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WWE Raw 3/9/26 Review | Finn Balor KICKED OUT Of Judgment Day, Usos Confront Punk! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: T minus six weeks until wressell Mania forty two. Does
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  Speaker 1: it feel like WrestleMania season yet? We had CM Punk
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  Speaker 1: in the main event tonight, in the main event segment,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: and I think it was XO in the chat I
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  Speaker 1: believe who actually had a great comment. I glanced over
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  Speaker 1: and I saw it. He's so right. If somebody would
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  Speaker 1: have just told CM Punk that the ussos were from
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and not Samoan, then maybe he would have apologized,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: and then this all could have been avoided, because we
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  Speaker 1: know Saudi Arabia is very used to seem punk apologies.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that's the greatest moment in John Cena's career
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  Speaker 1: was seeing CM Punk apologize in Saudi Arabia last year.
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  Speaker 1: This all could have been avoided. Roman Rains was not
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  Speaker 1: on the show tonight. He's back on the show next week,
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  Speaker 1: as is brock Lesners. So we were without some of
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  Speaker 1: the bigger names tonight. So what they did in the
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  Speaker 1: closing segment was they tried to add another layer to
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  Speaker 1: this story between Punk and of course the big controversy
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: coming out of Raw last week. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the show was Punk making the comment about I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bury you, and you're not going to be alone
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  Speaker 1: the way you've been alone lately, because your family, your
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  Speaker 1: cousins aren't with you anymore. Your wise man's not with you,
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  Speaker 1: the shield's not with you. But you won't be alone
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  Speaker 1: because I'm going to bury you next to your father. Right.
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  Speaker 1: He went low, And so this week the USSOS had
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  Speaker 1: an issue with that and they wanted to see him
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  Speaker 1: Punk to apologize. They wanted him to apologize for what
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  Speaker 1: he said last week, and Punk just could not bring
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  Speaker 1: himself to apologize. And it was actually, I thought, a
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  Speaker 1: very strong segment. I thought that one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: it was very strong is because both sides you can
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  Speaker 1: see their perspective. Right, You could see where the USSOS
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  Speaker 1: would have a right to be upset with Punk over
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  Speaker 1: what he said. But also Punk made some good points
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  Speaker 1: in his promo as well tonight about why he shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to apologize. I have to apologize, but Roman has
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  Speaker 1: made comments before. Roman has dissed the Late American Dream,
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  Speaker 1: Dusty Rhoades, my mentor, Cody's dad. He doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: apologize for that. But I have to apologize for what
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  Speaker 1: I said. And we got to see the ussos in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where we were actually seeing them in a
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  Speaker 1: serious way. This was not about running it back. This
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  Speaker 1: was not about anything. This is not about yeating, This
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  Speaker 1: is not about any of that. And so I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was effective because when Roman reigns is not on
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  Speaker 1: the show again, you're limited to what you can do.
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  Speaker 1: People want to see Roman in Punk. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see Punk in the ussos. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see Punk, you know, just looking into the camera. Roman's
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  Speaker 1: not here, So what do you do? So they're bringing
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  Speaker 1: into other family members into it, and I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was an interesting approach. I thought it was an effective
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  Speaker 1: approach to take. But it also leaves me wondering if
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  Speaker 1: we are going to see a reunion at the end
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  Speaker 1: of wrestle Meeting. Are they so devoid of ideas and
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  Speaker 1: so desperate to go back to the glory day of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three that they are
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  Speaker 1: going to reunite the og bloodline? Is that what we
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  Speaker 1: are going to see at the close of WrestleMania this
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: year certainly left you with that impression as a possibility
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  Speaker 1: could very well happen. That and the Judgment Day segment
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  Speaker 1: on tonight's show. Those are the two strongest segments on RAW.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we have been waiting years, literally years
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  Speaker 1: for what we saw tonight. Finn Balor is one of
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  Speaker 1: the early members of the Judgment Days, not one of
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  Speaker 1: the OG members, but when Edge got kicked out, Finn
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  Speaker 1: Balor basically took his spot. And it's been Finn Balor
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  Speaker 1: and the Judgment Day now for years and years, and
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  Speaker 1: there have been teases now for a pat his long
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  Speaker 1: of discord I guess between Finn Balor and dominicque mysterio,
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  Speaker 1: and there have been teases up and down the show
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  Speaker 1: for the longest time now that things that were at
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  Speaker 1: some point going to go sideways with these two and
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  Speaker 1: either dom would get bound to Balor would get bounced tonight,
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  Speaker 1: it was Finn Balor. Last week when dominic lost his
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  Speaker 1: championship to Penta, that was the straw that broke the
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  Speaker 1: camel's back. Finn Balor has been excommunicated from the Judgment Day.
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  Speaker 1: He was beaten down by his family and that now
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  Speaker 1: paves the way for the obvious WrestleMania match. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they want to for JD McDonnell in there, but
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  Speaker 1: the obvious match between Finn Balor and Dominic for WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to be where we are headed with that.
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  Speaker 1: It was a again a very effective angle I thought
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  Speaker 1: for what they were trying to do, and it was
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  Speaker 1: certainly a long time coming. So those were really the
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  Speaker 1: two big things on the show. We also had a
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  Speaker 1: gauntlet match that went for over twenty minutes to decide
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: the number one contender for the Women's Intercontinental title. That
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  Speaker 1: match is going to be taking place next week. Bailey
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  Speaker 1: is getting a championship match. She's not winning a championship,
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: but she is getting a championship match next week. And
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  Speaker 1: we had Penta's first defense of his Intercontinental title again
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  Speaker 1: El Grande Americano still stuck in the Americano Vortex. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I had been watching some variation of this
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  Speaker 1: match now for almost a year. This is ridiculous. It
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  Speaker 1: has to stop, Like it just has to come to
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  Speaker 1: an end at some point, Like what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 1: Is there's no one else in the mid card on
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw for this man to fight with. Please,
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  Speaker 1: I beg of you the surplus of talent they have
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  Speaker 1: in this company, and I just feel like I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the same matches over and over again, only now Panta
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  Speaker 1: has a belt. The punk segment was strong. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the judgment day angle was very simple but effective. The
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  Speaker 1: rest of the show it just felt like it was there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the show is just there. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: waiting for it to really I mean, outside of the
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  Speaker 1: punk and Roman stuff, I'm still waiting for it to
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  Speaker 1: feel like WrestleMania. I still don't get that feeling yet.
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  Speaker 1: We're about six weeks away. Again. Next week we get
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reins back on the show. Brock Lesner is on
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  Speaker 1: the show. He's got his open challenge that we know about.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe things will start to feel a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: at that point. But for tonight it was a mixed bag,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely some stuff too, I think like and to
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  Speaker 1: build upon as we head into Las Vegas in a
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  Speaker 1: find out how many likes we need to do our
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  Speaker 1: be the booker segment, which we typically do at the end.
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  Speaker 1: If we hit the goal, oh look at this, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen likes, you guys got some work to do.
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  Speaker 1: fifteen likes, then we will be we will be booking
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  Speaker 1: Five point fifteen is the goal. You guys know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. Let's take it from the top. You know,
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  Speaker 1: one thing I didn't mention was what happened here in
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  Speaker 1: the opening segment of this show. My god, My god,
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  Speaker 1: this opening segment. Ugh, I guess we have to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this. Adam Pierce was in the ring Raw general
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Manager Adam Pierce, and he said that he had some
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: unfortunate business to attend to, yeah, this segment, and he
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  Speaker 1: called for Seth Rollins to come down to the ring
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  Speaker 1: because he knew Seth was here. The vision is here,
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  Speaker 1: so he presumes that Seth Rollins is somewhere in the building.
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  Speaker 1: So instead what we got and I lost track, It
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  Speaker 1: was at least a dozen. I think it was actually
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  Speaker 1: over a dozen. But we had about a dozen mass men.
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  Speaker 1: As if we haven't had enough of these now over
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  Speaker 1: the last few months. We had a dozen mass men
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  Speaker 1: who hoped the barricade and they're standing at rings side,
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  Speaker 1: And would you believe that simply for all of these
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  Speaker 1: masked men running out to the ring, the crowd burst
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  Speaker 1: into a chant of holy shit. This is what got
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  Speaker 1: a holy shit chant on this show. Think of all
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  Speaker 1: think think of all the things that you could chant
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  Speaker 1: holy shit for any given week on the show. This
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  Speaker 1: is what they chanted for. So again, if you are
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  Speaker 1: wondering what the meaning of these chants are at this
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  Speaker 1: point here in WWE, they don't really mean much. They
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  Speaker 1: really don't. When you start chanting holy shit for something
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  Speaker 1: like this, it means absolutely it has lost all meaning
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  Speaker 1: and all value. I'm sorry, this is the crap that
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  Speaker 1: gets a chant. Unbelievable. So then they got into the
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: ring and I'm watching this and they start jumping around.
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  Speaker 1: It was like that, And I think Michael Cole even
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  Speaker 1: made a comment about this, like the shell game. You
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  Speaker 1: know where you're now? I know the shell game from
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: watching the Bob Barker version of The Prices right back
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: in the day. That's when I first saw the shell game.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Drew Carey still does it on
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  Speaker 1: the modern version of the show. That was always one
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: of my favorite games, Right, which cup is the is
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: the ball under? You got to figure it out. That's
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: what they were doing. They were jumping back and forth
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: they were doing some sort of like jazzer size workout.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what these fucking people were doing. It
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  Speaker 1: looked completely ridiculous. And then the points here is that
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  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins appeared. He was one of the mass Men.
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  Speaker 1: But they were trying to confuse. You know why they
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  Speaker 1: would be trying to confuse us or why they would
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: be trying to confuse Adam Pierce, I have no idea,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: but there he was right. We found the mass man
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  Speaker 1: who was Seth Rollins. He pulled the mask off and
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: it was Seth and he got a big pop. I'm
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: not sure why any of this was necessary, and Adam
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Pierce basically said the same thing. He said that, look,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have known each other a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to go through this whole charade here.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: So he told Rolins, look, you and I we see
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  Speaker 1: eya and that we're not fond of the Vision. Okay,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: we have that in common. But the mass men showing
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: up and attacking every single week, this was unacceptable. So
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: he said, Rollins, you're not medically cleared. He questioned what
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  Speaker 1: would happen if the members of the Vision got their
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: hands on Seth? Right, the members of the Vision, like,
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  Speaker 1: we have two fucking members left of the Vision. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Hayman's been taken out, Seth Rollins is no longer part
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  Speaker 1: of the group, bron Breaker is hurt, Bronson Reid is hurt.
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  Speaker 1: The fuck are we even left with at this point?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Seth Rollins is too worried about it.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Logan Paul and Austin theory. Logan Paul who has been
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: issuing challenges to boxing matches and then ducking said challenges.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about that on the Young Crown Show tomorrow.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: But Logan Paul and Austin theory. They come down to
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  Speaker 1: the ring without Paul Hayman, who was stomped last week,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: so he was not on the show, so they got
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  Speaker 1: up on the apron. Rollins put his mask on. This
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  Speaker 1: is the most ridiculous part of all this, puts his
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  Speaker 1: mask back on, and all of the other mass Men
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  Speaker 1: and join him in the ring again, and they all
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  Speaker 1: shuffle again, back and forth, back and forth to confuse
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  Speaker 1: the heels, so they don't know where Seth Rollins is.
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  Speaker 1: And then they all leave the ring and Rollins is gone.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know which mass Men he is, but they
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  Speaker 1: all vanish and they all disappear into the crowd. Rollins
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  Speaker 1: is nowhere to be found. You know, this reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of if you used to watch the Ninja Turtles cartoon
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  Speaker 1: or even the movie, the live action movies, when they
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: would throw the I don't even know what it was,
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  Speaker 1: that white thing, that white ball or whatever. They would
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  Speaker 1: throw it down on the ground and then there would
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  Speaker 1: be like smoke everywhere so they can make their great escape.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that's what they were trying to accomplish here.
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  Speaker 1: It just looked completely ridiculous. So La Knight's the music hits,
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  Speaker 1: because of course it does. The vision is out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're not allowed to have an La Knight segment on
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  Speaker 1: the show unless the vision is involved comes to the
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  Speaker 1: ring to fight the vision. Stop me, if you've heard
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  Speaker 1: this before. I feel like you've heard me say that
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  Speaker 1: many many, many, many, many many many times over the
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  Speaker 1: last nine months. But he's back out there to fight
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  Speaker 1: the vision, and the heels got the better of him
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  Speaker 1: until Jay Usso's music hits, and so Jimmy and Jay
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  Speaker 1: they come out to help La Night clear the ring,
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  Speaker 1: or at least clear Austin theory from the ring. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the smoke bomb. Thank you the smoke bomb so they
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  Speaker 1: could make their great escape. I think it would have
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: been better if they would have just thrown You know
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  Speaker 1: why they should have thrown the smoke bomb down, because
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  Speaker 1: they all look like a bunch of fucking ninjas out there.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Need I take you back to twenty twenty a very
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  Speaker 1: famous rant that I had here on one of these
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  Speaker 1: streams about ninjas. We went through a period of time
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  Speaker 1: about five or six years ago in WWE, If you
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  Speaker 1: weren't around back then, on these streams where they had
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  Speaker 1: like Vince McMahon had an obsession with ninjas. He clearly
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  Speaker 1: had seen some sort of movie. I don't know if
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: it was the Ninja Turtle movie, but he saw some
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: sort of ninja movie and he got the ID in
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  Speaker 1: his head. Do you know what this show is missing?
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  Speaker 1: It's missing ninjas. In every fucking week we would have
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  Speaker 1: ninjas on this show or people dressed up looking like them.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was on that Extreme Rules. Oh God,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: what the hell was that pay per view that they did,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: the horror show Extreme Rules? Her Yeah, everything was a
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  Speaker 1: horror show back then. But and I just I lost
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  Speaker 1: my mind. I can't take it. Anymore. I can't take
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: it no more ninjas. So we had ninjas back on
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the show Tonay, seth Rollins now has a band of ninjas.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is going to be his new faction going forward.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: So anyway to you? So, is they clear Austin theory
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  Speaker 1: from the ring? Yes, Omas was a ninja, I do
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: remember that. Yes, he was one of them. Omas was
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: a ninja. So they set up logan Paul for a
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: one D theory, pulls him out to the floor to safety,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: and then of course Jay tell the music man, we
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: gotta run it back. So they play his music and
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: he yeats and everyone is eating, and then they played
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: their music for an uncomfortably long period of time before
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: we finally just fad it's a commercial break. The seth
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  Speaker 1: Rollins stuff. It looked like something out of an episode
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  Speaker 1: of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Okay, it was completely ridiculous,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: and whatever the idea was behind it, they need to stop,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: like they need to stop. Okay, he's back now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know when he'll be medically cleared, but he's back.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: And the ninja stuff, you gotta wind that down. I'm sorry,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit of these idiots or chanting
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: holy shit or not like you got you gotta end this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like I can't take him seriously, this is
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be his new gimmick. I just I can't do it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I just can't do it. So after a commercial break,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: yes we need retrogue the Putties. Yes, that's what they were,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the Power Rangers, Puddies. Seth Rollins has his own band
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: of Putties on this show. I think the people who
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: write these shows, I think their brain is made of putty,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: is what I'm starting to think. Jackie Redman was in
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  Speaker 1: the back. She caught up with the usos, who said
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: that they got receipts to hand out, and she also
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: asked Jay about Cmpunk's comments last week to Roman Reigns
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  Speaker 1: see she's an instigator, and Jay said, I got nothing
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  Speaker 1: to say to cm punk. But then Jimmy told them
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  Speaker 1: hold up, says maybe we do have something to say.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: So we didn't see them again until the closing segment,
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  Speaker 1: which was very interesting because Jay is the one who
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  Speaker 1: was blowing it off, like get we got nothing to say.
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  Speaker 1: He was gonna go leave, and Jimmy is the one
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  Speaker 1: who stopped him and said, actually, I think we actually
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  Speaker 1: might have something to say. But if you watch the
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  Speaker 1: closing segment, it was Jay who was all fired up
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  Speaker 1: and Jimmy was the calm one. It's kind of interesting.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: So after this, they began the Gauntlet match, and this
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: was first shot at the Women's Intercontinental Champion. Aj Lee
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  Speaker 1: will be on the show in San Antonio next week
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  Speaker 1: defending her title. But who would it be against. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna find out here because the Gauntlet match. You
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  Speaker 1: know how a gauntlet works. We start with two and
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  Speaker 1: then we just keep going until all the members of
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the Gauntlet have come out and how their order of
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: entry has decided. We were never told. It was kept
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a secret. Maybe they left it with the Ninjas. But
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: we started with Lyra Valkeria and Eosky. So Eo countered
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: out of a night wing attempt late in this fall
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: into a standing double stomp right to the guts and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: she headed up top. She hit her over the moon
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Salt and she pinned Lyra to advance. And the time
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that they were in that, I mean they spent the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: first few minutes of the match in there together, you
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: know whatever. The wrestling was solid, but she hits the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: moon Salt and she eliminates Lyra. There's no rest for
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the weary though, because number two into the gauntlet, Raquel
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez EO tried her suicide dive, a crazy dive she
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: does out through the through the ropes, and Raquel caught her.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: EO worked out of it, though, ended up getting taken
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: down on the floor with a clothesline. So Raquel put
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: her back in the ring and she caught her with
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the corkscrew Vader elbow as Michael Cole called it. Only
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: got a two count. Then she caught EO with a
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: shoulder tackle that was actually more like a pounce. I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: mean she pounced this woman halfway across the ring, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: she pounced us right into the commercial break. So later
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: on there was a missile dropkick that knocked Raquel down.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: We got the bullet train knees in the corner by EO.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: She heads up top. She's about to finish things off again.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Liv Morgan comes out and she runs distraction here. But
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: then we get a burst of pyro and here comes
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the women's world champion, Stephanie Vaquier to fight her off
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and off they go. So that distraction, though, was enough
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: for EO to catch Raquel with an inside cradle, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: she eliminates Raquel right around the ten minute mark here
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: in this match, and that will not sit well I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: would imagine between Raquel and Li. But she reacted to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: this about as well as you would expect. She goes
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: right after EO. She boots her out over the top
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: rope to the floor. Then she lawn darts her into
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the ring post and then or the ring post casing
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and then delivers a tehanabamb on the apron. So now
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: EO is dead. She is lying dead outside on the floor.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Here comes Ivy Nile. She runs down to the ring.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: She doesn't waste any time. She puts EO inside and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: immediately hooks the leg and covers her and she pins
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: EO sky. Ivy Nile eliminates Eosky from the Gauntlet match,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and Ivy's arms I will say she was looking jacked,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: as jacked as I've ever seen her. She's like flexing
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: her biceps and everything. So that's a big elimination right there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Bailey was out next, and she went to go check
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: on EO at ringside when Ivy attacked her from behind
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and we went to another commer. She'll break you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that was a WrestleMania match for
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the Championship two years ago. We had EO Sky against Bailey.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So there was a nice delayed vertical supplex by Ivy
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: where she had Bailey up probably for a good fifteen
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: seconds and then dropped her. Then she delivered a superplex
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: where Bailey's ass looked like it hit the map before
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: her her back did. Even Michael Cole, he said that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was a weird landing. Bailey made a comeback hit the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Bailey to belly and she scored the pin. So thanks
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: for coming, Ivy Nile. You know, once I realized that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: this was a gauntlet match, because when I talked about
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: this last week, I was like, you know, Ivy might
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: actually have a shot of winning this. I'm just wondering, like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: why is she in this match? Right, She's in there
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: with all these other big names that are pushed typically pushed,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and Ivy is not pushed, or why is she in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: there if she's not going to get the surprise win?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And then I said, oh shit, it's a gauntlet match, Like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: there ain't no fucking way she's winning a gauntlet match.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But she did eliminate so that's that's something. At least.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Oscar was the next to the last entrant entering with
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Kyrie Sane. Bailey, though shot out of the ring like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a cannon with a forearm shot right to Oscar's jaw.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Ahead of the commercial break, they showed a slow mo
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: replay of it and it looked great. So there was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: another Bailey to belly later in the match. The fans
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: bit on it because she had just used it as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a finish earlier. This time, though, Oscar kicked out, so
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Oscar distracted the referee later on, so that would allow
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Kyrie to do a number on Bailey outside the ring
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: before she kind of roars back and before she could
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: actually throw a punch, Lyra Valkyria throws in from or
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: flies in rather from off camera and delivers a shotgun
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: drop kick, just drop kick Kyrie right into the side
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of the ring. Back inside, Bailey tried her diving elbow Oscar.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They'll caught her on the way down into an Oscar lock,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: which looked kind of cool. Bailey, though countered out of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: into a pin attempt. The referee would not count because
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Oscar's shoulders were up, so Bailey picked her up and
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: instead dropped her with a rose plant, and she pinned
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Osca to win the gauntlet match she has. Bailey is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the number one contender now for the Intercontinental title, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Oscar was not happy with Kyrie about this. She's never
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: happy with Kyrie. But this means that Bailey will now
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: challenge a Jay Lee next Monday night in San Antonio.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I mean it was fine. I mean, we've had gauntlet
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: matches on the show before. This was not one of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the better ones, not one of the more memorable ones.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: It's an easy way to eat up television time. You know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they killed about twenty two minutes or so with this gauntlet.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: If anything, I actually thought, honestly, I'm sure it's not
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: going to lead to anything, but I thought Ivy and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Ile looked good. Ivy Nil actually got to eliminated EO.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: The delayed vertical suit Plex was a nice spot there.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: She had some time to go on a string of offense,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and she looked as good in the race on this
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: show as we've probably ever seen her, because doesn't get
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of time on the show to begin with.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I just wish, you know, if they were going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: give somebody that spot that it would lead somewhere. It
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: will lead absolutely, I guarantee you it will lead absolutely nowhere.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But I thought if anybody had the best showing here,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it might have been Ivy to be perfectly honest with you,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But here's the bigger question. What the hell are they
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: doing with EO Sky or WrestleMania. That's what I would
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like to know the sense that I get coming out
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of this, and maybe not, maybe it was a one
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: night thing, but you watch this and it makes you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: think that EO. Sky and Raquel Rodriguez are going to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: have a singles match at WrestleMania now if they have
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: nothing better for them to do. And look, I like Raquel,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I love Leo. I mean, great for them if they
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: get a spot on the show in that situation, But
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: is that a WrestleMania match that feels like a Monday
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: night row match? Are they really going to do that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania? What other conclusion are you left to draw
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: coming out of this show as far as what EO's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: role on that show is going to be, I don't know.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I really don't know, But to not have a defined
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: role for someone like EO's Sky, especially when you look
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: back at WrestleMania last year. She went into that show
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: as the champion. She came out of that show as
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the champion. She had what, in my opinion, was the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: WWE match of the year, and I had it as
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: my overall match of the year. And she has no
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: obvious clear path to WrestleMania right now. Rhea Ripley won
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the Elimination Chamber. Hea Ripley is wrestling Jade Cargill. We
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: know that already. That takes EO out of the tag
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: team scene. What does that leave her with? I would
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: love to see EO and Oscar one on one. They
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: did nothing though, in this Gauntlet match to even tease
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the possibility that that was a match they were looking at,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: So I'm left to wonder, what the hell what are
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they going to do with her? I really hope we
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: get EO and Osca, And like the idea that I
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: was thinking of is like, Okay, where do all these
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: pieces fit EO against Osca? Kyrie doesn't have to wrestle,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: but Kyrie will be a very important part of that story.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Or maybe Kyrie will finally kind of break free from
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the chains of Osca WrestleMania and it takes you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: EO and EO beating Oscar to help make that happen.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I think you can tell that story, but there was
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: no indication of that at all on this show. Short
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of that. I really I have no idea. I have
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: no idea what else you would do logically with EO
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. And it would be a sin for them
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: not to have something meaningful for her to do on
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that show. She's one of the best. They have Triple
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: h every time he talks about her. You watch, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: unreally glows about her. Man if God forbids something ever
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: happened to the roster. If you told me I had
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: EO Sky, I know I'd be Okay. That's high praise
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: coming from the guy who's running the show. You would
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: think that, you know, he would have a better role
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: for her, And right now it's not really well defined.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So we got to work on that now. After this,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: they replayed highlights from last week's segment show closing segment
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: with Roman reigns the Cmpunk and Punk telling Roman I'm
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: going to bury you next to your father, And they
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: said that Punk would be here live tonight. Now I
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: have no idea why they did not mention this in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the preview for the show. Yeah, I put the preview
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: together here for the stream early like three o'clock, four o'clock,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm checking WWE dot com. I'm checking WWE's Twitter page.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They announced three things for tonight's show. They announced the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title match, They announced the Gauntlet, and what else
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: did they announced? They announced it was one other thing
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: they announce. I forgot what the other thing was, oh
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Obafemi and Russev and that was it. And they were
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: without some of their heavy hitters, right, Roman was not
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: on the show. Aj Lee was not on the show.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Brock was not on the show. You would think that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: they would let you know that the World heavyweight Champion
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: CM Punk was going to be on the show, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it was no mention of Punk anywhere in the preview.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It was just very odd to me because I remember
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: looking at the preview going, this can't be it, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: there was no mention of Punk, but they indicated he
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: would be here later on in the show. I don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: know why you wouldn't advertise that, but that's what they did.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: So after commercial break, they aired the very end, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: highlights of the very end of the promo than Natty did.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: During the commercial break, she was being interviewed by Byron
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Saxon on the stage and at the very end of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: her promo she mentioned Maxine Dupre by name, and she
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: got blasted by Maxine from behind and that was it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Then it was backstage where og Americano was walking when
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: he was confronted by Dan Housen, who played a pivotal
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: role last week if you remember, before the ic title
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: match on last week's show, and Dan Housen noticed that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Americano wore a mask and he had a great idea
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he could wear a mask also, and then he wanted
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: to try Gables on and Gable told him rule numero uno,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you don't touch a luchador's mask. He says he has
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: no time for this because he has a championship match
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: coming up next. So he told dan Hausen to leave,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and Dan Housen said, you want me to leave, do
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you want Dan Housen to put a curse on you?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So Dan house and he put a curse on him,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and then of course Gable turned and when he turned back,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: dan Housen was gone. So basically, Dan Housen has become
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the resident spoiler on this show. That is now his
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: role here on WWE television. If he curses you right
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: before a match, you already know the outcome before the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: match even happens. Only in this case, he never even
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: made it out to the ring. Supposed to get Penta
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: defending the Intercontinental Championship for the first time after his
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: win over Dom last week against og Americana, that was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the scheduled bench didn't work out that way. Thankfully, they
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: gave Penta some promo time. I was kind of hoping
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: they would do this. You know, he won the title
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: last week and I saw that video. I don't know
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: if it was from this past week or if maybe
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the video was a couple of weeks old. The video
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of him meeting that little kid in the Penta mask
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: backstage at one of the events. That was a really
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: cool video, Like when he shows up and you see
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and the kid turns and realizes that the real Penta
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: is there and that he literally gasps. This kid's gotta
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: be like four or five years old, and he gasps
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: like he's in awe, he can't believe it, and then
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you know pent is talking to him and it's like
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's really really cool. So anyway, I was hoping they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: would make, you know, a bigger deal about this by
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: letting him get some promo time, because I remember when
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: he first joined the company, I think his first night,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and he beat Chad Gable funny enough, and then he
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: got to cut a promo in the ring, and I'm like, man,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: this is a really good promo. Obviously, you know, English
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is not his first language, but you know, he can
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: speak it, and he just resonates with the audience in
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a way that not everybody does. He's you know, he's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: obviously very charismatic. He's got this physical charisma about him,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and this energy and this intensity about him, and the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: people just like him. And so I you know, I'm like,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: he won the championship, we should hear from him. So
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: he takes the mic and he thanks his family, he
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: thanks his friends, all of his fans around the world,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: thanks to everyone who believed in him. And he thanked
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: himself like a heel because he believes in himself every
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: single day. So of course, well I thank myself every
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: single day too. So he goes this title is not
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: just for Penta, It's for everyone who never gives up.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Because Pentet, well, then Johnson is not included, but he
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: got there. She is I was wondering, very upset about
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: her loss earlier. She is calling for Kyrie is Oscar
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose, thank you sir. So anyway, John Cena is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: not included in this because he is sending this out
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to all the people out there who never give up,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: says Penta. Represents all of those people, the dreamers, the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: real life fighters. This title is the result of a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: lot of hard work. It's the result of a lot
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: of sacrifice. And now and together we will make history
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: because now he is here as your new intercontinental champion.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And then he spoke in Spanish and he did his catchphrase,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So this was very good. He should have fucking thank
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen is who he should have thanked. Of all
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the people he thanked here in this promo, he didn't
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: think the one guy who actually helped him win the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: championship more than any other where was the thank you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: for Zannhausen and all this so out comes El Grande.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: But it is and not just because of the music.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: You just look at him and you know it's very clear.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: This is not the og. This is El Grande Kaiser
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: coming to the ring. And Penter realized it as well.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: He was complaining to the referee about it, and they
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: went to commercial, so when they came back, they joined
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the match already in progress. Michael Cole said the original
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Elgrande Americana was scheduled, but he didn't know what happened
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to him. And then ahead of another break, Penta had
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: teased a dive through the ropes, but as he went
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: to go through the ropes, he got blasted in the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: face with a forearm shot, so he tumbled out of
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the ring. He hit the apron and went to the floor,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and it didn't look like anything out of the ordinary
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: in terms of the bump that he took, but he
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: was immediately grabbing his lower back, so Kaiser goes over
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to go clearly he was trying to pick him up,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and Penta communicated something to him like he might be hurt,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: so Kaiser left him alone and they took the camera
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: off Penta. The camera followed Kaiser around to where the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: little podium they had the IC title on it, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: he's posing next to it like everybody poses next to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Andre the Giant memorial statue, and they went to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a commercial and I'm just thinking, man, I really hope.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I really hope he's not hurt. They can ill afford
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: another one of these injuries right now, but boy would
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that suck. Thankfully, when they came back, Penta seemed okay,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: maybe he just tweaked it. So Americano came off the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: middle rope late in the match, Penta caught him with
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a code Breaker and he followed that with a Mexican
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Destroyer for the win to retain the championship. Now I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: want to just say this first, this is not a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: knock on Penta. I love Penta. This is not a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: knock on Kaiser. I think he's very talented. I think
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the gimmick works very well for him, more so in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Triple A than it does here in the States on
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the main roster. Why am I still watching Penta wrestling
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: El Grande Americano in March of twenty twenty six, because
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this man has been stuck in the Americano vortex for months.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: If you go back even before the Americano bullshit, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you go back to when Penta first debuted at the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: beginning of last year. He wrestled Chad Gable in his
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: first match, and then he had matches with Ludwig Kaiser
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: when he was still Ludwig Kai. Here we are and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I am still watching him in the ring wrestling Gable
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and wrestling Kaiser with this stupid gimmick every single week.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: It feels like, why is there no one else in
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the mid cart on this show for this man to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be working with. Now he has a championship, but it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the same song. They added a new lyric, but it's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the same fucking song. Why do I feel like I
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: am when I watched this show? Why do I feel
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: like I am watching the same matches over and over
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and over again like a bad mo I don't understand this.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: This has to stop, This has to stop. And also,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I will say this not just getting him
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: out of the Americano vortex, but this whole like the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: whole Americano thing. And again, my hope is that they're
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: gonna blow this thing off of WrestleMania as far as
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: like between the two of them. They're actually doing a
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: match next week between Americana one and Americano two, But
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: my guess is they're gonna stretch this out to Mania
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and do a mask match on that show, and I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: hope to god the Gable loses and we can get
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: beyond this for him, because I'm sick and tired of
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: this too. But the Pentus stuff with the American like,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you gotta stop. Seriously, this is fucking garbage at this point. Please,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: for the love of God, I want Penta to go
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: on to have a fruitful rain is the Intercontinental Champion.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I want him to work with different people. I want
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: him to elevate that title in a way that Dominic
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Mysterio never did because he barely defended the title and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: when he did it was always the same bullshit finished
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: with the judgment day and so now it's nice to
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: have the belt on somebody else, but it's only as
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: good as how they book right, how do they book
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: this run for him as the Intercontinental Champion? Who do
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: they have him working with? What kind of matches are
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: they having on television every week? You're only as good
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: as the people that they program you with. I want
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the best for Penta ind this run. I want this
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to be a successful run. I want him to have
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a title defense at WrestleMania, not against any of these people,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: come up with anybody else. But we got to get
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: away from this. One of the things about Raw that
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I hate is that it just feels like it's like
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the hamster on the wheel. You're running in place and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you're not moving. Nothing moves, nothing happens. We got a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Stephanie Vicuer video promo with her speaking in Spanish and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: they had English subtitles and they played this over footage
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of her when she was a young girl and then
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: when she was training to become a wrestler. Talking about
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the things that Live Morgan has said about her, recently,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: she said she sees more in Live than Live season herself.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Live always takes the easy way. She will bring her blood,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: sweat and all of her experience and use it to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: continue making history as your women's Thank you, Barry. But
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: she will take all of her blood and sweat and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: experience and continue to represent as our women's world champion.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So they cut back to the judgment day Clubhouse, Live Morgan,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez, JD McDonough. They're all shown watching the video
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and Live also then tells it and Raquel is sitting there.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: She's very angry about the lost earlier and she tells Raquel,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: don't worry because we're gonna get you back in the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: title picture, so don't worry about it. Dominic Mysterio shows
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: up and he asks, has anybody's seen Finn Balor. McDonough
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: says no, but he'll go find him. And Tom said, look,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the ring. I gotta get something
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: off my chest. And so after the break off, to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the ring he went and it was dom it was live,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: it was Raquel. He demanded a rematch with Penta and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the crab booed says, we all know whose fault it
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: is that he lost, And I was like Dan Hausen,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it was Dan Hausen's fault, because no, it was Finn
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Balor's fault. He didn't want to do this out here.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He wanted to do it privately, but Baler was making
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: him air their dirty laundry out in front of the world.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: So Finn Balor comes out, He's got JD. McDonogh with him,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and they joined them in the ring. You know what,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I just realized, by the way, if they were gonna
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: shoot this angle and they were going to turn Balor
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: baby phase, they probably should have waited a little bit
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to bring back the music. I mean, I'm glad that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he's got his old NXT music back, but probably would
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: have made more sense to hold off on that another
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: month or two. They're all in the ring now and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Dom asks him, where the hell have you been? Says,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I hope you're here to tell me that you got
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: me a rematch, right, You talk to Pierce and got
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: me a rematch. Balor said about last week, you're right,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you're right. If it wasn't for me, you would still
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: be the Intercontinental champion right now. So for that, I'm sorry,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And the fans booed, but he said, you see, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: was trying to teach you a lesson. Judgment Day is
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a family. We're always going to be family. We're always
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: going to have your back. Dom told him that, you know,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: he wants to be the greatest mysterio of all time.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: That's what you told me, and he can be. But
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: to be the greatest anything of all time, you got
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to learn that sometimes you got to fight your own battles.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: For two years, for two years, he's been trying to
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: help Dom. But the more he helped, the more he
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: tries to lead him in the right direction, the more
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: he realizes that maybe his dad was right, maybe he
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: is just a spoiled little prick, and Dom pie faced him.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Balor then delivered an overhead pele kick. Reminded me of
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: of when he turned heel many years ago in NXT.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Who did he kick in the head? Was it Johnny Gargan?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I think it was Johnny Gargano, Like he's not even
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: looking at Gargano and then he just kind of up
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and delivers this overhead kick and kicks. I think it
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: was Johnny right in the head. So that's what he
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: did here. McDonough then got Balor in the corner. He's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: trying to talk to him as Dom comes in and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Baler takes him down with a sling blade, so he
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: backs up into the corner. He's setting up for that
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: shotgun dropkick that he does. As Balor comes in, though JD.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: McDonough takes his head off with a clothesline and they
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: all look at each other and live Morgan just pounces
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: on Balor and she's, you know, throwing punches at him,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and then Raquel joins in and she starts kicking Balor,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and then McDonough and Dom they start putting the boots
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: to Baler and then it becomes very clear that this
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: is the big angle that we've been waiting for so
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: long for, right how long have we been waiting and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: speculating on when something like this was going to happen.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: So they're all put the boots to him. Dom goes
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: to retrieve a steel chair and the ring bell hammer
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: from outside. He brings it inside. Balor starts to fight back. Dom, though,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: smashes him right in the face with the hammer. Then
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he shoved the hammer into his sneaker and McDonough sends
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Baler up in the ropes in position for a sixty
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: one nine, and Dom delivers a sixty one nine, sending
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the hammer once again into Baler's face. So then they
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: position Baler near the corner and Dom goes up top
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and he delivers a frog splash. So then Dom picks
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: up the cherry, hands it to JD who drives it
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: down numerous times into Baaler's mid section, and then he
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: lays it flat across Baler's chest and Dom comes off
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the top with one more frog splash for good measure,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and the remaining members of the Judgment Day are all
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: celebrating in the ring together as Finn Balor lays there dead. Finally,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: finally we got some real movement with the Judgment Day,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and now we can begin to build to Finn Balor
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and Dominic Mysterio or some variation of that again, potentially
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: maybe even involving JD McDonough, but probably Balor and dom
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: one on one at WrestleMania. My guess is we get
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Balor and dom and Balor is going to enter as
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the Demon because they'll they'll think bringing back the Demon
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: is going to be a big deal and they can
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: make money off the Demon. That's probably what we'll end
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: up getting at Wrestlemaniam Finn Balor is now back to
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: being a babyface. Now we shouldn't be surprised by this
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: because not just because we're heading into WrestleMania, but because
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the stuff with CM Punk is what set this up.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: He had the match in Belfast with Punk. They had
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: a good match when it was over right, they kind
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of paid respect to each other. That bothered Live Morgan.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: What do you do in palette around and listening to
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: CM Punk. CM Punk was trying to tell Balor, look,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you don't need these guys, you don't need these idiots,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and that didn't Live Morgan very happy. So then Balor,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of course, he attacked Punk again after that. That's why
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: we got the rematched elimination chamber in the same thing.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: When the match was over, Balor lost and they shook
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: hands and showed respect to one another. So the seeds
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: were already being planted for this to happen, right the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Balor baby face turn. We could see this coming for
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: at least a couple of months now. So it's a
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: very simple angle. I mean, it's not like we haven't
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: seen these types of angles before. It was simple, but
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: it was effective and it gets us now to where
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: we need to be. And I guess the question now
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: is as far as the future of the Judgment Day
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: is concerned, do they end up adding a new member.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to end the Judgment Day
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. I mean I thought about, you know, would
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: they because Balor's out Raquel it feels like she's not
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: long for the Judgment Day and then you're down to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: live and Dom and JD. I don't think they want
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to end the Judgment Day. And I'm not sure if
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I were them, I would want to end the Judgment
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Day either, because it's weird, like as tiresome as it
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: sometimes feels, the Judgment Day has actually been, and we
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: know how effective the bloodline was right. It's shining a
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: light on Jay Usso and Sammy Zain when he was
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: part of the group and introducing Solo so CoA right.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: It was a very important faction as far as character
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: building and getting other people over other than just Roman
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Reigns other members of the family. The Judgment Day has
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: introduced us to a lot of new personalities as well.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: And the Judgment Day is what really helped Damien Priest
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and Rhea Ripley, and it put Finn Valor in a
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: position where he could be featured in a way that
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: he wasn't being featured and then Live Morgan eventually join
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: went from Rhea and Dom to Dom and Live and
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it has been very effective at getting certain people screen
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: time and getting them over in a way that frankly,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: they would not have been able to get over on
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: their own. JD McDonough would not be in the position
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: he's in right now. And again I'm not making a
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: selling he's a main but even just the position that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: he's in, he would not be in that position right
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: now if it wasn't for him being a part of
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the Judgment Day. Raquel Rodriguez, remember when Raquel was a
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: babyface and she was coming out on TV, and her
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: big thing was smile for the camera and then flex
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: your back right, flex your back, show your back muscles.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: And that's all she was. What am I supposed to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: cheer for? What am I supposed to get behind? There?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Plain Jane, and she goes heel. She joins the Judgment Day.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And the thing with the Judgment Day is they get
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: so many segments on this show every single week, multiple segments.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: So I would probably just cycle in and out new
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: members and try to do the same thing with some
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: other people that they've done with people like the ones
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I just mentioned and try to help get them over.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I even said, and I don't know if this, I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: don't think this is what they have in mind. But
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: even someone like Dan Hausen, you know, I could see
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen even being loosely affiliated with the Judgment Day.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I guess right now he's doing his own thing, going
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: from show to show. But you know, I think you
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: just got to look at the roster and look at
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: some potential NXT call ups and figure out who do
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: you think would best benefit by being plugged into the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Judgment Day. You know, as you know, members come and go.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Balor's out. Now do they replace him with someone? And
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: if so, who is that person? Yeah? I keep thinking
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: about Ethan Page because he recently lost his championship North
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: American Championship, and I think the Triple A mixtag belts
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: as well. And there's talk that now he's going to
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: be wrestling, he's gonna be part of the NXT championship picture,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: and it's like, man, this guy's been an NXT for
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: over two years now, Like, are they ever going to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: call him up to the main roster. I still maintain
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: there's stuff you could do with him and Chelsea on SmackDown,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But I do think that someone like him could even benefit,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: you know, from being like the new de facto leader
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: of the Judgment day. But I mean could be here
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: all day. There's any number of people you could plug
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: into that spot, So it probably makes sense for them
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: to continue it. I'm just not sure exactly who they
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: would have in mind for it. But we got to
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: start thinking about new members because I don't think Balor
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: is going to be the only one going away. I
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: think Raquel is going to be following soon. Backstage, Adam
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Pierce was talking to Javon Evans and praising him and
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you know his participation recently in the elimination chamber, and
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: he told him, enjoy the rest of your week. He's
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: got the week off, apparently, you know. Pierce left and
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: he's like, I'm off. I got the week off. You know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: if I was told that, I was going to be
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: like when I used to work out of the office.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: If I was told, Hey, you got the day off,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I would be over the moon. I'd be like, oh
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: my god, that's great. I don't have to wake up
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't have to go into work.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: It's fucking great. You flew this guy cross country to
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: tell him that he has the week off. You made
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: this man fly cross country to tell him that you
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: have nothing for him. You're doing a great job, but
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: you got the week off. You know how much that
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: would piss me off, especially with a shit show that
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: is the TSA at all these airports right now. If
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: you made me fly all the way across the country
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: to tell me that, when you could have called me
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: up on the phone or sent me a text message,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: I would not be very happy. But Pierce left, and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: as Adam Pierce left, KOFE Kingston and Grayson Waller showed up.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: This is now what is left of the New Day.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: This is what's left of the vision Logan Paul and
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Austin theory. And now with Xavier Woods being hurt with
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the shoulder, we have Kofe Kingston and Grayson Waller. So
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Waller started to talk to Javan and Kofe told him, look,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: leave us. So Waller left and Kofe told Evans, look,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: I think the two of us got off on the
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: wrong foot the other week. Fact is, I see a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: lot of myself in you, like I was you. He
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: was that kid back in the day when he was
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: first starting and doing all these moves that nobody else
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: was doing, and he took all of that and eventually
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: he became the WWE champion. He just needs to have
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the right team around him, does Javon. So he told Evans, look,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: you don't have to answer right now. Takes some time
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to think about it. He knows he's got dreams and
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have to do it alone. So Javon Evans
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: has something to think about. Javon Evans has to give
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: some thought to whether or not he wants to join
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: what has become a Jobber faction here on this show
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that barely gets any actual television time. They spend most
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: of their time talking and appearing and doing stuff and
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: cutting promos during the commercial breaks on this show, and
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: not actually wrestling and doing really anything of note on
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw itself. So, man, what a tough decision
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: that's going to be for Javon Evans to make. There
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: was a point in time where, Hey, joining the New
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Day would have been huge for Javon Evans. I think
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: joining the New Day now would be more of a
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: detriment than anything else today's career. Speaking of factions, by
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the way that just have gone on and on forever
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and probably should be put to put to bed, I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: think we could probably do that with The New Day
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: at this point. Elsewhere, Jackie Redman is with Bailey and
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Lyra Valkyrie. She says that Bailey will challenge aj Lee
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: next week, and Bailey thanked Lyra for being there for her.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Bailey says, it's going to be an honor to step
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: in the ring with one of her best friends, and
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: it's a title that she hasn't been able to win yet.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: She can't wait to get her hands on it. And
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: you know what she promised, Lyra I win the championship,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you're going to get the first shot. I don't think
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that's something that she's going to have to worry about,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: but that's the promise that she made her tag team partner. Yeah,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the Women's Bliss fan. That's actually a good point. I
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: thought that as well. During the Gauntlet, they had that
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: same little podium at ringside, and they had the Women's
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title on the podium. Even though aj Lee is
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: the champion and she was not there tonight, they had
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: her title so they could put it on the podium
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: even though aj was not there. That was very weird.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I agree. We had Obafemi against Russev, a rare Russev
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: match here on Monday Night Raw. All he wanted to
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: do when he left AEW was work. He left because
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: he just wanted to go out there and wrestle. He's
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: wrestling right now for WWE about as much as he
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: was wrestling for AW, maybe slightly more. He got, Hey,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: you got three minutes of match time tonight. That's something, right, Hey,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Russev got knocked outside, he got sent into the steps.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: He ended up bouncing Oba though off the post head first.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: So Rusev then hit a Machka kick that sent Oba
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: backwards onto the announced desk. Back inside, Oba made a comeback.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: He tossed Rusev halfway across the ring and then he
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: hit the fall from Grace for the quick, decisive win
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: in about three minutes. Not much else to say about this.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: It was exactly what it needed to be. It was
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: a quick, dominant win for Oba Femi, and this time
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: it wasn't against kit Wilson. It was against someone that
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: has a little more size on him, is a little
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: bit tougher than Kit Wilson, and he got beaten three minutes.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: And I can only hope that this is again building
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: to the obvious WrestleMania match here. I talked about it
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: last week, talked about it again on Sunday. It's a
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: there's a very clever, simple way to get to Obafemi
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: in Brock Lesner. Right, you have this outstanding open challenge.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Who's going to accept the open challenge? And Brock's gonna
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: be on the show a few times this month, doesn't
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: have to be next week, could be again. They're at
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden later this month, could be there. They
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: want to do something special in New York. But man,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta do something with Dan Housen and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: brock Lesner, Right, we need some brock Housen humor. And
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Brock would even laugh it off like he's done before
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: with our truth. Right, And what has Dan Housen been
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: doing when people disrespect him, right, he puts a curse
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: on them. He puts a curse on brock Lesner. Then
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and only then do we hear the drum beat of
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Obafemi's theme music and his bad luck is oba Femi
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: coming out to accept the open challenge. And now you've
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: got a few weeks to promote this as a big
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: wrestle many a match, right, don't wait until media, right,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: do it in the next few weeks. But that's how
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you get Dan House. It worked in there, like just
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the sight of Dan Housen sharing a ring with Brock
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Lesnie was so ludicrous that you can't help but laugh.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: But then Brock won't be laughing when Obafemi comes out, Right,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: that's the power of the curse. There you go. They
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: clearly they want the curse to mean something. Well, that's
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: how you use the curse. And so to close the show,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: we got the World Heavyweight Champion CM punk out to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the ring. He was a little unsure, he said, what
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the reaction to him was going to be after last weeks.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: He was very happy to get cheered by the fans
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: here in Seattle, and then he asked them, how about
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: them Seahawks. Now he's trying too hard, but they all
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: chanted Seahawks. He goes, there's some people upset over something
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: that he said last week, that it was respectful. One
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: thing he knows is that Roman Reigns has never respected
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: him once his entire career, but he will force him
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: to respect the position that he holds. He says, championships
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: are made to find out who the best is, and
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: those best go on to defend their titles. This title
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: here was created, and I like that he made this
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: point actually because this is actually very true. This title
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: was created because Roman Reigns shunned his championship responsibilities and
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: he refused to defend his titles. If you remember when
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Roman was in the middle of that forever run that
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: he had very rarely would we see him. On Monday Night, Raw,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: he was walking around with both belts after he had
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: basically unified them at WrestleMania thirty eight, and Raw had
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: no champion. For all intents and purposes, Raw had no champion.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: That was the whole genesis of the of the current
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: version of the World Heavyweight Championship was because Roman Reigns
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't around and they needed something to fight for on
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Monday Night. Raw. He's right about that. So that was Roman.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: But he he defends this championship because the fans deserve
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: a fighting champion. And when he does, he levels up
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: the competition. Everybody who steps in the ring with him
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: or gets on the mic with him, he forces them
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: to level up. If you don't, he'll leave you slack
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: jaw the way he did Roman Reigns last week. Unfortunately,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: last week he lowered himself to Roman's level. And before
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: he could say anything else, Jay Usso's music hit. And
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: this was not about yeating or anything. This was the
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: USO's coming down to the ring, down the aisle, not
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: through the crowd, and they were looking serious and stoic,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: and they got into the ring, no running it back
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: this time, and Jay Usso told Punk and Jay, it's
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: funny when when Jay is in there and he's all serious,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: he screams like he cuts his promo in like the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: highest decibel level you can imagine, And so he's screaming
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: at Punk. You need to apologize right now. Apologize right now,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: oose and Punk asked why Roman is still sending his
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: cousins out there to do his heavy lifting. So Jay
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: screamed at him, you know, we came out here. I
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: came out here, my damn self. And again he told
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Punk he better apologize. So Jimmy was a little calmer.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Jimmy is actually a very good promo, right. We don't
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: get to hear him cut a serious promo very often.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: You know, Jay's the one who goes out there and
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: yeats and gets the whole crowd to yeat with him.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: But Jimmy, I think Jimmy is actually an underrated promo.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: So Jimmy said that this has everything to do with respect.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: He says, He's got a whole lot of respect for you, Phil,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I really do, mainly because you call yourself the voice
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of the voiceless. You can speak trash about Rome and
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: all you want to, but what you did was disrespect
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: their late uncle who has no voice. So apologize. Punk said,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: you're right, your brother's coming in a little bit hot,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: but you're right. Cicca does not have a voice. He
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: says he's not spiritual. Punk's not a spiritual guy, but
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: he knows the ussos are. So he asked the ussos,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: do you think that Cicca can hear this? And Jimmy
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: says yeah, and Punk says he respects Cicca. He didn't
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: know him as well as Afa when he was coming
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: up in the business, right. He would drive down to
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: where Afa would train and he had his promotion and
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Afa was always generous to him when he was younger.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: He damned near babysat Lance Lance on a yu aile
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: the shows were going on. He respects everyone in their
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: family and they have shown him respect back, except that
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: one son of a bitch. If you think Sicca heard that,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: then you believe he can see and he sees exactly
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: what Punk sees, which is what a lying, conniving, backstabbing, gaslighting,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: egotistically plastic politician, his son Roman Reigns is. So this
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: just made Jay even matter and Jay screams, this ain't
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: about Roman Reigns. We need you to say, I'm sorry.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: The best Jay Uso promos are the ones that are
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: very shortened to the point. I like it when he
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: shows this intensity, like this, but jay Uso is not
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: a promo guy, so the less you give him to say,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: if he says it in a very intense serious way,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: that is when Jay Uso on the mic is at
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: his best. Otherwise it's just a disaster. So the fans
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: chanted say, you're sorry to see I'm punk, and Punk
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: shook Jimmy's hand and he said I'm sorry, and then
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: he shook Jay's hand and he said, I'm sorry. I'm
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: sorry that Roman Reigns treated the two of you and
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the rest of his family and the bloodline like garbage
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: for years and never once apologized for doing so, which
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: is one hundred percent true. Here's the point that I
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: made when Roman came back as a babyface and even
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: going into WrestleMania last year and everyone was cheering him
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: right OTC, OTC, And I'm like, nothing has changed about
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns. Like the guy that they were all booing
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: before and that treated his family like crap is the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: same Roman Reigns that we see on TV now, Like
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: he has not changed, nothing changed the catchphrase, OTC, that's
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: the only thing that changed. He's the same guy. He's
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: a jerk. He used his family and abused his family
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: and never once apologized for doing so. So again, Punk
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: speaking only facts here in this promo, he said, I'm
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: sorry that Roman disrespected one of his mentors, Cody's father,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the great American dream Dusty Rhodes, when he called him irrelevant.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And he's somehow not on the hook for apologizing, but
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: I am he's sorry that Roman Reigns has tricked the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Ussos and the rest of their family and all these
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: fans into believing that he gives a single damn about
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: any of them or any of this, because if he did,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: he would be standing in the ring talking to him
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: right now and not his young boys. And he slammed
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: the mic into Jay's chest. Jay gave him a shove back,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: and then Jimmy dropped Punk by the right hand right
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to the ear, so Jimmy had a hold Jay back
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: at that point. They both leave the ring very slowly,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: and they're looking down at Punk who's on the mat.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: He's looking up at them with a smirk on his face,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: and that is how the show went off the air.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: This was I thought a very strong segment considering Roman
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: wasn't there. Obviously, this stuff is at its best when
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: we get Punk and Roman in the ring together. We'll
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: get that hopefully next week. But in the absence of
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Roman reigns, they found a way to keep this personal
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: because Roman has family members obviously all over the show,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: all over this company, by having the Ussos go out
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: there and actually be serious for a change, right, They
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: weren't out there to eat and have fun and smile
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: and you know, again do all the things that the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: ussos do from week to week. They were serious. They
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: had something serious that they could really sink their teeth into,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: and to me, that's when really they're at their best.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: I like the callback to Roman calling Dusty irrelevant. I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: believe he said that to Cody's face in a promo
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: a few years ago. So I liked that callback and
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Punk pointing out like, it's okay for Roman to do that,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: but I make a comment about his father and apparently
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the whole world is ready to burn down, like little
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: hypocrisy there. But again, I think what I also liked
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: about it is the fact that both sides were right.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: You know, both sides made good points about the other.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: You know, the usos were not wrong in what they
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: said about Punk, and Punk was not wrong in what
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: he said about Roman, you know why. He didn't feel
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the need to apologize. So when it was over, I
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: was left thinking, Okay, are we setting up? Are we
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: setting up a Bloodline reunion at the end of WrestleMania,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: which would feel like we're just going backwards here. I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: know people, some people get very excited about this. Oh
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the band is back together. It's like fucking you know,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: DX reuniting in two thousand and six all over again.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: To me to go back to that would be very lazy.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: I hope that's not what the idea is here, but
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I could see it because again, Triple H he sort
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: of inherited, he created, He inherited the Bloodline story. It
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: was under the Vince administration. We were already had the Bloodline.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Triple H inherited what was a hot story at that time,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: right the Top Angle, the Top group, and the company.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: He took the rains, no pun intended. He took the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: reins and kind of ran with it and was able
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: to build to that epic conclusion of WrestleMania forty and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: really it's all been downhill since then. He still has
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: yet to find that one great story. Since the peak
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: of the Bloodline angle at WrestleMania in Philadelphia. He's still
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: searching for it. Two years later, he's still searching for it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: So all that stuff was great, but just to kind
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: of go back to it would just feel like a
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: retread at this point. So I don't know if that's
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: what the idea is here. I don't know if other
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: family members are going to be brought into this. No,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see the Rock. I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: don't think that means we're going to see the Rock
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: on television. But I thought it was. It was a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: very good closing segment here that now leads into Roman's return,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: another return on the show next week, and we'll see
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: what they do then, because Roman obviously looked very angry
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: at the end of all last week. So what is
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: the receipt now that he will have for cmpunk? Is
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: he going to bring up Larry the Dog? Is he
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: going to try to cut deep with Larry the Dog? Yeah,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: it was very sad because they posted on the WWE
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: YouTube channel the other day. It was a vlog with
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: cmpunk and aj Lee. I think it was in Chicago.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: They followed them around like a five minute video, but
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: it was in the lead up to elimination chamber. And
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: one of the things they showed was they stopped over
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: at Pause Chicago, which I think is the I don't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: know what what is Pause. It's a rescue. I believe
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: it's a dog rescue. But that's where they got Larry
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: ten ten or eleven years ago, whatever it was. So
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: they're there and AJ is like looking at all these dogs,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: at everything, and they're not there to get a new
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: dog yet because they're still obviously, you know, mourning the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: loss of Larry. But like as AJ is talking and
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: then they're back in the car and the AJ is
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: talking and smiling and I want to have a farm
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: one day with like twenty dogs and all this Punk
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: is very quiet and like you could see it in
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: his eyes, like he's just devastated, Like his eyes are
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: all red and like it's still a very raw thing
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: for him to even talk about Larry. He got like
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: a Larry pawprint tattoo right dead center in his chest.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: So you know, they if they choose to go in
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: that direction, it's like, you know, it's still it's still
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: an open wound for the guy. Obviously, if he's okay
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: with it, then so be it. We'll probably get to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: see Punk shed some real tears on TV if that happens.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: But you would imagine that Romana is gonna want to
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: smack back and he's gonna have a receipt for him
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: next week. Right, Oh, you want to come at move
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: with that and talk about my father? Huh? Okay, well
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: two can play at that game. So I'm very curious
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: exactly what Roman's retort is going to be on the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: show next week. But this was This and the Bloodline
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: angle were the two key things on the show. The
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: rest of the show just kind of felt like it
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: was there, honestly. I mean, the Gauntlet was fine, but
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for outside of this. I'm waiting for
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: everything else to start feeling like WrestleMania. Nothing else is
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: really clicking in that way. I'm hoping when we get
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton in the ring on Friday,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: that will start to really feel like, Okay, this is
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: a WrestleMania main event now, because that's a match I've
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: been waiting for them to do now for so long,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: and now we have it. We know the hit story
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: between them. The key is taking that and creating a
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: story out of it now as we go into WrestleMania, right,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: there's no story per se at the moment with Cody
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and Randy. We've had teases over the last couple of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: years with Randy staring at the belt and all that,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: but now you have to tie that all together and
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: tell an actual story going into Mania. And it could
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: be as simple as, look, you and I go way back,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: and I love you and I respect you, but I
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: need that fifteenth World championship. This is only going to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: be I think the second or third WrestleMania main event
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: in Randy Orton's career. And I don't remember the last
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: time he was a world champion. It's been many years, right,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: and he'll do whatever it takes, just like Stone Cold
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: going into WrestleMania X seven. I'll do whatever it takes
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: to take that title. And Cody, who just won the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: belt back, his goal is to make sure I'm not
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: letting this thing leave my side ever again. I just
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: got it back. I'm not letting it go. I'm not
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: making the same mistake I made last year in the
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: ring with John Cena. Could be as simple as that,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: and then people in their minds wondering as we go
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: into Mania. Who's going to pull the trigger first? Who
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: if anyone is going heal at the end of that match.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: But they have to really start to tell that story
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: on SmackDown this week because right now Punkin' Roman is
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: still the one match that's really carrying the bill to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: the show on a show that is rumored to potentially
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: end up having up to sixteen matches, fourteen to sixteen
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: matches somewhere in that range. They got to get things
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: going here. I mean, these two guys, they can't carry
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: this whole thing by themselves. So that's what I'm waiting.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: We're six weeks away now T minus six weeks. I'm
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: waiting for all these other stories to start really kicking in.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: What did you think of Raw? From Seattle? Sixty four
• 1:08:48
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• 1:08:53
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• 1:08:59
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• 1:09:02
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• 1:09:04
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• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: the two bucks. Would be in for the bloodline against
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: punkin Friends at Madison Square Garden. What friends does punk have?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: He was friends with the USOS. If the USOS are
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: against him, then what friends does CM punk have? What
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: friends are you referring to is La Knight? His friend
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins is certainly not his friend. CM punk has
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: no friends on the show. Dan Hausen is his friend.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: They're not doing CM punk and Dan Hausen against the bloodline.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: That will not happen legitimately. Dan Housen is probably the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: first name that popped into my head as far as
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: CM punk friends. Oh, by the way, you know, I
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: forgot to mention something here. There was not a single
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: mentioned on the show tonight of Gunther. He was not
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: on the show. He was not mentioned. There was no
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: hint or tease of what's next for him, And we
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: are less than six weeks away from WrestleMania. Gunther, the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: man who retire John Cena and and cmpunk aj styles
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: back to back, Seemingly nothing for him at WrestleMania. Maybe
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: he'll wrestle Ray Mysterio. We'll see. But neither one of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: them were on the show tonight. Where was he bad enough?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: We don't have Roman in Brack and like we have
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: people that don't appear on the show week to week.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: I was asking the question, what the hell are they
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: doing with e O Sky at WrestleMania? What the hell
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: are they doing with Gunther at WrestleMania? How do you
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: not have something rock solid already hinted at in teas
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: and lined up for him on the biggest show of
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: the year. How does that happen? How does he fall
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  Speaker 1: Death Sith says, how is this for an alternate WrestleMania
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: X seven scenario? It's TLC two. The Dudley's, the Hardy's,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: and Edge and Christian are in the ring, but Demolition
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: are added to the match as a surprise. Who goes over?
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: That would be a terrible idea. Demolition in two thousand
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: and one in a TLC match? Are you out of
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: your mind? Bill Eadie was old in nineteen ninety You
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: want to put him in a TLC match in two
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: thousand and one. If you want to kill Demolition, then sure,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: I'm the biggest Demolition fan you're going to find. And
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: that is just the That's a terrible idea. I would
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: definitely not be doing that. I care too much for
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: their well being to put them in that situation. Oh man,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: all right, let's reload this here. I got a bunch
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: bunch super chats here death side, Thank you. Saint Claire says,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: if brock Lesnar stays until Wrestle Maania twenty one, what changes?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: I imagine we don't get JBL But does that impact
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Sena and does Randy still become the youngest world champion.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton absolutely does not become the youngest world champion.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: The only reason he became the youngest world champion was
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: to wipe the record that brock Lesner had because he
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: was on the outs and he was persona non grata
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: in WWE. It will take a little bit longer, I
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: think for John Cena to get to where he ultimately
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: was going to end up, regardless death side. When Ceampunk
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: talks about Roman's family, he talks about the Final Bosses family. Yes,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: and we are not going to see the final Bass Alexander.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: I'm curious if rox Sanne will turn face with Finn.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, I don't think they're gonna pair
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: her off with Finn. Is she gonna have an issue
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: with what they did to Finn. I maybe there could
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: be some tension there, but I don't I don't see
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: her aligning with Finn. Also, Dan Housen should curse Coronet's podcast. Yes, yes,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen should put a curse on Coronet's podcast and
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: make it drop all the way down to number fourteen. Well,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I can have the number one spot all to myself
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: here Arabian night. Thank you. By the way, we easily
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: surpassed the goal tonight. The goal was five point fifteen
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: and we're currently sitting at six oh nine. Man, you
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: guys were like, we can beat that. We're two away
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: from the bonus goal. By the way, do you check
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: the chat that site. CM punk once said to John
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Cena when he came back to WWE, he had a
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: list of goals and winning a world title was not
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: one of them because he was afraid of the monster
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: he would become. We'll look at him now. Is he
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: really a monster? Though? Because he said a mean thing
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: to Roman Reigns last week, he's actually been pretty tame.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say CM punk has really done anything too dastardly. Yeah,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: he hasn't punched any of his coworkers in the face
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: backstage or anything like that, or tried to choke them
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: San Juan Wolf with a nineteen ninety nine. If I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: were the Miz, I would bring Dan Housen into the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: fold as my secret weapon. Imagine him cursing every opponent
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: just so I could coast to easy wins. Might even
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: mess around and end up with the world title that way,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: you realize the Miz went through I believe all of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five without winning a single match. If I
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: were him, I would hitch my wagon to Dan Housen too.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: See I'm punk fan five hundred. I was at RAW.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good show. I'm glad you
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Retro Koh. Apparently Set's new gimmick is that
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: he has a putty patrol. Just what we need. That's
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: what we need, more ninjas on this show. Derek J
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: speaks with a five dollars super Chat. Seeing over a
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: dozen grown ass men in hoodies and in hoodies and
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: masks shuffling around is not how I wanted to spend
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: a Monday night. That is the state of WWE in
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Well, that's how it goes. That's what
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: you are going to get that Sithe says, every time
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I hear or see a ninja, I immediately think of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Reptile Scorpion and sub Zero from Mortal Kombat. Sub Zero
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: was always my guy. I always liked, you know, doing
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: the whole like puddle on the floor and making them slip.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: That was my thing. The average grunt got the masked
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: goofs dancing around like the Buddy Patrol Alexander. The Icy
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Belt needs to go on Ivy at some point to
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: have a feud with Zoe Stark. But it's probably not
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: going to draw like Becky or aj Lee or EO. No,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: it's not going to draw at all. But that really
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: is what the Championship should be designed for, is to
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: try to, you know, be used in a way that
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: will elevate other people on the show who really need
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: the elevation. It can't just be on big names. Forever,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: I was in favor of putting it on a big
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: name to establish it, but at some point, you know,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: other people need to have a shot here. That's why
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: it was created. Jeremy Rose twenty dollars super chest. Sammy
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: will insert himself in Jacob, and he will insert himself
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: in I read that wrong. Let's start over again. Sammy
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: will insert himself in Jacob and Drew's match. There we
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: go thinking he has something to as he says he
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: can beat both of them. Cross returns to Wrestle Media
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: and convinces Sammy to give in and cheat to get
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: the win. Long term storyteller. Now he has a laughing
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: emoji before anybody who hears this thinks he's out of
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: his mind. Hey, look, Sammy's ay, and he's desperate to
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: get on the Wrestle Media card, and so hey, desperate
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: times call for desperate measures. Sometimes you just got to
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: insert yourself into certain situations. He wants to get that
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: Wrestle Media payday. Tokes Kazim, I'm afraid Triple h is
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: going to screw up Oba Femi. Well, if he does,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: it'll be the biggest fumble of his run so far.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose watching Obi Obi watching Obi RUSSEV. No way
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: he beats Brocket Wrestle Media. I hope I'm wrong. Dan
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Housen is awesome. Hopefully they insert him in Punk Hopefully
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: they insert him in Punk Roman promos, but they won't.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: What is wrong with me? A lot of insertion going
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: on on the show. Tonight. Now look at that. We
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: hit the goal bonus be the booker? All right, we
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: got two rounds of be the Booker coming. Yeah? Like
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Obi yeah, Obi Femi? Is that his twin brother Barry
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: MK with a fifteen? I know Dan Housen is just
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: for jokes, but why isn't Dom mad at him too?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: Finn was nice to Dan Housen when Dom was cursed.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: Could have been a story to a Finn and Dan
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Housen versus JD. I guess JD and Dom tag match
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. Well, I mean, who says it's still can't be.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the role they have in mind
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: for Dan House. I think Dan Housen will be He'll
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: be doing comedy at WrestleMania. Maybe he'll host WrestleMania. I
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: could see him hosting WrestleMania this year, which would be
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: which would be kind of wild to see. Toks Kazim.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: I did not like the fans popping. I did not
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: like the fans pop for Obafemi tonight. I mean they
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: cheered him again. The fans on these shows are not
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: popping for much. This has been going on for a
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: few months now. All the people that would normally be
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: there shouting and make a noise. They can't afford to
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: go to these shows. They've priced them out. They're like, yeah,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: fuck this, I gotta try to afford gas. I can't
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: be going a Monday night where I'm paying these exorbited prices. Here,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Alexander says, what if Ricky Saints joins the Judgment day?
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gotta be good reason for it. Randomly
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: joins the judgment day, I mean he could. He could
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: just wondering what the situation would be that would present
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: itself where he would join the Judgment day. Hey, Aesthetic,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: thank you for the five Arabian Night. Finley replacing Finn
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: would have been perfect, but nope. They offered him an
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: NXT deal, but MotorCity machine Guns, Tama Tongaloa, Jeff Cobb,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Hiculeo Hobbs, and Dan Housen got main roster spots. Yeah,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: they wanted David Finley to be the leader of a
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: new second generation faction that would have included Lexus King
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: making NXT money, by the way, not even main roster money.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah fuck that. I would have said no too, Prince Vegeta.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see Chillie mcfreeze. Next week yep,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: no mention, No mention of Stone Cold, Steve Austin. It
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: is three sixteen day, they're in Texas. Austin's in the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: new video game, The Attitude Era Edition. It'd be a
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: nice surprise, but they did not announce anything for Stone
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Cold next week. Death Sithe buy or sell on these
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: two heel versus heel matches, the Shield against the Wyatt
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: family at Elimination Chamber or brock Lesnar against Daniel Bryan
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. Both great matches. I'm gonna go Shield
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: and Wyatt's, but I love both those matches very much.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: SMG Kobe. If Bloodline reunion means no more MFTs than
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: do it, Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I'm not
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: sure an OG reunion would necessarily include solo Soco. I
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: don't think the MFTs are going away. Ed Ka says
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: would be in for Bloodline versus punkin Friends at MSG Again,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: I ask you what friends are you referring to? Punk
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: has no friends death Sith. I know a chairs match
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: is a dumb stipulation, but it would be perfect for
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: Seth and Roman. Well, we're not doing Seth and Roman
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. At some point you know you're right in
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: the first part of your sentence. It's a dumb stipulation.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: If they want to use a chair, you can use
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: a chair. I think a chairs match because every match
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: basically involves chairs in wrestling. You're right about that. It
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: is a very dumb stipulation. Seth Rollins and his foot
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: clan from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I think Sephi will
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: come out next week with a giant hole in his
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: midsection of fucking crang sitting in there. Any chance they
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: run Brock against Rolins against Knight. No, Brock is going
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: to be in a singles match against one or the other, maybe,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: but not both of them. Nor shouldn't That's that's that's
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: a stupid match. Brendan Stranahan Punk and MotorCity machine Guns
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: against og Bloodline and Madison Square Garden. Maybe what has
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: led you to believe that the MotorCity machine Guns would
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: even be considered for a spot like that? Like, do
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: you see the way they're being used on SmackDown? When
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: they are on SmackDown, they are so low on the
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: totem pole right now, like they're not even a factor
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: in their minds. It's not even a consideration. I wish
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: I could say otherwise, but I can't. Alex brother solo,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: assuming it is Rock and Roman it next year's WrestleMania.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: How the hell does WWE convinced Rock to make TV
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: appearances leading up to WrestleMania. Look, at the end of
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: the day, if the Saudis throw a bunch of money
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: at Rock, who the hell knows what's gonna happen. I
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: don't see it. I don't see it, and Rock is
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: not going to be making very many appearances on TV,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons why I have no
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: interest in seeing it. So I'm gonna say no to
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: that match. I'm gonna say no, it doesn't happen. Jeremy,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: why wouldn't Gun their answer Brock's challenge make it make sense?
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Usso's versus the Vision, or Vision versus Seth and La Knights.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you would think they would want the USOS
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: defending those titles of WrestleMania, so then it would be
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: against the Vision. I mean, it's not like Logan Paul's
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: not going to have a match on that show. What
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: else would it be? Hydrograd with a fifteen with Finn
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: out of the Judgment day. Every member Edge brought into
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: the group four years ago is now gone. Also, what
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: the hell was with that fruity ass mosh pit that
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: the mass Men started doing in the ring. Apparently they're
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: putty people. I don't know, I don't know. It was
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: a very dumb idea. I hope that does not become
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: a weekly thing. And the fact that when the mass
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Men hit the ring that we got holy shit chants. Yeah,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: these are not the wrestling crowds of even five years ago,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: let alone twenty five years ago. Cool bro, did you
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: hear about the big sale at the paddle store? It
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: was quite the ordeal. You suck you deserve that one,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: sorry brother Arabian night. So all night did was run
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: in and got beat up. Yes, how many times do
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: I have to tell you guys? This is what his
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: role is on the show. Last week he got to
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: drive the ambulance off with Paul Hayman in it. Okay,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: good for him, But like the week before that, he
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: threw out the challenge to a six man tag and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: then he got his ass kicked and his team lost.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: This is what he does. Alex is in ninety eight
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: Undertaker throwing mankind off the hell in a cell got
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: the holy shit chance. In twenty twenty six, a bunch
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: of men wearing all black playing musical chairs gets the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: same chant. I said, Look, these wrestling crowds are not
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: They're just not what they used to bell. I say,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: wrestling crowds, these WWE crowds, these WWE crowds are not
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: what they used to be, And it's not entirely their fault.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Of it's their fault when they chant stupid shit like that,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: but it's not entirely their fault. Just look at the
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: product they're being given. Presto chanjoh Hope Punk wins at Mania,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: don't want part time champion. I agree, we're on the
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: same wavelength. Here, give me backshot. Solo Monster says, when
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: are you going to live up to my name? I
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: think you want to talk to the guy a few
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: super chats Ago, who was talking about Sammy inserting himself
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: into various people. I think you two might get along.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Combat Theater says, will Logan Paul be a future world champion?
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Do you think? Yes? I do. John says I had
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to attend a Mortal Kombat two screening for work.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: I can't confirm. It's actually pretty incredible, great action, great emotion,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: and a lot of fun. I'm very happy to hear
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: that because I do plan on seeing that movie when
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: it comes out. I'm actually excited to see it. It was
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: supposed to come out months ago and it got pushed
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: back to May, and hopefully it doesn't get pushed back
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: again because I want to see it. Duff's VIDs with
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: a four ninety nine. Finn needs to have Dan Hausen
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: with him and have him curse all of his opponents
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: so Finn never gets pinned again, and Luis with the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: twenty two dollars super chat. So this is the way.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: Judgment Day says, off is the direction you can fuck
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: to Finn Balor. This is not liking this at all.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: Glad Punk got everything off his chest. Rock return is imminent.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: Rock return is not imminent. We go through this every year.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Every year we hear about the Rock. The Rock's going
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: to come back. Oh, the Rock's going to be doing this,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: The Rock's going to be a part of that. The
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Rock will eventually show up when the Rock feels like
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: showing up. The Rock does not need to be involved
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: in everything. The Rock is not going to be around. Therefore,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: I don't really care to see it. We can move on.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: It's time to move on. Cornell. Have you finally seen
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: the Ricky Sosa kid wrestle yet? What's your thoughts? Because
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: the bidding war is starting to begin for his talents.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: I have seen some of his work, not too much
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: of it. He's very talented. I believe he's going to
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: be doing something with TNA right TNA soon. But we
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: got him coming into House of Glory soon, so yes,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: I am familiar with him. I don't although I don't
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: know that we could afford the bidding war that there
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: will be for Ricky Sosa and Rugrad says, buy or
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: sell Undertaker against Batista that Wrestle Media twenty three or
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Undertaker against Edge that wrestle Mania twenty four. Undertaker and
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: Batista and Wrestle Media twenty three gets my vote. No
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: bidding war for EC three. What do you think? This
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: is twenty eleven? What are you in a time warp?
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: We're way beyond that now, all right? Well, the goal
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: as set by the Wheel tonight was five fifteen? Was
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: it five to fifteen? Yes? It was five to fifteen.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: And we are currently sitting at six hundred and fifty
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty eight. So you blew right past that,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: and you guys have killed it with the super chats
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: and all the questions and the love and we hit
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: the bonus call. So we have not one, but two
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: rounds of be the booker to do. So let's get
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: to it. Shall we be the booker time? It is
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: now time to be the booker that control your narrative
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: didn't help him? Yeah, I guess the narrative wasn't compelling enough.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: He went with the wrong narrative. All right, round number one.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: We got our own little WrestleMania Night one, Night two
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: going on here tonight, and we begin with the Brothers
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: of Destruction. Yeah. I think about the current state of
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: the tag team division in WWE, and then I think, man,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: you know, we used to have some team like imagine
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: looking at this team across the ring from you without
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: the slideshammers in their hands. What has happened to the
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: tag team division? Undertaker and Cain are going to be
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: taking on Wow, look at this Malakhi Black and Brody Caine.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: That's actually a really fucking badass match. Two very dark
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: teams all brawling types Malachai and Brody against Undertaker and Kine.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: That's a great match. I'm gonna give that second bell.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: I'm giving that two bells. That's what I'm doing. Wow,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a tough one to top. Let's go
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: to the women's match. Apparently we're gonna have a lot
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: of them on the WrestleMania card this year, five or six.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: We have Alexa Bliss, Bliss Fan, where are you at?
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: Where are you at, Bliss Fan? This one's for you.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss may not have a singles match at wrestle
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: Mania this year, but she's gonna have one here tonight,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: and she is going to be wrestling Rosa Mendes. It's
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: always it's the point. It's like she's pointing at me, saying,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: you know what to do. I'm sorry, Bliss Fan, I'm sorry.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: Not the match I know he was hoping for. Ah
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: all right, our main event here for Night one, Night one,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, look who it is, everybody, It's JD
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: from New York in the main event. We need we
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: need a heal. We needed a heal in the main
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: event of Night one, and this is the heel that
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: we all deserved. JD from NY two six is in
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: the main event, and now we must find out. We
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: must find out who his opponent is going to be.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: There are any number of people and be the Booker
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: here who probably dislike this man. So we have a
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: vast pool to choose from. Chad Gable. All right, you
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: know what, I'll tell you what if JD was going
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: to have any shot at having a decent wrestling match,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: this is the man that I would want to be
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: in the ring with. Chad Gable. There you go. I
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: think you would make him look halfway decent in the ring.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: See this right here, This is the guy that you
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: want to be in the ring with, especially if you
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: if you don't have a lot of n ring experience.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: It's this guy right here. And now we get to
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: go again. We get to go again because you guys
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: unlocked a second round, a second round of be the Booker.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: We also have we have a super chat here from
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: Reborn Bladder or Blake. I did it again. I did
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: it again, Reborn Blater. I don't know why. Every time
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: I see that name, I just I like my eyes
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: I read it and I just say reborn bladder and
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like of all the things, of all the things
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: to be reborn as, if you're reincarnated, I would not
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: want to be reincarnated as a bladder, like, of all
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: the things to be reborn as. What a horrible thing
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: reborn blaters is? Do you have a favorite Be the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: Booker match? I hope you're having a good night. Yeah,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: I mean there have been a bunch of them. I mean,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Brett Hard has been in most of them.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, what like the all time? There's
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: been so many of them, Dude, there isn't really one
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: that jumps out of me. There's been a couple. I'll
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: tell you why when we did Kurt Angle against Kurt
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Angle though one time. It doesn't really get much better
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, or anybody part, I wouldn't want to
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: be reborn as any well, actually that's not true. All right.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: Here we go stipulation loser leaves town match. All right,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna have ourselves a tag team loser leaves
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: town match. So the losers of this match they have
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: to leave the territory. I might even have to consider
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: removing them from be the Booker And I think I
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: know which team that's going to be We have the
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: Gorillas of Destiny, Toma Tonga and the Great Tonga Loa
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: from Bullet Club now MFTs, and they're gonna be taking
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: on Top Flight, go Od and Top Flight in a
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: loser leaves Town match. At least God back in the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: Bullet Club days was kind of cool. I can't say
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: the same thing about the MFTs. And you put them
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: in the ring with Top Flight, you're gonna get a
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: good match out of it. All right, Now we have
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: to pick a stipulation for our women's match. Ooh, We're
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: putting the ladies inside monsters Ball. This is gonna get bloody.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: This is gonna get brutal. It's monsters Ball. It's bird
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: Girl flying into monsters Ball. It is Lyra Valkyria spreading
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: her wings. Lyra Valkyria against Stephanie Vicaire monsters Ball. That actually,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: even in the absence of that stipulation, that'd be a
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: good match. I like that match? Am I going to
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: like our main event? This is what it all comes
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: down to. We have a main event that will be
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: oh no, a Kennel from Hell match. This is going
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: down a very bad road. A cage in a cage
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: It's like putting a hat on a hat doesn't really
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense, now, does it. Kennell
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: from Hell, Folks, nothing I can do. That's the stipulation.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: We picked it. We're sticking with it. Who's going in it? Dude?
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: Love in Kennel from Hell. I believe the woman on
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: the left in this image is his wife. I believe
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: that's his wife. He did well for himself, Dude, Love
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: Kennel from Hell against Yoko Zuna. Realistically, you lost me
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: at Kennel from Hell. But I mean, what do you
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: what do you do with a match like this? I mean, really,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you something. You guys have rocked
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: it tonight, and I believe that we can do better.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: I believe that you are deserving of a main event
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: that is worthy of a double B the booker. And
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: so I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: gonna pull a jay Uso on you. We're going to
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: run it back. We can't let it end like this.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to run it back, and this time we're
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: going to have a tables, ladders and chairs match. That's
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: more like it. And now let's find out what out
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: what happened here? No no, no, no, no, that doesn't care.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't hit the button. All right, here we go,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: tables ladders and chares match. This doesn't happen very often.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: I'm making an executive decision and it will be the
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: bad guy, Razor Ramone in a t L Seamen, Oh man,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: we should land on Seawn Michaels for this. How great
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: would that be? Oh? Raizor Ramone against stone Cold Steve Austin.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Tables ladders and chares. Yeah, we're not talking about Austin
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: and Scott Hall at Wrestlemany eighteen. We're talking about the
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: bad guy. We're talking about Razor. We're not talking about
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: two thousand and two Scott Hall. Yeah. Be the booker
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: desperately wants the rock and it's always freezing on the rock.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: You're not getting the rock. You're not getting the rock
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: in real life, and you're not getting the rock. And
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: be the booker anyway, that's a main event that is worthy.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: I think of the night that we've had here, Arabian night.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: Let's get to your final super chats here. What if
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Seamus joined the judgment day as the serious leader. It
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: would be a way to get him on television more consistently.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: I see. But the thing is, like, what the judgment
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: day probably should be someone younger and newer who could
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: really benefit from the exposure. I don't know that that
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: needs to be shamous. I know Finn was kind of
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: like the veteran of the group. You could do it,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: but I just think there were better people for that spot.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: Death Side says, I watched Demolition against LD and the
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Ultimate Warrior in Madison Square Garden and at Saturday Nights
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: made it or and Saturday Nights made event, and I asked,
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: why was Warrior inserted into that feud since he was
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: the WWF champion. Because Demolition had three men, it was
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: a three it was a trios match. God, I wish
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: I could remember. It might have been Madison Square Garden
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: now that I mention it, or now that you mention it.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: There was a match I had to be a Madison
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Square Garden and it was that match. And when the
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Warrior came out and he made his entry. I told
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: this story before. When the Warrior came out and made
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: his entrance, and he's a fucking maniac, of course, so
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: he comes down to ringside and run. He goes to
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: run around the ring, and as he's running, he just
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: slams into a ringside worker and the guy's hair goes
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: in one direction and his body goes in the other direction,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: and he gets knocked to the floor. You could see
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: Howard Finkel in the ring is obviously very concerned, and
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: he like dives out of the ring to go check
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: on the guy. But it's the funniest thing. He just reckless,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: abandon just no regard for the people around him. I
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: wish I could remember what date the show was. It
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: was definitely a house show though, in Madison Square Garden.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget that. Cameron Spencer, Uh, why are you
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: against a six man match with Trick, Sammy Orton, Cody
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: Drew and fought to at wrestle Why would you take
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: six guys and put them in the match? You have
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: to book a wrestle Mania card. Why why don't you
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: just put everybody in the same match like it? No, No,
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: a six way match is ridiculous. I'm okay with it
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: up to a four way. A six way you're getting ridiculous. Now,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: why would Sammy's Ain be in there? Samy's Ain's a
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: fucking loser, He's got to work his way back up
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: into title contention. What the hell are you putting him
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: in a title match? For Trick Williams just got there.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: He was in the elimination chamber. He didn't win, neither
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: d Cody, but Trick was not the one who got
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: fucked over by Drew McIntyre says, I do believe eventually
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: you'll get on board. You're gonna be waiting an awfully
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: long time, Cameron. I ain't getting on board with bad idea.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: It's a bad idea. You gotta abandon ship. You gotta
• 1:46:59
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• 1:47:06
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• 1:47:11
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• 1:47:16
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• 1:47:22
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• 1:47:24
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• 1:47:29
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• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: you know what else is going to be a good night.
• 1:47:33
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• 1:47:35
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• 1:47:38
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• 1:47:42
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• 1:47:47
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• 1:47:59
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• 1:48:02
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• 1:48:06
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• 1:48:09
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