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WWE Smackdown 9/12/25 Review | Cody Rhodes RETURNS And Brock Lesnar SPLITS HIS PANTS! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: You know, after a last week's show, I had enough
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  Speaker 1: sense to Ashley use my VPN for SmackDown tonight, which
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  Speaker 1: made it more tolerable during some of the matches, so
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  Speaker 1: that way I didn't have to deal with commercial palooza
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  Speaker 1: like we did on SmackDown last week. Tonight, we got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a few things. We got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the return of the WWE Champion, Cody Rhodes. We
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  Speaker 1: have not seen Cody in many weeks since McIntyre gave
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  Speaker 1: him a Claymore kick in the bottom part of the
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  Speaker 1: announced table apparently that killed him dead. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: Cody since. So there he was tonight, guile in all
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  Speaker 1: his presence back on SMACKDOWD and the match has been
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  Speaker 1: made for Russell Poluza next weekend. It will be Cody
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  Speaker 1: Rhoades defending the WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre. That was
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  Speaker 1: coming off the Randy Orton. Drew McIntyre made event that
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  Speaker 1: we had here of this show, which was solid enough.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a great main event, but
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  Speaker 1: it was solid enough. We had two championship matches on
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  Speaker 1: this show. We had one match that was anything but solid.
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  Speaker 1: We had one championship match that was tremendous between Sammy
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  Speaker 1: Zain and Ray Phoenix in the US Title Open Challenge.
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  Speaker 1: This is a match that you should go out of
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  Speaker 1: your way to see. If there's one thing from SmackDown
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  Speaker 1: Tonight that I would say you need to go out
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  Speaker 1: of your way to watch, that would be it. The
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  Speaker 1: other championship match that we had on this show was
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  Speaker 1: for the WWE Women's Championship between Tiffany Stratton and Jade
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  Speaker 1: Car gild And while I cannot heap the same amount
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  Speaker 1: of praise on that match, it was not a bad match.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I thought it was slightly better than the match
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  Speaker 1: they had at Summer Slim, which was not a bad
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  Speaker 1: match either. But we had no resolution to their issue.
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  Speaker 1: We had no winner decided, but Naya Jacks was the
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  Speaker 1: last woman standing when it was all said and done.
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  Speaker 1: So we are heading towards a triple threat match very
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  Speaker 1: soon for the Women's Championship. A very very weak top
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  Speaker 1: of the division right now. I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with the top of the SmackDown Women's division. The championship,
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  Speaker 1: the main title, very very weak, especially when you compare
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  Speaker 1: to what's going on on the off side right now.
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  Speaker 1: They really need Bianca bell airback as quickly as possible,
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  Speaker 1: and even getting Bianca back, there's work to be done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you have Charlotte and Alexa, they're off doing the
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  Speaker 1: tag team thing and beyonc has been out for months
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  Speaker 1: ever since WrestleMania. It really shows that we are now
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  Speaker 1: back to Tiffany Stratton and Nya Jackson again with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of Jade car Gill thrown in there, so
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  Speaker 1: that part of it is not great. Brock Lesner was
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  Speaker 1: also promoted for this show tonight now John Cena. John
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  Speaker 1: Cena is done with SmackDown. You are never going to
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  Speaker 1: see him on SmackDown for the rest of this retirement run.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see him on Raw this coming Monday. But we
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  Speaker 1: had brock Lesnar on the show tonight. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: have brock Lesnar on the show but no John Cena,
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  Speaker 1: it stands to reason that if brock is going to
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  Speaker 1: do anything, he's not going to be attacking random people.
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  Speaker 1: You would hope that, you know, we've got brock Lesner
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  Speaker 1: coming out and talking about why he's been going around
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  Speaker 1: kicking this guy's ass. Maybe we'll get some sort of
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  Speaker 1: explanation for why why Now, Is it just that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to give him one last ass kicking before Seena
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  Speaker 1: calls it a day and signs off and rides off
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  Speaker 1: into the sunset. I'm still wondering what the answer to
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  Speaker 1: that question is because we didn't get an explanation tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get much of anything from Brocklesner except a
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  Speaker 1: very memorable moment. And look, this shit happens on live TV.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to be the person that it
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  Speaker 1: happens to. If you're brock Lesner, you just sort of
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  Speaker 1: laugh it off. Right, Who's going to make fun of
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  Speaker 1: brock Lesner and point and mock him and you know,
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  Speaker 1: do anything other than just laugh along with him. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We saw more of Brocklesner at the end of that
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  Speaker 1: segment than I care to see. And when there is
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  Speaker 1: a wardrobe malfunction, that is the most newsworthy part of
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  Speaker 1: a Brocklesner segment. That tells you there wasn't a whole
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot to that brock Lesner segment. But
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  Speaker 1: that is what we had here on SmackDown Tonight. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for all of the goings on and happenings here on
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  Speaker 1: SmackDown Tonight, the big news of the day, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to do on this because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: save this for the sound off on Sunday, but the
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  Speaker 1: big news of the day, and they promoted it here
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  Speaker 1: on the show tonight, the big announcement that Triple H
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  Speaker 1: was teasing the other day. Triple H was dropping these
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  Speaker 1: hints on Twitter about changing the game, some sort of
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  Speaker 1: game changing announcement that there was going to be today,
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  Speaker 1: and we already knew what it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: because it leaked. It leaked a couple of days early,
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  Speaker 1: and it was exactly what we expected it to be.
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  Speaker 1: At three o'clock this afternoon in Las Vegas, which is
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  Speaker 1: where WWE is right now for Worlds Collide, which is
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  Speaker 1: happening as we speak, they made the announcement that Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Arabia will play host to WrestleMania forty three coming up
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven, and they had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stars on the dais there. They had Sean Michaels, and
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  Speaker 1: they had The Undertaker, and they had Bianca bel Air,
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  Speaker 1: and they had Charlotte Flair and Seth Rollins and Logan Paul,
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  Speaker 1: and they had Live Morgan, who we haven't seen in
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  Speaker 1: many months, and she looked like she would rather be
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  Speaker 1: anywhere but where she was. But they had them all
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  Speaker 1: lined up. Triple H comes out and they made the
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  Speaker 1: announcement WrestleMania, not Super WrestleMania, not the greatest WrestleMania, WrestleMania
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  Speaker 1: itself will be coming to Saudi Arabia in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: And look, whatever your opinion may be of that news,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a lot of opinions, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: divided opinion about that announcement. Might also depend on where
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  Speaker 1: you live in the world. Forgetting that for a second,
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  Speaker 1: I made a comment on Twitter after the announcement was
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  Speaker 1: initially made and the event was still ongoing, and I
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  Speaker 1: made a comment to the effect of still waiting for
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  Speaker 1: this quote unquote game changing announcement to be made. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it'll be made at the end of the event, And
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  Speaker 1: it never was, because that's how Triple H couched it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on social media the day before. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wondering, you know, where, where's the game changing part
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  Speaker 1: of this announcement? And if I tell you all of
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  Speaker 1: the dumb shits that came out of the woodwork that
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  Speaker 1: we're leaving comments under this tweet all throughout the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It would make your head spin. And one thing I
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  Speaker 1: learned very clearly today on social media and specifically X,
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  Speaker 1: is that people on that platform have the reading comprehension
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  Speaker 1: of a pineapple. So let me break it down very
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  Speaker 1: succinctly here for the people who dropped out of school,
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  Speaker 1: which was most of the ones that had to interact
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  Speaker 1: with today. I was making a comment about the so
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  Speaker 1: called game changing nature of the announcement and if you
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  Speaker 1: want to dispute that, and you think it was a
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  Speaker 1: game changing announcement because oh my god, Wrestlemane is leaving
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  Speaker 1: North America for the first time. I had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people saying, oh, Wrestlemani is going international for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, which is not true, blatantly not true. But okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to make that your your argument, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's game changing for this reason. It's game changing for
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  Speaker 1: that reason. It's a matter of semantics here, we're playing
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  Speaker 1: with words. Okay. I don't look at it as a
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  Speaker 1: game changing thing for a variety of reasons that I
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  Speaker 1: will get into on Sunday, but we could have that
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  Speaker 1: difference of opinion. What I don't like is when people
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  Speaker 1: read something that clearly isn't there, and they manufacture some
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  Speaker 1: message or narrative in their head that doesn't exist. So
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  Speaker 1: if I tell you how many messages I had to
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  Speaker 1: sift through today, sifting through message after message, people who
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  Speaker 1: read that tweet, who turned it into oh, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't like it, then don't watch it, or oh
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  Speaker 1: you must hate the people in this part of the world.
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  Speaker 1: They're oh, if you hate this so much, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: again the reading comprehension of a pineapple, I'm like, what
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  Speaker 1: exactly are you talking about? Where in what I wrote?
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  Speaker 1: Are you getting this? Like? Where is this coming from?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't understand. It didn't make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: Just dumb shit message after dumb shit message after dumb
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  Speaker 1: shit message. It was unbelievable. Wrestling fans, yeah, really showing
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  Speaker 1: their ass today on social media. So that was the
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  Speaker 1: nature of what I was dealing with coming out of
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  Speaker 1: this big, big announcement, this big event that they held
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  Speaker 1: earlier today. This was not a surprising announcement. Nobody should
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  Speaker 1: be surprised by this announcement. They have had a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Saudi Arabia now for over seven years. They have
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  Speaker 1: hosted countless events at fifty million dollars a pop. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're going to extend that relationship when
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  Speaker 1: it comes up. It was a ten year deal when
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  Speaker 1: they signed it, and it started in twenty eighteen, so
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  Speaker 1: you do the math. Something like this was inevitable for
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  Speaker 1: the money that they are paying for these sporting events.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just wrestling. You know, there's boxing events,
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  Speaker 1: and there could be mixed martial arts events. It's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of events. For the money that they're doling out, right,
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  Speaker 1: they have lived, golf, all this stuff, it was inevitable
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  Speaker 1: that they were going to get a wrestle media. They
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  Speaker 1: got the Royal Rumble. They're going to be in Saudi
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  Speaker 1: for the Royal Rumble in January. We now have a
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  Speaker 1: date on that, by the way, January thirty first, So
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  Speaker 1: that much we know. So WrestleMania was only a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time. I'm not surprised by it. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who are very upset because they
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  Speaker 1: go to WrestleMania every year and now they can't because
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to fly to Saudi Arabia, or because
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  Speaker 1: they simply are not going to be able to afford
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  Speaker 1: that trip. You think prices in Las Vegas for this
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  Speaker 1: year's WrestleMania and next year's WrestleMania are wild. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think those prices are going to look like in
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  Speaker 1: Saudi in twenty twenty seven. There's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who make WrestleMania their destination vacation every year
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  Speaker 1: who now are not going to be able to go
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  Speaker 1: have every right to be upset. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: there's also a lot of fans who live over there
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  Speaker 1: in that part of the world, or are specifically in
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, including people who listen to the podcast who
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  Speaker 1: I interact with on a regular basis, who I know
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  Speaker 1: are going to be very happy that they get to
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  Speaker 1: go to WrestleMania for the first time, and I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: for them. So again, I'll get into the nuts and
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  Speaker 1: bolts of this when we talk about it on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: because I also think there is opportunity here moving WrestleMania
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  Speaker 1: out of the United States overseas, which is by the way,
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: going to be airing in a completely, you know, different
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: time zone. So depending on where you are, Wrestlemanti is
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: going to be airing a lot earlier in the day.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: It presents opportunity for others, which I will get into
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: talk about SmackDown. This is your SmackDown review. It is
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Friday night. It is September twelve, twenty twenty five. I
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: am the Solemn Monster. I want to point out something
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: else we had yesterday. I actually pushed it out last night,
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: A brand new retro episode of the SoundOff, and this
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: one is going back aways. Yes, the lost episodes are back.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I have not uploaded an older episode in quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: I intend to do more. Get back on that horse.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Episode fourteen of the SoundOff from February of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight is up right now. If you are a
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  Speaker 1: Legends Tier Channel member, so on my sound Up Channel members,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: if you are on the Legends Tea, you have access
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: to that episode. It is up for you right now,
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  Speaker 1: with more to come. Talking about a whole bunch of
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: things in that episode. Whatever was going on in the
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: world of wrestling back in February of two thousand and eight.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm sounding off on. So if he didn't
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: get the notification, just be aware of that. It is
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: up right now, and again I'm gonna be working to
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: get episode fifteen up very soon. So if you are
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: not a channel member on that Legends tier, now is
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: a good chance to take advantage of that and get
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: in the party. All right, let's get into this SmackDown
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: show here. Because we had a different announced crew for
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: tonight's show. We had the NXT crew, Vic, Joseph and
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Booker t They took over the announcing duties for tonight's show.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Corey Graves was on the call in Vegas for the
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Triple A World's Collide show, and Michael Cole, based on
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: some of the recent performances he's had, he could use
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: a few days off. He could probably use a few
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: weeks off, so I didn't have any issue with him
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: rotating the NXT crew in there. After replaying what happened
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: last week where brock Lesner attacked John Sena and Sammy's
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  Speaker 1: Ain after the match for the United States Championship, brock
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  Speaker 1: Lesner open this week's show. Brock Lesner is in the
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  Speaker 1: main event. He is closing the show at Wressell Palooza.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: That's what Joe Tessitor confirmed on ESPN today. I think
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: we already figured that was going to be the main event,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: but it is confirmed. John Cena versus brock Lesner will
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  Speaker 1: be headlining Wressell Palooza next weekend. Brock Lesner comes out
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  Speaker 1: to cheers, but when he gets in the ring and
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  Speaker 1: they stop his music, we hear chants of you suck
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  Speaker 1: directed at Brock. Before he could say a word, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even get a word out. Our truths music hid
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  Speaker 1: and Our Truth comes out and he wraps his way
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  Speaker 1: to the ring. What's up? What's up? Right? I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's like I mean, if you would have pushed a
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  Speaker 1: button and taking you back to two thousand and twelve,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, twenty twenty three, it's the same. Our Truth.
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  Speaker 1: He comes out, he wraps his way down to the
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  Speaker 1: ring and into the ring and he says, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what's up, and Brock cuts him off immediately and says,
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  Speaker 1: man shut up. Truth said that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: be the first WWE superstar to say Brock welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: and Brock laughed. Truth said that he's he used to
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  Speaker 1: be scared of him, but he's not scared of him
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  Speaker 1: no more. And Brock said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know who you are, and you better
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  Speaker 1: have a damn good reason for coming out here and
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: interrupting me. Truth said that Brock's been disrespecting his childhood hero,
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  Speaker 1: John Cena for the past twenty five years. Brock asked him,
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  Speaker 1: how old are you? He's older than Brock. They tell
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  Speaker 1: you that he's older than Brock. He might not look
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  Speaker 1: like it, but he's older than Brock. He goes, how
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  Speaker 1: old are you? And what is your name? So Truth
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  Speaker 1: told him, and he said that he's done with the disrespect.
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  Speaker 1: Brock said, he's here for one thing tonight. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for John Cena. Do you know where John Cena is tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Truth told him that he doesn't. Brock wanted to know again,
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  Speaker 1: why are you in the ring right now? I had
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the same question watching this, And Truth told him he
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  Speaker 1: was here to defend his older brother, John Cena, and
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  Speaker 1: your name is our Truth, And Truth said his name
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  Speaker 1: was Ron Sena. He's got a Ron Sena chan. So
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  Speaker 1: you don't know where John is? No, I don't, And
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  Speaker 1: so why are you here right now? I felt like
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I was in some sort of like infinite loop watching this,
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  Speaker 1: like are we gonna move the conversation alog here? We
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: just gonna repeat ourselves over and over again. So he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to stop the disrespect. Brock John Cena is
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  Speaker 1: built different. He went crazy this year. He made a
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: little kid cry, super Sena is coming for you, dog.
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  Speaker 1: And he's fueled by hustle, loyalty, respect, and two drops
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  Speaker 1: of those kids tears. So he won't be running from
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  Speaker 1: the beast, he'll be feeding on him. And you're his
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: brother from another mother, says Brock says, no, we got
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  Speaker 1: the same daddy, ah comedy. Do you know that you're
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: missing a tooth? He said, And before Truth could even
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  Speaker 1: answer him, he scooped him up on his shoulders and
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: he gave him an F five. And this was all
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  Speaker 1: a colossal waste of time. But in giving him the
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: F five, when Brock popped back up to his feet,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: he had split his pants, the back of his pants
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  Speaker 1: right down his ass crack. I mean, it wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: a little He split his fucking jeens. Okay, these weren't
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: some flimsy, you know, shitty pants that he was wearing.
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  Speaker 1: He was out there wearing jeans and somehow I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know how you do that, honestly, but he split
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  Speaker 1: his jeans and like the way he jumped up, it
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  Speaker 1: was almost like his underwear rode up into his ass
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  Speaker 1: crack or something, and he immediately realized and he starts laughing,
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  Speaker 1: and you could see him he's kind of mouthing the words,
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  Speaker 1: I ripped my pads. And then he bends over because
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: now he's like in his head, he's like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta I gotta roll with the punches here. How do
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I how do I handle this? Right? So he bends
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  Speaker 1: over to uh to moon everybody full moon. You could
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  Speaker 1: see his blue underwear. I know that you know you
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  Speaker 1: watch for these details here. So then he danced a
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: little jig. It's been a while since between Brock dance,
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  Speaker 1: remember Mariachi Brock from many years ago. So he dances
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  Speaker 1: a little bit in the ring as he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what to do here, and then he leaves
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  Speaker 1: the ring and as he's walking down the aisle, he's
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  Speaker 1: looking directly into the camera and he tells Stu the Hammerman.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, fucking stew I ripped my pants. Blue underwear,
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  Speaker 1: he said, and he smacked hands with the fans like
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: he was a fucking baby face. As he walked to
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the back, Brock ripping his pants. He was wearing Batista's
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: skinny jeans. Maybe so, maybe so, but still when to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: rip your pants is one thing. To rip your jeans though,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Like that's impressive. Brock ripping his pants was the only
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: entertaining thing about this segment outside of that this was
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a gigantic waste of time instead of actually hearing anything
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: of substance from brock Lesner, who was headlining this first
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: big ESPN event, right, this first this first big pl
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: e on ESPN technically ESPN Unlimited, that's the name of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the app. Instead of giving us any sort of real
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: promo or explanation as to why this has been going
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: on lie lately, what we got here was campy Vince
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: McMahon comedy with him. In truth, I don't know what
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the point of that was. I mean, some fans had
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a nice laugh about it, okay, I mean it's an
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: interesting choice taking this story, this storyline, this angle of
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: all things and turning it into comedy. The real comedy, though,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: was one Brock split his pants. That was the most
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: entertaining part of the entire segment, and that was the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: last time we saw brock Lesner for the rest of
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: this show. I don't even know why they bothered even
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: having him show up. Why even waste the brock lesnar
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: appearance on this show if that's all you're gonna do
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: with him. That's how they opened the show. After this,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we had a vignette from Solo Socoa where he expressed
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: anger he's by himself. We didn't see the other MFTs.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: He expressed anger about having lost his bloodline, he lost
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: his Ulafalla, he lost his United States championship. I was
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: waiting for him to say that he lost his smile
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: as well, but he never said that. He vowed to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: take back what he lost, said that he lived in
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the shadows of others for far too long and it
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: was time for others to live in the shadow of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: him and his family tree. The MFTs, I will say this,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: they definitely don't live in the shadows. I mean, they
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: get at least what three or four segments on the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: show on most weeks. I'd like to banish them to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the shadow realm for a while. They certainly aren't living
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: in the shadows. I'll say that. In the back, Sammy's
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: aim was talking to his latest challenger in the US
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Title Open Challenge. They kept the camera on Sammy, so
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: we couldn't see at first who he was interacting with,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: but he said they're gonna have a hell of a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: match and he was looking forward to it. The camera
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: panned over to show Ray Phoenix. Yes, the forgotten Lucha
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: bro At least Pent actually gets television time on Monday.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I can't say the same for Ray Phoenix, but he
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was there tonight and he shook hands with Sammy, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Sammy left and that led to our first match of
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the night, the best match of the night, the only
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: match of the night that you really need to pay
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: any attention to. Sammy's ain defending the United States Championship
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: in this open challenge against Ray Phoenix. No booze for
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Sammy this week. I was waiting to see what the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: reaction would be. He was booed a lot in Chicago
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: last week, and I just couldn't really understand why, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I figured it, if anything, I mean, it had more
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to do with just a very pro John Cena crowd
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and anybody who would have come out of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that situation, or almost anybody probably would have been booed.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It's the only thing I could really come up with.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And so he comes out tonight, I said, that will
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: be the test to see if that carries over into
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: other cities, and it did not, so there were no
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: booze for Sammy's ain tonight, although oh, I will say
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: they went to commercial ninety seconds into this match, and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: during the break the crowd did start a very loud
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: let's go Phoenix chant, but that's different than booing Sammy.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Coming out of the break, Sammy hit a beautiful tilted
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: whirl backbreaker that only got him a two count. Phoenix
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: then countered out of a blue thunderbomb with a head
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: scissors into a pin only for two. After that, a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: super kick buckled Sammy Phoenix fell down on top of him,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: only got a two count. Phoenix, then headed up top
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he crashed and burned on a moon salt. Sammy went
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: for a halluva kick Phoenix, though moved, he did a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: forward roll into this great DDT and both men were
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: down heading into the second commercial break. During the break,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they were on the ropes. Sammy hit a sunset bomb
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: only for a near fall, So we got a chance
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: of this is awesome. Not the first. Oh actually this
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was the first, but not the only time in this
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: match that you would hear the fans chanting that. Sammy
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: headed back up to the top. As he came down,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: he fucking ate a super kick here from Ray Phoenix
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for a great near fall and a close one, so
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: much so that poor referee got chance of ref You suck.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Sammy got to his knees and he ate a couple
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of kicks to the chest, like yes kicks, and it
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: looked like it was just making a med but then
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Phoenix delivered one, just flushed right to the face, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Sammy went down. They came back out of the break
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and they ended up back on the ropes again. It
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: looked like Sammy was gonna go. It looked like he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was actually setting up maybe for like an avalanche, you know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: attitude adjustment or something. Phoenix got free, and so with
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Sammy still sitting on the ropes, but he was sort
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of bent over, like hunched forward, Phoenix jumped over his head,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: double stumped the back of his neck and then landed
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: on his feet in the ring. And then he followed
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that with a springboard moonsalt onto Sammy and he covered him.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Sammy kicked out, so now they went at it. Phoenix
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: hit the ropes. Now picture Jay Lethal going for the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: lethal injection right, Phoenix hits the ropes in the same way,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: but when he comes off the rope, Sammy catches him
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and spins him, drops him with a blue thunderbomb for
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: another great near fall. So these two, I mean, at
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: this point in the match, here, these two were cooking
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: with oil. Sammy caught him, he gave him an exploder
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: into the corner. Now he's setting up for the Halluva kick.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He's setting up for the kill shot. Here as he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: came in, though, Phoenix jumped up, took him over with irana,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: had his legs hooked forward. Sammy, though kicked out, so
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: we got more chance of this is awesome. This is
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: indeed awesome. Phoenix hit the Goodbye Amigo kick, then came
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: into the corner for another kick. This kick missed, though,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and Sammy gave him another exploder, and this time he
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: would not be denied. The Halluva kick connects and then
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: into the cover and Sammy Zaying retained the United States
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Championship and all I wrote on Twitter when this match
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: was over, although again it's probably a pointless exercise because again,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like I said before, reading comprehension of a door knob.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But I wrote on Twitter. What a fucking match, What
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a fucking match this was here? And I'll tell you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: what more. I don't know how long they're going to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: drag this open challenge gimmick out for. It may just
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: be for a few weeks. It could be for a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: couple of months, right, we don't know. You give us
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: more matches like the one that we got here on
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: this show. This will rival potentially, if not exceed, the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: quality of the John cena Us Title Open Challenge that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: we got ten years ago. If you give us more
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: matches like this, this was tremendous stuff. And I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: about other potential opponents for Sammy. You really want to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: have fun with this open challenge here and get him
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: in the ring with guys that maybe he just hasn't
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: worked with before, like tonight, right, he had never worked
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: with Ray Phoenix before. One on one. You've got androde
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: right Phoenix is I guess now former tag team partner
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: who also has been just out of the picture, not
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: seen for a while, really not seen since the TLC
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: match at SummerSlam. Why not get Sammy in there with
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Andrade for a match? Why not get him in there
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: with a Nathan Fraser? Why not get him in there
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: with axiom. Carmelo Hayes is an obvious one. Carmelo Hayes
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is the next one because in a backstage segment later
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: in the show, Hayes confronted Sammy and said I got next.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Finally he smartened up. He's been trying to get a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: word with Nick Aldus for weeks now and all this
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: keeps blowing him off, and then the Miz gets involved.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, after last week, Sammy opened this challenge
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: up to anybody, I'm like, how dumb is Carmelo Hayes
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: gonna look knowing this? If he doesn't just go right
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to the source. I'm like, dude, just either confront him
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in the back, or if Sammy comes out and throws
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it open to anybody, you'd be the first one to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: walk out. Like, if Carmelo Hayes is not the first
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: person or one of the first people to, you know, again,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: accept this open challenge, it's like, what are we doing here?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So he wasn't the first, but I was happy that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he actually went up to Sammy in the back and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: said I got next, and Sammy said, okay, don't miss
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So then mis showed up. He was not happy when
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he found out that Hayes had done this. He didn't
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: think that he's ready to be the United States Champion
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: because Miss of course in the past has been the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: United States Champion and he's more interested in them going
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: after the tag team titles. But he was not happy
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: about this. That seems like a very bad sign for
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes next week. I am not expecting Carmelo Hayes
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to win the United States Championship. But it's a first step.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: We'll see where it leads to. But it's a first step.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: This open Challenge, I'll tell you what though, would also
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: be good as a way to introduce a new talent
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: from NXT and so a couple of the names that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I immediately come to mind for me Ethan Page, Evans,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be like a full time
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: call up. Javon is not somebody I would call up
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: full time just yet. Ethan Page is absolutely ready to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: be called up. I've seen some of the stuff that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: he's been doing with Chelsea Green, and I do think
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that that could be a main event act on SmackDown.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I would actually love to see them paired up together.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I think that would be good for both. So someone
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: like even Paige, absolutely I could see him on the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: main roster today. Ricky Saints is another one, but he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: obviously involved with I guess Obafemi right now. But yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: like someone like that, or a Javon Evans or I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: mean whoever. I mean, name whoever you want. But you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: can really throw it open to a whole bunch of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: different people and all it takes is one standout match
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like the one we had tonight to really you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: make an impact here on this show. So this was
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: this was tremendous stuff. Though as far as and I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: just hope that Phoenix does not get you know, banished
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: back to Catering and we don't see him again for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: six weeks. My thing is, if you're not going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: do anything with Phoenix, it would be better to just
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: put the Luca bros. Together. Yeah, it looked like they
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: were really pushing Pent as a single there for a while,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and maybe they had plans for him, maybe with the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title, which he ended up not winning. Unless there's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: some sort of solid singles planned for him coming up
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: real soon, I think both of them would be well
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: served to just be put back together as a tag
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: team and let them have a tag run together. Right now,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you could still do singles with them, but I think
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Penta and Phoenix reunited would be much better. It would
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: be good for both of them, but it would be
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: much better for Phoenix because it's very clear they don't
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: really have a real plan for him Penta. They have
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: him doing stuff with New Day and Grace and Waller,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: which is not terribly interesting, but at least it's something Phoenix,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: especially after a performance like this, Phoenix deserves more. He
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: needs something that might just be it. So they aired
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a video here, one of these VHS style videos with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Bo Dallas and the rest of the wy AT six,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and Bo asked where the street profits go from here
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: now that they failed their test. Eric Rowan said that
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he was sad to see Tez and Dawkins acting this way,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: but it's common for people to not see what they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: have until it's gone. Dallas said that they were the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: ones who sow the seeds that sprouted horns, and then
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he tells us to follow the buzzards. Sure, sure, okay.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: In the back earlier today, they showed Julia and Keana
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: James confronting beefab talked about them stepping up to her
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: girl Mitchen, and Julia said that she could talk smack
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: if she can back it up in the ring tonight.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And that brings us to our next match, which was
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: not a championship match, and actually it wasn't a match
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: at all as it turned, but it was supposed to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: be Julia one on one against BFAB. That's not what
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we got though. Instead, what we got here before the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: match could even start, Julia and Keana they assaulted Beefab.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: They tossed her into the barricade. Back in the ring,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: James was stomping on Beefab. Julia delivered a running a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Rivederci knee to the face. She then bent Bfab's arms
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: behind her back and was holding her with her arms
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: behind her back like she was about to give her
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a curb stump. Before she could do anything, though, she
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: was frozen in her tracks by music. It was Miechen's music.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And Michen comes running out and Julia sends Keana to
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: go take care of her. So Keana leaves the ring,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and Michen, of course has a kendo stick, which is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: every woman's weapon of choice here in WWE, so she
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: whacks Keana across the ribs with it she gets in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the ring. She took a swing at Julia, Julia duckt
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and escaped the ring to safety. I cannot be mad
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that we did not get b FAB in the ring
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: tonight against Julia. I can't say that I was greatly
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: looking forward to this match, although it would be nice
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to see Julia wrestling on a regular basis. But it
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't much of a segment either. It sets up an
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: obvious tag team match. If that's the direction they want
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to go in, you do meechin in BFAB against Julia
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and Keana. I mean, I've said my piece on Julia.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: What more is there to say? This is just she's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: in mid card hell right now in WWA, and the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: mid card is not always a terrible place to be,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: but the mid card is very hit or miss. You
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: can have a mid card feud that actually is interesting
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and engaging and can be used to try to elevate
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: somebody so that one day they are in the main event.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: You could have a mid card feud that clearly is
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: being put together because we have to do something and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: we don't know what to do. That's kind of what
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: this feels like. She may be the United States Champion.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: But what they have done with Julius since she left
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: NX and came to the main roster to do has
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: been underwhelming. And I'm being polite when I say that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: They aired a video with a WrestleMania Saudi announcement from
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: earlier today where everybody was making different comments about how
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: great it is and the biggest of all time and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: all the things that you would expect them to say
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to build up an announcement like this. More on all
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: this this Sunday on SoundOff nine twenty nine. Then we
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: got an Alistair Black video where he warned that he
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: is the sickness and the cure for Damian Priest, who
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: he beat on last week's show. They can keep fighting
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: because of Priest's code and die by it, and he
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: calls himself the profit of violence. After this, we had
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: our second championship match of the evening, Tiffany Stratton defending
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the WWE Women's Championship against Jade Cargill. This was a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: rematch from SummerSlam. Aid immediately went for a pump kick,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Stratton avoided it. Jade tried to lift her up got
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: met with a high dropkick, so Cargil got the advantage
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: with a power slam, followed that up with a supplex
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: attempt that Tiffany was able to avoid. Jade ended up
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: outside the ring, which allowed Tiffany to vault over the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: top rope with a dive that took us into the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: commercial break. So Jay delivered a fallaway slam coming out
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: of the brake, kicked right back up to her feet.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Stratton fired back with a spinebuster. Both women are down.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Jade attempts a power bomb. Stratton, though, reverses into a
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: head scissors. Tiffany did a flipping back elbow, you know,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the handspring elbow that she does, and a double stomp.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: She finished the combo off with a top rope swanton
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: bomb for a near fall. And again, I know I've
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: said this before, she does the swan tom bomb and
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: she waits until the last possible second to tuck her
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: head on the landing. And and I'm just telling you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: she every time she does that, she is tempting fate.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: It looks like she's doing she's about to face plan
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: like a javelin, right into the mat. Tiffany set up
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: for the prettiest moon Salt ever. Jade, though was able
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to shove her shove her down as she scaled the ropes,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: so she had a power bomb out of the corner
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and covered for a near fall. Jade went for a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: choked slam, Stratton rolled through for two. She followed with
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: an Alabama slam. Stratton went for another Moon Salt, but
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Jade rolled out of the way and she delivered. Jade
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: did this great looking pumpkick. So now both women were down.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: They traded strikes out on the apron. Jade went for
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: a spear, ended up posting herself shoulder first. Tiffany went
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: up top, missed the moon Salt to the floor. She
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: looked like she smacked her head real good on the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: landing there. As Jade got up, she speared Tiffany. Both
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: women went crashing through the time key Deeper's barricade. Meanwhile,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the referee had been counting the entire time. Now both
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: women are down, referee counts ten throws the match away.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: This match is a double count out, and the fans booed.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: They were not happy about that. They would be less
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: happy about what came next because after it was over,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a wild Naya Jacks appeared at ringside. She attacked both women.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: She sent Jade into the ring steps and then delivered
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a Samoan drop on the floor. Then she brought Stratton
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: into the ring and hit an annihilator, and so at
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the end of this Women's Championship match, the last woman
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: standing at the end of all this was Nya jacks
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: So we're back to Nya Jackson, Tiffity Stratton with a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: little sprinkle of Jade Cargill thrown in there. So there's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a triple threat match incoming very soon. I don't know
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that they're going to add that to the Wrestle Polooza card.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: They could, but it just feels like probably going to
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: be a SmackDown match at some point. What else do
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: they have right now? Now? I look at this and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I grown, just because we've been there, done that with
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: all three of these women, but especially Tiffany and Naya,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and even some of their matches were not bad matches,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: but like, been there, done that, and it just feels
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like we're rolling down the hill backwards here. But then
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I think, and I look at the roster that they
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: have on SmackDown with the women right now, and I just,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of throw my hands up in
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the air, like, well, what else are they supposed to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: do right now. They don't have any depth at the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: top of the food chain in this women's division on
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Friday nights. Bianca Belle air is, I don't know if
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: she's cleared and they're just waiting for a chance to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: bring her back if she's still not cleared with the finger,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there. All I know
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: is that she has been out of the ring since
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: April and she has been sorely missed on this show,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: at least by me, she has. And even if they
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: were to get her back very soon, it's still not enough.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are changes that have to be made here,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: whether it's moving one or two people over from Raw,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: whether it's calling one or two people up from NXT,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: because it's not like they have, you know, a lack
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: of female talent in the pipeline down there. Soul Ruka
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: could be on SmackDown right now, Jordan Grace could absolutely
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: be on SmackDown right now. Blake Monroe could be on
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: SmackDown right now. Take your pick. You don't need all three,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you know, one to start would be okay, that would
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: be nice, But they've got to make some changes here
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: because the women's title scene on this show really for
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: both titles, very very weak. And it's too bad about
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the finish here because I actually thought they were having
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a good match before that. I would even put it
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: slightly above the match they had at Summer Slam, although
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: they were very similar matches and about the same length.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: This one might have been a couple minutes longer if
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I had one thing I could compliment them on. They
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: were able to hold off on sending Naya out there
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: until the match was already over. Not that it was
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: much better than a double count out finish, but Naya
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: did not interfere in the match. They waited until the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: match was over, and then she came out and did
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• 41:16
  Speaker 1: demanded a women's tag Team Championship match, and all This
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: proposed that the two of them faced the winners of
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the tag team title match that is taking place next
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Tuesday at the NXT homecoming show. NXT is back at
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Full Sale University for those who don't know, that's the
• 41:33
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• 41:36
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• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to be defending the women's tag team titles against the
• 41:49
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• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the tag team titles, and they were very happy about that.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Where is Piper Niven She's still gone, She's still missing.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: There's something going on with Piper nivin. I don't know
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: what it is, but there's definitely something going on there.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: After this, they aired a long video package on the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: history between John Cena and Brock Lesner, and this was
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: narrated by Joe tessitour like something you would see before
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: a big boxing fight on ESPN if they were doing
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: some sort of history package, and it covered their beginnings
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: in OVW. They even had some training footage of them
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in the ring at OVW training together and shaking hands
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: at one point. They covered the move for each to WWE,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: their Backlash match from two thousand and three, Lesner's exit
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: from the company in two thousand and four, and Seina
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: taking the torch as the face of the company after
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: he left, and they promoted Part two will be coming
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: up on the show next week, which is going to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: be twenty four hours before Wressell Palooza. So it was
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: a good history lesson, especially for fans who may not
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: be familiar with their past together. But this one segment
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: was better than anything that John Cena or Brock Lesnar
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: themselves have done in the last few weeks to actually
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: promote this match at Wressell Palooza. It just shouldn't be
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: that way. You know, they're just relying on their star power,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: That's really all it is. They're relying on the fact
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: that they have history together, two major names, a lot
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: of star power there, Brock's first match back in over
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: two years. There. It is by the show like they
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: have done the absolute bare minimum, and even that I
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: don't even think they clear that benchmark in terms of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: what they've done with these two. So the video package here,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the history lesson they gave us was better than all
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of that, all the segments they've been a part of
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: put together. It's pathetic. They went backstage in Vegas where
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: raymus Steer was he was being interviewed. This was at
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the World's Collide Show, which again is taking place as
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: we speak right now. As he was being interviewed, Dominic
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Mysterio walked in said that he would be the first
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Mysterio to be the Mega Champion. He told his deadbeat
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Dad that if he wins, I need you to come
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: out and put the title strap the title around my waist.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: So Ray said sure if you win, and Dom said
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: when he wins. So Ray left and Finn Baalor walked
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: in because Finn Balor has a match on the show
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: as well, and Balor said that Dom would prove that
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: he's the greatest luchador of all time when he won
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the title alone. Good luck. They closed the show. Is
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the end of SmackDown already? They closed the show with
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton one on one against Drew McIntyre. Orton set
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: McIntyre crashing into the outside or crashing outside with a
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: clothes line out over the top. They went to a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: break early in the match. During the break, Orton was
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in the ring and he's shaking his leg out and
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: he's teasing that he may have tweaked his knee. Might
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: be some issue there with the knee. So Orton hit
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: some Garvin stumps and a running knee drop. He grabbed
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: at his knee again. McIntyre noticed this. He took control
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: by kicking the leg and then delivering a chop block.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: He drove his shoulder into the bad knee he applied
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a figure four. Orton reversed the hole to reverse the pressure.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: McIntyre was able to roll to the ropes. The action
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: spilled outside. They battled near the announced desk. McIntyre suplexed
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Orton onto the announced desk and then hit another chop
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: block on the floor, and that took us into yet
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: another commercial break. McIntyre continued to target the bad knee.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: He went for another figure four. Orton, though, shoved him
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: into the ring post and he hit a power slam
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: and the crowd fired up. Orton set up for a
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: draping DDT. McIntyre escaped to the floor. Orton followed him out.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: He returned the favor superlex back and tire onto the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: announced desk, and then he did it again after the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: crowd chatted one more time, so he obliged. Orton was
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: very sluggish getting back in the ring, kind of like
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the pace of this match, and McIntyre delivered a Claymore kick,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: but he rolled to the floor. Orton came back. He
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: delivered an RKO after McIntyre tossed him back into the ring,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: but then drew rolled to the apron, so Orton pulled
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: him back in with a draping DDT and then he
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: got that look in his eyes, got that look in
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: his eyes. He set up for the punt kick, but
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the referee jumped in the way to stop him. McIntyre
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: used that distraction to shove Orton towards the referee in
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the corner. Orton stopped short so he didn't squash him.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: But then he turned around right into another Claymore and
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre pins Randy Orton. So after the match is over,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Drew set up Orton next to the announced desk. He
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: was going to go for a third Claymore kick, but
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: he had him set up kind of by the bottom part.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: He was gonna do to him what he did to
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhads. Enter Cody Roads, They hit his music and
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: outcomes Gile himself, the WWE champion. Done with filming, time
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: to get back to this wrestling thing. He charges down
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to the ring, sprints down to the ring. You know,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I have to say, how very nice of him to
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: wait in the back very patiently all night, all match
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: until we had ninety seconds left in this show to
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: finally make his grand return, just sitting in the gorilla
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: position the entire time, having a snack watching the show.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Finally he comes out. He sprints into the rings, a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: very patient man. He sprints into the ring, he attacks McIntyre.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: He drops him with a Cody cutter. Cody then took
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the mic said the champ is back and he would
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: see McIntyre at Wressel Paulooza. Emphasize, he really emphasized the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Palooza part Wressell Palooza. So that match is now official.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: It'll be Cody Rhoades defending the WWE Championship on that
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: show against Drew McIntyre. We got a good fifteen minutes
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: or so here of working the knee. We got fifteen
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: minutes of working the body part. And for all of
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: those fifteen minutes of working the knee, it did not
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: even play a role in the finish of this match.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the point of that was. I
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: really don't. I don't. It's not even like when Orton
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: went for the punk kick he kind of tripped because
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the knee gave out on him. Nope, fifteen minutes of
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: working on the knee and it didn't even factor into
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: anything in the end. There was nothing. And look, there's
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with working a body part in the match.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, Orton has certainly made a career out of
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: that type of ring psychology, and there's nothing inherently wrong
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: with that. But I just thought here, it made for
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: a very dull match. You know, you do the methodical
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: tight match and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: This was a solid match, but it really you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: for a big match like this, it wasn't anything out
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: of the ordinary that you wouldn't see in your average
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: SmackDown main event. I expected the Cody return here. That
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: was not a surprise. He had to return here. They
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: had no choice if they're going to have him wrestling
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: at Wressell Paluza, which of course they're going to because
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: he's the WWE champion. It's your first ESPN show. Why
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the hell would he not be on that show. If
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to have him wrestling and defending the title
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: on that show tonight, he had to come back. Next
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: week is too late, you know, you need at least
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: one more week to promote that match. So he came back.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: He made the save for Orton before Orton was going
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: to get his head caved in and Drew was going
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: to do the same thing to him that he had
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: done to Cody, and then Cody made the match official.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Question now is what role, if any, does Randy Orton
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: play in this match at Wressell Paloozo. Right? Maybe he does,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't. I don't know. But as far as
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: this show here, look some solid inring action on the
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: show with this and the women's title match. But honestly,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the only things of any real note were the Sammy's
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Ain match, which was excellent, and the return of Cody Rhoades,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: which they rushed through at the very end, literally the
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: last ninety seconds of the show. They rushed through it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: They were right at the very end. Other than that,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: not much to the show. Very disappointed with their use
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: of brock Lesner here. You know, look when the best
• 50:32
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• 50:34
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• 50:38
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• 50:40
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• 50:45
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• 51:29
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• 52:34
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• 52:48
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• 52:51
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• 52:53
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• 52:55
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• 52:58
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• 53:02
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• 53:05
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• 53:09
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• 53:15
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• 53:19
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  Speaker 1: being in Saudi and the reports that they're aiming to
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: bring back Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Rock and Stone Cold for
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: this pay per view? Well? I will talk more about
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: it on Sunday, but I think that is very stupid.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: We need to be going forwards, we do not need
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to be going backwards. So that part of the report,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: which is all rumor right now. A lot of it
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: came from Meltzer in The Observer, but I think that's
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  Speaker 1: very stupid. I have no interest in seeing really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: most of those people, frankly back in the ring. And
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: keep in mind we're talking not even this year or
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: next year. Two years from now, they'll all be two
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: years older than they are now. I certainly have no
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: interest whatsoever in seeing Undertaker back in the ring that
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I can tell you. Joseph Stewart, do you remember when
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: David Flair, Daphne and Crowbar were a trio in WCW
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: in late nineteen ninety nine. I do, I do, and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I actually covered that in the Dark Side of the
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Ring episode on Her that they did on Daphne. He
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: also says I heard a rumor that Keana James has
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: heat in WWE backstage. Do you know if it's true.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: I've not heard anything like that, so I'm going to say, no,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: it is not true. Face Bears will get annual Arabian
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania's they can afford it. I'll tell you what if
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: it just boils down to money and nothing else. If
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: they want WrestleMania five years in a row, if that's
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the criteria now then, yeah, they may be the permanent
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: host of WrestleMania. Joseph Steward, do you remember when Raven
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: formed a group with Vampiro and the Insane clown Posse
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: in WW called the Deadpool in late nineteen ninety nine?
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I don't. Could Rick Steiner have been w CW champion
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: like his brother Scott Steiner? No? No, Rick Steiner is
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: not world championship material. Broley seven, Julia and Tiffany could
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: be wrestling lyra eo Osca, Becky, Rhea, Kyrie, Roxanne, Get Soul,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Jordan and Fatal Influence on SmackDown from your Lips to
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the Wrestling God's Ears. They got to get somebody up there.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Something has to be done. Tiffany's run ever since she
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: beat Charlotte A WrestleMania has been as forgettable as you
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: could possibly expect it to be. A completely forgettable run
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: as champion. Holliday says, where was Jacob Fatu tonight? He's
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: starting to blend in as another mid upper card guy.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: They need to put him in a meaningful storyline. Oh well,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: didn't you see Solo Sokoa's video tonight? Solo Soca is
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: probably gonna be coming after Jacob Fatu. They're gonna run
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: that back again. I wouldn't be surprised Boots with another
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: ten will uh here he is has the constant adds
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: for Canelo versus Crawford. Piqued your interest. I think I
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: might watch it. Uh No, it has not for me.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: But if you watch it, enjoy brother. I don't hear
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: about too many big boxing fights anymore. They seem to
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: be few and far between. Stevie Hurley, So would you
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: call this sweet? Saudi money eight? This takes the cake.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: They were doing so many shows. I just I stopped
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: doing the names a long time ago. This would have
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: to be like the ultimate nickname that we would have
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: to come up with. Joseph with the two bucks. Sena done,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: I'm done to rest in peace. Wwe rot in Hell? Wow? Well,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: I mean there you go. I think that pretty much
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: sums it up right there, rot in Hell, he says.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Holiday one ninety seven. Thoughts on Dominic mysterio turning on
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: the Judgment day and joining Seth's faction. This would lead
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: to an interesting feud between dom and Finn Balor and
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: give Breaker and read More motive to go after the
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: tag team titles. So the implication there is that the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: judgment day would go babyface. YEH mean live Morgan will
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: probably end up being a baby face when she comes
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: back anyway, So I mean, you can make it work
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: dom in the vision. I don't know if I see
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Dom in the vision though, I don't know if I
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: like that. I mean, your idea could work, though I
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: don't know that I would do that. Dried Chicken says
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: time to pop the champagne bottles for WrestleMania forty three
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Super Sweet Saudi Mania. Also this five dollars super chat
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: from him says he would roast Brock on the mic hell.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I'll fight Brock and pissed Tkoh yeah, you do that,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: You do that, brother? The sheltered kid. Ever watched Camp WWE?
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Did you like it or no? I did? I watched it.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I liked it for the most part. I liked story
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Time more though. Storytime was another one of those WWE
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: network shows, and they actually gave a shit about doing
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: shows like that. I like that one more mactub Greater,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: All Time for you Overall Cain or Seth Cain drive
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Shake and says Triple H has turned Julia into a boring, stale,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: mundane noodle creative teams should be arrested. Julia has so
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: much personality in her, it's just a matter of coming
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: up with the right stories, you know, to kind of
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: bring it out of her. Mactub has Cody surpassed his
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: father's legacy for you, No, not yet. Try checking Buy
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: or Sell disrespected EVP bucks or Morning New Day disrespected
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: EVP Bucks far more entertaining. Bobby means with Saudi getting
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: many of forty three, is there a chance of it
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: being live earlier in the day, like around one or
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: three pop. Well, of course it's gonna be a live show.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: So the Saudi shows here usually start I think of one.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting Wrestlemandi to start around one or two o'clock
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon. One of the benefits I suppose for
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: me it's to watch the show earlier and go live earlier.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: But as I said before, it opens up opportunity for
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: other people. We'll cover it more a little more in
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: depth on the podcast this Sunday. You know, it's it's whatever.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just it's just so deflating seeing the different comments
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: from just so many idiots online today who incorporated of course,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the tribal nature of things, I saw it degenerated into
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: a wweaw thing. I mean, it's just the typical bullshit
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: that you would expect to see, you know, in terms
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: of some of the online discourse. But again, I mean,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: nobody should be surprised by the announcement. This is something
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: that was inevitable. It's happening, maybe a little sooner than
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I thought it would. I do think it's a slap
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: in the face for them to get it before the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: UK does. But it comes down to dollars and cents,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: and there's no way the UK can compete with the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: amount of money that we're talking about here, which was
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: not and never is going to be officially announced, but
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the belief is that it is. It could be upwards
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: of two hundred million dollars for one show technically too,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: because it's still going to be two nights, but for
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: one weekend. What other country is going to be able
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: to compete with that? Right? The UK can't compete with that.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: They can't just blindly throw that money around. That's why
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I said, like, if it literally just comes down to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: money and nothing more, it is not out of the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: realm of possibility that you know, the Saudis could end
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: up getting WrestleMania the year after that. Look what happened
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: with Vegas. Look at what happened with Vegas. They literally
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: sent the rock out on live television in New Orleans
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: to announce that WrestleMania forty two was coming to New Orleans.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: And then they change their mind when they saw how
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: much money they made this year in Vegas. They couldn't
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: even wait. We gotta go back to Vegas. Sorry, Nola,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: we gotta go back to Vegas. Why money? This is
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the first WrestleMania in Saudi. I guarantee you it will
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: not be the last. We'll talk more about it on Sunday.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be Episode nine twenty nine of the Sound
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: of Dried Chicken. Says, imagine Eo Sky doing Darby's coffin
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: drop in WWE She doesn't have to. She's got her
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: her beautiful moon salt that she does. She doesn't have
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: to go around stealing other people's moods. And really, whatever
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: the number is, whether it's one hundred and fifty million,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: two hundred million, it could be more, could be two
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million, right, we don't know, but even
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred million. It's it's insane, you know, it's crazy.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: But they're gonna go where the money is. You know,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: fuck everything else. It's just how they operate. Nobody should
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: be surprised. You could be disappointed by it, but nobody
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: should be surprised by it. But this idea that this
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: is some sort of game changing type announcement, again, it's
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: all a matter of semantics here. I fail to see
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: what's so game changing about this. There's nothing game changing
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: about this. This was as predictable as predictable could be.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: They've been running shows in Saudi for years. They've been
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: doing large stadium shows in international locations for years. Summerslim
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: has expanded to two nights, Like WrestleMania doesn't mean what
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: it used to mean. There's nothing game changing about this.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you who's game change today. Though maybe you
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: could argue was their bank account curdly, But again, they
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: make a lot of money off the Saudi shows, so
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: they'll make a little bit more for WrestleMania. To me,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: that doesn't change the game. You know, it changes the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: total in their bank account. But in terms of the audience,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: when you put out a message like that that it's
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: a game changer. I fail to see how it really
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: changes the game for everybody else. Anyway. I know there's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who are watching World's Collide right now.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: I will have to check it out out after myself
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. I was told yesterday that I was color blind.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: The news came right out of the purple, Right out
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: of the purple. Who is that in the background when
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: Sammy had his segment with Mellow Was that knock Hima?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Was it knockingma? Oh my god? Can you imagine? Can
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: you imagine fucking knock him? Mora is still lurky. I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: did not notice anybody in the background, honestly, so I
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: can't tell you who it was. But if it was Knockamora,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: you have got You've just got to be kidding me.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Oh I see ah haha, Yes, of course, out of
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the purple. Okay, all right, yes, out of the blue,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: out of the purple. I don't know how I miss
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: that anyway. Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: rest of your night. If you're gonna go watch World's Collide,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: enjoy whatever I see of World's Collide. We'll review that
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: and talk about that on Sunday. As well. Uh and
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: I will see you back here for more live YouTube
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: streaming on Monday night for the raw post show. Until then,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: take care, guys,