Speaker 1: Tonight was the end of an era. It was the
Speaker 1: final Monday Night Raw on USA network, final Monday Night
Speaker 1: Raw on over the air television before the Netflix era begins.
Speaker 1: It is finally upon us. The beginning of this five
Speaker 1: billion dollar deal takes place next year, which is only
Speaker 1: one week away. Rale will move to Netflix. It was also,
Speaker 1: though more importantly, the final two hour edition of Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw, which has me very said. So, I don't
Speaker 1: know where you may be watching this right now, but
Speaker 1: pour one out for two hour raws. It's too bad
Speaker 1: because I really felt like they were getting into the
Speaker 1: groove of the two hour format recently, and now they're
Speaker 1: going back to three or whatever it ends up being.
Speaker 1: I mean, next week's show may well be more than
Speaker 1: three hours. I wouldn't be shocked if next week's show
Speaker 1: was three and a half hours. We don't exactly know
Speaker 1: how long the show is going to be next week,
Speaker 1: but going forward, Smack is going to be three hours
Speaker 1: starting this Friday, and Raw will be comparable every Monday Night.
Speaker 1: Tonight was one giant infomercial basically for the move to Netflix,
Speaker 1: which it had to be. Raw is moving homes. You
Speaker 1: want to let the audience know even though they were
Speaker 1: constantly for weeks now driving Home, Raw is moving to
Speaker 1: Netflix on January sixth. Raw is moving to Netflix on
Speaker 1: January sixth. You're still gonna have people who are gonna
Speaker 1: flip on USA next week and be like, where's Raw.
Speaker 1: But you want to try to minimize that as much
Speaker 1: as possible, and to that end, they did what they
Speaker 1: had to do. But this was a lame duck show,
Speaker 1: as many of the shows the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: have felt like, really ever since Saturday Night's Made Event,
Speaker 1: all of these shows feel like lame duck shows, even SmackDown.
Speaker 1: But even though it was a lame duck show and
Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot that happened, it was not
Speaker 1: a show completely devoid of anything good, because we actually
Speaker 1: had two excellent segments on the show tonight, but it
Speaker 1: closed with one of the best segments of the night,
Speaker 1: if not the best segment of the night, involving CM
Speaker 1: Punk and seth Rawlins. Now we are getting a lot
Speaker 1: of big matches on the show next week. It's loaded up.
Speaker 1: It feels like a pay per view, right we got
Speaker 1: Roman rains is Wrestling on Raw. Okay, when was the
Speaker 1: last time that happened. If Roman Rains is wrestling on Raw,
Speaker 1: then you know it's a big show, so he'll be
Speaker 1: wrestling Solo Socoa next week. We know Rhea Ripley is
Speaker 1: going to be challenging Live Morgan for the Women's World Championship.
Speaker 1: But the big match that was made many weeks ago
Speaker 1: was a match that we were supposed to have gotten
Speaker 1: to WrestleMania this year, and we didn't because Punk got hurt.
Speaker 1: Seem Punk against seth Rawlins, And instead of waiting until
Speaker 1: WrestleMania to do the first match, they're doing it next
Speaker 1: week on TV. My expectation is that even with Roman
Speaker 1: on the show, depending on what I guess, the outcome
Speaker 1: of his match is going to be. This match is
Speaker 1: the real main event. This is the match that should
Speaker 1: close the show. Seem Punk against seth Rawlins. They're either
Speaker 1: opening the show or they're closing show. But this this
Speaker 1: feels like the real main event of the show. Ever
Speaker 1: since Punk came back to the company at Survivor Series
Speaker 1: last year, the issue is CM punkin seth Rawlins. Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins was beside himself right the night he came back.
Speaker 1: He was cussing and he was trying to get it
Speaker 1: punk and they had to hold him back. Nobody was
Speaker 1: more upset to see CM punk back in w w
Speaker 1: WE than seth Rawlins, and they were going to ride
Speaker 1: that all the way into WrestleMania. Then they got away
Speaker 1: from it for a while, but then around summertime they
Speaker 1: got back to it, and we've gotten it in drips
Speaker 1: and drabs since then. But in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: ever since Survivor series, ever since War Games, they've really
Speaker 1: ratcheted things up and they've traded barbes on the microphone
Speaker 1: back and forth. They had a pull apar brawl on
Speaker 1: raw was it last week? Last week of the week before.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago they had a pullup bar brawl and
Speaker 1: it all culminated tonight in one final face off in
Speaker 1: the ring between these two. No physicality because they're didn't
Speaker 1: have to be. We already saw a pullupar bro What
Speaker 1: more can you do. You're gonna do some lame injury angle.
Speaker 1: There's nothing left to do except have the match, so
Speaker 1: there was no physicality. You put a microphone in each
Speaker 1: of their hands, you let them go out there, and
Speaker 1: you let them fire away one last time to really
Speaker 1: draw people in and make them want to see this
Speaker 1: match next week. And to that end, I thought they
Speaker 1: did a very good job. It was a tense, heated confrontation.
Speaker 1: At the end of the show. CM punk got to
Speaker 1: say his piece, Seth Rolins got to say his piece.
Speaker 1: Each of them got some shots in, some good digs
Speaker 1: in on the other there were a couple of things
Speaker 1: that Seth Rollins said in particular that just made me cringe.
Speaker 1: You might be able to figure out what it was
Speaker 1: if you saw the segment, but it did involve a
Speaker 1: reference to AW without actually saying a We had all
Speaker 1: kinds of things in this promo. We had references to AW,
Speaker 1: We had references to Vince McMahon more than one without
Speaker 1: naming him, so they were going back and forth. But
Speaker 1: there were a couple of things that Seth said in
Speaker 1: this promo about winning the war, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh my god. But aside from that, it was an
Speaker 1: excellent segment and now it leads into a match next
Speaker 1: week that's going to be very interesting to see what
Speaker 1: the end result of that is because that will tell
Speaker 1: the tale of whether or not we are still going
Speaker 1: to get CM Punkin, Seth Rawlins or WrestleMania. The belief,
Speaker 1: the chatter that we have been hearing of late has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with CM punkin SETH Rollins, and it
Speaker 1: has everything to do with CM punk and Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: potentially being a match of WrestleMania forty one that would
Speaker 1: be an even bigger match, and the last that we
Speaker 1: heard the reports that were going around. Even Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: a PW insider who I consider to be a reputable source,
Speaker 1: says that there are discussions internally focusing on that match.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that it's going to happen, but that's where
Speaker 1: their head is at right now. If that's the case
Speaker 1: and we're not going to get Punk and Rollins of WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: I still feel like it's not a one and done.
Speaker 1: This can't be a one and done thing. So do
Speaker 1: we get it next week and then they run it
Speaker 1: back an elimination chamber or the Royal Rumble, We don't know.
Speaker 1: Next week will be a very important night for a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons as far as where we are headed
Speaker 1: for WrestleMania, because not only is it the first raw
Speaker 1: of the year, but you look at some of the
Speaker 1: big matches on this show involving Roman, involving Punk, involving Rhea.
Speaker 1: This is going to give us at least some insight
Speaker 1: into some of the directions that we are headed in
Speaker 1: for Las Vegas next year. We're heading into a Women's
Speaker 1: World Championship match where Ria Ripley I think, absolutely needs
Speaker 1: to walk out of Los Angeles next week with that
Speaker 1: championship because this needs to be the end of that few.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way about that that I do
Speaker 1: in many ways MJF and Adam Cole, which I talked
Speaker 1: about in my World's End review on Saturday night, I
Speaker 1: sat here and we talked about how thank god it's over.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's over. It needs to be over. There are
Speaker 1: just certain programs, there are certain feuds. You get to
Speaker 1: a point where it just feels like, okay, we've jumped
Speaker 1: the shark here and it's time to move on. Two
Speaker 1: very different situations and sets of circumstances. But I feel
Speaker 1: the same way about this. They have squeezed every ounce
Speaker 1: out of that feud that they can, and it's time
Speaker 1: for Ria to move on to something else and live.
Speaker 1: Morgan is gonna move down the card because of it.
Speaker 1: She's not gonna be the beneficiary of losing, but it's
Speaker 1: time to move on, and I think we do next week.
Speaker 1: I think next week we're gonna get Becky Lynch back
Speaker 1: on the show. I'd be shocked if she wasn't there.
Speaker 1: John Cena. They're advertising that John Cena's retirement tour kicks
Speaker 1: off next week. Is it going to be a case
Speaker 1: where John Cena comes out next week and he becomes
Speaker 1: the first man to announce formally for the Royal Rumble match.
Speaker 1: I think he will, cause you know he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the Rumble. Why shouldn't he be the first man
Speaker 1: to Claire. Next week we'll find out got to be
Speaker 1: doing something. We have the New Day and Raymistereo and
Speaker 1: there's a tag team match. I don't think they specifically
Speaker 1: said it would take place next week, but it looks
Speaker 1: like Pente is going to be tied into that, which
Speaker 1: I talked about last week. I think that's a good
Speaker 1: spot for him to debut. So there's a lot to
Speaker 1: look forward to next week. But the punk in the
Speaker 1: rollin stuff was one highlight. The other highlight of the
Speaker 1: night tonight was one of the semi final matches we
Speaker 1: got in the women's tournament to crown an Intercontinental Champion
Speaker 1: EO Sky Lyra Valkyria probably the most unpredictable match in
Speaker 1: the entire tournament. I was sticking to my guns, if
Speaker 1: you watch the review last week, sticking to my guns
Speaker 1: about Lyra going all the way. But there were a
Speaker 1: lot of people who thought, well, with EO Sky now
Speaker 1: being in the tournament, surely she's going to at least
Speaker 1: go to the finals, and we're going to get an
Speaker 1: all damage control final. And boy, did ww we want
Speaker 1: you to believe that we were going to get an
Speaker 1: all damage control final tonight. The point where they leaned
Speaker 1: in on it a little too hard, And if I
Speaker 1: wasn't convinced that Lyra was winning going into this, it
Speaker 1: was clear as day as the match progressed, who was
Speaker 1: going over in that match. They tipped their hat a
Speaker 1: little too much. But Lyra and Eo went out there
Speaker 1: and they had an excellent match, one of the better
Speaker 1: women's matches on WWE television that they have had in
Speaker 1: a while. These two went out there and I thought
Speaker 1: they killed it tonight. And it's all good news because
Speaker 1: even though EO Sky is not going to the finals
Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental Championship, this is a good thing if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of vo Sky, because I think that
Speaker 1: this greatly enhances her chances of doing something much more
Speaker 1: significant as we head into Wrestle Media. That match, by
Speaker 1: the way, the finals with Lyra and with Dakota Kai
Speaker 1: not taking place next week. They're holding off on that
Speaker 1: for two weeks, and so January thirteenth is when we
Speaker 1: are going to get the finals of that tournament, which
Speaker 1: I guess I understand because it is going to be
Speaker 1: completely overshadowed by everything else that's going on next week.
Speaker 1: Not that they couldn't fit it on the show, but
Speaker 1: I get it, you know, I get wanting to save
Speaker 1: something special for the week after. Right, You blow your
Speaker 1: load next week and you got nothing left over for
Speaker 1: the following Monday. So we'll have to wait two weeks
Speaker 1: to find out who the first Intercontinental Champion is going
Speaker 1: to be. But we have an entire show here to
Speaker 1: talk about the final Raw on USA Network. This is
Speaker 1: your Monday Night Raw Review. It is December thirtieth, two
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Speaker 1: This is not, by the way, the final stream of
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Speaker 1: probably around ten pm Eastern or so. So if you
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Speaker 1: only are we going to be hanging out, I'll be
Speaker 1: taking your questions, but we're gonna be counting down the
Speaker 1: best matches, ranking the best matches of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So that should be a good time and hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys can join me on the stream tomorrow night. That
Speaker 1: will be our final stream of the year. After this
Speaker 1: our biggest year to date on YouTube. So I thank
Speaker 1: you all for that. The show open tonight with Joe
Speaker 1: Tessitur and Wade Barrett. They were standing ringside promoting the
Speaker 1: fact that this is the final raw on you, I say,
Speaker 1: and that it would have limited commercial interruptions, so we
Speaker 1: had no commercials for the first They said the first
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, it really was like forty minutes of the show.
Speaker 1: And you know what that means. Whenever you get a
Speaker 1: commercial free anything, you're gonna pay for it later in
Speaker 1: the second hour, and that's exactly what happened. So they
Speaker 1: were about to introduce jay us out to the ring
Speaker 1: when the New Day's music hit Kofi Kingston Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: They came out. Houston, Texas was not very happy to
Speaker 1: see them. They would not let them speak. They were
Speaker 1: trying to speak as they were coming to the ring,
Speaker 1: they got drowned out. And then clearly they're leaning into it.
Speaker 1: They're really trying to, you know, get the dominic mysteria
Speaker 1: thing going in every city that they go to. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had that megaheat a few weeks ago, but now
Speaker 1: they're like really leaning into it where you know, they
Speaker 1: could speak, but then they stop like they can't and
Speaker 1: it's like their cue like boo us more, and the
Speaker 1: crowd was more than happy to oblige, so they start
Speaker 1: channing New Day sucks. The continued to try to talk,
Speaker 1: kept getting booed, and then finally jay Usso's music hit
Speaker 1: and he entered it through the crowd. Once he made
Speaker 1: his way to the ring. Xavier Woods said, look, they
Speaker 1: go way back with Jay. We've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: battles between the New Day and the ussos. Who is
Speaker 1: this who just gifted five memberships? Brian, Brian Musha gifting
Speaker 1: five channel memberships. Thank you, Brian big G. No, it
Speaker 1: was not an hour commercial free. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of people who seemingly thought it was ninety minutes the
Speaker 1: first ninety minutes of the show, which on a two
Speaker 1: hour show is the majority of the fucking show. And
Speaker 1: I saw all these comments about it, oh, the first
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, and it wasn't ninety minutes, it was thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: It's just Wade Barrett's he's got that heavy accent. So
Speaker 1: I went back and I listened to it again. I
Speaker 1: thought maybe I was it's crazy, And apparently he definitely
Speaker 1: did not say ninety He said thirty minutes. But again,
Speaker 1: it was like a forty two or whatever before they
Speaker 1: took their first commercial break. But everybody thought Wade said
Speaker 1: ninety not the case. See, I can understand ninety minutes
Speaker 1: the first ninety minutes on a three hour show. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be commercial free for the first ninety minutes on
Speaker 1: a two hour show, you may as well just go
Speaker 1: commercial free for the whole two hours, and that's never
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's still not gonna happen on Netflix either,
Speaker 1: by the way. So they were again try to tell Jay, hey,
Speaker 1: we go way back. Jay told the fans quiet down
Speaker 1: so that we could hear what this chump has to say,
Speaker 1: and they ignored him. They ignored Jay Uso and they
Speaker 1: continued to boo anyway. So Jay said that he and
Speaker 1: the New Day they do go way back. But he
Speaker 1: only had one thing to say to the two of them.
Speaker 1: New Day sucks. It would stepped up to him. Kofe
Speaker 1: got him to back down. As the New Day left,
Speaker 1: Jay stayed in the ring. He said he's got other
Speaker 1: problems to address, namely the New Bloodline and Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: He said, Roman Rains is gonna handle Solo Socoa next week,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna handle Drew McIntyre. He called out McIntyre,
Speaker 1: but then Solo Socoa and the other members of the
Speaker 1: blood Line they pumped up on the Titan Tron. Solo
Speaker 1: said that Sammy's ay and he got a little too
Speaker 1: close to the sun. On SmackDown last Friday. You see
Speaker 1: what happened to him. He said, the Ula fallow will
Speaker 1: stay on his neck forever. He will destroy Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: next week in their tribal combat match, and then Jay
Speaker 1: and everybody else will acknowledge him, so clearly a message
Speaker 1: that they were sure to tape I'm sure backstage on
Speaker 1: Friday night. And that was the last we saw of
Speaker 1: or heard from Solo Socoa for the rest of the show.
Speaker 1: So after Solo's mess it was done. Playing Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: You could see him in the background and he comes
Speaker 1: out of the crowd. Jade doesn't see him, sneaks into
Speaker 1: the ring and he ambushes Jay Uso and laid a
Speaker 1: beat down on him, and then he set up for
Speaker 1: a Claymore kick, but he ate a superkick as he
Speaker 1: came in. McIntyre dropped him though with a Glasgow kiss
Speaker 1: and tried again for a Claymore, but officials hit the
Speaker 1: ring to prevent him from doing so, so they got
Speaker 1: Drew out of the ring, but then he broke free,
Speaker 1: ran back down to the ring, slid in and finally
Speaker 1: he connected on a Claymore kick and he yelled that
Speaker 1: Jay was next. You know, it's an amazing thing because
Speaker 1: almost nothing really happened here. And yet I looked at
Speaker 1: the clock and it was already eight to fifteen. Fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes of this show had already gone by and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really was mostly the New Day, you know,
Speaker 1: milking those booze and the reactions and the crowd just
Speaker 1: shitting all over them. They really took their time with that,
Speaker 1: so fifteen minutes went by, crowd was loud, though they
Speaker 1: were very animated for all of this. I still say
Speaker 1: there is a very good chance that Drew gets involved
Speaker 1: in Roman's match next week, even though they're telegraphing it.
Speaker 1: I mean I said this a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: after Saturday Night's main event. Remember when Drew beats Sammy
Speaker 1: and he was walking to the back and they got
Speaker 1: a shot of him. I think he posted the video
Speaker 1: on his social media. He had somebody film it with
Speaker 1: his phone and it was him walking to the back
Speaker 1: and he just was like one down, four to go. Remember,
Speaker 1: and I was having this discussion about, well, who are
Speaker 1: the other four people he's referring to, right, Jimmy and
Speaker 1: Jay obviously are two. Who are the other two Is
Speaker 1: it Roman and Solo? Is it Roman and Punk? Right?
Speaker 1: He made he was very clear four more to go
Speaker 1: after Sammy's a and so I was talking about that
Speaker 1: and I said, he's going to attack Roman Reigns on
Speaker 1: January sixth. He may even call him the match. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna cost him the match. A
Speaker 1: lot of it depends on what the outcome of tribal
Speaker 1: combat is going to be. If Roman Reigns is going
Speaker 1: to beat Solo Socoa next week and take back the
Speaker 1: ULA follow I don't see the point and Drew McIntyre
Speaker 1: getting involved in the match if Roman is just gonna
Speaker 1: win the ULA follow back anyway. If Drew's gonna get
Speaker 1: involved though, and costs Roman, that would make sense. Of course,
Speaker 1: it would prolong things with Solo. He'd still walk around
Speaker 1: as the tribal chief. But we could be in for
Speaker 1: a situation where Roman wins and then McIntyre shows up
Speaker 1: and jumps him. So I'm not sure what they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: but I do think that Drew will be involved in
Speaker 1: some way, either during the match or after the match,
Speaker 1: because Roman is on his hit list. Why wouldn't he be,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he said jay Uso is next.
Speaker 1: McIntire's wrestling jay next week, So there is that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be He's gonna be occupied with jay Uso, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna be under the same rum. And we know
Speaker 1: Roman is on his list. Roman is his number one
Speaker 1: target and all this. How does he factor into this?
Speaker 1: A lot of it depends on who goes over in
Speaker 1: that match. I just don't see the point and Drew
Speaker 1: getting involved. If Roman is gonna win, maybe Roman's not
Speaker 1: gonna win, I don't know. We'll see. We had Chad
Speaker 1: Gable one on one against Otis. This is a match
Speaker 1: that should have happened months ago when the story had
Speaker 1: reached its peak, because they had a good thing going
Speaker 1: there for a while. It was getting great heat every week.
Speaker 1: Gable was such a dick to him and too Tozawa
Speaker 1: and Maxine and the way he would bully them and
Speaker 1: berate them, and it was building to Otis, you know,
Speaker 1: finally getting that match and getting revenge on you know,
Speaker 1: master Gable, and we never got it. We never got
Speaker 1: a singles match between them. It's like they just blew
Speaker 1: it off. Gable kept losing, but he moved on to
Speaker 1: do other things, even showed up on SmackDown and wrestled
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes lost to him too. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they circle back around to this match. Gable started off
Speaker 1: by clubbing him with chops, had no effect. Otis responded
Speaker 1: with a shoulder block that left Gable all rattled in
Speaker 1: the corner. He lifted Gable over his head for the
Speaker 1: gorilla press drop, and then after he dropped him, Gable
Speaker 1: rolled out to the floor. So Gable created an opening
Speaker 1: for himself by avoiding a shoulder charge, and Otis went
Speaker 1: into the ring post. Gable targeted the left knee after
Speaker 1: that misfire, and later on Gable missed a diving headbutt
Speaker 1: off the top rope. When Otis rolled out of the way,
Speaker 1: Otis hit the caterpillar elbow drop well. When he tried
Speaker 1: for the pin, Gable was able to get his foot
Speaker 1: on the bottom rope. Creed brothers they were out there.
Speaker 1: They attacked tozawe ring side. That prompted Otis to get involved,
Speaker 1: and Maxine tackled Ivy Nile to the ground that got
Speaker 1: a pop. She was raining blows down on her. As
Speaker 1: Otis re entered the ring, Gable locked on the ankle lock,
Speaker 1: and after a struggle, Otis managed to power his way
Speaker 1: out of it, sent Gable out of the ring. Creeds
Speaker 1: entered and they got taken out by Otis. They got
Speaker 1: tossed into Gable. Otis was using them as a target practice,
Speaker 1: so then Otis locked on an ankle lock of his own.
Speaker 1: Gable escaped. He nailed a a very impressive deadlift German souplungs.
Speaker 1: You do a deadlift to someone the size of Otis,
Speaker 1: it's going to be impressive no matter what. But Gable
Speaker 1: obviously is the smaller of the two, but he's very strong,
Speaker 1: so that was impressive. Gable went up top, but he
Speaker 1: got met by a close line from Otis as he
Speaker 1: jumped off, and then Ivy Nile tried to grab at
Speaker 1: Otis from the outside. That created a momentary distraction that
Speaker 1: led to another ankle lock by check Gable, and this
Speaker 1: time the grapevine was applied and after a while, with
Speaker 1: nowhere to go and the pain intensifying, Otis had no
Speaker 1: choice but to tap out. If Gable would have lost
Speaker 1: this match, I would have personally gotten my golden shovel
Speaker 1: and I would have shoveled dirt on top of his
Speaker 1: Grave myself. He could not afford a loss in this match.
Speaker 1: I know, in the grand scheme of things, who gives
Speaker 1: a shit, right, he's in the mid card anyway, nobody cares.
Speaker 1: But he couldn't go in there and lose. He had
Speaker 1: to win this match. If you are going to do
Speaker 1: something of any real meaning or note, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: with Gable. It's not gonna be with Otis. There's just
Speaker 1: so much more upside with Gable if you use him
Speaker 1: the right way, and you could very easily call a
Speaker 1: clean slate new year, get him off this show, move
Speaker 1: him into something else. I don't see that being the
Speaker 1: case with us Otis. I'm not saying you can't do
Speaker 1: anything with Otis, and clearly Otis is beloved by the fans,
Speaker 1: but there is more to do with Chad Gable. There
Speaker 1: is more potential, there's more money potentially in Chad Gable
Speaker 1: if he is correctly used either as a heel or
Speaker 1: a babyface, than with Otis. He had to win this match.
Speaker 1: He's the one leading the charge with American Maid. He
Speaker 1: cannot keep losing. He needed to win, so it was
Speaker 1: necessary when I must win for him and a rare
Speaker 1: singles win for Chad Gable and it was a really
Speaker 1: good match to boot, probably the best singles match of
Speaker 1: Otis's career. I was racking my brain trying to think
Speaker 1: of a better match I've seen him in, at least
Speaker 1: singles wise, I can't think of one. So probably the
Speaker 1: best match he's ever had. But like I said before,
Speaker 1: you know, this match should have happened months ago. It
Speaker 1: was still fun to watch, you know, it was a
Speaker 1: fun match. Hopefully American made though get to one way
Speaker 1: ticket to smack Down and a fresh start in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five because they needed We got a lengthy video
Speaker 1: promo with comments from Rhea Ripley and Live Morgan. This
Speaker 1: was ahead of their Women's World title match on the
Speaker 1: Netflix premiere, which is coming up next week. For those
Speaker 1: who may have missed it, this is now a last
Speaker 1: woman's standing match. They added that stipulation in late last week.
Speaker 1: It was just randomly announced on the broadcast of Main Event.
Speaker 1: I don't know I was watching Main Event, but evidently
Speaker 1: it was either mentioned by the announcers where there was
Speaker 1: a commercial that advertised it. So yes, it's now a
Speaker 1: last woman's standing match. In the video here, Rhea Ripley
Speaker 1: said that after a year long reign is Champion, she
Speaker 1: walked into and out of WrestleMania with her title. She
Speaker 1: said that she took her eyes off the ball and
Speaker 1: she paid the price, or has paid the price for
Speaker 1: it ever since. She said that after all the backstabbing
Speaker 1: and all the games that Live Morgan, this has to end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're telling me, I would say so, Yes, this has
Speaker 1: to end. Morgan talked about taking the women's title the
Speaker 1: Judgment Day and Dominic all away from Riha. She said
Speaker 1: that she's been having so much fun that she is
Speaker 1: sad that it has to end. And Ripley said that
Speaker 1: Live cleared her of all the dead weight that was
Speaker 1: holding her down. She said that it's time to return
Speaker 1: the favor by unburdening Live of the women's world title.
Speaker 1: Live said that she's always been one step ahead of
Speaker 1: Rhea and this time will be no different. And Rhea
Speaker 1: said that Live is all out of moods, and Raquel
Speaker 1: and Dominic they can't save her from the beating that
Speaker 1: she has coming. And both women separately to close this out,
Speaker 1: said that this has to end. Truer words have never
Speaker 1: been spoken. This has to end, and I believe it
Speaker 1: will finally end next week. That's why we have ourselves
Speaker 1: a last woman's standing match, although a last woman's standing
Speaker 1: match could also be an invitation to bullshit because there's
Speaker 1: no disqualifications, there's nothing stopping Raquel, Dominic and anybody else
Speaker 1: from being involved. But I have to believe that this
Speaker 1: will finally be the end. Next week. We went backstage
Speaker 1: to the judgment day. They were all there, all but
Speaker 1: Live Morgan. She was not there, dom was there, JD McDonough, Carlito,
Speaker 1: they were all talking. Dominic told them that Liv has
Speaker 1: to have something up her sleep. Camra pulled back it
Speaker 1: showed Raquel and Finn Balor. Raquel said that Liv has
Speaker 1: been so busy preparing for her match with Rhea that
Speaker 1: she hasn't even spoken with her. Balor sarcastically said, well,
Speaker 1: lady Liv knows exactly how to handle Rhea Ripley because
Speaker 1: she has a plan for everything. Baler said that they
Speaker 1: have to take care of Damian Priest, and then as
Speaker 1: everybody else left, he held Raquel back and very insincerely
Speaker 1: told Raquel to tell Liv that he wishes her the
Speaker 1: very best of luck in her match next week. He
Speaker 1: may get involved in the match last woman standing. There's
Speaker 1: no rules. Ben Balor might come out there and try
Speaker 1: to help live and then it backfires and it blows
Speaker 1: up in her face. Could happen? We were supposed to
Speaker 1: get a match between Our Truth and Pete Dunn. Our
Speaker 1: Truth comes out, he is singing his song to the ring.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even make it to the ring. He's barely
Speaker 1: halfway down the aisleway and Pete Dunn attacks him from behind,
Speaker 1: beats the shit out of this guy, and producers run out,
Speaker 1: Referees run out and pull him off. Of Truth and
Speaker 1: Done says I'm nobody's butcher. He said that a few times,
Speaker 1: and that was it. We moved on. This was so
Speaker 1: insignificant that it wasn't even worth waiting to see if
Speaker 1: Our Truth was okay. It wasn't like he beat him
Speaker 1: with a fucking club or a chair, but that was it.
Speaker 1: Apparently Our Truth was unable to compete, and so we
Speaker 1: moved on to the next set, which is okay with me.
Speaker 1: I can't say that I'm sad about it. Kathy Kelly
Speaker 1: interviewed Eosky and Dakota Kai in the back about the
Speaker 1: possibility of the two of them meeting in the finals
Speaker 1: of the Intercontinental Title Tournament. Dakota talked about taking out
Speaker 1: Zoe Stark tonight and then said that it would be
Speaker 1: an honor to face EO if it comes to that.
Speaker 1: She said, the thing that matters is that a member
Speaker 1: of Damage Control walks away with the championship, and then
Speaker 1: she left and EO said that the knight belongs to
Speaker 1: Damage Control. That led into our first of two semifinal
Speaker 1: round matches in the tournament to crown and icy champion
Speaker 1: Dakota Kai against Zoe Stark. Zoe was in control until
Speaker 1: Dakota caught her with a rolling backcracker. Then across the ring,
Speaker 1: Dakota cracked her with a boot to the head that
Speaker 1: led to a near fall. Zoe answered with an exploder
Speaker 1: suplex and a need of the head. There was an
Speaker 1: attempted springboard attack by Zoe, but she caught a super
Speaker 1: kick to the face, and then Dakota finished things off
Speaker 1: with the fireman's carry into the Pelle kick, which was
Speaker 1: supposed to land flush and the announcers called it as
Speaker 1: if it landed flush right in the head. Actually it didn't,
Speaker 1: and it caught Zoe under the armpit an unfortunate botch
Speaker 1: at the finish, which is the worst possible time for
Speaker 1: there to be one, but it was minor. Nobody seemed
Speaker 1: to either notice or carer her Wing got a good
Speaker 1: reaction from the crowd, and Dakota Kai now advances to
Speaker 1: the finals. And so this was a solid match. I
Speaker 1: thought it was. It was fine, and Dakota now moves
Speaker 1: on to the finals, and that paves the way now
Speaker 1: at this point in the show, right, it paves the
Speaker 1: way potentially for an all damage control final in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Because they were really pushing this hard as a possibility.
Speaker 1: I just never bought into it actually happening. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why, because they drew so much
Speaker 1: attention to it. It's like somebody walking around with the
Speaker 1: money in the bank briefcase and the announcers won't shut
Speaker 1: up about, Oh, they might cash in tonight, they might
Speaker 1: cash in tonight. It's like that thing that the announcers do,
Speaker 1: and they do this in both companies, and it just
Speaker 1: drives me nuts. When you're watching a championship match, main
Speaker 1: event match, right, and it's building and it's building and
Speaker 1: it's building, and the announcers or one of them anyway,
Speaker 1: will say he's gonna win the title, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, no, he's not. Thanks thanks for telling me
Speaker 1: he's not. I just I never understand why they do that,
Speaker 1: Like there might be certain situations where Okay, you want
Speaker 1: to have your announcers kind of throw that out there
Speaker 1: as a possibility, but they kind of just it's like
Speaker 1: as a nervous reflex or something. They do it so
Speaker 1: often and it's just a complete spoiler to what's coming,
Speaker 1: and it always just drove me nuts. The fact that
Speaker 1: they were pushing this so hard tonight should have been
Speaker 1: a tell to people that it wasn't going to happen,
Speaker 1: but there were still people who were shocked we got
Speaker 1: the result of that match. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know why people are so surprised. So they showed Jude
Speaker 1: Testatur and Wade Barrett they were speaking at ringside. Testitaur
Speaker 1: said that Raw has aired on cable television since the
Speaker 1: very first episode, which aired on January eleventh, nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: and the other thing they did tonight many many times,
Speaker 1: even right at the very end of the show, every
Speaker 1: time they mentioned that Ra's moving to Netflix next week,
Speaker 1: they were sure to follow it up by letting everybody know,
Speaker 1: but SmackDown is still on USA, Like Ra's moving to Netflix,
Speaker 1: but SmackDown's going to be on USA, so don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, which again is smart because you will have
Speaker 1: people who don't really pay attention, and when they realized
Speaker 1: that Raw moved to Netflix, they'll wonder where's back Down,
Speaker 1: So you have to let people know. But yes, they
Speaker 1: were talking about Raw being on USA for many, many years.
Speaker 1: Obviously there was a break in between when they went
Speaker 1: to TNN for those five years, but otherwise it's been
Speaker 1: all USA Network over all these years. Over twelve hundred
Speaker 1: episodes of Raw on USA alone. And then they aired
Speaker 1: a video package showcasing Raw's run on USA Network and
Speaker 1: it was filled with highlights from ninety three right on
Speaker 1: until the present day. So you got highlights of a
Speaker 1: lot of the big Raw moments from over the years
Speaker 1: and from the Attitude era and John Cena era and
Speaker 1: the shield and one two three kid pinning razor remote
Speaker 1: and just everything everything in between. And the final shot
Speaker 1: of that video was stone cold Steve Austin in his
Speaker 1: Camo hat and his camo was he wearing a camo
Speaker 1: jacket during the beer truck. I think he was right,
Speaker 1: but it was him standing on top of the beer truck,
Speaker 1: which is one of the all time great moments in
Speaker 1: Raw history. And it was a very appropriate thing to
Speaker 1: end on because when you think of Monday Night Pral,
Speaker 1: unless you are a fan who only started watching Raw,
Speaker 1: you are a fan that started watching this show in
Speaker 1: the last five years. If you think of Monday Night Raw,
Speaker 1: you immediately think of stone Cold Steve Austin. Like when
Speaker 1: you think of all the major names, okay, and there
Speaker 1: have been a lot of them that have appeared on
Speaker 1: this show over the years. You could pick out different eras, right,
Speaker 1: the PG era, the Sena era, the Roman era, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. Stone Cold Steve Austin is
Speaker 1: the name that you associate with Monday Night Brawl. If
Speaker 1: you are a longtime fan of this show, it's Austin
Speaker 1: and everybody else is fighting for second place, including Rock
Speaker 1: Rock Sena, you can name them all. This show will
Speaker 1: forever be associated with Stone Cold Steve baw and the
Speaker 1: greatest moments and most memorable moments and segments in the
Speaker 1: history of this show all involved Steve Austin, usually with
Speaker 1: some sort of a piece of machinery or some vehicle.
Speaker 1: But I think of Raw, I think of Austin, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not the only one. We had some
Speaker 1: six man tag team action with Damian Priest and the
Speaker 1: war Raiders the new Raw Tag Team Champions against Finn Balor,
Speaker 1: JD McDonough and Dominic Mysterio. We are still getting Damian
Speaker 1: Priest feuding with the Judgment Day. Oh I should I
Speaker 1: have to start with this. I can't forget this. The
Speaker 1: Judgment Day. We got breaking news here. The Judgment Day
Speaker 1: have new music. Alter Bridges no more. They have new music.
Speaker 1: They have been given the Deaf Rebel Special. I don't
Speaker 1: even know Deaf Rebel necessarily composed this theme. I assume
Speaker 1: they did. But when I say the Deaf Rebel Special,
Speaker 1: what I mean is you have a theme and it's
Speaker 1: actually pretty good, and then you get a downgrade because
Speaker 1: you are not allowed, apparently to continue to have an
Speaker 1: awesome theme song. So like Seamus who got his old
Speaker 1: theme back and then he had it taken away from
Speaker 1: him for some shitty generic Irish music, the same has
Speaker 1: now happened to the Judgment Day. We went from alter
Speaker 1: Bridge to what is now Honestly, the song itself, my
Speaker 1: first time hearing it, I'm not even gonna say it's bad.
Speaker 1: It's just a bad fit for this group. It doesn't
Speaker 1: fit the Judgment Day at all. Like that song was
Speaker 1: associated with this group from day one. Like you hear
Speaker 1: that music, you think of the Judgment Day, and now
Speaker 1: they have some sort of generic, you know, hip hop
Speaker 1: song or whatever it is. It's not a good fit.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the music had to change. Frankly,
Speaker 1: this group feels like it's on its last legs anyway,
Speaker 1: So in the end it might not even matter, although
Speaker 1: the fact that they got new music probably tells me
Speaker 1: that they're not splitting up any time soon. Otherwise, why
Speaker 1: even bother giving them new music. So now we're going
Speaker 1: to be in for another two years of the Judgment
Speaker 1: Day with Dominic mysterio perhaps as the leader. Balor saved
Speaker 1: McDonough from a war Raiders double team, but he and
Speaker 1: mcdonoughh got sent flying onto the announced desk by a
Speaker 1: double charge from Eric and Ivar. They returned from the
Speaker 1: commercial break to Eric attempting to fight his way out
Speaker 1: of the Judgment Day corner. Ivar got in, he missed,
Speaker 1: then the Bronco buster. As Balor got out of the way,
Speaker 1: I leaped to his corner. He made the tag to
Speaker 1: Damian Priest, who proceeded to clean house. He had Dominic
Speaker 1: in his sights. South of Heaven. Attempt was interrupted by Carlito,
Speaker 1: who provided a distraction long enough, which is basically all
Speaker 1: Carlito is good for these days. It's for that momentary
Speaker 1: distraction and then getting his ass kicked. But that was
Speaker 1: just long enough for dom to clip the leg of
Speaker 1: Damian Priest. Action outside saw Balor and McDonagh get taken
Speaker 1: out of the equation by the war Raiders. In the ring,
Speaker 1: Priest put an end to things with a swinging It
Speaker 1: was kind of like a swinging South of Heaven chokes,
Speaker 1: almost like he caught him for like a boss Man slam,
Speaker 1: but we'll call it a swinging South of Heaven on
Speaker 1: Dominic and he got the pinned. After the match, Balor
Speaker 1: got the jump on Priest and attack the knee. Eric
Speaker 1: and Ivar. They stepped in before Balor could do any damage,
Speaker 1: and Balor vowed as he left, this isn't over. He said,
Speaker 1: this is over. What I say it's over, and I
Speaker 1: wept when he said this isn't over. I wept. I
Speaker 1: wept for the end of two hour raws, and I
Speaker 1: wept when he reminded me that this feud is not over.
Speaker 1: It's the only question is when do you do the match? When?
Speaker 1: When is a good time for them? Because clearly they're
Speaker 1: not wrestling next week or they would have announced the
Speaker 1: Balor or Priest match. So when is a good time
Speaker 1: to finally blow this thing off once and for all.
Speaker 1: Do we do it as a TV main event in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, do we do it on Saturday Nights
Speaker 1: main event? Do we do it at the Royal Rumble?
Speaker 1: Just don't tell me Wrestle Madia anything but that it's
Speaker 1: like live in real like. I can't wait for wrestlemedia
Speaker 1: for this. This has to this has to be over before.
Speaker 1: So when do they do the match? I feel like
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event or the Rumble would be a
Speaker 1: good place to put some finality to this. In the back,
Speaker 1: Adam Pearson formed a very upset jay usso that he
Speaker 1: knows he's very angry right now. But Drew McIntyre was
Speaker 1: already scored it out of the arena. But next week
Speaker 1: he's gonna give him what he wants, He's gonna give
Speaker 1: him a match one on one with Drew McIntyre. So
Speaker 1: that match has now been added to Raw. On Netflix's
Speaker 1: debut next week, it will be Drew McIntyre one on
Speaker 1: one with Jay Usso then we had a teaser video
Speaker 1: for the newest addition to Monday Night Raw. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, guys, and I'm gonna show you this
Speaker 1: right here on your screen right now, was the latest
Speaker 1: tease for a new star debuting on RAW. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, guys, I'm gonna need your help here because
Speaker 1: I'm drawing a blank. I mean, I just can't figure
Speaker 1: out who this is. Who could this be? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but apparently he or she is coming to Monday Night
Speaker 1: Raw very soon. Let me know in the chat wrong
Speaker 1: answers only for who this is coming to Monday Night
Speaker 1: Row come back. And in the ring is Ludwig Kaiser.
Speaker 1: He's standing in the middle of the ring and he
Speaker 1: referred to himself as European Elegance. No relation. I'm sure
Speaker 1: to ash by Elegance. In TNA, he wanted bron Breaker
Speaker 1: to come out. I got a funny note on bron Breaker.
Speaker 1: I'll get to in a minute, but he wanted bron
Speaker 1: Breaker to come out. He didn't get bron Breaker, he
Speaker 1: got Seamus instead. We haven't seen Seamus since Survivor Series.
Speaker 1: He came out in street clothes. He looked pissed off.
Speaker 1: He stormed down to the ring and he immediately drilled
Speaker 1: Kaiser with a knee strike. They talked about how Kaiser
Speaker 1: had broken Seamus's ribs at Survivor Series. This was his
Speaker 1: big return. Fans didn't really react to it like a
Speaker 1: big return, but I guess that's kind of how they
Speaker 1: wanted to portray it. Kaiser briefly put up a fight,
Speaker 1: but he got felled by a Brogue kick and then
Speaker 1: he rolled out to safety and that was the end
Speaker 1: of that. So welcome back Seamus. I guess we'll be
Speaker 1: getting a TV match in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: probably with him and Ludwig Kaiser. We go to the back.
Speaker 1: Raymysterio is hanging out just in the back with the
Speaker 1: LWO and they are with the Alpha Academy and Ray
Speaker 1: is trying to perk up Otis. Obviously he's very upset
Speaker 1: after losing to Chad Gable earlier in the night and
Speaker 1: He's telling him to keep his head high. You're going
Speaker 1: to have another shot to kick that guy's ass. Otis
Speaker 1: got all fired up and off he went. Now, the
Speaker 1: whole point of this was to show that Raymisterio is
Speaker 1: a locker room leader, so that when the New Day
Speaker 1: walked up to him, they can mock him for it.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened. Kofeie Kingston and Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: They walk up to him and they are making fun
Speaker 1: of Ray, calling him a locker room leader. This all
Speaker 1: resulted in Ray issuing a challenge to the two of
Speaker 1: them for a tag team match, and they accepted. And
Speaker 1: then Xavier Woods was wondering, which one of your loyal
Speaker 1: followers here is going to be your tag team partner?
Speaker 1: And he went down the line of all the LWE members.
Speaker 1: He said, this guy in a mask talking about Dragonly,
Speaker 1: this guy in a hat talking about Joking Wilde, this
Speaker 1: guy with no hat talking about Cruz del Toro. He said,
Speaker 1: maybe her, maybe he's Alena Vegel, will be your tag
Speaker 1: team partner. And that's how they left it. How about
Speaker 1: none of the above. I know who his partner is
Speaker 1: gonna be. This is how we get the debut of Penta.
Speaker 1: I assume this is taking place next week. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they officially announced this tag match or not,
Speaker 1: but next week is where we're gonna get Penta on
Speaker 1: this show. And it's the perfect way to introduce him
Speaker 1: to the show, because right off the bat, you've got
Speaker 1: this guy. If he's gonna be Rimsterio's tag team partner,
Speaker 1: you've got him rubbing elbows with someone who is still
Speaker 1: you know, he's not the most prominently featured anymore, but
Speaker 1: he's still one of the biggest baby faces on the show.
Speaker 1: He's a legend, right, He's a Hall of Fame, big
Speaker 1: deal if you are debuting and you are immediately going
Speaker 1: to be associated or partnered with someone like Raymysterio. So
Speaker 1: I think that's a great spot to debut him in.
Speaker 1: And as I talked about last week when I talked
Speaker 1: about this very idea, I then would like to see
Speaker 1: Penta turn on Raymas Stereo and beat the crap out
Speaker 1: of it. And it doesn't even necessarily have to be
Speaker 1: next week. It could be the week after, but next
Speaker 1: week would be a fine time to do it as well,
Speaker 1: because you really want to make an impact. That's the
Speaker 1: way you do it, you show up, you're in that spot.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get a great reaction. I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be enough people who know who this fucking
Speaker 1: guy is that when they hit his music or they
Speaker 1: show his face or he walks out or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna have this great entrance to He's gonna
Speaker 1: get a great reaction. He's gonna be super over. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of all of this, I would
Speaker 1: like to see him attack Raymysterio and set up a
Speaker 1: program between Penta and RAYMS Stereo as we head into
Speaker 1: the rumble, we head into WrestleMania. I think that would
Speaker 1: be a great way to start his run off, but
Speaker 1: as a heel, because the one thing I don't want
Speaker 1: to see is pent the debuting and then all the memes, right,
Speaker 1: what are all the memes and the jokes about Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him in the LWO or
Speaker 1: in Legato, and then you're gonna put the fucking guy
Speaker 1: in the LWO. I don't want to see him in
Speaker 1: the LWO. I want to see him try to, if anything,
Speaker 1: take down the LWO. I want to see him in
Speaker 1: the ring against Dragonly. I want to see him in
Speaker 1: the ring against raymys Stereo. That's where I would like
Speaker 1: to see this go, but as a way to introduce
Speaker 1: him to the WWE audience and to introduce him on
Speaker 1: what is honestly shaping up to be the biggest, most
Speaker 1: highly promoted episode of RAW in the thirty plus year
Speaker 1: history of this show. What a spot for Penta to
Speaker 1: make his debut. And I can only imagine what is
Speaker 1: going through the mind of Ray Phoenix. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: very happy for his brother, but you know, there's a
Speaker 1: piece of him that's just sitting at home, not doing anything,
Speaker 1: not working or anything, sitting on his ass at home,
Speaker 1: who's just dying on the inside, like it should have
Speaker 1: been us, not just him. It should have been me.
Speaker 1: It should have been us, and it's not, and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be for a long time yet. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's very frustrating for him. But I'm happy
Speaker 1: for Penta because this, this I think is gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see how he a similates
Speaker 1: into WWE. We have seen other luchador's debut and we
Speaker 1: have seen what's happened with them. Dragon Lee is a
Speaker 1: great example of this. Dragon Lee actually had a nice
Speaker 1: run in NXT, and then he got called up to
Speaker 1: the main roster and it looked like Triple H was
Speaker 1: a fan of his, and he was being pushed pretty
Speaker 1: well actually initially when he debuted on SmackDown and he disappeared,
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks went by no Dragonly, and I don't
Speaker 1: remember if it was an injury issue or a visa issue,
Speaker 1: or what the issue was. When he came back, he
Speaker 1: was never pushed at the same level that he was
Speaker 1: when he was on SmackDown. The move to Monday Night
Speaker 1: Raw basically ruined whatever momentum he had built up to
Speaker 1: that point. And Dragonly is a tremendous talent. It sucks
Speaker 1: to see him just sort of withering away in the background.
Speaker 1: And we've seen this with other people who have debut,
Speaker 1: other other international stars and Lucador's as well. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see the same thing happen to Penta. Penta
Speaker 1: is someone who not only is he a good wrestler,
Speaker 1: but he just has this charisma about him that not
Speaker 1: a lot of people have. Now mean, he may not
Speaker 1: be going out there every week and cutting these long
Speaker 1: promos in English. That may not be his strong suit.
Speaker 1: I think it would be best to have somebody with him.
Speaker 1: You know. Even in Luca Underground we found out that
Speaker 1: his master was vamp right, he had Penta and Van Piro,
Speaker 1: and then in aw they put Alex Abrahontes with him.
Speaker 1: In Phoenix, I do think it would be best to
Speaker 1: have somebody with him, But he is someone who can
Speaker 1: get over. He doesn't have to go out there and
Speaker 1: cut promos. He just has to go out there and
Speaker 1: say Sarah Miato. He just has to go out there
Speaker 1: and give a hand gesture. They can make those Penta gloves.
Speaker 1: My god, they'll make a killing off those gloves if
Speaker 1: they sell them on Wwe' shop. Like, he can get
Speaker 1: over and be a big star for them if they
Speaker 1: give him the opportunity to be a big star, and
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope that he's able to do that.
Speaker 1: And then eventually, when Ray Phoenix is free and he
Speaker 1: comes in, you could have the Lucha Bros As a
Speaker 1: tag team. Right, that will happen at some point. It's
Speaker 1: just going to be a very long time before we
Speaker 1: see that. But you just know, you just know that
Speaker 1: Phoenix has watched and this is just it's eating them
Speaker 1: up on the inside like, motherfucker, I should be there too.
Speaker 1: It sucks, but what are you gonna do? So we
Speaker 1: had the final semifinal match in the women's tournament to
Speaker 1: crown the first ever intercontinental champion, with Lyra Valkyria taking
Speaker 1: on EO Sky. This one, here was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: This and the closing segment were the two best things
Speaker 1: of the entire show as matches go, easily the best
Speaker 1: match of the night, but this was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Dakota Kai. They showed her up. She was sitting in
Speaker 1: one of the suits watching on, and they again tease
Speaker 1: the idea though we might get an old damage control
Speaker 1: final like okay, so very fast paced here at the beginning,
Speaker 1: a lot of dodges and roll up attempts from both women.
Speaker 1: Valkyria she gained control with a dropkick to EO's knee. EO,
Speaker 1: though was able to fight back. She went up top.
Speaker 1: She got slammed though knee first by Lyra and that
Speaker 1: took us to a commercial break. EO made a comeback.
Speaker 1: She soared off the top with a missile drop kick
Speaker 1: that got her a close to count. There was an
Speaker 1: O'Connor roll by EO that turned into a bridging German
Speaker 1: sup plex on Lyra and Lyra kicked out spinning heel
Speaker 1: kicked from. Valkyria could not get the job done either,
Speaker 1: and so she headed up to the top rope again.
Speaker 1: Eo met her there on the ropes and began to
Speaker 1: batter her with strikes before she hit this fantastic rolling
Speaker 1: avalanche power bomb basically off the top rope for the
Speaker 1: nearest of near falls, and the crowd was with them too.
Speaker 1: Crowd was with them, which was impressive because Lyra Valkyria
Speaker 1: has not been featured prominently at all on television in
Speaker 1: quite some time. You know, to the point that I
Speaker 1: was just making a moment ago about Dragon Lee right
Speaker 1: Lyra Valkyria. At first. First, you know, they had her
Speaker 1: and Becky Lynch sharing television time together right before Becky left,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of done as a way. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Becky wanted to work with her. That was done
Speaker 1: as a way to try to get her off the
Speaker 1: ground and like, oh okay, she's got the Becky Lynch endorsement,
Speaker 1: so she was also getting some television time. She went
Speaker 1: all the way to the finals of the Queen of
Speaker 1: the Ring tournament before she got squashed literally by Nya Jacks,
Speaker 1: and then after that it again, it's like hard for
Speaker 1: her to even buy time on TV. You know how
Speaker 1: they have these infomercials, these time buys. She was calling
Speaker 1: Titan Tower trying to buy time on this show and
Speaker 1: they said nope, that happened, and they cooled her off
Speaker 1: a lot. So it's understandable if she were to go
Speaker 1: out there and the crowd would just be sort of
Speaker 1: indifferent to her. They were mostly reacting to EO. They
Speaker 1: were cheering for EO. EO is just she's super over
Speaker 1: right now, but they were reacting to Lyra too. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it was all Leo because that
Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair. So EO went up to the top rope.
Speaker 1: She hit a standing moon salt from the top onto
Speaker 1: a standing Lyra that is on the floor outside, and
Speaker 1: so at Lyra's stunned, she put her back in the ring.
Speaker 1: And now EO goes back up to the top rope
Speaker 1: once more, and EO Sky is setting up for her
Speaker 1: over the moonsalt. Lyra rolls out of the way and
Speaker 1: EO lands on her feet. There was another O'Connor roll
Speaker 1: by EO that this time was reversed into a bridging
Speaker 1: pin by Lyra Valkyria. Four. What wasn't for me, but
Speaker 1: seemingly for most other people, was the shock win. Lyra
Speaker 1: Valkyria beats e O Sky and she punches her ticket
Speaker 1: to the finals of the tournament. In two weeks, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be her one on one with Dakota Kai. One
Speaker 1: of those two women will be the first ever intercontinental champion.
Speaker 1: Eo is so fucking good. She's just so good at
Speaker 1: what she does. And Lyra's very good too. I take
Speaker 1: nothing away from her. They were both very good in
Speaker 1: this match. Eo, though, is just as the women go.
Speaker 1: She's just on another level from most everybody else they
Speaker 1: have on that roster. They tipped their hand, though a
Speaker 1: little too hard. They went in a little too deep
Speaker 1: on all of the damage control final We might get
Speaker 1: a damage all damage control in the finals of the tournament.
Speaker 1: And they said it so many times that they managed
Speaker 1: to convince most people. I would have thought that it's
Speaker 1: not actually going to happen, and it didn't. And I
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised, because you know, EO Sky was obviously always
Speaker 1: going to go to the semifinals of this tournament. Because
Speaker 1: they did a storyline injury angle with Kyrie Sing. I
Speaker 1: don't believe Kyrie is hert so she was always going
Speaker 1: to go to the semi finals. But Eo is in
Speaker 1: a position where she should be doing so much more.
Speaker 1: And the best part about this is that it frees
Speaker 1: up EO Sky now to do something bigger as we
Speaker 1: go into WrestleMania. They had that tease several weeks ago
Speaker 1: on Raw that ended with Rhea Ripley and EO Sky.
Speaker 1: They were each tugging at the Women's Championship. We had
Speaker 1: that parting shot of the two of them having a
Speaker 1: face off. They were having a standown right at the
Speaker 1: end of the show, and that's when I had this
Speaker 1: Eureka moment in my head and I'm like, well, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, all right, I change your plans here, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe have EO Sky beat liv Morgan to win the
Speaker 1: championship and then you can blow off the feud with
Speaker 1: Riha and live and have Eo go into WrestleMania as
Speaker 1: the defending champion and have Ria beat her for the belt.
Speaker 1: Because the whole thing is like Rihea is going to
Speaker 1: get the belt back next week. Do you honestly believe
Speaker 1: that Rhea Ripley is going to win the Women's World
Speaker 1: Championship on January sixth, and that they're going to take
Speaker 1: the belt off for her at WrestleMania. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're going to take the belt off of her that quickly.
Speaker 1: So it just felt to me like if Eo at
Speaker 1: least is champion now, she could be the defending champion
Speaker 1: like she was this year going into WrestleMania, and then
Speaker 1: she could drop the belt to Rea, the roles being reversed.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't feel that EO's chances of becoming champion are
Speaker 1: very good, but that doesn't mean that I don't want
Speaker 1: to see the match I do. I do, And if
Speaker 1: they're not going to do Ria Ripley against Bianca bel Air,
Speaker 1: which is probably the only other Rio Ripley match that
Speaker 1: I would say I would rather see at WrestleMania next year,
Speaker 1: if there's a path to do Rhea and Bianca, I
Speaker 1: would take it because I think that match could be
Speaker 1: that fucking good. But if not, then I would like
Speaker 1: to see Eo Sky be the one. So now she's free,
Speaker 1: she's not the Intercontinental champion, she's not going to be.
Speaker 1: She could win the Royal Rumble. She doesn't even have
Speaker 1: to win the Rumble. She could win the elimination Chamber
Speaker 1: right either one, and then she can become number one contender.
Speaker 1: We can get Ria Ripley and Eosky at WRESTLEMANI she's
Speaker 1: just too good and too popular right now not to
Speaker 1: be involved in some kind of big match of WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: She has to be on the card, and I just
Speaker 1: don't know what else she would be doing. It always
Speaker 1: just felt to me like that title, that ICEE title
Speaker 1: was Lira's for the taking. So Lyra Valcarria winning the
Speaker 1: Intercown Metal Championship. She was my original pick to win
Speaker 1: the entire thing, so I just stuck with her the
Speaker 1: entire time, and I feel the same way now that
Speaker 1: I did then. Not only do I think she's gonna win,
Speaker 1: but I think that they will likely end up doing
Speaker 1: Lyra defending against Becky Lynch at Wrestle Maani. But again,
Speaker 1: that frees up Eo Sky now to do something with
Speaker 1: the women's world title. So even though she lost here,
Speaker 1: I think that it's gonna end up, I hope, being
Speaker 1: a very good thing for her. Or if you're an
Speaker 1: Eo Sky Finn Believe me, there's bigger and better things
Speaker 1: that she could be doing at WRESTLEMANI now I mentioned
Speaker 1: a little while ago I was gonna say something about
Speaker 1: bron Breaker. Bron Breaker was, I guess not supposed to
Speaker 1: be on the show tonight, But something very odd happened
Speaker 1: in the final commercial break of the show. They cut
Speaker 1: back to raw literally for two seconds, that's about how
Speaker 1: long it lasted, and we very briefly got a shot
Speaker 1: a bron Breaker being interviewed. It looked like he was
Speaker 1: being interviewed by Adam Pierce, of all people, he was
Speaker 1: talking to Adam Pierce. It looked like he was up
Speaker 1: in one of the suites with his back turned to
Speaker 1: the crowd because you can see the crowd behind him,
Speaker 1: and the only thing we heard out of his mouth
Speaker 1: was Seamus. And they quickly cut away and went right
Speaker 1: back to commercial. Then by the time they came back
Speaker 1: seth Rollins was in the ring because he had made
Speaker 1: his entrance before the break. Rollins is in the ring
Speaker 1: for the closing segment. So that was it. That was
Speaker 1: the last we saw bron Breaker. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck happened there. I'm assuming that was never meant
Speaker 1: to air. It wasn't that it got cut. It was
Speaker 1: probably they'll probably put it up on YouTube or something.
Speaker 1: I'm curious what he was talking about, but we'll never
Speaker 1: know because we didn't see him again after that. So
Speaker 1: that was very strange. So he went to the ring
Speaker 1: for the closing segment and it was Seth Rollins in
Speaker 1: the ring, who actually, compared to how he usually a dresses,
Speaker 1: he looked as normal as we've seen him on this
Speaker 1: show in a very long time. And he bored all
Speaker 1: of us by rambling on and on about next week.
Speaker 1: You know, after next week, I'm still gonna be here.
Speaker 1: I'll be here the following week and the week after that,
Speaker 1: and CM Punk he's gonna take his ball and go
Speaker 1: home again. So that brought out CM Punk. Punk gets
Speaker 1: into the ring and he calls him. He calls Rollins
Speaker 1: out for his line about taking his ball and going home.
Speaker 1: First time I have heard that on a wrestling show,
Speaker 1: but probably the first time I ever heard it anywhere
Speaker 1: was Vince McMahon, Right, Vince McMahon and The Rock. He
Speaker 1: brought The Rock back in a panic after Austin walked
Speaker 1: out in two thousand and two, Right, Oh, stone Cold
Speaker 1: took his ball and he went home. So Punk calls
Speaker 1: him out for using what he calls one of the
Speaker 1: most cliched boot liquor lines that he's ever heard. What
Speaker 1: paragon of virtue? Did you get that from? Right? The
Speaker 1: same line that he used in that promo segment earlier
Speaker 1: in the year when it was him and Seth and
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre, which is one of the best television segments
Speaker 1: all year. We had that three way promo and Drew
Speaker 1: was sitting cross legged on top of the announced desk,
Speaker 1: and he said it to He said it to Drew right.
Speaker 1: He was talking about how somebody called you the chosen
Speaker 1: won many years ago. Oh, what paragon of virtue was it?
Speaker 1: So he reused the line here he said, what paragon
Speaker 1: of virtue did you get that from? Who originally said that?
Speaker 1: Who wanted to turn the people again to the boys?
Speaker 1: Whenever he got told no, Yeah, whatever happened to that guy?
Speaker 1: Fuck that guy? He said, did stone cold Steve Austin
Speaker 1: take his ball and go home? You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the man around these parts in a long time?
Speaker 1: Did she take her ball and go home? Too? And
Speaker 1: that got a rise out of the crowd goes, you
Speaker 1: want to tell fifteen thousand strong in Houston that I
Speaker 1: abandoned them? Or do you just want to cry because
Speaker 1: I abandon you? Punk said that he has no regrets.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to talk about the last ten years.
Speaker 1: He wants to talk about the last ten months. How's
Speaker 1: your neck? And Seth said that my neck is fine.
Speaker 1: He starts moving his neck around. Then he goes, how's
Speaker 1: your knee? And Seth starts to jump up and down
Speaker 1: on one leg. Punk, how's your insights because I watched
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid hit you with six tsunamis, how's your pride
Speaker 1: because you didn't get revenge on him? And you saw
Speaker 1: me break his ankle in war Games? And I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here and I'm like, I'm like going crazy because I'm
Speaker 1: listening to see I'm punks say all of these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm thinking to myself, like he asked
Speaker 1: him about every part of his body except the one
Speaker 1: part that he cried about for half the year. What
Speaker 1: about the back? Didn't this guy he was selling a
Speaker 1: broken back on television. You ask him about the neck,
Speaker 1: You ask him about the knee, You ask him about
Speaker 1: the guts, you don't ask him about the back. That
Speaker 1: was part of his story for MUDs, that he was
Speaker 1: wrestling with a broken back. Ah drove me nuts. So
Speaker 1: Punk said he came back. He didn't want to make friends.
Speaker 1: He told us in that first promo on Raw, I'm
Speaker 1: not here to make friends. I'm here to make money.
Speaker 1: He goes, next week, I get to make a boatload
Speaker 1: of cash, making Seth the victim that he so badly
Speaker 1: wants to be. And he called him little brother, So
Speaker 1: Rollins told him, cut that little brother crap. You know
Speaker 1: the difference between Punk and everybody else who left, He
Speaker 1: said that they actually left. He said his wife, she
Speaker 1: left to go raise a kid, something that he knows.
Speaker 1: Punk knows nothing about. He said, you don't know what
Speaker 1: that's like. Stone Cold he said it was the biggest
Speaker 1: mistake he ever made. He understands about change. I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure what he really meant by that. By the way,
Speaker 1: Stone cold'sm been getting a lot of mentions lately, even
Speaker 1: in that New Day promo, and they turn heel on
Speaker 1: big e right stone Cold. Steve Austin broke his neck
Speaker 1: and he came back. So we got two stone Cold
Speaker 1: name drops here in this segment. What's he going to
Speaker 1: be doing at WrestleMania. He's already said he's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: He doesn't he doesn't like to leave his home state.
Speaker 1: He doesn't live in Texas anymore. He's he's lived in
Speaker 1: Nevada for many years. WrestleMania is coming to his home state. So,
Speaker 1: unlike this year, he will be at WrestleMania next year.
Speaker 1: What would you have Stone Cold Steve Austin doing. I
Speaker 1: just remembered that I haven't even given any thought to
Speaker 1: what Austin could be doing on that show. He's not
Speaker 1: going to be wrestling, but like, what could he be
Speaker 1: involved at? What match would make sense for for Stone
Speaker 1: Cold to be involved? I don't know, wouldn't a Stone
Speaker 1: Cold John Cena match? Right? We never did get that match.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm not I'm not pitching for it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's interesting, it's interesting to think about.
Speaker 1: But he said Punk wanted this place to die with
Speaker 1: the echoes of those CM punk chants. He went on
Speaker 1: his buddy's podcast and he tried to tear this place down,
Speaker 1: and when that didn't work, he took every shot that
Speaker 1: he could to try to kill this place, and he
Speaker 1: still couldn't do it, and then he took a big
Speaker 1: chunk of change to go join the competition. How'd that
Speaker 1: work out for you? Seth said, He stayed and he fought.
Speaker 1: That's how revolutions are made. Oh my god, this revolution's
Speaker 1: crap again, I said. The biggest thing, one of the
Speaker 1: biggest annoyances about the Seth Rolins gimmick to me is
Speaker 1: when he comes out and he's cackling like a frickin' jackal,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I am a visionary, I am a revolutionary.
Speaker 1: And I said, what did you revolution at? Fashioned? Like
Speaker 1: fucking hell you did? What is he ever revolutionized? I
Speaker 1: still haven't gotten a straight answer to this question, but
Speaker 1: he says it in every promo when he comes out.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about revolutions, and this is how revolutions
Speaker 1: are made. You stay in the trenches and you fight,
Speaker 1: not by cowards who abandon their families. That's how we
Speaker 1: win the war. That's how we won the war. And
Speaker 1: now you want to come back in here and wave
Speaker 1: the flag with us, No way. You can't big brother
Speaker 1: me anymore, because I am the damn big brother. So
Speaker 1: you will take another ten years off after January sixth.
Speaker 1: But it's not going to be Punk's decision. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a decision that I make for you. So
Speaker 1: now it was Punk's chance to respond. He said, Seth
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He loved
Speaker 1: the place that he worked, he just hated the guy
Speaker 1: in charge. And I misunderstood this at first because I
Speaker 1: thought he was talking about Tony Khan. My initial thought
Speaker 1: when he said that was because the last place he
Speaker 1: worked was not WWA, so I thought he was referring
Speaker 1: to aw still and I was like, oh boy, he's
Speaker 1: just coming out guns blazing here at Tony. And then
Speaker 1: I realized, oh wait, he's not talking about Tony. He's
Speaker 1: talking about loving this place and just hating the guy
Speaker 1: in charge who's no longer there. So he said he
Speaker 1: just hated the guy in charge, and that guy love Seth,
Speaker 1: and in situations where he should have had his back,
Speaker 1: all Seth did his shoot arrows in it. And then
Speaker 1: he leaves and lo and behold, he shows his true
Speaker 1: colors and he stabs Roman Reigns in the back. And
Speaker 1: now he's dressed like an idiot trying to play victim
Speaker 1: in a situation that he created. He said, those arrows
Speaker 1: kill weak people. The greats find a way to march forward.
Speaker 1: And he left because he had to until he got
Speaker 1: far enough way that those arrows couldn't reach him anymore.
Speaker 1: And he came back because for seven years, mostly during
Speaker 1: Seth's television segments, they chanted his name. He should be dead,
Speaker 1: but he's not. And oh the arrow throwers are mad.
Speaker 1: Next week he's walking into La on Netflix with a
Speaker 1: fistful of arrows, and he's gonna jam him down, Seth's
Speaker 1: corporate throat. Seth said that he's never said this to
Speaker 1: Punk's face before, but once upon a time he may
Speaker 1: have been a pioneer. What he's become is a cancer,
Speaker 1: a cancer to this business, and cancer does not cure itself.
Speaker 1: The only way to defeat it is to cut it out.
Speaker 1: So in one week, you bring your fistfull of arrows,
Speaker 1: and he'll bring his eyes of fire and his heart
Speaker 1: full of hate and rage, and he will burn Punk
Speaker 1: to the ground. And the final parting image of Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw on k Television ended with a tense stare
Speaker 1: down between Seth, Rollins and cmpun. You know that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a bunch of WWE fans that are going
Speaker 1: to be very hot at what Seth said when he
Speaker 1: called that, He called them the competition even because they
Speaker 1: won't even look at AW as competition, and and they
Speaker 1: are in there, they are, and they aren't in many ways,
Speaker 1: they're not competition anymore, but they are competition because they're
Speaker 1: all competing from the same pool of talent. But there
Speaker 1: are just some fans out there that if you even
Speaker 1: insinuate that AW is a competitor, like, oh, they're the competition,
Speaker 1: they get very upset. So I'm sure that'll, uh, that'll
Speaker 1: get some people hot and bothered. They both got off
Speaker 1: some good shots, I thought here in this segment. Punk
Speaker 1: easily won this round tonight. Okay, if you have to
Speaker 1: declare a winner here tonight, the winner is CMPUN and
Speaker 1: Punk brought an intensity to this segment that now I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think back to when we had that last
Speaker 1: segment with him and Drew McIntyre. Remember they had Helen
Speaker 1: a Cell on RAW and they kept them apart, but
Speaker 1: they just cut promos on each other, probably the go
Speaker 1: home promo right before the pl I don't even know
Speaker 1: that Seth or Punk rather was necessarily as intense during
Speaker 1: that segment as he was, you know, delivering these lines
Speaker 1: to Seth rollins here in this segment, so you know,
Speaker 1: he did it with an intensity I thought that was
Speaker 1: needed for this final hard sell for their match next week, Seth.
Speaker 1: You know Seth with them I'm gonna burn you down,
Speaker 1: burn you down because this is my theme song. Like
Speaker 1: that was I mean, come on, that was a little
Speaker 1: It hit a little close to home when Punk called
Speaker 1: him corporate, because you know who came up with the
Speaker 1: whole burning down thing. It was Vince McMahon. He's the
Speaker 1: one who came up with it in the first place.
Speaker 1: Wasn't something that Seth was doing. It was a Vince idea,
Speaker 1: or at least it was to add it to the
Speaker 1: theme music. Yeah, when he said that, I just I
Speaker 1: just you know what, Actually, I winced. I cringed when
Speaker 1: Seth talked about how we won the war, and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here thinking to myself, what war did you win?
Speaker 1: When was war really even waged? Are we still talking
Speaker 1: NXT and Dynamite? Is that the war that we're talking? Like?
Speaker 1: What war are we talking about here? The War of
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve The Spanish American War, but like for Rollins
Speaker 1: of all people to be standing in the ring and
Speaker 1: he's like, we won the war and the stuff about
Speaker 1: winning the war and basically insinuating like and then you
Speaker 1: came back right that, Like that's why cim Punk came back.
Speaker 1: We won the war, and now you come back and
Speaker 1: you wave the flag and I'm like, come on. That
Speaker 1: was just cringe to me. So that that that alone,
Speaker 1: I felt but disqualified him from the competition tonight, and
Speaker 1: see I'm Punk automatically won. But I thought overall, this
Speaker 1: was an excellent segment. It was very heated. We didn't
Speaker 1: have any physicality because there was no physicality needed. We
Speaker 1: already had physicality between these two a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You want to save that physicality for next week, and
Speaker 1: that is gonna be a huge match. They've done everything
Speaker 1: they could. They've done all that they can to build
Speaker 1: this up as a major, big time match, and now
Speaker 1: we've come to the debut next week and we'll get
Speaker 1: to see Rhea and Live and Seth and Punk and
Speaker 1: Roman and Solo and the debut of Pent. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be big night next week. It's gonna be basically a
Speaker 1: pl I mean, that's what it is, that's what it
Speaker 1: feels like. And I'm sure that there might be a
Speaker 1: surprise or two on the show as well, so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. But I'm also very sad being
Speaker 1: on USA anymore. I'm not sad about that because I mean,
Speaker 1: who gives it shit? Like I don't have any loyalty
Speaker 1: to the USA network, But it is the end of
Speaker 1: an era, you know, RAW no longer being on just
Speaker 1: regular broadcast television. But I'm more upset about RAW going
Speaker 1: back to three hours because I really did feel like
Speaker 1: they were they were finding their groove at two hours
Speaker 1: and proving that, yes, you can actually put on excellent
Speaker 1: shows at two hours when when the effort is there
Speaker 1: and you have the right ideas and the right creative
Speaker 1: and the right people. So we had a show a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. It might have been the New Day
Speaker 1: Anniversary show, but there was. There was a show where
Speaker 1: they opened the show and it was all talking for
Speaker 1: like twenty five minutes and then we had the New
Speaker 1: Day segment and everything, and it was only two hours long.
Speaker 1: But I thought this was one of the better raws
Speaker 1: they've done all year. So it's not a matter of like, oh,
Speaker 1: there has to be this much wrestling, and they're like,
Speaker 1: you can just watch the show, and you know when
Speaker 1: you have an excellent show, and you know when the
Speaker 1: show is shit. And they found that they were finding
Speaker 1: their groove again after so many years of three hours
Speaker 1: on Mondays, and now all of a sudden, it's right
Speaker 1: back to three hours or three hours plus whatever it's
Speaker 1: going to be. So I'm sad about that. I'm sad
Speaker 1: about SmackDown going to three hours. I don't believe that,
Speaker 1: you know, Bigger is always better. I do believe less
Speaker 1: is more. But this is how it's going to be
Speaker 1: now going forward, and if nothing else, it should give
Speaker 1: opportunities to some people who have not been featured on
Speaker 1: the show, and it's going to give them a reason
Speaker 1: to call up some new faces I think from NXT,
Speaker 1: especially on the women's side, and I do think we're
Speaker 1: gonna get that. We still, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that there was any mention tonight of the transfer window.
Speaker 1: They told us previously that it was going at least
Speaker 1: until the beginning of the year. I don't remember there
Speaker 1: being a single mention of it tonight, So we still
Speaker 1: don't know who may be moving from Raw to SmackDown
Speaker 1: and from SmackDown to Raw NXT. Who's going to be
Speaker 1: called up from NXT? Sam Perez is defending her Women's
Speaker 1: championship against Julia on New Year's Evil next week. Almost
Speaker 1: certainly I would think is going to drop the title,
Speaker 1: and then I think Roxanne is a shoe in to
Speaker 1: end up on Raw SmackDown. So she's won. Olba Femi,
Speaker 1: I mean, he won the Iron Survivor Challenge, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like he's going to get called up imminently,
Speaker 1: but he's one I'm looking forward to seeing what he
Speaker 1: can do on the main roster. So it'll give people
Speaker 1: a chance because they'll have that extra TV time to
Speaker 1: be featured on the show. But as a viewer, it's
Speaker 1: a lot but the talent though hopefully it'll work out
Speaker 1: for them. But that was Raw tonight. Those are the
Speaker 1: two highlights, the EO Sky match and the closing segment.
Speaker 1: Those were easily the best parts of the show. Take
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Speaker 1: Bank winners, I don't know. Ask me in a few
Speaker 1: months about King of the Ring and Money in the Bank.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a King of the Ring one Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre King McIntyre and then he goes on to win
Speaker 1: the championship Money in the Bank. It's December, guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have no fucking idea. I don't have a clue.
Speaker 1: Brian Moosh, thank you for the five gifted memberships, mister
Speaker 1: Rod with the twenty bucks. Mister Rod, happy to hear
Speaker 1: average Joe average show. You know why? I thought that's
Speaker 1: that average average Joe average show at best EO versus
Speaker 1: Lyra was excellent. But if EO doesn't have a title
Speaker 1: on her in twenty twenty five. There is a problem.
Speaker 1: I agree, Mercedes Mohogan. You just call her Mercedes Hogan.
Speaker 1: Mohogan is stupid. Just call her in Mercedes Hogan if
Speaker 1: that's how you feel. Uh, Demetrius, thank you for the membership,
Speaker 1: Alfonso for the nine ninety nine I was at the
Speaker 1: show tonight. That jay Uso entrance is truly something special.
Speaker 1: Just a shot of adrenaline in your soul. Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Solo made the channel grow even bigger. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: We are very close to eighty three thousand, so we
Speaker 1: should be there in no time. That don't work for me, sister,
Speaker 1: A dark effect with the fifty dollars bomb. Hey Solo,
Speaker 1: just wondering your opinion on Zillapha two with the bloodline
Speaker 1: being so hot here his name brought up a lot.
Speaker 1: As someone who has seen his work, do you see
Speaker 1: things that he could still improve on or is he
Speaker 1: a total natural like Jacob Faughtu. He's not Jacob Fattu,
Speaker 1: but he has certain natural abilities that I just think
Speaker 1: I'm convinced that like all members of that family, of
Speaker 1: that blood line, it's just something that innately they're born with.
Speaker 1: He's picking up on things very quickly. You got to
Speaker 1: remember he is barely forty matches if that into his career,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've had the chance to call many
Speaker 1: of his matches and get to see him up close
Speaker 1: and see what he can do. He brings an intensity
Speaker 1: to him that's fun. But he's still very raw in
Speaker 1: many ways because he's got little over a year in
Speaker 1: the business. So you give it time and I think
Speaker 1: he'll get even better. He's not where he will be,
Speaker 1: but he's got all the tools to be something special.
Speaker 1: It's just very very early in his career. Demetrius, thank
Speaker 1: you for the five no message, just the show and
Speaker 1: some love. I appreciate that. Prince Bagitta ninety five last
Speaker 1: super Chat of twenty twenty four. I understand that it's
Speaker 1: time to take the title off of Live. But last
Speaker 1: time Ria was champion, she barely wrestled, so this time
Speaker 1: it's the same. But just as a baby fan, well
Speaker 1: you don't know that her reign last time was very underwhelming,
Speaker 1: but you don't know that it's going to be more
Speaker 1: of the same. I'm hoping the fact that she is
Speaker 1: a babyface now will mean that she will be more
Speaker 1: active in the ring and more competitive, and she'll have
Speaker 1: at least the occasional title defense on team. So you
Speaker 1: can't say that it's going to be exactly the same
Speaker 1: thing until we see how it plays out. But I
Speaker 1: agree that first run was very underwhelming. She spent most
Speaker 1: of her time outside the ring in the fucking clubhouse
Speaker 1: in the back. Jeremy Rose, which of his many names
Speaker 1: will Penta go by in WWE? You know what, just
Speaker 1: keep it at Penta. That's probably just gonna be easiest, honestly,
Speaker 1: but I would love to start calling him Pentagon Junior. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be Pentagon Junior, but
Speaker 1: just call him Penta. Also, what do you think Becky
Speaker 1: does when she comes back? Rhea feud or something like
Speaker 1: EO or Valkyria or Live. Well, she might go after
Speaker 1: Live first. I could see Becky and Live first, but
Speaker 1: I think the play is going to be Becky and
Speaker 1: Lyra for the Intercontinental title. That's what I think. Arabian Night.
Speaker 1: Arabian Knight says, could you see WWE bringing back Trent
Speaker 1: seven and reuniting him with Tyler Bate and Pete Dunn
Speaker 1: in a stable no, I don't. Also, where do you
Speaker 1: think Josh Alexander signs next month? I think if I
Speaker 1: had to take a guess that Josh Alexander is gonna
Speaker 1: be wwe bound, probably for our next thing. Jeremy says,
Speaker 1: Brock versus Pinta, we need it. You're not getting Brock
Speaker 1: versus Beth. You're not getting Brock at all. Bace Beer says,
Speaker 1: what's Stone Cold doing on January sixth? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know what, They're gonna be in La La is
Speaker 1: not that far from Las Vegas. It's not that far
Speaker 1: from Nevada and where Austin lives. So you know what,
Speaker 1: I could see Stone Cold making an appearance on that show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be too far from home base.
Speaker 1: But you know what, he might not want to pull
Speaker 1: himself away from Poncho and Mancho. It's two cats, two
Speaker 1: solid ass cats. It's amazing how these cats have grown.
Speaker 1: I remember when he was first talking about Macho on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Macho is It's funny. He says, Pancho is his world
Speaker 1: heavyweight champion and Macho is his intercontinental champion. And when
Speaker 1: he got Macho, he was so tiny, he was so small.
Speaker 1: Now he's gigantic. That's a solid ass cat. Nick Grosso says,
Speaker 1: as one of the biggest Eosky fans, I realistically don't
Speaker 1: see her winning the Royal Rumble or the Elimination Chamber,
Speaker 1: especially with Charlotte and Becky coming back, also Jordan Grace
Speaker 1: coming in. Even if she did, she's just gonna job
Speaker 1: to re it well. Yes, if she does manage to win,
Speaker 1: she is going to lose to Rea rip I do
Speaker 1: not see eo Sky winning the championship or wrestle me,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that I do. I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to see the match and that I don't think that
Speaker 1: she should be in that spot. Bace beers, so is
Speaker 1: this the last raw on TV forever? It is the
Speaker 1: last raw on TV for at least the next five years,
Speaker 1: because I think there's an out clause after five years
Speaker 1: in the Netflix deal, So if things are not well
Speaker 1: in Paradise, technically the deal could end, but for at
Speaker 1: least the next five, if not ten years. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was the final raw on TV. Bass Beers with the
Speaker 1: Seven says need that winged eagle. That white winged eagle
Speaker 1: in the background reminds me of hbk's WrestleMania twelve attire
Speaker 1: White and gold. Thought he had that belt, but it
Speaker 1: was his tights now. Shawn Michaels never had the The
Speaker 1: only person who ever had the white winged Eagle was
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Warrior. He had whites, he had powdered blue.
Speaker 1: Shawn never had it. It's a beautiful bell. It's just again,
Speaker 1: there's no space behind me, and it's so frickin' heavy.
Speaker 1: I wish I could, I wish I could, but right
Speaker 1: now you're gonna have to settle for the original over
Speaker 1: my shoulder right there. But I have been admiring it
Speaker 1: all weekend. I look over and there it is, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's gorgeous. Tonga Loa Superfan is with us
Speaker 1: tonight the two cat power Trip. I love it. Poncho
Speaker 1: and Macho. It's pretty much all I use Instagram for
Speaker 1: at this point is just to follow other people's cats.
Speaker 1: Toga Loa Superfan just saw you were pick for Best
Speaker 1: Wrestler of the Year twenty twenty four on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I completely understand that you had to disqualify Tongala
Speaker 1: for the time he missed due to injury. I was
Speaker 1: hoping you would understand he was definitely in the running,
Speaker 1: but once he got hurt, I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for understanding, Matt Fisher. If Dave Meltzer hears
Speaker 1: about all being at WrestleMania, I guarantee he's going to
Speaker 1: assume he's wrestling Triple h. Why do we still listen
Speaker 1: to Dave at all? You don't have to. No one
Speaker 1: says you have to listen to Dave Face Bears. Mortos
Speaker 1: is coming zero Puntos, the Beast Mortos. Huh, I said, man.
Speaker 1: If Vince was still there and the Beast Mortos was
Speaker 1: coming in, he would be Morty. He would call him
Speaker 1: Morty and give him a comedy gimmick on TV. Matt Fisher,
Speaker 1: Oh God, that poor guy in the intro is going
Speaker 1: to be running from the black hole again. Oh man,
Speaker 1: we may have to bring back green Man or green
Speaker 1: Man might fall into the hole stadium, Jay, how will
Speaker 1: WWE keep us coming back after they've given us everything
Speaker 1: on the first episode? Well, you're gonna have to tune
Speaker 1: in to find out. They're gonna have to have a
Speaker 1: couple of aces up their sleeve and a couple of surprises,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it'll be a great show, and it'll keep
Speaker 1: you interested in wanting to tune in the following week. Right,
Speaker 1: That's their job. Their job is to put out a
Speaker 1: product on TV that will hopefully keep you hooked and
Speaker 1: want to come back for a second time, and a
Speaker 1: third time, and a fourth time and a tenth time.
Speaker 1: Called episodic television used to be really bad at that.
Speaker 1: They've gotten better, though. Happy New Year's Stadium Jay George
Speaker 1: Freakin segment. I can't wait for Hexagon Senior to debut
Speaker 1: and join the LWO and then turn and join Legato
Speaker 1: del Fantasmo. He says, you know, we have El fantas
Speaker 1: in New Japan. It'd be kind of funny if WWE
Speaker 1: one day just they wanted to use the name, and
Speaker 1: they're like, we'll just add a D, so we'll make
Speaker 1: it dell Fantasmo. That way we could trademark it. Dimitrius Hodge.
Speaker 1: Do you think they if they continue the blood Line story,
Speaker 1: will we see the Usos against the Gorillas of Destiny
Speaker 1: at wrestle Maane? No, No. First of all, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna wan Jay Uso doing something more than that.
Speaker 1: And number two, I don't know that Tongalow is going
Speaker 1: to be back in time for Wrestle Mate, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no on that. It's possible, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say no. Trill Mexican three oh five, No Ultra Boss
Speaker 1: back to Love tonight? Nope, not tonight. Still listen to
Speaker 1: the review, but I can't get Jiggy to the intro.
Speaker 1: Not playing back to Love don't work for b Brother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people like that song. We'll have to
Speaker 1: work that into the rotation a little more often. I
Speaker 1: got another song, by the way, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: using this week. It's hard to find ones that are
Speaker 1: are safe to use, but there's some good ones out there.
Speaker 1: You just gotta know where to look and get some
Speaker 1: recommendations from the mount Burning Kid Christopher Bennett glad we're
Speaker 1: on the same wavelength. I think he meant wavelength. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Every time Seth says I'm
Speaker 1: a revolutionary, I always say, what way that? Okay? So
Speaker 1: clearly Chris wrote this message out on his phone and
Speaker 1: does not use auto correct. I think you glitched out
Speaker 1: there during the super chat, but he says, I always say,
Speaker 1: what the hell did you revolutionize? Dude? Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 1: revolutionize a damn thing. It's just stupid. It's just stupid,
Speaker 1: gobbleding goop nonsense sense doesn't make any sense at all.
Speaker 1: Toga Loa superfan, how much time can Tanga Loa miss
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five before you would disqualify him from
Speaker 1: your end of the year awards one week? If he
Speaker 1: misses even one week, I'm disqualifying him. And Bace Beers
Speaker 1: got a seduction psa new Samantha Irvin Instagram post tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I will have to check that out. I'll
Speaker 1: check that out later. I can only imagine, Hey, Richie,
Speaker 1: thank you for the five. If Sean had went to
Speaker 1: WCW in ninety seven ninety eight, would he be a
Speaker 1: member of the nWo. Absolutely he would have been right
Speaker 1: there with Hall and Nash. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: Sean is alive today, frankly. I mean, he was that
Speaker 1: fucked up at the time that it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where in life you kind of get to a
Speaker 1: fork in the road and you go left or you
Speaker 1: go right. He went right, and that turned out to
Speaker 1: be the best move he could have made for himself.
Speaker 1: Had he gone left, I don't know I don't know
Speaker 1: how that would have turned out, but I think with
Speaker 1: the politics and the clash of personalities and Hogan and
Speaker 1: everything behind the scenes in w CW, that would have
Speaker 1: been an awful situation for Sean Michaels to be in,
Speaker 1: and it would have been awful for the people around
Speaker 1: him too, unless they were his close friends. I think
Speaker 1: it was for the better that he didn't go. Bace
Speaker 1: Beers used Prince nineteen ninety nine. Oh sure, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: he demonetizing five seconds Tonga loas super fan. I don't
Speaker 1: believe bigger is always better what Solo says on every
Speaker 1: first date. It's true, It's true. You know me so well.
Speaker 1: Thank you Tongolo a super fan. Now I won't feel
Speaker 1: so bad the next time I shit all over Togoloa. Know,
Speaker 1: I'll feel a little bit better about myself now. HBK
Speaker 1: as a Hogan crony in the nWo. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would have loved to play second Feddle the Hull
Speaker 1: Cogan in the nWo. Can you imagine at that time,
Speaker 1: ninety seven ninety eight, Hogan and Sean Michaels trying to
Speaker 1: just politic their way into the top spot, holding onto
Speaker 1: that top spot, having to fight each other, toot the nail,
Speaker 1: all the bullshit, all the games, all the all the
Speaker 1: little clicks forming. Oh my god, you could have probably
Speaker 1: wrote an entire book about it would have been more entertaining, frankly,
Speaker 1: to watch what was going on behind the scenes and
Speaker 1: what was going on on TV sometimes. All Right, the
Speaker 1: goal tonight, as it usually is, was four hundred likes.
Speaker 1: We're four twenty three, So thank you guys for that.
Speaker 1: You know what that means. We're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: be the booker. That's what we're gonna do. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: It is now time to be the booker. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Well, Brett did it? Yes, But Brett Hart,
Speaker 1: are you Are you mistaking Brett Hart with Shawn Michaels
Speaker 1: As far as politicking and being an ass, being impossible
Speaker 1: to deal with, going around telling people I don't lay
Speaker 1: down for anybody, When did Brett Hart ever say that?
Speaker 1: He said it one time, he said at one time,
Speaker 1: and it was about Shawn Michaels, And it was because
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon was stupid enough to allow him to have
Speaker 1: creative control over his finishes in the way that he
Speaker 1: left in the last sixty days of his contract. You
Speaker 1: want to blame anybody for it, Don't blame Brett, Go
Speaker 1: blame Vince. I don't blame Hogan. I don't blame Hogan
Speaker 1: for having creative control in his contract. Eric Bischoff is
Speaker 1: the dipshit who was dumb enough to give it to
Speaker 1: him in the first place. Hey, if somebody would be
Speaker 1: willing to give me creative control, am I going to
Speaker 1: tell my lawyer? No blame him for that? All right?
Speaker 1: We begin with the fabulous free Birds kicking us off
Speaker 1: here and be the booker. I feel like we land
Speaker 1: on them quite a bit, don't we. The fabulous free
Speaker 1: Birds are going to be taking on Anderson and Gallows. Well,
Speaker 1: we always have the women's match. There's always the ladies match.
Speaker 1: We begin with Meechin and it will be me Chin
Speaker 1: still trying to win that US title from Chelsea Green.
Speaker 1: Meechin against Sonya Deville. Boy. We are we are really
Speaker 1: ripping through be the booker here, aren't we. We're We're
Speaker 1: going out with a whimper. Come on, man, the final
Speaker 1: rush stream of the year. This is horrible, This is
Speaker 1: this is horrendous, all right? Men's be the booker. We
Speaker 1: have me. Oh my, by god, look who showed up
Speaker 1: to work. It's Miro. Everybody? Does he even wrestle anymore?
Speaker 1: But does he door dash? What does he do these days?
Speaker 1: I don't know what he does. Miro is back, but
Speaker 1: not for Tony Kahan. Miro is back for me. Here
Speaker 1: and be the booker. Miro is going to be in
Speaker 1: our main event. That's right. It's russev Day and it
Speaker 1: will be Miro against Mark Brisco. Now I like Mark Brisco,
Speaker 1: But how are we feeling about this as a main event?
Speaker 1: Because I'm feeling a buzz coming on. I'm giving you
Speaker 1: guys ten seconds to chime in with what you think
Speaker 1: in the chat. Bell bell, buzzer, buzzer, bell buzzer. Boy,
Speaker 1: you guys are not helpful at all. You guys are
Speaker 1: not helpful at all. It's fifty to fifty in the chat.
Speaker 1: I really didn't I didn't know what I wanted to
Speaker 1: do there, so I had to outsource the decision. But
Speaker 1: I'll give it a bell. It's not really it's not
Speaker 1: really a main event, but I'll give it the bell.
Speaker 1: We have to at least have one bell tonight. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't have all buzzes. It's a rampage match. There
Speaker 1: is no rampage anymore. You can't use that joke anymore.
Speaker 1: So now what's the new joke. You can't say it's
Speaker 1: a rampage match. So what is it now? Is it
Speaker 1: a main event? Is it a main event match? Actually no,
Speaker 1: it's not a main eventment. It's a collision match. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I know we had we just had the
Speaker 1: Mark Brisco the other night. You know what, it's the
Speaker 1: end of the year. I'm adding a fourth match to
Speaker 1: this card. We can't go out like this. We can't
Speaker 1: go out like this. I'm expanding. I'm pulling a Tony Kahan.
Speaker 1: I'm adding even more matches to this card. This will
Speaker 1: be our main event. I don't care what it is.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what we land on for better or worse.
Speaker 1: This is going to be our main event. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is more like it. We got staying. What the hell happened?
Speaker 1: In what an image? Look at this? We have Sting
Speaker 1: who is apparently in great distress as the blood pours
Speaker 1: from his mouth. Either that or he dove into the
Speaker 1: best jelly donut ever, I don't know. But Sting looks
Speaker 1: in rough shape here. I don't know if he should
Speaker 1: be medically cleared for this match. Actually, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what that's from. It's when Sting jumped off the ladder
Speaker 1: on dynamite. He hit the fucking table. Sting against Kevin Nash.
Speaker 1: That's a wolf Pack match right there. That is a
Speaker 1: battle of the wolf Pack members. Sting against big sexy
Speaker 1: Kevin Nash. Biggest stipulation for it. We're gonna do. We
Speaker 1: gotta go all the way. Sting and Kevin Nash are
Speaker 1: going to have themselves. Oh no, on a poll bro
Speaker 1: It's a poll match with baby Russo on the pole
Speaker 1: between Sting and Kevin Nash. Well, he would have been
Speaker 1: booking probably at the time, right, so that kind of
Speaker 1: makes sense. Oh man, Well, we ruined it with that stipulation.
Speaker 1: We ruined it. We ruined it. I had I had
Speaker 1: to pick one. I had a pick of stipulation. I
Speaker 1: was I was curious. I was curious who went full Russo?
Speaker 1: You never go full Russo. I ruined it. I know,
Speaker 1: I know I ruined it. We have Nick Grosso says
Speaker 1: on Raw Talk, I think they announced the final testament
Speaker 1: against the Wyatt six next week. Well, how nice of
Speaker 1: them to announce it on the post show and not
Speaker 1: on the actual show. The Mount Vernon Kid Christopher Bennett,
Speaker 1: Sorry about that. I was typing on my phone auto
Speaker 1: correct was turned off. One more question for the year.
Speaker 1: How would you feel if Dakota won the IC Belt.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy for her. I don't really have a
Speaker 1: dog in this hunt. I predicted that Lyra will win,
Speaker 1: but I'm fine with either woman winning. Dakota wins, I
Speaker 1: don't have an issue with that. Eric g. The last
Speaker 1: Punk versus Cena match should be at Money in the
Speaker 1: Bank next year. That would be appropriate. It's one of
Speaker 1: the best title matches in WWE history. Money in the
Speaker 1: Bank twenty eleven. Huge g Direction is back with us
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. What would you say would be
Speaker 1: the least likely stone Cold being a crazy car? I
Speaker 1: get the reference a crazy car, Mom Cain being a politician,
Speaker 1: or Taking Taking Take Taker being a podcast gobshit or
Speaker 1: gob gob Shite says gob shite. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means. Honestly, I think Stone Cold being a
Speaker 1: cat dad. I'm gonna go with that. And Prince Zuko
Speaker 1: ninety seven just watched the Punk and rollin segment back.
Speaker 1: Would have been funny if Punk said you're a visionary,
Speaker 1: a revolutionary and once you were my mercenary. That's true.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the whole genesis of the Shield, right,
Speaker 1: their whole association with Paul Hayman and CM Punk. So
Speaker 1: that would have been it would have been clever. Bace beerus,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite kind of cheese? It's the kind that
Speaker 1: I don't eat. Yeah, the Juliette. I know it's a
Speaker 1: British term, but like you don't pronounce it gob shit, right,
Speaker 1: I assume it's gob shite, right, Like if Ross socks
Speaker 1: next week, I may come on like I should probably
Speaker 1: just like one of these weeks, I gotta come on
Speaker 1: here and just do like an entire show and nothing
Speaker 1: but like British slang. I'll just come on here like
Speaker 1: and be like, man, this show is total shite and
Speaker 1: just go through every different term that I could possibly learn.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like my uh my European fans
Speaker 1: would appreciate that this show was shite. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do that, U, bas Beer says Rico. Shit. Okay, very good, Hey, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: thank you for the membership. He says Penta applied for
Speaker 1: three trademarks in August, Zero, Miato, Sero, mieto, and Animo. Well,
Speaker 1: Animo is is for Ray Phoenix. Hopefully he brings back
Speaker 1: Pentagon Junior, but we will see. He had to stop
Speaker 1: using Pentagon Junior. I thought it had something to do
Speaker 1: with either CMLL or Triple A, so I don't know
Speaker 1: that he would be able to use it. If he can, though,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. Or even just Pentagon. Yeah, that's marketable.
Speaker 1: Elias went for a walk and didn't come back. That's right.
Speaker 1: He said, walk with Elias, and then we just let him.
Speaker 1: We let him walk. He thinks we're all still walking
Speaker 1: behind him, but he just hasn't turned around yet. Triple
Speaker 1: A owns the name Pentagon Junior. I thought it was
Speaker 1: something involving one of the two promotions, and that's why
Speaker 1: he can't use it anymore. Is there a difference between
Speaker 1: bollocks and dog bollocks? Is one good and the other
Speaker 1: is bad? I would assume dog bollocks is pretty bad
Speaker 1: if I had adventure, I guess. Happy New Year to Patricia,
Speaker 1: says Charlotte in the bank, Yes, wherever she may be.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to Patricia. I wonder what Elias is
Speaker 1: up to. I haven't even seen him on the Independence recently.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard his name mentioned, just kind of dropped
Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. Dog's bollocks is slang
Speaker 1: for something being great. What is that true? Dog's bollocks
Speaker 1: is actually a positive reference. Timeless British solo. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be timeless, solemn monster you get next time you
Speaker 1: come on the stream. The screen is gonna be black
Speaker 1: and white, or not even the whole screen, just the
Speaker 1: window in the middle. It's gonna be black and white.
Speaker 1: He wrestled Enzo in a high school gym thirty minutes
Speaker 1: for me this weekend. Well, it's good to see that.
Speaker 1: Elias says he's he's really doing well. Then it sounds
Speaker 1: like wait until you hear the Australian slang waiting for you.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. I'll tell you what. Every video that I
Speaker 1: see on social media from some of the accounts i'll
Speaker 1: follow sometimes like on ig it's like funny accounts, but
Speaker 1: they'll have clips from Australia and it's like if it's
Speaker 1: a clip of some sort of creature or a spider,
Speaker 1: I know immediately it's from Australia, and it makes me
Speaker 1: just wish I never end up in Australia, Like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: some of the things that the Aussies have down there,
Speaker 1: I would die, like I would just I would just die.
Speaker 1: Like if I saw some of that stuff crawling towards me,
Speaker 1: I would run the other way. I would burn the
Speaker 1: house down and I would never return. Like, there are
Speaker 1: some scary things down there. It's to the point where
Speaker 1: I could just see a video and not look at
Speaker 1: the description and I'll be like, that's Australia, And more
Speaker 1: often than not, I'm right. It is. Australia got nice people,
Speaker 1: though they are very nice. Jake Hager against Heath Slater
Speaker 1: against Gender Mahal was the main event on that show
Speaker 1: was that the one of the high school Jim kangaroos
Speaker 1: are potential program kangaroos. Hey, they don't mess around. Man.
Speaker 1: You piss off a kangaroo, he will fuck you up.
Speaker 1: You do not want to mess with them. They'll mess
Speaker 1: you up and put you in their pouch. One day
Speaker 1: Hogg should visit Australia. Well, I'll be recording my commentary
Speaker 1: in post from home enjoy. I'll make sure we put
Speaker 1: together a great card for you, but I probably will
Speaker 1: not be there. What company did I get the White
Speaker 1: Winged Eagle? No company? No company? I want, I want
Speaker 1: an auction. You can't get this anywhere. You can't go
Speaker 1: to WWE shop and buy this, especially with the with
Speaker 1: the WWF plates. Yeah, you're you're not gonna find this.
Speaker 1: I got. I got very lucky Maye the Great. What's
Speaker 1: the funniest wrestling segment you ever saw? Like? Had you
Speaker 1: dying on the floor? Not that anything had me dying
Speaker 1: on the floor, but there's been a lot of so
Speaker 1: bad it's just ridiculous segment. Honestly, you know what, There
Speaker 1: is one, the shock Master. It's got to be the
Speaker 1: shock Master. Especially the first few times I suck because
Speaker 1: I kept watching it over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: It was just I couldn't believe what I saw. And
Speaker 1: then you hear the wrestlers in the background reacting like, oh,
Speaker 1: I told you he fell out his face, he fell
Speaker 1: out his fucking ass, Like that had me dying. That
Speaker 1: had me dying. Actually, there was a show, God, what
Speaker 1: was it. There was a podcast of some kind. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure it was a wrestling podcast. It might
Speaker 1: have been a radio show and they were reacting to it.
Speaker 1: They were reacting to the shock Master clip, and that
Speaker 1: had me in tears and I wish I could remember
Speaker 1: what it was. It's just one of those it's one
Speaker 1: of those timeless segments that will never not be funny.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Giant the giant Huntsmen, that's what they
Speaker 1: that's what they are. I think in Australia they're like
Speaker 1: these giant Huntsman. Spider doesn't even look like a spider.
Speaker 1: It looks like something out of the movie Alien. And
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, they're harmless. I'm like, oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: they're harmless except for the heart attack that it will
Speaker 1: give me, the the massive carinara that I'll have. Other
Speaker 1: than that, they're harmless. Was it Opian Anthony? Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: it was Opie and Anthony. I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go find that clip. It was from Opi and Anthony
Speaker 1: many years ago. They were reacting to the Shockmaster and
Speaker 1: they were just they were losing their shit. The promo
Speaker 1: with Ken Peterra the Red Headed Steps, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's always fun when you see mean Jean break and
Speaker 1: he always had he turns his head away to like
Speaker 1: like he's admiring something in the background, right, like, what
Speaker 1: is he looking at? Because he's just trying so hard
Speaker 1: not to laugh and he fails and he doesn't want
Speaker 1: people to see. Those are always the best bred. Hart says,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with spiders as long as they are not venomous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you say that if the spider was bigger than
Speaker 1: your fist and you were laying in your bed one
Speaker 1: night and you looked up and you saw that it
Speaker 1: was crawling on the ceiling above your head, would you
Speaker 1: feel the same way given that you live in New York.
Speaker 1: I guess the rats don't scare you. I don't have
Speaker 1: rats where I am. I have rats when I tore
Speaker 1: the country. No, I mean, look, the rats are mostly
Speaker 1: like in Manhattan and stuff. I don't have rats that
Speaker 1: have mice. Unfortunately that's become an issue in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. But no, no rat, No rat. Although
Speaker 1: I did have a friend who looked under there was
Speaker 1: this weird smell and he looked under the sink one
Speaker 1: day and I don't even know how it happened, but
Speaker 1: there was a giant dead rat stuck in the pipe
Speaker 1: that went up to the sink. I guess it's ass
Speaker 1: was sticking out. I have no idea how it happened.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, better you than me, But no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have that issue. Thankfully, Spider that big, the
Speaker 1: chamber would be empty. Yeah, I'm emptying the clip. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If that's me and I have the means,
Speaker 1: I'm emptying the fucking clip. That's how that's going down.
Speaker 1: Retro says Vietnam has lots of snakes. I almost got
Speaker 1: jumped by one outside my house a few years out,
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Scary stuff. Venomous red millipedes too. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm need to check that off the list as well.
Speaker 1: We can remove that from the list. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the heads up. The only Spider I'll deal with is
Speaker 1: Spider Man. That's right. I can live with Spider Man.
Speaker 1: That I could deal with. Anything else not so much.
Speaker 1: How are you not scared of rodents? Because I grew
Speaker 1: up watching Master Splinter on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're
Speaker 1: very wise. Thank you guys for the fun stream. I
Speaker 1: will be covering the New Year's Day edition of Dynamite,
Speaker 1: the first simulcast episode of Dynamite on Max. That'll be
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night and then smack Down the first three
Speaker 1: hour show. Oh god, the first three hour show on Friday.
Speaker 1: It's already upon us. That'll be SmackDown on Friday night.
Speaker 1: But before then, before Dynamite and before SmackDown, I will
Speaker 1: be live tomorrow night because Tomorrow night is the final
Speaker 1: night of the year, and I will be live on
Speaker 1: YouTube make it till midnight. We do this every year,
Speaker 1: counting down to twenty twenty five. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: will join me be covering the top matches of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, my ranking of those matches, and we will
Speaker 1: hang out as we ring in the new year together.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to bust out the jack too.
Speaker 1: I got the good stuff too. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: bust it out. We're gonna have to do some drinking
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. We gotta celebrate the brand new year. So
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna go live around ten ten, ten point fifteen,
Speaker 1: That's when I'll be here. So hopefully you guys will
Speaker 1: join me for that. We always have a good time,
Speaker 1: and I will see you back here very soon. For
Speaker 1: more sound though, go back and check out episode eight
Speaker 1: ninety four of the podcast as well if you missed it,
Speaker 1: A brand new two hour show that went up yesterday
Speaker 1: until tonight. I'll see you guys there. Take care.