Raw was live tonight in Quebec City as their tour through Canada continues, and
they were a livelier bunch than they were in Winnipeg last week. But this
show has a very big problem. Monday Night Raw has a very big problem,
and it was illustrated by tonight's main event. And it was a fine
match. There was nothing wrong with the match itself. It was Cody and
Ko and Sammy Zane against the Judgment Day and they had their usual good match,
and of course the crowd loves Sammy and Ko because they were in Quebec
and Kevin Owens has missed the last several weeks with a legitimate injury, which
is why we had no tag team title match at Summer Slam this year.
But I want to take things back to the middle of May after the draft
and they started with the new Rawn SmackDown rosters. The draft was in early
May, and I want to go back to the May fifteenth episode of Monday
Night Row. What I would like to do is I would like to read
you here a list of the following Monday Night Raw main events dating back to
May fifteenth of this year. On May fifteenth, the Judgment Day, Damian
Priest and Finn Balor defeat Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane. Skip ahead to June
nineteenth, Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens, Sammy Zane defeat The Judgment Day Finn
Balor, Damian Priest, Dominic Mysterio. One week later, June twenty sixth,
Cody Rhodes defeats Damian Priest of the Judgment Day and I'll throw in Cody
Rhodes against Dominic Mysterio from Money in the Bank, which came only a few
days later. July tenth, Monday Night Raw Main Event, The Judgment Day
Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Dominic Mysterio beat Kevin Owens, Sammy Zane and
Seth Rollins replacing Cody Rhodes. One week later, July seventeenth, Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane defeat What's that the Judgment Day, Damian Priest and Dominic Mysterio.
And that was for the undisputed tag team titles. That was July seventeen.
July thirty, first Monday Night Raw and main Event, Sammy Zane and
Seth Rollins defeat The Judgment Day, Damian Priest and Dominic Mysterio. Since Kevin
Owens was out hurt. They just replaced Kevin Owens with a different partner,
that being Seth Rollins tagging with Sammy on that night. One week later,
August seven, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins and Shinsky Nakamora defeat the Judgment Day
Finn Balor, Damian Priest and Dominic Mysterio. One week later August fourteenth,
and the main event, Cody Rhodes defeats Finn Balor, and then we come
to Monday Night Raw Tonight with the main event of Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane
against Finn Balor and Damian Priest of the Judgment Day which ended in a disqualification,
which then led to our actual main event which was Cody Rhodes, Kevin
Owens and Sammy Zane against the Judgment Day Finn Balor, Damian Priest and Dominic
Mysteri. I sound like a broken fucking record sitting here. This is real.
What I just read to you is real. How many how many different
variations of the same fucking match can one company give us? It's like they're
trying to run some kind of competition to see how many different permutations of more
or less the same match can they possibly do over a period of what six
months, let's say, because there's no sign that this is going to be
stopping anytime soon. And you'll have people who say, oh, well,
why why complain? It's it's they're good matches. It's not the point.
It's the same matches over and over and over again. They're telling a story
with the judgment day. Sure, I get that, and I'm behind the
story, but we don't need to have the same matches every single week.
It's like deja vu. Shinsky Nakamura last week whispered some sweet nothings in Seth
Rollin's ear, and we did not know what it was that he whispered into
his ear, but we found out tonight and what I thought was the best
promo that Shinsky Nakamura has cut in his entire WW week career. He has
been with this company since twenty sixteen, going back to when he debuted an
NXT. This was the best promo segment that he has been a part of
since two thousand sixteen when he first signed with WWE. Just so you all
know that I'm not a total down on this show tonight, nor am I
a down on what we got with Gunther and Chad Gable who were scheduled to
compete in an Intercontinental Championship match, and we did get an Intercontinental Championship match,
although it was a match that ended via countout and a most unique finish,
well not one that I hated, because we are still going to get
another match between Chad Gable and Gunther if that finish told us nothing else.
This issue between the two of them is not over. And that was my
favorite part of the entire show, despite the finish, was what we got
from Chad Gable and Gunther here tonight. The rest of the show I thought
was was very dull. We had another be he lynched Trish Stratus segment that
sucked. We had a few matches here and there. We had the Miss
in a match with Tozawa. The match was nothing, who gives a shit?
It was more about La Night, who was at ringside doing commentary.
He's the one feuding with Miss right now. Tozawa was just meant to be
a background player. So you know, we had a few segments like that
that weren't terrible, but the show dragged. It dragged ass, and it
dragged ass because there just wasn't a whole lot of exciting shit on this show.
But we'll go through everything from start to finish because that's what we do
here. This is your Monday Night Raw review for August twenty first, two
and twenty three. I Am the Solemn Monster. Now. They were in
Quebec City tonight. Sammy Zane, one half of the undisputed tag team Champions,
made his way out to open the show and he was showered with love
by the Canadian fans here. They loved seeing Sammy Zane. That much is
for sure. And I don't think that Sammy Zane has walked out and gotten
this much love in elimination chamber when he had his match with Roman Rings,
not like this. That was in Montreal. We have not seen him get
love from the crowd quite like this since February. So they sang his song.
He grabbed a Quebec flag, he draped it around him like a cape.
They sang the Ola Ola song. This went on for a good five
minutes and Sammy had a big smile on his face. He was soaking up
all of it. It looked like he was having the time of his life
out there. So then of course it was interrupted by the Judgment Day,
who made their way down. They surrounded the ring. Sammy then asked,
did you really think that here, of all places, I was going to
come alone? And that's when we heard Kevin Owens theme music. He came
out to another big reaction. Dominic dropped off the apron. He met Owens
at ringside and Owens just destroyed him. Balor ran the ropes, but Owens
grabbed his foot and pulled him to the floor, ran him into the barricade.
Priest tried to choke slams Sammy, he slipped away and then Owens put
Priests down with a stunner. And Owens said that It's been far too long
since I've had a match on Raw. Really, because I've just read a
long list of matches that Kevin Owens has had on Raw going back to May.
It doesn't feel like he's missed too many matches on Raw. I have
the receipts to prove it. But he proposed a match against any two members
of the Judgment Day, it didn't matter who. And Owens then said something
in French that got a big reaction, and apparently the translation of what he
said here was that they were going to kick some ass tonight, and that
is what the crowd cheered for. So good to see Ko back from his
fractured rib. That was a legitimate injury and obviously he's doing much better now
when we get the tag team champions back together. That's why they didn't strip
them with the belts. You know, Owens had the fractured ribs, Sammy
had that tennis ball sticking out of his elbow when he had the brasidas a
few weeks ago, so you know, it wasn't a case where any of
them were seriously injured, but they've been pretty banged up. It's like the
walking wounded, and so it's nice that they're doing okay and they're back together
now. We had Drew McIntyre and Matt Riddle as tag team partners. I
believe this was their second match together. They were taking on Kofi Kingston and
Xavier Woods of The New Day. McIntyre tossed Kingston and Woods around. Riddle
was pumped up and he gave McIntyre a big hug. McIntyre then grabbed Riddle
and bellied a bellied his partner out over the top rope onto the New Day,
which was an interesting bit of tag team offense. There After a break,
New Day was in control over Riddle. Kofy came off the top,
Riddle nailed him in the face with a rising knee. Riddle gave Woods an
avalanche fisherman's supplex before Riddle could attempt a hot tag, though, Eric of
the Viking Raiders showed up at ringside and he pulled McIntyre down from the apron,
so there was no one there for Riddle to tag out to. Kofi
connected with Trouble in Paradise. He pin Matt Riddle to win the match for
the New Day. Eric and Ivar then laid out the New Day and Riddle.
After the match, McIntyre fought them off all by himself. So the
Vikings will likely be fed to one or both of these teams. What we
got from these two teams was good for the ten minutes they got. I'm
still waiting on the eventual turn, probably from MacIntyre, but really it could
be from either one of them. Probably MacIntyre, though if it were me,
I would go with MacIntyre. If anybody's going he'll at the end of
this, I do think it should be Drew McIntyre because he could use something
fresh, He could use a little bit of a reboot, I think,
and there were reports that WWW is not This is supposedly their goal here is
not to recreate RK bro is not to recreate the whole odd couple, babyface
dynamic and keep these two as something of a permanent team and market merge around
them and everything. Supposedly that is not the play, And if that is
the case, then that would lead me to believe that at the end of
all this, somebody is going to go heal, just a matter of who
and when. Now it's still early in their run together, but I don't
see this as any sort of a long term thing. The backstage, Jackie
Redman interviewed JD mcdonnah and Finn Balor. She asked mcdonnah about his relationship with
Finn and whether it adds to the tension between Balor and the other Judgment Day
members. Mcdonnah said the Balor is like a brother to him and he hopes
that his relationship with the group becomes even stronger. Balor accused Redman of trying
to stir the pot. Rea Ripley and Dominic showed up. Ripley told Balor,
we have to go discuss which two members of the group are going to
be challenging Owens and Zane later in the show. And as they went to
go walk off, JD mcdonnah was coming with them, and Rea stopped him
and said, no, no, you're not part of the judgment day,
so you don't get to We had a Shanna Basler video package which included footage
of her submitting, not really submitting. I guess Ronda went out Ronda Rousy
at Summer Slam when she got her big win over her she said that she's
not here to be your hero. She's here to set it all on fire.
She said, your only hope is to survive. And then she closed
by saying, let the world burn. Unfortunately, feels like half the world
is burning right now. They were in Canada tonight, right they would know
with all the wildfires going on. I know, the last round of Canadian
wildfires, it looked like something out of Mad Max. Here in New York.
We had orange skies here. Acrost looked like Armageddon out here in New
York because the winds blew all that shit all the way down to New York.
Remember put that picture online. They were like, is that that New
York it looks post apocalyptic. I said, yeah, thanks Canada, so
if anybody would know, unfortunately, it would be the Canadians. So then
it was time for the match that I was looking forward to when this was
announced last week, and that was for the Intercontinental Championship. It was Gunther
defending his title against Chad Gabele. Gable is getting a bit of a push.
This is something that he has wanted for a very long time. He's
talked about wanting the opportunity to become more of a singles superstar, more of
have more of an impact than the singles division here on this show, and
he has been getting that opportunity. And he's been getting that opportunity in large
part against Gunther because we've seen them in the ring a few times now.
So it all built to this, and I was surprisingly initially announced that this
was going to be happening tonight because I figured they would save this title match
for payback, and it became clear when this was over why they wanted to
do this tonight. So after some early matt work, Gunther dropped Gable back
first onto the barricade and Gabel barely made it back into the ring. By
the nine count. Gunther used a double underhook suplex. Then he was he
whipped him hard into the corner. Gabel was so beaten up he went to
go irish whip him into the corner again, and Gabele just on the way
in, he just collapsed. He just he couldn't make it to the other
side of the ring. So Gunther was mockingly kicking him. Gabele fired back
with kicks of his own. Gabel came off the top, but Gunther chopped
him and hit a clothes line and then another one for two. Gabel countered
a third closed line, attempted into a crucifix pin only got a two count,
though Gunther applied a sleeper hold. Gabel, slowly with Gunther on his
back, was able to make it to his speed. He fought back with
running four arms. He hit a back suplex. Gabel then took Gunther down
with a dragon screw, transitioned immediately into an ankle lock, and this had
the crowd on their feet. Once he got that ankle lock applied and Gunther
he was reaching for the bottom rope. He came very close to reaching that
bottom rope, but he got dragged back to the center of the ring.
Gunther kicked his way free and Gabel mounted him and started raining shots down on
him. Gabel then delivered a delayed German Suplex into a bridge for a close
near fall. That will never not be impressive to watch somebody of Gabel size
pick up somebody of Gunther size. And it's one thing to give somebody a
suplex, but to do it the way that he does, you know,
the delayed suplex, the delayed German will never not be impressive to me.
And Quebec City let him know that they thought this was awesome, which it
was. Gabel went to the top rope to set up for his moon self,
but he took too long and Gunther shoved him to the floor. He
hit the barricade on the way down. Gunther got tired of waiting for him
to get back in, so he went out after him and he chopped the
ship out of this guy. Gabel ducked an other chop and this time Gunther
chopped the ring post by accident, and Gabel then gave Gunther a German Suplex
over the barricade, and this fucker landed on his head on the concrete on
the other side. In the timekeepers area. That was I was gonna say,
damn near, but he laid it on the back of his head and
it looked great. And so now both men are down. Gabel realizes that
the referee is counting. This entire time, the referee has been counting,
and so Gabel slides back into the ring at the very last minute and Gunther
gets counted out. Gabel is in the ring. He celebrates this big win
via count out, and Gabel is saying, I'm coming back for more.
I'm coming back for more. And Gunther was livid at ringside as his Imperium
stable mates here Giovanni Vinci and Baby and Eichner demanded that Samantha Irvin announced that
Gunther was still the Intercontinental champions so despite the fact that he lost the match.
Of course, you can only win the title by Pinfaller's submission, so
therefore Gunther is still the Intercontinental Champion. So yes, they really did the
Lex Luger finish from Summer Slam in ninety three, right down to Gable celebrating
as if he had won the championship. He had his arms in the air,
he was celebrating, he was celebrating this big victory. The best thing
I could say about them doing it this way is that at least they didn't
give him balloons. Right, at least we didn't have a whole bunch of
people come at and hoist them up on their shoulders, and we didn't have
balloons or confetti falling from the ceiling. Was it goofy for Gable to celebrate
the finish of a title match like that knowing that he did not win the
championship? Of course, yes, yes that was silly. But there is
one very big difference, because I know people are going to make the same
comparison that, oh, the Luger and ninety three finish, And yes it
was the Luger in ninety three finish. Here's the big difference. Do you
remember go back to ninety three when that match was made. Jim Cornette had
a stipulation added that if Lex Luger did not win the championship from Yoko Zuna
at SummerSlam, he could never again challenge for the WWE Championship. People forget
that, which made it ten times worse when you're watching that and you see
a Luger not only does he knock Yoko Zuna out of the floor. He's
in the ring counting along with the referee. As the referee is counting to
ten, Luger is counting along with him until Yoko Zuna is counted out,
and then Luger is jumping up and down and celebrating like he just won the
lottery. That's fucking stupid, knowing that he could never again challenge for the
title. That's a very big difference between that and what we got here.
Chad Gable is going to get another championship match with Gunther unlike Luger in ninety
three, because that's what the story dictates. That's the story that they were
telling here in this match. First, he lasted five minutes in that five
minute challenge, right, Guther said, You'll never last five minutes with me,
so he lasted the five minutes a few weeks ago. That was number
one. This was number two. Chad Gable went in there tonight and he
beat Gunther and they made they made the point on commentary that tonight Chad Gable
became the first man to defeat Gunther in a singles match. Since Guther debuted
on the main roster, he has yet to be beaten in a singles match
until tonight. Now he wasn't pinned, but he's still lost. So they
make you know that they're making it seem like Chad Gable has this guy's number.
Nobody has been more successful against this man than Chad Gable has, even
though he hasn't won the title yet. So that's the story that they're they're
going with here. And now, of course Gunther is just furious because this
guy, he's like an annoying fly. He's trying to swat, he just
can't do it. So he's beside himself and he wants to get his hands
around this guy's neck and wring his neck. So now we have to get
the rematch of Payback, but without commercials. See it's always the drawback of
doing these matches on TV is that you have the commercial breaks that interrupt them.
Now we get to see these two and it hasn't been made official yet,
but it will. Now we get to see these two go in there
at Payback in a couple of weeks and do it all over again, but
probably in a longer match without any commercial interruptions. And that's why I'm okay
with what they did. That's why I can't hate on this finish. I
mean, it was the way he was celebrating was goofy. Sure, but
it was the right move to prolong this until we get to the pay per
view. Now, Gunther is eighteen days away from passing the Honky talk Man's
record as the longest reigning Intercontinental champion of all time. He's this close two
beating him out and becoming number one on that list. Payback comes before that,
though, So Chad Gable is going to go with a payback and he's
gonna lose again. He's gonna fall short again of winning the Intercontinental Championship because
you can't possibly beat Gunther a week before he breaks the all time record.
That would just be stupid. So he's gonna win again. But I would
not count out Chad Gable as being the one to ultimately take that championship off
of Gunther. Gunther could win it payback, and then sometime after the record
is broken, they could easily get that title on Chad Gable. I don't
want to see his story come to an end where he loses it payback and
then he kind of fades back into the role that he was in before.
I still think there's mileage left in Chad Gable as a single star on Raw,
the underdog story. People want to see him succeed. People are gonna
want to see him win that championship. They're gonna want to see him be
the one to take down Gunther and take that title. It just can't happen
at Payback because you're gonna be five or six days away from the record.
But what it does do in that match if they have the announcers drive home
the fact that hey, Guther's only a week away from being number one on
the list, It's going to add so much more drama to all the near
falls in that match. And there was some good near falls here in this
match too, But imagine if you're that close to the record and they really
drive that point home and the live crowd knows it. Imagine all the added
drama with the near falls in that match. So that I'm very much looking
forward to because what we got tonight was just it was an appetizer to what
the main course is going to be a Payback, So I really don't have
an issue with them doing what they did here on this show. We had
Byron Saxton who was backstage and he was joined by Cody Rhodes, and Byron
wanted to know how Cody felt about the way Raw ended last week. When
the judgment day left the baby faces laying, Finnbalor was sitting on Cody's chest
and he was posing. Cody said, you know, this setting is not
working, so he grabs the microphone out of Byron's hand. He tells Byron,
come with me. They walk through the backstage area, they come out
into the arena before the live crowd. Because Cody is a man of the
people, a true man of the people. So Cody actually spoke a little
bit of French to the crowd. Reminds me of John Cena learning Mandarin,
so you know, he was John Cena was always somebody who yeah, obviously
he was a company guy, but he would do things like that where he
would learn try to learn other languages so that when he would go to these
places he could at least speak a little bit of it when he was talking
in front of the live I feel like Cody, he's kind of cut from
the same cloth. You know, he's the consummate company guy. He would
do stuff like that. He's probably on his bus going from city to city
with Rosetta Stone on his fucking tablet, you know, trying to learn different
languages. Hey, where are we going in two months? Oh? Okay,
we're going to We're going to Germany. You say, all right,
all right, al Vida Zane, Alvida Zane. That's Cody Rhodes. He
gave a shout out to the new Raw announced team of Michael Colin, Wade
Barrett. He pointed out that the Judgment Day has been in a position where
they have had the numbers advantage, and he said if there was one place
on the map where the numbers would not be in there advantage, it would
be down the road where Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane grew up. He asked
the crowd if they would be in Kevin and Sammy's corner tonight, and of
course they all cheered, and he said that he would be watching that match
very closely. But he said, tonight is about Kevin and sam and we're
all going to watch the Judgment Day rise and fall. So no insight in
this promo as to what the direction for Cody is. This was a Cody
Rhodes promo and we did not find out anything new about the direction of Cody
heading into Payback right now. He has no match. There's no obvious match
for him. There was an obvious match, but they blew that at the
end of the show, but we'll talk about that later. But no inside
in this promo as far as a direction for Cody going into the next show,
it just feels like they're sort of killing time with him. It's almost
as if, you know, not putting the championship on him at WrestleMania was
maybe not the right move. I don't know, he just seems to be
kind of floating around. He's still over. People still like him, but
he's just sort of he's become a floater on the show. You never want
to become a float. After this, we got the explanation for what Shinsky
Nakamore whispered into Seth Rollin's ear when they had their face to face on last
week's show, and it came in the form of a pre taped vignette with
Nakamora speaking in Japanese with English subtitles, and it worked so well to the
point where I don't know how they haven't done more of this in the past.
To be perfectly honest with you, he said, everyone asked me what
I whispered to Seth? Robins say, what could I have possibly said to
fill him with fear? Seth acts like a man who has it all,
A prosperous, charismatic champion. Now as he was talking, I should say,
they were splicing in various highlights and footage of Seth. So it wasn't
just you know, focused on shinskay. It was one of these video packages.
But they'll splice another footage, he said. Seth acts like a man
who has it all, a prosperous, charismatic champion. I know Seth and
I know his weaknesses, he says. I whispered to Seth. I know
about your back. Sets Back has been broken for many years. He lives
in pain, no matter how successful he is. When he hugs his wife,
he's in pain. When he picks up his child, he's in pain.
He is a world champion, yet every day is filled with pain.
And now his worst fears are coming true. He knows that I can break
him once and for all. You see, Seth and I are not so
different. I have a void too. We live by a code that others
do not. In fact, that code is displayed on sets Back, and
then they showed what I assume we're Japanese characters, that Seth has tattooed down
the center of his back. I believe he said, the very same back
that is failing. His body has crumbled under the pressure of his own vanity.
Are you satisfied, Seth with what you've done in your life? Because
I will not be satisfied until I take this burden from you once and for
all. Watch your back, you know, no wonder sets back is broken.
He had to carry this show for so long because Roman Reins refused to
show up on days, so it was the Seth Rollins show. Now this
poor guy has a bad back. This was, as I said at the
beginning of the stream, I thought, the best Shinsky nakamore a promo of
any kind that we have had since he debuted in this company, whether it
be NXT or the main roster. This right here, this was the best.
It had a lot of dialogue. It had way more dialogue than Nakamura
is used to having in his promos, So doing it this way, having
him speak in Japanese and just having the English subtitles in the bottom of the
screen was perfect, absolutely perfect, because again English is not his first language.
So when he's out there in front of the crowd, he'll he'll sometimes
speak Japanese and then Oscar does the same thing, where she'll speak Japanese and
go back and forth. But when he's out there in front of a live
crap because it is not his first language. So he's trying to do these
promos in English, and yeah, it's like this broken English and it's just
little almost like little sound bites. Right, he can go out there the
way that a lot of other people would go out there and just speak for
five or ten straight minutes. It just it just doesn't work. And they've
tried to avoid doing that with him. Well, you don't have to worry
about that here. If you're gonna do something pre tape with subtitles, you
can just let him. You can do a long promo with him. And
the way they shot this, and I thought the way they did this was
very well done and they should they should do more of this. I also
like how they've weaved in a real life situation because many weeks ago, Seth
was on Logan Paul's podcast, and on that podcast, he told Logan Paul,
you know, he's been dealing with a lot of nagging injuries, but
he specifically mentioned the lower back, and he said that he's been trying to
avoid surgery on his lower back since twenty nineteen because it's it's bad and it's
only getting worse. So now in this storyline, Knockamorra has a target and
they've now cultivated this story around the bad back that seth Rawlins had, around
the bad back that he told Logan Paul about all those weeks ago. Now,
was that a scene planted in the Logan Paul interview for this eventual storyline
with schinsk It's possible. I'm assuming it's a real injury that they're now weaving
into the storyline that he does have a bad back. But I like that.
I like the way that they have, you know, weave that into
the story now heading into their pay per view match, and this is great.
Now, we had Rea Ripley the Raw Women's Champion, actually, no,
I guess, not the Raw women's champion. She's the champion on Raw,
but she's no longer the Raw Women's champion. She is the Women's World
Heavyweight Champion, non title match one on one with Candice Lay, someone who
we do not get to see very often on this show, So a rare
in ring match for Candice on the show, and it went about the way
that you would have expected it to go, and frankly, it went exactly
the way that it should have gone. Candice got a little bit of offense
in she had a nice looking lion saw Ripley won quickly though by submission with
her prison lock, which is the standing clover leaf submission that she does.
And that's all this needed to be because they still have done nothing to build
up Candice Larey. So you're gonna go from doing nothing with Candice Larrey to
putting her in the ring with the women's world champion who's twice her size,
and expect, what exactly is Candice supposed to go in there and beat Riya
to where Ria is kicking out at two and a half and coming this close
to beating the women's world champion. Of course not Riya should have gone in
there and exactly what she did. She basically finished her off in record time
and made short work of this woman. And until they take the time to
start building her back up, you know, it's almost like they break these
people down just so they can build them back up. Some of them they
build back up. Some of them they don't bother They just break them down
and leave them in a crumpled little heap. Candice Larrey has got to start
racking up some wins and try to get over before you start. Putting in
the ring with Ria Ripley doesn't make sense too. I have her go in
there and have an ultra competitive match with Ria, so I would have done
the same thing. I would have beaten her quickly. I mean, if
it were me, I probably wouldn't have done the match, but beating her
quickly is exactly what I would have done. Now, when the match was
over, Rachel Rodriguez came at and she was on one crutch. And Ria
and Dom saw this and they start laughing at her, thinking, Hi,
she's still hurt or she wasn't. She took the crutch, she threw it
at Ria, tossed it over to her, and then she hit her with
a big boot. Rodriguez threw Ripley into the barricade and then into the ring.
And Ria fought back, but Raquel put her down with a clothesline.
She followed that with a fall away slam, and Ria rolled out to the
floor. Raquel got a mic and she announced that she was medically cleared to
compete. After all of these weeks, she has finally been medically cleared.
She says she spoke with Adam Pearce and she will challenge Rhea for the championship
at Payback. Their last match together back in NXT was that Last Woman's Standing
match that they had. I know some of you, some of you have
not seen it, some of you have. That was a very good match,
and they were legitimately good friends, and I assume they are still legitimately
good friends going back to their days in NXT. So there's a history there,
there's a friendship there. But that Last Woman's Standing match was very good
stuff. If you need any frame of reference for what these two are capable
of in a match, I suggest you go back and find that match.
I think it was maybe a couple of years ago now. So I'm optimistic
about the match of Payback. I don't know that it'll be as good.
Yeah, false can anywhere, you can brawl all over the place. This
is just a straight wrestling match. But I am optimistic that these two will
be able to go out there and have a good match. Backstage promo with
Tomaso Champa. He was sitting in a chair looking into the camera at all
of us. He said that it's been nine weeks since he returned to Monday
and Iran. He said that it had been a long sixty three days to
reflect on the man that he has been since he's returned. He said that
he would be lying if he didn't want that intercontinental title opportunity that Chad Gable
now has, and a chat actually beat him for it. He spoke about
how he nearly had Nakamora defeated. He said the pressure is like oxygen and
he's dying to take a breath, and then he dropped a reference to doing
it yourself, Dy you said. He said that he is here to take
over. You know. Can we stop with all the teases? Just fucking
do it already. I'm sick to death of these fucking teasers. Every now
and then they'll drop a little di what This is not the first time we've
had a DIY reference on the show. And I still don't know what is
going on with Johnny Gargano and his injury status. I don't know if he's
been cleared, and they're just waiting for the right opportunity to bring him back,
or if he's still hurt and he's not medically cleared and everything is just
sort of in limbo. But I'm done with these fucking teasers already. Just
do it. Just give me what I want. We need d I Y
on the main roster so we can eventually get d I Y against Kevin Owens
and Sammy Za for the tag team titles. That's what I want to see.
Make it happen. Stop talking about it. Let's get the show on
the road here. Come on. I think I'm just desperate for new matches
on the show. I think that's what it is. After I read that
laundry list of main event matches at the beginning of the stream. I am
just desperate for a different tag team match in the Monday Night Raw main event,
or just a different team on the show. So please, for the
love of God, I don't know if Johnny is clear or not. I
hope he is. Enough with the teases, it's just let's get the party
started here. I don't know what they're waiting for, especially because look,
if Triple Ah doesn't make his move soon, the old Man's gonna be out
of the hospital bed. I'm not so sure he isn't already out of the
hospital bed all these rematches. That's the hallmark of Vince McMahon. But if
he's still laid up from his surgery, he ain't gonna be laid up for
that much longer, right we all? We all heard that he didn't like
the way Triple H had started bringing back to the Way, and all of
a sudden it disappeared, and then Sean Ross sapp let it slip in one
of his Q and a's a few weeks ago. When somebody asked him about
it, he said, well, basically that was one of those ideas that
got vinced. Okay, Well, all of a sudden, Vince has surgery,
and we saw we were seeing Candice Larrey, we saw Indy Hartwell on
the show last week. I don't know how much longer this is going to
go on for, so he better not wait too long or he may miss
his shot. Now we had the miss out to the ring. He talked
about La Night losing on Smack Dad. He said everyone is blaming him for
that miss said, Knight fails to realize that there is no room for excuses
on the big show. He said, the Rock messed with his match of
WrestleMania. It's twenty seven and he was still able to retain his WWE championship.
Yes, please don't remind me. Let's not remind people, please of
WrestleMania twenty seven and the worst WrestleMania made of end of all time. Let's
not talk about that, miss said. People will remember him twenty years from
now as a game changer and a trend set, he said, twenty years
from now, people will remember La Knight as a blip on the radar.
You will go down as the Hooba Stank of WWE, the hoobah Stank.
You say, hey, let me tell you something. Crawling in the Dark
and Running Away are fucking awesome songs. Okay, I don't give a shit
what anybody says. And those may be the only two songs of Hoobastank that
I know of or that I liked, but they are two very good songs
and I will fight anybody who disagrees with me on that, he said.
Adam Pierce allowed him to hand pick his opponent tonight, somebody bigger, faster
and stronger than anyone La Knight has been in the ring with, and he
introduced Akira Tozawa. So Tozawa comes to the ring and mis introduces him as
a former twenty four seven champion. He said, it's too bad that title
doesn't exist anymore because it would be perfect for La Knight because it's also a
relic from the attitude error. Do not slander the hardcore title by comparing it
to the twenty four seven title, because the hardcore title was far more entertaining
than that twenty four seven bullshit ever was, so please do not compare the
two. Tozawa answered with a yeah. After the Miss would ask him a
question that started to annoy the miz, who booted him in the face,
and then he called for the bell to ring and as soon as the l
rang to start the match, we hear La Knights music. He comes out.
He's not Canadian, but he came out and he got a huge ovation
from the crowd here in Quebec City. They loved them, so La Knight.
So he ended up joining on commentary for the match. Sozawa drop kicked
a distracted Miss out to the floor and Tozawa hit Miss with a suicide dive.
Night on Commentary mocked the Miss for bringing up the attitude error when he
himself was a background singer for John Cena and The Rock, which I mean,
there's no lies detected there. That's exactly what it was. You're wondering.
The Miss was in the WrestleMania twenty seven main event. If you've ever
asked a question, why why was the Miss in the wrestle Media main event,
It's because the Miss really was not the most important part of that match.
The Miss was actually the least important part, and he came in as
the champion and left as the champion, and yet he was number three because
that whole thing was designed to set up the following years wrestle Media made event.
No WrestleMania Maine event should ever be used solely to build to the next
year's wrestle Media made event. That's one of the reasons. That's one of
the things I hated about that match, other than just John Cena and the
Miss is not a wrestle Madia made event. So again, no lies from
La Night here on commentary. Miss tried to run Tozawa into the announced desk,
but Tozawa actually jumped on top of the desk and then came off executed
a hurricane Rana. That caused Mizz to take a very forced looking bump into
the rings. He wasn't really close to the ring steps, so he sort
of had to dive into them. Sozawa sent Miss back inside. He went
for his huge top rope sent on. Mis got his knees up. Miss
looked over at La Night and he mocked him while setting up for this shot
crushing finale. Sozawa then hooked Mizz into a pin and he got the shock
three count. There was no need for this to go seven minutes afterwards,
Miss argue with the referee, La and I got into the ring and he
put him down with his blunt force trauma finish. I can't complain about getting
more La Night on TV, so that was a good thing seeing him on
the show tonight. Miz, of course looked like a geek, as he
always does. Backstage, Drew McIntyre and Matt Riddle were together and MacIntyre told
Riddle that, look, we're not really working out as a team, and
Riddle was pleading with him. He was pleading with Drew MacIntyre, please please,
they killed by push. I have nothing else. If you don't team
with me, I'm done for He didn't say that, but you know he
was thinking. New Day showed up. Wood said the crowd loved them and
said that you guys have a good thing going. Kofi Kingston agreed. He
said that they had potential, and Wood suggested Mick Riddle as their team name.
See, this is why Drew MacIntyre has to just turn heel and fucking
murder every buddy, because now we're getting into that territory where it's like,
all right, this is not what he needs, mcriddle, This is not
what he needs. If I'm Drew McIntyre, I'm taking a hammer to the
back of this man's head next week, I'm going to bludgeon him on the
show and that will be the end of mc riddle before let's cut this thing
off before it goes any further. This is not what Drew McIntyre needs.
Woods offered them a rematch after they beat the Viking Raiders next week, and
Riddle begged McIntyre to team up with him again. McIntyre smiled, but he
walked off without answering, and their Riddle was just happy that he at least
did not say no. Elsewhere in the back in the land of the Judgment,
day, Ria Ripley Dominic Mysterio asked Damian Priest if he was able to
work things out with Finn Balor, and Priest said no because Balor didn't trust
him and told him to talk to JD mcdunno. And this annoyed Rhea,
who said that they were going to do things her way. She left without
explaining what that meant. Then we had Becky Lynch on her way to the
ring or a promo. And this is where I'll pause and just check and
remind all of you. The gold tonight for be the booker is four hundred
lights, so we are not quite there yet, but we're getting there.
So I don't forget to hit that thumbs up, and maybe we'll do that
later on. I'm trying. I'm trying to find other things to talk about
to avoid having to get into this segment. So how is the weather today
where you were? Man? It was fucking hottest balls here in New York,
man, ninety degrees a real feel of about ninety five. I was
sweating bullets all day, man. I'll tell you the weather is supposed to
cool off though a little bit. This week. Is actually gonna get nice
these next few days, all right, so we have to talk about this.
So Becky Lynch comes to the Ring for a promo and she literally started
the promo by referring to quote, the last few brutal months of this rivalry.
I shit you not, that is exactly what this woman said, the
last few brutal months of this rivalry. Now. I'm sure that she meant
this in a different way than I took that to mean, but boy,
if there was ever a work shoot comment there, it is. Yes,
brutal is a pretty good word to describe how this rivalry is gone over these
last few months. She says, there's been a lot of talk about who
is the greatest, and really it comes down to legacy. What do you
want your legacy to be. I think she's doing great harm to her legacy,
honestly with what she's been doing the last six months. But she says,
how can you turn those lemons into lemonade? And she was wearing she
has a new T shirt. I wish I would have brought a picture of
it up. She has a new T shirt. It literally is a picture
of a giant lemon. And if you're wondering what does that mean? What
does that in reference to it's in reference to her missing Summer Slam, and
she posted a photo I think on Instagram, maybe Twitter also, but she
posted a photo on Instagram and she was at home, and I think she
was cutting lemons and she was something like, when life hands you lemons,
you turned it into lemonade. She was being very passive aggressive on social media
about missing Summer Slam this year. I think Trish was doing the same.
Clearly they were not happy about not being on the show, and so now
she has a T shirt with a lemon on. I would love to know
whose idea this was. I would love to see the stats actually on that
T shirt. I really would because I know, like La Night is doing
really well, Cody's does really well. The Bloodlines merch is still doing very
well. When Bray Wyatt was still around, say what you want to about
Bray, his merch usually did very well. How many people are buying her
T shirt with a lemon on? I would love to I would like to
see those numbers. It's just so fucking lame, but I would love to
see those numbers. Now. She said that her legacy would not be defined
by wins or losses, or by championships. It would be defined by survival.
You can break her bones and put her on the shelf, but she
would always come back. She was unstoppable, not because she always won,
but because she would always fight. She said that she had Trish Stratis in
a cage match up payback, but she still had issues, unresolved issues with
Zoe Starr Stratison Stark interrupted. Trish had a mike and Trish said that she
was happy to be north of the border. Right. She was buttering up
all the Canadian family. You could see where this was going, buttering up
all the Canadian fans. She says she was happy to be north of the
border instead of with the us A holes. And then Trish turned on her
Canadian fans. She turned on Quebec City because she said they meant nothing.
She said, Toronto gets all the love right, trying to get booze here
they booed. She let them know. Well, at least the Maple Leaves
made the playoffs, which reminds me as I watched this terrible promo segment,
It reminds me almost almost it was actually twenty years exactly, twenty years ago,
twenty fucking years. My god, where does the time go twenty years
since the Rock. Hollywood Rock came out and cut that promo in Toronto.
Jesus, it's right, he came out. He was where it. His
vest came to the ring, stronger than a bear, faster than a buck.
The biggest thing I hit Canada because the maple leafs suck. That was
a sweet promo. I was actually one of the best promos of his career.
So she said, well, at least the maple Leaves made the playoffs.
I take it the maple Leaves were pretty terrible in two thousand and three.
I know nothing about hockey, so I mean, that's a legitimate question.
I have no idea. I don't know how the maple Leaves did then.
I don't know how the maple leaves are doing now. I don't really
care. I'm kind of curious, but not really. She said that she
would make like Justin Trudeau and split, playing off the fact that Trudeau recently
separated from his wife. Then the crowd chanted something at her in French,
and I thought that this was pitch perfect. There there were a few things
about this segment, like Becky opening it by talking about how brutal this has
been and I just thought, man, that was that was so good.
But this right here, I think sums this whole thing up as well as
anything I could ever say. They're chanting something at Tray in French, and
she claims that, oh, I don't understand what they're saying. Is she
just quickly moved on in her promo. I didn't understand it either what they
were saying, because I don't speak French. So I checked and apparently what
they were chanting was we don't fucking care. That is what the crowd was
chanting at Trish Stratus during this segment in French. We don't fucking care.
And that really is the story of this entire feud. They've been on this
Canadian tour now for a few weeks. Even the fans in Canada cannot bring
themselves to give a single shit about this feud, and they articulated that their
own language here in this segment. All you have to do is go back
and watch any of these segments that they have had, even the match last
week, was it last I think it was last week, the match last
week, or any of these promo segments when Trish comes out for a promo,
or even Becky. But this has been the case even with a lot
of the Trish promos as well, where she goes out there and she has
a lot of dialogue and she has a lot of things to say. Nobody
cares. This just hasn't worked. Heal Trish fifteen years ago or eighteen years
ago, whatever it was, I remember that being a pretty good run.
When Trish came back, people were responsive to her as a baby face because
she's a legend in their eyes, and she had been gone for a while.
This Heal Trish run just has not worked. There's no way that it's
worked in the way that they had hoped that it would work. And paring
her off with Zoe Stark, the idea was that Zoe would get some rub
from all this, And now here we are deep into this feud, and
I'm not so sure how great of a rub Zoe Stark has really gotten from
this, because when this feud is over, ask yourself this question. Look
at the position that she's in right now when this is over, and I
hope to God that it's over in two weeks of payback, When this is
over, and Zoe Stark, let's say, is back to being by herself.
Is she going to be in a better position than she was when this
first started. I don't think so. She's going to be in the same
exact position that she was in when this started. I don't feel as if
she's been rubbed in such a way, rubbed in such a way where she
now feels like a bigger star than she was three months ago. And we're
not done yet, So who knows. I mean, maybe this ends with
her against Trish, because Trish, you know, turns on her and throws
her aside, and then Zoe wants a match with her. Who knows how
this is going to end. I don't see this as benefiting anybody. It
hasn't really benefited Zoe. It's not benefiting Trish other than the fact that Trish
gets to go out there. I mean, she got her ladder match.
She always says she wanted to be in a ladder match. She got to
be in money in the bank. She's never been in a cage match.
She's gonna get her cage match at Payback. She's getting to cross different items
off of her wrestling bucket list. So maybe she's getting what she wants out
of this, But I don't see how this is benefiting Becky or Zoe or
any any of the people involved. This thing has not been working. It
has not been clicking, and it is not going to work. So the
quicker they can wrap this up and move past this, the better I think
everybody will be. Natrish said the payback would be her first cage match,
and she admitted that she was scared. But she was scared when she debuted
twenty at twenty four years old, no experience, and she killed it.
She was scared when she was the first woman to ever main event Raw,
and she killed it. Let me stop here. I know it shouldn't bother
me. It's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but
it annoys me that this has become the narrative and it is so demonstrably false,
and yet they continue to peddle this narrative of Trish and Leda being in
the very first women's main event in the history of Monday Night Raw, and
because of that, they're these trailblazers. You could say the Trisian and Lead
to call them trailblazers or whatever big words you want to use, But it
is factually incorrect to keep insisting that Trish and Leda were the very first women's
match in the main event of Monday Night Raw. That is not true.
Go back four years before Trish Stratison leda headline Monday Night Raw, and you
had Stephanie McMahon and Lida in the Raw main event for the WWE Women's Championship.
And yes, the Rock was the guest referee, and yes there was
interference from some of the men, and so people may look at that and
go, We'll see it wasn't a true women's main event because there were men
involved. There were penises around the ring, So fucking what. You had
Lida and you had Stephanie McMahon, two women in the main event of Monday
Night Raw in two thousand and actually a pretty memorable moment too, because Leeda
won the Women's Championship that night. And it's just as if it doesn't exist.
It's like in happened. You can go back even further than that,
you can go back to nineteen ninety five Alundra Blaze and Birth of Faye.
We're technically the main event of the show. Now, they didn't close the
show because they had a sit down interview with Jim Ross and Shawn Michaels that
did, but as far as in ring, technically, that was the main
event of the show, and that was in nineteen ninety five. So again
this narrative, I don't know how this just became sort of accepted to where
even online people talk about this fish and later two thousand and four first Raw
main event bullshit, No, that's not true. I'm kind of shocked,
to be honest with you, because for all to talk about the women's revolution,
and Stephanie McMahon used to come out there and champion that, and she
would be the face of it and everything, almost like she was taking credit
for it. I'm surprised. I don't want to credit her with being in
the first women's main event are Raw. You would think that's exactly what they
would do, Stephanie mcmah and it was the first ever women's were on main
event. Maybe they think they'll get blowback for it if they pushed that narrative.
I don't know, but it's about time you put an end to this.
It's not true. So Trish said, once again, she finds herself
in a position where she has to prove herself and she was sick of having
to prove herself and Becky would see a side of her that she hasn't seen
before. She said, Becky should be scared, because you're not going to
survive this one, bitch, and Becky pretended to be scared and then announced
that she was going to be wrestling Zoe Stark on Raw next week and a
falls count anywhere match, and not wait for this to be over. We
have Chelsea Green, one half of the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, found
herself a new partner. And do you know how she found herself a new
partner. Piper Niven, who has not been on the show in months,
randomly showed up last week and said I'm your partner, and now we have
new tag team champions. So that's how they resolved that whole issue. They
had an match on this show against Caden Carter and Katana Chance. Carter and
Chance they hit a very nice double team move on Chelsea. The referee,
though, did not count the pin because she did not see them make the
tag. Piper then pulled Carter to ringside Ranner into the announced desk. Back
inside, Piper hit Chance with a crossbody block splash and she scored the pin
to win. The match that barely lasted ninety seconds. I want to say
this went maybe a little over a minute thirty. This division, and I
use that word loosely because there really is no women's tag team division. It
doesn't exist, but let's pretend that it does. This division has been absolutely
decimated. So in their infinite wisdom, what do they do? They decide
to squash the legitimate women's tag team that they have in the entire company.
Cayden Carter and Katana Chants are a very good team. They've been partners now
for several years down in NXT former n XTA Women's Tag Team Champions. They've
really created this great chemistry between them to where they have become a legit tag
team and they get squashed like a bug, just like that. Good job.
A lot of brain dead, fucking idiots in this company because they insist
on keeping these tag team titles, yet they have no intention of creating an
actual tag team division. So I am trying to understand exactly what the logic
is behind keeping these useless titles. If this is what they are going to
do with the few legitimate teams they have in the division, it just doesn't
make sense to me. I have no problem with them shining a spotlight on
Piper Niven. Piper Niven is very good. Piper Niven has been missing for
a long time. They never bought to explain why she just randomly reappeared.
Fine, maybe she fell into a time warp and she finally found her way
back. But there are other ways that you can shine a spotlight on this
woman without doing it at the expense of Cayden Carter and Katata Chains. One
of your only fucking teams seth Rawlins was in the back. It was being
interviewed by Jackie Redman. He encouraged the crowd to sing his song, and
so they did. Jackie then asked him about what Shinsky Nakamore said earlier about
his back, and Rollins got serious. He said that he does have two
fractures in his lumbar spine. He said that he's been living with it for
over four years now. He said it's something that will continue to get worse,
not better, and he doesn't know how much longer he'll be able to
do things at the level that he currently does. The matter, he got
very hot here about Nakamora mentioning his wife life and his daughter said that Knackamora
better be prepared to face him man demand. He said, Nakamora was not
even at RAW tonight. He was in a television studio thousands of miles away.
He said that he was going to give Knackamora one more chance to play
his little mind games. He said he could prove to the world that he
is an honorable warrior. He said that he would be in the center of
the ring next week, dressed to the nines with the world title around his
waist and the whole world chanting his song. The main event was Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane against the Judgment Day that you don't know which episode of RAW
I'm referring to, could be any number of them, but I am referring
to tonight's show. We just did not know which two members of the Judgment
Day it was going to be. Damian Priest came out. Rea Ripley dragged
out Finn Balor, and she told him, you two are teaming up tonight.
Whether you like it or not, you two are going to be tag
team partners. We know who wears the pants in this family. I've said
before, Rio Ripley is the real leader. Of the Judgment Day. It's
not Finn Balor, it's Rio Ripley. She proved that tonight. So she
forced Balor and Priest to put aside whatever differences they'd been having, and they
were challenging Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane in this match. Owens was all over
Balor. Priest grabbed his briefcase. Zane though claubert him and he dropped the
briefcase. JD McDonogh was out there. He tried tossing the case to Finn
Balor, but Owens intercepted it and he bonked Balor in the head with the
briefcase, the referee standing right there. He did it in full view of
the referee, and so the referee called for the disqualification. Judgment Day swarmed
Owens and Zane. Some people in the crowd chanted Cody, Cody Rhodes,
who was in his gear. So he must have had a sense of what
was going to happen here because he was in a suit. Earlier he was
the main event of the show, which he was not a part of,
but yet he was in his gear. So there you go. Cody Hey
not only a man of the people, but also always on the ready because
you never know when you may be needed. So Cody ran down to the
ring. Even the odds, he challenged them to a six man tag team
match. Adam Pierce came out and made it official, and so our new
made event was already in progress. On the other side of the commercial break,
we had the judgment Day taking turns hitting moves on Kevin Owens, including
Rio Ripley, who body slammed Kevin Owens on the floor and then she gave
him a whole series of crotch chops and told him to suck it. Zane
eventually got the hot tag and gave Priest a Tornado DDT for two. Balord
distracted the referee, allowing Ripley to yang Zane off the top rope. Priests
followed with a choke slam, but Owens broke up the cover. Owens then
threw Balor out of the ring. Dominic tagged in, Zane got his knees
up on a frog's play from Dominic. Cody reappeared on the apron after he
had been knocked off a few minutes before Zane made the tag, and Rhodes
hit Dom with a disaster kick, caught Dom and Priest with a double Cody
Cutter Rhodes delivered across Roads to Baller before Dominic tried a schoolboy for two.
Cody gave dom a cross Roads and then Zane gave him a Hellulah kick,
and finally Kevin Owens finished him off with a stunner for the win. After
the match, Zane grabbed the mic and said, hey, Judgment Dave,
better luck next time, ay Bud, and he thanked Quebec and the baby
Faces embraced as the show went off the air. No major developments in dismatch
with the Judgment Day like we've had over the last few weeks other than just
the usual arguing that they've been doing of late. Yet another loss that will
continue building to whatever this either split or whatever kind of The final resolution to
this is going to be with the members of the Judgment Day, and I
hope it's not kicking someone out of the group just yet. There's still time,
I think, to get to that point. But no major developments on
that, and the question is what do you do now with Cody at payback.
Cody is one of the biggest stars in the entire company, one of
the top two baby faces on Raw along with seth Rollins. Rollins has a
match, Cody does not. What do you do with Cody? The obvious
match to do to get them all on the show would have been Cody,
Ko and Sammy against the Judgment Day and they gave it away here on this
show. But then again, after what I said earlier, Hey, I
mean, shit hasn't stopped them before. So even though we got that tonight,
we'll probably get it to get a payback. I mean, really,
what's stopping them from doing it again? If they don't, there is the
possibility that they could do Cody and Damian Priest in a singles match. And
this was an idea that I talked about on the podcast just yesterday, getting
the briefcase up for grabs and you could have it for the money in the
bank briefcase because j D mcd made the point a few weeks ago that you
know, you guys, Priest and Balor, the reason that you guys are
having issues is because of that briefcase. You've got to get rid of that
briefcase. Maybe that's their way of getting rid of the briefcase and Cody wins
the case. The other thing is I don't see Cody carrying around the money
in the bank case for months and months just to wait and cash in a
WrestleMania But that is a possibility. Otherwise, I don't know. I don't
know what else you do with Cody. There is no other obvious match for
him at this point other than just running back the match that we had tonight.
But I mean, my god, how many times are we going to
get the same match, the same main event, over and over and over
again on this fucking show. It's sickening. It is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Thankfully, the people involved are very good at what they do. It
would be a lot worse if they were having shitty matches and we got them
over and over and over again. At least they're good. Matches are very
good sometimes, But that doesn't make it any less ridiculous that they keep doing
the same thing over and over and over again. It's like they're completely devoid
of ideas on what else to give us. And that's not for you to
come up with, that's not for me to come up with. I mean,
I pitch ideas all the time. That's their fucking job. They have
a whole creative team. They pay people to do this. This is the
best they could come up with every week. This is what creative comes up
with. This is their creative idea every fucking week, to give the same
match over and over again. I feel like I'm watching this show on repeat.
It's ridiculous. Here's a Twitter poll fifty nine percent thumbs up, forty
one percent thumbs down for this show. I think that's generous. At Solemn
Monster, it's where you can go ahead and vote it really really honestly it
does. It feels like ground Tug Day every single week with this show.
I feel like I'm watching Groundhug Day. Let's go to your super chats and
see if you guys agree. Solo is done. Yeah, Solo is done.
Solo is done. He's done with this show. Groovy Goose, thank
you for the four ninety nine. So if I had to pick the Matt
Rushmore of wrestling commentary, I would put four different pictures of you, Solo
Bus, keep up the great work. You're the best. Well, I
wouldn't want Matt Rushmore to be as repetitive as these raw made events, so
I think we could come up with every other face. That's very nice of
you say. I appreciate it Lady fire Panda with the twenty dollars super chat.
People use the term buried or burial if they don't know what they mean,
and you educate them by giving some examples of what a burial is.
Well, yeah, I mean DDP basically going from main a ventor to perverted
stalker and having the Undertaker's wife hin him on television. I'd say that's a
pretty good example of a burial. Don't don't say that to Bruce Pritchard,
though, because he'll tell it. He'll give you fifteen fucking reasons why it
wasn't a burial. Oh, we were just trying to build him up.
We were just trying to build him up. Really, one of the few
guys who got over, truly got over on his own as a real star
during that Monday Night War period in WCW. And that's what they gave.
You're gonna tell me that's not a burial if I had to give you some
other examples of burial. I mean, look, I look at what happened
to Test after Triple H and Stephanie did their wedding angle in ninety nine.
Test was getting over pretty good in ninety nine, especially after that match he
had at Summer Slam with Shane McMahon, the whole lover or Lever match,
and he had Stephanie McMahon on his arm and he was getting over and then
Triple H married Stephanie and it was all downhill after that protest. That's a
good example of it. How about John Cena getting DDT on concrete, out
gunned, out numbered in the main event of Summer Slam at coming Back,
making his own comeback and beating the Nexus, which she's been the hot thing
on television for the past few months. I'd called that in burial, even
even Sena himself. From what Chris Jericho said in his book after it was
over, acknowledge, Yeah, maybe that was a mistake. Yeah you think,
Yeah, I think it was. You know what I also I you
know what I was throw on that list also, I would throw Brock Lesner
and Kofi Kingston from that first SmackDown on box. Kofi Kingston had six months
is WWE champion, the bell rings, he lunges at Brock, Brock picks
him up Fbot one three, buried in eight seconds. Goodbye Kofi Kingston,
He's still He's not only was he buried he was buried back down on the
See, there's levels to this. This is how you have to understand this.
There's levels to this. The top level is the main event level in
this company, right, that's like the top soil, and then underneath you
have the middle that's the mid card, and then all the way on the
bottom is well the bottom of the car. Right, the people who are
not stars at all. Kofi Kingston is right in the middle. He's still
stuck there ever since twenty nineteen because he got planted firmly into the ground.
He's not on the top soil. He's the next level down, and that's
pretty much where he's been stuck ever since. So I would call that a
burial. I would throw at you, boy, you got me all fired
up now, I would throw at you FTR at raw twenty five when they
did that show from the Manhattan Center and they got beat and then they had
to take all the different moves from all the members of the click yeah.
Or how about that segment where the usos were eavesdropping on them in the showers?
Or are they doing in the shower? You know what? I don't
even want to know, So I'll throw them on that list too, And
just to kind of round this out, I would throw Lacy Evans up.
Lacy Evans I just talked about her on the podcast just yesterday. She has
gone from WWA. I should have played taps when I started the stream in
her honor. But that's a great example of somebody who was being pushed by
Vince McMahon and they tried to push her multiple times, and then she went
from that to not getting any television time at all, being squashed in two
minutes by Charlotte. That to me is when you talk about burial or buried,
because it is a very overused term and I don't use it very often
myself. A true burial would be somebody who isn't featured on television at all,
somebody who's a benchwarmer in the back and catering, somebody who barely gets
mentioned, barely gets any attention. When they do get on television, it's
usually two minutes where they're not even the focus the announcers, they're not really
talking about them. It's almost like they don't even exist. That is the
true definition of a burial. When you're not even good enough to get television
time, it's as if you have no value to the company. It's exipt.
You don't exist. So somebody who maybe that you like, who maybe
is not winning a lot of matches at the moment, but they're getting a
lot of television time. It really depends on the situation. I don't know
that I would call that a burial. In situations it might be, but
those are really the people who I would say are the ones that are being
quote unquote buried. It's yeah, someone who's in a position where you can't
even get television time, and when you do, you're not even the focal
point of what's going on on screen. You're an after thought. That's a
very anyway. I hope that answers that question for you. Emma. With
the seven dollars supertan, you know what I'd like to bury. I'd like
to bury this show, and we buried tonight's show. Emma says thank you
to all the concerned listeners who were worried about me last week. I can
assure you I made it out of the MTS Center and I'm alive and well.
Crowd was very loud in real life last week. Emma, thank you
the Data and Boys podcast. If Keith Lee would have gotten in shape,
would he have found as much success on the main roster as the ring in
general? I think that in WWE, I think that that's probably what Vince
McMahon would have liked, would have been for him to lose some weight,
because I'm sure that worked against him in their eyes. So do I think
he would have had the success that Gunther is having. I don't know about
that. I won't go that far and say that he would have had the
same level of success. I think, you know, as far as in
ring, Keith Lee is very good and he can do things for a bigger
man that are very impressive. But Gunther as a performer in the ring is
just on another level. And we're also talking about two different things here because
Keithley is a baby facing Gunther as a heel, and there is a difference
in their working styles because of that. But I don't want to take anything
away from Gunther and say, oh, yeah, if Keith Lee had just
lost thirty pounds or fifty pounds, he'd be in the same position that Gunther
is in. No. I think Gunther is just that damn good. But
I think Heathley definitely hurt himself probably in the eyes of Vince McMahon, Naughty
Delicious Chicken with Labor. I honestly miss Kevin Patrick and Corey Graves on a
RAW. Their commentary kept me entertained. I don't know if that's a joke
tweet or not. Like I don't miss I don't miss them at all.
Of all the things you could complain about about RAW, I certainly am not
complaining about the announcement. I think Michael Colin, Wade Barrett are doing just
fun. I Renzo, It's obvious what Knockle Morris said to Rollins no speak
English, Dick the cock Johnson. Candice would have been booked better by Tony
Kahn now she would. If Candice Larrey was in AW, she'd be wrestling
on fucking Rampage and Dark Elevation every week when Arc Elevation was still a thing.
She would not in that women's division, which has its own problems.
No, Candice Larray would not be any better off there than she is in
WW Bobby's world. If Edge goes to AW instead of WWE in twenty twenty
and decides to form the judgment day there, who do you think he brings
in? He's not He's not going to do that, So it doesn't matter
because he's not gonna do it. I mean the judgment day that he should
just take over from Malachi Black and just he already has the House of Black.
Were talking about a dark faction. We have literally a faction called the
Dark Order. But it doesn't matter because there's there's no way that's gonna happen.
Peter Cordieri, what up? My peep's ready for the Salom Monster match.
Peter, Slo Monster has a lot of love for you, brother.
I appreciate that comedic genius. I feel like I heard you review the main
event a lot. Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I'll bet you do.
You've heard me talk about that main event a lot, quite a few times,
in fact, quite a few times. Naughty Delicious Chicken with flavor,
the same formula, the same match, and the same routine over and over.
It's like missionary impossible positions, every single mother missionary impossible? Is that
what you call it? Will I be in London for all? In No,
I will be right here. I'll be watching the show and I will
be live on YouTube next Sunday as soon as it is over. That is
where I will be. Christopher Smith with the four ninety nine love the presentation
of Nakamura. He came off like an anime villain and it was just so
freaking badass. I would not mind him doing more promos like this, I
said before. I think it was the best promo I've ever seen him give,
or any sort of promo as far as the presentation of it, in
his entire time with this company, and I hope they do more. And
as the bro as a heel a mellow, he thoughts, it's not impossible.
I think it would be an interesting swerve. He goes heel instead of
McIntyre. Can you pull it off? I don't know, because it would
really require him, I think, to be more serious, more off.
We've seen him get serious, but it's been fleeting. I don't think he
can just play the same character. I think he would have to change it
up a little bit. I don't know what kind of range he he would
have. Peter, thank you for the nineteen ninety nine Look at this Peter,
Peter coming in hot tonight, Naughty Delicious, says I Triple dog dare
Dirty Dom to yell. Cody Rhodes yelled to Cody Rhodes that the legend of
Zelda sucks and threatened to feed Pharaoh chocolates instant heat. We have got Arabian
night ww we is short on made of vendors compared to aw same five people
made of venting for months now, especially on raw, we need some NXT
call ups. What are your thoughts? I have no idea why bron Breaker
is still an nx D. I am at a total loss. Why is
he still an NXT? He is doing absolutely nothing nothing. They'll feed him
a random match every now and then against someone like a Baron Corbyn, you
know, or von Wagner. He wrestled Iliad Dragone. They had a very
good match recently. But he's completely just directionless. Right now, he's done
all that he can possibly do. He's advanced enough that I think him on
the main roster. I would not say that it would be too soon,
right Some people get called up too soon. I think it's the perfect time
to get somebody like him up on the main roster. Now. I would
not thrust him into the main event right away, but now is the time
to call him up so that you can start building him and maybe six months
or nine months from now he can be in the main event or a year
from now. He could be sniffing main events on RAR smackgown. He shouldn't
be doing that out of the gate. That's why I think it's important you
get him up there now, start building him now. I have no idea
why he is still stuck in annex. We have wh one team anyway,
thank give it. The four ninety nine that Japanese text on sets back is
the Bushido Samurai code. Okay, there you go. I was wondering what
the significance of it was. So he's got the Samurai code down the crack
of his back seth rollins. Does Chris a XC any shot that you bring
back members only Q and A. Yes, it's just a matter of time
timing more than anything else. For the Legends Tier members, I want to
get back to uploading more retro audio as well, for those who don't know.
If you're a Legends Tier member, which is the slightly higher membership tier.
The first thirteen at least thirteen episodes of the SoundOff that I ever gave
it in two thousand and seven into the beginning of two thousand and eight,
those are up because the first I think it's like eighty four. Episodes of
the show that I ever did are not available anyway, So on the like
pod Bean and now Spreaker, I think it's start. I want to say
it starts from episode eighty four or eighty five. So for the Legends Tier
members, I started uploading the original but I have them all and I got
thirteen deep. Then I got sidetracked because I have to do editing on all
of them for like music or stuff that may have to be cut. So
verse thirteen are up. If you want to hear what was going on in
the world of wrestling from my perspective back in two thousand and eight, it
was like a lifetime Chris also says that WrestleMania forty is Cody Roman two.
Isn't the result obvious and then anti climactic? Noway Roman wins again? Right,
Oh, there's always a chance for Roman poms. You have these you
have these fucking idiots who want him to beat Hogan's brigman. There are people
out there who actually want him to beat Hull Coogan brit But now, I
don't think it makes it anti climactic to the point where they shouldn't do the
match because there's a story being told, and I think there are people who
would be genuinely worried that they would he would do it again because they want
Roman to beat whatever the next imaginary record is. So it might make an
anticlimactic for some people. But I think if they tell the story the right
way and they go out there and have an excellent match. They were having
an excellent match that WrestleMania this year, so we know they have it in
them. I think it'll make for a great moment if he gets that win,
and you know it's the fortieth WrestleMania, he gets that big final kind
of bit of closure there to the story. You've finished the story, you
don't you don't deviate from that just because, oh, well, people think
he's gonna win, so we can't do that. It's like when Christian came
back to the company in two thousand and nine, I think it was two
thousand nine or two ten, and he was going to originally do something at
the Royal Rumble. I want to say it was involving Matt and Jeff Hardy,
but word leaked and Vince mcmanson, well, we can't do it now
because people know. So they sent Christians to ECW to the ECW branding stuff.
If the idea is good enough, you'd go with it. Even if
some people think they know what's gonna happen, right it hasn't happened yet,
go with it. He changed the whole plan because people knew. We can't
do it now anyway. Chris saith that not you, Vincent, naughty delicious
chicken with flavor. I'm ready to order a double mcriddle sandwich. That sounds
positively all trill Mexican three oh five, three years ago, on a special
edition of aw Dynamite Saturday Night, in the main event, mister Brody Leaked
defeated Tody Rhodes with a t NT championship. That was a very memorable squash
that night. I remember that very well. Devin from NJ, Just what
do I need to do exactly to be a top podcaster, wrestling commissioner and
sex symbol like Solomon? Well two out of three ACA. You just gotta
work your ass off, That's all you gotta do. You gotta work your
ass off. You gotta have some degree of talent at least a little bit,
and then you two can be a top podcaster and a I don't know
about the commissioner apartment. You could be a top podcast. You just gotta
put the work in. Zachariah Sitchin with the nineteen ninety nine Zachariah Thank You.
Seth should lose the strap to Shinskate in my humble opinion, but I
doubt it happens. And when should Cody win priests money in the bank?
Briefcase? Also, Seth should join the club. I'm thirty years young and
my back be killing me as well. Yeah, man, let me tell
you. You know, if I go for like a walk in the park,
like I've been the Central Park, right in Central Park, it's it's
a like on a nice summer day, it's a beautiful place to go for
a walk. I don't get into the city much anymore, but Central Park
is gigantic, and I would be in Central Park and I'm walking from where
it was like the zoo is right like around that area, and I'm just
walking straight back. Within like ten minutes, my lower back is barking.
I don't know why, but it's like it's sore. I gotta turn around,
like all right, we're done here, I gotta leave. And that
was like years ago, So yeah, I don't know. I don't know,
man, it happens to everyone. I guess it's terrible phenomenal beard something
I have never had. Hey Solo wanted to show appreciation. Much love to
you, phenomenal Beard. Thank you that that beard is quite fit. Hbk
C eighty three. In my opinion, what is the best scene of versus
aj styles match? I'm partial to their Summer Slam match in twenty sixteen because
I was in the building at the Barclay Center and it was a fantastic match.
But I know a lot of people will mention the Royal Rumble match,
and I can't argue that. What's so impressive about the Royal Rumble twenty seventeen
match Rasina one number sixteen. I think it was they did that match,
and I don't think they left it the ring of single time. I don't
think they went to the floor one time during that entire There were no table
spots, no throwing the guy into the ring steps, no fighting into the
crowd or into into the aisle way or anything. They just kept it in
the ring and they had a great wrestling match that was at the Alamo.
But the Summer Slam twenty sixteen match is the one that I would do.
Christopher Smith. If this is still happening, come next month with Monday Night
football, Raw is going to be brutal to watch. You think Raw is
in trouble from Monday Night Football, wait, wait until we get into the
college football season. When it comes to aw collision, Collision is still stuck
in the four hundred thousand range. Now imagine when the sports competition picks up.
Oh boy one, Bill Phil is going to become half a mill fill
on a regular basis. Actually he'll be He'll be lucky to be half a
mill fill. I think it's gonna be a lot worse than that Druvy goose.
Raw sucks and it's almost as bad as the Mets, well almost.
We have got Libido Bell with that twenty five dollars perfectly timed remode, super
chick. Did Hulk Hogan hurt the business more than he helped? Or is
it the other way around? Young fan here was not alive or Hogan.
You know, he did a lot of harm. I think to a lot
of people, and I think he was very selfish. But there are a
lot of stars and top stars in the business who are very selfish, and
I think to some degree you have to be si, but he was really
sick. And I think when you look back on his career, like,
I don't know that I would be sitting here right now doing a wrestling ship
if I didn't grow up at that time during that period when Hogan was on
top and Hull com Ania, the Hull whole Comnia thing was really first,
like nationally taking, so I can't be the only one. He helped bring
a ton of fans into wrestling that probably still watch even to this thing.
And he was the golden goose for so long for Vince McMahon, and he
brought a lot of eyeballs to the product. And I have a lot of
fond memories involving Hogan from my wrestling fanding in the Grand Scheme? Did he
do more harm than good? As far as Vince McMahon, he did great.
You know, he did great things for Vince to the business as a
whole. I think it's a little murky er. I can't give you a
clear cut answer. I think it just cuts both ways. I think he
is somebody who clearly did a lot of business and made a lot of money
for a lot of people. But he also just all about Hogan all the
time. There are people in wrestling who you hear stories about, or you
just watch the way that they're utilized on TV who were very giving and putting
other people over and working with different people. You know, It's just it's
some people operate that way, other people operate a different way. Hogan was
one of those people who operated under it's Hogan first and everybody else is a
distance second. And that hurt a lot of people. But like I said,
business wise, how can you argue with the success that he had in
the money he made. I think it just cuts both ways. It's hard
to give a definitive answer one way or the other. And then because I
look at it like this, also, not only was he the face of
that Golden era national launch that Vince McMahon had in the mid eighties, the
Rock and Wrestlinger, Right, He's the only guy in the history of the
business who can honestly say that he was the face of two different boom periods.
He was the face of that mid eighties expansion when WWF, when Nashal.
He was the face of the nWo era of WCW, the one and
only era of that company where they were actually beating Vince mcmay. Only time
it's ever happened, only time it likely will ever happen, and that was
as a heel. One is a baby face, the other as a heel.
That's just something that's never been done before. And we all know the
success the WCW had and that whole period. That doesn't happen without the nWo
taking off the way that it did. And I don't think the nWo works
without Hogan agreeing to be the third man. So make a pick of that
which you base beer has got of seduction burials Hassan Taz sandow bagwell demon rvdo
six r vdo sick. I mean he buried himself. So you know,
I put that all on the company we got doctor Bropio. I banned myself
from watching Raw during Monday Night an Arabian Night, two thousand ten dollars super
Chat. Do you think injuries to Braun, Orton, Bray and Biggie have
hurt the main events scene in WW getting too many repeated matches, that mass
firing in twenty twenty, and stars like Brian and Cole leaving hurt their death.
Well, it's you know, got this thing all the drag and the
supposed grand split, so they didn't have that, they would have a greater
access to more stars who could go back and forth between the two shows,
right, Does it hurt their depth by having injuries right now? Of course,
injuries are always going to hurt me death. Tony Kahn is experiencing that
right now as he tries to put together the biggest card in the history of
his company. He's been hit by a whole multitude events. So injuries are
always gonna are always going to be a problem. And I don't know the
Biggie would be in the main events scene right now, even if he was
able to wrestle, he may have ended up, you know like COPEI,
where he gets to taste the main event for a while and then ends up
being relegated back into the tag team you see. So yeah, I mean
that definitely plays a role in it. But that doesn't change the fact that
there's people who are on the roster that you could push or you could rotate
out of main events just to kind of freshen things up a little bit.
You can have non main eventors in a main event every now and then against
an existing main event, right, if they wanted to, they could have
headlined Raw with Chad Gable against Guther. They didn't do it because of the
finish. If they were gonna have a clean finish, if they were gonna
have those guys go out there for fifteen minutes, two three commercial breaks and
then Gunther wins in the end, I would have had lined the show with
that, like it's okay to do that every now and then break things up
and break up the monotony of the same match as over and over again.
You can't just say, oh, well it's injuries. There's nothing they can
do hands your tide. There's really nothing they can do. They should be
able to come up with enough different matches that they can feature in the main
event where they're not repeating themselves every week or every other week. That's not
an excuse. I wonder what the main event for Raw next week will be.
Anybody want to take bets and what you think the Raw main event will
be next Monday night. So thank you for hitting the goal. The goal
was four hundred likes. We are now at four sixty eight and Clymie boy,
it would be nice if we hit five hundred before we get out of
here. Would that'd be something we'll hit five hundred later on, but you
know, hit that live would be pretty cool. Bass Beers with the four
dollars super Chat four twenty to be exact, Jeff versus Jeff or Aki Bono
versus Big Show by Sell, I assume Jeff versus Jeff you are referring to
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre deathmatch last week Big Show and Akay Bono is something that
I try to block out of my mind because just the image of Big Show
in that I don't know, I forgot what you call it. It's not
a gee, it's whatever. Whatever. The sumo fucking diaper he was wearing,
they got a close up shot. Oh god, you know what I
think? Honestly, I think I would take leather face in that situation.
I think I would, Ladies and gentlemen. And it is now time to
be the booker. It is time to be the booker where we randomly book
ourselves a handful of wrestling matches and see how it turns out. Why what
purpose does it serve? No purpose at all? It's just fucking fun,
except when I book a pretty shitty match, which unfortunately, has happened quite
a bit recently, but I think our fortunes are going to turn around there,
I really believe. So let's start with the men. Let's see all
those B two B emojis from our channel members in the chat. All right,
here we go. We begin with the Miss holding the WWE Championship on
the night that the Miss and his promo talked about being WWE Champion. We
land on the Mids as w w E chick. It's almost like this thing
knows, it just knows the mis against Razor Ramone. Oh that's you know.
I'm a Razor Ramone fan. I am a Razor Ramone fan. But
on the other hand, it's the Mids that just don't work for me.
Razor Ramone would make short work of the Mids. Razor's Edge one, two
three, Thanks for coming all right now here. This is always just a
disaster in the waiting here. With the women's be the Booker, I don't
know why. Plenty of good choices in here, but we've had some pretty
bad women's be the booker picks. You begin with Trish Stratus. Everybody,
how about that we from the Miss who we were just talking about on this
show. To Trish Stratus, who talked about debuting when she was twenty four
years old, and she looked she looks twenty four here in this picture.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was from her rookie year in two thousand.
In fact, I'm almost positive that was from her rookie year in two thousand.
Tris Stratus was was not known to be a very good wrestler back when
she made her debut. She did get better, but it was over time.
Trish Stratus against a J Lee, I can I can get that.
I can support that. I like aj Lee, I like Trish. I
though you may not think so based on my critique of that segment tonight,
but I actually am a Tris Stratus fan. Trish Stratus and aj Lee,
I gotta give that a thumbs up. Now we come to the tag teams.
Who will it be? What teams will we land on here on this
fine Monday night? We begin with the Bang Bang Gang Bullet Club Gold,
Jay White and Juice Robinson. That's what they call themselves, The Bang Bang
Gang. I guess not pornoll like that once the Bang Bang Gang. All
right, here we go, So Jay White and Juice Robinson. I'm gonna
be taking on Penta and Ray Phoenix, the Luca Bros. Bullet Club Gold
and the Luca Bros. That is a match that we probably will end up
seeing at some point, and I think it will be an excellent match.
So two out of three, I'm pretty happy with that performance. I'm pretty
happy with that compared to what we've been doing. I'm pretty happy with that
performance. Paul Carpenter, how can you do? I liked them Is and
Razor Ramone. They are the best intercontinental champion. Yes, but you have
to understand something here. I'm trying. I'm trying very hard to book main
event caliber matches here. I'm not trying to book an opener here the curtain
jerk. I'm trying to book a main event. That's my goal here.
That is my goal, all right. So two out of three I'm pretty
happy with that. That's a good way to start the week. I can't
complain. Let's put this raw show in the rear view, shall we please?
Look Let's look ahead. We look ahead to Dynamite. We had a
wild Dynamite stream last Wednesday, by the way, between just the discussion and
everybody going crazy in the Chat for some reason into the super Chat it was
it was nuts on Wednesday. So let's see if we can replicate that this
week, because we are getting ever closer to the Wembley Stadium show. Actually,
I guess this is the go home Dynamite this week. That's right,
this is the final Dynamite until all In, and I believe they're actually taping
Collision on Wednesday. I believe, So we'll talk about Dynamite on Wednesday night
and then we have smacked out on Friday. I mentioned on the show yesterday
the podcast the main flagship probably going to go up Saturday Saturday night because Sunday
one o'clock Eastern, actually noon Eastern if you count the pre show is all
In, and so when that pay per view is over, probably at eleven
o'clock at night, I will be alive on YouTube to recap the entire thing
for you. So I will not be in London like some other people will
be, but I will be here as I always am. I will be
here because I need to be here for all of you. So it's gonna
be a busy week. I hope you will join me for all of the
festivities. Retro koh dropping that four twenty. Let's not hate on Miss Razor
could pull a good main event out of here. So you think I should
have given that the bell is that? Is that what you're saying. I
made a mistake by giving that the IC. I think you're just disappointed.
I could have gone three for three and I gave that the buzzer instead.
Razor Ramone against them is is not a match that I'm gonna sit here and
fantasy book and go man. I wish all the matches I wish we could
have gotten, you know what, the match that got away from us,
the match that I really wish we could have gotten, Razor Ramone against the
fucking Miss. You can enjoy that match. Arabian Night says, I feel
bad for Triple H. He lost a lot of his Black and Golden XT
talent into three years to aw and never got the shot to book those to
book them on the main roster. Like Undisputed Eric Keithley andrad a FTR and
Swerve. I don't think Swerve liked Triple As very much. Yeah, I
don't think Swerve was was very happy in the situation that he was. But
you know what, some of the other ones, I think one day,
Triple h will probably get the chance to book them again, especially Androti Bass
Beerist, God of Seduction fifteen dollars super chests, says Wrestle Madia twenty one
was my first wrestle Madia. I was ten. Kurt Angle against Shawn Michaels
was so good that my grandmother came into the room and she literally was completed
or compelled. She was compelled watching Sean try to escape the ankleogue master class.
Indeed, gwo there's a reason why Bobby Heen And after he watched that
match called it the greatest wrestling match that he had ever seen. Think about
how much ground that covers. Think about all the years he spent in the
business as a wrestler and a manager, as a fan. It was a
master class between two of the best of all time. We got we got
Kurt Sean. I only wish we would have been able to get Kurt and
Brett. I think that would have been just as good, if not better.
All right, I think that covers all of your messages. I think
I got y'all. I got you all in there. Thank you for the
love and the support. I appreciate it. Be well, stay safe,
have yourselves a great rest of your Tuesday, since technically it is now Tuesday,
and we'll be back here on Wednesday or the Dynamite stream. Hey,
the Winston slip getting one in here at the buzzer. Why do you think
we never got to Jericho versus Kurt Few? We did. We did in
two thousand. They wrestled for the European and the Intercontinental titles heading into Wrestle
Media two thousand. It wasn't like a month long thing, but technically we
did. We did, and Kurt was not even at his peak. He
wasn't even didn't like peak Kurt Angle four, So I guess, yeah,
we missed that on that, But Jericho and Kurt, we did get them
in two thousand. I'll see you guys on Wednesday from the Dynamite trip.
Take care,