This is WWE superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to the WWE podcast show,
the one that everybody wants met for sixteen So God, just use your ass
is my n you can acknowledge me? What's going on? Everybody, Guys
and girls, Welcome back to another edition of the SmackDown Review right here on
the WW podcast. As always, I am the host of this show,
micro Ritter. You can find me on x at Michael five Ritter on Instagram
at micro Ritter five and also the host of the Football Function podcast, available
on all of your podcasting platforms, including on Patreon if you prefer an ad
free listening experience. So let's talk about the elephant in the room. Huh.
This As you should know by now some of you, if you've listened
to the Raw Review or the Mailbag, you should know by now that this
is going to be my final show here on the WW podcast. Definitely a
bittersweet, feeling, very tough decision. I'll get into it here in just
a little bit. It's also my two hundredth which is a very special,
very monumental milestone that I'm very proud of here on the WW podcast. Strictly
because you know, on The Football Function and other podcasts, whenever they're counting
up their episodes, you know, they drop more than one a week.
So I'm usually dishing out two to three episodes of the Football Function podcast every
single week. That's why we've been able to already hit our you know,
five hundred and twenty two milestone is what we're at right now. We're five
hundred and twenty two episodes. See on the ww podcast it's once a week.
So this is two hundred weeks that I've been doing this show, which
is a long time. And also, you know, I don't count the
weeks that I didn't do, you know, like the weeks that grim Reefer
had to fill in for me or other people in the past. There's been
multiple people that have filled in and hosted the SmackDown Review for me, just
whether it's you know, been a time where I have COVID, which is
back in January of twenty twenty one, and then you know, times that
I've gone out of town and I just wasn't available schedule wise to do it.
I don't count those weeks. So this is literally my two hundred SmackDown
review here on the WWT podcast, and like I said, you know,
definitely something that I'm proud of being a part of the WWT podcast family for
the past four years and of itself is something that I'm extremely proud of.
I mean, I definitely waive the flag. Still believe that you put our
team up against anybody, any other podcast out there, and we'll be able
to hold our own. Just whether it's the various voices, the different opinions
that come on here, the depth of the shows that they go into,
the amount of shows. There's a lot of things that Matt does really well
to make this such a formidable platform, a credible platform. Like I don't
care if you like it, if you don't like it, you can't deny
the you know, the sheer number of people to share volume that you know
was attracted to this show and the people that have been here for years,
in years, I'm talking about hosts, co host listeners. You know,
there's a lot of listeners that I met over the course of these four years,
and I'm going to continue to be you know, involved in the projects
that they do, following them on social media. Obviously, I'm still going
to be a listener here on the ww podcast, Like I'm not going anywhere
in that aspect. It just so happens that, you know, things change,
your schedule changes. Whenever I started this podcast back in October of twenty
twenty, or whenever I started whenever I started doing it, is how I
should phrase that. Whenever I took over the SmackDown Review back in October of
twenty twenty, I was twenty six years old. I wasn't single, but
I didn't you know, I wasn't in a very serious relationship at the time,
and you know, my schedule was pretty much wide open. I didn't
have the football function or anything like that, and it was easy to just
spend so much time and just have so much of my Friday night dedicated to
the SmackDown Review. And now, you know, fast forward four years later,
a lot of things have changed. The relationship I'm in is very serious,
and now obviously I have a step son that is six years old.
He was only two years old at the time whenever I started doing this,
so now things are a little bit different, and mainly me being directly responsible
for him. On Friday night Saturday morning things typically my dedicated time to the
SmackDown Review. So whenever that wrench got thrown into the plans in terms of,
you know, my weekly schedule. I knew, okay, this is
going to be a little bit difficult to get out, but we were still
doing it for several several months. You know, I was able to get
the SmackDown review out. There's been a couple of times whenever he was out
here. But as Matt said himself, and as I'm well aware of,
this is a very timely operation. Like you can't drop a SmackDown review on
Monday and just expected to get the same amount of downloads, expected to get
taken serious or even just be relevant by then. You know, by then
a whole Monday night raws happened. And I took a lot of pride in
getting this show out very quickly to Matt on a weekly basis, especially at
the very beginning. I would, you know, start watching SmackDown at seven
o'clock when that's whenever it comes on Central time zone where I am, and
I would pause it in between segments. I would posit it, role it
if I needed to see something, and I would just put so much effort
into watching the show. And then immediately after I watched this two hour show,
which ended up being a lot longer than two hours, because whenever you're
watching it live, you don't have the luxury of fast forwarding the commercials,
which can shrink and shorten the amount of time that you know you're spending on
each episode. But whenever you're watching it live, you have to do the
full two hours and then any type of rewinding or any type of pauses that
you have to take for notes. I was typically finishing each episode of smack
Down around two and a half hours, and then I would go into recording.
And keep in mind, at the very beginning, I was very raw,
very green at this, didn't have a lot of knowledge, no previous
experiences. This is my introduction to podcasting, you know. So I was
learning on the fly every single week, and sometimes those episodes took two and
a half hours for me to finish, just simply a thirty five to forty
minute recording, just because editing comes into it. Like I would listen to
my show immediately after and I would make sure, Okay, is there any
things I need to take out here? Is there any mistakes, any type
of audio issues. I wanted to make sure that it was a polished product
before I sent it to Matt. Now, once I got more polished myself,
and once I got the experience and I got truly better at the craft,
I was able to knock it out on one take, you know,
knock it out just live every single week. And there was even a period
where me and my co host John Crosco were recording these bad boys live as
we were watching SmackDown, and that was a fun era and of itself too.
But that's really what it boils down to is just eras and chapters and
the fact that, like I mentioned, this was my very first introduction to
podcasting. I wanted to start a football podcast. Back in spring of twenty
twenty, I bought some equipment. I had a computer, but I didn't
have a proper recording area. I didn't have the knowledge, I didn't have
the skill just as putting it blank or as you know, as direct as
I can, I wasn't good enough to start a podcast then. So pretty
much the studio equipment collected dust for months and months that entire summer of twenty
twenty. I was thinking, Man, I'd like to come out of the
pandemic with some type of, you know, something to show for it,
and I'm like, give me a podcast or something. Let me do something
to where it feels like I'm putting this ambition to use, because that's really
what it boiled down to you. I knew that once. You know,
I was listening to podcasts, including Matt's, for two three years before I
actually got the urge and the you know, I guess the courage to pursue
something like that, but I knew it was something that I really wanted to
do. And then October rolls around in twenty twenty and Matt puts out a
casting call similar to what he just did this week, saying, hey,
I need a host for the SmackDown review. So I sent him, you
know, my pitch, like, hey, I would really be interested in
this. I have the equipment to do it. I really love wrestling.
I watch it every single week. And he said, okay, well this
was on a Friday, watch this episode of SmackDown, record it and send
me your recording, pretty much like an audition tape. Ultimately, so I
did that exact thing, and he said, okay, well, hey,
is it fine as if? Is it right if I air this? Like?
Can I publish this episode? Oh? Man? Like I thought only
you were going to listen to this, but sure, you know, go
ahead. If that's what it takes to to get me this gig, I'm
more than willing to do that. And he posted it. He wanted to
see what type of feedback he got at the time. I think he got
some pretty good feedback in return, and he was able to say, hey,
you know, the opportunity is yours. If you want it, you
can start up immediately. This was Sunday, right the Friday was October second,
twenty twenty Sunday. Whenever Matt got back to me, he emailed me
and pretty much told me that, hey, if I wanted to do the
SmackDown review, that I could. And that was October fourth, And that
is whenever I truly feel like that crappy era of the pandemic, when you
really just it seemed like you couldn't see the light at the end of the
tunnel. You didn't know when it was going to end. Life as we
knew it pretty much been flipped upside down. That moment right there is where
I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. I felt like,
Okay, I took a huge step forward here, and it was so fun
literally every single week being able to record the SmackDown Review and being able to
watch it and talk to people and meet new people every single week, and
people can follow, you know, follow me on social media and tell me
their thoughts and things like that. That was a really fun, you know,
introduction into this whole thing. And then obviously time goes on, I
get better at this. I feel like I'm starting to get more comfortable.
So March twenty twenty one rolls around, almost exactly a year later, whenever
I bought all my equipment originally and just put it up and it was collecting
dust, I finally launched my own podcast, The Football Function, And without
a doubt, no question about it, I would not have been able to
do that without the WW podcast, without the SmackDown Review, and specifically without
Matt. And that kind of turns my attention to Matt because I do have
to give him the biggest of thank yous. I do feel like I'm forever
indebted to him because of the insight, the advice, the tips that he
gave me along the way, the opportunity you know right there we get to
start there at four straight years, Matt gave me the opportunity of turning my
microphone on, speaking into it and recording SmackDown, or I mean reviewing SmackDown
and putting it on his platform that he works extremely hard to build and keep
relevant day in day out. He allowed me to be on that platform,
and I did not take that lightly. I didn't take it for granted because
I truly, you know, I truly felt like it was an honor being
a part of this ww podcast family. And I know that there wasn't always
great reviews. I saw some negative reviews with my own eyes of the SmackDown
review back, you know, in the summer of twenty twenty three, and
even you know the I guess maybe even spring of twenty twenty three. I'm
not really sure exactly when it was. That doesn't matter, but all I'm
I'm saying is Matt could have very easily said, man, we're getting some
negative feedback here. Let me kick this guy to the curb and start fresh.
If I do a casting call, obviously I'm going to gonna get a
bunch of people immediately show me their interest in recording and joining this team.
So he could have easily done that a year ago, two years ago.
The fact that I get to end on my own terms. I'm extremely proud
of because I'm extremely proud of the work that I did and being a part
of this. I didn't want to let the listeners down. I didn't want
to be the I guess, the weak link in the chain. I always
talked about it being at the end of the week on a Friday, I
felt like I was the fourth leg on the relay, you know, like
I was on the relay team and it was up to me to bring it
home, to send the listeners into the weekend, whether it was a pay
per view coming up or something like that. I always love those go home
shows. That was one of my favorite parts. But as my schedule got
just a little bit too much towards the end of the week and I had
to move, and my internet took for to get connected, and I was
already struggling to find the time, it kind of hit me at some point
that I don't want the show to hurt from this. I don't want my
you know, lack of time to maybe put out the best and most quality
smackgown review that I've ever done. I don't want that to be, you
know, what makes the show take a step back. So I started to
ask myself, is it time, like, is it time for me to
pass the torch? Would it just organically be right with two hundred coming up,
you know, my two hundredth episode, to just allow the show to
get a breath of fresh air, a new voice, different perspectives on the
product. I feel like that's going to be beneficial in of itself. You
know, it's going to allow the show to have a you know, that
new feeling, and I, you know, I I have a feeling it's
going to be in great hands. It's going to start next week Madison Square
Garden. Are you kidding me? What better place to start your you know
you covering the SmackDown reviews? Then to show the air at the Garden?
That just seems like, you know, a little bit of poetic justice and
of itself. Because I'll be honest, guys, you know, I just
kind of told you none of the things that I'm doing now podcast wise content
creation would be possible without the ww podcast. And I feel like it's time
for somebody else's dreams to come true, you know, Like I was was
thankful to use this platform as a springboard to get me to where I needed
to be confidence wise, experience wise, let my craft develop on the job,
not just sitting here recording stuff and not publishing it. No, the
WW podcast is a platform and it has a following in listeners, and it's
literally like a family, and I didn't want to be the one that,
you know, to let that family down, which is what led to this
decision. But now I really feel like it's time for somebody else to get
an opportunity to wave the flag, allow them to step in this seat and
you know, let their ambitions of being a podcast host. They've probably thought
about it, just like me. I'm not the only person that has these
dreams, you know, so why not give another person the opportunity to let
their dreams flourish. And I think that that's a great thing to do here.
Like I said, it's kind of just an organic spot where I am
in life, where my life is kind of you know, gotten to by
itself. And then with two hundred coming up, it just you know,
it's a round, perfect number. It just seems like it's you know,
it's a milestone and ww's about to get great. Guys like trust me,
this isn't an easy decision by any means like, it took me about four
or five weeks to actually put the thought into you know, words to somebody.
I reached out to grim Reefer, who obviously has covered for me several
times. He didn't want me to go. I kind of just told him
like, hey, would you be interested in filling in for me? Would
you be interested in taking the torch yourself? And he was ready and willing
to do that. Matt just obviously this being his product, he wanted to
take a chance today the SmackDown review hasn't been open in four years. I
kind of want to just before we just say okay, here's what we're going
to do with that. He wanted to take a step back and look at
the landscape. And obviously Grim Reefer he's a member of the Football Function recording
team as well, so there's more than just a review show that he's capable
of doing. So I'm more than confident that he can get something going here
on the WWE podcast. But I kind of, you know, it took
me a while to reach out to him and say, hey, like,
would you be willing to do this if I stepped away? And he was
like, man, I would hate to you know, lose you on the
SmackDown review, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.
And yes, I'd be honored to take over. And that's what I feel
like a lot of people, That's how a lot of people feel about this
is they would probably be honored to have this opportunity. And that's what I'm
gonna do. I'm going to give somebody else that opportunity and let this show
just keep on rolling like it always has. You know, it was here
before I got here, and it's going to be here long after me,
obviously, and I'm going to be a listener. Like I said, I'm
not going anywhere. I've been trying to get on the Wrestle Magic show for
several weeks now. Just like I said, the schedule thing is not an
exaggeration. It's really hard to get on another show and make my schedule match
with somebody else's because it's hard enough getting my schedule to match by myself,
just for me to allow myself to record. But nonetheless, guys, I
just wanted to kind of get I know it's a little bit of a lengthy
open here. I do apologize about that for those of you who could care
less and you're just ready to get into the SmackDown review. I totally understand
that, and we will get there. I just had to, in a
sense explain this kind of abrupt exit from this team. I wanted to elaborate
a little bit, provides you guys some context as to why that decision was
made. And you know, this wasn't easy. I have a lot of
thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of emotions whenever it comes to
this. You know, I'm very proud of it, and the fact that
I'm about to record my last one, it does feel a little bit bittersweet,
like I'm not excited to leave the ww podcast. I just know that
this is something that for all parties kind of has to happen. But before
we get there, we have one more dance. So let's go ahead and
do this. Bad boy, let's review the SmackDown that aired on June twenty
first, twenty twenty four, from Chicago, Illinois. Location. Breakdown brought
to you by none other than our guy, DJ Cuzmo. And this show
opened with the hometown boy see him Punk. He comes out and he talks
about live TV and speaking in front of it. You know, a crowd
his hometown specifically, but just a large crowd in general. He's talking about
how that just by default can provide a lot of pressure. And then he
references July seventeenth, twenty eleven, when he guaranteed he'd win the ww Championship
and that put the pressure on himself. And then he talks about Drew McIntyre
over the last few months, kicking him, you know, whenever he was
down, whenever he had his triceps injury. Drew McIntyre was always the first
person to poke fun and to laugh and spit on the grave of or of
seeing Punk in his return here in the WWE. This was the very Chicago
centric promo. That's one thing I will say. There's a lot of references,
a lot of getting the crowd involved. You could tell they really appreciated
that, and they were taking every opportunity they got to, you know,
let Sea and Punk know that they had his back. But he seeing Punk,
he says that he set out to kill Drew's career. He just didn't
expect it to be that easy. And then he calls out Drew for quitting
on Monday night, Raw essentially taking his ball and going home because he could
not handle that pressure, and that's whenever Paul Hayman surprisingly comes out, but
not so surprisingly, gives a lot of praise to See him Punk and ultimately
gives him a hug. The crowd was really into this segment. You could
tell that they were, you know, digging it. A lot of them
are on their feet, but uh. Paul Hayman mentions their ride to the
arena. He mentions the local radio station, pretty much the local sports radio,
saying that this is Seeing Punk's town, and Solo didn't like that.
Hayman reluctantly says that it's because Solo is the head of the table in every
town should be his town. He then warns Seeing Punk to get the hell
out of here before the quote unquote bloodline comes out, and obviously Seeing Punk
thinks that's hilarious and on cue outcome Solo and the tongans. Solo demands respect
from Seeing Punk if he wants to quote unquote be on his show in his
city, and if he doesn't, they're going to make sure that he never
gets cleared. Hayman says, quote unquote take me with you to Punk.
I thought that was a little bit weird. Definitely gets referenced a little bit
later in the show by Solo. We'll see how that unfolds in the coming
weeks. But I thought that was a little bit strange for him to say
on the microphone, you know, right there in front of Solo. That
just pretty much tells you exactly how desperate he is to get out of this
situation. But anyways, seeing Punk then fakes out everybody by putting his one
up and saying he acknowledges that this isn't the Bloodline standing in front of him,
it's just a fake tribal chief with some crazy Samoans. Of course,
they try to respond physically three on one, but Cody Road shows up in
the nick of time with baseball bats and as you'd expect, the Bloodline or
runaway. Cody says the Solo quote unquote, you think you're the head of
the table, right, well, I already beat one head of the table.
The crowd loves that. They go crazy, and then he challenges him
to a match tonight with nobody else, No Ko, no Ran, Jordon,
no Tongan's nobody, and Solo accepts. This was probably Solo's best segment,
and I will say he didn't speak a lot. So it's not like
he cuts some monumental groundbreaking promo or anything like that. I just really think
that he was in his element, and this is where it felt the most
authentic. It could be the punk effect. Paul Hayman came out there.
This felt like a special segment and shout out to smack down. Like the
fact that this is not only episode two hundred, but the fact that it's
my last show, and I feel like they gave me a pretty good one
to go out with. I definitely appreciate that. You know, this wasn't
a Mojo Raleigh or a retribution type of segment or anything like that. Like
this is a really good quality show, and you know, I just appreciate
that a little bit from But anyways, up next, we get a money
in the Bank qualifying match, a triple threat. All of the money in
the Bank qualifying matches are triple threats, just so you know. But Beyonca
Versus Chelsea versus Michen Mitchin looks almost unrecognizable. I will say, she has
new gear and pigtails. I don't know if she's lost a little bit of
weight too. I have no idea, but I can tell you that she
definitely looked a little bit different and like I said, almost unrecognizable. Beyoncre
does a pretty big German suplex to Meetchen almost looks a little bit botched to
meet in like lands on her head. But it looked like something from brock
Lesna Circle two thousand and two when he was just launching people, like launching
the Hardy's across the ring that feud when it was like two on one and
he was just dismantling them on a weekly basis. But yeah, like I
said, Beyonca does a huge German suplex to Michin follows up with a kod
but Chelsea throws Bianca out of the ring and steals the win. Not a
very good week for Bianca if you talk about her not getting pin either time,
but losing two very important matches, you know, Triple Threat Tag Team
Championship match obviously a clash at the Castle. She doesn't get pinned, her
team doesn't get pinned, but yet they still lose their titles. And then
just six days later, she loses a money in the bank qualifying match in
a triple threat format, same stipulation. She's not the one that gets pinned,
but hey, they will remind you every chance they get. That is
why triple threats are very risky. Up next, taking things backstage, Solo
calls out Paul Hayman for his comments and he says that they have to have
a talk. Like I said, you know, he's gonna pay for those
take me with you comments that he made to see him punk. It's just
a matter of when and exactly what his punishment is going to be. Let's
see here we get a backstage interview with Caleb Braxton in time Out. Caleb
Braxton's leaving WWE two next week is going to be her final show, so
eight years with the company. I'll give her a salute. She did some
great work with her backstage interviews. I felt like she did add quality to
the show. Her little dynamic with Paul Hayman was always fun on the SmackDown,
Lowdown or whatever that show was called, SmackDown Recap, whatever the hell
it was. But you get what I'm saying. I feel like she did
a really good job in that capacity, and who knows where she's gonna go.
I'd always sucks whenever we lose those backstage interviewers. They're really good ones,
you know. Renee Young. Obviously Charlie Arnault. What was her name
whenever she was here, though, Charlie, I forgot her name, you
know what I'm trying to say, though, Charlie, I know you remember,
and obviously CAYLEB. Braxton. You know, hopefully we do not lose
Kathy Kelly. I know he technically already did once, but they brought her
back. Hopefully they pay her enough to where you know, even if her
friends are leaving, she will stay. You know. Samantha Irvin, I
know they're pretty close. Samantha Irvin's fiance Ricochet, just left the company.
I mean, this is always tricky. This always gets kind of sticky with
relationships, and it's why I imagine the upper management probably hates whenever they hear
that people are in a relationship in the company. But like I said,
this was a backstay interview Caleb Braxton and Grayson Waller. It was interrupted by
di Y and then loud bangs on the garage door outside of the building,
which ends up being Drew McIntyre and a bloody beaten see him punk. I
love the way that the production team shot this. It's pretty much just the
slow rise of the garage and seeing seeing Punk laying there bloody, and then
you just get a slow reveal that it's Drew McIntyre. And then Drew carries
him on his shoulders through Gorilla all the way to the stage without a single
camera cut, just one shot the entire way. I thought that was well
done. And then he just drops him from well over six feet and steals
his bracelet. That's very meaningful to him. Nick All this comes out and
gets into a little bit of a shoving match with Drew McIntyre. I thought
that was a wild scene the way he shoved Drew. Drew shoved him back,
like is he gonna get fined? What's the situation there? I can't
even remember I Drew McIntyre's on SmackDown or not. So this is kind of
muddy at the moment, but nonetheless entertaining, and that's all I could ask
for at this point. Up next, we get a money in the bank
qualifying match, another triple threat, Randy Orton versus Tomatonga versus Carmelo Hayes.
A long match that was all over the place ends with they roll up from
Hayes after taking advantage of a distracted Randy Orton because one of the other Tongans
came out and then Kevin Owens came out. They were brawling on the outside
of the ring. That drew Randy Orton's attention, and Carmelo Hayes capitalized got
to roll up when and you know, it almost looked like quicker than three
seconds with how fast the camera got there, and the match was over.
So Carmelo Hayes earns his spot and the money in the bank ladder match,
and we'll see if he has an opportunity to win it. It's usually for
a heel. He is a heel, so it makes sense, but I
still have my doubts if he's ready for something like that. But up next,
La Night comes out. He calls out Logan Paul, but he actually
ends up getting Santo's escobar instead, and as he's attempting to just brush him
off Santo's cheap shots, La Knight but then still gets dropped and of course
out comes Logan Paul and he hits him with a knockout punch. So I'm
not really sure what you guys think about this Logan Paul La Night stuff.
But they are starting to get involved with each other more and more often.
So that tells you that Summer Slam, you could just bet your bottom dollars
at that United States Championship's gonna be on the line. You could see them
doing it money in the bank. But I feel like with the US title,
especially with it being two nights, why not just do it now?
Or I'm sorry, why not just do it at SummerSlam, and you know,
just forget it. I feel like that's a juicy enough matchup where it's
worthy of being on the card, and it's just a matter of you making
it stretch out from now to then. And I think that with Logan Paul
in the way that he kind of comes and goes, it would be relatively
easy for WWE to, you know, to get this done. But continuing
on here in the show, we get another money in the Bank qualifying match,
Kevin Owens versus Grayson Waller versus Andrade. The Tongans attack Kevin Owen's from
behind as he's making his entrance. I thought that was going to just screw
him out of his opportunity, but luckily he still makes his way to the
ring. He tries as hard as he can. I mean, they both
go at and once the match starts and or Grayson Waller does at least he
makes an effort to just eliminate Kevin Owens from the match, and Kevin Owens
still does relatively well for the circumstances, but at the very end, Grayson
Waller pulls him out of the ring and you know, attempts to do his
finishing move on and Drade and he actually reverses it, encounters it into some
type of move. I'm not really sure exactly what it was, but he
was able to get the job done and get the win, which is really
all that mattered at that point. So and Rade and Carmelo Hayes earned their
spot and the money in the bank ladder match. And after this match was
over, after the commercial break, I should say WWE, as they've done
every single year for god knows how long, they have given a WWE Championship
belt to sports teams that win the championship, you know, in the four
major sports. And I believe nine hundred percent. Sure someone may have to
correct me on this, but I believe the NBA Finals just ended not that
long ago, and I can't remember the team that won. Someone's gonna have
to, you know, Freshen up my memory on that. I'm not really
sure who. So, yeah, somebody wants to bring that to my attention,
I would really appreciate it. But the NBA champion got their A dbutbut
championship belt, and you know, credit to them whoever that team is shout
out for when in your eighteenth NBA Finals. But either way, let's go
ahead and move on here to Tiffany Stratton and meech In having a little bit
of a backstage exchange. Michin slaps the taste out of her mouth and Nya
Jax comes up and pretty much just take care takes care of Tiffany's light work.
I'm not really sure what to think about that other than Tiffany kind of
had it come in in terms of her getting slapped. But Nia Jack,
she's just a big bully. You know, She's gonna walk around and just
do that. I mean, she really didn't do anything too crazy. She
just pretty much did like a little running splash like you would do to somebody
if they were in the turnbuckle. But she just did it to meet you
and as she was standing there. So yeah, I guess credit to Nia
Jack. She's an unstoppable force right now, if you want to call her
that up next, Solo so CoA says that Roman Reigns is not coming back.
I thought that was strange, a weird comment. We'll see if that
is actually true or not. Obviously it's not true, but that just tells
you where Solo is. And whenever Roman Reigns does eventually come back, you
could expect that there's going to be some pretty strong words that he has with
Solo so CoA. But speaking of Solo, he has a one on one
match with Cody Rhoades here is. The main event does not go on long,
though it's extremely quick after a bloodline interruption and interference caused it disqualification and
to even out the number of odds and you know, make this a three
on three. Kevin Owens and Randy Yorton come out to help and then insert
Jacob Ftwu a brutal beat down. Cody ends up going through a table thanks
to a frog splash from Jacob FORTUU off of the turnbuckle. This was just,
you know, Shane McMahon esque put him right through the table. A
hell of an introduction to probably the most dangerous man in the Bloodline and arguably
in the WWI right now, go do your research on Jacob Fatu. He's
been long awaited to come to the WWE, but people wondered if you would
actually get to come because he's not your typical oose. We'll just say that,
you know, you definitely want to get a load of this guy if
you haven't yet. And I think that it could be a pretty good member
in this bloodline because you know, as you guys know, I'm not really
too sold on this version of it, so I'm not necessarily thinking that this
is going to be an extremely dominant faction, although now that they have Jacob
for two, you could expect that it's going to be, you know,
at the very least a very tough team to beat. So I guess we'll
see kind of how they develop what happens there with this new version of the
bloodline. If we're gonna get my time right now, I don't think that
any of the people in that bloodline can you know, cut a promo to
save their life, So we will hopefully get a little bit more of a
look at that, I guess if that's what you want, because I mean,
they can't just beat the hell out of people without talking solo can't be
the only person cutting promos every single week. But I guess we'll, you
know, just let them play it out. But guys, that does it
for me here on the SmackDown Review my final show. The time has come
to say goodbye. Definitely not easy. I'm definitely gonna miss you guys.
I'm gonna miss doing this every single week. It's something that it took me
a little bit to actually hit record. You know, I was studying my
notes, I was kind of just looking over what happened on the show,
and I was like, man, I really don't want to. I kind
of got those butterflies that I used to get, that nervousness before hitting record
that I used to get whenever I first started, and you know, that
was a pretty cool feeling. But you know, I'm definitely reluctantly letting this
go. But it has to happen, and I'm looking forward to seeing where
the show goes from here. I'm still going to be a listener. Like
I said, I'm not going to just disappear from the ww podcast world,
but you know, I'm definitely going to be making my appearances a little bit
more spaced out. So I guess we'll see I'll see you guys when I
see you. But outside of that, just you know, still support the
football function. If that's something that you're into, I'm not going to be
able to plug it anymore on this show. So hopefully you guys that have
come around, you know, guys like Howard Poole, guys like Double J
Detroit, Kyle DJ, Cuzmo, obviously the casual wrestling fan, Kanye Twitty,
Frankie Graham, a lot of different guys have made their appearances on the
show, and hopefully I'll get more people coming on over because that's somewhere that
you could still hear me if you, you know, are interested in my
podcasting endeavors. But one more time, guys, thank you so much for
allowing me to be part of your wrestling coverage for the last four years.
Thank you for making me part of your weekly, daily whatever experience that you
you know that you listen to the show on. You know, I appreciate
being part of your routine in one way or another, and I definitely didn't
take it for granted. But with all that being said, guys, continue
to walk passionately in the direction of your dreams. And I'll talk to you
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