Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event is less than twenty four hours away,
and it's a one match show. That's it really is
just all about the main event Tomorrow night tag team
match Cody Rhoades and Sea I'm Punk taken on Gunther
and Sammy zin and tonight we found out that there
are actual stakes on the line in this match. We
actually had Cody and Gunther one on one in the
main event, which broke down into chaos with all four
men involved. We found out on this show, as amazing
as it is, that Gunther is not fired or is
suspended after attacking the general manager of the show last week.
Nick Aldis, was not here today, but apparently he put
a good word in for Gunther and didn't want anything
bad to happen to him. So the match is on
and now we have the stipulation that if Gunther and
Sammy z Ain actually win their match tomorrow night, which
they won't, but if they do, both men will be
added to the championship match at Summer, which is looking
increasingly likely. It'll be the Night one main event and
it will turn into a fatal four way for the
WWE Championship. On the one hand, I actually like the
fact that they added that stipulation. On the other hand,
it makes it patently obvious now who is winning and
who was not winning tomorrow night. I do like there
being something at stake though in that match. I do
like that aspect of things. It is quite amazing, though
when you look at this car. We have four matches tomorrow,
and I was thinking about this, is this the weakest
car the WWE has set up for a Saturday Night's
Main event this year, last year, maybe ever? And I
can't even bring myself to say that, because when you
look at some of the more recent shows they've done,
we've actually had Saturday Night's Main Event cars that have
had fewer matches than we have tomorrow. As hard as
that is to believe, there was one, I want to
say at the beginning of this year where we have
three matches. It's like they've given up with some of
these shows because it doesn't air on NBC anymore, right,
So it's not that shiny new toy because they're not
on network TV either, just on Peacock now, so they
feel like they don't have to put quite as much
effort into it. But this is where we are, and
that's tomorrow night. As far as SmackDown tonight, that was
not the only piece of news that WWE made. There
actually was breaking news before SmackDown went on the air tonight,
and they got more into detail about it on the show.
Rhea Ripley has not been present on this show since
the beginning of June. Actually maybe not since Clash in Italy.
She was wrestling, I think it was a live event
in Italy back in early June. But we have not
seen her on SmackDown in quite some time. And she's
the WWE Women's Champion and now we're only a couple
of weeks away from SummerSlam, right, two three weeks whatever.
It is kind of odd. We got an update from
her at the Power Slap event last week. She was
asked about, you know, what's going on with you, and
she said, well, you know, I've been dealing with a
bit of an injury. You have a slightly torn meniscus,
but it's in a very weird place, and I'm having
trouble bending my knee and I'm getting real close, but
like I'm not there yet, and so you know, we're
just trying to trying to get over the hump, and
I said this the other day. I said, that doesn't
sound good. That does not sound like a positive update
from somebody who is bound to be on the Summer
Slam car defending her championship to a stripper of the belt.
Let her take all the time she needs to get
her knee back to one hundred percent, because obviously you
don't want her coming back if she's not tip top.
She's too important to that SmackDown brand. She's one of
the biggest stars they have. And we'll just move on
from this because it's been bad enough that we actually
have a women's World champion who is present every single
week on Raw but never defends her title, and then
we have a champion on SmackDown who's injured in can't
defend her titles. Something's got to give here, so just
stripper of the Championship. And my suggestion was you could
just make the Charlotte Flair Jade cargill inevitable match that
we all figured was going to be announced. You can
always make that a title match at Summer Slim and
put the belt on one of them. And when Rhea
comes back, she's got a ready made program to go
back after her championship well, we now have an update
on rear Ripley. She is in fact not going to
be stripped of her Women's championship. They are doing the
interim title bullshit that we have seen done in other
places like UFC and ae W. We know that Tony
Kahan loves his interim champions and now they're doing it
in WWEE This is the update from earlier. Adam Pierce,
actually they put a video out with him on social media.
Adam Pierce is the interim acting general manager in the
absence of Nick All this and he announced that rear
Ripley again, she's been out. She's been and recovering from
a torn meniscus and they're not quite sure. She's getting
very close, but they're not quite sure when she's going
to be medically clear to compete. So she's out of
Summer Slam, and so what they've decided to do five
women are going to be decided upon. Five women are
going to qualify for a ladder match at SummerSlam to
create a new interim WWE Women's Champion, and then upon
her return, Rhea Ripley will come back and we will
effectively have a unification match to have one singular undisputed
WWE Women's Champion. If you've heard me talk about the
interim stuff before, and maybe I wouldn't mind it so
much like when Tony Kahn has done it in the past,
if it was like a one time thing or at
every now and then thing. He loved the interim title stuff.
And when I was talking about it even then, people
were like, well, you know, the dude, UFC, And I'm like,
I don't give a shit. What does that have to
do with my thoughts on interim titles. Because UFC does it,
that means it's okay. Because UFC does it, I'm supposed
to like it. I don't give a shit most of
the time, if not all of the time. I think
it is fucking stupid. And I'll tell you what's even
dumber about it. They are so scared to take the
title off of Rhea Ripley because they want so badly
for her to still be the champion. When Crown Jewel
rolls around, right, we could very well be looking at
a situation where it's Rhea Ripley representing SmackDown taking on
EO Sky representing Raw. Whatever their plans are. I think
that's part of what's going on here, and they desperately
want to make sure that Riha is still the champion,
so they're gonna do this interim title nonsense instead of
doing the most sensible thing that there is to do,
which is, when you have a champion who was unable
to compete and they are unable to appear, for example,
at one of their biggest events of the year due
to injury, you strip them of the championship and you
do exactly what you're doing here. You can have a
five way, you can have a six way, you can
have however many women you want. You have a ladder
match at Summer Slam for the vacant championship to create
a new champion. When the now former champion is ready
to come back, they will do so and they will
be able to challenge for the title that they never lost.
It's simple like this stuff does not have to be
overly complicated. There is no need. There is no need
for there to be a second belt created, which for them,
it'll just be a replica they'll pull from WWE shop.
I'm convinced most of the belts we see on TV
now or just replicas from WWE shop. And so they
have to Now we have another champion, and now we're
gonna have this stuff where who's the undisputed champion and
all that. I'm like, why why she's already been out
since the end of May. Just strip her of the
championship and hold it up in a ladder match. But no,
we have to do the interim title. Nonsense. Fine, idiotic
is what it is. And actually we had qualifying matches tonight.
Speaking of idiotic, we had qualifying matches tonight. We had
In one of them it was Naya Jacks against Jade
Cargill and in the other one it was Tiffany Stratton
going one on one with j C Jane. Jade Cargill
is going to the ladder match at Summer Slim, which
as soon as you heard that it was going to
be Jade Cargill and Naya Jacks, you had to figure
that that was going to be the case, which means
that they are absorbing what would have been the singles
match between Charlotte and Jade into this ladder match now.
And look, it is what it is like again, if
this is what they're gonna do, Rhea is hurt. It
is what it is. I get it because Charlotte and Jade,
two of the bigger names in the division. Why wouldn't
they be in the ladder match? Fine, I have no
issue with that. I'll get to the actual matches and
how those played out here at a little bit. And
in the other match, it was Tiffany Stratton, the United
States Champion against jac Jane. Tiffany Stratton, Minnesota girl going
to Summer Slams. She will be in the ladder match.
Jac Jane, thanks for coming. There is no spot for
jac Jane in the ladder unless they do some sort
of last chance qualifier. She will not be in the
ladder match, which is absurd to me. But then I also,
like I kind of scribbled down a list when this announcement,
this news first broke earlier, of like, well, who would
be in this match? Who would make sense to be
in this ladder match? And you have the obvious names,
Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill. Right, there's two of the five.
Right there? You have Alexa Bliss. Alexa Bliss. They already
shot an injury angle, right, Jade broke her arm last week,
she's out. You ain't putting Alexa Bliz there. You already
shot the angle, So she's off the table. You have
Tiffany Stratton. Now, she's already got the United States Championship.
She should be defending the US title at SummerSlam. There's
really no need for her to be in this matt Now,
she is a former world champion, troop. But in a
perfect world they would have already had a program set
up for her. But of course they don't. And so
I get it. I understand why they would want Tiffany
in this match. Minnesota girl, she's been going around doing
publicity for Summer Slam, right coming to my home state.
I can't wait to go back home. Yeah, but you
got no fucking opponent. They've set nobody up for her.
Who is she defending the US title against? What have
they set up for her to do at Summer Slam. Nothing,
So of course you're just gonna put her in the
ladder match. So Tiffany Stratton, Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill. Right,
that's three, right there? Who else do we have here?
Put the batties on the side, all right, Put the
batties on the side. Chelsea Green. Chelsea Green is not
getting a spot in the Women's Championship ladder match. It's
just not happening. Blake Monroe. She is allergic to wrestling.
They have yet to have her in the ring wrestling
a match on any episode of SmackDown. Why would she
be in a ladder match for the women's champions And
if she can qualify, I think that would be great,
but realistically she's probably not getting any Julia and Keanna James.
Julia and Keanna James are so low on the totem
pole you can't possibly expect any of them to make
it into the ladder match. Julia maybe has an outside shot. Realistically,
it's probably not gonna Happenan Grace Jordan Grace is basically done.
I mean, she she's a complete non factor at this point.
I had to look it up to see when the
last time was that she even wrestled. They have her
wrestling sporadically on main event. I don't know what's going
on with her. It's not like she's injured. If she's
wrestling on main event, she's she's done. I mean, I'm
sorry to say it, but basically she's out of the picture.
So they don't really have a lot of options beyond that,
you know, I mean, you're looking at the names I mentioned,
and then again, if you want to, I think Blake
Monroe may have to end up being in there because
they may not have a better option here. I mean
beyond that again, you got Meechen b Fab fucking Candice Lay.
Who am I missing? That's basically it. This is what
we're looking at. As far as the last and how
j C. Jane doesn't get a spot in this match
is beyond me. But this is what we're looking at
right now. As far as the women's championship is concerned
at Summerslim it is. It is not an ideal situation.
But again, this interim champion nonsense. I mean they're trying
to be Oh, we're trying to be like a real sport.
We're gonna have an interim champion. But again, you don't
have to reinvent the wheel here. There's no need for this.
Just take the title away from her and crowning new champion.
It's very simple. This was not a good show. It
was very dull for the most part. Actually, the thing
that surprised me the most about this show, I mean,
Phraxium going out there and having a good match is
not a surprise. It was a match though between Phraxium
and the war Raiders, which the fans did not give
a shit about when the war Raiders came out. By
the time this match was over, though, it was, if
not the best thing, certainly up to that point in
the show, the best thing, and actually, as I sit here,
the best thing on the show as I reflect back
on that, the best thing on the show turned out
to be Phraxium in the war Raiders, which was nice
because again, when was the last time the war Raiders
really did anything of note on TV? But that's the
best thing I could point to here on this show.
They did certain things as far as you know, kind
of moving things along for tomorrow night. We saw that
at the end of the show with the big brawl
with all four men in the main event. They have
these qualifying matches. I liked the idea of their being
qualifying matches. The qualifying matches were no good Wait until
I get to the stuff with Jade and I. It
wasn't even a match. It was an angle more than
a match. This was not a good show, you know.
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let's get into this show here. We'll start from the
very top, and that top involved Gunther one, half of
the tag team on the Heels. Tomorrow night, it's Saturday
Night's main event. Coming to the ring by himself, but
not until they recapped the events of last week's show,
which included the Summer Slam Challenge being issued between Cody
Rhoads and Cmpunk they will be wrestling for the WWE Championship.
And then to close the show last week, we had
that brutal attack by Gunther on Nick Aldis, putting him
in the sleeper hole repeatedly until Cody Rhodes came out
to make the save, and then the show went off
the air, and then Brimode was activated. Thankfully, that also
happened off the air. This one happened on the air though,
Venom Ktetsu with the twenty five dollars Bremo. We know
we heard Bremode tonight. I think I had my head down.
I was taking some notes here and then I heard
Bremo and I looked up and I was like dazed.
Thank you, Venom Catetsu. So after all the recaps and
all the bullshit, Gunther made his way down to the
ring and he talked about, you know, priding himself on
being a professional, but he felt that he's been mistreated
ever since joining SMACK. Then, yeah, you don't say, you
don't say It's been quite the journey for Gunther this
year from how he started twenty twenty six to where
he is right now. He said, the truth is that
he should be the WWE champion right now, and Gunther
blamed all this for making this very personal by forcing
him to team with Sammy Zain Tomorrow night again Sea
I'm Punk and Cody Rhodes. He said that Sammy was
beneath him, so that brought out the interim general manager,
Adam Pierce. Pierce said that on the subject of Niicol this,
Gunther should be thanking him for sticking up for him
and saving his job, because if it were up to him,
he would have fired Gunther. But all this basically asked
for him to stay keep the tag team Maine event
Tomorrow night intact. This includes the stipulation, which was news
to Gunther, but the stipulation that if Gunther and Sammy's
A win their match at Saturday Night's main event, the
two of them will be added to the main event
at Summer Slide between Cody and Punk to make it
a fatal four way for the WWE Championship. And so
that announcement brought out Cody Rhodes, who ran out to
the ring. Jacket Lists immediately double legged Gunther to the
ground and Gunther fled out to the floor. Cody was
all fired up. He did that thing that he does
where he gets very angry and he screams enough. That's
his thing now, like a like a substitute school teacher
when the class is just out of control enough. He
tries to he tries to sound all tough, like he's
gonna he's gonna whoop that ass. And so he talked
about Gunther slamming that card door on his head, which
bloodied him up a few weeks ago on Raw. That's
what took him out of the championship match with Sammy's Ain,
which then paved the way for CM Punk to take
a spot, and that's why CM punk is now the
WWE champion. He hasn't forgotten about that said he was
gonna drop Gunther on site. So he also said the
road to Saturday Nights made event runs through Albany, New York,
and he challenged Gunther to a match tonight. He looked
to Adam Pearce to make it official, and so he did,
and that is how we ended up with our main
event tonight. Yes, you all like that. See Cody doesn't
say it as deeply as that. It's it's not intimidating enough.
That's the problem. Like I can see like if he had,
you know, his kid or whatever is misbehaving at home
and just you know, he starts yelling enough, like kid
probably looks at him and just laughs and walks away.
As far as adding the stipulation, I like it. I
like the fact that now there's something on the line
in this match, but there is no doubt now as
to who's winning. At least before there was some doubt,
you know, maybe Cody and Punk. They're not getting a lot.
I mean even before though, I said Cody and Punk
are gonna win because I can't see either one of
them taking a loss. Is what I just talked about
on the sound of I said, you know, we got
this main event coming up this weekend, and I'm going
with Cody and Punk to win it for no other
reason because I cannot imagine either one of them taking
a pinfall loss in this match. This only solidifies it
because everything that they have done leads to a gunther
Nick All this match at Summerslim, that match is one
hundred percent going to happen. And though they're not having
Gunther wrestle both Knights. We went through this with Olba Femi.
Nobody is wrestling both knights. That's the match they're doing.
Gunther is not wrestling for the WWE Championship, And frankly,
I don't want to see a fatal four way. I
don't want to see a fatal four waight. I don't
even want to see a triple thread at this point, Like,
you've made your match. This is the match that you've promoted,
This is the match that you promised. Just do it
as is the biggest match they could do right now,
Cody and Punk has not been done before, not this
go around. So in that regard, it's a fresh match,
two big names. Sorry for Sammy, but keep the match
the way it is. We don't need to see a
fatal four way. The only question really is does Nick
All this show up to cost Gunther? Now? If he
shows up in a way that costs gun through the match,
that really fucks over Sammy's ay. And so what a
terrible general manager that would make Nick All this because
Sammy didn't do anything. Sammy's already walking around with a
new T shirt that says justice for Sammy on it.
I don't know why Nick all this would would cost
him a potential title match at Summerslim. So does he
interfere during the match, does he show up after the match?
Does he show up at all? Right? What are they
going to do next to set up this inevitable showdown
with him and Guny? Do we see him tomorrow night?
That's really the only question here. But the actual stipulation
I like adding that to the match. Now at this point,
they air the Adam Piers video that I mentioned earlier
that dropped on social media where he told people that
Rhea Ripley is not going to be cleared for SummerSlam.
He announced that there's going to be a ladder match
to crown this interim women's champion. Then we had a match.
It was Finn Balor one on one with Talatanga. Last
week Finn Balor beat Tama Tonga and this week it
was it was Finn. I was gonna say, you know,
it was Finn Balor against now it was not. It
was not Finn Balor against Kyrie. Although that is a
match I would love to see. Unfortunately we are not
going to be able to see that match. But now
that it's it's been presented to me, that would be
a hell of a match. I have a feeling that
he would be back to pin Balor if you put
him in the ring with Kyrie Saint who remembers the
photo shopt the image from many years ago in the
cage of Kyrie and brock Lesnar. I think Kyrie was
giving him a spear. Don't mess with Kyrie. She's a
tough one. Anyway, as I was saying, maybe for be
the booker, Yeah, Ricky, that's true. We do an intergender
imagine be the booker. We could actually land on that.
So Baalor beat Tomatonga last week. This week it was
big brother. I say big brother. He's technically little brother,
but literally he's big brother. So that's what this match was.
Coming out of a commercial break, Taula dropped him with
a running power slam for a two count. Balor made
a comeback. He was looking for the Couda grass but
but Talatanga grabbed him off the top. He was setting
up for a Tala t bomb. Balor reversed that into
a DDT though Tomatonga provided the distraction which gave Tala
the chance to mow down Balor with a big boot again,
though Baler made a comeback. He took down Tom outside
with a sling blade on the floor and then finished
things off on Tala with a double stump for the wind.
And that pretty much puts the steak through the heart
of what's left of the MFTs. Because now Finn Balor,
who I would always call pin Balor because rarely would
he win a match, has now gotten back to back
wins over both remaining members of the MFT. So it
is not looking good for those two on SmackDown. I
don't know what, if anything, is next for them, but
it is not a good position for them to be in.
Ceampunk confronted Nick all this backstage and just wanted to
confirm that what I heard earlier is accurate about this
stipulation now for this tag team match tomorrow night. He
said he's more of an old school guy. He prefers
it be one on one. Pierce said, look, I understand,
but it's official, it's already made. Punk also had doubts
about Gunther's intentions. Later he said he thinks Gunther is
just trying to hurt Cody physically, so he said he
was going to go find Cody for a chat, and
as Punk turned around, he ran right into Damian Priest,
one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, who thanked
Punk for the shout out last week. When Punker's running
down the list of all the names that he would
love to defend that championship against, he mentioned every single
name except for Cody Rhodes. Remember that he mentioned Sammy Zaine,
He mentioned Royce Keys, mentioned Damian Priest, Trick Williams Budd.
He wanted to make sure that Punk knows that if
Punk is still the champion after Summer Slim, Priest is
going to be waiting for him, and Punk said, well,
I hope so, and I hope that you're still tag
Team Champion because me and Cody are gonna go on
a tear in the garden tomorrow night and then maybe
we'll go after those tag team titles. Please, don't. I
know we're kind of desperate when it comes to tag
teams here in this company, but we don't need that.
We had j C. Jane one on one with Tiffany Stratton.
This was a qualifying match for the ladder match at
Summer Slim. Lany Reid and Fallon Henley. They ganged up
on Tiffany before the match, actually all three of them did.
When we heard brem mode and here comes Page and
Brie Bella, the women's tag team champions, they ran out
to fight off the challengers for tomorrow night because they
are defending against Fatal Influence. So that left Jase all
by herself for the match to begin, and they went
to an early commercial break after that on my screen
in Netflix, because I was watching this with my Express VPN.
And normally when they go to a commercial, it goes
dark for like four or five seconds, and then it
comes back and it gives a countdown clock. In the
corner of the screen, it says back in and then
it'll say three minutes, ninety seconds, two minutes, you know,
whatever it is. They go to a commercial break here
and in the corner of the screen on Netflix, it
says back in one hundred eighty three minutes. Now. Now, look,
I know that the the commercials on these you know,
television shows, are out of control, but this is just ridiculous.
I mean, I know it feels like we have three
hours worth of commercials every single week, but to tell
me that we'll be back in three hours. I mean,
I mean we've just we've gone over the edge. Now
we've just gone completely over the edge. And so by
the way it stayed that way, it's clearly a glitch.
It stayed that way for the rest of the show.
It counted backwards from one hundred and eighty three minutes,
so I never for the rest of the show how
many actual minutes were left in these commercial breaks. It's
at one hundred and seventy one hundred and forty go.
These are the longest commercial breaks I've ever seen in
my life. So late in the match, we got the
float over into the Alabama Slam by Stratton, who headed
up top JC They'll cut her off and followed with
an elevated swinging DDT for a near fall. Jaz went
for the rolling encore, but Stratton avoided it, hit a
springboard stunner, and the prettiest Moonsalt ever followed for the win,
which sends the United States Champion into the Women's Championship
Ladder Match at SummerSlam. Hey, Chicago for MBK, thank you
for the gifted membership. E Web one eighty seven was
just gifted a membership courtesy of Chicago for MBK. Look
that the gift of giving here on YouTube. So yes,
Tiffany Stratton advances to the ladder match, and I figured
Stratton was winning just because she had a belt. Jace doesn't.
And as I said earlier, Summerslim is in Tiffany's home state,
and she's going around doing media and publicity. And as
I'm coming across these YouTube clips of her doing these interviews,
I'm like, does she even have a match set up
for that show? And the answer is no. So then
they announced this match, and I'm like, they could have
bounced jac Jane out of this thing before she even
has a chance to qualify. Why would they make this match?
Why would you not have Jace Jane in that match
at Summerslim. There's no reason that she shouldn't be one
of the five to five women in that match. But
now she's gone, She's already bounced out, and Tiffany Stratton,
who doesn't need to be in there, is now going
to be in the ladder match. I guess that's their
way of getting her on the show because they had
nothing else for her otherwise. That's an indictment on the
SmackDown writing team. You know, she's the United States champion,
the hometown girl. You can't come up with something in
advance for something, you know, something for her to do
heading into SummerSlam. Boy, they're awfully lucky that Rhea Ripley,
you know, was forced out of this show and that
they came up with this match, because had they not,
I don't know the Tiffany Stratton would have been wrestling
at SummerSlam. I guess at least now she gets a
spot on the show. But I think it's bullshit that
j C. Jane is not going to occupy one of
these five slots now. I expect Fallon Henley and Laney
Reid to win the women's tag team titles tomorrow and night.
But man, they have done no favors to this Fatal
Influence Crew after the first like couple of weeks because
they debuted. I thought it was good, established them pretty early,
and it's just been kind of it's been very flat,
if not downhill, from there. So yeah, I mean, I
think they'll win the tag team titles tomorrow and I
mean they don't win the tag team titles tomorrow night
after already losing a non title match to Page and Bribella,
then that's it. That's it. I mean, I don't know,
I don't know what to say. At that point. They
must be winning the titles tomorrow, but I still think
jac I should have gotten a spot here. We got
some pre tape comments from the Learning Tree fucked up.
Fuck that tree. No, no, no, no, the Learning Tree
is not in the ladder match. No, we're getting the
pain Maker. That's what we're getting. Oh boy. I can't
wait to talk about that promo in my Dynamite review
on Sunday, since I didn't do one on Wednesday because
my fucking Wi Fi car decided to randomly disappear on me,
which is why I vanished in the middle of Tuesday
Night Titans. Thankfully, we got most of the show done
and then I just vanished because out of nowhere my
Wi Fi car vanished. Couldn't get it back, went to
the drivers and everything it was, nothing was working. Took
the laptop into a shop, said I gotta get my
WiFi back, put a brand new card in, took it
home and it worked. It worked for all of two hours,
and then it fucking disappeared again. And my Bluetooth is gone.
I have no Bluetooth anymore. I was planning on I actually,
of course I was. I was planning on getting back
to some soundof gamer stuff and now that's out the window.
I can't pair the controller now with this, which means
I have no Bluetooth. It's been quite the odyssey for
me this week. I wasn't even going to bring it up,
but I've been so irritated. This has been a horrible week.
Just I mean, and again, woe is me? Third world problems,
I know, but this has just been It's been ridiculous.
This whole week has been ridiculous. And the money I've
spent on adapters and stuff. Bought a Bluetooth external external
Wi Fi and Bluetooth adapter, and the Wi Fi one worked.
I ended up just buying an Ethernet cable and just
running it through the entire freaking place. So, you know whatever,
the WiFi is dead, who gives a shit? But the Bluetooth.
I bought an adapter piece, little USB one you plug
it in right, supposed to work. Nothing. Nothing. I've gone
through all of the troubleshooting steps, disable the the old
you know Bluetooth, which are hidden all of a sudden.
Believe me, I've gone through the list of all the steps,
nothing's worked. I'm thinking about just spending money on ten
different ones off Amazon. I'll just buy ten of them
and just try every single one of them until one
of them works, I guarantee, and not a single one
is gonna work. So I'm very sad about all this.
But anyway, you guys are helping me maintain my sanity.
I just had to explain what's been going on over
the last few days. None of this makes any sense
to me. None of this makes any sense whatsoever. Anyway,
I was about to talk about Baron Corbin, So let's
talk about Baron Corbin. How about that. You know, if
WWE really wanted to get on my nerves, they would
bring up a heel from like NXT or something and
just call them Bluetooth. That could be that they could
trademark the name. Maybe they're legally not able to just
call them Bluetooth. Biggest heel in the company. I will
root against them every single match. Bluetooth managed by Wi Fi.
Some hot blonde calls herself Wi Fi. Yeah, biggest heels
in the business. Baron Corbin, though, after his surprise return
last week during the trick, Williams Carmelo Hayes non title
match on SmackDown. He had laid them both out. He said,
a lot of people around here think that they're tough,
but he's the real deal and he will bring reality
crashing down upon them. He tells his opponents to smile
when they can and enjoy what they have because he's
coming for it all. He's coming. Blake Monroe is still
coming every week. We'll get to hurt a little bit
in the back though. Live. Jackie Redmond is with Trick Williams,
and Trick calls Korb been a big bald headed bitch.
What is this obsession on wrestling television this year of
just calling bald men bitches? Bald men have really just
they've been in the crosshairs this year. I think it
started with Ricochet, but I feel like the bald insults
have been going back and forth all year long. It's
very strange. That sounds very TK like what having a
heel named Bluetooth with a manager named Wi Fi can
make it a tag team? I mean that works too.
Carmelo Hayes interrupted. Two of them bickered back and forth.
Hayes said that he knows Trick knows that Mellow is
the better of the two of them. Trick says that
Hayes hasn't done anything in two years Unsmacked Down. Meanwhile,
he's been on SmackDown for less than a year and
he's the hottest thing to hit the show. And then
he ranted about grown folks talking or some such thing,
because everybody on this show they gotta spit out their
catchphrases every five second. Can't cut a straight promo. We'll
just spit fucking catchphrases at every two seconds, is what
he's been reduced to, by the way. So whatever, they
were going back and forth, and nothing was really accomplished
here in this segment. But Baron Corbin is coming for everything.
He's coming for it all. We had another women's ladder
match qualifier with a Jade Cargill against Naya Jacks. Say
Naya Jax, who has not wrestled on this show since
the end of May. That was in a loss at
Chelsea Green. In fact, she hasn't wrestled anywhere since the
end of May. Jade missed right away with a pumpkick.
Nya caught her with a Samoan drop, then a leg
drop only got two. Nia missed with a leg drop
off the middle rope, and that gave Jade the opening
to hit a spinebuster, kind of not a great one,
but a spinebuster. Nonetheless, all of a sudden, at ringside,
there's a commotion. I swear to you, I swear to you.
I don't know, my mind just went there. She was
wearing like a very bright, colorful outfit. The way she
was dressed, I thought soul Ruka had hit ringside to
beat up the batties. I was like, what's she doing here?
But no, it was Charlotte Flair. I don't know if
she was trying to cosplay as soul Ruka. I don't
know what she was doing. Charlotte Flair showed up. She
beats up Mechen, she beats up Beefab, she hits the ring,
she attacks Jade, instant disqualification. The match is over. That's it,
just like that, And I'm watching this and I'm like
that now sends the woman that you hate so much
to the ladder match at SummerSlam to potentially win the
Women's World champions or I'm sorry, the interim Women's World champion.
Fuck this interim shit but yet not very smart, not
very bright, but that's what she did because Jade Cargill
now was going to SummerSlam, but Charlotte's not done yet.
So after the match is over, Flair goes and grabs
a chair from outside. She was about to stomp on
Jade's arm with the chair, just like Jade did to
Alexa Bliss last week, but the batties pulled her out
to safety, and so they announced Jade as the winner. Oh,
she had the hardy boys outface? Is that what it was?
The only thing we were missing was Charlotte out there
doing this, doing the Jeff Hardy dance. I'm sorry, she
looked like soul Ruka. Anyway, they announced Jade as the winner,
and angry Nya Jacks then squashed Charlotte in the corner
and the King Kong Bundy avalanche. It's the first thing
I thought about, the avalanche, such an old school bove
squashes her in the corner because Charlotte had her back turned,
and then Nya just left and that gave the batties
the chance to get in the ring pick the bones,
and then Jade laid out Charlotte with Jaded. This was
fucking awful. This was terrible. I hated everything about this.
This was such a colossal waste of time, is what
this was. Now. In the back when this was over,
Naya and lash legend they were complaining to Adam Pearce,
you know about what just happened. What are you gonna do?
And so Pierce made a match for next week. Nya
is going to get another shot. Naya is gonna get
another shot to qualify, but this time it's going to
be against Charlotte Flair. And so that match is now
official for next week. And I love how all of
these general managers are just constantly rewarding bad behavior. Don't
you notice this is like a trend that's been going on.
Gunther goes out there and he physically assaults one of
the general managers of the show. That's how SmackDown ended
last week. Gunther went in there and beat up his
boss and wasn't suspended, he wasn't fired. Then you had
Charlotte Flair, actually Jade Cargill breaking Alexa Bliss's arm in
a chair. She's then rewarded with a qualifying match to
put potentially challenged for the Interim Women's Championship, which she
will now do. And then Charlotte Flair interferes in the
qualifier and is rewarded with a qualifier of her own
next week. Is it any wonder why nobody ever learns
their lesson, Nobody ever learns to respect authority and respect
the rules, so they continue to break the rules and
beat up the authority. Figures here on these shows, we
need somebody to put their foot down. We need a
general manager or a commissioner, or somebody who will be
able to put their foot down and lay down the law.
These men are clearly incapable of doing that. Stop rewarding
bad behavior. In the back. Jackie Redman spoke with Gunther,
who says that Cody forced himself into Gunther's business and
so he will beat some rationality into him first tomorrow night.
He doesn't care really at all about Sammy Zay and
give a shit about him. Meanwhile, Candae Larray wheels her
husband over, who is still planking on a crate, and
she's telling Gunther, you know you gotta go in there,
and you know, the two of you, you and Sammy,
you gotta win this match so that you can go
on to SummerSlam and make it a fatal four way
and challenge for the championship. She and Johnny they need
Sammy to win. Gunther has no idea what to make
of this. As this is going on in the background,
I spy Blake Monroe in the shadows, lurking in the background,
watching on. So Gunther exits and as soon as he leaves,
Blake decides to go in for the kill, and she
ambushes Candace Larray from behind, and she beats the piss
out of her. Then she introduces herself to her. As
Blake was walking away, Johnny Gargano was still laying there
on the crate, and so she looked at him and said,
you need a haircut, and then she walked off. Johnny
no sold the entire thing. By the way, his wife
was laying on the ground, having just been viciously beaten
by this woman, and he just continued to lay there.
We still have yet to see you. Now I've said
my piece about the Johnny Gargano stuff. One of these
weeks he will rise from the dead. It'll get a
big pop, he'll wrestle the match and that'll be the
end of it. But as far as Blake Monroe is concerned,
I don't know how many weeks it's been I've lost
count already from the first vignette that aired. It's been
at least six weeks, minimum six weeks, and they aired
those vignettes. She showed up that one week on SmackDown
and I think to run into Chelsea Green for like
fifteen seconds in the back. Then the vignettes resumed. Then
she attacked Julia, Then she attacked Julia and Keana James stage.
Now she attacks uh Candice Larray. So she's been going
around just like randomly beating up all the women on
the roster. She has yet to wrestle an actual match.
She's she's very good in terms of ambushing people, but
in terms of wrestling, we still have no idea. It's unbelievable.
And now they have women that they need to slid
into this ladder batch, and realistically she should be one
of them, but like what sense would that even make
at this point. I hope she gets in. I hope
so because I'm not sure. I'm not sure who else
they're going to put in there. Then we had Fhraxium,
and we had the war Raiders, the reigning TRIPAA Tag
team champions, Oh God Side coming in high six out
of fifteen on that bonus goal fucke Gargano making the
easiest money that he'll ever make planking. I wish I
could make six figures just planking anywhere. It's true, it's true.
The base salary for a WWE star supposedly these days
is about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Stands to
reason he's probably making more than that. You know, I'm not.
I'm sure he's not making a million, but you had
to estimate what he's making for planking, I probably would
do the same thing. It's just a shame because we
know Johnny Gargano can actually wrestle, and instead he's just
literally laying around every week. But hey, money is money,
I guess right now, Phraxium, they got the jobber entrance
here so the war Raiders could get their full entrance.
And the only reason the war Raiders even got a match,
let alone their full entrance on this show is because
a they're the TRIAA Tag Team champions and be they
are preparing to defend their titles against Damian Priest at
Our Truth one of these weeks, unless they do it
as Summer Slim, which I suppose is possible. But Priest
even said a few weeks ago, like, if we do this,
we're doing this on Smackdowns. So this is a television
match all the way. The only reason I say maybe
Summer Slim is because it's title for title, and you know,
maybe they think that's kind of a big deal, even
though I mean it's really not. But because of that,
they got a full entrance and they actually got time
to go in there and remind people that they can
actually wrestle, and they're actually a pretty damn good tag team,
wouldn't you know now when they initially came out, nobody cared.
Nobody cared. To their credit, and I mean Phraxium, they
always go out there when you give them a chance,
they always go out there and kill it, even in
singles matches. But to their credit, all four of these men,
by the time that this match was over, they had
people channing this is awesome. Were people were going nuts for.
People were really super in to this match, and deservedly
so because it turned out to be a pretty damn
good match. Ivar stacked Fraser and Axium on top of
one another. Late in the match he was going up
top for a gigantic moon Salt. They thankfully moved out
of the way and there was nobody in the pool.
When he landed. Fraser connected on a springboard four fifty
though for an earfall Axiom he leapt through the air,
but he got caught by Ivarm promptly put down. So
Fraser went for this wild suicide dive and he sent
himself face first and headfirst right into the side slash
edge of the announced desk, and it made a great sound,
It made a great thud, and he totally no sold
it because he wasn't supposed to hit the table, so
he just pretended like it didn't even happen. Okay, kind
of a waste, But here comes Axiom and he hits
a suicide dive, and at least this time he didn't
freaking kill himself on the landing. Axiom wound up on
the opera before Fraser joined in. They hit a double
super plex I Forget on which Viking Fraser followed with
a Phoenix splash. Eric though made the safe to break
the count, but in the end they put down Fraser
and then Axiom got put down with their Ragnarok double
Chope slam to win it. Not only did they wrestle
a match, they won. Boy, You see that right there
tells you they got a big match coming up. It
may be the only time they win a match on SmackDown.
But this was the best thing on the show up
to this point. And now that I look back at it,
and I thought the main event was solid, this right
here was the best thing on the entire show. And again,
it was cold when they first came out, but they
were able to win the crowd over because sometimes you
just send two guys out there, or two women or
two tag teams. You give them some time. Yes, it's
not a three hour show anymore, but so the hell,
what give them ten, twelve, fourteen minutes? Let them go
out there and just have a great wrestling match. Mixed
in with all the other gaga on the show and
the promos and you know, the Danausen skits and everything else,
you got to give people some really good wrestling as well.
And it feels like we don't get enough of that
on these shows. Sometimes we get too much of it
on certain wrestling shows, and there's not enough in between.
We don't get enough of it on this show. I
don't want to sit here and say, well, you know,
I'm grading on a curve because you know, compared to
other matches we may have seen on television over the
past month, this couldn't hold a candle to that. True.
We had two excellent World Championship matches on television only
within the last couple of weeks, but as compared to
everything else on this show, this pretty much blew everything
else away in ring and it was a lot of fun,
but we don't get enough of it. I'd like to
see more stuff like this, even when they send Ray
Phoenix out there, you know, every now and then to
have a triple a cruiserweight titled against somebody and he
usually tears it up. You know, you got to have
more of that, I think on these shows as well,
because there's so much bad stuff on these SmackDown shows,
you you need some actual great wrestling as a palette cleanser,
because if you don't, if you don't even have that,
what are you left with on these Do you see
some of these shows, how awful some of these shows are.
If you didn't have a couple of really good wrestling matches,
what would you be left with? What would you be
left with? Dan Housen in his laboratory and a bunch
of fanatics, Fest replays, and a couple of replays of
what happened on the Better Show on Monday Night. That's
what you would be left with, and apparently one hundred
and eighty three minutes of commercials according to Netflix. Cody
Roose was in the back doing final prep for the
main event when Cmpunk showed up and he just asked him,
goes Gunther the night before Saturday night's main event? And
Cody said, I got my head kicked into a car door.
And Punk said, look, I get it, but is this
a good idea? And Cody says, oh no, no, it's
not a good idea. And Punk said, look, I'm going
to go out there to make sure that Gunther doesn't
hurt you personally. And Cody said, sure, you can watch
from that monitor right over there. I'm going to go
out there and take care of the whole, you know,
Gunther stuff, and I'll see you tomorrow. And Punk said
that right, I'll see you out there, and so this
went back and forth as Cody left. Speaking of Dan Housen,
we had Dan Housen in his laboratory, his traveling laboratory,
and Jackie Redman was in there, to interview him, and
dan Housen said that because she brought up the fact
that you know you're going into this match and you
know that JD mcdonoughy is going to have dominic mysterio
in his corner. You told Matt Cardona you didn't need
his help. Are you sure that's smart? Do you have
someone basically to watch your back? And dan Housen said, yeah,
he has a secret weapon for the match at Saturday
night's main event, and he went and he brought in
a small cage with a stuffed animal inside. It was
a stuffed cat. I don't mean an actual cat that
at least I hope not that they that they stuffed,
but it was a stuffed cat animal. And Jackie was
very confused by this, and he pointed out that the
cat would be a good weapon and you would be
cursed if you crossed its path, which is true. If
you will walk past a black cat, right, that's that's
supposedly bad luck, or if a black cat goes running
past you, it's was that seven years of bad luck
or something like that, or is that breaking a mirror?
I know it's supposed to be bad luck, but hey,
so like I'm watching this, and I'm sure everybody's like,
what the hell cat? And I'm like, hmm, cat, you
say I know a cat. I know a cat who
actually plays for the world Champion of New York Knicks
won Karl Anthony Towns. So I think this was kind
of a little wink in a nod about which New
York nick is going to be showing up in support
of Dan Housen since Jalen Brunson is going to be
a little bit busy with Roman reigns and whatever acknowledgment
ceremony they're going to be having tomorrow. I think we
just found out who's going to be in Dan Housen's corner.
Cat is going to be there. I'm sure there'll be
other members of the team present as well, but anyway, no,
we'll not. It will not be Stacey Carter. It will
not be It will not be the cat Ah, Karl
Anthony Towns. Yes, watching SmackDown gives you seven years of
bad luck. It feels that way, doesn't it. I feel
I do sometimes feel like I'm being punished. Bash Bash says, Oh,
you know, I didn't think about that. Bash says, it
it could be. It could be the bear Cat. It
could be, it could be, it could be Bear Cat,
Keith Lee. No, Ernest Miller, no, no, no, nobody would
even know who he is? Are you kidding me? You
think this audience would even know who the fuck he is?
Did you see the people that go to these shows now?
They have no idea who Ernest Miller is. I'm surprised
that they would even know what the initials w CW.
You mean they probably they probably figured w CW was
the thing every Wednesday on fucking X. They have no
idea what it actually stands for. The main event. Let's
talk about this main event. Oh, as soon as I
say main events, he shows up. Of course, Fuck of
course he does. As soon as I say main event.
He can't help himself. Jericho Mushow. Actually, to his credit, Jericho,
since he's come back, has not been in any real
main events. He's He's right where he should be. He's
in the mid card working with other people. So I
can't really complain about that. But we had in the
main event, Cody Roads against Gunther, who entered first, but
Cody jumped him on the stage and the fight was on.
Cody took a hard spill though out to the floor
ahead of a commercial break, and Gunther had control of
things when they came back. Cody bounced back though with
a Cody cutter and then a disaster kick and one
more Cody cutter. Crossroads got blocked and Gunther he kicked
the back of Cody's leg, so he was targeting the leg.
He dragged him over towards the corner. He rammed his
leg up against the ring post and then we heard
and out he comes. We hear the music. Here comes
the WWE champion CM Punk and Gunther is mocking him.
And I'm not even sure if this may have aired
during the commercial break, but he's mocking Well, let me
know in the chat off this air during the show
or if this was something I saw during the commercial.
But Punk comes out and Gunther is mocking him. He
puts Cody on his shoulders, He's going to give him
a a GTS, but Cody got out of it and
took him down and they I think at this point
they cut to a brake. There's no way this happened
during the break, and then they cut immediately to another break.
Although this is WWE, so honestly, at this point nothing
would shock me. Yes, he kicked his leg out of
his leg, so now Gunther was punishing the bad leg
with a single leg crab. Cody got out of it.
He started targeting Gunther's leg with kicks, dragon screw and
then a figure four leg lucked by Cody is applied.
When all of a sudden, Sammy Zain we haven't seen
him since he lost the WWE Championship, but he appeared
at ringside again wearing a shirt Justice for Sammy. He
attacks the mpunk Zayan. You know. Obviously, Cody sees Zaane
outside of the ring, so Cody hits a suicide dive.
The two of them are fighting, Cody got sent into
the ring post and the referee call for the disqualification. Yes,
the second time here on this show. At least here
we got a legitimately solid match out of it. Not
that I'm complaining that Jade Cargill and Naya Jackson didn't
get ten minutes of ringtime on this show, but still
that entire segment was fucking atrocious. Here we had the
predictable disqualification, and the lesson here that I learned in
watching this this was very very apparent here is that
Gunther still cannot beat Cody Rhoades. He can't do it.
He can't do it. He lost to Cody at Crown
Jewel a couple of years ago. He lost to Cody
in Italy. He lost to Cody on SmackDown. Now they
had another match. Lost again. Here this man cannot He
could beat John Cena, he could beat aj Styles, he
could beat Goldberg, he could beat all these men at
the very end of their careers. But if you're in
the prime of your career, Gunther can't beat you. He
can't do it. So at this point they were getting ready.
Sammy and Gunther were to put Cody through the announced desk.
Sammy cleared the table off, Gunther was going to power
bomb him. Punk came jumping off the table. Big brawl
with all four men spills into the ring, and here
come referees and agents to unsuccessfully try to keep them apart,
and it's chaos as the show goes off the air.
I thought it was a nice little bit of chaos
there at the end all they really needed to do. Honestly,
here it's the last SmackDown, the last show here before
Saturday night's main event, and this was fine. This was
exactly what they needed to do. I like the addition
of the stipulation. I do think that it adds some
intrigue that wasn't there before. Now as far as well,
maybe maybe, right, maybe there's a chance I could see
all four of these men being involved in the Fatal
four way. If they weren't so heavily teasing a match
between Gunther and Nick all this, I would say, yeah,
you know what, maybe maybe they will do a Fatal
four way. But it's very apparent that we're getting a
match between gun Through and Nick all This, and so
that's what Gunther is going to be doing at Summerslim.
So they're absolutely one hundred percent now winning this match tomorrow,
and it is one hundred percent going to be Nick
alldis finally for the first time wrestling in WWE. I'm
very curious just to see how they set it up.
You know, do we see all this tomorrow and I
do they hold off until SmackDown next week? Obviously Summer
Slam is right around the corner, So whatever they're gonna do,
they're gonna have to do it within the next week
or so. And that's really the only question at this point.
What Sammy's Ain does at Summer Slam is anybody's guest.
The only thing, honestly that would even make sense at
this point would be Sammy's Ain against Johnny Gargano. I'm
not sure how they get to that, the idea of
that even being a Summer Slam match, like in a
different multiverse, the idea of doing a great wrestling match
at a Summer Slam between Johnny Gargano right, Johnny wrestling
from NXT Black and Gold against Sammy's Ain, I could
absolutely see it, and they would go out there and
it would be fantastic. This is a very different Johnny Gargano,
who has literally been laying there for months. The idea
that he would go from that to being in a
Summer Slam match, which is quite the leap. I can't
think of anything else Sammy's a would be doing if
if not that, I have no idea. He may he
may not even be on the card. I don't know.
I don't know. The war Raiders fraxy of match. As
I said earlier, in my opinion, best not just match,
best thing on the entire show outside of that, and
maybe this ending. This was not a good show, not
a good smack Down, a very skippable show with two
very forgettable qualifiers for the women's ladder match. I greatly
dislike this interim title nonsense. I don't like it when
Tony Kahan does it. I don't like it here either.
I just don't think any of it is necessary. And
that's how I feel Saturday Night's main event tomorrow, I
will be live fingers crossed. I will be live on
YouTube after the show is over for the full review.
This is the card as it stands. Roman Reigns will
be on the show. He will be doing something with
Jalen Brunson. We don't know what, but they will be
together on the show. Dan Housen and JD McDonough no disqualification.
We know Dominic Mysterio is going to be in JD
McDonough's corner, and it sounds like Carl Anthony Towns of
the New York Knicks may be making a cameo appearance
to aid Dan Housen in what will I mean? As
apparent as the outcome is in the main event, this
is obviously the most predictable match on the show. I
think if JD McDonough beats Dan Housen tomorrow, he may
not make it Adam Madison, Square Garden in one Piece,
Dan Housen. They're going to be treating him like a
god in New York City tomorrow and so obviously he's
going to win them. Man, you don't need me to
tell you that. We also have the women's tag team
titles on the line, Paige and Bribella defending against Fallon
Henley and Landy Reid. We will have new women's tag
team champions. We also have Bailey and Lyrah Valkeria going
one on one, and this should be a win for Lyra.
Would not be surprised if maybe this is where they
debut Tatum Pasley and if she were to show up
to assist Lyra and the main event Cody Rosen, CM
Punk taken on Gunther and Sammy Zain, and this will
be a win for Cody and Punk because ain't neither
one of them going to be losing between now and SummerSlam,
and they're not turning this into a fatal four way.
Do we see some sort of miscommunication? Do we see
some sort of tension between them? The answer is yes, absolutely,
one hundred percent. We will see something of that nature
happen either during the match after the match with Cody
and Punk. Tempers will flare, things will heat up, and
we have two weeks left I think it is until
summer slim and things will hopefully really begin to build
to where we can get that one week un smacked.
Maybe it's next Friday, but that one episode is SmackDown
with that one truly money promo between CM, Punk and
Cody Roads we haven't gone to yet. It's been very
buddy buddy the way they set it up last week. Right, No,
you know Punk saying maybe subconsciously, you know this is
a match that we've both been avoiding because we're both friends,
and I don't want to do anything to jeopardize that.
I'm so happy your friends will cut the bullshit and
let's get down to brass tacks here. Clearly, you guys
have a lot on your mind. I'm sure to share
about one another and the journeys that both of you
have taken to get to where you are today. So
why don't you talk about that. Let's hear it, let's
have it out right. We still have to get that,
that's what's really gonna I mean, look, people are gonna
want to see the match regardless, but I mean in
terms of like selling that main event. We still have
to get that. Maybe they just do a contract signing
like they did with Roman and Seth this week, which
is so just trite and played out at this point.
But as long as we get that verbal exchange, that's
really what I'm waiting on there, because I am looking
forward to the match. Even though they may run Roman
in Seth as the main event on Night two, they
have more history together. It's Roman, right, I mean, Roman
got the Night two main event, but he got the
Night two main event also because you know, him and
Punk was the bigger match than Cody and Randy, which
they sabotaged. TKO sabotaged. They didn't see it that way,
but that's basically what happened. So it made sense for
Roman and Punk to get most of the spotlight and
the attention this year WrestleMania. Roman and Seth will probably
get it this year, but the main event that I'm
looking forward to is Cody and Punk. So let's take
a look at your super chats. We got a bunch
of them to go through here, and we also have
to check where we are on the goal, which was
four fifty. We were at four twenty eight, so we're
still twenty or so short off the goal. We gotta
get that up. We're very close. Yeah, it's a good point.
We actually have two main events coming up for the
two major shows in August in WWE and a w
World title, main events that are based on friendship. We
have two friends. I respect you, I love you, Brev.
You are my inspiration, Brev. And then here we have
two men who boy, you know, maybe we've been avoiding
this because we're friends. It's a little much. We need
some heat. We need some heat between these men death sithe.
Let's start with you. Bred. Back at the twenty twenty
two Royal Rumble, Seth came out to the Shield theme
music and dressed up in the Shield attire to play
mind games with Roman. What if Roman returns the favor
by doing the same at summerslim M wouldn't really fit
the whole tribal chief thing if he came out any
other way but with the ulafalla around his neck and
the way that he usually does. I mean, I'm not
saying he can't come out in the tactical vest, but
it's not something I'm expecting. GMB, will you dress as
the Painmaker for a stream. No, I think the Painmaker
looks completely ridiculous. Hey Nico, what's going on? Eco's got
a bunch of super chats here? Why WWEE couldn't have
re evacate the title? Can't stand the whole Interim Champion
seems ridiculous because it is ridiculous. Doesn't seem ridiculous, It
is ridiculous, says I gonna see The Odyssey tomorrow afternoon.
How was it? That was great? I have some more
thoughts on Sunday. You'll enjoy it very loud, as certain
Nolan movies are known to be very very loud in
certain scenes. He says. I saw Evil Dead Burn, very
violent in gory, and there's a mid credit scene in
a post credit scene for anyone who is going to
watch it interesting. I saw Toy Story five really good,
enjoyed it. Theater was packed and there were two scenes
that made me shed a tear. That was also a
great movie. Because I don't know how you felt about
the promo between Osprey and Omega, but Will. When Will
said they're gonna be like Goku and Vegeta, I put
my head down and cringed. Yeah, I'll include my thoughts
in my Dynamite review on Wednesday. On Sunday, it'll be
on the sound off who do you got for the
latter match at SummerSlam. We don't know all the women
in the match yet, so it's kind of impossible for
me to make a prediction as to who it's going
to be until we know who's qualifying, just based on
who it looks like is going to be in the match.
I think we're looking at Charlotte or Jade. You know
Tiffany's in, but it's not going to be her. Think
you're looking at Charlotte or you're looking at Jade. It's
pretty much one of those two. The last thing we
need is Charlotte, or not Charlotte, but Riha and Jade.
When we just got it a couple of times we
had a WrestleMania, we got it in Italy. We don't
need it again. That leaves Charlotte Flair. Someone on IG
asked Bianca if she watches WWE since she's been out.
She says, no, I don't blame her for not watching
the pro well, I don't believe that. I believe that
she does watch Montes's stuff. The rest of the show.
The show she might not watch. I don't blame her.
Why would she watch it? The fucking show is awful
most of the time. Believe me, there are plenty of
weeks where if I didn't have to, I wouldn't watch
it either. Nico says, I don't see Joseph Stewart here, Briscilla.
Did you see that Warner Brothers pushed The Batman Part
two to February of twenty twenty eight. I did, I did.
I'm still skeptical that GTASA coming out this year. People
aren't gonna want to hear that, but I still think
it's going to get delayed again. Death Side says, I
guess Rhea didn't want to do the job to vacant
Live Laugh Love Lie. I like Fallon Henley, so does
Aaron Solo BROLLI. Based on WWE logic, why isn't there
an interim title holder for World Women's Championship since Live
has not defended it in over one hundred days? Yeah,
I said this the other night. I think it was
on TNT. We need to reinstate the thirty day rule.
I know they haven't abided by it in many, many years,
but we need to bring it back. We need to
bring back the thirty day rule. If you do not
defend your championship at least once every thirty days, you're
stripped of the title. This is just out of control,
absolutely addict. And that goes for all titles, tag team titles,
singles titles, all titles. So Tiffany and Jade qualify cyh. Yeah,
but she had to expect that that was coming. Handy
dandy notebook. We're quoting blues clues now. When is Blake
Monroe gonna have her debut match? I don't know. She
may just continue to beat people up in the back
for the rest of the year. It'll be less stressful
on her body. She may have come up with a
perfect way to not have to take bumps. Just beat
everybody up in the back, don't even get in the ring,
try chicken. I hate what WWE did with Obafemi's booking.
It's not logical. Sometimes I feel like Triple H keeps
trying too hard to defy define logic. Yeah, I mean,
I talked about it on Monday, the Obafemi explanation. They
tried the shoehorn one in there two weeks later and
it just made the situation worse. And there are there
are still people out there who after he said that
on Monday, were like, oh, this is great. I don't
know why people are complaining. This is the perfect explanation.
Those are the people that WWE is catering to. Logic
does not come into play with these people. Deaths I says,
I watched Evil Dead Burn it. Let me just say,
if this was the meanest entry in the Evil Dead franchise,
then I'm expecting Evil Dead Wrath to be on crack.
I'm talking NC seventeen territory. Yet I never got into
the Evil Dead movies. I probably should. It feels like
something is a fan of the genre that I should have,
you know, been all caught up with uncause his Solother's
VI of Cody doing field goal kicks at Fanatics Fest.
Hope he doesn't quit his day job. Yeah, I noticed
that in the Fanatics Fest stuff that they showed on
the show tonight. They conveniently left that out. They didn't
show that. Gee, I wonder why death Side says I'll
use two Cannibal Corpse albums as the perfect analogies. If
Evil Dead Burn was butchered at birth, then I'm expecting
Evil Dead Raft to be Tomb of the Mutilated. I mean,
I'll take your word for it. I'm completely lost, but okay,
I'm sure that will make sense to some people. Here,
Eco says another SmackDown another episode Broley halfway into watching
Obsession and holy shit, oh wait, that's all you get
to the second half. Still my favorite movie of the year.
Fucking great Chicago for MBK, Welcome back Solo, you fucking lot.
There is there he is yet again. Fuck that tree.
Fucked that tree. Indeed, now ten out of fifteen on
the bonus goal and we are at four hundred and
sixty three likes, which means we have unlocked one round
of be the Booker. There you go. Hey Chicago for MBK,
Thank you, brother Raheem Cody a five dollars super chat.
What in ring couple will leave a bigger impact in
wrestling history? Savage and Elizabeth for Maxine and Theory and
can you see the similarities. I do believe that you're
just trying to get under my skin and it's working.
Dried chicken without flavor with a five dollars super cent.
England fans, including the wrestlers, wanted to see the World
Cup trophy come home, but Leah Messi from Argentina said
that don't work for me. Brother, Yeah, I saw well.
I watched Dynamite the other night and I saw Alex
Windsor and Jamie Hayter brought that up. They're very upset
that England let them down in the World Cup. Nico
with the two bucks, Thank you, Nico. Wish Jace won
the match. Yes, you and me both. That should have
been JC Jane getting a spot in that ladder match.
She doesn't have to win the ladder match, but she
should have been in the ladder match. Ridiculous that she's not.
Heart of Debonair with a ten hey solo, your top
five favorite finishes today and your most iconic food nishers.
I have no idea what that means of all times.
I don't know the second half. I could tell you
the first half, the Sharpshooter. It's not really a finish today.
I mean, if we're talking all time, it would be
on my list. In terms of today. It's tough today
because finishers aren't finishers today. Finishers don't actually finish matches anymore.
I don't have very many current favorite finishers because they
don't mean what they used to mean. Unfortunately, and that's
across the board in wrestling. They're just not protected the
way they used to be. I'm trying to see if
I had like one favorite finishing maneuver. I mean, convoluted
as it is, because obviously, you know, he doesn't have
to do the flip lip's not really adding all that
much to it. But the buckshot, Larry, It is not
an easy move to do. Hangman manages to pull it off.
When I see other people attempt it and it doesn't
look quite as smooth, it makes me appreciate him doing
it even more. I mean, the buckshot would be up there, man. Yeah,
I don't know, brother, you know what, I'll go with
the destroyer. I appreciate the fact that Penta is actually
finishing matches with the destroyer now, even if other people
are abusing the move. The best answer I could give
you is the low blow. The low blow is the
most powerful finishing maneuver in all of wrestling. The low
blow to this day continues to end more matches probably
than any other single move, or at least lead to
the finish. So the nutshot would be my answer. True
Crime unleash Blake Monroe is in dark matches before SmackDown. Yes,
and Jordan Grace is in main event matches before SmackDown?
What are we doing here? What are we doing? Broley
just finished Obsession And what a great fucking movie. Indy
is a hell of an actor. Went from having a
crush on her to being scared of her. She's terrifying
in that movie. She is terrifying in that movie. EJ.
Slimp says a hot take. Even with full WCW and
ww F rosters, the Invasion would have still sucked. Most
invasion angles do, except CZW against ROH. What are your thoughts? No?
I mean, if the invasion angle was done proper, really,
with the adequate number of big names involved, it absolutely
could have been successful. The idea was to actually split
WCW off as its own brand long term. Would it
have worked. I don't know. I think you could have
done it long enough at least to get to a
true WrestleMania esque supercard. Even if you just did it
once and not every year, you could have built something
like that over a period of a year or two.
It absolutely could have. It could have worked. I mean,
the odds were against it, but it absolutely could have worked.
Venom Ktetsu taking a very extended birthday weekend, plan on
catching all the Solo Mooster content during this time. Here's
to your Internet staying alive in my power staying on.
We had an outage today and one last week. Well
that sucks, especially in the heat. Yeah, that's that's what
people thought happened to me the other night. They're like, oh, yeah,
power went out, all right, because the weather has been
kind of crazy. Nope. I kind of wish it was
the power that went out, because then the power comes
back on and everything goes back to normal. But instead
I had to deal with this bullshit this week and
it's still not working. But it's all good because I'm
hard wired in now. I got a wire across my
f I gotta make sure I don't trip over the wire,
but I got a wire, so we took care of that. Again.
It's the Bluetooth now that is completely vanished from my
system here and has rendered me unable to use my
PS five controller for any sort of sound of gamer
content that I had on the agenda. Until I can
get that resolved, I'm unable to I have all these
games I actually paid for in Steam, I haven't installed
them yet there, they're sitting there, they're paid for, and
now I can't even do anything with them. I'm like,
that's great, that's just great. That's just great. But anyway,
happy birthday, Venom Katatsu. I hope you have a birthday
that was much better than my week. All the fun.
I wish you all the fun, and hopefully I don't
know where you are, but hopefully you're not choking on
this wildfire smoke we are choking on here. It's weird,
Like I came out of the story yesterday and it's
just this like orange haze, Like what what is this? Yeah?
I mean technically, I guess I could try to wire
the controller, but I'm all tapped out on ports. Well,
we'll see. It's not ideal, though I have a fucking wire.
Got enough wires. Shouldn't have to do that, though, Dude,
that's the whole point. I had the capability to do
without a wire before. Why all of a sudden would
I have to use a wire? No one, I can't
seem to find an answer to this question. I can't
seem to find a solution to this problem, and this
is really annoying me. There's no reason for this. A
heart of Debonair says, Hey, solo after WWE unreal. Do
you think keeping many of Vince's creative team is why
WWE still feels repetitive? Should creative be led by former
wrestlers instead of TV writers? And does AW rely more
on wrestlers? I feel like there is more of an
ex wrestler influence maybe, but Tony Kahan is still the
one who ultimately makes all the ideas and writes all
the shows. There's not I mean, it's a collaboration based
on what he has said, but it still comes down
to him very much in the way that before it
came down to Vince, where it's like one truly one
man's vision. I think you definitely have some old hats
who still work for WWE, who you know should not
have as much influence on the creative process as they
have in the past. Then you should get some new
voices in the room. The thing you got to be
careful with is there are a lot of wrestlers who
have really terrible fucking ideas, and so just because you're
an ex wrestler does not mean that you are fit
to be on the creative team. So if you could
find former wrestlers that that's great. I think that's terrific,
but they have to have an aptitude for it. They
have to have, you know, a creative eye to do
that job, and a lot of these guys don't. Because
there have been stories about wrestlers that have come up
with ideas or pitched ideas, and or even on podcasts
have talked about ideas they've had for their own characters,
and I'm like, Eh, thank god that guy didn't get
that idea through. Do you really want that on the
creative team? Hopefully they have a good way of like
weeding those out. Death Size says when Sammy and Gunther lose,
it's Saturday night's main event. What if Sammy somehow becomes
the special guest referee between Punk and Cody, you can say,
I'm calling it down the middle, but whoever wins, I'm
next in line. I wouldn't mind him being the referee.
But then I think you may end up with a
situation where we don't get a winner. It could give
them a cop out reason to not give us a winner.
That would be my only fear, and what a lame
ending that would be. But yeah, you know what that
honestly that might be the role that makes the most
sense for him is to let him be the referee.
It's a retread of what we already saw because he
was already a referee, but it might be the only
role for him on the entire show anyway. Heart of
Debonair with a five is Macho Man underrated? Underrated feels
like he's never in the same conversation as Hogan, Austin
Flair Rock is either triple h or seth rawlins of
his era. I can't I get what you mean by that. Yeah,
he's never in the conversation when it comes to like
the Mount rushmore like business wise, most influential names in
wrestling history like a Hogan or an Austin Sena would
be a more modern example. He didn't have the kind
of effect on business that those guys did. Believe me,
he sold plenty of tickets in his day. Influential. You
can't say that Randy Savage is not influential. You still
have people to this day who love dressing up as
Macho Man. Might have been people who weren't even alive
when Savage was in his prime, So he's definitely had
an influen. Was a great wrestler. He had great matches,
you know, is often emulated, but he's just not. He's
kind of a level below just because he just wasn't
that type of like megastar in the way that some
of those guys were. Like if you were to say, okay,
if you're Vince McMahon at that time, late eighties, let's say,
and you can only pick one who's going to be
the guy that you're going to rely upon to be
your top star and sell tickets. Are you going with
Hogan or are you going with Savage? He's going with Hogan,
And most promoters probably would have gone with Hulk Hogan
because he was just the bigger star now he was
given that platform. If Savage was given that platform, would
he have gotten as big as Hogan? Maybe, but I'm
not convinced he would have. You know, he had orrisma
like Hogan did, but Hogan it was different. But Savage
is one of my I mean, Savage and Bratt those
are my guys, right. There can't go wrong with Randy Savage,
Ossie of Steel. Two things. Number One, the interim title
situation is stupid and unnecessary. Number Two, I hate how
much they've cooled off Fatal Influence after the run that
they had last year. Yeah, I don't like it either,
but they have a knack for doing that. They have
a knack for cooling off talent. Fatal Influence are not
the only ones they've done this with. They did it
with Bron, They've done it with Fatu, They've done it
with plenty of other people. Death Side. I feel your pain, Solo.
Last time my WiFi went down, I almost threw my
fucking box into a blender, into an incinerator and then
nuked it several times until this earth turns to ash.
That's kind of how I felt this week again when
I say Wi Fi, it's not the network, it's the
actual Wi Fi card. Something happened and it was replaced,
and then it happened again, which again is just very
very bizarre to me. And then to make it even worse,
I get it back. Oh yeah, yeah, we put the
new card on there and everything, and now the thing
it's it's overheating, like to where it's hot to the touch.
I'm trying to type stuff, it's hot to the touch.
And I run, you know, a diagnostic test, and it's
coming back and it's different temperature readings for different cores.
You know, you have your main CPU temperature reading and
then you have your GPU temperature reading. The CPU temperature reading,
and I posted somewhere and I got yelled at because
I posted it in fahrenheits fucked me. I know, got
to post it in Celsius. But in Fahrenheit, the CPU
was up to I believe, I want to say it
was one hundred and ninety four degrees fahrenheit and the
GPU was at one hundred and ninety nine degrees fahrenheit.
So what is that in the seventies celsius. That's not normal.
I'm like, what happened? I got my computer bag with
a brand new WiFi card. Now it's overheating. So I
went into the power management settings and you know, it's
max it's maxed at one hundred percent in terms of
like process management power, and I lowered it. I lowered
it to ninety nine. As soon as I lowered it
to ninety nine percent, the fans instantly got quiet. Cool.
I swear to god, it cool to thirty degrees. I'm like,
holy shit, but you got to watch because if you
do that even one percent, now you're sacrificing processing power.
But this thing is a beast. So it's been it's
been okay, even at ninety nine percent. It's amazing just
that one little change and how things came down by
so many degrees. I don't know what they did. If
it's been a mess, it's just been a mess, totally,
just totally stressed out this week, totally stressed out this week.
But we're trying, man, We're trying to soldier through it
and you know, keep doing all the shows. I'm way
behind now because I lost two days to this shit,
two days that I needed. I only first got done
watching The Dark Side of the Ring this morning. I
haven't even put anything together for I don't know what
I'm going to do with that, but I'm trying to
figure it out as we go, So we'll figure it out.
I don't know what happened, but we'll figure it out.
Venom Kotetsu, I know it's wrestling, but we are supposed
to buy that Johnny is being dragged through airport customs
or being loaded into a car to get from show
to show. Yeah, you're supposed to just sh supposed to
be quiet. Well, I mean it's the same thing with
Dan housen. Are we supposed to believe that he drags
his laboratory everywhere he goes. Once you're breaking ninety c,
you're in trouble, dude. I'm telling you, well, I don't
know if it was ninety c, although I guess if that,
what would the equivalent be of ninety CX? I flipped
over to fahrenheit and it was pretty much right around
two hundred degrees fahrenheit. I opened the core temps at
the core temp app and my guy, the the alerts
were pop it off, the alert the critical warnings were
pop it off for like core one, two, three, four
or five six. It's like a power plant, you know
where like we lost we lost this one, we lost
that one, and they're just going out one by one.
I'm like, what is going on here? This wasn't happening before.
What did they do? What did they touch when they
opened it up? It's not a desktop. It's not a desktop.
I actually had a thermal paste applied like a year
and a half ago. They were like, oh, okay, well
then we won't bother because it's probably not that so
Joseph Brooks. Let's say the Rocks contract in five doesn't
expire and the Rock does commit fully to Hollywood. Yet
I think he means doesn't commit. Do you think he
could have gotten Sting in WWE earlier? Probably if he
really wanted to work with him and he sent feelers
out to him. I think he probably could have lured
him over a lot sooner because he probably would have
wanted to. He probably would have made it like his
own personal pet project, you know, to want to work
with him. Then he might have been able to get
him in earlier. Senor Kavanaugh says, I skipped sixty four
percent of the show tonight, bro hashtag boring. Really, I
would have thought you would have skipped like sixty eight.
Joseph says. Obafemi is everything Ahmed Johnson could have been
if he could wrestle and actually speak English. Did Ahmed
do anything good in wrestling? Yes? He did. He left
uh Bucky freaking Dent. What's your favorite Howie Rose call?
Mine is when he called Stefan Metteo's game winning goal
against the Devils in the nineteen ninety four Eastern Conference Final.
I actually don't have a specific Howie Rose call. I
just I like how he rose, and I think he's
a great broadcaster, but I was never really listening to
his radio calls. I was always watching, you know, on TV.
So I don't think I have one specific call that
I could really point to. Good timing on the music.
When Solo mentioned Signor's super chat, that was just a coincidence.
I didn't even notice it until you just brought it up.
Send you your Kavanaugh, Aaron Solo, quick question, when does
Monks close tonight? As always, thanks for what you do
for the Solo Maniacs. Much love. Monks is open all
night long, Brother, all night long, Alexander. One day we
will get an episode of Raw or smack Down with
no matches, just angles and promos. Oh, it's it's coming.
It would be like a Vince McMahon wet dream or
switch to MacBook for a laptom. Yeah, you know what. Well,
here's the thing. There was a period of time where
I would travel more with the laptop. Now, I mean
obviously use it as a desktop, but I still have
this machine because certainly at the time I got it,
I was like, I want it as specked out as possible,
because you know, running obs and doing some video editing stuff.
I wanted to make sure, it had all of the
power that it needed. But I went with the gaming laptop,
even though I rarely did gaming, because the gaming laptops
had good specs. So even even now after you know,
all these years, it's still specs are really good, you know,
and still got a lot of storage, you know, on
the hard drive and everything. It's just to junk it
over such a stupid random thing just doesn't make sense
to me. You know. If I had more space to
deal with, believe me, there would be a very different
desktop set up here. But I've given thoughts to like
I've been, I've been a Windows guy. It's kind of
weird because like with the uh, the phone and the
tablet and the watch, it's all Apple stuff. But I've
never had a Mac. Never had a Mac or a MacBook.
I've never had mac os or anything like that. I
don't know if it would be too steep of a
learning curve, you know, there's certain things I need to
be able to use, and and you know, do I
don't know. I've thought about it, you know, I've thought
about it. Just fuck Windows. Maybe I'll just go Mac.
You know, they've got these these Mac desktops. Max Studio
whatever it is. I don't know. I don't know. I'm
certainly open to uh too, feedback for those who have
used it or have it, and uh and what you
guys think. I wonder if I wonder if a lot
of those games that I have purchased and saved in
the steam would even work on a MAC. I know
certain ones wouldn't. Some would, but some of them wouldn't.
Alexander says, uh, oh, Alexander, I read your was rock Hawk.
That was the next one. This Gargano laray stuff reminds
me of Johnny two by four from the ed Ed
and Eddie cartoon. Johnny two by four, don't do mac.
If something breaks, the whole thing is dead. Geez. For
the prices they charge, it shouldn't be. Price as they
charge are insane, insane. EJ. Slim says, wouldn't surprise me
if mis took the pay cut that New Day and
Seamus refuse. He's too willing to be the company guy
and do pr I don't respect that. Yeah, I wouldn't
be surprised if he was one of those who was
offered and he took it. And look, I don't fault
him for it because I'm sure, whatever, Let's just say
hypothetically he did if he even if he was making
forty or fifty percent less, he's probably still making really
good money, you know what I mean. And he's always
been willing to go out and do whatever they want
him to do. He's a very valuable asset for them.
Even if he's never on TV these days or rarely
on TV. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not going
to fault him for it. Jeremy Rose TKO making their
presence felt with the interim title. Yeah, it's very annoying.
I have a Mac for work. It's great. I would
never have it for my main computer. But anyone's saying
Mac isn't great, Well, that's the thing. It would be
my main computer, so it would most definitely it would
be my It would be my everything. Really, it would
be my primary workstation for everything obs streaming, video editing,
some light graphics work, word processing, some light gaming. B
Man the Champ. I'm glad they gave the tag match
some stakes instead of have a tag team match, just
because now I'm actually intrigued. I thought it was a
good idea to put that stipulation in there, so I
mean that I liked. Bobby means my birthday is Sunday,
so if you all would wish me a happy birthday,
Happy Birthday Bobby means everybody in the chat wish Bobby
a happy birthday and throw up those cake emojis. EJ.
Slimp says, how old were you during the OJ chase
slash trial? Do you remember it? Ten years since the
ESPN doc and FX series rewatch both of them this week.
The documentary is better. I will just say that, yes,
I do remember it. I'm pretty sure that the chase
happened during one of the NBA Finals games between the
Knicks and the Rockets, and I remember watching that live
and they had a split screen so that I remember.
Jeremy Rose says, since we all know Ria is winning
back the title, oh, they need to pick the Sammy
z Ain version in the women's division and have her
win the title to drop it to Ria the first SmackDown.
I mean raw that she's healthy. Well, I mean, on
that note, who would you say would be the Sammy
z Ain of the women's division on SmackDown? And would
that be considered a compliment or an insult? I'm not
sure who would be the Sami Zain of the women's division.
Is there a samise Ain of the women's division? Who
would that person be? Retro Kh Since you love horror,
did you ever see pontypool. It's a mind fuck where
the literal English language is the killer, so unlike social media,
where the literal English language is killed on an everyday basis.
I've not seen pontypool. I've not heard of pontypool. I
like saying that word, though, because it sounds kind of funny. Pontypool.
I don't know what it means. I haven't seen it.
Be man the chant. Traditional match idea Traditional Survivor Series
Gauntlet elimination match. Two guys start team members on outside
of the ring like lumberjack, no tags allowed. Once someone
has eliminated, their teammate takes their place. Interesting and you
would have to decide which teammate do They decide by
coin flip, rock, paper scissors. I don't hate it. It's
kind of an interesting spin on an old idea. Omber
twelve out of fifteen on the bonus goal, we're close.
We're not there, but we're close. Nick Grosso of the
nineteen ninety nine I think Fallon Henley has the potential
to be the breakout star from Fatal Influence. Also, if
you haven't seen her interview with Cody, check it out.
I like her even more hearing about raising her nieces
after her sister passed away. I saw part of the interview.
I didn't see the entire thing. I mean, obviously the
story that Cody shared, which was very shitty of him
to do about Aaron Solo, got a lot of play,
but from what I saw from the rest of it,
it was very good. I if you remember on the
sound off in the last few years when I was
still paying more attention to NXT, I was putting over
Fallon Henley and saying I thought she could be a
breakout star, and I thought that if they were gonna
put the championship on anybody. That's why I was shocked
when they had Stephanie Vicaire lose to j C. Jane.
You know, in that night, I remember we were doing TNT,
and it's obviously we do TNT on Tuesday nights. I
wasn't watching NXT that night, and there's people in the
chat that are mentioning, you know what happened on the show,
and I'm like j C. Jane beat Stephanie Vicaire and
is the new champion. I was like, I was blown
away by this. If anything, I would have thought it
would be Fallen Henley who would be in that spot,
and JC, to her credit, has really grown into that role. Fallon, though,
still has the potential I think to be a women's champion.
Lady Reid, I haven't seen as much of her. From
what I've seen of her, she's fine. I just haven't
seen enough of her to form an opinion on whether
or not she has that same potential. But I definitely
think Fallon does. Bucky Freaking Den, Jets and Mets fans
will one day have a great year, just like in
nineteen sixty nine. You gotta believe the Mets and Jets
and all the rest. So what's gonna happen? First, the
Mets and Jets are gonna win a championship in the
same year, or La Knight is going to win any
world championship. I think there actually might be a chance
that the Jets and the Mets could win a championship
in the same year before La Knight does. Jeremy says,
how's wwe gonna spin? The half filled Madison Square Garden tomorrow.
By calling it sold out, they can just lie and
call it whatever they want. Look, I mean it's weird,
like at the ticket prices that they charge. They have
between nine and ten thousand tickets sold from Madison Square
Guard so they're gonna make money on the show. But again,
like they've been to the garden and have sold it
out in recent years at fourteen eighteen thousand, and it's
a far cry from that. Yeah, everything is relative. It's
like I think I think it was Meltzer who mentioned
this the other day because he's a numbers guy and
he's always putting out, you know, the attendance averages and
all this stuff, and it might have been in the
Observer this week, and you know, he mentioned that when
typically in the past, like years ago, WWE would be
averaging somewhere in the range of six or seven thousand
per year, would be like the average attendance, and the
average attendance this year is somewhere in like the ten
thousand range. So they're way above where they traditionally have
been in terms of attendance, and they charge a lot more.
But in the last few years they were averaging thirteen,
fourteen thousand. So now they're down to ten, which is
still a great number, but it's down from where they were.
So when we say that they're past the peak, like
you reach the peak of the mountain, you reach the summit,
you begin the descent, right like Darby and Mount Everest,
And so we're off the peak here for WWE. But
the numbers are still are still very good. They're just
not as good as they used to be. And so
the question is why why are the numbers not as
good as they used to be. And there's a lot
of reasons for that. And you and I see it
every week when we watch these television shows. They're just
not that good. They're just not that good. They're not
that interesting, and they've dropped the ball on certain people
who I think they should have been pushing harder or sooner.
You know, they've got it right for the most part
so far with Obafemi, but there's a lot of other
names on the roster who should be in a better
position than they're in right now. And there's a lot
of times where you watch the show and it just
feels like same old, same old. People get tired of it. Yeah,
you feed them the same stuff over and over again.
Eventually they just get tired of tasting the same thing.
They want to try something different. Venom Cantetsu says, The
Dark Knight is eighteen years old. My back hurts, man,
you know what that means. I believe that also this year,
Cloverfield is eighteen years old. I know for a fact
that it's eighteen years old because I remember the movie
poster and it was one eighteen eighteen, No. One, eighteen
eighteen one, eighteen oh eight, I believe was the release day.
It was two thousand and eight. Man, that's crazy. That
whole viral marketing campaign was crazy. But yeah, the Dark Knight.
I saw The Dark Knight more than once. But the
first time I saw The Dark Knight in theaters was
with a couple of buddies and there was a place out.
It was on the Long Island Cradle of Aviation. Cradle
of Aviation is an aviation museum. It's actually right behind
where the Nasau Coliseum is, and at the time they
had their own Imax screen. I don't know if they do.
I don't think they do anymore, but at the time
they had an Imax screen in there and they were
showing The Dark Knight, and so we were gonna go
there to see it, and I'll never forget it. I've
not had a movie experience like this since we went
in there. This it wasn't just in front of you.
Talk about like an immersive experience. It wasn't just the
screen in front of you. It was almost like it
was above us, like spheric almose where it came like
it came up, not like directly above us where I'm
like literally looking up, but it was. It was the
weirdest thing, but it felt like you were there. And
I don't know if like the real genuine Imax these days,
or that's what it is. Maybe that's what it is.
Maybe that was like a genuine IMAX screen, and I
haven't been to one since. I've been to the shitty
Limax screens like I was when I saw The Odyssey yesterday.
I mean, it looked good, but it's not real Imax.
It was incredible, especially the opening scene of The Dark
Knight where they have the zip line. I mean, dude,
you're it just it feels like you're in the movie.
And so to see The Dark Knight that way was
just fucking unbelievable. And it's Nolan's so like a lot
of this shit is filmed for IMAX. I'll never forget
that that was I wish I could see more movies
like that. I think there's only one thing or in
New York City that even has real imax. I think
it's the AMC and Lincoln Square. EJ says two underrated
horror movies, ghost Watch and Lake Mungo. I think you'd
love Lake Mungo, especially if you love obsession. It's Australian
and disturbing. There are a lot of things about Australia
that are disturbing. And I don't mean that in the
mean way. I just like oftentimes will come across like
videos on like ig and stuff of these creatures and
spiders and stuff, like all of these things, and like
all I need to do is look at it, and
I'm like, I bet you it's Australia, and like nine
times out of ten that's exactly what it. So Like,
as much as I would love to visit one day,
I'm like terrified. The Kowala bears I could deal with.
They look cute. The bugs not so much. The bugs
are just that's that's a red line for me. I
may have to check that out. I thought you were
going to tell me Lake Mungo is like the Lake Placid.
It's another movie I enjoyed. Yeah, the closest seventy milimeter
Imax theater to us in New York City is Lincoln Square,
That's what I said, AMC Lincoln Square. I think that's
literally the only one they said for this movie. That
The Odyssey, which was shot entirely in Imax seventy milimeter.
There are literally twenty five theaters in the entire country
that show it in true seventy milimeter, the whole country,
twenty five theaters, only one in all of New York City.
And I would imagine that even if I would have
wanted to travel into Manhattan to go see this thing,
which I would not have wanted to, but if I did,
I'm sure it's probably all booked up. It's probably we
all sold out. So I was like, yeah, you know what,
we'll see, We'll see it in a Limax. It was fine.
I mean as far as again, I'm sure it wasn't
exactly as it was intended to be watched, but I
didn't see anybody complaining I'd have to drive to Indianapolis
to get to a seventy milimeter IMAX bomb Blast says,
I spent a semester there. I had a good time
in Australia. That's good. I don't know about the Vegamite.
I don't know if I would enjoy that. I feel
like that might be a no no. Anyway, we are
at five hundred and twenty four likes. I believe the
wheel with the wheel save four fifty. Yeah, the wheel
said four fifty. All right, well, we got the one
round coming up that we unlocked, so let's get to it.
It's time to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it
is now time to be the booker. Yes, it is.
That is true. Noah the mark. It is time to
be the booker. DJ says, there's one ten minutes from
me in Illinois. Well then, what are you waiting for?
You should go see it. It's quite the spectacle, all right.
We got a tag team match on tap. We have
Matt Hardy and we have MVP, the former SmackDown Tag
Team champions kicking things off here. Had a good storyline
going with them there for a while on SmackDown. As
I recall, uh oh, Randy Orton forces Adam Pierce to
add a stipulation tier. Is that the WWE Championship that
I see over Randy orton shoulder? How long has Adam
Piers been in this in this job? Oh my goodness.
So we have to add a stipulation for the match.
All right, Matt Hardy and MVP are going to be
in a stipulation. We have a stipulation tag team match
tomorrow at Saturday Night's Made event. This one is going
to be a tag team hair match. I guess the
losing team gets shaved bald. I guess that's how it works.
All right, Oh my goodness, Hat of Discipline is coming
in with a pair of ten dollars superchats. Hat of Discipline. Well,
we're going to need that hat because we're going to
have a bald tag team here in a second. So
he dropped two ten dollars superchess. That's two hats. That's
perfect one for each bald head. Matt Hardy an MVP
against the Rock and mankind, the rock and Sock connection.
Are they going bald? Now? They're not going bald, Matt
Hardy and MVP, you're going bald? All right, Women's be
the Booker, we have Bailey enjoy that site, because I
don't think that's the site we're going to see again.
I'm not sure she's going to be in the company
come the end of this year. Former women's champion Bailey
will be wrestling tomorrow night in Madison Square Garden against
Lyra Valkyria. Perhaps they could have a warm up match here, Oh,
Bailey against Naomi. You know, I would have expected Naomi
to be back by now. I hope we hope we
get her back soon. She was just starting to hit
her stride too as a heel and then she had
to go away. That would be a great pickup in
the women's division if they can get her back soon
as a heel. Just pick up right where she left off,
same gimmick. What was her catchphrase again, you've been forewarned?
God was what was that? I forgot what it was?
I forgot her slogan, her big catchphrase, beware of dog.
I can't remember what it was. I can't remember now. Oh,
we hit the bonus goal. Look at that. Look at
that hat of discipline and Brandon Proctor got us over
the finish line. Look at that. Fifteen out of fifteen
bonus b to be is coming up. Proceed with caution?
There ya guy, It was on the tip of my tongue.
I couldn't remember. I thought, why did I say beware,
Beware of dog? It's beware of dog dawg. And then
her and Jimmy could be an on screen pairing. That's right,
Jimmy did not proceed with caution. That's why Naomi just
lost a year of her career. All right, men's be
the booker. We have the former WWE champion Drew McIntyre.
They basically just gave Gunther his story with Nick All
this Drew McIntyre, Oh my god, against Hero Tanahashi. Wow,
that's a great main event. That's a great match. Drew
McIntyre against the Ace when he still had knees. Yiroshi
tana Hashi. Who would have won that one? I'm going
with the Ace. I'm going with the Ace. And now
we have the bonus round. Clean sweep one good clean
sweep deserves another. That's a hell of a car and
I just put together for you there that may be
the only one I put together for you. Tonight we
have a Firefly Funhouse tag team match. Well, this is
going to be a trip Firefly funhouse tag team attraction
with well, look who it is, the mft's reborn. It
is the Gorillas of Destiny Geo d Tama Tonga and
the Great, the One and Only Tonga lois the number one.
Almost Sapient knows this is his favorite tag team right here,
Bullet Club. But it's a Firefly funhouse match. I wonder
if they'll go through all of Togalowa's past gimmicks in
this match. They're gonna be taken on Rob Van Dam
and sab Boo. Sab Boo I thought he was holding
the intercontinental title there for a second. We're still on
a roll. We're still on a roll. We have a
women's match, a women's dog collar Why do we keep
doing this? We keep having these women's dog collar matches.
I think be the booker has a certain kink. I'm
starting to think it keeps putting the dog collars on
the ladies here. What is wrong with you? What is
going on here? We just had one of these the
other day. Uh, choose four women and book a tag
team dog collar match. A tag team women's dog collar match.
This is getting very weird. It's getting very awkward here.
All right, we have Harley Cameron and her tag team partner. Oh,
Tessa Blanchard. Tessa Blanchard and Harley camera. This is the
only way you'll ever see Tessa Blanchard in an aw ring.
Right here and be the booker. Tessa and Harley in
a tag team dog collar match against Sky Blue and
her tag team partner. Who is Tessa going to be
attached to? Is the question? The lovely Mariah May? How
could I buzz the glamour? This is back in her
days when she actually used to wrestle. Believe it or not,
she was actually not a bad wrestler in her day.
I know you would never know it these days, but
she did used to wrestle actual wrestling matches. Tessa in
a dog collar match sounds wild. And now we have
come to our main event and it will be entering
the lions Den. We are entering the lions Den for
our main event attraction here in this installment of be
the Booker, As we try to end here on a
high note, who is entering the cage? Two men will enter,
one man will leave. He has been double booked, even
in death. The homicidal, genocidal, suicidal Saboo is going to
enter the lions den. He's a busy guy. That means
he gets a double payday. Saboo against Bautista, we did
the double sweep Batista and Saboo. Who leaves the Lions
then I think big I'm gonna go with Big Dave
in this one. Saboo is gonna do something stupid and
injure himself. That's my prediction. Hat of discipline Again, thank
you for the double ten spot, Brandon Proctor, thank you
for getting us over the finish line. And last but
not least, justin Turley, ever thought about doing more RSPW. Absolutely,
there will be more the next installment, and if you
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People seem to really enjoy the last one. I made
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SoundOff fan here on the channel. It's all I got
for you. Thank you guys for hanging out with me here.
I'm glad to be back in the saddle after we
miss Wednesday, I will have my full dynamite thoughts as
part of the SoundOff on Sunday, plus all the fallout
from Saturday Nights made event, which I will be live
tomorrow night on YouTube talking about. So hopefully you guys
will join me. Then less than twenty four hours from now,
we'll talk about this not so hot card from Madison
Square Garden and then back on Sunday for episode nine
seventy two of the longest running episodic wrestling podcast, not true,
one of the longest running. That is true, not the longest,
but one of the longest. Death Sife wanted to get
the last word in, I'm sorry Justin he beat you. See,
I thought Justin had the honors here death side with
the twenty six. If Sammy was the referee, Punk and
Cody both have a reason to be weary. Sammy could
screw over Punk because Punk won the belt from him,
but Sammy could screw over Cody because he wants to
be the one to win the championship back from Punk.
That's the whole point. It wouldn't really be a situation
where he would favor one over the other. They would
both kind of be screwed. That's why I said, like,
if they wanted to really cheap out and not have
a clean, decisive winner, you just put Sammy and there
was a referee, he could try to screw both of
them over. I don't know how I feel about that.
That would be a very shitty way to end your
Summer sligh main event if we had no clear cut winner,
But I can't think of a better role for him
on that show. So honestly, if he's not going to
be wrestling for the championship, you can make him the referee.
It's not the worst idea they could come up with. Anyways.
Be well, stay safe, have yourself a great rest of
your night, a great weekend, and I will see you
back here for the Saturday Night's main event review tomorrow
night live on YouTube. Until then, take care, guys,