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WWE Raw 5/18/26 Review | SHOCKING RETURN For Brock Lesnar As He DESTROYS OBA FEMI · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: What is going on? Guys? It is another Monday Night.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome May eighteenth, twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Monster here with you for another mundane night Raw review.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny we were talking about the Oba
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  Speaker 1: Femi Open Challenge last week. Now it almost seemed like
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: they were running out of ideas. Last week. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find anybody to accept the Open Challenge. He had to
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: go to the back and he found Angel and Berdo.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: He had to drag them out there and beat them up.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I don't think they can get
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  Speaker 1: six more weeks out of this, a few more weeks
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  Speaker 1: at the most. How are they going to end this
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  Speaker 1: Open Challenge gimmick? Like? What is the end game here
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  Speaker 1: for the Open Challenge? Well, we got our answer tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We found out the Open Challenge is over. But the
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  Speaker 1: reason that the Open Challenge is over is not the
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  Speaker 1: reason I was expecting. The biggest story coming out of
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  Speaker 1: Raw tonight, the biggest shock, the biggest surprise, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the only real thing to even focus on news wise
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  Speaker 1: coming out of this show, because it was a very
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  Speaker 1: nothing show otherwise, was the return of brock Lesner. He
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  Speaker 1: is in fact not retired. Now, I was not convinced
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  Speaker 1: he was retired officially, but I certainly was not expecting
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  Speaker 1: to see him tonight. That was quite the surprise seeing
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  Speaker 1: him pop up tonight two weeks out, less than two
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  Speaker 1: weeks out from Clash in Italy. We have a Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Night's mad An event coming up this weekend. This was
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  Speaker 1: not on my Bengo card of things that I was expecting.
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  Speaker 1: But if you go back to the WrestleMania review when
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  Speaker 1: he lost to Obafemi and everybody was talking about, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, you know brock Brock is crying. Look how
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  Speaker 1: emotional he's getting in the middle of the and I said, eh,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really look like he's crying. To me. He looks
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  Speaker 1: like somebody who's trying to pretend that he's crying or
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  Speaker 1: trying to force himself to cry. I'm like, what are
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  Speaker 1: these people seeing that I'm not seeing that. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like do you see tears streaming down the man's face.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like somebody playing the role of someone who
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be crying. So I was not fully
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  Speaker 1: convinced that this man was retired. And then Mike Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: a PW Insider about a week or so ago had
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  Speaker 1: a report that said, even though WWE sort of outwardly
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  Speaker 1: is projecting that brock Lesner was retired, and I think
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  Speaker 1: they may have moved him to the alumni section on
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  Speaker 1: their website, that internally he was still listed on the
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  Speaker 1: active roster. And so here we are. Brock Lesnar comes out,
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  Speaker 1: he ambushes Oba Femi from behind, and he delivers four
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  Speaker 1: f fives and he leaves the man laying, and then
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  Speaker 1: we come to find out later on after the commercial break,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman handed a contract to Adam Pearson said, there's
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  Speaker 1: already a signature on the contract brock Legner. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm wondering if maybe we didn't see brock Lesner tonight,
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  Speaker 1: maybe this was his evil twin. Maybe the real brock
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  Speaker 1: is retired and this is his evil twin brock Legner,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what Paul Haman called him. But brock Legner
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  Speaker 1: has put his his John Hancock on the contract. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he put his cock on the contract, and all Obafemi
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  Speaker 1: has to do now is sign it and the match
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  Speaker 1: will be official for Clash in Italy. So that was
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  Speaker 1: the big development coming out of this show. Tonight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at this. First of all, does this surprise me? No?
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  Speaker 1: Does this disappoint me? Yes? Because I still maintain that
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  Speaker 1: that match of WrestleMania, or brock put him over and
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  Speaker 1: then had his little retire and send off would have
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: been legitimately the perfect way for brock Lesnar to ride
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  Speaker 1: off into the sunset like that would have been the
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  Speaker 1: perfect closing chapter if that was the last match, if
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  Speaker 1: that was the end of his career, being able to
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  Speaker 1: go out putting over the next big thing in the company,
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  Speaker 1: getting the kind of response from the crowd in Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas that he got, waving to the crowd, getting this
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  Speaker 1: big ovation, that one last walk up that long ramp,
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  Speaker 1: right what a big sendoff a WrestleMania, fifty thousand plus people.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been a great sendoff for brock. I said,
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  Speaker 1: there was no need for him to come back and
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  Speaker 1: extend this. But this is brock Lesnar. Brock Lesner doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give a shit about that. Brock Lesner doesn't give a
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  Speaker 1: shit about happy moments. He doesn't care about his legacy.
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  Speaker 1: This is his legacy right here. When the day comes
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  Speaker 1: that he physically can't do it anymore, or he genuinely
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't want to do this anymore. Then he'll retire,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll you'll probably retire with very little fanfare. But
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime he's got more business to transact. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get a rematch at Clash in Italy. Brock
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  Speaker 1: Lesnar is going to win that rematch because there's not
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  Speaker 1: a doubt in my mind that they're going to want
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  Speaker 1: to get a trilogy out of this. So the only
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  Speaker 1: question is do they do it at SummerSlam, which is
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, which could be weird because you would imagine that,
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  Speaker 1: at least with some fans, Brock would be sort of
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  Speaker 1: the hometown guy, not that he lives there anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: he's got his roots in Minnesota. So do they do
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  Speaker 1: the final match at SummerSlam, which would be a big
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  Speaker 1: match to do on that show, or do the Saudis
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  Speaker 1: want him? And do they do it at Night of Champions,
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  Speaker 1: which is coming up at the end of next month,
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  Speaker 1: because that really is the only question at this point,
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  Speaker 1: and to do the trilogy, Brock has to win the
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  Speaker 1: second match. I'm not saying that I'm in love with
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  Speaker 1: the idea again, if it were up to me, it
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  Speaker 1: would have been when one and done, Oba beats him
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  Speaker 1: and moves on. But it's been pretty clear that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have another plan for Obafemi. This was the plan.
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  Speaker 1: The plan was always to run this back. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe for a second this was a panic move. They
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  Speaker 1: went to Brock and said, oh my god, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have anything for Oba to do. Can you please come back?
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  Speaker 1: This was the plan from the beginning. It's pretty apparent
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  Speaker 1: now this is why Obafemi didn't come right out and
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  Speaker 1: challenge Roman Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do an extended program here between these two, very
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  Speaker 1: similar to what they did with Brock and Cody. So
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  Speaker 1: if it follows that blueprint from twenty twenty three, it
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  Speaker 1: actually would probably make more sense for them to have
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: the blowoff match at SummerSlam, and ultimately what ended up
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  Speaker 1: happening there, what happened Brock put Cody over and then
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  Speaker 1: he disappeared for two years. So we're likely seeing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing play out here with Oba. What he did
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  Speaker 1: to Oba tonight doesn't It doesn't bother me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he got attacked from behind, He got laid out by
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  Speaker 1: somebody who was pissed off that he got beaten. It
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed at WrestleMania, Like, I don't want to hear anybody
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  Speaker 1: talking about how, oh you know they did Oba dirty
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  Speaker 1: Tonight He's buried, Like no, like that doesn't concern me
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  Speaker 1: at all. Oba will be fine. I just didn't think
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  Speaker 1: that this was necessary. Evidently they fell differently. Best part
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  Speaker 1: about it, I guess, is that we're now done with
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  Speaker 1: the open challenge. Oba now has an opponent, he has
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  Speaker 1: a target, and we're gonna get I'll tell you something
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  Speaker 1: else too, This Clash in Italy card. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you look at some of the developments over the last
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  Speaker 1: few days, this Clash in Italy card is shaping up
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty big card, bigger than Backlash, hell
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  Speaker 1: of a lot bigger than Saturday Night's made event this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but shaping up to be bigger than Backlash, because think
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  Speaker 1: about it, we not only have brock Legner against Oba Femei,
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  Speaker 1: but we have two championship matches. We didn't even get
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  Speaker 1: that at Backlash. We have the WWE Championship being defended,
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  Speaker 1: and we have the World Heavyweight Championship being defended. As
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  Speaker 1: we found out tonight, it will be tribal combat between
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu. I know you're all very
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  Speaker 1: you're all very concerned. Now, Oh my god, tribal combat,
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  Speaker 1: not tribal combat. I mean, that's worse than Mortal Kombat.
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  Speaker 1: Tribal combat is every WWE plunder match that you will
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  Speaker 1: ever see. But with Samoans, that's literally the only difference,
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  Speaker 1: literally the only difference. But that was made official tonight
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  Speaker 1: as well for Clash in Italy. And I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing a title change in that match,
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  Speaker 1: because the more I think about this, now that we
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  Speaker 1: know that they're doing Roman in fa Tu in a
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  Speaker 1: rematch here next week, not this weekend, but the weekend after,
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  Speaker 1: I really really really hate the idea of Jacob fought
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  Speaker 1: Too going out there and losing too in a row.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't sit right with me. They've done a
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  Speaker 1: very good job of building him up as this unstoppable
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  Speaker 1: monster that just goes out there and causes all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of chaos and just carnage everywhere he goes, and for
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  Speaker 1: him to go out and he lost clean to roam
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  Speaker 1: and a backlash, the idea of him going in there
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  Speaker 1: and back to back matches and losing that bothers me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that they're going to do a title change,
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  Speaker 1: But the more I think about it, now that we
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  Speaker 1: know it's official, they really should do a title change.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if we're being honest, I don't like the
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  Speaker 1: idea of Jacob losing two in a row like that,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see what they have in mind. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that match was made official. Becky Lynch and soul Ruka
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  Speaker 1: was made official, not for Italy though, that was made
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  Speaker 1: official for Saturday Nights made event which is coming up
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, And honestly, those are the key things on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Show. There were a few other things that
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: happened tonight. We had Seth Rollins in the main event
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: against Austin Theory. I mean, try not to fall asleep
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: just listening to me say that sentence. But they had,
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: you know, they had that. Obviously, they're picking up with
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  Speaker 1: things with Seth Rollins and Brown Breaker, and we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out if that gets added to the Italy card as well.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't, they haven't made that official yet or continuing
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: with Rollins in the vision they've kind of worked the
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: street profits in there. La Knight was back on the show.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe that was the other big story La Night showed.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Now we have people last couple of weeks thinking that
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: he was gone. Where is he? He got cut? He was
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: asked to take a pay cut and he said no,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: and he's gone from WWE. Yeah. No, he was back
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: on the show tonight and he confronted the ussos and
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: then later in the show he confronted Seth Rollins to
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: simply tell him, you're gonna need help tonight in the
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: main event against the Vision, but it won't be for
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: me because I'm out of here. And he took his
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: rolling luggage and off he went, and that was the
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: last we saw La Night for the rest of the night.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: So at least we know he's still gainfully employed. But
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: outside of that, I mean, what can I say? Raw
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: is what raw is? You know what raw is? Raw
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: is door Dash. In case you didn't know, DoorDash is
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: the official sponsor of Monday Night Raw. I don't see
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: how you can watch the show tonight and not come
• 11:23
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• 11:27
  Speaker 1: Night Raw. Oh. They reminded you of that many many
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: times tonight. We even had an official mascot make an appearance,
• 11:34
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• 11:42
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• 11:52
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• 11:58
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• 12:16
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• 13:45
  Speaker 1: for you there, good luck. Talk about this show. They
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: open Raw tonight the way that they've been closing Raw,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: so they at least change the formula up a little bit.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Usually they're closing the show at Roman Reigns showing up
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: late to work. He actually showed up to work on time. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: suv pulls up outside and out comes the world champion.
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  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce is there to try to stop him, saying,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: you want to listen to me. Last week, everything that
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: happened at the end of Raw wouldn't have happened because,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: if you remember, Adam Pierce wanted to fire him. He
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to fire Jacob fa tou so Roman said, look,
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  Speaker 1: none of that shit matters. I'm calling him out right now.
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  Speaker 1: And Pierce says, look, he wants to fire Fa Tou.
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  Speaker 1: They're cut off though by the sounds of Jacob Fatu's music.
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  Speaker 1: He is out on his way to the ring. He
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: comes out and he calls out Roman Reigns. Doesn't get
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns, though, he gets his errand boys. He gets
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: his young boys and outcome the USO's Jimmy is trying
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  Speaker 1: to be the voice of reason here because Jay has
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: a chair. Jimmy is trying to keep the peace and
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  Speaker 1: he makes it very to Jacob. He says, look, you
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  Speaker 1: lost it Backlash. You had to acknowledge the tribal check
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: in with this acknowledgement bullshit. You have to acknowledge the
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  Speaker 1: tribal chief instead. Look at you now you're about to
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  Speaker 1: be fired. So Jay he had enough of the talking.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: He tried to go after Jacob with the chair. Jacob,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: though he took care of Jay, he took care of Jimmy,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: put them both down with the Tonguan death grip, the
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  Speaker 1: dreaded tongue in death grip that could not win him
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  Speaker 1: a world championship at Backlash Roman's music hits, he comes down.
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  Speaker 1: The two of them come to blows in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the ring. Roman he went for a superman punch.
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  Speaker 1: He got caught though in the Tonguan death grip, so
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  Speaker 1: Jay was able to save Roman with a spear to Fatu.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Jimmy came off the top with an USO splash. They
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: hit a one D to Fa Tu. They got him
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  Speaker 1: tied up in the ropes. Roman laid into him with
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  Speaker 1: a superman punch. Usso's delivered multiple super kicks and then
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  Speaker 1: they freed fa Too and Roman leveled him with one
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  Speaker 1: final spear. So he and the USSOS they go to
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  Speaker 1: leave as Adam Pierce is coming out, and Roman tells Pierce,
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  Speaker 1: now you can do what you want. You want to
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  Speaker 1: fire him, go ahead and fire him. Do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: Before Pierce, though, has a chance to do so Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: who's down in the ring and he's selling his injuries,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: he's selling the beatdown. He gets on the microphone and
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  Speaker 1: he says Roman, tribal combat. So now Roman has to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: think about this, and Adam Pierce is like no, no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: no no no. Roman says, I accept because of course,
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  Speaker 1: so he accepts the challenge. So we are getting the
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  Speaker 1: third tribal combat match that WWE has done since twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. The first one, if you remember, was a
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  Speaker 1: Summer Slam match that year between Roman and Jay Usso
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  Speaker 1: and it fucking sucked. The second tribal combat match was
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  Speaker 1: on the debut episode of Raw Netflix last year. It
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: was Roman Reigns against Solo Sokoa for the Ufalafa as
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: La Knight would call it. So this would be number
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  Speaker 1: three and basically it as anything goes it is pinfall
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  Speaker 1: or submission only. I don't know if they may add
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  Speaker 1: a stipulation to it where the loser has to acknowledge
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the winner, which would kind of make sense for the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: storyline because this whole storyline is built on Jacob Fatu.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: You've got to acknowledge Roman Reigns, You've got to acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the tribal chief, which he refuses to do. So we'll
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: see if they add any other stipulations to it. Tribal
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  Speaker 1: combat means that the USOS could help out Roman. Tribal
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  Speaker 1: combat means that the USOS can come out there with Roman.
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  Speaker 1: It could be three on one. Does that mean Jacob
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: fa too is going to have to find some backup
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of his own would kind of make sense. Who would
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: that be? Who would that be? This one person who
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: he has been chummy with on SmackDown, Royce Keys not
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  Speaker 1: saying he will be involved. I'm just saying if Jacob
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  Speaker 1: needed a friend, he's got a friend over on SmackDown
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  Speaker 1: who could potentially get involved in this. And he's been
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: wrapped up with Solo's Sokoba because Solo has been trying
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to recruit him now for a few weeks. Again, as
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I said before, I personally I would like to see
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  Speaker 1: them do a title change. I don't know that they're
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: going to do it. I don't know that they're going
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to want to take that belt off Roman before we
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: get to Summer Slam. Roman, who originally looked like he
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't even going to be on Raw at all in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the month of June, was added back to a few
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: dates next month, so he'll be around a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're going to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: I just hate the idea of Jacob going in there
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  Speaker 1: and getting beaten twice. You know, you weren't good enough
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to win the World Heavyweight Championship the first time, so
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: let's run it back in the same fucking month and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: just this time with a stip and will beat you again.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I mean they did that a few years ago when
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Roman won the belt. Aj Styles was his first opponent
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: coming out of WrestleMania. They may have vented back to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: back pay per views. They had excellent matches A lost
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: both of those. They put Roman over aj in both
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: those matches, so it's not like they can't do that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: They probably will. But then where does Jacob Fatu go?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Does he fall in line? Does he finally acknowledge Roman?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Then what does he go? Crawling back to SmackDown with
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: his tailtuck between his legs. I'm just wondering what the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: what the endgame is in this for Jacob Fatu and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, I hope that it's something good. He
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: should stay in that upper mix. It would be very
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: easy though, for him to go in there and lose
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and then just kind of fall back down, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a couple of rungs down the ladder. I'd rather not
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: see that happen. You know, you want to try to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: make a new star and make a new star, you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: should be able to make a new star and keep
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: him at that level. I just hope that's what we
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: get out of this when this whole thing is over.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: We had Finn Balor one on one with JD. McDonough.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: This was their third meeting together, one win apiece, so
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this was the rubber match, and this time it was
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a street fight. So we got the obligatory plunder match.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We had tables and we had chairs, and we had
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: kendo sticks and they ended up in the crowd where
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: McDonough walked up one level and they were kind of
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in the lower bowl area and he did a moon
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: salt down onto Balor. After a commercial break, they were
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: back in the ring and we had some chair combat,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: first from Balor, then from McDonough. Balor sent McDonough through
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a table in the corner with a shotgun dropkick. Balor
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: went for the kudigrass. Mcdonoughthough was able to avoid it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: He had a busicho knee and then he hit a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: power bomb with a stack for a two count. Only
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: then he hit a moon salt for another near fall
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: off the top. McDonough set up another table in the ring,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: another slim gym table, plays Balor on top of it. Balor,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: though was able to recover, he crotched McDonough on the ropes,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: placed him on the table. Balor goes up top and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, Dominic mysterio is here and Dominic mysterio
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: he gets involved, Rinse repeat. We see this shit every week.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: That allowed McDonough to superplex Baller through the table. It's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a hard landing two for both of them. Balor, though
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was able to kick out at two, so don At
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: this point, he throws some trash cans into the ring.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Should stuff the show in one of them, so Dom
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and McDonough they attacked Balor with the trash cans. JD
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: held Balor in place for a six to one nine
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: as Dom comes off the ropes, though Balor reversed out
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: of it. JD ended up taking the sixty one nine instead.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So then he stuffed McDonough into one of the trash cans.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: He blasted him with a shotgun druck, and he finished
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: him off with the kuda grass right on top of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the garbage can covered him and he got the win.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So this was a fine little plunder match closes out
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the series of matches here between the two of them.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I am left wondering though if this was the blowoff
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: between Balor and McDonough. Why would this not be the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: blowoff with Balor and the judgment day That's it. It's over.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: It's over. He already beat Dom at WrestleMania. Now he's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: beaten Balor Or Balor has beaten McDonough. Rather, there's nobody left.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Who's left? Right? You got the women, Raquel Roxanne live
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: unless Balor is gonna go down the line and wrestle
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: all three of them. This feels like it's time to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: move on for Finn Balor. I don't know to what,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know with who. I just know that what
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: we've seen with Baler and the judgment that we have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: exhausted every option here and hopefully this was the nail
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and the coffin. That's it. It's time to move on.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: There ain't nothing left for him to do with this group.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It's time for him to get a fresh start. Kathy
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Kelly was in the back and she was there to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: interview Seth Rollins. So Rollins knows he's a mark man.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He's got no friends, but he has to put an
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: end to the vision. Rollins has not had a match
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: on Raw in nine months, but Adam Pearce has given
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: him the main event tonight, and Rollins said that he'll
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: take on any member of the Vision one on one,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: two on one, three on one, four on why it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter to him. He'll take any of them on.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He singled out, though, in particular bron Breaker, and we
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: got a NEPO baby reference in here somewhere, which if
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I never hear another fucking NEPO baby reference in a
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: WWE promo, won't be a day too soon. Let me
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: let me ask you a question before I go on.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: If you listen to Rollins in this promo, he was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: pretty clear. He goes, I'll face any member of the Vision.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I'll face them all. I'll go two on one, I'll
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: go three on one. Let me ask you, if you're
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman, how are you not jumping all over that?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: If you're Paul Hayman, how are you not jumping all
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: over it and going? Okay? Adam Pierce, you heard the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: man make a three on one tonight, We're gonna get
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Austin Theory, We're gonna get Logan Paul, We're gonna get
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker, all three of them in the main event
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of Monday Night Raw against Seth Rollins. No we ended
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: up with Seth Rollins against Austin. Theory is the main event?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Why the man said he'll wrestle all three members seems
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: like a mistake. Seems like a little miscue there on
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman's part. Elsewhere in the back Byron Sachs then
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: interviewed Soul Ruka, who seemed awfully happy for someone who
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: has gone winless so far since she debuted on the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: main roster. But she says, I have only been in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the business for four years. I feel pretty good about myself.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Becky Lynch interrupted and she said that she hasn't been
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: impressed by Soul so far. She's oh for two she
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: should go back to NXT and Soul seemingly agrees, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: she walks off, and Becky talks about Wow, this generation
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of quitters. But then they hear Soul's music. She's decided
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to go out to the ring. She goes out to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the ring and she calls out Becky Lynch. So out
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: comes Becky, and Soul suggests that they have a match
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: right here, right now, in Greensboro. Becky says she'd love to,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but instead she suggests a match at Saturday Night's Made event,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and she tells her, remember, I'm not just a star maker,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a star breaker. And Soul is fine with that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And not only will she snatch Becky's soul, she's gonna
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: snatch her intercontinental title. And Becky points out, wait a minute,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I never said anything about the championship. You got to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: earn that. You're gonna have to prove yourself first. So
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I think we all knew this is where it was headed.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I like the match. I like Becky as an opponent
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: for Soul, that they could work together all the way
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: through SummerSlam. This is just the first of what I'm
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: sure will be many matches these two have. And she's right,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's no reason for the title to be
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: on the line. Why belt her up right now? You're
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: just starting the feud, So let them have this match.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: This should be a win for Soul. Like I said,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: she's oh for two so far. She lost to live Morgan,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: she lost the EO Sky. No, look, there's no shame
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in losing to the women's world champion or EO Sky,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: who's the best in the entire company in the ring.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: But she's oh for two. She needs a win. You
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: can't go for two and have the top women's heel
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: or one of them mocking you for having a losing record,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and then you wrestle her and you fucking lose again.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Right this and it's a non title match. This should
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: be a win for Soul. I don't know about Clash
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in Italy, but then they'll follow that up with a
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: title match and Becky may win that, right, and then
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: they get a third match out of it. But I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: like this. This is this is exactly who Soul Rucas
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: should be working with. Becky Lynch is the perfect opponent for.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: In the back logan Paul and Austin Theory were chatting
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it up with Paul Hayman nearby when bron Breaker approached
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and he asked that did you hear what Rollins had
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to say. He told Haymon, make the match tonight, seth
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Rawlins in the main event, one on one against bron Breaker.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Haymon said, well, that sounds great and thank you for
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the input, But tonight in the main event, it is
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: going to be seth Rawlins against Austin Theory, which sounds
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: like a terrible main event for the show and bron Breaker,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you know, appropriately, bron Breaker wants to know why so
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Hayman then pumps him full of his usual bullshit and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: he says, well, look at it like this. Now you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: know exactly where Rollins is going to be, at what
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: time he is going to be there, and you know
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: with whom he will have his hands full. And he
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: tells him, I'm gonna let you run the play, and
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Breaker smirks at him and he nods and he walks off.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Hayman is very persuasive. These people buy into his bullshit
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: far too easily. On these shows. We had a trios
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: tornado match, that's what they're calling them now, because again
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: these are the Lucha Yours. So they were a trios match,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: trio's tornado match with all six americanos. It looked like
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen, his cloning machine, was hard at work here.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: We had the og El Grande Americano and the Creed
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Brothers under masks against El Grande Americano, Kaiser, Ryo and Bravo.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: The crowd was very very quiet for most of this
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: match up until maybe I don't know, the last forty
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: five seconds. Maybe they didn't give a shit about this.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They never give a shit about this on most weeks.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: They really don't give a shit about any of this. Again,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: this works in Triple A. This does not work anymore
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: on the main roster. Maybe at first people thought it
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: was kind of it was kind of amusing or whatever,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: but as with a lot of things on these shows,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: they just wear it out, and they drag it out
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for far too long until there's just nothing left. Nobody
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: cares about this now. I'm sure the match between the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: two Americanos on the Triple A show on May thirtieth
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: is going to just be fucking molten hot, and I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: actually looking forward to seeing that match. It will work
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in that environment because the angle is over, Kaiser is over,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a big blowoff. What I'm saying
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is on this show, on most weeks, when you send
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: these guys out there, and especially you send them out
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: there and they're all wearing masks, and some of them
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: are dressed up exactly the same, and they're all kind
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: of clustered up and bunched up together, you can't even
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: tell who's who. Sometimes when they're diving and they're doing
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: this and that, and I'm like, well, was that ryo? Wait? Wait?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Wait was that bruteo? Like? What the fuck am I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: watching here. Nobody cares. So there was a lot of action.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I'll give them that. It was hard again, hard to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: follow at times because they were all bunched up. But
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Julio Julio missed the four to fifty splash. El Grande, Kaiser, Ryo,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and Bravo. They all loaded up their masks with little
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: metal plates. Shit went sideways though for him. In the end, though,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Americano Kaiser and his crew picked up the win after
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: El Grande put down Bruto with a running headbutt using
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the metal plate. I just I cannot adequately put into
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: words how little I give a shit about any of this.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And the sooner they end this, the happier I'll be,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: because now it's just like every week. We got to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: get to the May thirtieth match, We got to get
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to the mass match, so we just have to fill
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: t We have to get these guys on the show
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we have because we have to promote our Triple A show,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: so we'll have the obligatory Americano segment and we just
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: gotta we just gotta get to May thirty. Can we
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: please get there already? Like I'm just I'm done with
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: this now. After this, they cut to a shot of
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Page and Bribella. They're in the back the Women's tag
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: team champions and they're warming up for their tag team
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: title defense later on in the show, when all of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: a sudden, in the background, a giant mascot appears. Now,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: we just had a funeral for a mascot on SmackDown,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: not even two weeks ago, right, I am still in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: mourning over the gingerbread man. But in the background I
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: see this mascot and he is bearing with him a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: bag with door Dash, and Michael Cole in particular begins
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to lose his Really it's Michael Cole and Corey Graves,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and they start to lose their shit, and they have
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to fake pretend to be excited that what a guy
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: is here. Yes, it's what a guy. And he's got
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the door Dash delivery, and there's Tozawa, and there's Otis.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: He's got a delivery for him because you see Otis
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: as a big boy. Of course he's got to eat,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: he's got to get his carbs and his protein. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: so this was their opportunity to go ahead and plug
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the shit out of door Dash and pretended they actually
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: care and that they give a shit about this door
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Dash came through in the clutch. This is some of
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the cringiest shit that I've seen all year. They have
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to find ways to work this into the show, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: then just that fake enthusiasm. Oh my god, this is
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just fucking ridiculous. Whatever. They aired a video package after
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: this on Tribal Combat, which included footage of Roman Reigns
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and Jacob faughtu. It wasn't like it was some generic
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: old package they've run before, you know, talking about the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: perils of Tribal Combat as a brand new video narration
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and everything, right for a match that was only announced
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a few segments before this, This is like, I'm like,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I'm watching this, I go the match was literally like
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the stipulation was literally pitched accepted. I mean, from this
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: point in the show. Maybe it wasn't even a full hour.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: This was actually worse than when Tony kh and Tony
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Khan does this all the time. But this was worse
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: than when Tony Khan has the graphic up on screen,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Like when somebody wins a match, right and now they're
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: going to be challenging for this title or that title
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the next week or the pay per view, or somebody
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: extends a challenge to somebody and then as soon as
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the segments, a boom the graphic is that, like the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: main event could end and within ten seconds there's already
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: like the graphic is up on screen and everything right,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And sometimes you could understand it. It's like, okay, well
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: they had two graphics on standby, but like sometimes there's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a challenge that just somebody makes and it comes out
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of nowhere, like they pitch it in a promo or something,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and then boom, the graphic is up on screen like
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: ten seconds later, and I'm like, ugh, I just laugh. Right,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: this is even worse. This is a video. This was
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a whole lass video with like a narration and everything.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: They don't they don't care, they don't give a shit.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: So anyway, this this video package here was telling us
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: about the dangers of tribal combat. They're really trying to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: make tribal combat sound like just something that will change you.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: It will change your life, it will change your career.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: You'll never be the same. Like hell, in a cell,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: right you go in, you don't come out quite the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: same way as you did when you went in. I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: just it's hard for me to sit here and just
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: suspend my disbelief and buy into this bullshit, because what
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: is tribal combat based on what they've established in the past,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: right unless they make changes to it, what is tribal combat?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Tribal combat is every plunder match, every Extreme Rules match,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: every no DQ match that you see in WWE any
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: given week, we saw, you know what, we saw tribal
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: combat tonight, Finn Balor and JD mcdonaghead tribal combat today.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: They just didn't call it that. There's literally nothing different
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: or unique about tribal combat outside of the fact that
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you can bet that Roman Reigns will be a part
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: of it. That's literally that's it. I mean, that is it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: That is it. But it's their job now, I guess,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to convince people that it's something more than what it
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: is and it's going to be some big special attraction.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: But basically we're getting no holes barred between Roman Reigns
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and Jacob Fatu in Italy. Backstage, Kathy Kelly is with
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the ussos who know what tribal combat is all about.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Jay usso does. He's been in tribal combat before. But
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's La Knight. La Knight is here
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to interrupt. We have not seen La Night on this
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: show in a very long time, but there he is.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Last time we saw La Knight, he confronted Gunther backstage
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: because they were building to a man between Gunther and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: La and I we all know how that would have
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: gone for La Night. So really he got spared. But
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: this is the first time we've seen him in weeks.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: He shows up and there he is, and Jimmy says,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: not now, and Night calls them out for doing the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: same damn thing that the three of them beat up
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Vision for doing a WrestleMania So what's the difference,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he says, and Jimmy holds Jay back and again he
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: tells him not now, and off they go. Now. Earlier today,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Michael Cole sat down with all Ego Ethan Page, who
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: was going to be challenging for the Intercontinental Championship this Saturday.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: So let's go to that interview. So we pitch it
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: to the footage and Ethan immediately right out of the gate,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: hands him a card with some stuff written on it
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that he wants Michael Cole to read, And really it
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was just him putting Ethan over and talking about his
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: wonderful jawline and everything else. About him, so Cole eventually
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: just taps out and says, look, I can't do this anymore,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and he asks why why do you act like this?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And he praises Ethan's skills, but he just thinks, says
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: ego will cost him against Penta at Saturday night's main event,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and Page calls it confidence. It's not ego, it's confidence. Uh,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: not much to this, but I do have to say
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I think that Page has been nailing it so far
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: in his time on the main roster. He hasn't been
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: up for very long. I mean, it's the Ethan Page
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that you saw on NXT if you paid attention to
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: his work down there. He's just doing it up on
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the main roster and he fits like a glove. So far.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I think he's doing very well and I would not
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: at all mind and seeing him win that title on
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Saturday from Penta, that would be fine with me. I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: when I first saw him on RAW, I said, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: give it six months, he'll be the Intercontinental champion, but
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: by by SummerSlam. This is a a little bit sooner
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: than SummerSlam. But they are doing the match this week,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, like, I like Penta, and I'm
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: fine with Penta retaining, but if Ethan Page was to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: walk in there on Saturday and win the championship, I'd
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: be happy. I'd be happy for him, and I think
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: that he would also make a good Intercontinental champion. And
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: there's some storyline potential with this sort of uneasy alliance
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that he's been building with Russev. You can have some
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: fun with that. I'd like to see it. After this,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: we have Page, and we had Bribella defending their women's
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: tag team titles against Raquel Rodriguez and Roxxan Perez. The
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: winners of this match will be defending the titles against
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Naya Jacks and Lash Legend on Saturday Night's main event.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: So Page missed to dive out to the floor, got
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: cut off early on, and then she got so I
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: think it was Raquel swung her like hard into the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: barrier and Pages had some head issues, some injury issues
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: in the past, and she just fucking she swung for
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the fences with this woman. After the commercial break, Page
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: got a hot tag to Brie. There was some sort
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: of double team neck breaker spot here by the Babyfaces
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: that just did not look good. Brie went to the top.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Live Morgan was out there. She got up on the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: apron and shoved her off, which hung her up on
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the top rope on the way down. Referee though, saw
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Liv's interference and ejected her. I think was Jessica Carr.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: She ejected Live Morgan. So Raquel passed one of the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: women's tag belts to rocksand she tried to use it,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: but bre ducked and then rolled her up for the wing.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: What a riveting finish that was the flash pin and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Bribella and Page retained their championships. Now, after the match,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: as the champions are in the aisle, they're celebrating there
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: looking at the Judgment Day in the ring. Liv Morgan,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: who had been ejected, she come charging back out. She
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: attacks the champions from behind. Judgment Day had the advantage
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: until Lyra, Valkyria and Bailey ran out to make the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: say Bailey drop Live with a Bailey to belly. Lyra
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: took out Perez and Rodriguez with a basement drop kick.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: There really isn't a whole lot else to say about this.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Are they potentially building to a title match with Bailey
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and Live Morgan. Maybe Stephanie Vakier is expected to be
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: back within the next few weeks. She's not gonna be
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: out for much longer. My guess is when she comes back,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: we go right back into it because we never got
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the rematch. In the meantime, though, Live Morgan has nothing
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to do, so like Bailey and Lyra, clearly there's still
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a team. But if they wanted to do even like
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: a television match, if they wanted to do a singles
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: match with Bailey and Live, you could definitely do that
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: match itself. Was really it was not that good. It
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: was not that good, this pairing here with Page in Brie.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: This thing has got to come to an end soon.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I figure it's not gonna end until Nicki comes back.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: So we don't know when Nicki Bella is going to
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: be back. You know she had surgery. We don't know.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I still see I envision a situation where Nicki comes back,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: see Niki costing them the titles, though not in a
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: way that's going to upset Brie, because they're not gonna
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: split up Nicki and Bri. I think they may do
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: it in a way, I mean, it would turn the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Bella's heel, but do it in a way where you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: know they basically turn on page something something like that.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Something like that. I could I could see something like
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: that happening. But they this team, it's a makeshift team.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: They were never supposed to be partners in the first place.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: There's no established relationship between them other than okay, they're
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: friends from back in the day, right, they came up
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: in the same era. But it's not like there's this vast,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: rich history with the women, and it's like no, it's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: just like they were just sort of put together and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: there's just not a whole lot there. And I haven't
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: been impressed by what they've done. The sooner they get
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the belts off them, the better, you know. I don't
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I hate to even say it. I mean, if they
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: were to lose the belts back to Naya and Lash,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even mind. At least they're more of a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: legitimate team. Send them to Evolve. You know, those women's
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: tag team titles are supposed to be defended cross brand. Technically,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: there is nothing stopping them from defending those titles in
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: NXT or Evolve or Triple A. I guess Triple A
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: is a completely different promotion, but still, can we send
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Bribella to triple A. I think that would be okay,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: let's send Bribella on excursion for a while. Then we
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: had La Knight walking up to seth Rawlins outside the
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: building and he says, you know things are going to
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: go badly for seth tonight going out there by himself
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: against the vision. But if you need help, you ain't
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: getting it for me. So he tells him have fun
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: getting stomped out, and off he goes with his rolling luggage.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: And he didn't. He didn't come back. He was a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: man of his word. He's like, fuck you, you're on
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: your own tonight. And he did not, in fact show
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: up later in the show to help seth Rawlins. So okay,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: not a big night for La Knight, but at least
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: he was on the show after. This was the one
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and only thing that happened on this entire show that
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: was truly newsworthy. The Oba Femi Open Challenge. This was
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: week number three. Week one we had Tozaua coming out
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and it was almost like, okay, are we going to
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: get Tozawa and Oba Femi and then Tozawa chickened out
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and it ended up being otis I guess in between
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: his door dash deliveries and they had a fun two
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: minute sprint and then by week two, nobody wanted to
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: come out and accept the open Challenge, so he had
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to go find his own opponent. He went backstage. Los
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Garzo was there and he literally dragged him out to
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the ring, beat the shit out of them, and that
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: was the end of that. So I said, boy, it
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: feels like they're already running out of steam. They're running
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: out of ideas with this thing. I sure hope they
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have something good up their sleeve for where this open
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Challenge is going to go. Oba comes out and he's
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: in the ring. He's in the middle of his entrance, right,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the arena is still darkened, right, he's got his back
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: turned and as he's posing in the ring, brock Lesner
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: and you could kind of tell who it was, but
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was dark. It looked like it just
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: looked like some Viking had jumped into the ring with
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the ponytail and attack this man from behind, and he
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: hoisted him up on his shoulders. The lights came on,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: we see that it's brock Lesnar. Right, he has him
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: on his shoulders for an F five, drops him for
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: an F five, picks him right back up. Second F
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: five picks him back up, third F five picks him
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: back up, fourth f five, four of them, and he
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: leaves this man laying. The crowd of course, the people
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: lost their shit because they were not expecting to see
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: brock Lesner on this show. So the crowd is buzzing,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: and then brock ends up leaving Oba is down in
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the ring. He's selling the beat down here. He was
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: put down in a way that we have not seen
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: on the main roster the first time now, first time
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: since coming to Monday Night Raw, that Oba Femi has
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: been left laying by somebody, and it's the one guy
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I guess that you could believably say that you could
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: see him being laid out by in that regard, which
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: is brock Lesner. And the other thing that I noticed
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: is that for the second time, brock Lesnar split his pants.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: This happened once before on SmackDown. This is the second
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: time now that this man has split his pants. Now.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know where he is buying his jeans. I
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: don't know if he's buying one size too small to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: make it look like, you know, he's wearing these like
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: skinny jeans, but he's gonna have to either go one
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: size up or he's gonna have to buy a different
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: brand because this ain't working out too well for him.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: He's zero for two against the Blue Jeans. Yes, yes
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: he did. He ripped his fucking pants again. Oh my god,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: death taxes and brock lesnar ripping his pants? Goodwill? Yeah,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think brock Lesnar is shopping a goodwill with
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the money he's made over the years. But I noticed
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I saw something like a flap of something behind him,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, did he rip his fucking pants again?
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: And then they showed the play. I go, son of
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a bitch, he did because I saw something and I
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell it fir as what it was. And I'm like,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: was he coming out with like a shirt tucked into
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: his back pocket like he's Jeff Hardy. I'm like, he
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't do that. No, he ripped his fucking pants. Him
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: ripping his pants is more entertaining than eighty five percent
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of these shows. It shouldn't be that way now. After
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a break in the back, Adam Pierce was he was
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: demanding answers from the producers and then he walks into
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: his office and he finds Paul Hayman waiting for him.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: He says to Hayman, he goes, I filed the retirement
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: paperwork for this guy. What the hell is going on here?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: And Hayman hands him what he think, goes, that is
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: a subpoena. He goes, No, it's not a subpoena. He goes,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: it's a contract signed by brock Legner. I don't know
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: where that came from. See, like, if I'm Adam Pierce
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in that situation, because Paul Hayman will rarely botch in
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: a promo, He'll rarely misspeak like that. I'm wondering if
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that was live. It almost had to be live, I guess,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: because if I'm Adam Pierce, like it would have taken
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: everything in me not to fucking break at that moment.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: But it's signed. It's signed by Brocklegner. And if you
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: can get Oba Femi to put his signature on this contract,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: then it will be Brockleisner and Obafemi at clash in Italy.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: It'll be the big attraction that you're looking for for
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: your pl And of course Obafemi is going to sign
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the contract and we are going to get the rematch
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: in Italy. And that is going to be a big
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: attraction on that show. And it's not going to go
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: very long. It's not going to go much longer than
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: it did at WrestleMania. But if you do Brock and Oba, yes,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: that is a big attraction on that show. It will
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: help sell more tickets, It will help put more eyeballs
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: on that pl It will make headlines just by virtue
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: of him show up tonight. Because all of these different
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: sports outlets covered it like a legitimate retirement in Wrestleman,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: including ESPN, they covered it like a legitimate retirement. They
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: had people convinced that it not everybody, but they had
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of especially outsiders or casual fans, that this
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: man retired at WrestleMania, and why not, it was the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: perfect retirement. Everyone keeps talking about Obafemi as like the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: next Brocklesner. He's going to be a future world champion
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: inside of a year. He's gonna be the guy they
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: can build around right for for years to come. So
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: what better way to go out? You used to be
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: that guy. Now you put over the future, and you
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: do it on the biggest possible stage. You do it
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: at your big annual tent pole event in front of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: a big crowd, You get a lot of love, you
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: get to ride off into the sunset right looking like
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: a hero. But again, this is brock Lesner, and brock
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Lesner will retire whenever he feels like he's ready to retire.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: But if there's money to be made, he will be
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: there to make that money. If you think that he
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: is going to retire in Minneapolis at summer slap right,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: even that if he gets a big money offer to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: come back, whether it's a Saudi show, got Saudi WrestleMania
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: next year, it is still very hard for me to
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: believe that with WrestleMania coming to Saudi Arabia that they
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: would not want brock Lesnar on that show, and WWE
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: and TKO wouldn't go to him if they knew that
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: and say, hey we need you for that show. What's
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: what's going to take to get you for that show?
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: You think Brock is gonna go? Man? You know, I
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: don't know. You know, I told everybody I was retired.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I'm a man of my word. You know. It is
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: such a perfect play, like he's gonna be like, all right,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: write the fucking check, Write the check, because that's just
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: who he is. I don't think he gives a shit
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: about all of this other stuff. It doesn't matter to him.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Like at WrestleMania, I wasn't. I wasn't convinced. The thing
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that got to me when I was watching it again
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: was just him crying. It never struck as like genuine emotion.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: It was like he was acting and trying to pretend
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: to be sad and somber. And that's what made me go, Okay,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not so sure about this, right, Well,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: we'll see, right, it could be. It could be, but
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I wasn't convinced. But I was certainly not expecting him
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: to show up tonight, so that was a good surprise.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: They caught me off guard, they caught the crowd off guard.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Nobody saw this coming. And now the open Challenge gimmick
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: is over. It's for the better. It's for the better
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: that this open Challenge is put to rest once and
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: for all. What are they going to do in Italy?
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I think Bronco's over, That's what I think. I think
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a trilogy and the only question, see,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: to me, the question isn't even who wins in Italy.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: The bigger question is when do we get the third match.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: SummerSlam would make the most sense, sure, but I just
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I put Knight of Champions out there just because, you know,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, and Roman Reigns is not scheduled for
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: that show, so we'll probably have a WWE title match.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: They're gonna need another big attraction for that show. Brock
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and Oba in their blowoff match would be an attraction.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: So it's either that or it's Summer Slim. But that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: what we're headed for here. And as long as when
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: this is over, he puts over Oba one more time,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: then it's fine. Like the rest of this doesn't the
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: fact that he got put down tonight, so what so
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: what they're building to a match? If all they do
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: is have Oba Femi constantly go over this man every
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: time we see them in a ring together on TV,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be fucking boring. And they did that every
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: week going into WrestleMania and that was perfect. But if
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to continue this feud, there's got to be
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: some give and take. It can't just be Oba Oba
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Oba Oba Oba this. You got to give something to
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Brock along the way. You gotta make is believable, especially
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: if you want to get three matches out of it.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: It's got to be competitive. So I don't want to
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: hear this bullshit of like, oh what did they do
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: to Oba? Like he got jumped from behind, dude by
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Brock fucking Lesner. Anybody getting jumped from behind by Brock
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Lesner and put down ain't getting up. So that's fine.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I just question whether or not we even need to
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: be doing this, But it looks like we're getting the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: trilogy after all. Now. Kathy Kelly interviewed the Street Profits
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: backstage heading into their tag team title match coming up
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And in case you didn't know, they want
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: the smoke. So Angelo Dawkins he spotted Seth Rollins, I
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: guess off in the distance off camera getting ready for
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the main event, and montes Ford could see this, and
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: montes Ford was like, look, you do whatever you want
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: to do. He didn't want to have anything to do
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: with Seth Rawlins. So Dawkins goes over to Rollins and
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: he thanks him for last week because you know, he
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: took the bullet for him. Rollins thanks him for that,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: and he apologized for Dawkins getting taken out. You remember
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: That's why montes Ford got so angry last week when
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: he ate that spear, but Rollins told him, look, I
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: have a match to go worry about, and so he did.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: It was the main event of the show tonight. It
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: was Seth Rollins one on one. Yes, indeed, it was
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins against Austin Theory. What an exciting main event.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I was waiting all night long for this main event.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Rolin sent Theory into the corner with a buckle bomb.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Theory came back and rams Set's ankle into the ring
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: post and that became the target for the remainder of
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the match. Working over Seth's knee. They did a very
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: believable job too of selling the knee, Like even when
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: the match was over, he was still kind of limping around.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I could see where they were going to be. Uh
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: people on social media? Is he really hurt? No, he's
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: just very good at selling. So he's selling the knee
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: and Rollins came back though with a Falcon arrow. He
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: tried for a stomp the bad Wheel, though he couldn't
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: follow through. He tried for a pedigree Theory though blocked it.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Torture rack Bomb only got a near fall and With
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Rollins down, Theory went for a stomp. Rollins, though, caught
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: him with a clothes line. Then he climbed up on
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: the middle rope, but Theory had the referee's attention, and
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: as he had the reps attention, Logan Paul outside he
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: shoved Rolins off the ropes. Theory then stomped Rollins only
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: for a two count. So Logan then slipped Theory the
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: brass knucks and then he distracted the referee. Rollins, though,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: came back with a super kick. Rollins went for the
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: brass knucks. Referee caught him though and took him away.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Theory tried for a roll up on Rollins, who was distracted,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: but he rolled through into what actually was a pretty
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: good pedigree, and he hit the pedigree. He actually won
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: with it. That doesn't happen as much. It doesn't happen
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: as much anymore, but he actually won with the pedigree.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Logan immediately hits the ring and he pounces on Rollins,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and here comes Angelo Dawkins down to the ring to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: make the save. He ended up in peril, though, which
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: is exactly what montes Ford had warned him about. And
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: even still, here comes montes Ford he's gonna come out
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: to save his partner, and he even did his trademark
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: running dive out over the ring post wipes out the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: vision out on the floor, and then he gets back
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: in the ring and he's he's telling Dawkins. He's like
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: on his knees and he's telling him like I told you,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: you know, he tried to warn him. And as he's
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: admonishing his tag team partner, you could see in the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: background here comes bron Breaker, charges down to the ring,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: gets into the ring. Rollins is. I don't know where
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Rollins went. I think he was outside somewhere. But Montes
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: shoves his partner out of the way. He takes the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: bullet and he eats a wicked spear from bron Breaker.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: So Rollins hobbles back into the ring and he jumps Breaker,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: but he ends up getting speared for his troubles. Then
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: it was three on one. It was the vision on
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Rollins outside the ring. Austin Theory and Logan Paul. They
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: had Rollins and they were basically trying to lay him
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: out across the bottom part of the ring steps and
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker had the top part. They were going to
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: kill this man. Adam Pierce though and his merry band
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: of useless men. They come out. They were actually useful
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: for a change, and they were able to stop the
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: attempted murder from taking place. Breaker did hit Rollins with
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: one more spear and then he is just like fucking
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: ground and pound until they were finally able to pull
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: him off of him. And then I think what happened
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: here is that there was just a lot of time
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: left to kill because they were there's a lot of
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: staring and just mean mugging the camera and they kept
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: coming back and forth between the vision Rollin's and Rollin's
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: and the vision, and I'm like, where is this going?
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: What are they waiting for? And then finally the credits
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: came up on screen, and then finally they went off
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: the air. The best part was actually after they went
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: off the air, they I guess were required to put
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: a message up on the screen that said, this program
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: contains product placement. Yeah, no, shit, tell me something I
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: don't already know watching this show product placement? You say, gee,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I wonder what was the giveaway here? Was it the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: giant mascot earlier in the show, or what was it
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the countless times that Michael Cole and Corey Graves were
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: fucking orgasming over door Dash. I will tell you this,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: nobody will I'll ever reach orgasm watching Monday Night Raw.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Definitely not this episode. Outside of the brock Lesner stuff.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I got nothing for you. I mean, there
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot to talk about. We had some
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: matches made right, we had two matches officially added to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: the clash in Italy, Carna match added to Saturday Night's
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: main event. That's it. That's it, that's it. There was
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: nothing else to this show, nothing else to this show.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: Raw is by no means as bad as SmackDown, but
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: it's not very good either. Raw is kind of falling
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: backwards into the dol drooms kind of like SmackDown did.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: But it's just not quite as bad as SmackDown. And
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: I said this last week. I said, it really hit
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: me last week that this show, not that it would
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: be infinitely better, but it would be better if CM
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: punk had not disappeared. When he was the world champion again,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: he was on the show. He wasn't defending the title
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: every week, but he wasn't against or they weren't against
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: using him in a way where he would defend the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: title on the show. It was almost like he was
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: having these little side quests right whether it was Finn
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Balor or whatever, and then there would be this great
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: promo he'd bust out every now and then. His absence
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: has been very noticeable on this show, and I would say,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: you know, the sooner they can get him back on TV,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: maybe things will be a little bit more interesting. But again,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I still feel like the next time we see him
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: he'll be on SmackDown and not on Raw. And frankly,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure when he's going to be back.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I think there was a report that may have come
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: out tonight that suggested he may not be back until
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: after SummerSlam. I don't get the impression he's going to
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: be back anytime in the near future. You really feel it,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: You really feel it without him being on this show.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: But there's just not a whole lot of exciting stuff
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: going on. Now. We have Saturday Night's main event, which
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: is coming up this weekend. Let's run through the card.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: We actually have one, two, three, four, five, five. We
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: have five matches on this card. We have Becky Lynch
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: is going to be going one on one with Soul Ruka.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: As far as we know, the Intercommital title will not
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: be on the line in this match, and that's fine.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Soul Ruka to win, especially if the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: belts not on the line. She should win Street Profits
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: against the Vision for the World Tag Team titles. There
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: should be a win for the Vision. Paige and Brie
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Bella defend the Women's tag team titles against the Irresistible Forces. Uh.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: You know I had picked Paige and Brie to win
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: when I talked about this on the SoundOff. I'll stick
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: to that. I'll stick to that, I guess. But like
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: if they change the titles, that's fine. Who cares? I mean,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just apathetic towards all of this. Penta and Ethan
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Page for the Intercontinental Championship. I'm going with Ethan. I'm
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: going with Ethan Page. I'm gonna say new Intercontinental Champion.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: And then Ria Ripley, Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair they
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: take on Jade Cargill, Meechen and BFAB. I'm going with Jade,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Meechen and BFAB for the win, and I'm gonna say
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Jade pins Ria to do it, and then we end
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: up with Jade and Ria announced for the women's title
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: at Clash in Italy. That's my prediction on that. That's it.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: That's your Saturday nights main event card. Not the most
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: exciting card, but I guess for a Saturday night's main event,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: it sounds about right. And look, they have a pl
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: e the following Sunday, so they're not going to overload
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: this show, so I get it. But that's what I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: got for you. That's your raw review. Hey a Suami,
• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:07
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  Speaker 1: think a title change. But you know what, I could
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  Speaker 1: see them headlining with uh Becky and Soul, and I
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  Speaker 1: could see them headlining with Rhea because Rhea's the one
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: of the top stars. They will, however, not be headlining
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: with the women's tag team titles. That will not be happening.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Joseph Stewart, Happy Monday to you, sir. Good to hear
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: from you. Do you remember when Rakishi destroyed Stone Cold
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: truck on SmackDown? I remember when Rakishi ran him down
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: with his automobile, and I remember when Austin came back
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: and kicked his ass. I don't remember him destroying his truck.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Was the Stone Cold Rakishi match not really a wrestling match,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: just Stone Cold getting revenge on him for running him over.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: It's exactly what it was. I don't remember being much
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: of a wrestling match either. Who would you have booked?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Who would you have booked the who ran over Stone
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Cold with a car story? Oh? I wouldn't have done it.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was very stupid. I wouldn't have
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: booked the angle to begin with. What are your five
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: favorite Jack Nicholson scenes in Batman? Eighty nine. I don't
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: think I have five. I don't know. I don't think
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: I have five. Well, I'm gonna say when Joker kills
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: the guy with the toy buzzer, that would be one.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: When Joker gets dropped into the vat of acid, takes
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: the acid bath, and when he dances to party man
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: by Prince in the museum. Those are my three. Buy
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: yourself Vito Corleone or Tony Soprano, Tony Soprano, Michael Corleone
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: or Tony Soprano, Tony soprano. I'm a sopranos guy, not
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: a not a Godfather guy. Tony Montana or Tony Soprano. See,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit harder. I like Tony Montana. I'm
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: still going Tony Soprano. What are your five favorite scenes
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: in The Batman? Jeez, the car chase scene when he
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: chases the penguin, the Riddler introduction, probably at the beginning
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: of the movie. That was kind of creepy. And I'll
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: say the scene where the da gets blown up Happy
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth adversary to Shrek. Interesting twenty five years of Shrek?
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Huh uh? Are you a fan of the movie comp
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Land with Sylvester Stallone. You know, that's one that I
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: never saw, and I think that came out of like
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: ninety seven, right, I think it came out in ninety
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: seven or something. I believe. Yeah, I never saw it, though,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: that was the one. I think Stallone put on some
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: weight for that role. I heard some good things about
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: that movie anyway, Joseph, thank you. Always an interesting mix
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: of questions. They're electric feel, but a ten dollars super chat.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about your pedigree while I I was
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: thinking about your pedigree. Oh, pedigree comments. You had to
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: be very confused there for a second. I was thinking
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: about your pedigree comments while I watched a few Dudley
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Boys matches. I saw Spike Dudley do the couda grass
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: as a regular move. He used to only get a
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: two count if he was like yeah, because Spike Dudley
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: was like one hundred and twenty pounds dude. A little
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: bit of a difference between Spike Dudley doing it or
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: seth Rollins. Spike Dudley was like a he's like a
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: fucking child. Hulkling ninety three is a Yankees fan. I'll
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: give respect where respect is do. Congrats to your mets
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: on winning the Subway series. That's right, we did. Very gracious, Hulkling,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Dried Chicken says, if Brocklesner is going
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: to wrestle his last match in WWE, it should be
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: a last man's standing match. Let's will it into existence.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that. He had a pretty great
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: one at Summerslim a few years ago against Roman Again.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Commentary's framing of Jacob is Desani water bad. No mention
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: of the exposed buckle, A blatant use of an exposed
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: turnbuckle is dirty every day of the week twice on Sundays.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Stop the cap. Oh that was from a backlash and
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: he went into the buckle oft backlash. Yeah. I mean
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: it's hard to take any of the commentary seriously when
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: they're you know, orgasming over door dash, So I try
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: not to pay too much attention to them. Barry says,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: I like Bailey, but why does Cole keep calling her
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: a legend? Because in WWE, that's what she is. She's
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: one of the four horse women from NXT, multi time
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: world champion, She's been there for over a decade. She's
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer. Drag Chicken says Raw is
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: creatively bankrupt. Triple H taking these visits to d C
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: has contaminated his brain cells. Raw is definitely raw. The
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: whole product is creatively bankrupted. Triple H fears Oba in
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: terms of creative be man. The Champ says, I knew
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Brock wasn't going to retire. There's no such thing in
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: wrestling at this point. I fully expect Sena to be
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: in a match by the end of twenty twenty six.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Now you see that's the one He's not coming back.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: That one. I believe one hundred percent he's not coming
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: back that one. That's the one that you you should believe.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: John Cena is not coming back to wrestle Alexander Sammy
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Zane should beat up all the sponsor mascots. I think
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: the sponsor mascot is bigger than him. You see that
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: guy tonight? What a man think? What a man could
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: probably take in a match. Also, does Jacob perform sub
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Zero's fatality and rip Roman's throat out with the Tonguan
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: death grip? He should? That would get him over the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: final Boss Russell vote said punk on till Summer Slam.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Well there you go. Ah, Well, that sucks for the product,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't it. If that's true, Derek J speaks with a ten,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: fuck it put the belts on FA two and Gunther
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: in the same night. I know it's unlikely and it
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: won't automatically make up for bad writing, but the show
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: sucks so much. I am begging for something different. Yeah, brother,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: you and me. Both these shows are very difficult to
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: sit through, and I just keep hoping for it to
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: change and improve, and it just doesn't seem to be happening.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know what's happened to
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: the game I once loved. I just I don't know.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Very very low effort, very low effort. Mac tub, how
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: much do you think Punk's elevated his legacy since his
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: return to wrestling in AW and WWE. I think it
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: was in tatters after the AW implosion. Yeah, that would
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: have been a bad way for him to go out.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Him coming to WWE did big business right out of
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: the gate, and looking at the run he's had, of course,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: it's elevated his legacy. I mean, there's not even a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: doubt about it. B Man, the champ with most B
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: level pay per views, having only five of that pay
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: per views. What are those? I believe Sarah you mean
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: premium live events, with most B level premium live events
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: having only five matches nowadays. Do you think WWE should
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: go back to single branded No? No, no, no. I
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: get this question every now and then. Do not, do not,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: do not, do not go back to single branded pay
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: per views. I hate that. That is a terrible idea.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: That is a terrible idea. I see the point you're
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: trying to make. It's a bad idea. Don't do that,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Jeff Bray, we have water burger here in Odessa. Water burger. Okay,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: that's a new one. He literally says, water burger here
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: in Odessa, Texas. Who wants to eat that? Like? That
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: sounds terrible? Water down burger? I mean, who the hell
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: wants to pay for that? Uh Asu, Amy, Brion Paige
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: have no chemistry together? Everybody else involved in that match
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: was more interesting this comment to you by what a burger?
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: They don't, They don't have any chemistry. They don't because
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: they're not a real team. It sucks. Abystle Zones, watch out.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: It's now officially May nineteenth. Don't say that date. Do
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: not say that date. But Yukiah with the twenty eight
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Who is that at the beginning of your podcast that
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: says I have been begging them for a job. It
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: makes me laugh every time. Also, that's road Dog. That's
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: road Dog. I think he was unbusted open, but he
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: was talking about wanting, like not knowing why Tony Khan
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: hadn't offered him a job. It's a legitimate SoundBite of
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: road Dog basically begging for an aw gig. And Saint
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: James Entertainment, what belt would you put on La Night,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: SmackDown or Raw In terms of the of the world title?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I think he looked pretty good with that World Heavyweight Championship.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, though, right now, at this moment,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: the WWE title would probably make more sense. Get him
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: involved over there, get him just get him away from
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: get him away from the Vision, and get him away
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: from the bloodline. In order to do that, he should
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: go to SmackDown, especially a Punk is not guy. If
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: this is true and Punk is gone until at least SummerSlam,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: then you could always put La Night on SmackDown. Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: I kind of like that. Do dry Chickens says, what
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: if the cast of Jackass decided to say, May nineteenth
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: to Caine so much. Yeah, Kane is old, now, Caine
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: is old, still in great shape though, but I would
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: think that the entire cast of Jackass could probably just
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: kind of swarm him and overwhelm him. He does still
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: work out though, he does still keep himself in shape.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: But if you're suggesting that we get Kine back on
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: TV for some sort of angle, don't because I have
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: no interest in seeing it. So he could feud with
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: the MFTs again. Now that's Royce Keys. Roy's Keys is
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: gonna feud with the By the way, the mft's like,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: what what even are the mft's. At this point, Toma
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Tonga has got like one foot out the door and
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: then it's just Solo and Taalatanga. The MFTs are basically dead.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: May's de great says, I asked your question to Mick
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Foley this past weekend, and he said classified info. But
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: you'll never know. He was great. I even got pictures.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Well that's great. Yeah, I told him to ask Mick.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: I go ask him when his WWE Legends deal officially expires.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you'll get an answer, but
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: you could at least ask the question. You don't even
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: have to bring up aw just say when is your
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: WWE Legends deal up? But that's very cool. Is Caine
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: still the mayor of Knoxville, well, Knox County, not Knoxville.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: And he must be because I saw there's a video
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: that popped up in my timeline the other day, like
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: three days ago or something of him giving his weekly
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: or monthly address to his constituents. So yeah, he's still
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: the mayor. But anyway, the goal tonight was six hundred likes,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: and we came close, but we fell short. I think
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: we're right around five sixty, so the wheel was on
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: the higher side tonight. It did not work out, which
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: means no be the Booker, which makes me wonder because
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: there's no SmackDown review this week and there's no Saturday
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Night Saturday Night's Made of ch stream, So the next
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: time I'm live with you is Wednesday for Dynamite. Dynamite
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: is always very hit or miss when it comes to
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: be the Bookers, so I don't know. We may have
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: to wait until the Double or Nothing stream on Sunday
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: night to give it a shot. I will be live
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: after Double or Nothing just coming up this Sunday? Is
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: that what we are going to see Are we going
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: to see bald MJF. That's the question, So we'll see
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: if we do be the booker that night. Yes, I
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: will be live with you on this channel again a
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: Wednesday for the Dynamite Post Show. Tomorrow's a big day though,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: because tomorrow's a brand new episode of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: I got a whole lineup for you, and Tomorrow night
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: is a brand new installment of Tuesday Night Titans over
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: on JD's Channel Friday. The reason I will not be
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: here for SmackDown, as hard as it is to pull
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: myself away from that show, I will be at the
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: NYC Arena for House of Glory. We have a match
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: between Amazing Red and Kevin Knight, the TNT Champion coming
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: to h Shog to wrestle the Amazing Red. It's gonna
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: be worth the price of admission alone just for that
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: one match. Just announced today Leo Rush, creepy little bastard
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: that he is. He's coming back and he's gonna be
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: challenging Darren Richardson, who's our Cruiserweight Champion. SHATSI is going
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: to be wrestling Lena Cross and a bunch of other
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: cool matches that have yet to be announced, So I
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: will be on the call for that show on Friday.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: What is the most painful thing you ever felt? For me?
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: It is officially a kidney stone, says Retro Koh. Most
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: painful thing that I've ever felt, it's the pain of
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: watching these shows every week. It's a pain that I
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: can't describe. It's a pain deep inside my soul, worse
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: than any other pain that you can imagine. You should
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: get Zoe star in h O G. It's not a
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: bad idea. We may have to do that. I hear
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: Nicki Storm is going to be a free agent very soon.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: The former Nicki Cross could be a possibility to Alex,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: says Solo. You need to ban the wheel. The wheel
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: is here to stay. Justin says, what's your thoughts on
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: buzzer beaters NBA or Be the Booker. I would think
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: that the NBA ones are a little more exciting. That's
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: what I would think. But I see the buzzer beater
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: that you were referring to was for Be the Booker.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: We just passed six hundred. He was very slick with
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: the way he did that. There, very very It's like,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: oh wait, Joseph is back. Joseph is with us. Joseph
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: with a nine ninety nine says, I'm back, Solemn Monster.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I have a question. I went back and I watched
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: when Rakishi said he ran over Stone Cold. It looks
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: like there was no plan. It was it on the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: Was it on the who ran? I guess are you
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: asking me if there was a plan when they shot
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: the Angle in ninety nine? The answer is no. They
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: did not have a plan. They did not know who
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: it was going to be. We didn't find out about
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: it being Rakishi until following what October I think it
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: was September October. So I can assure you that when
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: they shot the Angle and they ran down Austin in
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: November of ninety nine, they had no idea that it
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: was going to be Rakishi. I don't know how far
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: in advance they decided on who it was going to be,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: but it was definitely not the year before I could
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: I could tell you that, all right, we're gonna get
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: one round out of it. We're halfway on the bonus gold,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: but we got the one round guaranteed. Well, you guys
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: really wanted it, Huh, you're not sure about Wednesday are
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: you well, let's get to it. Ladies are gentlemen. It
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. He did it
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: for the Rock, And do you remember what he told
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the Rock when he revealed that he had run down
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Stone Cold Steve Austin. He said it was because the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: white Man was holding him down. The white Man had
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: held their people down. That was the explanation that they
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: went with. I didn't know that they held down Yoko Zune,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: two time WWF champion, or that they had held down
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: The Rock, who from the moment he came into the
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: company was pegged to be a future world champion headlined.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Probably by that point he had already headlined two Wrestlevanias.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Apparently Rock was held down all those years. Think of
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: all the Great Island talents, all the Samoan talons and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: the Tongan talents that they had pushed and featured for
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: so many years, But according to Rakishi, they were all
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: held down. It didn't really hold water. It didn't really
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: make sense. Edge and Christian kicking us off. That could
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: be the scene, by the way, this weekend in Queens,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: they could end up with tag team Championship Gold, Edge
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: and Christian against the Motors City machine Guns again, a
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: match that could very well be a reality in these
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: next few months. They may end up being involved in
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: the same match at Wembley Stadium in a few months.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: This may be the first time that we booked a
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: match and be the booker that then went on to
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: become a reality. You may be foreshadowing the future here.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: We've got sensational Sherrie Martel, big Sherry fan. Big big
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Sherry fans still feel like she still doesn't get the
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: respect that she deserves. It makes me sad. There's a
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: whole generation of like current fans. If you show them
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: a picture of her, they would have no idea who
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: she is. They would be like, who's that? They would
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: have no idea Sherry and Serena deeb as Britt Baker
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: stands off to the side and goes nobody cares, Nobody cares.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: I care. That would be a very good wrestling match
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: and our main event. Who's got time for one more match?
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: One more matches what they're chanting and one more matches
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: what they shall get with Hangman Adam Page, the former
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: AW World Champion who is no longer allowed to challenge
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: for the AW World title. So this will not be
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: a championship match. But let's find out who he will
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: be competing against. Why is everybody saying Giant Gonzales? I
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: wish it was Giant Gonzales. You know what, I gotta
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: give that the bell. I don't give a ship what
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: you all say. I don't care what you say. Hangman
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: Adam Page against Mantar is a bell. That is a
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: bell for a main event. That's not worse. That's better,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: that's better. We'll tell me it's worse. At least Mantar
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: is mobile. At least he can move around. See look
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: at this guy. You mess with the bull, you get
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: the horns. Look at that. Look at those horns. Tell
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: me you wouldn't want to see that. Tell me you
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to tell me that isn't a collision made
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: event that you wouldn't tune in to see Hangman and
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: man Tar Come on now, ah, Joseph says, we're you
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: a fan of the cartoon show Gargoyles. I was aware
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: of it. I was not a fan of it. No,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: I was not. How would you have written Stone called
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: off TV when he had to leave for his neck injury?
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Very simple? If he could wrestle that one last match,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: I would have had him lose and I would have
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: done an injury angle, probably with triple H, break a
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: leg or something, and just write him off TV. That.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're the ones who ended up feuding anyway
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: when Austin came back, right, So, Joseph also says, would
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: have made sense for someone like the Rock or Kurt
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Angle to have run over Austin Angle. No Rock, I mean,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: you could always make an argument for Rock. Rock was
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: always kind of one A and one B neck and
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: neck with Austin. Maybe out of jealousy. He wanted to
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: get rid of him. Because look what happened in two thousand, right,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: Rock ascended to the top babyface spot. He benefited. You
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: look at it and go who stands to benefit from
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Austin being on the shelf, and the number one answer
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: is Rock. So you could have made an argument for
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: being the Rock. Yukio says, oh thank you for the
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: fifteen Yukio give bald MJF the curd angle headgear with
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: the hair. I didn't. I I think I suggested that.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that like last week, that would
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: be that would actually be very funny. But then everybody
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: would say, oh, you're just copying off the curd angle stuff.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Joseph says, I met sensational Sherry a long time ago.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: She was very nice and sweet. I miss her very much.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: That's cool. What did you Where did you get to
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: meet her? Dried Chicken, says Coping Christian versus the MotorCity
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: Machine Guns winner gets a free barbecue catering deal. May's
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: the great. It would be funny if one day you
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: turned heel for a night and told the chat after stalling,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: no buzzer beater, you haven't earned it. Now we hit
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: the goal. We hit the goal. Gotta be fair, Brian.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Brian? The main event needs more cowbell.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: Could be a cowbell match. There's your stipulation. I don't know.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: We're seven out of ten now in the bonus goal.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: We may we may, we may well get to stipulations
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: here depends how fast I run through these last few messages. EJ.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Slam waiting for someone to bring up what Afa did
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: in court and say the Island Boys have been treated
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: like the mafia since opposite of what Rakishi said. I
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: think the Island Boys have been treated very well by
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: that company over the years Hopelling ninety three. Funny moment
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: after Rakishi's heel turn is when he has a message
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: relays the Rock. Rakishi later asks Rock did you get
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: my message? And Rock responds the Rock did, and he
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: wants nothing to do with you. Yeah, well he always spoken.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: The third person probably went home and you know his
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: wife was like, what do you want for dinner? Well,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: the Rock wants some chicken breast for dinner, and the
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Rock wants this, and the Rock wants that. Joseph says,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: did you know Keith David was the voice of the
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Gargoyle character Goliath on Gargoyles? Well, I do now. I
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: did not know that before, but I do now. Try chicken.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the five, what's with you? And barbecue?
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: Joseph says, have a good night, Sala Monster. Thank you
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: forevery well, thank you for the messages, and thank you
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: for the support. And finally here e J Slimp with
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: the four ninety nine. Sherry is on my Mount Rushmore
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: with Heenan Hayman and Cornett. She's definitely up there, that's
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: for sure. She's pretty high up on the list. It's
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: hard to leave off someone like Jimmy Hart, though, he
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: would make the cut. Sherry, I feel like we'd be
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: right underneath Rock Legner. You know, people also, they just
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: they see Sherry as a manager and she's a great manager.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: And I think even like Booker t has has really
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: put over how important she was when she liked when
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: she was managing Harlem Heat. But even Shawn Michaels, you know,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: when he first started out as a singles heel, talked
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: about how Sherry looked out for him and was very
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: important and instrumental in getting him off the ground as
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: a heel, and also very instrumental in terms of his
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: entrance music because the first time that you heard Sexy
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Boy was not Shawn Michael's voice on there was Sherry's.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: She was the one singing the song. And then you
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: go back to like her and Savage and the Macho
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: King and you know, Queen Sherry. She managed Debiasse for
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: a while. Who else did she manage like in WCW.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Did she manage anybody else that I'm missing? Well, she
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: was with Flair for a while, I think, but people
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: forget that she had this whole wrestling career, you know,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: before that, and she was a Women's World Champion, like
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: imagine that version of Sherry in the later years, where
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: like more attention in this company was devoted to the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: women's division. I honestly don't know how much she would
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: have been pushed just because she didn't look like your
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: typical like Vince had a thing for blondes, clearly if
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: you watch his product over the years, I'd like to
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: think that her talent would have elevated her to be
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: one of the top stars in that division. But who
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: the hell knows? You know, for how years they had
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: fucking Lauriniitis scrolling through lingerie catalogs looking for women and
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: fuck these people? Anomalye Alex. This raw review has been
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: sponsored by door Dash. I have nothing wrong with DoorDash.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: I like DoorDash, but it's terrible when they play it
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: up over and over and over again. The way they
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: do on this show gets to be too much. Anyway,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: have yourselves a good night. I believe they just started
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: a brand new marathon on the WWE Vault channel of
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: all eighty stuff. Oh boy, I know what I'm falling
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: asleep to tonight. I put it on before for like
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: like ten seconds, and it was some studio wrestling from
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the NWA, So I don't think it's just eighties WWE.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: It's just eighties stuff in general, which I like because
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: you never know what you're gonna land on. It's totally random.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: I love these these like marathon streams. They run for
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: like a week at a time. So I'm gonna go
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: check that out, probably find more interest in that than
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Raw tonight. And then we'll be back tomorrow brand new
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: episode of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show that is dropping tomorrow,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: and then TNT and back here for Dynamite. Until then,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: have yourselves a good night, and I will see you
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: live here on the channel again real soon. Until then,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: take care, guys,