable, who was prepping for his match later tonight,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: but then she stopped. She went back to go talk
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: to Gable and say I met everything I said last week.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: But she went to go apologize and Gable cut her
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: off and he told her, look, I want you to
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: focus on what's in front of you right now, which
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: is your match, and she appreciated that. So it was
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Maxine Duprie against Raquel Rodriguez. Bird is the word. How
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: many of you saw the movie? And see, let's see
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: how old some of you are. How many of you
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: saw the movie? Follow that bird if you know what
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: that is. It was Maxine dupre against Raquel Rodriguez. The
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: crowd took a vow of silence for this match. Rodriguez
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: stretched Dupree in a torture rack Maxine that was able
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to escape into a sunset flip attempt that was not successful,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and Raquel destroyed her with a clothesline. Maxine got a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: near fall after a leg drop. She tried for a
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: fisherman's soup plex. Raquel, though, got out of that, finished
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: this off mercifully with a tehanabaum. So Raquel is going
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: to be getting that next intercontinental title shot over Maxine,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: who had no business getting one in the first place.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit if she is a former
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: intercontinental champion. She had that run and then she vanished,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: and so she had no business being around any championships
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: and now she will not be Yeah. OK, a lot
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: of you do know follow that bird. Hmm. It's an oldie,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: but a goodie. God, I haven't seen that. I don't
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: want to say how long it's been. It's been a
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: while since I've seen that. Backstage, Dan Housen found his
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: science lab trashed and his Knicks gift was missing, as
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: will be Mitchell Robinson from The Knicks very soon. He'll
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: be missing. Liv Morgan showed up and told him that
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: this is what you get, and he asked her what
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: did I do to you? And she said, you electrocuted JD.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: They stole or he stole one hundred thousand dollars from
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: the judgment day and worst of all, he cursed her
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: and she lost the Queen of the Ring. So he
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: needs to find a way to make this right or
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the judgment Day is going to keep making his life hell.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: And that led into the best match of the night,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Chad Gable one on one with j D mcdonoughh Now
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: you look at the talent in this match. Of course,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: these two guys are capable of going out there and
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: having a kick ass match, but again, they're slotted at
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: a certain level, and it's tough to get the fans
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: invested in what guys at that level are doing sometimes
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: because not everybody is terribly over Frankly on these shows.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Chad Gable obviously had great success doing the Americano stuff
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: in Triple A. He was this great heel and so
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: now they turned in Babyface. He's going around doing the
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: twelve steps, apologizing to everybody. It doesn't help. They've given
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: him this new music that he comes out to. They
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: gave him the clap he's coming out. He's doing this
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: every week. God, he's trying so hard to get the crowd.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: It's like it's like when Vince would tell people, like
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: wrestlers would talk about how Vince would go to them
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and go, look, when you go out there, you gotta
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: smile more. You're not smiling enough. Just go out there
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: and smile, damn it. And I could just picture like
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Vince isn't there anymore, thank God, but like Triple H
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: or somebody who's in the back telling him, look, when
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: you go out there, just just keep clapping, man, just
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: keep putting your hands together in the crowd. They'll come along.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Like they went to a commercial break and Gable is
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: he's doing the clap and I mean, god, it bless
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: his heart, like he's trying. It's not working. It's not working.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't help that during the commerce and thankfully
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: it was during the commercial break, what it didn't err
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: on the actual show. But it doesn't help that you
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: got Michael Cole and Corey Graves on commentary basically poking
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: fun at the song, calling it dad Rock. Chad Gables
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: out there to his dad rock. Oh yeah, that's good,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: that's real cool. That'll get him over. Sometimes I think
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: like the worst thing that WWE could do is actually
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: actively try to push somebody like it should just happen organically.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: They if they get behind you and they really don't
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: get they don't get you well enough, and they think that, well,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get him over. That's like the kiss of
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: death because half the time, I swear to God, these
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: people have no fucking idea what they're doing. Uh McDonough. McDonough.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: When he walked out, Dom was with him. Dom was
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: wearing the New York Knicks jersey that the team apparently
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: gifted to Dan Housen. So it wasn't that thing that
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: gift I mentioned earlier. From behind, it looked like a poster,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: but apparently I guess it was a framed Nick jersey
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: and that's what they stole, and so Dom was wearing
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: the jersey. McDonough he dropped Gable down knee first onto
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the ring steps outside, which led to him getting the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: heat on Gable for a while working over the knee.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: During a break in the match, the crowd finally woke
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: up and they broke out into a light let's go
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Gable chant, although it died out pretty quickly. There was
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a standing Spanish fly by McDonough that got him a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: near fall, power bomb with a stack by JD only
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: for a two, and then there was a brain buster
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: and again Gable kicks as he's throwing all these moves
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: at this guy and nothing can keep Chad Gable down,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and they were having a really physical match here. Like
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: it was at this point that I realized, like, all right,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: these guys, they're working their asses off, but the crowd
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: just wasn't reacting to anything until Gable bealed him overhead.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: He gave him an overhead throw into the turnbuckles. Gable
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: went for a moon salt and clearly overshot it. I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: mean the spot was that on the way down, McDonough
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: would put his boot up and so as Gable comes
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: down he would grab the boot. But had he hit
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: that moon salt, he would have been off target. But
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: he grabbed the boot, he trapped him in an ankle lock.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: He was able to escape the hole though. Dom got
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: up on the apron to distract Gable and McDonough hit
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: an avalanche Spanish fly with a very scary landing. It
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: looked like McDonough came down on top of Gable with
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: all of his weight on it, like his head and
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: his left shoulder on the landing. Dan Hausen showed up
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: at ringside over by the timekeeper's area, and he got
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: a briefcase with him and he's waving at them. So
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Dom chase dan Housen through the crowd and out of
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the arena. JD is like, where are you going? And
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Gable snuck up from behind. He went for the chaos
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: theory and he only got halfway through it. McDonough rolled through,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: but then Gable rolled back into an ankle lock and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: he grapedvined the leg instant tap out from JD McDonough
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to give Chad Gable the wind. Good for them, man,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I mean they got the crowd into it by the end,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: and they had a good match, and I thought they
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: worked their asses off here might not have been the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: most exciting thing for you know, the first half. It's tough,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're out there doing this to just
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: silence you know what I mean, Like because you're watching
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: on TV and you see the first five, six, seven
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: rows and you can hear and even if you think like, man,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: these guys are really you know, they're really putting it
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: all out there. When you see how just apathetic the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: crowd is to everything, it takes you out of it
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: and you hope that by the end of it they
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: could really get them. You know, they can catch them
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: and they can get them invested in what they're doing
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: and win them over. And I feel like they did
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: by the end of it. After the match, Dom and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: McDonough they wandered over to the briefcase that dan Housen
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: had left behind and they opened it. It was filled with cash,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: but then it also there was powder that exploded. I
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: hope it wasn't anthrax, and it just exploded into their
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: faces and blinded them, which allowed dan Housen to return.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: And he didn't grab the cash, That's what I would
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: have grabbed. He grabbed the Knicks jersey. The jersey was
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: more important to him than the briefcase full of cash,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: and he took the jersey into the ring. He held
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: it up like a trophy, big pop a lot of
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Knicks fans, I guess in Atlantic City. He went to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: go leave with it. He made it all the way
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: to the stage, but he had his back turned and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez comes out and ambushes him from behind, steals
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: the jersey back, gives it to Dom, who wipes the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: powder from his eyes with the jersey. They're paying this
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: angle off at Madison Square Garden. That's what they're doing.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get more segments like this for a few
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: more weeks. Whatever this is building to. My guess is
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: it's got to involve one of the knicks, and so
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna the biggest possible get for them would
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: be Jalen Brunson. My guess would be this is all
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: building to a Jalen Brunson appearance of Madison Square Garden,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna do some short a match, but they're
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: gonna do some sort of angle. He'll be involved, and
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: of course at MSG he's like a god there now,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: like it's gonna get this unbelievable reaction. If they can
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: get Jalen Brunson for an angle on that show or
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: any kind of appearance like forget about it, that would
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: be huge. So that would be my guess. That's what
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: this is all building to. Backstage, Austin Theory walked up
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: to Maxine Dupree, who was sitting on one of the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: production cases with an ice pack on her neck, and
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: he asked her, why did you say what you said
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: in the back earlier to Chad Gable and she said
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: it's complicated. She's like a walking Facebook status. Austin says, well,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: this is simple, but if you want to go back
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: down that road, maybe this won't work out, and he
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: left Tozawa and Otis then appear Tozaua asked are you okay?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: And she says, I don't know before leaving. I tell
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: you what, they've done a pretty poor job of establishing
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: that there's any sort of real relationship between these two
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: outside of some little hints here and there. There have
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: been a couple of segments like that one time where
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: she was in the passenger seat of the Vision SUV,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: like they've dropped little hints of it, but they've kind
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: of danced around it, and they've never really come right
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: out and said it or talked about it. So I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: don't know how am I supposed to feel about this?
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Am I supposed to be happy? Am I supposed to
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: be sad? I'm kind of indifferent to the whole thing.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I don't really give a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: shit either way. And to close the show, we had
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: the world heavyweight champion, a real star has appeared for
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: the first time since the opening segment, Roman Reigns, who
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: had Jacob fought to with him. Roman Reigns came out
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: to or a farm, as he does every time he
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: appears on this show, and he said it Atlantic Cite
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: acknowledge me, and then we heard burn it down and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: outcomes seth Rawlins and Rollins is wearing his long black
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: trench coat. Fans are singing his song. He gets into
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: the ring, they come face to face, chance of OTC breakout.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Rollins tells him that's perfect timing. Yes, fo, that is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: what Rolins told him. He gets in the ring and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: he goes, I am the learning tree. I would have popped.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I would have popped
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: if he would have said that. And then you could
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: just end the show and people are left wondering what
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: does it all mean? Now? Rollins says, hello, my brother
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: said fourteen years. You and I have been tied together
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: from the moment all the way back to the formation
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: of the shield. Call it fate, destiny, whatever you want,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: but it feels very fitting that they're here in this
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: moment and you are in possession of a title that
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: belongs to me, and yes, my brother, it is time
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: to collect. Roman said collect. You must be confused. You're
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: the back of the line. You haven't done anything of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: late to earn a shot of the tribal chief. Apparently,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is like brock Lesner, and he doesn't watch
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the product. He didn't see that cage match on Saturday.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Seth said that he could play that game with everybody
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: else in that locker room, but you can't play that
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: with me. Says when it comes to Roman, he is
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: always at the front of the line. For everything that
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Roman has become, he owns him. He owns his ass
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: in this ring, and he has for the last fourteen years,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: said WrestleMania forty one triple Threat match, he pinned him
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: in the center of the ring and took his wise man.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania of forty he sacrificed himself so that Cody Rhodes
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: could end his reign of terror, speaking of which for
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: four years, Roman was unstoppable. He beat everybody except for
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: one person, which is true. I think in that entire
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: time that Roman was the champion, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: I believe they had a match at the Royal Rumble
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: one year. Was it twenty twenty two? I want to
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: say it was twenty twenty two, and I think Seth
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: won that match. I think he won by d Q
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: or count out or something like that. He said he
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: could walk it back to the greatest cash in in
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: the history of WrestleMania, where he took his main event,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: and Roman couldn't do a damn thing about it. He
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: has owned Roman since the day he put a steel
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: chair in his back and ended the shield. He's not
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: here to ask him for anything. As a matter of fact,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: He's here to give him something something nobody else in
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: the world can give him because everything that he says
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: he is and these people believe he is talking about.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Roman now said he is that great. He's won every
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: championship there is to win. Romans WrestleMania main event record
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: will never ever ever be topped, which is probably true.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: By the way, there is one thing in his career
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: that Roman has not been able to do, beat Seth Rolins,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: which Nerd glasses on he did. It was a random
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: TV match, but technically he did beat him that one time.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: But when it counts in the most important moments, he
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: has not been able to beat Seth Robins. He said
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: he's here to give Roman that chance. Seth's going to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: be real with all of us right now, He's going
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: to be real with Roman. This may be Roman's last
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: chance to close that loop. The two of them, they
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: came into this company together. They knocked down the door,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: they kicked the old generation to the curb. They made
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: this place to their own. They created the greatest generation
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: in the history of this industry. They did that together.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: But man, they are much closer to the end than
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: they are to the beginning. And there is a new
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: generation of young men and women ready to do the
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: same thing. To them, this may be their last chance
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: to do this dance. So he says, you know what
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: does Roman want his legacy to be? He's a surefire
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, right, all of these accomplishments that he
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: has to his name. But if he doesn't accept this challenge,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: he will never be able to escape the ghost of
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Seth Rawlins. So what do you say, brother, For old
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: time's sake, Roman said, It's been a long time since
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: he's heard any truth come out of Seth's mouth, little brother,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: But he's right. He doesn't want to beat him. He
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: needs to beat him. He needs his entire family to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: witness him beating Seth. And it's SummerSlam. That's exactly what
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: he's going to do. He accepts, Brother should have said
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: it that way too, Brother, and he dropped the mic,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: held up the World Championship as Roman was in the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: aisleway with Jacob behind him. They're leaving Romans looking back
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: at the ring talking to the camera and he said, SummerSlam.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: We closed the door on the shield forever. First of all,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: the promo from Seth Rollins was very good Rollins. We
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: saw Rollins when he was a heel, the clown right
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: coming out in a weird outfit every week, cackling like
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: a fucking hyena. Those promos were just insufferable and they
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: would always start out the same way every single week.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: I'm a revolutionary, I'm a visionary, you know this and that,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, shut the fuck up. When
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: he's doing those like whiny clown promos. It's he's insufferable
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: when he's out there though, and he's more serious. And
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: we saw this when he was feuding with Cmpunk. That's
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Rollin's at his best on the mic, and that's what
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: he got here. We got a very serious, very straightforward promo.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of history and a lot of bad
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: blood between these two men. That's how it was played.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: He drew on all of that history. He made some
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: very valid points about how Roman has not been able
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: to take care of him when it comes to one
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: on one In the ring when it matters. Like I
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: said at the beginning, he's that itch that Roman cannot scratch.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: He's that ghost that Roman chases but just can't catch.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: And so we don't know how many more opportunities these
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: two were going to get to get in the ring
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: and go one on one. This may be the last
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: time that Roman can try to finally topple Seth Rollins.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: But the bigger point he made is that he never
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: lost the world championship. That should have been top of
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: mind when he first came back, but instead they had
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: him with a vision because he wanted to get revenge. Well,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: he got his revenge. He won the feud, he beat
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker. Logically, the next thing for him to do
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: would be to claim the championship that he never lost.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: All of that makes sense, So I thought he knocked
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: it out of the park. I thought with the promo, Roman,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: of course Roman was Roman. Roman didn't have as much material,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: you know, to work with. Seth did most of the talking.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: All Roman had to do was basically stand there and
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: say acknowledge me, and then at the end of it
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: say I accept and that's it. And the people chant
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: OTC and everybody goes home. But I thought Seth did
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: a great job here. I just and again, a lot
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: of history to draw from with these two. I just
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: wish that we were getting a different match. I do
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: wish we were getting Roman and Oba, and maybe that
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: could be the plan for WrestleMania next year. WrestleMania is
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: a long way away. A lot can change. Look at
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: all the WrestleMania plans and rumors we had coming into
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: this year. It's going to change twenty five times between
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: now and then. I don't know. I don't know what
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: it's going to be at Saudi Mania, hopefully Roman and Oba,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: since we're not getting it at Summer Slim, which I
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: was excited to see. I'm less excited about Roman and
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Seth by comparison. But you know, again, it'll be a
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: fine match. It just feels to me like it's someone
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: for Roman to go in there and beat. I don't
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: feel that, oh, Seth Rollins is going to beat Roman.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Rings if it was Roman and Oba, Oba would have
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: it a chance at least to beat Roman and become
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: the champion. I don't feel like that there's even a
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: real possibility of that here. You know, it's someone for
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Roman to go in there and beat He could say
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: he finally, you know, he got this man off his
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: back once and for all and moves on to whatever
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: the next challenge is going to be. We don't even
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: know if Roman is going to be around much after summer, Slim,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: you know, originally he said, you got me for the summer.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Technically the summer goes until like the third week in September.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: We may have Roman until you know, Wressell Palooza, assuming
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: we get another wrestle Poloza, and then after that, who
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: the hell knows, it goes dark for a few months.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: I just wish that if we were going to do this,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: they went about it a different way. You know, they
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: did it at the expense of the King of the Ring.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: They made the King of the Ring feel pretty pointless
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: this year. I don't like that. I don't like the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: path that they chose to get here. I think they
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: made things unnecessarily complicated and it didn't need to be.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: And this is where we are now. We're getting the
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: matches that I think a lot of us would have
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: expected that we would be getting. Brock Lesner, Obafemi, Helen
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: the cell hell of a way to blow off what
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: has been a fun few to me. If you look
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: at their first two matches, the second match even better
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: than the first, a little bit longer, two minutes longer.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I certainly hope we don't get a six minute Hell
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: and a Cell match. You know, you're putting these two
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: guys in the cell. You got to give them some time.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: So my hope and expectation is that it's summer slim,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: and especially if this were to end up being Brock's
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: final match, you know, they go all out and they
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: give them the time they need to go out there
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: and put together what would be deserving of a blowoff match,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, we just saw Blood of the
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Steel Cage match with Breaker and Rollins on Saturday. I
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: would expect to see something like that in Hell and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: a Cell match between these two, Like, that's the kind
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: of match, if you're going to do it, that's the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: kind of match I'm hoping to see out of them.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: And then Oba can vanquish him once and for all
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: and move on. And I don't know coming out of
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: that what the next step would be for Oba. Maybe
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: the maybe Oba's like, okay, I'm ready, I'm ready for
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: my title match. And if they got Wressell Paluza coming
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: back in September. And remember Mark Shapiro last year said
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: he wants to make this a big event, like a
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: big tent pole event for them every single year. Who
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: the fuck? No, who's to say they don't do Roman
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: and Oba Wressell Palooza and that is Roman's last match
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: for a while, and he drops the championship to him, right.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds kind of crazy coming off a
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: big show like Summer Slam, not to do with there,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: But who's to say if they really want to build
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Wressell Palooza up, is this big deal? Maybe that's what
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: we're looking at. But they took some big steps to
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: shake things up going into Summer Slim. Here we got
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: two big matches. We'll see if we get more announced
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown this week. In terms of what they're doing
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: with the other championship, I said earlier, that's a little
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: less predictable, and that's good. That's good. It'll get people
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: talking right about the different paths that they can take. See,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm punk is going to be coming back soon. Where
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: does he fit into that picture? I find myself a
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: little more excited actually about the SmackDown title scene of
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do with that at Summer Slim.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. But that was raw from Atlantic City
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier than usual tonight because SmackDown is
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: a taped show tape show on Friday. Hey, we hit
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: the bonus goll. That's great to say. That guarantees at
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: least one round to be the booker. Where are we
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: on the like skull? Oh, we're close, We're close. The
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: like skull was six hundred See the wheel said six
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: hundred word five to eighty six. We may be getting
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: double B the booker tonight. We might just beginning double
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: be the booker. Well, you guys work on that, and
• 1:18:22
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• 1:20:04
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• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: of the Ring pointless with Oba saying he's foregoing his
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: title match. It's like WWE booked themselves in a corner
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  Speaker 1: and had to find a way out. That's exactly what
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• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: They overcomplicated it for no reason. Death Side says, what
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: if they do Brock and Oba Saturday Night's Made Event
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: and get this feud out of the way so that
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: Oba can move on to bigger and better things. This
• 1:20:42
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• 1:21:01
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• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Gunther at Summer Slinking Day. Yeah, that's not happening. That
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• 1:21:17
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• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: WWE is allergic to common sense. Feels like it the
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: Gary Spear with a ten spot. The internet would have
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: been calling it the worst creative ever. If Osprey gave
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: up his title shots to wrestle someone he's already beaten,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: but yippie. Instead we get another finisher spam match, but
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: with a cage. Well it might be finisher spam, but
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: I will say the matches they've had so far have
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: been pretty exciting. I don't mind them doing one more match,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: blowing it off in the cell. I think it'll be
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: really good. It's not again how we arrived at this point,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: at what they did with the title shot and all that,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of that. Death Side says. If
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: they're going to continue this depressing storyline with Johnny Gargano,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: can they at least have him do those Tim White skits.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: This is not two thousand and six anymore. It was
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: pretty tasteless and tacky even twenty years ago, although I
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: laughed my ass off at them, but you wouldn't be
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: able to get away with that. Today. TV with a
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: ten says, I don't know what it is about live,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: but ever since she came back from her injury earlier
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: this year, she has had go away heat with me.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: She's annoying, keep up the good work. What was she
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a heel? Every time she comes out
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: and she says she's the greatest women's champion of all time,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: and she just you know, drags it out as long
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: as she possibly can, like nails on a chalkboard. It's
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: because she's a heel. That means she's doing her job.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Death Site says, I have a horror video game recommendation
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: for everyone. It's called Psycho I thought that said Psychodad.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Oh married with Children reference. I would totally play Psycho Dad.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: If they made a Psycho Dad game, Oh, I would definitely.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: I would play the shit out of that. Psycho Dead.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: The demo is out now. It's basically what happens when
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: you mix Lucy from Elfin Liede and the Necromorphs from
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Dead Space. I've played Dead Space. I don't know what
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: Elfinlide is Psycho Dead though, I may have to check
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: that out. Is it a mobile game only or is
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: it a Steam game? Nico Samuel says, a solemn monster.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: What the fuck? I just woke up a few minutes
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: ago and I see Oba gave up his King of
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: the Ring title opportunity to face Brock. I'm shocked, but
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: I am intrigued. And how long does Sammy hold the
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: WWE title? In my humble opinion and wishful thinking, he
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: holds it until October. I mean, the way the WWE
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: does things, he'll be lucky to make it out of
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: the week with the championship. He'll be lucky to make
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: it out of tonight with the championship, or next week
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: at the latest. So I don't know. I mean, if
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: he if he doesn't lose it, you know, like in
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks or something stupid like that,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: at least summer slim. I mean, why not just keep
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: it on him, let him run with it until Summerslim.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: At least, there's no need to take it from him
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: before then. GMB says meh Oba Roman better than shield
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: Lore in twenty twenty six. Look, I don't disagree with
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: you that we're still doing Roman and Seth fucking fourteen
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: years later. It's a great promo tonight. But you're not wrong.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: We're still doing Roman reigns and seth rollins in twenty
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: twenty six, Like, what the fuck are we doing here?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Carlos Galvan get ready for the shield chair, Nico says solo.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Whenever Naomi comes back, would you want to see her
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: as a face or a heel? Gotta be a heel.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: She was such a great heel that she was finally
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: getting into, like she finally found her voice with that character,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: that heel persona, and then she had to go away.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: I hope she can pick back up with him when
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: she comes back. Barry MK says, SummerSlam is two nights.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: Why can't Oba have the title match on one night
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: and the cell match on the other. This is so stupid.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Lost but found says King of the Ring lasted two
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: years for a title shot. Lol a record? Yeah, in
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: peace to the King of the Ring stipulation Sidrow with
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: a five gave the rest of my pastry to pigeons, says,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: I guess I filled two birds with one scone. You suck.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: An adjective for metal is metallic, but not so for iron,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: which is ironic. It's true, never really thought about that.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: But he's not wrong. Misfit Wrestling Podcast with A ten
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: not putting any spoilers here, but I read the spoilers
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: and it's not looking good for Samby's name. Well, there
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: you go. I'm not surprised. I'm gonna take this fucking
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: belt from him, aren't they? Very? Very very imminently. I
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: feel like, remember Christian, Remember when Christian won the World
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship from Alberto del Dipshit in that ladder match,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: and then literally that not even that Friday. I mean
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: they taped SmackDown at that time, so it would have
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: been forty eight hours later. At the SmackDown taping he
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: lost it to Randy Orton and the rage and fury
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: coming out of that. At least they went on to
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: have an entertaining feud. But man, there were a lot
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: of pissed off people when that happened. Are they gonna
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: Christian sam He's ain? Is that what they're gonna do?
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: Sidru police stopped me and said papers, I said scissors,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: I win, and I left. I think he wants a rematch.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: He's been chasing me for forty five minutes. Glad you
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: liked my new beat. I like all your beats. He's
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: very talented. You gotta share your face a little more often.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: My friend Philly Harden for the four ninety nine says,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: have you read or heard of the Titan Book Trilogy
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: covers nineteen ninety five to ninety eight? WWF listened on audible,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: have to recommend? Made me a Brett mark. Oh, there's
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. We'll all be doing the Jalen Brunson dance.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: On July eighteenth. The Madison Square Garden says ninety seven
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: was Brett's best year. I have I've not heard of
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: the Titan Book Trilogy. I don't know who authored it.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: I may have to look into that, but no, I've
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: not heard of it. Ninety seven was a huge year
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: for Brett. Ninety seven. Obviously he had one of the
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: greatest matches of all time in WrestleMania with Steve Auston
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: arguably arguably the greatest match from WrestleMania history, and then
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: formed the Heart Foundation, had a great summer selet may
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: have been with the Undertaker, great finish to that match,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: won the Championship for a fifth time, and then obviously
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: everything happened with Montreal. So yeah, ninety seven was a
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: huge year for Brett. I'm a little partial to like
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: as far as like I don't know, just like in
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: ring and like his peak. I feel like physical peak
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: ninety four I might have to say ninety four bread.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: But ninety seven Brett was phenomenal. It's just too bad
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: he was injured for part of it. He had that
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: knee injury. I have like a knee scope. And the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: tree is back. Oh wow, the tree is back. The
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: trees they're sprouting up all around me. It's turning into
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: a forest. I can't see the forest from the trees.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: Sidrow says, Cop, why didn't you report your stolen credit card?
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Man says the thief was spending less than my wife.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Cop says, so why are you reporting now? Man says,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: I think the thief got married. And this guy's just
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: he's just full of jokes. Oh that's right. The ten
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: Man tagging Calgary too. Yeah. Ninety seven was a special
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: year for Brett. Imagine in that year, Man, you have
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: that match with Austin at WrestleMania, and then you're part
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: of that ten man tagging Calgary, both in the same year.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: Prince Mageta, after seeing his match on Saturday No one
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: is more over over the top of kicking out of
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: finishers than Rollins. He's worse than Rains and Cody like
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: him kicking out of the top rope Crossroads in October. Yeah,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: I mean he's He's hardly the only you know, offending
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: party though when it comes to that stuff, I just
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: saw a match less than twenty four hours ago that
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: would qualify that kind of irked me. The Uffman with
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: the five Oba will win the title at the pl
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: e that TKO loves so much, Wrestle Palooza. I'm telling you, man,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: the more I think about this, especially if Roman is
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: sticking around through the summer, I would not put it
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: past them to have Obi go for the championship in
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: September and Wrestle Palooza, because you know they're going to
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: bring back Wressell Palooza. It's like their new baby. They
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: want Wressell Palooza to become basically what money in the
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Bank has become over the years. I would argue that,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: at least for a while, their money in the bank
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: really supplanted Survivor series as like the Big Five or
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: the Big Four Big Four. Nick rosso with a nineteen
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: ninety nine after tonight. I could see Roxanne costing Live
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: her match at SummerSlam, just like Live Dom and ballor
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: did Terrea in Prease two years ago? Also, did you
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: watch the entire Great American Bashment? Because Tatum and Zaria
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: was great too. I've not watched the entire thing yet.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see the Kendall Gray match. I've watched that,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: I have not watched the other stuff yet. Hopefully I'll
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: be able to get to that. And yes, I could see. Look,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: they've been teasing some sort of blow up with Roxanne
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: and Live now for a while. It's going to happen.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of where. If liv is losing
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: her championship on that show, then that would make sense
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: for it to happen there, and that sort of the
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: beginning of the end between Living Rock Sand. That site
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: says the biggest wasted opportunity in Horror was not having
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: Jamie Lloyd is the killer after Halloween four. I agree, man,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of potential there for that Danielle
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: Harris character, that little girl the way they ended part four,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: for her to be the new killer in part five,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: and they chickened out. They chickened out Tonester good, Gunther
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: doesn't deserve. Oh it's as good. Gunther doesn't deserve the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: top tap to j Man, one tap out to Jay Usso,
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: and that's it. This man is ruined. He is branded
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: for life, lost but found. What if the Royal Rumbl
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: winner gets hurt and comes back two weeks before WrestleMania
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: and wants his title shot back, Well, then I guess
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: we would suddenly have a triple threat match. That would
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: be my guess that Sithe says, what if it ends
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: up being Cody, Punk, Sammy Orton at Summerslime Because it
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: does four things. It gives Sammy a brief run with
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: the belt, It gives Randy number fifteen, It gives us
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: a taste of Punk and Cody for wrestle MANNI of
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: forty two, and it keeps Punk and Cody in the chase.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think Orton factors into this at all. I
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: get the impression that he is hurt. I don't really
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: see him factoring into this at this point. It's lost
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of steam, all the interest I hadn't seeing
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Cody and Randy they really they were very successful in
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: diminishing my enthusiasm for it. With that WrestleMania fiasco this year.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I know the way they left it. Cody
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: got punted in the head, so they can always come
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: back to it. But I don't. I don't see it.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: I just don't, and I star they wouldn't want them
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: to use a four ways a way to put the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: belt on Randy Orton. I would see that more as
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: a way for Sammy to sort of eke out a
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: win if they did that. Brody with a nineteen ninety
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: nine Okay, Brody coming in with the orange super chat
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: here for another live stream. Don't get to do these often,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: but I always listened this to the next day. Thanks
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: for being a great distraction in life. Also, if Hog
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: comes to Maryland, I want to buy you a beer
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: as a thanks for everything you do. Well. If we
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: ever come to Maryland, that may take you up on that.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Nothing on the calendar just yet, but I'm sure we'll
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: venture over there at some point. Hopefully you'll be there
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: when we do. Thank you, Brody. Rakeish. It's like when
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: Jim Ross used to call Rakeishi when he debuted with
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: the Rakishi gimmick. He was Rakishi, but he called them Rakishi.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Rakish says what's up. I still think Oh believes SummerSlam
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: with a title, Cody and Sammy go to war, Sammy survives,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: and then Oba cash is in his opportunity a La
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Bautista scene at twenty ten. Who knows he might even
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: have an advocate by his side. That's a very creative
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: scenario that you've laid out there that absolutely, one hundred
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: percent will not happen. As I recall, the scene of Batista,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: thing had to do with Batista being in Vince McMahon's pocket,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: so that was a very different situation. And Oba with Hayman.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose if he beats Brock and Brock
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: really does retire, then possible, but just seems completely unnecessary.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: It's just not needed. Oba doesn't need Hayman, Johnny Bernie
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Jay loses King of the Ring but gets Sammy before Oba. Yeah,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: I said, like as soon as he said those words,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: it's like, I'm going to SmackDown. He needs a challenger.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck out of here, man, get the fuck
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: out of here. With this nonsense, Prince Vegeta, we are
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: definitely regressing back. Ever since media Bron gets beat, Jacob
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: gets beat, Oba throws his title shot Away Welcome Back
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Yeah, it's not good. I mean when you
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: have all of these guys that are just losing, and
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: not just losing once, but losing multiple times. So the
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: same person I had even forgotten about, Jacob Jacob got
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: beaten both matches by Roman last month. It's terrible. But
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: these guys in the end, when all of a sudden done,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: they're gonna come out okay. On the other side, I
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: believe that I have to believe that they're too talented
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: not to uh ja mind you, Punk didn't need Paul
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: Hayman either. Yeah. I mean, look, if MJF were to
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: ever come to WWE, does he need Paul Hayman. No,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: But you gotta put Paul Hayman with MJF. I mean,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: you talk about a natural combo. Come on, man, if
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: MJF ever comes to WWE and I it's in the
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: next few years, MJF and Hayman is is a gimme.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: It's a gimme. So yeah, there are certain people who
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: you could say, well, this guy doesn't need Hayman. They
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: don't need a manager right now at the moment. OBA
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't need anybody else. Oba's fine on his own down
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the road. Who knows right now, he doesn't need him.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: Jeremy says, imagine Row next week in Chicago, CM Punk
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: returns out of the crowd, Jack Perry attacks him. Do
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: you think it's possible Punk would would Why would Jack
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Perry be there? Jack Perry is not going anywhere. Jack
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: Perry still has not signed a new deal with AW.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: But Jack Perry is not leaving AW. They're gonna work
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: it out if they haven't already. He's not going anywhere.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: I know there was some rumors about that he's not.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: He's not going to ww A. Hayman can be. Mjf's
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: a rabbi, It's true. I mean yeah, he likes to
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: come up with a different descriptive term depending on like
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: who the person is. So like for Brock, he was right.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: He's Brock's advocate. For Roman, he was his wise man.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: He's in the oracle, right, the oracle for Seth Rollins.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: So what would he be for MJF. They'd have to
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: come up with a totally new day. Would he be
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: is rabbi? I don't know. Aaron says, wonder if the
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: OBA title shot will be one of those things? Triple
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: H will forget or drop or hope the fans forget,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: and he'll just win the Royal Rumble for a wrestlemaniavent.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: Probably that would be a very Wwe thing to do. Sure, uh,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: we got Death Side. If they are going to do
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: war games at Survivor series, why not do the Bloodline
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: against the Judgment Day because it's the only thing they
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: haven't done yet with these two groups. Have you have
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: you seen the states of the Judgment Day lately? It's
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: mostly a women's faction. Bod Line has no women. What
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do in a war Games match? You're
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: gonna have Roman Reigns, Jacob Fatu and the Ussos against
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough. Boy, that's gonna be a
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: terrible fucking war Games match. I don't want to see that.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see that. Come on, man, If you
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: wanted to see the Bloodline in the Judgment Day, then
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: you do it when the group was at its full strength,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: which it hasn't been in a very long time. They
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: missed the boat. That ship has sailed the Judgment Yes,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: the Judgment Day is dead Arabian night. So during a break,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: did Ray challenge Penta at SummerSlam. If this happens instead
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: of Gabled and Triple h needs to be axed asap.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, unless I stepped away and I
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: missed it. I think I did see that promo. I
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: don't think he challenged him for Summer Slim God, I
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: hope not not over Gable. Death Side says, what would
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: happen if Dan Housen tried to curse either Roman reigns
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: or brock lesnar nothing? Their aura is too powerful for
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: the dan Housen curse to work. The dan Housen curse
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: only works on you know, people like a Matt Cardona
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: or a JD. McDonough or Kit Wilson with a miz.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: It doesn't work on Roman rains. Ron talks tabletop ten
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: dollars super Chad just showing some support Ron. I appreciate that.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: That's very cool. Thank you you guys. Are you guys
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: are showing up tonight? I appreciate that a lot. June
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: was a very weird month. I'm kind of glad it's over. Honestly,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: death Site says, watched Psycho three last night. The phone
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: booth scene was a lot more violent than the shower scene.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: Nothing worse than being stuck in a small space, being
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: stabbed and standing on broken glass barefoot. And yet that's
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: we're watching three hours of SmackDown. It's a coin toss.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: Brian Finelli, bonus goal. I think Brian was the one
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: who put us over the top. Thank you, Brian. I
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: think Brian helped get us there. Bass Barris's Femi is
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: oba rated joking. You better be Misfit Wrestling podcast. I'll
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: say this. By next week's raw, you'll know what the
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: WWE Championship match for Summer Slim is. Well, we'll find
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: out soon enough. Asylumn Nutcase Solo, would you rather watch
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: a very good match with a dead crowd or a
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: bad match with a loud electric crowd. I would rather
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: watch a bad match with a loud electric crowd, especially
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: because that bad match would probably give me a lot
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: of really good material to work with, but it might
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: actually still be fun to see if you have a
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: really loud, energetic crowd. So, as weird as that is
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: to say, I feel like that that is what I
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: would rather see. Let's refresh here and get all the
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: latest ones in here, and then we got a couple
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: of b the book to do we do? We do
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: we do? Paul Carpenter? When is your aw review? Tomorrow
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: the Uncrowned Wrestling Podcast. I will have full thoughts on
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: Forbidden Door audio only Pseudo TPK. I spilled spot remover
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: on my dog and now he's gone bass beer as
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: I used be the booker emoji. When Sammy hits the
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: blue Thunderbomb, it's a great move, man, It's a great
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: move blue thunderbomb. Ricky Sosa and TNA has the Blue Thunderbang,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: It's a great move. Death Syfe and death sythe is
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: he's on one tonight. Ps. I mentioned Elfin a while
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: ago on the stream when I said Randy Orton must
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: have watched the anime in the late two thousands, and
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: he looked at Lucy and said to himself, that's my
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: gimmick going forward. Heard I've heard of Elden Ring. I've
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: just I've never heard of Elfin lied. I'm sure you
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: mentioned it before. I'm just I'm still not like I've
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: never played it before. I'm not familiar with what it is.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: As far as like the story the characters. I have
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: no idea. Is it about someone named Elfin who lied?
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm being very simplistic here with the with the explanation,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: tgn Oba should have done double duty at SummerSlam, could
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: have done something unprecedented postponing his title cheft for Roman
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: versus Seth. I found safe and lame. Well, Safe and
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: lame is the slogan of Triple H's WWE most of
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: the time, so no one should be surprised. Misfit Wrestling Podcast.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: Remember Ray versus Sina in twenty eleven. Just keep that
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: in mind for the next few days. I'd put nothing
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: past these people, I said, Christian man. This used the
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: Christian example from twenty eleven, same year. Funny enough, they
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: pulled that shit twice in the same fucking year. Terrible
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: the Shawnathan says, when I hear people say Jay should
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: challenge Sammy for the championship, I think of that scene
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: from Ricky Bobby. Don't you put that evil on me?
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: Bace Beers says, no, yeat and Mike with a ten
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: dollars super chat. I just want Brock to be done
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: for good. Sena is retired, Batista is retired. Sheldon well Shelton,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: but I'll excuse it. Sheldon is an attack team in
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: aw and Randy is hurt. Let's officially start the new
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: generation and after SummerSlam, the new generation. It's like a
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: razor and Diesel gold dust the Undertaker. It's the only
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: new generation I know. Death Site says, I'm glad Vince
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: McMahon is no longer in WWE because can you imagine
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: him yeating with jay Usso I don't want to. I
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to think about that. Link Master says Batista
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: versus Big Show, bad match, electric crowd, that's that's a
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: great example. Batista and Big Show at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: was a fucking disaster, but it was so funny to watch,
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: and of course that crowd there was very vocal. It's
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: one of those matches you can't turn away from. It's
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: definitely not boring. And Money just watched King of the
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: Ring nineteen ninety eight yesterday and the Raw the night
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: after earlier today. As someone turning twenty five next month,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: I wish I was alive to witness it. I'm glad
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: I was alive to watch all of that stuff as
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: it was happening, and I was that many I wasn't
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: at those shows specifically. I want to say that wrest
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: wrestle Mania, I want to say that King of the
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: Ring was in Pittsburgh, right, and then Raw the next
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: night was in Cleveland, So I wasn't there, but dude,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: like I went to so many raws from that time period,
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: like ninety eight and then ninety nine, and it was
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: it just like I can't even describe it. Like it
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: was especially at that age. It was like it was
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: like a party, you know, and it was just a
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: lot of It was also the demographics. So if you
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: go back and you watch those shows, you see signs everywhere,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: and you look at the crowd and you see a
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: lot of teenagers and college age kids, and so those
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: are the ones that are getting drunk and rowdy and
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: they're there to scream and act like idiots and just
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: have a good time. And I don't know, it's just
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: this perfect blend of characters and had Austin and DX
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: and the Rock and the Nation and Undertaker and Kane
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: and the Outlaws and everybody was over. It was just
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: this perfect storm. Like you get better wrestling, like in
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: ring wrestling move for move now than you did back then,
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: especially on weekly television. But it was just it was
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: just a different time, you know, and everything it's just
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: it was different. It was different, but as somebody who
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: was there for a lot of it, I can vouch it.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. And those were also
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: the days where it didn't cost you three hundred and
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars to go to the show unless you were
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: sitting in the front row or something. You could have
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: to go to the shows back then. Alexander, thank you
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: with the nine ninety nine. You know what, Jay should
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: wrestle Sammy for the title. I'm all for it, so
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: long as the stipulation is that he no longer is
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: allowed to challenge for any championship as he as long
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: as he draws breath if he loses, I still don't
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: want to see it. How's that for an answer? All right,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: you guys? Hit the main goal. Main goal was six hundred. Yep,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: six hundred likes. We are currently sitting at almost seven hundred,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: and then we get the bonus as well. So here
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: we go. Let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. Cass was under
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: a dollar a gallon, was it, I don't know if
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely cheaper than it is now.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: Back in my day, back in my day, all right,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: tag team beat a booker, Love me some tag team wrestling.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: That's how you know I'm not Paul Lavec. Here we go.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Paul Lavec, say his name and he appears.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: He's on my screen. Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: the Two Man Power Trip, they had all the gold.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: Nobody can stop the Two Man Power Trip. I don't
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: care who ends up being booked here as their opponent,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: and it definitely ain't these two guys the Killer Bees.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you what, Brian Blair and Jim
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: Brunzell against Steve Austin and Triple H would actually be
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: a pretty good wrestling much. They're gonna get murdered, but
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: it would be a good wrestling match. So I have
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: to give that the bell. I have to. All right,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: women's be the booker. We have the Princess of Staten Island. God,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: I forgot all about her, Carmela. Do you all want
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: Carmela to return to w W. I don't see anybody
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: asking for the return of Carmela. They're asking when is
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: Oscar going to be back? When is Naomi going to
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: be back? I don't see anybody asking about where's Carmela.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: When's Carmela going to be back? Carmela is going to
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: be taking on Harley Cameron. I do love Harley Cameron.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not in love with that match though. There will
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: be no clean sweep in round number one, but all
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: is not lost. We have a main event here in
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: the book. Oh it's one of my favorites, and I
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: know it's a favorite of yours. It is Votto Sting.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: There have been many incarnations of Sting over the years,
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: crow Sting, Surfer Sting, Uh, what was the team with
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: him and the Warrior, Blade Runner Sting, Jokers Sting, Grandpa
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: Sting in aw but never forget Vatos Sting without face.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: Paint this guy right here. You do not fuck with
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: this because he'll cut you. Look at him. Look at him.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: I am not buzzing Vatos Sting. He'll be taking on
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: the Jet Kevin Knight. Two for three, not bad, not bad,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: And because of you guys, we get an extra round
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: where we may yet be able to get the sweep.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like we haven't had the bonus round in
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: a while. Bikers thing in Walker Texas Ranger was that
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: a thing? I must have missed that. Did he play
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: a biker on that show? First Blood? Of course Moxley
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: is in this image. First Blood match. Uh, usually we
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: do a tag First Blood First Blood tag. We'll do
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: a First Blood tag team match. We could do that,
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: all right, first Blood tag team match. We have got
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: the Wolves, the American Wolves debut Richards and Eddie Edwards.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: Eddie Edwards is still going. Eddie Edwards just wrestled Moose
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: It's Lammiversary last night. First Blood with the Wolves against
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: who against the Ultimate Maniacs, Macho Man, Randy Savage and
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: the Ultimate Warrior. I don't recall the Ultimate Warrior ever bleeding.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: I don't recall him ever blading at any point in
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: his career. Am I just completely blanking? Did he bleed
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: at some point and I'm just not remembering? That would
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: be a very interesting match. And of course the Wolves
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: are The Wolves are not winning this. I can tell
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: you that right now. Texas Death Mault. Boy, We're going
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: from First Blood to Texas Death. Oh my god, oh
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: my god. I was gonna do a women's match, but
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: I mean a women's te I guess, I guess we
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: can a women's Texas Death match. Okay, he bleeds power,
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: says Sheboygan. Yes, that and anabolic steroids. They seep out
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: of his sweat pores. He sweats that stuff out. This
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: is a Texas Death Match, everybody. I hope we get
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: some tough ladies here. That's not exactly what I was
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: expecting the first image. The first image is the fucking
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: butterfly belt. We didn't have any women's tech, says death
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: matches in the Divas era, but we do have Michelle McCool.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: This is not good for Michelle McCool. This is not
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: the kind of match Michelle McCool wants to be in.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: This is not good Michelle McCool and Trish Stratus in
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: a Texas death match. I'll give it for Trish. I'll
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: give it for Trish. I kind of want to see
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: what that would look like. Honestly, Okay, you guys, get
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: one more match. We got to make it a good one.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: It's going to be man. Be the Booker is just
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: in some sick, sadistic mood tonight. We went from First
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: Blood to Texas Death to Monster's Ball. What the fuck?
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: Be the Booker has been watching some some horror movies lately.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: I think too many horror movies. I think he's mad
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: that we haven't done the Bonus Round in a while.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: That's why he's very upset. Monsters Ball, Here we go.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: The Big boss Man. Big boss Man was a good
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: hardcore champion. Let me tell you something, Big boss Man,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: he took a picture. I assume it was glass, maybe
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: sugar glass. I don't know whatever kind of glass it was,
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There was a picture of I guess water.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was a candy dish. I think
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: it was an actual picture of water that was on
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: the announced desk. One night he was having a hardcore
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: match with Bob Holly and Bob Holly, I'll never forget
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: this as long as I live. I wish I remember
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: what episode it was. Bob Holly. He reached over and
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: he grabbed that picture and he fucking smashed it into
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: boss Man's face, right in his eye, and it shattered,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: and I think, of course, boss Man I think was bleeding,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: and ever it was terrible. It was awful, it sounded awful,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: it looked awful. You couldn't pay me enough money to
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: do that. So the boss Man is hardcore. Don't you
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: doubt that for a second. Oh my God, poor boss Man,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: Big boss Man against New Jack in a monster's ball.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: I see now. I feel bad now for the boss Man.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: Even the hardcore boss Man of ninety nine is no
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: match for New Jack. This is not gonna end well
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: for the Big boss Man and of all people, for
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: Newjak to be in the ring with a corrections officer
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: from Cobb County. I don't think he's gonna let boss
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: men get out of there alive. Can you imagine the
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: New Jack from Smoking Mountain Wrestling cutting promos on the
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: white Southern corrections officer from Cobb County, Georgia. They would
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: be thrown off the air for those promos. The show
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: would be canceled Chicago for MBK. Thank you, brother for
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: the two bucks. I hope you're doing well, Aaron with
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: a four ninety nine. What would you think of Roman
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: Reigns winning clean at SummerSlam and then him and Seth
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: shake hands, finally burying the hatchet and closing the Shield story.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: I think that sounds very boring, just being honest. I mean,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: they're gonna close this story either way, but that just
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: sounds boring to me. I would hope they can come
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: up with something a little more exciting. Oh it was
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: a clean sweep. Damn it, damn it, hold on, hold on,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: there you go, you got you got your sound effect.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: I forgot it was a clean sweep. There's your sonic.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: You got your sonic. You happy super Pony. If Sammy
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: drops the title before Summer Slam, what does he do
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: at SummerSlam? Would be brutal if they take the belt
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: off him and leave him off the show. He's not
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: gonna be off the show if he was to have
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: the championship taken from him before Summer Slam, unless he
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: was back in the title match on that show. I
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: could see him in CM Punk having an undercard match.
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: Mike says Texas Death match between Solo Monster and Michael Cole.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Do you think you could take him Solo? I know
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: I could. I've seen him wrestle before. I know I
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: could take him and Death's side. My advice is watch
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: Elfin Lie Elfin Liede when you have time. You're either
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: gonna really like it or really hate it. But we
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: can all agree Lucy is fucking badass and could easily
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: be the wife of Jason Vorhees. Now you say watch
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: Elfin Lie, you make it sound like it's a movie.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: Is it a game or a movie? What was my
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: favorite Sonic game? Probably the original, but the second one
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: is actually really good. Whichever one had that casino zone level.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: Oh it's an anime. Okay, I thought it was a
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: video game. It's an anime. Oh, it's pronounced lead elfin lead.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: Oh man, then it should be spelled that way. Elfin
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: lead is a dark anime. Dark animes are like Eon
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: flux hey Reekinson fifty five months of channel membership, Vato's
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: thing will Avenge Darby for night turning? Heel ps, did
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: you see that Sodo error inside the park? Homer earlier?
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: It's okay, my Yankees are sucking bad, right? I actually
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: I have no idea anything that's happened today with the Mets,
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: So this is the first I'm hearing of it. Mike says,
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: sent you another another super chat solo I could see.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike. It's a whole bunch of them. Tonight,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: Navy forty one eighty one says changed the money in
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: the bank pl to human moneys in the bank. My god,
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: can you imagine they have Dan housen Win money in
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: the bank. And then he walks around all year with
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: a briefcase and death site. There are thirteen episodes. That's
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: a very unlucky number, thirteen episodes of elfin lead. It's German.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: The Germans know how to produce good television. There's a
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: German show called Dark on Netflix. It's only three seasons
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: but very very good. Fucked up. It's like this, like
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: time travel involved. It's an interesting concept, but it's a
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: really really good show. Anyway, I think I'm all I
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: think I'm all caught up here. Thank you guys. This
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: has been a fun night, fun stream coming off night
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: of Champions the Raw after we have the SmackDown after
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: which has already been taped. But we'll be doing our
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: usual stream on Friday, nonetheless, and tomorrow we have a
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: brand new episode of the Uncrowned Wrestling Show. That is
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: where I will have my full thoughts and review on
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: Forbidden Door and we'll talk about all the WWE fallout,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit of TNA as well coming out
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: of Slammiversary. So that's on Uncrowned tomorrow. Keep your eyes
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: peeled for that Tomorrow night over on JD's Channel, Tuesday
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: Night Titans and then Wednesdays kind of a big dynamite
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: because we have MJF defending the world Championship against Mark Briscoe,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: and we're going to crown a new t or rather
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: a TBS champion because we have the six way women's
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: Survival of the Fittest match, which is elimination style, so
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: we're guaranteed to crown a new champion. So that will
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: be very interesting to see who winds up with that championship. Yah,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: the Uncrowned Show. Remember you can get the show. It's
• 2:06:54
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• 2:06:57
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• 2:06:59
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• 2:07:01
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• 2:07:05
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• 2:07:07
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• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: Either way, subscribe there when a new episode drops, which tomorrow.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: I usually I mean I get it to them earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the day, but by the time it's process and
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: they post it and everything, it's usually six or seven
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: in the evening, so that's probably when you should just
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: keep your eyes peeled for it. But anyway, so that'll
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: be tomorrow and then all the rest of the usual
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: streams during the week. That's all I got for you,
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: so be well, stay safe. Brian says, I'll be listening
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: in the hot tub with a margarita. That's the way
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: to do it. I wouldn't have the margarita to have
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: something else in the hot tub. With a margarita in
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: one arm and a beautiful woman in the other, that's
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: the best way to listen to the sound of I
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  Speaker 1: will see you guys tomorrow for more content, and back
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: here on the YouTube channel on Wednesday. Until then, take care, guys,