Speaker 1: This was not a good show tonight, and Summer Slam
Speaker 1: is tomorrow night, or at least Night one is. Night
Speaker 1: one is the stronger of the two nights on paper,
Speaker 1: easily by far. The best parts of this show were
Speaker 1: everything involving Nick Aldus, the return of Haku, and the
Speaker 1: closing credits which meant that the show was over. Those
Speaker 1: are the best parts of SmackDown. We did have one
Speaker 1: last face to face though, in the closing segment with
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and Cmpunk. That is our main event for
Speaker 1: Night one, and they were trying to really drive home
Speaker 1: the fact that these two they don't like each other
Speaker 1: all of a sudden and they've been at each other's throats,
Speaker 1: and we had a big pull apart brawl and they
Speaker 1: were throwing they were throwing shots at each other, and
Speaker 1: we went off the air with a kind of a
Speaker 1: wild brawl between them. I was looking forward to this match,
Speaker 1: and look, I still think that they will go out
Speaker 1: there tomorrow night and have a very good wrestling match.
Speaker 1: I'm still optimistic about the main event that we are
Speaker 1: going to get tomorrow. And I didn't think that they
Speaker 1: needed a terribly long period of time to really put
Speaker 1: this match together, because again, they've kept them apart. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of history there. So whether you gave
Speaker 1: them three weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, you know, it
Speaker 1: really wouldn't have made that much of a difference. What
Speaker 1: matters is what do you do in those three weeks
Speaker 1: or four weeks when you're putting this match together. And
Speaker 1: now that we're here and this was the go home segment,
Speaker 1: it leaves a lot to be desired because really, what
Speaker 1: we've gotten here to spark the feud, to light the fuse,
Speaker 1: so to speak. We had the errant belt shot at
Speaker 1: Saturday night's main event, which was like, Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: if we're going to use that as the spark for
Speaker 1: this thing. Sure, And then they showed footage from a
Speaker 1: house show yesterday. Now didn't that currect me if I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: Didn't Cody Road say that he had a gift for
Speaker 1: CM Punk at the live event on Thursday night? Isn't
Speaker 1: that what we heard last week was the Well maybe
Speaker 1: this was the gift. I mean the gift was CM
Speaker 1: punk went. They were celebrating after their win and CM
Speaker 1: Punk was standing right there and when Cody turned Punk
Speaker 1: basically came up from behind him, went to go tap him,
Speaker 1: and Cody gave him the most telegraphed back elbow you'll
Speaker 1: ever see. Maybe that was the gift that he was
Speaker 1: referring to. I don't know, but it felt very forced.
Speaker 1: And that's the word I keep coming back to when
Speaker 1: I think about what we've gotten between these two over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. Forced, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: was I was kind of hoping that as great as
Speaker 1: they are when it comes to promos and Punk, I mean,
Speaker 1: we know what kind of promo that Punk is, obviously,
Speaker 1: Cody one he's on his A game is also a
Speaker 1: great promo. And I was kind of hoping that, you know,
Speaker 1: we would get some stuff, you know, from them that
Speaker 1: I don't know, would really kind of light a fire
Speaker 1: under them and this would come off as some sort
Speaker 1: of hot feud. But we didn't get that. And so
Speaker 1: now we're going into this match this week and I'm
Speaker 1: not as fired up for it as I was kind
Speaker 1: of hoping I would be. And maybe it is the
Speaker 1: first match and we get a second one, and going
Speaker 1: into the second one, things were a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how quickly after this
Speaker 1: one we're going to get the second one, but it
Speaker 1: was not enough, certainly to save what otherwise, you know,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, was a bad show. We've had a
Speaker 1: lot of those unfortunately on SmackDown this year. But that
Speaker 1: closing segment didn't really change my mind of everything else
Speaker 1: that we got here. And yes, I'm glad that you
Speaker 1: pointed that as somebody mentioned the jacket Cody Rhodes. It
Speaker 1: was actually very emblematic I think of Cody and his
Speaker 1: position in the company that Cody came out for the
Speaker 1: closing segment tonight in his Club WWE jacket. It wasn't
Speaker 1: really a Club ww jacket, but he had a Club
Speaker 1: WWE patch on his jacket like a good little soldier
Speaker 1: because today was launch day for Club WWE got to
Speaker 1: remind everybody of that you gotta wear the patch. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that patch on cm punks jacket. He's the
Speaker 1: WWE champion, but Cody Rhodes had that Club WWE patch
Speaker 1: right there. But anyway, that was the closing segment. Lash Legend,
Speaker 1: as I told you she would be. Lash Legend is
Speaker 1: in the interim Women's Championship Ladder match on Sunday, The
Speaker 1: completely unnecessary interim title match that we're going to be getting.
Speaker 1: The field of five has now been set, Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill, who do we have, Tiffany Stratton, Chelsea Green,
Speaker 1: and now lash Legend She is officially in, even though
Speaker 1: Naya Jacks really got hosed if you think about how
Speaker 1: things have played out with her qualifying matches over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and then Adam Pierce's big decision
Speaker 1: was to put lash In there instead of Naya. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating for Nya Jacks to be in the
Speaker 1: ladder match. I'd rather have Lash in then then Naya
Speaker 1: in the situation, but the whole thing was just very,
Speaker 1: very silly. Meanwhile, details on the funeral service for Julia
Speaker 1: will be shared once that information becomes available. So once
Speaker 1: I have that information, I will be able to pass
Speaker 1: it along to all of you and then we can
Speaker 1: all join. Maybe if you can't be there in person,
Speaker 1: perhaps you can zoom in. I'll try to provide the
Speaker 1: zoom link if one is provided, and maybe we could
Speaker 1: all say a few words for the career of Julia
Speaker 1: in WWE, which, if it wasn't over, already came to
Speaker 1: an abrupt end. Tonight about two minutes, so we have
Speaker 1: that as well on the show. I will have some
Speaker 1: news to share a little bit later on from this
Speaker 1: week's Observer as it relates to Randy Orton and Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens and their potential returns to Wwe save that for
Speaker 1: later and we'll go through the rest of this show.
Speaker 1: Not a whole lot to get excited about, but this
Speaker 1: is your Friday Night SmackDown review. Even when we have
Speaker 1: a bad night of SmackDown, we try to have a
Speaker 1: good night here on the sound Thoff. That's what my
Speaker 1: goal is for tonight. It is Friday. It is the
Speaker 1: last Friday, the last day of July. July thirty first,
Speaker 1: there is no July thirty second. Twenty twenty six. I
Speaker 1: am the solemn Monster. Like and subscribe. Super chats are open.
Speaker 1: I've had a few of them come on in before
Speaker 1: I went live tonight, so I will be reading those
Speaker 1: and any new ones that come in. Ban T twenty
Speaker 1: one says SmackDown drew forty five hundrehundred people tonight. That
Speaker 1: was in Green Bay. Yeah, that's a far cry from
Speaker 1: what they did in that building the last time they
Speaker 1: were there. Don't know if they care. Don't know if
Speaker 1: they care. I'm sure ticket prices were probably elevated from
Speaker 1: what they were last time. For all I know, they
Speaker 1: made more money tonight than they did before, and they
Speaker 1: may have had twice as many people in the building
Speaker 1: last time. I don't know. It's certainly indicative of something,
Speaker 1: whether or not WWE is getting the message. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They're expecting in the range of thirty five thousand people
Speaker 1: for each night of Summer Slam this weekend, ordinarily a
Speaker 1: very healthy crowd, far cry from what they had at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium last year. We're off the peak people, they
Speaker 1: already peaked. We'll see where we are for Summer Slam
Speaker 1: next year. If Summer Slam even stays two nights next year,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will. They would
Speaker 1: much rather try to get it combined sixty five or
Speaker 1: seventy thousand people than have one night of thirty or forty.
Speaker 1: So I think the two nights Summer slams are here
Speaker 1: to stay. But again, get those super chats on in.
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up the wheel and we're going
Speaker 1: to find out here if if we are going to
Speaker 1: do be the booker tonight I guarantee you that if
Speaker 1: we do be the booker tonight, I will book a
Speaker 1: better show than the one they gave you. That I
Speaker 1: can guarantee, But I don't know if that's going to
Speaker 1: be happening. We need five hundred and fifty likes. We
Speaker 1: are at two hundred right now. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: do it on Wednesday. We did it on Monday. We
Speaker 1: didn't do it on Wednesday. We may not do it
Speaker 1: tonight either. It's a good thing we have Summer Slam
Speaker 1: this weekend. Would it be admitting defeat if they went
Speaker 1: back to one night of SummerSlam, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean they're not going heating against anybody. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I would call it defeat, I would say that
Speaker 1: it's it would be an admission that business is not
Speaker 1: what he used to be. How about it? How about it? Indeed,
Speaker 1: venom KOTETSI thank you. That was his idea. By the way,
Speaker 1: saw the recent Valvenus footage, no hair and just the beard.
Speaker 1: Now he looks like road dog. Curious but worrying. I
Speaker 1: haven't worried about anything Valvenus related in about twenty seven
Speaker 1: or twenty eight years. I know this footage out there
Speaker 1: of him gyrating. I have no interest in seeing it,
Speaker 1: especially you know, I'm a few hours away from bedtime.
Speaker 1: It's the last thing I want to have on my mind.
Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain and Finn Balor they're going to be having
Speaker 1: a match this Sunday at SummerSlam. To open the show tonight,
Speaker 1: we had let me get rid of the wheel here.
Speaker 1: To open the show tonight, we had Finn Ballard. Now
Speaker 1: I've called him win Baler recently instead of Pinballer because
Speaker 1: he's actually been stringing together some victories. I know this
Speaker 1: won't last very long, but he's on a bit of
Speaker 1: a hot streak. So he came out to the ring
Speaker 1: to open the show and he talked about how every
Speaker 1: time Summer Slim season rolls around, he can't help but
Speaker 1: think back to twenty sixteen. That was the year where
Speaker 1: he won the Universal Championship. In fact, he was the
Speaker 1: first ever Universal champion. He was on the highest of
Speaker 1: highs when he won the title that night, but it
Speaker 1: was also followed by the lowest of lows when an
Speaker 1: injury forced him to relinquish the belt, which was only
Speaker 1: twenty four hours later. And now here we are in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Baler says he spent years scratching and
Speaker 1: clawing trying to reach those heights again, and with the
Speaker 1: Ballor Club behind him, they were so close to getting back.
Speaker 1: So what is the stronger club? Ballor club or club WWA,
Speaker 1: Sammy's ain't interrupted the last real good guy justice for
Speaker 1: Sammy had his T shirt on and Sammy said he'd look.
Speaker 1: He understood that this was a very emotional time for Ballor,
Speaker 1: but there were things that he needed to get off
Speaker 1: his chest, and he bitched and moaned about CM Punk
Speaker 1: and Cody Rhodes having their match and how it should
Speaker 1: be a triple threat tomorrow. Night talked about how he
Speaker 1: wanted Cody Roads to win at SummerSlam for the simple
Speaker 1: reason that he already beat him once and he knows
Speaker 1: he can do it again, but there was a small
Speaker 1: part of him that also wanted CM Punk to win,
Speaker 1: and he called him a hypocrite for becoming a corporate
Speaker 1: poster boy. Oh I don't know. I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 1: the one with the club WWE patch on his jacket. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Baller took issue with Sammy, saying that he respects him
Speaker 1: because Sammy was very deferential to him at first, and
Speaker 1: he did say that, he did say that he respected him.
Speaker 1: Ballot told Sammy, look, you gotta grow some balls. Come
Speaker 1: down to the ring to talk, because Sammy was talking
Speaker 1: from the stage. And Sammy said, you know what, I will.
Speaker 1: I owe you that much, and he came down to
Speaker 1: the ring and he climbed inside. He said that everyone
Speaker 1: knows how great Balor is and he probably should have
Speaker 1: been w W E champion four or five times by now.
Speaker 1: And then he corrected himself and he said, well, maybe
Speaker 1: more like two or three times. But he said, look,
Speaker 1: you had your time. This is my time now. Sammy
Speaker 1: said it's bigger than him and Balor, though he said
Speaker 1: it's about justice. Balor said justice? What about my justice?
Speaker 1: What about what about Balor's justice? I'm sitting here thinking
Speaker 1: what about Sid justice? Sid would if Sid came out
Speaker 1: right now, and then Sid would crush these two. Sid
Speaker 1: would absolutely crush these two. Actually, now that I think
Speaker 1: about it, I think Sammy's ain actually owns one of
Speaker 1: the more annoying spots that I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: And I don't remember what independent show it was from,
Speaker 1: but many years ago, in the El Generico, days because
Speaker 1: supposedly Sammy's ain. It's never been confirmed, but he may
Speaker 1: have been under the l Generico mask. I can't prove it, though,
Speaker 1: but there was some kind of match and I think
Speaker 1: Sid right power bombed Generico and he totally no sold it.
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember all the details, but just
Speaker 1: I mentioned Sid just now and it made me think
Speaker 1: of that. So, yeah, they're talking about Justice. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about Sid Justice. I'm thinking about anything but the fucking
Speaker 1: show that I'm watching here. So Sammy said, look, it's
Speaker 1: been ten years and Balor never came close, so maybe
Speaker 1: he should take the hint. Balor said the title or
Speaker 1: he held the title and it got taken away from
Speaker 1: him due to injury. In Sammy's case, he had the
Speaker 1: championship and the reason he lost it is because he
Speaker 1: lost fair and square. Sammy said, well, those sound like
Speaker 1: fighting words. He said, if Balor was anybody else, he
Speaker 1: would drop him, but he said he's not gonna do
Speaker 1: that because he's the last real good guy. Said that
Speaker 1: he would walk away. He would see Baller at Summerslim.
Speaker 1: So before he could walk away, Gunther enters the ring
Speaker 1: from behind Balor and knocks Ballor into Zayanne and because
Speaker 1: you know, he took great issue with them talking about
Speaker 1: being the number one contender for the WWE Championship, which
Speaker 1: is what they're fighting for this weekend. He says he's
Speaker 1: the true number one contender. Adam Pierce comes out onto
Speaker 1: the stage. He's got security with him. He's talking about
Speaker 1: gun there and what are you doing and Gunther he
Speaker 1: approaches Pierce and he says he's doing what he has
Speaker 1: to do to get what's rightfully his. And he went
Speaker 1: to Pierce and said, what do I have to do?
Speaker 1: Do I have to beat your ass too? So Baler
Speaker 1: runs down the aisle. He hits Gunther from behind. Sammy
Speaker 1: then tossed Balor aside. He starts attacking Gunther. Baller grabs Sammy.
Speaker 1: They start trading shots until Gunther clotheslined them both ran
Speaker 1: them into the barricade. Nick All this shows up and
Speaker 1: he attacks gun Thro in the aisle. He tosses him
Speaker 1: into the ring. This he ends up putting him down
Speaker 1: and locking him in a Texas clover leaf, and the
Speaker 1: crowd was given this a nice ovation. Pierce in the
Speaker 1: security guards they intervened. They pulled all this to the
Speaker 1: corner and ed Gunther took a cheap shot at him.
Speaker 1: Both guys had to be separated. I like the segment
Speaker 1: in this regard. They did I think a decent job
Speaker 1: here of pushing two matches in one segment. So you
Speaker 1: had a very basic back and forth, you know, dialogue
Speaker 1: here between Sammy and Finn. Again, there's not a whole
Speaker 1: lot to talk about because this is not some long
Speaker 1: drawn out feud. It's this number one contenders match that
Speaker 1: was just kind of put together randomly a week ago.
Speaker 1: So there's no real history between these two, not recently anyway.
Speaker 1: And what they said was what you would expect them
Speaker 1: to say, right, they kind of took shots at each other.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be number one contender. No, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be number one contender. Sammy's doing his bit where
Speaker 1: you know, again justice for Sammy. I've been screwed and
Speaker 1: now I'm going to get what's mine. See that's what
Speaker 1: you got. But then Gunther comes in and they weaved
Speaker 1: it right on into guntherro and Nick all this. So
Speaker 1: I like what they did. They're all this and there
Speaker 1: was more stuff later on with all this, the limited
Speaker 1: stuff that we got regarding Nick all this on this
Speaker 1: show was some of the best parts of the show.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many of you saw the
Speaker 1: interview that he did with Chris van Vliet, but in
Speaker 1: the course of the interview, Chris was, you know, talking
Speaker 1: to him about this match that's coming up, but why
Speaker 1: it means so much to him and all this guy
Speaker 1: very emotional. He couldn't even speak for like it felt
Speaker 1: like a minute straight. He was trying to compose himself.
Speaker 1: He was crying. He had tears in his eyes, and
Speaker 1: he said, this is his one shot and I've said
Speaker 1: it before, like this is a moment for him that
Speaker 1: he has been waiting for for many, many years. He
Speaker 1: never wanted to come to WWE with the idea of
Speaker 1: being a general manager or any kind of manager, right.
Speaker 1: He wanted to wrestle in TNA. He was a wrestler
Speaker 1: TNA World Heavyweight Champion in the NWA. He's been five
Speaker 1: years in the NWA combined over a thousand days working
Speaker 1: for Billy Corgan is the NWA World's Heavyweight Champion. Wrestle
Speaker 1: Cody roades at the first all in in fact in
Speaker 1: an NWA title match to come to WWE and not
Speaker 1: be a GM, right, he wanted to be a wrestler.
Speaker 1: They didn't have any interest in him at that time
Speaker 1: in that role. They had a specific role for him.
Speaker 1: Over the last three years, he's taken that role and
Speaker 1: I think he's knocked it out of the park. He's
Speaker 1: done very well with it. I still see this as
Speaker 1: being a one off for the time being. I don't
Speaker 1: really have any expectation that this is going to be
Speaker 1: a regular thing and they're just going to find the
Speaker 1: new GM and all. This is just going to be
Speaker 1: a wrestler from now on. But I think if all
Speaker 1: goes well tomorrow, this will absolutely lead to more in
Speaker 1: ring opportunities for him and he'll probably end up back
Speaker 1: in the GM role, which I think is still the
Speaker 1: right role for him. But it all depends on how
Speaker 1: things go tomorrow. And I'm look, I'm pulling for him.
Speaker 1: I hope everything goes well. I hope the two of
Speaker 1: them go out there and they have a killer match
Speaker 1: and then one match begets two, two begats three and
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, because that was always the
Speaker 1: guy's dream. He's not getting any younger. If he's going
Speaker 1: to get in the ring and he's going to do stuff,
Speaker 1: now's the time to do it. He's got a whole
Speaker 1: roster of people to work with, who in most cases
Speaker 1: he's not ever worked with before, worked with Cody. Beyond Cody,
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to go back and check. I
Speaker 1: don't know who else on the current roster he would
Speaker 1: have been in the ring with. But I'm sure that
Speaker 1: number is not very great. But this match legit not
Speaker 1: as like a wrestling promo or storyline. This match means
Speaker 1: a lot to him. He's got a lot riding on
Speaker 1: this match. He's got a lot of pressure on him
Speaker 1: that I'm sure he's putting on himself for this match tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to that. As far as Balor
Speaker 1: and Sammy, I've got Balor winning on Sunday. I think
Speaker 1: what they also did here is they set things up
Speaker 1: perfectly because again I think Baler's going to win. He's
Speaker 1: going to become the number one contender. I think coming
Speaker 1: out of this weekend, they've set things in motion for
Speaker 1: a program between Balor and Gunther. The match that we
Speaker 1: were deprived of six years ago because of the pandemic
Speaker 1: was supposed to happen in Dublin. He was still Walter
Speaker 1: at the time and we never got that match. Now,
Speaker 1: I think since then they've wrestled maybe once on TV.
Speaker 1: But now we have a chance to have a proper
Speaker 1: feud between them, because I've asked that question in recent
Speaker 1: weeks as I go over it in my head, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we get to Summer Slam, Gunther is going to beat
Speaker 1: all this. Anything else to me is ridiculous, especially if
Speaker 1: all this is not going to be a full time performer.
Speaker 1: What the hell does he need to win for? But
Speaker 1: then coming out of Summer Slim, it's like, well, where
Speaker 1: do you go with Gunther? You know, he was doing
Speaker 1: the WWE title thing for a while. It feels to
Speaker 1: me like he's going to be out of that picture
Speaker 1: for a bit. I've given up on speculating about when
Speaker 1: we're going to get Ilia Dragonov back. I'm sure he'll
Speaker 1: be back at some point. It could be next week,
Speaker 1: it could be next year. I'm done. I'm done wondering
Speaker 1: about it. If Gunther is still on the SmackDown roster
Speaker 1: when Dragonov eventually comes back, it's a natural feud, right
Speaker 1: It would be a sin for them to be on
Speaker 1: the same ross her and for WWE to never go
Speaker 1: in that direction without knowing when he's going to be back, though.
Speaker 1: I got my eyes on Gunther and Balor. I think
Speaker 1: that could be where we're headed. After SummerSlam, we had
Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green taking on Beefab and Meechin
Speaker 1: the Batties in tag team action here with Jade Cargill
Speaker 1: in their corner. Stratton got a hot tag. About midway through,
Speaker 1: she dropped meechin with the floatover cartwheel Alabama Slam went
Speaker 1: up top for the swanton bomb. Meechin, though kicked out
Speaker 1: it two Jay took Tiffany out on the outside through
Speaker 1: or right into the steel steps back inside, Chelsea got
Speaker 1: Meechin with a drop kick. Beefab, though tagged in, and
Speaker 1: the two of them put her down with their finish.
Speaker 1: I didn't catch the name of their finish. They haven't
Speaker 1: teamed together very often enough for them to even establish
Speaker 1: a real tag team finish. Whatever it is that they
Speaker 1: were able to pick up the wind. So they were
Speaker 1: celebrating when the match was over and they were interrupted
Speaker 1: by Charlotte Flair's music and Charlotte Flair walks out. She's
Speaker 1: wearing a jacket. Now I know they were in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the current temperature is in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: How how cold could Green Bay possibly be? We're at
Speaker 1: the beginning of August. However, it is Charlotte walked out
Speaker 1: in the biggest, most oversized jacket she could, she could fit.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked. They could have done an angle
Speaker 1: tonight where Alexa Bliss was hiding under the jacket. What
Speaker 1: a reveal that would have been. She gets in the
Speaker 1: ring and unzips the jacket and Alexa comes out throws
Speaker 1: a fucking fireball in Jade's face. This was like it
Speaker 1: was like George Costanza on Seinfeld with the puffy jacket. Okay,
Speaker 1: this thing was gigantic. So she's standing there and Jade
Speaker 1: has her back turned to well, I mean, all three
Speaker 1: the batties are looking at Charlotte. But what Jade doesn't realize,
Speaker 1: nor Meetchen nor Beefab is that Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea
Speaker 1: Green are up on the floor outside and they reach
Speaker 1: in they pull out the batties. So now Jade is
Speaker 1: all by herself in the ring. And so Charlotte gets
Speaker 1: in the ring after taking her puffy jacket off, and
Speaker 1: the two of them go toe to toe and it
Speaker 1: led to uh Jade retreating out to the floor. Charlotte
Speaker 1: stood tall. Look, I told you guys on the sound
Speaker 1: off when I did by Summer Slam predictions that if
Speaker 1: Lash qualifies and we'll get to that match later, I
Speaker 1: suspected that Lash was beating Julia when and if Lash
Speaker 1: Legend were to win, She's my pick to win the
Speaker 1: ladder match on Sunday. If she was not to win
Speaker 1: and Julia was somehow going to get the win tonight,
Speaker 1: then Jade would have been my backup choice because I
Speaker 1: think I still feel that way. I still feel like
Speaker 1: it's going to be one of those two as far
Speaker 1: as what happened with Lash Juliet'll we'll get to that
Speaker 1: here in a little bit. That's the fashion nowadays, baggy
Speaker 1: and big. I mean, look, when I was younger, I
Speaker 1: had the I had the baggy pants. Okay, they were
Speaker 1: falling down on me. I had like extra large shirts.
Speaker 1: So many of those old WWF shirts, like the Attitude
Speaker 1: Ere Austin three sixteen and and all that, like they
Speaker 1: were all xls, you know, some of them that I kept.
Speaker 1: I actually still have my original Austin three sixteen T shirt,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to say it's oversized on me,
Speaker 1: like it's hanging off me or anything, but like it's
Speaker 1: I should have definitely ordered a large, not an extra large.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the way things were. I don't know
Speaker 1: what this was. This was. This was like triple XL
Speaker 1: on Charlotte. It looked ridiculous. That's the style. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's a terrible style. I'm sorry. There's baggy and there's
Speaker 1: whatever the hell that is. We had Phraxium and we
Speaker 1: had Dragon Lee. They were having a conversation in the
Speaker 1: back when they were approached by Dominic Mysterio and JD
Speaker 1: McDonough and they got in a back and forth exchange here,
Speaker 1: which led to a challenge being made for Ray Phoenix
Speaker 1: to defend his Triple A Cruiserweight Championship later in the
Speaker 1: show against JD McDonough, who said, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: about time I bring singles goal to the judgment day.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go talk to Adam Pierce. Then we
Speaker 1: got a video with Tomatonga and Taalatanga talking about how
Speaker 1: they forgot who they were and why they're here. Well,
Speaker 1: perhaps they should see a doctor. If you forget who
Speaker 1: you are and where you are and why you're here.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a serious medical issue, especially for someone
Speaker 1: in their profession who's constantly being hit in the head.
Speaker 1: I would be a little worried about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I forget sometimes what I'm gonna say, I forget my keys.
Speaker 1: It happens. But this sounds very concerning. But they forgot
Speaker 1: who they were, and Talatanka said that they were too
Speaker 1: busy fighting Solo Socoa's battles for him. He said that
Speaker 1: they would put their family first from now on. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, in this vignette, who shows
Speaker 1: up Haku the man himself, one of the toughest men
Speaker 1: in the history of the wrestling business, and he walks
Speaker 1: in and you know what makes him even more bad
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was possible for Haku to be
Speaker 1: more badass, just you know, by being Haku. But he
Speaker 1: walks in with a giant walking stick. He's like Gandalf
Speaker 1: but cooler. So he's got this giant stick. And for
Speaker 1: those who don't know, this is the father of two,
Speaker 1: the father of Bremode now venham Ca Tetsi, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, brother, the father of bre Mode. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine he is the father for those who don't know
Speaker 1: of Tomatonga and Taalatoga and man Tonga. Lowa has got
Speaker 1: to feel like shit man because he's the one who
Speaker 1: got shit. Can The other two are still there, they're
Speaker 1: working with their dad. I don't know what Toangaloa is doing,
Speaker 1: probably watching this thinking, man, I should be there with them.
Speaker 1: So he shows up. He tells them, you gotta make
Speaker 1: people fear you again. He's given them a pep talk.
Speaker 1: I love seeing Haku, the idea that by just putting
Speaker 1: Haku on TV, this is going to get me to
Speaker 1: give a shit about the MFTs. Ah. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a little bit more than that. It's a step
Speaker 1: in the right direction, though, but it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot more than that. After this, we had the epic
Speaker 1: encounter that has been promoted now for many, many weeks.
Speaker 1: This was guys, Okay, this was big. Okay. We don't
Speaker 1: get a match like this very often. Like, dude, my
Speaker 1: hair is standing up right now. You can't see it.
Speaker 1: I have I have goosebumps right now on my arm. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm matchally nervous. I'm nervous. I'm gonna talk about this match.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous. Can you believe this? I'm nervous. We had
Speaker 1: Winner take All? Do you realize the stakes in this match?
Speaker 1: Winner take All for the WWE Tag Team Championship and
Speaker 1: the Triple A Tag Team Championship. We had the war
Speaker 1: Raiders putting their Triple A titles on the line against
Speaker 1: Damian Priest and Our Truth. I don't know that either
Speaker 1: one of these teams, by the way, got an entrance
Speaker 1: here on this show, but this was big time Man
Speaker 1: and the crowd in Green Bay, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody forgot to clue them in as to
Speaker 1: the historical significance of this match, but I shall try
Speaker 1: to do it justice by giving you a very succinct
Speaker 1: description here. They went to a commercial break, as they
Speaker 1: do for every other match on this show. They came back.
Speaker 1: Damian Priest took Ivar off the top with a rana.
Speaker 1: Eric though had blind tagged himself into the match, so
Speaker 1: they took Priest up and down with a pop up
Speaker 1: power slam. They covered him. Truth though, jumped in to
Speaker 1: break up the pin. So the war Raiders they were
Speaker 1: going after Our Truth, and as they were fighting him,
Speaker 1: they shoved Charles Robinson his side. Now that's just something
Speaker 1: you don't do, okay, you don't put your hands a
Speaker 1: little nature, and he was willing to let that slide.
Speaker 1: And he goes back and now they're all fighting. Now
Speaker 1: Damian Priest is in there and he shoves Charles Robinson
Speaker 1: down to the mat. And that's it. I mean, at
Speaker 1: that point, now you've had these men put their hands
Speaker 1: on you two different times. There's nothing left to do
Speaker 1: but call for the disqualification, call for the bell. The
Speaker 1: fans booh, that's the lamest, most unenthusiastic boo. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were very happy about that. The fight continues, though they
Speaker 1: end up brawling into the crowd, to a very tame
Speaker 1: reaction from said crowd. Truth got up on the barricade
Speaker 1: while they were in the crowd. He did a splash
Speaker 1: off the barricade onto everybody. They fought their way back
Speaker 1: to ringside and here's Tomatonga and Tlatanga and they're back
Speaker 1: in the face paint the dead presidents makeup. They got
Speaker 1: it back on their face here. So they take everybody
Speaker 1: out and including in the ring. Tomatonga is not so
Speaker 1: hidden blade the cutthroat, as he calls it. And then
Speaker 1: I look and all of a sudden, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like he teleported himself. I don't know where he
Speaker 1: came from. Maybe I guess he walked down the aisle.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But Haku was there in the ring
Speaker 1: with his walking stick. I think it's a walking stick.
Speaker 1: It looked like a staff. It almost looked like something
Speaker 1: that Skeletor would like. Yeah, the Skeletor maybe they could
Speaker 1: get if you got Skeletor to manage the MFTs. I
Speaker 1: still wouldn't give a fuck. But Haku is there and
Speaker 1: his sons are holding up both sets of tag team titles,
Speaker 1: and it appears that Haku is going to be a
Speaker 1: regular character on TV. You know, we lost Lil YACHTI.
Speaker 1: I've noticed he hasn't been on TV for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. If we traded Lil YACHTI for Haku, I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that. The fact that he is now with
Speaker 1: his sons and they were holding up the tag team
Speaker 1: titles guarantees they're winning the titles, not the Triple A ones,
Speaker 1: the WWE ones. Triple A ones don't matter on this show.
Speaker 1: Hakku is scarier than Skeletor. Well, I mean that is true.
Speaker 1: That is true. Really, if you know anything about Skeletor,
Speaker 1: he is very goofy. He's very goofy. He'll say something
Speaker 1: and then he'll run off. Haku would never run away,
Speaker 1: not before he plucks your eyeballs out of your skull.
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny to be though, now that
Speaker 1: we have Haku on television after Jacob Fatu adopted the
Speaker 1: Tonguan death grip and has done a great disservice to
Speaker 1: it by not winning a single match with it. If
Speaker 1: I were him, I would just give it up and
Speaker 1: let Haku. Being that he's on TV now, let Haku
Speaker 1: do it. He's the only one that should be doing it.
Speaker 1: If he's actually going to be on these shows, let
Speaker 1: him have the Tongan death Grip. As far as the
Speaker 1: match itself, it was okay until the absolutely just fucking
Speaker 1: lame finish, which rendered this match completely useless. They promoted
Speaker 1: this thing. I know, it wasn't like a significant promotion
Speaker 1: and people didn't really care, but they promoted this match
Speaker 1: in various backstage segments for weeks weeks and weeks, and
Speaker 1: then they do it, and they do that finish. It's
Speaker 1: so fucking lame. It's so lame Haku with the Tongans,
Speaker 1: it adds a new dimension to them. Look, I've talked
Speaker 1: about how these tag team divisions on Ron SmackDown are dead. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're dead. They virtually don't exist. They just don't have
Speaker 1: enough teams to sustain separate divisions, even if you combine them.
Speaker 1: Tag team wrestling in WWE has I don't think ever
Speaker 1: been as bad as it is right now, and it's
Speaker 1: not because they don't have talent and the company who
Speaker 1: could kind of fill those roles. If you look at
Speaker 1: the teams that they have, they have the street profits.
Speaker 1: I guess they have the vision right, the street profits,
Speaker 1: the vision you've got the MFT. I'll still call them
Speaker 1: the MFTs. Priest in truth, I'm sorry, not a real team.
Speaker 1: The war Raiders. You have Phraxium, you have Los Garza.
Speaker 1: Who else am I missing here? You want to count
Speaker 1: domin JD. I mean, they're not a real team if
Speaker 1: you want to put the Judgment Day in there, though,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess you could do that. Again, it's
Speaker 1: the USOS Okay, I forgot about the USOS. Got the
Speaker 1: USSOS as well, Right, It's not much of a division
Speaker 1: because there's no emphasis on tag team wrestling, so when
Speaker 1: it comes to it, like I again, I was mocking
Speaker 1: it before, but you have a champion versus champion title
Speaker 1: for title match on this show right that they've been
Speaker 1: hyping up for weeks, winner take all, both sets of
Speaker 1: tag team belts are on the line. There's a reason
Speaker 1: why nobody gave a shit. Nobody cared given the stakes
Speaker 1: that were in this match. Did it sound to you
Speaker 1: like the fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin gave a fuck
Speaker 1: about this match? And if I polled every single person
Speaker 1: watching this right now, okay, you can't tell me that
Speaker 1: the vast majority of people either a even remembered this
Speaker 1: match was booked for this show or B tuned into
Speaker 1: the show tonight specifically because they were excited to see
Speaker 1: this match. I don't believe you. I think you're a liar.
Speaker 1: There's a reason for that, though, because the fans have
Speaker 1: not been given a reason to think that any of
Speaker 1: these belts are meaningful in any way, because tag team
Speaker 1: wrestling is not considered meaningful in any way on these shows.
Speaker 1: So it's sad. You know, when I talk about a
Speaker 1: match like this that should be a big deal, it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it. And that's not on the war Raiders.
Speaker 1: That's not on our truth. That's not on Damian Priest.
Speaker 1: That's on Paulo bec and Bruce Pritchard and Michael Hayes
Speaker 1: or Paul Hayman or whoever is sitting in that fucking
Speaker 1: room that we see on Unreal. It's on them. It's
Speaker 1: on them. They aired footage of CM Punk and Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes sharing the ring together after their match. They had
Speaker 1: a tag team match at the live event in Springfield
Speaker 1: last night. Cody handed Punk the belt and patted him
Speaker 1: on the shoulder and then he turned around and he
Speaker 1: was looking at at the crowd. Punk then went to
Speaker 1: go pat Cody on the back, and Cody delivered. He
Speaker 1: just threw the again the most telegraphed forced elbow, and
Speaker 1: they tried to play it off like, oh, it was
Speaker 1: a mistake. It was almost as it was so bad.
Speaker 1: I watched this believing that it almost had to have
Speaker 1: been done to where the fans can see that Cody
Speaker 1: was full of shit and that Cody did it on purpose,
Speaker 1: and so if they wanted to play it off that way,
Speaker 1: then it works. The fact that they were all trying
Speaker 1: to play it off like it was a mistake, like
Speaker 1: it was terrible. It was just it was so it
Speaker 1: was so forced and it was so obvious. But we
Speaker 1: go to the back. Kathy Kelly is live with the
Speaker 1: WWE champion for an interview, and Punk says that he
Speaker 1: and Cody they are not going to be friends in
Speaker 1: the ring, but as far as after the match is over,
Speaker 1: we'll see Trick Williams, the United States Champion, walks in
Speaker 1: with his furry belt around his waist. Again no Lil
Speaker 1: YACHTI and he says that, you know, Punk should be
Speaker 1: happy that Trick lost in that fatal four way last
Speaker 1: week because he's coming for the WWE title. And Punk says,
Speaker 1: he you want this, how you want to be Trick
Speaker 1: two Belts? And I I went like this, you heard
Speaker 1: what I said last? Was it last week? I just
Speaker 1: said this last week. I just said this the other day.
Speaker 1: If I never hear another reference to so and so
Speaker 1: two belts, it won't be a day too soon. Now
Speaker 1: he's talking about Trick two Belts. Tiffany Stratton's in the
Speaker 1: ladder match on Sunday. She's gonna try to become Tiffy
Speaker 1: two Belts. I would love for there to be a
Speaker 1: six month moratorium and professional wrestling on wrestlers holding more
Speaker 1: than one championship. I don't want anybody to have two belts.
Speaker 1: I don't even I'm going to count the belt around
Speaker 1: their pants that keeps their pants. O, you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to wear that. Either you got to pick. You got
Speaker 1: to pick one or the other, either the belt to
Speaker 1: hold up your pants or your championship belt. I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to have two belts. I'm over the two
Speaker 1: belts stuff. But talking to Trick and saying, all right,
Speaker 1: that's cool, that's cool. You want to become Trick two belts?
Speaker 1: Here he goes, and I tell you what I wish
Speaker 1: it was you. I wanted to face you. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for fresh, younger, hungry, newer challengers. And he says, when
Speaker 1: you finally do become number one contender, I'll be waiting
Speaker 1: there to whoop that trick. So then after this, we
Speaker 1: got a video package on Nick. All this he was
Speaker 1: sitting in the locker room on one of the benches,
Speaker 1: cutting a promo and talking to the cameraman saying it's
Speaker 1: been a privilege for him to be the SmackDown general manager.
Speaker 1: But it was never his first dream. He's always been
Speaker 1: a wrestler, says, He's won indefended titles all around the
Speaker 1: world against legends. And they showed clips for the first
Speaker 1: time here we actually got video showing the casual WWE
Speaker 1: viewer who doesn't know a whole lot about Nick Alldis
Speaker 1: other than the fact that he's that GM guy, the
Speaker 1: fact that, holy shit, this guy was a wrestler and
Speaker 1: he won championships. And they showed him in there with
Speaker 1: wrestlers like Kurt Angle and other names that a lot
Speaker 1: of fans would probably recognize, right. They showed him in
Speaker 1: there with a whole bunch of different people. They didn't
Speaker 1: just have footage from TNA, though they had some footage
Speaker 1: of him from Triple A, and they had it wasn't
Speaker 1: really footage, and I think it was just one still
Speaker 1: image from NWA, but it was him face to face,
Speaker 1: nose to nose with Cody Roads. All this said, he
Speaker 1: was willing to just be the best GM that he
Speaker 1: could be, and he was going to leave that part
Speaker 1: of his life behind, but then Gunher pushed him too far.
Speaker 1: He goes, this isn't about his dream, It isn't about
Speaker 1: being the GM. It's about being a man. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna lace up his boots. He's gonna lace him up
Speaker 1: real tight. He's gonna face Gunther one on one like
Speaker 1: a man. This was good. This was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite parts of the entire show. I only wish that
Speaker 1: they would have done this more than twenty four hours
Speaker 1: before the match, but at least we got it at all.
Speaker 1: We had the United States Champion Trick Williams out to
Speaker 1: the ring to address his rival at SummerSlam, his challenger
Speaker 1: for the title, Baron Corbin. He said that he had
Speaker 1: a lot to get off his chest, and he said
Speaker 1: that Corbin decided to just wake up one day and
Speaker 1: hate on him, looking like a big ass Tommy Pickles.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, we got a rug Rats reference on this show.
Speaker 1: I haven't thought of that show in a very long time.
Speaker 1: What was the last time I even saw an episode
Speaker 1: of rug Rats? I don't even know. It's been years.
Speaker 1: Trick called out Corbin for a fight right now. Corbin
Speaker 1: walked out only as far as the stage. He didn't
Speaker 1: go down to the ring, and he said he learned
Speaker 1: some very valuable lessons in his time away, like the
Speaker 1: virtue of patience, something that Trick doesn't know. Says, Trick
Speaker 1: got the rocket strapped to him right away, include entrance
Speaker 1: music that makes people think he's more important than he
Speaker 1: really is. At SummerSlam, Corbin will drown him in quicksand
Speaker 1: and he's going on and on, and Trick interrupts him
Speaker 1: and says, you're not gonna do anything because he's Corbyn
Speaker 1: here just to collect the check. The only thing Corbyn
Speaker 1: will be collecting is Trick's boot up his ass. So
Speaker 1: Corbin interrupts, says a trick. Trick wants to do it
Speaker 1: right now. He wants to fight right now. Corbin says,
Speaker 1: I'm not stupid. We're not doing that. He goes, Trick
Speaker 1: is just a dumb rookie who doesn't get it. And
Speaker 1: on Sunday he's taking the US title and there's nothing
Speaker 1: Trick can do about it. And Trick warns him that
Speaker 1: on Sunday there will be thirty five thousand people. I
Speaker 1: was more shocked that gave the legit number thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand people, he said, chanting, whoop that Trick again. This
Speaker 1: was okay, this was serviceable, not a whole lot to
Speaker 1: draw from here, and just came back a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Literally just came back what two weeks ago, maybe three,
Speaker 1: I think two, and we got one promo video prior
Speaker 1: to this where he talked about I guess his motivation.
Speaker 1: This generation of young kids now they think they know
Speaker 1: everything and everything's handed to them. That's the gist of it,
Speaker 1: and that's really it. That's really all that we have
Speaker 1: to go on here with these two. There is someone
Speaker 1: who is missing in this equation. I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: that carmel O Hayes accepted his fate. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to assume that he accepted his fate and sees things
Speaker 1: for how they really are, because he has turned into
Speaker 1: a ghost on this show ever since we saw him
Speaker 1: in the ring of that non title match with Trick.
Speaker 1: It was the night that Corbyn came back. Corbyn didn't
Speaker 1: just beat up Trick Williams that night, he beat up
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes and Trick has been on his ass ever since.
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes is no where to be found out. I
Speaker 1: had somebody who actually wrote in the chat before that
Speaker 1: apparently he was there tonight, and this person said that
Speaker 1: carmel O Hayes wrestled Ricky Saints on main event, so
Speaker 1: he has been relegated to Maine event, dude, like Jordan
Speaker 1: Grace was reduced to main event, and I don't even
Speaker 1: know where she is now. I don't even think she's
Speaker 1: on main event. But that is where Carmelo Hayes is.
Speaker 1: He has had nothing to say about Baron KORbin laying
Speaker 1: him out and attacking him all those weeks ago. Amazing,
Speaker 1: all that work that they did with the US title
Speaker 1: Open Challenge, Like Sammy Zay is in a good spot
Speaker 1: right now. He even won the WWE Championship for nine days,
Speaker 1: but then the title went from Sammy to Dragonov right,
Speaker 1: and then from Dragonov to Carmelo Hayes. And the two
Speaker 1: men that inherited the US time a open Challenge and
Speaker 1: had killer matches week after week, and honestly, they were
Speaker 1: the saving grace of this just dreadful television show for months.
Speaker 1: Those two guys right now are a total non factor
Speaker 1: on this show because you would think, like you can
Speaker 1: use that open challenge gimmick to truly elevate somebody, and
Speaker 1: they did for a brief period of time. It was
Speaker 1: beneficial to Carmelo Hayes and that people started to really
Speaker 1: get behind him in a way that they hadn't since
Speaker 1: he was drafted to SmackDown. I was like, Okay, it's working.
Speaker 1: He's getting himself over by going out there and having
Speaker 1: these really killer matches, and he's getting screen time every week,
Speaker 1: and this is good. And Dragonov is another one like
Speaker 1: Dragonov's going out there, his matches are getting over because
Speaker 1: there's nobody like him in WWE. He brings a level
Speaker 1: of intensity to what he does that nobody else does.
Speaker 1: That's why he ends up busting himself open in every match.
Speaker 1: He's a little too intense. All the work that they
Speaker 1: put in, all the television time they devoted to these
Speaker 1: two to try to elevate them, if that was even
Speaker 1: their real goal, and they've been I mean, in the
Speaker 1: case of Dragon OFV, he's been off television all year.
Speaker 1: He's been off television all year, ever since the Rumble.
Speaker 1: And I can think back to the Royal Rumble and
Speaker 1: all those fucking morons who tried to convince me when
Speaker 1: I talked about how stupid it was, and it was stupid.
Speaker 1: Oh well, brock Lesner, no selling those chops from Ilia Dragonov.
Speaker 1: It's really not a big deal or it's you know,
Speaker 1: I forgot what dumb argument they came up with, Like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help him get over in a way by
Speaker 1: having a moment with get the fuck out of here,
Speaker 1: pack your shit and fucking leave all the dumb shit
Speaker 1: that I had to hear coming out of that. I'm
Speaker 1: getting angry just thinking about it all over again. That
Speaker 1: was the beginning of the end for him, that fucking
Speaker 1: dumb spot in the rumble. He was never the same
Speaker 1: after that. So it's sad. It's just sad for me
Speaker 1: to look back here, almost like a lost year for
Speaker 1: him and Framelo. Look, maybe coming out of Summer Slim,
Speaker 1: maybe they just want to get through Summer Slim and
Speaker 1: then he'll magically reappear next Friday, I hope, so for
Speaker 1: his sake, I hope. So that's all I can say. Now.
Speaker 1: I should point out that about half an hour past
Speaker 1: before our last match, we were finally getting another one
Speaker 1: here Ray Phoenix defending the Triple A Cruiserweight Championship against
Speaker 1: JD Mcdondoah. This was our second Triple A title match
Speaker 1: of the show. And if I am going to as
Speaker 1: I have done before, when Tony has gone a little
Speaker 1: overboard with it, although I think he's done a little
Speaker 1: bit better with it, at least as far as the
Speaker 1: TV shows go recently. But I don't like when we
Speaker 1: end up in a situation, as we have done before
Speaker 1: in AAW where we start getting this overabundance of title
Speaker 1: matches titles that are not connected to AW. Occasionally, it
Speaker 1: had gotten a little out of control. On this show alone,
Speaker 1: we had two Triple A title matches. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: mind the occasional Ray Phoenix Triple A Cruiserweight title defense
Speaker 1: simply because it is the only way that Ray Phoenix
Speaker 1: will ever get television time on SmackDown is to defend
Speaker 1: that championship. I hope he never loses it. I hope
Speaker 1: he retires as the Cruiserweight champion, because the minute he
Speaker 1: drops that title, we will never see him again on
Speaker 1: this show. So I'm okay with it, and more often
Speaker 1: than not, when he's in there, if they give him
Speaker 1: some time, like it'll probably end up being the best
Speaker 1: match on the show, Like the match he had here
Speaker 1: with McDonough was was good for the time that it lasted.
Speaker 1: But we had that and we had the Triple A
Speaker 1: tag team title match. It's too much. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see that again because I don't care about these
Speaker 1: Triple A titles. And by the way, we had the
Speaker 1: Triple A Mega Champion on this show too, Dominic Mysterio.
Speaker 1: Now I understand them wanting to promote the Triple A brand.
Speaker 1: There are ways that you can do that, but let's
Speaker 1: not get into the act of having these constant Triple
Speaker 1: A title defenses on these shows, as I feel like,
Speaker 1: what I don't want them to do is lean on
Speaker 1: it as a crutch. Oh, we can have title matches
Speaker 1: because we can just use Triple A titles, so we
Speaker 1: can have more title matches on the shows. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Phoenix hit a springboard splash of the frog variety, follow
Speaker 1: that with a brainbuster that got him a near fall.
Speaker 1: Then it was Phoenix with a handspring springboard Cutter McDonough
Speaker 1: came back with a running Spanish Fly. He got a
Speaker 1: near fall out of that. Phoenix was on the top rope,
Speaker 1: Dominic was out there. He caused a distraction that got
Speaker 1: him ejected from ringside, and dom was beside himself. You
Speaker 1: can't throw me out, you can't do that. As he's leaving,
Speaker 1: he's backing up down the aisle. We hearoo you ah. Cursed.
Speaker 1: The whole fucking show is cursed. Dan Hausen is here
Speaker 1: because we don't get enough of him on TV. We
Speaker 1: don't get nearly enough dan Hausen on these shows. I
Speaker 1: was so happy that we had more of him there,
Speaker 1: especially this week after that amazing segment that we had
Speaker 1: on Run Monday night. I was begging for more Dan Hausen.
Speaker 1: But he has a match at SummerSlam, so I understand it. Okay,
Speaker 1: he does have a match on the card this weekend,
Speaker 1: so they wanted to get him on the show in
Speaker 1: some way. So Dan Housen walks out, he's by himself
Speaker 1: and now he's face to face with Dom on stage
Speaker 1: and he goes you ah, and before he can curse him,
Speaker 1: Dom just punches him in the fucking face and down
Speaker 1: goes dan Hausen. Will now outcome the Minie Housens and
Speaker 1: the midgets run out and they attack him, and now
Speaker 1: Dan Housen is and I think Dan Housen was holding
Speaker 1: him and the Mini Housens now are beating up the
Speaker 1: Triple A Mega Champion and this is all played for
Speaker 1: haha comedy. This distracts JD McDonough, who was in the
Speaker 1: middle of a title match, by the way in the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring, and with his attention diverted, he
Speaker 1: ends up eating an audios Amigo kick and then Phoenix
Speaker 1: finishes him off with the Mexican Musclebuster to retain the
Speaker 1: Triple A Cruiserweight Championship. So we had Dan Housen and
Speaker 1: the Mini Housens playing a prominent role a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago on Saturday Night's main event. We have them on Raw,
Speaker 1: we have them on SmackDown. We're gonna have them. It's
Speaker 1: Summer Slam. It's too much. Dial it back, Dial it back.
Speaker 1: There's room for Dan Housen on these shows, not on
Speaker 1: every show. If the people paying their money with their
Speaker 1: kids to bring their kids to the show, you think
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to see Dan Housen. Send him out
Speaker 1: there during a commercial break. You send everybody else out
Speaker 1: there during a commercial breaks. The only fucking way Joe
Speaker 1: Hendry can get fucking time in the building on most weeks.
Speaker 1: Send him out there during the commercial break. He can
Speaker 1: do a bit, He can do a dance. You know,
Speaker 1: he could do a fucking Broadway number. He could do
Speaker 1: whatever you want him to do. Dial it back. It's
Speaker 1: too much. I beg of you, there's too much Danausen
Speaker 1: on these shows. Then we had. It only gets worse.
Speaker 1: It only gets worse because we had Lash Legend, who
Speaker 1: came out. She got her entrance, at least until the
Speaker 1: point that they went to commercial. She got half an entrance,
Speaker 1: but she came out for the next match, which was
Speaker 1: the final qualifying match. Here in the interim Championship Ladder
Speaker 1: match that we have coming up on Summer Slave Sunday,
Speaker 1: one spot left to be filled, and it was either
Speaker 1: going to be Lash Legend or was going to be Julia.
Speaker 1: When they come back from commercial, Julia is already in
Speaker 1: the ring, no entrance. She caught Lash in an octopus hold.
Speaker 1: Then she hit her a riveder Chini not that long
Speaker 1: later for a near fall, and Lash just you know,
Speaker 1: kicked out of it like it was nothing. It got
Speaker 1: basically no reaction. It was kicked out of We were
Speaker 1: a minute into the match. If we were sixty seconds
Speaker 1: into the match, I would be shocked. I think that
Speaker 1: that says it all right there, when you hit one
Speaker 1: of your signature moves okay, which I think she's used
Speaker 1: it as a finisher maybe occasionally in the past. But
Speaker 1: even if it's a setup to the finish, when you
Speaker 1: hit one of your signature moves in the opening minute
Speaker 1: of the match and the person kicks out of it
Speaker 1: like it's nothing and it doesn't even get much of
Speaker 1: a reaction, you're cooked. Like you're cooked. Not that we
Speaker 1: didn't already know this before the match even ended, though,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this is just this is sad.
Speaker 1: Lash too big though to take the Northern Lights bomb,
Speaker 1: So Julia locks on a guillotine instead. Lash, though powered
Speaker 1: out of it with a head butt, and then she
Speaker 1: hits her Lash extension and she wins in about two minutes.
Speaker 1: They gave them two minutes and Julia was effectively squashed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a total squash, but it was a squash.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming. Julia enjoyed the chicken. I hear it's
Speaker 1: quite tasty. That's where she'll be spending most of her
Speaker 1: time for the duration of her time here on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Mark my words, I will be stunned a year from
Speaker 1: now if she's not back in Marigold, she won't be here.
Speaker 1: I don't know where she'll be, maybe not marriag Well,
Speaker 1: but she will not be here. Two minutes, no heat,
Speaker 1: by the way, for any of this, not for her,
Speaker 1: not for lash, not for nothing. And in a two
Speaker 1: minute match like this, it's not like anybody's actually getting over.
Speaker 1: So everything about this was a complete and just utter failure.
Speaker 1: And I was just more sad than anything watching this.
Speaker 1: And for Julia, the Julia experiment on the main roster
Speaker 1: has been an abject failure, and there's this blame to
Speaker 1: go around all around. But whatever she was doing in NXT,
Speaker 1: it has not translated to the main roster, and they
Speaker 1: gave her two different runs, by the way, with the
Speaker 1: United States Championship, nobody cared. She would come out every week.
Speaker 1: They would play her music, and she had the cool entrance,
Speaker 1: you know, with the the mask and everything, and I
Speaker 1: like the colors, and nobody cared, nobody can. They had
Speaker 1: her with Keana James. Keanu was doing most of the
Speaker 1: talking and then Julia started to, you know, do some
Speaker 1: more talking on her own. She knows English. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it's not her first language, but it's not like
Speaker 1: she can't communicate. I mean, look at Andrade right now
Speaker 1: in AAW I would never say that. Androtte's promos are
Speaker 1: his strong suit. Right, They're not the strongest tool in
Speaker 1: his toolbox. And even after all these years, it can
Speaker 1: still be tough sometimes to understand him in a promo.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand pretty much what he's saying most
Speaker 1: of the time, but he's got that thick accent, and obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, again English is not his first language. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to say much these days. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just hit on the right thing, and now people love him.
Speaker 1: He's having the run of his career right now in
Speaker 1: aw and all he has to do is say how
Speaker 1: you know, and the crowd goes nuts, right, So you
Speaker 1: never know what might get over, And you can find
Speaker 1: other Joshi wrestlers that have gotten over on the main roster,
Speaker 1: OSCA EO being the two shining examples. Whatever it is
Speaker 1: about Julia, she has not connected with the audience. She
Speaker 1: has not clicked with the audience. And having seen her
Speaker 1: work previously and even in NXT, but even before she
Speaker 1: came to WWE, if you would have told me that
Speaker 1: one day Julia will finally end up in the States
Speaker 1: and she will finally end up in WWE, and she
Speaker 1: will absolutely make no difference whatsoever, and nobody will give
Speaker 1: a shit. I would have said, you're lying. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that. How do you bring in Julia and not
Speaker 1: get her over? Right, of course she's gonna get over. Well,
Speaker 1: here we are, here we are, and she's not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of assistance, I would say from the booking,
Speaker 1: because I want to point out something else to you.
Speaker 1: And again this is also a failure on creative. So
Speaker 1: they do First of all, this whole interim title idea
Speaker 1: is just fucking nonsense and it's stupid and it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be happening. You could do a ladder match. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be for an interim championship. This is what
Speaker 1: they wanted to get cute, and this is what they're doing. Fine,
Speaker 1: so you got five spots in this ladder match, right,
Speaker 1: So we have Charlotte Flair, we have Jade car Gill,
Speaker 1: we have Tiffany Stratton, and we have Chelsea Green and
Speaker 1: they have this match. And I'm thinking to myself, why
Speaker 1: is Lash legend in this match? Not just because Naya
Speaker 1: Jacks was screwed over twice, so let's give let's give
Speaker 1: Lash a shot and fuck Nya. Why is Lash legend
Speaker 1: in this match? If the idea and this is why
Speaker 1: I picked her to win because they have one heel
Speaker 1: coming into tonight. They had one heel in that lineup
Speaker 1: of four, that was Jade. I figured they're gonna want
Speaker 1: to heal in that match. They're not gonna want a babyface,
Speaker 1: so naturally, and plus Julie is just a jobber on
Speaker 1: this show, so it just made all the sense in
Speaker 1: the world that, of course lash is gonna win. Would
Speaker 1: it not have made more sense to put blakeman Row
Speaker 1: in this spot? Blake Monroe when she officially debuted, I
Speaker 1: don't even know how many weeks ago it was at
Speaker 1: this point, it may have been a fucking month she
Speaker 1: showed up. I think it was the night that Julia
Speaker 1: beat Keana, and Blake Monroe showed up and she ambushed
Speaker 1: Julia from behind in the ring, and I consider that
Speaker 1: to be like her official debut. She attacked Julia one
Speaker 1: more time and Keana in a backstage segment after that,
Speaker 1: so twice this woman has attacked Julia. We have not
Speaker 1: heard anything from Julia about the attacks from Blake, not
Speaker 1: a fucking word, And now you're doing this match. Would
Speaker 1: it not have made more sense to make it Julia
Speaker 1: and Blake Monroe Because at least then Julia, she has
Speaker 1: this recent history where she's been attacked by this woman
Speaker 1: and she wants to get after her, and Blake is
Speaker 1: on the opposite side here she's getting a shot to
Speaker 1: be in the ladder match, but there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of history, a little bit of tension here between the
Speaker 1: and then have Blake win and put Blake in the
Speaker 1: latter match. Blake Monroe hasn't wrestled the match yet. Is
Speaker 1: she hurt? Is she injured and we're just not aware
Speaker 1: of it because she's been doing stuff physically. She's attacking
Speaker 1: people in the back. If she had some sort of
Speaker 1: serious injury, I can't imagine she would be medically cleared
Speaker 1: to be doing that. Why has she not wrestled yet?
Speaker 1: Why are we getting all of these dumb fucking appearances
Speaker 1: from her where she's beating people up in the back
Speaker 1: and she's writing in her fucking journal or whatever it
Speaker 1: is that she's doing. She's doing everything but wrestling on
Speaker 1: this show, and here you had an opportunity to fill
Speaker 1: one of those spots with her, because they're sure as
Speaker 1: fuck didn't give it to j C. Jane. They bounced
Speaker 1: her out of this fucking thing so that we'll put
Speaker 1: lash Legend in there. We'll have a random ass match
Speaker 1: between lash Legends and Julia and Blake Monroe, who again
Speaker 1: was not a She wasn't even on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: I guess she's still coming, She's still coming soon. She's
Speaker 1: waiting to find somebody else to beat up in the back.
Speaker 1: I guess there were no other women available tonight. Candice
Speaker 1: Lay was not there. We didn't see Johnny Gargano planking
Speaker 1: on this show. I see that match would have made
Speaker 1: more sense, and I would have loved to have seen
Speaker 1: Blake in the ladder match. And you know what, for
Speaker 1: the people who would say, well, why would she be
Speaker 1: in the ladder match because she hasn't even wrestled yet,
Speaker 1: who gives a shit? Baron Corbin came back. He hasn't
Speaker 1: wrestled yet either, He's got the United States Championship match.
Speaker 1: Who gives a fuck? They obviously don't, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You could have absolutely put Blake Monroe in that ladder match,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, they don't want her wrestling, she's
Speaker 1: not allowed to wrestle. I don't get it. I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the line of thinking is here.
Speaker 1: I really don't none of this makes any sense. But
Speaker 1: Lash is in, and I'm gonna stay with my prediction.
Speaker 1: I think Lash is gonna win. Maybe that's why Blake
Speaker 1: wasn't in. Maybe that's why Blakeman wrote didn't get the
Speaker 1: spot because I'm right and Lash legend is going to
Speaker 1: be anointed the interim Women's Champions, so she could feud,
Speaker 1: have a very brief feud, but Rhea Ripley. When Rhea
Speaker 1: comes back, I'm gonna stick with her. I'm gonna stick
Speaker 1: with Lash. If Lash doesn't win, I would go Jade,
Speaker 1: but I just have this feeling it's gonna be Lash.
Speaker 1: I don't see them wanting to do Charlotte and Rhea
Speaker 1: right now. Jade and Rie has already been done. But
Speaker 1: I could absolutely see them running that back. It sounds
Speaker 1: exactly like the sort of thing they would do. But
Speaker 1: you know, even if the two of them cancel each
Speaker 1: other out, so that leaves Tiffany, who's already got a belt. Okay,
Speaker 1: no two belts. She already has one. I know it's Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't need another belt. Chelsea Green, I goya
Speaker 1: put the fucking belt on Shaw. You kidding me. They're
Speaker 1: gonna put the belt on Chelsea Green to set up
Speaker 1: what to set what are they gonna set up there?
Speaker 1: It'll be a nice moment for Chelsea to set up
Speaker 1: what baby faced Chelsea against it Rhea Ripley when she
Speaker 1: comes back. So Riha could fucking kill her in five minutes.
Speaker 1: Who wants to see that? You're left with Lash Legends.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like much of a stretch to me. In
Speaker 1: their mind, this is a big spot for Lash. If
Speaker 1: she wins, you get one big match out of it
Speaker 1: with Rhea Ripley. Let's see how she does. After the break,
Speaker 1: it was time for our closing segment, af By making sense.
Speaker 1: By the way, when I talk about this stuff right again,
Speaker 1: I don't go out of my way to be overly negative,
Speaker 1: but when I see stupid shit on the show, it
Speaker 1: annoys me. It just drives me nuts, and I have
Speaker 1: to point it out. And I don't think that there's
Speaker 1: anything I'm saying that's wrong or inaccurate. Cody Rhodes was
Speaker 1: on his way out to the ring for the closing
Speaker 1: face off with CM Punk. He didn't even get through
Speaker 1: the woe part of his entrance. He was kneeling down
Speaker 1: on the stage getting ready to do the woe CM.
Speaker 1: Punk's music interrupted and Punk walked out and Punk blew
Speaker 1: right by. He might have actually patted him on the head,
Speaker 1: but Punk bleuw right by him and Cody did not
Speaker 1: seem very happy about that. So as Punk's music is playing,
Speaker 1: Cody is just casually walking down to the ring. So
Speaker 1: they both have mics and they're both kind of arguing
Speaker 1: about you know, how they got to this point. Cody
Speaker 1: brought up the fact that can't fake anything with you.
Speaker 1: After twenty years of knowing each other, he knows Punk
Speaker 1: knew that they were on this path to hating one another.
Speaker 1: Now they're on this inevitable collision course. Here we are.
Speaker 1: Punk says, of course, I would you know. He knew
Speaker 1: that he would ruffle some feathers and hurt some feelings,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't going to be like a whiner in
Speaker 1: the back. He wasn't going to behave like Sammy's ain
Speaker 1: or say no like the other mediocre bums in the back.
Speaker 1: He seem punk. He will always show up and he
Speaker 1: hopes that it pisses people off. And for twenty years
Speaker 1: he's been doing just that and for ten of that stretch.
Speaker 1: He wasn't even here, but his name made people freak out.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what this is all really about.
Speaker 1: This is really about the championship. Punk won't be Cody's
Speaker 1: friend tomorrow, but when it's done, it's up to Cody
Speaker 1: whether or not they remain friends. Punk just has to
Speaker 1: know who's the better man between them. I need to
Speaker 1: know for business purposes, he says, I need to know
Speaker 1: who the better man is, and Cody's not buying it.
Speaker 1: And this is the point in the in the segment
Speaker 1: where I noticed that he was wearing the club WWE patch,
Speaker 1: Cody was on his jacket. So he also was kind
Speaker 1: of taken aback by the fact that when he did
Speaker 1: his what do you want to talk about? People were
Speaker 1: chanting for cmpunk. They were not as hot for Cody
Speaker 1: when he said his usual line, and they were chanting
Speaker 1: for Punk. So he says, if this is really about business,
Speaker 1: then Punk is just double talking. The title is in business.
Speaker 1: It's personal. He knows how personal it is to the
Speaker 1: two of them, and it is to everybody else who's
Speaker 1: ever held that title and everybody who's never held it.
Speaker 1: That belt means that you're the best in the world.
Speaker 1: You've got the crown, you call the shots, and he
Speaker 1: says he recalls Punk saying that he was here to
Speaker 1: make money and not friends. That was the first promo
Speaker 1: that Punk cut in twenty twenty three when he came
Speaker 1: back to the company. Punk says he wasn't here to
Speaker 1: make friends, but he didn't want to lose them either.
Speaker 1: But if it's between losing a friend or losing a championship,
Speaker 1: well tomorrow, Tomorrow won't be your night. Cody says he's
Speaker 1: bothered by the word tomorrow. I don't like that word
Speaker 1: because Punk is prepared to do almost anything tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at SummerSlam. Well, what do you want to do about it? Tonight?
Speaker 1: And Punk tossed the mic, laid down the belt, and
Speaker 1: he took his jacket off, and he's fixing for a fight.
Speaker 1: Squaring up. Cody tosses his mic. He tosses his jacket
Speaker 1: into the crowd. Very interesting. When he took the jacket
Speaker 1: off to note that he was wearing all black, Cody
Speaker 1: was dressed in black from head to toe. It could
Speaker 1: be indicative of nothing, or it could be a sign
Speaker 1: of something. I'm just pointing it out he was the
Speaker 1: man in black. Punk offered the first shot. He goes,
Speaker 1: go ahead and hit me. Cody obliges, and the fight
Speaker 1: is on. Cody drops him and then clothes lines him
Speaker 1: out of the ring. So they brawled over by the
Speaker 1: announced desk, and he starts clearing off the desk. Punk
Speaker 1: launches Cody over the desk as I'm sure Triple H
Speaker 1: is sitting a gorilla in the back, crossing his fingers
Speaker 1: and toes hoping, please don't get hurt. Twenty four hours
Speaker 1: before Summer Slam, Please don't get hurt. Punk stands up
Speaker 1: on top of the desk. Cody sweeps the legs. Punk
Speaker 1: returns the favor. He does the same to Cody. Finally,
Speaker 1: here come the officials down to the ring to separate
Speaker 1: these two men. And now they're both standing on top
Speaker 1: of the desk, and they start firing shots at one another.
Speaker 1: And I can't sit here and say that there was
Speaker 1: any real intensity between these shots. I mean, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of watching it, thinking, man, these guys are moving in
Speaker 1: slow motion here, but they're going through the motions though,
Speaker 1: throwing punches at each other. So finally they got separated,
Speaker 1: and then they broke free and they start trading shots
Speaker 1: again on the floor, and this is how they went
Speaker 1: off the air. So, you know, with only a few
Speaker 1: weeks of hype, Yeah, they only had a few weeks
Speaker 1: to hype up this match. What we have really been
Speaker 1: left with here is a combination of phony looking belt
Speaker 1: shots to the face and you know, forced back elbows
Speaker 1: to the face and was it an accident and was
Speaker 1: it not an accident? And you know, the words that
Speaker 1: they were speaking in the promo were fine, but I
Speaker 1: don't think they could have done a worse job of
Speaker 1: building up this match and making it feel special. This
Speaker 1: should have been a really big fucking deal. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm the only way, you know, the
Speaker 1: only one who feels this way, But right now, at
Speaker 1: this moment, this doesn't feel as big as I feel
Speaker 1: like it should be. This could have been a WrestleMania match.
Speaker 1: It makes me wonder now what the WrestleMania bill would
Speaker 1: have looked like. I don't know, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee would have been involved. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: the match. It's a first time ever match, It's two
Speaker 1: of the biggest babyfaces in the company, two of the
Speaker 1: biggest names outside of Roman. It's Roman, Cody and Punk.
Speaker 1: Put them in whatever order you want to put them in.
Speaker 1: I know the order WWE would put them in. It's Roman,
Speaker 1: Punk and Cody at this point. But there's just something
Speaker 1: missing here. You know there's something missing here. Question is,
Speaker 1: you know, does Cody go heel tomorrow night. I'm sticking
Speaker 1: by my prediction. My prediction is Punk retains, maybe even
Speaker 1: takes a shortcut in doing so, right, do whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: I don't see him being the one to go heel.
Speaker 1: If anybody goes heal, and maybe they won't, but if
Speaker 1: anybody goes Helm, I'm thinking and hoping that it's Cody,
Speaker 1: so he would turn. That probably would be a post
Speaker 1: match thing. It would be weird for him to do
Speaker 1: a turn during the match and still lose, So, if anything,
Speaker 1: I think we're looking at maybe a postmatch angle. But
Speaker 1: it does also lead us to this news item that
Speaker 1: I told you about. I told you I was going
Speaker 1: to get to this. This was from Dave Meltzer. He
Speaker 1: reported this in the latest installments the latest edition of
Speaker 1: the Wrestling Observer newsletter, which dropped earlier today. Randy Orton
Speaker 1: and Kevin Owens are both expected to be returning very
Speaker 1: soon Orton perhaps in the next week. Owens has dropped
Speaker 1: weight after a lengthy and frustratingly long recovery from next surgery.
Speaker 1: Orton was one of those guys who claimed he wasn't
Speaker 1: injured and he was just taking the summer off, but
Speaker 1: in fact he was injured, which I mean, anybody with
Speaker 1: a brain could have figured he was injured. You know
Speaker 1: when those reports first came out a few months ago, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, he's got a back injury again. His back
Speaker 1: is acting up on him. That's why we haven't seen
Speaker 1: him since WrestleMania. And then Orton, I think, went on
Speaker 1: X or whatever, and you know, he posted something like
Speaker 1: a response and everyone was like pointing the finger at Meltzer.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. You know, Dave got it wrong again,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you schmucks. Did you actually read what
Speaker 1: Randy Orton wrote? Where in what Orton wrote at the time,
Speaker 1: did he deny anything that Meltzer said. He never denied
Speaker 1: it because he was hurt. How seriously, I don't know
Speaker 1: seriously enough that we haven't seen him since WrestleMania. And
Speaker 1: the parting shot from WrestleMania Night one was Randy Orton
Speaker 1: after losing the match punt kicking Cody in the skull.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that whatever plans they had, the plan was not, Hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you punt kick the champion and then vanish
Speaker 1: for fucking four months or five months? Right? The only
Speaker 1: reason that would have happened is because he was hurt. So, yes,
Speaker 1: of course Randy Orton has been hurt. He said he
Speaker 1: was actually scheduled to beat Cody at WrestleMania unless they
Speaker 1: felt his back was going to not allow it. When
Speaker 1: they realized that that was the case, all kinds of
Speaker 1: plans were changed. Oh, there were a lot of plans
Speaker 1: changed for WrestleMania this year in that main event, unfortunately
Speaker 1: for the worst, so much so that it killed my
Speaker 1: appetite to even see Cody and Randy. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was possible, but wwe did a great job of
Speaker 1: getting me to not give a fuck about Cody Roads
Speaker 1: against Randy Orton. So good job, guys. But now here
Speaker 1: we are, and so we have this report that Randy
Speaker 1: is on his way back very soon and Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: is on his way back very soon. Does Randy Orton
Speaker 1: show up tomorrow night? Does Randy Orton in some way
Speaker 1: factor into this match with Cody Rhodes and Cmpunk is
Speaker 1: Randy Orton's return. Let's say it's SummerSlam, a way for
Speaker 1: them to do the match tomorrow without giving us a
Speaker 1: straight winner, which would be a very lame way for
Speaker 1: that match to end if we don't get a winner,
Speaker 1: if it's like a no contest or something, that would
Speaker 1: be just incredibly lame. But the idea that like Orton's
Speaker 1: going to come back and he's going to pick up
Speaker 1: the feud with Cody, right, it makes sense because again,
Speaker 1: the last we saw him, he punt kicked this man
Speaker 1: in the head and Cody never did get his revenge.
Speaker 1: So for him to want to pick things up with
Speaker 1: Cody would actually make sense if that's the direction they
Speaker 1: wanted to go in. Speaking for myself personally, the inclusion
Speaker 1: of the Pat McAfee story in that angle ruined the
Speaker 1: entire thing for me. Now, maybe they'd like to have
Speaker 1: another crack at it and you know, kind of get
Speaker 1: a do over. Maybe so maybe. So listening to Cody
Speaker 1: talk about that match on Unreal, I mean it was
Speaker 1: comical to me, Like, for all the things they cover
Speaker 1: on that show, they very conveniently left out how the
Speaker 1: whole Pat McAfee thing even came together. That was never
Speaker 1: covered at all. They mentioned the fact that Pat was
Speaker 1: involved in the angle. Cody is very proud of that
Speaker 1: match and how the match turned out. I mean, the
Speaker 1: match could have been a hell of a lot worse, right,
Speaker 1: they could have had McAfee and Jelly roll out there
Speaker 1: for the entire thing. But like to hear them talk
Speaker 1: about it, the whole thing was a big success. Everything's great,
Speaker 1: everything's great, everything's great, right, But for all the backstage,
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff they never did get into, like
Speaker 1: how that all came about with Pat McAfee. Hm, it's
Speaker 1: funny how that works. They tell you what they want
Speaker 1: you to know. What they don't want you to know,
Speaker 1: you don't hear about. But for people like a Meltzer
Speaker 1: or you know, a sap at fight Full or you know,
Speaker 1: wrestle Votes or whoever, because you're sure as hell not
Speaker 1: going to hear it from WWA. The idea of running
Speaker 1: Cody and Randy back, though maybe they could salvage it.
Speaker 1: I don't really have an interest in it anymore. Again,
Speaker 1: that's me. They kind of killed it for me. Now
Speaker 1: on the other hand, I have a great interest in
Speaker 1: seeing the return of Kevin Owens. This show has suffered
Speaker 1: for him not being on it. Now him alone coming
Speaker 1: back is not going to save SmackDown. But if Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens comes back and he does end up on smacked
Speaker 1: maybe he wouldn't even be on SmackDown. But if he
Speaker 1: ends up on SmackDown, that's going to go a long
Speaker 1: way to reigniting my interest in this show, especially if
Speaker 1: we get a Kevin Owens CM Punk program. That's one
Speaker 1: of those programs that ever since Punk came back, I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for. And the only thing we've had with
Speaker 1: these two, I think, is one backstage segment and that's it.
Speaker 1: So you give me that, you give me Ko and
Speaker 1: a program with him in Punk. I'm here for that.
Speaker 1: That I would love to see. That has my attention,
Speaker 1: but we don't even know what brand he would end
Speaker 1: up being on. I said it at the beginning though
Speaker 1: of this review, the best parts of this show tonight
Speaker 1: were basically anything involving Nick All, this Hakou, and the
Speaker 1: closing credits, because that meant the show was over. SmackDown
Speaker 1: is a largely terrible show. It was your typical SmackDown tonight.
Speaker 1: This show did not do anything. It did zero to
Speaker 1: get me any more invested or excited for summer. Salim,
Speaker 1: you're either excited for Summer climb Ory or not. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't use the word excited. There are matches I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to. I'm looking forward to the Helen a Cell match.
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to Cody and Punk. I just
Speaker 1: wish that there was more umph to it going into it,
Speaker 1: and there isn't. But it's why say in the Night
Speaker 1: one is just it's such a better card than Night Too.
Speaker 1: You know, you got Cody and Punk first time ever,
Speaker 1: you got the Helen a Cell match, you got all
Speaker 1: this in gun Through. There's that interest in seeing Nick
Speaker 1: all this back in the ring right first time in WWE.
Speaker 1: What's that going to look like? Live an e O
Speaker 1: is Living EO tomorrow? I believe it is. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot more that I like on the card tomorrow
Speaker 1: than Sunday. But no, thanks to SmackDown. SmackDown didn't do
Speaker 1: a whole hell of a lot to get me excited
Speaker 1: for this show. But thank you guys for hanging out
Speaker 1: with me and indulging me here on this Friday night
Speaker 1: what was worse this week, SmackDown or Raw? I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have a good answer for you, honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean that Raw show had one of the worst
Speaker 1: segments of all year, so it's kind of more heavily
Speaker 1: weighted in the negative category. Neither show was good this week.
Speaker 1: You know what's scarier about that show? On Monday though,
Speaker 1: they were at the End to It Dome in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and apparently there were tons of Netflix executives there, so
Speaker 1: it was a very important show, Like the pressure was
Speaker 1: on the creative team to put on a really good show.
Speaker 1: And knowing that they actually came up with the idea
Speaker 1: for that concert slop that we saw, knowing that there
Speaker 1: were executives there and the pressure was on them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it says about the creative team,
Speaker 1: but whatever it is, it's not good that they actually
Speaker 1: looked at that and said, hey, you know what we
Speaker 1: need on this show. This segment's gold Gold, Jerry Gold,
Speaker 1: and they thought that they needed it on that show
Speaker 1: with Ryan Garcia no less. Out of twelve matches, how
Speaker 1: many will go less than eight minutes? I reckon quite
Speaker 1: a few. If it's anything like Night one of wrestle
Speaker 1: many of this year. Fucking Stephanie and Live couldn't even
Speaker 1: get seven minutes. All right, we're gonna start with dry
Speaker 1: chicken here with a five dollars super chat. Triple H
Speaker 1: is gonna cook up nice and neat match card added
Speaker 1: lots of salt, spices and season names for each match.
Speaker 1: Don't burn down the kitchen. Yeah, I wouldn't exactly say
Speaker 1: he's cooking these days. Death Scythe says after Summer Slam,
Speaker 1: Oba should win the World Heavyweight Championship at Money in
Speaker 1: the Bank because there is such a thing as waiting
Speaker 1: too long, and if there is a possibility of Rock
Speaker 1: and Roman at WrestleMania, they need to get that belt
Speaker 1: off Roman before then. Well, this is the issue, isn't it.
Speaker 1: When you kind of rely on the possibility that Rock
Speaker 1: may show up every year and he doesn't. They don't
Speaker 1: find these things out until it's too late. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if Rock was available, I would prefer they stick
Speaker 1: with Rock and Oba. But Saudi Mania, if they want Rock,
Speaker 1: Rock and Roman is going to be the match. So
Speaker 1: but to put the belt on Oba money in the Bank,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean whatever, especially if Roman's
Speaker 1: not gonna be around every week, then just take the
Speaker 1: fucking belt off him. Broli says, Baler and Sammy all
Speaker 1: over forty, Punkin Cody over forty, Gunther and all this
Speaker 1: over forty. Those three tag teams tonight all over forty,
Speaker 1: and Truth is over fifty. This is embarrassing. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean Oba is not over forty. Trick Williams is
Speaker 1: not over forty. Dominic Mysterio is not over forty. It's
Speaker 1: not like they don't have young stars on the roster,
Speaker 1: But then you look at some of them and where
Speaker 1: they were where they are now. Jacob Fatu, bron Breaker
Speaker 1: mellow it is. It is embarrassing. Death Site says there's
Speaker 1: a horror a horror video game I recently discovered called Mermaid.
Speaker 1: It's about a girl who was kidnapped and turned into
Speaker 1: a mermaid against her will. And it gave me the
Speaker 1: fly tusk and human centipede vibes. It's a game. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of this game before that on Steam. Gonna
Speaker 1: send me a link Holiday one ninety seven with an
Speaker 1: Australian twenty here. Hey Solo, if Orton comes back, they
Speaker 1: need to put him on raw to feud him with
Speaker 1: Roman or maybe even Oba to bide time until the
Speaker 1: year's end. Raw is lacking top players and SmackDown is
Speaker 1: getting crowded with them. Orton versus Cody is ruined. It
Speaker 1: may be, it may be ruined. I don't know about
Speaker 1: putting Orton on Raw, though I almost feel like it
Speaker 1: might be better off putting Owens on Raw. But then
Speaker 1: we can't get Owens and punks. So yeah, that's sort
Speaker 1: of the trade off there. I'd rather Owen stay un
Speaker 1: smack then when he comes back. Death Side says, I
Speaker 1: would rather push a guy like La Knight, who's in
Speaker 1: their forties, charismatic and can connect with the audience over
Speaker 1: a guy like Austin Theory, who's in their twenties and
Speaker 1: has the personality of a doorknob. Well, you keep banking
Speaker 1: on that La Night push. You may be waiting a while.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree that he should be, you know, doing
Speaker 1: more than he is, and he is he is very charismatic.
Speaker 1: But you just get to a point where you gotta
Speaker 1: just you got to turn the page and accept that
Speaker 1: they just don't see it the same way. Brolly says.
Speaker 1: Blake hasn't wrestled since April, Keana is buried, Juliet is
Speaker 1: Jordan is missing, jac is about to be fed to
Speaker 1: the bellas I feel for HBK. Yeah, you know, he
Speaker 1: basically just kind of he tees him on up and
Speaker 1: they just keep swinging and missing. I don't understand deaths,
Speaker 1: I says, imagine if Haku became Brocklesner's advocates. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of man. There as too much
Speaker 1: testosterone in the ring together. The Sheltered Kid says, how
Speaker 1: big was the rise of Jeff Hardy in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight? It was pretty big. I'm pretty sure he
Speaker 1: became the number one merch seller there for a while.
Speaker 1: I think he usurped Sina. But again, were it not
Speaker 1: for his issues and you know, unreliability at the time,
Speaker 1: I mean, the sky was the limit for him. It
Speaker 1: was very high. It was very high up there. Brole
Speaker 1: says in NXT they are treated like goddesses. As soon
Speaker 1: as Triple H gets his hands on them, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: wins and losses don't matter, and time for wrestling doesn't either. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that would have been an interesting question for them,
Speaker 1: in a respectful way, perhaps to ask him when he
Speaker 1: spent twenty minutes on Busted Open Radio on WWE Radio
Speaker 1: the other day, and they asked him and it was
Speaker 1: it was Dave Legreca and it was Nick Nemeth, and
Speaker 1: they asked him exactly one question in the entire interview.
Speaker 1: The rest of it was just random comments. One question
Speaker 1: that Nemeth asked about live events. Otherwise they let him
Speaker 1: just blather on about pretty much nothing. It was quite
Speaker 1: the insightful interview. But see, that would be a very
Speaker 1: interesting question as far as his philosophy when it comes
Speaker 1: to the women on the main roster and why we
Speaker 1: have some of these deficiencies when it comes to the
Speaker 1: women's division and some of the faces of the division
Speaker 1: on Ron SmackDown, But that's not a question you can ask.
Speaker 1: GMB with the dollar ninety nine says SmackDown women's division
Speaker 1: has been down since Bianca's injury. I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 1: been down since then, because there was a period of
Speaker 1: time where, I mean, I feel like there was a
Speaker 1: period of time there where it was still okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bianca's been out now for what a year and a half.
Speaker 1: I maybe I'm misremembering the uh spring and summer of
Speaker 1: twenty five. I don't know, but she has missed has
Speaker 1: has she? Has she popped yet? I saw these pictures
Speaker 1: of her on social media like a week ago, and
Speaker 1: my god, she looked like she's housing quadruplets. That looked
Speaker 1: incredibly uncomfortable. But she looked like she was about to
Speaker 1: pop any day. I don't know if she's had her
Speaker 1: baby yet or not. Her finger still looks very gnarly. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: her her finger is still fucked. Broley says, Ricky and
Speaker 1: Mellow were on main event. Yes, that's what I had
Speaker 1: saw earlier from Broley. Main event. You want to see
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes and Ricky says, that's where you can go.
Speaker 1: Joseph Marris, I don't see WWE taking the title off live,
Speaker 1: as they'll want her to have the belt with her
Speaker 1: while promoting her movie, which comes out next month. Is
Speaker 1: that that bad Lieutenant movie? Forgot about that? Well? I
Speaker 1: hope they take the title off for her, but let's
Speaker 1: be honest, even if they do, when they put it
Speaker 1: on EO, it's not like the booking is going to
Speaker 1: be any different. We got Rojo Bet twenty four says
Speaker 1: I was stuck in traffic for over an hour and
Speaker 1: a half today and it was better than SmackDown. It's
Speaker 1: like that guy that wrote in this was many years ago.
Speaker 1: He sent a super chat in and it was on
Speaker 1: a Monday Night rawstream. He said, I buried my grandfather
Speaker 1: today and that still wasn't as bad as Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1: I've never forgotten that, but that must have been a
Speaker 1: bad episode of Raw. Andre Jefferson with a ten hey solo.
Speaker 1: I could see the Bellas turning on Page, and after
Speaker 1: Page continues to be on the losing end against the
Speaker 1: Bellas she gets help from aj Lee. Could be the
Speaker 1: other thought I had was Page going heel and maybe
Speaker 1: linking up with a fatal influence. But I could see
Speaker 1: that too. Then the Bellows would be healed. But they
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, they turned Nicki bella heel
Speaker 1: late last year and then one day she just stopped
Speaker 1: being healed. I guess when her sister came in. It
Speaker 1: was like forgotten about. So they already did one failed
Speaker 1: heel term with Nicky. I don't know if they want
Speaker 1: to go right back to that. Yeah, yeah. Bliss Fen
Speaker 1: says they didn't say a word tonight about the Bellows match.
Speaker 1: This weekend. They didn't. We had no bloodline segments tonight. Man,
Speaker 1: you would think I would love this show. That's how
Speaker 1: bad the show was. Even without bloodline segments, which normally
Speaker 1: would be a relief, the show still sucked. Robbie says
Speaker 1: justice for Julia beginning to trend. It's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna matter. You're wasting your time. She's cooked,
Speaker 1: her goose is cooked. Prepare for Julia in Marigold. No,
Speaker 1: we'll get to see the old Julia back venom cantetsuit.
Speaker 1: Did you catch the all This chat with CVV? I did?
Speaker 1: I mentioned that earlier. I never saw any of his
Speaker 1: in ring work before, so I really only have genuine
Speaker 1: interest in his match with Gunther over the whole weekend.
Speaker 1: Even under the suit, he looks battle ready. Well. I
Speaker 1: think in that interview he even said like it might
Speaker 1: have been Mickey Mickey James who told him, you know,
Speaker 1: always be Randy Orton told him also, always be ready,
Speaker 1: because there were rumors when Orton had that open challenge
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania last year that maybe it was going to
Speaker 1: be all this and it turned out not to be,
Speaker 1: but they told him, like, you gotta be ready, dude,
Speaker 1: because when the time comes, they're you're not going to
Speaker 1: give you a big heads up. You're not gonna have
Speaker 1: months and months to train and prepare. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to turn that shit around pretty quick. So you've got
Speaker 1: to always keep yourself in like ring shape, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: here we are. I don't think you got a big
Speaker 1: heads up about this, Dried Chicken says, TKO and WWE
Speaker 1: Creative really make you hate pro wrestling in America. Well,
Speaker 1: the good news is there's other pro wrestling in America,
Speaker 1: which is why competition is a good thing. Leo says,
Speaker 1: Keana James. Being left off Summer Slam is a crime.
Speaker 1: Fuck this company, well, said Dry Chicken says, we need
Speaker 1: to break out the megaphone and tell Carmelo Hayes to
Speaker 1: get out of SmackDown and go to Raw, as if
Speaker 1: it would be any different over there. Come on, brother,
Speaker 1: you're smarter than that. What was the likes goal tonight?
Speaker 1: The likes goal tonight was five fifty. What do we have?
Speaker 1: Five sixty six? So we're guaranteed the one round to
Speaker 1: be the booker, but we're eight out of ten. Look
Speaker 1: at that on the bonus goals, so we may actually
Speaker 1: get two rounds tonight. Oh we got Jeremy with a
Speaker 1: double super chat. Here. Look at this. I don't know
Speaker 1: if a word is missing or if there's a previous
Speaker 1: chat that I missed. It's like it picks up in
Speaker 1: the middle of a sentence. It looks like I think
Speaker 1: he means, of course, of course they want Julia over.
Speaker 1: Just have her beat the shit out of EO, maybe
Speaker 1: cost her the title. Win a match versus EO, and
Speaker 1: Julia would be a major heel. I got news for you, brother.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't be. She's not over now. You could say
Speaker 1: she's not over in part because the booking hasn't helped her,
Speaker 1: and she's not on television consistently. If they gave her
Speaker 1: someone maybe like EO, because EO is beloved. Everybody loves EO, right,
Speaker 1: they pointing at themselves, and EO is just she's a
Speaker 1: fun person to watch. And anybody who beats up EO, yes,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get booed. But this idea that well,
Speaker 1: just put her with EO and she'll beat up EO
Speaker 1: and she'll be this mega heel. She won't be. She
Speaker 1: won't be because I don't trust them to book her
Speaker 1: consistently enough to get her there, and at the moment
Speaker 1: she's not there. Fans have not taken to her, and
Speaker 1: they don't seem to be in any great sense of
Speaker 1: urgency to do something different with her that might help
Speaker 1: get her there. Like she went from heel to babyface,
Speaker 1: But what has she done is a babyface. She's done nothing.
Speaker 1: She beat Keana, she got jumped by Blake, and she's
Speaker 1: done nothing ever since. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: It's what's so maddening about this. They don't put the
Speaker 1: effort in. She done, Dude, she's done. It's over. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt when
Speaker 1: it comes to her. Says Creative needs an ex female
Speaker 1: wrestler on the team if they could find the right person.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have Molly Holly working for them, but
Speaker 1: I don't think she's on Creative. I think she's a producer.
Speaker 1: Tried Chicken says it won't surprise me if Julia decides
Speaker 1: to walk out. Much more likely that they'll just you know,
Speaker 1: let her contract wind down and then she can leave,
Speaker 1: or they get rid of her first, which I hope
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. But I mean, I'm sorry. They have gotten
Speaker 1: rid of people who were literally in the middle of storyline.
Speaker 1: They got rid of Kyrie in the middle of a
Speaker 1: storyline without even paying it off. You think Julia is
Speaker 1: immune from that tracking problems. Remember when Andrada used to
Speaker 1: call staying stink good times, Yes, I do, it was
Speaker 1: quite funny. He's a man called stink. Arabian Night two
Speaker 1: thousand says Julia is dead. Triple H permanently ruined her
Speaker 1: next year, she should go to AW or hope to
Speaker 1: get mercifully cut post WrestleMania, along with another misused talent
Speaker 1: in Jordan Grace. I don't know. I mean, when Julia
Speaker 1: became available, there was talk that AW really had no
Speaker 1: interest in bringing her in, that there were people there
Speaker 1: who were not fond of Julia. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that she would necessarily be welcomed into AW, but I
Speaker 1: guess we'll wait and see. And we just hit the
Speaker 1: bonus goal, So thank you guys. We hit the ten
Speaker 1: out of ten on that one. And now I'm going
Speaker 1: to stop that one and I'm just gonna toss this
Speaker 1: out there for a potential third round when one goal
Speaker 1: is achieved. We had a new one. How about it?
Speaker 1: How about it? Indeed the Juliets Bill Buckner still hasn't
Speaker 1: bent over to pick that ball up. Damn shame, Austin,
Speaker 1: Thank you again for that twenty eight dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: Austin's excited he's going to Summer Slim. It's his first
Speaker 1: live event. That's pretty big. Summer Slim used to be
Speaker 1: one of my top it was really rumble in Summer Slam.
Speaker 1: We're my favorite events of the year, going back to
Speaker 1: like golden era times, lots of great classic Summer Slim shows.
Speaker 1: I miss I missed those old school Summer slams with
Speaker 1: that original theme song. That's when it felt like Summer Slime.
Speaker 1: Tucky Neutron with the four ninety nine feeling like shit
Speaker 1: lately mental health is no joke. Thanks for being my
Speaker 1: getaway when I feel like the world is against me
Speaker 1: and I suck as a person. Well, Tucky Neutron, you
Speaker 1: do not suck as a person. In fact, I was
Speaker 1: going to say that username is actually one of the
Speaker 1: cooler ones that we have here. I love that name,
Speaker 1: Tucky Neutron. So I don't know what is going on
Speaker 1: right now on a personal level, but what I can
Speaker 1: tell you is that you have a whole community of
Speaker 1: people here who are very happy to have you, and
Speaker 1: hopefully you will be with us this weekend and many
Speaker 1: more times in the future, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: think that at all. Dry Chicken says when Bracklesner locked
Speaker 1: the hell in a cell door on Oba Femei, he
Speaker 1: says that he would purposely to give Lesnar a hawked
Speaker 1: tua in his face, like MJF or you know, they
Speaker 1: could have just lifted the cell since they were both
Speaker 1: supposed to be out there for a scheduled weigh in,
Speaker 1: but apparently locking the door renders them unable to lift
Speaker 1: the cell. Do you know I had There were people
Speaker 1: who argued, because they'll defend anything that this company does
Speaker 1: to the death. If it's their dying breath, they'll defend it.
Speaker 1: And they defended that by saying, well, Triple H was
Speaker 1: just trying to protect his investment. He didn't want the
Speaker 1: two of them to go at it and ruin the
Speaker 1: plan cell match for this weekend. But of course the
Speaker 1: basic counterpoint to that would be Rock came out because
Speaker 1: there was a scheduled weigh in, so I mean they
Speaker 1: knew what they were doing. When they invited the two
Speaker 1: of them out to the ring together and they were
Speaker 1: both supposed to be there, but no, we can't lift
Speaker 1: the cell now because we don't want them to engage
Speaker 1: in any kind of physicality. I see death Site says
Speaker 1: Omega and Osprey has more heat and feels like a
Speaker 1: bigger match than Punk and Cody, and I originally thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be the other way around. I
Speaker 1: will say this. I will say this, the closing segment
Speaker 1: that we had on Dynamite on Wednesday was better than
Speaker 1: the closing segment that we had with Punk and Cody
Speaker 1: tonight in terms of the actual like promo stuff. I know,
Speaker 1: we didn't really get too much physicality between Omega and Osprey,
Speaker 1: but Omega and Osprey is also four weeks away, right
Speaker 1: Cody and Punk is twenty four hours away, so it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different, but especially Osprey more so than Omega.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Omega was great in that segment. He
Speaker 1: was good, but I thought that Osprey and his intensity
Speaker 1: and everything really sold that match in that segment, and
Speaker 1: we didn't get anything like that tonight with punkin Cody
Speaker 1: John says thoughts on Grayson Waller burying the TNA Heavyweight
Speaker 1: title on NXT. This WWETNA partnership is awful. Anyway, just
Speaker 1: got my h og La ticket excited. You should be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just made the announcement back to Los Angeles on
Speaker 1: September fourth, so hopefully I get to see some of
Speaker 1: you guys there. Yeah. I'm gonna chime in on the
Speaker 1: Waller promo on the sound off this week. And I like,
Speaker 1: I was live on JD's channel for TNT on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and I like glanced over and everybody in the chat
Speaker 1: was going nuts about this grace of Waller promo. So like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, this must be some great fucking promo.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch this. And then I watched it,
Speaker 1: and I'll I'll give you my full thoughts on the
Speaker 1: sound off on Sunday. I will say, I did hear
Speaker 1: the line where he buried the TNA title. If it's
Speaker 1: going to lead somewhere, like if it's possibly going to
Speaker 1: lead to him maybe going to TNA to challenge for
Speaker 1: the championship, that's one thing. But yeah, yeah, you would
Speaker 1: never like the equivalent of that. You would never see that,
Speaker 1: Like TNA would never allow somebody right now to go
Speaker 1: on their show and say anything remotely similar to that
Speaker 1: about WWE. It's a very one sided partnership. Honestly. It's
Speaker 1: kind of the way I feel about AAW and CML
Speaker 1: and the way that they book persephone on AW television.
Speaker 1: There's no like, there's no planet in which Tony Kahan
Speaker 1: would reciprocate that and allow his Women's champion to go
Speaker 1: into CMLL and be treated the same way. It's it's
Speaker 1: one very one sided in that regard. Alexander says, one
Speaker 1: day every pl E will be two nights. I sure
Speaker 1: as fuck hope not. I hope not. By the way,
Speaker 1: the thing about that Grace of Waller promo, because there
Speaker 1: were a lot of comparisons select the pipe bomb and everything.
Speaker 1: It was not a pipe bomb. People have to stop
Speaker 1: making that comparison. Uh it was. It was not a
Speaker 1: pipe bomb. It was an important promo, though for a
Speaker 1: very different reason. It had nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: substance of it. So we'll talk about that on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose says Night two is straight trash. Better have
Speaker 1: some major angle to end the night. Night one has
Speaker 1: every match I want to see and the bella match
Speaker 1: for the bathroom break. Well, sometimes you just got to
Speaker 1: drain the lizard, and I guess everyone has their bathroom
Speaker 1: break match. I'm surprised they're doing both six person tags
Speaker 1: in the same night. I would think that they would
Speaker 1: want to separate them, but the men's match with the
Speaker 1: Bloodline and the women's match are both on the same night.
Speaker 1: Joseph Brooks with a nine ninety nine. Isn't it crazy
Speaker 1: to see what Triple H has done with most of
Speaker 1: the NXT stars called up recently, especially Gargano. These guys
Speaker 1: were like his NXT babies. Now he treats them like
Speaker 1: unwanted step children. Well it's like as his kids have
Speaker 1: gotten older, he just doesn't want to have anything to
Speaker 1: do with them. It kind of does feel that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's I don't have a good explanation for you,
Speaker 1: it is. It is very crazy. Death Side Ko can
Speaker 1: still be on Raw and feud with Punk on SmackDown
Speaker 1: because what brand split? After all, Dan Housen is on
Speaker 1: both fucking shows nearly every single week. This is true,
Speaker 1: And actually Sammy's aim made a great point, like he
Speaker 1: was forced to defend the WWE Championship, which is a
Speaker 1: SmackDown title on Raw against Punk, which is how he lost.
Speaker 1: He goes, I never should have been forced to defend
Speaker 1: my title on Raw to begin with. It's a very
Speaker 1: good point, Joseph says. I see that Izzy the superfan
Speaker 1: is getting a lot better in the ring. I remember
Speaker 1: you would have you had a storyline involving her and Bailey.
Speaker 1: I did. I pitched it. God, I pitched it probably
Speaker 1: nine or ten years ago, when she was still a
Speaker 1: little girl. I pitched a whole storyline on the sound
Speaker 1: off where one day she comes in and actually I
Speaker 1: think I pitched a couple of them. I think one
Speaker 1: involving Mercedes, which is not gonna happen now, but you know,
Speaker 1: one where she debuts and she actually attacks Bailey. I
Speaker 1: don't know Bailey will be in WWE by the time.
Speaker 1: Is he might get a look by the companies. She
Speaker 1: might not even be there anymore. I'd get more into
Speaker 1: the details and everything. But is he has me blocked?
Speaker 1: So I noticed that a few years ago. I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you why, but I haven't been I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything that she's posted or any sort of updates on
Speaker 1: her in years, because even if I wanted to, I
Speaker 1: can't follow along the Juliet three sixteen with a ten.
Speaker 1: Forty five years ago, MTV debuted Oh My God. Also,
Speaker 1: please no spoilers for the latest Spider Man movie in
Speaker 1: the chat, and aj styles Son was victorious in his
Speaker 1: GHC debut. Yeah, I'm not gonna be seeing the Spider
Speaker 1: Man movie because I just I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: so many of the references. And if I am going
Speaker 1: to attempt to go back with these Marvel movies and
Speaker 1: try to play catch up before Doomsday comes out, I
Speaker 1: feel like this one, I've got to wait. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any of the other Tom Holland ones, so to
Speaker 1: see this one doesn't make any sense. But I will
Speaker 1: say I was curious. I looked up the movie showings
Speaker 1: and I don't know how it is by you, but
Speaker 1: they're all sold out. I just was curious. I went
Speaker 1: on the website for like the nearest theater and they're
Speaker 1: all sold out. And I see that it made movie
Speaker 1: history yesterday, that movie, that new Spider Man movie made
Speaker 1: more money in Thursday previews than any movie in history,
Speaker 1: seventy two million dollars on Thursday, seventy two million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's insane, Like it beat Endgame, which I know was
Speaker 1: a big deal when Avengers Endgame came out and it
Speaker 1: beat Endgame numbers. Now, I don't know if it'll do
Speaker 1: that for the entire weekend, but for Thursday, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty impressive. It getting good scores too. It's
Speaker 1: probably a great movie. I just I gotta see the
Speaker 1: other ones first before I see this one. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's sold out everywhere. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: in Imax though, I think because all the Imax showings
Speaker 1: are still sold out. With Odyssey, Odyssey only had a
Speaker 1: twenty five percent drop, which is which is incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I figure with this new movie, the Spider Man movie,
Speaker 1: it would have dropped a lot more than that, But
Speaker 1: twenty five percent drop is great. It's good though. It's
Speaker 1: good to see the movies making a rebound in theaters
Speaker 1: because you know, the pandemic really killed it and then
Speaker 1: there was all this talk about how you know, the
Speaker 1: movie theater industry is going to go out of business.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be movie theaters anymore. This has been
Speaker 1: like a huge rebound year for movie theaters. So it's
Speaker 1: good to see Super Pony. Would it be overbooked if
Speaker 1: they had Randy cost Cody and Owen's attack punk after
Speaker 1: the match. Yes, doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to
Speaker 1: see it. You just asked me if it would be overbooked.
Speaker 1: The answer is yes. It. Look there was a match
Speaker 1: in the Owenhart Tournament with Will Ospury and Mark Davis
Speaker 1: that I loved, incredibly overbooked, probably the most overbooked match
Speaker 1: I've seen all year, and I fucking loved it. Overbooking
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean bad, right, you don't want to make
Speaker 1: a habit out of it. It depends on what you're doing.
Speaker 1: The WrestleMania forty main event was overbooked as all shit.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best WrestleMania main events of all time.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the situation. If it leads, if
Speaker 1: it's going somewhere where it's going to lead to something great,
Speaker 1: then it's okay. Gary Sean with a nine to ninety nine,
Speaker 1: just showing love, no message, Hey Gary, thank you man,
Speaker 1: actually a couple. Look at that he dropped two of them.
Speaker 1: We're two out of five. Two on that other goal,
Speaker 1: Hey Gary, thank you. But Juliet says with a fourteen,
Speaker 1: if you could challenge anybody to do the ice Bucket challenge?
Speaker 1: Who would you challenge? Oh, I don't know anybody who
Speaker 1: wants to partake. Anybody who wants to partake and help
Speaker 1: out a good cause. I think it's great. It kind
Speaker 1: of died down there for a while, Like the ice
Speaker 1: Bucket Challenge was like a big thing a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and and then I feel like you didn't hear about it,
Speaker 1: and then it sort of made a comeback. It's just
Speaker 1: very sad though, Like everyone's like, ah haha, it's like
Speaker 1: a fun thing to do and everything, but like, it's
Speaker 1: just it's such a horrible, insidious disease and the fact
Speaker 1: that there's it feels like there's more and more people
Speaker 1: being diagnosed with it. It's terrifying. It's just it's terrifying
Speaker 1: to think about. Leo says, I'm not saying I want
Speaker 1: Keana to leave, but her on the indies tearing shit up.
Speaker 1: Maybe a TNA run would be amazing. It would be
Speaker 1: so great to see her show what she's capable of
Speaker 1: and stick it to WWA. You know when they broke
Speaker 1: up her in Juliet or we knew that it was
Speaker 1: it was coming, right, I said, Keana is the one
Speaker 1: who they're probably going to be more apt to push
Speaker 1: more than Julia. And now I'm like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they have I don't even know if they
Speaker 1: have the desire to push Keana. I don't under I
Speaker 1: don't understand the mentality behind cooling so many of these
Speaker 1: people down at a time when you can really use
Speaker 1: some new faces in the women's division. Rhea Ripley is
Speaker 1: your champion. She's been out of action since the beginning
Speaker 1: of June. You would think that this is an opportunity
Speaker 1: to really push more new faces. Blake Monroe kind of
Speaker 1: sort of debuted, but yet she won't wrestle. Julie has
Speaker 1: been buried. Keana is missing. Jordan Gray, I forget about
Speaker 1: Jordan Gray. Jordan Grace is done. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know why any of this is happening. It's the
Speaker 1: whole thing is a fucking mess. And Nick Rosso with
Speaker 1: a nine ninety nine really enjoyed the Big boss Man
Speaker 1: Dark side of the Ring episode. Didn't know we had
Speaker 1: a painkiller addiction. I was surprised that so many people
Speaker 1: offended by ninety nine boss Men. Also can't believe they
Speaker 1: recreated the Hell in a Cell Spot. Yeah, they did
Speaker 1: recreate it. They do a good job on the recreations
Speaker 1: on the show. I enjoyed the episode. I've got a
Speaker 1: full review. I've got a lot to say about that
Speaker 1: and stuff that wasn't included as I usually do. But
Speaker 1: you'll get that on the sound off this weekend. Full
Speaker 1: recap of the Big boss Man, one of the more
Speaker 1: memorable characters from my wrestling childhood. Okay, Jeremy didn't want
Speaker 1: to hear me say that. I guess Jeremy Rose a
Speaker 1: twenty dollars super chat says enough, Jeremy, I'll get to
Speaker 1: you in a second. We're three out of five now
Speaker 1: on that double bonus goal. We have who we have?
Speaker 1: Who we have? We have? Joseph Cherish keep borrow sell
Speaker 1: on title runs that should have happened in their respective
Speaker 1: brands at the time, says hy t J as WCW
Speaker 1: champion in WCW rv D is ECW champion in the
Speaker 1: original ECW, Monty Brown and TNA Cody in AEW Monty
Speaker 1: Brown for sure in TNA. I mean, I gotta I gotta,
Speaker 1: Cherish on that one. That guy had a ton of charisma.
Speaker 1: They were a young company that was growing, and you
Speaker 1: never know who catches fire, and maybe it could have
Speaker 1: been him. You know, you will never know, but it's
Speaker 1: just crazy to me that he never you know, he
Speaker 1: never got there. As far as rv D, I'd probably
Speaker 1: go with at number two. I didn't put him a
Speaker 1: number one just because I feel like the injury kept
Speaker 1: him out for so long and he was destined to
Speaker 1: move on to bigger things. But of course rv D
Speaker 1: is ECW champion. I mean that would have made a
Speaker 1: lot of sense Cody and Aw and then I put
Speaker 1: why to Jay last I never felt like Jericho as
Speaker 1: WCW champion. Uh seemed unrealistic to me, at least at
Speaker 1: that time. Had he stuck around and sure, but dry
Speaker 1: Chicken says, when Kenny Omega's character gets paranoid, he makes
Speaker 1: terrible decisions that always have consequences for his actions, so
Speaker 1: it makes him a good heel. I'm not sure he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be a heel right now, but he was
Speaker 1: definitely coming off more heelish On Wednesday, Super Pony, do
Speaker 1: you think it's more likely we get Owens tomorrow night
Speaker 1: or on SmackDown on the twenty first in Toronto. I
Speaker 1: think when he comes back, it's not going to matter
Speaker 1: whether they're in Toronto or not. I think it's more
Speaker 1: likely if anybody that we get Orton, then we do
Speaker 1: Owens tomorrow. I don't think Toronto really has anything to
Speaker 1: do with it, and death Side says it's amazing how
Speaker 1: Grayson Waller has made himself more relevant in eight minutes
Speaker 1: than Austin Theory has in eight months. Dry Chicken says,
Speaker 1: Julia will purposely appear on TNA unannounced. Yeah, like they
Speaker 1: would put her on there. TNA is gonna go rogue
Speaker 1: and show Julia. I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And Jeremy rose with a twenty anyway, Orton and Kao
Speaker 1: returned to help Cody, creating a stable storyline. Wise, Cody
Speaker 1: getting punted and kao injury made him come to his
Speaker 1: senses and he rekindles the relationships. Goal is to get
Speaker 1: rid of punk. Goal is to get rid of of Punk.
Speaker 1: And then it says w G I s killing Do
Speaker 1: you mean who's killing WWE? That's a weird typo. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, And then you gotta wonder where Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre fits into all this, because McIntyre is going to
Speaker 1: be back soon. Also, you put together Orton and Cody
Speaker 1: and Ko. I mean, who do you counter them with Punk?
Speaker 1: And who who's on the other side? Sammy Sammy just
Speaker 1: whin heal? Why would Sammy want to align with Punk?
Speaker 1: That group is almost too powerful. Would be interesting, but
Speaker 1: I think it's too strong of a faction unless you
Speaker 1: have some really good baby faces outside of Punk to
Speaker 1: really counter it. Dan Housen, Yeah, believable, just what we need. Yes,
Speaker 1: some good questions, some good shit. We have two rounds
Speaker 1: now coming to us, possibly three, We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: But we got two rounds to be the booker. Let's
Speaker 1: do it, ladies and gentlemen. We're two hours into this thing.
Speaker 1: Get the show on the road. Here. It is time
Speaker 1: to be the booker. It only gets better from here.
Speaker 1: Our first tag team match here of the night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a round three soon. I know, with three out
Speaker 1: of five on that new goal, we might hit third round.
Speaker 1: We have a Nikolai Volkov and the iron Chic Shiky
Speaker 1: baby is in be the booker man. We go from
Speaker 1: Haku on TV tonight. And then we got we got
Speaker 1: Shiky Baby here and be the booker, former tag team Champions,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be stepping into the ring with Hog
Speaker 1: and Pig the godwinds. What a terrible match. That sounds
Speaker 1: like the godwins against Nikolai Volcano and the Iron Chic.
Speaker 1: That sounds awful. Not the way I wanted to start this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's chic, but we're not talking
Speaker 1: about cutting promos. We're talking about in ring. We have
Speaker 1: Ivy Nile where she bit. We haven't seen her on
Speaker 1: TV either. I see her more in her YouTube vlogs
Speaker 1: with her boyfriend than I do with Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1: Then again, I don't know where the fucking Creeds are either,
Speaker 1: so maybe she's wherever they are. She's with them. Ivy Nile.
Speaker 1: At least she gets a booking here on be the booker.
Speaker 1: She gets to step into the ring with the glamour.
Speaker 1: It is Mariah May, and I'm going to give that
Speaker 1: the belt, if for no other reason because I did
Speaker 1: what Triple Ah doesn't have the balls to do. I
Speaker 1: booked Mariah May in a match. She can wrestle. You know,
Speaker 1: she's actually pretty good at it. Alright, our main event now,
Speaker 1: first main event of the evening. Now one more to go,
Speaker 1: last scene with the Creeds in Triple A. Great. We
Speaker 1: have Ray Phoenix who was on SmackDown tonight defending the
Speaker 1: Triple A Cruiserweight Championship. Now he's in the main event.
Speaker 1: He's graduated. Look at this to the main event of
Speaker 1: be the booker. But who will his opponent be? Who
Speaker 1: I say, I say A say, who will be his own?
Speaker 1: It will be the nature boy, Rick Flair against Ray Phoenix.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be bumping all over the place for Ray Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Rick Flair and Ray Phoenix. There's a clash of styles.
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting clash of styles there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that could be a fun one. All Right, we
Speaker 1: get round number two. We get to do this all
Speaker 1: over again, but this time we get to attach some stipulations.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of them in here, as you
Speaker 1: can tell. And I have no idea where it's going
Speaker 1: to land. That's the beauty of it. I just push
Speaker 1: a button and we end up with an ambulance match.
Speaker 1: Somebody is going to have to be deposited into the
Speaker 1: back of an ambulance and when both doors are closed shut.
Speaker 1: The match is over. Now. It would be a little difficult,
Speaker 1: but not impossible to have a tag team ambulance match.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to skip right to the women on
Speaker 1: this one and let's find out who is in the
Speaker 1: ambulance match, starting with oh oh the fuck is that image?
Speaker 1: Will haunt me in my dreams. Here. This is spooky
Speaker 1: Nicky Cross with that freaky mask on from the Wyatt Six.
Speaker 1: Another one who can wrestle, and you would never know
Speaker 1: it because they did not have her wrestling for like
Speaker 1: two years. She would just show up and look like
Speaker 1: this and do a Lutha's press every now and then.
Speaker 1: And that was the extent to which she did any wrestling.
Speaker 1: Niki Cross in the ambulance match. Let's get a drum
Speaker 1: roll down in here. Come on now, man, we got
Speaker 1: our main event round. We need a drum roll. Creepy
Speaker 1: Pasta Cross against the glamour Mariah May, boy boy, I
Speaker 1: think Be the Booker is in love. I think Be
Speaker 1: the Booker is smitten, smitten back to back rounds of
Speaker 1: Mariah May. I don't blame Be the book Look, I'm
Speaker 1: smitten myself. I don't blame Be the Booker in the least.
Speaker 1: You can never have too much Mariah May. And since
Speaker 1: they refuse to give us enough of her on TV,
Speaker 1: I'll be more than happy to provide you with Mariah
Speaker 1: May here. It's fine with me. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: We have an exploding barbed wired deathmatch. Well, this is
Speaker 1: going to be most interesting exploding barbed wire deathmatch. There
Speaker 1: are certain people who would really fit in a match
Speaker 1: like that, and there are a lot of people in
Speaker 1: this that absolutely would not fit there. Drew McIntyre interesting.
Speaker 1: I think Drew McIntyre would do well in an exploding
Speaker 1: Barbeyer death match. He took a lot of abuse. He
Speaker 1: was bleeding like a pig in that hell in a
Speaker 1: CEL match with Punk. I don't think he would shy
Speaker 1: away from an exploding Barbier death match. I think he
Speaker 1: would excel. I don't think TKO is going to be
Speaker 1: very happy about that, considering what they pay him. Oh mind,
Speaker 1: look at that Drew McIntyre against Claudio casting Noli in
Speaker 1: exploding Barbyer death match. Man, I don't know who to
Speaker 1: pick who wins that? Who wins that? I'm gonna go Drew.
Speaker 1: But that's a good one, man. I just I wish
Speaker 1: the stipulation wasn't even attached to it though. And now
Speaker 1: our main event of the evening, ladies and gentlemen, are
Speaker 1: we looking at a sweep? Are we looking at a sweep?
Speaker 1: Another exploding barbed wire death match? Oh my god, Vince
Speaker 1: Russo has struck again. This is what you call classic overbooking.
Speaker 1: Classic overbooking. You don't book back to back exploding barbed
Speaker 1: wire death matches. You don't do that. Be the booker
Speaker 1: has a thirst for be. The booker has a thirst,
Speaker 1: we've learned tonight, for blood and for Mariah Bay. Those
Speaker 1: are the two things. Those are the two things that be.
Speaker 1: The booker has a thirst for My goodness, all right,
Speaker 1: we go from Drew McIntyre in Claudio in an exploding
Speaker 1: barbed wire deathmatch. Two, Oh my god, the former NWA
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Champion Tyris Tyris is going to be in
Speaker 1: an exploding barbeyer deathmatch. Who would pay to see this?
Speaker 1: Who would pay to see this? Tyris against Joe Hendry
Speaker 1: in an exploding barbed wire deathmatch. Not if you paid me,
Speaker 1: I still would have no desire to see that match.
Speaker 1: So that's the bad news. However, I do have some
Speaker 1: good news, and the good news is that we just
Speaker 1: hit the bonus goal again, which means we get to
Speaker 1: take her for a spend one more time. We're getting
Speaker 1: a third round to be the booker. Give yourselves a
Speaker 1: round of applause. You have earned a third round. Doesn't
Speaker 1: happen very often, but it happened tonight. We didn't even
Speaker 1: get to Summer Slim. Yeah, we got two nights of
Speaker 1: Summer Slim. I'm gonna be live tomorrow night. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be live Sunday night. We could do even more, be
Speaker 1: the booker. It's a double bonus. It is a double
Speaker 1: bonus round. And because it is a double bonus round,
Speaker 1: going to a different dimension here, we've gone to a
Speaker 1: level that we've never been to before. All Right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a last man standing match. Oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just happy that it's not another exploding Barbier
Speaker 1: death match. Personally, I'm very happy about that it's a
Speaker 1: last man standing match. Okay, let's see, hope you're keeping
Speaker 1: track of these cards, so you gotta have to compare
Speaker 1: them when we're done here and see which round is
Speaker 1: the best. Mister perfect Kurt Hennig, I like where this
Speaker 1: is headed. That's right, it's the be the Booker Special stage.
Speaker 1: So he knows, he knows ball, he knows mister perfect
Speaker 1: jbl in a last man standing match, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll give that the bell. I'll give that the bell.
Speaker 1: I think that has the potential to be good. Two
Speaker 1: heels though a little weird. Not a big fan of that,
Speaker 1: not a big fan of the two heel thing. But
Speaker 1: our next match is going to be first blood and
Speaker 1: it's going to go to the ladies this time. A
Speaker 1: first blood women's match should be very interesting here with
Speaker 1: Mako Satamora, the retired Mako Satamora. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever seen her bleed, but you would think over a
Speaker 1: thirty year career, I'm sure she's been busted open a
Speaker 1: few times. Oh, Maco, Maco, Maco, Mako Makosatamora against Jade
Speaker 1: Cargill Macosatamora is going to make Jade Cargill bleed, bleed
Speaker 1: her own blood. As Billy Graham once said, boy Maco
Speaker 1: better have her working shoes on for that match. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say. And our true final final main
Speaker 1: events here of the evening is going to be a
Speaker 1: Lions then mat are you all ready to enter the Lions?
Speaker 1: Then we're walking in. We got a Lions then match,
Speaker 1: two people enter, one person leaves. We have got the
Speaker 1: American badass, the Undertaker, this limp biscuit Taker inside the Lions.
Speaker 1: Then I wouldn't want to be trapped in the Lions.
Speaker 1: Then with the Undertake, it's a little rough. The Undertaker
Speaker 1: against Razor Ramone in a lions Den match. Yes, guess
Speaker 1: we finally got a sweep. It only took three chances,
Speaker 1: but we finally we finally got the sweep. Yeah, Undertaker
Speaker 1: Razor Ramone. They did wrestle each other, but not too
Speaker 1: many times and never any any sort of like TV program.
Speaker 1: I would have liked to have seen that. It's kind
Speaker 1: of weird because I was literally just watching earlier with
Speaker 1: lunch today I was watching. They had a three hour
Speaker 1: Razor Ramone compilation on the WWE Vault channel that they
Speaker 1: uploaded within the line couple of weeks. I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. Great match on there by the way
Speaker 1: from the August first, I want to say nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four episode of Raw. It was in the lead up
Speaker 1: to SummerSlam that year. Was the first match that Seawn
Speaker 1: Michaels had since the latter match of WrestleMania ten. He
Speaker 1: had been out of the ring since then. His first
Speaker 1: first match back, no ladders, no bullshit, straight singles match
Speaker 1: against Razor. Great fucking match, Great TV match. Those guys
Speaker 1: had great chemistry. It's almost like they were friends. E J.
Speaker 1: Slam says, which would you choose if you were if
Speaker 1: you were me? Men at Work or a White Sox
Speaker 1: Guardians game in the middle of the Pennant race with
Speaker 1: a postgame JA rule concert Men at Work? That was
Speaker 1: an easy one. Super Pony, I need Ko to package
Speaker 1: pile drive Dan Hausen. I heartily endorse this, EJ says,
Speaker 1: in honor of the iron chic, fuck the Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 1: That's right, that Jabron break his back and make him humble.
Speaker 1: Super Pony says. SAP just reported that Kevin Owens is
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. Interesting. I wouldn't say that necessarily means anything,
Speaker 1: because I feel like he's been around some of the events,
Speaker 1: and I know he was also doing the LFG stuff,
Speaker 1: But in light of the Meltzer report today, it is interesting.
Speaker 1: I hope so man, we need him back in the
Speaker 1: worst way. Gary Sean with a couple of nine to
Speaker 1: ninety nine super chats. Gary is just Gary is probably
Speaker 1: the reason we hit that bus around here would be
Speaker 1: the booker. So Gary, thank you, brother Gary put us
Speaker 1: over the top there. Without that, we wouldn't have gotten
Speaker 1: the clean sweep that we got. Dry Chicken, says Nikki
Speaker 1: Cross against Mariah May, Chucky and Ash Williams on commentary
Speaker 1: during Halloween, Sith Banks eighty seven with a five. Just
Speaker 1: join the show, So sorry if you already answered, But
Speaker 1: did you figure out the YouTube TV ESPN Unlimited? I've
Speaker 1: been trying to get it synced. I finally did today.
Speaker 1: I finally got the frickin thing to work, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try this weekend. We're going to give it a
Speaker 1: shot and see if I can actually access SummerSlam. Took
Speaker 1: long enough for YouTube TV to finally have the integration,
Speaker 1: but I just I couldn't get it to work. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't the only one. Like the option I was
Speaker 1: supposed to check off just wasn't there, so unless they
Speaker 1: were just like slow rolling it out. But I finally
Speaker 1: got it to work today, so we shall find out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Navy forty one eighty one says, the first pay per
Speaker 1: view I saw was Summer Slim eighty nine. That was
Speaker 1: a great one, dude, those are the metal Lands. A
Speaker 1: week later, Rick Rude beat the piss out of Roddy
Speaker 1: Piper on The Brother Love Show with a podium and
Speaker 1: the Rude Awakening. Summer Slim eighty nine is a favorite
Speaker 1: of mine. Great main event was Hogan and Beefcake against
Speaker 1: Macho or Macho King and Zeus. But really fun main event.
Speaker 1: He nineteen seventy two Bones, You're very welcome, but also
Speaker 1: the Warrior Rick Rude match on that show better than
Speaker 1: their WrestleMania match. Actually the best match I ever saw
Speaker 1: them have. They wrestled at Summer Slim in a cage
Speaker 1: match the following year, but that eighty nine match is
Speaker 1: the best one they had. Dry Chickens says, mister perfect
Speaker 1: against JBL what kind of stipulation is that? And buy
Speaker 1: everybody at pizza. I can't have it. That's terrible. Gabe California,
Speaker 1: what do you think makes a great wrestling match? Well,
Speaker 1: great wrestling to start, but also you need two people,
Speaker 1: whether it's two men two women, to tag teams that
Speaker 1: the fans can invest in. If you have the fans
Speaker 1: investing in what they're seeing, and it's not just some
Speaker 1: random match, but a match, let's say that's been built
Speaker 1: up for a while. Great heat, right, You want to
Speaker 1: have a great crowd. Great the crowd is so important
Speaker 1: in matches like that. A great crowd can take a
Speaker 1: decent match to a really good match, or a good
Speaker 1: match to a great match, or a great match to
Speaker 1: a legendary match like Rock and Hogan they wrestle maybe eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's not the same without that crowd. So what makes
Speaker 1: a great wrestling match is going to be objective. I've
Speaker 1: seen great wrestling matches that have different elements that they
Speaker 1: don't always have the ingredients to make like a perfect match.
Speaker 1: But you want to have, you know, good wrestling. You
Speaker 1: want to have good characters. Then you want to have
Speaker 1: good heat from the crowd. You put all that together
Speaker 1: and that's really all you can ask for. You just
Speaker 1: want to get the people to believe. You want to
Speaker 1: get them to invest. They don't care about what they're seeing,
Speaker 1: or they're indifferent, or they're quiet, or they're sitting on
Speaker 1: their hands, they're on their phones. It's a bad wrestling match.
Speaker 1: You could do all the moves and the flips and
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy shit. If nobody cares, or if
Speaker 1: nobody's reacting to it and it doesn't really mean anything,
Speaker 1: how can you call that a great match? Charlotte versus Jade.
Speaker 1: Maybe the interim title on the line next Friday. I
Speaker 1: told you, look, if it's not going to be Lash,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Ja. I don't see Charlotte winning on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But somebody said that was that announced already that Charlotte
Speaker 1: and Jade are having a singles match on SmackDown next Friday.
Speaker 1: I think I saw somebody mention that what night is
Speaker 1: Chad and Penta? I believe that's going to be on
Speaker 1: Night Too. No, it is on Night Too, because it's
Speaker 1: one of the only matches on Night Too. I'm really
Speaker 1: looking forward to, and it will be in the first hour.
Speaker 1: I guess the first hours of these shows are not
Speaker 1: airing on ESPN like they've been doing, but I believe
Speaker 1: Penta and Gabler are playing for the first hour of
Speaker 1: Night two. Hey, Chris, what's going on? Chris? You came
Speaker 1: in right at the end. Brother, We're getting out of
Speaker 1: here all right. Well, thank you guys for being with me.
Speaker 1: We went two and a half hours today. Look at
Speaker 1: that you're crazy sobs in here man, good crowd, good stream,
Speaker 1: not a great SmackDown. I am hopeful. I am hopeful
Speaker 1: that we will have a great Summer Slam this weekend.
Speaker 1: It begins with Night one Tomorrow Night There it is
Speaker 1: Cody and punk Oba and Brock, the blowoff, the payoff,
Speaker 1: Hell in a Cell and Nick All this first time
Speaker 1: ever in a WWE ring. The big question will Cody
Speaker 1: go heal? Will Randy Orton make an appearance? Well, Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens make a return? Apparently he's in Minneapolis. This is
Speaker 1: the night I'm looking forward to the most. I will
Speaker 1: be live on YouTube when it is over. Be aware
Speaker 1: that it's a six pm Eastern start time. So I
Speaker 1: don't know that I see this show going four hours,
Speaker 1: but it could. I suppose it's possible. I would think
Speaker 1: I'll probably be live by ten. I would imagine between
Speaker 1: nine thirty and ten. But whenever it's over, you give
Speaker 1: me a few minutes and then I'll be live on
Speaker 1: YouTube for the full review. Sound Off Episode nine seventy
Speaker 1: four is going to be dropping on Sunday, and then
Speaker 1: Sunday night we do it over again for night too.
Speaker 1: You get three podcasts from me this weekend. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a lot of me this weekend. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be so sick of me. I'm gonna be like
Speaker 1: Dan Housen by the time this weekend is over. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to see my face. But at least
Speaker 1: you know I'll always deliver for you, so I'll be well,
Speaker 1: Stay safe and yourself. Is a great rest of your
Speaker 1: night and a good weekend, and I will see you
Speaker 1: for Night one of Summer Slam tomorrow night. Until then,
Speaker 1: take care, guys.