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WWE Raw 2/16/26 Review | MYSTERY CRATE To Be Opened At The Chamber? · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: As I sit here on another Monday night, Hi everybody,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: it's another raw review, a very boring show tonight. As
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I sit here, and I am still waiting for the
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: on ramp to this supposed road to WrestleMania. When does
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: it kick in? Exactly? It's almost March, still waiting. The
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: good news, though, is that they did not do the
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: one thing I was hoping that they would not do,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: which is put Gunther in the elimination chamber. Javon Evans
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: is going to the chamber. It was Javon Evans, it
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  Speaker 1: was gun there. It was Dominic Mysterio. That was our
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  Speaker 1: main event tonight on the show. And I was surprised
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: there were so many people who actually were just convinced
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  Speaker 1: that Gunther was going to the chamber. I can understand
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: some people feeling that way, but like I'm looking in
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  Speaker 1: the live chat and everything, and everyone was just so
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: sure that, you know, Gunther was gonna go, and it
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: just seemed to me like the Dragon Lee story was
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: right there. I don't know why people thought that it
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: was gonna work out that way, but that would have
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: been a very big mistake had Gunther gone to the chamber,
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  Speaker 1: especially if he was not going to win it. There
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  Speaker 1: was no point in him going to the chamber. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have a triple threat match like this, you
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: don't have to beat Gunther directly in the chamber. You'd
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  Speaker 1: have to because it's elimination style. That's not what these
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: triple threat matches are. But man, I gotta tell you.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I have to tell you watching Dragon Lee dive off
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  Speaker 1: that barricade towards the end of the main event tonight
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: with that ring bell to the anti pop, It's the
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: only way I could describe it. We talk about pops
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: and big reactions that things get on these shows. This
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: was the anti pop, like nobody cared. It was sad,
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: it was very sad, but the fans were very happy
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  Speaker 1: to see Javon Whin. I was very happy to see
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Javon Whin. He's not gonna win the chamber, of course,
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: but it'll be more fun with him in it than
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: it would be without him in there. So I did
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  Speaker 1: like the result of the main events. In the other
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: qualifying match advances to the elimination chamber. So basically, the
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  Speaker 1: same people I told you last week who I thought
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna win this week, those are the people who
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  Speaker 1: are going to the chamber. But the other thing on
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  Speaker 1: this show, and honestly, a lot of what everything I'm
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about here tonight and we'll go through it,
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: you know, segment by segment cmpunk another promo segment. It's
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: been one of the highlights of Row over the last
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: several weeks. On the microphone. Tonight was the weakest of
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  Speaker 1: the bunch. It wasn't bad, but even the aj Lee promo.
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  Speaker 1: She had a promo segment with Becky Lynch to build
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: up their intercontinental title match and elimination chamber. Eh, eh,
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  Speaker 1: nothing great. Not a lot of excitement on this show,
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  Speaker 1: and you're noticing it with the crowds. You can't just
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: say that, oh, it's this city, it's that city. There's
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  Speaker 1: a pattern developing here or in a lot of these cities.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: These people are sitting on their hands is very noticeable.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not just me sitting here saying, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: was a boring show. I mean these Peo people are
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: They're sitting on their hands and they're as quiet as
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: can be because they're not being given anything to get
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: terribly excited about. And it is something that I've noticed
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: over the last few weeks here on the show. But
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: there was a segment tonight where there was a giant
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: crate sitting in the back. It reminded me if you
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: ever remember the movie Creep Show, the crate are a
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: good fan Fluffy. You've seen the movie. You know what
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I would love it if Fluffy came
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  Speaker 1: out of that damn crate went right after the creative team. Oh,
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: that would be great, just take them all out. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there was a crate that was delivered backstage to Adam
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  Speaker 1: Pearce that had a message on it saying do not
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  Speaker 1: open until February twenty eighth, which happens to be the
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  Speaker 1: same date as the elimination Chamber. So now there's a
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  Speaker 1: big mystery on this show. And I have noticed that
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: Triple H is very reliant on mysteries. In fact, tonight
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: on this show, we had two different mystery angles in
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  Speaker 1: back to back segments. We have the Mystery Man and
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: we have the mystery Crate. He loves his mysteries, so
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  Speaker 1: we have to wait until the Elimination Chamber now to
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  Speaker 1: find out what's inside this crate. We'll talk about the crate.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: One person who I do not expect to be busting
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  Speaker 1: out of said crate is brock Lesnar. He was not
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: on the show tonight, but he is being advertised for
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  Speaker 1: the show in Atlanta next week. He'll be back on
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: that show and AJ Styles is going to be there
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: because they are going to pay tribute to the phenomenal
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: one his career. They're going to have a retirement tribute
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: next week on the show to AJ Styles. So what
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  Speaker 1: does this mean? Does this mean that he and WWE
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: came to a new deal for him to stick with
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  Speaker 1: the company, or is it an attempt on WWE's part
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  Speaker 1: to do everything in its power to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: Aj does not leave and does not go somewhere else
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  Speaker 1: because they feel like there's a chance he might. Sure
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  Speaker 1: got that impression listening to him when he was on
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: the podcast with Stephanie McMahon, and he did not shut
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: the door to getting back in the ring in the future.
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  Speaker 1: So those two will be on the show next week.
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  Speaker 1: I wish they were on the show this week because
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: then maybe the show would have been a little more interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for me, this episode of Raw gets a thumbs down.
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  Speaker 1: But we will talk about the good, the bad, and
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: everything in between. This is your Raw on Netflix review
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  Speaker 1: it is Monday Night. It is February sixteenth, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and twenty six. Maybe the crate is AJ's coffin. AJ
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  Speaker 1: is alive and well, his career not so much, but
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: his career is alive, and we'll talk about the crate.
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  Speaker 1: So let's find out. I want you all to realize something.
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  Speaker 1: This spin right now, this right here is more exciting
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  Speaker 1: than Monday Night I brought tonight. I hope it was
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  Speaker 1: as good for you as it was for me. Three
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  Speaker 1: tonight that should be easily attainable. Three hundred and fifty
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• 6:48
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• 6:54
  Speaker 1: Let's get into this show. Here we had Jimmy and Jay.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: They were the first faces live I've in the arena
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  Speaker 1: that we saw here tonight on this show. The USO
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: the World Tag Team champions making their way through the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: but their entrance was very quickly interrupted by the voice
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  Speaker 1: the uh, I mean the the disemboweled voice I guess
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  Speaker 1: of Paul Hayman, and he was trying to silence this
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: crowd from all of the yeating, and he demanded that
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: their music be cut so instantly. Here at the beginning
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: of the show, we had a shocking babyface turn for
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: the Vision. Logan Paul was out there with the rest
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: of the Vision members and he wanted the fans to
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: listen to Haman because his words of wisdom were as
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: valuable as the most valuable trading card in the world,
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: which Logan Paul legitimately just sold for sixteen million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was a Pokemon card. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that was. At a Pikachu. See that is the question.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know which Pokemon card it was, but at auction,
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  Speaker 1: this this was a whole big story. In the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, this card sold for sixteen million dollars.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: I must be doing something wrong in my life. So
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: they showed a replay of the mass Man, costing Austin Theory.
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  Speaker 1: I said, dismboweled. Isn't that the right word? Yeah? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we heard his voice, we didn't see the
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  Speaker 1: we didn't see his head. Did I use the wrong word?
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Paul Hammond was not disemboweled on this show. Sixteen million
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  Speaker 1: dollar trading. You know what? Now I'm kicking myself. Can
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: you imagine all those years ago when I was a
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  Speaker 1: camp counselor, I told this story and I was confiscating
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  Speaker 1: all the Pokemon cards because they were not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: have them out during the day, and for all I know,
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  Speaker 1: I confiscated a sixteen million dollar Pikachu card. Unbelievable. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm depressed. So Boston Theory. He complained because he got
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  Speaker 1: screwed out of his qualifying match last week by the
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  Speaker 1: mass Man, and so he was complaining about it until
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  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce interrupted and Pierce wanted them to go to
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  Speaker 1: his office. Let's talk about this like adults in the back.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: Theory wanted justice though right now, and Pierce said the
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  Speaker 1: Theory screwed himself. If it wasn't for Theory stablemates tying
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  Speaker 1: up all of his security, they would have handled the
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  Speaker 1: mass man before he could even get involved in the match.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: So Hayman wanted Pierce to put Bronson Reid in the
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  Speaker 1: elimination chamber, and Pierce said that he knew about the
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  Speaker 1: phone calls that Haymon was making to go over his head.
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  Speaker 1: He said he had no problem with Reid in the
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  Speaker 1: chamber so long as he wins his qualifying match on
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  Speaker 1: the show next week. Pierce urged them to leave the
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  Speaker 1: ring so that they could continue with the show until
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: La Knight interrupted, Ah, here we go. So La Knight
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: comes out, he's in the aisleway and he said the
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  Speaker 1: visions screwed themselves. Theory wasn't going to WrestleMania. Reid was
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  Speaker 1: next on his list. Knight was praying for Bronson reed
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  Speaker 1: to qualify next week for the elimination Chamber so that
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  Speaker 1: he could kick his ass. So then logan mock Knight
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  Speaker 1: for getting put through a car by Bronson Reid, so
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Knight called him a broccoli haired bitch. Knight suggested to
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce, hey, why don't you make a six man
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: tag team match tonight. I'll gladly team with the Ussos,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: even though he doesn't like them, they don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: but hey, we'll put our differences aside. I'll happily be
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  Speaker 1: their partners and we'll have a match. And Adam Pierce
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  Speaker 1: he liked the sound of that, and so he made
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  Speaker 1: the match official. So then the Ussos, who were waiting
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  Speaker 1: patiently in the crowd throughout all of this. Remember their
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  Speaker 1: entrance was interrupted by all this, and they've just been
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  Speaker 1: standing in the crowd saying nothing the entire time, which
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  Speaker 1: is probably for the better. But they've been in the
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  Speaker 1: crowd the entire time. So now they play their music
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: and now the Ussos make their answer. Here's what I
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  Speaker 1: want to know. Why were they even coming out to
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  Speaker 1: the ring in their gear? I mean, are we supposed to?
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I guess it's the idea that they were scheduled for
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: a match with the Vision, because they never made it clear.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, they weren't in the rundown for the show.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: They never really made it clear why they were even
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: coming out here in the first place. And watching this
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: segment here, if you saw what happened here at the
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: beginning of the show, it looked like they were positioning
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Logan Paul as the de facto sort of leading force
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: or face within the vision here with Bronson Reed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right behind him. But bron Breaker is the one who
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: really was being positioned as the guy in the vision.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: Right even before the Royal Rumble, it was Logan Paul
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  Speaker 1: who stood up and said, Hey, I think all of
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  Speaker 1: us should basically sacrifice ourselves to make sure that bron
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Breaker wins the Royal Rumble, it was pretty clear who
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: the de facto face of the faction was. Well, now
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: he's hurt, he had hernia surgery. We don't know when
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker is going to be back, probably not before WrestleMania,
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  Speaker 1: and so it felt like now they were positioning the
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Logan as the guy in that spot, which I guess
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: makes sense because the dude just sold the trading card
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: for sixteen million dollars. He probably should be leading this
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: group sixteen million dollars, by the way, and still curtain
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: Jerky and wrestling in the opening match. So after a break,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: it was Logan, Paul Bronson, Reid and Austin Theory against
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  Speaker 1: La Knight and the Ussos Read and Theory. They took
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  Speaker 1: control overnight and they got the heat on him for
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  Speaker 1: fucking ever. This just went on and on. It went
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  Speaker 1: through an entire commercial break. So finally he made a
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  Speaker 1: hot tag to Jay Usso Jay hit Logan with close
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  Speaker 1: lines and a running hip attack. Then he speared him
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  Speaker 1: theory they'll broke up the pin. Knight posted Theory and
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: gave him a BFT outside the ring. But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as he got back up, Bronson Reed just comes lumbering
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  Speaker 1: in and he just rumbles on it. He tackles Night
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  Speaker 1: through the timekeeper's barricade. Gotta get at least one of
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  Speaker 1: those in every single week. It's the law. At least
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  Speaker 1: once a week we have to have that spot. That
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  Speaker 1: was also, i should say, the last that we saw
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  Speaker 1: of La Knight for the remainder of the show. He
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  Speaker 1: got put through the barricade. It was like he got
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: knocked into a different dimension. We never heard from him again,
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  Speaker 1: We never saw him again. Logan blocked a superkick from
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  Speaker 1: Jay hit a zigzag for two Jimmy tagged himself in
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  Speaker 1: and the USOS hit superkicks. They dropped Logan with a
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  Speaker 1: one d Jimmy had him pinned. Reid though broke up
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  Speaker 1: the cover. Reid headbutted Jay out of the ring. He
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  Speaker 1: wiped out both usso's with a big suicide dive. Logan
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  Speaker 1: then punched Jimmy with the loaded fist and Read followed
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  Speaker 1: with a tsunami splash to Jimmy USSO to win it
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  Speaker 1: for the Vision. So I would like to recap this
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  Speaker 1: match real, real quick. Here for you to recap this.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: La Knight came out right he interrupted this segment. He
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: challenged the Vision to a match, and he proceeded to
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  Speaker 1: get his ass kicked for virtually the entire duration of
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  Speaker 1: the match, and then his team lost. This guy is
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  Speaker 1: booked like a total loser, and yet I would love
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: to know who these people are, if they exist, if
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: they are real flesh and bone and blood. Okay, who
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: believed that it would be a good idea for La
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Knight to step into the ring with Brock Lesner at WrestleMania,
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  Speaker 1: Which is the rumor right now, and that's all it is.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: It is from Meltzer in the Observer that that was
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: the match that was listed internally as of late January,
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  Speaker 1: And as I pointed out to you on the sound off,
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  Speaker 1: it is at least plausible because he was one of
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: the guys who eliminated brock Lesnar from the Royal Rumble,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: and brock is coming back next week, so there is
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: at least a chance, a decent chance that the match
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: at Wrestle Mendia could very well be La Knight and
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: brock Lesnar. And I want you to watch this segment
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: is a great example of what I am talking about
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: when I will talk about La Knight, and I will
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: talk about the push that he has gotten, right, all
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the push, he's still super over, but he comes out
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and this is exactly the sort of thing that happens.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: He talks a big talk, right, he's all full of himself,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: and more often than not, he goes in there and
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  Speaker 1: he loses and he gets beat and there's no follow
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: up to it. He's not angry and pissed off or try.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was shocked when they brought him back,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: you know, after he was gone for so many weeks.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: He's in the Rumble and then on Raw the following
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: week that he was actually getting some measure of revenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the vision. But then you watch something
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: like this where he goes out there, and it just
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: reminds you, like, man, this guy's a fucking loser, and
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: you want me to take seriously the idea that you're
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: gonna put him in the ring with Brockleisner and it's
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: going to be anything other than a bad night for
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: La night? Are you out of your fucking mind? Who
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: wants that? Who wants that? Who thinks that's a good idea?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Outside the ring, Logan grabbed Michael Cole's head set right
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: off his head, snatched it right off his head, and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: he starts bragging about the big win that they just
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: picked up. When all of a sudden, now he's like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: leaned over the announced tsk and so you can get
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a sense of like, what's he doing here? Right, He's
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: just waiting for something to happen, And sure enough, the
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  Speaker 1: masked man reappears and he stomps him curb stomps him
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  Speaker 1: right on top of the announced desk. Now, the guy
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  Speaker 1: is standing there and I don't know, for a second
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe he was going to reveal himself, but
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: of course, fuck me, so, of course he jumps down
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  Speaker 1: from the announced desk and read in theory. They give
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: chase and he runs through the crowd, Rinse, repeat with
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: this shit. Stop me if you've heard this before. I
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: don't know why we are still sitting here and why
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we are watching La Knight and the USSOS still after
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: all this time feuding with the Vision. I want to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: know why are we still seeing these matches with these
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: same people playing out here on this show over and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: over and over again. If you want any evidence of
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: how stagnant WWE creative is right now, I give you
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: exhibit A, the fact that we are still seeing La
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Night in the usso's feuding with the Vision. Do you
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: realize how long La Knight has been feuding with the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Vision for the first time that he started getting into
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the ring with members of the Vision. You can go
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: all the way back to money in the Bank time
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  Speaker 1: June of last year. Money in the Bank. It is
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: now almost elimination chamber. He is still feuding with the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Vision and he certainly no better off for it. But
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: this is still going on eight months, nine months. I mean,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: it's almost like there's not a creative thought in their
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: head when it comes to some of these people, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I just realized something here. If that match
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: happens at wrestle MANI I was gonna sit here and say, well,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: at least if he wrestles brock Lesner at WrestleMania, at
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: least it's someone different, right, But technically, if he were
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to wrestle brock Lesner, would brock Lesner not be technically
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: considered part of the Vision. He would still be working
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: with the Vision. Fuck anyway, this was just the opening segment.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: My god, I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: make it through this review. Next week they made the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: announcement that we are going to get two more two
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: more qualifying matches. The final two I guess for the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: elimination chamber matches Bronton Reid, Jay Uso and El Grande
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Americano Gable. That's the men's chamber eliminator or qualifier. The
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: women's is going to include Eosky, Raquel Rodriguez, and Kyrie Saint.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Now I feel, you know, looking at who's in these
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: matches here, I feel like, why wouldn't you want Eosky
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in that match? Rhea Ripley's already qualified. EO should certainly
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: have a match on the show outside of just the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: kind of a throwaway comment she made on SmackDown Friday
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Night about how oh I should challenge Julia for the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: United States Championship. Unless that's what they're planning on doing,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: there's no other role for her on the show. Of course,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you want to have EO Sky in that match. The
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: only thing that's preventing me from being certain that Eoski
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: will be in that match. If you look at who's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: qualified so far for the Women's Chamber outside of Osca,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: who qualified later on in this show, it's all babyfaces,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Like if Charlotte Flair wins her match on Friday over
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Naya Jackson, Keana James, You've got Alexa, You've got Tiffany,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: You've got Charlie, You've got Rhea. It's all baby faces
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and OSCA. You gotta get some heels in there. That's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: what makes me think Raquel may have a decent shot, Right,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it's one of the other. It's one or the other.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's either Raquel or it's EO. I would
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: like for it to be EO, but man, I mean
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it's very babyface heavy, and when we get to it
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: later you'll see it's the same situation on the men's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: side too. He can't just have all babyfaces in these matches.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: At backstage. Here we go backstage, a delivery guy named Eli,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: who seemed like a very nice young man, alerted Adam
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Pierce to a special delivery and he brought him over.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: There was a giant wooden crate, a tall wooden crate
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with delivered to WWE written on the side of it,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: as well as do not open until two twenty eight,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: twenty six, which of course is the date of the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: elimination chamber. And Pierce was very annoyed because everything that
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he was asking Eli, Eli had no good answer for him.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Eli would be like, I don't know, I don't know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Pierce's like, what did you know anything? Do you know
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: your fucking name? Eli didn't have. I see, I wouldn't
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: really put it on Eli. Eli is standing there. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed, he had a clipboard in
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: his hand with a blank piece of paper on it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So I don't think that Eli is going to have
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of information for you. There was nothing
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: written on the paper. It was blank, so of course
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Eli doesn't have any information. I mean, who even says
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that he was a delivery guy. Did anybody check his credentials?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: He's standing there, he knows nothing about the box. He's
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: got nothing written on the paper in front of him.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I see no identification on him. Did anybody check him
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: when he came into the building. There could be a
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: bomb in the box for all we know, but he
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: didn't have any answers, so Eli went away. So then
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Kaiser America. Now, I should point out also Pierce made
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a comment here. He ordered Eli to ship the box
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to smack Down on Friday so that Nick Aldis could
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: deal with it, because he didn't want to deal with
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this mystery create But Kaiser Americano and his little buddies
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Ryo and Bravo, they showed up to confront Pierce about
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: him putting Gable Americano in a qualifier next week, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Kaiser was very upset about this. So Kaiser wanted something
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: else if he couldn't be in the chamber, and he suggested, well,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: why not a shot at the Intercontinental Championship. So Pierce
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: offered him a chance to earn a shot at the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title tonight, which makes the second impromptu match of
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the night by the way. Of course, the opening match
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: was impromptu and unscheduled, and now we had a second
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: one here on this show. Now I've made this point before,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I have to reiterate it again. What exactly do these
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: general mad like Adam Pierce? What do these general managers
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: do during the week that they don't take the time
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to map out the entire show. They have so many
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: openings and gaps in these two and a half hour shows,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: three hour shows. I mean, you would think they would
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: take greater care to put an actual card together. There's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: so many imprompt two matches on the show any given week.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So anyway, this fucking crate. They're doing the egg gimmick.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: If you know, you know, if you live through it,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: if you were a fait back then. I'm not talking
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: about Vince McMahon's golden egg, his fucking Faberge egg from
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a few years ago. I'm talking about the egg from
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Survivor series that hatched and out came the gobbledy Gooker.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: They hyped that shit up for weeks. Undertaker had pissed
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: running down his leg because he thought they were gonna
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: debute him as the egg man on that show. When
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: he saw that gimmick on TV. He said, Oh my god,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: gonna debut me out of a fucking egg. They're gonna
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: make me egg man. This is gonna be the end
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of my career. But there was all this speculation about
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: who or what is gonna pop out of the egg.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It could be the Playboy Playmate of the Year, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it turned out to be Hector Guerrero as the Gobbledygooker.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So they're doing this gimmick now. And as I said before,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I mean this company appears to just be obsessed over
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: mystery angles and they just did this back to back
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: because we go from the mystery Man stomping Logan Paul
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in the opening segment to a segment here with the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: history crate. So when they find something that they like,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: boy do they latch onto it. Right. It's like triple
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: h with all the people showing up as masked men
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in black right with hoodies and shit. He does that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: plenty of times. So what's in the box? That's the question.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: What is in the box? I love this idea. Everyone's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: throwing out ideas for who's in the box, Like we're
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: supposed to believe that there's an actual person in the box.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Who is simply going to stay in the box for
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the next twelve days without food or water. They're gonna
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: ship the box to smack Down, They're gonna ship the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: box to Chicago for the elimination shape, or there's an
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: actual person in the box. Can somebody throw out ideas
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: about what's in the box without saying an actual living,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: breathing human being. But I guess we're all supposed to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: assume there's going to be a person in this crate.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It would be kind of funny, you know. Obviously, if
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I had to make a guess, Chris Jericho is the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: first name that came to mind, But I so borbid.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But I was thinking about this because again, it doesn't
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: make any sense for a person to be living in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: this box. It's like, can you imagine they opened the box,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: like they pry the box open at the elimination chair
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: at the elimination chamber, and Jericho is just lying dead inside.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: It's not the fucking box because they forgot to fucking
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: poke holes in it. It's like, ah, shit, Eli, that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was your job. Fucking Eli. I don't know who's in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the but a fucking box. Come on, man, what am I?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Brad Pitt. What's in the box? I don't know. They're
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: gonna use this as a hook for the elimination Shit,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it's always something with the Elimination Chamber. Last year it
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was Cody's soul. Now it's what's in the box. Maybe
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Cody's soul is in the box. I don't know, But
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: put your suggestions in the chat. Let's see what everybody
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: thinks is in the is in the box? I don't know.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I seriously though, like if I could open the box
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: of Jericho shs. He's just laying there because he's been
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in a box for twelve days. You can't survive that way.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: It's impossible. It can't be done. We had a triple
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: threat Elimination Chamber qualifying match.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: OSCA. Now, actually, maybe it's the career of La Knight
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: is in the boxes. His final resting place, his hopes
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and yes, his hopes and dreams. The hopes and dreams
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of La Knight are in the box. Oscar. Natty and Bailey.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Natty was introduced from being from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, representing
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the Heart Family Dungeon not very well apparently because she
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: didn't win this match. I'll talk about Natty in a sack.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I got something to say about Natty in a second,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: so Natty was allowed to shine a little bit early
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: on here in this match. She had control going into
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the break. After the break, Bailey hit a diving elbow
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: drop right across Bailey's or Natty's back. Natty got trapped
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: in the tree of Woe and Bailey elbow dropped Natty
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and then gave Oscar superplex or a rare occasion here
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: where we didn't have the obligatory tower of doom spot.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I was shocked by this, so later on Natty gave
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Bailey a German sup plex out on the Apron spent
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: too much time admiring her work, so Oscar caught her
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: in the Oscar lock. Natty broke free. She hit a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: sit out power bomb. What if Jericho packed an ice
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: chest with food? Yes, but still you have to poke
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: holes in the box. There were no holes. You have
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to put holes in there. Natty applied to sharpshooter. Bailey, though,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: broke it up with a running knee strike. Oscar knocked
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Natty out of the ring with a running hip attack
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: before Bailey hit Oscar with a belly to Bailey for
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a close near fall, and this was the first thing.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: This near fall here was the first thing that the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: crowd seriously reacted to in the entire match, because they
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: were dead silent otherwise. So Bailey and Oscar they traded
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: counters until Oscar shoved Bailey into the ropes, in turn
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: knocking Natty off the apron in the process. Oscar then
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: caught Bailey in the Oscar locket. It didn't take very long.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Bailey tapped out, so Osca qualifies the Empress is going
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to the elimination chamber. So Maxine Dupre came out when
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Natty was over by the stage when she was leaving,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and Maxine Dupre attacked her and threw her into the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: led boards, and the fans began chanting whoop that trick,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: which they actually ended up doing multiple times on this
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: show in different situations, so they had to be pulled
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: apart by officials. Here. The match itself was it was solid,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: but again the crowd didn't care. Crowd did not give
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a single solitary shit about this until Bailey hit that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: belly to Bailey, and then they actually reacted. They just
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: didn't care. Now, Natty, let's talk about this. I remember
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: being asked some time ago if I thought that it
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: would be a good idea for WWE to bring the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: gimmick that Natty had started using, like a blood bloodsport
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Natty we called her to television, And initially my answer
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: was no, because I didn't trust that they would be
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: able to do the gimmick the right way and really
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: make it truly feel special or truly feel different from
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: what Natty had been doing previously. And then I kind
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: of warmed up to it, and I said, you know what,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: there's no harm in it, because it's not like they're
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: even utilizing her on television. So hey, if it gives
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: them a reason to use her on TV in certain situations,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: then sure, go for it. But I still had the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: same concerns. I still had the same reservations. What you
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: see on television is exactly the reason why I had
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: those concerns in the first place, because they changed her
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: theme music, They changed her entrance a little bit to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: where they kind of shoot her from the back as
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: she's making her way out. So there's like little minor
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: differences in how she's portrayed on television now as compared
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to before. Outside of that, there is absolutely nothing nothing
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: about this new Natty gimmick that is going to in
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: any way benefit her or anybody who works with her.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: If the idea is that, hey, we're putting some shinea Natty,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and so if we feud her with Maxine and Maxine
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of wins over in the end, it'll
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: mean something. No, it's not going to mean anything. You
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: know why because now it hasn't been very long, but
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: still Natty's been doing this gimmick for a little bit. Now,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a month, two months, whatever
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it's been. Do you know how many wins Natty has zero?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: She's won zero matches. So again, this is what I'm
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: talking about where it's like, oh, they should totally do
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: blood Sport Natty on TV, and it's like, well, they're
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: doing it, and it doesn't make a lick of fucking
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: difference because they haven't even had her or allowed her
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to win a match. She goes out there, she's got
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the mouthguard right, she's got her hands up, MMA, Natty's
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: supposed to be all tough at everything. She still hasn't
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: won a match. To get people over, they need to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: win matches. This goes to this argument and I will
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: argue until I'm blue in the fucking face with people
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: because it's such an easy thing. People like wins and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: losses don't matter anymore, And to that, I say, fuck off,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. Wins and losses,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I agree, are not the end all be all, it's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: not the only thing. But to suggest wins in laws
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: don't matter means you don't know anything about wrestling. And
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I was very happy, by the way, when the Miz
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: did that interview with Chris van Vliet I think it
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was this was within the last couple of months, he
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: said the exact same thing. He disagrees wholeheart. I agree
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: with the Miz okay or the mis agrees with me,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: however you want to look at it. Wins and losses
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely matter, and in this case, it would help if
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: they at least took the time to send Natty out there,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: even if it's with a bunch of Jabron's. You know
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: that they bring in that we don't even know, some
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: scrubs from developmental that haven't even they don't even have
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a gimmick yet, they're not on TV yet, and let
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Natty just like toy with them, you know, like an
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: animal with their food. They have not done that, so again,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it's hard to take her seriously when they haven't taken
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the time in the effort to establish her as any
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: sort of real, intimidating, dominant force on TV. One of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the many reasons why she and other people on the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: show continue to get no reactions when they come out.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: At least give her some wins first, especially if she's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: going into this feud with Maxine. If you want Maxine
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: beating her in the end to mean something, there are
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: steps that have to be taken first. You can't just
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: change someone's music and have them come out in a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: different outfit and think, oh, everything's different now. No, it's
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the same shit. But they don't put the effort in
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: because they do everything half assed. That was my concern
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: with the whole gimmick at first, bring it to TV. Well,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: if you do it the right way, sure, where's the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: entourage when she comes out? Right? They didn't do that either.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: They have Eli in the back with the fucking crate.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Why can't Eli be a part of her entourage when
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: she comes out. It's just little things like that, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it drives me nuts backstage. Adam Pierce handed Obafemi. Obafemi
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: was back. He wrestled by the Way tonight, not on TV,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: though he wrestled on main event, but he was here
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: on the show was he handed a contract by Adam Pierce,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: who wanted him to sign with Raw. He told him
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: SmackDown's not going to be able to beat this offer,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and Oba said, I need some time to decide. He's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: very indecisive, this guy. It's like me, I'm trying to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: make a big purchase, like a computer or something. I mean,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I can't. It's like you know that meme with the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: guy who's like, you know, going like this with the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: with the frickin thing on his brow. He's like sweating bullets.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know whether to push this button or that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: But that's me. That's Oba Femi trying to decide between
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Raw and SmackDown. Somebody needs to take that meme and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: put his face on that guy and then put the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Raw logo on one button and the SmackDown logo on
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the other button. So he still needs time to make
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: his decision. And on his way out, he is confronted
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: by Russev, which I was shocked by because I didn't
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: know if Russev was still alive or not. I mean,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about him. We haven't seen him
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: on TV, and sometime we haven't heard his name mentioned.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: He's been a total non factor. But there he was,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: just like it's randomly walking into Adam Pierce's office. He trapped. Actually,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I think he lives there. I think he lives in Nashville,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: So if he's local, See that actually makes sense. If
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: he's local, that he would just show up to the show.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I know for sure. One time he and CJ. I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: guess I can't call it Alana anymore, we're living I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: think I think I remember them saying they were living
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: there because it was very central, which made it a
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: lot easier to fly to wherever they needed to go.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: So anyway, he decided to show up to RAW. He
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: never said anything, but he bumped into Obafemi and the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: two of them exchanged a glare at each other, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Oba walked out, and the camera just sort of lingered
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: on Russev and he had this angry look on his face,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and if you saw underneath his jacket, he was wearing
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: one of his old Happy ROUSEV Day t shirts from
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: like a lifetime ago. Yes, at least we know Rusev
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: is not in the box. We can cross him off
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the list. It is not Russev inside the box. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the way Russev was glaring back at him gave you
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the impression that maybe there's gonna be a TV match
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: soon between them. I really just hope they're stalling until
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Brock comes back next week and then we can just
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: go from there. I mean, Oba's gonna be on SmackDown
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: this Friday, wrestling Kit Wilson for the second time. Maybe
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: he'll wrestle Russev next week. Hey, Brock's gonna be there
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: next week. Maybe he wrestles Rusev and then they shoot
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: some sort of angle after that. I don't know. We'll
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: get our answer next week. We're not gonna have to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: wait longer than a week. We will know next week
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: what Brock Lesner is very likely doing a wrestle media
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and whether it involves La Night or if it involves Gunther,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: or if it involves Obafemi. It is almost certainly gonna
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: be one of those three, So we'll find out next week.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: After this, we got footage of Michael Cole from earlier
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: in the day doing a sit down interview or getting
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: ready to conduct a sit down interview with the twenty
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: twenty six Women's Royal Rumble winner, Live Morgan Dominic Mysterio
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: showed up to sit in on the interview, and Cole
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: asked her, Okay, so who are you gonna pick? Who
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: are you gonna pick to challenge for the championship at WrestleMania,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like he was gonna get a fucking answer here and Live.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: She kind of made like she might tell him, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: then she laughed at him and said, I'm not gonna
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: rush my decision. I'm gonna take a little bit longer
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to decide. So many indecisive people on this show. Oh,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Befemi can't make a decision. Live Morgan can't make a decision.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: She said, she didn't grind for ten years just to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: let this moment pass her by. Stephanie Vicaire showed up
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: and she took a seat right next to Michael Cole
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and got right up in Lib's face, and she began
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to speak Spanish to Live and Dominic began to talk
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: back to her in Spanish. Michael Cole had no idea
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: what was going on here? Live Morgan had no idea
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: what was going I had no idea what was going
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: on here. This went on for a good I don't know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: sixty seconds of her just speaking, looking very angry and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: speaking in Spanish, cutting this very impassioned promo. I couldn't
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: understand a fucking word she was saying, but she was
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: certainly saying it with great conviction in her voice. And
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: that was it. Whatever she said, whatever it was that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: she said, Dom was translating for Live and Stephanie walked off.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And as Dom is explaining to Live what was just
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: said Live, Morgan gets very emotional and she begins crying,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and then she and Dom they ended up leaving. She
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: was too upset, I guess to continue this interview and
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: so they walked off. Well, that was certainly something. See
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I have a theory of this. Maybe the shot in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: the dark here as upset as Liv got, maybe Stephanie
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: broke the news to her that because of the shortage
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and all of the RAM chips, the PS six is
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: likely being delayed until twenty twenty nine, and she was
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: very upset about this, especially Dom. We know Dom's a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: big gamer. I don't know how big of a gamer
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Live is, but maybe maybe the PS six news was
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: just too much for her to handle, and she got
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: very emotional about this. They did say later in the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: show that they posted the entire segment with English translations
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: on YouTube, So if you want to watch it, you
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: got to go seek it out on YouTube and it
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: will have all of the answers for you. I wish
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you luck. We have the World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: on his way out to the ring next for a promo,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: which is good because man, this show could use a
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: shot in the arm at this point, and if you
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: look at Raw over the last several weeks, those Punk
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: promos have been the highlight of the show honestly on
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: most if not all, of those weeks. And we could
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: use a segment like this on this show right about now.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: But he's cut some great ones recently on Roman Reigns
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and Finn Balor. So he says. Adam Pierce says he's
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: jeopardizing the main event of WrestleMania. He doesn't see it
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: that way. He thinks that he's doing what he's always done,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: which is make everything better. He said. Sports teams go
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, that doesn't mean that they get to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: stop playing regular season games. Punk clearly not a fan
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: of the NBA. The fans deserve a fighting champion. He
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: thought Finn Balor deserved a shot at the title about
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: a month back in Belfast, and now he's getting another shot,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: not because he deserves it, but because he's earned it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: He's earned this ass beating that he's going to get
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and he ruined Punk's last chance to share the ring
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: with the phenomenal AJ style. Well, good news for CM
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Punk is that AJ is going to be back on
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the show next week, so if he wants to, I mean,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: he'll get to share the ring with AJ again. Punk
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: said that things he says, he says things that pissed
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: people off. He wouldn't be who he was. If he
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: didn't often say things that would piss people off, the
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: fans wouldn't love him. Punk was a fighting champion. He
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: was the best in the world. That wasn't Roman Reigns
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and it's not Finn Balor. So he was interrupted by
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Finn Balor, who is now using his old NX team music,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: which is good. See I have to give them credit.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: This is a rare music upgrade here on this show.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe he used it that one time in Belfast,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know if it was going to be
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: a weekly thing. But I'm glad he's got that music back.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: And he was flanked by Dominic Mysterio, and then out
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: came JD McDonough, who we have not seen for a
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: few months. He had some minor surgery to fix a
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: couple of things, and so now he's back. I just
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: realized that Roxanne was not on the show tonight, and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: this was second week in a row, and I believe
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: last week she was out with some sort of illness
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: because I saw some photo I think that she posted
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: on social media, the other members of the Judgment Day
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: having sent her some sort of gift or get well
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: message or whatever. So I said, oh, maybe she's got
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: like a I don't know, like a bad flu or something.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: But second week in a row that she was not
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: on the show, so I hope she's doing okay. Anyway,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the men of the Judgment Day, they came down to
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: ringside and they surrounded the ring baler said that, look,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: we're not out here to fight. He wanted to make
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: something very clear. To be the best in the world,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: you had to train with the best catch wrestlers in Europe.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: You had to learn from the best luchadors in Mexico.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: You had to survive the toughest dojo's in Japan. You
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: had to show up to Raw and beat Roman Reigns
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: on your very first night. And nobody reacted to that
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: line because they probably didn't know what he was talking about.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: But in fact, when he debuted on Raw, he beat
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns in his first night. That's how he got
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the shot at the Universal title against Seth Rollins at
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Summer Slim. First ever Universal champion was going to be crowned,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: and he won it, and he tore his shoulder and
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: he got hurt and he had to vacate the title
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the very next night. But that's how he went to
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Summer Slim. He got to win over the big dog.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: It was ten years ago, ten years, ten years. That's
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: why I laugh, you know when I hear comments like
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the comments that Ricochet said, you know, a week or
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: two ago, and he name dropped Balor as one of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: those people like Knackamoor and Apollo Cruz who were like
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: shells of what they used to be and had had
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the passion beaten out of them or whatever however he
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: phrased it. It's like, dude, you know, you were on
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the main roster for five years, you didn't like it,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and you split. Good for you, and he's you know,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: he didn't re sign at any point. He was unhappy
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: and he left. If Finn Balor wasn't happy to be
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: where he is, he wouldn't be there anymore. Ten years,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: you know what. He must not be that miserable. But yes,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: it's been ten years, if you can believe it. Anyway,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: he said that, So, as far as I'm concerned, all
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: of those things make me the best in the world.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So he was not the way he looked at it.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not jeopardizing the WrestleMania main event. In fact, I'm
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: going to beat you and make it better. So Punk
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: asked him, what are these two idiots doing out here
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: with you? He said, I know who you are. Goes.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I misspoke. I know who you were. All
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: those great things that you did, you did it by yourself.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't see any members of the judgment day by
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: your side in those dojos, or when you beat Roman
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Reigns all those years ago. I didn't see these goofballs
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: with you. You did it by yourself. You did it
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: on your own merits. Says, you used to mean something.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: He said, Normally someone like you could elevate guys like them,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: but they were just dragging you down. He goes, look
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: at Dom, this guy's got two belts and he never
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: defends them. He goes JD. Mcdonney, he's got a head
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: so big he needed help getting into the ring, so
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: the fans chanted Bobblehead at him. Punk called himself a
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: smart guy who sometimes did dumb things. He turned his
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: back and he said, look, I'm gonna give you a
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: free shot. He knew he was the best in the world,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: but he didn't need help to prove it. But maybe
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Balor did. And this is the second point in the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: show where we had random chance of whoop that trick
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: as a Punk turned and gave his back to Ballor.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: It's like stinging in the nWo days when he used
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: to put the bat down, Or he'd hand the bat
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: to them and he would turn around. He did that
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the macho man once and Balor was holding back the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: other Judgment Day member, specifically JD McDonough, who wanted to,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: you know, go after Punk and Balor wouldn't let him.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: So McDonough, you know had I mean he wasn't happy
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: about it, but he had no choice but to just
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: sort of stand down. And Punk was out on the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: apron and he tossed the mic at Balor and hit
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: him right in the chest, and then he jumped down
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: from the apron and he left. So it was a
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: good segment. Again, I don't think this was as strong
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: as some of the other segments Punk has had on
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the show recently, But they're telling a larger story here
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: with the judgment day in Finn Balor. If you remember
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the little pep talk Punk had with him a few
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: weeks ago before Balor ended up, you know, jumping him,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: where Balor was very complimentary towards Punk, you know, for
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: giving him the opportunity that he did in Belfast. It
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: was the greatest night of my career. And Punk was
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: basically saying, look, you can get rid of these losers.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: You don't need these guys. And then Live Morgan later
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: on the show confronted Baler and said, oh, I saw
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: you had a little chat with Punk, right, So they're
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: they're telling this story and that's fine. I still think
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: the direction for WrestleMania is going to be Balor against
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: probably Dom, but he'll be up against at least one
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: of the members of the Judgment Day and that's that's
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: going to be the match. We all know he's not
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: winning the championship in Chicago, nor should he. There is
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: nothing that should disrupt the match that they have already
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: established between CM Punk and Roman Reigns, not balor, not
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: seth rollins, nobody one on one Punk and Roman. Last
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: year we got a triple threat. This year, we're getting
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: it one on one that's not being disrupted barring injury
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: or some sort of you know something God forbid that happens.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: But barring that, nothing is going to disrupt that match.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: So for the story they're trying to tell, I think
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: it's fine. Na Byron Saxton was in the back and
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: he interviewed the women's tag team champions Ria Ripley and
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: EO Sky. He asked how they were holding things together
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: after everything they've had to go through. I mean, they've
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: had tag team title defenses, Chamber qualifiers. How are you
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: keeping it together? So Ria admitted that SmackDown was a battle.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: When they defended their titles on Friday against Naya Jackson
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the Lash Legend, She said that they thought they could
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: take the titles from them, but they failed. They turned
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: up the heat, so it was time for her and
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: EO to put them out, and EO was about to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: speak about her qualifier next week when they were interrupted
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: by Osca and Kyrie Sane. Kyrie said that Oscar was
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: in the chamber and they would make sure that Rhea
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: and EO would never win it, and Oscar got very angry,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: and she corrected Kyrie. Wanted Kyrie to make get clear
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: what the real goal here is, and Kyrie said, oh no, no,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. The goal is to make sure
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: that Osca wins the elimination chamber. So then Oscar spoke
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: and told Ria and EO that they were not ready
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: for the chamber, and then she left, leaving Kyrie behind,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: who looked absolutely petrified. And EO was about to say
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: something to Kyrie, and then of course we heard Osca,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and poor Kyrie has to go off and slink away.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: You know, what I've noticed is that when they first
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: started doing these these segments like this, where Oscar would
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: yell for Kyrie, you can hear the crowd in the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: arena and it would always get a reaction. It would
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: get lapse from the crowd. But now they've been doing
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: it for so long and they haven't changed it. They
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: haven't evolved it in any kind of way. It doesn't
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: get a reaction anymore. It just feels like, you know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: once they have something that works, they keep spamming it.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: They keep hitting the spam button because they don't know
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: what else to do. They just beat it to fucking
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: death until it gets no action anymore. They've done nothing
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: to really move this whole angle forward. It's still kyrieacting
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: all scared and terrified of OSCA, and it's just they again,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: even these segments, like at least try to change it
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: up a little bit, do it a little bit differently
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: in some way, they don't. Put they don't. No, it's fine,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: We'll just keep doing what we're doing. Okay, go ahead,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: keep doing it. Doesn't get a reaction anymore, but hey,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: they don't seem to care. After this, we had El
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Grande Americano Kaiser against a mystery opponent, which ended up
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: being Penta, so at least we know Penta is not
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: in the crate. They went to a break. Sixty seconds
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: into this, Kaiser tried going for Penta's mask. Penta tried
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the same thing, and Kaiser used a distraction to take control.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Pentado yanked him off the top rope hit a Penta
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: driver for a near fall, so Penta nog Ryo off
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: the apron before El Grande hit a running headbutt for
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: a two count ryo distracted there and meanwhile Bravo Tyler
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Bate on the outside. He was going for the metal
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: plate to hand to Kaiser, and he he had to
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: dig it out deep from his crotch. I don't know
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: what he was doing. He had his hand in his
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: crotch and he was having a little too much fun.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: But then he pulled out the metal plate and he
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: went to go hand it to Kaiser, when all of
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he got his legs he yanked out from
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: underneath him and he falls flat on his back and
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: he is dragged underneath the ring just like Fluffy in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Creep Show. The creature from the crate grabs you, drags
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: you onder the staircase. You gotta see that movie Creep Show.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: If you've never seen Creep Show, it's actually like four
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: or five. It's like an anthology. It's like four or
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: five different stories in the movie. It's not just one,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: but that one is my favorite. I'm just saying. So
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: he gets pulled underneath the ring, and you could tell
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: by who because then the og Americano emerges Americano Gable.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: He emerges from underneath the ring, and so at that
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: point he gave Bravo a chaos theory suplex on the floor.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Ryo re emerged and so he got dumped over the
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: announced desk. After he crawled back out from under the ring,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Penta flew in. He gave El Grande Kaiser a Canadian
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: destroyer in the ring, and he picked up the win.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: After the match, Gable gave Kaiser a chaos theory. We
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: actually had a little battle in the ring here for
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: about a minute between the two Americanos, probably a WrestleMania preview.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Gable then tried to take off Kaiser's mask, and he
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: kind of partially did, but then he got pulled to
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: safety by the other two. Penta got back in the
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: ring and he actually fist bumped or I don't know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: wrist bumped Grande Gable, who then danced to his mariachi music.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: I feel silly for even reviewing this, like everything that
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: just came out of my mouth here, like it's just Obviously,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: this whole gimmick is very silly, but this was even
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: sillier than usual. It was the usual silly nonsense. If
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: you miss this, you missed absolutely nothing. If you want
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to judge these segments by whether or not you should
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: take the time to go back and watch what you missed,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: you miss nothing if you missed this match. But we
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: do know Michael Cole made it a point to clarify
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: later in the show Penta is now in line for
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: a shot at the Intercontinental title. He didn't say when.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: At some point down the road he will get a
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: shot at the Intercontinental title. And so I guess if
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the match at WrestleMania does not end up being Balor
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: and dom Dom and Penta would probably be the match
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: of maybe Penta can get a title win at WrestleMania.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind that. I just feel like the only
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: thing about it is there's this sameness to it where
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: you could do that match, but I just feel like
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: these matches, I've seen these matches over and over and
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: over again. There's just this feeling of sameness with everything
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: on this fucking show. I don't mind the idea of
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Penta going on to win the Intercontinental title, but I
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: feel like I've seen some form of him and Dom
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: several times now. Yeah, it's one of the reasons why
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I don't have the appetite to see Cody Rhoades one
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: on one with Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania, because I've seen
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: it so many times, and yet it looks like that's
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: probably going to be the WrestleMania match. Backstage, Dom was
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: comforting Live Morgan and suggested that she go off with Raquel.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Raquel said, okay, come with me, so Living Raquel left.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: At that point, Balor and McDonough they wandered in and
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: McDonough was very upset that Balor held him back from
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: beating up cm punk earlier. He said, I would have
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: given you an advantage going into Chicago and going into
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the chamber. I was just trying to help you, So
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Balor said, if you really want to help, you'll let
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: me do this alone. Balor left. McDonough said, fine, if
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: that's how you want it, and then he left. So
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: now Dom is all by himself, and he's very concerned
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: because he's got a match coming up. Where'd everybody go?
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Now he's all by himself. Aj Lee was out to
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the ring next. AJ Lee was on this show to
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: talk about her upcoming Intercontinental title match at the Chamber
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: with Becky Lynch. But I gotta mention this. As aj
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: was making her way out to the ring. Corey Graves
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: on commentary he congratulates Michael Cole on winning an award
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: earlier today, and Cole said, yes, it was for the
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: most lying announcer in history. Calls it a it's a besy,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: it's a besy award, which is a legitimate thing. Becky
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Lynch on her social media earlier today, issued all of
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: these different award her own awards that she gave out.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: She's saying, the hell with Meltzer, I'm gonna give up
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: my own awards. And I guess Michael Cole won the
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: award for the most lying Announcer. Cole said, yeah, twenty
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: nine people voted, and then Corey Grays with the line
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: of the night, says, you should have a newsletter. Corey
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: with the jokes, And when they cut to a certain shot,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: you can see the announcers sitting in the background and
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: you can see Cole was just stifling his life. He's
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: looking at Graves like just trying to stifle his laughter,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: so AJ said, last week she walked out of Raw
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: as the new number one contender for the women's Intercontinental title,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and she had her fun getting under Becky's skin, but
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: then she realized that this is serious business. Later in
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: the show, when Becky rammed her face first into the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: ring post, she said that she has not had a
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: singles match in over a decade, let alone challenge for
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: a championship, and the last time that she held the title,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: it was a pink butterfly belt. But she made that
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: title there was she goes, there was a women's division
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: before her and a women's division after her. She said
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: that was her gift to all of them, meaning, or
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: at least I took it to me. You know, there's
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: no longer a diva's division. Right before the Divas, you
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: had women, and then after the Divas they brought back
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the women's title. She goes, you can thank me. She says,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: I know exactly who the hell I am. And she
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: wants to fight Bailey and Lyra and Riha and Eo
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: and the Kabuki Warriors and Judgment Day and Charlotte Flair
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and Alexa Bliss, the best of the very best, but
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: for now all roads lead back to Becky. She doesn't
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: know why Becky is so mad at her. She's maybe
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: mad that her merch does better, and she's mad that
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: the fans like her more. She gave the girl a
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: ten year head start and she still hasn't caught up.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: But she's great. Without Becky, maybe she wouldn't have gotten
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: back into this ring to prove that she can still
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: go and to prove that she can still be a champion.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: And if she walks out of Chicago victorious, then she
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: sure is hell going to walk into WrestleMania as the
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental Champion. And since she knows Becky as her or here,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: she knows Becky's in the building, and Becky gave her
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: such a sweet gift last week. If she wants to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: come out to the ring right now, she's got a
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: little something for that ass. So Becky Lynch came out
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: only as far as the isleway and said that for
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: the last ten years she's been making history while AJ's
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: been making comic books. But if AJ makes it through
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: elimination Chamber, she'll be in a full body cast, but
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: she can type out that she was in the ring
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: with the best to ever do it. Sports Illustrated says it,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the Bleacher Report says it, everybody says it, and maybe
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: then that comic book will actually sell. So AJ invited
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: her into the ring and and come on in, we'll
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: throw hands right now. Becky made like she was gonna
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: get in the ring, and then she took her coat off,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: and again the fans randomly broke into whooped that trick
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: chance she stopped short. She said that as soon as
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: I slide in, I know you're gonna sucker punch me.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: So AJ told her she would let her take the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: first swing. How about that, I'll give you the first shot.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: And so with that, Becky got in the ring, but
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: she hesitated. Still AJ goaded her. She's telling her, take
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: your shot. Swing, Becky. Swing. Then she put her hands
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: behind her back. So she's got her hands behind her
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: back and she's putting her face out right. She's given
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Becky a free shot if she wants to take it.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: And Becky says, I know the game you're playing. She
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: was again trying, like she did last week, a little
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: too much to just act all crazed here, and she said,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: I know the game you're playing. You want me to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: beat you up? So bad. You can't even make the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: elimination shamer, she said. And as she's saying this, by
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the way, no reaction, like there is no reaction outside
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: of that whoop, that trick chant. There is no reaction
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: whatsoever to any of this from this audience. And Becky
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: left the ring and she got some booze for that,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: and she said, I don't fight him, Memphis. This was
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: not great. This was not great. It was kind of sad, honestly,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: like this should be considered kind of a big match.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: And look, I'm sure in Chicago it's gonna get a
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: great response and the fans are going to be very
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: happy to see, especially if she wins the title, which
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I think she should. If the idea is for her
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: to win the championship at some point, then it should
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: be in Chicago because then she could drop it back
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: to Becky at Mania and Becky Becky's at least around
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: and Becky could go on to defend it against somebody else.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: If AJ wins did at WrestleMania, when do we see her?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, that's not the purpose
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: of what these mid card titles are for. They're for
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the people who are here right now. So I'd rather
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: her get her big moment in Chicago and then drop
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: it back to Becky instead of doing it the other
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: way around. But yeah, this segment didn't do anything to
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: get me any more excited to see the two of
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: them in the ring together. Honestly, I mean it was
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: just very underwhelming. The backstage, the vision was waiting for
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce and Austin. Theory was very angry with Pierce
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: for letting his brother Logan Paul get stomped like that.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Hayman tried to calm him down, told him go to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: the jet. Go to the jet. Pierce told Hayman, the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: mass Man is as much a problem for me as
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: it is for you and Bronson. Reid stepped up and
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: told Pierce, when he catches the mass Man, that problem
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: will be solved, and when he wins the elimination Chamber,
• 1:02:53
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  Speaker 1: main event, Triple Threat Elimination Chamber qualifying match. Gunther the ring, General,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio and Javon Evans. Dom ducked out to ringside
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: right off the bat here he did not want to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: have any part of this, so he left the ring.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Once Gunther had Evans in the corner, Dom stepped in
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: front of him. He chopped Javan and Dom tells gun Thro,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: I'm only trying to help you out. And then Dom
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: made a very very big mistake by chopping Gunther and
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do that, but that's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: what he chose to do. And gun there, of course
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: no sould it. He dropped Dom with a big chop
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of his own. He continued to work him over out
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: on the floor Evans. As these two were fighting outside,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: over by the timekeeper's barricade, Evans does this huge dive
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: out over the ring post and crashes onto both men
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: and from there actually, in doing so, he knocked Gunther
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: over the barricade and into the timekeepers area. Once Gunther recovered, though,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: he started putting a beating on Dom outside and then
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: they went to a break come back from break, they
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: showed during the commercial, Dom went over to the timekeeper
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: and took the ring bell hammer. And the ring bell
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: hammer is now laying on the ring steps, so they
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: made it a point to let us know that, so
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: you knew it was going to come into play later
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: on in the match. So I thought maybe he put
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: it in his boot, but then they showed a shot
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: of it laying on the steps, so that's where the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: hammer is. It's not hammer time yet. Gunther there got
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: a power bomb on Javon with a high stack only
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: for a near fall, So some fans tried this was funny.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: I've talked about the lack of reactions up and down
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: the card here, and you know, the match is going
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: along here and the match is fine, nothing special, and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: some fans in the crowd attempted to start a this
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: is awesome chant, which of course is one of the
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: most overused and abused chance at all of wrestling. They
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: chanted when we were seeing something awesome. They chanted when
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: something is not awesome. They chanted during their commercial breaks.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: They chanted as they're coming into the building. They chanted
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: as they're leaving the building. They chanted as they just went,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: you know, fifteen seconds with their girlfriend in bed. They
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: chant at all different times. It means nothing at this point,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: but they started to chant this is awesome, and it
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: just because it wasn't awesome, and most of the crowd
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: knew that, and so it very quickly died out. I
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: think they were hoping it would spread like a virus,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: and it did not. It was extinguished rather quickly. So
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Gunther was in control. He was chopping this shit out
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: of both of these guys. Evans took him down with
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a kick to the back of the neck. The red dot,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: which is that twisting kick that he does off the ropes,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: takes down Dom Gunther. He busted out this wicked chop
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: right to the back of Javan's neck, but he lands
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: on his feet on the release. German does Javon and
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: he takes Guntherer down with a running knee into a pin.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Dom breaks it up. So later on, Evans took Gunther
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: down with a springboard crossbody to some light applause. He
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: went up top. Gunther cut him off, but he knocked
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Gunther back down and he took to the sky high moon.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Saul lands on his feet right into the sleeper by Gunther,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: but Evans hits a jawbreaker and he breaks the hold.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, aj Styles might still have an active career
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: if he would have thought of that. Who knew all
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: he had to do is just fall down and just
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: jammed the top of his head up into Gunther's chin,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: and he could have broken the sleeper hole. He'd still
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: be wrestling, he'd be going to WrestleMania instead. He's going
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: to his retirement ceremony next week. So now Javan goes
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: for the og cutter, and you know when he goes
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: off the top rope, he's basically sailing backwards. He flies
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: backwards off the top right into the clutches of Gunther,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: who gets him in the sleeperhold again. Now he's got
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: him down on the mat, but it's in a position
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: where Gunther has basically his back is exposed and Dom
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: sees this, and Dom comes off the top with a
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: frog splash right across Gunther's back to break the hold.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Gunther ended up in the ropes in the position for
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: a six one nine. Dom went forward, but he got
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: his head taken off with a lariat by Gunther. Instead,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: Dom took possession though of the ring bell hammer, while
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Gunther took Evans down with a sayudo suplex and a
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: boot sends Dom off the apron to the floor. Gunther
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: follows him outside. He knows that this little prick has
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: the hammer, so he reaches down and he takes possession
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: of the ring bell hammer. So now gun as if
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: guntherre needs a hammer, but now he's got a fucking
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: hammer in his hand. And you can hear a little
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: bit of a commotion in the crowd to at least
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: as much to indicate that, okay, someone is about to
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: show up here, but it wasn't like an overwhelming reaction.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: And then the camera pans over and it's Dragon Lee
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: and Dragon Lee has possession of the ring bell. He's
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: standing on top of the timekeeper's barricade and he comes
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: diving off and he hits gun Through in the head
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: with the bell to what. As I said earlier, the
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: best way I could describe it was like a negative pop.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: It just got a hilariously awful reaction for a spot
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: like that, either because people maybe didn't know who it was.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of mass men on
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: this show now, and it's not like Dragon Lee is
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: featured prominently every single week. More likely they just didn't care.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he got no reaction. Big spot like this
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: climactic moment of the match, got no reaction. But he
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: knocks Gunther down to the mat or to the floor
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: back inside six to one nine from Dom to Javon.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: He goes for the frog splash. Nobody's home. Evans then
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: comes off the top with an og cutter and he
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: drops him with it, and he covers Dom and he
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: gets the pin as he should have, and Javon Evans
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: has punched his ticket to the elimination. Shame, He's going
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: to be one of these six participants in that match.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Good good. This was the right outcome and that did
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: get a good reaction from the crowd. They were happy
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: to see Javon win. There were probably a lot of
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: people in that crowd too, not just this chat, but
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: in the crowd who thought, well, Gumpro is gonna win,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: of course, right, And so when he didn't, they were
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: surprised and they were very happy. He's gonna make that
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: match more fun, you know. Yes, he does a lot
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: of high risk stuff and flippy dippy do stuff. Sure
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: he's the bouncy but it's in his fucking nickname. He
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: calls himself the bouncy boy. In a match like this,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some innovative cool stuff he thinks of,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: hanging from the ceiling or whatever he does, like Spider
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Man or something. He'll make the match more fun. You
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: got Cody Rhodes, you got Randy Orton, you got La Knight.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: You got all of these like established older guys in
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the match, right. Randy is forty something years old, Cody
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: is forty years old, La Knight's forty two or forty
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: three years old, and then here's Javon Evans at twenty one.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: You gotta have some fucking youth in this match. So
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: I'm happy he made it in there. He'll make the
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: match more fun. And Gunther can go off now and
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: have a match with Dragonly and you could do that
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: at elimination chamber. I mean they may not. You know,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: four match pl ees. You're not allowed to do that
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: for match Paul. So if they don't do it an
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: elimination chamber, they could do it on Raw and Gunther
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: will destroy Dragonly And then the question becomes, what do
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: you do with gun through a WrestleMania. It's been a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: real question, like there's no obvious opponent for him if
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: he is if we assume he is not getting in
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: the ring of WrestleMania with brock Lesner, and there really
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: is nobody for him to retire. That's been his whole gimmick,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and I think that needs to stop, by the way,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: not that he shouldn't have another one of those matches
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: where he tries to retire somebody at some point, but
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: you can't do every single fucking match where he's trying
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: to retire somebody unless you put him in the ring
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: with Eli. You know from back state, he can retire Eli.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe whoever pops out out of the crate an elimination
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: chamber will be his opponent. I don't know Juan Sina,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: but like I'm looking at the roster and I'm like,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you would assume he'd be
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: in there with a legend. People have suggested guntherro and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton. I don't want to see that match, and
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: we've gotten it before, we have seen that before. But yeah,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't And again, is supposed to be
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: legend killer against career killer. Like that does nothing for me.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see that. So what are you
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: left with? Like, he's a raw guy. You look at
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: the raw roster, who do you got? Dragon Lee's tag
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: team partner was aj Styles. He's already been retired, right,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: so you can't go with him, raymisterio, I don't care
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: for that either. Is that what we're looking at here?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: It's possible that doesn't get me excited for WrestleMania. I'm sorry,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what. You know. One thing that
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: was very clear though from watching this show, it's like
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: a night at the opera watching Raw on most weeks,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: you know, you go to the or the library, take
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: your pick, the opera or the library where people go
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: and they're dead silent for most of the show because
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: they're just not invested in the way that you would
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: want them to be invested in. These stories you could
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: tell just by watching the show. When the show is
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: hot and when it's not. It's not hot. Right now,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's been ice cold for a while. And
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: they're very lucky they still do the business that they
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: do because there was a point in time, many many
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: years ago where when the product was not hot, business
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: was not hot, and they were fighting for their lives
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: and they didn't have guaranteed millions and billions of dollars
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: from Netflix and NBCUniversal and all these different companies coming
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: in now they do. It's just a very different world.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: It's a very different media landscape, very different business. But
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: you could just tell them just watch the show. You
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: feel it, you hear it, you see it. And we're
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: heading into what should be the biggest show of the year.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: We talk about the road to WrestleMania, and it should
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: feel like the road to WrestleMania, and it doesn't yet.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: There's still time. There's two months to go until WrestleMania.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: We're not there yet. WrestleMania is as late as it
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: has ever been in that third week in April, so
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: we got two months for them to you know, hopefully
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: shape up and start moving the pieces where they belong.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: We know now in the elimination chamber it's going to
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: be Cody Rhoads, Randy Orton, La Knight, Javon Evans. Two
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: spots remain. We have a match this Friday, Damian Priest,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. It's either going to be
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Damian Priest or Trick Williams. I think it should be
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams because we have the same issue. I mean,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: I think it should be Trick regardless. But to go
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: back to what I said earlier about the women's chamber,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: it is dominated by babyfaces and you got to get
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: some heels in there. And Trick Williams has been putting
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: in some good work on SmackDown. I mean the people.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like the people actually like him, but you know,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: he's still a heel and he knows how to get heat,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: and you know he's all full of himself and cocky
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: and arrogant. Trick Williams should absolutely be in the elimination chamber,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: and I think you will be. And so then that
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: leaves one spot open, and now we know it's either
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: going to be Bronson, Reid, Jay Usso or Chad Gable
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: as El Grande Americano. Gable is not going to the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: elimination chamber, so we're left with two realistic options here.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Bronson Reid should be in that match. Again, he's a heel.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: They could use heels. I'm just looking at this going
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get the mass Man next week, and the
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: mass Man is going to fuck him over, and we're
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: gonna get Jay Usso in the elimination chamber. That's what
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: it feels like to me. That's what it feels like
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: to me. I think I think we're looking at Cody Rhoads,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton, l A. Knight, Javon Evans, Trick Williams, and
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Jay us So. I think that's how the elimination chamber
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: shapes up, which would mean Trick Williams would be the
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: only heel in the elimination chamber. So it looks like
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: that's how it's stacking up right now. But this show
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: is largely a bore, very boring show. No good main event,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: but very boring show. And I'm just sitting here waiting
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: for this Road to WrestleMania to actually start showing some
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: signs of life. Next week should be interesting. We have
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesnar on the show, so we'll get some indication
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: of what his WrestleMania direction is going to look like.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: And AJ Styles is going to be back, and they're
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: going to have some sort of tribute ceremony to AJ Styles.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that's going to look like. If
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a Rick Flair thing from two
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight where they trot out a bunch of
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: surprise faces, people from TNA. Oh my god, can you
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: imagine Dixie Carter shows up next week? We don't need that,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: but maybe they'll trot out people from AJ's past. And
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm interested to see it. Because he
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: retired and there was no fanfare, they didn't do anything.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: He didn't show up on the next show. It's like
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: it can't end like that, right, I mean, unless he's gone,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: you know, unless he's getting out of there, which is
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: still possible. By the way, we don't know what his
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: contract status is, so I guess, you know, they decided
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: to wait until they went to his home state. They're
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: going to be in Georgia next week and I am
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that, and then we'll have two more
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: qualifying matches for the elimination chambers. So that's how Raw
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: is shaping up for next week. Jay lays everyone out
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: with super kicks and then runs it back inside the chamber.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Says a deputy dog, did you break into the WWE
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: creative offices? Because I think that sounds like something they
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: would have up on the whiteboard. Jay takes everyone out
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: of runs it back inside the chamber. What did you
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: think of Raw tonight from Memphis and the Twitter? Paul,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: look at this razor thin margins here. Forty nine point
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: six percent thumbs up, fifty point four percent thumbs down
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: thumbs down is winning at this point? Frankly, I think
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: that thumbs downscores should be a lot higher than that.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: But it's a it's a virtual tie at this point.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: If you want to vote at Solo, Monsters the place
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: where you can go to to do so, gonna be
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of yeating in the elimination chamber this year,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Solo will be hammered before the chamber review begins. If
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Jay runs it back, I'm gonna run back the liquor.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: If he runs it back, That's what I'm gonna do.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: But it does feel that way, doesn't it. Jay uso
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: over Bronton Reid because the Mystery Man or the mass
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Man focks over read next week. That's what it feels
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: like to me. I mean, think about it, think about
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: it right. The mass Man screwed Bronze Breaker out of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. The mass Man screwed Austin Theory out
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: of an elimination chamber spot. Last week, the mass Man
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: stomped Logan Paul Tonight. There's only one person left outside
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: of Hayman. There's only one person left to be screwed,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: Bronton Reid. That's next week. Hey, Joseph, what's going on?
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Joseph says, rest in peace. Robert Duval yes to wait
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: today at the age of ninety five. Robert Duval from
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: The Godfather among many other movies. His Happy fortieth anniversary
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: to the Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which was
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: released on this day in nineteen eighty six. You know,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: the Mets won a World Series in nineteen eighty six.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: The Mets have not won one since. Sure would be
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: nice if we could change that this year. And Colin
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Farrell almost played Batman in the early two thousands. I
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: did not know that. Buy or sell. Michael Jackson or
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Prince Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston or Madonna. Oh, I like
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: him both, but I gotta go Madonna on that one.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: Joseph says, what is the difference between Triple H's booking
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: and Vince McMahon's booking. I never saw Vince McMahon use
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: this many mass men before. Vince was the opposite. Vince
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: wanted them to take their mask off because this used
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: to say this is their moneymaker. What is the difference
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: between Tony Kahn's booking and Triple H's booking. Tony Kahn
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: would not have a mystery crate on his television show,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: but if he did, I'm sure he would put a
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: belt on it. Where do you rank Vince McMahon's theme song.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: I don't rank it anywhere. I like. It doesn't rank
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: in the top ten or anything. For me, I'm a
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: fan of it though, Joseph, thank you. I smoke a
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: lot of weed dollars ninety nine. Ever, consider going live
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: for the sound of No, that's what these streams are for.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: Could be a special show at some point, it would
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: have to be like a special occasion, but week to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: week now, No, there's no point. Dried Chicken says, here's
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: a WRESTLEMANI a forty two spoiler. Cody Rhodes wins back
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the WWE Championship with mixed reactions with the crowd in
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I'm gonna say it's more negative than Mick
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: than like down the Middle. Phil says, Okay, nothing against
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: speaking Spanish, but why don't they ever put subtitles when
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Stephanie Viquier is speaking Spanish. I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: I don't have an issue. I mean, if they want
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: her to cut an impassion promo in Spanish, that's fine,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: But like you know, whenever they have like the Kabuki
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Warriors or you know, Knock a Moor cutting promos in
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: another language, it's usually pre taped. I mean that was
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: pre taped too. I mean that wasn't live, so I
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: mean they could have done the same thing there if
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: they wanted to. And I don't know, I don't know.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: If you want to know what she said, though, I
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: guess you can go to the YouTube channel. Uh OMG,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: it's winky Jericho is in that box right. I'm telling you, man,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be a sad sad state
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: of affairs when they pry that crate open and they
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: Jericho's body is just laying in their pale and stiff
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: as a board. The riga mortis has set in. Forgot
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: the poke holes in it. They didn't leave any food
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: or water inside. Twelve days at least could be longer
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: for all we know. Twelve days locked in a box
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: so stupid, Like obviously someone is gonna hop out of
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: that box, and it's just it's just so stupid. Look,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: it's a hook, it's a hook for the for the plee,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: but it's just so stupid. Uh Nikolai Cage and that's
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: a cool name. If Brock is in a qualifier next week,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: could Oba get involved and cost him the match? It
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: would be revenge for the rumble. No, Brock is not
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: wrestling on TV and Oba. There's no point in Noba
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: looking to get revenge because Oba Oba has been on
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: television since then, and Oba doesn't seem terribly angry about anything.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Oba has a multimillion dollar contract, two of them that
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: have been put in front of him from the two
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: general managers. He's too busy worrying about which brand he's
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: gonna sign with. We We've already moved beyond him having
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: any sort of animosity towards Brock for eliminating him. So
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: it just it doesn't work, super Pony. This show has
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: broken me. Tonight La has been feuding with the Vision
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: since June. It's fucking February. Stop with the hooded figure attacks.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: La Night has been feuding with the Vision for almost
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: a year. We just had groundhog Day a few weeks ago.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Every week on this show feels like groundhog Day. Electric feel.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: I was hard on the Vision last week, so I
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: want them to be fair and give them their flowers
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: this week. Thank you for shutting down the yeat chance,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: I said. The most shocking part of the show is
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: the Vision turning babyface and the opening segment on the show.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming. That was a nice surprise.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Joseph triple fraud only idea is masked men. He makes
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Russo look smart. Also new name, call him fall Guy,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: Theory little food pun. I've been calling him the fall
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: Guy since he came back. It's exactly what he is,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: but at least he gets to ride on the jet now.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: Lebryan starting to notice more that the crowds, especially in
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: the US, seem to be more quiet often. Why do
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: you feel this keeps recurring? You know, I could think
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: of a few reasons why. First of all, you don't know,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: we don't know how the audience has changed yet. With
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: the ticket prices being what they are, there are definitely
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: people who would normally come to these shows who just
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: are not coming to the shows anymore. They can't afford it.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: They can't afford it. The prices are too outrageous. They're
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: not paying it, they're not bringing their family to the show.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: So other people buy those tickets, people who are more
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: well off, right, they could afford the tickets. But I
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: feel like it's just it's just a different demographic. I
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: don't know, if they're just more casual, I don't know.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do think there are changes
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: that are happening right now because of the high ticket prices.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: But it's not just the ticket prices, right it's the
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: fact that creative sucks. It's not good right now. It's
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: not good. It's very boring, very uninspired, very paint by numbers.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: You're not giving people something to really cheer for and
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: get truly excited about. And so it's a combination of
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: those two things, and that has what I believe, has
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: led to these reactions being what they are. It's very noticeable.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: That's why I brought it up. This is not an
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: isolated thing where it's the city every now and then
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: that city. No, this is like a weekly occurrence. Now
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: you'll get the odd city where it's like, man, that
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: was a great crowd, but it seems to be few
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: and far between at this point, like the norm is
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: what you saw tonight. I don't even blame the fans
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: for it. It's not their fault. If the fans wanted
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: to cheer for something, it had something to really go
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: crazy for and cheer for and get excited about, they
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: would do it. But they don't. There's a message there.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Is it being received? I would hope so, I would hope.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: So see no indications so far that it's being received.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: But yes, it is very noticeable. All those people that would,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: you know, bring signs or would go crazy, and to me,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: those are the hardcore, die hard fans, and I do
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: feel like they're chasing a lot of them away now
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: if they just get replaced with somebody else who's willing
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: to pay those prices and wwe doesn't care. But to me,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: that's the heart and soul of your company. They are
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: killing the heart and soul of their company. Take with
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: a five dollars Australian super chow. When I first saw
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: the crate pull up, I'm now convinced vince is still
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: booking the show through Bruce or triple fraud, and nobody
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: is going to tell me otherwise. It is a very
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Vincey Vincey gimmick. Paul Van Summer and the crowd was
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: dead for aj Lee and Becky, not a grats and
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: not just aj Lee and Becky. Eventually the crowd will
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: be replaced by AI robots. You know what, I don't
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: think we're too far off from something like that, where
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: they can manipulate crowd reactions to be whatever they want
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: it to be. AI is advancing so fast, would you
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: really be all that surprise at some point if you know,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: even in like highlight packages and stuff, if they started
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: experimenting with that, would we even know the difference. If
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: the technology, even as it exists now, existed five or
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: six years ago when they were doing those COVID shows
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: in front of no people, I think they would be
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: toying around with AI and playing around with stuff like that.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: I think they'd be very tempted to try that. The
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: only thing is AI doesn't pay money for tickets. You
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: still have to get people to pay money to come
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: to the shows. AI ain't gonna help you there, Jedi
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Joker says, Yo Solo, what's up? Don't super chat much,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: but I do listen and watch. I work third shift,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: and the product is more digestible when I don't have
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: to watch and you cover it. Thank you for making
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: work fly by quick. Well that's why I'm here. I
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: watch so you don't have to if you don't want to,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: or if you want to, but you only want to
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: know about the good stuff. I'll let you know what's
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: good and what's not. A lot of people don't have time.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of wrestling, too much wrestling for some
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: people only so many hours in a day. They can't
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: watch it all, and so they rely on reviews and
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: you know, streams like this. Sometimes these streams are more
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: interesting than the television show for me too, And I'm
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: the one hosting it. Tonight I think is one of
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: those nights. But thank you, Jedi, I appreciate that. MGM
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: Ball and the heat on La Night went on for
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: so long because Triple xl knows was getting off to
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: him looking weak, so he forgot to give the ref
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: the que. Also possible he yieded himself during that entrance.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: Phil Bad Bunny in the Box, Yeah, I doubt that
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: there might be a bunny in there. Again, the bunny
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: would be dead at this point, but not bad Bunny,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Alex says brother solo. I'm currently watching Summer Slim ninety five,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: specifically the Undertaker and Godfather casket match, and I'm thoroughly
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: enjoying this show from thirty years ago more than today's raw,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: unreal shit. You and me both, I spend quite a
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: bit of time on the vault, and it's said, it
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: is said when you get more enjoyment out of watching
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: that stuff, then, like I see a new video pop up,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: and especially if it's like a rare one or like
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: a rare you know, coliseum video or something, and I'm like,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: like the joy that overcomes me. I wish, I wish,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: Like even going back like two years when they were
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: building to wrestle Mania of forty, we had weeks like
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: that where Yeah, I was truly excited to tune into
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: the show and see what was gonna happen, and I
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: missed that feeling. You know, we hear people, We've heard
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: people in the past, like with aw talk about restoring
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: the feeling right I wish we could restore the feeling
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: here too. I'm waiting for them to restore the feeling
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: right now. The feeling is not there. I have no feeling.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Uh Chicago for MBK says thank you for making this point.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: People like winners winning matters, And Natty doesn't even have
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: the crowd behind her like La Knight. No she does
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: not know she does not. But again, if you're gonna
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: have this woman undergo this character transformation again, they're just
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: they're so lazy with this stuff. It just drives me nuts.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Commit to it, commit to it, or don't do it,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: but they just ay half ass it. Okay, sure, we'll
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: change the music up a little bit, change a little
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: you know, the camera shop, we'll change that, will change this,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and then we'll proceed to book you exactly the way
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: we've always booked you and do absolutely nothing different, and
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: then wonder why nobody responds to it. Depv to Dust,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: I hate the Saint Louis Cardinals, me too, Phil So
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, when Hinske was facing Cody Rhodes,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: he got subtitles for his Japanese promos, But when Stephanie
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: speaks Spanish, we're supposed to figure it out. Apparently. Yeah,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: very weird because it went on for a while. It
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: wasn't like some throwaway lines. It was like at least
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: a minute long. And then her and Dom are just
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: sort of arguing, and I'm like, I'm looking live and
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Michael Cole and they'd have no fucking
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: idea what's going on, And I'm like, I don't know.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: I don't get it either. I don't know. But Phil,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: thank you for the nine ninety nine. It's very much appreciated. Doubles.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Can Gunther retire Dave Meltzer? Now that would be a
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: very interesting match Dave. Dave's probably got bigger arms than
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: some of the people on the actual WWE roster. I
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: wonder what a Dave Meltzer chop would look like. MGM Ballin.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Did we ignore that Penta was the one that took
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: out Gable Americano or am I missing something? No? Nope.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Gable talked about the rotator cuff injury being caused by Penton.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: He went away for a surgery and it's water under
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: the bridge. Now it's all good now, Kristen. Inside the
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: box is the Great Horned Rat or a v tuber
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: the Great Horned Rat like the rat King. You know,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: we had a giant box once on SmackDown many years ago.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: Undertaker was in his big evil phase and he opened it.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: And I want to say, was Brother Love in the box?
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: I know there was a dog. I remember there being
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: a dog. I don't remember. I think Brother Love was.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you imagine Brother Love? They put
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: fucking Bruce in the box. You keep them locked in there?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: My god, Brother Love is gonna pop out of the box.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: Was Kanyon, Chris Kanyon. It was a Teddy Bear and
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: a dog m it was a puppy in one and
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: Brother Love and it there were two boxes. Wow, they
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: had two boxes. And don't forget what Undertaker did to Kenya. No,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: I haven't forgotten that that chair shot. That was pretty sickening.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: The Great Collie is with us. So the cret Man
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: is either David Blaine doing a stunt or Chris Jericho's
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: decomposing cadaver laid in a heap with a half eaten
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: light up jacket. It would be funny if like one
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: of the lights of the jacket worked and it was
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: like flickering, very morbid. He dead, decompose corpse of Chris
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: Jericho inside the box at elimination chamber, Toya Ate Nice says,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: thank you, mass Man and looking forward to seeing Evans
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: in the chamber. Yes, I am too. Dried Chicken says
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: raw tonight is like having a sponge cake no icing
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Barry MK. What if the box is just about WWE
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: two K twenty six, Well, now that would be pretty
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: fucking stupid, wouldn't it. That would be very dumb. What
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: exactly would be in the box that would be related
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: to two K twenty six. I don't even understand what
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: would be in the box, Dried chickens says Michael ps
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Hazy likes these great ideas to know. He's on the squad. There,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: He's on the team. So I'm going to knock on
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: the BWE Creative teams door and give them some plain salad.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah you do that? They could probably use one. Blue
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: Jay says a shout out to JD from mentioning you
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: in the show with coach. Yeah, he was a coaching bro.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: I believe it was the show. But he sat in
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: on the show with coach Coachman the other day shout
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: out or a great show there, alex I'm gonna lose
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: it if inside the crate it ends up being the
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: revealing of the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal trophy. Yeah.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just trying to think, if it's not
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: a person, which again would be pretty silly, what sort
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: of object would be in the crate. I mean, a
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: trophy would actually kind of make sense, But I don't know.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. See, it is what they want. They
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: want people to be asking questions about this, and they
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: want people they want to drum up a discussion about it.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: So Alexander says, you'd think with all the non English
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: talent they hire, WWE would pay the best English teachers
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: for the talents. It would benefit vicaire EO, Julia, etc. Well,
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, as far as I know, I believe most,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: if not all, of them, I think, are already taking
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: English lessons and they may be doing it on their own,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: though I don't think they're doing it through WWE. But yeah,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: I mean with the emphasis on promos in this company,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: it's a priority, like when you're working for WWE more
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: than probably any other company out there. It's something where
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: it will hinder I feel like, your advancement if you're
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: not able to cut promos in English on TV. And
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: some people can get past it if they're like just
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: a super talent, super charismatic. Look at EO promos are
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: not great. You know, she does the best she can,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: but they're not they're not her strong suit. But she
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: gets over and people love her because she's just fucking
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: fun to watch and she's got this infectious positive personality
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: and she's super charismatic. Not everybody is like that, you know, Stephanie.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like Stephanie has struggled, and not just because
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: of that, I mean just it's it's still weird the
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: way they've they've booked her. She's had this championship now
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: for months. It's just been it's been very forgettable, you know,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: it's it's not been a great run. Super Pony La
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Night against Brocklesner in its entirety German German German BFT
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: Out of Nowhere, Kickout German, German German F five matchover Well,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: you just basically gave us the entire WrestleMania match. You've
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: spoiled WrestleMania super Pony. What is it is Evil in
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: the box from New Japan. They shipped him over to
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: the States. There. You take him. If they open that
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: crate and evil is in the crate, that's the reaction
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: if evil is in the crate. Cameron Spencer FBI was
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: my favorite group in the two thousands. They should have
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: been used as a top as the top group in WWA.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: Nunzio should have been a world champion and they could
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: have dominated. Now you see, this is a perfect example
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: of what happens when raw is shit. Unfortunately, you have
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: people like Cameron who hit the sauce a little early
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: in the night and drink a little too much, and
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: then they drop a super chat like that talking about
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: how the FBI should have been the top faction in WWA.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: Ravens Fan ninety four with a nine ninety nine. WWE's
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: number one problem is the fact that nothing is fun.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: There's nobody that makes you smile when you see them
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: on TV, like a Kelly Kelly or a Santino. I
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: know they're not the best wrestlers, but they were fun characters. Well,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: somebody just mentioned him in the chat. You know who
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: was fun. Not a top guy or anything like that,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: but you know who's fun and probably is going to
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: be coming to WWE, Dan Housen. Dan Housen can be
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: pretty fun. I think Dan Hausen is in the crate.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: You know that is a possibility. His contract is supposed
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: to be up around now. Dan Housen is a very
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: real possibility. Navy forty one eighty one. Vince McMahon wrote
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: storylines thanks to creative control. Triple H write storylines thanks
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: to Control C. Well said, well, control C and then
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: control V. I wish I could control all delete this show.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: Bret Hart Vicaire said that wrestling in Chile doesn't exist.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: I've been working with wrestlers for years, and wrestling has
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: a rich history here, going back to the dictatorship days.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: Go to Hell. Stephanie, Oh you are there? Are you there? Okay?
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: So wait a minute, Wait a minute, held, I is
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: second here. So are you in Chile? Is that what
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: you're saying? Okay? So he takes great offense to Stephanie,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: saying that there was no wrestling in Chile. He says,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: go to hell, Stephanie Wow, take is very personal. Johnson
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: cameo eighteen says, what's Gucci solo? What happened with Raquel?
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Feeling some type of way about how Live did her?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: I remember Liv used to slap her and Raquel did nothing.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: Wwe needs to progress story and characters better now. But
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: this is another issue we did Triple H way of booking,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: and the judgment Day is a perfect example of this.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: Not only Raquel and Live, Finn and dom He has
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: teased and teased and dragged it out for so long,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: all in the name of cinema, right, they're telling stories now.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: The problem is they take too long telling some of
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: these stories, and they dragged them out for so long
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: that by the time you get to them, if you
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: ever get the payoff, by the time you get to
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: the payoff, it's like, well, you've already you've already jumped
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: the shark with it. You know, you've waited too long.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: That's one of the issues I've also had with Triple
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: H's booking. Well, there'll be like a television program. We
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: kind of saw that with Damian Priest and Alistair Black,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: where it just it didn't work anyway, It didn't work
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of it. It just by the time
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: it was over, nobody was any more over than they
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: were when it first started. But it just went on
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: for just weeks and weeks, weeks and weeks and weeks,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: and I look sometimes I look at this stuff and
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why, you know why? This is not fun?
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: This is not interesting? Can't tell me that this is
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: the best you can come up with here? Devin with
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: a nine ninety nine says, why did WWE use the
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: exact same fake crowd noises for years, especially on taped
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: episodes of SmackDown? Didn't vince care how to stray acting
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: and unauthentic? It was apparently not you know what? I notice? Also,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: I notice even when I go back and watch some
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: of the old stuff from like the eighties and nineties
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: that I love, But if you go back and watch
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: those syndicated shows or even some Saturday Nights made events
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: that weren't live, you can tell. It's a lot more
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: noticeable now that I'm older and I'm not watching it
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: as a as a young child, that those crowds, that
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: those crowd reactions in many cases were piped in, they
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: were sweet. Because the telltale sign is watching the show
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: and you can hear the noise and then you look
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: at the crowd and they're just sitting on their hands.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: They're sitting still, they're not clapping, they're not moving, they're
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: not cheering, and it's like, eh, okay, it's very noticeable
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: now and I go back and watch. But then you
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: also have other shows where like you could see the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: crowd and they're moving and they're jumping up and down
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: and they're screaming their heads off, and I'm like, man,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: what happened to those crowds? You know, somebody mentioned the
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: vault before and they uploaded a match. This was like
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: within the last week or two. Never saw it before.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: This is what I love the vault for. And it
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: was a dark match at the end of probably a
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: long marathon taping the very first episode of Wrestling Challenge.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: It was at that taping, so it didn't air on TV,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: but it was hul Cogan and the Junkyard Dog against
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: Paul Orndorf and I want to say Adrian Adonis and
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: holy shit, the crowd for this match was unbelievable. And
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: I'm watching this and I'm like, man, like, where have
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: these crowds gone? You know, like it's just it's depressing,
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: like what happened to that? And then I'll pop over
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: to the WCW channel because they have their own content
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: over there, and they uploaded a match recently from the
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: Power Hour and I want to say maybe it was
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: eighty nine, and it was. I mentioned this the other day.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: It was it had to be right before Sting got
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: kicked out of the Horsemen and it was Sting, Flare
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: and Arn against the Great Muda, the dragon Master and
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: Buzzsawyer and I don't know where they were. I want
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: to say they were in Tennessee or you know, one
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: of these like Midwestern states. And again, this crowd was
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: just it was so electric. It wasn't like the biggest building,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: but the crowd was so loud and so electric, like
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: I would want to run there every week. It was incredible.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: And it almost ruins watching these shows now when you
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: go back and you watch matches and shows like that
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: that have that kind of investment from the crowd. And
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: I understand. It was also a different time and people
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: just you know, kfabe was still a thing and k
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: fabe now was fucking dead. I mean, you're watching the show,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: you'll see it Bazilion ads for fucking Unreal season two,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: and you know it's just it's just different now. But yeah,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: you know when you watch a show like the One tonight,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: it's very noticeable. It really is. It really is the
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: Winston slip your most controversial pro wrestling take. I don't know.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: I felt like I got a lot of pushback when
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: I said that the first iron Man match between Brett
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: Hart and Shawn Michaels is very overrated, which I believe
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: it is. Like if I had to rank what I
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: feel are my favorite or like the best iron Man matches,
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not even top three. It may not
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: even be top five, honestly, but it's it's definitely not
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: top three. Like there's no way I'm ranking that Ironman
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: match ahead of Rock and Triple H or MJF and
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: Brian Danielson. It's like, I'm not, I'm not doing it, U,
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: Super Pony. If Evil is in the crate, everything is
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: in fact Evil. See what I did there? You thought
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: that was a really good one and you put that together,
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: didn't you. I bet you're proud of that one. Karate
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: Chop Shop says, we thought it was real then now
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: we are just watching a poor stage show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: I mean we were younger too, to be fair, but
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know, there were a lot of adults who
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: were going nuts in those crowds. It wasn't just kids.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, they just they had a way to make
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: you believe. You know, it's always been a show, especially
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: back then with the ridiculous gimmicks and everything that Vince
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: was doing. But they just they had a way to
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: make you believe, you know, and when that goes away,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: and it's one of the reasons why, Like there are
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: people who work for WWE who have said, like they
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: hate Unreal. They don't want to have anything to do
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: with it. They don't like it. They hate it because
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: it just it pulls the curtain back in ways that
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: they wish they couldn't. But honestly, even before Unreal, the
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: curtain was pulled back so much. When you give so
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: much away, it does take away so many of those
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: elements when they kind of smack you in the face
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: with it, And I think that's a very big part
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: of it. But you also, you know, you can't ignore
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: the creative, you know, issues that they've had. It all
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: comes down to story. It really does. You find the
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: right people to tell the right story, and you will
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: be rewarded. The fans will reward you. I believe that,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: and you'll get crowds that want to, you know, cheer
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: their heads off and go nuts. Of course, these days
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: it's you know, this is awesome, you deserve it. And
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: the crowds themselves are very different than the crowds from
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: back then. Crowds have changed totally, just a totally different
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: fan base now. But again, just find the right story,
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: find the right people, and you will be rewarded. It's
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: all about making it fun. That will never change a
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Ravens fan. And before anybody says anything, look how Joshi
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: wrestlers named Kelly Kelly is their favorite wrestler. And remember
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: the reactions Santino got when he won the Battle Royal
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: in twenty twelve before the Chamber. I don't remember Kelly
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: Kelly being a big thing. Santino was a beloved figure,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: though I'm not surprised about that. Were there a lot
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: of Joshie wrestlers who named Kelly Kelly is their favorite wrestler?
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: What was it about Kelly Kelly that made her their
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: favorite wrestler? I find that very hard to believe. Like
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: when I think of the Joshi style of wrestling, I
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: don't think of Kelly Kelly. Kelly Kelly ever had a
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: match like that. Bred Hart, What do you know about
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: the history of Hogan's mysterious uh bother He's I think
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: he meant brother Horace's dad. Yeah, they said Horace was
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: his nephew. I don't. I don't know anything that everyone
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: was Hogan's brother. I mean he called everybody brother. It
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: could be anybody. Everybody was brother. It's a hul Cogan,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: So Horace could have many fathers. Uh, super pony. Out
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: of these four, who do you think would do best
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: in ae W Kevin Owens, Sammy's Ain, Finn Balor Chad
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: Gable Kevin Owens. I think they'd all do well, but
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: uh Kevin Owens. And bring back russev Day with Lana. No,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: we don't need we don't need Lana back. Russev Da
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: was a thing. It came and went, it was ruined.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: You can't bring it back. It's over and done. You
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: got to you gotta find something new. Don't just go
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: back to the old. You gotta find something new. It
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: was rusev Day before now it could be something different.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we smashed the gold tonight, which was
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: was it three p fifty? I believe we are at
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: five eighty one, and actually we're eleven out of fifteen
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: on the bonus goal. If we want to get bonus,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: be the booker. But we're gonna get at least the
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: one round. So let's do it, ladies and gentlemen. It
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker, at at least
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: the one round coming your way. Yes, Russev was wearing
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: a Rusev Dae or like happy rusevde shirt under his
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: jacket tonight. I don't know if that was a hint
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: of anything. Probably not. All right, here we go. Well,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: speaking of brother, brother, brother, Look who pops up on
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: screen Hulk Hogan and Brutus the Barber Beefcake, whereas they
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: called him when he came back from his parasailing accident,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: Brutus the Bionic Barber Beefcake. This is the Mega Maniacs.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: This is Hogan after he deflated. Compare Hogan from nineteen
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: ninety to Hulk Hogan in nineteen ninety three, and it
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: almost looks like two different people. It'll be the Mega
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Maniacs against the outsiders Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Look
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: at this, the entire nWo, the original nWo represented in
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: this match, and then you have the Disciple, So technically
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: we have four nWo members in this match. The Disciple
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: was a member of the nWo. All right, women's be
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: the booker. We begin with. Boy, have we seen her
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: since the incident with doctor Britt Baker. I don't know
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: if we have. That might have been the last time
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: we actually saw her on TV with the professor over here. Hmm, yeah,
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: I don't remember seeing her after that. And she will
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: be taking on ev or Dakota Kai. I guess. I mean,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: if you want to use her WWE name Dakota Kai,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: that'd be a good match. Dakota Kai and Serena Deep.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: It'd be a good wrestling match. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Yeah, nobody cares. We haven't seen
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: Britt Baker since then. Nobody cares. It's funny how that
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: worked out. We haven't seen Camille. I have a theory
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: about this. I have a theory that there is a
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: room somewhere at the offices there in Jacksonville, like in
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: the basement somewhere where all of these women are just
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: like chained to the wall or something. It's like something awful.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: You got Serena down there, Camille is down there, Britt
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: Baker is down there. It's terrible, all right. In the
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: main event, it is Triple H with his two belts here.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: Of course he's got two belts in his hand, Triple
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: H in the main event. He ain't working the show
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: unless he's in the main event. We know that Triple
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: H against Rob Van Damn. Oh, it's a sweet you
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: gotta bust out. The sonic emojis brand new in the chat.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: Although we know how this main event is gonna go,
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: it is not gonna end well for Rob Damn. We
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: know who has taken the pin in this match. There's
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: really no mystery to it. And the Mount Vernon kids
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: says My buddies and I have always jokingly said, man,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: sometimes ww we needs to hire some of these big
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: time comic book writers to tell better stories. Yeah, it's interesting, Yeah,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: we've heard them. We've heard stories of them in the past.
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: Bring in writers from Hollywood, from TV soap opera writers.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know how often they would have hired comic
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: book writers, or if they ever have hired comic book
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: writers for their writing team, it might not be a
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: bad idea, especially now the hell do they have to lose?
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, bring a couple of them in. They may
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: do some good. Do not hire comic book writers for
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: Spider Man. Those people ruin everything. Comic book writers suck nowadays,
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: is that true? That's too bad. I used to collect comics.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: I had the Archie comics, but then I had Spider Man.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: And what else did I have? Well, they had to oh,
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: the Ninja Turtle comics. I had RoboCop Robo. There was
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: a series of RoboCop comics I still have, I still have,
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: and it was all the twenty ninety nine comics, Spider Man,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: twenty ninety nine, Punisher, twenty ninety nine, Doom Silver Surfer.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: So tomorrow, let's do some housekeeping here, just to let
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: you guys know, Tomorrow is gonna be episode two. That'll
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: be Uncrowned Wrestling Show. That'll be over on the Ariel
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: Hellwanee Show feed wherever you get your podcast from, from
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports, the Uncrowned Wrestling Show, and the one hosting
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: is this guy right here, and we're going to talk
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: about some of the key stories of the week and
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: some other stories that maybe I did not cover on
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: the sound off. It's gonna be a good time. It
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: should be about an hour or so, so if you
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: want some wrestling, that'll be coming your way tomorrow later
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: in the day. Show will drop some time, probably early
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: to mid evening tomorrow. So we'll got a huge response
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: to the first episode and the announcement and everything you
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: guys were were awesome. I got so many messages about that,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: so let's do it up big. Episode two is tomorrow.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: But also what I'm also very excited about is coming
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: up on Friday. This is the reason why there will
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: be no live SmackDown review this week. I will be
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: at the NYC Arena for this House of Glory, no
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: turning back. Now it's official. MJF is defending the AW
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: World Championship. This is only the second time that the
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: AW World title is being defended by MJF on the
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: independent scene, and I believe this will be the second
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: time the AW World title is defended in House of Glory,
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: because previously we had swer of Strickland defending the title,
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: but MJF is putting his title on the line against
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: Zilla FA II, And if you didn't see the promo
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: that MJF cut on Zilla the other day, you got
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: to go check that out. He laced into him as
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: a hell of a promo. And Andrede Ledlo will be
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: on the show and he will be challenging for the
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: hog World Championship. And Androde, I mean, he lost a
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: hangman on Saturday. But Andrede has been on one hell
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: of a role. He is putting in legitimately the best
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: work of his career right now, and it's been fun
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: to see. So all that and a lot more Friday night,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: seven o'clock Eastern. This is the order page right here
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: on the Triller TV site. See the countdown clock right there.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: So if you can't be there live in the building,
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: you can order it and watch it live on Triller TV.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: And I'll be back on commentary for this show, so
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: very much looking for Friday is going to be a
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: Friday's going to be in a good night. It's gonna
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: be a very very interesting night. I'll just say that.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: Let me see here if we have any others that
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: we missed. Believe we are all caught up. I'm just
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: checking for the milestones. They'll pop up after. I don't
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: know why they're not listed here. It's typical YouTube, typical YouTube.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: It's entirely possible though. By the end of the week,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: Zilofa two could be your new aw World champion. Hey,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: take it from me. Sometimes strange things happen in wrestling.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Anything is possible anyway. That's on Friday night. I mentioned Uncrowned,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: that'll be dropping tomorrow and I'll still be live big
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: show Tomorrow night live on YouTube eight thirty Eastern, myself
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: and JD. Tuesday Night Titans and the Dynamite post show
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: coming up on Wednesday. That's got a big match too,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: Kenny Omega against Swerve Strickland one on one this Wednesday
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: night and a face to face between Hangman and MJF.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: So a lot of wrestling, a lot of good shit
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: coming up this week. I hope you will join me
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: for all of it. So I'm going to get out
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: of here. I got Uncrowned to do in the morning.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: your night. Thank you for all of the support tonight,
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: and I hope to see you tomorrow for Uncrowned and
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: for some TNT. Until then, take care, guys, what's in
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: the box,