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WWE Raw 4/27/26 Review | BIG MATCH Official For Backlash And OBA FEMI'S OPEN CHALLENGE · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: What's going on, guys? It is another Monday Night. I
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: am the Solemn Monster. It is your Monday Night Raw
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  Speaker 1: review for April twenty seven, twenty twenty six, where tonight
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu they came face to face
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  Speaker 1: yet again. The cliffhanger last week was whether or not
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  Speaker 1: Roman would give Jacob a championship match a Backlash. They
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: kind of left us hanging there at the end, and
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: then Jacob went and main evented SmackDown on Friday, and
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: I think we all knew where this was headed. But
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: tonight we got the official response. And not only did
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: we get a response, but we had Jacob Fatu putting
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: his hands on roman Reins and using a move that
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen or heard mentioned in a very
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: long time. I'm watching this show and I see Jacob
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  Speaker 1: fa Twu is using the tongue in death grip. I'm like,
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: are we going back to the fucking tongue in death grip? Here?
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I felt like I was transported back to the days
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety seven Nightro But he did, and Roman
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: accepted the challenge, and so the World Heavyweight Championship will
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  Speaker 1: be on the line at Backlash. In just a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: we actually had the announcement of three matches for Backlash.
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  Speaker 1: Backlash is actually shaping up to be a very strong card.
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  Speaker 1: All the matches so far are raw matches. I suspect
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  Speaker 1: that will change at the end of this week. But
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  Speaker 1: we have Roman reigns in Jacob Fatu for the World
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. We have Seth Rolins and bron Breaker, their
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  Speaker 1: match was made official tonight as well, and EO Sky
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  Speaker 1: and Osca will finally after months, step into the ring
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  Speaker 1: one on one. But it feels like there's something missing.
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  Speaker 1: Something is missing in this equation. I can't quite put
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  Speaker 1: my finger on what it is. Oh yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Kyrie Say will not be involved in this match, and
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  Speaker 1: the only time that you will ever hear this again
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  Speaker 1: is on one of these streams because she's already back
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  Speaker 1: in Japan and she will have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: this match, which, honestly like not that I'm not looking
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing EO and Oska in the ring together.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for this match for a while, but
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  Speaker 1: it just feels hollow now. The entire story that this
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  Speaker 1: match was built around, the whole payoff that this match
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  Speaker 1: was built upon unless there's some last second deal that
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: gets made to bring her back, and you can't rule
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  Speaker 1: it out right. We've seen this before, we saw this
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  Speaker 1: with our truth. But chances are that will not happen,
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  Speaker 1: and now that will not be taking place, and that
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  Speaker 1: sucks and the match loses something because of it. It could
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  Speaker 1: still be a very good match, but the match loses
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  Speaker 1: something because of it, and you can kind of tell.
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  Speaker 1: I think even looking at them tonight, EO and Osca,
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  Speaker 1: who are on the show, you know, obviously they seemed
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  Speaker 1: a little sad about the whole situation. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: that pep in their step, and you can understand why
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  Speaker 1: their partner, their friend, is no longer there and they
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  Speaker 1: probably have no good reason. They have no good explanation
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  Speaker 1: for it. Nobody does. It was a very stupid decision.
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  Speaker 1: Why you would make a decision like that before paying
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: off the story, right, Because even if you decided to
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: get rid of her in three weeks, you pay off
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  Speaker 1: the story, everybody goes crazy for it, and then you
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: get rid of her. You still would have had a
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: lot of outrage over the move. But you could at
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  Speaker 1: least look at it and go okay, well, at least
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: we got the payoff to the story. At least they
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: were able to, you know, kind of put a bow
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  Speaker 1: on it, and they didn't even do that, and that
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  Speaker 1: will not ever not be weird to me. But we
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  Speaker 1: are getting the match. The other thing that we also
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: can take away from this show tonight is that open
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  Speaker 1: challenge Mania is running wild here. On Monday Night Raw,
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  Speaker 1: we had Becky Lynch doing an open challenge tonight for
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  Speaker 1: the Women's Intercontinental title, which ended up being accepted by
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  Speaker 1: EO Sky and the two of them had the best
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: match on the entire show. But then on the same show,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: we had Opah Femi. After his quick win, he made
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  Speaker 1: short work of Grayson Waller saying, I am now officially
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  Speaker 1: starting the Oba Femi Open Challenge, which I gotta be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, is not the worst idea in the world,
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  Speaker 1: except they do so many open challenges that you just
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  Speaker 1: hear open challenge and you just kind of put your
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  Speaker 1: head in your hands, like this is this really like this?
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  Speaker 1: It's such a crutch when you see it so many times,
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  Speaker 1: and this is across the board in wrestling, but even
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  Speaker 1: in WWE in particular, they fall back on it when
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  Speaker 1: they just can't come up with something better for people
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  Speaker 1: to do. So we had the US Title Open Challenge
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  Speaker 1: on SmackDown, which was fantastic. We have Becky Lynch. Now
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: weekly thing, but Becky Lynch at least for one night
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  Speaker 1: doing an open challenge. It would be very stupid to
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  Speaker 1: have two different champions on the same show doing the
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  Speaker 1: open challenge gimmick. So maybe it was a one night
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  Speaker 1: thing for Becky, but when you rely on it so
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  Speaker 1: many times, that's when it gets lazy. That's when it
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: loses all meaning and all value. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at with Oba. I actually don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: the worst idea in the world for Obafemi because I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting here going, Okay, if you don't do an
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  Speaker 1: open challenge, then what would you do? How do you
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: book Obafemi? And this is the problem, because Obafemi is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be booked and portrayed as a special attraction.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot just have him go out on television and
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  Speaker 1: wrestling Grayson Waller every single week. They did that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to do that every
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  Speaker 1: single week. There's only so many people he can beat
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  Speaker 1: number one and number two. If all he's doing is
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  Speaker 1: going out there and associating himself with people that are
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  Speaker 1: beneath him, it doesn't help Oba. All it does is
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  Speaker 1: drag him down. But they probably want to feature him
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: on the show, if not every week, as often as possible,
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  Speaker 1: So honestly, the best solution in that case probably is
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  Speaker 1: to do some sort of open challenge. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: hate the idea. I hate the fact that they have
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  Speaker 1: bastardized it, and they have used it and overused it
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  Speaker 1: so many times that here now when you have a
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  Speaker 1: situation where it might actually work, it just feels so
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  Speaker 1: run down because it's like they're just beating a dead
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  Speaker 1: horse with it. At this point. How many times are
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  Speaker 1: they going to fall back on the open challenge gimmick?
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: But it really is like, when you really think about,
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  Speaker 1: how do you use Obafemi or push him in an
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  Speaker 1: effective way here on this show. If the idea is
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: to keep him away from the World Heavyweight Championship for
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: as long as possible to the summer or until WrestleMania
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: next year, maybe they do King of the Ring this
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  Speaker 1: year and he wins King of the Ring and Summer
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  Speaker 1: Slim he gets a title. Man. We don't know that though,
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  Speaker 1: and even Summer Slim. Summer Slim is months away. Summer
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  Speaker 1: Slim would be the absolute earliest that Obafemi would be
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  Speaker 1: challenging for the world championship. Anyway, it probably won't be
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  Speaker 1: for a lot longer than that. I took a look
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  Speaker 1: at the raw roster to just see if I'm leaving
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  Speaker 1: anybody out, because I'm thinking of the roster. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: even I don't know who I would want to book
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  Speaker 1: this man against right now. The idea of Obafemi and
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: the Vision doesn't really appeal to me. But the Vision
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: is pushed as the top heel faction on the show,
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: and they're occupied right now. Bron Breaker is occupied with
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  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins and Bronson Reed is not going to be
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  Speaker 1: back for at least a few months, so you could
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  Speaker 1: put them on the side for now, and then what
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  Speaker 1: you're left with for the most part are people that are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of the car. They're in
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  Speaker 1: the hunt for the Intercontinental title. You have your Russevs,
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: and you have your JD. Mcdonna's, and your Finn Balors
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  Speaker 1: and Penta right, and people like that Dragon Lee. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that they want to be putting Obafemi in
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  Speaker 1: a program with Dragon Lee, So again, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: worst idea in the world. And I do think by
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  Speaker 1: the way, that you can use this open challenge gimmick
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  Speaker 1: for him as a way to set up for an
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  Speaker 1: eventual battle between him and Gunther, Gunther who was not
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  Speaker 1: on the show tonight, and maybe that's the goal here.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they have an end goal in mind for this
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: thing where they do build to that as a match.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the match, you know, for SummerSlam. Although if
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  Speaker 1: that's the match for Summer's Law, I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: wrestles Roman Reigns, because you would think it would either
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  Speaker 1: be Gunther or it would be Obafemi. I can only
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  Speaker 1: hope that they have some sort of end goal in
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  Speaker 1: mind for this, and they didn't just come up with
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  Speaker 1: it because we don't know what to do, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: just do an open challenge and we'll figure it out
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  Speaker 1: on the fly. It would be sort of appropriate, I
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  Speaker 1: think if we were to learn that is what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here, because we've seen before where they don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have a good endgame for where they want to go
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  Speaker 1: with things the John Cena Hiltern. But yes, Obafemi is
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing his own version of an open
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  Speaker 1: challenge here on this show. And yes he did explain
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: in the promo. I'm aware I have ears he was
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  Speaker 1: explaining that the champions are tied up right now. That
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  Speaker 1: does not address the question that I just propose, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do with him in the met time? The
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  Speaker 1: whole point is there is no great person for him
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  Speaker 1: to work with at the moment, and it beats the
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  Speaker 1: hell out of not having him on the show, which
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: honestly would be even worse because for him to go
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: in there at WrestleMania and beat brock Lesnar get the
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: biggest win of his career and then he disappears for
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: six weeks, that doesn't do him any favors. This is
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: at least a way to get him on the show
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: pretty much every single week. But I suspect that the
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  Speaker 1: people who were gonna be stepping up to accept the
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: open challenge. First of all, they have a death wish.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why you would want to have a
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  Speaker 1: line of people lining up to accept an open challenge
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  Speaker 1: from Obafemi. I don't suspect that they're going to be
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: big names. I just don't want him hanging around the
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: mid card for three months. Hopefully they got a few
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: big names they could throw in there. But in addition
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: to that, it was a big night in Laredo, Texas
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: for one Rock Sam Perez because she is from Laredo, Texas,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: and boy, I mean she got a standing ovation at
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: one point during her match tonight. These fans were very
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: happy to see Roxanne on the show tonight and pick
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: up a win. By the way in her match. I
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: can't say the same for Stephanie Viquire. Not a great
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: night for Stephanie, who they wrote off of television. Tonight,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry made his raw debut in concert. I questioned
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: some of the lyrics, or at least the timing of them.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. Soul Ruka was not on the show,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: but she is going to sign her raw contract on
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: the show next week, we were told. And Ethan Page,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: who also debuted and got called up last week, was
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: back on the show this week, although not wrestling. One
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: other person who was not on the show tonight, CM Punk.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: This is after CM Punk came out on TV last
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: week and said I'm not going away I'm not taking
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: a vacation, right. He made it very clear that he's
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: not just going to disappear for weeks and weeks, but
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: he disappeared for one week at least on Monday. Is
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: he going to be there on Friday? See I'm punk
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: to SmackDown makes all the sense in the world. But
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: they have not hinted at that. They have not said
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: anything about the outside of his interaction with Cody, They
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: have not said anything about what his status is. I
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: would have to think he is going to end up
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown. I don't know what he does. If he
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: stays on wrong, what does he do? What do you
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: do with him? I don't want to see him in
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: seth Rollins again, and Rollins is busy anyway. Clearly Roman
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: and Punk their stories have now diverted. Roman will be
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: doing his thing, Punk will be doing his thing. If
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Punk is not going back after the World Heavyweight Championship,
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: he has to go to SmackDown. So I would suspect
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: that we will see him on the show this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about the show for tonight. Let's talk
• 11:51
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  Speaker 1: the Booker tonight. They kicked things off here with some
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: highlights from the end of the show last week, the
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  Speaker 1: confrontation that face to face between Roman Reigns and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Fatu and the way things were left where Roman said,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one week because Jacob wants
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  Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight Championship. I'm going to give you one
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: week to think things over. United, we stand, divided, we fall.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really want to divide the family? I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you seven days. So then they pitched it to a
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: pre tape vignette Roman Reigns, Jimmy and Jay Usso they
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: were sitting at the head of the table and Roman
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: said he didn't understand where Jacob was coming from, said
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: that everybody had a couple of years to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that he was no longer on top,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: and Jacob procrastinated and now he wants what belongs to him.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Jimmy doesn't disagree, but he gets to Jacob, you know,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: wanting to upgrade his life style and his household, but
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: it shouldn't come at the cost of Roman in the family,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: and Jay says that Jacob is dangerous. He laid out
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: all the MFTs by himself on fro which I mean,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: it's not terribly difficult to do. But he laid out
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: all of the MFTs on SmackDown on Friday Night's Unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: Says that there needs to be consequences, and Roman says
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: that Jay is right, we're not doing charity here. So
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Roman says he's gonna chew on it. He's gonna handle
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: it later tonight. And Jay said family first, and they
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: all put their hands out. Roman put his hand on
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: theirs and said the first family. So if there was
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: ever any doubt coming out of WrestleMania, the Bloodline is
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: officially back together as a group. We're back to the
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Bloodline here. The only question is do they add any
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: new members? Is Jacob gonna end up linking up with them?
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Had a solo factor into this. Is he going to
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: disband the MFTs or We don't know, but the blood
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Line is, to be honest with you, the Bloodline never
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: really left. If we're being honest, the Bloodline never really
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: went away. They just kind of took a back seat
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: for a while, and now they're back seth Rollins made
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: his entrance, came to the ring for a promo. So
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the reason he lost to Gunther at WrestleMania wasn't because
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Gunther was better than him on that night. There was
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: a reason that Roman Reigns is walking around with a
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: world heavyweight title, and it's not because Roman pinned him.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: The reason for both of those things is Bron Breaker
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: and Rollinson. He knew Breaker was backstage with nine staples
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: in his head. Boy, you know Breaker's got nine staples
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: in his head. Soul Ruka has eight right coming out
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: of Smack, coming out of NXT. What is going on
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: in this company? These people got to be more careful
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: at seventeen staples right there? How many more staples do
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: we need? So he said, you're welcome for that. Because
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Rolin's is the one who accidentally busted open the back
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: of his head with the lip of that steel chair.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: So Rolin says he gave Braun everything on a silver platter,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and he repaid him by taking everything away from him.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Bron was the reason that he lost that championship, did
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: not main event WrestleMania, and didn't win his match. How
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: did it benefit Braun in any way? So Breaker had
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: come out with Paul Hayman, he had joined Rollins in
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  Speaker 1: the ring, and now it was time for Breaker to answer,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: it's time for his response, and Bron says that he
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: and Bronson Reid they were Seth's errand boys put out
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: fires for him. He and Reid had to sit back
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and listen to Seth recite the same crap every single week.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Bron never needed Seth, he never needed his vision. The
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: only reason that they're standing here is he needed Paul Hayman.
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  Speaker 1: And Rollins was taken aback by this. You need him
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  Speaker 1: a tubagoo over there, that bag of bones, that guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he talked about how you know he wanted Rollins did.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Wanted to go to NXT a few years ago and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: fight their best, and Shawn Michael said, our best is
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Bron Breaker, and Rolin said, hell yeah, bring him on.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: And then after that, Hayman asked Seth about a year
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: later about taking Bron Breaker under their wing, and again
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Seth said, hell yeah, let's bring him aboard. Brons has
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: it all. Seth says he's seen everyone come through here
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: fourteen years in this company, and Breaker is the most
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: versatile athlete that he's ever seen. Bron has everything to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: be the next big star in this industry except the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: most important thing. Seth points up here, at his head.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Seth knows how it is to be a young cat,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: thinking the business owes him everything, and betting himself and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: taking chances. The difference is Bron tried, Seth succeeded, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: every time Seth bet on himself had ended up with
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a main event or a world championship. For Breaker, he
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: got Austin theory and logan Paul and happy endings with
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman, which is a horrific image and I really
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: don't ever want to hear about that ever. Again. Those
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: are words that should simply never go together. So Rollins
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: tells Breaker he's not ready, and Braun responds back and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: says that he's well on his way to being a
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: main eventor with or without Seth. Rollins even before the vision,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: he was well on his way to being a big star.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: He says. Seth's body can't handle it, his mind is
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: too brittle, and his shoulder can't handle the weight of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the strap anymore. Rollins is a first ballot Hall of Famer,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the best pro wrestler in the entire world of being
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: number two, and Seth tells Baby Steiner that you're pretty good.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Did you call Big Pop a pump? For your hookup
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: backlashes two weeks away. Seth is going to give Braun
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to prove that he is ready. He goes Steiner,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you're not even number two in your own family, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Seth drops the mic and he leaves the ring. For
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the record, I'm just gonna go out, go ahead and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: say it. Breaker is already better than his father, so
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I would wager that he is, in fact the number
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: two Steiner. I can't put him above Scott, I will
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: put him above Rick. As far as the exchange here,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I mean they had a good back and forth. We're
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: lighting the world on fire. Not a lot of intensity
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: here or anything like that, but it was fine. You
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: know that. It was a fine segment to set up
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the match that I think we all knew was coming.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: This was going to be the WrestleMania match. Even though
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Breaker had already been clear and going into WrestleMania, they
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: didn't want to rush it. They wanted to wait a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: few extra weeks. Otherwise we would have had this match
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. We're getting it a backlash, and and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's only gonna be the first. This is
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: not gonna be a one and done they're gonna have
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a match of backlash. They may have a rematch a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: clash in Italy. This is just match number one between
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: these two. Now we go backstage. Stephanie Viquer is walking
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: presumably she's walking towards the ring and she's got her
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: new T shirt on and she gets ambushed by Raquel Rodriguez.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Roxanne Perez appears on screen and gets a big pot
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: because they're in Laredo, Texas, which is her hometown. But
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: she grabs an equipment case as Raquel is holding Stephanie
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: down on the ground and she rams the equipment case
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: into Stephanie. Liv Morgan is standing nearby. She leans down
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to tell Stephanie, now this is over because this is
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: my championship. And the judgment they walk away and I'm
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: watching this and my first thought is they're writing this
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: woman off. She must have an injury. Later in the show,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: we got the update from Michael Cole who said that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Stephanie suffered a second degree ac sprain of the shoulder
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and she could be out for a little bit. A
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: little bit is kind of vague. I mean that could
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: be two weeks, that could be two months. I suspect
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: she won't be gone for too long, but there must
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: be some sort of injury issue, and this was their
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: way of writing her off television. So I thought this
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: would be a rematch of Backlash, and now it looks
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like we're not going to get the match at all,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: at least not for a while. Half an hour into
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the show, we got our first actual match. We finally
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: got some in ring action here Penta non title one
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: on one against RUSSEV. Probably released, says Alexan. No, they
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: are not releasing Stephanie Vicaire. I talk about being stunned
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: about Kyrie. That would stun me. They're not releasing Stephanie.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: This was a receipt for the smashing of the heads
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Yeah, I mean I would say
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: that Live probably has good reason to be angry about that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So anyway, Ethan Page made his way out after the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: bell rang. He comes down to the ring and he's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: going to take a ringside seat to watch this match.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Look at this guy already. This is only his second
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: week on the show and he's already involved in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: title scene. I think he's going to do very well
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: for himself on Raw. So they pointed out that Penta
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: is undefeated so far in twenty twenty six. The two
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of them, they were fighting up on the top rope.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Russev got knocked off, Penta came off with a crossbody.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Russev then blocked a Mexican destroyer attempt, hit a Machka kick,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and he was setting up for the accolade. Penta slips out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Pented then tease some sort of springboard move, but he
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: held onto the rope because he he had a sense
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the Machka kick was coming, and it was and Rusev missed,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and then Penta rolled him up and picked up the win.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So even in a non title situation, Rusev still cannot
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: pick up a win. I'm actually glad because it would
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: have been very easy for them. Oh, it's non titles,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: so we'll beat the champion Pentus. I didn't even realize
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that Penta is unbeaten so far this year. So that's
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the case. Keep him strong. He's the champ. He should win,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and so that's what he did. Now, Russev attacked him.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: When the match was over, Ethan Page got into the ring.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: He tried to join in. Russev didn't really need his help.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: He wasn't very interested Penta starts fighting back though, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so Ethan comes back. He attacks Penta from behind. Now
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the two of them are both putting the boots to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the champ and this brings out Javon Evans. He runs
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: out to make the save and at the end of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: all this he drops Russev with an og cutter. Him
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and Penta come face to face. The two of them
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: shake hands and raise each other's arm. So this feels
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: like a tag team match is incoming. Possibly next week,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: we got a pre tape with El Grande Americano Kaiser
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: flanked by Ryo and Bravo. He cut the promo half
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in Spanish and then the back half in English, talking
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: about his upcoming mask versus mask match at the Triple
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: A show, which I believe is coming up on May thirtieth.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I want to say, and to prepare, this is going
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to be him against Al Grande Gable, and so to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: prepare for this, he wanted to challenge the biggest Lucha
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Libra star that there is right here in Laredo, Texas.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He wanted to issue a challenge, not an open challenge,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to Ramisteria and the crowd sheared this and we did
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: end up getting that match. Later on in the show
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: after this, we have Becky Lynch coming out for an
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: entring promo, the new Women's Intercontinental Champion. She talked about
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: how she got rid of aj Lee once and for all.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: She said that she became the first wrestler in history
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to win four different championships at wrestle many of the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: first three time Women's inter Continental champion, and now has
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the most matches of any female superstar ever in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: history of WrestleMania. And then she warned she was coming
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: after the Undertaker's undefeated streak I guess, or his record
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: whatever at WrestleMania. So all of that was wonderful, but
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: what happened after the match, she said, was more important.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: She looked out the sea of fifty thousand fans in
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas and she saw her, her little girl,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: sitting in the front row. So she took her daughter
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: up the ramp and to the back, and she realized
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: she needed to show her what a real champion looked like.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't about the five star hotels, the private
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: jets of the fancy tour buses. It wasn't about going
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to the biggest cities. It was about showing up in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: run down towns like Laredo and showing up for the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: common folk. She said that she knew the fans wanted
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: something new and shiny and exciting, and so she was
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: going to issue an open challenge to any woman who
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: wanted to come down to the ring and challenge her
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: for her Women's Intercontinental title. Eo Sky makes her entrance
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and she joined Becky in the ring. She told Becky
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that she accepts her challenge. Becky then said, well, I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: mean I talked about wanting to face the best of
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the best. I wanted something new and shiny and exciting,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and you are none of those things. So she wondered
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: if EO was accepting on behalf of Rhea Ripley, the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: member of their tag team who actually has gold, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Becky said that she wanted to face Sean Michaels, not
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Marty Jeannetti, and I have to say, as dated as
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that reference is at this point where it's a nineteen
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: ninety two reference, the crowd reacted in a big way
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to it, which actually kind of warmed my heart. Kudos
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to the crowd in Laredo, Texas for getting the reference
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and then reacting to it. Because I was worried like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: she was going to mention this fucking Marty Jeannetti reference
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six in front of these crowds. It
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was just going to be like a totally dead respond
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and they actually responded to that. So EO then popped
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Becky in the face and Becky scrambled out to the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: floor and she went to go exit through the timekeepers area,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: but before she can make her way through, alex Adam
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Pearce we hear his disemboweled voice. He comes out from
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the back. He says, hold up, Becky, hold up, said
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you issued an open challenge and it was accepted by
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: EO and so therefore the match is official, and he
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: called for a referee to come out. So we ended
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: up getting for the women's Intercontinental title. We had Becky
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Lynch defending against EO Sky. So Michael Cole mentioned that
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: EO and Rhea they beat the Kabooki Warriors last week,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and Corey Graves said that Oscar was so upset that
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be seeing her former pupil for a long time.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Never made any mention of Kyrie saying, I mean that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was as close as they came to mentioning her name.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: So during the match, EO delivered a sunset flip power
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: bomb to Becky on the floor That was ahead of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a commercial break, after which Becky hit a superplex floated
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: over into a DDT for a near fall. EO countered
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: out of a manhandle slam. She dropped Becky with a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: butterfly backbreaker, and then EO went for the moon saw. Becky,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: though got her feet up on the way down and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: then hit the manhandle slam, only got a near fall
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: out of it. Now outside the ring, EO followed up
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: with a springboard moonsal, and while the referee was checking
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: on Becky, who was back in the ring. Now, EO
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: was on the apron and she was about to set
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: up for something. Here comes Oska. Now, before before this,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: EO took her boot off. I don't know what that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: was about. Maybe she had rocks in her shoe. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have no fucking idea. So she took her boot off first,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and then she got up on the apron. She was
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: about to do a springboard something. Oscar it comes running
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: down to the ring. She trips her up and that
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: allowed Becky to hit one more men handle slam for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the win to retain the championship. So after the match
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: was over, Osca put Eo in the Oscar lock. Eo
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was tapping out, Oscar wouldn't let go, and ultimately she
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: went unconscious and then Oscar stood over her body as
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the crowd chanted we want Kyrie. I couldn't hear they
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: were chanting it earlier. I know they just chanted it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this one time, and it wasn't like it was overwhelming
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: throughout the entire show or anything, but they definitely chanted
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it here. The match itself was actually very good, was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a very good TV match here between these two, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: they got some time. I didn't time it out exactly,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm I'm pretty sure they got close to fifteen
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: minutes here for this match. So this was good stuff.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And then as far as Eo and Oscar, again, like
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I said before, it's great that we're finally going to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: get the match, and I I certainly hope they give
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: these you know, women plenty of time. It's just not
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: going to be the same though, the whole point of
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: it was that you build to this big climactic moment
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and you pay off this storyline, this relationship, all these
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: segments that we've had now for months on end, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: now we're not going to get that. You know, we're
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: not going to get that payoff, and it sucks. So
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we're finally getting it. But once we get it,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I guess these two will just move on to something
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: else and Kyrie will be but a distant memory. At
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: least Kyrie finally got away from Oscar. I like to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: think in storyline, Kyrie said, you know what, I'm not
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: going to put up with this shit anymore. She just
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: flew herself home just to get away from this woman.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I'm booking my own angle here in my head since
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: WWE was too fucking lazy to do it themselves. We
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: go backstage El Grande Gable having a conversation in the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: back with Raymysteria, and he wanted to know of Ray,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you know, because he saw the conversation that Ray had
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: earlier on with Kaiser. Now he wants to know, do
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I have to watch my back when I face Kaiser
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in our Mass versus Mass match next month? And Ray
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: said no, All I wanted to do is just I
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: want to play it down the middle. I'm not choosing
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sides here. He said that all I want is for
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the two of you to respect Lucha librae. That's it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: So Kaiser and the Americanos show up. Gable told him
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: mind your own business, and they started bickering back and forth,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and Ray had to shout them down and said, I'm
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: not choosing sides here. So then elsewhere Byron Saxton is
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: talking to the Usos and Jimmy says that the OTC
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: will make his decision when he is ready. I love
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: how Ala it only took a few weeks for these
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: guys to be back in like lockstat with Roman Reigns,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: like they they were their own men, and now all
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're back to being his basically his
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Aaron boys and falling in line and everything's about the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: OTC and they're taking a back seat. It was so quick.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Apparently they have no issue with this. So La Knight
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: walks up and now La Night teen with these guys, right,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they won a match at WrestleMania this year, La Knight
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: walks in. He wants to remind them of who they are.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Jay won the World Heavyweight Championship on his own. Jimmy
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: has all the potential to be World Heavyweight Champion, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: he won't do so under the thumb of Roman reigns.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So Jay tells him, you need to shut up, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Jimmy says that it's family business, and Knight said, well
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the bloodline. You know you guys, you ran roughshod over
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: this place. But power eventually corrupts and that's when it
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: becomes his business. So now it was time for the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: raw debut of the former TNA World Heavyweight Champion Joe Hendry.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He was going to be in concert. Now again, I'm
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: watching with the so I'm seeing everything during the commercial breaks,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he got a jobber entrance for the TV audience. He
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: got his entrance during the commercial so when they came
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: back live, he was already in the ring. This is
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: first night on the show. How are you going to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: give this man a jobber entrant? I his theme song
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is like the biggest part of his act. This is
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: his raw debut. They didn't even allow his song to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: play through on the actual TV show. Unbelievable. So he's
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: sitting in the ring already, He's got his guitars there
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and he's sitting in the ring. He said he had
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a big decision to make lately, and so he's going
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to tell us about it in a song. I'm not
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: going to sing the song to you. I'm just going
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to recite the lyrics to you that he came up
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: with for this song. He's won the title everywhere he goes.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: He's been on WrestleMania and many other shows. But by
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the time or but the time has come for him
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to pick one brand, and he hopes the other brands
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: will understand that Joe Hendry's on Raw. The next time
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you turn on Netflix, you won't just have to chill.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: There will be a whole new thrill. Respect to the ruler,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: he acknowledges the OTC, but he needs Adam Pierce to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: fire logan Paul, Can we fire logan Paul? And he
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: asked the fans to join in, and they're singing, can
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: we fire logan Paul? Fire Logan Paul? And Corey Graves said,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if it was here or if it
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: was later on when Michael Cole on Commentary started singing
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the same thing, fire logan Paul, fire logan pol But
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Corey Graves said, it's not funny to joke about someone
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: losing their job, and I would say, yeah, it's at
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a little tone deaf. I think for this, considering what
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: happened a few days ago, maybe just a little bit.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So the vision comes out. Logan Paul is not very
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: happy about being told that he should be fired, and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: he is just he's overacting and he's just throwing a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: whole fit. I mean, he was really overacting here and
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: just beside himself, and he says that you can't fire me.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm unfireable. He says, says that Joe Hendry made the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: worst mistake of his life. Your first night will be
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: your last. So then Theory was able to speak, said
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: their tag team belt to make him and Logan winners.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Henry said that he watched wrestle Mannie. He saw a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: couple of primetime losers. So Theory shoved Henry, who then
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: struck his pose where he turns his back and then
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: he turns around and they zoom in on him. He's
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: all angry. He tries to fight these two guys off
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: by himself. They overwhelm him. He's out numbered. So here
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: come Montes Ford in Angelo Dawkins. They hit the ring.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: They send Logan out to the floor. Ford goes up
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: top for a frog splash Logan and they'll pull his
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: theory out to the floor and Joe Hendry does his dive. Now,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: he does this dive where he'll charge towards the ropes.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: It's like he's vaulting over the top rope and he
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: just throws his entire body, and I mean he's putting
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: his full faith and trust for somebody to catch him.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: And so he takes out the Vision with this big dive.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You know what the best heel move would be, Joe Hendry.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: He throws his entire body one day out over the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: top rope and they pull a Samoa Joe Nope, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: they just sort of step aside and Joe Hendry just
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: fucking splats on the ground. I don't think that the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: guys in the back would appreciate that very much. I'm
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: just saying, though, if you're a heel, can't think of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a better heel move than that. See, he wipes out
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the Vision, gets back in the ring and he celebrates
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: with the street profits and they're all swaying and they're
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: throwing their hands back and forth to the music. As
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: far as his debut, I mean, look, if you are
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that everybody listening to this or watching
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: this right now, you know who Joe Hendry is. You've
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: seen Joe Hendry TNA n XT. He wrestled Randy Orton
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to WrestleMania. You know who Joe Hendry is. If you
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: are somebody who does not know who Joe Hendry is,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: or if you only know him from the limited stuff
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: he's done, you know again, maybe an NXT you may
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: not be aware of the fact that what helped get
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: this guy over in the first place were these songs
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that he would do and he would be feuding with
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: somebody in TNA and he would write a song about them,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: insulting them, and that and his theme song. That's really
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: what got him got him over in the first place.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: So it can be entertaining that every song is going
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to be a winner. Obviously, I think with the audience
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: it's a good way, like he'll get over that way.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: He's a very creative guy. I'm not saying he has
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to come up with new songs every single week. I
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: think he'll do well. You know, I get questions from
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: time to time about people, Oh, do you think this
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: guy's going to be a success on the main roster.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Do you think this gimmickal work on the main roster?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And I've gotten that question about a lot of people,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen, some of the people from NXT, and I've
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: gotten questions like that about Joe Henry. How far do
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: you think he'll go on the main roster? You know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: what's his ceiling on the main roster? I think Joe
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Henry is gonna get over just fine, just like Dan Housen. Actually,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen is more over than Joe Hendry will be.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: But there were people who probably didn't think Dan Housen
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: would be over on the main roster, and look at
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the success he's had so far. I'm not worried about
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that for him. I think his ceiling, though, is going
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to be limited to either the Intercontinental title, you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: being on Raw, or maybe the US title. To me,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that's his ceiling. I'm not saying that, you know, he
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: can't mingle with the main eventors from time to time
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: or be in a tag match with them. Him challenging though,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: being a serious challenger for the World Heavyweight Championship. It's
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen this year, it's
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen anytime soon. And that's okay. He could
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: still have a successful run for himself, being a supporting
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: player in the mid card or the mid kind of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: upper mid card of the show. That's where I see
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: him settling. I just don't I don't see him the
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: way he was in TNA or NXT, where he was
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the top guy, you know, where he was the world champion.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I don't see that here. I don't see that here.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I don't see that on SmackDown. Doesn't mean that he
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: can't have success. I think he'll do okay. Now we
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: go backstage, speaking of people who probably are not going
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to be okay, Grayson Waller. He complained to Adam Pierce
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: about giving everybody else opportunities, where's my opportunity? What about me?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: So Pierce was trying to warn him, he said Oba
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Femi because Oba was standing behind him, and Waller was
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: completely oblivious to this, and he just kept talking, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: he said that Femi was overrated and he only beat
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Brock because Brock was at the end of his career.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So Waller then turned around to see that Oba Femi
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was standing behind him, and Bemi asked Adam Pierce to
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: make a match between the two of them, and so
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Pierce made the match official. Elsewhere in the back, Joe,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Henry and the Street Profits are walking together and exchanging
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: some compliments, and Seth Rollins walks up to the Street
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Profits after Joe exits, and basically he was trying to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: like butter up to them. They didn't want to hear
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: from him. They basically told him, in so many words,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: just get lost, And I was like, good, good for them.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Rollins was a fucking idiot. He was a jerk to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: so many people on this show. Why would anybody want
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to be this guy's friend? That wouldn't make any sense.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Seth Rolins should have no friends on this show. He
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: alienated everybody on the show. Why would anybody want to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: be friends with him? Why would anybody want to partner
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: up with him? Good on the Street Profits. We got
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: our own business to deal with. We didn't start coming
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: out after the vision to save your ass. You deal
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: with them by yourself. So then we had Raymistereo against
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: El Gande Americano Kaiser, who I will point out got
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: an apology earlier today from Rick Flair after his comments
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: on the Ariel Helwani Show last week. So I see
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the the alcohol finally left his bloodstream. He apologized, so
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Ray kicked Grande into the ropes. He was gonna go
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: for the six to one nine. Bravo tripped up Ray
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and so Ryo on the other side, he got up
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: on the apron. He was trying to help Elgorande load
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the mask with a little metal plate. Ray, though, comes
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in sixty one nine to them both, so Kaiser was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: able to avoid the drop of the dime, and then
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: he goes to load the mask up, but here's the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: og Americano and Ray hits both of them. Og goes
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: flying to the floor, sixty one nine drop of the dime,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and Ray Masterio picks up the wind so he reaches
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: down because the little metal plate is now on the floor,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and he picks up the plate and he's basically accusing
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: both of them of trying to use it, keeps it
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and he leaves. Now the two El Grandees are in
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the ring together and they start going at it, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: basically what they did here was a much abbreviated poor
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: man's version of the pull apart they had in tripa
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: A a few weeks ago before WRESTLEMANI, which was fucking great. Uh,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: this was too short to be anything. And if you
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: listen to the crowd reaction during this crowd didn't give
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: a shit. It doesn't work here like that pull apart
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: brawl with the two because Kaiser is so over in
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Mexico right now. I mean, he really is one of
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the biggest baby faces in the country. Came out of
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: nowhere with this, and so when they had that, they
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: did that angle a few weeks ago, and an undertaker
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: booked this big pull apart brawl between the two of them.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: It got over like like Gangbusters. I mean, the reaction
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to it, it was like an old school heat angle.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: People were losing their minds over this pull apart and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: these guys were not hold him back. I mean, they
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: made it look legit. It was great, best pull upark
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: brawl I've seen in years. This was a poor copy
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: of that, and the crowd didn't give a shit because
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: this angle is not over here. It's super over in Mexico.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: And I think that the heat for that mask match
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: at the end of May is going to be off
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the charts, Like I am actually very much looking forward
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: to seeing that match, But the reaction tonight could not
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: compare it to the reaction that it got in Mexico.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Even if there were some light chance and it was
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: nothing by comparison, and then they just cut away to
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the very next thing, so it didn't have the same impact.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: But I am looking forward to seeing that match. Hopefully
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that will be the end of this whole for Gable,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: not Kaiser, the end of the whole Americano thing. Obviously.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping Gable loses and gets unmasked and then he
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: can move on with his fucking life and do something else.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: For Kaiser, though, I mean, he ride that wave, Ride
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: that wave, brother, there's no reason to to put an
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: end to it now. I mean, he's on a roll.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Long may it continue for him. Maybe he can issue
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: a challenge to Rick Flair. Maybe Flair will come out
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: of retirement and he will wrestle. And has Rick Flair
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: ever wrestled in triple A? I don't believe, so, I
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: don't think he ever had a triple A match. This
• 44:22
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• 45:29
  Speaker 1: going to feature bron Breaker against seth Rollin's EO Sky
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: against OSCA. We got a pre tape promo from OSCO
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: which was very good. She said that when she's done
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: with EO or she will say when she's done with EO,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: she's still her Sendpi and all EO has done is
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: disappoint her. Osca thought that she did something wrong to
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: make EO turn against her, but EO is the problem.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: She is Oscar's biggest failure. They're both alone now because
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Osca doesn't want another EO. Some shade of kyrie there.
• 46:03
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• 46:06
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• 46:09
  Speaker 1: one last lesson. EO is not and never will be
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: ready for Oscar. This all just makes me very sad
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Oba Femi one on one with Grayson Waller. Oba comes
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: out shadowy silhouette as he's making his entrance, fucking great entrance,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: so the bell rings. Oba clothes lines Waller before tossing
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: him into the corner, and Waller was able to avoid
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: one of the shots that he went for. He got
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: like a minimal amount of offense here. And then he
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: was outside the ring and he has that move where
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: he dives in for that rolling cutter, So he went
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: for the rolling cutter into the ring. Oba just great.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: He just picked him up and tossed him aside, and
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: then the fall from race followed shortly thereafter, and thanks
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: for coming, Grayson Wallat, don't look at your phone anytime soon.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: So Oba then gets on the mic and he asks Laredo,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: are you feeling good tonight? He's feeling good too. Grayson
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: is not, but we don't care about that. Grayson did
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: say something though, in the back that was right. There
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: is no opportunity around here, he said, because all the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: big champions are locked in with their contenders. But Oba
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: has a solution to this problem. As of today, he
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: is starting the Oba Femi Open Challenge. Any man that
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: wants to prove himself can step up. You will be
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: stepping up to the ruler, or, as he says, the ruler.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: So we now have the Oba Open Challenge. I believe
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. I believe he did this
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: gimmick already once in NXT. I don't know how long
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: it lasts. Excuse me, I don't know how long it lasted,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: but I'm almost positive when he was the North American Champion,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: he did an open challenge gimmick. So it's not even
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: the first time that we're getting an Oba Femi Open
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: challenge technically and again to go back to what I
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: was saying earlier, I think the open challenge is just
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: relied upon far too often. I wish that it would
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: be utilized selectively and not well. When we have nothing
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: better for someone to do, or we can't come up
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: with a better idea, we'll just have them do an
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: open challenge. You do it so often. Now Oba's gonna
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: do it. Oba. Do you realize that the entire reason
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: that we got Oba and Brock at WrestleMania is because
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Brock did an open challenge and Oba accepted. So now
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Oba is turning around and doing the exact same thing.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: And one of the good things about it is that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: it will be a way to get him on the
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: television show pretty much every single week, which is good
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: because you want him to be on the show. But again,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the bad news is I hate that we keep going
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: back to this and how long can you really do this?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: You almost can't do it every week even though he's
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: doing an open challenge. I actually think we're not gonna
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: see him on the show every week because you're gonna
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: run out of people, and what are you gonna do?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: You're gonna start bringing people from other brands? Are people
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: from NXT going to come in and accept the open
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: challenge people from SmackDown. Probably the more I think about this,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: probably you gonna have to You're gonna have to use
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: people from some of the other brands because you're gonna
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: run out of people. Otherwise you're just gonna end up
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: with Tozawa and Otis and people of that ilk And
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: that's just not the kind of thing I think that
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: you should be doing with Oba Femi. I mean, you
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: could come up with competition that's a little bit stiffer
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: than that. But again, the pool of talent they have
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: access to for this is gonna be somewhat limited. So
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I'm more interested in, like, what is their plan for
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: him by the time we get to the end of
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the summer, Like what are we looking at here? Are
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: we looking at Oba and gun through or are they
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: going to throw him into the deep end of the
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: pool a lot quicker than maybe some people think and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: actually have him fighting for the championship Because this is
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the conundrum. Now, when you have somebody like this who
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: beats Brock, you give him the Brock push, because if
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: you don't, what is the alternative he wins the Intercontinental title,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: he doesn't need the Intercontinental title. That title should be
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: reserved for people like Penta and Russev and Ethan page
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Right who would benefit from actually being in that division
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: and fighting for it. Oba has already ascended beyond that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: He's the guy who beat Brock at WrestleMania, his first
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania match. I mean, if that isn't the stamp of approval,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know what is. So now it's like, well, shit,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: what do we do with this guy? If we're not
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: ready to have him in there were Roman reigns, yet
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: the fuck do we do with him? This is the problem.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: So I don't mind the open challenge concept. I just
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: hope they have a really good, you know, payoff to
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: this idea and it's not just open ended where Okay,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: we'll do this until we can actually figure out what
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: the hell we want to do with this guy. Where
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: we see him in August, where we see him in July,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: in September. I think the Brock push is the way
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: to go here. I think you put that World Heavyweight
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Championship on him a lot sooner than WrestleMania, because if
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: you don't, it's going to be very difficult. I think
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: to sustain this. You've done such a good job with him,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Like they could not have handled the Brock stuff any
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: better with him. I gave them a lot of credit,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of praise for it. But now it's over,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and now you've got to come up with, Okay, what's next,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: And there's just not a lot of great options right now.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: So I hope what they have in mind for him,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: you know, if anybody was going to get the special
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: treatment as far as like, Okay, let's come up with
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: a long term plan here for this guy, it's Obafemi.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: That's my hope for this. But he's not sniffing that
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: world title for at least several more months. Got to
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: find a way to kind of tide him over in
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: the meantime. I don't know what his injuries status is,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: but I kind of want to see a match with
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: him and Seamus and I, frankly, I think you could
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: even do a short program out of it, not even
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: just a one off. Seamus has been out for a while.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I would have to think that he's probably due to
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: come back any month now. I wouldn't mind seeing that match.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: That is a match that I would like to see
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: very much, But again, I just don't know what his
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: current status is. Live Morgan she talked to Roxanne Perez
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: in the back. Morgan wanted to finish the conversation that
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: they started having before WrestleMania, before Stephanie bashed their heads together,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and Live still has a little bit of a bump
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: on her. It's funny, you know, Roxanne actually doesn't have
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: a scratch on her, so if she has anything any
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: like residual effects from that, like they did the makeup
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and you can't even see it. Live Live definitely got
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the worst end of that, but she wanted to continue conversation.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Apparently they're barred from speaking to each other when there's
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: no camera present. Apparently she can only talk to her
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: on the show, so she's glad she finally got a
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: hold of her. So Liv said she knows it must
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: have been tough for Roxanne when she was home to
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: watch everything that went down with Finn Balor because Balor
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and her were very close. Baler is the one who
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: brought her into the judgment day, but Live said that
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: they were a family and Balor put himself before the family.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Live would never do that, so she would be in
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Roxanne's corner tonight to cheer her on during her match,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: and Live asked Roxanne do you trust me? And Roxanne nodded,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: told her though, go on without me. So Morgan left
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: and as soon as Live Morgan left, Finn Balor showed up.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: He snuck his way in there and he warned Roxanne
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: she couldn't trust anybody in the judgment day. Roxanne wondered
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: if she could trust Finn and she said, look, I
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: have a match to get ready for. You should leave
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: before you get hurt. Finn wished her luck and hopes
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: that she knows what she's doing, and that led into
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: the tag team match. It was Bailey and Lyra Valkyria
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: taking on Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez. Roxy got a
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: great hometown reaction. These people gave her a standing ovation
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: when she tagged into this match. They were so happy
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: to see her as a big homecoming for her. They
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: actually booed Bailey and Lyra when they were in there
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: against Roxanne. So Perez set Bailey up for pop rocks
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: at one point, she was able to avoid it. She
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: had a Bailey to belly for a two count. After
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez broke up the pin, Live Morgan jumped up on
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: the apron, so Bailey went after her. Morgan jumped down,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: though she yanked Bailey down across the rope in the process,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and that distraction, it's not even a distraction. I mean
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: that interference allowed Roxanne to hit a shining whiz and
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: then pop Rocks for the win. They actually gave her
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: a win here in her hometown. They resisted temptation. It
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: was always a Vince thing, but we've seen Triple Ah
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: do it too, Like when someone's in their hometown, you're
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: very tempted to beat them in their hometown. Right, It's
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: great heat, It did the right thing. They gave her
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: a big win. Everybody was happy. Nothing special about the
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: match itself. It was really all about rox Enne and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: it was very cool to see her get that kind
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: of reaction, which she never does, I mean, not like that.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: So that was cool. So I guess the question now
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: is like, is Roxanne going babyface? If so when I
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: see I don't see her in Balor branching off like
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: together to like start their own group or anything like that.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Balor and the judgment day clearly there's still you know,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: a story there that they're pursuing. Where does Roxanne stay
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: does Roxanne leave. I think if money in the bank
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: was in June like it was last year, the timing
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: would be perfect because June is not that far away,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and you could drag this out until June and have
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Roxane win money in the bank there, and then it
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: would just feed in so perfectly going into Summer Slam,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: depending on like when they would want her to cash
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: in as far as her like teasing a potential cash
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: in and Live's got the World Championship and it creates
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: all this drama. Money in the bank though this year
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: is not until after Summer Slam. It's the latest it's
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: ever been. It's the beginning of September. It's still a
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: ways away. I don't know if they're just going to
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: drag this out until then, but it's the Judgment Day,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: so of course they will. Of course they will. Do
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: you know how long they've dragged out some of this
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Judgment Day shit in the past years, literal years. What's
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: another few months for WWA. They'll stall this out as
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: long as possible. I'm still sticking with Roxanne though, was
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: my early pick to win that briefcase this year, and
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: then we were down to the closing segments Soul Ruka
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: needs to be women's champion. Dude, she hasn't signed her
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: contract yet, You're already putting the title on her. She's
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: not Obafemi. She does not need the title right away.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: We got people of the chat that are already booking
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Soul to be champion. She hasn't even put pen to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: paper yet on her contract. Let's not get carried away here.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Not everybody should be getting the Brock push. Okay, that
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: should be a reserve for a very select few Roman
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: reigns being one of them. But he doesn't need the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Brock push. He's been getting the Brock push for ten
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: years now. He came out for the closing segment. Every
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: time I hear that Og tribal chief thing, Oh man,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: that song is it's so much better than that last
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: song he had. Oh my god, you know, the last
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: song he had wasn't terrible, but it was not anything
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: like the Og theme. He gets into the ring and
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: he does his usual ora farming and takes his time.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: He says, they made this title in spite of me
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to try to take away from my shine, but it
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: never worked. There's an old saying the title don't make
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the man the man makes the title, and that's exactly
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: what he's done with this strap. He put it in
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: the nine I WrestleMania main event for the first time,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: said he made this title relevant. Now you can finally
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: be proud of this title. You can respect this title.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: You can choose to acknowledge this title. Laredo, Texas acknowledge me,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and they all did so. That brought Jacob Fatu out
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: to the ring and Roman told him perfect timing. I
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: was just getting to you. I gave you a week.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I gave you time to think. And he said he
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: was hoping that Jacob made the right choice, the choice
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: to unite their family and not divide it. So Fatu said,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: you gave me a week. I didn't need a week.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't need a day. I didn't even need an
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: hour to think about it. He didn't hesitate when he
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: told him that he didn't want that title, but he
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: needs that title. And Jacob said that Roman must be
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: stuck in tribal chief land. Roman hasn't grinded like him.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Twelve years of hard work, twelve years of grinding and suffering,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: not knowing when the next meal was going to be.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: When they were in the bloodline, he was broke, trying
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: to figure out what he was going to do. Is
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: he going to get here or not? And a small
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: but noticeable group of idiots in Laredo, Texas. Yes, they
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: have idiots in Laredo, Texas, just like in New York
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: and Chicago and Boston and Orlando and everywhere else, started
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: a what chant during Jacob's promo because they're dumb, he said. Though,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: it's not about how you start, it's about how you finish.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: So before wa Roman didn't call him, Jimmy didn't call him,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Jay didn't call him, But you know who did? Solo
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: called him. Solo gave him a chance. I mean, I
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to say anything, but I thought that was
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: going to be confidential. But yes I did. I called
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Jacob during that time. Roman cut him off, said that
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Solo couldn't get a cup of coffee delivered to the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: building if he wanted to take a look around. Who
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: do you think runs this place? And yeah, he's been
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: a little distracted, but he never forgot about Jacob and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: he's the one who signed off on his ass. But
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: you sound a little confused, like a fool. Says you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: don't deserve it, said you haven't earned it. Me allowing
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: you to compete against me, that's nepotism. He says, I
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: can't do that, and Jacob at that point grabbed him
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: by the throat backed him into the corner. Roman hit
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: him with the mic just to try to break free
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: and get him away from him. But then Jacob applied,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I shit you not the Tonguan death grip man. I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: haven't seen this move in a very long time. So
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: the Tonguan meng would be proud, and he soa. He
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: puts the tongue. He's not even Tongan, is he see
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Toma Tonga should be using the Tonguan death grip. He
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: puts the Tonguan death grip on Roman and he puts
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: him down on the mat, and Jacob is telling him
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: he's gonna take everything from him, and the fans booed
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Jacob fatu, and Fatu picked up the world title and
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: he looked at it and then he dropped it, threw
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: it down at Roman. Jacob leaves the ring. Roman is
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: on the mat. He is sweating profusely. I mean the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: man can make himself sweat on command. Very impressive. He
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: was selling this move and he grabs the microphone and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: he yells for Jacob's yelling his name, Jacob, because you
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: want me a backlash, I'll see you with backlash, and
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Jacob from the aisle. He didn't say this into the mic,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: but the camera picked up on what he was saying.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: He was looking at Roman in the ring and he
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: told Roman, I'm not going to wait for backlash. He goes,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see you all punk Ass on Raw
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: next Monday. And this is good. Roman Reigns, true to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: his word, is showing up every single week. I have
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: no issue with him having the World Heavyweight Championship if
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: he's showing up on the show every single week and
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: we're progressing and we're furthering whatever the story is that
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: he's in. That was always my concern. Is he going
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: to be here or is he not going to be here?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: You know, because for all of his faults and whatever
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: you think of CM Punk, Punk was there every single week,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Punk was wrestling and defending the title. I'm not even
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: expecting Roman to do that, but i just want him
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: on the show. So they're going to be back on
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: the show next week, so that's good. But I'm just like,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I'm watching this and I'm like, really, like they booed Jacob.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Like I've always said it. You guys, if you've listened
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: to me for any length of time, you've heard me
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: make this comment before. Like the fans are the heels,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: they really are. What did this man do to deserve
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: to get booed? What is Roman Reigns done to deserve
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: to get cheered? Nothing? He has aura, that's it. That's
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: why the people cheer for him. He's still an asshole.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: And again he's manipulated his cousins into being by his
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: side so that he can have backup. Although apparently they
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. Maybe they were locked in
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: the dressing room or something. I would have expected the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: usos to come out here. We know they were in
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: the building. It made no sense that they didn't come
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: out here during this segment. Maybe they were just that
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: afraid of the tongue in death grip. Very possible. But
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: like again, Roman is still the same guy that he
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: was a few years ago. He's a jerk, and the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: fans don't give a shit because, oh he's cool, he's
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: the tribal chief. Yes, they're fickle, that's right, they're fickle.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: These people are fickle, fickle fuckers, is what they are.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: And they're booing Jacob. So I don't think the idea
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: here is for Jacob to play heel or turn heel
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: or be the heel in this match. The fans are
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: turning him heel for this match, and not because they
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: don't like Jacob, but because they love Roman. So it
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: was very weird. I would have maybe expected a mixed reaction.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: It wasn't mixed at all. It was just like boo.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: It was like boo, this man. I was like, WHOA, Okay.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: I wasn't necessarily expecting that. We'll see if it's going
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: to be the same thing at other cities as well,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I would imagine. So I don't know why it would
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: be any different than it was here in Laredo, Texas.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: But we got the match signed for Backlash. It was
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: the match we expected. I am. I'm looking forward to it.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: I just don't know what the endgame is here when
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Jacob loses. That's the only thing I don't know. I'm
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: not even sure if Jacob is necessarily going to settle
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: in on raw. This may only be for two weeks
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: and then he goes back to smack that we're just
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: not sure. Just like with Punk, I would assume Punk
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: ends up on SmackDown because it's the move that makes sense,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: but they've said nothing about that yet. But by the way,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: I have to mention this because I didn't. I didn't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: mention it what I said the line in the promo.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Roman's line in his promo hitting him with the nepotism line, like, oh,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: I can't allow that. I can't allow nepotism if I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: give you a title match. I mean, that's nepotism. I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: mean that was richer than fucking Bill Gates. When I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: heard that line. Holy shit. But like I said earlier,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of all this, I thought the show
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: was okay, pretty average, boring at times, but it did
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: the bare minimum that it needed to do, I think
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: to forward things for Backlash, and even some of the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: other stories, like the Judgment Day stuff, it just wasn't
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: very interesting. You know, a lot of what they did
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: tonight just was not very interesting. But they did what
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: they had to do. And so far, the three matches
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: that we know for Backlash of what we'll probably end
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: up being five. If we're lucky, maybe we'll get six.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Our so far all raw matches. I could see Ria
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: in Jade in a WrestleMania rematch for the other women's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: title on that show, especially now, if we're not going
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: to get Live In Stephanie. I would imagine we get
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Ria in Jade. Cody I'm not even sure what his
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: medical status is. I don't expect him to be defending
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: that title on that show. And honestly, I mean, if
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Roman's on there, you don't need Roman and Cody on
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: that show. I'm trying to think of what the other
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: SmackDown matches would be. I don't know. I don't know,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: but we'll get our usual five or six matches. My
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: hope for EO and OSCA is that they get more
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: than the six minutes that Live In Stephanie got a WrestleMania.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: That would be nice. If maybe they could go even ten,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: wouldn't that be something They've only been building this matchup
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: for how many months now? You think they could spare
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: ten or eleven minutes for these two women. They've already
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: taken away one of the key stars in the entire program.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: It'd be nice if they could at least hit double
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: digits when they have their match. That would be nice. Anyway,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: let's get into your super chats here again. I'm not
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: doing the poles anymore because OBS will not allow me
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: to show you the poles anymore because reasons I hit
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: one wrong button and all of a sudden, I can't
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: get them to show anymore. Thirty bucks for five matches. Well,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: unless you have ESPN Unlimited, which I don't. If you
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: have access to ESPN Unlimited through your provider, then you
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to pay the thirty bucks. A lot of
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: people still don't, though, that's the problem. Start with the
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Chicago for NBK, and again, the goal tonight was kind
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: of high. Gold Tonight was seven hundred. We were at
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: five fifty seven, which is not bad. It's not seven
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: hundred though. Chicago for NBK. I'm sure you're going to
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: have an extended take on the Triple H contract. In
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Nick con comments tomorrow, I don't know if I would
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: say extended take. I might have a more extended take
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: on the SoundOff next weekend. I mean, I'm gonna touch
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: on it. It's nothing that shocks me. I will address
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: it though, on the Young Crime Wrestling Show tomorrow, Dry
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Chicken Without Flavor. Nick con to Triple H after WRESTLEMDIA.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: No more or less is more. We need to maximize
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: our shows and talent. We need to create new young stars.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I think there was a realization across the board that
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: they needed to call up a bunch of people from
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: NXT because it was the same face as being used
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: over and over again. It's just common sense the real
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: CS two. I would not at all be surprised if
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: at least most of the top names on the roster
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: in WWE have some sort of favorable clause written into
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: their contracts that protects them from these talent cuts. Oh,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: I can guarantee you there are top talents in that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: company that have no cut contracts without without a doubt. Absolutely.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's every main eventor but the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: people that you would expect to have that sort of
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: protection in their contract probably have it in their contract.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. Try Chicken says, TKO
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: needs to keep the WWE house shows and add more
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: to the states. Yeah, it's weird. You know, there was
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: a period of time in this company where they were
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: arguably running too many shows, and these guys were on
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: the road all the time, NonStop and away from their
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: families NonStop, and so to go from that, to go
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: to go from that to where they are now. I mean,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: you talk about swinging from one extreme to the other.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: There has to be a happy medium here. There's even
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of talents that have commented about, like, man,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: we need more house shows. We need I mean some
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: of them. Like I've heard Randy Orton talk about the
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: lack of camaraderie among roster members. I mean true, but
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: I mean I would think I would be less concerned
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: about that and more concerned about people just getting you know,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: reps in the ring and being able to go out
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: there and work right. Just gotta work, You gotta work,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: You gotta get in there. You got to figure out
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: what works what doesn't work in front of a live audience.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Can't do that at the performance center. It's not the same. Niko,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: thank you for the super Chad. It's got a whole
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: bunch of them here. Solo. Does Oba pass the airport test,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Yes he does. Oba Femi. I think the airport test
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: was made for people like Oba Femi. Oba Femi comes
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: walking by you in the airport, You're gonna stop what
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: you're doing. You're gonna look up you're gonna take notice,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: he says, were you smiling your stone faced while watching
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: the Rick Flair interview in real time? Now? I wouldn't
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: say I was stone faced. I was going back and
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: forth between laughter and exchanging comments with some other people
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: in the control room, and also putting my head in
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: my hands twice twice I put my head in my hands. Also,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: he says, EO versus OSCA should get more than seven
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: minutes at Backlash, and I meant to put interview in
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: the other superchat my bed. Also, these open challenges tonight
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: not feeling it. That's just me. Yeah, when they do
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: multiple ones at the same time. At least on SmackDown
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: they had Lil YACHTI said that Trick Williams ain't gonna
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: be doing the open challenge stuff anymore. See Lil YACHTI.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: He gets it. So at least we got rid of
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: one open challenge. It's like whack a mole. You get
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: what I sound like, Elmer Fudna. You get rid of one,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: you get rid of one, two more pop up. It's ridiculous.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: They got rid of one on Friday, two more pop
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: up on Monday. Unbelievable. Randy bo Bandy you refresh this
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: year with the nine to ninety nine super chats. There
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: he is, he said, So, I've seen this guy lurking
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: at hog shows asking a question to wrestlers, but never
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: asked the commissioner. So I'm gonna do it for him,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: sol An Monster, What is your waffle house order? Okay, Well,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the commissioner does not eat at waffle house number one,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: and if he did eat at waffle house, my waffle
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: house order would be pancakes. CMJ World, Is braun Stroman
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: your favorite person? Now? After being the reason that for
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: the second time, SmackDown is going back to two hours, No,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: they were going back to two hours regard I mean
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: they went back to two hours. Last year we had
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: two hours. We had two extra months of it, though
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: we still don't have an end date. By the way,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: the report was that it is going back to two
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: hours in the next few weeks. We still don't know
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: what week that is. We assume it's in the month
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: of May. This year, we had to wait until Independence Day,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: July fourth before they went back to two hours. I'm
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: just glad it's happening. Randy Bobandy, another nine ninety nine
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: says so beyond WrestleMania and all the cuts. The most
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: shocking thing I learned was Braun Stroman's eating show got
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: picked up for a second season. Look Out, Gordon Ramsay,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: You've got some serious competition. I've never seen a single episode,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: but I wish him luck. I have nothing against the guy.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't say it didn't like waffles, by the way,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: I just said I love pancakes more than waffles. I
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: try not to eat either one of them because they're
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: fucking terrible for you. But of the two, I'm more
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: of a pancake guy. It's some powdered sugar on top
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Syrup Chicago for MBK. Great crowd in Laredo, made for
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: decent watching Mark you Lamar, Can we fast forward to
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: whenever Roman is dropping the title? Oh you're gonna be
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: waiting a while. It's gonna be a while before that happens.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: E J. Slamp buy or sell Ricky Dozen versus El Santo,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: or Stu Hart versus Fritz von Eric versus Gory Guerrero
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: versus Peter my Via. I mean, you're just throwing names
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: out there now. Culturally speaking, El Santo, El Santo and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Ricky Dozen are probably the most culturally famous and significant wrestlers.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: I'll go with Ricky Dozen against El Santo. That's a
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: pretty big main event right there. I would say the Shawnathan.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Have you watched the Hogan documentary yet? Love to hear
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: your thoughts? I did, Yes, I will give I'll give
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: kind of an overview of my thoughts tomorrow. I want
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: to do something separate on the YouTube channel, but you
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: will get my first thoughts on it tomorrow on the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Uncrowned Wrestling show. I just didn't have time yesterday because
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: I had just finished watching the final episode, so I
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: hadn't even put any notes down or anything. I know
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: I would have forgotten a bunch of shit. But yes,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: I will be talking about it tomorrow on Uncrowned. Diego
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: Vasquez got dumped this weekend, but I'm glad to have
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: you guys, So I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sorry
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: to hear that we will never dump you, so you
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that. Barry MK four hundred.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: If you have seen her, what do you think of Rosemary?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Her character work has been amazing. Wish she was on
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: a bigger show than t Anda. Yeah, I mean what
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: I've seen of Rosemary over the years. I think she's
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: very good, very committed to her character. So yeah, I'm
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: a fan of her work. We've got hoof hearted and
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: he thought, if the Saudi PIF pulls funds from WWE,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: as they did with the Live Golf tour, I don't
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: think the WWE is in jeopardy of anything like that.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: It's impossible for me to say that, you know, a
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: couple of years from now, the Saudis may not want
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: to just kind of pull funding if there's some sort
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: of financial crunch that they find themselves in all of
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: a sudden. The live golf thing is still relatively new.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: The WWE partnership they've had now for almost a decade,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: and by and large they're seem both sides seem to
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: be very happy with each other. They got a WrestleMania
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: come in there next year. Most likely you'd never know,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: shit can happen, But right now, WrestleMania is coming there
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: next year. I don't think that their relationship is in
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: any jeopardy whatsoever. Not right now Alexanders has imagined Joe
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: Hendry gets deaf, rebeled. That wouldn't that be the ultimate insult?
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Take his own song away from him. Yeah, the relationship
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: with Saudi started in twenty eighteen, and supposedly it was
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: a ten year deal. So if that is true, then
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't expect anything to happen before at least
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight EJ. Sleimbuyer, sell Oba, Eddie doud Love,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Full Metal Mayhem or Yuma a Nazi, Axel Rotten, Austin
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: Starr Maximo with actress Arianna Debos as timekeeper. I don't
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: know who half these fucking people are, so I'll go
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: with option A. At least I know who everybody is.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: An Option A, I don't know who you A. Nase
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Is death Sithe says which horror movie scene that has
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: haunted you the most? For me, it was the opening
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: scene to Alien three and seeing a dead Newt frozen
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: in a silent scream A dead Newt. I mean there
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: were scenes in like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre that
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: still haunt me. One of my favorite movies of all time,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: And this what makes it so great is that it
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: was all practical effects. I think it was Rob Boten.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Rob Botten is like is was the ultimate like measuring
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: stick when it came to practical effects, and they were
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: still great. In that movie. The scene where they put
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: the dogs in the kennel and the one dog starts
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: to shake and then kind of cracks open and it's
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: it's the thing, and all the other dogs are like
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: barking and yelping and like trying to get out of
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: the cell. And then the thing that the legs come
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: out and it starts spraying shit. Oh got it freaks
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: me out even just talking about it, Like there were
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: multiple scenes like that in that movie that just freak
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: me the fuck out. Live Rent Free. In my head,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: I'll throw the Terrifier movies in there. Was it the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: first one? I guess it would have been the first one.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: There was a there was a kill in the Terrifier
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: movie where the guy was hanging upside down and he
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: gets split right down the middle. I like that. I
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: don't like that. I never saw another Terrifier movie after
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: that because of that scene, because I know it only
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: gets worse. Apparently the apparently those other movies are even
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: worse in terms of like the gore and everything. I
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: was like, uh, I'm not doing this, but I mean,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: if we're talking about like not even gory stuff in
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: terms of like scenes that that still stick with me
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: without giving it away, I would say, if if it's
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: not number one, it's it's pretty fucking high up there
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: is the ending to the mist that to me, it's
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: that still like actively bothers me like it bothers me.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: That's how good it is. A boomerang says, today is
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: my thirty seventh birthday? Can I get a birthday shadowt
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: much appreciated? Well, happy birthday, Boomerang. You're getting close to
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: the big four. Oho. Enjoy thirty seven because before you
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: know it, you're gonna be thirty eight. You're gonna be
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: thirty nine, then you're gonna be forty two, then you're
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be dead. Sad the way Father Time just kind
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: of creeps up on you, isn't it. I almost walked
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: out of Terrified three. That's why I have no interest
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: in seeing the sequels. I don't know, like I like
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: horror movies, but I have my I have my red lines.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: I have my limits to the amount of like torture, porn,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: and gore that I conceive, and some of the Saw
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: movies I haven't seen. I still haven't seen some of
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the Saw movies, you know, And I thought the first
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: one was brilliant. First one is easily. Having not seen
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: all of them, I will say that, in my opinion,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: the first one is the best one. Second one not
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: as good, but still a good movie. And they just
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: seem to get progressively worse inventive with some of the kills.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, Like I'm still and I mean,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't need to get into some of the other one.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to mention some of the ones
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: I've seen. I mean, those are just fucked up. Yeah,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I have my limits to what I
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: could tolerate. San Juan Wolf says, I'm low key thrilled
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: that backlashes in Tampa this year, as it'll be my
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: kid's first time watching a pl E in person. Overall,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed tonight's show and I'm looking forward to Backlash
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: much love from Florida. Well, that'll be very cool. Like
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: the first time, especially as a kid, the first time
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: you go to a show like that is always a
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: memorable experience. Like I can still remember the first time
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: I went to a live raw, you know, and I
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't a little kid at that point. But like when
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: you go and at your first, like my first WrestleMania
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: in Miami. It's just the spectacle of it, you know
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it's just you take it all
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: in and it's like, man, this it feels like inexperience.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Only difference is now that experience is going to cost
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: you a lot more money than it did back then.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: But now he'll have fun. That's that's very cool. Asu.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I'd like to issue an open challenge for some new
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: writers to come in and make better shows. Yeah, how
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: about we have an open challenge with some of the
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: people backstage. Anybody want to step up and try to
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: replace them? Deputy Docs says, the Third Saw movie had
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: me in pain. That wasn't really there. The Third Saw
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: movie is the last one I ever saw in the
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: actual movie theater, and I had to I almost got sick.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: I almost got sick. First of all, the theater was packed.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: I think we got there late. I think I went
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: with my brother and so I literally had to There
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: were no seats, so I had to sit on the step.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: It's like okay, and so I'm sitting there and I
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: think it was the scene. There's a scene in there
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: where I think it might have been brain surgery or
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: something like they basically opened up like the top half
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: of the guy's head and like his brain was exposed
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: and they were doing I think it was that, if
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. It was that scene
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: and it just it just hit me and I went
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: running out of the theater to the bath. I thought,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: I thought I'm gonna lose everything, and then it ended
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: up just being me dry heaving, like it was fine,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what it was. Something got to
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: me and I was like, I ain't going back in there.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: It's funny the things that I can watch and I'm fine,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: and then sometimes I'll see something and it just it
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: just gets to me. Lakers Pass, where do you rank
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: Bruno on drawing power? I don't know that you ever
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: drew all that well outside of New York or maybe
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: maybe Pennsylvania. It wasn't like he was like a national draw.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: He was still from an era was very regional. So
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about New York and New York
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: like the Garden, he was a big draw. He was
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: a huge draw. So but again, everything like context is important.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: You can't really it's not apples to apples to compare
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Bruno's drawing power. Let's say to like Roman Reigns and
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: his drawing power, you can't. It's not fair. It's not
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: the same thing. For his era and his time, he
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: was a big draw, but it's not like he drew
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: everywhere the way he drew in New York Low Kings.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: As I fainted watching Crank two, I don't think I
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: ever saw that human centipede is one that I never
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: have to see again for the rest of my life. More.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: JD is cool, but his supporter's men so moronic. I
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: thought you met for a second there. I thought you
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: were talking about the Judgment day. The Judgment day is cool,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: oh man, he said, referring to that interaction you had
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: on X on Wednesday. Interaction on X on Wednesday. I
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: don't even remember what interaction that would have been. Number
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: one almost Sapien says, the goal is six hundred, not
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: seven hundred. Is that so? Is that true? Did I
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: misremember what the goal was? Well, I mean if that's true,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: then we're already at six twenty nine, so that means
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: we're going to be doing be the booker here in
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Because Warner was seven hundred. We got
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: MVK A the five Dollars super Chat. Do not watch Tusk. Oh,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: I think I did see. I didn't see that movie,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: but I think I saw something on YouTube. There was
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: like a scene from that movie that that disturbed me.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Oh no, maybe it wasn't Tusk. No, it was bone fuck.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: What the hell is it called? Bone bone? Uh? I
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: don't know, bone bone something. I was like, nope, not
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: seeing that. MVK says what Jacob did to Roman tonight
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: was one hundred percent the realest thing, to just cut
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: off Roman's bs. I thought Jacob was going to kick him,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: but it was cool. Yeah, and he got booed for it.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: These people are weird. Yeah, bone Tomahawk. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: bone Tomahawk. I could tell just from the one little
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: clip I saw that that's not a movie I should
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: probably be seeing. I have no plans. I have no
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: plans on seeing Bow and Tomahawk, Titans toy stories, Kyrie
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: costs osca at Backlash as a one off appearance. I mean,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: I'd love it. Do I think it's gonna happen? I
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't. Also, have you seen James Romero's
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: response to Rick Flair Flair Deserra. I mean, I have not,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: but I would imagine he probably he probably gave it
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: back to Flair and deserved every word of it. He
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: called him the Peanuts Shell. Didn't even know the guy's name.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: He called him the peanuts Shell. Hopefully the Peanuts Shell
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: had a good response to Rick Flair. EJ I built
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: a chaos card from be the Booker, social media rematches
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: and AI w TF. It's in Rio like the ic Tourney.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: I'll send buy or sell matchups the Phantom Rio Dejaneira Tournament.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Mv CA says rest in peace to comic book writer
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Jerry Conway, the co creator of Marvel Comics The Punisher
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: and DC Comics characters Firestorm, Jason Todd and Killer Croc.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that. I just saw that great
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: teaser trailer the other day for Clayface. Speaking of horror movies,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: that's a horror movie. I can't wait to see it. Also,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: he says, Usso's Equal Mooks. Yeah, I mean, it's just amazing,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: you know that these two they just have fallen in
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: line so quickly. They're they're just they're the henchmen Fox
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: with the nine ninety nine I remember one horror movie
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: where this girl who was missing an I gave up
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: on life and jumped right into a subway, blood splattered everywhere.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: I love horror movies. That sounds like a sounds like
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: something out of Final Destination and be Man the Champ
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: too Deer walk out of a gay bar. One turns
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: to the other and says, I can't believe you blew
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: fifty bucks in there. That was actually pretty good. That
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: was actually pretty good. Took me a second, but once
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: I got it, I said, that's actually pretty good. Feet
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: of Clay, Yeah, you know what I mean. I've had
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: people say that this new Clay Face movie was or
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: the person who wrote it was directly inspired by the
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: two episodes from Batman the Animated series in ninety two.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: I think it was the first season Feet of Clay,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: which I guess is his origin story. So that might
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: be a good reason for me to actually go back
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: and start watching the which I never saw. Believe it
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: or not, never, I never watched Batman the Animated series,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: and I think that might get me to do so.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: I see I see a lot of Rave reviews, especially
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: for those two episodes, so I'll have to check that
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: out horror fan Craig, thank you for the two bucks.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: More about the guy that was calling you an aw
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: shill again, You're gonna have to be more specific than that.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: I get these I get these comments every day, and
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: everyone's saying it's a great show. Yeah. When I went
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: to IMDb once, they had a very, very high score.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: It was like it was probably like around a nine
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: out of ten. I was like, man, it takes a
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: lot to get a high score like that on there.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I must be a pretty good series. Clayface
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: is set in the same universe as the Batman I believe.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that's true. No, I don't believe. My
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: understanding is that this new Clayface movie is not set
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: in the Robert Pattinson Batman universe. It's in the DCU.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe maybe the Superman universe, but not not
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: the patentson Batman universe. It's clearly Gotham. I mean one
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: of the cop cars says Gotham on it. The thing
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: about that is like, this is the first time I
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: think that DC is really doing a straight up horror movie.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: And I mean, we'll see how this movie turns out.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: I think it looks fucking amazing just from that one minute.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: But like when you really think about like Gotham, right,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: and all the Batman villains, you know, like over the
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: years to like the Dark Knight, prior to the Nolan movies,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: it was always very like over the top. They look
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: at Jack Nicholson's Joker and you look at you know,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: Jim Carrey playing the Riddler and got the Penguin and
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Catwoman and everything, But like you don't realize like how
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: fucked up some of these some of these like Batman
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: villains really are if you take a more serious approach
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: with them like they seem to be doing here. I mean,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: there's so much there's probably so many other like side
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: characters and stuff that could get their own treatment. And
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: if you really go like hard, like rated R and
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: just go the horror route with some of them, there's
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: some fucked up villains in that world, horror fan Craig says.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Dave Meltzer said there were several wrestlers more important to
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: the wrestling business than Hulk Hogan and that Hogan wouldn't
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: be in his top six. I mean, look, I'm not
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna argue it Hogan. Hogan was very
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: important to Vince McMahon. He is very important to WWE,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: and Hogan was the right guy in the right place
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: at the right time when it came to his national push.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Was Hogan important to the wrestling business overall as much
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: as people think he was. I think people overrate him
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: in that regard. As far as like the business overall,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: you can't dispute like the importance to Vince and his company,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: and you know, maybe mainstream American wrestling you can make
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: the argument, sure, but in terms of wrestling as a
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: whole phrase, I think his argument would be that Hogan
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: was probably it was probably the opposite, you know, where
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: Hogan did more to hurt wrestling overall than he did
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: to help it. And I could I could see that,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: I could see his argument for that. Some people are gonna, oh,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Like again, they have a
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: very narrow view of things where they grew up on
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Hogan as I did. So, Oh, well, Hogan's the end
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: all be all, and he's you know, the most singular,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: most important figure. Yeah, not necessarily, but he was a
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: very important figure, you know, for a lot of different reasons.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: H David Wilson. As I sit here about to eat,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: I hear Bone Tomahawk, and I'm reminded of a horrific
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: scene that completely killed my appetite right now, so I'm
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: never going to see it. Clayface, I heard takes place
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: before Superman and Supergirl. Yes, I believe that is true.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: Bone Tomahawk sounds like a great steak that you would
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: have at a steakhouse. Anyway, bring up the wheel and
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: you guys were right six hundred, not seven hundred, So
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: we smashed the goal. We are at six. I thank
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: you for that. Let's be the booker, be nice. If
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: we had some music, ladies and gentlemen, it is now
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: time to be the book doesn't hit the same without
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: Noah's intro. Noah the mark. All right, we get one round.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: It looks like so we'll try to make the most
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: of it here again. The thing is like, we don't
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: have a lot of luck on Wednesdays when it comes
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: to Dynamite and be the Booker. This is very likely
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: going to be the last be the Booker we do
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: until next Monday, because I'm not here on Friday, I'll
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: be in Los Angeles for the House of Glory show.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: So we got we gotta make this count or you
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: guys got to bring the heat on Wednesday. Either way,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna start off here with Bullet Club Gold.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: We have Jay White and Juice Robinson kicking us off.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: It's still waiting on that Jay White return their opponents
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Undertaker and Big Show, the Unholy Alliance against the Bang
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: Bang Gang. Undertaker and Jay White. You think Undertaker would
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: sell for Jay White? I wonder. All right, women's be
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: the booker. We have got Candace Laray. Hmmm, Candace Laray
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: against who? Candace Lay against Alex Windsor. I'm in a
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: generous mood tonight. Not exactly a star attraction match. But
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: if you actually let Candice go out there and wrestle,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: this would be a perfectly fine collision match. That's what
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: this would be. Main event. Brian Danielson, the American Dragon,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: always a spot open for him in the main event.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: I got no issue with that, But who is his
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: opponent going to be? Oh? Look at this Surfer Sting,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: Surfer Sting and Brian Danielson. I like it. I like
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: that a lot. Yes, well, good, if this is the
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: last beat the Booker we do until next week, we
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: got a clean sweet When do you start booking collision
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: that's much bigger than your typical collision made event. Hey,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: there's Vato's sting. We go from surfer sting to Vato's sting.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: That's quite the jarring transition there. MVK says the loved
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: Ones recommended horror film. Are you telling me that there's
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: a film called The loved Ones that you're recommending or
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: are you trying to say something else? I don't think
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: I've heard of that before, The Loved Ones. I'm always
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: down for a good recommendation. Last beat a booker in April.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Could be, could be? It all depends on what happens
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: with the Dynamite post show, which is the next time
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: I'll be live on this channel Wednesday night. We'll talk
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: about Dynamite. We actually have three big title matches on
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: Dynamite this week, Darby Allen against Brody King for the
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: AW World title, MJF challenging Kevin Knight for the TNT championship,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: and then I believe the women's tag team titles are
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: on the line, Lean Across and Meghan Bain against Chris
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: Statlander and Hikarushida. So those matches are currently announced for
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Wednesday tomorrow, brand new episode of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Talk more about some of this release stuff. There's some
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: more news that came out today, and I will have
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of other news and notes, including thoughts on
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: the Hogan Netflix documentary. You'll definitely want to tune into
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: that show again. You can find it on the Ariel
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Helwani Show audio podcast feed or the dedicated feed for
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Either way you can stream it
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: in either place and make sure you subscribe. And then
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night of course Tuesday Night Titans, so you're gonna
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: get a lot of me. Friday night, hopefully, if you
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: guys are out West and can make it out to
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: the show, we have a big show at the Globe Theater,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: House of Glory, Amazing Red and Speedball Mike Bailey one
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: of the feature matches on the show. It's gonna be
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: a good show. I will be on the call for
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: that one. That's why I will not be here for SmackDown,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: Flying into California, Flying back home the next day. Hej says.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: My eighties slash nineties booking Andre Champ Savage Top Guy
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: puts over Brett Brett to Sean, Hogan tags with r
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: CD Ted arc You're gonna have Hogan team with ted
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: Arcdi also missed my Jay White buy or sell? That
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: sound got my cat's attend show. Hey, every animal within
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: a ten mile radius if they hear the man tar
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: mating call, Believe me, their ears are going to perk
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: up dog cat Gerbil. It don't matter, believe you me.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: But that eighties, that eighties booking there, it's very interesting.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Andre Schamp to Savage, top Guy puts over Brett. Brett
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: to Sean, I'm wondering where this whole Hogan tags with
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: RCDI thing comes from. That seems like a bit of
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: a waste of Hogan as big of an attraction as
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: he was. Uh, you said there was a Jay White
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: buyer cell, I don't see it anymore. I know here
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: it is. I see it buy or sell Brett Hart
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: versus Minora Suzuki versus Yoshihiko or Jay White versus Kaito Kiamiya.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: I am sure that Jay White and Kaito Kimia would
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: be a fine match, But how the fuck am I
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: going to vote against Brett Hart, Minora Suzuki and Yoshihiko.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: The blow up doll. Of course, I'm buying on that,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: although I think Brett would be utterly just disgusted by
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Brett would be more disgusted by
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: the blow up doll or by the number of chops
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: that Suzuki with because we know Brett Hart doesn't like chops.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: He doesn't even eat pork chops. He don't like chops,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: He don't like mutton chops, he don't like pork chops.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think he would like to be in the
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: ring with Minora Suzuki be entertaining is all hell, though,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Devin says, when did WWE become
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: more brand centric instead of being about the individual wrestlers.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: Was it a product of the attitude era? No? No,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: I think it was more a product of It was
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: sort of a progressive thing as the two thousands went on,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: and I think it really took hold into twenty tens.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: I can't pinpoint the exact year because it was built
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: around Sina. Sina was clearly like the star attraction for
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: a while there, and somewhere along the way in the
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: twenty tens it started to really shift in the other way,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: where it became more about the brand and the initials
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: and not like the name on the market. The name
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: of the Marquis was WWE. The name of the Marquis
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't just John Cena anymore. It wasn't just stone Cold,
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: it wasn't Hogan. So it was a gradual shift. But
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: they are just in full brand mode now. I mean
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: it is believe me, it's not about any one individual
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: performer or two anyway. Good stuff, Thank you guys. This
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: was fun, which is always the point. Hopefully you guys
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: had fun, usually more fun than the actual shows. But
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: I got a big day tomorrow. I got to get
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: the audio wrapped up here so I could push the
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: audio out, try to get a few hours of sleep.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: If I can wake up, do another sho then we
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: have another show to do tomorrow night, and then we
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: have another show to do on Wednesday, and then I
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: have a show to commentate on Friday. By the way,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: if you are not subbed to the House of Glory
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: Wrestling YouTube channel, go ahead and sub There are a
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: couple of matches going up in the next couple of days.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: You can actually hit and notify me so it'll notify
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: you when they get posted. They're all cute up and
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: ready to go. They're going to be premiering on the
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: channel in the next few days from our first LA show.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: I was not there for the first LA show. I
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: know there were technical issues and unfortunately the show just
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: never fully got released. However, some of the key matches
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: now are going up from that LA show, so I
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: believe earlier today the women's title match which SHOTSI and
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: Vipers went up. You can hear my commentary on there.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: But there's two big matches going up in the next
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: couple of days. One of them is Zilla Fought Too
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: against Willie Mack, which I had commentary for, and the
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: Amazing Red against Andrade l Idelo. So make sure you
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: check those matches out. That's from our first LA show
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: in January. Hopefully there will be no such issues this Friday.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: I'll see you back here on Wednesday. Take care, guys,