Speaker 1: The European Tour is over, and tonight WWE was in Montreal.
Speaker 1: They were at the Bell Center on the eve of
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event with as quiet a crowd, as
Speaker 1: quiet a Canadian crowd as I have ever seen. Not
Speaker 1: that they were given a whole lot to be excited about.
Speaker 1: They weren't. I don't blame the crowd. I love my
Speaker 1: fans up in Canada, the best wrestling fans, A lot
Speaker 1: of the best wrestling fans you will find them in Canada.
Speaker 1: But tonight they really didn't have a whole lot to
Speaker 1: get excited about. You know, we are heading into the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, which is not tomorrow, but it is a
Speaker 1: week from tomorrow. This is and I can sit here
Speaker 1: and say this, I mean, I go back in my
Speaker 1: brain and try to figure out a different answer to this.
Speaker 1: This is the worst and weakest build to a Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble since the early ones, really since the first two.
Speaker 1: I would say this is the worst Royal Rumble build
Speaker 1: in decades and the Royal and it pains me to
Speaker 1: say that because the Royal Rumble is my favorite show
Speaker 1: of the year, more than WrestleMania, more than SummerSlam, more
Speaker 1: than any of the other ones. So the build to
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble has not been good. Before we get
Speaker 1: to the Royal Rumble, though, we have Saturday Nights Made Event,
Speaker 1: we have four matches. We had three, now we have
Speaker 1: four on the card for tomorrow, and that will be
Speaker 1: on Peacock. Outside the US, I guess it would be
Speaker 1: on Netflix, I believe, but here in the States it'll
Speaker 1: be on the Cock. And so tonight that really is
Speaker 1: what the show was primarily geared towards, you know, keying
Speaker 1: up the key matches for Saturday Nights Made Event tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I've been very complimentary of SmackDown over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. In fact, since they moved back to three hours,
Speaker 1: I would say that for the last few weeks it
Speaker 1: has not felt like three hours. They've done a pretty
Speaker 1: good job of diversifying the segments and getting new faces
Speaker 1: on the show and keeping the show interesting enough to
Speaker 1: where you don't really feel like, oh man, this show
Speaker 1: is a slog. Oh man, this show feels like it's
Speaker 1: just never gonna end. Right, Well, the streak is over.
Speaker 1: The streak is over. I cannot sit here and say
Speaker 1: that about tonight show. Tonight's shows felt like it was
Speaker 1: four hours long. That's what this show felt like. This
Speaker 1: show felt every bit of those three hours. It really
Speaker 1: hit me when they send Drew McIntyre out there to
Speaker 1: do that promo, and I'm like, well, it was a
Speaker 1: way to eat up some time here on a three
Speaker 1: hour shows as pointless as Drew McIntyre promo as you
Speaker 1: will ever say. And I like seeing Drew McIntyre on
Speaker 1: the show generally when he has something of substance to do.
Speaker 1: Tonight was not one of those nights, at least not
Speaker 1: in that particular segment. I will also point out to
Speaker 1: you that four of the six matches that we had
Speaker 1: on the show tonight ended with some sort of interference,
Speaker 1: someone getting involved, someone causing it to squalify k or
Speaker 1: whatever it was. Four of the six matches tonight. We
Speaker 1: do have a new match added to Saturday Night's made event.
Speaker 1: The reason that Aj Styles was invited to the show
Speaker 1: tonight by Nick Aldis had to do with a match
Speaker 1: that aj will now have tomorrow against Shinsky Nakamore, an
Speaker 1: old rival of his even pre WWE. But in WWE
Speaker 1: they had many matches. They had a WrestleMania match was
Speaker 1: a very disappointing WrestleMania match, but they had a WrestleMania match,
Speaker 1: which is hard to believe it was eight years ago,
Speaker 1: but it was. And so now aj and Nakamura will
Speaker 1: have what I presume will end up being their final
Speaker 1: match together, and that will take place tomorrow, and I
Speaker 1: think that's cool. You know, one more time at least
Speaker 1: on TV, one more time in the ring together. Right,
Speaker 1: These two guys in the past have had some and
Speaker 1: they had at least that one classic match. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call any of their WWE matches classic, but certainly the
Speaker 1: match they had in New Japan that was a classic match.
Speaker 1: So that brings the card tomorrow up from three matches
Speaker 1: to four. We also had a segment. This was the
Speaker 1: best thing on the entire show. It was not a match,
Speaker 1: It did not even happen in front of the live audience.
Speaker 1: It was to sit down interview that Michael Cole was
Speaker 1: to have conducted with Cody Rhads and it was hijacked
Speaker 1: very early on by Jacob Fatu. So we had a
Speaker 1: face to face between Cody and Fa Twu stemming from
Speaker 1: their recent issues. Of course, it goes back to the
Speaker 1: cage match at the end of three stages of hell
Speaker 1: when Jacob returned and he ended up costing Cody the
Speaker 1: WWE Championship, and then last week they were just going
Speaker 1: after each other. They had to be pulled apart, so
Speaker 1: they're going to have a match tomorrow. The face to
Speaker 1: face between them on this show. That more than anything
Speaker 1: else that they did, sold me on that match on
Speaker 1: that show and me wanting to tune in to see
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. It was the best Jacob Fatu promo that
Speaker 1: he's been involved in since he joined the company. And
Speaker 1: the thing that stands out to me and the thing
Speaker 1: I love about Fatu when you are able to get
Speaker 1: him in a situation like this, there is an authenticity
Speaker 1: there that not very many people have. There are people
Speaker 1: who have it. Ceampunk is one of those people. But
Speaker 1: there's just an authenticity to the way that he carries
Speaker 1: himself and he speaks, and he cuts a promo where
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like he's on television playing a character.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like he's on the show playing a part.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like he's on the show trying to
Speaker 1: remember his lines. It really feels like what you see
Speaker 1: is what you get. This is the real authentic hymn
Speaker 1: and are we going to get the menace Jacob Fatu
Speaker 1: who's just raging out of control tomorrow or are we
Speaker 1: going to get the more sort of measured, calculated Fatu
Speaker 1: that he teased at the end of his promo. So
Speaker 1: I was a big fan of what they did with
Speaker 1: the two of them. I'm looking forward to that match.
Speaker 1: That was the highlight of the show for me, outside
Speaker 1: of the US Title Open Challenge, because we had yet
Speaker 1: another match between Carmelo Hayes and Ilyya Draganov which ended
Speaker 1: with the Miz getting it. We got a winner, but
Speaker 1: it ended with the Miz sticking his nose in and
Speaker 1: getting involved in the match. And oh yeah, by the way,
Speaker 1: I haven't even mentioned the fact that we have new
Speaker 1: WWE Tag Team champions and I could not give a
Speaker 1: single solitary shit. That was the worst thing on the
Speaker 1: entire show. We'll talk about that. Why this is your
Speaker 1: Friday Night SmackDown review. It is January twenty third, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. I am the solea Monster Like and subscribe.
Speaker 1: Super chats are open. We have a goal. I see
Speaker 1: we're already ticking up on the goal. That's good to see.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hang out and entertain ourselves, I think more
Speaker 1: than we did being entertained by WWE ten. Because this
Speaker 1: was not a great show. And since we were talking
Speaker 1: about Saturday Night's main event, I should point out that
Speaker 1: I will be live tomorrow night. You get another podcast
Speaker 1: out of me this weekend, because as soon as Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event is over, you can come back to
Speaker 1: the channel. Here. We'll talk about all four matches on
Speaker 1: this very stacked card tomorrow night. But that one right there,
Speaker 1: Cody and Fatu, that is the one that I am
Speaker 1: looking forward to the most. So it's an eight pm
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event, so I'll probably be live but
Speaker 1: around the same time I am tonight, probably a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier, maybe eleven ish, So hopefully I will see
Speaker 1: you guys there. And now let's get into this show.
Speaker 1: Three fucking hours of this, let's not waste any more time. Here.
Speaker 1: They were in Montreal and Sam bey'z aan was the
Speaker 1: hometown boy, so of course he got a Heroes welcome
Speaker 1: coming out to open the show. He addressed the crowd
Speaker 1: in French before he said that he felt like he
Speaker 1: had all the momentum heading into tomorrow night because he
Speaker 1: had a chance to become the number one contender for
Speaker 1: the WWE Championship. Isaac, Yes, you know, I did want
Speaker 1: to mention that we actually do. We have a hell
Speaker 1: of a storm. That's I'm not talking about Jade Cargill.
Speaker 1: A storm is coming, like a real storm is coming.
Speaker 1: And you guys, wherever you may be, you may well
Speaker 1: have one coming your way too, because this thing is
Speaker 1: just a freaking his weather is a monster right now.
Speaker 1: It's affecting so many different states, so many different parts
Speaker 1: of the country. Texas is affected, So wherever you may be,
Speaker 1: And I did forget the wheel, thank you for reminding me.
Speaker 1: We're going to spin the wheel as well, because I
Speaker 1: forgot to mention the likes. But I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: stay stafe wherever you may be. I always say that
Speaker 1: the end of every podcast I do on Sunday. You know,
Speaker 1: be well, stay safe, but definitely, wherever you are, don't
Speaker 1: go out if you don't have to. It's also fucking cold.
Speaker 1: There's some places where it's like twenty below, which is terrible.
Speaker 1: By the way, like here in New York, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get pounded by the snow and then the temperatures are
Speaker 1: in like the teens, so that's not gonna help matters.
Speaker 1: It'd be one thing if it was going to be
Speaker 1: like in the upper thirties forties, you know that shit
Speaker 1: starts to melt, But that's not going to happen here.
Speaker 1: So anyway, stay safe wherever you may be. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: let's bring up the wheel o fun. I almost forgot
Speaker 1: it because there was not a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: be had watching SmackDown tonight. But let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take the wheel for a spin and find out what
Speaker 1: the likeskull is it be the Booker tonight. We leave
Speaker 1: it up to the wheel. Whatever it says goes here.
Speaker 1: It is four hundred minimum, four hundred likes, and you
Speaker 1: guys will get your be the Booker later on here
Speaker 1: in the stream. Thank you for reminding me, by the way,
Speaker 1: So anyway, he was quickly interrupted samby Zane was by
Speaker 1: Trick Williams and william He said that he and Sammy
Speaker 1: were not on the same level. Now. He called Zaane
Speaker 1: mister too many chances, said that he knew how to
Speaker 1: get the job done, unlike Sammy. Reminding Sammy of his
Speaker 1: loss to Roman Reigns right here in Montreal for the
Speaker 1: WWE Championship of the Elimination Chamber three years ago. So
Speaker 1: Sammy acknowledged that Trick was right about his loss, and
Speaker 1: he admitted that Trick might be a future star. Might
Speaker 1: be Zayne said that he and Williams were nothing alike
Speaker 1: and that Williams would be lucky to be half as
Speaker 1: good as he was five years down the line, and
Speaker 1: if Trick didn't like that, he could do something about
Speaker 1: it right now. So Williams refused that challenge. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of things on his mind. He has the
Speaker 1: Damian Priest coming up, in fact, in the main event
Speaker 1: tonight on this show. He told Sammy that they could
Speaker 1: take care of business tomorrow night, and that brought out
Speaker 1: Damian Priest, who joined the other two in the ring,
Speaker 1: and Priest said that Williams was afraid of him because
Speaker 1: of the way that he didn't talk to his face
Speaker 1: last week, because of what he would do to him,
Speaker 1: and Priest said that if Williams didn't want to say something,
Speaker 1: he could always do something. So Trick responded by asking
Speaker 1: if Priest thought that he was afraid to pop off,
Speaker 1: and he told Priest watch this, and then he hit
Speaker 1: Sammy in the head with the microphone. He threw a
Speaker 1: punch of Priest, who blocked it and fired back in
Speaker 1: the corner. Sammy then approached and he went after Williams himself,
Speaker 1: much to Damien's dismay, and in all the chaos, Williams
Speaker 1: shoved Priest into Sammy and then got the hell out
Speaker 1: of Dodge. So Trick Williams continues to shine in these
Speaker 1: types of segments. They're sending him out there live in
Speaker 1: the ring with some big names, whether it be Randy Orton,
Speaker 1: whether it be Sammy's aying Damian Priest not as big
Speaker 1: as the other two, not as he doesn't have as
Speaker 1: much equity on the main roster yet as the other
Speaker 1: two do. But these are all the big names on
Speaker 1: SmackDown now. It's not like he's hanging out every week
Speaker 1: with Johnny Gargano and Ray Phoenix. I mean, they have
Speaker 1: him in there with the heavy hitter and he just fits,
Speaker 1: you know, he just feels like he belongs and that's
Speaker 1: a good thing, and they're trusting him to put him
Speaker 1: in a you know, in these types of situations. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's in what I figure will be the main event
Speaker 1: of the show. Tomorrow. He was in the main event
Speaker 1: of the show tonight against Damian Priest, so they're putting
Speaker 1: him in these situations. It's to test him, but also
Speaker 1: because they think, hey, we really got something here and
Speaker 1: let's see we need stars. They know we need heels.
Speaker 1: I just talked about this on the sounduff last week
Speaker 1: when I was talking about the roster. Right the way
Speaker 1: the roster looks on Smackden, what do you do at
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs who is officially signed now to WWE. Do
Speaker 1: you send him to NXT first? Because NXT just got
Speaker 1: rated right, they could use someone like him in NXT.
Speaker 1: He would do well in NXT, but fuck that, they
Speaker 1: need him on SmackDown. SmackDown needs heels because out side
Speaker 1: of Drew McIntyre and Trick Williams and maybe Alistair Black,
Speaker 1: they ain't got none. I'm sorry we have solo Socoa
Speaker 1: forgot about him. It's pretty dire on the heel side
Speaker 1: right now. So that's that's a move I would love
Speaker 1: to see. But Trick, they need Trick to step up
Speaker 1: because they need guys, and I think so far he's
Speaker 1: doing very well and he's going to eat the pin
Speaker 1: from Sammy's Ain tomorrow night, Randy Orton was shown watching
Speaker 1: what just transpired and he was interviewed by Kathy Kelly.
Speaker 1: So Orton said that this year was the Year of
Speaker 1: the Viper and he would win his fifteenth World championship
Speaker 1: tomorrow at Saturday Night's main event. He's going to beat
Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain, He's going to beat Damian Priest. He's gonna
Speaker 1: whoop that trick and then he's gonna fly halfway across
Speaker 1: the world to Saudi Arabia to fight Drew McIntyre for
Speaker 1: the title. And as he was cutting this probo, he
Speaker 1: was he was so intense and the delivery of this
Speaker 1: promo like his veins were bulging out of their neck,
Speaker 1: out of their neck, out of his neck, like he
Speaker 1: had two snakes on each side, but his veins were
Speaker 1: bulging out of his neck. It's all fired up. We
Speaker 1: got footage from earlier today. I sound like big show
Speaker 1: now in two thousand, after the Royal rumble. I've got footage.
Speaker 1: I've got footage. We got footage of Carmelo Hayes running
Speaker 1: into Ilia Dragonov backstage earlier in the day, and Dragonov
Speaker 1: was sporting a nasty shiner after his very brutal battle
Speaker 1: with Samu's ain say. He said, yeah, he was all
Speaker 1: beat up, and he kind of feigned that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to accept the invitation if he was extending
Speaker 1: the invitation to him for the open challenge tonight, But
Speaker 1: it was just a put on. He smiled, and he said,
Speaker 1: I'll see out there. So Dragonov left and the Mizz
Speaker 1: show up. So he was complaining about this generation of
Speaker 1: wrestlers being all soft and nice to each other. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to go out there and have a great
Speaker 1: match with you. I look forward to meeting you in
Speaker 1: the ring. And he said that the problem with this
Speaker 1: generation is that nobody hates each other anymore. And you
Speaker 1: know what I agree with that I agree with them
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent. That is one of the things
Speaker 1: that is missing from wrestling and missing from WWE these
Speaker 1: days as compared to certain other eras that we have had,
Speaker 1: where either a you have legitimately had top level guys
Speaker 1: that clearly do not like each other and sometimes that
Speaker 1: kind of spills over onto the screen, or at least
Speaker 1: they do such a good job of making you believe
Speaker 1: that they don't like each other. And there really is
Speaker 1: a lot of real like it comes across as like
Speaker 1: real hatred and friction between the top four or five
Speaker 1: guys on the show. We don't have that anymore, We
Speaker 1: really don't. We kind of had that with CM Punk
Speaker 1: and Drew McIntyre last year, but we really don't have
Speaker 1: enough of that anymore. And it really is more like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, let's go out there and steal the show
Speaker 1: and have a banger match when you know, give me both,
Speaker 1: give me banger matches and give me hatred. What's so
Speaker 1: wrong about giving both to the audience. Give me some
Speaker 1: banging hatred. So Miz asked, Hey, what dragonov Ever did
Speaker 1: for him? Hayes said the dragonov gave him more of
Speaker 1: an opportunity than Miz Ever did. Lucky Dog says, I
Speaker 1: refuse to agree with the Miz and anything I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's right on this. He's right on this.
Speaker 1: You know. The problem is, though, we live in an
Speaker 1: age where we have things like wwe unreal, So you're
Speaker 1: never going to be able to have that. It's just
Speaker 1: it's gone. It's gone. It's it's gone. Every now and
Speaker 1: then you'll get the odd feud that will come along,
Speaker 1: like a punkin MacIntyre. That does really make you believe.
Speaker 1: So it's not impossible to pull it off, but they
Speaker 1: just make it so. They just make it so much
Speaker 1: more difficult with each passing year. So he had Carmelo
Speaker 1: Hayes against Ilia Dragonoff for the United States Championship and
Speaker 1: the Open Challenge. Within the first I would say three
Speaker 1: minutes of this match, dragon Off was already bleeding. Looked
Speaker 1: like he was bleeding like above the eye over here somewhere,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I swear this man has thinner
Speaker 1: skin than Rick Fly, like literally thinner skin, because that's
Speaker 1: why Flair bleeds so easily. His skin on his forehead
Speaker 1: is so thin. He's got thinner skin than Flair does.
Speaker 1: Because every match, you could if there's one thing you
Speaker 1: could count on, and it's not quite the same as
Speaker 1: like John Moxley in aw where he's either on camera
Speaker 1: sometimes just slicing himself open, or he's throwing himself onto
Speaker 1: a board with barbed wire and broken glass, right, that's
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But in this case, like he
Speaker 1: just he lays his shit in. He expects his opponent
Speaker 1: to do the same. He's very intense and you can
Speaker 1: set your watch to it that pretty much nine times,
Speaker 1: if not ten times out of ten, in an Ilia
Speaker 1: Dragonov match, he will be bleeding. He will be bleeding
Speaker 1: from somewhere, usually his face somewhere, and this match was
Speaker 1: no different. So he got an early first forty eight
Speaker 1: attempt from Hayes. Mellow avoided a Constantine's Special before trying
Speaker 1: for the springboard clothesline, but that got dodged. Both men
Speaker 1: were on the apron. Dragonov battered him against the ring
Speaker 1: post and he went into the ring, and then he
Speaker 1: suplexed him back from the apron all the way into
Speaker 1: the ring. Later on, Dragonov blocked a suplex attempt and
Speaker 1: then hit Hayes in the back of the head with
Speaker 1: a hard actually multiple hard elbows. Hayes tried for an
Speaker 1: answer in response, but he got blasted by the Constantine Special.
Speaker 1: The champion somehow kicked out. Hayes was trapped in the
Speaker 1: corner and Dragonov was looking to go coast to coast. Hayes,
Speaker 1: though tried to block it with the first forty eight. Dragonov,
Speaker 1: though he was on top of that and he caught Hayes,
Speaker 1: muscled him up, power bombed him, and then they went
Speaker 1: to their second commercial break. Here in this match. So
Speaker 1: after the break, Dragonov hit a dead lift superplex. He
Speaker 1: covered Hayes only for two. Both men now ended up
Speaker 1: on the apron. Dragonov encouraged Hayes to hit him. He
Speaker 1: wanted him to hit him, and then you just hear
Speaker 1: Hayes go, what's wrong with you? Which is a valid question.
Speaker 1: So they trade strikes. Hayes turned to supplex into a
Speaker 1: cutter on the apron, and then both men tumbled to
Speaker 1: the floor. Back inside, Dragonov cut Hayes off on the ropes.
Speaker 1: He pulled him onto his shoulders before hitting a death
Speaker 1: valley driver right into the turnbuckles. Dragonov went up top
Speaker 1: when the Miz showed up, which I guess they sort
Speaker 1: of teased before this match that this might happen. So
Speaker 1: the Mis shows up at ringside. He shoves Dragonov off
Speaker 1: the ropes. While the referees attention he was occupied with
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes and neither of them were aware of what
Speaker 1: was going on here, and as he fell off the ropes,
Speaker 1: Dragonov got clotheslined over the top rope on his way down.
Speaker 1: Hayes then hit the first forty eight and he scored
Speaker 1: the pin while the Miz applauded from the floor. I
Speaker 1: do have to say that first forty eight cell by
Speaker 1: Dragonov was a fucking work of art, just an absolute
Speaker 1: I got to applaud, just an absolute work of art.
Speaker 1: This dude bounced up so high. He basically power bombed himself,
Speaker 1: is what he did. And I was so happy that
Speaker 1: that was the finish. And they didn't just have mellow
Speaker 1: then go up to do the nothing, but net like
Speaker 1: that right there, you don't need to do anything else.
Speaker 1: That's it. That should be the finish, and it was,
Speaker 1: and it was really the perfect way to end the match.
Speaker 1: Cheap interference from the Miz notwithstanding. But another great match
Speaker 1: here from these two. You know, they just they bring
Speaker 1: out the best in each other. Some guys they do that,
Speaker 1: you know. And you could just see them work every
Speaker 1: single night and they'll deliver each and every single time.
Speaker 1: These two have that kind of chemistry together. It was
Speaker 1: hard hitting, but every Ilia Dragonov match is hard hitting.
Speaker 1: That's why he fucking bleeds. But for the lame run
Speaker 1: in by the Miz, I gotta take a point off.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it now. Dragonov feels like he's kind
Speaker 1: of stuck now where he's not going to be wrestling for,
Speaker 1: you know, the World Heavyweight Championship anytime soon. He could
Speaker 1: have been in that mix had he qualified for the
Speaker 1: four way tomorrow, but he got beat by Sammy's Aine.
Speaker 1: So now we're heading into WrestleMania season and I certainly
Speaker 1: don't see a spot for him, you know, up in
Speaker 1: that play, which is fine that hopefully that will come
Speaker 1: later on, but then it's like, all right, well, then
Speaker 1: where does he end up? Because I don't think they're
Speaker 1: just going to put the US title back on him.
Speaker 1: But he's still kind of in that mix. But he
Speaker 1: can't just keep wrestling. He can't keep doing open challenges
Speaker 1: with him every few weeks, right, you got to move
Speaker 1: on to something else, whatever it is that they move
Speaker 1: on to with him. I hope that they have something
Speaker 1: good for him to do going into WrestleMania season. With
Speaker 1: any luck, maybe he'll end up with a spot on
Speaker 1: the card. I think it's it's probably now looking too
Speaker 1: good unless it's some sort of multiman match. They do
Speaker 1: some sort of multiman ladder match that I could see
Speaker 1: him being involved in. My fear is that they'll do
Speaker 1: the Andre Battle Royal the night before and he'll end
Speaker 1: up in that uh. But to me, he's too good
Speaker 1: not to be in the mix somewhere on that undercard
Speaker 1: heading into that show. So that's my hope for him.
Speaker 1: We got a recap of the Cody Rhodes promo last
Speaker 1: week with him declaring for the Royal Rumble and calling
Speaker 1: out Jacob Fotu, then fought two later in the show,
Speaker 1: calling out Cody, and then the big pull apart brawl
Speaker 1: between the two of them. So then after a commercial break,
Speaker 1: we pitched it to a sit down interview from earlier
Speaker 1: today with Michael Cole and Cody Rhodes that Cole says
Speaker 1: turned explosive. So let's find out. And here Cody is
Speaker 1: quite affable, as he usually is. To start things off,
Speaker 1: Cole asks him for his feelings on losing the WWE
Speaker 1: Championship and Cody would rather not talk about losing it.
Speaker 1: He did his best Tony conn impression he didn't want
Speaker 1: to answer the question here. He said, what he would
Speaker 1: rather do is talk about winning the Royal Rumble for
Speaker 1: a third time and you know, getting back to the
Speaker 1: WWEE Championship in the future. And to his credit, Michael
Speaker 1: Cole cut him off and said tomorrow Night. At Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event, wrestles the man who cost him the
Speaker 1: WWE title, Tell me your feelings on Jacob Fatu, And
Speaker 1: before Cody could answer, Jacob Fatu shows up, not alone
Speaker 1: because Nick Aldis is there, and there's a couple of
Speaker 1: security geeks as if they're gonna do anything, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to you know, uh uh don't, don't, let's not,
Speaker 1: let's not get physical here. But Fatuo shows up and
Speaker 1: he's got white pants on, he's wearing a white jacket,
Speaker 1: he's got a red bandana around his head. And Cody said, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. Let him sit. So Michael Cole disappeared.
Speaker 1: His job was done. Hell of a sit down interview here.
Speaker 1: Cole disappeared and in his seat was Jacob Fatu. So
Speaker 1: now they're directly across from each other here, and fa
Speaker 1: Tuo laid it out for him. He said his concern
Speaker 1: was Drew mackintt when he came back, his concern was
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre because McIntyre is the one who kicked his
Speaker 1: teeth down his throat. He was locked in on Drew,
Speaker 1: only he doesn't give a damn how Cody feels about it,
Speaker 1: but he had to put his hands on Fatu and
Speaker 1: it got him thinking. Cody said, oh, you were thinking,
Speaker 1: it looked like you were acting in three stages of hell,
Speaker 1: you were doing a little more than just thinking. He's
Speaker 1: going to tell Fa Tou, though, what nobody else in
Speaker 1: this room here has the balls to tell him him
Speaker 1: acting is what got him locked up in the first place.
Speaker 1: Him acting is what got him put in prison in
Speaker 1: the first place. And fat Tu got a little animated.
Speaker 1: He goes, you want to go there? He goes, it
Speaker 1: ain't nothing new that nobody doesn't already know about him.
Speaker 1: Sixteen lockdown, eighteen lockdown, seven kids, no job, one mattress.
Speaker 1: A month before he got here, he didn't even know
Speaker 1: if he had a damn job here. Hell, he almost
Speaker 1: got fired before he even got hired. But now he's
Speaker 1: not plaining about none of that. Those choices made him
Speaker 1: a better man. They got him standing right here in
Speaker 1: front of Cody. So Cody said that that's the problem.
Speaker 1: I'm not the WWE champion, and that's your fault. Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's made event. It should be for the WWE Championship,
Speaker 1: You and me and Fa Tou cut him off, and
Speaker 1: he said, a title match, he goes hell Na from
Speaker 1: where he sits. Drew was already out before he stepped
Speaker 1: in front of him in that cage match. Cody said,
Speaker 1: it's crazy that Fatu thinks he's got it all figured
Speaker 1: out because he's never been in a title match, and
Speaker 1: things got very tense at that point. They were already tense,
Speaker 1: they got even more tense. Fa Tu said, that's what
Speaker 1: you think this is. He thinks Fa Tou is like
Speaker 1: every other samoan he's gone up against. They don't make
Speaker 1: him like him anymore. They never made him like him.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks that he's unhinged. Everyone no one thinks he's
Speaker 1: out of control. Nah bro, trust me, I'm very in control.
Speaker 1: So think about that. And off he went. And when
Speaker 1: they came back to the announcers and Michael Cole at ringside,
Speaker 1: he pointed out that Nick All just made sure that
Speaker 1: Cody and Fatu both left the building after that so
Speaker 1: as not to get into any kind of trouble and
Speaker 1: not to jeopardize the match tomorrow night, So we didn't
Speaker 1: see them. Actually that's not true. We saw Cody later.
Speaker 1: It's actually that's that's actually not true because Cody. Cody
Speaker 1: was still there. Interesting but anyway, Cody was kind of
Speaker 1: a dick here in this segment by going you know,
Speaker 1: going there and bringing up, you know, Jacob's past and
Speaker 1: kind of throwing it into his face like that. But
Speaker 1: this was the best promo that Jacob Fat has had
Speaker 1: the chance to cut since he came to WWE, you know,
Speaker 1: where he's just face to face with somebody in what
Speaker 1: feels like this real life situation. He's not just out
Speaker 1: in the ring talking to the camera. He's not just
Speaker 1: you know, doing what he used to do when he
Speaker 1: was still you know, with solo in his crew. He
Speaker 1: would cut these little promos sometimes, you know, as they
Speaker 1: were coming out to the ring. This was the first,
Speaker 1: I feel like this was the first time he really
Speaker 1: even addressed his past, you know, in any sort of
Speaker 1: meaningful way on the actual television show. But again, there's
Speaker 1: just there's an authenticity to him that you can't fake it,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't manufacture it. Kevin Owens is another one.
Speaker 1: I think I've said that before about Kevin Owens, and
Speaker 1: one of the things that makes him work so well
Speaker 1: as a promo guy is that when he's out there
Speaker 1: and again he could do comedy, he could be more serious,
Speaker 1: he could be a baby face, he could be a heel.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens is Kevin Owens, you know, and there's just
Speaker 1: it's unmistakable, like a Kevin Owens promo, and just the
Speaker 1: way he speaks and the way he tries to bring
Speaker 1: logic to certain things, Like there's just like an authenticity
Speaker 1: to him. And there's a hand of people like that.
Speaker 1: And I put Fat two in that category. And hopefully
Speaker 1: we get to hear him speak even more as he
Speaker 1: kind of levels up here on this show, because he's
Speaker 1: another one where in this new three hour era of
Speaker 1: SmackDown that we have and as we approach WrestleMania and beyond,
Speaker 1: he needs to be in that top mix. There's no
Speaker 1: place for him, you know, back in the US titles seat,
Speaker 1: Like he's beyond that. It's not about it's not even
Speaker 1: about titles right now for him. But he should be
Speaker 1: in the mix with people that are competing for the
Speaker 1: WWE Championships. So it's good to see him with Cody
Speaker 1: and with Drew and people like that because that's where
Speaker 1: he belongs and that's where they have to hope they
Speaker 1: can elevate him enough where he takes as a main
Speaker 1: eventor and he becomes, you know, one of those top
Speaker 1: guys that can stick it eventually can be the champion,
Speaker 1: you know, on the brand, and he is very popular.
Speaker 1: And if you've ever seen you know, Jacob Fott two
Speaker 1: in the ring, whether it's MLW, whether it's on the
Speaker 1: Independent seeing, you know, even in WWE. But I still
Speaker 1: feel like in WWE, we still haven't seen like the
Speaker 1: real Jacob Fatu. He hasn't really had the chance yet,
Speaker 1: and maybe he will tomorrow with Cody to truly show
Speaker 1: what he can do, you know, one on one in
Speaker 1: like a meaningful match. So I'm glad that you know,
Speaker 1: he's finally in that in that position. But also he
Speaker 1: confirmed here that the reason and we all kind of
Speaker 1: figured this, but he confirmed here that the reason that
Speaker 1: he went after Drew was because he believes that Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre was the one who kicked his teeth down his
Speaker 1: throat and injured him a couple months ago, and that's
Speaker 1: why he went after Drew. Because I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: they were going to just drop that whole thing. I
Speaker 1: was hoping that they would kind of circle back around
Speaker 1: to it, and so they did here, but Drew still
Speaker 1: denies it. In fact, Drew denied it again later in
Speaker 1: the show when he came out for his promo. He's like, look,
Speaker 1: I know I'm skipping ahead to the Drew promo, but
Speaker 1: it was like, I didn't kick your teeth down your throat.
Speaker 1: If I did it, I would be out here gloating
Speaker 1: about it. Drew McIntyre. The one thing Drew McIntyre doesn't do,
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre doesn't lie. So now the question is what
Speaker 1: does that mean as far as who attacked Jacob FA
Speaker 1: two Because Drew McIntyre was always the obvious choice, right,
Speaker 1: it would be too obvious to the point where it
Speaker 1: would be massively disappointing if it ended up being oh well,
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre was the one who attacked him. I look
Speaker 1: ahead to tomorrow, you know, it's Saturday Night's main event,
Speaker 1: and when I did my predictions, I said, I have
Speaker 1: no winner for this match. I don't think we're getting
Speaker 1: a clean cut winner. I think we're going to get
Speaker 1: some sort of no contest. If somebody's going to get involved,
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to beat Cody Rhodes, especially
Speaker 1: back to back. He just lost three stages of hell,
Speaker 1: and I think beating Jacob fat two would be the
Speaker 1: wrong move. Wouldn't be a killer, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: being Jacob fought too, because this is going to be
Speaker 1: his first match back tomorrow. We haven't seen him wrestle
Speaker 1: in months, so the question is like, how do they
Speaker 1: do the finish and you know, does somebody get involved
Speaker 1: in so who would that person be. What's the crowd
Speaker 1: reaction going to be? That's the other question because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's going to be very mixed for Cody
Speaker 1: in Montreal, and it may be somewhat mixed for Jacob,
Speaker 1: But I'm guessing Jacob is going to get the lion's
Speaker 1: share of the cheers even more than Cody. And Jacob
Speaker 1: right now is kind of in that tweener role. I
Speaker 1: can't really call him a heel, but I can't really
Speaker 1: call him a babyface. He's kind of in the middle.
Speaker 1: But if I had to venture a guess, I would
Speaker 1: say he's probably going to get a more positive reception
Speaker 1: tomorrow than Cody will now. In the back, Chelsea Green
Speaker 1: was walking along with Alba Fire and they find Jordan
Speaker 1: Grace and Chelsea tries to butter her up and offers
Speaker 1: her a spot in her secret hervis next week at
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, maybe even tonight when Chelsea has to
Speaker 1: face Jade Cargill and Jordan says she'll be there. Then, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love this. We got a video package for
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns. Haven't seen Roman Reigns since War Games, so
Speaker 1: we got a video package, and the video package led
Speaker 1: to a graphic, and in the graphic we found out
Speaker 1: that breaking news, Roman Reigns has officially declared for the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. Could not even be bothered to record a video,
Speaker 1: even just something he would have posted on social media
Speaker 1: that they could have run here on the show, him
Speaker 1: on his you know, freaking staremaster or something. Nothing, We
Speaker 1: get a graphic. We get a graphic telling us take
Speaker 1: our word for it. Roman Reigns has declared for the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. Oh man, yeah, I've lost track of how
Speaker 1: many Roman Reigns returns we have had. He has to
Speaker 1: be approaching Undertaker territory at this point, because over the
Speaker 1: years Undertaker had many, many, many returns. Right, He would
Speaker 1: disappear for months on end, and then he would return
Speaker 1: and it would be like, oh, the Undertaker's back, right.
Speaker 1: They did that twenty times over the years, and we're
Speaker 1: getting close. Roman Reigns gets a return. Every few months,
Speaker 1: he's back, Oh okay, then he'll disappear again. Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: is back. Okay. We go through this multiple times a year,
Speaker 1: so now we know when officially when he'll be making
Speaker 1: his return, and of course he's automatically the favorite to
Speaker 1: win the Royal Rembel. We had Chelsea Green against the
Speaker 1: WWE Women's Champion, Jade Cargill. This was a non title match,
Speaker 1: as all of Jade's matches are. In fact, she has
Speaker 1: been champions since November one and has had exactly zero
Speaker 1: defenses of the WWE Women's Championship. The title has been
Speaker 1: on ice ever since she won that, which, funny enough,
Speaker 1: was on Saturday Night's made event, not the last one,
Speaker 1: but the one before that. So as Jade walked to
Speaker 1: the ring, she spotted Jordan Grace because Jordan Grace had
Speaker 1: come down to the ring with Chelsea Green in albu Fire,
Speaker 1: so she noticed Jordan was standing at ringside, and as
Speaker 1: she's looking at Jordan and jawing at her, Chelsea comes
Speaker 1: diving through the ropes and she tackles Jade to the ground.
Speaker 1: I should point out that they were in Canada, so
Speaker 1: of course, you know Chelsea Green being Canadian, she had
Speaker 1: her her fans were very happy to see her. So
Speaker 1: then it was Jade's turn to go on offense. Got
Speaker 1: a couple of fallaway slams and kip ups. On that
Speaker 1: last one, Chelsea rolled out of the ring, so Jade
Speaker 1: went to go get her and put her back inside.
Speaker 1: As she was getting back into the ring, though, she
Speaker 1: was preoccupied looking at Jordan Grace, who was standing right
Speaker 1: in front of the announcers, and sure enough, when she
Speaker 1: turned around, Chelsea caught her with a missile dropkick. Chelsea
Speaker 1: tried for the unpretty her that got reversed. She went
Speaker 1: for a rope assisted pin. Jade still kicked out, so
Speaker 1: Jade recovered. She dropped Chelsea with a power bomb, and
Speaker 1: after she warded off alba fire from the apron, Jade
Speaker 1: told Grace watch this and she finished off Chelsea with
Speaker 1: the Jaded. Now, after the match, Jordan Grace got on
Speaker 1: the microphone and she said that Jade's match had no point.
Speaker 1: Ye had no shit other than showing her strength in
Speaker 1: a non title match. So then Jordan Grace declared for
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble and said she was going to win
Speaker 1: the Women's Royal Rumble. She'll be in there and that
Speaker 1: she would see Jade on the other side. Unless you know,
Speaker 1: you just had your little warm up match. We could
Speaker 1: do this right here, right now, and Jade back down,
Speaker 1: of course, back down from that challenge. This was strictly
Speaker 1: a way just to put more heat on the Jade
Speaker 1: and Jordan's stuff. They've been teasing now for several weeks.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they were going to add that as
Speaker 1: a match to Saturday Night's Made Event tomorrow. I'm actually
Speaker 1: happier with the match they ended up adding. So they
Speaker 1: did add a match, it just wasn't this one. But
Speaker 1: I did want to mention one thing here, and I've
Speaker 1: gotten some comments and I think maybe even a couple
Speaker 1: of super chats from people asking me if I've watched
Speaker 1: WWE Unreal yet, and I have most of it. I'm
Speaker 1: not done with it yet, in the middle of the
Speaker 1: final episode, so I don't know if I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about it on Sunday. I might, if not, at
Speaker 1: some point I will. I'm not going to review each episode,
Speaker 1: but I'll give sort of my thoughts in an overview
Speaker 1: and there's certain things that you know, I'll chime in
Speaker 1: on one of the things that actually really annoyed me.
Speaker 1: I think it was episode three. There were comments that
Speaker 1: Michael Hayes made about Chelsea Green that really bug the
Speaker 1: shit out of me. And I kind of understood what
Speaker 1: he was saying, but the way he said it, it
Speaker 1: just it felt wrong to me. He was talking about
Speaker 1: how great Chelsea is in the role that she's in,
Speaker 1: you know, and she can play whatever part you need
Speaker 1: her to play, and basically she's a great utility player.
Speaker 1: But the way he described Chelsea Green is that Chelsea
Speaker 1: is the person that they use to help make other
Speaker 1: people look good and to help elevate other people because
Speaker 1: the position that they want those other people to get
Speaker 1: to is not the position that Chelsea Green is in
Speaker 1: or should be in. She's the woman who is there
Speaker 1: to help other people ascend to that spot. I just
Speaker 1: thought to myself, what a shitty thing to say, So, like, sure,
Speaker 1: right now, that is the position that she's in, is
Speaker 1: to help make other people look good, right, and Chelsea
Speaker 1: plays this very comedic character, so you know, he's not
Speaker 1: wrong in that regard. Like that is her role on
Speaker 1: the show right now. But the idea that Chelsea Green
Speaker 1: cannot at any point be that person who is challenging
Speaker 1: for the world championship, or at some point they can't
Speaker 1: push her in a more serious way where she's the
Speaker 1: one working with a Charlotte Flair or she's the one
Speaker 1: working with a Bianca bell Air. She absolutely could, and
Speaker 1: I think at some point she should get a run
Speaker 1: at it. She doesn't have to spend the rest of
Speaker 1: her career as the woman who makes other people. She
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be relegated to the Dolf Ziggler role
Speaker 1: for the rest of her career because that's what people
Speaker 1: like Michael Hayes think. Her value sort of ends there.
Speaker 1: She's got a and she's hit that ceiling and this
Speaker 1: is what we you know, this is what what her
Speaker 1: role is going to be. Yeah, for now. But the
Speaker 1: idea that you know, they won't they won't or they
Speaker 1: can't you know, use her in a role higher up
Speaker 1: on the cart is fucking nonsense. Because Chelsea's great. Chelsea's
Speaker 1: great at what she does. That roster is a lot
Speaker 1: better off having her on it, both not just in
Speaker 1: terms of what she brings on on screen but behind
Speaker 1: the scenes as well, you know, And and it was the
Speaker 1: same thing with her. I feel like last season too,
Speaker 1: where you see her on that unreal show and she's
Speaker 1: very likable, but you also see the value that she brings.
Speaker 1: Evidently there may be certain people who don't see the
Speaker 1: full value that she brings. But just the way he
Speaker 1: said it just annoyed me, and I disagree with it wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair they were talking backstage. Flair
Speaker 1: said that Bliss seemed a little distracted, and Bliss said
Speaker 1: that she thought they worked it out last week. She
Speaker 1: said that we can focus on other titles and the
Speaker 1: tag team. She brought up the Royal Rumble and said
Speaker 1: that it would be hard to top last year's Rumble, right,
Speaker 1: which Charlotte won and Alexa made her big return on
Speaker 1: that show. Charlotte pointed out, yeah, I know, because I won,
Speaker 1: but oh yeah, you made a big return too. So
Speaker 1: Flare said that they should worry about WrestleMania, or they
Speaker 1: would worry about WrestleMania next week. Tonight, though it's all
Speaker 1: about their team because they were in a Number one
Speaker 1: Contenders match. But before that, we had other tag team
Speaker 1: titles to worry about, and that is what came next.
Speaker 1: This was the worst thing on the entire show. It
Speaker 1: was Dexter Loomis and Joe Gacy representing the Wyatt Six
Speaker 1: defending their WWE tag team titles against Solo Sucoa and
Speaker 1: Toma Tonga representing the MFTs. Reclusa is better than most
Speaker 1: to the roster. I tell you what, I was stunned
Speaker 1: watching Unreal and they actually have Chelsea talking about the
Speaker 1: match that she had with Penta and then showing footage.
Speaker 1: They had the footage from Luke Cha Underground I'm here
Speaker 1: and Matt Striker on commentary. They're showing Chelsea Green against Penta.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god. I didn't expect to tune
Speaker 1: in too Unreal and find this. That was a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 1: But yes, we had the Wyatt Six against the MFTs.
Speaker 1: Solo Socoa came to the ring holding the lantern that
Speaker 1: he stole from Uncle Howdie and before the match he
Speaker 1: sent Talatanga to the back with the lantern. I guess
Speaker 1: to protect the lantern. This match was very boring. This
Speaker 1: was a very boring match. Tongo Loo had tried to
Speaker 1: get involved. Eric Rowan took him out him and jac
Speaker 1: Matteo actually with a running crossbody block on the floor outside.
Speaker 1: Talatanga returned from the back with the lantern and Rowan
Speaker 1: went after him, just as J. C. Matteo provided a
Speaker 1: distraction that allowed Talatanga to wipe out Rowan with a
Speaker 1: big boot and then he threw him over the barricade.
Speaker 1: So Uncle Howdy is a ringside he locks the mandible
Speaker 1: claw on Talatonga to next to no reaction. By the way,
Speaker 1: this got virtually no reaction. Solo Seca comes over. He
Speaker 1: gives Uncle Howdy a simo and Spike down goes Uncle
Speaker 1: Howdy and with the referees back turned, Solo so CooA
Speaker 1: blast Dexter loomis in the head with the lantern and
Speaker 1: that allowed Tomatonga to hit his hidden blah, I mean
Speaker 1: the Cutthroat to win the match and to win the
Speaker 1: tag team titles for the MFTs. Big surprise there. This sucked.
Speaker 1: This sucked, and it's not working. You know, this entire
Speaker 1: feud just drags the entire show down. You know, whatever
Speaker 1: they're doing when they're on screen together, I think I
Speaker 1: feel like it's actively driving people away. That's the feeling
Speaker 1: that I get, you know, when I watch it, because
Speaker 1: and it actually pisses me off because I look at
Speaker 1: this I look at this match for really any of
Speaker 1: these segments, but this match in particular, which was stone
Speaker 1: cold all right, And I'm not talking about Steve Austin
Speaker 1: watching this match, and it just makes me think, man,
Speaker 1: like a year ago, think about the state of the
Speaker 1: SmackDown Tag Team Division a year ago, all the teams
Speaker 1: that were going after those tag team titles and some
Speaker 1: of the matches that we were seeing every week. And
Speaker 1: of course it built to that TLC match on that
Speaker 1: SmackDown after WrestleMania and we had another TLC match. It's
Speaker 1: summerslim as well. So for a good portion, I would
Speaker 1: say a good I don't know, sixty five seventy percent
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, the SmackDown Tag Team Division was
Speaker 1: cooking with oil. You know. They were just on fire.
Speaker 1: They were one of the highlights, true highlights of the show.
Speaker 1: And here we are now a year later, and so
Speaker 1: where is everybody? Right? I know, DIY is done, I
Speaker 1: know pretty deadly is done, but like, where'd everybody else go?
Speaker 1: Where are the street profits? Where are the Motor City
Speaker 1: machine gun? Where are the other? Like? Where how did
Speaker 1: we get to this point where the tag team division
Speaker 1: went from being the best thing on the show at
Speaker 1: one time to the worst thing on the show. How
Speaker 1: did that happen? Because the fall has been something else.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, these tag team titles have never
Speaker 1: felt as just useless and cold and dead as they
Speaker 1: feel right now. The women's tag team titles feel more
Speaker 1: important than the WWE tag team titles. Fuck did that happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's where we are now. But
Speaker 1: these two groups working together, it's just it's poison, absolute poison.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta get them away from each other.
Speaker 1: This is not working. And this whole thing over a
Speaker 1: fucking lantern that this this is not working. Backstage, our
Speaker 1: Truth wanted Nick Alldis to take his balls, remember the
Speaker 1: tumblers from a couple months ago with the John Cena stuff.
Speaker 1: He had the balls because he wanted to declare for
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. Yeah. So then aj Styles showed up
Speaker 1: because Nick Aldis had invited aj Styles, who is a
Speaker 1: member of the Monday Night Raw roster, to show up
Speaker 1: here on SmackDown for reasons that were unexplained. Why does
Speaker 1: he want him on this show? Now you figure it's
Speaker 1: tied into the announcement that Aj made on Monday, which
Speaker 1: is that he is going to put his career on
Speaker 1: the line at the Royal Rumble against Gunther. So Nick
Speaker 1: all This, who funny enough as Magnus, beat Aj in
Speaker 1: the last TNA match back in twenty thirteen that Aj
Speaker 1: ever had. It was Nick all This who beat him.
Speaker 1: Of course they made no mention of that here, not
Speaker 1: that they would. But there's Aj Styles and all This
Speaker 1: said that he saw Ron Monday and he couldn't believe
Speaker 1: that Aj would do that, and he goes, are you sure?
Speaker 1: Are you sure you want to do that? And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, this is what he had Styles fly
Speaker 1: all the way to Montreal for. There better be more
Speaker 1: to it than this. This is what he had this
Speaker 1: man fly all the way to Canada for. Does he
Speaker 1: not have his phone number? This could have been a
Speaker 1: phone call, This could have been a text message. Aj
Speaker 1: Styles went from Germany, right he was in Dusseldorf to
Speaker 1: Texas for the TNA show, the Big AMC Debut, and
Speaker 1: then from there he went to Belfast and now to Montreal.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, there has to be more to it
Speaker 1: than this. I'd be pissed if I was Aj Styles.
Speaker 1: Styles said, yeah, I'm sure says that. Gunther says he
Speaker 1: retired John Cena. Fine, that's that's business. It's the disrespect
Speaker 1: that he showed after the fact that pissed him off.
Speaker 1: So if he thinks that he's gonna let Gunther dictate
Speaker 1: the end of his career, he's mistake. He's already dictated
Speaker 1: the end of his career. Is he talking about Gunther
Speaker 1: dictated the terms that Aj agreed to. This was Gunther's idea,
Speaker 1: he agreed to it. He's already agreed to the terms.
Speaker 1: But he is sured that is not the reason. He
Speaker 1: says that all this invited him all the way here tonight.
Speaker 1: I was sure, fucking hope not all this said. Look,
Speaker 1: I respect your position, and no, that's not the only
Speaker 1: reason I invited you here to Montreal. And he stepped
Speaker 1: aside and into the camera view walked Shinsky, Knockamore, old
Speaker 1: rival of his. He asked, AJ, you're smart, You're calculated,
Speaker 1: So tell me why are you willing to lose everything?
Speaker 1: And AJ said that if he doesn't step up to
Speaker 1: Gunther now he's already lost, So Knakamura told him before
Speaker 1: AJ steps into the ring with Gunther, prove that you
Speaker 1: are still phenomenal Tomorrow Night, Saturday Night's main event, Knakamura
Speaker 1: versus AJ Styles. AJ turns to Nick all this and
Speaker 1: he says, you still got room on the card. All
Speaker 1: this says, yep, and so it's official. We will get
Speaker 1: one more match before it's all said and done between
Speaker 1: AJ Styles and Shinsky Nakamura. And look, it's not like
Speaker 1: they've really been doing a whole hell of a lot
Speaker 1: lately with Knakamura other than not letting him go to
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Dome to honor the retirement of Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Speaker 1: The only thing he's been doing lately is really kind
Speaker 1: of cutting promos back and forth in the back with Tomatonga.
Speaker 1: So I assume we'll get that match soon. That's about it.
Speaker 1: And Nakamora really hasn't done anything of any note at
Speaker 1: all in years. He really hasn't. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: the US title stuff with La Night, but give me
Speaker 1: a break. The matches that he had with AJ Styles,
Speaker 1: they actually got progressively better. If you think back to
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, they had that match of WrestleMania thirty four.
Speaker 1: It was disappointing, right, I wouldn't call it a bad match,
Speaker 1: it was just it was disappointing. And the expectations were
Speaker 1: very high based on their previous match together outside the company.
Speaker 1: As I recall, they had I think two more I
Speaker 1: want to sit maybe three, but two more pay per
Speaker 1: view matches PL matches, and I think the last one
Speaker 1: they had in that series was actually the best of
Speaker 1: the bunch. I felt like it got progressively better, but
Speaker 1: they never really had the chance to go out there
Speaker 1: and have that real classic match. And I see what
Speaker 1: Styles was able to go out there and do with
Speaker 1: John Cena at Crown Jewel a few months ago, and
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting that, but I'm really hoping that, you know,
Speaker 1: if they get a little bit of time, and these
Speaker 1: matches on Saturday Night's main event, they don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of time, Like, I'm not expecting these two to
Speaker 1: get more than probably what Aj got in the tag
Speaker 1: match on the last show where it was him and
Speaker 1: Dragon Lee against Leon Slater and Javon Evans ten or
Speaker 1: twelve minutes. Maybe he'll get. But for the time they
Speaker 1: get tomorrow, I hope that they can go out there
Speaker 1: and actually have a kick ass match, because this may
Speaker 1: well be in This may be the last time we
Speaker 1: ever see these two in the ring together, you know,
Speaker 1: unless they're both in the Royal Rumble, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. It's been a while since we've seen
Speaker 1: styles in Knockamor, so I'm looking forward to it. We
Speaker 1: had Johnny Gargano against Nathan Fraser. Johnny Gargano Candae Loray
Speaker 1: in his corner, Nathan Fraser had Axiom in his corner.
Speaker 1: This went through a commercial break, so they got some time.
Speaker 1: Fraser began to build some momentum with a springboard axe
Speaker 1: handle and then a running sling blade off the top rope.
Speaker 1: Fraser came down on Gargana with a frog splash, only
Speaker 1: for two. As Gargano rolled out of the ring, Fraser
Speaker 1: launched himself over the top rope with a dive and
Speaker 1: then he scurried up top and he tried for a
Speaker 1: phoenix splash. Gargano, though, moved out of the way and
Speaker 1: then he blocked a springboard moonsaal with a kick as
Speaker 1: he hit a modified fishermange driver to Fraser, only for
Speaker 1: a near fall. So Gargano headed up top. He gave
Speaker 1: Fraser enough time though to hit a superplex followed by
Speaker 1: a swinging neck breaker, and as Fraser headed up top,
Speaker 1: Candace Loray gets up on the apron and she provided
Speaker 1: enough of a distraction for him to miss the splash. Now,
Speaker 1: outside the ring, Axiom finds the mask, his mask that
Speaker 1: they stole from him weeks ago. He's been trying to
Speaker 1: get this mask back, and he sees the mask and
Speaker 1: he goes over and he grabs it, and then he
Speaker 1: places the stolen mask on Candace's head backwards so she
Speaker 1: can't see. Now she's got the mask gun, and so
Speaker 1: this causes her to blindly attack Gargano rather than Fraser.
Speaker 1: So there was a roll up and that was the
Speaker 1: end of that, and Fraser picks up the win. After
Speaker 1: the match, Candace got the stolen mask back and ran off.
Speaker 1: This is almost as bad as the lantern stuff. They look.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened here, I'm gonna tell you right now
Speaker 1: what happens pretty obvious what happened. What happened is they
Speaker 1: were angling for a diy phraxium feud. Tamaso Champa told
Speaker 1: them I'm not renewing, I'm leaving when my contract is up,
Speaker 1: which is imminently, and so that put the kibosh on that,
Speaker 1: and then they were left to figure out, oh shit,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do here because we have Nathan
Speaker 1: Fraser and Axiom and now we only have Johnny Gargano.
Speaker 1: So they came up with his dumb story with the mask.
Speaker 1: We got a match at look, the match itself was
Speaker 1: solid enough. It was a solid match, but that's that's
Speaker 1: what this was born out of, you know, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure I don't even know if they're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what the plan be is. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna pair Gargano off with somebody else,
Speaker 1: sticking with Kit Wilson. I don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: But clearly we were gonna get DIY and phraxium and
Speaker 1: then Champa not renewing kind of threw things into a
Speaker 1: state of flux, and you know, it put Gargano in
Speaker 1: a tough spot now where at least he's being featured.
Speaker 1: But obviously, you know, whatever plans they had, they got
Speaker 1: to blow up those plans and try to come up
Speaker 1: with something different. We had the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: He was out to the ring next to address the crowd.
Speaker 1: He started off by saying bonjour boneur to the Montreal crowd,
Speaker 1: and that pretty much exhausted all of his French for
Speaker 1: the and mine. He talked about how it's been a
Speaker 1: tough time for Montreal since it's been thirty years since
Speaker 1: the Canadians have won the Stanley Cup, but now they
Speaker 1: had a champion that they could be proud of. McIntyre
Speaker 1: said he saw Cody Rhodes and Jacob Foughtu's little therapy
Speaker 1: session as he again insisted he did not kick Fat
Speaker 1: two's teeth down his throat. I didn't do it. If
Speaker 1: I did it, I would be out here gloating about it,
Speaker 1: and you would know about it. He goes, Drew McIntyre
Speaker 1: never lies to you. He said that if Cody survived
Speaker 1: Fat two tomorrow, he would still have to go to
Speaker 1: the back of the line because there's no rematch for
Speaker 1: the title, which we already knew, right, He's already said
Speaker 1: this before. So then he teed up all four men
Speaker 1: in the fatal four way tomorrow. Randy Orton got the
Speaker 1: biggest reaction out of anybody whose name he mentioned. Here,
Speaker 1: and he was about to mention Sammy z Ain's name
Speaker 1: and the crowd. I wouldn't even let him do it
Speaker 1: because the crowd started an RKO chant, so they start
Speaker 1: channing RKO. Then he talked about Sammy Zay, who actually
Speaker 1: got He got a pop, but he got a lesser
Speaker 1: pop than even Randy Orton did here, at least initially.
Speaker 1: Drew said he knows that Sammy can hear the fans
Speaker 1: sing for him. He was trying to prompt them to sing,
Speaker 1: and then they did the Olola stuff, but he was
Speaker 1: trying to egg them on. Drew says that Sammy's focus
Speaker 1: on disappointing his son will cost him, and his son
Speaker 1: has been disappointed in Sammy his entire life. He doesn't
Speaker 1: care who faces him at the Royal Rumble. He'll do
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to keep the title. Well, that was
Speaker 1: certainly one way to eat up some time here on
Speaker 1: this three hour show. As I said at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the review, that's what this promo was. When it
Speaker 1: was over, I'm like, that's the only reason this promo
Speaker 1: even existed. Let's just get the champion on the show,
Speaker 1: but not really have him say much of anything. So
Speaker 1: mission accomplished. They killed some time here in this that
Speaker 1: very generic stuff here from MacIntyre, But again he mentions,
Speaker 1: he goes out of his way to mention the fact.
Speaker 1: So again, saying it didn't serve any purpose is not
Speaker 1: entirely accurate. I'm saying the substance of the promo by
Speaker 1: and large very generic. But what it did do? Was it?
Speaker 1: Yet again reinforce the idea that McIntyre did not do
Speaker 1: what Jacob fought two thinks he did. Now McIntyre's a heel,
Speaker 1: but he didn't do it. It's clear as day now
Speaker 1: like there's gonna be somebody else that's going to be revealed.
Speaker 1: They have to do a reveal, Right, why keep bringing
Speaker 1: this up If there's not going to be some kind
Speaker 1: of shocking reveal. There has to be a reveal, and
Speaker 1: it has to be one that's going to knock people
Speaker 1: back on their heels. So the question now becomes, you know,
Speaker 1: who is it who attacked him? Was it Cody? Was
Speaker 1: it Randy Orton? Or does the real culprit if it's
Speaker 1: not either one of them interfere in the Cody and
Speaker 1: Fatu match tomorrow Because I am convinced we're not getting
Speaker 1: a legitimate winner in that match, So there's any number
Speaker 1: of ways you can do that finish. One of the
Speaker 1: ways you could do that finish is if somebody runs
Speaker 1: in and gets involved and causes a no contest and
Speaker 1: that person ends up being the person who attacked Jacob Fatu.
Speaker 1: Then coming out of this, if we assume Fatu is
Speaker 1: not wrestling for the title of WrestleMania, Fatu could go
Speaker 1: off coming out of the show tomorrow to feud with
Speaker 1: the actual person who attacked him. So the only question
Speaker 1: is who would that be? And if we're not talking
Speaker 1: Cody Roads or Randy Orton, and I don't believe they're
Speaker 1: turning Cody Roads heel, then who would it be? Is
Speaker 1: it someone that we're not thinking of? Is it someone
Speaker 1: maybe that you know? Again, we Obafemi is going to
Speaker 1: It's not Obafemi, but Obafemi is reportedly going to raw anyway.
Speaker 1: Could it be someone new though, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but we're gonna have to get someone that
Speaker 1: is going to be out of left field because at
Speaker 1: this point anything else would be disappointing. Now, in the
Speaker 1: back Trick, Williams was talking with Ray Phoenix, who says
Speaker 1: that he remembers how Trick won their recent match. Trick
Speaker 1: says that he plans on becoming WWE champion and then
Speaker 1: Phoenix get a title shutting, Yeah, right, have any appearances
Speaker 1: has Ray Phoenix made on television in the last six months?
Speaker 1: He's going to be getting a WWE championship match. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm all for giving Phoenix something to do, but let's
Speaker 1: not get carried away here. We'll see where this goes.
Speaker 1: Acetaliano's as Randy Orgon. Look, if it's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those too, it's not going to be Cody,
Speaker 1: It's going to be Randy Orton. I think there's there's
Speaker 1: still a better chance it's Orton that goes heal and
Speaker 1: not Cody. Owens is from Montreal. I look, things have
Speaker 1: gone radio silent on the KO front, but unless they
Speaker 1: were working us on the severity of the neck injury,
Speaker 1: he only had surgery in July. Next surgery because remember
Speaker 1: he didn't have the surgery right away. There was swelling
Speaker 1: that had to go down, and supposedly he didn't have
Speaker 1: the surgery until the middle of the summer. That would
Speaker 1: be awfully quick for him to make a return. So
Speaker 1: I do not believe it is Kevin. I would get
Speaker 1: a huge reaction if it was. But and that's a
Speaker 1: match i'd love to see. But no, I don't believe
Speaker 1: it's Kevin Owens. What about Brock? That's interesting. I'm more
Speaker 1: intrigued that the idea that Brock Lesner would fly in
Speaker 1: on a random SmackDown to beat up Jacob Fatu in
Speaker 1: the back and would be so concerned about not revealing
Speaker 1: his identity that nobody saw him. I know we're spitballing
Speaker 1: names here, but I mean, come on, I don't think
Speaker 1: Brock would give a shit if people knew that it
Speaker 1: was him who attacked Jacob Fatu. Hobbes, Okay, Cease, Now
Speaker 1: now we're making some more sense here. That goes to
Speaker 1: what I said earlier about SmackDown needing heels, and I
Speaker 1: would put Hobbs on SmackDown. Why not make Hobbs the attacker?
Speaker 1: Why not make or Royce Keys. That's going to be
Speaker 1: his new name, Royce Key Royce, by the way, for
Speaker 1: those who don't know, is the name of his young son.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the Keys comes from, but I'd
Speaker 1: be down for that if that's how they want to
Speaker 1: debut Hobbs if that's the position they wanted to debut
Speaker 1: him in on SmackDown, and we get a Hobbs and
Speaker 1: fa Too feud out of it. Sign me up elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Kit Wilson Kit will soon was being interviewed by Kathy
Speaker 1: Kelly about his attack on Matt Cardona last week. He
Speaker 1: said that someone had to clean up the toxic masculinity
Speaker 1: that was permeating the locker room, and Cardona was the
Speaker 1: head of it. So Cardona comes over to ask, what's
Speaker 1: your problem, and Wilson says he doesn't like his beard,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like his jawline, he doesn't like his beefy shoulders.
Speaker 1: He says Cardona doesn't have accountability, He's just got toxic masculinity. Cardona,
Speaker 1: like most people watching this show, doesn't care. He says
Speaker 1: that if Kit Wilson has a problem, they can settle
Speaker 1: it in the ring. So we never did get to
Speaker 1: hear the music this week. That's very disappointing to many
Speaker 1: of you. Yes, that is that is reportedly going to
Speaker 1: be his name, Royce Keys, No more Powerhouse Hobbs, no
Speaker 1: more Will Hobbs. I think Royce Hobbes could have worked,
Speaker 1: but apparently that's not what it's going to be. So
Speaker 1: then we had Now I should point out it was
Speaker 1: nearly thirty minutes since the last match. We finally had
Speaker 1: a three way here, number one contenders fighting over a
Speaker 1: shot for the women's tag team titles. Charlotte Flair and
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss, Nya Jackson, lash Legend, Julia and Keana James.
Speaker 1: This was This was rough in some spots, like some
Speaker 1: of these women just were not gelling well together. Keana
Speaker 1: tried to suplex Charlotte couldn't lift her, so lash Legend
Speaker 1: came in for the attempt double soup plex. Charlotte, though,
Speaker 1: countered that into a double DDT instead, and just as
Speaker 1: Charlotte looked like she would have a tag to Bliss,
Speaker 1: Julia pulled Alexa down from the apron and threw her
Speaker 1: into the barricade in the ring, Nia was on the
Speaker 1: Actually Nya was the legal woman here for her team.
Speaker 1: As she lifted Flair up on her shoulders, Keana got below.
Speaker 1: Nya turned the attempt at avalanche Samoe and drop into
Speaker 1: a double power bomb instead, so Keana started getting into
Speaker 1: Flaire's face. She got sent into the corner though by
Speaker 1: Bliss which allowed Julia to blind tag. Bliss entered with
Speaker 1: the hot tag Simoe and dropped by Nya got turned
Speaker 1: into a DDT by Bliss. Off the top, Julia hit
Speaker 1: Naya with the missile dropkick as Bliss caught her in
Speaker 1: position for the Sister Abigail DDT, but before she could
Speaker 1: do anything, Legend broke it up with a pump kick
Speaker 1: to Alexa. Legend sent Julia out of the ring as
Speaker 1: she caught Bliss, and she hit her lash extension finish. Legend,
Speaker 1: though speared before she could attempt to pin. She got
Speaker 1: speared by Charlotte. But then Keana snuck into the ring
Speaker 1: and pin Bliss to secure the number one contendership. And
Speaker 1: so that was a surprise. I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 1: Julia and Keanna James are going to be challenging soon.
Speaker 1: They didn't say when, but soon for the women's tag
Speaker 1: team titles. The only question is will they be challenging
Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley and Eosky or will they be challenging Live
Speaker 1: Morgan in Roxane Perez. They will be challenging Rhea, Ripley
Speaker 1: and eo Sky. That is who they will be challenging. Look,
Speaker 1: it was a surprising outcome that I didn't see coming.
Speaker 1: But if it gets us Julia and Keana against Rhea
Speaker 1: and EO, with EO and Julia in the ring together,
Speaker 1: then I'm okay with that. Eo Sky is one of
Speaker 1: the most popular performers in the entire company. People love her.
Speaker 1: She always gets a reaction, which is the exact opposite
Speaker 1: of every single match that Julia is in on Smack Them.
Speaker 1: It is just ice cold when she is out there
Speaker 1: in terms of reactions. Nobody cares. Even though she's the
Speaker 1: United States champion. The people are not buying what she's
Speaker 1: selling and it's sad. And if it takes her getting
Speaker 1: into the ring and working with people like Ria and
Speaker 1: EO who are over to you know, put her in
Speaker 1: there with people that I think I think she would
Speaker 1: work well with, and she could kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: show what she can really do and maybe actually get
Speaker 1: a reaction doing it, then fucking do it. Because every
Speaker 1: time they go out there, I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's very noticeable, you know. Or in this case, she'll
Speaker 1: tag in and do some moves and nobody cares. So
Speaker 1: let's let's uh, let's move along here to Ria and
Speaker 1: EO against Julian and Keana. I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: I do have to say this though, I have to,
Speaker 1: I have to point this out. I saw I saw
Speaker 1: enough of NXT this week, not the whole show, but
Speaker 1: I did see that there was a main event, a
Speaker 1: three way match. Funny enough, we had another women three
Speaker 1: way match to decide number one contenders, only the one
Speaker 1: on Tuesday was to decide the number one contenders for
Speaker 1: the TNA Knockouts tag team titles. And in that match,
Speaker 1: sol Ruka and Zaria picked up the win, and fatal
Speaker 1: influence was in there, but sol Ruka and Zaria picked
Speaker 1: up the win and that match was really good, and
Speaker 1: it was it was jarring like watching this match here
Speaker 1: just how dull and sloppy in parts, but like just
Speaker 1: dull and lifeless and kind of slow in parts that
Speaker 1: this match was compared to the match from NXT. This
Speaker 1: is the main roster. This is supposed to be the
Speaker 1: elite of WWE. I don't know how to explain the
Speaker 1: difference between the two. I don't know what to attribute
Speaker 1: that to, but it was very noticeable. In the back,
Speaker 1: Sammy Zay was walking, he found Damian Priest Sammy said
Speaker 1: that he had no problem with Priest, but Trick Williams
Speaker 1: was the one that he had a problem with, and
Speaker 1: he volunteered to watch Priest back tonight in the main event,
Speaker 1: and his offer was rejected. Priest said that you have
Speaker 1: a bad habit of getting involved in other people's business.
Speaker 1: He told him, in no uncertain terms, do not get
Speaker 1: involved in my match. This is my fight. Stay out
Speaker 1: of it, Sammy says. Or what so? Sammy says that
Speaker 1: a priest doesn't get to tell him what to do
Speaker 1: this week or any other week. But then he spotted
Speaker 1: somebody off camera and he said he had something else
Speaker 1: to go do, so he walks over and it's Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: And he just walks up to Drew McIntyre and he
Speaker 1: slaps the piss out of him and then he walks away.
Speaker 1: See that's what happens when you talk about someone's kids.
Speaker 1: You know, Drew talked in his promo about how much
Speaker 1: Sammy has disappointed his son. So you get slapped. That's
Speaker 1: how it works. Kendall Gray stocks Stock continues the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was in that match too. I think it was God.
Speaker 1: It was her and Ren Sinclair. I believe Kendall. Kendall
Speaker 1: is going to be a big, big star on the
Speaker 1: main roster one day. She's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: She's like a dynamo in the ring, so that probably
Speaker 1: had little something to do with it, But ye know,
Speaker 1: sul Ruk is also fun to watch, and I'm surprised
Speaker 1: coming out of Saturday Nights Made event last month that
Speaker 1: she's not already you know, getting vignettes on TV teasing
Speaker 1: a call up like they are doing for Oba, Like
Speaker 1: Oba's coming up. Javon's already up. So I'm the only
Speaker 1: reason Leon Slater's not up is because he's not under
Speaker 1: contract to them. But there's been no talking about soul Ruka.
Speaker 1: You know who got to win over Bailey in that match.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, but Kendall Gray is going to
Speaker 1: be a big deal one day. Again, it was just
Speaker 1: very jarring watching that match and just how much better
Speaker 1: it was and just just more fun. And again I
Speaker 1: watched matches like this and everyone's moving like they're in
Speaker 1: fucking quicksand like they're moving in slow motion and they're
Speaker 1: just like, what is going on here? Am I watching
Speaker 1: the main roster? Or is this the developmental show's how
Speaker 1: I feel sometimes watching some of these matches doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Backstage in the parking garage, actually, Cody Rhodes caught up
Speaker 1: with AJ Styles. Styles tell Cody, are you gonna tell
Speaker 1: me that you know I should be questioning my my
Speaker 1: match with Gunther? You're gonna question that decision too? And
Speaker 1: Cody said no. He said AJ is at his best
Speaker 1: when everything is on the line, and he wished him
Speaker 1: good luck against Gunther. So Cody then spotted something that
Speaker 1: annoyed him greatly as he walked towards his bus. Somebody, gee,
Speaker 1: I wonder who put a photograph of Drew McIntyre in
Speaker 1: the window of the door to his bus. It was
Speaker 1: a like an eight x ten of Drew McIntyre with
Speaker 1: the WWE championship autographed by Drew McIntyre. It said the
Speaker 1: real American Dream. And Cody got on the bus. He
Speaker 1: closed the door and that was the last we saw
Speaker 1: of Cody Roads. Kathy Kelly hey lost in what's going up?
Speaker 1: Lost In just subscribed to the channel in the week
Speaker 1: where we hit ninety K That's awesome. Yeah, Cody should
Speaker 1: lock his bus. How come his bus is not locked?
Speaker 1: Especially after Drew's already broken into his bus, but he
Speaker 1: probably didn't have to break in. He probably just walked
Speaker 1: on because Cody and lock his door. It's his own fault.
Speaker 1: He's got nobody to blame but himself. So Kathy Kelly
Speaker 1: interviewed Julia and Keana James on earning a tag team
Speaker 1: title shot. She asked Julia about the possibility of becoming
Speaker 1: a double champion, and Julia spoke in Japanese. Keana then
Speaker 1: explained that they will become tag team champions, while Julia
Speaker 1: will win the Royal Rumble and become a triple champion.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I used to run across the living
Speaker 1: room as a kid with my sword pretending that I
Speaker 1: was he man. So they close the show Thank God
Speaker 1: with Damian Priest against Trick Williams, which is another good
Speaker 1: sign for Trick getting the main events spot. Here on
Speaker 1: the show, Williams connected with a leaping neckbreaker early on
Speaker 1: in this match, you know where he just he's standing
Speaker 1: behind Dami and just jumps up grabs a neck hence
Speaker 1: a leaping neck breaker. It looked fine, it looked good,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't like some spectacular move. But my god,
Speaker 1: the announcers reacted to this like he did a triple
Speaker 1: jump Moon Salt. It was a leaping neck breaker. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that big of a deal. Meanwhile, Sammy's a and
Speaker 1: emerged from the back and he stared down Trick Williams,
Speaker 1: doing exactly the opposite of what Damian Priest asked him
Speaker 1: to do. What could go wrong? Priest tried to go
Speaker 1: old school. Williams though, tripped him up on the ropes
Speaker 1: and then sent him out to the floor, tricked them,
Speaker 1: threw Priest into the steel steps and the barricade back
Speaker 1: and forth, and we took our final commercial break here
Speaker 1: of this match. Later on, Priest looked like he had
Speaker 1: South of Heaven all set up, but Williams escaped and
Speaker 1: then they each connected with simultaneous pump kicks. Outside the ring,
Speaker 1: Williams dropped Priest with a uh again, it kind of
Speaker 1: looked like it was in slow motion, but he dropped
Speaker 1: him with a flapjack on top of the announced desk,
Speaker 1: and then he threw Priest into Sammy Zain and they
Speaker 1: both went down. As the action returned to the ring,
Speaker 1: Sammy also got into the ring and he attacked Trick
Speaker 1: Williams and the referee threw the match away and called
Speaker 1: for the disqualification. And this was the fourth time out
Speaker 1: of six matches on this show that we had outside
Speaker 1: interference of some kind play a role in the finish
Speaker 1: of this match. So Zay attacked Williams. He left him
Speaker 1: stunned in the corner. Priest then stepped up to Sammy,
Speaker 1: very upset that he cost him the match. Sammy Do
Speaker 1: attacked him. Priest knocked Zayne down with a kick as
Speaker 1: Williams took out Priest with the Trick shot knee, and
Speaker 1: it looked like Trick was going to stand tall at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. He's standing there. They got
Speaker 1: that tight camera shot from from the hard cam, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, where is he? Because you know he's slithering
Speaker 1: into the ring at any moment. Right, we already have
Speaker 1: Sammy Zain's out there, Trick Williams is out there, Damian
Speaker 1: pri out there. Who's missing? Sure enough, Randy Orton appears
Speaker 1: behind Trick Williams. He doesn't know yet, but then Trick
Speaker 1: turns around and he eats an RKO and everybody cheers.
Speaker 1: Orton poses, Sammy recovers and the two of them start
Speaker 1: exchanging words and then Orton drops Sammy with an RKO
Speaker 1: and that is how the show and what a geek
Speaker 1: by the way Sammy's Ain looked like here at the
Speaker 1: end of the I mean he got to slap Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre in the face at least, but he was specifically
Speaker 1: told by Damian Priest, this is my fight, it's not yours.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with you, So I don't
Speaker 1: want you to have my back. I want you to
Speaker 1: stay in the back. So what did Sammy do. He
Speaker 1: ignored him and came out anyway like a dick, which
Speaker 1: ended up costing Damian Priest his match when he ran
Speaker 1: into the ring to attack Trick Williams. So he cost
Speaker 1: Damian Priest to match like an asshole, and then when
Speaker 1: Priests came over to confront him about it, Sammy attacked
Speaker 1: him and then Sammy ends up eating an RKO and
Speaker 1: getting laid out at the end of the show. So
Speaker 1: this was not a good night for Sammy's Ain. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night will be a much better night for him when
Speaker 1: he becomes number one contender because it will be Sammy's
Speaker 1: ay and Drew McIntyre at the Royal Rumble for the
Speaker 1: WWE Championship. But then mercifully they ran the closing credits
Speaker 1: here to finally end this show. Just brutal, just brutal,
Speaker 1: especially that last hour, Like just sitting through that last hour,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I felt every bit of those three
Speaker 1: hours this week, And again I would not have said
Speaker 1: that last week or the week before. I think I've
Speaker 1: been a lot more complimentary of this show, but not
Speaker 1: this week. Not that everything on the show was bad
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but just you sit here and
Speaker 1: you watch this show and you hope that they format
Speaker 1: it in such a way they keep the action going.
Speaker 1: There's some exciting stuff, and it kind of makes you
Speaker 1: forget about like what time it is and how much
Speaker 1: time you know, how much time you got left? I
Speaker 1: was just counting down the minutes here. Remember that old
Speaker 1: SoundBite I used to have at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: sound off and the intro was John Moxley, I think
Speaker 1: it was from his audio book and he's talking about
Speaker 1: raw It's like, oh my god, what do you say
Speaker 1: in the clip? Like, oh my god, we're only an
Speaker 1: hour and we have two more hours of this. That
Speaker 1: was me. I was Moxley minus the blood, watching SmackDown tonight.
Speaker 1: It's fucking brutal. They did the bare minimum though, of
Speaker 1: what they had to do to hype up that four
Speaker 1: way tomorrow night. The Cody in Fat two segment, though
Speaker 1: for me, stole the show. To me, that was the
Speaker 1: highlight of the show tonight. The end ring was not
Speaker 1: great outside of the US title match. The US title
Speaker 1: match was very good and there's no surprise there, but
Speaker 1: in terms of the inn ring, nothing else stood out,
Speaker 1: just absolutely not a single thing. That tag team title
Speaker 1: match was just a waste. And again, this was as
Speaker 1: quiet and tame a Canadian crowd as I can remember
Speaker 1: for a WWE or any wrestling show really that I've
Speaker 1: seen on TV. I can't say they had a whole
Speaker 1: lot to get excited about, so I don't blame them.
Speaker 1: But look, they get Saturday Nights Made Event. Tomorrow, they
Speaker 1: get another show, they get another bite at the Apple,
Speaker 1: and there are some good matches on there to look
Speaker 1: forward to, so let's hope that we get a livelier
Speaker 1: bunch tomorrow. I wonder if Jesse Ventura is flying into
Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. I wonder if he's coming across the border.
Speaker 1: Is he going to leave the Baja and make his
Speaker 1: way to Montreal. I don't know is he going to
Speaker 1: make his way there? We'll find out. What did you
Speaker 1: think of SmackDown though from Montreal? Thirty nine percent thumbs up,
Speaker 1: twenty nine point five percent thumbs in the middle, and
Speaker 1: thirty one percent thumbs down. Not a great score, not
Speaker 1: even forty percent thumbs up for this show tonight, Jesse
Speaker 1: is banished. He's banished from the Baja. Is that what
Speaker 1: you're saying? It's gonna be like that some weeks, isn't
Speaker 1: it with the SmackDown Show? Oh my god, it's painful.
Speaker 1: Let's get into your super chats here. I'll banish from
Speaker 1: w W A dude, he was at the last show.
Speaker 1: He was literally on the last well I guess he
Speaker 1: wasn't actually on the show itself, but he was there
Speaker 1: for the John Cena show. So what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: He's banished, contractually obligated to there. We are three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty one likes. By the way, we are about
Speaker 1: twenty off of the goal. But I also noticed for
Speaker 1: the bonus be the booker, we're eight out of ten.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much time, though, is left on
Speaker 1: that goal. So two more and we'll get bonus be
Speaker 1: the booker we got Devin from NJ two thousand. My
Speaker 1: dad thinks Evans Javan Evans will have the ceiling of
Speaker 1: a pre New Day kofee in wwe do solo agree, No, No,
Speaker 1: he does not rock. Cooking Hogan via satellite is an
Speaker 1: all timer, says GMB. I agree. I especially like it.
Speaker 1: I know he dozed off during the promo. I believe
Speaker 1: he was eating pork rindes or potato chips during the
Speaker 1: promo as Hogan was trying to cut his promo. Remember
Speaker 1: then he pointed at Hogan. He goes, all right, Hogan,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point at you. When I point at you,
Speaker 1: then you start speaking. That was great, dried ribs and chicken.
Speaker 1: I would love to move Ilia, Dragon of Carmelo, Hayes, Solo, Socoa,
Speaker 1: MotorCity machine Guns, and Julia to Monday Nights Raw on Netflix.
Speaker 1: So basically turn Raw into SmackDown is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You want to move the MotorCity machine Guns over to Raw.
Speaker 1: You want to just completely kill the tag Team division
Speaker 1: on SmackDown. Broley, what's going on? Broley says, regardless, if
Speaker 1: you care about Melzer ratings, Kendall Gray has had four
Speaker 1: four star plus matches in the past three months. Then
Speaker 1: the whole SmackDown women's roster combined in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You know, with Kendall Gray, I've already seen enough up
Speaker 1: and let her beat Jade Cargill and win the championship.
Speaker 1: At least we know she'll defend it. JDFVA thank you.
Speaker 1: Broli says, compare this three way women's tag to the
Speaker 1: one from NXT last Tuesday. It's worrying how bad the
Speaker 1: main roster women are produced. Zero creativity. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the way they're produced is but one part of it.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a part of it, but it's it's only
Speaker 1: part of it. You can't just put it all on
Speaker 1: the producers. Prince Vegeta says we need a Punk and
Speaker 1: Drew interaction before any of them lose their belts. Well,
Speaker 1: they'll be under the same roof on Saturday in Riod
Speaker 1: next week. Paul Van Summer and good god, the commercial
Speaker 1: breaks and I use the VPN, Yeah, I know, seeah,
Speaker 1: I use a VPN and I don't get the commercials.
Speaker 1: I get them. You know, for a lot of the
Speaker 1: matches it'll go dark and then it'll come back and
Speaker 1: I'll see the match that people who were watching with
Speaker 1: the commercials don't see. But then at other times, and
Speaker 1: you guys know, if you watch it internationally or with
Speaker 1: a VPN, you know what I'm talking about. I get
Speaker 1: that screen with that music, Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do. I'd rather listen to that
Speaker 1: for five minutes than watch some of those commercials. Alexander says,
Speaker 1: I know Keana and Julia aren't winning the tag Belts,
Speaker 1: but if it leads to a feud with Rio, I'm
Speaker 1: all for it. Julia versus Rhea or EO would slap
Speaker 1: so hard. I'm all for Julia and EO. Give it
Speaker 1: to me. Gimme, gimme, gimme Chicago for MBK says off topic,
Speaker 1: if you watch the latest Unreal, what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on female talent being very touchy with Triple H like
Speaker 1: EO jumping on him. I don't give a shit. I
Speaker 1: saw some people making a big deal about it. I
Speaker 1: think they have a lot of free time on their hands.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Bobert reviews, Hey, Solemn Monster, I
Speaker 1: was going to ask you a question, but Joseph took
Speaker 1: them all well, you gotta be quicker, Bobert, you gotta
Speaker 1: be quicker. Joseph gets them all in basically before I
Speaker 1: even go live. He's ready, man, He's on the ball. Shameful.
Speaker 1: He was the only one pre stream, the only one.
Speaker 1: So I'm grateful for Joseph, but also for Bobert. Fifteen bucks,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobert. Emperor comment angry video game nerds voice
Speaker 1: this show was as This show was fucking boring, is
Speaker 1: what it was. Venom Ktetsu Shinske and AJ segment felt
Speaker 1: so forced, even for wrestling. I say this as a
Speaker 1: Knackamoor fan. He should be booked better and fingers crossed
Speaker 1: for be the booker. Well, I mean it felt forced
Speaker 1: because you know, now, I don't know if AJ's going
Speaker 1: the full year, believe. I think on the podcast he
Speaker 1: did with The Undertaker, he said he was signed through
Speaker 1: the remainder of the year. I didn't see the podcast.
Speaker 1: I had read that with something he said, but you know,
Speaker 1: he could say whatever he wants. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he is. They may want you to think
Speaker 1: he is, and then when he loses, it's like, holy shit.
Speaker 1: I thought we had him for the rest of the year. Right,
Speaker 1: It could be one of those things. But you know,
Speaker 1: if his window is limited, then they have a limited
Speaker 1: amount of time to get these matches in. Bobert says, also,
Speaker 1: congrats on ninety thousand subscribers. Hope you get to one
Speaker 1: hundred k so you can get that YouTube plaque. Ah
Speaker 1: silver play butt. You know what they would do to
Speaker 1: me though, like by the time I get there, it'll
Speaker 1: be like discontinued. We don't do that anymore. Now you
Speaker 1: got to get one hundred and fifty thousand to get
Speaker 1: the silver play button. Thank you, brother, Alexander says Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns declared for the rumble and couldn't bother to show
Speaker 1: up on the show. The jokes just continue to right themselves.
Speaker 1: You didn't honestly think Roman Reigns was gonna show up
Speaker 1: on a random SmackDown, now did you on the eve
Speaker 1: of a Saturday Night's made event show that he's not
Speaker 1: even on. That's why I said, just like a video,
Speaker 1: Send it a fucking video. He could be sitting on
Speaker 1: the crap or take it as shit. You could record
Speaker 1: a video with your phone. Nope, gotta do a graphic. Hey,
Speaker 1: Falcon Star, Thank you, brother. I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: good night, the new one, the nine ninety nine a
Speaker 1: solo monster. Do you remember when Rock rapped on SmackDown
Speaker 1: with y clev Jean back in two thousand, I do,
Speaker 1: actually well. I mean the song that was on the
Speaker 1: Volume five CD, the Pie Song, Wasn't that him and
Speaker 1: y Cleve Jean said it was cool to see as
Speaker 1: a rock fan back then. It's funny as hell now
Speaker 1: seeing him in rock mode apping. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: weird just a weird time. Yeah, Steve says. YouTube says,
Speaker 1: congrats on one hundred K. Here's a toaster. Yeah right.
Speaker 1: They'll probably say they'll they'll send me what they sent
Speaker 1: me a few months ago. They gave me a five
Speaker 1: dollars dunkin Donuts gift card. Oh gee, thanks, That's just
Speaker 1: what I need. I don't drink coffee. I'll just stuff
Speaker 1: my face with donuts and trying to fatten me up.
Speaker 1: I did. They did send me a Chipotle a gift
Speaker 1: card though. Once I did use that, I got lunch.
Speaker 1: I got one day. I got lunch with that Chipotle
Speaker 1: gift card. Thanks YouTube, I appreciate it. The Shawnathan says
Speaker 1: this week, build to the rumble in Saudi doesn't give
Speaker 1: me a lot of confidence in the bill to wrestle
Speaker 1: Mania next year in Saudi. You know what, I I
Speaker 1: guess they got their money, They got their guaranteed money.
Speaker 1: There isn't a single person from the States that's flying
Speaker 1: over there to go to the Royal Rumble this year,
Speaker 1: and they don't give a shit. This is the worst
Speaker 1: build up to a Royal Rumble in decades. Fucking terrible.
Speaker 1: Ohm too cool, brother, Solo. Do you think Julia could
Speaker 1: be rehabilitated by giving her an Iron Woman performance in
Speaker 1: some elimination? Is it the Royal Rumble? Or is it
Speaker 1: too late? It's never too late for her to be rehabilitated.
Speaker 1: But that's not the way to do it. That's like
Speaker 1: the diesel spot, and I think that's gonna go to Obafemi.
Speaker 1: Maybe you could go to bron Breaker this year. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna go to Obafemi. I wouldn't. You don't
Speaker 1: give that to Julia. It's just that's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work, and I don't think for her
Speaker 1: it's gonna make a difference anyway. Holiday one ninety seven, Hey, Solo,
Speaker 1: I missed tonight's SmackDown episode. After reading the results, it
Speaker 1: seems I did not miss my You didn't miss anything.
Speaker 1: You didn't miss a thing. Arabian Night. Gargano counting the
Speaker 1: days that he can join Shampa in AEW with their
Speaker 1: fellow Black and Gold Stars, as well as a better
Speaker 1: tag division. Odd that we never got DIY against the
Speaker 1: USO's a new day. Yeah, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think AAW is a good place for Champa. I think
Speaker 1: TNA is a much better place. I think TNA would
Speaker 1: be the better option for him, and supposedly he has
Speaker 1: interest in getting into New Japan, so I would actually
Speaker 1: I would say TNA over AW for Champa. In AW,
Speaker 1: he's just gonna be another face, just another face in
Speaker 1: the crowd. TNA could use somebody like him. TNA needs
Speaker 1: some more people on that roster. And they have this
Speaker 1: new show on AMC big Fish and a smaller or
Speaker 1: bigger fish in a smaller pond. He could be wrestling
Speaker 1: for the fucking world title. He could be having matches
Speaker 1: with Mike Santana and DNA. Alexander says there's small parallels
Speaker 1: to Jacob Fatu and New Jack. I mean, yeah, small parallels.
Speaker 1: I guess I could see that. One thing he can't
Speaker 1: say about New Jack is that he wasn't authentic. He
Speaker 1: was about as for better or worse. He was about
Speaker 1: as authentic as it gets. And I was not a
Speaker 1: New Jack fan. Arabian Knights says, we need the youth
Speaker 1: standing tall at WrestleMania forty two. Enough with the forty
Speaker 1: plus year olds. Hey, now easy there, do the wrestle Maydia.
Speaker 1: It's twenty one ending where Sena and Batista were anointed.
Speaker 1: Do it with Breaker and Fatu. You'll get Roman reigns
Speaker 1: and Riear Ripley and you'll enjoy it. Sarah the Songbird. Oh,
Speaker 1: they were in Montreal tonight, so it's only appropriate that
Speaker 1: we have a Canadian writing in here to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm Canadian, I have a wrestling fan. Montreal is usually
Speaker 1: a stacked crab. But my Quebec, hm, my Quebec. How
Speaker 1: do you pronounce that Quebeca? We'll say, We'll say Quebec Quebec.
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters need more to sink their French teeth
Speaker 1: into stay warm in this impending storm. So you really
Speaker 1: stumped me on that word, Like I'm looking at I go, fuck,
Speaker 1: how do I pronounce that, but thank you, Sarah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the snows come in on Sunday. I'll be recording the
Speaker 1: sound off, so at least I'll be keeping busy. Let's
Speaker 1: just start moving in on Sunday morning. And I don't
Speaker 1: know the last update I saw. It's not gonna stop
Speaker 1: until maybe midday on Monday. I just love the range
Speaker 1: they've given for it. It could be anywhere from five
Speaker 1: inches to like sixteen inches. It's a pretty big range.
Speaker 1: Until it hits we don't know how bad it's going
Speaker 1: to be, but it looks like it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: You know, Steve, Steve in the chat, you're Canadian. Why
Speaker 1: don't you help me out here? How do you pronounce
Speaker 1: that word quebec coy? I need to know the answer
Speaker 1: to this, lost Dil congrats on ninety K, Proud to
Speaker 1: be a member and Supper keep kicking ass, brother, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you law Still Toya ain't nice? Hi Solo, I
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. I'm doing okay Duff's VIDs. What's
Speaker 1: the difference between Disney Plus and porn Hub. Disney Plus
Speaker 1: wants you to hate your step mom. We've seen that
Speaker 1: one too, h Prince Vegeta ninety five. Even in this
Speaker 1: new WWE run, Matt Cardona still won't have the makings
Speaker 1: of a varsity athlete, not as long as he's hanging
Speaker 1: out with Kit will soon. What are the chances they
Speaker 1: end up as a tag team? Alexander says, Jacob's teeth
Speaker 1: mystery is WWE's MJF Devil's storyline. I would hope it
Speaker 1: has a better ending. Eminem says, we're expecting snow here
Speaker 1: in Alabama tomorrow evening. I tell you, man, this thing
Speaker 1: like I saw, I saw a map and it's like
Speaker 1: the purple shade is where, like the storms are coming,
Speaker 1: and it's like this just giant blob of purple on
Speaker 1: the map that's like covering sixty five percent of the country.
Speaker 1: Devin actually next, Nick Grosso nine ninety nine. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on tomasop excuse me, Tomaso Champa possibly going
Speaker 1: to New Japan. Do you think his body can work
Speaker 1: the strong style? I don't. It's not like he's gonna
Speaker 1: be there full time. I think he could do some
Speaker 1: New Japan matches and he can go back and forth.
Speaker 1: He could do New Japan, he could do TNA, he
Speaker 1: could work Independence. Definitely Independence, So yeah, not not anything
Speaker 1: full time. But there's a bunch of people that are
Speaker 1: leaving New Japan. You know, Evil is supposedly on his
Speaker 1: way to WWA. Sonata is on an indefinite leave. There's
Speaker 1: rumors of Haromu Takahashi possibly leaving New Japan. We don't
Speaker 1: know yet what's going on with David Finley and Clark
Speaker 1: Conners and Gabe kids. So I'm sure they'd love to
Speaker 1: have someone like Shampa. Devin says, when did WWE stop
Speaker 1: caring as much about the build for major shows? Was
Speaker 1: it with a network era or does it go back earlier?
Speaker 1: It's the guaranteed money era, you know, when they get
Speaker 1: their guaranteed money, especially for a show like any of
Speaker 1: these Saudi shows, and it's like like the incentive isn't there.
Speaker 1: It's sad, but that's just the way it is. So
Speaker 1: Duff's vid says, what does an escalator say when it
Speaker 1: stops working? Nothing? It just stares. What kind of key
Speaker 1: opens a banana? A monkey? What do you call a
Speaker 1: twitching cow? Beef? Jerky? Dustin Sasolo? Do you enjoy going
Speaker 1: to a live WWE show? I mean I generally have
Speaker 1: in the past when I've gone. I have not been
Speaker 1: to a live WWE show in quite some time. I
Speaker 1: mean the last one would have been the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: in two years ago. I was at the Rumble actually
Speaker 1: in Tampa two years ago. Prior to that one, pretty
Speaker 1: sure before that, I had not been to one since
Speaker 1: wrestle Mania thirty five. So yeah, I don't I don't go.
Speaker 1: I don't go to too many of them now, mostly
Speaker 1: because I have to be here, you know, to do
Speaker 1: the live streams when the show is over. But there's
Speaker 1: just no especially at the prices they're charging people. They're
Speaker 1: gouging people, you know, and I'm not, like, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that. What do you call a coffin that's underground
Speaker 1: during an earthquake? A morocca? I bought one of those
Speaker 1: from my cat when I had a cat, and I
Speaker 1: would hear that fucking thing in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: She's got the morocca. Jamie Dorsh, what is the best
Speaker 1: and worst Rock versus Undertaker match? I can't think of
Speaker 1: what the best one would be. I don't think there
Speaker 1: ever was a best one, unless you count the triple
Speaker 1: threat that kurd Angle was a part of that would
Speaker 1: be the best one. That was from Vengeance in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, So if that counts, then one hundred
Speaker 1: percent that's the best one. The worst one I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I could tell you the worst Undertaker Triple H match.
Speaker 1: They've had some fucking bad matches. Their King of the
Speaker 1: Ring match in two thousand and two is one of
Speaker 1: is probably the worst match I've ever seen the map.
Speaker 1: But then they also had a match in Australia was
Speaker 1: it Super Showdown or something a number of years ago
Speaker 1: that went like twenty seven minutes. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: about that was about twenty two minutes too long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that King of the Ring two thousand and two match
Speaker 1: was fucking terrible. Matt Scale, Hey, Solo, congrats on nine
Speaker 1: dy k all I asked WWE please keep Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: away from Jacob Fatu. Oh man, what if Jericho is
Speaker 1: the one who attacked fa Tu? We didn't mention that possibility.
Speaker 1: Brandon Proctor contributing to Bonus be the Booker, and guess
Speaker 1: what we did hit that goal. We got a double
Speaker 1: dose of be the Booker coming up here in a moment.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Duffs VIDs can one bird make a joke? No,
Speaker 1: but two can suck duffs. I gonna do with you,
Speaker 1: Prince vegeta rank these four from likely to least likely
Speaker 1: to win another world title in their career. Kevin Owens,
Speaker 1: Damian Priest, Fin Balor, jay Uso. Okay, I'm putting I'm
Speaker 1: putting jay Uso at the bottom. No more world titles
Speaker 1: for jay Uso, so he goes at the bottom. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say, honestly, I have hope that Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: will be able to make a return and that Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens will get one run with the WWE Championship. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put Kevin Owens first, and then Damian Priest, and
Speaker 1: then Balor and then jay Uso at the bottom. Venom
Speaker 1: Catetsu Chipotle has the best taco shells. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: like a I don't know, Chicken Bowl or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I don't eat there very often, but you
Speaker 1: know I have one not too far from where I am,
Speaker 1: so it's like, Okay, they're free Chipotle. Broli says, hope
Speaker 1: they never split up. Fatal influence that attached to them
Speaker 1: as a unit that you just cannot bear the thought
Speaker 1: of them being a part, and Eminem says I heard
Speaker 1: a cabinet installer was arrested earlier today. He was charged
Speaker 1: with counterfitting. You deserve that one. You know you earn
Speaker 1: that one. A tuxedo. Just stopping in to say hey
Speaker 1: for the extreme cold that is effing up my internet
Speaker 1: connection takes me offline and go, well, I hope it
Speaker 1: doesn't f up my internet connection because I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of shows to do. I got a show to
Speaker 1: do on Sunday. Let's hope that doesn't happen. All right,
Speaker 1: it is time because you guys again four hundred they
Speaker 1: you see on the wheel. That was the goal. See
Speaker 1: you guys hit the goal. You guys also activated the bonus,
Speaker 1: which means we get to end the week. Well technically
Speaker 1: not because we're going to be live again tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: but it is technically the end of the week. We
Speaker 1: get to end the week the right way. Let's be
Speaker 1: the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to
Speaker 1: be the booker. We are coming back tomorrow night though
Speaker 1: after Saturday night's main event. All right, here we go
Speaker 1: tag team that we got a lot more tag teams
Speaker 1: in here than wwe has not all of them good,
Speaker 1: but this one's pretty good. Stone Cold, Steve Austin and
Speaker 1: Triple H, the Two Man Power Trip and Draped in Gold.
Speaker 1: I don't have a good feeling about the team they're
Speaker 1: gonna be wrestling. I don't have a good feeling about
Speaker 1: their chances. Oh my, Triple H and Stone Cold Steve
Speaker 1: Austin against the Rock and Roll Express Ricky and Robert. Oh,
Speaker 1: Austin's gotta be geeking out. I'm sure he would love
Speaker 1: to work with Ricky Morton. Hell yeah, that's a tag match.
Speaker 1: We can main event the show with that. That could
Speaker 1: actually be the main event of the show. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're actually going to top that match in terms
Speaker 1: of star power. He you want some tag team wrestling,
Speaker 1: There is some tag team wrestling. Uh. We got Mako Satamora.
Speaker 1: It's retired last year after a thirty year career, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Maco against sky Blue. I better give
Speaker 1: that the bell or else all the sky Blue fans
Speaker 1: they will come at me with their pitchforks and then
Speaker 1: we have a lot of sky Blue fans. All right,
Speaker 1: we need a main event here for night one of
Speaker 1: a two night extravaganza. Here we go. It is the
Speaker 1: American Nightmare. Cody Rhodes is in the main event as
Speaker 1: I'm sure sure he will be at WrestleMania this year.
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes is the face of the franchise. But Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns has uh interfered here, The Tribal chief says, pick
Speaker 1: a damn stipulation. So we don't yet know who Cody
Speaker 1: is wrestling, but we're gonna pick a step first, then
Speaker 1: we'll pick the opponent. Uh. Oh, he ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: the face of the the face of the franchise after this,
Speaker 1: you can't look you get it? Fuck up the pretty
Speaker 1: face and everything. I mean. I put Cody Roads in
Speaker 1: a brawl for all match. That's the worst match you
Speaker 1: could put Cody Roads. And he's the face of the company.
Speaker 1: You're gonna fuck up his face. Cody Rhodes, Well, this
Speaker 1: all comes down now to like who his opponent is.
Speaker 1: This could be very bad masked Cody. He may need
Speaker 1: that mask again when this is over, depending on who
Speaker 1: his opponent is. Devil's choice. Oh, it's getting interesting now,
Speaker 1: it's getting interesting now, Devil's choice, keep or replace the
Speaker 1: man that you just picked. So do we take Cody
Speaker 1: out of the Brawl for All. So this is the question.
Speaker 1: We can spare Cody's face if we take him out
Speaker 1: of the match, but we may not have as big
Speaker 1: of a name though. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what we should do, keep him or replace him. Solo
Speaker 1: wants a blood sport, all right, you know what, We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep him. Fuck it, We're gonna keep him in there.
Speaker 1: Take your lumps, be a man, not up. Cody Roads
Speaker 1: in a Brawl for All against Brian Pillman. There's a
Speaker 1: match pre broken ankle, Brian Pillman against Cody Rhoades. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the Brawl for All stipulation, but as
Speaker 1: a match, I'm okay with it. Cody is dead, says Dustin.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean, if I had to make
Speaker 1: a choice here, absolutely, Brian Pillman. I'm definitely going Brian
Speaker 1: Pillman in this match for sure. But that gave us
Speaker 1: a clean sweet Always good to hear that sonic chime.
Speaker 1: That's how you know you had a good night. All right,
Speaker 1: So now we go all stipulations for round number two.
Speaker 1: Didn't Cody have a high school wrestling background, Yes, but
Speaker 1: this is not a wrestling match. This is a brawl
Speaker 1: for all match. There's gonna be no takedowns in this
Speaker 1: Matchtually were takedowns allowed. I think they were actually allowed.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. I thought for some reason I
Speaker 1: thought takedowns were not allowed. I think you got points
Speaker 1: for a takedown. That might work to Cody's advantage. Though.
Speaker 1: Oh we got my favorite, we got my favorite, the
Speaker 1: Big Blue Cage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I always loved
Speaker 1: the Big Blue Cage, Big Blue Cage tag team style.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a tag team cage match. Los Guerreros
Speaker 1: Eddie and Chavo gar. I love those belts, by the way,
Speaker 1: those SmackDown Tag Team titles two thousand and two, two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. I always love those belts way more
Speaker 1: than those raw belts, the world tag team titles. I
Speaker 1: think it's the Blue Eddie and Chavo tag team cage
Speaker 1: match against the New Day. And we're coming up with
Speaker 1: some pretty damn banging matches tonight. We're four for four
Speaker 1: so far. I like where this is going. I love
Speaker 1: Big Blue. Now h we have a firefly funhouse match,
Speaker 1: but this was going to be the women's match. A
Speaker 1: women's firefly funhouse match, all right, Well, let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see what Let's see where this ends up. Gail Kim.
Speaker 1: Gail Kim, and she'll be stepping into the Firefly Funhouse
Speaker 1: with with Beth Phoenix, but not just any Beth Phoenix.
Speaker 1: It is angry Beth Phoenix. So what would that look like?
Speaker 1: Because from the the original Firefly Funhouse match, it was
Speaker 1: almost like they were dipping into like their their past, right,
Speaker 1: So what would we have flashbacks to? I wonder it'd
Speaker 1: be a a real mind fuck. It'd be like an
Speaker 1: acid trip. All right, we got one more, We got
Speaker 1: one more to go. This could be the rare double sweep.
Speaker 1: We have a hair match. Someone is going bald at
Speaker 1: the end of this match. The only question is who's
Speaker 1: it going to be? Find out someone is going cubeball here,
Speaker 1: and it is possibly going to be Rick Flair. There
Speaker 1: he is with the Winged Eagle. I mean, if ever
Speaker 1: there was an image that screamed nineteen ninety two, it
Speaker 1: is this one right here. Rick Flair in the main
Speaker 1: event defending the Winged Eagle in a hair match. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is not fair, This is not fair. No, no,
Speaker 1: this doesn't work. Hold on a second. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute. This is no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You can't have a hair match
Speaker 1: with someone who's already bald. Moose, Moose and Rick Flair
Speaker 1: in a hair match. This is this is unfair. I
Speaker 1: cannot allow this. I cannot. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do here. I cannot allow this to happen. Oh, Man
Speaker 1: Flair going bald. Now, I feel like we have to
Speaker 1: pick somebody else. We have to pick that. We have
Speaker 1: to pick a different person, either a different person or
Speaker 1: a different stipulation. You gotta pick a different person. We can't.
Speaker 1: We cannot allow this. That's right. Oh I forgot, Thank you, Steve,
Speaker 1: I forgot. I really I'm not allowed to complain. I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed to complain because I'm not a wrestler of
Speaker 1: the highest caliber. I am but a podcaster. I am
Speaker 1: but a YouTuber. I am not allowed to complain. Moose
Speaker 1: told me so well, fuck that we're picking someone new.
Speaker 1: Can't criticize the that the Moose match here. Oh but
Speaker 1: I think we ended up with a much better solution here,
Speaker 1: the phenomenal a J styles. We did it. We did it.
Speaker 1: We pulled it off. The rare double sweep. You know,
Speaker 1: though it would almost be a shame for AJ to
Speaker 1: lose that those flowing locks. Remember wrestle man, you have
Speaker 1: thirty three? That shot that like zoomed in hardcam shot
Speaker 1: with his hair blowing in the wind. He looked like
Speaker 1: he could be a freaking shampoo spokesperson. Someone's going bald here.
Speaker 1: It's either going to be bald AJ or Baldrick Flair,
Speaker 1: take your pick. But that'd be a hell of a
Speaker 1: match Flair in his prime against AJ stans hair versus career. Hey,
Speaker 1: I like it, And that is how you do be
Speaker 1: the booker, Toya says, solo booking better matches than smack that. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not really hard to do, now, is it. I
Speaker 1: do have a better roster at my disposal. I mean
Speaker 1: I've got like one hundred and sixty eames and the
Speaker 1: men's one alone. We got a lot of legends in there.
Speaker 1: And Moose he's in there too. Soccer mom here, what
Speaker 1: is AJ forty eight? He's lucky he has his hair
Speaker 1: bald Rick for Oh yeah, Flair's going bald for sure.
Speaker 1: Flair's losing that. Flair's going bald. It's all good. AJ
Speaker 1: uses hymns anyway, needs more mad. Don't worry. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be there's gonna be changes coming to be the booker,
Speaker 1: don't you worry. But anyway, Uh, I'm glad we got
Speaker 1: that double sweep tonight. We needed that after this SmackDown.
Speaker 1: We needed that perfect perfection, perfection. Now can we replicate
Speaker 1: that tomorrow? That's gonna be up to you, guys. You
Speaker 1: bring the heat and you bring the likes. Maybe we
Speaker 1: get to do this again because I will be live
Speaker 1: after Saturday night's main events. I hope you're ready to rumble,
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu, it'd be talking about all of
Speaker 1: it as soon as the show is over tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Come back here live on the channel and I will
Speaker 1: have the full review for you. And then on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we have episode nine eight of the podcast coming up
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, weather and internet connection permitting.
Speaker 1: That'll be on Sunday afternoon. Heyj will put Nair on
Speaker 1: Flair's head, and then Flair pulls what he did in
Speaker 1: ninety one and leaves be the booker territory. Rather than say,
Speaker 1: shave his head off, we'll do what Jim Hurd tried
Speaker 1: to do. Jim Hurd actually had him cut his hair.
Speaker 1: He wanted him to put an earring in too. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be Spartacus. We'll just have Flairvie Spartacus, oh Man,
Speaker 1: Zachary shout out to Zachary Torres. Austin Tucker will not
Speaker 1: be able to watch, but he'll be here for the review. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all you need. All you need to do is
Speaker 1: be here for the review. I got you covered. Be well,
Speaker 1: stay safe, have yourself as a great rest of your night.
Speaker 1: It's late. I'm gonna get out of here and I
Speaker 1: will see you in less than twenty four hours for
Speaker 1: the Saturday Night's Made Event review. Thank you for making
Speaker 1: this a fun night. I'll see you guys tomorrow. I'll
Speaker 1: take care