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You Thought It WOULDN'T BE Cody Rhodes? | WWE Smackdown 2/13/26 Review · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I swear these three hour shows they
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: feel like they get longer every week, don't. I mean,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I know it's three hours. I know it started at eight,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: it ended at eleven, and yet for some reason, it
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: feels longer than three hours. SmackDown Tonight had two more
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber qualifying matches and two title matches as well,
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  Speaker 1: So there were some important matches on the show tonight,
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  Speaker 1: but the Elimination Chamber qualifying matches, they saw Cody Rhodes
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: and Alexa Bliss advance to the chamber their respective chamber matches.
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  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre had a plan tonight, and his plan was
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that Sammy's Ain won the Elimination Chamber qualifier.
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  Speaker 1: Because Sammy's Ain can't win a fucking match against Drew
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  Speaker 1: McIntyre guys like zero for twelve, so of course he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see Sammy win. He came back, he tried
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  Speaker 1: to help Sammy win. It did not work. Drew McIntyre's
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  Speaker 1: plan backfire on him and so Cody Rhodes, which should
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  Speaker 1: have been the most predictable outcome of that match, they
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  Speaker 1: stuck to their guns. Cody is going to the elimination
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  Speaker 1: Chamber where he will very likely win the Elimination Chamber
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  Speaker 1: and challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. But Jacob
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  Speaker 1: fa Twu was this close from winning that qualifying match
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  Speaker 1: were it not for a Claymore kick from Drew McIntyre.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, Jacob fa twu, even though I
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  Speaker 1: know it was noice qualification, anything goes triple threat match.
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  Speaker 1: But you can argue, if you're Jacob fought too, that
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  Speaker 1: you were screwed out of a win here on this
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  Speaker 1: show tonight. There is still hope that Jacob could be
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  Speaker 1: worked into that match and we could end up getting
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  Speaker 1: a triple threat match of WRESTLEMANI I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it's going to work. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know that Triple H has made his mind up yet
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  Speaker 1: that he wanted to work that way, because evidently plans
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: are changing by the week for WrestleMania. The one thing
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you, though, and I understand that we're
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  Speaker 1: still about two months or so out from WrestleMania. We
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: are on the road to WrestleMania, and outside of that
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  Speaker 1: one segment that we had a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: between cm Punk and Roman Reigns on Monday Night Raw.
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  Speaker 1: This does not feel like WrestleMania. They got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work to do if they want to get me
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of other people excited about this show
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  Speaker 1: coming up in April.
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: To do, and the pieces are there, you just got
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  Speaker 1: to figure out where to put them. Doesn't help when
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  Speaker 1: you have Oba Femi show up on SmackDown again and
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  Speaker 1: they are now teasing a second match between him and
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  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson on the show next week. You've got Oba
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  Speaker 1: Femi on the main roster. Essentially he is feuding with
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  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson. What are we doing here?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But Cody Roads is going to the elimination chamber. Alexa
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  Speaker 1: Bliss is going to the elimination chamber. Jade Cargill one
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  Speaker 1: hundred days as WWE Women's Champion, she finally had her
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  Speaker 1: first title defense. If you can believe it, we should
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  Speaker 1: have had a celebration here tip I would have known.
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  Speaker 1: I would have busted out the confetti and as challengers go,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Grace not a bad person to be in the
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  Speaker 1: ring with if you're working your first title defense. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Jade Carr Gill is still the WWE Women's Champion. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if too many people expected that to go
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  Speaker 1: any other way. The bigger question, I suppose is exactly
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  Speaker 1: who is she going to be defending that title against
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  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. That's another unanswered question because unfortunately, it seems
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  Speaker 1: pretty clear that Bianca bell Air is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be back in time, not to wrestle anyway at wrestleman
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's talk about her maybe having some other
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  Speaker 1: appearance or role on the show. I mean many months
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  Speaker 1: ago she was a special referee. That may be the
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  Speaker 1: closest we get to Bianca Belair WrestleManias. So they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to find somebody else for Jade to work with,
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  Speaker 1: and who that's gonna be if it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: singles match again, everything just feels like it's up in
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  Speaker 1: the air right now. There are a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: out there now. The other championship that was defended tonight
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  Speaker 1: was also on the women's side. It was the women's
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  Speaker 1: tag team titles Riea Ripley and EO Sky. I was
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  Speaker 1: holding out hope that maybe, just maybe they would drop
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  Speaker 1: those belts tonight, not that I'm all that interested in
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  Speaker 1: seeing Naya Jackson lash Light as champions. I'm not, but
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  Speaker 1: just to get the belts off of them and allow
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  Speaker 1: them to move on to something else. But not only
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  Speaker 1: did they not lose the tag team titles tonight, we
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  Speaker 1: got the most ridiculous, nonsensical, bullshit finish to that women's
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  Speaker 1: tag team title match where it just.
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  Speaker 2: It just ended. Hell of a finished there.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Obfemi again, He's gonna be wrestling Kit Wilson
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  Speaker 1: again next week. You know who was not on the
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  Speaker 1: show tonight, but who was there in the building and
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  Speaker 1: actually did wrestle, But he wrestled before smacked went on
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  Speaker 1: the air tonight, Powerhouse Hobbs. We saw him in the
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble Royce Keys. He made his big debut over
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  Speaker 1: there in Riod got to eliminate Damian Priest, the former
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  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Champion. That we didn't see him again after that,
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  Speaker 1: so I was kind of hoping that he would make
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  Speaker 1: an appearance on the show tonight. Not only did he
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  Speaker 1: not make an appearance, they had him wrestling Nathan Fraser
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  Speaker 1: on main event. He wrestled on Maine event before SmackDown
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  Speaker 1: even went on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't even been airing any sort of vignettes or
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  Speaker 1: video packages for him like they've been doing with Obafemi.
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  Speaker 1: We've got nothing. Why even put him in the royal
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  Speaker 1: rumble of this is how you were going to introduce him?
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  Speaker 1: Why is he wrestling on fucking main event?
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  Speaker 2: What is going on here? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't on the show. On the show today. As
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  Speaker 1: far as the rest of the show goes, it had
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  Speaker 1: its moments. Trick Williams. He continues to be featured on
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  Speaker 1: the show. That's encouraging. He had another promo segment tonight
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  Speaker 1: before his match with Ray Phoenix that I thought was
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  Speaker 1: very good, and you just hear it when he's introduced
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  Speaker 1: and he comes out to the ring. Yeah, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about the horrible entrance music that so many of these
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  Speaker 1: wrestlers have. I mean, Jordan Grace comes out to the
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  Speaker 1: ring tonight, I feel so.
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  Speaker 2: Bad for her. What the fuck?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really, Zelena Vegas music was so bad she
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  Speaker 1: had to abandon it and now she's using her husband's music.
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  Speaker 1: But Trick Williams is one of the luckier ones because
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  Speaker 1: he comes out he's actually got a pretty badass theme
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  Speaker 1: and between the theme song and his promo work. Like,
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  Speaker 1: the fans are getting.
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  Speaker 2: Behind this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he's supposed to be a heel. The fans
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  Speaker 1: are getting behind him in a major way. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's progressing. It a good clip here, but again,
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, I look at this show tonight and again
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  Speaker 1: it was just it was a slog to sit through
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  Speaker 1: most of it. It got better in the final hour
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  Speaker 1: in terms of some of the matches that they had,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just sitting here and I'm like, I mean, again,
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  Speaker 1: wrestle MANI is two months away. Where's the excitement. That's
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  Speaker 1: what's missing from this show. I'm still waiting for it
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  Speaker 1: to kick in. It's good that they have these elimination
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  Speaker 1: chamber qualifiers. Again, it's good to have matches that have
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  Speaker 1: meaning and purpose on these shows. But the excitement just
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  Speaker 1: isn't there. You have talked about the spark. Someone has
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  Speaker 1: to light the fuse. It hasn't been lit. You know
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  Speaker 1: that person you saw floating in the water there in
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  Speaker 1: the intro, That was me watching this show tonight talking
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  Speaker 1: about this Friday, the thirteenth, very scary episode of SmackDown,
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  Speaker 1: which aired on Sci Fi tonight. I didn't have to
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: worry about that because I was watching it on Netflix,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: my trusty VPN. Oh and I forgot to mention the
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio and Live Morgan were on the show tonight
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: eating chicken nuggets during the Women's title match. Friday Night's
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  Speaker 1: Backdown Monday Night Raw doesn't really matter. I guess hit
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  Speaker 1: that like button, hit that subscribe button. We're gonna talk
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: about this SmackDown show here tonight as we try to
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  Speaker 1: conjure up some excitement for WrestleMania Season here. As hard
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  Speaker 1: as it is to do, but we're going to try,
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and do all of that. Super chats
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  Speaker 1: are open. I'll be reading all of your messages as
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: I usually do. But let's spend the wheel here and
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  Speaker 1: to find out how many likes we're gonna need to
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  Speaker 1: do be the Booker.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to do be the Booker tonight? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll be doing be the Booker three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty likes. This is an easy homework assignment for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, three point fifty and you guys will unlock
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  Speaker 1: some B to B, so get to work on that.
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  Speaker 2: I did want to show one thing here.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the first things I noticed when
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  Speaker 1: they came on the air tonight for this show, and
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  Speaker 1: it is one of the more or bizarre signs that
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  Speaker 1: I have ever seen at a wrestling show. So they
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: showed Joe Tessitura, Wade Barrett at ringside. They're talking to
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  Speaker 1: us here as they're introducing the beginning of the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this sign behind them in the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, get a load of this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know what else to say here, but this is
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  Speaker 1: the sign Paul Hayman is hot. And it's got a
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  Speaker 1: very lifelike illustration of Paul Hayman, who looks more like
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  Speaker 1: Bronze Breaker there, and that it looks orange. Paul Hayman
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  Speaker 1: is hot. Those are words that I never thought I
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  Speaker 1: would be speaking. And I don't know what the I mean,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they believe that, I don't know. Maybe they just
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  Speaker 1: think Paul Hayman is hot. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was very disturbed by this.
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  Speaker 1: It actually is a very appropriate sign to hold up
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of a Friday the thirteenth episode. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: David says, where's the lie? The lies right there, It's
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  Speaker 1: circled and red.
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  Speaker 2: What are you blind?
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  Speaker 1: I put a big there's a big red circle around it.
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  Speaker 1: There's the lie my god.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: It's a good way to sum up SmackDown right there.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like Hayman if he was on Family Guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, they tried. They do a better job
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  Speaker 1: of illustrating him there than I would. Wow anyway, Tiffany Stratton,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman may not be hot. Tiffany Stratton's pretty hot.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: So she made her way out to the ring to
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  Speaker 1: kick things off. Here, they showed us how she qualified
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: last week for the Women's Elimination Chamber match. So she
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: talked about how she lost her a WWE Women's Championship
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: after having a very impressive rookie year where she went
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: undefeated for most of it. She goes, that's why she
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: decided to qualify for the Elimination Chamber because she wanted
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: to walk in to Chicago expecting to win. But before
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: she could go any further in her promo, she was
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: interrupted by Nya Jackx's music. So she comes out with
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  Speaker 1: lash Legend. They are scheduled to challenge for the women's
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: tag team titles here tonight on this show and so
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Naya says that Tiffany just got lucky. Last week, Stratton
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: said that Naya seemed to be obsessed with her, and
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  Speaker 1: she got a replacement in the form of Lash Legend.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Legend called herself the upgrade and said that she and
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  Speaker 1: Naya would defeat ReHO, not that ReHO for the women's
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  Speaker 1: tag team titles here tonight, and then Nya would qualify
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  Speaker 1: for the Women's Elimination Chamber, which was terrible here because
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  Speaker 1: that meant that Nya Jax is going to be in
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  Speaker 1: a elimination Chamber of qualifying match, which she will be
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  Speaker 1: next week. So the two of them, they threatened to
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  Speaker 1: take care of their Tiffany problem right here and now
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: they were interrupted Dubby the Women's tag team champions, and
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  Speaker 1: so outcomes Rhea Ripley and outcomes EO Sky, and Rhea
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  Speaker 1: said that Nya and Legends should not get too far
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  Speaker 1: ahead of themselves because they would not be walking out
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  Speaker 1: with their titles, much less make it to WrestleMania. Well,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: that was certainly a segment on television that happened. It's
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: the best thing I can say to describe this here.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Not much happened, but it did lead to the Women's
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  Speaker 1: tag team title match Rhea, Ripley and Eosky against Nya,
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  Speaker 1: Jacks and Lash Legend. After Nya held control for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, Io blasted Jacks with a shotgun dropkick. Ripley
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  Speaker 1: tagged herself in that's what people wanted to see, and
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: she sent Naya out of the ring with a dropkick.
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  Speaker 1: Legend got dumped out as well, so this led to
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  Speaker 1: EO hitting a diving moon salt from the Apron knocks
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  Speaker 1: both heels down outside the ring. Naya got brought back
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  Speaker 1: inside as EO headed up top. Lash though grabbed her
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  Speaker 1: leg which allowed Naya to hit EO with a samo
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  Speaker 1: and drop for a near fall. So Legend and Jacks
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  Speaker 1: they tried to work over EO in the corner. Nya
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  Speaker 1: missed a running attack and EO used her as a
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  Speaker 1: platform to hit Lash with a diving dropkick, so that
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  Speaker 1: allowed her to get the hot tag from rear Ripley
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  Speaker 1: and there was a little bit of a struggle here.
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  Speaker 1: Ripley hit Legend with her karana followed by a DDT.
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  Speaker 1: EO headed to the top. Nia though escaped Ripley's riptide
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  Speaker 1: attempt and she intercepted EO on top. This left her
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  Speaker 1: open though for Rhea's very impressive feet of strength here,
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  Speaker 1: and she hoisted Naya up for a power bomb. Eo
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  Speaker 1: came off the top with her over the moon salt
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  Speaker 1: and she had the match one legend, though she interrupted
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  Speaker 1: the pin, so outside the ring, Lash proceeded to slam Eo.
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  Speaker 2: She slammed her.
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  Speaker 1: All over ringside and over by the announced desk, Ripley
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  Speaker 1: hit it and so all of a sudden, Charles Robinson
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  Speaker 1: calls for the bell. He has lost control and therefore
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  Speaker 1: he is throwing the match away. And you can imagine
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  Speaker 1: the fan reaction in Dallas when they heard the bell
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  Speaker 1: ring here. They were not too happy about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just watching this going, what the fuck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: We've seen some wild, chaotic, out of control fighting in
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  Speaker 1: brawls during matches where the referee just has no choice
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  Speaker 1: but to throw the match away. That's not what this was.
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  Speaker 1: But Charles Robinson, you know what, you get to a
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  Speaker 1: certain age, it's like, you know what, I'm too old
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  Speaker 1: for this shit. Let's just call it off. So he
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  Speaker 1: calls the match off. All four women now are brawling
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  Speaker 1: on the floor for a little bit. Ultimately, Lash Pump
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  Speaker 1: kicks Rhea down to the floor. So Lash and Naya
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  Speaker 1: they set up a slim gym table on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: Rhea is placed on top of this table and Naya
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  Speaker 1: is on the apron and she begins scaling the ropes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at this.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, there ain't no way she's doing anything
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  Speaker 1: because the table is too far away. There's this huge
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  Speaker 1: gap between the edge of the ring and where the
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  Speaker 1: table is positioned. Naya Jacks, ain't no logan, Paul, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: She's not gonna go flying through that table, No way,
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  Speaker 1: no how. So she's teasing though that she's gonna scale
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  Speaker 1: the ropes, and of course Rhea Ripley, she fights her
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  Speaker 1: way off the table. Eo comes in with a suicide
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  Speaker 1: crossbody through the ropes and she ends up spearing an
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  Speaker 1: eye off the apron. Now, the idea was that she
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  Speaker 1: would spear her through the table, which ultimately is what
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  Speaker 1: happened kind of, because what happened is she hit the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the table, but the table still broke, and
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  Speaker 1: it broke perfectly right down the middle. And this is
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  Speaker 1: not the first time that I have seen this with
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  Speaker 1: these slim gym tables where you don't even necessarily need
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  Speaker 1: to hit it with too much force, but it will
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  Speaker 1: break perfectly right down the middle. It's like they used
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  Speaker 1: to sell those toys as part of these playsets that
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  Speaker 1: they would sell with the table that would break and
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  Speaker 1: it would break perfectly right down the middle. That's how
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: these tables are now. Clearly there's a new upgrade in
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  Speaker 1: the design when it comes to these tables.
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  Speaker 2: So it broke and they're laying there on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Lash tackled Rhea through the timekeeper's barricade, which is
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  Speaker 1: just such an overdone spot, but now it looked like
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  Speaker 1: pure chaos and all four women were down. The way
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  Speaker 1: they ended this match was just horrendous. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: how you end a title match. Obviously, they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to have a clean winner here one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to keep Naya and Lash alive. I guess
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  Speaker 1: for a rematch or I don't know what the plan
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  Speaker 1: is there. They're going to take this all the way
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  Speaker 1: to WrestleMania and have multiple teams in there, which is
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  Speaker 1: certainly possible. The Bella Twins will be in there as well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that finish was fucking terrible. And
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: then the postmatch chaos. I mean that was fine, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this and I'm going They're gonna do this,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they. They're going to keep these tag team titles
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  Speaker 1: on Ria and EO going into WrestleMania and have them
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  Speaker 1: defending against the Bellas. This is going to end up
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: being their big plan for these women. Unbelievable. Cody Rhodes
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: was interviewed backstage by Kathy Kelly about his chances in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: his Elimination Chamber qualifying match later tonight. He talked about
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: how they there are those who are hoping that he
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and Sammy and Jacob Faught rip each other apart in
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the main event tonight. Cody said that he was two
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: matches away from the dream. You know, it was the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: story a couple of years ago. Now it's the dream.
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  Speaker 1: The dream is to get to the WrestleMania main event
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: to compete for the WWE Championship. So what would this
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: be If Cody ends up in the WrestleMania main event.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Let's say on Night one, this would be his fifth
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania main event, right, we have thirty nine. He was
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: technically in two different main events at forty forty one.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I guess it would be four his fourth WrestleMania main event,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: assuming he makes it. He also mentioned that he was
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: in the middle of Von Eeric Country. Don't bet against
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: him tonight.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: He said. Carmel O.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Hayes was walking backstage as Matt Cardona and Apollo Cruise
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: again hanging out with one. Apparently they become the best
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of friends here because every week on SmackDown, these two
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: guys are just hanging out together. I guess they got
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: nothing better to do in the back, So what else
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You kind of form new friendships
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and relationships with people. Hey, you want to hang out
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: with me. It's like school, right, I got nothing to do. Fuck,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: let's go walk around, Let's shoot the shit. So they're
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: hanging out again this week, and they call their shot.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: They both want a crack at the United States Championship.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: They point out that both of them are former US champions.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I had completely forgotten that Apollo Cruise at one time
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: was United States Champion. So Hayes said, look, the open Challenge.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I welcome all comers, but tonight the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Open Challenge is closed. So he kept on walking and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he bumped into the Miz funny, I thought this was over.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: He bumps into the Miz talks about how Hayes was
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: testing his three core values and I wish I could
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: tell you that I cared to write down what they were,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: but I don't. So he said that he was going
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to teach him a lesson in respect, and Hayes walked off,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: telling Miz that he hoped he taught that lesson better
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: than he wrestled. After this, we got a promo video
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: with Alistair Black and Zelina Vega. Black said that Randy
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Orton is still one of the greats. He said Orton
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: showed shades of what he was like in two thousand
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and nine in their Elimination Chamber qualifier. We were seeing
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: shades of two thousand and nine Randy ort He won,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: wondered what would happen if Cody Rhades qualified for the match,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and then he wondered if we would see Orton soon,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and then Zelina spoke about her qualifying match and said
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that change would come. Interesting that they still have Black
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: talking about Randy Orton, which would seem to indicate that
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: they're going to keep this. I can't even call it
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a feud, really, but they're going to keep this thing
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: going with two of them.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I say, I don't see that as a WrestleMania match
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: though for Randy Orton, but you would watch this and think, Okay,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it's possible that it could be. So that's obviously going
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to be something to watch now if he gets involved
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in Orton's business. But after this, we had the United
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: States Champion Carmelo Hayes, who was out to the ring
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: for a promo and he was ready to address the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: crowd here in Dallas, who gave him, actually, I thought,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a very good reception. Hayes said that for the last
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: forty eight days, she's kind of funny since he has
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the first forty eight. For the last forty eight days
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he's been the US champion. He chose to honor the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: title in the same way that the men before him did,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and he talked about how his matches were all bangers,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and he earned the opportunity to be at WrestleMania, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he said that he was gonna shoot his shot for
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the main event. Well, look, I mean, it's always nice
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to have goals, But yeah, Carmelo Hayes in the WrestleMania
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: main event. I don't know, maybe in twenty thirty one,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, that ain't gonna happen, but he declared
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: himself for an elimination Chamber qualifier next week. Before that, though,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: there's someone in the back he made a promise to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and he owed it to him, and that man was
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Ilia draged Of. So come on out here and we're
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: gonna have ourselves a United States Championship match. And I'm like, yes, now,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: this is what I would like to see here on
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this show. So out comes the Mad Dragon. I'm all
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: pumped up and ready for this match, and then they
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: blue ball because then we hear the MFTs music, the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: worst music that you could possibly hear in this situation.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: As we're getting ready for yet another banger of a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: match between Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov, we see Solo
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Sokoa and his MFTs ruin it and.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: They walk out.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Solo says that if there's going to be any US
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: title matches, it's not going to involve Ilia Dragonov. It's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: going to start with him. So Dragonov mocked Solo and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: after the MFTs abandoned him last week, that's what he
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was referring to. He was mocking him. Hay said that
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: maybe I should leave Dallas tonight with two titles, basically
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: saying that he and Dragonov should go after the tag
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: team titles. I was, I was, I don't know. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: was caught off guard. I guess by how Ilia Dragonov
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: just sort of dismissed this whole US Championship match without
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: any without really even think about it. He seemed to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: be okay with teaming up with Carmelo. Hayes he was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: literally about to wrestle for the title. He's been telling
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Carmelo every.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Week, you owe me, you owe me, you owe me.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I want my rematch, and.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: He was about to get it, and these these fools
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: come out to the ring and he's like, oh, it
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: looks like we're going to have a tag team match.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, you're fucking idiot. You're about to have
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a championship match. What are you so happy about? So
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the MFTs they marched down to the ring. They launched
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: an attack on the two of them. Here comes Matt
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Cardona and Apollo Cruise. They're like, finally, this is our
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: opening here to get involved in something on the show.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So they run down to the ring try to even
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the odds the MFT still have the numbers game. Here
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: comes Shinsky Nakamora, he runs out. So here comes the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: general manager, Nick all This who walks out and says, ah,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I see where this is going. I've got a great idea.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: We're gon We're gonna have to postpone this United States
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Championship match in favor of a ten man tag team
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: match ring the Bell and yes, instead of a US
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: title match here on this show we end up with this.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: You tease a title match with Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: which I know I very much wanted to see. You
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: won me over, and then instead you pull the rugout
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: from under us to give us a ten man tag
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: team match with the MFTs. Why do they hate their
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: audience so much?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: So we had Solo Socoa, Tamatonga, j C. Matteo, Toga
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Loa and Tallatoga. That's a lot of Tonga's in there
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: against Carmelo Hayes, Ilia dragon of Of, Matt Cardona, Apollo Cruise
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and Shinsky knockingmore. They joined the match already in progress
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: after a commercial break, but there was a bizarre spot
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: involving Tongo. Oh well, of course it would it would happen?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Could it be anything but bizarre? When Togaloa is involved.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Tongalo is in the.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Ring with Matt Cardona and he's down on his knees
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and Cardona went like he went to go move like
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he was about to hit the ropes, and Tongaloa he
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: was holding onto Matt Cardona's trunks and he just refused
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to let go. So Cardona is trying to run into
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the ropes and he's basically it looks like he's trying
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to pull this man's trunks down. And it was to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the point where even Wade Barrett on commentary here he
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: even made the comment he said that he joked that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: it looked like he was trying to hijack Cardona's wardrobe.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: It almost got X rated here.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Tangaloa was trying to go for here,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and frankly that it's none of my business. But in
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the middle of a match here, it was a little weird,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like let go, dude, So the MFTs they continued to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: work over Cardona, Tallatanga entered, he dropped Cardona with a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: huge samo and drop. Cardona eventually managed to tag dragonov
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: In and the Big Man struck Dragonov down from the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: top rope, which sent him crashing out to the floor.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Now they returned from another commercial break, jac Matteo had
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Dragonov in a rest hold and Dragonov he missed with
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the inziguri, which allowed Mateo to tag in solo socoa.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: But Dragonov hit the kick on solo which allowed him
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to tag in. Carmelo, Hayes and Melo came in. He
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: got this big flurry, so Mello's on fire here. Tama
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: ate the backwards springboard leg drop by Hayes, who then
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: connected with La Mistika on solo socoa. So things started
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to break down here at this point, and it's a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: good thing Charles Robinson was not the referee for this match,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: or else he would have thrown the whole fucking thing away.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So it started to break down. All ten men were
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: involved in the chaos. This is what I mean, though,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you know I joke about this shit, But like, you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: have a match here with ten men, and you have
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a point in the match where things begin to break down.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: The previous match had four women, and you throw the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: match away. You realize how ridiculous that sounds. So Talatoga
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was left as the last man standing in the ring.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Hazen Dragonow attempted to team up on him, and the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: two of them got dropped by a double choke slam.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Cruise and Cardona they tried also. They almost found themselves
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the victim of a choke slam as well, until Nakamara
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: got involved, and eventually the three of them managed to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: put the big guy down with.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: A whole flurry of dives.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Tomatonga then blind tagged himself in, but he stayed outside.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: He kind of dropped down from the apron like he
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: didn't want to be seen, and the announcers never mentioned it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Hayes didn't see it either. He hit the first forty
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: eight to solo. I believe it was Toma, though he
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: shoved Hayes off the ropes as he was going for
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I guess nothing, but Net shoved him off right into
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a Samoan spike and then Toma slid into the ring.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: He hit his cutthroat hidden blade on Hayes and he
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: pinned the United States champion to win it for the MFTs.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: That was The MFTs tried to celebrate their win. The
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: lights went out and we see when they kind of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: come back on the wyat six are gathered up on
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the concourse. They're up in the crowd looking down at
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the MFTs, and that was it. That was the end
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of that. It was Look the match itself, it was
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: solid enough. It was nothing wrong with the match itself
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: outside of whatever the fuck Tongaloo was trying to do.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But man, you know, there's the potential here for some
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: actual with the MFTs, with Tomatanga being the one to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: win the match and Tomatoga being the one to you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: likely challenge Carmelo Hayes for the United States Championship, even
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: though Solo Socoa was the one who came out earlier
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and said, hey, the line begins here with me, but
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it was Tama who won the match, and tom has
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: also been teasing that he was going to be coming
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: after this title. So I don't know if they are
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: planning to go in this direction. I would hope so
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: just for the sake of having some kind of story
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: here involving these guys where maybe this is kind of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: these are kind of the first cracks within the MFTs
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: if Toma Tonga is going to be challenging for the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: US title. But Solo Socoa wanted to be the one
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: right challenging for the US title. I don't know if
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that's going to become a thing or not. I really
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: don't want the MFTs to be bringing all the gold
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: into their group. They have the tag team titles. No
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: one gives a shit about the tag team titles because
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: there's no tag team division.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: There was a point in time where the SmackDown Tag
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Team Division a lot of people cared. Nobody cares because
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: WWE doesn't care enough to put any effort into tag
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: team wrestling on these shows when it comes to Raw
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: or when it comes to SmackDown. Outside of what they've
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: been doing with the women's tag team titles. It's like
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: in the last six months, all of a sudden they remembered,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: holy shit, we have women's tag team belts. We should
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: probably do something with them, but at the expense of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: all the other tag team belts that they have in
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this company. So it's hard to care about what the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: MFTs are doing and the why ITTs want the belts back.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Phraxium is in the back every week, hanging out with
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the MotorCity machine Guns. They seem more interested in what's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: going on in the Life of Johnny Gargano than they
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: do challenging for the tag team titles. Street profits are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: working NXT house shows. I don't know what the fuck
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: is going on, but I know one thing. I don't
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: need all of this gold in the mft's vortex, so
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I certainly don't want to see the US title anywhere
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: near the MFTs.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Now we go to the back.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Alexibiliss is warming up and here comes Charlotte Flair. She's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: apologizing for the Royal Rumble because she inadvertently helped eliminate Alexibilists,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and Alexis said, look, it was Nya Jackx's fault. Charlotte says,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Naya ruins everything. I don't disagree. Charlotte has come bearing
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: gifts though for Alexa, and she presents her with a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: bouquet of black roses, which is interesting, and she asks
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: her to be her Gallantine. The writing on this show
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is horrendous, by the way, that's what she did. Will
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you be my Gallantine?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: No elsewhere.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Nick is in his office with Damian Priest and Our Truth,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and he informs Damian Priest that he will be in
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: an elimination chamber qualifying match on the show next week
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: against Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. And I'm listening to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: this and I'm like Trick and Mellow in the same match.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: If ever there was a starting point for a WrestleMania match,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: there it is. It begins or it should begin on
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the show next week, because that should be the WrestleMania
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: match right there for the United States Championship. You know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Melo was out there earlier saying I'm gonna shoot my shot.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get in the main event of WrestleMania.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And he's not gonna sniff the main event in WrestleMania,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: but he absolutely should have a match on that show,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: not on the Friday before WrestleMania, but on WrestleMania.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It stuff.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: You got two nights of WrestleMania. You've been having US
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: title open challenges now for months. It's been the highlight
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of this show. There's no reason you should not have
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a match for that title on the WrestleMania card. There's
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: your match, and they could plant that first seed for it,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: as far as you know, something between the two of them.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Next week on the show, Kit Wilson storms into the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: room to complain about nick All this putting him in
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the ring last week with Oba Femi. He's got a book.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a purse that he had, like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: he had it looked like he had, like he had
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the strap, and I thought it was a fucking purse.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: But I guess it was a book.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And he's got this book with him and there's a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: poem in there, and he reads this poem and it
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: was like raw is red and smacked down is blue.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And I don't remember the rest of it, but it
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: is a very basic poem. But at the end he
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: declares him as being toxic. So then our Truth offered
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a poem of his own, and he he mocked Kit Wilson,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: saying that he's not a real man because he's got
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a cameltoe, like, oh my god, and so Wilson stormed
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: off in disgust. Wait a Women's Elimination Chamber qualifying match
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss, who had Charlotte Flair in her corner her
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Gallantine against Julia who had Keana James in her corner
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: against Zelena Vega. Zelena has new music. Now, this is
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: better than her previous music, which would get absolutely no
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: reaction every single time she would come out to the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: ring like nobody would react. So if anybody needed new music,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: she's certainly on the list of people who could use
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: new entrance music. But what they did here was the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: laziest thing that you can do. I mean, they gave
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: her a good theme, but they gave her her husband's theme.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So now she just comes out to Alistair Black's theme song.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: You know what, I'll take it over what she had before.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: It's an improvement. But I just I found this very funny,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and I laughed when I said, Oh, okay, this is
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the new music that they gave her. Yeah, Damian Priest
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: was laughing his ass.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean that's what they do.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: They have that forced comedy where you have to do
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the fake laugh on the show. I'm not saying that,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you know, there wasn't a chuckle in there to uh whatever, truth.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I forgot what Truth said before the cameltoe line. But yeah, yeah,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: not great. So Zelena, she fought out of his sister Abigail.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: She sent Alexa into the corners Zelena and Julia. They
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: mixed it up a little bit. Bliss came back. She
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: went after both women. Cannonball from the apron to Julia
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: by Bliss, who herself then got taken out by a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: dive from Zelena and then that took us into a
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: commercial break. Later on, Zelena headed up top, but she
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: was distracted by Keana James, which allowed Julia to head
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: up top and connect with the Avalanche Butterfly Soup like.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: She took her all the way down to the mat.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Bliss recovered she had a double natural selection on both women,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: so later in the match, Bliss headed to the top.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: She was going for twisted Bliss as she came down,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: though Julia got her knees up. Then though she got
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: dropped with a code read from Zelena. Bliss caught Zelena
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: with a DDT. She went for the cover that got
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: broken up by the Arrivederchini, which didn't connect fully, but
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: she got enough of it. Julia hit the Northern Lights
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: bomb on Bliss and then her cover got broken up
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: by Zelena. Keana James got up on the apron got
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: taken out by Zelena, who then took Julia took her
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: out of the ring as Zelena tried for the running
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: dive because she was going to.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Dive out to the floor.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: As she was attempting this, Alexa Bliss stopped her and said,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, and she caught her imposition for
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the sister Abigail DDT and Alexa Bliss qualifies for the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: elimination Chamber match. Hardly a surprise. I mean, once I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: said it last week during the review, I mean, once
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you saw the lineup for this match, it was pretty
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: clear who was moving on to the chamber. This was
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the best thing so far. You know, Selena, we know
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: what her ceiling is. She's basically there right now in
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: this company. Julia is someone who it's killed me to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: watch her for months now go out there most of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: her matches, you know, unless she's in there with Rhea
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Ripley and EO Sky to get no reaction. This was
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit better, you know, especially after she hit
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that the Avalanche Butterfly suplex. You know, she's starting to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: kind of gain a little bit more momentum. She's still
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: not where I would hope for her to be, but
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: it feels like maybe she's you know, taking baby steps
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to get there. But Bliss, again, this was the obvious
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: outcome here for this match. And if Charlotte Flare ends
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: up in the elimination Chamber, then you have the obvious
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: teases of tension between the two of them. You know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Charlotte was still coming up to her on the show
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: tonight to apologize what happened, you know, for what happened
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble. You know there's going to be
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: more fallout from that. It would seem that Charlotte Flair
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: would end up in a spot in the elimination chamber,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: unless the idea is that Alexa Bliss is going to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: sort of inadvertently cost Charlotte her qualifying match next week,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: because Charlotte is going to be in a qualifying match
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: with Naya Jacks and Keana James. Now, I don't see
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Keana James in the elimination chamber. I mean, it's not
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: impossible to conceive. I think it's very unlikely, and I
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: have no interest in seeing Naya Jackson the elimination chamber.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: She does not need to be in there. That leaves
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair. It makes the most sense for Charlotte to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: be the one to advance. And so right now we
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: have Tiffany Stratton is in, Rhea Ripley is in right
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: she qualified on Monday night, and Alexa Bliss is in.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: That leaves three spots open in the women's chamber match.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I have to.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Imagine that Charlotte Flair is going to end up in there.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: There's a match coming up on Monday where Osca is
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: my pick to win. So let's say Charlotte Oscar EO
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: because if Rea is in there, why wouldn't Eo be
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: in there? And so I think those are your six
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: women in the women's Chamber match, and that has the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: potential to actually be a very good chamber match. I
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: thought the elimination chamber match last year with the women
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: was the best one they've done so far since they
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: started doing the women's chamber matches last year. To me,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that's number one. So with the right lineup, I think
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: they could have a very good go at it again
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: this year. And when the back Tiffany Stratton was walking,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: she found Jordan Grace and Grace welcomed her back and
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: said that when I win the title tonight, she won't
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: mind facing Tiffany or WrestleMania. So then off she went
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Chelsea Green and her broken foot got wheeled into frame
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: by Alba Fire. Chelsea complained about losing to Tiffany. She
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: had her foot in a walking boot and she complained
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: about losing to Tiffany, look at.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: What you did.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: My foot is all mangled now because of you and Alba.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: She wanted apology and compensation for what she did to Chelsea.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Tiffany says that all Chelsea needed to do was step
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: up and ask for an apology, but it looks like
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: she can't do.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: That right now.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So originally the belief was that her ankle it was
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: just a really bad bruise. And it sounds like her
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: ankle may be broken, or at least there may be
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: some sort of crack or something, and I think that
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: was mentioned in the Observer that there might actually be
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a break. How serious it is or if she needs surgery.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: That I don't know.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: But that makes things a little bit more serious and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: means that Chelsea ain't going to be back as quickly
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: as maybe people originally thought.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: So that sucks.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: But she was there and so you could still use
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: her on TV and wheel her around right Stokely Halfaway
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is still being wheeled around at a fucking wheeled share
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: on Dynamite.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Every week.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You can wheel around Chelsea Green. After the commercial, they
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: come back to the announcers and Joe Tessitaur is talking,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and he's he's attempting to sell the product right now
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: as being unpredictable. WWE is very unpredictable right now. And look,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, what the fuck is he going to say?
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: He's doing his job right It's a completely ridiculous statement
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: to make, or is it?
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, the wrestle of any of your plans
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: apparently are changing by the week, doesn't get any more
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: unpredictable than that. But the idea of that WWE is
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: some kind of unpredictable product is very laughable right now.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: So he was setting up a recap about the whole
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: situation with Cody Rhoads and Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: So in the back after this, Ray Phoenix is warming
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: up for his upcoming match with Trick Williams. Sammy's approaches him, says, look,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I want you to go teach Trick Williams a lesson tonight.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Phoenix says, you will. Sammy says, look, I want to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: just thank you for the words kind words last week,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: because Sammy was all downtrodden, Remember, Phoenix came up to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: him and tried to give him a little pep talk
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and You're a big inspiration to me and just keep
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: your head up right. So he wanted to thank him
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: for that because he didn't say it last week. He
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: was all messed up, but it meant a lot to him.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: So Phoenix says, you know, Sammy is going to win tonight.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: And as this promo was going on, we hear Tricks
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: music hit in the background, So we go out to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the ring and here comes Trick Williams.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: As soon as they hit his music, it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Got a big pop and the entire building in Dallas
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: is chanting, whoop that Trick like they are fully singing
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: along with Tricks music. And he comes down to the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: ring and again I say it all the time when
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: he comes out on the show ever since they called
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: him up, dude's a star. He just comes off as
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: a star. Some people have it, some people don't. He
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: hasn't been up there very long, but he's got it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: And it also goes to show you the power of
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: having a decent piece of entrance music, which not a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: lot of people on this show have, but he does,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and so that helps. So the crowd reaction was very noticeable.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: So he gets in the ring and he says that
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: He's sure nobody in Dallas wants to hear from Sammy's ain.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Mister can't get the job done. They don't want to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: hear him come out and tell another sob story. Said
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: that Sammy begging for another opportunity made him sick. He
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: said that Sammy had a big opportunity later tonight against
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhoades and Jacob fa too, but they would eat
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: his ass alive. It's very important to put that in there,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: eat his ass alive. Tongaloa just got very excited if
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: he kept on moping, they were going to eat his
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: ass alive. So next week, however, Williams declared that he
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: was ready to do whatever it took to qualify for
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the elimination chamber. Lemon Pepa, Steppa is and everything. So
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: he turned his attention to Ray Phoenix, said that he
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to lie down for him just because he
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: was new here. And as he's talking, he gets interrupted
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: by Phoenix's music. So again, this was a good promo
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: and the fans were The fans were into this. Every week,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: you know, he gets a little more time to speak
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: and a little more time to speak, or he gets
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: to hang with some top names like Randy Orton or
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain and it just helps elevate him that much more. Now,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: that's the importance of getting regular TV time, regular promo time.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: So this was good, you know, the vibe that I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: get from him, and I don't I know people are
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: gonna hear this. They're gonna be Oh, how could you
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: compare the two They're not. I'm just saying the vibe
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: that I get from him. I couldn't really put my
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: finger on it Hollywood Rock. When Hollywood Rock would and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: we didn't get Hollywood Rock for very long, not nearly
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: long enough, but when he would come out again, there
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: was just a certain I don't know, he had a
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: certain vibe. He carried himself in a certain way, and
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I kind of get a little bit of that from
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams. Right, He's not the promo the Rock was,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: but he's pretty good promo. You know, He's he'll get there.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: But he gives off that vibe to me. And that's
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: not a bad thing at all, because Hollywood Rock was
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: fucking awesome. So if he can, let me tell you this,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: if he could ever get to that level, I think
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: he'll do well. So we had Trick Williams against Ray Phoenix.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Williams threw Phoenix down. He tried to assert his dominance
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: early on here in this match. Phoenix tried for a
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: rolling attack of some sort. Williams'll caught him and attempted
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: to hit a shot. Phoenix recovered, though he connected with
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the missile dropkick for two. So he had Williams in
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: his sights and he ended up getting turned upside down
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: by this great spin kick from Williams. And the way
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: it connected and they replayed it and the way Phoenix.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Sold it was just fantastic.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: So Trick kept the momentum going with the tilta world backbreaker,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: hit a jumping neck breaker. Phoenix tried to rally. He
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: came back later on with the audios amigo kick. Headed
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: up top, he had a diving crossbody on Williams and
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: then he instantly rolled back up and he took off
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: from the other top turn buckle. He had a frog
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: splash only for a near fall, so Williams rolled out
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: of the ring to go catch his breath. Phoenix again
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: took flight and he hit Williams with a diving crossbody
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: on the floor. He brought Trick into the ring and
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: again he went to the top rope, but Williams recovered.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: He cut Phoenix off and he's on the ropes with him,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: and he gets him on his shoulders and he's going
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to go for some sort of avalanche move here at
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: attitude adjustment. I don't know what he's going to go
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: for here. Phoenix fights back and instead he ends up
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: standing on top of the ring post right behind Trick.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Trick is sitting on the top rope and Phoenix is
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: standing on the post right behind him.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he's gonna do.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: And he jumps up and he comes down with a
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: double footstomp to the back of Trick's head. So Trick
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: goes down and again, though Williams had the wherewithal to
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: kick out finish, here came with Phoenix hitting the ropes
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and he's coming off the ropes and he got turned
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: inside out. He took a fucking great bump for the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: trick shot knee, you know, the way you would see
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: somebody get turned inside out on a clothes line. He
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: went inside out off the trick shot and Trick out
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the pen to win the match.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: This was real good.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I thought, Look, I hate to see Ray Phoenix used
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: in this way, it's one thing every now and then
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to have a match like this. It's very clear to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: me at this point that this is the role that
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: they have decided upon for the foreseeable future for Ray Phoenix.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: And even in the Royal Rumble, he was in the Rumble,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: he was a jobber. I mean, they use him as
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: an absolute jobber in the Royal Rumble because that's what
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: they think of him. Him and Russev, like you could
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: just tell, the way that they're used in those situations
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: says a lot about where the company sees them at
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: the moment. Ray Phoenix is too good to just be
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: going out there and to be used as someone to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: help get other people over. So I would certainly hope
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: that at some point they pull their head out of
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: their ass and they will figure out something a little
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: bit better for him to be doing other than just
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: using him for this and really nothing else. There's nothing
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: else of any great value that they are using him for.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: At the moment. They seem content to just kind of
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: keep him in this role. And ordinarily I would sit
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: here and I would lobby, as I've done many times before,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: for them to finally give us that Luca Brothers reunion,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to do that just because the
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: more I think about it, I don't know why I
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: would doom him and Penta more so Penta, I don't
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: know why I would doom them to the tag team
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: division because WWE clearly does not give a shit about
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the tag team division on either show. So I can't
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: even sit here and say that anymore, like it's a
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: lateral move. If he ends up in the tag team division,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: It's not like he's going up anymore. He's gonna be
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: right at the same level as at right now until
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and unless they actually put some muscle and some elbow grease,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: so okay into fixing the tag team problem. There's no
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: point in wanting to see the Luca brother I mean sure,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I mean I've been advocating for the Luca Brothers and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the USOS or WrestleMania, but they haven't even put the
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: two of them together yet, and you got two months
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: left until WrestleMania. So to the WWE audience, they don't
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: know what the fuck the Luca Brothers are, right, seems
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: pretty clear that they're not gonna do that. So I
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: wouldn't even bother until they put the effort into actually
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: do something with the tag division. I don't know what
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: else there is for Phoenix to do because it's very
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: clear to me that he is not a priority for
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: them on this show.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: And if you move him.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Over to Raw, is it really going to be that
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: much better? Probably not, So it's a shame. But as
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: far as Trick Williams is concerned, he's progressing very nicely.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I think he's been doing a great job and the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: crowd has responded. There are people who the crowd does
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: not respond to, they don't make that connection with them.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have that issue, So that's good because you
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: can call up Oba Femi, and you can call up
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: different people and some will be successful, some will not be.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Oh but to me is I can't miss Like if
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: you fuck him up, that's on you. Prospect and Trick
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I would put in the same category. I mean, Trick
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: just has that charisma to him that you would think
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: they would love, and I think that will carry him
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: further in WWE than it would anywhere else.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: So it's good to see.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: It's good to see, and I will give them praise
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: for that where they deserve it. Just keep using him
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: in this way and again. I like the idea of
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: him getting that US title in the next few months
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: and then giving him a run with it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Eo Skuy and Rhea Ripley they were in the back
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: licking their wounds. After the opening title match, Julia showed
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: up with Keana James, and Julia was having a meltdown.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: She was very angry about what happened losing in her
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: chamber qualifier earlier. Eo took a good look at Julia
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and she actually teased going after the Women's US title.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: She said, I pinned her last week. Maybe I'll pin
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: her again and take the United States Championship. So in angry,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Julia stormed off. When Jade Cargill walked up with her
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Women's title over her shoulder, we had a little stare
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: down here between Jade and and then Jade kept on
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: walking because up next was her title match, her first defense.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: She won the championship on Saturday Night's main event on
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: November first, and tonight was the first time she put
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: that title on the line. She did so against a
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: woman who has not been on the main roster for
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: very long. That is Jordan Grace, who is yet another
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: victim of terrible music that will do absolutely nothing to
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: help her. Theme music should not be the thing that
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: gets you over, but theme music can be very helpful
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: in terms of helping you get over. And she is
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: still very new on the roster. What is that little
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: SoundBite at the beginning, I will win or I must win.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got to have a little catchphrase at the beginning
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: of their theme music, and then it goes into this
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: like generic rock. It's just it's fucking awful. So before
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: we could get the official introduction here for this match,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Live Morgan, Oh there it is.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's not over until I win. Who came
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: up with that?
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: That's almost as bad as role Model? It's not over
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: until I win. Yes, I know she had the siren.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: She had the siren and they took it away because
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker has a siren and we can't have more
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: than one siren. So let's come up with the most
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: generic sounding bullshit for her to come out to.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Role Model.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Live, Morgan comes out the winner of the twenty twenty
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: six Women's Royal Rumble. She is accompanied by Dominic Mysterio
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and Raquel Rodriguez. Morgan said that they were gonna have
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: a closer. Look at this match. Attention attention to the
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: siko in row four. Look, I know you're excited to
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: be a dynamite tonight at your first show, but you
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: can't be pulling that thing out. Okay, you gotta put
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: that away. Don't think I didn't see that sign that
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: you brought that said I came to see aew that's sick.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you, oh the sick gos. You know you could
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: be arrested for that in certain places. You better put
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: that shit away. That might be the same person who
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: had that sign in the crowd that said Paul Hayman
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: is hot. Wouldn't shock me. So Liv said, they're here
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: to get a ringside seat for this next match, because,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: of course, Liv Morgan is still teasing the possibility that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: she might choose to challenge for the WWE Women's Championship
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: and not the World Heavyweight Championship or WrestleMania, which is bullshit.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: We all know it is, but she's got to tease it.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Adam pretend, so she wants to have a ringside seat,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: And they had a table set up because Tom said
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: that he had a very special setup for valan Time's Day,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and at ringside they had a table set up next
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to where the announced desk was, and they had plates
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: of chicken nuggets, and that's where Live and Dom took
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: a seat, and Raquel just sort of stood there as
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: their bodyguard or I don't know what you would call
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: her matre d.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: So we got Jade and Grace. They were testing out
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: their strength. Neither woman had any sort of advantage. Cargil
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: found herself trapped in a sleeperhole and Jade was trying
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: to get out of it. She was slamming Grace to
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the mat Grace would not let go, so the two
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: of them rolled outside and Jade very gently backed into
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the ring post and finally Jordan let go of the hold.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Cargill missed though she went to go chopper, Grace ducked
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: out of the way and she chopped the ring post
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: casing instead, and then Jordan hit a DDT on the
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: floor outside. So now Jordan tried to lift Jade up,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: was going to go for a power bomb or what
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: she was going to go for here, but instead she
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: got backdropped, and she took this backdrop on the top
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: part of the timekeeper's barricade and then rolled off.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: And I'm pretty sure.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: It's padded the top part, but still you land right
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: on that top part of the barricade.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: That's no fun.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: So then Jade walks over to the judgment day table
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and she grabs one of the chicken nuggets and she
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: took a bite and then she tossed the rest of
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: it on the floor. That's the first carb that probably
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: has entered that woman's body in the last five years.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: So Grace targeted the champion's injured arm because Jade was
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: selling the arm from earlier.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: After she had chopped the post, Grace hit Cargill with
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: a forearm to the face, lifted her up for a
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: modified jackhammer for a near fall. Cargill hit Grace with
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: a big kick, could not capital though, because she got
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: caught with a spinebuster. Cargil, though after this, landed on
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: her feet on a Grace power bomb attempt and connected
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: with a spinebuster of her own. Jade went for her
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: pump kick. Grace, though, dodged it, and then she hit
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: a standing power slam on Jade only got a near fall.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Both women got to their feet. They traded strikes. Grace
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: tried for beast mode but she was countered and got
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: blasted with the pump kick, and then Cargill put the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: finishing touches on her by hitting Jaded. We were told
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: with one arm, I mean she got her up with
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: two arms, but then she let go of the one
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: arm and dropped her face.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: First and she pinned her. Look, there are some people.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: I think there was someone in the chat even after
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: it happened, who said, oh, that's it, and it's like
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: she hit her finish and she won. We don't get
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: enough of that in wrestling. I think we're all so
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: conditioned now to seeing matches where everybody kicks out of
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: every fucking finisher fifteen times that when somebody actually hits
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: what should be their finishing move and somebody doesn't kick out,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: people are like, what, that's it, Yeah, that's it. That's
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: what a fucking finishing move is supposed to be.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: So, yes, Jade retains the championship. So her first defense
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: is a successful one and not a bad match either.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Jordan was a good opponent for her to work with.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: I had no illusions about her winning the title here
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: said the finish was no surprise. I mean it was
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: her first title defense. Did you honestly expect her to
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: lose the title and her first defense. Like I said
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the same thing about Drew McIntyre at the Royal Rumble
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: that was his first title defense. Did anybody really expect
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I know they were in Saudi, but did anybody really
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: expect Sammy to win the championship in Drew's first title
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: defense after he had just won the belt? You know,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, use your brain. It is ridiculous
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: of course that it took one hundred days for us
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: to get to this point where she defended the title.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: But after she was still selling the bad arm, Jade
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: goes outside that she walks over to Live Morgan, who
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: was sitting at that table with Dom, and she said
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: that if you pick me for WrestleMania, that is going
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: to be your ass, and she walked off.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Spoiler.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I have a spoiler alert for everybody. I'm going to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: say it loud for all the people on the back too.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Live Morgan will not be challenging for the WWE Championship
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, thank you. She will be wrestling Stephanie Vicaire.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: But they have to keep up this facade disillusion that
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: she might actually challenge Jade for the title. That's not
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: a match I think that anybody really cares to see anyway,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: nor is there any real story behind it. So yes,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: that is not a match that we will be seeing.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: The quest esstion then turns to who will Jade be
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: defending her title against a WrestleMania because unless there's some
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: big surprise where, you know, she gets into the chamber
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: at the last minute, somebody gets knocked out of it
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: or something, you know, Look, Bianca bell Air is clearly
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: not going to be back in time to wrestle for
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: the title of WrestleMania. It's just not going to happen.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: So then who does Jade defend her championship against? Now,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: they had a little tease in that backstage segment earlier
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: in the show with Riea Ripley. Rihea Ripley is in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: the chamber. So if Live pick Stephanie and Rhea wins
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the chamber, Rhea could very well be challenging Jade at WrestleMania.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Now that doesn't seem likely because I think whatever Rihea
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: is doing it'll involve the yell.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: But it's possible.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: But if not, Bianca the name that makes the most
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: sense and the likeliest opponent for her at WrestleMania is
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: going to be Charlotte Flair. It's a match they've teased
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: a couple of times before in the past, and in
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: their mind, as far as Wrestlemanium matches go, that's about
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: as big as you could hope for. If you're not
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: going to be able to do Jade and Bianca with
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: their history, then you would do Charlotte and Jade, And
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: that's probably what we're looking at, because I don't really
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: see a better option for them right now. Now, after this,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: we go to the back Fraxium and the Motor City
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: machine Guns. They continue to laugh at the expense of
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a very depressed Johnny Gargano, who was sitting once again
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: on top of one of the equipment rates. I couldn't
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: tell this week if it said NXT on it like
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: it did last week. But he's still he's very down,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: and he actually spoke words this week, and he told
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Candice lay that, look, everything is just everything's in the shitter,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: basically like I lost my tag team partner. He didn't
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: say where his tag team partner went. He just said
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: he lost his tag team partner. Then the mask right
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: that Axiom got back, he said, I have nothing left,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: which Kendice took great offense to and then she said
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: she would fix it, and she wheeled him away as
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: he sat there on the production crate.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: So here come the MFTs.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: They're sauntering down the hallway right after their big win
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show, and Solo's got his lantern with
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: him and they look over it to Phraxium and the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: machine guns, and he taunts them and says, look, if
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: you want to get a shot at the tag team titles,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: you got to get your asses in line.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: So as Solo is.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Leading his group down the hallway, they come upon their
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: locker room and on the door is an illustrated photo
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: piece of paper with an illustration of Solo Socoa in
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the form of the lantern. So, if you remember The Fiend,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: for example, when The Fiend first debuted, he had that
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: badass looking lamp or lantern with the open gaping mouth,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: that was the illustration here, except here it was Solo Soco.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: And Solo did not like this very much and he
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: ripped it off the door. It's good to see Dexter
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: loomis putting his drawing skills to work. He's actually a
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: very talented artist. I'm sure he's the one who drew that.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I also can't believe that we are still keeping up
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: with his wyats. I mean, I guess it was to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: be expected because Solo still has the lantern, but we
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: are continuing with this shit. Johnny Gargano is now the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: only one depressed here. I may have to join him
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: on that crate next week. Now, Nick All, this was
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: in his office and he was chatting with Oba Femi.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: At least he wasn't chatting with our truth about his balls.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: At least we've moved on from that. But he's chatting
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: with Oba Femi and he's trying to sign him. He's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: ready to sign him to a SmackDown contract. And Kit
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Wilson angrily still into the room, not realizing that Oba
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: was in the room.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: And all this.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: He sees that Kit has his book and he takes
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: the book from him, and Kit was like no, no, no,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: he go no, no, no, no, let me see what you've
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: written here in this book. He opens the book and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: he reads a poem and there were some harsh words
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: in there about Obafemi, including him calling Oba a sad clown.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: So this led to Oba saying.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: I got an idea.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: How about you and me we do this again one
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: on one next week here on SmackDown, and the fans
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: booed because they thought they were getting the match tonight,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: but they made it official for next week's show instead.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, guys. You know I'm talking about this
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: road to WrestleMania. Brock Lesner is coming back. Brock Lesner
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: is scheduled for not this coming Monday, but the following Monday,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: which is the final Raw before the Elimination Chamber. That
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be in Atlanta, Georgia, and brock Lesnar is going.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: To be on that show.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Now, I still have hope that they're gonna do the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: right thing, and they're gonna do brock Lesner in Obafemi
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. Plus, Oba has been rumored to end up
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: on the Raw roster, so if brock is showing up
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: on Raw, it gives me hope. But I'm looking at
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: this and I'm going, boy, you know, if Obafemi is
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be the one to be wrestling brock Lesnar or WrestleMania,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: it sure doesn't feel like it, does it. Obafemi is
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: about to be wrestling his second match next week against
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Kit fucking Wilson, and then he's gonna go right into
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: what a program with brock Lesner. I mean he should,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: but what are we doing here? Like this is gonna
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: be the second week now, second time that Obafemi is
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: stepping into the ring with Kit Wilson. It doesn't feel
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: like we're on the verge of a big Obafemi brock
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Lesnar match of WrestleMania. The backstage, Kathy Kelly is interviewing
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: the WWE champion. Drew McIntyre promised that Cody Rhoades would
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: be nowhere near him his title or the main event
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: of WrestleMania. He said Jacob Fatu might have the best
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: chance in the elimination chamber because he has spent most
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: of his time behind bars, but he would make him
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: wish that he was back in the slammer if he wins.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: So Sammy's ain't showed up before he could say anything
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: nasty about Sammy, and Sammy says, oh no, no, please continue,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: don't stop on account of me. Andrew said, look, I'm
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: not going to insult you. He remembered Sammy telling him
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: on the night that he won the WWE Championship on
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: SmackDown in Three Stages of Hell that a small part
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: of him wanted Drew to win that match. McIntyre said,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: a big part of him wants Sammy to win tonight,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, of course he does. He's fucking Sammy
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: is zero for twelve against this man. If I'm Drew McIntyre,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I want to face this man every week for the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: rest of the year. So McIntyre said that Sammy is
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: a good man who paid his dues and he's earned
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and he has a feeling that Sammy.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Is going to win the Big One tonight.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: And they played Sammy's music and he looked shook. He
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: looked very confused and caught off guard by what Drew
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: just said to him as he made his way through
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Gorilla and on out to the ring. And so it
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: was time for the main event, an elimination chamber triple
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: threat qualifier Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu and Sammy's Aight foughts
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: it Now. I was excited about this match when it
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: was first announced because we talk about predictability and unpredictability,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: and at first glance, you see all the names involved
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: here and you're like, well, all three of these guys
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: realistically should be in the elimination chamber. Only one of
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: them can advance. So this is kind of intriguing here, right,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Cody would seem to be the favorite. That's why I
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: picked Cody to win. But there was at least the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: possibility that Cody and Jacob could get fucked over by
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: Drew because remember they were the ones attacking Drew last week.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Every time he tried to speak, he got jumped by Cody,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: he got jumped by Fatu. I'm like, all right, well,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: maybe Drew pays him back.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: This week.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: Sammy sneaks his way into the chamber, and now we're
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: left to figure out how the hell they're gonna get
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes in this title match of Wrestlemedia, because we
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: all know he's going to be in there.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: They opted not to do that. They opted to go
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: with the obvious.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: Approach here, but it at least created this feeling of unpredictability,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: like maybe there's some big angle or swerve that they
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: have in mind here, so it felt like a big match.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: So Fa Tu hit Sammy with a super kick right
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: out of the gate. This led to Cody and Fatu
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: going at it for a little bit. Cody tried for
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: the Cody Cutter, he couldn't connect. Fatu missed with the sentan.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: He got sent over the top with a clothesline. Sammy
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: gets into the ring. He hits Cody with some chops.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: He sends the former WWE champion out of the ring,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and so Sammy builds up ahead of Steam. He does
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: a dive out over the top. He wipes out both
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: men and we go to brake. After the brake, the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: crowd is starting to chant for tables, so Jacob Fatu
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: he goes under the table and he pulls out a
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: or under the ring and he pulls out a slim
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: gym table, but then he just slides it back underneath
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: like a heel. Cody on the other side of the ring,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: he starts pulling a slim jim table out from under
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the ring. So Jacob goes over. He cuts off Cody
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: and again he slides the table under the ring and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: the fans boo. So Sammy was down in the ring.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Fat Tou was climbing Cody. They'll cut him off, and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: he was gonna try for a superplex. Jacob knocked him down,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: so now it was Sammy's turn to go up after him.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: He tried for a superplex. Jacob was going nowhere, so
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: he got head butted down to the mat. Cody runs
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: the ropes, so now he's on top, he's gonna try
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: again to no avail. Jacob Fatu is not going anywhere.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: And this this took forever, like they constantly were just
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: taking turns here until finally they're like, why don't we
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: work together? And together the two of them were able
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: to bring Jacob down with the double superplex. So after
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: this it was Cody and it was Sammy. We got
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the yay boo. They start slugging it out and Cody
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: charged into the corner. Sammy catches him and hits an
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: exploder into the turnbuckles and so here comes the halluva kick,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: but Fat Tou cut him off with a superkick, and
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: then there was a superkick for Cody as well. Sammy
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: put Fatu down. Then he tried for a blue thunderbomb
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: to Cody, who blocked it. Cody went for the Cody Cutter.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: Sammy caught him coming off the ropes and he did
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: hit the Blue thunderbomb, only for a near fall though,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: so Fat Tu got Sammy in the corner and he's yelling.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: At him all gas, no brakes.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: So Jacob runs to the opposite corner, doesn't realize that
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Sammy is following him in and Sammy goes for a
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: halluva kick, but Jacob dodges it so he doesn't hit
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: the kick. Fa Tu got him down. Then he comes
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: off the top with a splash, or at least what
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: I think was supposed to be a splash, but the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: spot was that Sammy caught him into a small package
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: only for two, so they got back up. Here comes Cody.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Cody Cutter drops Sammy Fatu though dumps Cody out of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: the ring, and he goes up for the Mighty Moon Salt.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: He's gonna steal the pin off of Cody roads here
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: he hits the Mighty Moon Salt. Jacob covers he's got
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: this match in the bag and you're just waiting for
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: something to happen here. I thought the referee was gonna
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: get dragged out of the ring or something, but they
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: shot this in a way where you couldn't see that
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre was a ringside and he delivers a low
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Claymore kick to Jacob Fatu to break up what would
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: have been the three count, So he takes Jacob outside
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: and he sends him flying over the announced desk to
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the floor. But watch out, here comes Cody Rhoads, sailing
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: through the ropes with a suicide. He takes out Drew McIntyre,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: but then Drew ends up reversing Cody into the ring post.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Fatuo now is back up, so Drew power bombs him
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: through the reinforced announced desk and then back in the ring,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: McIntyre is measuring him and the Claymore kick connects on
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and he goes over and he grabs Sammy
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: z Ain and he drags Sammy on top of Cody,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: and here comes the referee and I bought into this
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: near fall. I thought this was it. Referee comes over,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: he counts one, he counts two. Cody gets a shoulder
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: up and everybody cheers because I think they also thought
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: the match was over. But nope, the match is going
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: to continue. So now in angry McIntyre, who had already
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: started to make his way to the back, he marches
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: back to the ring. He starts just clubbing and pummeling Cody.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: Sammy Zain, though, comes in like an idiot. Then he
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: wiped out Drew with a halluva kick in the corner.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: And now with his back turn to Cody, Cody grabs
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: Sammy and he drops him with a crossroads and he
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: pins him. And so Cody Rhodes is going to the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: elimination Chamber. He has now officially qualified. They stuck with
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the obvious outcome here. The reality is this, Cody Rhoads
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: is not going to WrestleMania to do anything other than
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: be involved in the WWE Championship match. Like there's nothing
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: else he's going to be doing on the show this
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: year that would not involve that title. So whether he
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: won this match, whether he lost this match and had
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: to find another way in because he got two months
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: of television here, you can make things interesting and shoot
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: some kind of angle, make Cody struggle a little bit.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: I thought there was a chance, but they went with
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: the path of least resistance. They went with the obvious outcome,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: which was a Cody Rhoades win. And so if he
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: wants to be in the title match of WrestleMania, he's
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: got to win the chamber. And Cody winning the Chamber
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: is much better than Cody winning the Royal Rumble. At
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: least the Chamber, it's a match that he's never won
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: before the Rumble. It would have been completely ridiculous for
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: him to win three Rumbles in four years, like it's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: a recipe to get people to turn against him.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: The Chamber at least is a little bit better the
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: main event.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a solid match, and I thought
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: they did a good job of at least trying to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: create some drama there with Drew being involved, where it
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: could have gone the other way and you could have
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: had Sammy win the match. So there were a couple
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: good near falls there. McIntyre's plan backfired and some people
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: might look at it and go, oh, yeah, this makes
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Drew look very weak because his plan was to help
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Sammy win and it kind of backed well, yeah, that's
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: the story that his plan backfired on him. He wanted
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: to go with the easiest challenger of all three and
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: it blew up at his face, and now he may
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: have to contend with Cody again or whoever else is
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: going to be in the elimination Chamber match, so his
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: plan backfire. The one who looks like a fucking idiot
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: out of this is Sammy's ain, and you could say, well,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Sammy's a babyface, and Sammy didn't want help. He didn't
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: want to win like that, right, But in the end,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: his righteousness was his downfall. Right, the marl superiority that
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: he has doing things the right way, that's all well
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: and good, but the one thing he wanted to do
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: was to go to WrestleMania here and win the big one,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: and you blew it. You could have done it, and
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: you blew it, and instead he was lying on his
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: back looking up at the lights. So if anybody looks
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: like an idiot in this situation, more so than Drew
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: McIntyre my opinion, it's Sammy's ay. And then there's Jacob
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: fat too, and Jacob and this is where I think
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: you could argue for making this ultimately whatever the match is,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: making it a trip threat match, or at least giving
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: fought to some other opportunity to still try to get involved.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Because he had the match.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Won, he should have been in the elimination chamber, where
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: it not for Drew McIntyre coming in and kicking him
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: in the head, a man who wasn't even involved in
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: this match just screwed him out of an elimination chamber spot.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: So if anybody I think has an argument for you know,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: still being involved in some way or getting a last
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: chance or whatever, it's Jacob fought too, and they've done
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: that before, actually have like a last chance qualifier sometimes.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're planning on doing that with them.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're doing that on the men's side anyway,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: But I mean it's possible. It's possible because when I
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: look at who's qualified so far, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: La Knight, those are the names that have officially qualified
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: for the Chamber. I have Javon Evans advancing on Monday.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think Gunther is getting it to the chamber.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: Unless Gunther is winning the chamber, he should not be
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: in the chamber. Chamber guarantees that he has to be pinned,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: so you do not have him in the chamber. Let
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: him wrestle Dragonly on the undercard. I think Javon Evans
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: is going to get in, and then next Friday, I
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: think Trick Williams is going to get in and that
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: gives us five. So there's one spot left open. I
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: don't know who fills that spot. Take your pick. I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: don't know because in the match on Monday is Javon,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: it's Dominic Mysterio, and it's Gunther and then next Friday
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: it's Trick Williams, it's Carmelo Hayes, it's Damian Priest. So
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: those are the names that are accounted for. They could
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: have some sort of last chance qualifying type of situation.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Actually, Tribal Chief mentioned that, fuck
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Oh my god, jay Uso. Ah, well,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: they said that jay Uso was going to be in
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a qualifier. I don't think they told us the other
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: two names in the qualifier, but that's it's a good point. Yeah,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: jay Usa fucking jus So. I do not want to
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: see jay Uso in the elimination shape. There is no
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: reason for jay Usso, one half of the tag team champions,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: to be in the elimination chamber. They'll end up doing
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: exactly what they did in the Royal Rumble in the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: middle of the elimination chamber. We'll have to stop to yeat,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: keep him the fuck out of the chamber. I don't
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: know who's going to occupy that final slot. I'm okay
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: with it being almost anybody else.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: So there were some solid matches on this show, and
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: again I'm enjoying the progression of Trick Williams. I don't
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: know with other people on the show. I don't know
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: what they're doing with some of these people. I still
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: have no idea why Royce Keys was not featured on
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: this show. I have no idea why he was wrestling
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: on fucking main event. I really don't like you put
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: him in the Royal Rumble match and then you say
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: nothing about him, You don't feature him, you don't show him,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: you don't have him out there.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: He's wrestling Nathan Fraser before the show goes on the air, Like,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: what the fuck are we doing here? At a time
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: where you have three hours? You obviously are trying to
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: introduce new faces. This is not, by the way, the
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: best time to be introducing new faces right before WrestleMania,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: But this is the choice they've made. So we have
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Obafemi and others who were showing up. But if this
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: is what you were going to do, then why even
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: put him in the Royal Rumble. He should be on
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: the show. It might actually help improve the show because
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of boring segments on this show.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: That was SmackDown from Dallas, and then we'll come back
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: in two weeks and we'll do another SmackDown review because
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be here next week. Let's take
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: a look at the Twitter poll. What did you think
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: of SmackDown? Clearly I am not alone. Thirty five point
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: six percent thumbs up, twenty nine percent thumbs in the middle,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: and thirty five percent. Look at that, thirty five up
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: thirty five down. That is the score for SmackDown tonight.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: That is an overall thumbs down, folks. As far as
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Jay comes out of the pod and runs
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: it back. Yeah, and then somebody should run him right
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: through the glass of the pod.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: But who do you think will be in that in
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: that final qualifier other than Jay? You've got Jay and
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: two other people who do you put in that elimination
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: chamber qualifier?
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: Jay Usso and who.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Probably a member of the Vision I would imagine, right, Bronson, Reid, Logan,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Paul probably one of them will be in there. And
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: then who do you round it out with? Chew on
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: that get into your messages here, Joseph Stewart ending the
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: week with some messages always appreciated. It is a happy Friday,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Bronson Reid and Russe Yeah, russev huh. Well, at least
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: he's guaranteed to last longer than he did in the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble match. Did he go thirty seconds in the rumble?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if he went thirty seconds in
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: the rumble? Chad Gable somebody said, Chad Gable Royce Keys.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: You know, if he's not going to win, I don't
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: put him in. If he's not going to win his qualifier,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: I don't even bother putting him in. Honestly, Justph says,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: have you seen the movie The Bututician, The Beautician and
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: the Beast with Timothy Dalton and Fran Dresser?
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: No?
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: You lost me a Fran Dresser. No?
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: What are your top five favorite basketball players of all time?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: As a New York guy, I mean probably should have
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing on there somewhere, but Michael Jordan's number one.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: You will never hear me say Hakim Olajuan because I
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: still have terrible memories of nineteen ninety four, so we're
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: not going to mention him.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: I mean J. MJ. Shack and Ewing and I'll just
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: leave it at that.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe Barkley, maybe Charles Barkley buy or sell Star Wars
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: or Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park, Godzilla ninety eight or Battlefield
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Earth Godzilla ninety eight. My fan of sci fi movies,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: I am. Did you know Flash Gordon was an influence
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: on Star Wars?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: I did not.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Have I seen the Flash Gordon movie from nineteen eighty
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I have not. And do you remember when Brett Hart
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: played the Genie in the Aladdin musical Broadway play?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: I do, I do remember that.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: Did you see the Greatest Love Story of Live Morgan
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: in Dominic Mysterio on the WWE YouTube channel.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: I did not, But I saw.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: The great Mega Power story that they chronicled in a
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: video on the WWE Vault channel. I was watching that
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: earlier today. Joseph, thank you again. I hope you have
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: a good weekend. Holiday one ninety seven says, what are
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on reports that Brock against La Knight is
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: in the pipeline for WrestleMania. Well, I hope those reports
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: are wrong, is what I hope. But I think they're
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: at least plausible because La Knight, if you recall, was
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: one of the men who eliminated Brocklesner.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: From the Royal Rumble.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Now, I won't blame you if you don't remember that
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: because people were fucking yeating when it happened. But yes,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: it was Cody and La Knight who eliminated Brock. So
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, if Brock's coming back on the twenty third
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: makes sense, he would be a little upset with the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: men who eliminated him from the Royal Rumble. They do
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: that match of WrestleMania that will not end well for
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: La Night matches Brocklesner and Obafemi. This is not hard.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: GMB says, Worst Faction MFTs, WYATTS or Vision MFTs. Actually,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: you know what, I could go either way with MFTs
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: and the WYATS. I mean, what have they really done
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: with the wyats? Honestly, outside of the same videos, you know,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: the little video flashes on the screen, they really haven't
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: done a whole lot to flesh them out recently either.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: But I got news for you. The vision sucks. The
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Vision ain't that much better. Holiday says. I have a
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: feeling that Rhea is winning the Women's Chamber and challenging Jade,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: But where does that leave EO At WrestleMania. Osca Charlotte
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: versus Alexis seems to be a WrestleMania direction. Julia will
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: defend a WRESTLEMANI if it's against Tiffany Stratton, well, I
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: mean EO sky Tea is the possibility tonight that she
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: might challenge Julia for the US title, So I suppose
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: that's at least possible. She said, maybe I'll go after
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: her US title. Do Oscar and I don't see Julia
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: getting a match at WRESTLEMANI. I don't even think she's
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: gonna have a match. Dry Chickens says when it comes
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: to Live Morgan, Dominic Mysterio and Raquel Rodriguez segments, I
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: would go into business myself and be petty on purpose,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: screw polished. I have no idea what you're talking about.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: What's the context there? Lakers Pat says, get ready for
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania two thousand, booking with tickets being slow, we're gonna
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: have a McMahon in every corner.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't need that.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Dried Chicken says Drew McIntire to Sammy's ain after the match, misery, misery, misery,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: that's what you've chosen. I offered you friendship and you
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: spat in my face. Yes, Sammy's Ain's an idiot. He
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: has nobody to blame but himself. Dried Chicken says, samy'se
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Ain fell into the dumb babyface syndrome vortex.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: They all do.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: At some point, Broley says, give me Javon versus Gunther
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: Fuck Ray.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know where this gunther uh Raymisterio stuff
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: came from. Do people think Raymisterio is retiring or WrestleMania.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: I really don't have any interest in seeing that. First
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: time I have laughed at our truth in six years.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Mikey s kit Wilson should one hundred percent win the
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Andre Battle Royal. At this point, I would expect Royce
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: Keys to be in there and then they give it
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: to Royce Keys. Scott Woodford, I have no idea. Are
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: you talking about something that you've eaten tonight? I don't
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: even know how to pronounce that, Scott. I hope you're
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: having a good night, Holliday says, really hoping Jacob gets
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: added to the Drew and Cody match of WrestleMania. I
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: can't sit through another singles match if Randy doesn't get
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: added to make it a fatal four way. Who do
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: you see Orton facing at WrestleMania, Well, I mean they
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: were teasing Alistair Black still going after Randy Orton tonight.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: That might give you a hint about where they may
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: be going. I wasn't really expecting that, BROI says. Someone
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: gets taken out before the chamber and Bianca replaces and
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: comes out last to have Eo Ria Bianca as the
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: final three. Eo pins Riha and Bianca pins EO. So
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: we end up with a wrestle many a forty one
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: rematch there. Hey, I'd be down for that. I like
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: that idea. See Falcon Star has the right idea in
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: the chat too. Isn't it great to have the solamons
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: through on a Friday night or what on a Friday night,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: on a Monday night, on a Wednesday night. Absolutely, you'll
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: get me tomorrow night too. Chances of getting Randy against
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Cody is now as far as WrestleMania this year pretty much. Yeah,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: it's basically dead.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's basic solo nomics. Thank you, link Master.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: We are closer to twenty forty than we are to
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: twenty ten, and when we wake up tomorrow morning, we
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: will all be one day closer to death.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: Think about that.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Think about how you're living your life when you think
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: about it in those terms. Broley says, part of my
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: lack of care for Drew is that it feels like
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: he has wrestled everyone in the company at least ten times.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: That three ways should not main event, and Lesner losing
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: to a BFT is las. Yeah, Lesner taking a PFT
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: is laughable. Get ready for Brock, Lesnar and Dean Ambrose
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: all over again. If they do that match Venom Ktetsu
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: for the twelve, it's the learning tree. If more star
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: power from WCW was in the Invasion storyline, do you
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: think they still would have had defections back and forth.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: I felt like they used those to drum up some
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: steaks because of the weaker roster ads. I don't know
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: if they would have in the first year, but I
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: think that, yeah. I mean, at some point you would
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: have had defections go back and forth. I mean, look,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: if they would have had more star power from the
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: WCW side in the Invasion, they wouldn't have done Booker
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: t against buff Bagwell and Tacoma, Washington on raw that night,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: and if they would have had a bigger main event,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: it would have gone over over probably better than that
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: match did. That could change everything because they had plans
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: in place to run WCW as.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: Its own traveling brand.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: They were going to give Raw to WCW and WWF
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: would have smacked down, and Vince had Jim Ross putting
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: together a house show, touring schedule and calling venues like
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: plans were in place, and then in one night they
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: saw the reaction to that match and they got spooped
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: and they said, fuck it, we're not doing it. We'll
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: do an angle and that was the official death of WCW.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: So it's incredible to think about it. If they would
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: have just brought in two or three bigger names, how
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: different things might have been. But I also can't blame
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of those guys. They had guaranteed contracts from Turner.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: They were making a ridiculous amount of money to sit
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: on their ass at home and do nothing. So like,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: if your choice, and at that point, these guys were older, right,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Hogan was older, Haul and Ash were older, And so
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: if you're these guys, you have the choice of sitting
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: at home and getting paid very well to do nothing,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: or you could take less money and go take bumps.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Booker T and DDP were the only ones who took
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: the buy out and they went to go to work.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: I can't fault the other guys for not doing so, NJC.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: This the beginning of a new era, the satitude era.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: Now I call it.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: It's the ruthless regression era. Ruthless regression, ruthless depression. Pick
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: whichever one you want. That's the era that we are
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: in right now. Dry Chicken says. Triple A fears Oba Femi. No,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: he's allergic to Oba. Alexander, don't worry about Mania. It's
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: a new era, says Triple H. MJC says, with the
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: rumors of Brock against La, never thought I would want
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: a Night versus Jericho match, But here we are. La
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: deserved better if Jericho had come in. I figured that's
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: what the match would have been. Ebystle zones. Maybe Triple
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: H will give us Cody versus Drew in a three
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: stages of iron Man match, so they wrestle for three
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: hours straight on Night one of WrestleMania. And you could
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: certainly do that, and I will be skipping the WrestleMania
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Night one.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: Review that night.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: If they do that, super Pony Sammy is not going
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: to be on Mania two years in a row. That's rough.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: He falls through the cracks way too often. Feels like
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: they take him for granted. I feel like they've also
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: cooled him off a lot, to the point or I
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: don't even have the same level of interest I had
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: six months ago, and seeing him finish his own story,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, for me speak for myself on this, They're
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: gonna have to heat him up all over again because
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: right now, of all the options that are available, like
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: as far as doing title matches and big matches are WrestleMania,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: he doesn't fit in. I don't really have any great
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: desire to see him in there in that top mix.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: There are bigger matches they could be doing.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: Depths. I screw it.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: Have Jacob beat Drew for the title of Elimination Chamber
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: and then Drew invokes his rematch and we get Drew
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: Cody in fa IU. We can't have Drew Cody one
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: on one at WrestleMania forty two, Sean Dee, And ironically,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: if Brock tries, I'd like Brock versus Ilya. Did you
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: not see the Royal rumble. You know what, I'd rather
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: see a WrestleMania since I the other night I was thinking, like,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: who does Gunther face?
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: I couldn't really figure it out.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: Gunther and Ilia is the match that if you go
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: back to my predictions for twenty twenty six, I think
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: I had that match booked for SummerSlam. I'm okay with
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: bumping it up and just give me a fucking banger
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: of a match between Gunther and Ilia WrestleMania.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Sign me up.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that. That's fine with me, Thank you,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Falcon Star Sidrow So the man in the wheelchair that
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: stole my camouflage jacket. You can hide, but you can't run.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: And a new study reveals that women who carry a
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it. Well,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: that is undoubtedly true. That's a scientific fact. Steve Mellow
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: tongaloa your trunks. I don't know what was going on
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: with him tonight. I don't know what's going on with
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: him any night. I don't know, but I'm watching him
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: in the ring with Matt Cardona, and I feel like, man,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: I think I just watched a sex crime on live TV.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: Dried Chicken says the Rock and seven Bucks production should
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: buy WWE. I'm sure all these reports about you know,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: Paulovac being on the hot seat and everything, I'm sure
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: Rock is just he's just sitting back, biding his time. Sidrow,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: what do you call someone who does magic tricks in
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: a gym? An abra cadabro and what gets long when
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: you jerk it fits between boobs, slides in a hole,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: and loves to be pulled a seat belt ps Happy
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth. You know what happened to me earlier?
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: I came back from the gym. Actually I was going
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: to the gym and I went to go Has this
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: ever happened to you? You go to pull the seat
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: belt really quickly, but it gets stuck. Almost broke my thumb.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: Then I tried it again and it was fine. I
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: don't know why that happens, because you'll go to yanket
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: and jerk it and then it just it won't go
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: and I almost broke my thumb. It's ridiculous. Willie Billy
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: with a ten congrats on the new gig. Couldn't have
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: happened to a harder worker. That is proven by your
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: insistence on giving us the same amount of content even
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: with new responsibility. We certainly appreciate it. Well, Willy Billy,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: I thank you for that very much. I try. It
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: is a lot of work, but I hope you guys
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: are enjoying it. Episode two dropping on Tuesday evening over
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: on Aeriel Helwani's channel, The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. I hope
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: you guys will tune in. Horseplayer was the Cardona Carmelo
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: War Museum vignette them dusting off Vince's PR playbook out
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: of desperation. Those segments seem to vanish under triple h
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not really I mean, I didn't really think anything
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: of it. It's just the sort of thing that WWE
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: likes to do, you know. They sometimes they do it
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: for PR and sometimes they just do it to, you know,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: have a chance to showcase some of the talents that
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: are featured in the segment. Wouldn't read too much into it,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: Steve says, Oh yes, and congrats on the new show.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: My friend, thank you, thank you. Brother.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says it's Valentine's Day. Four wrestling theme songs
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: would love Vibes and delete one Valvenus Godfather, Mark Henry
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: or Dude Love. I'm going to delete Valvenus. I actually
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: like Dude Love's theme. The Mark Henry theme was was
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: actually pretty funny. And I mean, the Godfather is the Godfather?
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: You talk about love vibes got to have the Godfather
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: on there. You gotta come aboard. Everybody has got to
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: come aboard. H duffs VIDs what do you get when
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: you cross a centipede with a parrot? A walkie talkie
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: bes Beerris russev has one of the strangest careers ever.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: He does, doesn't he? He really does?
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: For all the work I do and that I put
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: in in a given week and then I see him
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: barely ever on television or wrestling, and I'm sure he's
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: getting paid very well.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, what did I do wrong? But good
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: for him? Mute?
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: Did you? Bro?
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: Sad Sack?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: Sammy might work if booked right, It's like bum ass Corbin.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: Sure it could work. Dry Chickens says after Wrestle many
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: of forty two the creative team needs to reset everything.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: There needs to be new storylines, new factions, and shake
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: up both the both roster brands. No more playing it
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: safe for being allergic to prosperity. It's the same people
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: in charge. Nothing will change. I don't know why you
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: think any of that is going to change. Nothing will change.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not even necessarily disagreeing with you. I'm just saying
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: nothing will change. Thank you, brother, the sickos, thank you
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: for the forty dollars drop. Oba and Trick are reasons
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: why theme songs matter. You can't not listen to Oba's
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: theme and dance as he comes down to the ring.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: It just works for him so well.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: Devin from NJ buy er Sell, Michael Keaton or Samuel L.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: Jackson. I like them both. I'm gonna go Samuel L. Jackson.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says with the twenty eight, if the show
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't too polished, I would have given Dom and Live
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: Morgan some broccoli, French fries and bottle of Jack Daniels
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: and pork ribs. Well, he did have a bottle of
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: Dom put his He put his face on the side
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: of the bottle. Retro Koh, I accidentally put my baby's
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: diaper in the washing machine in a drunken stupor. That
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: is what sitting through these shows is doing to me. Well,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: I don't envy the mess that you must have come
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: back to Bass Bears, says Zebros.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: Death Side.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: If Steve Austin had not gone away for surgery in
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: late ninety nine, would the Rock still have ascended to
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: the face of the company along with Austin in two thousand?
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: I think so he was so over. I actually think
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: Austin probably would have wanted to go heal sooner and
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: it would have been equally equally stupid. But I think
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: that he just it strikes me as like he would
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: have felt maybe even by like wrestle Mania time in
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: two thousand, that yeah, maybe I'm getting a little stale.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe we got to shake things up a little bit.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: Because he's a heel at heart, you know, he never
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: wanted to be a baby face, So I think he
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: would have tried for the heel turn even sooner and
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have worked. Jeremy Rose says Cody should face
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: Jacob or WrestleMania based on Jacob being the obstacle to
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: getting a title shot. La Knight or Orton wins the chamber,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: Cody needs to have a long chase eventually leading to heal.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: Cody against Randy la Knight is in the chamber and
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: La Knight is not winning the chamber, base Bears, So
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: you concede no yeats in the chamber, Yes, no yeats
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: and Jeremy Rose Jay yeats his way to the chamber,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: then yeats in the pod, and then when the pod
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: opens he runs.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: It back Yeat. It's terrible.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: Death side imagine jay Usso yeating with the aw Sikos.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: I would just imagine like jay Usso coming out on
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: an episode of Dynamite where they have like a decent crowd,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: three thousand people out there. He comes out in the
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: crowd and he goes to Yeat and just the fans
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: like they just swallow him.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: Up, like you can't even see him.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: They just pounce on him, and then he's just never
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: heard from again. Like they body surf his like bloody
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: his bloody body. He's unconscious and they just body surf
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: from out of the arena so they can move on
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: to the next match. That's what would happen to jay
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: Uso if the Sikos got a hold of him. Bes
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: Bears says, we are closer to twenty forty than we
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: are to twenty ten. What he sent him before GMB
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: with the four ninety nine Bianca finally gets clear to
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: a week before WrestleMania, but instead of focusing on Jade
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: and SmackDown, she screws over Riho for her injury full
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: circle from last WrestleMania, so she screws them out of
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: the women's tag team titles. I mean, I appreciate the
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: effort to be consistent, but I don't really like that idea.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: Death side.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: Why is polygamy illegal? Because it's hard enough keeping one
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: spouse happy?
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: Blue Jay Revolution is the first show for the WiFi.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: She's partially into wrestling, but let's get her hyped for
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: the card. She laughs at MJF and hates liv Morgan. Well,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: I hope your wife is okay with five hours of wrestling.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a long night. And manu which Scott
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: wins in a battle Royal Hall, Steiner, Norton, de Moore, Putsky,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: Dawson or too hottie. Hmm, we got Scott Stanford. Scott
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: Hall gets my vote. H Scott Hall for the wind
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: nobody had more drip an aura than a razor ramone.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: Walking down to the ring. He was oozing machismo, one
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: of my favorite things. Yeah, he wrestled Brett Hart for
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: the title at the Royal Rumbland ninety three and Bret
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: goes outside and he puts his glasses on like some
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: little kid at ringside like he always used to do,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: and razors in the ring, and he's looking at this
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: like what was going on here?
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: He takes his toothpick. He throws the toothpick at the kid.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: It's perfect. I love it.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: Cameron Spencer. If WWE had had had a two hour
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: episode where one two hour match takes up the entire show,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: but the match is well received, would you give that
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: show an up or a down for a two hour match?
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: It would get it down for me. You could get
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: away with that on a one hour show. You can't
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: get away with that on a two hour show. And
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: actually they've done that before, like Luke Underground they had
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: an all night long match which was basically like their
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: version of an eye Van match and it took up
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: the entire hour, and as I remember it, I think,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: I think it was great. You can't do that on
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: a two hour show, especially now with all the talent
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: they have on the roster.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: Can't do that. Retro says Oba's Strut.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: Is the new guile meme. It goes good with anything,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: it works with any song. I guess that's kind of true. Well,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: if you remember the wheel tonight said three point fifty
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: was the goal, we have long smashed that and we
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: hit the bonus goal as well, which means we are
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: getting a double dose of be the booker to close
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: out this week, which is awesome. So let's get to it,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: It is now time to be the booker. Yeah.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: Do you know how many commercials you would get in
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: a two hour match? It just it would not work.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: There's no match in WWE that I want to see
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: go two hours. I don't care how great the guys involved,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: are the girls involved, I don't care.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: Choose two single stars to form a makeshift team. So
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: that is how we are starting this round, to be
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: the booker. With a makeshift team. We have Jacob Fatu,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: who is in the main event of tonight's SmackDown. Oh,
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: I hope we land on Cody. Jacob Fatu and Owen Hart.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: It's the team I never knew I needed.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: Owen Hart held tag team titles with a Samoan once
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: upon a time.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: I love that team. Actually, Jacob Faughtou and Owen Hart.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, they're going to be taking on arn Anderson
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: and Tully fucking Blanchard, the Horseman, the Brainbusters against Jacob
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: Foughtu and Owen Hart. We could just stop right here,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: We could just stop right here. What a match? Alright,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: women's match? Ah, it's the Night of Stipulations. Triple threat,
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: all right, we got three names to pick here, son
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: of a bitch. This is the second time this week
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: that we have landed on Rosa Mendez.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: It's the point.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: It's the point, that's what does It gets me every time. Now,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: to be fair, it is a triple threat match, So
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: you know what you could do in this situation. I
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: will pick the other two names, but you know what
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: you could do in this situation. You could just have
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: the two of them take out Rosa Mendez at the
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: very beginning of the match, and then it just turns
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: into a singles match. We have machi Eto. Are you
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: a member of the ETO Army?
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: You should be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a member of the Eto Army. So I booked
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  Speaker 1: her to bring her in to Wressell shanea Basler back
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  Speaker 1: in November. Machi Eto and Niki Cross, Interesting Machi Eo,
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  Speaker 1: Nikki Cross and Rosa Mendez. Yeah, that's that's no good.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's a no for me, dog, all right,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: no saving that. In our first main event, we have
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: the former AEW world champion, Swerve Strickland, who is wrestling
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: Kenny Omega on Dynamite next week.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: Swerve against who Who's it gonna be? Rye Back.
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  Speaker 1: It started with so much promise too. That tag match
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: was fantastic and then it just went all downhill ride
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: back In the main event, Rosa Mendez. The good news though,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: is that because we hit the bonus goal, we get
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: to try again. We're not done yet. Don't count us
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  Speaker 1: out yet. We got one more round. Now we actually
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  Speaker 1: get to pick this. You know what I forgot? It
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  Speaker 1: was like last Wednesday? Right, last Wednesday was an ugly night.
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  Speaker 1: Forgot about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're going to start out here with.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: A Monsters ball match. It's a rough match, can't I
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: don't like that stipulation though for a tag Oh, I
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: guess we'll do a Monster's Ball tag match. I don't
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: know if there's ever been a Monster's Ball tag match. Well,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: there is now two teams Monsters Ball, Rock and Mankind
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: the Rock and Sock cannet. Well, that fits Mick Foley
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: to a t. That's perfect for him. Rock and Sock
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: against the Luca Brothers. Oh man, we're killing it with
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: the tag teams tonight. We book a better tag division
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: than Paulovec could ever dream of. Alright, our women's match
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: be the booker has some evil intentions. Tonight we go
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: from a Monster's Ball match to a Texas Death Match.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: With the women.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: No less Texas death blood, gore, tax, broken glass, barbed wire, syringes,
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: Queen Zelena. That's not who I was expecting here for
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: a Texas Death Match. Queen Selina against Ivory. Come on,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: we got we We have to end with something good here,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: give me something good, a stretcher match. Can't you give
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: me like a wheelchair match or something?
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: Who wants to see a wheelchair match?
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: I do?
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: But we have a stretcher match instead? All right, this
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: is it. It all comes down to this. We have
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: to push the stretcher over the yellow line.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: On the ground.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: Should we should have just done tag matches to iver
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: would have been better off. Brock Lesner, who actually was
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: in a stretcher match once against Big show on pay
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: per view. As I recall, it actually wasn't a bad match.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: That was when Brock actually wrestled. We go again, a
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: triple threat stretcher match, not just a stretcher match, but
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: we have a triple threat stretcher match. So we have
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesner. How's this gonna work? Well? I mean, I guess,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: I almost feel like we should pick a different state.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: You know what, it doesn't work for a triple threat.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: Let's pick a different stipulation for this one. That's just weird.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: A triple threat first blood match. Okay, I guess that works.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: Three men, first man to bleed. Well, now that doesn't
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: work either, I guess because if someone bleeds, he's still
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: got two other guys. We have to try again. If
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: we're going to keep the triple threats that we have
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: to pick something different here. Okay, triple threat steel cage
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: there you go. That's pretty self explanatory. So we have
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: brock Lesnar already he's in. We need two more triple
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: threat cage match. There's a great triple threat cage match
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: that I can recommend to you from Breakdown in your
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: House back in ninety eight, rock Mankind Ken Shamrock in
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: the Blue bar cage. Great stuff. All right, we're Brock.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: We have well there he is, Oh my god, on cue.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: I could not have timed that any better Ken Shamrock.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: It's like Joe Hendry. You say his name and he appears.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: Holy shit. We have Brock Lesner and Ken Shamrock in
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: a cage. I feel like we should stop right there.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin it by picking a third person,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: but I guess we must. Rock Lesner and Ken Shamrock
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: locked in a cage with Adam Cole. Babe, Oh, poor
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: Adam Cole. Well, we know who's taking the losing fall
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: in this match. We know who's getting slaughtered in this match.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: Thy name name is Adam Cole. My first instinct was
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: just the crack up laughing. Which one of these doesn't
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: belong Brock Lesner, Ken Shamrock, Adam Cole. Hasn't he been
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: through enough? This poor man with the concussions and with
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: the ankle. You want to lock him in a cage
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: with those two men? Poor bastard. It'd be a bad
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: night for Adam Cole. Still a great match, though, Brock
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: ain't taken to a Panama Sunrise neither is Ken Shamrock.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: He ain't taken to Panama Sunrise either. Retro koh Rosa Mendez,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: Jackie Gaeta, Jenna Morasca, Joy Givonne Christi Hemy. You called
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: her crusty for some reason. I don't know why you
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: did that. Crusty Hemy. You only get that way when
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: you pass a certain age. She still looks good, Brie
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: bella Women's chamber book. It crusty hemy, dried chicken, says
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: Queen Selina against Ivory and it textas death match with
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: Pamela Vorhees as the referee. And retro says Adam coma
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: baby basically.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: Pretty much pretty much.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Adam Coma, he just picture and he's laying there
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 3: in that coma, and Roderick Strong is just like lording
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 3: over him, screaming Adam at the top of his lungs,
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 3: and he's just not waking up.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: I can't get over crust the Hemy. When she's about
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: when she's maybe like seventy five, she'll be uh, she'll
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: be krusty Hemy. I do like Adam Coma though. That
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: was very clever. So this was this was a I
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: have to say this stream was a lot more fun
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: than smack that was tonight.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 2: That's usually how it ends up working.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: I am planning on being live tomorrow night because AAW
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: has a very big show called Grand Slam Australia with
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: some big matches on there. And beware of spoilers because
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: it's airing on like a fourteen or sixteen hour time delay.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: But I am planning on going live when it's over.
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: It's a two and a half hour show, so probably
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: won't be live then until closer to eleven tomorrow night,
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: but I will be here so hopefully you guys can join.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 2: That'll be tomorrow night.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: Sunday, big episode, a lot to talk about, well, this
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania shit especially, and a lot of AW stuff as well,
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: and Dave's report from the other day. We'll talk about
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: all that on Sound Up nine fifty one. It's going
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: to be a very eventful Sunday and then we start
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: all over again. When I mentioned before, no SmackDown review
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: next week because House of Glory is actually we're having
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: our first New York City show of the year, and
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: it's a big one because we have the reigning AW
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Champion mjf coming in next Friday. Will he
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: be the aw champion though, that's the question. He's got
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: to get past Brody King tomorrow. But title or no title,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: we will have him there and we have Andrade. So
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: this is very interesting because MJF is the champion, Andrade
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: could potentially be the number one contender if you beat
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: Hagman tomorrow at Grand Slam, and they're both gonna be
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: at House of Glory next Friday. So if you do
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: not have your ticket, they are going there. They're almost
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: all gone. We've added a few rows. Go to hog
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: wrestling dot Net. Would love to see you say hello,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: I'll be there or you can watch on Triller TV.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's where I will be next Friday. So
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: no SmackDown review now, you know, be well, stay safe.
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: I will see hopefully some of you with your wooings
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night for Grand Slam and then Sunday for the
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: sound off and dry Chicken says Paul him.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 2: It is hot. Now, don't ever say that. See you
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: guys tomorrow night.