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WWE Smackdown 12/26/25 Review | THREE STAGES OF HELL Is Coming, NEW US Champion! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: The final SmackDown of the two hour era was tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Three Stages of Hell is coming, and no, I am
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  Speaker 1: not talking about Cody and Drew, although we did find
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  Speaker 1: out tonight when we are getting the rematch between Cody
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  Speaker 1: Roads and Drew McIntyre, it will not be on that
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  Speaker 1: first SmackDown of twenty twenty six that's in Buffalo next week. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it will be the week after that, January ninth. WWE
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  Speaker 1: is going to be in Berlin, Germany, because Drew McIntyre said,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: I've already been screwed over enough times here in the States,
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  Speaker 1: and actually he's been screwed over in more than just
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  Speaker 1: the States. He was screwed over in Scotland that was
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  Speaker 1: by cm punk last year. But he is going to
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  Speaker 1: do this in Berlin, Germany. And the type of match
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  Speaker 1: that it is going to be is a match that
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  Speaker 1: we have not seen in WWE in more than five years.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be a three Stages of Hell match. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this came across my timeline a little but earlier. Credit
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  Speaker 1: to whoever put this together. This right here, these are
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  Speaker 1: the only three Stages of Hell matches that we have
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  Speaker 1: ever had in WWE. First one, of course, is probably
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  Speaker 1: the most memorable one, and looking at this list, I
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  Speaker 1: would say it's my favorite one, that being Triple H
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  Speaker 1: and Stone called Steve Austin from two thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: No Way Out. That was right before WrestleMania X seven,
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  Speaker 1: and then we had Shawn Michaels and Triple H. At
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  Speaker 1: Armageddon in two thousand and two, we had Triple H
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  Speaker 1: and Randy Orton. I believe that was two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: At the Bash they had us three Stages of Hell match,
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  Speaker 1: John Cena and Rye Back. I'd completely forgotten about that one.
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  Speaker 1: That would have had to what year would that have been?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty had to be twenty thirteen. And the last one
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  Speaker 1: that we saw was Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano. That
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  Speaker 1: was n XT Takeover Toronto in twenty nineteen. So it
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  Speaker 1: has been six years since we have gotten one of
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  Speaker 1: these matches. And as you can tell, it's just a
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  Speaker 1: match where you'll have a different stipulation for each fall.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember if they get to choose what their
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  Speaker 1: stipulations will be in case it goes to a third fall,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't know how this is going
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  Speaker 1: to work, but we're essentially going to get three matches
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  Speaker 1: in one and I like it because it's a stipulation
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  Speaker 1: that has not been abused. We haven't seen this match obviously,
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  Speaker 1: in a very long time, so it's not like we
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  Speaker 1: get it on a regular basis. It's something different that
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  Speaker 1: we don't get to see very often. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: it almost doesn't even matter what kind of stipulation it is.
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  Speaker 1: It could be three Stages of Hell. It could be
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  Speaker 1: hell in a cell, it could be cage, it could
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  Speaker 1: it could be anything. The one thing I know is
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  Speaker 1: that this is a must win for Drew MacIntyre because
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  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre, by his own admission, you know, in his
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  Speaker 1: mind anyway, he has been screwed over multiple times. He
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  Speaker 1: has had multiple opportunities at the WWE Championship, he has
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  Speaker 1: fallen in short each time. And now they're running this
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  Speaker 1: back again, and to me, if you're gonna run this
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  Speaker 1: back again, you really shouldn't have the same outcome you
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  Speaker 1: have the first two or three times. This feels like
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  Speaker 1: a must win. And I said this a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago that if we're gonna get a pair of World
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Championship matches at the beginning of the new year. We
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  Speaker 1: already know CM Punk and bron Breaker. They have their
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  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Title match first. That match is coming up
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  Speaker 1: on RAW on January fifth, And while I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see bron Breaker win the championship, my thought process
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  Speaker 1: on that right now is that it just doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: feel like that title is gonna change hands. I just
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling they're gonna probably save bron Breaker for
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  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. And that's okay because bron Breaker, depending
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  Speaker 1: on how they do it, losing that match is not
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  Speaker 1: a killer for bron Breaker. It all depends on how
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  Speaker 1: he loses, right, He shouldn't just go in there and
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  Speaker 1: lose clean to see. I'm punk, But Drew McIntyre, we've
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  Speaker 1: already seen him be a loser before more than once.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they did this already with Cody Roads
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens ended up not winning the
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  Speaker 1: WWE Championship. He ran around for a month and a
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  Speaker 1: half pretending to be the champion. He ran around for
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  Speaker 1: a month and a half with the Winged Eagle replica
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  Speaker 1: off WWE shop and he never did win the belt.
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  Speaker 1: And they had that great ladder match to pay it
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  Speaker 1: all off of the Royal Rumble. But I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like story wise, Drew McIntyre should win this match, even
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  Speaker 1: if he doesn't hold the championship for very long, because
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing. Even if he wins the title, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see Drew McIntyre rolling into WrestleMania as the WWE champion.
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  Speaker 1: But I still feel like, man, you want to kickoff
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  Speaker 1: smack Down. I know it's not the first smack the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, but you want to kick off
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  Speaker 1: this new year, this new era of SmackDown in a
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  Speaker 1: major way. You do a title change in Berlin, Germany,
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  Speaker 1: and you put that championship on Drew McIntyre, and you
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: have Cody Rhodes lose his mind trying to get that
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  Speaker 1: belt back, and you know what, if there is a
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  Speaker 1: plan in place, possibly for a Cody Rhodes heel turn
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  Speaker 1: at some point in twenty twenty six, maybe around wrestle
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  Speaker 1: Mania time. Him losing the title to Drew and having
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  Speaker 1: to fight to quickly get it back would certainly play
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  Speaker 1: into that. I think as far as maybe driving him
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  Speaker 1: to a point that gets him there, you know, driving
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  Speaker 1: him to a point where maybe we can see him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going heel in the next few months. But
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  Speaker 1: now we have a date and we have a stipulation,
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  Speaker 1: so we know when that championship match is going to
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  Speaker 1: be taking place. And I agree and Swank. You make
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  Speaker 1: another great point, which is that not every title run
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  Speaker 1: needs to be a long one. Cody won the belt
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  Speaker 1: back from John cenet SummerSlam. He's been champion ever since,
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  Speaker 1: and if he doesn't lose the title to Drew MacIntyre,
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  Speaker 1: he's very likely going to be the champion heading into WrestleMania,
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  Speaker 1: as he was this year. By the way, he was
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  Speaker 1: the champion for a year right going into WrestleMania. It's
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: okay every now and then, it's okay to break up
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  Speaker 1: the monotony of a long title run, a six month
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  Speaker 1: twelve month title run, and do a title change, even
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  Speaker 1: if all you do is just put it right back
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  Speaker 1: on the guy who had it before. I will never
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: advocate for a return to the Hot Potato era, the
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  Speaker 1: Crash TV Hot Potato era, where the championships would change
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  Speaker 1: hands so many times it was hard to keep track.
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  Speaker 1: Right When things like that happen, that's how you end
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  Speaker 1: up with seventeen time world champion John Cena. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not advocating for that. But for the love of God,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. It will not be a killer. It will
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  Speaker 1: not fuck up your long term plans. If you switch
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  Speaker 1: the title here and there every now and then, put
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  Speaker 1: the title and drew. It's time. It's long since time
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  Speaker 1: put the title and drew. Now. The other thing that
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  Speaker 1: happened tonight, the biggest thing, the best thing that happened
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  Speaker 1: here on SmackDown tonight, speaking of new champions Actually this
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  Speaker 1: is a perfect segue into this. Ilia Dragonov came back
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago. He was gone for thirteen months,
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  Speaker 1: he tore his acl and he comes back. In his
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  Speaker 1: very first night in he beat Sammy's a he wins
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  Speaker 1: the United States Championship. Because Sammy, of course, is the
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  Speaker 1: one who revived the old John Cena US Title Open
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  Speaker 1: Challenge right and the spirit of John Cena in his
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: final year, he wanted to bring back the Open Challenge,
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  Speaker 1: and that has been the best thing about SmackDown now
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  Speaker 1: since what September, I guess is when he started it
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  Speaker 1: right the fall into the winter, these last few months,
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  Speaker 1: where would SmackDown be on most weeks without those US
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  Speaker 1: Title Open challenges, without Sammy's aining defending the title without
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: Eliya Dragonov defending the title. It's been great. One man
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: who has not had a great year on SmackDown is
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes. And when he was drafted to this show,
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  Speaker 1: what was he drafted was last year? Right? Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: number one draft pick. Right. He has not lived up
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  Speaker 1: to the billing ever since then. And I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: putting the blame on him, right, it's just basically what
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  Speaker 1: they've had him doing last year into this year. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't look like the number one draft pick. He
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  Speaker 1: hasn't looked like the number one draft pick really since
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  Speaker 1: he left NXT. But we know he has immense talent.
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  Speaker 1: You saw him an NXT, former NXT champion. You know
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  Speaker 1: what he can do, and it was just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of are they going to give him the ball to
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  Speaker 1: run with? Is he gonna get the opportunity to show
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  Speaker 1: what he can truly do? Is he going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to connect with the audience in a way that
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  Speaker 1: I felt like he did in NXT because I knew
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  Speaker 1: he could do it. It's just you know, putting the
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  Speaker 1: pieces together and putting in with the right people. This
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  Speaker 1: thing with Miz, it dragged on for so long and
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  Speaker 1: then they just dropped it cold, and it's the best
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  Speaker 1: thing that could have happened, by the way. Kind of
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  Speaker 1: shitty because they built it up for so long and
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  Speaker 1: we never got a payoff to that, but they dropped it,
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  Speaker 1: and for good reason, because now Carmelo Hayes, going into
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, is finally going to have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to prove that he is the number one draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: He is going into the new year as the new
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  Speaker 1: United States Champion because he took the title from Ilia.
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  Speaker 1: Drag it off tonight, not in an open challenge. This
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  Speaker 1: was cut and dry. Ilia went right up to him
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  Speaker 1: in the back and said, there ain't no open challenge tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I want you. You're my opponent tonight you get your shot.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, I won't miss. How many times do
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  Speaker 1: we heard Mello say, mellow, don't miss, I won't miss.
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  Speaker 1: I don't miss. And how many times has he missed?
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  Speaker 1: Many times? Tonight he did not miss. These two didn't miss.
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  Speaker 1: They went out there and they had a fantastic television match,
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  Speaker 1: a match that I will definitely be adding to my
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  Speaker 1: list of honorable mentions when I talk about my top
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  Speaker 1: fifteen matches of the entire year. The list is locked
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  Speaker 1: pending World's End this weekend, I'm leaving I'm leaving a
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: little opening there in case something blows me away at
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: World's end. I may have to reconfigure my list at
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  Speaker 1: the last minute. But the list is locked, and this
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  Speaker 1: will certainly make the honorable mentions for twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: an excellent match. The crowd was invested. The crowd was
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  Speaker 1: super happy when it was over, not only to see
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  Speaker 1: a new champion crown, because of course they're always going
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  Speaker 1: to pop for a new champion being crown, but it
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  Speaker 1: really feels like over the last several weeks we have
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: seen this connection that the audience has with Melo since
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: he's been turned babyface. Basically, they have gotten behind him,
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: which is very encouraging. They have gotten behind him in
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: a way that they don't always get behind people. Now
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  Speaker 1: he has been rewarded with the United States Championship, and
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: that is how he is kicking off twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: A reason for optimism for him, a reason for optimism
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  Speaker 1: here on this show. I don't know what this means
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  Speaker 1: for the future. As far as these open challenges, I
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: think that we need to put them to bed. Probably
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: for the time being. I don't know what this means
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: as far as the immediate future for Ilia Dragonov. I
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: do wonder, you know, what's next for him. Obviously he's
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: not just going to be vaulted into the WWE title picture.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: I hope they have something good for him. He's too
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: good to just be, you know, meandering around with no
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: place to go here on this show. But it's very
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: interesting that Mellow wins the United States Championship at a
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: time win for the first time tonight on smack Now
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: we see Trick Williams, right, a former friend and foe
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: of his, making an appearance on SmackDown. He's a free agent.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: He's fielding offers from Raw, he's fielding offers from SmackDown.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: He was looking for some you know, insight from Nick
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Aldos tonight as far as whether or not he's going
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: to make an offer. And now Mellow is a champion
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  Speaker 1: on this show and then there's a history there, so
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I thought that was very interesting. And speaking of new arrivals,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: we don't know where Trick Williams is going to land,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: but we know where Joe Henry is going to land.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't get the indication or the impression tonight that
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: we're going to see him on raw and he's going
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: to bounce back and forth. He seems to be a
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: SmackDown guy. Now, good because we had heard that, you know,
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: he was going to be an NXT for a while.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Why we've seen him in NXT for months. Right, He's
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: a known commodity with Joe Hendry. You know, he's certainly
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: been established on that brand, and you know what you're
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: getting with him. Supposedly USA Network wants him on SmackDown.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: They're high on him, so good for him. What a
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: year it's been for Joe Hendry from where he started
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, when I believe he
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: was the oh he won the title right a Genesis,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: but he was the TNA World Heavyweight Champions, Right, he
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: won the Belt of Genesis in the Royal Rumble, you know,
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania against Randy Orton and finishing the year now as
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: an official roster member in WWA. Right, this is where
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: he always wanted to be and now he is, and
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: he was on smack Then he made a SmackDown debut
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: tonight and the fans were singing his song and they
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: were swaying back and forth, and they were solidly behind him.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: And so as we close out this year and SmackDown
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: has not been good for much of the year, right,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: it goes through these phases, but for a while now,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: SmackDown has not been a good show. It's not been
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: a great show. And as we head into this new
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: year here there's reason for optimism when you see new
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: faces popping up, like Joe Hendry, like Trick Williams. We
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: got a video package a teaser for Obafemi tonight, no
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  Speaker 1: indication that he's imminently being called up or he's gonna
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: be on SmackDown, although SmackDown could certainly use him the
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: most more than Raw can. And that doesn't even include
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: maybe Soul Ruca, because it's funny like we're seeing Joe
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  Speaker 1: Hendry and Trick Williams and Obafemi maybe, And it's like
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  Speaker 1: the one area above all else that really needs help
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: right now on Friday nights is the women's division. Right,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Why are we going to see what women are being
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: called up to smack Down? Where's Soul Ruca, Where's Jordan Grace,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Where's Fatal Influence? Right, that's what we need to see
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: going into this new year, going into this three Stages
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: of Hell period, as I now call it, of SmackDown
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  Speaker 1: that's coming up. So I have cautious optimism that they recognize, Hey,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: this is something that we have to do. This is
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: something they should have done a long time ago. But
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: we need new faces on this show. Got to get
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: new faces in the mid and I don't even want
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: to say young faces, right, we definitely need that too.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Joe Henry is not young. Joe Henry is thirty seven
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: or thirty eight years old, but he is a new face,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to have a mix of both. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason to be optimistic that they recognize, Okay, we
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: have an extra hour to fill. We need new people.
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  Speaker 1: So I am curious to see what's smacked down a
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: month from now, two months from now, you know, coming
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: out of the Rumble is going to look like it's
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the only thing that I can really kind of hang
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: my hat on here, because three hours is coming, whether
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: we like it or not. If we're gonna get three
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: hours of this every single week, I'd like to see
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: what their plans are going to be for some of
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: these new faces and how they incorporate them into the show,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: because it's just been the same old, same old now
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: for so long you can add another sixty minute and
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I know it's not actually sixty you got commercials and everything,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: but you can add another sixty minutes to the show
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: in its current state. You can't do it. It's just
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: it's death. You can't do it. There's reason to be optimistic.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: As taped holiday shows go, this one was not bad.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: I've seen some bad tape holiday shows that were just
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: in the can Let's just get through this and get
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: past the holidays and get into the new year. So
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: this was not a bad show. But I would probably
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: have a very different opinion if that US title match
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: was not on the car tonight. It was carried almost entirely.
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  Speaker 1: I say that almost entirely because of that US title
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: match between Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov. Well, we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about the entire thing here. This is your SmackDown review
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  Speaker 1: here on Friday Night, final two hour edition, final edition
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  Speaker 1: period of twenty twenty five. It is December twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 1: It is a day after Christmas. So I hope everybody
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: had a very merry Christmas, everybody who was celebrating, Yes,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: thirty seven, he's just a baby hey look better late
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: than ever. Right. Some people get their break early, some
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: people get their break late. Fucking Dede he didn't even
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: break into the business until he was thirty five. Fatista
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: was almost forty. Look what he ended up doing right.
• 16:08
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• 16:12
  Speaker 1: a pig this time of year, I really do. It
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  Speaker 1: especially holiday cookies. That's my vice. Eating well during the
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  Speaker 1: the year. One little programming note, I did want to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: mention here. New Year's Eve is coming up, and this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: is going to be the sixth year in a row
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• 19:21
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• 19:34
  Speaker 1: about Dynamite. It's going to be hanging out with you guys,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: taking your questions, having fun, maybe doing a little drinking
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: here on the stream to ring in the new year.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So get yourself ready. If you got no other plans,
• 19:46
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
  Speaker 1: find out on Wednesday. So I just wanted to let
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• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it's a Wednesday, are you going to be doing it? Oh,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we're doing it. Six years in a row. We're doing it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: So let's go to the beginning of the show here.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Let's start from the top. In the back, the WWE
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Champion Cody Rhodes. He ran into Nick Aldus, the general
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: manager here of SmackDown, and asked him if Drew McIntyre
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was here yet. All this told him that he's not,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but he's on the way. He's already signed the contract.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So once he makes that public apology to referee Dan
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Engler for kicking him in the face, and once he
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: pays his fine, that's it. All this said no physicality
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: or else he will have to strip Cody of the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: WWE championship. And Cody just told all this, let me
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: know when he gets here. So after Cody left, all
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: this walked over and there was the Mis, and the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Mis was not happy. When is the mis happy? The
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Miss is always angry about something. So he says that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: he wants to make sure that Joe Hendry's music is
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: not played. He demands that Joe Hendry's music not be played,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and all this of course ends up saying Joe Hendry's name,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and as soon as he does, what happens, we hear
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry's music. Joe Henry was out there with a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: bunch of people that were dressed up as Santa. They
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: were dressed up as Elves. Otis was Santa. I believe
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: at Tozawa was one of the elves, and for some reason,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the Easter Bunny was out there. Now, my favorite Easter
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Bunny cameo was many, many years ago. I think it
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: was two thousand and three. Right, it was the APA Invitational.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It's actually one of the stipulations and be the booker,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: but I know that the Easter Bunny was there. It
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was like a barroom brawl. They had a little bar
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: set up in the back of the arena there and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the fucking Easter Bunny. He got his ass kicked. He
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: got his ass kicked in the APA Invitational. So anyway,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he was here on the post Christmas show. Don't ask
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: me why. Actually we would find out why here in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and then it would make sense. Hendry
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: said that in the holiday spirit, he decided to give
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the gift of a holiday song. Now, if you've seen
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry and TNA, you've seen him have these concerts,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: right like the Rock has had the Rock concerts before.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry has created many songs for his opponents, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: he has had concerts on TNA Impact, but never here
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: in WWE. And so we got our first Joe Hendry
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: concert here on his first night on SmackDown, and it
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: was his version of jingle Bells, and it was dedicated
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to the Miz. So what I would like to do
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: here is I would like to go through some of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: these lyrics that I jotted down as he was singing
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: his song. Now, I will do my best here. I'm
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: not gonna really sing it, but I'll do my best.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So this was Joe Hendry's song to the mis. Let
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: me see if I get the rhythm of a jingle
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: bell jingle bell j Okay. He talks about his balls
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: every single day. I guess that's why he says that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he came to play. I think he's better off throwing
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: them away, cause the truth is he can't get a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: win without Carmelo. Hey, I fucked it up already. He
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: can't get a win without Carmelo Hayes. That was the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: message that he was trying to convey here. Oh, jingle bells,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: jingle bells, mis has tiny balls. Every time he's in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a team, he takes all the falls. Oh, jingle bells,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: jingle bells, mis has tiny balls. He'd rather be in Hollywood,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: but they won't return his calls. Not bad not bad.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He wasn't done yet, says he was playing with his
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: balls on John Cena's last show. Then he got beat
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: up by Our Truth and Joe this song is getting weird,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: but now something is clear why he got out of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the locker room for half of his career. They go
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: see not bad, not bad, not bad. It is not
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a bad song. Joe's really good at this And honestly,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: this is the sort of thing. By the way, I'll
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: be releasing that, so if anybody wants to pay for it,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this thing is gonna go fucking gold, platinum maybe. But
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: this is the sort of thing that Hendry does, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he's very good at it. And I always felt like
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: this he would be the perfect fit for WWE, Like
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he fits into this brand of sports entertainment that they
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: love to do. Like if Vince McMahon was still running
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this company, and I mean, fuck him, but let's just
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: say he was, like he would love Joe Hendry because
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he's very entertaining. He's a creative guy, he's likable, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he's very entertaining. So I think that he's gonna be
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a good fit here for the main roster. I think
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to fit like a glove he already did on night one.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing I will say is that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they need to I think they need to have some
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: sort of primmer. It could be a quick video package
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that they air on the show next week or on
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a week maybe where he's not on the show, just
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to bring people up to speed on who this guy
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: really is. Like, he literally just showed up on SmackDown.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And if you don't follow TNA, if you don't watch NXT,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: if you just watch for on Smackdan and follow the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: main roster, you would probably have seen him in the rumble.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You remember him from Mania, but you don't know too
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: much about this guy. It's kind of like he came
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. So I would have some sort of
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: primer just to let people know who he is. He's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a former world champion, right, just to you know, give
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a little background on who he is. But I think
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: on night one the crowd responded to him quite well.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I would say they were pretty much with him and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: everything that he was doing. But just don't assume that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: everybody knows who this guy is. So the mis interrupted,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: this is not sing along with Joe, he said. Henry
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: thought that now that Miz was here they should all
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: sing together, and he started over again, which I am
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: not going to do. Mis said that he was chasing
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a legacy while Henry was chasing choruses. And now with
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: John Cena retired, Mis claimed that he earned the right
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to be the locker room leader to lead WWE into
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the future, because when I think about who can lead
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: WWE into the future, you know, the first person I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: think of, the Miz. That's the first name that I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: think of. So Mis challenged Henry to a match. Nick
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: All this walked out, and he said that the match
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: would now be a miracle on thirty fourth Street Fight.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: They were supposed to have a match anyway, but now
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it was going to be their annual miracle on thirty
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: fourth Street Fight. So you know what is usually, you
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: know the case here with these matches, you get a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: bunch of we didn't have any candy canes, did we? Well,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: maybe we did, I don't remember. But Henry lifted Miz
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: for a long stalling suplex at one point and that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: sent Miz rolling out to the floor. And as Henry
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: headed outside, he opened up one of the gift boxes
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that was out there, and he pulled out a guitar.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So then Miz on the opposite side, he pulled out
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a gift of his own, and it was a ukulele.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: It was like a mini guitar. And then he pulled
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: out a pair of small ornaments. As I continue to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: die here, Ah man, it's been a rough week. It
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: has been a rough week. Kind of glad it's over though,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so that I can get my voice as prepped as
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I can possibly get it for the podcast on Sunday.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But this has not been a very pleasant week, all
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the more reason why I appreciate you guys hanging out
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: with me. But that's okay, we'll get through it. But
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Mis pulls out a ukulele, and then from another box
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he pulls out a small pair of ornaments Holiday balls,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because he has tiny balls, you see, that's what we're told.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Henry Hip toss Miz into a Christmas tree and then
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: he pulled out a slim gym table from underneath the ring,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: which he set up inside. Miss knuck up on Henri.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He tried for a roll up to no avail. Skull
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: crushing finale was countered by Henri, who attempted his standing
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: ovation finish, which is his choke slam. Mis managed to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: escape and Mis lost his shit. At this point, he
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: just started going crazy. He's dropping elbows on a gift
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that was thrown into the ring by the easter Bunny.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Sounds completely ridiculous. And then they took a break in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the action. So later on, Joe wanted a tree. No,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: not that tree, having PTSGD just thinking about it. Not
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that tree, but otis and Tozawa they slipped the tree
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to the ring to him and he waxed Miz with
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: it a few times, and then he hits a fallaway slam.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Joe then throws the tree fall away slam style into
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Miz Mis avoids another standing ovation attempt, but he
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gets sent out of the ring and Tozawa was offering
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: him some Christmas cookies. He had Christmas cookies on a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: platter here. Miz did not want these cookies and he
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: booted this man in the face and the cookies went flying,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you know I mentioned on the Dynamite review. At the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: end of the show, Jack Perry was handing out chocolate
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: chip cookies to fans in the front row that Lucasaurus
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: had brought out, and the first person he went over
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to was a little girl in the crowd, and he said, here,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have a cookie, and she was like now, and I'm like,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: how do you say no to a chocolate chip cookie? Like?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Who does that? Kind of awful parenting is that? So
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: she rejected the cookie and then here we have a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: platter of cookies and they they just go flying and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: they land on the floor. What a waste? What a
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: waste of cookies? And now I'm all hungry because I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: haven't had any holiday cookies this year. So that that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: was the end of Tozawa in the cookies. Here the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Easter bunny took a kendo stick shot. He took a
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: kendos He makes it like he stole it. He took
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a kendo stick shot. Then Otis broke the kendo stick.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Joe showed up for some kendo stick action. He starts
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: hitting the miz. All four men end up getting into
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the ring. It's a street fight, right, so this is legal.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: So they all get into the ring and mis takes
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: another fallaway slam from Joe and then he takes the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: caterpillar from Otis. Tozawa follows with the big sentan off
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the top rope. He got some height on that, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: then the Easter Bunny revealed himself to be our truth,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: because of course it was. Who else would it be.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: He reveals himself, he wishes everybody a happy and then
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: he does the John Cena you can see me and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the five knuckle shuffle. Henry then shattered the guitar across
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Miss's arm, the guitar he pulled out earlier in the match.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: So yes, the guitar that he had pulled out from
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the gift box earlier in the match. He didn't hit
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: him in the head with it because in WWE no headshots,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: so you can't do that. But he hit him in
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the arm with it, and then he delivered a standing
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: ovation through the slim gym table that was set up
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in the ring, and he covered the Miz and he
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: got the win, his first win here on smackdand he
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: beat the Miz. What a hard fought battle this was.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He did the one thing that everybody does. He beat
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the Miz. So what was this? This was? This was
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the annual holiday street fight. So if you've seen one
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of them, you've seen them all right. They all pretty
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: much followed the same pattern. They used this one as
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a way to introduce Joe Hendry here to the main roster.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I thought it was fine, but again, just take the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: time to just do a little bit better of a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: job of explaining who Joe Hendry is. Put together a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: fun video package, but just you know, show people like,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: oh okay, this guy's he's done some stuff in his career.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Nice to have a fresh face here on this upcoming
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: three hour show. So backstage, Carmelo Hayes, he was talking
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: with Phraxium before Ilya Dragonov interrupted and he asked to
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: speak with Hayes alone, and Dragonov said that he enjoyed
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: teaming up with him against DIY last week, but it
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: eats him alive. It eats him alive that his title
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: match against Hayes went the way that it did a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago. So Dragonov said that the open challenge
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: was hereby closed because tonight it's going to be him
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: against Hayes for the United States Championship, and Hayes shook
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: his hand and he said he won't miss elsewhere. Drew
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: McIntyre was shown arriving and immediately asked by Kathy Kelly
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: about the stipulation. What's the stipulation going to be that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you're going to pick for your match with Cody Rhoades.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Do you know what it is? And he said he does,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but he's tired from the flight in from Scotland. And
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: he promised that tonight we would get all of our answers.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: But for now it's nap time. Always good to take
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: a nap here when you can here and there an
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: hour or two, wake up all refreshed. I need to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: do more of That's my resolution for twenty twenty six.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Take more naps, like I'm a child. That's what children do.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: They take naps. So Alistair Black and Zelena I guess
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: she's just Zelena now, I mean, they don't really call
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: her Zelena Vega anymore. We got a video promo. How
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: many fucking video promos, by the way, have we gotten
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: for Alistair Black and Zelena and for Damian Priest. I've
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: lost count. Almost every week we get a new video promo.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Zelena said they ripped Damian Priest down for six months
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and made him unpredictable and violent. Black said that priest
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: answers to him and Zelena. Black said win or lose.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He and Zelena have already changed Priest and he said
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: it gets ended before standing up and walking away. So
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: we come back live backstage to Byron Saxton, who talked
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: about the fact that on the show next week we
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: are going to get a match between Damian Priest and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Alistair Black. We're getting another one, no stipulation, just one
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: on one because remember we basically started with last man's standing,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: so we're sort of working our way backwards here, So
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to get a straight one on one match
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: between these two next week that I seriously doubt is
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: going to end the feud between them. It will only
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: prolong it that much longer. So after this, we had
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: him introducing the WWE Women's Champion, Jade Cargill, who walked
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in and she talked about Michen being afraid running around
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: with a Kendo stick, and Jade said that she doesn't
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: need a weapon because she is the weapon. She told
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Michen to bring her kendo stick because she's gonna need it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: So then we see bfab she was watching elsewhere. She
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: was watching on a monitor. Michin showed up and says
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that we're not scared of Jade, says that they don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: respect her. She needs to get humbled, and next week
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: she's gonna be the one to humble Jade Cargill. You
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: know what I think as I watch this, what are
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the chances I'll propose this to you, what are the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: chances that next week BFAB ends up turning on Michen
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and BFAB ends up becoming a lackey for Jade. Remember Jade,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: like in aw she had that crew the Baddies, right,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I think Leyla Gray was a part of it, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: trying to think was Red Velvet in there? I forgot
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: who all the baddies were O Kiera Hogan Maybe I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: don't remember, but maybe we get a kind of a
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: WWE version of the Baddies and BFAB links up with Jade.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that wouldn't be, honestly the best
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: spot for BFAB to be in. Just the thought, because honestly,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know where else this whole b Fab and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Mechin partnership goes. I mean, you know where do they
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: go from here? You know they're just gonna be destroyed
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: by Jade and then what nothing, absolutely nothing will come
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: from this, not for them. We had Lash Legend against
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair. Lash basically dominated the majority of this match,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: used her strength to overpower Charlotte. At one point, she
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: was holding Charlotte in between the ropes, and she's done
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: this in NXT before, basically just holding her in between
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the top rope and the middle rope and bouncing her
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: up and down between the ropes. Lash got a cravat
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: applied at one point, not a very good one. Charlotte
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: fought free. She started throwing elbows. Lash ran into a boot.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Charlotte went up top hit a crossbody. She was able
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to after this avoid a power bomb with the sunset
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: flip for a two count. Lash tried for her Lash
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: extension move. Charlotte, though countered with a DDT. Charlotte went
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: up for a moon salt. She connected, only got two.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Charlotte then went for the knee. You know why, she's
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: softening the knee up for the figure eight. So she's
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: going after Lash's knee. Naya Jacks's outside and she sees
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: this and she's like, oh, I better leap into action here,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: So she jumps up on the apron to run distraction,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the momentary distraction, and that allows Lash to kick Charlotte. Meanwhile,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss, who was outside in Charlotte's corner, she runs
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: over and jumps on Nya's back outside in the ring,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Charlotte got a sunset flip out of the corner and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: she got the flash pin to hand Lash Legend her
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: first defeat here on the main roster since she has
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: been called up. This was not always the prettiest match,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: not a pretty match. Lash has some work to do
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: before she gets to where she needs to be. It's look,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: she's gonna lose. It's not a bad first loss to take. Right,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: You're gonna lose to Charlotte Flair. It's not the end
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: of the world. Of course. What would have been better
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is if she won, she beat Alexibliss, right, she could
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: have beaten Charlotte as well, But I guess you can't
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: do that because clearly, and there was a backstage segment
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: that came after this that basically further you know, illustrated this,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: but it's very clear to me. Like we know on
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: January fifth, the first raw of the new year, we
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: know Rio Ripley and Eosky are challenging the Kabuki Warriors
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: for the women's tag team titles. But we saw Lash
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Legend and Naya Jacks get a clean win over the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Kabuki Warriors on this show a few weeks ago, non
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: title right, they beat the champions clean, so they also
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: want to have Charlotte and Alexis still in this mix,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: right for the women's tag team titles. This feels like
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: it's headed towards a four way for the titles, Like
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: that match on January fifth is going to have two
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: teams added to it, right. It hasn't happened officially yet,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: but that's kind of what it felt like coming out
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of this. That's what it felt like to me. You
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: got to give Charlotte a win, so everybody, everybody gets
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to claim a win here, and then eventually you build
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to you know, a four way with all of these teams.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: But there was a backstage segment that came after this
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: where Ria and EO because again they taped Ron Smacked
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Down the same night, so everybody was there. So Ria
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and EA they walk up to Charlotte and Alexa in
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the back and they remind them that they have their
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: tag team title match coming up in just a few weeks.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: They have next basically, right, So EO was saying that
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: after we win, we would give you guys first crack.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: But then here comes Naya and Lash they walk in,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Oscar and Kyrie they walk in everyone's yelling and screaming.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Nick ald Has had to calm things down, and he
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: made an eight women tag team match for SmackDown next
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: week in Buffalo. In his words, ahead of your women's
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: tag team title match, I mean he was talking like
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it's already a four way that's I mean, basically, that's
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: basically what it sounded like here. He was inferring, is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: that okay, before all of you get your big tag
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: team title match, I'm gonna put you all in an
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: eight woman tag match next week here on the show.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Just add the two other teams and make it official already.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I think that's where this is headed regardless, is the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: four way route. But also, you know, next week with
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: this eight women tag team match, it's basically war Games,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: but without aj Lee and Becky Lynch and with one
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: ring instead of two. Otherwise it's everybody that was in
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the War Games match this year just stuffed into one
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: match again. So in Nick Aldos's office he find Trick
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Williams is waiting for him, the former NXT champion, Trick Williams,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and Trick was saying that he was expecting a huge
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: offer from Raw to sign with them, so he wanted
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: all this to hurry up on a deal of his own.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes walks in and he had a brief stare
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: down with Trick and Trick leaves and Cody asks, has
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: McIntyre apologized yet to Dan Engler? Has he paid his
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: fine yet? And all this said that Rhodes needed to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: control his emotions. So Trick Williams walks right back in.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: He's not done yet. He walks in and he runs
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: down all of the championships that he's held, including the
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: TNA World title, or as he calls it, the Trick
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and a title, a terrible name by the way, and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: he told Cody you better hold onto that WWE championship
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: real tight, and Cody left. After this, we got another
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: one of these video pretapes with Solo Socoa sitting at
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: like the head of the table here with all of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: his MFTs around him, and he's addressing the Wyat six
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and he says that his group doesn't run from fear,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they crave it. So CoA said that the fireflies were
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: fading away, and he concluded by mockingly singing, He's got
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the whole world in his hands. Short inoffensive, much better
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: than getting an in ring segment with them, I will
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: not argue it. Then we got to the good stuff.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Enough with the MFT stuff. Now we get to the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: good so we get to the meat and potatoes here
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: of this show. We get to the United States Championship
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and Ilia Dragonov defending his title against Carmelo Hayes, and
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the match starts with very quickly both men they're nailing strikes.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Draggonov through Hayes overhead with a modified back suplex and
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: then hit him hard with a chop in the corner.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: A big boot from Dragonov sent Hayes crashing to the
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: floor outside. Hayes was just trying to survive some of
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: these strikes that were being thrown at him. He blocked
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a big boot from Dragonov and caught him with a
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: hard slap right across the face. Hayes ducked a strike.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: He jumped from the second rope for a springboard clothesline.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Dragonov blocked and attempted Hurricanana. He caught Hayes with a
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: running knee of the face. Dragonov headed up top, but
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: he missed with the diving sent on as Hayes dodged
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: it at the very last second, so that allowed Carmelo
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to hit his own version of La Mistka for a earfall.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Hayes attacked Dragonov's head repeatedly. He was kicking at it,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: then he chopped away at his chest. And I'll say
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: this about Carmelo though, by the time this match was over,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: you could see he was wearing the welt of the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: chops from Dragonov. You could see it all over his chest.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: So Dragonov teed up Hayes for the h bomb, he
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: got met by a kick instead. Hayes leapt again from
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the second rope and he hit the look from behind
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: DDT that he does to stun the champion, only got
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: a near fall out of it. So Hayes headed up
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: top and it looked like he was going to go
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: for nothing but net Dragonov caught him though the Constantine
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Special connects, as does the follow up sent on. Hayes
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: though kicks out at too. So after this, Dragonov is
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: setting up for a superplex and Hayes transitions. Coming out
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: of this attempted superplex, he transitions into this incredible looking
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: cutter on the way down. Got a good near fall
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: out of it too. Both men ended up on the
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: apron trading strikes. Dragonov hoisted up Hayes, he dumped him
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: on the apron with a death valley driver. Hayes rolled inside.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Dragonov went up top and he jumped, but he jumped
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: right into a first forty eight, which is the codebreaker
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that Carmelo Hayes does. And Dragonov took this amazing bump
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: for this move where he bounced like this incredible cell
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: job here for the first forty eight. And then Hayes
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: very quickly scampered out to the apron and the fans
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: are up on their feet. Man, the fans are fucking
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: into this now. And he quickly just hurries to the
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: top rope and he dives off and he just hits
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: nothing but net and he folds up Dragonov for the
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: three count to win the title. After the match dragging off,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: he snatched the title away from the referee. He strapped
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: it around Mellow's waist himself, raised Hayes's arm, he pointed
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: at him, and he exited the ring. He put him
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: over in defeat. You beat me, the better man won.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Let me strap this championship around you. So then Hayes
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: went to the ropes to celebrate and they shoot off
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Pyro and he made a whole big deal about it,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and again the crowd reaction and the pot for the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: wind was huge and it was just this great moment.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Now backstage after this, Kathy Kelly interviewed Hayes and congratulated
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the new champion, who said that he was delayed but
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: not denied. He thanked Elia Dragonov for reminding him of
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: who he is, and he didn't get to say much
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: else before he was ambushed from behind by Johnny Gargano,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: left him laying. Candice Leray had to come over and
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: pull her husband back, and he was yelling, you know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: about taking everything away from Hayes. So we know who
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: his first defense obviously, is going to be against. This
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: was a fantastic match with a title change that has
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: been a long time coming, and you had a crowd
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: here that was fully invested. They were invested in both
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: these men. They've been invested with Dragonov almost from the
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: first night that he came back. You know, Mellow, it's
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: been a journey. Like I was talking about earlier, this
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: was not some sort of overnight excess here, but it's
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: been nice to see the crowds really coming around to
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: him as a babyface, as you would hope they would,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and everything was just building to this moment here. Then again,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sad to see it end for dragon of It's
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: kind of a bittersweet thing. In a way, it's mostly
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: a happy thing, but it's a little bit bittersweet for
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: me because I just thought, you know, Dragonov is so
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: fucking good. He's one of the best in the world.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: And some people think he's a little too over the top,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: but just the way he sells everything, it just you know,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: he may be the only guy in wrestling right now
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: that I could certainly in this company, who in a
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: lot of ways is the closest thing to Brett Hart.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Because when I think of Brett, I think of the
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: way he used to sell, like he could take a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: beating in a match and you would really feel like, man,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: this guy's getting his ass kicked, you know, the way
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: he would take a turn buckle on the way he
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: would sell some of the back breakers and all kinds
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: of stuff. He had a very distinct way of selling
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: in his matches. Dragonov is the closest thing to that. He.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, he he forget the fact that when the
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: match is over, you know, you could see the welts
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and everything on his body, forget that, Like just the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: way he moans and the noises he makes, and the
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: look on his face and the way he pulls himself
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: back up to his feet, and it looks like he's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: in agony all the time. Very unique. You don't see
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: anybody else on the roster, you know, doing that. He's
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: very intense. So it's been great having him back, and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I just hope they have something, you know, halfway decent
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: for him if he's not going to be in the
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: US title picture, because he ain't gonna be in the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: WWE title picture right now either. Although I'll tell you what.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if Drew McIntyre was to win
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the championship from Cody Rhodes and he had any defenses
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: against anybody else before dropping the belt back to Cody,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I would love to see a Drew MacIntyre TV defense
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: against Ilia Dragonov at least give him like one before
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: he drops the belt back to Cody. That would be
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: something that would be something special, especially if they got time.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, on a three hour show, there's no reason
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you can't give them at least twenty minutes. So who knows,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get something out of that. But you know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: it's nice to see Mellow building real momentum here and
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: now having a title, you know, going into the new year,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: because he just needed the creative to back him up.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: He's getting the reactions. The talent has always been there,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: he just needed the creative to back him up. And
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: this is a good first step. Him winning the championship
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: is not the only step. It's a good first step.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: But now, of course the hard part begins. Now you
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: got the belt, so now you got to come up
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: with people for him to work with, and you've got
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to keep that United States Championship, you know, rocking and rolling.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: As far as the US title scene itself, it's been
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: the highlight of the show each week now for months,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: ever since Samy's A won that bell from Solo Socoa.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: And I would hate to think that now that the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: title is off of of DRAGONOV or they're not going
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: to maybe do open challenges anymore, that it would be
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: somehow diminished. Right, I'm not even saying it has to
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: be defended on the show every week, but they have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: had a spotlight on this title in a way that
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: there was no spotlight on that title for a very
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: long time. I want that to continue. I don't think
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: that the open Challenges are sustainable, and maybe they want
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to continue it, and then when a heel wins it,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the heel is like, yeah, fuck this, I'm not doing
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Open Challenges. So it's possible they will continue the Open
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Challenges until Mellow drops the belt to Oh, I don't know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: maybe someone like Trick right or whoever. It could be
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: any heel really and then at that point it would
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: make sense for the heel whoever it is, to be like, yeah,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: we're not doing Open Challenges anymore. Open season is over,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: so who knows, Maybe the Open Challenges will continue for
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: a little while longer. But this was great. I thoroughly
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: enjoyed this, and Trick Williams if he was to come
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to smack down on Fry, you've got a ready made
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: feud at some point in the first half of the
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: new year, ready to go right with him and Carmelo Hayes.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: He may well be the one to take that title
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: away from Mellow and make Mellow chase to get it back.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be getting more from Mellow and Trick,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: is what I think. On Friday Nights Now, we had
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Chelsea Green talking about the opposite of good creative. We
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: had Chelsea Green and Alba Fire taking on Julia and
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Keana James. All I'll say here is late in the match,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Julia hit Chelsea with a missile drop kick and then
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: cleared Alba from the ring, and then she put Chelsea
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: down with her Northern Lights bomb. She was holding her up,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: she said, Ariba there g and she dropped her on
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the back of her neck and she pinned her clean.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: She pinned the United States champion clean here in this
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: tag match, and nobody cared. Nobody gave a shit. This
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: heel versus heel stuff. It doesn't work. It just this
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: is not working. Okay, Now, the best thing I can
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: say about this is at least Julia won. At least
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: she got the win. She looked pissed off in this match,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and they tried to get that over on commentary that
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: she was angry about everything that's happened recently and she
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: wants her belt back and this is the side of
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Julia that we haven't seen before and so and then
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: she won the match, so that's good. But again, the
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: fans are more invested in Chelsea the heel than they
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: are in Julia who also, by the way, is a
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: heel and it's not a babyface. But it's just it's
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: so everything about this is just so it's so backwards
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and just so weird. Again, the crowd just simply didn't care.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: They don't care about anything that she does. And it
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: pisses me off, and you know, it makes me sad
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: for her, because it can't be a good feeling, you know,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: to be out there. You're hitting these moves and you're
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: picking up the wind and it's crickets and nobody gives
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: a shit. No one's reacting. They're reacting to everybody else
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: on the show. They're reacting to Cody Rhoads and Drew
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: McIntyre and Carmelo Hayes and Ilia dragon Of and you
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: know other people, Charlotte and Alexa and so on and
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: so forth. But when she's out there, it's like there's
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: nobody in the building and they've done real damage. They
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: have done very real This is not the same woman
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: that we saw in NXT earlier this year. This is
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: not the same woman that we saw at the theater
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden Wrestling Stephanie Vaquierre. I don't know
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: who this person is but she has to find herself,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: and I have said that a move to Raw I
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: think is a necessary one. They could prove me wrong
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: and find a way to rehab her here on this show,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: but I think a move to Raw for her would
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: be best. I think that's the only way you're going
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: to be able to reverse this. What's gonna get Julie
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: over It's look, it's not a big secret, This is
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: not that difficult. What's going to get Julia over is
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: her wrestling. What's going to get her over or it's
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: not gonna be her promos. What's gonna get her over
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: is allowing Julia to go out there and be Julia.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: And even when she was the United States Champion, it's
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: not like she was getting a lot of ring time.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: The one thing that they need to let her go
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: out there and do they have not been allowing her
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: to go out there and do. Let her go out
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: there and wrestle the way that she does. And maybe
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: she needs a new crop of opponents to work with
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: because Chelsea Green and Alba Fire before it was Piper
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Nivin or Mechen or whoever the fuck they have her
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: in the ring with week after week after week, that
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna cut it. You have to get her in
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the ring with new people. You have to get her
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: in there with people that are on her level. Maybe
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: she needs to be working with people on raw like
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: EO Sky and Osca and Kyrie Sane and Rhea Ripley
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: and people like that. That's what I would like to
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: see in the new year and end this pairing with
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Keana James, which has just been death for both of them.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: It's not working. It hasn't been working for a while.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: It's not going to work. So the quicker they end that,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the better off they'll be, because then she's not attached
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: to anybody and then you can take her and do
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: with her whatever you want, put her wherever you feel
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: she fits. But this pairing, this ain't it. Backstage, we
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: had Kit Wilson. He was talking with Nick Alldi in
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: his office while referee Dan Engler stood by, and Wilson
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: spoke about getting rid of toxic masculinity on SmackDown. That's
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: his new year's resolution whatever, and he has for an
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: opportunity and all this said, you know what, Kip, there
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: will be an opportunity for something new on next week's SmackDown.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: And at that point Kit Wilson left the room. So
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: that sounds very bad for Kit Wilson. So what do
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: we suppose this is in reference to? Is it in
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: reference to Trick Williams, Is he officially coming aboard next week?
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Or is it in reference to Oba Femi Because we
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: did get a video package for Obafemi and there were
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: no dates or logos attached to it or any indication
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: that he's imminently being called up or on a particular brand.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: But clearly they're getting people ready for the idea that
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: this man is going to be on his way up
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: very soon as he should be, as he should be.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even think it has to be right away.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I think you can wait and formally debut him in
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, and then coming out of the Rumble
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: heading into Mania season, you can assign him to, you know,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: whichever brand wants to recruit him be the hottest free
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: agent you know, in all of wrestling. But you know,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: maybe it's Oba. I don't know. It sounds like Kit
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Wilson's getting squashed by somebody next week. The only question
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: is who? And is it going to be another new
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: call up from NXT unless there's somebody that's been out
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: hurt on SmackDown that I'm not thinking of and not
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: remembering who's on their way back. I don't know who
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: that would be. I just assumed that this was sort
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: of a tease for someone new that's going to be
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: debuting next week. Cody Road showed up, though, and he
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: asked Angler if Drew McIntyre had apologized to him, And
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: then he asked all this if McIntyre had paid his
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: fine yet, and they said no, and Cody bitched about
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: what's taking so long? When all of a sudden, we
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: hear McIntyre's music out in the arena and they could
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: see on the television screen that he is making his
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: entrance and he is on his way out to the ring.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: So all this told Cody keep your emotions in check,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: and said that he would handle this. And so all
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: this and Angler they left, while Cody stayed back to
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: watch the TV as Drew made his way to the ring. Ah, yes,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton, very good. He's been gone for so long.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I completely forgot about Randy Orton. Okay, well, that would
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: be one way to reintroduce him first SmackDown of the
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: new year. Randy Orton shows up squashes Kit Wilson. That's fine.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: I can dig that. I think you're onto something here.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: It's got to be either Randy Orton or somebody new.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: It can't be there's nobody else, either an NXT person
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: or it's Randy Orton. Take your pick. I'm going Randy
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Orton or Obafemi one or the other. I know Oba'
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: is still the NXT champion, but you know what, in
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: the past, that hasn't stopped them from debuting new people
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: on the main roster. When Kevin Owen's debuted on the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: main roster in twenty fifteen, he was the NXT champion
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: and he beat John Cena. So there is a precedent
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: for this. Of course, you could always be on the
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: flip side, the carrying cross, debuting on raw and losing
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: as the NXT champion, losing in less than ninety seconds
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: to Jeff Hardy. I tend to think that that will
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: not be the fate that befalls Obafemi. I don't think
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: that they're going to do that to Obafemi. So to
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: close the show, they had Nick all This in the
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: ring with Drew MacIntyre and referee Dan Engler. All This
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: gave the flori to Drew, who offered a very half
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: hearted apology to Engler for Claymore kicking him in the
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: face a few weeks ago. Said, it's been keeping him
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: up for weeks. Please accept my humblest apology. So that
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: was nice, but then he wasn't done yet. Drew also
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: apologized that it was obviously Dan's dream to be a wrestler,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't good enough, so he had to become
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: a referee. He apologized that Dan's lovely wife Melissa had
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: to watch him Claymore kick him in the face since
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: she had to think to herself, I wish I had
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: a husband like Drew that stood up for his convictions
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: no matter the consequences. He gets why he did it.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: He had to screw Drew to protect Cody. But he
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: apologizes for Dan's children that they have such a coward,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: corporate stewed for a father. You want to be a man,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: You want to hit me and get revenge on me,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Now go ahead, Dan. He was taunting the referee to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: punch him, and before Dan could start throwing hands. You
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: don't want to start throwing hands with Dan Engler. He's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: got a rat Okay, you don't want to fuck with
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: this guy. His hands are lethal weapons. So before he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: could start throwing hands, Cody saved Drew's life. They hit
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: his music and he interrupted. He came out to the ring.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: McIntyre dared Cody to hit him, said that he can
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: see Cody wants to hit him so badly. These fans, right,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: they want to see some physicality. Cody took his jack off.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Drew told him, do it, or maybe you want to cry.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Shed those tears like a teenage girl trying to get
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: daddy's credit card. Right. Cody wouldn't take the bait, so
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Drew said he knows why Cody is upset. It's because
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: he attacked him on his tour bus where his family sleeps.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: They weren't there, but Drew wishes they were. He wishes
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Cody's children could see a real man put the boots
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to their dad. He wishes that his wife, Brandy could
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: see what a real daddy looks like. Ooh. All just
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: had to hold Cody back at this point, so McIntyre said,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: you want to know the stipulation for our match? He said,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: We're not doing our match in America. You've screwed me.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Three times. Here we're taking this to Berlin, Germany, Drew
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: McIntyre Cody Rhodes WWE Championship, three Stages of Hell, and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Cody immediately agreed. Three Stages of Hell, absolutely, he said.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: But there's one more thing, he told Cody. When I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: torture you in Berlin, when I send you straight to Hell,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: say hi to your dad for me. Oh boy. All
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: this did not even have to wait for Cody to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: make a move. He knew right away and he immediately
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: grabbed Cody to back him over into the corner. Cody
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: elbowed him away, but when he turned back around, McIntyre
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: blasted him in the face with a Claymore kick. I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: guess the physicality was only one way, and the show
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: ended with McIntyre standing over Cody holding the WWE Championship
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: high above his head as Michael Cole plugged the match
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: for Berlin in two weeks. That is going to be
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: the January ninth episode of SmackDown. Three Stages of Hell
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: is what we are getting now again. As I showed
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: you guys earlier, there have been five three Stages of
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Hell matches in the history of this company, including NXT
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: right the last one was in NXT. It was six
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: years ago Adam Cole and Johnny Gargana that was Takeover Toronto.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: This is not a stipulation that they have abused. It's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: been a very long time since we've had one of these.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: There have been some good ones, there have been some
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: not so good ones. It's not my favorite stipulation, but
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: I like the fact that they went with something that
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: hasn't been overdone. And regardless of the stipulation, McIntyre needs
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: to win. I believe he needs to win. I'm not
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: saying he will win. I know better at this point
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: because I thought he was gonna win previously and he didn't.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: But I do feel that he needs to win this
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: match just to make things interesting, you know what I mean. Like,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: if they're gonna drag this out even longer, they're gonna
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: drag this out to the Royal Rumble, You've just you've
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: got to shake things up a little bit. And I
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: just don't see how you do that by just having
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: co What do you retain unless somebody gets involved here,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: And who the hell would get involved in this match?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Is Randy Orton going to get involved? If Randy Orton
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: is back on the show next week and he kills
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson, then we know Orton is back. Then sure,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: there's a possibility that Randy gets involved, because Randy has
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: had issues before with Drew McIntyre. But for him to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: just show up now and get involved, it would almost
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: feel forced, like there has to be something that would
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: happen on the show next week, or some comment maybe
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: that Drew would make towards Randy if let's say he
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: was back, that would instigate him. What was that thing
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: that Orton They said on the show many years ago
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: that Orton had the condition that he had ied, like
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: impulsive explosive syndrome or some I forgot what it was called.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't take a lot to set this
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: guy off, So I suppose that's possible. But for the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: love of God, like make things interesting. It's okay if
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: you do a title change. What a way to shake up,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: by the way that the SmackDown in twenty twenty six, right,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: this new three hour era of the show, and you
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: do a big title change in Berlin, Germany, And now
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you got Drew with a big grin on his face.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: He finally did it. He's got the championship, he's been
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: chasing now for all these years, and Cody has to
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: get it back, and maybe then you kind of weave,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: you know, Randy into all this and we can possibly
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: finally end up getting Cody and Randy, maybe a WrestleMania.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's my hope. It's not just
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: a match Cody wins and we move on, because that's
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: fucking boring. It's lazy, it's safe, and it's boring, and
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: that's not what this show needs. This show does not
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: need lazy, This show does not need safe, and this
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: show does not need boring. It needs the exact opposite
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of all three of those things. So should be a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: good match. These two don't usually have a bad match.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: We'll see what the stipulations are that they pick. Is
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: it going to be a cage? Is one going to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: be a ladder? Is one going to be false count? Anywhere?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be I quit, like, we don't know,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: it could be anything, but I think McIntyre must win.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: That's what I think. What did you think of the
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: final SmackDown? Here of twenty twenty five, sixty six percent
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: thumbs up thirty four percent thumbs down for tonight's show
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Love's Katz says, I would like Drew to stop whining. Well,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: if you want him to stop whining, then you should
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: be in favor of him winning, because as long as
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: he doesn't win that championship, that's all he's gonna be
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: doing is whining. He'll talk about how he was screwed.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Maybe the comparison I made before is wrong when I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: compared Ilia dragon Enough to Brett Hart. Maybe the better
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: comparison is MacIntyre to Brett Hart. For all the times
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: he comes out on television talks about how many times
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: he's been screwed, I haven't seen anything like it since Brett.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Can we stop screwing Drew McIntyre? Please? Can we? Can
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: we give him this one win? Cody ain't losing two
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: out of three? Well, I mean, look three three stages
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: of hell, right, Cody wins one, Drew wins the other,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: and then Drew wins the deciding fall. To do it clean, though,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: I will admit feels very unlikely, it would have to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: be some kind of chicanery involved. We'll see again. That's
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: in two weeks, not next week. It'll be the week
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: after that. Brett had more championships than Drew that's true.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: More world championships. I don't know how many intercontinental titles
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Drew had. I know he had at least one. I
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: think he's had us as well, right, I don't know
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: how many mid card reigns he's had, maybe more than Brett,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but Brett has him beat on the
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: world titles for sure. Jacob Faughtu gonna call. Oh there's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: another one. We were talking before, but who could show
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: up to kill Kit Wilson? Nobody mentioned Jacob. Jacob should
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: be back any day. Now, there you go. Jacob Fatu
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: returns next week and he kills Kit Wilson. That works also,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: that'll be good. It'll be good to get Jacob back too.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I would love a show where we have you know,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Oba Femi and you know, got Carmelo Hayes is the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: United States champion. We get Jacob Fatu back, and we
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: get Randy Orton in that mix with Cody where Cody
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: and Drew and you know, really and again Julia, just
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: get her off the show altogether and call a couple
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: of other women up. And you know, when we look
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: at SmackDown two or three months from now, four months
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: from now, I want to be able to look at
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: this show and feel like, Okay, this show actually feels
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: like a different show. This does not feel like the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: same show that I was watching at the end of
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. That's what I want, That's what I
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: want out of the show. You know, Jacob was attacked
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: by somebody. I was just kind of teasing when I
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: said that maybe maybe Cody is the one who was
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: behind the Jacob attack. Wouldn't that be some kind of reveal?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Holiday one ninety seven a solo. Thankfully, tonight's show is
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: pre taped, so I could fast forward through the stuff
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: I could care less to see. Only the incoming three
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: hour SmackDown was pre taped. You know. I did notice
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: that because I was watching SmackDown with my VPN and
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it's like raw Monday, where the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: whole show is already up. So I was like, uh,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: should I go live earlier? I said, now, we'll keep
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: our usual time, although I did go live probably about
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: ten minutes earlier than usual. And he said, if Drew
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't win the title, I would like to see Drew
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: feud with Joe Hendry until WrestleMania. The mic work between
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: the two will be great, and it will give Joe
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: the rub that he needs. Man to go from wrestling
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: for the WWE Championship to wrestling Joe Hendry, who just debuted,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: would be kind of a steep drop off for Drew.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: No offense to Joe, be great for Joe Hendry. Though
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: we got GMB's with US four ninety nine. Triple H
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: refuses to let Priest lose a feud. It's crazy. His
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: stock is ice cold. If Priest was in catering for
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: three months, would you really notice? No, No, I would not.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Italian Stallion Salabanster. You legend in your opinion, which match
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: is better Edge against Foley WrestleMania or Orton against Foley
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: a Backlash in four? Both incredible matches of the two,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: I mean the one that I like would be my
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: favorite of the two would be the Backlash match, So
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: my vote would go to Orton and Folly. And it
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: was also a match that really it really didn't make
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Orton him anyways. It elevated him in a way that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: you know, Edge and Foley, I mean, Edge kind of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: was already there in a way that Orton wasn't No.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Four So it was it was a great match, but
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: It also was a key match I think in the
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: evolution I mean, no pun intended the evolution of Randy Orton,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: the sheltered Kid Yo solo. I've been trying to remind you,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: before you became a podcaster, my dad, Dominic, bought you
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: a Nintendo ring any bells. I can't say that. It
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: does been a very long time since I played Nintendo.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't even have an N sixty four had a Nintendo.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I had a Super Nintendo. That's where my Nintendo days ended.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Pretty much gold Standard Sports Illustrated marked out on aw
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: good right fully, so a lot of great matches this year.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: I know you like New Japan, but regular fans not
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: regular fans. How do you define regular fans? What does
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: that mean? I don't know what that means. I'm not
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: sure the point that you're trying to make. I mean,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of fans that don't know about it.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: If they're casual wrestling fans. I mean, I don't really
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: give a shit about casual wrestling fans and what they like.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's their business. What do I give a shit?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: New Japan was mostly cold this year, but they still
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: had some kick ass matches. Dried ribs and Chickens says well,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: Triple h is slowly tasting Seawn Michael's cooking. Pushing Carmelo
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: Hayes is the right call for twenty twenty six. WWE
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: needs to go back to the basics of how to
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: build moments. Forcing a moment in WWE is like trying
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: to pass gas. They're all about moments, dude. You could
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: tell great stories and the moments will come naturally. And
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: then sometimes, like the scene of heel Term by their
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: own admission, we got to create a moment. There's no
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: story here. We need that moment and you see where
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: the end result of that moment is. Well, now, with
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: a forty dollars drop, I already read your super chat.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: It was so good I wouldn't wait, so I already
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: read it earlier. But well, now I appreciate that forty
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: dollars little mini bomb there. Really thank you, brother Eric Kamenna.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Is I solo a longtime? Watch your first time chatter?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Why is it that whenever people theorize WCW against WWF,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: they always want stone Cold against Goldberg. Wouldn't Austin against
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Hogan or Sting make more sense? Well, a lot of them. Also,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I think they just draw the similarities between them. They're
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: both bald with goates, black boots and black trunks, and
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Goldberg at his peak he was white hot in the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: way that Austin was white hot for WWF, So I
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: get it. I actually think because of that there's too
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: many similarities between them, that Austin and Hogan would be
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: more attractive because they are two different personalities, and because
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: one was the face of one era of that company
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: and then Austin was the current face at that time
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: of the company, and Hogan was just this hated you know,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: heel is Hollywood Hogan. It would have been a huge
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: match to do. But yeah, I mean, Goldberg at his
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: peak was as white hot as anybody who has ever
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: been in the history of WCW. That's why I think
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Goldberg even threw out a challenge to Austin on the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Tonight show at Jay Leno, And of course, what was
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: ww going to do? What was Austin gonna do? Right?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: It was never gonna happen. It was a stupid thing
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: to do. Retro Mintman twenty dollars drop. Very sad that
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Ilia Dragonov lost Tonight, as I am a massive fan
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: of his. But at the same time, it's been so
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: long since I could turn my brain off and have
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: wrestling make me feel something. Hope, it's nothing but up
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: for Carmelo and Ilia, I agree. I second that they
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: should both become staples of this SmackDown brand. Ilia can
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: work anybody, anybody and elevate them to the best match
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: of their career. That's the kind of performer that he is.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: That's how special he is. He has a credibility in
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: that ring. He has an authenticity that not a lot
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: of other people have dev to dust. Remember when New
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Yorkers used to sound like Harvey Kaitel and fran Dresher
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: good times. Well, thankfully this New Yorker does not. We
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: can all be thankful for that. Toya ain't nice as
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: mellow is champion, Yay yay. Indeed, Boris with the twenty bucks,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, best wishes for twenty twenty six. Here's
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: hoping for you reaching new heights in milestones in the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: year ahead and beyond. Well, Boris, that's very kind of you.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best in the new year
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: as well. We are, by the way, less than three
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: hundred subscribers away from ninety thousand, So I don't know
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: when in January it's going to happen, but I'm pretty
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: sure in the next few weeks we will hit ninety k.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: So we'll have to do a little dance celebrate when
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: we do. That's a big one. That's that one's been
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: a long time coming, and we know what comes after ninety.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: It may be a while, but ninety is gonna be
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: a big milestone and we're going to hit that very soon,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: So that is very cool. Abystle Zones buy or sell
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: on which of WWE's former world champions was the better
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: in ring worker, the Great Collie or Vince McMahon. Oh Man,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: the Great Collie. Collie at least he knew how to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: do stuff as a big man, as like a monster.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Vince didn't know what the fuck he was doing. I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: mean you could tell just by looking at the way
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: he would sell or take a stunner. He had two
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: left feet, like he didn't know what he was doing.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: I don't mean in terms of like facial expressions and stuff.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: He was very expressive, but in terms of like actual
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: in ring stuff, he was fucking awful. He really was terrible.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, he would actually end up with a pretty
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: decent match every now and then, like him and Hogan.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: The mash they had at Mania in nineteen had no
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: right being as good as it was. Him and punk
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: On Raw many years ago, hitting each other with kendo
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: sticks like the camera was shaking, the building was shaking,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: like there were moments like that. Vince, though in the ring,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: had no idea what he was doing. We got Viny Boiler.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: When Ray's time comes, how about we have Gunther injured
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Dominic and steals the chance to put the deadbeat dad
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: out to pasture. When Dominic returns, Gunther simply tells him,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: you're welcome. No, I don't. I don't want to see
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Gunther just retire everybody. I think that's boring. I think
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: if if it ends up that way with AJ styles,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: that's fine, I think because I want to see that match,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: and they've already started teasing it, so we're gonna get it.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Whether it's AJ's last match, maybe it won't be, but
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: if it is, I don't want them to announce in advance,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: like we knew Seena his last match was going to
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: be December thirteenth, right. I don't want to see them
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: do the same thing with AJ Styles. What they should
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: do is if Gunther is going to be his final opponent,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: don't say anything about this being AJ's last match, but
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: have aj axcept whether he comes up with the idea
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: himself or Gunther asks him to put his career on
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: the line. In storyline, he puts his career on the line,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: and I think at that point people would kind of know.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it shouldn't be one of these things where
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we have a set date and we
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: know when AJ Like that's we did that with Scena.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: We don't need to do that again with AJ. Just
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: have him put his career on the line. It's so
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: confident that I could beat you. If I can't beat you,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be doing this anymore. If I can't be
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: the real AJ Styles, then I'm going to walk away
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm willing to put my career on the line. Right.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: There'll be so much more drama in it if they
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: do it that way. But yeah, Gunther retiring Ray, I
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: don't want to see that. I would I would rather
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: have Ray and Dom when the time comes in, like
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: a mask match or you know, mask versus hair or so,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know to me, that would be more appropriate. Brolly.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: I know she came back from a big injury, and man,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: Charlotte doesn't bring anything good out of anyone anymore. Most
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: of her matches are sloppy. Yeah, like the one tonight
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: was not great, but a lot of that was also
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: lash But you're right. I mean some people have the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: ability to you know, carry or elevate the person they're
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: in the ring with to a better match than they
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: would have with anybody else, And I mean Charlotte doesn't
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: really have that. She can go in there with the
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: right people and have a great match, but if she's
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: in there with somebody who doesn't have the experience level
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: is still very green. Like, she is not the one
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: that I would have I would want to have in
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: the ring with that person to guarantee that they're gonna
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: help kind of raise their game. The ufman says, to
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: borrow an aw line, congratulations, who hasn't beaten the Miz
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia hasn't beaten the Miz Leopoldo. In his own
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: little rendition of jingle bills, here solo laid a tune.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: It may have been a solo tone, but that's better
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: than nothing. Then the joker got away and Joseph Stu
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: was sad. Yeah, that song is gonna flop. Leopoldo, that
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: song is not gonna sell any records. I'm sorry. My
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: rendition earlier will sell more than yours. Mine will. Like
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: if we have a top one hundred chart, like you
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: won't even be in the top one hundred. I will
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: at least be like number ninety seven. Maybe. Toya says,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: a pissed off Cody is the best Cody, but he
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: should lose to Drew in two weeks. Also, can't wait
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: for Bianca to return. I've been waiting for Bianca to
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: return for months. I'm hoping to rumble Leopoldo, Homer Simpson
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: or Peter Griffin. Peter Griffin, Paul Carpenter walking four miles
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: from work, thanks keeping me busy. You should try five
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: thousand miles like the Proclaimers. But I would walk five oh,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: five hundred miles, five hundred miles in a would walk
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: five hundred and more just to be the man who
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: walked five thousand. I was right, and it was five
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: thousand miles. Uh. Leopoldo says, dude, Oba against fa tu,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Now that's a badass match. Yeah, that's also a match
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: you don't do right out of the gate. I mean,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: I hope you're not suggesting that that should be their
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: first program when Oba gets called up, because that would
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: be very dumb. But yes, at some point Oba in
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: Fa tu Oba and Breaker. Sure, Super Pony Drew ain't winning.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: He's in the Kevin Owen spot. He's just a guy
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: to keep Cody busy until Manius season could be could be.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: But I think that would be very dumb. Dev to
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: dust favorite Billy Joel song We Didn't Start the Fire.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: I could do that song and you could ask people.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: I've done it to karaoke before. I could do it
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: without even looking at the lyrics. It's my go to song.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Leopoldo says, three Stages of Hell will just be three
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: hours of SmackDown. Now you're stealing my jokes here from
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the stream. You get to come up
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: with some original material, my friend, come on, super Pony.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Why did they turn Kurt Angle back heel in two
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: thousand and one. I just watched the Summer Slam match
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: against Austin where he kicked out of four stunners. He
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: was red hot and then he won the title the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: month after. Kurt was one of those guys where where
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: you know, where they had a need. Let's say, for okay,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: we need babyfaces or we need heels. They could they
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: could turn him and make him whatever they want him
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: to be. So maybe they just felt like they needed
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: a heel. I don't know, but he did win the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: title the next month, got that big babyface celebration in Pittsburgh.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: It's a few weeks after nine to eleven. Uh we
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: got Marshall fell asleep watching SmackDown. What did I miss?
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Happy Holiday? Solo? Monster? Oh man, you missed boy? If
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: I tell you what you missed, man, holy crap, You'll
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: never believe him. Man. They got the open challenge for
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: the United States Championship, and as Carmelo Hayes was coming
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: out to accept the open challenge, he was attacked from
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: behind by Trick Williams, who made his debut on SmackDown,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: took the match and won the title. So now Mellow
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: is gonna have to chase Trick to win the US title.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: And Drew McIntyre won the WWE Championship from Cody Rhodes.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Cody was a dumb babyface and he agreed to put
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: his belt on the line on the spot, and now
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Drew is the champion. You missed a lot, brother, you
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: missed a lot, Cameron Spencer. Sanity is the goat group
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: of NXT, and I wish they were still here today.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Eric Young could be a world Eric Young could be
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: a world champion. Nicky is there and Sanity would dominate. Cameron, I, uh, hey,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Sanity. I thought Sanity was
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: not my cup of tea. I was very clear as
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: I used to review NXT. I really wasn't a big
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: fan of theirs in NXT. I was not a fan
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: of theirs when they got called up to the main roster,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: although they at least deserved a chance, and they weren't
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: even given a chance. And no, Eric Young would not
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: be a world champion in WWA. That would not happen.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: Nikki Cross, though, I don't understand why they don't let
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: her work. I just when was the last time she
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: had an actual wrestling match. I couldn't even tell you.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: Marshall says, are you an eggnog kind of person? No,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: I've never been. I've never even had it. It just
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: that never really, I don't even think I can have
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: it now. But that just never really appealed to me.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: There he is super scian, Sina. Look at that ten
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: dollars super chat, and we just the goal, by the way,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: or be the booker six out of ten, So we're
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: not going to get the bonus round that looks like,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: but we are going to do be the booker here
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: in a second. Hey, justin g thank you for the
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: two bucks dev to Dust celebrating forty five months of membership.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Forty five months. Oh my god, it's m Mills. M
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Mills is coming in with the hot tag. Oh my god,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: m Mills just got us ten out of ten on
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: the bonus goal. She's like, no bonus, be the booker
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: challenge accepted, coming in the clutch. I love it as
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: only she can. Wow, all right, we got a couple
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: of rounds and be the booker coming up here. Let
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: me get these member chats out of the way, though,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: he says, rank these Madison Square Garden pay per Views,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania ten, Survivor Series ninety six, Summer Slam ninety eight,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Rumble two thousand, Survivor SERIESZ two, WrestleMania twenty em Hey,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: retro mint Man, thank you for being a sound off
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: superstar Superstar love it. I don't know. I mean, I
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: hate doing these on the spot rankings with like fucking
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: ten of them here. This is ridiculous. But you know,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania ten is obviously very high up there because of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: those two matches, right, I mean two legendary matches on
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: the same night that that's rare, Like, how do you
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: not have that at number one? Summer Slam ninety eight, God,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: I remember that Highway to help promote Ocean. Man, what
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: a hot period that was heading into that summer slim
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: In and you got the fucking uh Highway to Hell
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble two thousand had a great championship match with
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: Triple H and Cactus Jack, and it had the table match,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: first ever table match, Hardy's and Dudley's. It had Taz's debut. Man,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: you know what I think I'm putting Rumble two thousand first,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: I really do. I might go Rumble two thousand first,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: and then wrestle Mania ten, and then go uh Survivor
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Series two, then maybe ninety six, WrestleMania twenty. I might
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: have on the bottom. I wasn't a huge fan of that. Yeah,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: maybe something like that, but I think at the top
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I probably would go Rumble two thousand and then WrestleMania ten.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: Those are the only ones that matter one and two, right,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: those are the ones that matter the most. Uh. We
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: have got a member chat from Bobby means twenty two
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: months of membership. I think we get Carmelo Hayes and
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Johnny wrestling at WrestleMania for the US title. That's not
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: a WrestleMania match. Dude, that's not a WrestleMania match. I'm sorry.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: If we get a US title match at WrestleMania, I
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: could see it being a multiman match, maybe even a
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: multi man ladder match. I could see that, But no,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Johnny Gargano and Carmelo Hayes is a SmackDown television match
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: probably in a week or two. That's not a WrestleMania match.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's Javili is here. I didn't even
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: realize Haavili was back. Thirty months of membership. We haven't
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: heard from Haavili in forever. Besides Okada, who is Tanahashi's
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: greatest rival? Did New Japan make the right choice to
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: make Tanahash's final match main event instead of title for title. Yes,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: the only the only match that could main event that
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: show is Tanahashi's last match. It would be like WWE
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: having John Cena and Gunther opened the show. It's Saturday
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: Night's main event. That would have been extraordinarily dumb. So
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: that that's that's an easy question to answer. And if
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: not Okada, I mean Okada is Tanahashi's greatest rival, And
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: if it's not him, I don't know, that might be
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: like a distant number two. I don't think anybody even
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: comes close. Honestly, I doesn't say, maybe Kenny Omega, but
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: nobody else really stands out to me the way Okatta does.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: But hey, have Ali, don't be a stranger sheriff of
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: Patty's with thirty months of membership? Do you think Orton
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: gets any hooplah for his retirement even if it's not
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: like sen Is, Does he get the nice heroes farewell
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: as an Orton fan? I hope? So yeah, he'll get that.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: He's been there like Sino over twenty years. Dude, He's
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: like an institution in that company, So yeah, of course
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: he will. Justin g how do we get that? No
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: good Bill Goldberg involved in the Drew and Cody match.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: You know, justin there are times where I will get
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: a message from someone and I will think to myself,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: I am grateful for the fact that this person is
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: not on the WWE creative team to give them ideas
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: like this. Leave Bill Goldberg in his garage with his cars,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: all right, So with the member chats out of the way,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: we have Leopoldo. Drew's like Gunther, he never needs help
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: to lame. M Mills came in, came in hot with
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: three straight ten dollars super chats. It's no message, just
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: to get us to the goal. And then we have
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose. Since Drew keeps thinking he is getting screwed,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: he has to have a plan to ensure he doesn't
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: get screwed again. Right, You would think that that likely
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: would be some type of plan to screw Cody and
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: get him the belt, or you know, again, it may
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: have to do with a specific stipulation in mind. For
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: one of the falls. It may be the fact that
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: you know, we're not having the match in the US.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: He said, I've been screwed over here too many times.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: We're going to do it in Berlin. So just the
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: fact that it's overseas. Right, that works in his favor.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: But yes, you would think that he would have some
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: kind of plan in mind. I think might be just
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: tied into whatever that last stipulation is gonna be. And Marshall,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: have you ever seen grandma got ran over by a reindeer?
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Have I seen it? I've heard it, I've heard the song.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Is it like a movie? I haven't seen it, But
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: I never saw my grandmother get run over by a reindeer.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: It's a good thing too, because I probably would have laughed.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: Sorry Grandma. All right, we got two rounds unlocked. It
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: is time, ladies and gentlemen, here for the final time,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: here on a SmackDown stream in twenty twenty five, it
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: is time to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, It
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. Wasn't Drew screwed
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: over twice before clashing the castle? Yes, he was screwed
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: overseas as well. He was screwed in Uh well, let's see.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: He was screwed in was it Cardiff? Was that show
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: in Cardiff? And then he was screwed in Scotland as well.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: He got screwed over against Roman reigns when solos CoA
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: debut on the main roster, and he got screwed over
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: against Damian Priest when Cmpunk put a referee shirt on
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: and got involved in his match. So he doesn't exactly
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: have a great record overseas as well. It's a good point.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Oscar? I spent my Christmas sick. I
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: hope your Christmas was better than mine. I hope you're
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: doing well. All right, we go tag team, be the Booker.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: We are going to begin with the Heart Foundation, Brett
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: the Hitman Heart and Jim the Anvil Nightheart. There is
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: no better way. There is no better way to start
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: out a be the book around with the Pink and
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Black Attack, and it will be the Heart Foundation against
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: the Midnight Express managed by one Jim Cornett, Bobby Eaton
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: and Dennis Condrey. This is old school wrestling right here,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: the Heart Foundation in the Midnights. There's a match. I
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: wish we could have seen. Marshall says, where did twenty
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: twenty five go? I'm ready for it to be over.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: Bring on twenty twenty six. All right, we begin here
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: with the Boss. Look at this is Boss time, It
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: says it in her tron. Sasha Banks, Mercedes herself all
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: of her belts. Sha Banks is gonna go one on
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: one with Tiffany Stratton. What the hell ever happened to
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton? Boy, does she drop off the face of
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: the earth, lost her championship and lost her smile apparently.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: And our main event, our Night one main event because
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: you guys made it pop. You guys expanded the show
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: to two nights, so this is our Night one main event.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: Then we can compare the main events and see which
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: one is better. We're off to a good start here
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: because we have the ring general, the former world heavyweight champion, Gunther,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: the man who made John Seen a tap like a
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: bitch his words, is in the main event where he belongs.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: Gunther against Kevin Owens. That is your Night one main event,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: and I'll take it. That could be a Night one
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: main event on my show. Hell yeah, now, you guys,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Michelle and Mills, Mary, Michelle, Marlene, We'll let everybody wonder,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: But yes, we have our bonus round here with stipulations Maxine, Maude, Muriel,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Miriam Maya Ah, okay, stipulation. Anarchy in the arena, Oh
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: my god, oh boy, Anarchy in the arena we're gonna
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: book up. We're gonna open We're gonna open this with
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: a five on five anarchy in the arena match. Are
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: we really doing this? Are we really doing this? We're
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: gonna do anarchy in the arena with the women. How
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: about that? That's what we're gonna do first ever, be
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: the Booker anarchy in the arena women's match five on five.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: Keep track of this in case I forget Bailey. This
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: is team number one. By the way, okay, this this
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: is Team Bailey. First person automatically becomes a team captain.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: So we have Bailey, we have Stephanie McMahon Helmsley, we
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: have Timeless Tony Storm, we have Alexa Bliss, and then
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: rounding out Team Bailey, we have Tiffany Stratton. She's back.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: So we have Bailey, we have Alexa Bliss, we have
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton, we have Stephanie McMahon, and we have Timeless
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Tony Storm. That's a hard team to beat. That is
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: a hard team to beat. Let's see who they're facing.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Who's the team captain? Who's on Team Bailey. Indie Heartwell
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: will be leading the other team into combat here, So
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: we have Indie Heartwell, the former NXT and h O
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: G Women's Champion. Her partner will be the Genius of
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: the Sky, one of the best in the world. EO Sky, Stephanie,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Stephanie Mcmahonhelmsley again, of all the people
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: that we could have landed on twice, it had to
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: be Stephanie. How the hell did that happen? Indie Heartwell,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: Stephanie McMahon, and Eosky Boy. EO is gonna be doing
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: some heavy lifting in this mine. Jazz Oh Boy, she
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: double turned and Michelle McCool I'm going with Team Bailey,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: Team Bailey. This is this is not even going to
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: be close. Team Bailey gets the win and anarchy in
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: the arena. Our next match will be a Texas death Match.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: It's gonna get bloody, it's gonna get violent. There's gonna
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: be staples, there's gonna be possibly hypodermic needles, There's going
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: to be lots and lots of blood and barbed wire.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: Put the women in children to bed. It's Texas death
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: Match time here. But it's going to be a Texas
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: death Match tag team match. I don't know that there's
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: ever been a Texas Death Match tag team match here
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: and be the booker. But there's about to be Oh
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: my god, a Texas death match with Mikey, Nicky, Johnny
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: Kenny and Mick I think right? Is that is that
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: the other guy? The Spirit Squad? Someone's gonna die in
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: this match? The Spirit Squad really in a Texas Death Match?
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: They're all dead? I guess the Young Bucks. Oh my god,
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: this this round is wow. This round is not going well.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: The Young Bucks and the Spirit Squad in a Texas
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: Death Match. I don't know what's going on in this round.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: We have to redeem ourselves. We have a Night one
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: made event of Gunther and Kevin Owens that we have
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: to try to top. Oh man, Oh my goodness, a
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Kennel from Hell main event here for Night too. Kennel
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: from Hell? Oh man, can we just throwing? Can we
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: just like wave the white flag here and just throw
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: in the towel? We have moose. Moose is gonna be
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: in a We're gonna put a moose in Kennel from Hell.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: It's interesting you asked for this. This is all your fault.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: Doesn't remember that moose? Oh man? Ricky Banderiz is here
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: with us. El Missius, you know, Luke Chonder. Every time
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: I see this image here of Milmore tastes it breaks
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: my heart a little bit that we never had a
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: proper ending to Luca Underground. But we are gonna get
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: mill Mouertes against Moose Kennel from Hell. And you know what,
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: actually gonna give this the bell because first of all,
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: you talk about a hoss fight, you talk at the
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: end of the day. Really what you're doing is you're
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: taking these two men, You're putting them in a cage.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: And let's say you got those rabid dogs outside in
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: between the blue cage and the hell in a cell, right,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: and if the dogs are actually doing what they're supposed
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: to be doing and not peeing themselves in the corner,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty badass match. I'm not gonna lie this
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: is this likely would end up being very bloody and
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: very violent. But I'm still taking Kevin Owens against Gunther
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: as the better of the two main events, like I
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: can't and good conscience vote against the other match. Marshall says,
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: you landed on the Heartfelt Foundation on Monday. Good. I
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: wish I could land on the heart Foundation every night.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: We'd come up with a whole bunch of really cool
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: matches that we could do, and God help us all
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: with SmackDown going to three hours. Well, I'll be here
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: to kind of hold your hand and guide you along
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: as we begin the three hour era anew next week.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: We did it at the beginning of the year. We
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: got through it, and we'll find a way to get
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: through it again. Here and Darius, thank you for being
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: a Channel member. May's fifty three months of Channel membership.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Fun fact from ninety nine to one, the Icy title
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: changed hands thirty four times between twenty two wrestlers. Just
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: shows you how frequent title changes were in the Attitude era. Yeah,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: that was the Rousseau way of doing things. There's a
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: happy medium where we don't need every title reign to
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: be three hundred days, but also not have the Intercontinental
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: title change hands thirty four times between twenty two wrestlers.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a happy medium there. Well, if
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: you're a drinker, get those stiff drinks ready for three
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: hours of SmackDown starting next week. I'll be here, but
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: I'll also be here with you for the Raw post
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: show live here on the Channel on Monday night. And
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: then don't forget give you another reminder here because we
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: have the Make It Till Midnight count Down to twenty
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: twenty six coming up on Wednesday. We'll incorporate the Dynamite
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: review in there, but it ain't just going to be
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: about AW Dynamite. We hang out on New Year's Eve
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: every year and it actually ends up being one of
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: the biggest streams all year that I do, so that's
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: always cool. So come hang out. We'll have some fun.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: That'll be on Wednesday night, and of course before then
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: we have smacked that then, but we have the SoundOff
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: episode nine dropping on Sunday, and it will include my
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: AW World's End review, and it will also include my
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: list of the top fifteen matches ranked in wrestling, my
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: favorite matches for twenty twenty five. So it's gonna be
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: a big show, A big show. I'm not talking about
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: like the big show. I'm gonna talk about the big show.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a big show coming up on Sunday.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: Navy says Omas should call his finisher second to last ride,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: should just call it finish her Death. Did you see
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: that last ride power bomb that he gave to God
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: who was a dragonly at the Triple A Show. Holy shit,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: it puts the undertakers to shame. Sprat didn't get a
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: nosebleed coming down from that high. Be well, stay safe,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: have yourselves a great rest of your weekend, and I
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: will see you for episode nine forty four sometime in
• 1:50:10
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• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: usual podcast platforms, So until then, take care, guys. Thanks
• 1:50:18
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