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With one week until the WWE Draft, Tonight's SmackDown was the final show under

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the roster as it was originally composed
by Vince McMahon. We have yet to

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have a triple H draft. This
is gonna be the first triple H draft

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since he took over as the head
of creative and SmackDown as we know,

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it is going to look different after
last week. We just don't know how

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different just yet. I'll tell you
what though, after seeing seth rollins against

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Omas randomly booked for Backlash in two
weeks, I'm not so sure that Vince

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McMahon is not going to be booking
the show going forward. He's already he's

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peeking out of the weeds again.
There he is. I see him off

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in the distance in the weeds.
Either that or he smoking him, I'm

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not sure. It's one of the
up Where the hell did that come from?

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I'm sitting here watching SmackDown tonight and
they're flashing match graphics on the screen

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for Backlash coming up in Puerto Rico
in two weeks. We know Cody Rhodes

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is going to face Brock Lesner.
We know that Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane

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and Matt Riddle are going to be
taking on the Usos and Solos Zakoa.

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Those matches have already been made official, and then we had some new match

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announcements tonight. We know that Ria
Ripley is going to be defending her SmackDown

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Women's Championship against Zelina Vega, which
was set up in a backstage segment on

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the show tonight, so that we
already know. But then they're they're continuing

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on and I see Seth Rollins in
a match graphic with Omas and I'm thinking

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to myself, did I miss something? Maybe maybe I'd blinked on Monday and

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I miss something. Boy, be
the booker has come early tonight. Usually

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we saved that for the end of
the scream. We got that pre stream,

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we got before I even went live
on the stream tonight. We had

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to be the booker. Did they
set this match up on Rampage last week?

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And maybe I just didn't see it? Maybe I'm dark? This right

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here is the best that they can
come up with for seth Rawlins. I

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was just talking of the other day
about how directionless Rawlins has felt. They

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just, you know, they wanted
to give us a visual aid. So

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there it is Omas gets a random
match with seth Rawlins with no bill,

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but La Night cannot seem to buy
television time on these shows. Now,

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hopefully this is just a draft swerve
where they announced the match out of nowhere

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to shock us when seth Rawlins gets
moved to SmackDown next week. That's what

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I'm hoping this is. That wasn't
the only match they announced. They announced

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the United States Championship triple Threat for
Backlash. It's gonna be Austin Theory defending

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his title against two n He's gonna
be putting the championship on the line against

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Bobby Lashly and Bronson Reed. And
that at least makes sense because when we

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saw Lashly, in Theory and the
Ring together on Monday Night, it was

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Bronson Reed who showed up to spoil
the party and he interfered in the match

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and he squashed Bobby with the tsunami
splash, and so that at least made

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some modicum of sense. But boy, you know, this draft next week,

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men, This draft cannot come soon
enough. This tonight was the definition

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of a lame duck show. This
draft cannot get here soon enough. It

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had some good wrestling on the show
tonight, and I see good wrestling on

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television every single week, on WWE
Television, on aw Television, Ring of

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Honor, when I'm able to catch
it, get plenty of good wrestling.

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I get plenty of great wrestling on
television every week. You gotta give me

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more than that. And that's not
what this show tonight was all about.

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If you were looking for more than
just some good wrestling on the show tonight,

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he didn't really get much of it. Tonight's main event was a rematch

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last week's main event between Matt Riddle
and Solo Sukoa, this time with a

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no disqualification stipulation added to it,
although the outcome was no different. Kevin

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Owens and Seth Rollins were not at
SmackDown tonight, so the show ended with

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Matt Riddle being overwhelmed and outnumbered by
the Bloodline and left Lane to close out

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the show. We did get a
fun Intercontinental Championship match, though, with

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Gunther defending the title against Xavier Woods. It would be quite shocking to me

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if he had an Intercontinental title defense
that was anything other than at least good.

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Gunther can do no wrong, and
Woods, I thought was a fine

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opponent. For him tonight, although
no doubt as to the outcome of this

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match, But then again, you
could say that about most of the matches

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on the show tonight as far as
them being very predictable, but that was

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a good match between those two.
This is your Friday Night SmackDown review for

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Friday Night, April twenty first,
twenty twenty three. We opened SmackDown tonight

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with a tag team match. It
was raymis Stereo Santos Escobar representing the LWO

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taking on Finn Balor and Damian Priest
of the Judgment Day. It's good to

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see Damian Priest getting television time post
WrestleMania. He was the one Judgment Day

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member who did not have a match
at WrestleMania this year, but they did

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have a good spot for him for
back Lash year. I was thought when

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they announced the show for Puerto Rico, it just seemed to me like he

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would end up in the main event, or he would end up in a

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big ten team match on the show, which he is. I'm sure it's

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going to end up being Ray,
Mysterio and Bad Bunny against Damian Priest and

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Dominic. Most likely could be Priest
and Balor, but I'm thinking it'll be

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a Priest and Dominic, and so
we've been getting Damian Priest on television.

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He's been racking up wins. Bad
Bunny is going to be back. He's

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hopping back onto Ran Chicago this Monday
night, so we'll have I'm sure I've

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faced to face between them. I
thought the opener here was solid. Came

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down to confusion at the end of
this match on the part of the baby

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Faces. Ray got Balor in the
ropes for a six one nine. He

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did not see Damian Priest make the
blind tag tagged himself in. Priest got

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sent to the floor. Ray followed
through with a six one nine to Valor,

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which led to Escobar tagging in and
Escobar went up top, but he

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hit a top rope splash, seemingly
had the match one, but the referee

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was trying to communicate to him,
no, no, no, not the

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legal man. Priest came back into
the ring. He picked up Escobar,

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hit the south of heaving choke slam
and pinned him. So again mysterio.

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Escobar did not realize that Damian Priest
had made the blind tag. As Priest

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and Valor walked away, they stopped
on stage, priest had the mic right,

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He's gotten a bit of mic time
over the last few weeks, and

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he said the Bad Bunny is going
to be back on Raw. Sold out

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in Chicago this Monday. As dull
as some of these shows have been post

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WrestleMania, the company is still on
a hot street. I mean they have

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a lot of sellouts coming up.
I saw the pick sure that Paul Hayman

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posted on social media the other day
telling them it was like a photo that

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he took of a sign. I
guess that's posted at some of the shows

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for talent saying sorry, no comps, no complimentary tickets for friends and family

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for these shows, and they list
a whole bunch of upcoming TV shows and

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Backlash coming up. They're legitimately sold
out for Backlash, over seventeen thousand tickets

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out for that show, which with
Bad Bunny on there is not a surprise.

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But they're on a hot streak,
you know, business right now.

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Ticket sales, it's all, you
know, all coming up aces for WWE

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creatively these last few weeks. Not
so much. The draft has a lot

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to do with that. But we're
going to see you know, there's going

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to be a creative reckoning coming out
of the draft, especially when it comes

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to things like the women's division on
these shows, and you can't just blame

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Vince McMahon for that. You know, Triple H is gonna bear a lot

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of the blame or credit if things
improve coming out of the draft, if

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things are really refreshed, and if
there are new call ups from NXT that

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can really kind of, you know, invigorate the shows and invigorate the women's

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division, invigorate the tag team division. You know, you got to give

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Triple H some of that blame as
well, or you give Triple H credit.

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But one thing is for sure,
they definitely need a refresh on these

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shows, that is for sure.
But as I said, Priest giving a

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warning, too bad Bunny heading into
Run Monday night, and he said,

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Benito, I hope things go better
for you on Monday than they did the

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last time that you paid a visit, and then he ended with a diabolical

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laugh to close out the segment.
Escobar was on the floor in this match

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when Priest made that blind tag,
so he didn't see it. It's it's

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not as if you know what a
dummy had did he not see it?

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He's standing there on the apron.
He was on the floor. He didn't

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see it, so you know,
at least he didn't come across as a

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moral on. But he's been losing
a lot of matches lately. Now,

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Escobar has been losing a lot of
matches. Ray and Escobar they lost to

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the Judgment Day two weeks ago un
SmackDown. Just last week he lost a

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singles match to Damian Priest, and
I went back to check. You would

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have to go all the way back
to the very beginning of the year,

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the very first SmackDown of twenty twenty
three to find the last singles win on

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television for Santos Escobar was a win
over Kofi Kingston. That's how far back

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you'd have to go to find a
win for this guy. And you know,

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all these losses they could be leading
to something. I certainly hope they

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are. They could be leading to
something. They could be leading to Escobar

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turning on Ray, which I think, you know, potentially has two positive

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outcomes to that, and it's something
I've talked about, you know, in

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the last several weeks. One is
that we get a Rainbow Stereo Santos Escobar

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program. You know, while it's
nice to see them as friends and allies

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and tag team partners in the LWO, I would much rather see Ray and

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Escobar in a match in a program
together. But the other potential positive in

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that is another idea that I've floated, which is that dominic mysterio, especially

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if the Judgment Day is split up
in this draft, Because there's a bunch

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of different groups on this roster right
now. You've got the Bloodline, you've

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got the Judgment Day, you've got
the LWO, you've got tag teams.

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Who or what is going to be
broken up in the draft. You would

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think some group, some tandem,
some faction will end up being split up.

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It's not going to be the Bloodline. Although if the USOS were to

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regain the tag team titles, they
could move the USOS to a different show

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and then just by being tag team
champions they could appear on bull shows.

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Anyway, I think I don't think
they have the balls to break up the

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blood Line, nor would I The
Judgment Day to me, would seem like

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the likeliest possibility as far as the
group being broken up. If that happens,

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we could end up with Dominic mysterio
as a member of or leading the

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LWUP, because right now it's like
his father is sort of the de facto

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leader of this new group that's formed. Perhaps Escobar and them go heal Dominic

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joins with them. I think that
could work. So I'm hoping that whatever

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it may be, it's it's leading
to something. I feel the same way

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about La Night, all these losses
that he's been racking up on television.

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Now, you would hope if there's
some semblance of an idea, there's some

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direction for it, and there's a
method to the madness. That's something I

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would expect from Vince McMahon as the
head of creative, booking shit for the

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sake of booking shit, forgetting that
he books something a month ago, booking

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rematch after rematch. Guys go on
losing streaks. They don't lead to anything.

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I would like to think Triple H
is a little more careful and a

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little smarter about that sort of thing. I hope, especially when it comes

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to someone like La Knight, who
was not on the show today, but

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apparently you know, we don't have
any room for him on the backlash card.

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We gotta get Omas on that card. In Puerto Rico, Zelina Vega.

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She was backstage talking to Adam Pierce. She told him that she wanted

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to challenge Riha Ripley and Backlash for
the SmackDown Women's Championship. As the only

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Puerto Rican female on the roster,
she wanted that championship match in Puerto Rico.

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Pierce said that he would talk to
Ria, talk to upper management and

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get back to her. This was
always the obvious match for Backlash because the

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Judgment Day is feuding with the LWO, and later in the show they did

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make it officials, so that is
going to be the SmackDown Women's Championship match

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at the pay per view. We
got a pre tape Carrie and Cross promo.

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I like the way this was shot. This was very slick the way

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they did this, and we had
Scarlett as he was speaking, walking behind

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him way off in the background coming
into the foreground bringing the tarot cards over.

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Raw said that it takes a lifetime
to find an identity. Clearly been

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taking him a long time to find
one since he came back. He said

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he never did anything to anybody.
It was the car It's a tarot cards

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that decides things. Says, we
don't know who we are until someone takes

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things away from you. He took
away Drew McIntire's temperament in their feud,

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and as he was speaking, they
spliced in footage from their feud from many

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months ago. Even though Drew ended
up winning that feud, he I guess

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took him off his game. He
he got under his skin. I guess

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that's a moral victory for carrying Cross. He said he took away MadCat Moss's

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joy. You know all the jokes. He said, he took away Raymisterio's

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patients. Now he's going to take
Shinsky Nakamoa's honor. It's an interesting approach

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to, you know, draw attention
to the past feuds that he's had,

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and he hasn't had that many of
them, but to draw attention to the

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past people that he has feuded with. Some he's beaten, some he hasn't.

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Drew McIntyre got the better of him
in the end of that. But

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the last time we saw Cross in
the ring with Raymisterio, for example,

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I believe Cross got the way.
When Cross feuded with Mad Cat Moss,

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he ended up getting the win.
What did it really mean? Not much,

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because they didn't have a direction for
carrying cross. Carrying Cross beat MadCat

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Moss and then Wozi and the Andre
Battle Royal. At WrestleMania, he was

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one of I think twenty bodies in
the ring. He certainly didn't have a

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match of Wrestle Media hasn't done much
since Wrestle Media hasn't wrestled a single match

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on television since Wrestle Madia. So
even the people that he has beaten and

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gotten a win over Raymisterio right incidental. It wasn't about carrying Cross. It

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was about Ray. That was all
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It had nothing to do with cross. Cross was a warm body in the

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ring. It was a means to
an end. They have had no direction

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for carrying cross. Now they're pairing
him up with Shinskandakamura, a man who

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he actually has a friendship with in
real life or a history with. I

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guess they've trained together. There's been
pictures of them on social media. They're

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not bringing any of this up so
far in this few though. It's all

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about, you know, the tarot
cards, and it's all about, you

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know, the very gimmicky stuff that
he's been doing on television. Here.

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But the problem with carrying across other
than what I just talked about is the

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fact that while he is good in
promo segments like this right, he has

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a certain presentation that I think is
a plus, he does not come across

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as a legitimate threat. He doesn't. He speaks, you know, he

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uses these big words, and he
has these platitudes and everything that he uses,

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but because he hasn't really done anything
to back up those words, they

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ring hollow. Nobody looks at him
as any kind of meaningful threat because he

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hasn't given us a reason to look
at him. Is one. It reminds

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me of Bray Wyatt back when he
was still doing the original Cult Leader gimmick,

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and he would do these spooky promos
right where going into a pay per

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view match, maybe a big climactic
match with somebody at John Cena or a

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Cane Undertaker, whoever it was.
He would do these promos and it sounded

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good, but then he would go
and he would lose, and it became

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a running joke. That's where the
whole Eater of Pins thing came came from.

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Now, the fact that I'm drawing
that comparison is not meant to be

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a compliment. It's not a good
thing. You can talk the talk,

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you can't walk the walk, And
so far in his return carrying Cross has

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been like a lost soul. Maybe
there'll be a little bit of direction here

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with this program with Knackama. I
don't really see any reason why this would

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be any different. I just don't
get the sense that they really know what

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to do with this guy, and
they certainly don't seem to have any big

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plans for so He's not someone who
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Cross is somebody who I think would
benefit from a move to Mondays in

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this draft. I don't know that
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unless they move Nakamura as well,
because they're just starting a program with these

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two, so it seems unlikely that
they would move him if they're about to

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start this program, unless they move
both of them. But I think he's

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someone who would benefit from a change
of scenery because so far on SmackDown,

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it's the Bloodline show, and as
long as the Bloodline is in the top

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spot and in the driver's seat,
and all the focus and attention is on

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Roman Reigns and Solo Sakoa and the
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It's why I laughed when Mike Johnson
had that report on PW Insider and

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it said that on the internal roster, Carrying Cross is listed and he may

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still be listed as the number two
heel on SmackDown, And I said,

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on what planet is Carrying Cross the
number two heel on any of these shows?

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Shows that he's barely on in the
first place. Roman Reigns is the

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number one heel in the entire company. Goon third is the number two heel

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on SmackDown. Always was the best
thing for Carrying Cross would be to get

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the hell away from SmackDown, trying
to get a fresh start. On Monday

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Night Rong, we had Ricochet and
Braun Stroman against the Viking Raiders. Michael

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Cole on commentary said that Stroman is
now calling his team with Rickett Shat they

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have a team name. Now.
I don't know if this is official,

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but according to Michael Cole, the
name that Braun Stroman has come up with

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for their tag team is Team Jacked, Tan and Juicy. Good luck putting

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that on a T shirt. Team
Jacked, Tan and Juicy doesn't sound very

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marketable to me during the break.
During this match, Valhalla caused a distraction

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outside the ring, allowing the Viking
Raiders to take over. Ricochet broke free

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and he tagged in braun Stroman,
who took out Ivar with a shotgun drop

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kick. This guy thinks he's Finnbalor
in here hitting the shotgun drop kick in

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the corner. And then with the
Viking Raiders outside the ring, Braun got

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a big smile on his face and
it was time. It was time.

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You know what? Can you know
what comes next here in a braun Stroman

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match, It was time for the
Stroman Express. The train pulled out of

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the station, braun Stroman exited the
ring. Down goes Eric. He blasts

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Ivar right into the ring post with
a shoulder tackle. He gets up on

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the apron. He's about to get
back in the ring, and Valhalla provides

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the distraction and that gave Eric,
who was back in the ring at this

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point, gave Eric the chance to
catch Stroman with a niche strike. Ivar

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came back and he hit his giant
flying splash off the top rope. All

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three hundred plus pounds comes crashing down
on braun Stroman, and it looked like

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they had a double pin too,
because Eric was in the ring and he

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was almost pushing down and still Braun
kicked out. He got the tag to

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Ricochet. Ricochet rocked Ivar with a
jumping knee. Stroman then launched Ricochet into

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Ivar and then sent Eric out to
the floor. Ricochet came off Stroman's shoulders

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with the elevated swanton bomb and Pinnedivar
to win the match. You had to

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know that they were not losing here. They just got a new tag team

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name. They have a new name
now. They're not going to start pushing

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a new team name and then have
them lose in their first match. The

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announcers talked about them being in line
now for a future tag team Championship match,

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which could be another ominous sign for
Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane. The

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Saudi show coming up next month is
one because Owens and Zane neither one of

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them have ever flown out for one
of the Saudi Arabia shows, which I

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think is their choice. Certainly for
Owens, I think it's been a choice

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of his. I don't see why
this would be any different next month for

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a Night of champions and if that's
the case if all titles have to be

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defended on that show, that's ominous
signed number one that they're not going to

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make it to Saudi Arabia as the
tag team champions. The fact that they

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are now setting up, potentially setting
up Braun, Stroman a Ricochet to be

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contenders maybe number one contenders after next
week for the tag team titles could be

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another sign. Because we already had
Owens and Zane against the Street Profits a

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few weeks ago, baby Face against
Babyface. I don't know that they're going

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to do another baby Face against baby
Face match. It's more realistic for me

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to see them doing the ussos again
in there against Ricochet and Stroman, which

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again is a match we've already gotten. But I think that's more realistic than

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them doing Owens and Zane against ricocheme
Stroman. So it's looking more and more

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to me like those guys were in
for a short tag team title run.

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Doesn't necessarily mean they're losing next week, but are they gonna make it tonight

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of champions with those titles? It's
not looking good. Braun. We'll see

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you Lateryboddy. There you go.
The women's tag team titles were on the

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Line. Live Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez
their first title defense, defending against Sonya

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Deville and Chelsea Green. The Heels
cut a promo on the champions in the

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ring before the match began. Sonya
was threatening to throw water on Live.

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Both of them were threatening to throw
water on Live, the way they did

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to me A Yim and Candice on
Monday. Chelsea landed a Russian leg suite

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from the middle rope. Referee though
stopped the count because she was trying to

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use the ropes for leverage. Sonya
tagged in. She and Chelsea hit a

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double supplex on Live. Sonya got
a pump kick, also tried using the

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cheating tactics to get the wind here
got caught by the referee. Live eventually

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tagged out to Riquel, who hit
the twisting Vader bomb to Chelsea. Sonya,

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though broke up the pin that led
to Live Morgan making a tag.

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Rikeel was trying for a superplex on
Sonya. She got it Live, caught

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Chelsea with the backstabber and then doused
her with water, and Chelsea of course

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sold it like she was shot,
and that led to a roll up with

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an assist from Raquel using her legs
her feet to push Live forward for added

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momentum for the wind at a finish. We saw the usos use many times

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early in this Bloodline storyline. You'd
have one USO going for the pin in

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the ring, the referee wouldn't see
the other Russo on the apron using his

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legs to push his brother forward.
Same finish here. Sonya and Chelsea were

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not credible challengers. They won one
match on TV. They gave them a

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token win on Monday Night over me
Chin and her tag team partner, Candice's

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Candice. How sad right for Candice
Larey that she's been relegated to her tag

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team partner. It's a token win
for them on Monday just to try to

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give them some credibility that they did
not have going into this match their first

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title defense. They weren't losing the
titles in their first title defense. They're

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still waiting for Ronda Rousing and Shana
Basler to come back. Ronda has the

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broken forearm. We have no idea
when Ronda will be cleared to come back.

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She came back at WrestleMania because it
was WrestleMania and she didn't want to

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miss the show. She didn't do
anything, and now we have to wait

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until she's all healed. So we're
just kind of stuck in limbo with all

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of this now. As far as
the match itself, not much to speak

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of. People didn't really seem to
care about it, and the match was

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average at best. You know,
I gotta tell you this, Everything that

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they have done since Solemania, since
those two excellent matches that we got for

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the Women's Championships, and I'm not
talking to the tag titles, I'm talking

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to singles titles Rhea and Charlotte,
Bianca and Oscar, those matches were excellent.

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Everything they have done with the women
since WrestleMania has been just completely lame

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and dead and stupid, and the
matches have been average at best. I

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don't know what's going on. Clearly
creatively, there's no direction, but even

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the matches themselves just have not been
very good. So I don't know what's

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going on with this women's division right
now. This women's division feels like it

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is just it is in the fucking
dumps right now, all the more reason

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to get some new blood up in
this draft and give these women some direction,

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give them some focus, give them
some attention. Do something. You've

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got two women's championships, that's to
say nothing of the tag team titles.

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But you have two divisions. You've
cut them in half. You have a

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raw women's championship at a SmackDown women's
championship. Do something with them. Triple

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H. This is not something you
can just throw on Vince McMahon. This

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is on Triple H. He's been
at the job now for what probably eight

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or nine months. The women's division, if anything, is worse under Triple

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H than it was before he took
over. There's no excuse for them.

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And for the first time in his
career, Xavier Woods challenged for the Intercontinental

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Championship. That's the good news for
him. The bad news is that he

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had to challenge Gunther. Woods got
his initiation in this match with the Walter

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chops. He took him like a
champ. He took him to the chest,

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he took him to the back,
he took him to the neck.

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He held up okay. Gunther taunted
him. He said that he wasn't on

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his level, which fired up Woods. Woods drop the champion with a tilted

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world forearm shot. Woods then landed
a somersault splash he went up to the

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top rope. Gunther, though sent
him back down with a chop to the

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chest. Woods cut down Gunther with
a kick to the face and then hit

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a big diving top rope leg drop
for a close near fall that they got

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the crowd to buy into, which
is not an easy thing to do,

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because how many people honestly expected that
we were going to get a title change

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here a week before the draft,
after how many months that he's been championed,

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that Xavier Woods would go on a
random SmackDown and beat him for the

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Intercontinental Championship? Are you fucking kidding
me? Right? But they got the

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crowd to buy into this near fall. They were on their feet, they

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thought he had he was this close. They thought he had it, but

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Walter kicked out. Gunther recovered.
He put Woods in a sleeper hold,

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then he attempted a power bomb.
Woods countered out of it. Gunther kicked

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out of an O'Connor roll and immediately
went back to the sleeper, and this

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time there was no escape for Xavier
Woods. It will be a new day

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when he finally wakes up and still
you're Intercontinental champion. Good match here,

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and Gunther racks up another victim,
as if there was ever any doubt.

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But this was good stuff. This
was good stuff. And look, Xavier

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Woods. We don't get to see
him very often in singles matches. It

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just so happens right now that he
is a man on an island all by

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himself because his partners are in a
bad way. Biggie may never wrestle again.

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It's still possible he'll never wrestle again. We still don't have any clarity

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on whether or not he will be
back in the ring, and if so

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win It's been over a year.
Kofi Kingston I think basically broke his ankle,

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had surgery. He's going to be
out for a while, so he's

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all alone, right the new day
is down to one, so we're starting

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to see him in more singles matches, and you might forget how good he

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really is. You know, he's
very good, and I thought he played

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his role well. He was very
good here in this match. But under

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no circumstances should he have beaten Gunther
for the intercontinental title. I could,

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I could see him challenging for the
United States championship, but so long as

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Gunther is the Intercontinental champion, that
just is not gonna happen now. They

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replayed the Kevin Owens and Sammy Zan
win at WrestleMania. They got their big

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WrestleMania moment, won the Undisputed Tag
Team Championships from the USOS. So we

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had footage of that, and then
they plugged the WrestleMania rematch for television.

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Next week, it's going to be
Kevin Owens and Sammy's Ain against the USOS.

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That brought the USOS down to the
ring for a promo here before this

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main event with their brother. They
were focused on winning the titles back next

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week and they said that they're going
to become nine time tag team champions and

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they're going to dedicate their win to
the tribal Chief Roman Reigns and they put

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their fingers up in the air.
That brought out Solo Succo for his main

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event with Matt Riddle no disqualification.
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I do want to thank everybody who
has not only liked the video because

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I appreciate that, but I saw
Paul Hamilton give to ten channel memberships,

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so we have ten new members of
our SoundOff family because of Paul. Paul,

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you are with us. Thank you
very much, sir Paul, you

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are the man. It is much
appreciated and welcome to all of our new

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channel members. You'll be getting a
new episode, by the way, number

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four of a SoundOff Gamer in a
few days, and you guys, as

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usual, we'll get early access to
it, so keep an eye out for

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that. But we had our main
event, no dq Riddle jumped Solo from

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behind in the ring to kick things
off, and Soakoa quickly took over.

409
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He pulled kendo sticks and steal chairs
out from underneath the ring. I love

410
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:57.039
too like when he lifted up the
ring skirt, we got a little glimpse

411
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underneath the ring and you saw the
kendo sticks. They were all neatly lined

412
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.640
up. It's amazing of a company, you know. They're just like,

413
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:11.319
here you go, we have kendos. What do you need. It's like

414
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a fucking home depot under there.
We got chairs, we got tables,

415
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we got Kendo sticks, we got
ny tools, we got a toolbox.

416
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.960
What do you need? You need
a wrench, You need a screwdriver.

417
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.240
We used to have a screwdriver in
here. Brian Danielson took it so we

418
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.480
don't have one right now. But
you can have a wrench, We've got

419
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.039
a compass, We've got an alan
key. What do you need? So

420
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:37.480
he grabbed the kendo sticks and he
grabbed the chairs. He beat Riddled down

421
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with a kendo stick, and then
it was Riddle's turn to return the favor.

422
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.319
Riddled t's pulling out a table from
under the ring to a big pot,

423
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:51.119
but Solo cut him off easy heat
a lot of booze for that.

424
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:56.119
Riddle recovered. He hit a broton
off the ring steps that took us into

425
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.640
the final commercial break of the show. Coming out of the brakes to go

426
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.400
up Riddle in the corner with the
chair over his face. He went for

427
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the corner splash, but Riddle threw
the chair back in his face instead.

428
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Riddle followed with an exploder onto four
chairs that were positioned upright in the ring.

429
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Socoa rolled out to the floor and
Riddle tried to go after him,

430
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but Solo grabbed his leg and slammed
him on the apron. Solo tossed Riddle

431
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.880
over the announced desk and he tried
to flip it over on top of him

432
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like he did last week at the
end of the show. Instead, Riddle

433
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he was he had his back up
against the barricade, and he was using

434
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his feet to push off against the
table, stopping Solo from flipping the table

435
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.519
over onto him. Instead, it
was Riddle. A moment later, it

436
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:49.039
was Riddle who ended up overturning the
table on top of Solo Succo. He

437
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:54.039
buried him, literally buried him underneath
this table, at which point the USOS

438
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appeared. Of course, here come
the USOS and they attack a Riddle And

439
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:02.960
I was thinking, you know,
this match is notice qualification. There was

440
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.079
nothing stopping Jimmy and Jay from coming
out and interfering it will, but they

441
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.920
decided to wait. When when things
started to look bad for a baby brother,

442
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.799
that's when they decided to come out
and interfere in this match. Riddle

443
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.839
fought them off. He wiped them
both out on the floor with a floating

444
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:27.240
bro As that was happening on the
opposite side of the ring, Solo Sakoa

445
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emerged from underneath the announced desk like
like a movie villain. He popped up

446
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.000
in the ring. Riddle ducta Samo
and spike attempt hit the ropes, but

447
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.839
when he came off, Solo caught
him with a spike to the throat,

448
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:49.519
which Michael Cole first said was a
clothesline, then he wondered, well,

449
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:52.440
maybe it was the spike. Yes, it was the spike. Solo Sakoa

450
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:57.160
did not win this match with a
clothesline. He won with the Samoa spike.

451
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After the match was over, the
USO's Riddle of One and done through

452
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a table in the ring to close
out the show, as the announcers wondered

453
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.599
if we were going to have new
tag team champions next Friday night, they

454
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:14.639
were a little heavy handed with this
to the point where now I'm thinking,

455
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okay, they were. They were
pushing it so hard and the bloodline was

456
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:21.639
standing tall at the end of the
show to where now I'm thinking, Okay,

457
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.559
We're not going to get a title
change next week. But honestly,

458
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:28.239
I still feel like their run is
going to be cut short, shorter than

459
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:31.000
people like. And if it isn't
next week, I still think it probably

460
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.880
will happen before the Saudi Show at
the end of next month, but it

461
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.760
could very well happen next week.
It's a draft show. Anything is possible.

462
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:45.440
And that was SmackDown right some good
wrestling. The Walter match the main

463
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.280
event was pretty good, so there
was there was some good wrestling on the

464
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:53.119
show, but there just wasn't enough
meat on the bone. I mean compared

465
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.960
to a lot of the other SmackDown
shows that we have been used to watching,

466
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.639
where we said Smackdowns the A show. Well, if SmackDown is the

467
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:02.440
A show, then we're in trouble
right now because the A show the last

468
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.880
few weeks has not been all that
interesting, and tonight it was just a

469
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.039
very overall it was a very dull
show. But it was a lame duck

470
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:15.719
show because in a week they're going
to shake up the rosters. We don't

471
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.159
know what that is going to me
and we don't know what that is going

472
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:21.719
to look like. Triple H said, we are truly going to change the

473
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.760
game. We still have no indication
what that means. If a couple of

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big names go from Raw to SmackDown
or SmackDown to raw. Who cares?

475
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:37.000
That happens in every draft. What
is it about this draft that's going to

476
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.440
change the game. We haven't been
told. We do know that NXT talent

477
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.239
will be eligible for the draft.
We could have main roster talent that gets

478
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.800
drafted to NXT, right that would
be a surprise. It wouldn't be the

479
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.000
first time we've had main roster talent
go to NXT. Delve Ziggler's done it,

480
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.960
Bobby Rud's popped up in NXT.
The New Day gotta run down there

481
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:04.719
as tag team champion. Apollo Cruises
still down there in NXT. T Bar

482
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.679
went back to NXT. Is dy
Jack even that? I mean, that

483
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:13.360
wouldn't be groundbreaking if that were to
happen, but it's safe to say that

484
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.039
the reason they were we did not
get any new NXT call ups coming out

485
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:20.960
of WrestleMania was because the draft was
coming up and they wanted to save those

486
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.960
surprises for the draft. Somebody like
Cameron Grimes, who's been stuck in purgatory

487
00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:29.559
now for how many months? When
was the last time we saw Cameron Grimes

488
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:34.000
on NXT television. It feels like
it's been almost a year at this point.

489
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.719
There were rumors of him being revealed
as Uncle Howdy. We don't even

490
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:42.719
know when, when or if Bray
White'll ever be back. We have no

491
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.719
idea what's going on in that situation. When, when, and if that

492
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:51.400
ever does happen, it'll be bog
Dallas as Uncle Howdy. Cameron Grimes could

493
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.679
do his own thing get him up
there. You got some tag teams down

494
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.800
there, you got a pretty deadly
You've got at least a couple of ladies

495
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.400
you could easily call up. You've
got a great women's tag team in Caden

496
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.639
Carter and Katana Chance. You've got
bron Breaker. I don't know if they're

497
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:09.159
gonna call him up in the draft
or wait a little bit longer, but

498
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:15.679
he certainly he doesn't have a whole
on going on himself. He literally said,

499
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:19.079
I don't want the NXT Championship again
because that thing was a curse on

500
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:23.199
me, and he gave away a
potential spot in an NXT Championship match.

501
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:27.559
So now he's got a match coming
up. It's spring Breaking next week.

502
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:32.280
They're big spring Break episode. I
guess Andre Chase, who has built up

503
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.360
a little bit of a fan following, but he is a mid carter at

504
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:39.840
best on that show. That's what
they have bron Breaker doing. Bron Breakers

505
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:44.199
should get called up as well.
Grayson Waller is another one. He's challenging

506
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:47.880
for the NXT Championship next week.
He ain't gonna win. Get him on

507
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:53.159
up. Let's get some new faces
on up. Really really freshen things up

508
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:57.079
on these rosters, but at the
end of the day, it comes down

509
00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:59.840
to the booking. You can call
up everybody in the world. You can

510
00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:04.119
call all up the entire NXT roster
if you want to. It won't matter

511
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:08.119
if you don't have a plan for
them. It won't matter if you don't

512
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:13.760
have something for them to do.
And it reminds me of the Triple H

513
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:16.440
quote from a few years ago when
he was talking about when he was still

514
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:22.320
actively running NXT and he said,
we don't want to call people up unless

515
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:28.960
we have a six month plan for
them. Six months. I agree with

516
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.719
that. By the way, if
you're going to call somebody up, you

517
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.840
should have at least a six month
plan for what you want to do with

518
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.320
them when they get called up to
the main roster. Triple H said this

519
00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:42.400
at a time when he wasn't running
Creative. He said this at a time

520
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.800
when Vince McMahon was still officially the
head of Creative. Well, this is

521
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.639
Triple H's first draft, and if
he's going to call people up, I

522
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.360
certainly hope he sticks to his own
words and he remembers what he said and

523
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:59.199
has a six month plan for the
people that he calls them, because it's

524
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.440
usually around this time of year we
get spring cleaning cuts. They haven't happened

525
00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.519
yet. April fifteenth came and went. Nobody got cut. I hope nobody

526
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:13.400
gets cut. I don't want to
see anybody lose their job, but it's

527
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.480
always possible it could still happen.
Hopefully they have a plan for these people.

528
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:22.079
If not, people that are just
kind of floating around aimlessly. Unless

529
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.719
you're a big star like Seth Rollins, they're not gonna let go of him.

530
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:31.079
Who was anybody else? I'd be
worried. That's the SmackDown review for

531
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:38.000
tonight. Here's the poll thirties all
across the board. Look at that thirty

532
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:43.039
percent thumbs up, thirty six percent
thumbs in the middle, and thirty three

533
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:47.639
percent of you have given this show
tonight eight thumbs down. So the thumbs

534
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:53.039
up votes are in the minority.
Right now, there's more thumbs down and

535
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.719
thumbs in the middle than there are
thumbs up with over seven hundred votes in

536
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:05.079
so far. So at solom Monster
on Twitter, go ahead and vote in

537
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:10.360
the poll. Thirties across the board
is never a good thing. So I

538
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:17.679
am clearly not alone in my thoughts
about this. SmackDown show tonight. So

539
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:22.800
let's take a look at your super
chats here. We're gonna we're gonna get

540
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:24.320
on through this easy. Man.
I'm telling you, this show, this

541
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:30.840
show, this television show is fucking
dead right now, even just like the

542
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.119
people who you know, the numbers, as far as the live streams and

543
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.440
stuff. Man, it's like WrestleMania
happened and then Cody lost, and it's

544
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:46.280
like, fuck man, nobody nobody
seems to give a shit. Hopefully the

545
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:52.119
draft will change that. Hopefully the
draft will change We have talked about the

546
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.079
draft and what it means and what
it doesn't mean. I certainly hope that

547
00:40:54.119 --> 00:41:00.840
it means something to something because they
gotta get something going. Let's start with

548
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:05.840
Jacquie. Jacquie Fowler is surprised The
Dark Side of the Ring has not done

549
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:13.480
an episode on hawk Who yet,
given some of the stories involving Dark Side

550
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:20.840
of the Ring, he focuses on
people who fell on hard times, have

551
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:29.280
either dealt with tragedy caused tragedy in
some way. There's nothing dark about hawk

552
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.199
Who's life. He's a very scary
man. He still is, and there's

553
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:36.400
a lot of stories out there about
him. But I don't think he's necessarily

554
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:39.639
a candidate for Dark Side of the
Ring. It's not usually what these episodes

555
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:45.000
are focused. Jay Glow with the
four ninety nine Solo Sukoa is boring and

556
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:51.639
saying he is a poor man's Umaga
is being kind, Yet he gets the

557
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:57.239
massive push because of who he is
related to. Well, he is getting

558
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:04.880
a push at this because he is
a USO. That's true. There's no

559
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:10.239
live him. Being added to the
bloodline put him in a very posh position

560
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:15.559
from the moment he debuted. He
debuted in the main event of the Cardiff

561
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.079
Show in front of sixty seven one
thousand people. All Right, there's nobody

562
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:23.599
else from NXT who's gotten that kind
of call up. So yeah, I

563
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:28.360
mean you don't like Solo. I
think Solo has done well, but has

564
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:34.400
he benefited from being part of that
family. There isn't anybody in the world

565
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.880
that is going to tell you otherwise
if they do their Lion Team. That's

566
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:42.039
why he's being pushed in main events
every single week because he is part of

567
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:47.159
the bloodline. That's it's the only
reason. If somebody asked if I'm going

568
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.960
to talk, if I'm going to
review Rampage. No Rampage for those who

569
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.280
want to watch, it is airing
tomorrow night. Rampage is not on tonight,

570
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:01.760
but no, I will not be
reviewing the Fluff Salisbury Good Evening solo.

571
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.719
What is your favorite match from any
pay per view that you attended?

572
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:12.599
For me, it is HBK.
Flair at WrestleMania twenty four. I've had

573
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.599
the great fortune of seeing a lot
of great matches. You know, Daniel

574
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:21.719
Bryan's both of his matches at WrestleMania
thirty word Fantastic Undertaker and Cmpunk. You

575
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:27.800
know, WrestleMania twenty nine. Yeah, wrestle Media thirty one we had,

576
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.039
we had Brock and Roman and then
the big Money in the Bank Cash And

577
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:35.400
I'm just thinking of the WrestleManias that
I've been too. Kurt and Ronda against

578
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.960
Triple H and Stephanie was a lot
of fun to be there live for Brian

579
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:44.559
and Kofi at Wrestlemdia thirty five.
If we're talking just you know, in

580
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.000
terms of just best pure pro wrestling
match, it probably was one of the

581
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.480
matches I saw on the Ring of
Honor shows that I went to. It

582
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.480
was probably something from the I want
to say it was Glory by Honor five

583
00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.199
Night two, two thousand and seven. Maybe if I have the year,

584
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:06.480
brit, I want to say maybe
two thousand and seven there was a match

585
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:10.519
between Kenta and Brian Daniels. If
that isn't if that isn't the best,

586
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:14.400
it's certainly up there is one of
the best matches I've ever seen. Love.

587
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.119
So I can't tell you right now
exactly what the number one matches because

588
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:21.679
I've seen so many great ones.
But if you've never seen that one,

589
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:23.960
try to track that down. They
probably have it on Honor Club. I

590
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:28.000
imagine they have all those old Ring
of Honor shows on Honor clubs. So

591
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.239
if you're an Honor Club member right
now, you're paying for the service.

592
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:36.119
Look that show up. Glorie by
Night five or Glory by Honor. I

593
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:40.719
think it was Part five, Night
two, and there was a GHC title

594
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:46.400
match on that show at Nigel McGinnis. Oh gosh, I forgot who it

595
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:52.480
was against, but that was also
a great match as well. Josiah,

596
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.760
thank you for the super chat.
I appreciate it. Brandon McNeil with the

597
00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.719
nine ninety nine sending tons of love
to everybody watching this video in the present

598
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:05.719
and the future. Each of you
were beautifully unique and each of you matter

599
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.480
in this world. Thanks for all
that you do, solom Monster. That

600
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:15.280
was a very inspirational message. I
appreciate that, and Brandon, I hope

601
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:21.559
you were having a wonderful night the
champ with the nineteen ninety nine This kind

602
00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:25.519
of this is kind of why I
don't like the draft after WrestleMania, unless

603
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.199
they are going to pause everything for
a few weeks, it is always slow

604
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.480
or doesn't make sense leading up to
a draft. That's the problem that you

605
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.039
have with the draft, regardless,
it doesn't matter whether it's after WrestleMania or

606
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.920
if it's the time they were doing
it in the fall. There's always this

607
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:47.239
period beforehand, this lame duck,
dull dead zell where they don't want to

608
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:52.239
make any big moves, they don't
want to start any major angles if they're

609
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.880
just going to go and shake up
the rostals. So the fact that they're

610
00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:00.679
doing it a few weeks after WrestleMania
or a month after wrestle Media, I

611
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.360
still think if you're going to do
a draft, this is the right time

612
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:06.320
of year to be doing it.
Although I would have done it a few

613
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.519
weeks ago. I wouldn't have even
waited this long. Two weeks after wrestle

614
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:13.880
Madia. That's when I would do
a draft. If I was doing it

615
00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:19.199
would be two weeks after wrestling.
They chose to do it a month later,

616
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.639
do it over the course of two
nights, which is what they've been

617
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.320
doing in recent years. But it
doesn't matter regardless of what time of year

618
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:31.039
it is, you're always going to
have this dead period. Rob g was

619
00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:37.039
the king mad At Jr. When
he returned in November of two thousand and

620
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:45.400
one. Why would he be mad
now? The reason for him to be

621
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:50.679
men? I think they were very
happy to be working together again. Rodams

622
00:46:50.719 --> 00:47:00.840
Prime Rollins against Omas at Backlash.
WTF you and me both, James Cooper.

623
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:04.119
I know it's not an aw stream, but what do you see as

624
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:08.840
the ceiling for to Kesh's exciting has
charisma, incredible in the ring, and

625
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:15.079
very over. I think the guy's
the limit for him. I look at

626
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:17.639
him and I hate to even make
this comparison because I feel like it's unfair,

627
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:24.000
but he could be He could eventually
be still very young, but he

628
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:29.199
could eventually be what Okada turned me
too. You know, he could be

629
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.519
that guy. I think as he
gets to show off more of his personality,

630
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.079
just as far as, like you
know, is a certain charisma about

631
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.079
him. I was saying, he's
the rock. Everybody has their own unique

632
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:44.280
type of charisma. You can bring
more of that out of him in the

633
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:45.960
ring. We already know what he
can do. And think about this.

634
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.159
As great as he is now,
he's still very young. I mean,

635
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.239
he's not super young. He's been
doing this for a while, but he's

636
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.920
not you know, he's still a
young guy. He could get even better.

637
00:47:57.599 --> 00:47:59.920
And just think of all the names
that he hasn't even worked with you

638
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.440
yet, that he can work with. He could be a major player.

639
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:09.119
So I think the sky's the limit
for its attention Bobby's world with the twenty

640
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:15.239
dollars super chat we have as a
fellow Mets fan, although I don't watch

641
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:19.800
because every time I do for a
season, they lose. How do you

642
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.159
feel about the pitch clock? Personally? I don't think the game needs to

643
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:29.360
be sped up, as baseball is
a game of anticipation. I don't mind

644
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.599
it. I think that there were
a lot of games that you know,

645
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:35.280
went on for too long, and
if it helps speed the game up a

646
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:39.119
little bit, then I think that's
a positive thing. So I don't hate

647
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:45.760
it the way that I know some
people don't. It doesn't really bother the

648
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:51.800
Mount Vernon kid Christopher Bennett. I
find it fun Garry and Cross is taking

649
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:55.599
credit for Ray beating his son.
I said, it's an interesting approach that

650
00:48:55.639 --> 00:49:05.039
they're taking. We've got the Van
Vernon kid again. Answer me this.

651
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.880
I can't be the only one that
is getting tired of the constant losing with

652
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:14.920
Ray and the lwo which just makes
them feel like losers. If it's leading

653
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:21.000
to Escobar turning heel on Ray and
in the end it won't matter. If

654
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:24.840
the losing is leading to something and
potentially leading to a feud between the two

655
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:29.400
of them, then I'm okay with
that. But I agree with you.

656
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.360
If they're just going to continue to
lose, Ray can lose because Raisin may

657
00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:37.760
have gone right. He's a hall
of famer. Escobar is not, and

658
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:43.079
you don't build a hall of fame
resume by being a loser. People like

659
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.159
to think O wins and losses don't
matter. I've heard I've heard people who

660
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:47.920
work in the company. I think
rodug oh wins and losses don't matter,

661
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:53.480
and I just don't. I don't
agree with that, and I think,

662
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:58.199
frankly, that's a lazy, fucking
excuse for people who just think, well,

663
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:00.400
you know, this is the way
that we book and this is the

664
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:04.360
way that we do things, and
everything we do is right and we know

665
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.719
what we're doing and everybody else is
wrong. Now, look, you can

666
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:13.760
book your product in a way to
make wins and losses meaningful. I mean,

667
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:16.960
it's all a work. But you
get a ring, you ring the

668
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.920
bell, you got a referee in
there. One person wins, one person

669
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.800
loses. Yeah, I'd say wins
and losses fucking matter. And if Escobar

670
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:30.599
just continues to lose with after being
any sort of payoff to it or a

671
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:34.159
reason for it, then people are
going to hear his music when he comes

672
00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:38.760
out and they're going to say,
oh, here comes Dob Zigler or here

673
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:45.159
comes you know, it inserts someone
else who is typically used these days as

674
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.679
a punching bag. You know,
you can fill in the blank, put

675
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.159
anybody in there you want to.
That's not how Escobar should be used.

676
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:57.800
Escobar is very talented. Escobar,
I think, deserves a chance to be

677
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.400
pushed. He's doing the eld u
thing right now, he's being associated with

678
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:07.559
Ray that's a plus, get some
television time. Losing all the time will

679
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:09.039
not do him any good unless there's
some kind of payoff to it. A

680
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:16.519
few Dom Joseph, what was Pullie
thinking putting mass Transit against new Jack?

681
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:23.960
It was a recipe or his ass. They were not thinking, I think

682
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:28.440
is the easy way of answering.
They weren't thinking, They weren't using their

683
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:36.239
head. He Sean Johnson with a
ninety nine. Would you be willing to

684
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:43.760
do something like tales from the Territories
and which area to territories draw the most

685
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:46.239
money at which promoters other than Vince
had a big impact on wrestling that we

686
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:52.320
see too? M No. I
mean, look, I've talked about stuff

687
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.800
like that on the podcast that periodically. As far as doing a segment on

688
00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:59.559
it, probably not, I don't
think so. I don't. I don't.

689
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.599
I mean, that would be a
lot of work for a segment that

690
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.719
I'm not really sure what the level
of interest would be in just doing a

691
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:10.199
segment on that, But I,
you know, talk about some of the

692
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:15.400
other territories and promoters, and I
did a lot of that one I covered

693
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:17.719
tales in the territories. You know, I did reviews on every single one

694
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:21.159
of those episodes, and we have
Dark Side of the Ring coming up,

695
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:24.280
and sometimes in those stories, you
know, in those episodes we talk about

696
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:29.559
other territories. I've done this Week
in History. We did that for a

697
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:34.519
year. We brought that back,
so it's it's been covered before. Luther

698
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:39.719
Angel with the five dollars super chats. Hypothetically, speaking of WWE could sign

699
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:45.119
anybody at all, is there anyone
you could think of who would beat Roman

700
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:52.679
instead of Cody? I say,
John Musk. So you're saying, is

701
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:57.840
there anybody that if WWE could sign
them to a contract, that they would

702
00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:05.880
put them over Roman? No?
I think, you know Cody. I

703
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:10.400
think Cody'll end up being the guy. And Cody did helped start AW and

704
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:15.440
all that, But he also came
from WWE, so I think Vince McMahon

705
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:20.280
saw him as a WWE guy.
That's why you know they gave him the

706
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:22.440
big push when he came in.
If he was purely an AW guy,

707
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:25.079
I don't think his push would have
been as strong as it was when he

708
00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:29.360
first came back. But I think
they looked at him as somebody who left

709
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:36.159
made himself a name and came right
back Drew McIntire, same thing. They

710
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:38.719
fired him, he left, became
a bigger star, and they brought him

711
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:45.159
back. If Kenny Omega suddenly became
available and they signed him, They're not

712
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:49.320
gonna bring in Kenny Omega who's never
worked on the w w E main roster

713
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.119
before. He's an AW guy,
right, he was a new Japan guy.

714
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:55.639
He's an AW guy and put him
over Roman reigns. I don't.

715
00:53:55.679 --> 00:54:00.239
I don't see that happened. So
I don't think realistically that they would bring

716
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:04.480
any anybody in and put them over
Roman Rings. They would want it to

717
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:08.800
be a WWE guy. If they
could get somebody like Jericho back or Moxley

718
00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:13.360
who used to be in WWE,
I still don't think that they would have

719
00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:16.760
them beat Roman rings, nor should
they. Moxley should not be beating Roman

720
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:22.360
rains PRIs, Jericho should not be
beating Roman Rings. So no, I

721
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:28.239
guess to answer your question, the
answer is now. Keyshawn says, how

722
00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:32.239
different would WWE be if Jerry Jarrett
took over? And do you think that

723
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:37.360
that would have played a role during
the Monday Night Wars. Yeah, it

724
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.039
would have been different. How different
is impossible to know. I don't know

725
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:44.599
what a Jerry Jarrett book WWE would
have looked like, but his track record

726
00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:46.559
of success as a promoter speaks for
itself. I think he would have done

727
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:52.079
well. How it would have affected
the Monday Night Wars against WCW, It's

728
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:58.719
impossible today. I have no idea
how he would have utilized a w W

729
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.679
A roster. But if I were
a betting person, do I think would

730
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:06.920
he have succeeded or would he have
failed? I think he would have succeeded.

731
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:08.760
I think he would have done well
because he had a track record of

732
00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:14.840
doing well elsewhere and I think he
could have done that in WWE. But

733
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:22.480
we'll never know. And Lakers pats
Seth makes it rain with drift all him

734
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:28.719
the rain made. Seth's not making
it rain doing anything these days, the

735
00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:31.719
way that he's being booked. Now, he's got he's got to go in

736
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:35.960
there and be a miracle worker with
Omas at back. Lad, I'm telling

737
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:40.119
you, I'm hoping that this is
all just a draftswork. They just pulled

738
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:44.599
this out of their ass, out
of nowhere, and then the draft is

739
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:49.039
going to happen and one or both
of them. I could see Seth going

740
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.840
to smack them, but then Becky
would have to go too. But somebody

741
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:58.159
moves and because of that, the
match doesn't happen. I can't wait to

742
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:04.559
hear the explanation on Raw Monday night
for how this match came about. I

743
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:07.639
cannot wait to find out what their
explanation for this is going to be.

744
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:15.000
This is going to be very entertaining
to see how they explained this one Falcon

745
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:24.159
arrow on Omas, says Brock Benningfield. Oh man, anyway, thank you

746
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:29.679
guys. Kind of a quick SmackDown
Street toon again. Not much really on

747
00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:32.360
this show to talk about, but
you got over an hour of sound of

748
00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:37.039
Game or episode number three. It
went up for everybody earlier today. For

749
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:40.719
those of you enjoying the Gamer content, please leave a comment on that video

750
00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:45.920
and give that video alike as well. Episode three is up right now.

751
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:51.119
Episode four is going to be going
up next week. Channel members will get

752
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:54.199
it first, and we have over
a dozen new members of our family.

753
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:59.760
Thank you to all of our new
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754
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people. When the next episode goes
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755
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:08.079
first. As always, we did
not hit our goal for be the Booker

756
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:13.760
tonight. Unfortunately, so there will
be no Be the Booker. But hopefully

757
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:15.639
you guys will be able to hit
the goal on Monday, because that's when

758
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:20.440
we'll be live again after Monday Night
Raw, the final raw before the Draft,

759
00:57:20.519 --> 00:57:23.800
which does not begin until next Friday. So get ready for another three

760
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:28.840
hour lame duck show on Monday night. I can't wait for this. Rallins

761
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:34.400
and Oma's explanation. Enjoy yourselves this
weekend. Episode eight o five of the

762
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.039
podcast will drop on Sunday. Until
then, be well, stay safe,

763
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:40.719
enjoy the weekend, guys. I'll
see for eight o five on Sunday and

764
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:44.000
Raw live on Monday Night. Until
then, take care,