WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.799 It was one of these weeks I had to bring 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:06.000 green Men back for the intro. When you see green 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.800 Men trying as hard as he possibly can not to 4 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:12.359 be sucked into the hole that is three hours of raw, 5 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.320 you know that it was not a great night of raw. 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.760 And you know, SmackDown has been a bore over these 7 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.280 last two weeks three weeks. At least raw has been entertaining. 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:27.079 At least Raw has has kept things interesting. Unfortunately, tonight 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.160 was not one of those nights. We did, however, in 10 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:33.600 the main event, finally get Finn Balor for the first 11 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.240 time ever one on one with Gunther. It a match 12 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.359 that has been four years in the making. We were 13 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:45.200 supposed to get this match four years ago in NXT 14 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.320 in Dublin, n XT UK, and then unfortunately the entire 15 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.479 world shut down and we never got the match until tonight. 16 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.119 A little bit different because both matter heels, but we 17 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:01.880 did finally get the match tonight, not in front of 18 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.040 the right crowd and under the wrong circumstances, because it 19 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.680 wasn't even about Finn Balor against Gunther, all right, I 20 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:11.719 mean that's not really what it's about. It's about Gunther 21 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.719 and Damian Priest Finn Balor was in there tonight as 22 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.400 a device. He was a means to get Damian Priest 23 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.040 out there at the very end of the show for 24 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.400 the show closing brawl. I was bored by this show. 25 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.719 It was a very much a filler episode. I mean, 26 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.719 they had a lot of promos on the show tonight 27 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:35.920 pre tapes hyping up the key matches for Summer so Lemon. 28 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.959 There's nothing wrong with that, but there were a lot 29 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.920 of those, and there were a lot of matches that 30 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.840 just were very flat, very flat matches, and you could 31 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.280 blame the crowd for it. The crowd was kind of quiet, 32 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.000 but it's not just the crowd. I mean, it was 33 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:54.159 just a very flat show, and it just felt like, Okay, 34 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.799 we're almost there. Saturday's right around the corner, and we 35 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.640 just got to get there. So let's just you know, 36 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.840 phill up three hours as best we can, just to 37 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.879 get us over the hump to SummerSlam. That's what it 38 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.919 felt like tonight. Actually, the most interesting thing about Raw 39 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.800 was somebody who was not even on Raw tonight, but 40 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.319 he was at RAW, and that was Jesse Ventur. They 41 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:17.680 were in Minnesota tonight for Raw, and so they were 42 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.759 in the Twin Cities and Jesse was in the house, 43 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:25.639 and they did show some brief footage of Jesse Ventor 44 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.400 arriving at the building. Triple H was there to greet him, 45 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:32.800 and Jesse was talking his ear off, telling him I'm 46 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:37.319 sure all kinds of stories, and I just wish we 47 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:41.000 would have had him sit in for one match on commentary. 48 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:42.719 I was kind of hoping he would get an entrance, 49 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.120 maybe they would introduce him to the crowd, get him 50 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.840 to sit in on one match. We didn't get that. 51 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.039 He missed it. He had said recently that Vince McMahon 52 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.560 leaving the company cleared the way for him to engage 53 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.400 in talks with them again about possibly coming back and 54 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.599 having a reallyationship. And I believe what he has or 55 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:07.960 what he's been in discussions about having is a Legends deal. 56 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.400 So not not anything where he would be on TV 57 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.879 or have a recurring role or anything like that, but 58 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.199 like a Legends type deal. And so that's cool, But 59 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.039 this show could have used him tonight. I was waiting 60 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.000 for Jesse to come out and do anything. You know. 61 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.159 The thing with me is I was already looking forward 62 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.039 to summer Slim. I know there are some people who 63 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.719 are nonplussed about the card coming up on Saturday. They 64 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.680 don't think that the two championship matches the strongest title 65 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.159 matches that they could have put together, and they're not. 66 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:41.680 They're not seth Rollins against Gunther would have been a 67 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:45.759 much stronger match. Cody Rhodes against Randy Orton would have 68 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.280 been a much stronger match. We didn't get either one 69 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:51.439 of those. Even Still, though I think the bill of 70 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.159 Summer Slim has been good and the card is such 71 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.280 that I am looking forward to what I was already 72 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.240 looking forward to a coming into tonight, this show just 73 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.039 did not do any thing to get me any more 74 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.479 excited for what we're gonna see. This is your Monday 75 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.719 Night Raw review. We are going to talk about it. 76 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:11.439 Though it is July twenty ninth, two thousand and twenty four. 77 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.599 I am the Solom Monster, like and subscribe. They announced, 78 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.720 by the way, for those who may have missed it, 79 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.600 they did make mention that the pre show for Summer 80 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.560 Slam on Saturday, they announced no matches, but we are 81 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:30.000 getting a three hour pre show, so unless they add 82 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.680 matches at the last minute, no matches. Three hour pre 83 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:39.439 show for Summer slim. Good luck with that. I salute you. 84 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.000 I hope you have fun. I will not be watching 85 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.759 this show though. Tonight opened with Seth Rollins coming out 86 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.079 to deliver his referee instructions to see I'm Punk and 87 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.839 Drew McIntyre in what I believe to be the actual 88 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:58.480 main event, the real main event of Summer Slam on Saturday. 89 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.319 And we've been one wondering, you know what Seth is 90 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.480 going to wear when he comes out to be the 91 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.560 referee on Saturday. What kind of wacky outfit is he 92 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.519 going to have. I don't know that this is necessarily 93 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.879 going to be exactly the outfit he is going to wear, 94 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.399 but we did get a look. We got a little 95 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.639 sneak peek. This is what Seth Rollins came out dressed 96 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:23.920 up as tonight. He was out there looking like Beetlejuice, 97 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:26.879 and you can't see it in the photo, but he 98 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:32.079 had zebra print boots on as well. Not as outlandish 99 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.519 as I was thinking it might be, but that is 100 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.600 very much a Seth Rolins referee outfit. So see I'm 101 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.680 Punk came out next, and then Drew McIntyre came out. 102 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.959 They pointed out that this they being The announcers pointed 103 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.000 out that this will be Punk's first singles match and 104 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.600 a WWE ring in ten and a half years. I 105 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:59.079 pointed that out of the podcast yesterday. His last televised 106 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:05.720 singles match match was in January of twenty fourteen, and 107 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.519 it came against Billy Gunn. That's how long it has 108 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.720 been since CM Punk has been in a singles match 109 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.040 on TV. In ww A, they didn't mention Billy Gun's name. 110 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:22.000 I didn't think they would, but that's who his opponent was. 111 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.639 He did wrestle a couple of matches with Dominic after 112 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.040 he came back earlier at the beginning of the year, 113 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.399 but those were not televised. I know he wrestled Dominic 114 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.839 in Madison Square. Guard so Rolin said that Adam Pierce 115 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.920 ordered Punk and McIntyre tonight not to lay a finger 116 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:42.199 on each other or him, and if they broke those rules, 117 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.800 the match on Saturday was off, so no physicality tonight. 118 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.959 With that, Punk rolled out of the ring as soon 119 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.639 as he said that no one can put their hands 120 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.279 on me. Punk rolled to the outside. McIntyre told Punk 121 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.199 to stop being such a coward and get back in 122 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.839 the ring, and Punk said that he wasn't worried about 123 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.000 what McIntyre or Rollins would do to him. He was 124 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:05.240 worried what he might do to them, so he was 125 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.240 just going to stay outside. Rolin said, look, I volunteered 126 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.120 to be the referee for this match because you two 127 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.240 idiots scared of all the other referees in the back. 128 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.639 Rolin said, if punk one to the fight, then he 129 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.439 should get his ass back in the ring, and so 130 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.519 he did. Rolin said that there will be only one 131 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.199 rule for this match. This was the purpose of the segment. 132 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.839 The segment was to establish what the referee instructions would be, 133 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.000 which is kind of an odd thing to you know, promote. 134 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:37.959 As far as we know, there's no stipulations for the match, 135 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:42.040 so what could the rules possibly be. So he made 136 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.800 it clear here the only rule for this match. You 137 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.959 two will listen to everything that I say said. I 138 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.600 called the shots. I'm the boss, I'm the law. I 139 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.720 count to three when I want to count to three. 140 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.279 You tap out only when I say you can tap out. 141 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.439 If there's a count out to be had, well, maybe 142 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:02.079 there won't be. He count outs says, I might count 143 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.279 to ten, I might count to twenty, I might count 144 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:09.319 to a million. He also downplayed a possible disqualification, saying 145 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.920 that it would be at his discretion. Punk said that 146 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.279 he did not want Rollin's help on Saturday. He mean, 147 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.040 he wanted to make that very clear. I do not 148 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.920 want your help, which, of course, why the fuck would 149 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.279 Seth Rollins help seem Punk? So I don't think that's 150 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:25.079 going to be an issue. McIntyre interrupted as they were 151 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.959 having a tental face off and said, hello, why don't 152 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.959 you focus on me? You know, the six foot four, 153 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.320 two hundred and fifty pound guy over here that you've 154 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:40.960 screwed over and over and over again. McIntyre said he 155 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.919 hates Punk, said he's like Charles Manson in that he 156 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.120 poisons everyone's mind. He said he can't even go to 157 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.200 the supermarket without somebody chanting Punk's name at him. McIntyre 158 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:53.960 said he wanted to rough up Punk a little bit 159 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.960 in the Royal Rumble match, just a little bit, and 160 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.240 he ended up tearing his triceps. He didn't even mean 161 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.600 to injure it. He said that he wasn't even trying to. 162 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:04.639 He said that Punk has screwed him out of the 163 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.919 title twice since then, at WrestleMania and then in front 164 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.279 of his family. And then also he didn't mention this, 165 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.679 but money in the bank as well. So he actually 166 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.879 screwed him out of the World Championship three times this year, 167 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.080 not just those two times. McIntyre said he wouldn't stop 168 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.039 beating Punk until Punk's heart stops. Just kind of extreme. 169 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.200 He said. The best thing is that the match is 170 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.000 being held in a stadium and he will be making 171 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:29.799 a lot of money for something that he would have 172 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.600 done for free. Punk said that he was absent from 173 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.240 the company for ten years and the fans chanted his name. 174 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.360 That's what he said, the fans. I'm not saying that 175 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:42.679 to say the fans started chanting his name. Punk said 176 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.120 that he was gone for a decade and while he 177 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.919 was gone, the people chanted for him. That that was 178 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.240 a cue for the fans to start chanting for him. 179 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.320 And yet it was a very tepid reaction. And this 180 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.559 was not the most overly enthusiastic crowd here tonight to 181 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.679 begin with. But it was a little bit a little 182 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.320 bit embarrassing here because you can tell that was their 183 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.480 cue to like, you know, get the CM Punk chance going, 184 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.000 and it really was not what you would expect. So 185 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:15.600 Punk said that they chant his name, they sing Seth's song, 186 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.000 and McIntyre is the third wheel basically in this match. 187 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:25.879 Punk said, McIntyre has PDS Punk derangement syndrome. He said, 188 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:28.399 the best and worst thing that ever happened to McIntyre 189 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.519 was injuring him. Punk said, he may not be as 190 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.480 tall as him, he may not be as big as him, 191 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.840 he may not be as fast as him, but he 192 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.039 has heart and he has the people chanting his name. 193 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.600 And this time the fans took the queue and they 194 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:49.279 started chanting cm Punk. Punk asked McIntyre what he has? 195 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:51.440 What do you have? Right? I've got heart? What do 196 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.960 you have? McIntyre held up the bracelet that he stole 197 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.600 from Punk that has AJ's name and Larry the Dog's 198 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:01.000 name on it, and that pissed off Punk. Punk got 199 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.919 right up to his face, but again no physicality, so 200 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.279 he couldn't put his hands on him. And that was it. 201 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.840 That was it. That was the entire segment. I thought 202 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.159 it was effective enough. This was not one of their 203 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.080 better segments together. It fell pretty flat. But what they 204 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.559 did do here is they established that Rollins is going 205 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.440 to call the match his way and probably show a 206 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.799 lot of leniency, which means they're going to allow a 207 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.480 lot of things in this match that would not be 208 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.039 allowed in a regular match. So that tells me they're 209 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.679 going to brawl, probably in the crowd. They're going to 210 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:34.960 brawl outside the ring. We don't have to worry about 211 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.000 count outs. They might bring weapons into play, and it's 212 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.799 Rollin's discretion whether or not he disqualifies people. So basically, 213 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.360 it sounds to me like their way of making it 214 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.919 no DQ no count out without calling it a no 215 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.600 DQ no count out match. We're not getting a clean finish, 216 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:54.840 and I think that it's going to be Punk who 217 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:59.960 ends up inadvertently being screwed out of a win by 218 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.679 seth Rawlins. Drew McIntyre should win this match, and I 219 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:06.240 believe that he will win this match. This is only 220 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.000 the first and I think he has to win here, 221 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.039 and I think that would be the right move to make. 222 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.840 But otherwise, you know, given all the personalities involved, I mean, 223 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.840 I'll tell you what, it certainly was not the segment 224 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.039 that we got earlier this year on Raw with all 225 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.679 these guys in the ring together, that was one of 226 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.600 the best segments on WWE television all year. That's not 227 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:34.039 what this was. Inside the Judgment Day clubhouse, Rhea, Ripley, Dominic, Masterio, 228 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.480 Finn Balor, JD McDonough, and Carlito, they were surveying the 229 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:43.279 damage that somebody did. Somebody wrecked their clubhouse, and Rhea 230 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.679 suggested that liv Morgan was the perpetrator and said that 231 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.879 she would pay for it. At Summer Slam, Damian pre 232 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.639 showed up, but also assumed that liv Morgan was responsible, 233 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:54.600 and he said that he felt like he should be 234 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.240 in Finn Balor's corner tonight during his main event match 235 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:01.240 against Gunther. Balor shot that down, said, look I'll handle him. 236 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.840 You guys clean up the clubhouse. Baler hoped that they 237 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.000 would take out Sammy's Ain and jay Uso, and Priest said, look, 238 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:12.000 we've already handled that. It's like going backwards here, all right. 239 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.600 We already took care of those two, and Rhea agreed 240 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.799 with him. Dominic suggested that Carlito handle Sammy's Ain, and 241 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.320 Carlito said that he would go talk to Adam Pearce, 242 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.480 we had Otis and Tozaua taking on the Creed brothers, 243 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.919 who were successful in their respective matches last night at 244 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:36.639 Josh Barnett's blood Sport. Brutus Creed coming out to Biggie 245 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.440 by Ray Junior Is. That was not something I was 246 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:45.519 expecting last night when I saw the clip, But there 247 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:50.279 he was coming out to that song. Otis took a 248 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.799 hot tag coming out of the break. He was super over. 249 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.720 The announcers mentioned that he only lives forty five minutes 250 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.039 away from where they were tonight, or maybe he used 251 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.600 to live forty five minut and it's away. I know 252 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.679 he and Chad Gable are like neighbors. They basically live 253 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.039 next to each other. And I don't know if Gable 254 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.360 lives in Minnesota or if he's I thought he was 255 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.639 in Florida maybe, But in any event, Otis is the 256 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:19.840 hometown boy, so he was very over. Gable climbed up 257 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.559 onto the apron to distract Otis and then drop down 258 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.960 when Otis took a swing at him. Otis put Julius 259 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.720 Creed down, hit the caterpillar, he went to the ropes. 260 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.000 He got hit by Brutus though, who climbed up on 261 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.279 the ropes with him, but then Otis back dropped him 262 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:37.080 into the ring and he ended up taking out Gable 263 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:40.360 with a punch. Creeds ended it with a double suplex 264 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:45.519 double backsupplex from the middle rope, and Julius pinned Otis. 265 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.440 After the match was over, Gable and the Creeds they 266 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.559 were working otis over when Maxine Dupree gets into the 267 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.519 ring right he takes her shoes off, gets in the 268 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.639 ring and she jumps on Gable's back. So Gable shakes 269 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.240 her off and then turns her and now he sees 270 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.679 her and he starts talking shit. So she smacked him 271 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.879 and then before he could respond because she's backed into 272 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:13.279 the corner, and Maxine is you know, she's ready to fight, right. 273 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.039 I don't know what she's gonna do here, but she's 274 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:19.639 ready to fight. The lights begin to go out for 275 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.840 the entrance of the Wyat six. We've seen this before. 276 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:27.279 The single piano key begins playing Eric Rowan, Dexter Loomis, 277 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:29.799 Joe Gacy. They make their way to the ring and 278 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.559 their masks. When they climb up on the apron, they 279 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.519 pull the masks off to reveal their identities. Nikki Cross 280 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.919 meanwhile is behind Gable in the Creeds on the top rope. 281 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:44.039 She comes diving off takes out Gable with a crossbody. 282 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.240 He rolls out to the floor. Gable or a gaycy 283 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.679 rather Gasey and Loomis. They put the creeds down with 284 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:55.120 stereo urinaggies and then Gasey power bomb Loomis onto the creeds, 285 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.159 and then when they got up rowing round the ropes, 286 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.720 he wiped them out with a running crossbody block. Gable 287 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.559 was already halfway down the aisle. He was backing down 288 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.519 the aisle, and then he must have had a cold 289 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.720 chill come over him because he realized I better turn around, 290 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.720 and so Gable turned around and he saw coming from 291 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:16.960 the entrance way. You saw him in the light. You 292 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:23.000 saw the shadow of uncle Howdy Gable ran away and 293 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.320 howd he laughed on stage. I was not expecting them 294 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.279 to unmask there, so that was a nice surprise. Dexter 295 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.600 Loomis has a new look. He's got long dreadlocks. He 296 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:38.200 is a giant X painted on his forehead. But yes, 297 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.519 I was not expecting them to pull the masks off 298 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.000 in that spot. I figured that there was no way 299 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.480 they were going to wrestle with those masks. I mean, 300 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.559 Rowan wrestling in a fucking rabbit costume would have been ridiculous. 301 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:56.200 Or you know, Loomis with that big buzzard mask. Howdy though, 302 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.960 howd he has a mask fitted for his face? Where 303 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.000 you know Bo Dallas can wrestle with the mask the 304 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.039 other ones you know you can't. You can't wrestle with 305 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.720 that shit on your head. I mean, come on, wait, 306 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:13.400 had Seamus one on one with Bronson Reid. Seamus's music, 307 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.839 I know I say it every week. I've just made 308 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.079 one more comment about it and be done with this. 309 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:25.880 Seamus's music is so generically awful that I don't want 310 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.200 him to win the Intercontinental title until he changes it, 311 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.440 because that's the eventual story for him, right the one 312 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.799 championship he's always wanted to win that he's never won before, 313 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.519 and it's gonna be a great moment one day when 314 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:44.000 it eventually happens, and you know it'll mean something to him. Uh, 315 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.000 but I don't want him to win. I don't want 316 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.160 him to win anything, to be honest with you, until 317 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.519 he gets that awful music check. Can you imagine seam 318 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.799 Is going to wrestle Mania next year and winning the 319 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:58.319 Intercontinental Championship finally for the first time, and then celebrating 320 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:02.359 to that fucking music. I don't want to see that, 321 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:08.440 so until such time that they finally give Shamus some 322 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.279 new music. I have pulled out my trusty voodoo doll, 323 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:16.000 who makes very rare appearances here on the screen, maybe 324 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.799 once or twice a year at most, is when we 325 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.559 see the voodoo doll. But I am hereby pulling out 326 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.079 the pin. Okay, here's the pin, and I am sticking 327 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:28.160 the pin in the voodoo doll. I put a voodoo 328 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:33.400 curse on Shamus. He will win nothing, nothing, until his 329 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:39.839 music is changed. Bring back lobster Head. In the meantime, 330 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:44.359 he's cursed. Seamus had a white noise off the middle 331 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.279 rope for a dear fall. He did the ten beats 332 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.079 but it was sixteen beats to the chest before the 333 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:55.119 referee pulled him away. So when the referee pulled him away, 334 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:58.559 Seamus went off, you know, into the corner, and he's 335 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:04.799 playing to the crowd. Reid's leg is quote unquote stuck 336 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:10.880 in the ropes and the referee is fumbling around trying 337 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.480 to pretend like he's freeing Bronson Reid from the ropes 338 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.559 while Seamus is in the corner. The point of all 339 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.240 of this is the referee's attention is diverted, his back 340 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:23.680 is turned and Seamus is in the corner and he 341 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:28.799 starts setting up for the brogue kick. Now, I think 342 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.000 Bronson Reid's foot was supposed to be trapped in the ropes, 343 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:36.720 but it wasn't, unfortunately, and so it looked completely ridiculous 344 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.279 because the referee is, oh, let me free you right, 345 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:42.359 I mean, he's free. You don't have to do anything. 346 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.839 He's clearly free from the ropes, but the referee has 347 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.839 to pretend that he's not because the spot is that 348 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:50.920 Pete Dunn is going to get up on the ring 349 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.440 apron with a schalale and he's gonna whack Shamous in 350 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:55.359 the head with it, which is what we're on the 351 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:58.160 side of the neck. And that's what he did. And 352 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:01.000 then Bronson Reid finally got it's back to his feet 353 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:06.839 and goes up to the top rope, delivers the tsunami 354 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:13.920 splash and wins the match. Seamus against Pete Dunn is 355 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.359 going to be fun when it finally happens. I don't 356 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:20.319 know when, but it will happen soon. I'm looking forward 357 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:26.519 to that match. Unfortunately, that spot was ridiculous. Just the 358 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.880 way it looked was preposterous. I should put a curse 359 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:35.799 on deaf Rebel is what people are telling me. See, 360 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.079 fire Panda has a point though. Fire Panda says, deaf 361 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.000 Rebel does not need a voodoo doll to be cursed. 362 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:45.200 See that's true. It's I mean, it's like putting a 363 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.039 curse on a curse. I mean it would be it 364 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.279 would kind of defeat the purpose. I hate to do 365 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:54.880 it again. I hate to do it. I like Seamus, 366 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.680 but and it's not his fault. But he's cursed until 367 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.400 he gets new music. That's just the way it is. 368 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.240 They are at a really good pre tape promo with Damian Priest. 369 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.839 He said Gunther did not understand his upbringing. Gunther was 370 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:13.359 brought up with here you goes if he needed the 371 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:17.759 best training facility and training team, here you go, a 372 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.079 group of people tell him how great he is, here 373 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:24.559 you go. Guther didn't have what couldn't be given to him. 374 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.079 He did not have heart, said Gunther. May call him 375 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.079 street trash, but to Damian Priest, that translated to Puerto 376 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:34.599 Rican badass. Guther was a product of European ingenuity, and 377 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:38.599 that translated to you're an asshole. So the ring would 378 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:41.920 become the street at SummerSlam and Gunther was gonna get mugged. 379 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:44.599 Priest said that he fought for everything he got and 380 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.039 he was willing to die for everything he had. It 381 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.720 didn't happen in front of the live crowd, but this 382 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.200 was the best promo that Damian Priest has cut since 383 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.920 becoming World Heavyweight Champion. This was this was very good. 384 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:02.920 We had jay Usso one on one with Carlito. This 385 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.680 should have been a glorified squash match for jay Uso, 386 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.599 and instead we got a very boring eight minute match. 387 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.519 Carlito decided in the middle of this match, for some reason, 388 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:15.839 to start eating his apple. I guess he got hungry. 389 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.880 Babe Catering was running a little low, and so he 390 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:22.119 grabs the apple and he takes a bite out of it. 391 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:25.799 He's arguing with the referee about this. While all of 392 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:29.400 this is going on, jay Uso schoolboyed him for a 393 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.640 two count, then he speared him for a three count 394 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:35.559 and picked up the win, and that's all there was 395 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:40.079 to it. So hopefully Rakishi is happy that jay Uso 396 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.799 picked up a win on the show tonight, but we 397 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.720 know Rikishi is not. Rakishi is not very happy though. 398 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:48.480 That is his son is not going to summer. You 399 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.319 know what I realized by the way when I talked 400 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.480 about the Rakishi story on the podcast yesterday, and how 401 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:58.480