WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:12.080 Welcome to the NXT Podcast, your home for weekly n XT reviews and insights. 2 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:17.679 A beautiful part of NXT is that when one dream ends, another dream 3 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.760 begins. Find all of your NXT news recaps and analysis right here. So 4 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:34.240 with that being said, we only have one question for you, we thought, 5 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:41.840 so let's get the show started right now. All right, this is 6 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:47.039 Memphis Mark coming to you from mullet Manor on five twenty eight. We're gonna 7 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:52.840 do a little NXT Battleground review here. And uh, you know that's a 8 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.119 ww's had some good pay per views the last couple of days, you know, 9 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.439 Saturday and Saudi Arabia was pretty good. Uh, and uh with nightA 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:07.480 Champions and then uh the triple threat match that starts out Battleground with Wes Lee, 11 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:14.599 Tyler Bait and Joe Gaze of a Schism and and he's with Ava of 12 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.480 course, and this is a pretty good match. West Lee comes out, 13 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.640 you know, all fired up. You got Taylor Bait, a big strong 14 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:26.040 boy. Uh. He comes out already starting our kind of planning seeds from 15 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:32.599 the start. He suggests to West that they both take out gays and then 16 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:38.560 he doesn't help and and Gayze is trying to uh you know, get them 17 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.000 to Wes and Tyler to go at it. So uh you know, I'm 18 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.760 kind of a bit of an old school there from Gaycy. Of course, 19 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.799 they all turn on him and uh, you know it's uh it's pretty good. 20 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.959 And then you got Wesley and Tyler bait really kind of going at it. 21 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.239 Moved from move up really good, really good. I mean, I 22 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:00.079 cannot say, uh anything bad about this match. Good match. They that 23 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:06.519 cardiac kick that west Lee does is prominent. I mean, uh, but 24 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.800 there was some good moments in here that I kind of like to watch. 25 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.319 There was a one point in time I believe it was, uh, west 26 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:20.520 It's got a sleeper on Joe Gacy excuse him, and uh and it's the 27 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.120 way the meltdown that the guy that is receiving the sleeper I like to watch. 28 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.759 Does he sell that move? Uh you know, and and Gacy does 29 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:35.520 he does really good in any kind of melts down a little bit. Of 30 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.919 course, there's some other big moves, uh. I mean, just a 31 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.800 good match. And to start off the show, I mean pretty strong. 32 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:47.680 Uh Westley is gonna end up winning this with a with a his cardiac kick, 33 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:52.960 but he does a double one earlier in the match too really good. 34 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:58.599 So uh yeah, a big kick to gaycy uh and and Wesley's gonna win 35 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:02.520 this thing and it's the most titled defenses for this belt. I believe I 36 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:07.719 heard him say, so, hey, I enjoyed this match. I uh, 37 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.919 you know, I expected very little and got quite a bit, so 38 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:16.520 um, you know, I recommend the match. And today, or with 39 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:22.599 this event, they were doing a lot of normally I say promos and it's 40 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:28.680 just a couple of people or whoever individuals doing just a quick little upcoming show 41 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:36.080 promo. Well, these they did tonight were more like video stories or captions 42 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.280 or or something like that. And the first run they did was they did 43 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:44.199 like a couple in there and they're like two and three minutes or maybe maybe 44 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.680 not quite that long, but close to it. But they did. The 45 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:53.000 first little run of promos they did was with Roxanne Perez and then of course 46 00:03:53.000 --> 00:04:00.639 showing her journey to the top. I guess you would say for the Prodigy, 47 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:05.039 and then yet Tonty d and you even had Tiffany Stratton and they even 48 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:12.159 had Braun coming into the arena with his new look. That's right, Broun 49 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.480 has a Beard, so Broun Baker Beard, Hey, there's some hair care 50 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:18.959 product stuff for a sale there, you know, I'm sure, but yeah, 51 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:26.160 they go from that and for the first time ever on American soil, 52 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:31.240 they're gonna do a Heritage Cup match for the Heritage Cup. So of course 53 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.839 it gives them a couple of minutes of fill time to just explain the rules. 54 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.879 And it's you know, it's per match or per round and there's a 55 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.720 rest break and I think a DQ causes a match to totally end. So 56 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.519 I mean, it has its rules, and I'm sure everyone here has heard 57 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:54.240 them quite a bit of the last few weeks leading up to this. But 58 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:00.160 you you got dragon ly with Nathan Frasier in his corner, coming out out 59 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.439 with Noam Dar and uh Man. The first round was just like everyone was 60 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.279 getting wrist locks. Everybody get a risk lock, you get a risk lock, 61 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.639 you gets rist like she gets risk lock. Uh So, kind of 62 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.519 a kind of an odd first round. Uh And then Dar ends up doing 63 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.560 a slick little move that almost got him disqualified at the end of the of 64 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:28.680 the round and he uh well, actually that was the that was the fourth 65 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.399 round, I believe it was anyway, either way it goes. The style 66 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.639 of this match, Okay, I can see them. You know, it's 67 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:41.800 a gimmick type of thing that they're bringing in, and the other wrestlers always 68 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:46.600 not really up on the rules, you know, so that gives the advantage 69 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.519 to the championship. But this match was pretty good. UH can't say, 70 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:56.399 you know, Dragon Lee just seemed like they grounded him. Uh. He 71 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:01.480 didn't have as many of his fantastic great moves that he does. But you 72 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:06.519 know, uh darwins the second, Dragon Lee wins the fourth. Uh. 73 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.720 Then of course, when it looks like Dragon Lee is maybe gonna pull it 74 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.480 off, you've got to have a little contact bassy Uh, and that's what 75 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:20.680 happens. You have. Sorry, Miss Jackson, I am full. I'm 76 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.319 sorry. That is terrible. Anyway, he had Miss Jackson running and she 77 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:35.120 distracts the referee while lash legend uh picks up a spitbucket and uh quietly hits 78 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:42.279 Dragon Lee in the back, which is going to result in uh Dar winning. 79 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:47.079 Um, you know, winning the match. Uh, the match was 80 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.720 actually pretty good. The ending. You know, it's it's something different. 81 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:59.680 Hey, it's something freaking different. Give me something different every day of the 82 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.879 week. At least try. Uh. And they go from that and they've 83 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.560 got uh, they do some more promos. What they do they do somebody 84 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.160 I don't even remember because I didn't write him down because they weren't that important, 85 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:17.160 But they did do one on Gunter of that ring Jennarrero, and uh, 86 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.279 it was pretty good. They got to work on Gunter's stare. He 87 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.600 needs a polite stare. You know, he's just got the stare that says 88 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.879 you got my order wrong. Then he has the stare of you know, 89 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.759 this hem line is wrong, and uh, you know, just stares like 90 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.000 that. But he needs to get a happy, mean stare there. But 91 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:42.600 anyway, they do that and they go into straight into a last man standing 92 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.720 match against a dragging Off, drugging Off and D Jack and uh, you 93 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.920 know, dragging Off comes out. He's got the red contacts in so he's 94 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:58.920 he's singing red and uh, you had Djack, which walks up to it 95 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.959 looks like a random per in the crowd, but announcer lets us know that 96 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.920 it's uh, it's Jack's wife and kid. But he's like to take her 97 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.240 room. She does not need to see this. And I wanted him to 98 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:18.160 go and I'm cookie Monster. But anyway, here they they did pretty good. 99 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.639 They did a great match. I have to say it, well, 100 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.399 a very good match. Uh. They beat the crap out of each other. 101 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.279 I mean literally figurely dragging off at the end of this thing looks like 102 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:35.279 he's been through a war. Uh and and and it's look, I have 103 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.480 to recommend this match go back and see. I'm not gonna say it's a 104 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.840 five star. I'm not gonna say it's a four star, but I'm gonna 105 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.559 say it's one hell of a three star. And uh man, look, 106 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.720 uh they do a few things I hadn't seen. I may have seen it, 107 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.639 but I didn't. Don't remember it, but it was one of them. 108 00:08:54.759 --> 00:09:01.360 Um um. Dai Jack is pulling the table from under the ring and 109 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.639 he just stands it up on its end like he's getting ready to slided under 110 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:09.120 the bottom rope and out of nowhere, turn it off and slams through it 111 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:16.799 and bust the table throws Daijack back. But at that time Djack goes down 112 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:18.759 and they put the camera on him, and then they go quickly over to 113 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.200 drag it off. And when they go over to drag it off, he 114 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.559 has busted his chin, so there's it looks like he's busted his mouth, 115 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.600 but later on I found out it was his chin. But they take the 116 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.759 camera off him and they have the doctor come over and clean him up real 117 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.600 quick, and I'm sure they put some no clot on him and that kept 118 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:45.639 most of the time keep the blood from coming out. But you know, 119 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.600 he comes back in and he's all clean, and you're wondering, you know 120 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.480 how much that took out of him. Well, I'll tell you how much 121 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:58.480 it took out of him. The sucker goes and pulls a Shane McMahon. 122 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.240 Not would say that name in wrestling terms very much other than business wise, 123 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.440 but there they split the stairs up and the bottoms outside the tops inside, 124 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:16.120 and he puts the stairs with Dai Jack. They're going back and forth, 125 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.080 he dragging off, gets better of him, puts him in the corner. 126 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.799 He's seated in the corner. He puts the stairs right next to him, 127 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.960 and of course climbs the opposite turnbuckle on that side and jumps off and does 128 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.600 a Shane McMahon and uh, he looked pretty good. Hey, uh, 129 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.639 you know, big chops. They had the crowd holler and nx T you 130 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:43.919 know, I mean it was really good. Uh Djack has just got to 131 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.679 get better with his own camera. He just he's not stiff, but he 132 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:56.000 looks stiff. His body is not stiff. It's his voicing, his reactions 133 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:01.799 or stiff. I don't know. But he brings a kendo stick in and 134 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.519 uh, dragging off is it like on the middle rope but on the turnbuckle, 135 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:13.080 you know, like he's exhausted and died. Jack just comes from like 136 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:20.320 left field and hits him about three times with that kendo stick and uh, 137 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.159 and dragging Off sells it. He sells it good man. It just they 138 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.879 end up with a big stair down. There's a chair, you know, 139 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:35.360 a die. Jack put the stairs in the ring. Then he brings the 140 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.519 table out and gets the worst into that. Then he brings a chair out 141 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.399 and he's gonna end up getting the worst of it because it comes down to 142 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.000 h he gets the chairs on the ground. It ends up being like a 143 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.120 DDT on the chair. By the reaction. You just have to go back 144 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.399 and watch this match. It's worth your time going back and watch this. 145 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:00.879 Watch this. It's a good match. A lot of pain and dragging Off 146 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:05.919 looks the worse for wear in this match, so man, that was to 147 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.360 push that one on over. And then they go back and they do a 148 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.840 couple more of these little promos and one of them is of Cora Jade. 149 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.879 They do a good one on her. But then they do a live thing 150 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:26.240 with Chase you and he's graded and put everybody's scores in and everybody passed, 151 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.399 and he's bringing in some guest speakers, which happened to be to my not 152 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:37.559 surprise and go liking Dempsey. So they come in and they're going to explain 153 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.559 how to do it to the class. So they pick one person out of 154 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.399 the crowd to kind of use them for an example, and we all know 155 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.480 who that's going to be. That's gonna be there, so yeah, they 156 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.320 use her for an example. She gets mad, runs out, Duke tells 157 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.360 them bad bad boy. So we're setting up something on down the road for 158 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.320 that. And then they have apparently now noam Dar has a posse, has 159 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.679 a crew, has a click because he's got mensa, he's got to miss 160 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.440 Jackson and he's got to lash Legend and they're all happy, happy, happy 161 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:20.840 that he won the match, so uh yeah, and then of course they 162 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.360 have to mention the next big premium evench which is going to be the Great 163 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:30.000 American Bash. And then after that, you know, they bring out the 164 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:35.960 Creed Brothers and Gallus for a tag title match, and of course the Creed 165 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:41.720 Brothers have got Ivy Nile with them and Joe Coffee, which is Booker T 166 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.360 said was good to the last drop. But yeah, this was a good 167 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:52.320 match. Julius looks good, Brutus keeps getting a little bit better. Just 168 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.480 I mean, excuse me, Julius look good, Brutus keeps getting a little 169 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.759 bit better. But Brutus just can't sell. I don't know if it's because 170 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:05.399 he's so freaking tough. I mean, he actually went undefeated in Division one 171 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.240 wrestling his college his last year, so I mean that is, you know, 172 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:16.519 like freaking unheard of. So he is a legit bad to them, 173 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.399 and so and this match is good. You know, the match is going 174 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.399 back and forth for a while. You know, the first turn of the 175 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.440 matches when Wolfgang gets Brutus enthrows him across the top rope and and you know, 176 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.320 we got a few moves and then at one point in time, Julius 177 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:37.039 is getting beat on and he does an offensive barrage. He does his best 178 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.679 scott Steiner, he does his best brock Lesner. He just starts sue plexing 179 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.919 everybody. I was afraid he might take a vendor out or something. I 180 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:52.759 mean, he is going at it. Joe goes, Joe Coffee goes to 181 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:58.279 get involved, Ivy trips him. A lot of things, moving parts going 182 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.440 on there. The match, it's pretty good. But this is what got 183 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:07.519 me. The match is going good. Ivy just pulls a great move and 184 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.159 looks like, you know, the Julius and Brutus have got a chance here. 185 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:18.679 Then Ava she comes out and does a terrible pushing of Ivy into the 186 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.360 turnbuckle, which causes a distraction, which means Gallus brothers win. Okay, 187 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.120 let's get back to Ava here for a second. What in the world I 188 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.960 mean, are they please please tell me they're not getting ready to bring her 189 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:41.080 up because she is not ready. Solo was different, No, please, 190 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:46.840 because she sometimes has that deer in the headlight look, and it's all young. 191 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:48.600 It's just because of age, but you know, I mean or time 192 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.559 in the business. She doesn't have enough ring time. But no, she 193 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:58.840 is not not ready for that, so hopefully not. But then they do 194 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.919 more promos and they've got to real Ripley in here. They bring in the 195 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:10.440 hooded woman in the hoodie that's been terrorizing and they do one on Valcara and 196 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:15.679 which is going to lead to Valcara and Tiffany Stratton having the the finals of 197 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:21.480 the Women's champions or yeah, the Women's Championship match, and uh, look, 198 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.000 man, val has got the walk to the ring, she's got all 199 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:30.639 of that you know type stuff going on. They're really good, you know, 200 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.399 but she has a bad knee from last week when Cora attacked her after 201 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:40.279 the match, so that is setting that up. And Tiffany is just Tiffany. 202 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.360 She is. She's good. She is definitely not just a gymnast that's 203 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.679 trying to be a wrestler. She's a wrestler that is used to be a 204 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.159 gymnast. And she comes out holland hey, it's it's my time. And 205 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.039 the match actually kind of gets better as it goes along, and I'm kind 206 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:02.799 of wondering if both of these ladies didn't have a little a little shell shock 207 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.599 or a little um you know, it's easy to plan and easy to set 208 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.559 up, but when you get out there to do it and you're on that 209 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:14.359 big of event with extra cameras, all the extra stuff that you don't see 210 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.720 on your Tuesday NXT broadcast. I don't know, maybe maybe it was, 211 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:23.640 but the match is good. Tiffany shows her strength several times catching her in 212 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:29.880 this. She tries her moon Salt one or two times before she actually hits 213 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:34.519 it. Valkia is just just great as she sells her knee to a yeah, 214 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:41.640 pretty good extent. This was. This wasn't the greatest match, but 215 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.440 it got better asn't went on like I said, and uh yeah, Tiffany 216 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.759 ends up winning this thing with that beautiful, beautiful moon Salt that she does. 217 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.319 But she just when she was backing out of there with her belt, 218 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.160 she didn't have to look like, oh my god, I can't believe I'm 219 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.319 a champ. She didn't have to look like I can't, you know, 220 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.920 like she's disgusted. You know that she should of course been given the belt. 221 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.079 She just had a look like she had to go to the bathroom or 222 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.000 something. I just I don't know what was that that that kind of look. 223 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:18.119 I just I don't know. Anyway, she does though, Tiffany is 224 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.559 now the Chimp and they do some more of those promos Uh, they do 225 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.240 the Wesley, they do one on West, but then they bring in Nikita 226 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.119 Lions, which I think is going to be their next push as soon as 227 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.960 she's healthy enough. And of course they whether they're setting up Gig and Jacy 228 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:42.079 Jane for this coming Tuesday, which oh my goodness, I can't wait for 229 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:48.759 that one. But yeah, they're gonna they're gonna do that. They're gonna 230 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.599 do the damn thing here. But and then they do, of course about 231 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.640 a two minute or three minute build up a video build up on Braun and 232 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.319 Mellow's match. You know, being from the Boston An area, that's where 233 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.400 mellows from up around there. So yeah, it's it's a big deal. 234 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.799 But the entrances, you know, I love me some good entrances. Uh, 235 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:11.319 you know, you can you can you know. We used to have 236 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:17.119 a guy, Jimmy Valiant here the you know, he was the boogie woogie 237 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.279 man. Uh. He he was all about his entrance. I mean that 238 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.559 was he was terrible in the ring. Terrible. I mean, you know, 239 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.359 he throws some punches, you know or something like that. He was 240 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.680 just he was a good heel. But when he was a good guy, 241 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:36.279 he just uh he was terrible, but his entrances were freaking great. Uh 242 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.799 So by the time you finally figured out he was bad, and the match 243 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.240 is about over and it's in that that the top of the match, so 244 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:48.680 everybody's looking pretty good. But anyway, um, the entrance, okay, 245 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.880 the entrance from Braun he had a mask on, a dog mask, and 246 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.720 I understand, Yeah, the dog faced Krimmlin I got you, and I 247 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:02.119 know, I know, but this is a different time and a different day, 248 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:04.480 and that's his moneymaker, is his face. So uh, I don't 249 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:10.799 know unless they're selling the mask in their uh in their can you know, 250 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:17.799 in their vending section, So then I totally totally understand. And even Bron's 251 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:21.359 jacket was cool. It had like rips, like where like if a big 252 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.680 animal had scratched at him and they were torn, like the nails had cut 253 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:26.680 it. I mean, it was pretty cool, pretty cool little set up. 254 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.240 You know. Of course he had the beard, so a total different 255 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:37.039 looking um a Bron coming out and then you got Carmelo Haze and Trick Williams 256 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:44.200 and Trick does the intro for Mellow and does his uh uh hum uh. 257 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:49.039 I just don't particularly care for that, but it sounds like something HBK probably 258 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:53.559 thought of. Uh so, But anyway, when he does his little um 259 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:59.559 you know when when Trick goes him, uh you know, Mellow comes out 260 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:04.559 and he does little arm poles and he's got these towels hanging from his arm 261 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:08.839 that says H and an M. And of course he is the eye. 262 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.240 But I could see in the future, I could see vents looking at that 263 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:15.519 going, well, we don't have to put those letters on there. We 264 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.000 could probably put some advertising right there, and then a couple of websites there, 265 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:23.799 and so yeah, that's probably gonna end up being the future after those 266 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.000 terrible, terrible suits that the ladies have to wear in Saudi Arabia yesterday. 267 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.960 But we won't go in to that. That's another show. But yeah, 268 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.200 this match, I mean the future ad money on the arm shit, I 269 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:45.200 mean, And I can definitely I can see this set up as plane as 270 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.559 Complain can be owned down the road maybe, oh, I don't know, 271 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:56.359 November something like that. I could see a trick turn and that's not a 272 00:21:56.359 --> 00:22:00.319 trick to turn around, that's Trick Williams turning on his Mellow. So uh 273 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:06.039 yeah, And in this match, look, Mellow was smart he does the 274 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:10.680 old traditional he he uh goes after a body part, goes after one of 275 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.599 the knees, which of course is a main source for Braun. Uh in 276 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.880 his power and his in his wrestling style. So he does good on that. 277 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.599 Uh, you got some good pump kicks. Uh you know. Uh. 278 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.799 And and when he does get the leg hurt, he does a single 279 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:32.960 leg crab. And I haven't seen a single leg crab. Maybe in a 280 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.359 w because they have a lot of old school style of wrestling, but uh, 281 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.319 in the WWE, it has been a while since I've seen a single 282 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.240 leg crab. Uh. So, yeah, that looked good. Um, 283 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.119 but man, uh and and and then Braun he does the push ups, 284 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:53.599 does the Scott Steiner push ups, and he gets the crowd going there telling 285 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.279 him he sucks. They're hollering at him, but man, he pulls off 286 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.079 a beautiful frank Steiner, beautiful Frankensteiner. And uh. At one point in 287 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:07.160 time, he jumps up after he's been getting whooped on and just looks at 288 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:11.400 Mellow and says, uh, you know, Uh No, he's just he's 289 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.039 too damn good. You can't beat me. I'm too damn good, is 290 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:21.200 what he says. Uh. So yeah, and with with Braun doing Boston 291 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.839 sucks and uh and uh, you know it kind of made you think, 292 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.480 you know, the old scarface line or Scott Hallline. We may be saying 293 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.599 head or the bad guy, because he might be a very good bad guy. 294 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.880 We will have to see what the future and whether they take him baby 295 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.480 face or leave him. Heill, But I like him Hill. I think 296 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.519 he's a natural, you know, I think he can do that better. 297 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:48.200 I mean, look, his uncle Scott Steiner was was a good headliner, 298 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.319 big matches, but tell the truth, when he got in T and A, 299 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.880 he seems to have gotten better as a headliner and definitely better on his 300 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:00.720 interviews because he can add and subtract really well. But yeah, this match 301 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:06.680 is good and I would definitely recommend going back and watching it. Of course, 302 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.720 Braun has to do his Jerry Lawlor imitation and bring the straps down for 303 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:17.839 the big finish and it ends up turning on him. And look, man, 304 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.079 this match was good up until the last two minutes. The last two 305 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.119 minutes the finish, I gotta be honest, it sucked. I didn't like 306 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.799 the way they did it. I thought it was slowed down, so everybody 307 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.880 can do their moves right. I did not like towards the end that Braun 308 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:38.039 seemed to be calling the match, but he wasn't even hiding his mouth when 309 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:42.119 he was saying things, you know, so anybody that can read a little 310 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.880 lips could pick up what he was saying, you know. And I know 311 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.680 it was his first defense and in his hometown, so they wanted things to 312 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.480 look good and everything like that. But look, this was a pretty good 313 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:57.920 card, pretty good matches. I mean enough, I would definitely recommend going 314 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:02.559 back and watching it. Tell you believe me, I'll tell you when it 315 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.599 sucks. But this didn't suck. This was was pretty good. This whole 316 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:10.759 event I would say was a three star, with a half of a star 317 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:15.279 maybe on some of them, you know, um, you know, good 318 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:19.279 good, But yeah, having the finish in like that, I did not 319 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.599 like it unless they're just gonna bring Braun on up and he's out of there, 320 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:27.559 and maybe that case I could see it, but I don't know. 321 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:33.400 But hey, first offense, it did look pretty good. The whole card 322 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.799 looked pretty good. The AVA, I do not understand ava, So I'm 323 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.160 gonna be a little a little worried for a few weeks here that next thing, 324 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:47.880 I know, she's on the bloodline after all their shake up, whatever 325 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.079 you want to call it. So I don't know, but we will see. 326 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:55.079 That is the good thing about these events, because over the next few 327 00:25:55.119 --> 00:26:00.799 weeks we will see what unfolds for all of us in our you know, 328 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.319 on our poor man soap opera here. So guys, look, thank you 329 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:08.359 very much. This was just a quick little review of Battleground, so I 330 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:12.799 hope everyone enjoyed it. And look, we're just gonna end it here, 331 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:17.039 and I'm just gonna say, hey, this is Memphis Mark coming to you 332 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:21.920 from Mullet manner. 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