WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.439 Oh my goodness, New York City. Man. They let me 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:05.719 tell you some when they are at Madison Square Garden. 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.000 WWE likes to go all out for these shows. And 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.119 tonight was not just a Madison Square Garden show. Tonight 5 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:17.920 was the final Raw of John Cena's active career. John Cena, 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:20.600 one last time in the ring on Monday Night Raw Tonight. 7 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:27.120 This was a very newsworthy, very eventful, very fun episode 8 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.160 of Raw. There was a lot going on. Honestly, one 9 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.760 of the best raws all year, coming off one of 10 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.320 the worst smackdowns all year last week, actually the week 11 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:39.439 before last. So the difference between the two shows at 12 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.039 the moment, it is quite striking, I must say. But 13 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:47.039 John Cena was all about him tonight, the new Intercontinental Champion. 14 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:48.880 He came out, What were they going to do with 15 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.520 him here on the show tonight? What would he do 16 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.640 with Survivor series? Because so we're only a couple of 17 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:55.719 weeks away, two and a half weeks away whatever it 18 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.600 is from Survivor Series, And there really was a big 19 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.479 question Marcus to what John Cena would be doing on 20 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.840 that show. We know he's going to be in San Diego. 21 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.000 He's always been advertised for that show. Would they just 22 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.040 simply run back a rematch between him and Dominique Bisterio 23 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.239 from last week? Would they have him maybe in his 24 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.040 first ever War Games match that was also a very 25 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.640 distinct possibility. Well, now we have our answer as far 26 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:22.640 as what John Cena is going to be doing on 27 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.280 that show, and in fact, he will be wrestling Dominicq 28 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:30.159 Bysterio in a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship, so his 29 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.079 match at that show is now set. Tonight was also 30 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.879 about the Last Time is Now Tournament, who will wrestle 31 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:41.640 John Cena December thirteenth in his final match on Saturday 32 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.120 Night's main event, And we had two more matches in 33 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.200 the tournament tonight Solo Soukoa was wrestling a mystery man 34 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.760 and the other match is the one that I was. 35 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:52.840 The one thing on the show tonight really more than 36 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:57.040 anything else that I was most looking forward to was Gunther, 37 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.959 who we have not seen since SummerSlam, taking on Javon Evans. 38 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:04.920 And now that we know there's no more mystery people 39 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.760 in the tournament, we already know all the names in 40 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.919 the Last Time is Now Tournament. Javon Evans was the 41 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.599 only representative from NXT in this tournament, which I will 42 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:19.000 say is quite disappointing. You know, now that we can 43 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.360 see who's in the tournament and kind of get a 44 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.960 sense of where things are going, I will say they 45 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.879 could have done a better job with this tournament. But 46 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:28.960 this was the match I was most looking forward to 47 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.000 in the entire thing. I was hoping we might get 48 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.439 it later on at the tournament. Give Javon a few 49 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.120 wins on his way to the match with Gunther, but 50 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.960 they gave it to us tonight. It did not disappoint 51 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.080 as far as Whosolo so CoA stepped into the ring with. 52 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.800 We had a return tonight of a former WWI star, 53 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:50.800 very much in the same vein of what we saw 54 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.879 on SmackDown Friday Night where La Knight had a mystery 55 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:59.000 opponent and out came Matt Cardona. Only he wasn't Matt Cardona. 56 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.840 He was Zach Rider because that's the last time people 57 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.479 would have seen him on WWE television. He was Zach Ryder. Well, 58 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.680 tonight it was Nick Nemath, only he didn't come out 59 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.639 as Nick Nemath. He came out as Dolph Ziggler, because 60 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.159 that is how the WWE audience would remember him. That's 61 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.319 the last time we saw him. He was Dolf Zigler 62 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.360 on TV, so he was the big surprise there. But 63 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.639 you talk about surprises, they loaded up for Bear with 64 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.439 the surprises on this show tonight, even though they weren't 65 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.960 all surprise. I mean, we kind of knew at least 66 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.680 some of the names that were likely going to be 67 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.520 on the show tonight. But they loaded this show up 68 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.000 with a lot of big names, and the biggest among 69 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.159 them Roman Reigns and Brock Lesner. There's only one reason 70 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:44.759 they would be on the show tonight, and that is 71 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.439 if they are going to be part of the War 72 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.680 Games match, which in fact they are. That now rounds 73 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.919 out the teams because it was four on four coming 74 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.879 into tonight. Now we know what the field is going 75 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.800 to be. Now we know it's five on five. Roman 76 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.280 Reigns on the baby face side, brought Lesner as a 77 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.319 favorite of Paul Hayman. He is the fifth man on 78 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.039 Team Vision. I guess we can call it Team Vision 79 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.560 even though there's only two members technically of the Vision 80 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.039 that are on this team. But they saved those two 81 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.000 returns for the very end of the show. We had 82 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.639 an Women's Intercontinental Championship match tonight and talk about women's 83 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.120 war games. Becky Lynch was defending her title tonight against 84 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.000 Maxine Dupre. They've been feuding now for a few months. 85 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.959 Maxine came into this show with two wins over Becky Lynch, 86 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.040 none of which were by you know, submission or any 87 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.199 sort of decisive win, but you know, wins nonetheless, and 88 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:42.360 so tonight the championship was on the line. The question 89 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.600 is what they have Maxine beat her for a third time? 90 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.279 Would this be the night that aj Lee would make 91 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.560 her return? Would aj Lee factor into the finish of 92 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.079 the match, which is what I've been talking about because 93 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.839 we have not seen aj Lee since Wreussell Palooza, which 94 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.040 was almost two months ago. And not only did we 95 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.120 get the return of Aja Lee tonight, it directly led 96 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.120 into the finish of the match, which was Maxine Dupre 97 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.600 pinning Becky Lynch to become the new Women's Intercontinental Champion. Yes, 98 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.120 Maxine Dupre won a singles title in this company before 99 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:18.839 Chad Gable did. I really don't know what to say 100 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.199 to that, but here we are, this is the world 101 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.399 we live in. But good for her, I mean She 102 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.959 was as shocked as anybody. I think her parents were there. 103 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:29.959 This was like a big moment for her, her first 104 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:34.079 championship win and it comes in Madison Square Garden and 105 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:38.959 it's going to directly now, i'd believe, feed into women's 106 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.319 wargames and who fills out those last two spots because 107 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.240 women's war Games at the moment is still four on four. 108 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.439 It will not be for much longer. We saw the 109 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.120 backstage segment later in the show where Rio Ripley wanted 110 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.279 to have a conversation with aj Lee. We're gonna get 111 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.879 aj on one side, We're gonna get Becky Lynch on 112 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.800 the other. That's going to be your women's wargames field 113 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:07.160 five on five Team AJ team Becky. So now we know, 114 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.959 right whatever questions we had that were still lingering as 115 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.079 far as wargames coming into tonight, even though the women's 116 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.519 stuff is not official yet, but now we know where 117 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.800 things are headed as far as that goes. The other 118 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.319 thing also about women's wargames, I say that the fields 119 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:26.519 are complete at five on five because Charlotte Flair was 120 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.199 back on the show tonight, coming to the rescue really 121 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.680 more so of her friend Alexa Blisz, not so much 122 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.040 Rhea Ripley and EO. Sky, but they certainly left you 123 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:38.040 with the impression that she was going to end up 124 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.959 joining on the babyface side. Even after the angle they 125 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:45.399 just did on Friday night. They've already negated the angle 126 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.759 that they did on SmackDown on Friday night. They rushed 127 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.199 right into this Charlotte. She was right back on TV tonight. 128 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.160 I don't even know what the point, frankly, of what 129 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.399 we saw on Friday was, if they were just going 130 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.639 to rush right into it. But again, it looks like 131 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.279 we have our five on five field. And for all 132 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.480 the problems that I've talked about in recent weeks when 133 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.279 it comes to SmackDown, and there are a lot of them, 134 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.560 and on top of that, the show's going to three hours, 135 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.079 as if that's gonna make it any better. SmackDown's got 136 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.160 a lot of problems. But I will say, you know, 137 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.279 you watch a show like the one that we got tonight, 138 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:22.639 and part of the problem with SmackDown is you watch 139 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.160 a loaded episode of Raw like this and you see 140 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.040 what they gave us on tonight's show, and I get 141 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:29.680 it was the Garden and it was a special night 142 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.680 for Sena. But we got John Cena on the show tonight, right, 143 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.439 He hasn't been on SmackDown. His last SmackDown was what 144 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.519 months ago, right two months ago? So we got John 145 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.759 Cena on the show. We had the returns of Roman 146 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:48.279 Reigns and brock Lesner and aj Lee, and even Dolf 147 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.759 Ziggler made an appearance here on the show What is 148 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:56.879 Left for Friday? Like What's Left for Friday? They get 149 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.879 the scraps. That show could use all the help it 150 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.879 can get. It didn't do smackdow this week any favors 151 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.040 by loading up this raw show the way that they did. 152 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:07.920 But I got to give a shout out to Brian 153 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:11.680 shout out to Brian Bird. I chuckled when he tweeted 154 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.120 this to me, but when the show is over, he 155 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.399 did send me this. He goes John Cena, brock Lesner, 156 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:22.160 Roman Rains, cm Punk, aj Lee, raymus Stereo, Nikki Bella 157 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:27.240 goes man. This raw from twenty thirteen was lit and 158 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.000 I'm like, you know what, He's kind of got a point. 159 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.000 It does feel in some way like we have fallen 160 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.799 into a time warp and we've gone back by about 161 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.720 twelve or thirteen years with all the names we saw 162 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.679 on the show tonight, but it did make for a 163 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.600 fun show. We'll talk about the whole thing here. This 164 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:46.639 is your raw on Netflix review. It is Monday night. 165 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:51.600 It is November seventeenth, twenty twenty five, not twenty thirteen. 166 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.960 Even though it might feel like it, I am the 167 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.159 solemn monster. You know, it strikes me now that I 168 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:03.279 say that date out loud. November seventeen? It was? Was 169 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:06.919 it thirty? No? Oh? Was twenty nine? Twenty nine years ago? Tonight, 170 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:13.320 on this very day at Madison Square Garden, Psycho Sid 171 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.559 beat Sewn Michaels at Madison Square Garden to win the 172 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.960 WWF Championship in that very building that they ran tonight. 173 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.840 How about that, Believe it or not, That's actually one 174 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:28.039 of my favorite matches at Survivor series, best match of 175 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.399 Sid's career, Shawn Michaels and Sid at MSG. That was 176 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.480 when the crowd turned on Shawn Michaels that night, and 177 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.639 they were very happy to see Sid win the title 178 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.720 for the first time. And that's right, Rock, That's right. 179 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:43.080 Rock made his debut on the Survivor series that night 180 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.039 as well. He was the sole survivor for his team, 181 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.559 So there you go. That was like an afterthought that 182 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:53.240 guy the Rock, Whatever happened to that Rocky my via guy? 183 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:56.320 That's right. I was thinking, like, did anything else of 184 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.399 note happened on that show? I'm like, no, I don't 185 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.919 think so. Yes, the fucking Rock debuted that night, So 186 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.080 let's get into this. Here's right. Undertaker came down like Batman. 187 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:12.360 One of the silliest Undertaker entrances honestly of his entire career. 188 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.639 That was the tear drop Undertaker. He had the tear 189 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.679 drop on his cheek. I'm pretty sure that had the 190 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.440 symbolism there. I think a friend of his may have 191 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.000 passed away. I don't know who it was. I don't 192 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.440 know what the circumstances were, because I always wondered about that, 193 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.080 like what was it the fucking tear drop, because like, 194 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.759 after a year it was gone, but it was just 195 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:36.000 weird and there was never any explanation for it. But yes, 196 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:40.399 he descended from the ceiling as Batman that night. Thankfully 197 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.279 he never did that again. Now, last week in Boston, 198 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.960 they opened the show with Triple H in the ring 199 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:50.679 because he knew it was all sold out, and he 200 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.360 goes man, I got to make sure I'm a part 201 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.360 of this. Maybe he was marking out he wanted to 202 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.879 be a part of Johnson his last segment in Boston, 203 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.120 No Triple H tonight to give us a whole speech 204 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.720 before John Cena came out. They went on the air 205 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.279 and John Sena was out to the ring to open 206 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.480 the show here in New York City. That was Boston, 207 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:16.440 this was NYC got a massive reaction here his final 208 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.279 entrance as an active performer here at MSG. So of 209 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.200 course you had to expect that it was going to 210 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.120 be a big reaction here. And even when he got 211 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:25.960 to the ring and he called for the music to 212 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:29.639 be stopped, they kept cheering and chanting his name, and 213 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:34.360 then Alicia Taylor did her introduction for him. We got 214 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.440 chance of thank you Sena. He told him the champ 215 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:42.200 is here, said MSG has allowed him to perform here 216 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.879 for twenty three years. Tonight is the last time that 217 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.200 they can talk together on Monday Night Raw. And you 218 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.679 know when he said that, it really hit me that 219 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.720 this was his last television appearance. I mean not just 220 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.279 his last RAW appearance, but the last time that he 221 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.159 will come to the ring like he did tonight. A 222 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.799 segment on one of the weekly shows to talk to 223 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.080 us and cut a promo because the only two dates 224 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.600 left a Survivor series and then Saturday Night's main event. 225 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.840 That's it, you know. And I'm sure we'll see SNA 226 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:13.879 back on TV at some point, but it'll just be 227 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:16.720 like a high hi, how are you you know? Kind 228 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.039 of thing. So, yeah, this was pretty historic in multiple 229 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.720 ways tonight, but he goes it's bittersweet for some but 230 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.200 an important moment for him, and he wants to take 231 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.279 a second. Well, I mean, he could take all the 232 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:32.679 time he needs because he didn't get any further in 233 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:38.080 this promo before he was interrupted by Dominic Mysterio made 234 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.600 his way out to the ring. No cheers for domin 235 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.960 New York. I don't care how popular he's been. These 236 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.879 segments with Sena he has gotten. It's like old school 237 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:50.080 Dominic Mysterio. Nothing but he he comes down to the ring, 238 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:55.960 says last week, Sena was handed a title shot, just 239 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.600 like he's been handed everything else. Meanwhile, he has fought 240 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:03.000 for every he has, so he wants a rematch for 241 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:08.080 his intercontinental title. Sina said he came to the right building. 242 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.799 He's not backing down on his last Monday Night Raw. 243 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.639 Tonight it will be John Cena against Dominic Mysterio for 244 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.320 the Intercontinental Championship, right here, right now, And Dom looked 245 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:25.840 at him, and Dom smirked and said no, said they 246 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.759 already did things seen his way. He had management on 247 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:32.799 his side, he had his hometown on his side, so 248 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.759 now they're gonna do it his way. And the fans 249 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.639 greeted him with chance of shut the fuck up. He says, 250 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.960 you want to fight now or not? And Tom said no, 251 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:50.960 Survivor Series, San Diego, my hometown or my backyard, same shit. 252 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:55.799 Seina told him, no problem. I accept. Here's where he 253 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.120 has a problem though. He says he told the world 254 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.600 that he would have a match on his life Raw 255 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:03.320 and he sees an opponent right in the middle of 256 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.320 the ring. So for tonight, let's forget about this, said, 257 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.440 let's forget about the championship. This will be for San Diego. 258 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.159 But tonight it could be you and me, one on 259 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:15.159 one here on Monday Night Raw. And he goes, do 260 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.480 you feel lucky? Punk? And I thought that was going 261 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:18.600 to be a cue. They were going to do a 262 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.759 tag team match with seeing him Punk his tag team partners. Now, 263 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.480 after this the Judgment Days music hit and Finn Balor 264 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:30.200 walks out with JD McDonough make their way to the ring. 265 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.320 Sena took his shirt off and he was ready for 266 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.240 a fight, but it was three on one and Dom 267 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.519 told him, you're not gonna get your final match on Raw, 268 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.279 but what you are going to get is your ass 269 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.559 beat and they pounced on him. Three on one. Who's 270 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:48.440 gonna come out Seamus. Shamus runs down to the ring 271 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:50.960 to make the save, but it was still three on 272 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:55.240 two until Raymisterio came out to even things up and 273 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.879 the Judgment they got dumped out of the ring. Sena said, 274 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.480 We're gonna have a six man tag team match right here, 275 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.559 right now. It's going to be the Judgment Day against Seamus, 276 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:07.679 Raymys Stereo and John Cena. He's aid, get a referee 277 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.320 out here, and they went to commercial. So a few 278 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.360 things to unpack here. We are getting a rematch with 279 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:18.000 Sena and Dom, and I'm okay with that. You know, 280 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.080 I was talking about this the other day and I'm like, man, 281 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:22.480 I thought they were going to do an open challenge, 282 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:24.720 right we didn't know what seen his final match was 283 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.480 going to be. I said, I can see it being 284 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.159 an open challenge. The other idea that I flowed in, 285 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.799 and this was something I tweeted I think last week. 286 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.320 I said, if they're not going to go the way 287 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:38.240 of the open Challenge or haven't put the belt on 288 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:41.720 the line, watch for a tag team match, because I 289 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:44.039 could see John Cena and raymus Stereo as tag team 290 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.960 partners against Finn Balor and Dominic Masterio, which is what 291 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:48.960 we got tonight, only they made it a six man 292 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.120 tag so instead of Seena and Ray, he was seen 293 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.200 a Ray and Seamus. And I have no issue with 294 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.279 them adding Seamus because that will very likely be the 295 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.080 last time that we see John Cena and Shamus work 296 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.240 together because I got news for you, Seamus ain't winning 297 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:06.159 that tournament. So I'm totally fine with them getting Sena 298 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.080 and shame Is back in the ring together, even if 299 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.879 it's on the same side. That was very cool to see. 300 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.639 And then you have JD McDonough and there basically is 301 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.320 the fall guy. I mean, let's be honest. So that 302 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.399 was the match that they made Sena and dom and 303 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.919 San Diego. I like it just because it's a way 304 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.000 to get the championship off of him before they go 305 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.519 to Saturday Night's main event. There is no need for 306 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.960 him to defend that championship in his last match, especially 307 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.960 if it's gonna be against the man that I think 308 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.480 we all know who it's gonna be. Now that we 309 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.480 know all the names in the tournament, you know you 310 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.120 don't have an Obafemi in the tournament, and Jevon Evans 311 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.480 isn't winning the tournament. Someone like that would benefit from 312 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.559 wrestling John Sena next month and actually taking the title 313 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:50.519 and then getting a run with it on the main 314 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.120 roster to like start them out. Now that we know 315 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.440 it's not gonna be anybody like that, there's no fucking 316 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.919 point to keeping that championship on him. He has to 317 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.960 drop it at Survivor Series. That's it and simple, and 318 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.640 he's gonna drop it back to Dom in San Diego. 319 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.480 Now it could have been somebody else. Sure he beat 320 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.440 Dom last week. It didn't hurt Dom to be in 321 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.519 the ring with John Cena, right, that's not a bad 322 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.519 spot for him to be in. And now they're gonna 323 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.359 have him pay it back and he's gonna do the 324 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:23.920 honors for Dom at Survivor Series, and that's gonna be 325 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.519 huge for Dominique Mysterio, And yes, he's probably not gonna 326 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.200 win the belt back clean. I would be shocked frankly 327 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.279 if he does. But he's gonna get his win back. 328 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.480 Very likely he's gonna get the title back, and we 329 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.200 won't have to worry about the Intercontinental Championship having anything 330 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.799 to do with John Cena's final match, because it should 331 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.319 not be about that should be a bad John Cena 332 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.720 and whoever his opponent is gonna be And adding a 333 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.759 championship to the mix, frankly, only makes things more predictable 334 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:56.720 because think about it, it could go either way. John Cena 335 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.319 could win. They might want him to get the triumphant 336 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.599 heroic win in his final match, even though if it 337 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:04.319 were up to him, he would probably, you know, lose 338 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:09.119 or he might lose, and he probably should lose. But 339 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.119 if you throw the championship in there, it just makes 340 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:13.039 it that much more predictable. So for a lot of 341 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.480 different reasons, it's good that they're doing this, whether or 342 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.759 not you think it should be DOM. I mean, you 343 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.119 can pick knits when it comes to that, but DOM 344 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.440 is the future. Like there are certain guys that you 345 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.680 can look at right now on the WWE roster okay 346 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.559 on the men's side, and it's less than five, but 347 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.200 there are certain names, and there's three of them really 348 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.680 that actually four, I think there's four of them that 349 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:41.359 stand out. In particular. You've got Obafemi is going to 350 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:46.039 be a massive deal unless Triple H just completely fucks 351 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.240 him up. Obafemi is going to be a major star 352 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:51.519 for them on the main roster in twenty twenty six. 353 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:57.000 So you've got Obafemi, You've got bron Breaker, right, You've 354 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:02.759 got Jacob Fatu, and you've got Dominic Mysterio. Those four 355 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:05.119 right there, and frankly, after what we've seen from him 356 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.079 this year, you could throw Javon Evans in there too, 357 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:09.799 but he's still I mean, look, he'll be on the 358 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:13.880 main roster soon then it should be. But he's also 359 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.759 twenty one years old, right, so when we talk about 360 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.400 the future and the here and now, Javon Evans can 361 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.960 be the hero and now in terms of elevating him 362 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:24.119 from NXT to the main roster. Javon Evans though, is 363 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.039 not going to be in the main event NIX right now. 364 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:29.559 That's where you know a bron Breaker or a dom 365 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.599 who's got many more years on him on the main roster. 366 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.200 Those guys will make it there before Javon does. But 367 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.279 these four or five guys, this is the future of 368 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:41.200 the company right here. And I haven't even mentioned any 369 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.759 of the women. But this is the future. And Dom's 370 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.720 going to be a massive babyface at some point, probably 371 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:50.640 next year. We're probably not going to have to wait 372 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:54.039 that much longer. So if Sinea is going to put 373 00:19:54.039 --> 00:20:00.400 anybody over, it should be someone like Dominic Mysterio. But anyway, 374 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:06.799 this match here, it started during the commercial break. Seb says, 375 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.440 did La Knight do anything on the show? La Knight? 376 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:14.680 He got a win over Zach Ryder on Friday, so 377 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.799 he is technically still in this tournament. It's not gonna win, 378 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:20.319 but he is in the tourney. Who's not on Raw 379 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:24.359 tonight though, So this six man tag started during the 380 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:28.079 commercial break. What happened was the judgment day, they teased 381 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.400 Bailing before they even got into the ring, so the 382 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.079 baby Faces said fuck this. They left the ring, and 383 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:37.480 they followed them into the aisleway and jumped them and 384 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.279 brought them back to the ring and it was mostly 385 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.200 Shamus beating up Dom until JD McDonough pulled the rope down, 386 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.359 Seamus went tumbling out to the floor. So when they 387 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:52.640 came back, the Heels had control over Seamus here in 388 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.400 this match, so they got heat on him for a 389 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.039 long time before he got the hot tag to Ray. 390 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:01.960 This was Ray's first match here on Raw in about 391 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.440 seven months. It was that Friday right before WrestleMania when 392 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:08.880 he got hurt. He had surgery, so this was it. 393 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.480 This his first time back in the ring, and he 394 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:14.039 looked good. You know. Again, he didn't have to wrestle 395 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:16.440 the whole match by himself because it was a six men, 396 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.960 but the spots he did and everything. He was in there, 397 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.519 taking bumps and flying around, so you know, he looked great. 398 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.599 He got Baleri position for the six to one to nine. 399 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:27.640 Dom though tripped him up when he hit the ropes. 400 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:31.440 Balor slid Ray out of the ring under the bottom 401 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:36.640 rope and he bounced off the floor outside hard and 402 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.160 that then we bounced into another commercial break. At that point, 403 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.000 Dom did the Three Amigos into a brain buster on 404 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.640 his father during the break before Baller tagged back in 405 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:49.599 Baler and McDonough. They were trying for a double team move. 406 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.640 It ended with McDonough getting crotched on the top rope. 407 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.000 Ray got a hot tag to John Cena, We got 408 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.160 the shoulder tackles to JD and we got the U 409 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.200 can't seem into the five knuckle shuffle. Sina went for 410 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.400 an attitude adjustment. McDonald landed on his feet kind of 411 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:09.440 took seeing it down with a head butt. Then the 412 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:12.559 judgment day they all hit their finishes on Sena. We 413 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:14.759 had Jad McDonough fly off the top rope with a 414 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:17.680 moon salt, We had Finn Balor fly off the top 415 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.440 rope with a kudigrass, and we had Dirty Dom fly 416 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:23.079 off with a frog splash. Then they all dog piled 417 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.799 on top of Sena for the pin. Seamus and Ray 418 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:27.279 they got in and they broke up the pin at 419 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.880 the last possible second. Ray got domin position for a 420 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.759 six one nine Balor though and McDonough pulled him out 421 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.279 to safety. So at that point, the baby faces they 422 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.599 all pulled the heels up onto the apron and we 423 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:48.680 got a triple ten beats. We got thirty beats to 424 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:50.759 the judgment day. Then in the ring they all got 425 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.640 three the three heels down and they did a triple. 426 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:57.119 You can't see me into what I guess would be 427 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.559 a fifteen knuckle shuffle. I guess that's what it would be, right. 428 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.000 So Ray hit a double six point nine to Dom 429 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.039 and McDonough who were in the ropes. Seamus hit Balor 430 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:11.440 with a brogue kick. This is all rapid fire this 431 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.559 finishing sequence, and Sena finished off McDonough with an attitude 432 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:19.640 adjustment to win it fourteen. Sina, it was actually a 433 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:23.680 hell of a finishing sequence. All action here, crowd ate 434 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:29.519 it up and all the babyfaces celebrated together. Seamus had 435 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.640 a big smile on his face. Sina looked happy Ray 436 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.160 was in there. Fans were happy. They left the ring, 437 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.039 and when they got to the stage, because they had 438 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.799 the minimalists set up to fit more people into Madison 439 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:43.839 Square Guard, they had a legit sellout tonight. It was 440 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:48.440 over eighteen thousand people and it was the stage where 441 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.799 you can see over the stage and they have more 442 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:54.279 fans behind, which I actually love. It was one of 443 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:55.759 the things you know, back in the day when you 444 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.160 had the giant Titan tron, like the raws War days, 445 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.160 you had that whole section behind the giant screen where 446 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:05.279 you just couldn't fit people. You had to have all 447 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.519 those empty seats. So like back then, imagine how many 448 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:10.440 more tickets they could have sold if they actually had 449 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.759 those seats open and available. And so now it's like, 450 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:16.000 now we're going to sell as many of these seats 451 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:19.519 as we possibly can, and we'll have just the set 452 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:22.640 itself is an led screen. We don't need a giant 453 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.640 Titan tron. So Seena is looking up at all the 454 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.599 fans that are behind the set and he tells Seamus 455 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:30.640 and Ray He's like, you can hear it, not hear him, 456 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:32.599 but you could see him. You have read lips here. 457 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.319 And he's telling them like stay right, and then he's 458 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:38.880 waiting and he's like, all right, turn around. So they 459 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:41.759 all turn around together and pose for the fans, and 460 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.359 Sina looks into the camera and he goes Monday night raw, 461 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:47.519 that's all she wrote. He goes love you, thank you, 462 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.160 and he left with Seamus's arm around his neck. Look 463 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:58.519 like two brothers walking off into the sunset here. Hey, 464 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.640 you know what Seamus is, he's not too far off either. 465 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:05.079 He's been around for a while and he's pretty beat up. 466 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.519 So he hasn't said anything about retiring in the near future, 467 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.680 you know, like aj Styles has said he's retiring next year, 468 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:16.400 but Seamus is getting pretty close to the Big five. Ooh, 469 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:18.839 and you know, in the next few years, who knows, 470 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.759 we may be having a similar situation where Seamus is 471 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.480 ready to hang it out and he could still go 472 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.640 at a high level. John Cena said he's getting out 473 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:30.279 now because he doesn't want to be that guy who 474 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:32.519 overstays as welcome and people look at him and go main, 475 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:35.880 he's washed, you know, he just can't do it anymore. 476 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:42.079 So as far as the match is concerned, I would 477 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:45.640 have if I had a preference, I would have preferred 478 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.319 that they did, even if just for one night. And 479 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.400 he dropped it tonight, although these fans really didn't want 480 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:55.279 to see Scena lose. But like an Intercontinental title Open challenge, 481 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:57.240 you know, in the spirit of the old US Title 482 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.160 Open challenge that he did and seen has always coming 483 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.440 out and talking about giving opportunities to people. As I 484 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.160 was given an opportunity, I'm gonna give somebody else an 485 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:09.359 opportunity and then have him in there with someone, maybe 486 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:14.319 someone that he's not wrestled before. Maybe maybe there's another 487 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:17.160 you know, young member of that NXT roster or someone 488 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:19.759 like that, like in a perfect world scenario, would have 489 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:23.240 been an important singles match as his final raw match. 490 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:26.119 They elected not to do that because they're saving the 491 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.440 Dominic match for a Survivor series. So we got a 492 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:32.000 six man tag and you know what, that's fine. It 493 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:35.200 was a crowd pleasing match. It got Seena in the 494 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:37.640 ring one last time with some big names like Ray 495 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.680 and Seamus. It was the feel good match, you know, 496 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:46.279 and Scena beating the judgment day makes sense because he's 497 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.160 going to lose that Survivor Series. Like for John Cena 498 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:53.799 to go to Survivor Series and win again against Dominic 499 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.839 Mysterio would be the antithesis of everything that John Sena 500 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.759 talks about representing. You know, Like I had no issue 501 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.039 with him winning last week. If he goes in there 502 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.960 and wins again at Survivor Series, that's very different. Like, 503 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.279 if you're going to run this match back, it's for 504 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:12.160 one reason and one reason only, because he's going to 505 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.759 do the honors for dom and drop the belt back 506 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.000 to him. Otherwise there is no point. There is no 507 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.400 point in running that match back if Sina is going 508 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:24.960 to win again. So he won tonight and when he 509 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.240 goes to San Diego, he's gonna lose, So there was 510 00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:30.880 nothing wrong with what they did here. It was a 511 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.960 fun final few minutes here. And believe me, that win 512 00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:37.440 at Survivor Series will mean a lot more for DOM 513 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:40.720 than a meaningless win and a six man tag would 514 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.559 have been tonight, Yeah, Roderick says, Joe Henry would have 515 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.559 gotten a massive pop. I thought that we were going 516 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.559 to get Joe Hendry on this show. I thought we 517 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:54.359 were going to get Joe Hendry in this tournament, and 518 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.400 they went with they went with a different TNA star instead, 519 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.519 although Joe Hendry is technically no longer a TNA star officially, 520 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.920 he's a WWE star now. If there was actually one 521 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:06.920 surprise on the show, it was who he didn't see, 522 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:09.680 which was Joe Hendry, who's in town by the way, 523 00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:12.640 because he's wrestling on NXT tomorrow night at the theater 524 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.440 at Madison Square Garden, actually teaming with THEA Hale to 525 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:19.880 take on Chelsea Green and even Page for the I 526 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:24.000 believe the TRIPAA mixtag team titles. So he'll be there 527 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.000 tomorrow night, but he wasn't there tonight. We go to 528 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.599 the back and we had the two general managers, Nick 529 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:35.400 All this Adam Pearce and they're talking about all this 530 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.400 is very unhappy about what happened at the end of 531 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:40.000 SmackDown on Friday when Drew McIntyre came back. He just 532 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.920 suspended this fucking guy and he came back. And the 533 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.559 loophole was that Paul Hayman had the right, as part 534 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:49.880 of Wargames to choose any star from any brand, and 535 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:52.559 you know, look, he I guess technically could choose someone 536 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.400 who was suspended. That's how Drew McIntyre got into war Games. 537 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:58.119 So they were talking about what happened. Paul Hayman enters 538 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:03.039 the room and he said that if my Drew McIntyre 539 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.119 pick pissed you off, wait until you see what I 540 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.400 have in store for our final team member in Wargames. 541 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:14.000 And he had the Wargames contract binder with him and 542 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:17.720 he handed it to them and he walked off laughing. 543 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:20.720 So the GMS open it up and they look at 544 00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:23.799 the contractor we can't see who the name is, but 545 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:25.720 they know who it is, and you can just read 546 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:28.480 their faces. They were not very happy about it, and 547 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.319 Adam Pierce says, well, this is going to be fun. 548 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:35.680 I think we already knew who that name was going 549 00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:38.079 to be, but they milked it. They were saving it 550 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:43.319 for the end of the show. During the break, Jackie 551 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:49.160 Redmond was at ringside and she interviewed Andrew Schultz, who 552 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.400 was a comedian in a podcast supposedly and a podcaster. 553 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:57.480 He's been there before. He got pretty well booed by 554 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:00.440 the fans here in New York. Not like Dominic Mysterio Boode, 555 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.079 but he got fucking booed. So he stands up and 556 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:06.119 he's talking about how great it is to be here. 557 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:09.119 He's like, let's have another round of applause here for 558 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.960 John Cena and his last night, and they're like boo, 559 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:16.960 like this fucking guy. So then he starts calling Dom 560 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:21.079 a nepo baby bitch, and we couldn't see the judgment 561 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:27.039 day is still a ringside, so Dom saunters over and 562 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:31.440 he says some stuff and the two of them end 563 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:33.880 up shoving each other. Dom gives him a shove and 564 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:39.119 he shoves him back. But that brought Cam Scataboo of 565 00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:41.519 the New York Giants, who was sitting right there in 566 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:46.920 the front row next to Andrew Schultz. Cam Scataboo stands 567 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.599 up the New York Giants running back who just suffered 568 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:54.519 a gruesome injury only a few weeks ago, the very 569 00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:58.880 end of October. And he's someone who, like, I'm not 570 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.079 a big Giant fan, my brother is. I have some 571 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:06.079 friends who are big Giants fans. Yeah, I can understand 572 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:09.000 they're suffering. As a Mets fan, I can understand. If 573 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:11.119 you're a Mets fan or a Jets fan or a 574 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:13.079 Giants fan, you're kind of all in the same boat. 575 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.279 Giants are not doing very well these days, but there's 576 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:22.319 a lot of optimism around Cam Scataboo. He's very likable 577 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.920 and his future with the franchise, and so anyway, he 578 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:30.119 suffers this gruesome injury. He dislocated his ankle, He ruptured 579 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.119 some sort of ligament I think he had. I think 580 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.160 he fractured his fibia, his fibula. I think it was like, 581 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:39.920 really really like the ankle bent in a way it 582 00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:44.000 wasn't supposed to, and he had to undergo emergency surgery. 583 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.799 So JD. McDonagh gets up in Scataboo's face and Scataboo 584 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:53.000 gave him a shove, and so a shoving match broke 585 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:56.519 out between the judgment day and a bunch of New 586 00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.359 York Giants players because he wasn't the only one. A 587 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.720 bunch of New York Giants players in the front row, 588 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:04.920 including Skataboo who got shoved, And I'm like, I'm watching 589 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:09.160 this and I'm actually stunned. I'm stunned, like if I 590 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:12.599 am New York Giants management and I'm watching this like 591 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.680 I'm sweating bullets watching this right now, although I'm probably 592 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.960 not sweating any more than I would any given Sunday 593 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.720 the way that fucking team plays. But I was a 594 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.680 little surprised that he got physical at all here in 595 00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.720 this segment, so they all had to be separated and 596 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:31.000 that was the end of that. So anyway, after this, 597 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:35.359 when they came back, Jackie Redmond was in the ring 598 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.079 to tell us that she is going to have a 599 00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:42.720 special interview momentarily with the Women's World Champion. But first 600 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.240 let's go back to last week and they replay what 601 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:51.680 happened when Nikki Bella turned heel on Stephanie Vequier and 602 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:56.039 attacked her and left her laying. So then Jackie introduces 603 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.519 Stephanie out to the ring and the Women's World Champion 604 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.160 did not make it beyond the stage because as soon 605 00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:06.039 as she came out, she gets ambushed from behind by 606 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.799 Nicki Bella, who grabs her and throws her into the 607 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:16.240 entrance set, into the led screen and then down goes Stephanie. 608 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:19.519 And now we're gonna hear from Nicki. Nicki Bella is 609 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.119 going to cut a promo here. She says she didn't 610 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.599 come back to sheer from the sidelines and be Stephanie's 611 00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:31.359 side p or side piece sidekick. Well, that would be 612 00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:35.079 an interesting storyline. She didn't come back to be Stephanie's sidekick. 613 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.200 She came back to take what's hers, which is the 614 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.039 entire division, and she thanks Mama Sita for reminding her 615 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:44.640 who the hell she is. Stephanie will give her a 616 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.319 title shot and will bow down. Everything about this was bad. 617 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:55.160 Nicki's promo is very flat and honestly, they should have 618 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.000 had her do something else or something more to Stephanie. 619 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.400 Like the worst part about this. He attack Stephanie from behind, 620 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:05.319 nothing particularly vicious, and she just throws her like one 621 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.800 throw into the screen and Stephanie, the Women's World Champion 622 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.880 and Crown Jewel Champion is down on the ground and 623 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:18.079 has to just lay there and listen to this promo 624 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:21.840 and sell and sell, and I'm like, she's still down? 625 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.599 How is she not back up? Fighting back here? Just 626 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.880 made her look so weak because Nicki didn't really do 627 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.639 much to her, but she's laying on the fucking ground. 628 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:33.960 It's like, what are we doing here? So I just 629 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:37.519 thought it made Stephanie look silly. And then we found 630 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:39.519 out later on the match is going to take place 631 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:43.840 at Survivor Series. So Stephanie defends her Women's World Championship 632 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.159 against Nicki Bella in San Diego. I know you're all 633 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.639 very excited. What does that bring the total to? We 634 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.679 have Sena and Dom, we have two War Games matches, 635 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:57.800 now we know Stephanie and Nikki. That's four. Are we 636 00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:02.119 to assume that we're gonna get the finals of the 637 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:05.599 John Cena Tournament on the pl or are they gonna 638 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.760 do it on Raw the following night, because I think 639 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.800 that should be a match at Survivor Series. For being honest, 640 00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:14.880 I think you do the match at Survivor Series, and 641 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:18.519 after Sena's match, you have the winner of the tournament, 642 00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:22.320 Gunther come out and maybe we have even even if 643 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:23.960 it's from a distance, but we have like a little 644 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.760 face off between Sena and whoever's final opponent is going 645 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.039 to be like a little teaser because we're not getting 646 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:33.400 John Cena on television again between now and his last 647 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:36.159 match like tonight was it. So if we're gonna have 648 00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.800 any sort of stare down or face to face or 649 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.519 confrontation with Sena and his opponent, it's going to have 650 00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:45.840 to take place at Survivor Series. So I would think 651 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.880 that you would do like maybe you open with women's 652 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.719 war Games, then maybe you do the finals of the 653 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.039 Sena tournament, and then after that you can do the 654 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.159 you can do the women's match and then and you 655 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:02.719 could do the scene a match, or you could do 656 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:04.880 the scene match and then the women's matches to come down, 657 00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.840 and then you close with men's war games. I would 658 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:09.679 think that would be the way. That's how I would 659 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.320 format the show, But I don't think they've specified where 660 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.639 exactly the finals are taking place. Survivor Series, though, is 661 00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:20.119 where it should be, and that there's your five matches 662 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.679 right there that gives you five triple Ah loves his 663 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:29.159 five matches. Backstage, Bailey and Lyra Valkyrie, they were walking 664 00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:33.760 walking and talking and Bailey spotted someone off camera who 665 00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:35.880 he couldn't see she goes, hold on a second, and 666 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:40.199 she walks over and it's the Kabuki Warriors. See, these 667 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:42.599 are like two K twenty five cut scenes in the 668 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:47.159 back where not even a cut scene, like your character 669 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:50.079 is in the back and people are just randomly standing around. 670 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.639 That's what this was, because apparently Oscar and Kyrie were 671 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:57.679 just standing there. I don't even know if they were 672 00:36:57.679 --> 00:36:59.519 talking to each other. They were waiting for somebody to 673 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.320 come over and talk to them. So Bailey comes over 674 00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:06.679 and Oscar says, look, we need five people for wargames, 675 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:10.599 and Bailey can be on their team. She could forgive 676 00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.800 the past, Let's be partners. And Bailey can't believe that 677 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.719 Oscar would have the audacity to even ask her to 678 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.280 be partners, and she turns her down flat. Oscar storms off. 679 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.840 Kyrie then does the you can't see me taunt to 680 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.719 Bailey and then of course, you know you hear Osca 681 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:33.239 in the background, and off goes com my goodness, off 682 00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:39.039 goes Kyrie. And Lyra was very impressed with Osca or 683 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:43.880 very impressed with Bailey turning Osca down, and Bailey just 684 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.960 basically said she called her an idiot and said let's 685 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:49.880 go and that was the end of that. So Bailey 686 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:51.960 and Lyra they will not be a part of Women's 687 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.360 War Games. I don't know what's next for them, but 688 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.519 that was their only segment on the show here tonight. 689 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.280 Next was our first of two matches and the John 690 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:08.920 Cena Last Time is Now tournaments with Solo's Socoa on 691 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.280 his way to the ring with Talatonga. I know you're 692 00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:15.840 all very disappointed. There was no j. C. Matteo, there 693 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.400 was no Tomatonga, there was no Great Tonga Loa on 694 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.440 the show tonight. But we got Talatanga who just he 695 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.719 stood there. He didn't get involved, he didn't really do anything. 696 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:28.599 He just stood there and looked menacing. But it was 697 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:34.239 Solo Socoa against a mystery opponent. That mystery opponent was 698 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:37.760 Dolf Ziggler, who got a big pop. You got a 699 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.159 big reaction from the crowd here at Madison Square, guard 700 00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:42.800 I gotta tell you, though, maybe it was just a 701 00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:47.480 scheduling thing. I don't know, but you would you would think, well, 702 00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:49.480 I don't know, I mean, you would think that if 703 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.639 you were going to have Cardona and Nemath in this tournament, 704 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:59.719 why not save Cardona for Madison Square Garden like I 705 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:02.960 would that Survivor series in Madison Square Garden in twenty eleven, 706 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:07.320 when the Zach Ryder stuff was really taking off and 707 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.119 the Rock came back. That night, he wrestled his first 708 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:13.800 match that night in like eight years. He teamed with 709 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:18.519 Sina against mis and Artrup and really the whole show. 710 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:21.440 But even when the show was over and Rock was 711 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.000 cutting a promo, he was being drowned out for a 712 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:27.000 while there by a chance of we want Ryder and 713 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:28.639 to the point where he had to stop his promo 714 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.840 and acknowledge it. So this was like where the Rider's 715 00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:34.880 stuff was really starting to take off. And if I 716 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.519 remember correctly, I think Writer funny enough. I think Writer, 717 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:40.159 and somebody will tell me if I'm wrong. I think 718 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:42.599 he wrestled Dolf actually at the beginning of the show 719 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:46.400 that night. But yeah, why not save Cardona for tonight 720 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.480 and have Nemath on Friday against La Night that I 721 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.880 don't really understand. But he got a big pop here 722 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:55.519 and I'm just watching this going. Man, I just called 723 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:59.559 a match with this guy forty eight hours ago at 724 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:02.960 the House Glory Show, and now here he is on 725 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:06.719 Monday Night Raw. It's funny how those things work, except 726 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.920 when I called the match on Saturday he was Nicknamath. 727 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:12.519 Tonight he was not Nick Namath. He was Dov Ziggler, 728 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.280 which I figured he would be after you know, Cardona 729 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:20.119 got Zack Ryder on Friday. Why would they have Ziggler 730 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.360 come out and be anything but Dolf Ziggler on this show. 731 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.280 So Ziggler got off to a hot start, beautiful drop kick, 732 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:31.320 but heading into the brake, Solo took control held it 733 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.559 all the way through the break until they came back. 734 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:38.039 Ziggler did manage a famouser for a near fall. Sikoa 735 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:42.119 came back with a huge spinning solo slam for a 736 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:47.039 near fall of his own, and he brandished the taped 737 00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:50.440 up thumb. He was gonna go for the Samoan spike. 738 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:53.800 Dolph ducked it and got a roll up for a 739 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:57.360 close two, and then he hit the zigzag and what 740 00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.679 a fucking reaction for this. And he went for the 741 00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:02.880 cover and he hooked the leg and everybody thought maybe 742 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.840 he would have it, and then Solo kicked out at 743 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.320 the last second, and I had flashbacks there with the 744 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.519 reaction when he hit that zigzag. Here I had flashbacks 745 00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:12.559 of the reaction when he hit that when he cashed 746 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:17.199 in on Alberto del dipshit and he hit that zigzag, 747 00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.079 and it was actually at the Aizid Center in New Jersey, 748 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.239 so not too far from here, and he won the championship, 749 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:26.360 you know, his sole world heavyweight championship. He won the 750 00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:30.039 championship with that move, but it was not to be here. 751 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:32.800 He followed up with a super kick. He tried for 752 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.840 another zigzag, Solo shook him off and then spiked him 753 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.880 right in the throat and he got the three count 754 00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:47.199 to advance. So both TNA guys in this tournament are 755 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:52.280 ousted in the opening round. Thanks for coming. The funny 756 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.559 thing is they never I don't think one time acknowledged 757 00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.440 that they are currently wrestling in TNA. I mean, this 758 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.559 is just this is the way they operate. N XT 759 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:04.400 is a whole other beast. But on the main roster, 760 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:06.440 not only do they get their old names back, you 761 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:10.159 can't even acknowledge that they are a part of TNL. 762 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.960 If they did on commentary, I didn't hear it. It's like, oh, 763 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.639 look who's back. Zach Ryder is back. Oh my god, 764 00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.639 Dolf Ziggler is back. Everybody, I guess he's just been 765 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:27.280 chilling for the last few years. They're just hanging out. 766 00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:33.760 Oh man, can't even tell people where they are, how 767 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:38.920 you can find them what they've been up to. So, yeah, 768 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:41.320 you have dolv Ziggler here booked to lose. I mean, look, 769 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:44.159 the more things change, the more they stay the same. 770 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:47.719 What did you really expect? He was treated like a 771 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.480 perennial mid carter for basically the entirety of his career 772 00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:55.199 in this company. At no point was dolv Ziggler treated 773 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:58.079 truly treated as any sort of main event talent, even 774 00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.960 though we had main event talent. He was a perennial 775 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:03.880 mid carter, you know, or upper mid carter his entire 776 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:07.079 time in the company, did whatever they asked of him, 777 00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:10.159 and and you know, always, you know, knocked it out 778 00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.920 of the park, super talented, super athletic, to the point 779 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.840 where I think it actually worked to his disadvantage. That's 780 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:19.079 why they wanted him to help make other people look 781 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.360 good at his own expense. But that's how they used them, 782 00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:25.039 you know. I mean, so you had to know that 783 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:28.519 he wasn't beating Solo Socoa even though everybody else does. 784 00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:33.079 Finally they found somebody who solo could beat I mean, 785 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:35.639 Solo's got the MFTs on SmackDown. We got to keep 786 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.639 them looking strong. The MFTs have a Survivor Series elimination 787 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.079 match coming up on SmackDown in two weeks. It's gonna 788 00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:45.599 be the MFTs against Samby's Aim Shins, Kay Nakamora, Ray Phoenix, 789 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.079 the MotorCity Machine Guns. Dolf Ziggler is back for one 790 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.119 night only. I mean, did you honestly believe that he 791 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:56.000 was going to beat Solo's Socoa. That's why I was. 792 00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:58.159 I was kind of hoping it would be Joe Hendry 793 00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:01.360 because Joe Hendry is now a fish, signed and sealed. 794 00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:05.920 He is a WWE superstar, even though he's going to 795 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:10.639 be an NXT, so it's like he's their guy. He 796 00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:14.920 could beat Solo Socoa. But even that was probably not 797 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.639 going to happen. So nothing about this was really much 798 00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:20.840 of a surprise. It's too bad, though, I'll tell you, 799 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:24.760 because had Ziggler advanced, it would have made for a 800 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:27.960 better match in the next round against anybody, it doesn't 801 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:29.079 even matter who you put him in the ring with. 802 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.760 It would have been a better match, but it was 803 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.800 not to be. So instead it's going to be Solo 804 00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:39.039 Socoa in the next round. They never put together any 805 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:42.440 kind of bracket for this. What they did show us though, 806 00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:45.719 is that Solo Sokoa will meet the winner of the 807 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.760 match that is coming up on Friday on SmackDown between 808 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:55.119 Finnbalor and Penta, which has to be Penta. I don't 809 00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:58.440 see them doing heel on heel in this situation, so 810 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:02.320 and honestly, they protect Penta more than they protect Pinn Balor, 811 00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.679 who lost tonight as well in that six man tag 812 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.760 So it should be Solo and pent it would be 813 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.519 my guess in the next round. So after this, it 814 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:17.079 was all on Javon Evans. It's like, okay, the t 815 00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:20.480 and a guy lost the heel won. We need Javon 816 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:22.719 to find a way to pull through tonight so we 817 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.000 can get a babyface win here in this tournament, because 818 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:27.880 if he doesn't do it, we get two heel wins 819 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.280 here on the show. And actually gave us a quick 820 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.440 video package for Javan, which I liked. I thought that 821 00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:37.599 was smart for them to do that. Now, after this, 822 00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:43.360 Alexa Blists, one half of the now former WWE Women's 823 00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:46.039 Tag Team Champions, made her way out to the ring 824 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:48.880 by herself They recapped the angle that they shot at 825 00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:52.239 the beginning to smack Down this past Friday, where we 826 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:56.360 had Rhea Ripley and Eosky and Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair. 827 00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:59.760 They were all in the ring together and I don't know. 828 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.000 Charlotte says, you know, Lexi, I can't do this. She 829 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.840 looks at Ria. She goes, Ria, I don't like you, 830 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:12.159 I don't respect you. I think you're a snake. And 831 00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:14.880 so I can't be a part of this team. And 832 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:17.840 she left. And so what are they doing. They're trying 833 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:20.679 to create some internal drama on the baby face side 834 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.280 heading into wargames. I said, all right, you let this 835 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.320 go for a week, two weeks, and then at the 836 00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:28.760 last minute Charlotte. Of course, Charlotte's gonna come home and 837 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.679 she'll be a part of the team. So that's what 838 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.079 led to this. And Alexa complained that Charlotte ignored all 839 00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.599 of her calls and text messages all weekend, and she 840 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.280 knows that she's been around because she sees her posting 841 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:44.239 photos of her frolicking around the city. So she called 842 00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:47.639 the cameraman over and she looked dead into the camera. 843 00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.280 She said, really, Charlotte said, after everything that we've been through, 844 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.599 I get that you're upset about us losing the tag 845 00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:57.599 team titles, but we can always get those back. It's 846 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:01.719 harder to get back trust. Everyone warned me not to 847 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:04.280 trust you, but I ignored them because I knew who 848 00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.239 you were on the inside. But maybe now Charlotte was 849 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:11.079 proving her wrong. Bliss said that she got her ass 850 00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:15.440 beat simply because Charlotte didn't like Ria Ripley. Charlotte wasn't 851 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:18.280 there when Bliss needed her best friend. And I should 852 00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:22.239 point out that Alexa Bliss was getting what chance throughout 853 00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.880 the segment, and I thought she handled it well because 854 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:27.320 she acknowledged them and she kind of incorporated them into 855 00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:30.199 the promo. She's like, yeah, really, guys, and they just 856 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:33.440 kept going with it because you know, they get drunk 857 00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:37.079 and stupid, and that's what stupid people do. So she 858 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:41.440 handled it as best she could, but she was interrupted 859 00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:47.199 by Oscar Kyrie, sain Naya Jax, and Lash Legend. Naya, 860 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:51.480 as Bliss's former friend, said that she understood exactly why 861 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:54.760 Charlotte left her, and the Heels surrounded Bliss on the 862 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:58.239 apron Rhea Ripley and Eosky. They ran out to the 863 00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.599 ring to join her. They were still out numbered though 864 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:04.519 Ripley and EO they brawled with Oscar and Kyrie on 865 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.199 the outside. That left Alexa alone in the ring with 866 00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:12.880 Naya Jackson Lash legend. Charlotte finally runs out to honestly 867 00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:16.840 a pretty tepid reaction, like not a big pop or 868 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:19.360 anything like that when they played her music, But she 869 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:21.320 ran out to the ring with a kendo stick. She 870 00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:25.360 attacked Naya and Lash with the kendo stick over and 871 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.480 over and over and over and over again, just lashed, 872 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:33.800 no pun intended. She was lashing Lash over and over 873 00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:37.559 and over until finally they rolled out of the ring. 874 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:41.840 So Charlotte helps Bliss up to her feet, gives her 875 00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:46.920 a hug, and then on the opposite well really in 876 00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:52.800 the opposite corner are Rea, Ripley and Eosky and EO 877 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:57.760 ses Charlotte hugging Alexa. So Eo, in like a very 878 00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:01.960 comedic way, grabs and gives her a big hug, and 879 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.360 he's looking at Charlotte like, oh yeah, so that was 880 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.519 kind of amusing, and Charlotte couldn't help but start cracking 881 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:14.559 up laughing. She obviously could not contain herself that was honestly, 882 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.480 the most amusing part of the entire segment were the 883 00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:21.760 last five seconds. So I have a question for all 884 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:27.039 of you, are you ready? Are you ready for Kendo 885 00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:29.960 Games coming up in a few weeks in San Diego, 886 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:33.880 because that's what we're getting. Get ready for the Kendo sticks. 887 00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:36.440 You got a little preview of it here tonight on 888 00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:40.360 the show. It's war Games. But I just love how 889 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.199 they rendered that whole angle they did. I mean, I 890 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:46.840 guess they could still tease tension during the match between 891 00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:48.920 Charlotte and Rhea, but I don't know. I kind of 892 00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:51.239 feel like they just rushed right through what should have 893 00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:55.239 been an angle that went at least another week. And 894 00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:58.000 then you bring Charlotte home, you know, maybe on the 895 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.639 Go Home Show or something. It's like, what was the 896 00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:02.599 point of even doing that angle on Friday where she 897 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:04.840 walked out and says, I can't team with you, And 898 00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:08.000 then tonight she comes out to save Alexa, but she's 899 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.599 in the ring and they're talking like, all right, well, 900 00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:12.599 we don't know what Charlotte's gonna do, but yeah, it 901 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:14.599 kind of looks like she's gonna be on the team 902 00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:19.159 after all. It's like, Okay, way to render that angle 903 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:23.119 kind of pointless from Friday, just rush right through it. 904 00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:27.199 This wasn't much of a segment. This was the weak 905 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.920 point of the show. Alexi's promo was fine, it was good, 906 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:36.840 but the segment itself was really nothing special. After this, though, 907 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:42.840 we had Becky Lynch defending the Women's Intercontinental Championship against 908 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:47.159 Maxine Dupree. Jessica Carr was the referee yet again for 909 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.960 Becky's match, and Becky hasn't complained before that this referee 910 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:54.519 has constantly screwed her over in these matches, so of 911 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.360 course she keeps getting assigned to these matches, and what 912 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:03.039 do they think, this is the NBA. So the crowd 913 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:06.400 was mostly bored. Honestly for the first few minutes of this. 914 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:09.480 You could tell because they broke out their phones and 915 00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:14.159 they just started doing the fireflies. They were more entertaining 916 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:18.199 themselves than being entertained by this match. Becky was arguing 917 00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:20.880 with Jessica as she called for the bell to actually 918 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.719 start the match. I should point that out. So they 919 00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:25.800 did a very quick near false spot at the very 920 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:29.800 beginning that nobody bought anyway. Later on, as this thing 921 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:34.199 went on, Maxine hit a Fisherman's suplex. She dropped her 922 00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:39.000 straps and she hit really missed a leg drop for 923 00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:42.519 an ear fall. Becky booted her arm and then tried 924 00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.119 to target it, obviously setting it up for the disarm. 925 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.000 Her Maxine, though, fought back again. Becky lifted her out 926 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:51.719 of the corner and hit a power bomb. Becky tried 927 00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:55.559 applying an armbar. Maxine bridged out of it, and she 928 00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:59.199 got an ankle lock applied, and then she ultimately grapevined 929 00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:02.719 the legs like Kurt angle in there, and she's got 930 00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:04.880 her in the center of the ring. And this is 931 00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.440 where the fans started to really get into it, because 932 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.559 once she got the grapevine and she was kind of 933 00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:12.360 in the middle of the ring, the fans are like, oh, 934 00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:16.239 wait a minute, here, she might actually win with this move. 935 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:19.199 And Becky is teasing that she might tap out, and 936 00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:21.679 she's screaming in pain and she's flailing around and she's 937 00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.000 trying to find her way out of this. So she 938 00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:29.480 does ultimately manage to slip out of the hold and 939 00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.920 she kicked Dupre in the arm again. Becky hit a 940 00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:35.119 man handle slam, but when she did, she hit it 941 00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.760 right next to the ropes, so we got the predictable 942 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.639 rope brake. When Maxine put her foot on the bottom rope, 943 00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:44.239 Becky got in the referee's face again and she starts 944 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:48.360 poking her in the chest and Jessica is not having 945 00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:52.719 any of this shit, so she's batting her hand down, 946 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:54.920 telling her you need to pay attention to your opponent, 947 00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:58.920 focus on the match. Becky threw Maxine out of the ring, 948 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:02.639 and as Jessica is checking on Maxine, Becky's in the 949 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:05.599 corner and she's trying to untie the top turnbuckle pad. 950 00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:09.079 And as she's attempting to do this, all of a sudden, 951 00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:13.119 we hear, let's light it up. And I'm not talking 952 00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:16.480 about Snoop Dogg. I'm talking about aj Lee. Aj Lee 953 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:20.599 skips out. We haven't seen her since Wrestle Palooza, so 954 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:23.639 she skips down the aisle right down to the ring. 955 00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:28.760 This distracts Becky and when Becky turns around, she gets 956 00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:32.239 caught by a flying crossbody. Maxine is flying through the air. 957 00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.119 She lands the crossbody, she hooks the leg, she gets 958 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:41.119 the flash pin, and just like that, she wins the 959 00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:45.800 Intercontinental Championship. So what this was if you remember and 960 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:48.440 if you were watching at the time, you remember this. 961 00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:50.880 This is one of those Raw moments that we'll get 962 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:55.480 talked about in you know, countdowns and best Raw Moments, 963 00:53:55.559 --> 00:54:00.280 Memorable Raw moments from two thousand and three. Before that 964 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:03.480 last match between Austin and Rock, Rock had a match 965 00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:08.119 on Raw against Hurricane Helms. And what happened right, Austin 966 00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:12.519 came out and distracted Rock and Hurricane got the pin 967 00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:15.639 and he quickly rolled out of the ring and he 968 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.440 ran away. It was and they played Austin's music too, 969 00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:21.880 like he won the match, like he technically has a 970 00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:25.239 win over the Rock, but it was because stone Cold 971 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:28.440 Steve Austin caused a distraction and they, as I recall, 972 00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:32.039 they played Austin's music even after Hurricane won. It's like 973 00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:35.880 he won, but it's like, I don't know, like did 974 00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:39.000 he really That's what this kind of felt like to me, 975 00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:48.360 Like Maxine won, but did she really? Not really? So 976 00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:51.239 it made her look a little bit weak, but she won, 977 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.280 and it got a great reaction at the finish, and 978 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:56.480 I think fans were also just really happy to see 979 00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:01.159 They're just really happy to see aj you know. So 980 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:04.639 Maxine immediately rolls out of the ring. She had a 981 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.400 look on her face like she couldn't believe it, and 982 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.000 they handed the championship to her. She was in shock. 983 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:13.599 She's you know, hugging and embracing Aj in the aisleway 984 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:19.000 holds the championship up, and they shoot Piro off behind her, 985 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:22.800 you know, on the by the stage. Becky was obviously 986 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.599 just beside herself with anger. In the ring, she was 987 00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:31.880 all pissed off. The match itself was really nothing special 988 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.320 what we saw of it. The match itself was nothing 989 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.719 special at all. But the thing is like Maxine Duprix. 990 00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:41.039 If you think about where Maxine Duprix was a year ago, 991 00:55:41.639 --> 00:55:43.559 and I actually think back to that house show. I 992 00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:45.519 don't remember when it was. Was it last year or 993 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:48.840 the year before, I don't remember, but there was a 994 00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:53.760 house show that made news because there were there might 995 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:58.000 be one fan who made some derogatory comment, like a 996 00:55:58.079 --> 00:56:03.159 very disrespectful comment at Maxim and everybody in the internet 997 00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:06.719 was very bothered by this and upset about this. And 998 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.159 I think she kind of, you know, took it in stride. 999 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.239 But to go from from that where she just wasn't 1000 00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:15.199 very good. She was someone who got thrown right into 1001 00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:18.320 the fire. She did not spend hardly any time in NXT. 1002 00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:20.639 They had this role for her as part of the 1003 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:24.559 Alpha Academy, and she's hot, so let's call her up 1004 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:26.840 to the main roster, even though she's really not ready 1005 00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:29.880 for that. And then they wanted her to wrestle, and 1006 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:32.280 she wasn't at the experience level that a lot of 1007 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:35.320 the other women were, so those rare occasions when she 1008 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:38.519 would be able to wrestle, she really didn't do much. 1009 00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:41.880 She didn't know much. She had to learn on the job. 1010 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:46.000 And it's taken a while and she's still not great. 1011 00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:48.199 You know, she still has a long way to go. 1012 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:51.760 It's not like she's out there having these ten twelve 1013 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.239 minute matches, fifteen minute matches and just you know, tearing 1014 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:59.000 the house down. But she has made tremendous strides over 1015 00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.960 the last couple of years, has made noticeable improvements. And 1016 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:04.840 it's not just like her in ring maneuvers and technique. 1017 00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.639 It's like her personality and her facial expressions and the 1018 00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:10.280 way she carries herself. And she'll drop the straps, she'll 1019 00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:14.519 get all intense. She's putting the pieces together in a 1020 00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:17.400 way that they just were not put together before. And 1021 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:19.480 you could see like she's always training with Natty and 1022 00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:23.360 TJ down at the Dungeon and trying to learn and 1023 00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:25.920 trying to improve, like on her days off and stuff. 1024 00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:30.239 So it's cool to see her progress to a point 1025 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:34.239 where she's doing something meaningful on this show and working 1026 00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:37.599 with Becky Lynch. This was their third match together. Working 1027 00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:40.800 with Becky Lynch is not a bad thing because the 1028 00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.719 run that Becky had with that championship this year was 1029 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:46.000 very good. She had a very good few with Lyra, 1030 00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:48.920 she took the title. She's had the title since I 1031 00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:53.599 think June, and she has helped elevate that Intercontinental Championship 1032 00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:55.960 in a way the WWE never bothered to do with 1033 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.760 the US title on SmackDown, which is why the US 1034 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:02.960 title on SmackDown is so right now. I mean, the 1035 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:06.079 disparity between the two championships and the way they've been 1036 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:10.639 booked and treated is just night and day. Now that 1037 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:14.679 Maxine Dupre has the championship, my fear is that we're 1038 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:16.320 going to get more of the same on Raw with 1039 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:19.159 that title as we saw with Julia and the US 1040 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:23.519 title on SmackDown, which would be terrible. I don't think 1041 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:26.039 that Maxine's gonna have that belt for very long. I 1042 00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:28.400 think they wanted her to get the moment. I think 1043 00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:31.559 it was more about having AJ do something to screw 1044 00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:35.280 over Becky Lynch that will be the catalyst to AJ 1045 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:38.239 being on the babyface side in wargames, which we kind 1046 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:41.000 of saw the tease for that later on, and then 1047 00:58:41.039 --> 00:58:43.079 Becky is going to end up being the fifth woman 1048 00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:45.840 on the heel side, so you'll have AJ here and 1049 00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:48.119 Becky there and they can pick up with their feud 1050 00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:50.480 and continue their feud. I would not be shocked if 1051 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:53.840 Becky just wins the belt back, you know, as soon 1052 00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:59.039 as December thirteenth, Saturday Night's main event, because I think 1053 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:01.119 what they want to do is get the belt back 1054 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:03.519 on Becky so that they can then build to Becky 1055 00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:08.360 and AJ for the Intercontinental Championship early next year. So 1056 00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:10.719 Maxine's not gonna have this belt for very long. She 1057 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.239 got her moment in Madison Square Garden. It served its purpose. 1058 00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:17.800 I give it a few weeks a month maybe at 1059 00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.000 the most. That belt's gonna find its way right back 1060 00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:24.719 around Becky's waist unless Becky dropped the belt because she's gonna, 1061 00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:27.880 you know, disappear for a while and go help her 1062 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:31.599 husband convalesce at home. But I suspect that's where we're 1063 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:34.320 headed with this, but it made for a fun moment, 1064 00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:38.000 and aj Lee being back was kind of predictable. I 1065 00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:40.639 expected that she would probably end up on the baby 1066 00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:44.079 face side of wargames and we're off to the races. 1067 00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:48.760 She did sign a full time contract, so she was 1068 00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:53.280 going to be back sooner than later. Now from that 1069 00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:57.239 title change, we turned to the next opening round match 1070 00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:01.639 and the John Cena last time is now Ornament with 1071 01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:07.239 the Ring General, the former World Heavyweight champion back for 1072 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.320 the first time since SummerSlam and his I don't know 1073 01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:11.840 if it was a broken nose. He had some sort 1074 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:14.840 of nasal injury. I think he had that injury going 1075 01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:18.519 into the match with Cempunk, but he had surgery for it. 1076 01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:20.800 So he's been gone for a few months. But Gunther 1077 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:26.639 Gunther is back on Monday Night Raw. And not only 1078 01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:28.719 is he back on Monday Night Raw, he is back 1079 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:34.280 with his old NXT theme music, which they never should 1080 01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:36.920 have changed to begin with. I don't know why, all 1081 01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:38.639 of a sudden, I don't know what the catalyst for 1082 01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:41.480 this was, but I was like, oh wait, a minute. 1083 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:45.400 I know that music. Sure enough, he got his old 1084 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:50.320 music back against Javon Evans. Actually, I should say that's 1085 01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:53.559 not Gunther's music, that's Walter's music. That's the music he 1086 01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:56.599 was using from like the nxt UK days before they 1087 01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:00.480 changed his name. I will say, of all the crap 1088 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:04.840 songs that Deaf Rebel has produced, I would not say 1089 01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:09.159 that Gunther's WWE music was crap like it grew on me. 1090 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:12.000 It was not terrible, like would there have been some 1091 01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:18.079 terrible like just god awful, god awful deaf Rebel slop. 1092 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:23.199 And I liked his WWE music, So it's not like, 1093 01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:25.320 oh my god, I'm so happy the old music is 1094 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:28.519 back because the current one sucked. But to me, this 1095 01:01:28.599 --> 01:01:30.840 is still the better of the two. So I was 1096 01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:33.679 happy to hear. I was completely unexpected. I was happy 1097 01:01:33.679 --> 01:01:38.199 to hear that. And the fans actually chanted Walter at 1098 01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:40.440 the beginning of this match. I thought they were chanting 1099 01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:43.119 Goldberg at first, which would have made no sense whatsoever, 1100 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.519 But I'm pretty sure that they were chanting Walter. So 1101 01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:50.719 this was the match I was looking forward to. Javon 1102 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:55.960 Evans is out there and Gunther is dismissively patting him 1103 01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:02.199 on the head like okay, little boy smacks him and 1104 01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:05.440 he chops gun there. He countered a few spots until 1105 01:02:05.480 --> 01:02:09.480 Gunther booted him to take over. Evans countered a power 1106 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.360 bomb into a hurricane rana, which might have made for 1107 01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:14.920 a good near fall. The only thing is the referee 1108 01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:19.360 refused to count because Gunther's shoulders were not fully down 1109 01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.360 on the mat, so Evans followed with a somersault kick. 1110 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:27.239 He tried a suicide dive. Gunther caught him though, out 1111 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.679 of mid air and just tossed him hard into the 1112 01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:37.119 the led side of the ring, the ring apron. There 1113 01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:39.719 was a chop. I have to point this out. It 1114 01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:42.199 was I'm pretty sure it was during the second commercial break. 1115 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:46.199 There was a chop that Gunther gave to Javan Evans 1116 01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:51.360 here in this match. I shit you not. This chop echoed. 1117 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:57.079 I wasn't even in the building. It echoed through that building. 1118 01:02:57.159 --> 01:02:59.880 It was like a shotgun blast went off, and the 1119 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:03.400 crowd reaction to it was awesome. My reaction was the 1120 01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:07.480 same way. I was like, late, shit. I mean, he 1121 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.679 chops a lot in his matches. This one connected. This 1122 01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:13.559 one connected in a major way. You could see he 1123 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:17.039 chopped the soul out of this young man. So anyway, 1124 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:20.760 they traded strikes until Evans tried to move where he 1125 01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:26.079 was springing off the ropes and Gunther booted him. So 1126 01:03:26.440 --> 01:03:30.119 Evans countered Gunther once again, this time into a cutter 1127 01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:32.880 and he hit a dive out over the top rope. 1128 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:37.360 Evans followed with a tremendous frog splash. Montese Ford would 1129 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:40.360 be proud. Only got a near fall. And the crowd 1130 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.639 is into this now, not that they weren't into it 1131 01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:45.639 at the beginning. They really were into it throughout, but 1132 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.360 now it's like it's escalating right to that next level 1133 01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:52.599 where they're really getting into it. Gunther hit an uppercut 1134 01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:56.119 to the back of Evans's neck as he sprang off 1135 01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:59.840 the top rope. He was going for a cutter, something 1136 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:04.000 cough and drop, but Gunther just fucking chopped him right 1137 01:04:04.039 --> 01:04:06.559 in the neck on the way down. Gunther followed with 1138 01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.719 a suplex and then a power bomb. Evans though kicked out, 1139 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:12.559 and that got a reaction because he's won matches with 1140 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:16.079 that power bomb before and here Javon Evans kicked out, 1141 01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:19.840 so that got a rise out of the crowd. Gunther 1142 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.239 got the sleeper applied speaking of moves that he has 1143 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:26.760 won many matches with, and Evans he's trying to fight 1144 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:28.440 out of it, and it looks like he might actually 1145 01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:30.519 fight out of it, and he's getting closer to the 1146 01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:32.280 ropes and the crowd is with it, like come on, 1147 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:34.480 you know, they really want him to find his way out. 1148 01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:37.719 But then ultimately Gunther cinches it in back in the 1149 01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:41.480 center of the ring, and Evans he starts to kind 1150 01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:44.440 of go and then just very gently starts like tapping, 1151 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:48.239 and the referee calls for the bell. It's a little 1152 01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:52.239 anti climactic as far as like the finishing moment there, 1153 01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:55.400 and it sucked a life out of those eighteen thousand 1154 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.400 people because it was like, ah fuck, you know, like 1155 01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:01.320 they were really hoping he would pull it out like that. 1156 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:04.199 Is a credit to him, because he's just so damn 1157 01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:08.800 fun to watch and he's so damn good that even 1158 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:10.559 though he's never had a raw mam he's been on 1159 01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:13.159 SmackDown a few times, I don't believe he's ever had 1160 01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:16.199 a Monday night raw match before tonight. And the people 1161 01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:18.559 they knew, some knew who he was. And if you 1162 01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:20.719 didn't know who he was, I don't see how you 1163 01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:24.159 can watch him and not get behind him and not 1164 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:27.719 get into the match, because it's just he's exciting to watch. 1165 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.719 That's why I lump him in with guys like bron 1166 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.440 Breaker and Obafemi and Jacob Fatu and Dominic Masterio. He's 1167 01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.480 younger than them, so he's you know, he's got more 1168 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:42.599 time to really develop and get even better. But he's 1169 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:44.840 going to be one of those guys if he continues 1170 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:46.960 on the path that he is on and doesn't get 1171 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:49.760 into trouble or get injured or injury prone or anything 1172 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.159 like that, where he is going to be a future 1173 01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.199 world champion. He's going to be a big fucking deal. 1174 01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:56.000 He is the kind of guy that you can build 1175 01:05:56.000 --> 01:06:00.800 an entire brand around. He's part of that nucleus of five. 1176 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:05.079 I lump him in there with those guys. So he 1177 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:06.880 went out there tonight. I knew they were going to 1178 01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:08.880 go out there and have a really good match. Like 1179 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:12.039 it's Javon Evans and Gunther. It would be very difficult 1180 01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:15.199 even if there's like a few rough spots and they've 1181 01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:18.119 not worked together before, like it would be impossible for 1182 01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:19.800 these two to go in there and have anything but 1183 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:22.440 at least a good match. And they had a very 1184 01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:26.760 good match. I enjoyed this greatly. This was easily easily 1185 01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:30.440 the best match of this tournament so far. Easily name 1186 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:32.360 me a better match that we've seen in this tournament 1187 01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:37.280 we haven't, so not really much of a surprise there. 1188 01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:40.079 But when it was over, you know, Gunther left the 1189 01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:43.360 ring and you could hear the crowd. They were chanting 1190 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:46.679 for Javon. They were giving him an ovation. As they 1191 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:50.480 cut to the back, we did find out that Gunther 1192 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:56.960 is going to He's going to get the winner of 1193 01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:00.920 the match that's coming up on Friday between Carmelo Hayes 1194 01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:04.840 and Bronson Reid and I talked about this on Friday 1195 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:07.159 and I said, you know, if there is going to 1196 01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.559 be an upset in this tournament, it is a lot 1197 01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:12.679 more likely to be Carmelo Hayes and not Javon Evans 1198 01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.760 because what is the last thing we saw. One of 1199 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:17.639 the last things we saw at the end of that 1200 01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:22.800 SmackDown show on Friday night, we saw Bronson Reid give 1201 01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:29.199 a tsunami splash to Cody Roads. Carmelo Hayes is wrestling 1202 01:07:29.199 --> 01:07:32.559 Bronson read on TV this week, why would Cody not 1203 01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:39.480 come out and cause a distraction or cause Bronson Reid 1204 01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:42.840 in some way, shape or form to end up on 1205 01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:45.280 the losing end of the match so that he can 1206 01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:49.880 go fuck you, you fuck with me, I fuck with you, 1207 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:53.440 and he gets bounced out of the tournament and Carmelo 1208 01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:57.280 Hayes effectively backdoors his way into the next round, because 1209 01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.119 that's the only way Carmelo Hayes is moving on in 1210 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:02.480 the next round of this tournament. Either take your pick, 1211 01:08:02.760 --> 01:08:06.480 Cody Rhodes or Roman Reigns, which one of them shows 1212 01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:09.360 up on Friday to cost Read the win in this match, 1213 01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:13.199 it would be It would be really lame if it 1214 01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.880 was like a count out situation. But however it happens. 1215 01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:20.239 After seeing that the winner of that is wrestling Gunther, 1216 01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:24.479 It's gonna be Carmelo Hayes. Gotta be Carmel Gunther and 1217 01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:27.039 Bronton read to me, doesn't even make sense as a match. 1218 01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:31.560 I don't see it happening. So I think Carmelo Hayes 1219 01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:34.920 is going to be the upset of the tournament and 1220 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:36.800 we'll get gun there and Carmelo, which by the way, 1221 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:38.800 has the potential to be just as good as the 1222 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.119 match we saw tonight. They let Carmelo go out there 1223 01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:43.960 and do what he is capable of doing and give 1224 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:47.880 those guys some time on the show next week. That'll 1225 01:08:47.880 --> 01:08:50.359 be a banger match. So I think Carmelo Hayes is 1226 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.920 going to pick up that win on Friday. That'll be 1227 01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:57.760 our quarterfinal match. Penta is in there. Penta is in 1228 01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:01.239 this tournament. He's wrestling Finn Balor on the show this 1229 01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:05.800 upcoming Friday. And now that we know all the names 1230 01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:10.000 in this tournament, Seamus is still in there. But let's 1231 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:14.520 be honest here, for being perfectly honest, there's nobody else. 1232 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.880 It will be gun the Gunther will be wrestling John 1233 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:22.720 Cena in his retirement match. There was no other name 1234 01:09:22.760 --> 01:09:26.560 in this tournament that is realistically going to go on 1235 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:30.439 to the finals and win. It's not gonna be Shamous, 1236 01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:33.079 it's not gonna be Bronson Reid, it's not gonna be 1237 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:39.199 l A Knight. Yeah. No, it's gonna be gun there. 1238 01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:42.880 And that was the rumor all along, and there was 1239 01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:45.520 always maybe some people had the hope that I hope 1240 01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.600 it's not gun there. It's gonna be gun the like. 1241 01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:51.439 Now we know it's very very clear at this point. 1242 01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.960 The only question is we don't know any kind of bracketing, 1243 01:09:55.079 --> 01:09:59.960 So are we potentially in for a Gunther Shamus final 1244 01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:03.840 at Survivor Series. I was kind of hoping Ilia Dragonov 1245 01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:05.640 would end up in this tournament because man, what a 1246 01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:08.479 match that would have been. You do Gunther and dragon 1247 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:12.199 of in the finals at Survivor Series. How fucking great 1248 01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:15.319 would that have been? But I'll take gun Through and Seamus. 1249 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:17.880 It's been long enough we haven't seen it. I think 1250 01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:21.119 that would be a great final. We could be looking 1251 01:10:21.560 --> 01:10:23.079 I mean, we could be looking at gun Through in 1252 01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:26.960 La night. I'll tell you what I don't want to see, 1253 01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:29.720 and this is what Triple H would absolutely do this. 1254 01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:36.600 What I don't want is Gunther and jay Uso in 1255 01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:38.920 the main event, in the final match of this tournament. 1256 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:42.960 That is the last thing that I want to say. 1257 01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:45.800 I've seen enough of that this year. We don't need 1258 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:49.479 to see that again. Give me literally any other match 1259 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:53.720 in this tournament except Guntherer and jay Usa Literally any 1260 01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.319 other match. I don't care what it is. You know, 1261 01:10:56.439 --> 01:11:00.399 years ago, before COVID fucked everything up, we were supposed 1262 01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:04.720 to get Gunther and Finn Balor at a Takeover NXDUK 1263 01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.840 Takeover in Dublin and we never got it. I'll take 1264 01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:15.479 that over. Gunther and jay Uso jay Usso against Solo's 1265 01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:20.640 Socoa in the finals. Are you trying to intentionally sabotage 1266 01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:23.720 this tournament? I feel like some of you now are 1267 01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:28.920 booking scenarios to intentionally sabotage the remainder of this tournament. 1268 01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:34.359 Can you imagine if Triple H books Solo's Socoa to 1269 01:11:34.479 --> 01:11:37.920 win the tournament with the idea that at one time 1270 01:11:38.680 --> 01:11:43.479 Solo Socoa destroyed John Cena. Remember he hit John Cena 1271 01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:47.399 with like a million Samoan spikes and just beat him 1272 01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:52.199 and Sena never really got his revenge on Solo and 1273 01:11:52.279 --> 01:11:54.920 Triple H is like, well, we tell stories. We tell 1274 01:11:55.079 --> 01:11:59.239 long term stories. Here. We gotta let things cook and 1275 01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:02.880 simmer for while. We're gonna have John Cena get his 1276 01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:06.600 revenge on Solo Socoa in his final match. You want 1277 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:09.159 to find a way to ruin John Cena's retirement, There 1278 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:14.560 you go, I just booked it out for you. We 1279 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:19.760 go backstage. Jackie is with aj Lee and the new 1280 01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:24.880 Intercontinental champion, Maxine du Pree and congratulated Maxine on her 1281 01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:27.319 big win. Maxine says that all the hard work is 1282 01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:33.079 finally paid off. She says, I belong here outside of 1283 01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:36.399 Gunther and Evans. I think they already sabotaged the tournament. Well, 1284 01:12:36.399 --> 01:12:41.680 you know what, Well said, Brother Well said, they already 1285 01:12:41.720 --> 01:12:43.399 have dropped the ball. This tournament could have been a 1286 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:47.840 lot stronger. I agree one hundred percent. Today's episode is 1287 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:51.279 sponsored by Better Help. One thing I hate about the 1288 01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:54.880 fall season is how it gets darker earlier. Makes me 1289 01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:57.359 feel like I somehow have fewer hours in the day 1290 01:12:57.399 --> 01:12:59.960 to get stuff done. 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Jackie asked AJ if she's gonna stick 1329 01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:02.520 around on this time, and AJ says, you know, at first, 1330 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:05.439 I only wanted to help my husband back and wrestle palooza. 1331 01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:11.760 But Becky, she makes me feel things. I'm sure she 1332 01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:15.600 makes a lot of people feel things, but she says, 1333 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:19.079 we'll see. So Ria Ripley shows up. She makes people 1334 01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:22.600 feel things. She makes Kathy Kelly feel things. You see 1335 01:15:22.640 --> 01:15:26.039 the the online relationship between these two. They're always posting 1336 01:15:26.840 --> 01:15:30.520 all these photos and videos, are always posting. Rhea Ripley 1337 01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:35.560 makes Kathy Kelly feel some things. Ria asks AJ, hey, 1338 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:39.159 you have a second to chat. AJ says sure, and 1339 01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:41.199 Ria puts her arm around her and off they go. 1340 01:15:41.399 --> 01:15:44.399 So there you go, AJ, Lee will be a part 1341 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:49.880 of her first war games. You'll end up with Becky 1342 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.399 Lynch on the opposing side, and there are your war 1343 01:15:52.520 --> 01:15:57.920 games teams. It is settled. They close the show with 1344 01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:01.199 a face to face with the men in Wargames, or 1345 01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:02.800 at least the ones up to this point that we 1346 01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:06.439 knew were actually in the Wargames match. Paul Hayman was 1347 01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:10.079 out with bron Breaker, Bronson, Reed, Logan, Paul and Drew McIntyre. 1348 01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:14.199 Hayman said that he has walked the Samoan Swat team 1349 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:17.159 and the Free Birds to the ring for the Wargames. 1350 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:21.119 He has walked the Dangerous Alliance to the ring for 1351 01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:26.039 the war Games. Yes he has. In fact, he walked 1352 01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:28.359 the Dangerous Alliance to the ring for the best war 1353 01:16:28.479 --> 01:16:34.119 games that has ever taken place against Sting's Squadron. He 1354 01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:37.399 has walked the Bloodline to the ring for the war Games. 1355 01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:41.960 This ride here, though, is the greatest assembly of talent 1356 01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:46.800 ever put together for the war Games. And it's not. 1357 01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:52.399 But he has to say that seam Punk's music interrupts. 1358 01:16:52.560 --> 01:16:54.800 Punk walks out with his hands all taped up. No 1359 01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:59.239 World Heavyweight Championship. Then it was the Ussos out through 1360 01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:03.359 the crowd, followed by Cody Rhodes who came down the aisle. 1361 01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:07.560 Also no WWE Championship. And there was a funny moment 1362 01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:11.239 here where Cody comes down to the ring and he 1363 01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:15.199 stands right next to Punk in the aisleway there, side 1364 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:20.000 by side, and Cody wanted a fist bump from Punk. 1365 01:17:21.039 --> 01:17:23.479 The only thing is Punk didn't see it. I legitimately 1366 01:17:23.479 --> 01:17:27.600 think he didn't see it. So he Cody's just like 1367 01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:30.319 he's waiting for that fist bump and it's not coming, 1368 01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:33.079 so he just kind of like forces a fist bump 1369 01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:36.439 just so that he's not left hanging, even though he 1370 01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:41.239 was left hanging, poor guy. And so the babyfaces hit 1371 01:17:41.279 --> 01:17:43.000 the ring and the brawl began, and it was four 1372 01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:47.119 on four. Drew fought with Cody outside the ring. Logan 1373 01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:50.359 was in the corner delivering body shots to Punk. Punk 1374 01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:53.199 reversed him out into the opposing corner, hit that running 1375 01:17:53.279 --> 01:17:57.880 lifting knee, the rising knee into the bulldog, and then 1376 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:01.039 he gave the signal for the gts. So it was 1377 01:18:01.119 --> 01:18:05.520 going to be ninety nine here for Logan, Paul. When 1378 01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:11.119 brock Lesner's music hits An out comes Cowboy. Brock takes 1379 01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:13.560 the hat off, makes a b line for the ring. 1380 01:18:13.680 --> 01:18:17.439 The Beast is here. I'm watching CM, Punk and brock 1381 01:18:17.560 --> 01:18:21.079 Lesner ready to square off. One of the best Summer 1382 01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:24.359 slam matches of all time back in twenty thirteen, but 1383 01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:26.319 now they're a lot older, a lot of time has 1384 01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:30.319 gone by. Lesner didn't even like barely was able to 1385 01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:34.399 even get into the ring before Punk attacked him, and 1386 01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:37.239 he immediately got dumped on his head, like right on 1387 01:18:37.319 --> 01:18:40.520 the back of his head, and then he got dumped 1388 01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:44.119 again with a supplex. Out of the ring, goes Punk. 1389 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:48.399 Now Cody is in to confront Lesner, and he sends 1390 01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:52.000 Cody flying with honestly one of the highest release German 1391 01:18:52.079 --> 01:18:55.199 supplexes that you will ever see. I mean, Cody went 1392 01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:59.359 flying through the air and then he hit him with 1393 01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:04.279 another one, and they flashed the closing credits on this. 1394 01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:06.119 This is a triple h thing. He loves doing this. 1395 01:19:07.039 --> 01:19:09.800 They flashed the closing credits on the screen like the 1396 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:12.760 show is over and that's it, that's all you're gonna get. 1397 01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:16.760 And I'm like, they're not leaving us like this. This 1398 01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:19.279 is the perfect opportunity. We got to get that fifth 1399 01:19:19.279 --> 01:19:21.560 man out here for the baby Face team. He could 1400 01:19:21.600 --> 01:19:25.399 only be one person, but we have you know, Paul 1401 01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:28.680 Lovek's name is on the screen, is the executive producer, 1402 01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:30.720 and Brock's got a big smile on his face. He 1403 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:33.760 goes over Hayman's outside the ring and he reaches over. 1404 01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:38.479 He's gonna slap hands with Hayman, and of course Roman 1405 01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:42.199 Reigns arrives. This is a return number? What are we 1406 01:19:42.279 --> 01:19:45.479 up to this year? Six? Is this the sixth, fifth 1407 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:47.880 or six return for him this year? I've lost count 1408 01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:52.640 at this point. Roman, he's late, by the way. Gotta 1409 01:19:52.640 --> 01:19:56.279 pay attention to the call time for these shows. Roman 1410 01:19:56.359 --> 01:19:58.079 is in no great rush to come down to the ring. 1411 01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:02.520 Roman has new merch. See. My theory is this Roman 1412 01:20:02.600 --> 01:20:05.239 wants as many returns as possible throughout the year, so 1413 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:07.479 that each time he shows up he has a brand 1414 01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:10.920 new piece of merch. Brock was in the ring, he 1415 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:13.439 was smiling, he was ready for him, And I'm just thinking, man, 1416 01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:18.279 you fuckers lied. You lied to me. You told me 1417 01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:23.239 three years ago at SummerSlam that that was it, that 1418 01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:27.000 we would never again see Roman Reigns and brock Lesnar 1419 01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:29.880 in the ring together. And I held you to that. 1420 01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:33.720 They had their best match, probably was their last match, 1421 01:20:34.319 --> 01:20:36.359 and now they're gonna be back in the ring together 1422 01:20:36.479 --> 01:20:42.119 again in wargames. You lied to me. I don't like 1423 01:20:42.199 --> 01:20:46.720 being lied to. Roman gets in the ring. They have 1424 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:51.000 a stare down here, Brock hits the ropes. Roman ducked 1425 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:53.640 the clothes line and he took Brock down with a 1426 01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:57.039 superman punch, and Brock bounced right out of the ring. 1427 01:20:57.880 --> 01:21:01.119 Security finally arrived to keep Roman in the ring. They 1428 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:05.840 had other security geeks outside to crowd around Lesnar and 1429 01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:10.159 keep him from going back to the ring. Bronson Reid 1430 01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:13.880 then attacks Roman Reigns from behind, and he starts to 1431 01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:15.920 bounce each one of the security geeks out of the 1432 01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:19.479 ring one by one. Up he goes for the tsunami, 1433 01:21:19.640 --> 01:21:21.640 but Roman popped back up and caught him with a 1434 01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:26.039 superman punch knocked them off the ropes. So then they 1435 01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:30.399 said the NYPD is here, the New York City Police Department, 1436 01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:33.600 not in those uniforms, but that's what they wanted you 1437 01:21:33.640 --> 01:21:37.840 to believe. The NYPD is here now, and they're outside 1438 01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:41.000 the ring. They're getting in between Roman and Logan Paul. 1439 01:21:41.279 --> 01:21:46.359 Outside the ring. Roman, though, he goes around the cops. 1440 01:21:47.720 --> 01:21:50.279 Apparently they're so inept they couldn't prevent him from going 1441 01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:54.119 around them because he spots Bronson Reid is over right 1442 01:21:54.159 --> 01:21:57.359 in front of the Timekeeper's barricade, and he goes and 1443 01:21:57.439 --> 01:22:00.239 he spears read and one of the rent A cops 1444 01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:04.359 through the barricade because we haven't seen that spot before. 1445 01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:07.239 I was starting to get the shakes here. You know, 1446 01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:09.920 I'm starting to twitch out because it's been what has 1447 01:22:09.960 --> 01:22:12.479 it been, It's only been about a week since we've 1448 01:22:12.520 --> 01:22:16.359 seen a barricade spot. I was starting to tweak out here. 1449 01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:19.279 It's a good thing they gave us one tonight. You 1450 01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:21.520 know what I would love is if they ever woke 1451 01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:24.680 up and realized that what they should do is reinforce 1452 01:22:24.760 --> 01:22:28.239 that barricade because it breaks on every show. You would 1453 01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:31.479 think by now they would put some sort of like gigantic, 1454 01:22:33.159 --> 01:22:37.000 not maybe metal, but like a concrete slab or something. 1455 01:22:37.600 --> 01:22:40.199 And what he goes for a spear, he just knocks 1456 01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:42.520 himself the fuck out. Like I would laugh. I would 1457 01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:45.479 die laughing. It's like Brett Hart when he concealed the 1458 01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:49.159 plate and Goldberg speared him. They need to reinforce that barricade. 1459 01:22:49.359 --> 01:22:51.800 That's what they need to do. But that's how they 1460 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:53.079 went off the air. And I think they went off 1461 01:22:53.079 --> 01:22:55.800 the air early. I think it was like ten twenty four, 1462 01:22:55.920 --> 01:23:02.319 ten twenty five. Yeah, Mark Kan says it was they DP. Yeah, 1463 01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:06.520 maybe that's what it was. It wasn't the NYPD, I 1464 01:23:06.520 --> 01:23:10.399 can tell you that. So the field of five is 1465 01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:13.520 now complete on both sides. Brock Lesnier will be in 1466 01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:18.199 his first War Games match, and they basically have an 1467 01:23:18.199 --> 01:23:21.640 all star team. On the baby Face side, you've got Roman, Reigns, 1468 01:23:21.760 --> 01:23:26.359 Cody Rhodes, and Cmpunk. You know, we'll forget the other two, 1469 01:23:26.840 --> 01:23:30.920 but I mean that's a pretty impressive lineup right there, 1470 01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:33.920 just with those three guys alone, and of course you 1471 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.159 got Brock and Drew on the other side. Bron is 1472 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:39.640 like he's the future, and then Logan Paul, he dips 1473 01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:42.279 in and out whenever they need him. So you know, 1474 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:44.960 they've got some star power there in that match. And 1475 01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:48.079 at least most, if not all, of the guys in 1476 01:23:48.119 --> 01:23:52.680 this match have history with each other. Logan actually has 1477 01:23:52.760 --> 01:23:56.560 history with Roman as well as Cody, and now he's 1478 01:23:56.600 --> 01:23:59.640 been beefing with Punk lately. Punk has history with Drew, 1479 01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:05.039 but also with Brock, Brock has history with basically, I mean, gosh, 1480 01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:09.239 most of the people on the baby Face side, Cody, Punk, Roman, 1481 01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:13.800 Him and Roman, especially Roman and Bronson Reed. They're still 1482 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:17.520 going at it. Right, the tribal thief. So there's a 1483 01:24:17.560 --> 01:24:19.800 lot of history between most of the men that are 1484 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:22.560 involved in this match. I don't know if they're just 1485 01:24:22.600 --> 01:24:25.920 going to gloss over the whole Roman reigns Huso's thing 1486 01:24:25.920 --> 01:24:27.520 where he told them I don't want to see y'all 1487 01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:31.039 till Christmas. That's probably something that should be brought up 1488 01:24:31.079 --> 01:24:32.920 on the show next week, if Roman is even on 1489 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:36.039 the show next week, because we know Brock won't be 1490 01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:39.319 and John Cena won't be, it would be nice if 1491 01:24:39.359 --> 01:24:41.760 Roman was on the show next week and they could 1492 01:24:41.760 --> 01:24:45.479 flesh that out a little bit. And they did mention 1493 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:47.159 that next week on the show, they're going to have 1494 01:24:47.239 --> 01:24:50.600 the men advantage match, and I would assume they'll do 1495 01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:52.960 one for the women on that show too. They did 1496 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:55.520 not say what form that's going to take. They did 1497 01:24:55.520 --> 01:24:57.319 not say if it's going to be a singles match, 1498 01:24:57.840 --> 01:25:00.279 if it's going to be like a multi men tag 1499 01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:03.119 match of some kind. Again, Brock won't be part of 1500 01:25:03.119 --> 01:25:05.359 it if it is, but we're going to get the 1501 01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:08.119 man advantage match on the show next week. Overall, this 1502 01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:11.399 was a very strong show. There was some stuff on 1503 01:25:11.479 --> 01:25:13.520 there I wasn't fond of. Again, I talked about the 1504 01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:17.000 stuff they did in the Stephanie and Nikki Bellas segment, 1505 01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:21.680 but seeing his final Raw appearance was a big deal. 1506 01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:27.000 We had several major returns on this show, Roman Brock 1507 01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:32.239 aj Lee, we have a new women's Intercontinental Champion. We 1508 01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:35.399 had the Ziggler surprise in the tournament, and we had 1509 01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:39.640 a great match, great battle between Gunther and Javon Evans. 1510 01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:42.840 That's what I was looking forward to and it delivered. 1511 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.720 So this was an excellent show. And I pray for 1512 01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:52.159 SmackDown come Friday, and anybody who is going to be 1513 01:25:52.199 --> 01:25:55.039 watching it live, I will not be one of them 1514 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:57.760 because I will not be here on Friday. I'm going 1515 01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:01.960 to be in Chicago the Glory Show on Friday night. 1516 01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:06.239 We are sold out at Logan Square Auditorium, so I 1517 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:08.560 will not be here for SmackDown, So I wish you well. 1518 01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:11.720 I'll have to catch it on Saturday at some point. 1519 01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:15.039 But anyways, so that was Raw for tonight. Let's take 1520 01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:17.720 a look at the pole. What did you think of Raw? 1521 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:23.760 From Madison Square Garden. Eighty eight percent have given this 1522 01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:28.199 show a thumbs up, twelve point two percent thumbs down. 1523 01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.199 I think you guys like Raw tonight. That's what I'm 1524 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:34.079 getting from these poll results. I think you were a 1525 01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:36.479 fan of this Monday night raw show. I could be wrong, though, 1526 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.079 Hey Shark, thank you for the ten buck, lou this 1527 01:26:41.159 --> 01:26:47.800 shark on a pole, Shark on a pole, bro thank 1528 01:26:47.840 --> 01:26:56.079 you for the ten bucks. Appreciate it. JP says we're 1529 01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:59.239 skipping SmackDown too good. Well I'll skip it. We'll send 1530 01:26:59.239 --> 01:27:03.319 them a message. You want to send a message, That's 1531 01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:08.039 how you send a message. Yeah, this is not going 1532 01:27:08.119 --> 01:27:13.479 to be a week where they've done any favors for SmackDown. 1533 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:16.359 After the way they blew their load with his raw 1534 01:27:16.439 --> 01:27:20.439 Sha tonight. It's going to be impossible for SmackDown to 1535 01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:22.760 live up to what they did tonight at the Garden. 1536 01:27:25.399 --> 01:27:28.840 But that's on then to try. It's their job to try. 1537 01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:33.159 We'll start with a dark effect with a five dollars 1538 01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:39.680 super chat kicking us off here on the Brett Hard scale, 1539 01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:43.760 what would you rate Gunther zero through ten on looks, 1540 01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:46.960 promo ability, ring work. In my opinion, Gunther is the 1541 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:51.159 best in the world today. He's certainly one of the best, 1542 01:27:51.199 --> 01:27:56.239 that's for sure. I mean, I don't even know exactly 1543 01:27:56.359 --> 01:27:59.119 I mean. For me, I would give Gunther He's at 1544 01:27:59.199 --> 01:28:07.520 least a seven eight for sure. I probably go eight. 1545 01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:13.600 Drive Chicken says seven letters, one word tsunami. Bronson Reid 1546 01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:20.479 approved this message the Real CS with the four ninety 1547 01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:23.399 nine despite his booking. Do you think Pete Dunn has 1548 01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:27.279 a future as Triple H's right hand man? I could 1549 01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:30.800 definitely see him to Triple H as like a Pat 1550 01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:34.439 Patterson was to Vince McMahon, or even like a William 1551 01:28:34.479 --> 01:28:37.319 Regal is right now to Triple H. You know, Regal 1552 01:28:37.399 --> 01:28:40.079 is not going to be working there forever. I think 1553 01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:41.680 Pete Dunk could end up in a role like that 1554 01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:46.600 where he can almost be like a consigliere for Triple H. 1555 01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:50.039 You know, he's doing agency work right now, I think 1556 01:28:50.840 --> 01:28:54.159 for Triple A, I believe. I mean, he's doing the 1557 01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:57.520 Grande Americanos stuff as well under the mask, but he's 1558 01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:00.439 already in that role in a way behind the scenes. 1559 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.920 But supposedly, you know, he's someone that Triple H has 1560 01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:05.960 great respect for, and so yeah, I could see him 1561 01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:14.159 ending up at a spot like that. We've got bland, 1562 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:17.680 dried Chicken and Turkey says. When it comes to the 1563 01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:20.800 WWE creative team on SmackDown, it's like they cook the 1564 01:29:20.920 --> 01:29:24.319 chicken or steak, but something is missing. They don't marinate 1565 01:29:24.439 --> 01:29:27.720 or seasoned meat before they cook it. I saw a 1566 01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:32.880 video going around on on X. It's probably on ig 1567 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:35.960 also or TikTok. Might have been a TikTok video actually 1568 01:29:35.960 --> 01:29:39.079 that got lifted and sent everywhere else. But it was 1569 01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:41.119 this video where it's like, this is how we cook 1570 01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:43.600 steak in Texas, and I want to hear from all 1571 01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:46.000 my Texas people. Actually food Hive, I don't know if 1572 01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:49.560 he's with us tonight, but food Hive is a Texas guy. 1573 01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:54.279 He'd probably be appalled by this. So this guy took 1574 01:29:54.319 --> 01:29:58.359 a steak and he boiled it. He put it in 1575 01:29:58.399 --> 01:30:02.760 a pot and he boiled it and he literally and 1576 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:04.640 I don't think it was done as a joke, and 1577 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:06.880 he's like putting the seasoning in the water. And then 1578 01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:09.640 he took like a bread roll, like a dinner roll, 1579 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:11.680 and he put that in the pot in the water 1580 01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:17.399 as well, and he takes the steak out, and it's like, 1581 01:30:19.079 --> 01:30:21.279 you can't tell me that in Texas, this is how 1582 01:30:21.279 --> 01:30:25.760 they cook steak. It looked he was cooking it medium well, 1583 01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:31.279 but he boiled the meat and the bread so now 1584 01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:37.000 you have soggy bread. Why would you want to consume 1585 01:30:37.079 --> 01:30:46.600 this boiled meat and soggy bread. I feel like that's 1586 01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:48.520 the sort of thing they would arrest you for in 1587 01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:53.439 Texas or to port you for. Either way, it was 1588 01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:59.600 like I was appalled. I was absolutely appalled, says a solo. 1589 01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:02.920 Pick your poison. Three hours of SmackDown more title belts 1590 01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:07.439 in aw or grow a beard and a mullet. I 1591 01:31:07.479 --> 01:31:10.439 will grow the beard in the mullet. May take me 1592 01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:17.760 a while, but yes, it is blasphemy. I was offended 1593 01:31:17.880 --> 01:31:20.119 just watching the video. But he throws it in a 1594 01:31:20.159 --> 01:31:23.399 fucking boiling pot of water and boils the steak. I'm like, 1595 01:31:24.239 --> 01:31:33.720 the hell are you doing? Yeah for starters, you ruined 1596 01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:39.880 the steak medium. Well, no, I'm Portuguese and we consider 1597 01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:51.000 bread a utensil, but no steak stew. Talking about ruining 1598 01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:56.279 a steak, Victor says, buy sell, rent on Doctor Doom, 1599 01:31:56.520 --> 01:32:01.520 Magneto and Loki. I gotta buy on Mega, Magneto's my guy, 1600 01:32:01.560 --> 01:32:05.239 and then I'll rent on Doctor Doom and sell on Loki. 1601 01:32:07.159 --> 01:32:10.239 Buy Er, sell on the better dropkick AJ Styles or 1602 01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:18.880 Randy Orton. Randy Orton has a beautiful dropkick. AJ's got 1603 01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:25.119 a pretty wicked dropkick too, though at Okata. Can't leave 1604 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:27.239 Okata out of the conversation. You know who had a 1605 01:32:27.239 --> 01:32:34.479 really good dropkick one of the best hardcore Holly Dolf 1606 01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:38.239 had a pretty good one tonight against Solo Soca. I'll 1607 01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:44.880 go Randy Orton. Victor says, any thoughts on Sena's behavior 1608 01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:51.119 on Total Divas, Yeah, he was a giant diva on 1609 01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:54.640 the show. It's a reality show, which means most of 1610 01:32:54.680 --> 01:32:59.000 what you see is fake. He was playing a character, 1611 01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:02.319 not that I was really watching it week to week. 1612 01:33:02.399 --> 01:33:04.439 Maybe you saw more of him on there than I did. 1613 01:33:04.479 --> 01:33:06.760 I did see the episode where he dressed up in 1614 01:33:06.840 --> 01:33:09.840 what was going to be his heel gear many years 1615 01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:14.720 ago before Vince got cold feet. It was that singlet 1616 01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:17.159 and I know like he had like rules, didn't he did? 1617 01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:19.399 He have like a contract that Nicki Bella had assigned 1618 01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:20.680 if she was going to live in the same house 1619 01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:24.079 with him. He sounded like a total nightmare. I mean, 1620 01:33:24.119 --> 01:33:28.039 some of that might be kind of truthful, but like 1621 01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:31.680 I just automatically disbelieve anything I see on those reality 1622 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:34.399 shows because I think I just think it's all phony. 1623 01:33:35.399 --> 01:33:39.079 Dry chickens says, I'm predicting TKO Slasher WWE will attempt 1624 01:33:39.079 --> 01:33:44.000 to negotiate a deal with the White House to host 1625 01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:48.760 a WWE show similar to the UFC. Well, hopefully not, 1626 01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:52.159 but I don't really give a shit. The Boss moo 1627 01:33:52.279 --> 01:33:56.039 Jackson says, what's up, Solo Monster stopping through to support 1628 01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:59.399 your channels. I'm looking forward to TNT tomorrow my favorite 1629 01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:03.920 show of week, Boss moo Jackson. I appreciate the love, brother, 1630 01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:06.600 I hope you're doing well and I will see you 1631 01:34:06.600 --> 01:34:13.720 there TNT tomorrow night. Also, he says, Ziggler returns. I've 1632 01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:16.600 always thought Dolph was a cross between Shawn Michaels and 1633 01:34:16.720 --> 01:34:21.800 mister Perfect. I mean, stylistically, you could see where he 1634 01:34:22.199 --> 01:34:27.319 kind of borrowed from each of them. His bumping style 1635 01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:31.199 was very similar to Kurt Hennig, and even like some 1636 01:34:31.279 --> 01:34:33.880 of the gear he would wear and the way he 1637 01:34:33.960 --> 01:34:36.039 tunes up the band, you could see where the Shawn 1638 01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:39.119 Michaels influence comes from. So there's a reason why you 1639 01:34:39.159 --> 01:34:42.159 feel that way, because there's an influence there from both. 1640 01:34:43.239 --> 01:34:46.880 Victor says, thoughts on Oba versus Brock at WrestleMania of 1641 01:34:46.920 --> 01:34:51.680 forty two feels a little too soon for them to 1642 01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:55.319 just be going into that. I hope we get the 1643 01:34:55.359 --> 01:34:57.239 match at some point. I don't see it being at 1644 01:34:57.239 --> 01:35:01.479 WrestleMania of forty two, though probably a better chance of 1645 01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:06.600 Brock and Gunther than Brock and Oba at forty two. 1646 01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:13.760 Robbie H five says, the youth quote unquote and the 1647 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:21.720 quote unquote cross brand promised in this tournament was highly exaggerated. Well, 1648 01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:25.920 they gave it to you at least once so they 1649 01:35:25.960 --> 01:35:29.439 can say, well, we didn't lie to you. But yeah, 1650 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:31.039 the way they were talking about it, it's like they 1651 01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:34.000 got you excited for it and they're just there wasn't 1652 01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:36.439 enough of it. I wanted more of it in this tournament. 1653 01:35:37.640 --> 01:35:43.000 We got a mix, but there's too many. There's just 1654 01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:47.680 too many old faces in there and some faces that frankly, 1655 01:35:47.680 --> 01:35:50.439 I don't give a shit about. You know, the fact 1656 01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:53.680 that Javon was the only NXT talent was very disappointing. 1657 01:35:57.239 --> 01:35:59.479 The Bossmo Jackson says, the one thing that you and 1658 01:35:59.520 --> 01:36:03.840 I haven't is Brett Hart is our favorite wrestler. I 1659 01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:06.399 was a Brett fanatic growing up. He's my number one 1660 01:36:06.399 --> 01:36:08.840 of all time. Brett was that guy. Yes he was. 1661 01:36:09.560 --> 01:36:13.920 He absolutely was. I don't think I fully started to 1662 01:36:13.960 --> 01:36:20.720 appreciate Brett until Hogan was really out of the pictures, 1663 01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:22.600 and I grew up a Hogan guy at that age. 1664 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:28.039 You know, Hulkamedia was running wild brother Jack dude, and 1665 01:36:28.079 --> 01:36:32.279 he was very charismatic, although you even even as a 1666 01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:37.000 young fan though, like when he lost the championship to 1667 01:36:37.079 --> 01:36:39.560 Andre in eighty eight and he was crying about it, 1668 01:36:39.640 --> 01:36:44.840 like literally crying in the back, like what a bitch. 1669 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:48.600 And then to see what he did in the ninety 1670 01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:53.960 two rumble, I'm like, man, what a bitch. Then he started, 1671 01:36:53.960 --> 01:36:58.359 then he disappeared, and then it all fell on Brett. 1672 01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:01.600 You know, ninety two went into ninety three, ninety four. 1673 01:37:01.720 --> 01:37:06.119 That's where I really became a big Brett Hart fan, 1674 01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:12.960 and I've been ever since. Brett is that guy. Also, 1675 01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:16.720 the segment with Charlotte and Bliss was hilarious. The segment 1676 01:37:16.800 --> 01:37:21.399 with Charlotte and Bliss was horrendous. The worst thing on 1677 01:37:21.399 --> 01:37:23.000 the show, Actually, no, I is the second worst thing 1678 01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:25.279 on the show. The worst thing on the show was 1679 01:37:25.279 --> 01:37:30.720 the segment with Stephanie and Nicky Dry Chicken says, my 1680 01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.439 glasses were blurry last Monday. I'm not sure if it 1681 01:37:33.560 --> 01:37:36.039 was Triple H or former New York Giants head coach 1682 01:37:36.119 --> 01:37:45.840 Brian day Ball on Raw, well, I would say Triple 1683 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:50.520 H is probably more of a winner in his career 1684 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:55.840 exploits than Brian day Ball is. So I didn't make 1685 01:37:55.840 --> 01:38:03.479 that mistake. Hey, Eric, what's going on? Man? This says 1686 01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:05.680 a solemn monster. I will be. I will also be 1687 01:38:05.800 --> 01:38:10.159 watching the House of Glory show in Chicago this coming 1688 01:38:10.159 --> 01:38:12.439 Friday night since I know it will be on Triller TV. 1689 01:38:12.840 --> 01:38:15.720 Plus that's right, it's a Triller TV, not Thriller TV, 1690 01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:19.720 although that sounds cooler. I don't even know what a 1691 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:23.359 Triller is, but that's where we'll be. I will be 1692 01:38:23.399 --> 01:38:29.840 on the call again, and if you are interested, this 1693 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:36.159 was not by accident. We got up the Nicknameth Amazing 1694 01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:40.159 Red match from the Saturday show during Raw tonight. Put 1695 01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:41.960 the full match up the very beginning of the show, 1696 01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:44.439 the first like twenty five minutes of the show. So 1697 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:46.399 if you want to hear me do commentary for what 1698 01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:48.640 was a really good match, you can go over to 1699 01:38:48.640 --> 01:38:50.479 the House of Glory YouTube channel after this and go 1700 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:53.119 check it out. Leave a comment and mention that the 1701 01:38:53.119 --> 01:39:01.279 Solo Monster sent you so they know Tommy Koleela the 1702 01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:05.840 twenty dollars super chant. I was thinking two more wrestling tropes. 1703 01:39:07.279 --> 01:39:12.760 Jeff Jarrett hitting somebody with a guitar, somebody over the 1704 01:39:12.880 --> 01:39:19.159 hill with the guitar, and the referee painting with all 1705 01:39:19.520 --> 01:39:26.039 the debris, and the Dudley Boys whassab where the referee 1706 01:39:26.039 --> 01:39:39.199 would always act dumb. Yeah, that really should be a disqualification. Hey, guys, 1707 01:39:39.439 --> 01:39:45.119 maven here with a five dollars super chant. Everybody loves 1708 01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:49.840 Joe Hendry, but how many people love Ho Genry, Joe 1709 01:39:49.880 --> 01:40:01.520 Hendry's lesser known cousin, Ho Genry. I hear he gets around. 1710 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.600 I hear he gets around the women's locker room. Unconfirmed, 1711 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.279 though it's a very popular guy. Tommy says, I meant pinning, 1712 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:13.039 not painting. I was a little confused when I read. 1713 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:17.039 I was a little confused when I read that. I said, 1714 01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:20.399 that's not a trope that I'm familiar with. Says he's 1715 01:40:20.479 --> 01:40:25.960 using a Google voice. Mactub who had the higher peak 1716 01:40:26.039 --> 01:40:30.439 in America? Jeff or Punk going Jeff Hardy. I assume 1717 01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:35.199 that Jeff Jarrett, who we were just talking about the 1718 01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:38.279 higher peak in America was Jeff Hardy. When Jeff Hardy 1719 01:40:38.359 --> 01:40:41.600 was at his most popular, which was like around eight 1720 01:40:41.680 --> 01:40:46.680 It was Jeff Hardy. Also, I think Seth after his 1721 01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:50.199 Babyface run was botched due to Triple AH in twenty sixteen, 1722 01:40:51.079 --> 01:40:54.039 was never the same. Thoughts on how they went about 1723 01:40:54.079 --> 01:40:57.199 that and his gimmick in recent years. Yeah, I wasn't 1724 01:40:57.279 --> 01:40:59.399 terribly moved by that either, and his gimmick in recent 1725 01:40:59.439 --> 01:41:01.640 year socks. I don't know what his gimmick is supposed 1726 01:41:01.680 --> 01:41:04.439 to be. He comes out, he wears, he wears weird 1727 01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:08.039 clothing and he cackles like a hyena. I don't know 1728 01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:09.840 what that's supposed to be. It's like he's trying to 1729 01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:12.039 be a modern day version of Macho Man, but not 1730 01:41:12.199 --> 01:41:15.239 nearly as cool, because Macho Man came out with all 1731 01:41:15.239 --> 01:41:18.279 the colorful, over the top, silly, ridiculous outfits and stuff, 1732 01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:20.760 but he was fucking cool. He was the Macho Man. 1733 01:41:22.039 --> 01:41:23.680 So I don't know if that's what he's trying to be, 1734 01:41:23.760 --> 01:41:26.399 but if he is, he's failing. I don't know what 1735 01:41:26.439 --> 01:41:28.920 this gimmick is supposed to be. And I thought maybe 1736 01:41:28.920 --> 01:41:31.439 with the vision it would be different, and it was 1737 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:34.199 just the same Seth Rollins, but with a couple of 1738 01:41:34.199 --> 01:41:41.239 people around him. Uh Duff's vid says John Cena wakes 1739 01:41:41.319 --> 01:41:44.199 up in a hospital. John Cena says, where am I? 1740 01:41:44.439 --> 01:41:48.119 The nurse says, I see you. John Cena says, no, 1741 01:41:48.199 --> 01:42:01.520 you can't. Going with the you can't see me humor. Huh. 1742 01:42:01.920 --> 01:42:06.640 DJ fifty five the four ninety nine says, solo, my 1743 01:42:06.760 --> 01:42:08.720 ten year old son and I will be at war 1744 01:42:08.840 --> 01:42:12.439 Games for my TNT shirt and signs. We'll be at 1745 01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:16.640 the entrance ramp repping you and JD in sunny San Diego. Wow. 1746 01:42:16.680 --> 01:42:20.039 I'm gonna keep an eye out for that. That's very cool. 1747 01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:22.039 I tell you guys all the time, if you go 1748 01:42:22.039 --> 01:42:24.279 into the shows, and if you haven't been priced out 1749 01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:27.359 of these shows and you're going to the shows, anytime 1750 01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:32.199 you wrap the sound off man or Solemn Monster, big letters, 1751 01:42:32.239 --> 01:42:35.880 big sign, get a screenshot of that shit, throw it 1752 01:42:35.960 --> 01:42:37.600 up here on the stream. Give you a shout out. 1753 01:42:37.600 --> 01:42:39.560 Man's that's what it's all about. I love seeing that. 1754 01:42:42.079 --> 01:42:52.399 Barry MK four hundred, is this the Krusty Crab? I 1755 01:42:52.439 --> 01:42:58.560 don't have crab, but if I did, I would boil 1756 01:42:58.640 --> 01:43:02.560 them with my steak, and I would have my steak medium, 1757 01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:04.640 not even medium. Well, I think I might have my 1758 01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:11.239 steak well done with ketchup. I hear that's how they 1759 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:19.560 do it in Texas. TikTok told me that Tictac TikTok 1760 01:43:19.640 --> 01:43:24.600 never lies or Tiktac oh man. Alex says brother solo. 1761 01:43:24.640 --> 01:43:27.239 What did Vince not seeing Ziggler throughout his twenty year 1762 01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:32.119 career in WWE? For crying out loud? Gender won the 1763 01:43:32.199 --> 01:43:36.319 damn Championship, but Dolf couldn't. Overall, great show, and thank 1764 01:43:36.359 --> 01:43:42.359 you for another great stream. Well you're very welcome. Yeah, 1765 01:43:42.399 --> 01:43:45.159 I don't. Is that what the Krusty Krab is from? Like, 1766 01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:48.600 I don't watch SpongeBob. I'm not five years old, So 1767 01:43:49.680 --> 01:43:51.880 I may act like I'm five years old sometimes, but 1768 01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:53.800 I'm not five years old. Why would do you think 1769 01:43:53.800 --> 01:44:05.039 I sit around watching SpongeBob SquarePants all day? I don't. 1770 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:08.720 What did Vince not see in him? You have das Vince, 1771 01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:12.920 you have to as Vince. I always go back to 1772 01:44:12.960 --> 01:44:16.560 that Survivor series in twenty fourteen when he was the 1773 01:44:16.560 --> 01:44:18.920 sole survivor in the main event, Sting pulled him on 1774 01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:22.199 top of seth rollins. That like around that period of time, 1775 01:44:22.560 --> 01:44:28.680 that was I feel like the last real opportunity for 1776 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:31.880 them to truly try to elevate him to a level 1777 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:34.960 higher than what he was at, and they didn't do 1778 01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:37.000 it because they just didn't see him at that level. 1779 01:44:37.640 --> 01:44:40.520 I say they, Vince did not see him at that level. 1780 01:44:42.319 --> 01:44:44.039 You know, he had a really good feud for the 1781 01:44:44.479 --> 01:44:47.399 IC title a couple of years after that, or maybe 1782 01:44:47.399 --> 01:44:53.800 twenty seventeen with Miz But I don't know. I look 1783 01:44:53.840 --> 01:44:56.000 back on that Survivor series as like, man, this is 1784 01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:59.439 an opportunity for them to follow up on this, and 1785 01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:05.600 they didn't do it. It So like he won the championship. Actually, 1786 01:45:05.640 --> 01:45:08.399 I think he won the champion, the World Heavyweight Championship twice. 1787 01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:10.560 I said before he won it when he cashed in, 1788 01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:13.600 I think he won it twice and both times like 1789 01:45:14.359 --> 01:45:16.359 the first time he wanted in the cash in is 1790 01:45:16.399 --> 01:45:19.000 one of the more memorable cashs they've ever done. But 1791 01:45:19.039 --> 01:45:21.520 then he got hurt. He had no run, Like the 1792 01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:27.159 run was completely forgettable and short and just nothing. There's 1793 01:45:27.199 --> 01:45:31.000 just nothing to it. The second one, I'm trying to remember, 1794 01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:33.880 or maybe maybe it was the first one, whichever one 1795 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:37.159 came first, the one with him and Vicky, I couldn't 1796 01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:46.359 even tell you what happened they were so forgettable. Squid word, 1797 01:45:46.439 --> 01:45:54.960 What the fuck is squid word? What is that? It 1798 01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:57.039 sounds like something you would do on the toilet after 1799 01:45:57.079 --> 01:46:03.640 you had a boiled steak. Justin g says, I am 1800 01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:12.199 the Sena tree. Thanks guys, thank you. Justin Lakers Pat says, 1801 01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:18.880 with three hour Attitude era raws have worked, no, No, 1802 01:46:19.079 --> 01:46:21.399 because you would have burned the audience out. I think 1803 01:46:21.439 --> 01:46:27.720 a lot quicker Crash TV back then it worked, you know, 1804 01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:33.359 for a while, and that was at two hours. If 1805 01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:36.479 you had an extra hour every single week, I don't 1806 01:46:36.479 --> 01:46:38.319 think it would have worked. After a period of time, 1807 01:46:38.319 --> 01:46:40.600 you would have burned the audience out. It was better 1808 01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:42.720 to give them those those types of shows and leave 1809 01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:47.159 them wanting more for the following week. There's no there's 1810 01:46:47.159 --> 01:46:50.840 no weekly wrestling show, good or bad, that needs three 1811 01:46:50.880 --> 01:46:57.279 hours every single week. Always said that that includes the 1812 01:46:57.279 --> 01:47:00.479 Attitude era, That includes the Golden era, the Ruthless Aggres era, 1813 01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:06.359 any era you want to go back to, no need 1814 01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:13.239 for three hours. On that note, Dynamite this week is 1815 01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:19.479 three hours. Just figured i'd mentioned that's say a Dynamite 1816 01:47:19.520 --> 01:47:25.279 Collision combo show. We got Bobby's World with a fifty 1817 01:47:27.199 --> 01:47:32.840 fifty dollar super chat late to the party has always 1818 01:47:32.880 --> 01:47:39.399 but congrats on eighteen years. Brother, Thank you, sir, says 1819 01:47:39.439 --> 01:47:41.800 as you know, loyal listener for ten plus, made my 1820 01:47:41.880 --> 01:47:44.720 family fans and pretty sure I can safely say that 1821 01:47:44.800 --> 01:47:47.560 we are around for the long haul. Here's the many 1822 01:47:47.640 --> 01:47:59.560 more my friend hashtag gwo for life, gwoe life. Thank you, Bobby, 1823 01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:02.960 appreciate all the love on all the streams. Thank you 1824 01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:13.960 for eighteen great years. Wink the cosmic Grandma. Evans versus 1825 01:48:14.039 --> 01:48:19.079 Gunther or Shelton versus Triple H. So we're already comparing 1826 01:48:19.119 --> 01:48:24.439 different matches. Here are we really doing this? If you 1827 01:48:24.520 --> 01:48:26.520 were to say Shelton and Shawn, I would pick that. 1828 01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.760 In this case, I'm gonna go with Evans and Gunther. Dude, 1829 01:48:30.800 --> 01:48:35.119 Here's seventy three with a nineteen ninety two fun raw tonight, 1830 01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:39.279 bittersweet watching scene his last in ring television match, but 1831 01:48:39.399 --> 01:48:41.479 it was a fun match and cool seeing him tag 1832 01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:44.479 with Seamus and Ray. Also, what the hell do they 1833 01:48:44.560 --> 01:48:49.359 do to Gunther's theme? They reverted back to his old theme, 1834 01:48:53.239 --> 01:48:56.319 which I like and if you don't, I think it'll 1835 01:48:56.359 --> 01:49:05.079 grow on you. Hey Solo who lived in a pineapple 1836 01:49:05.199 --> 01:49:12.319 under the sea, that would be SpongeBob SquarePants. It's very 1837 01:49:12.399 --> 01:49:18.840 absorbent and very porous. And if nautical nonsense be something 1838 01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:21.560 you wish, then drop on the deck and flop like 1839 01:49:21.640 --> 01:49:30.479 a fish. JDFVA Symphony nine, Allegro Cone Fuoco, not matter 1840 01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:33.279 or no matter, No matter what fandom, we all have 1841 01:49:33.560 --> 01:49:42.560 a good taste in music. Be Man the champ Hey Solo. 1842 01:49:42.640 --> 01:49:45.159 If you could change any current title holders in WWE 1843 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:49.319 right now, who would they be? Besides the obvious Drew 1844 01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:54.359 McIntyre as WWE champion, I could change any of the 1845 01:49:54.439 --> 01:50:00.479 title holders. I think I would change all of them 1846 01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:10.479 except Ilia Dragono. I would just shake things up. Get 1847 01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:12.520 it off, Cody, get it off, Punk, put it on Breaker, 1848 01:50:14.640 --> 01:50:21.399 Let's go up and down the list. We got Duff's 1849 01:50:21.479 --> 01:50:25.600 vis my friend Joe went on the Dolly parton diet. 1850 01:50:25.920 --> 01:50:36.960 It made Jolene Jolene Jolene. Indeed, Derek j speaks with 1851 01:50:37.079 --> 01:50:39.720 how underwhelming the tournament has been overall. I don't know 1852 01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:41.840 why they even bothered doing it. It would have been 1853 01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:45.720 better off just having gun their challenge Sina well, because 1854 01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:49.159 they wanted something to occupy television time with. It's a 1855 01:50:49.199 --> 01:50:52.359 good TV gimmick. You can kill a whole bunch of 1856 01:50:52.600 --> 01:50:55.079 segments on TV and build interest in the shows over 1857 01:50:55.159 --> 01:51:00.800 a period of weeks. That's why they did it. Probably 1858 01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:08.880 give them another match to do it. Survivor series, Barry 1859 01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:11.800 MK four hundred. Stephanie really should have acted like she 1860 01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:15.000 was knocked out. She looked perfectly fine as NICKI talked 1861 01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:17.079 to her, and did not even fight back. That's what 1862 01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:21.520 I said. It looked completely ridiculous. This woman attacked you 1863 01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:24.359 last week, your supposed friend, and then she attacked you 1864 01:51:24.439 --> 01:51:29.039 again this week and didn't do anything particularly vicious, and 1865 01:51:29.159 --> 01:51:30.560 you're just gonna lay there and let her cut her 1866 01:51:30.600 --> 01:51:33.560 promo like it just made her look like a freakin' weakling. 1867 01:51:39.720 --> 01:51:44.199 Tuffs VIDs. What do hot dogs use for protection condiments? 1868 01:51:48.000 --> 01:51:50.760 That's an old one. And also why did the blonde 1869 01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:53.960 only wear one snow boot? You heard there's only a 1870 01:51:54.359 --> 01:51:59.640 fifty percent chance of snow see now, I'm I'm offended 1871 01:51:59.680 --> 01:52:06.840 by her. He defended me, Prince vegeta ninety five. I 1872 01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:09.760 know everyone thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread 1873 01:52:10.000 --> 01:52:12.319 and all, and he's good, but I'm not big on 1874 01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:20.000 wwe wasting three out of his last four matches on Dom. Yeah, 1875 01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:22.600 I wouldn't waste that many on one person either, regardless 1876 01:52:22.720 --> 01:52:27.319 of who it is. I'm just saying though, like Dom 1877 01:52:27.439 --> 01:52:29.800 needs to get that belt back, so they get it 1878 01:52:29.840 --> 01:52:36.880 off of Sina. I wish there was more variety in 1879 01:52:37.079 --> 01:52:40.319 the opponents that he has had, or maybe I just 1880 01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:43.239 wish he had more dates. It is what it is. 1881 01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:45.840 We're gonna look back on this run. There's some really 1882 01:52:45.920 --> 01:52:48.399 cool things that they did, and there's a lot of 1883 01:52:48.840 --> 01:52:54.640 just wasted time and wasted opportunities, and when all of 1884 01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:56.600 a sudden done, we're going to look back on this tournament, 1885 01:52:57.000 --> 01:53:02.079 not tournament, but this retirement tour, and we're going to 1886 01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:05.039 look at it, I think as a disappointment compared to 1887 01:53:05.119 --> 01:53:08.079 what it could have been. You know, they zigged instead 1888 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:12.119 of zagged. Triple H wanted to make a moment at 1889 01:53:12.159 --> 01:53:17.199 the elimination chamber and they did, and unfortunately that was 1890 01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:20.159 sort of the peak, and they had no way to 1891 01:53:20.239 --> 01:53:22.560 really follow up on that because there was no long 1892 01:53:22.720 --> 01:53:24.520 term plan to what they did. And this is what 1893 01:53:24.640 --> 01:53:26.680 happens when you don't have a long term plan to 1894 01:53:26.760 --> 01:53:29.800 what you're doing. Remember John Cena announced, I want to 1895 01:53:29.800 --> 01:53:32.880 say in July of twenty twenty four, June or July 1896 01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:34.640 of last year, I'm pretty sure is when he made 1897 01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:36.920 the announcement that he was going to wrestle his last 1898 01:53:36.960 --> 01:53:39.520 match at the end of this year. They had a 1899 01:53:39.720 --> 01:53:42.439 lot of time to work on what these plans were 1900 01:53:42.520 --> 01:53:45.359 going to be for John Cena's retirement tour, right the 1901 01:53:45.520 --> 01:53:50.239 greatest of all time, and I'm still floored that coming 1902 01:53:50.319 --> 01:53:53.319 out of the biggest angle they have shot in years, 1903 01:53:54.239 --> 01:53:56.079 they had no real solid plan on where to go 1904 01:53:56.159 --> 01:53:58.960 and what to do with it, or if they did, 1905 01:53:59.119 --> 01:54:03.079 it sucked. If there was one thing that like this 1906 01:54:03.239 --> 01:54:08.119 is impossible to botch, it was this retirement tour, and 1907 01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:09.760 for a good chunk of it, they found a way 1908 01:54:14.479 --> 01:54:21.439 that is now part of Triple H's legacy. Stuff's VIDs, 1909 01:54:22.199 --> 01:54:27.600 What's Brown and sits on a piano chair, Beethoven's Last Movement, 1910 01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:35.319 Prince Vegeta. Am I crazy for thinking that? Joe Hendry 1911 01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:38.600 just gives me massive jobber vibes him hopping out of 1912 01:54:38.640 --> 01:54:42.159 fridges and shit future meat for Sean stacyag I hope 1913 01:54:42.199 --> 01:54:45.039 it's not boiled meat. Yeah, I mean, this is a 1914 01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:48.960 guy who was a TNA World heavyweight champion and he's 1915 01:54:49.039 --> 01:54:52.520 popping out of garbage cans in NXT and out of 1916 01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:58.720 refrigerators and it's a funny comedy gimmick. But funny comedy 1917 01:54:58.760 --> 01:55:02.920 gimmicks don't win World Champion and chips, like, what do 1918 01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:05.359 you want him to be? You wanted to be a 1919 01:55:05.399 --> 01:55:07.319 com you wanted to be a comedy gimmick. He can 1920 01:55:07.359 --> 01:55:10.239 be a comedy gimmick, but he's only going to go 1921 01:55:10.359 --> 01:55:15.920 so far. But that's NXT. So apparently NXT is its 1922 01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:19.000 own universe unto itself. When he comes to the main roster, 1923 01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:23.159 we'll see what they do with him. But you know, 1924 01:55:23.279 --> 01:55:27.159 Joe Hendry is also not necessarily like in ring, at 1925 01:55:27.199 --> 01:55:28.680 the level of a lot of the top guys that 1926 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:31.439 they have in WWE. So is he going to be 1927 01:55:31.560 --> 01:55:36.119 able to hang with those guys? That's another question. What 1928 01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:37.720 kind of matches are they going to have? Kind of 1929 01:55:37.720 --> 01:55:40.199 in ring chemistry are they going to have together? Is 1930 01:55:40.239 --> 01:55:42.279 he going to resonate with these crowds the same way 1931 01:55:42.319 --> 01:55:44.720 that he did in TNA or that he does in NXT. 1932 01:55:52.199 --> 01:55:56.039 Bobby Means says, I'm happy for Maxine, but Women's Icy Champion, 1933 01:55:56.680 --> 01:55:58.680 Oh my, I don't know if this is going to 1934 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:02.520 work out. Who do you see beating her? I think 1935 01:56:02.560 --> 01:56:08.640 Becky just gets the belt back next month more, says 1936 01:56:08.920 --> 01:56:14.600 tk on Ariel Helwani tomorrow morning. Okay, well, I guess 1937 01:56:14.640 --> 01:56:17.600 we'll see what he talks about. I know they've had 1938 01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:21.000 their issues before, so that should be an interesting interview. 1939 01:56:21.039 --> 01:56:26.520 I'm sure Tony will be in a very jovial mood 1940 01:56:26.600 --> 01:56:29.399 talking about all the wonderful things that aw is doing. 1941 01:56:31.479 --> 01:56:36.279 Shark says Solo, I'm going to have to disagree with 1942 01:56:36.520 --> 01:56:40.119 Becky winning back the women's icee title. I feel like 1943 01:56:40.199 --> 01:56:42.960 Becky against AJ doesn't need a title attached to it, 1944 01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:47.000 and they can make it work without it. Yes, but 1945 01:56:48.720 --> 01:56:50.840 who then do they have lined up for Maxine? You 1946 01:56:50.920 --> 01:56:54.840 pray it's the same issue we had on SmackDown with 1947 01:56:54.880 --> 01:56:59.199 the women's US title. You need to have other over 1948 01:56:59.520 --> 01:57:02.560 or credit women for Maxine to work with or drop 1949 01:57:02.640 --> 01:57:06.439 the belt to, if not Becky, so that belt doesn't 1950 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:10.279 just sink to the bottom. You don't want it to 1951 01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:12.800 sink to the bottom of the ocean. That's why Maxine's 1952 01:57:12.840 --> 01:57:14.880 run is not going to be a terribly long one. 1953 01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:17.319 So if it's not Becky who she drops the belt 1954 01:57:17.399 --> 01:57:20.640 back to, then I don't know. Maybe it's Bailey. Maybe 1955 01:57:20.720 --> 01:57:23.720 Bailey has her eyes set on the Intercontinental Championship. Maybe 1956 01:57:23.760 --> 01:57:27.600 that eventually transitions into Bailey and Lyra in a feud 1957 01:57:27.640 --> 01:57:30.199 for the IC title. Right, there can't be a team forever, 1958 01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:39.800 Jeremy says, j La Knight, Gunther, Seamus semi finals, La Night, 1959 01:57:39.880 --> 01:57:44.479 Gunther final and Gunther wins. Yeah. I could see that 1960 01:57:48.319 --> 01:57:52.800 horrible heel run, ridiculous WrestleMania ending, rushed face turn, bad 1961 01:57:52.960 --> 01:57:56.920 final opponent, tournament, this scene, if Final Year was bundled 1962 01:57:57.039 --> 01:58:08.800 at every turn, it's really a shame. De Quentin. I'm 1963 01:58:08.800 --> 01:58:10.479 gonna call you DQ man every time I see the 1964 01:58:10.560 --> 01:58:13.439 D in the Q. I think disqualification DQ is with 1965 01:58:13.600 --> 01:58:18.199 us Romans should be in jail for assaulting a police. Yeah, 1966 01:58:18.239 --> 01:58:21.199 but that wasn't the NYPD, that was the the NPYD. 1967 01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:26.159 That was the New York Putts Department. That's a whole 1968 01:58:26.279 --> 01:58:29.600 different crew. That's a bunch of security geeks that go 1969 01:58:29.720 --> 01:58:31.840 around and they just get their asses handed to them. 1970 01:58:32.359 --> 01:58:36.840 It's all good. They're not even allowed to carry a weapon. 1971 01:58:36.880 --> 01:58:41.239 They they're like the auxiliary police. Alex says, what are 1972 01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:45.039 your thoughts on Kenna Anderson making a WWE cameo. Now 1973 01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:47.800 that he's back with TNA, do you think there is 1974 01:58:47.880 --> 01:58:54.840 still massive heat within WWE? Massive? No? I mean it's 1975 01:58:54.880 --> 01:59:02.720 been has it been fifteen years? Assive? No, and him 1976 01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:06.079 making a cameo. I don't see a reason for him to. 1977 01:59:07.319 --> 01:59:09.039 There's no reason for him to. There's no reason for 1978 01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:12.760 them to bring him in. The Cobra says, if there's 1979 01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:16.520 no Steve Austin and no nWo, do we still have 1980 01:59:16.640 --> 01:59:23.760 the Monday Night wars? Yeah? Well, yes, Nitro would have 1981 01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:26.359 still been on Monday Night, so technically there would have 1982 01:59:26.479 --> 01:59:31.880 been a war between the two companies. Would wrestling have 1983 01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:35.239 been as hot? No, it would not have been. But 1984 01:59:35.479 --> 01:59:38.359 remember Bischoff told Ted Turner, who asked him, what do 1985 01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:40.279 we need to do to compete with Vince? And his 1986 01:59:40.520 --> 01:59:47.600 response was give me primetime on Monday Nights. That was 1987 01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:50.479 in ninety five, that was before Austin came over, that 1988 01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:53.680 was before the nWo was even a thought. So yeah, 1989 01:59:53.680 --> 01:59:56.119 there would have been competition on Mondays, but it would 1990 01:59:56.159 --> 01:59:59.000 not have exploded as big as it did. I think 1991 01:59:59.039 --> 02:00:02.760 it would have died out all sooner. And which side 1992 02:00:02.800 --> 02:00:11.000 would have won? Which side would have won? Alexander says 1993 02:00:11.119 --> 02:00:16.760 thoughts on Bob Caudle passing away. I talked about Bob 1994 02:00:16.840 --> 02:00:19.800 Caudle at the beginning of the sound off episode yesterday, 1995 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:24.199 so I have some thoughts on him there. But I 1996 02:00:24.279 --> 02:00:26.399 was very sad. I was very sad to hear he 1997 02:00:26.479 --> 02:00:30.680 passed away. But ninety five years old. Again, we should 1998 02:00:30.680 --> 02:00:35.279 all be so lucky to live that long. We got why, 1999 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:44.520 I why understand Vince Shane. Shane wasn't acknowledged. Yes, Stephanie 2000 02:00:44.560 --> 02:00:47.600 and Shane were both there. They acknowledged Stephanie on camera 2001 02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:52.840 with her podcast co host, They did not acknowledge Shane. 2002 02:00:55.439 --> 02:01:00.720 Jacob Gomez with the nine ninety nine says, I was 2003 02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:03.000 at the show and it was great and had tons 2004 02:01:03.039 --> 02:01:05.039 of fun. I don't know how it sounded on TV, 2005 02:01:05.199 --> 02:01:07.520 but it was super loud in the building. Dolph was 2006 02:01:07.560 --> 02:01:10.880 one of my favorites growing up, so excited to be 2007 02:01:10.960 --> 02:01:17.079 able to see him. It sounded very loud on TV, 2008 02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:24.800 so definitely came across watching it on Netflix retro. Koh, 2009 02:01:27.359 --> 02:01:30.640 I mean you sit and watch WWE with us, so checkmate, 2010 02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:34.680 fair enough? Yeah, and it was very cool to be 2011 02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:37.840 able to call. This was not the first Nemath match 2012 02:01:37.880 --> 02:01:40.159 that I've been able to call. We had him in 2013 02:01:40.239 --> 02:01:43.520 House of Glory actually last year and he wrestled Vi Kingo, 2014 02:01:44.960 --> 02:01:48.439 so you know, to be able to call his match 2015 02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:51.479 the other night was very cool. Had a nice conversation 2016 02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:58.199 with Killer Cross as well, and definitely brought up keV 2017 02:01:58.279 --> 02:02:03.840 Castle make sure we talked about that, and had a 2018 02:02:03.880 --> 02:02:09.199 good conversation with Chris van Vliet, and you know, I 2019 02:02:09.279 --> 02:02:11.079 was able to say hello to Sam Roberts. So were 2020 02:02:11.079 --> 02:02:12.960 there are a bunch of people who were there at 2021 02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:15.279 the Big Event and then into the House of Glory 2022 02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:18.520 show later on in the in the evening, and I 2023 02:02:18.640 --> 02:02:22.159 met many of you there as well. Hopefully we'll do 2024 02:02:22.199 --> 02:02:24.079 it all over again. The Big Event is coming back 2025 02:02:24.359 --> 02:02:28.079 in March March fourteenth of next year, so hopefully we'll 2026 02:02:28.079 --> 02:02:32.039 do another one and Navy forty one eighty one. Since 2027 02:02:32.119 --> 02:02:34.800 Dominic uses the six one nine, wouldn't it make sense 2028 02:02:34.840 --> 02:02:39.279 for Dominic to start using the Bronco Buster. That would 2029 02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:43.880 be hilarious if he did it. To Ray him doing 2030 02:02:43.920 --> 02:02:47.000 a move like the Bronco Buster to his dad would 2031 02:02:47.000 --> 02:02:50.439 be a little weird. I'm sorry it it just would 2032 02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:53.600 be weird. It would be weird to me. I'm sure 2033 02:02:53.600 --> 02:02:59.279 it'd be weird for Ray too. Put some respect on SpongeBob. 2034 02:03:02.039 --> 02:03:05.319 I don't have any ill will towards SpongeBob. It's that 2035 02:03:05.720 --> 02:03:09.880 Patrick guy. I don't trust him. I don't trust him 2036 02:03:09.880 --> 02:03:12.720 at all. I have a feeling he's on the Epstein list. Anyway, 2037 02:03:13.560 --> 02:03:17.920 thank you guys for helping me hit the goal, which 2038 02:03:18.000 --> 02:03:23.720 we did hit the likes goal five hundred sixteen likes 2039 02:03:26.119 --> 02:03:28.960 five hundred four hundred was the goal we exceeded five 2040 02:03:29.079 --> 02:03:32.560 hundred and so on that note, we are going to 2041 02:03:32.680 --> 02:03:34.920 go ahead and be the booker in a moment here. 2042 02:03:34.960 --> 02:03:36.920 But Nick Grosso says, just wanted to pop in and 2043 02:03:37.000 --> 02:03:40.720 say thoughts and prayers to Rebel, who was diagnosed with 2044 02:03:41.079 --> 02:03:43.199 lung cancer. Yeah, she was diagnosed with a form of 2045 02:03:43.359 --> 02:03:46.239 I think it was lymphoma of the lungs. I know 2046 02:03:46.359 --> 02:03:48.319 she's been very sick and dealing with an illness for 2047 02:03:48.399 --> 02:03:52.359 a while and just could not get a diagnosis and 2048 02:03:52.520 --> 02:03:54.600 only recently found out what it was. So she had 2049 02:03:54.680 --> 02:03:56.760 it the whole time. It wasn't being treated because they 2050 02:03:56.760 --> 02:04:01.560 didn't know what it was. But evidently if you were 2051 02:04:01.640 --> 02:04:04.399 to get this, she got the best version of it. 2052 02:04:04.920 --> 02:04:09.520 So hopefully she'll be able to kick its ass and 2053 02:04:09.680 --> 02:04:12.680 make a full recovery. But yeah, no thoughts are with 2054 02:04:12.800 --> 02:04:17.439 her because I know she's been through the ringer. Let's 2055 02:04:17.479 --> 02:04:21.600 be the booker, ladies or gentlemen, it is now time 2056 02:04:21.800 --> 02:04:29.319 to be the booker. You guys ever, plan on going 2057 02:04:29.399 --> 02:04:33.199 to Upstate New York with Hog. We got plans to 2058 02:04:33.239 --> 02:04:38.199 go to a lot of places. Hog coming to the 2059 02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:43.640 City of Angels for the first time in January, be 2060 02:04:43.720 --> 02:04:45.960 in Chicago this coming Friday. Of course, we've been there 2061 02:04:46.000 --> 02:04:51.079 a bunch of times. We were in Houston in July 2062 02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:54.880 for the first time, Philadelphia for the second time back 2063 02:04:54.920 --> 02:04:59.640 in September. And there's some other places and plans coming 2064 02:04:59.680 --> 02:05:01.359 up in the early part of next year that I 2065 02:05:01.439 --> 02:05:04.680 cannot reveal yet, two of them in particular that are 2066 02:05:04.880 --> 02:05:09.039 pretty exciting. So all I'll say is just stay tuned. 2067 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:13.880 All right, here we go. We got the faces of 2068 02:05:14.079 --> 02:05:17.520 Fear kicking us off. We've got Meng and the Barbarian. 2069 02:05:17.600 --> 02:05:21.800 Now we've landed on them a few times before, so 2070 02:05:21.960 --> 02:05:25.079 let's see this time, who are we putting them in 2071 02:05:25.119 --> 02:05:26.880 the ring with the faces of few See, I would 2072 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:28.479 not want to be on the opposite side of the 2073 02:05:28.600 --> 02:05:33.039 ring with Meng. That's the whole thing. Oh, look at this, 2074 02:05:33.279 --> 02:05:37.319 the faces of fear against Rob van Dam and Saboo. 2075 02:05:40.239 --> 02:05:46.399 Oh Man, Meng and Saboo in the ring together, m 2076 02:05:48.479 --> 02:05:54.680 that would be a very interesting clash of styles. Hog 2077 02:05:54.840 --> 02:05:58.880 takes Manhattan, Dude, We ran Terminal five a few years 2078 02:05:58.920 --> 02:06:04.359 ago in manhatt Been there, done that? Who knows? Maybe 2079 02:06:04.399 --> 02:06:10.239 Hammerstein one day. It's expensive though, it is very expensive. 2080 02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:15.439 I will tell you that. All right, Women's be the booker. 2081 02:06:18.960 --> 02:06:22.000 We have Natalia who has a brand new book out 2082 02:06:22.079 --> 02:06:25.039 by the way, and I have a link. I have 2083 02:06:25.079 --> 02:06:27.319 an audible link where you can get that book for free. 2084 02:06:28.079 --> 02:06:32.399 She tells some very interesting stories in there, including how 2085 02:06:32.479 --> 02:06:35.720 she was treated by Vince McMahon after her husband almost 2086 02:06:35.840 --> 02:06:38.479 died in the ring and suffered a catastrophic injury that 2087 02:06:38.520 --> 02:06:41.399 doesn't paint him in the best light. That story is 2088 02:06:41.439 --> 02:06:46.560 in the book as well. Run Pen Station, Oh like 2089 02:06:46.720 --> 02:06:49.560 a shotguns Saturday night? Yeah, I know, Well you got 2090 02:06:49.640 --> 02:06:51.319 to remember something though. When they did that, that was 2091 02:06:51.399 --> 02:06:54.920 pre nine to eleven, and the city and the world 2092 02:06:55.079 --> 02:06:59.199 it was a very different place security wise. I don't 2093 02:06:59.199 --> 02:07:03.319 even know if I doubt we would even be allowed 2094 02:07:03.439 --> 02:07:07.359 to think about doing something like that. They basically shut 2095 02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:13.560 that part of the terminal down just to do that show. Uh, 2096 02:07:14.000 --> 02:07:25.760 Natty against ReHO see blood Sport. Natty against ReHO would 2097 02:07:25.800 --> 02:07:29.640 be a very interesting battle. I don't know, I'm not 2098 02:07:29.680 --> 02:07:32.359 feeling it all right, main event time. Maybe we could 2099 02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:38.720 split the bill here. Let's see what we can do. Man. 2100 02:07:41.439 --> 02:07:59.159 We have the Mizz former WWE champion, the Mizz against 2101 02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:05.000 Cactus Jack. Let's see the Miz taking some tack bumps 2102 02:08:05.159 --> 02:08:10.239 in this match, the Miz landing in the thumbtacks. We're 2103 02:08:10.279 --> 02:08:16.840 gonna buy on that. I give that the bell automatic buzz. 2104 02:08:16.960 --> 02:08:20.840 If he's the champion, well, I gave it the bell. 2105 02:08:22.199 --> 02:08:25.319 So we ended up with two bells and one buzz, 2106 02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:31.760 which is not too bad. Could have been worse. It 2107 02:08:31.880 --> 02:08:35.920 could have been worse. That'll be Cactus Jack for the 2108 02:08:36.000 --> 02:08:41.560 win right there. All right? So Wednesday night I mentioned 2109 02:08:41.680 --> 02:08:44.680 Dynamite is a combined show. It is the go home 2110 02:08:44.720 --> 02:08:47.279 show to Full Gear. It will be three hours long, 2111 02:08:47.520 --> 02:08:49.479 so the Dynamite stream will be a little bit later 2112 02:08:49.560 --> 02:08:54.159 than usual Tomorrow night. Before that, I'll be on JD's 2113 02:08:54.199 --> 02:08:59.680 channel for Tuesday Night Titans as always, but no SmackDown 2114 02:08:59.720 --> 02:09:01.640 review on Friday night, I will not be here. I 2115 02:09:01.680 --> 02:09:03.880 will be in Chicago. Hopefully I will see some of 2116 02:09:04.000 --> 02:09:08.479 you in Chicago. We are sold out at Logan Square Auditorium, 2117 02:09:08.520 --> 02:09:10.760 but if you've got your tickets, I will see you there. 2118 02:09:10.880 --> 02:09:14.560 It's gonna be cold, though, isn't it. Yeah, Chicago this 2119 02:09:14.640 --> 02:09:17.760 time of year is tough, but that's where I'll be. 2120 02:09:18.079 --> 02:09:20.560 And then, if you missed episode nine thirty eight of 2121 02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:23.600 the sound Off from yesterday, a lot of ground covered 2122 02:09:23.720 --> 02:09:26.079 on that show, please go back and check out the podcast. 2123 02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:30.800 We were number two in the world on Apple Podcasts 2124 02:09:30.880 --> 02:09:35.520 for all wrestling podcasts, number two behind Jim Cornett. Actually 2125 02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:38.880 I was sandwiched in between. He has two shows, right, 2126 02:09:38.920 --> 02:09:41.399 He's got the experience and he's got the drive through. 2127 02:09:41.840 --> 02:09:44.479 I think the experience was number one. I was number two, 2128 02:09:45.359 --> 02:09:47.760 and I think the drive through maybe was number three. 2129 02:09:48.279 --> 02:09:52.039 In any event, I thank you for that. Be well, 2130 02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:57.800 stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of your week. 2131 02:09:58.159 --> 02:09:59.920 I will see you back here. I better see you 2132 02:10:00.039 --> 02:10:03.119 you back here on Wednesday for the Dynamite stream and 2133 02:10:03.199 --> 02:10:07.920 of course tomorrow for TNT. Until then, take care, guys,