But the first time ever SmackDown was in France tonight and according to WWE,
it was the highest grossing SmackDown in history. This I'll tell you what you
know. Going into WrestleMania, WWE was on a hot streak, a lot
of sellouts on the roads to WrestleMania. But you kind of expected it because
you had the Rock and Roman reigns and Cody and that whole story going on.
But they have been able to keep up the momentum so far coming out
of WrestleMania and these crowds. They've been on some international tours. They were
in the UK, I believe last week. I saw a video from Gunther
he was in Vienna. He was in his home country the other day getting
a Heroes welcome, And they have been packing these crowds in. And I
will tell you what right now, this show tonight, which was taped earlier
in the day, this crowd in Leone, France. If this crowd is
going to be anything like this tomorrow for Backlash, we are in for a
very fun pay per view. I will tell you that right now, this
is going to be It's like a year ago when Backlash came to Puerto Rico.
That's what this is going to be like tomorrow and maybe then some Holy
shit. I mean, this crowd, it's one of those It's one of
those things where you just wish you could take all of that enthusiasm and just
bottle it up and take it back with you to the States, you know
what I mean, and just use a little bit of it each week whenever
you need to. Oh, this crowd tonight here is kind of dead.
Let's pop the bottle open. Let's take some of that energy and use it
somewhere else. Right. You just wish that you could do that, but
you can't, so you just enjoy it while it lasts. That crowd made
this show tonight, and this show tonight was punctuated by a face to face
confrontation at the end of the show between the champion and the challenger. Heading
into Backlash, Cody Rhodes and aj Styles face to face one more time before
they're a big undisputed title match. I was just happy to see Cody is
okay physically after what happened last week in the match with Carmelo Hayes, that
very scary spot where they did the springboard off the ropes. They both missed.
Cody landed hard on his shoulder. There were no injury updates on him,
nobody said anything about it, but he turned out to be okay.
I felt the same way when I saw what happened to Powerhouse Hobbs a few
weeks ago on Dynamite against John Moxley, and as it turned out, he
suffered a very significant injury. He's gonna have surgery, he's gonna be gone
for a while. I saw Cody land on that shoulder, I'm thinking,
oh my god, they banked everything on him. They're building SmackDown around him.
That's the last thing they need. But Cody is okay. I'm happy
to report that Cody Rhods is all right. The match is a go for
tomorrow. They closed out what technically it was not the closing segment, but
they closed out what I thought overall was a good go home show for Backlash.
I thought they did a fine job of promoting the two key matches for
tomorrow's show, which are Cody Roads against aj Styles and then the tag team
match, which is going to be Randy Orton and Kevin Owens taking on Solo
Socoa and Tomatonga representing the Bloodline. Or I guess you would call it a
new bloodline that they have now. And those are the two key matches tomorrow.
I mean, I guess you could throw in the World Heavyweight title match
as well. But they did a good job of promoting the key ones that
they had to here. On this show, we also had three more names
declare for the King of the Ring tournament in Carmelo Hayes, La Knight,
and Santos Escobar. I don't know that it's official, we haven't gotten the
official announcement yet, but they did declare, so I think it's safe to
assume they will be in the tournament. Now. You throw in Gunther,
who was the first man to declare, You throw in Drew McIntyre who was
also declared, maybe Seamus, maybe even someone like bron Breaker, and this
is already shaping up to be a very strong field. Give these men time
because they're gonna be starting the tournaments on TV this week. So on Raw
this Monday, the King of the Ring kicks off. It continues into SmackDown
next Friday. They're doing the tournament matches on TV with the finals, and
I think that's what they did two years ago, or maybe it was three
years ago, the last tournament they did, saving the finals for Saudi Arabia.
If they give these men time and I know we're gonna have the commercial
breaks and they're very disruptive, but if they give them time on TV,
this tournament could turn out to be something very special because already, without knowing
all of the names that are going to be in it, it's a pretty
stacked lineup of people. And I didn't even say anything about it, like
an Ilia Dragonov, who's going to be debuting on Raw probably as soon as
this Monday. He should be on Raw, so that's gonna be something special.
One thing though, that was very apparent from Raw Monday SmackDown tonight.
You know, we've been having these people declare for the King of the tournament,
and I don't like that. I think it's stupid. I wish they
would have had qualifying matches for this. That's the way they used to do
it. And the reason I think it's stupid and it's very dumb, is
because unlike even something like the Royal Rumble, where you have people who will
sometimes come out and say I'm declaring for the Royal Rumble, and yet still
in some years they will have qualifying matches occasionally for the rumble, which doesn't
make any sense. But in a case like this, if you could just
declare for the King of the Ring tournament, then why wouldn't everybody on the
roster declare for the King of the Ring tournament? Why wouldn't Berto declare for
the King of the Ring tournament? Right, It's just it's stupid. But
my belief here is that they are doing the tournament matches on television in the
weeks leading up to the show, and so I think they just don't want
it to be overkilled. Maybe in their mind it would be overkill if they
had qualifying matches and then they go right into the tournament matches. I think
that the way to do it. They opted not to one thing that was
glaring. Though we've had people left and right declaring for the King of the
Ring, why are none of the women declaring for the Queen of the Ring.
It's King and Queen of the Ring. Everybody is declaring for the men's
tournament. Nobody is declaring for the women's tournament. And what I'm hoping is
that now that we are in this new era that they love to talk about,
so much with mister levec over here. He will take a different approach
than the old regime took to what they called the Queen's Crown. I would
like to forget that that happened. The Queen's Crown was a colossal waste of
time. So I'm hoping we're not in for a sequel to that. And
they actually put some thought and some effort into the female side of this,
into the Queen of the Ring. But why nobody has declared on that side
and everybody's declaring on the men's side again, that's just something that doesn't make
any sense. Now. W is hyping a major announcement for tomorrow. See
Tony Kahan is not the only one who can hype up major announcements. Here,
they're hyping up a major WrestleMania announcement. They told everybody to make sure
they're following them on all their social media platforms. They didn't say exactly when
the news is going to drop. It might coincide with Backlash when Backlash goes
on the air tomorrow. Don't forget it is a one o'clock Eastern start,
so prepare accordingly if you are planning on watching the show or checking out this
guy's stream over here. When it's over, it's an early start time tomorrow.
But they're going to have a WrestleMania announcement. They did not say what
it is. I think it's safe to say they're going to finally announce the
location for WrestleMania. And for the longest time, Minneapolis was in the running,
and all you heard about was US Bank Stadium, and Minnesota made a
play for it a long time ago. They're going to get it. They're
gonna get forty one next year. And then all of a sudden, the
conversation began to change in the last couple of months, and you heard a
lot about Las Vegas. I've been waiting for wrestle Media to come back to
Vegas since nineteen ninety three. I think Vegas is the perfect location for WrestleMania,
especially now that they have an actual stadium there. Back then they didn't.
But Vegas has been picking up a lot of steam in the last few
weeks. And then Undertaker went and made a comment on his podcast a few
weeks ago saying that he he kind of let it slip that they're doing it
in Vegas next year. I'm not sure if he knew that it was official,
but obviously he was privy to conversations that were going on. So it
looks as if the announcement is going to be the WrestleMania is coming to Las
Vegas. That's my take. If I had to put money on which one
it's going to be, I would guess that it's going to be Las Vegas,
and then Minneapolis would get forty two. I'll tell you why I think
it's going to be Vegas. One of the biggest reasons why I think it's
going to be Vegas, besides the fact that it's a big vacation destination.
If The Rock is going to come back and have a big match of WrestleMania
next year and he matched The Rock at is gonna be big. But if
the plan is for The Rock to come back and have a main event match
with Cody Rhodes or a main event match with Roman Reigns, I don't know
that The Rock is gonna want that big main event to happen in Minneapolis over
Las Vegas. I think the appeal of it being Las Vegas. It's just
something I think that would be more appealing to them and to him if they
were gonna hype up some big fight, right. It's like UFC, they
do so many events in Vegas. I feel like for a big match like
that, they're gonna want a big location and in their mind they may look
at it and go, you know what, Vegas is the place to be
for forty one, and then we'll save Minneapolis for forty two. That's what
I'm thinking here. So we'll find out tomorrow. We won't have to wait
very long, but that is coming up tomorrow. This is your WWE SmackDown
review. You don't have to wait until tomorrow for this. You got me
right now. It is Friday. It is May third, twenty and twenty
four. I am the It's a monster like subscribe super chats are open.
Four hundred likes is the goal for be the Booker tonight. And for those
of you who have not already figured it out, I will be live tomorrow
Backlash taking place at one o'clock Eastern, so probably going to be live on
YouTube sometime around four thirty ish, not long after the show is over.
Come on back here less than twenty four hours, and I will go through
the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hopefully there won't be any
ugly. I'll tell you what. With the crowd like they had tonight,
it's hard to imagine the show tomorrow being ugly at all. But I'll be
back with you to cover the pay per view at that time, and hopefully
you are here with me, so let's zip on through this. The show
tonight opened with an eight woman tag team match. It was Bailey, Naomi,
Bianca bell Air, and Jade Cargill taking on Tiffany Stratton, Dakota Kai,
Kyrie Sain and Osca. Tiffany Stratt has been given the deaf Rebel treatment.
I guess her previous music may have also been deaf Rebel, but she's
been given a new song by deaf Rebel. They must pay for what they
have done. I don't know how, I don't know when, but they
must be stopped. This is not an upgrade over the theme that she had
before. So right from the jump, the crowd was just electric for this
match. You did not have to wait very long to get a feel for
this crowd, right from the opening entrance, right from the opening match,
and everybody got an entrance here. So all the babyfaces came out and got
entrances. The heels they got entrances, and they did that on purpose because
any other week, I think we only would have gotten the babyface entrances.
But these people were going nuts for everything. And I love the arena there.
I don't know the name of the arena, but it's a unique setting
in that they have the modified, smaller setup in the wrestlers come out and
it's almost as if they have this horizontal screen that runs along kind of runs
along the wall of the arena. So I just think when the people walk
out there in the entrance way, it just makes for a good visual and
so we'll have that tomorrow for backlash as well. So right from the jump,
crowd was going nuts for pretty much everything they were doing, and they
don't get to see this live very often. Naomi and Kyrie they started things
out. Bianka tagged in landed a standing moon salt for a two count.
She lifted Kyrie for a delayed vertical supplex, hit it, and then threw
Oscar to the floor. Bailey tagged herself in back from a break. Tiffany
hit an Alabama slam on Bailey and had her pin, but Naomi broke it
up. Stratton knocked Cargill off the apron with a forearm shot and then followed
up by running Bailey into Naomi to knock her off the apron. Bailey supplex
Stratton and then exchanged an awkward look with Bianca, and not the first time,
not the last time that these two have shared an awkward moment in these
last several weeks, and it would not be the last time, in fact,
on this show that these two would have an awkward, tense moment.
Jade got back up on the apron. Bailey tagged her in instead of giving
the tag to Bianca, and Jade comes in and she hits a pump kick.
It's a power bomb, tags out so Ken. She's not doing too
much, and I would expect the same tomorrow with Backlash, where I would
be surprised if Bianca does not start that match, and if they do,
you know the spot where the baby faces in peril and needs to make a
tag. They've done that before with Jade, where she stays on the apron
and they build to the hot tag and she gets it and the place goes
crazy, which I'm sure they will tomorrow, and then she gets to come
in and look good and do some power spots. It's a formula that's worked
so far. I would expect the match tomorrow to play out much the same
way. But she tagged out, didn't stay in there very long, and
then we got a series of rapid fire spots that ended with Bianca dropping Dakota
with the kod and pinning her while the fans counted along with the referees count
in French. A perfectly decent match in any other building, but in front
of this crowd, it was a lot of fun. Now, we got
a small preview here of two different matches that are happening tomorrow. We have
the Women's Tag Team title match tomorrow and we have the Triple Threat for the
WWE Women's Championship, So we had a little bit of a preview with the
participants here in this match. The bigger story, though, is the issue
or issues that persist between Bianca bel Air and Bailey. Bianca bell Air does
not like Bailey. She made that very clear heading into WrestleMania. When Bailey
got betrayed by Damage Control, she had no friends and Naomi felt bad for
her, and Beianca said, what do you feel bad for her for?
Did you not see what she's done to me? Her and damage Control making
my life a living hell the past two years. Bianca hasn't forgotten, and
so there's still a tension there that they're really playing up between these two women.
And again Bianca has made it very clear she really does not want to
have anything to do with this woman. Even backstage when this was over,
Caleb Braxton interviewed Bianca and Jade. Bailey and Naomi were standing by, and
Bianca looked right at Bailey while she was saying that she had hoped now to
be finished with the damage Control for good. After Backlash and Bailey left the
room, Jade tried to calm Beyonca down. I think, regardless of how
the Women's tag team title match plays out tomorrow, this is building to a
women's title program between Bailey and Bianca bel Air. I don't know when.
I don't know if they maybe would hold off on that for SummerSlam, because
that feels like a big enough match to use on a card like SummerSlam.
But that's where this seems to be headed. This is going somewhere, and
the logical place for it to go, and Bailey is going to need some
opponents would be Bailey against Bianca for the women's title, not right away,
but again maybe later on as we get deeper into the summer. Nick All
this was in the back and he was talking with the newest edition to the
SmackDown roster, Carmelo Hayes, and he welcomes him to SmackDown. Hey said
that he almost beat Cody Rhoades last week. Almost doesn't count, That's what
he said, and he wanted to keep his momentum going, so he was
declaring for the King of the Ring tournament. Alda said that we'll talk about
it. And as I said before, those King of the Ring matches are
kicking off on TV next week. We're actually going to find out I believe
this was wrestle Votes that tweeted this earlier. We should find out the raw
side of at least on the men's side, if not men's and women's,
the raw side of the brackets tomorrow, and then on Monday we should find
out the SmackDown side. And Monday is when the tournament matches kickoff. So
Bobby Lashley entered the room. He greeted him warmly. Hey, Carmela,
what's going on? Welcome to SmackDown. Everything's cool between them. It looks
like Lashly tells him, you know, call me if you ever need any
advice, and Hayes said, nah, I think I'm good. I was
the first round draft pick. Last week I wrestled the WWE champion. So
Lashly called him big time and said, look, it's not about the shots
you shoot, it's about the shots that you make. And Hayes asked Lashly,
so when was the last time that you shot your shot? Of course,
Lashly didn't like that very much, and Hayes went to go leave.
Lashly stopped him and offered him some free advice. Be careful who you disrespect.
Already making enemies here on this show is Carmelo Hayes. Oh, we
have some breaking news here. We have some breaking news here. During the
stream, the Green pianists in the chat is hereby declaring for the King of
the Ring tournament. So we have yet another person declaring for the King of
the Ring. There you go, there you go. It's like a virus.
It starts to spread. One person declares. Now everybody wants to fucking
unbelievable. We have the authors of Pain against the New Catch Republic, Pete
Dunn and Tyler bait ACoM and done. They started things out. Done had
controlled early until ACoM caught him in mid air. Bait tagged in hit a
series of European uppercuts until ACoM clotheslined the hell out of him. Razarre tagged
in, lifted Bait up. Bait fought out of it though, and tried
to suit flex him, and that did not work out so well. Didn't
work out too well. Not then stay tuned. The crowd started rallying behind
Tyler Bait. Rizar worked a bear hug on Bait until Bait wiggled out.
He got the hot tag to Pete Dunn, who came in. He worked
over both members of AOP and that ended with a sliced bread on Rizar.
So Tyler Bait tags in and he picks up Razar and he slowly begins to
hoist this man up on his shoulders, and everybody in leone started losing their
minds and many did the airplane spin on the big guy. Huge reaction duntagged
and he had a running knee strike. Acomb, though, broke up the
pen attempt that followed Bait and Dune. They executed the finger joint manipulation spot
on Acum. Scarlet hopped up on the apron because she and carry and Cross
were out there in their corner with Paul Ellering, who does not speak.
He does nothing. He stands there. He has not said a word,
he has not cut a promo. He has a very stoic look on his
face. You could put the original Michael Meyer's Halloween mask on him. That's
all emotionless and shit, and that would basically be Paul Ellering. Just draw
a little mustache on it. You know. He was a favor higher for
Triple A. Triple AH brought him into NXT. He didn't do much there
either, but at least he would cut promos from time to time. You
know, back in his day, he was a pretty good promo. I
know he's probably in his seventies at this point, but still, I don't
know why the man never speaks. Why not utilize the gift that God gave
him. I don't know. But he was out there as well with Carrion
and Scarlet. Scarlett gets up on the apron and that distracts the referee as
Carrying Cross assaults Tyler Bait on the outside and then back inside aop hit their
finish on Pete Dunn and they picked up the win another match helped by a
hot crowd. I love the reaction that Bait got when he finally lifted Rizara
up on his shoulders. That was great. Now keep in mind here,
both of these teams were drafted to I don't think that this means we're in
for an extended program between the two. There could always be a rematch,
I guess based on what happened here. I bring this up though, because
Newcatch Republic is a babyface team. Mis and Our Truth are the World Tag
Team Champions on Raw. They are a babyface team. Every team on Raw
is a babyface team with one exception, and that exception as of Monday,
when the rosters lock is AOP. AOP is officially the only heel team on
Monday Night Raw, if you don't count the Judgment day, because they're not
really a team, and dominic Us out for the next six to eight weeks.
See he can't even team up with JD McDonough right now, They're going
to have to do something about that. That is not sustainable to have a
tag team division, since you split the titles and have one heel tag team,
and that healed team of all teams is AOP. Good not good.
Somebody's gonna have to go heal. Might I suggest the Creed Brothers. But
even if they go Heal, you still need at least one more. Can't
have one heel tag team. That's ridiculous. So backstage, Nick all this
was in his office when Paul Hayman walks in and Hayman asks him. He
says, did you get my memo? And all this says I did,
says request denied, because you want me to pull Randy Orton and Kevin Owens
out of their match tomorrow. He said why. Hayman said, fine,
leave them in the damn match. What happens to them tomorrow is not on
my conscience. It's on your conscience. And he goes to leave, walks
off camera, and all this says is that by orders of the tribal chief.
Hayman walks back into the camera. He's got a smile on his face.
He goes, that's it's not funny, and all this says, what
says you said all communications of the bloodline and Roman reigns must go through Paul
Haman. So are you in charge? And Hayman says, there's a difference
between being in charge and being in control. I haven't even spoken to Roman
Reigns since WrestleMania. And you could see the look on his face at that
moment. He realizes that he has done fucked up by admitting that, and
all this says, I'm sorry, what did you just say? You haven't
spoken with Roman Reigns since WrestleMania. So when he pulled himself out of the
draft last week, and then Hayman interrupted him and said, Roman Reigns did
not withdraw himself from the WWE draft. I pulled Roman Reigns from the WWE
draft. You have to understand what's going on here. He says, I
have no choice, or I had no choice. I cannot subject Roman Reigns
to the chaos that is going on within the Bloodline right now, and you
can't subject Kevin Owens and Randy Orton to what awaits them at Backlash at the
hands of the Bloodline. So all this says, well, you know what,
Paul, if you can pull Roman Reins out of the draft, you
can try to pull Randy Orton and Kevin Owens out of their match. And
he tells Hayman that you can do it on the RKO Show, which is
coming up next interesting little slip up there by Paul Hayman admitting that he is
the one who pulled Roman Reigns from the WWE draft last week. I would
imagine if let's think about this, Okay, let's think about this for a
second. What did he say here? He said that I have not spoken
to Roman Reigns since Wrestle many of forty. If that is true, and
Hayman said that he took it upon himself to withdraw Roman on his own,
well, apparently Roman Rains had pulled himself anyway, because Roman Reigns did not
show up at the building last week. So when you really dig deep and
think about it, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. If Roman
didn't pull himself, he would have been there. Obviously he wasn't there,
But Hayman is taking credit for doing it himself. But again, what would
Paul Haman like think about the story here? What would Paul Hayman have to
protect Roman Reigns from if what Toma Tonga said a few weeks ago when he
confronted Hayman in the hallway in the back after they murdered Jimmy Ussel, and
he walked up to Hayman, and he said by orders of the tribal chief.
If what he was saying was true, then the tribal chief is Roman
Reigns. That means Roman gave the order, which of course you and I
both know he probably didn't. But if that's the case, Roman would have
nothing to be afraid of here, right unless there is another tribal chief,
which clearly there is another tribal chief here who's being a referenced there by Tomatanga.
All signs here ultimately point to the Rock being involved pulling the strings,
manipulating things, evidently the way he tried to manipulate things behind the scenes going
into WrestleMania this year. All signs point to a bloodline civil war. Right.
We could have figured that out a few weeks ago. I mean I
put it in the fucking thumbnail. I said, bloodline civil wars about to
erupt. Now it's going to be a slow burning civil war because Roman Reigns
is gone for months. Rock is gone for months. Who knows when we're
going to see Rock again, And so all these things have to play out
without the two key players in this story even around to be on television.
So they're going to take their time with this. It's going to take a
while for things to play out the way that it does, but it feeds
nicely into this story of a brewing, bloodlined civil war. Paul Hayman right
now is a man with no power. He hasn't spoken to Roman Reigns.
He can't give any orders to Solo, Sucola or Tomatonga because they don't respect
him and they don't listen to him. And that's the position now that Paul
Hayman is in on this show. He is a man basically with no power.
So what is going to happen with Paul Hayman? Where ultimately is his
loyalty going to lies? It's still going to be with Roman Reigns when he
comes back. Is he gonna flip and be on the other side with the
new bloodline? You know, one thing that Hayman you think about his career
he's always been very good about, you know, is moving on to the
next big thing. It was Brock. Then he betrayed Brock and he went
with Big Show. Ultimately he went back to Brock. He was with Punk
for a while. After Brock lost to WrestleMania, he thought Brock was done.
He hitched his wagon to Roman Reigns. Right. He's a survivor.
That's why he's like a cockroach. That's why he survived as long as he
has. That's the story they're telling, and very interesting to see what the
next chapter of this story is going to be. I think I know what
the next chapter of this story, or at least the next character in the
existing chapter of this story, is going to be. I think we're going
to see him a backlash tomorrow. But we had the first ever RKO show
with Randy Orton and Kevin Owens that followed this segment. Here Owens spoke in
French to the crowd, which of course they went crazy for because they they
love it when you get somebody who speaks in their native tongue. Orton and
Owens they sat in chairs in the ring. You know the format of the
Kevin Owens show. This was no different. Orton stood up and he was
all fired up from this crowd. Like. He stood up and he said,
this crowd is so freaking amazing, and everybody went crazy for Randy Orton.
That made them even louder. Orton said that they're going to kick the
Bloodlin's Acid backlash Owens explained that you know, he kept getting phone calls all
week long. That's like me too, I too get phone calls all week
long from telemarketers. I pick up the phone. It's in Chinese. I
can't understand what they're saying. That's when I make the mistake of picking up
the phone. Most of the time, I don't supposed to be on some
do not call list. Apparently that doesn't work. In the case of Kevin
Owens, though, he was getting calls all week long from Paul Hayman.
So finally on Wednesday, at four o'clock in the morning, he relents,
He sees the name on the caller ID he doesn't want to answer it.
He relents and he answers the phone and it's a call from Paul Hayman,
who asked to be a guest on the RKO show. So Owens asked Orton
if he wants to do the honors and introduced the wise Men. Hayman,
though, walks out on his own, no music, doing his ladies and
gentlemen bit that he usually does. Hayman said that he came out with respect,
admiration and wisdom. He got into the ring. Owen said the told
Orton, look, you can't r ko and right away, and Orton said
no, no, I'm more of an out of nowhere kind of guy,
and Haymon got the message. At that point, he slowly walked back out
of the ring and just opted to stand on the apron instead. The crowd
interrupted him with chants of we want Roman, and Haymon said, I want
Roman reigns too. He said, look, I have great respect for you
two men, but the rules with Tomatonga and Solo's Sokoa are very different,
and he asked Owens and Orton to do themselves and their fans and their families
a favor and back out of the match of backlash. Owen said that Hayman
is not really in a position to give advice because everything around him is falling
apart. Orton asked Hayman who the real tribal chief is, and Hayman said,
look, you're putting me in a very difficult position. And the whole
world knows there is only one tribal chief. And before he could say anything
more than that, Tomatonga and Solo Socoa they ambush Orton it Owens from behind.
A brawl between all four men broke out officials spilled out to try to
break them up, and that was the entire segment. It was a fun
segment. I love what they're doing with Hayman right now because he is caught
between a rock, well, in a matter of speaking, a rock and
a hard place. Rights, that's where his character is trapped right now.
Him just walking out there and being deathly afraid of Tomatonga and Solo Socoa is
getting over Tomatonga and Solo Socoa. Like, there are different ways that people
can get over. They can get over just because they come out and cut
really good promos. Maybe there's a cool factor to them. Maybe they go
on a wind streak. Right. There are guys that have gotten over by
going undefeated. Right, There's a lot of ways that people can get over
on a wrestling show. It's a very unique talent to have somebody like a
Paul Hayman. And this is a talent that some of the great managers of
all time have had, Bobby Heenan and Paul Hayman and Jim Cornett and many
others, Jimmy Hart, where just by the way they act, just by
their mannerisms, just by the tone of their voice, their facial expressions,
whether it's fear or anger or whatever emotion it might be. They can help
get other people over a certain way. In this case by Hayman coming out
every week and looking like some kind of abuse victim, like he's got PTSD.
He comes out there, she's shaking, he looks terrified. He's getting
over the fact that these two men are dangerous. They're dangerous, they're unpredictable.
You don't know what the going to do next. I have no control
over them. It's like Dario Quato on Lucha Underground when he had his brother,
the monster Matanza, that he would literally lock away in a cell and
then he would unlock the cell. He would come out right and he would
usually guide him. He had like a key around the neck. But there
are times where you lose control of that monster that's helping to get these guys
over. Tomatonga has not even wrestled the match yet. Tomataga has yet to
have a single match on WWE television, and already he comes out there and
he's being portrayed as this dangerous badass. So that's his way of helping to
get them over, and I think it's very smart. Once we get Jacob
Fatu in there, which I think is going to happen in less than twenty
four hours. We're gonna get Jacob Fatu added to this new blood line.
That's going to change the game because Jacob fa Tu, if you are not
familiar with him, Jacob Fatu is fantastic. He's going to fit like a
glove, like the glove that Tomatonga was wearing on his hand tonight when he
came out to attack these two men. He's gonna fit like a glove.
He should have been in the bloodline a long time ago. And I look
at someone like a Jacob Fatu, and I say, that's a Paul Hayman
guy. I don't know if at some point that might happen where Paul fully
embraces him and or they break off and he becomes a true Paul Hayman guy.
Maybe it doesn't happen. But I look at a Jacob Fatu and I
say, that could be a future Paul Hayman guy. What Hayman and Roman
reigns have been for the past three and a half years, four years,
That could be Paul Hayman and Jacob Fatu. And then eventually we get Jacob
fa Tuo against Roman Rains very easily work. We had La Knight one on
one with Angel of Legato del Fantasma. They hit La Knight's music and holy
shit, did this crowd explode for this man, to the the point where
when La Knight came out, he was looking around like even he was surprised,
like, holy fucking shit, I wasn't expecting that. It's just it's
funny to me because you hear people who say, oh, he's not as
over as he was six months ago, And it is true that in a
lot of buildings when they hit his music and he comes out, the reactions
are a little more muted, just a little bit than they used to be.
We all know why that is. It's nothing that he's done. They
put him in the ring with Roman Reigns in November and he lost, and
then they didn't really have any planned for They beat him. It took the
entire bloodline to do it, but they beat him, and then they had
nothing for La Knight didn't even get that US title match. I was hoping
he would get it. Wrestle me. He gotta win at least over AJ
Styles, and then he lost to AJ Styles a few weeks ago, which
is why AJ is challenging for the title tomorrow and La Knight is not this
right here. This is a glorified squash with Night winning with the BFT.
It was what it needed to be to get him back in the win column
coming off that loss to AJ, and he ended up declaring for the King
of the Ring when this was over. So when the match was over,
La and I grabbed a microphone and he said he wants to talk to us.
He says, the same song plays no matter where they go. Another
dummy dropped on his head and three the hard way. He's not going to
say that this is his ring. He's going to make this his ring,
and he's going to do that by entering the King of the Ring. Santos
Ascobar gets a microphone. He interrupts him, and he warns that he will
be the one winning King of the Ring. Yeah all right, well,
hey, we all need goals in life. I suppose, right. Yeah,
he's not winning King of the Ring, but he thinks he's going to.
Knight admits, look, yeah, I do talk a little bit too
much, but the people like it. Escobar should be happy that he talks,
because when he's done talking. That's when you get stomped out. Then
you find out where you find yourself laying on the mat thinking what in the
world was I doing? Well? The whole world reminds you that this is
La Knight's game. And then he did his little bit at the end and
got the crowd to chantalong. But just when you think did he hear the
chatter that this man has lost a lot of steam over these last six months,
he walks out there and gets a reaction like the one that he got.
Now, everybody on this show got a pretty damn good reaction, men,
the women, this one though, when they hit his music, maybe
more than any other. Even when Randy Orton's music hit he came out,
this place went nuts. So it is very apparent that La Knight is still
very much over. And I still think that Gunther or Drew McIntyre are more
likely to win King of the Ring. I think because they're more likely to
be challenging for the World Heavyweight title before La Night ever challenges for the WWE
title, So I think that's a lot more likely. But he is another
big name to add to the tournament, and if he's not gonna win,
I hope they have a plan for him coming out of it, because you
have somebody here who gets a superstar reaction like that and is still over,
and you want to make sure that you have him doing something that is meaningful,
that looks like it's leading somewhere where you can watch as a fan and
say, Okay, I think I know where they're going with this. You
know, I want to see them build to him and Logan Paul for example,
maybe it's SummerSlam. I just want to make sure they have some kind
of plan for him and they don't squander what they still have in him.
I was worried about the same thing, especially going into WrestleMania, when it
looked like they're not gonna have shit for this guy. They're gonna squander whatever,
you know, goodwill they built up with him, and they have yet
yet being the keyword, I don't see him winning King of the Rain,
but he doesn't have to. As long as they have a plan for him
coming out of it, then he'll be okay. We got a video recapping
the turn last week that we saw when the footage was aired from many weeks
ago before a WrestleMania even of Dragonly being attacked. It turned out to beat
Carlito, who attacked him in the back. So Live Here Byron Saxon is
in the back to interview Carlito, who's still wearing an LWO shirt. He
got drafted with the entire LWO. They're all going a raw. He is
still technically part of the group, even though he beat up one of its
members last week. And he said he wants to know why, like,
why did you do that? Why did you attack Dragonly? And he says,
you know, I was away from WWE for many years and all I
wanted was a WrestleMania moment, and when Raymistereo chose dragon Lee over me,
that wasn't cool. So he took matters into his own hands, and at
that point, Dragon Lee showed up and he attacked Carlito. So we'll get
that as a TV match, probably sometime in the next few weeks. I
don't think he you know, could they enter them into the King of the
Ring and have them wrestle in the King of the Ring? I don't even
think that's necessary. Nobody believes Dragon Lee or Carlito are winning King of the
Ring. You can get a TV match out of it. Again, they're
all going to raw. This is going to play out for a while.
You'll get Carlito against Dragon Lee, You'll get Carlito against Raymis THEEO. But
it's still very weird that he is technically considered part of the LWO. Despite
what happened last week. We had a town down under Austin Theory and Grayson
Waller the WWE Tag Team champions. Oh I love those belts. I do
love those new belts. I just wish there was a little bit of blue
there in the middle, especially for SmackDown. But that's okay. The belts
still look good. Theoryan Waller against the Street Profits for the WWE Tag team
titles. Waller in Theory. They jump started the match and attacked the Profits.
Street Profits quickly came back. Montese Ford dropped Waller with a rock bottom.
Then Angelo Dawkins tagged in. He went to the top hit a swanton
bomb Theory and Waller. They were on the outside. Ford hit a swanton
onto both of them and then back inside. Waller was the victim of a
double back souplex. Every One's brow It's Samoa Bro courtesy of our friend fire
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and everyone else is here in just a few minutes, so Hank tight After
a break, Ford was hitting Theory with a whole flurry of moves. Waller
tagged in, went to the top rope, hit an accidental coast to coast
on Angelo Dawkins. Uh so what happened here? This was very awkward montes
Ford moved out of the way. Dawkins had been laying down on the opposite
side of the ring, up against the ropes, so when he dove off
and Ford moved, he ended up colliding with Dawkins, and he kind of
he more so caught Dawkins's leg than anything else. I'm not even sure he
was supposed to. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. It just came
off very awkward. So I'm not sure exactly what was supposed to happen there,
but it was just very strange. So Theory pulled Ford outside the ring.
Theory of Waller went for a pair of rolling maneuvers. Dawkins, though
countered them both. Actually he pounced Theory out of mid air and he got
some good height on that, so that was good. The prophets hit a
tandem blockbuster on Austin Theory. They got a nice near fall out of that.
Dawkins lifted Theory and Ford went to the top. Theory worked out of
it though, and crouched him. Dawkins rolled up Theory, but the referee
did not see it, and Waller hit Dawkins with a rolling flatliner. Theory
than penn Dawkins to retain the titles. How many times have the Street profits,
I'd say, over the past year challenge for the tag team titles on
either brand and lost. I feel like it's happened quite a number of times,
and every single time they seem to come up on the losing end of
things. This is very strange. Match had a lot of heat due to
the hot crowd and Waller and Theory. I I look at them and I
think they're a good pair of pest champions. They're very good at being pests,
so they're doing their job. They're doing a fine job in that regard.
They work well together. I think it's a good spot for them to
be in. And the show closed with one final face to face confrontation here
between Champion and Challenger. Going into Backlash tomorrow, the WWE Champion Cody Rhodes
and the number one contender, AJ Styles. Cody spoke to the crowd in
French and they all loved it. AJ interrupted and they did not like that.
And then they started to make a lot of random noise. That's the
best way I can describe it. They weren't chanting anything in particular, they
weren't singing a song yet. They just started making a lot of really just
loud noise. And then they had the panout shots so you could see everybody.
It's like the building was almost shaking. They just started going nuts for
no reason. So AJ said, look, what I was gonna say is
it's like Cody isn't focused right now, not focused on what he should be
focused on. And Cody said, AJ has his attention to Georgia boys.
He grew up in the state of Georgia watching AJ cut him off at that
point and said, look, I don't need that crap. Okay, I
don't need you to tell me. Oh, I watched you when I was
a kid. I don't need to hear any of that. I may be
older than you, but I'm still in my prime. Cody was just like,
I didn't say that, you weren't the fans at that point started to
chant what. I couldn't tell if they were chanting it in French or now,
but clearly they were doing like a what chant here and it got AJ.
He kind of reacted to it, but he stumbled over his words,
so he let him get to him. But then he recovered. After that,
he collected himself, he got back on track. Then they started singing
the Olay song. AJ said that Cody loved it here until things got a
little rough, talking about the first time he was in the company. Things
got a little rough and he couldn't handle it, if you know what I
mean. And AJ at that point did the stardust hand signal gesture whatever it
was. He said. Cody packed his bags and left for AJ. He
was kept out of WWE for years, and when he finally came, he
is not welcome with open arms in the way that Cody was. He had
to work his way to the top all by himself, unlike Cody who had
Hall of Famers and legends watching his back at WrestleMania so that he could finish
his story. A bunch of guys that I've beaten before, I beat them
all the same way that I'm going to beat you with backlash, said,
he's going to find a way to the top again and remind Cody and everybody
else that he is phenomenal. I'll tell you what, he's in phenomenal shape
if you have not seen him. And WWE puts something up on their YouTube
channel, AJ from his house. He did the cold plunge. He's got
that tough to do the cold plunge. I see everybody doing the cold plunge.
Apparently this is a big trend now. But he did that. And
they show him doing jump rope and he's in his gym working out. This
guy is I mean, he's fucking jacked. I mean he is in the
best shape of his life at the age of forty six. Cody asked him,
who are you trying to convince? Said, certainly not me. I've
called you the modern day excellence of execution. I called you a first ballot
Hall of Famer, he said, But don't tear me down just to make
yourself feel better. And he says his very first title defense happens to be
their very first match together. The crowd was singing something I could not tell
exactly what it was. That they were singing, but Cody did not let
it breathe. He just kept talking because clearly he knew that they were running
low on time and they had to wrap this up. So he just kept
cutting his promo. But it was so loud that it was hard to hear.
He had to really kind of pay attention to what he was saying because
it was deafening in that building. But he said, tomorrow, he's not
looking at ajas phenomenal, He's looking at him as his first and that that
is too sweet, and he did the too sweet hand gesture. Cody dropped
the mic. Aj threw up the too sweet, but instead of two sweeting
him, he smacked the taste out of Cody's mouth and then he left the
ring. Then this was not the end because then they cut to the back.
We got some shaky cam here. They cut to the back. At
least we didn't have the camera cuts. There is a difference between the constant
camera cuts that we were subjected to for years and shaky cam. This was
shaky cam. The cameraman catches up to all the mayhem in the back because
Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, Solo, Socoa and Tomatonga are still brawling.
They're still trying to break these four guys up. Solo tries to use a
chair on Randy Orton, he avoids it. Orton gets the chair, hits
him in the gut, hits him in the back, and that's how they
went off the air. If this crowd is as hot tomorrow for Backlash as
they were here for SmackDown, there is no and there's no reason to think
that they won't be. This is going to be like Backlash in Puerto Rico
last year, and Backlash in Puerto Rico last year was one of my favorite
shows of the entire year. That whole atmosphere and that building that night,
from the moment that Bianca and Eo came out to open that pay per view,
through Bad Bunny and Damian Priest and everything else on that show was on
fire. And it really does affect your perception of the show. It could
take a good show to a great show. It could take a mundane show
to a pretty good show. It's amazing how that enthusiasm and that volume,
the decibel level in the building could make such a difference. But it's just
fun fun when they're into it that much and they're reacting to everything, even
the things that normally hear in this country people would be sitting on their hands
for to them, they're having fun with it. So I think that tomorrow
is going to be a very fun show for that, if nothing else,
because if you look at it on paper, it's not the strongest lineup on
paper that they put together. There's some good on there, but it's not
like a blowaway lineup or anything like that. But with that crowd fired up,
tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun. Speaking of tomorrow,
let's get into Backlash here because we've got Backlash predictions to go through now.
I did these earlier in the week. My predictions have not changed and they
have not added any matches. And maybe the most surprising thing to me is
that I look over this card. This is not a joint pay per view
in that you have like an even split of raw and SmackDown. There is
exactly one raw match on this show. This is basically a SmackDown, pl
is what this is, which is very surprising to me. I thought they
would add one more match, maybe a raw match. They didn't do that.
But here's the lineup. We have, the Kabuki Warriors, defending the
women's tag team titles against Bianca bel Air and Jade Cargill. Always a chance
that Bianca and Jade don't win and they choose to take Bianca and really push
her towards Bailey instead. I just don't see these two losing. I don't
see any chance of it realistically. So I'm going with Bianca and Jade to
win the women's tag team titles. We have Randy Orton and Kevin Owens teaming
up to take on the team of Solo Sokoa and Tama Tanga. No reason
that the blood Line should lose this match, but you know they're not gonna
win fair and square. So how do they win? I think this is
where we get the debut of Jacob Fatu. This is where they get their
newest member. He helps them win. Solo and Tama pick up the w
and now we're off to the races because now we have Solo, we have
Tama, and we have Fatu, and Paul Hayman has no idea what's going
on. And that means that when we get closer to the point where Roman
Reigns is ready to come back, he's going to have to make amends with
his cousins. He's going to have to get together and reunite with the Usos.
The USOS themselves are going to have to let bygones be bygones and get
back together, at least for the purpose of this program. They can still
use Jay Uso as a single if they want to, But the end goal
here is Roman, Jimmy and Jay back together because Roman needs his blood taking
on Solo Tama and Jacob Fatu, and that could be the Wargames match come
Survivor series. There's any number of ways they could go with this. Fat
two is under contract. Fat two is ready to debut, and I think
it happens tomorrow unless for some reason he can't be, you know, travel
overseas to be there for the show. But I don't see any reason why
that would be the case at this point. I think, I think that's
fine. We have Bailey defending the WWE Women's Championship in a triple threat match
against both Naomi and Tiffany Stratton. Love Tiffany. I think she's going to
be a huge star. I'm booking I have her winning the Money in the
bank, turning that briefcase pink, but winning the Women's title right now.
I don't see it. I think it's a little premature. I think it
a triple threat match. She doesn't even necessarily need to be the one to
take the losing fall. But it also puts Bailey in a position where she
doesn't have to be pinned to lose her title. So there may be a
little bit of drama here, but to me, I think Bailey is going
to walk out with the belt. I don't think you could take that title
off of Bailey anyway until this story with Bianca plays out, and they've really
been playing that up. It doesn't really work as well if Bailey is not
the champion. I feel like she has to be the champion. Bianca needs
to go after her at some point. Bailey is not losing this title.
We have Damian Priest defending the World Heavyweight title, the one Monday Night raw
match that we have on this show tomorrow, defending against main event Jay Uso.
Initially I thought that maybe Fatu would debut and he would cost Jay the
title. This is going to have to be a way to bring Jay back
into this at some point, but you could wait and do that with Roman.
When Roman is ready to come back. I don't know what Shenanigans are
going to be involved here, something involving the judgment day. I suppose I
cannot see Damian Priest losing the World Heavyweight title at least before Clash at the
Castle. I don't see Jay Usso is not going to be the World Heavyweight
champ, So Damian Priest will retain, and then we have the undisputed WWE
Championship on the line. It is Cody Rhodes defending his title against the phenomenal
aj Styles for the first time in a very long time back in the world
title picture. I couldn't even tell you the last time that I remember AJ
Styles in a pay per view main event getting a title opportunity for any title,
let alone the WWE title. Maybe the last time he lost it to
John Cena in twenty seventeen. Actually, no, he had the title after
that. He had the title for his feud with Knakamura, So maybe it
goes back to that. Maybe it goes back to the Shinski Nakamora stuff,
but even that was many many years ago. So Cody Roase losing his title
in his very first title defense, I don't think so. I don't think
so. I don't need the odds makers to tell me that Cody is probably
the odds on favorite to walk out here with the title. What I will
tell you, I'm picking Cody Roads to win. But what I will tell
you is I could see this being either a no contest and Cody retains or
a disqualification finish. I don't think this will be the only time we see
these two in the ring together. You know, you've got the Saudi Show
coming up next month. The focus is going to all be on King and
Queen of the Ring, it's the name of the show. But they're probably
gonna want Cody to defend the title on that show. I would imagine you
can get another match out of it between these two and throw a stipulation in
there, whatever it may be. Whatever that stipulation may be, I don't
see this being the only time they go at it. So having Cody just
beat him clean with the cross Roads, I have a difficult time seeing that
he's not gonna lose the title here. But there could be some funny business
as far as the finish is concerned, and that then leads into a rematch.
Because one thing coming out of this draft that is very clear Cody Rhodes
does not have a lot of viable challengers on SmackDown. He does not not
without turning someone, whether it be Kevin Owens or Randy Orton or La Knight,
And that I would not be doing. Did you hear that fucking reaction
that guy got tonight? Do not turn La Knight? Not yet? That
would be very dumb. So who is there? Me? You're gonna have
Cody feud with the blood Line again? He probably will at some point,
but it would be way too soon for that, and you certainly don't want
to send Solo Sokoa or a Jacob Batu in there and have them lose.
So take the blood Line out of it for a second. Why wouldn't you
try to get at least two matches out of this AJA feud. It gets
you through another month, and then when you get to June you start to
get to money in the bank. Then you could think about, Okay,
who's next? Is it? Randy Orton? It would be a sin if
they don't do Cody and Randy at some point, But you do it now?
Do you wait? Because I could see Cody and Randy being the Summer
Slam match. If Rock is not coming back for Summer Slam. Cody Roads
and Randy Orton. Hey makes all the sense in the world to me.
Randy could be a baby face, he could be a heel. It works
either way. You get past Randy Orton, there aren't a lot of viable
contenders for that title. That's going to be a problem unless they start building
people up or the gms work out some trades. Just because the draft is
over does not mean the general managers cannot trade people back and forth. I
thought braun Stroman, for example, would work as a great challenger for Cody
at some point later this year. He's on raw, doesn't mean he can't
be traded over to SmackDown. We'll see how the gms utilize the trades,
which I believe they are going to do trades. They're gonna have to because
it's pretty pretty barren on that side. When it comes to challenger. Yeah,
you could turn lashly. That's true. Again, they may have no
choice because once you get past aj and you get past Randy Orton, I
mean, what else do you got unless you start turning people. You know,
you don't have much. You don't have much to go on here.
What did you think of SmackDown here from France. Seventy nine percent of you
have given this show tonight a thumbs up, twelve point seven percent thumbs in
the middle, eight percent thumbs down. Boy, you guys seem to really
have liked SmackDown tonight. Could probably thank the crowd for that. I know.
That's why I like SmackDown tonight. Now, though I thought it was
a good go home show. Like I said before, I think the key
matches they needed to really hype up that one last bit of hype before tomorrow.
I thought they did a good job of that. The rest of the
show was very missible, but those two things I thought ended up being very
good. Now, before I get into your super chats and again, if
you want to get them on in, now is the time to do so,
and to hit that like button as well. We're going to try to
do be the booker. I don't know where we are at this point.
The goal tonight was four hundred likes. We're currently sitting at three forty five,
so we're getting there. We're not there yet, but we're getting there.
But I made a very special announcement, a cool announcement the other night
for those of you who may have missed it. Starting this Tuesday, May
seventh, I'm going to be joining JD from New York on his channel every
Tuesday night live at eight thirty pm Eastern Time for Tuesday Night Titans. I
am the new co host for TNT. Shout out to Andrew bay Dalla,
the former co host with JD. Andrew's a friend of mine and had to
step away from the show. Very honored to be stepping in, and it's
going to be a very lively active debate and discussion. I'm sure every tea
Tuesday talk and wrestling, all kinds of topics, all kinds of stories.
And Jad and I have been commentary partners in House of Glory now for over
five years. I've known him for a while now, and for the first
time the two of us are going to be collaborating. A lot of people
have asked for it, a lot of people were very excited. I got
to tell you, I was very overwhelmed, frankly by the reaction to it.
I knew people would be excited for it, but I think I underestimated
how happy and how excited people would be for it. So it makes me
feel good because it is another commitment you know I'm going to be streaming now
on Mondays Tuesday. Well, I'm not technically screaming, but doing a show
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and sometimes Saturdays and Sundays for
pay per views, plus my podcast on Sundays. So it's going to be
a lot of work, but I think it's going to be a lot of
fun and I want you guys to join me for that first show. I
want that first show to just blow the whole fucking thing wide open. We
need to have thousands of people joining us live that first show on Tuesday.
So whatever you do, make sure you mark it on your calendar. You
clear out your schedule eight thirty Eastern time over on his channel live for TNT.
It's gonna be a lot of fun and hopefully I'll see you guys over
there for Titans. Titans. Yes, busy Solemn Monster, Solomonster is very
busy. Somebody has to counterbalance, you know, I mean, my god,
sometimes the fucking vein in the side of his forehead looks like it's gonna
pop. I don't want him to have a fucking aneurysm. Somebody has to
be there to counter this. Man think I'm the man for the job.
Well, we'll find out, all right, Let's take a look at your
super chats. Thank you as always for the support, say it all the
time. I will always thank you guys for sticking with me. Here.
Let's start with some of the early ones and then we'll go through the list
that you see here on screen. Let's art out with Joshua Edwards, who
says Wingstop commercial feeds families that Wingstop commercial is going to drive somebody I think
into an absolute rage one day and they're going to lose their minds and just
go on a rampage. I hope I'm wrong, but that no flex zone.
I hear it in my sleep and it's kind of driving me a little
batty. I'm not gonna lie Jay Glow with the nine to ninety nine says
the Wrestling Observer newsletter report about Roman and Paul Hayman politicking Vincent Hunter to retain
the WWE title and WrestleMania thirty nine infuriates me to no it. Joe is
a two faced weasel, backstage politician. In my opinion, f you Joe,
So he has gone in on roman reigns. Here turned on Roman reigns
based on a report from the Wrestling Observer newsletter that may or may not be
true. Meltzer has had a rough time recently with some of the things that
he has reported. All I will say to you, Jay Glow is,
don't believe everything you hear. I'm not even sure why we're still talking about
the planning for the Wrestle Meeting a forty main event. It's oh, it's
done. Cody finished his story. He's the champion. Roman did the job.
Should it have happened last year? Probably it didn't, but it happened
this year. It's over now. Why are we still debating this? Why
are we still talking about this? Don't be so angry about it. Kentucky
dried Chicken. The passion by the Leone crowd is white hot. Yes it
is, Yes, it is white hot. Prince Mageta with the nineteen ninety
nine saw a report today that I can't believe from the Wrestling Observer newslam Dave
said that WWE has no definite plans for Cody and that if Roman would come
back to WWE tomorrow, they would throw the belt right back on him.
What are your thoughts again? Don't believe everything that you hear. I don't
buy that for a second. I don't buy the WWE has no plans for
Cody Rhoads. Do they have a lack of depth on the SmackDown side as
far as challengers for him right now? They do, That does not mean
they have no plan for it. I don't believe that WWE planned this whole
story with Cody Rhodes has to come back and fight his way back to WrestleMania
and win the Royal Rumbule and go to Mania and beat Roman Reigns win the
undisputed title, and then they said, oh shit, we forgot to figure
out what comes after wrestlemane. I mean, do you honestly believe they have
no plans for their top star in the company? Like I could understand them
having no plans for Giovanni Vinci. Okay, poor fucking guy. I don't
know. You know, I would feel a little a little scared if I
were him, that I can believe. Do they have plans for Joaquin Wilde
and Cruise del Toro? Okay, maybe not, But they have no plans
in mind for Cody Rhodes. They have no idea what they're going to do
with their biggest star in the company, the guy that made them a million
dollars in merchandise over WRESTLEMANI a weekend. No, I don't believe that.
William. I completely forgot about the wrestling matches scheduled for tomorrow until I logged
into YouTube and saw this thumbnail. Thanks Solomons, You're very welcome. That's
what I'm here for. Jay Glow with another nine ninety nine to the Roman
Reigns stands. Tonight was the highest grossing SmackDown in WWEE history. And you
know who is at the top of the card. Who the quarterback is?
Cody fin Rhoades DX Crotch Chop to you man. J Glow is on one
tonight. He is not having any of this. Jay Glow is feeling a
certain way here tonight. I love the enthusiasm Jay Glow. He's passionate.
He's very passionate. If nothing else, I will say that Rod of his
prime. It says Happy Friday solo. By the way, Deaf rebel sucks,
Yes, they do. You know, for every good Deaf rebel theme,
there's like seven bad ones. I mean, look, Roman Reigns current
theme is a Deaf rebel theme. And I like Roman's current theme. But
again, for every good or decent Deaf Rebel song, there's at least half
a dozen terrible ones. And the WWE music situation want to call it,
I would call it a situation crisis. The WWE music crisis right now has
never been as bad as it is right now, and it's it sucks because
the entrance music is such an important part of someone's character, you know,
from the moment it first hits when they walk out there, and it just
doesn't hit the way that it used to, and there's no reason for it.
If Triple H and Nick con wanted to make a move right now,
they can make a move right now if they want it to. Whether it's
Jim Johnston or somebody else, they can make a move. I've read reports
the WWE. They're well aware, you know, they're they're they're well aware
of the uh feedback on Deaf Rebel and how people feel about them. Okay,
well, what are you gonna do about it? I mean, it's
nice that they're aware of it, but are they actually gonna do something about
it? That's my question. The Juliet best of luck to Julia Hart after
her shoulder surgery. She was hurt going into Dynasty, That's why her match
with Willow was so short. Well, when I reviewed Dynasty, I think
I made that comment. I said, boy, you know, this was
the shortest match of the night, shorter than any of the matches that she
had had on pay per view prior to that. And I said it probably
has to do with the shoulder, because even then there were reports that she
hurt her shoulder in the match with Layla Hirsh And sure enough, that's exactly
why the match was so short. I think it was like six minutes.
Adrian with the seven bucks. Rumor has it that John Cena has been spotted
in France. If Sena is a surprise for Backlash, how do you see
things playing out. Potential for a Cody versus Sena clash would be legendary.
Well, that is not going to happen. Not this year. Sena is
all booked up in Hollywood. He did say he was hoping to clear his
schedule around Christmas time and they would let him get a break so he can
come back for one more proper run in WWE, and that might be his
retirement run going into WrestleMania next year. That implies that he will not have
a lot of free time between now and then. Certainly he can make a
one off, but not for a program with a Cody runs. So no,
I don't think that's what they're gonna do. When they were in London
for Money in the Bank, John Cena made a surprise appearance there and he
made the pitch for London to get a WrestleMania right, and then he got
beat up by Grayson Waller, and I think he left Waller laying If John
Cena is going to do anything on the show tomorrow, I think it's going
to be something along those lines. I think it's going to be a one
off. I think it's gonna be him coming out for a segment, maybe
a heel comes out, they have a little back and forth. I don't
think he would be there to set up a program. I don't think unless
he's going to go ahead and try to promise a WrestleMania to France and lie
to them the way he lied to London. Maybe again, I just can't
understand why they would have seen it go out there the way that he did
and make the pitch that he did. When the reports recently and Nick con
himself. Nick con said it himself that they sat down months ago and made
the decision that the big tent poll shows that they have the Rumble and WrestleMania
and SummerSlam are going to be North American based. All the other events are
up for grabs. They can have those events anywhere in the world, but
they've already made the decision to keep events like WrestleMania here in North America.
The US OR candidate then I see Triple H responded to the Mayor of London
last week on Twitter who said that he was going to try to bring WrestleMania
to the city, and he says, let's talk. So which is it.
Are they considering locations outside of North America for WrestleMania or not. I
mean, if they just went out there to tease it and they have no
intention of bringing WrestleMania to London, that's cruel. Why would you do that?
Why would you promise something to the fans if you have no intention of
actually delivering it doesn't make sense. Draven Lord, buy or sell better,
Lariot stan Hanson or JBL. I like the clothes line from Hell I do.
I don't like a lot about JBL. But I always like the clothes
line from Hell, not that I would want to be hit by a stan
Hanson lariot. I'm gonna say jbl though, I'm gonna buy on him.
Kentucky dried chicken without flavor. This Leon Franz crowd Tonight on SmackDown has cracked
the top five hottest wrestling crad pops in the world. They sing people's entrances.
Well, they're not the only ones to do that, but they were
great. They were fantastic tonight. Shout out to retro Koh. Good to
see Christ in the chat Alex brother solo. Do you sense a change in
the quality of matches when WWE refers to their pay per views as pay per
views rather than ples? No, no, it's it means the same thing.
That has no difference whatsoever between quality of matches on one over the other.
It's all the same, makes no difference. Doni Yasu, I guess
Triple H said that WWE got a warning about the crowd noise tonight got a
warning? Was that me Fire Panda with the twenty bucks? Thank you,
Fire Panda, Thank you Donnie as well, who had the better entrance ninety
eight Cain or ninety eight Undertaker. Also who wins in a fight one thousand
pound polar Bear or perk Angle. You know, for better entrance, I'm
gonna go ninety eight Undertaker. Cain had better entrances later on, I'm gonna
go ninety eight Undertaker. If you want to see one of the coolest fucking
entrances that you will ever see, and I'm gonna actually tell you on the
podcast this Sunday what I think is the greatest entrance ever in wrestling history.
We'll save that for Sunday. You want to see a badass entrance, you
go back and you watch that Judgment Day nineteen ninety eight pay per view.
It was in October of that year. They had Undertaker against Kane. The
title was vacated. Steve Austin was the guest referee. Undertaker came out to
make his entrance. Think he came out first and just that whatever version of
his theme that he was using at that point in the fall of ninety eight
was badass. But the image of him walking to the rain and then the
big booms, the big concussion booms, and then the flames shooting up behind
him like five or six times as he walked down to the ring and they
get that shot of his face. Just the coolest fucking entrance you'll ever see.
So for that alone, I gotta go undertake bass beers. Remember when
Dusty told Steph to talk to the hand? Yes, I do, and
then we didn't see Dusty again on TV. I don't think someone didn't like
that. Jerome Eugenio is Brett versus Davy Boy the best WWE international pay per
view main event? It might be. I'm trying to think of all the
international shows they've had. They've had a lot of them recently. Yeah,
you know what it might be Kentucky dried chicken without flavor, glitchy glitchy ya
ya da da pree Old Lady Marmalade very good. Haven't heard that one in
a while. Hasn't come up on my Pandora in a while. It's not
on my playlist. Prince Vegeta, I know you're front runner for women's but
who is your early men's money in the bank winner? Maybe have heel aj
Styles win it? Well, Tiffany Stratton is gonna win it for the women.
I don't think they would have another recent name from NXT win it.
Like I can't see Tiffany winning the women's and then bron Breaker winning the men's
or you know some Carmelo hayes. I don't think they would do two of
them like that. So if Tiffany wins the women's briefcase, I mean,
you've got a lot of different options. You could do La Night. You
know, La Knight could win, and I mean if he were to win
in cash in for a US title match, it would make him look like
a fucking idiot though, So I probably wouldn't do that because I wouldn't have
him challenging for a world title unless he's gonna win it. He already challenged
for it once and lost, So unless you're sure that he's going to walk
out with that title, I would not have him challenging for a world title.
Therefore, I would not have him win money in the bank, So
scratch that. I don't know. I haven't given much thought to the men's
money in the bank winner. I just I have the women's winner in my
head, and I have a sense of who I think should win the men's
tournament next month. The King of the Ring. I think it's going to
be gunther Or Drew McIntyre Drew McIntyre could win King of the Ring and then
cash in if in fact you can cash in for a world title match,
cash that in it Clash at the Castle. He goes to Glasgow challenges for
the World heavyweight title. Maybe he wins it. I mean, I think
it would be crazy if he were a headline on that show and not win
it. Men's money in the bank is a little tougher though, I got
to think about that. All the people that I would want to win it
though, are pretty much accounted for in other ways. Yeah, like a
Chad Gable. He's probably gonna win the Intertinental title straight up from Sammysane.
He shouldn't win money in the bank anyway because he's not going to be challenging
for a world title. Yeah, I don't know. Prince vegeta thank you
for the question. Kentucky Dried Chicken says, I am making a big bold
prediction. Uh oh, here we go. Wwe will come to Africa to
host a stadium show in the future. Which country I don't know, but
keep this recording. They've been to South Africa before, They've done shows from
Johannesburg. There was an awful taped episode of Raw from three different locations.
That is easily the worst Raw in the history of the show, or second
worst behind that piece of shit episode from twenty eighteen that I ranted about.
Yeah, you know what, I don't put anything past them. If they
have a stadium big enough for it, then they'll probably end up on every
continent at some point. They'll end up in Antarctica at some point. Bundle
up, it's gonna be cold, Arabian Night two thousand. You think this
five minute match formula for most ples is good? Seems like there's too much
filler on ples with video packages. Hey, Barry, thank you. Seems
like there is too much filler on ples with video packages. No Icy or
US title matches is dumb. They have the US title and the Intercontinental title
now seem to be reserved for television. That's especially true on the raw side.
You know, one way to look at it is it allows them to
maine event episodes of Raw, like Sammy and Gable did in Montreal a few
weeks ago, So it puts the spotlight on them in a main event position.
I agree, though, when you have a big show like a Summer
Slam or a Royal rumble you should have the Intercontinental title represented all the time.
So I agree with you on that. The five minute match formula,
I don't know what you're talking about because most of the plees, I mean,
the matches are longer than five minutes, So I don't know exactly what
you're talking about there. Phil Dogg with Ethan Page done with AW, do
you see him going back to TNA or will he end up with WWA.
I don't know. I don't know what he wants to do. I think
that he could very well end up back in TNA, but I could also
see him being used in NXT. You know, he's talented. He's talented
and he can talk. He has a presence about him. He carries himself
very well. He carries himself with a certain confidence. It just wasn't working
out in AW. I don't blame him for wanting out. It was like
they had him most recently Wrestling and Ring of Honor. He was too big
for Ring of Honor, but there was no obvious spot for him in AW.
So he kind of fell into this doughnut hole, which is not the
place that you want to be if you want to be out there and work
and try to, you know, up your stock and get your name out
there. And clearly that wasn't happening for him, and he wasn't happy.
So you know, apparently he requested his release as early as February. Recently
he got it. Now he'll be free to go out and pursue whatever he
wants to pursue. Maybe we can get him on into House of Gloria.
I'd love to have him in hug get him in there for a match.
But yeah, I could definitely see him back in TNA, maybe doing something
with his old tag team partner Josh Alexander. Maybe they wrestle each other.
Prince Begeta with the four ninety nine rewatching the twenty seventeen backlash almost went to
that show. Would have to have been in the crowd just with the shock
of that gender Mahal title win. I have not seen a crowd that shock
since brack Lesner ended the Undertaker streak. Their faces and their reactions set it
all. You could read the pain on a lot of their faces. I
know this because I was feeling that same pain watching it from home. Then
Night Moise with the four ninety nine Sola Monster, so excited to see you
on Tuesday Night Titans with JD gonna be the best IWC podcast ever. I
marked out what I saw the announcement. You and a lot of other people,
men, a lot of people have been requesting this collaboration for a long
time. Now you get it on a permanent basis. But yeah, what
once, Once we get going with this and you you put our two heads
together, ain't nobody gonna be able to top what we're gonna be putting out
there. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. I'm glad that
you're excited for it. I am too. Uh, Mister l H says,
I miss CM punk. You miss CM punk. He was just on
TV the other night? How can you? How can you miss him?
He doesn't go away? He was literally he was like the best segment on
Raw with Drew McIntyre this week? How can you miss him? Arabian Night
says, say what you want about Tony Kahan. He pays for good music.
He does, although he also admits that he got he went way over
budget. That's why he had to cut some people recently. So I love
the I love the music he pays for too, But I mean I love
the music he pays for, but at the expense of people's jobs. I
just think it's a bad look when you admit that publicly. Kevin Dunn's Bieber
is joining us tonight. That Wingstop commercial makes me want to yeat myself.
I don't blame you, Bace Bears, Jack Perry against Tony Khan Texas Deathmatch.
No, please don't give Tony any ideas he's living out his dream right
now by taking bumps on TV. The next step after this is having a
proper match. Do you really want to see Tony Khan get into a ring
and wrestling match? You probably do, don't you? You sick free?
You probably want that just so I can review it. You would be looking
forward more to the review than the actual match. I probably would do good
numbers that night too, But no, I have no interest in seeing this.
So please, let's not wish this. Let's not talk this into existence.
Okay, nobody is asking for this. Arabian Night. Best Entrances Goldberg
Halloween Havoc ninety eight. That was a great one too. I love that
entrance too, with the big pumpkin. When he walks around the pumpkin,
they follow him all the way from the back. That's a great one.
Not the best entrance of all time, but that's a great one. Barry
Mka with the fifteen bucks. Hey, Barry, thank you. I'm about
to see Vengeance two thousand and five. As I continue to watch the old
Ruthless Aggression era shows in order, how how did you like that show?
Plus it's great theme happy by mud Vain. I don't remember anything other than
that had the Hell in a Cell right with the Triple H and Batista?
And did that have the second match with Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle. If
I'm not mistaken, I like that. If I'm thinking of the same,
if I'm thinking of the right show, I did like that that show Moy's
with the four ninety nine. I'm always fascinated on how much historical facts you
remember just off the top of your head. You are like a rest historian.
How do you remember it all? I don't know, because sometimes I
don't remember what I had, you know, for breakfast two days ago,
But yet I can remember who Hacksaugeen dug And wrestled on this show in nineteen
ninety three, And I can't fucking explain. I don't know Hey, Dark
Side of the Ring guys, Well, what's going on here? Call me
if Chris Jericho if you ever need a new narrator, I'm just saying no,
that Jericho guy. Man, he's a little controversial. Do you ever
need a new narrator for the show? Hit me up? EJ. Slamp.
Would making being fired an option to money in the bank like TNA's feast
or fired? Make it interesting? Or is that a bad idea? It's
a bad idea unless you're actually planning on firing the person. Then nobody buys
it, So I think it's a bad idea. Fire Panda Wit the twenty
dollars super Chat. Undertaker's Judgment Day ninety eight entrance was badass, but don't
sleep on Caine's entrance that night. You should do a judgment Day ninety eight
Kane versus Undertaker. Watch along sometime. Who do the Wyat six attack tomorrow?
And who are the members? You seem very sure that the Wyatt six
are gonna be attacking anybody tomorrow. I'm not so sure of that. If
they were to attack anybody tomorrow, I wonder if it would be Cody.
I wonder if it would be Cody because again, Cody needs challengers. If
AJ was to be a one and done and they're going to headline the show,
Cody wins and that's it. Maybe the lights go out. I could
maybe see that. I don't know how likely that is. I don't know
why some people are expecting this to happen tomorrow. I feel like they're gonna
drag it out longer. Is this some sort of common belief that the Wyatt
six is going to be revealed tomorrow. Let's go to our resident Wyatt expert
here in the chat, Blissvan. Are you expecting the Wyatt six to appear
or Uncle Howdie to appear tomorrow? A backlash? I'll believe it only if
Blisspan believes it. Mystic Jay, who do you see winning Queen of the
Ring? I don't even know who's in Queen of the Ring. Nobody has
declared, nobody's qualified. I have no idea who is even in the tournament.
I think you could probably take out Jade and Bianca if we assume that
they're going to be a tag team or tag team champions coming out of the
show tomorrow. You could take out Zealina. She's not winning, you know,
the crown after she won the last one. Tiffany. Tiffany could me
personally, though again I would go money in the bank with her, So
I'll put Tiffany on the side here. It's not gonna be Naomi. I
don't think it's going to be any of the members of Damage Control. I
don't have the rosters in front of me. I'm trying to think of who's
on SmackDown right now. The key players in that women's division really would be
Bianca and Bailey and Jade and Naomi, Tiffany, Naya. You know what,
I could see Naya Jacks winning Queen of the Ring. I'm gonna go.
You put me on the spot here without having all the names in front
of me or knowing who's in it, I'll give you an early prediction.
I could see Naya Jack's winning based Bearus, God of Seduction. Flair was
not interviewed for Death of WCW documentary Wooing Stop They Know Beta also Idiocracy thumbs
up, Combs down, never saw it Flair with Yeah, I saw Flair.
He was bitching about something, you know when he's why does he posted
all capital fucking letters the first letter of every fucking word that he tweets is
in caps. What the fuck is wrong with him? I don't know why
it annoys me so much. You ever noticed that? Why does he do
that? It's got to be the programmer, like the app that he's using.
It's just incredibly annoying. But yeah, I know he was going off
about something and whatever. You know, old man yells at cloud. I
don't pay attention to it, Barry MK. It also had a second world
title match with Snut Christian and christ Jericho. Yeah, I have no memory
of that. I have no memory of that. I remember the other two
matches from Vengeance. I don't remember that one. Hoofman says Sola Monster needs
to be a talking head in Dark Side of the Ring next season. Probably
not a talking head, just because they generally go with retired wrestlers and managers.
If it were a WWE documentary, you know they use Sam Roberts and
Peter Rosenberg and people like that. Hey, that's a different story dark Side
of the Ring. I don't think generally that they do that. But I
said, hey, I'm just saying you ever need a new narrator. I've
watched every episode, obviously, I'm a fan of the show. Arabian night
Fiend debut was an all time great entrance as well. Yes, it was
at SummerSlam against Finn Balor. That was great. With that lantern with the
stretched out mouth, that was very freaky. The Juliet congrats to Seth on
the new contract. Yes, congratulations to Seth Rollins. He has re signed,
as Drew McIntyre has as well with WWE, for an undisclosed length of
time. It's said to be for what I'm sure is very good money,
and I'm sure she hasn't already. Becky Lynch will not be too far behind
because her contract is up in a few weeks as well. She is the
women's champion after all, so I'm sure they'll get her lockdown very soon.
Kentucky Dried Chicken. I will order Tony Kah some wing stuff, Popeye's KFC
and Burger King so that he cannot compete in the ring. I see.
I like that idea. We're gonna fatten him up so that way he will
be in just gross physical shape, put some meat on those bones, and
therefore he will not be able to properly train himself to get in the ring
and take bumps. See, I like the way you think, let's fatten
this guy up. Let's get as much trans fat and just all the bad
shit. Let's get as much of that in him as possible. That neck
brace he's gonna be, He's gonna be so swollen that neck brace won't even
fit his neck anymore. He won't even have a neck. It'll be like
King Kong. Bundy had no neck. It was like a head on top
of a fucking body. That's gonna be Tony Khan Fat, Tony Khan.
There's a gimmick for you. You know, it reminds me. Bobby Lashley
said he once pitched the idea to Vince McMahon. Yeah, all the people
recently have been making fun of Shamus for coming back and being a little bit
heavier, and he's already losing most of the weight. But he talked about
how he pitched the idea of fat like really just like stuffing himself and putting
on a ton of weight and doing that as a gimmick where he then has
to lose all the weight. And I guess Vince didn't go for it,
but I'm trying to like picture that in my head. Like Bobby Lashley,
who's in just like immaculate physical condition. He looks like a statue. Guy's
almost fifty years old and him just basically quitting and just eating whatever he wants,
some three hundred and fifty pounds walking around and then the gimmick is that
he has to lose all the weight. Boney. What happened to Paul Hayman
between getting fired from the WWE and returning in twenty twelve? Did he work
with another company or maybe the indies? No, he has his own company
called the Looking for Larry. I think it's a production company. It's based
out of New York, and he was doing that. I know he popped
up with brock lesnar one to one of his UFC fights, So I don't
know what else he may have been doing if he was mentoring people, but
he has I think he still does. He still has the Looking for Larry
stuff that he does, the Hayman Hustle. I think Hayman Hustle dot com
is still up, so he was involved in that stuff. But nothing in
wrestling and bass Beer is Victoria two thousand and three would have fit in today's
roster? Yeah? Absolutely, Victoria would fit in today's roster. From two
to three five. Victoria was great. Victoria should be in the Hall of
Fame, and I think she will be one day, all right, be
the booker goal was four hundred likes. We are currently sitting at four hundred
and thirty one likes. Gives yourselves a round of applause in the chat job,
well done, keep hitting that thumbs up though, let's be the booker.
These are gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. Yeah,
I mean, Hayman almost went to TNA. T and A wanted him,
but Dixie just couldn't do it. She couldn't give up the power,
so it never happened. What would a Paul Haman led TNA have looked like?
We will never know. Be the booker. Time, here we go.
I was gonna say the last one of the week, but we're hopefully
going to be doing one tomorrow on the backlash stream. If we hit the
goal, then we begin with Look at this the American Wolves. Didn't we
just pick them? Wasn't it? The American Wolves and the Headshrinkers on Wednesday
on the Dynamite Scream And now we just landed on these two again. Eddie
Edwards and Davey Richards for the second time in as many streams. I mean,
they were a good team, but come on, now, we gotta
shake things up a little bit here. What is this the American If I
swear to God, if we land on the headshrinkers again, I'm gonna let
it run a little bit. We cannot land on the headshrinkers, all right,
American Wolves? All right, well, that's different the American Wolves and
Lax. We have homicide and Hernandez. Remember Hernandez and the border toss.
How recklessly dangerous that looked. I would not have wanted to be on the
receiving end of a border toss from this guy, I'll tell you that much.
All right, women's be the booker. That would have been a hard
hitting match, though, So I like that one. Over on the women's
side, we begin with the former NXT and former WWE. I'm in champion,
the lovely Eo Sky, one of the best in the world, Eo
Sky. This one's gonna be hard to mess up. I think I think
we got this one in the bag here, Eo Sky gonna go one.
Oh my fucking God, every single time I opened my mouth, I jinx
it of all of the people that we have here in this tumbler. All
you had to do was take someone reasonably competent in the ring and just stick
them in there with EO and you would have had an easy bell. And
we land on Rosa Mendez. We had it, We had it. It
was right there, it was, it was in our grass. We had
it, We had it, and we threw it all away. All right.
Main event, I know, I know, I know, I learned
the hard way. All right. Main event begins with the Narcissist, Lex
Luger, who loved looking at himself in the giant mirror every time he would
come out. One of the best physiques, if not frankly the best physique
ever in all of wrestling back in his prime, was Lex Luger. I
can't say that the Narcissist was my favorite gimmick of his. Well, let's
see here Lex Luger one on one with Brett the Hitman Heart. The match
that we should have gotten at WrestleMania at ten, although that wasn't the Narcissist,
but the match we should have had at wrestle Many at ten at MSG,
and it was taken away from us. We were deprived of having that
match. You know Brett Hard and the Narcissist did wrestle, it just wasn't
on TV. I know they wrestled because I saw it on the Colisseum video
ones, so I know it happened. Remember when the Narcissist knocked out Brett
with his loaded forearm at the WrestleMania nine press conference and they blamed that for
why he may have lost the Yoko z It's so weird because there were you
could find so many examples back then in the early nineties of matches that were
teased on television, feuds that were teased and we just never got the match
televised. I mean they may have done them at house shows, you know
Undertaker and Nails, Undertaker and Berserker, Roddy Piper and Rick Flair, Lex
Luger and bread Heart. He never did any of those matches though, on
like a major pay per view match, or even television. I mean,
Undertaker and Berserker. Maybe they had a television match, but you just find
so many examples of that. But now there's so many hours of television.
To me these days, it would be impossible not to do it. Just
the way things were back then, crazy with the five dollars super chat yep,
Flaren Hogan. Of course Flaren Hogan is another one. There will be
a four part documentary of the demise of w CW, produced by the Dark
Side of the Ring creators and the Final Boss. How excited are you about
that? I am not excited at all. I am so over all of
this death of WCW stuff. And then you get the usual talking heads.
I saw the trailer, you got bitsch Off, and you got RUSSEO.
Fucking gag me. At this point, I don't know if I'm even gonna
watch it. I might be interested to see what the first episode is like,
but you know you can get the same look. You're gonna get the
same lies and tails spun by the same people that have been telling them for
the last twenty plus years. You're not gonna learn much different than you already
know. Jay g Low, what are your thoughts on the NXT releases today?
Very sad to see. I'll run down all of the names on Sunday.
But yeah, it's sad whenever anybody loses their job. But it's NXT
and you expect there to be a certain level of turnover with people who either
are not progressing fast enough or people that they have absolutely no plans on using.
You know, why would you hold on to people like that? So
it's not surprising. But it's always sad when people lose their job. I
don't celebrate it. I don't say, oh, I'm so happy so and
so got released. No, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to do
that. It's always a sad thing. Bace Beers Luger putting Hogan in the
rack was amazing. Yeah, I mean that was the one hundredth episode of
Nitro in ninety seven and they were in Detroit, if I remember, and
the crowd went wild for it. I was shocked, you know, to
see Hogan just give up clean in the torture rack. So that was one
of the greatest moments in the history of Nitro. Yeah. Not a lot
of big names released. Actually, no big names released. The biggest of
the names released was Drew Goulac, former cruiserweight and twenty four to seven champion.
So again I would not say anybody big was released. Gulac would be
the biggest of them all, though, uh Kentucky Dried Chicken, Eo Sky
versus Rosa Mendez. The Mets commentary team calls this match. If anybody can
make that match watchable, it's Gary Keith and Ron best announced team in all
of sports. What anybody says, Ultra Beast boys coming in with a five
dollars super chat? Did you listen to that Rakishi disc song against HOGI?
I did. I'll tell you what. The part of it that made me
laugh the most and got the biggest reaction out of me. There's a Family
Matters Steve Rkle reference early on in the song that popped me. That popped
me more than anything else, I think in the entire track because it's so
dated Fresh print or Family Matters? Which was better? I watched them both.
I was a big Family Matters guy. Saw every episode, knew every
character on the show, even the daughter who went up to her bedroom one
day in the first season and never came back down. We never saw her
again. Hey, Chris m just subscribe. Look at Daniel Garcia doing the
dance. Will he do that dance on Sunday? Just added to the House
of Glory Cinco de Mayo show on Sunday at the NYC Arena. Daniel Garcia
has been added to the show. Maybe he can, Maybe he could teach
me the dance. You know, last time Swerve and Printed Nama came to
the NYC Arena, I had I had Nana teach me the dance. What
do you think should I? Should I learn the Daniel Garcia dance? I
don't know. But yeah, he's gonna be on the show. It's gonna
be a big show. We got Ray Phoenix and Penta Brother versus Brother in
the main event on Sunday. If you can't be at the arena Live Triller
TV plus j D and I will be doing commentary for the show, which
means that I'm gonna have to do my show early. I have to figure
out how I'm gonna work that. But I will do my show and then
I will do the Hog Show back to back. I will jump in my
car and I will drive to Queens so that I could do the Hog Show.
So it's gonna be a busy weekend for Oh my God. And then
we have the pay per view tomorrow. Fuck yeah, boy, This weekend
is gonna be something else, isn't it. This is gonna be this is
gonna be something. Because we had SmackDown tonight, We've got Backlash tomorrow,
We've got the podcast on Sunday, House of Glory on Sunday, the raw
stream on Monday, TNT with JD on Tuesday, Dynamite on Wednesday, and
then I might actually get a little break on Thursday. I'm actually looking forward
to that. Busy, busy, busy bass Beers. Speed is like Velocity
two point zero the name and green owwe Speed. Yeah. I saw that
they crowned a new speed champion. Ricochet is the first ever speed champion.
They have a new belt for it. Speed is basically, it's this concept
they came up with for a show on Twitter on X where they had a
tournament and it's a series of three minute matches. They don't go longer than
three minutes because people have the attention span of a fucking fruit fly. So
that that's the whole concept. It's like a very very quick matches. I'm
sure some people enjoy it. I don't really care for it, but if
you do, good for you. All right, So tomorrow we are going
to be doing the Backlash recap as soon as the pay per view is over.
I remember it's a one o'clock Eastern start, which means it's probably going
to go to about four, So between four and four thirty. Plan to
be here because I will be live on YouTube before you have your dinner tomorrow.
You come here and I will fill you in on everything that happens on
this pay per view. We'll go over all of it, and then of
course episode eight sixty, eight hundred and sixty of the Solemn Monster sounds.
So we'll be dropping on Sunday, probably early so I can make the Hog
Show. And thank you again for all of the feedback this week on the
TNT announcement. I am very much looking forward to that Hoffman Entertainment with the
final super chat here. Judy is seen at Grandma Winslow's wedding in season four,
and then we never see her again. Is she I don't remember that.
I'll take your word for it. All I remember is that Judy went
up to her room one day and I don't ever remember seeing her again.
And then I think she ended up doing porn. Didn't she end up when
she got older doing adult films? What a career to go from family matters
to adult films. Anyway, On that note, there's some food for thought
heading into your weekend. Happy Sinco de mayo, everybody. I'll see you
for the backlash stream tomorrow. Take care, guys,