WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.000 This has been a very busy week for WWE, but this week has now 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:07.960 come to an end. It is Friday, which means that this is your 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.960 Friday Night SmackDown review here on the Salom Monster Soundsop Channel. I'm the Salom 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.600 Monster. Unfortunately, you know, I like hearing about mass cuts. Been 5 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:22.399 a while since we've had a week where we had a wave of WWE talent 6 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:27.760 releases. The word was that only employees would be cut post merger, now 7 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:32.920 that the Endeavor deal has closed, and over a hundred employees lost their jobs 8 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:37.560 last week. But when you have a company and Endeavor that is talking about 9 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:44.159 slashing fifty to one hundred million dollars in costs for WWE, you know employees 10 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.679 are not the only ones who were going to be cut. And unfortunately, 11 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:51.320 this week there were as far as we know, in excess of two dozen 12 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.840 talent releases all across the board, both from the main roster, NXT, 13 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.240 the Performance Center, people who have not yet even appeared on television, and 14 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.560 a lot of names that will get into on the podcast this weekend. One 15 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.519 name in particular, though in some breaking news late in the afternoon today, 16 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:19.760 was a former WWE United States Champion who has been a pretty prominent name on 17 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.719 television now for quite some time. But I can't say that it was a 18 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:27.200 surprising release, and we are going to talk about that here in a little 19 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:34.200 bit. But as far as Tonight's SmackDown show is concerned, the show closed 20 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:40.719 with an angle where Jimmy Usso and Solo Sakoa laid out John Cena and they 21 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.400 took out AJ Styles. We were supposed to get a contract signing for a 22 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:49.840 tag team matchup fast Lane coming up on October seventh, for a match where 23 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.120 AJ and Sina would team up to take on the Bloodline, and they took 24 00:01:53.159 --> 00:02:00.200 out AJ Styles in the back before the contract signing segment could begin, he 25 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:02.519 was carted out in an ambulance. John Cena came down, he got laid 26 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:10.520 out, and this segment clearly they ran short, because they dragged this segment 27 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.840 out to the point where you would expect that somebody would come out to make 28 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:17.319 the save. There would be some bit, you know, someone's music would 29 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:21.360 hit, there'd be some big running at the end of the show to save 30 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.680 Sina, and that did not happen, which was kind of odd. Just 31 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:29.120 that's the way that everything just feel like it was being dragged out, and 32 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:36.800 now we know why that is because Sean Ross sap over Unfightful is reporting that 33 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.400 there was a certain someone who was supposed to be part of that segment at 34 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.360 the end of the show tonight, probably the man who was going to run 35 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.039 out and make the save, and that man was La Night. But he 36 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.479 was very conspicuous by his absence. There was no La Night on the show 37 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.439 tonight, which was kind of strange, and now we know why. The 38 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.599 first report was that he was pulled from the show late in the day due 39 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.520 to a medical issue of some time. Now I hear medical issue, La 40 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.879 Night or I'm thinking, oh God, here we go, right, this 41 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.960 guy's finally getting a big push. He's getting put in a big spot. 42 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.080 What does this mean? Is that an injury? Is that an illness? 43 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.919 To mean that could be anything. The latest report though, is that, 44 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:22.240 according to WWE and people close to La Night late in the day today at 45 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:27.520 the building, he tested positive for COVID and they sent him home. Obviously 46 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.039 they didn't want him in the building at that point, so he left. 47 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.400 He was to have had a big role in that segment that closed out the 48 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.120 show tonight. I don't know how late in the day this all went down. 49 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:39.560 It sounds to me like it was a pretty late development, and so 50 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.759 it could just very well be a case where, Okay, they didn't really 51 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.560 have time to come up with a plan B, and they're hopeful that he'll 52 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.120 still be able to be in that spot at the pay per pay per view 53 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.240 still a few weeks away, so they simply decided to lay out John Cena, 54 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.840 They're going to stretch this out for at least another week. Best wishes 55 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.520 to night, because you know, hopefully it's not a situation where it ends 56 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.120 up being a serious case. Who knows when he'll be back. I mean, 57 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:12.400 you could say he'll be back on TV next week. We don't know 58 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.000 that. We don't know that they're not going to let him back in to 59 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:19.759 the building until he is testing negative. So he may be back on SmackDown 60 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:21.959 next week, he may not be back for a few weeks. We don't 61 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:26.319 know. My hope though, is that it ends up being nothing serious and 62 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.279 he's back in time to keep that spot, because it would be really shitty 63 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.519 if they decided to go in a different direction just because of this. I 64 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.040 don't know that there is a plan B. Although the fans in the building 65 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:39.399 tonight thought that plan A was Cody. You could hear them channing for Cody, 66 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.720 and I thought for a minute there while, are we gonna find out 67 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.959 finally what the other half of that trade was, what the trade compensation was 68 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.360 for jay Usso is this how you get Cody back on SmackDown? They could 69 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:55.639 always do that, but I would hate to find out that because of this, 70 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.040 if this drags out for a while, that he would lose what would 71 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.879 really be, you know, one of the biggest spots of his entire careers. 72 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.439 So for those wondering what that was about at the end of the show, 73 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.240 it sounds like that is the case that the La Night is a scheduled 74 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:14.199 to be John cenas partner at fast Laneum. With any luck, that will 75 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.079 still hopefully be the case. We had on this show that they build also 76 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:24.560 as a dream match for the WWE Women's Championship between EO. Sky and Oscar 77 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.399 for the first time ever one on one here on WWE Television. We got 78 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:35.040 twenty minutes across three segments. They gave these women three segments on this show. 79 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.879 How often does that happen? And they went out there and they had 80 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.199 a very good match. I was worried that we were not going to get 81 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.279 a finish. It was going to be a disqualification or a no contest. 82 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.879 We got a finish. Now, it was not without some controversy because Charlotte 83 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:56.120 Flair had to be at ringside for this match because of course, and she 84 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:01.720 kind of sort of played into the finish. We got, you know, 85 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:05.600 a relatively clean finish to the match and not some sort of fuck finish. 86 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.560 So I was happy about that, and that really was the highlight of the 87 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.720 show. The rest of the show is just kind of there. They did 88 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.279 an angle involving Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits that we're going to get into, 89 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.720 amongst some of the other things that happened, but we will talk about 90 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:25.279 it all again. This is your SmackDown review for September twenty second, two 91 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.120 thou twenty three. That day, September twenty second always stands out to me 92 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.759 because it was September twenty second of nineteen ninety seven. Then Monday night, 93 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:38.439 Row for the very first time Row's War came to Madison Square Guarden, and 94 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.079 I will never forget that night. That, of course, was the night 95 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:45.000 that Vince McMahon ate a stone Cold Stunner for the very first time, and 96 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.199 Cactus Jack made his WWF debut. We got Cactus Jack making his first appearance. 97 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:54.319 He took on triple age. So that September twenty second date has always 98 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.759 burned into my brain. It's hard to believe that it's been what is that 99 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:02.000 twenty six years now, I guess since that first raw at MSG Now. 100 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.959 I didn't mention at the top here that we got some news before we get 101 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:10.959 into the review itself. This was late news that broke only a few hours 102 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.839 before SmackDown tonight. I said, it's been a very busy week in www 103 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:20.040 Unfortunately over two dozen talents cut lost their jobs this week. Gonna be a 104 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:24.279 very long sound off, probably on Sunday, because I'll have a lot to 105 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.879 say about the different talents. And there was also news this week about at 106 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:33.399 WWE coming to Australia for the Elimination Chamber next year. We know where SmackDown 107 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:39.199 is going. SmackDown is going to have a new home a year from now 108 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:44.240 and it will not be on Fox, hence a new home, so there'll 109 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.759 be plenty of news to get into. But late this afternoon we got word 110 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:55.639 that Matt Riddle was fired. Matt Riddle has been released from WWE, and 111 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:01.439 he will be under the same non compete that pretty much everybody is that was 112 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.920 cut three months ninety days. Matt Riddle will be a free agent. He'll 113 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.399 be free to go and work wherever he pleases. And I am sure that 114 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.040 there will be no shortage of places from Matt Riddle to work because Matt Riddle 115 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.120 is a very talented guy. Unfortunately for Matt Riddle, he is also his 116 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:22.079 own worst enemy, and he really has nobody to blame for what happened today 117 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.759 but Matt Riddle. But I made the prediction on the podcast in January. 118 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:31.680 You know, we do the annual prediction show every year. You heard the 119 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.159 clip there. I played it at the beginning of the stream and I said 120 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.120 that before this year is over, I predict sometime here in twenty twenty three, 121 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:46.600 before this year is over, Matt Riddle will no longer be in WWE. 122 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:52.399 Matt Riddle will be gone due to his various personal issues. Thank you 123 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.600 in shoo Shogo, thank you and shoosh thank you and share you Goo Brian 124 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:05.080 musha Hey with that twelve dollars, thank you, super Chat it's one of 125 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.799 the new ones. Hey, Brian, thank you, And so here we 126 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.440 are now it is in what we're in September. We have a few months 127 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.840 left in this year, and sure enough, Matt Riddle is no longer in 128 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:22.840 wwweight. So this was one of the least surprising cuts of all of them, 129 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:26.240 because this is one that was easy to call for me anyway, it 130 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.240 was easy to call as far back as the beginning of the year. And 131 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.879 I want you to think about this also. We are in the month of 132 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.519 September right now. It was almost a year ago to the day at Extreme 133 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:46.759 Rules that Matt Riddle headline that pay per view and beat Seth Rollins, the 134 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:52.120 man who is currently the world heavyweight champion on Monday Night Row And now fast 135 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.720 forward one year, Matt Riddle is unemployed, which just goes to show you 136 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.759 a lot can happen, a lot can change in the course of a year, 137 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.039 from the penthouse to the outhouse. Just like that. Matt Riddle is 138 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.960 on top of the world one day and he's at the bottom of the barrel 139 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.480 the next. And it's a sad situation, to be perfectly honest with you, 140 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.679 because it didn't have to be this way, but this was the report 141 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.039 from pw Insider. Mike Johnson had the update a little bit earlier on He 142 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.879 said, WWE has released Matt Riddle. PW Insider has confirmed. We are 143 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.720 told the release took place around five thirty PM this evening, so it was 144 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.480 pretty late in the day, not long before. SmackDown said. Riddle has 145 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.840 been off TV the last several weeks with what talents were told was a medical 146 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:46.320 issue. Yeah. Dave Meltzer mentioned this too. Meltzer said that Riddle had 147 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.600 a double ear infection and he had bronchitis. And immediately my bullshit detector began 148 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.440 going off as soon as I heard that. It just so happened that this 149 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:00.480 came. This bronchitis and double ear infection came in the aftermath of the incident 150 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:05.960 at JFK Airport, where Riddle initially claimed that he was sexually assaulted by one 151 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.679 of the agents there, one of the TSA or maybe it was the Port 152 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.320 Authority police officers. One of the officers, I guess groped him or fondled 153 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.120 him. He didn't get into specifics, but he posted a picture of the 154 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:22.240 officer on his social media and he made this claim and then I don't even 155 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.159 know if it was up for a full hour before he thought better of it 156 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.080 and he deleted it. He took the post down and there was no mention 157 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.879 of any kind of assault to get after that, and instead he put another 158 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.960 post up saying glad I don't have to come back to New York City again. 159 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.440 And then the details from TMZ and other websites began to filter in about 160 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.799 there being a report of a belligerent passenger on a plane back from I guess 161 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.200 they were coming back from India. They did that Superstar spectacle show in India. 162 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.840 It turned out that Matt Riddle was I guess a little under the influence 163 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.519 of something, whether it was alcohol or something else. It sounded like alcohol, 164 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.679 but whatever it was, he was getting into some trouble. But you 165 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.159 know, everybody thought, Okay, it's been resolved, it's worked out. 166 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:09.159 And then nobody was more surprised than the officers there when they heard about this 167 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:15.080 alleged assault that took place. But they took it seriously and said that they 168 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:20.600 were going to investigate. Wwe supposedly was investigating themselves. But once you heard 169 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:26.039 the report about Riddle his behavior and people complaining about his behavior and then all 170 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:31.080 of a sudden, he comes out of nowhere with this claim. Things began 171 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.240 to kind of fall into place. You could kind of see what was going 172 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.480 on here, and it's really a sad situation because here's a man who had 173 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.159 sexual assault claims levied against him by at least one person, maybe multiple people, 174 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.720 but at least one person, a former independent wrestler in the past, 175 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:56.720 which he denied, and here he is probably pulling something out of thin air 176 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:00.639 because he himself was not in the right frame of mind, or he himself 177 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:01.919 thought, well, these details are gonna come out. It's gonna paint me 178 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.120 into bed light, so I'll just throw some I'll just throw some gas on 179 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.440 the fire. Here myself probably pulling it out of his ass, but it's 180 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.519 pretty serious shit to accuse somebody up before he pulled that ship down real quick, 181 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.440 and that was when I said, this is it for this guy. 182 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.399 This is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. And he 183 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:31.480 pulls this stunt days before the endeavor deal closes. So WWE now is under 184 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.120 new management, WWE is under new ownership, and this was all over the 185 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:41.279 news. This made national headlines and I said, what a dummy to put 186 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.240 himself in a position like this days before the new owners take over. It's 187 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:52.000 not going to end well for Matt Riddle, and here we are. He 188 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.600 never appeared on television again, and now he no longer works for this company. 189 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:03.200 Fightful Select is reporting that Riddle has not been backstage or on the road 190 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:11.480 with WWWE since he was pulled from weekend events and the September eleventh episode of 191 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.159 Monday Night Raw. Fightful claims that Riddle was not planned for a return at 192 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:20.159 all and was not part of WWE's creative plans following the incident, despite the 193 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.480 fact that he was in the middle of a storyline that had seen him teaming 194 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:30.279 up with Drew McIntyre, and says one source cited Riddle as having quote burned 195 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:37.399 through too many chances while in WWWE. You don't say I want to put 196 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.759 up the tweet that Riddle himself posted. Actually he put this on all of 197 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:46.679 his social media, but this was directly from Matt Riddle himself. So just 198 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.720 wanted to inform everyone that I am no longer with www Thank you for the 199 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.159 memories and opportunities. Also, thank you to all the fans for the support 200 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.960 and the love that you give me every time I go out to the ring. 201 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:07.960 You all sue, here's a guy who was tearing it up on the 202 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:13.240 Independency and I saw his work and evolved in all of these different promotions. 203 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.919 And I mean I talked about this at the time on the podcast. I 204 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.639 was sending this guy's praises him talking about WWE would be foolish not to pick 205 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.080 him up. And this would have been around the time that ADW was first 206 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.600 born, and I think I was even saying, if WWE doesn't get him 207 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:33.480 AW should I think actually he may have been signed a few months before AW 208 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.039 really got going, so they snatched him up first. And I thought, 209 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.159 this guy has the potential to be a future world champion. He's got all 210 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.000 the tools. He had a great look. He looked like a like a 211 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.960 Von Eric. He looked like something at a world class from the eighties. 212 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.279 And he could go in the ring. You know, he had the fight 213 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.000 background. He didn't mixed martial arts before he worked for UFC. Dana White 214 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.840 candemn. Dana White hates him. Dana White thinks he's just a fucking moron. 215 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.559 But he had something there. There was money, to be made in 216 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.679 Matt Riddles. So he had his run in NXT and then on the main 217 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.639 roster he struck gold with Randy Orton and the whole RKA brow thing. And 218 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:15.679 that's the sort of thing you can't plan for. It just sort of organically 219 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:22.440 takes off on its own, and the team of him and Randy Orton became 220 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.279 one of the hot acts on Monday Night Raw. I mean they really did. 221 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.279 They became one of the top acts on the entire show. Look, 222 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:33.320 everyone, it's Samoa Bro. The bass beeris thank you. Always good to 223 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.960 hear from Samoa Bro here on these streams. So RK Bro took off. 224 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:41.799 They're selling merch, they won the tag team titles, and he is in 225 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.039 a prime position in this company. And they still even then thought, okay, 226 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.080 there's still singles potential in Matt Riddle. This guy could be a world 227 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:55.279 champion one day if he keeps his head on straight. But there just seemed 228 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.639 to be controversy following him everywhere he went and on social media he would say 229 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.159 certain things. Other people would come out of the woodwork on social media ex. 230 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.119 Girlfriends and porn stars and all kinds of people accusing him of some salacious 231 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.079 shit, whether or not you want to believe all of the stuff, all 232 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.559 of the allegations against him, but there were plenty of him from plenty of 233 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.920 different people. Stuff about his family, his wife, who I think he's 234 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.200 either divorced or strange, from his kids that apparently he doesn't see. I 235 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.680 don't need to get into his personal business with his family, but he's been 236 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:30.599 through a lot of personal shit that has been ripped open for the entire world 237 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.839 to see. So there was always something going on on social media. And 238 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.559 this is to say nothing of the times he put his foot in his mouth 239 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.000 with Roman Reigns when he went and said that he could beat Roman Reigns in 240 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.160 a real fight, and I know that pissed a lot of people off behind 241 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.200 the scenes. Yeah, obviously he made comments about Brock Lesner because he wanted 242 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.880 to work a match with Brock, who flat out told him, I will 243 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.119 never work with you. I will never work a match or a program with 244 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.599 you. So Brock didn't want to have anything to do with him. Goldberg 245 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.119 right, the comments he made about Goldberg that they just seemed to always be 246 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.960 some sort of controversy following this guy around. And I don't even fault him 247 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.559 necessarily for trying to get something going as far as you know, work at 248 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.759 a program with somebody. I mean, that's, you know whatever. I 249 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.440 could see him getting heat with the wrong people for doing that. Putting his 250 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.680 foot in his mouth, I mean, that's I could see that easily. 251 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.240 It's probably not hard to get hid in wrestling. But that is just minor 252 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.799 stuff compared to some of the other controversies that he's been involved in. Last 253 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.279 year, he disappeared, They did the angle to write him off television with 254 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:40.559 Solo SKOA, and he disappeared for a few months because he was supposedly in 255 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.119 rehab. I don't remember if it was drug rehab or alcohol rehab. I 256 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:49.200 think it was drug rehab. But supposedly he ended up in rehab. Then 257 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:53.839 he came back. Evidently he's back off the wagon if these reports of him 258 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:59.240 at the airport are to be believed. But again, there was a lawsuit, 259 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.200 you know, about sexual assault allegation. The lawsuit was later dropped. 260 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.400 This guy was his own worst energy. All of those issues in his personal 261 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:15.039 life, it's spilled over onto social media and that reflects on WWE because whenever 262 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.359 he gets into trouble whenever somebody levies some sort of allegation against him, the 263 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:23.920 headlines are always WWE Superstar Matt Ridley. So for those of you who say, 264 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.640 well, his personal life is his personal life and his professional life is 265 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.200 his professional life. In a perfect world, it would work that way, 266 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.319 but guess what. Life doesn't work that way, not when you're a public 267 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:40.279 figure like he is. He's a celebrity. This ship follows him around, 268 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:45.359 and whatever follows him around, that stinkwashes off on WWE. It was only 269 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.440 a matter of time. I'm surprised they kept him this long and then cut 270 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.279 bade a lot sooner, but they probably saw, look, we want this 271 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:56.599 to work. This guy has talent, he's over the people like him. 272 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.079 We're gonna give him another chance. He had chance after chance after chance. 273 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:04.640 This just happened to be the last one. But as soon as that whole 274 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.000 incident took place, and it was days before the Endeavor deal, I said, 275 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:11.039 this guy's days are number. That prediction I made at the beginning of 276 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.960 the year is going to come true, and here we are. It's not 277 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.759 surprising to me at all. And he has all the talent in the world. 278 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.160 That's what's frustrating about it. So if he could ever get his head 279 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.839 on straight, he still has the potential to have great success and do really 280 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.240 well. He lands on his feet somewhere else if you don't think that, 281 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.440 there won't be another promotion that wants to give him a chance and thinks that 282 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.160 they can't make money with him and sell tickets with him. And of course 283 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:44.119 when his non compete is up, he'll be everywhere unless one promotion like aw 284 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.279 if Tony Kahn snatches him up. I don't know how much interest Tony Khann 285 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:52.279 will have in him, you know, given all the different controversies that seemed 286 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.799 to follow this guy around. But if nothing else, he'll do very well 287 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.319 for himself. On the independence, he could do anything he wants. He 288 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.680 wants to go to Pan Matt Riddle will not have difficulty finding work. But 289 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.799 this relationship with him in WWE, it was never gonna last. It was 290 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.160 gonna be If it wasn't this, it was gonna be something else in a 291 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:15.200 couple of months, and it would have blown up in his face. He 292 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.680 has nobody to blame for this but himself. And I look at him now 293 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:23.400 and I see a lot of wasted potential. And that's too bad. But 294 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.880 this was inevitable as of a few weeks ago. It was just a matter 295 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:32.359 of time. So you can add Matt Riddle to the list of names now 296 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:36.200 no longer working for WWE. Unfortunately it's a long list after this week. 297 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.480 But this one I would put in the in the category of one of the 298 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:42.119 least surprising of all the releases. And again, if he wants to know 299 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:45.680 why, and if he has an issue, you know this is not fair. 300 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.039 Just look in the mirror, bro, that's it. I mean, 301 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.160 he caused it. It sucks. It's too bad that it happened. And 302 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.640 who's to say that one day he won't get a second chance. A lot 303 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:59.920 of people end up leaving WWE, are getting fired, and then eventually they 304 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.880 come back. We may not have seen the end of Matt riddlen WWE, 305 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.200 but for the time being, we've seen the end of Matt Riddle in WWI. 306 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.480 There will be no There will be no final bow taken by r K 307 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:14.799 Brow if and when Randy ort It never comes back. And the storyline that 308 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.960 Drew McIntyre was involved in, Drew McIntyre doesn't need Matt Riddle. Drew McIntyre 309 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.279 the last thing Drew McIntyre needed was to be thrown in. There is sort 310 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:26.480 of a bootleg version of r K Brow. He's gonna end up working a 311 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:30.079 program with Cody and probably going heel. That's my prediction on that front. 312 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.319 I mean, working with Cody, it seems pretty obvious. But I think 313 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.440 the heel Turney's coming. He doesn't need. He doesn't need Matt Riddle to 314 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:42.359 bring him down if he's involved in some sort of tag team program and then 315 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:47.000 something happens and guess what, he no longer has a tag team partner. 316 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.039 Yeah, he doesn't have to deal with that either. Now let's talk about 317 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.720 this SmackDown show here, because there this was a newsworthy show as far as 318 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.559 some of the angles that they ran, mainly the key angle. But John 319 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:03.240 Cena was back on the show. Now WWE has John Cena for a little 320 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.119 while longer. They have him at least through the Saudi Arabia show, which 321 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.480 I think is November fourth. They're going back to Riodd and I believe Sena 322 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:14.920 is going to be on that show. Originally he was going to be back 323 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.400 through the end of October. I think that's the end date for him on 324 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.599 SmackDown, but I believe he is working the Saudi show after that. I 325 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.279 don't know how many appearances, if any, he's gonna make. I don't 326 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:30.079 know if he'll have a match of WrestleMania next year. I think also a 327 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:32.960 lot of it depends on, you know, when and if this Hollywood strike 328 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.279 comes to an end. But that's why we have him back on TV for 329 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.279 now. So he was on SmackDown. He came out to open the show 330 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:45.640 and he gave praise to the crowd, said that tonight was special. He's 331 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.119 been able to do a lot of things since he's come back. He's been 332 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.960 a host, he's been a backstage correspondent. But that's not what he came 333 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.759 back to WWE for. He says he came back for a fight. He 334 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.799 wants to get in the ring and fighting tonight. He wants to have a 335 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:06.480 match, which of course the entire crab was very happy about that. He 336 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:08.799 asked the Craft for their permission. He asked him if tonight is a good 337 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.559 night to have a match, and they cheered. And I have to say, 338 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:15.519 because I don't think he worked the Dark Match, or maybe he did, 339 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.039 I shouldn't say that. I don't know what the dark match was at 340 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.240 the end of the show. I know there was a dark match earlier with 341 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:26.000 Cameron Grimes and Ashanti the Adonis, so it's possible seeing a work the match 342 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.480 after they went off the air. I hope he did, because for him 343 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.359 to come out and tease this crowd like that and say, hey, tonight 344 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.799 feels like a great night for me to have a match, and then there's 345 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.519 no match, that would be pretty shitty. So he said he was angry 346 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.799 at the blood Line. He said he's open to fighting them all by himself, 347 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.119 but he thinks he found a partner, someone just as angry at the 348 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:53.960 blood Line as himself. He thinks he found a phenomenal partner. Sena said, 349 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.480 well, actually after that, he didn't say anything. They acute his 350 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:03.200 music, So AJ Styles comes out. Seemed pretty obvious that they were going 351 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:06.559 to continue. If you can saw the end of SmackDown last week, the 352 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:10.720 last shot was Seena and aj in the ring together. So AJ Styles comes 353 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:12.759 to the ring, takes the mic, and he asked John Cena, you 354 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:18.559 sure you want a team up? And Style said, Bloodline, If you 355 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:23.519 want some, come get some. So Jimmy Usso's music Hits and outcomes Jimmy 356 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:29.160 and outcomes Solo Sakoa. They hopped up on the apron. Jimmy smiled and 357 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:33.680 he hopped down off the apron, and Solo followed suit, and the two 358 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.079 of them left. So we didn't get exactly a whole lot of action here 359 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.200 in this segment, but they set the stage for what looked like might be 360 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.400 the main event later in the show. I think if you watch this, 361 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.400 it was pretty easy to figure we're not getting this match on the ship because 362 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.799 why would you give that match away without advertising in advance. That doesn't make 363 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.720 any sense. So it seemed pretty obvious they were gonna end up setting this 364 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:56.880 up with the pay per view, which is what they ended up doing. 365 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:02.839 So backstage Styles and Sena, they were talking to Adam Pierson the hallway and 366 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.880 they demanded that he make the match official. He said, first he has 367 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:08.240 to go talk to Paul Hayman to see if they can make this work. 368 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:12.680 And they couldn't understand why does he have to go see paulhan It's the bureaucracy 369 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:17.359 in wwe see Adam Pierce, he's got he's got no balls. They've cut 370 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:18.720 his balls off. He should be able to just make a match. He 371 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.880 shouldn't have to consult with people on the show, but he has to go 372 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:27.599 consult with Paulham, Ray, Mysterio, and Santos. Escobar teamed up tonight 373 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:32.160 to take on the team the not So New and Improved. I was gonna 374 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.279 say new and improved, but based on the outcome of this match, I 375 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:40.119 guess I can't say that the Not so New and Improved street profits montes Ford 376 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:47.039 and Angelo Dawkins. Escobar landed a drop kick to Dawkins and Mysterio tagged and 377 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:52.839 he had a running springboard splash off the middle rope, even overshot montes Ford 378 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.799 a little bit, so now Ford is down on the outside. Mysterio went 379 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.480 for that sliding splash he does under the bottom rope, but Dawkins pulled forward 380 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:06.000 out of the way and Mysterio ate the ground. Escobar came over to help, 381 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.640 but Dawkins slammed him and the show cuts a commercial. We come back 382 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:14.200 from the break and Ray came up short on a hot tag that he was 383 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:18.039 reaching for. Eventually he ran montes into the second buckle. Finally he got 384 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.240 the hot tag to Santos. He came in. He had a pair of 385 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.119 flying forearms. Escobar went to the top hit a crossbody block. Ford went 386 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.480 to the top, but Escobar cut him off and hit a Frankensteiner from the 387 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:37.160 top rope. So a few minutes later, Escobar tags in Ray and he 388 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.799 immediately hits a tornado DDT. Ray's setting up for the six one nine Angelo 389 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.160 Dawkins counters with a sky high power bomb and Dawkins drops Ray over the top 390 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:52.319 rope. Ray lands on montes Ford. Bobby Lashley is standing outside. There's 391 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.519 all snazzy. He's got his suit on, he's got his glasses on. 392 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:00.319 So now the referee is diverted. His attention is diverted, and Lashley decides 393 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.319 to get involved and he grabs Ray and he's not really a choke slamp, 394 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.920 but he kind of picked him up and spiked him on the ring. Apron 395 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:14.400 referee didn't see it. Dawkins he hesitated to finish off Ray, and Ray 396 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:17.599 took advantage of that. He rolled him up. He got the surprise three 397 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.960 counts, so the LWO they pick up the win. Here in this match. 398 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.799 After it's over, Lashley is living. He's got to look on his 399 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:32.200 face like he's just disgusted by these two Dawkins can't believe it, and Lashley 400 00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:36.079 walked out with a disgusted look on his face. So the story here is 401 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:41.240 that the street prophets this was a test. They failed the test that came 402 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:48.119 up short. They're losers, that's the story. They have not yet found 403 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.480 their footie in this new rule. They have not found that killer instinct that 404 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.599 Bobby Lashley is trying to instill him them. And really, again, if 405 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.960 you look at them, they really are not any different in the street profits 406 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.480 that you would have seen a year ago. They walk around in suits. 407 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.799 That's about the only thing that's different about them. They haven't found that chip 408 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.160 on their shoulder yet. Their attitude, I mean everything about them basically is 409 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.039 still exactly the same as it was before. So there was a segment a 410 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:19.039 little bit later on. The profits were in the back and Lashly shows up, 411 00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.680 but he's admonishing them, and he said, I want all my stuff 412 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:25.359 back. He wants to watch his back, he wants the suits that he 413 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.079 paid for, he wants all of it back. He said, if they 414 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:32.319 can't finish the job, they can sit backstage and catering and they'll find someone 415 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:37.400 else who will. So they're gonna play this thing out a little bit until 416 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.680 we get the formal heel turn from the Street Profits, which still has not 417 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.400 come yet, because like I said, they're largely still the same. They're 418 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:51.279 still baby faces. They come out and they're baby faces. There's nothing different 419 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:55.759 about them. They're slotted internally supposedly, I think Mike Johnson mentioned on the 420 00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:59.799 internal roster they're listed as heels. Well, we haven't seen that heel turned 421 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.079 yet, but we know it's coming. So they're gonna play this out for 422 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:03.880 a little while longer. They're gonna take their time with it, but change 423 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.359 is coming for the Street Profits, and I'm okay with that they want to 424 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.000 take their time with it. I don't want to see them drag this out 425 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.039 for two months, But if they want to take their time with it before 426 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.160 they finally pulled the trigger on the turn, I think that's fine. And 427 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.680 the match itself was fine. There were no new developments as far as Mysterio 428 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.759 and Escobargo. Now Ray and Escobar are wrestling next Friday. They're having a 429 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.599 match for the United States Championship. Escobar is another one who I think the 430 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:36.599 heel turn is coming maybe a while. But there was nothing in this match 431 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:40.319 to build any sort of tension or anything. They won the match. This 432 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:44.799 story was more about the street profits and not so much about Mysterio and Escobar. 433 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:52.160 We got a recap of the Rocks segment last week because WWE has no 434 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.039 idea when they'll get the Rock back on, telling me it could be another 435 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.200 four years. So they're still playing up the Rocks appearance from last week, 436 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:03.480 which made head lines. Fucking CNN had a story on their website right they 437 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:08.160 wanted they wanted to take advantage basically of all the social media clicks, so 438 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:12.519 on their website on the sidebar, because it was it was linked from Google 439 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.240 News and I'm like, I'm like on the Google page and they have their 440 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:19.559 news section and there's a CNN story about the Rock coming back to WWE, 441 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:25.680 and it's just the video. It's like ninety seconds and it's just total bullshit. 442 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.000 But it was listed as like the second most viewed video on their website 443 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.599 for the entire week, so it made headlines. They showed the whole segment 444 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:38.119 over again with him laying out Austin theory, him and Pat McAfee, and 445 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:41.839 then they put a graphic on the screen that said one hundred and fifty three 446 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.680 million was a million or billion? I think it was million, right, 447 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:52.359 one hundred and fifty three million views across all forms of social media for the 448 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:55.960 Rocks. I mean they're adding up everything wherever. This thing may have run 449 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.720 one hundred and fifty three million. And Michael Cole on commentary is doing the 450 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.359 Rocks catchphrase and he's saying, he's talking about, you know, smelling what 451 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:09.200 the rock is cooking, and he's really like stretching out the smelling and he's 452 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:12.519 having it. He's having a grand all time. 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That's 478 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:06.000 e xp R e SS vpn dot com slash Slo Monster Express vpn dot Com 479 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:09.079 slash Slo Monster. To learn more. We come back and we got a 480 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:13.800 vignette. We'll come back to theory in a second. They come back and 481 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:19.280 we have a vignette for Alba Fire and Isla Dawn. Look at this, 482 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.840 they actually remembered that these two women were employed. I was just happy not 483 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.639 to see them on the cut list this week, because when I found out 484 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:29.079 that they were making cuts, I thought for sure they were going to be 485 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.440 on the list. For sure. I was convinced that Alba Fire and Islad 486 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:38.280 don't we're gonna end up on that list because to Vince McMahon or to the 487 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:44.119 Endeavor folks, who the hell is albe Fire? Who's Isla Dawn? They 488 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:45.000 don't know who they are, and they don't give a shit who they are, 489 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:47.480 and they're not being used. And if you're not being used, you're 490 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:50.960 on the bubble. Look at a lot of the names that got cut this 491 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.440 week, they weren't being used. So lucky for them, they were not 492 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:58.280 cutting in fact, we got a vignette on the show which was encouraging. 493 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.960 In the video, they actually said, hit aligne in here that the women's 494 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.920 tag team titles have been cursed since they failed to unify them, and they 495 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:15.119 said, now, who could have possibly done that? I like that. 496 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:17.679 I like that. I like that those titles have been cursed for a lot 497 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.119 longer. I mean, let's be honest, those titles have been cursed far 498 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:25.599 longer than since they lost to Ronda Rowsy and Shana Basil. So they're stretching 499 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:29.840 the truth a little bit on that, but I like that they took credit 500 00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:31.320 for the fact that those titles are cursed, which they are, by the 501 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:37.679 way, and I'm happy it looks like they're actually going to start using these 502 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:39.519 two. But I'll believe it when I see it. Now we go to 503 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:45.280 the back. Austin Theory is walking down the hallway with Adam Pierce and they're 504 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.119 arguing with one another about what just happened out there by the announcers. Theory 505 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:52.320 said, I felt disrespected by the Rock and what he did last week. 506 00:35:52.960 --> 00:36:00.559 So Theory comes upon Butch and Ridge Holland whereas I guess my thing auto corrected 507 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:02.679 here bitch, it says Bitch and Ridge Holland, I'm sorry, Pete Donne. 508 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:09.000 Apparently Microsoft word thinks her name is bitch. So Austin Theory comes upon 509 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:15.880 Bitch and Ridge Holland Grayson Waller showed up too. We ended up with that 510 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.679 tag team match. Adam Pierce booked the tag match for later in the show. 511 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.639 It's gonna be the brawling brutes against Theory and wall Then we got a 512 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:30.960 video package highlighting EO Sky and Oscar and their journeys from Japan to WWE. 513 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:37.159 They had a woman narrating the video package. It labeled them as two of 514 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.519 the best in the world and said only one could leave SmackDown as the WWE 515 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:45.199 Women's Champion. This was very well done. They did a good job of 516 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.800 documenting their history. Two women that have known each other for fifteen years but 517 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.800 had never set foot in the ring, at least not in WWE one on 518 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.599 one. This was going to be their first one on one encounter and it 519 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:04.719 led right into the match for the Women's Championship. It was EO Sky defending 520 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:10.280 against the former champion, Oscar. Tell me, don't blame Hey, butch 521 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:15.480 don't blame me. Don't blame me, blame Microsoft. Word, it's not 522 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:22.519 my fault. So EO comes out with Bailey and Dakota Kai in her court. 523 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:27.079 The bell rings to start the match, and who has to come out 524 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:34.360 here Charlotte Flair. But of course, because the WWE Women's Championship was on 525 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:39.800 the line, so her sonar started to go off alert alert. There's a 526 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:44.119 title match about to go on, so Charlotte has to come at alert alert. 527 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.079 So Charlotte comes down to the ring and she takes her place at ringside. 528 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.920 She's gonna sit ringside to watch the match. The two women they lock 529 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:57.599 up, traded a series of moves. EO ran the ropes and she cartwheeled 530 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:02.039 her way past Oscar. Osca hit a pair of arm drag takedown deep arm 531 00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.599 drags and went to the second rope, and EO followed and landed an arm 532 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.239 drag from the middle rope, which was very nice. Oscar went outside. 533 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.880 EO went for a moonsault to the floor, but nobody was home. But 534 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:20.559 when she came back towards Osca, she got kicked in the head. So 535 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.760 down goes EO. That took us into our first of what I believe was 536 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:28.079 three commercial breaks. During this match, So again they gave these two women 537 00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:31.480 way more time than I was expecting, and way more time than the ladies 538 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:37.199 usually get on these shows. They come back from break, EO hit a 539 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:43.199 pair of springboard shotgun drop kicks. She landed a meteora into a pin for 540 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:49.079 a two cout only EO went up to the top and Osca cut her off 541 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.840 slammed her on the top turn buckle. EO comes back. She slaps the 542 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.480 hell out of Oscar. Oscar then comes back, hit some Kawata kicks in 543 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.480 the corner and then a superplex which led to a close near fall. Oscar 544 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:06.480 hit a stiff kick to the chest. EO came back with the chote got 545 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:10.239 a near fall out of it. Oscar then applies a chicken wing. She 546 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:15.920 applies the Oscar lock or tries to transitions into an armbar, which EO was 547 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.440 able to escape. Oscar goes up top. She hits a shotgun drop get. 548 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:25.719 She attempted a German suplex EO though avoided it, and Oscar applied not 549 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:31.440 the best, but she applied a Fujiwara armbar and then stomped on EO's arm. 550 00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:36.280 Oscar went up top. EO though, popped up with a springboard and 551 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:40.880 kicked her out to the apron, so EO attempts a sunset flip bomb to 552 00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:45.400 the floor. She comes out, she's got a hold of Oscar. She's 553 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.719 trying to do the follow through on the sunset bomb. Oscar holds on and 554 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:54.480 EO did not really. She didn't stick the landing very well. And I 555 00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:58.880 wass cringe on that because I think back to seth Rollins when he got hurt 556 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.559 back in two thousand f Team. I think he was wrestling Kane on like 557 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:07.280 an overseas tour or something, but he did a sunset bomb in the corner, 558 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.920 and the way he planted is how he hurt his knee. So it's 559 00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.079 very easy to get hurt on a move like that. So it was a 560 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:17.920 little wonky and Oscar held on, but then Oscar let go and EO power 561 00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:21.960 bomb there. It looked very weak. I don't know if the idea was 562 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:23.960 that Oscar was not supposed to hold on and they were just supposed to have 563 00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:29.039 one fluid motion complete the power bomb, but it didn't happen. I mean, 564 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.360 safety first, but the move looked like shit. EO then hit a 565 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:37.800 moonsault to the floor, but she barely even grazed Oscar on the way down, 566 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.599 and both women were dead. Say Charlotte Flair would be proud of that 567 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:45.079 moon sault. And both women were down on the ground outside heading into another 568 00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:51.519 commercial break. So EO got a German Suplex with a bridge for a near 569 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.840 fall. She tried for a cross face. Oscar was able to reverse into 570 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:59.960 the Oscar lock and EO was struggling, but she got into a pinning position 571 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:04.320 and so Oscar had to break the hold. Now both women are trading shots. 572 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.519 Oscar grabs a wild ride hand turns it into a cross arm bar, 573 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:14.480 transitioned into another Oscar lock. She got out of it. She put it 574 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:17.559 on again, this time a little closer to the ropes. So now Bailey 575 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:21.840 is outside. I mentioned they're in her corner. So Bailey gets involved in 576 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:25.519 the match and she places EO's foot on the bottom rope. Charlotte sees this. 577 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:30.559 Alert Alert. She sees this all the way from the other side of 578 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:36.039 the ring, and Charlotte comes over to Bailey and she attacks Bailey. She 579 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:39.239 knocks her down well. Osca in the ring is watching this, and she's 580 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:44.800 briefly distracted by this by Charlotte beating up Bailey on the outside, and she 581 00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.400 doesn't see that Eo Sky is coming up from behind with the double knees right 582 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.400 to the back, so Oscar goes down. Eo goes up to the top 583 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:55.239 rope, she hits her genius at the sky Moon Salt, and she pins 584 00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:01.039 Osca to retain the women's championship. This was the highlight of the night. 585 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:07.079 These two ladies got twenty minutes across three segments and they did not disappoint. 586 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.599 There were a few rough moments, but I really enjoyed this match, and 587 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.880 I was worried we were going to get that fuck finished. We did not 588 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.760 get a fuck finish. You know what they did with Charlotte and Oscar being 589 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.679 distracted briefly, they did that because they wanted to protect Oscar, so that's 590 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:29.519 why they did what they did there, that little minor distraction. Aside, 591 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:32.159 though there really was not a lot of fuckery in this match. They let 592 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:37.239 these two go out and wrestle each other, and the wrestling is what carried 593 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:42.599 the match, and in the end, Eo Sky pinned Oscar. We didn't 594 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.639 get a DQ or count out or no content, so I was very happy 595 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:50.719 about that, but Charlotte being out there, you know what that means. 596 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.679 Charlotte Flair is not out there watching this championship match. Unless Charlotte Flair is 597 00:42:53.679 --> 00:43:00.639 going to be getting another title shot very soon. So get ready Charlotte will 598 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:04.199 be back in the title picture in a matter of weeks. And also, 599 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:08.760 don't forget we still have Kyrie Sane who is supposedly on her way back to 600 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.360 WWE. Still no official announcement, but she's on her way back. Then 601 00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.119 she's still wrapping up either she is in the process or she may have just 602 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:20.880 wrapped up her final matches, but in the next month or two she's expected 603 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.599 to be back in WWE. SmackDown is the place for her to land. 604 00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:30.239 Anywhere that Naya Jacks is not is where Kyrie Sane should be landing. But 605 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:34.400 it should be SmackDown regardless, because you've got Osca on that show, and 606 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:38.519 I want to see Osca and EO and Kyrie doing something together, whether they're 607 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.920 working against each other, whether they're partnering together, I want to see them 608 00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.119 working together. And for the love of God, keep this woman away from 609 00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:51.039 Nya Jacks. So keep that in mind that Kyrie is on her way back 610 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.760 soon. We'll see how she figures into this whole situation if she does. 611 00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.760 Paul Hayman, Solo Sakoa and Jimmy Uso were in the back Jimmy's lounging. 612 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.639 Now, Jimmy has really made himself right at home, thinking that he's officially 613 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.119 back in the bloodlight, at least that's what they want him to think. 614 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.239 Adam Pierce walks and he's got a contract in hand for a tag team match, 615 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.559 I mean John Cena and aj Styles against Jimmy Uso and Solo Sako and 616 00:44:17.679 --> 00:44:22.960 Paul Hayman says, no problem, as long as it's not for tonight, 617 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:28.119 and Adam Pierce says it's not for tonight, the match is for fast ling. 618 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:34.239 So Hayman objected to this, when Jimmy interrupted and said, no problem, 619 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:36.960 we'll be out there later on to sign the contract in the ring, 620 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.679 and Pierce walked off. Hayman told Jimmy, look, decisions like this, 621 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.880 they have to be made from the top. They have to be made by 622 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.119 the tribal chief. And Jimmy told Hayman, cool, let me know what 623 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:55.719 he says. Solo told Paul don't worry about it because after tonight there will 624 00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:04.039 not be anyone left to fight them at Fastling. We got a video after 625 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:08.000 this from Pretty Deadly. Pretty Deadly has been off television for a while. 626 00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:14.679 Or Elton Prince suffered a separated shoulder in the ring a few months ago at 627 00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.760 the hands of Ridge Holland and they were getting a pretty good pushed too at 628 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:22.079 the time, and so the timing could not have been any worse. But 629 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.639 they they've made a few appearances on TV recently and now it looks like they're 630 00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:30.079 gonna They're gonna find a way to get them on television in these I hope 631 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.840 that this is the first of more vignettes like this. I think it's the 632 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.800 perfect way to get them on television. But it started with Kit Wilson talking 633 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:45.480 to the cameras very dramatically about Elton Prince's injury is separated shoulder, and you 634 00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:49.960 could see in the background in the hospital bed. In the background, you 635 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.000 know, he's laying there, he's suffering. I think he knocked something off 636 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:57.760 the nightstand or whatever, and he asked Kit to pick it up for him, 637 00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.119 but he was selling his It showed him at one point using a shake 638 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:06.000 weight, which I forgot shake weaight's worth thing. But they showed him using 639 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.440 a shake weight. He was selling his leg and his partner was helping him 640 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:13.639 kind of stretch his leg out like you would think this guy was recovering from 641 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.079 a torn acl He doesn't have a leg injury. We had a doctor, 642 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:22.079 female doctor suddenly appeared on camera in the foreground. You could see them in 643 00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.400 the background, and the doctor just looks into the camera and says, he 644 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:31.519 has a separated should. He'll be fine. So I thought this was great. 645 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:36.039 This was a lot more amusing than it sounds here. You should watch 646 00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.519 it for yourself. Hopefully they'll put it up on their YouTube channel. But 647 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:42.760 I hope we get more of these. I think it's it's a perfect way 648 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.719 to get these two on television. I don't know how much longer he's going 649 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:47.519 to be out for. It's probably going to be, you know, a 650 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.159 little while. I don't I don't know if six weeks, if it's a 651 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:52.800 month, two months, he's gonna be out for a while longer. It's 652 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.599 the perfect way to keep these guys on television and start buildings to their return. 653 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:04.039 We had all theory and Grayson Waller, or as Kevin Patrick called them 654 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:12.920 on commentary Atown down Under against Butch not Bitch, Butch and Ridge Holland. 655 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.000 Butch actually had a very good match with Tyler Bate if you did not see 656 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.679 it on NXT this past Tuesday. They're doing this Global Heritage Invitational. It's 657 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.199 like round robin g one style, and so the two of them had a 658 00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:29.400 match. Took me back to take over Chicago back in twenty seventeen. I 659 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:32.440 guess it would have been when they wrestled for the NXT UK Championship. A 660 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.960 lot of history between those two, so they had a very good match. 661 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:39.119 One person we have not seen a lot of lately. Interestingly enough, we 662 00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:43.159 see the brawling brutes, we see Butch, we see Ridge. No Shamus. 663 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:45.480 We have not seen Shamus in at least a few weeks on television, 664 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.639 and there was a report that came out I believe from Fightful this past week 665 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.639 that Shamus is another one, much like Drew McIntyre, who's in the middle 666 00:47:52.679 --> 00:48:00.639 of at least preliminary conversations with ww WE about a new contract because his deal 667 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.360 is up I think around WrestleMania time next year. Well, apparently Shamus is 668 00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:09.880 also potentially going to be having conversations very soon with WWE. I guess he 669 00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:14.679 is going to be having conversations because his contract is also up next year, 670 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.159 and I don't know when it is next year. If it's the early part 671 00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:20.880 of the year, I think it might be the early part of twenty twenty 672 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.639 four. So that's gonna be an interesting story to follow because Shamus, yeah, 673 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:30.360 he did work some some indies before WWE, but he's been in WWE 674 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:36.000 forever, and as we know, in WWE, forever does not really last 675 00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:39.199 forever, as Dolf Ziggler found out this past week. But Shamus is still 676 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:45.800 actively Unlike Dolf, he's still actively being used on TV. He really had 677 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.800 this reinvigorated, renewed push late last year, especially coming out of the Clash 678 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:55.079 of the Castle match with Gunther still has not won the Intercontinental title. It 679 00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:59.880 would be a fucking crime if he left before he had a chance to win 680 00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:04.960 that championship. So I don't see shame is going anywhere. I personally don't 681 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.920 see this being a big story because I can't imagine him being cut. I 682 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.559 can't imagine him leaving. But apparently his contract is up next year, so 683 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:20.679 that may turn into something of his story. Now Kevin Patrick. Early on 684 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:28.679 here in this match, Kevin Patrick said we could pick holes with a town 685 00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:32.480 down under. Corey Graves immediately cut him off and said, no, no, 686 00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:38.320 we cannot, there's no holes, and he called Patrick a habitual hole 687 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:45.920 searcher. I think we may have some hole searchers here in this chat. 688 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.079 It can be difficult, especially if the lights are off. So he called 689 00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:55.760 Patrick a habitual hole searcher. And you could practically hear Michael Cole pissing himself 690 00:49:55.840 --> 00:50:02.280 laughing in the background after he says it's a brief pause, and Graves told 691 00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:05.280 him I think he was talking to Cole. He said, get your mind 692 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.119 out of the gutter. All this talk about holes again. It brings me 693 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.840 back to Nia Jacks. It just makes me think of Nia Jacks from Monday. 694 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:17.480 I don't want to be thinking about Nia Jack's on Friday. I don't 695 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.079 want to be thinking about Nia Jacks on Monday, either, but I certainly 696 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:23.800 don't want to be thinking about her on Friday. Let's leave that on Mondays. 697 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:27.920 Can we please do that. I don't want to be talking about holes. 698 00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:36.239 So Waller beat up Butch to start things off here in the match. 699 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.000 Butch came back. He did the finger snap spot and then he tagged in 700 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.199 Holland. Holland swung Waller around, he lifted him for a supplex. Butch 701 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:50.760 tagged and he hit a shotgun drop kick. Butch ran the ropes and outside 702 00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:53.440 Austin. Theory held the ropes open, so Butch went flying out to the 703 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:59.159 floor. Holland worked at Boston Crab, but Waller broke it up with his 704 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.599 rolling stunner. He did the rolling stunner finish that he does into the ring, 705 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.519 and then Theory followed that up with a town down and they picked up 706 00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.199 the wind. Michael Cole said almost like he was surprised when it was over. 707 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:13.360 He said, well, that was a great match. It was a 708 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:15.599 very good match. It was a very good match. It was a better 709 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.559 match than I was expecting. What's great, though, is the way that 710 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:24.880 Waller in Theory worked together and seemed to compliment each other. I thought the 711 00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:28.559 two of them were great together. I think they may have something here with 712 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:34.760 these two as a combo in a very short period of time. Because Grayson 713 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.079 Waller he was drafted to SmackDown, so he's really only been on the main 714 00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:43.840 roster since May Here we are in September now, and in a short period 715 00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:46.199 of time he's really fit in very nicely on the main roster. You know, 716 00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:51.280 he carries himself like a star. We've seen him on the microphone going 717 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.079 toe to toe with John Cena. We haven't seen him have a lot of 718 00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:59.320 matches. He's had a handful of matches so far, but his rain work 719 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:00.639 is very good, as ringwork was very good in n x T two. 720 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:06.480 So he's assimilated very well so far into the main roster. And I think 721 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:09.480 a new pairing with Theory would do Theory a lot of it, even more 722 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:15.480 so than Grayson Wall because even though Theories had success as a single, he 723 00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.840 was the United States Champion, and you know, he's wrestled some big names. 724 00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:24.119 I think he's more interesting, potentially more interesting if he has somebody to 725 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:29.320 play off of. Austin Theory on his own is about as fucking interesting to 726 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:34.599 me as watching Paint dry this year. So this may be what he needs 727 00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.320 right now. You have a friend that he can play off of, and 728 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:42.400 I think he'll be a little more interesting that way. So again, I 729 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:46.840 think they may have something here that The main event of the show was not 730 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:52.360 a match The main event of the show was a talking segment. Adam Pierce 731 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.840 was in the ring for the contract signing. He brought out John Cena first, 732 00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:59.960 who rushed down to the ring. Sina did not waste any time. 733 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:04.000 He signed the contract, called for his partner to come out. They played 734 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:09.760 AJ's music. No AJ stuts We don't know where AJ styles is cut to 735 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:16.440 the back and we see AJ is being destroyed by Jimmy Uso and he got 736 00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:22.639 slammed onto a series of I guess equipment cases and he's laid out. I 737 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.599 think he may have been on a table. But Solo Sako all of a 738 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.920 sudden is standing way up on top of all this equipment or a platform or 739 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.400 something. He was, you know, ten feet the air. Solo is 740 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:40.360 standing up there and he hits a splash down onto AJ stutts. So now 741 00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:45.000 officials are there. They're swarmed, swarming AJ to check on him. He 742 00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:51.599 was unconscious. He was on top of a broken table. Seena showed up 743 00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:57.599 too. It reminds me of my DDP yoga broken table. So AJ is 744 00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:01.079 laid out. John Cena runs to the back to check up on his partner, 745 00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:06.519 his would be partner. For some reason, we also see sparks flying. 746 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:13.199 Sparks are flying around AJ styles. Okay, apparently there's about to be 747 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:19.039 some sort of explosion. I don't know, but literal sparks start flying in 748 00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.199 the area where AJ was laid out. They go to commercial. When we 749 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:25.760 come back from the brake, Cina was backstage with the officials. They're tending 750 00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:30.800 to AJ. They're kind of hovering over him. He's strapped to a stretcher. 751 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:32.840 He's about to be loaded into an ambulance. We got a whole full 752 00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.280 replay of what we just saw. They cut out live to the arena and 753 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.880 we see Paul Hayman. He's waddling his way down to ringside. Then we 754 00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:46.559 cut back to the backstage area and we see AJ being loaded up into the 755 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:51.320 back of an ambulance, and the OC is there, Carl Anderson is there, 756 00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:54.880 Luke Gallows, who are just breathing a sigh of relief after this week. 757 00:54:54.920 --> 00:55:00.079 I'm sure Meet Chin is there with them. So they're loading Age J 758 00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.840 into the ambulance. Carl Anderson looks at John Cena and says, I told 759 00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:08.480 him not to get involved in bloodline business. So they all pile into the 760 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.639 not sena but the oc. They pile into the back of the ambulance and 761 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:19.400 the ambulance drives off, drives off, They take a fucking shower, drives 762 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:23.400 off back in the ring. Jimmy and Solo there they make their way down 763 00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:29.440 to the ring and Solo takes all the furniture for the contract signing, all 764 00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:32.039 the chairs, the table, He dumps all of it outside the ring. 765 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:40.960 So the fans are booing as Michael says, Paul ris that's right, he 766 00:55:42.119 --> 00:55:44.719 is. He is the paul Us. That's going to be his name. 767 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:51.960 He waddles when he walks to the ring. He waddles h So the fans 768 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.800 are booing. As Haymon is trying to speak, he says, the fans 769 00:55:55.840 --> 00:56:00.880 can boo his Kosher took us. As far as he's concerned, I think 770 00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:04.159 very few people will get well, we'll understand what that means. I got 771 00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:07.360 it. I understand what that means. But they can kiss. They could 772 00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:14.440 kiss his Kosher took us. He had in his hand a contract signed by 773 00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.599 the second greatest of all time. John seen him because they introduced him all 774 00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:20.960 the time. Is the greatest of all time, right, even the ringing 775 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.679 out for tonight, the greatest of all time, John c So. Paul 776 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:30.719 Hayman says he's the second greatest of all time, but there's no signature for 777 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:36.280 his partner. Jimmy then grabs the microphone out of Hayman's head and says, 778 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.000 well, look what happens when you mess with the bloodline. He goes, 779 00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:42.760 Yo, John, if you're smart like you say you're smart, you would 780 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.440 jump your ass in the ambulance with aj styles and get far away from the 781 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:50.639 blood line. He said, John's going out in an ambulance anyway. That's 782 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.440 not a prediction, that's a spoiler. So he took Hayman's line away from 783 00:56:53.480 --> 00:57:00.320 him. Hayman did not seem overly amused by this. Yeah, that's right. 784 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:06.760 Chase makes a great point. Never forget that the Undertaker nearly ended up 785 00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:10.360 as the Eggman. Paul Hayman kind of looks like a giant egg. But 786 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:15.440 the Undertaker almost ended up as the Eggman, and that would have just changed 787 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:20.559 the course of WWE history. He was the Eggman. Sina ran back to 788 00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:23.480 the ring. He met Solo Sakoa in the aisle way. He fought Solo 789 00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:28.079 off in the ring. He took out Jimmy. Then he Solo came back. 790 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.480 He gets Solo up on his shoulders for the attitude adjustment, but then 791 00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:36.199 he gets kicked in the face with a superkick. It's down, go see 792 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:38.440 it. Jimmy gave the signal for Solo to hit the Samoa and Spike. 793 00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:45.320 The crowd started Channy for Cody and Sina ate the Samo and Spike. They 794 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.840 put the boots to seeing it, and this right here is where I was 795 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.519 like, all right, if it's gonna be Cody, if it's gonna be 796 00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:53.679 l a Night, whoever it's gonna be. This is the moment that they 797 00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:59.920 come out, and then nobody came out, so they're putting the boots to 798 00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.119 this guy. Jimmy goes up top, he hits the USO splash. Then 799 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:07.280 he grabbed the contract away from Paul Hayman. He put his name on the 800 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.719 contract. He handed it to Solo for him to sign, and he signed 801 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:15.719 it. They were taking their time, just kind of standing around and it's 802 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:19.000 like they were killing time, and then Jimmy said, well, I'll go 803 00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.840 up again for another splash. So he goes up top, hits one more 804 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:28.079 USO splash, and again they ran short. They clearly ran short. Because 805 00:58:28.119 --> 00:58:30.119 they went off the air a few minutes early, and think it was like 806 00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:35.000 two or three minutes early before the top of the hour, so they really 807 00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:39.400 dragged this segment out as long as they possibly could. But the match is 808 00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:43.280 official. John Cena, though, was down to partner, so right now 809 00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.239 we got one signature on the contract, but no signature for his partner, 810 00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:52.119 and conspicuous by his absence. And there are some people who tuned in late 811 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:55.519 who may not be aware of this, but La Night was not on the 812 00:58:55.519 --> 00:58:59.840 show tonight. He was not mentioned. He did not feature in any of 813 00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:05.320 this segments. The crowd here was chanting for Cody, which is interesting that 814 00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:07.280 they weren't chanting for La Night. Er if they were, I didn't hear 815 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:13.800 it. Cody is the one they were chanting for. But it was pretty 816 00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:16.440 apparent to me in watching this that La Knight was going to be the one 817 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:20.960 to kind of save the day, and then he never did. The reason 818 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.360 that he didn't if you missed it at the beginning, is because La Knight 819 00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:28.760 was supposed to be in this segment. He was pulled late in the day 820 00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:34.039 and sent home or sent away from the building because he tested positive for COVID 821 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:37.159 and I guess they only found out about it late in the day, so 822 00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:40.800 he was sent away, and I guess they just decided, well, we're 823 00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:44.840 not going to replace him, or they didn't have somebody to replace him for 824 00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:49.480 fast Lane. La Night is sick. Hopefully he'll be okay. Maybe in 825 00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:52.280 a week he can be back on the show and then they can reveal that 826 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.079 he's the tag team partner. But that is why La Knight was not on 827 00:59:55.119 --> 01:00:00.199 the show. That is why nobody came out to save John Cena. Because 828 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:01.360 if this guy is sick and he's going to be out for a week or 829 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.480 two, he can still work the pay per view. The pay per view 830 01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:07.800 is still a couple of weeks away, so La Knight does not have to 831 01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:09.159 lose his spot, and I hope for his sake that he does it, 832 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:14.360 because there really is no other obvious choice. If aj Styles is going to 833 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:16.239 be out for a while and they already shot the injury angle, he shouldn't 834 01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:21.719 just be back on TV next week. Then that leaves La Knight and Cody 835 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.719 Rhodes as possibilities. Now, with Cody, you could explain it by finally 836 01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:30.039 revealing the Cody is the person coming to SmackDown in exchange for jay Us and 837 01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.000 then Cody becomes tag team partners at fast Lange with John Cena. Because Cody 838 01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:37.679 doesn't have a match at fast Lane, which is ridiculous. He needs to 839 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:39.639 get he needs to get a match. He didn't have a match with Payback. 840 01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:43.840 He needs to have a match at fast Ling right now. He does 841 01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:47.320 it. So if they wanted to tell that story, it could easily they 842 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.480 could slide Cody Roads in there. I think that would be a mistake because 843 01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:53.920 it's too early to move Cody to smack Down. And I still think Cody 844 01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:59.760 is the one going to SmackDown, but it's too soon, and they just 845 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.599 first started teasing this story between Cody and Drew McIntyre, which may well lead 846 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:09.880 to a Drew McIntyre heelter. We still haven't gotten a program between or any 847 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:15.239 interaction really between Cody and Drew McIntyre. They have to tell that story first 848 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.679 on Raw before you can even think about moving him over to SmackDown. So 849 01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:22.880 and he's opening the show on Monday night. They had already announced that Cody 850 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:25.840 was opening the show on Monday, So it's not going to be Cody. 851 01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:29.800 The timing for that just isn't right. It's going to be seen at La 852 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.639 Knight. I think La and that will be okay. He'll be back him 853 01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:37.159 and John Cena against Jimmy Uso and Solo Sakoa will be one of the main 854 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:45.000 events for fast Lane as far as AJ Styles is concerned. If La Knight 855 01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:49.960 does end up becoming John cenas tag team partner, as I believe he will, 856 01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:55.360 what I hope does not happen is that they don't just feed him to 857 01:01:55.519 --> 01:02:00.960 Roman Reigns in Saudi Arabia in November, because there's been talk that it could 858 01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:05.440 very well be La Knight and Roman Reigns for the championship, and it might 859 01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:07.679 sound weird, like, oh, well, isn't that the kind of match 860 01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:09.440 that you would want to see because you know, you've you're a fan of 861 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:13.639 his, You've been advocating for La Night to get a push I have, 862 01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:17.079 And that's exactly why I don't want to see him against Roman Reigns this suit, 863 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:22.239 because it doesn't end well for La Knights. Then he just becomes another 864 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.360 guy who goes in there and gets fed to Roman Reigns. And there's no 865 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:31.159 reason to do that this soon, So I don't want to see that it 866 01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:37.159 crowned Jewel. Aj Styles went out in an ambulance today, which means when 867 01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:39.920 he comes back, he's going to be looking for payback on the bloodline. 868 01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:45.639 So the person who I still feel like is the best choice to wrestle Roman 869 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:50.119 Reigns in November is Aj Styles. It's a match we haven't seen since Roman 870 01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.519 became champion. After what Solo and Jimmy did to him tonight, he should 871 01:02:53.599 --> 01:03:00.079 want to get his hands ultimately on Roman Reigns and either Crown Jewel or of 872 01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:02.440 IBr series, either one of those shows. It should be AJ and Roman 873 01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:07.519 and hopefully that's where their focus is. Hopefully that's the direction that they're moving 874 01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:13.159 in. Overall, though, again, I enjoyed Osca and EO, and 875 01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:15.280 it was a newsworthy angle to close out the show. Even if it was 876 01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:19.400 incomplete, it would have it would have hit better if La Night was there, 877 01:03:19.480 --> 01:03:21.719 but he couldn't be there. He got sick and they sent them home. 878 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:23.920 Shit happens. It's not their fault, so that would have made the 879 01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:30.000 ending not as awkward as it felt. But the rest of the show was 880 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.880 just kind of there, really not much of a show otherwise, you know, 881 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:38.960 the look. The Waller and Theory tag match was good. I'm not 882 01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:43.480 saying it wasn't good, but there was nothing else on the show that really 883 01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:45.199 jumped out. Is something that, oh my god, you have to see 884 01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:49.960 it. If you missed it, watch the Oscar and Eo match. That's 885 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.719 really good. If you want to watch the show closing angle and the stuff 886 01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:57.360 with aj that's newsworthy. But that really was the only main stuff coming out 887 01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:00.639 of this show tonight. Now next week it's going to be Charlotte and Bailey 888 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:05.960 one on one, Santos Escobar against Ray Mysterio for the United States Championship, 889 01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:11.280 and Bobby Lashley is going to be the guest on the Grayson Waller Effect. 890 01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:15.840 So that is the current lineup for SmackDown next week, and we'll see if 891 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:17.840 La Night is back or not. You know, again, with this COVID 892 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:21.360 stuff. Until he tests negative, they're not going to let him back no 893 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:27.519 matter how he feels. He could feel totally fine, depends on when he 894 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.880 clears you know, the virus and he tests negative and then he'll be let 895 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:34.960 back. So hopefully he's not gone for very long. This is the worst 896 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:39.519 time for him to be out for an extended period of time. My fear 897 01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:43.199 at first what I first saw the tweet from Sean Ross sap was now a 898 01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:45.840 medical issue. I'm like, oh fuck, you know, did he hurt 899 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.000 his knee? Like, did he suffer an injury? This is actually better, 900 01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:56.000 just because an injury or anything like that could could be catastrophic to this 901 01:04:56.039 --> 01:05:00.599 guy's push right now. But hopefully he won't be gone very long. Here's 902 01:05:00.599 --> 01:05:03.880 the Twitter poll for a Tonight Show. Sixty two percent thumbs up for SmackDown, 903 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:11.159 thirty seven point eight percent thumbs down at solo monster on Twitter or a 904 01:05:11.239 --> 01:05:17.480 Twitter x. Maybe we should call it so go vote, go vote. 905 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:26.159 You have filthy animals. All right, let's take a look at these super 906 01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:30.840 chats here, got a bunch of them coming in. Don't remember, by 907 01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:33.800 the way, don't or don't remember, don't forget to hit that leg button, 908 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:38.400 and perhaps we will do some be the booker here. We're a little 909 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:41.280 I didn't reveal what the goal was, but we're still down from the building. 910 01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:45.320 That's all all said. No I hit that thumbs up the Winston slip 911 01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:51.880 with a super check coming in, says golf Ziggler defines turning chicken shit into 912 01:05:53.039 --> 01:06:00.679 chicken salad, Lady Fire Panda says, chicken salad, Lady Fire Panda has 913 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.000 a good taste. Thank you for the twenty bucks, Jamie Dorsch. If 914 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:09.199 it were to happen, could Austin versus Lesner be a bigger match than Reins 915 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:15.119 and Rock. No, First of all, it's it's not going to happen. 916 01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:19.719 It will never happen. Stone Cove will never wrestle Brocks. I'm confident 917 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:25.559 in saying that you're in. It was never going to happen. It is 918 01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:30.079 not going to happen. So if it did happen, in some fantasy world 919 01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:35.360 scenario, Rock and Roman is still the more Marky Man. Some people may 920 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:38.719 disagree with that, but I'm just telling you, as big of a star 921 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:42.920 as Rock is, it's the bigger Marky Man. It's the match that will 922 01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:48.079 do the biggest business between us. Austin and Brock will sell tickets, but 923 01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:51.599 Rock and Roman is the match that if you gave WWW the choice, that's 924 01:06:51.639 --> 01:07:00.360 the match that they want. Jacob Donnelly with the five dollars super Chat didn't 925 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:03.199 think your predictions of Matt or prediction of Matt Riddle being released would come true. 926 01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:06.840 Mine predicting that I will win the lottery. If you're a twenty twenty 927 01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:11.000 four predict well, I would predict that I'm gonna win the lot before I 928 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.199 predict that you're gonna win the one. I'll make a prediction right now, 929 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.119 you and I both Neither one of us are gonna win the lottery in twenty 930 01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:23.440 twenty four. It came to me in a vision Rizzo with the ten spot. 931 01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:26.280 Gotta work at seven am tomorrow, so I don't know if I can 932 01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:29.800 make it for the whole stream, but will definitely listen to the recap when 933 01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:31.920 it comes out in the morning. Sucks about riddle, but not really a 934 01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:39.480 surprise. Not a surprise. Nial Fire Panda, who is the greatest mid 935 01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:44.159 card wrestler of all time? I think he may have been released by WWE 936 01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:47.199 this week. I think delve Ziggler is in the conversation. I think I 937 01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:53.880 personally, I might go Kurt Heading, I might come mister Perfect. But 938 01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:57.159 I think the argument could definitely be made that the answer is delve Ziggler. 939 01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:00.000 If you think of all the success that he had, the titles he won, 940 01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:03.679 he was never a main event guy in the company. He was never 941 01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:10.039 truly a main event player, you know, so I think I think that 942 01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:15.119 may be the answer. GMB, who would be your first feud for Jade 943 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:18.680 on the main roster? Well, I've made it very clear where I think 944 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:24.640 Jade should go. But if they if they insist on debuting her on the 945 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:30.399 main roster first, I think there's a story there. As long as Becky 946 01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.119 Lynch is the NXT Women's Champion, I think there's a way to work her 947 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:38.439 into a program a program or at least one match with Becky Lynch, but 948 01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:44.720 getting her an NXT by having her beat Becky Whin the NXT Champion and that 949 01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:47.760 at least forces her to be an NXT for a period of time, but 950 01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:51.039 it gives her main roster exposure. If they insist on doing that, you 951 01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:54.640 know, because they're they're probably paying her good money and they want her on 952 01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:58.560 television. But I think she definitely should have a stint in NXT first, 953 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.840 But that could be one way for her to make a big splash. Bass 954 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:06.319 Beers has seen his partner will be none other than stew Ah. Yes, 955 01:09:06.439 --> 01:09:15.560 stew the cameraman. I hadn't thought about that. Bass Beers has top dollar 956 01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:26.359 now rock bottom and Rocks should interact with hit Row or what's left of hit 957 01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:30.319 Row. Brian Musha with the twelve Bucks had to give the new super Chat 958 01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:32.479 to try. If Raw is leaving USA in the new rights deal, do 959 01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:34.800 you think this will be the time to cut it back to two hours? 960 01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:41.279 I fucking hope. So I'm not even really concerned about that anymore. The 961 01:09:41.319 --> 01:09:45.760 fact that SmackDown is coming back to USA concern What concerns me is that SmackDown 962 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:48.800 may go three hours. If USA wants it three hours, it's going three 963 01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:57.279 hours. That's what concerns me. Rob G Better Arena, MSG, UBS, 964 01:09:57.279 --> 01:10:00.920 Prudential or Barclays. I have not been to the Prudential Will Center in 965 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.560 Newark. I have been to the other No, Actually I have not been 966 01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:09.680 to UBS. Have I been to Ubs? No? No, So I 967 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:13.199 have not been to UBS yet. I've been to MSG, and I've been 968 01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:16.439 to Barclay's. Barclays is closer to me, so it's a lot easier to 969 01:10:16.439 --> 01:10:24.560 get to. But I mean, Better Arena. Hard to vote against MSG 970 01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:31.039 just for the history. I'd go MSG Dethronics seventy eight. If no one 971 01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:34.800 sees it's going to be Rock and Roman at WrestleMania is beyond me. Rock 972 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:41.359 is making the calls over rolling. That's what everybody said last year. What 973 01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.079 happened? What happened? I thought we were getting it last year with last 974 01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:48.199 year. This year, I thought we were getting it this year. Do 975 01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:51.960 you not assume that Rock is wrestling at WrestleMania. I don't understand why people 976 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:56.960 think it's a foregone conclusion that Rock is wrestling at wrestle me when Rock has 977 01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:00.760 not had a singles match, a proper singles match, in ten fucking years, 978 01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:06.479 and people still think always gonna be a WrestleMania next year. The odds 979 01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:11.439 are against it. There's a better chance of him not having a match of 980 01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.600 WrestleMania than having a match of wrestling. I said it before. I think 981 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:19.000 he's more in love with the idea of having a match, actually getting in 982 01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:24.760 the ring and having a match. He got hurt the last time he was 983 01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:29.520 supposed to wrestle Rock at WrestleMania thirty, but because of those injuries, they 984 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:31.359 didn't shoot the angle on Raw the night after, and then the whole thing 985 01:11:31.399 --> 01:11:36.960 just never happened. People think, oh, Rock is definitely coming back at 986 01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:40.159 WrestleMania. He was supposed to be back this year, right. It was 987 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:43.479 locked. That was the word he used. It was locked. Locked in. 988 01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:45.960 Well, I guess somebody found a key and they opened the lock because 989 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.520 I didn't see Rock and Roman at WrestleMania this year. So I don't know 990 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:54.399 why some people think it's an automatic guarantee that that match is happening next year. 991 01:11:54.439 --> 01:11:58.880 I don't think it is. Bass Beer, says bro No more. 992 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.239 Riddle Waller is such a JABRONI where the hell is reins in theory, Ray 993 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:09.439 Phoenix should be elevated. You beat former world champion Moxley. Thank you, 994 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:15.840 solo you monster. Well, that was a lot of different topics that were 995 01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:24.880 covered in that one message there, Chris Ludek. If Riddle goes to AW, 996 01:12:25.039 --> 01:12:28.479 they have already made feud with Jake Hager, but he has serious personal 997 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:36.680 issues that he needs to address. So if Riddle goes to AW, your 998 01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:45.800 first thought was putting him in a feud with Jake Hager. Hager, that's 999 01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:51.199 the feud for Riddle that you're thinking about. I'm no interest in seeing Jake 1000 01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:57.960 Hager whatsoever. Based Beerris, thank you for the fifteen bucks Man based beers 1001 01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:01.000 is on fire tonight, Chris AXC, Who do you think had more to 1002 01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:08.239 do in the business before They're unfortunate passing Eddie Guerrero or Owen Harnt. They 1003 01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:11.239 both did. I really don't want to choose between them. I think they 1004 01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:16.359 both had a lot to contribute, and both of them honestly in coaching and 1005 01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:19.399 teaching capacities. I don't know if they would have started their own school, 1006 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:25.760 but I think that them passing their knowledge on to the next generation of talent 1007 01:13:27.039 --> 01:13:29.880 would have been invaluable, and I think ultimately that's what the two of them 1008 01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:32.479 would have ended up doing. Owen was thirty four when he passed away. 1009 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:36.319 Eddie was thirty eight and his body was already breaking down so in the ring 1010 01:13:36.439 --> 01:13:41.319 physically, I think Owen had more to contribute and would have done more. 1011 01:13:42.159 --> 01:13:44.119 But I don't want to I don't want to sit here and make it sound 1012 01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:46.520 like, well, you know, one guy had a lot more to contribute 1013 01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:49.960 than the other. I mean, imagine Eddie Guerrero, you know, coaching 1014 01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:55.399 people and teaching them, teaching the next generation of talent, working in you 1015 01:13:55.439 --> 01:14:00.199 know, the developmental system or something. I think that would have been I 1016 01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:03.119 think that would have been huge, and I'll be able to learn from someone 1017 01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:11.439 like him. Bobby's world riddle was gone. Behold my shocked face. Solo 1018 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:17.000 calls another one January first. I said it. I said it on January 1019 01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:24.520 first. I got the receipts to prove it. I take no pleasure in 1020 01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:31.079 it. But he did not disappoint. Actually he did disappoint. Bass Beer 1021 01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:39.000 says Nya needs to use abyssess finisher my whole slant. She should use that 1022 01:14:39.119 --> 01:14:42.600 because the the bons eye drop that she's been using, especially the once she 1023 01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:45.600 hit on Rhea Ripley. I'm surprised she didn't kill her when she hit that 1024 01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:50.079 move. We got one coming in here from Zacharai. Zacharia, Man, 1025 01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:57.119 what's going on? I hope you're doing well. Zachariah Sitchin says, I 1026 01:14:57.119 --> 01:15:00.399 thought Cody was going to swoop in for the save. If about him, 1027 01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:03.079 then what does he do for fast Ling? What does Cody do for fast 1028 01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:06.560 Lane? I have no fucking idea. Clearly they're going to be doing something 1029 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:11.199 with him and Drew, but I don't know. If that first match happens 1030 01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:15.319 at fast Lane, that's the match that would make sense. But fast Lane 1031 01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:16.600 is two weeks away, so if they're going to do something with the two 1032 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:19.640 of them. They better get the two of them in the ring real quick. 1033 01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:25.319 Maybe maybe it could happen on Monday. Cody's coming out to make some 1034 01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:29.520 sort of address at the beginning of the show. So Cody and Drew is 1035 01:15:29.560 --> 01:15:31.520 the direction. I just don't know if that first match is going to happen 1036 01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:36.239 in time for fast Lane. I think it might, Otherwise, I have 1037 01:15:36.319 --> 01:15:41.359 no idea. I mean, we've already seen him in the Judgment Day he 1038 01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:45.960 beat Dominic in two minutes, made him look like a scrub. On Monday, 1039 01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:47.960 You're not going to do that again, right, Balor and priest Or 1040 01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:51.439 tag team champions. It's not going to be either one of them. It's 1041 01:15:51.479 --> 01:15:55.960 not gonna be Seth Right, he's still busy with Nakamura. They don't have 1042 01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:59.319 a lot of options for all, the more reason to get him on SmackDown 1043 01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:04.720 soon. But not yet. Not yet. It's a little too soon for 1044 01:16:04.760 --> 01:16:10.479 that. Yeah, I'm bliss fan. In the chat makes an interesting point. 1045 01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:15.479 There were there were rumors. There were some reports even before Summer Slam, 1046 01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:20.000 I think, but coming out of Summer Slam, there were reports that 1047 01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:25.039 Cody might be working with Bray Wyatt. When the talk was that Bray was 1048 01:16:25.079 --> 01:16:28.399 going to be coming back as early as September. I still maintained that if 1049 01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:30.359 bray Wyatt was having heart issues, there's no fucking way he was going to 1050 01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:33.920 be cleared anyway. It's not like they snuck up on him. I mean, 1051 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:38.760 if he had issues, then how close could the guy have been getting 1052 01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:42.000 cleared? Their medical team never would have cleared him in time to come back 1053 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:46.039 in September. But is it possible that creatively the plan was that he would 1054 01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:49.399 work with Cody if he was able to come back. Yeah, I think 1055 01:16:49.439 --> 01:16:57.319 it's possible. It's possible, and that could be why Cody is just sort 1056 01:16:57.359 --> 01:17:01.119 of floating around aimlessly without any real direction right now, because the direction that 1057 01:17:01.159 --> 01:17:06.920 they originally planned for him fell through. So I think there's a definite possibility 1058 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:12.399 there. But whatever whatever the situation may be, he's too important to that 1059 01:17:12.439 --> 01:17:15.720 show for him to not have anything to do. I mean, it's just 1060 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:23.399 it's ridiculous. So we are now at four hundred and twenty eight lights. 1061 01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:28.720 So the hidden goal was four hundred, just so you know, So thank 1062 01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:30.399 you guys for helping us hit the goal tonight. Let's be the booker, 1063 01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:43.159 ladies and gentlemen. Oh no, it's Charlotte Faker. Oh no, she's 1064 01:17:43.239 --> 01:17:48.359 everywhere. She heard be the booker. She'd be ready for her championship match. 1065 01:17:50.479 --> 01:17:54.640 Charlotte was the one thing I'll say about Charlotte flairsh she'll never drown. 1066 01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:59.479 All Right, here we go. Men's be the booker. Let's start things 1067 01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:03.439 off with the men. Men's be the booker, closing out the week here 1068 01:18:03.439 --> 01:18:05.920 on a Friday night. We had a pretty good night on Monday and Wednesday, 1069 01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:10.760 I think right in terms of be the booker. Hopefully, well, 1070 01:18:10.840 --> 01:18:13.279 we're getting off to a great start here too. Look at this, the 1071 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:19.840 intercontinental champion, the longest reigning intercontinental champion of all time. Gunther kicks us 1072 01:18:19.880 --> 01:18:27.039 off here and be the book It doesn't get any better than that. And 1073 01:18:27.199 --> 01:18:33.479 it's gonna be Gunther going one on one with King Kong Bundy. I'm a 1074 01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:38.520 bundamaniac. I will admit I'm a I'm a King Kong Bundy mark. I 1075 01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:44.840 like King Kong Bundy. King Kong Bundy and Gunther type of big man match 1076 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:47.800 I could get behind. I'm not talking King Kong Bundy from like that second 1077 01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:53.159 run when he was in the Million Dollar Corporation, because you know, I'm 1078 01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:59.119 talking about King Kong Bundy from the eighties. I give that the bell It 1079 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:04.520 wouldn't be a tech masterpiece, but I think it would be entertaining enough. 1080 01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:09.439 All Right, here we go, be the booker. Let's see. Let's 1081 01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:14.600 see if the Queen gets her wish we had Charlotte Flair on television tonight. 1082 01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:27.039 Let's see if we Oh my god, I rather have Charlotte Flair. Brethe 1083 01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:33.800 Bella has greeted us here once again in be the Booker. M have finished 1084 01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:36.359 this out anyway, even though I already gave it the buzzard. But my 1085 01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:45.359 god, my god, breathe Bella and be Fab. Yeah, yeah, 1086 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:51.600 yeah, I knew that was coming. That, by the way, sounds 1087 01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:58.760 like a horrid match. Oh my god, I almost want to see it, 1088 01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:06.560 just for like entertainment sake. Breebella and be Fab. Jesus tag team 1089 01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:11.560 slide of great tag teams in here. And here's one. Powers of Pain, 1090 01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:17.479 the Barbarian and the Warlord. I remember when they did the double turn 1091 01:20:17.560 --> 01:20:23.720 many years ago between the Powers of Pain and Demolition. Probably the earliest example 1092 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:30.000 of a double turn that I ever saw. Powers of Pain and best Friends 1093 01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:43.680 bless is what I say. To that, So I see I spoke too 1094 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:45.760 soon when I said we had a great night on Monday. We had a 1095 01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:50.039 great night on Wednesday. And then we end up with Beefab and Breebella and 1096 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:54.439 we end up with best friends against the powers of pain. I just you 1097 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:57.039 know, what do you do with that? What do you do with that? 1098 01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:00.319 You just take the l and you move on. That's it. That's 1099 01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:04.439 all you can do. One for three The Terrible Night, Awful Dreadful Night. 1100 01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:13.680 Doctor Bropio. Did Charles Mason watch The Dark Night recently? He had 1101 01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:16.680 me laughing when he was yelling where is he in the ring in that clip? 1102 01:21:16.760 --> 01:21:20.520 I'm sorry you'd have to ask him. I don't talk to him about 1103 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:24.640 his movie watching Habits. I try not to have any conversations with him. 1104 01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:28.960 He's an asshole and slim Yoshi with the ten Spots. Sad to hear the 1105 01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:33.640 news about Dolve Ziggler. I know some to some his best moment was the 1106 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:36.760 money in the bank cash and but my favorite moment of his will always be 1107 01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:43.680 his performance in the twenty fourteen Survivor series match. He was the sole survivor 1108 01:21:43.720 --> 01:21:46.560 that was Team Sina against the Authority. I remember it well, and they 1109 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:51.600 have the potential to really turn that into something, and of course they didn't 1110 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:55.960 do it. Just kind of the story of his career in many ways. 1111 01:21:57.119 --> 01:22:00.439 So we'll talk about Dolve Ziggler and must Have for Ali and Matt Riddle as 1112 01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:03.039 more news comes out, I'm sure, and all the other releases, all 1113 01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:06.279 the other big WWE news of the week, television news. There's a lot 1114 01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:12.760 of stuff that has happened, and who knows what may end up being reported 1115 01:22:12.800 --> 01:22:15.000 tomorrow, what news might break tomorrow. We still have one more day before 1116 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:18.840 the podcast, so that's going to be episode eight twenty seven on Sunday, 1117 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:24.520 and I'll be preparing for that the whole My whole weekend has gone over. 1118 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:28.000 Every time I turn around, there's another release, there's another piece of news. 1119 01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:32.840 I can't I can't rest for a second here without something breaking. So 1120 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:35.880 there will be no shortage of news. Hey j from New Jersey with the 1121 01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:41.880 five dollars super Chat, Bundy, the original Egg also love Cats. Yes, 1122 01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.199 that's right, King Kong Bundy. When he passed away, I think 1123 01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:51.680 he had like ten cats, and I don't remember what happened to them. 1124 01:22:51.680 --> 01:22:56.079 I don't know if he had family to take the cats. I remember there 1125 01:22:56.119 --> 01:22:59.560 being a newspaper article, I think, asking if people wanted the cats. 1126 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:03.000 So I don't really remember what happened to them, but yeah, he was 1127 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:10.039 a big cat guy. He did look like an egg, especially that second 1128 01:23:10.119 --> 01:23:13.239 round when he came back in nineteen four, I guess into ninety five, 1129 01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:16.119 he looked like a human egg. He really did. The way he moved, 1130 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:21.359 the odd shape of his body. It's a very odd looking fellow. 1131 01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:26.439 You want to see something odd, go find photos or footage of him with 1132 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:30.960 hair back when he was in his early wrestling days, King Kong Bundy with 1133 01:23:31.039 --> 01:23:36.600 hair back in world class was a sight to behold. They were taken in 1134 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:41.279 by someone. Okay, good, good, Yeah, I just couldn't remember 1135 01:23:41.319 --> 01:23:45.479 what happened to the cats. There were so many of them. I think 1136 01:23:45.479 --> 01:23:49.760 he had like ten of them when he when he passed away. So anyway, 1137 01:23:49.800 --> 01:23:54.359 thank you guys for hanging out with me on a Friday night. We 1138 01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:59.039 covered a lot of ground here with this show tonight and the Matt Riddle News 1139 01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:02.479 and the next time I will be live with you will be Monday night for 1140 01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:08.319 Monday Night Raw. And before that, don't forget to check out episode eight 1141 01:24:08.399 --> 01:24:12.079 twenty seven to the podcast on Sunday. Hit that subscribe button. Thank you 1142 01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:15.920 to the seventy five k that we now have here on this channel. Let's 1143 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:19.239 shoot for seventy six. Hopefully you are one of them. Leave alike on 1144 01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:23.359 your way out. Thank you for the super chats and I will see you 1145 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:29.479 back here very soon for more live SoundOff on YouTube and eight twenty seven on 1146 01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:31.159 Sunday. A lot of news till then. Take care, guys,