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Speaker 4: It's your boy Dan here reviewing Main Event for this week.
Speaker 4: I think we're onto episode four of the Main Event
Speaker 4: show with a lot of content happening at the moment.
Speaker 4: This has been obviously posted after or on the day
Speaker 4: of the Royal Rumble, so had to tune into that.
Speaker 4: We obviously know all the results there, which I'd like
Speaker 4: to dive into, but first we will discuss basically what
Speaker 4: happened on Main Event, which was aired the thirtieth of January,
Speaker 4: and we're recorded and been uploaded onto Peacock Saturday night
Speaker 4: for Eastern time and my time here on a Sunday
Speaker 4: during the day. So yeah, lots to cover here, especially
Speaker 4: with basically what's been happening with the Royal Rumble and
Speaker 4: what's been happening in the lead up to that as well,
Speaker 4: and seeing how kind of I guess the Main.
Speaker 2: Events show dives into that.
Speaker 4: Not a huge effect, but some of the results I
Speaker 4: guess did make a lot of sense leading up to that.
Speaker 4: So yes, as mentioned, this was aired before Raw. We
Speaker 4: had the first match, which was between Natalia and I
Speaker 4: think it was Alba Fire, which led to Natalia getting
Speaker 4: the victory here due to a sharpshooter, which was something surprising,
Speaker 4: I guess in a sense of having a submission victory,
Speaker 4: but with Natalia being her finisher, it does make sense.
Speaker 4: But maybe I would have assumed that there would have
Speaker 4: been a roll up victory here. I think looking at
Speaker 4: the fact that Natalia did enter the Royal Rumble, it
Speaker 4: did make sense that she won this match, giving her
Speaker 4: momentum into into going into the Royal Rumble. And yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a surprise not to see Alba Fire or
Speaker 4: either Dawn for that matter, being the Royal Rumble as well,
Speaker 4: but I guess from the results we did see probably
Speaker 4: won't needed, especially being a tag team as well.
Speaker 2: But yep, Natala getting the victory here, putting herself.
Speaker 4: Into some momentum for what was entertaining entertaining Royal Rumble.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it didn't really matter much in the end
Speaker 4: because she didn't win it anyway, but I guess for
Speaker 4: the fans that were there, they might have thought that
Speaker 4: there was a very slim chance that she could have won.
Speaker 4: But then we had the match between Our Truth and
Speaker 4: Ludwig Kaiser, which was such a great match. Love Our Truth.
Speaker 4: Our Truth's been a national treasure, been a legend of
Speaker 4: the company for so long, and obvious his like playing
Speaker 4: dumb gimmick has been nothing short of incredible. Makes me
Speaker 4: laugh every time you saw him at the start of
Speaker 4: the match doessing Ludwick Kaiser over the top bar thinking
Speaker 4: that it was a Royal Rumble match, and then you
Speaker 4: had obviously his momentum kind of moves of John Senna,
Speaker 4: who's his childhood friend. Obviously them being think Our Truth
Speaker 4: being a bit older than him doesn't really make sense,
Speaker 4: but yet again still brings out laughs. Our Truth getting
Speaker 4: the victory here, which was actually a massive surprise with
Speaker 4: a roll up. I'm not really sure why they gave
Speaker 4: Our Truth the victory here. I guess to make Ludwig
Speaker 4: Kaiser I look like a laughing stock twice in a row,
Speaker 4: because obviously no one that has watched main event would
Speaker 4: have saw that this this happened. So then when at
Speaker 4: the Royal Rumble, when Luke for Kaiser did get eliminated
Speaker 4: within like two seconds by Penta.
Speaker 2: This kind of would have been like the double edged
Speaker 2: sword essentially, So you're losing.
Speaker 4: Too Ar Truth by a roll up count victory on
Speaker 4: main event, and then the week after, when you're entering
Speaker 4: one of the biggest matches of your career, you get
Speaker 4: done within two seconds. So Kayles is gonna come back
Speaker 4: with a lot of vengeance. And I think with the
Speaker 4: match between Our Truth, there's nothing really moving forward there.
Speaker 4: I think there's going to be something with Penta down
Speaker 4: the line for sure, since he did get eliminated by him.
Speaker 4: But I guess that's probably why again they gave Ar
Speaker 4: Truth to victory. It was a shame that we didn't
Speaker 4: get to see Our Truth in the Royal Bubble. Would
Speaker 4: have loved to see him there, just for a bit
Speaker 4: of a spot where he could have just done something
Speaker 4: hilarious for the crowd to be entertained with. But nevertheless,
Speaker 4: him getting a victory here. Let's see what happens on
Speaker 4: RAW next week if he gets a spot, as we'd
Speaker 4: love to see him there as everyone loves to see
Speaker 4: Our Truth featured in WW. But yeah, again, it's been
Speaker 4: a while since he's had match, so it was good
Speaker 4: to see him, yeah on main event, showcasing and giving
Speaker 4: the crowd some entertainment before Raw started.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I guess normally we do.
Speaker 4: Discuss things about Raw and SmackDown, but due to the
Speaker 4: fact that the Royal Rumble has passed, a lot of
Speaker 4: the promos that have led up to the Royal Rumble
Speaker 4: kind of don't really make sense. There wasn't really much
Speaker 4: to kind of I guess move on there. We did
Speaker 4: see Seampunk and Cody Rhodes obviously having their spit out,
Speaker 4: basically mentioning that if Sampunk grins the Royal Rumble, be
Speaker 4: careful for Creater Roads, but that doesn't end up happening.
Speaker 4: We also get a promo between Logan, Paul Seth, Rollins,
Speaker 4: and Drew McIntyre basically talking and explaining how, yeah, they're
Speaker 4: all gonna be in the Royal Rumble and they're all
Speaker 4: gonna win.
Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4: But AnyWho, we will dive into the quick roy Rumble results.
Speaker 4: Before that, I'll give you my predictions. We had the
Speaker 4: first match that I predicted correctly. I know it sounds
Speaker 4: like I haven't done the show before, but I did
Speaker 4: predict that Charlotte Flair was going to win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 4: It just makes sense considering that they're going to set
Speaker 4: up that match with Tiffany Stratton, and then also the
Speaker 4: promo before just indicated to me that she was going
Speaker 4: to win it. It would have been nice for Charlotte's
Speaker 4: sake that that promo didn't happen because we would have
Speaker 4: probably got a better pop there. But the match itself, yep,
Speaker 4: she ended up winning a few decent spots. The girl
Speaker 4: from NXT I think her name is I can't get
Speaker 4: off the top of my head, but that death Valley
Speaker 4: Driver to Piper Nivem was simply incredible. Her basically carrying
Speaker 4: double her body weight to do that maneuver was awesome
Speaker 4: and hopefully she gets her full time appearance now in
Speaker 4: WW hopefully on the main show as well. After that spot,
Speaker 4: we did know that she was as mentioned on TNA
Speaker 4: as well, so awesome to see credit to leave Morgan
Speaker 4: who helped with a bit of a wardrobe malfunction on
Speaker 4: Layer of Alki as well. She was really good in
Speaker 4: the match to last at a really long time, and
Speaker 4: it was really impressive to also see Rox and Perez
Speaker 4: make the final the final three or the final two
Speaker 4: in the end, which was surprising, but again shows that
Speaker 4: WW really rate Rox and Perez And it's only a
Speaker 4: matter of time now that she ends up getting onto
Speaker 4: the main roster and potentially performing there.
Speaker 2: There is a.
Speaker 4: Small little feud between her and Bailey that could probably
Speaker 4: be continued on live TV, so let's see what happens there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, next to the performance for Rox and Perez,
Speaker 4: but yeah, Charlotte Flair getting the victory. Alyssa Bliss's surprise
Speaker 4: pop was awesome too. She looks so cool in the ring,
Speaker 4: just giving that tribute to bray Wire and with her
Speaker 4: doll as well, coming out to a massive pop, And
Speaker 4: it was a massive surprise there that she obviously came.
Speaker 4: And it's been over to and a half years since
Speaker 4: she's performed in the ring, and I do think based
Speaker 4: on what I saw just a little kind of advertisement
Speaker 4: that Elysa Bliss was back and there were selling merch
Speaker 4: that she might be here for the long term. So
Speaker 4: excited to see what will happen with her, whether she
Speaker 4: joins the White Six or whether.
Speaker 2: She just becomes a single superstar.
Speaker 4: We'll guess, I guess we'll find out but again was
Speaker 4: awesome to see her, and then the other surprise was
Speaker 4: Nicki Balla, but I feel as though a lot of
Speaker 4: people were expecting a j Lee, which was a bit
Speaker 4: of a bummer because it would have been awesome to
Speaker 4: see aj Lee come out of the ring, and especially
Speaker 4: with the ramping so long, her skipping all the way
Speaker 4: to the ring would have been pretty cool as well.
Speaker 4: But hopefully we get to see her again next year.
Speaker 4: I would love to see aj Lee back into WWE,
Speaker 4: but I think she has no interest from what I've
Speaker 4: read in the past, she just doesn't really care about
Speaker 4: what's going on. I heard when Sampunk was feuding with
Speaker 4: Drew McIntyre mentioning her on the b on the wristband
Speaker 4: that Sampunk was wearing. She didn't seem to care about it,
Speaker 4: so maybe her passion is not with ww and she's
Speaker 4: not willing to get back into the ring. We then
Speaker 4: had the two out of three falls match between DIY
Speaker 4: and the Murder City Machine Guns. The Murder City machine
Speaker 4: Guns sorry, but the Murder City They're pretty good, but
Speaker 4: they didn't get it done this time due to I
Speaker 4: guess Angelo Dawkins and montes Ford interfering with the match.
Speaker 4: It was weird that Michael Cole had to basically explain
Speaker 4: the motives behind Dawkins and Ford, basically probably trying to
Speaker 4: just cement that they're not heels. They're still I guess babyfaces,
Speaker 4: but it does make their characters a lot more interesting
Speaker 4: and the tag team division a lot more interesting as well.
Speaker 4: You can see that there's a lot of feuds and
Speaker 4: a lot of discrontment between all the tag teams, So
Speaker 4: I do suspect that leading up to WrestleMania, we're going
Speaker 4: to have a massive whether it's a six man, a
Speaker 4: tag ladder match or a four man, we're going to
Speaker 4: see a lot of these tag teams involved in WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: So they're doing that well and nicely. But yeah, DII
Speaker 4: gets the victory here with the help of the Street Profits,
Speaker 4: but again doesn't really indicate that the Street Profits are
Speaker 4: aligning with them. They are obviously seeking revenge from being
Speaker 4: attacked backstage and obviously want their hands on the title
Speaker 4: as well. A two out of three falls match for
Speaker 4: a match that went for fourteen minutes, I didn't see
Speaker 4: the point. It would have been a lot better to
Speaker 4: have probably a different stipulation. I feel like, with two
Speaker 4: out of three falls, the match has to last at
Speaker 4: least over thirty minutes, so the fact that it only
Speaker 4: lasted fourteen minutes just didn't really make sense. I would
Speaker 4: have preferred it being a Tornado tag team match or
Speaker 4: something with I guess no disqualification. Obviously tag teams don't
Speaker 4: have that, but maybe a tables match or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 4: Definitely the two out of three falls wasn't the ideal
Speaker 4: stipulation for this type of match, especially given that they
Speaker 4: didn't have enough time to work with. But yeah, we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens with all the tag teams moving forward.
Speaker 4: I love that the I wise turned to here. I
Speaker 4: think it's been a great angle. I think they're doing
Speaker 4: a good job with that, and it just makes them
Speaker 4: a lot more relevant and a lot more meaningful having
Speaker 4: those titles on their hands as well. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: think they're going to drop it at WrestleMania, but the
Speaker 4: feuds have been have been pretty nice. And then we
Speaker 4: get the my farther match of the night far out
Speaker 4: this match between Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens and a
Speaker 4: ladder match, Kevin Owens obviously falling short to Cody Rhodes
Speaker 4: with that Alabama Slam.
Speaker 2: That was brutal, I mean brutal.
Speaker 4: You saw Kevin Owens's head hit the ground in his
Speaker 4: neck twist, oh man, like crazy crazy. And I think
Speaker 4: of all the ladder matches I've seen, besides probably that
Speaker 4: spot where Jeff Hardy speared edge edge spear and Jeff
Speaker 4: Hardy sorry off the top of the ladder, I haven't
Speaker 4: seen a brutal a ladder to match them that. And yeah,
Speaker 4: fair play to both, to both to both fighters there
Speaker 4: and both superstars for putting that out for us. Lots
Speaker 4: of massive yeah bumps, especially that Alabama Slam and then
Speaker 4: even that deaf Vally driver with Kevin Owens. We did
Speaker 4: see samu'se ain come out, and I thought for a
Speaker 4: minute that he was going to come in and prevent
Speaker 4: Cody Rhodes from winning the belt, but it seems as
Speaker 4: though that Kevin Owens couldn't even move, So even if
Speaker 4: Samy's Ain was to interfere, I don't think it would
Speaker 4: have made any difference because Kevin Owens did not look
Speaker 4: like he was gonna he was going to get up
Speaker 4: anytime soon.
Speaker 2: But Cody Rose.
Speaker 4: Getting the victory there celebrating in front of Kevin Owens
Speaker 4: as well. That was pretty brutal, considering that Kevin Owens
Speaker 4: looked absolutely ripped. And now I don't think this was
Speaker 4: a surprise. Obviously, it would have been lovely to see
Speaker 4: Kevin Owens win.
Speaker 2: It would have shocked the world.
Speaker 4: But what's going to be interesting is who's going to
Speaker 4: actually fight Cody Rhodes because it doesn't look like the
Speaker 4: Rocks anywhere to be se and there seems to be
Speaker 4: a lot of disgrunnlement and feuds scattered leading up to
Speaker 4: to I guess WrestleMania, and that no further was shown
Speaker 4: in the men's royal rumble. Who I guess the winner
Speaker 4: caught everyone by surprise, But I'm probably one of the
Speaker 4: only few that when it came back to or came
Speaker 4: down to John Cena and Jus, so I really was
Speaker 4: supporting Jay Us and John Cena is literally like my
Speaker 4: favorite wrestler from when I was a kid. I grew
Speaker 4: up watching John Cena. I grew up idolizing John Cena.
Speaker 4: He to me is the goat, He's the person that
Speaker 4: got me into w W. I grew up grabbing his merchant,
Speaker 4: being a massive senior fanboy. So I can understand why
Speaker 4: this was the case though, between those two, because we
Speaker 4: had and we heard all back, even in Money in
Speaker 4: the Bank that John Cena was going to compete in
Speaker 4: the Elimination Chamber, so I knew he wasn't going to
Speaker 4: win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 2: He will get his seventeenth title.
Speaker 4: I hope he does, and I like the way that
Speaker 4: they're going with it, because if he was to win
Speaker 4: the Royal Rumble, it just I don't think would have
Speaker 4: made sense for the storyline that the fact that he
Speaker 4: hasn't won a match, he still can't get over the
Speaker 4: hump and getting a victory. He just just buys into
Speaker 4: that timeline a lot more and buys into the fact
Speaker 4: that when he eventually does cross that path and gets
Speaker 4: a victory and becomes a number one contender for a championship,
Speaker 4: then sudden to be looking forward to at WrestleMania. But
Speaker 4: enough about him, Jauso getting the victory massive surprise, well deserved.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people saw how deep the
Speaker 4: Royal Rumble was with a lot of people, but I
Speaker 4: guess jay Us is been killing it and he's so
Speaker 4: over by the fans. He's worked so hard to get
Speaker 4: where he needs to be, getting a singles title, putting
Speaker 4: the bloodline food over his singles attributions, and his single
Speaker 4: goals constantly getting falling short of the World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 4: So yeah, much deserved, and he'll most likely face Guntha
Speaker 4: and what.
Speaker 2: People got to realize.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're probably upset that ja uso one, but it
Speaker 4: does not necessarily mean that ja Usa is going to
Speaker 4: be main eventing WrestleMania. Here, we could see this match
Speaker 4: between him and Guntha and the second night as the
Speaker 4: first match, just like we saw with Seth Rollins and
Speaker 4: Drew McIntyre. So don't think that just because Jus won
Speaker 4: the Roy Rumble he's going to instantly main event WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: He will get a championship match guaranteed, but that does
Speaker 4: not mean he will main event WrestleMania, So look out
Speaker 4: for this space. Besides the win, Jacob Fattu was incredible,
Speaker 4: so that was something to be noted of. I was
Speaker 4: actually really impressive bron Breaker the truth. I think he
Speaker 4: was awesome in the ring. That spear On Speed was
Speaker 4: wild caught me off guard. The spear On Roman Reigns
Speaker 4: was also really impressive and it does show that bron
Speaker 4: Breaker's got a lot to offer I in ww in
Speaker 4: the future, and it'll be exciting to see when he
Speaker 4: starts getting those world title opportunities, because yeah, he was
Speaker 4: incredible in the ring as well. Jacob Fatuus mentioned for
Speaker 4: what we know was unbelievable, But for me, the highlight
Speaker 4: was the Joe Hendry cameo.
Speaker 2: Which was was awesome to see.
Speaker 4: I was hoping that he make his appearance in the
Speaker 4: Royal Rumble and I'm so glad he did, the fact
Speaker 4: that he got eliminated from Roman reigns just shows the
Speaker 4: levels of like a stardom between the two. But we
Speaker 4: all knew that Joe Henju wasn't gonna wasn't gonna win
Speaker 4: the Rumble, so again, it was still good to see
Speaker 4: him appear for was about five minutes, and hopefully that
Speaker 4: day comes where he finally becomes a full time WWE superstar,
Speaker 4: and I feel like he's going to have a lot
Speaker 4: to offer when he does eventually arrive.
Speaker 2: The other probably thing to mention was.
Speaker 4: The Sea and Punk elimination of both seth Rolins and
Speaker 4: Roman Rains. Seth Rolins basically I think turning heel here
Speaker 4: turning and attacking Roman reigns with two curb stumps. But again,
Speaker 4: I'm interested to see how those three are going to
Speaker 4: be involved in this because they were obviously all seeking
Speaker 4: championship aspirations. But it seems like the feud between the
Speaker 4: three of them has sparked a lot of tensions, so
Speaker 4: that's something to look forward to. Another thing to mention,
Speaker 4: Penta was the longest ragining the longest lasting iron Man,
Speaker 4: which I guess wasn't too much of a surprise, but
Speaker 4: were able to see kind of what Penta can show,
Speaker 4: and it looks like wdwe have a lot of plans
Speaker 4: for him, considering that he did last a really long time.
Speaker 4: And then I guess the most interesting one was the
Speaker 4: Drew McIntyre elimination. There's a lot of speculation that they
Speaker 4: had something to do with a botch there. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure who was involved, but they reckon one superstar was
Speaker 4: trying to get the limelight. It'll be good to know
Speaker 4: if that is true, and if it's not, it will
Speaker 4: also be just I guess interesting how they would play
Speaker 4: that spot in the future, And it seems like they
Speaker 4: might find something for Drew McIntyre there, which is interesting,
Speaker 4: So we don't know if that is actually something that
Speaker 4: really happened or whether it's part of the storyline to
Speaker 4: make the next coming feud more interesting, but I guess
Speaker 4: it's going to be something we're going to look forward
Speaker 4: to on Raw and on SmackDown and as well as
Speaker 4: main Event, which will showcase I guess the episodes between
Speaker 4: SmackDown and Raw when PL's come. It is really difficult
Speaker 4: to record these because their main event episode does come
Speaker 4: out the day of the PL, so it's really hard
Speaker 4: to kind of backtrack and recap what happens on Raw
Speaker 4: and s Backdown when you guys already knowing the results
Speaker 4: of Raw Rumble, So those promos don't really lead into
Speaker 4: anything that I can kind of discuss or predict come
Speaker 4: the PL. But next week will be obviously much easier
Speaker 4: because we'll have Raw and SmackDown filmed and also the
Speaker 4: main event on Sunday before Raw as on Tuesday for me,
Speaker 4: so these all talking in Australian time. But again, Raw
Speaker 4: is going to be pretty amazing tomorrow. I'm really excited
Speaker 4: to see the ramifications about everything that's happened, what's going
Speaker 4: to happen with jay Us moving onto WrestleMania. So happy
Speaker 4: is won the Royal Rumble. I think a lot of
Speaker 4: views are upset, but personally, I'm more than happy with
Speaker 4: jayus So winning it. I feel like he deserves the
Speaker 4: spot and I really hope he does get that World
Speaker 4: Championship title because I feel like he is deserving of
Speaker 4: it and the only real way for him to get
Speaker 4: that spot is to win matches like this and win
Speaker 4: the fans over, solidifying his main event status, which is.
Speaker 2: What he likes to claim.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just a quick one today, Not too much
Speaker 4: to dive into a lot of I guess roll rumble talk,
Speaker 4: but yeah, in terms of the main event, not too
Speaker 4: much to dial into there. Hopefully next week we have
Speaker 4: a lot to cover, we get a lot of questions
Speaker 4: answered as well.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's all for me today.
Speaker 4: Again, love the Royal Rumble, so it's always good to
Speaker 4: kind of give my take on what happened there. But again,
Speaker 4: catches all next week. Cheers.
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