We have reached the end of the week. It is Friday night and that
means it is another SmackDown here on the Solo Monster Sounds off channel. It
is Friday, April nineteen twenty and twenty four, one day before four to
twenty. Sure a lot of you people will be celebrating tonight though we're talking
about WWE SmackDown. We have the Bloodline story continuing tonight Solo Socoa Tomatonga on
the show with Paul Hayman. Still no Roman reigns. I don't expect to
see him for a while, but we had a few more developments in that
story where Kevin Owens has now been roped into this Bloodline story. We also
know who will be challenging Cody Rhodes for the WWE Championship coming up in France
at Backlash next month. Cody has a challenger and it's actually somebody that he's
never set foot in the ring with before, so we're getting the first time
ever match at Backlash. We had a number one contenders tonight between aj Styles
and La Knight, a WrestleMania rematch between those two that was not the main
event on this show, though the main event up tonight show was for the
Women's Championship, with Bailey in her first title defense, putting the title on
the line against her good friend Naomi. We do not have a new Women's
champion, although it looks like we may be in for a triple threat match
at Backlash based on the finish of tonight's main event. Because if you thought
that Tiffany Stratton was out of the picture just by losing to Naomi last week,
Tiffitty Stratton was right there. She was the final person that we saw
at the end of SmackDown tonight, and I have a feeling that we may
be headed for a triple threat match of Backlash. We also learned via commercial
a commercial break how WWE is going to crann a new Women's World Champion on
Raw this coming Monday night. If you missed it, Rhea Ripley showed up
at the beginning of the show on Monday night. She vacated the Women's World
title due to injury. Unfortunately, they did not mention how the new champion
was going to be determined. All they said was that this coming Monday,
a new champion would be crowned. In the commercial they showed tonight, they
mentioned Battle Royale. I figured that's what it was going to be. I
mean, look, you're doing a one night whether it's a match or a
tournament or whatever. You know, they're crowning a champion in one night.
And even though you got three hours to fill, you could have a one
night tournament if you wanted to Battle Royal. They loved doing Battle Royals every
now and then. I'm not totally surprised by that. I think that bodes
well for Live Morgan, Live Morgan or Naya Jacks. But that is how
we will get a new women's world champion coming up on Monday night. We
also, speaking of titles, I am going to show you what the new
SmackDown Tag Team titles looked like. We had brand new belts unveiled on Raw
Monday Night, the new World tag Team titles, which followed a very familiar
pattern if you are familiar with the other titles on the Raw brand. So
I came into tonight figuring, man, I could keep my eyes closed and
picture what these new belts are going to look like. And I am very
happy to say that I was wrong. We have new belts and they look
damn good. Why did it take this long Why couldn't we have belts like
this for the last five years, ten years? Why did it take this
long. I'm going to show you what those belts look like. But before
we even get into anything that actually happened on SmackDown tonight, we have breaking
news and this actually broke during the show tonight. A former WWE champion is
gone from the company. And he's not the only one. There are actually
three people that we know of, at least so far, who are gone
from WWE. But we'll start with the former WWE champion. Did I rope
you in with that one? The former WWE champion that was released, although
based on what he tweeted, he claims he quit. But the former champion
who was no longer with the company as of tonight, Gender Mahal Gender,
has been hindered by WWE. He is gone. Zion Lee gone, and
Zion Quinn. It's a bad night to be somebody in WWE that has an
X at the beginning of their name. It's a good thing Sean Waltman doesn't
work there anymore. Zion Quinn. I know some of you may be thinking,
who what, What's that? Zion Quinn was from NXT Zion Quinn is
someone they made a free agent in case they wanted to use them on the
main roster. Zion Quinn is no longer in WWE. Yeah, Gender Mahaal
twelve years in total with WWE. This is not the first time that Gender
has been released by the company. There was a gap there of about probably
a couple of years where he was gone from the company before they brought him
back. But in total, it was about twelve years from the day he
entered developmental until today in his release, and that's a pretty long period of
time. And in that time he did win championships, right and then he
win the United States Championship at one point. But he also became WWE Champion
back in twenty seventeen. He beat Randy Orton, had a six month reign
as the champion before aj Styles beat him right before Survivor Series where it would
have been Gender Mahal one on one against brock Lesner, because back then it
was champion against champion raw versus SmackDown at Survivor Series. That was what they
did back then, And it was like a week before, maybe not even
a week it might have been less than a week before Survivor Series. They
got that fucking title off him real quick, and they put that belt on
AJ Styles and we ended up getting a great match at Survivor Series that year
with AJ and Brock. I love that match. But this is a man
who got six months as the WWE champion, and it came at the expense
of Shinsky Nakimore. I I really believe that Shinsky Nakimora was really more than
anything else. He was a victim of bad timing because it just so happened
that when he came into WWE at that time, got called up whatever gender
was the champion. They were pushing him. Vince McMahon he had a thing
for Gender at that time. He's my guy. We're gonna put him with
shinsk that way, we'll try to get some good matches out of it.
And Shinsky Nakimore he had to work with Gender Bahal lose to Gender Bahall.
He never did get that WWE title, but that was his big really his
peak in the company, and then of course disappeared in recent years, but
then reappeared at the beginning of the year. Had a segment on Raw with
the Rock. I think it was the very first Raw of the year right
day one got laid out by the Rock and there was a whole, big
controversy. Tony Kahan on social media tweeting about it, tweeting about gender,
Hook got involved. It was a whole thing. Now, Gender on Twitter
said I quit. This is what he said in his tweet, said I
quit Maharaja out and he put an emoji at the end of that with a
money bag. If you look at his Twitter bio, it says free agent
ninety days, So you can begin to countdown right now, it'll be ninety
days before Tony Kahn scoops up Gender to bring him in to do the job
for hook Mark my words, not much else to say about it. You
know, Gender, Gender is gonna do fine. I'll tell you something.
You know, you can talk about gender and the gender is hindered and all
this other stuff. Gender Bahl was not going anywhere in WWE. He just
wasn't you know. He had that run he got he could always say he
was WWE Champion, but at this stage in the game, he wasn't going
anywhere in this company. Gender is going to hit the independen scene. And
I actually think and in part because he was such a familiar face for so
long, and he is a former world champion gender I think is going to
do well for himself on the independen scene. So when he puts free Agent
ninety days with a little fire emoji in his bio, I think he's going
to do well on the NBC. They sure as hell weren't doing anything with
him in WWE. So it's one of those things where whether he quit or
whether he was fired, whatever it was, it's for the best because again,
I think he's going to be able to go out there now and I
think he'll be able to call his own shots. He'll be able to book
his own shots. He'll probably do very well, and at least he'll be
active. In WWE. He wasn't active, you know, he just kind
of wasting away. Some people are happy to do that and collect the paycheck.
Other people want to get out there, right, They want to work,
They want to be doing something. Obviously, WWE was not doing anything
with him. You know, he was managing Indue Share. When was the
last time we saw and do share on TV? Right once recently, It's
not like they're doing anything with them either. A Zaia Lee was also released
by the company she posted a message. I'll read that message to you now.
Unlike Jinder who said I quit Maharaja out, she was a little more
diplomatic here. In her response, she said, it has been over seven
years since I joined WWE and as the first female Chinese superstar, And it's
true, you know, when they first signed her, they made a very
big deal about the fact that she was the first Chinese born I believe WWE
star And yeah, they've been trying to break into all kinds of international markets
over the years, so they had high hopes for her and then ended up
not doing anything really with her. But she said, I feel incredibly proud.
I am sincerely grateful to WWE and Triple H for welcoming me into this
big family. During this valuable time, I have not only grown tremendously,
but also learned countless invaluable experiences. Thank you for your trust and the opportunities
you've given me to break barriers and set an example. Special thank you to
all the coaches, colleagues and staff who have helped me along the way.
Your support and assistants have made me feel at home in a foreign land.
I also want to thank all of the WWE fans, and then she goes
on to say, this journey has been wonderful. I sincerely thank everybody who
has been a part of it. This is not the end, but a
new beginning. Let's embrace more exciting moments together. What a positive, uplifting
message there from Zilee. So she's keeping a positive attitude about it. That's
good to see. Seven years. Yeah, I didn't feel like seven years.
It didn't feel like seven years because again, they didn't really do anything
with her. I remember when they first called her up to the main roster,
and those vignettes that they put together for her, almost comic book like
vignettes, were very well done. I mean as far as introducing a new
character, I thought they pretty much hit the nail on the head and I
was intrigued to see where it would go. And again, it's like so
many people who get pushed initially and then they're not or they introduce them and
they have one appearance and then they kind of disappear, you know, case
in point Cameron Grimes on SmackDown. But they didn't follow up on it.
She was the protector. She was the protector for a few weeks, and
then one day they shot a backstage segment with her where she said I am
no longer the protector. So she's the protector for about a month and then
she wasn't and then you barely saw her and that didn't change under Triple AH.
You can't all put that at the feet of Vince McMahon and say,
well, Vince McMahon didn't know what to do with Zio Lee. He didn't,
but neither did Triple H. So if you're a Zia Lee fan and
you're upset that she's gone, you got to hold his feet to the fire
on that as well, because he could have done something with her and he
opted not to. A Zion Quinn because I know there's gonna be a lot
of people who don't watch NXT or never saw Zion Quinn. They don't know
what he looks like. I mean, looks wise. He had a good
look to him, but that's pretty much where it ended. I watched him
at NXT when he first showed up. I was never overly impressed as far
as okay, this guy's on the fast track. I don't know how much
experience he had before they brought him into NXT. If he was pretty much,
you know, fresh out of another sport. I think he may have
been a rugby player, unless I'm confusing him with someone else. I think
he came from a totally different sports background. But he signed with them in
twenty eighteen and he debuted in twenty twenty. He was involved in it,
maybe a handful of stories in NXT, nothing really major. And then I
think, what was it? Was it a year ago in the draft he
was designated a free agent. Maybe it was the year before, but he
was designated of free agent, kind of like von Wagner who was designated a
free agent. And I don't think we've seen him once on the main roster
since he's still there though him and Robert Stone are still worked for now working
for WWE. But they designated Zion Quinn a free agent with the idea that
they can use him on the main roster or whenever they want to. You
know what they did with Zion Quinn. They used him twice. They threw
him in a Battle Royal. It might have been for a shot at the
Intercontinental title, but it was like a random Battle Royal where he just he
was just in there. Wasn't even like he got an entrance or an introduction
or anything. That was almost a year ago. The last time we saw
him was about a month and a half ago on SmackDown, and he was
job bait for bron Breaker. So clearly they didn't have any plans for him,
And I don't know if that has to do with the fact that he
just wasn't progressing, you know, with the rate that they wanted. Yeah,
they've They've said before when they've bring people into the PC now they do
these evaluations after a set period of time. If they don't see improvement in
you after six months, they get rid of you. So with him,
I don't know if it was a performance issue. I don't know if it
was something that he requested himself. I mean, I'm sure those details will
come out in the days to come, but I'm not going to sit here
and pretend like this guy was doing big things. He was on the fast
track to know some big things here in WWE. How could they do this?
Now? This sounds about right. So anyway, those are the three
names that we know of. It's always sad to hear about people losing their
jobs. I just can't sit here and tell you I'm surprised by any of
these three. I'm not not in the slightest but those are the names we
know of so far. Hopefully there's no more, but if there are,
we we'll probably hear about them very soon. This is your Friday Night SmackDown
review. As I said, it is April nineteen, twenty and twenty four.
I am the Solomons. SmackDown Tonight opened with a WrestleMania rematch here.
I thought this was going to be the main event tonight. It turned out
to be the opening match to crown a number one contender for Cody Rhodes and
his WWE Undisputed Championship, which I'm happy to see that they are referring to
it on the website as Undisputed WWE Champion, so it is not listed is
undisputed Universal WWE Champion. I don't know if the universal lineage is officially done
or not. It should be just kill it off and be done with it.
The WWE title lineage is really the only one that matters here, but
the winner of this match would get a shot at that title and Cody in
France at Backlash. This was a WrestleMania rematch between these two. La Night
One. The first match Knight had control early on dumped Aj outside the ring,
where Knight slammed him headfirst, over and over and over again into the
announced desk. The two found their way back inside and Night dropped AJ right
back outside and then followed that with a low drop kick through the ropes that
sent AJ crashing into the announced desk. After a break, both men had
the same idea. Each tried for a running crossbody block. They collided in
mid air and we got a double down. A little while later, AJ
was on the ropes. Knight did his leaping vertical jump, almost missed it,
but he balanced himself and then took Aj down with a superplex. Only
got a two count out of it. Aj regained the upper hand he hit
his moon salt. I love this move. Hits a moon salt off the
middle rope into a slot drop or a scorpion. I love how I referred
to it as the slop drop before a scorpion death drop. That's how you
could tell what I was a fan of back in the nineties. I was
stuck in ninety five watching Henry O God on television every week, So when
I see that move, the first thing I think of is slop drop.
But anyway, He hit a moonsaw off the middle rope, grabbed La Knight
in position. He immediately took him down for the reverse DDT, only for
a two count. AJ set up for a Styles clash. Knight ran him
though into the corner and AJ countered with a pla kick. Styles found himself
on the apron, setting up for a phenomenal forearm, but Knight caught him
hit a power slam in an elbow before teasing the BFT. Night went for
it, but AJ wiggled out. Styles ended up back on the apron and
he poked him in the eye. Referee didn't see it was very subtle.
Stuck his thumb right in his eye that blinded La Knight, who turned around.
He was holding his eye when he turned back around, though, He
got caught with a phenomenal forearm and AJ Styles pins La Night. We got
a bit of fifty to fifty booking here on this show. Goes Over gets
his first WrestleMania win. AJ gets the win back tonight. Unfortunately for La
Knight, this match the stakes were a lot higher than they were at WrestleMania.
WrestleMania was just a grudge match. This was a number one Contenders match.
So when it counted, AJ Styles gets the win. He is now
going to wrestle Cody Rhodes. At Backlash, they had a good match.
I thought this was a good opener. They had a good match of WrestleMania
two. I think that, well, I don't mean WrestleMania two. I
mean also at Wrestleman they're not that fucking old. But they had a good
match of WrestleMania as well. I thought that the Mania match was a little
bit better, but this was also a good match. You know, I
knew coming into this, I knew it wasn't going to be a clean win
for AJ. I figured they would protect La Night in some way. AJ's
the heels, so you just figure there's going to be some fuckery going on
here. And that was where the thumb to the I came into play.
Well, when you look at those two triple threat matches that they did last
week, you look at the six names that were in there, it was
just obvious to me that Aj Styles was going to go all the way.
It was going to be AJ and La Knight. AJ was going to get
the win this time because he is a great first challenger for Cody Rhodes.
Now I look at La Knight. Then I say, well, all right,
he wonted Mania, but he lost here, so he's not going to
be challenging for the title. So what are they going to do with La
Knight? Well, we have a draft coming up in a week. On
the one hand, I think about the draft and I say, well,
Cody is the Babyface champion on SmackDown. Now, we don't know where Cody's
going to land. It is always possible that Cody could be drafted to Raw
and the titles swap. Well, let's assume that Cody is going to stay
on SmackDown. LA Knight really should not be on the same brand with Babyface
Cody Rose as the champion because that doesn't bode well for his chances of possibly
becoming champion. He stands a better chance in that case if he goes to
Raw. Where Right now we have Damian Priest as the heel World Heavyweight Champion,
And I'm not saying that he's absolutely going to be champion. I actually
think it's probably not going to happen that he's going to hold the top title
on either brand, but he's got a better shot at it if he goes
to Raw, should the titles stay where they are? But then I also
feel like, well, if I don't think he's going to win the world
title, which I don't think he is, I still think that US title
is the way to go with him. And right now, the US title
is on SmackDown. Right now, the US title is on Logan Paul,
and I still would like to see Logan Paul in La Night matched up,
and I still think that could be the Summer Slam match. So I don't
know what they would do with him in the meantime because we have several months
before SummerSlam. But I still feel like that's the match. I think that's
the program for him. That's his best path forward is the US title,
which is a title he can actually win. I just don't see him being
in the world title mix right now on either brand. But as far as
Cody and AJ, I like the match. It's the first time ever match,
first time we're ever seeing these two in the ring together, two Georgia
boys going one on one. Obviously they have history, both men more members
of Bullet Club at different times. They're going to have a contract signing on
the show next week. It'd be very interesting to see if they mentioned that,
whether they mentioned Bullet Club by name or not. And we've had the
announcers mentioned Bullet Club, but just drawing on how you and I, we
kind of came up a similar way. You and I have similar pads to
WWE. But AJ is right back in the same position that he was in
eight years ago, the same year he debuted in this company where he lost
at WrestleMania and then went on to wrestle for the WWE Championship and he gave
Roman Reigns two kick ass matches. I think he's going to do the exact
same thing here for Cody. I think we probably get more than one match
out of it, and maybe the same exact thing he went back to back
with Roman Reigns. It was like payback and whatever. The other pay per
view was back to back WWE title matches that were excellent. We may get
the same thing here with Cody and AJ. I could see them doing it
again potentially at the King of the Ring King and Queen of the Ring just
coming up in Saudi Arabia next month. Memorial Day Weekend, they aired highlights
of the Bloodline segment from last week's show, which featured the debut of Toma
Tonga, and it also featured not only Tama but Solo beating the hell out
of Jimmy Usso and kicking him out of the groove. Jimmy got whacked,
basically is what happened. Very appropriate seeing is how Solo is out here tonight
dressed like a mob boss. So we come back live and we have a
shot of the parking lot outside. Suv pulls up and out walks Solo Soca
and Solo's Socoa is dressed. He was dressed like he was going to the
Hall of Fame ceremony. He comes out of the suv head to toe in
black, dressed to the nines. He's got the goal chain around his neck.
Paul Hayman is standing there waiting for him, and he tells Solo nice
threads, and then we the camera pans back a little bit and we see
standing behind Hayman is Tama ton Solo tells Hayman to meet the newest member of
the bloodline, my mft, and he gave Tama. Solo did a big
hug. I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what the hell
this means. The only thing I could come up with was they're never gonna
say this on TV. I'm sure it's not what it means, but motherfucking
Tonguan. He's my motherfucking Tonguan. Because I don't know what the hell an
MFT is. I know what an NFT is, I don't know what an
MFT is, and there are people in the chat earlier makeing all kinds of
suggestions about what it means, and a lot of people have said it means
my family tree. It doesn't make any sense because he said my MFT my
my family tree. It doesn't make any sense. So I'm sure one of
these weeks will find out what it is. But I have no idea and
feel free in the chat list out the suggestions of what you think MFT stands
for, and maybe we'll go with the best one. No fucking idea what
he's talking about. So Solo asks him, and is Kevin Owens here?
Haymon said he's most likely in the locker room. The show has already started,
and Solo told Paul to take me to him. It was out here,
Like I said, this guy is dressed like a mafia boss. I
mean he walks out of that suv looking like the tribal chief, even though
he's probably the Rocks tribal chief. So he may well be the tribal chief,
just not for Roman raids. He's the tribal chief for someone else.
Of course, it may take a while before we find out for sure,
but this is something that this Solo Socoa character has needed for a while.
Yeah, he's been standing in the background, silent and looking at his thumb.
Okay, great, you know, but that gets old there for a
while. At some point you have to evolve the character. He has to
start speaking more, start coming out of his shell, showing more personality,
and that's what we're starting to see here. So it's cool. It's cool
to see them finally letting him be a little more dynamic in his character the
way he was in NXTA now when he was just a street fighter. We
got to see that side of Solo Socoa. Now we're starting to see some
of that nxt Solo come out a little bit more. After a break,
they showed the Pittsburgh Steelers sitting in the crowd. Give you one guess where
SmackDown was tonight. They were enjoying themselves, and then it was to the
ring and the SmackDown General manager Nick Aldis, who introduced Triple H. Paulovek
showed up on Raw. Actually he's been showing up a lot lately. He
was a WrestleMania, he was on Raw, he was on SmackDown tonight.
I'm surprised he didn't show up at NXT on Tuesday to let you know,
to impress upon you that it is the Paulovec era. He comes down to
the ring and he's whatever little kid he sees. He make sure he goes
over to the little kid and shakes their hand or gives him a high five,
or says something to him, all wholesome. This is called cultivating an
image here. So we had a championship presentation ceremony on Raw. No surprise
that we would get a championship presentation ceremony here on SmackDown. You knew it
was coming. So as Triple H was coming to the ring, we had
another glitch. We've had a few of these on WWE programming over the last
few weeks. As far as this QR code is concerned, if you follow
the QR code, it opens a photo of a black, hooded figure.
It's basically someone you're not meant to see the person's face like an illustration,
like a painting. It looked like almost so it's like a black, shadowy,
hooded figure. You see a blue sky with clouds behind this person,
and it reveals the message I'm nobody when you zoom in on the head.
When you click it, it switches to another photo showing black crows and people
from what looks like ancient Greek times, with a video that flashes the message
I set them free out of the MIRI clay opened their eyes while you did
nothing, and then the message cuts abruptly. I learned a long time ago
with the bray Wyatt stuff to not even bother to try to figure out what
a lot of these messages mean. I'm sure people will be hard at work
try to figure out what it means. I know what it means. It
means that Uncle Howdy is on the way. Uncle Howdy and Alexa Bliss are
on the way, possibly as soon as raw this Monday in Alexi's hometown.
That's what it means. Beyond that, I'll leave that to the experts to
figure it out. Have we come up with an answer, by the way,
for mft I wasn't paying attention to the jet. You'll let me know,
so. Triple H said that on the heels of I want to make
sure I do this right, because my god, he was hyping this WrestleMania
up like you wouldn't believe. He said, on the heels of the biggest,
most stupendous, most incredible, earth shattering, ecstasy inducing WrestleMania. I
don't care how attractive your wife or your girlfriend may be, or your mistress,
your gumah, whatever whoever it may be. She may be the most
voluptuous, unbelievably attractive woman in the world, you still will not get the
same state of ecstasy that you will have by watching what was the greatest WrestleMania
of all time. There, did I do a justice? I don't think
he used enough superlatives to describe this year as WrestleMania. He welcomed everybody to
SmackDown, and then he complimented Nick Alls and Adam Pierce for leading their respective
brands, said they're doing a good job all this then introduced the new SmackDown
tag team champions, aust Theory and Grayson Waller. It came to the ring,
Triple H congratulated them on becoming tag Team Champions and said from now on
they will be known as the WWE Tag Team Champions. No surprise there.
It's the same way it was years ago when they had the World Tag Team
titles on Raw, they had the WWE Tag Team titles on SmackDown. It's
no different now. But then they unveiled the new titles, and I actually
have a couple of images here to show you in case you missed it,
but these are the new SmackDown Tag Team titles. Take a look at those.
Aren't those beautiful? Aren't those two beautiful belts? It's nice to be
able to say that here in WWE for a change, two beautiful belt,
two belts that actually looked like wrestling championships that you would want to fight for.
And I love the homage to the classic tag team titles from the eighties
and the SmackDown Tag titles from two thousand and two, which in and of
themselves were an homage to the classic belt from the eighties. You see this
is more like it. And actually there's an even better image here because of
course, it only took a few minutes to get them up on WWE.
Shot for five hundred bucks, but that's a better shot at what the belt
looks like. It did a good job. You know, I could quibble,
and just I hate to even do this because again, I think it's
a really nice belt. I just wish and I again my only thing that
I would change or add to it. I wish the globe had some blue
in it, especially with the belts being on SmackDown. I think that would
make sense. But that's my only quibble. Otherwise, I think the belt
looks gorgeous. I think they nailed it. Happy to be wrong because I
said, you know, on Monday night, I said, look, we're
going to get a version of the Undisputed title and the women title. You
know, because they love their they love their brand consistency. That's why the
tag belts and the Women's World Belt and the World Heavyweight title on Raw they
all have that big gold look. They all have that same basic look,
right, that's like brand synergy. They want that consistency across all the championships,
which I think is unnecessary because realistically, the only belt that matters is
your top title. So I understand them wanting Cody Rhodes to walk around with
the giant logo belt because that's what people see. Right when the Super Bowl
winners go out there on parade, they have the belt with the big logo
on it, and the team that wins the Stanley Cup is hoisting the cup
up and they have their parade. There's the big logo belt, the baseball
belts. I get it. It doesn't really matter though, if the Intercontinental
title, which at least looks different, doesn't look the same as the other
belts on the brand. That's what I like about though. That's what I
like about the US title and the Intercontinental title. But this, right here,
this they nailed it. So I was happy to be wrong. So
I thought it was just going to be another version of the Undisputed Belt.
So Triple H offered them a handshake, and they blew him off, and
instead, Waller in theory decided to shake each other's hands and mock Triple H.
All. This got hot when he saw this, and he said that
if they disrespect Triple H like that again, he would make them disappear for
good. This guy thinks he's Tony DiAngelo here. He then said the fatal
four way to decide the next challenger for the tag team titles was happening right
now, and if they wanted to focus on comedy, their titles would disappear
very soon. Now. Before that match, we went backstage. We had
a segment with Naomi who was interviewed by Caleb Braxton, and she said that
she would make the most of her opportunity against Bailey tonight, it would not
let friendship derail her chances. She reminded us that it's been over two years
since she had a singles title match here in WWE, so she says she
would bring the same energy that she did last week when she beat Tiffany Stratton
tonight when she gets in the ring with Bailey, she looks forward to walking
into the draft next week as the new WWE Women's Champion. And then we
had a fatal four way. We had the Street Profits, We had the
new Catch Republic, Angel and Humberto representing Legato del Fantasma and Aop representing the
Final Testament. Tyler Bait tried to lift Razar, but he couldn't ultimately,
so this was one of the cool spots of the match. Tried to get
him up and it took almost everybody else in the ring helping him lift this
man. But then they let go and he had Razar on his shoulders and
he started to do an airplane spin with him, but then almost immediately got
booted in the face and then dropped him. But the fans were into it
though. When he had him up on his shoulders and he was about to
give this guy an airplane spin, the fans were with him on that Angel
dropped kick bait who was on Humberto's shoulders at one point, got a good
near fall out of that. Baiton done, They came back and worked dueling
ankle locks on Legato until they kicked their way out. Aop was dominating.
Set the new Catch Republic up for their finish, but Baiton Dunn countered out
of it. All four teams started brawling. Humberto ran it, Angelo Dawkins.
Dawkins, though shoulder blocked Umberto halfway across the ring, and Montese four
tagged in landed a blockbuster on Humberto, who was on Dawkin's shoulders, got
the doomsday blockbuster, got a good near fall out of it, though Pete
Dunn broke up the pen attempt done pulled off Dawkins glove because Angelo Dawkins i
guess he's Michael Jackson or something. He's got like the glove on his hand,
so he pulled the glove off and he bent the fingers. Bait tagged
into the match. There was a three man dive to the floor from Bait,
Dunn and montese Ford who went over the post. We've seen him do
that before. He took out. Might have been Akeem Actually no, it
might have been Razarre. I think it might have been razarred that he took
out. But Humberto and Angel they isolated Tyler Bait and they hit their finish.
Humberto dove onto Pete Dunn on the floor. Angel then attempted a pin
after he hit a springboard moon salt. Montes Ford, though, broke it
up with a frog splash. Ford and Dawkins hit their revelation finished on Angel
and they pinned him to become number one contenders to the tag team titles.
I thought it was a fun match. There were some cool spots in here.
One criticism of this, You know you do a match like this with
because these men had to tag in and out, and when you do a
match like this with tags, unless it's an elimination match, very dumb.
Very very dumb. This should have just been a tornado match with no tags,
but you know, Done and Bait. Their offense is getting over.
The people are into it when they're hitting those moves. They're fun to watch,
especially Tyler Bait. It's fun to watch. But given that Grayson Waller
and Austin Theory are the champions right here. You knew coming into this that
it was either going to be the Street Profits or the New Catch Republic that
was going to be the likely match of Backlash and New Catch Republic. They
already had their shot at the Judgment Day, they had their their one on
one tag match at Elimination Chamber, so it made sense that the Street Profits
would go over here and now they're going to get the next shot. Today's
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Byron Sachston, and she said that she appreciates being the champion right now,
especially since she's the only women champion in WWE OH singles. She kind of
neglected the women's tag team titles. I can't say that I I blame her,
but yeah, she is currently the only single women's champion in WWE.
Has nothing to do with her relationship status. It's just that, one on
one, there is no women's World champion for a few more days on Raw.
She said that the draft might change things next week, but her being
champion is not going to change anytime soon now Elsewhere in the back, Paul
Haman apologized to Solo's sokoa for not being able to find Kevin Owens, but
he promised him that he would find him. Right He's got to be here
somewhere, and he promised him that he would find him. Solo walked straight
ahead, never said a word. He just walked straight ahead into the gorilla
position and then stopped, and Paul followed him, and Hayman promised him that
I'm not trying to piss you off, but respectfully. He told Solo that
he's making decisions that are not his to be made yet. He said one
day they will be, but not now, not here. These are decisions
that can only be made by one man. And Solo cut him off and
asked him, are you done yet? Are you? And Hayman asked Solo
if his MFT is coming with him. Solo smirked, flashed his taped up
thumb, and then they hit his music and he and Hayman behind him.
They walked out to the ring. They got into the ring, they stood
in the ring, and then they went to commercial. So I guess they
stood there for about five minutes until they finally came back. When they came
back, Paul Hayman said, he doesn't know if there is a list of
the most brilliant backstage politicians in WWE, But if there was such a list,
you could have just stopped right there. I can tell you right now
who's at the top of that list. Brother, It's number one, and
then everybody else is a distant number two. You could put Triple h on
there. You could put Sean Michael's on there, you can put anybody you
want to on there. It's brother, and then everybody else behind him.
If there was a Hall of Fame induction for the biggest politician in the history
of the business across multiple companies, Hulk Cogan would be a multi time Hall
of I guess he is a multi time Hall of Famer, right, isn't
he a two time Hall of Famer? I believe they put him in twice.
I could be wrong. I thought they did. But anyway, Hayman,
he was insinuating that he would be near the top of that list.
So allow him to explain to us the backstage politics going on right now within
the bloodline. He says, the premier act in all of WWA in the
history of WWA. Now the fans started a loud we want Roman chant,
or the production truck did, and then the fans caught onto it. And
the only reason I say that because people were chanting, we want Roman.
But it was almost a little too convenient because it had to happen to lead
into the next part of this segment, so I wouldn't be surprised if they
chewed it up, piped it in. Didn't take much for the fans to
follow suit, and now they're chanting we want Roman, so Hayman. After
it finally died down, he assured us that as the wise man for your
tribal and then Solo angrily snatched the microphone out of his hand before he could
finish. Solo started taking some steps forward. He's looking into the camera and
he starts talking, but he kept getting booed like he was a dominic mysterio
out there. Finally, he said he had last week he had to lose
a brother in order for him to find a new one, his mft Tama
Tanga. And at that point he looked to the stage and we saw Kevin
Owens. He got thrown out. He's stumbling around on the floor and he
is bleeding, and then we see Tomatonga. He comes sauntering out from the
back. Obviously not real blood because why the fuck are you gonna why you
fuck are you gonna blade in the back? Right kind of stupid. Plus
you could tell it was It was actually quite comical because he comes out there
and you could tell when they do these things because it is so dark red.
The blood is so dark, and it was like covering the entire left
side of his face, and there was a point like on his skull,
like the side top portion of his head. It looked like he had been
shot in the head and had a hole blown through his skull. So I
don't know what Tomatonga did to this guy, but getting blood here on WA
real or not. You know, we're getting blood here on WWE television,
And that's fine when it's used selectively, I have no problem with that,
like for an angle like this, so owens he stumbled all the way down
to the base of the aisleway and finally he collapsed there. Referees came out
to tend to him. Tama walked to the ring, got inside, and
inside the ring, he threw up the finger salute, as did Solo and
Hayman. But then Kevin Owens came back because they were trying to take him
to the back. He comes back down and tries to fight both of them.
He got double team though in the end he put it. He put
up a fight. They got him in the ring. He put up a
fight until Solo spiked him in the throat and then Toma pounced on him.
Tama went outside to go grab a chair. He brings the chair back inside.
Now, Nick, all this is in the ring. Not only are
all the referees in the ring, but all this is in the ring.
Still recovering. I guess from his torn his torn biceps tendon, right,
it was a bicep that he tore. He had surgery for it a few
weeks ago. So he's not wrestling, so he doesn't have to miss any
time at all on TV. And he's not even in a cast anymore.
So he must be doing well. I guess he's convalescing well. Moxley disagrees
with me about the blood. I'm sure, mom, I'm sure Moxley does.
I'm sure he does. You know when Moxley wakes up tomorrow morning.
In the morning, the birds are gonna be chirping. The sun is gonna
be shining. He's gonna wake up. He's gonna be a fucking pool of
blood in his bed. That's all this guy does. He bleeds all day,
morning, noon, and night. Probably it looks like a crime scene
in that man's bedroom. I'm sure he would disagree with me. So all
this is in the ring and he's warning Tama, don't do it, don't
use that chair. So Solo takes the chair away from him, calls off
the dogs. They left the ring, they walked up to the stage.
Toma threw the finger up first, then Solo. It's like the little things
here. Solo turns to look and make sure Paul Hayman is going to do
the same, and Paul quickly puts the finger up, and then Solo puts
the finger up as well. Hayman is out there looking just as scared as
he did last week. I am still trying to figure out this MFT stuff.
But again, Solo is he's killing it right now. It's only been
a week, it's been two shows so far, but Solo is killing it
right now. It's a nice change with him in the driver's seat, even
if he's not really the one driving the car ultimately, and credit to them.
I think it's only been two episodes so far, but they've done a
good job already of establishing Solo Sokova and Tomatonga more importantly, who just debuted
as two of the biggest players on the entire show. We haven't even heard
Tomatonga say more than a few words, you know. The only thing we
have heard Tomatonga to say was backstage outside the trainer's room where Jimmy was last
week, when he walked up to Hayman and said, by orders of the
tribal chief, and that's it. He hasn't come out and cut a promo
yet or anything like that, and already he feels just he's part of the
bloodline, you know, it's like he's been there for forever. So they're
doing a good job with that so far. And even if I'm right on
what I said before and they did pipe in the loud, we want roman
chant, you know, even if that is what they what they did,
you know, it's I would liken it to someone who accidentally or otherwise starts
a wildfire, right and it could be as simple as someone putting a cigarette
right all of a sudden before you know it, acres and acres are a
blaze, right. All it takes is that little spark and so here,
Even if they did that, it didn't take much to get the people in
the building here in Pittsburgh tonight to start chanting for Roman rains. That does
not surprise me at all, because I always thought when we got to this
point that Roman finally did lose the title, that was the beginning of the
Mega Baby faster and this is only the beginning of it. We're not going
to see Roman for a while. He's filming movies. He's pictures of him
on the set of movies and stuff. We may not see him until deep
into the summer, closer to summer slim. We're at summer slim. But
already the people are chanting for Roman rings. They are embracing Roman rains.
They want to see Roman rains. And it's only been two weeks since WrestleMania.
So imagine if they continue to let it build and let it simmer,
what the reaction will be that first time we see him back on TV,
or if he runs out, you know, to interfere in a pay per
view match. If what say, Rock came back for a match with Cody
at SummerSlam as opposed to wrestle Manya next year. Maybe Roman shows up.
Whenever it is. People are going to go nuts for this guy. You
know, he is going to be Superman to these fans. You know,
ultimately when he comes back, and he'll be as over as he has never
been. He'll be more over than he was when they pushed him as a
baby face the first time. He'll be more over than he was as the
tribal chief the last three and a half years. And then we will get
the eventual reunion with the USOS, and that'll be a whole other chapter of
the story that unfolds Jacob fatsu I still am of the opinion that we could
very well see Jacob Fatu debut of Backlash to cost Jay Usso his World Heavyweight
title match against Damian Priest, just because even though he's he's removed from the
bloodline, Jay is if we are eventually going to get the reunion with him
and Jimmy, which we will, and the reunion with the USOS and Roman,
which we will, he he has to be reintroduced into this story at
some point. Maybe it's too soon, but That's why I could easily see
it's a big opportunity for him, and I could see the bloodline factoring into
that in some way. But then I see what they did tonight here on
SmackDown, and what might be more realistic is if Kevin Owens is involved in
this, Kevin Owens is going to need some help, and so who would
be the most logical person for Kevin Owens to go to. I guess it
would be Sammy's ain, but it's not going to be him. Randy Orton,
who we have not seen since Wressel made. I could see Kevin Owens
and Randy Orton coming together for a match, maybe a backlash against Solo,
Socoa and Tomatonga, and maybe that's where we find the next newest member of
the bloodline, which would be Jacob Fatu, and he helps Solo and tom
Awin. Now we have an all new bloodline. We have Solo, we
have tom Oh, we have Fatu, and then the story goes on from
there. That seems a little more realistic to me. I think Orton and
Owens's partners makes sense against these two, So we'll see. But again,
I am enjoying the story so far. You know they're taking it in a
different direction, which they had to do, and I'm all in. I'm
all in on it. I want to see where they go with it.
They have my interest, they have my attention. Now. After a break,
Paul Hayman was shown walking backstage and Nick all This grabbed him and pulled
him out into the parking lot to show him Toma Tonga's rental car had crashed
into Kevin Owens rental car. Uh oh, I guess that rental car company's
not going to rent to wrestlers anymore. So all This wanted to know what
this was all about, and Hayman obviously had no idea. He looked as
surprised as anybody, and all This told him he said, look, I'm
not going to accept this savage behavior. And he said Hayman needs to make
the bloodline aware of that as well. The draft is next week, he
says, all the top brass are going to be there, and I mean
the top brass. Said they've got their eyes on things, and he reminded
Hayman that losing was not the only thing that had consequences, because remember what
Hayman said last week, Losing has consequences. That's why they lost their locker
room. And then Solo would say to Hayman, you said losing has consequences,
right, And then that's when they kicked Jimmy out of the group.
So Nick all, this is laying down the hammer here and we'll see what
happens now, because next Friday is night one of the draft, and then
that carries over into raw the following Monday, that's night too. In the
arena, Carlito made his entrance with Zelina Vega for his match with Santos Escobar,
who was out with Electro Lopez. They aired an interview with Legato El
Phantasma from earlier in the day. Santo said that if he had attacked Dragonly,
if he was the one who attacked Dragonly, he said that he would
take credit for it. Carlito had control early. He dropped kicked Escobar to
the outside, followed that up with a drop kick that sent Santos onto the
announced desk. Carlito then hit a springboard splash onto Escobar outside and then he
hoisted Zelina up on his shoulders and they posed and that took us into the
commercial break. Oh that's four, okay, that makes four bre modes so
far finished the story. I know its four. I got one finger left
here. We got at least one more to go. After the break,
Escobar had control landed a hurricroana from the second rope for a two count.
Carlito fired up. He hit a series of clothes lines and a running knee
lift. Then he went to the top, but Electro Lopez distracted the referee
until Selina Vega got involved. Vega jumped off the apron and tried for a
rana to take her down, but Lopez held her and then the idea was
she's going to swing her into the barricade, and that's what she did,
except not really. She didn't really make contact, so that didn't really work.
So while the referee was over breaking up the women, Carlito was kind
of in the ropes. I think he was climbing back into the ring and
Escobar kicked the rope and low blowed him and then hit the phantom driver for
the wind. Not really much of a match. Carlito was out there.
He looked like he was moving in slow motion, and he's looked that way
in a few matches since he came back. We'll see if they keep all
the factions together. I think generally they do. They've even moved factions in
the draft before. I don't know. That doesn't mean it's going to work
the same way this year. We'll see if they break up any of these
groups, but whether they split Carlito away from the LWO via the draft or
they shoot the angle, which is what I think they will do with him
going heel, he's going to be the one revealed as the person who attacked
Dragonly. I mean, it's the story that makes the most sense. Carlito
is not doing anything right now. He's not doing anything right now, so
the more interesting story would be they've added another new member in Dragon Lee,
who we have not seen since he was attacked backstage before WrestleMania that took him
out of WrestleMania. If you remember, we don't need all these people in
the LWO. Now. The LWO is actually down a member. So the
LWO is supposed to be Raymistereo, Dragonle, Carlitos, Alina Vega, Joaquin
Wilde, and Cruise del Toro. I don't know exactly what the injury is,
but Del Toro just underwent surgery on his arm, so Cruise del Toro
is going to be gone for a very long time, so he They're already
down one member in the LWO. But I just don't think Carlito needs to
stay in the group if they've added Dragon Lee, so I think the heel
turn is inevitable at this point. Kayla Braxton was up in a luxury box
with the members of Damage Control. Dakota Kai said that eos Sky will eventually
get her title back and that they were there to watch two people they don't
like tear into each other in the main event tonight, and she reminded everybody
that the Kabuki Warriors were still the women's tag team champions, And just like
that, Jade Cargill's music hits and in the adjacent luxury box, right next
to theirs, there's Jade and there's Bianca bell Air. So everybody's got a
seat for the main event coming up. But before we get to the main
event, we had Cody Rhodes. Now, the Raw Crew is currently on
tour in the UK. They had a show at the Two in London tonight.
I don't know if that's when they shot this or they just wanted it
to look that way, but they showed Cody Rhoades. It looked like he
had just wrestled the match at the belt around his waist. He was backstage
and so they were going to get comments from him about finding out that AJ
Styles is his opponent at Backlash. So this was Cody's response. He said
he was in undiscovered country now that he has gotten the big belt from the
big place. He commented on AJ winning tonight and said that it's going to
be two Georgia boys going at it in France for the first time ever.
Said that AJ rarely misses and neither does he, and that was it.
Next week they're going to have a contract signing. I'm sure that'll be more
Hopefully that'll be a little more engaging here than what we got from Cody in
this promo, but they're saving that for next week. So the main event
was Bailey's first title defense since winning the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania. She
put her title on the line here against her good friend Naomi. Really cool
the way they shot the intros for this, and they always do the in
ring intros for title matches, but here like they had this like zoomed in
shot of Mike Rome and then they would cut over to the challenger and then
they cut over to the champion. But just the way they shot it I
thought was very cool. It reminded me of like a boxing fight, you
know, the way they did it. Naomi went for a quick pin attempt
and got a one count. Both women exchanged some offense early on. Bailey
hit a pair of armsdrag takedowns, then she ran the ropes until Naomi caught
her with a kick and then an inside cradle for a one count. Both
women exchanged pin attempts until they hit a double crossbody block to slow things down.
You know, we already had a double running cross body block in the
opening match on this show. I don't think we need to be seeing that
spot twice on the same show, Naomi hit a rear view for a two
count. She went up top hit a cross body for another two. She
came Bailey. Bailey, though, caught her with a belly to back suplex
and then went to the top. She tried for an elbow drop, but
Naomi got the knees up. Naomi went to the apron hit a facebuster,
then she went for a split legged moon salt, but Bailey got her legs
up to counter, Bailey went back up to the top. This time she
hit the elbow drop for a earfall. After that, she tried to set
up for a rose plant, but Naomi countered and worked a submission hold until
Bailey was able to turn that into a pin attempt. So the two women
stood at this point and they're basically like, come on, let's go,
you know, give me your best show. Its like a New Japan exchange.
They had here of elbows back and forth. Naomi hit a step up
knee that sent Bailey to the floor. Naomi then hit a springboard splash on
Bailey at ringside. Bailey came back though with a Bailey to belly onto the
top of the announced table. Then out of nowhere, Tiffany Stratton appears and
she first attacked Bailey and then she went after Naomi, and that I guess
that rendered this match and no contest. We never did get an announcement,
so I'm not quite sure what happened there. But Stratton got them both in
the ring, line them up flat right next to each other, and then
hit her prettiest moon salt ever onto both women, and then she posed on
the middle rope to close out the show. The match itself, I thought
was it was decent, a little too tentative, I thought in some spots.
But now it looks like we may be headed for a triple threat match
a backlash. You know, we got no winner here in this match,
so it's not like one woman lost, why would she get another shot?
Right? They went to again what I assume is a no contest here.
We had no winner. Tiffany's getting herself involved, and so unless the draft
is going to render this all moot, if they're going to end up in
different places, which is certainly possible. Although WWE usually with the draft,
they do explain that it doesn't officially take effect for a while, so I
do wonder when the draft will take effect. My guess would be after Backlash.
They'll probably say after Backlash then it goes into effect. But I think
we're going to get a triple thread on that show. Overall, I enjoyed
the show. I like last week's show a little bit better, but I
thought tonight's show was still enjoyable. I like the bloodline segment and the matches.
I wouldn't say there were any great matches on this show, but the
opener was good I thought the main event was decent. The tag match was
good, so you know, we had some good action here. We had
some progression with the Bloodline stuff with Kevin Owens now being involved, and so
we'll see, we'll see where that goes. As far as Jacob thought too,
and when we might see him on TV, what did you think of
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As always, it is very much appreciated. Bre Mode or otherwise. Let's
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They get their own special section here because they came in early. Ye know,
I mentioned fire Panda dropped some bombs before we went on drop a couple
of them. Fire Panda, Thank you. Fire Panda says Judgment Day can
still evolution. Priest have Balor get more and more jealous that Priest is champion
cause Balor uh Or because Balor cannot win the belt, and then after Priest's
first defense, they hold a celebration and that is where the turn happens.
This also gives a reason for Ria Ripley to turn baby face because Damian Priest
is her best friend, and you can turn dom face. I don't know.
It seems a little too soon for that, and play it as he
has to choose a side, and that's when we get the big reunion of
Dom and Mommy Absolute Cinema. It's not a bad idea. It's not a
bad idea at all. I still feel like it's probably a little too soon
to turn dom face, but the way you explained it there where he has
to make a choice, and because of the connection to Rhea, everybody loves
Rhea, it probably wouldn't be that hard, honestly for them to turn Dominic
babyface. I just don't know now is the time to be doing that.
Jake Low with the four ninety nine, I don't like Corey Graves as the
lead play by play on Smack Them. The lead play by play should call
out the heels when they cheat, not suck up to them. Bring back
Jr. No, No, Jr. Does not need to be doing full
time weekly commentariat. Tony Kahn has the right idea with Jim Ross. He's
got Jim Ross doing pay per views and not even the full pay per views
like the main event or the key matches on those pay per views. That's
exactly the role for Jim Ross right now. We do not need him on
smack Dona Yasu save a WWE career, Alex Riley or Tyler Brees. Tyler
Brees love that early Tyler Breese gimmick in n X thing main roster Not so
much, Lakers, Pat says Russo swerve Jimmy re rejoins the Bloodline Holiday one
ninety seven. I'm thinking Rhodes is drafted to Raw with the WWE title and
Priest goes to spack Down with the World Heavyweight title. They're not marketing Cody
much on SmackDown. This means all WWE and World Champions swap brands. Well,
I was gonna say, if if you think that Cody is going to
end up on Raw, then all of the champions have to swap because you
have all the belts on Raw look the same. You can't have them on
different brands. That doesn't make any sense. So if they're going to do
that, then yes, all the champions would have to swap. I'm not
sure that's what they're gonna do. The comedic genius. Why did Cody cut
a promo in a closet? That's what they have there at the O two.
Hey, you never saw a New Japan show when they go to the
back and they have the backdrop and they're doing an interview or cutting a promo.
It's the same thing. Prince Vegeta, how would you feel about Logan
Paul being the one to take the belt from Cody. It'll be months down
the road, but imagine the heat that that would get. No, that's
why he won the US time. No, he is not the one to
beat Cody Roads. The real CS says both Gender Mahal and a Zia Lee
have been released by WWEE not surprised we have not seen them on TV in
months. Yeah, talked about that. At the very beginning of tonight's Street
d H sires with the four ninety nine, assuming they do three way at
Backlash, I would belt Tiffany and have her lose next month. Nothing wrong
with hoeing the title for a bit? Is that what it's called here?
I thought it was called hot potato ing, but apparently it's called hoeing the
title. Well, I would not hoe the title with Tiffany by giving it
to her for a month. I don't really I honestly, I think you
do her no favors by doing that, and I think it would be you'd
be better off just having her win Queen of the Ring or money in the
bank. She's my early money in the bank. Briefcase pick for this year.
Ragnarok says, Happy Friday, brother. What is your opinion of NXT's
resident imbaku in Oba Femi seems to have it all and could be a future
world heavyweight champion. I just mentioned Obaei on the podcast last weekend, and
again I'm not following NXT as much week to week as I used to,
but what I've seen of him, I thought he probably had the best match
when it came to the NXT Stand and Deliver show. That triple threat match
was really good, so I could see where the company would be very high
on him. I think they probably are. I think they have good reason
to be so. I'm impressed so far. You know, keep him down
there for a while, let him keep having matches and learning and getting better
and improving. I mean, that's what NXT is for. I don't see
any need to, you know, rush him up or anything like that.
But they definitely have something in him for sure. You know, I could
see why they would be hot on the guy. Anderson Blitz sad to see
Zilee gone, as I was a fan of her with gender, the fact
that his last two moments on TV was with the rock and Seth Rollins.
What a way to go out all Elee Adam thoughts on Zelena Vega being released.
Zelena Vega was not released, Yes, and then a few super chats
later, he says, retracting the Zelena Vega superchat, I am a moron.
You just gotta be careful where you get your news from. Men.
That's why I see if you tune into the beginning of the stream here I
had you covered. Just just leave it to me. Watch the streams,
listen to the podcast. I'll make sure I can get you all up to
speed with the accurate names. You know you can trust me. Devin from
New Jersey two thousand, last ever question before I turned twenty four tomorrow.
If Solo found out there was a conflict resolution class being taught by Phil Brooks,
would he go? I would I go? I wouldn't go. I
wouldn't go. I think that would be good for him, the one who
needs conflict resolution. I'm not the one who gets into conflicts. I'm good.
Maybe I'll teach the class if he If maybe he wants to attend,
that's fine. El Massey fifteen bucks, El Masse Man, oh man,
are we gonna have JD and Solo Monster call a gender match when he goes
the hg Ots family. Let's make it happen. I said it earlier.
I said it earlier that I think Gender is going to do very well for
himself on the independent scene. I've actually interviewed Gender once before on the red
carpet at a WWE two K event when he was champion. When he was
the WWE champion, so that must have been two K seventeen. I guess
I talked to the guy. It may be happening again soon. You never
know, you never know. Could very well happen. It could very well
happen. I could be calling my first general homematch soon. Man Alex with
the five Bucks Brothers solo. If you are booking backlash, are you putting
the bloodline in the main event or finishing the show with Cody versus AJ?
What will triple h do? I think you finished with Cody and ag Yeah?
Markwan nineteen seventy six, Zieleee released. Who will protect catering? That's
a good question. It's going to be a run on the cookies now.
I don't know who is going to protect catering. That's a great question.
That's a very good question. I don't know. Face Bears, thank you
for the two bucks. Damn It Dan with the fifty dollars goon thar bomb
from damn It Dan. Oh, you love to see it, Yoe whowee,
that one's for you. Dan if Rick Flair was the Man of the
eighties, Brett Hart was the Man of the nineties, Kurt Angle was the
man of the two well, I mean, in fairness, I think you
probably would have to say Steve Austin was the Man of the nineties and Kurt
Angle was the Man of the two thousands. Who is the Man of the
twenty tens? And who do you think could be the Man of the twenty
twenties? Also, do you have a favorite black and white movie? I
do. I do Abbot and Costello, Hold That Ghost. I mean I
like almost all the Abbot and Costello movies, but meet Frankenstein, Naughty Nineties,
Hold that Ghost, fuck Privates. But I would say Hold that Ghost
is probably mine. As far as the Man of the twenty tens, I
mean, I guess we're talking WWE specifically here. I guess we would have
to be what else will we be talking about? Aw didn't even start up
until twenty nineteen. Yeah, I mean I feel like it would. It
would kind of have to be someone like Sena or Punk. I can't say
Punk, though, I can't say Punk because Punk missed the majority of that
decade, you know, he sat out for seven years. So I would
probably go John Cena. I think John Cena would probably be the one I
would go with on that. As far as the Man of the twenty twenties,
I guess we are almost halfway through, and I would say Roman reigns.
How could it not be Roman Champion for three and a half years?
Right, and he's going to come back. He's going to be a massive
babyface. I know he's part time, but to me, Roman would be
the face of this decade so far. Christian Ray. Seth really thugged it
out for WrestleMania, No wonder, he looked like death at the end.
What's next for him? Punk versus Seth at Mania forty one? Finally,
I hope they do Punk and Seth. I mean they were teasing it and
I think the potential for that to be great is definitely there, so I
hope they get back to that. Yeah, rollins. For those who don't
know, Becky Lynch spilled the beam. She was on TV in Ireland doing
an interview and she said that Seth just had surgery for I think it was
the torn meniscus that he had in his knee going into WrestleMania, so he
finally had surgery on it. So we won't be seeing him for a little
while. I mean it shouldn't be that long, maybe, I don't know,
maybe a couple months. Depth to Dust says favorite Shawn Michael's match in
the nineties. You just kind of lay that one on me, huh.
Favorite Shawn Michael's match of the nineties. Me personally, I would probably go
with the Hell in a Cell match against Undertaker a bad Blood. You can't
go wrong with that. You can't go wrong with the latter match of WrestleMania
A ten. Some people might even say the Mind Games match with Mankind.
I like the No Holes Bard match with Diesel, that first title defense coming
out of WrestleMania at twelve. But for me, it's got to be Hell
in a Cell against the Undertaker. We have got Prince Vegeta. You remember
all the Kizarni vignettes in two thousand and eight, says that they played them
for months, had one win over MVP, and then he was released.
I barely remember the Kazarni stuff. I mean, I know he was there
and then he was gone. I don't remember. If you asked me to
describe the vignettes to you, I couldn't do it. Like the shan o'hairwans,
those I remember those stood out, you know, But I'm not telling
you something you don't already know, right, Those those were memorable segments they
did. The Kazarni stuff, I barely have any memory of it, dumb.
I couldn't even tell you Rodamus Prime besides Joe versus Swerve. What is
the other match that you are looking forward to on Sunday. It's a little
match called Brian Danielson against Will Osper. That would be it Rodamus That would
be the easy answer. Holiday one ninety seven. What are your predictions for
the Draft? Where do you think the major stars will go? I predict
several big SmackDown stars going to Row. Yeah, I'll talk about the draft
on the podcast. I can't. I'm not going to get into it all
here, but I'll give some predictions and thoughts on the draft, probably on
Sunday show, so make sure you tune in. Greg. Thank you for
the twenty five dollars pre mode that comes from Greg. Joseph Stewart. Could
Live Morgan end up being in bo Dallas Uncle Howdie's stables, since both Bow
and Live are a couple in real life. I don't see it, but
I can't rule it out, especially if she's gonna be doing a gimmick possibly
where she's kind of going a little a little batty. I don't see it.
Anything's possible. If Alexa Bliss is in there, there's no need for
Live More gonna be in there, though, why would Alexa and Live be
in the same fact, they almost cancel each other out. Two tiny blonde
women, right, two tiny blonde women, you're gonna put them in.
Basically, they're gonna be playing the same role in the faction. I don't
see the point in that. I don't think they need to be in the
same group, so I wouldn't do it. Bass Beer is thank you for
the twenty five and the two plans for Earth Day. I'm gonna be I'm
gonna be working here on Earth on Earth Day, That's what I'll be doing.
I'll be working as I do every day, Alex says, with Cody
teasing a winged Eagle return in Triple H presenting new title designs for both the
tag titles. Do you see a new design for the WWE title in the
near future? I would love it. Sadly, I don't. I don't
see it. They have. You know, you make a great point,
he says, you can never have enough tiny blonde women. I'm not hey,
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying having him
in the same faction, I don't think it's necessary, mister Ozone. They
forgot to release Deaf Rebel too. Bring back Jim Johnston or CFOs or someone
who knows what good wrestling music is. Yes, they should have released Deaf
Rebel. Jim Johnston is available right now. I don't know why Triple H
doesn't pick up the phone and call him. Seriously, the man was a
wizard. The way he would work just fantastic of what he does. He
just he got it, you know. He would try to get a feel
for the character. And the guy just knew what he was doing. Man,
I mean he was. He was fantastic at it for so many years.
I wish they would bring him back, but they're not going to Kevin
Dun's Beaver now aew fans want gender thicker, thicker, fickle people. Thank
you, Kevin duns Beaver. This journey called life. Cameraman failed at zooming
in on Ko's bloody face. Now, he didn't fail, he was just
I'm sure he was told not to. Jerome Eugenio. Do you see Finn
Balor having a match with Cody during his title reign Balor and Cody, I
don't know. I don't think so. Bass Beers the w logo is not
big enough on those belts. Just kidding. That's what I like about it.
They're tiny, They're like almost microscopic compared to the undisputed title. That's
what makes it so good. DH with a pair of super chats here.
Have you checked Have you checked out Javon Evans from NXT. I saw the
match he had with Iliya Dragonov. That's the only thing of his I've seen
so far, And you know, he looked impressive enough. I mean,
I can't say that it was anything that blew me away, but I did
see that match. DH says Live should go after Dom out of pettiness.
That would be kind of funny. Actually, Joe B I was at the
show tonight. The best part was starting an AOPP chance and then my section
and I complaining about twenty eighteen raw. Sounds like a bunch of sound off
fins in that section, but it sounds like to me, d H sires.
With WWE being very high on Julia, would you fast track her to
the main roster by the end of the year and give her the undefeated run
like OSCA and belt her in twenty twenty five. She's only going to be
first starting with NXT. I think in July or August. So I would
not rush her to the main roster right away, but I could see her
being up on the main roster. Yeah. I would have her in the
Royal Rumble for sure, the Women's Royal Rumble next year, for sure.
The Real csays, does wwe have to get blood approved from the network.
I've been wondering this since the Cody beat down a few weeks ago. I
don't think so. I think that if they had to, they would just
shoot around it in some way. I don't know, but I don't know
that they necessarily need approval every time they want to do it. There may
be certain parameters for whether or not they zoom in or or not. Again,
they didn't zoom in on Kevin Owens tonight, probably by design. I
don't know that they had to tell Fox that they were going to be blood
on the show. The Juliet with the twenty five dollars Bremode, says.
Becky confirmed in an interview that Seth had surgery on his knee on Tuesday.
Given he mentioned or the timeline mentioned for the surgery, latest we see him
as after summer slept. I don't know what the typical recovery time is for
a torn meniscus, or if it's partially torn. I thought his was partially
torn. So I don't know. I don't want to say, oh,
it's going to be six months, it's going to be two months, it's
going to be three months for sure. I don't know. I don't know
the nature of the tear. I wouldn't expect it to keep him out for
six months or anything like that, but it'll be a little while before we
see him, and you know what, good let him take all the time
he needs. You know, the guy was busting his ass. He called
himself the workhorse champion for almost a year. Obviously worked hurd at WrestleMania.
Now we know the guy deserves some time off. There's no need to rush
him back to make him a free agent, as I'm sure they'll do with
Roman, you know, pending whatever happens in the draft. So that way,
when he's ready to come back, he can be on whatever brand they
want him to be on. He'll be a free agent. M Miles,
thank you for the twenty five dollars. Very nice of you. I appreciate
that Kentucky dried chicken without flavor. Tomatonga went gorilla tactics on Kevin Owens tonight.
Yes he did. Also says, I noticed Tiffany Stratton's outfit change tonight.
Damn standards and practices. Off is the direction you can fuck? You
know, there's a super chapter. Deh says, have you seen the deaf
Rebel memes? I have? I have? I want to laugh at them,
but at the same time, I just wish the music situation in this
company was better. Richie says, so this will be the third time that
somebody turns on raymustereo. Wow, it's just so easy. It's just so
easy to do it. Prince Vegeta finally saw Ironclaw, good four star movie.
What the fuck was with that flair casting? And that was the question
that everybody was asking themselves when they walked out of the movie theater. It
was really the only blemish on an otherwise very good film. I don't know
what they were thinking with that casting. I really don't. Barry Mka says,
how did you like the old Summer Slam Big Green s logo they used
from two thousand to two thousand and eight. I really wish they would bring
it back. I did not like it, So I am glad they got
rid of it, Kentucky Dried Chicken says, making a bold prediction, Becky
Lynch will land a huge role for a movie franchise in twenty twenty five.
All right, well, Ufman says, torn meniscus recovery is six to nine
months. Again, I think it depends on how badly torn it was,
though, But okay, six to nine months, so maybe it may be
a while yet before we see seven. Barry says, just saw the new
titles. It looks great up close, but it's hard to tell what it
looks like from a distance. I felt the same about the big gold title.
Kentucky Dried Chicken says, Add X Men ninety seven to your watch list.
The show is fire. I saw some people saying that the show should
win some awards. Apparently it's it's Is it that good? Anybody who has
seen X Men ninety seven? Is it really that good? And Kung Fu
Joseph? People will get mad at me. I'm sorry for Bray's passing,
but I was never a fan of the Fiend, the Funhouse, the Puppets,
so seeing how Do You Return makes me grown Well. It's all in
the execution, It's all in how they're going to present it once he returns
to TV. Look, I wasn't a fan of a lot of of that
stuff either. With that second run back, you know, some of the
some of the presentation, I liked, the new music, I liked some
of it also made me grown, And that's fine. You know, you
don't have to apologize for saying that. That's that's your opinion. People were
saying it at the time. I like the fact that they're resurrecting this stuff,
you know, effectively in tribute to Bray. But the jury is out
on, you know, how effective it's going to be and how how good
it's going to be. I want to give it a chance to see and
see who's going to be a part of this group. Maybe I'll like it,
maybe I won't. You know, it's not a reflection on Bray Wyat
the person. You know, obviously, what happened there is tragic and terrible,
but these are characters on a television show, and so we'll see if
the characters are good or if the character suck. Time will tell all the
stuff that Bray did not. Everybody was going to be into that. I
mean, it's almost like an acquired taste. I mean, you're either into
that kind of stuff where or not. But I don't think you need to
apologize for that anyway. The goal tonight for be the booker was four hundred
likes. We are currently sitting at five hundred and twenty two. Man,
you guys killed it. Thank you for that again if you missed it earlier.
Here's a look at the brand new WWE tag team titles on SmackDown.
That's a badass belt right there. Got that old school feel to it.
I like it. Anyway, let's go ahead and be the booker, ladies
or gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. Hey, and
don't forget, don't forget how effective that White Rabbit stuff was. White Rabbit
Stuff was super over when Brave first came back, they were doing all that
stuff, so it's not a surprise that they would want to go back to
it. Very effective. Anyway, it is time to be the booker.
And what we will do, as we always do here, is we kick
things off with a tag team match. Close out the week. We had
a straight I don't even know what you would call it. We had a
great fail, I guess you would say. On Wednesday night, I guess,
so we had three buzzers instead of three bells. Hopefully we can change
that tonight, I hope. Well, this is a good way to start
kick things off here with the Briscoes, Jay and Mark. That is how
you kick things off here and be the booker. That's what I like to
see. Jay and Mark brisco are going to be stepping into the ring with
Rob Van Dam and Hook. About that RVD and Hook. We need a
name for this team. What should they call themselves? I'd rather see RVD
and Hook than Chris Jericho and Hook, I'll tell you that much. That
gets an easy bell from me. All right, women's be the booker.
Kick things off here with Tony Storm. There you go, not timeless,
but I like me some Tony Storm, reigning aw Women's World Champion, Timeless
Tony Storm. And then we got May Young. You know what I'm giving
that the fucking bell? You know why it fits so well if it was
timeless Tony Storm. But it fits so well. You got timeless Tony Storm
going out there at these sprums calling out Wendy Richter like it's nineteen eighty five.
I actually think timeless Tony Storm and May Young is the perfect match.
I like it. I'm calling an audible here, and I'm giving it the
bell because I just think it works so well. And if you don't like
it, tough shit. It's my show. I booked the card. You
don't have to watch. That's right. That's right, Tony Storm and may
Young tell me you wouldn't be morbidly curious to see how that match would turn
out? All right, here we go. Keith Lee is kicking us off
here and be the booker port Keith Lee. I would have hoped that by
now he'd be in a much better position that he's in, but unfortunately his
health has dictated otherwise. Keith Lee in the main event, one on one
with the Fiend bray Wyatt. Ah Ah, I give it, I give
it the bell, but it's an unenthusiastic bell. Unenthusiastic bell because it's the
Fiend, and so he's got a wrestle like the Fiend. See if it
was just bray Wyatt, I'd be a little more enthusiastic about it. The
Fiend. That could go either way. That could go either way. Really
it really it really depends, but I'll give it the bell. So we
had a nice recovery here tonight. Very nice recovery from that disaster that we
had on Wednesday. Bliss Fan is loving this. Ray is not happy.
Ray would have given that a buzzer. I think bliss Fan would like to
have a word with you, Ray, Although in a fight between the two
of you, I'm going with Ray. I'm not gonna fuck with her.
Adam Casper says, happy four twenty to everybody on the East Coast. Yes,
happy four to twenty everybody, for those of you who celebrate Jay Glow.
I looked Jay Glow. I didn't see anything, so it probably didn't
come through bass beers with a pair of super chats. And this one here
says May Young the stunt granny. May Young would kill the stunt granny.
She is not the stunt granny. She killed the stunt granny. That's what
she did. Juanal Compo, after hearing what Kenny Olivier said about brawl Out
and his relationship with Punk, he seems like the most level headed one from
the Lollipop guil. Kenny has always been very laid back. I'm not surprised
at all that he would be the one member of the elite who said that
he would have no issue working with Punk. I thought that was always known
that the two of them had spoken. I don't know if it was in
person or via text. I think it was via text at some point after
brawl out. I thought that was already known. But Yeah, that doesn't
surprise me at all. Kenny. Kenny doesn't strike me as the kind of
guy that's going to hold a grudge or play politics, you know, or
anything like that. He doesn't strike me as being an asshole, so I'm
not really surprised by that. Kenny just wants to do business. He wants
to put on the best matches that he can anyway. This weekend, we
have episode eight fifty eight of the podcast coming up on Sunday, and we
also on Sunday getting two shows because AW Dynasty is on Sunday Night with Swerve
Strickland trying to win the AW World Heavyweight Championship from Samoa, Joe will Ospray
and Brian Danielson for the first time ever. The Young Bucks FTR Ladder match.
Probably going to get the return of Jack Perry as well, would be
my guess. But when the show is over, you come back here.
I'll be live for the review late on Sunday night. So you get more
Solemn Monster this weekend. Aren't you happy that you get more Solemnnster this weekend?
Hey, Cameron Spencer, the messages keep popping up, the messages keep
coming in. Here, Cameron says Live is winning on Monday. It disappeared
Live is winning on Monday. Naya will be moved to SmackDown lead with solo
until Homan returns and be a key Bloodline member going forward. You're talking Naya
Jacks as a member of the Bloodline going forward. I mean, look,
if there was going to be a female member of the blood Line, I
guess it would be her. Bace Beerra says four to twenty Taker uses weed
smoke in his entrance. There is a four to twenty Taker super chat.
By the way, Kentucky Dry Chicken says Billy the puppet from Saw has offered
you three options. One hundred million dollars to fight brock Lesnar, fifty thousand
dollars to take ten gunther chops, and five thousand dollars for a Rakishi stinkface.
Why would anybody take five thousand dollars for Rakishi stinkface when you can take
what is that ten times the amount for ten chops? You know, your
skin grows back. Your skin is very resilient. It regenerates. So if
he chops the flesh off my chest, eventually it'll grow. It might be
scarred up, but eventually it'll grow back. So I think I would probably
I'd probably take the fifty grand and take my chances with the gunther chops is
what I would do. May's the Great celebrates thirty four months of membership.
How about that with gender scent packing. Never forget that John Cena almost got
his neck by Knakamora to get a match with him. Thank you missing a
word there, brother, I'll fill it in for you because I remember that
match. He almost got his neck broken to get a match with him.
That's right. That was a very scary moment on SmackDown Ritchie with the ten
dollar super chat. Richie, thank you. If you had done a podcast
in two thousand and you did WCWU Nitro and pay per views in two thousand,
how pissed off would you be every night? I don't know if it
would even be anger. I just feel like it would be laughter. It
would just be comedy at that point. If you remember some of the stuff
that happened in WCW back then. I think it would be more comedy than
anything else. And Adam Casper can't wait for the WWE Draft next Friday and
the NBA and NHL playoffs tomorrow. Yeah, a lot of sports, a
lot of sports stuff coming up. I saw they had Olympic wrestling or amateur
wrestling on USA Network earlier. I don't know what that was. But you
got plenty of sports to keep yourself occupied, and you got plenty of me
this weekend. So thank you guys for all the streams this week. It
was a good week for the channel. Again, subscribe. We're trying to
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for the AEW Dynasty review. Hey Daddy Ball dropping a five saying be a
good night shout out to yours truly, thank you brother, Good night to
you as well. Be well, stay safe, and for all of you
who are celebrating four twenty, you might enjoy the little easter egg here in
the outro. See if you spot it, I'll see you guys back here
live on Monday night for the Raw review, but Dynasty first on Sunday night.
Take care, guys,