WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:08.000 Tonight was night number one of the twenty twenty three WWE Draft and the first 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.480 draft under Triple age. What moves would he make to shake up the WWE 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:17.280 roster? He talked about this draft shaking up the very foundation of the entire 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.519 company. All talent eligible from Raw and SmackDown, divide it up into two 5 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:27.039 pools, one tonight one coming up on Raw this Monday night. NXT talent 6 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.600 also eligible to be drafted, and we did get some NXT talent drafted. 7 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.759 Now that Night one is in the books, I will say SmackDown tonight was 8 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:39.000 in Corpse's Christie, but I may have to start calling it Corpus Christie again 9 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.479 because it was actually I thought, a pretty good crowd. You know, 10 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.280 you guys are gonna kill your gimmick if you keep making noise like this. 11 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.640 But SmackDown was in Corpus Christie tonight, and I was trying to think of 12 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.560 a word, a good word that I would want to use to sum up 13 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.679 Night one of this draft, and the word I kept coming back to was 14 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:06.840 baffling. There were some baffling moves on this show tonight as far as the 15 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:12.680 draft is concerned. What they did with Cody for one, what they did 16 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:19.280 with their women's champions, both on the main roster and on NXT. You 17 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.879 know when Shawn Michaels came out in the fourth round of the draft tonight to 18 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:29.959 announce the picks, and he was talking about how unhappy he was, I'm 19 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.400 not very happy to make this announcement. He wasn't working you. I am 20 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.519 sure that Shawn Michaels was not very pleased with some of the moves that were 21 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:45.519 made and some of the people he lost in the draft tonight. But just 22 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.840 some baffling moves. And then when I hear Triple H come out and I 23 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.920 hear some of the other presenters come out and they're talking about Raw selects and 24 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.000 SmackDown selects. Yeah, we have the the NFL draft is ongoing right now. 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.040 You hear them say, you know, with the fourth pick in the 26 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.560 draft, you know such and such teams selects. They're trying to make it 27 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.159 out to be like a real draft. The only problem is who exactly is 28 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:17.400 doing the selecting. It's just goofy. Raw has no general manager, SmackDown 29 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:23.759 has no general manager, So who exactly is doing the selecting in these drafts? 30 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.280 Adam Pierce is the de facto authority figure on this show. I guess 31 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.919 it's supposed to be him where we don't know. We don't know. Actually, 32 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.240 this would have been a great opportunity for them to reintroduce authority figures for 33 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.639 each show if they're going to do a hard brand split, but they didn't 34 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:44.159 do that. They said instead that so and so was selected depending on what 35 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.159 show they went to. But I'm going to go through these moves one by 36 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.240 one instead of sort of outlining them all here at the beginning. There were 37 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.680 a few of them that were more baffling than others. There were other moves 38 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.080 that I think are going to be a big benefit to raw, and I 39 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.919 think there were other moves that we're going to be a big benefit to smack 40 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.080 down. There was some moves that I liked, There were some moves that 41 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:06.680 you know, I outlined in my mock draft, and there were many that 42 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.000 didn't happen. We're going to go through all of that. But there was 43 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:17.240 also a baffling announcement to accompany some of these baffling draft picks that we had 44 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.360 on this show tonight. It was a baffling announcement with regard to the new 45 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:28.479 consolation belt that was introduced on Raw Monday Night, which some people are calling 46 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.879 Many Big Gold. They made an announcement, the announcers did on the show 47 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.240 tonight, and they made it very clear that this new championship will be on 48 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.039 Monday Night Raw because the reigning champion, Roman Reigns, has been drafted to 49 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.319 SmackDown, So Roman is going to be staying put and whatever brand Roman Reigns 50 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:51.319 is not on, the new belt will be on the other brand that means 51 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.319 Monday Night Raw. So they made that very clear. But then Wade Barrett 52 00:03:54.360 --> 00:04:02.159 made a very confusing announcement. He said that top stars from Raw and SmackDown. 53 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.639 In terms of how are they going to determine this new champion, There's 54 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:12.159 going to be a tournament. Top stars from Raw and SmackDown will battle it 55 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.639 out in a tournament, the final of which will take place at Night of 56 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.519 Champions, which of course is taking place on May twenty seventh in Saudi Arabia. 57 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.360 We already knew that, we knew a new champion was going to be 58 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.000 crowned at Night of Champions. That's not the surprise. What surprising is that 59 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:32.199 if the new title is brand exclusive, if the title is going to be 60 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:40.079 exclusive to Monday Night Raw and the draft ends on Monday, So clearly, 61 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:45.839 this tournament is not going to start until after the draft is already over and 62 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:50.399 we know where everybody is. Then why do we have Raw and SmackDown stars 63 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:58.639 in a tournament for a raw championship. They made that very clear that this 64 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.480 title is going to be and specific. Even if a SmackDown talent is in 65 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.519 the tournament and doesn't go on to win the championship, that would mean that 66 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:11.600 over the course of the next month, as this tournament plays itself value, 67 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.279 you're going to have SmackDown talent potentially crossing over. You're gonna have talent crossing 68 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:21.920 brands, which defeats the entire purpose of this draft that we are in the 69 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:28.959 middle of sitting through. Every time they do one of these drafts, we 70 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.240 hope and people say, well, you know, if they take it seriously, 71 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.600 if it's treated like a real draft, if they if they do what 72 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:41.240 they did in the early days of the draft, they're not That's the point. 73 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:47.680 They just introduced a new title not even a week ago and told us 74 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:53.120 that it's going to be raw specific tonight, and they're talking about Raw and 75 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:59.639 SmackDown talent in the tournament. I don't understand it now. I have to 76 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.439 m it's because they're looking at the talent pool that's available to them and they 77 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.199 want to have their options open. They want to have access to some of 78 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:12.000 those talents that are currently on SmackDown. And the idea has to be that 79 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.399 if a SmackDown talent were to go on to win this tournament, that they 80 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.959 would automatically be flipped back over to Monday Night Raw. It has to be. 81 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:24.000 It can't be any other way. So I assume that is going to 82 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.040 be the logic here with this tournament. But just the fact that they would 83 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.040 even say that you're having a tournament for this Raw belt with Raw SmackDown talent 84 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.120 at a time when you're doing a draft, as if the draft is supposed 85 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.079 to mean anything. This is what I'm always talking about. This is why 86 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:47.279 you can't take this shit seriously. Doesn't make any sense anyway. We're gonna 87 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.800 talk about this, We're gonna go through all of the moves. We're gonna 88 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:54.920 go through every single round of this draft. I'm gonna give you my thoughts 89 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.600 on the picks and you'll see them also scrolling here on the bottom of your 90 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:05.800 screen. But we also had a WrestleMania made event tonight for the second time. 91 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:10.439 Night one of WrestleMania had the undisputed tag team titles on the line, 92 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:15.079 the USOS defending against Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane, and tonight was the rematch, 93 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.879 and the story coming out of this match is that Roman Rains would not 94 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:23.319 be very happy with the USOS if they did not deliver, if they did 95 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.319 not win back the tag team championships. Well, the USOS did not win 96 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.560 back the tag team Championships. In fact, the plan that the Bloodline had 97 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.000 Solo Skoo was coming out. What was he coming out to do? Was 98 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:41.399 he coming out to excommunicate the USOS from the Bloodline. We'll never know because 99 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.800 he got cut off by Matt Riddle. Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane are still 100 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.959 your tag team champions and now going into Raw this Monday, there is blood 101 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.560 Line drama. Not that Roman Rains is going to be on the show. 102 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.319 He wasn't on the show tonight either. I don't think he's going to be 103 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.040 on the show on Monday. Brock Lesner will be there. If Roman Rains 104 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.079 was going to be there, they would have told us. So whatever may 105 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.199 end up happening, Roman will not be there in the flesh. But it's 106 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.199 not looking good for Jimmy and jay Usso after what happened at the end of 107 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:16.839 the show tonight, this is your WWE Draft Night one recap and your WWE 108 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.000 SmackDown review here for Friday, April twenty eighth, two thousand and twenty three. 109 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.560 I am the solom Monster. Thank you so much for choosing me for 110 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.200 your Draft Night coverage. I do appreciate you hanging out with me here on 111 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:37.200 a very rainy, very wet Friday night here in New York. It's going 112 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.039 to be a washout all weekend. The rain is coming down outside, but 113 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.000 it's nice and cool in here. That's why I got my hoodie back on. 114 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.159 It's not quite summer whether yet here in New York. Super chats are 115 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.480 open. 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He was out to the podium 133 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:11.279 to welcome us to night number one of the WWE Draft and for mister Dynamite 134 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:15.320 to the chat, who was wondering if they're going to split tag Team titles, 135 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.519 or if there was any indication of them doing so. There was no 136 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.120 indication whatsoever. I have no idea if they have any plans in mind to 137 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.279 split the tag team titles. I have already said I would not split the 138 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:33.960 tag team titles because the tag team division in WWE I don't believe is strong 139 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.799 enough to be split in half and to sustain two different sets of tag team 140 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.519 titles. I support keeping them unified until they call up more teams or create 141 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:50.840 more teams. Ricochet and braun Strowman right, mush together. They're developing into 142 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:56.360 a good team, right, but they're still fairly new. You've got them, 143 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.399 You've got the Viking Raiders, You've got the Street Profits, You've got 144 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.519 Alpha Academy. After that, it gets very fuzzy. Obviously, you have 145 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:11.240 the USOS, you have Zane and Owens. That's not a bad division, 146 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.000 But then you're talking about cutting it in half and having two sets of tag 147 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.679 belts defended independently. I just don't think the division is strong enough for it. 148 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.679 So if it were up to me for now, I'd keep the belts 149 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.399 together. But no, there was no indication about them splitting those titles or 150 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.120 any titles, but triple as you laid down the ground rules here at the 151 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.000 very beginning. He explained that fifty percent of their roster will be drafted tonight, 152 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.960 with the other half to be drafted on Raw this Monday. In addition, 153 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.200 select superstars from NXT are also eligible to be drafted to either brand. 154 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.639 The post draft rosters officially will go into effect on Monday May eighth, that 155 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.720 is, the Monday following the Backlash pay per view next weekend. So he 156 00:11:52.759 --> 00:12:00.759 said it's time to shake things up. With the first four picks of round 157 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.639 number one, the first pick goes to SmackDown and they select. All three 158 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.720 drafted is one Paul Hayman. I love, By the way, the first 159 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.879 name mentioned in the WWE draft. Technically the first name drafted was not a 160 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.240 wrestler. It was Paul Hayman, but that's how valuable he is to this 161 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.480 company. Paul Hayman is a very valuable asset for any company to have. 162 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.559 I might draft him first. If if it were my roster, I might 163 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.759 take Paul Hayman on my brand first. Paul Hayman, Solo Sakoa and the 164 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:41.679 undisputed WWWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns the bloodline. Noose surprise there, other than 165 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.080 the fact that they left the usos out and usso's are going to be drafted 166 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.000 separately. We don't know where they're going to end up, but they were 167 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:54.440 not counted as part of the blood line, So that was the only surprise. 168 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.639 I mean, we already knew that from the eligible pools that were released 169 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.919 a few days ago, but that was the only real surprising element of this. 170 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.799 It had to be Roman. I mean, how again, there's no 171 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.200 GMS, so the whole concept of picking Roman first is just fucking goofy as 172 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.559 all hell. But let's pretend right that there are people on one side and 173 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.240 people on the other side who are actually doing this draft. How do you 174 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.799 not pick Roman Reigns first. Roman Reigns is the most dominant champion this company 175 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.240 has seen in decades. He is the number one man in the company. 176 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.279 He is the number one man in the business in terms of his position. 177 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.240 How do you not draft him first? Right? That should have been a 178 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:39.080 gimme, So no big surprise there. Triple H said that that means that 179 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:46.720 the new World heavyweight title will be exclusive to Monday Night row and given their 180 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.679 loss tonight in the main event. We may be getting Roman Reigns and Solo 181 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.919 Succoa turning on the Ussos next week for losing that match. The USOS maybe 182 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:03.720 at least temporarily exiled from the bloodline. They could get back in if they 183 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.919 get exiled to Monday Night Raw. They could get back in by getting another 184 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.919 match and winning the tag team titles back, because so long as the belts 185 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.679 are unified, the champions can float. So well, we'll see how that 186 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.879 angle plays out next week. Speaking of Raw, Oh, there's Paul Haymon. 187 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.360 There we go, there's our number one draft pick on screen. Hey, 188 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:31.279 James Fishwick guitar with the twelve dollars super JAT. I like that, 189 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:41.720 James Fishwick guitar, Paul Hayman, super Jat. So Raw their first pick 190 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:45.519 tonight, and look, I'll say it makes sense if this was a legitimate 191 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.960 draft, if somebody got Roman Reigns first, I would pick this guy second. 192 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:56.399 The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes goes to Monday Night Raw. So they have 193 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:05.200 separated Roman and Cody Rhodes. They have drafted them to separate brands, which 194 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.720 means theoretically that Cody Rhodes, who right now is occupied with Brock Lesner, 195 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.519 But as far as we know, it's just the one matchic backlash. Their 196 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.759 program could very well be over after next weekend. All eyes then are going 197 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.759 to be on Night of champions All eyes are going to be on this tournament. 198 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.240 You drafted Cody Rhodes as your number one draft pick on Monday Night Raw, 199 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.440 not Seth Rollins, not Bobby Lashley, not aj Styles, not anybody 200 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.200 else, Cody Rhodes, and you have this new championship on Raw. How 201 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:41.840 does Cody Rhodes not be entered into or try to qualify for this tournament. 202 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.679 Of course, he's going to be involved in some way. He may not 203 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.840 win, but he's got to be involved. It doesn't make any sense for 204 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.120 him not to be. If he's your number one guy on the show, 205 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.879 why wouldn't he go for this new championship? So automatically, if Cody Rhodes 206 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.080 is going to be challenging for this title, it's exactly like I said that 207 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.799 on Monday. It becomes a participation trophy for him more so than anybody else 208 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:11.480 on that roster. It is a participation trophy if Cody Rhodes goes after that 209 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.600 title. Because Cody Rhodes is the one who tried to take down Roman Reigns 210 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:21.519 at WrestleMania and finish the story and he failed. And if they have him 211 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.759 in this tournament, which they really should, if you think about it, 212 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.080 that's exactly how people are going to see it, and that's exactly what it 213 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.320 is. They're seeing it for what it is, and that's the element about 214 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:40.080 this that I didn't like. This completely unnecessary championship. I mean, that 215 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:45.000 ship has sailed already, could have, would have, should have at WrestleMania. 216 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.879 But again for Cody more than any other member of the roster, that's 217 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:52.399 exactly what it is. It's a consolation prize. And if they do that, 218 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.559 let's just say they put that title on Cody. I don't think they 219 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:59.159 will. I don't think they should. I don't think they will, But 220 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:04.559 if they did, that would be fucking awful. You know what else would 221 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.759 be awful. They did say that raw and SmackDown talent would be involved in 222 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.240 this tournament. I put nothing past these people. We may get Roman Reins 223 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.480 in this tournament. Maybe Roman Rains will go all the way to Night of 224 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.680 Champions in Saudi Arabia and he'll win the World heavyweight title, and he'll unify 225 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.359 all three. Why not at this point, just give him all the belts. 226 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.480 He'll be the new belt collector. You don't think there's at least a 227 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.319 minute chance that they might not do that. Have Roman Rains go just to 228 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.000 troll everybody, Have Roman Rains go Tonight of Champions and win the World Heavyweight 229 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.480 Championship. You got, you gotta at least leave that open as a possibility. 230 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.839 I certainly hope that Triple H is not that stupid to put that title, 231 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.440 even if he's going to wrestle in the tournament, to actually put that 232 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.680 title on Cody Roads, I certainly hope he's not that dumb. Now, 233 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:03.440 there was a report out today there was something from wrestle Votes that WWE is 234 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:11.000 still very much considering the possibility of doing a rematch at WrestleMania forty in Philadelphia 235 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:15.240 next year with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes and saving the rematch for WrestleMania in 236 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.319 twenty twenty four. Now, I don't know about you. I think that 237 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.319 is a ridiculous idea. Just the idea of keeping the title on Roman for 238 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:30.720 another full year just completely fucking ridiculous. But if they're going to do that, 239 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.000 then it makes sense why they would want to keep them apart and just 240 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.839 draft them to different brands. You would have Cody win the Royal Rumble for 241 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:42.160 the second straight year. He can then choose the champion he wants, the 242 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:47.519 face, he picks Roman Reins, and you've got your WrestleMania main events set 243 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.759 up. That's a year away. A lot of things can happen in a 244 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:56.079 year. A lot of bad things can happen in a year, not just 245 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.680 with injuries people. You know, the fans, they cool off uncertain people. 246 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:06.720 Where the company cools off certain people, somebody else gets hot. Look 247 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.960 what happened with Sammy Zane when Cody got hurt and he went away, and 248 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.759 for months there was all of this debate about, well, maybe Sammy should 249 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.799 be the guy, and people are gonna boo Cody when he gets back because 250 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:21.039 nobody expected Sammy Zane to get as hot and as over as he did. 251 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.240 A lot can happen in a year, and when you have a story that 252 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:29.839 is staring you right in the face, sometimes you have to just take your 253 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:34.799 shot right instead of putting it off and putting it off and dragging it out 254 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.240 and dragging it out. There are times where you go a little too far 255 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.039 and you miss your moment, and I certainly hope that hasn't already happened with 256 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:48.440 Cody. So that's one possibility. They're gonna wait a year, Cody wins 257 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.480 the Rumbull, he goes to Mania next year and finishes the story. That's 258 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.720 one possibility. I hope that's not the case. There is another possibility here. 259 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.279 They've drafted these two men to different brands, right, there is a 260 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.880 pay per view coming up. There was actually a pretty big pay per view 261 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:11.640 coming up in July in London at the O two Arena called Money in the 262 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:18.000 Bank. I could see Cody Rhodes going to Money in the Bank winning the 263 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.599 briefcase. It's funny because I was in Philadelphia, of all places, in 264 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.000 twenty thirteen when Cody was in a Money in the Bank match and he should 265 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.799 have won that match and they took it away from him. But this year 266 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:36.720 and Money in the Bank ten years later, you believe that ten years, 267 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:38.680 ten years later, Cody goes to Money in the Bank, he wins the 268 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.359 briefcase, he gets to pick the champion he wants to defend against. I 269 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.599 don't even remember if that's the rule for money in the bank, it doesn't 270 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.240 matter. You can change the rules, right. It's certainly not the first 271 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:52.839 time that this company would have changed the rules. Cody wins the briefcase. 272 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.720 He says, I choose Roman, and you do Cody Rhodes challenging Roman Reigns 273 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:04.559 at Summer at Ford Field in August for the championship. You don't wait a 274 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:10.319 year, you do it at Summer Slam. That is what wwe should do 275 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.559 the way things have now fallen, with the brand split and the roster split 276 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.359 and the draft picks. Cody goes to Money in the Bank, he wins, 277 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.519 He goes to Summer Slam, and he finishes the story at ford Field. 278 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.880 That is the way to go. As far as Cody Rhodes is concerned, 279 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.559 that is the move that I would make with him after what they did 280 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.359 here tonight. We do not need another year of Roman Reigns as the champion. 281 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:37.359 I don't care about what records they want him to break. He's going 282 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.759 to hit a thousand days in a month. Congratulations will throw him a fucking 283 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:47.359 balloon party. That's great. We'll have balloon animals and everything. We don't 284 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:52.200 need Roman Reigns to go another year as the champion. Cody Rhodes has far 285 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:57.160 more challengers and potential challengers as the champion than Roman Reigns does. It's a 286 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:02.400 much shorter list with Roman. If you're looking for fresh, new, credible 287 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.559 opponents for him. With Cody, disguy's the limit. You got tons of 288 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.880 choices for Cody, whether it's Drew McIntyre, whether it's Seth Rollins, whether 289 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.599 it's goun There, whether it's Shamus, Whether I mean, you can build 290 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.319 up fucking La Night if he ends up on the same brand with Cody, 291 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:22.799 Randy Orton, if and when he ever comes back, plenty of different possibility 292 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:29.440 solo socoa. It's a far shorter list with Roman Reigns. I just outlined 293 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.279 at least probably a year, year and a half's worth of talent right there 294 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:36.039 that Cody could be programmed with. We don't have to wait a fucking year 295 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:40.200 just to get the belt on him. So he was the second pick. 296 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.759 With the third pick of the first round of Fish Drafts, SmackDown selects the 297 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:51.119 Raw Women's champion. They have done it again. They have blown up the 298 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:56.319 champions. Raw Women's champion, Bianca Belair has gone to SmackDown. That was 299 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:03.720 a surprise. They absolutely should not do another belt swap. We know how 300 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:07.319 the last belt swap went. We don't need to have that again. The 301 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.640 belt swap has always been a stupid concept. Anyway, give me your blue 302 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.759 belt, I'll give you my red belt. I mean, it doesn't get 303 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.039 any dumber than that. And the last one didn't go too well. We 304 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.799 don't need another belt swap. But unfortunately it looks like that's where we're headed 305 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.200 now. I thought that, okay, maybe that means Bianca is gonna lose 306 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.000 it backlash, and if she drops her championship backlash, that takes care of 307 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.480 that problem. But then we found out later on in the show that it's 308 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.519 all a moot point anyway, and we'll talk about why later on. You 309 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.599 can pretty much figure out what I mean by that, So that possibility now 310 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.559 is off the table. The best thing to do would have been, frankly, 311 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.559 to have the O sky beeat Bianca backlash, and that would solve that 312 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:56.039 problem. And well that's pretty much out the window now, So we'll know 313 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.160 on Monday. We can see where this is going. We'll know on Monday 314 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.960 based on what they do with Ria Ripley, who is not eligible to be 315 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.799 drafted tonight. How things are going to play out and if they're just gonna 316 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.720 do a belt swap. And with the fourth pick of the first round here 317 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:22.039 of this draft, Monday Night Raw selects the man Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch 318 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.720 will remain on Monday Night Raw. And where Becky goes, you know, 319 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:30.720 so goes Seth Rollins. Not eligible to be drafted until Monday. But whatever 320 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.920 brand Becky Lynch is on, you can bet your bottom dollar that's where Seth 321 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.160 Rollins is gonna end up. And with that new title on Raw, it's 322 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.279 the only place for him that makes sense anyway, makes all the sense in 323 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:45.880 the world for Seth Rollins to stay right where he is, although we won't 324 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:52.240 know for sure until Monday. So then Triple H with the conclusion here of 325 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:56.319 round one, introduced the former tag team champions, the usso's out on stage. 326 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.880 They came out, they dedicated their victory in the main event to the 327 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.880 tribal chief, Roman Reigns, Sammy's Ain and Kevin Owens walked out. Sammy 328 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:10.759 said that he wasn't there to try to talk sense into them, but he 329 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:12.920 had a question. He asked them if they thought that it was strange that 330 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:17.119 Roman had not said a word to them since WrestleMania. They have not been 331 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:19.400 able to get Roman on the phone. They have not seen their cousin. 332 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:25.920 There's been no communication. Paul Hayman has been the conduit between both parties, 333 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.799 but they haven't spoken to Roman Red. It's kind of hard to speak to 334 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.839 Roman Reigns when Roman Rains doesn't come to work. So Sammy thought that was 335 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.680 a little weird. He asked if they also noticed that they aren't being drafted 336 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.640 tonight as part of the Bloodline. Roman got drafted with Solo and Paul Hayman, 337 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.160 but not the USOS. He said that they would walk out as the 338 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.960 tag team champions. Jay said that they would walk out with nothing, and 339 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.759 Jimmy added that Ko would turn on Sammy when it was over. Owen said 340 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.079 that he didn't care what happened to them. He didn't care about what they 341 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:02.359 thought. All that's going to happen tonight is they're gonna walk out still the 342 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:07.599 tag team champions. And so ended the opening segment of the show. We 343 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:12.799 had Pete Dune still going by, Butch, you know, Madcap Moss got 344 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:17.240 his name back. He's now Riddick Moss again. So I'm waiting for a 345 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:22.319 Butch to revert back to Pete done, Pete done against La Knight. Solid 346 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.720 match here from these two. I enjoyed this. They were chanting the man's 347 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:29.599 name in Corpus Christie tonight, as most of these crowds have been doing. 348 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.880 They have been chanting for l A Night. Are they listening? I think 349 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:37.880 they might be because he actually got a win tonight. I was shocked. 350 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:44.400 It was a great spot where La Knight did a leap up to the top 351 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:49.319 rope and one leap deliberty, gigantic, superplexed the fans like that. Butch 352 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:53.880 avoided Knight's blunt force trauma finish and then he applied an armbar. L A 353 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.400 Knight fought to the ropes for a rope break and then quickly nailed blunt force 354 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:02.079 trauma and got a big pop for the winning pinfalls. There you go, 355 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:07.359 a win for La Night. Step in the right direction. Now we wait 356 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.319 to see where he's going to be drafted. If it were me, he 357 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.079 ends up on the red brand, away from Roman Reigns and all these people 358 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.160 that he would never have a chance against. Move him over to the Raw 359 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.880 brand. That New World Heavyweight Championship. That's something that he should be involved 360 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.559 with. Can I have a tournament on that show? He should be part 361 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:33.079 of that tournament. In the back, we're in the Bloodline locker room and 362 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.000 the USOS are hyping themselves up for the main event. Paul Hammett is helping 363 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:42.759 them out. He's given them at a little pep talk here from PAULI reminding 364 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:48.400 them that they do get drafted tonight. People think they're not eligible to be 365 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.359 drafted tonight, they are. They are getting drafted tonight. They're either getting 366 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:57.440 drafted to the island of relevancy or they're getting drafted to the ocean of irrelevance. 367 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.640 Said tonight, the USO's come back as the tag team champions because one 368 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.599 way or another, Tonight is the night. And that last line that Hayman 369 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.039 delivered, he delivered. Now you got a picture it. The USOS are 370 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:15.240 sitting on a couch right backs turned. Paul Hayman is standing behind them. 371 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:19.920 Solo Sakoa is standing next to Paul Hayman. When Paul Hayman delivers that last 372 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:26.359 line, Tonight is the night. He's staring at Solo Sako when he delivers 373 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:33.240 that line, and Solo begins to tape up his thumb for the Samoan spike. 374 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.759 He's wrapping the tape around his thumb, and the usos were sitting on 375 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.920 the couch in front of them, so they were completely oblivious to any of 376 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:47.799 us. After that segment, they cut to the back to show of all 377 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.559 people walking out of an office with the Monday Night Raw logo on the door. 378 00:28:55.319 --> 00:29:00.559 Rob Van Damn And it is kind of appropriate that Paul Hayman was in 379 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:07.599 the previous segment because when RVD walked and I'm not insinuating he's gained weight or 380 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.720 anything like that, but he has the ponytail like Hayman used to have. 381 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.200 He had a suit on. When RVD came walking out of that office, 382 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.200 I saw a little Paul Hayman in there. I say, hey, it 383 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:21.920 looks a little like Paul Hayman years ago. There he is Rob Van dan 384 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:27.000 talk about random. He had a placard in his hand with the names of 385 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:32.319 the folks that were being drafted to Raw. In the second round. Then 386 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.160 they cut to a different part of the building. Michael Hayes walked out of 387 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.319 a SmackDown locker room with his card. We were told there were two of 388 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.279 our guest presenters, that they had guest presenters for the second, third, 389 00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:48.079 and fourth round on the show tonight, and they came out after the break 390 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:56.880 to commence round number two of the draft. Michael Hayes went first, and 391 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:03.279 he announced that the first pick of the second round, SmackDown picks montez Ford 392 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:08.559 and Angelo Dawkins, the Street Profits who have been drafted together. Which, 393 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:14.200 if you're Angelo Dawkins, you're wiping your brow and breathing a sigh of relief 394 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:21.000 that they're keeping the Street Profits together. My first reaction when Michael Hayes comes 395 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.799 out, this is the first pick of the second round of this draft, 396 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.880 right, still early in this draft, and they announced the Street Profits and 397 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:32.119 I'm just thinking, how do you and again who's picking, but how do 398 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:38.440 you select the Street Profits as the first pick in the second round of this 399 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:42.039 draft when you still have people who are eligible to be drafted, like Drew 400 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:51.400 McIntyre and Bobby Lashley, right, I mean two former World champions Drew McIntyre 401 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:56.319 and Bobby Lashley have not yet been drafted. How do you draft the Street 402 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.240 Profits as the first pick of the second round just was very busy, are 403 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.920 to me, But as far as the landing spot, at least for montez 404 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.519 Forward, same with you know, Becky and I'm sure Seth. Come Monday, 405 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.400 you had to know wherever Bianca bell Air goes, so goes montez Ford. 406 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.160 So if they were not going to split the street profits, you knew 407 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.119 they were going to end up on SmackDown. And that's exactly what happened. 408 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:27.839 So then it was rvd s turn, and RVD announced that Raw selects Gunther, 409 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:37.519 Ludvig Kaiser, and Giovanni Vinci, the entire trio of Imperium has been 410 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:44.200 drafted to Monday Night Raw. That move brings the Intercontinental Championship back to Raw, 411 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:48.240 I believe for the first time in about four years. I believe brings 412 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.559 the title over there. And I like that move a lot. I had 413 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.480 Gunther an Imperium in my mock draft that I did you know on the podcast 414 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.960 moving to Monday Night Raw. I just like, now we have to wait 415 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:06.240 and see how the draft plays out on Monday. But the way things stand, 416 00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.519 I just like the idea of Gunther going over, getting a change of 417 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:14.400 scenery, getting a change of opponents, taking over Monday Night Raw and having 418 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:19.880 people like Seth Rawlins that he could work with on that show was Seth Rollins 419 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.440 and I thought maybe aj Styles, although that's no longer the case, but 420 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.119 I like this move. But again, it's like what I said on Monday 421 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.359 when they announced this new World Heavyweight Championship, and I said, you see, 422 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.720 this is why Cody should have won at WrestleMania. It's the same thing 423 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.200 with Gunther. Gunther should have lost the Intercontinental title at WrestleMania. Shamis should 424 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:46.160 be the Intercontinental champion right now because you've moved Gunther over to Mondays, You've 425 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.440 just debuted this new World Heavyweight Championship that you're going to be commencing a tournament 426 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:59.880 for shortly. That title is the perfect target for Gunther to go after that 427 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:05.400 championship. I mean it practically has his name on it, if not now, 428 00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.960 very very soon. So if you had taken the Intercontinental title away from 429 00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:15.640 him, I mean, at the timing couldn't have been any better. When 430 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.799 they were going to do King of the Ring. I had him peg to 431 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:22.480 be the King of the Ring this year and then would go on over the 432 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:27.440 summer to challenge for one of the world championships, but they kept the intercontinental 433 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:29.960 title on him. That doesn't mean that he will not be in the tournament. 434 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.400 It doesn't mean that he may not even get to the finals. You 435 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.240 know, he may be competing for the championship anyway, but his chances of 436 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:44.519 winning it while he is the Intercontinental champion or slim to nun Michael Hayes said 437 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:49.640 that with the third pick in the second round here of this draft, give 438 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.559 Gunther both titles, says Swank to Sauce. You know what, fuck it, 439 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.039 go ahead, go ahead. I'm a little hesitant to agree with you 440 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.839 on that, just because of the situation that we now find ourselves in with 441 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:06.880 Roman Reigns having unified two belts. That's why we're in this world heavyweight title 442 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.880 mess to begin with. But Gnther is great. You want to give him 443 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:15.159 both belts? Fuck it, just give them both belts. Michael Hayes said 444 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.280 that with the third pick, SmackDown selects WWE Hall of Famer the Rated R 445 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:25.800 Superstar Edge is now once again, for the first time in many many years, 446 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.280 part of the SmackDown roster. I had the same pick. I had 447 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:36.119 the same thought. You move edge over to SmackDown. And with the fourth 448 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.519 and final pick of the second round, RVD said that and this one, 449 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:43.119 I mean this should have been obvious. I mean, given who was making 450 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:49.480 these announcements, how could he not read off this name? The fourth pick 451 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:54.679 was the original Bro Matt Riddle. Imagine that tag team back in the day, 452 00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.920 Rob Van Dam and Matt Riddles as a t A tag team that would 453 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:07.840 have been. That would have been very entertainment. So that was round number 454 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:08.880 two of the draft. In the books, Two down, two to go. 455 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:15.159 We had a triple threat tag team match up next with the newly drafted 456 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:22.880 Street profits Ricochet and Braun Stroman, who I guess is cleared well, clearly 457 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.599 he has to be from the concussion that he suffered. He did suffer a 458 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:35.280 concussion last week. And the LWO Joaquin Wild and Raoul Mendoza, who I 459 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.679 guess is I still call him Raoul Mendoza sometimes, but it's Cruiz del Toro. 460 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:45.519 Three weeks in a row. For those who don't know, the LWO 461 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:51.119 has been the top merchandise seller in WWE. So the l WO merch is 462 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:54.800 flying off the shelves right now. And I was thinking when I heard that 463 00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:59.239 how much money if you had a guess, And I don't have the answer, 464 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:02.280 but I would love to know, how much money do you think those 465 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:08.400 nWo initials or for the nWo gear and all the knockoff stuff like the LWO. 466 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:15.039 How much money do you think that logo has made over the last twenty 467 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:21.119 six twenty seven years. Got to be an insane amount of money. Like 468 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:25.199 I'm pretty sure the Austin three sixteen shirt is the highest selling wrestling T shirt 469 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.960 of all time if it is, nWo has to be right there at number 470 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:36.920 two. Austin three sixteen and the nWo have to be a B. But 471 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.440 there's been so much nWo merch and then you have knockoffs like the LWO and 472 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:45.519 parody shirts and everything, and I would just how much money is that design 473 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:51.719 made over all these years? It's got to be a staggering amount. So 474 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:55.800 Del Toro landed a missile drop kick that sent Dawkins to the floor joking while 475 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:01.280 tagged in. He landed a springboard dive onto the streetfits outside Wild, then 476 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:07.159 landed a Hercan RNA into a pin on ricochet or a pin attempt. Stroman 477 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:15.719 entered in came Braun and he took out Wild, he took out Del Toro, 478 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:20.239 and he took out Montez four. And then it was time, as 479 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:27.159 it is usually every Friday, it was time to ride the Stroman Express and 480 00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:31.199 braun Stroman heads outside the ring. He barreled all of them over again. 481 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:38.400 On the outside, Dawkins flew over the top rope absolutely blasted Stroman with a 482 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:45.880 dive. Ricochet followed with a dive onto Dawkins. Ford tossed Ricochet back into 483 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.360 the ring. I think he made a blind tagging here, and then he 484 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.800 landed a gigantic frog splash for the victory. You can't be beating the Street 485 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.119 Profits on the same night that they get drafted to their brand new show. 486 00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:00.559 So Street Profits, of course we're gonna win this match. It was a 487 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:05.559 fun match though, you know, I enjoyed it. The lwoh. Look, 488 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.760 they lose all the time. Joaquin and Cruse are not very successful, 489 00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:14.760 and even Escobar, I mean they all lose, but whenever they're out there 490 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.039 and they're in a match like this, they always show up. They always 491 00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:20.599 show out. They have a good showing. Tonight was no different. I 492 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:25.480 enjoyed the match. They recapped the angle from Raw on Monday Night where Bad 493 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:31.320 Bunny made his return and he beat up Damian Priest with a kendo stick then 494 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:36.280 challenged him to a street fight. At Backlash, they announced them that Bad 495 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.679 Bunny is going to be on SmackDown next week because SmackDown is going to be 496 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:45.199 in San Juan, because it is twenty four hours before Backlash. I believe 497 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:50.280 it. Backlash is already here. Next weekend is Backlash on Saturday, so 498 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.119 they're going to be in Puerto Rico on Friday as well, and the Bunny 499 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:59.079 will be there. After the break, we had round number three of the 500 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:04.840 WWW Draft with Teddy Long announcing the picks for Monday Night Raw. Shouldn't he 501 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.840 have announced the picks for SmackDown. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have 502 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:13.239 Teddy Long announcing the SmackDown picks. Teddy Long announcing the picks for Raw, 503 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:21.639 JBL announcing the SmackDown picks. With the first pick of the third round of 504 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:30.199 the draft, JBL announced that SmackDown selects the Almighty Bobby Lashly, there's a 505 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.360 big pickup for SmackDown. With the second pick, Teddy Long said, the 506 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:38.599 Monday Night Raw selects the Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre, who has yet to make 507 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:44.840 a single appearance on television since WrestleMania. I believe he is out dealing with 508 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.840 an injury. I know there's been a lot of talk about his contract situation. 509 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:53.679 His contract is not up anytime soon, although apparently they are far apart 510 00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:58.039 on money. I don't think that has anything to do with why he hasn't 511 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:01.079 been on television. I believe he has hurt. So he was drafted to 512 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:08.199 Monday Night Raw. With the third pick, JBL announced that SmackDown selects Luke 513 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:16.039 Gallows, Carl Anderson, Meet Chin, and the phenomenal AJ Styles. The 514 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.960 entire OC has been drafted from Raw to SmackDown, which means we might finally 515 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:29.239 get Roman Reigns in the ring with AJ Styles for the championship. And with 516 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:34.360 the fourth and final pick of the third round, Teddy Long announced that Monday 517 00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:45.000 Night Raw has drafted them Is and the crowd goes mild as them Is will 518 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.719 stay right where he is on Monday Night Row. The story of this round, 519 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.119 story of round number three here in this draft was Roman Reins getting two 520 00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.960 new opponents. Now granted, it's two new opponents that will be fed to 521 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:04.599 him like meat being thrown to a lion in a cage. But it's two 522 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.880 new opponents for Roman Reigns. Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashly, who I think 523 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.840 is a baby face. I don't know what they're doing with Bobby Lashly. 524 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.440 I don't know what Bobby Lashley is supposed to be. He comes out, 525 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.599 he slaps hands with the fans, right, they cheer for him, So 526 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:21.800 he's a baby face, I think, right, But it's it's just weird. 527 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:27.320 So let's let's assume he's a baby face. So they could do Roman 528 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.679 and Bobby and get a pay per view match out him. But you also 529 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:35.119 got aj Styles back. It's been a long time since we've seen Roman Reigns 530 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.039 in aj Styles in the ring together. The last time we saw those two 531 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:39.679 in the ring together, that was not the Tribal Chief. That was a 532 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:44.320 very different Roman Reigns. That was a very long time ago, and it 533 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.239 was great, and I was kind of puzzled by the fact that these two 534 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.960 were kept apart throughout this entire run that Roman has been on. But now 535 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:54.639 it looks like we're finally, at some point we're gonna get that match. 536 00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:00.639 So two new opponents for him Drew going to Monday Night Raw means that he 537 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.239 follows Gunther, which is not a bad thing, but it also immediately makes 538 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.920 him a top contender for the new championship that's on Monday Night Raw, this 539 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:12.920 new tournament that they're gonna have again. I don't know what his injury status 540 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.880 is. I don't know when we may see him back. We're gonna have 541 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:20.079 this tournament kicking off in the next few weeks. But assuming he's healthy enough 542 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.639 to come back in time, he's automatically in the mix. Has to be 543 00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.599 right. He may not be the first champion, but how do you not 544 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:31.239 have Drew McIntyre in that tournament? And you know what, here's the problem 545 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:36.559 with that. For Drew, it's very similar to Cody, right, I 546 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.559 said, for Cody more than anybody else on that roster, it feels like 547 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:44.199 second place. You could say the same exact thing for Drew McIntyre. Drew 548 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:49.599 McIntyre had his shot against Roman Raids in Cardiff and he lost the same way 549 00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.599 that Cody lost, thanks to Solo Sakoa. He went in there, all 550 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.679 the fan fair, all the European fans right cheering for him. He got 551 00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.639 his old theme song back the whole nine yards and he lost, and so 552 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.760 here we are again where it feels like it's a silver medal because he couldn't 553 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:15.280 win the gold. Zelena Vega is going to be challenging rear Ripley for the 554 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:21.639 SmackDown Women's Championship at Backlash in Puerto Rico. She's Puerto Rican. She's very 555 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.760 excited to be going over there and working over there for the first time. 556 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.800 It's going to be a big night for her. But before she gets there, 557 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.880 she had to go through Sonya Deville on this show who got a job 558 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:38.280 or entrance. Chelsea Green was out in Sonya's corner to distract Zelena. Didn't 559 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:45.039 work. Zelena surprised Sonya with a roll up out of nowhere for the win. 560 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:50.880 Not exactly a convincing victory for your number one contender for the championship, 561 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.280 but it wasn't supposed to be because she is not meant to be a dominant 562 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:58.800 force on this show. In fact, just the opposite story they're telling what 563 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:04.800 Zelena is that she is one hundred and ten percent the absolute underdog who nobody 564 00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:09.679 expects to win going into this match of Backlash. After the match was over, 565 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:15.199 Ria Ripley kick Vega from behind. Then she gave Sonia a headbut just 566 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:21.039 because Rio went for rick tides, Zelena countered it into a spike DDT. 567 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.719 Michael Cole sold it like Ria got cocky. When you get cocky, you 568 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:30.480 make mistakes, you let your guard down, you underestimate your opponent. Bad 569 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:35.239 things could happen. Maybe she loses her championship. They're trying to convince people 570 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.079 that Zelena Vega has a chance. She has no chance, but they're trying 571 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:43.119 to convince be that she has a You know what, I take that back. 572 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.840 I take that back. I won't say that Zelena Vega doesn't have a 573 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.119 chance just because of all this draft nonsense going on. There is always the 574 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:57.559 possibility that if Ria is going to stay un SmackDown now that Bianca is on 575 00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.519 the show, that could be their way of getting belt off of Riha and 576 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.559 giving Zelena a big win in Puerto Rico by having her shock the world and 577 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:10.239 win the SmackDown Women's Championship. I think that would be atrocious to take the 578 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:16.880 belt off of Ria now after she just won it at WrestleMania. But I 579 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:22.280 won't say that there is a zero percent chance. I will say that there 580 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:28.119 is a three percent chance. There is a ninety seven percent chance against it, 581 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:32.039 but there is a three percent chance that maybe it happens, but I'm 582 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:37.920 not expecting it too. And on commentary Michael Cole said, is it probable? 583 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:44.559 No? Is it possible? Yes, of course it's possible. Anything's 584 00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:50.079 possible. I could interfere in the match and trip Zelena and help Ria win 585 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.400 the match. What is the likelihood of that happening? Not very likely. 586 00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.880 I Am not going to be in San Juan next weekend, I promise. 587 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:07.880 So the entire OC was out next down to the ring, including Aj Styles, 588 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:10.079 his first appearance here in four months since he broke his ankle at a 589 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:15.280 live event. So very good to see Aj Styles back. He's been missed. 590 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:19.119 Very good to see him back on TV. And believe me, nobody 591 00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:23.800 is happier to have Aj Styles back on television than meechin Luke, Gallows and 592 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:30.159 Carlanders. He was about to speak when they were interrupted by the Viking Raiders 593 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:36.559 and Valhalla made their way to the ring and we had a standoff, and 594 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.079 aj told him whoa hold up? And he took a few steps back and 595 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:45.360 he took a seat on the top turnbuckle, and he told the OC to 596 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.480 handle their business and a brawl broke out. Mia Yim put Sarah Logan down 597 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.239 with eep defeat or I think that's what it was supposed to be. I 598 00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:58.440 think I'm not really sure. She didn't get all of it. I know 599 00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:01.639 that whatever it was supposed to. The Good Brothers then put down Eric with 600 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:07.320 the Magic Killer. AJ told the crowd SmackDown we have just started, and 601 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.360 they went to go leave, and then AJ head second thoughts. He turned 602 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:15.400 around, he delivered a phenomenal forearm to Ivar and left him laying so again. 603 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:21.719 Good to see AJ back on TV. Then it was time for the 604 00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:27.840 fourth and final round, probably the most bewildering round of all of the WWE 605 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.559 draft. We had Seawn Michaels, who just screwed me and fired me in 606 00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:38.559 the latest installment of SoundOff Gamer Sean Michaels delivering the picks for SmackDown Road Doug, 607 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:45.400 who made a comment on his podcast that I wish I hadn't I wish 608 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:46.519 I had it in front of me. And look, I get he's a 609 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:51.199 company guy, and you know he's trying to build up the current roster, 610 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:55.440 but he made a comment comparing Omas to Andre the Giant and the Big Show 611 00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:00.679 and said something basically about him being better than both of them, but I 612 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.760 forgot the exact quote. So road Doug was hanging around with Matt Riddle and 613 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:10.239 RVD backstage, but road Doug came out to read the picks for Monday and 614 00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:14.639 Iron, so they came out together. They entered to the d X theme 615 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.360 song, and they stood next to each other at the podium on stage. 616 00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.639 Road Dug looked like Omas. Actually, I mentioned Omas, he looked like 617 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:24.440 him standing next to Sean Michaels. I'm not sure if Sean is just that 618 00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:30.360 short or if Roaddug is just that big like Paul. I think Sean has 619 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:35.239 shrunk over the years. I mean, he was never the biggest guy, 620 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:42.639 but I do I feel like he's shrunk. Sean announced that with the first 621 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:47.960 pick, SmackDown selects Bailey, Dakota Kai and EO Sky. They're keeping Damage 622 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:55.400 Control together and the entire Damage Control faction has been drafted to SmackDown, and 623 00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:00.840 so there goes any chance of them putting the championship on EO Backlash. That's 624 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:02.480 the other thing I don't like about this is that it just makes the outcome 625 00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:08.639 for backlash predictable. But the solutions of the problem of not doing a belt 626 00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:14.119 swap and just having Bianca dropped the belt before, I mean it was unlikely 627 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:17.079 to begin with. Bianca has been champion for almost a year. Were they 628 00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:21.880 really going to have EEO Sky, who can't cut promos in English? Were 629 00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:24.599 they going to have her be the one to break the streak and take the 630 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:29.519 belt from Bianca? Of course not if you're being honest with yourself. Who 631 00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:32.480 was never gonna happen anyway, But they just took that bullet out of the 632 00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:37.519 chamber. They can't fire it now, so they're all moving over to SmackDown 633 00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:44.360 and look keeping damage control together. Damage control has been largely a fail. 634 00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:50.280 The one good thing about this you have Bailey moving to SmackDown so she can 635 00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:53.519 continue to torture Michael Cole the way that she did during the Thunderdome shows. 636 00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:59.760 So that's something to look forward to. Road Dog announced that with the second 637 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:07.159 pag Raw Selex Shinsky Nakamura. I don't believe Nakamura has ever been on Raw 638 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.840 before, well, I mean part of the raw roster. I'm sure he's 639 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:15.480 made appearances there, but he is now moving over to Monday's with the third 640 00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.480 pick in the draft, Shawn Michaels. You can see the look of disappointment 641 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:24.400 on his face and he said, not thrilled about this. And I thought 642 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:29.800 he was going to mention Grayson Waller because Grayson Waller as somebody, Because you 643 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:34.760 knew when Shan was out there as a guest speaker here, you knew that 644 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:37.400 meant we were going to get at least one NXT pick. I thought it 645 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.639 was gonna be Grayson Waller. I guess maybe that would have wouldn't have made 646 00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:45.800 sense because he should have been happy to see Grayson Waller leaving an XT, 647 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.519 considering the issues the two of them have had in storyline. But it was 648 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:53.960 not Grayson Waller. In fact, there were no men from NXT tonight drafted 649 00:50:53.960 --> 00:51:02.639 to the main roster. The SmackDown pick was the NXT Tag Team Women's Tag 650 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:10.599 team champions Alba Fire and Isla Don are now officially members of the SmackDown roster, 651 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:16.199 and they had a live feed from the Performance Center where all of the 652 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.400 NXT talents were all sitting together in rows of chairs, kind of the way 653 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:24.960 it used to be done with the WWE Draft many years ago. They would 654 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:29.800 cut to the back and everybody in the locker room was sitting around, so 655 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:34.960 they cut to the back or they cut to the PC rather and we saw 656 00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:39.159 that Alba was in tears hugging Isla. They were very happy. Road Dug 657 00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:44.800 then said, well, if you didn't like that pig Sean, then you're 658 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.400 gonna hate this next one. He said. With the fourth pick of the 659 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:59.480 final round, Raw selects the NXT Women's champion, Indie Heartwell, they cut 660 00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:04.079 to the piece. See Hartwell had a walking boot on after she injured her 661 00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:07.840 ankle. At the Spring Breaking show on Tuesday, there was a big triple 662 00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:13.280 threat match for the NXD Women's Championship that completely fell apart after Indie hurt her 663 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.400 ankle. I'm going to talk about that match and that show on the podcast 664 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:20.159 on Sunday. I'll give my review. But she got hurt and it was 665 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:23.400 scary. You know. Her ankle got caught underneath her as she was trying 666 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:30.119 to catch Tiffany Stratton on a swan dive outside the ring. And it wasn't 667 00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.280 so much that her leg buckled, but she just the way she came down, 668 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:37.400 her ankle was caught underneath her and that was very scary to watch. 669 00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:42.480 So she has a working a walking boot on rather, which is not good. 670 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:45.440 I don't know what that means as far as an extended layoff. I 671 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:49.159 mean, there's never a good time to get hurt. This would be a 672 00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.320 terrible time given the fact that she's the champion and now she's been drafted to 673 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:57.960 the main roster. So hopefully the injury is not that serious. But if 674 00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:02.199 Johnny Gargano and Dexter Thomas and Candice lay end up staying on Monday Night Raw, 675 00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:06.159 which I think they should after this, I think they should, you 676 00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:07.519 may as well have them all in the same brand, have Indie on the 677 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:10.960 same brand, and they can have a little way reunion. The only one 678 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.039 missing would be Austin Theory, who I think is switching over to SmackDown. 679 00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:22.679 Mackenzie. Mitchell interviewed Alba and Isla about being drafted when they were confronted by 680 00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:27.920 Caden Carter and Katana Chance, who challenged them to a match on NXT this 681 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:34.800 Tuesday for the NXT Women's tag team titles, which was accepted. Obviously, 682 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.920 that's their way of getting the belts off of them before they go up to 683 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:43.840 the main roster. They called up the wrong team. They called up the 684 00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:46.159 wrong team. And I'm not even saying that Alba Fire and i La Down 685 00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:50.960 don't belong on the main roster. They're not ready Alba Fire at least, 686 00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:57.199 and both of them, but especially Alba, more than capable of being on 687 00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:00.280 the main roster and working with the women they have on the main aster. 688 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:04.000 I'm not saying they're not. But Katana Chance and Kayden Carter have been down 689 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:07.840 there now for I think five years. I don't know when they were officially 690 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.360 put together as a team. I don't think it was a full five years 691 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:13.960 ago, necessarily, but it was. If not, it was pretty closed. 692 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:17.880 But they've been working together for about five years now and they have turned 693 00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:22.639 into a tremendous tag team, and they've been tag team champions already in NXT. 694 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:28.760 They are toiling down there, and it certainly doesn't seem like they're going 695 00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.960 to be drafted on Monday. If they're gonna be challenging for the women's tag 696 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:36.639 team titles on Tuesday and probably winning them, that doesn't make sense. They 697 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.000 called up the wrong team. I was shocked by this. I expected that 698 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.719 we would get a women's team called up. This was not the women's team 699 00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.800 I expected the reigning tag team champions. They do this kind of stuff from 700 00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:50.239 time to time, and it just I think they just do it to shock 701 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:53.039 people because people won't be expecting it. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's 702 00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:59.119 the right move to make just for shock value. So I think the wrong 703 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:04.320 team got called up, and to call up both of your women's champions absolutely 704 00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.239 baffling. That's why I said to look on Sean Michael's face. I don't 705 00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:09.079 think he was working. I don't think he had to work very hard to 706 00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:14.039 work that expression on his face when he got the news, because he doesn't 707 00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:16.320 make these decisions. When he got the news that hey, we're gonna be 708 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.440 calling up your women's champion and oh, by the way, we're gonna call 709 00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:24.519 up your women's tag team champions too. While I'm sure he's very happy for 710 00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:30.440 them, I'm sure he wasn't very happy at getting that news. Just absolutely 711 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:37.920 baffling, baffling to me. And Indie Heartwell is an interesting case. I 712 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:43.400 like Indie Indie Heartwell. In the pecking order, there there are a lot 713 00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:49.039 of women who are more talented in the ring who are more prime time ready 714 00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:53.679 for the main roster than Indie Hartwell. So even calling Indie Heartwell up over 715 00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.199 some of the other women they have down there, it's just baffling to me. 716 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.880 Today's episode of the podcast is sponsored by Better Help. Getting to know 717 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.199 yourself can be a lifelong process. Sometimes it can come out of something positive. 718 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:12.480 Other times it could be borne out of grief and losing a loved one. 719 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.599 I've had that experience too many times in my life, and I know 720 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:19.400 some of you have as well. 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I 737 00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:35.079 better beat him up now, so he attacked him Cross Cross is eligible to 738 00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:37.760 be drafted on Monday. He has to be drafted to Row. I mean, 739 00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.159 he's just starting a program with Nakamoor. They have not even had the 740 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:44.840 first match yet. He has to be drafted to Monday night. Row him 741 00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:49.679 in Scarlett both. I mean, just have to be so we'll find out 742 00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:52.960 on Monday. But that seems to be a gimme right there now. They 743 00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.239 did mention that the draft is going to continue before even Monday. The draft 744 00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:02.800 continues tomorrow because tomorrow morning they have their SmackDown, Lowdown Show on Peacock, 745 00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:07.760 and there are going to be additional picks that were eligible. They were in 746 00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:12.800 the pool to be drafted tonight and they ended up not being drafted. So 747 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:17.920 these are the names that are eligible to be drafted tomorrow morning. Candice Lay, 748 00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:24.760 Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville, Dexter Loomis, Dolf Ziegler, Death Row 749 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:34.880 or hit Row, Lacy Evans, Maximum Male Models, Mustafa Ali, Natalia 750 00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:43.079 Omas and MVP, and the Viking Raiders and Valhalla. So they will all 751 00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:46.119 find out tomorrow morning where they have been drafted to that will be on the 752 00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:54.920 SmackDown, Lowdown on Peacock. Main event was a rematch of the Night one 753 00:58:54.960 --> 00:59:00.760 WrestleMania main event for the undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Hips. Kevin Owens and 754 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:08.159 Sammy Zane defending their titles against the USO's. USOS were dismantling Owens and Zane. 755 00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:13.719 They were targeting Owen's knee, which they did on television a few weeks 756 00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:16.639 ago, heading into the first of two commercial breaks that they took during this 757 00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:20.599 main event. I mean there was a long match. It went probably sixteen 758 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:27.159 or seventeen minutes, so we got two breaks here. The match did. 759 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:30.079 By the way, the match went over fifteen minutes, not the commercial break. 760 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:34.079 Although some of these commercial breaks do feel like they last fifteen minutes, 761 00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:38.400 it was not. The match was j Uso and Sammy Zane. They fought 762 00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:43.000 to the top rope until Zane hit a Sunset bomb for a near fall. 763 00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:46.639 Zane then hit a blue Thunderbomb for another one. Zane climbed to the top 764 00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:52.079 rope, Jay cut him off with an ziguri, which caused Sammy to crash 765 00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:58.639 down to the floor. Back from the final break, Owens hit a cannonball 766 00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:00.719 on Jimmy. He went up for the frog splash and Jimmy cut him off. 767 01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:05.920 They fought on the top rope. Owens ended up nailing a Fisherman buster 768 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:09.400 and then a swanton bomb for a close two count. In the back, 769 01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:15.119 Roman Rein's phone Paul Hayman. He answered his phone and then he got off 770 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:21.119 and Haymond turned to Solo Skoa and said that tonight is your night, and 771 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:24.280 off went Solo. Back in the ring, Owens hit the stunner on Jimmy 772 01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:29.960 for a near fall. Then we saw Solo Sakoa He was slowly making his 773 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:34.519 way out to the ring, but he got jumped by Matt Riddle, who 774 01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:37.679 brawled with him to the back. USO's regain control. They hit Owens with 775 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:43.519 a double superkick. Another double superkick followed, and then a pair for Sammy. 776 01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:47.000 Not to be left out. They had a third double superkick on Owens 777 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:52.280 for another near fall. USO set up for the one D. Sammy pulled 778 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:54.440 j out of the ring, though Owens took advantage. He hit a stunner 779 01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:59.920 on Jimmy. Sammy came back in. He nailed Jimmy with the Hallulah kick 780 01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:04.840 and he looked at WrestleMania. He hit j with the Haluva kick. Impendam 781 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:09.840 tonight it was Jimmy ate the Haluva kick and eight to three count still tag 782 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:15.800 team champions Kevin Owens and Sammy's aim. They cut to Solo Sakoa, who 783 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:19.920 I guess made the short work of Matt Riddle. He had come back out. 784 01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.280 He was looking at what just happened. He saw the USOS lose, 785 01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:27.639 and he had this shocked expression. It was like the most emotion we've seen 786 01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:32.280 on his face since he debuted, and Michael Cole speculated that Roman Reigns might 787 01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:37.920 not want the Usos in the Bloodline anymore after what happened tonight. This did 788 01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:40.639 not have the emotion of their WrestleMania match. I mean, it never was 789 01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:45.800 going to because that was the payoff to the story. We got the payoff 790 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:47.599 of WrestleMania. Now it now it just feels like we're an extra innings. 791 01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:52.400 But this was still a very good main event. You know, these four 792 01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:57.440 worked very well together and a lot of energy, good action and the right 793 01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.760 outcome, you know, not taking the belts off Owens and Zane so soon. 794 01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:05.960 So tonight was a one match show. But I enjoyed the first two 795 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:07.760 matches of the show tonight. I'm not saying those matches were bad. I 796 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.400 enjoyed the La Night match. The Triple Threat tag match was fun for the 797 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:17.199 time it lasted. But really tonight was a one match show. And the 798 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:22.719 only week spot I thought on the show tonight was the women's match. That 799 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:25.880 really was it. I mean, but tonight wasn't about the matches. Tonight 800 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.639 was not about any of the matches other than the main event, which was 801 01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.760 more about furthering the Bloodline story and the drama with Roman and the USOS. 802 01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.400 Tonight was about the draft. It was about Night one of the draft. 803 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:43.400 And now that we have Night one of the Draft in the books, and 804 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:49.880 shout out to Toby for gifting a channel membership to Macavelli in the chat. 805 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:52.920 Hey Toby, thank you. And David Wilson just became a sound off superstar 806 01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.719 as well. David, thank you, sir. Now that Night one is 807 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:59.559 in the books, let's throw up these graphics here. I want you to 808 01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:04.039 take a look. Look, these are the picks for the show. Actually 809 01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:08.440 that's not it. Here here's how SmackDown shaped up tonight after Night one of 810 01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:15.679 the Draft. See Roman Reins, Paul Hayman, Solo, Sakoa, Bianca, 811 01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:22.519 Belair Edge, Bobby Lashley, the Street Prophets, Damage Control, the 812 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:30.480 oc Albifire, and Isla Dawn. And then you look at Monday Night Raw. 813 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:37.840 You got Cody Rhodes, Deckie Lynch, Drew McIntyre, Imperium, Matt 814 01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:44.679 Riddle, Shinsky, Nakamore, them Is and the NXT Women's champion Indie Heartwell, 815 01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:47.280 take take a look see see look at the Raw graphic right, and 816 01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:55.039 then look at the SmackDown graphic and you see how lopsided those graphics are in 817 01:03:55.159 --> 01:04:00.000 terms of quantity. You see way more bodies for SmackDown. I mean, 818 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:05.159 look at look at Raw, and then look at this, way more bodies 819 01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:10.480 here for SmackDown, which is an hour shorter than Monday Night Raw. SmackDown 820 01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:14.960 is only a two hour show, So that is going to change on Monday. 821 01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:18.360 That's why we're far from done here. Has to change on Monday because 822 01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:23.440 it's just logical that Raw would end up with more talent because it's a longer 823 01:04:23.480 --> 01:04:27.719 show. But if you look at these, you look at these two rosters 824 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:31.480 here, I would say quality wise, quality wise, it's pretty even. 825 01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:36.400 I would give the slight edge to Raw. Honestly, you know, SmackDown 826 01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:42.239 got Roman and Edge who barely wrestle, but they did get a j Bobby 827 01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:48.239 and Bianca, Raw got Cody Drew Gunther. I gotta give the slight edge 828 01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:53.000 to Raw, at least as far as the men. SmackDown I think has 829 01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.559 the edge as far as the women's side is concerned, and SmackDown for the 830 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.559 time being still has Rear Ripley. You know, as of this moment, 831 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:02.719 they still have Bianca bell Air and Ria Ripley on the same show. Now, 832 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:06.039 I say for now. You know, we got the Bloodline and the 833 01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:14.119 OC on SmackDown and Damage Control. That's three factions that they have. Now 834 01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:18.039 on SmackDown, you have Imperium going to Raw, and I have to think 835 01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:23.320 they keep the Judgment Day because they need to balance out the factions. And 836 01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:27.519 there's just no reason for Ria to stay on SmackDown if Bianca is going to 837 01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.719 stay the champion then, which is a shame because I was kind of hoping 838 01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:35.079 that we would get Ria and Bianca on the same brand and then build to 839 01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:41.639 an eventual match between them, and now it just doesn't seem logical that they 840 01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:45.159 would bother doing that. But I want to bring this list up here. 841 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:50.280 This list here is the talent pool that is eligible to be drafted on Night 842 01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:56.960 two, which is coming up this Monday, and I believe this is this 843 01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:04.159 is the entire list. Kira Tozawa, Alpha Academy, Angel Garzan, Humberto 844 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:10.960 Carreo, Osca, Austin Theory who should be a shoe in for Smackdad. 845 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:15.199 If you're moving the Intercontinental title to Mondays, then the US title goes to 846 01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:19.639 Friday's Baron Corbin. I would like to see Baron Corbyn go undrafted like that 847 01:06:19.719 --> 01:06:24.960 last kid who gets picked in Dodgeball. Yeah, everybody else is getting drafted, 848 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:28.440 and he's just kind of he's just kind of forgotten, standing there all 849 01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:32.800 by himself. Braun Strowman and Ricochet. Actually, you know, it would 850 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:38.639 be cool for Baron Corbon. Not usually a word I would associate with Baron 851 01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:44.159 Corbin. Cool, but it would be kind of funny since you could technically 852 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:49.320 be drafted anywhere, if they drafted Baron Corbyn to NXT. If you remember 853 01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:53.320 when he was the lone wolf in NXT, used to make fun of these 854 01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.280 guys who would come in from the Indies. One of the funnier moments was 855 01:06:57.280 --> 01:07:00.880 when he made he was making fun of Apollo Cruise after he did viewed and 856 01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:03.119 he told Apolo he said he shouted at him during one of their matches. 857 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:08.480 He said, go back to Ring of Honor. Of course Apollo had never 858 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:12.639 worked for Ring of Honor. But it would be kind of funny here now, 859 01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.880 all these years later, if we see Baron Corbin sent back down to 860 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:24.719 the minor leagues and he's on the NXT rosters sulking around, I think that 861 01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:30.880 could be entertaining. Braun Stroman and Ricochet, they are eligible to be drafted 862 01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:35.559 on Monday. Brock Lesner is also and I would have brock Lesner right where 863 01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:40.719 he is on Monday Night. Bronson, Reid, Cedric, Alexander and Shelton 864 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:46.440 Benjamin, Charlotte Flair. Charlotte should be wherever Bianca is. I was gonna 865 01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.159 move Charlotte to Raw, but if Bianca is going to be on SmackDown that 866 01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:54.880 I think Charlotte should stay on SmackDown. You move Raha to Raw. I 867 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:59.199 just think Charlotte against Bianca is the eventual direction that I would be building to. 868 01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:04.599 Dana Brook, Elias Emma, Johnny Gargano who I would keep on Raw. 869 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:10.840 And Tamaso Champo when he comes back is a Champa eligib. No, 870 01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:15.719 he's not. He's not eligible because he's hurt. The Judgment Day, Carrie 871 01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:19.920 and Cross who should be on Raw? Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane La Night 872 01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:25.199 who I would have on Monday. N Ira Live Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, 873 01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:30.520 the reigning women's tag team champions. Maybe they'll do an even swamp since they 874 01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:33.680 moved Alba Fire and Isla Dawn off of n X team, maybe they'll live 875 01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:38.319 Morgan and Raquel take their belts and they'll go to NXT and we'll get another 876 01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:45.000 belt. Swamp, Nicky Cross, Piper Niven. Interesting. They're listening rear 877 01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:51.279 Ripley separately from the judgment Day, Rick Boogs, Ridick Moss, Ronda Rowsie 878 01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:56.560 and Shana Basler, Seth Rollins. Who should stay on Monday Night Raw SHOTSI, 879 01:08:56.840 --> 01:09:02.680 Temina, Tegan Knox, the Brawling Roots, LWO, including Ray Mysterio, 880 01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:11.439 the New Day and there has been there have been rumors that Biggee could 881 01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:16.279 potentially be a surprise, which I guess would mean whatever brand New Day is 882 01:09:16.359 --> 01:09:19.640 drafted to, maybe Biggie makes a surprise appearance. Again, that's just a 883 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:26.000 rumor going around. There's been no confirmation of Biggie even coming back, but 884 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:31.399 that would be a cool moment. The USO's are officially eligible on Monday Trish 885 01:09:31.439 --> 01:09:41.600 Stratus, Zia Lee and select NXT stuperstars. Now we saw some baffling picks 886 01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:45.720 tonight. Less baffling would be moving Grayson Waller to the main roster. He's 887 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:50.520 ready. They put Miss on Raw right Miss is still on Raw? Then 888 01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:58.960 I would send Grayson Waller to the opposite brand. We have Roxanne Perez I 889 01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:03.239 think is ready to be called up just based on her being pinned on a 890 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:06.640 spring breaking on Tuesday. It just seems to me like she took the pin 891 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.159 in that match. They want to protect Tiffany Stratton, but she took the 892 01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:15.079 pin because she's probably on her way up. Zoe Stark is another one. 893 01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:17.680 I mentioned her the other day. I would be moving her up as well. 894 01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:28.439 Cameron Grimes and Pretty Deadly. Now they only drafted three people technically two 895 01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:33.199 NXT acts if you count the tag team is one act, so maybe they 896 01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:39.239 won't draft that many, but for sure Pretty Deadly who were murdered on Tuesday. 897 01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:42.920 That's how things were left with them on NXTA. They were murdered. 898 01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:45.800 We didn't see it on camera, but they were killed. They were killed 899 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:50.039 off. They were putting a card trunk and dumped in the water. So 900 01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:54.680 only place left with them to go is the main route. They will be 901 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:59.840 reincarnated on the main roster. Let's get some more tag teams up. I 902 01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:03.880 think the most likely call ups are going to be Pretty Deadly and Roxanne Perez, 903 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:09.279 but all the names I just mentioned I think should be called up and 904 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:15.399 spread out between the two shows. So there you go. That is your 905 01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:18.399 draft night in America, everybody, right, the most important draft of the 906 01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:23.000 day, right, not that other pesky draft that's going on. It's all 907 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:27.479 about the WWE draft, right, That's the one that people care about. 908 01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.359 Here's the Twitter poll, what did you think of SmackDown tonight? Barely above 909 01:11:35.399 --> 01:11:39.479 fifty percent? About fifty two percent of you have given the show a thumbs 910 01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:44.039 up, twenty nine percent thumbs in the middle, and about nineteen percent of 911 01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:50.039 you have voted thumbs down. So the thumbs ups are winning so far with 912 01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:54.359 over a thousand votes in what did you think of the draft? Go ahead 913 01:11:54.359 --> 01:12:00.319 and vote at solom Monster is the place to go. He Jeremy Leaf, 914 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:06.520 thank you for the ten dollars super chat. Yeah. Pretty Deadly is sleeping 915 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:11.600 with the fishes. They took a page out of the Impact playbook where they 916 01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.600 just kill people to write them out of the show. They just murder them 917 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:23.560 and nobody seems to care. Nobody seemed to care, The announcers didn't seem 918 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.159 to care. Nobody made a big fuss about it. Poor Pretty Deadly. 919 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:30.960 I do have a couple of quick rampage notes for you. There was a 920 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:34.560 rampage show on and I think it was on at six thirty tonight, So 921 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:40.399 then we'll get to your super chats. But the firm deletion match at the 922 01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:44.880 Hearty Compound now has a date. It is going to be taking place on 923 01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:48.279 Rampage next week, I presume on Friday. I don't know what day of 924 01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:50.680 the week it's airing next week. It could be Friday, it could be 925 01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:59.159 Saturday. I believe it's airing on Friday. Yeah, I actually have it. 926 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:01.399 Hold on again, I think I have it here thirty. Okay, 927 01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:04.680 there you go. So the show is once again out of its time slot. 928 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:11.720 It's ridiculous. All the sports coverage is just an annihilating Rampage. So 929 01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:15.760 the show will air next week at five thirty, but the firm deletion match 930 01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:20.079 at the Hardy Compound will be on the show. Tonight on Rampage had the 931 01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:26.880 Hardy Boys and Hook looking for Isaiah Cassidy and the Firm that appeared on the 932 01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:30.840 big video screen. Big Bill was holding Cassidy on top of his scaffold. 933 01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:34.279 I haven't seen this myself yet, by the way, I'm just I'm reading 934 01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:39.239 a description of what happened. Ethan Page demanded that Matt Hardy agreed to have 935 01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:43.479 the Firm deletion match next week on Rampage, and in return he would let 936 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:46.640 Isaiah Cassidy go. Hardy agreed to have the match next week, and Page 937 01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:53.960 then told Big Bill to let Cassidy go, with Big Bill choke slamming Isaiah 938 01:13:54.000 --> 01:14:00.760 to the floor. Also, we learned tonight that on the May tenth episode 939 01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:05.000 of Dynamite, So not this coming Wednesday, but the following week there will 940 01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:14.119 be a steel cage match one on one Kenny Omega and John Moxley. Oh 941 01:14:14.159 --> 01:14:16.880 there will be blood. Oh yes, there will be John Moxley in a 942 01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:24.920 cage match. Get the EMTs ready, there will be blood. So that's 943 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:30.119 May tenth, inside the steel cage. I guess that's kind of a little 944 01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:34.720 preview of the eventual blood and guts match, right, you know, one 945 01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:42.520 on one match inside the steel cage. All right, let's go through your 946 01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:45.640 super chats here. I know you guys have been a lively bunch tonight. 947 01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:57.520 There's Boombox Brock. We'll get a kick things off here with fire Panda. 948 01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:03.560 Drop it at twenty one dollar roughly twenty one dollars super jatuh, Fire Panda, 949 01:15:03.640 --> 01:15:09.319 thank you very much. Let's say the authority is brought back under Triple 950 01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:14.640 H. Let's not say we did. The authority is brought back under Triple 951 01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:19.000 H and Stephanie. They are allowed to recruit three superstars each. Triple H 952 01:15:19.079 --> 01:15:26.560 gets three men, Stephanie gets three women. Who would you have joined Triple 953 01:15:26.720 --> 01:15:30.079 H and stephan Well, you quit me on the spot. He should be 954 01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:40.199 amazing goon Thar. Jerry Lawler loves goon Thar, a magnificent all hell goon 955 01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:58.960 Far, all hell, the mighty far. Yes, love it. Who 956 01:15:59.119 --> 01:16:04.079 was that? That was our buddy? Fahad would just dropped a fifty eight 957 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:16.119 dollars super chat bomb courtesy of the amazing goon Thag Bahad making a run in 958 01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:20.520 here on draft night. I love it. I love it, Fahad, 959 01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:25.720 Thank you very much. Jagon Thar joins the authority. Faha, I'm gonna 960 01:16:25.720 --> 01:16:27.720 get to your super chat here in just a little bit. I'm gonna go 961 01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:30.079 in order here. Thank you for that fifty bombs. Man. Wow, 962 01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:33.960 you know this is the final street for the month of April here, and 963 01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:36.680 we are on our way to having our best month ever. I don't know 964 01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:41.479 if it'll We're like right there, I don't know where we're at at this 965 01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:44.640 point, but we got seven minutes left here. This is the final stream 966 01:16:44.680 --> 01:16:48.079 for the month of April. So let's end on at on a hot note. 967 01:16:48.439 --> 01:16:55.279 That's one way to end on a hot note. Fire Panda Manum, 968 01:16:56.680 --> 01:16:59.760 you're putting me on the spot. But if they brought the authority back, 969 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:05.600 I don't know, Triple H a rage thank you for the sub Who would 970 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:11.479 Triple H recruit? Well, he already had Randy Orton and his authority once, 971 01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:15.319 right, Maybe he'd have Randy Orton back in his authority again. Maybe 972 01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:19.319 Triple H would have his own little evolution a fetch this time Randy Orton would 973 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:27.600 be kind of in the Triple H role since Triple H can't wrestle. Yeah, 974 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:36.840 maybe maybe you'd do a deal where you have Orton and Theory and maybe 975 01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:41.960 somebody from NXT. It's just a matter of who. I don't know Waller 976 01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:45.279 would really fit necessarily, but I could see that I could seem like a 977 01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:50.359 Grace and Waller type. Um. I could probably do better though, if 978 01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:53.760 you give me a chance to think about that. But as far as the 979 01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:58.479 women who would Stephanie Pick, I mean Ria Ripley does not need to be 980 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:02.640 part of the authority. I wouldn't go with her. Maybe it healed Bianca 981 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:10.800 bell Air. Bianca goes corporate, have her part of the authority. She's 982 01:18:10.840 --> 01:18:18.920 still very popular though Bianca is very popular. I'll give me a chance to 983 01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:25.600 think that over. But that's a good question. Fire Pandom, Voiceless Jackson. 984 01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:30.479 Cody either winning money in the bank or the rumble, Well, it 985 01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:33.800 should be money in the bank. I don't need to see this drag out 986 01:18:33.800 --> 01:18:40.560 for another year, Groovy Goose. The only reason Cody will be SmackDown Champion 987 01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:45.399 for a year is because Roman Rains doesn't want to work. Mondays, thanks 988 01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:49.840 for the stream by friend. You're very welcome. It's an iconic promo, 989 01:18:54.520 --> 01:18:57.560 and he met ray. I know what you meant. Thank you, Groovy 990 01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:03.119 Goose. I know what you meant. Jacob Harrison. Don't know how we're 991 01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:08.479 expected to care about Romans title run anymore if there is no incredible to beat 992 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:15.760 him. Beyond tired of it at this point, Dan Teller, Okay, 993 01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:18.399 so that's it. Then instead of Cody finishing the story, the story is 994 01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:29.359 just over. So now I guess Cody goes for the Consolation prize title WTM. 995 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:32.039 I'm with you. I'm with you, but I have to assume that 996 01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:36.960 the plan is money in the bank or the royal rumbling. The story is 997 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:43.279 not over. They have just chosen to drag out the story them much longer. 998 01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:48.760 How they're going to get there, we don't know. I don't know 999 01:19:48.760 --> 01:19:54.000 what to tell you. You're preaching to the choir, Brett Brode. What 1000 01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:58.680 was more shocking on SmackDown the fact that Corpus Christie made some noise or the 1001 01:19:58.720 --> 01:20:01.680 fact that La Night actually only one a match. That's a tough question. 1002 01:20:02.720 --> 01:20:06.119 They were both pretty shocking, I will tell you, but probably more shocking 1003 01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:11.960 that La and I got to win the way things have been going for him, 1004 01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:16.680 Raoul, I'll tell met on no put some respect on Corpito's tonight, 1005 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:21.640 Vato, Okay, I did? I gave them credit. I gave them 1006 01:20:21.640 --> 01:20:26.399 credit right at the top of the street, Jay Glow with the four ninety 1007 01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:30.399 nine. I read a rumor the WWE is considering going back to brand exclusive 1008 01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:34.039 plees. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Having two 1009 01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:39.399 pls a month? Having two pls a month is not a good thing. 1010 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:45.119 Having split brand pay per views and alternating months where you have maybe three for 1011 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:49.840 Raw during the year and three for SmackDown, and then the stadium shows the 1012 01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:56.520 big shows are joint. If they were to treat the brand split as a 1013 01:20:56.560 --> 01:21:00.760 real brand split, it could work. Your idea though of doing two plis 1014 01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:04.239 a month, I don't think is what is what they would do. That 1015 01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:10.600 is certainly not a good idea. You would alter it. Raw gets three, 1016 01:21:10.760 --> 01:21:14.199 SmackDown gets to rate and then they share the big stadium shows in the 1017 01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:19.199 Saudi Arabia shows. Right now though, that's all it is is a rumor. 1018 01:21:19.279 --> 01:21:24.159 This is not anything confirmed. Aussie of Steel with the six bucks, 1019 01:21:24.159 --> 01:21:30.920 Hey Aussie, thank you Sarah. We are only what twelve legs away from 1020 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:35.720 be the bookers, so hit that leg button. Seth should still be the 1021 01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:40.319 one to win the new World Heavyweight title and maybe have Cody win money in 1022 01:21:40.359 --> 01:21:43.840 the bank and announce where he will cash in like RVD did No. Six. 1023 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:48.640 Also on a side note, great to see aj back. Absolutely I 1024 01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:53.119 missed them and even before he got hurt, he really wasn't doing much. 1025 01:21:53.119 --> 01:21:56.199 So I'm hoping that this is the refresh that he needed and to get him 1026 01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:00.439 really involved in something meaningful on the show. Como Almos though, Hey, 1027 01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:11.479 Como, what's going on? I heard from Como earlier on Twitter. Before 1028 01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.000 I get to Como though. The thing to keep in mind about these split 1029 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:19.640 brand shows, they've tried this twice. They tried this many years ago in 1030 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:23.840 the mid two thousands, and they tried it again in the mid twenty tens, 1031 01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:27.760 and both times it only lasted a few years and then they gave up 1032 01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.319 on it. And a big part of why they gave up on it is 1033 01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:33.479 because they gave up on the brand sport. So if they do go back 1034 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:38.359 to a model of split brand shows, which they could do, I don't 1035 01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:42.079 see it lasting in the long term. It may last a couple of years, 1036 01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:44.039 and then they're going to go right back to the way things were, 1037 01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:47.880 because they always do. It's their m Como says, I literally was more 1038 01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:51.800 excited for this review just to get your reactions and takes on this draft. 1039 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:55.479 As I knew this was going to be a field day for you. It's 1040 01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:59.199 always a field day for me. It will be a field day for me 1041 01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:02.920 on Monday as well. It is always a field day when it comes to 1042 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:09.840 this draft. Ship. Combo, though, thank you for the five man. 1043 01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:12.239 I hope you enjoyed it. I hope, I hope you thought it 1044 01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:17.520 was worth your time. Nick Grosso with the nineteen ninety nine Indie being drafted 1045 01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:21.520 is baffling. If that was the case, why didn't she drop the title 1046 01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:27.680 on Tuesday? You could have argued that just based on the injury alone. 1047 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:31.520 At one point during that match, they were calling in a finish of Tiffany 1048 01:23:31.560 --> 01:23:34.520 Stratton to win the championship because they didn't think Indy was going to be able 1049 01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:40.039 to make it back in the match. I mean, this is a lot 1050 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:43.319 of reasons they could have been should have taken that title off of Indian. 1051 01:23:43.399 --> 01:23:47.399 They didn't, But again, they're going for shock value, right. Nobody 1052 01:23:47.439 --> 01:23:51.960 would have expected the SmackDown Women's Champion and or i'm sorry, the NXT Women's 1053 01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:57.000 Champion and the NXT Women's Tag Team champions to be drafted on the same night. 1054 01:23:58.199 --> 01:24:00.319 It gets people talking, It gets people excited. Oh if they did 1055 01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:03.439 that on Friday, what are they going to do on Monday? I get 1056 01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:06.279 that, I get the logic in that, but do the moves make sense? 1057 01:24:09.640 --> 01:24:14.640 Certainly not the moves I would have made. He says, I guess 1058 01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:17.840 we're getting another belt swap with Riha and Bianca because I do not see the 1059 01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:30.279 titles being urged Arabian Night two thousand with the five dollars, super Chat says, 1060 01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:34.000 with Cody going to raw again, so dumb? Does he win money 1061 01:24:34.000 --> 01:24:38.399 in the bank or is his story over and he will win the other title? 1062 01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:45.520 Is there a chance that Jay Usso is the chosen one for the other 1063 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.399 title? No? But again, I don't think Cody's story is over. 1064 01:24:49.479 --> 01:24:56.960 I just think they're taking They're taking the scenic rout. All is okay if 1065 01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:00.600 he wins money in the bank and cashes in its summer Slaven announces that I 1066 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:05.760 want to face you at Summerston. That would be the correct way to go. 1067 01:25:12.960 --> 01:25:16.119 We have the champ with the nine ninety nine. Cody has to be 1068 01:25:16.159 --> 01:25:18.640 winning money in the bank now. Also, I really don't want to see 1069 01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:21.680 him in rollins in the finals at Night of Champions. I hope that he 1070 01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:27.399 gets screwed before the finals like stone cold Steve Boston did during the Deadly Game 1071 01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:33.920 tournament. Right, that's where Shane McMahon flipped him off the comedic genius LA 1072 01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:39.279 Night one. Yeah. Oh, by the way, f the Cody story. 1073 01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:48.399 Chris Minor Best and Worst GM in Raw or in WWE history, it's 1074 01:25:48.399 --> 01:25:51.319 gotta be Mike Adamley, right, Mike Adamley has to be the worst of 1075 01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:59.680 all, at least as far as Raw SmackDown had Hoots Backdowndown, SmackDown had 1076 01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:05.159 Steph A. Curt Angele, Teddy Long, Vicky. Paul Hayman was Paul 1077 01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:08.720 Hayman the GM at one point Unsmackdown, I think he may have been. 1078 01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:15.600 Who am I missing? I don't know. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch 1079 01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:18.359 of people. To me, it doesn't get worse than Mike Adamley. Mike 1080 01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:23.319 Adamley was literally out there with que cards. And you know it's said because 1081 01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:27.159 we didn't know it at the time. We found out many years later that 1082 01:26:27.279 --> 01:26:32.000 he's got some pretty significant health issues and brain issues, and that had a 1083 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:34.680 lot to do. I don't even think he knew at the time, and 1084 01:26:34.760 --> 01:26:40.159 that had a lot to do with his screw ups and him not being able 1085 01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:44.079 to remember certain things. But still, when you have a guy out there 1086 01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:47.199 reading in front of a live crowd off que cards to remember his lines, 1087 01:26:48.399 --> 01:26:54.159 you know he shouldn't be in that room. I'm sorry, but he shouldn't 1088 01:26:54.159 --> 01:27:00.640 be in that room. Down Bad with the four ninety nine. Time for 1089 01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:03.720 a belt swap between Ria and Bianca. I am so excited. Oh I 1090 01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:12.920 could tell. I could tell how excited you are. Isaiah Duson with the 1091 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.880 Five Bugs. Rob Van Damn got me into wrestling. I was happy to 1092 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:17.840 see him on SmackDown, but I am even more excited to meet him at 1093 01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:26.199 a show in Pennsylvania tomorrow. That's very cool. I saw RVD he was 1094 01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:30.560 walking down Bourbon Street one of the years I went to WrestleMania, I think 1095 01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:34.920 it was WrestleMania thirty. He had an entourage around him with bodyguards. I 1096 01:27:34.960 --> 01:27:40.199 don't know whoever they were. And yeah, I went to go say hello. 1097 01:27:40.199 --> 01:27:43.000 A couple of people just went to say hello, and it was like 1098 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:47.920 nope. Kept walking, just totally shielded away from everybody. It's like, 1099 01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:53.239 all right. Meanwhile I'm running around to just bars on Bourbon Street. I 1100 01:27:53.279 --> 01:27:58.159 bumped into Mojo Rawley is in one of the bars. Couldn't be nicer he 1101 01:27:58.039 --> 01:28:00.920 was. He was all over the place, all smiles, taking pictures. 1102 01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:13.000 Trey Marquis, we are about to have another belt swap. Yay, Toby 1103 01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:18.520 says, where is Vince? Vince is always around you may not see him, 1104 01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:23.920 but he is everywhere. Vince is everywhere. Vince is watching you. 1105 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:27.880 Even when you don't think anybody is watching you, He's watching. And I 1106 01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:31.880 want you to picture him watching you. You are in your most intimate moment 1107 01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:35.439 where you think there's nobody in the world who can see what you're doing. 1108 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:44.520 You will picture Vince in your mind with that creepy mustache. James Fishwick guitar 1109 01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:55.199 uk A twelve dollars super Chat. Thank you, Salo Monster. Been listening 1110 01:28:55.239 --> 01:28:58.479 to you for ten years, but more so over the past year is My 1111 01:28:58.600 --> 01:29:04.439 brother passed away and I have been walking listening to all pods that you do, 1112 01:29:06.760 --> 01:29:10.640 and it does help. Well. James, I'm very sorry to hear 1113 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:14.439 that bet your brother, but I'm very happy that you found the podcast, 1114 01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:23.640 very happy, and I hope that you continue to listen. Rob g Spot 1115 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:29.720 with Shane and Blackman in two thousand was insane. Shane was insane. Yeah, 1116 01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:32.399 I mean to do that. It's a trust fall, but you're not 1117 01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:35.720 really falling onto anybody. You're falling onto a crash pad. You're not falling 1118 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:40.920 into anybody's arms. But he was every bit of fifty feet in the air, 1119 01:29:41.079 --> 01:29:44.000 took a kendo stick to the back, right on the side of that 1120 01:29:44.760 --> 01:29:49.399 scaffolding and just let himself go. And man, if you if you don't 1121 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:56.880 fall in just the right spot, you don't land perfectly, that could be 1122 01:29:56.920 --> 01:30:00.399 tragic. He took a lot of bumps like that. Chris Minor Within. 1123 01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:04.920 If WWE logic was in sports, top players in the American League such as 1124 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:10.439 Aaron Judge and top players in the National League like Bryce Harper will all compete 1125 01:30:10.439 --> 01:30:14.359 for the American the American League championship. Well, I thought you were gonna 1126 01:30:14.399 --> 01:30:20.000 say that if it were a real draft, um and uh, you had 1127 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:27.960 players like Judge and Harper that you would draft, you know, trying to 1128 01:30:28.119 --> 01:30:33.039 who who can I who can I name? You know, some second string 1129 01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:39.239 catcher or somebody you know. I'm not meaning that the Street Profits are a 1130 01:30:39.279 --> 01:30:42.840 second string catcher, but I'm just saying again in the second round, first 1131 01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:50.520 pick, Drew Bobby, you picked the Street Profits, really, Roberto Bennet 1132 01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:57.680 with the one dollars super chat. Hey, roberttol thank you, Ginger Stolpion, 1133 01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:04.039 long time lurker, just contributing to the tip jar Ginger, thank you. 1134 01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:08.279 If I had a hat on, I would tip my cap to you, 1135 01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:12.560 love Lie. Do you ever think Roman is too big to lose? 1136 01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:17.359 He is such a big star that I fear him losing anywhere other than WrestleMania 1137 01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:23.960 will not feel like a big deal. Summer Slam is at ford Field. 1138 01:31:24.520 --> 01:31:30.199 WrestleMania was at ford Field ten years ago. Right, they can put seventy 1139 01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:34.760 thousand plus if they want to in ford Field. That's a big show. 1140 01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:40.720 I know it's not WrestleMania. But here's the thing about WrestleMania. WrestleMania each 1141 01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:45.199 of the last three years has ended with Roman Reigns the heel going over in 1142 01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:49.880 the main event, and WrestleMania will always feel like a like a big deal 1143 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:55.119 in all the pomp and circumstance in the stage and everything. Right, it 1144 01:31:55.239 --> 01:32:00.319 will always be a big deal. But a lot of what wrestleman it was 1145 01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:04.600 about was finishing story, sending people home happy, browning a new champion, 1146 01:32:04.680 --> 01:32:10.039 getting that big moment, and it just feels like these last few years we've 1147 01:32:10.039 --> 01:32:14.600 gotten less and less of that. I don't have an issue. If they 1148 01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:16.960 want WrestleMania to be just another show in terms of moving the story along, 1149 01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:19.760 then that's fine. But then you've got to take some of these other big 1150 01:32:19.800 --> 01:32:23.479 stadium shows that they're doing, and you've got to pay off some of these 1151 01:32:23.520 --> 01:32:27.760 stories sometimes, and Summer Slam in Ford Field would be a perfectly acceptable time 1152 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:31.119 to do a title change if it makes sense story wise. Just because it's 1153 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:35.119 not WrestleMania doesn't mean that you can't do it. So I don't feel that 1154 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:39.560 way. I think Summer Slam, if it happens, it's Summer Slam, 1155 01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:43.039 I think that would be a perfectly fine place for it. I get what 1156 01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:46.199 you're saying about it's not WrestleMania, but that's why they should have done it 1157 01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:50.600 this year, and they didn't. And just because they didn't pull the trigger 1158 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:54.800 this year, it doesn't mean that, oh well, well, gee, 1159 01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:57.960 I guess we can't take the belts away from Roman until next year. No, 1160 01:32:58.239 --> 01:33:06.920 you can, absolutely can. Jay Glow with the four ninety nine Wweek 1161 01:33:06.920 --> 01:33:13.039 cannot have three world titles. I think after Roman hits a thousand as the 1162 01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:15.880 Universal Champion, they should retire it. What do you think, keep up 1163 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:19.960 the great work? Yeah, I mean, look, I'm fine with retiring 1164 01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:24.279 the universal title. I don't really have much of a need for it. 1165 01:33:24.319 --> 01:33:28.680 But are they going to do that? No? Of course not. He's 1166 01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:32.800 going to be the unified champion until he loses. He should not lose or 1167 01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:38.239 retire anything until he gets picked. Then you can do whatever you want with 1168 01:33:38.279 --> 01:33:46.520 the universal bilt. Reborn bladder or bladder? What a gimmick that would be 1169 01:33:46.600 --> 01:33:59.239 right if you were if you were a reborn bladder. Wow, Wow, 1170 01:34:01.239 --> 01:34:05.479 must be getting late, man, because I thought that said reborn bladder. 1171 01:34:06.159 --> 01:34:11.319 And of all the things to be reincarnated as, yeah, I can get 1172 01:34:11.359 --> 01:34:17.199 being wanted to be reincarnated as a bird, as a lion, to be 1173 01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:25.159 reincarnated as a bladder doesn't sound very appealing. Reborn Blater says, not the 1174 01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:29.920 worst draft, but I hate the only way to fix Cody now is a 1175 01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:35.520 briefcase. I love the streams solemn months. Yeah, I mean it's it's 1176 01:34:35.560 --> 01:34:40.800 not the way that I would have It's not the way that I would have 1177 01:34:40.840 --> 01:34:44.000 done it at all. But as long as he doesn't do one of those 1178 01:34:44.119 --> 01:34:48.199 ridiculous cash ins on somebody at the last minute you announce in it advance and 1179 01:34:48.399 --> 01:34:53.359 calling my shots like the fucking babe Ruth. He's gonna call his shot a 1180 01:34:53.399 --> 01:34:59.720 month in advance, then I'm okay with silver Tower. Hey, it's our 1181 01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:03.600 buddy, Silver Tower man, he's he's gifted quite a few memberships over these 1182 01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:10.560 last six weeks or so. Silver Tower with the eighteen dollars super Chat, 1183 01:35:12.159 --> 01:35:14.880 thank you for these streams. I have not been able to watch the shows 1184 01:35:14.880 --> 01:35:17.680 recently, and your streams helped me keep up to date with WWE and ae 1185 01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:27.359 W Well. Thank you. I am happy that you can find some use 1186 01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:30.000 out of these streets again. I watch so you don't have to, or 1187 01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:33.239 if you don't want to, if you can't, That's what I'm here for. 1188 01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:38.119 I'm always here to bring you up to speed on what's going on. 1189 01:35:41.079 --> 01:35:46.079 Scotty were Scodie clash with the ninety nine? These picks make zero sense to 1190 01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:50.479 Tody going after the world title? What story is he finishing if he is 1191 01:35:50.520 --> 01:35:57.800 going after a little a title. The Dusty was not screwed at who will 1192 01:35:57.840 --> 01:36:02.880 beat Roman? Now? I don't get it at all. I think it's 1193 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:14.039 still Cody goat Bobbert Reviews with the thirty dollars Bully the Cloud super Chat. 1194 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:16.600 I am a little sad that Bobby Lashley di drafted to smack that new world 1195 01:36:16.680 --> 01:36:25.760 heavyweight title would look good on him. Nick Grosso with the nine ninety nine. 1196 01:36:28.600 --> 01:36:32.800 If the LWO and Judgment Day get drafted to Raw and continue their feud, 1197 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:38.159 Judgment Day is going to need a new member. Ben Valor already teased 1198 01:36:38.159 --> 01:36:41.920 the new member joining, So what if Cross gets drafted to Raw and he 1199 01:36:42.119 --> 01:36:55.960 joins the judgment Um. If the LWO and the Judgment Day get drafted to 1200 01:36:56.199 --> 01:37:04.319 Raw, well, I mean, I guess been teased it when he tried 1201 01:37:04.319 --> 01:37:11.319 to recruit Cody last week. But has he been teasing recruiting a new member 1202 01:37:11.319 --> 01:37:15.119 on social media or anything serious. I'm not aware of there being some kind 1203 01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:24.439 of big campaign to get a fifth member of the Judgment Day. I don't 1204 01:37:24.479 --> 01:37:27.760 know that they need another member. I think it's fine the way it is. 1205 01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:31.840 No because if you bring in Carry and Cross, then you got Scarlett, 1206 01:37:32.520 --> 01:37:39.560 so now you're gonna have Balor Cross, Scarlet, Ria, Dominic Priest. 1207 01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:45.079 It's too much, it's too much. I would keep the Judgment Day 1208 01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:51.760 together and just move them to Monday Night Raw or I guess keep them since 1209 01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:56.720 they've they've they've been on Monday Night. Raw Ria went to SmackDown when she 1210 01:37:56.760 --> 01:37:58.560 won the belt. But I would I would have them on Raw. I 1211 01:37:58.600 --> 01:38:02.239 don't even think they need a new member winked the Cosmic Grandma for a slice 1212 01:38:02.600 --> 01:38:06.159 and a pint on me. Thank you, good sir, thank you for 1213 01:38:06.239 --> 01:38:16.399 the nineteen ninety nine wink the Cosmic Grandma. KRT went to the show. 1214 01:38:16.479 --> 01:38:19.640 I'm sure you've said it already, but was the crowd tier liking? It? 1215 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:23.239 Was hot the entire time I was there. It was the first thing 1216 01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:26.399 I made comment on when I started tonight, I said, Corpus Christie, 1217 01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.920 they're gonna kill their gimmick. They actually made a lot of noise to night. 1218 01:38:30.000 --> 01:38:35.600 I was very impressed. You know what's wild about WWE right now? 1219 01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:40.800 They have a European tour that's going on, and so I don't know what's 1220 01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:45.439 city they're in tonight or today, but the show that they had over in 1221 01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:49.479 Europe was sold out, like a legit sellout. I think seven thousand people, 1222 01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:54.239 and I believe they were sold out tonight in Corpus Christie. So that 1223 01:38:54.239 --> 01:39:00.000 would be two sellouts in the same day. What's the last time that happened. 1224 01:39:00.760 --> 01:39:02.880 It's a hot product right now, man, it's a hot ticket. 1225 01:39:04.920 --> 01:39:12.039 Arabian night. Underwhelming way to bring AJ back? Yeah, yeah, I 1226 01:39:12.039 --> 01:39:14.560 would say I would. I would agree with that. I'm just glad he's 1227 01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:19.319 Backbild Zachariah, thank you for the four ninety nine two questions. Could Finn 1228 01:39:19.319 --> 01:39:26.439 win the World Heavyweight Championship? Which lineage bites the dust? WWE title or 1229 01:39:26.479 --> 01:39:30.840 the Universal Time? The one that bites the dust is the one that's only 1230 01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:36.840 been around for about six or seven years. Solomania running wild right now on 1231 01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:45.199 all your screens. Look at those seven inch pythons. Brother, Yeah, 1232 01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:51.159 the Universal title goes goodbye. If you're telling me to pick between the lineage 1233 01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:55.479 of those two titles, the Universal Title can take a seat next to the 1234 01:39:55.479 --> 01:40:00.520 fucking twenty four seventh time. And could Finn go after the World Heavyweight Championship 1235 01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:02.680 as long as he stays on raw? I don't see why he wouldn't be 1236 01:40:02.720 --> 01:40:08.199 in the tournament Arabian Night. Do you think the plan is for Cody to 1237 01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:11.399 still win the WWE title or is that over now with the draft? But 1238 01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:14.439 Bill Cody is a smart guy and he knows how the story should end. 1239 01:40:15.399 --> 01:40:24.800 The story is still Cody winning the w w E Championship. John John trailer 1240 01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:30.359 with the twenty dollars super chats. What is one of the most inspiring promos 1241 01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:33.880 you have seen in WWA. For me, it was Eddie Guerrero against Brock 1242 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:39.880 Lesner the night Brock came back out with a mariachi band and Eddie talked about 1243 01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:44.359 his addiction. Yeah, the addiction promo is definitely one that's on the list 1244 01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:50.000 for sure, because again, it had those elements of realism to it, 1245 01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:55.119 and you knew that Eddie had addiction issues in the past. Yeah. Just 1246 01:40:55.159 --> 01:40:58.279 the way that they weave that into the story I thought was well done. 1247 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:04.119 Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't overly exploited. There's been plenty of exploited 1248 01:41:04.399 --> 01:41:09.399 WWE angles that they've done, so that one would be pretty high up on 1249 01:41:09.439 --> 01:41:13.640 the list. Unfortunately, we've had a lot of retirement promos due to injury 1250 01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:17.600 from Edge and Daniel Bryan, and they both eventually came back. But those 1251 01:41:17.640 --> 01:41:20.199 were pretty emotional. I mean, I don't know if you would count those, 1252 01:41:20.239 --> 01:41:30.279 but you know those we were pretty emotional promos as well. Yeah, 1253 01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:32.560 I mean those are those are some of the ones that jump immediately into my 1254 01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:41.800 mind. I would say, uh, Ian Noel kamelots with the ten dollars 1255 01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:45.760 super Chat. Looks like we'll have Bobby Lashley and aj Styles going after Roman 1256 01:41:46.079 --> 01:41:50.560 next. Hopefully they won't be just fed to him to pad his reign. 1257 01:41:50.720 --> 01:41:59.520 Well, boy, you are going to be very disappointed, my friend David 1258 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:04.039 Wilson with the ten spot, I sensed the Bloodline losing the six man tag 1259 01:42:04.039 --> 01:42:10.159 and backlash, and that's when Solo drops the hammer on his brothers once again. 1260 01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:17.880 A SoundOff member shears solomonster David, thank you very much. Appreciate your 1261 01:42:17.960 --> 01:42:27.119 membership, Appreciate your patronage very much. Jeremy Watley, I love your show. 1262 01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:30.039 I agree that Cody should beat Roman at Summer Slam, but I think 1263 01:42:30.159 --> 01:42:34.399 WWE's intent is to make Cody a champion without beating Roman. They think that 1264 01:42:34.479 --> 01:42:41.680 Cody winning ros belt is the same as the WWE Taitland. Well, that 1265 01:42:41.720 --> 01:42:48.279 would be very stupid. You know, as much care as they have taken 1266 01:42:48.359 --> 01:42:56.560 to craft the Bloodline story and the Roman story and the Jusso story, I 1267 01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:01.800 would certainly hope that Triple H and Vince, because you know Vince is still 1268 01:43:02.279 --> 01:43:06.039 he's got his fingers in this. I would certainly hope they have enough sense 1269 01:43:06.079 --> 01:43:12.560 to realize that the two are not the same, and there is a story 1270 01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.439 that Cody has to finish. This is not the way that you finished. 1271 01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:26.640 They have they have to realize Slipper house extra extra omas for the new World 1272 01:43:26.720 --> 01:43:31.560 Heavyweight Champion, Slipper Slipper. I think he may have dropped the slipper on 1273 01:43:31.600 --> 01:43:34.279 your head. Somebody may have bashed you in the head with one. I 1274 01:43:34.279 --> 01:43:41.359 hope you're feeling well. I hope you're a concussion is not too serious, 1275 01:43:42.079 --> 01:43:45.319 that you are cleared and back on your feet very soon. All the best 1276 01:43:46.239 --> 01:43:50.399 Arabian night. Do you think Mero can be the next challenger for Claudia? 1277 01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:58.960 I don't. Fahad, there we go, there's our boy, Fahad with 1278 01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:03.239 the fifty eight dollars super chet bomb. Did you feel that the aj return 1279 01:44:03.359 --> 01:44:08.560 fell flat? Did not feel that the announcers made a big deal about it. 1280 01:44:09.279 --> 01:44:11.640 I would have made a bigger deal about it. I would I would 1281 01:44:11.640 --> 01:44:16.760 not have. I would not have just sent him out there for a promo 1282 01:44:16.800 --> 01:44:20.640 to be interrupted by the Viking Raiders. But if he's going to be part 1283 01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:25.600 of the OC, then you know he's gonna have them following him wherever he 1284 01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:28.720 goes. I would have made it a bigger deal. You know, he's 1285 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:31.199 a former world champion, he's one of the more popular stars they have. 1286 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:35.520 I mean, it would be the equivalent. And maybe people think that, 1287 01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:40.720 you know, Orton's return would be a bigger deal because he's he's a bigger 1288 01:44:40.760 --> 01:44:44.279 star on that roster. But imagine, after all this time, Randy Orton 1289 01:44:44.359 --> 01:44:47.119 comes back, right, and they did something similar as a way to reintroduce 1290 01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:55.479 him. Right. It's just certain guys who you gotta bring them back in 1291 01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:59.880 a certain way where the spotlight is on them. You have something for the 1292 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:03.840 to do. You let them cut a promo or it's some big angle you 1293 01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:08.600 shoot, or you hit their music and they come back out. Yeah, 1294 01:45:08.600 --> 01:45:14.520 they didn't do any of that with AJ, so it was kind of flat. 1295 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:16.640 He got a great reaction, fans were happy to see him by it 1296 01:45:16.680 --> 01:45:25.159 was kind of flack. But fahad again, thank you man. That's that's 1297 01:45:25.199 --> 01:45:31.960 big. Slim Yoshi with the twenty bucks. AJ Styles is finally back home 1298 01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:36.479 on SmackDown. Now give me AJ against Romans. Since their last one on 1299 01:45:36.479 --> 01:45:41.680 one match on TV was seven years ago, you believe it's been that long. 1300 01:45:43.239 --> 01:45:45.439 I know they had a house show match a couple of months ago, 1301 01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:48.439 but let's be honest, that doesn't count. I agree, that does not 1302 01:45:48.560 --> 01:45:54.399 count. Arabian night. Only good thing out of the draft is SmackDown has 1303 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:58.600 Lashly and we may see the bloodline against the Hurt Business. Plus Bobby is 1304 01:45:58.640 --> 01:46:05.079 someone Roman has not yet face. He's incredible. You're way more optimistic about 1305 01:46:05.079 --> 01:46:12.279 the Hurt Business than I am. I think that ship has sailed, But 1306 01:46:12.359 --> 01:46:15.319 I guess we'll see where Omas and MVP and Cedric and Shelton end up. 1307 01:46:15.319 --> 01:46:24.159 They haven't been drafted yet. Ian Noel twenty five dollars Brimode. So you're 1308 01:46:24.199 --> 01:46:30.840 the culprit if things work out with bray Wyatt, someone's spighty senses and the 1309 01:46:30.920 --> 01:46:41.520 chat just just went off. He said the magic words. If things work 1310 01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:46.159 out with bray Wyatt, where would you put him? He was faced before 1311 01:46:46.199 --> 01:46:51.119 he left the possibility of him with Alexa Bliss and Uncle Howdy. He would 1312 01:46:51.119 --> 01:46:56.279 have some potential on both shows. A judgment day against the Wyatt six, 1313 01:46:56.319 --> 01:47:00.520 he says, yeah, I don't see there being a Wyatt six. I 1314 01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:08.640 think that was something that people just right into. Um you know where he 1315 01:47:08.760 --> 01:47:14.720 goes. And it's funny that you know you're super chat. I'm reading that 1316 01:47:14.720 --> 01:47:18.319 one now. Bliss Fan has been a channel member here for four months and 1317 01:47:19.119 --> 01:47:24.239 Bliss Fan says, I still think that only the Fiend should beat Roman reigns 1318 01:47:24.600 --> 01:47:28.399 at Summer Slam, at Alexa Blish should become champion, beating Charlotte or Bianca 1319 01:47:28.439 --> 01:47:32.800 for the title. Well, it's not gonna happen. But as far as 1320 01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:38.279 where Bray Wyatt should go on Raw, now we have Gunther, we have 1321 01:47:38.399 --> 01:47:47.800 Cody, We'll probably have Seth Drew McIntyre. I don't want to see Cody 1322 01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:53.479 and Bray. I don't really think. I mean, certainly not anytime soon. 1323 01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:58.800 Cody, Cody needs to be far away from Bray, Bray and Seth. 1324 01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:03.600 I think Seth would have horrible PTSD even being pitched the idea of working 1325 01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:10.479 a program with Bray, Bray and Gunther. I mean, you talk about 1326 01:48:10.520 --> 01:48:15.359 a styles glash on SmackDown, You've got Roman, Obviously there's a history there 1327 01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:19.840 with them. J is there. It's tough to say, just because we 1328 01:48:19.880 --> 01:48:23.439 don't we still don't know what the draft picks are going to be. On 1329 01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:31.520 Monday, I would say probably keep him on SmackDown. I would keep him 1330 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:44.079 on SmackDown. Bobby's World tenty one ten ten dollars super Chat Solo's face when 1331 01:48:44.119 --> 01:48:49.800 bree Mode was activated equals priceless. We love you, brother. I wonder 1332 01:48:49.880 --> 01:48:56.920 sometimes if some of you do some of you do love me Bobby's World. 1333 01:48:56.960 --> 01:49:06.920 Thank you hey. Silver Tower just gifted twenty count them, twenty Channel memberships 1334 01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:16.399 to all of our fellow SoundOff members who were not already Channel members. Our 1335 01:49:16.600 --> 01:49:24.880 Green World Order has expanded. It's a lot of new children to have at 1336 01:49:24.920 --> 01:49:28.680 one time. That sounds very painful, having twenty new children at the same 1337 01:49:28.720 --> 01:49:32.960 time. I've heard of I've heard of Octoma, Octomom or whatever she was 1338 01:49:33.000 --> 01:49:36.079 called years ago. I don't know what you would call that. Twenty how 1339 01:49:36.079 --> 01:49:41.399 many would that? What would you call that? Silver Tower s and D 1340 01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:49.239 you are the goat. Thank you, sir, that's very cool. Becom 1341 01:49:49.279 --> 01:49:55.520 C clearly Triple H says, let it play out again, God help Cody, 1342 01:49:58.199 --> 01:50:01.520 EJ slump Mike Adam Link can run a triathlon and he is like seventy 1343 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:08.640 five years old. What can his haters do? I personally like Adam Lee 1344 01:50:08.640 --> 01:50:14.039 way more than Pat MC. I don't think anybody is hating on him. 1345 01:50:14.039 --> 01:50:17.920 He was just he was a shitty general manager. What is this concept that 1346 01:50:18.319 --> 01:50:21.279 it's not just with EJ, it's just kind of a general thing I've seen 1347 01:50:23.359 --> 01:50:30.039 where you say something negative about somebody in a particular role and they take it 1348 01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:34.880 personally and they get so offended as if you are torching the person and you're 1349 01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:39.600 saying that this person has no value, they have no talent, they suck. 1350 01:50:40.159 --> 01:50:45.920 Mike Adam Lee objectively was a fucking terrible general manager. That was not 1351 01:50:46.119 --> 01:50:53.520 the role for him to be in. Doesn't mean that in his heyday he 1352 01:50:53.600 --> 01:50:59.560 was a bad announcer or he doesn't have personality. When he was doing ECW 1353 01:50:59.680 --> 01:51:01.840 com Terry, I found myself laughing more than anything. It was it was 1354 01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:05.560 entertaining, even if it wasn't always meant to be, it was entertaining. 1355 01:51:06.560 --> 01:51:11.560 But just objectively, he was a terrible general manager. And that's a perfectly 1356 01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:19.439 fine correct opinion to have. Doesn't mean that I hate Mike Adam Lee. 1357 01:51:19.479 --> 01:51:24.119 I used to watch Mike Adam Lee all the time on American Gladiators when he 1358 01:51:24.159 --> 01:51:30.319 did commentary with Larry Zanka, So I certainly hope you weren't directing that at 1359 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:35.359 me. I know you weren't talking about me, because I was always a 1360 01:51:35.439 --> 01:51:44.840 Mike Adam Lee fan. Daniel Malcolm SoundOff has been holding me down since two 1361 01:51:44.680 --> 01:51:51.920 thousand and twelve, right over a decade. My first WrestleMania back in twenty 1362 01:51:53.119 --> 01:52:00.319 twelve, Uh como amos stove with the I WWE was willing to allow one 1363 01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:04.239 of their superstars to come to House of Glory. Who would you have handle 1364 01:52:05.159 --> 01:52:09.560 your Charles Mason problem? And have you ever had any dreams where you interacted 1365 01:52:09.560 --> 01:52:17.760 with wrestlers in odd places? No? I don't dream about wrestlers. Um, 1366 01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:21.000 I mean maybe uh twenty five years ago. I may have had a 1367 01:52:21.000 --> 01:52:27.239 few about Sonny, which is kind of horrifying now to think about. Um. 1368 01:52:27.239 --> 01:52:30.960 As far as uh, one WWE star I can bring to Hog, 1369 01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:32.640 I mean just one, right, There's there's a lot of people I'd love 1370 01:52:32.680 --> 01:52:39.279 to bring into Hog. Enough to get rear Ripley in to compete for our 1371 01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:50.119 women's championship. I think that would that would sell some tickets. We already 1372 01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:56.000 have a former WWE guy coming in to try to take our world title in 1373 01:52:56.039 --> 01:53:00.239 a few weeks from Jacob Patto. We got Matt Cardona coming in and at 1374 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:04.039 Cardona is not coming alone. He is bringing Steph de Lander, his new 1375 01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:09.600 valet. He's bringing Steph with him as well. I might have to keep 1376 01:53:09.640 --> 01:53:16.279 an eye on those two Tony Biquette, who was a better job or Barry 1377 01:53:16.319 --> 01:53:24.720 Harrowitz or the Brooklyn Brawler. Both guys did their job very well. So 1378 01:53:24.840 --> 01:53:29.680 as far as a matter of personal taste, I was always I always enjoyed 1379 01:53:29.720 --> 01:53:38.840 watching Barry Harrowitz Clone Force ninety nine. I smell Usso's breaking up from the 1380 01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:43.800 Bloodline and Jacob Bought two coming in around the summer and it will be a 1381 01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:50.760 civil war in the bloodline. If Bought two would have been a great would 1382 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:55.720 have been a great addition to the bloodline. Still could be one day. 1383 01:53:58.560 --> 01:54:01.239 Honestly, if the timing had worked out, I think he would have been 1384 01:54:01.239 --> 01:54:04.000 a great enforcer. Even he would have been in the solo so coo roll. 1385 01:54:04.079 --> 01:54:09.279 I think that would have been perfect. Assie of Steel when reborn, 1386 01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:15.560 When reborn, bladder hits the ring, you're in trouble. Oh boy, 1387 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:29.000 you're in trouble. Assie. Got that from the Henny Youngman Book of Jokes. 1388 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:33.279 Zzo with the four ninety nine. Where did you buy pat jacket? 1389 01:54:33.319 --> 01:54:43.600 It looks sick. Thank you, I appreciate it. If you want to 1390 01:54:43.640 --> 01:54:48.239 check it out, you can find it on the iedm Arabian Night two thousand 1391 01:54:50.479 --> 01:54:54.479 talk about Cody a lot, but having him win money in the bank is 1392 01:54:54.520 --> 01:54:58.840 such a waste asn't needed. All they had to do is draft him to 1393 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:03.479 SmackDown money the bank should be La Knight or Gunter. I had La Night 1394 01:55:03.880 --> 01:55:09.760 as my pick, I would have gone with him, But just the way 1395 01:55:09.800 --> 01:55:15.079 things happen now with the draft, it's gotta be Cody. It's gotta be 1396 01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:19.399 Cody because otherwise they're gonna drag this out for another year. It's gotta be 1397 01:55:19.439 --> 01:55:27.279 Cody. Silver Tower with the sixteen dollars super check Papa, and that was 1398 01:55:27.319 --> 01:55:30.640 sixteen minutes ago. Look at that. That's on top of the twenty gifted 1399 01:55:30.680 --> 01:55:38.640 membership. Silver Tower has been very busy there. I'm very grateful. Moist 1400 01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:44.479 Kite I got drunk in Miss SmackDown. Love the content always a better alternative 1401 01:55:44.560 --> 01:55:48.720 to watching WWE television Phone Force. Cody wins money in the bank and cashes 1402 01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:56.159 in RVD style on Roman and beats him at Summer's Slat, like the way 1403 01:55:56.199 --> 01:56:00.479 you think Slim Yoshi. When it comes to the women's titles, it would 1404 01:56:00.520 --> 01:56:03.600 not be an issue if they did not have raw and SmackDown in the names. 1405 01:56:03.720 --> 01:56:11.640 Get rid of it and renamed the belts. Well, the problem is 1406 01:56:11.800 --> 01:56:15.239 Raw's red and SmackDown is blue, so you still have the color issue. 1407 01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:18.319 You could change the name, but it wouldn't make sense for the Raw belt 1408 01:56:18.399 --> 01:56:23.439 to be blue. I mean, I guess what you're saying though, is 1409 01:56:23.800 --> 01:56:28.119 is well no, I mean Bianca has got a red belt. So again 1410 01:56:28.199 --> 01:56:33.760 that doesn't really it doesn't really work when you have colored the multicolored belts like 1411 01:56:33.880 --> 01:56:39.479 that. It just kind of screws everything up. Devin from NJ with Cody 1412 01:56:39.520 --> 01:56:46.920 in w W E is AW now in WWE Continuity? Well, given all 1413 01:56:46.920 --> 01:56:53.520 the references to Cody, you know, going somewhere else and being an EVP 1414 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.960 and everything that they bring up in promos, I guess I guess it would 1415 01:56:57.039 --> 01:57:05.760 be. You know what AW was in WWE continuity The moment that Sammy Zane 1416 01:57:05.800 --> 01:57:10.479 cut that promo a few years ago when he was sitting in the ring and 1417 01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:13.359 he asked the crowd, what do you want to talk about? You could 1418 01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:15.279 have asked and he had the fans asking him questions, and he said, 1419 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:18.159 you could have asked me about anything. You could have asked me about a 1420 01:57:18.359 --> 01:57:26.079 e W. From that moment on, AW was in WWE Continuity storyline. 1421 01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:35.319 It exists in the w w E universe. Lady fire Panda, remember before 1422 01:57:35.359 --> 01:57:39.560 the White Rabbit reveal, I said it's either bray or it's a bust. 1423 01:57:39.800 --> 01:57:45.119 Well it was bray and it was a bust. We've finally gotten through all 1424 01:57:45.199 --> 01:57:48.880 of your message and look at this. Nearly thirty new members so far tonight 1425 01:57:48.960 --> 01:57:53.800 have been added to the roster. That is a hell of a way to 1426 01:57:53.880 --> 01:57:56.319 close out this month, I'll tell you that much. Now. The gold 1427 01:57:56.359 --> 01:58:00.840 tonight for be the book or the Lights goal was five hundred lights. We 1428 01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:03.439 are just shy of six hundred. We eat two more people. Who's going 1429 01:58:03.479 --> 01:58:09.840 to be number six hundred? But thank you for smashing the goal. And 1430 01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:16.000 it is now officially Saturday morning, and it is time for us to hear 1431 01:58:16.039 --> 01:58:20.079 our night one of the draft to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, 1432 01:58:20.359 --> 01:58:30.199 it is now time to be the booker. A toasted sheep? What's going 1433 01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:35.680 on? Toasted sheep? For twenty in the chapel, all my channel members 1434 01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:41.720 bust out those b to b be the booker emojis, and we are going 1435 01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:48.199 to begin by booking ourselves a Mend's match. The Salom Monster draft is over. 1436 01:58:49.920 --> 01:58:55.840 We have a brand new roster. And first the first pick and the 1437 01:58:55.960 --> 01:59:05.079 Solom Monster Sounds Off Draft, Salom Monsters Selex Andrade El Dolo looking mighty jacked 1438 01:59:05.600 --> 01:59:11.359 here in this image, I believe Andrade is currently in the Caribbean on vacation 1439 01:59:11.479 --> 01:59:18.680 with his bride Charlotte Flair. With the second pick in the Salom Monster Sounds 1440 01:59:18.720 --> 01:59:30.159 Off draft, the Salom Monster selects The Rock. The Rock and Andrade El 1441 01:59:30.479 --> 01:59:36.880 Dolo would be a fine television main event if I do say so myself. 1442 01:59:39.680 --> 01:59:45.600 Prime Rock in the ring with Andrade, and very good things will happen. 1443 01:59:46.960 --> 01:59:50.840 So let's do some drafting on the lady side. Here with the first pick 1444 01:59:50.920 --> 01:59:56.760 and the Salom Monster Sounds Off draft. On the lady side, the Salom 1445 01:59:56.800 --> 02:00:06.600 Monsters selects Vicki Guerrero. Well, that was a fucking fan and we don't 1446 02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:10.800 need to have her on our screen, and so we are going to move 1447 02:00:10.880 --> 02:00:17.000 on. We are going to move on to the tag team. Salo Manster 1448 02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:24.439 loves himself a good tag team a war. But first pick in the tag 1449 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:30.720 team portion of the Salo Manster Sounds Off Draft, the Salom Monster selects Kane 1450 02:00:30.520 --> 02:00:35.520 An xpoc. I was always a fan of Canaan X Pot. I like 1451 02:00:35.720 --> 02:00:41.279 that tag team. I like that tag I was always a Kanan Xpod Gut. 1452 02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:44.720 Kane had a lot of tag team partners over the years, Canaan RVD, 1453 02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:50.279 Kanan Mankind, Kane and the Undertaker, Kane and Hurricane Kanan Big Show 1454 02:00:53.359 --> 02:00:56.520 Hit, a lot of tag team partners. I'm sure I must be missing 1455 02:00:56.560 --> 02:01:00.600 one. Kanaan XPOC, though, was always my favorite. There's just something 1456 02:01:00.640 --> 02:01:04.039 about that team. I don't know what it was. I enjoyed them. 1457 02:01:05.880 --> 02:01:11.439 It was it was x POC who got Kane to speak his first words and 1458 02:01:11.560 --> 02:01:17.840 with the final pick Slo Monsters Selex. Oh look at this, Bobby Rude 1459 02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:26.560 and Austin Theory. Oh wait, Bobby, I picked the wrong Austin. 1460 02:01:27.079 --> 02:01:35.439 Bobby Rude and Austin Airies the dirty Heels wrong, Austin. I apologize. 1461 02:01:38.039 --> 02:01:41.880 This is another team. I enjoyed their run when they were together, an 1462 02:01:41.920 --> 02:01:45.840 Impact doing the dirty heel stuff. I enjoyed their work together. So Kane 1463 02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:51.680 and XPOC against Bobby Rude and Austin Airies. It's too bad the women's won. 1464 02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:55.840 When Sideways there we could have gone three for three, but now we'll 1465 02:01:55.880 --> 02:02:02.920 never know. Thanks to Vicki fire Panda says, Okay, Solomon, Sir, 1466 02:02:03.159 --> 02:02:06.560 let me where they zipped on by? Didn't they? Holy shit? 1467 02:02:08.479 --> 02:02:11.720 You have a deadline for the authorities members. I give you until Sunday on 1468 02:02:11.760 --> 02:02:15.279 the sound I make no guarantee Sunday is a pack show. I got enough 1469 02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:19.079 going on on Sunday and I'm not nearly done. So let me tell you 1470 02:02:19.159 --> 02:02:24.279 guys something this show on Sunday. This show on Sunday is going to have 1471 02:02:24.479 --> 02:02:28.319 a lot of things going on. We're gonna talk about the draft. We're 1472 02:02:28.359 --> 02:02:32.039 gonna talk about this new World Heavyweight Championship. I am going to extensively be 1473 02:02:32.159 --> 02:02:40.199 talking about this WWE writers lawsuit, which evidently certain people don't want to cover, 1474 02:02:42.239 --> 02:02:45.960 don't want to rock the boat, might need to get a job with 1475 02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:50.520 WWE. We're gonna talk about the lawsuit in depth on Sunday. Give my 1476 02:02:50.600 --> 02:02:55.760 thoughts on that. We'll talk about cmpunk is meeting with Chris Jericho, CM 1477 02:02:55.840 --> 02:03:00.640 Punk backstage and Monday Night Raw. We're gonna talk about the owen Hart tournaments 1478 02:03:00.680 --> 02:03:08.399 that were announced. We're gonna talk about Trinity Fought two possibly showing up someplace. 1479 02:03:08.479 --> 02:03:12.239 I'll say no more, talk about Dark side of the ring. We're 1480 02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:15.359 gonna talk about Chavo Guerrero and his dumb tweets and his dumb comments this week 1481 02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:18.119 boy, we got a lot of shit to cover on Sunday, so you 1482 02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:23.960 better come on back. You guys made this a very fun stream. Thank 1483 02:03:24.000 --> 02:03:28.119 you for hanging out with me. I hope I think we did cover things 1484 02:03:28.279 --> 02:03:30.880 very well. This is only night one. We get to come back here 1485 02:03:30.920 --> 02:03:34.439 on Monday night and do it all over again because we have Night two of 1486 02:03:34.600 --> 02:03:40.039 the WWE Draft to close things out on Monday, and of course episode eight 1487 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:45.479 oh six of the solom Monster Sounds of coming up this Sunday on all the 1488 02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:53.600 usual audio platforms. So until then, be well, stay safe. I 1489 02:03:53.680 --> 02:03:59.039 will leave you and see you right back here live on YouTube as always after 1490 02:03:59.159 --> 02:04:02.279 all this coming Monday. Until then, have a good weekend. Take our guests.