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This is ww superstar Drew McIntyre. If you're listening to the WWE podcast show,
the one that Everybody Wants me twenty six days, this modern you're gonna
acknow the track everybody, Welcome to the w W podcast. It is Sunday,
June eighteenth, twenty and twenty three. Happy Father's Day to all of
you fathers out there. It's one of those days that it's kind of the
redheaded step child to mother's days. Mother's Day seems to be celebrated a little
more than Father's Day, just kind of the way it is. I don't
know. That's not really a complaint, just kind of an observation, right,
it's we're second place to Mother's Day, but that's okay. We get
our own day. And happy to Father's Day to all of you out there.
And let's let's talk about WWE and let's talk about what the heck is
going on right now. And you know, I was going to come on
here, I was gonna rant, I was gonna I was gonna give you
guys a little bit of a negative start. But I'm won't do that.
I'll save that for a little bit later. I think you know where I'm
going with a little bit of that, in particularly the three title belts that
Roman Reins is carrying around now. But let's talk about something good, and
that is the bloodline storyline as it continues to be every week. We finally
got an answer with jusso we finally know what side of the aisle he falls
on, and that is on the side of his brother Jimmy. He ousted
himself on SmackDown. Wwwe did a great job of threading this throughout the show
of SmackDown. They did a great job keeping us hooked until the end.
I think it was well done. The segments with Paul and Jay and Paul
and Roman were well executed. I think that you have again the all of
these men have kind of found their place. They understand what they need to
do, they know there, they understand their role, and it's something that's
been so fun to watch. And the acting ability of all four men has
been superb. And the way that this turn was executed, if you want
to call it, that was well executed as well. And Jay explaining that,
you know, Jimmy didn't want Jay to be the next in line,
and Roman basically throwing everything at Jay to get him to stay and basically selling
him a bill of goods that Jay didn't buy and ultimately saying to Jimmy,
you're out, and then saying and I'm out too, and then wham superkick
on super Well sweet Chin music almost on Roman, and then Jimmy and Jay
both had a double superkick on Roman. It's been a lot of fun to
watch. Now the bloodline as we know it anyway has imploded. Does that
mean that the bloodline, it's health as an entity has exploded. No,
it doesn't. There's still the foundation of Solo and Roman, and until that
union is broken, there is still a bloodline. And why wouldn't there be.
This is a cash cow for WWE, And if you've seen some articles
over the weekend, that seems to be why they have no plans on Roman
dropping the belt anytime soon. Is the fact that that Roman reigns right now
is a cash cow for WWE. The bloodline is the storyline that surrounds.
A bloodline is a cash cow. They understand this is a very rare opportunity
that they have and a storyline that they dream about that comes along very rarely.
That they're able to live out right now and squeeze every dollar they can,
and good for them. So don't expect Just because Jimmy and Jane now
are are segregated on their own island of relevancy I guess or irrelevancy depending on
how you look at it, it doesn't mean this storyline is over. It
has only just begun in some respects because now Roman and Solo are going to
face off against Jay and Jimmy and that is confirmed to be taking place at
Money in the Bank in London in the O two arena. That's one percent
confirmed. It's called the Bloodline Civil War. I mean, that's good,
good marketing. I like that phrase. I like the marketing there, if
you are into such things. And I believe even Marvel did that, didn't
they They called it civil War with it was a who was a Captain America?
An iron Man? Good movie, by the way, and so that
it's funny. I'm I'm just watching that movie for the first time. I
know, I'm way behind a Marvel movies, Marvel movies, but it's just
weird that they lined up like that. However, great marketing. I like
the way that it's being portrayed. It is civil war. However, is
it really civil war when the one the one half of the group leaves because
they're no longer in that group. It has to happen within the same group.
But whatever, it's cool, great marketing. And this story is far
from over because eventually where does Solo land? Yeah? Where what happens there?
Eventually he's going to turn on Roman. Could he be the one to
finally take down Roman reigns? And win the championships. Many people are pointing
to Solo Skoa as that guy. It could also be Jimmy or j if
I was if I had a gun to my head, I'd say it's Juso.
Right now, with everything equal, it's not going to be Randy Orton.
It's not going to be Bray Wyatt, Seth Rollins has a solid chance.
Maybe the money in the Bank winner has a solid chance. If that's
La Night, who seems to be the front runner, you know, there
could be certainly, but I think it comes from within because nobody from NXT
is ready and I don't even know. Here's the thing, I don't even
know if w knows how pure they don't even know. I bet you they
have no idea. They're just continuing with the programs and saying, well,
well, we know, when that person comes along, we'll know it.
Maybe that's the way they're looking at it, kind of like when you are
looking for someone to marry, and you know, the harder you look,
the you know, the fewer the options that seem to be out there,
and all of a sudden, someone just pops up out of nowhere. Right.
Maybe that's the approach they're tanking because it seems to be they don't have
an idea, and maybe they don't, but I would go with Juso right
now. That's just me. Now again, as I've praised this, and
I think that that that matchup at Money the Bank is going to be really
good. Obviously it's the main event, even though the title's not involved.
That's kind of where things turned a little bit from me in frustration in that.
Not that I don't like this tag team match. I think it's a
perfect matchup. It's an absolute pay per vieworthy think about this. Roman Reigins
hasn't defended his championship since what April first, April two, whatever, twenty
twenty three. He's not going to be defending it at Money in the Bank,
which means he's not going to be defending it until SummerSlam, which is
what August six, seventh, eighth, ninth, something like that first week
of August. That would mean that Roman Reigins would have gone from April to
August four months before he defended his belt again. And that's assuming he defended
at SummerSlam. I can't imagine he doesn't, but let's assume he does.
Four months a quarter of a year, he hasn't defended that championship, and
now we're supposed to all just be blinded or distracted by Seth Rollins essentially treating
the World Heavyweight Championship like the twenty four seventh title, and everyone gets an
opportunity. All they have to do is ask, are we supposed to just
be you know, completely just oblivious to or not care about the fact that
Roman is just doing a complete opposite. I'm not distracted by it. That
title of that Roman is holding does currently at the moment feel more important than
Seths And it's inexcusable that you go four months, four months without defending that
championship. I really I would like to look, somebody comes up with that.
Somebody has to come up with this stat In the history of w WE,
I'd say the modern era, okay, which means like you know,
nineties onward, has anyone held the championship man or woman and gone four months
straight without defending it. The only one I can think of this comes even
close is perhaps Oscar when she was the women's champion during the pandemic era and
they essentially forgot about her. Maybe that's one, but other than that,
guys like this is unbelievable and I'm not being distracted by or being thrown a
consolation prize by w WE and said, well, here you go, a
little boy. Don't worry about Roman, worry about this World Heavyweight Championship.
You guys wanted a fighting champion. Here you go, right right now.
A lot of people are probably obliviously being blinded and distracted by that. I'm
not hasn't been lost on me. It's inexcusable, and it does, I
think a little bit tarnish the run of Roman reigns, a little bit,
not enough to take him out of the Hall of Fame or eventually probably become
a legend in WWE. I mean using that word lightly is not something that
we do as fans, but he is potentially already bordering on legend, potentially
already all of Famer, no doubt. But it does a little bit tarnish
his run because when you go four months without defending the championship, that adds
what roughly one hundred and twenty days to your run artificially without defending it.
Are we supposed to applaud that I'm not asking for defense every two weeks.
I'm not even asking for every every pay per view. Okay, I know
a lot of people would like that, but I've kind of come to understand
that's not how Roman's run has gone or will go. But four months are
you kidding? You're artificially inflating his run by one hundred and twenty days in
a way, and it does I think hurt his run a little bit because
there's been so many instances of him going long periods, not this long.
Typically it's been two months. I don't even know if he's done three yet.
But this is insane. It's insane. I know the bloodline story has
to pass, you know, of course, you know, play itself out,
no doubt, the Jay and Jimmy's story has been great. It doesn't
need to play itself out. But why can't Roman have an opponent in the
meantime? I don't. I don't understand that. So anyway, that's one
thing. The other thing, you gotta saw this one coming. Roman reigns
last week, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, whatever was Adam Pierce
introduced him with a new undisputed a w w E championship. Isn't that the
name of it? Whatever it's called, right, and that was supposed to
be the physical representation of the unification of the w w E Universal. Finally
get one belt. Well we did get one belt, except now we now
have three. And I should have known better. I should have known better
that WWE could not help themselves to have Roman appear to be carrying three separate
championships when in fact it's one. Okay, it's one. I know the
w w E Universal we're two separate, but we were told it has become
one, so therefore it is one. There should be one belt. But
now we're being just completely I don't know what the word is. We're just
being led astray by three physical championship belts. Yet Roman is one champion.
I mean, they just couldn't help themselves with the usual. I think that's
what they want. They want the visual of Roman with three championships wish,
which I think is bad a lot of levels. Number One, we've seen
Roman hold gold. We've seen him countless times at the end of events,
holding up the championships and the fireworks going off. Wonderful. We've seen it.
We get it. He's champion, wonderful, Okay, but now he's
got three or are we going to be more and are we going to be
that much more impressed than he's holding up three physical championships? The answer is
no. I just is it for something? Is it because they want Paul
Hayman to be able to hold onto something? Or does he fidget? Do
they not know what to do with Hayman if he doesn't have two belts?
What is the reason in it? Also, even though there's one championship as
a concept, if there's three physical belts, it kind of makes every belt
that you see look less valuable because Romans holding three? How are there essentially
four championship belts for two titles? How? How does that work? Again,
they can't help themselves with the visual. Well, I was a little
Roman hope be the first one to hold three belts. That's great? I
mean, why don't you make it seven? Why don't you make it ten?
What? At this point, it doesn't matter he's holding a single championship.
It would be different if he also captured the IC title of the US
title, or he was tag team champion. That's fine, those are separate
championships. To be one represented by its own belt, this is just absolutely
egregious that you have one championship represented by three belts. Why outside of well,
let's roman, How isn't that gonna be a cool picture? Isn't that
could be a great photo? Op? It's gonna it isn't a little great
in his documentary? I mean, I guess, but is that really going
to add to his championship ragin any belt anymore? I don't know. I
think it's stupid bid and I saw it and now I'm just like I literally
said to myself out a lot ago, I should have known better, all
right, But I wanted to rant about that because I just I don't understand
it. Why introduce a new championship belt that's supposed to take the place of
the two that were unified a year ago, and then you still keep the
other two around? Why? All right? Switching topics, let's talk about
Charlotte Flair on SmackDown. She has felt weird, has she not? She's
felt weird since she came back. She looks thinner almost. I mean,
look, these men and women are in exemplary shape. Charlotte Flair has always
been in just just exceptional shape, right, But I don't know, maybe
lately she's looked to me a little bit too thin, Like she has so
little body fat it almost I don't know, something just she looks a little
unhelp. That's just my personal take. I think she needs a little bit
more meat on her bones. Okay, she just does, And that's my
take. I'm just I'm legitimately a little concerned about her um. But that's
what hey. I mean, others are, you know, probably not seeing
that. I just she looks different this time, and I'm more concerning.
Maybe she's just working out like a maniac. I'm sure she is, and
maybe she is, uh, just following a healthy regiment. And you know,
I'm not I'm not following her around of course, and you know,
tucking her in it and I and all that stuff. Like, I mean,
I would imagine she has a very regimented, regimented plan for her nutrition
and health. Anyway, It's just something I observed. However, this segment
with Grace and Waller, she was just kind of a bit dismissive. And
I don't know if I liked that on Charlotte Flair or not. I'm not
really sure. It was kind of just a little bit off putting for me.
And Waller asked her if she was going to become a fifteen time champion.
She said fifteen sixteen. But as long as they're talking numbers, she
has Osca's number. Waller, then Wood and Bianca Baylar came out and she
asked Charlotte as she was tripping because she was due a rematch, and Charlotte
just walked in and called her shot. Charlotte said she didn't make the rules
and didn't politic to change them, so she was gonna not going to apologize.
Bianca said that she she stuck around and got her title shot right away.
Charlotte ran away for three months and then called her shot. Charlotte said
she didn't run away, she stepped away, and she has lost before and
picked herself up fourteen times. She questioned whether Bianca was a champion with her
without the title, and she told Charlotte she would be at ringside for her
match with Oscar in London no matter who won, she would call her shot.
So here's here's one positive. Though I did like Bianca bel air,
it seems that she's been a bit recharged. I don't know if it's hinting
at a heel turn or if it's just Bianca adding a little bit more depth.
To her baby face character, which is sorely needed, sorely needed.
Either way, the last couple of weeks, Bianca has kind of found a
backbone instead of being so smiley and accepting of everything and so tolerant, She's
found herself a little bit. And I'm feeling this version of Bianca a little
bit more than I have over the last year. So I don't know,
again if this is towards the heel turn or if it's just Bianca just being
more relaxed as a baby face and being more aggressive as a baby face.
So I'm cool with either one. I like, I still like the Bianca
heel turn, but either way, it's just been encouraging over the last couple
weeks for Bianca and again for Charlotte. I don't know, um something something
feels weird with her and I don't know what it is, just beyond how
she looks, her her demeanor, the way she talks. Something's different.
And I don't mean in a way that's like, ohh, I wonder what
they're doing with her character. I'm like talking about the human being again.
It's just something feels different this time, So we'll have to see. Maybe
it's just my intuition is completely wrong. I don't know, but all right,
let's get to let's see, let's talk about Zelena Vega and EO Sky
quick match four minutes or so, and it ended with Sky losing to Zelena
Vega because of a Bailey outside accidental distraction. Vega took advantage and hit the
six, one nine and then stacked up Sky and got the victory. Another
miscommunication between Neo Sky and Bailey, who are both in the money of the
bank the ladder match for the women's side of things. And the problem though
is I think we have a potential Bailey, potential Bailey removal from the match
because she put her her her opportunity or she will be putting her opportunity for
the money bank ladder match up, and I don't know if she's going to
make it out of there. Okay, because we have Yosky and Bailey who
are clearly on a path to Splitsville. Oh and that person's shots by the
way, So Shotzi challenged Bailey for her spot and EO accepted on her behalf,
So that adds more tension. EO and Bailey are in Splitsville for all
intents and purposes, damage control is dissolved anyway, and no one cares.
In fact, it's a it's positive. It just is all right. Let's
see, let's we got a pretty deadly and brawling brutes match and this was
really good. I enjoyed this. Well, this was the ending. I'll
get to the let me just start to beginning here. This was the tag
team Gauntlet match match and it started with the Street Profits and the Brawling Brutes.
The Brawling Brutes beat the Street Profits and then beat the Good Brothers.
This was really surprising for the Street Profits. The Good Brothers you expect to
just lose because that's all they do, and they never get Mike time.
They just lose. And I think the Brawling Brutes have were really the highlight
of this match. They got a lot of good The crowd was one hundred
percent behind them and rightfully so, and they were a buzz saw through this
match. Of course, till the end, the Good Brothers lost again.
It's crazy that the Street Profits didn't get it really much, but showing at
all, they just ran into a broke kick and good night the lights.
That also leads to more evidence of a potential Street Profits disintegration, whether they
feud with one another, or they just simply break up and there's no feud.
It's just not looking good for the street profits. But then we got
the LWO versus the brawling brutes, and Holland slammed down Del Toro and got
the rent win. So brawling brutes beat the LWO and then hit Row face
the brawling brutes, and boy oh boy, they got instant I mean it
was it was less than ten seconds. The hit Row lost of the brawling
brutes as Flop Dollar as Michael Cole called him, got hit by bro kick
and lost. This is and I tweeted this out. To follow me at
Wrestling Underscore Audio or just search the ww podcast on Twitter, you can find
me that. If you want evidence concerning evidence that hit Row is up for
the future endeavoring list, if they're on that list, they you, well,
you've got that evidence on Friday last night, because it's concerning as hell.
And this is the kind of stuff that happens over a prolonged period when
you get this consistent, you know, just burying of talent on the way
out. It's concerning as hell. If you are a hit Row fan,
not good, especially not only not only did you lose in seconds? You
got no promo time about this matchup, what it meant to you why you're
competing. And you also got you also got a you know, kind of
torched by the announcer himself, who usually is there to put people over,
but called him flop Dollar. I mean, so that's not good either,
not good. Oh boy. Then we got Pretty Deadly versus the Brawling Brutes,
and you kind of knew here when you're looking at the matchup and you're
going, well, who does seven Kevin and Sammy want to face or who
should they face? And if it's a heal team, you got it.
I mean, pretty Deadly had to win this, and they did, and
it was a really fun ending to the match here, and it ended with
pretty Deadly getting a clean victory over the brawling Brutes at twenty one minutes.
And then we got the Kevin and Sammy coming out and said there were some
congratulations in order and told them basically get out of the ring. After some
back and forth, eventually Kevin, because that's what he does now is just
get angry over everything, so easily comes to the ring and pretty deadly backs
off up the ramp. So Okay, they fine, you know, I
actually I'm on board for this. I don't know what the shelf life of
Pretty Deadly is. I don't know. You know, they seem to have
good chemistry, they seem to be good in the ring. They're obnoxious,
they kind of check all the boxes of a heel team. We'll see what
the longevity is of this team if they can continue to cut good promos and
beyond just surface level annoying, but if you can find out who what they
are and why you despise them on a deeper level, we'll see if that
ends up showing itself. But as it stands right now and as things play
it out on Friday Night, it was it was good, and it gives
Kevin and Sammy fresh opponents. And do I think Kevin and Sammy are gonna
lose the belts? No, but they're at least under threat from a new
team. And this team is going to probably put on an amazing show at
the Money to the Bank event. I expect this team, these two teams
to probably have fifteen sixteen minutes and have a lot in ear falls, a
lot of high spots, some really, you know, I expect them to
have good chemistry. It seems like all four of these men would. So
that's it's something fun if you like new matchups and you like Kevin and Sammy
to move on to something beyond the bloodline. This is it, all right
overall though good? And also one thing that Michael Cole said too when Pretty
Deadly was claiming that they beat five other teams, and then Michael Cole called
them out and said that's a flat out lie. Oh well, if that's
the case, Michael Cole, well why don't you apply that logic to the
Royal Rubble winner every year that claims that they beat thirty other men or thirty
other women. It's the same logic, right, every year we hear I
beat thirty other men. I went through thirty other men thirty other women.
Again, unless you're number one, no you didn't or number two you did
not, Okay, And it's so if Michael Cole wants to be consistent,
then the Royal Rumble winner also should not be able to claim that achievement.
All right, all right, anyway, I'm Marty at Rumble Rants and we're
not even close to the Royal Rumble, all right, So that that was
an a mate I really enjoyed. That was probably the highlight of the wrestling
from Friday Night SmackDown was easily the tag team Gauntlet. I mean that was
so much fun to watch. And yeah, so we also got let's see,
we got I got a lot of wrestling, which is good. We
got a AJ Styles and Meachen versus carrying cross and scarlet. This match very
quick, under three minutes. It ended with we got a course, the
obligatory woman being able to attack men, but men can't retaliate because they're simply
women. That whole narrative, which is nonsense, but it continued to show
itself every week. So as long as it continues to show itself, I'm
not going to shut up about it because it's ridiculous. But in the world
that we live in today, for a lot of reasons, like you won't
get into it's not something that you do on television. However, this ended
with of course scarlet, you know, slapping AJ and AJ can't retaliate,
but then the cross Jackie Get puts on AJ and hit the crosshammer and got
the victory on AJ Styles at two minutes and forty four seconds. So again,
this isn't going to hurt Aj styles in any form or fashion. It's
just to build a matchup between him and carrying Cross. Probably that culminates at
Money in the Bank. So also good to see Scarlet getting involved, though
I have to say if she's if she's going to be an actual in ring
wrestler. Good to see. All right, then we get we get Uh,
let's see what did we get after that? Oh? Ray came out
and talked about how we're forming LWO was one of his proudest accomplishments. And
then brought out Santos Escobar and called him the essence of the LWO and the
next mister Money in the Bank. And he came out and thanked Ray for
believing in him and him and told him he loved him, and I mean
I thought they were going to make out at one point, and Santos told
Ray he inspired him and he was fighting for him. I mean, it's
just all this just nonsensical, this bland, boiler plate baby face language of
I fight for family, I fight for love, I fight for truth,
I fight for justice. I fight for all of you who have a dream.
Shut up. I mean, like literally, like I like Santos,
I like Ray to some extent. This is this is where I think WWE
is out of touch, where they just essentially create these It's this assembly line
of baby face characters that they think all have to have X, Y,
and Z traits of always being a fighting champion and fighting for truth and justice
in the American way. You know, you know what I mean. It's
just it's no, that's not the way people relate anymore, and there has
to be an edge. There has to be a connection that's beyond just this
wholesome say your prayers and take your vitamins crap, which I think is sometimes
goes way too far with their baby faces at times. And sorry Santos,
not your fault here, it's just this. This is a sickening promo to
me from from the perspective of being able to connect and be like, man,
I could get behind this guy. It's more of just like, ugh,
I just like I hear that crap, and it's just I know what
you're trying to do, and it's just so transparent and it makes me want
to vomit. That is what turns me off. However, I know some
of you totally disagree with me, and that's that's fine, right all right,
But La and I came out and he got a nice pop, and
boy, the crowd was behind him here, and eventually WW, by the
way, he's going to have to just acknowledge La Night and do something with
him. He fought Santos Escobar. Santos did beat l A Knight, but
then La Night attacked Escobar after the match, which prompted Raymonsterio to run down
and make the save, and La Knights back on his losing ways. But
they here's the weird thing. WW is continuing to try to refuse to give
crowds a reason to cheer La Night, but they do it anyway, So
perhaps they're doing this on purpose. I really believe that it's a bit of
reverse psychology going on here. I think where WWE fans tend to get behind
somebody that they perceive WWE should be pushing but they're not. That allows and
creates more support for that person underneath the surface that comes to eventually a boiling
point. So I think they're purposely trying to make it look like they're ignoring
La Night, or that they are burying him or not burying him, but
it's not. He's not on the he's not on that push list right now,
right, And I think that's working because so far La Night has while
he's build as a heel and he hasn't he doesn't win a whole lot of
matches. He is being supported by the crowd in a way that he has
no business being supported by the crowd in that way. Which if that's their
reverse psychology goal, it's working. The problem is going to come when they
actually decide to pull the trigger and flip the script and go, okay,
here we go, We're gonna push him and hopefully the fans don't go,
oh, wait a minute, now, you're trying to push him, well
boo. Right, as fans, we need to kind of recognize when they
do that to not give the reverse reaction and that it's just it's there's no
need to do that. So that's just my assumption. They could be just
genuinely not pushing La Knight and trying to get the crowd to not cheer for
him, and they're doing it anyway. It could just be as simple as
that and they're not trying to play reverse psychology. I don't know, but
this La Knights, you know, whole just underlying support is very interesting and
fun it's great and they're not even giving any promo time either, So all
right, okay, then we got the main event, of course, which
was just Jay eventually siding with Jimmy an overall really fun episode of SmackDown.
I enjoyed this episode of SmackDown. I thought it was well executed, as
the Bloodline story has continued to deliver after deliver after deliver every time, and
this was no exception. Now you wonder, what is Roman gonna do?
You know, now he doesn't have the numbers game in his favor. What
does he do when he doesn't have the numbers game in his favor? Because
now Jimmy and Jay it's two on two. Is there another member of the
Bloodline? A third one out there somewhere floating? Maybe? But when the
problem is, when you have a group called the Bloodline, you can't bring
in somebody that is not blood That limits you severely in who you can bring
in unless they just don't care about that. So all right. Also,
yeah, I want to mention Sampunk. I did and see a whole lot
of punk of We're gonna be having a Collision review soon, by the way,
so stay tuned for that if you're interested in such things. But I
did see a little bit of the CM punk thing. I guess Collision was
very well received for those I did see it, So I wanted to mention
that I saw the moment of Samoa, Joe and Sampunk in the ring together.
That was a fun, little quick moment. So anyway, a review
of that is coming down the line, not from me, of course,
but to our team. And let's talk about Raw quickly before we close things
out. Mona att Raw. Let's see as I go through here. Mona
att Raw was, from what I recall, a decent show. We got
let's see, just as a reminder, Cody Rhodes versus the Miss, with
the Miss losing to Cody in ten minutes. We got let's see Lynch coming
out and speaking about our money in the bank match and how people do crazy
things when they're scared, and she says she likes it because it makes her
better. And then Lynch said Trish was so scared that she got herself an
insurance policy in the form of so we Stark. So that's when we got
Becky versus Chelsea Green. That was about seven minutes with Becky Lynch beating Chelsea
Green, Riddle versus Damien Priest. That was the Money the Bank qualifier.
This ended with Damien Priests beating Riddle in fourteen minutes to qualify from the Money
in the Bank. Mac now Damien Damien is a frontrunner to win the Money
in the Bank. Him and La Night really the only two that's even worth
discussing, so I would imagine it's one of those two. We got what
else, a whole lot of recap from the Bloodline stuff, General mahaullback stage
with vir Mahan and Songa didn't they weren't in ring, but a lot of
just talking. Bronson read versus Ricochet, read no soul, Ricochet strikes and
ended up beating Ricochet by DQ in seven minutes after Nakamura ended the match by
interfering, so Bronson reed beat Ricochet again by DQ. We got Finn Balor
and the whole conundrum with the crowd, which was still egregious. I mean,
I really really hope moving forward this isn't a thing. I just guys,
please don't make this a thing. It's not fun. All of us
sitting at home now now know how annoying it was, so hopefully sitting at
home, which nine percent of us were we get the idea. Okay,
now we know how super annoying that was to try to hear a really important
promo and the crowd just went into business for themselves. And I thought,
I thought it was selfish. I really mean, it's just that's just the
way it is, and it is. And I just hope the crowd,
though that now attends raw goes, oh well, we can sing along.
But guys, come on, it's not fun to sit at home. We
were just at home last week hearing this. Let's not do that to the
crowd at home this week. You know, like hopefully that crowd in Kansas
City or which it was at Whitchtt Topeka, wherever they were in Kansas that
they, you know, hear that crowd and they use it as an example
to go bad move right, Not good for the product, not good for
anybody, not good for anybody at home. All right? Then, um,
we got Shana versus Raquel Rodriguez, and SHANEA. Beazler beat Roquel in
two minutes, so it made Raquel look like a complete idiot. I thought,
I did not I did not like that finished because Bezel rolled up Rodriguez
and got the pen Rousey added some leverage to it, and I don't know
it just Raquel doesn't belong to be a baby face anyway. But Chad Gabel
versus Eric, and this was a minute in forty seconds which Gabel hit a
sunset flip on Eric and got the victory. I don't know what more to
say about that. Then we got Kevin Owns and Sammy versus Gunther and Ludwig
for the undisputed tag team titles. Really good match here. I really enjoyed
this as the main event of the show. I would have loved to have
been in person for this. It was fun. Gunther continues to be over,
the Imperium continues to be over. Kevin and Sammy are as you'd expect
very have been doing very well as as you really use a bell, as
you could expect them to be as undisputed tag team champions. Hopefully they get
unified belts as well. But it ended with a victory here for Zane end
at Ko. Most interestingly, it was ended with a blue thunderbomb that's traditionally
been a transition move. So that's fun, because you know what, a
finish doesn't always have to be the maneuver that ends the match, So that
was a good thing. I think to see the blue thunderbomb be the thing
to end this match. Unexpected but fun. And that's your week in WW
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