WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.560 This was not a good show tonight, and Summer Slam 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.759 is tomorrow night, or at least Night one is. Night 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.119 one is the stronger of the two nights on paper, 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.960 easily by far. The best parts of this show were 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:21.120 everything involving Nick Aldus, the return of Haku, and the 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:26.519 closing credits which meant that the show was over. Those 7 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:29.879 are the best parts of SmackDown. We did have one 8 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:32.640 last face to face though, in the closing segment with 9 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.759 Cody Rhodes and Cmpunk. That is our main event for 10 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:41.240 Night one, and they were trying to really drive home 11 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.039 the fact that these two they don't like each other 12 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.679 all of a sudden and they've been at each other's throats, 13 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.399 and we had a big pull apart brawl and they 14 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.520 were throwing they were throwing shots at each other, and 15 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:56.679 we went off the air with a kind of a 16 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:01.320 wild brawl between them. I was looking forward to this match, 17 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.560 and look, I still think that they will go out 18 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:06.680 there tomorrow night and have a very good wrestling match. 19 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.000 I'm still optimistic about the main event that we are 20 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.439 going to get tomorrow. And I didn't think that they 21 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:18.040 needed a terribly long period of time to really put 22 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.840 this match together, because again, they've kept them apart. There's 23 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:24.079 not a lot of history there. So whether you gave 24 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:29.280 them three weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, you know, it 25 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.120 really wouldn't have made that much of a difference. What 26 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.640 matters is what do you do in those three weeks 27 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.840 or four weeks when you're putting this match together. And 28 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.040 now that we're here and this was the go home segment, 29 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.079 it leaves a lot to be desired because really, what 30 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.560 we've gotten here to spark the feud, to light the fuse, 31 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:55.000 so to speak. We had the errant belt shot at 32 00:01:55.040 --> 00:02:01.560 Saturday night's main event, which was like, Okay, I guess 33 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.599 if we're going to use that as the spark for 34 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:08.159 this thing. Sure, And then they showed footage from a 35 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:12.599 house show yesterday. Now didn't that currect me if I'm wrong? 36 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:17.479 Didn't Cody Road say that he had a gift for 37 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.199 CM Punk at the live event on Thursday night? Isn't 38 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.199 that what we heard last week was the Well maybe 39 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:26.800 this was the gift. I mean the gift was CM 40 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:30.479 punk went. They were celebrating after their win and CM 41 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:34.479 Punk was standing right there and when Cody turned Punk 42 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.919 basically came up from behind him, went to go tap him, 43 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.879 and Cody gave him the most telegraphed back elbow you'll 44 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.960 ever see. Maybe that was the gift that he was 45 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.080 referring to. I don't know, but it felt very forced. 46 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:48.960 And that's the word I keep coming back to when 47 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.039 I think about what we've gotten between these two over 48 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.280 the last few weeks. Forced, you know, I mean, I 49 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.840 was I was kind of hoping that as great as 50 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:01.360 they are when it comes to promos and Punk, I mean, 51 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.639 we know what kind of promo that Punk is, obviously, 52 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.120 Cody one he's on his A game is also a 53 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.759 great promo. And I was kind of hoping that, you know, 54 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.199 we would get some stuff, you know, from them that 55 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:14.960 I don't know, would really kind of light a fire 56 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.319 under them and this would come off as some sort 57 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:22.960 of hot feud. But we didn't get that. And so 58 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.039 now we're going into this match this week and I'm 59 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:26.680 not as fired up for it as I was kind 60 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:28.520 of hoping I would be. And maybe it is the 61 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.639 first match and we get a second one, and going 62 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.719 into the second one, things were a little bit different. 63 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.680 I don't know, I don't know how quickly after this 64 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.759 one we're going to get the second one, but it 65 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.800 was not enough, certainly to save what otherwise, you know, 66 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.680 in my opinion, was a bad show. We've had a 67 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.000 lot of those unfortunately on SmackDown this year. But that 68 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.479 closing segment didn't really change my mind of everything else 69 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.080 that we got here. And yes, I'm glad that you 70 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.039 pointed that as somebody mentioned the jacket Cody Rhodes. It 71 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.479 was actually very emblematic I think of Cody and his 72 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:04.599 position in the company that Cody came out for the 73 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:10.280 closing segment tonight in his Club WWE jacket. It wasn't 74 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:12.199 really a Club ww jacket, but he had a Club 75 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.079 WWE patch on his jacket like a good little soldier 76 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.600 because today was launch day for Club WWE got to 77 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.000 remind everybody of that you gotta wear the patch. I 78 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.279 didn't see that patch on cm punks jacket. He's the 79 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.480 WWE champion, but Cody Rhodes had that Club WWE patch 80 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.759 right there. But anyway, that was the closing segment. Lash Legend, 81 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.399 as I told you she would be. Lash Legend is 82 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:46.399 in the interim Women's Championship Ladder match on Sunday, The 83 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.639 completely unnecessary interim title match that we're going to be getting. 84 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.839 The field of five has now been set, Charlotte Flair, 85 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:57.480 Jade Cargill, who do we have, Tiffany Stratton, Chelsea Green, 86 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:02.839 and now lash Legend She is officially in, even though 87 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.040 Naya Jacks really got hosed if you think about how 88 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.240 things have played out with her qualifying matches over the 89 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.600 last couple of weeks, and then Adam Pierce's big decision 90 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.240 was to put lash In there instead of Naya. Again, 91 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.639 I'm not advocating for Nya Jacks to be in the 92 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.800 ladder match. I'd rather have Lash in then then Naya 93 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.279 in the situation, but the whole thing was just very, 94 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:31.959 very silly. Meanwhile, details on the funeral service for Julia 95 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.639 will be shared once that information becomes available. So once 96 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:38.839 I have that information, I will be able to pass 97 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:40.959 it along to all of you and then we can 98 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.240 all join. Maybe if you can't be there in person, 99 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:47.240 perhaps you can zoom in. I'll try to provide the 100 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.439 zoom link if one is provided, and maybe we could 101 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.560 all say a few words for the career of Julia 102 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.120 in WWE, which, if it wasn't over, already came to 103 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.399 an abrupt end. Tonight about two minutes, so we have 104 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.360 that as well on the show. I will have some 105 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.079 news to share a little bit later on from this 106 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.920 week's Observer as it relates to Randy Orton and Kevin 107 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:16.399 Owens and their potential returns to Wwe save that for 108 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.160 later and we'll go through the rest of this show. 109 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.279 Not a whole lot to get excited about, but this 110 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.680 is your Friday Night SmackDown review. Even when we have 111 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.600 a bad night of SmackDown, we try to have a 112 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.199 good night here on the sound Thoff. That's what my 113 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.839 goal is for tonight. It is Friday. It is the 114 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.959 last Friday, the last day of July. July thirty first, 115 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:42.399 there is no July thirty second. Twenty twenty six. I 116 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.480 am the solemn Monster. Like and subscribe. Super chats are open. 117 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.199 I've had a few of them come on in before 118 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.319 I went live tonight, so I will be reading those 119 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:57.199 and any new ones that come in. Ban T twenty 120 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:02.439 one says SmackDown drew forty five hundrehundred people tonight. That 121 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.240 was in Green Bay. Yeah, that's a far cry from 122 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.199 what they did in that building the last time they 123 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:14.120 were there. Don't know if they care. Don't know if 124 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.000 they care. I'm sure ticket prices were probably elevated from 125 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.720 what they were last time. For all I know, they 126 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.680 made more money tonight than they did before, and they 127 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:22.480 may have had twice as many people in the building 128 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.959 last time. I don't know. It's certainly indicative of something, 129 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:29.720 whether or not WWE is getting the message. I don't know. 130 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.279 They're expecting in the range of thirty five thousand people 131 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:37.319 for each night of Summer Slam this weekend, ordinarily a 132 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:41.240 very healthy crowd, far cry from what they had at 133 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:49.199 MetLife Stadium last year. We're off the peak people, they 134 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.199 already peaked. We'll see where we are for Summer Slam 135 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.319 next year. If Summer Slam even stays two nights next year, 136 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.560 I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will. They would 137 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.279 much rather try to get it combined sixty five or 138 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.160 seventy thousand people than have one night of thirty or forty. 139 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:09.759 So I think the two nights Summer slams are here 140 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.040 to stay. But again, get those super chats on in. 141 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.560 I'm going to bring up the wheel and we're going 142 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.160 to find out here if if we are going to 143 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.279 do be the booker tonight I guarantee you that if 144 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.399 we do be the booker tonight, I will book a 145 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:32.279 better show than the one they gave you. That I 146 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.000 can guarantee, But I don't know if that's going to 147 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.240 be happening. We need five hundred and fifty likes. We 148 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.200 are at two hundred right now. You know, we didn't 149 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.879 do it on Wednesday. We did it on Monday. We 150 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.480 didn't do it on Wednesday. We may not do it 151 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.679 tonight either. It's a good thing we have Summer Slam 152 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:55.159 this weekend. Would it be admitting defeat if they went 153 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:59.399 back to one night of SummerSlam, I don't know. I 154 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.279 mean they're not going heating against anybody. I don't know. 155 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.440 If I would call it defeat, I would say that 156 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.960 it's it would be an admission that business is not 157 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:15.120 what he used to be. How about it? How about it? Indeed, 158 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.320 venom KOTETSI thank you. That was his idea. By the way, 159 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.720 saw the recent Valvenus footage, no hair and just the beard. 160 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:34.960 Now he looks like road dog. Curious but worrying. I 161 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.879 haven't worried about anything Valvenus related in about twenty seven 162 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:44.679 or twenty eight years. I know this footage out there 163 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.600 of him gyrating. I have no interest in seeing it, 164 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.639 especially you know, I'm a few hours away from bedtime. 165 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.360 It's the last thing I want to have on my mind. 166 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:59.159 Sammy's Ain and Finn Balor they're going to be having 167 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:02.399 a match this Sunday at SummerSlam. To open the show tonight, 168 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.240 we had let me get rid of the wheel here. 169 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:08.159 To open the show tonight, we had Finn Ballard. Now 170 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.399 I've called him win Baler recently instead of Pinballer because 171 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.320 he's actually been stringing together some victories. I know this 172 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.759 won't last very long, but he's on a bit of 173 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.720 a hot streak. So he came out to the ring 174 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:25.399 to open the show and he talked about how every 175 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:29.039 time Summer Slim season rolls around, he can't help but 176 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.360 think back to twenty sixteen. That was the year where 177 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.679 he won the Universal Championship. In fact, he was the 178 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:38.960 first ever Universal champion. He was on the highest of 179 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.559 highs when he won the title that night, but it 180 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.919 was also followed by the lowest of lows when an 181 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.639 injury forced him to relinquish the belt, which was only 182 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.039 twenty four hours later. And now here we are in 183 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:57.360 twenty twenty six. Baler says he spent years scratching and 184 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:01.159 clawing trying to reach those heights again, and with the 185 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.200 Ballor Club behind him, they were so close to getting back. 186 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:11.759 So what is the stronger club? Ballor club or club WWA, 187 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:19.679 Sammy's ain't interrupted the last real good guy justice for 188 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.320 Sammy had his T shirt on and Sammy said he'd look. 189 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.960 He understood that this was a very emotional time for Ballor, 190 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:27.840 but there were things that he needed to get off 191 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.519 his chest, and he bitched and moaned about CM Punk 192 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.840 and Cody Rhodes having their match and how it should 193 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.399 be a triple threat tomorrow. Night talked about how he 194 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.840 wanted Cody Roads to win at SummerSlam for the simple 195 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.399 reason that he already beat him once and he knows 196 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.200 he can do it again, but there was a small 197 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.320 part of him that also wanted CM Punk to win, 198 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.519 and he called him a hypocrite for becoming a corporate 199 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.320 poster boy. Oh I don't know. I mean, he wasn't 200 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.919 the one with the club WWE patch on his jacket. Tonight, 201 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.159 Baller took issue with Sammy, saying that he respects him 202 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:07.879 because Sammy was very deferential to him at first, and 203 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.159 he did say that, he did say that he respected him. 204 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.399 Ballot told Sammy, look, you gotta grow some balls. Come 205 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:16.360 down to the ring to talk, because Sammy was talking 206 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:19.000 from the stage. And Sammy said, you know what, I will. 207 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.320 I owe you that much, and he came down to 208 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.799 the ring and he climbed inside. He said that everyone 209 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.320 knows how great Balor is and he probably should have 210 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.919 been w W E champion four or five times by now. 211 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.600 And then he corrected himself and he said, well, maybe 212 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.919 more like two or three times. But he said, look, 213 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:43.240 you had your time. This is my time now. Sammy 214 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.200 said it's bigger than him and Balor, though he said 215 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.480 it's about justice. Balor said justice? What about my justice? 216 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.159 What about what about Balor's justice? I'm sitting here thinking 217 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.759 what about Sid justice? Sid would if Sid came out 218 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:04.080 right now, and then Sid would crush these two. Sid 219 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.679 would absolutely crush these two. Actually, now that I think 220 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:09.320 about it, I think Sammy's ain actually owns one of 221 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.879 the more annoying spots that I've ever seen in my life. 222 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.840 And I don't remember what independent show it was from, 223 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.720 but many years ago, in the El Generico, days because 224 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.919 supposedly Sammy's ain. It's never been confirmed, but he may 225 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.519 have been under the l Generico mask. I can't prove it, though, 226 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.000 but there was some kind of match and I think 227 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:34.240 Sid right power bombed Generico and he totally no sold it. 228 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.080 I wish I could remember all the details, but just 229 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:39.799 I mentioned Sid just now and it made me think 230 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.320 of that. So, yeah, they're talking about Justice. I'm thinking 231 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.679 about Sid Justice. I'm thinking about anything but the fucking 232 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.320 show that I'm watching here. So Sammy said, look, it's 233 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.879 been ten years and Balor never came close, so maybe 234 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:55.159 he should take the hint. Balor said the title or 235 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.720 he held the title and it got taken away from 236 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.879 him due to injury. In Sammy's case, he had the 237 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.879 championship and the reason he lost it is because he 238 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.320 lost fair and square. Sammy said, well, those sound like 239 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:14.159 fighting words. He said, if Balor was anybody else, he 240 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:18.720 would drop him, but he said he's not gonna do 241 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.960 that because he's the last real good guy. Said that 242 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.480 he would walk away. He would see Baller at Summerslim. 243 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.519 So before he could walk away, Gunther enters the ring 244 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:35.080 from behind Balor and knocks Ballor into Zayanne and because 245 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.720 you know, he took great issue with them talking about 246 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.399 being the number one contender for the WWE Championship, which 247 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.000 is what they're fighting for this weekend. He says he's 248 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:48.200 the true number one contender. Adam Pierce comes out onto 249 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:51.360 the stage. He's got security with him. He's talking about 250 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:55.039 gun there and what are you doing and Gunther he 251 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.200 approaches Pierce and he says he's doing what he has 252 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.080 to do to get what's rightfully his. And he went 253 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.679 to Pierce and said, what do I have to do? 254 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.519 Do I have to beat your ass too? So Baler 255 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.279 runs down the aisle. He hits Gunther from behind. Sammy 256 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.960 then tossed Balor aside. He starts attacking Gunther. Baller grabs Sammy. 257 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.399 They start trading shots until Gunther clotheslined them both ran 258 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:23.440 them into the barricade. Nick All this shows up and 259 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.679 he attacks gun Thro in the aisle. He tosses him 260 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.919 into the ring. This he ends up putting him down 261 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:33.320 and locking him in a Texas clover leaf, and the 262 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.600 crowd was given this a nice ovation. Pierce in the 263 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:40.600 security guards they intervened. They pulled all this to the 264 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.759 corner and ed Gunther took a cheap shot at him. 265 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:47.120 Both guys had to be separated. I like the segment 266 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.000 in this regard. They did I think a decent job 267 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.960 here of pushing two matches in one segment. So you 268 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.000 had a very basic back and forth, you know, dialogue 269 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.279 here between Sammy and Finn. Again, there's not a whole 270 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.120 lot to talk about because this is not some long 271 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.039 drawn out feud. It's this number one contenders match that 272 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.519 was just kind of put together randomly a week ago. 273 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.200 So there's no real history between these two, not recently anyway. 274 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.320 And what they said was what you would expect them 275 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:20.639 to say, right, they kind of took shots at each other. 276 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:23.600 I'm going to be number one contender. No, I'm going 277 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.840 to be number one contender. Sammy's doing his bit where 278 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.240 you know, again justice for Sammy. I've been screwed and 279 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.639 now I'm going to get what's mine. See that's what 280 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:34.360 you got. But then Gunther comes in and they weaved 281 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.399 it right on into guntherro and Nick all this. So 282 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.559 I like what they did. They're all this and there 283 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.639 was more stuff later on with all this, the limited 284 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:44.759 stuff that we got regarding Nick all this on this 285 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.360 show was some of the best parts of the show. 286 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:48.720 And I don't know how many of you saw the 287 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.240 interview that he did with Chris van Vliet, but in 288 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:55.840 the course of the interview, Chris was, you know, talking 289 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.600 to him about this match that's coming up, but why 290 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.279 it means so much to him and all this guy 291 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.920 very emotional. He couldn't even speak for like it felt 292 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.640 like a minute straight. He was trying to compose himself. 293 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.640 He was crying. He had tears in his eyes, and 294 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:16.160 he said, this is his one shot and I've said 295 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:20.240 it before, like this is a moment for him that 296 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.160 he has been waiting for for many, many years. He 297 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.680 never wanted to come to WWE with the idea of 298 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.720 being a general manager or any kind of manager, right. 299 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.160 He wanted to wrestle in TNA. He was a wrestler 300 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.640 TNA World Heavyweight Champion in the NWA. He's been five 301 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:44.000 years in the NWA combined over a thousand days working 302 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:49.079 for Billy Corgan is the NWA World's Heavyweight Champion. Wrestle 303 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:52.160 Cody roades at the first all in in fact in 304 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.519 an NWA title match to come to WWE and not 305 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.559 be a GM, right, he wanted to be a wrestler. 306 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:02.480 They didn't have any interest in him at that time 307 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.039 in that role. They had a specific role for him. 308 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:08.119 Over the last three years, he's taken that role and 309 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:09.759 I think he's knocked it out of the park. He's 310 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:12.519 done very well with it. I still see this as 311 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.839 being a one off for the time being. I don't 312 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.359 really have any expectation that this is going to be 313 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.920 a regular thing and they're just going to find the 314 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.599 new GM and all. This is just going to be 315 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.279 a wrestler from now on. But I think if all 316 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:29.039 goes well tomorrow, this will absolutely lead to more in 317 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.440 ring opportunities for him and he'll probably end up back 318 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.200 in the GM role, which I think is still the 319 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.319 right role for him. But it all depends on how 320 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.039 things go tomorrow. And I'm look, I'm pulling for him. 321 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:41.799 I hope everything goes well. I hope the two of 322 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:43.480 them go out there and they have a killer match 323 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.319 and then one match begets two, two begats three and 324 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.079 so on and so forth, because that was always the 325 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:53.720 guy's dream. He's not getting any younger. If he's going 326 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.319 to get in the ring and he's going to do stuff, 327 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:57.079 now's the time to do it. He's got a whole 328 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:01.039 roster of people to work with, who in most cases 329 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:06.359 he's not ever worked with before, worked with Cody. Beyond Cody, 330 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.960 I mean, I have to go back and check. I 331 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:09.759 don't know who else on the current roster he would 332 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.920 have been in the ring with. But I'm sure that 333 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:17.079 number is not very great. But this match legit not 334 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:20.559 as like a wrestling promo or storyline. This match means 335 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:23.359 a lot to him. He's got a lot riding on 336 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:25.440 this match. He's got a lot of pressure on him 337 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:28.599 that I'm sure he's putting on himself for this match tomorrow, 338 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.400 and I'm looking forward to that. As far as Balor 339 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.680 and Sammy, I've got Balor winning on Sunday. I think 340 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:37.680 what they also did here is they set things up 341 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:42.200 perfectly because again I think Baler's going to win. He's 342 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.640 going to become the number one contender. I think coming 343 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.160 out of this weekend, they've set things in motion for 344 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:51.200 a program between Balor and Gunther. The match that we 345 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:56.440 were deprived of six years ago because of the pandemic 346 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.680 was supposed to happen in Dublin. He was still Walter 347 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.359 at the time and we never got that match. Now, 348 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:06.240 I think since then they've wrestled maybe once on TV. 349 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:09.119 But now we have a chance to have a proper 350 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.960 feud between them, because I've asked that question in recent 351 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.000 weeks as I go over it in my head, like, Okay, 352 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:16.920 we get to Summer Slam, Gunther is going to beat 353 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.160 all this. Anything else to me is ridiculous, especially if 354 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.839 all this is not going to be a full time performer. 355 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:23.960 What the hell does he need to win for? But 356 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.160 then coming out of Summer Slim, it's like, well, where 357 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.920 do you go with Gunther? You know, he was doing 358 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.200 the WWE title thing for a while. It feels to 359 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:33.759 me like he's going to be out of that picture 360 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.119 for a bit. I've given up on speculating about when 361 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.680 we're going to get Ilia Dragonov back. I'm sure he'll 362 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:42.160 be back at some point. It could be next week, 363 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:46.400 it could be next year. I'm done. I'm done wondering 364 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.759 about it. If Gunther is still on the SmackDown roster 365 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:56.440 when Dragonov eventually comes back, it's a natural feud, right 366 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.240 It would be a sin for them to be on 367 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.319 the same ross her and for WWE to never go 368 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.160 in that direction without knowing when he's going to be back, though. 369 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.599 I got my eyes on Gunther and Balor. I think 370 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:15.440 that could be where we're headed. After SummerSlam, we had 371 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:20.960 Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green taking on Beefab and Meechin 372 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.599 the Batties in tag team action here with Jade Cargill 373 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:31.000 in their corner. Stratton got a hot tag. About midway through, 374 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:36.440 she dropped meechin with the floatover cartwheel Alabama Slam went 375 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:39.559 up top for the swanton bomb. Meechin, though kicked out 376 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:43.680 it two Jay took Tiffany out on the outside through 377 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.000 or right into the steel steps back inside, Chelsea got 378 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.440 Meechin with a drop kick. Beefab, though tagged in, and 379 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.359 the two of them put her down with their finish. 380 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.200 I didn't catch the name of their finish. They haven't 381 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:59.279 teamed together very often enough for them to even establish 382 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:02.440 a real tag team finish. Whatever it is that they 383 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.079 were able to pick up the wind. So they were 384 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:09.039 celebrating when the match was over and they were interrupted 385 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:13.440 by Charlotte Flair's music and Charlotte Flair walks out. She's 386 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:17.440 wearing a jacket. Now I know they were in Green Bay. 387 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.839 I don't know what the current temperature is in Green Bay. 388 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.799 How how cold could Green Bay possibly be? We're at 389 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:29.920 the beginning of August. However, it is Charlotte walked out 390 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:36.000 in the biggest, most oversized jacket she could, she could fit. 391 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.079 I wouldn't be shocked. They could have done an angle 392 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:41.839 tonight where Alexa Bliss was hiding under the jacket. What 393 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:43.680 a reveal that would have been. She gets in the 394 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.359 ring and unzips the jacket and Alexa comes out throws 395 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.799 a fucking fireball in Jade's face. This was like it 396 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.359 was like George Costanza on Seinfeld with the puffy jacket. Okay, 397 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.920 this thing was gigantic. So she's standing there and Jade 398 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.960 has her back turned to well, I mean, all three 399 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.960 the batties are looking at Charlotte. But what Jade doesn't realize, 400 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:07.079 nor Meetchen nor Beefab is that Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea 401 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.440 Green are up on the floor outside and they reach 402 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:12.400 in they pull out the batties. So now Jade is 403 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.559 all by herself in the ring. And so Charlotte gets 404 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:19.240 in the ring after taking her puffy jacket off, and 405 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:24.079 the two of them go toe to toe and it 406 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:27.519 led to uh Jade retreating out to the floor. Charlotte 407 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:32.319 stood tall. Look, I told you guys on the sound 408 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:34.680 off when I did by Summer Slam predictions that if 409 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:38.599 Lash qualifies and we'll get to that match later, I 410 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:42.599 suspected that Lash was beating Julia when and if Lash 411 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.680 Legend were to win, She's my pick to win the 412 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.039 ladder match on Sunday. If she was not to win 413 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:51.599 and Julia was somehow going to get the win tonight, 414 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:53.799 then Jade would have been my backup choice because I 415 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:55.359 think I still feel that way. I still feel like 416 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:58.720 it's going to be one of those two as far 417 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:01.240 as what happened with Lash Juliet'll we'll get to that 418 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:07.720 here in a little bit. That's the fashion nowadays, baggy 419 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:10.319 and big. I mean, look, when I was younger, I 420 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:13.440 had the I had the baggy pants. Okay, they were 421 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:17.839 falling down on me. I had like extra large shirts. 422 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:21.279 So many of those old WWF shirts, like the Attitude 423 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:24.519 Ere Austin three sixteen and and all that, like they 424 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:28.000 were all xls, you know, some of them that I kept. 425 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:32.720 I actually still have my original Austin three sixteen T shirt, 426 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:35.839 and I don't want to say it's oversized on me, 427 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.160 like it's hanging off me or anything, but like it's 428 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.319 I should have definitely ordered a large, not an extra large. 429 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:43.200 That's kind of the way things were. I don't know 430 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.680 what this was. This was. This was like triple XL 431 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:55.200 on Charlotte. It looked ridiculous. That's the style. Okay, well 432 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:59.480 that's a terrible style. I'm sorry. There's baggy and there's 433 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:03.839 whatever the hell that is. We had Phraxium and we 434 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:06.920 had Dragon Lee. They were having a conversation in the 435 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:10.079 back when they were approached by Dominic Mysterio and JD 436 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:15.839 McDonough and they got in a back and forth exchange here, 437 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:20.480 which led to a challenge being made for Ray Phoenix 438 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:24.799 to defend his Triple A Cruiserweight Championship later in the 439 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:27.960 show against JD McDonough, who said, you know what, it's 440 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.640 about time I bring singles goal to the judgment day. 441 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.799 I'm going to go talk to Adam Pierce. Then we 442 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:40.200 got a video with Tomatonga and Taalatanga talking about how 443 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:45.440 they forgot who they were and why they're here. Well, 444 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:49.920 perhaps they should see a doctor. If you forget who 445 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.519 you are and where you are and why you're here. 446 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:55.880 That sounds like a serious medical issue, especially for someone 447 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:58.200 in their profession who's constantly being hit in the head. 448 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:01.039 I would be a little worried about that. I mean, 449 00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.039 I forget sometimes what I'm gonna say, I forget my keys. 450 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:09.000 It happens. But this sounds very concerning. But they forgot 451 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:13.559 who they were, and Talatanka said that they were too 452 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.359 busy fighting Solo Socoa's battles for him. He said that 453 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.599 they would put their family first from now on. And 454 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:22.160 then all of a sudden, in this vignette, who shows 455 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:27.640 up Haku the man himself, one of the toughest men 456 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.400 in the history of the wrestling business, and he walks 457 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:32.960 in and you know what makes him even more bad 458 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:35.680 I didn't think it was possible for Haku to be 459 00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:39.319 more badass, just you know, by being Haku. But he 460 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:42.359 walks in with a giant walking stick. He's like Gandalf 461 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.799 but cooler. So he's got this giant stick. And for 462 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.720 those who don't know, this is the father of two, 463 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.319 the father of Bremode now venham Ca Tetsi, thank you, 464 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:03.759 thank you, brother, the father of bre Mode. Can you 465 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.960 imagine he is the father for those who don't know 466 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:13.279 of Tomatonga and Taalatoga and man Tonga. Lowa has got 467 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:16.000 to feel like shit man because he's the one who 468 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.079 got shit. Can The other two are still there, they're 469 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:20.759 working with their dad. I don't know what Toangaloa is doing, 470 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.839 probably watching this thinking, man, I should be there with them. 471 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:29.200 So he shows up. He tells them, you gotta make 472 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.799 people fear you again. He's given them a pep talk. 473 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:42.119 I love seeing Haku, the idea that by just putting 474 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.079 Haku on TV, this is going to get me to 475 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:48.920 give a shit about the MFTs. Ah. Yeah, it's gonna 476 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.839 take a little bit more than that. It's a step 477 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:54.559 in the right direction, though, but it's gonna take a 478 00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:59.759 lot more than that. After this, we had the epic 479 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.759 encounter that has been promoted now for many, many weeks. 480 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:12.000 This was guys, Okay, this was big. Okay. We don't 481 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:15.599 get a match like this very often. Like, dude, my 482 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.839 hair is standing up right now. You can't see it. 483 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:22.839 I have I have goosebumps right now on my arm. Okay, 484 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:26.119 I'm matchally nervous. I'm nervous. I'm gonna talk about this match. 485 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.000 I'm nervous. Can you believe this? I'm nervous. We had 486 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:35.400 Winner take All? Do you realize the stakes in this match? 487 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:40.680 Winner take All for the WWE Tag Team Championship and 488 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.240 the Triple A Tag Team Championship. We had the war 489 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.359 Raiders putting their Triple A titles on the line against 490 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.720 Damian Priest and Our Truth. I don't know that either 491 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:54.680 one of these teams, by the way, got an entrance 492 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:59.279 here on this show, but this was big time Man 493 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:04.519 and the crowd in Green Bay, well, I don't know. 494 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.480 I mean, somebody forgot to clue them in as to 495 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:12.079 the historical significance of this match, but I shall try 496 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:14.839 to do it justice by giving you a very succinct 497 00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.559 description here. They went to a commercial break, as they 498 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:20.039 do for every other match on this show. They came back. 499 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:23.319 Damian Priest took Ivar off the top with a rana. 500 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:28.480 Eric though had blind tagged himself into the match, so 501 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:30.680 they took Priest up and down with a pop up 502 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:35.680 power slam. They covered him. Truth though, jumped in to 503 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:39.960 break up the pin. So the war Raiders they were 504 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:44.119 going after Our Truth, and as they were fighting him, 505 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:48.400 they shoved Charles Robinson his side. Now that's just something 506 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.079 you don't do, okay, you don't put your hands a 507 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.599 little nature, and he was willing to let that slide. 508 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.200 And he goes back and now they're all fighting. Now 509 00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:03.759 Damian Priest is in there and he shoves Charles Robinson 510 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.279 down to the mat. And that's it. I mean, at 511 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.480 that point, now you've had these men put their hands 512 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:13.640 on you two different times. There's nothing left to do 513 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.799 but call for the disqualification, call for the bell. The 514 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:28.240 fans booh, that's the lamest, most unenthusiastic boo. Yeah, they 515 00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:31.319 were very happy about that. The fight continues, though they 516 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.440 end up brawling into the crowd, to a very tame 517 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:39.519 reaction from said crowd. Truth got up on the barricade 518 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:42.440 while they were in the crowd. He did a splash 519 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.440 off the barricade onto everybody. They fought their way back 520 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.720 to ringside and here's Tomatonga and Tlatanga and they're back 521 00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:53.400 in the face paint the dead presidents makeup. They got 522 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:56.680 it back on their face here. So they take everybody 523 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.960 out and including in the ring. Tomatonga is not so 524 00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:05.920 hidden blade the cutthroat, as he calls it. And then 525 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:07.359 I look and all of a sudden, I don't know, 526 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.599 it's like he teleported himself. I don't know where he 527 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.839 came from. Maybe I guess he walked down the aisle. 528 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.200 I don't know. But Haku was there in the ring 529 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.160 with his walking stick. I think it's a walking stick. 530 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:21.640 It looked like a staff. It almost looked like something 531 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:29.039 that Skeletor would like. Yeah, the Skeletor maybe they could 532 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:33.039 get if you got Skeletor to manage the MFTs. I 533 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:38.279 still wouldn't give a fuck. But Haku is there and 534 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.000 his sons are holding up both sets of tag team titles, 535 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:43.599 and it appears that Haku is going to be a 536 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.279 regular character on TV. You know, we lost Lil YACHTI. 537 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.319 I've noticed he hasn't been on TV for a couple 538 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.319 of weeks. If we traded Lil YACHTI for Haku, I'm 539 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.519 okay with that. The fact that he is now with 540 00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:57.880 his sons and they were holding up the tag team 541 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:01.799 titles guarantees they're winning the titles, not the Triple A ones, 542 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:05.240 the WWE ones. Triple A ones don't matter on this show. 543 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:12.319 Hakku is scarier than Skeletor. Well, I mean that is true. 544 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.079 That is true. Really, if you know anything about Skeletor, 545 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.720 he is very goofy. He's very goofy. He'll say something 546 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.839 and then he'll run off. Haku would never run away, 547 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:27.680 not before he plucks your eyeballs out of your skull. 548 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:30.559 It is kind of funny to be though, now that 549 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.200 we have Haku on television after Jacob Fatu adopted the 550 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:38.319 Tonguan death grip and has done a great disservice to 551 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.000 it by not winning a single match with it. If 552 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:42.480 I were him, I would just give it up and 553 00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.200 let Haku. Being that he's on TV now, let Haku 554 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.559 do it. He's the only one that should be doing it. 555 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.559 If he's actually going to be on these shows, let 556 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:58.519 him have the Tongan death Grip. As far as the 557 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:04.880 match itself, it was okay until the absolutely just fucking 558 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:11.319 lame finish, which rendered this match completely useless. They promoted 559 00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:14.440 this thing. I know, it wasn't like a significant promotion 560 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.000 and people didn't really care, but they promoted this match 561 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:25.079 in various backstage segments for weeks weeks and weeks, and 562 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:27.759 then they do it, and they do that finish. It's 563 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:34.079 so fucking lame. It's so lame Haku with the Tongans, 564 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.279 it adds a new dimension to them. Look, I've talked 565 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:41.440 about how these tag team divisions on Ron SmackDown are dead. Okay, 566 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:45.279 they're dead. They virtually don't exist. They just don't have 567 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:50.519 enough teams to sustain separate divisions, even if you combine them. 568 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.359 Tag team wrestling in WWE has I don't think ever 569 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.000 been as bad as it is right now, and it's 570 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.680 not because they don't have talent and the company who 571 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:03.200 could kind of fill those roles. If you look at 572 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:06.119 the teams that they have, they have the street profits. 573 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.440 I guess they have the vision right, the street profits, 574 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:13.239 the vision you've got the MFT. I'll still call them 575 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:17.960 the MFTs. Priest in truth, I'm sorry, not a real team. 576 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:22.519 The war Raiders. You have Phraxium, you have Los Garza. 577 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:26.440 Who else am I missing here? You want to count 578 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.519 domin JD. I mean, they're not a real team if 579 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.199 you want to put the Judgment Day in there, though, 580 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:35.559 I guess I guess you could do that. Again, it's 581 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.440 the USOS Okay, I forgot about the USOS. Got the 582 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:41.440 USSOS as well, Right, It's not much of a division 583 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:45.239 because there's no emphasis on tag team wrestling, so when 584 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.199 it comes to it, like I again, I was mocking 585 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:50.559 it before, but you have a champion versus champion title 586 00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:52.800 for title match on this show right that they've been 587 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.599 hyping up for weeks, winner take all, both sets of 588 00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:00.000 tag team belts are on the line. There's a reason 589 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:06.440 why nobody gave a shit. Nobody cared given the stakes 590 00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:08.119 that were in this match. Did it sound to you 591 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:10.400 like the fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin gave a fuck 592 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.199 about this match? And if I polled every single person 593 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:18.280 watching this right now, okay, you can't tell me that 594 00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:21.199 the vast majority of people either a even remembered this 595 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.039 match was booked for this show or B tuned into 596 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.679 the show tonight specifically because they were excited to see 597 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:30.280 this match. I don't believe you. I think you're a liar. 598 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:34.440 There's a reason for that, though, because the fans have 599 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:36.440 not been given a reason to think that any of 600 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.440 these belts are meaningful in any way, because tag team 601 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:44.880 wrestling is not considered meaningful in any way on these shows. 602 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:47.800 So it's sad. You know, when I talk about a 603 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:50.039 match like this that should be a big deal, it 604 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.960 doesn't feel like it. And that's not on the war Raiders. 605 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:56.880 That's not on our truth. That's not on Damian Priest. 606 00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:01.840 That's on Paulo bec and Bruce Pritchard and Michael Hayes 607 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:04.599 or Paul Hayman or whoever is sitting in that fucking 608 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:09.880 room that we see on Unreal. It's on them. It's 609 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:20.159 on them. They aired footage of CM Punk and Cody 610 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.840 Rhodes sharing the ring together after their match. They had 611 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.400 a tag team match at the live event in Springfield 612 00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:32.639 last night. Cody handed Punk the belt and patted him 613 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.280 on the shoulder and then he turned around and he 614 00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:38.159 was looking at at the crowd. Punk then went to 615 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.000 go pat Cody on the back, and Cody delivered. He 616 00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:46.239 just threw the again the most telegraphed forced elbow, and 617 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:47.800 they tried to play it off like, oh, it was 618 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.519 a mistake. It was almost as it was so bad. 619 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:56.639 I watched this believing that it almost had to have 620 00:36:56.719 --> 00:36:59.880 been done to where the fans can see that Cody 621 00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:03.199 was full of shit and that Cody did it on purpose, 622 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.360 and so if they wanted to play it off that way, 623 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.000 then it works. The fact that they were all trying 624 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.199 to play it off like it was a mistake, like 625 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:16.199 it was terrible. It was just it was so it 626 00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:21.119 was so forced and it was so obvious. But we 627 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:24.119 go to the back. Kathy Kelly is live with the 628 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:28.280 WWE champion for an interview, and Punk says that he 629 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.559 and Cody they are not going to be friends in 630 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.559 the ring, but as far as after the match is over, 631 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:36.400 we'll see Trick Williams, the United States Champion, walks in 632 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:39.079 with his furry belt around his waist. Again no Lil 633 00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:42.639 YACHTI and he says that, you know, Punk should be 634 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:44.920 happy that Trick lost in that fatal four way last 635 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:50.280 week because he's coming for the WWE title. And Punk says, 636 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:51.920 he you want this, how you want to be Trick 637 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:57.199 two Belts? And I I went like this, you heard 638 00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:59.000 what I said last? Was it last week? I just 639 00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:03.119 said this last week. I just said this the other day. 640 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.360 If I never hear another reference to so and so 641 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:10.039 two belts, it won't be a day too soon. Now 642 00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.519 he's talking about Trick two Belts. Tiffany Stratton's in the 643 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.880 ladder match on Sunday. She's gonna try to become Tiffy 644 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.400 two Belts. I would love for there to be a 645 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:25.559 six month moratorium and professional wrestling on wrestlers holding more 646 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:29.840 than one championship. I don't want anybody to have two belts. 647 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.760 I don't even I'm going to count the belt around 648 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:34.800 their pants that keeps their pants. O, you're not allowed 649 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:36.639 to wear that. Either you got to pick. You got 650 00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.639 to pick one or the other, either the belt to 651 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:41.360 hold up your pants or your championship belt. I don't 652 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:45.480 want anybody to have two belts. I'm over the two 653 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:52.119 belts stuff. But talking to Trick and saying, all right, 654 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:56.000 that's cool, that's cool. You want to become Trick two belts? 655 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.280 Here he goes, and I tell you what I wish 656 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:01.719 it was you. I wanted to face you. I'm looking 657 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.400 for fresh, younger, hungry, newer challengers. And he says, when 658 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:09.880 you finally do become number one contender, I'll be waiting 659 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:15.800 there to whoop that trick. So then after this, we 660 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.400 got a video package on Nick. All this he was 661 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.599 sitting in the locker room on one of the benches, 662 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.639 cutting a promo and talking to the cameraman saying it's 663 00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:29.599 been a privilege for him to be the SmackDown general manager. 664 00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:32.639 But it was never his first dream. He's always been 665 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:36.199 a wrestler, says, He's won indefended titles all around the 666 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.880 world against legends. And they showed clips for the first 667 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:44.119 time here we actually got video showing the casual WWE 668 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.440 viewer who doesn't know a whole lot about Nick Alldis 669 00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:49.519 other than the fact that he's that GM guy, the 670 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.119 fact that, holy shit, this guy was a wrestler and 671 00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.119 he won championships. And they showed him in there with 672 00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:59.000 wrestlers like Kurt Angle and other names that a lot 673 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:01.280 of fans would probably recognize, right. They showed him in 674 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:03.800 there with a whole bunch of different people. They didn't 675 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:06.000 just have footage from TNA, though they had some footage 676 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.480 of him from Triple A, and they had it wasn't 677 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:11.480 really footage, and I think it was just one still 678 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:14.280 image from NWA, but it was him face to face, 679 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:18.559 nose to nose with Cody Roads. All this said, he 680 00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.199 was willing to just be the best GM that he 681 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.760 could be, and he was going to leave that part 682 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:27.800 of his life behind, but then Gunher pushed him too far. 683 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.920 He goes, this isn't about his dream, It isn't about 684 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.320 being the GM. It's about being a man. So he's 685 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.119 gonna lace up his boots. He's gonna lace him up 686 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:40.639 real tight. He's gonna face Gunther one on one like 687 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.639 a man. This was good. This was one of my 688 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.639 favorite parts of the entire show. I only wish that 689 00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:51.039 they would have done this more than twenty four hours 690 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.679 before the match, but at least we got it at all. 691 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:02.199 We had the United States Champion Trick Williams out to 692 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.239 the ring to address his rival at SummerSlam, his challenger 693 00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:12.159 for the title, Baron Corbin. He said that he had 694 00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:16.159 a lot to get off his chest, and he said 695 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.159 that Corbin decided to just wake up one day and 696 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.119 hate on him, looking like a big ass Tommy Pickles. 697 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.559 Holy shit, we got a rug Rats reference on this show. 698 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:31.920 I haven't thought of that show in a very long time. 699 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:35.440 What was the last time I even saw an episode 700 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:39.559 of rug Rats? I don't even know. It's been years. 701 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:43.480 Trick called out Corbin for a fight right now. Corbin 702 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.320 walked out only as far as the stage. He didn't 703 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:49.639 go down to the ring, and he said he learned 704 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:53.119 some very valuable lessons in his time away, like the 705 00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:57.760 virtue of patience, something that Trick doesn't know. Says, Trick 706 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.559 got the rocket strapped to him right away, include entrance 707 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:03.159 music that makes people think he's more important than he 708 00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:08.239 really is. At SummerSlam, Corbin will drown him in quicksand 709 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:11.880 and he's going on and on, and Trick interrupts him 710 00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:15.119 and says, you're not gonna do anything because he's Corbyn 711 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.039 here just to collect the check. The only thing Corbyn 712 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:22.239 will be collecting is Trick's boot up his ass. So 713 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.679 Corbin interrupts, says a trick. Trick wants to do it 714 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.800 right now. He wants to fight right now. Corbin says, 715 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:33.119 I'm not stupid. We're not doing that. He goes, Trick 716 00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:35.280 is just a dumb rookie who doesn't get it. And 717 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:38.480 on Sunday he's taking the US title and there's nothing 718 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:41.800 Trick can do about it. And Trick warns him that 719 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:45.360 on Sunday there will be thirty five thousand people. I 720 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:48.639 was more shocked that gave the legit number thirty five 721 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:55.159 thousand people, he said, chanting, whoop that Trick again. This 722 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:58.920 was okay, this was serviceable, not a whole lot to 723 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.679 draw from here, and just came back a few weeks ago. 724 00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:05.880 Literally just came back what two weeks ago, maybe three, 725 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.760 I think two, and we got one promo video prior 726 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:12.920 to this where he talked about I guess his motivation. 727 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.679 This generation of young kids now they think they know 728 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.199 everything and everything's handed to them. That's the gist of it, 729 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:23.800 and that's really it. That's really all that we have 730 00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:28.039 to go on here with these two. There is someone 731 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.079 who is missing in this equation. I'm going to assume 732 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:36.360 that carmel O Hayes accepted his fate. I'm just going 733 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:41.039 to assume that he accepted his fate and sees things 734 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.000 for how they really are, because he has turned into 735 00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:46.800 a ghost on this show ever since we saw him 736 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.679 in the ring of that non title match with Trick. 737 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:51.920 It was the night that Corbyn came back. Corbyn didn't 738 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.320 just beat up Trick Williams that night, he beat up 739 00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.480 Carmelo Hayes and Trick has been on his ass ever since. 740 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.639 Carmelo Hayes is no where to be found out. I 741 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:02.639 had somebody who actually wrote in the chat before that 742 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.960 apparently he was there tonight, and this person said that 743 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:14.159 carmel O Hayes wrestled Ricky Saints on main event, so 744 00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:17.880 he has been relegated to Maine event, dude, like Jordan 745 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.880 Grace was reduced to main event, and I don't even 746 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:22.239 know where she is now. I don't even think she's 747 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.760 on main event. But that is where Carmelo Hayes is. 748 00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:31.599 He has had nothing to say about Baron KORbin laying 749 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:37.559 him out and attacking him all those weeks ago. Amazing, 750 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:40.960 all that work that they did with the US title 751 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:43.679 Open Challenge, Like Sammy Zay is in a good spot 752 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:48.079 right now. He even won the WWE Championship for nine days, 753 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:53.159 but then the title went from Sammy to Dragonov right, 754 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:58.159 and then from Dragonov to Carmelo Hayes. And the two 755 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.360 men that inherited the US time a open Challenge and 756 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.440 had killer matches week after week, and honestly, they were 757 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:09.199 the saving grace of this just dreadful television show for months. 758 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:13.000 Those two guys right now are a total non factor 759 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.880 on this show because you would think, like you can 760 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.119 use that open challenge gimmick to truly elevate somebody, and 761 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.039 they did for a brief period of time. It was 762 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.239 beneficial to Carmelo Hayes and that people started to really 763 00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:26.920 get behind him in a way that they hadn't since 764 00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.960 he was drafted to SmackDown. I was like, Okay, it's working. 765 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.519 He's getting himself over by going out there and having 766 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.119 these really killer matches, and he's getting screen time every week, 767 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:38.119 and this is good. And Dragonov is another one like 768 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:41.679 Dragonov's going out there, his matches are getting over because 769 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.920 there's nobody like him in WWE. He brings a level 770 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:48.280 of intensity to what he does that nobody else does. 771 00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:50.760 That's why he ends up busting himself open in every match. 772 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:54.519 He's a little too intense. All the work that they 773 00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:56.719 put in, all the television time they devoted to these 774 00:45:56.719 --> 00:45:59.039 two to try to elevate them, if that was even 775 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:02.320 their real goal, and they've been I mean, in the 776 00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:04.719 case of Dragon OFV, he's been off television all year. 777 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.519 He's been off television all year, ever since the Rumble. 778 00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:13.400 And I can think back to the Royal Rumble and 779 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:16.719 all those fucking morons who tried to convince me when 780 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:20.000 I talked about how stupid it was, and it was stupid. 781 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:26.800 Oh well, brock Lesner, no selling those chops from Ilia Dragonov. 782 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:29.719 It's really not a big deal or it's you know, 783 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:33.559 I forgot what dumb argument they came up with, Like, Oh, 784 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.079 it's gonna help him get over in a way by 785 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:39.360 having a moment with get the fuck out of here, 786 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:43.400 pack your shit and fucking leave all the dumb shit 787 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.000 that I had to hear coming out of that. I'm 788 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.199 getting angry just thinking about it all over again. That 789 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.000 was the beginning of the end for him, that fucking 790 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:54.360 dumb spot in the rumble. He was never the same 791 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.760 after that. So it's sad. It's just sad for me 792 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.280 to look back here, almost like a lost year for 793 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:05.119 him and Framelo. Look, maybe coming out of Summer Slim, 794 00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:06.880 maybe they just want to get through Summer Slim and 795 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:11.239 then he'll magically reappear next Friday, I hope, so for 796 00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:15.960 his sake, I hope. So that's all I can say. Now. 797 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.320 I should point out that about half an hour past 798 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.920 before our last match, we were finally getting another one 799 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:29.000 here Ray Phoenix defending the Triple A Cruiserweight Championship against 800 00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:32.119 JD Mcdondoah. This was our second Triple A title match 801 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:36.239 of the show. And if I am going to as 802 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.480 I have done before, when Tony has gone a little 803 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:41.519 overboard with it, although I think he's done a little 804 00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:42.960 bit better with it, at least as far as the 805 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:48.199 TV shows go recently. But I don't like when we 806 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:50.760 end up in a situation, as we have done before 807 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:55.199 in AAW where we start getting this overabundance of title 808 00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:01.280 matches titles that are not connected to AW. Occasionally, it 809 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:05.880 had gotten a little out of control. On this show alone, 810 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.679 we had two Triple A title matches. Now, I don't 811 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:13.239 mind the occasional Ray Phoenix Triple A Cruiserweight title defense 812 00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:16.239 simply because it is the only way that Ray Phoenix 813 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:19.760 will ever get television time on SmackDown is to defend 814 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:22.480 that championship. I hope he never loses it. I hope 815 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.239 he retires as the Cruiserweight champion, because the minute he 816 00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:27.719 drops that title, we will never see him again on 817 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:32.360 this show. So I'm okay with it, and more often 818 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:34.239 than not, when he's in there, if they give him 819 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:36.159 some time, like it'll probably end up being the best 820 00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:38.920 match on the show, Like the match he had here 821 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.920 with McDonough was was good for the time that it lasted. 822 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:44.199 But we had that and we had the Triple A 823 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:46.280 tag team title match. It's too much. I don't want 824 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:49.039 to see that again because I don't care about these 825 00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:50.960 Triple A titles. And by the way, we had the 826 00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.639 Triple A Mega Champion on this show too, Dominic Mysterio. 827 00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.039 Now I understand them wanting to promote the Triple A brand. 828 00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:00.960 There are ways that you can do that, but let's 829 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:03.159 not get into the act of having these constant Triple 830 00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.320 A title defenses on these shows, as I feel like, 831 00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:08.159 what I don't want them to do is lean on 832 00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:10.199 it as a crutch. Oh, we can have title matches 833 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:11.960 because we can just use Triple A titles, so we 834 00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:15.079 can have more title matches on the shows. Don't do that. 835 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:23.159 Phoenix hit a springboard splash of the frog variety, follow 836 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:25.719 that with a brainbuster that got him a near fall. 837 00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:30.599 Then it was Phoenix with a handspring springboard Cutter McDonough 838 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:33.119 came back with a running Spanish Fly. He got a 839 00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:37.079 near fall out of that. Phoenix was on the top rope, 840 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.920 Dominic was out there. He caused a distraction that got 841 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.159 him ejected from ringside, and dom was beside himself. You 842 00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:48.559 can't throw me out, you can't do that. As he's leaving, 843 00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:59.039 he's backing up down the aisle. We hearoo you ah. Cursed. 844 00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.400 The whole fucking show is cursed. Dan Hausen is here 845 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.719 because we don't get enough of him on TV. We 846 00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.440 don't get nearly enough dan Hausen on these shows. I 847 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:11.280 was so happy that we had more of him there, 848 00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:14.760 especially this week after that amazing segment that we had 849 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:18.480 on Run Monday night. I was begging for more Dan Hausen. 850 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:23.000 But he has a match at SummerSlam, so I understand it. Okay, 851 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:25.159 he does have a match on the card this weekend, 852 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:27.280 so they wanted to get him on the show in 853 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:31.679 some way. So Dan Housen walks out, he's by himself 854 00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:36.519 and now he's face to face with Dom on stage 855 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:40.280 and he goes you ah, and before he can curse him, 856 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:43.880 Dom just punches him in the fucking face and down 857 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:47.599 goes dan Hausen. Will now outcome the Minie Housens and 858 00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:50.760 the midgets run out and they attack him, and now 859 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.519 Dan Housen is and I think Dan Housen was holding 860 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:56.480 him and the Mini Housens now are beating up the 861 00:50:56.480 --> 00:50:58.719 Triple A Mega Champion and this is all played for 862 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:03.039 haha comedy. This distracts JD McDonough, who was in the 863 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:05.519 middle of a title match, by the way in the 864 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:10.440 middle of the ring, and with his attention diverted, he 865 00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:13.920 ends up eating an audios Amigo kick and then Phoenix 866 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:19.840 finishes him off with the Mexican Musclebuster to retain the 867 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:27.280 Triple A Cruiserweight Championship. So we had Dan Housen and 868 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.360 the Mini Housens playing a prominent role a few weeks 869 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.559 ago on Saturday Night's main event. We have them on Raw, 870 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:38.360 we have them on SmackDown. We're gonna have them. It's 871 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:46.880 Summer Slam. It's too much. Dial it back, Dial it back. 872 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:50.840 There's room for Dan Housen on these shows, not on 873 00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:55.760 every show. If the people paying their money with their 874 00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:57.880 kids to bring their kids to the show, you think 875 00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.920 they're gonna want to see Dan Housen. Send him out 876 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:03.679 there during a commercial break. You send everybody else out 877 00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:06.239 there during a commercial breaks. The only fucking way Joe 878 00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:10.239 Hendry can get fucking time in the building on most weeks. 879 00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:12.719 Send him out there during the commercial break. He can 880 00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.519 do a bit, He can do a dance. You know, 881 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:17.480 he could do a fucking Broadway number. He could do 882 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:20.519 whatever you want him to do. Dial it back. It's 883 00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:24.679 too much. I beg of you, there's too much Danausen 884 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:33.719 on these shows. Then we had. It only gets worse. 885 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:37.960 It only gets worse because we had Lash Legend, who 886 00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:41.400 came out. She got her entrance, at least until the 887 00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.679 point that they went to commercial. She got half an entrance, 888 00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.159 but she came out for the next match, which was 889 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:51.920 the final qualifying match. Here in the interim Championship Ladder 890 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.079 match that we have coming up on Summer Slave Sunday, 891 00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:57.800 one spot left to be filled, and it was either 892 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:02.039 going to be Lash Legend or was going to be Julia. 893 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:05.880 When they come back from commercial, Julia is already in 894 00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:11.199 the ring, no entrance. She caught Lash in an octopus hold. 895 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:14.880 Then she hit her a riveder Chini not that long 896 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:19.960 later for a near fall, and Lash just you know, 897 00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:22.719 kicked out of it like it was nothing. It got 898 00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:26.960 basically no reaction. It was kicked out of We were 899 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:29.920 a minute into the match. If we were sixty seconds 900 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:34.119 into the match, I would be shocked. I think that 901 00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:36.400 that says it all right there, when you hit one 902 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.519 of your signature moves okay, which I think she's used 903 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.079 it as a finisher maybe occasionally in the past. But 904 00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:44.760 even if it's a setup to the finish, when you 905 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.800 hit one of your signature moves in the opening minute 906 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:49.719 of the match and the person kicks out of it 907 00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:51.719 like it's nothing and it doesn't even get much of 908 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:56.880 a reaction, you're cooked. Like you're cooked. Not that we 909 00:53:56.920 --> 00:54:01.519 didn't already know this before the match even ended, though, 910 00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:06.039 I was like, man, this is just this is sad. 911 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:10.760 Lash too big though to take the Northern Lights bomb, 912 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.480 So Julia locks on a guillotine instead. Lash, though powered 913 00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:16.239 out of it with a head butt, and then she 914 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:21.760 hits her Lash extension and she wins in about two minutes. 915 00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:29.440 They gave them two minutes and Julia was effectively squashed. 916 00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:35.639 It wasn't a total squash, but it was a squash. 917 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:41.079 Thanks for coming. Julia enjoyed the chicken. I hear it's 918 00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:44.360 quite tasty. That's where she'll be spending most of her 919 00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:46.840 time for the duration of her time here on SmackDown. 920 00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:52.880 Mark my words, I will be stunned a year from 921 00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.960 now if she's not back in Marigold, she won't be here. 922 00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.079 I don't know where she'll be, maybe not marriag Well, 923 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:06.000 but she will not be here. Two minutes, no heat, 924 00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:08.519 by the way, for any of this, not for her, 925 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:11.119 not for lash, not for nothing. And in a two 926 00:55:11.159 --> 00:55:13.719 minute match like this, it's not like anybody's actually getting over. 927 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:19.920 So everything about this was a complete and just utter failure. 928 00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.559 And I was just more sad than anything watching this. 929 00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:27.400 And for Julia, the Julia experiment on the main roster 930 00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:33.679 has been an abject failure, and there's this blame to 931 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:38.400 go around all around. But whatever she was doing in NXT, 932 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:42.199 it has not translated to the main roster, and they 933 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.199 gave her two different runs, by the way, with the 934 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:49.920 United States Championship, nobody cared. She would come out every week. 935 00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:52.719 They would play her music, and she had the cool entrance, 936 00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:54.599 you know, with the the mask and everything, and I 937 00:55:54.719 --> 00:56:02.000 like the colors, and nobody cared, nobody can. They had 938 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.159 her with Keana James. Keanu was doing most of the 939 00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:07.079 talking and then Julia started to, you know, do some 940 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.360 more talking on her own. She knows English. I mean, 941 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:12.239 obviously it's not her first language, but it's not like 942 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:16.280 she can't communicate. I mean, look at Andrade right now 943 00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:19.440 in AAW I would never say that. Androtte's promos are 944 00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.599 his strong suit. Right, They're not the strongest tool in 945 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:26.599 his toolbox. And even after all these years, it can 946 00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:29.239 still be tough sometimes to understand him in a promo. 947 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:31.119 I mean, I understand pretty much what he's saying most 948 00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:34.039 of the time, but he's got that thick accent, and obviously, 949 00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:36.920 you know, again English is not his first language. But 950 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:38.920 he doesn't have to say much these days. Sometimes you 951 00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:42.000 just hit on the right thing, and now people love him. 952 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.559 He's having the run of his career right now in 953 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:48.000 aw and all he has to do is say how 954 00:56:48.039 --> 00:56:51.559 you know, and the crowd goes nuts, right, So you 955 00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.679 never know what might get over, And you can find 956 00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:57.480 other Joshi wrestlers that have gotten over on the main roster, 957 00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:03.320 OSCA EO being the two shining examples. Whatever it is 958 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:06.920 about Julia, she has not connected with the audience. She 959 00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:10.760 has not clicked with the audience. And having seen her 960 00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:14.000 work previously and even in NXT, but even before she 961 00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:16.599 came to WWE, if you would have told me that 962 00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:19.000 one day Julia will finally end up in the States 963 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.320 and she will finally end up in WWE, and she 964 00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:28.079 will absolutely make no difference whatsoever, and nobody will give 965 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:32.400 a shit. I would have said, you're lying. I don't 966 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:37.719 believe that. How do you bring in Julia and not 967 00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:42.679 get her over? Right, of course she's gonna get over. Well, 968 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:46.360 here we are, here we are, and she's not getting 969 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:48.599 a lot of assistance, I would say from the booking, 970 00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:50.320 because I want to point out something else to you. 971 00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:55.320 And again this is also a failure on creative. So 972 00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.119 they do First of all, this whole interim title idea 973 00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:02.119 is just fucking nonsense and it's stupid and it shouldn't 974 00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:03.920 be happening. You could do a ladder match. It doesn't 975 00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:06.159 have to be for an interim championship. This is what 976 00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:08.679 they wanted to get cute, and this is what they're doing. Fine, 977 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:11.320 so you got five spots in this ladder match, right, 978 00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:13.440 So we have Charlotte Flair, we have Jade car Gill, 979 00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:17.679 we have Tiffany Stratton, and we have Chelsea Green and 980 00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.519 they have this match. And I'm thinking to myself, why 981 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:27.000 is Lash legend in this match? Not just because Naya 982 00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:29.960 Jacks was screwed over twice, so let's give let's give 983 00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:33.920 Lash a shot and fuck Nya. Why is Lash legend 984 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:35.800 in this match? If the idea and this is why 985 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:39.079 I picked her to win because they have one heel 986 00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:42.519 coming into tonight. They had one heel in that lineup 987 00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.960 of four, that was Jade. I figured they're gonna want 988 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:47.960 to heal in that match. They're not gonna want a babyface, 989 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.639 so naturally, and plus Julie is just a jobber on 990 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:53.960 this show, so it just made all the sense in 991 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:56.960 the world that, of course lash is gonna win. Would 992 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:00.320 it not have made more sense to put blakeman Row 993 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:07.039 in this spot? Blake Monroe when she officially debuted, I 994 00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:09.079 don't even know how many weeks ago it was at 995 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:11.719 this point, it may have been a fucking month she 996 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:14.000 showed up. I think it was the night that Julia 997 00:59:14.039 --> 00:59:17.719 beat Keana, and Blake Monroe showed up and she ambushed 998 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:20.320 Julia from behind in the ring, and I consider that 999 00:59:20.360 --> 00:59:25.519 to be like her official debut. She attacked Julia one 1000 00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:28.639 more time and Keana in a backstage segment after that, 1001 00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:32.559 so twice this woman has attacked Julia. We have not 1002 00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:37.360 heard anything from Julia about the attacks from Blake, not 1003 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:41.960 a fucking word, And now you're doing this match. Would 1004 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.159 it not have made more sense to make it Julia 1005 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:47.480 and Blake Monroe Because at least then Julia, she has 1006 00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:50.400 this recent history where she's been attacked by this woman 1007 00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:53.559 and she wants to get after her, and Blake is 1008 00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:55.760 on the opposite side here she's getting a shot to 1009 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:57.719 be in the ladder match, but there's a little bit 1010 00:59:57.719 --> 00:59:59.880 of history, a little bit of tension here between the 1011 01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:03.800 and then have Blake win and put Blake in the 1012 01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:07.760 latter match. Blake Monroe hasn't wrestled the match yet. Is 1013 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:09.800 she hurt? Is she injured and we're just not aware 1014 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.320 of it because she's been doing stuff physically. She's attacking 1015 01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:14.559 people in the back. If she had some sort of 1016 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:17.440 serious injury, I can't imagine she would be medically cleared 1017 01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:20.960 to be doing that. Why has she not wrestled yet? 1018 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.400 Why are we getting all of these dumb fucking appearances 1019 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:26.760 from her where she's beating people up in the back 1020 01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:29.679 and she's writing in her fucking journal or whatever it 1021 01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:33.159 is that she's doing. She's doing everything but wrestling on 1022 01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:36.519 this show, and here you had an opportunity to fill 1023 01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:38.480 one of those spots with her, because they're sure as 1024 01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.079 fuck didn't give it to j C. Jane. They bounced 1025 01:00:41.079 --> 01:00:45.480 her out of this fucking thing so that we'll put 1026 01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:49.039 lash Legend in there. We'll have a random ass match 1027 01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:53.000 between lash Legends and Julia and Blake Monroe, who again 1028 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:54.840 was not a She wasn't even on the show tonight. 1029 01:00:56.360 --> 01:01:00.760 I guess she's still coming, She's still coming soon. She's 1030 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:03.199 waiting to find somebody else to beat up in the back. 1031 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.679 I guess there were no other women available tonight. Candice 1032 01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:08.199 Lay was not there. We didn't see Johnny Gargano planking 1033 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:11.280 on this show. I see that match would have made 1034 01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:13.119 more sense, and I would have loved to have seen 1035 01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:16.159 Blake in the ladder match. And you know what, for 1036 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:17.920 the people who would say, well, why would she be 1037 01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:20.519 in the ladder match because she hasn't even wrestled yet, 1038 01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:23.880 who gives a shit? Baron Corbin came back. He hasn't 1039 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.639 wrestled yet either, He's got the United States Championship match. 1040 01:01:27.039 --> 01:01:31.440 Who gives a fuck? They obviously don't, so it doesn't matter. 1041 01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:34.639 You could have absolutely put Blake Monroe in that ladder match, 1042 01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:38.239 but for whatever reason, they don't want her wrestling, she's 1043 01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:44.079 not allowed to wrestle. I don't get it. I don't understand. 1044 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:48.360 I don't understand what the line of thinking is here. 1045 01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:57.800 I really don't none of this makes any sense. But 1046 01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.800 Lash is in, and I'm gonna stay with my prediction. 1047 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.599 I think Lash is gonna win. Maybe that's why Blake 1048 01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:07.840 wasn't in. Maybe that's why Blakeman wrote didn't get the 1049 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:11.400 spot because I'm right and Lash legend is going to 1050 01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:14.559 be anointed the interim Women's Champions, so she could feud, 1051 01:02:14.599 --> 01:02:16.920 have a very brief feud, but Rhea Ripley. When Rhea 1052 01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:19.599 comes back, I'm gonna stick with her. I'm gonna stick 1053 01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:23.280 with Lash. If Lash doesn't win, I would go Jade, 1054 01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:27.639 but I just have this feeling it's gonna be Lash. 1055 01:02:26.920 --> 01:02:30.360 I don't see them wanting to do Charlotte and Rhea 1056 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:34.320 right now. Jade and Rie has already been done. But 1057 01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:36.679 I could absolutely see them running that back. It sounds 1058 01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:39.960 exactly like the sort of thing they would do. But 1059 01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:41.679 you know, even if the two of them cancel each 1060 01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:44.840 other out, so that leaves Tiffany, who's already got a belt. Okay, 1061 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:48.800 no two belts. She already has one. I know it's Minnesota, 1062 01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:54.440 but she doesn't need another belt. Chelsea Green, I goya 1063 01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:56.559 put the fucking belt on Shaw. You kidding me. They're 1064 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:59.159 gonna put the belt on Chelsea Green to set up 1065 01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:03.000 what to set what are they gonna set up there? 1066 01:03:03.639 --> 01:03:07.119 It'll be a nice moment for Chelsea to set up 1067 01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.599 what baby faced Chelsea against it Rhea Ripley when she 1068 01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:12.320 comes back. So Riha could fucking kill her in five minutes. 1069 01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:17.320 Who wants to see that? You're left with Lash Legends. 1070 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:24.599 Doesn't sound like much of a stretch to me. In 1071 01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:26.960 their mind, this is a big spot for Lash. If 1072 01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:29.159 she wins, you get one big match out of it 1073 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:36.960 with Rhea Ripley. Let's see how she does. After the break, 1074 01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:43.440 it was time for our closing segment, af By making sense. 1075 01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:45.679 By the way, when I talk about this stuff right again, 1076 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:49.400 I don't go out of my way to be overly negative, 1077 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:51.599 but when I see stupid shit on the show, it 1078 01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:55.960 annoys me. It just drives me nuts, and I have 1079 01:03:56.039 --> 01:03:58.320 to point it out. And I don't think that there's 1080 01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:07.840 anything I'm saying that's wrong or inaccurate. Cody Rhodes was 1081 01:04:07.880 --> 01:04:10.559 on his way out to the ring for the closing 1082 01:04:10.599 --> 01:04:14.760 face off with CM Punk. He didn't even get through 1083 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:18.840 the woe part of his entrance. He was kneeling down 1084 01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:22.559 on the stage getting ready to do the woe CM. 1085 01:04:22.599 --> 01:04:25.840 Punk's music interrupted and Punk walked out and Punk blew 1086 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:28.039 right by. He might have actually patted him on the head, 1087 01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.480 but Punk bleuw right by him and Cody did not 1088 01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:36.679 seem very happy about that. So as Punk's music is playing, 1089 01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:41.280 Cody is just casually walking down to the ring. So 1090 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:45.559 they both have mics and they're both kind of arguing 1091 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:50.679 about you know, how they got to this point. Cody 1092 01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:53.559 brought up the fact that can't fake anything with you. 1093 01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:57.000 After twenty years of knowing each other, he knows Punk 1094 01:04:57.079 --> 01:04:59.639 knew that they were on this path to hating one another. 1095 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:03.760 Now they're on this inevitable collision course. Here we are. 1096 01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:07.079 Punk says, of course, I would you know. He knew 1097 01:05:07.079 --> 01:05:09.199 that he would ruffle some feathers and hurt some feelings, 1098 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:11.920 but he wasn't going to be like a whiner in 1099 01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:15.519 the back. He wasn't going to behave like Sammy's ain 1100 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:20.039 or say no like the other mediocre bums in the back. 1101 01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:23.480 He seem punk. He will always show up and he 1102 01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:25.960 hopes that it pisses people off. And for twenty years 1103 01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:28.440 he's been doing just that and for ten of that stretch. 1104 01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:31.960 He wasn't even here, but his name made people freak out. 1105 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:35.400 So let's talk about what this is all really about. 1106 01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:40.440 This is really about the championship. Punk won't be Cody's 1107 01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:43.360 friend tomorrow, but when it's done, it's up to Cody 1108 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:46.519 whether or not they remain friends. Punk just has to 1109 01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:49.719 know who's the better man between them. I need to 1110 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.400 know for business purposes, he says, I need to know 1111 01:05:52.440 --> 01:05:56.000 who the better man is, and Cody's not buying it. 1112 01:05:56.719 --> 01:05:58.920 And this is the point in the in the segment 1113 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:03.360 where I noticed that he was wearing the club WWE patch, 1114 01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:09.840 Cody was on his jacket. So he also was kind 1115 01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:12.280 of taken aback by the fact that when he did 1116 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:14.800 his what do you want to talk about? People were 1117 01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.639 chanting for cmpunk. They were not as hot for Cody 1118 01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:20.360 when he said his usual line, and they were chanting 1119 01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:24.280 for Punk. So he says, if this is really about business, 1120 01:06:24.559 --> 01:06:27.880 then Punk is just double talking. The title is in business. 1121 01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:30.599 It's personal. He knows how personal it is to the 1122 01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:32.440 two of them, and it is to everybody else who's 1123 01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:35.400 ever held that title and everybody who's never held it. 1124 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:38.679 That belt means that you're the best in the world. 1125 01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:42.920 You've got the crown, you call the shots, and he 1126 01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:45.840 says he recalls Punk saying that he was here to 1127 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.119 make money and not friends. That was the first promo 1128 01:06:48.199 --> 01:06:50.199 that Punk cut in twenty twenty three when he came 1129 01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:53.440 back to the company. Punk says he wasn't here to 1130 01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:55.639 make friends, but he didn't want to lose them either. 1131 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.400 But if it's between losing a friend or losing a championship, 1132 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.280 well tomorrow, Tomorrow won't be your night. Cody says he's 1133 01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:06.239 bothered by the word tomorrow. I don't like that word 1134 01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:10.000 because Punk is prepared to do almost anything tomorrow night 1135 01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:13.440 at SummerSlam. Well, what do you want to do about it? Tonight? 1136 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:19.719 And Punk tossed the mic, laid down the belt, and 1137 01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:23.000 he took his jacket off, and he's fixing for a fight. 1138 01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:27.639 Squaring up. Cody tosses his mic. He tosses his jacket 1139 01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:31.079 into the crowd. Very interesting. When he took the jacket 1140 01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:35.639 off to note that he was wearing all black, Cody 1141 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:37.599 was dressed in black from head to toe. It could 1142 01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:39.800 be indicative of nothing, or it could be a sign 1143 01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:42.440 of something. I'm just pointing it out he was the 1144 01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:46.039 man in black. Punk offered the first shot. He goes, 1145 01:07:46.079 --> 01:07:49.239 go ahead and hit me. Cody obliges, and the fight 1146 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:52.360 is on. Cody drops him and then clothes lines him 1147 01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:54.880 out of the ring. So they brawled over by the 1148 01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:59.880 announced desk, and he starts clearing off the desk. Punk 1149 01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:03.679 launches Cody over the desk as I'm sure Triple H 1150 01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:06.760 is sitting a gorilla in the back, crossing his fingers 1151 01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:11.000 and toes hoping, please don't get hurt. Twenty four hours 1152 01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:15.400 before Summer Slam, Please don't get hurt. Punk stands up 1153 01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:19.399 on top of the desk. Cody sweeps the legs. Punk 1154 01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:22.399 returns the favor. He does the same to Cody. Finally, 1155 01:08:22.439 --> 01:08:26.159 here come the officials down to the ring to separate 1156 01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:30.520 these two men. And now they're both standing on top 1157 01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:34.439 of the desk, and they start firing shots at one another. 1158 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:36.279 And I can't sit here and say that there was 1159 01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:41.000 any real intensity between these shots. I mean, I'm kind 1160 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:43.039 of watching it, thinking, man, these guys are moving in 1161 01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:45.800 slow motion here, but they're going through the motions though, 1162 01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:49.479 throwing punches at each other. So finally they got separated, 1163 01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:52.199 and then they broke free and they start trading shots 1164 01:08:52.199 --> 01:08:54.680 again on the floor, and this is how they went 1165 01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:58.760 off the air. So, you know, with only a few 1166 01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:02.720 weeks of hype, Yeah, they only had a few weeks 1167 01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:06.479 to hype up this match. What we have really been 1168 01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:13.079 left with here is a combination of phony looking belt 1169 01:09:13.079 --> 01:09:18.239 shots to the face and you know, forced back elbows 1170 01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:20.640 to the face and was it an accident and was 1171 01:09:20.680 --> 01:09:24.640 it not an accident? And you know, the words that 1172 01:09:24.680 --> 01:09:29.399 they were speaking in the promo were fine, but I 1173 01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:31.920 don't think they could have done a worse job of 1174 01:09:31.960 --> 01:09:37.600 building up this match and making it feel special. This 1175 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:40.960 should have been a really big fucking deal. And I 1176 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:42.399 don't know if I'm the only way, you know, the 1177 01:09:42.399 --> 01:09:44.399 only one who feels this way, But right now, at 1178 01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:48.119 this moment, this doesn't feel as big as I feel 1179 01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:50.920 like it should be. This could have been a WrestleMania match. 1180 01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:54.119 It makes me wonder now what the WrestleMania bill would 1181 01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:58.720 have looked like. I don't know, I don't know, maybe 1182 01:09:58.720 --> 01:10:02.760 Pat McAfee would have been involved. I'm looking forward to 1183 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:05.800 the match. It's a first time ever match, It's two 1184 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:08.039 of the biggest babyfaces in the company, two of the 1185 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:10.600 biggest names outside of Roman. It's Roman, Cody and Punk. 1186 01:10:10.680 --> 01:10:12.840 Put them in whatever order you want to put them in. 1187 01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:17.880 I know the order WWE would put them in. It's Roman, 1188 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:22.359 Punk and Cody at this point. But there's just something 1189 01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:27.000 missing here. You know there's something missing here. Question is, 1190 01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:31.119 you know, does Cody go heel tomorrow night. I'm sticking 1191 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:35.359 by my prediction. My prediction is Punk retains, maybe even 1192 01:10:35.399 --> 01:10:38.760 takes a shortcut in doing so, right, do whatever it takes. 1193 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:41.039 I don't see him being the one to go heel. 1194 01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:43.840 If anybody goes heal, and maybe they won't, but if 1195 01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:50.359 anybody goes Helm, I'm thinking and hoping that it's Cody, 1196 01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:53.479 so he would turn. That probably would be a post 1197 01:10:53.560 --> 01:10:56.439 match thing. It would be weird for him to do 1198 01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:59.680 a turn during the match and still lose, So, if anything, 1199 01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:02.840 I think we're looking at maybe a postmatch angle. But 1200 01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:06.239 it does also lead us to this news item that 1201 01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:08.039 I told you about. I told you I was going 1202 01:11:08.119 --> 01:11:10.840 to get to this. This was from Dave Meltzer. He 1203 01:11:10.960 --> 01:11:15.119 reported this in the latest installments the latest edition of 1204 01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:20.039 the Wrestling Observer newsletter, which dropped earlier today. Randy Orton 1205 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:24.560 and Kevin Owens are both expected to be returning very 1206 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:30.439 soon Orton perhaps in the next week. Owens has dropped 1207 01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:34.640 weight after a lengthy and frustratingly long recovery from next surgery. 1208 01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:37.640 Orton was one of those guys who claimed he wasn't 1209 01:11:37.680 --> 01:11:40.279 injured and he was just taking the summer off, but 1210 01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:42.920 in fact he was injured, which I mean, anybody with 1211 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.399 a brain could have figured he was injured. You know 1212 01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:48.159 when those reports first came out a few months ago, like, oh, 1213 01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:50.560 Randy Orton, he's got a back injury again. His back 1214 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:52.439 is acting up on him. That's why we haven't seen 1215 01:11:52.520 --> 01:11:55.920 him since WrestleMania. And then Orton, I think, went on 1216 01:11:56.119 --> 01:12:00.319 X or whatever, and you know, he posted something like 1217 01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:03.800 a response and everyone was like pointing the finger at Meltzer. 1218 01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:06.960 Ha ha ha. You know, Dave got it wrong again, 1219 01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:09.520 And I'm like, you schmucks. Did you actually read what 1220 01:12:09.680 --> 01:12:12.520 Randy Orton wrote? Where in what Orton wrote at the time, 1221 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.680 did he deny anything that Meltzer said. He never denied 1222 01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:21.159 it because he was hurt. How seriously, I don't know 1223 01:12:21.239 --> 01:12:24.479 seriously enough that we haven't seen him since WrestleMania. And 1224 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:29.079 the parting shot from WrestleMania Night one was Randy Orton 1225 01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:33.279 after losing the match punt kicking Cody in the skull. 1226 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:38.039 I'm sure that whatever plans they had, the plan was not, Hey, 1227 01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:40.680 why don't you punt kick the champion and then vanish 1228 01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:43.760 for fucking four months or five months? Right? The only 1229 01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.359 reason that would have happened is because he was hurt. So, yes, 1230 01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:53.760 of course Randy Orton has been hurt. He said he 1231 01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:58.119 was actually scheduled to beat Cody at WrestleMania unless they 1232 01:12:58.159 --> 01:13:00.880 felt his back was going to not allow it. When 1233 01:13:00.920 --> 01:13:03.319 they realized that that was the case, all kinds of 1234 01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:08.279 plans were changed. Oh, there were a lot of plans 1235 01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:11.359 changed for WrestleMania this year in that main event, unfortunately 1236 01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:13.479 for the worst, so much so that it killed my 1237 01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:16.760 appetite to even see Cody and Randy. I didn't think 1238 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:19.520 it was possible, but wwe did a great job of 1239 01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:22.239 getting me to not give a fuck about Cody Roads 1240 01:13:22.239 --> 01:13:26.640 against Randy Orton. So good job, guys. But now here 1241 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:28.720 we are, and so we have this report that Randy 1242 01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:32.039 is on his way back very soon and Kevin Owens 1243 01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:35.399 is on his way back very soon. Does Randy Orton 1244 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:39.279 show up tomorrow night? Does Randy Orton in some way 1245 01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:42.640 factor into this match with Cody Rhodes and Cmpunk is 1246 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:47.239 Randy Orton's return. Let's say it's SummerSlam, a way for 1247 01:13:47.319 --> 01:13:49.640 them to do the match tomorrow without giving us a 1248 01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:52.560 straight winner, which would be a very lame way for 1249 01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.079 that match to end if we don't get a winner, 1250 01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:56.039 if it's like a no contest or something, that would 1251 01:13:56.039 --> 01:14:00.720 be just incredibly lame. But the idea that like Orton's 1252 01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:02.279 going to come back and he's going to pick up 1253 01:14:02.279 --> 01:14:06.800 the feud with Cody, right, it makes sense because again, 1254 01:14:07.680 --> 01:14:10.079 the last we saw him, he punt kicked this man 1255 01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:13.720 in the head and Cody never did get his revenge. 1256 01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:15.439 So for him to want to pick things up with 1257 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:19.800 Cody would actually make sense if that's the direction they 1258 01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:26.880 wanted to go in. Speaking for myself personally, the inclusion 1259 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:30.800 of the Pat McAfee story in that angle ruined the 1260 01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:34.279 entire thing for me. Now, maybe they'd like to have 1261 01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:37.000 another crack at it and you know, kind of get 1262 01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:44.600 a do over. Maybe so maybe. So listening to Cody 1263 01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:48.520 talk about that match on Unreal, I mean it was 1264 01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:50.399 comical to me, Like, for all the things they cover 1265 01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:55.479 on that show, they very conveniently left out how the 1266 01:14:55.479 --> 01:14:59.479 whole Pat McAfee thing even came together. That was never 1267 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.199 covered at all. They mentioned the fact that Pat was 1268 01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:05.359 involved in the angle. Cody is very proud of that 1269 01:15:05.439 --> 01:15:08.319 match and how the match turned out. I mean, the 1270 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:09.960 match could have been a hell of a lot worse, right, 1271 01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:12.800 they could have had McAfee and Jelly roll out there 1272 01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.760 for the entire thing. But like to hear them talk 1273 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:18.119 about it, the whole thing was a big success. Everything's great, 1274 01:15:18.199 --> 01:15:23.000 everything's great, everything's great, right, But for all the backstage, 1275 01:15:23.079 --> 01:15:25.279 behind the scenes stuff they never did get into, like 1276 01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:30.000 how that all came about with Pat McAfee. Hm, it's 1277 01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:33.840 funny how that works. They tell you what they want 1278 01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:35.680 you to know. What they don't want you to know, 1279 01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:40.640 you don't hear about. But for people like a Meltzer 1280 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:43.479 or you know, a sap at fight Full or you know, 1281 01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:46.359 wrestle Votes or whoever, because you're sure as hell not 1282 01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:49.359 going to hear it from WWA. The idea of running 1283 01:15:49.359 --> 01:15:52.359 Cody and Randy back, though maybe they could salvage it. 1284 01:15:52.520 --> 01:15:55.319 I don't really have an interest in it anymore. Again, 1285 01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:58.000 that's me. They kind of killed it for me. Now 1286 01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:02.600 on the other hand, I have a great interest in 1287 01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:06.520 seeing the return of Kevin Owens. This show has suffered 1288 01:16:07.039 --> 01:16:10.199 for him not being on it. Now him alone coming 1289 01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:13.039 back is not going to save SmackDown. But if Kevin 1290 01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:15.199 Owens comes back and he does end up on smacked 1291 01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.000 maybe he wouldn't even be on SmackDown. But if he 1292 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:19.920 ends up on SmackDown, that's going to go a long 1293 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:24.279 way to reigniting my interest in this show, especially if 1294 01:16:24.359 --> 01:16:27.640 we get a Kevin Owens CM Punk program. That's one 1295 01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:29.760 of those programs that ever since Punk came back, I've 1296 01:16:29.760 --> 01:16:32.720 been waiting for. And the only thing we've had with 1297 01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:36.880 these two, I think, is one backstage segment and that's it. 1298 01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:40.880 So you give me that, you give me Ko and 1299 01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:44.079 a program with him in Punk. I'm here for that. 1300 01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:48.079 That I would love to see. That has my attention, 1301 01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:51.880 but we don't even know what brand he would end 1302 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.279 up being on. I said it at the beginning though 1303 01:16:55.760 --> 01:16:59.039 of this review, the best parts of this show tonight 1304 01:16:59.039 --> 01:17:03.600 were basically anything involving Nick All, this Hakou, and the 1305 01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:07.239 closing credits, because that meant the show was over. SmackDown 1306 01:17:07.399 --> 01:17:11.960 is a largely terrible show. It was your typical SmackDown tonight. 1307 01:17:13.039 --> 01:17:16.319 This show did not do anything. It did zero to 1308 01:17:16.399 --> 01:17:19.560 get me any more invested or excited for summer. Salim, 1309 01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:22.119 you're either excited for Summer climb Ory or not. I 1310 01:17:22.119 --> 01:17:24.319 wouldn't use the word excited. There are matches I'm looking 1311 01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:26.439 forward to. I'm looking forward to the Helen a Cell match. 1312 01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:29.079 I am looking forward to Cody and Punk. I just 1313 01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:31.680 wish that there was more umph to it going into it, 1314 01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:34.720 and there isn't. But it's why say in the Night 1315 01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:38.399 one is just it's such a better card than Night Too. 1316 01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:41.479 You know, you got Cody and Punk first time ever, 1317 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.159 you got the Helen a Cell match, you got all 1318 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:46.399 this in gun Through. There's that interest in seeing Nick 1319 01:17:46.439 --> 01:17:49.079 all this back in the ring right first time in WWE. 1320 01:17:49.079 --> 01:17:51.960 What's that going to look like? Live an e O 1321 01:17:52.079 --> 01:17:57.000 is Living EO tomorrow? I believe it is. So there's 1322 01:17:57.039 --> 01:17:59.039 a lot more that I like on the card tomorrow 1323 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:06.279 than Sunday. But no, thanks to SmackDown. SmackDown didn't do 1324 01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:10.119 a whole hell of a lot to get me excited 1325 01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:15.960 for this show. But thank you guys for hanging out 1326 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:18.119 with me and indulging me here on this Friday night 1327 01:18:19.560 --> 01:18:25.760 what was worse this week, SmackDown or Raw? I don't 1328 01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:27.520 know if I have a good answer for you, honestly. 1329 01:18:32.159 --> 01:18:33.840 I mean that Raw show had one of the worst 1330 01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:39.199 segments of all year, so it's kind of more heavily 1331 01:18:39.239 --> 01:18:43.359 weighted in the negative category. Neither show was good this week. 1332 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:47.079 You know what's scarier about that show? On Monday though, 1333 01:18:47.119 --> 01:18:49.720 they were at the End to It Dome in Los Angeles, 1334 01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:53.039 and apparently there were tons of Netflix executives there, so 1335 01:18:53.119 --> 01:18:55.760 it was a very important show, Like the pressure was 1336 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:58.119 on the creative team to put on a really good show. 1337 01:18:59.319 --> 01:19:03.680 And knowing that they actually came up with the idea 1338 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:07.399 for that concert slop that we saw, knowing that there 1339 01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:11.199 were executives there and the pressure was on them. I mean, 1340 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:13.359 I don't know what it says about the creative team, 1341 01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:17.840 but whatever it is, it's not good that they actually 1342 01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:19.479 looked at that and said, hey, you know what we 1343 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:23.239 need on this show. This segment's gold Gold, Jerry Gold, 1344 01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:27.079 and they thought that they needed it on that show 1345 01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:33.159 with Ryan Garcia no less. Out of twelve matches, how 1346 01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:39.680 many will go less than eight minutes? I reckon quite 1347 01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:43.439 a few. If it's anything like Night one of wrestle 1348 01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:48.079 many of this year. Fucking Stephanie and Live couldn't even 1349 01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:53.479 get seven minutes. All right, we're gonna start with dry 1350 01:19:53.560 --> 01:19:58.279 chicken here with a five dollars super chat. Triple H 1351 01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:04.239 is gonna cook up nice and neat match card added 1352 01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:07.159 lots of salt, spices and season names for each match. 1353 01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:11.840 Don't burn down the kitchen. Yeah, I wouldn't exactly say 1354 01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:15.960 he's cooking these days. Death Scythe says after Summer Slam, 1355 01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:19.640 Oba should win the World Heavyweight Championship at Money in 1356 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:22.520 the Bank because there is such a thing as waiting 1357 01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:24.640 too long, and if there is a possibility of Rock 1358 01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:26.920 and Roman at WrestleMania, they need to get that belt 1359 01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:31.600 off Roman before then. Well, this is the issue, isn't it. 1360 01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:35.920 When you kind of rely on the possibility that Rock 1361 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:40.359 may show up every year and he doesn't. They don't 1362 01:20:40.399 --> 01:20:45.319 find these things out until it's too late. I mean, 1363 01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:48.640 even if Rock was available, I would prefer they stick 1364 01:20:48.680 --> 01:20:53.960 with Rock and Oba. But Saudi Mania, if they want Rock, 1365 01:20:54.039 --> 01:20:55.760 Rock and Roman is going to be the match. So 1366 01:20:56.840 --> 01:20:58.920 but to put the belt on Oba money in the Bank, 1367 01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:11.720 I don't know. Yeah, I mean whatever, especially if Roman's 1368 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:14.119 not gonna be around every week, then just take the 1369 01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:20.840 fucking belt off him. Broli says, Baler and Sammy all 1370 01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:24.319 over forty, Punkin Cody over forty, Gunther and all this 1371 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:28.640 over forty. Those three tag teams tonight all over forty, 1372 01:21:28.680 --> 01:21:38.000 and Truth is over fifty. This is embarrassing. Yeah, well, 1373 01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:41.159 I mean Oba is not over forty. Trick Williams is 1374 01:21:41.199 --> 01:21:48.800 not over forty. Dominic Mysterio is not over forty. It's 1375 01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:50.720 not like they don't have young stars on the roster, 1376 01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:53.239 But then you look at some of them and where 1377 01:21:53.239 --> 01:21:56.600 they were where they are now. Jacob Fatu, bron Breaker 1378 01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:07.680 mellow it is. It is embarrassing. Death Site says there's 1379 01:22:07.680 --> 01:22:14.199 a horror a horror video game I recently discovered called Mermaid. 1380 01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.239 It's about a girl who was kidnapped and turned into 1381 01:22:17.279 --> 01:22:19.800 a mermaid against her will. And it gave me the 1382 01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:28.000 fly tusk and human centipede vibes. It's a game. I've 1383 01:22:28.039 --> 01:22:34.359 never heard of this game before that on Steam. Gonna 1384 01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:37.720 send me a link Holiday one ninety seven with an 1385 01:22:37.760 --> 01:22:40.760 Australian twenty here. Hey Solo, if Orton comes back, they 1386 01:22:40.760 --> 01:22:42.920 need to put him on raw to feud him with 1387 01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:46.119 Roman or maybe even Oba to bide time until the 1388 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:49.920 year's end. Raw is lacking top players and SmackDown is 1389 01:22:49.960 --> 01:22:54.880 getting crowded with them. Orton versus Cody is ruined. It 1390 01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:57.640 may be, it may be ruined. I don't know about 1391 01:22:57.640 --> 01:22:59.680 putting Orton on Raw, though I almost feel like it 1392 01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:02.399 might be better off putting Owens on Raw. But then 1393 01:23:02.399 --> 01:23:06.239 we can't get Owens and punks. So yeah, that's sort 1394 01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:08.399 of the trade off there. I'd rather Owen stay un 1395 01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:14.359 smack then when he comes back. Death Side says, I 1396 01:23:14.359 --> 01:23:16.760 would rather push a guy like La Knight, who's in 1397 01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:20.359 their forties, charismatic and can connect with the audience over 1398 01:23:20.399 --> 01:23:22.840 a guy like Austin Theory, who's in their twenties and 1399 01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:30.079 has the personality of a doorknob. Well, you keep banking 1400 01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.920 on that La Night push. You may be waiting a while. 1401 01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:37.119 I don't disagree that he should be, you know, doing 1402 01:23:37.159 --> 01:23:40.479 more than he is, and he is he is very charismatic. 1403 01:23:42.479 --> 01:23:47.039 But you just get to a point where you gotta 1404 01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:51.199 just you got to turn the page and accept that 1405 01:23:51.279 --> 01:23:55.960 they just don't see it the same way. Brolly says. 1406 01:23:56.000 --> 01:23:59.800 Blake hasn't wrestled since April, Keana is buried, Juliet is 1407 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:03.159 Jordan is missing, jac is about to be fed to 1408 01:24:03.159 --> 01:24:10.600 the bellas I feel for HBK. Yeah, you know, he 1409 01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:14.159 basically just kind of he tees him on up and 1410 01:24:14.920 --> 01:24:23.920 they just keep swinging and missing. I don't understand deaths, 1411 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:30.239 I says, imagine if Haku became Brocklesner's advocates. I mean, 1412 01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:34.800 that's that's a lot of man. There as too much 1413 01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:40.880 testosterone in the ring together. The Sheltered Kid says, how 1414 01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:43.199 big was the rise of Jeff Hardy in two thousand 1415 01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:48.279 and eight? It was pretty big. I'm pretty sure he 1416 01:24:48.359 --> 01:24:50.520 became the number one merch seller there for a while. 1417 01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:54.920 I think he usurped Sina. But again, were it not 1418 01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:58.199 for his issues and you know, unreliability at the time, 1419 01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:02.199 I mean, the sky was the limit for him. It 1420 01:25:02.359 --> 01:25:09.439 was very high. It was very high up there. Brole 1421 01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:12.239 says in NXT they are treated like goddesses. As soon 1422 01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:14.680 as Triple H gets his hands on them, He's like, yeah, 1423 01:25:14.800 --> 01:25:21.279 wins and losses don't matter, and time for wrestling doesn't either. Well, 1424 01:25:21.359 --> 01:25:23.439 I mean that would have been an interesting question for them, 1425 01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:26.279 in a respectful way, perhaps to ask him when he 1426 01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:30.199 spent twenty minutes on Busted Open Radio on WWE Radio 1427 01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:34.319 the other day, and they asked him and it was 1428 01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:36.479 it was Dave Legreca and it was Nick Nemeth, and 1429 01:25:36.479 --> 01:25:41.279 they asked him exactly one question in the entire interview. 1430 01:25:42.079 --> 01:25:45.319 The rest of it was just random comments. One question 1431 01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:49.840 that Nemeth asked about live events. Otherwise they let him 1432 01:25:49.880 --> 01:25:54.119 just blather on about pretty much nothing. It was quite 1433 01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:56.520 the insightful interview. But see, that would be a very 1434 01:25:56.560 --> 01:26:00.439 interesting question as far as his philosophy when it comes 1435 01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:03.720 to the women on the main roster and why we 1436 01:26:03.800 --> 01:26:06.359 have some of these deficiencies when it comes to the 1437 01:26:06.359 --> 01:26:08.800 women's division and some of the faces of the division 1438 01:26:08.840 --> 01:26:12.560 on Ron SmackDown, But that's not a question you can ask. 1439 01:26:16.159 --> 01:26:19.479 GMB with the dollar ninety nine says SmackDown women's division 1440 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:26.960 has been down since Bianca's injury. I wouldn't say it's 1441 01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:32.800 been down since then, because there was a period of 1442 01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:38.359 time where, I mean, I feel like there was a 1443 01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:41.760 period of time there where it was still okay. I mean, 1444 01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:44.479 Bianca's been out now for what a year and a half. 1445 01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:50.640 I maybe I'm misremembering the uh spring and summer of 1446 01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:56.640 twenty five. I don't know, but she has missed has 1447 01:26:56.880 --> 01:27:00.000 has she? Has she popped yet? I saw these pictures 1448 01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.359 of her on social media like a week ago, and 1449 01:27:03.359 --> 01:27:10.159 my god, she looked like she's housing quadruplets. That looked 1450 01:27:10.199 --> 01:27:13.000 incredibly uncomfortable. But she looked like she was about to 1451 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:16.079 pop any day. I don't know if she's had her 1452 01:27:16.079 --> 01:27:24.159 baby yet or not. Her finger still looks very gnarly. Yeah, no, 1453 01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:28.119 her her finger is still fucked. Broley says, Ricky and 1454 01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:32.359 Mellow were on main event. Yes, that's what I had 1455 01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:39.000 saw earlier from Broley. Main event. You want to see 1456 01:27:39.239 --> 01:27:41.600 Carmelo Hayes and Ricky says, that's where you can go. 1457 01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:46.520 Joseph Marris, I don't see WWE taking the title off live, 1458 01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:48.319 as they'll want her to have the belt with her 1459 01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:53.880 while promoting her movie, which comes out next month. Is 1460 01:27:53.880 --> 01:28:02.399 that that bad Lieutenant movie? Forgot about that? Well? I 1461 01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:04.319 hope they take the title off for her, but let's 1462 01:28:04.359 --> 01:28:05.920 be honest, even if they do, when they put it 1463 01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:07.600 on EO, it's not like the booking is going to 1464 01:28:07.640 --> 01:28:15.239 be any different. We got Rojo Bet twenty four says 1465 01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:18.840 I was stuck in traffic for over an hour and 1466 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:22.439 a half today and it was better than SmackDown. It's 1467 01:28:22.479 --> 01:28:24.520 like that guy that wrote in this was many years ago. 1468 01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:28.880 He sent a super chat in and it was on 1469 01:28:28.920 --> 01:28:33.399 a Monday Night rawstream. He said, I buried my grandfather 1470 01:28:33.479 --> 01:28:39.159 today and that still wasn't as bad as Monday Night Raw. 1471 01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:45.960 I've never forgotten that, but that must have been a 1472 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:51.840 bad episode of Raw. Andre Jefferson with a ten hey solo. 1473 01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:54.760 I could see the Bellas turning on Page, and after 1474 01:28:54.840 --> 01:28:57.399 Page continues to be on the losing end against the 1475 01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:05.439 Bellas she gets help from aj Lee. Could be the 1476 01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:07.840 other thought I had was Page going heel and maybe 1477 01:29:07.920 --> 01:29:11.840 linking up with a fatal influence. But I could see 1478 01:29:11.840 --> 01:29:15.840 that too. Then the Bellows would be healed. But they 1479 01:29:16.039 --> 01:29:18.720 I don't know. I mean, they turned Nicki bella heel 1480 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:20.920 late last year and then one day she just stopped 1481 01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:23.439 being healed. I guess when her sister came in. It 1482 01:29:23.479 --> 01:29:27.239 was like forgotten about. So they already did one failed 1483 01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:31.560 heel term with Nicky. I don't know if they want 1484 01:29:31.560 --> 01:29:36.920 to go right back to that. Yeah, yeah. Bliss Fen 1485 01:29:37.000 --> 01:29:39.920 says they didn't say a word tonight about the Bellows match. 1486 01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:44.039 This weekend. They didn't. We had no bloodline segments tonight. Man, 1487 01:29:44.039 --> 01:29:46.800 you would think I would love this show. That's how 1488 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:50.279 bad the show was. Even without bloodline segments, which normally 1489 01:29:50.279 --> 01:29:56.359 would be a relief, the show still sucked. Robbie says 1490 01:29:56.880 --> 01:30:00.680 justice for Julia beginning to trend. It's not gonna matter. 1491 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:06.720 It's not gonna matter. You're wasting your time. She's cooked, 1492 01:30:06.760 --> 01:30:12.399 her goose is cooked. Prepare for Julia in Marigold. No, 1493 01:30:12.479 --> 01:30:18.560 we'll get to see the old Julia back venom cantetsuit. 1494 01:30:19.479 --> 01:30:22.000 Did you catch the all This chat with CVV? I did? 1495 01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:24.760 I mentioned that earlier. I never saw any of his 1496 01:30:24.800 --> 01:30:27.319 in ring work before, so I really only have genuine 1497 01:30:27.319 --> 01:30:29.800 interest in his match with Gunther over the whole weekend. 1498 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:34.439 Even under the suit, he looks battle ready. Well. I 1499 01:30:34.479 --> 01:30:39.039 think in that interview he even said like it might 1500 01:30:39.079 --> 01:30:42.600 have been Mickey Mickey James who told him, you know, 1501 01:30:43.359 --> 01:30:47.000 always be Randy Orton told him also, always be ready, 1502 01:30:47.880 --> 01:30:50.119 because there were rumors when Orton had that open challenge 1503 01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:52.199 of WrestleMania last year that maybe it was going to 1504 01:30:52.239 --> 01:30:54.800 be all this and it turned out not to be, 1505 01:30:54.920 --> 01:30:58.079 but they told him, like, you gotta be ready, dude, 1506 01:30:58.119 --> 01:31:00.399 because when the time comes, they're you're not going to 1507 01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:02.119 give you a big heads up. You're not gonna have 1508 01:31:02.199 --> 01:31:05.159 months and months to train and prepare. You're gonna have 1509 01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:08.079 to turn that shit around pretty quick. So you've got 1510 01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:13.760 to always keep yourself in like ring shape, and sure enough, 1511 01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:16.479 here we are. I don't think you got a big 1512 01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:20.039 heads up about this, Dried Chicken says, TKO and WWE 1513 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:25.439 Creative really make you hate pro wrestling in America. Well, 1514 01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:28.079 the good news is there's other pro wrestling in America, 1515 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:34.439 which is why competition is a good thing. Leo says, 1516 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:38.359 Keana James. Being left off Summer Slam is a crime. 1517 01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:47.560 Fuck this company, well, said Dry Chicken says, we need 1518 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:50.319 to break out the megaphone and tell Carmelo Hayes to 1519 01:31:50.359 --> 01:31:53.119 get out of SmackDown and go to Raw, as if 1520 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:55.039 it would be any different over there. Come on, brother, 1521 01:31:57.479 --> 01:32:01.279 you're smarter than that. What was the likes goal tonight? 1522 01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:04.880 The likes goal tonight was five fifty. What do we have? 1523 01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:07.319 Five sixty six? So we're guaranteed the one round to 1524 01:32:07.359 --> 01:32:09.079 be the booker, but we're eight out of ten. Look 1525 01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:11.039 at that on the bonus goals, so we may actually 1526 01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:15.560 get two rounds tonight. Oh we got Jeremy with a 1527 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:27.560 double super chat. Here. Look at this. I don't know 1528 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:31.520 if a word is missing or if there's a previous 1529 01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:34.239 chat that I missed. It's like it picks up in 1530 01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:39.279 the middle of a sentence. It looks like I think 1531 01:32:39.279 --> 01:32:42.079 he means, of course, of course they want Julia over. 1532 01:32:42.720 --> 01:32:45.319 Just have her beat the shit out of EO, maybe 1533 01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:49.039 cost her the title. Win a match versus EO, and 1534 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:52.880 Julia would be a major heel. I got news for you, brother. 1535 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:57.640 She wouldn't be. She's not over now. You could say 1536 01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:00.640 she's not over in part because the booking hasn't helped her, 1537 01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:03.880 and she's not on television consistently. If they gave her 1538 01:33:03.960 --> 01:33:09.039 someone maybe like EO, because EO is beloved. Everybody loves EO, right, 1539 01:33:09.039 --> 01:33:12.359 they pointing at themselves, and EO is just she's a 1540 01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:16.359 fun person to watch. And anybody who beats up EO, yes, 1541 01:33:16.399 --> 01:33:19.319 you're probably gonna get booed. But this idea that well, 1542 01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:22.560 just put her with EO and she'll beat up EO 1543 01:33:22.680 --> 01:33:26.439 and she'll be this mega heel. She won't be. She 1544 01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:30.920 won't be because I don't trust them to book her 1545 01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:33.880 consistently enough to get her there, and at the moment 1546 01:33:34.039 --> 01:33:38.319 she's not there. Fans have not taken to her, and 1547 01:33:38.439 --> 01:33:42.079 they don't seem to be in any great sense of 1548 01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:45.279 urgency to do something different with her that might help 1549 01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:48.119 get her there. Like she went from heel to babyface, 1550 01:33:48.119 --> 01:33:50.119 But what has she done is a babyface. She's done nothing. 1551 01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:53.079 She beat Keana, she got jumped by Blake, and she's 1552 01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:54.920 done nothing ever since. This is what I'm talking about. 1553 01:33:54.920 --> 01:33:59.039 It's what's so maddening about this. They don't put the 1554 01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:06.399 effort in. She done, Dude, she's done. It's over. I mean, 1555 01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:08.079 I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt when 1556 01:34:08.079 --> 01:34:13.520 it comes to her. Says Creative needs an ex female 1557 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:17.520 wrestler on the team if they could find the right person. 1558 01:34:17.560 --> 01:34:19.399 I mean, they have Molly Holly working for them, but 1559 01:34:19.399 --> 01:34:23.000 I don't think she's on Creative. I think she's a producer. 1560 01:34:26.880 --> 01:34:29.479 Tried Chicken says it won't surprise me if Julia decides 1561 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:34.439 to walk out. Much more likely that they'll just you know, 1562 01:34:35.199 --> 01:34:37.800 let her contract wind down and then she can leave, 1563 01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:40.479 or they get rid of her first, which I hope 1564 01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:44.560 doesn't happen. But I mean, I'm sorry. They have gotten 1565 01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:47.800 rid of people who were literally in the middle of storyline. 1566 01:34:47.800 --> 01:34:49.319 They got rid of Kyrie in the middle of a 1567 01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:55.359 storyline without even paying it off. You think Julia is 1568 01:34:55.359 --> 01:35:01.399 immune from that tracking problems. Remember when Andrada used to 1569 01:35:01.479 --> 01:35:06.920 call staying stink good times, Yes, I do, it was 1570 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:14.920 quite funny. He's a man called stink. Arabian Night two 1571 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:19.960 thousand says Julia is dead. Triple H permanently ruined her 1572 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:22.359 next year, she should go to AW or hope to 1573 01:35:22.359 --> 01:35:27.399 get mercifully cut post WrestleMania, along with another misused talent 1574 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:32.399 in Jordan Grace. I don't know. I mean, when Julia 1575 01:35:32.439 --> 01:35:35.960 became available, there was talk that AW really had no 1576 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:37.920 interest in bringing her in, that there were people there 1577 01:35:37.960 --> 01:35:40.960 who were not fond of Julia. So I don't know 1578 01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:47.000 that she would necessarily be welcomed into AW, but I 1579 01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:50.760 guess we'll wait and see. And we just hit the 1580 01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:55.560 bonus goal, So thank you guys. We hit the ten 1581 01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:58.640 out of ten on that one. And now I'm going 1582 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:03.560 to stop that one and I'm just gonna toss this 1583 01:36:03.680 --> 01:36:10.039 out there for a potential third round when one goal 1584 01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:16.319 is achieved. We had a new one. How about it? 1585 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:23.479 How about it? Indeed the Juliets Bill Buckner still hasn't 1586 01:36:23.520 --> 01:36:29.239 bent over to pick that ball up. Damn shame, Austin, 1587 01:36:30.319 --> 01:36:33.119 Thank you again for that twenty eight dollars super chat. 1588 01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:35.840 Austin's excited he's going to Summer Slim. It's his first 1589 01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:42.479 live event. That's pretty big. Summer Slim used to be 1590 01:36:42.520 --> 01:36:46.039 one of my top it was really rumble in Summer Slam. 1591 01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:48.279 We're my favorite events of the year, going back to 1592 01:36:48.359 --> 01:36:53.640 like golden era times, lots of great classic Summer Slim shows. 1593 01:36:56.840 --> 01:36:58.840 I miss I missed those old school Summer slams with 1594 01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:02.439 that original theme song. That's when it felt like Summer Slime. 1595 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:06.520 Tucky Neutron with the four ninety nine feeling like shit 1596 01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:09.520 lately mental health is no joke. Thanks for being my 1597 01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:12.039 getaway when I feel like the world is against me 1598 01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:16.680 and I suck as a person. Well, Tucky Neutron, you 1599 01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:18.560 do not suck as a person. In fact, I was 1600 01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:22.760 going to say that username is actually one of the 1601 01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:24.800 cooler ones that we have here. I love that name, 1602 01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:29.000 Tucky Neutron. So I don't know what is going on 1603 01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:31.520 right now on a personal level, but what I can 1604 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:33.640 tell you is that you have a whole community of 1605 01:37:33.640 --> 01:37:37.800 people here who are very happy to have you, and 1606 01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:42.279 hopefully you will be with us this weekend and many 1607 01:37:42.319 --> 01:37:46.880 more times in the future, so you don't have to 1608 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:53.359 think that at all. Dry Chicken says when Bracklesner locked 1609 01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:58.760 the hell in a cell door on Oba Femei, he 1610 01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:03.600 says that he would purposely to give Lesnar a hawked 1611 01:38:03.680 --> 01:38:06.520 tua in his face, like MJF or you know, they 1612 01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:10.920 could have just lifted the cell since they were both 1613 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:14.439 supposed to be out there for a scheduled weigh in, 1614 01:38:16.359 --> 01:38:21.479 but apparently locking the door renders them unable to lift 1615 01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:24.239 the cell. Do you know I had There were people 1616 01:38:24.279 --> 01:38:27.600 who argued, because they'll defend anything that this company does 1617 01:38:27.640 --> 01:38:32.640 to the death. If it's their dying breath, they'll defend it. 1618 01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:39.119 And they defended that by saying, well, Triple H was 1619 01:38:39.199 --> 01:38:43.399 just trying to protect his investment. He didn't want the 1620 01:38:43.439 --> 01:38:45.720 two of them to go at it and ruin the 1621 01:38:46.760 --> 01:38:51.439 plan cell match for this weekend. But of course the 1622 01:38:51.520 --> 01:38:57.000 basic counterpoint to that would be Rock came out because 1623 01:38:57.039 --> 01:39:02.199 there was a scheduled weigh in, so I mean they 1624 01:39:02.319 --> 01:39:05.279 knew what they were doing. When they invited the two 1625 01:39:05.279 --> 01:39:08.199 of them out to the ring together and they were 1626 01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:11.840 both supposed to be there, but no, we can't lift 1627 01:39:11.840 --> 01:39:16.640 the cell now because we don't want them to engage 1628 01:39:16.680 --> 01:39:23.560 in any kind of physicality. I see death Site says 1629 01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:26.079 Omega and Osprey has more heat and feels like a 1630 01:39:26.079 --> 01:39:28.640 bigger match than Punk and Cody, and I originally thought 1631 01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:31.439 it was going to be the other way around. I 1632 01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:37.479 will say this. I will say this, the closing segment 1633 01:39:37.720 --> 01:39:40.279 that we had on Dynamite on Wednesday was better than 1634 01:39:40.319 --> 01:39:42.479 the closing segment that we had with Punk and Cody 1635 01:39:42.520 --> 01:39:46.640 tonight in terms of the actual like promo stuff. I know, 1636 01:39:46.680 --> 01:39:50.319 we didn't really get too much physicality between Omega and Osprey, 1637 01:39:51.239 --> 01:39:53.760 but Omega and Osprey is also four weeks away, right 1638 01:39:53.840 --> 01:39:55.640 Cody and Punk is twenty four hours away, so it's 1639 01:39:55.640 --> 01:39:59.720 a little bit different, but especially Osprey more so than Omega. 1640 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:02.479 I didn't think Omega was great in that segment. He 1641 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:06.000 was good, but I thought that Osprey and his intensity 1642 01:40:06.079 --> 01:40:11.159 and everything really sold that match in that segment, and 1643 01:40:11.199 --> 01:40:16.439 we didn't get anything like that tonight with punkin Cody 1644 01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:22.199 John says thoughts on Grayson Waller burying the TNA Heavyweight 1645 01:40:22.239 --> 01:40:28.640 title on NXT. This WWETNA partnership is awful. Anyway, just 1646 01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:35.079 got my h og La ticket excited. You should be. Yeah, 1647 01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:37.720 we just made the announcement back to Los Angeles on 1648 01:40:37.760 --> 01:40:41.359 September fourth, so hopefully I get to see some of 1649 01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:45.039 you guys there. Yeah. I'm gonna chime in on the 1650 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.279 Waller promo on the sound off this week. And I like, 1651 01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:53.319 I was live on JD's channel for TNT on Tuesday, 1652 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:56.800 and I like glanced over and everybody in the chat 1653 01:40:56.840 --> 01:40:59.359 was going nuts about this grace of Waller promo. So like, 1654 01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:04.800 I'm like, oh man, this must be some great fucking promo. 1655 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:07.920 I can't wait to watch this. And then I watched it, 1656 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:13.359 and I'll I'll give you my full thoughts on the 1657 01:41:13.399 --> 01:41:15.479 sound off on Sunday. I will say, I did hear 1658 01:41:15.520 --> 01:41:18.600 the line where he buried the TNA title. If it's 1659 01:41:18.640 --> 01:41:20.720 going to lead somewhere, like if it's possibly going to 1660 01:41:20.840 --> 01:41:22.960 lead to him maybe going to TNA to challenge for 1661 01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:28.119 the championship, that's one thing. But yeah, yeah, you would 1662 01:41:28.119 --> 01:41:31.680 never like the equivalent of that. You would never see that, 1663 01:41:32.159 --> 01:41:35.680 Like TNA would never allow somebody right now to go 1664 01:41:35.760 --> 01:41:39.560 on their show and say anything remotely similar to that 1665 01:41:39.640 --> 01:41:44.640 about WWE. It's a very one sided partnership. Honestly. It's 1666 01:41:44.680 --> 01:41:46.960 kind of the way I feel about AAW and CML 1667 01:41:47.920 --> 01:41:50.880 and the way that they book persephone on AW television. 1668 01:41:50.920 --> 01:41:54.079 There's no like, there's no planet in which Tony Kahan 1669 01:41:54.159 --> 01:41:57.960 would reciprocate that and allow his Women's champion to go 1670 01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:04.119 into CMLL and be treated the same way. It's it's 1671 01:42:04.520 --> 01:42:10.359 one very one sided in that regard. Alexander says, one 1672 01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:15.319 day every pl E will be two nights. I sure 1673 01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:23.880 as fuck hope not. I hope not. By the way, 1674 01:42:23.880 --> 01:42:26.239 the thing about that Grace of Waller promo, because there 1675 01:42:26.239 --> 01:42:28.640 were a lot of comparisons select the pipe bomb and everything. 1676 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:30.840 It was not a pipe bomb. People have to stop 1677 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:33.880 making that comparison. Uh it was. It was not a 1678 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:36.039 pipe bomb. It was an important promo, though for a 1679 01:42:36.159 --> 01:42:39.800 very different reason. It had nothing to do with the 1680 01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:44.000 substance of it. So we'll talk about that on Sunday. 1681 01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:48.279 Jeremy Rose says Night two is straight trash. Better have 1682 01:42:48.359 --> 01:42:50.840 some major angle to end the night. Night one has 1683 01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:54.279 every match I want to see and the bella match 1684 01:42:54.399 --> 01:42:59.119 for the bathroom break. Well, sometimes you just got to 1685 01:42:59.199 --> 01:43:01.640 drain the lizard, and I guess everyone has their bathroom 1686 01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:05.079 break match. I'm surprised they're doing both six person tags 1687 01:43:05.079 --> 01:43:07.039 in the same night. I would think that they would 1688 01:43:07.039 --> 01:43:10.680 want to separate them, but the men's match with the 1689 01:43:10.720 --> 01:43:13.199 Bloodline and the women's match are both on the same night. 1690 01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:18.279 Joseph Brooks with a nine ninety nine. Isn't it crazy 1691 01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:20.239 to see what Triple H has done with most of 1692 01:43:20.239 --> 01:43:24.319 the NXT stars called up recently, especially Gargano. These guys 1693 01:43:24.319 --> 01:43:27.399 were like his NXT babies. Now he treats them like 1694 01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:34.079 unwanted step children. Well it's like as his kids have 1695 01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:36.039 gotten older, he just doesn't want to have anything to 1696 01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:41.279 do with them. It kind of does feel that way. Yeah, 1697 01:43:41.479 --> 01:43:43.680 I mean it's I don't have a good explanation for you, 1698 01:43:43.720 --> 01:43:53.039 it is. It is very crazy. Death Side Ko can 1699 01:43:53.079 --> 01:43:55.920 still be on Raw and feud with Punk on SmackDown 1700 01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.640 because what brand split? After all, Dan Housen is on 1701 01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:04.600 both fucking shows nearly every single week. This is true, 1702 01:44:05.159 --> 01:44:07.720 And actually Sammy's aim made a great point, like he 1703 01:44:07.840 --> 01:44:10.520 was forced to defend the WWE Championship, which is a 1704 01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:15.239 SmackDown title on Raw against Punk, which is how he lost. 1705 01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:16.920 He goes, I never should have been forced to defend 1706 01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:19.359 my title on Raw to begin with. It's a very 1707 01:44:19.359 --> 01:44:25.560 good point, Joseph says. I see that Izzy the superfan 1708 01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:27.960 is getting a lot better in the ring. I remember 1709 01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:31.000 you would have you had a storyline involving her and Bailey. 1710 01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:35.960 I did. I pitched it. God, I pitched it probably 1711 01:44:36.039 --> 01:44:39.399 nine or ten years ago, when she was still a 1712 01:44:39.399 --> 01:44:43.800 little girl. I pitched a whole storyline on the sound 1713 01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:49.319 off where one day she comes in and actually I 1714 01:44:49.359 --> 01:44:51.600 think I pitched a couple of them. I think one 1715 01:44:51.680 --> 01:44:57.279 involving Mercedes, which is not gonna happen now, but you know, 1716 01:44:57.359 --> 01:45:02.399 one where she debuts and she actually attacks Bailey. I 1717 01:45:02.399 --> 01:45:04.640 don't know Bailey will be in WWE by the time. 1718 01:45:04.720 --> 01:45:06.840 Is he might get a look by the companies. She 1719 01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:13.560 might not even be there anymore. I'd get more into 1720 01:45:13.600 --> 01:45:16.479 the details and everything. But is he has me blocked? 1721 01:45:16.760 --> 01:45:21.479 So I noticed that a few years ago. I couldn't 1722 01:45:21.479 --> 01:45:25.920 tell you why, but I haven't been I haven't seen 1723 01:45:25.920 --> 01:45:28.079 anything that she's posted or any sort of updates on 1724 01:45:28.159 --> 01:45:31.560 her in years, because even if I wanted to, I 1725 01:45:31.960 --> 01:45:36.920 can't follow along the Juliet three sixteen with a ten. 1726 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:46.279 Forty five years ago, MTV debuted Oh My God. Also, 1727 01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:50.000 please no spoilers for the latest Spider Man movie in 1728 01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:53.079 the chat, and aj styles Son was victorious in his 1729 01:45:53.359 --> 01:45:58.479 GHC debut. Yeah, I'm not gonna be seeing the Spider 1730 01:45:58.479 --> 01:46:01.680 Man movie because I just I'm not going to get 1731 01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:04.399 so many of the references. And if I am going 1732 01:46:04.439 --> 01:46:08.600 to attempt to go back with these Marvel movies and 1733 01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:12.079 try to play catch up before Doomsday comes out, I 1734 01:46:12.119 --> 01:46:15.760 feel like this one, I've got to wait. I haven't 1735 01:46:15.800 --> 01:46:18.199 seen any of the other Tom Holland ones, so to 1736 01:46:18.239 --> 01:46:20.800 see this one doesn't make any sense. But I will 1737 01:46:20.840 --> 01:46:23.960 say I was curious. I looked up the movie showings 1738 01:46:25.359 --> 01:46:26.760 and I don't know how it is by you, but 1739 01:46:27.920 --> 01:46:31.399 they're all sold out. I just was curious. I went 1740 01:46:31.439 --> 01:46:37.840 on the website for like the nearest theater and they're 1741 01:46:37.840 --> 01:46:40.359 all sold out. And I see that it made movie 1742 01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:44.359 history yesterday, that movie, that new Spider Man movie made 1743 01:46:44.439 --> 01:46:48.239 more money in Thursday previews than any movie in history, 1744 01:46:48.399 --> 01:46:56.479 seventy two million dollars on Thursday, seventy two million dollars. 1745 01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:04.720 That's insane, Like it beat Endgame, which I know was 1746 01:47:04.760 --> 01:47:09.119 a big deal when Avengers Endgame came out and it 1747 01:47:09.159 --> 01:47:11.760 beat Endgame numbers. Now, I don't know if it'll do 1748 01:47:11.800 --> 01:47:15.479 that for the entire weekend, but for Thursday, I mean, 1749 01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:20.920 that's that's pretty impressive. It getting good scores too. It's 1750 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:24.119 probably a great movie. I just I gotta see the 1751 01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:29.920 other ones first before I see this one. Yeah, it 1752 01:47:29.920 --> 01:47:32.880 looks like it's sold out everywhere. I don't think it's 1753 01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:36.439 in Imax though, I think because all the Imax showings 1754 01:47:36.479 --> 01:47:39.079 are still sold out. With Odyssey, Odyssey only had a 1755 01:47:39.119 --> 01:47:42.840 twenty five percent drop, which is which is incredible. Yeah. 1756 01:47:42.840 --> 01:47:44.640 I figure with this new movie, the Spider Man movie, 1757 01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:46.199 it would have dropped a lot more than that, But 1758 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:52.760 twenty five percent drop is great. It's good though. It's 1759 01:47:52.760 --> 01:47:54.960 good to see the movies making a rebound in theaters 1760 01:47:55.000 --> 01:47:59.079 because you know, the pandemic really killed it and then 1761 01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:00.720 there was all this talk about how you know, the 1762 01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:02.840 movie theater industry is going to go out of business. 1763 01:48:02.880 --> 01:48:05.680 It's not gonna be movie theaters anymore. This has been 1764 01:48:05.720 --> 01:48:10.600 like a huge rebound year for movie theaters. So it's 1765 01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:16.600 good to see Super Pony. Would it be overbooked if 1766 01:48:16.640 --> 01:48:20.199 they had Randy cost Cody and Owen's attack punk after 1767 01:48:20.239 --> 01:48:27.119 the match. Yes, doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to 1768 01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:29.880 see it. You just asked me if it would be overbooked. 1769 01:48:29.920 --> 01:48:32.760 The answer is yes. It. Look there was a match 1770 01:48:32.760 --> 01:48:35.800 in the Owenhart Tournament with Will Ospury and Mark Davis 1771 01:48:35.800 --> 01:48:40.079 that I loved, incredibly overbooked, probably the most overbooked match 1772 01:48:40.119 --> 01:48:44.119 I've seen all year, and I fucking loved it. Overbooking 1773 01:48:44.199 --> 01:48:48.079 doesn't necessarily mean bad, right, you don't want to make 1774 01:48:48.079 --> 01:48:50.680 a habit out of it. It depends on what you're doing. 1775 01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:54.119 The WrestleMania forty main event was overbooked as all shit. 1776 01:48:54.159 --> 01:48:56.359 It's one of the best WrestleMania main events of all time. 1777 01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:03.960 It just depends on the situation. If it leads, if 1778 01:49:03.960 --> 01:49:06.199 it's going somewhere where it's going to lead to something great, 1779 01:49:06.199 --> 01:49:12.640 then it's okay. Gary Sean with a nine to ninety nine, 1780 01:49:12.720 --> 01:49:14.920 just showing love, no message, Hey Gary, thank you man, 1781 01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:19.720 actually a couple. Look at that he dropped two of them. 1782 01:49:21.800 --> 01:49:23.560 We're two out of five. Two on that other goal, 1783 01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:26.279 Hey Gary, thank you. But Juliet says with a fourteen, 1784 01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:33.399 if you could challenge anybody to do the ice Bucket challenge? 1785 01:49:33.680 --> 01:49:37.000 Who would you challenge? Oh, I don't know anybody who 1786 01:49:37.079 --> 01:49:42.159 wants to partake. Anybody who wants to partake and help 1787 01:49:42.199 --> 01:49:44.199 out a good cause. I think it's great. It kind 1788 01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:46.800 of died down there for a while, Like the ice 1789 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:49.640 Bucket Challenge was like a big thing a few years ago, 1790 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:54.359 and and then I feel like you didn't hear about it, 1791 01:49:54.399 --> 01:49:56.199 and then it sort of made a comeback. It's just 1792 01:49:56.319 --> 01:49:59.640 very sad though, Like everyone's like, ah haha, it's like 1793 01:49:59.680 --> 01:50:03.560 a fun thing to do and everything, but like, it's 1794 01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:08.840 just it's such a horrible, insidious disease and the fact 1795 01:50:08.880 --> 01:50:11.039 that there's it feels like there's more and more people 1796 01:50:11.079 --> 01:50:16.760 being diagnosed with it. It's terrifying. It's just it's terrifying 1797 01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:23.520 to think about. Leo says, I'm not saying I want 1798 01:50:23.600 --> 01:50:27.119 Keana to leave, but her on the indies tearing shit up. 1799 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:29.920 Maybe a TNA run would be amazing. It would be 1800 01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:32.520 so great to see her show what she's capable of 1801 01:50:32.680 --> 01:50:37.279 and stick it to WWA. You know when they broke 1802 01:50:37.399 --> 01:50:40.279 up her in Juliet or we knew that it was 1803 01:50:40.399 --> 01:50:43.279 it was coming, right, I said, Keana is the one 1804 01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:45.239 who they're probably going to be more apt to push 1805 01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:49.159 more than Julia. And now I'm like, I don't even 1806 01:50:49.159 --> 01:50:51.319 know if they have I don't even know if they 1807 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:54.920 have the desire to push Keana. I don't under I 1808 01:50:54.920 --> 01:50:57.960 don't understand the mentality behind cooling so many of these 1809 01:50:57.960 --> 01:51:01.079 people down at a time when you can really use 1810 01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:03.960 some new faces in the women's division. Rhea Ripley is 1811 01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:06.239 your champion. She's been out of action since the beginning 1812 01:51:06.279 --> 01:51:08.359 of June. You would think that this is an opportunity 1813 01:51:08.399 --> 01:51:12.600 to really push more new faces. Blake Monroe kind of 1814 01:51:12.680 --> 01:51:15.520 sort of debuted, but yet she won't wrestle. Julie has 1815 01:51:15.560 --> 01:51:18.760 been buried. Keana is missing. Jordan Gray, I forget about 1816 01:51:18.840 --> 01:51:21.640 Jordan Gray. Jordan Grace is done. I don't know what's 1817 01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:25.279 going on, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I 1818 01:51:25.279 --> 01:51:30.199 don't know why any of this is happening. It's the 1819 01:51:30.239 --> 01:51:35.439 whole thing is a fucking mess. And Nick Rosso with 1820 01:51:35.479 --> 01:51:37.720 a nine ninety nine really enjoyed the Big boss Man 1821 01:51:37.800 --> 01:51:39.560 Dark side of the Ring episode. Didn't know we had 1822 01:51:39.560 --> 01:51:42.760 a painkiller addiction. I was surprised that so many people 1823 01:51:42.920 --> 01:51:46.479 offended by ninety nine boss Men. Also can't believe they 1824 01:51:47.159 --> 01:51:53.479 recreated the Hell in a Cell Spot. Yeah, they did 1825 01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:57.399 recreate it. They do a good job on the recreations 1826 01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:00.119 on the show. I enjoyed the episode. I've got a 1827 01:52:00.319 --> 01:52:02.560 full review. I've got a lot to say about that 1828 01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:06.159 and stuff that wasn't included as I usually do. But 1829 01:52:06.479 --> 01:52:08.640 you'll get that on the sound off this weekend. Full 1830 01:52:08.720 --> 01:52:12.399 recap of the Big boss Man, one of the more 1831 01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:25.079 memorable characters from my wrestling childhood. Okay, Jeremy didn't want 1832 01:52:25.079 --> 01:52:31.880 to hear me say that. I guess Jeremy Rose a 1833 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:40.319 twenty dollars super chat says enough, Jeremy, I'll get to 1834 01:52:40.359 --> 01:52:42.159 you in a second. We're three out of five now 1835 01:52:42.199 --> 01:52:48.760 on that double bonus goal. We have who we have? 1836 01:52:48.840 --> 01:52:56.800 Who we have? We have? Joseph Cherish keep borrow sell 1837 01:52:56.840 --> 01:52:59.479 on title runs that should have happened in their respective 1838 01:52:59.560 --> 01:53:05.640 brands at the time, says hy t J as WCW 1839 01:53:05.840 --> 01:53:10.000 champion in WCW rv D is ECW champion in the 1840 01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:20.680 original ECW, Monty Brown and TNA Cody in AEW Monty 1841 01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:25.880 Brown for sure in TNA. I mean, I gotta I gotta, 1842 01:53:25.960 --> 01:53:28.960 Cherish on that one. That guy had a ton of charisma. 1843 01:53:30.239 --> 01:53:33.079 They were a young company that was growing, and you 1844 01:53:33.199 --> 01:53:35.319 never know who catches fire, and maybe it could have 1845 01:53:35.359 --> 01:53:38.680 been him. You know, you will never know, but it's 1846 01:53:38.720 --> 01:53:41.760 just crazy to me that he never you know, he 1847 01:53:41.840 --> 01:53:49.279 never got there. As far as rv D, I'd probably 1848 01:53:49.359 --> 01:53:51.119 go with at number two. I didn't put him a 1849 01:53:51.159 --> 01:53:53.920 number one just because I feel like the injury kept 1850 01:53:54.000 --> 01:53:55.800 him out for so long and he was destined to 1851 01:53:55.840 --> 01:53:58.479 move on to bigger things. But of course rv D 1852 01:53:58.640 --> 01:54:01.479 is ECW champion. I mean that would have made a 1853 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:08.199 lot of sense Cody and Aw and then I put 1854 01:54:08.199 --> 01:54:15.079 why to Jay last I never felt like Jericho as 1855 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:23.079 WCW champion. Uh seemed unrealistic to me, at least at 1856 01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:28.359 that time. Had he stuck around and sure, but dry 1857 01:54:28.439 --> 01:54:31.239 Chicken says, when Kenny Omega's character gets paranoid, he makes 1858 01:54:31.319 --> 01:54:36.920 terrible decisions that always have consequences for his actions, so 1859 01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:40.239 it makes him a good heel. I'm not sure he's 1860 01:54:40.239 --> 01:54:41.800 supposed to be a heel right now, but he was 1861 01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:45.960 definitely coming off more heelish On Wednesday, Super Pony, do 1862 01:54:46.000 --> 01:54:48.479 you think it's more likely we get Owens tomorrow night 1863 01:54:48.640 --> 01:54:53.279 or on SmackDown on the twenty first in Toronto. I 1864 01:54:53.319 --> 01:54:55.159 think when he comes back, it's not going to matter 1865 01:54:55.199 --> 01:54:57.079 whether they're in Toronto or not. I think it's more 1866 01:54:57.199 --> 01:54:59.279 likely if anybody that we get Orton, then we do 1867 01:54:59.359 --> 01:55:03.640 Owens tomorrow. I don't think Toronto really has anything to 1868 01:55:03.680 --> 01:55:08.039 do with it, and death Side says it's amazing how 1869 01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:11.039 Grayson Waller has made himself more relevant in eight minutes 1870 01:55:11.079 --> 01:55:18.399 than Austin Theory has in eight months. Dry Chicken says, 1871 01:55:18.479 --> 01:55:23.319 Julia will purposely appear on TNA unannounced. Yeah, like they 1872 01:55:23.359 --> 01:55:28.760 would put her on there. TNA is gonna go rogue 1873 01:55:29.239 --> 01:55:35.159 and show Julia. I don't think so. I don't think so. 1874 01:55:37.880 --> 01:55:42.000 And Jeremy rose with a twenty anyway, Orton and Kao 1875 01:55:42.159 --> 01:55:47.960 returned to help Cody, creating a stable storyline. Wise, Cody 1876 01:55:48.000 --> 01:55:51.640 getting punted and kao injury made him come to his 1877 01:55:51.720 --> 01:55:55.079 senses and he rekindles the relationships. Goal is to get 1878 01:55:55.119 --> 01:56:00.600 rid of punk. Goal is to get rid of of Punk. 1879 01:56:02.039 --> 01:56:07.399 And then it says w G I s killing Do 1880 01:56:07.439 --> 01:56:12.560 you mean who's killing WWE? That's a weird typo. I 1881 01:56:12.560 --> 01:56:14.359 don't know, man, And then you gotta wonder where Drew 1882 01:56:14.439 --> 01:56:16.760 McIntyre fits into all this, because McIntyre is going to 1883 01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:22.760 be back soon. Also, you put together Orton and Cody 1884 01:56:22.800 --> 01:56:27.640 and Ko. I mean, who do you counter them with Punk? 1885 01:56:27.680 --> 01:56:34.520 And who who's on the other side? Sammy Sammy just 1886 01:56:35.119 --> 01:56:39.239 whin heal? Why would Sammy want to align with Punk? 1887 01:56:40.479 --> 01:56:46.199 That group is almost too powerful. Would be interesting, but 1888 01:56:46.399 --> 01:56:50.680 I think it's too strong of a faction unless you 1889 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:52.920 have some really good baby faces outside of Punk to 1890 01:56:53.000 --> 01:57:01.479 really counter it. Dan Housen, Yeah, believable, just what we need. Yes, 1891 01:57:05.279 --> 01:57:09.439 some good questions, some good shit. We have two rounds 1892 01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:12.880 now coming to us, possibly three, We'll see how that goes. 1893 01:57:12.920 --> 01:57:15.600 But we got two rounds to be the booker. Let's 1894 01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:19.439 do it, ladies and gentlemen. We're two hours into this thing. 1895 01:57:20.199 --> 01:57:23.399 Get the show on the road. Here. It is time 1896 01:57:23.479 --> 01:57:28.760 to be the booker. It only gets better from here. 1897 01:57:31.319 --> 01:57:35.920 Our first tag team match here of the night. Yeah, 1898 01:57:35.960 --> 01:57:37.640 maybe a round three soon. I know, with three out 1899 01:57:37.640 --> 01:57:41.119 of five on that new goal, we might hit third round. 1900 01:57:41.479 --> 01:57:45.680 We have a Nikolai Volkov and the iron Chic Shiky 1901 01:57:45.720 --> 01:57:47.920 baby is in be the booker man. We go from 1902 01:57:48.239 --> 01:57:50.760 Haku on TV tonight. And then we got we got 1903 01:57:50.800 --> 01:57:56.079 Shiky Baby here and be the booker, former tag team Champions, 1904 01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:01.560 and they're gonna be stepping into the ring with Hog 1905 01:58:01.800 --> 01:58:08.039 and Pig the godwinds. What a terrible match. That sounds 1906 01:58:08.159 --> 01:58:12.880 like the godwins against Nikolai Volcano and the Iron Chic. 1907 01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:21.479 That sounds awful. Not the way I wanted to start this. 1908 01:58:25.479 --> 01:58:28.359 I mean, I know it's chic, but we're not talking 1909 01:58:28.359 --> 01:58:37.720 about cutting promos. We're talking about in ring. We have 1910 01:58:37.960 --> 01:58:41.800 Ivy Nile where she bit. We haven't seen her on 1911 01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:44.880 TV either. I see her more in her YouTube vlogs 1912 01:58:44.880 --> 01:58:48.439 with her boyfriend than I do with Monday Night Raw. 1913 01:58:49.800 --> 01:58:51.920 Then again, I don't know where the fucking Creeds are either, 1914 01:58:52.000 --> 01:58:56.479 so maybe she's wherever they are. She's with them. Ivy Nile. 1915 01:58:58.800 --> 01:59:02.319 At least she gets a booking here on be the booker. 1916 01:59:02.399 --> 01:59:06.039 She gets to step into the ring with the glamour. 1917 01:59:06.760 --> 01:59:09.640 It is Mariah May, and I'm going to give that 1918 01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:12.920 the belt, if for no other reason because I did 1919 01:59:12.920 --> 01:59:15.399 what Triple Ah doesn't have the balls to do. I 1920 01:59:15.520 --> 01:59:20.720 booked Mariah May in a match. She can wrestle. You know, 1921 01:59:20.880 --> 01:59:26.000 she's actually pretty good at it. Alright, our main event now, 1922 01:59:26.079 --> 01:59:31.079 first main event of the evening. Now one more to go, 1923 01:59:34.600 --> 01:59:41.439 last scene with the Creeds in Triple A. Great. We 1924 01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:45.399 have Ray Phoenix who was on SmackDown tonight defending the 1925 01:59:45.399 --> 01:59:48.520 Triple A Cruiserweight Championship. Now he's in the main event. 1926 01:59:49.880 --> 01:59:51.840 He's graduated. Look at this to the main event of 1927 01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:56.800 be the booker. But who will his opponent be? Who 1928 01:59:56.840 --> 02:00:00.520 I say, I say A say, who will be his own? 1929 02:00:00.279 --> 02:00:08.680 It will be the nature boy, Rick Flair against Ray Phoenix. 1930 02:00:08.720 --> 02:00:11.000 He's gonna be bumping all over the place for Ray Phoenix. 1931 02:00:11.319 --> 02:00:16.279 Rick Flair and Ray Phoenix. There's a clash of styles. 1932 02:00:18.000 --> 02:00:23.720 It's a very interesting clash of styles there. Yeah, I 1933 02:00:23.760 --> 02:00:27.319 think that could be a fun one. All Right, we 1934 02:00:27.359 --> 02:00:30.199 get round number two. We get to do this all 1935 02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:34.359 over again, but this time we get to attach some stipulations. 1936 02:00:34.880 --> 02:00:36.279 We got a bunch of them in here, as you 1937 02:00:36.279 --> 02:00:38.840 can tell. And I have no idea where it's going 1938 02:00:38.880 --> 02:00:41.000 to land. That's the beauty of it. I just push 1939 02:00:41.039 --> 02:00:43.880 a button and we end up with an ambulance match. 1940 02:00:44.920 --> 02:00:47.760 Somebody is going to have to be deposited into the 1941 02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:51.920 back of an ambulance and when both doors are closed shut. 1942 02:00:52.119 --> 02:00:56.399 The match is over. Now. It would be a little difficult, 1943 02:00:56.439 --> 02:00:59.520 but not impossible to have a tag team ambulance match. 1944 02:00:59.560 --> 02:01:01.239 So I'm going to skip right to the women on 1945 02:01:01.239 --> 02:01:08.159 this one and let's find out who is in the 1946 02:01:08.199 --> 02:01:16.159 ambulance match, starting with oh oh the fuck is that image? 1947 02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:21.079 Will haunt me in my dreams. Here. This is spooky 1948 02:01:21.159 --> 02:01:24.640 Nicky Cross with that freaky mask on from the Wyatt Six. 1949 02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:29.520 Another one who can wrestle, and you would never know 1950 02:01:29.600 --> 02:01:32.880 it because they did not have her wrestling for like 1951 02:01:33.039 --> 02:01:36.199 two years. She would just show up and look like 1952 02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:38.119 this and do a Lutha's press every now and then. 1953 02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:40.119 And that was the extent to which she did any wrestling. 1954 02:01:42.560 --> 02:01:50.199 Niki Cross in the ambulance match. Let's get a drum 1955 02:01:50.279 --> 02:01:52.439 roll down in here. Come on now, man, we got 1956 02:01:52.439 --> 02:01:57.279 our main event round. We need a drum roll. Creepy 1957 02:01:57.319 --> 02:02:05.840 Pasta Cross against the glamour Mariah May, boy boy, I 1958 02:02:05.880 --> 02:02:08.000 think Be the Booker is in love. I think Be 1959 02:02:08.079 --> 02:02:14.039 the Booker is smitten, smitten back to back rounds of 1960 02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:20.960 Mariah May. I don't blame Be the book Look, I'm 1961 02:02:21.039 --> 02:02:26.159 smitten myself. I don't blame Be the Booker in the least. 1962 02:02:27.479 --> 02:02:29.760 You can never have too much Mariah May. And since 1963 02:02:29.800 --> 02:02:32.760 they refuse to give us enough of her on TV, 1964 02:02:32.920 --> 02:02:35.880 I'll be more than happy to provide you with Mariah 1965 02:02:35.960 --> 02:02:40.720 May here. It's fine with me. I'm okay with that. 1966 02:02:43.520 --> 02:02:51.760 We have an exploding barbed wired deathmatch. Well, this is 1967 02:02:51.800 --> 02:02:58.279 going to be most interesting exploding barbed wire deathmatch. There 1968 02:02:58.279 --> 02:03:01.119 are certain people who would really fit in a match 1969 02:03:01.199 --> 02:03:02.800 like that, and there are a lot of people in 1970 02:03:02.880 --> 02:03:11.239 this that absolutely would not fit there. Drew McIntyre interesting. 1971 02:03:11.439 --> 02:03:14.399 I think Drew McIntyre would do well in an exploding 1972 02:03:14.439 --> 02:03:16.720 Barbeyer death match. He took a lot of abuse. He 1973 02:03:16.800 --> 02:03:18.399 was bleeding like a pig in that hell in a 1974 02:03:18.439 --> 02:03:21.039 CEL match with Punk. I don't think he would shy 1975 02:03:21.079 --> 02:03:24.880 away from an exploding Barbier death match. I think he 1976 02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:32.560 would excel. I don't think TKO is going to be 1977 02:03:32.640 --> 02:03:37.640 very happy about that, considering what they pay him. Oh mind, 1978 02:03:37.680 --> 02:03:43.399 look at that Drew McIntyre against Claudio casting Noli in 1979 02:03:43.560 --> 02:03:49.079 exploding Barbyer death match. Man, I don't know who to 1980 02:03:49.079 --> 02:03:56.840 pick who wins that? Who wins that? I'm gonna go Drew. 1981 02:03:57.000 --> 02:04:00.960 But that's a good one, man. I just I wish 1982 02:04:01.000 --> 02:04:07.000 the stipulation wasn't even attached to it though. And now 1983 02:04:07.079 --> 02:04:14.920 our main event of the evening, ladies and gentlemen, are 1984 02:04:14.960 --> 02:04:20.199 we looking at a sweep? Are we looking at a sweep? 1985 02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:28.680 Another exploding barbed wire death match? Oh my god, Vince 1986 02:04:28.760 --> 02:04:32.680 Russo has struck again. This is what you call classic overbooking. 1987 02:04:34.640 --> 02:04:42.199 Classic overbooking. You don't book back to back exploding barbed 1988 02:04:42.199 --> 02:04:47.279 wire death matches. You don't do that. Be the booker 1989 02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:50.279 has a thirst for be. The booker has a thirst, 1990 02:04:50.319 --> 02:04:54.479 we've learned tonight, for blood and for Mariah Bay. Those 1991 02:04:54.479 --> 02:04:57.079 are the two things. Those are the two things that be. 1992 02:04:57.119 --> 02:05:06.079 The booker has a thirst for My goodness, all right, 1993 02:05:07.359 --> 02:05:12.039 we go from Drew McIntyre in Claudio in an exploding 1994 02:05:12.079 --> 02:05:27.640 barbed wire deathmatch. Two, Oh my god, the former NWA 1995 02:05:28.319 --> 02:05:37.359 World Heavyweight Champion Tyris Tyris is going to be in 1996 02:05:37.399 --> 02:05:43.199 an exploding barbeyer deathmatch. Who would pay to see this? 1997 02:05:44.640 --> 02:05:55.880 Who would pay to see this? Tyris against Joe Hendry 1998 02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:03.520 in an exploding barbed wire deathmatch. Not if you paid me, 1999 02:06:05.119 --> 02:06:07.279 I still would have no desire to see that match. 2000 02:06:10.399 --> 02:06:12.920 So that's the bad news. However, I do have some 2001 02:06:13.039 --> 02:06:15.840 good news, and the good news is that we just 2002 02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:21.560 hit the bonus goal again, which means we get to 2003 02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:23.640 take her for a spend one more time. We're getting 2004 02:06:23.680 --> 02:06:26.000 a third round to be the booker. Give yourselves a 2005 02:06:26.199 --> 02:06:34.680 round of applause. You have earned a third round. Doesn't 2006 02:06:34.720 --> 02:06:39.079 happen very often, but it happened tonight. We didn't even 2007 02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:40.680 get to Summer Slim. Yeah, we got two nights of 2008 02:06:40.680 --> 02:06:42.800 Summer Slim. I'm gonna be live tomorrow night. I'm gonna 2009 02:06:42.800 --> 02:06:45.760 be live Sunday night. We could do even more, be 2010 02:06:45.840 --> 02:06:53.119 the booker. It's a double bonus. It is a double 2011 02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:58.439 bonus round. And because it is a double bonus round, 2012 02:07:00.000 --> 02:07:03.840 going to a different dimension here, we've gone to a 2013 02:07:03.920 --> 02:07:06.279 level that we've never been to before. All Right, we're 2014 02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:08.279 gonna have a last man standing match. Oh man, I'm 2015 02:07:08.319 --> 02:07:11.239 just I'm just happy that it's not another exploding Barbier 2016 02:07:11.279 --> 02:07:18.279 death match. Personally, I'm very happy about that it's a 2017 02:07:18.359 --> 02:07:28.560 last man standing match. Okay, let's see, hope you're keeping 2018 02:07:28.560 --> 02:07:30.399 track of these cards, so you gotta have to compare 2019 02:07:30.439 --> 02:07:33.039 them when we're done here and see which round is 2020 02:07:33.079 --> 02:07:42.199 the best. Mister perfect Kurt Hennig, I like where this 2021 02:07:42.319 --> 02:07:48.800 is headed. That's right, it's the be the Booker Special stage. 2022 02:07:49.199 --> 02:07:59.760 So he knows, he knows ball, he knows mister perfect 2023 02:08:00.479 --> 02:08:05.359 jbl in a last man standing match, you know what, 2024 02:08:06.000 --> 02:08:11.600 I'll give that the bell. I'll give that the bell. 2025 02:08:14.199 --> 02:08:17.960 I think that has the potential to be good. Two 2026 02:08:18.000 --> 02:08:21.479 heels though a little weird. Not a big fan of that, 2027 02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:24.560 not a big fan of the two heel thing. But 2028 02:08:27.720 --> 02:08:31.079 our next match is going to be first blood and 2029 02:08:31.119 --> 02:08:35.359 it's going to go to the ladies this time. A 2030 02:08:35.479 --> 02:08:40.399 first blood women's match should be very interesting here with 2031 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:46.199 Mako Satamora, the retired Mako Satamora. I don't think I've 2032 02:08:46.199 --> 02:08:49.119 ever seen her bleed, but you would think over a 2033 02:08:49.199 --> 02:08:51.479 thirty year career, I'm sure she's been busted open a 2034 02:08:51.479 --> 02:09:05.560 few times. Oh, Maco, Maco, Maco, Mako Makosatamora against Jade 2035 02:09:05.800 --> 02:09:13.680 Cargill Macosatamora is going to make Jade Cargill bleed, bleed 2036 02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:19.439 her own blood. As Billy Graham once said, boy Maco 2037 02:09:19.520 --> 02:09:23.680 better have her working shoes on for that match. That's 2038 02:09:23.720 --> 02:09:30.399 all I'm gonna say. And our true final final main 2039 02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:37.880 events here of the evening is going to be a 2040 02:09:37.960 --> 02:09:40.920 Lions then mat are you all ready to enter the Lions? 2041 02:09:41.039 --> 02:09:47.600 Then we're walking in. We got a Lions then match, 2042 02:09:48.920 --> 02:09:55.199 two people enter, one person leaves. We have got the 2043 02:09:55.279 --> 02:10:05.279 American badass, the Undertaker, this limp biscuit Taker inside the Lions. 2044 02:10:05.279 --> 02:10:07.840 Then I wouldn't want to be trapped in the Lions. 2045 02:10:07.880 --> 02:10:20.199 Then with the Undertake, it's a little rough. The Undertaker 2046 02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:27.720 against Razor Ramone in a lions Den match. Yes, guess 2047 02:10:27.760 --> 02:10:30.399 we finally got a sweep. It only took three chances, 2048 02:10:30.439 --> 02:10:36.680 but we finally we finally got the sweep. Yeah, Undertaker 2049 02:10:36.760 --> 02:10:39.840 Razor Ramone. They did wrestle each other, but not too 2050 02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:43.199 many times and never any any sort of like TV program. 2051 02:10:46.039 --> 02:10:49.840 I would have liked to have seen that. It's kind 2052 02:10:49.840 --> 02:10:53.119 of weird because I was literally just watching earlier with 2053 02:10:53.199 --> 02:10:55.640 lunch today I was watching. They had a three hour 2054 02:10:55.840 --> 02:10:59.000 Razor Ramone compilation on the WWE Vault channel that they 2055 02:10:59.079 --> 02:11:01.399 uploaded within the line couple of weeks. I'm in the 2056 02:11:01.399 --> 02:11:04.039 middle of it. Great match on there by the way 2057 02:11:04.079 --> 02:11:06.800 from the August first, I want to say nineteen ninety 2058 02:11:06.800 --> 02:11:09.680 four episode of Raw. It was in the lead up 2059 02:11:09.680 --> 02:11:13.439 to SummerSlam that year. Was the first match that Seawn 2060 02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.960 Michaels had since the latter match of WrestleMania ten. He 2061 02:11:17.000 --> 02:11:18.800 had been out of the ring since then. His first 2062 02:11:19.079 --> 02:11:24.000 first match back, no ladders, no bullshit, straight singles match 2063 02:11:24.039 --> 02:11:30.840 against Razor. Great fucking match, Great TV match. Those guys 2064 02:11:30.880 --> 02:11:37.439 had great chemistry. It's almost like they were friends. E J. 2065 02:11:37.760 --> 02:11:43.640 Slam says, which would you choose if you were if 2066 02:11:43.680 --> 02:11:46.920 you were me? Men at Work or a White Sox 2067 02:11:47.079 --> 02:11:49.680 Guardians game in the middle of the Pennant race with 2068 02:11:49.760 --> 02:11:55.319 a postgame JA rule concert Men at Work? That was 2069 02:11:55.359 --> 02:11:58.319 an easy one. Super Pony, I need Ko to package 2070 02:11:58.359 --> 02:12:06.039 pile drive Dan Hausen. I heartily endorse this, EJ says, 2071 02:12:06.079 --> 02:12:09.119 in honor of the iron chic, fuck the Hulk Hogan. 2072 02:12:11.159 --> 02:12:16.880 That's right, that Jabron break his back and make him humble. 2073 02:12:17.840 --> 02:12:20.800 Super Pony says. SAP just reported that Kevin Owens is 2074 02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:31.159 in Minneapolis. Interesting. I wouldn't say that necessarily means anything, 2075 02:12:31.319 --> 02:12:35.800 because I feel like he's been around some of the events, 2076 02:12:35.800 --> 02:12:38.239 and I know he was also doing the LFG stuff, 2077 02:12:39.880 --> 02:12:44.600 But in light of the Meltzer report today, it is interesting. 2078 02:12:48.399 --> 02:12:51.119 I hope so man, we need him back in the 2079 02:12:51.159 --> 02:12:55.720 worst way. Gary Sean with a couple of nine to 2080 02:12:55.800 --> 02:12:59.079 ninety nine super chats. Gary is just Gary is probably 2081 02:12:59.119 --> 02:13:00.920 the reason we hit that bus around here would be 2082 02:13:00.920 --> 02:13:05.920 the booker. So Gary, thank you, brother Gary put us 2083 02:13:05.960 --> 02:13:10.560 over the top there. Without that, we wouldn't have gotten 2084 02:13:10.560 --> 02:13:13.279 the clean sweep that we got. Dry Chicken, says Nikki 2085 02:13:13.319 --> 02:13:18.800 Cross against Mariah May, Chucky and Ash Williams on commentary 2086 02:13:19.840 --> 02:13:27.039 during Halloween, Sith Banks eighty seven with a five. Just 2087 02:13:27.159 --> 02:13:29.479 join the show, So sorry if you already answered, But 2088 02:13:29.520 --> 02:13:32.439 did you figure out the YouTube TV ESPN Unlimited? I've 2089 02:13:32.439 --> 02:13:35.640 been trying to get it synced. I finally did today. 2090 02:13:36.079 --> 02:13:39.520 I finally got the frickin thing to work, So I'm 2091 02:13:39.560 --> 02:13:41.359 gonna try this weekend. We're going to give it a 2092 02:13:41.359 --> 02:13:47.720 shot and see if I can actually access SummerSlam. Took 2093 02:13:47.760 --> 02:13:50.399 long enough for YouTube TV to finally have the integration, 2094 02:13:50.560 --> 02:13:52.119 but I just I couldn't get it to work. And 2095 02:13:52.159 --> 02:13:54.319 I wasn't the only one. Like the option I was 2096 02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:57.520 supposed to check off just wasn't there, so unless they 2097 02:13:57.560 --> 02:13:59.920 were just like slow rolling it out. But I finally 2098 02:14:00.079 --> 02:14:04.399 got it to work today, so we shall find out tomorrow. 2099 02:14:05.000 --> 02:14:06.960 Navy forty one eighty one says, the first pay per 2100 02:14:07.039 --> 02:14:09.359 view I saw was Summer Slim eighty nine. That was 2101 02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:14.199 a great one, dude, those are the metal Lands. A 2102 02:14:14.239 --> 02:14:16.520 week later, Rick Rude beat the piss out of Roddy 2103 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:18.720 Piper on The Brother Love Show with a podium and 2104 02:14:18.760 --> 02:14:23.840 the Rude Awakening. Summer Slim eighty nine is a favorite 2105 02:14:23.840 --> 02:14:29.399 of mine. Great main event was Hogan and Beefcake against 2106 02:14:29.439 --> 02:14:36.199 Macho or Macho King and Zeus. But really fun main event. 2107 02:14:37.920 --> 02:14:42.199 He nineteen seventy two Bones, You're very welcome, but also 2108 02:14:42.239 --> 02:14:44.319 the Warrior Rick Rude match on that show better than 2109 02:14:44.319 --> 02:14:46.720 their WrestleMania match. Actually the best match I ever saw 2110 02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:49.399 them have. They wrestled at Summer Slim in a cage 2111 02:14:49.439 --> 02:14:52.119 match the following year, but that eighty nine match is 2112 02:14:52.119 --> 02:14:56.720 the best one they had. Dry Chickens says, mister perfect 2113 02:14:56.720 --> 02:15:03.600 against JBL what kind of stipulation is that? And buy 2114 02:15:03.640 --> 02:15:08.399 everybody at pizza. I can't have it. That's terrible. Gabe California, 2115 02:15:09.399 --> 02:15:14.279 what do you think makes a great wrestling match? Well, 2116 02:15:14.359 --> 02:15:18.319 great wrestling to start, but also you need two people, 2117 02:15:18.439 --> 02:15:22.560 whether it's two men two women, to tag teams that 2118 02:15:22.640 --> 02:15:25.000 the fans can invest in. If you have the fans 2119 02:15:25.039 --> 02:15:28.279 investing in what they're seeing, and it's not just some 2120 02:15:28.479 --> 02:15:31.720 random match, but a match, let's say that's been built 2121 02:15:31.800 --> 02:15:35.000 up for a while. Great heat, right, You want to 2122 02:15:35.000 --> 02:15:38.279 have a great crowd. Great the crowd is so important 2123 02:15:39.319 --> 02:15:42.439 in matches like that. A great crowd can take a 2124 02:15:42.520 --> 02:15:44.800 decent match to a really good match, or a good 2125 02:15:44.840 --> 02:15:48.119 match to a great match, or a great match to 2126 02:15:48.159 --> 02:15:52.920 a legendary match like Rock and Hogan they wrestle maybe eighteen. 2127 02:15:53.560 --> 02:15:58.520 It's not the same without that crowd. So what makes 2128 02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:01.600 a great wrestling match is going to be objective. I've 2129 02:16:01.640 --> 02:16:05.520 seen great wrestling matches that have different elements that they 2130 02:16:05.560 --> 02:16:09.359 don't always have the ingredients to make like a perfect match. 2131 02:16:09.439 --> 02:16:12.520 But you want to have, you know, good wrestling. You 2132 02:16:12.560 --> 02:16:16.319 want to have good characters. Then you want to have 2133 02:16:16.359 --> 02:16:18.479 good heat from the crowd. You put all that together 2134 02:16:18.560 --> 02:16:23.840 and that's really all you can ask for. You just 2135 02:16:23.880 --> 02:16:25.439 want to get the people to believe. You want to 2136 02:16:25.439 --> 02:16:28.840 get them to invest. They don't care about what they're seeing, 2137 02:16:28.920 --> 02:16:32.360 or they're indifferent, or they're quiet, or they're sitting on 2138 02:16:32.399 --> 02:16:36.600 their hands, they're on their phones. It's a bad wrestling match. 2139 02:16:37.719 --> 02:16:39.920 You could do all the moves and the flips and 2140 02:16:39.959 --> 02:16:43.559 all kinds of crazy shit. If nobody cares, or if 2141 02:16:43.559 --> 02:16:45.959 nobody's reacting to it and it doesn't really mean anything, 2142 02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:53.000 how can you call that a great match? Charlotte versus Jade. 2143 02:16:53.440 --> 02:16:57.520 Maybe the interim title on the line next Friday. I 2144 02:16:57.559 --> 02:16:59.120 told you, look, if it's not going to be Lash, 2145 02:16:59.200 --> 02:17:03.040 I'm going with Ja. I don't see Charlotte winning on Sunday. 2146 02:17:04.639 --> 02:17:08.000 But somebody said that was that announced already that Charlotte 2147 02:17:08.000 --> 02:17:11.520 and Jade are having a singles match on SmackDown next Friday. 2148 02:17:12.520 --> 02:17:17.799 I think I saw somebody mention that what night is 2149 02:17:18.000 --> 02:17:20.360 Chad and Penta? I believe that's going to be on 2150 02:17:20.479 --> 02:17:24.200 Night Too. No, it is on Night Too, because it's 2151 02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:25.959 one of the only matches on Night Too. I'm really 2152 02:17:25.959 --> 02:17:29.680 looking forward to, and it will be in the first hour. 2153 02:17:30.360 --> 02:17:32.399 I guess the first hours of these shows are not 2154 02:17:32.479 --> 02:17:36.959 airing on ESPN like they've been doing, but I believe 2155 02:17:37.239 --> 02:17:39.680 Penta and Gabler are playing for the first hour of 2156 02:17:39.799 --> 02:17:44.520 Night two. Hey, Chris, what's going on? Chris? You came 2157 02:17:44.520 --> 02:17:46.040 in right at the end. Brother, We're getting out of 2158 02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:50.319 here all right. Well, thank you guys for being with me. 2159 02:17:50.399 --> 02:17:52.239 We went two and a half hours today. Look at 2160 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:58.600 that you're crazy sobs in here man, good crowd, good stream, 2161 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:01.760 not a great SmackDown. I am hopeful. I am hopeful 2162 02:18:02.360 --> 02:18:05.079 that we will have a great Summer Slam this weekend. 2163 02:18:05.520 --> 02:18:09.879 It begins with Night one Tomorrow Night There it is 2164 02:18:09.959 --> 02:18:14.600 Cody and punk Oba and Brock, the blowoff, the payoff, 2165 02:18:15.479 --> 02:18:19.760 Hell in a Cell and Nick All this first time 2166 02:18:19.799 --> 02:18:23.639 ever in a WWE ring. The big question will Cody 2167 02:18:23.680 --> 02:18:26.200 go heal? Will Randy Orton make an appearance? Well, Kevin 2168 02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:30.760 Owens make a return? Apparently he's in Minneapolis. This is 2169 02:18:30.760 --> 02:18:33.000 the night I'm looking forward to the most. I will 2170 02:18:33.000 --> 02:18:35.120 be live on YouTube when it is over. Be aware 2171 02:18:35.159 --> 02:18:38.799 that it's a six pm Eastern start time. So I 2172 02:18:38.959 --> 02:18:41.680 don't know that I see this show going four hours, 2173 02:18:41.840 --> 02:18:45.479 but it could. I suppose it's possible. I would think 2174 02:18:45.520 --> 02:18:49.520 I'll probably be live by ten. I would imagine between 2175 02:18:49.559 --> 02:18:52.440 nine thirty and ten. But whenever it's over, you give 2176 02:18:52.479 --> 02:18:53.959 me a few minutes and then I'll be live on 2177 02:18:54.000 --> 02:18:57.319 YouTube for the full review. Sound Off Episode nine seventy 2178 02:18:57.399 --> 02:19:00.559 four is going to be dropping on Sunday, and then 2179 02:19:00.600 --> 02:19:02.600 Sunday night we do it over again for night too. 2180 02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:05.639 You get three podcasts from me this weekend. That's a lot. 2181 02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:08.840 You're gonna get a lot of me this weekend. You're 2182 02:19:08.840 --> 02:19:10.799 gonna be so sick of me. I'm gonna be like 2183 02:19:10.920 --> 02:19:13.040 Dan Housen by the time this weekend is over. You're 2184 02:19:13.040 --> 02:19:15.959 not gonna want to see my face. But at least 2185 02:19:15.959 --> 02:19:19.719 you know I'll always deliver for you, so I'll be well, 2186 02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:22.440 Stay safe and yourself. Is a great rest of your 2187 02:19:22.559 --> 02:19:25.280 night and a good weekend, and I will see you 2188 02:19:25.319 --> 02:19:28.120 for Night one of Summer Slam tomorrow night. Until then, 2189 02:19:28.559 --> 02:19:29.200 take care, guys.