A little over six hours from now, wwe will be live for the Elimination
Chamber from Perth, Australia. Some of you may not even go to bed
tonight. You may be watching this stream right now and you're gonna stay up
all night long and then you're gonna watch the pay per view. I will
not be one of those people, though. I have to get at least
two hours of sleep, So we're gonna get through this review tonight and then
we have a very busy day coming up tomorrow. But that meant that SmackDown
tonight was a taped show because they had to get over there to Australia,
so they taped two smackdowns last week instead of one. And if you didn't
know that coming in, you knew it watching this show. If you are
a fan of video packages, boy do I have the show for you.
You're gonna love this show tonight. You got video packages galore. And the
show ended with Randy Orton standing tall heading to the Elimination Chamber tomorrow to crown
a number one contender for the World Heavyweight title. Will it be Randy Orton
Wrestling, seth Rollins or WrestleMania. That's a match we've seen before. Actually,
we've seen seth Rollins wrestle pretty much everybody. I think most of the
people right in the elimination chamber match. I do believe Randy Orton. He's
been in the ring Wood Drew McIntyre. He's been in the ring with Kevin
Owens. He's been in the ring with Logan Paul. He's been in the
ring with Bobby Lashley. La Knight. Has he wrestled La Knight? La
Knight maybe the only one that he has not wrestled. This was not a
terrible episode of SmackDown, but it also wasn't very good. It was boring.
It was a boring show that if you did not see it, you
did not miss a single thing. A very skippable show is what tonight's SmackDown
was all about. The elimination chamber, which I will run down the matches
for that a little bit later on and give you my final predictions. But
first let's talk about this show. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review at
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Elimination Chamber Review. The show tonight open with two of the women who are
in the Women's Elimination Chamber Match. Tomorrow, The Winter will challenge Ria Ripley
for the women's world title at WrestleMania. It was Live Morgan against Tiffany Stratton.
You know, boy, Tiffany, she must be exhausted. I mean,
here's a woman who went from the States all the way to Perth so
that she can be a part of this press conference last night, and then
flies all the way back to the US to be on SmackDown tonight. And
now this woman has to get on a red eye and try to make it
somehow back to Perth in time to be part of the Women's Chamber Match.
Now she may have to defy the laws of science to do that. That's
about a twenty four hour flight. I'm not sure how she's going to get
back. But there she was on SmackDown tonight. In the middle of the
ring, Bianca bell Air came out. She took a seat next to the
announcers, didn't do commentary, just sat there to observe Live. Hit a
second rope diving code breaker for a near fall. Tiffany tried the prettiest moonsalt
ever. Live escaped and Tiffany rolled through. She was able to hit her
cartwheel Alabama slam for a near fall. Tiffany drag Lived back to the corner
and attempted another moonsalt, but Lived popped up and cut her off. And
then there was a very awkward spot here where Live. She did a little
springboard twisting maneuver off the rope she was trying for like a springboard twisting sunset
power bomb. The only thing is Tiffany Stratt And I don't know if it
was because she was just nervous. You know, it's a dangerous spot.
You know, you got to make sure you know where you are at all
times. You could take a rough bump. She held onto the ropes a
little too long, and so Liv did her you know, her little flip,
and she was ready to hit the power bomb. But Tiffany wasn't ready
to let go of the ropes, and she took an extra two or three
seconds and then Finally, when she power bombed here, it just didn't look
good, so that did not come off the way they envisioned it. Things
spilled outside and Tiffany ended up just walking over and slapping Bianca right upside the
head, just smacked her right in the face and she got back in the
race. She was trying to rile her up and it worked because Bianca got
up on the apron of the referee was holding her back. Live though in
the meantime behind the referee, Live Morgan gets a roll up on Tiffany Stratton
but there's no referee. Tiffany kicks out Live, has to lunge forward,
knocks Bianca off the apron. Tiffany then rolls up Live and picks up the
wind. The match was fine, you know, outside of the awkward power
bomb spot paint by number shit. Not much really else to say about it
other than Tiffany. We didn't have to worry about Tiffany crushing Live Morgan with
the prettiest moon Salt ever because she got cut off. There was no moon
salt, and as far as tomorrow, I suspect we'll get the prettiest moon
salt ever. I don't think she could do it off one of the tops
of the pods though. I mean, maybe she could try it, I
guess, but I don't know. You don't really have that much room.
Well, actually, you know what, they've raised the ceiling in these things,
haven't they now? I think they have. They've raised the ceiling in
these chambers now. Or maybe she can pull it off. You know,
we're gonna get something crazy at least one super stuid been crazy thing in either
of the Chamber matches tomorrow. If I had to pick the one person who
I think is going to pull it off in the women's match, it's gonna
be Tiffany Stratt. At backstage, Drew McIntyre, who is the star of
the show lately, Drew McIntyre was talking to uh, I guess KLi I
believe it was, and he said, you know, it's a critical point
in his career. The world title needs him and he needs the world title,
and if he didn't win it at the Chamber and he didn't go on
to WrestleMania, it was all just as worthless as cm Punk's return to WWE.
He's going to burn this man every chance he gets for the next nine
months until he comes back and he's enjoying it. He seems to be enjoying
himself. I love how he just sticks it in there and every promo could
have nothing to do with CM punt. He will happily go in there and
bury CM Punk at every opportunity that he has. So Bobby Lashley walked up,
and Bobby Lashley actually thought that was very amusing. He was chuckling.
He said, he's been laughing at all the different ways that Drew has been
mocking CM Punk. The T shirt that Drew was wearing with the tombstone on
it, and he said, you know, Punk came back with all this
fanfare, and then his first match back he gets hurt. He says,
it's almost as funny as WrestleMania thirty seven when Drew passed out in the hurt
lock and Lashley walked off and McIntyre didn't seem very amused by that. We
had a video package, one of many on this television show tonight. This
one aired. There's a vignette for the new team of Ashanti Diodonis and Cedric
Alexander. They've done at least one other vignette with them didn't err on TV,
though, so this is the new pairing that they're trying out. They're
a new team now giving it another go with Cedric, which I don't mind
because Cedric is very talented, and Cedric should be on TV doing something other
than dusting the man off every three or four months and having him do the
job for somebody. It's nice for them to try to come up with something
for these two guys. So Ashanti, I guess they were at his house
or they were one of their apartments or whatever, and Ashanti is sitting there
and Cedric is coming out, and he's wearing different outfits because they're gonna go
out, and he's trying on different clothing. He's wearing different outfits, and
every time Ashanti's like, no, no, no, that sucks, that
doesn't work, they put a graphic up. Then finally that said several hours
later and you could still hear them bickering until Cedric walked out. He's wearing
leather pants and a vest. He's doing his best the Hollywood Dave Batista impression
here or I guess Hollywood rock. Yeah, just hit me that when Batista
did the Hollywood gimmick, it might have been a denim vest that he was
wearing. But I don't know, is that like the Hollywood gimmick? Because
Rock also had the vest no shirt, and Batista also had the shades.
Like the Rock, he had the vest and no shirt. I guess that's
officially the Hollywood gimmick, the Hollywood attire. I guess that's what you wear.
So he was wearing that, and he didn't like the way he looked,
but Ashanti said, that's it. That's the money right there, that's
the money look. And finally they left to go out. Kind of corny,
but these are the types of character building vignettes that you see all the
time in NXT. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. It's about character
building. They're gonna try something new with these two. Is it gonna work
long term? Probably not if history is any indication, no reflection on these
two guys. But if history is any indication, taking these two that they
had no plans for and sticking them together probably is not going to work.
But I could also recall a time many years ago where there were two men
on the roster that WWE did know what to do with, one of which
was the real Jesse James. The other one was Billy Gunn he was Rockabilly
right. You know what a fucking success that was. And they took these
two guys completely at random, they put them together and we ended up with
the New Age Outlaws. So you know what, you never know, you
never know. It's better than doing nothing with them. Now. After that,
Corey Graves introduced a recap video yet another video for last week's segment,
showing a replay of the Rock and Roman Rains and the Rocks promo that closed
the show. Then they showed the Bloodline interference on Monday in the match between
Cody Rose and Drew McIntyre. Then they showed Jimmy Usso coming out at the
end of the show and costing his brother the Intercontinental title against Gunther. We
come backstage live, but not really live. Come backstage. Roman Rain is
on the show. Everybody Roman Rains is sitting in the Bloodline locker room.
Now you know it's a tape show when you've got Roman Rains making a random
appearance on the show. Was never advertised. They never even said the word
Roman or Rains in the preview for tonight's show, like they were gonna be
there. What does the Bloodline have in store? There was no mention whatsoever
of the bloodline. But there was Roman reins on the show two weeks in
a row. How rare is that Jimmy was celebrating what happened on Raw to
Jay and Roman asked me, goes uh, who told you to go to
Raw? And Jimmy gets all nervous and then he just openly snitches and says,
Paul Hayman told me it was Paul Hayman Man. He gave me the
play and I ran the play. It was Paul. Paul told me to
do it, and Roman laughed at how fast. Jimmy threw Hayman under the
bus there and stooged him off, and then Roman says it was me.
He said, I quarterback, that I called the play and Jimmy executed it
perfectly. Shout out to Ted Evans, by the way, who just gifted
five channel memberships. I agree with Ted, by the way, not enough
green in the chat tonight, so Ted is doing his part to try to
change that. Ted, Thank you. Paul Hayman entered the room and he
informed Roman that Grayson Waller was there tonight to see Roman, and Roman told
him to go send him, go get him, go bring him in here
as they cut the commercial. Now the segment was in the show for a
reason, and not just to get Grayson Waller in there. Later on,
something tells me, even though he said he was the one who quarterback the
play, Roman Rains was not the one who quarterbacked the play. Roman Rains
was not the one who told Jay or Jimmy to go to Raw Monday night
and cost his brother the Intercontinental time. Something tells me that we're going to
find out in due time that Roman wanted to take credit for it, but
it wasn't actually him who called the play. Maybe it was a certain high
chief who called the play. Maybe it was a certain high chief who has
yet to acknowledge Roman Reigns, who has yet to acknowledge his cousin. Could
be a seed being planted. In fact, I think that's exactly what it
is. Then we had bron Breaker. Bron Breaker won half of the new
NXT Tag Team Champions. It is bron Breaker, it is Baron Corbin.
They won the titles in the finals after the Dusty Classic or after the Dusty
Classic, whatever it was. I've seen the interaction, by the way,
including on TV on Tuesday, between bron and Baron and it's actually they got
pretty good chemistry together. I will say they're actually making a pretty good team.
The problem is bron Breaker does not belong in to tag team, so
it's not some that has any sort of long term shelf life as far as
a team. But they had pretty good chemistry together. But this was bron
Breaker making his SmackDown in ring debut against Dante En. Dante Chen was his
victim tonight, Dante Chen from NXT. This did not last long, but
it lasted long enough to get brought over as an absolute beast, which was
the entire point. Bron grabbed a single leg, he slammed Chen down,
then he fired up. He had a shoulder block at a Steiner line.
The speed at which this man runs the ropes and they even acknowledged it.
On commentary, Corey Grave said that bron Breaker has been clocked at twenty three
miles in out when he runs the ropes. This fucking guy, I mean,
back and forth and again. He's not I want to say he's big,
like he's six foot eight, three fifty. He's not big big,
but he's a big guy. Right, He's a big guy. He's got
some bulk. To him. It's not like he's a tiny man. And
the way that he you know, he builds up that rate of speed and
goes back and forth. It's scary. I don't want to be the referee
one day who's not paying attention and takes one wrong step in his path.
I don't want to be that guy, or a woman even worse, because
he ain't gonna be able to stop. He's gonna run you over and he's
gonna keep going. I don't want to be that person that Dante ended up
on the apron and he attempted some sort of springboard and move. Bron though,
caught him on the way down and slammed him, and then bron backed
up into the corner. He cut that man in half with a spear,
the best running spear in all of wrestling. It's nothing new. I've been
saying that for a long time. It's been that way for I mean pretty
much his entire NXT run. There hasn't been anybody that has come along and
made that move look as devastating since Goldberg. Maybe Rhino. I'll throw Rhino
in there. The gore was pretty fucking cool, so I'll I'll say Rhyino
The only reason I didn't of Rhino is because Rhino was Rhino. Well,
I guess Rhino became a big deal in ECW just after Goldberg got hot,
right, That probably wasn't until like ninety nine two thousand with Rhino. Yeah,
but that's how it goes. It goes Goldberg, Rhino, bron You
have this huge gap in between Rhino and bron And I know plenty of people
have done the spear, Edge has done it, and it mostly looks like
shit. Roman Reigns does it. It doesn't always look that great bron Breaker.
It's the explosiveness that makes him so scary and makes him so impressive.
It's that explosiveness that I love about this guy. He's fucking awesome, absolutely
great. See. The question is not will bron Breaker one day main event
WrestleMania. That's the wrong question. The question is how many WrestleManias will bron
Breaker made event? I don't know, more than one. I guarantee you
it'll be more than one. And speaking of wres Maane, oh Bobby Lashley.
Yeah, Now, Bobby Lashley's spear is nothing like bron Breaker's spear,
and Bobby Lashley is a physically bigger man than bron Breaker is. And I
love Bobby Lashley, and I love the way he does that little flip when
he hits it, tries to make it look a little more devastating, But
even Bobby Lashley does not have anything close to the explosiveness that bron Breaker does
when it comes to that move. So no, But we were talking about
WrestleMania here, and I was thinking about bron and it would be kind of
a waste for them to call him up to the main roster six weeks before
WrestleMania and not have anything for him to do at WrestleMania. Otherwise, why
not just wait until after WrestleMania. Again, he's won half of the NXT
Tag Team champions. You could get him to stand and deliver, and they
could have waited and debuted him the Raw after or the SmackDown after Wrestlemane.
They chose to debut him six weeks before WRESTLEMANE. Now, I think that
he would be the perfect candidate to win the Andre Battle Royal. The only
problem is the Andre Battle Royal don't mean shit. So I'm hoping he gets
a match on one of the two nights. And I now I don't know
what his status is. I don't know what brand he'll end up on.
He was unsmacked down the last time we saw him. I don't know what's
going on with Seamus. There's been talk about his contract. I don't really
see him going anywhere, and I'm not sure what his contract status is exactly.
But if Seamus comes back before WrestleMania, I would love to see an
undercard match between Seamus and Broun Breaker. I think that would be a great
I'd be a stiff match, but I think Seamus and Braun would be a
fine idea for WrestleMania. Match for Broun Breaker, if they don't have anything
better for him to do, hopefully they got something for him. In the
back, Joaquin Wilde and Cruz del Toro were chatting talking about how they could
take out Legatodell Fantasma when elect Tre Lopez walked up and she said the LWO
was basically dead, which she's not wrong, it basically is, and she
pointed out that even Raymisterio, where's he at right, He's been MIA for
a while now. She told them to make better choices with their loyalty next
time. If they get a next time, and you think, what does
she mean by that? Now she walked off. They got ambushed from behind
by Angel and Humberto Santos Escobar then arrived and told him that they betrayed him
and abandoned him and this was the price that had to be paid, and
then the heels got run off by Carlito and Zelina Vega and some officials.
They have since announced that on SmackDown next week we are getting a street fight.
It's gonna be Carlito going one on one with Santos Escobar. They've already
announced the street fight for Monday. We're getting the New Day against imperiod,
So we're gonna it's gonna be the week of street fights in WWE next week.
Balls in your core, now, Tony Kahan, you don't want to
tell Tony Kahn the WWE is doing a couple of street fights next week.
We'll end up with a bloodbath on Wednesday. Balls in his core. Let's
see what he comes up with. Now. You know, he's got to
try to fight to get back that Booker of the Year award that he missed
out on this year. How much furniture do you think was broken when he
read the latest Observer, and he saw that not only did he lose out
on Booker of the Year to Triple H Paul of K, but he lost
out on Promoter of the Year to the other con Nick Khn. I'm sure
Tony wasn't happy about that. No, he was not happy about that.
At least he stayed off Twitter though there were no crazy tweets. I thought
for sure we were going to get some kind of crazy tweet, but he
controlled himself. Now the judgment day was there tonight. They were at the
gorilla position talking to Kayla, but it was Dominic and JD McDonough who went
out to the ring for a match against the number one contenders for the tag
team titles, Pete Dunn Tyler Bait. They challenged Finn Valor and Damian Priest
tomorrow for the undisputed tag team titles. JD and Dominic worked a double team
early on, but Bait escaped. He tagged in Pete Dunn, who started
manipulating Dominic's joints. Bait tagged in, he was quickly dumped to the floor
by a low bridge by McDonough. Dominic then knocked Doune off the apron.
JD had a soccer kick to Bait from the apron that took us into the
break. Later on, Bait gave Dominic an airplane spin and he dumped him
to the floor. McDonough attempted to roll up on Bait, but he ended
up in an airplane and spin himself. Done in bait, they did a
German sup plex lariat combo. Dominic broke up the fall. McDonagh guy standing
Spanish fly on Done for a two count and he went for a moon salt,
but Pete got the knees up. Things broke down. Dom hit a
six y one to nine on Done. Bait was able to knock dom off
the apron and then Done made a tag. They hit the double Tyler driver
on mcdonnet and they picked up the win. After the match, here comes
Finn Balor and Damian Priest. They make their way down to the ring and
just as they get into the ring, Bait and Done they slide out and
they attack Dominic and mcdonoughh one more time in the aisleway as they make their
escape. The match itself was it was fine. It was good, nothing
special, but they were setting the table for what we can expect tomorrow.
Bait and Done against Balor and Priest is going to be a very good match.
I'm not expecting a tag team title change, but it's a fresh match
that we have not seen before. I am looking forward to it. As
far as this match is concerned, it, like I said, it pretty
much just sort of set the table for what we can expect tomorrow. But
nothing more, nothing less. Now backstage, Kevin Oh walked up to Logan
Paul Grayson Waller in Austin Theory the Evil Triangle, the Triangle of Terror.
Here they were just standing around chatting it up in the back and Owen showed
up. He said, you know what, Logan, I hope you bring
those brass nuts with you to Australia so that way I can take them again
and punch you in the face with them. Better. Yet, maybe you
won't even make it into the country because you'll be smuggling in the nuts.
You'll get caught, they'll send you back home. That would be even better.
So then after he walked away, Logan is standing there and he's looking
at Theory and he's looking at Waller, and he has a very good point.
He says, why didn't we just jump the guy like the three of
us, there were only one of him. So then Paul Hayman shows up
and he tells Waller that Roman Reigns would like to see him now, and
so off they went elsewhere. On the back to Code of Kai was shown
limping in pain. She was being helped to the trainer's room by a referee
and by Nick Aldis. No explanation provided see where this was going, but
they didn't say anything more at that point. Then we had the street profits
against the Authors of Pain representing the Final Testament, who were out there with
Paul Ellering carrying cross and scarlet. Ford and Akam kicked things off here and
montes Ford tried to use his speed acum, though too powerful for him.
Ford tagged in Angelo Dawkins, who found an opening and as AOP were regrouping
outside the ring, Angelo Dawkins did a flip dive out over the top rope,
took out AOP, took us into the commercial break. We come back
and montes Ford is being dominated by AOP. Eventually he was able to sidestep
an attack by Razar. He made the tag to Dawkins and the prophets hit
a super Blockbuster only got a near fall, though, when the count got
broken up Ford and Akem they stayed in the ring. Montes climbed up top.
There were some distractions that led to Carrying Cross knocking Ford off the top
rope. Big brawl broke out on the floor Carrying Cross and Lashly. We're
getting into it, and he sends Lashly elbow first into the casing the ring
post casing. Cross then grabs a chair and he smashes Lashly's arm against the
casing with the chair. Meanwhile, in the ring, aop hit their neck
breaker power bomb combo on Monteze Ford and they pinned him to win it.
For the final testament, they needed that win again. They need to rack
up some wins, so it was the right outcome. But this feud already
feels dead in the water. I'm sorry, it's not doing anything for me.
It's really not naturally. I'm kind of bummed because I was looking forward
to a Heel Lashly Street Profits combo. The street profits have been babyfaced sinceince
day one, and I thought, you know what, a heel turned an
attitude change might be good for him. But they're just Lashly in particular more
than the profits. But Lashly is just so damn over that the fans wouldn't
really allow it. And then it just ended up where they're the baby faces
in this feud and the final destination are the heels, and so they kind
of took away what I thought would have been a more interesting turn for the
three of them. But I don't know. I mean this again, it
just feels dead in the water for me aop here. They just mostly plotted
around. You know, it's fine to have two bigger guys who go in
there and beat people up. When they're in there squashing people in forty seconds,
right, they look dominant. It's fine. They're not dynamic enough though,
or interesting enough on their own to carry a longer match and not have
it come off as just plotting and boring. Yeah, the profits tried to
keep it interesting, had a couple of fun spots here, but the match
itself was really uh, you don't really have much else to say about the
match. There really was nothing special about it. The story here really is
Lashly in his arm because they had the angle they shot here where Carrion Cross
takes the chair and smashes it against his elbow against the ring post, casing
that now would give in theory. I say in theory because I have to
talk about the end of the show here in a minute. But theoretically it
would give Lashley now an excuse when he does not win in the elimination chamber.
They could target the arm right he's coming in at less than one hundred
percent. I'm sure that's why they did the angle in the first place.
But in the trainer's room later, Lashly was being tended to. His arm
was being wrapped. He's sitting there, the arm is wrapped to try to
put ice on it, and Drew McIntyre walks in after he was humiliated earlier
by Lashley. Now, this was his revenge. He walks in, he
looks at Lashly dead in the eye, and he just looks at him and
he goes, I'll pray for you, and he walks off. Perfect didn't
have to say anything more than that, I'll pray for you, Perfect.
Perfect. You know right now I have to say it is a competition in
wrestling between Drew MacIntyre and Christian Cage to find out who is the biggest menace
in pro wrestling now that Vince McMahon is gone, who is the biggest menace?
I don't know both men. Christian. Christian's been doing this gimmick a
little bit longer. Christian is as great today as he was a year ago.
Drew though, he has just discovered another side of him that I find
so much more interesting than anything this man was doing before. It's not even
funny. He is just firing on all cylinders right now. But I don't
know him and Christian. Boy. Imagine them as a tag team. Hollie
crap. Now, backstage, I mentioned Dakota earlier was hurt. Dakota Kai
was in the trainer's room having her knee examined when and Bailey walked it to
check on her former faction mate, and Dakota told Bailey it was damage Control,
because of course it was. It was damage Control that attacked her knee.
And Bailey said, you know, I should have known that this was
going to happen, and they're not going to get away with it, and
Dakota said that she's she knows she's going to have to earn back Bailey's trust,
but they're going to make them pay. You know, Bailey was hip
to Damage Control's little plan when EO and Oscar and Kyrie turned on her all
those weeks ago. She wasn't dumb. She knew exactly what was going on.
She had the pipe right, she was prepared for it made her look
smart. I would like to think that in this situation, Bailey would also
see coming what is obviously coming, which is the Dakota Kai. He'll turn
because Dakota Kai is still going to be with Osca, EO and Kyrie,
and I would like to think that Bailey, as all of us can,
is skeptical enough to see it coming. They've already announced the tag team match
for next week, and they did it almost like a throwaway announcement. Late
in the show. They put the graphic up on screen. It's gonna be
Bailey and Dakota Kai taking on the Kabuki Warriors, and they've made sure to
point out we don't know if they're gonna be tag team champions come next week.
But Oscar and Kyrie against Bailey and Dakota Now that's big because this is
the first time that Dakota Kai is getting in the ring for an actual match
since May of last year. This is her in ring return, and I
don't think they mentioned that a little fact. Now you assume that she's cleared.
But again, maybe she's not even gonna work the match. Maybe she's
gonna stand on the apron. Bailey is gonna do all the work, and
it's the old reach for the tag and Dakota is nowhere to be found and
they all beat down poor Bailey. Right, we don't even know if Dakota
is necessary going to get physical next week. So I don't want to make
any assumptions that she is for sure cleared to wrestle, because I think we
all see what's coming. We all see what's coming. Back to the bloodlined
locker room where Paul Hayman introduced Grayson Waller to Roman Rains or introduced Roman Reigns
to Grayson Waller. Either way, Scarlet says, Carmelo Carmelo Hayes attack Dakoda
Carmelo Hayes. I mean he's going around just beating up random people. Is
that what's going on here? Is that his new gimmick man, woman or
child. Nobody is safe from Carmelo Hayes in this company. So in walks
Grayson Waller. Roman tells him to take a seat on the couch and said,
uh, I want to tell you something, but it's for your ears
only now. I thought that meant that was a cue for Jimmy and Solo
and Hayman to leave and it was just gonna be the two of them.
I didn't realize that that meant that was the end of the segment and we
were not going to be privy to what they were end up, you know
what they were going to talk about. I thought that we were actually gonna
hear part of the conversation. We didn't get part of the conversation. They
cut away, perfect timing. I smell a setup coming for tomorrow. Now
they have not announced Roman or Rock for the Elimination Chamber. I still feel
like they're gonna show. I feel like we're gonna get a Rock and Roman
appearance during the Grayson Waller effect. We're gonna get a bloodline appearance of some
kind, whether it's Roman and Rock, whether it's Jimmy and Solo. I'm
thinking Roman and Rock though, right, keep it hush, hush, Let
him show up as a surprise and look, baby, we will get the
challenge for a tag team match on Night one of WrestleMania. It still seems
to me like that is the most likely scenario for Rock to get back in
the ring. If Rock is wrestling a match for sure at wrestle Mania,
what other match would it be? What other match would it be? You
know, for them to have Cody wrestle twice and for him to go in
there and let's say, wrestle Rock one on one on night one and then
come back and wrestle Roman on night two, So you probably lose to the
Rock on night one and then wrestle Roman on night two. I'm not a
fan of that. Like a tag match, I could see that a tag
match is honestly what makes the most sense in this situation. Maybe they'll set
that up tomorrow. There is a reason why Cody and Seth they're going to
be together in that segment. Has to be leading to something we'll find out
in a few hours if we don't have to wait very long, because it
is eleven o'clock at night and the show starts at five am, so we
don't have to wait very long at all. The main event. Look at
that, See we're already up to the main event here. The main event
of the show hit two of the six Men and the men's elimination Chamber match
tomorrow against each other. Drew McIntyre in La Night. As the match was
about to begin, Logan Paul's music hit and the United States Champion walked down
to the ring to do commentary. As McIntyre was laying a beating on Night
outside, Kevin Owens arrived on the scene, and Kevin Owens decided, you
know what I'm going to do commentary also, so he took a seat next
to the announcers. As McIntyre continued his attack on Night, he missed the
move in the corner and Knight followed up with his signature vertical leap into the
superplex, only got a two count. McIntyre followed up with a Future Shock
DDT, but after failing to hit the Claymoar kick because Knight just moved out
of the way and Drew went flying and he took a flat bag bump.
After that, the action spilled outside on the floor. Knight slam McIntire into
the announced desk about a dozen times. McIntyre eventually threw Night back or through
Night into Kevin Owens rather so that knocked Owens down. He wasn't very happy
about that. Owens then attacked McIntyre. Things broke down, the match got
called off a big brawl broke out with all four men. Night hit a
bft on, Drew Owens dropped Logan with a stunner, Bobby Lashley hit the
scene, wrapped up arm looked okay to me. Wasn't selling the arm at
all? Lol, carrying cross who just took a fucking chair to the man's
arm two segments before, not even two segments later, or however many segments
it was? Who gives a shit? By the end of the show.
The man is out there, he's posing, he's spearing. People. Can't
be that bad of an injury, but yeah, he uh, he speared
a few there. And then they played Bobby Lashley's music. And you didn't
think that they were gonna let Bobby Lashly pose to end the show, now,
did you? You didn't think they were gonna play his music and close
things out? Of course not, because as soon as he turned around he
ate a Claymore kick by Drew McIntyre. McIntyre kicked up to his feet,
and that worried me because I got McIntyre picked for tomorrow and him standing tall
at the end probably doesn't bode well for his chances. And thankfully that's not
where it ended though, because you could hear a stir in the crowd.
Crowd was reacting to something, and then you see Randy Orton slither into the
ring. McIntyre turns around and he eats an RKO and Randy Orton is the
man who closes out the final SmackDown before Elimination Chamber, and honestly, Randy
Orton running in there got the biggest reaction of anything on the entire show.
It's hard on these tape shows because you just have to assume that almost everything
is manufactured in some way. This though, you can see it. You
can see it, you can feel it. The people were way way into
Randy Orton hitting the RCAO. It's, you know, an easy reaction every
time, and that is how they closed the show again. If you missed
this episode of smack that, and I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts some
of you did. Smart people you are, you didn't miss it. You
didn't miss anything. They did set things up for the Bailey tag team match
next week, but it's not anything they're not going to replay on next week's
show to get you out to speed, So you didn't miss anything. There
was some good wrestling. I get good wrestling, I get great wrestling every
week. It takes more than just a couple of good matches to keep my
interest in these shows. And there just wasn't a whole lot there. There
wasn't a lot of meat on the bone. It was a show that was
SmackDown. Now. It was a show because it was a taped show,
and it was a taped show because they're in Perth for the Elimination Chamber,
which is coming up tomorrow. And I did tell you that we would run
down the show here, So let's go ahead and do that right now.
Because the Elimination Chamber begins at five am Eastern, two am Pacific, and
whatever time zone you may be in, look it up because it's going on
a lot earlier than normal. Yes, Daddy Yugarte says, this was an
FS one episode of SmackDown, only it was on Fox. Indeed, here's
the card seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes. They are going to be on the
Grayson Waller Effect. I still think Rock and Roman are going to show their
faces on this pay per view. They have added a kickoff match to this
show. It is going to be the Kabuki Warriors defending their women's tag team
titles against Candice Leray and Indy Hartwell. So they came up with something for
Indy Hartwell to do in her homeland, which is very cool. I still
feel bad for Bronze and Reid, though, Yeah, we were speculating.
On Monday, there were some people discussing the possibility that maybe he's not going
on the trip because his wife is expecting. They're having a child soon,
and the thought was that maybe she's expecting imminently and he just doesn't want to
leave home, which would be understandable. He refuted that though, he got
on social media and said, yes, we are having a child, but
no, my wife is not going into labor, you know, this week.
So that's not the reason. He said. Sometimes it just doesn't work
out, And I'm like, really, you couldn't come up with something for
this guy to do on the show. This guy goes from potentially working a
world heavyweight title match, which I still maintained is what we were going to
get it. Had Cmpunk had gotten hurt, it would have been and Rollin's
for that matter. For Rollin, everybody's getting fucking hurt these days. But
had he not gotten hurt. Remember those vignettes that they aired. I think
the match was going to be Bronson Reid and Seth Robbins. So this guy
goes from potentially wrestling for the world heavyweight title in his home country, big
stadium show, right forty fifty thousand people, to not even being on the
car, not even flying over there, Like, how fucked up is that?
Anyway? The Kabooki Warriors are going to retain their tag team titles.
I'm sure the people in Perth would love to see Indy Hartwell walk out with
gold, but yes, and I would love a Playboy model to come busting
through the door right now in the middle of this live screen, but that's
not going to happen either. We have the undisputed tag team titles up for
grabs FNN Balor and Damian Priest. They are going to be defending their titles
against Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate. That will be a win for the Judgment
day. Rheo Ripley defends her Women's World Championship against Naya Jacks. Could that
be the match that closes the show depends on what the outcome of the Men's
Chamber is gonna be it's gonna be one of those two, but the outcome
isn't gonna be any different either way. Ria Ripley is not losing her title
to Naya Jack, so Ria is gonna win. We have the women's chamber
match, I'm sticking with Becky Lynch as my pick, and the men's chamber
match, I'm sticking with Drew McIntyre is my pick. There. I would
think that those are probably the two favorites, but I'm sticking with them because
I think they're the favorites for a reason. I think they're winning, and
I think Drew McIntyre is gonna wrestle Seth rawlicks wrestle Meane. And I think
that Becky Lynch and Riea Ripley is a match that they've been teasing for a
while. That's a one of the biggest women's matches they could do right now.
I mean, when I think of what is the biggest women's match at
this moment that wwe could be doing it Wrestlemane. It's either Rear Ripley and
Bianca bell Air and I don't think they're going to that yet, or it's
Becky Lynch and Rhea Ripley so those are going to be your elimination chamber winners.
Tomorrow. Like I said, noon noon Eastern is when I will be
live. So give you guys plenty of time to watch the pay per view
sometime in the morning if you want to watch it beforehand, and then I'll
go live and we'll talk about it. You can fix some lunch and watch
yours truly talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. Speaking
to ugly, let's take a look at this Twitter pol here. I am
now doing a star rating system per one of your suggestions. This is the
new way we are doing these polls, at least for the weekly shows.
Again, I'm undecided if we will do thumbs up, thumbs down, and
thumbs in the middle for the pay per views. We'll see, but four
stars show tonight thirty percent, thirty eight percent give this show three stars,
sixteen percent give this sh show two stars, and fifteen percent give this show
one star. And I am going to keep my mouth shut. It's apparently
when I give my opinion, people bitch and wine. So there you go,
it's your poll. You vote in the poll, you let me know
what you thought of this show. At Solemn Monster, go ahead and vote
to your heart's content. There you go. I will say no more.
I will say this. I want to get to your superchats. That's what
I want to do. So why don't we go ahead and do that?
Hey, Drew, I saw your message at the very end of the stream
on Wednesday, so just so you know, I did not miss it.
I did not miss it. Thank you for the super chat. He talked
about his buddy launched wrestling Chimp. Thank you, GW. I don't know
what that means, but Druth, thank you. I'm just checking here because
some of them did not push yeah, so let me uh yeah, some
of them are not listed here for some reason. They weren't pushing out at
all here to the screen even though they came in. Now they're here,
but some of them got omitted. So let me go back here and just
make sure I got fire Panda and some of the other ones. Fire Panda,
thank you, by the way for the twenty or twenty ish. I
don't know what the conversion was, but I don't know about you, boss,
but something tells me Roman did not call for the bloodline to be at
raw. I wonder if a certain Hollywood star made that call if you smell
what I'm cooking. Oh, I smell what you're cooking. All right,
you and I are on the same wavelength. I think you and I are
thinking the same on that. I think you're right. This week's episode is
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Rodriguez. Is it crazy to think that bron Breaker should get a two thousand
and two brock Lesnar type of push or am I just a simp for Breaker?
Breaker is fantastic. I don't think that it necessarily needs to be a
Lesner style push where he's world champion within six months. Few people in the
history of this company have been pushed as hard and as fast as brock Lesner
was. You think of the names that this guy beat in his first six
months in the company. I mean you're talking about people Rick Flair, Hulk
Hogan, Rob Van Dam, The Rock, the undertakee Right, and they
would have put him over Steve Austin had Austin not walked out. I mean,
we have never seen somebody push that hard that quickly in this company before,
and I don't know that I would give him that level of push.
I would definitely give him a big push. I would definitely at least get
a mid card title on him at some point in the not too distant future,
and he could potentially be challenging for a world titled by year's end.
But I also don't think there's a need to rush. I think you could
keep him strong. I think you could keep him in the mix. You
don't necessarily need to give him the brock Lesnar push, because that was just
something special that I don't think we've seen since on quite that same level,
if we're being honest. I mean, they pushed that man like nothing that
you would believe the names that that guy got put over in that first year.
And he was also just a physical freak. I mean, bron breaker.
He's a great athlete and everything, and he can break you in half.
But Brock was just on a different level from the moment he debuted and
he beat Spike Dudley to a pulp on that first night on Raw. The
way he was throwing him around and slamming him around, and the things this
guy could do, just an absolute freak of nature. They don't make a
like that. All right, now, we could pick up here because for
whatever reason, those are the only two that didn't show up here. But
we'll pick up here now with Prince Bgeta, Prince vegeta thank you for the
four ninety nine. He says, how long until the h Man finally gives
up on Cross. I don't see this push working out for him. Please
don't have Lashley job to this guy. He likes him, he likes him,
and he wants to give him every opportunity to succeed. And I still
think that you can do something with him, just not in this type of
gimmick. This is the third or fourth time that they're trying is it's not
gonna work. It's just not It's not gonna work. It's time to shake
it up and try something entirely different, go in a totally different character direction
with him, him and Scarlett. I think there's something there. I think
it could work, but just not not with this character. I just don't
see it having legs Alex, thank you for the ten dollars, says brother
Solo. Thank you for the hard work you put into these live streams in
the podcast give us a very unlikely but bold prediction for the elimination shape.
We're going to see Damian Priest and Finn Balor lose their tag team titles to
Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate earlier in the show, and then when Cody Rhodes
and Seth Rollins come out to be on the Grayson Waller effect. Damian Priest
is gonna come out and cash in his money at the bank on Seth and
he's gonna win the world time. Do you want a bold prediction? And
that music is going to play as soon as the referee counts three and Seth
loses his type story of Seth Robins. There's your bold prediction, Devin from
n J. What is scarier the Rocks swinging a chair at you or Kevin
Nash swinging a baseball bat at you. The Rock swinging a chair at Kevin
Nash is a lot taller than I am, so if he swings the chair,
there's a pretty good possibility that it will go right over my head.
I could just duck it and then run away, because Kevin Nash I get
to chase after me. The one thing I know I could beat Kevin Nash
at is a foot race. I ain't worried about that. As soon as
he swings and misses, I'll be gone so quickly he'll still be standing there.
So I would be much more afraid of the Rocks swinging a chair.
Winter Burgos so happy for Naya after all the nasty comments aimed at her when
she returned. She has proven haters wrong and now she is in the main
event of a stadium pl e. Well, we don't know that for sure.
She may be in the main event. We just don't know for sure.
Mikey s thirteen. What's your opinion on the Undisputed Title from two thousand
and two to two thousand and five and why did it not come back after
Sina lost? It would have looked good on Orton or Edge. They like
refreshing at every few years. They really don't like going back. I was
surprised and they brought back a version of the Classic Intercontinental that Cody brought it
back in twenty eleven. I guess it would have been because they don't really
like going back to the old designs. They just make new ones. I
didn't hate it. I thought it had a certain elegance to it. It
certainly looks a lot better than some of the titles they've had now or in
the last few years. I'd much rather have the Undisputed title from back then.
At the time, it wasn't really my faith. It wasn't my faith.
I loved the Big Eagle. I was pissed they got rid of the
Big Eagle from the Attitude era. But I didn't hate it, but it'll
looked really nice. The person I associate mostly with that title is brought Alex
says, if WWE ever revisits a storyline evolving a commentary team, what is
the best way to make such a storyline or few intriguing a storyline involving a
commentary team. I don't know that you really need to be coming up with
stories for the commentary team. It really shouldn't be about them. It should
be about the wrestlers and not about the commentators. And lord knows, we've
seen it over the years when Michael Cole had his heel turned, or with
Jim Ross when they used to make fun of him and beat him up and
incorporate him into storylines all the time. I'm sure they'll have something involving Pat
McAfee again at some point, But as far as making it intriguing, I
wouldn't really focus my energy on that. I would focus my energy on the
actual talent Goo Ninja Guiden eighty six. Dante Chen needs to finish his story.
Yeah, Dante Chen is not going to be finishing any stories in WWA
eight nine. Tech will Cody make Roman look strong in WrestleMania. Always the
directive has always been make Roman look strong. Bernard Frederick Roman reigns catchphrases.
Acknowledged me after watching Christian Cage's last promo. His catchphrase should be Who's your
Daddy? It would get over. Well, here's the thing about Christian,
and it's one of the things I love about what he's doing right now.
And Copeland has talked about this. What's so great about what Christian is doing
is the fact that he does not want to be cheered. He does not
want to do anything that is going to get him a positive reaction. He
wants to be the most irredeemable piece of garbage that you can imagine. So
for him to have a catchphrase, he doesn't want people to chant his catchphrames.
You know. And I don't even think he has a shirt on aw
shot, or at least not like a new one. I know he had
an old one at work everybody. But he's like an old school heel who
really wants heat. He does not want to be a cool heel. Now
the fans will sometimes laugh like they love what he's doing. It's unavoidable,
like he's just so good at it that people are naturally going to laugh at
it, or some people might cheer for it. But his goal is to
be as hated as possible, and you don't get hated by going out there
and trying to pop people with the catch frames. So I don't think that
that is something he's gonna want to do. Arabian Knight says by sell Rent,
which young talent has the most potential to be a main event star?
Theory Daniel Garcia or Dominant says dom gets heat, but in ring he is
a step behind as far as the most potential to be a main event star.
I think Dominic will get there. I do. I think it'll be
a few years, but I think that he will eventually get there. I
think Theory is someone who has definitely been downplayed since Vince McMahon went away.
You can kind of tell that he was a Vince mcmahont project, but he's
really stalled out. I still think they see main event potential in him in
the future. I'm gonna say the one who I think will make it first
will be will be Austin Theory. Dom will get there. Daniel Garcia,
I don't see it. I don't see it happening, but the other two
I think eventually will happen. M Mill says nothing, says, here's ten
dollars. Hey, m Mills, thank you very much. I hope you
are having a great night. Alex says, what are your thoughts on WWE
having an off season similar to major sports leagues. I feel like I've answered
a version of this question at least a dozen times since I started doing the
podcast, and my answer never really changes whether it was in two thousand and
seven, twenty ten, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty four. I would not
do an off season. There was no need for a wrestling off season because
it is not practical. The nature of their television agreements is such that they
need fifty two weeks a year of program. That's just the way it is.
That's what makes them so appealing. That's what makes them so That made
them so appealing during COVID, when sports leagues were not even playing games,
you still had WWE because it never stopped. You still had aaw because it
never stopped. So that's why they're getting millions of dollars, or part of
the reason why they're getting so much money from Netflix. Soon you know,
NBCUniversal in these different places. So it's like, all right, you got
to be about this. There will not be an off season, but you
can still rotate talent out on a regular basis where you have a schedule that
you come up with and there is a mandatory rotation of talent whether they want
it or not. There is a certain period of time each year where talent
gets time off. I'm not saying they get a month off. It could
be a week here and a week there. It could be a few weeks
here, a few weeks there. I think there's a way to try to
come up with something that works where talent can get time off, the machine
can keep going, and when one person goes away, you kind of cycle
them out and somebody else comes in, and you know, they have a
lot of people on that roster. It may not be so simple, but
it's doable. It's more doable than saying, hey, we're going to take
off for two months or three months. Because look, in another world,
in a different type of world where they didn't have these television agreements, I
would say after WrestleMania, why not take a couple of months off after wrestlemane
when you hit the reset button, you come back late spring, early summer,
and you kick off the new season. Right. That sounds great.
It's not practical, it's not gonna happen, but you can rotate talent oubt
and make sure they get time off. That's that's how I would do it.
I don't think an offseason is practical and pro wrestling, It's just not
gonna happen. D e h Sire says, Bianca against Tiffany and Jade against
Naya at wrestle. Maybe I could see that we already got a taste of
Jade and Naya at the Royal Rumble. I could see that they did Brock
and Omas last year. So the battle of the giants, right, that
would basically be kind of the Battle of the Giants in the women's division.
So yeah, I think I think that. And Bianca against Tiffany is something
I had pitched a few weeks ago, just because I'm not sure what else
they're going to do with Bianca. The Juliet Mustafa Ali won the TNA X
Division title tonight, Well, good for him, then, that's awesome.
He has been killing it on the independen scene. He's been hitting all kinds
of places. I love what he has done with those vignettes on social media.
It's just so smart and the production values are just top notch. He's
really created a buzz for himself on the indie scene. And we're actually going
to have him in House of Glory next weekend, and he's wrestling amazing Red
Wrestle Many a weekend at Philadelphia, So good for him. I'm happy for
him. Chris Minor, thank you for the fifteen dollars. Super chat says
buy or Sell on which nineteen eighty seven slammy song that you would rather see
today's roster perform? Stand Back or if you only knew, I'd like to
picture Cody and the Hull logan roll with Solo Socoa as Virgil staring at it.
If you only knew, its actually a very catchy song. I don't
really have any appetite for either one of them to be revived in the modern
day. I think that's it's a corny thing that needs to be left in
the past. But if you only knew it was a very very catchy theme
song. Pile Driver was a great song too, Chris axc buy or Sell
more likely to be World Champion La Knight or Logan Paul. I think the
ship has sailed on La Personal. I would also go Logan Paul. I
think Logan Paul gets it before La Knight does. If La Knight, ever
does, I think Logan Paul has a better shot. DH says saw Stardom
Show and man, the US is gonna love Julia. How can you not?
Can you not love Juliet? She's gonna get over instantly. I love
the how she always changes up her look too, her hairstyle, just her
overall look. She's constantly like evolving it. DH says, if you were
to do the Brock Sena squash match in today's time, who would you have?
Mine would be either Bron or Gunther squashing the champion Brock and Sina squad.
Okay, you're talking about SummerSlam. For some reason, I thought of
Extreme Rules. That was kind of a squash until the end when Sena suddenly
won, when Super Sena kicked in and he beat Brock in his first match
back. The Summer Slam squash is something that cannot be replicated again for like
many many years, and so now here we are ten years later. You
believe it's been ten years since brock Lesner's squash John Cena at Summerslim and I
still remember that guy in the crowd that they zoomed in on when the match
was over. His mouth was wide open. He couldn't believe it. He
had his hands up. He was like, oh my god, it killed
John. So it's something that you don't want to go back to too often.
The shock value of it, though, was great. You know,
who would I replicate it with? Randy Orton is someone who's very giving.
I feel like he was very giving to Mark Henry when Mark Henry won his
first world title. Maybe you could do it like Randy or something. Randy
wins the title back, which I think he will at some point, and
then you know, if you do a squash, you can have like gun
Through. I could see gun Through squashing it or Ron. You know though
I don't know that. Again, do you need to do that? I
feel like you would be almost kind of jipping the fans in a way.
I I'd much rather have somebody who can go in there and be dominant.
But you give the people their money's work, you know, especially in a
pay per view made event that was a Summer Slim Maine event. I personally
would rather have a more competitive match. You can have a competitive match back
and forth and still put the guy over in a strong way. That's my
type of match. I'd rather see that. So, yeah, you could
do it with gun Through, you could do it with Bron, maybe have
Randy do the honors, but I'd rather see them go at it man and
have a ten or fifteen minute competitive match. Arabian Knight says, where is
Dragon Lee? Been off SmackDown for five weeks? You know, it's funny
you mentioned that I hadn't even thought about him. He was getting to push,
and now you're right, we have not seen Dragon Lee. I can
only think it could be visa related because I have not heard anything about an
injury. I don't I haven't heard anything about him being hurt, so it
could be it could be a visa problem. Until you just mentioned it,
I had not realized that it had been five weeks since we saw Dragonly,
it has to be one. It has to be some kind of an issue
with his work visa. It doesn't make sense to me. He was getting
a pretty noticeable push and then, like you said, nothing just fell off
the face of the earth. Uh Yeager the ninth, the ninth. Has
anybody ever told me that I look like Jerry Seinfeld? Many times? I've
been told I look like Jerry Seinfeld. I've been told I look like Orange
Cassidy. I've been told I look like Jake Hager. I was greatly offended
by this. I've been told I look like multiple people, multiple people.
So take your pick any random white guy. Basically, Hey, it's Solomon's
Dorian Moore Awesome versus Brock, both in their prime. Mike awesome, Mike
Awesome against Brock, that'd be cool, but I am more partial to Brock
against Vader. That would have been something. Samuel Hayworth Orton would make more
sense as Cody's partner, except Orton is not the world heavyweight champion though,
so you know, they obviously want the world champion to be involved in a
major angle at the show, and you know, I get it. I
get it. Cmpunk got hurt, Seth lost his big match, so this
is the This is their way of getting him in the mix and making it
up to him. Basically, that's why they're doing it. Eight nine Tech
Why Angle and Jericho did not win the Royal Rumble, It's a good question.
I'm surprised at Kurt Angle never won a Royal Rumble before. Libido Bell
says new Solo Monster Surge flavors have dropped by rent or Sell, Bandberry Collision,
Silver Tower, Sour Apple, Party, Hard Lemon. I am very
partial to the Silver Tower Sour Apple. I like that. I like that
very much. Shout out to Silver Tower wherever he may be. Solomaster looks
like the commissioner from House of Glory. I do look a little bit like
that guy, right. That guy's a prick though. Alex with the five
dollars super chat with Triple H signing three of the biggest names in the industry
and Cody Punk and car Guild. Who do you think will be the fourth
name to come to WWE. I think Ricky Starks is coming, but he
doesn't really, you know, I wouldn't call him at the moment, you
know, the one of the biggest names in the indury. I like Ricky,
but he ain't one of the biggest names in the industry. I still
say he's as good as gone when his contract comes due, it may not
be for a few years. I don't know what his contract status is.
You know, big names and don't forget they also, you know, Tony
Khan took Okada off the market. He is expected to be in aw shortly
he took Osprey off the market. I kind of think what other really big
name that Triple H and Nick Con could swipe from a w You know,
I don't know. I mean, the people that I usually think about are
people again like like a Ricky Star Award Low, but those are not the
biggest names in the industry, So I don't know what that other big name
would be that would even be available to make the jump over to WWE.
It could be that the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction.
Not that I think Drew McIntyre is going anywhere, because I don't, but
he still has not signed his contract yet. Seamus supposedly has a contract coming
up. Maybe the pendulum starts to swing back the other way. But if
I had a name one person, I would say Julia, and some people
would go Julia, that's not a big name. Well in some parts of
the world, she is, and I fully expect her to be in WWE
later this year. So there you go, Julia. True individual ninety on
behalf of the Mio fam Welcome solo. Thank you very much. I am
now the proud owner of a Meu Mini Plus. I'm gonna try to put
a little video together for you, a little review video for it, sometime
in the next few weeks, so I will hopefully be able to do that
for you. It's my new retro handheld, which I have not had the
time to really go two hands on with it yet, but I am very
much looking forward to diving into some retro games on my little device. I
have much to learn. Ted Evans thought on Camille, I haven't seen much
of her, just as all This's bodyguard, Well that was when I first
saw or she was the bodyguard for All This in his crew in the NWA.
This is when I was watching NWA Power when Power first launched, and
her whole thing is very much like China, where she didn't speak. She
just stood there and was intimidated. But she never spoke. I didn't even
know what her voice sounded. And that went on for a while and then
eventually, you know, broke away from that, and then she spent over
I think was it five hundred something days as the NWA Women's World Champion.
And she's good. She's good. You can see how she's improved over time,
the more experienced that she had, the more time she spent as the
champion, and all signs point to her likely ending up in AW. So
that would be another big pickup in the women's division for Tony Khan. I
guess he's going to have to have more women's matches on the show. He
could pick up all the women's talent he wants to. I still find it
hilarious that on most weeks dynam might we get one women's match. He could
sign ten more women and we'll still get the one women's match on Wednesdays.
And it's like, where do these women go? Is he storing them away
just on Fridays and Saturday? Or in ring of Honor? Like where Athena
is being held captive? Like where does he put all of them? I
don't know. I'll tell you what. Mercedes ain't gonna stand for that shit.
You think Mercedes is gonna come to AW and be relegated to fucking rampage
and collision, You got another thing coming. Believe me, She'll be on
Dynamite. She'll be on Dynamite in a few weeks and b com C clearly,
Hey, solo. I want to thank you for being an amazing person.
Your mom would be proud and is watching her son from heaving. Hey,
thank you very much. That's very kind of use b com C clearly,
thank you very much, very nice of you. So thank you for
the questions and thank you for the support. Always very much appreciated from you
guys. The goal for be the booker was four hundred, and believe it
or not, I'm actually surprised. I thought that this was kind of be
kind of a dead night because just you know, pay per view in a
few hours, probably not as many people tuned into a tape show. But
you killed it. You smashed it. We broke four hundred. So let's
go ahead and be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time
to be the booker. You did it. You came through like you guys
always do. So now I get to come through for you. We get
to book some matches. How's that sound? I think that sounds great.
Dynamite from Boston is coming up in a few way. Boston. They're going
to be in basted Mercedes is going to be in Boston. I can't wait
the down in bastin I can't do it. I can't do a Boston accent.
Look at this. I watched the Department. I think I could do
a Boston accent all of a sudden. All right, we begin with the
Hardy Boys, Matt and Jeff, Matt and Jeff Hardy. Who oh who
will the Hardies be stepping into the ring with? Could it be edgend Christian?
Could it be the Dudley Boys? Could it be the Young Bucks?
Gonna be the hard Ease again to the real Americans, Jack Swagger and Cesara,
two fine tag teams. Now refresh my memory? Did we have the
clean sweep on Monday and Wednesday? Because I think we did. I'm just
asking a question. I'm not making any more comments. I'm gonna I'm not
gonna put hecks on it. I'm just asking. I couldn't remember, all
right, Women's be the booker. We begin with Charlotte Flair, the thirty
eight time Women's Champion, working hard to try to come back from her torn
acl Supposedly she is a head of schedule. She is. It's all that
the genetics, all of her fine genetics, are going to help get her
back into the ring a lot sooner. It's possible. Some people just have
it in their jeans. Man, They're able to heal up quicker from injuries.
I don't know how her father got through an entire career and wrestled as
many matches as he did without having a serious injury. It kind of defies
logic. Biggest injury Rick Flair ever had didn't come in the ring. It
came in an airplane. All right, Charlotte Flair is going to be stepping
into the ring against thunder Rosa. Here's a match for you. If you
ever had a WWE AEW forbidden door. What do you think about that match?
Charlotte Flair and thunder Rosa. I like that match. I like that
match very much. And now the men. We moved to mens be the
booker. This is potentially a historic week here. We get a bell here,
men, this this could be it right here. I don't want to
say anything. I don't want to say anything. I've already said too much.
We begin with CM Punk. How about that? CM Punk is kicking
us off in Men's be the booker. We could be on the precipice of
history here CM Punk. That's a big name. That's a big name.
CM Punk against j Brisco. Wait what wait? Wait, hold on,
hold on, hold on second, wait, time out, time out.
I'm being told, Oh my god, I'm being told that CM Punk has
tore his bicep. CM Punk has been injured. This fucking guy, CM
Punk was so excited about this match he jumped up off the couch and he
tore a muscle in his body. Cmpunk is unable to compete and must be
replaced in be the booker because this fucking guy can't stay healthy. Do you
believe this guy? Do you believe this guy? We were this close,
We were this close. Jay Brisco and CM Punk would have been automatic automatic,
but Phil got hurt. He can't stay healthy, so he has to
be replaced. So it's gonna be Jay Briscoe stepping into the ring with brock
Lesner. Brock Lesner and Jay Brisco in the main event. And that is
a clean sweep. Not only is that a clean sweep for tonight, that
is our first clean sweep of the entire week. We ran the table Monday
night, all bells, Wednesday night, all bells, Friday night, all
bells, Friday night, all balls. That's what we did tonight. Fucking
right that right there, is the best week of being the booker I ever
booked, and you like that shit. Not even c punk could ruin this
installment to be the booker him and his injuries. Fucking glass. This guy,
he was so excited he jumped up and just right like Sammy's Ain that
time on RAW when he was flinging his arms around and he tore his rotator
cuff. He got so excited. Yeah, he forgets he's he's in his
mid forties. He can't be doing that. But not even CM punk could
screw things up. There you go. Congrats. I'm happy that you were
all here to sharing this history with me. All right, let's get back
to the remaining super chats. Here. We got a few more. Let
me reload this yere, make sure I don't miss any Here we go.
We got true individual by sell Rent on the best wrestling arcade game Superstars wrestle
Fest, WrestleMania the Arcade wrestle Fest. That was easy, That was very
simple. If you saw the pictures. By the way, I did post
a couple of pictures on my Twitter of the me U mini device. You
saw the first game I put on there was wrestle Fest. So now I
can at wrestle Fest in my pocket anytime I want to. The answer is
wrestle Fest MLK. I don't see it. It's not in the list.
That are you sure it went through because I don't see it. It's not
coming up here unless it didn't push through yet. It's possible, but I
don't see it. But I do see Luise. Louise, thank you for
the five Our boy, Luis says, I finally decided this morning to stay
up to watch Elimination Chamber at two o'clock in the morning despite me working tomorrow.
Well, that's right, because Louise is out in California. If you
don't know Luise, Luis is always a Luis used to call in too when
I had to call in the call ins on the show, and Louise is
always full of energy. So I can only imagine how wired this man is
going to be if he stays up and pulls an all nighter and does not
get any sleep whatsoever, and then goes into work. I would not want
to be in the office. When you walk in, Luise is gonna be
He's gonna be drinking sixteen cups of coffee. He's going to have five energy
drinks in him. There's no telling what this man is going to do.
Kreflow half dollar with the five dollars. I'm old enough to remember the Be
the Booker days of Rosa Mendez against Stephanie McMahon. Well, there's certain names
that you will no longer find him Be the Booker because I got tired of
seeing those same names over and over again. See, but those were in
the that was in the early days when our boys infamous shout out to his
infamous HD. We used to use his animation before I went and created my
own, and I just added so many more names. But yeah, back
then we were landing out a lot of the same names over and over and
over again, and it was like, you know what, I've had about
enough of these names, going to create my own and put my own names
in there. That is what we did. If you knew the wrestle Fest
mechanic, getting the first shot in was game over. Well, I'll tell
you what's cool though, I'll tell you what's cool about this me and Mini
and probably it's the same way on a lot of these retro handhelds, because
there's again, this is this whole world of retro handheld devices that I wasn't
really familiar with up until a few weeks ago. But what's cool is that
I've added all the cheats as well to the directory. So if I want
to activate the cheats for every game, you got to go in and gotta
activate. There's like a way to do it. But like I can do
that. And in the arcade games, because they have different emulators and you
choose the one you want to play. If you want to play Ans,
you choose Anys. If you want Genesis, you choose Genesis and Arcade.
It's the same way. And I love it because I may to open the
option screen on some of the Arcade games and it said dip switches. That
was one of the options. And when I saw dip switches, I said,
man, that takes me back because I remember, you know, when
you used to be at the arcade, there was that switch. It was
either in the back of the arcade or on top of it. Some of
them were on top, but like, if you flip that switch, I
think that was the dip switch, it would bring up a special menu and
I don't remember if there were cheets in there, but like it was like
the secret menu, and I'm like man dip switches. I haven't heard that
in forever, and it's just really cool just to have all access to all
these games on a three and a half inch screen and the screen looks great,
but to have it on a three and a half inch screen, just
like in the palm of your hand, in your pocket at all times.
He's just unbelievable. I went from playing the game Boy version of Tetris,
which was a big which was a big hit with me when I was younger.
I can go from playing the game Boy version of Tetris to playing PlayStation
one guy I was playing what was the Need for Speed or something? I
was playing X Men versus Street Fighter, and he just switched back and forth
between them. It's amazing. It's fantastic. Don't forget the Simpsons arcade.
Yeah, I didn't play that as often. The actual physical arcades that I
used to be uh or were very popular with me and my friends, and
there was always a crowd. The one that always, no matter what,
always had a crowd around it was Mortal Kombat two, Mortal Kombat too.
I mean there were competitions, there were people like the older kids would be
there and they would like bully us, and they would be there, and
there was one kid who used to smoke, and I'll never forget he would
put the cigarette down on the controls and there was like a cigarette hole that
was burned into the controls, and this fucking guy, I would just stand
there and he would just beat us over and over in this game, and
you know, to the point where like I wanted to like plot to like
kill this man. But it was fun though, you know. Mortal Kombat
two was always popular, wressele Fest was popular, street Fighter Turtles and Time
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one that was always popular. I think those are
the main ones really that I that I remember. The one thing I don't
think I can get that I wish I could, and if I can,
then you know, by all means some solomn Monster. Solo Monster remembers Pong.
He is that old. I do remember Pong, and there's nothing wrong
with Pong. Pong is great. I could probably get Pong on there too,
I just haven't tried. Pong was for the Atari. What I was
gonna say is, though I would love to play either Cruising USA or Daytona
USA, I haven't been able to find those. So if there are ROMs
out there that will work on this device, I would love to know,
and I would love to know which emulator it's for. Cruising USA and Daytona
USA were fucking great. Those were great. Pitfall, Yeah, I was
playing jungle Hunt, remember jungle Hunt. I was playing jungle Hunt for the
Atari earlier. I only played for like ten minutes though, because I just
I always have so much work to do. But at some point I'll sit
here and find the time to put a video together for you guys. Let
you guys know where you can also buy these things. Daytona was on Saturn
and Cruising was on N sixty four. Well that doesn't do me any good.
Saturn and N sixty four are like the two fucking consoles that don't work
on there. Yeah, I was because I was looking for WCWNWO Revenge and
realized it was N sixty four and you can't get N sixty four games on
there, So I was like, ah, I knew that it was too
good to be true. Love Lie says, what is your favorite side dish?
Her name is Amanda May's The Great seven five seven says besides Montreal,
what do you think are the most over talked about things in wrestling, like
matches, eras, moments, et cetera that make you grown at the mere
mention of it. Montreal is easily number one. I'm honestly, I'm at
the point where the Monday Night War makes me grown. Whenever I hear somebody
talking about the Monday Night War or we're having another conversation with people from that
time about the Monday Night War, I want a fucking gag. Yes,
it was a very fun time I lived through. It was fantastic. We'll
never have another time like that again, probably with that level of competition where
it really was neck and neck like that for a while, and they were
on cable television combining for ten million and eleven million viewers a week. Like
that will never ever happen again. But I'm sick to death of hearing about
it and the glorification of it. Like we get it enough. We probably
won't have to hear about it too much anymore since Vince McMahon was all over
it, so I doubt we're going to be seeing that footage on TV anytime
soon. Where do you buy the mini handheld gaming system? Well, there
are multiple ones I got mine off Amazon, so you can go to Amazon
find them there. If you can get prime shipping. Amazon's you know,
Amazon makes returns and exchange is very easy. I had to actually return the
first one because the screen was all fucked up, and I got a replacement
unit within four days. So, but there's a bunch of different websites.
Again, if I do a video, I'll make sure I mention what some
of the sites are. Ah, there's one called keep Retro. I think
it's keepretro dot com. It's a bunch of them. Just search Google is
your friend. I promise you you're gonna find tons of different websites. Etsy.
Etsy has a ton of great accessories for this thing too. That'll be
the next thing I look into. They actually have a grip. It's kind
of in the shape of like a controller, like a PS five controller,
but it's like foam. It's like people three D make them at home and
you take the little device because the media is very small and you just stick
it in the grip and so if you want to control it like that,
you can do that. They have magnetic charging stands. People come up with
their own different colored buttons. If you want to open up the device and
tear it down and take the buttons out. I'm not messing around with it.
But people customize them in all kinds of ways. They make skin for
it. It's pretty badass, actually, the way some people customize these things.
Or was I spoiled as a child because it seems like I had everything?
No, I just had great parents who even though they didn't have a
pot to piss, and they made sure their kids were happy enough. Believe
me, there were plenty of things I didn't have, but I was fortunate
that I had good parents who bought me some cool stuff. That's it.
Let's see here, who we got? Who we got? Kreflow, kreflow
has one more. I remember Luis used to offer you the results of Championship
Wrestling from Hollywood, and you would just roll your eyes in frustration because nobody
was watching Championship Wrestling from hollyod what unless they lived in the area locally,
So I didn't know what he was talking about. He seemed to think that
everybody knew what was going on there at any given moment. I said,
Luis, nobody knows, nobody cares, nobody cares. But yeah, I'm
not. I'm not really good at like modding. I know some people take
their devices and they just again, some of the things they create are really
really cool, but you got to know what you're doing. You got to
tear these things down. And yeah, you gotta be very careful. You're
talking about a device that it's very cool, the power that it does have,
but it's not like a smartphone. You know, these things are not
that expensive, Like I got my unit for like seventy dollars. Like a
lot of these handhelds are in that fifty to one hundred dollars range. Some
of them could be like between one hundred and two hundred, but most of
them are even cheaper than that. But you kind of get what you pay
for. And so my concern is if I start opening this thing up and
tearing it down and you know, one wrong move and the screen won't turn
on or something. So I'm content with it the way it is right now,
but there are people that do some pretty cool stuff with it. Yes,
that is very important. If you get one of these, including the
one that I got, they come with a micro SD card and a card
reader for you to plug into your computer so you can transfer ROMs and games
back and forth. Don't use the card that comes with it. It is
fucking garbage. It will fail. It will absolutely fail on you. The
first thing I did I read about that. I knew what I was getting
myself into. So as soon as I got it, the chip that came
in the device, which I think was preloaded with games and stuff, first
thing I did, I took it out. I threw it aside. I
already bought my own card, much a much bigger micro SD. Buy your
own, get yourself in name brand sand disk or whatever. You know,
it's a name brand card. You will be much better off. It will
not fail, it will not give you any issues, and then you can
put whatever you want on there. That is very good advice. There's one
more be the oh shit, you know what, you're right, You're right.
Kareem Kareem points out, well, you know what, though it depends
if we don't hit the likes goal tomorrow, then we won't do be the
booker. But he does make an interesting point. You know, we were
celebrating the fact, oh boy, I think we've got ahead of ourselves.
We celebrated the fact that we we just had our first like full week every
stream, right, all bells and be the booker. But we have a
pay per view tomorrow, so we actually have one more be the booker to
come in a few hours, which technically counts for the this week. Oh
boy, I may have celebrated a little too soon. Oh boy, I
knew it. I knew it was too good to be true. I knew
it was too good to be true. I'm gonna make the gold bigger.
Don't worry. I'm gonna make the gold at least five hundred for tomorrow.
So you guys better show up with those thumbs ready to hit the thumbs up.
The green pianist says, Kareem is the kid in class that reminds the
teacher about homework. That's so true. Tuta our, Tuta, you forgot,
you forgot to have hurt, hurt for the three thumb. Yeah,
run run more anyway. Yeah, I say, tomorrow, we hang Kareem
upside down and shake him so his lunch money falls out of his pockets,
and then we give him a swirlly and the toilet. How about that?
Then, Well, then we'll throw him in his locker and we'll lock him
in there. That's what we're gonna do to kareem, so yes later today
because it is after midnight here, Actually in less than five hours, I
guess right, b the it would be five am. So Elimination Chamber is
on in a few hours. If you're joining late, I'm gonna get the
page up within the next half hour. I'm gonna get out of here in
a second, and I'm gonna put the page up for Elimination Chambers so you
can get an early like, get that thumbs up. Let's get those likes
up before I even go live tomorrow. If you want to do be the
booker twelve o'clock, I may set it for twelve fifteen, but twelve o'clock
Eastern time, I will go live on YouTube. So give you guys a
chance to watch the pay per view and enjoy the show. Hopefully it's a
good one. A lot of big names missing from the show, but that's
what happens when people are hurt. It screws everything up, unfortunately. So
that is the plan for tomorrow. I will be back with you in less
than twelve hours and we'll talk about the Chamber. And also on Sunday,
episode eight fifty of the Sound of eight hundred and fifty. If you can
believe it. Thank you guys for hanging out with me here late on a
Friday night. We had more people actually than I was expecting, so thank
you for that. Be well, stay safe, and I'll see you guys
back here for the Elimination Chamber review. Until then, take care, guys,