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WWE Smackdown 11/14/25 Review | THREE HOURS RETURNING!? Plus, Former WWE Star Returns! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1: You know, I was actually having a pretty good day.
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Speaker 1: I saw a little teaser from wrestle Votes that they
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Speaker 1: were going to have some news later in the day,
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Speaker 1: news that was going to make some people want to
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Speaker 1: tear their hair out, and I said, oh, this should
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Speaker 1: be interesting. So then I tuned in and went over
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Speaker 1: to my feed late in the afternoon, I saw the
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Speaker 1: update which you saw in that graphic there at the
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Speaker 1: very beginning of the stream, that in fact, on January second, Buffalo,
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Speaker 1: New York will play host to the first SmackDown of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, and that SmackDown will be three hours long.
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Speaker 1: But not only on January second. The show is moving
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Speaker 1: back to three hours starting at the beginning of the year,
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Speaker 1: and it will run through WrestleMania season and very likely
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Speaker 1: will run at least through June at least. So three
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Speaker 1: hour Smackdowns are back, coming off of last week when
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Speaker 1: I absolutely lost my mind over that show that they
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Speaker 1: gave us on Friday, and I cannot believe that I
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Speaker 1: might be sitting here in a few months reminiscing about
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Speaker 1: the good old days. This right now, what we are
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Speaker 1: in right now, this being the good old days of SmackDown.
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Speaker 1: I just can't. I can't wrap my head around that.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if there's going to be the
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Speaker 1: new annual thing. We're going into the Rumble and WrestleMania.
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Speaker 1: They add another hour onto the show, and you know,
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Speaker 1: for the most part, there are a lot of people
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Speaker 1: who obviously do not like this decision. There were people
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Speaker 1: who loved the decision and who think, oh, this is great,
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Speaker 1: this is great, more time for talent on this show.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm floored by some of these reactions
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Speaker 1: because to me, and I'm going to get more into
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Speaker 1: this on Sunday, but to me, maybe I'm crazy. The
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Speaker 1: issue here is not one of oh, this show is
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Speaker 1: not long enough. That's not the issue here. This is
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Speaker 1: what some people don't really understand. The issue is not
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Speaker 1: that the show is not long enough. The issue is
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Speaker 1: that in the time that they have for this show
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Speaker 1: each week, in the two hours that they are given
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Speaker 1: every Friday on USA on SmackDown, they are not making
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Speaker 1: the most of the time that they have. And this
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Speaker 1: idea that the show cannot be as good as it
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Speaker 1: can be unless we have three hours, that it's not
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Speaker 1: possible for SmackDown to be all that it could be.
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Speaker 1: Unless the show is expanded by another sixty minutes. Is
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Speaker 1: just it blows my mind that this is how some
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Speaker 1: people think. And I really think people have been brainwashed.
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Speaker 1: I really do. I think there's a lot of newer fans.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of younger fans who didn't
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Speaker 1: become fans of WWE until the last decade, right ten, twelve,
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, and so they have been conditioned by three
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Speaker 1: hour raws that we had for so many years to
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Speaker 1: believe that this is the way that wrestling shows should be,
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Speaker 1: That the show has to be three hours, and if
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Speaker 1: it's not well, then it can't possibly be as great
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Speaker 1: as it can be. And it is just such flawed
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Speaker 1: logic to me. My philosophy is very simple. If two
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Speaker 1: hours is not enough for you to put out a
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Speaker 1: consistently good television show and you feel the need to
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Speaker 1: expand that show in order to make it good, you're
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Speaker 1: doing something wrong. Something is very wrong in that situation.
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Speaker 1: Because I don't know about you, but I grew up
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Speaker 1: for a very long time watching wrestling shows that were
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Speaker 1: two hours every single week, in some cases, wrestling shows
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Speaker 1: that were not even two hours, and there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of really good ones in there. There were some
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Speaker 1: shitty ones, but there were a lot of really good
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Speaker 1: wrestling shows in there. Two hours is more than enough
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Speaker 1: time two and a half if you watch Raw on
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Speaker 1: Monday nights, to tell stories that are compelling, to tell
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Speaker 1: stories that are interesting, and to tell stories that people
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Speaker 1: are going to want to tune in the following week
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Speaker 1: to watch, and to rotate talent in and out, even
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Speaker 1: if they're not on the show consistently every single week.
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Speaker 1: That's okay because not everybody has to be on every
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Speaker 1: single show. And I don't know why some people are
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Speaker 1: incapable of admitting the WWE has done a very poor
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Speaker 1: job these last several months when it comes to SmackDown
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Speaker 1: more so than Raw. Raw also has weeks where it's
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Speaker 1: like eh. But for the most part, Raw it feels
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Speaker 1: like it's a show that's being written by a completely
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Speaker 1: different writing team. It feels like Raw is in a
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Speaker 1: totally different universe on most weeks as compared to what
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Speaker 1: we see on Friday nights. And I don't really understand why,
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Speaker 1: but this is where we are right now. A show
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Speaker 1: that at one point was the A show and not
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Speaker 1: all that long ago, has been anything but so excuse
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Speaker 1: me if I'm sitting here and I'm not terribly excited
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Speaker 1: about the news that this show is going to expand
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Speaker 1: and get even longer in a few months, because there
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Speaker 1: are some very very big changes that need to be
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Speaker 1: made to smack Down before I will ever get excited
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Speaker 1: about getting more smacked Down. Now. I am of the impression,
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Speaker 1: I am of the belief, I am of the opinion.
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Speaker 1: I've always said this that there is no wrestling show.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what company, I don't care a quality
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Speaker 1: of the show. There is no wrestling show that needs
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Speaker 1: to be three hours long every single week. I've always
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Speaker 1: been consistent about that, and I still feel that way.
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Speaker 1: But if WWE, if USA network, whoever made the call,
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Speaker 1: might have been a USA call, But it doesn't matter, right,
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Speaker 1: WWE loves getting the extra content. Reality of the situation
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Speaker 1: is this, This is going to happen, and we're all
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Speaker 1: going to be tuned in because we're heading into Rumble season,
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Speaker 1: We're heading into WrestleMania season, right, That's part of the
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Speaker 1: reason why this is happening. I don't know what that
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Speaker 1: means for braun stroman show that's on after SmackDown. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's the off season for the show because he just
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Speaker 1: got informed that his show was renewed, I believe or
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Speaker 1: or no, No, it wasn't rendered. I'm sorry. He was celebrating
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Speaker 1: the ratings went up for the most recent episode and
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Speaker 1: he was hoping the show would get renewed. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what this means for the Stroman show that airs
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Speaker 1: immediately after Smack. This is going to happen. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: anybody can do about it. And what I would like
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Speaker 1: to see what has to happen. Changes have to be
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Speaker 1: made to this show. You watch the show every week.
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Speaker 1: You know where the weaknesses are, You know where the
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Speaker 1: holes are in the show. You know where they need
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Speaker 1: to shore up the roster. You can tell just by
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Speaker 1: watching the show consistently every single week what a lot
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Speaker 1: of those changes are that need to be made. The
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Speaker 1: women's division, right, tag team division, We're going in circles
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Speaker 1: with a lot of the same faces over and over
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Speaker 1: and over again. It's been a long time since we've
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Speaker 1: had any kind of roster shakeup on this show. A
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Speaker 1: move here and there, but that's not enough. Lash Legend
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Speaker 1: called up from NXT to the main roster last week. Great,
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Speaker 1: that's not enough. Major changes have to be made, and
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Speaker 1: if this move helps facilitate those changes, then great. But
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Speaker 1: I have been given no reason to have fate that
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Speaker 1: this grand change is going to wash over SmackDown overnight.
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Speaker 1: It's going to take time. It has to happen. We
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Speaker 1: cannot get this show that we are seeing now every
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Speaker 1: single week but with a few extra MFT segments sprinkled in.
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Speaker 1: I can't do it. I can't do There's a wall
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Speaker 1: over here, a perfectly good wall, and bang my head
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Speaker 1: against the wall. Changes need to be made to this show.
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Speaker 1: The only good thing that could come out of this
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Speaker 1: is if it forces them to make those changes. But
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Speaker 1: it all goes back to creative. So again, don't assume
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Speaker 1: that just because the show is moving to three hours
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Speaker 1: it means that everything's going to be great again, because
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Speaker 1: at one time when the show was three hours, it
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Speaker 1: was actually really good. It comes down to the writing
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Speaker 1: and the creative and what you are doing with the
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Speaker 1: talent that you have on the show. But the talent, again,
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Speaker 1: there's so many different areas of this show that need
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Speaker 1: to be improved upon, fixed, shaken up. That's my hope.
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Speaker 1: That's really all we can do is sit and wait
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Speaker 1: and hope that the show improves on its own so
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Speaker 1: that when the show gets longer, it'll be easier to digest.
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Speaker 1: I'll have a lot more to say about the three
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Speaker 1: hour stuff on the podcast this weekend, but that's my
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Speaker 1: thoughts on three hours. Not happy about it because this
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Speaker 1: show is in dire need of help. Hopefully they get
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Speaker 1: the help it needs. But tonight it was two hours.
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Speaker 1: We're not there yet. We still have several weeks before
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Speaker 1: the show moves to the three hour format. Cody Rhades
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Speaker 1: defended his WWE Championship on the show tonight. Didn't you
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Speaker 1: know that? It was unannounced, It was an impromptu match,
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Speaker 1: It was made earlier in the night. He defended his
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Speaker 1: title against Bronson Reid, who was not a contracted SmackDown talent.
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Speaker 1: But that was the main event and boy, you know,
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Speaker 1: Cody comes out first, then Bronson the challenger comes out next,
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Speaker 1: and it didn't feel like a WWE championship match. It
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Speaker 1: was very cold, not a lot of enthusiasm for it,
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Speaker 1: and honestly, it was more of an angle than a match.
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Speaker 1: The match got thrown out dq. They never bother announcing
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Speaker 1: the actual finishes to these matches, but the match was
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Speaker 1: thrown out. When the other members of the Vision team
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Speaker 1: Vision heading into Survivor Series, they came out, including the
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Speaker 1: newest edition to the Heel team at Survivor Series, Drew McIntyre,
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Speaker 1: the same Drew McIntyre who was suspended by Nick allD
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Speaker 1: this one week ago. So it lasted all of a week.
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Speaker 1: But yes, Drew McIntyre is now back, and now that
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Speaker 1: leaves one spot open on the heel side. On the
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Speaker 1: baby face side, we pretty much know what the Wargames
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Speaker 1: team now is going to be. Cody Road, seem Punk,
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Speaker 1: Jay Usso. We already knew about them. They're in there.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Usso has added his name to the list. That
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Speaker 1: leaves one spot open on the men's Wargames team, and
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Speaker 1: g I wonder who's going to fill that spot in?
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Speaker 1: Perhaps we'll find out of Madison Square Garden this Monday.
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Speaker 1: Who oh, who oh? Who is missing from TV right now?
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Speaker 1: Who could help fill in a spot on the babyface side?
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Speaker 1: I wonder? Yeah, so the babyface side is complete. The
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Speaker 1: only thing we need to find out, really honestly, is
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Speaker 1: who takes the fifth and final spot on the heel side.
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Speaker 1: And I think we have a pretty good sense of
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Speaker 1: who that's probably going to end up being. Paul Hayman
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Speaker 1: has a friend he'll call in a favor, and there's
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Speaker 1: j Men's War Games match. And one of the things
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Speaker 1: they did on the show tonight, which by the way,
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Speaker 1: was marginally better than last week's show. I know that's
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Speaker 1: a very low bar, but it was a better show
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Speaker 1: than last week. Not great, but it was a better
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Speaker 1: show than last week. But what they did tonight was
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Speaker 1: take steps to help fill the gaps in some of
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Speaker 1: the gaps anyway, in terms of the war Games matches
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Speaker 1: coming up at Survivor Series. So on the women's side,
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Speaker 1: they actually injected some drama into things because all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, even though they were all standing united at
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Speaker 1: the end of Raw Monday night, Charlotte Flair realized, Hey,
10:49
Speaker 1: you know what I just remembered. I don't like you
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Speaker 1: Ria Ripley. I don't like you, I don't trust you,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want a team with you. So we
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Speaker 1: had Charlotte Flair walking out on her teammates, which means
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Speaker 1: that they are in need now of not just one
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Speaker 1: but two partners now because it is going to be
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Speaker 1: five on five. And the reason they did that is
11:07
Speaker 1: because they have a few weeks left until the PL
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Speaker 1: and they want to build some drama an intrigue. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair is going to be in wargames now. We
11:14
Speaker 1: have to wait and see what it takes to bring
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Speaker 1: her back into the fold, so that is why they
11:19
Speaker 1: shot that angle tonight. We also had two more matches
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Speaker 1: tonight in the John Cena Last Time Is Now tournament,
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Speaker 1: including the return of a former WWE superstar the return
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Speaker 1: of a former WWE Intercontinental Champion on the show tonight
11:38
Speaker 1: to wrestle La Knight. We had another United States Championship
11:42
Speaker 1: Open challenge with Ilia Dragonov putting his title on the line,
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Speaker 1: still consistently the best thing on this show. And we
11:49
Speaker 1: are getting a traditional five on five Survivor Series elimination
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Speaker 1: style match, not at Survivor Series, but they are suscitating
12:00
Speaker 1: the old traditional Survivor Series elimination format, which is something
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Speaker 1: that I was hoping Triple H would start doing. I
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Speaker 1: think doing one traditional match on the actual pl each
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Speaker 1: year would be cool. They've chosen to do it on
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Speaker 1: TV the night before. At least we're getting one. I
12:19
Speaker 1: can't say that the lineup is terribly exciting, but I
12:23
Speaker 1: was hoping we would at least get one. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about how they set things up on that end tonight
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Speaker 1: as we get into this two hour edition of SmackDown.
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Speaker 1: It is Friday night, November fourteenth, twenty twenty five. I
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Speaker 1: am the Solemn Monster. Thank you for spending your Friday
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Speaker 1: like hit those buttons. We are celebrating eighteen years of
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Speaker 1: the sound off all November long. You guys have been
12:51
Speaker 1: killing it so far. We're almost basically halfway through the
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Speaker 1: month already, and before we get into this review, I
12:58
Speaker 1: needed to this up and show you guys something because
13:02
Speaker 1: this was going around today. I saw this and I
13:05
Speaker 1: didn't think it was real at first, but then I
13:07
Speaker 1: laughed my ass off when I realized that it actually was.
13:11
Speaker 1: Ye know, the last time that I visited the Empire
13:15
Speaker 1: State and I live in New York my whole life,
13:18
Speaker 1: so of course the Empire State Building is in New York.
13:20
Speaker 1: The last time I visited the Empire State Building Observatory.
13:23
Speaker 1: It's funny because I actually remember exactly the day that
13:29
Speaker 1: I went up there and visited the observatory, because it
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Speaker 1: was June of twenty ten, And the reason I remember
13:34
Speaker 1: that is because it was a Monday Night Funny enough,
13:37
Speaker 1: it was a special three hour episode of Monday Night Raw,
13:41
Speaker 1: but it was the night that the Nexus attacked John
13:43
Speaker 1: Cena in the main event, right, one of the more
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Speaker 1: memorable angles in Raw history. I made it home just
13:48
Speaker 1: in time to see that whole thing play out. And
13:53
Speaker 1: I can tell you that what I'm about to show
13:55
Speaker 1: you definitely wasn't there, because this is going back again
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Speaker 1: fifteen years. But this this is actually in the Empire
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Speaker 1: State Building and they have this as part of a
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Speaker 1: whole display of different items. This is a WWE replica
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Speaker 1: Championship belt. Now, I want to draw your attention to
14:16
Speaker 1: the placard in the lower left corner of your screen.
14:19
Speaker 1: There you see it says WrestleMania thirty five has a
14:22
Speaker 1: few wrestler names on there, Becky Lynch, Daniel Bryan. But
14:29
Speaker 1: then I will point out to you the name in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the name plate where it says Boble Lashly. Yes, yes,
14:43
Speaker 1: Boble Lashly. What the fuck is a Bobly Lashly? Can
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Speaker 1: somebody plays explay this to me? And how this wasn't
14:52
Speaker 1: noticed to have this hasn't been fixed because apparently this
14:56
Speaker 1: has been this has been up for a while apparently,
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Speaker 1: or again again it wasn't there when I was last
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Speaker 1: up in the observatory. But I don't know bobbly. Now. Look,
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Speaker 1: if AW doesn't jump on this and start marketing some
15:11
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashley bobbleheads and calling them bobbly lashly, then I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the fuck we're doing here. But then again,
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Speaker 1: I don't understand how they haven't started selling those monette puppets,
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Speaker 1: even if they're just you know, cheap material bobbly. Look,
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Speaker 1: I think it could always be worse, right, it could
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Speaker 1: have been blobbly, could have been blobby lashly. Can you imagine?
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Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't get it. Man, you had one job.
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Speaker 1: The disrespect is just unbelievable. Bobbly lashly, it's ridiculous, all right.
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Speaker 1: They recap enough of that. They recap the end of Raw.
15:55
Speaker 1: On Monday night, when the Kabooki Warriors won the women's
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Speaker 1: tag team titles, we had the return of Rhea, Ripley
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Speaker 1: and Eosky. They came out to make the save and
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Speaker 1: so that was where Ria said war games and we
16:08
Speaker 1: had a sense of what the Women's war Games match
16:11
Speaker 1: was going to be at Survivor Series. Why those three names, Leopoldo,
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Speaker 1: That's a great question. I have no idea. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why they selected Becky Lynch, bob Le Lashley and
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Speaker 1: Daniel Bryan's. That is very weird. I don't even remember
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Speaker 1: bob Lee Lashley had a match at Wrestle Mini at
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Speaker 1: thirty five. Was even on the card? I was there,
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Speaker 1: I should know. I don't even remember. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: him having a match. That's all I'm going to think
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Speaker 1: now when I see him on TV like a bobblehead
16:41
Speaker 1: bobb Ley Lashley. Anyway, Eosky and Rhea Ripley, they were
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Speaker 1: the first ones out to the ring. Rhea said the
16:51
Speaker 1: Kabuki Warriors thought that they were untouchable since she's been
16:55
Speaker 1: out with a broken nose. If you add Naya Jackson
16:58
Speaker 1: lash Legends in the mix. They think they have the
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Speaker 1: numbers advantage, but all they've ended up with are more enemies.
17:06
Speaker 1: Eo said, making enemies always catches up to you, and
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Speaker 1: then she shouted war game. Everyone loves doing that. Everyone's
17:13
Speaker 1: got to shout war games at the top of their lungs.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, poor Bobby, did he face Balor on that show,
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Speaker 1: Demon Balor, Are you sure about that? God, I have
17:30
Speaker 1: no memory of this. Bobby Bobby Lashley wrestled Finn Balor
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Speaker 1: at Wrestle MANI at thirty five. Like I was in
17:40
Speaker 1: the building that night. I have no recollection of this whatsoever.
17:44
Speaker 1: I know they stuck a match in there kind of
17:46
Speaker 1: last minute between Roman Reigns and Drew MacIntyre because Roman
17:50
Speaker 1: had just come back. He had been, you know, in
17:53
Speaker 1: remission from the leukemia, so he came back kind of
17:56
Speaker 1: close to many. I remember that Kofe right, Kofe Mania,
17:59
Speaker 1: the women's main event, Randy Orton and aj Styles. I
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Speaker 1: remember all that. That's a match I don't remember. Apparently
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Speaker 1: it didn't leave a very big impression on me. Ria
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Speaker 1: then introduced two of their teammates for Wargames Outcomes, Charlotte
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Speaker 1: Flair and Alexa Bliss. Alexi said, the Kabooki Warriors, Naya
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Speaker 1: and lash they started it, We're going to finish it.
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Speaker 1: The second that Ria said Wargames on Monday, she knew
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Speaker 1: they were in. Charlotte then told Ria, look, I can't
18:32
Speaker 1: I can't do this. I can't pretend anymore. She says,
18:37
Speaker 1: I don't like you, I don't trust you. I think
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Speaker 1: you're a snake. Charlotte said that there was too much
18:45
Speaker 1: history between them to look past it. She told Alexa, look,
18:48
Speaker 1: if you want to do it, you can, but you're
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Speaker 1: going to have to count me out. And with that,
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Speaker 1: Charlotte left the ring and she walked to the back,
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Speaker 1: and everybody in the ring was confused. I was confused
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Speaker 1: because why would you wait? I'm thinking about this in
19:03
Speaker 1: like k fape sends, why would you wait until you're
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Speaker 1: live on TV four days later to then blow the
19:07
Speaker 1: whole fucking thing up? But that's Charlotte. So now they
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Speaker 1: are down a teammate for wargames. It was very awkward
19:15
Speaker 1: how they did this, Like Charlotte just walked out and
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Speaker 1: that was it. They just cut to the announcers, and
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Speaker 1: the announcers were kind of flustered, and then they just
19:21
Speaker 1: previewed what was coming up tonight on SMACKDOWNE. That was it. Now,
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Speaker 1: later in the show, in the back, the Babyfaces were
19:29
Speaker 1: talking amongst themselves, what are we gonna do? We need
19:33
Speaker 1: two more teammates, and then they were ambushed by the
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Speaker 1: members of the Heel team, or some of them anyway,
19:39
Speaker 1: lash Legend Nya Jacks. So they got jumped and left
19:44
Speaker 1: for dead. So why did they do this? They did
19:47
Speaker 1: it because they're trying to create drama on the babyface side, right.
19:51
Speaker 1: They want the babyfaces to be at a distinct disadvantage
19:56
Speaker 1: and they want you for the next week or two
19:57
Speaker 1: to wonder what are they going to do? Is Charlotte
20:01
Speaker 1: gonna come back into the fold. Of course the answer
20:03
Speaker 1: is yes, she will, but they made it very clear
20:07
Speaker 1: because Riha made a comment here like we need two
20:09
Speaker 1: more so because I was a little unclear if we're
20:11
Speaker 1: doing four on four or five on five. They're gonna
20:13
Speaker 1: stick to the five on five format. You know, when
20:16
Speaker 1: you look at the women's side, who do we know?
20:18
Speaker 1: We know Oscar, Kyrie, Naya, and Lash. Is one spot open?
20:23
Speaker 1: I think that spot is going to Becky Lynch. On
20:27
Speaker 1: the baby face side, we have Rhea Eo, Alexa. Charlotte
20:32
Speaker 1: will end up in the match, and then that leaves
20:34
Speaker 1: one spot open. And I still feel like they're gonna
20:37
Speaker 1: have aj Lee on that baby face side. I know
20:39
Speaker 1: she hasn't been around since wrestled Palooza. I think we
20:42
Speaker 1: could see her as soon as Monday night at Madison
20:44
Speaker 1: Square Garden, but Becky has that title defense against Maxine Dupre.
20:48
Speaker 1: It could go to Maxine. I just think in a
20:51
Speaker 1: match like this, they probably would want Aj on the
20:54
Speaker 1: baby face side, but it's one of the other you know,
20:57
Speaker 1: it's got to be somebody that Becky has been beefing
21:01
Speaker 1: with and working with if Becky is going to be
21:03
Speaker 1: on the heel side, and I just can't imagine they
21:05
Speaker 1: leave Becky out of wargames when she's right there. So
21:09
Speaker 1: that's I think going to end up being the final
21:12
Speaker 1: configuration for both those teams. Now, the opening match on
21:18
Speaker 1: the show, there's punk k Clayton, Welcome to the channel.
21:24
Speaker 1: So Ufman came in with a supertatus. Now Finn defeated
21:28
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashley. That's Bobby by the way, at Wrestle Minnie
21:31
Speaker 1: at thirty five for the Intercontinental Championship. I can confirm
21:35
Speaker 1: this as I was there. I also confirmed that Bobby
21:37
Speaker 1: Lashley was not there. Oh, bobb Lely, I'm sorry, I've
21:42
Speaker 1: read that wrong. I'm like, boy, you just contradicted yourself.
21:45
Speaker 1: He said, Bobbly Lashly was not there. Okay, So that's
21:48
Speaker 1: good to know. That's very good to know. The opening
21:52
Speaker 1: match on the show was the Mizz going one on
21:55
Speaker 1: one here with Jay Usa. This was the John Cena
21:58
Speaker 1: last time is now torn in. At least they got
22:01
Speaker 1: this out of the way early. Jay yeaeded through the
22:05
Speaker 1: crowd on his way to the ring. They went to
22:07
Speaker 1: a commercial break. When they came back, he was in
22:09
Speaker 1: the ring. He was still yeating and this guy was
22:12
Speaker 1: ready to run it back, but he was interrupted by
22:15
Speaker 1: the missus music. Thank you, miss Let's get the show
22:20
Speaker 1: on the road here, okay, let's get things started. Usso
22:24
Speaker 1: escaped an early skull crushing finale attempt. He closedlined Miz
22:28
Speaker 1: out to the floor. Then he took off with a
22:30
Speaker 1: suicide dive, and then they took off into a commercial break.
22:34
Speaker 1: Another one. When they came back, Mis had the advantage.
22:37
Speaker 1: He had a spike DDT that wasn't enough to pick
22:39
Speaker 1: up the wind. So Mis is kicking at this guy's chest.
22:43
Speaker 1: He went for that last kick. Jay countered it into
22:46
Speaker 1: a neck breaker for a near fall. As Miz scurried
22:49
Speaker 1: to the corner, he avoided the running hip attack and
22:52
Speaker 1: then he started mocking John Cena. He was doing the
22:55
Speaker 1: John Scena mannerisms. He did the shoulder tackles. He did
22:59
Speaker 1: the U Can't scene me and the five knuckle shuffle.
23:03
Speaker 1: Jay though recovered he's super kicked Miz. Then he tried
23:05
Speaker 1: to lift him up on his shoulders. Miz, though, wiggled
23:07
Speaker 1: out and he delivered a skull crushing finale and that
23:10
Speaker 1: got a rise out of the crowd, so they were
23:13
Speaker 1: able to get a good near fall out of that.
23:16
Speaker 1: Mis then lifted Usso up on the top turn buckle.
23:19
Speaker 1: He was trying for an avalanche skull crushing finale. Jay
23:23
Speaker 1: escaped and he dropped me. He hit some sort of
23:26
Speaker 1: drop as he came down from the rope, so he
23:29
Speaker 1: basically dropped Miz down face first on the top turn buckle.
23:33
Speaker 1: Jay followed that with a spear and then an USO
23:36
Speaker 1: splash to advance to the next round of this tournament
23:41
Speaker 1: against who. We don't know. We have no idea, but Jay, Usso, Seamus,
23:48
Speaker 1: and Russev up to this point in the show have
23:51
Speaker 1: all qualified for the next round of the tournament. I thought,
23:56
Speaker 1: as far as the match is concerned, it was a
23:58
Speaker 1: perfectly solid match, a perfectly solid, if unspectacular match. It
24:06
Speaker 1: wasn't anything more than that. It had the predictable outcome. Look,
24:10
Speaker 1: Jay Uso is in War Games, okay, the Miss is not.
24:14
Speaker 1: And the only plausible way Jay Usso doesn't win this
24:17
Speaker 1: match is if the Vision got involved and screwed him
24:20
Speaker 1: out of his spot, which was certainly possible because obviously
24:23
Speaker 1: they were there. They were in the building tonight. But
24:26
Speaker 1: like during the match, at no point did I get
24:27
Speaker 1: the feeling that, you know, Jay was not going to
24:30
Speaker 1: win this match. There was no Carmelo hay who was there,
24:33
Speaker 1: by the way, we heard from Hayes later in the show,
24:35
Speaker 1: because he's going to be in the tournament two. That's
24:38
Speaker 1: the only reason I was thinking, maybe they give Miss
24:40
Speaker 1: a win and the Vision screws Jay, you do Miss
24:43
Speaker 1: and Mellow in the next round, But that's out the window.
24:47
Speaker 1: If they do Miss and Mellow, it's gonna have to happen.
24:49
Speaker 1: Some other times, I could see Miss screwing Mellow, jealous
24:52
Speaker 1: that you know he lost his shot and if I
24:54
Speaker 1: can't have it, you can't have it either. I could
24:57
Speaker 1: see something like that happening. Next week, we had the
25:01
Speaker 1: United States champion Ilia Dragonov. He was in the back.
25:04
Speaker 1: He was speaking to Nick all this when d I
25:08
Speaker 1: Y and Candice Lay interrupted Champa was still very upset
25:13
Speaker 1: about Dragonov calling him a jackass. He wanted to know
25:17
Speaker 1: how it made sense that he was dodging him. Dragonov said, look,
25:20
Speaker 1: I made a promise to do things the right way,
25:22
Speaker 1: and the right way was to not give opportunities to jackasses.
25:27
Speaker 1: Said I'm going to give them to warriors to fight honorably,
25:31
Speaker 1: and there's nothing honorable about Tamaso Champa. So someone honorable
25:35
Speaker 1: that he respects is going to get the next shot.
25:37
Speaker 1: Champa had a meltdown about this. They walked off Axiom
25:42
Speaker 1: and Nathan Fraser walked in. Axiom shook his hand and said,
25:45
Speaker 1: thank you. So obviously he was going to be next
25:47
Speaker 1: up in the open challenge. Way to spoil it, guys,
25:52
Speaker 1: they spoiled it. Although, to be honest with you, I mean, look,
25:55
Speaker 1: if if it was going to be Axiom, all due
25:58
Speaker 1: respect to Axiom, it's okay. It's okay to spoil that
26:01
Speaker 1: surprise in the back. I don't think anybody was waiting
26:04
Speaker 1: for the big pot, you know, when he came out.
26:06
Speaker 1: But after that all this walked off and the camera
26:10
Speaker 1: is following him and he stops because when he gets
26:13
Speaker 1: to his office, standing outside of his office are Paul
26:18
Speaker 1: Hayman and Bronson Reid, and Hayman has a contract binder
26:23
Speaker 1: in his hand that he tells all this, I need
26:26
Speaker 1: to talk to you for a minute. So they headed
26:29
Speaker 1: into the office and the show went to a commercial break.
26:32
Speaker 1: Now after the break, they're in the office. All this
26:34
Speaker 1: is on the phone and he is alerting security that
26:37
Speaker 1: he needs them make your way to my office. And
26:41
Speaker 1: then he hung up with them and he told Hayman,
26:43
Speaker 1: speak your peace. Security is on their way. He said
26:47
Speaker 1: what he had in his hand was the agreement for Wargames,
26:51
Speaker 1: and he said that he's allowed. Hayman said he's allowed
26:54
Speaker 1: to take any talent under WWE contract across all brands
27:00
Speaker 1: that includes SmackDown. So he said this was just a
27:05
Speaker 1: friendly heads up and all this said, well, thank you
27:08
Speaker 1: for coming all this way to remind me about what
27:11
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27:14
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29:37
Speaker 1: So at that point, Cody Wrotees showed up. Security showed
29:40
Speaker 1: up also, but Cody walks in and he got up
29:44
Speaker 1: in Hayman's face. Haymond said, I want to talk about
29:47
Speaker 1: Cody getting involved in vision business. Cody said that he
29:52
Speaker 1: put his friends to the fire, which means he's next
29:54
Speaker 1: through the flames. What does he come up with this shit?
29:57
Speaker 1: He's always like so dramatic in everything that he's as
30:01
Speaker 1: you put my friends in the fire, now I will
30:05
Speaker 1: walk through the flames. I don't know. I just laughed.
30:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was the reaction that was
30:10
Speaker 1: intended there for that line, but I'm like, who fucking
30:13
Speaker 1: talks like this? So anyway, he was getting all up
30:15
Speaker 1: in Hayman's grill and he told Bronson Reid, look, if
30:19
Speaker 1: you're not here to fight, then you should leave. And
30:23
Speaker 1: Cody told all this, Bronson Reid, Cody Rhodes tonight because
30:29
Speaker 1: Reid was up for a fight. So he goes all this,
30:31
Speaker 1: make it happen. So then Hayman pipes up and he says,
30:35
Speaker 1: why would you make that match and not have the
30:37
Speaker 1: title on the line. So Cody, of course the dumb
30:41
Speaker 1: babyface that he is too much pride. He took the
30:44
Speaker 1: bait and he said, Nick tonight make it happen Cody
30:49
Speaker 1: Rhodes Bronson Reid for the WWE Championship, and all this
30:54
Speaker 1: was trying to talk him out of it, but Cody insisted.
30:59
Speaker 1: So that was our main of I don't know what
31:01
Speaker 1: Nick Aldus would have done had this impromptum match not
31:04
Speaker 1: been made here in this segment, I have no idea.
31:07
Speaker 1: That's what's always funny about this, because later in the show,
31:11
Speaker 1: all this was telling Chelsea Green she wanted her championship celebration.
31:15
Speaker 1: He was like, there's no time, there's no space on
31:19
Speaker 1: the show. Had this match not been made, Chelsea would
31:22
Speaker 1: have been able to have her celebration. I guess somebody
31:26
Speaker 1: said that he used that line in Street Fighter. Cody
31:32
Speaker 1: probably listened to Through the Fire and Flames by Dragon Force. Yeah,
31:36
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe it is something he lifted from
31:39
Speaker 1: Street Fighter. Could be I don't know how much dialogue
31:41
Speaker 1: though Gile has in the movie. I'm not sure. I
31:46
Speaker 1: don't think people are going to be watching that Street
31:47
Speaker 1: Fighter movie for the dialogue from Cody Rhodes or Roman
31:53
Speaker 1: Reigns or Hiroki Goto's playing I Honda in the movie.
31:59
Speaker 1: They cut to the arena as soon as the segment
32:01
Speaker 1: was over. We cut to the arena and already in
32:04
Speaker 1: the ring the United States Champion Ilia Dragonov an Axiom.
32:10
Speaker 1: This was the US title Open Challenge. They gave them
32:14
Speaker 1: the jobber entrances here. But hey, I guess if the
32:18
Speaker 1: show goes three hours, well then everybody can get an entrance,
32:21
Speaker 1: and that makes things great. There you go three hours,
32:24
Speaker 1: everybody can get an entrance. Right. We got some chain
32:28
Speaker 1: wrestling to start. The champion missed on a shot. Axiom
32:32
Speaker 1: rolled underneath and that seemed to impress Dragonof. He went
32:36
Speaker 1: for a back elbow, Axiom dodged it and hit a
32:38
Speaker 1: dropkick that sent him out of the ring, and as
32:40
Speaker 1: Axiom tried to go up top, Dragonov intercepted him. He
32:43
Speaker 1: left him sitting on the top rope and they had
32:46
Speaker 1: a little bit of a skirmish. Dragonov headbutted Axiom down
32:49
Speaker 1: to the mat. He followed that with a sent on
32:51
Speaker 1: for a near fall. They came out of a break.
32:54
Speaker 1: Dragonof connected with the German suplex. Axiom came right back
32:58
Speaker 1: would they released Northern lights. Both men struggled to their feet,
33:01
Speaker 1: Axiom blasted him in the face with a strike and
33:04
Speaker 1: then he jumped from the top rope with a shotgun
33:06
Speaker 1: missile dropkick. Dragonov went for a Constantine special that got
33:12
Speaker 1: reversed into an arm bar by Axiom, and the champion
33:15
Speaker 1: broke free with a dead lift power bomb. Axiom, though,
33:18
Speaker 1: got ahead of an attempted h bomb, and in the
33:21
Speaker 1: highlight of the match, this is what woke everybody up.
33:24
Speaker 1: Because the crowd was pretty quiet for the majority of
33:27
Speaker 1: and I watched even through the commercial break, they were
33:30
Speaker 1: pretty fucking silent from most of this match. This right
33:33
Speaker 1: here woke everybody up out of their slumber. So he
33:38
Speaker 1: turns this move here Axiom does into this incredible leaping
33:46
Speaker 1: springboard DDT for the nearest of near falls, and everybody
33:52
Speaker 1: is just buzzing after this spot, including the announcers. They're
33:56
Speaker 1: going nuts forward too, But you gotta see this, so basically,
33:58
Speaker 1: if you could visualize it, they're standing up and Axiom
34:02
Speaker 1: has Dragonov's arm, and you need some cooperation on a
34:05
Speaker 1: spot like this. You see this in a lot of
34:07
Speaker 1: Luca matches where Phoenix does this a lot. He'll grab
34:10
Speaker 1: the guy's arm he'll you know, scale the ropes or
34:13
Speaker 1: you know, jump up to the top rope and then
34:15
Speaker 1: do some sort of arm drag takedown. Axiom jumps up
34:18
Speaker 1: on the rope and he does a backflip, but he
34:21
Speaker 1: does a backflip into this great spike DDT and Dragonov
34:25
Speaker 1: just sold the shit out of it. It was totally safe,
34:28
Speaker 1: the way he landed and everything, but it looked great.
34:30
Speaker 1: So that was the highlight of the match right there.
34:32
Speaker 1: This is awesome chance followed after this. Stunned in the corner,
34:38
Speaker 1: the champion is Axiom lifted him up on the top rope.
34:41
Speaker 1: He was looking for an avalanche Spanish fly. Dragonov tried
34:46
Speaker 1: to fight back. Axiom though, got the Spanish fly right,
34:50
Speaker 1: big avalanche Spanish fly off the top rope. But man,
34:55
Speaker 1: you know, top rope Spanish flies. I guess they just
34:58
Speaker 1: don't hit like they used to. Because Axie him backed
35:02
Speaker 1: up into the corner he was setting up for his finish,
35:05
Speaker 1: the golden ratio. Dragonov, though, intercepted him with a torpedo Moscow.
35:11
Speaker 1: So so much for the avalanche dragon dragon that what
35:15
Speaker 1: the fuck was the move? Spanish fly? I was gonna
35:19
Speaker 1: call the dragonfly, So I think I just invented a
35:22
Speaker 1: move so much for the avalanche Spanish Fly. I guess
35:25
Speaker 1: it wasn't very effective. Dragonoff followed that up with an
35:28
Speaker 1: h bomb for the win, and he retained the United
35:32
Speaker 1: States Championship. That should be a move though the dragonfly.
35:38
Speaker 1: We have the Spanish fly. There should be a dragonfly,
35:41
Speaker 1: and Dragonov is the mad Dragon, so it should be
35:45
Speaker 1: his move. I just don't know what the move would
35:47
Speaker 1: look like. After the magic, Dragonov showed respect for the
35:52
Speaker 1: challengers' effort, helped him to his feet. Two of them
35:55
Speaker 1: shook hands. This was another good outing here for dragon
35:58
Speaker 1: of I mean, this guy's on a roll, been killing
36:00
Speaker 1: it ever since he came back, ever since they put
36:02
Speaker 1: that championship on him. He took the mantle from Sam
36:05
Speaker 1: Bes who had this incredible series of matches, and they
36:09
Speaker 1: haven't skipped the beat, you know, dragging up, picked up,
36:11
Speaker 1: they passed the baton, he grabbed the baton and he's
36:14
Speaker 1: been running with it ever since. Again, the crowd was
36:16
Speaker 1: not buying Axiom until the DDT spot. That's what got
36:20
Speaker 1: them into the match, But that came in the last
36:22
Speaker 1: like ninety seconds of the match. Up to that point,
36:25
Speaker 1: they were having a solid match, probably the weakest though
36:29
Speaker 1: of all the matches we've seen so far, but then
36:31
Speaker 1: it picked up a lot in that last ninety seconds,
36:33
Speaker 1: so good effort here. After a break, they showed a
36:37
Speaker 1: replay of what happened during commercial. Axiom got jumped at
36:41
Speaker 1: ringside by Tamaso Champa until Nathan Fraser came over to
36:45
Speaker 1: chase him away. So Champa is on a rampage as
36:49
Speaker 1: he waits to get his shot at the US title,
36:52
Speaker 1: which is coming. They've also been teasing that Tomatonga is
36:56
Speaker 1: going to get a shot. There was no further movement
36:59
Speaker 1: or development on that tonight, but we already know who
37:03
Speaker 1: two of the next challengers, whenever that may be. We
37:06
Speaker 1: know who two of the next challengers are likely going
37:08
Speaker 1: to be in the back. Our truth was with Nick
37:13
Speaker 1: Alldis and he was imploring the general manager to allow
37:19
Speaker 1: him to be in the John Cena Last Time is
37:21
Speaker 1: Now tournament, and he had two balls in his hand
37:27
Speaker 1: for Nick to put into the tumbler. He was begging
37:30
Speaker 1: all this to take his balls. So all this did.
37:36
Speaker 1: Truth left. Chelsea Green walked in with Alba Fire. Chelsea
37:41
Speaker 1: had both belts around her waist. She had her brand
37:44
Speaker 1: new Women's United States Championship that she regained after a
37:48
Speaker 1: herculean effort in that long iron woman match last week
37:53
Speaker 1: against Julia. And then she also had her Tripa a
37:57
Speaker 1: Mixtag team title belt around her waist. She was wearing
38:01
Speaker 1: a bathrobe. She had some girl shit under her eyes.
38:05
Speaker 1: She looked like she just came out of the spa
38:08
Speaker 1: and she's standing there, and she was very upset that
38:11
Speaker 1: all dis canceled her championship victory celebration tonight, but all
38:16
Speaker 1: will be forgiven, she said if he allows her to
38:19
Speaker 1: have her celebration next week with Pyro. And Aldus said,
38:24
Speaker 1: I think I can make that work, and then he
38:26
Speaker 1: handed Truth's balls to Chelsea. Comedy Sammy's Ain was out
38:34
Speaker 1: next to address the crowd and the MFTs. Speaking of comedy,
38:41
Speaker 1: Sammy said he was in his spiffy flannel modern incarnation
38:47
Speaker 1: of Mick Foley. This guy is said that since he
38:49
Speaker 1: came to SmackDown, there were some extremely high highs and
38:52
Speaker 1: there were some extremely low lows. Oh, you don't have
38:55
Speaker 1: to tell me, Sammy, I've sat through it. I'm well
38:58
Speaker 1: aware of the extremely low lows of SmackDown. He talked
39:03
Speaker 1: about how he beat Solo Socoa for the United States Championship.
39:06
Speaker 1: He did some incredible things with that title, like facing
39:09
Speaker 1: John Cena in his last ever SmackDown match. Zain mentioned
39:14
Speaker 1: that the last four weeks have been incredibly rough on
39:16
Speaker 1: him and he was not medically cleared, so he was
39:19
Speaker 1: forced to watch Solo in the MFTs attack all of
39:22
Speaker 1: his friends and attack people that he had great respect for.
39:26
Speaker 1: But that ends tonight and he challenged Solo Siccoa to
39:29
Speaker 1: come on out here and face me. Manda Man. Solo
39:34
Speaker 1: Sokoa walks out surrounded by his juggalos. Sokohas said that
39:39
Speaker 1: he knew the real Sammy's aines, someone who was pathetic,
39:42
Speaker 1: someone who was a selfish liar. He claimed that Zay
39:46
Speaker 1: didn't care about the people in the back. He didn't
39:48
Speaker 1: care about the people here in Albany, so that was
39:51
Speaker 1: in contrast to himself. He said, he cares about his
39:55
Speaker 1: family and their loyalty to him. Co Ha told Zaye
40:01
Speaker 1: that he knew nothing about loyalty. He knew nothing about
40:04
Speaker 1: love of family, and so Solo threatened to do harm
40:09
Speaker 1: to Sammy, who was still wounded. He said. He motioned
40:12
Speaker 1: for the MFTs to come to the ring, but then
40:13
Speaker 1: he stopped them from attacking, and he said, they know
40:18
Speaker 1: what I want you to be at one hundred percent.
40:20
Speaker 1: I'm going to wait until you're medically cleared, but he
40:24
Speaker 1: made it very clear I'm coming for you. Sammy then
40:29
Speaker 1: revealed that as of today, he is officially medically cleared
40:34
Speaker 1: and that if Solo wanted to do something about it,
40:36
Speaker 1: then he could do something about it right now. But
40:38
Speaker 1: then Sammy said, I didn't come alone. So right as
40:44
Speaker 1: he said this, Shinska, by the way, what there's some
40:48
Speaker 1: weird kind of undertones here in this segment. You know,
40:51
Speaker 1: you got Solo saying I'm coming for you. This is
40:56
Speaker 1: after a segment where ar True handed his balls to
41:00
Speaker 1: all This and Nick Alldis then handed those balls off
41:02
Speaker 1: to Chelsea Green. We go into a segment here where
41:05
Speaker 1: Solo Sokoa is telling Samby's Ain I'm coming for you,
41:09
Speaker 1: and then Sammy's Ain responds by saying, I'm not coming alone.
41:15
Speaker 1: What is road Doug doing on this show? Who thought
41:19
Speaker 1: this was a good idea putting him in charge? But
41:23
Speaker 1: just as he said that He's not coming alone. Shinsky, Nakamora,
41:26
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix, and the MotorCity machine Guns. They showed up.
41:30
Speaker 1: They attacked the MFTs to even the odds, and then
41:35
Speaker 1: we had poor Ray Phoenix. So Ray Phoenix goes up
41:40
Speaker 1: to the top rope. All the MFTs are all bunched
41:43
Speaker 1: up outside in a pile, and Ray Phoenix hits a
41:48
Speaker 1: corkscrew plancha, And of course the idea is that all
41:52
Speaker 1: of these men are going to catch him on the
41:54
Speaker 1: way down or at lease cushion the blow from the fall.
41:56
Speaker 1: This man is twisting in mid air. Well, they didn't
42:00
Speaker 1: catch him, and so Ray Phoenix basically splatted on the
42:04
Speaker 1: floor outside. But I took note of who was in
42:06
Speaker 1: the middle of that pile, who was standing right there,
42:10
Speaker 1: and who failed to catch Ray Phoenix. It was the
42:14
Speaker 1: great Tongaloa. I know this will come as a great
42:17
Speaker 1: shock to all of you, but yes, Togaloa and the
42:21
Speaker 1: rest of them didn't exactly catch Ray Phoenix. And I'm
42:24
Speaker 1: sure that landing didn't feel too good, but he seemed
42:27
Speaker 1: to be okay, and he had a look on his
42:29
Speaker 1: face when he landed like that must have sent some
42:32
Speaker 1: shockwaves through the man's body. But he popped up and
42:36
Speaker 1: he got in the ring and he celebrated and stood
42:38
Speaker 1: tall with the baby faces. And then in the back
42:41
Speaker 1: later just to follow up on this very angry Solo
42:44
Speaker 1: Socoa had confronted Nick Alldos and all this informed him
42:47
Speaker 1: that in two weeks, the night before Survivor Series, there
42:51
Speaker 1: will be a traditional five on five Survivor Series elimination
42:55
Speaker 1: style match where Solo and his MFTs will face all
42:59
Speaker 1: five of the men who we just saw out in
43:02
Speaker 1: the ring. So you've got Sammy Zain, You've got Ray Phoenix,
43:06
Speaker 1: You've got Shinskey Nakamora, and you've got the MotorCity machine guns.
43:12
Speaker 1: And then we got some Wyatt six style VHS glitches
43:18
Speaker 1: and then again all this had left, Solo had left,
43:23
Speaker 1: but they kept the shot that particular backstage shot and
43:26
Speaker 1: off in the background to the left you could see
43:28
Speaker 1: Uncle Howdy was standing there. First time we've seen Uncle
43:33
Speaker 1: Howdy on this show in a very long time now,
43:39
Speaker 1: if you remember, the Wyatt six were seemingly on a
43:42
Speaker 1: collision course with the MFTs, and I know you are
43:44
Speaker 1: all very excited to see how this story was going
43:47
Speaker 1: to unfold. And then Bo has had some family issues
43:52
Speaker 1: with his father. He's been unavailable. We have not seen
43:55
Speaker 1: him on the show in a very long time, so
43:57
Speaker 1: things got put on the back burner, and I do
43:59
Speaker 1: wonder if that would have been the traditional Survivor series
44:02
Speaker 1: elimination match that we would have gotten, although I don't
44:05
Speaker 1: know if there are are there even enough Why it's
44:07
Speaker 1: six members, Let's see, you got Uncle Howdy, You've got
44:11
Speaker 1: Joe Gacy, You've got Dexter Loomis, and you've got Eric Rowan,
44:15
Speaker 1: So no, you would have to have a fifth guy.
44:17
Speaker 1: I assume that would have been Sammy's ain. So I
44:19
Speaker 1: don't know how they're going to factor into this, or
44:21
Speaker 1: if they're going to factor into this at all. The
44:23
Speaker 1: match is made, so they're not going to have anything
44:26
Speaker 1: to do with the match, but maybe they'll have something
44:28
Speaker 1: to do with the finish. Maybe they'll have something to
44:30
Speaker 1: do after the match, and they'll pick up with the
44:33
Speaker 1: Wyatt's and the MFTs. We'll see. I wish I could
44:36
Speaker 1: tell you I cared more about this. I don't. I've
44:40
Speaker 1: outlined all of the issues I have with the MFTs
44:42
Speaker 1: and the way they've been presented in portrayed on this show.
44:46
Speaker 1: It could have been something more than what it is,
44:48
Speaker 1: but it's very low effort on Wweast Park. This is
44:52
Speaker 1: a classic example. The MFTs are a classic example of
44:55
Speaker 1: we're just gonna just We're gonna feed you this very
44:58
Speaker 1: bland meal, gonna put any kind of seasoning on it.
45:01
Speaker 1: We're not gonna try to spice it up for you
45:03
Speaker 1: at all. It's like, here's your fucking gruel. Like we're
45:07
Speaker 1: in prison. It's like a plate of prison food. That's
45:11
Speaker 1: what it is. Now. Cody Rhodes was in the back,
45:16
Speaker 1: Cody's getting ready for his match. Jay Usso walks up
45:19
Speaker 1: to him and he wishes him luck. He says, I'm
45:22
Speaker 1: gonna have you back tonight. Jimmy Usso then shows up
45:27
Speaker 1: and he tells them both, I talked to CM Punk
45:29
Speaker 1: already and I'm in for war games. So again, you
45:36
Speaker 1: look at what this team is shaping up to be.
45:39
Speaker 1: You've got CM Punk, You've got Cody Rhodes, and you've
45:42
Speaker 1: got the Usso's. That's four out of five right there.
45:45
Speaker 1: And we're not looking at John Cena. I don't believe.
45:48
Speaker 1: I think we're looking at Roman Reigns. I mean, what
45:51
Speaker 1: else even makes sense here in this situation? Of course, Roman,
45:54
Speaker 1: they were chanting OTC tonight at the end of the show,
45:56
Speaker 1: but they know the people know what this is setting
45:59
Speaker 1: up for. Even though Roman the last time we saw
46:01
Speaker 1: him he said he didn't want to see his cousins
46:03
Speaker 1: until Christmas. But there are no big shows around Christmas.
46:09
Speaker 1: The big show is Survivor series and then the next
46:12
Speaker 1: big show for Roman will be the Royal Rumble because
46:15
Speaker 1: I don't see Roman having any kind of role on
46:17
Speaker 1: December thirteenth. That's all about John Sena, that's not about
46:20
Speaker 1: Roman reigns. So we know what Wargames now is looking like.
46:27
Speaker 1: La Knight will not be in Wargames, but he is
46:30
Speaker 1: in the John Seena Last Time is Now tournament and
46:32
Speaker 1: he was facing a mystery challenger tonight. So La Knight
46:37
Speaker 1: comes out, he gets the first entrance. He's waiting for
46:40
Speaker 1: his opponent to come out, and it turned out to
46:42
Speaker 1: be mister Chelsea Green, Matt Cardona, or shall I say
46:49
Speaker 1: zach Ryder wu wu wu. He even had the old
46:54
Speaker 1: music or a the remixed version of his old zach
46:57
Speaker 1: Ryder music wasn't exactly the original. But he was back
47:01
Speaker 1: on the main roster tonight for the first time in
47:04
Speaker 1: five and a half years, and he got a good reaction.
47:10
Speaker 1: It was definitely a case where I think most of
47:12
Speaker 1: the people or a good number of people in the
47:14
Speaker 1: building seemed to know who he was. It's not the
47:17
Speaker 1: kind of reaction he would have gotten, for example, had
47:21
Speaker 1: he come out this Monday in Madison Square Garden, or
47:25
Speaker 1: if he came out on Long Island at the Nassau Coliseum,
47:29
Speaker 1: which is where you know, I'll be out on Long
47:31
Speaker 1: Island tomorrow. This was Albany, Allbany for those who don't know.
47:34
Speaker 1: Albany is quite a distance away from these places. So
47:38
Speaker 1: he got he got a respectful reaction. It wasn't anything overwhelming,
47:42
Speaker 1: but he got a good reaction. And it's just it's
47:45
Speaker 1: so silly, you know it is. It is just it
47:48
Speaker 1: is so silly that he can wrestle week literally weeks ago,
47:54
Speaker 1: just recently on behalf of TNA Wrestling in NXT again
48:00
Speaker 1: Josh Briggs as Matt Cardona, but he can't be Matt
48:05
Speaker 1: Cardona on the main roster. Zach Ryder was such an
48:09
Speaker 1: important entity on the main roster that he must be
48:13
Speaker 1: Zack Ryder back on TV. He cannot be Matt Cardona,
48:17
Speaker 1: even though he was on one of our television shows
48:20
Speaker 1: only a few weeks ago, as Matt Cardona, It's just
48:24
Speaker 1: it's stupid. I mean it, really, it really does feel
48:27
Speaker 1: like they want this to just exist in its own
48:31
Speaker 1: little universe, unto itself. That's what it feels like. So
48:35
Speaker 1: Ryder went for an early schoolboy roll up, which shockingly
48:39
Speaker 1: did not work. And I'm only being partially sarcastic when
48:42
Speaker 1: I say that, because I mean the way Triple H
48:46
Speaker 1: has been booking La Night for the last few months.
48:48
Speaker 1: Would you really be shocked if he did La Night
48:51
Speaker 1: like that? Because I wouldn't. So after a break night
48:59
Speaker 1: of void A clothesline, he unleashed a flurry of punches
49:03
Speaker 1: followed by the neck breaker for a near fall. Night
49:06
Speaker 1: continued on offense, but a scoop slam reversal led to
49:10
Speaker 1: Rider picking up some momentum. As Knight was down and
49:13
Speaker 1: out in the corner, Rider hit the old Brosky boot
49:17
Speaker 1: and then they buried him a little bit. On commentary
49:19
Speaker 1: for playing with toys and for being the Internet champion.
49:23
Speaker 1: Both Michael Cole and Corey Graves were having fun at
49:27
Speaker 1: his expense. On Commentary, Night countered and attempted an unprettier
49:31
Speaker 1: into a reverse DDT Rider avoided the elbow drop from
49:35
Speaker 1: the top. He connected on a rough rider for a
49:38
Speaker 1: good near fall. Rider headed up top, but his attempt
49:41
Speaker 1: at a standing leg drop was countered into a power
49:44
Speaker 1: bomb by La Knight, who then finished things off with
49:47
Speaker 1: a BFT to advance to the next round of the tournament.
49:54
Speaker 1: Solid match. I'm happy for Cardona that he got the spot,
49:58
Speaker 1: or got a spot in the tournament. He does have
50:01
Speaker 1: history with John Cena. I think you do want some
50:03
Speaker 1: people at least in this tournament, you know, at least
50:06
Speaker 1: a few who have some sort of documented history with Sina.
50:09
Speaker 1: I think that makes sense. You want to have a
50:11
Speaker 1: mix of newer talent younger talent. I will tell you
50:14
Speaker 1: all the talent that we have seen so far, and
50:16
Speaker 1: even a lot of the talent coming up in some
50:18
Speaker 1: of the matches they've announced outside of the javan Evans
50:23
Speaker 1: Gunther match that they announced for Monday, which I'm very
50:26
Speaker 1: much looking forward to. Not a lot of like younger
50:29
Speaker 1: talents in this tournament, and I'm not even sure how
50:31
Speaker 1: many slots are left. There aren't that many spots left
50:34
Speaker 1: in this tournament, and honestly, Javon Evans is basically like
50:37
Speaker 1: the only one, and now Carmelo Hayes is in there too.
50:41
Speaker 1: He's a bit older, He's like ten years older than
50:42
Speaker 1: Javon Evans. But not a lot of youth in this tournament,
50:46
Speaker 1: you know, for a guy in John Cena, who even
50:48
Speaker 1: on Monday, you know, has talked about, you know, the
50:52
Speaker 1: up and coming generation and wanting to provide opportunities to them.
50:55
Speaker 1: And I know he's I'm sure he doesn't have a
50:57
Speaker 1: hand in the booking of this tournament, but you I
51:00
Speaker 1: think there would be a better mix of some newer
51:02
Speaker 1: and younger faces in here, and that's really not been
51:05
Speaker 1: the case so far, which is kind of disappointing. I'm
51:08
Speaker 1: not gonna lie, but I'm happy Cardonah at least was
51:11
Speaker 1: able to get his face here on SmackDown. He has
51:14
Speaker 1: been very vocal about, you know, wanting the opportunity to
51:18
Speaker 1: come back to WWE, and I'm sure he would love
51:21
Speaker 1: to also be able to travel and work with his wife,
51:24
Speaker 1: you know, like Alistair Black and Zelina Vegan now were
51:27
Speaker 1: able to do on SmackDown, or Seth and Becky Punk
51:29
Speaker 1: and AJ all these different couples. But he's been busting
51:34
Speaker 1: his ass on the indies now for a few years
51:36
Speaker 1: and he's been doing phenomenal as the Indie God, but
51:41
Speaker 1: you could tell like he would love to have another shot,
51:43
Speaker 1: you know, on the main roster in WWE. I didn't
51:45
Speaker 1: get the feeling from this, and I don't know, but
51:48
Speaker 1: I didn't get the feeling that this is going to
51:50
Speaker 1: lead to a full time contract or anything like that.
51:53
Speaker 1: It was probably a one and done at least for
51:55
Speaker 1: the time being. But the way I look at it,
51:57
Speaker 1: this was a win win. You know, you got Cardona
52:00
Speaker 1: a spot in the tournament and he got to be
52:02
Speaker 1: on SmackDown Tonight, and it's cool. You know that we
52:06
Speaker 1: have some talents in here, hopefully more that are not
52:09
Speaker 1: on the main roster, that are not even necessarily with
52:12
Speaker 1: the company per se, who are able to participate in this.
52:16
Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, La Night got a win,
52:18
Speaker 1: which for him is good because he hasn't been getting
52:22
Speaker 1: very many of those. So I look at this as
52:25
Speaker 1: a win win. And as far as Monday, we have
52:29
Speaker 1: Gunther and Javon Evans, but we also have Solo Sokoa
52:32
Speaker 1: against a mystery opponent who likely will end up being
52:37
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry, and I'm sure that'll get a big reaction
52:41
Speaker 1: to Madison Square Garden. There was another idea that I
52:43
Speaker 1: had as far as how you could go with Joe
52:46
Speaker 1: Hendry on Monday, and I'll talk more about that on
52:49
Speaker 1: the podcast on Sunday, because there is another way that
52:52
Speaker 1: you could go with this. We have the WWE Women's
52:56
Speaker 1: Champion Jade Cargill title, of course, one on one against BFAB.
53:04
Speaker 1: I wish I knew where I saw the video. It
53:06
Speaker 1: was on Instagram. I don't remember what account it was.
53:09
Speaker 1: I think it was one. It was like a makeup artist,
53:12
Speaker 1: but it was a video of her working on Jade's scar.
53:16
Speaker 1: So like when they zoom in on Jade's scar sometimes
53:18
Speaker 1: it looks you all gnarly and stuff, and I wasn't
53:21
Speaker 1: sure it's totally a makeup job. I saw the scar
53:26
Speaker 1: without all the makeup on. It's actually healing really well,
53:30
Speaker 1: but they color it in and put some makeup on
53:32
Speaker 1: it to make it look even more badass. So if
53:33
Speaker 1: you were wondering, like is that scar real? Is it
53:36
Speaker 1: not real? It's not real, or at least it's very
53:39
Speaker 1: very embellished. But you know what it works for Jade.
53:41
Speaker 1: It makes her look like even more of a badass.
53:44
Speaker 1: So anyway, Befab escaped an early choke slam attempt. She
53:49
Speaker 1: hit Jade with a dropkick and elbows in the corner,
53:51
Speaker 1: but her attempt at a pump kick up met by
53:53
Speaker 1: an elbow to the face by Jade, who followed that
53:56
Speaker 1: up with a fallaway slam and then a kip up.
53:59
Speaker 1: Jade then delay her the chokes lamb which was followed
54:01
Speaker 1: by a power bomb, but she was not satisfied with
54:04
Speaker 1: just one, so she gave her another power bomb and
54:07
Speaker 1: then she hit Jaded and got the decisive win in
54:11
Speaker 1: two minutes and if anything, I think this actually went
54:15
Speaker 1: longer than I expected. Michen then got in the ring
54:20
Speaker 1: to check on Bfab. Jaye took notice of this, she
54:22
Speaker 1: went face to face with her, and then Jade shoved
54:25
Speaker 1: Michin down on her ass. So they're setting up a
54:29
Speaker 1: match in the next few weeks between these two, which
54:32
Speaker 1: seemed like the likely destination because who the fuck else
54:36
Speaker 1: do they have for Jade to work with? Right, you
54:39
Speaker 1: feed her some easy, quick wins on TV, and then
54:42
Speaker 1: you build to whoever that next challenger, that real competitive
54:46
Speaker 1: challenger is going to be. And I think it was
54:48
Speaker 1: the right move to take the tag belts off of
54:50
Speaker 1: Charlotte and Alexa because you almost have no choice but
54:53
Speaker 1: to go to them next. And I think it would
54:55
Speaker 1: be in the reverse order. I think, if anything, we
54:59
Speaker 1: would get Jade Alexa and then build to Jade and
55:02
Speaker 1: Charlotte because Jade and Charlotte is going to be the
55:04
Speaker 1: bigger match in their view. You could tell because that's
55:07
Speaker 1: the match they've teased now multiple times on TV. I
55:09
Speaker 1: haven't teased Jade and Alexa. They've had multiple face to
55:13
Speaker 1: face confrontations over the last several months, including one just
55:18
Speaker 1: that was the last week with Jade and Charlotte. That's
55:21
Speaker 1: the bigger match that they're going to be building to.
55:22
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the Rumble match or you know,
55:26
Speaker 1: a Saturday Night's made a met match in January. I
55:28
Speaker 1: don't know. You almost have no choice. It goes back
55:32
Speaker 1: to what I talked about at the beginning of the review,
55:34
Speaker 1: where this roster needs a refresh, This roster needs help,
55:37
Speaker 1: the women's division needs help. Jade needs challengers. Right, even
55:43
Speaker 1: if Bianca was on the show, you're not going to
55:45
Speaker 1: Jade and Bianca until probably WrestleMania. What do you do
55:48
Speaker 1: in the meantime and that's if Bianca's even back in
55:51
Speaker 1: time for WrestleMania. Who does Jade work with? You need
55:57
Speaker 1: Alexa and Charlotte in that role because there's nobody else
56:04
Speaker 1: to the back where Nick All this announced the next
56:07
Speaker 1: two matches and the John Cena Last Time Is Now tournament,
56:12
Speaker 1: which is coming up on SmackDown next Friday. These are
56:16
Speaker 1: the matches Carmelo Hayes will go one on one with
56:20
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid. I don't suspect that's going to end very
56:25
Speaker 1: well for Carmelo Hayes, although you know what, given what
56:30
Speaker 1: happened at the end of SmackDown tonight, I could see
56:34
Speaker 1: him back dooring his way into a win because one
56:37
Speaker 1: of the last images we saw on the show tonight
56:41
Speaker 1: was Bronson Reid pancaking Cody with a tsunami splash. So
56:46
Speaker 1: I actually can see Carmelo Hayes advancing in the tournament,
56:49
Speaker 1: but what a lame way to advance though. That's about
56:52
Speaker 1: the only way he moves on in this tournament is
56:55
Speaker 1: if Cody comes out and gets revenge on Bronson Reid.
56:58
Speaker 1: So that's one match. In the other match, we have
57:01
Speaker 1: Finn Balor one on one against Penta and Honestly, after
57:05
Speaker 1: they announced these two matches, my reaction was meh, meh.
57:12
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you know Hayes got a spot in
57:15
Speaker 1: this tournament. I mean, I think that's cool. But they
57:18
Speaker 1: I think, and that correct me if I'm wrong. I
57:20
Speaker 1: believe that they said it. Michael Colemy have said it
57:25
Speaker 1: that Balor and Penta is the end of the opening round,
57:31
Speaker 1: so that may be it. Like whoever this mystery meant
57:34
Speaker 1: is against Solo Socoa on Monday. I don't know that
57:36
Speaker 1: there's any other surprises left to be had in this tournament.
57:40
Speaker 1: I don't have a fucking bracket, so I can't tell
57:43
Speaker 1: you if I'm missing another match or two. But I
57:45
Speaker 1: think that's it. I think Balor and Penta next Friday,
57:49
Speaker 1: and that's the end of the opening round. Mah. I
57:54
Speaker 1: have not been impressed by this tournament. Gunther and Javan
57:57
Speaker 1: is legitimately the only thing in this tournament I'm looking
58:00
Speaker 1: forward to. That's why when I pitched that idea, I
58:03
Speaker 1: pitched Gunther and Jevon Evans. I talked about this on
58:06
Speaker 1: TNT a few weeks ago. My idea was to have
58:09
Speaker 1: that and actually build to it as the finals of
58:11
Speaker 1: the tournament, Like, what an intriguing final that would have been,
58:14
Speaker 1: and you tell the underdog story with Javon, they chose
58:18
Speaker 1: to do it in the opening round. I'm just happy
58:20
Speaker 1: we're getting the match. Like that match intrigues me. I
58:23
Speaker 1: wish we had more intriguing matches in this tournament now.
58:27
Speaker 1: Maybe as the tournament progresses and we actually get some
58:30
Speaker 1: kind of a bracket, maybe we'll end up with a
58:33
Speaker 1: couple of interesting matches. But I'm not seeing it, you know,
58:36
Speaker 1: right now, I'm just not seeing it. But they gave
58:38
Speaker 1: Mellow a quick promo backstage after this with Kathy Kelly.
58:43
Speaker 1: He addressed John Cena. He said that if he gets
58:45
Speaker 1: the shot against him, he won't miss. Bronson Reid showed
58:48
Speaker 1: up and said that he was going to go out
58:50
Speaker 1: there right now and end Cody's reign is the WWE Champion,
58:54
Speaker 1: and then he would end Mellow on his way to
58:56
Speaker 1: ending John Cena his career. Good luck with that. We
59:04
Speaker 1: got another Alistair Black and Zelena Vega promo video talking
59:07
Speaker 1: about Damian pre this never ending feud. It feels like
59:13
Speaker 1: and I know it hasn't and look, it's a solid
59:16
Speaker 1: mid card feud, but why does it feel like this
59:19
Speaker 1: has been dragging on for a thousand years. At this point,
59:23
Speaker 1: we just get on with this. They had a last
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Speaker 1: man's standing match. That's when he took the fireball to
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Speaker 1: the face, Like, where do you go after you do
59:32
Speaker 1: a last man's standing match? I feel like they did
59:36
Speaker 1: things in reverse here. But in this video he talked
59:41
Speaker 1: about Damian Priest and Zelena said that they've corrupted him,
59:44
Speaker 1: and Black said that they forced Damien to break his
59:48
Speaker 1: code and now he had greater things in mind, namely
59:51
Speaker 1: those who hold championships on SmackDown. Okay, then, but yeah,
59:58
Speaker 1: let's let's move this along. Then it was time for
1:00:01
Speaker 1: our main event for the WWE Championship. It was Cody
1:00:05
Speaker 1: Rhodes defending the title against Bronson Reid Monday Night Raws.
1:00:10
Speaker 1: Bronson reed, he's not even a contracted SmackDown talent, and
1:00:14
Speaker 1: yet Nick all this approved this WWE Championship match here
1:00:18
Speaker 1: tonight because I guess Cody wanted it. So all right,
1:00:21
Speaker 1: there you go. But think about this, right, Bronson Reid
1:00:25
Speaker 1: against Cody for the title. If Bronson Reid wins the
1:00:28
Speaker 1: WWE Championship, are we to believe that Bronton Reid is
1:00:32
Speaker 1: no longer in the vision on Raw and he's just
1:00:35
Speaker 1: gonna be on SmackDown from now on, Like, how does
1:00:38
Speaker 1: that work? I don't know. It was never explained because
1:00:41
Speaker 1: there isn't a person in the world, not even Missus Reid,
1:00:44
Speaker 1: who honestly believed that this man was going to win
1:00:47
Speaker 1: the championship. But that's not why this match was happening.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: It served a different purpose. Cody nailed Reid with a
1:00:52
Speaker 1: disaster kick. Reid came back with a jagged edge death
1:00:56
Speaker 1: valley driver, but he missed on the follow up tsunami.
1:00:59
Speaker 1: This left if Reid opened for a Cody cutter for
1:01:01
Speaker 1: a close near fall. As Reid scurried out to the floor,
1:01:05
Speaker 1: Cody went for a suicide dive. Read, though, cut him
1:01:08
Speaker 1: off with an elbow strike just as he was about
1:01:11
Speaker 1: to come through the ropes outside the ring. Reid had
1:01:14
Speaker 1: Cody in sight for a running charge and he was
1:01:18
Speaker 1: going to knock this man through the timekeeper's barricade. Cody, though,
1:01:24
Speaker 1: could smell him coming from a mile away, so he
1:01:27
Speaker 1: moved out of the way and Reid went flying over
1:01:31
Speaker 1: the barricade. He landed on the concrete outside. So after this,
1:01:37
Speaker 1: Cody clears off the announced desk and wouldn't you know, surprise, surprise,
1:01:42
Speaker 1: guess who showed up the Vision? Well, the other member
1:01:47
Speaker 1: of the vision bron Breaker and Logan Paul Logan. Paul
1:01:50
Speaker 1: is part of the Vision until November twenty ninth, and
1:01:53
Speaker 1: then he won't be. But it was bron Breaker and
1:01:56
Speaker 1: Logan Paul, and they attacked Cody Roads for the disqualify
1:02:00
Speaker 1: or what should be a disqualification. Knowing this company, they'll
1:02:04
Speaker 1: just call it a no contest. Even though the babyface
1:02:07
Speaker 1: was attacked by the heels. So the ussos ran out
1:02:10
Speaker 1: to make the save. They cleared the ring of Paul
1:02:13
Speaker 1: and Breaker. They dropped Logan with a one D Jimmy
1:02:17
Speaker 1: then went outside. He went under the ring and he
1:02:20
Speaker 1: pulled out a Slim Jim table. This is a preview
1:02:23
Speaker 1: of what we can expect in wargames. If you thought
1:02:26
Speaker 1: it was nuts in blood and guts everybody bringing in
1:02:30
Speaker 1: a weapon, you wait until wargames. Everybody will have their
1:02:33
Speaker 1: Kendos stick, they'll have their chairs, they'll have their tables,
1:02:37
Speaker 1: same weapons we got every single year. They'll have the
1:02:39
Speaker 1: Slim Jim logo on them. Because it's not official unless
1:02:42
Speaker 1: it says Slimjim so he slides the Slimjym table into
1:02:46
Speaker 1: the ring. Jimmy sets Logan down across the table and
1:02:50
Speaker 1: the ussos go to opposite corners. They're going to hit
1:02:52
Speaker 1: a double USO splash. But who should show up on
1:02:56
Speaker 1: the apron to knock Jimmy off the top rope? Why
1:02:58
Speaker 1: it is Drew McIntyre screwed for the better part of
1:03:04
Speaker 1: really the entire year suspended a week ago by Nick
1:03:08
Speaker 1: All this. They got into a cussing match in the back.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: Remember they showed that on their social media after the
1:03:13
Speaker 1: show went off the air. They were dropping f bombs.
1:03:15
Speaker 1: They were making fun of Ridge Holland. Drew McIntyre's talking
1:03:19
Speaker 1: about how am I gonna feed my fucking family and
1:03:24
Speaker 1: all this is telling him shut the fuck up and
1:03:26
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of here. This is a real
1:03:28
Speaker 1: conversation between the two of them. It lasted all of
1:03:31
Speaker 1: one week and Drew McIntyre is back. He shoves him
1:03:34
Speaker 1: off the top rope. Now here comes in angry Nick
1:03:37
Speaker 1: All this and he marches down to the range. What
1:03:40
Speaker 1: are you doing here? He goes over to Paul Hayman.
1:03:42
Speaker 1: He gets up in Hayman's face and he's yelling at Hayman,
1:03:46
Speaker 1: and Hayman has the binder but the contract, and he
1:03:52
Speaker 1: is just yelling over and over in his face. Anybody,
1:03:55
Speaker 1: anybody remember I could sign anybody from any brand to
1:04:01
Speaker 1: be on my team for Wargames. So breaker speared, Jay
1:04:06
Speaker 1: Ussa threw the table in the ring, got propped up
1:04:09
Speaker 1: in the corner, and it mostly broke. Wasn't a clean break,
1:04:13
Speaker 1: but it mostly broke. Logan. Paul hit Jimmy with the
1:04:16
Speaker 1: loaded punch. Cody tried to get involved, but McIntyre hit
1:04:19
Speaker 1: him with a Claymore kick, and then Bronson Reid followed
1:04:22
Speaker 1: up with a tsunami to flatten Cody. McIntyre shook Paul
1:04:27
Speaker 1: Hayman's hand and now officially joined their team for war Games.
1:04:35
Speaker 1: All the bad guys posed to close the show. Oh
1:04:40
Speaker 1: my god, what are the Babyfaces? I gotta do my
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Kevin McAllister face? What are the Babyfaces going to do?
1:04:48
Speaker 1: They're one man short. If only there was some other
1:04:53
Speaker 1: big star on the roster who can make his seventeenth
1:04:56
Speaker 1: return this year and come to the aid of the
1:04:59
Speaker 1: Babyfaces to ward off Paul Hayman's team. I wonder who
1:05:03
Speaker 1: it can be. Madison Square Garden a Monday night. We
1:05:07
Speaker 1: will find out, you'll hear the music, he'll make his
1:05:10
Speaker 1: way out, and we'll have our Wargames team, and then
1:05:13
Speaker 1: the Heels just have to find one more person because
1:05:17
Speaker 1: they're down a man, and we can probably surmise that
1:05:22
Speaker 1: that man is going to end up being Brocklesner. Because
1:05:24
Speaker 1: we have not seen Brocklesner since Russell Palooza. There's no
1:05:27
Speaker 1: reason to think that Paul Hayman would not reach out
1:05:29
Speaker 1: to Brock as a friend and say, hey, we need you.
1:05:33
Speaker 1: Brock's not exactly a team player, but I think it's
1:05:38
Speaker 1: safe to say that he's the likeliest choice to fill
1:05:40
Speaker 1: out that final spot in the war Games match, and
1:05:45
Speaker 1: then we'll have our teams. The main event itself, it
1:05:47
Speaker 1: was nothing special. It was a means really just to
1:05:50
Speaker 1: get to the postmatch angle to set up the return
1:05:53
Speaker 1: of Drew McIntyre. How they brought him back, the Hayman stipulation.
1:05:59
Speaker 1: That was the story. They went with him and said, look,
1:06:01
Speaker 1: I the rule is that I could pick anybody who
1:06:05
Speaker 1: was under contract with this company across all three brands,
1:06:11
Speaker 1: and technically he was suspended, but he is still under contract,
1:06:14
Speaker 1: so that nullifies the suspension in theory, that would should
1:06:20
Speaker 1: really only mean the McIntyre's back for one night. Nick
1:06:23
Speaker 1: Alldos can still go wait a minute, you're still suspended now,
1:06:26
Speaker 1: Are they going to do that? Probably not, but he
1:06:30
Speaker 1: is going to be back for Wargames. And look, it
1:06:33
Speaker 1: makes sense. As soon as they announced that Cody Roads
1:06:36
Speaker 1: was going to be in war Games, it only makes
1:06:38
Speaker 1: sense that Drew McIntyre is on the opposing side. Plus
1:06:41
Speaker 1: Drew has history with cmpunk, so it's not like him
1:06:44
Speaker 1: and Cody the only people that have history together. So
1:06:47
Speaker 1: to that end, it makes sense. And they did what
1:06:51
Speaker 1: they had to do tonight to fill things out a
1:06:54
Speaker 1: little bit more. Still incomplete, but they still have two
1:06:58
Speaker 1: weeks left to go until we get to Wargames. This
1:07:01
Speaker 1: was not a great show. It was a slight improvement
1:07:04
Speaker 1: from last week. It was better than last week. It's
1:07:08
Speaker 1: a very low bar. We had another solid entry in
1:07:11
Speaker 1: the US Title Open Challenge tonight. They continued the story
1:07:15
Speaker 1: between DRAGONOV and Tamaso Champa, which gives Champa and Diy
1:07:20
Speaker 1: something to do. It was nice to see Cardona, if
1:07:24
Speaker 1: only for one night, back on the main roster. They
1:07:27
Speaker 1: gave La night to win, which is good. We don't
1:07:29
Speaker 1: get too many of those, so when you get one,
1:07:31
Speaker 1: if you're an La Night fan, you got to kind
1:07:33
Speaker 1: of cling to it and hang on to it like
1:07:35
Speaker 1: like a fucking child, because it could be ripped out
1:07:38
Speaker 1: of your arms at any second. It could be kidnapped
1:07:40
Speaker 1: by the evil Paulovc. But for tonight, La and I
1:07:43
Speaker 1: got a win. He moves on to the next round
1:07:45
Speaker 1: against who we don't know, and we had some progression
1:07:48
Speaker 1: on the wargames front right, Charlotte causing drama with the women.
1:07:51
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre makes his return, so he's back on TV now,
1:07:55
Speaker 1: and that's where we are heading into Madison Square Garden.
1:07:58
Speaker 1: You want to do three hours of this huh? You
1:08:01
Speaker 1: want to do three hours of this show here every
1:08:03
Speaker 1: single week. There are some big changes that are going
1:08:06
Speaker 1: to have to be made by January if they're gonna
1:08:09
Speaker 1: make this work, if they're gonna make this a quality
1:08:11
Speaker 1: program in three hours. You cannot take SmackDown in its
1:08:14
Speaker 1: current form. You cannot take SmackDown in its current incarnation,
1:08:18
Speaker 1: in the state that it's in right now, and stretch
1:08:21
Speaker 1: it out to three hours and expect to put on
1:08:23
Speaker 1: a good show. Every week. I don't give a shit
1:08:25
Speaker 1: how many matches get more times. It's not about that.
1:08:28
Speaker 1: It's not about that. You could take any two members
1:08:31
Speaker 1: or two teams. You want to a lot of talented
1:08:34
Speaker 1: men and women on this roster and put them out
1:08:35
Speaker 1: there and give them an extra fifteen minutes to have
1:08:39
Speaker 1: a banger match on the show every week. Okay, it
1:08:42
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if the creative that is supporting them and
1:08:47
Speaker 1: the stories that you're trying to tell and the feuds
1:08:49
Speaker 1: that you're trying to put together are not interesting. There
1:08:54
Speaker 1: have to be changes now that we know this show
1:08:58
Speaker 1: is actually getting fatter. They're feeding it. This show needs changes,
1:09:05
Speaker 1: and I just hope to God that they can start
1:09:08
Speaker 1: to implement them now so that by the time we
1:09:10
Speaker 1: get to January they might be in a pretty good state.
1:09:15
Speaker 1: Don't wait until January. Start now you have more people
1:09:18
Speaker 1: to call up. Do it now and get them prepped
1:09:22
Speaker 1: and ready to go heading into twenty twenty six. Man,
1:09:26
Speaker 1: that news put me in a sour mood. What did
1:09:31
Speaker 1: you think of SmackDown from Albany tonight? Sixty one point
1:09:34
Speaker 1: seven percent thumbs up for tonight's show. That is a
1:09:39
Speaker 1: stark contrast to the poll from last week thirty eight
1:09:44
Speaker 1: point three percent thumbs down. Can vote at Solemn Monster
1:09:51
Speaker 1: on X is the place to go. I did want
1:09:54
Speaker 1: to before I get into all your questions and we
1:09:57
Speaker 1: have some fun here. I did to just mention because
1:10:01
Speaker 1: this is where I will be tomorrow. If you are
1:10:04
Speaker 1: in the area, there's a big convention in New York
1:10:08
Speaker 1: tomorrow out on Long Island. The big event, the biggest
1:10:11
Speaker 1: autograph expo in the state. Not just wrestlers, a lot
1:10:14
Speaker 1: of wrestlers going to be there, past the President, but
1:10:17
Speaker 1: also celebrities, athletes. Mike Tyson was going to be there,
1:10:21
Speaker 1: he had to cancel. Brett Hart also was going to
1:10:23
Speaker 1: be there. He had to cancel. But a lot of
1:10:25
Speaker 1: people are going to be there. And then at night
1:10:27
Speaker 1: after the expo ends, that goes from ten to four
1:10:30
Speaker 1: at eight pm, House of Glory has SuperClash. And this
1:10:35
Speaker 1: is just some of the names on the card right here.
1:10:38
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet challenging for another championship, Nick Namath against the
1:10:43
Speaker 1: Amazing Red, We got Killer Cross against a mystery opponent
1:10:46
Speaker 1: on the show. Shanna Basler against Machi Itto might be
1:10:49
Speaker 1: my favorite. I am very much looking forward to calling
1:10:52
Speaker 1: that match. So I'll probably be walking around the floor
1:10:56
Speaker 1: during the expo earlier in the day if anybody's going
1:10:59
Speaker 1: to be around, and then we have the big show
1:11:00
Speaker 1: at night. So tickets are still available, they are going quick.
1:11:03
Speaker 1: So you go to hog Wrestling dot Net and pick
1:11:07
Speaker 1: one up or two or three. Bring your friends. It's
1:11:11
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun night tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: Get into your super chats here, Victor. Who do you
1:11:21
Speaker 1: see winning the Women's Royal Rumble next year? I don't know,
1:11:27
Speaker 1: depends who's in there. If liv Morgan is in there,
1:11:28
Speaker 1: she's got to be one of the favorites. But I
1:11:31
Speaker 1: could see Rhea. I could see Bianca. If I had
1:11:33
Speaker 1: to go with an early favorite right now, assuming she's
1:11:36
Speaker 1: backed by then, I would go with Bianca bell Air
1:11:40
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Dark Side of the Ring episode on
1:11:42
Speaker 1: Mister Perfect I think that you could definitely do one.
1:11:47
Speaker 1: I mean, as someone who was obviously taken from the
1:11:52
Speaker 1: world earlier than he should have been, and he had
1:11:55
Speaker 1: a drug problem there towards the end played a role
1:11:59
Speaker 1: in his death. I think that fits the criteria for
1:12:02
Speaker 1: Dark Side of the Ring by sell Rent jay Z,
1:12:09
Speaker 1: James Brown, Britney Spears. Oh my god, buy on James Brown,
1:12:17
Speaker 1: rent on Jay Z and sell on Britney Spears, or
1:12:20
Speaker 1: just sell Britney Spears and also buy or sell Hogan,
1:12:24
Speaker 1: Piper Edge, John Cena. I'm just gonna buy on I mean,
1:12:31
Speaker 1: what was that? Even mean, Victor, There's no criteria for this.
1:12:36
Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird question. It's impossible to answer.
1:12:39
Speaker 1: Hogan was the man for me as a kid. Then
1:12:43
Speaker 1: I got smartened up and I came to appreciate other
1:12:48
Speaker 1: talents who did not get the same level of attention
1:12:50
Speaker 1: or maybe didn't sell quite as many tickets as Hogan didn't.
1:12:53
Speaker 1: But Hogan was that guy in the eighties. Piper was awesome.
1:12:59
Speaker 1: You know, those were my guys. How come Macho Man
1:13:02
Speaker 1: wasn't a bigger star than Hogan. He just wasn't as
1:13:05
Speaker 1: big of a box office draw, and Vince chose to
1:13:08
Speaker 1: put all of his muscle behind behind Hogan. Hogan was
1:13:12
Speaker 1: his golden goose. Savage had a great run, he really did.
1:13:18
Speaker 1: I mean, especially when he was the champion that first time.
1:13:20
Speaker 1: They did good business with him as the champion. But
1:13:22
Speaker 1: Hogan was Hogan, simple as that. Why wasn't he a
1:13:29
Speaker 1: bigger star? Because Hulk Hogan existed. That's why super Pony says, update,
1:13:35
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work for me. Brother. That's after he asked,
1:13:43
Speaker 1: I'm sure this Miss versus j match will be cinema.
1:13:48
Speaker 1: Thank you, super Pony. We got our boy. I smoke
1:13:52
Speaker 1: a lot of weed with the four ninety nine. That
1:13:56
Speaker 1: might be the only way to get through SmackDown. Honestly,
1:14:00
Speaker 1: I think he's got the right idea. He did it
1:14:04
Speaker 1: with the US and WWE belts final scene of redesign
1:14:08
Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental title, but it's the classic ic belt
1:14:11
Speaker 1: with a black or maybe a blue strap, just an idea.
1:14:16
Speaker 1: He's not going to have that championship long enough to
1:14:18
Speaker 1: redesign it though, that's the thing. But if he was
1:14:21
Speaker 1: going to, I think that the classic Intercontinental title design
1:14:26
Speaker 1: on a white strap. I know they use white straps
1:14:29
Speaker 1: now for the women's belts, but the old Intercontinental belt
1:14:33
Speaker 1: on a white strap, now, that was a thing of beauty.
1:14:36
Speaker 1: I would bring that back. That's what Cody brought back.
1:14:42
Speaker 1: When Cody brought back some version of the old design
1:14:45
Speaker 1: in like twenty eleven, I think it was it was
1:14:48
Speaker 1: on a white strap, like when Miz was holding that
1:14:52
Speaker 1: championship and having actually some pretty good matches with it
1:14:55
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. It was
1:14:58
Speaker 1: on a white strap. Nothing wrong with that. Give me backshots,
1:15:08
Speaker 1: Solemn Monster. No, I really believe they refuse to disband
1:15:14
Speaker 1: the MFTs because that would be the end of Solo
1:15:17
Speaker 1: getting real TV time. Big cousin Roman wouldn't like that.
1:15:26
Speaker 1: I can't say that. There's no truth in that. Would
1:15:32
Speaker 1: they have any ideas for Solo? Cause Solo could be
1:15:34
Speaker 1: a funny guy, but they have him as like acting
1:15:38
Speaker 1: as like the mob boss here, and that's not him.
1:15:41
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. He looks like a poser. He's not Roman.
1:15:50
Speaker 1: Holiday one ninety seven says Hi Solo. I was seriously
1:15:53
Speaker 1: considering skipping SmackDown tonight and just watching your review an
1:15:56
Speaker 1: hour into watching the show, and I am regretting it.
1:16:02
Speaker 1: You should have just stuck with me, brother. I could
1:16:04
Speaker 1: have told you what the good stuff was and then
1:16:07
Speaker 1: you can go watch it. The boss moo Jackson, who's
1:16:12
Speaker 1: your early money in the bank? Money in the bank predictions?
1:16:17
Speaker 1: Are you out of your mind? Money in the bank
1:16:21
Speaker 1: is the end of August, dude? Early money in the
1:16:25
Speaker 1: bank predictions. I fucking know. I mean, I don't even
1:16:28
Speaker 1: know who's gonna be on the main roster at that point.
1:16:33
Speaker 1: My early money in the bank prediction. On the men's side,
1:16:35
Speaker 1: I'll shit my god. I mean, I'll go Trick Williams.
1:16:41
Speaker 1: On the women's side, I'll go lash legend Funny enough
1:16:44
Speaker 1: if the two of them are a couple. Josh Carlo's
1:16:47
Speaker 1: better film The Rundown or The Condemned. I enjoyed The
1:16:52
Speaker 1: Rundown more, Osmo Jackson. I'd like to have seen Oba
1:17:02
Speaker 1: instead of Zack. Well. Oba just returned at the end
1:17:05
Speaker 1: of NXT on Tuesday night, so apparently he is not
1:17:09
Speaker 1: done with NXT yet. Oba Femi will not be in
1:17:12
Speaker 1: the tournament. Also, he says, we need to see a bracket.
1:17:20
Speaker 1: Random matches, isn't it. Oh, you will get a tumbler
1:17:24
Speaker 1: and you will enjoy it. You don't enjoy the random tumbler.
1:17:29
Speaker 1: What are your early Royal Rumble predictions men and women? Well,
1:17:32
Speaker 1: I said before, I think Bianca would be my early
1:17:35
Speaker 1: prediction on the women's side. On the men's side, that's
1:17:38
Speaker 1: a little bit tougher. There was a time a few
1:17:42
Speaker 1: months ago where I would have said samy' zayin, but
1:17:44
Speaker 1: they just have gotten completely away from that story about him.
1:17:48
Speaker 1: You know, I know I can be a world champion,
1:17:50
Speaker 1: like he hasn't said anything about that in months, So
1:17:56
Speaker 1: I'm thinking man Breaker, Maybe I go bron Breaker is
1:18:03
Speaker 1: like an early favorite pick for the Rumble, But honestly,
1:18:11
Speaker 1: I could see Roman reigns Arabian Night next NXT two
1:18:23
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he's Matt Cardona in TNA, and tonight we
1:18:27
Speaker 1: see Zack Ryder. I bet deep down he's gutted that
1:18:30
Speaker 1: he had to go buy this again after reinventing himself
1:18:32
Speaker 1: the last five years. It didn't He's say in that
1:18:35
Speaker 1: interview he did with Chris van Vliet that he would
1:18:37
Speaker 1: never be met or he would never be a Zach
1:18:39
Speaker 1: Ryder again. Believe me, I'm sure it wasn't his choice.
1:18:54
Speaker 1: The Bossmo Jackson says, I get so much pleasure seeing
1:18:57
Speaker 1: Cody smashed at the end. I love the way Bronson
1:19:00
Speaker 1: does his finish, But Logan does not look like a wrestler.
1:19:10
Speaker 1: Let me read some of these member chats here. Yes,
1:19:12
Speaker 1: the member chats do not show on this particular screen.
1:19:15
Speaker 1: So I have to go fish. I have to go
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Speaker 1: fish for them on a different tab here. It's a
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Speaker 1: pain in the ass thanks to YouTube, but I'll find
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Speaker 1: them here. Let's see. We got one here from Sidrow
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Speaker 1: sixteen months from our boy Sidro. This was from an
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Speaker 1: hour ago. My door was a jar, so I added jelly.
1:19:54
Speaker 1: Now it's a door jam this guy. And I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to remember what the French word for white is. My
1:20:05
Speaker 1: mind just keeps going blanc. Look at this guy trying
1:20:14
Speaker 1: to be sophisticated. Bobby means with twenty one months, he's
1:20:18
Speaker 1: got Sidro trump by five months. There there was a
1:20:21
Speaker 1: rumor that WWE is considering the Caare against Rhea for
1:20:25
Speaker 1: WrestleMania or Vicare against Becky Lynch. If that's the case,
1:20:30
Speaker 1: then who would you have winning the rumble Bianca Bella,
1:20:35
Speaker 1: because whoever challenges Stephanie Vicaire if she is still the
1:20:38
Speaker 1: champion in WrestleMania, could win the elimination chamber, and I
1:20:43
Speaker 1: think that person is Rhea Ripley. And again Jamie from earlier,
1:20:52
Speaker 1: thank you for those five gifted memberships. You're awesome. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's get back to these now. Prince begeta ninety five
1:21:02
Speaker 1: as a fellow Sopranos fan, what do you think happened
1:21:05
Speaker 1: to Valerie the Russian after the Pine Barons episode? He
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Speaker 1: was an interior decorator after he was Yes, he was
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Speaker 1: an interior see I like to I like to believe
1:21:20
Speaker 1: that he went into an actual career. He had a
1:21:24
Speaker 1: career change and he actually became an interior decorator. Like
1:21:28
Speaker 1: in my mind, that's that's what I see, that's what
1:21:31
Speaker 1: I envision as his future. I have to believe this.
1:21:41
Speaker 1: Joseph with the two bucks says, thought you could use
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Speaker 1: this after SmackDown moving to three hours. Thank you, Joseph,
1:21:46
Speaker 1: although after this news, it's uh, I could use more
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Speaker 1: than three bucks. You know, a bottle of whiskey costs
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Speaker 1: a lot more than three three bucks or two bucks
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Speaker 1: two bucks. I think bottle of whiskey's not cheap. But
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Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for looking out. Refresh
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Speaker 1: this list here so that you guys can see all
1:22:09
Speaker 1: the new ones. Ragnarok, he says, really Carmelo against Bronson,
1:22:17
Speaker 1: I wonder who's going to win anyway, my prediction Joe
1:22:19
Speaker 1: Hendry shows up on Raw and they debut Obafemi in
1:22:23
Speaker 1: the rumble. Well again, I said, Carmelo could stand the
1:22:32
Speaker 1: chance if Cody gets revenge and then he could backdoor
1:22:35
Speaker 1: his way into the next round, which again I just
1:22:38
Speaker 1: think would be incredibly lame if that happened, but it
1:22:45
Speaker 1: would get him into the next round. So for him,
1:22:48
Speaker 1: you know, I guess a win is a win, but
1:22:51
Speaker 1: what a lame way to win, you know, Super Pony
1:22:55
Speaker 1: smack down back to three hours. That's what we do
1:22:58
Speaker 1: in the triple Ah voice. Yeah, he's very fond of
1:23:00
Speaker 1: saying that's what we do. It's what we do. This
1:23:04
Speaker 1: what we do. I've seen the compilation video. It's amazing
1:23:07
Speaker 1: how many times he says that. Prince Vegeta says with
1:23:12
Speaker 1: a nine to ninety nine logan, Paul might be the
1:23:15
Speaker 1: most undeserving part timer WWE has ever had. He has
1:23:19
Speaker 1: two good matches every four months, disappears and then comes
1:23:22
Speaker 1: back in a main event program. He pinned Jelly Roll
1:23:26
Speaker 1: big deal. He's like some of their are other top
1:23:33
Speaker 1: guys that barely show up when they have a need
1:23:37
Speaker 1: for him. They dust them off, they bring them in
1:23:40
Speaker 1: to most of the time lose. I mean all the
1:23:42
Speaker 1: championship matches, like World championship matches. He's had multiple ones.
1:23:46
Speaker 1: Now he's lost every single one of them, lost to Roman,
1:23:49
Speaker 1: lost to Cody. If he wrestles Punk, he's gonna lose
1:23:54
Speaker 1: that one too, as he should because he's not full time.
1:23:59
Speaker 1: And if he's not not able to commit full time,
1:24:01
Speaker 1: that's fine, But then I don't want to see him
1:24:03
Speaker 1: anywhere near the World Championship. Like, I'm done with that.
1:24:08
Speaker 1: We've had enough of that over these last few years.
1:24:10
Speaker 1: We don't need more of that. Sees. What's your favorite
1:24:14
Speaker 1: EO SKY match this year? I mean, it's one of two.
1:24:20
Speaker 1: It's either the WrestleMania Triple Threat or the match of
1:24:22
Speaker 1: Rea at Evolution. H Man, That match of Rio was
1:24:28
Speaker 1: so good. I might lean towards the Ria EO match,
1:24:35
Speaker 1: but it's tough. You can't go wrong with either one
1:24:37
Speaker 1: of those matches. It's one of those two. It's one
1:24:40
Speaker 1: of those two. When I do my end of the
1:24:43
Speaker 1: year like Match of the Year list, I'll have to
1:24:45
Speaker 1: figure out what goes where. But I think I'm leaning
1:24:49
Speaker 1: towards that Evolution match JDFVA for the five dollars super Chat.
1:24:54
Speaker 1: I've always been advocating for cross branding women's and tag
1:24:57
Speaker 1: team Division. Am I wrong? Tag Team Division? Yes, Women's Division? No.
1:25:06
Speaker 1: You just have to supply an equal number of women
1:25:08
Speaker 1: for each show, which they have not done. There's an
1:25:11
Speaker 1: imbalance between the two shows right now. The tag team division,
1:25:14
Speaker 1: though I agree with you on that at least the
1:25:17
Speaker 1: tag team titles are cross branded. I think that the
1:25:21
Speaker 1: men's tag team titles should be reunified and that you
1:25:25
Speaker 1: should have floating champions there. That's what I think. Mac
1:25:33
Speaker 1: tub better overall performer in ninety nine, Austin or Rock,
1:25:41
Speaker 1: I mean overall performer in ninety nine. Probably Austin, I'm
1:25:46
Speaker 1: sorry Rock, Probably Rock. True Crime on Leash. Dakota Kai
1:25:54
Speaker 1: is set to debut in AW aligned with Mercedes Monette
1:25:56
Speaker 1: as Charlie Girl. I don't know if that's just supposed
1:26:02
Speaker 1: to be a joke or I don't know anymore. I
1:26:11
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a joker, if that's real. I
1:26:12
Speaker 1: don't think that's real. Maybe Charlie Angel. Then Mercedes can
1:26:23
Speaker 1: add somebody else and they she'll have Charlie's Angels. See
1:26:28
Speaker 1: there you go. How do you like that? Sidro? The Shaunathan,
1:26:32
Speaker 1: in your opinion, is triple h hate the traditional Survivor
1:26:35
Speaker 1: series elimination match feels like since he took over he
1:26:39
Speaker 1: just refuses to do one on the pl Well, he's
1:26:41
Speaker 1: doing one on SMACKDD in two weeks, so he must
1:26:43
Speaker 1: not hate it that much. I don't think he cares
1:26:46
Speaker 1: for it, but he obviously doesn't despise it because he
1:26:48
Speaker 1: wouldn't bring it back Both Men Entertainment. Finn defeated Bobby
1:26:55
Speaker 1: Lashley at maybe a thirty five for the Intercontinental title.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: I can confirm this as I was there. I can
1:27:00
Speaker 1: also confirm that Bobbly Lashly was not there. Really, I
1:27:08
Speaker 1: just have no memory of that match. Where were you sitting,
1:27:11
Speaker 1: by the way, you might have been sitting near each other. Leopouldo.
1:27:16
Speaker 1: How long before the crowd chance shut the fuck up
1:27:19
Speaker 1: to Cody? They're not going to Chance shut the fuck
1:27:22
Speaker 1: up until he goes heal. You might start hearing some
1:27:25
Speaker 1: booze eventually, but they're not going to Chance shut the
1:27:27
Speaker 1: fuck up at him. Sees. What would you have Eo
1:27:32
Speaker 1: doing at WrestleMania next year? I don't know. She probably
1:27:35
Speaker 1: will not be challenging for a championship, but I definitely
1:27:39
Speaker 1: want her on the card in some form. For her
1:27:41
Speaker 1: to not be on the card after having the year
1:27:43
Speaker 1: that she's had would be a huge slap in the face.
1:27:47
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just hope she's on the
1:27:49
Speaker 1: actual show, preferably in a singles match. But if it
1:27:55
Speaker 1: was a triple threat, I could accept that Holiday one
1:28:00
Speaker 1: ninety seven. Shouldn't Bronson read be upset that bron Breaker
1:28:03
Speaker 1: and Logan Paul caused a DQ in his WWE Championship match.
1:28:07
Speaker 1: This is going to make Reid look clueless. Well that's
1:28:11
Speaker 1: how they like doing it. No, he's not going to
1:28:14
Speaker 1: be upset because evidently he was about to lose and
1:28:17
Speaker 1: so therefore he got saved. And nothing matters in this company.
1:28:21
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's your answer. Nothing matters perfectly
1:28:29
Speaker 1: fine question to ask, why would Paul Hayman go through
1:28:32
Speaker 1: the exercise of convincing him to make it a championship
1:28:35
Speaker 1: match and then seemingly not care that the match was blown.
1:28:42
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Triple H would tell you just
1:28:44
Speaker 1: shut up and enjoy the ride and don't ask questions.
1:28:48
Speaker 1: They don't like it when you do that. Mactub who
1:28:54
Speaker 1: is the WrestleMania who has the WrestleMania match catalog besides
1:28:58
Speaker 1: HBK and Taker match catalog? Oh? I could think of
1:29:03
Speaker 1: a few people Randy Savage has a pretty good catalog.
1:29:06
Speaker 1: Brett Hart has a pretty good catalog. So those are
1:29:11
Speaker 1: two names right there. Ron was killed. Guess WWE can
1:29:16
Speaker 1: only handle the truth, says Leopoldo. Yeah, Ron Killings didn't
1:29:26
Speaker 1: last very long. He cut his hair off and that
1:29:30
Speaker 1: was the end of Ron the Truth killings. Oh well,
1:29:36
Speaker 1: at least he got his job back. Griga, thank you
1:29:39
Speaker 1: for the two bucks. Appreciate it. Leopoldo says, what if
1:29:42
Speaker 1: Big Shows finisher was the small package? I would think
1:29:48
Speaker 1: that that would be a little difficult for him to
1:29:50
Speaker 1: pull off, especially with smaller opponents. He would crush them.
1:29:59
Speaker 1: Alex and WWE just released Zack Ryder shirts on their store.
1:30:04
Speaker 1: Of course, gotta make as much money as you can
1:30:07
Speaker 1: while you can. I don't know that that's indicative of anything,
1:30:11
Speaker 1: but I'm not surprised. Leopoldo says, I thought Alexander said
1:30:16
Speaker 1: WWE just released Zach Ryer. Sadly, I would not have
1:30:21
Speaker 1: been surprised. Yeah, you know, as I look at that
1:30:25
Speaker 1: super chat again, that is the first thing that you
1:30:28
Speaker 1: see when you read it. WWE just released Zack Ryder
1:30:32
Speaker 1: man as quickly as they as quickly as they brought
1:30:35
Speaker 1: him back. He's already been released. They brought him back
1:30:40
Speaker 1: just to release him. Grand opening, Grand closing, Matt Fisher says,
1:30:51
Speaker 1: why don't pirates shower before they walk the plank because
1:30:57
Speaker 1: they wash up on shore later. Well done, Thank you, Matt.
1:31:07
Speaker 1: It's not a bad one. Le Poldo with a thirteen
1:31:12
Speaker 1: dollars macho man, super chat. Cody might as well add
1:31:17
Speaker 1: GM to his name. He's sure his comfy, demanding matches.
1:31:20
Speaker 1: From all this, he's becoming a bit insufferable. And why
1:31:25
Speaker 1: the hell was reading not pissed that Division aka bron
1:31:31
Speaker 1: Vision interfered. Yeah, just talked about that. Don't have a
1:31:39
Speaker 1: good answer for you. You're not supposed to ask questions,
1:31:49
Speaker 1: Jamie Dorsh with an orange chat, you go from yellow
1:31:55
Speaker 1: to code orange here. Thank you for painfully watching SmackDown
1:31:59
Speaker 1: each week to keep us up dated so we don't
1:32:01
Speaker 1: have to watch. What is Caine's best match? Does he
1:32:10
Speaker 1: have one? Caine's best match? Hmm, I don't know, I
1:32:28
Speaker 1: don't know. You stumped me. I think the one that
1:32:31
Speaker 1: will probably be the most memorable. I mean it could
1:32:35
Speaker 1: be the first Undertaker Caine won from WrestleMania, but I
1:32:37
Speaker 1: always think of the one where he won the championship,
1:32:41
Speaker 1: the first Blood match, King of the Ring ninety eight.
1:32:44
Speaker 1: It's a pretty memorable match quality wise. Probably not his
1:32:48
Speaker 1: best match though, TLC four Yeah, I mean that's kind
1:32:54
Speaker 1: of cheating, but no, I mean he was part of
1:32:56
Speaker 1: that match TLC four on Raw that was back in
1:32:59
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. Yeah, I mean probably that. By default,
1:33:07
Speaker 1: Caine doesn't really have a catalog of like great matches.
1:33:10
Speaker 1: You know, He's had some memorable matches that he's been
1:33:12
Speaker 1: a part of, but I don't think anybody's making a
1:33:16
Speaker 1: list of like the top fifteen, top twenty Kine matches.
1:33:27
Speaker 1: I do remember there was that one match on Raw.
1:33:31
Speaker 1: I don't remember the date, but he had a match
1:33:34
Speaker 1: with the Big Show and they were trying something different.
1:33:37
Speaker 1: They were doing chain wrestling, and I wish I can
1:33:41
Speaker 1: remember when that was it. I remember watching that being
1:33:44
Speaker 1: like holy shit, like what are they doing? You know,
1:33:47
Speaker 1: they were trying something different. That's why I still remember
1:33:50
Speaker 1: that match all these years later. I just can't remember
1:33:52
Speaker 1: the actual like year or the date that it took place.
1:33:59
Speaker 1: Furious Nation with A nine ninety nine joining us tonight,
1:34:03
Speaker 1: What's Up Solo Raw and SmackDown. Legit is night and day.
1:34:07
Speaker 1: Feels like Triple H is more hands on with Raw
1:34:09
Speaker 1: and Road Doug is more hands on with SmackDown. Like
1:34:13
Speaker 1: you said, feels like Raw is more consistent. Yeah, and
1:34:20
Speaker 1: I don't really understand why, but you can tell just
1:34:23
Speaker 1: from the rosters. Raw has the stronger roster right now
1:34:27
Speaker 1: and that helps. And you know why they haven't bothered
1:34:31
Speaker 1: in these last few months to extend that same assistance
1:34:34
Speaker 1: to Smack then. I just don't really understand it, but
1:34:38
Speaker 1: it really does. I mean, it really does feel like
1:34:39
Speaker 1: night and day on most weeks between these two shows.
1:34:45
Speaker 1: Eight nine Tech. Why Gunther isn't the guy in WWE
1:34:48
Speaker 1: right now? Why is he not the guy? He's been
1:34:52
Speaker 1: out with an injury and he's still a heel, and
1:34:56
Speaker 1: a heel is never going to be the guy in WWE.
1:35:00
Speaker 1: So that's why he's great in the heel role. One day,
1:35:05
Speaker 1: if he goes Babyface, you know, maybe some people will
1:35:09
Speaker 1: see him as the guy, but he's never gonna be
1:35:10
Speaker 1: positioned as like in the role that Cody is in
1:35:13
Speaker 1: right now or the role that Roman was in. That's
1:35:17
Speaker 1: just that's just not him. They're not going to have
1:35:20
Speaker 1: him in that role. Diego ASKI has a real question
1:35:24
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga or due lupa Lady Gaga. Mount Vernon Kidd says,
1:35:31
Speaker 1: did you hear about Santana losing the TNA title? Yeah?
1:35:35
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Yeah, I'll be talking about that
1:35:42
Speaker 1: on Sunday as well. Jeremy Rose, do you see Jade
1:35:47
Speaker 1: is the type of heel that wants to face Bianca
1:35:49
Speaker 1: because she thinks she's unstoppable or tries everything to avoid her.
1:35:57
Speaker 1: I don't think she's going to try to avoid her.
1:35:58
Speaker 1: I think that I don't know that they to portray
1:36:00
Speaker 1: her that way. I think that I think option one,
1:36:06
Speaker 1: not option two. Paul Carpenter, who wins brock Lesner or
1:36:17
Speaker 1: Sid Vicious in any era? Brock Lesner. I'm a big
1:36:22
Speaker 1: Sid Mark. I love Sid, but back in the day,
1:36:25
Speaker 1: man Sid was the guy. Man Sid was awesome. But
1:36:29
Speaker 1: I gotta go Brock. See the real match that we
1:36:34
Speaker 1: missed out on was like prime Brock against Prime Vader,
1:36:37
Speaker 1: like big Van Vader, like ninety two ninety three Vader.
1:36:44
Speaker 1: That would have been something. Or imagine them as a
1:36:48
Speaker 1: tag team. I love cats or loves Cats the Sunday shows,
1:36:59
Speaker 1: they don't drop it any specific time. I record them
1:37:02
Speaker 1: as early as I can in the morning. I'm still
1:37:04
Speaker 1: collecting news and stuff. It takes. It's like an all
1:37:06
Speaker 1: day effort. I try to get them out as early
1:37:10
Speaker 1: in the mid afternoon as possible. Push him out hits
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1:37:32
Speaker 1: but you'll say, keep refreshing, it'll pop up. Jeremy says,
1:37:38
Speaker 1: I disagree with your take on Cardona. Don't you think
1:37:40
Speaker 1: he was Zach Ryder tonight because he has history with Sina. Dude,
1:37:43
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Like he's Matt Cardona. Now you know,
1:37:47
Speaker 1: Zach Ryder has been dead for fucking years. Matt Cardona
1:37:52
Speaker 1: had history with Scene. It's I mean, now we're just
1:37:54
Speaker 1: being we're picking nits here, but like it's the same person, dude,
1:37:58
Speaker 1: you know. I mean you could say Cardona back in
1:38:01
Speaker 1: his Zack Ryder days had history with John Cena. So
1:38:05
Speaker 1: Believe me, it would have been fine if they would
1:38:06
Speaker 1: have called him by his real name. I'm sure there
1:38:08
Speaker 1: was some sort of legal reason that they didn't want
1:38:11
Speaker 1: to call him Matt Cardona. I just think it's silly
1:38:14
Speaker 1: that he's Matt Cardona on their own television show like
1:38:17
Speaker 1: a month ago, and now he's Zack Ryder. It's just stupid,
1:38:29
Speaker 1: furious Nation. Also, my grandma is going for partial hip
1:38:33
Speaker 1: replacement surgery tomorrow as she fell this past Wednesday. Hoping
1:38:36
Speaker 1: for the best. I'm hoping for the best for her.
1:38:39
Speaker 1: I hope it all works out. It's very tough, especially
1:38:43
Speaker 1: when you get older. You hear a lot about that
1:38:45
Speaker 1: you take a fall, you know, you have a grandparent
1:38:48
Speaker 1: or an aunt or an uncle. You know, we're kind
1:38:51
Speaker 1: of going through that right now my family, where you know,
1:38:54
Speaker 1: someone falls and it's never a good thing. So I
1:39:00
Speaker 1: hope it all works out. Man, Hey, blue Jay, with
1:39:11
Speaker 1: seven months of membership here, you need to listen to
1:39:15
Speaker 1: Jesse's idea of blood and guts from Wednesday, the idea
1:39:20
Speaker 1: of the match having a purpose in the title picture.
1:39:21
Speaker 1: These matches need sense. I talked about blood and Guts
1:39:26
Speaker 1: in my in my review on Wednesday and gave you
1:39:28
Speaker 1: my thoughts on that if you want to go check
1:39:29
Speaker 1: that out. Jonathan Peters twelve months of membership, Seamus shinsk
1:39:35
Speaker 1: Russev Priest, Gunther Evans, Solo mystery Man, jami is La Cardona,
1:39:41
Speaker 1: Penta Balor Re just reading all the fucking names in
1:39:45
Speaker 1: the tournament. That's all sixteen mystery Hendri, Hendri wins it all, okay,
1:39:52
Speaker 1: So yeah, the mystery Man. That's it. Like it's the
1:39:54
Speaker 1: last mystery spot in the tournament. On Monday, it probably
1:39:58
Speaker 1: will be Hendry. I still feel like Gunther wins the
1:40:03
Speaker 1: whole thing. That's just how I feel. But it also
1:40:11
Speaker 1: I would like to see like where these people are
1:40:14
Speaker 1: going to actually land. So hopefully once they're through this
1:40:17
Speaker 1: entire first round, we will get like a visual bracket
1:40:21
Speaker 1: so we know who's facing who. Like it's ridiculous, like
1:40:24
Speaker 1: you gotta give us something so we could see what
1:40:27
Speaker 1: the different like match configurations are actually going to be.
1:40:43
Speaker 1: Cameo Johnson, Hey, solo, hope all is great. I imagined
1:40:47
Speaker 1: you were swinging the air like tray from Boys in
1:40:50
Speaker 1: the Hood when you heard that they were expanding SmackDown
1:40:54
Speaker 1: back to three hours. Yes, I was punching the air.
1:41:00
Speaker 1: I had a double check to make sure I wasn't
1:41:02
Speaker 1: reading wessel votes, and then when I realized that it
1:41:05
Speaker 1: was wrestle votes, I just sank into a deep depression.
1:41:09
Speaker 1: This afternoon, Leopoldo says, what's your early WrestleMania fifty prediction?
1:41:21
Speaker 1: I mean, to this point, it's going to be solemn
1:41:23
Speaker 1: Monster against the whoever is running the USA network. The
1:41:28
Speaker 1: Mount Burning Kid Macaulay Culkin reprised his role as an
1:41:31
Speaker 1: older Kevin in another commercial and he met an older
1:41:34
Speaker 1: granddaughter of old man Marley. Wow, that's right. He wasn't
1:41:43
Speaker 1: some kind of commercial. So is that the one I'm
1:41:45
Speaker 1: thinking of? Or was there a new one? Chris Bellow?
1:41:50
Speaker 1: What is Mark Henry's favorite Eddie Murphy movie? The True
1:41:59
Speaker 1: Crime Unleash? Wwe move money in the bank to the
1:42:02
Speaker 1: end of September? Oh no, they moved it to the
1:42:05
Speaker 1: beginning of September, not the end. Luis with a five.
1:42:10
Speaker 1: Speaking about Obafemi, KTLA decided to cut into the ten
1:42:16
Speaker 1: o'clock news when Obafemi was making his grand return on Tuesday.
1:42:23
Speaker 1: Do you mean to tell me that your local TV
1:42:25
Speaker 1: station placed a higher priority on the local news than
1:42:29
Speaker 1: the return of Obafemi at the end of NXT. I
1:42:34
Speaker 1: mean I would just I would. I would ban the
1:42:36
Speaker 1: whole network. I would ban the entire channel. By the way,
1:42:42
Speaker 1: earlier tonight, I did see that the news broke that
1:42:48
Speaker 1: YouTube TV and Disney reached an agreement to reinstate all
1:42:52
Speaker 1: Disney owned channels on YouTube TV. I have been without
1:42:56
Speaker 1: ABC and ESPN for a couple of weeks now, and
1:43:00
Speaker 1: it hasn't really had any impact on my life. So
1:43:05
Speaker 1: the only thing I really give a shit about is
1:43:07
Speaker 1: that I'm still paying the same price for a service
1:43:10
Speaker 1: that now has fewer channels that I have an issue with.
1:43:13
Speaker 1: So I got my twenty dollars credit, but now apparently
1:43:16
Speaker 1: the channels are in the process of being restored. So
1:43:19
Speaker 1: if you are a YouTube TV customer, just be aware
1:43:21
Speaker 1: of that. Now you can watch your football again. Uh oh,
1:43:27
Speaker 1: it's John Laurinidis dropping a dollar ninety nine. You know, John,
1:43:32
Speaker 1: you should probably save that money for your legal fees. Buddy,
1:43:37
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're sending it to me, says
1:43:41
Speaker 1: this show needs a little more people power. People power,
1:43:53
Speaker 1: cameo Johnson with a four ninety nine. What do you
1:43:58
Speaker 1: think of Mariah May in nx T how they fumbled Julia.
1:44:02
Speaker 1: I am afraid Mariah will get the same treatment once
1:44:04
Speaker 1: she hits the main roster. WWE is two soulless, yes,
1:44:12
Speaker 1: because the Rock took its soul when he couldn't get Cody's.
1:44:16
Speaker 1: I think that Mariah May is gonna do very well.
1:44:20
Speaker 1: Mariah May has a lot of sex appeals. She's blonde,
1:44:24
Speaker 1: she's already I mean, she's already right there, She's right
1:44:28
Speaker 1: where she needs to be, and she hasn't even hit
1:44:29
Speaker 1: the main roster yet. She already checks the boxes. Believe me,
1:44:34
Speaker 1: they're not going to fumble her the way that they
1:44:36
Speaker 1: fumble Julius. So far, Phoenix downs the greatest match during
1:44:52
Speaker 1: the Thunderdome era, Dude, I honestly like I try to
1:44:59
Speaker 1: block that era out as much as possible. I mean,
1:45:02
Speaker 1: I know they had some dramatic stuff with like Roman
1:45:04
Speaker 1: and Jay. You know they did that hell in a
1:45:07
Speaker 1: cell match. Roman and Ko had that match at the
1:45:15
Speaker 1: Rumble that was in the Thunderdome was a false count
1:45:18
Speaker 1: anywhere offhand, I don't know, maybe the Boneyard match, if
1:45:24
Speaker 1: that counts, Maybe the Boneyard match or Wrestle Mini at
1:45:26
Speaker 1: thirty six. There were some good matches during that era.
1:45:29
Speaker 1: I just I don't have any interest in going back
1:45:31
Speaker 1: and watching him, and I've blocked a lot of that out,
1:45:34
Speaker 1: Like wrestling is not meant to be held in that
1:45:37
Speaker 1: kind of environment. You need to have fans in the buildings.
1:45:41
Speaker 1: So they made the most of a bad situation. But
1:45:45
Speaker 1: it's not like I have some sort of burning passion
1:45:48
Speaker 1: to go back five years ago. Oh I got to
1:45:51
Speaker 1: go back and watch this, Like No, I think five
1:45:56
Speaker 1: or ten years from now there might be some novelty
1:45:58
Speaker 1: in going back and checking some out. But yeah, I'm
1:46:03
Speaker 1: probably leaning towards either one of the Roman Ko matches
1:46:06
Speaker 1: or the Boneyard match or wrestle Mania Paul Carpenter with
1:46:14
Speaker 1: a five. I watched Hulk Hogan versus Mister Wonderful on
1:46:17
Speaker 1: YouTube in Canada. They teased Wonderful winning. I think he
1:46:20
Speaker 1: should have won the championship at least once. You know what,
1:46:26
Speaker 1: if they wanted to, that could have been saved for
1:46:28
Speaker 1: WrestleMania three. But I would say they made the right decision.
1:46:35
Speaker 1: Not that Hogan andre was some great technical masterpiece, but
1:46:40
Speaker 1: there's no bigger attraction that you could have done than
1:46:43
Speaker 1: Hogan Andre but that was right around the time that
1:46:46
Speaker 1: Hogan and Orndorf were still feuding. They had that blowoff
1:46:48
Speaker 1: in the cage on Saturday Night's main event. That was
1:46:51
Speaker 1: only two months before WrestleMania three. If they wanted to,
1:46:54
Speaker 1: they could have pushed it back. They could have put
1:46:56
Speaker 1: the belt on Orndorf in late eighty six and had
1:46:59
Speaker 1: Hogan win it back wrestle Media three. But timing just
1:47:02
Speaker 1: didn't work out. You know, they went with the bigger match.
1:47:04
Speaker 1: I would have done the same thing, you know, I
1:47:07
Speaker 1: would have done exactly what Vince did. Jeremy Rose wwe
1:47:16
Speaker 1: once again fumbling this SNA tour. If the point of
1:47:21
Speaker 1: his last match is to get someone new over Oba
1:47:25
Speaker 1: or trick, he says, Well, he says obi Obi wan Kenobi.
1:47:33
Speaker 1: I don't think he needs the push, says not a
1:47:38
Speaker 1: made man in Gunther. Well, you say that if the
1:47:43
Speaker 1: point of his last match is to get someone new over,
1:47:46
Speaker 1: maybe that's not the point of his last match. That's
1:47:48
Speaker 1: what you say the point might be, but that's not
1:47:50
Speaker 1: what they may feel. I mean, I don't disagree. If
1:47:54
Speaker 1: the point is to get somebody new over, then sure
1:47:56
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be Gunther, But who said that that was
1:47:58
Speaker 1: the point of the match. That's the point of the
1:48:02
Speaker 1: other matches that John Cena has said that he wants
1:48:05
Speaker 1: to have on that Saturday Night's made a venture. That's
1:48:08
Speaker 1: why they're doing a whole series of WWE versus NXT matches.
1:48:12
Speaker 1: You know, that may not be the point of his
1:48:14
Speaker 1: last match. The Mount Vernon Kidd rank these four Stone
1:48:23
Speaker 1: Cold segments, the Pilman incident, paging doctor Austin Tyson and
1:48:27
Speaker 1: Austin brawl on Raw and Stone Cold versus Booker t
1:48:29
Speaker 1: in the Supermarkets. I mean, they are all classic segments
1:48:38
Speaker 1: in terms of my personal level of enjoyment. For me,
1:48:45
Speaker 1: it's different. You got two comedy segments and then you
1:48:47
Speaker 1: have two more serious ones. So for me, I mean
1:48:54
Speaker 1: the supermarket one is a classic, But I mean Austin Tyson,
1:48:58
Speaker 1: that's a mean and that kicked everything off in ninety eight.
1:49:02
Speaker 1: You know, that made all the newscasts. I remember watching
1:49:05
Speaker 1: my local news like Luis probably was actually back then,
1:49:09
Speaker 1: Luis I don't even know the Luise may have been
1:49:11
Speaker 1: a twinkle in his father's eye for all I know,
1:49:13
Speaker 1: but it was a big deal when they had that
1:49:17
Speaker 1: shoving match, between Austin and Tyson. That was a big deal.
1:49:24
Speaker 1: You know, you left off what probably would be my
1:49:25
Speaker 1: favorite one. You didn't even include it here in your list,
1:49:28
Speaker 1: which is the Zamboni incidents, still one of the greatest
1:49:33
Speaker 1: segments of all time. But if I was going to
1:49:38
Speaker 1: rank them, I would go Tyson, Austin paging doctor Austin,
1:49:47
Speaker 1: supermarket gun incident, super pony. What's more miserable being a
1:49:53
Speaker 1: Mets fan or a fan of one of the two
1:49:56
Speaker 1: New York NFL teams? Generally, speaking of being a fan
1:50:01
Speaker 1: of New York sports, I mean the Knicks. The Knicks
1:50:08
Speaker 1: are the best of the bunch, but otherwise they all
1:50:10
Speaker 1: pretty much suck. Hoffman says Satin section three twenty three
1:50:16
Speaker 1: for wrestlemanting at thirty five. All right, I don't remember
1:50:18
Speaker 1: what section I was in, but I know it was
1:50:20
Speaker 1: better than three twenty three. Barry says, Honestly, Sina deserved
1:50:27
Speaker 1: better than what he got this year. Yeah, they fumbled
1:50:32
Speaker 1: a good part of this final run for sure. Duff's VIDs.
1:50:38
Speaker 1: Did you know if you boil a funny bone, you
1:50:42
Speaker 1: get a laughing stock. Isn't that humorous? I have a
1:50:53
Speaker 1: It's like a square It's not framed or anything, but
1:50:56
Speaker 1: it's like a square tile on the wall in the
1:50:59
Speaker 1: living room. It's a picture of a cat, uh holding
1:51:06
Speaker 1: up a bone, and it just says, I found this humorous.
1:51:11
Speaker 1: We're on the We're on the same wavelength as far
1:51:14
Speaker 1: as our humor. Matt Fisher, why did the wrestler bring
1:51:20
Speaker 1: a ladder to the match because he heard the competition
1:51:23
Speaker 1: was on another level? Duffs Vince says, what happened to
1:51:33
Speaker 1: the turkey that got in a fight? He got the
1:51:36
Speaker 1: stuffing knocked out of him? Some Thanksgiving humor. We have
1:51:42
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving coming up in two weeks. Leopoldo. I think Caine
1:51:50
Speaker 1: had great moments more so than matches. I agree, a
1:51:54
Speaker 1: lot of memorable Cane moments over the years. Wayne the
1:52:00
Speaker 1: Cosmic Grandma with a nineteen ninety nine just got back
1:52:04
Speaker 1: from Southern Honor Wrestling main show of the Year and
1:52:07
Speaker 1: AJ Styles was there to hand over the championship. I
1:52:11
Speaker 1: can't believe I've been watching him wrestle for twenty five years.
1:52:16
Speaker 1: What is your favorite Aj Styles match? Probably the Wrestle
1:52:20
Speaker 1: Kingdom match with knockamoor Z, Paul Senti, buy Er Sell,
1:52:27
Speaker 1: Lemons or Limes Uh, don't like either one. Sorry, Alexander
1:52:36
Speaker 1: plot twice. What of Gable is the mystery opponent? He's not.
1:52:43
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens with the four ninety nine says solo fear not.
1:52:48
Speaker 1: I will be coming back soon to save this shit
1:52:50
Speaker 1: show that is SmackDown. Can't come back a day too soon.
1:52:56
Speaker 1: We missed you, Ko Camo Johnson with a four ninety
1:52:59
Speaker 1: nine Elimination Chamber will be at the United Center instead
1:53:02
Speaker 1: of All State. What are your thoughts do you think
1:53:05
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania or any other big pay per view will
1:53:07
Speaker 1: start being at the United Center. I'm gonna I'm gonna
1:53:11
Speaker 1: do a whole segment on this on the soundof The
1:53:13
Speaker 1: only reason it's happening is because All State is booked.
1:53:16
Speaker 1: There's some sort of monster jam show there. I don't
1:53:20
Speaker 1: think they're gonna start running at the United Center on
1:53:22
Speaker 1: a regular basis, so again, I'll I will definitely talk
1:53:28
Speaker 1: more about this on Sunday though. Uh, we've got the
1:53:34
Speaker 1: HM D quante. I want to make sure I pronounce
1:53:39
Speaker 1: that right. Hey, Sola have been following since TV tracks?
1:53:42
Speaker 1: Can you see the Gunther and Evans match next week?
1:53:45
Speaker 1: Ending like the one two three Kid and Razor match
1:53:47
Speaker 1: years ago. Hmmm, I don't, you know, kind of like
1:53:54
Speaker 1: that slip on a banana peel type finish. I don't.
1:53:57
Speaker 1: I can't rule it out, you know, and then Guntherer
1:53:59
Speaker 1: just murders him after the match is over. I can't
1:54:01
Speaker 1: rule it out, but I just don't see it happening.
1:54:08
Speaker 1: It would be I'll tell you what though, if it
1:54:11
Speaker 1: worked out that way of Javon beats Gunther, which I
1:54:13
Speaker 1: don't think he will, how is that not the upset
1:54:17
Speaker 1: of the year. How's that not the upset of the
1:54:20
Speaker 1: decades so far? Matt Fisher with a twelve thank you
1:54:25
Speaker 1: no message, just showing some love, and Dove's VIDs with
1:54:27
Speaker 1: the four ninety nine If you date an FBI agent
1:54:31
Speaker 1: and break up, do they become your FedEx? Thank you
1:54:38
Speaker 1: Dev's viz. My aunt is still in the hospital and
1:54:46
Speaker 1: I actually uh visited her last week, hoping to get
1:54:54
Speaker 1: her into a rehab center in the next week or two.
1:55:00
Speaker 1: So that's the hope. But she's been there now for
1:55:05
Speaker 1: we're going on two months. Actually, I think as of
1:55:10
Speaker 1: yesterday it was exactly two months since she landed in
1:55:14
Speaker 1: the hospital. So she's still you know, in rough shape.
1:55:19
Speaker 1: But you know, one day at a time. But thank
1:55:22
Speaker 1: you for asking. I appreciate that. So that was fun,
1:55:28
Speaker 1: a lot of good questions in there. Always appreciate that.
1:55:33
Speaker 1: And we had, of course a long time ago we
1:55:37
Speaker 1: had passed the four hundred lights school. We're actually sitting
1:55:40
Speaker 1: at six thirteen. So you guys killed it, and that
1:55:45
Speaker 1: means that, of course it is time for be the booker.
1:55:48
Speaker 1: So let's not waste any more time. Ladies and gentlemen,
1:55:52
Speaker 1: it is now time to be the booker. Let's not
1:55:58
Speaker 1: waste any more time. Except we have Hulkling ninety three.
1:56:03
Speaker 1: I heard from your brother earlier five dollars super chat.
1:56:07
Speaker 1: How can you retire a man who's retiring? Lol, I've
1:56:11
Speaker 1: been hearing that phrase, the one to retire John Cena.
1:56:16
Speaker 1: He's retiring, win, lose or draw. Yes, But the idea
1:56:19
Speaker 1: is that you get to be the person who retired him.
1:56:23
Speaker 1: He is retiring. Question is who is going to be
1:56:26
Speaker 1: the man that will always be able to say that
1:56:28
Speaker 1: if they beat him, if they win in that final match,
1:56:32
Speaker 1: they can say that I retire John Cena. See that's
1:56:36
Speaker 1: the point, all right, tag team be the booker. We
1:56:42
Speaker 1: have the ussos Jimmy and Jay shout out to almost
1:56:50
Speaker 1: safe and yeah brother. They don't always show up. The
1:56:52
Speaker 1: superchats show up sometimes the Yellow ones don't, but drop
1:56:56
Speaker 1: it in the chat. If I see it, I'll try
1:56:57
Speaker 1: to answer it. So we got the USO and all
1:57:02
Speaker 1: their tag team How many tag team titles are they
1:57:04
Speaker 1: won over the years? Right, it's got to be at
1:57:06
Speaker 1: least seven or eight the USO. Oh my goodness? Did
1:57:13
Speaker 1: we am I crazy? Or did we not have this
1:57:17
Speaker 1: match last week? The USSOS against Techno Team two thousand.
1:57:28
Speaker 1: I could have sworn we had this match before. I
1:57:34
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to have this match once, let alone twice.
1:57:42
Speaker 1: I was all ready to hit the bell. I'm like,
1:57:43
Speaker 1: all right, who are putting the USOS against Man the
1:57:45
Speaker 1: Heart Foundation Demolition fucking Techno Team two thousand. Man, I've
1:57:53
Speaker 1: already booked them more times than Vince ever did. Oh
1:57:59
Speaker 1: my god, because I hit the wrong button. I don't
1:58:03
Speaker 1: even know what I'm doing. I just gave her every
1:58:09
Speaker 1: sound effect I have. Let's play every sound fucking brebella.
1:58:20
Speaker 1: We have bre mode in the super chat sometimes we
1:58:23
Speaker 1: have bre mode and be the booker. It is inescapable,
1:58:27
Speaker 1: It is absolutely inescapable. I don't know what the point is.
1:58:36
Speaker 1: I'll pick an opponent any way, But I mean, I
1:58:38
Speaker 1: don't really think it's gonna change much. Yeah, jazz, God
1:58:49
Speaker 1: bless jazz. But I mean, it's not changing anything. It's
1:58:54
Speaker 1: not changing anything. I just went full soundboard there on
1:59:03
Speaker 1: that one. Alright, main event, we have the world's most
1:59:11
Speaker 1: dangerous man, Ken Shamrock. He should be in the Hall
1:59:17
Speaker 1: of Fame. He had a good run. Not very long,
1:59:21
Speaker 1: but he had a good run. Ken Shamrock against Milmoretes. Hey,
1:59:39
Speaker 1: how about that? And we'll add a stipulation to it too,
1:59:44
Speaker 1: because why not in a blindfold match? I just I
1:59:54
Speaker 1: just ruined that made event, didn't I of all the matchup. Dude,
1:59:57
Speaker 1: we have lions, then you could didn't land on lions?
2:00:01
Speaker 1: That we we landed on lions then on Monday or Wednesday,
2:00:05
Speaker 1: I forget which day it was. Why couldn't we land
2:00:08
Speaker 1: on it tonight? We had Ken Shamrock in the main event. No,
2:00:13
Speaker 1: we have to land on blindfold match. We had it.
2:00:18
Speaker 1: We had a bell for the main event, and amazing
2:00:31
Speaker 1: did we go oh for three? We didn't go oh? Yeah,
2:00:34
Speaker 1: we did go oh for three? I guess that. Yeah,
2:00:37
Speaker 1: we were gonna go one for three, but now we
2:00:38
Speaker 1: went over oh for three. I'm sorry, guys, I like,
2:00:41
Speaker 1: oh shit, you know what I forgot. I don't even
2:00:53
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing tonight. I forgot we had the sweep,
2:00:59
Speaker 1: we have the sweet it's the reverse sweep. That's the
2:01:04
Speaker 1: worst kind of sweep that you can have. That's not
2:01:07
Speaker 1: the one that you want. Tomorrow again, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be out in Brentwood, New York, out on Long Island,
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Speaker 1: House of Glory super Clash. It's a stacked card and honestly,
2:01:22
Speaker 1: it's the best and biggest women's card that we have
2:01:26
Speaker 1: ever had in House of Glory. It's not only women's matches,
2:01:30
Speaker 1: but it is by far the strongest women's card that
2:01:32
Speaker 1: we put together, and plus all those other guys as
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Speaker 1: you see there in that advertisement. So that begins at
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Speaker 1: eight pm. If you can't be there, we will be
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Speaker 1: streaming live on Triller TV. I will be on the
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Speaker 1: call and it should be a fun night. And anybody's
2:01:49
Speaker 1: going to be at the big event Expo tomorrow, maybe
2:01:51
Speaker 1: we'll bump into each other. I'm going to try to
2:01:54
Speaker 1: get there before it ends. Our show is not until
2:01:57
Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night. But maybe around the two o'clock,
2:02:02
Speaker 1: three o'clock, maybe I'll be walking around. I'll be the
2:02:06
Speaker 1: guy in the suit kind of hard to miss. I
2:02:10
Speaker 1: won't be wearing my Mark Henry Salmon suit. I just
2:02:14
Speaker 1: wore that. I can't wear that again. I'm not gonna
2:02:16
Speaker 1: be in my Macho Man costume either, but I'll be there.
2:02:20
Speaker 1: And then when I'm back with you Live again, it
2:02:23
Speaker 1: will be Monday Night. That's gonna be a big night.
2:02:25
Speaker 1: It's John seen his last ever match in Madison Square Garden.
2:02:29
Speaker 1: We don't know who he's gonna face. We'll find out
2:02:31
Speaker 1: who Solo Siko's mystery opponent is going to be in
2:02:35
Speaker 1: the tournament. So it's gonna be a big night. And
2:02:38
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch defends her intercontinental title against Maxine Dupree. And
2:02:42
Speaker 1: I suspect that we're gonna get the return of a
2:02:45
Speaker 1: certain OTC. So come on back here and we'll talk
2:02:50
Speaker 1: about all of it on Monday night. Before that, though,
2:02:52
Speaker 1: you've got episode nine thirty eight of the sound Off
2:02:54
Speaker 1: that's gonna be dropping sometime on Sunday afternoon. That'll be
2:02:59
Speaker 1: my hangover from the Hog Show. So a lot of
2:03:03
Speaker 1: good stuff coming up. Be well stay safe, have yourselves
2:03:07
Speaker 1: a great night, have yourself a great weekend, and I
2:03:10
Speaker 1: will see you back here very soon. Live on YouTube
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Speaker 1: for more sound Duff thanks for hanging out with me
2:03:15
Speaker 1: on a Friday night. Guys, I appreciate it. I'll see
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Speaker 1: you then