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Raw was live tonight in Quebec City
as their tour through Canada continues, and

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they were a livelier bunch than they
were in Winnipeg last week. But this

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show has a very big problem.
Monday Night Raw has a very big problem,

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and it was illustrated by tonight's main
event. And it was a fine

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match. There was nothing wrong with
the match itself. It was Cody and

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Ko and Sammy Zane against the Judgment
Day and they had their usual good match,

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and of course the crowd loves Sammy
and Ko because they were in Quebec

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and Kevin Owens has missed the last
several weeks with a legitimate injury, which

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is why we had no tag team
title match at Summer Slam this year.

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But I want to take things back
to the middle of May after the draft

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and they started with the new Rawn
SmackDown rosters. The draft was in early

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May, and I want to go
back to the May fifteenth episode of Monday

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Night Row. What I would like
to do is I would like to read

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you here a list of the following
Monday Night Raw main events dating back to

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May fifteenth of this year. On
May fifteenth, the Judgment Day, Damian

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Priest and Finn Balor defeat Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane. Skip ahead to June

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nineteenth, Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens, Sammy Zane defeat The Judgment Day Finn

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Balor, Damian Priest, Dominic Mysterio. One week later, June twenty sixth,

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Cody Rhodes defeats Damian Priest of the
Judgment Day and I'll throw in Cody

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Rhodes against Dominic Mysterio from Money in
the Bank, which came only a few

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days later. July tenth, Monday
Night Raw Main Event, The Judgment Day

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Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Dominic
Mysterio beat Kevin Owens, Sammy Zane and

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Seth Rollins replacing Cody Rhodes. One
week later, July seventeenth, Kevin Owens

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and Sammy Zane defeat What's that the
Judgment Day, Damian Priest and Dominic Mysterio.

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And that was for the undisputed tag
team titles. That was July seventeen.

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July thirty, first Monday Night Raw
and main Event, Sammy Zane and

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Seth Rollins defeat The Judgment Day,
Damian Priest and Dominic Mysterio. Since Kevin

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Owens was out hurt. They just
replaced Kevin Owens with a different partner,

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that being Seth Rollins tagging with Sammy
on that night. One week later,

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August seven, Cody Rhodes, Seth
Rollins and Shinsky Nakamora defeat the Judgment Day

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Finn Balor, Damian Priest and Dominic
Mysterio. One week later August fourteenth,

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and the main event, Cody Rhodes
defeats Finn Balor, and then we come

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to Monday Night Raw Tonight with the
main event of Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane

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against Finn Balor and Damian Priest of
the Judgment Day which ended in a disqualification,

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which then led to our actual main
event which was Cody Rhodes, Kevin

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Owens and Sammy Zane against the Judgment
Day Finn Balor, Damian Priest and Dominic

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Mysteri. I sound like a broken
fucking record sitting here. This is real.

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What I just read to you is
real. How many how many different

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variations of the same fucking match can
one company give us? It's like they're

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trying to run some kind of competition
to see how many different permutations of more

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or less the same match can they
possibly do over a period of what six

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months, let's say, because there's
no sign that this is going to be

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stopping anytime soon. And you'll have
people who say, oh, well,

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why why complain? It's it's they're
good matches. It's not the point.

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It's the same matches over and over
and over again. They're telling a story

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with the judgment day. Sure,
I get that, and I'm behind the

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story, but we don't need to
have the same matches every single week.

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It's like deja vu. Shinsky Nakamura
last week whispered some sweet nothings in Seth

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Rollin's ear, and we did not
know what it was that he whispered into

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his ear, but we found out
tonight and what I thought was the best

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promo that Shinsky Nakamura has cut in
his entire WW week career. He has

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been with this company since twenty sixteen, going back to when he debuted an

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NXT. This was the best promo
segment that he has been a part of

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since two thousand sixteen when he first
signed with WWE. Just so you all

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know that I'm not a total down
on this show tonight, nor am I

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a down on what we got with
Gunther and Chad Gable who were scheduled to

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compete in an Intercontinental Championship match,
and we did get an Intercontinental Championship match,

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although it was a match that ended
via countout and a most unique finish,

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well not one that I hated,
because we are still going to get

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another match between Chad Gable and Gunther
if that finish told us nothing else.

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This issue between the two of them
is not over. And that was my

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favorite part of the entire show,
despite the finish, was what we got

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from Chad Gable and Gunther here tonight. The rest of the show I thought

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was was very dull. We had
another be he lynched Trish Stratus segment that

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sucked. We had a few matches
here and there. We had the Miss

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in a match with Tozawa. The
match was nothing, who gives a shit?

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It was more about La Night,
who was at ringside doing commentary.

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He's the one feuding with Miss right
now. Tozawa was just meant to be

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a background player. So you know, we had a few segments like that

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that weren't terrible, but the show
dragged. It dragged ass, and it

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dragged ass because there just wasn't a
whole lot of exciting shit on this show.

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But we'll go through everything from start
to finish because that's what we do

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here. This is your Monday Night
Raw review for August twenty first, two

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and twenty three. I Am the
Solemn Monster. Now. They were in

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Quebec City tonight. Sammy Zane,
one half of the undisputed tag team Champions,

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made his way out to open the
show and he was showered with love

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by the Canadian fans here. They
loved seeing Sammy Zane. That much is

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for sure. And I don't think
that Sammy Zane has walked out and gotten

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this much love in elimination chamber when
he had his match with Roman Rings,

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not like this. That was in
Montreal. We have not seen him get

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love from the crowd quite like this
since February. So they sang his song.

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He grabbed a Quebec flag, he
draped it around him like a cape.

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They sang the Ola Ola song.
This went on for a good five

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minutes and Sammy had a big smile
on his face. He was soaking up

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all of it. It looked like
he was having the time of his life

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out there. So then of course
it was interrupted by the Judgment Day,

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who made their way down. They
surrounded the ring. Sammy then asked,

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did you really think that here,
of all places, I was going to

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come alone? And that's when we
heard Kevin Owens theme music. He came

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out to another big reaction. Dominic
dropped off the apron. He met Owens

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at ringside and Owens just destroyed him. Balor ran the ropes, but Owens

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grabbed his foot and pulled him to
the floor, ran him into the barricade.

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Priest tried to choke slams Sammy,
he slipped away and then Owens put

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Priests down with a stunner. And
Owens said that It's been far too long

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since I've had a match on Raw. Really, because I've just read a

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long list of matches that Kevin Owens
has had on Raw going back to May.

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It doesn't feel like he's missed too
many matches on Raw. I have

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the receipts to prove it. But
he proposed a match against any two members

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of the Judgment Day, it didn't
matter who. And Owens then said something

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in French that got a big reaction, and apparently the translation of what he

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said here was that they were going
to kick some ass tonight, and that

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is what the crowd cheered for.
So good to see Ko back from his

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fractured rib. That was a legitimate
injury and obviously he's doing much better now

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when we get the tag team champions
back together. That's why they didn't strip

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them with the belts. You know, Owens had the fractured ribs, Sammy

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had that tennis ball sticking out of
his elbow when he had the brasidas a

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few weeks ago, so you know, it wasn't a case where any of

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them were seriously injured, but they've
been pretty banged up. It's like the

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walking wounded, and so it's nice
that they're doing okay and they're back together

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now. We had Drew McIntyre and
Matt Riddle as tag team partners. I

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believe this was their second match together. They were taking on Kofi Kingston and

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Xavier Woods of The New Day.
McIntyre tossed Kingston and Woods around. Riddle

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was pumped up and he gave McIntyre
a big hug. McIntyre then grabbed Riddle

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and bellied a bellied his partner out
over the top rope onto the New Day,

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which was an interesting bit of tag
team offense. There After a break,

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New Day was in control over Riddle. Kofy came off the top,

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Riddle nailed him in the face with
a rising knee. Riddle gave Woods an

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avalanche fisherman's supplex before Riddle could attempt
a hot tag, though, Eric of

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the Viking Raiders showed up at ringside
and he pulled McIntyre down from the apron,

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so there was no one there for
Riddle to tag out to. Kofi

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connected with Trouble in Paradise. He
pin Matt Riddle to win the match for

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the New Day. Eric and Ivar
then laid out the New Day and Riddle.

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After the match, McIntyre fought them
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Vikings will likely be fed to one
or both of these teams. What we

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got from these two teams was good
for the ten minutes they got. I'm

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still waiting on the eventual turn,
probably from MacIntyre, but really it could

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be from either one of them.
Probably MacIntyre, though if it were me,

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I would go with MacIntyre. If
anybody's going he'll at the end of

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this, I do think it should
be Drew McIntyre because he could use something

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fresh, He could use a little
bit of a reboot, I think,

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and there were reports that WWW is
not This is supposedly their goal here is

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not to recreate RK bro is not
to recreate the whole odd couple, babyface

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dynamic and keep these two as something
of a permanent team and market merge around

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them and everything. Supposedly that is
not the play, And if that is

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the case, then that would lead
me to believe that at the end of

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all this, somebody is going to
go heal, just a matter of who

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and when. Now it's still early
in their run together, but I don't

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see this as any sort of a
long term thing. The backstage, Jackie

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Redman interviewed JD mcdonnah and Finn Balor. She asked mcdonnah about his relationship with

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Finn and whether it adds to the
tension between Balor and the other Judgment Day

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members. Mcdonnah said the Balor is
like a brother to him and he hopes

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that his relationship with the group becomes
even stronger. Balor accused Redman of trying

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to stir the pot. Rea Ripley
and Dominic showed up. Ripley told Balor,

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we have to go discuss which two
members of the group are going to

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be challenging Owens and Zane later in
the show. And as they went to

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go walk off, JD mcdonnah was
coming with them, and Rea stopped him

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and said, no, no,
you're not part of the judgment day,

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so you don't get to We had
a Shanna Basler video package which included footage

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of her submitting, not really submitting. I guess Ronda went out Ronda Rousy

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at Summer Slam when she got her
big win over her she said that she's

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not here to be your hero.
She's here to set it all on fire.

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She said, your only hope is
to survive. And then she closed

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by saying, let the world burn. Unfortunately, feels like half the world

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is burning right now. They were
in Canada tonight, right they would know

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with all the wildfires going on.
I know, the last round of Canadian

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wildfires, it looked like something out
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We had orange skies here. Acrost
looked like Armageddon out here in New

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York because the winds blew all that
shit all the way down to New York.

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Remember put that picture online. They
were like, is that that New

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York it looks post apocalyptic. I
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if anybody would know, unfortunately,
it would be the Canadians. So then

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it was time for the match that
I was looking forward to when this was

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announced last week, and that was
for the Intercontinental Championship. It was Gunther

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defending his title against Chad Gabele.
Gable is getting a bit of a push.

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This is something that he has wanted
for a very long time. He's

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talked about wanting the opportunity to become
more of a singles superstar, more of

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have more of an impact than the
singles division here on this show, and

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he has been getting that opportunity.
And he's been getting that opportunity in large

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part against Gunther because we've seen them
in the ring a few times now.

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So it all built to this,
and I was surprisingly initially announced that this

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was going to be happening tonight because
I figured they would save this title match

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for payback, and it became clear
when this was over why they wanted to

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do this tonight. So after some
early matt work, Gunther dropped Gable back

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first onto the barricade and Gabel barely
made it back into the ring. By

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the nine count. Gunther used a
double underhook suplex. Then he was he

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whipped him hard into the corner.
Gabel was so beaten up he went to

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go irish whip him into the corner
again, and Gabele just on the way

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in, he just collapsed. He
just he couldn't make it to the other

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side of the ring. So Gunther
was mockingly kicking him. Gabele fired back

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with kicks of his own. Gabel
came off the top, but Gunther chopped

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him and hit a clothes line and
then another one for two. Gabel countered

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a third closed line, attempted into
a crucifix pin only got a two count,

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though Gunther applied a sleeper hold.
Gabel, slowly with Gunther on his

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back, was able to make it
to his speed. He fought back with

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running four arms. He hit a
back suplex. Gabel then took Gunther down

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with a dragon screw, transitioned immediately
into an ankle lock, and this had

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the crowd on their feet. Once
he got that ankle lock applied and Gunther

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he was reaching for the bottom rope. He came very close to reaching that

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bottom rope, but he got dragged
back to the center of the ring.

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Gunther kicked his way free and Gabel
mounted him and started raining shots down on

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him. Gabel then delivered a delayed
German Suplex into a bridge for a close

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near fall. That will never not
be impressive to watch somebody of Gabel size

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pick up somebody of Gunther size.
And it's one thing to give somebody a

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suplex, but to do it the
way that he does, you know,

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the delayed suplex, the delayed German
will never not be impressive to me.

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And Quebec City let him know that
they thought this was awesome, which it

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was. Gabel went to the top
rope to set up for his moon self,

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but he took too long and Gunther
shoved him to the floor. He

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hit the barricade on the way down. Gunther got tired of waiting for him

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to get back in, so he
went out after him and he chopped the

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ship out of this guy. Gabel
ducked an other chop and this time Gunther

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chopped the ring post by accident,
and Gabel then gave Gunther a German Suplex

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over the barricade, and this fucker
landed on his head on the concrete on

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the other side. In the timekeepers
area. That was I was gonna say,

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damn near, but he laid it
on the back of his head and

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it looked great. And so now
both men are down. Gabel realizes that

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the referee is counting. This entire
time, the referee has been counting,

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and so Gabel slides back into the
ring at the very last minute and Gunther

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gets counted out. Gabel is in
the ring. He celebrates this big win

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via count out, and Gabel is
saying, I'm coming back for more.

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I'm coming back for more. And
Gunther was livid at ringside as his Imperium

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stable mates here Giovanni Vinci and Baby
and Eichner demanded that Samantha Irvin announced that

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Gunther was still the Intercontinental champions so
despite the fact that he lost the match.

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Of course, you can only win
the title by Pinfaller's submission, so

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therefore Gunther is still the Intercontinental Champion. So yes, they really did the

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Lex Luger finish from Summer Slam in
ninety three, right down to Gable celebrating

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as if he had won the championship. He had his arms in the air,

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he was celebrating, he was celebrating
this big victory. The best thing

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I could say about them doing it
this way is that at least they didn't

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give him balloons. Right, at
least we didn't have a whole bunch of

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people come at and hoist them up
on their shoulders, and we didn't have

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balloons or confetti falling from the ceiling. Was it goofy for Gable to celebrate

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the finish of a title match like
that knowing that he did not win the

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championship? Of course, yes,
yes that was silly. But there is

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one very big difference, because I
know people are going to make the same

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comparison that, oh, the Luger
and ninety three finish, And yes it

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was the Luger in ninety three finish. Here's the big difference. Do you

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remember go back to ninety three when
that match was made. Jim Cornette had

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a stipulation added that if Lex Luger
did not win the championship from Yoko Zuna

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at SummerSlam, he could never again
challenge for the WWE Championship. People forget

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that, which made it ten times
worse when you're watching that and you see

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a Luger not only does he knock
Yoko Zuna out of the floor. He's

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in the ring counting along with the
referee. As the referee is counting to

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ten, Luger is counting along with
him until Yoko Zuna is counted out,

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and then Luger is jumping up and
down and celebrating like he just won the

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lottery. That's fucking stupid, knowing
that he could never again challenge for the

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title. That's a very big difference
between that and what we got here.

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Chad Gable is going to get another
championship match with Gunther unlike Luger in ninety

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three, because that's what the story
dictates. That's the story that they were

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telling here in this match. First, he lasted five minutes in that five

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minute challenge, right, Guther said, You'll never last five minutes with me,

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so he lasted the five minutes a
few weeks ago. That was number

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one. This was number two.
Chad Gable went in there tonight and he

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beat Gunther and they made they made
the point on commentary that tonight Chad Gable

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became the first man to defeat Gunther
in a singles match. Since Guther debuted

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on the main roster, he has
yet to be beaten in a singles match

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until tonight. Now he wasn't pinned, but he's still lost. So they

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make you know that they're making it
seem like Chad Gable has this guy's number.

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Nobody has been more successful against this
man than Chad Gable has, even

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though he hasn't won the title yet. So that's the story that they're they're

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going with here. And now,
of course Gunther is just furious because this

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guy, he's like an annoying fly. He's trying to swat, he just

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can't do it. So he's beside
himself and he wants to get his hands

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around this guy's neck and wring his
neck. So now we have to get

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the rematch of Payback, but without
commercials. See it's always the drawback of

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doing these matches on TV is that
you have the commercial breaks that interrupt them.

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Now we get to see these two
and it hasn't been made official yet,

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but it will. Now we get
to see these two go in there

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at Payback in a couple of weeks
and do it all over again, but

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probably in a longer match without any
commercial interruptions. And that's why I'm okay

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with what they did. That's why
I can't hate on this finish. I

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mean, it was the way he
was celebrating was goofy. Sure, but

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it was the right move to prolong
this until we get to the pay per

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view. Now, Gunther is eighteen
days away from passing the Honky talk Man's

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record as the longest reigning Intercontinental champion
of all time. He's this close two

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beating him out and becoming number one
on that list. Payback comes before that,

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though, So Chad Gable is going
to go with a payback and he's

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gonna lose again. He's gonna fall
short again of winning the Intercontinental Championship because

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you can't possibly beat Gunther a week
before he breaks the all time record.

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That would just be stupid. So
he's gonna win again. But I would

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not count out Chad Gable as being
the one to ultimately take that championship off

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of Gunther. Gunther could win it
payback, and then sometime after the record

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is broken, they could easily get
that title on Chad Gable. I don't

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want to see his story come to
an end where he loses it payback and

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then he kind of fades back into
the role that he was in before.

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I still think there's mileage left in
Chad Gable as a single star on Raw,

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the underdog story. People want to
see him succeed. People are gonna

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want to see him win that championship. They're gonna want to see him be

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the one to take down Gunther and
take that title. It just can't happen

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at Payback because you're gonna be five
or six days away from the record.

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But what it does do in that
match if they have the announcers drive home

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the fact that hey, Guther's only
a week away from being number one on

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the list, It's going to add
so much more drama to all the near

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falls in that match. And there
was some good near falls here in this

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match too, But imagine if you're
that close to the record and they really

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drive that point home and the live
crowd knows it. Imagine all the added

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drama with the near falls in that
match. So that I'm very much looking

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forward to because what we got tonight
was just it was an appetizer to what

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the main course is going to be
a Payback, So I really don't have

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an issue with them doing what they
did here on this show. We had

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Byron Saxton who was backstage and he
was joined by Cody Rhodes, and Byron

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wanted to know how Cody felt about
the way Raw ended last week. When

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the judgment day left the baby faces
laying, Finnbalor was sitting on Cody's chest

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and he was posing. Cody said, you know, this setting is not

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working, so he grabs the microphone
out of Byron's hand. He tells Byron,

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come with me. They walk through
the backstage area, they come out

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into the arena before the live crowd. Because Cody is a man of the

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people, a true man of the
people. So Cody actually spoke a little

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bit of French to the crowd.
Reminds me of John Cena learning Mandarin,

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so you know, he was John
Cena was always somebody who yeah, obviously

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he was a company guy, but
he would do things like that where he

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would learn try to learn other languages
so that when he would go to these

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places he could at least speak a
little bit of it when he was talking

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in front of the live I feel
like Cody, he's kind of cut from

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the same cloth. You know,
he's the consummate company guy. He would

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do stuff like that. He's probably
on his bus going from city to city

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with Rosetta Stone on his fucking tablet, you know, trying to learn different

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languages. Hey, where are we
going in two months? Oh? Okay,

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we're going to We're going to Germany. You say, all right,

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all right, al Vida Zane,
Alvida Zane. That's Cody Rhodes. He

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gave a shout out to the new
Raw announced team of Michael Colin, Wade

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Barrett. He pointed out that the
Judgment Day has been in a position where

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they have had the numbers advantage,
and he said if there was one place

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on the map where the numbers would
not be in there advantage, it would

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be down the road where Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane grew up. He asked

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the crowd if they would be in
Kevin and Sammy's corner tonight, and of

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course they all cheered, and he
said that he would be watching that match

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very closely. But he said,
tonight is about Kevin and sam and we're

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all going to watch the Judgment Day
rise and fall. So no insight in

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this promo as to what the direction
for Cody is. This was a Cody

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Rhodes promo and we did not find
out anything new about the direction of Cody

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heading into Payback right now. He
has no match. There's no obvious match

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for him. There was an obvious
match, but they blew that at the

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end of the show, but we'll
talk about that later. But no inside

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in this promo as far as a
direction for Cody going into the next show,

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it just feels like they're sort of
killing time with him. It's almost

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as if, you know, not
putting the championship on him at WrestleMania was

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maybe not the right move. I
don't know, he just seems to be

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kind of floating around. He's still
over. People still like him, but

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he's just sort of he's become a
floater on the show. You never want

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to become a float. After this, we got the explanation for what Shinsky

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Nakamore whispered into Seth Rollin's ear when
they had their face to face on last

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week's show, and it came in
the form of a pre taped vignette with

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Nakamora speaking in Japanese with English subtitles, and it worked so well to the

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point where I don't know how they
haven't done more of this in the past.

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To be perfectly honest with you,
he said, everyone asked me what

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I whispered to Seth? Robins say, what could I have possibly said to

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fill him with fear? Seth acts
like a man who has it all,

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A prosperous, charismatic champion. Now
as he was talking, I should say,

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they were splicing in various highlights and
footage of Seth. So it wasn't

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just you know, focused on shinskay. It was one of these video packages.

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But they'll splice another footage, he
said. Seth acts like a man

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who has it all, a prosperous, charismatic champion. I know Seth and

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I know his weaknesses, he says. I whispered to Seth. I know

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about your back. Sets Back has
been broken for many years. He lives

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in pain, no matter how successful
he is. When he hugs his wife,

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he's in pain. When he picks
up his child, he's in pain.

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He is a world champion, yet
every day is filled with pain.

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And now his worst fears are coming
true. He knows that I can break

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him once and for all. You
see, Seth and I are not so

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different. I have a void too. We live by a code that others

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do not. In fact, that
code is displayed on sets Back, and

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then they showed what I assume we're
Japanese characters, that Seth has tattooed down

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the center of his back. I
believe he said, the very same back

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that is failing. His body has
crumbled under the pressure of his own vanity.

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Are you satisfied, Seth with what
you've done in your life? Because

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I will not be satisfied until I
take this burden from you once and for

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all. Watch your back, you
know, no wonder sets back is broken.

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He had to carry this show for
so long because Roman Reins refused to

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show up on days, so it
was the Seth Rollins show. Now this

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poor guy has a bad back.
This was, as I said at the

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beginning of the stream, I thought, the best Shinsky nakamore a promo of

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any kind that we have had since
he debuted in this company, whether it

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be NXT or the main roster.
This right here, this was the best.

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It had a lot of dialogue.
It had way more dialogue than Nakamura

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is used to having in his promos, So doing it this way, having

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him speak in Japanese and just having
the English subtitles in the bottom of the

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screen was perfect, absolutely perfect,
because again English is not his first language.

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So when he's out there in front
of the crowd, he'll he'll sometimes

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speak Japanese and then Oscar does the
same thing, where she'll speak Japanese and

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go back and forth. But when
he's out there in front of a live

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crap because it is not his first
language. So he's trying to do these

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promos in English, and yeah,
it's like this broken English and it's just

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little almost like little sound bites.
Right, he can go out there the

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way that a lot of other people
would go out there and just speak for

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five or ten straight minutes. It
just it just doesn't work. And they've

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tried to avoid doing that with him. Well, you don't have to worry

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about that here. If you're gonna
do something pre tape with subtitles, you

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can just let him. You can
do a long promo with him. And

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the way they shot this, and
I thought the way they did this was

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very well done and they should they
should do more of this. I also

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like how they've weaved in a real
life situation because many weeks ago, Seth

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was on Logan Paul's podcast, and
on that podcast, he told Logan Paul,

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you know, he's been dealing with
a lot of nagging injuries, but

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he specifically mentioned the lower back,
and he said that he's been trying to

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avoid surgery on his lower back since
twenty nineteen because it's it's bad and it's

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only getting worse. So now in
this storyline, Knockamorra has a target and

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they've now cultivated this story around the
bad back that seth Rawlins had, around

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the bad back that he told Logan
Paul about all those weeks ago. Now,

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was that a scene planted in the
Logan Paul interview for this eventual storyline

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with schinsk It's possible. I'm assuming
it's a real injury that they're now weaving

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into the storyline that he does have
a bad back. But I like that.

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I like the way that they have, you know, weave that into

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the story now heading into their pay
per view match, and this is great.

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Now, we had Rea Ripley the
Raw Women's Champion, actually, no,

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I guess, not the Raw women's
champion. She's the champion on Raw,

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but she's no longer the Raw Women's
champion. She is the Women's World

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Heavyweight Champion, non title match one
on one with Candice Lay, someone who

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we do not get to see very
often on this show, So a rare

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in ring match for Candice on the
show, and it went about the way

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that you would have expected it to
go, and frankly, it went exactly

402
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.960
the way that it should have gone. Candice got a little bit of offense

403
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.680
in she had a nice looking lion
saw Ripley won quickly though by submission with

404
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.960
her prison lock, which is the
standing clover leaf submission that she does.

405
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:17.039
And that's all this needed to be
because they still have done nothing to build

406
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.400
up Candice Larey. So you're gonna
go from doing nothing with Candice Larrey to

407
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.920
putting her in the ring with the
women's world champion who's twice her size,

408
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:30.799
and expect, what exactly is Candice
supposed to go in there and beat Riya

409
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.119
to where Ria is kicking out at
two and a half and coming this close

410
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.519
to beating the women's world champion.
Of course not Riya should have gone in

411
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.000
there and exactly what she did.
She basically finished her off in record time

412
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:45.599
and made short work of this woman. And until they take the time to

413
00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:49.720
start building her back up, you
know, it's almost like they break these

414
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:52.960
people down just so they can build
them back up. Some of them they

415
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.960
build back up. Some of them
they don't bother They just break them down

416
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.240
and leave them in a crumpled little
heap. Candice Larrey has got to start

417
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:06.319
racking up some wins and try to
get over before you start. Putting in

418
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.480
the ring with Ria Ripley doesn't make
sense too. I have her go in

419
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.880
there and have an ultra competitive match
with Ria, so I would have done

420
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.799
the same thing. I would have
beaten her quickly. I mean, if

421
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.359
it were me, I probably wouldn't
have done the match, but beating her

422
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.400
quickly is exactly what I would have
done. Now, when the match was

423
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.079
over, Rachel Rodriguez came at and
she was on one crutch. And Ria

424
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.279
and Dom saw this and they start
laughing at her, thinking, Hi,

425
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:36.160
she's still hurt or she wasn't.
She took the crutch, she threw it

426
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.960
at Ria, tossed it over to
her, and then she hit her with

427
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.880
a big boot. Rodriguez threw Ripley
into the barricade and then into the ring.

428
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.880
And Ria fought back, but Raquel
put her down with a clothesline.

429
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:51.759
She followed that with a fall away
slam, and Ria rolled out to the

430
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.880
floor. Raquel got a mic and
she announced that she was medically cleared to

431
00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.480
compete. After all of these weeks, she has finally been medically cleared.

432
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.880
She says she spoke with Adam Pearce
and she will challenge Rhea for the championship

433
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:12.880
at Payback. Their last match together
back in NXT was that Last Woman's Standing

434
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.599
match that they had. I know
some of you, some of you have

435
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.039
not seen it, some of you
have. That was a very good match,

436
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.720
and they were legitimately good friends,
and I assume they are still legitimately

437
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.400
good friends going back to their days
in NXT. So there's a history there,

438
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:31.000
there's a friendship there. But that
Last Woman's Standing match was very good

439
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.279
stuff. If you need any frame
of reference for what these two are capable

440
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.519
of in a match, I suggest
you go back and find that match.

441
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:44.759
I think it was maybe a couple
of years ago now. So I'm optimistic

442
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:46.640
about the match of Payback. I
don't know that it'll be as good.

443
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:50.960
Yeah, false can anywhere, you
can brawl all over the place. This

444
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.480
is just a straight wrestling match.
But I am optimistic that these two will

445
00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:00.200
be able to go out there and
have a good match. Backstage promo with

446
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:05.839
Tomaso Champa. He was sitting in
a chair looking into the camera at all

447
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.840
of us. He said that it's
been nine weeks since he returned to Monday

448
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.239
and Iran. He said that it
had been a long sixty three days to

449
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.960
reflect on the man that he has
been since he's returned. He said that

450
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:21.239
he would be lying if he didn't
want that intercontinental title opportunity that Chad Gable

451
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.880
now has, and a chat actually
beat him for it. He spoke about

452
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.159
how he nearly had Nakamora defeated.
He said the pressure is like oxygen and

453
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.880
he's dying to take a breath,
and then he dropped a reference to doing

454
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:44.920
it yourself, Dy you said.
He said that he is here to take

455
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:51.320
over. You know. Can we
stop with all the teases? Just fucking

456
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.800
do it already. I'm sick to
death of these fucking teasers. Every now

457
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:58.639
and then they'll drop a little di
what This is not the first time we've

458
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.920
had a DIY reference on the show. And I still don't know what is

459
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.039
going on with Johnny Gargano and his
injury status. I don't know if he's

460
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.320
been cleared, and they're just waiting
for the right opportunity to bring him back,

461
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.880
or if he's still hurt and he's
not medically cleared and everything is just

462
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:16.800
sort of in limbo. But I'm
done with these fucking teasers already. Just

463
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:22.519
do it. Just give me what
I want. We need d I Y

464
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.559
on the main roster so we can
eventually get d I Y against Kevin Owens

465
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.039
and Sammy Za for the tag team
titles. That's what I want to see.

466
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.679
Make it happen. Stop talking about
it. Let's get the show on

467
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.880
the road here. Come on.
I think I'm just desperate for new matches

468
00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:43.159
on the show. I think that's
what it is. After I read that

469
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.840
laundry list of main event matches at
the beginning of the stream. I am

470
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:50.480
just desperate for a different tag team
match in the Monday Night Raw main event,

471
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:53.320
or just a different team on the
show. So please, for the

472
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.639
love of God, I don't know
if Johnny is clear or not. I

473
00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.599
hope he is. Enough with the
teases, it's just let's get the party

474
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:05.280
started here. I don't know what
they're waiting for, especially because look,

475
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.360
if Triple Ah doesn't make his move
soon, the old Man's gonna be out

476
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.320
of the hospital bed. I'm not
so sure he isn't already out of the

477
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.440
hospital bed all these rematches. That's
the hallmark of Vince McMahon. But if

478
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.199
he's still laid up from his surgery, he ain't gonna be laid up for

479
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.159
that much longer, right we all? We all heard that he didn't like

480
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.719
the way Triple H had started bringing
back to the Way, and all of

481
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:29.920
a sudden it disappeared, and then
Sean Ross sapp let it slip in one

482
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:31.559
of his Q and a's a few
weeks ago. When somebody asked him about

483
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:35.000
it, he said, well,
basically that was one of those ideas that

484
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.480
got vinced. Okay, Well,
all of a sudden, Vince has surgery,

485
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:43.599
and we saw we were seeing Candice
Larrey, we saw Indy Hartwell on

486
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:45.480
the show last week. I don't
know how much longer this is going to

487
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:50.360
go on for, so he better
not wait too long or he may miss

488
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:58.159
his shot. Now we had the
miss out to the ring. He talked

489
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:01.199
about La Night losing on Smack Dad. He said everyone is blaming him for

490
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:06.599
that miss said, Knight fails to
realize that there is no room for excuses

491
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.880
on the big show. He said, the Rock messed with his match of

492
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:15.599
WrestleMania. It's twenty seven and he
was still able to retain his WWE championship.

493
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.239
Yes, please don't remind me.
Let's not remind people, please of

494
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.480
WrestleMania twenty seven and the worst WrestleMania
made of end of all time. Let's

495
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:29.440
not talk about that, miss said. People will remember him twenty years from

496
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.039
now as a game changer and a
trend set, he said, twenty years

497
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:36.599
from now, people will remember La
Knight as a blip on the radar.

498
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:44.280
You will go down as the Hooba
Stank of WWE, the hoobah Stank.

499
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.360
You say, hey, let me
tell you something. Crawling in the Dark

500
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.199
and Running Away are fucking awesome songs. Okay, I don't give a shit

501
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.400
what anybody says. And those may
be the only two songs of Hoobastank that

502
00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:00.400
I know of or that I liked, but they are two very good songs

503
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.159
and I will fight anybody who disagrees
with me on that, he said.

504
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:09.440
Adam Pierce allowed him to hand pick
his opponent tonight, somebody bigger, faster

505
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:15.199
and stronger than anyone La Knight has
been in the ring with, and he

506
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:22.440
introduced Akira Tozawa. So Tozawa comes
to the ring and mis introduces him as

507
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.360
a former twenty four seven champion.
He said, it's too bad that title

508
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:30.639
doesn't exist anymore because it would be
perfect for La Knight because it's also a

509
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:37.199
relic from the attitude error. Do
not slander the hardcore title by comparing it

510
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:42.960
to the twenty four seven title,
because the hardcore title was far more entertaining

511
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.119
than that twenty four seven bullshit ever
was, so please do not compare the

512
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:52.280
two. Tozawa answered with a yeah. After the Miss would ask him a

513
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.000
question that started to annoy the miz, who booted him in the face,

514
00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.159
and then he called for the bell
to ring and as soon as the l

515
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.239
rang to start the match, we
hear La Knights music. He comes out.

516
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.960
He's not Canadian, but he came
out and he got a huge ovation

517
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.920
from the crowd here in Quebec City. They loved them, so La Knight.

518
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.519
So he ended up joining on commentary
for the match. Sozawa drop kicked

519
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:22.519
a distracted Miss out to the floor
and Tozawa hit Miss with a suicide dive.

520
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:28.920
Night on Commentary mocked the Miss for
bringing up the attitude error when he

521
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:34.440
himself was a background singer for John
Cena and The Rock, which I mean,

522
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:38.880
there's no lies detected there. That's
exactly what it was. You're wondering.

523
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.199
The Miss was in the WrestleMania twenty
seven main event. If you've ever

524
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.400
asked a question, why why was
the Miss in the wrestle Media main event,

525
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:51.719
It's because the Miss really was not
the most important part of that match.

526
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.760
The Miss was actually the least important
part, and he came in as

527
00:39:54.760 --> 00:40:00.599
the champion and left as the champion, and yet he was number three because

528
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.480
that whole thing was designed to set
up the following years wrestle Media made event.

529
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.000
No WrestleMania Maine event should ever be
used solely to build to the next

530
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:10.920
year's wrestle Media made event. That's
one of the reasons. That's one of

531
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:15.679
the things I hated about that match, other than just John Cena and the

532
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.679
Miss is not a wrestle Madia made
event. So again, no lies from

533
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:27.480
La Night here on commentary. Miss
tried to run Tozawa into the announced desk,

534
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:31.239
but Tozawa actually jumped on top of
the desk and then came off executed

535
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.599
a hurricane Rana. That caused Mizz
to take a very forced looking bump into

536
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:39.840
the rings. He wasn't really close
to the ring steps, so he sort

537
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:45.719
of had to dive into them.
Sozawa sent Miss back inside. He went

538
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.360
for his huge top rope sent on. Mis got his knees up. Miss

539
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.599
looked over at La Night and he
mocked him while setting up for this shot

540
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.880
crushing finale. Sozawa then hooked Mizz
into a pin and he got the shock

541
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.639
three count. There was no need
for this to go seven minutes afterwards,

542
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:05.320
Miss argue with the referee, La
and I got into the ring and he

543
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.960
put him down with his blunt force
trauma finish. I can't complain about getting

544
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:14.679
more La Night on TV, so
that was a good thing seeing him on

545
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:16.000
the show tonight. Miz, of
course looked like a geek, as he

546
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:22.679
always does. Backstage, Drew McIntyre
and Matt Riddle were together and MacIntyre told

547
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.719
Riddle that, look, we're not
really working out as a team, and

548
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:34.559
Riddle was pleading with him. He
was pleading with Drew MacIntyre, please please,

549
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.079
they killed by push. I have
nothing else. If you don't team

550
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:42.000
with me, I'm done for He
didn't say that, but you know he

551
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.760
was thinking. New Day showed up. Wood said the crowd loved them and

552
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:50.599
said that you guys have a good
thing going. Kofi Kingston agreed. He

553
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:55.320
said that they had potential, and
Wood suggested Mick Riddle as their team name.

554
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:59.440
See, this is why Drew MacIntyre
has to just turn heel and fucking

555
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.320
murder every buddy, because now we're
getting into that territory where it's like,

556
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:07.760
all right, this is not what
he needs, mcriddle, This is not

557
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.239
what he needs. If I'm Drew
McIntyre, I'm taking a hammer to the

558
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.199
back of this man's head next week, I'm going to bludgeon him on the

559
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.280
show and that will be the end
of mc riddle before let's cut this thing

560
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.079
off before it goes any further.
This is not what Drew McIntyre needs.

561
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:27.440
Woods offered them a rematch after they
beat the Viking Raiders next week, and

562
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:31.119
Riddle begged McIntyre to team up with
him again. McIntyre smiled, but he

563
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:36.199
walked off without answering, and their
Riddle was just happy that he at least

564
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.960
did not say no. Elsewhere in
the back in the land of the Judgment,

565
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:45.880
day, Ria Ripley Dominic Mysterio asked
Damian Priest if he was able to

566
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.119
work things out with Finn Balor,
and Priest said no because Balor didn't trust

567
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:55.440
him and told him to talk to
JD mcdunno. And this annoyed Rhea,

568
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:01.159
who said that they were going to
do things her way. She left without

569
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:09.599
explaining what that meant. Then we
had Becky Lynch on her way to the

570
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:14.559
ring or a promo. And this
is where I'll pause and just check and

571
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.760
remind all of you. The gold
tonight for be the booker is four hundred

572
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.880
lights, so we are not quite
there yet, but we're getting there.

573
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:27.559
So I don't forget to hit that
thumbs up, and maybe we'll do that

574
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:31.559
later on. I'm trying. I'm
trying to find other things to talk about

575
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:37.719
to avoid having to get into this
segment. So how is the weather today

576
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.559
where you were? Man? It
was fucking hottest balls here in New York,

577
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.000
man, ninety degrees a real feel
of about ninety five. I was

578
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.320
sweating bullets all day, man.
I'll tell you the weather is supposed to

579
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.719
cool off though a little bit.
This week. Is actually gonna get nice

580
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:52.719
these next few days, all right, so we have to talk about this.

581
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:59.800
So Becky Lynch comes to the Ring
for a promo and she literally started

582
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:05.880
the promo by referring to quote,
the last few brutal months of this rivalry.

583
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:10.599
I shit you not, that is
exactly what this woman said, the

584
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.960
last few brutal months of this rivalry. Now. I'm sure that she meant

585
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.840
this in a different way than I
took that to mean, but boy,

586
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:25.400
if there was ever a work shoot
comment there, it is. Yes,

587
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.400
brutal is a pretty good word to
describe how this rivalry is gone over these

588
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.199
last few months. She says,
there's been a lot of talk about who

589
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.920
is the greatest, and really it
comes down to legacy. What do you

590
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:43.840
want your legacy to be. I
think she's doing great harm to her legacy,

591
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.039
honestly with what she's been doing the
last six months. But she says,

592
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:54.639
how can you turn those lemons into
lemonade? And she was wearing she

593
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:58.599
has a new T shirt. I
wish I would have brought a picture of

594
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:02.400
it up. She has a new
T shirt. It literally is a picture

595
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:09.079
of a giant lemon. And if
you're wondering what does that mean? What

596
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:15.840
does that in reference to it's in
reference to her missing Summer Slam, and

597
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:20.159
she posted a photo I think on
Instagram, maybe Twitter also, but she

598
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:24.239
posted a photo on Instagram and she
was at home, and I think she

599
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:29.559
was cutting lemons and she was something
like, when life hands you lemons,

600
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:34.480
you turned it into lemonade. She
was being very passive aggressive on social media

601
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:37.039
about missing Summer Slam this year.
I think Trish was doing the same.

602
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:44.679
Clearly they were not happy about not
being on the show, and so now

603
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:51.119
she has a T shirt with a
lemon on. I would love to know

604
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:53.960
whose idea this was. I would
love to see the stats actually on that

605
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.480
T shirt. I really would because
I know, like La Night is doing

606
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:04.440
really well, Cody's does really well. The Bloodlines merch is still doing very

607
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.239
well. When Bray Wyatt was still
around, say what you want to about

608
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:13.880
Bray, his merch usually did very
well. How many people are buying her

609
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:17.760
T shirt with a lemon on?
I would love to I would like to

610
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.920
see those numbers. It's just so
fucking lame, but I would love to

611
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.320
see those numbers. Now. She
said that her legacy would not be defined

612
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:30.360
by wins or losses, or by
championships. It would be defined by survival.

613
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:32.760
You can break her bones and put
her on the shelf, but she

614
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:37.000
would always come back. She was
unstoppable, not because she always won,

615
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:44.199
but because she would always fight.
She said that she had Trish Stratis in

616
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:47.360
a cage match up payback, but
she still had issues, unresolved issues with

617
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:57.440
Zoe Starr Stratison Stark interrupted. Trish
had a mike and Trish said that she

618
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.039
was happy to be north of the
border. Right. She was buttering up

619
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:05.360
all the Canadian family. You could
see where this was going, buttering up

620
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.000
all the Canadian fans. She says
she was happy to be north of the

621
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:14.960
border instead of with the us A
holes. And then Trish turned on her

622
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.440
Canadian fans. She turned on Quebec
City because she said they meant nothing.

623
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.119
She said, Toronto gets all the
love right, trying to get booze here

624
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.199
they booed. She let them know. Well, at least the Maple Leaves

625
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.320
made the playoffs, which reminds me
as I watched this terrible promo segment,

626
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:39.800
It reminds me almost almost it was
actually twenty years exactly, twenty years ago,

627
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:44.800
twenty fucking years. My god,
where does the time go twenty years

628
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.000
since the Rock. Hollywood Rock came
out and cut that promo in Toronto.

629
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.400
Jesus, it's right, he came
out. He was where it. His

630
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:58.760
vest came to the ring, stronger
than a bear, faster than a buck.

631
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:04.519
The biggest thing I hit Canada because
the maple leafs suck. That was

632
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.159
a sweet promo. I was actually
one of the best promos of his career.

633
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.760
So she said, well, at
least the maple Leaves made the playoffs.

634
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.960
I take it the maple Leaves were
pretty terrible in two thousand and three.

635
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:19.039
I know nothing about hockey, so
I mean, that's a legitimate question.

636
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.039
I have no idea. I don't
know how the maple Leaves did then.

637
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.199
I don't know how the maple leaves
are doing now. I don't really

638
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:30.239
care. I'm kind of curious,
but not really. She said that she

639
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.920
would make like Justin Trudeau and split, playing off the fact that Trudeau recently

640
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:39.920
separated from his wife. Then the
crowd chanted something at her in French,

641
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.920
and I thought that this was pitch
perfect. There there were a few things

642
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:49.440
about this segment, like Becky opening
it by talking about how brutal this has

643
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.840
been and I just thought, man, that was that was so good.

644
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.440
But this right here, I think
sums this whole thing up as well as

645
00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:00.239
anything I could ever say. They're
chanting something at Tray in French, and

646
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.760
she claims that, oh, I
don't understand what they're saying. Is she

647
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.920
just quickly moved on in her promo. I didn't understand it either what they

648
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.320
were saying, because I don't speak
French. So I checked and apparently what

649
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:20.199
they were chanting was we don't fucking
care. That is what the crowd was

650
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:24.599
chanting at Trish Stratus during this segment
in French. We don't fucking care.

651
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:31.519
And that really is the story of
this entire feud. They've been on this

652
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:36.960
Canadian tour now for a few weeks. Even the fans in Canada cannot bring

653
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:45.199
themselves to give a single shit about
this feud, and they articulated that their

654
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:50.159
own language here in this segment.
All you have to do is go back

655
00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:52.360
and watch any of these segments that
they have had, even the match last

656
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:57.000
week, was it last I think
it was last week, the match last

657
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.400
week, or any of these promo
segments when Trish comes out for a promo,

658
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:05.039
or even Becky. But this has
been the case even with a lot

659
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.760
of the Trish promos as well,
where she goes out there and she has

660
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.840
a lot of dialogue and she has
a lot of things to say. Nobody

661
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:19.480
cares. This just hasn't worked.
Heal Trish fifteen years ago or eighteen years

662
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.559
ago, whatever it was, I
remember that being a pretty good run.

663
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:27.599
When Trish came back, people were
responsive to her as a baby face because

664
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.840
she's a legend in their eyes,
and she had been gone for a while.

665
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.400
This Heal Trish run just has not
worked. There's no way that it's

666
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.840
worked in the way that they had
hoped that it would work. And paring

667
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.039
her off with Zoe Stark, the
idea was that Zoe would get some rub

668
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.440
from all this, And now here
we are deep into this feud, and

669
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:51.400
I'm not so sure how great of
a rub Zoe Stark has really gotten from

670
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.360
this, because when this feud is
over, ask yourself this question. Look

671
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:58.960
at the position that she's in right
now when this is over, and I

672
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:01.760
hope to God that it's over in
two weeks of payback, When this is

673
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:06.159
over, and Zoe Stark, let's
say, is back to being by herself.

674
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:08.519
Is she going to be in a
better position than she was when this

675
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:14.199
first started. I don't think so. She's going to be in the same

676
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.280
exact position that she was in when
this started. I don't feel as if

677
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.559
she's been rubbed in such a way, rubbed in such a way where she

678
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:27.920
now feels like a bigger star than
she was three months ago. And we're

679
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.679
not done yet, So who knows. I mean, maybe this ends with

680
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:34.599
her against Trish, because Trish,
you know, turns on her and throws

681
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.119
her aside, and then Zoe wants
a match with her. Who knows how

682
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.679
this is going to end. I
don't see this as benefiting anybody. It

683
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:45.400
hasn't really benefited Zoe. It's not
benefiting Trish other than the fact that Trish

684
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:47.559
gets to go out there. I
mean, she got her ladder match.

685
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:51.119
She always says she wanted to be
in a ladder match. She got to

686
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:52.880
be in money in the bank.
She's never been in a cage match.

687
00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:58.079
She's gonna get her cage match at
Payback. She's getting to cross different items

688
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.400
off of her wrestling bucket list.
So maybe she's getting what she wants out

689
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:05.519
of this, But I don't see
how this is benefiting Becky or Zoe or

690
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.480
any any of the people involved.
This thing has not been working. It

691
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:12.760
has not been clicking, and it
is not going to work. So the

692
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.000
quicker they can wrap this up and
move past this, the better I think

693
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:21.400
everybody will be. Natrish said the
payback would be her first cage match,

694
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:27.519
and she admitted that she was scared. But she was scared when she debuted

695
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.159
twenty at twenty four years old,
no experience, and she killed it.

696
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:35.280
She was scared when she was the
first woman to ever main event Raw,

697
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.320
and she killed it. Let me
stop here. I know it shouldn't bother

698
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:42.920
me. It's not a big deal
in the grand scheme of things, but

699
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:49.880
it annoys me that this has become
the narrative and it is so demonstrably false,

700
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:57.320
and yet they continue to peddle this
narrative of Trish and Leda being in

701
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.639
the very first women's main event in
the history of Monday Night Raw, and

702
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:02.840
because of that, they're these trailblazers. You could say the Trisian and Lead

703
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.360
to call them trailblazers or whatever big
words you want to use, But it

704
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:14.800
is factually incorrect to keep insisting that
Trish and Leda were the very first women's

705
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.320
match in the main event of Monday
Night Raw. That is not true.

706
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:23.599
Go back four years before Trish Stratison
leda headline Monday Night Raw, and you

707
00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:30.599
had Stephanie McMahon and Lida in the
Raw main event for the WWE Women's Championship.

708
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:32.880
And yes, the Rock was the
guest referee, and yes there was

709
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:37.760
interference from some of the men,
and so people may look at that and

710
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.880
go, We'll see it wasn't a
true women's main event because there were men

711
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:45.920
involved. There were penises around the
ring, So fucking what. You had

712
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:50.840
Lida and you had Stephanie McMahon,
two women in the main event of Monday

713
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:53.960
Night Raw in two thousand and actually
a pretty memorable moment too, because Leeda

714
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:59.000
won the Women's Championship that night.
And it's just as if it doesn't exist.

715
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.199
It's like in happened. You can
go back even further than that,

716
00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:07.719
you can go back to nineteen ninety
five Alundra Blaze and Birth of Faye.

717
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:12.920
We're technically the main event of the
show. Now, they didn't close the

718
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.480
show because they had a sit down
interview with Jim Ross and Shawn Michaels that

719
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:21.079
did, but as far as in
ring, technically, that was the main

720
00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:23.679
event of the show, and that
was in nineteen ninety five. So again

721
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:31.199
this narrative, I don't know how
this just became sort of accepted to where

722
00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:37.440
even online people talk about this fish
and later two thousand and four first Raw

723
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.519
main event bullshit, No, that's
not true. I'm kind of shocked,

724
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:45.719
to be honest with you, because
for all to talk about the women's revolution,

725
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.280
and Stephanie McMahon used to come out
there and champion that, and she

726
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:52.760
would be the face of it and
everything, almost like she was taking credit

727
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:54.400
for it. I'm surprised. I
don't want to credit her with being in

728
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:58.719
the first women's main event are Raw. You would think that's exactly what they

729
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:00.639
would do, Stephanie mcmah and it
was the first ever women's were on main

730
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:05.440
event. Maybe they think they'll get
blowback for it if they pushed that narrative.

731
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:08.159
I don't know, but it's about
time you put an end to this.

732
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:15.199
It's not true. So Trish said, once again, she finds herself

733
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:19.719
in a position where she has to
prove herself and she was sick of having

734
00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:22.199
to prove herself and Becky would see
a side of her that she hasn't seen

735
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:27.000
before. She said, Becky should
be scared, because you're not going to

736
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:32.039
survive this one, bitch, and
Becky pretended to be scared and then announced

737
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:36.800
that she was going to be wrestling
Zoe Stark on Raw next week and a

738
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:45.320
falls count anywhere match, and not
wait for this to be over. We

739
00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:51.280
have Chelsea Green, one half of
the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, found

740
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:53.000
herself a new partner. And do
you know how she found herself a new

741
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.440
partner. Piper Niven, who has
not been on the show in months,

742
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:01.000
randomly showed up last week and said
I'm your partner, and now we have

743
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:05.400
new tag team champions. So that's
how they resolved that whole issue. They

744
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:10.360
had an match on this show against
Caden Carter and Katana Chance. Carter and

745
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.320
Chance they hit a very nice double
team move on Chelsea. The referee,

746
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:17.639
though, did not count the pin
because she did not see them make the

747
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:22.400
tag. Piper then pulled Carter to
ringside Ranner into the announced desk. Back

748
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:28.559
inside, Piper hit Chance with a
crossbody block splash and she scored the pin

749
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:36.159
to win. The match that barely
lasted ninety seconds. I want to say

750
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:42.280
this went maybe a little over a
minute thirty. This division, and I

751
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:45.000
use that word loosely because there really
is no women's tag team division. It

752
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:52.000
doesn't exist, but let's pretend that
it does. This division has been absolutely

753
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:58.159
decimated. So in their infinite wisdom, what do they do? They decide

754
00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:04.519
to squash the legitimate women's tag team
that they have in the entire company.

755
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:09.159
Cayden Carter and Katana Chants are a
very good team. They've been partners now

756
00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:14.599
for several years down in NXT former
n XTA Women's Tag Team Champions. They've

757
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:21.519
really created this great chemistry between them
to where they have become a legit tag

758
00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:30.440
team and they get squashed like a
bug, just like that. Good job.

759
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:35.800
A lot of brain dead, fucking
idiots in this company because they insist

760
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.000
on keeping these tag team titles,
yet they have no intention of creating an

761
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:43.320
actual tag team division. So I
am trying to understand exactly what the logic

762
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:47.360
is behind keeping these useless titles.
If this is what they are going to

763
00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.280
do with the few legitimate teams they
have in the division, it just doesn't

764
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.400
make sense to me. I have
no problem with them shining a spotlight on

765
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.440
Piper Niven. Piper Niven is very
good. Piper Niven has been missing for

766
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:02.239
a long time. They never bought
to explain why she just randomly reappeared.

767
00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:06.199
Fine, maybe she fell into a
time warp and she finally found her way

768
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:09.760
back. But there are other ways
that you can shine a spotlight on this

769
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:17.000
woman without doing it at the expense
of Cayden Carter and Katata Chains. One

770
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:25.239
of your only fucking teams seth Rawlins
was in the back. It was being

771
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:30.519
interviewed by Jackie Redman. He encouraged
the crowd to sing his song, and

772
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:37.559
so they did. Jackie then asked
him about what Shinsky Nakamore said earlier about

773
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:42.000
his back, and Rollins got serious. He said that he does have two

774
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:45.440
fractures in his lumbar spine. He
said that he's been living with it for

775
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:50.039
over four years now. He said
it's something that will continue to get worse,

776
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.239
not better, and he doesn't know
how much longer he'll be able to

777
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:55.320
do things at the level that he
currently does. The matter, he got

778
00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:01.519
very hot here about Nakamora mentioning his
wife life and his daughter said that Knackamora

779
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:06.159
better be prepared to face him man
demand. He said, Nakamora was not

780
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.039
even at RAW tonight. He was
in a television studio thousands of miles away.

781
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:14.360
He said that he was going to
give Knackamora one more chance to play

782
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:17.320
his little mind games. He said
he could prove to the world that he

783
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:21.920
is an honorable warrior. He said
that he would be in the center of

784
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:24.039
the ring next week, dressed to
the nines with the world title around his

785
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:32.039
waist and the whole world chanting his
song. The main event was Kevin Owens

786
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:39.039
and Sammy Zane against the Judgment Day
that you don't know which episode of RAW

787
00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:45.079
I'm referring to, could be any
number of them, but I am referring

788
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.280
to tonight's show. We just did
not know which two members of the Judgment

789
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:53.000
Day it was going to be.
Damian Priest came out. Rea Ripley dragged

790
00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:59.320
out Finn Balor, and she told
him, you two are teaming up tonight.

791
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:00.599
Whether you like it or not,
you two are going to be tag

792
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:05.320
team partners. We know who wears
the pants in this family. I've said

793
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.920
before, Rio Ripley is the real
leader. Of the Judgment Day. It's

794
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:12.400
not Finn Balor, it's Rio Ripley. She proved that tonight. So she

795
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:15.480
forced Balor and Priest to put aside
whatever differences they'd been having, and they

796
01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:21.320
were challenging Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane
in this match. Owens was all over

797
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:25.320
Balor. Priest grabbed his briefcase.
Zane though claubert him and he dropped the

798
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:30.719
briefcase. JD McDonogh was out there. He tried tossing the case to Finn

799
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.800
Balor, but Owens intercepted it and
he bonked Balor in the head with the

800
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.039
briefcase, the referee standing right there. He did it in full view of

801
01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:45.960
the referee, and so the referee
called for the disqualification. Judgment Day swarmed

802
01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:52.480
Owens and Zane. Some people in
the crowd chanted Cody, Cody Rhodes,

803
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:54.760
who was in his gear. So
he must have had a sense of what

804
01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.599
was going to happen here because he
was in a suit. Earlier he was

805
01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:01.440
the main event of the show,
which he was not a part of,

806
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.920
but yet he was in his gear. So there you go. Cody Hey

807
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:09.840
not only a man of the people, but also always on the ready because

808
01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:13.440
you never know when you may be
needed. So Cody ran down to the

809
01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.679
ring. Even the odds, he
challenged them to a six man tag team

810
01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:22.599
match. Adam Pierce came out and
made it official, and so our new

811
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.199
made event was already in progress.
On the other side of the commercial break,

812
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.559
we had the judgment Day taking turns
hitting moves on Kevin Owens, including

813
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:34.800
Rio Ripley, who body slammed Kevin
Owens on the floor and then she gave

814
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:39.159
him a whole series of crotch chops
and told him to suck it. Zane

815
01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:45.039
eventually got the hot tag and gave
Priest a Tornado DDT for two. Balord

816
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:50.519
distracted the referee, allowing Ripley to
yang Zane off the top rope. Priests

817
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:53.159
followed with a choke slam, but
Owens broke up the cover. Owens then

818
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:59.000
threw Balor out of the ring.
Dominic tagged in, Zane got his knees

819
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:04.000
up on a frog's play from Dominic. Cody reappeared on the apron after he

820
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.480
had been knocked off a few minutes
before Zane made the tag, and Rhodes

821
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:13.119
hit Dom with a disaster kick,
caught Dom and Priest with a double Cody

822
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:19.079
Cutter Rhodes delivered across Roads to Baller
before Dominic tried a schoolboy for two.

823
01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:22.159
Cody gave dom a cross Roads and
then Zane gave him a Hellulah kick,

824
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:28.079
and finally Kevin Owens finished him off
with a stunner for the win. After

825
01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:30.719
the match, Zane grabbed the mic
and said, hey, Judgment Dave,

826
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:35.639
better luck next time, ay Bud, and he thanked Quebec and the baby

827
01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:39.320
Faces embraced as the show went off
the air. No major developments in dismatch

828
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.079
with the Judgment Day like we've had
over the last few weeks other than just

829
01:02:44.599 --> 01:02:49.360
the usual arguing that they've been doing
of late. Yet another loss that will

830
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:55.880
continue building to whatever this either split
or whatever kind of The final resolution to

831
01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:59.400
this is going to be with the
members of the Judgment Day, and I

832
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:05.440
hope it's not kicking someone out of
the group just yet. There's still time,

833
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.320
I think, to get to that
point. But no major developments on

834
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:12.039
that, and the question is what
do you do now with Cody at payback.

835
01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:15.199
Cody is one of the biggest stars
in the entire company, one of

836
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.679
the top two baby faces on Raw
along with seth Rollins. Rollins has a

837
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:21.639
match, Cody does not. What
do you do with Cody? The obvious

838
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:24.239
match to do to get them all
on the show would have been Cody,

839
01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:30.960
Ko and Sammy against the Judgment Day
and they gave it away here on this

840
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:34.639
show. But then again, after
what I said earlier, Hey, I

841
01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:37.559
mean, shit hasn't stopped them before. So even though we got that tonight,

842
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.800
we'll probably get it to get a
payback. I mean, really,

843
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:47.280
what's stopping them from doing it again? If they don't, there is the

844
01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:51.559
possibility that they could do Cody and
Damian Priest in a singles match. And

845
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:54.400
this was an idea that I talked
about on the podcast just yesterday, getting

846
01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:58.519
the briefcase up for grabs and you
could have it for the money in the

847
01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:00.679
bank briefcase because j D mcd made
the point a few weeks ago that you

848
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:04.840
know, you guys, Priest and
Balor, the reason that you guys are

849
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.480
having issues is because of that briefcase. You've got to get rid of that

850
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:13.079
briefcase. Maybe that's their way of
getting rid of the briefcase and Cody wins

851
01:04:13.119 --> 01:04:16.440
the case. The other thing is
I don't see Cody carrying around the money

852
01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:21.639
in the bank case for months and
months just to wait and cash in a

853
01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:27.159
WrestleMania But that is a possibility.
Otherwise, I don't know. I don't

854
01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:29.960
know what else you do with Cody. There is no other obvious match for

855
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:32.119
him at this point other than just
running back the match that we had tonight.

856
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:35.800
But I mean, my god,
how many times are we going to

857
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:40.280
get the same match, the same
main event, over and over and over

858
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:47.199
again on this fucking show. It's
sickening. It is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

859
01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:54.320
Thankfully, the people involved are very
good at what they do. It

860
01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:57.320
would be a lot worse if they
were having shitty matches and we got them

861
01:04:57.360 --> 01:04:59.800
over and over and over again.
At least they're good. Matches are very

862
01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:03.599
good sometimes, But that doesn't make
it any less ridiculous that they keep doing

863
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:06.639
the same thing over and over and
over again. It's like they're completely devoid

864
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:12.559
of ideas on what else to give
us. And that's not for you to

865
01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:14.840
come up with, that's not for
me to come up with. I mean,

866
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.800
I pitch ideas all the time.
That's their fucking job. They have

867
01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:20.360
a whole creative team. They pay
people to do this. This is the

868
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:26.320
best they could come up with every
week. This is what creative comes up

869
01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:29.679
with. This is their creative idea
every fucking week, to give the same

870
01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:33.440
match over and over again. I
feel like I'm watching this show on repeat.

871
01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:47.480
It's ridiculous. Here's a Twitter poll
fifty nine percent thumbs up, forty

872
01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:56.679
one percent thumbs down for this show. I think that's generous. At Solemn

873
01:05:56.719 --> 01:06:06.159
Monster, it's where you can go
ahead and vote it really really honestly it

874
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:10.599
does. It feels like ground Tug
Day every single week with this show.

875
01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:24.559
I feel like I'm watching Groundhug Day. Let's go to your super chats and

876
01:06:24.559 --> 01:06:30.480
see if you guys agree. Solo
is done. Yeah, Solo is done.

877
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:40.159
Solo is done. He's done with
this show. Groovy Goose, thank

878
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.639
you for the four ninety nine.
So if I had to pick the Matt

879
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:48.639
Rushmore of wrestling commentary, I would
put four different pictures of you, Solo

880
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:54.079
Bus, keep up the great work. You're the best. Well, I

881
01:06:54.079 --> 01:06:57.639
wouldn't want Matt Rushmore to be as
repetitive as these raw made events, so

882
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:00.760
I think we could come up with
every other face. That's very nice of

883
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:11.639
you say. I appreciate it Lady
fire Panda with the twenty dollars super chat.

884
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:16.800
People use the term buried or burial
if they don't know what they mean,

885
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:21.159
and you educate them by giving some
examples of what a burial is.

886
01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:29.719
Well, yeah, I mean DDP
basically going from main a ventor to perverted

887
01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:35.320
stalker and having the Undertaker's wife hin
him on television. I'd say that's a

888
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:39.960
pretty good example of a burial.
Don't don't say that to Bruce Pritchard,

889
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:42.880
though, because he'll tell it.
He'll give you fifteen fucking reasons why it

890
01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:46.320
wasn't a burial. Oh, we
were just trying to build him up.

891
01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:53.760
We were just trying to build him
up. Really, one of the few

892
01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:57.119
guys who got over, truly got
over on his own as a real star

893
01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.639
during that Monday Night War period in
WCW. And that's what they gave.

894
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:06.280
You're gonna tell me that's not a
burial if I had to give you some

895
01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:12.079
other examples of burial. I mean, look, I look at what happened

896
01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:15.600
to Test after Triple H and Stephanie
did their wedding angle in ninety nine.

897
01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:19.399
Test was getting over pretty good in
ninety nine, especially after that match he

898
01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:23.720
had at Summer Slam with Shane McMahon, the whole lover or Lever match,

899
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:28.720
and he had Stephanie McMahon on his
arm and he was getting over and then

900
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:33.319
Triple H married Stephanie and it was
all downhill after that protest. That's a

901
01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:39.520
good example of it. How about
John Cena getting DDT on concrete, out

902
01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:42.600
gunned, out numbered in the main
event of Summer Slam at coming Back,

903
01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.399
making his own comeback and beating the
Nexus, which she's been the hot thing

904
01:08:45.439 --> 01:08:48.680
on television for the past few months. I'd called that in burial, even

905
01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:54.760
even Sena himself. From what Chris
Jericho said in his book after it was

906
01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.479
over, acknowledge, Yeah, maybe
that was a mistake. Yeah you think,

907
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:04.760
Yeah, I think it was.
You know what I also I you

908
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:10.079
know what I was throw on that
list also, I would throw Brock Lesner

909
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:15.520
and Kofi Kingston from that first SmackDown
on box. Kofi Kingston had six months

910
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:18.479
is WWE champion, the bell rings, he lunges at Brock, Brock picks

911
01:09:18.520 --> 01:09:26.800
him up Fbot one three, buried
in eight seconds. Goodbye Kofi Kingston,

912
01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:30.399
He's still He's not only was he
buried he was buried back down on the

913
01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:32.640
See, there's levels to this.
This is how you have to understand this.

914
01:09:32.800 --> 01:09:36.800
There's levels to this. The top
level is the main event level in

915
01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:42.239
this company, right, that's like
the top soil, and then underneath you

916
01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:46.000
have the middle that's the mid card, and then all the way on the

917
01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:51.600
bottom is well the bottom of the
car. Right, the people who are

918
01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:56.439
not stars at all. Kofi Kingston
is right in the middle. He's still

919
01:09:56.479 --> 01:10:00.680
stuck there ever since twenty nineteen because
he got planted firmly into the ground.

920
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:03.359
He's not on the top soil.
He's the next level down, and that's

921
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:06.880
pretty much where he's been stuck ever
since. So I would call that a

922
01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:11.600
burial. I would throw at you, boy, you got me all fired

923
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:15.359
up now, I would throw at
you FTR at raw twenty five when they

924
01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:19.199
did that show from the Manhattan Center
and they got beat and then they had

925
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:24.039
to take all the different moves from
all the members of the click yeah.

926
01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:28.880
Or how about that segment where the
usos were eavesdropping on them in the showers?

927
01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:30.000
Or are they doing in the shower? You know what? I don't

928
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:33.960
even want to know, So I'll
throw them on that list too, And

929
01:10:35.399 --> 01:10:39.880
just to kind of round this out, I would throw Lacy Evans up.

930
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:44.239
Lacy Evans I just talked about her
on the podcast just yesterday. She has

931
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:48.439
gone from WWA. I should have
played taps when I started the stream in

932
01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:55.760
her honor. But that's a great
example of somebody who was being pushed by

933
01:10:56.000 --> 01:11:00.760
Vince McMahon and they tried to push
her multiple times, and then she went

934
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:05.279
from that to not getting any television
time at all, being squashed in two

935
01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:11.239
minutes by Charlotte. That to me
is when you talk about burial or buried,

936
01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:14.800
because it is a very overused term
and I don't use it very often

937
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:19.039
myself. A true burial would be
somebody who isn't featured on television at all,

938
01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:25.479
somebody who's a benchwarmer in the back
and catering, somebody who barely gets

939
01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:28.880
mentioned, barely gets any attention.
When they do get on television, it's

940
01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:32.520
usually two minutes where they're not even
the focus the announcers, they're not really

941
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.600
talking about them. It's almost like
they don't even exist. That is the

942
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:41.720
true definition of a burial. When
you're not even good enough to get television

943
01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:45.600
time, it's as if you have
no value to the company. It's exipt.

944
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:50.880
You don't exist. So somebody who
maybe that you like, who maybe

945
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:54.520
is not winning a lot of matches
at the moment, but they're getting a

946
01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:57.840
lot of television time. It really
depends on the situation. I don't know

947
01:11:57.880 --> 01:12:01.119
that I would call that a burial. In situations it might be, but

948
01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:05.399
those are really the people who I
would say are the ones that are being

949
01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:10.760
quote unquote buried. It's yeah,
someone who's in a position where you can't

950
01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:15.039
even get television time, and when
you do, you're not even the focal

951
01:12:15.079 --> 01:12:18.199
point of what's going on on screen. You're an after thought. That's a

952
01:12:18.359 --> 01:12:26.479
very anyway. I hope that answers
that question for you. Emma. With

953
01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:28.920
the seven dollars supertan, you know
what I'd like to bury. I'd like

954
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:35.319
to bury this show, and we
buried tonight's show. Emma says thank you

955
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:39.880
to all the concerned listeners who were
worried about me last week. I can

956
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:43.399
assure you I made it out of
the MTS Center and I'm alive and well.

957
01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:48.119
Crowd was very loud in real life
last week. Emma, thank you

958
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:56.880
the Data and Boys podcast. If
Keith Lee would have gotten in shape,

959
01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:00.199
would he have found as much success
on the main roster as the ring in

960
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:08.159
general? I think that in WWE, I think that that's probably what Vince

961
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:10.720
McMahon would have liked, would have
been for him to lose some weight,

962
01:13:12.039 --> 01:13:15.399
because I'm sure that worked against him
in their eyes. So do I think

963
01:13:15.399 --> 01:13:19.039
he would have had the success that
Gunther is having. I don't know about

964
01:13:19.079 --> 01:13:23.720
that. I won't go that far
and say that he would have had the

965
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:29.920
same level of success. I think, you know, as far as in

966
01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:33.600
ring, Keith Lee is very good
and he can do things for a bigger

967
01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:40.640
man that are very impressive. But
Gunther as a performer in the ring is

968
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:44.319
just on another level. And we're
also talking about two different things here because

969
01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:47.119
Keithley is a baby facing Gunther as
a heel, and there is a difference

970
01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:53.399
in their working styles because of that. But I don't want to take anything

971
01:13:53.399 --> 01:13:55.840
away from Gunther and say, oh, yeah, if Keith Lee had just

972
01:13:56.560 --> 01:14:00.279
lost thirty pounds or fifty pounds,
he'd be in the same position that Gunther

973
01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:04.039
is in. No. I think
Gunther is just that damn good. But

974
01:14:04.119 --> 01:14:14.039
I think Heathley definitely hurt himself probably
in the eyes of Vince McMahon, Naughty

975
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:18.199
Delicious Chicken with Labor. I honestly
miss Kevin Patrick and Corey Graves on a

976
01:14:18.239 --> 01:14:21.319
RAW. Their commentary kept me entertained. I don't know if that's a joke

977
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:26.119
tweet or not. Like I don't
miss I don't miss them at all.

978
01:14:28.199 --> 01:14:30.039
Of all the things you could complain
about about RAW, I certainly am not

979
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:33.119
complaining about the announcement. I think
Michael Colin, Wade Barrett are doing just

980
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:39.600
fun. I Renzo, It's obvious
what Knockle Morris said to Rollins no speak

981
01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:47.239
English, Dick the cock Johnson.
Candice would have been booked better by Tony

982
01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:56.079
Kahn now she would. If Candice
Larrey was in AW, she'd be wrestling

983
01:14:56.079 --> 01:15:01.119
on fucking Rampage and Dark Elevation every
week when Arc Elevation was still a thing.

984
01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:05.600
She would not in that women's division, which has its own problems.

985
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:09.199
No, Candice Larray would not be
any better off there than she is in

986
01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:15.039
WW Bobby's world. If Edge goes
to AW instead of WWE in twenty twenty

987
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.000
and decides to form the judgment day
there, who do you think he brings

988
01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:24.520
in? He's not He's not going
to do that, So it doesn't matter

989
01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:29.800
because he's not gonna do it.
I mean the judgment day that he should

990
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:32.199
just take over from Malachi Black and
just he already has the House of Black.

991
01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:38.840
Were talking about a dark faction.
We have literally a faction called the

992
01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:45.000
Dark Order. But it doesn't matter
because there's there's no way that's gonna happen.

993
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:49.840
Peter Cordieri, what up? My
peep's ready for the Salom Monster match.

994
01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:57.600
Peter, Slo Monster has a lot
of love for you, brother.

995
01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:01.279
I appreciate that comedic genius. I
feel like I heard you review the main

996
01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.439
event a lot. Oh yeah,
Oh yeah, I'll bet you do.

997
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:09.039
You've heard me talk about that main
event a lot, quite a few times,

998
01:16:09.039 --> 01:16:16.159
in fact, quite a few times. Naughty Delicious Chicken with flavor,

999
01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:20.359
the same formula, the same match, and the same routine over and over.

1000
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:30.800
It's like missionary impossible positions, every
single mother missionary impossible? Is that

1001
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:35.239
what you call it? Will I
be in London for all? In No,

1002
01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:39.720
I will be right here. I'll
be watching the show and I will

1003
01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:44.279
be live on YouTube next Sunday as
soon as it is over. That is

1004
01:16:44.279 --> 01:16:57.199
where I will be. Christopher Smith
with the four ninety nine love the presentation

1005
01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.720
of Nakamura. He came off like
an anime villain and it was just so

1006
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:06.119
freaking badass. I would not mind
him doing more promos like this, I

1007
01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:11.279
said before. I think it was
the best promo I've ever seen him give,

1008
01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:15.680
or any sort of promo as far
as the presentation of it, in

1009
01:17:15.800 --> 01:17:23.680
his entire time with this company,
and I hope they do more. And

1010
01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:30.439
as the bro as a heel a
mellow, he thoughts, it's not impossible.

1011
01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:34.520
I think it would be an interesting
swerve. He goes heel instead of

1012
01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:43.600
McIntyre. Can you pull it off? I don't know, because it would

1013
01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:48.279
really require him, I think,
to be more serious, more off.

1014
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:54.039
We've seen him get serious, but
it's been fleeting. I don't think he

1015
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:57.359
can just play the same character.
I think he would have to change it

1016
01:17:57.399 --> 01:18:00.359
up a little bit. I don't
know what kind of range he he would

1017
01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:04.279
have. Peter, thank you for
the nineteen ninety nine Look at this Peter,

1018
01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:13.760
Peter coming in hot tonight, Naughty
Delicious, says I Triple dog dare

1019
01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:17.720
Dirty Dom to yell. Cody Rhodes
yelled to Cody Rhodes that the legend of

1020
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:30.560
Zelda sucks and threatened to feed Pharaoh
chocolates instant heat. We have got Arabian

1021
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:34.119
night ww we is short on made
of vendors compared to aw same five people

1022
01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:39.159
made of venting for months now,
especially on raw, we need some NXT

1023
01:18:39.319 --> 01:18:44.039
call ups. What are your thoughts? I have no idea why bron Breaker

1024
01:18:44.199 --> 01:18:47.359
is still an nx D. I
am at a total loss. Why is

1025
01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:55.159
he still an NXT? He is
doing absolutely nothing nothing. They'll feed him

1026
01:18:55.159 --> 01:18:59.039
a random match every now and then
against someone like a Baron Corbyn, you

1027
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:02.279
know, or von Wagner. He
wrestled Iliad Dragone. They had a very

1028
01:19:02.279 --> 01:19:08.319
good match recently. But he's completely
just directionless. Right now, he's done

1029
01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:13.119
all that he can possibly do.
He's advanced enough that I think him on

1030
01:19:13.119 --> 01:19:15.960
the main roster. I would not
say that it would be too soon,

1031
01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:18.920
right Some people get called up too
soon. I think it's the perfect time

1032
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:23.000
to get somebody like him up on
the main roster. Now. I would

1033
01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:26.199
not thrust him into the main event
right away, but now is the time

1034
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:28.960
to call him up so that you
can start building him and maybe six months

1035
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:31.239
or nine months from now he can
be in the main event or a year

1036
01:19:31.319 --> 01:19:36.119
from now. He could be sniffing
main events on RAR smackgown. He shouldn't

1037
01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:39.560
be doing that out of the gate. That's why I think it's important you

1038
01:19:39.600 --> 01:19:45.520
get him up there now, start
building him now. I have no idea

1039
01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:59.880
why he is still stuck in annex. We have wh one team anyway,

1040
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:02.239
thank give it. The four ninety
nine that Japanese text on sets back is

1041
01:20:02.279 --> 01:20:06.800
the Bushido Samurai code. Okay,
there you go. I was wondering what

1042
01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:12.720
the significance of it was. So
he's got the Samurai code down the crack

1043
01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:18.760
of his back seth rollins. Does
Chris a XC any shot that you bring

1044
01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:21.960
back members only Q and A.
Yes, it's just a matter of time

1045
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:27.520
timing more than anything else. For
the Legends Tier members, I want to

1046
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.920
get back to uploading more retro audio
as well, for those who don't know.

1047
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:34.039
If you're a Legends Tier member,
which is the slightly higher membership tier.

1048
01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:39.800
The first thirteen at least thirteen episodes
of the SoundOff that I ever gave

1049
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:42.600
it in two thousand and seven into
the beginning of two thousand and eight,

1050
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:47.560
those are up because the first I
think it's like eighty four. Episodes of

1051
01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:53.399
the show that I ever did are
not available anyway, So on the like

1052
01:20:53.479 --> 01:20:55.920
pod Bean and now Spreaker, I
think it's start. I want to say

1053
01:20:55.920 --> 01:21:00.800
it starts from episode eighty four or
eighty five. So for the Legends Tier

1054
01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:05.399
members, I started uploading the original
but I have them all and I got

1055
01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:10.800
thirteen deep. Then I got sidetracked
because I have to do editing on all

1056
01:21:10.840 --> 01:21:14.920
of them for like music or stuff
that may have to be cut. So

1057
01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:19.960
verse thirteen are up. If you
want to hear what was going on in

1058
01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:25.479
the world of wrestling from my perspective
back in two thousand and eight, it

1059
01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:30.960
was like a lifetime Chris also says
that WrestleMania forty is Cody Roman two.

1060
01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:35.520
Isn't the result obvious and then anti
climactic? Noway Roman wins again? Right,

1061
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:40.520
Oh, there's always a chance for
Roman poms. You have these you

1062
01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:44.760
have these fucking idiots who want him
to beat Hogan's brigman. There are people

1063
01:21:44.800 --> 01:21:50.720
out there who actually want him to
beat Hull Coogan brit But now, I

1064
01:21:50.720 --> 01:21:55.720
don't think it makes it anti climactic
to the point where they shouldn't do the

1065
01:21:55.720 --> 01:22:00.159
match because there's a story being told, and I think there are people who

1066
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:04.399
would be genuinely worried that they would
he would do it again because they want

1067
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:12.199
Roman to beat whatever the next imaginary
record is. So it might make an

1068
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:15.359
anticlimactic for some people. But I
think if they tell the story the right

1069
01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:18.880
way and they go out there and
have an excellent match. They were having

1070
01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:23.600
an excellent match that WrestleMania this year, so we know they have it in

1071
01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:27.439
them. I think it'll make for
a great moment if he gets that win,

1072
01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:33.359
and you know it's the fortieth WrestleMania, he gets that big final kind

1073
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:39.039
of bit of closure there to the
story. You've finished the story, you

1074
01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:42.640
don't you don't deviate from that just
because, oh, well, people think

1075
01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:45.640
he's gonna win, so we can't
do that. It's like when Christian came

1076
01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:51.199
back to the company in two thousand
and nine, I think it was two

1077
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:58.199
thousand nine or two ten, and
he was going to originally do something at

1078
01:22:58.199 --> 01:23:02.119
the Royal Rumble. I want to
say it was involving Matt and Jeff Hardy,

1079
01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:06.279
but word leaked and Vince mcmanson,
well, we can't do it now

1080
01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:12.479
because people know. So they sent
Christians to ECW to the ECW branding stuff.

1081
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:16.880
If the idea is good enough,
you'd go with it. Even if

1082
01:23:16.920 --> 01:23:20.119
some people think they know what's gonna
happen, right it hasn't happened yet,

1083
01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:27.600
go with it. He changed the
whole plan because people knew. We can't

1084
01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:34.840
do it now anyway. Chris saith
that not you, Vincent, naughty delicious

1085
01:23:34.920 --> 01:23:41.439
chicken with flavor. I'm ready to
order a double mcriddle sandwich. That sounds

1086
01:23:41.640 --> 01:23:49.439
positively all trill Mexican three oh five, three years ago, on a special

1087
01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:54.520
edition of aw Dynamite Saturday Night,
in the main event, mister Brody Leaked

1088
01:23:54.560 --> 01:24:01.159
defeated Tody Rhodes with a t NT
championship. That was a very memorable squash

1089
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:06.880
that night. I remember that very
well. Devin from NJ, Just what

1090
01:24:06.920 --> 01:24:13.119
do I need to do exactly to
be a top podcaster, wrestling commissioner and

1091
01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:17.600
sex symbol like Solomon? Well two
out of three ACA. You just gotta

1092
01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:21.279
work your ass off, That's all
you gotta do. You gotta work your

1093
01:24:21.279 --> 01:24:25.960
ass off. You gotta have some
degree of talent at least a little bit,

1094
01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:30.479
and then you two can be a
top podcaster and a I don't know

1095
01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:33.960
about the commissioner apartment. You could
be a top podcast. You just gotta

1096
01:24:34.000 --> 01:24:43.319
put the work in. Zachariah Sitchin
with the nineteen ninety nine Zachariah Thank You.

1097
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.079
Seth should lose the strap to Shinskate
in my humble opinion, but I

1098
01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:50.520
doubt it happens. And when should
Cody win priests money in the bank?

1099
01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:56.960
Briefcase? Also, Seth should join
the club. I'm thirty years young and

1100
01:24:57.039 --> 01:25:00.960
my back be killing me as well. Yeah, man, let me tell

1101
01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:04.119
you. You know, if I
go for like a walk in the park,

1102
01:25:04.600 --> 01:25:08.720
like I've been the Central Park,
right in Central Park, it's it's

1103
01:25:08.760 --> 01:25:12.119
a like on a nice summer day, it's a beautiful place to go for

1104
01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:15.840
a walk. I don't get into
the city much anymore, but Central Park

1105
01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:21.039
is gigantic, and I would be
in Central Park and I'm walking from where

1106
01:25:21.319 --> 01:25:26.279
it was like the zoo is right
like around that area, and I'm just

1107
01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:32.279
walking straight back. Within like ten
minutes, my lower back is barking.

1108
01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:39.199
I don't know why, but it's
like it's sore. I gotta turn around,

1109
01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:42.199
like all right, we're done here, I gotta leave. And that

1110
01:25:42.720 --> 01:25:45.319
was like years ago, So yeah, I don't know. I don't know,

1111
01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:54.560
man, it happens to everyone.
I guess it's terrible phenomenal beard something

1112
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:58.720
I have never had. Hey Solo
wanted to show appreciation. Much love to

1113
01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:04.039
you, phenomenal Beard. Thank you
that that beard is quite fit. Hbk

1114
01:26:04.199 --> 01:26:08.079
C eighty three. In my opinion, what is the best scene of versus

1115
01:26:08.119 --> 01:26:12.880
aj styles match? I'm partial to
their Summer Slam match in twenty sixteen because

1116
01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:16.119
I was in the building at the
Barclay Center and it was a fantastic match.

1117
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:19.600
But I know a lot of people
will mention the Royal Rumble match,

1118
01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:26.520
and I can't argue that. What's
so impressive about the Royal Rumble twenty seventeen

1119
01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:30.680
match Rasina one number sixteen. I
think it was they did that match,

1120
01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:35.359
and I don't think they left it
the ring of single time. I don't

1121
01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:41.000
think they went to the floor one
time during that entire There were no table

1122
01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:45.279
spots, no throwing the guy into
the ring steps, no fighting into the

1123
01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:50.359
crowd or into into the aisle way
or anything. They just kept it in

1124
01:26:50.359 --> 01:26:55.560
the ring and they had a great
wrestling match that was at the Alamo.

1125
01:26:56.720 --> 01:26:59.279
But the Summer Slam twenty sixteen match
is the one that I would do.

1126
01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:06.119
Christopher Smith. If this is still
happening, come next month with Monday Night

1127
01:27:06.159 --> 01:27:14.039
football, Raw is going to be
brutal to watch. You think Raw is

1128
01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:16.000
in trouble from Monday Night Football,
wait, wait until we get into the

1129
01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:23.880
college football season. When it comes
to aw collision, Collision is still stuck

1130
01:27:23.880 --> 01:27:28.680
in the four hundred thousand range.
Now imagine when the sports competition picks up.

1131
01:27:29.399 --> 01:27:32.840
Oh boy one, Bill Phil is
going to become half a mill fill

1132
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:42.800
on a regular basis. Actually he'll
be He'll be lucky to be half a

1133
01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:47.560
mill fill. I think it's gonna
be a lot worse than that Druvy goose.

1134
01:27:47.680 --> 01:27:53.800
Raw sucks and it's almost as bad
as the Mets, well almost.

1135
01:27:57.399 --> 01:28:03.199
We have got Libido Bell with that
twenty five dollars perfectly timed remode, super

1136
01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:08.199
chick. Did Hulk Hogan hurt the
business more than he helped? Or is

1137
01:28:08.239 --> 01:28:12.920
it the other way around? Young
fan here was not alive or Hogan.

1138
01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:18.680
You know, he did a lot
of harm. I think to a lot

1139
01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:25.399
of people, and I think he
was very selfish. But there are a

1140
01:28:25.399 --> 01:28:30.479
lot of stars and top stars in
the business who are very selfish, and

1141
01:28:30.520 --> 01:28:33.560
I think to some degree you have
to be si, but he was really

1142
01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:41.359
sick. And I think when you
look back on his career, like,

1143
01:28:41.439 --> 01:28:45.239
I don't know that I would be
sitting here right now doing a wrestling ship

1144
01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:49.680
if I didn't grow up at that
time during that period when Hogan was on

1145
01:28:49.760 --> 01:28:53.680
top and Hull com Ania, the
Hull whole Comnia thing was really first,

1146
01:28:53.720 --> 01:29:00.680
like nationally taking, so I can't
be the only one. He helped bring

1147
01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:04.920
a ton of fans into wrestling that
probably still watch even to this thing.

1148
01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:10.960
And he was the golden goose for
so long for Vince McMahon, and he

1149
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:13.319
brought a lot of eyeballs to the
product. And I have a lot of

1150
01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:20.239
fond memories involving Hogan from my wrestling
fanding in the Grand Scheme? Did he

1151
01:29:20.359 --> 01:29:26.319
do more harm than good? As
far as Vince McMahon, he did great.

1152
01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:30.800
You know, he did great things
for Vince to the business as a

1153
01:29:30.840 --> 01:29:34.680
whole. I think it's a little
murky er. I can't give you a

1154
01:29:34.720 --> 01:29:39.199
clear cut answer. I think it
just cuts both ways. I think he

1155
01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:43.279
is somebody who clearly did a lot
of business and made a lot of money

1156
01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:48.640
for a lot of people. But
he also just all about Hogan all the

1157
01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:54.399
time. There are people in wrestling
who you hear stories about, or you

1158
01:29:54.520 --> 01:29:59.199
just watch the way that they're utilized
on TV who were very giving and putting

1159
01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:05.479
other people over and working with different
people. You know, It's just it's

1160
01:30:05.520 --> 01:30:10.800
some people operate that way, other
people operate a different way. Hogan was

1161
01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:15.119
one of those people who operated under
it's Hogan first and everybody else is a

1162
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:19.600
distance second. And that hurt a
lot of people. But like I said,

1163
01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:23.760
business wise, how can you argue
with the success that he had in

1164
01:30:23.800 --> 01:30:27.840
the money he made. I think
it just cuts both ways. It's hard

1165
01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:33.079
to give a definitive answer one way
or the other. And then because I

1166
01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:36.199
look at it like this, also, not only was he the face of

1167
01:30:36.199 --> 01:30:41.239
that Golden era national launch that Vince
McMahon had in the mid eighties, the

1168
01:30:41.560 --> 01:30:45.840
Rock and Wrestlinger, Right, He's
the only guy in the history of the

1169
01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:53.600
business who can honestly say that he
was the face of two different boom periods.

1170
01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:59.520
He was the face of that mid
eighties expansion when WWF, when Nashal.

1171
01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:03.920
He was the face of the nWo
era of WCW, the one and

1172
01:31:03.960 --> 01:31:09.800
only era of that company where they
were actually beating Vince mcmay. Only time

1173
01:31:09.800 --> 01:31:14.680
it's ever happened, only time it
likely will ever happen, and that was

1174
01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:16.439
as a heel. One is a
baby face, the other as a heel.

1175
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:23.680
That's just something that's never been done
before. And we all know the

1176
01:31:23.720 --> 01:31:29.640
success the WCW had and that whole
period. That doesn't happen without the nWo

1177
01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:32.279
taking off the way that it did. And I don't think the nWo works

1178
01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:39.960
without Hogan agreeing to be the third
man. So make a pick of that

1179
01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:53.560
which you base beer has got of
seduction burials Hassan Taz sandow bagwell demon rvdo

1180
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:58.479
six r vdo sick. I mean
he buried himself. So you know,

1181
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:03.560
I put that all on the company
we got doctor Bropio. I banned myself

1182
01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:14.840
from watching Raw during Monday Night an
Arabian Night, two thousand ten dollars super

1183
01:32:14.960 --> 01:32:18.239
Chat. Do you think injuries to
Braun, Orton, Bray and Biggie have

1184
01:32:18.359 --> 01:32:23.760
hurt the main events scene in WW
getting too many repeated matches, that mass

1185
01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:27.760
firing in twenty twenty, and stars
like Brian and Cole leaving hurt their death.

1186
01:32:29.760 --> 01:32:34.000
Well, it's you know, got
this thing all the drag and the

1187
01:32:34.159 --> 01:32:41.119
supposed grand split, so they didn't
have that, they would have a greater

1188
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:44.640
access to more stars who could go
back and forth between the two shows,

1189
01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:53.279
right, Does it hurt their depth
by having injuries right now? Of course,

1190
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:56.479
injuries are always going to hurt me
death. Tony Kahn is experiencing that

1191
01:32:56.600 --> 01:32:59.520
right now as he tries to put
together the biggest card in the history of

1192
01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:04.079
his company. He's been hit by
a whole multitude events. So injuries are

1193
01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:08.560
always gonna are always going to be
a problem. And I don't know the

1194
01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:11.119
Biggie would be in the main events
scene right now, even if he was

1195
01:33:11.239 --> 01:33:15.239
able to wrestle, he may have
ended up, you know like COPEI,

1196
01:33:15.479 --> 01:33:17.319
where he gets to taste the main
event for a while and then ends up

1197
01:33:17.319 --> 01:33:23.560
being relegated back into the tag team
you see. So yeah, I mean

1198
01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:27.079
that definitely plays a role in it. But that doesn't change the fact that

1199
01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:34.279
there's people who are on the roster
that you could push or you could rotate

1200
01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:38.439
out of main events just to kind
of freshen things up a little bit.

1201
01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:42.920
You can have non main eventors in
a main event every now and then against

1202
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an existing main event, right,
if they wanted to, they could have

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01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:50.920
headlined Raw with Chad Gable against Guther. They didn't do it because of the

1204
01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:54.720
finish. If they were gonna have
a clean finish, if they were gonna

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01:33:54.720 --> 01:34:00.039
have those guys go out there for
fifteen minutes, two three commercial breaks and

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01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:01.920
then Gunther wins in the end,
I would have had lined the show with

1207
01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:06.800
that, like it's okay to do
that every now and then break things up

1208
01:34:06.800 --> 01:34:10.960
and break up the monotony of the
same match as over and over again.

1209
01:34:11.880 --> 01:34:15.279
You can't just say, oh,
well it's injuries. There's nothing they can

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01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:18.479
do hands your tide. There's really
nothing they can do. They should be

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01:34:18.520 --> 01:34:23.640
able to come up with enough different
matches that they can feature in the main

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01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:29.439
event where they're not repeating themselves every
week or every other week. That's not

1213
01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:41.119
an excuse. I wonder what the
main event for Raw next week will be.

1214
01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:46.359
Anybody want to take bets and what
you think the Raw main event will

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01:34:46.359 --> 01:34:51.800
be next Monday night. So thank
you for hitting the goal. The goal

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01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:57.359
was four hundred likes. We are
now at four sixty eight and Clymie boy,

1217
01:34:57.399 --> 01:34:59.560
it would be nice if we hit
five hundred before we get out of

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01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:03.680
here. Would that'd be something we'll
hit five hundred later on, but you

1219
01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:09.159
know, hit that live would be
pretty cool. Bass Beers with the four

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01:35:09.199 --> 01:35:15.520
dollars super Chat four twenty to be
exact, Jeff versus Jeff or Aki Bono

1221
01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:24.880
versus Big Show by Sell, I
assume Jeff versus Jeff you are referring to

1222
01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:32.119
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre deathmatch last week
Big Show and Akay Bono is something that

1223
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:36.560
I try to block out of my
mind because just the image of Big Show

1224
01:35:36.600 --> 01:35:44.239
in that I don't know, I
forgot what you call it. It's not

1225
01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:47.359
a gee, it's whatever. Whatever. The sumo fucking diaper he was wearing,

1226
01:35:48.199 --> 01:35:53.119
they got a close up shot.
Oh god, you know what I

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01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:56.159
think? Honestly, I think I
would take leather face in that situation.

1228
01:35:57.359 --> 01:36:00.800
I think I would, Ladies and
gentlemen. And it is now time to

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01:36:01.039 --> 01:36:12.560
be the booker. It is time
to be the booker where we randomly book

1230
01:36:12.600 --> 01:36:17.600
ourselves a handful of wrestling matches and
see how it turns out. Why what

1231
01:36:17.640 --> 01:36:21.439
purpose does it serve? No purpose
at all? It's just fucking fun,

1232
01:36:23.600 --> 01:36:27.840
except when I book a pretty shitty
match, which unfortunately, has happened quite

1233
01:36:27.840 --> 01:36:30.439
a bit recently, but I think
our fortunes are going to turn around there,

1234
01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:35.720
I really believe. So let's start
with the men. Let's see all

1235
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:43.079
those B two B emojis from our
channel members in the chat. All right,

1236
01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:51.439
here we go. We begin with
the Miss holding the WWE Championship on

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01:36:51.560 --> 01:36:58.520
the night that the Miss and his
promo talked about being WWE Champion. We

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01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:03.600
land on the Mids as w w
E chick. It's almost like this thing

1239
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:15.760
knows, it just knows the mis
against Razor Ramone. Oh that's you know.

1240
01:37:15.800 --> 01:37:20.279
I'm a Razor Ramone fan. I
am a Razor Ramone fan. But

1241
01:37:20.399 --> 01:37:28.199
on the other hand, it's the
Mids that just don't work for me.

1242
01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:35.119
Razor Ramone would make short work of
the Mids. Razor's Edge one, two

1243
01:37:35.159 --> 01:37:42.399
three, Thanks for coming all right
now here. This is always just a

1244
01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:45.720
disaster in the waiting here. With
the women's be the Booker, I don't

1245
01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:48.760
know why. Plenty of good choices
in here, but we've had some pretty

1246
01:37:48.760 --> 01:37:57.640
bad women's be the booker picks.
You begin with Trish Stratus. Everybody,

1247
01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:02.439
how about that we from the Miss
who we were just talking about on this

1248
01:38:02.479 --> 01:38:09.600
show. To Trish Stratus, who
talked about debuting when she was twenty four

1249
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:12.399
years old, and she looked she
looks twenty four here in this picture.

1250
01:38:12.479 --> 01:38:15.279
I wouldn't be surprised if this was
from her rookie year in two thousand.

1251
01:38:15.359 --> 01:38:18.600
In fact, I'm almost positive that
was from her rookie year in two thousand.

1252
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:25.840
Tris Stratus was was not known to
be a very good wrestler back when

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01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:29.960
she made her debut. She did
get better, but it was over time.

1254
01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:38.560
Trish Stratus against a J Lee,
I can I can get that.

1255
01:38:38.640 --> 01:38:45.520
I can support that. I like
aj Lee, I like Trish. I

1256
01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.479
though you may not think so based
on my critique of that segment tonight,

1257
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:55.159
but I actually am a Tris Stratus
fan. Trish Stratus and aj Lee,

1258
01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:00.640
I gotta give that a thumbs up. Now we come to the tag teams.

1259
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:06.039
Who will it be? What teams
will we land on here on this

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01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:15.079
fine Monday night? We begin with
the Bang Bang Gang Bullet Club Gold,

1261
01:39:15.359 --> 01:39:21.079
Jay White and Juice Robinson. That's
what they call themselves, The Bang Bang

1262
01:39:21.119 --> 01:39:27.560
Gang. I guess not pornoll like
that once the Bang Bang Gang. All

1263
01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:30.159
right, here we go, So
Jay White and Juice Robinson. I'm gonna

1264
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:39.479
be taking on Penta and Ray Phoenix, the Luca Bros. Bullet Club Gold

1265
01:39:39.680 --> 01:39:44.119
and the Luca Bros. That is
a match that we probably will end up

1266
01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:46.600
seeing at some point, and I
think it will be an excellent match.

1267
01:39:48.680 --> 01:39:53.600
So two out of three, I'm
pretty happy with that performance. I'm pretty

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01:39:53.600 --> 01:39:57.319
happy with that compared to what we've
been doing. I'm pretty happy with that

1269
01:39:57.359 --> 01:40:00.880
performance. Paul Carpenter, how can
you do? I liked them Is and

1270
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:03.560
Razor Ramone. They are the best
intercontinental champion. Yes, but you have

1271
01:40:03.600 --> 01:40:09.159
to understand something here. I'm trying. I'm trying very hard to book main

1272
01:40:09.239 --> 01:40:15.319
event caliber matches here. I'm not
trying to book an opener here the curtain

1273
01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:17.239
jerk. I'm trying to book a
main event. That's my goal here.

1274
01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:24.800
That is my goal, all right. So two out of three I'm pretty

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01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:27.960
happy with that. That's a good
way to start the week. I can't

1276
01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:31.600
complain. Let's put this raw show
in the rear view, shall we please?

1277
01:40:32.439 --> 01:40:35.600
Look Let's look ahead. We look
ahead to Dynamite. We had a

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01:40:35.640 --> 01:40:42.439
wild Dynamite stream last Wednesday, by
the way, between just the discussion and

1279
01:40:42.520 --> 01:40:45.000
everybody going crazy in the Chat for
some reason into the super Chat it was

1280
01:40:45.079 --> 01:40:48.720
it was nuts on Wednesday. So
let's see if we can replicate that this

1281
01:40:48.800 --> 01:40:55.439
week, because we are getting ever
closer to the Wembley Stadium show. Actually,

1282
01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:58.119
I guess this is the go home
Dynamite this week. That's right,

1283
01:40:58.119 --> 01:41:03.000
this is the final Dynamite until all
In, and I believe they're actually taping

1284
01:41:04.119 --> 01:41:11.239
Collision on Wednesday. I believe,
So we'll talk about Dynamite on Wednesday night

1285
01:41:12.119 --> 01:41:15.800
and then we have smacked out on
Friday. I mentioned on the show yesterday

1286
01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:21.560
the podcast the main flagship probably going
to go up Saturday Saturday night because Sunday

1287
01:41:21.680 --> 01:41:27.600
one o'clock Eastern, actually noon Eastern
if you count the pre show is all

1288
01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.399
In, and so when that pay
per view is over, probably at eleven

1289
01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:35.000
o'clock at night, I will be
alive on YouTube to recap the entire thing

1290
01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:39.039
for you. So I will not
be in London like some other people will

1291
01:41:39.079 --> 01:41:43.439
be, but I will be here
as I always am. I will be

1292
01:41:43.479 --> 01:41:46.399
here because I need to be here
for all of you. So it's gonna

1293
01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.520
be a busy week. I hope
you will join me for all of the

1294
01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:57.920
festivities. Retro koh dropping that four
twenty. Let's not hate on Miss Razor

1295
01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:01.680
could pull a good main event out
of here. So you think I should

1296
01:42:01.680 --> 01:42:04.560
have given that the bell is that? Is that what you're saying. I

1297
01:42:04.600 --> 01:42:08.560
made a mistake by giving that the
IC. I think you're just disappointed.

1298
01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:12.880
I could have gone three for three
and I gave that the buzzer instead.

1299
01:42:14.800 --> 01:42:17.039
Razor Ramone against them is is not
a match that I'm gonna sit here and

1300
01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:20.960
fantasy book and go man. I
wish all the matches I wish we could

1301
01:42:20.960 --> 01:42:25.000
have gotten, you know what,
the match that got away from us,

1302
01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:28.760
the match that I really wish we
could have gotten, Razor Ramone against the

1303
01:42:28.800 --> 01:42:34.159
fucking Miss. You can enjoy that
match. Arabian Night says, I feel

1304
01:42:34.199 --> 01:42:39.159
bad for Triple H. He lost
a lot of his Black and Golden XT

1305
01:42:39.359 --> 01:42:44.520
talent into three years to aw and
never got the shot to book those to

1306
01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:48.880
book them on the main roster.
Like Undisputed Eric Keithley andrad a FTR and

1307
01:42:49.039 --> 01:42:55.920
Swerve. I don't think Swerve liked
Triple As very much. Yeah, I

1308
01:42:55.960 --> 01:43:00.159
don't think Swerve was was very happy
in the situation that he was. But

1309
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:02.319
you know what, some of the
other ones, I think one day,

1310
01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:08.600
Triple h will probably get the chance
to book them again, especially Androti Bass

1311
01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:14.640
Beerist, God of Seduction fifteen dollars
super chests, says Wrestle Madia twenty one

1312
01:43:15.079 --> 01:43:18.680
was my first wrestle Madia. I
was ten. Kurt Angle against Shawn Michaels

1313
01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:24.239
was so good that my grandmother came
into the room and she literally was completed

1314
01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:31.960
or compelled. She was compelled watching
Sean try to escape the ankleogue master class.

1315
01:43:32.039 --> 01:43:39.399
Indeed, gwo there's a reason why
Bobby Heen And after he watched that

1316
01:43:39.439 --> 01:43:42.960
match called it the greatest wrestling match
that he had ever seen. Think about

1317
01:43:42.960 --> 01:43:46.399
how much ground that covers. Think
about all the years he spent in the

1318
01:43:46.399 --> 01:43:54.119
business as a wrestler and a manager, as a fan. It was a

1319
01:43:54.119 --> 01:43:59.680
master class between two of the best
of all time. We got we got

1320
01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:01.159
Kurt Sean. I only wish we
would have been able to get Kurt and

1321
01:44:01.199 --> 01:44:04.479
Brett. I think that would have
been just as good, if not better.

1322
01:44:05.960 --> 01:44:10.039
All right, I think that covers
all of your messages. I think

1323
01:44:10.039 --> 01:44:12.800
I got y'all. I got you
all in there. Thank you for the

1324
01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:16.119
love and the support. I appreciate
it. Be well, stay safe,

1325
01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:24.840
have yourselves a great rest of your
Tuesday, since technically it is now Tuesday,

1326
01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:29.279
and we'll be back here on Wednesday
or the Dynamite stream. Hey,

1327
01:44:29.279 --> 01:44:32.880
the Winston slip getting one in here
at the buzzer. Why do you think

1328
01:44:32.880 --> 01:44:39.479
we never got to Jericho versus Kurt
Few? We did. We did in

1329
01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:47.960
two thousand. They wrestled for the
European and the Intercontinental titles heading into Wrestle

1330
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:54.720
Media two thousand. It wasn't like
a month long thing, but technically we

1331
01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:59.520
did. We did, and Kurt
was not even at his peak. He

1332
01:44:59.560 --> 01:45:03.119
wasn't even didn't like peak Kurt Angle
four, So I guess, yeah,

1333
01:45:03.119 --> 01:45:06.159
we missed that on that, But
Jericho and Kurt, we did get them

1334
01:45:06.239 --> 01:45:11.439
in two thousand. I'll see you
guys on Wednesday from the Dynamite trip.

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01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:11.840
Take care,