Latest / Solomonster Sounds Off / WWE Smackdown 9/26/25 Review | Jade Cargill BUSTED OPEN As Main Event Finish FALLS APART
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Man, that ending. That ending was not good. That ending
- 0:05Speaker 1: was not good at all. I'll tell you what, man,
- 0:07Speaker 1: four weeks in a row, Sammy's Ain and the US
- 0:10Speaker 1: Title Open Challenge has been the highlight of SmackDown for
- 0:14Speaker 1: a month, and I actually am dreading the day that
- 0:17Speaker 1: Sammy actually loses the championship because I don't know what
- 0:20Speaker 1: this show is going to look like in the absence
- 0:22Speaker 1: of these matches. But holy shit, I am not looking
- 0:26Speaker 1: forward to that. Sammy's A and Javon Evans, that was
- 0:30Speaker 1: the highlight of the night they were in Orlando. Javon Evans,
- 0:33Speaker 1: of course, the twenty one year old phenom from NXT
- 0:36Speaker 1: who is wrestling at No Mercy tomorrow night. He showed
- 0:40Speaker 1: up and stepped up for the Open Challenge and had
- 0:43Speaker 1: a great match, a banger of a match with Sammy's Ain.
- 0:46Speaker 1: One of those matches that I think we'll look back
- 0:48Speaker 1: on years from now as the first real breakout moment
- 0:51Speaker 1: for him on the main roster, even though he's not
- 0:53Speaker 1: officially on the main roster yet. I very much enjoyed
- 0:57Speaker 1: that match. I wish I could say the same about
- 0:59Speaker 1: the main event on this show, but I cannot. I
- 1:02Speaker 1: cannot we had Tiffany Stratton, we had Jade car Gill,
- 1:06Speaker 1: and we had Naya Jacks for the WWE Women's Championship.
- 1:10Speaker 1: The winner would go on to meet Stephanie Viquier at
- 1:13Speaker 1: Crown Jewel because they're doing these champion versus champion matches again,
- 1:18Speaker 1: brand versus brand, and the only person in this match
- 1:22Speaker 1: that really made sense was Tiffany Stratton, even though she's
- 1:25Speaker 1: been undefeated this entire year and I'm already over this
- 1:29Speaker 1: run and it's not even entirely her fault. The SmackDown
- 1:32Speaker 1: Women's division sucks. There's no competition for her. It's boring.
- 1:37Speaker 1: They desperately need some new faces in this division, calling
- 1:41Speaker 1: up people, moving people over from Raw, whatever they need
- 1:44Speaker 1: to do. The division is in dire straits right now.
- 1:47Speaker 1: And Tiffany Stratton was the only name though that really
- 1:51Speaker 1: made sense for the match with Stephanie. You're not gonna
- 1:54Speaker 1: do Stephanie and Naya. You're not gonna do Stephanie and Jade,
- 1:56Speaker 1: because Jade's not ready to be in that spot a match,
- 2:01Speaker 1: And you know, I can't even say. I'm not gonna
- 2:03Speaker 1: say the match was terrible. I don't think the match
- 2:05Speaker 1: is as good as some of you were saying it is.
- 2:08Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a great match at all
- 2:10Speaker 1: as far as the main event goes. But it really
- 2:12Speaker 1: fell apart towards the end and Jade car Gilt came
- 2:16Speaker 1: up busted open because she ate the steps courtesy of
- 2:22Speaker 1: Naya Jacks. Naya Jacks threw her into the steel steps
- 2:27Speaker 1: and Jade got all of it, and she came up
- 2:30Speaker 1: and she had a gash on her face. There's blood
- 2:32Speaker 1: all over the floor, and from that moment on, the
- 2:37Speaker 1: entire finish of this match, the entire finishing sequence of
- 2:40Speaker 1: this match completely fell apart. And it wasn't it wasn't
- 2:42Speaker 1: just that she got busted open. That was really just
- 2:45Speaker 1: the beginning of it. But she gets busted open and
- 2:48Speaker 1: she gets back in the ring with Naya, puts Naya
- 2:51Speaker 1: down with one of her signature moves. Tiffany is supposed
- 2:54Speaker 1: to break up the fall, but she's late, so Nya
- 2:57Speaker 1: has to kick out and then Jade gets dropped. Kick
- 3:01Speaker 1: Tiffany covers Naia. We're supposed to get a three count,
- 3:04Speaker 1: and the referee counts one, and the referee counts two
- 3:08Speaker 1: and Nya still laying there, shoulders flat on the mat
- 3:11Speaker 1: and the referee holds up her count. I don't know
- 3:14Speaker 1: what the referee was expecting. I don't know if she
- 3:16Speaker 1: saw a ghost, I don't know, but she held up
- 3:19Speaker 1: the count. The arena went silent. Tiffany had her back
- 3:23Speaker 1: to her and she hears the silence of the crowd
- 3:25Speaker 1: and is like, what's going on here? And you can
- 3:27Speaker 1: see Nya look up and go what happened? And the
- 3:30Speaker 1: referee is just It's one of those moments where I
- 3:33Speaker 1: feel bad for the referee because put yourself in the
- 3:36Speaker 1: referee's position here you realize in this moment you're on
- 3:40Speaker 1: live television and you have fucked up the ending of
- 3:43Speaker 1: this match, right, these three women. Whatever you thought of
- 3:46Speaker 1: the match, and again I've seen much better smack Down
- 3:49Speaker 1: main events than this, But whatever you think of the match,
- 3:52Speaker 1: you never want to be in a position where you
- 3:55Speaker 1: feel like you've ruined the match, right, and you're not
- 3:58Speaker 1: even one of the combatants the match. I'm sure that
- 4:01Speaker 1: she feels really badly about what happened. It looked awful.
- 4:05Speaker 1: And so they sat there and they had to figure out, well,
- 4:08Speaker 1: what do we do now? And the easiest thing, right,
- 4:10Speaker 1: the path of least resistance was just have Tiffany go
- 4:12Speaker 1: up and hit her moonsalt, and that's what she did,
- 4:15Speaker 1: so she actually won with her finish and retained her championship.
- 4:20Speaker 1: But in that instance, you've got to count the three
- 4:24Speaker 1: and that was a Vince McMahon thing. I don't know
- 4:26Speaker 1: if that's still the policy now in WWE, where you
- 4:29Speaker 1: have to call it as a shoot. But that makes
- 4:31Speaker 1: sense because when you're in a situation like this, and
- 4:34Speaker 1: this is live TV. This is not like a house
- 4:37Speaker 1: show match or something you're on television. It's the main
- 4:39Speaker 1: event of the show. You only have so much time
- 4:42Speaker 1: left before you go off the air. I don't know
- 4:44Speaker 1: if she got lost. I don't know if there was
- 4:46Speaker 1: a miscommunication somewhere. But if you see somebody on the
- 4:50Speaker 1: mat and they don't kick out, that's on them. That's
- 4:54Speaker 1: not your responsibility. So as the referee, it makes a
- 4:58Speaker 1: lot of sense that you would count it as a shoot.
- 5:01Speaker 1: And if the person doesn't get their shoulder up, if
- 5:03Speaker 1: the person doesn't kick out fast enough, you blame the wrestler,
- 5:06Speaker 1: you don't blame the referee. So again, I don't know
- 5:09Speaker 1: what was going through her head. I don't know what
- 5:11Speaker 1: the hell happened there, but it was a batchtastic finish
- 5:16Speaker 1: to a triple threat main event. Now we know what
- 5:18Speaker 1: the Crown Jewel title matches are going to be in
- 5:20Speaker 1: Perth next month. I mentioned Sammy's ain his match with
- 5:24Speaker 1: Javon Evans was the highlight of the night. Jacob Fatu
- 5:27Speaker 1: is back, right. I'm trying to pull little positive pieces
- 5:29Speaker 1: out of the show here. Jacob FA two is back.
- 5:32Speaker 1: He's gonna be in a program now with Drew McIntyre,
- 5:35Speaker 1: who we have to wait and see what happens here.
- 5:41Speaker 1: I will be very surprised if it ends up with
- 5:43Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre doing a one and done program with Cody Rhodes.
- 5:49Speaker 1: It can't be one and done for Drew McIntyre. That
- 5:52Speaker 1: would be completely ridiculous. But for the time being anyway,
- 5:56Speaker 1: he is moving on to Jacob fa Tou. They set
- 5:59Speaker 1: things up for a future match I would assume Perth,
- 6:02Speaker 1: but future match between the two of them. So I
- 6:05Speaker 1: was happy to see Jacob back. He's been in the
- 6:07Speaker 1: Witness Protection program now for many many weeks, and beyond that.
- 6:12Speaker 1: I don't really have a whole hell of a lot
- 6:14Speaker 1: to say about this show. SmackDown for me continues to
- 6:18Speaker 1: be a slog to sit through every single week. You
- 6:21Speaker 1: could say that SmackDown this week was marginally better than
- 6:24Speaker 1: it was last week. Cool, SmackDown is still not a
- 6:29Speaker 1: great show. I'm still waiting for SmackDown to heat up
- 6:32Speaker 1: again like it was a year ago. There was a
- 6:36Speaker 1: period of time where SmackDown was actually the a show
- 6:38Speaker 1: during the week, more so than Monday Nightraw. That, of course,
- 6:41Speaker 1: is not the case right now. SmackDown, though, just feels
- 6:44Speaker 1: like a very dead show. I think of all the
- 6:47Speaker 1: WWE shows week to week, this is the one that
- 6:50Speaker 1: feels the most empty. This is the one that feels
- 6:53Speaker 1: the most dead right now. And the crowd didn't help.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Crowd in Orlando obviously was very nonplus by a lot
- 6:59Speaker 1: of what they saw on this show unless your name
- 7:02Speaker 1: was Javon Evans or Sammy's Ain that they were very
- 7:04Speaker 1: much into. But SmackDown for me, it just doesn't do much.
- 7:11Speaker 1: That's why I keep talking about the US Title Open
- 7:13Speaker 1: challenge of when it's over, what the fuck is this
- 7:16Speaker 1: show going to look like? It has been consistently the
- 7:19Speaker 1: highlight of the week every single week in many ways,
- 7:22Speaker 1: just like the John Cena US Open Challenge was ten
- 7:25Speaker 1: years ago. So when Sammy stood in the ring with
- 7:28Speaker 1: Seena a month ago and said, look, out of respect,
- 7:31Speaker 1: I want to ask your permission to bring back the
- 7:33Speaker 1: US Title Open Challenge, I said, Man, if he can
- 7:36Speaker 1: recapture even some of the magic of the one that's
- 7:39Speaker 1: seen it did ten years ago, we're in for a treat.
- 7:42Speaker 1: And it's been a huge net positive for this show
- 7:45Speaker 1: because there's not a whole lot else going on to
- 7:47Speaker 1: really get you excited on Friday nights. Thank God for
- 7:51Speaker 1: the US Title Open Challenge. I never thought I would
- 7:54Speaker 1: be sitting here lavishing all of this praise on an
- 7:56Speaker 1: open challenge, as if we don't get enough of those
- 7:59Speaker 1: these days. But what would we do on Fridays without it?
- 8:03Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to know. We'll talk
- 8:05Speaker 1: about this SmackDown show. It is Friday night, September twenty sixth,
- 8:09Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I am the Solomons. Yes, Knackamora, I'm
- 8:13Speaker 1: gonna mention Nakamura. Oh my goodness, Jay is on another planet.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I see in the chat like and subscribe super chats
- 8:22Speaker 1: are open. Let me know what you thought of this
- 8:24Speaker 1: SmackDown show. Let me know if I'm right or wrong,
- 8:27Speaker 1: you chime in, we'll read your messages a little bit
- 8:29Speaker 1: later on. Thank you guys for all of the support
- 8:33Speaker 1: this week, Chattel members, all of our new channel members
- 8:37Speaker 1: as well. Shout out to all of you you know
- 8:40Speaker 1: who wasn't on the show tonight, Corey Graves. Corey Graves
- 8:44Speaker 1: got murdered by Brockelesner on the show last week. Michael
- 8:48Speaker 1: Cole said he's going to be gone for a couple
- 8:49Speaker 1: of weeks and in his place on this show tonight,
- 8:52Speaker 1: we had Booker T loaned over from NXT, so we
- 8:57Speaker 1: had Michael Cole and Booker T on the call. Booker T.
- 9:00Speaker 1: We didn't get any Devil's kisses, but Stephanie was technically
- 9:03Speaker 1: on the show tonight, so Bookers should be uh kind
- 9:08Speaker 1: of pleased with that. I'm sure he's missed Stephanie's presence
- 9:11Speaker 1: on NXT. So they gave us a wrestle Palooza recap.
- 9:16Speaker 1: The less set about that show, the better it is.
- 9:19Speaker 1: In the rear view after that, Paul Hayman was in
- 9:22Speaker 1: the ring. He said that he would paraphrase a pseudo
- 9:26Speaker 1: de facto secondary champion and ask, so Orlando, what do
- 9:31Speaker 1: you want to talk about. Hayman asked if we would
- 9:34Speaker 1: like to talk about the World heavyweight champion seth rollins.
- 9:37Speaker 1: I can answer that question, no fans chanted OTC. Hayman
- 9:45Speaker 1: says he would love to talk about Roman reigns, but
- 9:47Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to speak of the injured after he got
- 9:51Speaker 1: stretchered out of Paris, So he asked if maybe we
- 9:56Speaker 1: should talk about the man who will main event WrestleMania
- 9:59Speaker 1: and carry this company through the twenty thirties and possibly
- 10:02Speaker 1: even the twenty forties if we make it that far,
- 10:05Speaker 1: Bron Breaker. Hayman then turned him, by the way, how
- 10:09Speaker 1: much Bronson Reid feel after every time he makes these
- 10:13Speaker 1: comments about bron Breaker and how he's the future? Right,
- 10:16Speaker 1: Bron's the future. He's gonna headline five or ten wrestle Manias.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Like at some point Bronton Reid is gonna have to
- 10:21Speaker 1: turn to Hayman and go, hey, I'm standing right here,
- 10:25Speaker 1: what about me? How come I can't headline WrestleMania. Maybe
- 10:29Speaker 1: that'll be the impetus one day for him to turn
- 10:31Speaker 1: and leave the Vision because he's sick and tired of
- 10:33Speaker 1: Hayman putting over Breaker and not putting over him with
- 10:36Speaker 1: the same level of respect. I mean, the man is
- 10:38Speaker 1: standing right there. How much older is he than bron Breaker.
- 10:41Speaker 1: He can't be that much older. He could headline a
- 10:45Speaker 1: wrestle Conceivably, he could headline a WrestleMania himself one day.
- 10:49Speaker 1: I know it's a lot less likely, but it's at
- 10:51Speaker 1: least possible. Haman then turned his attention to the conspiracy
- 10:55Speaker 1: theories and all the rumors about brock Lesner. Before he
- 10:58Speaker 1: could go on further, Cody Roads Music cut him off
- 11:01Speaker 1: and out comes the WWEE Champion comes to the ring
- 11:05Speaker 1: and he asks if we've all had a chance to
- 11:07Speaker 1: watch the Wressell Paloozer recap. He said that he made
- 11:12Speaker 1: a mistake last week in calling Paul Hayman a goon.
- 11:16Speaker 1: He called Hayman the smartest man he knows, and he
- 11:19Speaker 1: would go ahead and ask the question, tell me about
- 11:22Speaker 1: brock Lesner. And then he asked for the truck to
- 11:25Speaker 1: show the evidence, and they threw up a still shot
- 11:28Speaker 1: from Brock's introduction that Hayman gave to him at Wressell Polooza,
- 11:32Speaker 1: and in the shot, Brock has got a big smile
- 11:34Speaker 1: on his face and Hayman's got a big smile on
- 11:36Speaker 1: his face. Cody said, he knows brock Lesner. Does that
- 11:41Speaker 1: look Does that look like the face of someone if
- 11:46Speaker 1: it was a one night thing? He asked, am I
- 11:49Speaker 1: talking to an oracle? Am I talking to a wise man?
- 11:54Speaker 1: Or am I talking to an advocate? Hayman said, Cody
- 11:58Speaker 1: was talking to a goat, not an elephant, not a cow,
- 12:05Speaker 1: not a zebra, not a sheep, not a monkey. He
- 12:08Speaker 1: was talking to a goat. And as the greatest of
- 12:12Speaker 1: all time, he respects the fact that Cody is confronting
- 12:15Speaker 1: him about brock Lesner, because Cody knows that when brock
- 12:18Speaker 1: Lesner is here, everyone is in danger. And at that moment,
- 12:22Speaker 1: bron Breaker and Bronson Reid they appeared at ringside. They
- 12:25Speaker 1: came out of the crowd into the ring, and Haymond said,
- 12:28Speaker 1: Lesner isn't here. But what makes Cody think he isn't
- 12:32Speaker 1: in danger right now? Cody says, he keeps hearing how
- 12:36Speaker 1: dangerous these two men are, that they're going to inherit
- 12:38Speaker 1: all of this. Breaker, He'll bet that Hayman tells him
- 12:42Speaker 1: he's a future wrestle many, a main inventor, and Reed
- 12:45Speaker 1: he probably tells you the same thing. Actually he doesn't,
- 12:49Speaker 1: not that we've heard on TV. I've never heard Paul
- 12:52Speaker 1: Hayman say that about Bronson Reed on TV. Maybe he
- 12:55Speaker 1: tells him that backstage. But Cody is trying to point
- 13:00Speaker 1: out that whatever he's telling you, he's probably telling you.
- 13:03Speaker 1: He's telling you what you want to hear. He's making
- 13:05Speaker 1: you sound special and making you feel like you're one
- 13:09Speaker 1: of one, But in reality he's saying the same thing
- 13:12Speaker 1: to the both of you. This man cannot be trusted.
- 13:15Speaker 1: You cannot take what he says seriously. And he says,
- 13:21Speaker 1: I grew up the son of a booker. I bet
- 13:24Speaker 1: he was gonna say the son of a plumber, but
- 13:25Speaker 1: that was his father said. He grew up the son
- 13:27Speaker 1: of a booker, grew up around people like Hayman. He
- 13:30Speaker 1: saw Vern, he saw Bill Watts as some of the
- 13:34Speaker 1: fans in the crowd, No doubt, go who Vern Troyer?
- 13:38Speaker 1: Who's he talking about? Bill Watts? Bill? What makes me sad?
- 13:43Speaker 1: It makes me sad how many people were in this
- 13:45Speaker 1: crowd tonight who probably have no idea who he was
- 13:47Speaker 1: referring to. But that's just the way it is now right,
- 13:52Speaker 1: That's the audience they're cultivating, especially with these ticket prices.
- 13:55Speaker 1: You think these people paying these exorbitant amounts of money
- 13:59Speaker 1: know or have a shit who Paul Bosh was. Of
- 14:01Speaker 1: course not, of course not. They don't care. They don't know,
- 14:05Speaker 1: they don't care. They just want to see Stephanie Vacier,
- 14:08Speaker 1: and they want to see Rhea Ripley, and they want
- 14:09Speaker 1: a chant for Mommy. That's what they want. That's wrestling
- 14:13Speaker 1: fans in twenty twenty five. But he said he saw
- 14:17Speaker 1: it all and he could always tell why they were
- 14:20Speaker 1: doing it. The vern gun is in the Bill Watts, right,
- 14:23Speaker 1: you can always tell why they were doing the things
- 14:25Speaker 1: they do. With Hayman, no one has figured him out yet.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Who is Paul Haman loyal to? One thing is for sure,
- 14:34Speaker 1: it ain't you. So bron Breaker got very upset and
- 14:37Speaker 1: he ripped his shirt off. So Cody took his jacket off,
- 14:41Speaker 1: he took his watch off. He says, it looks like
- 14:43Speaker 1: you boys want to fight. Huh. Probably not a good
- 14:46Speaker 1: decision of my part, but what the hell? And he
- 14:49Speaker 1: starts throwing shots. So Cody had Reid hooked for a
- 14:53Speaker 1: crossroads Breaker though took him down. So now it's two
- 14:56Speaker 1: on one and they're stomping him and we hear voices
- 15:00Speaker 1: in our head because here comes Randy Orton. I actually
- 15:03Speaker 1: was hoping that maybe this would be the moment that
- 15:05Speaker 1: Jacob Foughtu would come out, and maybe it would set
- 15:07Speaker 1: up a TV main event. We didn't get Jacob Fattu here.
- 15:11Speaker 1: We got him later, we got Randy ort He comes
- 15:15Speaker 1: down to the ring. Before he could even get into
- 15:17Speaker 1: the ring, Bronson Reid exits, tries to cut him off
- 15:19Speaker 1: in the aisleway, and Orton puts him down. Now he's
- 15:24Speaker 1: in the ring, he sets his sights on bron Breaker.
- 15:26Speaker 1: He goes for an RKO, but he gets shoved off.
- 15:28Speaker 1: But he gets shoved off right into Bronson Reid and
- 15:31Speaker 1: gives Red an RKO instead. And that was pretty much
- 15:35Speaker 1: the end of the segment. Right there, the Vision were
- 15:38Speaker 1: scrambling for their lives out of the ring, and it
- 15:41Speaker 1: was Orton and Cody left alone inside the ring, and
- 15:45Speaker 1: I thought maybe they were setting up a tag team
- 15:47Speaker 1: main event. Didn't occur to me that they were going
- 15:50Speaker 1: to close the show with the women. I thought, maybe
- 15:52Speaker 1: they'll you do that match at the top of the
- 15:55Speaker 1: second hour or something. But that was our main event.
- 15:58Speaker 1: We're gonna get a tag team match, I feel that way,
- 16:00Speaker 1: Cody and Randy against the Vision. It's not going to
- 16:03Speaker 1: be Crown Jewel obviously, but that could be a SmackDown
- 16:05Speaker 1: main event I would. I don't know about next week
- 16:08Speaker 1: or the week after, but it feels like a match
- 16:10Speaker 1: we're gonna get very soon, you know. He mentioned brock Lesner.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Fightful is saying that Brock is not due back on
- 16:16Speaker 1: TV for a while, which I'm fine with, let him
- 16:19Speaker 1: take another vacation. But it actually felt like they were
- 16:22Speaker 1: teasing Cody possibly defending his championship at some point in
- 16:26Speaker 1: the not too distant future against Brock Lesner, which I
- 16:30Speaker 1: don't need to see. We've already seen it. They've already
- 16:33Speaker 1: had three matches before, and Cody beat him decisively at
- 16:37Speaker 1: Summer Slammed the last time, and Brock put him over
- 16:39Speaker 1: and raised his hand. There's no need to see that again.
- 16:42Speaker 1: So hopefully him bringing up Lesner was just feeding into,
- 16:47Speaker 1: like he said, the conspiracy theories and the questions about
- 16:51Speaker 1: whether or not Hayman is really back with Brock or not,
- 16:54Speaker 1: and not a sign of something more that we're going
- 16:57Speaker 1: to be getting between Cody and Brock because I don't
- 17:00Speaker 1: want to see it, because we already saw it and
- 17:02Speaker 1: we don't need to see it again. Now after this
- 17:05Speaker 1: we got speaking of things that I don't need to
- 17:07Speaker 1: see again. We have the Street Profits who were back
- 17:11Speaker 1: on the same page, and there were no signs of
- 17:14Speaker 1: any sort of animosity or any miscommunications between them tonight
- 17:17Speaker 1: or anything like that. They put their differences aside at
- 17:21Speaker 1: least for now, and everything is cool with the Street Profits.
- 17:26Speaker 1: They were in action next. They were taking on Carmelo
- 17:29Speaker 1: Hayes and the Miz. The winners of this match would
- 17:32Speaker 1: be the number one contenders for the WWE tag team titles.
- 17:38Speaker 1: After a break, Miz drilled Montese Ford with a kneeling DDT.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Michael Cole brings up that on social media this week
- 17:48Speaker 1: or on social media of late, the Miz has been
- 17:53Speaker 1: lobbying for one last match on this retirement tour with
- 17:58Speaker 1: John Cena. We've wasted enough time, We've wasted enough of
- 18:04Speaker 1: John Cena's retirement tour. We don't need to waste more
- 18:07Speaker 1: of it. One of his last few remaining matches on
- 18:11Speaker 1: the MIZZ. So I don't know if he brought that
- 18:14Speaker 1: up for a reason, or if he just brought it
- 18:17Speaker 1: up because he felt like bringing it up. But let
- 18:22Speaker 1: us hope that is not one of John Cena's final matches.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Here in this retirement tour. We're getting John Cena and
- 18:27Speaker 1: aj Styles at Crown Jewel. Great. That's an old match
- 18:31Speaker 1: that I would love to see them run back. I'm
- 18:33Speaker 1: glad we're getting that match. If you were to ask
- 18:37Speaker 1: fifty people if you had the pen here, if you
- 18:42Speaker 1: had the pen, and you can book the remaining three matches,
- 18:46Speaker 1: four matches at most that John Cena has left on
- 18:49Speaker 1: this retirement tour, Okay, you got put your top five
- 18:55Speaker 1: names on the list. None of those fifty people would
- 18:59Speaker 1: have the mid in the top five. I'm sure MS
- 19:05Speaker 1: would love to wrestle John. Everyone wants to wrestle John Cena.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Everybody on that roster wants to write Joe Hendry was
- 19:12Speaker 1: lobbying to wrestle John Cena. Of course Mis wants to
- 19:17Speaker 1: wrestle John Cena. Question is does anybody want to see
- 19:20Speaker 1: the Miss wrestle John Cena. The answer is no, No,
- 19:24Speaker 1: they don't not at this point. Maybe if it was
- 19:27Speaker 1: January you could do a raw match. It ain't January.
- 19:30Speaker 1: It's almost October. The next time we do is SmackDown Review.
- 19:33Speaker 1: It's gonna be October. Ain't nobody want to see that match?
- 19:38Speaker 1: Hayes got the tag as he delivered a cheap shot
- 19:40Speaker 1: to Angelo Dawkins on the apron. Meanwhile, Montez Ford managed
- 19:44Speaker 1: to fight his way out of enemy territory. He tried
- 19:46Speaker 1: to tag in Dawkins. Mizz, though pulled Dawkins down off
- 19:50Speaker 1: the apron outside. This allowed Hayes to hit forward with
- 19:54Speaker 1: the first forty eight, and then Hayes headed up top.
- 19:57Speaker 1: He was looking for his finish. He was looking for
- 20:00Speaker 1: nothing but net. But as he's up top, the Miz
- 20:04Speaker 1: once again selfishly tags himself in but Ford or not Ford,
- 20:10Speaker 1: but Hayes grabs him. I think by the rest he's
- 20:12Speaker 1: holding him and Miss is like what are you doing?
- 20:14Speaker 1: You know, he looks back at him, like what are
- 20:16Speaker 1: you doing? Because Hayes is tired of this, right, He's
- 20:19Speaker 1: tired of Miz stealing the glory. So this gave the
- 20:23Speaker 1: Profits a chance to make a comeback, as Dawkins rock
- 20:26Speaker 1: Miz with a corkscrew elbow followed by a spinning neck
- 20:29Speaker 1: breaker and with Ford as the legal man, he took
- 20:32Speaker 1: to the skies with the big frog splash. Now Ford
- 20:35Speaker 1: had him covered. Hayes went to go crawl into the
- 20:39Speaker 1: ring and had plenty of time to break up the pin,
- 20:43Speaker 1: but he stops himself. He hesitates, he decides against it,
- 20:48Speaker 1: and he just watches as Montez Ford pins the Miz
- 20:51Speaker 1: and that there go their chance to challenge for the
- 20:55Speaker 1: Tag Team championships. By bye. The Street Profits are wanting
- 21:00Speaker 1: again number one contenders for the WWE Tag team titles.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Mellow don't miss. Yeah, they'll have to wait for another day.
- 21:08Speaker 1: That day is not today. After the match was over
- 21:12Speaker 1: the Wyatt Six, all of a sudden they appeared. They're
- 21:15Speaker 1: standing around and sitting on the announced desk outside just
- 21:19Speaker 1: watching on So yet another title match for the Street Profits,
- 21:24Speaker 1: which Michael Cole said would be coming down the line.
- 21:28Speaker 1: So even they don't know when this match is going
- 21:30Speaker 1: to take place, I'm sure it'll be a TV match.
- 21:33Speaker 1: It needs to be a TV match. We don't need
- 21:37Speaker 1: the Street Profit. We know how limited the real estate
- 21:40Speaker 1: is on these triple hpls. We do not need the
- 21:42Speaker 1: Street Profits in the Wyatt Six on a pl So
- 21:44Speaker 1: they could do that on SmackDown any week they want to,
- 21:48Speaker 1: so we don't know when, but we know that that
- 21:50Speaker 1: match is going to be coming. It doesn't inspire any
- 21:54Speaker 1: excitement for me. We weren't even supposed to get that
- 21:57Speaker 1: match in Paris, right, That was going to be Andrade
- 22:00Speaker 1: and Ray Phoenix, And because of what happened with Andrade,
- 22:04Speaker 1: they basically went with the Street Profits as a fallback.
- 22:08Speaker 1: But we got it, you know, wasn't terribly memorable. Now
- 22:12Speaker 1: we're gonna get it again. Do they circle back to
- 22:15Speaker 1: this idea of maybe splitting up the Street Profits where
- 22:19Speaker 1: something goes wrong in that title match and that's it,
- 22:22Speaker 1: that's the straw that breaks the camel's back and you've
- 22:24Speaker 1: got Dawkins breaking away from Ford or Ford breaking away
- 22:27Speaker 1: from Dawkins. It could still happen. You know, they were
- 22:30Speaker 1: on the best of terms tonight, But that doesn't mean
- 22:33Speaker 1: that if they lose, which they will when they wrestle
- 22:36Speaker 1: the y at six, that they still don't do a split.
- 22:40Speaker 1: They've been teasing it for so long now it's like,
- 22:44Speaker 1: just make a decision, either do it or don't do it,
- 22:47Speaker 1: you know, but the teases will only take you so far.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Because we've already gotten that so many times and nothing
- 22:52Speaker 1: ever comes of it. They always just patch things up
- 22:55Speaker 1: and everything goes back to normal. But at this point,
- 22:58Speaker 1: like the Street Profits and the why, It's it's just
- 23:01Speaker 1: not a terribly exciting match. So I have to think
- 23:05Speaker 1: if they're doing this match again, there's a reason for it,
- 23:08Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily mean they're winning the belts. What
- 23:11Speaker 1: else could it be. It could only be one other thing,
- 23:14Speaker 1: which is a breakup. And even if they break them up,
- 23:18Speaker 1: there's no guarantee of success for either one of these guys,
- 23:21Speaker 1: even though you would think someone like montes Ford is
- 23:23Speaker 1: a slam dunk, there's no guarantee. But I do think
- 23:28Speaker 1: it's probably a risk worth taking because the Street Profits
- 23:31Speaker 1: they've hit a wall. They've hit a wall. What else
- 23:34Speaker 1: is left for them to do? At this point, I'm
- 23:38Speaker 1: drawing a blank. I don't know that upward mobility that
- 23:42Speaker 1: you always want to have in your career. It's like
- 23:45Speaker 1: they've hit that ceiling. It can't break through. That ceiling
- 23:48Speaker 1: is rock solid. So you got to make a decision.
- 23:51Speaker 1: What do you want to do? You know, where do
- 23:53Speaker 1: you want to take these guys? But I mean as
- 23:57Speaker 1: far as Mellow and Miss, there's nothing with the story
- 24:00Speaker 1: that they're telling with these two, we got some new
- 24:03Speaker 1: movement at least in the direction of a split based
- 24:06Speaker 1: on how that finish went down. Obviously that's gonna cause
- 24:08Speaker 1: some issues between the two of them. The way I
- 24:12Speaker 1: would describe it, it's a perfectly competent story that they
- 24:15Speaker 1: have been telling with them on the show. And for
- 24:17Speaker 1: anybody who feels like this is the best story that
- 24:20Speaker 1: is going today on SmackDown. To me, if you honestly
- 24:24Speaker 1: believe that, and I'm not even sure that's really a
- 24:27Speaker 1: wrong statement, it probably is the best story going right
- 24:30Speaker 1: now on SmackDown, to me, that's an indictment. That's an
- 24:34Speaker 1: indictment on SmackDown. If this is the best storytelling that
- 24:38Speaker 1: we have right now on Friday nights, I don't look
- 24:41Speaker 1: at that as a positive. I look at that as
- 24:42Speaker 1: a negative if that's the best that they can offer
- 24:45Speaker 1: here on SmackDown. So, yeah, it's a perfectly competent mid
- 24:49Speaker 1: card story. But if that's the best they got, whoof
- 24:56Speaker 1: that ain't good? Now? As Jade car Gill was interviewed
- 25:01Speaker 1: backstage about the triple threat match tonight for the Women's Championship,
- 25:06Speaker 1: the new Women's World heavyweight champion Stephanie Vicaire showed up
- 25:11Speaker 1: and she confronted Jade, and Jade told her that a
- 25:13Speaker 1: storm would be coming her way at Crown Jewel, and
- 25:16Speaker 1: the care told her that she would be ready. We
- 25:20Speaker 1: had Julia and Keana James against Meechen and Bfab. Oh Man,
- 25:31Speaker 1: you know when I saw Julia in NXT, if you
- 25:34Speaker 1: would have told me that I would be reviewing a
- 25:37Speaker 1: Julia match on SmackDown once she gets called up and
- 25:40Speaker 1: she's not only is she called up, but she's the
- 25:42Speaker 1: United States champion. They put a belt on her. I'd
- 25:46Speaker 1: be like super excited right to see the ascent of Julia.
- 25:51Speaker 1: And here I sit and I just I don't know.
- 25:54Speaker 1: I feel defeated. I feel nothing as I watched this.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Evidently the crowd felt nothing too, because they were terribly
- 26:03Speaker 1: excited or animated watching this match. I just I feel
- 26:07Speaker 1: nothing watching this. B Fab opened by blasting Keana with
- 26:12Speaker 1: some strikes. She got taken down by a clothesline by Julia.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Bfab responded with a drop kick to Kana and she
- 26:18Speaker 1: tagged Mechin in. Julia then tagged in and the US
- 26:22Speaker 1: champion struck Mechin with a kick. She got met with
- 26:26Speaker 1: a Hurricane Rana and the tag got made to BFAB.
- 26:29Speaker 1: She kept Julia grounded and the champion rolled outside for
- 26:33Speaker 1: the retreat. Things broke down. The champion got blasted by
- 26:36Speaker 1: a drop kick off the announced desk, a shotgun dropkick
- 26:40Speaker 1: by Michin which took us into the commercial break. BFAB
- 26:47Speaker 1: was in trouble. Keana re entered the match and maintained
- 26:50Speaker 1: the upper hand. There was a missed elbow that allowed
- 26:54Speaker 1: BFAB to recreate or not recreated to create some separation,
- 26:59Speaker 1: and she tried to tag in Michin and she got
- 27:01Speaker 1: the tag. So Miechin dropped Keana with a DDT she used,
- 27:05Speaker 1: using Julia as a base for it. Things broke down.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Meechin hit Keana with eight defeat, but that sent her
- 27:12Speaker 1: into Julia's corner, which allowed her to tag in and
- 27:16Speaker 1: she flattened Meechin with the Arriva dere Chi knee followed
- 27:19Speaker 1: by a Northern Lights bomb for the wind. This was
- 27:23Speaker 1: depressingly flat. The crowd did not give a shit about
- 27:27Speaker 1: this match. It was. It was a struggle to pull
- 27:31Speaker 1: any sort of reaction. Maybe little pockets of a reaction
- 27:34Speaker 1: here and there, but it was a struggle to pull
- 27:37Speaker 1: a reaction out of these people. I can't blame them.
- 27:40Speaker 1: I mean the match itself was very paint by numbers, right,
- 27:44Speaker 1: I mean the right person one, but it was very
- 27:46Speaker 1: paint by number stuff. The crowd is not invested in
- 27:50Speaker 1: any of these people like you can you can watch
- 27:53Speaker 1: Raw for example, and when Rhea is out there, when
- 27:57Speaker 1: liv Morgan was on the show every week, when Stephanie's
- 28:00Speaker 1: out there now EO, when she's out there, like you
- 28:03Speaker 1: can tell. Even on this show, Tiffany right, still very popular.
- 28:07Speaker 1: There are certain people the crowd is very heavily invested in.
- 28:12Speaker 1: And that's also the product of them being on television
- 28:15Speaker 1: for many years and repetitions. Right, they're on the show
- 28:18Speaker 1: every single week. There's people feel like they have equity
- 28:21Speaker 1: in some of these characters, and so you can very
- 28:24Speaker 1: easily tell when the fans have no connection and no
- 28:26Speaker 1: investment whatsoever in somebody on the show. They have no
- 28:29Speaker 1: investment in Julia even though she's been the United States
- 28:33Speaker 1: champion for a few months. They have no investment in
- 28:36Speaker 1: Keana James, they have no investment in Meechin, they have
- 28:41Speaker 1: no investment in Befat. Because of that, you end up
- 28:45Speaker 1: with a match like this, which just feels very flat,
- 28:49Speaker 1: and there was nothing they did in this match that
- 28:51Speaker 1: was necessarily wrong. There was nothing in this match that
- 28:55Speaker 1: was also going to really change any of that. It
- 28:58Speaker 1: was a match, and you would suspect that it might
- 29:02Speaker 1: lead to a title match between Julian Mitchen, you know again,
- 29:05Speaker 1: even though Julia beat them, I mean, she won the match.
- 29:08Speaker 1: I'm not sure why we need to, you know, continue
- 29:11Speaker 1: this other than the fact that there's nobody else. And
- 29:15Speaker 1: so when I've said before that this women's division is
- 29:18Speaker 1: in dire straits right now on SmackDown, this is what
- 29:20Speaker 1: I'm talking about, this division, and this just highlighted it
- 29:24Speaker 1: right here. They desperately need to call up some new
- 29:27Speaker 1: faces or move some faces over from Monday Night. But
- 29:31Speaker 1: they desperately need to call up some new faces. And
- 29:33Speaker 1: funny enough, in the very next segment that came after
- 29:37Speaker 1: this match, we had Zaria and soul Ruka from NXT
- 29:42Speaker 1: who confronted Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss who were in
- 29:46Speaker 1: the back, and Zaria was very disrespectful towards the tag
- 29:51Speaker 1: team champions, but they wanted next. They demanded a shot
- 29:54Speaker 1: of the women's tag team titles, and it was Alexa
- 29:58Speaker 1: Bliss who told them to get in line and earn
- 30:01Speaker 1: it first, and Charlotte was very impressed that the way
- 30:03Speaker 1: that Alexa told them off. But that was the segment,
- 30:08Speaker 1: so they set that match up. But sol Ruca, sol
- 30:12Speaker 1: Ruka is gonna be a big star in that women's
- 30:13Speaker 1: division on Raw or SmackDown, you know where she needs
- 30:16Speaker 1: to be SmackDown. SmackDown could use soul Ruca a lot
- 30:19Speaker 1: right now. Frankly, you could put soul Ruka and Zaria
- 30:23Speaker 1: on the main roster, but sol Ruka in particular, And
- 30:26Speaker 1: then there's other people from NXT who don't really need
- 30:29Speaker 1: to spend that much more time in NXT, Blake Monroe,
- 30:34Speaker 1: Jordan Grace. You take two or three names and maybe
- 30:38Speaker 1: just dump them all, frankly on SmackDown. That's how badly
- 30:42Speaker 1: the women's division on SmackDown could use these people, and
- 30:45Speaker 1: I think it would make all the difference in the world.
- 30:47Speaker 1: But it's going to take time yet, Like if they
- 30:49Speaker 1: called bunch of people up next week, they're not all
- 30:52Speaker 1: going to be over on day one. I mean, sol Ruka,
- 30:54Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to take too long for
- 30:56Speaker 1: her to get over with that soul snatcher in the
- 30:59Speaker 1: way that Java On Evans was able to kind of
- 31:01Speaker 1: grab the crowd by the throat tonight. We'll get to
- 31:03Speaker 1: him in a minute. But even if they call people
- 31:07Speaker 1: up next week, some of these women, it will take
- 31:09Speaker 1: time to get that crowd investment in them. That just
- 31:13Speaker 1: is not there yet for Julia, because they just really
- 31:16Speaker 1: haven't given people a reason to get behind some of
- 31:19Speaker 1: these women. And now Julie is a heel, obviously, so
- 31:22Speaker 1: when I say get invested in them, get invested in
- 31:25Speaker 1: them as a heel or a babyface. When you're invested
- 31:28Speaker 1: in someone, you're reacting to them, you're cheering them, you're
- 31:32Speaker 1: booing them, you're chanting. You know, fuck you, Julia, fuck you.
- 31:36Speaker 1: You know there's an investment there. The people are expending energy,
- 31:40Speaker 1: they're bringing signs, they're starting chance, they're invested. There's none
- 31:47Speaker 1: of that here. There's nothing to get excited about. There's
- 31:50Speaker 1: no interesting, compelling matches that we could sit here in
- 31:52Speaker 1: fantasy book right now for the SmackDown women's division, not one,
- 31:57Speaker 1: not one that has to change. You can put a
- 32:02Speaker 1: belt on Julia if you want to. You can call
- 32:04Speaker 1: her a champion. She's got a cool entrance. It's not
- 32:08Speaker 1: gonna matter if she doesn't have somebody. The Batman to
- 32:13Speaker 1: the Joker right used that analogy a lot. She's the champion.
- 32:17Speaker 1: She needs a great challenger to be programmed with and
- 32:22Speaker 1: to be working with. Who is that person gonna be.
- 32:24Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Michen, It's not gonna be Befab.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Who's that person gonna be. That person doesn't exist right now,
- 32:33Speaker 1: And as long as that person doesn't exist, Julia is fucked.
- 32:38Speaker 1: She's stuck. She needs someone. She needs that person to
- 32:42Speaker 1: work with, or this US title reign is going to
- 32:45Speaker 1: go down the drain. It's already halfway down the bowl.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Call some people up, hit the panic button and get
- 32:56Speaker 1: some new people on this show. Please, for the love
- 32:59Speaker 1: of God, save this division. Drew McIntyre was out to
- 33:05Speaker 1: the ring next. He had his foot in a walking boot,
- 33:09Speaker 1: the one that he injured at the end of the
- 33:11Speaker 1: match with Cody of Wressell Palooza. McIntyre said that Orlando
- 33:15Speaker 1: held a special place in his heart. It's where he
- 33:18Speaker 1: made his WWE return in twenty seventeen. It's where he
- 33:22Speaker 1: won his second WWE championship in front of a bunch
- 33:25Speaker 1: of screens. Boy, he really can't let that go. He
- 33:29Speaker 1: really can't let that's He's been crowing about this for
- 33:32Speaker 1: years now about his title run being in front of
- 33:35Speaker 1: a bunch of screens inside the Thunderdome. I mean, look,
- 33:38Speaker 1: I sympathize with the guy, but brother, you gotta let
- 33:42Speaker 1: it go at some point. I mean, you had your
- 33:45Speaker 1: shot at Wressell Palooza and you kick the table and
- 33:47Speaker 1: you lost. That's on you. But he said that he
- 33:53Speaker 1: should have been here tonight as the new WWE champion
- 33:57Speaker 1: were it not for the referee, he might have been
- 34:00Speaker 1: were it not for the referee getting in the way.
- 34:03Speaker 1: At Wressell Palooza, he said it took the referee six
- 34:06Speaker 1: seconds at one point to count a pinfall, and then
- 34:09Speaker 1: he pointed out the referee getting in his path outside
- 34:11Speaker 1: the ring when he went to go give Cody another
- 34:14Speaker 1: claim wore a kick through the side of the announced desk.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Never the referee, he jumped out of the ring. He
- 34:18Speaker 1: got in the way. No, no, no, you can't do that,
- 34:20Speaker 1: even though what's so illegal about it? And I think
- 34:24Speaker 1: Drew even pointed out in this promo, like throwing Cody
- 34:28Speaker 1: into the ring steps not a disqualification, but here he
- 34:31Speaker 1: wants to disqualify me. That should be my choice. What
- 34:34Speaker 1: are you getting in my way for? But he said,
- 34:37Speaker 1: you know what, he forgives referee Ryan Tran because he
- 34:40Speaker 1: has a family to feed. So instead he blames Cody Rhodes.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Nick all this comes out, SmackDown general manager. He comes
- 34:48Speaker 1: out on stage and all of this sudd You know,
- 34:51Speaker 1: I saw some things from your perspective, You're not totally
- 34:54Speaker 1: wrong in what you're saying. But he told him not
- 34:56Speaker 1: to make excuses because you're better than that. He saw
- 34:59Speaker 1: Mac and Tire kicked the announced table at Russell Balooza.
- 35:02Speaker 1: He also said McIntyre didn't get that walking boot from
- 35:05Speaker 1: WWE medical, and then McIntyre went on a rant, oh yeah,
- 35:09Speaker 1: WWE medical, may as well. I got it from my
- 35:13Speaker 1: own medical. I should have gotten it maybe from Cody's medical.
- 35:18Speaker 1: So Alda said the referee's decision was final and that's
- 35:23Speaker 1: that and he left. That was it. He left. McIntyre
- 35:30Speaker 1: continued to complain until he was interrupted by Jacob Fatu's music,
- 35:33Speaker 1: and I was like, holy shit, they found him. Finally,
- 35:38Speaker 1: what was once lost has now been found. It's about
- 35:41Speaker 1: damn time. Fat two headed to the ring. He took
- 35:45Speaker 1: the mic from McIntyre. He told him, man, shut your
- 35:47Speaker 1: ass up. He said, McIntyre comes out and complains every
- 35:51Speaker 1: week and blames everybody else. He told him to sit
- 35:54Speaker 1: his peg leg ass down. McIntyre took the mic back
- 35:58Speaker 1: and said Fat two had a great run over the
- 36:00Speaker 1: last year. But he drew McIntyre and he started to
- 36:03Speaker 1: say what he was going to do to him if
- 36:05Speaker 1: he wasn't hurt. Fat two took the mic and said
- 36:08Speaker 1: McIntyre must have forgotten. He's all gas and no brakes. No, actually,
- 36:14Speaker 1: if Solo Socoa is correct, he's all gas and no brains.
- 36:20Speaker 1: I have to give Solo credit that that line has
- 36:23Speaker 1: stuck with me. It was actually a great line. McIntyre
- 36:26Speaker 1: hit Fat two with the Glasgow kiss. Fa Tu sold
- 36:29Speaker 1: it for a moment. Then he turned and he super
- 36:31Speaker 1: kicked MacIntyre. Fa Tu ripped the walking boot off of
- 36:35Speaker 1: McIntyre's foot and hit him over the head with it.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Michael Cole said Fa two had the guts to say
- 36:41Speaker 1: things to McIntyre that a lot of people have wanted
- 36:43Speaker 1: to tell him, and Fat two had a jersey. I
- 36:46Speaker 1: think he had a jersey on. I don't remember, but
- 36:48Speaker 1: he ripped it off. He had a shirt on and
- 36:51Speaker 1: it was backwards. I love how his shirts are always
- 36:54Speaker 1: on backwards. I don't know why. I guess that's his thing.
- 36:58Speaker 1: He put it on backwards. I'm here for a McIntyre
- 37:03Speaker 1: FA two match. I would be very surprised if McIntyre
- 37:08Speaker 1: and Cody ends up being a one and done. Obviously,
- 37:12Speaker 1: it was never gonna happen at Crown Jewel because they
- 37:14Speaker 1: have to do the Champion against Champion stuff. But I
- 37:18Speaker 1: think Survivor Series you got to run it back in
- 37:22Speaker 1: some form or fashion. Not only did you do Cody
- 37:25Speaker 1: and Drew Wreussell Paluza, potentially making it a one and done,
- 37:29Speaker 1: but the way it ended, Drew beat himself because he
- 37:33Speaker 1: kicked the desk. He kicked the desk and injured himself.
- 37:37Speaker 1: He want to go give him a Claymore kick in
- 37:39Speaker 1: the ring after that, and he collapsed under the weight
- 37:41Speaker 1: of his own foot. The man beat himself. And now
- 37:46Speaker 1: we're just gonna move on because it's time to do
- 37:50Speaker 1: Crown Jewel and it's gonna be Cody and Seth. Okay, great,
- 37:53Speaker 1: that's October. But there's a pay per view in November
- 37:56Speaker 1: called Survivor Series, and you could do Cody, and you
- 38:00Speaker 1: could do Cody, Drew and Randy and make it a
- 38:02Speaker 1: triple threat because Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre have issues
- 38:05Speaker 1: as well. I actually liked that idea more. There's so
- 38:09Speaker 1: many different ways that you could go with that. And
- 38:12Speaker 1: we heard a report this week, I think it was
- 38:14Speaker 1: bodyslam dot Net that Cody and Drew themselves had pitched
- 38:18Speaker 1: an alternate finish to their match at Wressell Palooza or
- 38:22Speaker 1: Randy Orton would have accidentally cost Cody Rhoads the WWE
- 38:25Speaker 1: Championship and it would have led to Cody having to
- 38:29Speaker 1: chase Drew to get the belt back and then getting
- 38:31Speaker 1: it back and then after that pulling the trigger and
- 38:34Speaker 1: Randy Yorton then turns heel on Cody Roads. I think
- 38:37Speaker 1: that's a great fucking idea. And just because they didn't
- 38:40Speaker 1: do it at Wrussell Polouza doesn't mean they still can't
- 38:42Speaker 1: do it. They can there's still time and Survivor Series,
- 38:47Speaker 1: you do a triple threat match. Guess what Randy Orton
- 38:49Speaker 1: could accidentally cost Cody the match? You could do some
- 38:53Speaker 1: variation of that finish, and Trew McIntyre could leave Survivor
- 38:56Speaker 1: Series the WWE champion, even if Cody just gets the
- 38:59Speaker 1: bell back at the Rumble in Saudi okay, or elimination
- 39:03Speaker 1: Chamber okay. So what's so wrong about that? This show
- 39:07Speaker 1: is in dire need of a shakeup in many ways,
- 39:10Speaker 1: Like I said, shake up the women's division, get some
- 39:12Speaker 1: new faces in there. I look at the top of
- 39:14Speaker 1: the card right now. John Sen is done with SmackDown.
- 39:17Speaker 1: Brock Lesnier, We're not going to see him for a
- 39:19Speaker 1: while on SmackDown. Roman Rains is really not on SmackDown anyway.
- 39:23Speaker 1: I mean, Roman Rains is on whatever show they want
- 39:25Speaker 1: him to be on. So you look at the top
- 39:28Speaker 1: of the cards. You have Cody, you have Randy, right,
- 39:30Speaker 1: you have Drew, I guess, although now he's sort of
- 39:33Speaker 1: moved down a peg and there's not a whole lot
- 39:37Speaker 1: else going on at the very top of the card
- 39:40Speaker 1: on SmackDown. Right now, they got the MFTs. So Cody
- 39:45Speaker 1: is the champion. Drew is still talking about being screwed
- 39:48Speaker 1: out of the championship. Randy Orton's running around going after
- 39:51Speaker 1: Drew do a triple threat match and do a title change.
- 39:55Speaker 1: There's no harm in taking the title of Cody and
- 39:57Speaker 1: making him chase to get it back two or three
- 39:59Speaker 1: more months later. There's so many different stories that you
- 40:03Speaker 1: could tell with him and Randy and how that might
- 40:05Speaker 1: branch off. Do it. Stop playing it safe? Do it?
- 40:12Speaker 1: He plays it safe too much. I'm not saying play
- 40:15Speaker 1: hot potato with every belt and change it every other month,
- 40:17Speaker 1: But my God, don't be afraid to shake things up
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- 42:58Speaker 1: Sola Monster. Backstage, Tiffany Stratton was getting ready for the
- 43:02Speaker 1: main event. Stephanie Vquier showed up and was sizing up
- 43:05Speaker 1: her potential challenger at Crown Jewel, just like she did
- 43:09Speaker 1: with Jade earlier. Stephanie said that she would be watching
- 43:12Speaker 1: the triple threaten. Maybe they'll meet at Crown Jewel and
- 43:15Speaker 1: Stratton said that she respects Stephanie, but if they meet
- 43:17Speaker 1: in the ring, it will end with Tiffany becoming the
- 43:19Speaker 1: Crown Jewel Champion. We'll see, said Stephanie. Now elsewhere in
- 43:27Speaker 1: the back, Sammy's Ain was chatting with Ray Phoenix, who
- 43:31Speaker 1: I guess just showed up to the show to hang
- 43:33Speaker 1: out in catering and now he's having a conversation here
- 43:36Speaker 1: with Sammy's Ain And he asked, Sammy, who do you
- 43:39Speaker 1: think is going to answer your open He botched the line.
- 43:42Speaker 1: He had one line, He had one line. He fucked
- 43:45Speaker 1: it up. I forgot what he said. He said, like,
- 43:48Speaker 1: who do you think challenge you? Or will challenge it? Whatever?
- 43:52Speaker 1: He bungled the one line he was supposed to be
- 43:53Speaker 1: asking him, who do you think is going to accept
- 43:55Speaker 1: the open challenge, and Sammy said, I don't know, you know,
- 43:58Speaker 1: it could be anybody, could be somebody from Raw, could
- 44:00Speaker 1: be somebody from SmackDown. He goes, hey, we're in Orlando,
- 44:04Speaker 1: teasing that maybe it might even be somebody from NXT.
- 44:07Speaker 1: As he was talking, Shinsky Nakamura was in the background,
- 44:13Speaker 1: lurking in the shadows as Sammy was talking. Not the
- 44:17Speaker 1: first time that that has happened on SmackDown in the
- 44:20Speaker 1: last few weeks. I would love to sit here and
- 44:26Speaker 1: pretend that I am as excited to see Sammy zaying
- 44:31Speaker 1: against Shinsky Nakimore as I was in twenty sixteen in
- 44:35Speaker 1: Dallas when I was third row ringside at NXT Takeover
- 44:39Speaker 1: and I saw one of the best live matches I've
- 44:41Speaker 1: ever seen. I would love to still be sitting here
- 44:44Speaker 1: nine years later and have that same enthusiasm. But I can't.
- 44:47Speaker 1: I can't because the Shinsky Nakamoora that I saw that
- 44:50Speaker 1: night is not the same Shinsky Nakamora that we see today.
- 44:54Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying because he's nine years older.
- 44:57Speaker 1: That's true, but so is Sammy. Samby's still going out
- 45:00Speaker 1: there having banger matches. There's a lot of reasons why
- 45:03Speaker 1: I no longer feel that way about Shinsky Knockamore, so
- 45:07Speaker 1: I can't get excited over it. I do wonder if
- 45:10Speaker 1: that's the Crown Jewel match, if they were going to
- 45:13Speaker 1: have a US Title Open Challenge matchic Crown Jewel, I
- 45:16Speaker 1: think in front of that crowd in Perth, they might
- 45:19Speaker 1: be able to turn it into something special. But you know,
- 45:23Speaker 1: that last US title run that Shinsky had, if you
- 45:27Speaker 1: could even call it a run as the US Champion,
- 45:30Speaker 1: was just fucking garbage. I have no interest in seeing
- 45:34Speaker 1: him challenging or winning the US title. It's the last
- 45:38Speaker 1: thing I want to see. But Sammy's am was out
- 45:42Speaker 1: for his United States Championship Open Challenge and accepting the
- 45:47Speaker 1: Open challenge was Javan Evans, the young upstart from NXT.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Twenty four hours before his match with Josh Briggs at
- 45:59Speaker 1: No Mercy to Tomorrow night. The two of them locked
- 46:02Speaker 1: up to start. Evans dodged Sammy before he got tossed
- 46:06Speaker 1: around with arm drags from the champion in the corner.
- 46:09Speaker 1: Evans delivered a chop to the chest, then he backed off.
- 46:13Speaker 1: In response, Sammy got in some chops of his own.
- 46:15Speaker 1: Evans answered with a springboard clothesline followed by a leaping
- 46:19Speaker 1: rana off the top rope, and then Javan sent Sammy
- 46:22Speaker 1: to the outside. He was looking like he was about
- 46:24Speaker 1: to take flight. Sammy dough put a stop to that
- 46:26Speaker 1: with a hard lariat that took us into the commercial break.
- 46:31Speaker 1: We came back with Sammy having Evans on the ropes
- 46:33Speaker 1: with a chop and the challenger fought out of it.
- 46:36Speaker 1: He threw Sammy outside and then connected on a soaring
- 46:39Speaker 1: dive out over the top rope. Inside. Evans countered a
- 46:43Speaker 1: blue thunderbomb attempt and answered with a springboard in Saguri.
- 46:46Speaker 1: Sammy tried for a diving move off the top. Evans
- 46:50Speaker 1: ran up the ropes though then delivered an avalanche hurricane
- 46:53Speaker 1: rona and this looked great even just leaping up into
- 46:57Speaker 1: the air for the hurricanana like he got mega height
- 47:01Speaker 1: on this thing. And so he pulled Sammy off that
- 47:04Speaker 1: top rope and Sammy took a hell of a bump.
- 47:07Speaker 1: He took a halluva bump, you might say, in the
- 47:11Speaker 1: corner Evans, and by the way, that nearly won him
- 47:15Speaker 1: the title, but not quite. In the corner. Evans tried
- 47:17Speaker 1: to run at Sammy, he got caught with an exploder suplex.
- 47:21Speaker 1: A Halluva kick attempt was thwarted by a drop kick
- 47:24Speaker 1: right on the button by Evans. Another attempt at a
- 47:28Speaker 1: Halluva kick was again countered, Evans dodged it at the
- 47:32Speaker 1: last second. This left Sammy stunned and Evans connected with
- 47:34Speaker 1: an og cutter for a great near fall. This thing
- 47:38Speaker 1: again was a fucking just thing of beauty, and the
- 47:41Speaker 1: crowd again super invested in this, hanging on to every
- 47:45Speaker 1: near fall chanting this is awesome. They were fully invested
- 47:49Speaker 1: in this match. Evans headed to the apron for a springboard.
- 47:53Speaker 1: He miscalculated, though, and he ended up in the corner.
- 47:57Speaker 1: After a roll through. Sammy immediately made him pay. As
- 48:00Speaker 1: he turned around, he ate a Halluva kick and Sammy
- 48:04Speaker 1: followed that with a blue thunderbomb for the Wind to
- 48:07Speaker 1: retain the championship. After the match was over, Sammy congratulated
- 48:10Speaker 1: the kid. He is still a kid twenty one years old.
- 48:15Speaker 1: I mean by w w E standard, look at look
- 48:17Speaker 1: at the fucking roster. Most of the top names on
- 48:21Speaker 1: the roster or at least forty five. I feel like
- 48:24Speaker 1: forty two forty five forty eight. So by those standards, yes,
- 48:28Speaker 1: he's a kid, even though he is a grown adult.
- 48:32Speaker 1: But when you compare to the other people on this roster,
- 48:35Speaker 1: it's okay to call him a kid. But he got
- 48:37Speaker 1: the fans to cheer for him. I don't think Sammy
- 48:39Speaker 1: needed to work too hard to get the people to
- 48:41Speaker 1: do that. I think they were cheering for him anyway.
- 48:44Speaker 1: Let me just say that Halluva kick into a Blue
- 48:47Speaker 1: thunderbomb at the finish there. That needs to be a
- 48:51Speaker 1: permanent thing going forward. I love the idea that the
- 48:55Speaker 1: Halluva kick is the immediate setup to the blue thunderbomb
- 48:59Speaker 1: and that being finish. I really hope that becomes a
- 49:03Speaker 1: thing with Sammy going forward. This was a hell of
- 49:06Speaker 1: a match. That's now four straight weeks. He did it
- 49:10Speaker 1: with Sina, he did it with Mellow, he had that
- 49:12Speaker 1: great match with Ray Phoenix. Here tonight with Javon Evans.
- 49:17Speaker 1: This US title Open challenge has been the highlight of
- 49:20Speaker 1: the night on this show, and this was also a
- 49:21Speaker 1: nice follow up to the little interaction that these two
- 49:24Speaker 1: had backstage at the NXT homecoming show when Sammy gave
- 49:29Speaker 1: Evans a little pep talk in the back. So that
- 49:32Speaker 1: was was that a week ago, two weeks ago, So
- 49:36Speaker 1: this was a nice little follow up to that. Evans
- 49:39Speaker 1: as a prospect, obviously, the company has very high hopes
- 49:43Speaker 1: for him. Michael Cole on commentary during this match, actually
- 49:47Speaker 1: said he's a future WWE champion. I'm not going to
- 49:51Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that he's a future WWE
- 49:53Speaker 1: champion just yet. Does he have the potential to be
- 49:56Speaker 1: that big? He has the potential. Absolutely. He's still only
- 49:59Speaker 1: twenty one years old, which is pretty incredible when you
- 50:02Speaker 1: consider the body of work. He's already put together an
- 50:05Speaker 1: NXT and he's had the chance to work with a
- 50:07Speaker 1: bunch of different people, wrestled Randy Orton right that he
- 50:12Speaker 1: was the handpicked opponent for Randy Orton when Randy Orton
- 50:15Speaker 1: wrestled on that one episode of NXT in Saint Louis
- 50:18Speaker 1: last year. He had that program with Ethan Page, he
- 50:21Speaker 1: had that great match with Oba Femei not that long ago.
- 50:25Speaker 1: So he's very very impressive. When you watch him in
- 50:30Speaker 1: the ring. There are certain people like they get good
- 50:33Speaker 1: hangtime on some of their offense. You know, montez Ford.
- 50:36Speaker 1: We saw him on this show with the frog splash
- 50:38Speaker 1: and we know the hangtime he gets on that. But
- 50:41Speaker 1: you watched Evon Evans and he just he makes it
- 50:43Speaker 1: look effortless, you know, when he's flying around or god,
- 50:48Speaker 1: what was it the match with Oba where he took
- 50:50Speaker 1: that just ridiculous bump. He did this dive out over
- 50:54Speaker 1: the top rope and I think he cleared the announced
- 50:57Speaker 1: desk and he crashed and burned. It was just a
- 51:00Speaker 1: hillacious bump. But he just the way he flies around
- 51:04Speaker 1: the ring, and when he comes off with that og cutter,
- 51:07Speaker 1: it looks it looks great. You know, there's a smoothness
- 51:10Speaker 1: to his offense. So he's a lot of fun to watch.
- 51:14Speaker 1: And he's still very young, and he's only going to
- 51:15Speaker 1: grow and get better and you know, cut more promos
- 51:19Speaker 1: and just sharpen his skills. I mean, that's why he's
- 51:22Speaker 1: in NXT right now. And it's too soon to call
- 51:25Speaker 1: him up to the main roster. I mean, let him
- 51:27Speaker 1: cook for a little bit more down there. There's plenty
- 51:30Speaker 1: of other people on the NXT roster right now that
- 51:32Speaker 1: are ready for a call up. When they're ready to
- 51:35Speaker 1: call them up, you know, Javon Evans I think has
- 51:37Speaker 1: to win the NXT Championship first, before I would even
- 51:40Speaker 1: think about calling him up. But he's been one of
- 51:43Speaker 1: the success stories of the Performance Center, so this was
- 51:46Speaker 1: great stuff. When Sammy finally loses that title, this show
- 51:49Speaker 1: is going to be in some real trouble, seriously, unless
- 51:53Speaker 1: they really shake things up a little bit when he
- 51:57Speaker 1: drops that championship and we don't get these open challenge
- 51:59Speaker 1: matches anymore. I shuddered to think what this show is
- 52:03Speaker 1: going to look like. In the back, Nya Jax was
- 52:09Speaker 1: walking when Chelsea Green and Alba Fire showed up. Chelsea
- 52:13Speaker 1: offered her a spot in her Secret Hervice because they're
- 52:17Speaker 1: down a member. For those who don't know, Piper Niven
- 52:20Speaker 1: is injured and Piper Niven has a neck injury, and
- 52:26Speaker 1: apparently it's a pretty serious neck injury, and they are
- 52:29Speaker 1: in the process of deciding how this neck injury is
- 52:32Speaker 1: going to be treated, whether it's going to be surgery
- 52:34Speaker 1: or rehab. But we're not going to be seeing Piper
- 52:37Speaker 1: Niven for a while, so we need a new agent,
- 52:40Speaker 1: I guess. In the Secret Hervis Nya Jax was not
- 52:43Speaker 1: interested in joining the Secret hervist, so the paper that
- 52:47Speaker 1: they handed her she tore them up. She walked away
- 52:51Speaker 1: and she ran into Stephanie Vicaire and Stephanie wished her
- 52:56Speaker 1: good luck. Nia says that she could drop her right now,
- 52:59Speaker 1: but she would rather wait for crown jewel. Elsewhere in
- 53:02Speaker 1: the back, Damian Priest came upon Kit Wilson of Pretty Deadly,
- 53:07Speaker 1: the same guy that he put through a wall on
- 53:10Speaker 1: last week's show. That's why Kit Wilson was in a
- 53:12Speaker 1: wheelchair and he's sitting there. I mean again, I love
- 53:16Speaker 1: the idea that this man is sitting in a wheelchair.
- 53:18Speaker 1: They flew him into work. This man was injured on
- 53:21Speaker 1: the job, thrown through a wall. He's in a wheelchair.
- 53:26Speaker 1: You got to come to work. You can't wrestle, but
- 53:30Speaker 1: you got to come to work. And we'll just sit
- 53:32Speaker 1: you in a little corner in the backstage area and
- 53:34Speaker 1: you could sit there just ranting about toxic masculinity. This
- 53:39Speaker 1: is what Damian Priest came upon in the back. So
- 53:44Speaker 1: Priest is he's being told, you know you're toxic. You're toxic.
- 53:50Speaker 1: So Priest starts to sort of menace him like he's
- 53:52Speaker 1: about to do something to him, and we got some
- 53:55Speaker 1: comedy here. Kit Wilson, he had gotten up. He went
- 53:59Speaker 1: to go turn to run away. He did a pratt fall. Haha,
- 54:03Speaker 1: it's funny. He did a pratt fall, and then Priest
- 54:06Speaker 1: tells him bitches be tripping. Then we hear a voice.
- 54:11Speaker 1: It's Alistair Black, the man the Priest is actually looking for,
- 54:14Speaker 1: and Damien turns around right into a Black mass. Kick
- 54:18Speaker 1: down goes Damian Priest. Black says that he and Priest
- 54:22Speaker 1: might do this until only one man is left standing,
- 54:26Speaker 1: and then he wishes Priest a happy birthday in a
- 54:29Speaker 1: very sarcastic way. Well, gee, I wonder what that means.
- 54:32Speaker 1: The stipulation of their next match is going to be Gee,
- 54:35Speaker 1: I wonder what kind of match could it possibly be?
- 54:40Speaker 1: It is Damian Priest's birthday, by the way, Happy birthday,
- 54:44Speaker 1: Damian Priest, forty three years old. Today. They closed the
- 54:50Speaker 1: show with the triple Threat match for the WWE Women's Championship.
- 54:53Speaker 1: It was Tiffany Stratton defending against Naya Jacks and Jade Cargill.
- 54:57Speaker 1: The match started off with Naya throwing Tiffany into Jade.
- 55:01Speaker 1: The champion struck back with a double dropkick to both
- 55:04Speaker 1: women and they went to a commercial break. We were
- 55:07Speaker 1: a minute into this match, and they went to a
- 55:09Speaker 1: commercial break. They came back with Tiffany flying out on
- 55:13Speaker 1: Tenaya with a suicide dive that did not land well
- 55:16Speaker 1: because her legs hit the ropes on the way out. Thankfully,
- 55:20Speaker 1: she didn't land on her head like she did when
- 55:23Speaker 1: she hit that moon salt outside the ring a couple
- 55:26Speaker 1: weeks ago and looked like she can cussed herself. I
- 55:30Speaker 1: don't know if she actually can cussed herself or they
- 55:32Speaker 1: were worried that she did, but that's why we didn't
- 55:36Speaker 1: see her wrestle at Wressell Palooza. Later in the match,
- 55:40Speaker 1: Stratton headed to the top rope. She hit swanton bomb
- 55:43Speaker 1: on Tanaya, but immediately got put down by a super
- 55:46Speaker 1: kick from Jade, which ended up actually making her fall
- 55:50Speaker 1: backwards on top of Naya. She had her pin, but
- 55:54Speaker 1: Nya kicked out. As Nya kicked out, we got yet
- 55:58Speaker 1: another commercial break. Jade and Tiffany. They teamed up to
- 56:02Speaker 1: deliver a double superplex to Nya off the ropes, and
- 56:06Speaker 1: when Nia is still recovering it, Stratton took Cargil down
- 56:09Speaker 1: with her rolling sent on, but then she connected on
- 56:11Speaker 1: the prettiest moonsalt ever to Nya, who was still down.
- 56:15Speaker 1: Jade had moved out of the way. Otherwise both women
- 56:18Speaker 1: would have eaten the moon salt, so she was able
- 56:20Speaker 1: to avoid it. Jade easily was able to break up
- 56:23Speaker 1: the pen attempt. Stratton countered Cargill's power bomb into a
- 56:27Speaker 1: Hurrican Rana, and as Tiffany ran towards Jade in the corner,
- 56:31Speaker 1: she got caught. She was promptly dropped with a modified Jaded.
- 56:36Speaker 1: She got a one, she got a two. Nia comes
- 56:39Speaker 1: over and saved the match by pulling the referee out
- 56:42Speaker 1: of the ring at the very last second. Outside the ring.
- 56:47Speaker 1: Now Jade is angry, and Jade is outside the ring.
- 56:50Speaker 1: She clears off the announced desk, but she got thrown
- 56:53Speaker 1: into the steel steps by Nia. And when I tell
- 56:57Speaker 1: you that Jade Cargill ate the stairs, she ate the stairs.
- 57:02Speaker 1: And this is where she came up very badly busted open.
- 57:06Speaker 1: And this is where the finish of this match. The
- 57:08Speaker 1: finishing sequence of this match totally fell apart from this
- 57:13Speaker 1: point on. And I can make a joke about Naya
- 57:15Speaker 1: Jacks injuring somebody. I will say, though that we have
- 57:20Speaker 1: not heard any stories about that recently. That was certainly
- 57:24Speaker 1: a storyline of her last run in the company. I
- 57:27Speaker 1: think she's been on her best behavior over the last
- 57:29Speaker 1: year year and a half. We don't hear too many
- 57:32Speaker 1: stories about Naya Jacks, you know, injuring people, and she's
- 57:35Speaker 1: had some really good TV matches, so it's been a
- 57:38Speaker 1: while since we've heard about Naya hurting somebody in the ring.
- 57:42Speaker 1: But it was almost as if she was making up
- 57:43Speaker 1: for lost time here, because it wasn't just that Jade
- 57:46Speaker 1: got hurt. She was badly busted open. She had like
- 57:48Speaker 1: a fucking gash right above her eyebrow, blood pouring out
- 57:52Speaker 1: on the floor everywhere, and she didn't notice it at first,
- 57:56Speaker 1: But when she finally noticed that, she smiled and she
- 57:58Speaker 1: looked over at Booker T and the announcers and made
- 58:02Speaker 1: a comment to go about how I made her bleed.
- 58:05Speaker 1: And so Nya was She cleared off the top part
- 58:09Speaker 1: of the steps, so we had the flat part and
- 58:11Speaker 1: she was gonna do some sort of souplex from the steps.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Jade countered by getting her on her shoulders and she
- 58:17Speaker 1: dropped her with a samoan drop on the flat part
- 58:20Speaker 1: of the ring steps. Jade was then shown, I mean
- 58:24Speaker 1: the camera was right up in her face. They didn't
- 58:26Speaker 1: shy away from this. That's how you could see how
- 58:29Speaker 1: bad the cut was. And then they had more of
- 58:31Speaker 1: a wide shot with the hardcam. The referee was checking
- 58:34Speaker 1: on the cut and the match kind of stalled out
- 58:37Speaker 1: here for about I don't know, ten fifteen seconds in
- 58:40Speaker 1: the ring, Nya got dropped by an eye of the
- 58:43Speaker 1: storm from Jade, which is one of her signature moves.
- 58:49Speaker 1: So Jade had the match won and she's sitting on
- 58:52Speaker 1: top of Naya. Tiffany Stratton was supposed to break up
- 58:56Speaker 1: the pin. Tiffany was late. You could even see, I
- 58:59Speaker 1: think naive and looked over and could tell she wasn't
- 59:01Speaker 1: gonna make it in time. So Nya was not supposed
- 59:04Speaker 1: to kick out on her own, but she had no choice, right,
- 59:06Speaker 1: you got improvise, So she kicked out. And as soon
- 59:10Speaker 1: as she kicked out, now Tiffany comes in with a dropkick,
- 59:14Speaker 1: and she dropped kicks Jade and then she covers Nya.
- 59:18Speaker 1: She was going to steal the pin to retain the title,
- 59:21Speaker 1: so she covers Naya and the referee Daphne Lashawn. She
- 59:25Speaker 1: drops down, she counts one, and she counts two and
- 59:30Speaker 1: then she pulls up her count, and I'm watching Naya.
- 59:34Speaker 1: Her shoulders are down, Tiffany's got the leg hooked. Nobody interfear,
- 59:40Speaker 1: nobody grabbed the referee. Jade is Jade's I don't know
- 59:43Speaker 1: where Jade is. Jade's drowning at a pool of her
- 59:46Speaker 1: own blood. She just held up the count. I don't
- 59:49Speaker 1: know what happened. I don't know if she was of
- 59:52Speaker 1: the impression that there was another spot coming, she got confused,
- 59:56Speaker 1: whatever the case was. The wrestler's sure working use. The
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: crowd was confused, the announcers were confused. I was confused,
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: and she, I'm sure, felt like total shit as the
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: wrestlers are looking at her, going what happened? I don't know.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: The phantom kickout from Naya Jacks, I mean this, you
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: could just hear the crowd it was. It was so awful.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: The air just got sucked out of this crowd. It's
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: like the finish and again, I don't want to make
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: it sound like this was the only botch of the match,
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: Like this whole finishing sequence was just botchtastic. It's like
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: the finishing sequence of the match was already sick, and
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: then this spot here, the phantom kickout just killed it dead.
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: That was just the death blow that put it out
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: of its misery. So now what do we do right, Well,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do just tell Nia to stay
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: down and have Tiffany go up and hit her moonsalt
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: her actual finish. That's what she did. She went up top,
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: she hit the prettiest Moonsalt ever and she got the
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: three counts to retain the title, which was the right outcome.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: Would have been the right outcome even if the referee
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: had counted it like a shoot, because again Tiffany would
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: have won, but it was the right outcome. There was
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: no other match with Stephanie at Crown Jewel. I mean
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: that made sense. Stephanie and Jade, that would not have
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: been the right move to make. Putting the title on
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: Jade right now was not the right move to make.
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Putting the title on Nya would have been worse because
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: she hasn't They only just brought her back to TV
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: recently just to throw her back into the championship picture.
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see that. So this was the correct
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: move to make as far as the outcome of the match.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: And after the match was over, Stephanie Thecaer made her
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: way down to the ring to get a better look
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: at her opponent at Crown Jewel, and they each held
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: up their respective championships. But again, I gotta be honest
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: with you, I didn't think this match was all that
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: great even before the finishing sequence. I'm not saying it
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: was trash or anything like that, but it wasn't that good,
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: and finishing sequences made it so much worse. It just
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: completely fell apart one after another after another, you know,
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: from Jane being busted open the way that she was,
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: Tiffany being laid on, breaking up that second to last spot,
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: and then of course the mother of all spots in
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: this match, the actual supposed finish and whatever the hell
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: happened there, and I mean that was pretty much the
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: end of that. So it ended things on a sour note.
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: But I can't sit here and tell you, man, this
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: was a great match that was ruined by the referee.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: It was not a great match, and then it was ruined.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: It was a solid match that was ruined there at
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: the very end. So the Crown Jewel title matches are
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: now set. We know it's Seth and Cody, we know
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: it's Stephanie and Tiffany and do we have any other
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: matches that are can Oh? Well, yes, CNN, AJ John,
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: which is the match I'm looking forward to on that show? John,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: Cena and AJ styles. Cody and Seth will also be
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: a really good match if their past matches or any indication.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: Stephanie and Tiffany should be should be good, should be
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: good to me? You never know. I don't know that
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: they've worked together. Have they worked together before? I don't know.
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: But the Crown Jewel card is incomplete, but already it's
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: shaping up to be better than Wreussell Palooza. We'll see
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: how the rest of the card shapes up. But yeah,
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: this this episode of SmackDown again, it had its moments
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: when it was over, though, I just I'm not sitting
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: here going, man, what a great SmackDown. I could sit
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: here and tell you that it was better than last
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: week's show, But you know, again, I feel like I'm
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: heaping faint praise on this show. SmackDown is greatly lagging
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: behind Raw. This show needs a shot of adrenaline in
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: its soul. Cody. Cody's trying, man, He's trying with the
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: with the adrenaline in his soul. That's not enough. We
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: need we need some soul on this show. All right,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: we need some soul, Ruca, That's what we need. What
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: did you think of SmackDown from Orlando? Forty percent give
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: this show a thumbs up, twenty nine point six percent
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: give the show a thumbs in the middle, and thirty
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: percent give the show a thumbs down. So forty up
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: thirty down so far for SmackDown from Orlando. SmackDown from
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Orlando is in the books. Let's go through your superchats.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: See what you guys thought. The Arizona Zombie says he
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: voted thumbs in the middle on this show, and Nobi says,
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: remember solo wwe can't go over five matches on the PLA.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: I know, I know, they get fined by the f
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: if they go over five matches. That's the rule. That's
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: the new rule that's been instituted. You go over five matches,
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: you get penalized. We got death sithe who says, hear
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: me out. What if LA Knight keeps losing until he
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: beats John Cena in his retirement match, which could finally
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: launch l A. Knight into the stratosphere. I mean that
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: sounds really interesting, but no, no, that's not happening. Victor says,
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: SmackDown really needs Bianca bell airbag. Yes, yes it does.
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: And sadly, even just getting Beyonce is not enough. But
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Bianca would be a nice shot in the arm for
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: that women's division, for sure. He says, buy sell, rent
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: Undertaker from the nineties, the two thousands or the twenty tens,
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: Undertaker from the nineties. Undertaker from the nineties and then
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: the two thousands and then the twenty tens is dead last.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: Is Cody now Roman's greatest rival or is it someone else?
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: I feel like I've talked about this before. I feel
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: like it's got to be either Brock or Seth. So no,
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: it is not Cody. And Victor says, buy or sell
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: Wrestler of two thousand, Rock or Triple H. Yeah, it's
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: tough because the company was really carried by the two
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: of them in the year two thousand. I hate to
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: give much more credit to one over the other because
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: they were both very Triple H was the chief antagonist
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: that year. You know, every great baby face needs a
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: great heel to work with. You know, Rock was great,
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: but Rock needed Triple H to be that foil and
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Triple H was in his best form in two thousand
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: in two thousand and one until he got hurt. But
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: again he needed that pun intended. He needed that rock
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: solid baby face to work with, and Rock was that guy.
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: If I had to go for one over the other.
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: As far as the wrestler of two thousand, I gotta
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: go Rock. We got Holiday one ninety seven. Hey solo
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: considering AJ Styles announced that he will retire next year.
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: The John Cena versus AJ Styles match a Crown Jewel
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: will be a kind of double Swan song. Here's hoping
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: we get Gunther against aj a Wrestlemans. Yeah, I mean
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: that's what I said last night. That's you know on TNTs.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: That should be the match of WrestleMania if they get
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: him to WrestleMania, because I think his contract is up
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: before then, but if they could extend him out and
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: get him one last WrestleMania match, I love the idea
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: of Gunther being that guy. That's a match we've not gotten.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: That's I thought. Of all the news this week, the
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: one that had me in stitches was Kevin Nash having
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: a certain reduction surgery. I guess he's no longer called
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: Big Sexy you know, there are some people who don't.
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's you, but there are some people
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: who don't get his sense of humor. Like I saw
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: that being reported this week as if it were legitimate news.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: In some places. There was some face the facebook pages
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: of the worst in these bullshit facebook pages that pop up,
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: and they're reporting it as like actual news. Death Side says,
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, I'm glad he's okay, yes, And
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: I'm glad you could take a joke. I'm like some
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: people online who, like I said, took that a little
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: too seriously. Uh. We got Jeremy Wattley. Thank you for
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: the five Jeremy. I hope you're having a good Friday night.
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: Kind Of bummed. Jasmine Nicks is leaving. She is green
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: but had a good upside. But respect to her standing
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: up for herself from being allegedly low balled. Yeah, I
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: mean Jasmin Nicks was just kind of the third wheel
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: of fatal influence to me. You know, she maybe she
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: had potential. I mean, WWE is not really losing much
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: by her leaving, but good for her. I mean, she
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: felt like she was given a contract off her and
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: the money wasn't what she thought it should be. Then,
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: as with any job, you walk away, you walk away. However,
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: it is worth pointing out that if she were ever
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: called up to the main roster, supposedly the minimum salary
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: of a WWE main roster performed. No matter how low
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: you are on the card, you can be a KIROTOSAUA.
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: You're making a minimum three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: a year. So if she was worried about not making
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: money at a certain level, you know, if they were
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: to call up Fatal Influence as a group, she would
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: have been part of that, then her salary would have
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: been bumped, but there was no indication that that was
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: going to happen anytime soon. I don't know what her
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: financial situation is. So good for her. You feel like
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: you are worth more than what you're being offered, then
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: you take your services and go somewhere else. So she
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: can go wrestle somewhere else. Or she could start in
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: only fans like everybody else does. She could start an
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: only fans and probably be a millionaire within two months.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: I'd probably do the same thing. I'm gonna start a
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: solo monster OnlyFans. Then I could retire, then I don't
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: have to watch smack Down anymore. Death side. So the
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: story behind Sina Styles of Crown Jewel is because they
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: have been drowning in an Atlantic sized swimming pool of
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: bad creative? Is a retirement or oh you mean the
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: company bad creative. They're trying to make the fans feel
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: like they actually were able to will the match into existence,
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: which is very cute, even though the fans had nothing
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: to do with any of this. Holliday says, I'll take
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: Naya winning the women's US title over Julia's reign. At
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: least the title will have a more established name holding it.
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: It could free Julia up to maybe feud with some
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: bigger names, like who who is she gonna feud with?
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: They've done nothing with her, They've done nothing. Who would
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: she be feuding with at the top of the car
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: that anybody would care about. The whole point is that
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: they have not gotten the crowd invested in Juliet. It's
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: not a matter of she has to work with big names.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: She should at some point, but whoever she works with,
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: you just got to come up with a good story
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: and somebody that when you ring the bell, they could
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: go out there and have really good matches, because Julie
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: is a really good wrestler, so she has to be
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: able to work with somebody that she can show her
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: skills in the ring with. But there has to be
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: a good story. There has to be something there to
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: grab you. And you don't have to be Charlotte Flair.
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: You don't have to be you know, Tiffany Stratton for that.
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: There's no indication they have any anything like that lined
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: up for her right now. You know what, Honestly, you
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: might just be better off doing that putting the title
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: on someone like Naya. At least Nina knows how to
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: get heat. Not Q Marris prediction. They bring Vince back
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: for a story and after a week it gets canned
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: quicker than the fake death because he's named in the
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: Epstein Files. That certainly is a fantasy scenario that will
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: never ever happen. Broley says, how is it fair to
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: Julia and Tiffany that they are wrestling literal bots every
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: week while Raw has eo Rhea, Becky Lyra, Kyrie Oscar
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: Roxanne lives that. I mean it's just per day. I
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: say it every week like I'm not lying. I mean
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: it's the imbalance is just striking. Where are we? We're
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: still about what fifty likes? Do I fifty for be
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: the booker not looking good. We actually got it for
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: Dynamite this week, may not get it for SmackDown though.
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: Death Site says here's a match they could do for
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: WrestleMania forty two, Ria an Eo against the Kabuki Warriors
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: against Charlotte and Alexa for the women's tag team titles.
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: I mean it's too early to be booking some of
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: these women in a WrestleMania match. I mean I could
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: see Ria in a singles match against Stephanie. I can
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: see Ria in a singles match against any number of people.
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: Solo's favorite Siko. Are you looking forward to Collision tomorrow?
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: Me too, I know you are. I'll tell you what
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to you looking
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: forward to watching Collision. Enjoy the show. Mactubb thoughts on
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: Taker kicking Matt ruining the show? Are you talking about
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: Undertaker's podcast? I don't give a shit. I don't watch it,
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: so I don't give a shit. It's Undertaker. I mean
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's Undertaker taking the money
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: and wanting his show under the WWE banner, so he
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: replaced his good friend with his wife. I mean it's
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: pretty obvious what happened there, but personally me, I could
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: not possibly care any less. Boots look at Boots, Oh
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: my god, look at Boots man coming in with a
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: fifty dollars bomb. He says. I noticed MLLL was having
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: a live show last night on YouTube, so I tune
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: in and they are having a cross promotion with Pokemon.
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: Seeing a packed crowd with Pokemon masks gave me the
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: hebgb's So I slowly backed away and I closed the channel.
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: I mean, at least they weren't all sitting there in
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: the crowd wearing those masks like from the movie Eyes
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: Wide Shut, and that would have been a little freakier
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: to me. Mactub I agree with Brett on Triple H
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: except that he never had a good match. Part said
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: he's like an edge orton level talent push like Hogan
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: cause of his wife thoughts. Yeah, I mean again, Brett's
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: got his opinion on Triple H. He's entitled to it.
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: He doesn't like him, He's never liked him. A lot
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: of it has to do with Montreal in ninety seven
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: in his role in all that and him paling around
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: with somebody who at the time he didn't care for.
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: But I always say, I've said it for years that
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: Triple H was the guy who worked with the guy.
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: You know, he was never the guy himself. And when
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: they tried to push him as the guy, which at
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: times he might have been pushed as like the top star,
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: but he was never the top star. Those periods of
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: time were fleeting because he was never going to be
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: that person. I think Triple H is a very good talent.
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: I don't see Triple H as an elite level talent.
- 1:17:47Speaker 1: By elite, I mean like if you were to make
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: a Mount Rushmore of talent and I hate using the
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: fucking Mount Rushmore shit, but if you were going to
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: make a Mount Rushmore and expand Mount Rushmore out to
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: five or six people instead of four, he's still not
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: on there. He's one level below that. Mikey s thirteen
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: after the promo last week, is it's safe to say
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: that Togaloa is the favorite to win the Royal Rumble
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: Togaloa finishing. You'll notice I ignored the MFT segment tonight
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: because I don't care, but yes, he says after the
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: promo last week, is it safe to say that Togaloa
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: is the favorite to win the Royal Rumble? Togaloa finishing
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: his story will feed families. It will, it will, and
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: unfortunately it will give those families food poisoning and they
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: will all die. Randy Bobandy, thank you Randy for the
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: twenty dollars super chat. Been a while since I sent
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: a super chat, so I returned with a question favorite
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: Seinfeld recurring side character. Frank is hilarious, but for me,
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: Putty is the best. Frank Costanzo man, He's a tough
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: one to top. I might have to go with Frank, honestly,
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: but then you got Newman though, like Newman was great too.
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: It's got to be Frank or Newman. I don't know.
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: I think I might. I might have to. I don't know,
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: I might have to go with Newman. Actually. As far
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: as like recurring side characters, so again, we're not talking
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: about like one offs, you know, like the soup Nazi
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: or oh god, the uh the salesman guy who went
- 1:19:46Speaker 1: who went cuckoock? What was his name? That doesn't matter?
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: Dev to dust buy or sell or rent, what is
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: your favorite Mets team of the twenty first century? Two
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: thousand and six Mets, twenty fifteen Mets, for twenty twenty
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: four Mets. I mean, none of them won the championships,
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: so it's kind of a pointless question. Last year's team
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: was a lot of fun to follow, though, especially with
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: the OMG stuff. Last last year's team really did feel
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: like this this was gonna be the year. But that's
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: what they do, man. They make you, they lull you in,
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: and they they let you down in the end, time
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: after time after time. But I would buy on the
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: thin gold buy on twenty twenty four and then rent
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: on twenty fifteen, Sell on two thousand and six. Wressell
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: Votes noted that Jade getting busted open made them change
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: the finish and for them to call the spots on
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: the fly, which led to the confusion. Well, my point
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: still stands, though, I mean even more so, frankly, if
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: that's the case, because if you're the referee and you're
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: not even really sure what's going on, which, by the way,
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: is just a really difficult position for a referee to
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: be put in on the spot like that. But if
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: that's the case, the only thing you could do is
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: count it as if it's a real fight, you count
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: it as a shoot, and it's on the wrestlers to
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: do their job. And if they're supposed to get a
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: shoulder up, if they're supposed to kick out, that's on them.
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: As the referee. All you can do in a situation
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: like that is just counted as a shoot. So I
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why she held up, but
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: that's a tough spot to be in. Broley also says
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: Jordan Blake sold and send Lyra and Bailey to SmackDown.
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: That's fine. I have no issue with that. Drew McIntyre's
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: new gimmick is Brett Hart nineteen ninety seven. Uh oh,
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: we know how that ended. His triple H going to
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: be out there for his match at Survivor Series this
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: year when he wrestles Cody and Randy. His Triple H's
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: going to be ringing the bell Ragnarok. I have no
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: interest in watching Cody and Seth hold these titles until
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: WrestleMania Get Knight, Drew punkin AJ. Some runs AJ, especially
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: before he retires. Yeah, the best you could hope for
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: with AJ is maybe maybe Intercontinental. He's not he's not
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: going any higher than that. But yeah, I mean, I
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: said this the other night. I'm sure they're going to
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: return to Seth and Punk at some point and do
- 1:23:08Speaker 1: at least one more match between them. I'm done, Like,
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: I'm over it. I have no interest in it at
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: this point. Like they've been feuding for two years now,
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: enough's enough, you know. I mean again, there's a difference
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: between long term storytelling and taking your time and letting
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: some stories cook over a period of time. And then
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: there's whatever Triple H does, which is he feels like
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: he's Martin Scorsese and we tell the best stories, and
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: so we're going to take our time with all these stories,
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: and oh this is so great. We have to really
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: drag this out for as long as possible. But then
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: he drags it out for so long that by the
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: time he gets to the end of it, nobody cares.
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: That's the risk you run, right, I mean, not everything
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: can be the Cody finishing his story thing with the
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: Bloodline a wrestle India forty and I feel like he's
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: staked his reputation on that one story, and I'm struggling
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: to find something else that I could point to that
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: was anywhere near as good as that. But he just
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: drags things out, drags him out, drags him out, plays
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: it safe. Here we are now Punkin' punkin Rollins, you know,
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: still feuding. They brought the wives in, which added a
- 1:24:17Speaker 1: little bit of a different element to it. I'm done
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: with punkin Rollins. That's it. Move them on to other people.
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: I don't want to see this again. Let Seth work
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: with somebody else, Let punk work with other people. Enough
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: of this enough that side says, fuck it. I wouldn't
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: mind seeing Cody Drew Orton fought to in a fatal
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: four way for the WWE Championship and FA two can
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: just run wild in the match like a Samoan Bulldozer.
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: He just kills them all. Just let them loose. Holliday
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: says they could have Grayson Waller answer Sammy's Ain's US
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: Title Open challenge on the SmackDown before a Crown Jewel,
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: but it would be a stretch for Grayson to win
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: the title in front of no Grayson Waller should not
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: be winning the US title. You want to have him
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: answer the open challenge in Australia on TV, fine, I
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: wouldn't even do it. At Crown Jewel. You want to
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: do it on TV, that's fine. The idea of him
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: winning the championship, they could be on fucking Mars for all.
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: I cared like that would be awful. You don't have
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: him be the one to beat Sammy's aim from the
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: US title. Broley says, reminder that BFAB is making main
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: roster money. B FAB stuck it out, b FAB pulling
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: in the pulling in the uh the money there again,
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: minimum three point fifty, Assuming that's where she's at. I'm
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: sure she's not complaining. Uh Duff's viz. When do you
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: take a banana to the doctors and it's not peeling? Well? Man,
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: I first glanced at that, I thought that said something different.
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: I thought I said they're not peeing well. I would say, yeah,
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: those bananas should go to the doctor and get their
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: prostates checked. They have pills for that. Mactub better overall
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: performer Austin versus Rock Well, I mean they're two different
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: types of performers. One's more of a brawler. I mean
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: Rock also is kind of a brawler. Austin in his
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: earlier years was more of a technician than the injury.
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: He had to changes in ring style. But they're both
- 1:26:41Speaker 1: very entertaining, just in very different ways. I know, I
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: like them equally. I think they both bring different qualities
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: to the table. You know, I can't rank them on
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: the spot. Duff's VIDs says, if money doesn't grow on trees,
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: then why do banks have branches. It's a good question.
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: I don't really have a good answer for that one.
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: I think duffs makes a very good point. Mister all Day,
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: AJ all Day. Mister AJ all Day says, here's an idea, solo,
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: have Julia lose the US title to a big name
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: face like a Bianca, so that you can boost the
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: title like Becky boosted the IC title. Sadly, Bianca is
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: also needed in the main event mix. I mean, if
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: you want to elevate the United States Championship to the
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: same level as the IC title, then that's what they're
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: going to have to do. That's why I said, you
- 1:27:48Speaker 1: know what, whoever it was before, I don't if it
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: was Broley or who it was, but mentioned putting the
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: US title on Nya Jacks. You would think that that's
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: something I would be vehemently against, but honestly, it might
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: not be for the US title for the sake of
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: the title. It might not be the worst idea, It
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: really wouldn't. I just don't see how that title is
- 1:28:11Speaker 1: benefiting Julia. I mean, she she holding it right now
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: is not benefiting the US title. But the US title
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: is not benefiting her because it was never established in
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: the first place. That's the problem. So you're better off
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: having somebody with a big enough name that they could
- 1:28:29Speaker 1: help elevate the prestige of the title which was never
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: elevated in the first place. And maybe it's not Nigh,
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: and maybe it's some other bigger name that people are
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: invested in, but it's pretty clear to me at this
- 1:28:43Speaker 1: point that it's just not happening. With Julia being in
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: the situation that she's in, it's just not going to change.
- 1:28:54Speaker 1: Duffvid says, why should you never fight a dinosaur? You'll
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: get your ask kicked. Thank you, duffs jurass kicked. We're
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: up to three ninety on the likes. Nick Grosso says
- 1:29:17Speaker 1: Dana Brook forfeited the TNA Knockouts title and gave a
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: speech that sounded like she was retiring. Says hope she's okay. Also,
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: Kelanie Jordan won the TNA Knockouts title. Well, I guess
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: I don't have to watch it now, thanks Nick. Yeah,
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: I mean hopefully she's okay. I mean, you know, Dana
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: brook Is, the Knockouts champion was certainly a choice, not
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: the best choice, but hopefully on a personal level, hopefully
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: everything's okay. If she forfeited the title, that's sounds like
- 1:30:00Speaker 1: an injury, so hopefully it's nothing too serious. Death sithe.
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: I bet if Steve Blackman hadn't gotten injured in the
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: brawl for all, he would have won, and then he
- 1:30:19Speaker 1: would have killed an eaten butter bean at wrestlemany of fifteen.
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he would have. If anybody could do it,
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: it's him, Mystic j forty four, buy or sell who
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: was the better horror villain this year? Remick from Sinners
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: or Gladys from Weapons. I gotta go Remick. I gotta
- 1:30:41Speaker 1: go Remick Arabian nine two thousand. I bet Julia regrets
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: signing with WWE. She's very wrestling focused. I think AW
- 1:30:50Speaker 1: would have been the better fit stylistically. Even Tekla is
- 1:30:54Speaker 1: in a better spot. You know what, You're not wrong?
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: Isn't a better spot? Tecla's actually wrestling matches and she's
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: in this grudge feud with Queen Amanada. She was just
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: in the four way it all out for the Women's
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: World Championship. You know what, You're not wrong. No, whether
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: or not Julia would you know, agree with that, I
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if she's disappointed with how
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: things are going, if if she's just sort of caught
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: up in the glitz and glamour of WWE. Like Mariah May,
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: it was always her dream to work for WWE. I
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: don't know if it was Julia's dream. So I mean,
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: I can't get in the woman's head. And no for sure,
- 1:31:38Speaker 1: but Techla's doing okay right now? Uh duff Svid's what
- 1:31:48Speaker 1: is a pilot's favorite flavor? Plane? Plane? Thank you us.
- 1:32:06Speaker 1: We are currently at four hundred and fourteen likes. Thank
- 1:32:11Speaker 1: you very much. Let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen,
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: it is now time to be the booker. All right,
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: here we go. I'm gonna try to book a better
- 1:32:23Speaker 1: show than SmackDown tonight. Wish me luck. It's a little
- 1:32:28Speaker 1: unfair because I have access to all these legends, some
- 1:32:32Speaker 1: of whom are no longer with us. But I'm gonna
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: try to book a better card. Let's see how I do.
- 1:32:38Speaker 1: I've already booked a better card. We have The Heart Foundation,
- 1:32:41Speaker 1: Bret the Hitman Heart and Jim the Anvil Night Heart.
- 1:32:44Speaker 1: There you go. I've already I don't even know who
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: the opponents are going to be, and I've already booked
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: a better card than SmackDown tonight. Oh my goodness, gracious,
- 1:32:57Speaker 1: oh my. The Heart Foundation against the British Bulldogs. You
- 1:33:02Speaker 1: want a tag team match, there's your tag team match. Now.
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: You tell me, are you gonna watch the Street Profits
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: against Mellow don't, miz, Or you're gonna watch the Heart
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: Foundation against the British Bulldogs. Don't answer that. It's a
- 1:33:14Speaker 1: rhetorical question. I already know the answer. You're welcome. Look
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: at all the bells. I haven't seen this many bells
- 1:33:27Speaker 1: since Christmas. Look at all the bells in the chat.
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: The Heart Foundation against the British Bulldogs. Now on the
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: women's side, we have Cora Jade, who is not even
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: wrestling anymore. She's another one who I think is a
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: millionaire now off of her only fans, she is the
- 1:33:46Speaker 1: only fans champion. Or is that still Mandy Act? She's
- 1:33:49Speaker 1: probably still Mandy Rose Cora Jade against Mayu Ewatani. Mayu
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: Ewatani is wrestling Eo Sky on The Marigold Show on
- 1:34:11Speaker 1: October twenty sixth. Get ready Eo against Mayu an OnlyFans match? Alright,
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: main event? How about this, We'll make this the only
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: fans match. Don't blame me, He's the one who said it.
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: This is gonna be our only fans match. Here we go,
- 1:34:36Speaker 1: will Ospray in an OnlyFans match. This is what you
- 1:34:42Speaker 1: people ask for. Will Ospray in the main event in
- 1:34:48Speaker 1: an only fans match against Damian Priest. Well, I mean,
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the stipulation, but will Osprey
- 1:35:03Speaker 1: against Damian Priest is a fine main event. And that
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: right there is a clean sweep. Looks like we only
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: get one round tonight, but at least we made it
- 1:35:15Speaker 1: a good one. No no, no, no no, it's a note
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: with the women. No. Somebody in the chat said an
- 1:35:24Speaker 1: OnlyFans match, and I was already choosing for the main event.
- 1:35:27Speaker 1: So that was your main event. Mac Tubb says, why
- 1:35:34Speaker 1: did Brett and Sean not excel as the top guys?
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: I think they excelled just fine. I don't know what
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: criteria you're judging that off. They're both in the Hall
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: of Fame, they both held multiple World championships, and as
- 1:35:50Speaker 1: a bleak as business was at times during the New
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: Generation era, it would have been far worse if they
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: didn't have a Brett Hart and a Shawn Michaels at
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: the top of the car. If all they had was
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: Diesel and the Undertaker in SID, then they would have
- 1:36:03Speaker 1: been in far worse shape. But if you're comparing them
- 1:36:08Speaker 1: to the likes of a Hulk Hogan, I don't even
- 1:36:12Speaker 1: think I really need to answer that. It should be
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: pretty clear why that was. And as far as your
- 1:36:21Speaker 1: Taker's podcast one, I didn't miss it. You missed it.
- 1:36:24Speaker 1: You gotta go back and check it out. I read
- 1:36:26Speaker 1: it before it was on screen. Was that on a
- 1:36:29Speaker 1: pl stream or one of the weekly shows? Are you
- 1:36:31Speaker 1: talking about the Hogan Versus Hogan? Somebody asked about Hogan
- 1:36:36Speaker 1: versus Hogan, the mirror match and be the booker. I
- 1:36:39Speaker 1: think we did that. It might have actually happened more
- 1:36:41Speaker 1: than once. But as far as what stream it was, chief,
- 1:36:47Speaker 1: I have no idea. I have no clue that happened
- 1:36:53Speaker 1: a while ago. I think was Hollywood Hogan. Was it
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: Hollywood Hogan against Hollywood Hogan or Hollywood Hogan against Red
- 1:36:58Speaker 1: and Yellow Hogan. I can't remember. Corey says, we're still
- 1:37:04Speaker 1: talking about Brett and Sean thirty years later. They're still over. Yeah.
- 1:37:08Speaker 1: I think they did actually quite well for themselves. We
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: got Brett versus Brett in be the booker. Oh we did,
- 1:37:19Speaker 1: didn't we. He doesn't get any better than that. I
- 1:37:24Speaker 1: think we had Kurt Angle against Kurt Angle once as well.
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: Hey Markel, a great stream Lol, Thank you Markel. I
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: hope you're feeling better. Thank you, Markel. We also had
- 1:37:45Speaker 1: a member chat earlier from Reekinson celebrating forty six months
- 1:37:52Speaker 1: of membership. What a show live tonight. Definitely better than
- 1:37:56Speaker 1: Raw from Tampa. Sorry about your Mets. Well, they're a
- 1:38:04Speaker 1: sorry team, so it kind of makes sense. That's right.
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: Reacinsent is a he's he's Florida man, So whenever they're
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: in Florida for these shows, I always wonder if he's
- 1:38:19Speaker 1: at the shows. We've had several be the bookers with
- 1:38:26Speaker 1: EO against EO. It's another fine match. Well, we'll see,
- 1:38:35Speaker 1: I guess on Monday if we hit the goal. We
- 1:38:37Speaker 1: do be the booker again. Maybe we'll do another mirror match.
- 1:38:42Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do EO against EO. We'll do Ria against Rhea.
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: You never know what it's going to land on. It's
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: totally random. It's totally random. Bash says, my cubs are
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: doing good. Well good. I hope it all works out
- 1:39:06Speaker 1: for you. I have no hate for the Cubs, only
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: the Phillies. I hope you do well. Oscar's newest video
- 1:39:21Speaker 1: on her channel just uploaded. It's great. Oh that's the
- 1:39:26Speaker 1: Kana Chen channel. I think I'm subscribed. I'll have to
- 1:39:32Speaker 1: check that out. She's got good stuff on that channel.
- 1:39:37Speaker 1: Shout out to Olivia, Olivia, fan of the chat. I
- 1:39:41Speaker 1: love this show. I love you too, Olivia. I hope
- 1:39:47Speaker 1: you have a good weekend. I hope everybody has a
- 1:39:48Speaker 1: good weekend. It's gonna be a great Sunday because we
- 1:39:51Speaker 1: have episode nine thirty one of the sound Off. All right,
- 1:39:56Speaker 1: I will see you guys on Monday night for the
- 1:39:58Speaker 1: raw post show. You well, stay safe. Thank you for
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: spending part of your Friday night with me. Check out
- 1:40:06Speaker 1: episode nine thirty one of the sound Off coming up
- 1:40:10Speaker 1: later in the afternoon on Sunday until then take care guys.