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- 0:00Speaker 1: After a not so epic Survivor series This past Saturday,
- 0:04Speaker 1: Triple H after the show was addressing the upcoming episode
- 0:09Speaker 1: of Monday Night Raw, and he promised an epic show
- 0:14Speaker 1: was coming with the fallout of Survivor series. This was
- 0:18Speaker 1: not an epic show. I don't know why he does
- 0:21Speaker 1: these things. I don't know why they get people's hopes
- 0:24Speaker 1: up by using those kinds of words and using that
- 0:26Speaker 1: kind of language. I know he's a promoter and he's
- 0:29Speaker 1: trying to promote, but like, if you don't have some
- 0:32Speaker 1: sort of big reveal planned for the show of some kind,
- 0:37Speaker 1: I don't know why you would put yourself in that position.
- 0:39Speaker 1: It was still a good show. It might not have
- 0:42Speaker 1: been epic, but it was I thought a good show.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Although there was no Roman Reigns, there was no CM Punk.
- 0:48Speaker 1: He is not medically cleared, so we didn't see them
- 0:51Speaker 1: on the show tonight. One reveal that we did not
- 0:55Speaker 1: get was the reveal of the mystery man who ran
- 0:58Speaker 1: into the men's Wargames match at Survivor Series No. Austin
- 1:02Speaker 1: Theory on tonight's show. Although Logan Paul is confirmed as
- 1:07Speaker 1: a official member of the Vision and here I thought
- 1:12Speaker 1: that this was just going to be a War Games thing.
- 1:15Speaker 1: He was going to be in. He was going to
- 1:16Speaker 1: be out because he has hardly been any sort of
- 1:20Speaker 1: full time performer here on TV. But he is apparently
- 1:25Speaker 1: now an official member of the Vision, so we did
- 1:29Speaker 1: find that out tonight. We also learned I guess you
- 1:32Speaker 1: could say he's a full blown oose. But we also
- 1:35Speaker 1: learned that bron Breaker, who was the man who pinned
- 1:37Speaker 1: the world Heavyweight champion at the end of Wargames, is
- 1:42Speaker 1: going to get his championship match against Cmpunk on the
- 1:45Speaker 1: first Raw of the new year, right here in Brooklyn,
- 1:49Speaker 1: coming up on January fifth. Bron Breaker gets his shot
- 1:53Speaker 1: at the world title on that show. And I'll tell
- 1:56Speaker 1: you what you know. We didn't find out who the
- 1:58Speaker 1: mystery man was who attack punkin War Games. They have
- 2:02Speaker 1: chosen to drag this out a little bit. They're gonna
- 2:06Speaker 1: milk it. They're gonna milk the mystery. So we have
- 2:09Speaker 1: two mystery angles basically going on at the same time
- 2:11Speaker 1: on Raw and SmackDown. Because I haven't forgotten that somebody
- 2:15Speaker 1: attacked Jacob fa too. We still don't know who that
- 2:18Speaker 1: person is. We'll find out who attacked him soon enough,
- 2:21Speaker 1: unless they just forget about the whole thing. But they're
- 2:24Speaker 1: gonna milk this for all it's worth, and it makes
- 2:26Speaker 1: me wonder if maybe the reveal doesn't come for another month.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You know, maybe they're gonna save the reveal for that
- 2:31Speaker 1: big title match in Brooklyn on January fifth. Maybe the
- 2:35Speaker 1: mystery Man is going to help bron Break or win
- 2:38Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight Championship on that show. And if they
- 2:42Speaker 1: save it for that, you know what, that would certainly
- 2:44Speaker 1: be more impactful than just having this person pull the
- 2:48Speaker 1: mask off and reveal their identity on a random episode
- 2:51Speaker 1: of Raw. So if they have some kind of big
- 2:54Speaker 1: reveal plan, then that's fine. But that's what has me
- 2:58Speaker 1: thinking we may have to wait another month or so
- 3:01Speaker 1: before we get an answer to that question. But speaking
- 3:04Speaker 1: of bron Breaker, I'm gonna get into that whole segment
- 3:08Speaker 1: with the vision a little bit later on. But bron
- 3:09Speaker 1: Breaker had a coming out moment on the show tonight
- 3:13Speaker 1: because we got to hear from bron Breaker in the ring,
- 3:16Speaker 1: just addressing the audience, addressing the hardcam, talking to us,
- 3:21Speaker 1: getting all fired up about this match with Cmpunk. He
- 3:24Speaker 1: cut the promo of his life in the Ring tonight,
- 3:28Speaker 1: and it got me hyped up to see this match
- 3:32Speaker 1: in a way that I wasn't before. And it just
- 3:34Speaker 1: illustrates again he is somebody who, whether or not you
- 3:37Speaker 1: think he's going to end up being the face of
- 3:39Speaker 1: WWE and the guy who really runs the place. Clearly
- 3:43Speaker 1: they have him tad for big things. We've known this
- 3:46Speaker 1: for a while now. We've known this since the early
- 3:48Speaker 1: days of NXT two point zero. Right, he was the
- 3:50Speaker 1: hand picked one. He was the chosen one. Right. He's
- 3:52Speaker 1: a Steiner, It's in his blood. But I do think
- 3:56Speaker 1: that the more we get to hear from him in
- 3:58Speaker 1: these types of segments situations, the more that we will
- 4:03Speaker 1: see him as somebody who I think could be not
- 4:06Speaker 1: just the champion, but could be somebody who leads a
- 4:09Speaker 1: brand on his own, you know, as we look ahead
- 4:11Speaker 1: in the years to come. This is the sort of
- 4:13Speaker 1: promo that I was hoping to see. After he beat
- 4:17Speaker 1: the hell out of Seth Rollins and walked up to
- 4:20Speaker 1: Bronson Reed and said, you're either with me or you're
- 4:23Speaker 1: against me. And he walked up to Paul Hayman and
- 4:25Speaker 1: he said, you're either with me or you're against me.
- 4:29Speaker 1: And this is where I thought it was going to go,
- 4:31Speaker 1: where Bron would take more of a leadership role, he
- 4:34Speaker 1: would take more of an alpha male type of role
- 4:37Speaker 1: in the vision, and they didn't do that. You know,
- 4:40Speaker 1: he just became I mean, he didn't become anything. He
- 4:43Speaker 1: was just the same bron Breaker he was before, and
- 4:45Speaker 1: Paul Hayman was leading the charge, so he was being
- 4:48Speaker 1: more assertive here. He was just showing a side of
- 4:51Speaker 1: himself that I would like to see more of that
- 4:54Speaker 1: guy right there that we saw in the ring tonight.
- 4:56Speaker 1: That could be your world heavyweight champion. That's the guy
- 4:59Speaker 1: that I could buy into as being the top champion
- 5:01Speaker 1: here on this show. So I thought for him, it
- 5:05Speaker 1: was a great night, and I'm hoping, hoping that they
- 5:12Speaker 1: make the right decision when it comes time to choose
- 5:16Speaker 1: whether or not they are ready to put that championship
- 5:18Speaker 1: on him or not. I'm not even saying it's going
- 5:19Speaker 1: to happen on January fifth, but that's when the ball
- 5:23Speaker 1: is rolling down the hill. I don't know that that's
- 5:25Speaker 1: going to be the only match between those two. I'm
- 5:28Speaker 1: not saying there will be a title change or there
- 5:30Speaker 1: has to be a title change on that particular show,
- 5:33Speaker 1: although I would love to see it, but that you
- 5:36Speaker 1: talk about a vision, the vision that I have from
- 5:38Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw I'm moving into twenty twenty six, that
- 5:41Speaker 1: guy right there should be front and center. We talk
- 5:44Speaker 1: a lot about how the main events scene in WWE
- 5:46Speaker 1: is populated by a lot of older guys, guys that
- 5:49Speaker 1: have been around for many years, and they've been in
- 5:51Speaker 1: this position before, and it just it gets tiring after
- 5:54Speaker 1: a while. Right, They're all big names, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhades,
- 5:58Speaker 1: CM Punk. Right, they're all big names, so of course
- 6:00Speaker 1: you want them in the mix. But at some point
- 6:03Speaker 1: you also have to pull the trigger and say, okay,
- 6:05Speaker 1: it's time that we really put our muscle behind one
- 6:07Speaker 1: of these younger guys, one of these newer guys, so
- 6:11Speaker 1: it doesn't just feel like we're seeing the same faces
- 6:13Speaker 1: over and over again. You know, bron Breaker is part
- 6:16Speaker 1: of that vision, no pun intended. But we also know
- 6:20Speaker 1: who is going to be wrestling in the finals of
- 6:23Speaker 1: the John Cena Last Time Is Now Tournament. This tournament
- 6:27Speaker 1: has been very half assed from the very beginning, and
- 6:30Speaker 1: one of the few beacons of light in this entire
- 6:34Speaker 1: tournament has been Gunther. This man we didn't see him
- 6:37Speaker 1: since SummerSlam. He came back in this tournament and he
- 6:41Speaker 1: wrestled Javon Evans in Madison Square Garden and they had
- 6:46Speaker 1: my favorite match of the entire tournament, had a very
- 6:48Speaker 1: good match. And Gunther went in there last week against
- 6:52Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes and they had a very good match. And
- 6:56Speaker 1: then we saw Pentaget hurt and the whole of seeing
- 7:00Speaker 1: Gunther and Penta in the semi finals went up in smoke.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Although depending on who you believe, that match was never
- 7:05Speaker 1: planned to begin with, but regardless, we ended up with
- 7:08Speaker 1: Gunther against Solo Socoa and like you hear that, you
- 7:12Speaker 1: say guntherer and Solo Socoa, you know, in the semifinals.
- 7:16Speaker 1: It was kind of weird how tonight the two matches.
- 7:18Speaker 1: We had Babyface against Babyface and we had heel against heel,
- 7:22Speaker 1: and it's not an easy thing to work that dynamic,
- 7:24Speaker 1: especially heel against heel, but somehow these two made it work.
- 7:29Speaker 1: They found a way to make it work. Gunther and
- 7:32Speaker 1: Solo Socoa had a match tonight that far exceeded the
- 7:35Speaker 1: expectations that I had for it. And it was slow
- 7:38Speaker 1: to start. It took some time to really build the
- 7:40Speaker 1: fans really, you know, didn't have somebody, they didn't have
- 7:43Speaker 1: a dog in the fight. You know, they didn't really
- 7:45Speaker 1: have somebody to cheer for what it started. But by
- 7:48Speaker 1: the time it was over, these two guys went out
- 7:50Speaker 1: there and they had a really good match. And as
- 7:53Speaker 1: much credit as I give to Gun there, because he's
- 7:55Speaker 1: had nothing but bangers in this tournament so far, you
- 7:58Speaker 1: got to give credit to Solo to what we saw
- 8:00Speaker 1: out of him. I think in the ring tonight is
- 8:03Speaker 1: the kind of match that, honestly, I have not seen
- 8:05Speaker 1: out of him since he was doing the street fighter
- 8:08Speaker 1: gimmick in NXT. He was a babyface in NXT and
- 8:13Speaker 1: he has some really good matches down there. He just
- 8:16Speaker 1: had a different role when he got called up to
- 8:18Speaker 1: the main roster. He was the silent enforcer in the Bloodline,
- 8:21Speaker 1: so he never spoke, he wasn't wrestling all the time.
- 8:26Speaker 1: In that character. He was fine. He served his purpose
- 8:29Speaker 1: in that group. He was great. And then you know,
- 8:32Speaker 1: they obviously split him away from Roman and he formed
- 8:36Speaker 1: his own crew and now he's got the MFTs and
- 8:39Speaker 1: you see these, you know, little moments where he could
- 8:42Speaker 1: be very funny and he can be entertaining. You know
- 8:44Speaker 1: that he's got a personality there, but they have him
- 8:47Speaker 1: playing this role of, you know, the boss of the MFTs,
- 8:51Speaker 1: and it's a serious role and it's just fucking it's death.
- 8:55Speaker 1: It's death on the show. It's not a role that
- 8:58Speaker 1: really suits him. He's not the leader of a faction.
- 9:03Speaker 1: And it's one of the things about SmackDown, frankly that
- 9:05Speaker 1: is very boring on Friday nights, especially because they refuse
- 9:09Speaker 1: to actually flesh out and develop any of the other
- 9:12Speaker 1: characters in that group. And so long as they can
- 9:15Speaker 1: insist on not doing so, I'm going to continue to
- 9:17Speaker 1: trash them. But then we saw you know, kind of
- 9:20Speaker 1: flashes of the old Solo Socoa in the ring tonight,
- 9:23Speaker 1: which just showed you that, you know, depending on who
- 9:25Speaker 1: he's in the ring with, he can you know, go
- 9:26Speaker 1: in there and work with anybody else just as well
- 9:30Speaker 1: as anybody else. And they went out there and had
- 9:32Speaker 1: a really good match. So we'll get into what happened
- 9:34Speaker 1: there a little bit later. On the other night, of course,
- 9:36Speaker 1: was the other match was jay Uso against La Night,
- 9:40Speaker 1: and I know who I was rooting for in that match,
- 9:43Speaker 1: you know, Rakishi. I'm sure was glued to the TV
- 9:45Speaker 1: screen tonight, and he's probably not very happy that both
- 9:48Speaker 1: of his boys got bounced out of the tournament in
- 9:51Speaker 1: the same night. I'm sure he's not very happy about that.
- 9:56Speaker 1: We also had a real good main event until it
- 9:59Speaker 1: was ruined the Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss against Rheo
- 10:03Speaker 1: Ripley and EO Sky, and it was ruined by the
- 10:06Speaker 1: Kabuki Warriors, and we saw Bailey and Lyra get involved,
- 10:09Speaker 1: and the Judgment Day ladies got involved. What it was
- 10:13Speaker 1: was just shining a spotlight on the tag team division,
- 10:16Speaker 1: the women's tag team division. You had five teams out
- 10:18Speaker 1: there at the end of the show tonight, and there
- 10:22Speaker 1: really aren't many more than that. I mean, the only
- 10:24Speaker 1: other one I could think of might be the secret hervist,
- 10:28Speaker 1: so you'd be at most you have half a dozen teams.
- 10:31Speaker 1: But you saw all those women involved in the closing
- 10:33Speaker 1: segment tonight. They shined a spotlight on them. Live Morgan
- 10:38Speaker 1: was the final person that we saw before the show
- 10:41Speaker 1: faded to black tonight. Live Morgan is back. If you
- 10:44Speaker 1: didn't see Survivor series, she made her return. She helped
- 10:47Speaker 1: Dom win the Intercontinental title back from John Cena, and
- 10:51Speaker 1: it's great to have her back on the show. She
- 10:53Speaker 1: was one of the key characters on Monday nights. There
- 10:57Speaker 1: were a lot of different storyline possibilities with her and
- 11:00Speaker 1: Finn Balor, her and dom, her and Roxanne, and then
- 11:04Speaker 1: she got hurt, so they pulled her off television altogether.
- 11:07Speaker 1: So I was very curious when she came back, you know,
- 11:09Speaker 1: are they going to pick up where they left off
- 11:11Speaker 1: with the tension. There was this underlying tension with her
- 11:14Speaker 1: in Roxane Perez and there was I can't call it underlying.
- 11:18Speaker 1: It was pretty well out there, the tension between her
- 11:21Speaker 1: and Finn Balor. We got none of that on the
- 11:24Speaker 1: show tonight. All is well for the time being. All
- 11:27Speaker 1: as well in the ranks of the Judgment day and
- 11:30Speaker 1: liv Morgan appears to be the de facto leader of
- 11:33Speaker 1: this crew. That's how she acted tonight. So for the
- 11:36Speaker 1: time being anyway, everything's copasetic and there really wasn't a
- 11:39Speaker 1: whole lot of drama, which doesn't make for the best
- 11:43Speaker 1: television if everybody is getting along, But I guess they
- 11:47Speaker 1: wanted to have a fresh start. Live is back and
- 11:49Speaker 1: all is well for now for now, So when this
- 11:55Speaker 1: show was over. It felt like there was enough on
- 11:57Speaker 1: the show. I think too. I can't sit here and
- 11:59Speaker 1: say it was a bad show. Wasn't a bad show.
- 12:01Speaker 1: It was a good show. Wasn't an epic show. And
- 12:03Speaker 1: there's a lesson to be learned here. Don't throw around
- 12:06Speaker 1: words like that unless you actually have an epic show planned,
- 12:09Speaker 1: because people are gonna cling to that and they're gonna wonder, oh,
- 12:12Speaker 1: what does he mean by that? He wouldn't use that
- 12:15Speaker 1: word unless there was something big planned on the show.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I wonder who's gonna come back, or I wonder who's
- 12:19Speaker 1: going to debut? Or I wonder what kind of big,
- 12:21Speaker 1: shocking twist we're gonna have on the show. We didn't
- 12:24Speaker 1: have any of that tonight, but it doesn't take away
- 12:26Speaker 1: from the fact that I thought, overall it was a
- 12:28Speaker 1: good show. This is your raw on Netflix review. It
- 12:31Speaker 1: is the first day of December, December first, twenty twenty five.
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- 13:01Speaker 1: for the Survivor series review. Of course, Sunday was episode
- 13:05Speaker 1: nine of the sound off that dropped, and on the
- 13:09Speaker 1: podcast we talked more in depth about Survivor series. We
- 13:13Speaker 1: talked more about this news of Roman Reigns and Cody
- 13:17Speaker 1: Rhodes Part three supposedly reportedly being planned for WrestleMania next
- 13:24Speaker 1: year in Las Vegas. Not that that isn't a big match,
- 13:28Speaker 1: but I think that's a mistake. That segment is now
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- 13:48Speaker 1: a little bit later on here in the stream. Now,
- 13:53Speaker 1: let's talk about this show here the show open with
- 13:56Speaker 1: shots of the vision and other assorted stu arriving at
- 14:01Speaker 1: the building. Logan Paul was with Paul Hayman, bron Breaker,
- 14:04Speaker 1: and Bronson reed that was the first hint of wait
- 14:06Speaker 1: a minute, is this guy part of the vision or not?
- 14:09Speaker 1: It appears that he is. We got confirmation of that
- 14:12Speaker 1: later on in the show. They also showed the judgment
- 14:15Speaker 1: day out in the parking lot, all but Dominic and
- 14:18Speaker 1: Live Morgan. They arrived separately in a lowrider and liv
- 14:22Speaker 1: got out of the car and she was hugging Raquel
- 14:25Speaker 1: and JD McDonough and she just nodded at Roxane Perez
- 14:30Speaker 1: and she started talking to Finn Balor. But we couldn't
- 14:34Speaker 1: hear them. We can hear Joe tested to her, and
- 14:36Speaker 1: Wade bar we couldn't hear them. So Eosky and Rhea
- 14:39Speaker 1: Ripley they made their way out to the ring to
- 14:41Speaker 1: officially open things. Ripley said that they were a little
- 14:44Speaker 1: banged up after War Games. Attention attention to the siko
- 14:48Speaker 1: in row four. Look, I know you're excited to be
- 14:51Speaker 1: a dynamite tonight at your first show, but you can't
- 14:53Speaker 1: be pulling that thing out, Okay, you got to put
- 14:56Speaker 1: that away. Don't think I didn't see that sign that
- 14:59Speaker 1: you brought that sa I came to see aew, that's sick.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Thank you. It's always the little fuck triple h that
- 15:08Speaker 1: that gets me. There, almost almost got me to crack
- 15:11Speaker 1: retro koh, thank you, sir. So. Ripley said they were
- 15:16Speaker 1: a little banged up, but they won the war. She
- 15:20Speaker 1: said they managed to come out victorious despite them and
- 15:22Speaker 1: their teammates not all being on the same page. Ripley
- 15:26Speaker 1: said the war is not over though. She said that
- 15:28Speaker 1: she and EO want revenge and it would start by
- 15:31Speaker 1: taking the women's tag team titles away from the Kabookie Warriors.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So Ripley started to call out the champions, but she
- 15:39Speaker 1: was interrupted by Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, the former
- 15:44Speaker 1: tag team champions who made their way down to the ring.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Bliss wanted Rhea to pump the brakes on going after
- 15:51Speaker 1: the women's tag team titles because Charlotte and Alexa they
- 15:54Speaker 1: still owed a rematch, and Rhea invited them both to
- 15:58Speaker 1: get to the back of the line because they already
- 15:59Speaker 1: lost lost to Oscar and Kyrie. And of course this
- 16:03Speaker 1: all leads to Alexa challenging ria An Eo to a
- 16:06Speaker 1: match for tonight, and EO accepts and Joe Testitur says,
- 16:13Speaker 1: didn't see that coming? Really, have you been watching wrestling
- 16:20Speaker 1: for six months? You didn't see that coming. I saw
- 16:23Speaker 1: it coming the minute the fucking segment started. I saw
- 16:27Speaker 1: it coming the minute that Charlotte and Alexa made their
- 16:29Speaker 1: way to the ring. But apparently Joe tested Tour was
- 16:32Speaker 1: caught off guard by this challenge. So anyway, that was
- 16:35Speaker 1: our main event settled for tonight. So in the opening
- 16:37Speaker 1: minute of the show, they established what the main event
- 16:40Speaker 1: was going to be, not much more to it. From there,
- 16:43Speaker 1: they cut to the back where Adam Pearce was confronted
- 16:46Speaker 1: outside of his office by Paul Hayman and bron Breaker.
- 16:52Speaker 1: And actually before actually before that, I completely missed iv
- 16:55Speaker 1: and Isle. Can you blame me? This woman hasn't been
- 16:57Speaker 1: on the show in a hot minute. This was her
- 17:00Speaker 1: second appearance on Raw in the last few weeks, and
- 17:02Speaker 1: that's after how many months of not being on this show.
- 17:05Speaker 1: So before Paul Hayman and bron Breaker came in, Ivy Nile,
- 17:09Speaker 1: she was the first one to confront Adam Pierce and
- 17:12Speaker 1: she wanted. She demanded a title shot against Maxine Duprie.
- 17:16Speaker 1: She says she deserved it, and Pierce was like, you
- 17:19Speaker 1: deserve it now Again, this is a woman who prior
- 17:24Speaker 1: to was it last week that was her legitimate first
- 17:27Speaker 1: appearance in any kind of segment on this show in months.
- 17:33Speaker 1: This is a woman here in Ivy Nile, who last
- 17:35Speaker 1: wrestled on this show in June. But she's here saying
- 17:41Speaker 1: she deserves a shot because Maxine Dupree has never beaten
- 17:45Speaker 1: her before. In all the previous matches they've had, probably
- 17:48Speaker 1: all those main event matches, Maxine has never beaten her.
- 17:53Speaker 1: And evidently this is a fairly convincing argument to Adam Pierce,
- 17:58Speaker 1: who said that he would look into making that match happen. Now.
- 18:02Speaker 1: After Ivy left, that's when we got Paul Hayman and
- 18:04Speaker 1: bron Breaker. They walked up. Hayman played ignorance because Pierce
- 18:09Speaker 1: wanted to know about the mystery man from Wargames back
- 18:13Speaker 1: on Saturday. Yeah, z Ray says, I forgot Ivy Nila
- 18:16Speaker 1: was even on the show. I forgot I even wrote
- 18:20Speaker 1: her name in my notes. I almost skipped over her completely.
- 18:24Speaker 1: What does that tell you? So he wants to know
- 18:29Speaker 1: more about this mystery man Hayman. Of course, he played
- 18:34Speaker 1: ignorance as to who this person was and he would
- 18:38Speaker 1: rather discuss the implications of bron Breaker pinning CM Punk,
- 18:41Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight Champion to win Wargames on Saturday. So
- 18:45Speaker 1: they took the meeting into Pierce's office to further discuss things,
- 18:50Speaker 1: and then they also casually mentioned on commentary after this
- 18:53Speaker 1: that CM Punk was not medically cleared to wrestle after Wargames. Now,
- 18:58Speaker 1: I'm sure that's part of the storyline. He wasn't meant
- 19:02Speaker 1: to be on the show tonight, I'm assuming, or maybe
- 19:05Speaker 1: he is legitimately banged up. See, this is the problem
- 19:08Speaker 1: when you have a forty seven year old that you
- 19:10Speaker 1: have starting war Games that goes forty minutes. Although granted
- 19:14Speaker 1: he probably did a lot of laying around during the match,
- 19:17Speaker 1: but I was surprised when I saw him out there
- 19:19Speaker 1: honestly opening the fucking match on Saturday. So we didn't
- 19:23Speaker 1: see CM Punk on the show tonight. We had our
- 19:26Speaker 1: first of two semi final matches. Indeed, John Cena Last
- 19:31Speaker 1: Time is Now tournament with main event jay Usso one
- 19:35Speaker 1: on one against La Knight USO hit a suicide dive
- 19:40Speaker 1: out on Tonight on the floor and they cut to
- 19:43Speaker 1: an early commercial. There was a spot here in this
- 19:46Speaker 1: match where Knight sent Jay out of the ring and
- 19:50Speaker 1: he set up you know this now, La and everyone
- 19:53Speaker 1: has their moves that they do La Knight. You know,
- 19:55Speaker 1: he's got that running charge into the corner where he'll
- 19:58Speaker 1: jump up and hit a super plag he's got the
- 20:01Speaker 1: leaping standing elbow drop, but he's also got that running
- 20:06Speaker 1: basement dropkick, that low dropkick through the ropes and he
- 20:09Speaker 1: lands on his feet outside the ring. So he was
- 20:12Speaker 1: setting up for that because Jay was sent outside of
- 20:16Speaker 1: the ring. The problem is Jay was out of position.
- 20:19Speaker 1: He was sucking wind over by the announced desk. So
- 20:23Speaker 1: La Knight is standing, i mean on the far side
- 20:27Speaker 1: of the ring and he's looking at Jane. He sees
- 20:30Speaker 1: that j is not in position, and you can audibly
- 20:33Speaker 1: hear him. You can audibly hear La Knight saying closer,
- 20:37Speaker 1: get closer, closer. So Jay got a little bit closer,
- 20:42Speaker 1: but he didn't get close enough. So when La Knight
- 20:45Speaker 1: came through the ropes for the dropkick, he barely grazed Jay,
- 20:49Speaker 1: so like it did not look good, So Jy fought
- 20:52Speaker 1: his way out of a superplex attempt. Back inside the ring,
- 20:56Speaker 1: both men exchange punches and then they each tumbled off
- 20:59Speaker 1: the ropes la Knight fell off the ropes on one side,
- 21:02Speaker 1: Jay fell off the ropes on the other. They both
- 21:04Speaker 1: landed on the floor and so now the referee administers
- 21:07Speaker 1: the count. They both made it back inside. Knight hit
- 21:11Speaker 1: a burning hammer for a near fall. Jay landed a
- 21:15Speaker 1: spear after this Night kicked out it too. Jay went
- 21:19Speaker 1: to the top and Knight popped up and he was
- 21:21Speaker 1: going to go for that leaping superplex spot in the corner,
- 21:25Speaker 1: but he slipped, had a little slip. He didn't slip
- 21:29Speaker 1: and fall on his ass like brock Lesnar did last week,
- 21:32Speaker 1: but he slipped momentarily and then he readjusted and recovered
- 21:36Speaker 1: from that hit the superplex. After landing the superplex, Jay
- 21:41Speaker 1: is pounding the mat like angrily pounding the mat. I
- 21:45Speaker 1: assume he was just selling unless he really got hurt
- 21:48Speaker 1: on the move and wasn't happy about something. But he
- 21:51Speaker 1: starts pounding on the mat. Knight covers him only gets
- 21:55Speaker 1: a near fall, So Jay comes back with another spear
- 21:58Speaker 1: and he heads up top for an USSO, and he
- 22:00Speaker 1: had the match won at that point, but he covered
- 22:04Speaker 1: La Knight in a way where he covered him with
- 22:07Speaker 1: his back, which you never do. You don't do that,
- 22:11Speaker 1: you give the guy your back. So naturally, before the
- 22:15Speaker 1: referee could count three, La Knight hooks him over into
- 22:19Speaker 1: a crucifix and he gets the flash pin. And I'm
- 22:22Speaker 1: just sitting here watching this and I'm just going, thank God,
- 22:25Speaker 1: Yew Xavier Woods on Raw every week like that's the
- 22:29Speaker 1: New Day punchline. Thank God for the New Day. Right,
- 22:34Speaker 1: I'm watching this going, thank God, we actually got the
- 22:37Speaker 1: right decision here in this match. Now, that doesn't matter.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Let's just be honest, Okay, let's just be honest about
- 22:42Speaker 1: the whole thing here. It doesn't matter who won this match,
- 22:47Speaker 1: because whoever wins this match is just going to smack
- 22:51Speaker 1: Down on Friday and losing to Gunther. Okay, you know it,
- 22:55Speaker 1: I know it. La Knight knows it, jay Uso knew it,
- 22:59Speaker 1: we all know it. But I had no appetite for
- 23:03Speaker 1: another gun through j Uso match. We've had enough of
- 23:06Speaker 1: those this year. We had them last year too for
- 23:09Speaker 1: the Intercontinental title, and then that bled over into this
- 23:13Speaker 1: year for the world heavyweight title. We don't need another
- 23:16Speaker 1: gun Through j Uso match, so thankfully we are not
- 23:21Speaker 1: getting one, because if we had gun Through and Jay
- 23:23Speaker 1: Uso in the finals of this tournament, I would have
- 23:25Speaker 1: banged my head against this wall. At Least gun Through
- 23:29Speaker 1: in La Night is something different. We know the outcome,
- 23:32Speaker 1: but at least it's something different. So thankfully we got
- 23:35Speaker 1: the right result here. It doesn't change anything. We all
- 23:38Speaker 1: know how this tournament is going to end, still going
- 23:41Speaker 1: to be gun there at Saturday Night's main event going
- 23:43Speaker 1: in there against John Cena. How sad is it that
- 23:47Speaker 1: I have to sit here and consider this a mild upset?
- 23:50Speaker 1: I do. I consider this a mild upset that La
- 23:54Speaker 1: Knight actually beat Jay Uso. It just it says a
- 23:57Speaker 1: lot about the state of La Knight over the last
- 23:59Speaker 1: few months that I would even think like that and
- 24:02Speaker 1: consider it any kind of upset. After the match was over,
- 24:07Speaker 1: Jay sitting in the corner and he looked and they
- 24:09Speaker 1: stopped the music, so you know something's going to happen, right,
- 24:15Speaker 1: And Jay's sitting there and he's very despondent. Crowds giving
- 24:19Speaker 1: him some polite applause as he rolls out to the
- 24:22Speaker 1: floor over by the announcers, and he's just sort of
- 24:25Speaker 1: pacing around for a little bit, and I'm like, all right,
- 24:27Speaker 1: where is this going? Like what are we doing here?
- 24:30Speaker 1: And then finally he overturns the Prime hydration station. He's
- 24:34Speaker 1: throwing the Prime stand around. He grabs the ring steps
- 24:39Speaker 1: and he throws the ring steps down. He was doing
- 24:41Speaker 1: his best Brett Hart impersonation from after the match of
- 24:45Speaker 1: Montreal at Survivor Series, where he just started wrecking shit
- 24:49Speaker 1: all around ringside. The only thing Jay didn't do. He
- 24:52Speaker 1: didn't destroy monitors the way that Brett did. But basically
- 24:56Speaker 1: he was throwing a fit. He was having a meltdown here.
- 25:01Speaker 1: And then he left. Then he went to the back
- 25:03Speaker 1: and he looked very angry. He was seething as he
- 25:06Speaker 1: walked to the back, and I thought he might even
- 25:08Speaker 1: attack the announcers or something. I mean, they were they
- 25:12Speaker 1: kept the camera on him for so long and I
- 25:13Speaker 1: was waiting for something to happen that I thought, Okay,
- 25:16Speaker 1: he's going to do something. Heelish he's going to attack somebody,
- 25:21Speaker 1: and maybe he is going to go heal right, or
- 25:23Speaker 1: they're going to tease that he's going heel That's kind
- 25:25Speaker 1: of what it felt like here, But I mean he
- 25:27Speaker 1: didn't do anything heelish. He was just blowing off some steam.
- 25:29Speaker 1: He was very upset. The baby Faces are coming off
- 25:32Speaker 1: a loss right in War Games on Saturday, and so
- 25:36Speaker 1: here he lost again and I suppose it could end
- 25:41Speaker 1: up being a heel turn. We got another segment with
- 25:44Speaker 1: him later in the show. I don't think it's a
- 25:46Speaker 1: heel turn. Look, I'll say this, I am all in
- 25:49Speaker 1: favor of some sort of character development with Jay Ussel
- 25:55Speaker 1: other than him just being the guy who comes at
- 25:57Speaker 1: and yeats, because it's very clear from watching him in
- 26:01Speaker 1: the ring, like there's nothing about his in ring style,
- 26:04Speaker 1: Like he does what he does. He's got his big
- 26:07Speaker 1: moves that he does and that's never gonna change. Like
- 26:10Speaker 1: he's not trying to incorporate new moves or new things
- 26:14Speaker 1: into his routine. Even fucking John Cena. Go back ten
- 26:18Speaker 1: years ago, John Cena was throwing in standing ranas and
- 26:22Speaker 1: shit that he was trying in his matches because people
- 26:24Speaker 1: always made fun of him for having the same five moves.
- 26:27Speaker 1: So Seene is like, I'll show you. Then I said, like, okay,
- 26:31Speaker 1: he's still not the best wrestler in the world. But
- 26:33Speaker 1: you know what, I give the guy credit for at
- 26:35Speaker 1: least trying some new stuff. You're never gonna get that
- 26:37Speaker 1: with jay Uso, all right, You're just not. What you
- 26:39Speaker 1: see is what you get. So the best you can
- 26:42Speaker 1: hope for is that they at least try to develop
- 26:45Speaker 1: this character in some way that's interesting. And I hope
- 26:49Speaker 1: that's what they do with him. It's still too early
- 26:51Speaker 1: to tell exactly where this is gonna go. He's gonna
- 26:54Speaker 1: be more of a tweeener. Is he going to abandon
- 26:56Speaker 1: the yeat stuff. I don't think he will because they
- 26:58Speaker 1: love it, those drone shots and those crowd shots. Look
- 27:02Speaker 1: at Survivor series. The guy is sitting on top of
- 27:05Speaker 1: the of the steel cage, assaulting the cage and dry
- 27:09Speaker 1: humping the cage, and they have this aerial shot of
- 27:12Speaker 1: you know, forty something thousand people in the crowd yeating
- 27:15Speaker 1: in the middle of war games. Right. They love this shit.
- 27:18Speaker 1: So that's not going to go away. That's why they
- 27:20Speaker 1: can't turn him heal, but any kind of character development,
- 27:25Speaker 1: because he's just he's stuck in this rut where I'm
- 27:27Speaker 1: not saying he's not popular. I'm just telling you that
- 27:30Speaker 1: as a viewer, I watch jay Usa on TV and
- 27:35Speaker 1: I'm bored. I'm like, there's not much to what we
- 27:38Speaker 1: are seeing here, so anything you could do is a
- 27:43Speaker 1: welcome change. Let's see where they take this. I think
- 27:47Speaker 1: it's a positive step that they're at least doing something
- 27:50Speaker 1: different with him. I want to see more of that.
- 27:55Speaker 1: At backstage. Bailey and Lyra Valkyria, Oh that's right, yea,
- 28:00Speaker 1: how can I forget? John Cena also did a code red. Yes,
- 28:04Speaker 1: actually a pretty good code read. You do know that.
- 28:10Speaker 1: To be fair, when you do the code red, a
- 28:12Speaker 1: lot of it really is your opponent. I just be honest.
- 28:15Speaker 1: But still, he did learn it. You do make a
- 28:17Speaker 1: good point. He did learn that move as well any
- 28:20Speaker 1: other moves that Sina started doing that I'm forgetting. I
- 28:24Speaker 1: just remember he learned a few new moves and people
- 28:26Speaker 1: lost their minds. They're like, oh, man, John Cena learn
- 28:28Speaker 1: a new move. You're never going to see that with
- 28:32Speaker 1: jay USO. You're just not. Bailey and Lyra Vlkirie. They're
- 28:38Speaker 1: in the back talking to Adam Pierce about getting back
- 28:40Speaker 1: in the women's tag team title picture. Pierce asked Bailey
- 28:43Speaker 1: if she was in the right headspace, which Bailey am
- 28:47Speaker 1: I talking to? By the way, whatever happened to that?
- 28:50Speaker 1: It feels like they've completely abandoned the whole split personality
- 28:53Speaker 1: thing with Bailey. There's been nothing new on that in
- 28:58Speaker 1: weeks and weeks and weeks. Have they just completely set
- 29:03Speaker 1: that character to the side. That's what it feels like
- 29:06Speaker 1: to me. I mean, part of it was a little goofy,
- 29:09Speaker 1: but like they were trying something with her and then
- 29:11Speaker 1: they just sort of dropped it cold. There's been no
- 29:15Speaker 1: character development, speaking of which character development with her in
- 29:19Speaker 1: like over a month. Apparently she was in the right
- 29:24Speaker 1: headspace tonight, so Valkyrius said that she was doing well
- 29:28Speaker 1: most of the time. Pierce said that he would consider
- 29:31Speaker 1: them for a shot. After he left, Oscar and Kyrie
- 29:34Speaker 1: Saine showed up, and Oscar said that her Wargames team
- 29:37Speaker 1: could have won the match had Bailey agreed to join them.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Bailey called them idiots. Oscar said, Bailey is nothing. Meanwhile,
- 29:47Speaker 1: look at you and look who's in the main event tonite.
- 29:50Speaker 1: She said, Charlotte Flair is in the main event tonight
- 29:54Speaker 1: and you are not. So Oscar leaves. Kyrie then presents
- 29:59Speaker 1: ba with that green chain that she came out to
- 30:02Speaker 1: the ring with at Wargames. She presents her with the
- 30:06Speaker 1: chain and she gently places it around her neck before
- 30:09Speaker 1: being yelled at by Osca off camera. Yeah, I hit
- 30:13Speaker 1: the wrong sound bite, as you can hear La Knight
- 30:18Speaker 1: in the background. Go yeah, La Knight was there too.
- 30:21Speaker 1: You didn't hear him, but I did. See. I bet
- 30:23Speaker 1: you didn't hear him there. But then let's pretend that
- 30:25Speaker 1: he was there. So yes, you heard Kyrie. And then
- 30:28Speaker 1: off went Kyrie and that was the end of the segment.
- 30:30Speaker 1: See the wrestlers aren't the only ones you watch. I
- 30:34Speaker 1: batched too sometimes, but see I could play it off
- 30:37Speaker 1: like brock Lesnar did last week. Dominic Mysterio, let's move
- 30:42Speaker 1: on here. Dominic Mysterio was out to the ring next
- 30:46Speaker 1: with all the members of the Judgment Day all except
- 30:49Speaker 1: Live Morgan to address the crowd after regaining his Intercontinental
- 30:55Speaker 1: title from John Cena, the biggest win of his career
- 31:00Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. See thank you, JP. JP Reckless says, yeah,
- 31:04Speaker 1: I heard him too. See I'm telling you you didn't
- 31:06Speaker 1: hear it, but La Knight was in the background. See
- 31:10Speaker 1: I didn't watch nothing. Oscar Oscar shouting, Oscar shouting yeah,
- 31:19Speaker 1: that would be great. Let's just have them flip rolls.
- 31:22Speaker 1: We'll have Oscar shout yeah, and then La Knight can
- 31:25Speaker 1: just screing for Kyrie. I think that'd be awesome. Dominic
- 31:31Speaker 1: said that John Cena is the greatest of all time,
- 31:35Speaker 1: but he just beat the greatest of all time, So
- 31:37Speaker 1: that makes him the greatest mysterio of all time. That
- 31:40Speaker 1: makes him the greatest luchador of all time, and that
- 31:44Speaker 1: makes him once again the greatest intercontinental champion of all time.
- 31:50Speaker 1: But he could not have done it without his boys
- 31:52Speaker 1: JD and Finnbalor and of course Rock Sand and Raquel.
- 31:57Speaker 1: But there's one person in particular that he most deaf,
- 32:00Speaker 1: definitely could not have done it without. Please welcome Live Morgan.
- 32:07Speaker 1: So she got her own entrance and she comes down
- 32:10Speaker 1: to the ring and she's very happy to be back.
- 32:12Speaker 1: She says she's here to right the ship with the
- 32:16Speaker 1: Judgment Day who have been losing titles. And we got
- 32:19Speaker 1: a close up of Finn Balor looking disappointed. She said,
- 32:22Speaker 1: as of right now, the Judgment Day once again officially
- 32:25Speaker 1: runs Monday night. Raw. Oh and Dominic one more thing,
- 32:32Speaker 1: and she slaps him across the face, which is what
- 32:35Speaker 1: she did on Saturday, by the way, that was all
- 32:38Speaker 1: part of the swerve. So she slaps Dominic in the
- 32:43Speaker 1: face again here. Then she jumps up in his arms
- 32:47Speaker 1: and she rubs noses with him, and she kisses him
- 32:49Speaker 1: on the cheek. Oh my, it's one of those relationships.
- 32:55Speaker 1: I see, I see how it is. I'm not judging
- 32:59Speaker 1: good for him, but they got one of those relationships
- 33:03Speaker 1: going on. Look, I don't expect them to give everything
- 33:06Speaker 1: away here. I don't expect them to give everything away
- 33:08Speaker 1: in one week. But I was watching Finn Balor, and
- 33:12Speaker 1: I was watching Rock Sande in particular out there, and
- 33:15Speaker 1: I was waiting for even just a hint of something,
- 33:18Speaker 1: some sort of sneer or a negative reaction or a
- 33:23Speaker 1: look or a nod or something, and there was nothing.
- 33:28Speaker 1: This was as straightforward as it gets. Live is back.
- 33:34Speaker 1: The family is all on the same page. It's all
- 33:36Speaker 1: smiles and rainbows and unicorns, and the Judgment Day is
- 33:41Speaker 1: one well oiled machine. They're one big, happy family, and
- 33:45Speaker 1: that makes for boring television. But they're gonna take their
- 33:50Speaker 1: time telling the story. Live just came back, and I
- 33:53Speaker 1: don't really have an issue with that. I'm just saying
- 33:55Speaker 1: in the moment, I was disappointed because I was hoping
- 33:59Speaker 1: there would be a hint something, But right now they're
- 34:02Speaker 1: playing it as everyone's on the same page right until
- 34:05Speaker 1: they're not. And whether it's next week, whether it's a
- 34:09Speaker 1: month from now, we all know things will break down
- 34:12Speaker 1: at some point, and whether it's drama with Live and
- 34:16Speaker 1: Valor or Live in Roxanne, like, it will happen. But
- 34:20Speaker 1: it's almost like we're starting all over again, and the
- 34:24Speaker 1: Judgment Day is going to be the dominant group. I mean,
- 34:27Speaker 1: you have the Vision obviously, but the Judgment Day gets
- 34:30Speaker 1: more television time than the Vision does. I don't see
- 34:32Speaker 1: that changing. That's been the case for the last two
- 34:34Speaker 1: and a half years. There is no group in this
- 34:37Speaker 1: company outside of the Bloodline over the last five years
- 34:40Speaker 1: that has gotten more television time than the Judgment Day.
- 34:44Speaker 1: I mean, they are in multiple segments every single week
- 34:46Speaker 1: on these shows, and now that Live Morgan is back,
- 34:48Speaker 1: it's going to be more of the same. So you
- 34:52Speaker 1: just kind of get to a point where it's like,
- 34:54Speaker 1: how do you begin to differentiate these segments and kind
- 34:58Speaker 1: of make them interesting? And these things along where Yeah,
- 35:02Speaker 1: you drop those little breadcrumbs of oh there's a little
- 35:04Speaker 1: dissension here, or oh that comment that she made behind
- 35:07Speaker 1: his back, or you know, whatever it may be, And
- 35:09Speaker 1: it really does feel like we're just kind of starting
- 35:11Speaker 1: all over again and pushing the reset button. So there
- 35:14Speaker 1: wasn't much more to the segment. That's pretty much what
- 35:18Speaker 1: we got, not the last time we would see live
- 35:21Speaker 1: though on the show. We got a training vignette after
- 35:26Speaker 1: this for Maxine Dupree, who of course is the new
- 35:31Speaker 1: Intercontinental champion. But in this vignette which was shot, it
- 35:36Speaker 1: was very gritty, kind of grainy and gritty the way
- 35:38Speaker 1: they shot this. She was shown training and getting her
- 35:42Speaker 1: ass handed to her by Natalia, presumably in the dungeon,
- 35:47Speaker 1: and she took out her first opponent with an ankle lock.
- 35:51Speaker 1: But then she and Natty went at it and it
- 35:53Speaker 1: was not going well for Maxine, and Natty locked on
- 35:56Speaker 1: the sharpshooter and then she slapped Maxine down and told
- 36:00Speaker 1: her get out of her ring. Maxine fights back to
- 36:03Speaker 1: her feet, right, it is like something out of a
- 36:06Speaker 1: fucking movie. Actually's like struggling to get back to her feet.
- 36:09Speaker 1: She's all sweaty and beat up, and she gets back
- 36:12Speaker 1: to her feet and she yells again, and we got
- 36:17Speaker 1: a shot of Natty. They didn't actually show you Natty's
- 36:20Speaker 1: face until the very end. You can kind of see
- 36:22Speaker 1: her through some of the blurry shots, but then at
- 36:25Speaker 1: the very end you saw it was Natty and she smiles.
- 36:29Speaker 1: It's weird to me. I'm sorry, it's just it's weird
- 36:33Speaker 1: to see something like this after she won the title.
- 36:38Speaker 1: I feel like this is the sort of segment that
- 36:41Speaker 1: we should have seen in the build up to her
- 36:43Speaker 1: winning the championship. Remember that segment on Raw like a
- 36:46Speaker 1: month ago where she told Adam Peters was like, you've
- 36:49Speaker 1: earned the right to challenge Becky Lynch for the intercontinental title.
- 36:52Speaker 1: You've beaten her by count out, you've beaten her by disqualification,
- 36:56Speaker 1: You've burned your shot. And do you remember Maxine's response,
- 37:00Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I think I'm going to call
- 37:03Speaker 1: a friend. I'm not quite ready yet. I'll let you
- 37:07Speaker 1: know when i'm ready, which was kind of weird in
- 37:09Speaker 1: and of itself. That's when these types of vignettes you
- 37:13Speaker 1: would expect them to be running. And then she wins
- 37:16Speaker 1: the championship, so it felt a little backwards to be
- 37:20Speaker 1: getting this. Now that being said, I liked it. It's
- 37:23Speaker 1: the sort of character development that I think Maxine needs,
- 37:28Speaker 1: and it would also be nice to see more of
- 37:31Speaker 1: blood Sport Natty on TV. My only reservation about doing
- 37:35Speaker 1: this kind of Bloodsport version of Natty on television, which
- 37:39Speaker 1: we saw glimpses of here in this segment, is that
- 37:42Speaker 1: you're never gonna get Bloodsport Natty on WWE television. You're
- 37:45Speaker 1: never gonna get it right. She may change her gears,
- 37:49Speaker 1: she may change her music, she may change aspects of
- 37:51Speaker 1: her character. They're never gonna They're never gonna let her
- 37:54Speaker 1: go out there and be the version of herself that
- 37:58Speaker 1: we see in Bloodsport or when she's worked some of
- 38:01Speaker 1: these independent shows. It'll be like a water down version.
- 38:04Speaker 1: She's never going to get a serious push ever again
- 38:07Speaker 1: in this company. So like, do I want to see it? Am?
- 38:11Speaker 1: I okay with seeing a watered down version of it?
- 38:14Speaker 1: Not really, it would be cool. I mean, you talk
- 38:17Speaker 1: about somebody who could use a character over Paul or
- 38:20Speaker 1: a character makeover on this show, but she's not the
- 38:24Speaker 1: priority right now. The priority is Maxine and doing everything
- 38:27Speaker 1: you can to get Maxine over. So this may be
- 38:30Speaker 1: the closest we get to blood Sport Natty ONWWE television.
- 38:34Speaker 1: But I like this segment, and I would think that
- 38:36Speaker 1: we're going to get more of them, maybe, I don't know,
- 38:38Speaker 1: a few more over the next few weeks, but building
- 38:42Speaker 1: to what like she's already won the title. It's kind
- 38:47Speaker 1: of strange. Adam Pierce was backstage and he summoned one
- 38:52Speaker 1: of the referees over. He summoned over New York Mets
- 38:55Speaker 1: fan Eddie Orango over for a chat. Eddie, you know,
- 39:01Speaker 1: I've been hearing all this chatter about people claiming they
- 39:05Speaker 1: saw Seth Rollins last night or Saturday night backstage at
- 39:10Speaker 1: Survivor series, and his arm wasn't in a sling, you know,
- 39:14Speaker 1: people thinking he might have been the mystery man in
- 39:16Speaker 1: war Games. And he asks Eddie to discreetly poke around
- 39:24Speaker 1: and find out what he can about these rumors, because
- 39:28Speaker 1: he's hearing all sorts of things, right, He's hearing from
- 39:30Speaker 1: his own medical team that it's impossible, it cannot be
- 39:33Speaker 1: sad he had surgery. There's no way he can climb
- 39:36Speaker 1: in and out of the cage like that. But then
- 39:39Speaker 1: other people insist that they saw him and he didn't
- 39:41Speaker 1: have the sling on and he looked fine. So he's
- 39:44Speaker 1: asking the referee to basically be a be a narc
- 39:48Speaker 1: and go gather information about whether or not this is
- 39:54Speaker 1: true and what he's hearing, and then report back to him.
- 39:56Speaker 1: That's basically the point. Gather as much dirt as you
- 39:59Speaker 1: can and then get back to me is what he's
- 40:02Speaker 1: trying to do here. And I love this because he's
- 40:05Speaker 1: asking this referee on camera in front of millions of people,
- 40:09Speaker 1: including all the people in the locker room. Hey, this
- 40:12Speaker 1: is between you and me, all right. I want you
- 40:14Speaker 1: to go ahead and just gather up as much dirt
- 40:16Speaker 1: as you can and then report back to me, but
- 40:18Speaker 1: be very discreet about it. I don't want people to
- 40:19Speaker 1: know what's going on. They're not going to talk to
- 40:21Speaker 1: me because I'm the boss, but maybe they'll talk to you.
- 40:26Speaker 1: And I get that it's a television show. But like
- 40:29Speaker 1: right after this, like Joe Tessitour is addressing this, so
- 40:33Speaker 1: like they clearly saw it. It's not like the thing
- 40:36Speaker 1: about like Luca anderw It makes me think of Luca Underground.
- 40:39Speaker 1: Luca Underground would have these cinematic vignettes and these behind
- 40:43Speaker 1: the scenes like backstage segments, and it's like they were
- 40:47Speaker 1: in their own little universe where we could see it, right,
- 40:50Speaker 1: but it was a television show and it's just sort
- 40:52Speaker 1: of happening, And they would cut back into the Temple
- 40:55Speaker 1: as they called it, and the announcers never acknowledged anything
- 40:58Speaker 1: that ever happened in those sects vice because it's like
- 41:01Speaker 1: they never saw them. It's like they just existed for
- 41:05Speaker 1: us and nobody else. Like you never heard Matt Striker
- 41:08Speaker 1: and Vampiro mention anything coming out of a backstage segment
- 41:12Speaker 1: or a cinematic like vignette, but here it's like they
- 41:15Speaker 1: come back in Joe Tesitor just talking about it. I'm like, okay, well,
- 41:19Speaker 1: I guess everybody else in the locker room probably saw
- 41:21Speaker 1: what he just said too, Like, what the fuck? What
- 41:23Speaker 1: are we doing here? Is just so goofy well, I whatever, though,
- 41:28Speaker 1: I mean, it's again I'm picking knits here, but still
- 41:30Speaker 1: I just thought it was silly. So we had aj
- 41:34Speaker 1: Styles and we had Dragon Lee aj Lee defending the
- 41:40Speaker 1: world tag team titles against Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods,
- 41:43Speaker 1: and there was not much of a reaction for either
- 41:46Speaker 1: one of these teams during the in ring introductions, including
- 41:48Speaker 1: AJ and Dragon Lee, which was kind of surprising. New
- 41:52Speaker 1: Day jumped AJ before the bell. Dragon Lee got the
- 41:55Speaker 1: tag and he took Kofi Kingston down with a step
- 41:57Speaker 1: up rana and then he jumped over the ropes in
- 42:01Speaker 1: one fluid motion and he was able to snag Xavier
- 42:05Speaker 1: Woods off the apron so over the top rana sent
- 42:09Speaker 1: him to the floor. After a break, AJ Styles got
- 42:12Speaker 1: the hot tag. Yes, the hot tag so during the
- 42:15Speaker 1: commercial break is when the Heels got all the heat
- 42:18Speaker 1: on Dragon Lee. By the time they came back. AJ
- 42:21Speaker 1: got the hot tag, but he fell victim to a
- 42:24Speaker 1: double team. Woods held Styles open for a leg drop
- 42:27Speaker 1: from Kofe. Styles ended up getting a calf crusher lockdown,
- 42:31Speaker 1: but Woods made the save. Kofe got a near fall
- 42:34Speaker 1: with a roll up while holding the tights. Styles sent
- 42:37Speaker 1: Kingston into a sit out power bomb from Dragon Lee
- 42:40Speaker 1: for a near fall. Woods hit Styles with a superkick
- 42:43Speaker 1: and then hung up Dragon Lee in the ropes or
- 42:46Speaker 1: in the corner rather. Kofe then dove in with a
- 42:49Speaker 1: dropkick to Dragon Lee and then came the finish, and
- 42:53Speaker 1: the finish of this match was awesome finish of this
- 42:57Speaker 1: match was great. Styles got Kingston hung up in the ropes,
- 43:00Speaker 1: you know, like draped over the top rope. Dragon Lee
- 43:03Speaker 1: at that point jumped off the top with a double
- 43:06Speaker 1: stomp to Kofe's back, and this is all Kofe. Kofe
- 43:12Speaker 1: then bounced himself and the best thing I can compare
- 43:16Speaker 1: it to was years ago on Raw one of the
- 43:19Speaker 1: best finishes you'll ever see. Ricochet was also draped over
- 43:23Speaker 1: the top rope, almost positive it was Ricochet, and he
- 43:28Speaker 1: ended up bouncing off the ropes right into a picture
- 43:31Speaker 1: perfect styles clash. That's basically what this was. But after
- 43:37Speaker 1: the double stomp is when he bounced off the ropes,
- 43:40Speaker 1: AJ caught him in perfect position for a styles clash,
- 43:43Speaker 1: but not before pointing to his partner and giving the
- 43:46Speaker 1: high sign for Dragon Lee to sail over the top
- 43:49Speaker 1: rope with a dive out onto Xavier Woods and then
- 43:52Speaker 1: Styles finished off Kofe Kingston with a styles clash and
- 43:56Speaker 1: they retained the titles. So that finish got over great.
- 44:00Speaker 1: You talk about I mean a crowd that maybe was
- 44:02Speaker 1: not as into the match early on, they love that finish.
- 44:06Speaker 1: I mean that woke them the fuck up. Not that
- 44:09Speaker 1: they were sleeping, But like that got the reaction that
- 44:13Speaker 1: I'm sure they were hoping for, and they replayed it
- 44:16Speaker 1: and it was great. So for a team that hasn't
- 44:20Speaker 1: been together, you know, for more than what half a
- 44:21Speaker 1: dozen matches, I think they said Styles and Lee they
- 44:25Speaker 1: make a hell of a team. I'm sad that AJ
- 44:28Speaker 1: is hanging it up next year. I mean, I get
- 44:30Speaker 1: what he says when he talks about why he's retiring
- 44:33Speaker 1: next year. I'm sure he's feeling beat up, but he
- 44:36Speaker 1: just doesn't want to go too long where he feels
- 44:40Speaker 1: like he's not able to be the Aj Styles that
- 44:43Speaker 1: people remember, right. I've heard other people like Steve Austin
- 44:47Speaker 1: say that where I don't want people to remember me
- 44:50Speaker 1: as less than Undertakers said that. Unfortunately for Undertaker was
- 44:57Speaker 1: it was too late because there were many times watching
- 45:00Speaker 1: the Undertaker in his later years where I felt like, man,
- 45:02Speaker 1: this guy should not be in the ring anymore. But
- 45:05Speaker 1: like during his documentary he made that comment about it,
- 45:08Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy where you know,
- 45:10Speaker 1: the dad goes to the show with his kid and says, man,
- 45:13Speaker 1: you should have seen him when he was good. So
- 45:16Speaker 1: I get it. It's I get that mentality, but styles
- 45:20Speaker 1: can still go like he can get another couple of
- 45:23Speaker 1: years out of it if he wanted to, and he
- 45:26Speaker 1: can still go at a high level. So it's a
- 45:29Speaker 1: bummer that he is pretty hell bent on hanging it
- 45:32Speaker 1: up next year when you see you see certain matches
- 45:35Speaker 1: like matches like this, and it's like maybe him being
- 45:38Speaker 1: in a tag team can prolong his career a little
- 45:40Speaker 1: bit longer, but he's pretty insistent the next year is
- 45:43Speaker 1: going to be the end of the road. Backstage, Jackie
- 45:46Speaker 1: Redmand interviewed the women's World champion, Stephanie Vicaire after her
- 45:50Speaker 1: win over Nikki Bella. Vicaire said that her victory showed
- 45:54Speaker 1: that if you betray her, you get burned. Just as
- 45:58Speaker 1: she wondered who would be coming next for her championship,
- 46:00Speaker 1: who should show up? But liv Morgan walks up and
- 46:04Speaker 1: remind Stephanie that she's back, and that was that short
- 46:11Speaker 1: and sweet. I'll talk more about Stephanie a little bit later,
- 46:14Speaker 1: because this is this is potentially becoming an issue very
- 46:20Speaker 1: similar to the one that we have with the other
- 46:22Speaker 1: women's world title on SmackDown. Even though they have more
- 46:26Speaker 1: women on this show, women's division is much stronger on
- 46:29Speaker 1: Mondays than it is on Fridays. I think we are
- 46:33Speaker 1: rapidly approaching a red alert type situation with the women's
- 46:38Speaker 1: world title. But before that, we have to talk about
- 46:42Speaker 1: the Vision. They were out to the ring next led
- 46:45Speaker 1: by Paul Hayman, and yes, Logan Paul was part of
- 46:48Speaker 1: the crew. It was Logan Paul, it was bron Breaker,
- 46:50Speaker 1: and it was Bronson Reid. So Logan Paul is officially
- 46:53Speaker 1: part of the group. Now hopefully that means he'll be
- 46:56Speaker 1: on TV weekly because I don't want to see any
- 46:59Speaker 1: new members of really any faction. I don't want to
- 47:02Speaker 1: see any members of the Vision that are not full
- 47:04Speaker 1: time on television most weeks, if not every week. Logan
- 47:07Speaker 1: Paul has been part time. Logan Paul comes in, he
- 47:10Speaker 1: wrestles to this guy, he wrestles that guy usually has
- 47:13Speaker 1: very good matches, and then he disappears for months. If
- 47:16Speaker 1: you are going to have Logan Paul as part of
- 47:18Speaker 1: the Vision, then he needs to be a full time
- 47:20Speaker 1: member of the Vision. I don't want to see them
- 47:23Speaker 1: start adding members who are going to be on television
- 47:26Speaker 1: once every blue moon. So hopefully this is a sign
- 47:29Speaker 1: that he's going to be around more often, and that's
- 47:32Speaker 1: the case. I don't have an issue with him being
- 47:33Speaker 1: a part of the vision. Logan Paul fits the vision
- 47:38Speaker 1: that Paul Hayman would have of these young stars who
- 47:42Speaker 1: are going to lead the charge into the next era
- 47:45Speaker 1: of WWE. Logan Paul would fit that bill, as would
- 47:49Speaker 1: bron Breaker and potentially in Austin theory if they end
- 47:52Speaker 1: up adding him to the group. But he's got to
- 47:55Speaker 1: be there full time. Can't have this bullshit where he's
- 47:58Speaker 1: there once every two to three months. So Hayman started
- 48:03Speaker 1: giving shout outs to every member of the Winning War
- 48:06Speaker 1: Games team on Saturday, including Brock Lesner and who knows
- 48:10Speaker 1: when we'll see him again, and Drew McIntyre, who knows
- 48:12Speaker 1: when we'll see him again too, because technically he's still suspended.
- 48:16Speaker 1: Now that Wargames is over, he's back on suspension. He
- 48:20Speaker 1: praised Logan Paul for fitting into his vision for the future,
- 48:26Speaker 1: and then came the announcement, the big announcement that on
- 48:29Speaker 1: the one year anniversary of the debut episode of Raw
- 48:32Speaker 1: on Netflix, the first Raw of twenty twenty six is
- 48:36Speaker 1: on January fifth at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. This
- 48:40Speaker 1: is what he discussed with Adam Pierson the back earlier,
- 48:43Speaker 1: bron Breaker will challenge CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship,
- 48:49Speaker 1: and at that point bron Breaker took the mic and
- 48:52Speaker 1: his work got good. Took the mic, he said, he's
- 48:55Speaker 1: a little upset, not because of where they are tonight,
- 49:00Speaker 1: or the mass guy that tried to steal his moment
- 49:02Speaker 1: on Saturday, Batman or whoever that guy is. If that's Batman,
- 49:08Speaker 1: that's the worst looking Batman costume I've ever seen in
- 49:12Speaker 1: my entire fucking life. But yes, he wasn't sure who
- 49:15Speaker 1: it was, but this person tried to steal his thunder,
- 49:18Speaker 1: almost tried to ruin his moment in war Games. Now,
- 49:21Speaker 1: what he's upset about is how easy it was for
- 49:25Speaker 1: him to beat CM Punk. He thought that he would
- 49:28Speaker 1: have to find a different level, a different gear that
- 49:30Speaker 1: he's never been at before to beat the guy that
- 49:32Speaker 1: he watched on TV as a kid, only to realize
- 49:36Speaker 1: that CM punk is nothing but a soft ass bitch.
- 49:42Speaker 1: Punk is no different than any of these other guys
- 49:45Speaker 1: living off their past glory, like that narcissistic piece of
- 49:47Speaker 1: garbage seth Rollins, holding everyone else down when really he
- 49:52Speaker 1: should be worried about the war going on inside his
- 49:55Speaker 1: own home, that his wife is a bigger star than
- 49:58Speaker 1: he is. Also, I should mention that no Becky Lynch
- 50:01Speaker 1: on Raw tonight because Becky Lynch is boycotting Raw. She's
- 50:06Speaker 1: boycotting the show after what happened on Saturday where everybody
- 50:11Speaker 1: is claiming that she tapped out to aj Lee. She
- 50:14Speaker 1: insists that she did not tap out. I believe she
- 50:17Speaker 1: said that she was waving for her partners to come over.
- 50:20Speaker 1: So she is boycotting the show. So she also was
- 50:23Speaker 1: not there tonight. But he said on January fifth, it'll
- 50:28Speaker 1: be a different kind of fight. Punk tried to break
- 50:31Speaker 1: his neck and ruin his life on Saturday. So he's
- 50:34Speaker 1: going to ruin Punk's life. And now he's getting hot,
- 50:38Speaker 1: he's getting animated, and he had a jacket on and
- 50:41Speaker 1: he pulls the jacket off. Right now, he's getting all
- 50:43Speaker 1: fired up. He said, listen to me, Punk, I'm gonna
- 50:47Speaker 1: ruin your life. I'm coming for your career. I'm coming
- 50:51Speaker 1: for every good memory that these people remember you for.
- 50:54Speaker 1: I'm coming for it all. And oh I didn't forget
- 50:58Speaker 1: this is for you, by the way, he forgot. I
- 51:00Speaker 1: hope you're watching it home. You remember last year at
- 51:02Speaker 1: WrestleMania backstage when you came up to me in the
- 51:05Speaker 1: back in the hallway and you said, well, congratulations and
- 51:08Speaker 1: all the success. Kid, Let's see if you can cut
- 51:10Speaker 1: a promo with the big dogs now. He said, well,
- 51:14Speaker 1: Ladi Da considered the promo cut because on January fifth,
- 51:20Speaker 1: when you're on your ass looking up at the lights
- 51:22Speaker 1: and I'm standing over you and they announced me as
- 51:25Speaker 1: the new heavyweight champion of the world, you will look
- 51:28Speaker 1: into my eyes with your beaty, stupid face and realize
- 51:31Speaker 1: that you are not even close to the badass bron Breaker,
- 51:35Speaker 1: the real best in the world. And he slammed the
- 51:39Speaker 1: microphone down and even Logan Paul the segment was over,
- 51:44Speaker 1: but Logan Paul on the mic in the back round,
- 51:47Speaker 1: even Logan Paul was like damn, and Breaker stormed off,
- 51:51Speaker 1: while the rest of the vision stayed back in the
- 51:53Speaker 1: ring and applauded damn. Indeed, that was a I'll have
- 52:00Speaker 1: a little promo there from brom Breaker. He didn't overstay
- 52:04Speaker 1: as welcome. It wasn't long winded, there were limited what
- 52:08Speaker 1: chance as it went on. It wasn't anything overwhelming, and
- 52:12Speaker 1: he didn't give them a chance to because you know why,
- 52:15Speaker 1: he talks like a normal fucking person. It's what annoys
- 52:18Speaker 1: the shit out of me with some of these promos
- 52:20Speaker 1: that these people cut. There are people on the roster
- 52:23Speaker 1: who when the what chance begin because of the way
- 52:27Speaker 1: they speak. They speak in like sound bites where they
- 52:32Speaker 1: give the fans a chance to like cut in in
- 52:35Speaker 1: between sentences. That's not how real people speak. When you
- 52:39Speaker 1: do that, you're just inviting the fans to stabotage your promo.
- 52:42Speaker 1: And then at that point it becomes less of a
- 52:44Speaker 1: promo and more of a competition between you and the
- 52:46Speaker 1: fans where you're either trying to speed through the promo
- 52:51Speaker 1: or you're now you have to incorporate it into your promo.
- 52:54Speaker 1: And it's just it has been going on now for
- 52:57Speaker 1: twenty five years. In this case, he didn't give them
- 53:00Speaker 1: a chance to do that. He stood in the middle
- 53:03Speaker 1: of the ring, He stared right into the camera. He
- 53:07Speaker 1: was all intense, and he cut a promo on this
- 53:11Speaker 1: guy like a normal person would cut a promo on somebody.
- 53:16Speaker 1: He is getting the biggest opportunity of his career on
- 53:21Speaker 1: January fifth, and he stood in the middle of that
- 53:24Speaker 1: ring tonight, and he made it very clear that I'm
- 53:26Speaker 1: coming for you. I'm coming for that championship. I haven't
- 53:30Speaker 1: forgot the way that you big league meet at WrestleMania
- 53:32Speaker 1: last year. So I'm gonna put you down. You tried
- 53:36Speaker 1: to ruin my life right with that doomsday device on Saturday,
- 53:40Speaker 1: almost broke his fucking neck. You tried to break my neck.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I'm going to break yours. I'm gonna put you down
- 53:46Speaker 1: on your ass, and I'm going to prove that I'm
- 53:49Speaker 1: the best in the world. Right, turning Punk's own slogan,
- 53:52Speaker 1: his own catchphrase around on him. This promo was exactly
- 53:56Speaker 1: what it needed to be. It was a money promo.
- 53:58Speaker 1: And I'm glad that they are not making us wait
- 54:01Speaker 1: for WrestleMania because everybody the last couple of days has
- 54:04Speaker 1: been speculating about Okay, clearly they're going to do this match.
- 54:09Speaker 1: When are they going to do the match? Right, Dave
- 54:10Speaker 1: Meltzer the other Now that's the planned main event for
- 54:14Speaker 1: one of the knights of WrestleMania next year, and who knows,
- 54:17Speaker 1: maybe it is Maybe this is the first of many
- 54:19Speaker 1: matches they're going to have. Remember a year ago, the
- 54:22Speaker 1: debut Raw on Netflix. Do you remember what the main
- 54:24Speaker 1: event of that show was. CM Punk was in that
- 54:26Speaker 1: main event too. It was CM Punk against Seth Rollins.
- 54:30Speaker 1: We got it on January sixth, right of this year,
- 54:33Speaker 1: and we got it at WrestleMania, and we got it
- 54:36Speaker 1: in a cage in between also, but they were in
- 54:39Speaker 1: the main event at WrestleMania together with Roman Reigns. It
- 54:41Speaker 1: was a triple threat match. We could very well be
- 54:44Speaker 1: looking at a situation where if Seth Rollins is back
- 54:46Speaker 1: in time for WrestleMania, we're gonna get bron Breaker, Seth
- 54:50Speaker 1: Rollins and CM Punk. It'll be a triple threat match.
- 54:54Speaker 1: It'll be like this year all over again, only you
- 54:56Speaker 1: substitute bron Breaker for Roman Rains. That's a very possibility
- 55:01Speaker 1: for one of the Knights of WrestleMania next year. But
- 55:04Speaker 1: this is match number one. There's gonna be at least two.
- 55:08Speaker 1: This is match number one between them on January fifth,
- 55:11Speaker 1: and they're starting off the year with a big match, right,
- 55:15Speaker 1: That's a big match to do on that show. Even
- 55:18Speaker 1: if he doesn't win the title there, and there's a
- 55:21Speaker 1: very good chance he does. But even if he doesn't
- 55:24Speaker 1: win the championship on that show. They should run it
- 55:27Speaker 1: back at the Royal Rumble. I really don't care to
- 55:31Speaker 1: wait until WrestleMania to see that championship migrate over to
- 55:35Speaker 1: bron Breaker. I think the time is now. I thought
- 55:39Speaker 1: the time was Saturday Nights made event. Frankly, after Seth
- 55:42Speaker 1: got hurt, they chose to put it on Punk. I
- 55:45Speaker 1: guess they wanted to get Punk the title run. They
- 55:47Speaker 1: wanted to give the Punk fans out there because he
- 55:49Speaker 1: got screwed over so many times. Right, Punk got fucked
- 55:52Speaker 1: over at WrestleMania, he got fucked over at SummerSlam. We'll
- 55:55Speaker 1: throw him a bone. We'll give Punk a little run
- 55:57Speaker 1: with the belt. Fine, January fifth. If it's me, I'm
- 56:01Speaker 1: doing a title change on that show. I'm starting the
- 56:03Speaker 1: new year off in a way that just punches you
- 56:06Speaker 1: in the fucking face and says, this is how you
- 56:08Speaker 1: kick off a brand new year with a brand new
- 56:11Speaker 1: world heavyweight champion. And I could absolutely see them holding
- 56:15Speaker 1: off on the big reveal of the mystery Man until
- 56:17Speaker 1: that show, and that person, right, whoever it is, that
- 56:21Speaker 1: person factors into the finish of the match, could very
- 56:24Speaker 1: well cost seem Punk the World Heavyweight championship. But they
- 56:29Speaker 1: could very well run that match back at the Royal
- 56:31Speaker 1: Rumble and have a non finish on that show. So
- 56:35Speaker 1: either way, I'm glad we're not waiting for the first
- 56:38Speaker 1: match until WrestleMania. I think bron Breaker, one way or
- 56:41Speaker 1: the other is going to end up with that World
- 56:42Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship, which makes sense, I think because if Seth
- 56:47Speaker 1: Rollins is going to come back and be a babyface
- 56:49Speaker 1: or a tweeter, you know he's gonna be looking to
- 56:52Speaker 1: get that belt back. He could try to get it
- 56:54Speaker 1: back from bron Breaker. Bron Breaker is the one who
- 56:56Speaker 1: kicked him out of the Vision. Frankly, it would make
- 57:00Speaker 1: sense for him to end up with that World Championship
- 57:03Speaker 1: no later than wrestlemaney So for bron Breaker again. The
- 57:06Speaker 1: promo he cut tonight I thought was very good. Was
- 57:09Speaker 1: it the best promo of the year. No, And he's
- 57:13Speaker 1: not an elite level talk or the way that CM
- 57:15Speaker 1: punk is, But this is the first time that I
- 57:18Speaker 1: can recall where we've really been able to hear from
- 57:21Speaker 1: him one on one in this way, and it was
- 57:23Speaker 1: kind of an extended prom It wasn't too long, but
- 57:25Speaker 1: it was more of an extended promo than we usually
- 57:27Speaker 1: get from him, and he will get better over time,
- 57:31Speaker 1: you know, the more comfortable he gets in that position.
- 57:33Speaker 1: But this is the sort of thing I was hoping
- 57:34Speaker 1: for after the turn on Rollins and we didn't get
- 57:38Speaker 1: it then. So let's see more of that now. Let
- 57:43Speaker 1: him go out there and let him just rip on people.
- 57:46Speaker 1: He does it in his matches and it's entertaining. You know,
- 57:50Speaker 1: he'll mock guys and try to be a little funny.
- 57:54Speaker 1: It'd basically be a dick during his matches. I want
- 57:57Speaker 1: to see him cut more promos like this, That's what
- 58:01Speaker 1: I want to see. I thought this was great. In
- 58:06Speaker 1: the back, Jay Usso was leaving the arena when Jackie
- 58:10Speaker 1: Redmond tried to grab a word with him and asked
- 58:14Speaker 1: him how he's feeling after his loss earlier tonight. Jay
- 58:19Speaker 1: ignores her and keeps on walking, and Jackie is very persistent.
- 58:23Speaker 1: She asks about the mass Man. No response. Then she
- 58:27Speaker 1: lets j know that bron Breaker is now number one
- 58:29Speaker 1: contender for the world title. Jay stops and he says,
- 58:37Speaker 1: I don't want to rip on him too much, but
- 58:39Speaker 1: I'm watching him. I'm listening to him. I'm watching his
- 58:42Speaker 1: facial expressions and I don't know if he was trying
- 58:46Speaker 1: to act a certain way. It just came off very
- 58:49Speaker 1: I don't know, it came up very awkward. But he's
- 58:52Speaker 1: standing there and he says he doesn't give a damn
- 58:55Speaker 1: about bron or the vision. There's a lot of and
- 58:59Speaker 1: Jay's another one, by the way, He's not the only one,
- 59:02Speaker 1: but he's another one who talks in soundbites during his promos,
- 59:06Speaker 1: tries me nuts. He says there's a lot of people
- 59:09Speaker 1: in his head that need to get out. Says the
- 59:12Speaker 1: only person to blame though, is the man looking back
- 59:14Speaker 1: at him in the mirror. Romans said it best. Those
- 59:18Speaker 1: titles look best on his shoulders, not mine. He walked off.
- 59:25Speaker 1: Are they trying to get us to sympathize with Jay Ussel,
- 59:32Speaker 1: because at least in the case of this guy here,
- 59:36Speaker 1: that ain't gonna work. You could try, you could try,
- 59:41Speaker 1: but I don't know. I don't know how that's gonna
- 59:43Speaker 1: go over. They're trying to build sympathy for this man.
- 59:46Speaker 1: This man just had the best year of his career.
- 59:50Speaker 1: He won the Royal Rumble, He went to WrestleMania and
- 59:54Speaker 1: won the World Heavyweight Championship. He spent the majority of
- 59:58Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as a main event attraction. Right, he
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: was just a part of the war Games match again
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. I mean, what is there to really
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: feel sorry for him for? I mean, all right, he's
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: had a couple of losses, so what, he just had
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: the best year of his career. I don't feel sorry
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: for him. I feel sorry for fucking La Night. That's
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: what you should feel sorry for. I feel sorry for Penta,
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: who got hurt last week and got bounced out of
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: the tournament. Like there are people on the roster to
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: feel and characters to feel sorry for. Jay Uso is
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: not one of those people. You get no sympathy out
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: of me. I'm sorry. And the other semi final match
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: of the John Cena Last time is now tournament goth
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: jay or we canna see jay Uso put some of
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: that face Panthon and sit up in the in the rafters,
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: be all solemn, be all sad. Anyway, Gunther against Solo Socoa.
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: I mentioned Penta. Penta got hurt last week. I don't
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: get the impression that Penta is seriously injured where he's
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: going to be out for a long time. I haven't
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: heard anything as far as when they expect him back.
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: Penta got hurt last week, Solo Socoa got a win
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: by default by forfeit, and I said, man, we were
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: deprived of a Gunther Penta match here in the semi finals,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: because there's no way that they would intentionally book Gunther
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: and Solo Socoa two heels to go to the semi
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: finals of this tournament. And then Brian Alvarez and Sean
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: Ross Sap and others said no, the plan was always
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: for Solo to go over. I'm not so sure about that.
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: But let's say, even if that's the case, why would
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: you do that? Right? This the better of the two matches,
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: Gunther and pent It. It just makes sense. So I didn't
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: have very high expectations coming into this match. Wade Barrett
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: suggested on commentary that beating John Cena in his final
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: match would be the equivalent of ending the Undertaker's undefeated
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: streak at Wrestlemany, which I'm not so sure I agree
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: with that analogy. I know what he was going for.
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: I get it. This version of John Cena is hardly unstoppable,
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: so I don't know that I would go comparing the
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: two that directly, but again, they're trying to get over
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: what a big deal it is to be in the
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: ring with John Cena in his final match, and it is.
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: It's a big deal to be able to call yourself
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: John Cena's last ever opponent, right, that is a big deal.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: Not a lot of heat for this early on, as
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: you would imagine, with two heels in the ring, the
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: two men exchange shoulder blocks. Solo Gunther down flat on
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: his back. Gunther responded with the big boot that sent
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: Solo out to the floor, and that sent the show
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: to a commercial break. During the break, Taalatanga, who is
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: a ring side he tripped up Gunther while he was
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: trying to get back in the ring, and that allows
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: Solo to take control with the always exciting nerve hold.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: Gunther started shopping away. He blocked the body slam attempt.
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: He tried to slam Solo, but he couldn't hold him
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: up and he fell backwards, so that allowed Solo to
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: get a near fall. Solo went to the top rope
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: and Gunther caught him with a chop superplexed him. Both
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: men got to their feet. They started exchanging chops and strikes.
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Guntherer hit a boot Solo hit a super kick, neither
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: man went down, So finally Solo hits a spike to
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: the throat out of nowhere and both men are down
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: again and the crowd now was really starting to come around.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: Now the crowd is starting to invest in this. After
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: a second commercial break, hit gun Through with a running
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: hip attack in the corner. He charged for a second
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: one gun Through, They'll bounced out with a clothesline. Solo
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: backdropped out of a power bomb attempt, but Gunther hit
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: a second clothes line for a near fall. Gunther went
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: for the power bomb again, Solo countered into a Samoan
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: drop for a near fall, and now Solo is telegraphing
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: that he is going for the Samoan spike. Gunther though,
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: chopped him high on the chest. It was like a
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: chop that came out of nowhere, and the way Solo
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: sold it was great, and he followed with a flurry
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: of chops in the corner like he's a fucking Kobashi
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: over here. But then he walked into a spinning Solo
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: the Uranagi. Solo headed up top, came flying off with
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: a USO splash and he got a near fall. And
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: now the crowd was really into this, like they bought
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: into that near fall. I dare say, I could have
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: sworn that. I even heard some Solo chance, and I
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: don't think they were for me. I heard some so
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: here there was some Gunther chants too, but there were
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: definitely some mixed chance from the crowd. So CoA went
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: for the spike again, Gunther spun behind him, he locked
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: in the sleeper. Solo made it to the corner to
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: force a break. Gunher, though, gave him a German suplex.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: So now Talatanga he got up on the apron. He
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: lures Gunther to the floor, caught him with a boot
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: to the face. And now Talatanga is holding Gunther for Solo,
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: who comes outside, and Solo's gonna give him a samo
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: and spike. The referee sees this and he comes over
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: and he asks Solo if he thought he was stupid. Well,
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: I mean, you're a referee, so do you really want
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: him to answer that question? I don't think you do.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: So instead of delivering the samoan spike, Gunther kicks him
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: in the face, kicks him away, and then Gunther lifts
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: his leg behind him to low blow Taalatanga and they
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: he grabs Solo Socoa's spike hand and he slams it
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: down on the apron back inside. The referee was still
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: occupied with Talatanga, and so because the referee was distracted,
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: that gave Gunther an opportunity to kick Solo in the dick,
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: which is something that we normally do not see Gunther doing.
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: Gunther is a man of honor, He's a man of integrity. Right,
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: the ring is sacred, the mat is sacred. But now
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: you do what you gotta do to get to the
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: next round. And what's good for one is good for
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: the other. I think even on commentary they said this
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: is a battle of who's going to cheat best. So
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: he kicks him in the dick, gives him a power bomb,
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: and he pins him to advance to the finals of
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: this tournament. La Knight comes out after the match is over,
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: not to his music or anything. He just comes down
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: to the ring. He gets inside, the two of them
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: go face to face. Gunther never said anything. La Knight
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: did all the talking, and basically, you know, he talks
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: some shit and said that it was impressive, but I
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: don't really give a damn. I'm gonna drop you I'm
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: gonna beat you on Friday on SmackDown, and he left
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: the ring without incident. There was no pull apart brawl.
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: Gunther didn't respond. It was very straightforward stuff. Well, that
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: exceeded my expectations. And I said this on Twitter during
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, I said Gunther had to be a
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: Maleman in another lifetime because every time this man is
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: out there, he delivers. Every single match that he has
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: had in this tournament has delivered Javon Evans, Carmelo, Hayes,
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: Solo Socoa. Seamus says, banger after banger after banger, Well,
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: Gunther could say the same name, banger after banger after banger,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: and I knew what to expect in those matches. I thought,
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: I knew what to expect here in this match. That's
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: kind of what I was worried about, that it was
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: just gonna be. Yeah, I got two bigger guys in there,
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: but like it's just gonna be a clash of styles
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: and it's just not a very interesting match and it's
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: heel on heel, and credit to both these guys. I
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: don't want to make it sound like it's all Gunther,
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: Like the guy always has really good matches and so
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: this was no different. He carried Solo to a great match.
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: Gunther did his part, but so did Solo Soco. He
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: held up his end of the deal. He had a
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: very good match. I think, frankly the best singles match
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: I've seen him have since he got called up to
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: the main roster. He's been on the main roster now
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: for three years, right twenty when was Clash at the
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: Castle twenty two, right September twenty twenty two. I believe
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: over three years he's been on the main roster. I
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: can't think of another match, another singles match that he
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: has had that was as enjoyable and is good is
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: the one that he had with Gunther tonight. Sometimes it
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: just comes down to who you're in the ring with.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: There was no story here. This was not about story.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: There's no storyline between these two. They're not even on
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: the same fucking show. And if you don't believe the reports,
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: it may not have even been originally planned. But it's
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: the match we got tonight, and they just put them
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: in there, and they just went in there and they
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: just had a fight. They had a hoss fight, a
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: lot of back and forth, a lot of near falls
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: that the fans actually bid on, they bought into it,
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: and it ended up being the best thing on the
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: entire show. There's a very enjoyable match this It's great.
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: So Gunther is moving on, which we all knew he
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: would be. They're doing the finals on Friday on SmackDown.
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: Gunther is going to beat La Night. I don't know
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: what they do with La Knight. I don't get the
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: sense that Triple H really has a great plan for
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: where to go next with La Knight. And as over
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: and popular as La Knight is, I wouldn't even be
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: against the heel turn if it meant getting him more
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: of a sustained push, if him going heel was going
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: to put him in a better position where Okay, he's
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: got all these babyfaces to work with, but we don't
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: have a room for him to work with any heels
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: right now. Than fine, turn him heel, do whatever needs
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: to be done, because he can work as a babyface.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: He could work as a heel. Honestly, he's more of
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: a heel. For being honest, he's a better heel than
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: a babyface. But I don't know how this man is
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: not in the mix doingmore, And I don't know how
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: you're not tapping into his promo skills, right, forget even
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: just the matches. Why is he not involved in something
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: that puts him front and center on these shows on
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: the mic, right, that's really his strong point. We're going
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: into this new year, and I would like to think that, Okay,
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: as we head into twenty twenty six, right, we've got
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: to come up with a great idea for what direction
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: we're going to go in with this guy and get
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: him involved somewhere. I don't know where that is, but
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: I would hope that can come up with some sort
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: of plan for him. I am shocked that he is
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: still as over as he is despite them failing to
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: really do much of anything with him, and I think
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: it speaks to, you know, whatever this connection is that
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: he has with the audience. Right, He clearly has some
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: sort of connection with the fans, but they just don't
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: tap into it enough. They got their guys that are
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: in the world title picture right now, and so there's
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: no room for him. There doesn't even have to be
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: in the world title Picture. But for the love of God,
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: can we come up with something worthwhile, you know, for
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: him to do? I mean, when they had Matt Cardona
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: show up on SmackDown a few weeks ago as a
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: Zach Ryder and La and I beat him, and then
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: La and I confronted him in the back. This was
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: like a YouTube thing, and you basically said, hey, it's good.
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going or coming, but it's
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: good to see you right, good to have you back.
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: And there's a joke about how you put the two
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: together and make them a new tag team and call
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: them Night Rider, which sounds silly as all hell, but
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: you know what, like even something like that, I think
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: that could work. I think that could work. Can you imagine,
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: Like they end up getting together as a team. Knight
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: doesn't really want to have anything to do with this guy,
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: but somehow they end up being a team, And it's
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: one of those things where as the weeks go on,
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of annoyed by Rider, doesn't really
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: want to have anything to do with him, but then
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: they he kind of warms up to him, and even
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: something like that could get over And then coming out
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: of that, you know, who knows where you may go
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: with him, Like I'm just trying to come up with something,
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: you know, that would get him out there you know
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: on television every single week doing just something on these shows.
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: I just I hope, I hope they can come up
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: with something. Yeah, like rock and sock. I mean it's
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: the same idea, like a rock and sock type of dynamic.
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: I mean, that's not going to please all the La
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: Night fans, who of course want to see him as
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: the world heavyweight champion if you put him in a
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: fucking tag team. But I just hope, I hope they
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: can come up with something for him to do. That's
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: all I can say in the back. And by the way,
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: there's a whole segment from the podcast this weekend and
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: the clip is up on the YouTube channel right now.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: As far as Gunther against John Cena on Saturday Nights
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: Made Event, I think that there have been so many
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: missteps along the way in this John Cena retirement tour.
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: There's been some great stuff and there's been a lot
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: of not so great stuff. And when you have somebody
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: that you are calling the greatest of all time, right
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: that's what they call him, the greatest of all time,
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: you would think that with all the advance notice that
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: they had that John Cena was wrestling his final year
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: this year, Triple H knew about this, right at least
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: six months in advance. You would think that this is
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: the one thing we would not fuck up. So it
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: is hard to fathom the fucking mistakes that they made
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: along the way here in this retirement tour and the
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: matches we didn't get even though they had a year
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: to do all these different matches. I know they had
- 1:14:07Speaker 1: him for limited dates, but still, but like he just
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: lost that Survivor series to Dom, he got screwed out
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: of the Intercontinental Championship. He's going into his final match.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: I am coming around to the idea that the best
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: thing to do, frankly, give the guy a win. Of course,
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: John Cena does not need to win. He doesn't need
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: a win, and yes, Gunther beating him would be a
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: nice feather in his cap. Right. He retired Bill Goldberg,
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: and he could say I did the same thing to
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: John Cena. But you know what, just because you can
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: doesn't mean you should. And no matter who wins or
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: loses here, no one's really gonna get hurt by it.
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: John Cena's bulletproof is his last match. If he loses,
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: he loses. Right. If you think that John Cena is
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. Him losing his last match
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: isn't going to change anything about that. John Cena winning, though,
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: would give the fans that happy moment that I think
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: a lot of them are looking for here at the
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: very end, after having some not so happy moments. Frankly
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: on this retirement tour, including Saturday, I think John Cena
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: beating Gunther Frankly is probably just in terms of giving
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: the fans what they want, that's the way to go.
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: I think that would be the proper ending after all this.
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: Let the guy get a fucking win. Let Dominic Mysterio
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: go around and be able to say, you know what,
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: I may not have been the last opponent, but I
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: was the last guy to actually beat John Cena. Gunther
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: could use it, sure, but he doesn't need it, right,
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: He doesn't really need it. Unless the idea is to
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: do Gunther and Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania Brock squash Seena
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: at Wressell Palooza. If Gunther beats Seena at Saturday night's
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: main event, now you have the battle between two guys
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: who could say they both beat John Cena. Maybe that's
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: the idea behind it. I don't know. I'm just saying, though,
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: for all of this nonsense that we've seen, I'm a
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: lot more open to the idea of seeing a winning
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: than I would have been a few months ago, where
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: if you would have told me, oh, Seena has to win,
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: I would have been like, what are you out of
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: your fucking mind. Now I'm coming around to the idea that,
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: you know what, we probably should just let the fans
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: have that moment. Just let them have that moment. Just
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: imagine how bum they'll fucking be if, after what we
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: saw on Saturday, he goes in there and loses again,
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, I don't know, throw
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: them a bone sometimes it's just the right thing to do.
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: In the back, Adam Pierce met again with his mole
- 1:16:49Speaker 1: Eddie Orango, who said that he didn't find out anything
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: new about the mass Man other than a lot of
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: people say they saw Seth Rollins backstage on Saturday. AJ
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: Styles and Dragon Lee they arrived on the scene here
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: in Styles let Pierce know that Seth Rollins was seen
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: running around without his arm and a sling. But really
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: Aj is here because he wants to let Pierce know.
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: The two of them they want to defend their tag
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: team titles, and Pierce says I like hearing that. When
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: he goes next week, he's like against who and Dragon
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: Lee butts in and he recommends the war Raiders because
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: the war Raiders never got their rematch for the World
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: Tag Team time. Are we sure about that? By the way,
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: I'm not so sure they didn't get their rematch, but
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: it claimed that they never got their rematch for the titles. Now,
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: I want to point out to you that these are
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: the titles that the war Raiders lost. Okay, at WrestleMania
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: eight months ago. Oh, they never got their rematch. I
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: think they deserve a shot at the titles. It's that
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: they woke up out of a fucking coma and they's like, oh,
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: wait a minute, the war Raiders never got their rematch.
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: We should probably give them a rematch eight months later
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: for the tag team titles. Okay, so we have a
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: tag team title match next week. What was the last
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: time we even saw the war Raiders on TV? Like,
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: I'm struggling to even remember when. When was the last
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: time we saw them on Monday Night Raw? But I
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: guess aj Styles and dragon Ly they're fighting champions. And also,
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: let's be honest, they don't have a lot of other
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: teams in the division. They beat the New Day, They're
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: gonna wrestle the war Raiders. We know the Judgment Day
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: are there, bron Breaker and Bronson Read They're not really
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: a regular tag team. I don't count them. What other
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: teams am I missing? What are the teams are there
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: on Monday Night Raw that I'm missing? Ray, I'm sure
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: there must be one or two that I'm not thinking of.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: It's not like there's a whole lot of competition in
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: that tag team division. You gotta be careful. You're gonna
- 1:18:56Speaker 1: burn through every potential challenger that you have if they're
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: gonna to be defending these titles every single week. On
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: TV Raymistereo, he spoke with Jackie Redman backstage, who told
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: him that he would be wrestling Finn Balor on the
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: show next week. Ray said that he had no problem
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: going through the Judgment Day one member at a time
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: before he gets to his son. The Creeds. Now, the
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: Creeds don't count. The Creeds have not been on Raw
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: for months and months that they're in like fucking NXT,
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: aren't they, Dude? Are the Creeds even officially members of
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: the roster anymore. Remember what Chad Gable said when he
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: got hurt and he was leaving, and he said, you
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: guys have to hold down the fort. And then all
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: the members of Alpha Academy basically vanished. They just disappeared.
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: They did such a terrible job of doing what Chad
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: Gable asked them to do, they just disappeared. Only recently
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: his IV Nile even reappeared. What an awful faction. I
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: would fire them all if I were Chad Gable. Yeah,
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: they're on Raw. Okay, Well, maybe it's a different app
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: Maybe it's a different company hosting a different episode of Raw.
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: Because I can't tell you the last time I saw
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: the Creeds on Monday Night, ros, So I don't know
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: what show you're watching, and I don't give a show
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: what the roster page says. But they haven't been on
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: the show. They ain't part of the show. I ain't
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: counting them as part of the tag team division. So
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: you basically just answered my question for me. There are
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: no other teams the LWO. Okay, the LWO. That's about it.
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: That's a piss poor tag team division right there. Jackie
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: asked Ray about whether he would be interested in making
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: another run at the Intercontinental title, which of course he
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: said he would. So that's when Logan Paul showed up
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: and told Ray that the title belongs to the Vision,
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: told Ray that he needed to step back, and then
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: Ray called Logan a pendejo. This just makes me laugh,
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: and Paul said that he would retire Ray, who then
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: slapped him across the face, and some producers got in
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: between them to hold both men back. The main event
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: was Rhea Ripley and EO Sky against Charlotte Flair and
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss. The match started and almost immediately went to
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: a commercial. After the break, Ripley had Bliss locked in
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: a submission that Bliss was able to escape. Rhea then
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: accidentally collided with Charlotte and sent her to the floor.
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: Eo then caught Bliss with a flapjack Ripley and Flair
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: they ended up getting tags, and they really built this
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: up like, oh, here we go, I big wrestle media
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: rematch here. So they started exchanging forearms. Flair went to
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: the chops to get the advantage. Finally, Ripley ducked the
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: chop and caught Flair with a head butt. Flair sent
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: Riley into the turnbuckles. Rhea, though, caught Charlotte with a
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: kick and both women were down. So after another commercial,
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: flare sent Ripley to the floor, but EO caught her
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: with a Meteora Ripley came in and tried to lift
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: up Charlotte in the power bomb position, but she over
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: rotated and both women fell down. Oops. So Ripley picked
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: her back up. They redid the spot. She gave Charlotte
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: a razor's edge, which Charlotte proceeded to no sell when
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: she immediately got back up to her feet so that
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: she could feed for EO's missile drop kick because EO
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: was perched up top ready to drop. I mean, Charlotte
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: had no choice. She had to get back up to
- 1:22:41Speaker 1: her feet because EO was on top waiting for But yeah,
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: she just completely blew off the razor's edge there. Ripley
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: went for a riptide flare, countered into a DDT bliss,
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: got the tag and hit another DDT for a near fall.
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: You know, OURVD used to be the king of the
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: DDT cell really the pile driver. Pile driver sell. But
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: I will say this Ria is the queen. Every DDT
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: that this woman takes, She sells it like death, doesn't
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: matter who is giving it to her, doesn't matter from
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: what position it's delivered in. She gets spiked, it looks
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: like right on the crown of her head, and she
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: just sells it great. There's nobody who sells a DDT
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: in wrestling today better than Rio Ripley, So Alexa went
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: for Twisted Bliss. Ripley got her knees up, Flare and
- 1:23:31Speaker 1: Eo got tags. Flair put her down with a boot
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: hit natural selection. Bliss followed up with Sister Abigail, but
- 1:23:38Speaker 1: Ripley broke up the pin attempt. Bliss tried for Sister
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: Abigail again the DDT, but Ripley escaped and hit a
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: head butt, which is unfair by the way, because she's
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: wearing that mask, she should not be allowed to do that.
- 1:23:52Speaker 1: Ria hit riptide. Eo followed up with her Genius of
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: the Sky Moon Salt, but Flair broke up the pin
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: attempt and with everybody down, the Kabooki Warriors hit the
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: ring to ruin things. They came down, attacked Charlotte dumped
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: her to the floor. Then they sent Ripley into the
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: post and sent her to the floor, and they rang
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: the bell and they threw the match out. So that
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: was the end of our main event. Whether it was
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: a disqualification, I assume it's just a no contest. That's
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: how they always basically end these matches. It's just a
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: no contest. It's like the match never even happened. Lyra,
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: Valkyria and Bailey they ran out to attack the champions.
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: Then the women from the Judgment Day ran out. They
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: attacked everybody. Lyra was standing on top of the announced
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: that she was about to hit a move on somebody,
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: Live Morgan. They came out of the crowd. I guess
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: and Live Morgan swept her legs, yanked her legs out
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: from under her in the ring where Cal Rodriguez gave
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: Oscar the Tahanabaum. Roxanne hit Bailey with pop rocks, Rodriguez
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: and Perez grab the tag team belts. Live gets in
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: the ring and Roxanne looks at her and goes to
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: hand her one of the tag belts, and Live looks
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: at Roxanne and she says, no, you take it, so
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: she allows Roxanne to have the belt. Live stands in
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: between them and everything is great. In the Judgment Day,
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page. The Judgment Day, the ladies
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: of the Judgment Day stand tall liv Morgan gets up
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: in the camera. That's the parting shot that we got
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: at the end of the show. She's smiling, she's cackling,
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: and that's how Row goes off the air. Live appeared
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: in three different segments on this show tonight. She was
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: out there for the Judgment Day meeting in the ring,
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: she was there at the end of the show. That's
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: the last face that we saw, and also that backstage
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: segment brief as it was with Stephanie Vaquierre, So she
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: was all over the show tonight. They were having a
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: good one here in the main event until the finish,
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: and obviously we had a shitty finish there, but they
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: put a very clear focus on the women's tag team division,
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: which was good. We have we have five different teams
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: out there that were represented, and I think if you
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: throw in the secret hervis, we basically only have six
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: teams on the main roster. I mean not counting you know,
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: Sol Ruka and Zaria or anybody from NXT, which technically
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: I guess you should count them though, because well you
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: know what, I guess you should because technically those tag
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: team titles can be defended across all brands. So you
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: got Sol Ruka and Zaria I guess on SmackDown. Now
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: you've got Naya Jackson Lash Legend, right, So that would
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: make seven, No, that would make eight. All of a sudden,
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: we have a division here. Look at that. We actually
- 1:26:57Speaker 1: have a tag team division, a real division here for
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: these women's tag team titles. I count eight teams. If
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: you include you know, nxt in in things, and that
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: doesn't even include fatal Influence if you want to throw
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: them in there too, that's nine. So I like that
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: they put a focus on that there at the end,
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: but they are clearly holding off on any drama between
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: Live Morgan and Roxanne Perez. There there were no issues
- 1:27:24Speaker 1: before would Live and Raquel. The issue was really percolating
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: between Living Roxane before Live got hurt, and they never
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: really had the chance to blow that up into something bigger.
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: So that's what I was looking for on the show tonight,
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: and they're not doing it, you know, which is a
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: shame because it would make the judgment day segments a
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: little more interesting. But you know it's fine to me.
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: Is she just came back, So they're basically starting from scratch.
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: They want to tell that story and build to whatever
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: the issues are going to end up being. That will
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: eventually boil over between the members of the Judgment day.
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: So I don't really have too much of an issue
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: with that. But if Raquel and Rock Sand are bound
- 1:28:10Speaker 1: for the tag team titles, let's say that they're gonna
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: make those titles. Clearly, you saw that at the end
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: of the show tonight, right, They're gonna make those titles
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: their target. That does not leave Stephanie Vicaire with a
- 1:28:25Speaker 1: whole lot in the way of competition for her Women's
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: World Championship because at Survivor Series she beat Nicki Bella handily.
- 1:28:33Speaker 1: It was one and done right, no more between Stephanie
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: and Nicki Bella. Been there, done that, Thanks for coming.
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: So now with Nicki in the rear view, it felt
- 1:28:45Speaker 1: like we were heading towards Stephanie and Raquel, maybe Stephanie
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: and rock Sand. I mean, I guess they still could,
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: but let's assume they're gonna focus on the Tag belts.
- 1:28:54Speaker 1: It's like, is liv Morgan really the only option that
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: we have here? I mean, there are they going to
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: go right into Live Morgan, which they certainly teased it,
- 1:29:04Speaker 1: but are they going to go right into Live Morgan
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: challenging Stephanie for the Women's World Championship. She just came back.
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: She hasn't even wrestled the match yet. I don't know
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: that I would go immediately, you know, into that as
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: a program, But I feel like we're kind of trending
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: towards what we have on Friday, where Jade Cargill has
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: that WWE Championship and not a whole lot of competition
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: for it. So I don't know what their plans are
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: as far as Stephanie's next feud, if they really are
- 1:29:38Speaker 1: just going immediately into Live, or if they'll go at
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: one of the other members of the Judgment Day, which
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: is what I would do. I mean, I would go
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: into Stephanie and Roxanne, So we'll see where things go there. Stephanie,
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: her time on these shows is very, very limited. I mean,
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: I understand that, you know her English, she's working on
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: her English, and so she's not going to be out
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: there cutting these long promos. But you know, she is
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: one of your top champions on the brand. She is
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: very popular, and I just feel like she's almost hidden
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: away on these shows. Even in the leadup to when
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: she beat EO to win the championship, we barely saw
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: her on TV, and ever since she won the championship,
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: it feels like we barely see her on TV. She's
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: not really all that heavily focused on. I think that's
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: a problem. If she's your Women's World Champion, then she
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: should be on the show in a more prominent way,
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: whether it's wrestling matches in the ring, whether it's just
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: I don't know, coming out and doing commentary and scouting
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: potential opponents, whatever it may be. I'd like to see
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: her more often on these shows and more heavily focused on.
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: But as far as the show overall, I thought it
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: was a good show. It was not an epic show,
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: but we had a really good match with Gunther and
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: Solo Socoa. We had a good tag team main event
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: with a good focus on the women's tag division. We
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: had a great promo from bron Breaker, the big announcement
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: of the World Championship match coming up on January fifth,
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: So there was good stuff. It was good stuff on
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: this show that can now build as we head into
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: Royal Rumble season. That's the next pl e everybody, the
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: Royal Rumble the very end of January. We still have
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: how many weeks? Nine weeks? We got ways to go
- 1:31:25Speaker 1: before we get to the rumble. But of course we
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: have a Saturday Night's main event first, that's coming up
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: on December thirteenth. Let's take a look at the Twitter, Polsey,
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: what you guys thought of Monday Night Raw after a
- 1:31:37Speaker 1: Survivor series. We got over seventeen hundred poppin here on
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: a Monday Night Fifty six point three percent thumbs up,
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: forty three point seven percent look at that changing in
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: real time, forty three point eight percent thumbs down. Slightly
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: positive score. Not a terribly overwhelmingly positive score there, but
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: more thumbs up than thumbs down for the show. So
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: at Solo Monster on x it is where you guys
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: can go to vote. Let me know what you thought
- 1:32:09Speaker 1: of the show tonight, Bland Dry Chicken in Turkey. I
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: got a chance to hear you and everybody else review
- 1:32:18Speaker 1: the Survivor series. My thoughts. I'm glad aw blooding guts
- 1:32:23Speaker 1: killed my interest. Also, Triple H was never an impartial booker.
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: He doesn't care about WWE. He's only talking within his
- 1:32:33Speaker 1: own best interest. He needs a six month paid vacation
- 1:32:38Speaker 1: Sidrow with a five new autopsies discover Albert Einstein died
- 1:32:44Speaker 1: of a blood clot in the brain. It was a
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: stroke of genius. What do you call karate for? Ah,
- 1:32:55Speaker 1: that's terrible amputees, partial partial arts. Oh my god, Sidrow, Sidrow,
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: you gotta take SPF one hundred. You keep going down
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: this road. That's where you're gonna be head at Cidra.
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: Why is it prohibited to do the reverse cowgirl in Alabacy? No,
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: you can't take my joke. You cannot take my joke.
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: I'm not letting you steal it. I said it first.
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: You stole my joke. You can't do that. I've already
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: used that joke here on the show before I used
- 1:33:25Speaker 1: it on TNT. Also, you got it from me. He's
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: stealing my jokes. Did you hear about the guy who
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: dipped his balls in glitter? Pretty nuts? And it's pretty nuts? Yeah, sure,
- 1:33:46Speaker 1: you thief? Here a joke, thief. It's terrible. Here we go.
- 1:33:59Speaker 1: I'm ture, I'm trying to refresh the list. Here we go.
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: Here we go. Great Raw shout out to the Raw
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: Women's division. That's from C's with a dollar ninety nine.
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: Thank you sees he pulled up Carlos Mencia. That's exactly
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: what he did. He pulled a Carlos Mencia on me.
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: You're stealing my material. Sidrow, you could say Solo had
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: a monster showing tonight. Now now he's trying to suck
- 1:34:35Speaker 1: up to me. Elijah with a nine ninety nine bronze
- 1:34:40Speaker 1: promo gave me kind of an old school feel with it.
- 1:34:43Speaker 1: One of those fiery, energetic promos fueled by testosterone and
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: booger sugar that we don't get anymore in WWE. Well,
- 1:34:52Speaker 1: there was no booger sugar involved in this promo, although
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: I will tell you I do miss the old booger
- 1:34:56Speaker 1: sugar promos. They don't make wrestling promo like they used to.
- 1:35:02Speaker 1: Wrestling promos in general are just so much worse now
- 1:35:06Speaker 1: than they used to be. It's one thing that I
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: find very sad. It's a lost art. It really is
- 1:35:14Speaker 1: like the new stuff in terms of promos, the new
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: stuff really just does not compare to the old stuff.
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: It just doesn't. It just doesn't. Elijah Benedict, because we
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: have two different elijahs, none of whom are from TNA.
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: Mister raw Tonay glad I have you to help keep
- 1:35:33Speaker 1: me updated. I'm always here to keep you updated. You
- 1:35:37Speaker 1: can always rely on me. We got Crackbone to the
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: Cousin solo with a forty dollars super shot. That's the
- 1:35:48Speaker 1: sick Oh super shot. My best friend Alex is a
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: huge fan and listens every week. He turns thirty three
- 1:35:56Speaker 1: this Wednesday. Can he get a birthday shout out? Much
- 1:35:59Speaker 1: loss from Daniel and Dutch. Alex is a frequent visitor
- 1:36:05Speaker 1: here on the streams. Alex is a good guy, and
- 1:36:09Speaker 1: I want to take this opportunity to wish him a
- 1:36:11Speaker 1: very happy birthday thirty three. With that on Wednesday, maybe
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: he'll celebrate with us on the Dynamite post show. But anyway, Alex,
- 1:36:24Speaker 1: wherever you may be, I wish you a very happy birthday.
- 1:36:28Speaker 1: I hope that you can do something more exciting than
- 1:36:30Speaker 1: just watching Dynamite at home. But if that's what you're doing,
- 1:36:34Speaker 1: hopefully you'll be able to join. But happy birthday, brother Sidrow.
- 1:36:40Speaker 1: If Dom is an ex con, does it make him
- 1:36:45Speaker 1: the ex condom the ex condom? Yes, very good, I
- 1:36:54Speaker 1: guess it would. I guess it would make him a
- 1:36:57Speaker 1: rubber Yes, And we hit the bonus goal fifteen out
- 1:37:05Speaker 1: of fifteen, which unlocks a second round of be the booker.
- 1:37:12Speaker 1: You'd love to see it, of course I say that. Now,
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: let's see what matches I book. I may not feel
- 1:37:19Speaker 1: that same way after we're done. Duff's VID's a fire
- 1:37:22Speaker 1: broke out at a dispensary and the smoke blew to
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: a cow farm nearby. The stakes were high retro koh
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: I disagree. Tonight was epic La Night beat Jay. He won.
- 1:37:41Speaker 1: That shocked me. Yes, you know what, You make a
- 1:37:43Speaker 1: good point there. Actually La Night winning that match tonight,
- 1:37:46Speaker 1: that was pretty epic and unexpected. That's the closest thing
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: we got to epic on the show tonight, an actual
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: La Night win over Jay usogallin'. He's balling. He's not
- 1:38:03Speaker 1: just balling, he's balling with a nine ninety nine. What
- 1:38:06Speaker 1: is Jacob Fatou? What does Jacob Fatu shout when he
- 1:38:12Speaker 1: finds a golf shirt that he likes? I love you, Polo, Sorry,
- 1:38:20Speaker 1: I just want to contribute to the bonus goal. Love you, Solo.
- 1:38:25Speaker 1: You know some more like that. You might be giving
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: Sidrow a run for his money. That one's not bad. Actually,
- 1:38:32Speaker 1: I love you polo is not terrible. It's not thank
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: you Dove's VIDs. My grandpa has two jobs, one on
- 1:38:43Speaker 1: a train and one in an orchestra. He's a semiconductor Alexander.
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: You know what is going to be said, Zoe Stark
- 1:38:54Speaker 1: is going to eventually come back, be put in the
- 1:38:57Speaker 1: Intercontinental title picture to no Fai and fair sadly, yes,
- 1:39:03Speaker 1: I think you are right, but that's up to them.
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: Give her some vignettes like they're giving to Maxine Dupree.
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: Give people a reason to get invested with her. Tell
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: the story of her comeback. She went through a horrendous injury,
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: like just a devastating, brutal injury. That has to be
- 1:39:22Speaker 1: part of her comeback story. That's a real thing, that's
- 1:39:25Speaker 1: a real story. That's how you get people behind her,
- 1:39:28Speaker 1: that's how you get people invested in her instead of
- 1:39:32Speaker 1: just bringing her back as a heel on TV. Right,
- 1:39:36Speaker 1: you tell that story and let her do the rest,
- 1:39:40Speaker 1: and hopefully that'll be enough for her to actually get over.
- 1:39:43Speaker 1: But if they don't do that, then yeah, people aren't
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: gonna care. She'll come out to crickets and nobody will care.
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: The moldy cheeseburger I think both WWE and AW need
- 1:39:58Speaker 1: to put both war games and blood and guts on
- 1:40:00Speaker 1: ice for a while. It's already overused, much like Hell
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: and Itsel every year on every show. It needs a break.
- 1:40:10Speaker 1: Save it for when you have the right story to
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: support it. That's what I say. JDFVA, thank you for
- 1:40:21Speaker 1: the two bucks brother Duff's bids. What is the opposite
- 1:40:25Speaker 1: of Parkin's son drive in Daughter? Well, you really worked
- 1:40:31Speaker 1: hard for that one, didn't you. You didn't get it.
- 1:40:35Speaker 1: You didn't get there. But I could tell that that one.
- 1:40:39Speaker 1: It took some It took some work, It took some
- 1:40:42Speaker 1: thinking that one, but it didn't hit the mark for me.
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: There's Alex, alex Is with us, Alex with a five.
- 1:40:54Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Alex. It's a little early, but happy birthday.
- 1:40:57Speaker 1: There was nothing epic about this garbage ass show. I'm sorry,
- 1:41:01Speaker 1: solo A Triple H has to go. This guy is
- 1:41:04Speaker 1: doing an awful freakin' job. Well, there you go. We
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: know we have one person here who will not support
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: Triple H and his role as the chief content officer.
- 1:41:15Speaker 1: Triple H must go. Well, then who takes his spot?
- 1:41:20Speaker 1: Do you pull? Seawn Michaels up from NXT. If not,
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: who gets a spot? Bruce? You gotta have a plan. B.
- 1:41:30Speaker 1: Who's the plan? B? Paul Hayman, James Griffin, Hello, Solomon Ster.
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, did the hubris if Paul
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: Hayman cost ECW to fold? I guess he means cause
- 1:41:46Speaker 1: ECW to fold. Also, with WCW and WWE be successful
- 1:41:51Speaker 1: on networks like NBC or CBS during the Monday Night
- 1:41:54Speaker 1: War wrestling was super popular back then. They would not
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: have lasted it on network television unless they adjusted their content,
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: and mainly I'm talking about WWF and the Attitude era.
- 1:42:07Speaker 1: They would have had to adjust their content accordingly and
- 1:42:12Speaker 1: that would have I think, affected their popularity to a degree.
- 1:42:17Speaker 1: So I think they could have made it work, but
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: I think that era would have looked quite different. But
- 1:42:23Speaker 1: I think it could have been successful. It wasn't successful
- 1:42:27Speaker 1: just because of the gratuitous shit that they were doing.
- 1:42:33Speaker 1: So yes, the answer is, yes, you could have made
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: it work, but it would have looked very different. Did
- 1:42:38Speaker 1: the hubris of Paul Hayman cause ECW to fold? Yeah?
- 1:42:43Speaker 1: I think in many ways it did. I mean he's
- 1:42:46Speaker 1: talked about money that was owed to them by acclaim
- 1:42:49Speaker 1: the video game company, and you know, he points to
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: other things where they could have continued on if this
- 1:42:56Speaker 1: would have just gone differently, and that would have gone differently.
- 1:42:59Speaker 1: But you know, he did a lot of He did
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: a lot of bad shit. You know. You hear about
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: those stories about like Chris Candido and Tammy Sitch and
- 1:43:10Speaker 1: putting stuff on their own credit card, And I think,
- 1:43:14Speaker 1: what was this story about how they lost their home
- 1:43:17Speaker 1: as a result of it? Like there was some really
- 1:43:19Speaker 1: shady ass shit going on. And I'd say hubris is
- 1:43:24Speaker 1: probably a good word for it. Yeah, I would say,
- 1:43:29Speaker 1: so stuff's VIDs. I lost my job as as a
- 1:43:34Speaker 1: massage therapist. Apparently I rub people the wrong way. You
- 1:43:40Speaker 1: gotta be careful. If you rub people the wrong way,
- 1:43:42Speaker 1: you can go to jail for that. Thank you, duffs
- 1:43:52Speaker 1: Andre Jefferson. Where the hell is Santos Escobar? Guy's got
- 1:43:58Speaker 1: the best job in the world. He was ready to bounce.
- 1:44:01Speaker 1: He called their bluff. They came back at him with
- 1:44:03Speaker 1: a much bigger contract. And he's just sitting at home, chilling,
- 1:44:08Speaker 1: just waiting for that phone call. He's getting a nice
- 1:44:11Speaker 1: paid vacation. We should all be so lucky as Santos
- 1:44:16Speaker 1: Escobar is right now, Libido bell with a five dollars
- 1:44:24Speaker 1: super chat. I seen a couple of outsiders that were
- 1:44:26Speaker 1: on the run. They were hauling ass. Beato got jokes too.
- 1:44:36Speaker 1: Bobby means after tonight, WWE has essentially no choice but
- 1:44:40Speaker 1: to put the title on bron Breaker. If they don't,
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: it would be a huge l that live in Vicaire
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: stare down. He's got the little eyemoji. Yeah. I mean,
- 1:44:50Speaker 1: that's the biggest match right now that they have set
- 1:44:52Speaker 1: up for that Women's Championship. I just I don't know
- 1:44:55Speaker 1: that I would immediately go into it though, but they've
- 1:44:59Speaker 1: set that up up as a big match to do
- 1:45:04Speaker 1: really at the start of next year. Maybe even that
- 1:45:07Speaker 1: first raw in Brooklyn, they may set that up as
- 1:45:10Speaker 1: a title match too. On that show Live Morgan against
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: Stephanie Vacaer Matt Fisher, why is Arnold making decisions? Because
- 1:45:20Speaker 1: he is determinator? Where do you where do you come
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: up with some of these? He's the determinator. Also, Matt says,
- 1:45:34Speaker 1: why did the football coach go to the bank to
- 1:45:38Speaker 1: get his quarterback? You go to the bank to get
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: a quarter or things? Really that bad? The Shawnathan, your
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: co host, had a good question, where is the Triple
- 1:45:53Speaker 1: H from NXT Black and Gold or even twenty twenty four?
- 1:45:57Speaker 1: I wonder if creative is more for TKO. Booking for
- 1:46:01Speaker 1: the main roster is very different than booking for NXT.
- 1:46:07Speaker 1: It is not the same thing. And as far as
- 1:46:10Speaker 1: booking for TKO, yeah, I'm sure there are certain things
- 1:46:13Speaker 1: TKO likes and Triple H knows it. Nick con knows it.
- 1:46:19Speaker 1: They all you know know it. His lieutenants bruce everybody,
- 1:46:22Speaker 1: and so, you know, it used to be where you
- 1:46:25Speaker 1: kind of write for an audience of one if you
- 1:46:29Speaker 1: were a writer working for Vince McMahon. I don't know
- 1:46:33Speaker 1: that it's an audience of one that you're writing for now,
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: but there's definitely an audience that I think that they
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: are writing these shows for. Matt says, why did the
- 1:46:45Speaker 1: chicken go to the bank to get his buck buck back?
- 1:46:48Speaker 1: To get his I fucked it up to get his
- 1:46:51Speaker 1: buck buck buck? When potatoes have kids, what are they
- 1:46:56Speaker 1: called tater tots? Where does the carrot go to drink
- 1:47:03Speaker 1: the salad? Bar boy, you're you're in a roll here.
- 1:47:09Speaker 1: I'm not laughing out loud or anything. But he's on
- 1:47:12Speaker 1: a roll man one right after the other. Boom boom boom.
- 1:47:14Speaker 1: Look at this guy. Dry Chicken says, pick your poison,
- 1:47:19Speaker 1: fight brock Lesner in the dark, or go into business
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: for yourself and take away Eosky's trash trash can is
- 1:47:28Speaker 1: that what you mean? I don't even I don't even
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: know what you're asking me. I'm not picking the first one.
- 1:47:38Speaker 1: I'll pick the second one. I don't even know what
- 1:47:40Speaker 1: you're asking me there, but I'll pick the second one,
- 1:47:42Speaker 1: not the first one. Ragnarok. We all like bron Breaker,
- 1:47:47Speaker 1: well not everybody does. There are people who don't. We
- 1:47:52Speaker 1: all like bron Breaker, but I don't like the Bronson
- 1:47:54Speaker 1: killed Seth first and pin Roman, but is presented as
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: second fiddle. Reed could main a event WrestleMania two. Well
- 1:48:03Speaker 1: he can't because King Kong Bundy made event in WrestleMania two.
- 1:48:07Speaker 1: See I got the jokes too. No, look, read is
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: what thirty seven years old bron Breaker is not. So
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: if you want to know why bron Breaker is being
- 1:48:15Speaker 1: pushed the way he is and not Bronson Reid, there
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: you go. Even though Bronson Reid is closer to the
- 1:48:21Speaker 1: average age of your WWE main eventor these days, bron
- 1:48:25Speaker 1: Breaker is the one that they are building for the future,
- 1:48:28Speaker 1: you know. And he's not just the future now he's
- 1:48:30Speaker 1: the hero and now he's their crown jewel. You know,
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: Bronson Reid is not Bronston Reed is there to help
- 1:48:37Speaker 1: support that. Could I see Bronson Reid Maine eventing WrestleMania,
- 1:48:42Speaker 1: not unless it's some sort of tag team match. I'm
- 1:48:45Speaker 1: not saying. I'm not even judging his in ring skill.
- 1:48:48Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Bronson Reid is not Maine eventing a WrestleMania.
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: Bron Breaker will main event several WrestleManias. It's just the
- 1:48:59Speaker 1: way it is. That's not the role that they have
- 1:49:04Speaker 1: in mind for Bronson Reed. H duffs VIDs with a
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: nine ninety nine. What do you call? Oh, you just
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: repeated the same Now you're actually repeating jokes on the
- 1:49:17Speaker 1: same stream. First you steal jokes from me, Sidro, and
- 1:49:20Speaker 1: now this guy is repeating jokes on the same on
- 1:49:22Speaker 1: the same stream. Now was that yours before or Sidrow's?
- 1:49:25Speaker 1: Are you stealing from Sidrow? Now? This is getting dirty? Now,
- 1:49:31Speaker 1: now it's getting dirty. Dried chicken says Cheech and Chong
- 1:49:37Speaker 1: would write better stories than Triple H. Oh. Maybe Triple
- 1:49:41Speaker 1: H needs to uh, you know, hit the grass. Maybe
- 1:49:45Speaker 1: that's his problem. Maybe he needs to just mellow out
- 1:49:47Speaker 1: a little bit. Then the ideas will flow. Leopoldo the
- 1:49:54Speaker 1: New Day should return in twenty twenty six as the
- 1:49:57Speaker 1: New Year. This solo Gunny match is better than every
- 1:50:04Speaker 1: j Gunny? Are we calling him gunny? You wouldn't dare
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: call him that to his face? Were calling Gunther gunny.
- 1:50:17Speaker 1: I can't support this. We got Fox. I can listen
- 1:50:23Speaker 1: to you talk all day, You the man. Thank you Fox.
- 1:50:30Speaker 1: I have to listen to myself talk all day. Trust me,
- 1:50:35Speaker 1: it's not that great, but I appreciate that. Thank you
- 1:50:41Speaker 1: Carlos for the four ninety nine Hey, solo brother, your
- 1:50:45Speaker 1: favorite WWE champion of all time versus your favorite AW
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: World champion so far? Who would win? Thanks for everything.
- 1:50:56Speaker 1: Brett Hart would win? How about Brett Hart prime Brett
- 1:51:02Speaker 1: Hart as the WWF champion against Kenny Omega as the
- 1:51:08Speaker 1: AW champion. Two fellow Canadians going to battle. Still going
- 1:51:14Speaker 1: with Brett. We got Velvet Floor eighteen. Triple H over
- 1:51:21Speaker 1: selling Tonight's show or Shawn Michael's Summer Slam in two
- 1:51:25Speaker 1: thousand and five, which was more entertaining Shawn Michael's over selling. Yeah,
- 1:51:31Speaker 1: I'm not very entertained when Triple H over sells these things.
- 1:51:36Speaker 1: Shawn Michael's overselling and Summer Slam was actually very entertaining.
- 1:51:41Speaker 1: Leopuldo Gunther's old song is less Heal slow babyface turn No,
- 1:51:50Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think you will eventually be
- 1:51:53Speaker 1: a babyface. Are you asking me? Are they in the
- 1:51:56Speaker 1: process of slowly turning him babyface? I don't think so.
- 1:52:01Speaker 1: But I suppose if they were building to a Brock
- 1:52:04Speaker 1: Lesnar gun Thro match at WrestleMania, I mean, would Gunther
- 1:52:09Speaker 1: not be the babyface in that scenario? I don't know.
- 1:52:14Speaker 1: I mean, Brock's been babyface in the last few years,
- 1:52:17Speaker 1: so I suppose it could be him. But I don't
- 1:52:19Speaker 1: think that's what's going on with the new music. The
- 1:52:23Speaker 1: Oracle longest streak someone's been a good booker, my gosh,
- 1:52:33Speaker 1: the longest booking streak, I mean you'd have to go
- 1:52:35Speaker 1: back to some of the early bookers from seventies and eighties.
- 1:52:39Speaker 1: I offhand, I don't know how long was that run
- 1:52:42Speaker 1: that Bill Watts had. I don't know. Maybe maybe Watts.
- 1:52:49Speaker 1: I don't know. I actually don't know. Barry MK. They
- 1:52:55Speaker 1: really should turn that EO fan sign into her new
- 1:52:58Speaker 1: entrance video. Oh, JDFVA and LA Night talk Show. He
- 1:53:06Speaker 1: can make it work. Hey, Look, some of the biggest
- 1:53:11Speaker 1: stars in WWE history had their own talk show. Sean
- 1:53:14Speaker 1: Michaels had the Heartbreak Hotel, Chris Jericho had the UH
- 1:53:19Speaker 1: Highlight Reel, Piper had Piper's Pit. What would we call
- 1:53:26Speaker 1: the LA Night segment? Up All Night with La Night?
- 1:53:31Speaker 1: What would we call it? Boots with a five? I
- 1:53:37Speaker 1: listened to the podcast at one point five x speed,
- 1:53:40Speaker 1: which is why I'm sometimes late showing up for reviews
- 1:53:43Speaker 1: and TNT so sped it up? Does it sped up?
- 1:53:48Speaker 1: It does sound oh so sped up? It does sound
- 1:53:51Speaker 1: like an excited Shabani. Okay, Well, if you're listening to
- 1:53:55Speaker 1: it at a different speed, then I yeah, I can't
- 1:53:57Speaker 1: vouch for what he must sound like. But if you
- 1:53:59Speaker 1: listen to do it at normal, regular speed, it definitely
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: sounds like a Rilla Monsoon. Oh you know what, I
- 1:54:09Speaker 1: got a great name for an LA Night talk show,
- 1:54:11Speaker 1: Shoes of a Champion. There you go, it'll be a
- 1:54:14Speaker 1: little inside joke. Only some people will get shoes of
- 1:54:18Speaker 1: a champion. There you go, shoes of a champion with
- 1:54:22Speaker 1: La Knight. I could see it now, Fox, are La
- 1:54:30Speaker 1: Knight and Rider gonna drive a talking car and fight crime.
- 1:54:34Speaker 1: If they do, I'll bet you he'll get find a
- 1:54:36Speaker 1: way to get it over. It'll get over. I think
- 1:54:40Speaker 1: that would get over. Be man the champ so La
- 1:54:46Speaker 1: and Zach like they just did Charlotte and Alexa. Yeah,
- 1:54:49Speaker 1: but actually putting more effort into it in terms of
- 1:54:52Speaker 1: like filming vignettes and segments outside of the arena. Can
- 1:54:58Speaker 1: we do some of that? They They hard do any
- 1:55:00Speaker 1: of that anymore. NXT does that more often than they do.
- 1:55:04Speaker 1: It can't be that costly. Abystle Zones, I crunched the numbers.
- 1:55:09Speaker 1: Mania was where it all went wrong for La Knight.
- 1:55:12Speaker 1: He started twenty twenty five strong. Since WrestleMania, he has
- 1:55:16Speaker 1: lost twice as much as he has won, and somehow
- 1:55:21Speaker 1: he's still over. Yeah, it has not been a great
- 1:55:26Speaker 1: year for La Knight. I mean, he's made it this
- 1:55:29Speaker 1: far in the tournament, that's great, But if you look
- 1:55:31Speaker 1: at his year, like his year over year overall, like
- 1:55:34Speaker 1: it's not been a great year for him. I mean,
- 1:55:37Speaker 1: they need to rectify that in twenty twenty six. Jeremy Rose,
- 1:55:45Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's not one of the young
- 1:55:47Speaker 1: talents they're looking to push, but I mean, there's no
- 1:55:50Speaker 1: reason that he should just be wasting away like this,
- 1:55:54Speaker 1: Jeremy says. Sina beats Gunther. Gunther is pissed and calls
- 1:55:58Speaker 1: it a fluke, demanding a rematch. Eventually, Seena accepts. At WrestleMania,
- 1:56:02Speaker 1: Gunther gets his win and seen it gets to have
- 1:56:04Speaker 1: a better finale or a better final WrestleMania. That's all
- 1:56:11Speaker 1: well and good, but that's not happening. Sena is done.
- 1:56:15Speaker 1: On December thirteen. There will be no WrestleMania match. Unfortunately,
- 1:56:19Speaker 1: the last WrestleMania for John Cena, even though he won
- 1:56:21Speaker 1: number seventeen. The memory of that will be Fien Fien
- 1:56:26Speaker 1: fiend and a terrible match with Cody Ruads. And that's
- 1:56:31Speaker 1: a shame because it didn't It didn't have to be
- 1:56:33Speaker 1: that way, but that's what we got, and that sucks.
- 1:56:39Speaker 1: Scum Dog, thank you for the ten scum Dog. I
- 1:56:41Speaker 1: appreciate that. The mount Burning Kid Christopher Bennett. Hey, today
- 1:56:45Speaker 1: is December second, I guess yeah, I guess now it is.
- 1:56:49Speaker 1: Can you wish my little brother a Hulkling ninety three
- 1:56:51Speaker 1: a happy thirty second birthday? As an older brother, I
- 1:56:55Speaker 1: could not be more proud of him. Love you, Malcolm.
- 1:56:58Speaker 1: We'll see that's a nice older brother. Look at that.
- 1:57:02Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Hulkling ninety three. Happy birthday, Malcolm, Happy
- 1:57:10Speaker 1: thirty second. I hope it's a great one. I hope
- 1:57:13Speaker 1: it's better than thirty one. Chris, thank you. I appreciate that.
- 1:57:18Speaker 1: Barry MK with a five. What's it like doing commentary
- 1:57:23Speaker 1: for hog? How much of what you say can be
- 1:57:25Speaker 1: your own thoughts and what wrestlers right now would you
- 1:57:30Speaker 1: want to do commentary for. I've been very fortunate. I've
- 1:57:33Speaker 1: been able to do commentary for a lot of big names. Yeah,
- 1:57:37Speaker 1: it was very cool last year last summer doing commentary
- 1:57:42Speaker 1: for Swerve Strickland. We brought him in against Red and
- 1:57:45Speaker 1: Swerve was the aw world champion at the time, so
- 1:57:50Speaker 1: you know, calling that was or just being part of
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: that was very cool. What's it like doing commentary? It's
- 1:57:58Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. It's very fulfilling. It's not
- 1:58:03Speaker 1: an easy thing to do, especially when you're working with
- 1:58:06Speaker 1: you know, sometimes two or three other people, or the
- 1:58:10Speaker 1: complete opposite. When sometimes I'm doing it by myself, I'm
- 1:58:14Speaker 1: going full Joey styles like I did in Texas back
- 1:58:17Speaker 1: in July. It's it's kind of nerve racking. It's not easy,
- 1:58:22Speaker 1: but again, it's a very fun thing to be able
- 1:58:25Speaker 1: to go out there and be the soundtrack, you know,
- 1:58:28Speaker 1: for these shows. As far as like how much of
- 1:58:32Speaker 1: what you say can be your own thoughts, They're all
- 1:58:34Speaker 1: my own thoughts. Nobody tells me what to say. I will.
- 1:58:40Speaker 1: I will try to go to talent to find out
- 1:58:43Speaker 1: if there's anything in particular they want me to say.
- 1:58:46Speaker 1: There was a I did that actually at the SuperClash
- 1:58:50Speaker 1: show that we just had a long island and I
- 1:58:51Speaker 1: had allole conversation with Killer Cross and I said, hey, yeah, look,
- 1:58:56Speaker 1: is there anything that you want me to you know,
- 1:58:59Speaker 1: get across or or say or do. And he's great
- 1:59:04Speaker 1: because he just he's full of ideas. And there were
- 1:59:07Speaker 1: a couple of things in particular. I won't share what
- 1:59:11Speaker 1: they were, but there were a couple of things in particular,
- 1:59:12Speaker 1: and then we got into a whole conversation and so
- 1:59:15Speaker 1: I try to pull from the talent as far as
- 1:59:20Speaker 1: anything they may want me to say, you try to
- 1:59:23Speaker 1: keep it focused on the stories, so like story wise,
- 1:59:28Speaker 1: you know, take it in the direction that it needs
- 1:59:30Speaker 1: to be going in. It's a lot, you know, it's
- 1:59:33Speaker 1: a lot of work, but I find it very fulfilling.
- 1:59:39Speaker 1: Uh z Ray with a ten. Honestly, with live back,
- 1:59:43Speaker 1: I am glad they are doing something with Judgment Day
- 1:59:46Speaker 1: because for the longest time they were just on TV
- 1:59:48Speaker 1: to show their face. Dom was the only one doing
- 1:59:51Speaker 1: anything at all. Yeah, it just felt like when liv
- 1:59:57Speaker 1: got hurt, things just sort of stalled that out in
- 2:00:00Speaker 1: many ways at least don't what they were planning on
- 2:00:03Speaker 1: doing obviously, and you're kind of in a holding pattern
- 2:00:07Speaker 1: until that person comes back. So they probably could have
- 2:00:10Speaker 1: brought her back as a television character a lot earlier,
- 2:00:14Speaker 1: but they chose to wait until she was fully healed.
- 2:00:16Speaker 1: And now they can sort of pick up with whatever
- 2:00:19Speaker 1: it was that they wanted to do before that they
- 2:00:22Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to do. Alexander Tony Kahan's favorite
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: words are great is great, Hunter's is epic. He's going
- 2:00:34Speaker 1: to say it often like a nervous Nelly. Now you
- 2:00:39Speaker 1: know what I love there's that video that goes around
- 2:00:41Speaker 1: every now and then of Triple h at like the
- 2:00:44Speaker 1: post show press conferences or media scrums, and he loves
- 2:00:51Speaker 1: saying it's what we do. There's like a whole compilation
- 2:00:54Speaker 1: of him saying that, like, it's what we do, is
- 2:00:57Speaker 1: what we do, It's what we do. It's what we do.
- 2:01:04Speaker 1: They're gonna put that on his fucking headstone when he dies.
- 2:01:06Speaker 1: It's it's gonna say Triple Hair lies, Paul, Triple Ah Levec,
- 2:01:09Speaker 1: it's what we do. It's gonna say it right there
- 2:01:14Speaker 1: on his tube stone. Mar Kwan nineteen seventy six. I solo,
- 2:01:23Speaker 1: hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Where it is. After
- 2:01:25Speaker 1: Survivor series went off the air, Jay went back to
- 2:01:28Speaker 1: yeat the cage some more. You know, I heard some
- 2:01:31Speaker 1: rumors about this. I would rather not know what he
- 2:01:35Speaker 1: did to that cage. After hours, I heard some terrible
- 2:01:40Speaker 1: rumors about what he did. I will not share them.
- 2:01:47Speaker 1: Carlos says, run back the intro, Solo, yeats, How should
- 2:01:52Speaker 1: I run it back? I should do. I just poked
- 2:01:55Speaker 1: myself in the face. I should do that. One of
- 2:01:57Speaker 1: these days. I'm gonna start the stream and after the
- 2:02:00Speaker 1: intro and after it was come to me and I'm
- 2:02:03Speaker 1: just gonna go like this. We're gonna run it back
- 2:02:05Speaker 1: and then I'll just run the whole fucking thing all
- 2:02:07Speaker 1: over again. That's not a bad idea, Justin says, home
- 2:02:11Speaker 1: from the Redwoods, sat under some very tall learning trees. Indeed,
- 2:02:20Speaker 1: I'll bet thank you Justin z Ray with a ten
- 2:02:25Speaker 1: no message, just showing some love. Thank you, z Ray
- 2:02:29Speaker 1: Mere refresh the list here and we'll get to these
- 2:02:34Speaker 1: final batch of super chats. Nick Grosso with a four
- 2:02:37Speaker 1: ninety nine. If Batista doesn't get hurt in late two
- 2:02:40Speaker 1: thousand and five and forfeit the world title, what does
- 2:02:46Speaker 1: he do at let me put this on screen here,
- 2:02:50Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, here we go. If Batista doesn't
- 2:02:56Speaker 1: get hurt in late two thousand and five and forfeit
- 2:02:59Speaker 1: the world tied, well, what does he do at WrestleMania
- 2:03:01Speaker 1: twenty two? And does raymis Stereo still get his big moment?
- 2:03:06Speaker 1: It's a good question. Would he still have gotten that moment?
- 2:03:09Speaker 1: I feel like he would have. Yes, I feel like
- 2:03:12Speaker 1: he would have. I don't know if there was an
- 2:03:18Speaker 1: original plan that far out for him at WrestleMania, I
- 2:03:22Speaker 1: don't know who he would have faced. I mean, maybe
- 2:03:29Speaker 1: it would have ended up being Ray. I don't know.
- 2:03:32Speaker 1: I'm trying to put myself back in that headspace of
- 2:03:34Speaker 1: late five or early six and who was on top
- 2:03:38Speaker 1: on smack Now, right, he had Kurt Angle, he had
- 2:03:40Speaker 1: Randy Orton. But I don't know what that match would
- 2:03:43Speaker 1: have been. Probably, I mean we got a triple threat
- 2:03:48Speaker 1: right at twenty two, so probably would have been some
- 2:03:50Speaker 1: sort of triple threat or fatal four. Why would be
- 2:03:52Speaker 1: my guess? Hey, Evan, welcome to the channel, Joe Hendry.
- 2:03:56Speaker 1: Look at that. Joe Hendry's giving you the big clap.
- 2:03:59Speaker 1: He's not giving you the clap. He's giving you the
- 2:04:02Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Joe Hendry did not give
- 2:04:06Speaker 1: him the clap. Nick, thank you for the question. I
- 2:04:09Speaker 1: wish I had a better answer, but that would be
- 2:04:11Speaker 1: my best guess. Matt Fisher says, why is it prohibited
- 2:04:18Speaker 1: to do the reverse cowgirl in Alabama? You can't turn
- 2:04:20Speaker 1: your back on your fuckus, So now you're just trolling me.
- 2:04:24Speaker 1: That's twice in one stream that two people have stolen
- 2:04:28Speaker 1: my joke. Robotech guy with a ten buy or sell
- 2:04:34Speaker 1: Jesse Ventur referring to Tito Santana as Chico or Bobby
- 2:04:39Speaker 1: Heenan referring to him as La Bamba. Great show. As always,
- 2:04:44Speaker 1: every time I hear LaBamba, I just think of Conan
- 2:04:47Speaker 1: and LaBamba from his band on Conan O'Brien shaw, I
- 2:04:55Speaker 1: gotta go Chico, and then Monsoon would try to correct him.
- 2:04:59Speaker 1: It's Tito. He would still call him Chico. Bass Beers says,
- 2:05:05Speaker 1: Tommy Dreamers sent that kid to Tommy Dreamers sent that
- 2:05:11Speaker 1: kid to finish off Paul Hayman. My god, oh man,
- 2:05:22Speaker 1: he couldn't get the job done himself, so he was
- 2:05:24Speaker 1: gonna send what a little nine year old kid to
- 2:05:26Speaker 1: do it for him. Tucky Neutron been super busy, hope
- 2:05:31Speaker 1: all is well, Raw Women's Division, and then some fiery emojis.
- 2:05:37Speaker 1: It's good to hear from you, Tucky Neutron. It's been
- 2:05:39Speaker 1: a while. Brandon Vasquez, who would win a real life
- 2:05:45Speaker 1: triple threat street fight Haku brock Lesnar or Steve Blackman.
- 2:05:49Speaker 1: Oh my god, you thought we had a lot of
- 2:05:51Speaker 1: blood and blood and guts. What would that look like?
- 2:06:00Speaker 1: Oh my god, A real life, a real life triple
- 2:06:02Speaker 1: threat street fight with those guys? You know what? Man,
- 2:06:05Speaker 1: it is hard for me to vote against Haku. I
- 2:06:14Speaker 1: think Haku bit someone's nose off ones, right, is that
- 2:06:17Speaker 1: the story pluck their eye out or bit their nose off?
- 2:06:22Speaker 1: But Man, Steve Blackman is not one to be messed with.
- 2:06:28Speaker 1: I kind of feel like in that situation, there really
- 2:06:31Speaker 1: are no winners. Bass Beers buy or Sell. Rick Flair
- 2:06:38Speaker 1: or Saboo's last match. I thought they were both horrible,
- 2:06:47Speaker 1: especially that bump that Saboo took out of the ring
- 2:06:52Speaker 1: where he landed on his head. I thought they were
- 2:06:55Speaker 1: both awful. Uh dry chicken in Turkey? Why on earth?
- 2:07:03Speaker 1: Why on earth? The WWE women didn't use any stink bombs,
- 2:07:07Speaker 1: fire extinguishers, or large lego blocks in the War Games match. No,
- 2:07:12Speaker 1: they have to stick with their usual stuff. Man, you're
- 2:07:14Speaker 1: only in WWE. You're only allowed certain objects. You gotta
- 2:07:18Speaker 1: have chairs, you gotta have your slim gym tables, which
- 2:07:21Speaker 1: I don't think they had. But you got your slim
- 2:07:24Speaker 1: gym tables, your chairs, You've got your kendo sticks, and
- 2:07:28Speaker 1: then more kendo sticks, and then even more kendo sticks.
- 2:07:33Speaker 1: Then you can spit missed in someone's face. That's okay.
- 2:07:37Speaker 1: I think Kyrie had a chain. Right, we have a
- 2:07:41Speaker 1: garbage can for EO and that's about it. You've reached
- 2:07:47Speaker 1: your quota. Duff's VIDs went to the doctor's for back
- 2:07:55Speaker 1: pain and he said the problem is that you sit
- 2:07:57Speaker 1: too much during the day. I said, I understand, doctor,
- 2:08:04Speaker 1: Yes you do. It's clever. That was clever, not beat
- 2:08:17Speaker 1: Alex with a twenty five thank you solo and everyone
- 2:08:20Speaker 1: for the birthday wishes. Didn't know crack Bones sent that
- 2:08:22Speaker 1: message until a few minutes ago. Unfortunately, I will be
- 2:08:25Speaker 1: working on Wednesday and won't celebrate until Saturday, but I
- 2:08:28Speaker 1: will join you on Wednesday. Good. I'm happy. I'm glad
- 2:08:30Speaker 1: to hear that it's better to celebrate on the weekend. Anyway,
- 2:08:35Speaker 1: that's when I used to celebrate all when I would
- 2:08:37Speaker 1: go out and have like birthday parties and shit, who
- 2:08:41Speaker 1: was always on the weekend. That way, nobody has to
- 2:08:44Speaker 1: think about work except me because I work all week
- 2:08:48Speaker 1: and all weekend. But most people they usually don't work
- 2:08:51Speaker 1: on the weekends. Why I why LA night talk show
- 2:08:58Speaker 1: would be let me talk to you come on now? Well, yeah,
- 2:09:02Speaker 1: I guess that's that's kind of a gimmey, I guess
- 2:09:05Speaker 1: let me talk to you with La Knight. Yeah, I guess,
- 2:09:10Speaker 1: I guess that's what it would be. You know, I
- 2:09:17Speaker 1: actually really liked that idea of him having the talk show.
- 2:09:20Speaker 1: At least it would get him on TV in most weeks,
- 2:09:22Speaker 1: and then from those segments could come feuds, right for
- 2:09:29Speaker 1: him to kind of branch off into. I'm not a
- 2:09:34Speaker 1: post to that idea. Usually I'm not always, I guess
- 2:09:38Speaker 1: not always. Usually it's more of a heel thing. But yeah,
- 2:09:43Speaker 1: he doesn't have to be a heel Paul Carpenter the
- 2:09:50Speaker 1: Megastar talk show La Knight, Now, it's got to be
- 2:09:53Speaker 1: let me talk to you. It's got to be let me,
- 2:09:58Speaker 1: let me talk to you. As the name dried Chicken
- 2:10:03Speaker 1: in Turkey, if Nicky Bella wrestled in a w the
- 2:10:05Speaker 1: Sikos would embrace her package, I mean her presence, would they? Oh,
- 2:10:10Speaker 1: they would embrace her sure, yeah, yeah, she would probably
- 2:10:15Speaker 1: pick up some bad habits too, Nicki Bella. Can you
- 2:10:21Speaker 1: imagine Nikki Bella in blood and guts, landing in the
- 2:10:28Speaker 1: broken shards of glass and tacks unlock the hardcore side
- 2:10:36Speaker 1: of Niki, not that kind of hardcore, but the hardcore
- 2:10:39Speaker 1: side of Nikki Bella Yuki Oh rules, Hey Solo, who
- 2:10:42Speaker 1: wins Vato Sting or Camacho aka Tongala great Stream as
- 2:10:47Speaker 1: all Oh votos thing. Voto's thing is unbeaten. Bobby means,
- 2:10:56Speaker 1: how did you get your first break into commentary? I
- 2:11:03Speaker 1: was invited out to a House of Glory show in
- 2:11:07Speaker 1: the summer of twenty eighteen to be a part of
- 2:11:11Speaker 1: They were trying a little like WWE type of pre
- 2:11:15Speaker 1: show gimmick, so I was invited to be a part
- 2:11:19Speaker 1: of that and stuck around to watch the show. There
- 2:11:28Speaker 1: was an open challenge that happened to be an open
- 2:11:30Speaker 1: challenge that night where Austin Airies was defending the TNA
- 2:11:34Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship of All Things against a mystery man,
- 2:11:37Speaker 1: which turned out to be one of our kind of
- 2:11:40Speaker 1: homegrown talents in House of Glory, and I sat in
- 2:11:44Speaker 1: on that match to do commentary. I was one of
- 2:11:46Speaker 1: like four people so and I'm sure I was, you know,
- 2:11:50Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing, but that's how
- 2:11:52Speaker 1: it started. And then I started coming to the shows,
- 2:11:56Speaker 1: not with any sort of expectations but just kind of
- 2:11:58Speaker 1: helping out, you know, where I was needed, not even
- 2:12:00Speaker 1: really always on commentary. But then there was an opening
- 2:12:04Speaker 1: somebody left to go start his own promotion and do
- 2:12:07Speaker 1: commentary there, and it's like, oh, we have an opening
- 2:12:11Speaker 1: on commentary, and it just sort of went from there.
- 2:12:16Speaker 1: So that's how it all started. And Evan Rogers odds
- 2:12:21Speaker 1: on Sena winning on the thirteenth, it kind of would
- 2:12:24Speaker 1: be an I'm sorry present for all the fans who
- 2:12:27Speaker 1: feel like they fumbled his last year of the Snap.
- 2:12:31Speaker 1: That's why I said before. I mean, sometimes you just
- 2:12:33Speaker 1: have to it's not just about Sena probably wanting I'm
- 2:12:39Speaker 1: sure Sena would want to lose, or it's like, oh
- 2:12:42Speaker 1: we gotta you know, he has to lose to put
- 2:12:45Speaker 1: this guy over, or sometimes you just have to do
- 2:12:48Speaker 1: what is best for the show, for the story, for
- 2:12:51Speaker 1: the fans, And I think that it would leave a
- 2:12:53Speaker 1: sour taste in a lot of people's mouths if coming
- 2:12:56Speaker 1: off of what happened is Survivor series. He goes in
- 2:12:58Speaker 1: there in his last match a few weeks later and
- 2:13:00Speaker 1: just gets beat by Gunther, passes out in fucking sleeper,
- 2:13:04Speaker 1: power bombed and pinned. Even I can look at that
- 2:13:08Speaker 1: and go as much as I would love to see
- 2:13:10Speaker 1: Gunther get a big win there, I could look at
- 2:13:12Speaker 1: that and go just objectively from watching this show like man,
- 2:13:15Speaker 1: that would be a fucking bummer, you know. So that's
- 2:13:19Speaker 1: why I was talking about that before, where I think,
- 2:13:22Speaker 1: you know, Sena winning that match might be the best
- 2:13:25Speaker 1: outcome just to kind of give the fans something to
- 2:13:27Speaker 1: actually cheer for at the end when they haven't always
- 2:13:30Speaker 1: had something to cheer for during this senior retirement tour,
- 2:13:34Speaker 1: you know. So that way, at least it doesn't end
- 2:13:36Speaker 1: on a sour note. Matt Fisher again, thank you for
- 2:13:44Speaker 1: that twelve dollars super chat. I appreciate that. And now
- 2:13:50Speaker 1: you rule as hog commission Yeah, and look at that.
- 2:13:53Speaker 1: I went from commentary to commentary and being the commissioner
- 2:13:56Speaker 1: of the entire fucking promotion. How'd that happen? I worked
- 2:14:01Speaker 1: my way up the corporate ladder. Look at that. No
- 2:14:06Speaker 1: casting couch for this guy, I could tell you that much.
- 2:14:13Speaker 1: Now I have all the responsibilities, now, most of them,
- 2:14:18Speaker 1: not all of them. Donovan Payne, what's the better pay
- 2:14:24Speaker 1: per view ECW one night Stand in two thousand and
- 2:14:26Speaker 1: five or ECW one Night Stay in two thousand and six,
- 2:14:30Speaker 1: ECW one night Stand in two thousand and five, That
- 2:14:35Speaker 1: is actually, and I say this as not even someone
- 2:14:37Speaker 1: who is like a huge ECW fan back in the day.
- 2:14:41Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite pay per views of
- 2:14:44Speaker 1: any kind all time. And I'm so pissed I wasn't there.
- 2:14:50Speaker 1: I don't even know why I wasn't there, but it
- 2:14:51Speaker 1: was right in my backyard. And I've been to that building, man,
- 2:14:54Speaker 1: in the years after that, for Ring of hoonnor shows. Man,
- 2:14:57Speaker 1: I've been in that Manhattan Center Hammerstein so many times
- 2:15:04Speaker 1: and I can't even imagine what the atmosphere was in
- 2:15:06Speaker 1: that building. I mean, I could sense it by watching
- 2:15:09Speaker 1: it on TV, but I like to be there live.
- 2:15:14Speaker 1: I mean, that would have been an incredible experience. May's
- 2:15:19Speaker 1: the great Happy eighteen years. So, though the sound off
- 2:15:22Speaker 1: is now too old for the likes of Grizzly Smith,
- 2:15:25Speaker 1: Yes and Jerry Lawler, among others, Thank you Mays and
- 2:15:36Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. What does Halloween and Hillbillies have in common?
- 2:15:43Speaker 1: Pump Kin Duff's VID's always always with the classy jokes.
- 2:15:58Speaker 1: Pump Kin is what He's sayd and Devin also with
- 2:16:01Speaker 1: a four ninety nine buyer sell on the Best WrestleMania trilogy,
- 2:16:06Speaker 1: Stone Cold versus the Rock, Triple H versus the Undertaker
- 2:16:11Speaker 1: and Roman against Brock Oh and coming soon Roman and Cody,
- 2:16:18Speaker 1: because that's the match we need, I mean, the best trilogy,
- 2:16:25Speaker 1: best WrestleMania trilogy, Austin and Rock and then Triple H
- 2:16:33Speaker 1: and Undertaker and then Roman and Brock. So you had
- 2:16:37Speaker 1: the order, right. Have there been any other WrestleMania trilogies?
- 2:16:47Speaker 1: I don't think so. All right, Well, not only did
- 2:16:50Speaker 1: we hit the regular goal, because we are well north
- 2:16:55Speaker 1: of five hundred likes, actually closing in soon on six hundred,
- 2:16:58Speaker 1: if you want to help get me there, but we
- 2:17:01Speaker 1: had the bonus goal as well, So we are getting
- 2:17:03Speaker 1: two rounds of be the booker. I'm locked in, I'm
- 2:17:06Speaker 1: ready to go. Are you? Are you ready? You better be.
- 2:17:10Speaker 1: It's time to be the booker, Ladies and gentlemen. It
- 2:17:13Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker waiting all night
- 2:17:18Speaker 1: for this. It's time to books some wrestling match. It's
- 2:17:22Speaker 1: a little fun thing we do here at the end
- 2:17:24Speaker 1: of most of these streams, not always every stream, but
- 2:17:27Speaker 1: most of these streams. Triple H promised to you people
- 2:17:32Speaker 1: in Epic Raw tonight, and he lied to you. He
- 2:17:37Speaker 1: gave you a good show. He didn't give you an
- 2:17:38Speaker 1: epic show. I, on the other hand, I've made no
- 2:17:42Speaker 1: such promises, but I am going to try to give
- 2:17:45Speaker 1: you an epic card. I'm gonna try. So let's see
- 2:17:50Speaker 1: what we can do here we begin. Oh, we're going
- 2:17:53Speaker 1: old school, because when you see the black and white,
- 2:17:56Speaker 1: you know we're going old school here. This is a
- 2:17:59Speaker 1: little team from the Twin Cities, from the AWA called
- 2:18:03Speaker 1: the East West Connection. Jesse Ventura and uh why did
- 2:18:10Speaker 1: his name just pop out of my head? Adrian Adonnas
- 2:18:15Speaker 1: his name just randomly popped out of my head for
- 2:18:17Speaker 1: some reason. Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis a very good team.
- 2:18:24Speaker 1: Let's see who they're going to be wrestling. They are
- 2:18:28Speaker 1: going to be challenging r K Brow, Randy Orton, and
- 2:18:35Speaker 1: Matt Riddle. Look how small Randy Orton looks here compared
- 2:18:40Speaker 1: to how he was when he came back the last time,
- 2:18:42Speaker 1: like compared to how he is now. Oh my god,
- 2:18:46Speaker 1: he looks completely deflated here. He's only gotten bigger since then.
- 2:18:53Speaker 1: I don't mean fatter. Be a hell of a match though,
- 2:19:00Speaker 1: RK Brow in the East West Connection. All right, move
- 2:19:05Speaker 1: on to match number two. Where is Matt riddle. Uh
- 2:19:12Speaker 1: try looking at mlw uh we uh oh, she's in
- 2:19:18Speaker 1: her tank. Everybody, it is the reigning House of Glory
- 2:19:23Speaker 1: women's champion. It is Shotzi is here and be the booker?
- 2:19:30Speaker 1: Is this her be the booker debut? I think it
- 2:19:32Speaker 1: might be. The woman has a tank on her way
- 2:19:36Speaker 1: to the ring. We have Shatzi against Candice lay Shots. Look.
- 2:19:48Speaker 1: I have love for Shaotzi in the work that she's
- 2:19:51Speaker 1: put in this year really all over the independent scene.
- 2:19:54Speaker 1: It's actually been very impressive. But Shatzi and Can with
- 2:20:01Speaker 1: all of the other names that we have here, I'm
- 2:20:07Speaker 1: trying to book an epic card here. I'm sorry, I
- 2:20:14Speaker 1: wish I could. I just can't do it. I promised
- 2:20:19Speaker 1: the people an epic card. We have the Honky Tonk Man.
- 2:20:27Speaker 1: Now if I buzzed the previous match, how could I
- 2:20:33Speaker 1: beol the honky Tonk Man in the main event. Well,
- 2:20:37Speaker 1: the Honky Tonk Man, I will say as a heel.
- 2:20:40Speaker 1: When he was the champion back in eighty seven into
- 2:20:43Speaker 1: eighty eight, they did headline some shows with him. In fact,
- 2:20:46Speaker 1: the very first show I ever went to live in
- 2:20:48Speaker 1: my life at Madison Square Garden had him in the
- 2:20:52Speaker 1: main event, defending against the Macho Man. It's my earliest
- 2:20:56Speaker 1: live wrestling memory, and people bought ticket see this guy
- 2:21:00Speaker 1: get his ass kicked. He was a draw there for
- 2:21:03Speaker 1: a while. You make fun of Honckey talk Man all
- 2:21:07Speaker 1: you want to. Let's get the drum roll the Honky
- 2:21:18Speaker 1: talk Man against the Fiend Bray Wyatt in the main event,
- 2:21:29Speaker 1: A little blend of old school and new school, a
- 2:21:34Speaker 1: match that we've never booked before. It is a is
- 2:21:38Speaker 1: a very is a very interesting styles clash between these two,
- 2:21:46Speaker 1: the Fiend and the Hockey talk Man. I really I
- 2:21:49Speaker 1: don't know how that would go. I don't know how
- 2:21:54Speaker 1: that would go. I feel like he would hit the
- 2:21:58Speaker 1: Fiend over the head with the guitar, and the Fiend
- 2:22:03Speaker 1: would just he would just no sell it. Justin says,
- 2:22:08Speaker 1: I am sickened but curious. It is a very weird matchup,
- 2:22:13Speaker 1: isn't it hellan to sell? In Saudi Arabia? Honkey talk
- 2:22:18Speaker 1: a man against the Fiend? Yeah, I don't think we
- 2:22:20Speaker 1: need that. I see, I love those first time matches
- 2:22:26Speaker 1: that we've never booked before. Yeah, Fiend would absolutely no
- 2:22:31Speaker 1: sell the guitar, but would Honkey do the job? See?
- 2:22:35Speaker 1: That's the question, would Honky do the job? I don't know.
- 2:22:42Speaker 1: All right, Round number two. This time we get to
- 2:22:44Speaker 1: add stipulations. Let's pick our first one. We are going
- 2:22:51Speaker 1: with a barroom brawl. You know, it's funny this. I
- 2:22:55Speaker 1: just got done talking about this. This may have been
- 2:22:58Speaker 1: the last time that I could remember, and this was
- 2:23:01Speaker 1: a few years ago that WWE did anything like this
- 2:23:05Speaker 1: on location somewhere like on the main roster. They don't
- 2:23:08Speaker 1: do stuff like this anymore. They don't. They're not adventurous
- 2:23:13Speaker 1: when it comes to this anymore. Everything's so fucking sterile
- 2:23:16Speaker 1: and boring and safe, Like we need more shit like this.
- 2:23:23Speaker 1: All right, we got a barroom brawl. Uh, you know what,
- 2:23:27Speaker 1: let's hmm, what do you think barroom brawl? Tag? We'll
- 2:23:32Speaker 1: do tag team match? How about that barroom brawl tag
- 2:23:35Speaker 1: team match. We'll get the whole bar involved. Undertaker and
- 2:23:44Speaker 1: big show. This is the Unholy Alliance. Oh man, imagine
- 2:23:51Speaker 1: those two storm into the bar, they storm into the
- 2:23:54Speaker 1: old Friendly Tap that Tim White used to run. That
- 2:23:58Speaker 1: place would be trashed within two seconds. Undertaker, Oh my god, Undertaker,
- 2:24:04Speaker 1: a big show against the natural disasters in a barroom brawl.
- 2:24:09Speaker 1: I feel sorry for whoever owns this bar, This bar
- 2:24:14Speaker 1: will never be the same again when these four get it.
- 2:24:18Speaker 1: When they get done, forget about it. You're gonna have
- 2:24:20Speaker 1: to cut the owner of check so he can rebuild
- 2:24:27Speaker 1: that place. Ain't gonna that place, ain't gonna last. All right,
- 2:24:33Speaker 1: let's go match number two here. That's like the perfect
- 2:24:37Speaker 1: I feel like that's like the perfect stipulation though for
- 2:24:39Speaker 1: a match like that. All right, we're doing a Lions
- 2:24:44Speaker 1: then match. Someone mentioned Steve Blackman before there he is
- 2:24:48Speaker 1: in the background. I wouldn't want to be locked in
- 2:24:50Speaker 1: a cage with that guy a Lions then match. We'll
- 2:24:58Speaker 1: go with the men this time. Usually we do the
- 2:25:00Speaker 1: men in the main event. We're gonna give the late
- 2:25:02Speaker 1: like like they did on RAWT and now we're gonna
- 2:25:04Speaker 1: give the ladies the main event and we'll go with
- 2:25:07Speaker 1: the guys in a Lions dead match. Demon Balor, you
- 2:25:13Speaker 1: know what's good about this. There's no ropes for him
- 2:25:16Speaker 1: to climb, so he can't fall flat on his face
- 2:25:20Speaker 1: the way he did against Roman Reigns all those years ago.
- 2:25:23Speaker 1: That's good. Demon Balor, who was supposed to beat Edge
- 2:25:30Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, but Vince McMahon nixed it and said, no, no,
- 2:25:34Speaker 1: Edge has to beat him. Oh no, Finn Balor as
- 2:25:40Speaker 1: the Demon against the giant Gonzales in a lions Den match.
- 2:25:51Speaker 1: Oh poor Finn. There's nothing he can do. There's nothing.
- 2:25:55Speaker 1: There's just nothing he can do. There's nothing Balor can do.
- 2:25:59Speaker 1: There's no saving it. I feel so sorry for him.
- 2:26:04Speaker 1: He's so fucked. There's just nothing he could do. I
- 2:26:12Speaker 1: don't even know what to say. All right, we got
- 2:26:17Speaker 1: one match left to go here. Yeah, he's still there,
- 2:26:21Speaker 1: He's still in be the booker, he's still there. We
- 2:26:28Speaker 1: have a monsters ball match. The women are going to
- 2:26:33Speaker 1: be in a Monster's ball or in a Monster's balls.
- 2:26:40Speaker 1: Here we go, not this monster all right, here we go.
- 2:26:46Speaker 1: We have Carmela, the Princess of Staten Island. She was
- 2:26:50Speaker 1: just that one of the I think she was at
- 2:26:52Speaker 1: the Big Event convention on Long Island a few weeks ago. Carmela,
- 2:27:00Speaker 1: former SmackDown Women's champion. Not really somebody I could picture
- 2:27:05Speaker 1: in a Monster's Ball match though, against Jade Cargill. Fuck it,
- 2:27:17Speaker 1: we're gonna add two more people to this. We're having
- 2:27:21Speaker 1: a big ass monsters ball match here. I'm making an
- 2:27:26Speaker 1: executive decision. We're gonna make this a fatal four way
- 2:27:28Speaker 1: monsters ball. We have Carmela, we have Jade, Cargill, we
- 2:27:31Speaker 1: have Osca. Now we're getting somewhere. Now we are getting somewhere.
- 2:27:48Speaker 1: And Trish Stratus. You've got Trish Stratus, You've got Oscar,
- 2:27:55Speaker 1: You've got Jade, and you've got Carmela. Monster's Ball. It's
- 2:28:04Speaker 1: a nice little attraction for you. So what do you think? Epic?
- 2:28:10Speaker 1: Was this an epic card? Yeay or nay? In the chat?
- 2:28:13Speaker 1: Was this more or less epic than what Triple h
- 2:28:15Speaker 1: gave you on Raw tonight? You need to tell me
- 2:28:19Speaker 1: you don't think Finn Balor and the giant Gonzales inside
- 2:28:22Speaker 1: the Lions. Then you need to tell me that's not epic.
- 2:28:27Speaker 1: It's an epic fail, but epic nonetheless. Right, it's gotta
- 2:28:32Speaker 1: be better than what he gave you tonight. Please give
- 2:28:37Speaker 1: me that much. My curiosity is killing me, just like
- 2:28:41Speaker 1: a camp would be killed by the curiosity. Yes, Holiday,
- 2:28:47Speaker 1: dropping some super chat love. Hey, first, we got Wink
- 2:28:50Speaker 1: the cosmic Grandma. Most likely to have a trilogy with
- 2:28:56Speaker 1: bron Hmmm, Jacob thought to Holliday, says, Hi, solo triple
- 2:29:06Speaker 1: H promised an epic Rawtina, but it wasn't very newsworthy.
- 2:29:09Speaker 1: It's an improvement from previous weeks, though, wondering if Jericho
- 2:29:12Speaker 1: may be revealed as the Vision leader given the weight
- 2:29:16Speaker 1: and Theories a member instead Jericho leading the Vision, it
- 2:29:23Speaker 1: would set up a program for Seth rollins when he
- 2:29:26Speaker 1: came back. But I mean, I don't see it again,
- 2:29:33Speaker 1: even the idea that Jericho was the I mean, I
- 2:29:36Speaker 1: guess so what you're saying is that Theory would be
- 2:29:39Speaker 1: a member, so he would technically be revealed as the
- 2:29:42Speaker 1: masked man because Jericho ain't running in and out of
- 2:29:45Speaker 1: that cage that quick. Nobody would buy that. But you're
- 2:29:49Speaker 1: basically saying Jericho replaces Seth as like the veteran leader
- 2:29:53Speaker 1: of the group. I mean, you could do it. I mean,
- 2:30:03Speaker 1: I don't know. We've had nothing but Jericho and factions
- 2:30:06Speaker 1: in AW and then you're gonna debut him in WWE
- 2:30:09Speaker 1: in a faction. We're gonna go through this all over again.
- 2:30:15Speaker 1: It's gonna be like Learning Tree two point zero. I
- 2:30:19Speaker 1: don't know if I could handle that. Boots from the
- 2:30:24Speaker 1: current WWE roster, who would be a good choice to
- 2:30:27Speaker 1: be doink the clown and have them work in triple
- 2:30:31Speaker 1: A the way he's been booked La Night. Let's put
- 2:30:37Speaker 1: the fucking makeup on him. I need to see that
- 2:30:42Speaker 1: photoshop though, of him with the green hair and the
- 2:30:44Speaker 1: makeup on power Spying games. Speaking of adventure, I watched
- 2:30:51Speaker 1: the two thousand and one segment of Booker, T and
- 2:30:53Speaker 1: Austin in Church. Again. No, it's a great one. It's
- 2:30:57Speaker 1: not as good as the supermarket one. But they did
- 2:30:59Speaker 1: one and then the supermarket. They did one in Church.
- 2:31:02Speaker 1: They did one in a bingo hall. See, that was entertaining.
- 2:31:08Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what's missing. That's what's
- 2:31:12Speaker 1: missing from these shows. Where's the fun and super pony?
- 2:31:20Speaker 1: When did the honeymoon phase with Triple h end twenty
- 2:31:25Speaker 1: twenty five when he fucked up? Seen his retirement run,
- 2:31:33Speaker 1: that's when the honeymoon phase officially ended. Booker playing Bingo
- 2:31:39Speaker 1: was comed It was, of course, it was comedy gold.
- 2:31:41Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta have the right people to make
- 2:31:43Speaker 1: it work. But that's they don't have fun. Jericho pinning
- 2:31:51Speaker 1: la at Mania is going to make the Internet implode.
- 2:31:57Speaker 1: I still think that's the likeliest opponent for him on it.
- 2:32:00Speaker 1: I think Jericho and La Knight. If Jericho comes in,
- 2:32:05Speaker 1: Jericho and La and out of WrestleMania, I think is
- 2:32:07Speaker 1: the most likely match. But I said this on the
- 2:32:11Speaker 1: sound off. You know, if these reports are are true,
- 2:32:13Speaker 1: the WWE is only interested in pitching a retirement storyline
- 2:32:17Speaker 1: for him. I don't think Jericho is ready to retire.
- 2:32:21Speaker 1: If that's all WWE is interested in, I think he
- 2:32:23Speaker 1: may well stay where he is. I mean, if that's
- 2:32:27Speaker 1: the case, then I don't think it's as much of
- 2:32:29Speaker 1: a slam dunk as we all thought it was that
- 2:32:30Speaker 1: he's going to leave and go to WWE. Right now?
- 2:32:35Speaker 1: Did I like the snake pit or the funeral parlor more?
- 2:32:40Speaker 1: I was at the funeral parlor snake pit. I was
- 2:32:44Speaker 1: very young and don't have a lot of, you know,
- 2:32:50Speaker 1: great memories. The only real memory I have from the
- 2:32:53Speaker 1: snake pit, honestly, is when Honky Tonk came him in
- 2:32:56Speaker 1: the head with the guitar. I have more memories of
- 2:33:02Speaker 1: and the funeral parlor and the barber shop. Booker is
- 2:33:09Speaker 1: a legend with these comedy segments. Remember the stuff he
- 2:33:14Speaker 1: did with gold dust. When they did those, it was
- 2:33:17Speaker 1: like a movie review segments. Those were great too. Link
- 2:33:25Speaker 1: master X Brett Hart deserved a retirement tour, Yes he did.
- 2:33:33Speaker 1: You know who We have to thank for that, Bill Goldberg.
- 2:33:39Speaker 1: Thank you guys for a great stream tonight. We just
- 2:33:42Speaker 1: were just shy of three hours because you guys killed
- 2:33:47Speaker 1: it here on the stream. A lot of great questions
- 2:33:51Speaker 1: to be the bookers. We had some fun tonight. Let's
- 2:33:54Speaker 1: keep it going. Let's extend that into Wednesday. We got
- 2:33:56Speaker 1: the Dynamite post show, The Continental Classic continues. Could be
- 2:34:00Speaker 1: a big angle on Wednesday, Moxley against Claudio in the
- 2:34:04Speaker 1: Continental Classic, so we'll see how that goes, and then
- 2:34:08Speaker 1: smack Down Friday night we get the finals, La Night
- 2:34:11Speaker 1: and Gunther Who's wrestling John Cena on December thirteenth, We're
- 2:34:14Speaker 1: gonna find out. Hopefully we'll get another US title open
- 2:34:17Speaker 1: challenge with Ilia Dragoneov, because we did not get one
- 2:34:21Speaker 1: on Friday last week, nor did we get one at
- 2:34:24Speaker 1: Survivor Series and boys Survivor Series could have used one.
- 2:34:28Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get one this week. Go back and check
- 2:34:30Speaker 1: out my Survivor Series full review if you missed it.
- 2:34:33Speaker 1: Episode ninety of the sound off from Sunday and I
- 2:34:37Speaker 1: will see you back here on Wednesday. It's all I
- 2:34:40Speaker 1: got for you with the DYNA might post show until then,
- 2:34:42Speaker 1: be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great night, and
- 2:34:46Speaker 1: I will see you in less than forty eight hours.
- 2:34:48Speaker 1: We'll do it all over again here live on YouTube.
- 2:34:50Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys,