Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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Speaker 3: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hello, whatever time it
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Speaker 3: So Guten Morgan, Guten tag, guten arvand and hello. That's
Speaker 3: pretty much all I can remember, apart from what is
Speaker 3: the ashen, which I think is where's the ashtray? If
Speaker 3: anyone's listening in Germany, I'm sure you can correct me.
Speaker 3: And I have a vague recollection that minor copped today
Speaker 3: means my head hurts, and that is all I have
Speaker 3: after two years of studying German in school. Anyway, I digress.
Speaker 3: It's an absolute pleasure to have you listening along once again,
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Speaker 3: That's at Amanda sd pod. So first things first, guys, First,
Speaker 3: I want to thank Rob Mattick twelve for your explanation
Speaker 3: of the Comelo Hayes barbershop thing. Thank you. I now
Speaker 3: understand and can officially stop commenting on that and let
Speaker 3: it lie. Thank you very much. Second of all, big
Speaker 3: shout out to Jesse from Melbourne who's also reached out
Speaker 3: this week on Twitter, and as you are in Australia, Jesse,
Speaker 3: it's my obligation to say Ozzy Ossy Ozzy and wait
Speaker 3: for your response. I'm sure you oi oid. But thank
Speaker 3: you guys for listening and responding. Really great to know
Speaker 3: you're out there. So if you guys see the teaser
Speaker 3: for the new vincement Mann documentary apparently coming to Netflix
Speaker 3: September twenty fifth, it looks fun. I've seen a picture
Speaker 3: which I assume is like from the opening credits or something,
Speaker 3: and it says has Vince as like a puppet master
Speaker 3: and it says mastermind on one side and then Madman
Speaker 3: on the other. I can't wait. I think it's going
Speaker 3: to be epic must watch for us all. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that looks like it's going to be great. Netflix twenty
Speaker 3: fifth September apparently. So before we get to our review
Speaker 3: of SmackDown. Let's get to some quick predictions or Bush
Speaker 3: in Berlin tomorrow. I'm defending my outstanding record of two correct.
Speaker 3: Got to remember this time head overheart, Head over heart,
Speaker 3: not what I want, what I think. Okay, So first
Speaker 3: of all, Gunda versus Randy. I have this as a
Speaker 3: Gunther win. This is only his first title defense. I'd
Speaker 3: like Randy to win. That's what I want, but my
Speaker 3: head says that's what I'm going Gunther. Cody versus Ko.
Speaker 3: I think this one's really simple. I think this is
Speaker 3: a sitter. So this is a Cody win. There's no way,
Speaker 3: no way at all that Cody loses this, and I
Speaker 3: think we get a Ko turn as well. Drew McIntyre
Speaker 3: versus CM Punk the Strap match. I think this is
Speaker 3: going to be a win for Punk, and I think
Speaker 3: he gets the bracelet back. Damien versus Rea, Sorry, Damian
Speaker 3: and Rea versus Dom and Live. This is difficult. Half
Speaker 3: of me thinks Dom and Live win, taking it to
Speaker 3: the respective single matches and a title shot for Rea
Speaker 3: at Bad Blood, and the other half thinks.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Actually, maybe Dom and Live take the win with some
Speaker 3: massive Shenanigans from the rest of the judgment day, So
Speaker 3: head over Heart. I'm going for Dom and Live to win,
Speaker 3: hopefully setting up for Live to get her ass kicked
Speaker 3: at Bad Blood in a title match for Rea's that's
Speaker 3: my call, yeah, domin Live Championship match tag team titles
Speaker 3: Alba Faire and either Dawn versus Jaden Bianca. When I
Speaker 3: wrote this before I watched mack Down, the opening bit,
Speaker 3: not all of it, obviously that would be insane. I
Speaker 3: said that I think the Champs retain, which was a
Speaker 3: bit of a stab in the dark because I thought
Speaker 3: this one was quite a tough call as well. But
Speaker 3: I think I might have changed my mind now having
Speaker 3: seen the Jaden Bianco promo within the show. But let's
Speaker 3: get to that. So for now, let's say Champs retains
Speaker 3: at Alba Fayre and Ila Dawn, but that one might change.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Okay, well, let's see how we do. I mean,
Speaker 3: I only have to get three to improve on my
Speaker 3: appalling record, so fingers crossed. So let's get to it
Speaker 3: and review the SmackDown that aired on August thirtieth from Berlin, Germany,
Speaker 3: and as we kick off tonight, we see Cody enter
Speaker 3: the arena and then we get told that there will
Speaker 3: be a face to face tonight between him and Ko.
Speaker 3: We then get Nya and Tiffany arriving and remind you
Speaker 3: that tonight we have a title match which will be
Speaker 3: a street fight between Nya and Meat. First up, in
Speaker 3: terms of action, we've got La Knight making his way
Speaker 3: to the ring for his open challenge. He gets massive
Speaker 3: pop as usual, and who's it going to be? We
Speaker 3: don't know there's been I haven't seen anything on Twitter
Speaker 3: or anything this week, so I legit don't know who
Speaker 3: it is. We've also got a changed up commentary team
Speaker 3: this week, with Cole joining Wade, but as we progress
Speaker 3: through the show, I think Wade is going to be
Speaker 3: replaced in coming weeks by Corey, so we'll have Michael
Speaker 3: Cole and Corey, which I think is a nice pair.
Speaker 3: In l A Knight has the mic in his hand.
Speaker 3: He says it's been twenty seven years since WWE was
Speaker 3: in Berlin for a major TV event. He says, what
Speaker 3: a great way to kick it off with the megastar. Well,
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more. He says he had his first
Speaker 3: title defense in the US capital of Washington last week,
Speaker 3: and he thought he might as well defend it in
Speaker 3: the capital of Germany. He then goes on to say
Speaker 3: that maybe that will be a thing and he'll just
Speaker 3: just defend it in capitals. I'm not sure how that's
Speaker 3: gonna work, and as he says, it's state capitals as well,
Speaker 3: I don't think they travel to that many capitals good enough.
Speaker 3: He calls out his challenger and then I thought it
Speaker 3: was Gunter's music that hit, but it may not have been,
Speaker 3: but it sounded very much like Gunter's music. And then
Speaker 3: outcomes Ludwig Kaiser, so maybe they share music. I'm not
Speaker 3: completely sure. He gets a good pop, obviously being in
Speaker 3: his home country, and he says he's sure that La
Speaker 3: Knight wants to defend against the best he can, and
Speaker 3: he assures him that no one is better on German soil.
Speaker 3: He says he will win the title and make it
Speaker 3: the European title, and La Knight says, that's very impressive
Speaker 3: for Gunter's stooge, which was a fun line, and then
Speaker 3: that looks like it's official. That's tonight's first match. So
Speaker 3: the open challenge is La Knight versus Ludwig Kaiser. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't have guess Ludwig Kaiser if you'd have given me
Speaker 3: a month of guesses, which is probably my bad because
Speaker 3: obviously he's German, so yeah, stupid me.
Speaker 2: But there we go.
Speaker 3: As we come back from the break, we are ready
Speaker 3: to go, ready to go, and the crowd are really pine. Kaiser.
Speaker 3: La Knight gets in an early offense, but Kaiser soon
Speaker 3: switches it and we go back and forth. During the
Speaker 3: early knockings of this match, we actually hear that this
Speaker 3: is Kaiser's first singles match for a title, which I
Speaker 3: guess makes sense, but again hadn't thought about it. La
Speaker 3: Knight pounding Kaiser in the corner and getting the year
Speaker 3: chance from the crowd, but he is soon reversed by Kaiser,
Speaker 3: who returns the favor massive clothesline from Night as the
Speaker 3: action moves outside the ring and Kaiser is dropped on
Speaker 3: his neck on the apron. Kaiser then takes charge on
Speaker 3: the outside of the ring, ramming Night into the steps
Speaker 3: as Kaiser sets up for a running kick through Night
Speaker 3: and into the steps, which looked pretty gnarly. As we
Speaker 3: come back from the break, Kaiser has retained the upper
Speaker 3: hand and he has Night in the ring and is
Speaker 3: beat him down on him. Night attempts to fight back
Speaker 3: and on the two trade blows in the ring, with
Speaker 3: Kaiser again getting the upper hand. Night battles back and
Speaker 3: has Kaiser in the corner and then over the top
Speaker 3: rope again, smashing Kaiser's head off the German announced table.
Speaker 3: Night with a neck breaker and an elbow from the
Speaker 3: middle rope for a close two count. Night still on
Speaker 3: top with a big knee to the face of Kaiser,
Speaker 3: where then we get a reversal by Kaiser and a
Speaker 3: huge kick a quick and very close cover. Night then
Speaker 3: gets the power slam, but Kaiser counters the BFT and
Speaker 3: goes for the cover. Kaiser gets back into it with
Speaker 3: another kick and Kaiser wall for a really really close cover.
Speaker 3: Knight then hits a BFT with the cover and retains
Speaker 3: his title. I thought it was a good match, despite
Speaker 3: Kaiser being the hometown guy so to speak. The crowd
Speaker 3: was still behind Night when he was on top, which
Speaker 3: still left Kaiser getting his best ever crowd reaction. Cole
Speaker 3: mentioned interestingly in the commentary that Gunza is in fact Austrian.
Speaker 3: He has Germany as his adopted home, so that's good
Speaker 3: at least we don't have to pretend that when Gunza
Speaker 3: was the Intercontinental title he didn't have the Austrian flag
Speaker 3: on his side plate, which he so did, so at
Speaker 3: least now they're acknowledging that he's Austrian, but he has
Speaker 3: made his home or whatever the story is, in Germany.
Speaker 3: So yeah, a good match. L A Night's still popular,
Speaker 3: still very over, even despite being up against the hometown guy.
Speaker 3: Next up, we get a vignette building up Gunna versus Randy.
Speaker 3: We see some of Gunther's greatest hits and he tells
Speaker 3: us again about the legacy of the championship when we
Speaker 3: hear from Randy, who basically says that he's the reason
Speaker 3: that the title exists. We also get a playback of
Speaker 3: the Randy non shoulder down cover in the King of
Speaker 3: the Ring Tournament, and Randy says he is going to
Speaker 3: leave Billin as a fifteen time champion. We see Randy's
Speaker 3: RKO again on Gunther and are reminded of gud There's
Speaker 3: Primo where he was about malting Randy's family. Randy also
Speaker 3: said it was good that guns consider himself as a legend,
Speaker 3: as Randy is the legend killer, which was another fantastic line.
Speaker 3: Next up, we have a tag team match. To be honest, guys,
Speaker 3: I had to wait to see who it was. I
Speaker 3: had no idea who the instance music was related to,
Speaker 3: but it turns out it's Baron Corbyn and Apollo Lows. Sorry,
Speaker 3: Apollo Cruise versus Angel and Berto, who are called Lagaza
Speaker 3: when they're together. Cole tells us as we go to
Speaker 3: the break, this is a very important match for Legado
Speaker 3: del Fantasma, and I guess he is referring to the
Speaker 3: sort of ultimatum. I guess that far, but See gave
Speaker 3: them last week that they had to, you know, start
Speaker 3: being impressive and bring the fear, etc. Before we go
Speaker 3: to the match, we get a promo from Nya, who
Speaker 3: says greatness is her destiny and basically showing her squashing
Speaker 3: everyone on the roster. I know Nya is doing a
Speaker 3: lot better this run, but I'm still just not feeling it.
Speaker 3: I can't get on board the Naya train. I actually
Speaker 3: think I preferred her face character when she was dealing
Speaker 3: with the whole Alexa blissing in her first run. I
Speaker 3: wonder if we will see a return of face Naya if,
Speaker 3: and probably when Tiffany turns on her with the briefcase,
Speaker 3: saying that though Tiffany is pretty over so maybe that
Speaker 3: wouldn't work either. I know personal preference, guys. You know
Speaker 3: Matt's not into Cody. I'm not into Naya. I just
Speaker 3: I just can't get there. Back to the match and
Speaker 3: we now have Legardo del Fantasma making their entrance. Cole
Speaker 3: reminds us again this is high stakes for them to
Speaker 3: bring the fear back to the Guarda del Fantasma. We
Speaker 3: kick off with Apollo and Berto in the ring and
Speaker 3: these two guys are tearing it up at the start
Speaker 3: with some very athletics athletic excuse me moves Apollo with
Speaker 3: an inverted souplex, which he held up in the air
Speaker 3: for literally hours, goes straight for the cover, which is
Speaker 3: kicked out of Corbyn is tagged in but is overcome
Speaker 3: by Berto. Tagged in Angel, who tried to do some
Speaker 3: double teething on Corbyn, but he flattens them both with
Speaker 3: a clothesline. Corbyn is still in charge with Angel, but
Speaker 3: is double teamed in the corner and it's actually Berto
Speaker 3: who is legal. Corbyn gets the tag, Angel is quickly
Speaker 3: dispatched to the outside, Apollo is launched over the top
Speaker 3: by Corbyn and takes out both Angel and Berto as
Speaker 3: we go to the break. That move was Ace using
Speaker 3: Apollo basically as a weapon, and Corbyn just sort of
Speaker 3: like pings the rope back like what you used to
Speaker 3: do with an elastic band in school. So that's a
Speaker 3: pretty wicked move. As we come back, the momentum has changed.
Speaker 3: It's annoying. I'm not going to go on about it,
Speaker 3: and Angel and Berto now have the upper hand and
Speaker 3: we get a near fall straight away by Berto and
Speaker 3: they continue to beat down Cruise in the corner. Cruise
Speaker 3: has some pretty great athletic moves and actually leap frog
Speaker 3: Angel to get to the tag, which brings Corbyn back
Speaker 3: in beating up Berto and Angel. Corbyn with a face
Speaker 3: first slam and Berto has to move really quickly to
Speaker 3: break up the cover. Berto, with a springboard kick to Cruise,
Speaker 3: also takes out Corbyn on the out side, launches Corbyn
Speaker 3: into the steps off the distraction by Electro Lopez. Again,
Speaker 3: she's proven real key, similar to what Beefab is with
Speaker 3: the prophets. Whilst in the ring off the distraction, Berto
Speaker 3: gets a near four long cruise Cruise up onto the
Speaker 3: top rope that Berto intercepts him with an arm drag
Speaker 3: from the second rope and at tag to Angel, Los
Speaker 3: Gaza hit the empty y, which I think Colt said
Speaker 3: stands for Monterey on Cruise, and that gets them the
Speaker 3: pin and the victory, surprising me. A really enjoyable match.
Speaker 3: Berto and Angel are always great to watch, and I
Speaker 3: like them as heels. I like them as part of
Speaker 3: the Guard of Elf Fantasma as well. I hope they
Speaker 3: get the push they deserve. I think the whole group,
Speaker 3: the whole of the Guard of Elf Fantasma is actually
Speaker 3: pretty impressive. I'm really enjoying that. Will we see elect
Speaker 3: Lopez in the ring? Do we think? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Let me know what you guys think about that. That's
Speaker 3: for Corman and Cruise well, as Wade said on commentary,
Speaker 3: they are now three to zero losses. Like Cruise, he's
Speaker 3: a great athlete. I'm not sure about his character. It
Speaker 3: still feels a bit me. I'm not sure what the
Speaker 3: hell they're doing with Corbin since he came back from
Speaker 3: NXT again. His character just seems bland. So I guess
Speaker 3: just watch this space because I honestly cauldn't tell you
Speaker 3: what's next for these guys. Will they go down to
Speaker 3: NXT together, will they get a different program, will they continue,
Speaker 3: will they break up? I don't know. Yeah. So we
Speaker 3: now get a recorded promo from Solo with the Bloodline.
Speaker 3: He says next week the bloodline will be acknowledged by
Speaker 3: both they and the Street profits. He reminds them what
Speaker 3: they're up against. Say he has taken out his own
Speaker 3: brother and Roman reigns. He said, imagine what the four
Speaker 3: of them will do when that's what he will do
Speaker 3: to his own family, which is a fair point. He
Speaker 3: threatens Cody or Ko, saying he doesn't care who wins.
Speaker 3: He's coming for the title. I thought this was interesting
Speaker 3: as we've got a reminder of exactly who has been
Speaker 3: taken out by Solo and the blood line, and I
Speaker 3: thought that maybe this is a teaser to remind us
Speaker 3: who is coming back into let's call it Roman's bloodline
Speaker 3: or whatever. I hope it's happening soon. It has to
Speaker 3: be lining up for blad Blood, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just perfect. So we nearly there. I think I saw
Speaker 3: an ad for Bad Blood. It's like the fifth of
Speaker 3: October or something. Like that, so we don't have long
Speaker 3: to wait. We now go to the ring. When he
Speaker 3: called us or as you guys know, Oblivia the Gladiator
Speaker 3: as we like to call him is. They're talking up
Speaker 3: how pleased he is and how please ww E is
Speaker 3: to be in Berlin, Germany and Europe. We get a
Speaker 3: highlight package of the WWE European Tour, which Nick says
Speaker 3: has been very successful, and he brings out Cody and
Speaker 3: Ko for their face to face. Ko out first, to
Speaker 3: a nice reaction from the crowd. He doesn't seem super
Speaker 3: up for it. To be fair, Wade says he owes
Speaker 3: Ko an apology as he didn't turn on Cody last week.
Speaker 3: I think we all thought he would. I'm still going
Speaker 3: to this storyline that much, to be fair. Then Nick
Speaker 3: brings out Cody, who as always gets a genormous pop
Speaker 3: and the noise counter is back, which I like. I
Speaker 3: think it encourages people to really give it someonheen. They're
Speaker 3: at a live event, so that's great. Kao is looking
Speaker 3: really weird and shifty in the ring as Cody makes
Speaker 3: his usual entrance, and Cole reminds us that Cody picked
Speaker 3: Ko for his opponent. Nick this point, I thought this
Speaker 3: was quite weird, and Nick says good luck for tomorrow
Speaker 3: night and the floor is yours and then off you pops.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure what the point of him was.
Speaker 3: He gave a bit of hype to WWE and Berlin
Speaker 3: and etcetera, what they've been doing in Europe. But yeah,
Speaker 3: a bit weird anyway. So Ko asked Cody what he
Speaker 3: wants to talk about, and he says the championship and
Speaker 3: that they will fight for the undisputed WWE Championship in
Speaker 3: a sold out bullin tomorrow night. Ko says we can
Speaker 3: talk about that, well, we can talk about what happened
Speaker 3: to Cody's knee during the tour. Cody says, his knee
Speaker 3: is fine, and let's talk about last week when Ko
Speaker 3: and Cody beat Waller and Theory. He calls them the
Speaker 3: two biggest upcoming stars in WWE, which is a nice thing.
Speaker 3: It's probably right. They probably are two of the next
Speaker 3: big big stars. Cody wants to talk about last week
Speaker 3: after the match that like Kao was going to hit
Speaker 3: Cody in the back of the title and he says
Speaker 3: he may have done if Cody hadn't turned around when
Speaker 3: he did. Kao says, why would he do that? They
Speaker 3: have so much history. Cody says is he mad with
Speaker 3: him because Kao doesn't get enough credit for the revolution
Speaker 3: that's happening in the business at the moment, and Cody
Speaker 3: gets too much. Kao says he doesn't need a cheap shot,
Speaker 3: as he knows he has hurt his knee. Cody again
Speaker 3: says his knee is fine and asks Ko if he
Speaker 3: wants to pull out like he wanted to before. Kao
Speaker 3: then says he doesn't want a tted victory and a
Speaker 3: tainted title run like he has before when he beats
Speaker 3: him if he's injured. Cody tells Ko that he loves
Speaker 3: him and consider him a true friend, but asks when
Speaker 3: Cody beats him tomorrow night, will they still be friends.
Speaker 3: Ko throws away his mic and whispers on it to
Speaker 3: Cody that we don't hear, and leaves we're still not
Speaker 3: feeling it this match. I had hoped that they would
Speaker 3: do some kind of really great build to get things going,
Speaker 3: but my opinion, I don't think they've done that at all.
Speaker 3: Feels like Cody just wants to fight one of his mates,
Speaker 3: and it feels like a just completely empty match. I
Speaker 3: think Ko was acting weird tonight, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if that was in storyline or whether there was something
Speaker 3: going on. I don't know. Perhaps there's something in this
Speaker 3: injured knee angle. Maybe Ko goes right for that and
Speaker 3: something develops, But as it is right now, I'm just
Speaker 3: thinking yawn fest. I think they could have picked someone else,
Speaker 3: a different opponent, or built differently or something. I think
Speaker 3: this might be my first time being disappointed with a
Speaker 3: Triple Ah story, but you never know. It's always hope, right.
Speaker 3: We then go back to stage and we see Corbyn
Speaker 3: and Cruise. They bump into Waller and Theory, who start
Speaker 3: mocking them straight away. Waller throw Theory under the bus again,
Speaker 3: saying that Theory said such and such a thing, which
Speaker 3: gets Corbyn all riled up, and at that point Theory
Speaker 3: finally pulls up Waller on all his shenanigans over the
Speaker 3: past few weeks and says maybe they're falling apart. Waller says, no,
Speaker 3: this is what you do in Australia. It's banter. They
Speaker 3: shake hands and all is well for now at least.
Speaker 3: I still think that there's a split and a turn
Speaker 3: coming with those two and it can't come soon enough
Speaker 3: for me, to be honest. I like them both as
Speaker 3: individuals and I'd like to see how that develops. Our
Speaker 3: next match is and versus Comello, with and up two
Speaker 3: matches to one. Before we go to that match, though,
Speaker 3: we get anotherdio package from Giovanni Vinci. He says, this
Speaker 3: isn't this isn't his return, it's his arrival. He is
Speaker 3: coming back next week on to backdown and looks to
Speaker 3: have been totally repackaged. Should be good to see and
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to his arrival, see what storylines he
Speaker 3: gets and what for us he has. But yeah, that
Speaker 3: looks like a good move. So with Andrade having already
Speaker 3: made his entrance, we now get Carmelo making his way
Speaker 3: to the ring. We get a reminder of the last
Speaker 3: match between them and how it ended. Camello MUSHes to
Speaker 3: the ring, rushes to the rings straight away and the
Speaker 3: bell rings and we're off, and Rada with an insane
Speaker 3: cork crew off the ropes to the outside. It gives
Speaker 3: him the upper hand, but Carmelo with a springboard clothesline
Speaker 3: and Rada with a horrible looking move off the top
Speaker 3: to the outside. Once again, just kind of looked like
Speaker 3: he stepped on him with massive force, and we go
Speaker 3: to a break, but the replay is of the corkscrew
Speaker 3: from earlier, not the move we just saw, so I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if something's gone a bit wrong there. Certainly
Speaker 3: didn't look great. Back from the break and Hayes has
Speaker 3: Andrader in the ring, Andrade comes out of another exchange
Speaker 3: better off, goes to the top, pulls out his double
Speaker 3: moon salt, which is a beautiful thing. Hayes hits the
Speaker 3: first forty eight and follows up with a meteor and
Speaker 3: a cover for two, and Hayes is selling the knee injury.
Speaker 3: Andrade pulls off a series of power moves and almost
Speaker 3: gets a free count. He's firmly in charge now in
Speaker 3: the crowd absolutely loving him. Carmelo with a super kick
Speaker 3: from out of nowhere and gets a two count. Spanish
Speaker 3: fly from Andrade into the cover, but Hayes kicks out
Speaker 3: again and as we come back from the break and
Speaker 3: takes Hope off the top rope, and again Hayes kicks
Speaker 3: out and has Haze off on the top again. Hayes
Speaker 3: counters and pulls him onto the exposed turn buckle, hits
Speaker 3: nothing but net from the top and gets the three count,
Speaker 3: leveling up the series between these two to two each.
Speaker 3: Another great match from these two. Really enjoyed the way
Speaker 3: this has been built and wasn't super into it at
Speaker 3: the beginning. I guess we're going to a decider now,
Speaker 3: which I'm excited about. My prediction would have to be
Speaker 3: a Hayes win, but probably in some kind of dodgy fashion,
Speaker 3: as if you look back, none of his wins over Andrade, well,
Speaker 3: none of the two wins that he's had over and
Speaker 3: Drada have been exactly clean, but they have been brilliant
Speaker 3: matches and I've really liked what they've done. We then
Speaker 3: get a reminder of what has led us to the
Speaker 3: street fight match for the title women's title tonight, which
Speaker 3: is short package. First, we get Naya Jax, who is
Speaker 3: without Tiffany Stratton, so I guess that means that we
Speaker 3: will be seeing her later on tonight. Before we go
Speaker 3: to the match, we get some build for the Women's
Speaker 3: Tag Team Championship match tomorrow night, and this was the
Speaker 3: point where I thought maybe I might change my mind
Speaker 3: and go for Jade and Bianca to win back the titles.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what I'm doing. I think I'm
Speaker 3: officially changing my prediction. So champions are not going to retain.
Speaker 3: Jade and Bianca are going to win back the titles.
Speaker 3: So we get Meechin then en route to the ring,
Speaker 3: cutting a promo as she goes, telling us that we
Speaker 3: can like her or hate her, but after tonight we
Speaker 3: won't forget her. I like that she picks up a
Speaker 3: shopping trolley on her way which is filled with weapons.
Speaker 3: And this isn't actual shopping trolley. It's got the coin
Speaker 3: bit in it and everything. So I'm sure some poor
Speaker 3: production assistant had to go down to Alda or something
Speaker 3: with a euro and you know, rubber shopping trolley for
Speaker 3: the night. Anyway, Digress, we kick off. Meeching starts on
Speaker 3: the attack with a kendow stick, battering Naya. Nya rolls
Speaker 3: out of the ring and me Chin carries on. Nia
Speaker 3: grabs the stick, but Meechin uses her speed to dodge
Speaker 3: and ram Naya into the ring post. Meechin gets a
Speaker 3: quick two count after a great move through the ropes.
Speaker 3: Meeching brings out the table from underneath the ring, but
Speaker 3: Naya attacks her with a kendo stick and then puts
Speaker 3: the table back to massive boots from the crowd. Meeting
Speaker 3: and attacks Naya and gets the table back out. It's
Speaker 3: like the hok coke in out in, out of crowd
Speaker 3: obviously loving it. As we come back from the break,
Speaker 3: Nira is in charge, but Meachin rolls out of the
Speaker 3: ring and lets have a fire extinguisher in Nya's face.
Speaker 3: Naya flam Meeching into one of the rubbish cans in
Speaker 3: the ring, but Meeching fights back with the lids. It's
Speaker 3: like she's playing the symbols in a band or something.
Speaker 3: After a botch of the temp, Meaching finally hits the
Speaker 3: tornado DDT on the rubbish canned lid. Nya is down.
Speaker 3: At this point. Meaching looks seems to be looking for
Speaker 3: something specific under the ring, and just now this match
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like it's flowing particularly well. Naya has then
Speaker 3: got Meaching on the table and shapes up to put
Speaker 3: her through it, but Meeting counters and manages to get
Speaker 3: Naya through the table. At that point, Tiffany Stratton's music hits.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, ah, could this be hit? The crowd pop huge?
Speaker 3: Tiffany runs into the ring, swinging her briefcase takes out
Speaker 3: Meeching and it looks like she's about to cash in.
Speaker 3: She half hands the referee to briefcase and is nodding
Speaker 3: her head as if to say yes, cashing in just
Speaker 3: about She's just about to hand over the briefcase to
Speaker 3: the ref Nya eyeballs her and instead of cashing in,
Speaker 3: she hits Meeching again with the briefcase setting up the
Speaker 3: cover so dragging Naya onto meet Chim, but Michim manages
Speaker 3: to kick out. At that point, Bailey's music hits and
Speaker 3: she comes to the aid of Meeching. Baby chases Tiffany
Speaker 3: away over the barricade through the crowd. It basically gets
Speaker 3: rid of her. Back in the ring, Meechin has some
Speaker 3: great offense, but Nya from nowhere puts her through another
Speaker 3: table and hits a really sick looking annihilator, but after
Speaker 3: putting the rubbish can on Meechin, so she not only
Speaker 3: gets squished by Nya's ass, but she also gets squished
Speaker 3: by the rubbish can. It looked pretty awesome and Nya
Speaker 3: obviously gets to free count and Rent retains. This was
Speaker 3: a decent match, as I said, in places like it
Speaker 3: didn't flow all that well, but it warmed up as
Speaker 3: it went along. I'm really enjoying the teasing of the
Speaker 3: briefcase with Tiffany and will she won't she? And I
Speaker 3: guess maybe she never will because she doesn't have to
Speaker 3: cash in on NIA as far as I know, she
Speaker 3: can choose to go and cash in on Live. I think,
Speaker 3: so maybe the whole will she won't she is a
Speaker 3: big old fat red herring. Maybe something else is going
Speaker 3: to happen. Anyway, it's good fun and it's making some
Speaker 3: very enjoyable TV, so yeah, not bad at all. So guys,
Speaker 3: all in all, a good show I'd say, maybe one
Speaker 3: of the weakest in recent months. I do like how
Speaker 3: some of the major storylines that are not linked to
Speaker 3: the pl and so they carry on week on week.
Speaker 3: And I also like that the blood went on always
Speaker 3: front and center of the whole episode. I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: very much to Bash and bell In, which again is
Speaker 3: in the premot spot for me of six o'clock on
Speaker 3: a Saturday night, so double awesome for all of us
Speaker 3: watching in Europe because I think, you know, we'll probably
Speaker 3: have like six eight o'clock, seven o'clock kickoffs all around Europe,
Speaker 3: which is absolutely brilliant for us. So guys, that just
Speaker 3: about does it for this week's show. Once again, and
Speaker 3: as always, thank you for having me in your ears.
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