Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, New York City. Man. They let me
Speaker 1: tell you some when they are at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: WWE likes to go all out for these shows. And
Speaker 1: tonight was not just a Madison Square Garden show. Tonight
Speaker 1: was the final Raw of John Cena's active career. John Cena,
Speaker 1: one last time in the ring on Monday Night Raw Tonight.
Speaker 1: This was a very newsworthy, very eventful, very fun episode
Speaker 1: of Raw. There was a lot going on. Honestly, one
Speaker 1: of the best raws all year, coming off one of
Speaker 1: the worst smackdowns all year last week, actually the week
Speaker 1: before last. So the difference between the two shows at
Speaker 1: the moment, it is quite striking, I must say. But
Speaker 1: John Cena was all about him tonight, the new Intercontinental Champion.
Speaker 1: He came out, What were they going to do with
Speaker 1: him here on the show tonight? What would he do
Speaker 1: with Survivor series? Because so we're only a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks away, two and a half weeks away whatever it
Speaker 1: is from Survivor Series, And there really was a big
Speaker 1: question Marcus to what John Cena would be doing on
Speaker 1: that show. We know he's going to be in San Diego.
Speaker 1: He's always been advertised for that show. Would they just
Speaker 1: simply run back a rematch between him and Dominique Bisterio
Speaker 1: from last week? Would they have him maybe in his
Speaker 1: first ever War Games match that was also a very
Speaker 1: distinct possibility. Well, now we have our answer as far
Speaker 1: as what John Cena is going to be doing on
Speaker 1: that show, and in fact, he will be wrestling Dominicq
Speaker 1: Bysterio in a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship, so his
Speaker 1: match at that show is now set. Tonight was also
Speaker 1: about the Last Time is Now Tournament, who will wrestle
Speaker 1: John Cena December thirteenth in his final match on Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event, And we had two more matches in
Speaker 1: the tournament tonight Solo Soukoa was wrestling a mystery man
Speaker 1: and the other match is the one that I was.
Speaker 1: The one thing on the show tonight really more than
Speaker 1: anything else that I was most looking forward to was Gunther,
Speaker 1: who we have not seen since SummerSlam, taking on Javon Evans.
Speaker 1: And now that we know there's no more mystery people
Speaker 1: in the tournament, we already know all the names in
Speaker 1: the Last Time is Now Tournament. Javon Evans was the
Speaker 1: only representative from NXT in this tournament, which I will
Speaker 1: say is quite disappointing. You know, now that we can
Speaker 1: see who's in the tournament and kind of get a
Speaker 1: sense of where things are going, I will say they
Speaker 1: could have done a better job with this tournament. But
Speaker 1: this was the match I was most looking forward to
Speaker 1: in the entire thing. I was hoping we might get
Speaker 1: it later on at the tournament. Give Javon a few
Speaker 1: wins on his way to the match with Gunther, but
Speaker 1: they gave it to us tonight. It did not disappoint
Speaker 1: as far as Whosolo so CoA stepped into the ring with.
Speaker 1: We had a return tonight of a former WWI star,
Speaker 1: very much in the same vein of what we saw
Speaker 1: on SmackDown Friday Night where La Knight had a mystery
Speaker 1: opponent and out came Matt Cardona. Only he wasn't Matt Cardona.
Speaker 1: He was Zach Rider because that's the last time people
Speaker 1: would have seen him on WWE television. He was Zach Ryder. Well,
Speaker 1: tonight it was Nick Nemath, only he didn't come out
Speaker 1: as Nick Nemath. He came out as Dolph Ziggler, because
Speaker 1: that is how the WWE audience would remember him. That's
Speaker 1: the last time we saw him. He was Dolf Zigler
Speaker 1: on TV, so he was the big surprise there. But
Speaker 1: you talk about surprises, they loaded up for Bear with
Speaker 1: the surprises on this show tonight, even though they weren't
Speaker 1: all surprise. I mean, we kind of knew at least
Speaker 1: some of the names that were likely going to be
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. But they loaded this show up
Speaker 1: with a lot of big names, and the biggest among
Speaker 1: them Roman Reigns and Brock Lesner. There's only one reason
Speaker 1: they would be on the show tonight, and that is
Speaker 1: if they are going to be part of the War
Speaker 1: Games match, which in fact they are. That now rounds
Speaker 1: out the teams because it was four on four coming
Speaker 1: into tonight. Now we know what the field is going
Speaker 1: to be. Now we know it's five on five. Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns on the baby face side, brought Lesner as a
Speaker 1: favorite of Paul Hayman. He is the fifth man on
Speaker 1: Team Vision. I guess we can call it Team Vision
Speaker 1: even though there's only two members technically of the Vision
Speaker 1: that are on this team. But they saved those two
Speaker 1: returns for the very end of the show. We had
Speaker 1: an Women's Intercontinental Championship match tonight and talk about women's
Speaker 1: war games. Becky Lynch was defending her title tonight against
Speaker 1: Maxine Dupre. They've been feuding now for a few months.
Speaker 1: Maxine came into this show with two wins over Becky Lynch,
Speaker 1: none of which were by you know, submission or any
Speaker 1: sort of decisive win, but you know, wins nonetheless, and
Speaker 1: so tonight the championship was on the line. The question
Speaker 1: is what they have Maxine beat her for a third time?
Speaker 1: Would this be the night that aj Lee would make
Speaker 1: her return? Would aj Lee factor into the finish of
Speaker 1: the match, which is what I've been talking about because
Speaker 1: we have not seen aj Lee since Wreussell Palooza, which
Speaker 1: was almost two months ago. And not only did we
Speaker 1: get the return of Aja Lee tonight, it directly led
Speaker 1: into the finish of the match, which was Maxine Dupre
Speaker 1: pinning Becky Lynch to become the new Women's Intercontinental Champion. Yes,
Speaker 1: Maxine Dupre won a singles title in this company before
Speaker 1: Chad Gable did. I really don't know what to say
Speaker 1: to that, but here we are, this is the world
Speaker 1: we live in. But good for her, I mean She
Speaker 1: was as shocked as anybody. I think her parents were there.
Speaker 1: This was like a big moment for her, her first
Speaker 1: championship win and it comes in Madison Square Garden and
Speaker 1: it's going to directly now, i'd believe, feed into women's
Speaker 1: wargames and who fills out those last two spots because
Speaker 1: women's war Games at the moment is still four on four.
Speaker 1: It will not be for much longer. We saw the
Speaker 1: backstage segment later in the show where Rio Ripley wanted
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with aj Lee. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: aj on one side, We're gonna get Becky Lynch on
Speaker 1: the other. That's going to be your women's wargames field
Speaker 1: five on five Team AJ team Becky. So now we know,
Speaker 1: right whatever questions we had that were still lingering as
Speaker 1: far as wargames coming into tonight, even though the women's
Speaker 1: stuff is not official yet, but now we know where
Speaker 1: things are headed as far as that goes. The other
Speaker 1: thing also about women's wargames, I say that the fields
Speaker 1: are complete at five on five because Charlotte Flair was
Speaker 1: back on the show tonight, coming to the rescue really
Speaker 1: more so of her friend Alexa Blisz, not so much
Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley and EO. Sky, but they certainly left you
Speaker 1: with the impression that she was going to end up
Speaker 1: joining on the babyface side. Even after the angle they
Speaker 1: just did on Friday night. They've already negated the angle
Speaker 1: that they did on SmackDown on Friday night. They rushed
Speaker 1: right into this Charlotte. She was right back on TV tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the point, frankly, of what
Speaker 1: we saw on Friday was, if they were just going
Speaker 1: to rush right into it. But again, it looks like
Speaker 1: we have our five on five field. And for all
Speaker 1: the problems that I've talked about in recent weeks when
Speaker 1: it comes to SmackDown, and there are a lot of them,
Speaker 1: and on top of that, the show's going to three hours,
Speaker 1: as if that's gonna make it any better. SmackDown's got
Speaker 1: a lot of problems. But I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: you watch a show like the one that we got tonight,
Speaker 1: and part of the problem with SmackDown is you watch
Speaker 1: a loaded episode of Raw like this and you see
Speaker 1: what they gave us on tonight's show, and I get
Speaker 1: it was the Garden and it was a special night
Speaker 1: for Sena. But we got John Cena on the show tonight, right,
Speaker 1: He hasn't been on SmackDown. His last SmackDown was what
Speaker 1: months ago, right two months ago? So we got John
Speaker 1: Cena on the show. We had the returns of Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns and brock Lesner and aj Lee, and even Dolf
Speaker 1: Ziggler made an appearance here on the show What is
Speaker 1: Left for Friday? Like What's Left for Friday? They get
Speaker 1: the scraps. That show could use all the help it
Speaker 1: can get. It didn't do smackdow this week any favors
Speaker 1: by loading up this raw show the way that they did.
Speaker 1: But I got to give a shout out to Brian
Speaker 1: shout out to Brian Bird. I chuckled when he tweeted
Speaker 1: this to me, but when the show is over, he
Speaker 1: did send me this. He goes John Cena, brock Lesner,
Speaker 1: Roman Rains, cm Punk, aj Lee, raymus Stereo, Nikki Bella
Speaker 1: goes man. This raw from twenty thirteen was lit and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, He's kind of got a point.
Speaker 1: It does feel in some way like we have fallen
Speaker 1: into a time warp and we've gone back by about
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen years with all the names we saw
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, but it did make for a
Speaker 1: fun show. We'll talk about the whole thing here. This
Speaker 1: is your raw on Netflix review. It is Monday night.
Speaker 1: It is November seventeenth, twenty twenty five, not twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Even though it might feel like it, I am the
Speaker 1: solemn monster. You know, it strikes me now that I
Speaker 1: say that date out loud. November seventeen? It was? Was
Speaker 1: it thirty? No? Oh? Was twenty nine? Twenty nine years ago? Tonight,
Speaker 1: on this very day at Madison Square Garden, Psycho Sid
Speaker 1: beat Sewn Michaels at Madison Square Garden to win the
Speaker 1: WWF Championship in that very building that they ran tonight.
Speaker 1: How about that, Believe it or not, That's actually one
Speaker 1: of my favorite matches at Survivor series, best match of
Speaker 1: Sid's career, Shawn Michaels and Sid at MSG. That was
Speaker 1: when the crowd turned on Shawn Michaels that night, and
Speaker 1: they were very happy to see Sid win the title
Speaker 1: for the first time. And that's right, Rock, That's right.
Speaker 1: Rock made his debut on the Survivor series that night
Speaker 1: as well. He was the sole survivor for his team,
Speaker 1: So there you go. That was like an afterthought that
Speaker 1: guy the Rock, Whatever happened to that Rocky my via guy?
Speaker 1: That's right. I was thinking, like, did anything else of
Speaker 1: note happened on that show? I'm like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Yes, the fucking Rock debuted that night, So
Speaker 1: let's get into this. Here's right. Undertaker came down like Batman.
Speaker 1: One of the silliest Undertaker entrances honestly of his entire career.
Speaker 1: That was the tear drop Undertaker. He had the tear
Speaker 1: drop on his cheek. I'm pretty sure that had the
Speaker 1: symbolism there. I think a friend of his may have
Speaker 1: passed away. I don't know who it was. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the circumstances were, because I always wondered about that,
Speaker 1: like what was it the fucking tear drop, because like,
Speaker 1: after a year it was gone, but it was just
Speaker 1: weird and there was never any explanation for it. But yes,
Speaker 1: he descended from the ceiling as Batman that night. Thankfully
Speaker 1: he never did that again. Now, last week in Boston,
Speaker 1: they opened the show with Triple H in the ring
Speaker 1: because he knew it was all sold out, and he
Speaker 1: goes man, I got to make sure I'm a part
Speaker 1: of this. Maybe he was marking out he wanted to
Speaker 1: be a part of Johnson his last segment in Boston,
Speaker 1: No Triple H tonight to give us a whole speech
Speaker 1: before John Cena came out. They went on the air
Speaker 1: and John Sena was out to the ring to open
Speaker 1: the show here in New York City. That was Boston,
Speaker 1: this was NYC got a massive reaction here his final
Speaker 1: entrance as an active performer here at MSG. So of
Speaker 1: course you had to expect that it was going to
Speaker 1: be a big reaction here. And even when he got
Speaker 1: to the ring and he called for the music to
Speaker 1: be stopped, they kept cheering and chanting his name, and
Speaker 1: then Alicia Taylor did her introduction for him. We got
Speaker 1: chance of thank you Sena. He told him the champ
Speaker 1: is here, said MSG has allowed him to perform here
Speaker 1: for twenty three years. Tonight is the last time that
Speaker 1: they can talk together on Monday Night Raw. And you
Speaker 1: know when he said that, it really hit me that
Speaker 1: this was his last television appearance. I mean not just
Speaker 1: his last RAW appearance, but the last time that he
Speaker 1: will come to the ring like he did tonight. A
Speaker 1: segment on one of the weekly shows to talk to
Speaker 1: us and cut a promo because the only two dates
Speaker 1: left a Survivor series and then Saturday Night's main event.
Speaker 1: That's it, you know. And I'm sure we'll see SNA
Speaker 1: back on TV at some point, but it'll just be
Speaker 1: like a high hi, how are you you know? Kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So, yeah, this was pretty historic in multiple
Speaker 1: ways tonight, but he goes it's bittersweet for some but
Speaker 1: an important moment for him, and he wants to take
Speaker 1: a second. Well, I mean, he could take all the
Speaker 1: time he needs because he didn't get any further in
Speaker 1: this promo before he was interrupted by Dominic Mysterio made
Speaker 1: his way out to the ring. No cheers for domin
Speaker 1: New York. I don't care how popular he's been. These
Speaker 1: segments with Sena he has gotten. It's like old school
Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio. Nothing but he he comes down to the ring,
Speaker 1: says last week, Sena was handed a title shot, just
Speaker 1: like he's been handed everything else. Meanwhile, he has fought
Speaker 1: for every he has, so he wants a rematch for
Speaker 1: his intercontinental title. Sina said he came to the right building.
Speaker 1: He's not backing down on his last Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1: Tonight it will be John Cena against Dominic Mysterio for
Speaker 1: the Intercontinental Championship, right here, right now, And Dom looked
Speaker 1: at him, and Dom smirked and said no, said they
Speaker 1: already did things seen his way. He had management on
Speaker 1: his side, he had his hometown on his side, so
Speaker 1: now they're gonna do it his way. And the fans
Speaker 1: greeted him with chance of shut the fuck up. He says,
Speaker 1: you want to fight now or not? And Tom said no,
Speaker 1: Survivor Series, San Diego, my hometown or my backyard, same shit.
Speaker 1: Seina told him, no problem. I accept. Here's where he
Speaker 1: has a problem though. He says he told the world
Speaker 1: that he would have a match on his life Raw
Speaker 1: and he sees an opponent right in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ring. So for tonight, let's forget about this, said,
Speaker 1: let's forget about the championship. This will be for San Diego.
Speaker 1: But tonight it could be you and me, one on
Speaker 1: one here on Monday Night Raw. And he goes, do
Speaker 1: you feel lucky? Punk? And I thought that was going
Speaker 1: to be a cue. They were going to do a
Speaker 1: tag team match with seeing him Punk his tag team partners. Now,
Speaker 1: after this the Judgment Days music hit and Finn Balor
Speaker 1: walks out with JD McDonough make their way to the ring.
Speaker 1: Sena took his shirt off and he was ready for
Speaker 1: a fight, but it was three on one and Dom
Speaker 1: told him, you're not gonna get your final match on Raw,
Speaker 1: but what you are going to get is your ass
Speaker 1: beat and they pounced on him. Three on one. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna come out Seamus. Shamus runs down to the ring
Speaker 1: to make the save, but it was still three on
Speaker 1: two until Raymisterio came out to even things up and
Speaker 1: the Judgment they got dumped out of the ring. Sena said,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a six man tag team match right here,
Speaker 1: right now. It's going to be the Judgment Day against Seamus,
Speaker 1: Raymys Stereo and John Cena. He's aid, get a referee
Speaker 1: out here, and they went to commercial. So a few
Speaker 1: things to unpack here. We are getting a rematch with
Speaker 1: Sena and Dom, and I'm okay with that. You know,
Speaker 1: I was talking about this the other day and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to do an open challenge,
Speaker 1: right we didn't know what seen his final match was
Speaker 1: going to be. I said, I can see it being
Speaker 1: an open challenge. The other idea that I flowed in,
Speaker 1: and this was something I tweeted I think last week.
Speaker 1: I said, if they're not going to go the way
Speaker 1: of the open Challenge or haven't put the belt on
Speaker 1: the line, watch for a tag team match, because I
Speaker 1: could see John Cena and raymus Stereo as tag team
Speaker 1: partners against Finn Balor and Dominic Masterio, which is what
Speaker 1: we got tonight, only they made it a six man
Speaker 1: tag so instead of Seena and Ray, he was seen
Speaker 1: a Ray and Seamus. And I have no issue with
Speaker 1: them adding Seamus because that will very likely be the
Speaker 1: last time that we see John Cena and Shamus work
Speaker 1: together because I got news for you, Seamus ain't winning
Speaker 1: that tournament. So I'm totally fine with them getting Sena
Speaker 1: and shame Is back in the ring together, even if
Speaker 1: it's on the same side. That was very cool to see.
Speaker 1: And then you have JD McDonough and there basically is
Speaker 1: the fall guy. I mean, let's be honest. So that
Speaker 1: was the match that they made Sena and dom and
Speaker 1: San Diego. I like it just because it's a way
Speaker 1: to get the championship off of him before they go
Speaker 1: to Saturday Night's main event. There is no need for
Speaker 1: him to defend that championship in his last match, especially
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be against the man that I think
Speaker 1: we all know who it's gonna be. Now that we
Speaker 1: know all the names in the tournament, you know you
Speaker 1: don't have an Obafemi in the tournament, and Jevon Evans
Speaker 1: isn't winning the tournament. Someone like that would benefit from
Speaker 1: wrestling John Sena next month and actually taking the title
Speaker 1: and then getting a run with it on the main
Speaker 1: roster to like start them out. Now that we know
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be anybody like that, there's no fucking
Speaker 1: point to keeping that championship on him. He has to
Speaker 1: drop it at Survivor Series. That's it and simple, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna drop it back to Dom in San Diego.
Speaker 1: Now it could have been somebody else. Sure he beat
Speaker 1: Dom last week. It didn't hurt Dom to be in
Speaker 1: the ring with John Cena, right, that's not a bad
Speaker 1: spot for him to be in. And now they're gonna
Speaker 1: have him pay it back and he's gonna do the
Speaker 1: honors for Dom at Survivor Series, and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: huge for Dominique Mysterio, And yes, he's probably not gonna
Speaker 1: win the belt back clean. I would be shocked frankly
Speaker 1: if he does. But he's gonna get his win back.
Speaker 1: Very likely he's gonna get the title back, and we
Speaker 1: won't have to worry about the Intercontinental Championship having anything
Speaker 1: to do with John Cena's final match, because it should
Speaker 1: not be about that should be a bad John Cena
Speaker 1: and whoever his opponent is gonna be And adding a
Speaker 1: championship to the mix, frankly, only makes things more predictable
Speaker 1: because think about it, it could go either way. John Cena
Speaker 1: could win. They might want him to get the triumphant
Speaker 1: heroic win in his final match, even though if it
Speaker 1: were up to him, he would probably, you know, lose
Speaker 1: or he might lose, and he probably should lose. But
Speaker 1: if you throw the championship in there, it just makes
Speaker 1: it that much more predictable. So for a lot of
Speaker 1: different reasons, it's good that they're doing this, whether or
Speaker 1: not you think it should be DOM. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can pick knits when it comes to that, but DOM
Speaker 1: is the future. Like there are certain guys that you
Speaker 1: can look at right now on the WWE roster okay
Speaker 1: on the men's side, and it's less than five, but
Speaker 1: there are certain names, and there's three of them really
Speaker 1: that actually four, I think there's four of them that
Speaker 1: stand out. In particular. You've got Obafemi is going to
Speaker 1: be a massive deal unless Triple H just completely fucks
Speaker 1: him up. Obafemi is going to be a major star
Speaker 1: for them on the main roster in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: So you've got Obafemi, You've got bron Breaker, right, You've
Speaker 1: got Jacob Fatu, and you've got Dominic Mysterio. Those four
Speaker 1: right there, and frankly, after what we've seen from him
Speaker 1: this year, you could throw Javon Evans in there too,
Speaker 1: but he's still I mean, look, he'll be on the
Speaker 1: main roster soon then it should be. But he's also
Speaker 1: twenty one years old, right, so when we talk about
Speaker 1: the future and the here and now, Javon Evans can
Speaker 1: be the hero and now in terms of elevating him
Speaker 1: from NXT to the main roster. Javon Evans though, is
Speaker 1: not going to be in the main event NIX right now.
Speaker 1: That's where you know a bron Breaker or a dom
Speaker 1: who's got many more years on him on the main roster.
Speaker 1: Those guys will make it there before Javon does. But
Speaker 1: these four or five guys, this is the future of
Speaker 1: the company right here. And I haven't even mentioned any
Speaker 1: of the women. But this is the future. And Dom's
Speaker 1: going to be a massive babyface at some point, probably
Speaker 1: next year. We're probably not going to have to wait
Speaker 1: that much longer. So if Sinea is going to put
Speaker 1: anybody over, it should be someone like Dominic Mysterio. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this match here, it started during the commercial break. Seb says,
Speaker 1: did La Knight do anything on the show? La Knight?
Speaker 1: He got a win over Zach Ryder on Friday, so
Speaker 1: he is technically still in this tournament. It's not gonna win,
Speaker 1: but he is in the tourney. Who's not on Raw
Speaker 1: tonight though, So this six man tag started during the
Speaker 1: commercial break. What happened was the judgment day, they teased
Speaker 1: Bailing before they even got into the ring, so the
Speaker 1: baby Faces said fuck this. They left the ring, and
Speaker 1: they followed them into the aisleway and jumped them and
Speaker 1: brought them back to the ring and it was mostly
Speaker 1: Shamus beating up Dom until JD McDonough pulled the rope down,
Speaker 1: Seamus went tumbling out to the floor. So when they
Speaker 1: came back, the Heels had control over Seamus here in
Speaker 1: this match, so they got heat on him for a
Speaker 1: long time before he got the hot tag to Ray.
Speaker 1: This was Ray's first match here on Raw in about
Speaker 1: seven months. It was that Friday right before WrestleMania when
Speaker 1: he got hurt. He had surgery, so this was it.
Speaker 1: This his first time back in the ring, and he
Speaker 1: looked good. You know. Again, he didn't have to wrestle
Speaker 1: the whole match by himself because it was a six men,
Speaker 1: but the spots he did and everything. He was in there,
Speaker 1: taking bumps and flying around, so you know, he looked great.
Speaker 1: He got Baleri position for the six to one to nine.
Speaker 1: Dom though tripped him up when he hit the ropes.
Speaker 1: Balor slid Ray out of the ring under the bottom
Speaker 1: rope and he bounced off the floor outside hard and
Speaker 1: that then we bounced into another commercial break. At that point,
Speaker 1: Dom did the Three Amigos into a brain buster on
Speaker 1: his father during the break before Baller tagged back in
Speaker 1: Baler and McDonough. They were trying for a double team move.
Speaker 1: It ended with McDonough getting crotched on the top rope.
Speaker 1: Ray got a hot tag to John Cena, We got
Speaker 1: the shoulder tackles to JD and we got the U
Speaker 1: can't seem into the five knuckle shuffle. Sina went for
Speaker 1: an attitude adjustment. McDonald landed on his feet kind of
Speaker 1: took seeing it down with a head butt. Then the
Speaker 1: judgment day they all hit their finishes on Sena. We
Speaker 1: had Jad McDonough fly off the top rope with a
Speaker 1: moon salt, We had Finn Balor fly off the top
Speaker 1: rope with a kudigrass, and we had Dirty Dom fly
Speaker 1: off with a frog splash. Then they all dog piled
Speaker 1: on top of Sena for the pin. Seamus and Ray
Speaker 1: they got in and they broke up the pin at
Speaker 1: the last possible second. Ray got domin position for a
Speaker 1: six one nine Balor though and McDonough pulled him out
Speaker 1: to safety. So at that point, the baby faces they
Speaker 1: all pulled the heels up onto the apron and we
Speaker 1: got a triple ten beats. We got thirty beats to
Speaker 1: the judgment day. Then in the ring they all got
Speaker 1: three the three heels down and they did a triple.
Speaker 1: You can't see me into what I guess would be
Speaker 1: a fifteen knuckle shuffle. I guess that's what it would be, right.
Speaker 1: So Ray hit a double six point nine to Dom
Speaker 1: and McDonough who were in the ropes. Seamus hit Balor
Speaker 1: with a brogue kick. This is all rapid fire this
Speaker 1: finishing sequence, and Sena finished off McDonough with an attitude
Speaker 1: adjustment to win it fourteen. Sina, it was actually a
Speaker 1: hell of a finishing sequence. All action here, crowd ate
Speaker 1: it up and all the babyfaces celebrated together. Seamus had
Speaker 1: a big smile on his face. Sina looked happy Ray
Speaker 1: was in there. Fans were happy. They left the ring,
Speaker 1: and when they got to the stage, because they had
Speaker 1: the minimalists set up to fit more people into Madison
Speaker 1: Square Guard, they had a legit sellout tonight. It was
Speaker 1: over eighteen thousand people and it was the stage where
Speaker 1: you can see over the stage and they have more
Speaker 1: fans behind, which I actually love. It was one of
Speaker 1: the things you know, back in the day when you
Speaker 1: had the giant Titan tron, like the raws War days,
Speaker 1: you had that whole section behind the giant screen where
Speaker 1: you just couldn't fit people. You had to have all
Speaker 1: those empty seats. So like back then, imagine how many
Speaker 1: more tickets they could have sold if they actually had
Speaker 1: those seats open and available. And so now it's like,
Speaker 1: now we're going to sell as many of these seats
Speaker 1: as we possibly can, and we'll have just the set
Speaker 1: itself is an led screen. We don't need a giant
Speaker 1: Titan tron. So Seena is looking up at all the
Speaker 1: fans that are behind the set and he tells Seamus
Speaker 1: and Ray He's like, you can hear it, not hear him,
Speaker 1: but you could see him. You have read lips here.
Speaker 1: And he's telling them like stay right, and then he's
Speaker 1: waiting and he's like, all right, turn around. So they
Speaker 1: all turn around together and pose for the fans, and
Speaker 1: Sina looks into the camera and he goes Monday night raw,
Speaker 1: that's all she wrote. He goes love you, thank you,
Speaker 1: and he left with Seamus's arm around his neck. Look
Speaker 1: like two brothers walking off into the sunset here. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what Seamus is, he's not too far off either.
Speaker 1: He's been around for a while and he's pretty beat up.
Speaker 1: So he hasn't said anything about retiring in the near future,
Speaker 1: you know, like aj Styles has said he's retiring next year,
Speaker 1: but Seamus is getting pretty close to the Big five. Ooh,
Speaker 1: and you know, in the next few years, who knows,
Speaker 1: we may be having a similar situation where Seamus is
Speaker 1: ready to hang it out and he could still go
Speaker 1: at a high level. John Cena said he's getting out
Speaker 1: now because he doesn't want to be that guy who
Speaker 1: overstays as welcome and people look at him and go main,
Speaker 1: he's washed, you know, he just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: So as far as the match is concerned, I would
Speaker 1: have if I had a preference, I would have preferred
Speaker 1: that they did, even if just for one night. And
Speaker 1: he dropped it tonight, although these fans really didn't want
Speaker 1: to see Scena lose. But like an Intercontinental title Open challenge,
Speaker 1: you know, in the spirit of the old US Title
Speaker 1: Open challenge that he did and seen has always coming
Speaker 1: out and talking about giving opportunities to people. As I
Speaker 1: was given an opportunity, I'm gonna give somebody else an
Speaker 1: opportunity and then have him in there with someone, maybe
Speaker 1: someone that he's not wrestled before. Maybe maybe there's another
Speaker 1: you know, young member of that NXT roster or someone
Speaker 1: like that, like in a perfect world scenario, would have
Speaker 1: been an important singles match as his final raw match.
Speaker 1: They elected not to do that because they're saving the
Speaker 1: Dominic match for a Survivor series. So we got a
Speaker 1: six man tag and you know what, that's fine. It
Speaker 1: was a crowd pleasing match. It got Seena in the
Speaker 1: ring one last time with some big names like Ray
Speaker 1: and Seamus. It was the feel good match, you know,
Speaker 1: and Scena beating the judgment day makes sense because he's
Speaker 1: going to lose that Survivor Series. Like for John Cena
Speaker 1: to go to Survivor Series and win again against Dominic
Speaker 1: Mysterio would be the antithesis of everything that John Sena
Speaker 1: talks about representing. You know, Like I had no issue
Speaker 1: with him winning last week. If he goes in there
Speaker 1: and wins again at Survivor Series, that's very different. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're going to run this match back, it's for
Speaker 1: one reason and one reason only, because he's going to
Speaker 1: do the honors for dom and drop the belt back
Speaker 1: to him. Otherwise there is no point. There is no
Speaker 1: point in running that match back if Sina is going
Speaker 1: to win again. So he won tonight and when he
Speaker 1: goes to San Diego, he's gonna lose, So there was
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with what they did here. It was a
Speaker 1: fun final few minutes here. And believe me, that win
Speaker 1: at Survivor Series will mean a lot more for DOM
Speaker 1: than a meaningless win and a six man tag would
Speaker 1: have been tonight, Yeah, Roderick says, Joe Henry would have
Speaker 1: gotten a massive pop. I thought that we were going
Speaker 1: to get Joe Hendry on this show. I thought we
Speaker 1: were going to get Joe Hendry in this tournament, and
Speaker 1: they went with they went with a different TNA star instead,
Speaker 1: although Joe Hendry is technically no longer a TNA star officially,
Speaker 1: he's a WWE star now. If there was actually one
Speaker 1: surprise on the show, it was who he didn't see,
Speaker 1: which was Joe Hendry, who's in town by the way,
Speaker 1: because he's wrestling on NXT tomorrow night at the theater
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, actually teaming with THEA Hale to
Speaker 1: take on Chelsea Green and even Page for the I
Speaker 1: believe the TRIPAA mixtag team titles. So he'll be there
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, but he wasn't there tonight. We go to
Speaker 1: the back and we had the two general managers, Nick
Speaker 1: All this Adam Pearce and they're talking about all this
Speaker 1: is very unhappy about what happened at the end of
Speaker 1: SmackDown on Friday when Drew McIntyre came back. He just
Speaker 1: suspended this fucking guy and he came back. And the
Speaker 1: loophole was that Paul Hayman had the right, as part
Speaker 1: of Wargames to choose any star from any brand, and
Speaker 1: you know, look, he I guess technically could choose someone
Speaker 1: who was suspended. That's how Drew McIntyre got into war Games.
Speaker 1: So they were talking about what happened. Paul Hayman enters
Speaker 1: the room and he said that if my Drew McIntyre
Speaker 1: pick pissed you off, wait until you see what I
Speaker 1: have in store for our final team member in Wargames.
Speaker 1: And he had the Wargames contract binder with him and
Speaker 1: he handed it to them and he walked off laughing.
Speaker 1: So the GMS open it up and they look at
Speaker 1: the contractor we can't see who the name is, but
Speaker 1: they know who it is, and you can just read
Speaker 1: their faces. They were not very happy about it, and
Speaker 1: Adam Pierce says, well, this is going to be fun.
Speaker 1: I think we already knew who that name was going
Speaker 1: to be, but they milked it. They were saving it
Speaker 1: for the end of the show. During the break, Jackie
Speaker 1: Redmond was at ringside and she interviewed Andrew Schultz, who
Speaker 1: was a comedian in a podcast supposedly and a podcaster.
Speaker 1: He's been there before. He got pretty well booed by
Speaker 1: the fans here in New York. Not like Dominic Mysterio Boode,
Speaker 1: but he got fucking booed. So he stands up and
Speaker 1: he's talking about how great it is to be here.
Speaker 1: He's like, let's have another round of applause here for
Speaker 1: John Cena and his last night, and they're like boo,
Speaker 1: like this fucking guy. So then he starts calling Dom
Speaker 1: a nepo baby bitch, and we couldn't see the judgment
Speaker 1: day is still a ringside, so Dom saunters over and
Speaker 1: he says some stuff and the two of them end
Speaker 1: up shoving each other. Dom gives him a shove and
Speaker 1: he shoves him back. But that brought Cam Scataboo of
Speaker 1: the New York Giants, who was sitting right there in
Speaker 1: the front row next to Andrew Schultz. Cam Scataboo stands
Speaker 1: up the New York Giants running back who just suffered
Speaker 1: a gruesome injury only a few weeks ago, the very
Speaker 1: end of October. And he's someone who, like, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big Giant fan, my brother is. I have some
Speaker 1: friends who are big Giants fans. Yeah, I can understand
Speaker 1: they're suffering. As a Mets fan, I can understand. If
Speaker 1: you're a Mets fan or a Jets fan or a
Speaker 1: Giants fan, you're kind of all in the same boat.
Speaker 1: Giants are not doing very well these days, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of optimism around Cam Scataboo. He's very likable
Speaker 1: and his future with the franchise, and so anyway, he
Speaker 1: suffers this gruesome injury. He dislocated his ankle, He ruptured
Speaker 1: some sort of ligament I think he had. I think
Speaker 1: he fractured his fibia, his fibula. I think it was like,
Speaker 1: really really like the ankle bent in a way it
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to, and he had to undergo emergency surgery.
Speaker 1: So JD. McDonagh gets up in Scataboo's face and Scataboo
Speaker 1: gave him a shove, and so a shoving match broke
Speaker 1: out between the judgment day and a bunch of New
Speaker 1: York Giants players because he wasn't the only one. A
Speaker 1: bunch of New York Giants players in the front row,
Speaker 1: including Skataboo who got shoved, And I'm like, I'm watching
Speaker 1: this and I'm actually stunned. I'm stunned, like if I
Speaker 1: am New York Giants management and I'm watching this like
Speaker 1: I'm sweating bullets watching this right now, although I'm probably
Speaker 1: not sweating any more than I would any given Sunday
Speaker 1: the way that fucking team plays. But I was a
Speaker 1: little surprised that he got physical at all here in
Speaker 1: this segment, so they all had to be separated and
Speaker 1: that was the end of that. So anyway, after this,
Speaker 1: when they came back, Jackie Redmond was in the ring
Speaker 1: to tell us that she is going to have a
Speaker 1: special interview momentarily with the Women's World Champion. But first
Speaker 1: let's go back to last week and they replay what
Speaker 1: happened when Nikki Bella turned heel on Stephanie Vequier and
Speaker 1: attacked her and left her laying. So then Jackie introduces
Speaker 1: Stephanie out to the ring and the Women's World Champion
Speaker 1: did not make it beyond the stage because as soon
Speaker 1: as she came out, she gets ambushed from behind by
Speaker 1: Nicki Bella, who grabs her and throws her into the
Speaker 1: entrance set, into the led screen and then down goes Stephanie.
Speaker 1: And now we're gonna hear from Nicki. Nicki Bella is
Speaker 1: going to cut a promo here. She says she didn't
Speaker 1: come back to sheer from the sidelines and be Stephanie's
Speaker 1: side p or side piece sidekick. Well, that would be
Speaker 1: an interesting storyline. She didn't come back to be Stephanie's sidekick.
Speaker 1: She came back to take what's hers, which is the
Speaker 1: entire division, and she thanks Mama Sita for reminding her
Speaker 1: who the hell she is. Stephanie will give her a
Speaker 1: title shot and will bow down. Everything about this was bad.
Speaker 1: Nicki's promo is very flat and honestly, they should have
Speaker 1: had her do something else or something more to Stephanie.
Speaker 1: Like the worst part about this. He attack Stephanie from behind,
Speaker 1: nothing particularly vicious, and she just throws her like one
Speaker 1: throw into the screen and Stephanie, the Women's World Champion
Speaker 1: and Crown Jewel Champion is down on the ground and
Speaker 1: has to just lay there and listen to this promo
Speaker 1: and sell and sell, and I'm like, she's still down?
Speaker 1: How is she not back up? Fighting back here? Just
Speaker 1: made her look so weak because Nicki didn't really do
Speaker 1: much to her, but she's laying on the fucking ground.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are we doing here? So I just
Speaker 1: thought it made Stephanie look silly. And then we found
Speaker 1: out later on the match is going to take place
Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. So Stephanie defends her Women's World Championship
Speaker 1: against Nicki Bella in San Diego. I know you're all
Speaker 1: very excited. What does that bring the total to? We
Speaker 1: have Sena and Dom, we have two War Games matches,
Speaker 1: now we know Stephanie and Nikki. That's four. Are we
Speaker 1: to assume that we're gonna get the finals of the
Speaker 1: John Cena Tournament on the pl or are they gonna
Speaker 1: do it on Raw the following night, because I think
Speaker 1: that should be a match at Survivor Series. For being honest,
Speaker 1: I think you do the match at Survivor Series, and
Speaker 1: after Sena's match, you have the winner of the tournament,
Speaker 1: Gunther come out and maybe we have even even if
Speaker 1: it's from a distance, but we have like a little
Speaker 1: face off between Sena and whoever's final opponent is going
Speaker 1: to be like a little teaser because we're not getting
Speaker 1: John Cena on television again between now and his last
Speaker 1: match like tonight was it. So if we're gonna have
Speaker 1: any sort of stare down or face to face or
Speaker 1: confrontation with Sena and his opponent, it's going to have
Speaker 1: to take place at Survivor Series. So I would think
Speaker 1: that you would do like maybe you open with women's
Speaker 1: war Games, then maybe you do the finals of the
Speaker 1: Sena tournament, and then after that you can do the
Speaker 1: you can do the women's match and then and you
Speaker 1: could do the scene a match, or you could do
Speaker 1: the scene match and then the women's matches to come down,
Speaker 1: and then you close with men's war games. I would
Speaker 1: think that would be the way. That's how I would
Speaker 1: format the show, But I don't think they've specified where
Speaker 1: exactly the finals are taking place. Survivor Series, though, is
Speaker 1: where it should be, and that there's your five matches
Speaker 1: right there that gives you five triple Ah loves his
Speaker 1: five matches. Backstage, Bailey and Lyra Valkyrie, they were walking
Speaker 1: walking and talking and Bailey spotted someone off camera who
Speaker 1: he couldn't see she goes, hold on a second, and
Speaker 1: she walks over and it's the Kabuki Warriors. See, these
Speaker 1: are like two K twenty five cut scenes in the
Speaker 1: back where not even a cut scene, like your character
Speaker 1: is in the back and people are just randomly standing around.
Speaker 1: That's what this was, because apparently Oscar and Kyrie were
Speaker 1: just standing there. I don't even know if they were
Speaker 1: talking to each other. They were waiting for somebody to
Speaker 1: come over and talk to them. So Bailey comes over
Speaker 1: and Oscar says, look, we need five people for wargames,
Speaker 1: and Bailey can be on their team. She could forgive
Speaker 1: the past, Let's be partners. And Bailey can't believe that
Speaker 1: Oscar would have the audacity to even ask her to
Speaker 1: be partners, and she turns her down flat. Oscar storms off.
Speaker 1: Kyrie then does the you can't see me taunt to
Speaker 1: Bailey and then of course, you know you hear Osca
Speaker 1: in the background, and off goes com my goodness, off
Speaker 1: goes Kyrie. And Lyra was very impressed with Osca or
Speaker 1: very impressed with Bailey turning Osca down, and Bailey just
Speaker 1: basically said she called her an idiot and said let's
Speaker 1: go and that was the end of that. So Bailey
Speaker 1: and Lyra they will not be a part of Women's
Speaker 1: War Games. I don't know what's next for them, but
Speaker 1: that was their only segment on the show here tonight.
Speaker 1: Next was our first of two matches and the John
Speaker 1: Cena Last Time is Now tournaments with Solo's Socoa on
Speaker 1: his way to the ring with Talatonga. I know you're
Speaker 1: all very disappointed. There was no j. C. Matteo, there
Speaker 1: was no Tomatonga, there was no Great Tonga Loa on
Speaker 1: the show tonight. But we got Talatanga who just he
Speaker 1: stood there. He didn't get involved, he didn't really do anything.
Speaker 1: He just stood there and looked menacing. But it was
Speaker 1: Solo Socoa against a mystery opponent. That mystery opponent was
Speaker 1: Dolf Ziggler, who got a big pop. You got a
Speaker 1: big reaction from the crowd here at Madison Square, guard
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, though, maybe it was just a
Speaker 1: scheduling thing. I don't know, but you would you would think, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, you would think that if
Speaker 1: you were going to have Cardona and Nemath in this tournament,
Speaker 1: why not save Cardona for Madison Square Garden like I
Speaker 1: would that Survivor series in Madison Square Garden in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: when the Zach Ryder stuff was really taking off and
Speaker 1: the Rock came back. That night, he wrestled his first
Speaker 1: match that night in like eight years. He teamed with
Speaker 1: Sina against mis and Artrup and really the whole show.
Speaker 1: But even when the show was over and Rock was
Speaker 1: cutting a promo, he was being drowned out for a
Speaker 1: while there by a chance of we want Ryder and
Speaker 1: to the point where he had to stop his promo
Speaker 1: and acknowledge it. So this was like where the Rider's
Speaker 1: stuff was really starting to take off. And if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, I think Writer funny enough. I think Writer,
Speaker 1: and somebody will tell me if I'm wrong. I think
Speaker 1: he wrestled Dolf actually at the beginning of the show
Speaker 1: that night. But yeah, why not save Cardona for tonight
Speaker 1: and have Nemath on Friday against La Night that I
Speaker 1: don't really understand. But he got a big pop here
Speaker 1: and I'm just watching this going. Man, I just called
Speaker 1: a match with this guy forty eight hours ago at
Speaker 1: the House Glory Show, and now here he is on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw. It's funny how those things work, except
Speaker 1: when I called the match on Saturday he was Nicknamath.
Speaker 1: Tonight he was not Nick Namath. He was Dov Ziggler,
Speaker 1: which I figured he would be after you know, Cardona
Speaker 1: got Zack Ryder on Friday. Why would they have Ziggler
Speaker 1: come out and be anything but Dolf Ziggler on this show.
Speaker 1: So Ziggler got off to a hot start, beautiful drop kick,
Speaker 1: but heading into the brake, Solo took control held it
Speaker 1: all the way through the break until they came back.
Speaker 1: Ziggler did manage a famouser for a near fall. Sikoa
Speaker 1: came back with a huge spinning solo slam for a
Speaker 1: near fall of his own, and he brandished the taped
Speaker 1: up thumb. He was gonna go for the Samoan spike.
Speaker 1: Dolph ducked it and got a roll up for a
Speaker 1: close two, and then he hit the zigzag and what
Speaker 1: a fucking reaction for this. And he went for the
Speaker 1: cover and he hooked the leg and everybody thought maybe
Speaker 1: he would have it, and then Solo kicked out at
Speaker 1: the last second, and I had flashbacks there with the
Speaker 1: reaction when he hit that zigzag. Here I had flashbacks
Speaker 1: of the reaction when he hit that when he cashed
Speaker 1: in on Alberto del dipshit and he hit that zigzag,
Speaker 1: and it was actually at the Aizid Center in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: so not too far from here, and he won the championship,
Speaker 1: you know, his sole world heavyweight championship. He won the
Speaker 1: championship with that move, but it was not to be here.
Speaker 1: He followed up with a super kick. He tried for
Speaker 1: another zigzag, Solo shook him off and then spiked him
Speaker 1: right in the throat and he got the three count
Speaker 1: to advance. So both TNA guys in this tournament are
Speaker 1: ousted in the opening round. Thanks for coming. The funny
Speaker 1: thing is they never I don't think one time acknowledged
Speaker 1: that they are currently wrestling in TNA. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is just this is the way they operate. N XT
Speaker 1: is a whole other beast. But on the main roster,
Speaker 1: not only do they get their old names back, you
Speaker 1: can't even acknowledge that they are a part of TNL.
Speaker 1: If they did on commentary, I didn't hear it. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: look who's back. Zach Ryder is back. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Dolf Ziggler is back. Everybody, I guess he's just been
Speaker 1: chilling for the last few years. They're just hanging out.
Speaker 1: Oh man, can't even tell people where they are, how
Speaker 1: you can find them what they've been up to. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have dolv Ziggler here booked to lose. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Speaker 1: What did you really expect? He was treated like a
Speaker 1: perennial mid carter for basically the entirety of his career
Speaker 1: in this company. At no point was dolv Ziggler treated
Speaker 1: truly treated as any sort of main event talent, even
Speaker 1: though we had main event talent. He was a perennial
Speaker 1: mid carter, you know, or upper mid carter his entire
Speaker 1: time in the company, did whatever they asked of him,
Speaker 1: and and you know, always, you know, knocked it out
Speaker 1: of the park, super talented, super athletic, to the point
Speaker 1: where I think it actually worked to his disadvantage. That's
Speaker 1: why they wanted him to help make other people look
Speaker 1: good at his own expense. But that's how they used them,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, so you had to know that
Speaker 1: he wasn't beating Solo Socoa even though everybody else does.
Speaker 1: Finally they found somebody who solo could beat I mean,
Speaker 1: Solo's got the MFTs on SmackDown. We got to keep
Speaker 1: them looking strong. The MFTs have a Survivor Series elimination
Speaker 1: match coming up on SmackDown in two weeks. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the MFTs against Samby's Aim Shins, Kay Nakamora, Ray Phoenix,
Speaker 1: the MotorCity Machine Guns. Dolf Ziggler is back for one
Speaker 1: night only. I mean, did you honestly believe that he
Speaker 1: was going to beat Solo's Socoa. That's why I was.
Speaker 1: I was kind of hoping it would be Joe Hendry
Speaker 1: because Joe Hendry is now a fish, signed and sealed.
Speaker 1: He is a WWE superstar, even though he's going to
Speaker 1: be an NXT, so it's like he's their guy. He
Speaker 1: could beat Solo Socoa. But even that was probably not
Speaker 1: going to happen. So nothing about this was really much
Speaker 1: of a surprise. It's too bad, though, I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: because had Ziggler advanced, it would have made for a
Speaker 1: better match in the next round against anybody, it doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter who you put him in the ring with.
Speaker 1: It would have been a better match, but it was
Speaker 1: not to be. So instead it's going to be Solo
Speaker 1: Socoa in the next round. They never put together any
Speaker 1: kind of bracket for this. What they did show us though,
Speaker 1: is that Solo Sokoa will meet the winner of the
Speaker 1: match that is coming up on Friday on SmackDown between
Speaker 1: Finnbalor and Penta, which has to be Penta. I don't
Speaker 1: see them doing heel on heel in this situation, so
Speaker 1: and honestly, they protect Penta more than they protect Pinn Balor,
Speaker 1: who lost tonight as well in that six man tag
Speaker 1: So it should be Solo and pent it would be
Speaker 1: my guess in the next round. So after this, it
Speaker 1: was all on Javon Evans. It's like, okay, the t
Speaker 1: and a guy lost the heel won. We need Javon
Speaker 1: to find a way to pull through tonight so we
Speaker 1: can get a babyface win here in this tournament, because
Speaker 1: if he doesn't do it, we get two heel wins
Speaker 1: here on the show. And actually gave us a quick
Speaker 1: video package for Javan, which I liked. I thought that
Speaker 1: was smart for them to do that. Now, after this,
Speaker 1: Alexa Blists, one half of the now former WWE Women's
Speaker 1: Tag Team Champions, made her way out to the ring
Speaker 1: by herself They recapped the angle that they shot at
Speaker 1: the beginning to smack Down this past Friday, where we
Speaker 1: had Rhea Ripley and Eosky and Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 1: They were all in the ring together and I don't know.
Speaker 1: Charlotte says, you know, Lexi, I can't do this. She
Speaker 1: looks at Ria. She goes, Ria, I don't like you,
Speaker 1: I don't respect you. I think you're a snake. And
Speaker 1: so I can't be a part of this team. And
Speaker 1: she left. And so what are they doing. They're trying
Speaker 1: to create some internal drama on the baby face side
Speaker 1: heading into wargames. I said, all right, you let this
Speaker 1: go for a week, two weeks, and then at the
Speaker 1: last minute Charlotte. Of course, Charlotte's gonna come home and
Speaker 1: she'll be a part of the team. So that's what
Speaker 1: led to this. And Alexa complained that Charlotte ignored all
Speaker 1: of her calls and text messages all weekend, and she
Speaker 1: knows that she's been around because she sees her posting
Speaker 1: photos of her frolicking around the city. So she called
Speaker 1: the cameraman over and she looked dead into the camera.
Speaker 1: She said, really, Charlotte said, after everything that we've been through,
Speaker 1: I get that you're upset about us losing the tag
Speaker 1: team titles, but we can always get those back. It's
Speaker 1: harder to get back trust. Everyone warned me not to
Speaker 1: trust you, but I ignored them because I knew who
Speaker 1: you were on the inside. But maybe now Charlotte was
Speaker 1: proving her wrong. Bliss said that she got her ass
Speaker 1: beat simply because Charlotte didn't like Ria Ripley. Charlotte wasn't
Speaker 1: there when Bliss needed her best friend. And I should
Speaker 1: point out that Alexa Bliss was getting what chance throughout
Speaker 1: the segment, and I thought she handled it well because
Speaker 1: she acknowledged them and she kind of incorporated them into
Speaker 1: the promo. She's like, yeah, really, guys, and they just
Speaker 1: kept going with it because you know, they get drunk
Speaker 1: and stupid, and that's what stupid people do. So she
Speaker 1: handled it as best she could, but she was interrupted
Speaker 1: by Oscar Kyrie, sain Naya Jax, and Lash Legend. Naya,
Speaker 1: as Bliss's former friend, said that she understood exactly why
Speaker 1: Charlotte left her, and the Heels surrounded Bliss on the
Speaker 1: apron Rhea Ripley and Eosky. They ran out to the
Speaker 1: ring to join her. They were still out numbered though
Speaker 1: Ripley and EO they brawled with Oscar and Kyrie on
Speaker 1: the outside. That left Alexa alone in the ring with
Speaker 1: Naya Jackson Lash legend. Charlotte finally runs out to honestly
Speaker 1: a pretty tepid reaction, like not a big pop or
Speaker 1: anything like that when they played her music, But she
Speaker 1: ran out to the ring with a kendo stick. She
Speaker 1: attacked Naya and Lash with the kendo stick over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again, just lashed,
Speaker 1: no pun intended. She was lashing Lash over and over
Speaker 1: and over until finally they rolled out of the ring.
Speaker 1: So Charlotte helps Bliss up to her feet, gives her
Speaker 1: a hug, and then on the opposite well really in
Speaker 1: the opposite corner are Rea, Ripley and Eosky and EO
Speaker 1: ses Charlotte hugging Alexa. So Eo, in like a very
Speaker 1: comedic way, grabs and gives her a big hug, and
Speaker 1: he's looking at Charlotte like, oh yeah, so that was
Speaker 1: kind of amusing, and Charlotte couldn't help but start cracking
Speaker 1: up laughing. She obviously could not contain herself that was honestly,
Speaker 1: the most amusing part of the entire segment were the
Speaker 1: last five seconds. So I have a question for all
Speaker 1: of you, are you ready? Are you ready for Kendo
Speaker 1: Games coming up in a few weeks in San Diego,
Speaker 1: because that's what we're getting. Get ready for the Kendo sticks.
Speaker 1: You got a little preview of it here tonight on
Speaker 1: the show. It's war Games. But I just love how
Speaker 1: they rendered that whole angle they did. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess they could still tease tension during the match between
Speaker 1: Charlotte and Rhea, but I don't know. I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like they just rushed right through what should have
Speaker 1: been an angle that went at least another week. And
Speaker 1: then you bring Charlotte home, you know, maybe on the
Speaker 1: Go Home Show or something. It's like, what was the
Speaker 1: point of even doing that angle on Friday where she
Speaker 1: walked out and says, I can't team with you, And
Speaker 1: then tonight she comes out to save Alexa, but she's
Speaker 1: in the ring and they're talking like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know what Charlotte's gonna do, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: kind of looks like she's gonna be on the team
Speaker 1: after all. It's like, Okay, way to render that angle
Speaker 1: kind of pointless from Friday, just rush right through it.
Speaker 1: This wasn't much of a segment. This was the weak
Speaker 1: point of the show. Alexi's promo was fine, it was good,
Speaker 1: but the segment itself was really nothing special. After this, though,
Speaker 1: we had Becky Lynch defending the Women's Intercontinental Championship against
Speaker 1: Maxine Dupree. Jessica Carr was the referee yet again for
Speaker 1: Becky's match, and Becky hasn't complained before that this referee
Speaker 1: has constantly screwed her over in these matches, so of
Speaker 1: course she keeps getting assigned to these matches, and what
Speaker 1: do they think, this is the NBA. So the crowd
Speaker 1: was mostly bored. Honestly for the first few minutes of this.
Speaker 1: You could tell because they broke out their phones and
Speaker 1: they just started doing the fireflies. They were more entertaining
Speaker 1: themselves than being entertained by this match. Becky was arguing
Speaker 1: with Jessica as she called for the bell to actually
Speaker 1: start the match. I should point that out. So they
Speaker 1: did a very quick near false spot at the very
Speaker 1: beginning that nobody bought anyway. Later on, as this thing
Speaker 1: went on, Maxine hit a Fisherman's suplex. She dropped her
Speaker 1: straps and she hit really missed a leg drop for
Speaker 1: an ear fall. Becky booted her arm and then tried
Speaker 1: to target it, obviously setting it up for the disarm.
Speaker 1: Her Maxine, though, fought back again. Becky lifted her out
Speaker 1: of the corner and hit a power bomb. Becky tried
Speaker 1: applying an armbar. Maxine bridged out of it, and she
Speaker 1: got an ankle lock applied, and then she ultimately grapevined
Speaker 1: the legs like Kurt angle in there, and she's got
Speaker 1: her in the center of the ring. And this is
Speaker 1: where the fans started to really get into it, because
Speaker 1: once she got the grapevine and she was kind of
Speaker 1: in the middle of the ring, the fans are like, oh,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, here, she might actually win with this move.
Speaker 1: And Becky is teasing that she might tap out, and
Speaker 1: she's screaming in pain and she's flailing around and she's
Speaker 1: trying to find her way out of this. So she
Speaker 1: does ultimately manage to slip out of the hold and
Speaker 1: she kicked Dupre in the arm again. Becky hit a
Speaker 1: man handle slam, but when she did, she hit it
Speaker 1: right next to the ropes, so we got the predictable
Speaker 1: rope brake. When Maxine put her foot on the bottom rope,
Speaker 1: Becky got in the referee's face again and she starts
Speaker 1: poking her in the chest and Jessica is not having
Speaker 1: any of this shit, so she's batting her hand down,
Speaker 1: telling her you need to pay attention to your opponent,
Speaker 1: focus on the match. Becky threw Maxine out of the ring,
Speaker 1: and as Jessica is checking on Maxine, Becky's in the
Speaker 1: corner and she's trying to untie the top turnbuckle pad.
Speaker 1: And as she's attempting to do this, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we hear, let's light it up. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about Snoop Dogg. I'm talking about aj Lee. Aj Lee
Speaker 1: skips out. We haven't seen her since Wrestle Palooza, so
Speaker 1: she skips down the aisle right down to the ring.
Speaker 1: This distracts Becky and when Becky turns around, she gets
Speaker 1: caught by a flying crossbody. Maxine is flying through the air.
Speaker 1: She lands the crossbody, she hooks the leg, she gets
Speaker 1: the flash pin, and just like that, she wins the
Speaker 1: Intercontinental Championship. So what this was if you remember and
Speaker 1: if you were watching at the time, you remember this.
Speaker 1: This is one of those Raw moments that we'll get
Speaker 1: talked about in you know, countdowns and best Raw Moments,
Speaker 1: Memorable Raw moments from two thousand and three. Before that
Speaker 1: last match between Austin and Rock, Rock had a match
Speaker 1: on Raw against Hurricane Helms. And what happened right, Austin
Speaker 1: came out and distracted Rock and Hurricane got the pin
Speaker 1: and he quickly rolled out of the ring and he
Speaker 1: ran away. It was and they played Austin's music too,
Speaker 1: like he won the match, like he technically has a
Speaker 1: win over the Rock, but it was because stone Cold
Speaker 1: Steve Austin caused a distraction and they, as I recall,
Speaker 1: they played Austin's music even after Hurricane won. It's like
Speaker 1: he won, but it's like, I don't know, like did
Speaker 1: he really That's what this kind of felt like to me,
Speaker 1: Like Maxine won, but did she really? Not really? So
Speaker 1: it made her look a little bit weak, but she won,
Speaker 1: and it got a great reaction at the finish, and
Speaker 1: I think fans were also just really happy to see
Speaker 1: They're just really happy to see aj you know. So
Speaker 1: Maxine immediately rolls out of the ring. She had a
Speaker 1: look on her face like she couldn't believe it, and
Speaker 1: they handed the championship to her. She was in shock.
Speaker 1: She's you know, hugging and embracing Aj in the aisleway
Speaker 1: holds the championship up, and they shoot Piro off behind her,
Speaker 1: you know, on the by the stage. Becky was obviously
Speaker 1: just beside herself with anger. In the ring, she was
Speaker 1: all pissed off. The match itself was really nothing special
Speaker 1: what we saw of it. The match itself was nothing
Speaker 1: special at all. But the thing is like Maxine Duprix.
Speaker 1: If you think about where Maxine Duprix was a year ago,
Speaker 1: and I actually think back to that house show. I
Speaker 1: don't remember when it was. Was it last year or
Speaker 1: the year before, I don't remember, but there was a
Speaker 1: house show that made news because there were there might
Speaker 1: be one fan who made some derogatory comment, like a
Speaker 1: very disrespectful comment at Maxim and everybody in the internet
Speaker 1: was very bothered by this and upset about this. And
Speaker 1: I think she kind of, you know, took it in stride.
Speaker 1: But to go from from that where she just wasn't
Speaker 1: very good. She was someone who got thrown right into
Speaker 1: the fire. She did not spend hardly any time in NXT.
Speaker 1: They had this role for her as part of the
Speaker 1: Alpha Academy, and she's hot, so let's call her up
Speaker 1: to the main roster, even though she's really not ready
Speaker 1: for that. And then they wanted her to wrestle, and
Speaker 1: she wasn't at the experience level that a lot of
Speaker 1: the other women were, so those rare occasions when she
Speaker 1: would be able to wrestle, she really didn't do much.
Speaker 1: She didn't know much. She had to learn on the job.
Speaker 1: And it's taken a while and she's still not great.
Speaker 1: You know, she still has a long way to go.
Speaker 1: It's not like she's out there having these ten twelve
Speaker 1: minute matches, fifteen minute matches and just you know, tearing
Speaker 1: the house down. But she has made tremendous strides over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, has made noticeable improvements. And
Speaker 1: it's not just like her in ring maneuvers and technique.
Speaker 1: It's like her personality and her facial expressions and the
Speaker 1: way she carries herself. And she'll drop the straps, she'll
Speaker 1: get all intense. She's putting the pieces together in a
Speaker 1: way that they just were not put together before. And
Speaker 1: you could see like she's always training with Natty and
Speaker 1: TJ down at the Dungeon and trying to learn and
Speaker 1: trying to improve, like on her days off and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's cool to see her progress to a point
Speaker 1: where she's doing something meaningful on this show and working
Speaker 1: with Becky Lynch. This was their third match together. Working
Speaker 1: with Becky Lynch is not a bad thing because the
Speaker 1: run that Becky had with that championship this year was
Speaker 1: very good. She had a very good few with Lyra,
Speaker 1: she took the title. She's had the title since I
Speaker 1: think June, and she has helped elevate that Intercontinental Championship
Speaker 1: in a way the WWE never bothered to do with
Speaker 1: the US title on SmackDown, which is why the US
Speaker 1: title on SmackDown is so right now. I mean, the
Speaker 1: disparity between the two championships and the way they've been
Speaker 1: booked and treated is just night and day. Now that
Speaker 1: Maxine Dupre has the championship, my fear is that we're
Speaker 1: going to get more of the same on Raw with
Speaker 1: that title as we saw with Julia and the US
Speaker 1: title on SmackDown, which would be terrible. I don't think
Speaker 1: that Maxine's gonna have that belt for very long. I
Speaker 1: think they wanted her to get the moment. I think
Speaker 1: it was more about having AJ do something to screw
Speaker 1: over Becky Lynch that will be the catalyst to AJ
Speaker 1: being on the babyface side in wargames, which we kind
Speaker 1: of saw the tease for that later on, and then
Speaker 1: Becky is going to end up being the fifth woman
Speaker 1: on the heel side, so you'll have AJ here and
Speaker 1: Becky there and they can pick up with their feud
Speaker 1: and continue their feud. I would not be shocked if
Speaker 1: Becky just wins the belt back, you know, as soon
Speaker 1: as December thirteenth, Saturday Night's main event, because I think
Speaker 1: what they want to do is get the belt back
Speaker 1: on Becky so that they can then build to Becky
Speaker 1: and AJ for the Intercontinental Championship early next year. So
Speaker 1: Maxine's not gonna have this belt for very long. She
Speaker 1: got her moment in Madison Square Garden. It served its purpose.
Speaker 1: I give it a few weeks a month maybe at
Speaker 1: the most. That belt's gonna find its way right back
Speaker 1: around Becky's waist unless Becky dropped the belt because she's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, disappear for a while and go help her
Speaker 1: husband convalesce at home. But I suspect that's where we're
Speaker 1: headed with this, but it made for a fun moment,
Speaker 1: and aj Lee being back was kind of predictable. I
Speaker 1: expected that she would probably end up on the baby
Speaker 1: face side of wargames and we're off to the races.
Speaker 1: She did sign a full time contract, so she was
Speaker 1: going to be back sooner than later. Now from that
Speaker 1: title change, we turned to the next opening round match
Speaker 1: and the John Cena last time is now Ornament with
Speaker 1: the Ring General, the former World Heavyweight champion back for
Speaker 1: the first time since SummerSlam and his I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a broken nose. He had some sort
Speaker 1: of nasal injury. I think he had that injury going
Speaker 1: into the match with Cempunk, but he had surgery for it.
Speaker 1: So he's been gone for a few months. But Gunther
Speaker 1: Gunther is back on Monday Night Raw. And not only
Speaker 1: is he back on Monday Night Raw, he is back
Speaker 1: with his old NXT theme music, which they never should
Speaker 1: have changed to begin with. I don't know why, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I don't know what the catalyst for
Speaker 1: this was, but I was like, oh wait, a minute.
Speaker 1: I know that music. Sure enough, he got his old
Speaker 1: music back against Javon Evans. Actually, I should say that's
Speaker 1: not Gunther's music, that's Walter's music. That's the music he
Speaker 1: was using from like the nxt UK days before they
Speaker 1: changed his name. I will say, of all the crap
Speaker 1: songs that Deaf Rebel has produced, I would not say
Speaker 1: that Gunther's WWE music was crap like it grew on me.
Speaker 1: It was not terrible, like would there have been some
Speaker 1: terrible like just god awful, god awful deaf Rebel slop.
Speaker 1: And I liked his WWE music, So it's not like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so happy the old music is
Speaker 1: back because the current one sucked. But to me, this
Speaker 1: is still the better of the two. So I was
Speaker 1: happy to hear. I was completely unexpected. I was happy
Speaker 1: to hear that. And the fans actually chanted Walter at
Speaker 1: the beginning of this match. I thought they were chanting
Speaker 1: Goldberg at first, which would have made no sense whatsoever,
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure that they were chanting Walter. So
Speaker 1: this was the match I was looking forward to. Javon
Speaker 1: Evans is out there and Gunther is dismissively patting him
Speaker 1: on the head like okay, little boy smacks him and
Speaker 1: he chops gun there. He countered a few spots until
Speaker 1: Gunther booted him to take over. Evans countered a power
Speaker 1: bomb into a hurricane rana, which might have made for
Speaker 1: a good near fall. The only thing is the referee
Speaker 1: refused to count because Gunther's shoulders were not fully down
Speaker 1: on the mat, so Evans followed with a somersault kick.
Speaker 1: He tried a suicide dive. Gunther caught him though, out
Speaker 1: of mid air and just tossed him hard into the
Speaker 1: the led side of the ring, the ring apron. There
Speaker 1: was a chop. I have to point this out. It
Speaker 1: was I'm pretty sure it was during the second commercial break.
Speaker 1: There was a chop that Gunther gave to Javan Evans
Speaker 1: here in this match. I shit you not. This chop echoed.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even in the building. It echoed through that building.
Speaker 1: It was like a shotgun blast went off, and the
Speaker 1: crowd reaction to it was awesome. My reaction was the
Speaker 1: same way. I was like, late, shit. I mean, he
Speaker 1: chops a lot in his matches. This one connected. This
Speaker 1: one connected in a major way. You could see he
Speaker 1: chopped the soul out of this young man. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they traded strikes until Evans tried to move where he
Speaker 1: was springing off the ropes and Gunther booted him. So
Speaker 1: Evans countered Gunther once again, this time into a cutter
Speaker 1: and he hit a dive out over the top rope.
Speaker 1: Evans followed with a tremendous frog splash. Montese Ford would
Speaker 1: be proud. Only got a near fall. And the crowd
Speaker 1: is into this now, not that they weren't into it
Speaker 1: at the beginning. They really were into it throughout, but
Speaker 1: now it's like it's escalating right to that next level
Speaker 1: where they're really getting into it. Gunther hit an uppercut
Speaker 1: to the back of Evans's neck as he sprang off
Speaker 1: the top rope. He was going for a cutter, something
Speaker 1: cough and drop, but Gunther just fucking chopped him right
Speaker 1: in the neck on the way down. Gunther followed with
Speaker 1: a suplex and then a power bomb. Evans though kicked out,
Speaker 1: and that got a reaction because he's won matches with
Speaker 1: that power bomb before and here Javon Evans kicked out,
Speaker 1: so that got a rise out of the crowd. Gunther
Speaker 1: got the sleeper applied speaking of moves that he has
Speaker 1: won many matches with, and Evans he's trying to fight
Speaker 1: out of it, and it looks like he might actually
Speaker 1: fight out of it, and he's getting closer to the
Speaker 1: ropes and the crowd is with it, like come on,
Speaker 1: you know, they really want him to find his way out.
Speaker 1: But then ultimately Gunther cinches it in back in the
Speaker 1: center of the ring, and Evans he starts to kind
Speaker 1: of go and then just very gently starts like tapping,
Speaker 1: and the referee calls for the bell. It's a little
Speaker 1: anti climactic as far as like the finishing moment there,
Speaker 1: and it sucked a life out of those eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: people because it was like, ah fuck, you know, like
Speaker 1: they were really hoping he would pull it out like that.
Speaker 1: Is a credit to him, because he's just so damn
Speaker 1: fun to watch and he's so damn good that even
Speaker 1: though he's never had a raw mam he's been on
Speaker 1: SmackDown a few times, I don't believe he's ever had
Speaker 1: a Monday night raw match before tonight. And the people
Speaker 1: they knew, some knew who he was. And if you
Speaker 1: didn't know who he was, I don't see how you
Speaker 1: can watch him and not get behind him and not
Speaker 1: get into the match, because it's just he's exciting to watch.
Speaker 1: That's why I lump him in with guys like bron
Speaker 1: Breaker and Obafemi and Jacob Fatu and Dominic Masterio. He's
Speaker 1: younger than them, so he's you know, he's got more
Speaker 1: time to really develop and get even better. But he's
Speaker 1: going to be one of those guys if he continues
Speaker 1: on the path that he is on and doesn't get
Speaker 1: into trouble or get injured or injury prone or anything
Speaker 1: like that, where he is going to be a future
Speaker 1: world champion. He's going to be a big fucking deal.
Speaker 1: He is the kind of guy that you can build
Speaker 1: an entire brand around. He's part of that nucleus of five.
Speaker 1: I lump him in there with those guys. So he
Speaker 1: went out there tonight. I knew they were going to
Speaker 1: go out there and have a really good match. Like
Speaker 1: it's Javon Evans and Gunther. It would be very difficult
Speaker 1: even if there's like a few rough spots and they've
Speaker 1: not worked together before, like it would be impossible for
Speaker 1: these two to go in there and have anything but
Speaker 1: at least a good match. And they had a very
Speaker 1: good match. I enjoyed this greatly. This was easily easily
Speaker 1: the best match of this tournament so far. Easily name
Speaker 1: me a better match that we've seen in this tournament
Speaker 1: we haven't, so not really much of a surprise there.
Speaker 1: But when it was over, you know, Gunther left the
Speaker 1: ring and you could hear the crowd. They were chanting
Speaker 1: for Javon. They were giving him an ovation. As they
Speaker 1: cut to the back, we did find out that Gunther
Speaker 1: is going to He's going to get the winner of
Speaker 1: the match that's coming up on Friday between Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: and Bronson Reid and I talked about this on Friday
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, if there is going to
Speaker 1: be an upset in this tournament, it is a lot
Speaker 1: more likely to be Carmelo Hayes and not Javon Evans
Speaker 1: because what is the last thing we saw. One of
Speaker 1: the last things we saw at the end of that
Speaker 1: SmackDown show on Friday night, we saw Bronson Reid give
Speaker 1: a tsunami splash to Cody Roads. Carmelo Hayes is wrestling
Speaker 1: Bronson read on TV this week, why would Cody not
Speaker 1: come out and cause a distraction or cause Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form to end up on
Speaker 1: the losing end of the match so that he can
Speaker 1: go fuck you, you fuck with me, I fuck with you,
Speaker 1: and he gets bounced out of the tournament and Carmelo
Speaker 1: Hayes effectively backdoors his way into the next round, because
Speaker 1: that's the only way Carmelo Hayes is moving on in
Speaker 1: the next round of this tournament. Either take your pick,
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes or Roman Reigns, which one of them shows
Speaker 1: up on Friday to cost Read the win in this match,
Speaker 1: it would be It would be really lame if it
Speaker 1: was like a count out situation. But however it happens.
Speaker 1: After seeing that the winner of that is wrestling Gunther,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Carmelo Hayes. Gotta be Carmel Gunther and
Speaker 1: Bronton read to me, doesn't even make sense as a match.
Speaker 1: I don't see it happening. So I think Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: is going to be the upset of the tournament and
Speaker 1: we'll get gun there and Carmelo, which by the way,
Speaker 1: has the potential to be just as good as the
Speaker 1: match we saw tonight. They let Carmelo go out there
Speaker 1: and do what he is capable of doing and give
Speaker 1: those guys some time on the show next week. That'll
Speaker 1: be a banger match. So I think Carmelo Hayes is
Speaker 1: going to pick up that win on Friday. That'll be
Speaker 1: our quarterfinal match. Penta is in there. Penta is in
Speaker 1: this tournament. He's wrestling Finn Balor on the show this
Speaker 1: upcoming Friday. And now that we know all the names
Speaker 1: in this tournament, Seamus is still in there. But let's
Speaker 1: be honest here, for being perfectly honest, there's nobody else.
Speaker 1: It will be gun the Gunther will be wrestling John
Speaker 1: Cena in his retirement match. There was no other name
Speaker 1: in this tournament that is realistically going to go on
Speaker 1: to the finals and win. It's not gonna be Shamous,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be Bronson Reid, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: l A Knight. Yeah. No, it's gonna be gun there.
Speaker 1: And that was the rumor all along, and there was
Speaker 1: always maybe some people had the hope that I hope
Speaker 1: it's not gun there. It's gonna be gun the like.
Speaker 1: Now we know it's very very clear at this point.
Speaker 1: The only question is we don't know any kind of bracketing,
Speaker 1: So are we potentially in for a Gunther Shamus final
Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. I was kind of hoping Ilia Dragonov
Speaker 1: would end up in this tournament because man, what a
Speaker 1: match that would have been. You do Gunther and dragon
Speaker 1: of in the finals at Survivor Series. How fucking great
Speaker 1: would that have been? But I'll take gun Through and Seamus.
Speaker 1: It's been long enough we haven't seen it. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a great final. We could be looking
Speaker 1: I mean, we could be looking at gun Through in
Speaker 1: La night. I'll tell you what I don't want to see,
Speaker 1: and this is what Triple H would absolutely do this.
Speaker 1: What I don't want is Gunther and jay Uso in
Speaker 1: the main event, in the final match of this tournament.
Speaker 1: That is the last thing that I want to say.
Speaker 1: I've seen enough of that this year. We don't need
Speaker 1: to see that again. Give me literally any other match
Speaker 1: in this tournament except Guntherer and jay Usa Literally any
Speaker 1: other match. I don't care what it is. You know,
Speaker 1: years ago, before COVID fucked everything up, we were supposed
Speaker 1: to get Gunther and Finn Balor at a Takeover NXDUK
Speaker 1: Takeover in Dublin and we never got it. I'll take
Speaker 1: that over. Gunther and jay Uso jay Usso against Solo's
Speaker 1: Socoa in the finals. Are you trying to intentionally sabotage
Speaker 1: this tournament? I feel like some of you now are
Speaker 1: booking scenarios to intentionally sabotage the remainder of this tournament.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Triple H books Solo's Socoa to
Speaker 1: win the tournament with the idea that at one time
Speaker 1: Solo Socoa destroyed John Cena. Remember he hit John Cena
Speaker 1: with like a million Samoan spikes and just beat him
Speaker 1: and Sena never really got his revenge on Solo and
Speaker 1: Triple H is like, well, we tell stories. We tell
Speaker 1: long term stories. Here. We gotta let things cook and
Speaker 1: simmer for while. We're gonna have John Cena get his
Speaker 1: revenge on Solo Socoa in his final match. You want
Speaker 1: to find a way to ruin John Cena's retirement, There
Speaker 1: you go, I just booked it out for you. We
Speaker 1: go backstage. Jackie is with aj Lee and the new
Speaker 1: Intercontinental champion, Maxine du Pree and congratulated Maxine on her
Speaker 1: big win. Maxine says that all the hard work is
Speaker 1: finally paid off. She says, I belong here outside of
Speaker 1: Gunther and Evans. I think they already sabotaged the tournament. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, Well said, Brother Well said, they already
Speaker 1: have dropped the ball. This tournament could have been a
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Speaker 1: all you boo. AJ said she hates bullies. Otis and
Speaker 1: Tozawa show up and they head off with Maxine for
Speaker 1: the after party. Jackie asked AJ if she's gonna stick
Speaker 1: around on this time, and AJ says, you know, at first,
Speaker 1: I only wanted to help my husband back and wrestle palooza.
Speaker 1: But Becky, she makes me feel things. I'm sure she
Speaker 1: makes a lot of people feel things, but she says,
Speaker 1: we'll see. So Ria Ripley shows up. She makes people
Speaker 1: feel things. She makes Kathy Kelly feel things. You see
Speaker 1: the the online relationship between these two. They're always posting
Speaker 1: all these photos and videos, are always posting. Rhea Ripley
Speaker 1: makes Kathy Kelly feel some things. Ria asks AJ, hey,
Speaker 1: you have a second to chat. AJ says sure, and
Speaker 1: Ria puts her arm around her and off they go.
Speaker 1: So there you go, AJ, Lee will be a part
Speaker 1: of her first war games. You'll end up with Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch on the opposing side, and there are your war
Speaker 1: games teams. It is settled. They close the show with
Speaker 1: a face to face with the men in Wargames, or
Speaker 1: at least the ones up to this point that we
Speaker 1: knew were actually in the Wargames match. Paul Hayman was
Speaker 1: out with bron Breaker, Bronson, Reed, Logan, Paul and Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: Hayman said that he has walked the Samoan Swat team
Speaker 1: and the Free Birds to the ring for the Wargames.
Speaker 1: He has walked the Dangerous Alliance to the ring for
Speaker 1: the war Games. Yes he has. In fact, he walked
Speaker 1: the Dangerous Alliance to the ring for the best war
Speaker 1: games that has ever taken place against Sting's Squadron. He
Speaker 1: has walked the Bloodline to the ring for the war Games.
Speaker 1: This ride here, though, is the greatest assembly of talent
Speaker 1: ever put together for the war Games. And it's not.
Speaker 1: But he has to say that seam Punk's music interrupts.
Speaker 1: Punk walks out with his hands all taped up. No
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship. Then it was the Ussos out through
Speaker 1: the crowd, followed by Cody Rhodes who came down the aisle.
Speaker 1: Also no WWE Championship. And there was a funny moment
Speaker 1: here where Cody comes down to the ring and he
Speaker 1: stands right next to Punk in the aisleway there, side
Speaker 1: by side, and Cody wanted a fist bump from Punk.
Speaker 1: The only thing is Punk didn't see it. I legitimately
Speaker 1: think he didn't see it. So he Cody's just like
Speaker 1: he's waiting for that fist bump and it's not coming,
Speaker 1: so he just kind of like forces a fist bump
Speaker 1: just so that he's not left hanging, even though he
Speaker 1: was left hanging, poor guy. And so the babyfaces hit
Speaker 1: the ring and the brawl began, and it was four
Speaker 1: on four. Drew fought with Cody outside the ring. Logan
Speaker 1: was in the corner delivering body shots to Punk. Punk
Speaker 1: reversed him out into the opposing corner, hit that running
Speaker 1: lifting knee, the rising knee into the bulldog, and then
Speaker 1: he gave the signal for the gts. So it was
Speaker 1: going to be ninety nine here for Logan, Paul. When
Speaker 1: brock Lesner's music hits An out comes Cowboy. Brock takes
Speaker 1: the hat off, makes a b line for the ring.
Speaker 1: The Beast is here. I'm watching CM, Punk and brock
Speaker 1: Lesner ready to square off. One of the best Summer
Speaker 1: slam matches of all time back in twenty thirteen, but
Speaker 1: now they're a lot older, a lot of time has
Speaker 1: gone by. Lesner didn't even like barely was able to
Speaker 1: even get into the ring before Punk attacked him, and
Speaker 1: he immediately got dumped on his head, like right on
Speaker 1: the back of his head, and then he got dumped
Speaker 1: again with a supplex. Out of the ring, goes Punk.
Speaker 1: Now Cody is in to confront Lesner, and he sends
Speaker 1: Cody flying with honestly one of the highest release German
Speaker 1: supplexes that you will ever see. I mean, Cody went
Speaker 1: flying through the air and then he hit him with
Speaker 1: another one, and they flashed the closing credits on this.
Speaker 1: This is a triple h thing. He loves doing this.
Speaker 1: They flashed the closing credits on the screen like the
Speaker 1: show is over and that's it, that's all you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, they're not leaving us like this. This
Speaker 1: is the perfect opportunity. We got to get that fifth
Speaker 1: man out here for the baby Face team. He could
Speaker 1: only be one person, but we have you know, Paul
Speaker 1: Lovek's name is on the screen, is the executive producer,
Speaker 1: and Brock's got a big smile on his face. He
Speaker 1: goes over Hayman's outside the ring and he reaches over.
Speaker 1: He's gonna slap hands with Hayman, and of course Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns arrives. This is a return number? What are we
Speaker 1: up to this year? Six? Is this the sixth, fifth
Speaker 1: or six return for him this year? I've lost count
Speaker 1: at this point. Roman, he's late, by the way. Gotta
Speaker 1: pay attention to the call time for these shows. Roman
Speaker 1: is in no great rush to come down to the ring.
Speaker 1: Roman has new merch. See. My theory is this Roman
Speaker 1: wants as many returns as possible throughout the year, so
Speaker 1: that each time he shows up he has a brand
Speaker 1: new piece of merch. Brock was in the ring, he
Speaker 1: was smiling, he was ready for him, And I'm just thinking, man,
Speaker 1: you fuckers lied. You lied to me. You told me
Speaker 1: three years ago at SummerSlam that that was it, that
Speaker 1: we would never again see Roman Reigns and brock Lesnar
Speaker 1: in the ring together. And I held you to that.
Speaker 1: They had their best match, probably was their last match,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna be back in the ring together
Speaker 1: again in wargames. You lied to me. I don't like
Speaker 1: being lied to. Roman gets in the ring. They have
Speaker 1: a stare down here, Brock hits the ropes. Roman ducked
Speaker 1: the clothes line and he took Brock down with a
Speaker 1: superman punch, and Brock bounced right out of the ring.
Speaker 1: Security finally arrived to keep Roman in the ring. They
Speaker 1: had other security geeks outside to crowd around Lesnar and
Speaker 1: keep him from going back to the ring. Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: then attacks Roman Reigns from behind, and he starts to
Speaker 1: bounce each one of the security geeks out of the
Speaker 1: ring one by one. Up he goes for the tsunami,
Speaker 1: but Roman popped back up and caught him with a
Speaker 1: superman punch knocked them off the ropes. So then they
Speaker 1: said the NYPD is here, the New York City Police Department,
Speaker 1: not in those uniforms, but that's what they wanted you
Speaker 1: to believe. The NYPD is here now, and they're outside
Speaker 1: the ring. They're getting in between Roman and Logan Paul.
Speaker 1: Outside the ring. Roman, though, he goes around the cops.
Speaker 1: Apparently they're so inept they couldn't prevent him from going
Speaker 1: around them because he spots Bronson Reid is over right
Speaker 1: in front of the Timekeeper's barricade, and he goes and
Speaker 1: he spears read and one of the rent A cops
Speaker 1: through the barricade because we haven't seen that spot before.
Speaker 1: I was starting to get the shakes here. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to twitch out because it's been what has
Speaker 1: it been, It's only been about a week since we've
Speaker 1: seen a barricade spot. I was starting to tweak out here.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing they gave us one tonight. You
Speaker 1: know what I would love is if they ever woke
Speaker 1: up and realized that what they should do is reinforce
Speaker 1: that barricade because it breaks on every show. You would
Speaker 1: think by now they would put some sort of like gigantic,
Speaker 1: not maybe metal, but like a concrete slab or something.
Speaker 1: And what he goes for a spear, he just knocks
Speaker 1: himself the fuck out. Like I would laugh. I would
Speaker 1: die laughing. It's like Brett Hart when he concealed the
Speaker 1: plate and Goldberg speared him. They need to reinforce that barricade.
Speaker 1: That's what they need to do. But that's how they
Speaker 1: went off the air. And I think they went off
Speaker 1: the air early. I think it was like ten twenty four,
Speaker 1: ten twenty five. Yeah, Mark Kan says it was they DP. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's what it was. It wasn't the NYPD, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that. So the field of five is
Speaker 1: now complete on both sides. Brock Lesnier will be in
Speaker 1: his first War Games match, and they basically have an
Speaker 1: all star team. On the baby Face side, you've got Roman, Reigns,
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes, and Cmpunk. You know, we'll forget the other two,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's a pretty impressive lineup right there,
Speaker 1: just with those three guys alone, and of course you
Speaker 1: got Brock and Drew on the other side. Bron is
Speaker 1: like he's the future, and then Logan Paul, he dips
Speaker 1: in and out whenever they need him. So you know,
Speaker 1: they've got some star power there in that match. And
Speaker 1: at least most, if not all, of the guys in
Speaker 1: this match have history with each other. Logan actually has
Speaker 1: history with Roman as well as Cody, and now he's
Speaker 1: been beefing with Punk lately. Punk has history with Drew,
Speaker 1: but also with Brock, Brock has history with basically, I mean, gosh,
Speaker 1: most of the people on the baby Face side, Cody, Punk, Roman,
Speaker 1: Him and Roman, especially Roman and Bronson Reed. They're still
Speaker 1: going at it. Right, the tribal thief. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of history between most of the men that are
Speaker 1: involved in this match. I don't know if they're just
Speaker 1: going to gloss over the whole Roman reigns Huso's thing
Speaker 1: where he told them I don't want to see y'all
Speaker 1: till Christmas. That's probably something that should be brought up
Speaker 1: on the show next week, if Roman is even on
Speaker 1: the show next week, because we know Brock won't be
Speaker 1: and John Cena won't be, it would be nice if
Speaker 1: Roman was on the show next week and they could
Speaker 1: flesh that out a little bit. And they did mention
Speaker 1: that next week on the show, they're going to have
Speaker 1: the men advantage match, and I would assume they'll do
Speaker 1: one for the women on that show too. They did
Speaker 1: not say what form that's going to take. They did
Speaker 1: not say if it's going to be a singles match,
Speaker 1: if it's going to be like a multi men tag
Speaker 1: match of some kind. Again, Brock won't be part of
Speaker 1: it if it is, but we're going to get the
Speaker 1: man advantage match on the show next week. Overall, this
Speaker 1: was a very strong show. There was some stuff on
Speaker 1: there I wasn't fond of. Again, I talked about the
Speaker 1: stuff they did in the Stephanie and Nikki Bellas segment,
Speaker 1: but seeing his final Raw appearance was a big deal.
Speaker 1: We had several major returns on this show, Roman Brock
Speaker 1: aj Lee, we have a new women's Intercontinental Champion. We
Speaker 1: had the Ziggler surprise in the tournament, and we had
Speaker 1: a great match, great battle between Gunther and Javon Evans.
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking forward to and it delivered.
Speaker 1: So this was an excellent show. And I pray for
Speaker 1: SmackDown come Friday, and anybody who is going to be
Speaker 1: watching it live, I will not be one of them
Speaker 1: because I will not be here on Friday. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be in Chicago the Glory Show on Friday night.
Speaker 1: We are sold out at Logan Square Auditorium, so I
Speaker 1: will not be here for SmackDown, So I wish you well.
Speaker 1: I'll have to catch it on Saturday at some point.
Speaker 1: But anyways, so that was Raw for tonight. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the pole. What did you think of Raw?
Speaker 1: From Madison Square Garden. Eighty eight percent have given this
Speaker 1: show a thumbs up, twelve point two percent thumbs down.
Speaker 1: I think you guys like Raw tonight. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: getting from these poll results. I think you were a
Speaker 1: fan of this Monday night raw show. I could be wrong, though,
Speaker 1: Hey Shark, thank you for the ten buck, lou this
Speaker 1: shark on a pole, Shark on a pole, bro thank
Speaker 1: you for the ten bucks. Appreciate it. JP says we're
Speaker 1: skipping SmackDown too good. Well I'll skip it. We'll send
Speaker 1: them a message. You want to send a message, That's
Speaker 1: how you send a message. Yeah, this is not going
Speaker 1: to be a week where they've done any favors for SmackDown.
Speaker 1: After the way they blew their load with his raw
Speaker 1: Sha tonight. It's going to be impossible for SmackDown to
Speaker 1: live up to what they did tonight at the Garden.
Speaker 1: But that's on then to try. It's their job to try.
Speaker 1: We'll start with a dark effect with a five dollars
Speaker 1: super chat kicking us off here on the Brett Hard scale,
Speaker 1: what would you rate Gunther zero through ten on looks,
Speaker 1: promo ability, ring work. In my opinion, Gunther is the
Speaker 1: best in the world today. He's certainly one of the best,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I mean, I don't even know exactly
Speaker 1: I mean. For me, I would give Gunther He's at
Speaker 1: least a seven eight for sure. I probably go eight.
Speaker 1: Drive Chicken says seven letters, one word tsunami. Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: approved this message the Real CS with the four ninety
Speaker 1: nine despite his booking. Do you think Pete Dunn has
Speaker 1: a future as Triple H's right hand man? I could
Speaker 1: definitely see him to Triple H as like a Pat
Speaker 1: Patterson was to Vince McMahon, or even like a William
Speaker 1: Regal is right now to Triple H. You know, Regal
Speaker 1: is not going to be working there forever. I think
Speaker 1: Pete Dunk could end up in a role like that
Speaker 1: where he can almost be like a consigliere for Triple H.
Speaker 1: You know, he's doing agency work right now, I think
Speaker 1: for Triple A, I believe. I mean, he's doing the
Speaker 1: Grande Americanos stuff as well under the mask, but he's
Speaker 1: already in that role in a way behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: But supposedly, you know, he's someone that Triple H has
Speaker 1: great respect for, and so yeah, I could see him
Speaker 1: ending up at a spot like that. We've got bland,
Speaker 1: dried Chicken and Turkey says. When it comes to the
Speaker 1: WWE creative team on SmackDown, it's like they cook the
Speaker 1: chicken or steak, but something is missing. They don't marinate
Speaker 1: or seasoned meat before they cook it. I saw a
Speaker 1: video going around on on X. It's probably on ig
Speaker 1: also or TikTok. Might have been a TikTok video actually
Speaker 1: that got lifted and sent everywhere else. But it was
Speaker 1: this video where it's like, this is how we cook
Speaker 1: steak in Texas, and I want to hear from all
Speaker 1: my Texas people. Actually food Hive, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's with us tonight, but food Hive is a Texas guy.
Speaker 1: He'd probably be appalled by this. So this guy took
Speaker 1: a steak and he boiled it. He put it in
Speaker 1: a pot and he boiled it and he literally and
Speaker 1: I don't think it was done as a joke, and
Speaker 1: he's like putting the seasoning in the water. And then
Speaker 1: he took like a bread roll, like a dinner roll,
Speaker 1: and he put that in the pot in the water
Speaker 1: as well, and he takes the steak out, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you can't tell me that in Texas, this is how
Speaker 1: they cook steak. It looked he was cooking it medium well,
Speaker 1: but he boiled the meat and the bread so now
Speaker 1: you have soggy bread. Why would you want to consume
Speaker 1: this boiled meat and soggy bread. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the sort of thing they would arrest you for in
Speaker 1: Texas or to port you for. Either way, it was
Speaker 1: like I was appalled. I was absolutely appalled, says a solo.
Speaker 1: Pick your poison. Three hours of SmackDown more title belts
Speaker 1: in aw or grow a beard and a mullet. I
Speaker 1: will grow the beard in the mullet. May take me
Speaker 1: a while, but yes, it is blasphemy. I was offended
Speaker 1: just watching the video. But he throws it in a
Speaker 1: fucking boiling pot of water and boils the steak. I'm like,
Speaker 1: the hell are you doing? Yeah for starters, you ruined
Speaker 1: the steak medium. Well, no, I'm Portuguese and we consider
Speaker 1: bread a utensil, but no steak stew. Talking about ruining
Speaker 1: a steak, Victor says, buy sell, rent on Doctor Doom,
Speaker 1: Magneto and Loki. I gotta buy on Mega, Magneto's my guy,
Speaker 1: and then I'll rent on Doctor Doom and sell on Loki.
Speaker 1: Buy Er, sell on the better dropkick AJ Styles or
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. Randy Orton has a beautiful dropkick. AJ's got
Speaker 1: a pretty wicked dropkick too, though at Okata. Can't leave
Speaker 1: Okata out of the conversation. You know who had a
Speaker 1: really good dropkick one of the best hardcore Holly Dolf
Speaker 1: had a pretty good one tonight against Solo Soca. I'll
Speaker 1: go Randy Orton. Victor says, any thoughts on Sena's behavior
Speaker 1: on Total Divas, Yeah, he was a giant diva on
Speaker 1: the show. It's a reality show, which means most of
Speaker 1: what you see is fake. He was playing a character,
Speaker 1: not that I was really watching it week to week.
Speaker 1: Maybe you saw more of him on there than I did.
Speaker 1: I did see the episode where he dressed up in
Speaker 1: what was going to be his heel gear many years
Speaker 1: ago before Vince got cold feet. It was that singlet
Speaker 1: and I know like he had like rules, didn't he did?
Speaker 1: He have like a contract that Nicki Bella had assigned
Speaker 1: if she was going to live in the same house
Speaker 1: with him. He sounded like a total nightmare. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of that might be kind of truthful, but like
Speaker 1: I just automatically disbelieve anything I see on those reality
Speaker 1: shows because I think I just think it's all phony.
Speaker 1: Dry chickens says, I'm predicting TKO Slasher WWE will attempt
Speaker 1: to negotiate a deal with the White House to host
Speaker 1: a WWE show similar to the UFC. Well, hopefully not,
Speaker 1: but I don't really give a shit. The Boss moo
Speaker 1: Jackson says, what's up, Solo Monster stopping through to support
Speaker 1: your channels. I'm looking forward to TNT tomorrow my favorite
Speaker 1: show of week, Boss moo Jackson. I appreciate the love, brother,
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well and I will see you
Speaker 1: there TNT tomorrow night. Also, he says, Ziggler returns. I've
Speaker 1: always thought Dolph was a cross between Shawn Michaels and
Speaker 1: mister Perfect. I mean, stylistically, you could see where he
Speaker 1: kind of borrowed from each of them. His bumping style
Speaker 1: was very similar to Kurt Hennig, and even like some
Speaker 1: of the gear he would wear and the way he
Speaker 1: tunes up the band, you could see where the Shawn
Speaker 1: Michaels influence comes from. So there's a reason why you
Speaker 1: feel that way, because there's an influence there from both.
Speaker 1: Victor says, thoughts on Oba versus Brock at WrestleMania of
Speaker 1: forty two feels a little too soon for them to
Speaker 1: just be going into that. I hope we get the
Speaker 1: match at some point. I don't see it being at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania of forty two, though probably a better chance of
Speaker 1: Brock and Gunther than Brock and Oba at forty two.
Speaker 1: Robbie H five says, the youth quote unquote and the
Speaker 1: quote unquote cross brand promised in this tournament was highly exaggerated. Well,
Speaker 1: they gave it to you at least once so they
Speaker 1: can say, well, we didn't lie to you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the way they were talking about it, it's like they
Speaker 1: got you excited for it and they're just there wasn't
Speaker 1: enough of it. I wanted more of it in this tournament.
Speaker 1: We got a mix, but there's too many. There's just
Speaker 1: too many old faces in there and some faces that frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit about. You know, the fact
Speaker 1: that Javon was the only NXT talent was very disappointing.
Speaker 1: The Bossmo Jackson says, the one thing that you and
Speaker 1: I haven't is Brett Hart is our favorite wrestler. I
Speaker 1: was a Brett fanatic growing up. He's my number one
Speaker 1: of all time. Brett was that guy. Yes he was.
Speaker 1: He absolutely was. I don't think I fully started to
Speaker 1: appreciate Brett until Hogan was really out of the pictures,
Speaker 1: and I grew up a Hogan guy at that age.
Speaker 1: You know, Hulkamedia was running wild brother Jack dude, and
Speaker 1: he was very charismatic, although you even even as a
Speaker 1: young fan though, like when he lost the championship to
Speaker 1: Andre in eighty eight and he was crying about it,
Speaker 1: like literally crying in the back, like what a bitch.
Speaker 1: And then to see what he did in the ninety
Speaker 1: two rumble, I'm like, man, what a bitch. Then he started,
Speaker 1: then he disappeared, and then it all fell on Brett.
Speaker 1: You know, ninety two went into ninety three, ninety four.
Speaker 1: That's where I really became a big Brett Hart fan,
Speaker 1: and I've been ever since. Brett is that guy. Also,
Speaker 1: the segment with Charlotte and Bliss was hilarious. The segment
Speaker 1: with Charlotte and Bliss was horrendous. The worst thing on
Speaker 1: the show, Actually, no, I is the second worst thing
Speaker 1: on the show. The worst thing on the show was
Speaker 1: the segment with Stephanie and Nicky Dry Chicken says, my
Speaker 1: glasses were blurry last Monday. I'm not sure if it
Speaker 1: was Triple H or former New York Giants head coach
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball on Raw, well, I would say Triple
Speaker 1: H is probably more of a winner in his career
Speaker 1: exploits than Brian day Ball is. So I didn't make
Speaker 1: that mistake. Hey, Eric, what's going on? Man? This says
Speaker 1: a solemn monster. I will be. I will also be
Speaker 1: watching the House of Glory show in Chicago this coming
Speaker 1: Friday night since I know it will be on Triller TV.
Speaker 1: Plus that's right, it's a Triller TV, not Thriller TV,
Speaker 1: although that sounds cooler. I don't even know what a
Speaker 1: Triller is, but that's where we'll be. I will be
Speaker 1: on the call again, and if you are interested, this
Speaker 1: was not by accident. We got up the Nicknameth Amazing
Speaker 1: Red match from the Saturday show during Raw tonight. Put
Speaker 1: the full match up the very beginning of the show,
Speaker 1: the first like twenty five minutes of the show. So
Speaker 1: if you want to hear me do commentary for what
Speaker 1: was a really good match, you can go over to
Speaker 1: the House of Glory YouTube channel after this and go
Speaker 1: check it out. Leave a comment and mention that the
Speaker 1: Solo Monster sent you so they know Tommy Koleela the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars super chant. I was thinking two more wrestling tropes.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett hitting somebody with a guitar, somebody over the
Speaker 1: hill with the guitar, and the referee painting with all
Speaker 1: the debris, and the Dudley Boys whassab where the referee
Speaker 1: would always act dumb. Yeah, that really should be a disqualification. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: maven here with a five dollars super chant. Everybody loves
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry, but how many people love Ho Genry, Joe
Speaker 1: Hendry's lesser known cousin, Ho Genry. I hear he gets around.
Speaker 1: I hear he gets around the women's locker room. Unconfirmed,
Speaker 1: though it's a very popular guy. Tommy says, I meant pinning,
Speaker 1: not painting. I was a little confused when I read.
Speaker 1: I was a little confused when I read that. I said,
Speaker 1: that's not a trope that I'm familiar with. Says he's
Speaker 1: using a Google voice. Mactub who had the higher peak
Speaker 1: in America? Jeff or Punk going Jeff Hardy. I assume
Speaker 1: that Jeff Jarrett, who we were just talking about the
Speaker 1: higher peak in America was Jeff Hardy. When Jeff Hardy
Speaker 1: was at his most popular, which was like around eight
Speaker 1: It was Jeff Hardy. Also, I think Seth after his
Speaker 1: Babyface run was botched due to Triple AH in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: was never the same. Thoughts on how they went about
Speaker 1: that and his gimmick in recent years. Yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 1: terribly moved by that either, and his gimmick in recent
Speaker 1: year socks. I don't know what his gimmick is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. He comes out, he wears, he wears weird
Speaker 1: clothing and he cackles like a hyena. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that's supposed to be. It's like he's trying to
Speaker 1: be a modern day version of Macho Man, but not
Speaker 1: nearly as cool, because Macho Man came out with all
Speaker 1: the colorful, over the top, silly, ridiculous outfits and stuff,
Speaker 1: but he was fucking cool. He was the Macho Man.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's what he's trying to be,
Speaker 1: but if he is, he's failing. I don't know what
Speaker 1: this gimmick is supposed to be. And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: with the vision it would be different, and it was
Speaker 1: just the same Seth Rollins, but with a couple of
Speaker 1: people around him. Uh Duff's vid says John Cena wakes
Speaker 1: up in a hospital. John Cena says, where am I?
Speaker 1: The nurse says, I see you. John Cena says, no,
Speaker 1: you can't. Going with the you can't see me humor. Huh.
Speaker 1: DJ fifty five the four ninety nine says, solo, my
Speaker 1: ten year old son and I will be at war
Speaker 1: Games for my TNT shirt and signs. We'll be at
Speaker 1: the entrance ramp repping you and JD in sunny San Diego. Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep an eye out for that. That's very cool.
Speaker 1: I tell you guys all the time, if you go
Speaker 1: into the shows, and if you haven't been priced out
Speaker 1: of these shows and you're going to the shows, anytime
Speaker 1: you wrap the sound off man or Solemn Monster, big letters,
Speaker 1: big sign, get a screenshot of that shit, throw it
Speaker 1: up here on the stream. Give you a shout out.
Speaker 1: Man's that's what it's all about. I love seeing that.
Speaker 1: Barry MK four hundred, is this the Krusty Crab? I
Speaker 1: don't have crab, but if I did, I would boil
Speaker 1: them with my steak, and I would have my steak medium,
Speaker 1: not even medium. Well, I think I might have my
Speaker 1: steak well done with ketchup. I hear that's how they
Speaker 1: do it in Texas. TikTok told me that Tictac TikTok
Speaker 1: never lies or Tiktac oh man. Alex says brother solo.
Speaker 1: What did Vince not seeing Ziggler throughout his twenty year
Speaker 1: career in WWE? For crying out loud? Gender won the
Speaker 1: damn Championship, but Dolf couldn't. Overall, great show, and thank
Speaker 1: you for another great stream. Well you're very welcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. Is that what the Krusty Krab is from? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't watch SpongeBob. I'm not five years old, So
Speaker 1: I may act like I'm five years old sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I'm not five years old. Why would do you think
Speaker 1: I sit around watching SpongeBob SquarePants all day? I don't.
Speaker 1: What did Vince not see in him? You have das Vince,
Speaker 1: you have to as Vince. I always go back to
Speaker 1: that Survivor series in twenty fourteen when he was the
Speaker 1: sole survivor in the main event, Sting pulled him on
Speaker 1: top of seth rollins. That like around that period of time,
Speaker 1: that was I feel like the last real opportunity for
Speaker 1: them to truly try to elevate him to a level
Speaker 1: higher than what he was at, and they didn't do
Speaker 1: it because they just didn't see him at that level.
Speaker 1: I say they, Vince did not see him at that level.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a really good feud for the
Speaker 1: IC title a couple of years after that, or maybe
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen with Miz But I don't know. I look
Speaker 1: back on that Survivor series as like, man, this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity for them to follow up on this, and
Speaker 1: they didn't do it. It So like he won the championship. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think he won the champion, the World Heavyweight Championship twice.
Speaker 1: I said before he won it when he cashed in,
Speaker 1: I think he won it twice and both times like
Speaker 1: the first time he wanted in the cash in is
Speaker 1: one of the more memorable cashs they've ever done. But
Speaker 1: then he got hurt. He had no run, Like the
Speaker 1: run was completely forgettable and short and just nothing. There's
Speaker 1: just nothing to it. The second one, I'm trying to remember,
Speaker 1: or maybe maybe it was the first one, whichever one
Speaker 1: came first, the one with him and Vicky, I couldn't
Speaker 1: even tell you what happened they were so forgettable. Squid word,
Speaker 1: What the fuck is squid word? What is that? It
Speaker 1: sounds like something you would do on the toilet after
Speaker 1: you had a boiled steak. Justin g says, I am
Speaker 1: the Sena tree. Thanks guys, thank you. Justin Lakers Pat says,
Speaker 1: with three hour Attitude era raws have worked, no, No,
Speaker 1: because you would have burned the audience out. I think
Speaker 1: a lot quicker Crash TV back then it worked, you know,
Speaker 1: for a while, and that was at two hours. If
Speaker 1: you had an extra hour every single week, I don't
Speaker 1: think it would have worked. After a period of time,
Speaker 1: you would have burned the audience out. It was better
Speaker 1: to give them those those types of shows and leave
Speaker 1: them wanting more for the following week. There's no there's
Speaker 1: no weekly wrestling show, good or bad, that needs three
Speaker 1: hours every single week. Always said that that includes the
Speaker 1: Attitude era, That includes the Golden era, the Ruthless Aggres era,
Speaker 1: any era you want to go back to, no need
Speaker 1: for three hours. On that note, Dynamite this week is
Speaker 1: three hours. Just figured i'd mentioned that's say a Dynamite
Speaker 1: Collision combo show. We got Bobby's World with a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty dollar super chat late to the party has always
Speaker 1: but congrats on eighteen years. Brother, Thank you, sir, says
Speaker 1: as you know, loyal listener for ten plus, made my
Speaker 1: family fans and pretty sure I can safely say that
Speaker 1: we are around for the long haul. Here's the many
Speaker 1: more my friend hashtag gwo for life, gwoe life. Thank you, Bobby,
Speaker 1: appreciate all the love on all the streams. Thank you
Speaker 1: for eighteen great years. Wink the cosmic Grandma. Evans versus
Speaker 1: Gunther or Shelton versus Triple H. So we're already comparing
Speaker 1: different matches. Here are we really doing this? If you
Speaker 1: were to say Shelton and Shawn, I would pick that.
Speaker 1: In this case, I'm gonna go with Evans and Gunther. Dude,
Speaker 1: Here's seventy three with a nineteen ninety two fun raw tonight,
Speaker 1: bittersweet watching scene his last in ring television match, but
Speaker 1: it was a fun match and cool seeing him tag
Speaker 1: with Seamus and Ray. Also, what the hell do they
Speaker 1: do to Gunther's theme? They reverted back to his old theme,
Speaker 1: which I like and if you don't, I think it'll
Speaker 1: grow on you. Hey Solo who lived in a pineapple
Speaker 1: under the sea, that would be SpongeBob SquarePants. It's very
Speaker 1: absorbent and very porous. And if nautical nonsense be something
Speaker 1: you wish, then drop on the deck and flop like
Speaker 1: a fish. JDFVA Symphony nine, Allegro Cone Fuoco, not matter
Speaker 1: or no matter, No matter what fandom, we all have
Speaker 1: a good taste in music. Be Man the champ Hey Solo.
Speaker 1: If you could change any current title holders in WWE
Speaker 1: right now, who would they be? Besides the obvious Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre as WWE champion, I could change any of the
Speaker 1: title holders. I think I would change all of them
Speaker 1: except Ilia Dragono. I would just shake things up. Get
Speaker 1: it off, Cody, get it off, Punk, put it on Breaker,
Speaker 1: Let's go up and down the list. We got Duff's
Speaker 1: vis my friend Joe went on the Dolly parton diet.
Speaker 1: It made Jolene Jolene Jolene. Indeed, Derek j speaks with
Speaker 1: how underwhelming the tournament has been overall. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they even bothered doing it. It would have been
Speaker 1: better off just having gun their challenge Sina well, because
Speaker 1: they wanted something to occupy television time with. It's a
Speaker 1: good TV gimmick. You can kill a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: segments on TV and build interest in the shows over
Speaker 1: a period of weeks. That's why they did it. Probably
Speaker 1: give them another match to do it. Survivor series, Barry
Speaker 1: MK four hundred. Stephanie really should have acted like she
Speaker 1: was knocked out. She looked perfectly fine as NICKI talked
Speaker 1: to her, and did not even fight back. That's what
Speaker 1: I said. It looked completely ridiculous. This woman attacked you
Speaker 1: last week, your supposed friend, and then she attacked you
Speaker 1: again this week and didn't do anything particularly vicious, and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna lay there and let her cut her
Speaker 1: promo like it just made her look like a freakin' weakling.
Speaker 1: Tuffs VIDs. What do hot dogs use for protection condiments?
Speaker 1: That's an old one. And also why did the blonde
Speaker 1: only wear one snow boot? You heard there's only a
Speaker 1: fifty percent chance of snow see now, I'm I'm offended
Speaker 1: by her. He defended me, Prince vegeta ninety five. I
Speaker 1: know everyone thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread
Speaker 1: and all, and he's good, but I'm not big on
Speaker 1: wwe wasting three out of his last four matches on Dom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't waste that many on one person either, regardless
Speaker 1: of who it is. I'm just saying though, like Dom
Speaker 1: needs to get that belt back, so they get it
Speaker 1: off of Sina. I wish there was more variety in
Speaker 1: the opponents that he has had, or maybe I just
Speaker 1: wish he had more dates. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look back on this run. There's some really
Speaker 1: cool things that they did, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: just wasted time and wasted opportunities, and when all of
Speaker 1: a sudden done, we're going to look back on this tournament,
Speaker 1: not tournament, but this retirement tour, and we're going to
Speaker 1: look at it, I think as a disappointment compared to
Speaker 1: what it could have been. You know, they zigged instead
Speaker 1: of zagged. Triple H wanted to make a moment at
Speaker 1: the elimination chamber and they did, and unfortunately that was
Speaker 1: sort of the peak, and they had no way to
Speaker 1: really follow up on that because there was no long
Speaker 1: term plan to what they did. And this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you don't have a long term plan to
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Remember John Cena announced, I want to
Speaker 1: say in July of twenty twenty four, June or July
Speaker 1: of last year, I'm pretty sure is when he made
Speaker 1: the announcement that he was going to wrestle his last
Speaker 1: match at the end of this year. They had a
Speaker 1: lot of time to work on what these plans were
Speaker 1: going to be for John Cena's retirement tour, right the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time, and I'm still floored that coming
Speaker 1: out of the biggest angle they have shot in years,
Speaker 1: they had no real solid plan on where to go
Speaker 1: and what to do with it, or if they did,
Speaker 1: it sucked. If there was one thing that like this
Speaker 1: is impossible to botch, it was this retirement tour, and
Speaker 1: for a good chunk of it, they found a way
Speaker 1: that is now part of Triple H's legacy. Stuff's VIDs,
Speaker 1: What's Brown and sits on a piano chair, Beethoven's Last Movement,
Speaker 1: Prince Vegeta. Am I crazy for thinking that? Joe Hendry
Speaker 1: just gives me massive jobber vibes him hopping out of
Speaker 1: fridges and shit future meat for Sean stacyag I hope
Speaker 1: it's not boiled meat. Yeah, I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who was a TNA World heavyweight champion and he's
Speaker 1: popping out of garbage cans in NXT and out of
Speaker 1: refrigerators and it's a funny comedy gimmick. But funny comedy
Speaker 1: gimmicks don't win World Champion and chips, like, what do
Speaker 1: you want him to be? You wanted to be a
Speaker 1: com you wanted to be a comedy gimmick. He can
Speaker 1: be a comedy gimmick, but he's only going to go
Speaker 1: so far. But that's NXT. So apparently NXT is its
Speaker 1: own universe unto itself. When he comes to the main roster,
Speaker 1: we'll see what they do with him. But you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry is also not necessarily like in ring, at
Speaker 1: the level of a lot of the top guys that
Speaker 1: they have in WWE. So is he going to be
Speaker 1: able to hang with those guys? That's another question. What
Speaker 1: kind of matches are they going to have? Kind of
Speaker 1: in ring chemistry are they going to have together? Is
Speaker 1: he going to resonate with these crowds the same way
Speaker 1: that he did in TNA or that he does in NXT.
Speaker 1: Bobby Means says, I'm happy for Maxine, but Women's Icy Champion,
Speaker 1: Oh my, I don't know if this is going to
Speaker 1: work out. Who do you see beating her? I think
Speaker 1: Becky just gets the belt back next month more, says
Speaker 1: tk on Ariel Helwani tomorrow morning. Okay, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see what he talks about. I know they've had
Speaker 1: their issues before, so that should be an interesting interview.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Tony will be in a very jovial mood
Speaker 1: talking about all the wonderful things that aw is doing.
Speaker 1: Shark says Solo, I'm going to have to disagree with
Speaker 1: Becky winning back the women's icee title. I feel like
Speaker 1: Becky against AJ doesn't need a title attached to it,
Speaker 1: and they can make it work without it. Yes, but
Speaker 1: who then do they have lined up for Maxine? You
Speaker 1: pray it's the same issue we had on SmackDown with
Speaker 1: the women's US title. You need to have other over
Speaker 1: or credit women for Maxine to work with or drop
Speaker 1: the belt to, if not Becky, so that belt doesn't
Speaker 1: just sink to the bottom. You don't want it to
Speaker 1: sink to the bottom of the ocean. That's why Maxine's
Speaker 1: run is not going to be a terribly long one.
Speaker 1: So if it's not Becky who she drops the belt
Speaker 1: back to, then I don't know. Maybe it's Bailey. Maybe
Speaker 1: Bailey has her eyes set on the Intercontinental Championship. Maybe
Speaker 1: that eventually transitions into Bailey and Lyra in a feud
Speaker 1: for the IC title. Right, there can't be a team forever,
Speaker 1: Jeremy says, j La Knight, Gunther, Seamus semi finals, La Night,
Speaker 1: Gunther final and Gunther wins. Yeah. I could see that
Speaker 1: horrible heel run, ridiculous WrestleMania ending, rushed face turn, bad
Speaker 1: final opponent, tournament, this scene, if Final Year was bundled
Speaker 1: at every turn, it's really a shame. De Quentin. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call you DQ man every time I see the
Speaker 1: D in the Q. I think disqualification DQ is with
Speaker 1: us Romans should be in jail for assaulting a police. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the NYPD, that was the the NPYD.
Speaker 1: That was the New York Putts Department. That's a whole
Speaker 1: different crew. That's a bunch of security geeks that go
Speaker 1: around and they just get their asses handed to them.
Speaker 1: It's all good. They're not even allowed to carry a weapon.
Speaker 1: They they're like the auxiliary police. Alex says, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Kenna Anderson making a WWE cameo. Now
Speaker 1: that he's back with TNA, do you think there is
Speaker 1: still massive heat within WWE? Massive? No? I mean it's
Speaker 1: been has it been fifteen years? Assive? No, and him
Speaker 1: making a cameo. I don't see a reason for him to.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for him to. There's no reason for
Speaker 1: them to bring him in. The Cobra says, if there's
Speaker 1: no Steve Austin and no nWo, do we still have
Speaker 1: the Monday Night wars? Yeah? Well, yes, Nitro would have
Speaker 1: still been on Monday Night, so technically there would have
Speaker 1: been a war between the two companies. Would wrestling have
Speaker 1: been as hot? No, it would not have been. But
Speaker 1: remember Bischoff told Ted Turner, who asked him, what do
Speaker 1: we need to do to compete with Vince? And his
Speaker 1: response was give me primetime on Monday Nights. That was
Speaker 1: in ninety five, that was before Austin came over, that
Speaker 1: was before the nWo was even a thought. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there would have been competition on Mondays, but it would
Speaker 1: not have exploded as big as it did. I think
Speaker 1: it would have died out all sooner. And which side
Speaker 1: would have won? Which side would have won? Alexander says
Speaker 1: thoughts on Bob Caudle passing away. I talked about Bob
Speaker 1: Caudle at the beginning of the sound off episode yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I have some thoughts on him there. But I
Speaker 1: was very sad. I was very sad to hear he
Speaker 1: passed away. But ninety five years old. Again, we should
Speaker 1: all be so lucky to live that long. We got why,
Speaker 1: I why understand Vince Shane. Shane wasn't acknowledged. Yes, Stephanie
Speaker 1: and Shane were both there. They acknowledged Stephanie on camera
Speaker 1: with her podcast co host, They did not acknowledge Shane.
Speaker 1: Jacob Gomez with the nine ninety nine says, I was
Speaker 1: at the show and it was great and had tons
Speaker 1: of fun. I don't know how it sounded on TV,
Speaker 1: but it was super loud in the building. Dolph was
Speaker 1: one of my favorites growing up, so excited to be
Speaker 1: able to see him. It sounded very loud on TV,
Speaker 1: so definitely came across watching it on Netflix retro. Koh,
Speaker 1: I mean you sit and watch WWE with us, so checkmate,
Speaker 1: fair enough? Yeah, and it was very cool to be
Speaker 1: able to call. This was not the first Nemath match
Speaker 1: that I've been able to call. We had him in
Speaker 1: House of Glory actually last year and he wrestled Vi Kingo,
Speaker 1: so you know, to be able to call his match
Speaker 1: the other night was very cool. Had a nice conversation
Speaker 1: with Killer Cross as well, and definitely brought up keV
Speaker 1: Castle make sure we talked about that, and had a
Speaker 1: good conversation with Chris van Vliet, and you know, I
Speaker 1: was able to say hello to Sam Roberts. So were
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of people who were there at
Speaker 1: the Big Event and then into the House of Glory
Speaker 1: show later on in the in the evening, and I
Speaker 1: met many of you there as well. Hopefully we'll do
Speaker 1: it all over again. The Big Event is coming back
Speaker 1: in March March fourteenth of next year, so hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: do another one and Navy forty one eighty one. Since
Speaker 1: Dominic uses the six one nine, wouldn't it make sense
Speaker 1: for Dominic to start using the Bronco Buster. That would
Speaker 1: be hilarious if he did it. To Ray him doing
Speaker 1: a move like the Bronco Buster to his dad would
Speaker 1: be a little weird. I'm sorry it it just would
Speaker 1: be weird. It would be weird to me. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it'd be weird for Ray too. Put some respect on SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: I don't have any ill will towards SpongeBob. It's that
Speaker 1: Patrick guy. I don't trust him. I don't trust him
Speaker 1: at all. I have a feeling he's on the Epstein list. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for helping me hit the goal, which
Speaker 1: we did hit the likes goal five hundred sixteen likes
Speaker 1: five hundred four hundred was the goal we exceeded five
Speaker 1: hundred and so on that note, we are going to
Speaker 1: go ahead and be the booker in a moment here.
Speaker 1: But Nick Grosso says, just wanted to pop in and
Speaker 1: say thoughts and prayers to Rebel, who was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: lung cancer. Yeah, she was diagnosed with a form of
Speaker 1: I think it was lymphoma of the lungs. I know
Speaker 1: she's been very sick and dealing with an illness for
Speaker 1: a while and just could not get a diagnosis and
Speaker 1: only recently found out what it was. So she had
Speaker 1: it the whole time. It wasn't being treated because they
Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. But evidently if you were
Speaker 1: to get this, she got the best version of it.
Speaker 1: So hopefully she'll be able to kick its ass and
Speaker 1: make a full recovery. But yeah, no thoughts are with
Speaker 1: her because I know she's been through the ringer. Let's
Speaker 1: be the booker, ladies or gentlemen, it is now time
Speaker 1: to be the booker. You guys ever, plan on going
Speaker 1: to Upstate New York with Hog. We got plans to
Speaker 1: go to a lot of places. Hog coming to the
Speaker 1: City of Angels for the first time in January, be
Speaker 1: in Chicago this coming Friday. Of course, we've been there
Speaker 1: a bunch of times. We were in Houston in July
Speaker 1: for the first time, Philadelphia for the second time back
Speaker 1: in September. And there's some other places and plans coming
Speaker 1: up in the early part of next year that I
Speaker 1: cannot reveal yet, two of them in particular that are
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. So all I'll say is just stay tuned.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We got the faces of
Speaker 1: Fear kicking us off. We've got Meng and the Barbarian.
Speaker 1: Now we've landed on them a few times before, so
Speaker 1: let's see this time, who are we putting them in
Speaker 1: the ring with the faces of few See, I would
Speaker 1: not want to be on the opposite side of the
Speaker 1: ring with Meng. That's the whole thing. Oh, look at this,
Speaker 1: the faces of fear against Rob van Dam and Saboo.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Meng and Saboo in the ring together, m
Speaker 1: that would be a very interesting clash of styles. Hog
Speaker 1: takes Manhattan, Dude, We ran Terminal five a few years
Speaker 1: ago in manhatt Been there, done that? Who knows? Maybe
Speaker 1: Hammerstein one day. It's expensive though, it is very expensive.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. All right, Women's be the booker.
Speaker 1: We have Natalia who has a brand new book out
Speaker 1: by the way, and I have a link. I have
Speaker 1: an audible link where you can get that book for free.
Speaker 1: She tells some very interesting stories in there, including how
Speaker 1: she was treated by Vince McMahon after her husband almost
Speaker 1: died in the ring and suffered a catastrophic injury that
Speaker 1: doesn't paint him in the best light. That story is
Speaker 1: in the book as well. Run Pen Station, Oh like
Speaker 1: a shotguns Saturday night? Yeah, I know, Well you got
Speaker 1: to remember something though. When they did that, that was
Speaker 1: pre nine to eleven, and the city and the world
Speaker 1: it was a very different place security wise. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I doubt we would even be allowed
Speaker 1: to think about doing something like that. They basically shut
Speaker 1: that part of the terminal down just to do that show. Uh,
Speaker 1: Natty against ReHO see blood Sport. Natty against ReHO would
Speaker 1: be a very interesting battle. I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling it all right, main event time. Maybe we could
Speaker 1: split the bill here. Let's see what we can do. Man.
Speaker 1: We have the Mizz former WWE champion, the Mizz against
Speaker 1: Cactus Jack. Let's see the Miz taking some tack bumps
Speaker 1: in this match, the Miz landing in the thumbtacks. We're
Speaker 1: gonna buy on that. I give that the bell automatic buzz.
Speaker 1: If he's the champion, well, I gave it the bell.
Speaker 1: So we ended up with two bells and one buzz,
Speaker 1: which is not too bad. Could have been worse. It
Speaker 1: could have been worse. That'll be Cactus Jack for the
Speaker 1: win right there. All right? So Wednesday night I mentioned
Speaker 1: Dynamite is a combined show. It is the go home
Speaker 1: show to Full Gear. It will be three hours long,
Speaker 1: so the Dynamite stream will be a little bit later
Speaker 1: than usual Tomorrow night. Before that, I'll be on JD's
Speaker 1: channel for Tuesday Night Titans as always, but no SmackDown
Speaker 1: review on Friday night, I will not be here. I
Speaker 1: will be in Chicago. Hopefully I will see some of
Speaker 1: you in Chicago. We are sold out at Logan Square Auditorium,
Speaker 1: but if you've got your tickets, I will see you there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold, though, isn't it. Yeah, Chicago this
Speaker 1: time of year is tough, but that's where I'll be.
Speaker 1: And then, if you missed episode nine thirty eight of
Speaker 1: the sound Off from yesterday, a lot of ground covered
Speaker 1: on that show, please go back and check out the podcast.
Speaker 1: We were number two in the world on Apple Podcasts
Speaker 1: for all wrestling podcasts, number two behind Jim Cornett. Actually
Speaker 1: I was sandwiched in between. He has two shows, right,
Speaker 1: He's got the experience and he's got the drive through.
Speaker 1: I think the experience was number one. I was number two,
Speaker 1: and I think the drive through maybe was number three.
Speaker 1: In any event, I thank you for that. Be well,
Speaker 1: stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of your week.
Speaker 1: I will see you back here. I better see you
Speaker 1: you back here on Wednesday for the Dynamite stream and
Speaker 1: of course tomorrow for TNT. Until then, take care, guys,