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WWE Smackdown 12/12/25 Review | THE RULER Confronts Cody Rhodes And A SCARY Main Event! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1: Tonight was the SmackDown before Saturday Night's main event. Only
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Speaker 1: have hours left to go before John Cena's final match,
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Speaker 1: And actually we have a special countdown clock here. It
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Speaker 1: is T minus twenty one hours until John Cena's final
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Speaker 1: match on Saturday Night's main event. When I was putting
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Speaker 1: the preview together for tonight's show, they were really promoting
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Speaker 1: it around the idea of this being a celebration of
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Speaker 1: John Cena's career. I was surprised how little focused there
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Speaker 1: was on that. You had little packages and inserts here
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Speaker 1: and there. Not that I mind it, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: the show must go on, but the way they were
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Speaker 1: promoting this, I thought we were going to get more
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Speaker 1: on him than what we got. But before we get there,
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Speaker 1: we had an actual show to get through. Tonight. It
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Speaker 1: was the very middle of the road episode of SmackDown.
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Speaker 1: The major plus was the focus that we had tonight
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Speaker 1: on a bunch of new faces, which was really by
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Speaker 1: necessity because one of the things John Cena wanted tomorrow
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Speaker 1: night was not just to focus on himself. He wanted
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Speaker 1: there to be a focus on the future, right. He
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Speaker 1: wanted there to be a focus on NXT. So because
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Speaker 1: we have a bunch of these cross branded matches tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: We had some faces on the show tonight that you
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Speaker 1: will see on Saturday Nights made Event. One of them
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Speaker 1: is the NXT champion Oba Femi. Get used to it,
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Speaker 1: because if these people know what they're doing, he'll be
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Speaker 1: on Smackdad a lot sooner than maybe some people think.
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Speaker 1: Actually SmackDown could use him right now, So with any
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Speaker 1: hope we won't have to wait too long into twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six to see him every Friday night, because Friday
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Speaker 1: night is really where he should be long and be
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Speaker 1: most effective. I think we, not the raw couldn't use him,
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Speaker 1: but my god, if anybody can use some NXT talent
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Speaker 1: right now, believe me, it is SmackDown, especially because tonight
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Speaker 1: we got the official announcement which we already knew, but
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Speaker 1: they themselves made it official that SmackDown is moving back
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Speaker 1: to three hours on January second, the beginning of the year,
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Speaker 1: the very first SmackDown of twenty twenty six. SmackDown moves
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Speaker 1: back to three hours every single week, And no one
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Speaker 1: is more depressed about this than I am. But this
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Speaker 1: is the reality, and this is the way it's going
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Speaker 1: to be for at least the first six months, if
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Speaker 1: not longer. This year, we didn't get two hours of
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Speaker 1: SmackDown back until Independence Day. Who knows how long it
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Speaker 1: may go next year, But I can tell you one thing,
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Speaker 1: I keep seeing these reports. I think bodyslam dot Net
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Speaker 1: had another one today. The WWE recognizes the need for
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Speaker 1: new faces on SmackDown. They recognize the need for changes
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Speaker 1: on Friday nights going into this three hour era of
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Speaker 1: the show. I feel like I've been seeing some variation
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Speaker 1: of this report now off and on for months, and
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Speaker 1: nothing ever seems to change. So excuse me if I
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Speaker 1: will believe it when I see it, But if they're
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Speaker 1: going to expand this show, for the love of God,
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Speaker 1: we need Obafemi, We need people like Javon Evans, and
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Speaker 1: we need more women in the women's division. For tonight,
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Speaker 1: we had Obafemi making an appearance to confront Cody Rhodes.
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Speaker 1: We had Javon Evans, who was in action ahead of
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Speaker 1: his tag team match. Him and Leon Slater are in
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Speaker 1: action on Saturday Night's main event. Tomorrow, we had Lash Legend,
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Speaker 1: who is an official member of the SmackDown roster and
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Speaker 1: still has some work to do, but she was a
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Speaker 1: welcome addition to the women's roster on this show, so
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Speaker 1: she was featured tonight as well. And of course I
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Speaker 1: would be remiss if I didn't mention the one saving
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Speaker 1: grace of this show, which is the United States Championship.
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Speaker 1: It was not so much an open challenge tonight as
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Speaker 1: much as it was just a fucking great match between
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Speaker 1: Ilia Dragonov and Tamaso Champa where Ilia Dragonov got some
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Speaker 1: color because these men were laying their shit in and
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Speaker 1: I didn't even see exactly what spot had happened on.
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Speaker 1: But Dragonov ended up bloody in this match. So whether
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Speaker 1: it's an open challenge or not, you know, he has
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Speaker 1: become the most reliable weekly part of the show and
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Speaker 1: I want him to I want his reign long may
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Speaker 1: it continue into the new year, because the minute they
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Speaker 1: take that championship away from him, I fear for this show.
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Speaker 1: So we got a banger of a match from him tonight.
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't, you know, all terrible, But it was
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Speaker 1: just a very middling show tonight that kind of fell
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Speaker 1: off a cliff honestly, after the first i'd say hour,
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Speaker 1: after the first forty five minutes to an hour, this
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Speaker 1: show fell off pretty hard. We actually had a mixed
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Speaker 1: tag team main event tonight, the Terror Twins Damian Priest
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Speaker 1: and Rhea Ripley against Alistair Black and Zelina Vega. And uh,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that match. It wasn't pretty. This is
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Speaker 1: your SmackDown review. It is Friday Night. It is December twelfth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I am the solemn Monster, closing out
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Speaker 1: yet another week as we head into a big night
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Speaker 1: me also, just for the benefit of those who don't
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Speaker 1: already know, who haven't heard me talking about this all week,
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Speaker 1: but we do have the farewell Tomorrow night, Saturday Night's
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Speaker 1: main event, eight pm Eastern start on Peacock here in
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Speaker 1: the States. I believe Netflix internationally. If I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 1: Once the show is over, pull on up here to
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Speaker 1: the channel, because I'm going to have a full review
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Speaker 1: and a full recap of all the happenings on Saturday
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Speaker 1: Night's main event John Cena against Gun There we have
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Speaker 1: a bunch of in interpromotional cross brand I can't even
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Speaker 1: say interpromotional cross branded matches. Tomorrow night, we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: it all live here on YouTube. Bring those thumbs and
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Speaker 1: your super and everything else, and we'll talk some Saturday
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Speaker 1: Nights main event. That will lead then into episode nine
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Speaker 1: forty two, and I got some fun stuff planned for
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Speaker 1: that for the podcast on Sunday. Shout out to Sidrow
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Speaker 1: who is with us tonight? Is it YouTube or is
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Speaker 1: it Netflix? I see. I thought it was Netflix that
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Speaker 1: was airing it internationally, and now people are saying it's YouTube. Well,
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Speaker 1: wherever it is, all you international folks can figure it out.
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Speaker 1: Here in the States, it's on Peacock. The one good
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Speaker 1: thing about that it's not on NBC, which means no
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Speaker 1: commercials in the middle of matches. But it also shows
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Speaker 1: you how well Saturday Night's main event must have been
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Speaker 1: doing for NBC that they didn't even bother to wait
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Speaker 1: until John seen his last match to try to pop
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Speaker 1: a number before they said, Nana, we're going streaming only
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Speaker 1: on these shows. So anyway, that's where you can catch
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Speaker 1: it now on social media. Earlier today we got a
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Speaker 1: video from the SmackDown general manager Nick Aldis, who had
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Speaker 1: a message. She had a plea to one Drew McIntyre,
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Speaker 1: the very man that he kicked out of the show
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Speaker 1: last week, the very mad who he suspended all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, He would like to have a conversation about
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Speaker 1: having him back. And the problem, he says, is that
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Speaker 1: Drew has not been taking his phone calls, he has
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Speaker 1: not been returning his text messages. So this video was
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Speaker 1: the only way for him to get through. And so
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Speaker 1: he has a proposition. He invited him to show up
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Speaker 1: here on the show to try to work things out.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, we come back live backstage, Cody Rhoades crosses
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Speaker 1: paths with all this, and now all this is claiming
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Speaker 1: that he received a letter since then from McIntyre's attorney
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Speaker 1: claiming unsafe working conditions, that SmackDown is an unsafe work environment.
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Speaker 1: And he produces the letter, and Cody takes the letter
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Speaker 1: and he crumples it up into a ball and he
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Speaker 1: throws it away. And Cody makes his way out to
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Speaker 1: the ring for the opening segment, so he gets his entrance.
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Speaker 1: He comes down to the ring, and of course the
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Speaker 1: WWE Champion like to know what people want him to
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Speaker 1: talk about, So he tells the fans that Drew McIntyre
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Speaker 1: feels that SmackDown is an unsafe work environment. He said,
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Speaker 1: none of the problem is McIntyre is only half in,
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Speaker 1: which is why he's not the WWEE champion and why
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Speaker 1: Cody doesn't sweat him. He says that he would fire
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Speaker 1: McIntyre if he were his boss. Well, of course he
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Speaker 1: would say that. I mean, I would do the same
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Speaker 1: thing if I was the champion, I would fire all
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Speaker 1: of my competition. Naturally, It's the only thing to do.
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Speaker 1: Almost heelish, dare I say, But Cody said he can't
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Speaker 1: fire McIntyre, he can whip his ass. That brings out
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Speaker 1: the NXT champion, the Ruler Oba Femi getting his first
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Speaker 1: formal entrance here on SmackDown, a scene that hopefully we
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Speaker 1: will see a lot more of in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and he rumbles on down to the ring. He does
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Speaker 1: that little dance that he'd everybody's gonna get into, the
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Speaker 1: Ruler dance, So he makes his way to the ring.
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Speaker 1: Of course, he and Cody are wrestling Champion against Champion,
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Speaker 1: non title on Saturday night's main event. Tomorrow. Oba tells
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Speaker 1: Cody that he's worried about the wrong person, when the
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Speaker 1: person he should be worried about is the man standing
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Speaker 1: right in front of him, the NXT champion. He introduced
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Speaker 1: himself and said that he was in the mountain that
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Speaker 1: you cannot conquer. Oba said that everybody is talking about
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Speaker 1: the future these days and acting like it's this far
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Speaker 1: away thing, but he disagrees. He was knocking on Cody's
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Speaker 1: front door and telling him that the future is now
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Speaker 1: and he is the future. He said, your time is up,
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Speaker 1: My time is now, and Cody said, well, that's a
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Speaker 1: John Cena quote, and he's happy that Oba looks up
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Speaker 1: to him. Also, Cody then remindsed Oba that he's the
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Speaker 1: guy who beat Sena for the WWE Championship. Cody went
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Speaker 1: to go leave, Oba, though grabbed him by the arm
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Speaker 1: to stop him, and we ended up with a shot
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Speaker 1: of both men staring each other down and holding up
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Speaker 1: their respective championship belts. This was a basic segment in
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Speaker 1: many ways and actually pretty short but effective, and I
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Speaker 1: thought that Oba passed his first test here right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there was it a whole lot to The promo was
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Speaker 1: very simple, but the one thing that was very clear
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Speaker 1: to me from the moment they hit his music and
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Speaker 1: he made his entrance, and just his presence in the
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Speaker 1: ring and that little face to face with Cody, who
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Speaker 1: was the top guy in this company. He belongs there,
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Speaker 1: certainly doesn't look out of place. He belongs there, and
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Speaker 1: SmackDown more so than Raw could definitely benefit from having
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Speaker 1: him full time on the roster. Would be a very
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Speaker 1: wise move on their part to move him as quickly
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Speaker 1: as possible, which is why I didn't want to put
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Speaker 1: the NXT Championship back on him in the first plays,
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Speaker 1: because my fear was that that means he's going to
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Speaker 1: be down there for a few more months at least.
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Speaker 1: And then when I saw Javon Evans win the Iron
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Speaker 1: Survivor Challenge, I said, okay, well, maybe he can win
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Speaker 1: the championship from Oba at New Year's Evil at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of next month, and then we see Oba in
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Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. Right, it's all perfect, and who knows,
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll still see Oba in the Rumble. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what they were going for as far as having
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Speaker 1: Javon bump up his title match to Tuesday, and then
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Speaker 1: of course he lost when Ricky Saints cost him the title,
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what they're going to do in
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Speaker 1: New Year's Evil. They may end up doing a triple
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Speaker 1: threat match. Still very possible that Oba may drop the
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Speaker 1: championship without having to take a pin. Maybe that's the idea.
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Speaker 1: As long as we get Oba in the rumble, because
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Speaker 1: to me, that's his entryway into the main roster, then
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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. And I love that we're getting
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Speaker 1: Cody and Oba tomorrow because I think it's going to
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Speaker 1: be a fucking killer match, and what a spotlight for
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Speaker 1: Oba Femi, right, doesn't get any bigger than this, this
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Speaker 1: early in his career. Right, a match on a show
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Speaker 1: where John Cen is retiring. All eyes are going to
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Speaker 1: be on that show tomorrow. They're going to have nineteen
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Speaker 1: thousand people sold out in that building and you're facing
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Speaker 1: the WWE champion. So again, in short of a WrestleMania
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Speaker 1: or like a big stadium show, really doesn't get any
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Speaker 1: bigger than that. But I am genuinely looking forward to
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Speaker 1: that match tomorrow. I would love to see Oba pick
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Speaker 1: up the win. I still think that we get a
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Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre appearance. Maybe he wins off of a Drew
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Speaker 1: McIntyre distraction of some kind, but I would be very
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Speaker 1: surprised if we do not see McIntyre rearing his head
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Speaker 1: and showing up and playing some kind of role in
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Speaker 1: the end of that match tomorrow. Now backstage, Ilia Dragonov
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Speaker 1: the United States Champion. He was met by Fraxium and
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Speaker 1: they offered to help him even the odds against Tomaso
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Speaker 1: Champa if Jonnie Gargano and Candice Larray war to get
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Speaker 1: involved in their match tonight. Dragonov respectfully declined the invitation,
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Speaker 1: saying that he was going to follow John Cena's example
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Speaker 1: and bring the fight to Champa and Diy by himself,
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Speaker 1: and that led into the United States Championship. We had
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Speaker 1: Ila Dragonov against Tamaso Champa, no open challenge needed this week.
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Speaker 1: Two of them got in a pretty stiff exchange early
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Speaker 1: on Dragonov. They'll got the better of it with a
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Speaker 1: hard boot to the jaw. Champa then targeted the surgically
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Speaker 1: repaired knee of Dragonov with the giant brace on its
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Speaker 1: kind of hard to miss outside the ring. Champa barely
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Speaker 1: avoided a running charge from Dragonov, who could not stop
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Speaker 1: himself and he went careening into the ring steps. Champa
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Speaker 1: then delivered a suplex that ended up with Dragonov's knee
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Speaker 1: smashing off the top of the ring steps, and he
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Speaker 1: shrieked in agony as they went to come chel. After
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Speaker 1: a break, Dragonov attempted a Constantine's special, but the bum
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Speaker 1: knee buckled at the very last second. He did manage
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Speaker 1: to ground Champa with a leaping inziguri to the side
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Speaker 1: of the head, and the champion then connected on two
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Speaker 1: German supplexes. He tried to lift Champa up, he couldn't
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Speaker 1: do it because of the knee. He did finally lift
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Speaker 1: Champa up, though with a uranagi for a near fall,
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Speaker 1: so Dragonov now he hobbles up to the top row,
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Speaker 1: but takes enough time where it gives Champa a chance
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Speaker 1: to kick him outside onto the apron. Champa then hoist
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Speaker 1: Dragonov up. He delivers an air raid crash on the apron,
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Speaker 1: still though not enough to put Dragonov away, so Dragonov
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Speaker 1: comes back with a missile dropkick off the top. After
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Speaker 1: a break, we'd come back to Champa landing an avalanche
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Speaker 1: air raid crash only for a two count sometime just
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Speaker 1: before I don't think it was on this spot, but
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Speaker 1: it was sometime maybe right before Dragonov got his nose
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Speaker 1: busted open, and Corey Grays wasn't sure if it was
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Speaker 1: coming from his lip or his nose. It was definitely
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Speaker 1: the nose and there was a lot of blood. He
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Speaker 1: was bleeding all over the place. Both men got into
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Speaker 1: it again with a battle of just brutal strikes. Champa
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Speaker 1: targeted Dragonov's knee with a dragon screw. Ilija counted a
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Speaker 1: German supplex by Champa and hit the torpedo Moscow. At
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Speaker 1: this point, here comes Johnny Gargano. He runs out to
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Speaker 1: the ring, he gets up on the apron. He's running distraction. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: on the other side, referee doesn't see that. Candice Leray
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Speaker 1: goes after Dragonov. I think she draped him neck first
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Speaker 1: over the top rope, and this opened Dragonov up for
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Speaker 1: a running knee strike from Champa. And still this is
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Speaker 1: a good near fall. It was as convincing a near
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Speaker 1: fall as we had the entire match, and there were
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Speaker 1: a couple of them. Not enough, though, so Dragonov kicks out.
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Speaker 1: He fin things off after countering Champa's fairytale ending into
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Speaker 1: a pinning combination. So it was hardly a decisive win.
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Speaker 1: It's more like he survived it. But he does survive
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Speaker 1: and he does retain the United States Championship. After the match,
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Speaker 1: Gargano and Champa they attacked Dragonov until Carmelo Hayes ran
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Speaker 1: out to make the save and got a pretty damn
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Speaker 1: good reception for doing so. And as Diy beat a
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Speaker 1: hasty retreat, Mellow went over to Dragonov, helped him up
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Speaker 1: to his feet, and the two of them shared a
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Speaker 1: moment of mutual respect. You know, just think about it.
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Speaker 1: Had TRIPLEH been open to doing five matches instead of
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Speaker 1: four at Survivor Series, you could have put this match
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Speaker 1: on that show and maybe even given them another five
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Speaker 1: minutes commercial free. Would have really enhanced the show. It
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Speaker 1: would have helped out Survivor Series a lot. But as
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Speaker 1: it was, we got it tonight. Excellent match, excellent hard
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Speaker 1: hitting stuff. You could tell just by looking at Dragonov's
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Speaker 1: face there was a lot of blood coming out of
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Speaker 1: his nose. And another great defense. I mean, what more
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Speaker 1: is there to say? Another great defense of the United
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Speaker 1: States Championship. Dragonov is he's so damn good at this.
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Speaker 1: He's just so damn good. I mean, he had those
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Speaker 1: people biting on every near fall and the way he
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Speaker 1: was selling the knee. You know, sometimes in his selling,
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Speaker 1: I feel like he goes a little over the top,
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Speaker 1: But for the most part, there's nobody else in wrestling
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Speaker 1: right now who sells the way the Dragonov does, you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever body part it might be, or just selling exhaustion
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Speaker 1: from a match where even he doesn't have to go
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes with Gunther, you know, he could have a
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Speaker 1: competitive fifteen minute television match and by the end of it,
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Speaker 1: even if he wins, you just look at the guy
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Speaker 1: and he's like wearing the wounds of war on his face.
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Speaker 1: It feels like this man has been in a battle.
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Speaker 1: And there's not a lot of wrestlers, honestly, that I
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Speaker 1: watch right now in either of the two main companies
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Speaker 1: where I see someone who sells the way that he does,
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Speaker 1: and it helps because it sets him apart from everybody else.
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Speaker 1: It makes him unique in that way, Whereas I feel
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Speaker 1: like if someone like him had come along thirty or
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Speaker 1: forty years ago and was selling like that, he would
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Speaker 1: have been one of many, and sadly he's one of
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Speaker 1: a very select few now. But it does, I think,
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Speaker 1: enhance his matches, and it does make him stand out
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Speaker 1: more so, he's great and like I said, the people
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Speaker 1: were losing their minds on some of those near falls
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Speaker 1: that Kathy Kelly was backstage with the Bounty Boy from NXT,
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Speaker 1: Javon Evans, who was asked about his big match tomorrow
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Speaker 1: where he's teaming up with the TNA X Division champion
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Speaker 1: Leon Slater. When the Miz interrupted, we've talked about the
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Speaker 1: Jericho Vortex before, we're in the mis Vortex now. So
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Speaker 1: Miss shows up, he complains about how he wasn't booked
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Speaker 1: for John Seen his final show tomorrow. This led to
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Speaker 1: Evans challenging Miz to a match for later tonight. Miz
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Speaker 1: said that Evans won't make it to Saturday if he
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Speaker 1: gets hurt tonight, and Evans also in this promo or
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Speaker 1: in this segment, kept calling him unk unk. He kept
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Speaker 1: calling him, and so this was very upsetting to the Miz.
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Speaker 1: At the very end, he called Evans nephew. And I
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Speaker 1: thought about it and I said, you know, Miss is
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Speaker 1: old enough where it kind of makes sense that he
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Speaker 1: could be his uncle, and then I got very depressed.
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Speaker 1: So that was a match that was made for later
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Speaker 1: in the show. Big Vantage von Evans so anytime we
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Speaker 1: get to see him in action, it only makes the
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Speaker 1: show better. After this, we had the entirety of the
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Speaker 1: Wyatt six make their way out to the ring and
19:54
Speaker 1: we got a rare in ring. Uncle Howdie promo showed
20:00
Speaker 1: a replay of the brawl last week between the Wyatts
20:02
Speaker 1: and the MFTs, and that's the one where Solo and
20:05
Speaker 1: his promo had the bowl leave line. So here we go.
20:10
Speaker 1: Uncle Howdy is in the ring and he's going to speak.
20:14
Speaker 1: He talked about Solo Socoa's attempts to discredit his family,
20:19
Speaker 1: saying that Solo might not have the power to look
20:22
Speaker 1: within himself, but howd he did? He said that Soco
20:27
Speaker 1: is real family, talking about the original bloodline, the og
20:29
Speaker 1: bloodline turned their back on him because he used and
20:33
Speaker 1: abused those that he claimed to love. How do he
20:36
Speaker 1: called Solo delusional for claiming that the MFTs ran SmackDown
20:40
Speaker 1: because as long as the Wyatts had the tag team titles,
20:43
Speaker 1: the MFTs run nothing. Well, I mean, they might be
20:47
Speaker 1: running people off from this show. How do you then
20:50
Speaker 1: issue a challenge the Solo in the MFTs that if
20:53
Speaker 1: they wanted the titles, they should come and get them.
20:57
Speaker 1: There It was weird. There was a moment somewhere in
20:59
Speaker 1: here remember which line it was, where it actually sounded
21:02
Speaker 1: like Bo may have forgotten what his next line was
21:06
Speaker 1: supposed to be, at least it came off that way
21:10
Speaker 1: to me. But he got back on track. So we
21:14
Speaker 1: hear that Solo soco his entrance music, and they're waiting
21:18
Speaker 1: for the MFTs to come out, and there's no MFTs. Instead,
21:22
Speaker 1: they appeared on the Titan Tron or the led boards whatever,
21:27
Speaker 1: and it's Solo at the head of the table and
21:30
Speaker 1: all the MFTs are standing around him and behind him
21:33
Speaker 1: and no clown makeup. This week, Solo said that the
21:36
Speaker 1: Wyats didn't call the shots. He did. Then he said
21:39
Speaker 1: that they were going to do things his way and
21:41
Speaker 1: the Wyatts had better prepare for war, and if how
21:44
Speaker 1: He wants to keep his family safe, they should just
21:47
Speaker 1: hand over the tag team titles because if they don't,
21:50
Speaker 1: the only thing you can do is run. I wonder
21:55
Speaker 1: where he got that from. This was not good. This
22:01
Speaker 1: was not good. The Howdie promo was very just eh,
22:07
Speaker 1: it really wasn't that great. And I just don't care
22:10
Speaker 1: about anything involving the MFTs. There's nothing these people can
22:14
Speaker 1: do to get me to give a single solitary shit
22:17
Speaker 1: about what any of these people do on this show.
22:21
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if they do. If they if they can
22:24
Speaker 1: find a way, if they can find a way to
22:27
Speaker 1: make me care about these guys. Whoever is responsible for
22:30
Speaker 1: that should be promoted to head writer of this show.
22:32
Speaker 1: And I promise you will not be road Dog. But
22:36
Speaker 1: maybe there's a maybe there's a magic man somewhere behind
22:38
Speaker 1: the scenes who can do something, who could put together
22:41
Speaker 1: some sort of story or angle on this show next
22:44
Speaker 1: year to get me to give a single shit about
22:47
Speaker 1: the MFTs. That's the person who I want running this show.
22:51
Speaker 1: But right now I don't and I don't see that
22:54
Speaker 1: changing now after this, the show really fell off. After well,
23:00
Speaker 1: with this segment and then henceforth, this show really fell off.
23:05
Speaker 1: In the back, Charlotte Flair was hyping up Alexa Bliss
23:09
Speaker 1: for her match tonight when Rhea Ripley wandered over because
23:12
Speaker 1: she's in the main event tonight, she's not even on SmackDown.
23:16
Speaker 1: Rhea wanders over and says that she and EO they
23:19
Speaker 1: get the next shot at the women's tag team titles,
23:23
Speaker 1: and Bliss says that she respects them, but she and
23:25
Speaker 1: Charlotte are not going to step aside for anyone, and
23:29
Speaker 1: RHEO wished them luck in or wished her luck in
23:33
Speaker 1: her match tonight. After this, we got clips of various
23:39
Speaker 1: athletes and celebrities congratulating John Cena on his retirement. We
23:47
Speaker 1: heard from Tom Brady, we heard from Peyton and Eli
23:50
Speaker 1: Manning separately. We heard from Snoop Dog, we heard from
23:55
Speaker 1: Jelly Roll. Eli Manning was the best. And maybe I'm
24:02
Speaker 1: a little bit biased still, you know the New York
24:04
Speaker 1: connection here, but Eli was the best. He puts Sina over.
24:08
Speaker 1: He says, even though he hears he's a big fan
24:10
Speaker 1: of the New England Patriots. But hey, I guess no
24:15
Speaker 1: one's perfect, including the seven Patriots. Now see Eli's got
24:22
Speaker 1: the jokes. It's not just you guys in the chat. Now,
24:25
Speaker 1: Eli's got the jokes here. But see, that was a
24:27
Speaker 1: great one though, that right there, Noah, no one is
24:30
Speaker 1: going to be able to top that one tonight. It's
24:32
Speaker 1: funny because it's true eighteen and one Patriots fans eighteen
24:37
Speaker 1: and one we don't forget. So then we had Alexobliss
24:44
Speaker 1: with Charlotte Flair in her corner, taking on Lash Legend
24:47
Speaker 1: with Naya Jackson hers Bliss sent Legend out of the
24:52
Speaker 1: ring with a Hurrican rana, and then as she tried
24:55
Speaker 1: to leap from the apron, she got caught and she
24:58
Speaker 1: got tossed ribs for first onto the top of the
25:01
Speaker 1: timekeeper's barricade. Back inside, Bliss took a hard clothes line.
25:07
Speaker 1: Legend jumped up for a big splash, standing splash on
25:11
Speaker 1: Bliss for an earfall. Bliss got a little bit of
25:14
Speaker 1: an offensive flurry, and then she got caught by a
25:18
Speaker 1: forearm shot that Lash refers to as the Lash minute
25:22
Speaker 1: on the apron. Jack's tripped up Bliss, so Charlotte came
25:26
Speaker 1: over and got involved. She took out Naya Legend then
25:29
Speaker 1: headed outside. It hit Charlotte with a big boot to
25:32
Speaker 1: take her out of the equation in the ring. Legend
25:35
Speaker 1: then finished off Alexa with her Lash extension finish and
25:40
Speaker 1: she pinned her just like that. One two three. Lash
25:46
Speaker 1: is still very green. She's still putting it all together.
25:50
Speaker 1: Nobody can doubt her athletic ability. I mean, you heard
25:53
Speaker 1: Michael Cole talking about it a little bit on commentary
25:56
Speaker 1: and the records that she set, you know, back in
25:59
Speaker 1: college She's gonna go far, you know. And you could
26:03
Speaker 1: tell they recognize that they have something special there and
26:08
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of bringing it out of her
26:11
Speaker 1: and her putting all the pieces together. It'll be a
26:14
Speaker 1: while yet, though, before she gets there. Alexa. You know,
26:18
Speaker 1: she took some hard shots here in this match. And
26:20
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I'm watching this match, especially
26:23
Speaker 1: at the very beginning, and it just it looked a
26:25
Speaker 1: little ridiculous to me because she's just just so tiny
26:28
Speaker 1: compared to Lash. She's just so much bigger than her,
26:31
Speaker 1: and it was hard for me to just buy into.
26:34
Speaker 1: But it served its purpose. And what was the purpose
26:37
Speaker 1: of this, right What was the primary purpose of this,
26:39
Speaker 1: even though Charlotte and Alexa are in the hunt for
26:42
Speaker 1: the women's tag team titles. It was to put over
26:46
Speaker 1: how dominant Lash Legend is. Lash Legend is the new
26:50
Speaker 1: girl in town, and the objective right now is and
26:53
Speaker 1: should be to try to get her over as strongly
26:57
Speaker 1: as possible. Now, what are we seeing with Jade Cargill
27:00
Speaker 1: right now? Jay Cargill is the Women's I'll get to
27:02
Speaker 1: her in a little bit. She's the women's champion. What
27:04
Speaker 1: has Jade been doing since winning the title from Tiffany Stratton,
27:08
Speaker 1: she's been beating up people like b Fab and Meechin.
27:11
Speaker 1: You know what that's gonna do for Jade Cargill zero nothing.
27:15
Speaker 1: It's not going to do a damn thing for her.
27:18
Speaker 1: Because she can go around and beat up all the
27:20
Speaker 1: mid carters she wants to, it doesn't get her any
27:22
Speaker 1: more over than she already is. You can have lash
27:24
Speaker 1: Legend go out there, and I'm not saying you can't
27:27
Speaker 1: feed her people like that. I mean that's what they
27:29
Speaker 1: used to do back in the old days, right You
27:30
Speaker 1: would debut on the syndicated shows and beat up a
27:33
Speaker 1: bunch of jobbers and get your move over, and then
27:35
Speaker 1: eventually you'd graduate to the name talents. And there's nothing
27:38
Speaker 1: wrong with that, but that's not the way they do
27:39
Speaker 1: things now. But if you really want to get her over,
27:43
Speaker 1: you know what would be more impressive than lash Legend
27:45
Speaker 1: going out there and beating up Mechen. It would be
27:48
Speaker 1: her going in there and pinning a five time women's champion,
27:54
Speaker 1: which is what she did here in this match. You know,
27:58
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss has been very successful of her career on
28:01
Speaker 1: the main roster, and she just got played with like
28:04
Speaker 1: a toy in that ring and got put down one, two, three.
28:08
Speaker 1: That's how you start to give credibility to the new person.
28:12
Speaker 1: So that was the goal here, I thought. To that end,
28:14
Speaker 1: they accomplish what they were seeking out to do. This
28:19
Speaker 1: is how you make new stars, right, It's something that
28:21
Speaker 1: they have to do with this show, especially now that
28:24
Speaker 1: we're heading back to the three hour format in a
28:26
Speaker 1: few weeks. And frankly, even if the show wasn't going
28:29
Speaker 1: back to three hours, this show is in desperate need
28:33
Speaker 1: of a reset when it comes to the women's division, especially.
28:36
Speaker 1: This is the sort of thing you have to do
28:38
Speaker 1: to try to make new stars. But what they did
28:42
Speaker 1: in doing this, there's a flip side to this. They have,
28:45
Speaker 1: at least for the time being, taken Alexa out of
28:50
Speaker 1: In my opinion, they've taken Alexa out of the running
28:52
Speaker 1: as a potential challenger for Jade. She just went in
28:56
Speaker 1: there and lost pretty much clean to the new girl.
29:00
Speaker 1: I don't see Alexa Bliss having a very good argument
29:03
Speaker 1: for going in there now and challenging Jade for the championship,
29:06
Speaker 1: which I'm not saying that's what they were gonna do,
29:09
Speaker 1: But if you wanted to give her some credible challengers.
29:12
Speaker 1: Alexa and Charlotte are right there. They just took Alexa
29:16
Speaker 1: off the table as far as that goes. Although the
29:19
Speaker 1: match they were teasing a few weeks ago was Jade
29:23
Speaker 1: and Charlotte, it wasn't Jade and Alexa, but I suppose
29:29
Speaker 1: if they did Alexa and Jade, it would be about
29:31
Speaker 1: as much of a mismatch as this match was, so
29:34
Speaker 1: it would look just as ridiculous to be seeing the
29:36
Speaker 1: two of them together in the ring. After this, we
29:40
Speaker 1: had the miss where I'm gonna start calling him the
29:45
Speaker 1: gatekeeper on these shows. Right, Remember the first Ghostbusters movie,
29:50
Speaker 1: we had the key Master. It was the key Master
29:54
Speaker 1: and the gatekeeper. Right, Let's start calling Miss the gatekeeper
30:00
Speaker 1: who was the key master to his gatekeeper. He took
30:04
Speaker 1: on Javon Evans. Mis got the advantage early with a
30:07
Speaker 1: shoulder block, started taunting the crowd. Evans sprang up, he
30:13
Speaker 1: had a springboard at hurrican Raden sent Miz out of
30:15
Speaker 1: the ring. Miz took over after sending Evans into the
30:18
Speaker 1: ring post, and he had Evans trapped at a cross face
30:22
Speaker 1: after a commercial break, but the rookie turned that into
30:26
Speaker 1: a pen attempt. To escape the hold. Evans mounted a
30:29
Speaker 1: comeback with his rebound inziguri to Miz, but that was
30:33
Speaker 1: only enough for a two count. Miz started mocking John Cena.
30:37
Speaker 1: He did a five knuckle shuffle and then he tried
30:40
Speaker 1: his own version of an attitude adjustment. Evans, though, instead
30:43
Speaker 1: landed on his feet, or at least I mean not really.
30:46
Speaker 1: I mean that was the idea. Yeah, the idea is
30:49
Speaker 1: that he would land on his feet. Didn't really work
30:52
Speaker 1: out that way, but he sent Miz outside and then
30:54
Speaker 1: it went soaring over the top rope with a big
30:57
Speaker 1: dive out to the floor. Miz tried to counter an
31:01
Speaker 1: og cutter into a skull crushing finale that didn't work.
31:05
Speaker 1: Evans finally connected with the og cutter to pick up
31:08
Speaker 1: what Michael Cole referred to as the biggest win of
31:13
Speaker 1: his career. Yes, and Mis, for the record, has not
31:20
Speaker 1: won a singles match in all of twenty twenty five.
31:27
Speaker 1: Perspective always very important to keep perspective on these things.
31:32
Speaker 1: I understand that MS is a former WWE champion, and
31:35
Speaker 1: I understand that Mis not only made event at a WrestleMania,
31:39
Speaker 1: but he beat John Cena at WrestleMania don't. I mean,
31:42
Speaker 1: don't take my word for it. Just ask him. He'll
31:44
Speaker 1: tell you. Right, He's had some very He's won almost
31:47
Speaker 1: every title there is to win in this company. Money
31:51
Speaker 1: in the back like, he's done a lot of stuff,
31:53
Speaker 1: all right. He's going to be a first ballot Hall
31:55
Speaker 1: of Famer when it's time for him to go in.
31:58
Speaker 1: And all of that being said, a win over the
32:02
Speaker 1: Miz in twenty twenty five means nothing. It has been
32:08
Speaker 1: rendered completely meaningless. You can rattle off all the accomplishments
32:14
Speaker 1: that you want to, no one is going to look
32:18
Speaker 1: at a win over the Miss these days as the
32:20
Speaker 1: biggest win of anyone's career. And that's just the sad
32:25
Speaker 1: reality of it. You are only as strong as how
32:27
Speaker 1: people see you today, and only as strong as how
32:32
Speaker 1: you are booked today, not ten years ago. That's the distinction.
32:38
Speaker 1: Miss is back to playing the role of gatekeeper here.
32:41
Speaker 1: I mean, this was fine again. It was all about
32:44
Speaker 1: showcasing Javon Evans for a few minutes before the bigger match,
32:49
Speaker 1: which is him and Leon Slater against aj Styles and
32:51
Speaker 1: Dragonly on Saturday Night's Made Event tomorrow. Like all these
32:56
Speaker 1: new players that have matches tomorrow and even Bailey and
32:59
Speaker 1: soul Ruka very very brief, but they did show them
33:02
Speaker 1: in the crowd. I mean, they didn't really do anything
33:04
Speaker 1: with them, but they were at least on the show.
33:07
Speaker 1: So it was about shining a spotlight on most of
33:09
Speaker 1: these new NXT faces that are going to be on
33:13
Speaker 1: the show tomorrow, getting them a spot on the show,
33:16
Speaker 1: and doing something with them that would just give them
33:18
Speaker 1: that little bit of momentum and just highlight to the
33:21
Speaker 1: audience watching at home. Hey, this is someone to pay
33:25
Speaker 1: attention to. That's the only reason that this match existed. Clearly,
33:29
Speaker 1: whatever they were planning on doing with Mizz and Carmelo Hayes,
33:33
Speaker 1: that has been scrapped, and you know what, it's for
33:36
Speaker 1: the better. It's not anything that Carmelo Hayes honestly at
33:39
Speaker 1: this point, not that they couldn't go out there and
33:40
Speaker 1: have a good match, but what is Carmelo Hayes gain
33:44
Speaker 1: if they would have kept that thing going and built
33:46
Speaker 1: to a big match, which honestly they should have done
33:48
Speaker 1: for as long as they were dragging that story out.
33:50
Speaker 1: To not do like a big blowoff match is pretty ridiculous.
33:54
Speaker 1: But let's be honest here, if they had done it,
33:57
Speaker 1: What does he really gain from it? Not mine, that's
34:01
Speaker 1: my point. He gained more from coming out there and
34:04
Speaker 1: getting a big reaction from the crowd and saving il
34:06
Speaker 1: Ya dragonoff and maybe eventually building to him finally winning
34:11
Speaker 1: the US title. That means far more than any match
34:13
Speaker 1: would have with the Miz, But they have very clearly
34:17
Speaker 1: scrapped that because they have not interacted at all or
34:21
Speaker 1: talked about or mentioned each other at all in weeks.
34:25
Speaker 1: I will say this about Javon Evans though. The height
34:29
Speaker 1: that he gets on some of those jumps is unbelievable,
34:34
Speaker 1: and I just hope he doesn't break a leg or
34:36
Speaker 1: an ankle one day. There was one jump or dive
34:40
Speaker 1: that he did tonight where as he was coming down,
34:44
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, he's coming down from a pretty high
34:47
Speaker 1: distance there. I hope he doesn't roll an ankle. He's
34:50
Speaker 1: got a fucking match in twenty four hours. Boy, that
34:52
Speaker 1: would have sucked. So that's the only thing I worry
34:55
Speaker 1: about with him. Sometimes he gets he gets a little
34:57
Speaker 1: too high in that way, but maybe he does, I
35:02
Speaker 1: don't know. Backstage, Rhea Ripley was confronted by Naya Jacks
35:07
Speaker 1: and Lash Legend. We threatened to do what they did
35:11
Speaker 1: to Alexa Bliss to Ripley, and Ripley was unfazed by
35:17
Speaker 1: their threat and told them that she and EO Sky
35:19
Speaker 1: were gunning for the women's tag team titles. So after
35:22
Speaker 1: they left, Rhea spotted someone we couldn't see, and then
35:27
Speaker 1: the camera panned over. It was Jade Cargill. So we
35:31
Speaker 1: had a very brief, uncomfortable stare between these two women.
35:37
Speaker 1: Perhaps foreshadowing a WrestleMania match seems unlikely. It would seem
35:44
Speaker 1: more likely to me if Bianca could not be back
35:48
Speaker 1: in time for Mania, then maybe they would do Jade
35:51
Speaker 1: and Charlotte on that show. But you can't rule it
35:54
Speaker 1: out right. You can't rule out the possibility that maybe
35:58
Speaker 1: Riea switches brands and Ria and Jade on the table,
36:01
Speaker 1: maybe as a potential WrestleMania match. So no words were
36:06
Speaker 1: exchanged between the two of them. Instead, Jade just started
36:08
Speaker 1: to make her way towards the ring for her scheduled
36:11
Speaker 1: match with Michin, a match that never took place because
36:16
Speaker 1: after a break. As Michin was delivering a promo while
36:20
Speaker 1: walking towards the gorilla position, she was talking a big
36:23
Speaker 1: talk man. She was going off on Jade and talking
36:26
Speaker 1: about bullying I think, and all this stuff, and all
36:29
Speaker 1: of a sudden, out of nowhere, she gets attacked by
36:31
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill and put down like a geek, and Jade
36:34
Speaker 1: throws her into the wall in the gorilla position, and
36:38
Speaker 1: then she calls for her music. I should point out
36:41
Speaker 1: to you that Jade was not even dressed for a match.
36:44
Speaker 1: Her match was scheduled, but she didn't look like she
36:47
Speaker 1: was in her usual gear. So she gets into the
36:51
Speaker 1: ring and she immediately demands a microphone. She said that
36:54
Speaker 1: what happened to Mechen is what happens when women don't
36:56
Speaker 1: know their place in the back. Jade said that she's
37:00
Speaker 1: that bitch, But as she said the word bitch, she
37:03
Speaker 1: got cut off by Miechen's music. She came walking out
37:08
Speaker 1: licking her wounds, but she had a kendo stick. She
37:11
Speaker 1: was being surrounded by a bunch of officials who were
37:14
Speaker 1: trying to convince her to go backstage. She wouldn't have
37:18
Speaker 1: any of it. So Jade met her in the aisleway
37:21
Speaker 1: and Michen worked her over with the kendo stick. Michin
37:25
Speaker 1: then went under the ring and pulled out a table, which,
37:28
Speaker 1: of course got a pop from the crowd, but before
37:30
Speaker 1: she could do anything with the table, she got dropped
37:33
Speaker 1: with a big boot and Jade rolled her inside, and
37:37
Speaker 1: then Jade slides the table back under the ring. In
37:42
Speaker 1: the crowd booed, easy heat. You want easy heat, you
37:46
Speaker 1: tease the table and then you don't give it to them,
37:49
Speaker 1: you'll be the biggest heel in the building. So she
37:52
Speaker 1: gets into the ring, she no sells Michin's punches and
37:55
Speaker 1: then she choke slams her. And I will say the
37:58
Speaker 1: choke slam looked great, got some good height on it.
38:02
Speaker 1: And then Jade left the ring and as she was leaving,
38:04
Speaker 1: she's looking into the camera and she's calling for some
38:06
Speaker 1: real competition. Yeah, that would be nice, that would be nice.
38:13
Speaker 1: It was a segment that happened. That's what I wrote
38:15
Speaker 1: in my notes. It was a segment that happened, and
38:19
Speaker 1: it's not one that does anything to enhance an already
38:24
Speaker 1: very bare bones women's division on this show. The show
38:28
Speaker 1: going from two hours to three hours, I know people
38:31
Speaker 1: have this thought in their head that oh, this is
38:34
Speaker 1: going to be great because now there's going to be
38:36
Speaker 1: an extra hour and they can feature more people with
38:39
Speaker 1: that extra hour, and theoretically, sure, that's true, but adding
38:44
Speaker 1: an extra hour to this show is not going to
38:48
Speaker 1: be a cure for the disease that has afflicted this show.
38:52
Speaker 1: The key is to get Jade some real competition and
38:56
Speaker 1: at the same time start building up new faces like
38:59
Speaker 1: Lash Legend and others, so that three, four or five
39:03
Speaker 1: months from now, six months from now, we could be
39:06
Speaker 1: having a totally different conversation about what this women's division
39:09
Speaker 1: looks like on SmackDown. It is doable, it is absolutely doual,
39:14
Speaker 1: something they should have already done by now. I don't
39:16
Speaker 1: know why they dragged their feet for so long that
39:18
Speaker 1: I have to read these stupid reports about how while
39:20
Speaker 1: they recognized the show was in need of what took
39:22
Speaker 1: them so long? Why did it take them until the
39:25
Speaker 1: end of the year when they're on the cusp of
39:27
Speaker 1: three hours to realize, oh shit, we better shore up
39:31
Speaker 1: this show, We better shore up this women's division. Oh yeah,
39:34
Speaker 1: no shit, dude, I could have told you that six
39:36
Speaker 1: fucking months ago. Why did they drag their feet for
39:39
Speaker 1: so long? Now they have no choice, But it's absolutely possible,
39:45
Speaker 1: it's absolutely doable that this show. You could do a
39:48
Speaker 1: one tot eighty just on this division alone, in a
39:51
Speaker 1: matter of months. Look at the SmackDown Tag Team Division
39:54
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year and through much of
39:56
Speaker 1: the year WrestleMania, even into summer slim right, it was
40:01
Speaker 1: one of the hottest parts of this show. They were
40:04
Speaker 1: cooking with oil with those tag teams, those five or
40:07
Speaker 1: six teams that they had in the division. And now
40:10
Speaker 1: it's gone cold again in a matter of a few months.
40:14
Speaker 1: You can take something that's cold and heated up right right,
40:18
Speaker 1: You do that with a fucking microwave. You can do
40:21
Speaker 1: that with the SmackDown Women's division, put it in the
40:23
Speaker 1: microwave and heat it up. But to do that takes time.
40:28
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen overnight. That's why I just cannot
40:30
Speaker 1: understand why it took them so long to start calling
40:32
Speaker 1: people up from NXTA. I mean, do you think that
40:34
Speaker 1: these women, that any of these people are just going
40:37
Speaker 1: to be over on day one? You know, not everybody
40:40
Speaker 1: looks like an Obafemi. It takes time. You can establish
40:45
Speaker 1: these people in front of the NXT audience. The main
40:47
Speaker 1: roster audience is a different animal, and it will take
40:51
Speaker 1: time for people to you know, to build equity in
40:54
Speaker 1: these characters on this show. This is something that should
40:56
Speaker 1: have started a long time ago, and they're already behind
40:59
Speaker 1: the eight ball on this. But Jade Cargill is the
41:02
Speaker 1: one that I look at on this show, and honestly,
41:04
Speaker 1: Stephanie on Raw is not much better. They have really
41:07
Speaker 1: dropped the ball on coming up with compelling challengers for
41:10
Speaker 1: their women's champions and they're so focused, so hyper focused
41:14
Speaker 1: lately on those women's tag team titles that they do
41:18
Speaker 1: so at the expense of their two individual titles. I
41:23
Speaker 1: would much rather have a strong, robust list of challengers
41:26
Speaker 1: for Stephanie Vquer and for Jade Cargill than worry about
41:31
Speaker 1: who's in contention for the fucking tag team titles. Who cares,
41:35
Speaker 1: Let's focus on what matters here. I understand that Bianca
41:39
Speaker 1: being out for so long probably fucked up a lot
41:41
Speaker 1: of their plans, but she's not the only person they have,
41:44
Speaker 1: and we still don't know when they're gonna have her back,
41:49
Speaker 1: so they've got to shape up real quick. But it
41:51
Speaker 1: takes time to really build these people up. It's terrible.
41:55
Speaker 1: It's just terrible how they've let this fester for so long.
41:59
Speaker 1: I just don't under stand it. They closed the show
42:05
Speaker 1: with the Terror Twins, Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley taking
42:09
Speaker 1: on Alistair Black and Zelena Vega. Now going just by
42:14
Speaker 1: Zelena Black attack Priest as he you talk about a
42:19
Speaker 1: feud that's been going on forever, this is this is
42:22
Speaker 1: the case with Damian Priest and Alistair Black. And when
42:26
Speaker 1: they announced that Rhea Ripley was coming to smack down
42:28
Speaker 1: for a mixed tag with Priest to take these two on,
42:32
Speaker 1: it just breeked of, Okay, We've we've got to really
42:36
Speaker 1: try to heat this guy up. And so how do
42:39
Speaker 1: we heat up Damian Priest. We put him back together
42:41
Speaker 1: for one week with Rhea Ripley. That's that's legitimately all.
42:44
Speaker 1: This was Black attack Priest as he was posing on
42:48
Speaker 1: the top rope, so that kicked things off. Soon though,
42:50
Speaker 1: he found himself on the receiving end of a clothes
42:52
Speaker 1: line that sent him out of the ring. Priest then
42:56
Speaker 1: pointed towards Rhea and was going to go make a tag,
42:58
Speaker 1: and then Zelena jumped on his back and he just
43:01
Speaker 1: completely no soul this because it's like a bug on
43:05
Speaker 1: his back. I mean, the size difference between these two.
43:08
Speaker 1: So he tagged in Rhea anyway, Ripley blasted Selena with
43:12
Speaker 1: a clothesline, actually a series of them, followed by a
43:15
Speaker 1: need of the face. Zelena targeted Ripley's arm with a
43:19
Speaker 1: submission over in the corner coming out of a break,
43:22
Speaker 1: followed by a meteora from the top rope for a
43:24
Speaker 1: near fall. And then Zelena, I don't know, I don't
43:29
Speaker 1: know what she was trying to do. She whiffed on
43:33
Speaker 1: some kind of leg scissors move that she I don't
43:37
Speaker 1: know what I honestly, I have no idea what she
43:39
Speaker 1: was attempting to do here. She opted for a DDT instead.
43:44
Speaker 1: Ripley got a hot tag to Priest, Zelena climbed on
43:47
Speaker 1: his back again. Priest ditched her, but Black took advantage
43:51
Speaker 1: of the distraction. He went on the offensive. Priest ended
43:54
Speaker 1: up in his corner and Ripley tagged herself in. So
43:58
Speaker 1: Black and Zelena. They end up nailing stereo moon salts
44:02
Speaker 1: onto their respective opponents outside on either side of the ring,
44:06
Speaker 1: opposite sides, and then there was a terrifying botch and
44:15
Speaker 1: not the only time in this match where they just
44:17
Speaker 1: were not operating on the same page. Rhea Ripley tried
44:22
Speaker 1: for riptide, Zelena ended up somehow. You know, you've all
44:27
Speaker 1: seen Rhea Ripley deliver riptide right where she picks the
44:30
Speaker 1: woman in a pump handle position and picks her up.
44:33
Speaker 1: In this case, she lifts up Zelena, who I guess
44:37
Speaker 1: was trying to counter out of this move. Zelena ends
44:41
Speaker 1: up on Rhea's shoulder, as if Rhea was going for
44:45
Speaker 1: either like a shoulder breaker or like a Ron Simmons dominator. Okay,
44:50
Speaker 1: so just visualize that. So that's the position that she's in,
44:56
Speaker 1: and I can only imagine that Zelena was a tempting
45:00
Speaker 1: to do some sort of reverse code red. That's that's
45:06
Speaker 1: my best guess as to what she was attempting to
45:08
Speaker 1: do here, because she she goes again. I'm trying to
45:14
Speaker 1: describe this in a way where you can visualize this.
45:18
Speaker 1: Zelena goes forward, right, She's laying out across Rhea's shoulder,
45:22
Speaker 1: but she goes forward so behind Rhea, and I guess
45:25
Speaker 1: the idea is that Riea is going to go backwards
45:27
Speaker 1: with her. Well, the only thing is, as Zelena goes forward,
45:31
Speaker 1: she hasn't fully rotated yet. Riea falls backwards. I'm not
45:36
Speaker 1: even sure whose fault this is, to be honest with you,
45:38
Speaker 1: but Ria goes backwards. Zelena had not fully rotated. She
45:44
Speaker 1: got folded up in like horrifying fashion. So she's lucky
45:49
Speaker 1: she didn't break her fucking neck on this landing. The
45:53
Speaker 1: referee immediately, Ryan Tran immediately went over to check on
45:57
Speaker 1: her and make sure that she was okay. She got
46:00
Speaker 1: bent in half. This looked awful, but she recovered and
46:04
Speaker 1: she hit a proper code read for a near fall.
46:09
Speaker 1: And again, there were multiple moments in this match where
46:12
Speaker 1: it was just it was a mess. This ended with
46:16
Speaker 1: Priest and Ripley delivering stereo razors edges to the two
46:20
Speaker 1: of them, and then Rhea finished off Zelena with a
46:24
Speaker 1: proper riptide and pinned her for the wind and then
46:29
Speaker 1: after it was over, the cherry on top. Michael Cole
46:34
Speaker 1: on commentary yells Priest and Zelena with the wind. Yes,
46:41
Speaker 1: actually a very appropriate piece of commentary for this main
46:45
Speaker 1: event here Priest and Zelena with the win. According to
46:49
Speaker 1: Michael Cole, look, I don't want to bag on Zelena
46:55
Speaker 1: too much here because I know she just lost her uncle.
46:58
Speaker 1: She just posted it yesterday on Instagram about it a
47:01
Speaker 1: whole post. She was very close with him. I don't
47:05
Speaker 1: know exactly when he passed away, if it was within
47:09
Speaker 1: the last few days or a week ago, I don't
47:11
Speaker 1: know when it was, but she lost someone she was
47:14
Speaker 1: very close with. Maybe her mind was elsewhere, but the
47:17
Speaker 1: reality is this match was a mess. This match was
47:21
Speaker 1: an absolute mess. The people like seeing Priest and Rihea though,
47:25
Speaker 1: especially Rhea, So you know, this whole Terror Twins thing
47:28
Speaker 1: they mentioned coming into it. I think they were six
47:31
Speaker 1: and oh together in mixtag matches, So you know, that
47:34
Speaker 1: was a fun thing for the live crowd who got
47:36
Speaker 1: to see Rhea Ripley on a show that normally you
47:38
Speaker 1: wouldn't see her on. But to go back to Priest
47:41
Speaker 1: and Black, Damian Priest and Alistair Black, they have been
47:47
Speaker 1: feuding now for what feels like centuries in reality, it's
47:51
Speaker 1: been months, but they've been feuding for a while. Now
47:55
Speaker 1: they are in and I defy you to tell me
47:57
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. They are in exactly the same spot that
48:02
Speaker 1: they were in at the beginning of all of this,
48:04
Speaker 1: and Priests wasn't exactly in a great spot right. He
48:07
Speaker 1: has cooled off tremendously since we last saw him on
48:10
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw. They are in exactly the same spot
48:14
Speaker 1: they were in at the beginning of all of this.
48:17
Speaker 1: This program, this feud, this rivalry has not helped either
48:20
Speaker 1: one of them other than yes, it's gotten them on TV.
48:23
Speaker 1: So what what does it meant? What has Alistair Black
48:27
Speaker 1: really done since he came back earlier this year? What
48:32
Speaker 1: has Damian Priesce really done really since he got called
48:37
Speaker 1: over to SmackDown from Rada? SmackDown? Right? What has he
48:41
Speaker 1: really done that you can honestly look back on and go, boy,
48:45
Speaker 1: you know, that's a memorable Damian Priest moment, right, a
48:48
Speaker 1: few to with Drew, But like, he is not in
48:51
Speaker 1: a better position than he was in a year ago,
48:55
Speaker 1: and he's certainly not in any better of a position
48:57
Speaker 1: now than he was at the beginning of this feud.
48:58
Speaker 1: And he won the match, which would seem to put
49:02
Speaker 1: a period on this. I don't really see the need
49:04
Speaker 1: for this to continue on. This is a pretty decisive
49:06
Speaker 1: way in here for him and Rhea, But I don't
49:09
Speaker 1: see how this program has really helped either one of them. Honestly,
49:14
Speaker 1: this is as cold as Damian Priest has felt to
49:17
Speaker 1: me since he joined the Judgment day him joining the
49:20
Speaker 1: Judgment Day was a turning point for him. Now, I
49:24
Speaker 1: know he did the stuff with Bad Bunny and all that,
49:26
Speaker 1: but like him joining the Judgment Day was the best
49:28
Speaker 1: thing that could have happened to him because it added
49:30
Speaker 1: character depth to him. And we all know how many
49:33
Speaker 1: segments the Judgment Day get on television every single week,
49:36
Speaker 1: So all those television segments and the stuff with him
49:40
Speaker 1: and Balor, and it's like it really was a huge
49:44
Speaker 1: positive for him. And this is as cold as he
49:48
Speaker 1: has been since before he joined. And for Black, I
49:53
Speaker 1: don't know what their plans are for him heading into WrestleMania.
49:56
Speaker 1: It honestly feels to me like he may not even
49:57
Speaker 1: get a WrestleMania match at this rate. I'm not sure.
50:00
Speaker 1: I mean, priest is going to get a WrestleMania match,
50:03
Speaker 1: you know, and we still have a few months left
50:05
Speaker 1: to go, but you can kind of start seeing where
50:07
Speaker 1: certain people may fall in, you know, in terms of
50:10
Speaker 1: the card. Maybe not who they're going to face, but like,
50:13
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I could see this person having a match,
50:15
Speaker 1: this person maybe being in the main event. If you
50:18
Speaker 1: were to ask me, what do I see Alistair Black
50:19
Speaker 1: doing a WrestleMania what do I see Damian Priest doing
50:22
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania facing each other. I don't know. Beyond that,
50:26
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. I have
50:29
Speaker 1: no idea. This was a very, very middle of the
50:33
Speaker 1: road show here again with less focus on John Cena
50:37
Speaker 1: than I was expecting, given that was the main thing
50:40
Speaker 1: they were promoting really, you know, coming into tonight. But
50:44
Speaker 1: again I stand by this. The major plus was the
50:46
Speaker 1: focus on the newer faces, you know, Obafemi and Javon
50:49
Speaker 1: Evans and lash legend Ilia Dragon off Right. He may
50:53
Speaker 1: not be a newer face, oh he is still I
50:55
Speaker 1: would say he's relatively new still to SmackDown, but yeah,
50:58
Speaker 1: he's been around for a while. But he continues to
51:01
Speaker 1: be the MVP of this show. He has been the
51:04
Speaker 1: MVP of SmackDown now ever since he returned, literally the
51:08
Speaker 1: night he returned. Ever since then, he has been the
51:11
Speaker 1: MVP of this show and continues to be so. I
51:16
Speaker 1: liked those elements of the show tonight, and the match
51:19
Speaker 1: he had with Shampa was fucking great. It's been a
51:21
Speaker 1: while since we've seen Champa have a match that great,
51:24
Speaker 1: you know, like a singles match like that. I'm not
51:26
Speaker 1: talking to TLC match he was in because we really
51:30
Speaker 1: haven't seen singles Champa like the one we got from
51:33
Speaker 1: the NXT Black and Gold days, like Goldie and all that, like,
51:37
Speaker 1: he hasn't emerged on the main roster. Only now we're
51:40
Speaker 1: really starting to see signs of that Tamaso Champa. So
51:44
Speaker 1: we got to see a little bit of that tonight.
51:47
Speaker 1: I would like to think that this is the start
51:50
Speaker 1: of a pattern as far as featuring some of those
51:52
Speaker 1: faces we saw tonight, But the reality is, why did
51:54
Speaker 1: we see Obafemi tonight? Why did we see Javon Evans tonight?
51:58
Speaker 1: Because they have matches tomorrow. If they weren't on that
52:01
Speaker 1: show tomorrow, if wwe got their way, if Triple Ah
52:03
Speaker 1: got his wish and did what he originally wanted to do,
52:07
Speaker 1: which was make tomorrow entirely a tribute show to John Cena,
52:12
Speaker 1: we don't get Javon Evans or Obafemi on this show
52:14
Speaker 1: to That's the only reason we got them, and so
52:17
Speaker 1: I don't know when we're going to see them again.
52:20
Speaker 1: So for tonight, it felt great. Oh it feels fresh.
52:23
Speaker 1: We actually have some new faces here, but that may
52:25
Speaker 1: not last very long, but hopefully as they flip the
52:30
Speaker 1: calendar to January, we will start to see some of
52:33
Speaker 1: these faces a little more often because it's going to
52:36
Speaker 1: take time for fans to really again buy into these
52:40
Speaker 1: newer faces. Now is the time to start getting people
52:44
Speaker 1: familiar with them. We know they're going to three hours
52:47
Speaker 1: on January second, I am dreading it. You can make
52:51
Speaker 1: all the points you want to make about how this
52:52
Speaker 1: is going to be a good thing, because there's people
52:54
Speaker 1: who are sitting in the back and catering who aren't
52:56
Speaker 1: getting chances to be on the show.
52:58
Speaker 2: Whose fault is that? Whose fault is that? That's Triple
53:03
Speaker 2: H's fault. That's Triple H and Road Dog's fault. You
53:07
Speaker 2: could rotate people in and out on the two hour show.
53:10
Speaker 2: They choose not to do it. So sure, maybe some
53:13
Speaker 2: of these people will will get more screen time on
53:16
Speaker 2: a three hour show, but it always comes down to creative.
53:19
Speaker 2: You could have a five hour show. I don't want
53:21
Speaker 2: to give them any ideas. Now you can have a
53:24
Speaker 2: five hour show. It doesn't matter if the creative sucks.
53:27
Speaker 2: So of course I'm hoping we get to see more
53:29
Speaker 2: of Carmelo Hayes. I hope we get to see more
53:31
Speaker 2: of Ray Phoenix, who's been a ghost on this show,
53:35
Speaker 2: and some of the tag teams who also have seemed
53:38
Speaker 2: to have disappeared. You know, where's Montese Ford in the street?
53:41
Speaker 1: Profits? But it all comes down to creative and compelling
53:45
Speaker 1: matches and compelling stories. I don't really have a whole
53:49
Speaker 1: lot of faith and trust in the brain trust there
53:51
Speaker 1: right now to give that to us, because I feel
53:53
Speaker 1: like if they had the ability to do so, we
53:55
Speaker 1: would be getting it already and we're not. So I
53:59
Speaker 1: don't have a whole lot of faith as we go
54:00
Speaker 1: into this new three hour era. I'm dreading it. I
54:04
Speaker 1: certainly hope that they can prove me wrong, but right
54:09
Speaker 1: now it's like I'm counting down the weeks and just
54:12
Speaker 1: enjoying trying to enjoy these two hour shows while we
54:14
Speaker 1: still have them. Not that these shows are all that
54:17
Speaker 1: great every week, but man, January second, I'm just good Lord,
54:25
Speaker 1: three hours of this Tomorrow night is Saturday Night's main event.
54:29
Speaker 1: It's a very short card. Let's run through it real quick.
54:33
Speaker 1: We've got aj Styles and Dragon Lee taking on Javon
54:36
Speaker 1: Evans and Leon Slater, the TNA X Division champion. I
54:42
Speaker 1: am very much looking forward to This match probably the
54:46
Speaker 1: closest that we will get to seeing AJ Styles and
54:49
Speaker 1: Javon Evans or AJ Styles and Leon Slater in a
54:52
Speaker 1: ring together. AJ puts Slater over in a big way
54:56
Speaker 1: back at Slamniversary. Came out to the ring and after
55:00
Speaker 1: he won the championship from Moose and cut that great
55:03
Speaker 1: promo and put him over. So now we'll see what
55:06
Speaker 1: they can do in the ring tomorrow. I am expecting
55:09
Speaker 1: an AJ Styles dragonly win. I've seen conflicting things about
55:13
Speaker 1: whether or not now the tag team titles are on
55:15
Speaker 1: the line. I don't think they are, but I've read
55:19
Speaker 1: conflicting things about that, so I'm not sure. But AJ
55:24
Speaker 1: and Dragon Lee, either way, I think are going over
55:27
Speaker 1: in this match. We have Bailey against soul Ruka. Little
55:32
Speaker 1: a showcase match here, Wwe against NXT nothing you know,
55:37
Speaker 1: nothing on the line, as is the case in all
55:40
Speaker 1: of these matches, but it's a big spotlet on the
55:42
Speaker 1: NXT talents and sol Ruka is another one we talk
55:44
Speaker 1: about Oba and Javon. Soul Ruca is ready to be
55:48
Speaker 1: on TV right now. Soul Ruka would be a welcome
55:50
Speaker 1: addition to the SmackDown women's division that soul Snatcher is
55:55
Speaker 1: gonna get over on Week one. I don't think it's
55:58
Speaker 1: gonna take very long for her to get over with
56:00
Speaker 1: that move. I In this match, I think you need
56:04
Speaker 1: to have at least one of the NXT talents winning.
56:08
Speaker 1: While I would love to see Oba win, I'm going
56:11
Speaker 1: with sol Ruka. I think sol Ruka beats Bailey. In
56:15
Speaker 1: the Cody and Oba match, I'm not sure what the
56:17
Speaker 1: actual finish will be, but I don't see it being
56:21
Speaker 1: a clean, decisive finish because Drew McIntyre is going to
56:25
Speaker 1: get involved, So whether that results in a no contest
56:28
Speaker 1: or a disqualification, I'm not sure. I don't see Oba
56:31
Speaker 1: just straight up beating Cody. I don't think they want
56:34
Speaker 1: to go there, but I do think we see Drew
56:36
Speaker 1: McIntyre and Opa. Frankly, Oba does not have to win.
56:41
Speaker 1: Opah's gonna get over just by going out there and
56:43
Speaker 1: having a killer match with Cody, even if it gets
56:45
Speaker 1: fucked up with the finish, a big night for him,
56:49
Speaker 1: and then in the main event, which is going on last.
56:52
Speaker 1: None of this bullshit about opening the show, which would
56:54
Speaker 1: have been ridiculous even if John Cena wanted to go
56:57
Speaker 1: on first. I would have overruled him and said, no,
56:59
Speaker 1: you're going on last. We built this whole fucking show
57:01
Speaker 1: around you. You're going on last. John Cena, last ever match.
57:07
Speaker 1: He is insistent that he will never wrestle again, and
57:11
Speaker 1: I believe him. I believe this is it. We will
57:13
Speaker 1: never see him back in the ring wrestling again. He
57:16
Speaker 1: takes on Gunther, the perfect final opponent for him. It's
57:22
Speaker 1: too bad we didn't get any sort of interaction on
57:24
Speaker 1: television between them in the week or two leading up
57:28
Speaker 1: to this match. So maybe, you know, in the vein
57:32
Speaker 1: of those old school Saturday night's main events where you
57:35
Speaker 1: would have me and Jeane in the back interviewing people
57:37
Speaker 1: before their match, maybe we'll get like one good spirited
57:41
Speaker 1: backstage John Cena promo one last time before his match tomorrow.
57:47
Speaker 1: But this is it, and I have been saying this
57:50
Speaker 1: now for a few weeks. I believe that John Cena
57:53
Speaker 1: should win this match. I think John Cena is going
57:56
Speaker 1: to win this match. I am picking him to win.
57:59
Speaker 1: I think it's the move to make I think everything
58:02
Speaker 1: has been set up, like even Gunther on Monday Night
58:04
Speaker 1: he comes out there and he also I'll put it
58:08
Speaker 1: up too, since I brought it up, but he put
58:10
Speaker 1: that countdown clock on the screen there. It is T
58:14
Speaker 1: minus twenty hours to go. He had the countdown clock
58:18
Speaker 1: up on the screen. He was telling us about all
58:20
Speaker 1: the things he's going to do to John Cena on Saturday.
58:22
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap my arms around him. I'm gonna squeeze
58:25
Speaker 1: every last bit of hustle, loyalty and respect that of
58:27
Speaker 1: his body, and I'm gonna make him do the one
58:29
Speaker 1: thing he is vowed to never do. I'm gonna make
58:32
Speaker 1: him give up. It's like he laid it all out.
58:36
Speaker 1: So now I feel like if Gunther goes in there
58:38
Speaker 1: and just does it, I don't know what a lame
58:41
Speaker 1: way for John Cena his career to come to an end.
58:44
Speaker 1: I think for this story, it works better if the
58:46
Speaker 1: babyface goes over. I don't give a shit that he's
58:49
Speaker 1: leaving and Gunther is staying for tomorrow. I think the
58:52
Speaker 1: right finish is John Cena winning and then sending the
58:58
Speaker 1: fans home happy, giving them what they want to see
59:01
Speaker 1: that he can cut, you know, his postmatch promo, his
59:04
Speaker 1: retirement speech, and just give the fans, you know, a
59:07
Speaker 1: night that they can smile over and look back on
59:10
Speaker 1: and go. Man, this was this was great. You know,
59:12
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't get it right, you know for a
59:14
Speaker 1: lot of this retirement run, but they got it right
59:18
Speaker 1: at the finish. And they say, you know, it's not
59:20
Speaker 1: how you start, it's how you finish. So you could
59:24
Speaker 1: squander a lot of goodwill depending on how this match goes,
59:29
Speaker 1: or you can really leave the people, I think with
59:32
Speaker 1: a happy moment. So I'm picking John Cena to win.
59:37
Speaker 1: Here you go, let's take a look at the Twitter
59:39
Speaker 1: politic countdown off the screen there, what did you think
59:43
Speaker 1: of SmackDown before Saturday Night's made event? Fifty nine point
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Speaker 1: for be the booker. L A Night's final match was
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Speaker 1: on Monday's right, we should be celebrating La Night's final
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Speaker 1: match Lakers Pads. When Sena has gun thor beat and
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Speaker 1: Fien starts playing all right Lakers pads. I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to I'm gonna have to just like ban you from
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Speaker 1: all future streams. I don't want to hear I don't
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Speaker 1: want to hear Fiend. I hear it on the radio.
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Speaker 1: I turned the channel. I just I don't want to
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Speaker 1: hear it. No Fiend Holiday says I would like to
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Speaker 1: see Ilia keep the US title until WrestleMania, given he
1:01:04
Speaker 1: has good matches. The weekly US Open challenges won't make
1:01:07
Speaker 1: it feasible, though he's likely dropping it to boring Tomatonga
1:01:11
Speaker 1: and MFTs will hold tag in the US gold. Is
1:01:14
Speaker 1: that their great plan for when SmackDown goes to three hours?
1:01:17
Speaker 1: To just put all the gold on the MFTs because
1:01:21
Speaker 1: that'll be a great way for me to stop doing
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Speaker 1: SmackDown streams uh Prime, dried Ribs and Chicken. After the
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Speaker 1: Street Fighter twenty twenty six Mookie trailer came out, WWE
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Speaker 1: and TKO could be more tempted to book a Cody
1:01:35
Speaker 1: Road's Roman Reigns three at WrestleMania forty two. You can
1:01:41
Speaker 1: book whatever they want. I think that would be stupid.
1:01:46
Speaker 1: I hope not. Obafemi is Thanos dark Side and m
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Speaker 1: Baku of WWE. Who is m Baku? Everybody in WWE
1:02:09
Speaker 1: is too clean, polished and shiny. Everybody needs to wrestle
1:02:12
Speaker 1: in the dirt. I'm going to start calling Triple H
1:02:15
Speaker 1: mister clean. Well, he certainly looks like him Broadley seven
1:02:20
Speaker 1: aside from a few Why do the women on the
1:02:23
Speaker 1: main roster wrestle in slow motion most of the time
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Speaker 1: compared with the fast paced women from NXT? Is it
1:02:31
Speaker 1: a producer thing? I think it is. I think it is.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: I think you could see stylistically there are changes in
1:02:40
Speaker 1: the way that some of these women wrestle. I don't
1:02:46
Speaker 1: know exactly what the reason is for it. It's possible,
1:02:51
Speaker 1: you know, they just allow them to do more things
1:02:53
Speaker 1: in NXT, and when you get to the main roster
1:02:55
Speaker 1: it's just a different beast. But I know what you're
1:02:59
Speaker 1: talking about. It's like subtle changes. But I've noticed it myself.
1:03:08
Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says Vecna from Stranger Things tells Triple H,
1:03:11
Speaker 1: it's time for Melo's push in WWE. You don't need Vecna,
1:03:16
Speaker 1: It's it's been time for a Melo push in WWE.
1:03:19
Speaker 1: Aaron says by Rent Cell, who will be the bigger star?
1:03:22
Speaker 1: Oba bron Jacob and Soul Ruka, Roxan Perez, Blake Monroe.
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Speaker 1: I hope they all get over as big star. As
1:03:31
Speaker 1: far as the biggest star, I mean, I think bron
1:03:33
Speaker 1: Breaker is the one that they're positioning to be the
1:03:35
Speaker 1: biggest star, so probably him. And then on the women's side,
1:03:41
Speaker 1: I think man, I mean, the sky's the limit for Blake.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: You know, Mariah May is awesome. I mean, all three
1:03:51
Speaker 1: women are awesome. But I'm gonna say, of those three,
1:03:54
Speaker 1: who will end up being the bigger star, I'll say
1:04:01
Speaker 1: Soul Ruka, scum dog. Thank you for the ten no message,
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Speaker 1: just showing some love. Prince Vegena says, for some reason,
1:04:07
Speaker 1: the h Man gives priest the win in every feud
1:04:11
Speaker 1: been in Black even drew this alistair blackfeud should have
1:04:14
Speaker 1: been wrapped up months ago. Yep. Don't really have much
1:04:23
Speaker 1: more to add on to what you said there the
1:04:28
Speaker 1: sheltered Kid. Why is Trick Williams still not called up yet?
1:04:34
Speaker 1: I have a feeling he will be on SmackDown in
1:04:36
Speaker 1: the new year, because he would fit right in there
1:04:39
Speaker 1: in that US title picture. And I even mentioned something
1:04:41
Speaker 1: about that maybe a month or two ago, or if
1:04:44
Speaker 1: Mello gets the championship. Actually, I think the way I
1:04:47
Speaker 1: presented it was in terms of these open challenges where
1:04:52
Speaker 1: Mello was going to come out to accept it, but
1:04:55
Speaker 1: he gets attacked by Trick, and Trick comes out instead
1:04:57
Speaker 1: and accepts like on his first night in Who Wins
1:04:59
Speaker 1: the t Title something like that. But you know, if
1:05:02
Speaker 1: Mellow ends up with the United States Championship, I would
1:05:05
Speaker 1: get Trick on Smack then, and you can build to
1:05:07
Speaker 1: a Mellow Trick feud over the US title. Plus then
1:05:12
Speaker 1: you get Trick and Lash Legend on the show together
1:05:17
Speaker 1: since they're an item. Actually just got engaged over Thanksgiving
1:05:22
Speaker 1: retro Koah, where does Cody get off saying that he
1:05:25
Speaker 1: would fire Drew when we saw him begging all this
1:05:28
Speaker 1: to reinstate Drew not long ago. He's a damn heel.
1:05:39
Speaker 1: There's a heel buried under there, Heart of Debonair. Hey,
1:05:46
Speaker 1: Solo Monster, You're why I got into podcasts. That's awesome.
1:05:50
Speaker 1: We talk about the men's Mount Rushmore, Rock Hogan, Austin,
1:05:53
Speaker 1: et cetera. Wrestling ended today. Who was on your women's
1:05:56
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore? I don't know. I mean, I I kind
1:06:00
Speaker 1: of hate the Mount Rushmore questions. Honestly, I mean they're
1:06:08
Speaker 1: just they're so played out. I mean, if I had
1:06:12
Speaker 1: to have some women in mind for a Mount Rushmore spot,
1:06:19
Speaker 1: I think Becky's on there, probably Trish, you know, I'm
1:06:25
Speaker 1: inclined to put Mercedes on there. And then as far
1:06:30
Speaker 1: as that fourth person is concerned, man, I'm tempted. I'm tempted.
1:06:33
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to put Oscar. I'm tempted to put Oscar
1:06:36
Speaker 1: on there. So yeah, maybe maybe some combination of those women,
1:06:42
Speaker 1: you know, but then you're leaving out people like Mayu
1:06:45
Speaker 1: Yuwatani and you're the Aja Kanan and you know, Dump
1:06:50
Speaker 1: Matsumoto and Manami Toyota. I didn't grow up watching those women,
1:06:59
Speaker 1: but I know how how great they are. How do
1:07:00
Speaker 1: you leave them off of Mount Rushmore? You know? But again,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: it's my Mount Rushmore, so it's all subjective. Christopher, you
1:07:10
Speaker 1: knew exactly what you were doing. Forgot that was the
1:07:15
Speaker 1: Kyrie super Chat. Thank you, Christopher. I'm gonna get to
1:07:20
Speaker 1: yours in a minute. And the heart of debonair. You
1:07:26
Speaker 1: made me think. It's not one of those questions you
1:07:30
Speaker 1: could just think of on the spot though. It's just
1:07:32
Speaker 1: there's been so many women over the years. Yeah, someone
1:07:37
Speaker 1: mentioned Sherry, Like I thought Sherry was great, but you know,
1:07:41
Speaker 1: in terms of like her in ring work and her accomplishments, honestly,
1:07:45
Speaker 1: it doesn't hold a candle to what some of these
1:07:46
Speaker 1: women today have done over the last ten years. Now.
1:07:50
Speaker 1: If Sherry were a part of this era like prime Sherry,
1:07:53
Speaker 1: Sherry would have fucking killed it. And I think Sherry
1:07:55
Speaker 1: absolutely would have ended up in a Mount Rushmore spot.
1:07:59
Speaker 1: But she just came up at a different time where
1:08:01
Speaker 1: you know, she wrestled, but there wasn't really much of
1:08:03
Speaker 1: a division back then, and then the majority of her
1:08:06
Speaker 1: work that she's remembered for was as a manager. But
1:08:10
Speaker 1: I would be open to having Sherry on there. I
1:08:12
Speaker 1: think Cherry was like I look at her like the
1:08:17
Speaker 1: way I look at Bobby Heenan where Bobby could do
1:08:19
Speaker 1: it all. You know, Bobby could wrestle, That's how we started.
1:08:22
Speaker 1: Bobby could wrestle, Bobby could manage, he could commentate, he
1:08:27
Speaker 1: could do so many different things. And that's what Cherry was.
1:08:30
Speaker 1: Scherry could wrestle, she can manage, she could help get
1:08:32
Speaker 1: other people over. That's what she was doing with I mean,
1:08:36
Speaker 1: Sean Michaels has complimented her for that. You know, she
1:08:38
Speaker 1: was really helpful to him at a time when he
1:08:40
Speaker 1: was first coming up as a singles heel. But there
1:08:44
Speaker 1: was a reason they put her with so many different people.
1:08:46
Speaker 1: You know, they had her with Savage and Dbassi and
1:08:49
Speaker 1: Sean and because they, you know, trusted her in that spot,
1:08:54
Speaker 1: because she was a great manager. Hank says, what's the
1:09:00
Speaker 1: last WWE shirt that you bought? I bought the Cody
1:09:07
Speaker 1: Rhoades shirt a couple of years ago he came out.
1:09:11
Speaker 1: Actually it was the design I think he got sued for,
1:09:14
Speaker 1: but it had American Nightmare in it. But it's like
1:09:17
Speaker 1: the red, white and blue design with the dog has
1:09:20
Speaker 1: Pharaoh's likeness in there. I like the way that looked,
1:09:27
Speaker 1: So that would have been the last one. Holiday says,
1:09:31
Speaker 1: we're probably getting Cody against Drew for the title on
1:09:34
Speaker 1: the January second SmackDown ge if only somebody had pitched
1:09:39
Speaker 1: that very idea last week. Says it'll be a draw
1:09:43
Speaker 1: for the return of the three hour show. Hopefully Drew
1:09:46
Speaker 1: wins the belt. I talked about all this last week
1:09:51
Speaker 1: and of the two big championship matches that week. If
1:09:54
Speaker 1: we get two of them, which one I would prefer
1:09:57
Speaker 1: to see a title change in. It's Drew. I just
1:10:00
Speaker 1: don't think he could afford to go in there and
1:10:02
Speaker 1: lose again. What's the point in even doing the match
1:10:04
Speaker 1: if you run it back just for him to lose again.
1:10:09
Speaker 1: The ufman says, eighteen wins and one giant loss. Talk
1:10:15
Speaker 1: about the Patriots. I have believe it or not, I
1:10:18
Speaker 1: should have worn it on the stream tonight. I should
1:10:20
Speaker 1: have quickly. I could change out of it right now
1:10:22
Speaker 1: now that'll be for members only. I have a T
1:10:26
Speaker 1: shirt that literally just has eighteen and one on it,
1:10:34
Speaker 1: and I wore it for quite some time after that
1:10:37
Speaker 1: after that Super Bowl. Still have it. Heart of debonair
1:10:44
Speaker 1: by rewatch delete the rivalry Austin versus Rock, Taker versus Sean,
1:10:54
Speaker 1: Cody versus Roman, Well we're deleting Cody and Roman. As
1:10:59
Speaker 1: great as a was, as great as the matches were. Uh,
1:11:02
Speaker 1: you could say goodbye to Cody and Roman. I'm gonna
1:11:09
Speaker 1: rewatch Taker and Sean, and I'm gonna buy on Austin
1:11:12
Speaker 1: and Rock. Austin and Rock is is just an all timer,
1:11:18
Speaker 1: very entertaining super pony. If Cody loses to Oba, That
1:11:27
Speaker 1: means Drew is fucked. They ain't gonna have Cody lose
1:11:30
Speaker 1: two big matches in a row. Drew fan should be
1:11:33
Speaker 1: rooting for Cody. It's a good way to look at it.
1:11:38
Speaker 1: If you are a Drew McIntyre fan, you should be
1:11:40
Speaker 1: rooting for a Cody Rhads win or at least a
1:11:42
Speaker 1: no contest if Drew gets involved. Him losing two in
1:11:47
Speaker 1: a row is very unlikely. Yeah, Rectangled, thank you Rectangled Galaxy.
1:11:57
Speaker 1: Bobby means SmackDown Women's division needs call ups asap. Now
1:12:01
Speaker 1: that the show is going back to three hours. He
1:12:04
Speaker 1: would put it on par with Raw. Ruka and Bailey
1:12:07
Speaker 1: could kill it. We'll find out tomorrow. They're going one
1:12:12
Speaker 1: on one tomorrow. Jeremy Rose says main event was a
1:12:19
Speaker 1: bore lame finish as predictable. However, was hoping for something
1:12:24
Speaker 1: crazy like Alistair's fireball to Rhea making him Heal of
1:12:29
Speaker 1: the Year. Didn't China take a fireball to the face
1:12:35
Speaker 1: from Kane? I think she might have. Yeah. I mean, look,
1:12:41
Speaker 1: they just they beat Alistair and that's it. This feud
1:12:45
Speaker 1: is over. I mean there's not much more they could
1:12:47
Speaker 1: do with it. But where do they go with Alistair
1:12:50
Speaker 1: Black next. Like, given the SmackDown roster as it is,
1:12:55
Speaker 1: I can't even think of who would make sense to
1:12:58
Speaker 1: put him with. Where does he even go from here?
1:13:03
Speaker 1: I don't know, Alexander. I wonder who did Julia piss
1:13:11
Speaker 1: off in the office. I don't think she pissed off anybody.
1:13:15
Speaker 1: I just think that they they don't have anything really
1:13:19
Speaker 1: worthwhile for her because to them, she's not a priority.
1:13:23
Speaker 1: They look at her and go someone looks at her
1:13:25
Speaker 1: and goes, we can't really make money off her, so
1:13:27
Speaker 1: we're not going to really focus on her. And I
1:13:30
Speaker 1: think that sucks. I think that's a mistake. Triple Ah
1:13:34
Speaker 1: needs to learn. You can't reheat the cold French fries,
1:13:36
Speaker 1: that is Damian priest. Yeah, trying to reheat French fries
1:13:40
Speaker 1: in a microwave, it's awful. The only way to do
1:13:46
Speaker 1: it is in the air fryer. You could take it
1:13:49
Speaker 1: from me. I've tried heating up French RECKSAGGI French fries
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Speaker 1: in the microwave, But you put that shit in the
1:13:57
Speaker 1: air fryer. Come at all crispy, it's great. I think
1:14:05
Speaker 1: when I bought my air fryer last year, Like there
1:14:10
Speaker 1: are a few moments in life that I would say
1:14:12
Speaker 1: are truly life changing. That was one of them, because
1:14:15
Speaker 1: before that I just had a regular toaster of it,
1:14:17
Speaker 1: and then it shorted out and that went caput, and
1:14:21
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, now I have space on the counter.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: Let me buy one of these air fryer things everybody
1:14:26
Speaker 1: talks about. And it's great. It's a game changer for sure,
1:14:35
Speaker 1: bas beer Is. I wholeheartedly sympathized with you three hour
1:14:38
Speaker 1: raws and smacked it. Well, we're not quite a three
1:14:41
Speaker 1: hours of raw yet, but it wouldn't shock me if
1:14:44
Speaker 1: it ends up going three at some point, Prince Begeta,
1:14:50
Speaker 1: if you had the pen, would you have had rye
1:14:52
Speaker 1: Back win the title in twenty twelve, and if he
1:14:54
Speaker 1: did become champion, would he have stayed in the main event?
1:14:58
Speaker 1: I would have. Yes. I would have put the on
1:15:00
Speaker 1: Ryeback when he took seeing his place in that hell
1:15:02
Speaker 1: in a cell Machigan's punk, I would have put the
1:15:05
Speaker 1: title on rye Back. He was that over at that point.
1:15:08
Speaker 1: I think you go with your hot hand. I don't
1:15:10
Speaker 1: know how long it would have lasted. Maybe rye Back
1:15:12
Speaker 1: would have continued to soar, you know, maybe he would
1:15:15
Speaker 1: have fizzled out. But Punk was in the middle of
1:15:18
Speaker 1: that four hundred and I mean it ended up being
1:15:21
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty four days. He was in the
1:15:23
Speaker 1: middle of that run. They didn't want to do that,
1:15:25
Speaker 1: and you know we had Punk and Rock at the
1:15:29
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. Doesn't mean that rye Back had to hold
1:15:33
Speaker 1: the championship until then. Could have dropped it back to Punk,
1:15:37
Speaker 1: you know, a month or two later if they felt
1:15:39
Speaker 1: like it wasn't working out. But as over as he was, yes,
1:15:41
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I think I would have put
1:15:43
Speaker 1: the belt on Ryeback. I spoke a lot of weed.
1:15:50
Speaker 1: Eddie was right before my time, literally because the first
1:15:55
Speaker 1: thing I saw was Randy running Taker with the Lowrider
1:15:58
Speaker 1: and been hooked to rest ever since. Is what about you?
1:16:05
Speaker 1: You're asking me about what my like first wrestling memory was.
1:16:09
Speaker 1: They got me hooked. I mean, the first wrestling memory
1:16:11
Speaker 1: for me that had me scared to death was Randy
1:16:15
Speaker 1: Savage and Ricky Steamboat in nineteen eighty seven heading into
1:16:18
Speaker 1: Wrestle Mainty three. When Savage came off the top rope
1:16:21
Speaker 1: to the floor. Ricky was over by the metal guardrail
1:16:26
Speaker 1: and he got his throat knocked right into the guardrail,
1:16:30
Speaker 1: and he's grabbing his throat and he couldn't breathe. He's coughing,
1:16:33
Speaker 1: he's gasping for air. They ended up having to carry
1:16:37
Speaker 1: him out on a stretcher. I thought the man was dying.
1:16:39
Speaker 1: I thought I was witnessing at death in real time.
1:16:43
Speaker 1: So that would be my earliest wrestling memory. More says
1:16:53
Speaker 1: WWE is down thirty two percent from the last time
1:16:57
Speaker 1: in this venue fifty three hundred. Well, that's what happens.
1:17:00
Speaker 1: And you put together a show like the one we
1:17:02
Speaker 1: had tonight where people are like, eh, you know what,
1:17:05
Speaker 1: I'm not really all that interested in this that, and
1:17:12
Speaker 1: you're charging what you are charging for tickets. This is inevitable.
1:17:17
Speaker 1: This is what's gonna end up happening. Paul Carpenter Triple
1:17:23
Speaker 1: H two safe. We need more gimmick matches, more matches
1:17:26
Speaker 1: on ples, more main events stars, more title defenses from
1:17:31
Speaker 1: top champions on TV. I'll throw another one in there.
1:17:37
Speaker 1: I don't think we need every fucking title reign to
1:17:39
Speaker 1: be super long either. I'm not saying hot potatoes the thing,
1:17:44
Speaker 1: but I think we need fewer long title reigns. Make
1:17:51
Speaker 1: things a little more interesting, make things a little more exciting.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the way, it just became how many records
1:18:02
Speaker 1: can we set? This person's been champion for X number
1:18:05
Speaker 1: of days, this person's been champion for I mean we
1:18:10
Speaker 1: had Roman reigns, right, thirteen hundred something thirteen sixty right?
1:18:13
Speaker 1: Was that? The number Athena over a thousand days is
1:18:17
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor Women's World Champion, and you could find
1:18:20
Speaker 1: other ones. Mercedes five hundred and something days is the
1:18:23
Speaker 1: TBS Champion, and before that it was Jade at five
1:18:26
Speaker 1: hundred and something days as the TBS champion, and Gunther
1:18:29
Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty six days as the Intercontinental Champion,
1:18:33
Speaker 1: and so on and so on, and it's like, fuck, man,
1:18:36
Speaker 1: like a few of them here and there, okay, but like,
1:18:40
Speaker 1: why does it feel like every title reign has to
1:18:43
Speaker 1: be super long in months and months and months? It's
1:18:45
Speaker 1: fucking boring. Where did this become the norm? Luis with
1:18:56
Speaker 1: a fifteen John Cena should have been Kurt Angle's final
1:19:00
Speaker 1: opponent when Kurt was having his retirement match. Screw Vince
1:19:04
Speaker 1: McMahon and bum ass Baron Corbyn. Oh yeah, that's right,
1:19:10
Speaker 1: Louise and Ashley, that's Also for the ten out of
1:19:12
Speaker 1: ten that we hit on the bonus goal in the chat,
1:19:15
Speaker 1: which guarantees at least one round of be the booker,
1:19:18
Speaker 1: although we are only twenty five likes away. Look at
1:19:21
Speaker 1: that from maybe a double a double? Can we make it?
1:19:27
Speaker 1: Thank you? Louise Face Verus with a pair of super
1:19:32
Speaker 1: chat says there isn't a definitive face of aw. Do
1:19:36
Speaker 1: you agree? Yeah, I mean, I would say Hangman was
1:19:40
Speaker 1: probably the closest thing. I kind of look at him
1:19:43
Speaker 1: as like the main character or at the moment, especially
1:19:49
Speaker 1: now that he lost the belt and swerve his back,
1:19:52
Speaker 1: Osprey's out, MJF has been out. There is no real
1:19:55
Speaker 1: definitive face of the company. I would agree with that. Also,
1:19:58
Speaker 1: techn the pro wrestler with the leopard head, Oh is
1:20:03
Speaker 1: that okay? Yeah? Yeah, I know him. Nick Grosso, what's
1:20:09
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Sarah Stock going scorched earth on all
1:20:12
Speaker 1: the wrestling companies? Now, I've only been keeping track of
1:20:15
Speaker 1: some of what she's saying. Look, I mean, more power
1:20:18
Speaker 1: to or if there's any truth to any of the stuff.
1:20:20
Speaker 1: But she's not exactly the greatest messenger. Given some of
1:20:23
Speaker 1: the things that she's said on social media, especially the
1:20:26
Speaker 1: things that she had to say about Amanda Huber and
1:20:29
Speaker 1: some of the insults, and then the stupid comment she
1:20:32
Speaker 1: made when somebody mentioned something about Vince and she was like,
1:20:38
Speaker 1: he didn't rape me. I don't care. He didn't rape me.
1:20:43
Speaker 1: He was good to me. Yeah, she's not exactly the
1:20:46
Speaker 1: most reliable messenger, and bass Bears says, fiend is everywhere. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So let's do it, ladies and gentlemen, it is now
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Speaker 1: Cody versus orton who should be the face and who
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Speaker 1: but this would be like this would be like long
1:32:42
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Speaker 1: I feel like to me that would be more interesting.
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Speaker 1: All right, we begin with Solo Monster's favorite tag team
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1:33:37
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Speaker 1: main event on any show. Right there, I'll close my
1:33:56
Speaker 1: show with that instant bell. That's what that is. That
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Speaker 1: is an instant bell. All right, women's be the booker.
1:34:11
Speaker 1: We have Piper Niven unfortunately out with a neck injury
1:34:16
Speaker 1: right now, but Piper Niven is with us. That was
1:34:20
Speaker 1: from her Do Drop days, don't you remember Do Drop? Everybody?
1:34:26
Speaker 1: Piper Niven and Carmela not really feeling it. I mean
1:34:37
Speaker 1: we just went from Demolition against Kenny Omega and Hangman
1:34:39
Speaker 1: Page to this, so it doesn't really entice me. Our
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Speaker 1: first of two main events tonight. Well, this man is
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Speaker 1: not going to be any other place on the card.
1:35:01
Speaker 1: It's in his contract. Hollywood Hulk Hogan is in the
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1:35:14
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1:35:21
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1:35:31
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna think I'm crazy. I am giving
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Speaker 1: that the buzz. I don't think that's gonna work. You know,
1:35:44
Speaker 1: there was always a rumor that Hogan tried to get
1:35:46
Speaker 1: Yokozuna into WCW. You know exactly why he wanted to
1:35:51
Speaker 1: get Yokozuna into WCW. To get his wind back, to
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Speaker 1: get his wind back. You ain't getting your wind back
1:36:02
Speaker 1: on my dime, Hogan, that ain't gonna happen. I am
1:36:09
Speaker 1: depriving you of getting your win back. You lost, Alcimenia
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Speaker 1: got squashed. Now we move on to round ten. Not
1:36:25
Speaker 1: on my watch, it's not happening. That don't work for me.
1:36:31
Speaker 1: That's right. Well, now we got some stipulations to pick
1:36:37
Speaker 1: here for round number two. All right, We're gonna have
1:36:43
Speaker 1: ourselves a good old fashioned dog collar match. These things
1:36:47
Speaker 1: can get very violent and very bloody. In fact, in
1:36:49
Speaker 1: this match here with Piper and Valentine, Piper had his
1:36:52
Speaker 1: ear drum busted by one of the chain shots. So
1:36:58
Speaker 1: it's gonna get violent. Now. I don't know about doing
1:37:00
Speaker 1: a tag match, so why don't we mean, do we
1:37:04
Speaker 1: do a women's dog collar match. We'll do a women's
1:37:06
Speaker 1: dog collar match. You'll see those too often. I don't
1:37:12
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen one. Step right here and be
1:37:14
Speaker 1: the Booker women's dog collar match with Becky Lynch. I
1:37:19
Speaker 1: mentioned Becky Lynch. She would be on my Mount Rushmore
1:37:21
Speaker 1: for the ladies. Becky Lynch. I'm gonna put that dog
1:37:29
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1:37:31
Speaker 1: attached to? Uh oh, this is not gonna add well
1:37:39
Speaker 1: for Becky Lynch. Amazing Kanan, Awesome Kan Karma. She's had
1:37:45
Speaker 1: many names over the years, Awesome Kong and Becky Lynch
1:37:49
Speaker 1: and a dog collar match, though, I mean, that's that's
1:37:53
Speaker 1: a pretty good pick. That's a pretty good pick right there.
1:38:00
Speaker 1: And you know we should have had Awesome Cong and
1:38:03
Speaker 1: Gail Kim in a dog collar match. See now that
1:38:08
Speaker 1: that would have been something you have. Rest in peace, Becky.
1:38:10
Speaker 1: This is probably the end of Becky Lynch. We do
1:38:14
Speaker 1: this match, all right, We got ourselves a tag team
1:38:21
Speaker 1: loser leaves Town match. One of these teams is gone.
1:38:26
Speaker 1: You know, I might even have to remove them, legitimately
1:38:28
Speaker 1: remove them from Be the Booker if they lose. Although
1:38:35
Speaker 1: who's losing. We have to figure out who wins and
1:38:37
Speaker 1: who loses. All right, let's see loser Leaves Town tag
1:38:43
Speaker 1: team style. We have the natural disasters earthquake and typhoon.
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Speaker 1: What do you think their combined weight was at that time.
1:38:55
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this was a total combined weight of
1:39:01
Speaker 1: seven hundred thirty one pounds. That's what I'm gonna say.
1:39:11
Speaker 1: All right, loser leaves town. Man, someone's staying, someone's going.
1:39:22
Speaker 1: Oh I know who's going. I know exactly who's going.
1:39:29
Speaker 1: That's it. We'm gonna write this down right now. Best friends,
1:39:34
Speaker 1: best friends. There you go, best friends are gone from
1:39:38
Speaker 1: Be the Booker. They're gone. They lost, they lose the match. Hey, look,
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Speaker 1: stipulations matter. There are consequences to these stipulations. Say goodbye
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Speaker 1: to best friends, and now we get to our main event.
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Speaker 1: They shall be removed kennel from Hell. Oh come on, now,
1:40:11
Speaker 1: we can't do can't we can't do this. We we
1:40:14
Speaker 1: actually just had a Kennel from Hell match like two
1:40:17
Speaker 1: weeks ago. But those are the rules. Nothing I can
1:40:23
Speaker 1: do about it. We have a Kennel from Hell main event.
1:40:25
Speaker 1: This is gonna have to be one hell of a
1:40:27
Speaker 1: match for me to give this the bell. My finger
1:40:30
Speaker 1: is itching already to touch the buzzer. Oh, I'm sure
1:40:39
Speaker 1: he's going to enjoy this. I'm sure he's going to
1:40:43
Speaker 1: enjoy this greatly. Jim Cornett actually, that's the look that
1:40:48
Speaker 1: he had on his face when he found out that
1:40:50
Speaker 1: he is going to be in a Kennel from Hell match,
1:40:52
Speaker 1: which is a Russo special. By the way, I should
1:40:56
Speaker 1: say that Vince Russo has struck again, and of all people,
1:41:02
Speaker 1: he has chosen Jim Cornett to be in this Kennel
1:41:05
Speaker 1: from Hell match. You know Russo is in here. It'd
1:41:13
Speaker 1: be kind of funny if you land on him. Kenny
1:41:18
Speaker 1: Omega will be wrestling Jim Cornett in a Kennel from
1:41:24
Speaker 1: Hell match. I have to see this match. Twinkle toes
1:41:30
Speaker 1: mcfingerbang is going to be wrestling Jim Cornett in a
1:41:34
Speaker 1: Kennel from Hell match. I would pay pretty decent money
1:41:40
Speaker 1: actually to see this match. And the question really isn't
1:41:45
Speaker 1: so much what is Kenny Omega going to do to
1:41:47
Speaker 1: Jim Cornett. The question is really what is Jim Cornett
1:41:49
Speaker 1: going to do to Kenny Omega in this match? Dave
1:41:57
Speaker 1: will give it five stars? Dude. I think Dave might
1:41:59
Speaker 1: be in Kenny corner. He may be managing him for
1:42:02
Speaker 1: this match. Don Kallus interferes and Jim wins, Oh, I'd
1:42:10
Speaker 1: picked Cornet to go over here. You know, when a
1:42:13
Speaker 1: Kennel from Hell, there's no rule against bringing a tennis
1:42:15
Speaker 1: racket in there. I love it. See, this is the
1:42:20
Speaker 1: kind of thing you never know what you're gonna get.
1:42:22
Speaker 1: And be the booker. Kenny Omega against Jim Cornett in
1:42:26
Speaker 1: a cage. I'm sure Jim Cornett would love to get
1:42:28
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega in a cage. He would love to end
1:42:31
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega in a cage. What a match, that's right,
1:42:39
Speaker 1: be the booker classic. You got a classic main event
1:42:42
Speaker 1: and you got the dogs outside running around, right. I'm
1:42:47
Speaker 1: glad we stuck with the stipulation. The promo Cornett would
1:42:55
Speaker 1: cut would be epic. Oh yeah, the pre match promo,
1:43:00
Speaker 1: the postmatch promo telling you may he's got that racket,
1:43:07
Speaker 1: you can't count him out. Well, look, bring that same
1:43:11
Speaker 1: energy tomorrow and we get to run it back, and
1:43:14
Speaker 1: we get to pick a whole new spate of matches,
1:43:19
Speaker 1: because tomorrow night, I'm gonna be live with you right
1:43:22
Speaker 1: here on this very channel talking John Cena's farewell. Full
1:43:27
Speaker 1: review of Saturday night's main event. As soon as the
1:43:31
Speaker 1: show is over. It's an eight o'clock start. Usually they
1:43:34
Speaker 1: are about two hours, but apparently they can go as
1:43:37
Speaker 1: long as they want, so I've seen it does a
1:43:39
Speaker 1: big long speech after the match. There's no telling. It
1:43:42
Speaker 1: could be two and a half hours, it could be
1:43:44
Speaker 1: three hours, but I would suspect by about eleven o'clock
1:43:49
Speaker 1: is when I'll be live here on the channel, So
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Speaker 1: come join me then. I haven't stopped laughing yet. The
1:44:03
Speaker 1: Observer posted a clip on Twitter of them confirming that
1:44:06
Speaker 1: Sena versus Gunther was going on first tomorrow. I quote
1:44:09
Speaker 1: tweeted and posted a lengthy rant. Yeah, they are not
1:44:12
Speaker 1: going on first. I can believe that they were deciding
1:44:16
Speaker 1: on what the order was going to be, and then
1:44:18
Speaker 1: they ultimately decided on them going last. But honestly, it
1:44:22
Speaker 1: never should have been a thing to even consider that
1:44:28
Speaker 1: match has to go on last. That's it. The whole
1:44:30
Speaker 1: show was based around that match. I mean, this is
1:44:32
Speaker 1: just it's ridiculous. I saw people going, oh, you know,
1:44:36
Speaker 1: back in the old days of Saturday Night's main events,
1:44:38
Speaker 1: sometimes they put the main event on first. Yeah, I'm
1:44:41
Speaker 1: well aware of that. They used to do that on
1:44:43
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw too in the early days. The difference,
1:44:46
Speaker 1: of course, is that most of the people that are
1:44:48
Speaker 1: going to be in the building tomorrow and watching at
1:44:50
Speaker 1: home on Peacock are watching to see John Cena's final match.
1:44:55
Speaker 1: So if John Cena was true to his word it
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Speaker 1: really wanted a spotlight on the NXT talents, the last
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Speaker 1: thing he would do is give people a reason to
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Speaker 1: tune out when his match is over. Like that just
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Speaker 1: never made any sense to me. So thankfully they are
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Speaker 1: going on last. What do I think the order is
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Speaker 1: going to be If I was laying out this show,
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Speaker 1: if I was booking this show, I am putting that's
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Speaker 1: a good question. I think that what I would do
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Speaker 1: is I would go Sina, I'm sorry, Sina, Cody and Oba.
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Speaker 1: I would open with Cody and Oba, and then from
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Speaker 1: there I would go to the tag team match, and
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Speaker 1: then you do Bailey and Soul Ruka, and then you
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Speaker 1: do Sena and Gunther. That's how the match order would go.
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Speaker 1: So we'll all find out tomorrow. Yeah, I mean Saturday
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Speaker 1: Night's made event back then, you want to go back
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Speaker 1: to the beginning days on NBC. I mean it was
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Speaker 1: it was on whenever Saturday Nights or Saturday Night Live
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Speaker 1: was preempted, so those shows were starting at eleven thirty,
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Speaker 1: and the numbers those early shows did were sick. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it would do really good numbers. Of course, none better
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Speaker 1: than the show which technically wasn't Saturday Night's main event.
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Speaker 1: Pretty sure, it was a Friday, so they called it
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Speaker 1: the main event. But the one where Andre beat Hogan
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Speaker 1: to win the title in eighty eight. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if the entire show did this, but their match right,
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Speaker 1: parts of the show had as many as thirty three
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Speaker 1: million people. Think about that. Thirty three million people watched
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Speaker 1: at least a part of that show that night. That
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Speaker 1: is insane. So numbers that just will never be matched.
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Speaker 1: It's not possible. How do you even measure it today,
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Speaker 1: you know, because everything is clipped and posted on TikTok
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Speaker 1: and Instagram and everything, and so yeah, I mean there
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Speaker 1: are things on social media that I'll get fifty million views,
1:47:25
Speaker 1: but like, how do you really measure that shit? Today?
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Speaker 1: Everything is so fragmented. That's what makes it more impressive.
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Speaker 1: Back then, it was just NBC. That was it. That
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Speaker 1: was it. There was no other network that it was
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Speaker 1: airing on. At the same time, there was no streaming.
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Speaker 1: Thirty three million people to watch Andre the Giant beat
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Speaker 1: Hogan and win the championship and end a four year
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Speaker 1: title run with a hip toss. Called it a suplex,
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Speaker 1: but it was a hip toss bp LB punk or
1:48:03
Speaker 1: we could do bp unk right like missus Javon's unc copy.
1:48:11
Speaker 1: This be the Booker, So I can ask JD about
1:48:14
Speaker 1: it on TNT. Well, I mean, you saw the matches.
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Speaker 1: You can just bring it up yourself. Just write down
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Speaker 1: what the matches were retro Koah Buyer sell, Corny versus
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Speaker 1: Kenny in the kennel or Solemn Monster against Khali in
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Speaker 1: the Punjabi prison. I think we would go Corny and
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Speaker 1: Kenny in the kennel. I don't think anybody wants to
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Speaker 1: see Solomn Monster against Khali in the Punjabi prison. That
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Speaker 1: was a horrific draw on be the booker that time. Yes.
1:48:54
Speaker 1: Then Andre gave Andre gave a great postmatch interview where
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Speaker 1: he told me and g and I surrender the tag
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Speaker 1: team championship to te Dbasse. I go what the tag team? What?
1:49:12
Speaker 1: That doesn't look like the tag team title? Oh? And
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Speaker 1: then Hogan pressed Earl Hebner over his head on Earl's
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Speaker 1: first night when they did the twin Hebner angle and
1:49:20
Speaker 1: he got a running start, he threw him out of
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Speaker 1: the ring and threw him right over Andre and Dbass
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Speaker 1: in Virgil's heads and I think he I think he
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Speaker 1: got injured. And then Hogan whined and cried about the
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery. Look at the money falling out of his pocket. Eh. Yeah,
1:49:46
Speaker 1: he did that a lot in his career. I didn't
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Speaker 1: really Yeah, I look back on it now, But like
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Speaker 1: Hogan did a lot of crying during his career. He
1:49:52
Speaker 1: cried when he lost the title in eighty eight, right,
1:49:55
Speaker 1: he cried and moaned about SIT eliminating him from the
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Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, which was completely legal, nothing wrong with it.
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Speaker 1: Pulled him out of the ring too, gave Rick Flair
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Speaker 1: the win. If I can't win, nobody can. Always said
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Speaker 1: Hogan was a heel. He was a heel masquerading as
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Speaker 1: a babyface. I said it for years. I just didn't
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Speaker 1: realize it when I was a kid. Be well, stay safe,
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Speaker 1: and I will see you for the Saturday Night's main
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Speaker 1: event review tomorrow. Until then, take care, guys,