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- 0:00M hm hm. I told you a thanks coming to scott A good old
- 0:25square goal, a Scottish way. Sorry, I beat, it's good,
- 0:33I dad what it's good. I do brittle, unflenching, ferocious. Never
- 0:42ever underestimate your opponent. The last thing you remember, Hey, Jane,
- 0:49I'm not just goodenough beats you. I Am going to make you say quick,
- 0:59oh right. This is where the world will learn what davy is.
- 1:06Brief is truly made out the Scots, uh, who are known for a
- 1:11temperance Damien brief. I'm about to take your bloody til So let's make a
- 1:21deal with you. Bring the crazy, we bring the faith. Glasgow,
- 1:33Scotland and the world. Are you ready to Clash at the Castle? This
- 1:44is gonna be good and now live from Glasgow, Scotland, whichin and Shoes
- 1:53presents the Clash at the Castle And you are looking live at the sold out
- 2:07Bobohidro in Glasgow, Scotland. Eleven thousand, three hundred ninety one Comedy Week
- 2:14mass have come here all over the world a Clash at the Castle. Hey,
- 2:23this is WWE and CW alumni the BLUEMENI and you're listening to PCW.
- 2:30The question is Oh you let me talk to I will give you a show
- 2:43like you have never recovered streamed the portal. Why because I can't. What
- 2:49do you guys want to talk about? Me from the colored red in a
- 3:05world with a black and white eider of worlds? Yeah, there's no chick.
- 3:25Yeah, what's a bigga bad? You got a bigga bad? What
- 3:35I said? Whoa? Why? Here? Ah? You know back of
- 3:39red? Cop back that one back, Oh ladies and gentlemen, boys and
- 3:57girls, children rallies. Just welcome back to another episode of PCW podcast Championship
- 4:01Wrestling, and here we are going to talk about Clash at the Castle.
- 4:06Some may call it botch of the Castle. I kind of disagree a little,
- 4:12but we'll get into it. It's all the way over in Scotland.
- 4:15I'm sure we've heard plenty plenty of promos of how many people were there and
- 4:20how excited they were to be over in another you know, another country again
- 4:28for another pay per view. We're not in the States again, so but
- 4:31you know what, we're gonna go over this. We're gonna go over some
- 4:34news. We're gonna go over what happened at Monday Night Raw. That's probably
- 4:38the most juiciest part of this episode is what we're gonna be talking about,
- 4:42what happened at the end of Monday Night Raw. So with that said,
- 4:46let me bring in my co host all Ry Welcome back, my man,
- 5:21yo yo, what to do? Pcw cru Hey man, we did a
- 5:25two man episode before and I feel like it worked. We had enough for
- 5:30an episode, and you know, just right now, Doyle is on the
- 5:34road. He's a busy man, and you know, wrestling has been done
- 5:40with a two man commentary team for many, many, many years. You
- 5:44just gotta have the right chemistry, you know. And I think we can
- 5:47do it another episode without Doyle. I'd be kind of interested to do an
- 5:51episode with just Doyle, me and him maybe one day. But I know
- 5:57we weren't able to cover the pre show the prediction. Again, it was
- 6:01just with the Memorial Day and with our schedules, we just couldn't just couldn't
- 6:08give them the line up. And you know what that happens when when you
- 6:12have three guys who don't live close to each other, some in different states.
- 6:16But hey, we still make it work. We still bring it to
- 6:19you, maybe a little late, but you know what, we still bring
- 6:23it and I mean realistically, realistically thinking about it, I'm pretty sure our
- 6:30predictions quote unquote for the show, we're probably the same as everybody. We're
- 6:34kind of in that phase right now in WWE where things are happening, the
- 6:40product is entertaining, but as far as like your pls, not really going
- 6:44to be seeing a whole lot of big change or you know, really anything
- 6:48unpredictable or surprises out of these pls at least not until probably we hit Summer
- 6:56Slam or something like that, which is, you know, you can have
- 7:00your opinions here or there about that, and whether you think that's a good
- 7:02thing or a bad thing, whether that element of surprise is something that people
- 7:08miss or whether they appreciate it or you know, some people obviously you got
- 7:15people who feel one way about it. You know, there's no sense of
- 7:17surprising it anymore, there's nothing, you know, you know what, everything's
- 7:21gonna happen. Yes, And then there's some people who want that consistency,
- 7:25who appreciate having long term storytelling, And it's a double it's a give and
- 7:30take. If you get long storm storytelling, then obviously some shit's going to
- 7:35be predictable for a while. But if you want you know, predict unpredictability
- 7:41and a lot of surprises, then you run the risk of getting into like
- 7:44hot shotting with the belt, which is some things that some people don't like.
- 7:49Yeah, and now that we have like Summer Slam next year or twenty
- 7:55twenty six I think it was, or was it next year, going yeah,
- 7:57going to two days now, it's like they're saved. They're gonna do
- 8:01what they just do for wrestlemane is they save up these juicy feuds for those
- 8:07big pay per views and uh you know, like yeah, like the Saudi
- 8:11ones I always feel like are always like throwaway matches. Definitely. Yeah,
- 8:16it's like not it's rare that we ever had big changes in the Saudi.
- 8:20It's it's just like, yeah, I sometimes you could say you could even
- 8:28miss the Saudi pay per views and probably not miss much. But hell,
- 8:33this time we're in Scotland. Like where are we last miriad in France?
- 8:39Right? Uh? The last yeah, yeah, all in France. Yeah,
- 8:48another one where we're out outside the States. Uh. So I'm cool
- 8:52with that because I like to hear just the crowd, you know, like
- 8:56the just the audience, because like what we had with Leon France, like
- 9:01it was amazing and I was hoping to like, will Scotland be the same,
- 9:05you know, And Scotland crowd was pretty, pretty wild, pretty loud.
- 9:13They were not as loud, but they were loud, right. They
- 9:18weren't as loud as as or as lit and turned up as France. But
- 9:26I think in some regard, I think that was a good thing as live
- 9:31as France wasn't as lit as they were. There were some parts where it
- 9:35kind of felt like the crowd was making it more about themselves than the show
- 9:39itself and they were kind of taken away from the show just by with the
- 9:43excessive chanting. Almost it was too much. At some points, Scotland seemed
- 9:50to find that good balance. They didn't quite have the same level of volume
- 9:54as Leo or France, given that was only eleven thousand people, and I
- 9:58mean, I don't know how many people were at France. So but what
- 10:05they did do right was being lit, being turned up and not over shot
- 10:13or not overshadowing the performers in the ring. They had their chance, They
- 10:20cheered, they were enthusiastic, but they like they were still respectful of the
- 10:26product that was happening. Yeah, we did just say no beach balls,
- 10:31right, no beach balls, no over the top chance, no, yeah,
- 10:37no hijacking away from the no hijacking. Yeah yeah, that's that's how
- 10:41I phrase it, no hijacking of the show even but boy were they pissed
- 10:48at the end of the night. But we'll get Yeah, we'll get to
- 10:52that. Man. If you want to get into this pay per view,
- 10:54I'll you know, I'll turn it over to you man, all right.
- 10:58So yeah, we were in glass Go, Scotland, hometown of Drew McIntyre,
- 11:03at the Ovio Hydro Arena, which is pretty nice looking building from pictures
- 11:07of it, not bad at all, which is apparently the largest city in
- 11:13Scotland, Glasgow, yeah, I believe. And they had a crowd of
- 11:18eleven, three hundred and ninety one people, which I briefly checked while talking
- 11:22was roughly about the same size of the crowd that was at Backlash France.
- 11:28But the show kicked off with a bit of a surprise to me in the
- 11:33sense that we started off the show with Cody Rhodes defending against aj Styles and
- 11:39that I quit match. So we had the big title, the top title,
- 11:43the number one title, the undisputed WWE Championship match kicking off the pl
- 11:52old choice. I give them credit for it. You know, they always
- 11:54like to start to show off hot and it obviously it made sense. You
- 11:58know, we're in Drew's home town. Obviously he's gonna mainuvent the thing,
- 12:01so you know, but you would have thought, you know, in the
- 12:05past, we probably would have gotten both championship matches closing out the show and
- 12:09they would have started off with something else. But for them to start off
- 12:11the show again bold choice, I applauded. But this match saw Kody Rhodes
- 12:22defeating AJ Styles by ultimately making him making AJ Styles say I quit when he's
- 12:28threatened to knock that man's block off with the steel steps, after beating a
- 12:33living dog shit out of him with a bunch of other stuff, and after
- 12:35getting his ass whooped by AJ with a bunch of other stuff. Overall,
- 12:39it was a great match. I thought it was a really good match.
- 12:41Actually, even for as long as it was, which being the longest show
- 12:46on the card at nearly twenty eight minutes, it didn't feel like it really
- 12:52dragged at any point in the match. They managed to keep a good pace.
- 12:56They managed to keep it interesting. They managed to gradually up to Andy
- 13:03and you know, with chair spots, table spots. Eventually aj Styles pulling
- 13:09out the the black velvet bag, which the announcers alluded to possibly being oh
- 13:16we know what's in that bag? I think, are they going thumb tacks?
- 13:20MA ain't no way. Hell? Then he pulls out handcuffs. A
- 13:22bit of a pump fake there, but it worked out, and uh,
- 13:28that's that. I thought it was a really good match. I think again,
- 13:33predictably, we all knew Cody was gonna win. I'm kind of surprised
- 13:37that that was the route that they went. There's like, you know,
- 13:41not beating him till he said I quit, but more or less scaring him
- 13:46into quitting, and then afterwards he still sided to molly wop him any damn
- 13:52way with the stairs. Yeah, almost again, a bit of a bit
- 14:00of a bold choy, I won't say super Bowl, but a bit of
- 14:01a bold choice, you know, given that they've kind of got Cody as
- 14:03almost being this white bread baby face for him to do something kind of healish
- 14:07like that afterwards, like you quit, but fuck you'll hitch you any damn
- 14:13way. I almost thought that could have a I almost thought that would have
- 14:18been a bit out of a character for him, but yeah, crowd went
- 14:22for it. They loved it. What'd you think of the match? You
- 14:24know what? Uh, these guys did a pretty stellar job opening up the
- 14:30show at twenty seven minutes, Holy shit, because we already Thank god Peacock
- 14:37this time kind of cut it off. When I want to do the rewatch,
- 14:41they don't have the Kickoff Show on there. But I was out at
- 14:46a festival and I had to I was rushing to get home because I said,
- 14:50oh my god, I got to get home to watch the pay per
- 14:52view, and I was like, twenty minutes late, Kickoff Show is still
- 14:56going on. I don't know why. It's like kind of when go to
- 15:00movie theaters now you have these amc like you're like thirty minutes of trailers and
- 15:05ads before we get to the actual movie. Well there, you know,
- 15:07that's exactly what it is. And you know, I waited for almost an
- 15:11hour again of Kickoff Show. But again, thank god that I went on
- 15:16Peacock. Today. I went to go watch it again and uh, it
- 15:20wasn't there, so I was I was very happy right into it. It's
- 15:24like three hours and something minutes. Three hour, three hours and one minute
- 15:28and nine seconds is the actual pay per viewling. So you know, sometimes
- 15:35they say, oh, it's six hours long, Like, no, it's
- 15:37not. No, it's not. Just like when you watch Roll and SmackDown
- 15:41Rall's not really three hours. It's really like an hour and a half if
- 15:45you cut out you know the bullshit. But anyway, uh s tree,
- 15:50Like when it comes to I quip matches, like what is your number one
- 15:54first match you think of when I say I quit match? For me,
- 16:00the first one that comes to mind would be probably Royal Rumble nineteen ninety nine
- 16:04versus Mankind. Yes, exactly. That was an equip match. That was
- 16:11a hell of an equip match. You know, I've seen most brutal matches
- 16:15anyone could ever hope to see in their life, dude, and probably something
- 16:19that we're glad doesn't happen anymore because the level of level of violence in that
- 16:25match. Yeah yeah, I mean, and you know what, we don't
- 16:30see e equip matches very often. The Rock versus Mankind. That was probably
- 16:36again one of my favorite ones. Other ones that I can remember, some
- 16:41ridiculous ones. Mister mc vince McMahon and Stephanie McMahon, John Cena versus jbl
- 16:48Which that one's a really bloody one. That one's a good one. There's
- 16:52Rick Flair versus mcfoley. Let me see it's another good one. I can
- 16:57think of. Jeff versus Matt Hardy, Randy Orton versus John Cena, johnsena
- 17:03versus Batista, johnsona versus Russeve was a good one as well. It's this
- 17:08one. Russov was at his peak. Uh, there's Roman reigns. We
- 17:15saw in twenty twenty Roman Rains versus j Usso and Hello cell and when there
- 17:21was in twenty twenty two. We're gonna do most recent, uh Ronda versus
- 17:26Charlotte, and then Ronda versus Charlotte again. Really Finn Balor and Edge and
- 17:33now Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles. Uh, you know this is like a
- 17:41you know, we had, I should to say, to quote unquote a
- 17:45botch moment, but it really wasn't a botch. Uh. So it seemed
- 17:48like the robes were loose, at least the top rope and and AJ Styles
- 17:52said something to the ref about it, and I don't know why. Maybe
- 17:57they didn't have any any anything skits or promos to put in between matches to
- 18:03do it, because they didn't tighten that top rope and it kind of affected
- 18:07some of the wrestling ability for some of these people for the rest of the
- 18:11evening. You know, some matches where they have botches. I say that
- 18:17with quotes because I really don't think it was on on them. I think
- 18:22it was on the ropes. It was an issue that went not just one
- 18:26matches, not just two matches of several So, yeah, Asian Styles want
- 18:30to it looked like he wants to do a phenomenal forearm and he slipped and
- 18:33fell and I don't know if he intentionally meant to go through that table.
- 18:37I really don't. And you know what though, like when I see stuff
- 18:42like that, I kind of like ooh ah, Like I kind of cringe
- 18:47because that's something that neither wrestler expected to happen, and it's how they can
- 18:52recover from it and not just as hopefully nobody gets injured in the process,
- 18:57because that's it's awful when somebody gets injured from something like that. So luckily,
- 19:06uh from what it looks like aj Styles and get injured. Ah.
- 19:11Yeah, it definitely felt like more of a fall than a bump. Yeah,
- 19:18I did enjoy the He did like a suplex outside from the inside to
- 19:22the outside of the ring. That was pretty cool. They we did get
- 19:26blood. We saw them incorporate Cody's mom in the story. She was by
- 19:36ringside. Uh cool, put some super heat on aj you know, taunting
- 19:41her and whatnot. Yeah, the ending was a little weird. You know,
- 19:48he was handcuffed, I guess and he what he just I quite quite
- 19:53quit, you knows about to hit you with some steel chairs. I steal
- 19:59steps. But but what's interesting is after the match, Cody has his title.
- 20:07He's walking up the ramp and Solo comes out so stares him down,
- 20:11and then the rest of the Bloodline comes out the tongas and then luckily he
- 20:19had some backup. Kevin Owens came out with a stone called Steve Austin shirt.
- 20:26I may add. But Orton came back and came out to give Cody
- 20:30and Kohn. But many Orton, as they're panting away with that camera,
- 20:37he's not looking at Cody. He's looking at that belt. He's looking at
- 20:41being another fifteen time world champions sixteen times at this point. But I'm intrigued
- 20:51if that's where we're going, because Cody and Orton have a history and you
- 20:57know, and make the feud a lot more interesting. I was very surprised
- 21:03that I can't say that a J didn't go over. I was expecting maybe
- 21:10like a maybe we get like a rubber match, but it doesn't seem like
- 21:18that's gonna happen, even through some sort of fanaticans that AJ would have won
- 21:21but not won the title. I guess it's hard to do that when the
- 21:23titles on the line, to try to get a three match feud out of
- 21:27these guys with, yeah, the titles on the line, it's hard to
- 21:33But at the same time, they managed to pull three matches between Cody and
- 21:37Seth. Yeah, win all three of those, right, It is possible.
- 21:42But given that they really up the anty from the first match being just
- 21:47a regular one v one to the second one being an eye quit, not
- 21:49just a regular equip match, but you know, an equip match where we
- 21:52actually got some blood in it. We got some you know, they got
- 21:55some color, both of them. Yeah, and we saw handcuffs, cheer
- 21:59shots, window sticks. I mean, yeah, you can't really go anywhere
- 22:03else from here unless you go, you know, hell in the cell.
- 22:06But then at that point you start to get trophy with it. It's like,
- 22:08okay, does every trilogy now have to end with hell in the Cell?
- 22:12Like, let's not do that. So I'm I'm content with this being
- 22:17the end of the their feud. This being done. You made a man
- 22:21say quit, say I quit. What more grounds does he have to stand
- 22:25on to try to challenge you for your belts anymore? The last man standing
- 22:29where he's not standing anymore? Uh No, I agree, it's probably it
- 22:33could cool off now, Aj, it's gonna have to cool off and get
- 22:37to the back of the line. That sucks, but that's what it is,
- 22:41man back of the line, lost your lost rematch. Ye. And
- 22:45I know everybody's making a big thing out of that shot of you know,
- 22:49Brandy Orton staring at Cody's belt, and yeah, we'll probably get there at
- 22:56some point, but I think people are making a bit more or out of
- 23:00to do out of it than it is right now. We'll get there at
- 23:06some point. And you know what, Actually, I just look back at
- 23:10that spot where AJ fell through the table. Now I think that was a
- 23:15legit bump because it wasn't just that he didn't really slip off the ropes.
- 23:19Remember he jumped on the ropes and Cody freaking yeted a chair at his ass
- 23:25and hit him with the chair, and then he fell and collapsed through the
- 23:26table. He may not have collapsed as cleanly as he may have wanted to,
- 23:32because usually a spot through a table you just fall flat on your back
- 23:36through it, whereas he kind of went, you know, basically like almost
- 23:41shoulder first. He more or less tumbled through it like hit the rope,
- 23:45then fell back and tumbled. It did, granted, look believable as opposed
- 23:48to being like a just oh, I'm gonna take this in just take a
- 23:52perfect clean fall back bump through the table. So I in that regard,
- 23:56I think it was actually a better spot than it then some people may have
- 24:02thought it was. I don't. I don't think that was really a botch
- 24:04because even watching it in real time, I didn't read it as being a
- 24:07botch. I just started like he ate a chair to the face, and
- 24:11then it took a believable fall happened to be through the table. One thing
- 24:18I would have done different in this match, though, is when Cody had
- 24:23aj chain handcuffed to the rope. That would have been just just a little
- 24:30bit more dramatic, a little bit more sinister. Rather than just chaining him,
- 24:37I mean handcuffing him to the rope, I would have had him handcuff
- 24:41AJ to the rope and then hold the key in front of AJ, like
- 24:45if I was Cody, I'd have held the key in front of AJ's face
- 24:48and then walked away and when it gave it to my mom. Oh nice.
- 24:52That's a good one, just just a just toil since obviously the story
- 24:57that they were telling you that he was scaring a J into quitting, beating
- 25:00him in the quitting, like putting that fear in him. I would have
- 25:03been a little bit more psychological with it. And like I said, just
- 25:07had that key, like yep, here's the key, and you don't have
- 25:11a chance in hell of getting it, and like I said, just walk
- 25:14out the ring with it, give it to my mom the way he knows
- 25:18he's trapped, he can't go nowhere. That's a good one. Yeah,
- 25:23that's just a little touch that I would have added to the match, just
- 25:26you know, psychologically from a storytelling standpoint. Other than that, yeah,
- 25:32still a really good match. I'm glad that he didn't fucking crossroads is ass
- 25:37and the quitting a like seven crossroads, all right, it's just stop.
- 25:42I'm just sick of it. I swear I thought they were gonna go there
- 25:45at one point, so I thought piped the whole crowd up, and he
- 25:48picked him up for a crossroad, and then he hit it, and then
- 25:52he picked hi up. He was gonna do another one. I was like,
- 25:55honestly to me, the three crossroads, it's it's it's it's lost its
- 26:00effect on me. Like, if you need to use your finisher three times,
- 26:06then it's not a finisher. Your finisher sucks. Now, okay,
- 26:10listen much yeah, now, listenbody, your finisher is trash. Exception.
- 26:15Roman reigns when you when he lost his title exception. But right now it's
- 26:23just Roman. It's a three year champion. Absolutely, guy has earned three
- 26:29crossroads. Yes, absolutely, dude. And you know what Stone God,
- 26:34Steve Austin, he would always you know, he went stunned somebody three times
- 26:40in a row to put him down. Ninety nine nine percent of the time,
- 26:44he's stunned your ass once and you're down. The only time I remember
- 26:47him a lot of times, I recall ever stone Goll stunning people twice is
- 26:51when he stunned your ass and you bounce back up and he got to stund
- 26:53you again. You know, I've seen it. He was gonna match with
- 26:56somebody major enough that warned more than one stunner, Like he would hit you
- 27:00maybe with a surprise stunner somewhere in the middle of the match. Yeah,
- 27:04and then there might be more towards the finish, like the Rock, Yes,
- 27:08like him and the Rock. Yeah, you almost guarantee if they had
- 27:11a match, Rock was gonna hit more than it was gonna need more than
- 27:15one rock Bottom, and Austin was gonna need more than one stunner. Yeah,
- 27:18hell ding on it was Rock might hit a stunner on stone Cold,
- 27:22and stone Cold might hit a rock Bottom on the Rock. Matter of fact,
- 27:26when the Rock beat stone Cold at WrestleMania nineteen, he needed three rock
- 27:30Bottoms to beat him. Yeah. That beat him for like, yeah,
- 27:34dude, absolutely, it did, absolutely Yeah, And so you know this
- 27:40is the kind of stuff that they just overdue and it loses its effect,
- 27:45and you know, there's a there's a certain move in pro wrestling that to
- 27:49me meant so much. But over the years, especially the past I don't
- 27:55know, six years. It's just been used over and over and over,
- 27:57and not as a finish or anym It's used as a normal move and now
- 28:02it's used so much that has little to no effect. And that move is
- 28:06the superkick. That move is the superkick. Sean Michaels made the sweet Chin
- 28:11music what it is today, but everybody's superkicking now and now it's not.
- 28:17It's just not the same anymore. It's just not I agree that it's overused,
- 28:22overused, But what I will say, the superkick isn't anything new.
- 28:27People were doing superkicks back in the day, they just weren't doing superkicks like
- 28:33regular punches the way they do now. So I agree that it's overused,
- 28:37but there's still something to be said between a superkick versus sweet chin music.
- 28:42Yeah, there's a difference. Other people do it. It's a super kick
- 28:48now sweet music. Now do you think that this move is going down that
- 28:55road of being a move that's that used to be unique, but now it's
- 28:57being used too much as a finisher In that crossroads the spear? Do you
- 29:04think the spear has been way overused? Too many people are using it.
- 29:11I think too many people are using the spear as a move now. Like
- 29:17honestly, Jay, if if if he has the USSO splash, which has
- 29:23been there thing since they were the USOS, but then he's also kind of
- 29:26you know, adopted the the spear from Roman as part of his setup,
- 29:33Like he hits the spear, then does the USO splash. Honestly, if
- 29:37I was Jay, you know what my finisher would be Fucking rock Bottom.
- 29:45I would take that as my finisher. Oh yeah, yeah, ye oh.
- 29:52He has enough cache and enough charisma to pull that off as a finisher.
- 29:59And I'm honestly rise that somebody hasn't started using that. Like if Kevin
- 30:04Owens can take the stunner as a finisher, Granted, you know he won
- 30:08V one stone cold before he really started to adopting that, that kind of
- 30:12you know, unfit, you know, quietly made that gave him the excuse
- 30:18me, the co sign to do that. But I mean, the rock
- 30:22is your family, He's your blood. If I think if anybody could take
- 30:27the rock Bottom as a finisher, it would be him, especially since Solo
- 30:34ain't using it. I mean he has the spinning solo that he does which
- 30:38is the rock basically a rock bottom with a twist, but it's essentially the
- 30:41rock bottom, you know, and you'd have some people doing it. When
- 30:47other guys do it, they just call it the what they call it an
- 30:49agi in the book Ends? Yeah, yeah, I know it's they'd never
- 30:56call it the book end all solo doing it, and they could say like
- 31:02spinning solo, like I think Michael Cole like literally called it all three moves
- 31:04at the same time, like spinning solo, rock bottom, and age.
- 31:08God damn, I can't I can't remember what the hell they call it,
- 31:11but yeah, he called it that, but very few people actually use that
- 31:15move. I'm like, that ship is wide open to become somebody's finisher.
- 31:21Oh dude, like right at the top of you like just like I'm not
- 31:25even speaking of like well, I'll even mention like wrestlers had even retired that
- 31:30this spear is just so overused, you know. Obviously number number one it
- 31:36would be Goldberg. Most do used Goldberg, Roman Reigns, Bobby Lashley Batista
- 31:41used it, Rhino of course, Edge, Big EU started using Anyone by
- 31:47the way, Big Show started using it. Charlotte Flair started using it,
- 31:49Caitlyn started using it, Kyrie Sane was using it for a bit Moose and
- 31:55Tna is using it. Ricky Starks is using it, Christian Cage is using
- 32:00it, Warlow is using it. Bron Breaker is now using it. Uh,
- 32:06you know, the Broun Breaker. I will give it at least with
- 32:10Breaker makes unique because he has he adds the element of speed to it.
- 32:17I understand he understood that, like, Okay, if I'm gonna do this
- 32:22thing that everybody else is doing, I gotta find a way to make it
- 32:25my own. And he did by just being faster than anybody else when he
- 32:30hits you with it. So that's cool, everybody else go back to the
- 32:37drawing board. Yeah, I mean I think too, if you're the type
- 32:39of wrestler you could put your own unique spin on a finisher like that,
- 32:44then that you like, like Broun Breaker, he's unique because that man is
- 32:49fast. That man is deadly fast. So it's perfect. But yeah,
- 32:58we got we got, we gotta because I know we're talking about how fucking
- 33:01Rosney's three finishers have put some away, But that's all I gotta say about
- 33:06that. You need to come up with something. I'll let him have the
- 33:10Crossroads given that he is starting to beat some people with just doing it once,
- 33:15so he's good on that regard. But I've never honestly thought it was
- 33:17a great move. Honestly. I thought I always thought the Code Cutter was
- 33:22a better finisher than the Crossroads. But then they just accused him of just
- 33:27being you know, he's just doing another r KO or another Cutter, because
- 33:31you know that's also something that people have used time and time again throughout history.
- 33:36So yeah, yeah, that's right, I'm using it, damn it.
- 33:39Yeah, I mean it's it's fine, it is what it is.
- 33:43He can roll with that, yeah, but uh, anyway, moving on,
- 33:49next match, we had a we had a women's tag team match,
- 34:00triple threat match of the Unholy Union Alba Fire and Isla Down and the team
- 34:07of Shanna Basler, and so we start challenging our champions, Bianca Bellair and
- 34:14Jay Cargill and a triple threat match for the Women's Tag Team Championship. And
- 34:22I'm just gonna say that this outcome with some motherfucking bullshit. I don't give
- 34:28a fucking nobody say, I don't give a damn that it was in Scotland.
- 34:30I don't give a damn that it was their hometown. Granted, yes,
- 34:35Alpa fire tragedy that befell her mother while visiting her down in Florida,
- 34:40saw some prayers go out to her. I hope she is finds a way
- 34:44to cope with that and find some measure of healing and something that is probably
- 34:50unhealable, but obviously time heals all wounds. So again I wish her nothing
- 34:57but peace and comfort in that. Absolutely sad being said, that don't mean
- 35:02they had to win these goddamn titles here in Scotland. I understand you wanted
- 35:06to give something to the crowd and all stuff, but really, for the
- 35:09longest time, we've been sitting here saying Women's Tag Team Division sucks, Women's
- 35:14Tag Team visions, Trash Championships don't mean nothing. They went through the whole
- 35:17trouble of unifying the Raw and SmackDown Women's Champion Tag Team Championships with the NXT
- 35:22and making it all went built and all this, and they thought that,
- 35:30you know, when they did Ronda Rousey and Shanna Bazler's the Tag Team,
- 35:32we thought they was gonna be that tag team that could take it to the
- 35:36next level and elevate the division by having this dominant tag team. That shit
- 35:40failed. Then they put in on the Kabuki Warriors, and we thought that
- 35:44was gonna work out. That shit fucking failed. And we thought that when
- 35:49they brought in Katana Chance of Kayden Carter and they won the tag team titles
- 35:53and were like, Okay, we got a really good, legitimate tag team.
- 35:57They can do it, you know, they can help help elevate the
- 36:00division. And they're bona fide legit tagging, not just two random women thrown
- 36:05together. They got coordination, they got moves together. They're bona fide.
- 36:08Maybe they'll be the thing. That shit don't fucking happen. They dropped them
- 36:12to the Kabuki Warriors. They didn't happen. Then we finally put them on
- 36:16your top stars in the whole division and Bianca Bella and Jade Cargill, everybody
- 36:23with them, everybody riding with them. We think in this spot to be
- 36:27it. They they can dominate, they can have a good, strong run,
- 36:30let people build up and challenge them, and then you pull this bullshit
- 36:37and fucking Scotland and they just lose them to Alba Fire and Isla Dawn a
- 36:43tag team that was what weren't they drafted to SmackDown or did they start showing
- 36:46up on SmackDown last year and they got drafted to Raw and they have had
- 36:52how many matches like zero, maybe one or two since they've been called up
- 36:58to the main roster. Then they just suddenly just win the tag titles.
- 37:02This is why don't nobody give a fuck about this damn division. This is
- 37:07this bullshit, hot shot ass booking with no rhyme or reason to it whatsoever.
- 37:10You really just gonna have We'll take the titles off the probably one of
- 37:15the best tag teams you've had in a while, for no damn reason,
- 37:22no real viable reason other than well, we in the hometown gotta give the
- 37:25crowd something. They did that. They did this shit because they knew they
- 37:29was fit to piss everybody off at the end of the night. They knew
- 37:31they was about to piss everybody off at the end of the night. So
- 37:35they was like, we gotta throw the my bone early, We gotta throw
- 37:37my bone early. And this is the motherfucking boat, and y'all decide to
- 37:39throw them at the expense of Bianca Bella and j Cargill, your best tag
- 37:45team you've had in this division in a while, short of I still say
- 37:50Katana Chance and Katon Carter are still thinking the best women's tag team, but
- 37:53they don't have the star power that Bianca and Jade have. So understandable,
- 37:59but I really hated this fucking decision, really hated this choice to just seemingly,
- 38:06for no reason, just take the titles off of them. And I'm
- 38:09not even gonna get into it about the about Jade and the box that she
- 38:14had with the spring Board clothes line. I'm not even gonna get into that.
- 38:16It's it's since come out that ropes were an issue this night, and
- 38:22it wasn't just Jay car Gill who was affected by it, So I don't
- 38:28want to I'm not even about to sit here and waste energy on that or
- 38:31bother with that because people I've seen it online, people just want to jump
- 38:37all on Jay over that, but want to conveniently be quiet about other people
- 38:45who had wrote botches. But again, not gonna get into that. I
- 38:51hated the final finish with this match. Outside of that, everything else in
- 38:53the match was good except that stupid ass finish, which was some bullshit.
- 38:58What were your thoughts. I couldn't disagree with you more now I'm kidding.
- 39:05Ah, this match was garbage. It was hot garbage. Okay, First
- 39:12off, a triple threat tag team match? Do you tell me you need
- 39:14one? Is it two people in the ring at once? Is it three
- 39:17people in the ring at once? I don't understand the rules of a triple
- 39:22It should be a tornado tag at this point, or you should have all
- 39:28three women in the ring at once. A triple threat like this, I
- 39:31was so confused about the actual rules. Like the dumbest gimmick matches we have,
- 39:37they're willing to sit there read us the rules like we're a bunch of
- 39:39idiots. But when it comes to something like this, it is a little
- 39:44confusing, especially when titles are thrown in the mix, because you know,
- 39:49with triple threat matches, especially a tag team one, just one person from
- 39:54that team has to be pinned and they don't even have to be the champion
- 40:00to lose. I mean, it was there were some good spots, you
- 40:07know, I do. I'm liking the chemistry, you know, a side
- 40:12of the botch of course, and the finish, you know, the chemistry
- 40:19that that Bianca and Jade are getting better and better with their matches. I
- 40:22see it. I see it getting better. The way that match ended,
- 40:30it was such a steal of a win. I and to me, it's
- 40:34just like, I think you're gonna be pay per champions. I think you're
- 40:37gonna be transitional champions. Get ready next pay per view to get crushed.
- 40:44Crushed because you didn't even pin the champion. You pinned Shane A. Baisler.
- 40:50You didn't even pin the chances the champs were fine. They just just
- 40:53timing. It was all about timing, and you just took advantage of that.
- 40:59And uh, you know, I guess they wanted to keep these people
- 41:05Scotland a little happy, right, so let's yeah, let's let the women's
- 41:09tag team division suffer. I gotta say domba bone because they knew there was
- 41:15gonna piss them off at the end of the night. So the last time
- 41:20that East Ladon and Alba Fire had a match was June twenty third, twenty
- 41:27twenty three, on SmackDown against Ronda Rousey and SHANEA. Basler to unify the
- 41:34NXT Women's Tag team titles with the WWE Women's Tag titles. Okay, I
- 41:39thought that was silly to first off, to do that. I was like,
- 41:43you have so many women in NXT. I think it was just kind
- 41:45of dumb. I mean, you have brought up some tag teams, some
- 41:50women's tag teams. You could have brought up, but they got rid of
- 41:52the titles, merged them. Toxic Contraction is just nothing down were just ripe,
- 41:58they were, dude, that was the time to call up Toxic Attraction.
- 42:04That was the time to bring up Mandy Rose and the rest of them.
- 42:07But now, well I'm talking like when they were at their peak with
- 42:13her, they should have brought her. They should have brought to the main
- 42:15roster, and they didn't. And I think that's what you know. Once
- 42:19then Mandy was going to the main roster, she left and or well we
- 42:22know why she left, but the other two suffered greatly then. But anyway,
- 42:30it's I think it's it's silly. Okay. So the only thing that
- 42:36could come out of this is they get squashed next one on or two on
- 42:40two they get squashed. And now Bianca and Jade are two time tag champions,
- 42:47Okay, instead of the one time, now they're two time. But
- 42:51this time it's gonna be a little different, you know, Uh, I
- 42:53don't know. I I pray to God they're not going down the route where
- 42:58they're going to start some tension between to and and Hope. God, don't
- 43:04you fucking dare right right, don't you fucking dare, Because we're in we're
- 43:08enjoying the ride. Dre enjoying the fucking ride. I was enjoying the tag
- 43:13team division. I was like, all right, what they're gonna do instead
- 43:15of, I guess having a good tag team come up to them, They're
- 43:19just gonna start squashing everybody from the bottom up, and we're gonna eventually find
- 43:22our tag team that'll take it. The gold off of that. But not
- 43:25like this, Not like this. I get the fact that one of the
- 43:34superstars lost to their family member or their mother. I get it. I
- 43:37understand it is awful, But at the risk of a storyline like this,
- 43:46is it because they also knew, Hey, we know they're gonna be kind
- 43:52of pissed later, so let's at least give a miss, right, So
- 43:55it wasn't a complete waste coming to Scotland and none of our none of their
- 44:00locals win in all right, So I guess that's what's that's what they were
- 44:06thinking. But I mean, out of all of the matches, if you're
- 44:09gonna pull the trigger on one of them to make the I guess. But
- 44:17like I said, the only thing I come out of this is now that
- 44:20they can be stronger, like I kind of, I'm not gonna lie,
- 44:22right. I enjoy the chase. I enjoyed the chase, but they're not
- 44:29worth the chase. It's a very easy chase, right, Like, this
- 44:32ain't much of a chase. So you're on foot and I'm in a car.
- 44:37How much? Yeah? Yeah, So the only thing I can think
- 44:40of is if you stack the odds for them to be number one contenders,
- 44:45even though they really should just get their rematch, If you stack the odds
- 44:49for number one contenders match, then sure will make it a little bit more
- 44:52interesting. But I don't even I don't even know if that would be interesting,
- 44:58because how do you stack the eyes other than just putting what more teams
- 45:01against them, which is putting more teams against them. You could have done
- 45:06that while they were champions. I would say, in the build up to
- 45:08this match, the one thing that I actually did really enjoy and like and
- 45:12I thought was actually really good booking was when all four of them beat down
- 45:19Bianca and Jade. In the build up, what they're like, because to
- 45:22me, the way it was executed looked good. It's like, you got
- 45:27these two women who were dominant, powerful women, and Beyonca and Jade.
- 45:32Obviously none of these individual women and the women's tag division could one v one
- 45:39of them. It's not credible, especially considering how they've newted the living fuck
- 45:45out of you know, Shane Basler from her n XT days, She's about
- 45:49the only one that you could make an argument that could stand toe to toe
- 45:52with them, but they neuted her into nothingness. So that's not even a
- 45:57thing anymore. So the fact that it took all four of them to basically
- 46:02jump these girls and beat them down, I was like, Okay, I'm
- 46:07cool with this. I like this, Like these women in the tag division
- 46:10realize, okay, our chances of you know, beating them one v one
- 46:15is going to be you know, slim to none. So if you know
- 46:21you can't one v one, so somebody jump them. I mean, we
- 46:23see factions do that all the time. Oh, this guy's a threat to
- 46:25the champion. Get the whole click on them. Cool? So what if
- 46:29the whole click becomes the whole women's tag division and you got Byanka and Jade
- 46:35basically having to fight for their lives every week with not just a tag team
- 46:39coming at them, but more than one tag team constantly coming at them.
- 46:44You could have drugged this out and extended this and gotten more life out of
- 46:47this while not necessarily while keeping them strong, keeping them on top of the
- 46:52division, and not truly squashing all the other women because they're fighting them off.
- 47:00And yes, they may still win their matches, but it's getting harder
- 47:02and harder. Exculd be for them every time until you find that one tag
- 47:07team that builds up enough credibility to be the ones to finish them off.
- 47:14But instead, Nope, where Scotland I shot this shit? It's like you
- 47:21played to the home crowd at the expense of your women's tag team division.
- 47:25In my opinion, yeah, man, and I absolutely agree with the it's
- 47:30so unnecessary the heat that that Jade is getting for her for her mishap.
- 47:37She's done them, She's done the move multiple times successfully. And as people
- 47:43are saying, oh well, the ropes in WW are different than AAW,
- 47:45He's like, dude, don't even give me that ship. We all know
- 47:50the ropes are loose, so show the fuck out stop stay. She needs
- 47:53to the people who are like she needs to go back to to the performance
- 47:57center, Like you need to shut the fuck up with that bullshit people have
- 48:01all the time. And y'all don't say ship. We're just watching Breaker damn
- 48:07near break his fucking neck trying to do a Frankensteinder on what's the face too?
- 48:15He wrestled this past Monday, ship quick but anyway, you know shamusus
- 48:28that's what shamus. Then they're broke his neck trying to do the The Franks
- 48:31started jumping up to the road. I ain't hearing that a peep out of
- 48:34nobody, Smoke Street, bron Green, He ain't ready for the big time.
- 48:39No, didn't nobody say ship, but Jade misses a slips on the
- 48:46supremeboard clothesline all roadstead of Since that we now know we're loose and we're giving
- 48:52people issues, and now everybody everybody want to dunk on her. May shut
- 48:57the fuck up, shut the fuck up with all that bullshit. Yeah,
- 49:04so I guess we'll just have to see where the hell this goes, because
- 49:08I don't expect these guys to be champions along very transitional champions. So I'll
- 49:15take you where he used to go and needs to go right down to smack
- 49:16down this Friday with a one v one run that ship back and put them
- 49:21titles right back on Bianca and Jade. I'm like, back in the States,
- 49:25let's get back to our regular schedule program. Off them belts. So
- 49:31all right, man, that's all you have for that match. Yeah.
- 49:36So next match, we had Sammy's Aye defending his in a kind of the
- 49:40title again against Chad Gable with with otison Maxine Dupree at ringside, curious that
- 49:52the curates as Oul wasn't there, like what passport issues or they just didn't
- 49:59want to spend for him, They're like, nah, you stay here.
- 50:04Yeah, that's what I was assuming too, because I was like, oh,
- 50:06Worstizzawa, and I immediately was like, oh, it might have been
- 50:09a visa passport or whatever issue for sure. I mean as normally some of
- 50:16the reasons why we won't see his wrestlers, you know, out of the
- 50:22country because of that issue, or they just maybe they just have family and
- 50:25they just don't want to travel out of the country for now. But understandable,
- 50:30they made it work. I don't think he would have made much of
- 50:32a difference, to be honest, but yeah, again another match that had
- 50:37a very predictable finished, much to my chagrin because I'm still anti Sammy right
- 50:45now, so but yeah, he was successful in his defense against jad Gable,
- 50:52and again we in this match, we got little to no development in
- 51:00the whole Chad with his and his Alpha Academy members. It's just another case
- 51:07of him bullying and talking shit and down playing them and then something happens and
- 51:16they still end up putting up with the shit. Granted, we did get
- 51:22us seeming an actual development on it this past Monday on Raw with Otis seemingly
- 51:28quitting or just walking out on Chad, so we did finally seem to get
- 51:36some development here. I've just seems kind of weird that they did it on
- 51:38Raw as opposed to a pole. Usually you get your major storyline developments at
- 51:44PL's. But I mean it is what it is. At least the storyline
- 51:49is actually finally going somewhere. Because again, I know some people have said
- 51:52it's been a great story, but to me, it's just been super Just
- 51:55personally, it's been super cringe. Just this whole use of Chad Gable and
- 52:00them just putting up with it. Every time I've seen it, it's been
- 52:06cringe to me. They I think they dragged it out a little too long
- 52:09for my taste. But again, at least it's going somewhere now. As
- 52:15far as the match itself, obviously, these two can always put on a
- 52:19great match. Yeah, I don't think they really did anything groundbreaking or extraordinary
- 52:24in this match that was any different from what they've done in the past.
- 52:30And again, Sammy's a and is still fucking champion. Yeah, yeah,
- 52:37I kind of enjoyed this match for pound for pounding, Like these two guys
- 52:43are great wrestlers, you know, roughly about the same size. Uh,
- 52:49you know, Chad Gable just he's just phenomenal in the ring, and Sammy
- 52:53is is just just as fucking good, you know. And unfortunately, Yeah,
- 52:59I'm with you. I'm kind of just kind of over Sammy. Maybe
- 53:02we had too much of Sammy. I just don't I'm just not on the
- 53:07Sami Intercontinental title train. Uh. You know, I think for the Icy
- 53:15title for Chad Gable, they pulled the trayer too late. I but his
- 53:22contract was coming to an end, and maybe that had a lot to play
- 53:25into it with him ever winning the intercontinal title. Ah, they found a
- 53:34good way to kind of like write him out of Alpha Academy. I think
- 53:38the rest of Alpha Academic and I kind of suffer. Maybe Otis can kind
- 53:43of flounder into something. But sorry Tizawa and you know what's it, Renee
- 53:52Maxine Dupree. I mean, it's not good. It's not good for them.
- 53:57I don't know where they're gonna go. I don't know how they're gonna
- 54:00to do it, how they're gonna make it. Chad, I kind of
- 54:06hope after they kind of seems like they wrote him off this Monday, I
- 54:09kind of hope he takes some time off and maybe yeah, I kind of
- 54:16maybe he's taken some time off, you know, between his contract maybe.
- 54:22I don't know if he's coming back with the gimmick change. It seems like
- 54:25I don't know. I was kind of having a conspiracy theory about a lot
- 54:30of these wrestlers were having contracts running out around this time. Yeah, I
- 54:37don't know if it's like something to do with maybe a new stable, new
- 54:42gimmicks for some of these wrestlers. I don't know. I'm not saying that
- 54:49Natalia and Chad Gable and anybody else whose contract has been coming up lately are
- 54:53all going to be in a stable together. But I don't know. Yeah,
- 55:00I think I was gonna say, just getting back to Otis and Maxine
- 55:07and Occurence's album poll Alpha Academy, everybody seems to think that they can't go
- 55:13anywhere. I don't necessarily agree with that, and I'm not saying that they
- 55:17can, that they're gonna become like main inventors or move up the art.
- 55:21I still think they're all, you know, less permanent mid carters. Yes,
- 55:28I think there's still something to be done there. I think they can
- 55:30still be done there. I think they can be that that gang of more
- 55:37or less like outcasts more or less that just band together and support each other
- 55:43and help, you know, just be that. I was almost like like
- 55:47runaways more or less. They had they had a place that they called quote
- 55:53unquote home in Alpha Academy with Chad Gable and Heed, the abusive assholes.
- 56:00So they're now out of the abusive relationship, and now we can watch them
- 56:05build each other, build themselves back up after being out of this abusive relationship.
- 56:10If since since that's the storyline that they've been doing, is that,
- 56:15then you know, keep going down that road, keep following that path.
- 56:19What's the next step for somebody out of Once they get out of an abusive
- 56:22relationship, they have to rebuild their confidence, They have to build themselves back
- 56:27up. Otis can be the focal point of that, you know, being
- 56:30there, he's probably the most you know, the biggest name of the three
- 56:36of them. They can be his support system. He could be the one
- 56:39that's you know, he was the one that was the closest with Chad Gabele.
- 56:43He would probably be the one that's most devastated by having to walk away.
- 56:47Let Tizaua and Maxine be his support system. Let them be the ones
- 56:51that build him up, that you know, have his back, that help
- 56:55him recover, help him heal from this abusive relationship that he was out of.
- 57:00He can be that sympathetic figure that the fans can get behind, and
- 57:05maybe that can ultimately climax with him becoming like an intercontinental champion at some point.
- 57:12Maybe at some point, you know, they do finally put the title
- 57:15on Chad Gable and let Chad have the run with the Intercontinental title of a
- 57:20good length. And while this is happening, let Otis be getting built back
- 57:24up. Let him be healing, recovering, regaining his confidence, and keep
- 57:30them two separate from each other until eventually, maybe Otis is the one that
- 57:36ends Chad gables run in the long term, as he builds his confidence back
- 57:40up and he's now willing to stand on his own and he can stand and
- 57:44look Chad in the face and be like, Yo, I'm not that dude
- 57:46that you used to talk down to year you know in the past. I'm
- 57:50not that guy. And now I'm here standing in front of you, and
- 57:53I'm here to challenge you for your Intercontinental title, and I'm gonna be the
- 57:58one to end your raign. I think, for me, what kind of
- 58:00put this match off a little? Was we and we're even doing it now,
- 58:07we're talking and we're there's We're more interested in the storyline with Chad Gable
- 58:14and Alpha Academy than the storyline for the entered Continental title. Sammy's ain.
- 58:20Uh. It just doesn't hold the same gravitas as when Gunther had it,
- 58:27because when Gunther had it, it was very exciting to see who is he
- 58:30gonna fight? And it was a big deal and I kind of missed that,
- 58:34Dre. I meant, we're not gonna get that again for for a
- 58:37while until I don't know, We're just not gonna get that again for a
- 58:42while for the icy title, where it was super exciting. Right now WW
- 58:45is almost damn near every title is more interesting in the hands of the heel,
- 58:51Yeah, because you want to see who's gonna be the one to take
- 58:54down the hill. And that's unless you have a baby face that is super
- 59:00fucking over and everybody just loves seeing that person. Then most titles are almost
- 59:07always more interesting when they're in the hands of the heel because you want to
- 59:10see the person that's gonna take them down, who's gonna be the person that
- 59:14ends the heel's reign. And Sam's in right now, it's boring as shit.
- 59:22He's not chasing, he's not the he's not the pseudo Rocky or whatever
- 59:25the fuck bullshit they were doing for WrestleMania. He's just this white bread ass
- 59:30goodie too shoes as the school special talking motherfucker with the belt, old captain
- 59:36saberho ass motherfucker, and this damn storyline with Chad. Yes, and honestly
- 59:43it's boring to at least to me, and especially put that on top of
- 59:47the fact that he appropriated Chad's wholes goddamn storyline to get that Intercontinental title in
- 59:52the first place. So I'm just extra salty against him, and and he's
- 59:57doing this on top of it. Hell yeah, I mean I want to
- 1:00:00might have beat the breaks off his ass take that belt, although, and
- 1:00:04I still think it should be Chad Gable, But unfortunately it does seem to
- 1:00:08be the direction that they're going, because it looks like they're probably gonna his
- 1:00:13next few is gonna be either it's death. It's either it's either Bron Breaker
- 1:00:22or and or Shamous since those appear to be his next challengers. Oh for
- 1:00:27the icy towel, Yeah yeah, I thought as like Chad Gable's next few
- 1:00:31is death. Yeah. I mean again, I would still would have had
- 1:00:37Chad be the one to take him down eventually, but it doesn't appear to
- 1:00:39be the case. But honestly, I don't know how to we're listening speaking.
- 1:00:45I know Bron is still kind of the new guy on the roster,
- 1:00:51but I don't see how the fun Sammy's ain't beats him. Mm hmmm.
- 1:00:58He probably will just because he's over as fuck. But I'm like, yo,
- 1:01:02ron Breakers, just steamroll your ass for that fucking belt steam He best
- 1:01:07bed is Uh, this motherfucker spears himself into a fucking ring post and Samson
- 1:01:14gets him on a roll up, right, and they'll probably do some dumb
- 1:01:17shit like that. Yeah, this man run twenty three miles where I went
- 1:01:22to a fucking table or something. Yep, yep, it's exactly what's gonna
- 1:01:25happen. Dude done into a table, stumble BELUVI, kick chack chre man
- 1:01:32fuck out of here. Yeah, you know what I was thinking of.
- 1:01:37I know we're gonna go off subject a little bit, bron Breaker. Why
- 1:01:42isn't that motherfucker the speech champion. Why isn't he just out there better than
- 1:01:46that bullshit? But imagine, imagine if he would just come out, like
- 1:01:52if you were literally just pushing him to be like a Goldberg type streak,
- 1:01:58so he would just come out and just spear. Guys, he just put
- 1:02:00him down in less than like three minutes that and he would just build up
- 1:02:06that fucking title like this title. This man is undefeated. He's he's just
- 1:02:09beating people in like less than three minutes. But on think about it,
- 1:02:14because there's no building it up. Nobody gives a Nobody gives a ship about
- 1:02:17the Twitter title. Nobody does. But they could even even if you did
- 1:02:22it with bron Breaker, where it's like, oh, look at him.
- 1:02:25This week he ran through somebody. Look at him this week he ran through
- 1:02:28somebody. Like So what make Goldberg interesting is that he did it on Night
- 1:02:32Trob. We saw it, happened that we saw him. That's the thing
- 1:02:37they need to bring it. Nobody seeing Twitter. That's why you want to
- 1:02:42twitter every fucking Wednesday or whatever the hell that ship is for three minutes to
- 1:02:45watch bron Breaker steamroll through somebody. If it was on TV, Yeah,
- 1:02:52if it was on TV, that you're right, dude, But I think
- 1:02:54it was on TV and had more eyes like this, like this title that
- 1:03:00that requires you to beat guys in a three minutes and this guy is strictly
- 1:03:05it's just his his go to. Is the spirit's coming in spearing motherfuckers?
- 1:03:10Maybe yeah, maybe if it was an actual television title, then maybe it
- 1:03:15could be something. But the fact is, and nobody gives a shit about
- 1:03:17this belt because it's Twitter exclusive and everybody knows it's just it's just business.
- 1:03:22It's a business partnership. Yeah, it worked out some sort of deal with
- 1:03:27Twitter con Elon Musk out of a couple of coins to do this dumb shit,
- 1:03:31like hey, we're gonna do this dumb shit on you, Like,
- 1:03:34okay, whatever, got some money out of it. He thinks he's getting
- 1:03:37some exposure. Nobody gives a ship, Nobody talks about it, and that's
- 1:03:43it. Like, who the fuck even is the speed champion? Hile,
- 1:03:46I'm looking right now, right now, it is Andrade. He beat Ricochet,
- 1:03:54so right, and nobody gives a ship. I do know this is
- 1:04:00gonna be like the twenty four seven title. It's going to be thrown in
- 1:04:02the trash. Well that said, let's move on to up. That ship
- 1:04:09is going to be control all deleted so quick. Yep, So all right,
- 1:04:13let's move on to the next match. Next match, we had Bailey
- 1:04:17defending her WW Women's championship against Piper Niven with Chelsea Green in her corner.
- 1:04:27This match was a really good match. This match not to get too sidetracked
- 1:04:33too quickly, but reinforces more. I can say more than every but just
- 1:04:40as more reinforcement to my belief that the women on the main roster need mid
- 1:04:47card titles because who knew Piper Kniven could pull out this good of a match
- 1:04:54in a one v one Who knew she had this in her I would imagine
- 1:05:01only people who have been really die hard following her, probably from her nxt
- 1:05:06UK days or whatever earlier in her career, probably knew that she was capable
- 1:05:11of this. But most of the most casual or main roster ww fans probably
- 1:05:18did not know that Piper had this enter because she wasn't doing this as do
- 1:05:21Drop. She wasn't doing this when she initially came back as Piper Nibby.
- 1:05:27She wasn't having this type of quality match, and that's exactly what this was.
- 1:05:31This was a damn good match from her. She showed the fuck out.
- 1:05:38Bailly helped make her look like a million bucks in this match. Even
- 1:05:42Chelsea Green is right now. Honestly, Chelsea Green, she may not be
- 1:05:47the MVP of the WWE Women's Division or ww right now, but she damn
- 1:05:54showed six Man of the Year because she does not waste a single moment of
- 1:06:01screen time that she gets she makes her presence known every time she's on screen,
- 1:06:09whether she's in the ring or not, and she doesn't get much opportunity
- 1:06:12in the ring. Although I heard she absolutely cooked in a match on NXC
- 1:06:17a few weeks back. I still haven't gone back and watched it again,
- 1:06:19but I heard she absolutely cooked in that match. But every time she is
- 1:06:25on camera, she adds something. She never takes away from a segment that
- 1:06:30she's in. Never. She is extremely underrated. In my opinion, My
- 1:06:38respective appreciation for Chelsea Green grows pretty much every time I see her because she
- 1:06:43always adds something. And she added something to this match, whether it's by
- 1:06:45having Piper's back and then eventually getting tossed out just to come back in a
- 1:06:50fucking ray mystereo mask and shit, and totally play a straight face like she's
- 1:06:56somebody else, like just adding something, not taking away, always adding something.
- 1:07:03And like I said, and Piper just absolutely showed out and Bailey helped
- 1:07:09make her look like eight million bucks in that match, even when after she
- 1:07:13finally got the win, just looking back at Piper like damn, with that
- 1:07:17look on her face, like that was way harder than I expected. You
- 1:07:21actually put me to the push me to the limit. That that that little
- 1:07:26extra after the match really helped sell and elevate Piper because she could have just
- 1:07:30won the match and just celebrated. Yep, I want I'm still the ship.
- 1:07:33Yeah yeahadn't just completely disregarded Piper, but no, the fact that she
- 1:07:39acknowledged her after the match and acknowledged the battle that Piper, you know,
- 1:07:45the fight that Piper really gave her. That little extra is what helps elevate
- 1:07:48Piper Knivin And I don't think and I think after a match like this,
- 1:07:54next time she steps in the ring, she's gonna have a little bit more
- 1:07:56credibility than she had before this match. And that's that's, you know,
- 1:08:01for somebody, for you, if you're trying to build up your woman's the
- 1:08:03roster, What boy can you ask for in a loss? That you lose
- 1:08:09a match but you come out looking better than you did going into it.
- 1:08:13So yeah, this might not have been match of the night, but it
- 1:08:16was my favorite match of the night. Okay, I agree. Uh Bailey,
- 1:08:25Uh totally made Piper look like a million bucks. Uh. I've seen
- 1:08:30Piper have some good matches back in nxt UK. Uh. Yeah, it's
- 1:08:36like it seems like there are some wrestlers on the roster that their best matches
- 1:08:41are in NXT. H Shanna Basler, we were just talking about earlier.
- 1:08:45Another one go back in NXT that's where her best matches are, you know,
- 1:08:49even uh, you know, Sammy's Ain and Ricochet had great matches in
- 1:08:55NXT. Uh. But I who knew that you could put Piper Nevin on
- 1:09:02a card like this and she'd be able to be reliable, you know,
- 1:09:10you know, it's a big deal. Like, you know, she's very
- 1:09:13lucky to get that spot, not just because she's from you know, she's
- 1:09:16a local lass, you know, but that they believe that she she'd put
- 1:09:23on a decent match and you know, not it would be hot garbage.
- 1:09:30She made it believable because there's sometimes where we get these kind of matches,
- 1:09:34these matchups against the champion, and it's just because you know, the the
- 1:09:39opposing wrestler is from that local area, you know, and it's like,
- 1:09:45well, just because you're the local doesn't mean you should get a title shot,
- 1:09:49you should win or you should go over. But you know, I
- 1:09:58don't know what I'm trying to say here. I guess if if your local
- 1:10:04wrestler comes. Don't always expect them to win, don't always expect them to
- 1:10:08go over, because that's not how it's gonna be. But expect them to
- 1:10:12try to put on their best damn match. Because that's what she did here.
- 1:10:15She knew she wasn't gonna go over. She put on a hell of
- 1:10:17a matter for Scotland, and I bet they're so fucking proud of her though.
- 1:10:21You know, we probably didn't get to see it after she left,
- 1:10:26but I bet she got like a nice standing ovation from her fans when she
- 1:10:30left. I'm certain that she did because Bailey won the match and Bailey left
- 1:10:34first, so I'm pretty sure daring whatever commercial break or pause between the matches,
- 1:10:40I'm pretty sure she got a good, strong ovation from the crowd.
- 1:10:43Yeah, and it sucks that we don't get to see that kind of stuff,
- 1:10:45you know, I wish we did right Like we got to see that
- 1:10:50with Alna Vega at Backlash last year. We got to see that appreciation from
- 1:10:56the crowd post match. Would have been nice to see that for Piper.
- 1:10:59Yeah, huh, I was. I wanted to see Bailey bring up the
- 1:11:03belly to Belly and she did it. But she did it on the top
- 1:11:06fucking rope. I enjoyed the fact that the ref totally kicked Chelsea out.
- 1:11:15You're dude, You're right. Chelsea does not waste a minute of airtime.
- 1:11:19She is entertaining a ship. Uh. Whether she is a fantastic wrestler or
- 1:11:25not, she is great on air performer. She's great on the mic.
- 1:11:32Uh you know, because Piper Nevin not so good on the mic. You
- 1:11:35know, Piper's the muscle, you know, and she's the brains. I
- 1:11:42thought it was brilliant when she booted and how she found a way to get
- 1:11:45herself back in. I have a clip here from it. Real quick on
- 1:11:49a play. What are you saying about? Who got Chelsea? Dude?
- 1:11:59Me and Andrew seriously broke out laughing because she like came out with the Raymistereio
- 1:12:02mass Like she just went to like like either Ray mysterious. It's purple,
- 1:12:06so like maybe think she grabbed it from the judgment day because they always have
- 1:12:10a rayam Stereom mask. But uh, yeah, dude, I was dying.
- 1:12:15I was dying. Uh you know, fucking ww ww ress are dumb
- 1:12:20asses. I don't know who that is, but uh, you know,
- 1:12:28a good defense for Bailey, another win for Bailey. I guess I would
- 1:12:31have expected another win for Bailey as well. You know, if we were
- 1:12:34predicting, I think thus far the only one that I would not have guessed
- 1:12:41would have been the Women's Tag. That one for me came out of left
- 1:12:45field. But uh, this one, I would have had my money on
- 1:12:48Bailey. But I would have expected a good match. And for the women
- 1:12:55tag only got twelve minutes. These two got thirteen and a half and pretty
- 1:13:00good because uh they had to kind of wake the crowd up after Sammy and
- 1:13:06Chad Gable. But yeah, yep, And like I said, Chelsea,
- 1:13:15yeah, she's she's consistently climbing the ranks in my in my books as far
- 1:13:21as being one of my favorite women on in the division titles, Chelsea Green,
- 1:13:29right, she would kill it as the mid card as a mad card
- 1:13:33champion, Dude, I was absolutely, That's what I mean. Like,
- 1:13:39I know they're experimenting with it in NXT. They do that a lot on
- 1:13:42NXT. They they experiment by bringing Okay, we're gonna bring NXT women's tag
- 1:13:47titles. Okay, they're working out here, let's do Women's Tag titles in
- 1:13:51WW they experiment in small places, even to the point where they started bringing
- 1:13:58NXT titles to the main roster kind of elevate them more. And I feel
- 1:14:04that way like whenever an NXT champion of any kind comes over to the main
- 1:14:10roster, I have respect for them. I'm like, yo, you're the
- 1:14:13champion that brand. I got mad respect for you. But we need a
- 1:14:19mid card women's title, whether it's one or two. If you want to
- 1:14:24have one, like I heard floating around of a women's Intercontinental title and maybe
- 1:14:31a women's United States title, I'm cool with that, or maybe just one
- 1:14:36of them and just have them float per show, because it seems like we
- 1:14:41don't give a fuck about the draft still. And I say that because seem
- 1:14:45punks and me on smack Down this Friday, so we don't really don't give
- 1:14:48a fuck about the drafts anymore apparently. So yeah, you know, with
- 1:14:55this said, with a match that Piper never put on, with with the
- 1:15:00the the performance, that entertainment performance from Chelsea Green, I definitely agree we
- 1:15:06need an in card title. But yeah, they called her with Nacho Chelsea.
- 1:15:12I think Chelsea called herself with the with without the mask she's Chelsea Green
- 1:15:16with the mask on. She's Chelsea Vetter day Yep, yep, yep,
- 1:15:20Chelle w O. I think she also put on her on our Instagram.
- 1:15:26Like, dude, she's a gym. She you know what she is.
- 1:15:29She's primed for that, like how Bailey was. When Bailey had that a
- 1:15:33long extended He'll run and then the fans gradually grew to appreciate her work so
- 1:15:42much that she organically became a baby face again. Chelsea Green could be that
- 1:15:47as like as a women's mid card champion, she could be that heel hold
- 1:15:51that belt and be She's proud to be that person that you you hate to
- 1:15:59see, but you eventually grow to appreciate her work so much that she just
- 1:16:02organically gets over off pure appreciation for her work and then becomes us mega babyface.
- 1:16:10Mm. That's what Chelsea Green could be eventually. Yeah, dude,
- 1:16:14I agree with you. It's just it's going to take time. But we
- 1:16:19as as uh as MJF would say, fucking much us marks. We respect
- 1:16:29the hard work that wrestlers put in. We respect the workhorses, We respect
- 1:16:32the people that are on day in, day out, like weekend week out
- 1:16:36like that are there on TV, putting in the matches, putting the titles
- 1:16:43on the line. Uh, you know, doing promo work that does that.
- 1:16:47That's good promo work that doesn't seem like you're a zombie that you're being
- 1:16:51forced to do it, or reading cue cards. The fact that they add
- 1:16:55lips stuff. Sometimes you can get away with it and make it work.
- 1:16:58Or they create something organic like yeat or something, you know, creating something
- 1:17:02organic and running with it. Uh, you know, Like, you know,
- 1:17:09there's a lot of wrestlers who are who are like that the past,
- 1:17:11like like I would say a year that have organically have created something on their
- 1:17:16own and we respect them for that, Like guys like l A. Knight,
- 1:17:20Jay usso Gunter, like these are guys that, like, within a
- 1:17:25year's time, have gained so much respect for for some of us, you
- 1:17:29know. Ah, And I think over time, Chelsea Green could be one
- 1:17:34of those people too, a little bit more time, definitely. Yep.
- 1:17:39Yeah, it won't happen overnight, but yeah, it will happen over time
- 1:17:42where if she continues just being as good as she is, Yeah, eventually
- 1:17:47the fans are gonna fall in love with her work and really grow to appreciate
- 1:17:51her and once she's once she hits that point, yeah, don't strap a
- 1:17:56rocket to her. Yeah yeah, all right, So all this left is
- 1:18:03the main event saw Damian Priest defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Drew McIntyre and
- 1:18:13what was a banger of a match that saw its own botch that people are
- 1:18:19conveniently not talking about that much, Yes, sir, right, but you
- 1:18:27know, the match itself was a great match. I mean, they threw
- 1:18:30haymakers at each other consistently. You know, Damian Priest definitely played it up
- 1:18:36its role as being a heel and Drew, you know, was being extra
- 1:18:44aggressive, but you know, still within character, like he didn't completely cave
- 1:18:48into the crowd being over as fuck for him and go full on baby face,
- 1:18:53like he still remained Drew. He was still his character, you know,
- 1:18:57even when taking advantage of moments like when Damian Priest had the botch and
- 1:19:02twisted his leg up in the top rope, and you know, Drew took
- 1:19:06that opportunity to get cheap shots in on him, you know, something that
- 1:19:10a white hot babyface wouldn't do. But Drew McIntyre will absolutely kick the shit
- 1:19:14out of you. While you're dangling by one flag, so you know,
- 1:19:18which also helped by some time and kind of almost helped briefly make people think
- 1:19:25that, okay, maybe that was supposed to happen, which it clearly wasn't,
- 1:19:28but he said and then Damian Priest in his own showed why he you
- 1:19:33know, why the guys in the why the executives have so much faith in
- 1:19:39him in his work, because you know, after that, he pretty much
- 1:19:42sold it for the rest of the match. He could have easily just played
- 1:19:45it off like that was a boutch. You know, that didn't really happen.
- 1:19:46I'm okay, but now he sold that ship for the rest of the
- 1:19:48match, and I think he sold it all into the the post show as
- 1:19:55well, even though it turned out that you know, he was okay,
- 1:19:58pretty sure he was you know, might have been adrenaline. I'm pretty sure
- 1:20:00Damn Surong probably didn't feel good. But he sold it throughout the rest of
- 1:20:05that match, and that was you know, smart ring psychology on his end.
- 1:20:11But obviously, the moment that everybody was talking about in this match was
- 1:20:16Drew McIntyre hitting a clay more on Damien Priez after the referee was knocked down
- 1:20:20and thinking he's gonna get the win, and here comes this referee sliding into
- 1:20:26the ring for the one, the two the fuck you. As we found
- 1:20:30out it was CM punk looking Drew in the face just holding up that too,
- 1:20:36like, nah, he ain't winning shit. I love the shit.
- 1:20:45I love the hell out of that moment. That's how you that's how you
- 1:20:46do it. That's a creative way of furthering a feud. And you know,
- 1:20:51as much as Scotland hated it, I loved it because it was a
- 1:20:55creative way, another creative way of screwing Drew McIntyre over and furthering a storyline
- 1:21:00and obviously naturally and organically getting to the next chapter in the storyline. And
- 1:21:11obviously, yeah, Damian Priest won retained the title, which I pretty much
- 1:21:15saw coming because again I mean not projecting out too far, but yeah,
- 1:21:20I pretty much figured this was the most likely outcome of this match, because
- 1:21:26I just didn't see them putting it on Drew McIntyre, knowing what we have
- 1:21:32over on the horizon with Summer Slam. But again, this was probably the
- 1:21:40match of the night, I'll say, even though the match we just talked
- 1:21:45about Bailey and Piper was my favorite match. This was probably objectively the match
- 1:21:50of the night. I'm still kind of surprised that they had the third longest
- 1:21:57match. That freaking Sammy and Shad got more time than them, and Cody
- 1:22:01and aj got more time than them. That was kind of kind of surprising.
- 1:22:06You would think that, you know, Hometown Drew and them, You
- 1:22:10think they would have given them the most time to cook. But you know,
- 1:22:12maybe maybe their time got cut short because other stuff ran long. Who
- 1:22:15knows, But they made the most of it and they put on a bang
- 1:22:19of a match. And I'm glad to see that Damian Priest is having great
- 1:22:24matches as champion, which is just only helping to establish him more as a
- 1:22:30credible champion. What were your thoughts? Steve is so funny because while being
- 1:22:41a very smooth technical performer at times, can also be the clumsiest guy,
- 1:22:48you know, just tripping over his own feet and falling. And you know,
- 1:22:54I'll never forget I wrestled Steve at SummerSlam. It was me, Steve
- 1:23:00and mc foley in a triple threat with Jesse Ventura as especially referee Shane.
- 1:23:04I think came down to get involved in the match in my behalf or something.
- 1:23:08Anyways, Shane gets stunned and gets thrown over the top rope and Steve
- 1:23:13goes up on the second on the He's standing on the bottom rope in the
- 1:23:16middle of the ring, and Steve leans over the rope too far and completely
- 1:23:20does a flip and hooks his knee brace and is hanging upside down by one
- 1:23:24leg, completely stuck. And I can see on his face like he cannot
- 1:23:29get out of this. So I have to run over there and try to
- 1:23:32pick his big two hundred and fifty pound dead weight and last which he's very
- 1:23:36heavy. Steve try to get him back over the top rope. The two
- 1:23:41of us are laughing like little kids. I'm trying to get him over.
- 1:23:44I'm like, I'm completely trying to cover up and pick him over because I'm
- 1:23:46laughing, like, you big, what are you doing? You know,
- 1:23:49he's just completely stuck by his knee brace upside down. I finally get him
- 1:23:54up in the ring. He starts punching me and like I'm trying not to
- 1:23:58laugh and he's trying not to laugh, and it was just, you know,
- 1:24:00that's Steve. He's uh, you know, he can be as as
- 1:24:06fluid as he can be on the on the wrestling aspect of it. Sometimes
- 1:24:11you have between stuff is uh, so I make humorous. He'll kill me
- 1:24:15for putting, for say, telling that story and having you put it in
- 1:24:18the DVD. But that's good. I'm gonna have to eat a stunner for
- 1:24:21that. Well, you know what. Let's talk about the opening here.
- 1:24:32Uh, Scotland the Brave was played by the District Pipe Band. They had
- 1:24:40the kills come out, they had the bagpipes. I'll tell you what I
- 1:24:45think you said it to no matter or somebody said it on Discord like every
- 1:24:48time they played the bagpipes. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, I love it
- 1:24:54when they played the bagpipes. Uh. And uh, you know it's it
- 1:24:59sucks Drew, you know, not getting the w in his in his home.
- 1:25:03But sorry, man, I think it's what what we're getting with Drew
- 1:25:14is bigger than the world title. The story is way bigger than the world
- 1:25:17title. The Drew sampunk doesn't need the world title. And that's what I
- 1:25:23like about some feuds quick going into this match, did you think Drew was
- 1:25:29gonna win? Honestly, if you would have asked me before we got the
- 1:25:33spoilers of Sampunk being in Scotland, I would have said I could see Drew
- 1:25:39winning it, because then you would have Yeah, yeah, if I didn't
- 1:25:45know about Sampunk in Scotland, if that picture wasn't released, if they were
- 1:25:48smart and they didn't release it, which where they should have, they should
- 1:25:51have done that. They shouldn't have released the fact that he was there,
- 1:25:55because once that was that was released, I was like, Drew's not winning,
- 1:25:59there's no way how well, but yes, before that, and I'll
- 1:26:01tell you why, because you could have had it lead to Drew versus Punk
- 1:26:10at SummerSlam with the title on the line, and then Drew losing the world
- 1:26:15title again, but this time to see him Punk. But you couldn't have
- 1:26:19done that because you got Gunter has a guaranteed world title shot. Yeah,
- 1:26:24that's that's the stickler too. Then I always forget that in the back of
- 1:26:29my head is shit, we have Gunther already with that world title, you
- 1:26:34know, simmering. But now after Monday Night Roll, you know, we'll
- 1:26:41talk about that then too. I'll just slide right into that because like,
- 1:26:45this match was fine. I enjoyed this match. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
- 1:26:49I mean, it's two big fucking dudes just meet on me, you know,
- 1:26:55meat slapping me. As Biggie would say. Drus is a little bit
- 1:27:00taller than Damian Priest. But uh, I think I feel like Damian Priest
- 1:27:03has like lifts in his boots. I really don't feel like Damian Priest is
- 1:27:10as big as Drew. I think he's a lot shorter. But that's just
- 1:27:17me. I'm just assuming. I mean, it says that Damian Priest is
- 1:27:21six' five and Drew McIntyre is six Oh yeah, says he's six y
- 1:27:29five. I don't know. Maybe it's the elevation there. But no judgment
- 1:27:34day, no no. So I was thinking, okay, so if if
- 1:27:39he wins, he'll win clean right and no judgment day Shenanigans. Uh so
- 1:27:45we didn't have that Shenanigans. We just had the sampunk Shenanigans. So when
- 1:27:51they knocked out the ref and and uh, you know, I first of
- 1:27:57all, I thought it was impressive when he tried to claim more priests.
- 1:28:00He's caught him in a power bomb. He reversed that, no power bomb.
- 1:28:02Not many guys can do that. You Drew McIntyre reverse that into a
- 1:28:05fucking power bomb. So that was impressive. And he's able to do this
- 1:28:11the choke slam South of Heaven choke slam or whatever to Drew, who's also
- 1:28:15a big man. So, uh, the the unfortunate, uh, the
- 1:28:23unfortunate where he got his Damien got his leg caught, right, the ankle
- 1:28:27caught again, not a botch and not not really not with the rope as
- 1:28:32loose as it was. And they had this happen before. I have a
- 1:28:39clip, I'm probably gonna play it beforehand of Stone Cold getting his leg caught
- 1:28:45during the match with Triple H and McK foley. He got his leg caught
- 1:28:48and it's you know, his knee brace got caught and he was hanging upside
- 1:28:51down and Triple Ah had to go over and they're both laughing their asses off
- 1:28:56and he had to help him, you know, get that knee brace undone.
- 1:29:00But it happens, Shit happens. I'm just I'm glad he didn't get
- 1:29:05hurt because I was just thinking it was as much weight as he had on
- 1:29:10that. I was like, damn, like that would I feel like that
- 1:29:12would kind of hurt being pinched in like that, you know, so whether
- 1:29:15he was hurt or not, you know, he sold it very well.
- 1:29:21I totally forgot to mention that the prime logo we had it back again,
- 1:29:27So I just realized that now they had it very light, by the way,
- 1:29:32which I enjoy. I enjoy that's not in my fucking face. It's
- 1:29:35a light like silver almost glad. It's not like bright red or some shit,
- 1:29:42So I kinda I'm able to kind of see past it sometimes. I
- 1:29:46basically saw past it this whole pay per view. There's also one scene where
- 1:29:53Drew and Damian Priests are locked up together and they're kind of pushing each other
- 1:29:58around, like just like two bulls, and the the ref kind of gets
- 1:30:05out of their way, and uh, I don't know if it was intentional
- 1:30:11or not, but he had to like quickly jump out of the ring and
- 1:30:17he kind of like hurt his leg. And I don't know if they were
- 1:30:19gonna use that as the ref getting injured or part of it, because then
- 1:30:24he climbed up on the side of the ropes and then that's when, yeah,
- 1:30:27you know, that's when they knock him out. But yeah, it
- 1:30:30almost I think it seemed like a setup for the spot. Yeah, it
- 1:30:34was very much, very well disguised. Yeah yeah, But to me,
- 1:30:42dude, the best part of this, the best fucking part is when that
- 1:30:45ref came running down. They had the camera work for once. For once,
- 1:30:50I will give you guys props on your fucking camera work. He's running
- 1:30:55down to the ring. They haven't panned all the way out, so you
- 1:30:57can't see who the fuck it is, right, there's no use it brilliant,
- 1:31:00brilliant thus far. And then you show the referee but from behind and
- 1:31:05we can't see it, but the crowd can start seeing it. The people
- 1:31:11who are close can see it, but not the people in the Titan tron
- 1:31:14because they are seeing the camera crowd. The crowd didn't give it away because
- 1:31:17they had brilliant fucking camera work. I noticed it because of the hair,
- 1:31:24and I was like, no, fucking away, Like that is sea.
- 1:31:27I'm punk, That is fucking Sea umpunk. And I called it like before
- 1:31:30the pay per view, I was like one hundred percent. Because Andrew goes,
- 1:31:33do you think Sampunk's gonna interfere? I said one hundred percent. I
- 1:31:39was like, I saw him in Scotland. There's no way in fuck that
- 1:31:41man's flying all the way to Scotland to not do something, ain't no way.
- 1:31:45So he ain't going to Scotland for an ad to do autographs. So
- 1:31:50he's furthering the story, the feud. It's been brilliant. They kept this
- 1:31:56feud on the back burner. This man has been injured. They found a
- 1:32:00way to keep it interesting and to build it and build it and build it
- 1:32:03to now we're at the point where it is legit bigger than the world title,
- 1:32:12that world title. It's not bigger than I may not say the WWT
- 1:32:15title, but it's bigger than the world title right now because of who holds
- 1:32:18the world title. It's just bigger than it. So yeah, Drew leaving
- 1:32:24here with nothing again. It's great because the crowd fucking hated it. The
- 1:32:31people flipping Punk off and as they're walking out the arena, they're chanting cm
- 1:32:39cunt. I love it. I love it because you know what, when
- 1:32:45you get all the way back here to the States, we love them.
- 1:32:50We're not. You can't see m cunt. But for where it was,
- 1:32:56the way they furthered the story and screw Drew again, I loved it.
- 1:33:02Now with that said, Monday Night transition right translated Okay, so like this,
- 1:33:14we're gonna talk about all this, but this isn't this is good Raw.
- 1:33:18We haven't had a good Monday Night Raw in a while. And we
- 1:33:24had seth rawlins Return, we had damaged control issues. We had more lived,
- 1:33:33Yes, we had more live and dominic. We had bron breaker in
- 1:33:36the icy title Hunt, Drew McIntyre quits Uncle Howdie, and the White Six
- 1:33:44debut, and Otis is done with Chad Gable. This all happened in the
- 1:33:49raw after And I want to say I might enjoy enjoyed Raw more than I
- 1:33:56enjoyed Classes the Castle. Well, I mean, Raw was definitely more interesting
- 1:34:00than like lash matches, but they, like I said at the beginning,
- 1:34:05they were all predictable. Other than the bullshit with the women's tag title,
- 1:34:10I'm pretty sure all of them went down pretty much exactly as we expected,
- 1:34:14whereas raws where we got some actual, some actual development, some actual storyline
- 1:34:20progression. Like you said, with Drew just quitting, because I know,
- 1:34:26I'm pretty sure we all thought he was just gonna come out here and just
- 1:34:28completely rage out and flip shit and call out seeing punk and say punk,
- 1:34:31I watch you and someone's laugh and blah blah blah blah blah. But instead
- 1:34:34he turned every he turned people's expectations on their head and just was just,
- 1:34:42you know, depressed and just said I'm done, I quit, which we
- 1:34:45all know he ain't really quitting. Obviously he's gonna come back at some point.
- 1:34:50But I think what the molly gripe with that segment is the fact that
- 1:34:59I think I think it could have been executed just a little bit better,
- 1:35:01like Drew did his part, but the fact that if you're trying to get
- 1:35:06people to quote unquote believe that he's actually quitting, then rather than having the
- 1:35:15general manager of Raw meet him at the entranceway, it should have been Triple
- 1:35:19H. And it should have felt like a bigger deal, like I'm not
- 1:35:25quitting, because now you could just think he maybe he's quitting Raw, you
- 1:35:30know, yeah it's Raw, and decides to try to jump the SmackDown or
- 1:35:35something. Maybe he shows up on SmackDown this Friday or something. But if
- 1:35:39you wanted to make it seem like he's actually quitting air quotes WW, the
- 1:35:44Triple Ah should have been the one to meet him or to try to stop
- 1:35:48him, which they did show in a backstage segment him talking with Triple AH
- 1:35:54and saying I'm done, I'm quitting. But then right back to Adam Pearson.
- 1:35:57You know that's where the if you're trying to get us to believe it,
- 1:36:02you gotta blur the lines more. And we know Adam Pierce is kfade,
- 1:36:08Triple H is real. So if you want somebody to think something is
- 1:36:12real, you gotta go with the thing that people perceive as being real or
- 1:36:15the thing that actually is real. Triple H is the real head of the
- 1:36:20content. So if you want us to think that this guy is really quitting,
- 1:36:28then the guy who's actually in charge needs to be the one trying to
- 1:36:30stop them, not not the KFA manager, the actual manager. So that's
- 1:36:36my only gripe with that segment. Other than that, I thought it was
- 1:36:39good Again. I already talked about Otis and Chad and that finally developing and
- 1:36:45finally going somewhere, and I've already said my thoughts on where I think that
- 1:36:50where their storyline could potentially go, or could have potentially gone if they had
- 1:36:55murdered Chad at the end of the Damn Raw with the YA six debut,
- 1:37:00which so about this Obviously it worked with the fans. They popped huge for
- 1:37:12it. They're over for it. But as Doyle said in our discord when
- 1:37:17he shared his thoughts on it, I'm kind of in agreement with Doyle and
- 1:37:23what he said. Basically, it's hard to still believe in supernatural stuff like
- 1:37:34this in twenty twenty four. If that's the route that they're going with this,
- 1:37:42the whole supernatural element, it's we're past the age of characters. We
- 1:37:50get these people are playing characters on TV, but they're characters that are extensions
- 1:37:58of themselves or that are still based on a level of realism. Like,
- 1:38:02you know, Chelsea Green isn't playing some she doesn't have this crazy elaborate backstory.
- 1:38:10She's basically just playing like a Karen or somebody who always play complaints to
- 1:38:15management. But it's also super enthusiastic for her friends and supportive of them and
- 1:38:21just being super annoying to everyone else who's not her friend. That's based in
- 1:38:28realism. It's not like she's like, oh, I have this family girl,
- 1:38:31and I grew up in so Call and I have this idea. They're
- 1:38:35not you know, stretching our you know, capacity to believe who her character
- 1:38:44is doing this thing with the whites and them, you're stretching that to a
- 1:38:51degree, and I don't know. Granted, the fact that it's connected with
- 1:38:57Bray White is probably the only reason why some like this will be able to
- 1:39:00work and get over. And maybe it can work, maybe it can't get
- 1:39:03over. Maybe they you know, they have a plan in place that will
- 1:39:09make this thing work, but it depends on how they play it. If
- 1:39:15they really try to lean into supernatural aspects of it, then then yeah,
- 1:39:21this this could fall dead and fall flat if they go the route of it
- 1:39:28just being I guess pseudo horror ish type thing, or just a whole lot
- 1:39:35of mental mind games being played with people or playing on people's fears, and
- 1:39:41they keep it some keep it grounded to a certain extent, and maybe maybe
- 1:39:46they treat the Y six like some sort of evasion thing where it they're not
- 1:39:53necessarily heals or baby faces, but they're just a threat to everybody or anybody
- 1:40:00particular time, which seems like it could be a possibility. Given that they
- 1:40:03took out Chad Gable and Gunter, and I think there were some other people
- 1:40:10who were laid out, then maybe this can work. But it's still TBD.
- 1:40:17I mean, at the very least, w W got what they wanted.
- 1:40:20They got the entire wrestling world talking, and you can't ask for much
- 1:40:29more than that. But they really gonna have to explain to me how the
- 1:40:32fund Chad Gables still alive after taking a bullet to the head. Yeah,
- 1:40:41yeah, I think it. Uh, let me let me rewind here a
- 1:40:44little bit. I'll get I want to talk about that, then I want
- 1:40:46to talk about seth Rons's back. Oh yeah, dude, Like I thought
- 1:40:53this man was gonna be out for a while. I thought he was gonna
- 1:40:56be out for the rest of the year. I thought he see him at
- 1:40:59all, you know what, Like the man's a fucking workhorse. That's the
- 1:41:01problem. This man can't he loves the ring. He can't stay away.
- 1:41:05His wife can't do it, and you know, I respect them for it.
- 1:41:09But man, you everybody, every wrestler has like a bump meter,
- 1:41:14and you can only take so many bumps in your career before like that's it.
- 1:41:17Like you just can't do him anymore. You're gonna become just old and
- 1:41:21britle and he just can't take those bumps anymore. So I always worry about
- 1:41:25that with with guys like Seth Rollins, like that bump card Man, like
- 1:41:30it's gonna be getting up there soon, like aj Styles is another one's getting
- 1:41:32up there soon too with these bumps. So I wanted him to take some
- 1:41:39time off. But I mean, think about this, Drey. The man
- 1:41:45goes back. He wants a title shot against the man who now has his
- 1:41:50title, didn't beat him for the title, but just has his title.
- 1:41:55Right, I get it, you want it back, right, so he's
- 1:41:59get the title match. I'm all for it. Right, You're gonna beat
- 1:42:02the You're gonna beat the original champion, you know, the guy who held
- 1:42:06it for such a long time. We're gonna beat him one on one.
- 1:42:10I get it. But imagine if we seth Rollins would win it, and
- 1:42:15then we get seth Rollins versus Gunther as Summer Slam. That would be more
- 1:42:20credible for Gunther to win a world title over seth Rollins. Then it would
- 1:42:25be then guntherro versus Damian Priest. Do you feel me? I hear you.
- 1:42:32But do we really want to see seth Rollins come back just to win
- 1:42:35the title, just to drop it a month later? I know it's so
- 1:42:40soon. That's the problem. It's like he just did that, like he
- 1:42:45just held on so and and gave Drew supposedly and then Loki and turned Damien
- 1:42:54priest to rub with the cash by dropping the title. That's and and see
- 1:42:59that, and that's the other thing. Like it doesn't make as much as
- 1:43:03of a nice It was a nice surprise seeing Seth Rolins back on Raw.
- 1:43:10It came out of nowhere. It was nice. It was a good surprise.
- 1:43:12I thought he was just popping up just to you know, just to
- 1:43:15pop up, like, hey, I miss you guys, show up,
- 1:43:16YadA, YadA. I was surprised when it turned into oh, he's about
- 1:43:20to have a match with Drew at money in the bank. Granted, the
- 1:43:25PLI is less than two weeks away, so they got to get the ball
- 1:43:28rolling fast, which they did it. Raw did an excellent job of getting
- 1:43:30the ball rolling towards their next pole quick, faster than a hurry. But
- 1:43:35man, honestly, I don't think Raw needs Seth Rollins right now. I
- 1:43:42think they've been doing good without him. They've had compelling storylines that are interesting,
- 1:43:46even if I don't enjoy all of them, Like the Chad Sammy's Ain
- 1:43:51Alpha Academy storyline. I don't enjoy it, but that doesn't take away from
- 1:43:56the fact that it is still a good storyline. It's compelling, and the
- 1:44:00fans are invested in it. The Live Dam thing is arguably one of the
- 1:44:03most probably one of the hottest storylines going right now. I think Drew as
- 1:44:09the champion right now was is he over? Like hell? No, he's
- 1:44:15a heel. He's supposed to be a freaking hell. But there was room
- 1:44:18for him to build up as the champion and hold it down. I don't
- 1:44:24think he I don't know if they feel like he needs a rub from Seth
- 1:44:29at money in the bank to further establish himself or what, But yeah,
- 1:44:33I just feel like they don't need Seth roins right now. I think I
- 1:44:39would have I would have preferred him again, just be out for the rest
- 1:44:43of the year, give us time to miss you. We barely had time
- 1:44:45to really miss you, and all of a sudden you're back and about to
- 1:44:48have a match like it just it feels rushed, like not him having them,
- 1:44:56yeah, him jumping right back into his house seam, but him just
- 1:44:59coming back already from wrestlemedia. I mean, that was just that was just
- 1:45:03two months ago. You tell me, just two months out is all you
- 1:45:08needed from all that shit you was talking about all them injuries, some about
- 1:45:12your back and your knee and all that stuff, and you just need to
- 1:45:15sit at the crib for two months, that's it. I'm not buying that,
- 1:45:23especially with the wife contract being up and now she at the crib.
- 1:45:28So what was it? Y'all just tagged in and tagged out, like are
- 1:45:30you here all right? Tag in? Huh? Which they don't need ain't
- 1:45:38neither one of them struggling with the cash. Neither one of them needs it.
- 1:45:43And especially when we know Becky about to have a hell of a payday
- 1:45:46when she decided to come back. Yep, they gonna run them dollars for
- 1:45:53her. And I think didn't Seth just recently re signed. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:46:00that's another guy who recently re signed. So you know, so again
- 1:46:04you they got the money, they not hurting for it. They could have
- 1:46:09easily taken the rest of the year off. Yeah, and just give us,
- 1:46:15give the fans time to miss you, give yourself time away, heal
- 1:46:19up, and just come back. In twenty twenty five, one hundred hit
- 1:46:24the ground running. I honestly would have preferred that. As nice as it
- 1:46:27was to hear the music and see Seth out again, I could have done
- 1:46:32without him returning to n ring action. Yeah, man, I find either
- 1:46:45way. I love Seth Rawlins. He's at that part. He's at that
- 1:46:48part in his career where he's a hate face. Heel. I don't give
- 1:46:53a shit. I like Seth Rawllings. I just I just worry about his
- 1:46:56health, that's all. So I so I can see more Seth Rawlings all.
- 1:47:00Don't get me wrong, I love I like him too as well.
- 1:47:04The guy's been a workhorse the past ten months. Take some time off,
- 1:47:09bro, take some time off. There was a This was a window.
- 1:47:13This was a window with him being away for other people to rise up and
- 1:47:18take their spot at the top, like this was. This was Jay's window
- 1:47:24to submit himself as a top babyface, like when Stone Cold was out in
- 1:47:29two thousand and the Rock used that opportunity to submit himself as a number one
- 1:47:33baby face on the level of Stone Cold. That was his opportunity and stuff
- 1:47:42came back in two months. Mm hmmm, Like this, this really could
- 1:47:46have been it because basically, without Seth rawlins there. Jay was the de
- 1:47:50facto top babyface on RAW. Yeah, and he could have. Really it
- 1:47:57seemed like it was just starting to germinate as far as him making that claim
- 1:48:02to be in the top with this you know, his money in the bank
- 1:48:05speech. And maybe he can still do that, but it's gonna be a
- 1:48:10whole lot harder if we gotta hear put it out every week. We if
- 1:48:17we got that constant reminder of who the real top babyfaces every week on RAW,
- 1:48:23it's gonna be much harder for Jay to stake his claim to it now
- 1:48:29we I you know what, I'll talk about it. The Uncle Howdy return
- 1:48:36and the Sinister Friends so uh for those who don't know who which characters that
- 1:48:45returned for this Uncle Howdie's group we have here. Sister Abigail is played by
- 1:48:56Nicky Cross. Rambling Rabbit is played by Eric Rowan who used to be original
- 1:49:02og Uh whyatt family member Mercy. The Buzzard is Dexter Loomis if you remember
- 1:49:11Dexter Loomis, and Huscus is Joe Gasey. Now, for those who don't
- 1:49:15know who Joe Gasey is, he was on NXT for a while. Good
- 1:49:20Guy good guy and Uncle Howdie is bo Dallas Taylor Rotunda, so we truth.
- 1:49:29Yeah, dude, that was fucking great. That said that fucking picture.
- 1:49:32There's remembers that the sixth person is uh Alexa Bliss. Yeah, and
- 1:49:38you know, I I found it weird why they didn't put braun Strowman in,
- 1:49:44Like you would think that bron would have been a given to be in.
- 1:49:49I was very surprised they. I mean, I know he returned a
- 1:49:53little bit early, but couldn't they just hold on, you know, to
- 1:49:57him for a little bit until he returned in this I guess not. Maybe
- 1:50:00they have other plans for his character. But yeah, and it's not the
- 1:50:06way people are are. I've seen it printed. It's not the why it
- 1:50:11six like the number as people were assuming. Maybe we are assuming that there's
- 1:50:15going to be six characters. Is that the thing? Maybe we're assuming because
- 1:50:19it's supposed to be six, but it's really six s c K S six
- 1:50:27that's how they spell it. So maybe we just assume that they're six,
- 1:50:34because like I said, I assume that Bronz Struman may have been one at
- 1:50:38one point, and I assume that Alexa Bliss would also have debut. I
- 1:50:43wouldn't rule them out, though, I mean, they could be something.
- 1:50:47I think Alexa will probably still more than likely be a part of this when
- 1:50:54she does return. It could be one of those things that they just they
- 1:50:58don't want to give you everything at once, you know, they want to
- 1:51:01here's the initial. We got some other that will bring in, And I
- 1:51:05wouldn't rule out bron Strowman potentially becoming a part of it. Maybe he was.
- 1:51:11He's somebody who gets actively recruited in after the fact, like they try
- 1:51:15to bring like, hey, come back home, you long. They bring
- 1:51:17him his old mask. Yeah, he tries to fight it off, he
- 1:51:21tries to resist it. You know, I'm not that person anymore or whatever,
- 1:51:25and then he but he eventually caves because I mean, really ain't doing
- 1:51:28much of ship as a babyface, And honestly, I think him as a
- 1:51:32as a monstrous heal in his faction would probably be way more intimidating than this
- 1:51:36soul one big son of a bitch thing that runs around the rain does a
- 1:51:42trained Cornias Ship right now. He's honestly, he's more of a I almost
- 1:51:47like to say it's almost more of a comedy act right now. I know
- 1:51:50this comes out and does the same gimmicky ship, but it's like, you're
- 1:51:55not going anywhere when he couldn't put him with Ricochet when he came back.
- 1:52:00So maybe Ricoche would have stuck around more if you would have had that tag
- 1:52:02team back together because I enjoyed them as a tag team, or yeah,
- 1:52:08just hold off until you could have put him in the White six. But
- 1:52:13whatever. Yeah, I mean, that's not the only interesting thing he could
- 1:52:16do right now would be connected with them, you know, like get recruited
- 1:52:21into the Y six and then once he's in. Oh, now they got
- 1:52:26the one big son of a bitch in the Y six, and now he
- 1:52:28can truly be more of a monster than this goofy version that he's doing now.
- 1:52:34Yeah, yeah, uh, I mean that's all I got for about
- 1:52:45raw. I have some news. I just want to play the bumper because
- 1:52:47I haven't played the bumper in a while. Where you stein, Well,
- 1:53:02I got news for you news. It's been a while since I played that
- 1:53:12bumper. But so how bad do you want to see Goldberg come back?
- 1:53:20I don't neither do I Apparently, all of a sudden, now he wants
- 1:53:27to come back for one more match, No thank you. No, it's
- 1:53:32like every time he comes back, it's just more disappointing than the last.
- 1:53:39I mean, admittedly, I'm not opposed to Goldberg getting a final, official
- 1:53:44send off. I'm not opposed to any wrestler getting an official send off and
- 1:53:48giving the fans one final opportunity to say thank you, we appreciate you for
- 1:53:55what you've done, we love you, goodbye. I'm not opposed to that
- 1:54:00as long as it is that, and they unquestionably make it that, not
- 1:54:05just not Goldberg just randomly showing up and saying and then he has that pseudo
- 1:54:12lookby like, no, make it a thing, make it a thing,
- 1:54:15Make it official. I'm coming back for one more match. This is going
- 1:54:19to be my farewell match, and I am choosing So and So as my
- 1:54:25final opponent. Like Undertaker did with the bone yard thing. All right,
- 1:54:29we knew that was gonna like we knew that was going to be his final
- 1:54:32match. He made it official that it was his final match. You want
- 1:54:35to do that with Goldberg where he has a final match or maybe a final
- 1:54:42handful. I would even if they did that, I'd be okay with a
- 1:54:45couple of matches. If it was like a last run thing. I'm okay
- 1:54:48with that, but it has to be official and it has to be definitive.
- 1:54:51All right, Well, I'll throw you three names that I would probably
- 1:55:00joy scene if we have to either do one match or a series of three
- 1:55:03matches, Gunther show me Goldberg versus Gunther. No, I want to see
- 1:55:11just smash him, slap the ship. The only reason the reason why I
- 1:55:16say no is because I don't know if if Goldberg on a final run,
- 1:55:23not saying anything against him, but if it's a final run type of thing,
- 1:55:27I don't know if you want to have an official final run of a
- 1:55:30guy losing. I always think you should go out on your back, and
- 1:55:35I believe there's something to that as well. Yeah, you can go out
- 1:55:39on your back or you can go out with a wind, depending on how
- 1:55:41it's done. But if you're gonna make it like this is Goldberg's last run
- 1:55:45or his official thing, not like an extended run for months on end or
- 1:55:48anything, but like his final series of matches or so, depending on how
- 1:55:55you book it, I would think, because I don't know, it would
- 1:56:01really depending on how they book it and how they would do a storyline.
- 1:56:05If it's just one match then against Gunter, then I would say probably no,
- 1:56:11because I don't want to see I don't want to see him bring down
- 1:56:15Gunster in a match. And as good as I think Gunter is, UH
- 1:56:20don't know if he can pull a good match out of Goldberg. All Right,
- 1:56:26I got another one, Bobby Lashley. We saw Bobby Lashley versus Colberg,
- 1:56:32I mean verse Brockle. Now I want to see Bobby. That was
- 1:56:36a fucking disappointment and that did not live up to his expectations. Is this
- 1:56:42another match that's been too late to pull the trigger? Yep? Yep?
- 1:56:46All right, I got one more. I got one more brown Breaker that
- 1:56:55I would go for. Yes, I knew I'll be down for one.
- 1:56:59All right. I'll be down for a Goldberg bron Breaker match as long as
- 1:57:01Goldberg loses. Yeah, yeah, fear the spirit of the new Spirit,
- 1:57:06the faster Speir. Yeah. Now the question is would Goldberg be willing to
- 1:57:14take that fucking spirit from brown Breaker? Yeah? That motherfucker comes in you
- 1:57:17like him? Yeah, man, Yeah, I'd be down for that as
- 1:57:26again, as long as Goldberg loses yep. And that's where the cond the
- 1:57:32problem lies is I don't know if Goldberg would want to lose in his last
- 1:57:38match, Like, I don't know, I don't know if I even want
- 1:57:41to see Goldberger losing his last match. I think if it's his final farewell
- 1:57:45match, we want to see Goldberg go out as Goldberg. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:57:48let him have a match with somebody and then you know, maybe not
- 1:57:51a two minute squash match for his last match, but at least of them
- 1:57:55have a you know, if he can pull off a ten to fifteen minute
- 1:57:58match when somebody have that, but then give us the classic Goldberg finish,
- 1:58:02the spear, you know, the comeback, the spear, the jackhammer,
- 1:58:06the one two three, Yeah, and then all right, thank you,
- 1:58:12props, cheers Goldberg, thank you on the long, good career. And
- 1:58:17I think if it's going to be an official send off that I think that
- 1:58:21I would rather see that. Now, if it's a final run where he
- 1:58:26comes back and has a couple of matches, yeah, then yeah, I'm
- 1:58:28okay with him going out on his back, But if it's just one match,
- 1:58:31i'd rather. I think I'd rather see Goldberg just win his last match
- 1:58:34and right off into the sunset. Now, speaking of things that that ran
- 1:58:42off into the sunset, but have returned. They are gonna be bringing back
- 1:58:46bad Blood. We're gonna be seeing it October fifth in Atlanta, Georgia at
- 1:58:53the State Farm Arena. Bad Blood. Last time I saw bad Blood was
- 1:58:58in two thousand and four when we had Triple H versus Shawn Michaels and the
- 1:59:00Hell and the Cell match. There's also bad Blood in two thousand and three
- 1:59:05when we had Triple H as the World Heavyweight Champion versus Kevin Nash and the
- 1:59:10Hell in the Cell with Mick Foley as a special guest referee. And let's
- 1:59:15not forget about bad Blood in your house October fifth. Maybe that's why they're
- 1:59:19bringing it back for the anniversary day. October fifth. Nineteen ninety seven is
- 1:59:24Saint Louis, Missouri debut YEP, Shawn Michaels versus The Undertaker and the Helen
- 1:59:30Cell match, the number one contender for the WWF World Heavyweight Title at Survivor
- 1:59:35Series, and the debut of Kine. That's gotta be Kaye definitely. Honestly,
- 1:59:45all those matches go back and rewatch all of them fantastic, So I'm
- 1:59:50assuming we're gonna be getting a Helena Cell if I weard a pinpoint two guys
- 1:59:57who I think would be in Helena sell If I'm going it's so early to
- 2:00:00predict this, I can yes, dude, Drew Punk what who dude?
- 2:00:09The feud is so hot right now you could even do hell in the sun
- 2:00:12now. But if they want to stretch it out that far, I'm off
- 2:00:15for it, Like Helen is Celties too. Honestly, I don't know.
- 2:00:18I'm scared of Punk risk in his body, but whatever, do it,
- 2:00:23give it to me. But yeah, that's a ways from now. I'm
- 2:00:30glad that they bringing I like when they bring my old pay per views,
- 2:00:33I'm glad we're getting. You know, we don't have pay per views like
- 2:00:35Great Balls of Fire hanging around anymore. But yeah, what we're gonna say
- 2:00:41dry Okay, assuming that that was the best the route they potentially go down,
- 2:00:45then yeah, I'm for it. Outside of that, and I'm kind
- 2:00:47of indifferent on bringing back the old w w p's like bad Blood and stuff
- 2:00:54like that, but this does give me the opportunity to say that if w
- 2:00:58w WE is going to bring back old pay per view names, then I
- 2:01:04will forever and always advocate for two of my favorite pay per views from the
- 2:01:11old WCW days, one of which they have brought back and they do sporadically
- 2:01:15bring back occasionally, and that is the Great American Bash. I've always loved
- 2:01:20that pay per view. That one always has a special place in my heart.
- 2:01:25It was basically WCW SummerSlam. It was basically their number two of the
- 2:01:30year. It's also the pay per view where Sting won his first championship defeating
- 2:01:38Rid Flair Great American Bash nineteen ninety. I'm not ninety. It was nineteen
- 2:01:45ninety in Baltimore, Maryland. Sting b Flair for the first time to win
- 2:01:50his first ever WW title. So, I mean, I've always loved that
- 2:01:54one and another one that I wish they would bring back because they own it
- 2:01:59now they have not used it. I've always thought it would be perfect,
- 2:02:03a great one to fit in their lineup somewhere, especially now with NXT they
- 2:02:09could use it for NXT. That would be Starkad. That was WCW's WrestleMania.
- 2:02:17It wasn't in March, it was at the end of the year.
- 2:02:20Starkad is a legendary pay per view in wrestling history. It's always been the
- 2:02:28case. It's always been like I say, it was WCW's WrestleMania, and
- 2:02:32now that you own that and that you're not utilizing that feels like a feels
- 2:02:39like a missed opportunity. I would love to see WWE bring back Starkad Like
- 2:02:45I said, maybe not for the main roster because obviously egos are a thing,
- 2:02:48and then you know, I don't know that they want to have WCW
- 2:02:53the old top WCW pay per viewers on WWE's lineup and try to match that
- 2:03:00level of expectation that may come with it. But you could use it on
- 2:03:03an XT and you could make it n xts quote unquote WrestleMania, make that
- 2:03:11their big their big show over the year, even if it falls on WrestleMania
- 2:03:15weekend. You got WWE WrestleMania and n XT Starcade or something. That doesn't
- 2:03:23sound that great now that I'm saying it out loud, but I mean still
- 2:03:25something. Yeah. But that's just me as far as, like, you
- 2:03:30know, bringing back old pay per view names, because obviously they ain't not
- 2:03:33going to bring it back in your house no more or nothing like that.
- 2:03:36That's very much dated, especially because they're you ain't actually going to nobody's house
- 2:03:42no more, or giving away houses no more like you used to. So
- 2:03:49yeah, that's frue. Uh yeah, I mean that's all I had,
- 2:03:55Like Newswise, I only had like small things. Yeah, I mean,
- 2:04:00did you know do McIntyre deactivate all his social media accounts right after quitting?
- 2:04:04Yeah? Sure, keep the k fable ob Drew, you know. Outside
- 2:04:10of that. Yeah. The only other thing that's really going on in the
- 2:04:13in wrestling right now is obviously the NXT TNA crossover that's been happening with Jordan
- 2:04:19Grace having her showing up at NXT challenged Roxane Peress for the NXT Women's Championship
- 2:04:29at uh at what it was a battle NXT battleground in Vegas, which they
- 2:04:32had a good match. They had a really good match, and Jordan Grace
- 2:04:36looked great in that match. Obviously, Roxane Perez won and they've continued this
- 2:04:42partnership since then. I believe I forgot the woman's name, but she showed.
- 2:04:45They had a woman from NXT show up at h TNA's was a Bound
- 2:04:51for Glory pay per view I think, and challenged Jordan Grace for her title.
- 2:05:00I think that was a bit uneven given that TNA sent the Knockouts champion
- 2:05:05Jordan Grace to challenge the NXT Women's champion, and then they sent WWE in
- 2:05:12turn just kind of sent a very low card person to challenge Jordan Grace.
- 2:05:17I mean, they could have at least gave him Natalia, I know right
- 2:05:21where natal is always are good And I agree because I totally one somebody in
- 2:05:28the caliber of Natalia, because I mean, Natalia ain't never seen a l
- 2:05:30she didn't like, so it ain't gonna hurt her. I think, though,
- 2:05:34give it time. I think they're just feeling it out. I think
- 2:05:39this is fucking awesome though, because Jeff Hardy and and mattch just signed with
- 2:05:44TNA. So the fact that we could probably see them crossover, that's a
- 2:05:48good possibility. That's the thing that a lot of people keep jumping on that
- 2:05:53I'm not sure I necessarily want to see. Like a lot of people are
- 2:05:56looking at this and seeing, oh, could we see old w W names
- 2:06:00were in TNA pop backup in WWE. Yes, that's cute, Yes,
- 2:06:04that's nice. But I would much rather see homegrown or more in house TNA
- 2:06:11people show up. Oh yeah, for sure, I would like to see
- 2:06:14him now. Granted, what they did on NXT this past Tuesday when they
- 2:06:18had the twenty five man over the Top Rope Battle Royal to determine the number
- 2:06:24one contender for Trip Williams NXT title, that I think they kind of messed
- 2:06:30up, but I'm going to give them time to cook with it. Because
- 2:06:34they had two guys from TNA show up. The first one names escape names
- 2:06:42is. The first one's name escapes me. But the other person that showed
- 2:06:46up was I was just looking at his fucking name, give me a second.
- 2:06:55I forgot the dude's name Joe Hendry, yeah, oh oh yeah,
- 2:07:00and showed up to a major pop like he got a substantial pop from the
- 2:07:09crowd when he showed up, even gave they even gave him the mic and
- 2:07:13let him cut a quick promo before entering the Battle Royal and almost immediately getting
- 2:07:17tossed out like he showed up, got a huge pop, cut a promo,
- 2:07:24ripping on everybody basically saying, y'all saying this is twenty five men over
- 2:07:28the top row battle role. That's not true. I see twenty four men
- 2:07:30and one phenomenon or something like that or the was sensation, I think is
- 2:07:34what he called himself. And then he went in the ring and they all
- 2:07:38the xt T guys basically jumped him, beat the shut out him, and
- 2:07:40tossed him up back out. Okay, fine, whatever that much to the
- 2:07:46to the chagrin of the NXT audience, who booed the hell out of that
- 2:07:50happening and started chanting bullshit after it happened. But then we wound up with
- 2:07:58and an XT guy whinning and becoming number one champ, number one contender again.
- 2:08:03I'm struggling to remember the young kids name, but he's a fast rising
- 2:08:09up and comer NXD. He's like over his shit, yeah, Tod Like
- 2:08:16I don't keep enough eyes on XT, but like, honestly, this whole
- 2:08:22teena crossover. I mean, if they keep doing more and more of this,
- 2:08:26I'm kind of getna interested. I'm getting very intrigued they're NXT is it
- 2:08:35is improving. It's definitely improving, like they've been gradually getting I'm not saying
- 2:08:41everything in NXT is working right now, but they are doing much better at
- 2:08:46giving people a reason to at least tune into something every week. Maybe not
- 2:08:52the whole show, but they're giving you something to say, like come in
- 2:08:56to check out this, and then in the midst of you tuning in for
- 2:09:00or that thing, you can see what else TNA has to offer, right
- 2:09:05and that that that's what they're doing really good right now. Like I said,
- 2:09:09this NXT TNA crossover is just starting out, and I think there's more
- 2:09:15to be seen from it. Like the fact that Joe Hendry got immediately tossed
- 2:09:18out in the Battle Royal, I don't think that's it, and it was
- 2:09:22Javon Evans, that's the one who won the who won the Battle Royal.
- 2:09:24So we've got Javon Evans, who's basically a rookie in NXT, is now
- 2:09:30the current number one contender for Trick Williams NXT Championship. But it seems like
- 2:09:35that's probably not the end of this storyline, right I think they're probably gonna
- 2:09:41they're heading towards probably some sort of fatal four way match. Like I think
- 2:09:46Joe Hendry may find his way back into this match somehow to continue the TNA
- 2:09:52crossover, and probably Sean Spears may find his way into it as well,
- 2:09:56because he was the last person. It was him and Javan Evans were the
- 2:10:01last two remaining in the Battle Royal, and then later that night, or
- 2:10:07if not Sean Spears finding his way into it, I mean Ethan Page,
- 2:10:11because he got eliminated from the Battle Royal, challenged Javon Evans to a match
- 2:10:16later that night on NXT and beat him clean. Yeah, and beat him.
- 2:10:22So the guy who just became the number one contender earlier that show lost
- 2:10:26a match later that night. So now Ethan Page has a valid argument for
- 2:10:31him to be in the match. And like I said, I think Joe
- 2:10:35Hendry may find a way to snake his way into it just for that TNA
- 2:10:39factor. So I think people are kind of react overreacting in the moments of
- 2:10:46the things that they're saying, because yeah, a lot of people really ripped
- 2:10:48on the whole NXCT and a crossover after this Battle Royal I have. It's
- 2:10:54like, what's the point of this shit? They're doing this just to what
- 2:10:56to show that TNA guys aren't even on the level of XT people and this
- 2:11:01this is benefiting NXT and YadA YadA, which there's some validity validity to that.
- 2:11:07I will say, like WWE is gonna benefit far more from this crossover
- 2:11:13than TNA will. I don't know that this happening is gonna make people suddenly
- 2:11:18start tuning into TNA. I guess probably not gonna make me tune in because
- 2:11:22I couldn't tell you what the fuck TNA comes on for me to try to
- 2:11:26tune into it in the first damn place when it comes on or nothing.
- 2:11:33Yeah, I had to scrolling search, scrolling search, right, so I
- 2:11:35would legit have to google that shit, Like wouldn't the fuck does TNA come
- 2:11:39on? So I don't know that they're gonna get the rub that way.
- 2:11:41In terms of the company itself, where TNA can benefit is from certain stars
- 2:11:48getting the rub from showing up on WWE on NXT and that elevating their profile.
- 2:11:56Like Jordan Grace is the prime example of that. After the showing she
- 2:12:01had at the Rumble earlier this year and then the reactions she got to showing
- 2:12:05up at NXT and then having that match with Roxane Perez, people are already
- 2:12:13saying they want to see her in WWE. Like if she wasn't under contract
- 2:12:16to TNA, she could sign with WWE right now and either show up in
- 2:12:24NXT or show up on the main roster like she she's gotten that much of
- 2:12:28a rub just from her few appearances on in WWE and looking good in those
- 2:12:35appearances. Somebody like Joe Hendry, depending on how this works out from he
- 2:12:39could get that rub in that elevation in his profile. Like I said,
- 2:12:45would that translate to any elevation for TNA. Maybe not. Will it translate
- 2:12:50to an elevation for Joe Hendry, Absolutely, it could absolutely benefit somebody like
- 2:12:54him. So that's kind of where it seems to be at right now.
- 2:13:01Ww is definitely benefiting TNA not so much, but certain stars in TNA are
- 2:13:09definitely benefiting from it. It appears well, I guess the only time will
- 2:13:16tell. Yeah, I mean, I'm enjoying it. So maybe I'll tune
- 2:13:24in to TNA this week and see what's going on, see if I can
- 2:13:28withstand it for a couple of minutes. So we do have a TNA an
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