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WWE Smackdown 5/8/26 Review | SMACKDOWN Needs A Funeral, Not The Gingerbread Man · Solomonster Sounds Off

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, we have a ple called Backlash. And on
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the eve of Backlash, we had a funeral. Yes, we
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: had a funeral here tonight on SmackDown. But you see
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the funeral that you think we had, You see, you
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: would be wrong. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: that tonight we had a funeral for the gingerbread Man. No, No,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: that's not what tonight was. Tonight we had a funeral
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: for SmackDown. That's what we had a funeral for. Because
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: this show is dead. It's been dead for a while.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: You tune into the reviews every week, you know how
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the state of SmackDown has been really for most of
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: the years so far. Somehow they continue to find ways
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: to make the show worse, worse and worse, and I
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: sit here waiting for things to improve. I keep naively
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: believing that somehow they can crawl out of this hole
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: that they have dug for themselves and somehow fight a
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: way to make this show watchable from week to week.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: And yet I keep sitting here expecting different results and
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: getting the same outcome each and every time. We had
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: a show tonight that was built around the funeral of
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: the gingerbread Man. Now there are aspects of this storyline
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: that I have found semi humorous. I have a sense
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: of humor just like anybody else does. I can enjoy
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: fun I'm not a humorless schmuck. Nothing wrong with having
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: a little sports entertainment mixed into my wrestling product. That's fine.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: But you see when I sit here and I watch
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: a three hour television show that is built around this
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: stupid storyline, When we have segments coming in and out
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: of every commercial break with various AI images of the
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: gingerbread Men interjected into various classic moments in WWE history.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: We have Stillo, we have still shots and videos of
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: the gingerbread Men over the years, from conception to death,
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: and the entire program is built around this as the
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: key story. They closed the show tonight. They actually closed
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: the show tonight, the final SmackDown before Backlash, with a
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: funeral for the gingerbread Men. And I had a moment
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: tonight that I have not had in a very long
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: time watching a WWE show, sitting here watching this show,
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, what have I done with
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: my life? It was this weird, out of body experience
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: that I had as I was sitting here watching this show,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: going what what have I done with my life that
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: I have found myself here sitting on a Friday night
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: watching This is my life? This is what I am doing,
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: how I'm spending my Friday night. What am I watching?
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: What have I done? Where did I go wrong? What
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: did I do in a previous life that has led
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: me to this spot? I don't know. I have no answers.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: I have no answers. I do know that at one
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: point during the show tonight there was a dan Hausen
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: segment where he was in the back with all of
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: his I don't even know, vials of liquid substances, a
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: little time machine. It looked like or a cloning machine.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck it was. It's dan Hausen,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: so of course it's gonna be looney to off the wall.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: And that's okay. I like dan Hausen. But then they
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: went from dan Hausen to more of the gingerbread Man,
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: and again I had this moment that this this flash
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: where I said to myself, like, am I dreaming? Did
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: I have a stroke? What am I watching? What? What
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: what is going on here? I had no answers. I
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: was mystified. I was mystified. They closed the show with this. Tonight,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain was shooting from the hip when he said
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: in that closing segment, the main event of SmackDown used
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: to mean something. It don't mean nothing no more. After
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: how many solo SOCA MF teammate events, we should have
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: already realized that. But when I saw a casket in
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: the ring with the gingerbread man, that was what just
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: really set it over the top for me. That is
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: what tonight's show was built around. That is the bulk
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: of what we are going to be discussing tonight. The
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: gingerbread man who actually turned out to be alive all along.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: It was Lil Yati in the costume. You know what
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: used to be the highlight of SmackDown every week? Talk
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: about the US Title Open challenges. I know we talk
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: a lot about open challenges, the Oba Femi Open Challenge,
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: too many open challenges, but you know my thoughts on
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: the United States Championship Open Challenge. It was the highlight
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: of SmackDown on most weeks. I looked forward to seeing
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: who Sammy Zain was going to defend the US title against.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing who Ilia Dragon of who
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: who Who's that oh, I I don't blame you if
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: you forgot who it was. But Ilia Dragonoff used to
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: be on smack Down. He used to be the United
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: States Champion and he was having killer matches every single week.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: And then it was Carmelo Hayes, and I said, man,
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: I know this has to come to an end at
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: some point, but really I hope they can keep this
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: going for as long as possible, because if you ever
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: take the US Title Open Challenge away from this show,
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: what does SmackDown look like? I give you Exhibit A.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: We didn't know how good we had it. What happened
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: by the way to Carmelo Hayes. What happened to Ilia Dragonoff?
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Remember that story they were telling where he was trying
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: to find himself. Whatever happened to that? They've dropped off
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: the face of the earth. No, Instead, what we have
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: now are the MFTs in multiple segments on this show
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: every single week, Solo Socoa, Tamatanga, Tala tanga, at least
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: three or four segments on this show every single week.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: And when they don't get the main event, we get
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: what we got tonight, Ladies and gentlemen, SmackDown is dead.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: They've added new faces to the show, which is something
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to see. It's gonna take time. Rome wasn't
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: built in a day, but boy, it's gonna suck trying
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: to get there. Ricky Saints is coming out getting the
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: same reactions that Julia gets every single week. But we've
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: got Ricky Saints, We've got Fatal Influence, big fan of
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Fatal Influence, We've got Royce Keys, Blake Monroe is coming.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: There are reasons for hope. There's new blood on SmackDown,
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Yet the show feels as dead as it has ever felt.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Why is that? Why is that Cody Rhoades and gun
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: through a match I'm looking forward to. Not official yet,
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: but it looks like we're going to be getting it
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: in Italy at the end of the month. I'm trying
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: to cling to some of the positives on this show.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: That's one of them. And I would also tell you
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: what I told everybody on TNT on Tuesday Night, when
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: I reminded everybody that if Gunther ends up on SmackDown,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: that would officially put him on the same brand with
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Ilja DRAGONEV. But at this rate, I'm not sure we're
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: ever going to see him again on this television show,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: so maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up. I don't know,
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what to say. This
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: is your Friday Night SmackDown Review. It is Friday night,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: May eighth, twenty twenty six. Here lies a once exciting,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: interesting television program that I've held out hope would one
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: one day find that spark that's been missing. And I
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: feel like that spark has been extinguished. Perhaps I should
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: stop hoping and just start accepting reality for what it is.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: But I'm a wrestling fan, so I'm too naive to
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: do that. Thank you for joining me here on a
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Friday night. We shall we shall get through this funeral
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: together tonight. Hit that subscribe button, hit that like button.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Super chats are open. I'm sure some of you have
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: some very interesting things to say about this SmackDown show
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: here tonight, So get those messages on in. Be reading
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: all of your messages as they come in. As we
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: do every week here on this show. We are going
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: to spin the wheel. Yeah, I should have added some
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: new options to the wheel. Sola Monster takes takes a
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: shot of this, takes a shot of that. I'm in
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: a terrible mood. Here, because for a show like this,
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: you would think I would need a stiff drink. I
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: ain't got no drink. I got I got my h
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: two oh here. I feel like that this show would
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: be a little easier to get through actually if there
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: was some some of that chemical assistance here, but unfortunately
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: we don't have any of that tonight. Yeah, SmackDown is
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: supposed to move back to two hours sometime within the
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: next six weeks or so. Not sure it's going to
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: get better as far as the creative but at least
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: we'll have an hour less of this shit to sit
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: through for the next six months. So that's some to
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: look forward to. I'm looking forward to that. Spin the
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: wheel here. See how many likes we need for be
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: the booker tonight? Four fifty that is the goal. We're
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: at three forty five already. I think that should be
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: easily attainable. Let's get into this SmackDown garbage here. God,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: this show fucking sucks. How did this show get so bad?
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: It's just it's unbelievable. With the talent they have, how
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: how is that possible? We had an in memorium graphic
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show. I was wondering if
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: they were going to do this for Ted Turner, who
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: passed away this week. I was pleasantly surprised to see
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: them pay tribute in graphic form here, really pay tribute
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form to Ted Turtle, because
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: we know five years ago this is never what happened.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: So good on them for at least putting a graphic up.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately it came on a show where we had a
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: mock funeral for the gingerbread Men, but hey, timing couldn't
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: be helped. I mean, he died this week, so it
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: is what it is. But anyway, good on them for
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: putting that up. They showed a group of wrestlers. Now
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: this is I said from the beginning of this show.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: It was all about the funeral. So we see a
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: group of wrestlers and other people who I did. I
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: don't know if they were extras from the performance center.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: They may not even have been wrestlers. I didn't recognize
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: most of them. They were all gathered in a room
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: backstage along with Nick Aldus, in front of a casket
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: getting ready for the funeral of the gingerbread Men. Wrestlers
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: was Ray Phoenix, so we haven't seen Ray Phoenix on
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: this television program in many months and his first appearance
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: back on TV, and he is one of the mourners
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: in the funeral of the gingerbread Man. Actually, technically this
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't the funeral of the gingerbread Men. This was the viewing.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: It's first time we've seen him in months on this show.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: They may as well hold a funeral for his career tonight,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: because his career is basically over anyway. Jacob Fatu, though,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: was out to the ring twenty four hours away from
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: his World Heavyweight Championship match, the biggest match of his
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: career coming up at Backlash tomorrow night against Roman Reigns.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Fatu said that tomorrow night he wasn't fighting Roman for
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: the championship. He was taking the championship from him. Ever
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: since he and Roman were young, all anybody has seen
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: in Roman has been the future. Meanwhile, for him, nobody
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: saw anything in Fatu. Fatu said people wanted him to
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: fall back and fall in line, which he refused to do.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: He talked about how when Roman was born, he was
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: born with opportunity and Jacob when he was born, he
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: was born with doubt. So the usos were out to interrupt.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Jimmy said that he and Jay were not out to
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: change Fatu's mind, really, because that's all they've been trying
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: to fucking do is change his mind. Part of him
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: was rooting for Fatu, but the other part of him
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: was looking out for him. And then Jay interrupted and
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: he said that you know what was going to happen
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: tomorrow was that the tribal chief was gonna beat Fatu's ass.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: He said he knew how it would go a backlash
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: because he's lived it. Roman is going to break Fatu
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: down emotionally and physically right in front of his family.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Jimmy said that if Fatu loses, and Jay said when
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: he loses, Fatu and his entire family will need to
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: acknowledge roman reigns. Fatu said he ain't going to lose.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: He took issue with Jay talking about him losing to
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Roman and then pointed out that Jay never beat Roman.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Fatu said, there's no losing or acknowledging to Fatu. This
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: was more than just the main event. It was for
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: his family and the only thing that Fatu's family would
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: be seeing tomorrow was him becoming the new world heavyweight champion.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: And he said that he was ready to put it
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: all on the line, but he wondered if Roman was
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: ready to die for it, and he went to go leave,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: but he stopped it. He said he had one last
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: thing to share with the USOS, said that if they
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: even think of interfering in his match tomorrow night, he said,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, I will burn this whole goddamn
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: family tree down. And they censored it, but that's what
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: he said, and everybody popped for the closing line and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: off he went. So there was some good fire there
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: from Fatu. He's a good promo, especially when he gets
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: really serious and focused and isn't just like so many
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: other people on the show just spitting out catchphrase after
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: catchphrase after catch I mean, some people, that's all they
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: are is just a catchphrase. But here, you know, it's
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: about family. This is personal to him. He's doing this
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to try to put food on the table and put
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: his kids in good schools and drive the nice cars
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and all of this stuff. I think his work has
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: been very solid on the MIC, and they continue to
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: tease some sort of involvement by the USOS in this match,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: even though Fatu shut it down there and said, look,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: you better not come out. I don't want to see
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: you out there during my match, which is something that
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: he would say to throw everybody off if he was
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: in cahoots with the USOS. I'm just saying because again,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: there's been multiple segments, including tonight, by the way, where
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: they have been in the same either the same building
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: or the same ring, and they have not come to
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: physicality of any kind. It's like three weeks in a
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: row now they have not laid a finger on each other.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Even when Roman was in peril on Raw, the USOS
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: were nowhere to be found. But even still, I would
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be surprised if we don't see the USSOS involved here
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  Speaker 1: in some way tomorrow night. I do have to say
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: all of this fall in line with the tribal chief shit.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: This shit's wearing thin. I mean, it's been six years
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of this. It's been six years of this and we're
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: still doing the thing where the ussols are falling in line,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: and it's like, you'll have to acknowledge the tribal like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: how many fucking years of this shit are we going
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to sit through before we move on? We're really evolved
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: into something different. I mean, even after five six years,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: whatever it was people got sick of Hogan from his peak,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: that peak run that he had. You know, shit gets
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: old after a while. So after a recap of Gunther's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: attack on Cody Roads last week, Kelly interviewed Nick All.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: This All just pointed out that Gunther's actions last week
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: were unacceptable and he would speak with him about it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He also confirmed that Gunther was part of the raw
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: roster for now. We'll come back to that later. Ricky
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Saint's interrupted, and speaking of interruptions, Venom contents you thank
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you twenty five dollars bre Mode. You know, Briebella and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Page were on the show tonight, and we'll get to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: their segment a little bit later on. But apparently Page
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: got hurt, not injured, but she I think she got
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a wound on her head. Apparently needed stitches to close it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I mean they were in the ring with Naya Jacks
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and Lash Legends. So anyway, Ricky Saint shows up and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he complained about the show. Now, he complained about being
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: stuck fighting QB four after he fought QB one last week.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: He had that match with Cody Rhodes. So Matt Cardona
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: walked in mister QB four himself, and he said that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: he was going to teach Rookie Saints. I'll just start
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: calling him that he's going to teach Rookie Saints a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: lesson in respect. Later tonight, after a break in the back,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Jacob fa Tu he was speaking with Nick all this
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: they parted ways. As FA two is walking off second
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: week in a row now, he bumped into Royce Keys
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because they go way back, they're good friends. So for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the second time they bump into each other and Keys
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: gives them a little pep talk about how you're gonna
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: go out there and do the thing tomorrow night. You're
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: gonna win that World Heavyweight championship. People like you and me,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we take it. We take what we want. You got this.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You know, Jelly Roll is not around anymore, so we
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: need somebody else to give the motivational speeches on this show.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Jelly Roll was very good at that, So that's what
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Royce Keys was doing here for Jacob Fatu. After FA
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: two left, Keys was walking and again he ran into
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Solo's socoa and Key said that he should beat the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: brakes off his ass for what happened last week. Solo
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: told him, hey, calm down, He reminded him that there's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: still room in his family, but he needed an answer,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and he told him time was running out. Yeah, there's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: not much of a family left. You know, two of
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the members were fired. He's got forty percent less family now.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Every single week he shows up here on TV. You know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it's subtle, but the feeling I came away with here
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: watching this was I'm not saying this is gonna happen,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but you know, we're all trying to figure out what
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: this finish is going to be tomorrow night, because I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: don't see Roman Rains losing the World Have You championship.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So are we really just gonna get a straight wrestling
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: match where he hits him with like three spears and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: pins him. It took three spears to pin Jacob FA
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: two and just clean as a whistle, just beats Jacob
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Yeah, and then what job Jacob falls
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: in the line he acknowledges him. Are we looking at
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that or are we looking at again? The USO's getting involved,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: someone getting involved. I'm just saying Royce Keys has been
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: awfully chummy with Jacob Fatu. Now over the last couple
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of weeks, does he factor into this in some way
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: because I'm just like an abused wrestling fan here. So
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: when this segment was over, I was thinking, Oh, he's
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: not gonna He's not gonna turn on Jacob. Is he is?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: He gonna cost Jacob the World Heavyweight Championship. I can't
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: rule it out. I don't think it could be ruled
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: out the way he was gassing fa Twu up Man
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: really talking him up. You got this. People like you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and me, we take what we want, wouldn't surprise me.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton against Keana James for the Women's United States Championship.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Kiana targeted Tiffany's leg for a good chunk of the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: match here, even got a single leg crab applied to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: one point. This did not stop Tiffany, however, immediately after
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this from hitting all of her signature moves like nothing
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: had happened. It's like, okay, sure, I don't know what
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the point of working over the leg is if you're
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: not going to sell the leg. But then again, this
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: is this is kind of an epidemic problem in wrestling.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: This is not limited to just Tiffany Stratton here in
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: this match, so there was a point where the referees
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: back was turned. Julia, who was outside the ring in
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Keana's corner at one point, refused to attack Tiffany, even
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: though the referee's attention was diverted and she could have
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: gotten in a cheap shot. She didn't do it, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Kean and her they were talking, maybe arguing a little bit.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: There was a moment later on where Julia got up
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: on the apron and it was at a moment I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: think where Tiffany was on offense. I think she was
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: in control, but then the tide turned and Keana I think,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: got a roll up on her. But because Julia was
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: on the apron distracting the referee, the referee wasn't there
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to count, so it actually worked against her, her friend,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: her business associate, whatever you want to call them. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in the end, Tiffany hit the rolling sent on she
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: got the prettiest moon salt ever and she retained the championship.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: So they're continuing to build the split between Julia and Keana.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: This should have happened a long time ago. This pairing
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: just doesn't work. It was pretty apparent after the first
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: few months it was not working. I don't know why
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: they've kept them together for this long. I really don't,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but now they're really leaning heavily into an imminence split
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: between them. I do still worry about Julia's future here
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: on this show. It just feels like she doesn't have
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: much of one. It feels to me like the real
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: upside here is for Keana. I know Kean is also
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: very friendly with Charlotte Flair. I can see that being
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a program a match one day. I think they're high
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: on Keana. I don't think that they I don't want
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to say they've soured on her, but you just watch
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the shows week to week, and you could just tell,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: like they're not terribly excited about Julie. You could just
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: tell just watch the television shows. You can watch the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: shows and know who they're excited over and who they're not,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: or who they tried with, and they feel like, well,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: this didn't work, so we got bored and now we
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: moved on. And unfortunately, I hate to say if, but
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Julia falls into that category. Is she going to get
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: another opportunity? Are they going to maybe move her to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: raw at some point, give her some fresh opponents to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: work with, and maybe pair her up with somebody else.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that would help. Because whatever they're doing with
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: her right now on SmackDown, it ain't way. And it
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: just feels to me like every week she becomes less
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and less and less valuable a commodity on this show,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and at a time when people are being cut, that's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: not a good place to be. Backstage, at the viewing
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of The gingerbread Man, Sammy's aying he could not believe
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: this clown show that he was seeing, and he also
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: felt like this was a dig at him, and people
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: are crying and getting all emotional, and so he starts
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: venting to nick all this. Our truth sneaks up behind
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Sammy did some comedy told Sammy the gingerbread Man was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: very proud of him and used to talk about him
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: all the time. Truth's tag team partner, his tag Team
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: championship partner. Don't forget they're the tag team champions in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a dead division. Damian Priest, one on one with tallat Priest,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: attacked him right away, right at the bell, sent him
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: out to the floor. He tried some sort of leap
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: from the apron and I don't know what the hell
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: happened here. It looked like maybe Tallatonga blocked it or
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: tried to block it, but maybe he didn't. I don't
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: fucking know. It looked terrible. Whatever it was, Priest popped
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: right back up. He got up in Solo Sikoe's face.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Because Solo was on the outside. Priest tried to go
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: for a spin kick. Talla, though, grabbed him midkick and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: threw him into the ring post and then picked him
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: up slammed him on top of the announced desk, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that took us into a commercial break. And during the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: commercial break, I'm watching the action, and this crowd is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: library silent, like if somebody was to make a noise,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: some old lady in the crowd would stand up with
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: her bifocals and gosh, remember the show Silent Library was
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that on MTV? That's what this was. So late in
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the match, Priest took the big guy down with the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: diving clothesline. Priest tried to, uh, there was something else
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that he tried in here, but he pulls down the straps.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So he and Royce Keys, by the way, are doing
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the same gimmick now on the show where the straps
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: come down. You know in WWE, for a period of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: time when Kurt Angle was doing it, that was Kurt
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Angle's thing. I don't think there was anybody else on
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the roster at that time who was pulling the straps down, right.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, the straps coming down has been a thing
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: in wrestling for decades, but usually it was like a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: lawler thing or you know, you usually don't have multiple
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: people on the same show doing and now we have two.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: But he pulls the straps down, he's signaling for the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: South of Heaven chokeslam. Tomatonga hits ringside to cause the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: distraction when our Truths music hits shortly thereafter, and he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: comes out. He attacks Solo and Tomatonga soon though, he
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: was overwhelmed until Priest came over to stop a Samoan
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: spike atta empt. And then he shoves Solo into Tama.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Now that's not gonna be good because there have been
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: issues between Solo and Toma now that have been brewing
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: for many weeks. Yeah, Silent Library, didn't they have a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: wrestling episode. I remember Ziggler being on there. I think
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: they had one episode. They had a bunch of wrestlers
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: on it, and I know for a fact, at least
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in the episode I'm thinking of that Zigler was on there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So anyway, he shoves Solo into Tama Tala Toga then
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: attacks Priest on the floor. They head into the ring
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and Tala hits a choke slam for the win. After
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the matches over, the MFTs, or what's left of the MFTs,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: surrounded Priest before Royce Keys ran out to make the save.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: MFTs backed off seemingly on the orders of Solo Sokoa,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: who of course is trying to recruit this man, so
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the last thing they want to do is attack him,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: so they away. This is an observation that I have
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: made every week basically for a while now. I don't
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: always vocalize it, but it really hit me tonight just
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: watching this show. Damian Priest has never been less interesting
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to me than he is right now at this moment.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Like to me, this is his low point in WWE.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And this is a man who has won the World
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania Super Over at one point as
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: part of the Judgment Day. Even at the moment he's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: one half of the Tag Team Champions, which means absolutely
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: nothing of course, because they don't place a premium on
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: tag team wrestling in this company anymore. He has never
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: been less interesting than he is right now, and it's sad.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's sad to see the fall off there with him
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in terms of his importance to the show. But it's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: just clear as day when you watch these shows every
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: single week, and I'm not sure. I'm not sure or
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: what to do to remedy that. I don't know. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: don't know what the best course of action is. I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: just know that what they have him doing now, it
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: is not going to do anything to change that. At backstage,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: dan Hausen was sitting there. He had an empty sign
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: up sheet for anybody interested in being his tag team partner.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: At Backlash, Mizz and Kit Wilson showed up. Wilson said
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that dan Housen was too toxic to even have a partner.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen said that he had friends. He mentioned Papa
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Shango and then I think he's I think he said
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Bob the catering guy. Did I hear him right? I believe.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I believe he said Bob the catering guy got a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: lot of friends. So Wilson pointed a mirror in dan
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Housen's direction. Because he had a mirror with him, he
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: was posing in it before looking at himself. So now
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: he put the mirror in the direction of Dan Housen
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and said that this is the only person who would
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: ever team up with you, being Dan Housen himself. So
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: dan Housen, upon seeing his reflection in the mirror, it's
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: like he has a Eureka moment where the light bulb
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: goes off. He's got an idea, and he gets up
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: all excited and he leaves. Now, if you did not
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: see it today, there is a report going around, and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I believe it is attributed. I believe to Brian Alvarez
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that the belief not that this is any sort of confirmation,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but the belief is that Jelly Roll will likely be
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the tag team partner for Dan Hausen tomorrow night. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: know there's a lot of people who mentioned Cmpunk. I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: don't know where they're getting this from other than the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: fact that we know the two of them are friends
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in real life. Punk is probably the one who went
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to bat for Dan Housen, helped get him into the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: company in the first place. But beyond that, I don't
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: know what would make people think that this is the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: way they're going to bring back. Cmpunk is to be
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen's tag team partner, and I can't sit here
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and say one hundred percent for sure that it won't
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: be cmpunk, but pretty sure it ain't gonna be cmpunk.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And I said this the other night. If you want
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to look at it from the perspective of who can
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: we use from SmackDown, who could potentially benefit from being
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: in a pl match, there's only so many pl I
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: can't even believe this is getting a pl E match
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to begin with, but it is over many other matches
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that they could be doing on this show, not a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: single Women's Championship match on the show, by the way,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: So who could benefit from being in a spot like this?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And the name I came to is Royce Keys. Now,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be him because he's involved
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in some other stuff going on right now on the show.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: But my thought process on it was not that we're
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: trying to do some sort of comedy duo here with
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Roy's Keys and Dan Housen. But he gets an ass
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: kicker to come in there when Miz and Kit Wilson
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: are figuring this guy ain't gonna be able to find anybody,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and then Roy's Key shows up and he gets a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: match on the Backlash card. He gets to play Babyfaces
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Dans partner for one night and he gets to whoop
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: some ass. Right, that's it. There you go. That's my
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: thought process on it. But I did mention the other
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: night on TNT I go, it will probably be jelly Roll.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And if you think about it, before WrestleMania, before he
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: got involved with the Pat McAfee stuff, jelly Roll wrestled
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown, he had a match with Kit Wilson. He
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: was involved in this until he wasn't. Then they had
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: him involved in something much bigger. Add to that the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: fact that originally they were going to do a tag
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: team match on this show where it was going to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: be Cody Rhodes and Jelly Roll against Randy Orton and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee, until Pat McAfee spared us all and said,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I don't want to have anything to do with this anymore, goodbye,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: my job here is done. My planet needs me, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: he beamed himself away, So he was probably going to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: be on this show anyway. Of course, of course it
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: would be jelly Roll. I'll be very surprised if it
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: turned out to be anybody other than Jelly Roll in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that spot. But that's the update on his tag team
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: partner for Tomorrow Night Now. They showed still shots as
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: well as some video of the gingerbread Man, and they
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: did this throughout the night in attendance at various classic
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: WWE events over the years, including the moment of Hulk
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Hogan slamming Andre the Giants at WrestleMania three. And they
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: cut to the crowd and there's the AI generated gingerbread
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: men his Hogan gears celebrating the body slam. Then they
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: showed him in the crowd the night on Raw that
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Stone Cold got arrested after driving the Zamboni down to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the ring. There he was in the aisle in the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: front row is the gingerbread Man. And then John Cena
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: when he did the crowd dive at WrestleMania twenty one
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: after he won his first WWE championship and the crowd
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: caught him, and there's the gingerbread Man in his chain
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Gang jersey standing next to John Cena. I'm watching this
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and I'm just thinking this is mildly amusing, Okay, right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that was my first thought when I saw some of
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: these images. Until we got more and more and more
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and more and more and more throughout the entire night,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and then I just came to the conclusion that this
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: is this is some of the dumbest shit that I've
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: seen all year, absolutely dumbest shit that I've seen all year.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: So after this, they cut to Nick all this meeting
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: with Paul Hayman backstage, and Gunther also showed up, and
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Nick Aldis had a contract binder. Hayman wanted to make
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: sure everything was in working order and all this was like,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it's all here, and so he has the contract binder
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and he presents it to Gunther and he welcomes him
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to SmackDown. So it sounds like Gunther is now officially
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: on the Blue brand. And at that moment we hear
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: boom the beginning of Cody's music. Cody Rhodes out in
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the arena is making his way out to the ring
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and Gunther does not like this, and he says, what
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: is this. This is eating into my time. This is
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: supposed to be my time, and he said, I'm not
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: going to do business like this, and he hands the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: contract binder back and he walks out, So I guess
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the deal is off then, so much for him coming
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to smack that, I guess the deal is off. At
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: that moment, we're supposed to. I guess take this as
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: perhaps the deal has fallen apart. Paul Hayman takes the
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: contract and he says, I'll handle this, and off he goes.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: But as I mentioned, Cody was on his way to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the ring, and now he's in the ring and in
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a familiar place because tonight they were in Jacksonville. I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: think Cody's got a little bit of history there in Jacksonville, Florida. So, Jacksonville,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: what do you want to talk about? He starts off
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: talking about how Guntherer put him to sleep last week,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: as SmackDown does to me every single week. Last week,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: though it was Gunther putting Cody to sleep, and he
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: says that was a sign. He took that as a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: sign that he must want a shot at the WWE Championship.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And with that in mind, Cody called him out. He
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: didn't get gun through though, he got Paul Hamon. Hayman
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: came out, contract in hand and he said this is
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a contract for a WWE Championship match. And Cody wanted
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to know, so, are you the advocate now for guntherro?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Are you his new advocate? And he goes, no, I'm
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: not his advocate, but I owed him a favor, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: so basically this is him cashing in on that favor.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking to myself, like, what a waste
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of a favor, Because even Cody here was like, hey,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: let's get him out here and we'll have a little
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: rubble here in Jacksonville. He was ready to throw it
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: down and do the match tonight. This is Cody's whole
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: stick since he won at Wrestlemanian held on to the championship,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: which is I'm not hard to find, but I'm hard
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to be. He said it like three times tonight. I'm
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: not hard to find, but I'm hard to beat. So
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: what did he need to use Hayman for to get
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a title shot against Cody? Right? The only way it
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: makes sense is if the actual favor it wasn't the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: title match, it was Hayman getting him on SmackDown. That's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: why I said that last week. If the favor itself
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: is getting him a championship match, it makes no sense.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: It's a waste. You didn't have to go to Paul Haman.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: You just show up on SmackDown like every other fucking
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: person from Monday Night Raw who doesn't need a permission
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: slip to show up on this show. Just show up
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, Cody, you're a bitch. I want to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: shot at your belt. What do you think Cody's gonna do?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: You pull his punk card? You think he's gonna say no?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: He didn't need Paul Hayman for that. What a waste
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: of a favor. But Hayman said, I'm not Gunther's advocate.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: He said that I'm also though, a huge fan of yours,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and he asked for Cody's permission to get into the ring.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: He goes, this contract is for a title match, but
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: this contract is not for Jacksonville, and the crow booed
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: that they didn't like that. He goes it wasn't even
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: for the United States, which drew loud USA chance. Now,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: should Cody accept the challenge, this battle will take place
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in Turin at Clash in Italy. Hayman handed Cody the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: contract folder said that if you want Gunther's name on it,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get it yourself. My job here
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: is done, and he went to go leave, and Cody said,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: you know, brock Lesner retired on you. Roman Reigns wants
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with Ucmpunk just kind of discarded. You
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: question whether Hayman was all out of options, and Hayman said,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not the one running out of options. Sooner or later,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: they all need the wise man. And he exited the ring.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: He made his way probably halfway down the aisle before Gunther,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: as last week, once again snuck in through the crowd,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: but this time Cody was expecting him, so as soon
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: as he slid into the ring, Cody went to work
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: on him, but he got Cody in the sleeper. But
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Cody was able to get out of the predicament, ended
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: up knocking Gunther out of the ring. And he is
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: on the mic and he is shouting at Gunther, I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: don't sweat you. I don't sweat you. Said, it doesn't
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: matter if you beat Goldberg and aj Styles and the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: greatest of all time says, I'm easy to find, hard
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to beat. Got to get that new catchphrase over so again.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Like I said, the favor it pretty much went the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: way I expected it to go. I like to think
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of it more as Okay, my favorite to you was
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: putting in a good word with Nick Aldis and getting
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: you transferred over from one brand to the other. The
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: whole thing is silly though. The whole thing is very
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: dumb because they have not, and this is what happens
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: right when you think of it creatively, if they were
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: in if we were in an environment right now where
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: these things were more well taken care of when it
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: comes to letting people bounce back and forth between brands,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: or allowing Cody to just go out there and say, Hey,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: if you want a title shot, come find me. I'll
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: give you a title shot. Hey, the candy man over
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: there in the fucking you know crowd or the popcorn vendor,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you want a title match. Hey, I'm easy to find,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: hard to beat. Hey, guy in the bathroom, Yeah, mister janitor,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I'm easy to find, hard to be like. Okay, But
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: if they took greater care of their creative then something
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: like this could work where Paul Hammon would have to
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: pull some strings. You know, I know a few people
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get you a title match, or I'm
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: gonna get you moved over from one brand to the other.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: But because they don't give a shit, they don't take
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: it seriously because in their mind doesn't matter. It's just wrestling, right.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Only the nerds and the dweebs and the IWC, only
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: they give a shit about rules and that kind of
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: nerd shit. The average fan, they don't care, so we
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: don't care. That's their attitude about everything. And so because
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: of that, it's like this favor is fucking stupid. It's
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: fucking dumb. I like the idea though, of Gunther being
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: moved to SmackDown, because what was left for him to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: do on RAW if he's not going after Roman reigns.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: You want to be honest, you want some real talk here,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's do some real talk. We have the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Obafemi Open Challenge, right, which is actively going on now
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: on Monday nights. I came out last week and I said,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't hate this idea. It's not
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a terrible idea. What's terrible is the overabundance of open
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: challenges that we have in wrestling and in WWA. But
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: the idea of him doing an open challenge and you know,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: getting maybe a few fun matches on TV. He had
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: a fun match with Otis Sun Monday, right, But you
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: can we can't have him going out there wrestling Otis
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: every single week because Otis is not someone who is
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: focused on Otis Is not someone that the fans are
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: expecting you to go in there and lose to. So
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: how many weeks are they going to drag the Open
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Challenge out for? It's gonna get old. They might be
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: able to get to the end of next month, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: if they do, King of the Ring, Opa Femi should
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: win King of the Ring. Right. I've said this multiple
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: times now, but in a perfect world, if you're not
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: going to immediately put the World Heavyweight Championship on this guy, right,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: what is the endgame of the Open Challenges? There's only
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: one name that really makes sense if you're not going
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: with Oba and Roman yet, the only name that makes
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: sense at the end of all of this is Gunther
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: because Gunther is the final boss, right, As as was
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: pointed out tonight Goldberg sena Aj, this guy is unstoppable.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: He's the career killer. Right. So now Obafemi, the hot
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: new thing, the next big thing, runs into a brick
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: wall in gun Th and you do Oba and Gunther
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and you have Oba beat Gunther because from the beginning
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of all of this career shit, if you are going
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: to protect Gunther and keep him unbeaten throughout this entire
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: period and make him dominant right then in the end,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: whatever that may be, a year from now, whenever you
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: ideally would have someone new on the ascent, whether it
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: was an Obafemi or a bron Breaker or whoever, be
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the person to ultimately beat Gunhther and hand him that
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: first loss. Oba's the perfect person for that spot. That's
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the kind of person that should be beating Gunther at
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: the end of all this. And I have grown to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: hate this career killer shit because you can only go
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: so far with it. So honestly, the only reason to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: keep gunh on RAW would be to eventually have him
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: lose to Oba Femi. And I wouldn't hold off on
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: that for six months or a year. That's something than
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I would be doing in the next few months. Then
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he can move on to the World Heavyweight Championship. Now
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: he's beaten Brock, he's beaten Gunther, There's only one mountain
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: left to climb in that's Roman Reigns. So in a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: perfect world, that's how I would be using Obafemi. But
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: outside of that, what else is there for Gunther to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: do on Raw? Realistically, they don't want to do him
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: in Roman clearly, so move him over to SmackDown you
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: put him in there with Cody. And also I love
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the fact that he's on a brand with Ilya Dragonov.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, person I pointed that out the other night.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: That's one of the other cool things about him being
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: unsmacked Down is that he and Dragonov now share the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: same brand. So are they actually going to do that match?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know the guy's missing, he's mia. We haven't
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: seen Dragonov in months, I guess, outside of him being
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: in the Andre Battle Royal before that, it's been many,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: many weeks since we've seen him here on this television show.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: But they are now going to be on the same brand,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: assuming Gunther is in fact officially on SmackDown. As far
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: as Clash in Italy, I like the match. I think
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: if you do that match, I think he changed the
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: title on that show. I'm not really sure why you
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: would do that match and not change the title. I'm
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: not sure why you would move Gunther to SmackDown to
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: have him wrestle Cody to lose to Cody for a
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: second time. Cody's already got to win over Gunther two
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: years ago. I mean, what's really accomplished by the only
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: thing I could think of is Randy Orton really is hurting.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: If Randy Orton needed a few extra weeks off, and
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the idea is to bring Randy Orton back and pick
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: up where you left off a WrestleMania, because boy was
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: that weird having him punt kick Cody in the head
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: not following up on it. The only thing I can
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: deduce from that is that Randy Orton needed some time off.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe they have him work with Gunther for a little
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: bit to kill time until Randy Orton comes back. But
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Guntherer is not the time killer, he's the career killer.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: That's not exactly the way I would be using Gunther.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: You're going to do that match, I think Guntherer should win. Personally,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I think Guntherer should win, But I am looking forward
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: to the match though. Yeah. The thing about Dragonow that
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: really kind of burns my ass. And it's the same
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: thing with Carmelo Hayes. You take the time to try
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to build these guys up. They did a good job
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: with Carmelo Hayes. It took a while. It didn't happen
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: right away. It took a while for them to get there,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: but he started to really get over with the audience
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and the reason he was getting over. It wasn't because
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: of anything really outside of the really fun matches that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: he was having on TV. That's really what got him over.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Same thing with Dragonoff. You know, Dragonov's a different kind
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of cat. Yeah, he's very intense. You know what to
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: expect when he's in there wrestling, You're going to get
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a battle. And the fans were into it. So they
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: were getting television time and it was like, Okay, this
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: is working, this is good. They're establishing these guys in
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: the card on the shows every Friday, and then they
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: just vanish. No injuries that were aware of, nothing like that.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I know Mello is getting married. That's a little bit
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: later on. We're not there yet. I can't I can't
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: remember if it's June or October. I want to say October.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: It could be June though, but we're not there yet
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to rack my brain, like why would
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: these guys have just fallen off the face of the earth,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: both of them. At the same time, they were even
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: telling a story with Dragonov where he was trying to
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: get back his confidence and he got beat by Mello
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: and that was it. Like they didn't continue or follow
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: up on the story or anything like that. You work
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: so hard to try to establish these guys on the
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: show and they start to get over or show signs
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of it, and then you just pull them off the show,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and I just I don't understand that. It doesn't make
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: any sense to me. So now when they reappear, it's
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: almost like you're starting from scratch again. That's why consistency
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: on television is so important. They don't have to be
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: there every week, but at least every other week they
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: have to show their face. They have to be doing
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: something meaningful on these shows, and for them to just
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: kind of drop off the face of the earth like
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: that just doesn't really make a whole lot of sense
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: to me. Backstage, Toma Tonga told Solo Socoa that Royce
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Keys was a problem that needed to be dealt with.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Solo said he sees Keys as more of a solution.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Keys would be the perfect addition to their family, and
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Thomas said that Keys embarrassed him in front of everybody,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't sit right with him. So he said
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: that he was going to go handle business and he
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: left and Talatanga tried to follow, and Solo held him
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: back and said if Tama wants to go out there alone.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Let him find out on his own. We'll come back
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: to this in a little bit. We had rookie Saints
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: against QB four Matt Cardona. Not a great response. Last week.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Ricky made his debut in Tulsa and a lot of
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: people just didn't seem to know who he was because
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: he went out there, and also he got one hype
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: package on TV the week before he debuted and that
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: was it. So he went out there last week and
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: the reaction was just very lukewarm. This week in Jacksonville,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: which is a place where the people there should know
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: who he is, and I would say the response really
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't much better than it was last week. It's just
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take time. But then again, I was saying
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: that about Julia and here we are now, how many
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: months later, and nothing has changed. So they fought into
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: a break. Coming out of the commercial break, Cardona was
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: starting to build some momentum the Brosky boot connects. The
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: fans were so invested in this match though, that they
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: started to chant hey, hey, hey, goodbye to someone in
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the crowd. Obviously somebody got ejected. It was a fight.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know something was going on in the crowd
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that was more interesting than this match. Saints rolled out
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of the ring to avoid a rough rider, but as
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: he got back inside he got dropped with one. Anyway,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: not enough though to get card Dona. The dub Saints
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: hit his Revolution DDT and then finished Cardona off with
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: the Roe Shambeau. I thought that this was a decent
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: piece of business here. They got a pretty decent amount
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of time. I think it was about eight minutes, eight
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: and a half minutes, but it was one of those
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: matches that felt probably four or five minutes longer than
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: it really was. You know, a couple things on this.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: First of all, these are the types of matches they
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: brought Cardona back for. I know some people are going
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: to look at this and go, man, I can't believe
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you know that they should be doing. I had this discussion,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I think with JD a few months ago on TNT,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and I said, like, he's exactly where you would expect
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: him to be. I don't know why some people thought
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that it would be anything other than what it is.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Like if you saw Cardona when he was out of
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: WWI and he was doing his thing on the independen scene.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Nobody worked harder than that guy, And I still don't
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: think he gets as much credit as he deserves for
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: not only what he did to just sort of reinvent
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: himself as an attraction and finding the success that he
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: did is the indie god and the hardcore legend and
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, but really what he did for the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: indies in general and like the different people he worked with,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and he deserves a lot of credit for that. He
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: found a lot of success, made a very good living
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: for himself. Do I wish that he was in a
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: little bit of a better position than what he's in now.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I do, But then if you would have asked me, well,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: then what would you have him doing? What championship would
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: you have him fighting for at the moment, None of them.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He's pretty much in the spot that you would expect
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: him to be in. He was never being brought back
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: to be any sort of priority. He was never being
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: brought back to be a world championship contender or anything
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: like that. It was never going to happen. This is
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: this right here is why they brought him back, so
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: that he could go in there and he can help
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: put other people over new guys over. He could put
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: other people over who they intend to push at a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: level higher than him. So matches like this are what
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I expect him to be used for when it comes
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to his appearances here on these shows. But I look
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: at Ricky Saints, who I'm a fan of. Yeah, I
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: like Ricky, and I think it's great that he's on
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the main roster now and he's charismatic guy. I think
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: he's a good promo and we'll see, we'll see what
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: his ceiling is, We'll see how far he can go.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: But I look at him, especially after the reaction he's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: gotten over the last couple of weeks, and I'm like, man,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: this is a guy who I think would really benefit
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: from the old I call it old school. It's not
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: old school. I mean, this is one of those things
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: that works today. But like the old school style of
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: vignettes that build somebody up over a period of weeks
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: before they actually make it appearance on the show. Think
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: back you want to go really old school, Think back
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: to the vignettes for mister Perfect playing all the games
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: right and hitting the hole in wand and fucking horseshoes
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and everything else building up to his debut Razor Ramon,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: all the vignettes of him driving through the streets of Miami,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: He's sitting at the restaurant, ripping the tablecloth off right,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: riding down the street in his car, all that stuff
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: that you'd how many weeks those vignettes ran for before
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: he finally debuted on the show, And by the time
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: they debuted on the show, you knew who they were.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: You knew enough about them to know whether you should
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: boo them or cheer them, whether you should like them
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: or hate them. You had built up their character. It's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: about character building. They're doing it to some degree now
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: with Blake Monroe, but those vignettes are very basic and
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: vanilla and boring. But that is the sort of thing
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about here. Ricky Saints would have benefited from that.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Imagine if they had six weeks worth of vignettes, like
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: creative vignettes of Ricky Saint's doing something that you would
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: expect Ricky Saints to be doing before he ever set
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: foot in a ring. On SmackDown, they called so many
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: people up recently, and a lot of them were called
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: up the exact same way. Think about this, right, Think
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: about this. Obafemi is kind of a special case because
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I think Obafemi everybody knows Obafemi. I mean, the sky's
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: a limit for him. He's going to be the guy
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: or one of the guys for them. He debuted in
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: a big spot, right. He came out and accepted brock
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Lesner's open challenge to a WrestleMania match and then went
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: in there and beat him. Right, He's not like most
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: other people that get called up. But then you have
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: like Soul Ruka her first night in shows up and
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: confronts the Women's World Champion. Just shows up. Ricky Saints
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: last week shows up, interrupts the WWE champion. Fatal influence. Right.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Think of all the people recently that have been called up,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: and many of them debut the same way. This is
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: where I think some variety would really help some people
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you want to save as a surprise. Some people are
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: like an Oba Femi and they're gonna call out the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: biggest dog in the yard. And then you have other
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: people who need that sort of vignette treatment where you
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: want to create an excitement and an interest around their
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: debut before it actually happens. They're not doing enough of that.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Ricky would have benefited from that it's about building characters.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: We don't have enough of this on the show. I'm
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: not talking about characters like Dan Hausen. I just mean
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: like it's character building. It's not enough sometimes to just
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: throw somebody out there cold. I mean, this is why
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: people bitch so much about when people show up in
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: aw Oh, I don't know who this person is. Howk
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: about didn't get a video package? Yeah, well, you know what,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: with a guy like this, it would have helped, I think,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to have four to six weeks of videos. But hopefully
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: over time now he'll start to build, you know, a
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: rapport with the fan, and the fans will become more
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: familiar with him and the reactions will grow. That's the hope,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: because right now they're not really there. I think they
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: will be, but right now they're not there. So we
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: got confirmation at this point in the show that Royce
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Keys against Tomatonga has been made official for later tonight. Meanwhile,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: in the back, we're at the viewing yet again for
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the Gingerbread Corpse, where Sammy Zane was complaining to somebody
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: off camera who we couldn't see. I thought it was
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: going to be like a janitor or something. It ended
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: up bringing depressed Johnny Gargano, who is laying comatos. I
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: think we're all depressed in comatos watching SmackDown, so we
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: are all Johnny Gargano. Sammy asked if Johnny Wrestling is
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: in there? You in there somewhere, and all of a sudden,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Johnny kind of peers up at him and he's staring
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: at him, and Sammy gets all excited. Oh he moved, Candace.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: He's calling for Candace Lray and Candace comes over and
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: he's like, he moved, he moved, And of course now
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: he's just there again. If she doesn't, it's like the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: fucking Michigan Ja Frog, Like I swear he was doing
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a dance with a little hat on his head and everything.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: You come over and look and there he is. You're
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: just sitting in the box, like, what are you talking about? Dude?
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: He hasn't moved, so she doesn't believe him. So Sammy
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: walks over to Ray Phoenix, and he's very upset that
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Phoenix would show up for this farce because again he
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: sees this entire thing as a personal shot at him.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: So Phoenix tells Sammy calm down, this isn't the place.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Sammy says, you know what, you're right and he heads out.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: So then after this, the Women's Tag Team Champions, Bribella
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and Page are shown walking in the back when a
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: ladder suddenly falls behind them, and then as they turn
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: around to look at it, we see Dan Housen kind
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: of zip across the screen he sprints by. But yes,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: a ladder narrowly missed Page and Bribella in the back.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Were there any Alberto del dipshit sightings in Jacksonville tonight?
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Can he account for his whereabouts? But we have the
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Women's Tag Team Champions on their way down to the
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: ring after a break for a promo, So yes, we
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: heard bre Mode. Thankfully they didn't fuck up the music
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: and play it twice like they did last week. So
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Brice said, there are lots of teams that want to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: prove themselves, prove that they can beat them, But is
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: naya jackson Lash legend found out last week? No one's
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: been able to do it. Page addressed the judgment Day's
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: remarks from Monday that she and Brie were an nostalgia tour,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: stating that she and Bri are the best they've ever been.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: This is the best we've ever looked and this is
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: the best that we've ever been. So they were ready
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: to show Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez anytime, any place.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Fatal Influence showed up as j C. Jane declared that
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the judgment day should not the ones that Page and
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Brie should worry about. She bragged about how they took
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: out the two of them a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: So after they were done spouting off, the Irresistible Forces
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: showed up Naya Jackson, Lash Legend and Lash got whooped
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: that trick chance as she got into the ring, which
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: was kind of funny. They ended up laying out Page
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: and Brie, and as I said, somewhere in this, Page
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: got hurt. Apparently she suffered some sort of bloody wound.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: So then Fatal Influence. They're just standing in the ring
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: watching this. They wanted no part of it. They saw
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the champs get beat down, They're like, hey, we're good,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: We're good. So Riha Ripley made her way down for
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: the upcoming six woman tag team match and had a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: stare down with Lash and a stare down with Naya
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: in the aisle, you know, for all to talk about how, oh,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: there's so many teams I want to prove themselves against us.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: We're right back to the fucking irresistible forces here, like,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: can we not do this again? Can we not go
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: back to this? We got more AI generated shots inserting
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the gingerbread Men into classic WWE events, including the Macho
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Men and Elizabeth wedding reception. See I know everything there
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: is to know about that. I don't remember Old ging
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: being there, but there he was. He was sitting there
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: watching them eat cake. They showed Gingy in the street
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: doing a crotch shop next to the DX jeep, not
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: a tank. I think some people have convinced themselves because
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: they put the thing on the front that it was
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: an actual tank that they were It's a fucking jeep
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: that they were riding around, and there's the gingerbread Men
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: in the street kind of in the background doing a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: crotch job as they were trying to invade WCW Monday Nitro.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: And then they showed the gingerbread Men in the crowd
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: looking shocked after brock Lesner ended the Undertaker's undefeated streak.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Very good, I said at the beginning, like the first
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: time they were doing this, I was amused when you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: do it over and over and over again throughout the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: entire show. It gets fucking old Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: and Alexa Bliss against fatal influence, Ja c Jane Fallon Henley,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and Laney Reid the weeks of Bruce Richard. All I'll
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: say is, remember what Ronda Rousey said, as long as
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Bruce is there, he is an avatar for Vince McMahon.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: It would not at all surprise me. After a break,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Laney Reid was working over Rhea. Ripley fought out, She
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: made the tag to Charlotte and she was lighting up
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: red and JC with chops came off the top rope
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: with a double cross body to Laney and Jane, double
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: natural celect to both women. Alexa Bliss tagged in Jac's
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: rolling on Core, got countered into a Sister Abigail attempt
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: by Bliss. No dice though, and with Ripley on the apron,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Jade Cargill shows up, Whereas I have to say it
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: the way Joe Test does. Jade Cargile showed up and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: she yanked Rhea off the apron. She fell down face
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: first onto the steel steps and that allowed the rolling
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: on Core from JC Jane to connect in the ring
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: for the pin on Alexa Bliss to give the wind
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: to fatal influence. That is back to back pinfall wins
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: now for JC Jane over Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: two former women's World champions. She's doing pretty well for
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: herself so far, I would say, outside of Oba Femi,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and he was called up a little bit earlier, but
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: outside of Oba, she's probably doing better than anybody. So
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: after the match, Jade got into the ring and Alex
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: is on the mat in the corner, like laying not
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: like sitting there, laying on the mat, and I'm like
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: looking and I'm typing up some notes here and nothing's happening.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Jade's just standing there and the camera's very tight on
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: her and she's talking shit to Alexa. I'm like, what
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: the hell? Like someone coming out? Like what are we
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: waiting for here? And the referee said something to Jade,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: communicated something to her. I don't know what she said,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: but it felt like they were stalling for something and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: waiting on someone to come out. And then finally we
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: see Meechen and befab as. Charlotte Flair is about to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: slide into the ring, Meechin and Befab hit the scene
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: to stop her from doing so, and so I guess
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: they got held up where they missed their que or
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but it looked like they
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: were laid on the call there. So they went after
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Charlotte and she took care of the batties, but she
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: ended up eating a pump kick from Jade. So, as
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, jac getting the way good sign for JC.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: I like the fact that Fatal Influence is finally up
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: on the main roster, and I think it gives that
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: women's division a good shot in the arm. So thumbs up, right,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: That's one of the few positive things I can say
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: about this show tonight. But unfortunately her win was sort
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: of overshadowed by the stuff with Jade and the bad
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: ease when the match was over. So, yeah, she won,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: but it was kind of an afterthought as far as
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: them running back Rhea and Jade. I mean, look, this
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: is what I expected. The only thing is I would
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: have expected the match to be a backlash and they
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: could still add I guess it's over. It's too late now,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: but they could have added it tonight if they wanted to.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: It could have added it to the backlash card to
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: give us six matches. God forbid, we should get six
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: matches on this pl So I guess we'll get it
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: in Italy. I guess at the end of the month.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: But nobody should be surprised by this. Jade was always
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: going to get her rematch. If it wasn't going to
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: be a backlash, it was going to be some other time.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: So before Ria can move on to whoever that next
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: challenger is going to be, they're going to get at
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: least one more match, maybe more than one, but they're
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: gonna get at least one more match out of him,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: maybe with a stipulation. Doesn't move me, not really, but
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: look the match they had at WrestleMania. It was better
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: than I expected it to be. It's not like they
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: went out there at WRESTLEMANI and had a terrible match,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: said they'll run it back one more time, reel beat
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: her again and then we'll move on from this. I
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: don't know where Jade goes from here, but real will
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: move on to somebody else, maybe Keanu. We had Royce
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Keys against Tomatanga, despite Solo Sukoa telling Talatanga in the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: back earlier in the night that they were going to
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: let Toma go out there on his own. They came
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: to the ring with him anyway, So okay. After a
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: break in the action, Keys was making to come back.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Hit a running pounce, so the straps come down. The
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: old Damien priest down, come the straps. So he's feeling it.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Power slam gets a two count. He picks up Tama,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: but it got reversed into an inverted DDT for a
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: near fall. So he sent Tama out over the top
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: rope with a clothesline, and he was getting ready to
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: go after Solo Socoa and Talla Tonga outside on the floor,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: but the MFTs backed away. They were like them, he
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: wants to do it on his own. He wants to
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: fight his own battles. He's going to do it himself.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: They weren't lifting a finger to help Tomatanga here. So
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Tama attempted to die from the top rope and he
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: got caught by Keys into a spinebuster and Keys picked
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: up the wind. Look, it's not a match that I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: would sit here and tell you. You have to go
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: out of your way to see it was fine. It
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: was a perfectly solid match. It's just the sort of
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: thing that they need to be doing with Royce Keys,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean they need to be feeding him
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: wins on this show, to make him look as dominant
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: as possible, to make him look like a killer when
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: he's out there. He hits that spinebuster. It's a great
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: looking spinebuster, very arn Anderson esque. And so you have
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: him going out there power slamming and spinebustering people every
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: single week and pulling the straps down and he's dapping
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: it up with Jacob Fatu right rubbing elbows, one of
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: the bigger names on the show. They're doing what they
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: need to be doing right now at Royce Keys. You know,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: I still feel like he's going to be better off
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: as a heel. I think as a heel is where
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: he will have an opportunity to really shine on this show.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it's something they are going to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: be leaning into anytime, unless I'm right about the whole
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: vibe I was getting off the Jacob Fatu stuff. But
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: they've really built him up like he's from this rough upbringing.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: And they showed the podcast clips of him with Stephanie
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: McMahon where he's talking about his brother who got killed
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: and tears streaming down his face. It would be kind
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: of odd if they just suddenly turned him heel all
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, But I still feel like at some point,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: turning him heel and then letting him, you know, work
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: with some of the baby faces on the show, is
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: going to be the way to go with him. So
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: in the back we are with Dan Housen. I remember
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that he had this Eureka moment when
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: he saw his reflection in the mirror and he realized,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I found my tag team partner. I'm going to team
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: with myself. So he's in the back by himself. I
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: don't know where the fuck he is, some darkened corner somewhere,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: and he has all of this like science equipment, in
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: these vials of various liquids. He has one of those balls,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: the laser balls. That's so weird that he had that too,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: because I literally on Tuesday, I think it was Tuesday,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday Night Titans. I don't remember what we were
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: talking about, but we were having discuss about something and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I brought up Spencer Gifts and I brought those I
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: brought those laser balls up. I have one of those.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I had. It's in a closet somewhere, but I actually
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: have one of those. They're kind of cool because you
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: put your hand on it and the you know, the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: laser follows your hand around. It was like one hundred bucks.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: So he's got one of those on display. It's like
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: he's in a science lab, right, and then next to
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: him is I don't even know how to discs some
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: sort of chamber that he's created, and we see lights
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: flickering on the inside of it, and it says like
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: clone or clone machine whatever it was, trying to clone himself.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Remember on Family Matters back in the day when Rkele
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: had he had like a similar type of contraption, and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: then Stefan remember Stefan or cal his his cool, his
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: cool clone would emerge from it. That's basically what this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: thing looked like. He's got a computer, he's typing shit
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: into the computer, Sparks start flying, everything, shit goes haywire.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: It doesn't work, It just doesn't work out. But he
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: says in twenty four hours he'll have his partner for backlash.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: And then from this we go into the gingerbread stuff later.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: It's like I feel like, I don't feel like I'm
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: watching a wrestling show. I feel like sometimes I'm watching
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: a parody of a wrestling show. That's what SmackDown feels like.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like a parody of a wrestling show.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: After the break, Toma Tonga's in the back, very dejected
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: after his loss. Shinsky Nakamura shows up. This guy just
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: will he will not let shit lay, He will not
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: leave this man alone. And Nakamura is very disappointed in Tama.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: Even Toma's own brother won't help him. So Talatonga shows up,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: tells Knakamura back off, and Nakamura said something in Japanese
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: and I guess we'll see if we get a match
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: between Nakamora and Taalatanga next week. At that point, Joe
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Tessitur and Wade Barrett, they ran down the minuscule card
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: that we have tomorrow for Backlash. As I will do
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: here in a little bit, we'll go through the matches.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams is in the back and he bumps into
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Nick all this, and all this says that all the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: arrangements are in place for the gingerbread Man funeral. And
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: you've got the last fifteen minutes all to yourself. They're
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: dedicating the final fifteen minutes of this show to the
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: gingerbread Men. And then they cut to the arena. We
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: see the casket is in the ring and the flower
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: arrangements are being set up because after this commercial break,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have ourselves a funeral. Because nothing says stay
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: tuned for the excite, the exciting conclusion of SmackDown as
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: we bring a funeral to you, oh boy. And indeed
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: they close the show with the gingerbread Men. They gave
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: him an open casket. By the way, Trick Williams got
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: a full entrance, and it was mostly his normal entrance.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, he wasn't maybe being as boisterous, but it
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't like he was. He didn't look terribly sad. He
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: had some sort of cup or goblet, I don't know
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: what it was. Fucking gangrel out there. He had some
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: sort of goblet looking thing in his hand and he
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: poured one out for the gingerbread Men. And it's instead
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: of you know, liquor, it was milk at least I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: hope that's what it was. So there was a choir
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: in the ring. Trick got a mic and he asked
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: all of us to bear with him, and they played
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: some sad music and he delivered a song I guess
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: what you would call a song style, not strong style,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: a song style eulogy. Basically, the gist of it is
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: he wants to know why the gingerbread had to die.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it has to do with mental illness
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: running rampant on the creative team. But that's not the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: sort of thing that they could really fit into those
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: rap style lyrics. I think that's what we're dealing with here.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Though this week's episode is sponsored by Wicks. I know
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: there's quite a few of you who listen to this
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: podcast who are small business owners as I am, and
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: I don't have an active, dedicated website at the moment
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: like I used to. But I may have to jump
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: back in feet first sued because wix Harmony is the
• 1:14:34
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  Speaker 1: slash harmony. So then they just went all out again
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: with the AI shit. But like in like video or
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: slideshow form where we see a whole montage a tribute
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: to the gingerbread Man, showing images of him from birth
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: all the way through the college years and his sports years.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: I think they showed him as an astronaut and one
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: of them are on the fucking moon or something. All
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: these like the highlights of his life. So there's a
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: light gingerbread chant at the end of all this. Trick
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: then calls for a moment of silence, so of course
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: Sammy's ain't comes out. He has heard enough, he has
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: seen enough of this, so out he comes. He's sick
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: and tired of people putting up with this nonsense. He
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: thinks he's losing his mind because this is gone all night. Yeah,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: you're not the only one who feels that way. With
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: the fans booed him when he came out. He was
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: just incredulous. He couldn't believe you're booing me. You're watching
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: all of this shit and you boo me coming out
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: to interrupt this, says he thinks he's losing his mind
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: that this has gone on all night. He says, TV
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: time on SmackDown used to mean something, Yeah, tell me
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: about it. Closing an episode meant something, The US Championship
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: meant something. Now it's all just a joke. A couple
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, Trick said that nobody messes with his money,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: and Sammy asked him, how much money did you spend
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: on this stupid shit between all the roses and the casket.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: He saw the casket earlier. It's solid oak, he said,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: solid oak, like the aw announced desk. Sammy would never
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: do this because he respects himself, he respects this show,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: and he respects the fans who paid their hard earned
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: money to sit through this crap. You know what my
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: attitude is this at this point, if if you're paying
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: to these TKO prices to go see this shit, then
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: you get exactly what you deserve. You can't you can
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: no longer pay for a ticket to a WWE event,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: however much money it may be, and then complain when
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: you get your usual WWE slash tkoslop that they give
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: you on these shows. Like at this point, there's just
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: no there's no excuse, Like that's on you, that's not
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: on anybody else. That's on you. And if you like it, great,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: but if you don't like it, that's on you. So
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Zaan called himself a working class hero who represented his
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: rider die fans until the very end. So he got
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: into the ring and he says he's done everything in
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: this industry. Guys better than Trick for two decades have tried,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: but they couldn't do it. But that being said, Sammy
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: admits that trick he got in his head. He got
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: in his head a little bit with this stuff. But
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: he goes, Trick played himself. And now this is personal
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: for Sammy at Backlash, it's not just about the United
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: States Championship again, it's person but he will take the
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: US title and then he'll make Trick an even bigger joke.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: And he goes, sorry for your loss, I'll see you
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: with Backlash, And he made like he was going to
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: go leave, but he took a cheap shot, a trick.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: He got him down in the corner. He was raining
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: blows down upon him. He was shoving the US title
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: in his face. And then Sammy is posing with the title.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: But they framed this shot in such a way where
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: the open casket with the gingerbread Man was right behind him.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: And so you knew that someone was in the costume.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Last week it was a mannequin. It was very clear
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: there was nobody in the costume. This time though, it
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: was very clear that somebody was gonna sit up, and
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: sure enough, the gingerbread Man does the Undertaker zombie sit
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: up in the casket and pulls the head off and
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: it's Lil YACHTI. He was laying in there the entire time.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: So he gets out of the casket and he blasts
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Sammy from behind with the the cane, the candy cane,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: and Trick gets some position for a trick shot, knee
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: puts down Sammy with the knee strike, and the closing
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: parting shot of SmackDown has the United States Champion Trick
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Williams standing tall with Liliyati over Sammy's Ain, which only
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: makes my prediction that much in my opinion, that much
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: more likely that Sammy's Ain wins the US title back
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. If it's me, I'm putting that bell back
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: on Sammy's Ain tomorrow. I think that. I think you
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: have to if you want to keep this story going.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think it works. I mean, if they want
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: to blow it off tomorrow, then that's the end of it.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: But you want to keep this going, you gotta put
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: the bell back on Sammy. You'll put more heat on
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: him that way, and it gives Trick a reason to
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: continue to chase this guy for at least one more match. Well,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm picking Sammy to win the US title back tomorrow night.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: But that was the end of this show. Was I
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: was just I was done with this show. I was
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: done with this show. You know, there's always room for dumb,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: silly humor, but on a show where you had Dan
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Housen and his cloning machine, we did not need all
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: of the gingerbread stuff for three hours, Like I'm sorry,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, multiple times, I'm watching this show, Like what
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the fuck am I watching here? There's a Backlash show tomorrow.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: At least Trick and Sammy actually have a match on
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: that show. Imagine how much worse it would have been
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: if they weren't even wrestling on Backlash and the entire
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: show was built around this nonsense. It was bad enough
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: as it is, this show somehow gets worse and worse
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: and worse to sit through every single week. It's painful
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: sometimes to sit through these shows and just this feeling
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: of nothing, just nothing. I watched some of these shows
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: on Friday. I feel nothing. In some cases for people
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: who at one point as focal points on the show,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: I felt something for I wanted to see them, or
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see them against this per or there
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: was something about it that I wanted to see. Where
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: have we gone? With SmackDown. How did the show? How
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: did we go from where the show was at one
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: time in the last couple of years to where this
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: show is now? How is it that I'll watch RAW
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: on most weeks and not that Raw is great every
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: single week, but generally speaking, I would say Rah's a
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: pretty good show on the whole most weeks. And how
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: is it that we have a creative team putting together
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: these shows where we have the show we get on
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: netfl Flick some Mondays and then we turn around a
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: few days later and get this show on Fridays. How
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: is there so much of a discrepancy between the two
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: I don't understand it, But we hit the goal ten
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: out of ten. That's good. Backlash five matches tomorrow, two
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: matches on the ESPN two first hour, and those matches
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: are going to be bron Breaker against Seth Rollins, which
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: I believe is going to be won by bron Breaker.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: I believe the trick Williams Samy's a US title matches.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: The other match on Hour one again my prediction, Sammy's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: Ain wins back the United States Championship, which I think
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: is a must if you want to keep this going
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: for a little while longer Samy's got to win the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: belt back trick loses nothing from losing the belt Sammy
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: provided Sammy wins the belt by nefarious means. I'm not
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: advocating Sammy's aming to go in there and just beat
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: him clean with a halluva kick, But I'm gonna say
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: we have a new US champion. EO Sky is gonna go,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: is gonna go one on one with that woman talk
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: about timing Osca. When was the last time? Somebody will
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: look this up for me, because I don't know the answer.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: When was the last time that Osca had and I'm
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: not counting the Women's Royal rumbel? When was the last
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: time that Oscar had a match on a ple e?
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: And when was the last time Oscar had a singles
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: match on a ple See, Let's see who can find
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: the answer, because I don't. I don't even know. It's
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: been a while and this should have been on the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania car. We're getting it now. Unfortunately, Kyrie Saying is
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: not here to pay the story off in the way
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: that I think many of us were kind of hoping.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: I think they're still an outside shot they could work
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: out some sort of deal to get her in as
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: a one off to at least finish the story. I'm
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: hoping that she does make an appearance tomorrow, but whether
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: she does or she doesn't, it doesn't to me anyway
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: change the outcome. I think Eo Sky needs to win this.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: EO has really been marginalized over the last few months.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: You know, Ria Ripley went and won the Women's championship
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown. She's doing her thing. EO's been doing a
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: whole lot on nothing. She needs this win, and I
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: think she gets it. Dan Housen and a mystery partner
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: take on the Miz and Kit Wilson. I think the
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: mystery partner is going to be Jelly Roll because that's
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: the one that honestly would make the most sense. I'm
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: not saying it's something I want to see. I don't
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: think this fucking match needs to be on this show,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: but it is. I think jelly Roll is going to
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: be the partner, and I think Dan and Jelly role winning.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen and anybody, it doesn't matter who's in that spot.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: I could be in that spot. It doesn't matter is Louis.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: I think Luis is with us. Then Night Luis, you
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: could be in that spot and Dan Housen's team will
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: still win tomorrow night. And then we also have Roman
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Reigns and Jacob Fatu for the World heavyweight Championship. I
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: can't see Roman dropping the belt. It would be a
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: nice little shocker if he did. I would love to
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: see Jacob fa Tou beat Roman Rains and get a run.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: Is the world heavyweight champion. You get no argument out
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: of me. Realistically, I can't sit here and tell you
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna happen. Roman's gonna win. But I
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: feel like something something has to happen here, whether it
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: is Royce Keys screwing over Jacob fa too. He's been
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: very disingenuous with him, let's say the last few weeks
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: or and But the thing with Keys also is Solo
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: Socoa is tied into this, right He's the one who's
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: trying to recruit Royce Keys, And it doesn't feel like
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Roy's Keys is interested. But what if he is? Right?
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: So it could it could play into this in some way.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: I think the Ussel's almost not that they have to,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: but I feel like the Ussels are going to be
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: involved in this in some way. They're gonna show their face.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have some sort of involvement. Maybe it's postmatch,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: maybe it's not even during the match itself, but they
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: have to shoot some sort of angle, I would think.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: But Roman, I think, is going to retain, and then
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: we have John Cena, a big body bear, says Oscar's
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: last pl E singles match was when she dropped the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: Raw Women's title to Bianca Belair at WrestleMania thirty nine. Wow,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: three years ago. That sounds about right. I knew it.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: It had been a while since she had a singles match,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: but I didn't. I couldn't remember what the match was.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: John Cena is going to be at Backlash. Apparently he
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: lives in Tampa or near nearby, so for him, he'll
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: probably be able to sleep in his own bed tomorrow night.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: So for him, it's an easy trip. And he retired,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: of course, back in December, they brought him back to
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: host WrestleMania, and what two weeks later, now two and
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: a half weeks later, it's like, hey, John, we want
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: you back again. So he's going to be on the show,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: and he keeps building this announcement up epic historic. It's
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: going to be a history making announcement that affects everybody,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: from the talent to the legends to the fans. It's
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: gonna shake the very foundation of WWE. And I'm sure
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: that it is in some way tied into this club
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: WWE membership sir that they're about to roll out. They
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: haven't announced what the annual membership fee is going to.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it's going to be. And
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: I guess he's going to be the face of it.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: They're going to use him to help promote it. I'm
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: sure it's tied into that in some way. I can't
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: even venture a guess as to what this is. I would,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: as somebody who has watched enough WWE. They love throwing
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: around these superlatives, right, these big words epic and game
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: changing and all this stuff, and more often than not
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: it lands with a thud. It does not live up
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: to expectations, because again, you start using words like that
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: and people let their imaginations run wild. But they're doing
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: it so much and so blatantly this week that I
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: almost feel like they must have something that they feel
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: is a really big deal. Fuck if I know what
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: it is, But you would think they keep throwing these
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: words out there. All you're doing is shooting yourself in
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: the foot unless you've got something really big. So we'll
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: find out together what it's going to be tomorrow night.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: But every time he does one of these promos or
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: he puts a video up on social media and he's like, oh,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: this is you know, this is gonna be epic, This
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: is gonna be game changing, this is gonna be change
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: the landscape. I'm sure Triple H will be sure to
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: tell us that we're in a new era tomorrow night,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the era of Club WWE. What kind of perk could
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: they offer for CLUBWWE that you would consider it to
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: be epic? Like clubw It can't just be Club WWE itself, right,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: they've already announced it, we already know it exists. It
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: has to be something about it, like what could they
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: possibly offer that you feel would live up to the
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: hype that is surrounding this announcement? And maybe on the
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: flip side of that, what would you like to see
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: that might be the better question. Let's see what you
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: guys come up with, and I'm going to launch on
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: over into the super chats here find out what you
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: guys thought of this show tonight. One dollars. Somebody said
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: the archives. So what does that mean? You Like, as
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: a Club WWI member, you get some sort of special
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: password restricted access to the full WWE vault. I'll tell
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: you what I would sign up for Club WWA, you
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: get me to sign up. I don't see how that's
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: necessarily going to be some epic game changing thing, though
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: for everybody else, I think I don't think most people
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: would give a shit about that. The only the nerds
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: and the geeks like you and me, the sheltered kid
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: kicking us off here solo. I need your honest opinion.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: Do you think I should give up on WWE? I
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: know that if you didn't have a podcast, you wouldn't
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: watch either. What should I do? I wouldn't watch this
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: show and say I wouldn't watch any of it what
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: I watched SmackDown, absolutely not. Look, I can't tell you
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: what to do. I can't tell you what to do.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: That's entirely up to you. Brother. If you feel like
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: you know you are having trouble sitting through the shows,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: and the TV shows are just so awful, you're not
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: deriving any sort of pleasure whatsoever out of them, not
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: even a little bit then I would say, don't bother watching,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: and if you want to keep up with what's going on,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: that's why I'm here, you know, That's why a lot
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: of podcasts are here keep you up to dan on
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: what's going on. They watch so you don't have to.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: It's hard for some people. They just they fall out
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: of it, or the product is just so bad and
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: boring that they can't stand watching it. But they want
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: to keep up with what's going on, and so you
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: could check out YouTube clips and stuff. But yeah, that's
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: that's where podcasts become very helpful. Only you can answer
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: that question, Olivia, give us Ko versus Punk, No celebrities,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: just killer promos. Well, Ko has to come back first.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: We're all waiting for him to come back. Dry Chicken says,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: I'm setting the bar real load tonight. I'm watching Mortal
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: Kombat Annihilation over SmackDown tonight. Well, you made the right choice,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: Bossmo Jackson. Wwe should fire John g to put him out, Oh,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Johnny Gargana to put him out of his misery. I'm
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: shocked he's still there. I gotta be honest with you.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: I am I'm I'm shocked. I mean, good for him,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: but I'm shocked he's still there. Let Kyrie saying go
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: and kept Johnny Gargano. That's incredible to me when Kyrie
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: was in the middle of an actual storyline and Johnny's
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: been laying around comatos on top of equipment crates. I
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: have no good answer for you. Also, he says, both
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: a E W and WWE suck on these thumbs down
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: on these shows. Thank you, Bossmo Jackson. Leo says, I
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: wish WWE would start booking Keana better. I really hope
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: they see her as a future world champion and they
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: don't waste her potential. I feel like they see a
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: big upside in her, so I think she's gonna be okay.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Shop Dwell, do you still think Sammy wins the US
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: title on Saturday? Yes? I do. I'm sticking to that,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: justin with a nine to ninety nine, Hey, solo. Has
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: any superstar that has had a solo cover of a
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: pay per view ever lost their pay per view match? Yes?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: I vividly remember there being a Royal Rumble poster many
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: years ago that had Santino Morella on there with like
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: a not a magic eight ball, but some sort of
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: crystal ball, like he was a fortune teller. I don't
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: remember what rumble it was, but I could tell you
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: he didn't win. And then there was another pay per
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: view I know where Our Truth had a pay per
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: view poster that he was on solo, and I'm sure
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: he didn't win that either, So yeah, I'm sure there's
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: been a lot of them. Temjiin Zephyr his solo. I
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: just got back from theaters watching Mortal Kombat too, and
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: it was fucking awesome. Love to hear your thoughts on it. Also,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: while you see Obsession, heard great things that you know.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: It's funny. I only heard about Obsession today. They had
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: a trailer for it that actually aired before the movie
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: and it looked interesting. I don't know, it kind of
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: slipped under the radar for me. I hadn't heard about
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: it until today. Yeah. I saw the movie earlier and
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: tweeted about it that I enjoyed it. I had fun
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: with it. I had fun with it. I don't want
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: to give away any spoilers or anything, but if anybody
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: is on the fence about seeing the new Mortal Kombat movie,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: because I had a rush to see the first one
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: from five years ago, and I saw that on the
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: plane ride into LA for the House of Glory show.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: I mean it was this one was definitely better than
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: the first one. But even the first one, I thought
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: it was you know, it wasn't like great, but I
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: thought it was fine, and I thought this one was better.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, and I'm glad they had the music
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: in there at the very end. That was nice to hear.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says Triple H is going to be cooking
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: like Chef Gordon Ramsey tomorrow night booking backlash. It's going
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: to be putting a lot. Yeah, right, it is Lloyd
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: Christmas from Dumb and Dumber from one to one million.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: What are the chances of TKO lowering ticket prices? They
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: already are lowering ticket prices a little bit for some
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: of the shows, but you know, it's still a lot.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: It's still a lot. And now, of course these aren't showing.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Come on, refresh. YouTube is glitching out on me? Typical
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: typical YouTube. We got it now, we got it back,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: fucking YouTube? Ah, where were we? Uh? Tension? Will you
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: go see Resident Evil later this year? Yes, I will.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: I saw the trailer for it a couple of weeks ago,
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: and as soon as I did I put it on
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: my watch list. I see a lot of people bitching
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: about it because, oh, it's not It's not the real
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: Resident Evil. Where's Leon, Where's Claire. It's not supposed to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: be the original Resident Evil. It's supposed to be completely
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: different stories set in that world. I like the vibe
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: will be seated. Prince Begeta says, when what Paul actually
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: meant to say was, yeah, Brock didn't want a job
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: to gun through in Minneapolis, So this is the option.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: B stop the career killer gimmick. It sucks. It does suck.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: It does suck. It's very limiting, too groovy. Goose, what
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: the Zapruter film to SmackDown's Downfall? Are you asking me?
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: What is the Zapruter film to SmackDown's Downfall? You could
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: wind back that Pat McAfee footage from heading into WrestleMania
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: show that in slow back into the left, Back into
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: the Left, The working Man says, I would rather watch
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: nWo two thousand WCW with Hall, Nash, Jarrett and a
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: concussed Brett Hart as champion again over this shit. Derenzo,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: How does this smack them rank in comparison to the
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: worst Raw episode. There's no ranking needed here. We don't
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: have to rank them. We could just judge them on
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: how fucking awful they are or how great they are.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: It's an awful television show, and it is not worse
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: than the worst Raw episode. I know, the one you're
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: thinking of. I did a whole emergency fucking podcast about it.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: I still think that was worse the goth after tonight.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: I need to apologize to road Dog Johnny Burnie. The
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: funeral was for the Sixths tonight. Congrats Nicks. Yeah, the
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: next basically put the Sixers in the dirt tonight, Bye
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: bye Philadelphia. Well now with a forty dollars drop, WWE
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: is in a race to the bottom against itself and
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: will continue to be rewarded for it. Absolutely insane company.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: I'll pour one out for all of you when I
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: watch the next stardom show. I wouldn't be shocked if
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Kyrie when she's free, ends up popping up on one
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: of those stardom shows. The working Man, I wonder what
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: scene his announcement is tomorrow. Well, we just talked about that.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it better live up to expectations, and
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: it probably won't. But they're really building it up, So
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: they better have something real good planned. It's gonna make
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: Scena look bad if it's something lame. Justin with a
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: nine to ninety nine. So we all know that there's
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: all always someone underneath the ring during matches. Do you
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: think someone was underneath the ring during Brock and Romans
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: match at SummerSlam? Well, I would hope not, or else
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. They may still be there.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: Do you imagine the person who would have to lay
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: under the ring during all that watching the ring propped
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: up into the air like that the heart attack? I
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: would have my god Paul Hamilton again with the one
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars bomb. Yes, not the effect that I was
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: going for, but we'll take it on. Behalf of all
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: your supporters for all your pain and suffering, sir Portland
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: pop star. Yes, Paul is the man. Paul. I hope
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: you're doing well. Thank you, brother. I appreciate the shout
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: looking out, always looking out for me. He's always worried
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: about me. Venom Caitetsu with a twenty five dollars pre mode.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: Is it unreasonable to worry that we could be seeing
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: a slow burn towards TKO pushing wrestlers out and bringing
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: in celebrities and influencers is their primary competitors going forward.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: Feels like they would rather have that to replace them. No,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: but I don't get the sense that they plan on
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: stopping that anytime soon. I think they love it. I
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: think we're going to continue to get more of it,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: whether it's WrestleMania season or not. Man, I don't see
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: them turning away from it because they love all the
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: extra eyeballs that they feel like those people bring, because
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: they have these huge social followings. Like I Show Speed
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: was completely inoffensive. I didn't mind him being involved, but
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: I Show Speed has like tens and tens and tens
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: of millions of subscribers, you know, between his various social
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: media platforms. So like when he did his dive at WrestleMania,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that the impressions and the views that it
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: got was in the hundreds of millions. They eat that
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: shit up. I love that they're not gonna stop that,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: even if it has a negative impact on the creative right,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: which that really didn't like the McAfee stuff. They don't
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: give a shit. They don't care if it gets engagement.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: That's all they care about. Derek J. Speaks after seven
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: years working a job I grew to hate. Today was
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: my last day. I started a new job at a
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: university on Monday. Just wanted to thank you solo for
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: your shows getting me through it all. Well, congrat it's Derek.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: That's very cool. Best of luck in the new job.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: I may be looking for a new job if these
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: SmackDown shows don't improve soon. Anybody want to hire me?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: Alexander says. Champa was let go in January. Gargano has
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: been laying on that fucking crate for four months. Easy money,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: easy money. Just collect that paycheck until the end, because
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: he's on the fast track to nowhere. Retro koh. Someone
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: asked Hayman what inning of the Bloodline story we're in.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess we're probably in between the fifth and sixth,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: probably somewhere in there. Dan Richards, I had an app
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: dec to me on Wednesday, and it was less painful
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: than watching this show. I think the new intern mince
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Vic Mahn is writing the show. Ah, that guy Mint
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: he was a little weird that one. I was something
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: off about that guy I heard about that mince guy
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: always putting in his ideas I hear Mince doesn't like
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: it when people sneeze around him too. It's a little
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: suspect this guy, you know the I think the appendectomy,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: you could have that done laparoscopically, right, so there shouldn't
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: be any pain. I haven't had an appendectomy, so I'm
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure about that. But Prince Vegeta says,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: I watched Backlash seven the other day, and I really
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: liked the Batista Undertaker feud that happened that year, just
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: two badasses battling for dominance. Their WrestleMania match is a classic.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: Thoughts on the feud. I like the WrestleMania match. I
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: don't remember too much else other than they had that
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: cage match on SmackDown. But yeah, I mean I remember
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: the Mania match and some of the build up to it.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: Beyond that, though I don't remember them. I mean, I
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: remember too much else about what they did. Alex with
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: the five? Why the fuck are the miz Kit, Wilson
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: and Dan Housen on the Backlash card? What did they
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: do at WrestleMania? It literally voids the whole Backlash gimmick. Yes,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a good answer. For you.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: I wish I had a better answer for you. I
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: really don't. They like Dan Hausen. They really like Dan Housen.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: They just wanted they want to get him on the show,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: bred Hart, It's sad seeing WW now. It's like watching
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: an old friend being skinned in front of you, by
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: my god, by a serial killer, and then the killer
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: puts the skin on. Well, I wasn't prepared for this,
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: super chat. Let me start over again here. Holy shit,
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: this went to a very dark place. It's sad seeing
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: WWE now. It's like watching an old friend being skinned
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: in front of you by a serial killer, and then
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: the killer puts the skin on alongside a bunch of
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: corporate logos and asks you for money. Jesus, thank god.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: This is some leather face type shit. I'm just gonna
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let that one kind of breathe for
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: move on. Arabian Night. Yeah, someone check on. I'm gonna
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: check on, Brett Hart. There, the Arabian Night says. Listen
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: to Killer Cross's interview on Devon's podcast talking about creative
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: process TKO when it comes to pay structure and finance
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: is very insightful. I may have to check that out.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: Lost dill me. Joe Hendry is Dan Housen's partner at Backlash. No, No,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: that would be awful. That would be a terrible reveal.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: Alex says just three years ago, Priest had one of
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: the best matches of twenty twenty three with Bad Bunny.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: Just pathetic booking from WWE. Yeah, I mean the falloff
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: is just unbelievable from where he had been to where
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: he is now. It's sad. Z Ray says, I'm just
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: surprised they actually let Tala Tonga speak for once. Yes,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: he actually spoke some words tonight. It was very brief
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: in that backstage segment with Nakamora, but he did speak.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: We have Henry elf f. I'm sorry, Henry F jeez,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: I thought this, said Elf. Yes, so I think it's
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: time I go back to watching. Just start him. We'll
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: stick around for your shows though, Love from Long Island. Well,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: thank you, Henry, Sorry I called you an elf. Devon
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: from NJ two thousand, Buy or Sell, Oh, Zra forgot Zerra.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: I'll get to Zerra in a second. Buy or Sell
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: from Devon says Wrestling weddings or funerals. M I am
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: quite partial to the Big Show and the boss Men.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: When they were having the funeral for Big Show's father,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: and Boss Man drove in in the old Blues Brother's
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: car with the big megaphone and interrupted the proceedings, attached
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: a chain to the casket and dragged it away. I
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: think for that alone, I may have to go with funerals,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: but not include the gingerbread Man funeral. And z Ray says, honestly,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to hear a Kyrie in case Kyrie
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't show up tomorrow. Well, you heard two of them
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: so far tonight, So there you go. It's the only
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: place you're gonna hear him from now on is on
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: these streams. Death Sithe. I have a song recommendation that's
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: on YouTube. Hopefully it makes everyone feel better. World His
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: World from Sonic six Synthwave covered by Severed Soul. Interesting.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut and paste that. Keep that over here.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: I will check that out after. I love me some synthwaves,
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: So let's refresh the list here. I knew that was
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I don't know what it's doing that all right?
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: Here we go. We have Tongaloa super fan is with us.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: I know Toangaloa is still in mourning or Togoloa super
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: Fan says, this is the first SmackDown in the post
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: Toangaloa era. It just isn't the same without Tongaloa. Tangaloa
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: was the beating heart of the show. And now what
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: are we left with? What are we left with? We're
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: left with ai gingerbread men, That's what we're left with.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: I miss Tangaloa too, Bobby means, I think Blake Monroe
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: against Rhea Ripley could be a possible Summer Slam match.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: Do you see it that way? Plus, I think the
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: announcement is Mania forty four is going to the UK.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: You know what though, No, it can't be the way
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: they're building it up. They're talking about this like it's
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: this epic game changing thing. Announcing the WrestleMania location doesn't
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: really fit. So I don't see that being the announcement tomorrow.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: I think that would be I mean, the UK fans
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: would love it, but in terms of what they're promoting
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: and how they're promoting it, I think that'd be a letdown.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: Clay v. Man O seven my Dog wanted me to
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: hold him like a baby, and he's watching me intently
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: on the big screen TV. Then fell asleep. I am
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: now trapped. Send food. Maybe I'll send you some gingerbread
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: men EJ. Slimp. If someone went nine to oh in
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: the G one and won the final for a perfect
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: ten and oh, would that be New Japan's version of
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: undertakers wrestle Mania streak? Will it ever happen? I mean, so, wait,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: are you talking about someone nine to zer in the
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: G one and won the final? So you're talking in
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: one particular G one tournament Like no, Undertaker's streak was
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: over the course of ten years. If you're talking about
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: his first ten wins. If you're talking about the entire
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania streak, you're talking twenty years. Two things are not
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: even remotely similar. And will it ever happen? No, I'm
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: going to say no. Cameo Johnson with a nineteen ninety
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: nine thank you, cameo making a cameo here tonight. Keep
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: your head up so though the strength to keep watching
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: these shows, you fight the battles that we can't. I
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: don't know what keeps you going with WWE, but you
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: were a deeply appreciated salute from Chicago. PS. Mortal Kombat
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: too was fire. Yeah, I love the uh. I love
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: the choice of Carl Urban as Johnny Cage. I know
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: some people panned it. They thought he was too old,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: or they didn't like that he was the aging Hollywood star,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: which is basically what he portrays in the movie. And
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: I've heard miss in multiple interviews like venting about not
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: being picked to be Johnny Cage, like he's some great
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: like master thespian, Like no, dude, there's a reason why
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: he you know, you didn't get the role. But the stuff,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: there's some funny scenes with him and Kano in the
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: movie that I think people will enjoy. And Alex says,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: I know you have mentioned that it was Hogan that
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: made you become a wrestling fan. How much of an
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: impact did Vince he for your love of wrestling did
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: Vince have? Well, Hogan was a character on his show,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: so it was his product. So I mean it goes
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: without saying, but he's not the one I saw on
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: television outside of holding a mic in his hand. You
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: know I got in terms of what kept me watching
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: the television show, it was Hogan. It was the red
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: and yellow. It was the macho man. But yes, of
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: course it was his product on camera though he was
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: just the announced guy. Funny enough, though, I always like
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: envision myself being Vince. I had Vince's I think I
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: still have it his LJN. I made sure I got Vince,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: I got mean gene Oakerland. I was always going to
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: be the announcer guy back when you were actually allowed
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: to be an announcer back then. Yeah, instead of just
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: being like, am my guests at this time and now
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: my guest at this time. Oh we got a few
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: more here. Oh we had a whole bunch more. I
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: switched away too fast. We'll go through these, and then
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: we got two rounds of be the booker coming up. Hey, Carlos,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: congrats on fifty three months. Look at you, Look at you,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: fifty three months of channel membership, EJ says. Rewatch Teddy
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: Long's two thousand and seven wedding segment today. One of
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: the first episodes I ever saw no business being that
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: entertaining better than this bullshit was that the one where
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Vince was Vince and Coach I think were sitting among
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: the attendees and horn Swoggle was there and Hornswoggle kept
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: fucking around with Coach, and Vince just kind of looked
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: over like stop it. And because that was actually kind
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: of funny, I think that might have been the Teddy
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: Long wedding. Don Stony cheers, my friend. Thank you for
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: the five. I appreciate that. Alex says, you think it's
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: time for the Big Show to go to the Hall
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: of Fame. No, because he's under contract to AAW. Why
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: would WWE put him in the Hall of Fame. Big
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Show and Jericho and people like that are not going
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame until they're out of AW.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: It's just that simple. EJ says. I read Harley Race
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: Today slammed on twice in nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: nearly a decade before Hogan. Is that true. If so,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: Harley was even more badass. Well, I'm gonna blow your
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: mind now by telling you that the narrative that Hogan
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: was the first person to body slam Andre is bullshit.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: It's total horseshit, as was the story of Andrea being
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: undefeated for fifteen years heading into WrestleMania three. Total bullshit.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: It was all just in service of hyping the match,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: which was fine. Yeah, as the promoter, you have creative
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: license to do that. You couldn't get away with that
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: shit today because it's just so easily verifiable. Harley was
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: not the only one to body slam Andre, though multiple
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: people body slammed Andre the Giant, including Kamala. I think
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: to this day, the person who impressed me the most
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: with their body slam of Andrea was Kamala because he
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: like he got him up. It's like he got him
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: up and held him there and then slammed him. I
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: didn't see all the Harley slams, but the Kamala one
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: that I saw, to me was the most impressive. Tonga
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: loa super fan with a ten spot, says, thinking back,
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: we only got a small glimpse of what Toangaloa could
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: do in WWA. Now that he's free, we can finally
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: get the full Tangaloa experience. Don't you want to see
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: him go full Toangaloa. Well, I mean, if he's going
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: to go full Tangaloa, there's only one place for him
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: to do that. That would be hog So. But then
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: you have to promise to come out to the show.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: If we have him in House of Glory, then we
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: have to have you out to the show. You have
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: to buy a ticket and come to the show. We
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: have again tangaloa super fan. Look at this guy, twenty
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: dollars superhaw. We have things in wrestling named after wrestlers
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: like gorilla position, gorilla position, or dusty finish. I think
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: toangaloa deserves the same. Maybe when a wrestler does something unscripted,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: we can refer to that as he just pulled a togaloa. Well,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, in tribute to the last appearance
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: that he made on Smackdow where he fell off the
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: announced desk. Maybe the next time someone like whenever someone
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: falls off the announced desk, we can say, oh, he
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: pulled a togaloa. How about that? And that could be
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: kind of his thing. I agree, I think that'd be
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: a great idea. So the Like's goal tonight, I believe,
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: was four fifty and we are bordering on seven hundred.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: We're getting close. So we destroyed that goal and then
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: hit the bonus goal. So we got two rounds coming
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: our way. Let's do it, ladies or gentlemen. It is
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: now time. You know I'm gonna have to add this
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: gingerbread man to be the booker. Now he's now officially
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: part of SmackDown lore. They have to throw him in here.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: That's right, he got lowered. He got lowered. Tonga load
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: right here we go. What a visual this is. This
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: is a cursed image. Not only Brett Hart and Bill
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: Goldberg as tag team champions, but a smiling Brett Hart
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: and Bill Goldberg. What would their tag team name be?
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: Brett Hart and Bill Goldberg against the American Wolves Eddie
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Edwards and Davy Richards. Can't wait until Goldberg goes for
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: the tag and then Brett just drops off the apron,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: says fuck Bill Goldberg and walks to the back. And
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: then Goldberg just fucking destroys these two all by himself
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: and wins the match. Anyway, our women's be the booker,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: the sharpshooters. Nah, that's we could do better than that.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: Uh it's page Well technically Soraya in this image, but
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: it's page. Now that she's back in WWE, we can
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: get her a singles match here page against Hey, look,
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: this could be a SmackDown match. This is a match
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: that could actually be booked. Paige and Julia, look at
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: this woman. You need to tell me you can't find
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: a fucking thing for her to do. Ridiculous. In the
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: main event, main event number one, we have Claudio casting Noley,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: former Ring of Honor World Champion, former CMLL champion, Claudio
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: casting Noli in our main event against Jacob Fatu. He's
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: in the main event of Backlash tomorrow night. He is
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: in the main event to be the booker tonight, Claudio
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: and Jacob Fatu. See that right there. We just booked
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: ourselves a solid ass card. Steve Austin has some solid
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: ass cats. We just booked a solid ass card. That's
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: a bang. That's a banger, all right, You're damn right
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: it is. That was a good show right there. Let's
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: not make any mistakes now. We don't want to fuck
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: it up because we got one round left to go.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: We have stipulations to choose. No eye for an eye,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: can't do a tag match, so we have to do
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: either the women or the men. I'd rather do the women.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: What do you think we should do? Yeah, we'll do
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: the men. Eye for an eye. Didn't we just pick
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: eye for an eye? We had eye for an eye
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: like last week. I don't know what. Why is it
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: always the eyes. I don't know carrying Cross. If somebody
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: just mentioned him before in the super check Carrying Cross,
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: Carrying Cross may lose an eye here. Oh for fox sakes, well,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: I mean unfortunately unfortunately for poor carrying Cross. Why is
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: he in two main events in the span of a week.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: This is the second time we've landed on the giant Gonzales.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: He wrestled John Cena. Now he wrestles Carrying Cross. Carrying
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: Cross cannot reach up high enough to gouge the eyes
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: out of this man's head. So Carrying Cross is going
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: to lose an eye. Let's do something a little bit
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: different here. I actually have to add this as a step.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: I still haven't added it yet, but okay, so we
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: have a a brawl for all match. What I was
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: gonna say is I was gonna make it in some
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: of them mentioned intergender. We could do an intergender match.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: We're gonna do an intergender brawl for all match. This
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: is this just has a disaster written all over it here.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: But we're gonna We're gonna do something a little bit
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: different here first ever here and be the booker intergender
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: brawl for all. Ria Ripley actually considering some of the
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: women that are in be the booker. I think she
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: might actually fare better than most in a brawl for
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: all match. But now we have to figure out who
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: the opponent is going to be. Ria Ripley in a
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: brawl for all match against Caine, Rhea, Ripley and Kane
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: in a brawl for all match. I don't know, man,
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: if I mean, we're talking about this guy right here?
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: This this o G Kane. Rea, don't stand the chance.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Ria is fucked, Riha is fucked. And we're
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: gonna end with a Yappa pie strap match. Oh boy,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: oh your dot me? You got me in the Yappa
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: pie strap match. If you want to know what the
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: hell is a yap pie, It's actually yaba pie, but
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: everyone calls a Yappa pie, so it just sounds funnier
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: that way. But I think it's yava pie with a V.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: If you want to know what it is, it was
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: a match with Hull Cogan and Rick Flair in the
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: Dying Days of WCW sometime in two thousand. I don't
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: remember what pay per view it was. Yeah, you know what,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: this is actually a rather appropriate stipulation to land on tonight.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: All I know is that Hogan and his promos was
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: going on and on about the strapation, and that's where
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: I tuned out. I don't need to be hearing about
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: Hull Cogan, then strapation. Someone is getting some strapation though
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: from Hull Cogan. In this Yappa Pie strap match, We're
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: we're not even doing a tag match. We're just going
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: to go right to the main event here. Darby Allen, well,
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: this sounds right up his alley, right. You get some
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: weapons involved, uncensored two thousand strap of maniacs. Royce Keys
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: and Darby Allen in a Yappa Pie strap match. Poor Darby.
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a bad night of the office for
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: Darby Allen. Ches for the AW title. Everyone's getting the
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: title shots, so Royce Keys will get another one. Now
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get an AW championship match with Darby Allen
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: Yappa Pie strap style. There you go, basically basically an
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: AW main event. But hey, we almost had another clean
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: sweep were it not for the giant Gonzales screwing it
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: all up. I know or he was a nice guy,
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. You can't expect me to give that
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: the bell. That's not how this works. New AEW World Champion,
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: Powerhouse hobbs Uh with Sina and Gonzales Monday or Wednesday.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: That's cute that you think we did be the booker
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. That's adorable, z Ray. The real question is
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: when is the New Day going to show up in
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: h og Oh. I think that would be a great day.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: That would be a great day. Well, first of all,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: they're not available until the summer, so let's see what happens.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: Would be very interesting though, wouldn't it e J slimp,
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: CM Punk in a suit, Jeff Hardy dancing, Jagged Edge
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: performing Godfather's showing up, Tory as a bridesmaid, That Teddy
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: Long wedding was amazing, and power spying game solo. You
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: did give Gonzales versus Hollywood Rock a bell? Yeah, because
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: it's Hollywood Rock, dude, Like Hollywood Rock would find a
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: way to make that entertaining. I I can't bet against
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: anything Hollywood Rock would do. Like Hollywood Rock was peak.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: We didn't get enough of it, oh man, amazing. Well,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: as I was watching SmackDown tonight, I realized that we
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: were going to end up having a lot more fun
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: here on the stream than we were going to have
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: watching Smackdowns, So for most of us anyway, I'm sure
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: there's going to be some people who love SmackDown tonight,
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: but for the rest of us, hopefully you guys had
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: a good time. We got through it. Shows over a
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: new smack Down next week, no more gingerbread Man. We
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: got Backlash Tomorrow night. Tomorrow Backlash is a six pm
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: Eastern start. My guess would be I'll be live probably
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: no later than ten thirty, at ten ten thirty, somewhere
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: in that range. I will be live right back here
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: on YouTube for this thing right here. This is the
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: Backlash review. We're gonna get John Cena's epic announcement. Look
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: at him, he looks like a car salesman in this image.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: This is Corporate Sina. He's like he's like the new
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: Tony Khan. He's got a major announcement to make. He's
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: stolen Tony Kahn's gimmick. Anyway, that's tomorrow night, back here
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: live on YouTube. And then of course Sunday will be
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: episode nine to sixty two of the Solemn Monster Sounds
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: off all the Backlash fallout or talk Ted Turner, We'll
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: talk Dark Side of the Ring coming back. We got
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: some legal stories to talk about, Rajah Jackson, Alberto Dell, dipshit.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good time on Sunday. Hopefully you
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: guys will join for the podcast. Until then, be well,
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: stay safe. Yeah see, he looks like he's gonna he's
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: gonna sell seven Toyotas. Every time a Toyota commercial is
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: a not Toyota, it's a Honda. Every time a Honda
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: commercial comes on. I hear the voice in the background.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: I go I know that voice. I hear that voice
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: in my head. Be well, stay safe. I'll see you
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: back here in less than twenty four hours for the
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: Backlash review. Let's hope we get a better night than
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: the one we had tonight. Until then, take care, guys,