Speaker 1: WWE was in Providence, Rhode Island tonight. In fact, they
Speaker 1: were in the same venue that they hosted the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four Royal Rumble in where Brett Hart and Lexe
Speaker 1: Lugu went out over the top rope at the same time.
Speaker 1: Hot crowd too for most of the show, so shout
Speaker 1: out to Providence. We had a couple of people who
Speaker 1: were at the show tonight who said that it was
Speaker 1: loud and they were hoping it came across that way
Speaker 1: on TV. The answer is yes, yes it did. We
Speaker 1: had a hot main event Seth Rollins and Penta. Very
Speaker 1: cool to see Penta in the main event, even though
Speaker 1: he did lose, but he was super over and the
Speaker 1: crowd was super into this main event. Here, Seth Rollins
Speaker 1: is the one with a match of course coming up
Speaker 1: as Saturday Night's made event. Pente is not, so no
Speaker 1: big surprise there, but this was part of a show
Speaker 1: long story that they were telling with Seth's crew, which
Speaker 1: appears to have a name now possibly it's not official,
Speaker 1: but it looks like they may actually have an name.
Speaker 1: But they went three for three in matches tonight. Here
Speaker 1: on this show we had Seth Rollins beating Penta. We
Speaker 1: had Bronson Reid against jay Usso, which technically wasn't a
Speaker 1: win for Bronson Reed. Wait until I get to that
Speaker 1: and how they classified that. But the job was to
Speaker 1: take out the competition, and that's exactly what Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: did to jay Uso and that's what Bron Breaker did
Speaker 1: to Sammy's A. So they went three for three here
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, and I like that story.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: They're trying to establish dominance here with this new group,
Speaker 1: and we got to see bron and Bronson. Ron and
Speaker 1: Bronson show off a little more personality on the show
Speaker 1: and actually speak up for themselves instead of just being
Speaker 1: background players like secret service agents. They got to actually
Speaker 1: speak for a change. Goldberg and Gunther that is the
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship match that is coming up on Saturday
Speaker 1: night in Atlanta. We have not had Goldberg physically on
Speaker 1: the show, but for that first appearance he made several
Speaker 1: weeks ago, right, he did a sit down interview with
Speaker 1: Michael Cole. We've got a video package with that. Three
Speaker 1: days Gray Song Dominance. He was back in the flesh
Speaker 1: on the show tonight for one final very brief face
Speaker 1: to face confrontation with the world champion and quite possibly
Speaker 1: his final ever appearance on Raw, because unless he comes
Speaker 1: out next Monday to wave goodbye and officially announced that
Speaker 1: he is going to ride off into the sunset, this
Speaker 1: is it. You know. Saturday is supposed to be his
Speaker 1: final match, and that'll be the end as far as
Speaker 1: Goldberg goes, So quite possibly his last ever appearance here
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Raw. But also tonight we had the
Speaker 1: final bit of hype and promotion for the Evolution Show
Speaker 1: on Sunday. At least on Raw, we still have SmackDown.
Speaker 1: I won't be here on Friday, but SmackDown is still
Speaker 1: going to be taking place on Friday. Not much to
Speaker 1: speak of as far as hype for this Evolution show,
Speaker 1: which is coming up this weekend. This show feels like
Speaker 1: such an afterthought. I cannot imagine they bring it back
Speaker 1: again next year, unless it is just to fuck with
Speaker 1: aw again on the weekend that they host a big show.
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine it. And I got into a
Speaker 1: lot of the reasons why it feels this way, you know,
Speaker 1: on the sound off this weekend, and just just a
Speaker 1: lack of respect I think that they have shown for
Speaker 1: the women's roster overall, all the women, Raw SmackDown n XT.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's going to be involved in that show on
Speaker 1: Sunday and will have the finger pointed at them if
Speaker 1: this show does not perform well. And that's to say
Speaker 1: nothing of the quality of the matches. We're talking about
Speaker 1: how the show actually does business wise, it's just a
Speaker 1: slap in the face. And look, they're struggling to sell tickets.
Speaker 1: They're running Saturday nights made event in the same building
Speaker 1: the night before and they've got about eleven thousand plus
Speaker 1: whatever the number is up to now, mostly focused on
Speaker 1: Bill Goldberg and this being his retirement match, the World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship being on the line, so they're not having
Speaker 1: any issues, you know, and obviously Atlanta is his adopted home.
Speaker 1: He wasn't born there, but you know, he played for
Speaker 1: the Falcons and he was big in WCW, which was
Speaker 1: based out of that whole region, so he's got a
Speaker 1: big name down there. It's understandable that they would do well.
Speaker 1: They're not doing as well on Sunday. Last night checked
Speaker 1: it was maybe five thousand, not even tickets sold in
Speaker 1: the same building. And it's not a shock when you
Speaker 1: look at the way that this show has been promoted,
Speaker 1: but also the fact that, frankly, what it really boils
Speaker 1: down to at the end of the day, okay, is
Speaker 1: the fact that they are running three shows in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: They are running three shows in the market in the
Speaker 1: same weekend. Because don't forget, they have that NXT show
Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon at Center Stage, which I think has
Speaker 1: a capacity for the show maybe of seven hundred people.
Speaker 1: But they're running Atlanta all weekend long. It's just NonStop shows.
Speaker 1: And look, there's a reason why they had to cancel
Speaker 1: that NXT show back in May when they ran that
Speaker 1: whole Tampa weekend. Remember they were going to do I
Speaker 1: think four nights in a row in the same market,
Speaker 1: and they had to cancel the NXT show had like
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred tickets sold. They're like, we're not going to
Speaker 1: run a big building like this and have less than
Speaker 1: two thousand people. We'll just move it to the PC.
Speaker 1: It's overkill. This is what they've been doing. It's overkill,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately the women are going to be the victims
Speaker 1: of that. I think comes Sunday. But we had the
Speaker 1: final bit of height for Rho, Ripley and EO Sky,
Speaker 1: neither of whom were on the show tonight, So we
Speaker 1: didn't get any sort of face to face. We didn't
Speaker 1: get a contract signing, we didn't get to sit down interview,
Speaker 1: we didn't nothing like that. They kept it to a
Speaker 1: video package which had Rio Ripley's voice which he was
Speaker 1: being interviewed for it, and that was it. So we
Speaker 1: didn't see either of them physically on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: But that should be the main event on Sunday for
Speaker 1: the Women's World Championship, whether wins the title or not,
Speaker 1: those two are going to go out there and they're
Speaker 1: going to kill it. And I think it's important to
Speaker 1: make that distinction here that no matter how I feel
Speaker 1: or anybody else feels about the hype for the show
Speaker 1: and the effort or lack thereof that has gone into
Speaker 1: it and putting this card together and promoting it, it's
Speaker 1: not a reflection on what the quality of that main
Speaker 1: event is going to be. You've got Rhea Ripley, You've
Speaker 1: got EO Sky, two of the best that they have.
Speaker 1: EO Sky. I would argue Bell to Bell top one
Speaker 1: or two performers in the entire company, male or female.
Speaker 1: You put them in the ring together on Sunday, would
Speaker 1: be impossible for them to go out there and have
Speaker 1: a bed match. You saw what they did in the
Speaker 1: ring with Bianca bell Air at WrestleMania. I'm very much
Speaker 1: looking forward to the match. It will be excellent. I
Speaker 1: would expect nothing less from them. They deserve better, as
Speaker 1: do all of the other women on that show. Because
Speaker 1: if it feels like an afterthought, it's because that's based
Speaker 1: on how it's been treated. So they did what they
Speaker 1: could tonight. But as far as that final bit of height,
Speaker 1: you know, for Evolution, the focus was really also on
Speaker 1: Saturday night's main event, which is the night before they
Speaker 1: have another show to promote, So you're you're splitting the
Speaker 1: attention here because you've got these two shows to promote
Speaker 1: in the same weekend, and so Evolution basically gets the
Speaker 1: short end of the stick. We'll talk about this Raw show,
Speaker 1: which I thought was a good show tonight, definitely an
Speaker 1: improvement over that show that we saw on Friday. This
Speaker 1: is your Raw on Netflix review. I am the Solemn Monster.
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Speaker 1: So let's get into the beginning of this show. Because
Speaker 1: we had Michael Cole and Corey Graves. They were back
Speaker 1: together as a team again. Pat McAfee is burned out,
Speaker 1: so we did not have Pat McAfee on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: No mention of Pat McAfee, no sign that Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: is on his way back anytime soon. So Cole and
Speaker 1: Graves together as an announced duo is fine with me.
Speaker 1: They opened the show with the Empire. That appears to
Speaker 1: be the name that Paul Hayman was using for this
Speaker 1: group more than once in this opening promo. So I
Speaker 1: just need to preface this by saying that we don't
Speaker 1: know for sure that that is going to be the
Speaker 1: name of the group, but it sounds like it probably is.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't hate it. If that's the name,
Speaker 1: I think that's a fine name. Keep it simple. Right
Speaker 1: of all the possibilities of what it could have been,
Speaker 1: it could be so much worse. So I like the Empire.
Speaker 1: We had Rollins, we had Hayman, we had bron Breaker,
Speaker 1: and we had Bronson Reid with the fans serenading Rollins
Speaker 1: as he made his way out, who was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the top heel. They continued to sing his song
Speaker 1: every single week. Rollins held out his hand for the microphone.
Speaker 1: So bron Breaker swipes the microphone out of Hayman's hand,
Speaker 1: and Haymon looks worried, and Rollins is not happy about
Speaker 1: this because he was about to speak, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: thank you, Bron, So he takes the mic and he
Speaker 1: said that he was with Rollins and Hayman because they
Speaker 1: have a vision of him being the face of WWE
Speaker 1: for the next two decades. He has his own vision
Speaker 1: of a WWE without Sammy Zaine. Breaker said that he
Speaker 1: doesn't like Zaane's face, he doesn't like his beard, he
Speaker 1: doesn't like his music. He doesn't understand why people like him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get it. He doesn't understand why the fans
Speaker 1: are into Sammy's a. He said, Zayin has an expiration
Speaker 1: date and he would put a stamp on it tonight.
Speaker 1: Breaker promised Zayn that he would maul his head off
Speaker 1: and Zaine would end up looking at the lights. So
Speaker 1: Rollins got the mic finally and he asked, Breaker, are
Speaker 1: we good? Are you good? Rollins then noticed that Bronson
Speaker 1: Reid was itching to say a few words, and so
Speaker 1: he handed the microphone over to Bronson Reid, who said
Speaker 1: that Breaker was a tough act to follow, but so
Speaker 1: was he. He said that he hit Rollins with six tsunamis,
Speaker 1: which built a respect between the two of them and
Speaker 1: is why Seth recruited him into the group in the
Speaker 1: first place. Reid said that jay Usso didn't respect him,
Speaker 1: but that would change tonight because he would tsunami the
Speaker 1: respect into jay us So, just like he did with
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins. So Rollins grabbed the microphone, but he refused
Speaker 1: to speak because the fans were busy chanting for Cmpunk,
Speaker 1: who was not on the show, so he gave the
Speaker 1: microphone to Paul Hayman. He goes here you talk. Hayman
Speaker 1: said that the Empire would strike tonight, strike first. He
Speaker 1: did mention, like the Empire strikes back, he goes tonight,
Speaker 1: it's the Empire strikes first, he said, Roman Reins didn't
Speaker 1: have the balls to come back and step up against them. Hint, hint, hint,
Speaker 1: it's a little hint. This is also the big news
Speaker 1: that Seth Rollins will be donning the tights tonight against Penta.
Speaker 1: Hayman mocked Penta's stupid hand signals and said that Rollins
Speaker 1: would leave him unable to do them ever again because
Speaker 1: he would be stomped so hard. Later on tonight, Hayman
Speaker 1: also spoke in Spanish to Penta and this blue Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins mind. Rollins leaned in over to where Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: was standing and you could hear him. I asked him, like,
Speaker 1: when did this fucking guy learn Spanish? I was wondering
Speaker 1: the same thing myself. When it finally came time for
Speaker 1: Rollins to speak, all he did was welcome everybody to
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw. And that concluded the segment. That was
Speaker 1: the best Seth Rollins promo that I have ever heard.
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's number one. We finally got to
Speaker 1: hear from bron Breaker. We finally got to hear from
Speaker 1: Bronson read in a segment like this at length, you know,
Speaker 1: more than just a few words. This is something I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for. Hopefully we get more of this as
Speaker 1: time goes on, because they've just been background noise the
Speaker 1: last few months, and you're only going to develop your
Speaker 1: characters so much if you're not speaking. I understand bron
Speaker 1: Breaker is the badass of the group. All he has
Speaker 1: to do is go out there and just spear people embark.
Speaker 1: But it was nice. It was nice to finally hear
Speaker 1: from them. It would be nice, though, I will say,
Speaker 1: it would be nice if they cared that they being
Speaker 1: Triple H and WWE, if they cared more about making
Speaker 1: these guys actual heels rather than the cool heels who
Speaker 1: you know, they come out to Rollin's music and everybody
Speaker 1: sings his music, and they Rollin's and Hayman are out
Speaker 1: there doing their catchphrases. I mean, look, let the people
Speaker 1: bark for bron Breaker because they're going to do it anyway,
Speaker 1: because he's a badass and to them he's cool and
Speaker 1: it's what's going to turn him babyface eventually anyway. But
Speaker 1: as far as the rest of this crew, it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like they're gonna change Rollin's music and mean, hey,
Speaker 1: why would they write. They like the visual, they like
Speaker 1: the whole scene of them singing his song. It's just
Speaker 1: weird though, when he's taking out each of the top
Speaker 1: babyfaces one by one, that these people are singing this
Speaker 1: guy's song on his way to the ring, right, It's
Speaker 1: just weird. But otherwise, like I said, Rollins one of
Speaker 1: his better promos. So we go inside the Judgment Day clubhouse,
Speaker 1: Finn Balor was admiring all of their goal had them
Speaker 1: all sitting on a table the Intercontinental title, both sets
Speaker 1: of tag team titles, and JD McDonough and Dominic were
Speaker 1: busy playing darts. Racal Rodriguez was bothered by a memorial
Speaker 1: photo of Live Morgan surrounded by candles that was set
Speaker 1: up by Roxane Perez, and Raquel told her she's not dead.
Speaker 1: In fact, she's been rehabbing every single day and she'll
Speaker 1: be back pretty soon, and Finn Balor said, look, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be so sure. It took me eight months to
Speaker 1: come back from my shoulder injury. So Dominic then acknowledged
Speaker 1: there was a cake sitting on a table, and he
Speaker 1: acknowledged this get well cake and thanked Balor and McDonough
Speaker 1: for it, and both of them looked at each other
Speaker 1: and they said, we don't know anything about it. We
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't buy it. So dom then read the
Speaker 1: get Well soon. There was a message on the cake,
Speaker 1: get well soon, and it was signed aj So that
Speaker 1: was a little weird that the cake was sitting there
Speaker 1: the entire time. Apparently he never bothered to look at
Speaker 1: what it actually said on the cake, so he finally
Speaker 1: noticed that. Then he looks over and aj Styles peeks
Speaker 1: his head out from behind the curtain. Everybody else has left.
Speaker 1: He peaks his head out from behind the curtain. He
Speaker 1: goes like this, He doesn't what was that to meet
Speaker 1: the parents? Right, He's keeping an eye on Dominic Mysterio,
Speaker 1: who then grabs his doctor's note and starts waving it around.
Speaker 1: But by the time he turns around to show Ajj's gone,
Speaker 1: so he's still throwing around that doctor's note. We still
Speaker 1: have to get that title match. I thought maybe they
Speaker 1: would announce it for Saturday Nights main event. Shockingly, we
Speaker 1: still only have three matches on that show. I mean,
Speaker 1: I still feel like they have to add one more
Speaker 1: on Friday. It's a night before, but three matches. Every
Speaker 1: Saturday Nights main event they've done so far has had
Speaker 1: at least four, some of them have had five. If
Speaker 1: we end up with three, I mean, how long is
Speaker 1: this fucking Goldberg match gonna go? It's a Goldberg match
Speaker 1: in the main event. I'm surprised they don't have six
Speaker 1: matches on this show. I mean, I know they don't
Speaker 1: have any women's matches. They're saving them all for Evolution,
Speaker 1: But my god, you've got three matches, one of which
Speaker 1: is a Bill gold Berg match, cash in or no
Speaker 1: cash in after that match? How long could it possibly go?
Speaker 1: They still have to add one more match to this show.
Speaker 1: We had Roxanne Perez one on one. Yeah, well, you
Speaker 1: know what, our dge makes a very good point. You
Speaker 1: make a very good point. How three matches and how
Speaker 1: many commercials? That's true? That is true with all the
Speaker 1: commercials that'll take up the rest of the show. You're right.
Speaker 1: We had Roxanne Perez one on one with Kyrie Sane.
Speaker 1: Kyrie went up top. A few minutes into this match,
Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez was outside the ring. She distracted her long
Speaker 1: enough for Roxanne to pull her down. Roxanne targeted Kyrie's
Speaker 1: previously injured wrist. That's the injury where she was out
Speaker 1: for many months. I believe she had surgery on it
Speaker 1: after a break. Kyrie avoided a charging Roxanne and then
Speaker 1: threw a kick that missed sadly enough that Corey Graves
Speaker 1: had a cover for it by saying she didn't get
Speaker 1: all of it. A little while later, Kyrie put Perez
Speaker 1: down with an Alabama slam. Kyrie went up top for
Speaker 1: her insane elbow, but Raquel pulled Perez out of the ring.
Speaker 1: Kyrie doe from the top robe onto Raquel. It's her punishment.
Speaker 1: Roxandough got Kyrie back in the ring and then set
Speaker 1: up for pop rocks. Kyrie, though avoided it, used the
Speaker 1: backslide to pick up the wind. Now after the match
Speaker 1: was over, the Heels attacked Kyrie. You knew exactly what
Speaker 1: this was leading to because we still had one team
Speaker 1: yet to be announced for this women's Fatal four way
Speaker 1: tag team title match on Sunday, and Kyrie saying is
Speaker 1: being beaten down in the ring. If only she had
Speaker 1: a friend, I wonder who it could be. When we
Speaker 1: heard Oscar's music, Osca comes as she's wearing a leather jacket.
Speaker 1: She comes running down to the ring and makes the save.
Speaker 1: The two of them clear Raquel from the ring, and
Speaker 1: Oscar then held Roxanne in a scorpion death drop position
Speaker 1: while Kyrie went up top and came off with the
Speaker 1: Insane elbow. Now they had announced earlier just before this match,
Speaker 1: actually they put the graphic up and they made the
Speaker 1: announcement that on Sunday, Raquel and Roxanne will defend the
Speaker 1: women's tag team titles against Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss
Speaker 1: who qualified on SmackDown Friday night, sol Ruka and Zaria
Speaker 1: representing NXT, and then there was one spot left open
Speaker 1: for a raw team. So, I mean, look, when this
Speaker 1: segment was over, you knew exactly who that team was
Speaker 1: going to be. Now they made it official a little
Speaker 1: while later in the back, Oscar and Kyrie went into
Speaker 1: Adam Pearce's office said that they wanted the judgment day
Speaker 1: and he made them the raw team in that match.
Speaker 1: So now all four teams have been announced for Sunday.
Speaker 1: I you know, Sol, Ruka and Zaria makes sense just
Speaker 1: because becuse, I mean, what other team outside of Fatal
Speaker 1: Influence would have really made sense in that spot, But
Speaker 1: the fact that they just announced them, like what did
Speaker 1: they do to earn the spot? Last time, sol Ruka
Speaker 1: and Zaria actually had a tag match together. They lost,
Speaker 1: so it was kind of weird how they just announced
Speaker 1: them after Charlotte and Alexa had to win a match
Speaker 1: on Friday to get into this thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell sol Ruka and Zaria did, but there
Speaker 1: he goes. We have all four teams now, and we
Speaker 1: are getting the Kabuki Warriors at least for one night.
Speaker 1: We are getting the Kabuki Warriors back together. Sammy's Ain't
Speaker 1: was interviewed backstage by Jackie Redmond. He had his ribs
Speaker 1: roll wrapped up again like he did previously. He said
Speaker 1: that he didn't care about the things that bron Breaker
Speaker 1: said about him earlier tonight, but he has to take
Speaker 1: him seriously because he's one of the most dangerous people
Speaker 1: on the planet. Sammy said that he would take care
Speaker 1: of carrying cross later and then he walked away. Scarlet
Speaker 1: then showed up. I was like, wow, Scarlett is going
Speaker 1: to actually cut a promo here, and Jackie asked her
Speaker 1: if she had anything to say, and she said no,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, so much for that. I thought
Speaker 1: she was about to cut an actual promo on this
Speaker 1: show for the first time. Do you have anything to say?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But she didn't look very happy. We got a Nicki
Speaker 1: bellapre speaking of not being very happy, we got Nicki
Speaker 1: Bella promo. After this, liv Morgan's attack on her made
Speaker 1: her realize that she needs one more moment in the ring,
Speaker 1: so she is entering the Battle Royal at Evolution. She
Speaker 1: wants the title opportunity that goes to the winner to
Speaker 1: go to Clash in Paris and will prove to everyone
Speaker 1: that she is fearless. I guess my question would be,
Speaker 1: I believe the winner of the Battle Royal is to
Speaker 1: get a world championship match at Clash in Paris against
Speaker 1: the champion that represents their brand. What brand exactly does
Speaker 1: Nicky Bella belong to? I mean, I know she came
Speaker 1: back on RAW, I mean, are we to assume it's
Speaker 1: going to be the Women's World Time Like, she doesn't
Speaker 1: technically belong to a brand, So I'm just wondering that
Speaker 1: she gets to choose the champion that she gets to
Speaker 1: wrestle Hopefully we won't be having this conversation because hopefully
Speaker 1: Nicki Bella will not win the Battle Royal. If she
Speaker 1: wins the Battle Royal, then we got big problems of
Speaker 1: all the talent that will be in that Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: Nicki Bella should not be the one going to clash
Speaker 1: in Paris. But when liv got hurt, this was the
Speaker 1: likely spot that she was going to end up in.
Speaker 1: You knew she was going to be on the show
Speaker 1: in some way. She lost her match, so what else
Speaker 1: were you going to do with her other than just
Speaker 1: toss her into the Battle Royal. And I would expect
Speaker 1: that we get a few other faces in there as well,
Speaker 1: maybe Michelle McCool or I don't know, maybe a Molly
Speaker 1: Holly or someone like that. I mean, I wouldn't expect,
Speaker 1: you know, aj Lee or anything like that, but we should.
Speaker 1: We should get a few surprise faces and there. They
Speaker 1: haven't said how many people will be in the Battle Royal,
Speaker 1: but they did announce that Ava on NXT tomorrow is
Speaker 1: going to make an announcement I guess about the NXT
Speaker 1: talents that will be in the Battle Royal. So we
Speaker 1: will as of tomorrow night, we will know that at least.
Speaker 1: But again, as far as Nicki Bella goes, there's not
Speaker 1: much else to say other than her being in the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal. What else would you have done with her?
Speaker 1: Nicki Bella against Ivy Nile like is not going to
Speaker 1: sell a single extra ticket, you know, Nicki Bella and
Speaker 1: Live Morgan or the Bella's against the Judgment Day. That
Speaker 1: was that was the match, that was the attraction. They
Speaker 1: lost the attraction. So she's in the Battle Royal. Kofi
Speaker 1: Kingston and Xavier Woods, they came out during the commercial break.
Speaker 1: You may not have seen this, but they came out
Speaker 1: during the commercial break wearing black veils and carrying flowers
Speaker 1: to announce that the Tag Team Division is hereby dead
Speaker 1: after they had their tag team titles stolen from them
Speaker 1: last week by the Judgment Day. I've got news for
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods that Tag Team Division was dead long before
Speaker 1: last week. But that was it. That's really all they
Speaker 1: came out to announce. They did say that they would
Speaker 1: be going to Adam Pierce later in the back to
Speaker 1: request a rematch. Sammy's Ain was making his way out
Speaker 1: for his match against bron Breaker when Carrion Cross jumped
Speaker 1: him from behind to a big pop. Poor Sammy, the
Speaker 1: underdog baby face that everybody loves. Right, you want to
Speaker 1: see Sammy succeed. He gets jumped by this guy and
Speaker 1: people cheer. Scarlet hands Cross a giant pipe and he
Speaker 1: used it to batter Sammy across his injured ribs. Cross
Speaker 1: wound up to go use it again, but Adam Pierce
Speaker 1: came out along with other officials to stop him. Pierce
Speaker 1: grabbed the pipe out of Cross's hand and just chucked
Speaker 1: it over onto the stage like it was a fucking grenade.
Speaker 1: So he threw that thing away real quick. But we
Speaker 1: had chance of as they got him out of there,
Speaker 1: we had chants of we want Cross, we want Cross.
Speaker 1: As Sammy is laying there in the aisle, clutching his
Speaker 1: ribs in agony, trying to breathe trying to get that
Speaker 1: next breath out of his body. We want Cross, we
Speaker 1: want Cross. So apparently they weren't too bothered by this
Speaker 1: what happened to poor Sammy Now during the break, Sammy
Speaker 1: was helped to his feet and they started to bring
Speaker 1: him backstage, but he said I'm okay, and he started
Speaker 1: to make his way back down to the ring. Adam
Speaker 1: Pierce got in the ring with him and questioned if
Speaker 1: he really wanted to continue. This is where they came
Speaker 1: back live. Sammy insisted, I'm good. I'm gonna wrestle because
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot, I can go. And the trainer said,
Speaker 1: you know what, he's good. He cleared him, and Pierce said, well, okay,
Speaker 1: if the trainer says it's okay, then it's okay. So
Speaker 1: bron Breaker comes out on stage with Paul Hayman, and
Speaker 1: Hayman did not accompany him down to the ring. And
Speaker 1: Breaker is in the ring and he's got a big
Speaker 1: smile on his face because he's looking at this guy
Speaker 1: who's i mean, fifty percent at best. Right, ribs were
Speaker 1: all taped up, he's all fucked up after what we
Speaker 1: just saw. He's licking his chops. Breaker backs Sammy into
Speaker 1: the corner. He starts targeting the injured ribs. He rips
Speaker 1: off the tape around Sammy's ribs, drove both knees into them.
Speaker 1: Breaker lifts Sammy up and throws him across the ring
Speaker 1: with a souplex. Now he's setting up for a spear.
Speaker 1: Zay intercepted it with a clothesline, though that created some
Speaker 1: much needed separation. Sammy then headed up top for a
Speaker 1: flying nothing and got caught with a spear, a vicious
Speaker 1: spear on the way down. That was a great spot,
Speaker 1: So Sammy rolled out to the floor. Breaker saw red
Speaker 1: in his eyes and he headed outside. He did his
Speaker 1: run around the ring and he hit his super spear
Speaker 1: to Sammy's ain. And I'll give credit to Michael Cole
Speaker 1: and Corey Graves here. They were really kind of hyper
Speaker 1: selling the punishment that Sammy was taking. And we got
Speaker 1: to get somebody out here. This is ridiculous, you know,
Speaker 1: get pierced out here. Somebody's got to do something about this.
Speaker 1: Really pushing the fact that Sammy should not be out there.
Speaker 1: He could be very seriously injured. Somebody's got to put
Speaker 1: a stop to this. So Breaker rolled Sammy back in
Speaker 1: the ring. He pulled down the straps, he ran the
Speaker 1: ropes a few times, and he put an end to
Speaker 1: this with one last spear. This was more of an
Speaker 1: angle than an actual competitive match. This wasn't really meant
Speaker 1: to be that. We've seen Sammy's ain and bron Breaker
Speaker 1: have matches before. That's not really what this was intended
Speaker 1: to be. It was all about building bron Breaker, building
Speaker 1: bron Breaker up as a dangerous sob that you do
Speaker 1: not want to mess with, as you know, a monster.
Speaker 1: And I think it was effective. You know, it was
Speaker 1: effective for what this intended to do, and it was
Speaker 1: part of a show long story. Again, jay Uso was
Speaker 1: going to be up next. He was the next victim
Speaker 1: coming up. We had Penta yet to come. At the
Speaker 1: end of the show. Sammy Zaine was the first Domino
Speaker 1: to fall hearing this story that they were telling on
Speaker 1: this show. So as Adam Pearce was in the back
Speaker 1: chatting with the war Raiders, who we haven't seen in weeks.
Speaker 1: There they were having a conversation with the GM in
Speaker 1: the back, they were looking to get back into the
Speaker 1: tag title hunt. He was confronted by the New Day,
Speaker 1: still dressed in their black veils. They accused Pierce of
Speaker 1: helping kill the Tag Team Division by giving the judgment.
Speaker 1: They a shot at the titles as they were moaning
Speaker 1: and complaining. Becky Lynch walked past the scene, sympathized with
Speaker 1: the New Day for having to put up with Pierce's crap.
Speaker 1: She also said that getting rid of Biggie was excuse
Speaker 1: me getting rid of Biggie was a good idea. She
Speaker 1: hates that guy. I never liked that guy. And she
Speaker 1: proceeded to walk on her way to the ring because
Speaker 1: she was coming out next for a promo segment. So
Speaker 1: we go right into Becky Lynch. This was after the break.
Speaker 1: Becky the Intercontinental Champion who was defending her title in
Speaker 1: a triple threat match on Sunday it is now confirmed
Speaker 1: for Evolution. She was in the ring. She wanted an
Speaker 1: explanation on how two losers got a title match in
Speaker 1: a scenario where her chances of losing the Intercontinental title
Speaker 1: were far greater than it would be in a normal match.
Speaker 1: She said that she got why Adam Pierce put her
Speaker 1: in the match, but not why she had to face
Speaker 1: Bailey or Lyra Valkyrie again. She claimed that Bailey and
Speaker 1: Lyra were working together to get this shot, but before
Speaker 1: she could elaborate further, she was interrupted by Bailey and
Speaker 1: her horrible music. She starts making her way down to
Speaker 1: the ring, but she found herself quickly interrupted by Lyra Valkyria.
Speaker 1: Here comes bird Girl. She comes down the aisle. She
Speaker 1: blows right past Bailey on her way into the ring,
Speaker 1: and in the ring, Lyra said that her title was
Speaker 1: wrapped around a bucket full of crazy. It's the first
Speaker 1: time I've heard that expression. Hey, there's a bucket full
Speaker 1: of crazy on social media too, I see it every day.
Speaker 1: So anyway, her title was wrapped around a bucket full
Speaker 1: of crazy and it was about time to take it back.
Speaker 1: Bailey got into the ring as she said that she
Speaker 1: could have been the champion if it wasn't for Lyra
Speaker 1: and her intervention. Bailey said that if she learned anything
Speaker 1: from WrestleMania, it's that she didn't need friendships or heartbreak,
Speaker 1: but she didn't need the Intercontinental title. And Valkyria pointed out,
Speaker 1: what you just said that says it all. That comment
Speaker 1: that you just made that you prioritize championships over friendship.
Speaker 1: She said Bailey was just as bad as Becky because
Speaker 1: of what she just admitted, and she was out to
Speaker 1: rescue the Intercontinental title from two massive disappointments at Evolution,
Speaker 1: so Bailey was very bothered by this insult. She took
Speaker 1: this personally, and she said that seeing her raise Becky's hand,
Speaker 1: which is what happened at the end of their last match,
Speaker 1: made Bailey see her as a little bitch. So Valkyria
Speaker 1: went to go punch Bailey, but she ended up hitting
Speaker 1: Becky by accident. A brawl ensued. It ended with Valkyria
Speaker 1: and nailing both Becky and then Bailey with her night
Speaker 1: wing finish, Valkyria walked over to Becky, who was laying
Speaker 1: on the match. She sat her up, and then she
Speaker 1: mockingly grabbed Becky's arm and raised it and said that
Speaker 1: it would be the last time that her hand would
Speaker 1: be raised. One thing I do want to point out
Speaker 1: is the fact that Lyra, and I've said this before,
Speaker 1: but Lyra really has If you look at where she
Speaker 1: was at the beginning of this, like even before she
Speaker 1: won the title and some of the promos they started
Speaker 1: having her doing on TV, to where she is now,
Speaker 1: she definitely has made improvements on the microphone, She's more
Speaker 1: confident and more comfortable. I thought she did well here
Speaker 1: because the only way that you can get better is
Speaker 1: by practice. So she's had a lot of opportunities in
Speaker 1: this whole feud and programmed with Becky the last few
Speaker 1: months to really show off more of her personality, you know,
Speaker 1: in her speaking style and her promos, and I think
Speaker 1: she's done a good job on the whole with that.
Speaker 1: This segment was you know what it needed to be.
Speaker 1: You know, we had the back and forth insults, we
Speaker 1: had a little bit of physicality there at the end.
Speaker 1: What more could you really do? Now they'll have the
Speaker 1: Triple Threat match on Sunday, which, again, given the talent
Speaker 1: in the match, I would expect is going to be
Speaker 1: a very good match. I am not expecting a new
Speaker 1: champion to come out of this match, but I do
Speaker 1: think it should be a very good match. Now we
Speaker 1: go backstage into the again, I'm calling them the Empire
Speaker 1: until I'm told otherwise, I'm going to assume that this
Speaker 1: is their new name. We go back to their locker room.
Speaker 1: Bron Breaker looks upset and Rollins wants to know why,
Speaker 1: and bron asks Seth, you know what are we going
Speaker 1: to do about Carrying Cross because in his view, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some people who may feel like the only
Speaker 1: reason he beat Sammy's Ain is because Carrion Cross did
Speaker 1: the dirty work first, right, came out and softened him up,
Speaker 1: and Rollins tried to assure him, Look, people are not
Speaker 1: going to give Carrying Cross credit for the hard work
Speaker 1: that you put in tonight. Paul Hammon shows up and
Speaker 1: he looks concerned because did you hear the news, and
Speaker 1: he goes, Sammy's ain is out of action indefinitely, and
Speaker 1: they all have a good laugh at his expense. Rollins
Speaker 1: asked Reid, why are you laughing? Goes, looks to me
Speaker 1: like Jay Uso as of this moment is in good shape,
Speaker 1: and Reid said that Uso wouldn't be when he was
Speaker 1: done with him, and that led into the next match,
Speaker 1: which was Bronson Reid one on one against jay Uso.
Speaker 1: Uso dodged a sent on from Reid, kept up the
Speaker 1: attack with some punches and a kick that sent Read outside.
Speaker 1: Jay hit a suicide dive that sent Read over the
Speaker 1: announced desk, and then there was a superkick that sent
Speaker 1: Read backwards in such a way that he was now
Speaker 1: seated in a chair. He was seated in one of
Speaker 1: those big announcer chairs, the office chairs, long enough for
Speaker 1: another superkick to rock him backwards and he fell backwards
Speaker 1: over the chair and out of the chair. So Uso
Speaker 1: got back in the ring and he was looking for
Speaker 1: another suicide dive. And the way they shot this was
Speaker 1: was great. You see Jay Uso the cameras focused on
Speaker 1: him he's hits its ropes right, he's coming off the ropes,
Speaker 1: He's gonna fly through the ropes, and he is stopped
Speaker 1: in his tracks because Bronson Reid yeading. You talk about yeading.
Speaker 1: He yieeded this fucking chair, this office chair, right at
Speaker 1: Jay Usso's head, and the referee calls for the bell
Speaker 1: for what you would assume is a disqualification. This man
Speaker 1: just yeaded a chair at another man's head and the
Speaker 1: referee called for the bell. What else would it be
Speaker 1: other than a disqualification and a win for Jay Usso?
Speaker 1: You would be wrong. They called this a no contest
Speaker 1: because later in the show, and they do this thing
Speaker 1: now where they have like a ticker that they'll show
Speaker 1: on the bottom of the screen with like the news
Speaker 1: of the night for the results of the show so far.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching this and they showed Jay Usso and
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid went to a no contest in their match.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here and I'm saying, a no contest.
Speaker 1: This man threw a fucking office chair at this man's head.
Speaker 1: Did a no contest? Like I would love to know
Speaker 1: in modern day WWE, what would constitute a disqualification, Like
Speaker 1: what do you have to do to get yourself disqualified?
Speaker 1: If Bronton Reid shot Jay Usso in the face, would
Speaker 1: it be a no contest?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Where's the line here? When I saw that on the screen,
Speaker 1: I said, you gotta be you gotta be shitting me,
Speaker 1: you gotta be shitting me. So yes, evidently this was
Speaker 1: not a disqualification. How how that's the case, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. But anyway, holy shit, Uh this
Speaker 1: spot here, This wasn't quite as great as that one
Speaker 1: time that braun Strowman yeaded the office chair into Roman
Speaker 1: Reins his head, But it's still a great spot. I
Speaker 1: love when they do that spot. After the match, Read
Speaker 1: went on a rampage. He hit two tsunami splashes on
Speaker 1: Jay Usso before Adam Hears and other officials came out
Speaker 1: to intervened. Intervened manslaughter. It could have been manslaughter. Apparently
Speaker 1: manslaughter would be no contest. How is Adam Pierce still
Speaker 1: the general manager? He's got to have a meeting with
Speaker 1: his referees. We need an intervention for the referees, is
Speaker 1: what we need. That is what we need on these shows.
Speaker 1: Remember back in ninety nine when the referees went on
Speaker 1: strike and we had that scab referee. We need to
Speaker 1: have a segment where Adam Pierce and Nick all this
Speaker 1: get they round up all their referees and they let
Speaker 1: them know that it's about time that they renew their training.
Speaker 1: So they're going to be mandatory training courses for these referees.
Speaker 1: I can't quite figure that out. This match only lasted
Speaker 1: three minutes. It was the same situation is the bron
Speaker 1: Breaker thing, where it was more of an angle than
Speaker 1: a match. It was a means to an end. The
Speaker 1: outcome of the match as far as who wins and
Speaker 1: who loses in this case, isn't even really relevant. I
Speaker 1: mean again, I'm just blown away by them calling it
Speaker 1: a no contest. But whether Jay wins or Read wins
Speaker 1: in this case, it doesn't matter because the point was
Speaker 1: take out jay Usso and leave him laying at the
Speaker 1: end of the segment, And actually jay Usso got back
Speaker 1: to his feet and he was helped to the back,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like he was all laid out or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But it was more of an angle
Speaker 1: to just show the dominance of Seth's crew. That was
Speaker 1: the point of this. Now, after this, Michael Cole was
Speaker 1: hyping up that they actually put a fact on the screens,
Speaker 1: like the Fact of the Day or whatever they called
Speaker 1: it up on the screen where it said Goldberg could
Speaker 1: culminate his career on Saturday Night's main event this weekend.
Speaker 1: He could because you see, the idea is that if
Speaker 1: he beats Gunther and wins the World Heavyweight Championship, then
Speaker 1: conceivably his career may continue. Right, There's a chance that
Speaker 1: his career may go on if he's the champion. God forbid.
Speaker 1: We got an La Knight video promo promoting his Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event match against Seth Rollins, and he was
Speaker 1: cutting a promo on Seth and in this promo, La
Speaker 1: Knight talked about how he took three tsunami splashes from
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid and he returned a week later. That is
Speaker 1: a hell of a way to follow up on the
Speaker 1: segment that we just saw where Jay Uso took only
Speaker 1: two tsunami splashes. Here's La Night saying I took three
Speaker 1: and I was back a week later. So I guess
Speaker 1: the two that we just saw that Jay took really
Speaker 1: are all that big of a deal. I would expect
Speaker 1: to see him back on the show looking quite good
Speaker 1: next week. We shouldn't have to wait too long to
Speaker 1: see him again. We also got a good video package
Speaker 1: promoting the Rhea Ripley Eosky match, which was the only
Speaker 1: bit of promotion we got all night for their match
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Saturday, Sunday. So many fucking shows. I don't
Speaker 1: know which day each one is. Evolution is on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so we got a video package here. This is very
Speaker 1: likely made eventing the show. There really is no other
Speaker 1: match on the card that is deserving of that spot,
Speaker 1: not even Tiffany and Trish, Ria and Eo. They're the
Speaker 1: ones with as you saw in this video package history
Speaker 1: that goes back all the way to twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 1: they were showing highlights of their very first match in
Speaker 1: the May Young Class. Can you believe it's been seven
Speaker 1: years since the May Young Classic. It's crazy. But the
Speaker 1: story here is that Rhea Ripley cannot figure this woman out.
Speaker 1: Eosky has Rhea Ripley's number. Rhea Ripley has yet to
Speaker 1: beat Eo Sky one on one. She lost to her
Speaker 1: in the Young Classic, she lost to her another time
Speaker 1: in NXT, she lost her championship to her on Raw.
Speaker 1: Earlier this year, she lost to her in the triple
Speaker 1: Threat match of WrestleMania. All of these things would seem
Speaker 1: to add up to a title change on Sunday because
Speaker 1: they're really leaning in hard on this idea that Ria
Speaker 1: just can't beat Eosky, and so that's really the crux
Speaker 1: of this video package, which was well done, but again,
Speaker 1: it would have been nice to actually see them on
Speaker 1: the show tonight, which we did not. Up next, we
Speaker 1: had El Grande Americano. Yes, El Grande Americano was on
Speaker 1: Raw tonight, even though Chad Gable unfortunately is out injured
Speaker 1: and we will not be seeing Chad Gable for quite
Speaker 1: some time, but that doesn't mean that Elgrande Americano is
Speaker 1: not going to be with us. He was against Dragon
Speaker 1: Lee tonight. Michael Cole acknowledged that Americano was a foot
Speaker 1: taller than the last time we saw him in the ring. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously he hit a growth spurt. Graves said that Cole
Speaker 1: probably thinks Giant Machine was andre the Giants, where a
Speaker 1: Midnight Rider was Dusty Rhodes. Dragon Ly hit Americana with
Speaker 1: a sliding kick that sent him over the over by
Speaker 1: the announced desk, and Cole said, look, there's no tattoo
Speaker 1: on the back of his neck. Chad Gable has a
Speaker 1: tattoo on the back of his neck. Now Grande Americano
Speaker 1: previously had that same tattoo on the back of his neck.
Speaker 1: This guy has no tattoo on the back of his neck,
Speaker 1: he says. So Americano battled back and sent Lee over
Speaker 1: the timekeeper's barricade. It was a very scary bump too,
Speaker 1: the way that he went flying over that barricade and
Speaker 1: just smacked the concrete. After a commercial break, Americana ran
Speaker 1: up the ropes. He had a blockbuster on the way down.
Speaker 1: Lee fought back. He caught Americano in the ropes upside
Speaker 1: down and then hit him with a double stomp off
Speaker 1: the top rope that led to a near fall. Lee
Speaker 1: followed up with a flip did and then back in
Speaker 1: the ring. Americano he slipped the metal plate underneath his mask.
Speaker 1: He avoided Lee's top rope whatever move he was going for,
Speaker 1: and then he charged at him with a running headbutt
Speaker 1: with the loaded mask, and he knocked him out and
Speaker 1: Americano covered Dragon Lee and he pinned him, so Ludwig
Speaker 1: our El Grande Americano picks up the win here. You know,
Speaker 1: Kaiser is in the same boat as Chad Gable. When
Speaker 1: these guys go out there as themselves under their actual name,
Speaker 1: they can't win a match to save their life. Ludwig
Speaker 1: Kaiser hasn't even been able to buy television time, Like
Speaker 1: I could see him going to management and saying, can
Speaker 1: I get a time buy like these infomercials you see
Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the morning on TV. Can I
Speaker 1: buy time on the show? And They're like, no, get
Speaker 1: the fuck away. He can't buy time on this show
Speaker 1: over the last what four or five months? Funny enough,
Speaker 1: ever since Charlotte Flair made that comment about him in
Speaker 1: her promo with Tiffany Stratt leading into Wrestlevania, Kaiser dropped
Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. So the only way
Speaker 1: he can win matches, same thing with Chad Gable is
Speaker 1: by slipping on the Elgrande Americano mask and then they're unbeatable.
Speaker 1: So this may be the only way that Ludwig Kaiser
Speaker 1: is going to get himself some wins here on this show.
Speaker 1: And if that's what it takes, then so be it now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long Gable is going to be
Speaker 1: out for he had shoulder surgery. I don't know the
Speaker 1: extent of it, but shoulder surgery is not a quick recovery,
Speaker 1: so I suspect it will be at least a few
Speaker 1: months before we see Chad Gable. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: two months, it's gonna be a while. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much you know in terms of the legs that
Speaker 1: this character has and this angle has, because it has
Speaker 1: already been going on there for many months. I don't
Speaker 1: know the kind of legs that it has. You know,
Speaker 1: if they can not drive this thing into the ground
Speaker 1: before Chad Gable does come back, if they can wait
Speaker 1: until Chad Gable comes back, once he's back, then you
Speaker 1: can have some fun with it with him and Kaiser,
Speaker 1: maybe going back and forth as far as who's under
Speaker 1: the mask. But again that's still many months down the road.
Speaker 1: They may run this thing into the ground. You know,
Speaker 1: I still find it amusing. Am I going to find
Speaker 1: it as amusing a month from now? Three months from now?
Speaker 1: Maybe not? But you know what, it's something for Kaiser
Speaker 1: to do. It's sad that this is what it takes.
Speaker 1: But if this is what it takes to get him
Speaker 1: on television, and they can play this thing out and
Speaker 1: eventually the mask will come off and they'll do a
Speaker 1: big angle out of it, you know what. So be it.
Speaker 1: Because he's a really good wrestler, and if that's what
Speaker 1: it takes putting him under a silly, stupid mask to
Speaker 1: get him back in the ring, so be it. And
Speaker 1: not for nothing. The mash that these two guys had
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Dragonly is just he's just another guy
Speaker 1: in the show.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: There was a point in time, very early on when
Speaker 1: he was called up to the main roster where Dragonly
Speaker 1: was getting something of a push. It didn't last very long,
Speaker 1: and now he's just another guy in the show. This
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Speaker 1: backstage Penta who I am happy to say, is not
Speaker 1: just another guy in the show. Penta is probably the
Speaker 1: most over luchador they have not named Raymisterio. He was
Speaker 1: in the back warming up when Paul Hermit, Paul Herman,
Speaker 1: Paul Hayman, Paul her Peewee Herman, Paul Haman sat down
Speaker 1: next to him. Hayman called himself the personal oracle of
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins and started to address Penta in Spanish. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he said, but I did hear puto.
Speaker 1: I know that's a very bad thing, so I know
Speaker 1: he called him that. Penta cut him off and he
Speaker 1: barked back at him in Spanish. Bron Breaker showed up
Speaker 1: and he looks over at pent He goes, look, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what you just said. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you just said, but you don't talk to him
Speaker 1: like that. Got to adjust your tone when you're speaking
Speaker 1: to Paul Haman. Penta then did his Sarah Miado hand
Speaker 1: gesture and he walked off, and Haymon looked at Breaker
Speaker 1: and said, I hate when he does that, and Breaker said, man,
Speaker 1: I do too. He goes, you know, three up, three down,
Speaker 1: like we're in baseball. I don't get it. I laughed.
Speaker 1: It's true, three up, three down, that's a baseball reference.
Speaker 1: I don't know that pent is a really big baseball fan,
Speaker 1: but say personality. We got to see more of his
Speaker 1: personality shine through on TV. We heard more from bron
Speaker 1: Breaker in one night tonight than we had in the
Speaker 1: last six months. That's good. More of that during the break.
Speaker 1: You may have missed this. They did post this, by
Speaker 1: the way, on their Twitter page. Wwe did this was
Speaker 1: during the commercial break they went up to the balcony.
Speaker 1: Jackie Redman was there to interview, carrying Cross and scarlet.
Speaker 1: And when they when she introduced cross and scarlet, big
Speaker 1: pop from the crowd, like a big ovation for these two.
Speaker 1: And they replayed the attack on Samby's ain earlier in
Speaker 1: the night and she asked him, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you have to say for yourself? And he says, wasn't
Speaker 1: that great footage? And the people cheered, poor Sammy's am
Speaker 1: first a chance, we want Cross after he's laying there
Speaker 1: in the aisleway. Now they replay it again and this
Speaker 1: man is gloating about it and the fans are cheering.
Speaker 1: We got loud chants of we want Cross, we want Cross,
Speaker 1: and Cross says well, now you got me, and everyone
Speaker 1: goes yay and they all cheer, and now you got
Speaker 1: me too, Sammy. And every week you come out here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blash you in the guts with a steel rod.
Speaker 1: He says. All he needs Sammy to say is Cross
Speaker 1: told the truth. And until he does that, this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen week after week after week, because let's tell
Speaker 1: the truth, Sammy. He is the devil they know, versus
Speaker 1: you the devil they don't. And that got another big pop.
Speaker 1: And the best part about this entire thing is Jackie
Speaker 1: Redmond at that point is taking it home because they're
Speaker 1: about to come back from commercial. And as they're winding
Speaker 1: down the segment, right before they cut away and they
Speaker 1: faded out, Cross reaches over. He grabs Scarlett by the
Speaker 1: head and he begins putting a liplock on her, starts
Speaker 1: making out with his wife to another big pot as
Speaker 1: they cut away. This man is very much enjoying the
Speaker 1: fan support that he's been getting. That much is very clear.
Speaker 1: I know there's been a lot to talk about his
Speaker 1: contract status. His contract supposedly is up, possibly in the
Speaker 1: next month or so. Is he going to stay, is
Speaker 1: he going to go. I think he's gonna stay. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're going to offer him an extension. They'd be
Speaker 1: crazy not to with this kind of support that he's
Speaker 1: been getting. And whether it's a short term deal like
Speaker 1: a one year thing or a three year thing, I
Speaker 1: think Carrying Cross is staying in WWE, and if they
Speaker 1: can actually get serious, you know about giving him more
Speaker 1: consistent television time, which they have been doing the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. So this is exactly the sort of thing
Speaker 1: they need to be doing. You hear him getting these
Speaker 1: reactions like tonight they were in Providence, Rhode Island. I
Speaker 1: don't think he has any connection to Providence, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: Maybe once in his life he drove through Providence, Long
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. Maybe he worked an independent show there many
Speaker 1: years ago. I don't know. But whether it's Providence, whether
Speaker 1: it's Saudi Arabia, whether it's any other arena, we've seen
Speaker 1: this where they show him on screen or he makes
Speaker 1: an appearance and he gets a reaction, good capitalize on that,
Speaker 1: build on that. Maybe this could turn into something even bigger.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's been a lot of contract talk. I
Speaker 1: would not expect him to be going anywhere after a break.
Speaker 1: It was time to hear from the ring. General our
Speaker 1: esteemed world heavyweight champion. Woo wooings. Yes he got a
Speaker 1: name change, our world heavyweight champion. Gunther on his way
Speaker 1: down to the ring, and he said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: look at that. Oh man, hey, big hoss, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: Thank you for the two bucks. Gunther said, he has
Speaker 1: verbally abused Goldberg over the last two weeks, and yet
Speaker 1: Goldberg hasn't done anything about it. So Gunther assumed that
Speaker 1: Goldberg was afraid of him and afraid of the pressure.
Speaker 1: Now we hear the sound of a car engine interrupting Gunther.
Speaker 1: He's looking around, and then they show us on screen.
Speaker 1: They cut to the parking lot outside and they showed
Speaker 1: Goldberg arriving in his muscle car. He showed up in
Speaker 1: a red Chevelle, pretty nice car. He exits the car,
Speaker 1: it leaves it running. He's wearing his Goldberg's Does it
Speaker 1: say Goldberg's last stand or Goldberg can't stand? I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's said. Anyway. He gets out of the
Speaker 1: car and he begins to make his way into the
Speaker 1: building where he makes his entrance. They through Gorilla. They
Speaker 1: play his music and there was a loud ovation for him.
Speaker 1: The people were I don't think they weren't necessarily expecting
Speaker 1: him to be there, because again, we haven't seen him
Speaker 1: in the flesh over the last few weeks. So I
Speaker 1: think it was a combination of people who wanted to
Speaker 1: cheer for him, but also people who were like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: he's actually here. So he got a good reaction coming out,
Speaker 1: and he was met by Goldberg. Chance he gets in
Speaker 1: the ring, he and Gunther go face to face. And
Speaker 1: now this was all off Mike, this was not being
Speaker 1: set into the microphone, but you could read Goldberg's lips.
Speaker 1: He's telling him he's ready for a fight. Why wait
Speaker 1: until Saturday, Let's go now. So Goldberg starts daring Gunther
Speaker 1: to hit him. So Gunther goes and takes a shot,
Speaker 1: and Goldberg blocks it and he knocks him down with
Speaker 1: a punch of his own. And then Goldberg goes to
Speaker 1: the corner. He begins to set up for a spear
Speaker 1: gun through though rolls out of the ring before he
Speaker 1: could hit it. The good news, the good news here
Speaker 1: Goldberg's last ride. Right, Okay, that's what the shirt says.
Speaker 1: That's right, thank you, Yes, Goldberg, I thought it was
Speaker 1: Goldberg's last stand. Goldberg can't stand, Goldberg can't drive. No,
Speaker 1: it's Goldberg's last ride. The good news is that the
Speaker 1: crowd was loud for him and they were happy to
Speaker 1: see him come out and actually confront Gunther. They were
Speaker 1: chanting Goldberg, So that's good. That's good. The bad news
Speaker 1: is he was blown up after throwing one punch. And
Speaker 1: the shorter that this match is on Saturday, the better.
Speaker 1: Otherwise Gunther is going to have his work cut out
Speaker 1: for him. And when I say short, I'm talking three minutes.
Speaker 1: If this goes much longer than that, I'm talking five minutes,
Speaker 1: six minutes, eight minutes, it's going to be a struggle.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's in the gym. Look, he's in good shape,
Speaker 1: especially for a fifty eight year old, Right, he's in
Speaker 1: better shape than I fucking am. But there's a difference
Speaker 1: between being in good shape walking around and being in
Speaker 1: the kind of shape that he wants to be in
Speaker 1: getting back into the ring. Right, he can't do it.
Speaker 1: That guy that they showed in the video package last
Speaker 1: week killing dudes and you know, picking up Hulk Hogan
Speaker 1: like he's nothing and winning the title at the Georgia Dome.
Speaker 1: That was the peak of his career. Dude, that was
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. That's a long time ago. And he's
Speaker 1: on record is saying that he's gotten hurt a bunch
Speaker 1: of times trying to train and prepare for this match.
Speaker 1: He's got a bad knee that really hurts him. He
Speaker 1: can't run on it, all these different things. Goldberg's matches
Speaker 1: were generally short anyway, but in this case, they have
Speaker 1: to keep this very short otherwise it's going to expose
Speaker 1: him in a lot of ways and it's just gonna
Speaker 1: make for a bad match. And if you just look
Speaker 1: at it from the perspective of, you know what, this
Speaker 1: guy was so insistent on having a retirement match, and
Speaker 1: he was so angry that, you know, Vince McMahon promised
Speaker 1: me one. I never got one. That's why I think
Speaker 1: we're getting in now. I think Triple Ah really just
Speaker 1: wanted to shut him up, and it's like, Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: give him what he wants and that'll be it. I do.
Speaker 1: I think he was just tired of hearing him complain
Speaker 1: on podcasts and interviews and stuff. Okay, so now it's here, right.
Speaker 1: Their whole reason he insisted on wanting this rematch is
Speaker 1: he didn't like the way things went in his last match.
Speaker 1: He got the call very late. It was for a
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia match against Roman reigns with three years ago.
Speaker 1: He got COVID right before, which they may not have
Speaker 1: known about, but he got COVID. Like everything that could
Speaker 1: go wrong did go wrong, and it was a terrible match,
Speaker 1: and he obviously is not happy with how that match went.
Speaker 1: He didn't want that to be the last memory that
Speaker 1: people have of him, so in his mind, he really
Speaker 1: wants to go out there and have a match that
Speaker 1: he can be proud of. So for his sake, I
Speaker 1: hope he can do that. And the way to do
Speaker 1: that is to not overexpose yourself and to not stay
Speaker 1: out there for too long. He cannot do a match
Speaker 1: longer than a few minutes. He's just not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do it, you know, unless it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stalling and you know, gum through leaving the
Speaker 1: ring and doing like old school Heel type shit to
Speaker 1: try to drag it out a little bit. But I said,
Speaker 1: you know, for all the commercials we get on these
Speaker 1: Saturday nights made event shows, you can fit the entire
Speaker 1: match into one segment. You don't have to take a
Speaker 1: break in the middle of this match, like we're so
Speaker 1: used to this with WWE shows, where after ninety seconds,
Speaker 1: you know it's like gotta go to commercial. No, you
Speaker 1: can fit this whole fucking thing in one segment, and
Speaker 1: so that's what they need to do, and hopefully for
Speaker 1: his sake, he can at least be be happy with
Speaker 1: his performance and be content to just leave it alone
Speaker 1: and ride off into the sunset. That's really the best
Speaker 1: that I think you can hope for, that the guy
Speaker 1: doesn't go out there and embarrassed himself. On Saturday, the
Speaker 1: main event was Seth Rollins one on one with Penta
Speaker 1: Penta in the main event. That sounds all right to me.
Speaker 1: I liked that Penta surprised Rowlins with a superkick right
Speaker 1: as the bell rang, and then out at ringside Penta
Speaker 1: was chopping away at him. He went for another chop,
Speaker 1: which Rollins ducked, and so Penta ended up chopping the
Speaker 1: led casing around the ring post. Pentado made a comeback.
Speaker 1: He hit a diving hurricane Rona off the timekeeper's barricade
Speaker 1: and took Seth down to the floor. As Penta got
Speaker 1: back in the ring, Rollins took advantage with some stomps.
Speaker 1: He attempted a pedigree. Pentado countered out and sent Rolins
Speaker 1: to the outside with a clothesline. He followed that with
Speaker 1: a topey conehilo that dropped Rollins and himself. He kind
Speaker 1: of splattered himself on the floor as well. That led
Speaker 1: to the final commercial break. He showed a cut right
Speaker 1: above Set's eye was bleeding, nothing too terrible, but it
Speaker 1: was a bloody cut. And so Seth is yelling at
Speaker 1: Penta after you know, you made me bleed my own
Speaker 1: blood anyway, And most people are going to say that
Speaker 1: that comes from Dodgeball, but which is true? But Dodgeball
Speaker 1: got it from the Simpsons. Just FYI. I'm not even
Speaker 1: like a huge Simpsons fin I haven't watched all the
Speaker 1: episodes or anything like that, but even I know that.
Speaker 1: So Penta looked for the Penta driver, but Rollins escaped.
Speaker 1: He could not, however, escape the backstabber from Penta. That followed.
Speaker 1: As both men recovered, Rollins lifted Penta on his shoulders
Speaker 1: before dropping him with a gutbuster. Rollins headed up top
Speaker 1: and he started mocking Penta's Sarahmado and then he hit
Speaker 1: the frog splash only for a two count. Though Rollins
Speaker 1: had Penta in position for the stump but could not connect.
Speaker 1: Rollins was placed on the top rope by Pentas. The
Speaker 1: two began to duke it out up on top. So
Speaker 1: Penta ended up on the apron and he connected with
Speaker 1: an inside out Hurrican rana from the apron into the ring,
Speaker 1: used his feet to pull Rollins off the top rope
Speaker 1: with the rana. Then he managed a Penta driver on Rollins.
Speaker 1: I always hold my breath when he hits that move. Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta tuck your head like at just the right moment,
Speaker 1: otherwise you're gonna get dumped right on top of your head.
Speaker 1: But he hit the Penta driver, Rollins barely kicked out.
Speaker 1: Penta got Rollins in position for the sacrifice arm snap,
Speaker 1: but mister money in the bank over here, he escaped.
Speaker 1: He delivered a buckle bomb. Penta, though bounced right out
Speaker 1: of the corner and into a Mexican Destroyer. He went
Speaker 1: for the cover after that. Rollins, though, grabbed the bottom
Speaker 1: rope at the very last possible second. Now we've got
Speaker 1: chance of this is awesome. The crowd is is totally
Speaker 1: into this.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Penta drag Set's body to the center of the ring,
Speaker 1: and he was setting up for something, but Rollins lifted
Speaker 1: his head in such a way as to deliver a
Speaker 1: low blow, which the referee did not see or else
Speaker 1: it would have been a no contest, I guess. So
Speaker 1: he went low with the head butt, and then Rollins
Speaker 1: delivered a stomp and he pinned Penta to win the match.
Speaker 1: After the match, Paul Hayman called literally on his phone,
Speaker 1: bron Breaker and Bronson Reid's come on down, so they
Speaker 1: started to make their way out. When La Knight snuck
Speaker 1: into the ring, he blindsided Rollins and dropped him with
Speaker 1: the bft Breaker and Reid they charged after him, but
Speaker 1: they couldn't catch up. Tonight Night jumped over the barricade.
Speaker 1: He made his getaway through the crowd. Funniest fucking moment
Speaker 1: on the entire show. Bron Breaker in going after him,
Speaker 1: he went over the barricade. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: actually intended to go over. He didn't intend to go
Speaker 1: over in the way that he did. He fell over
Speaker 1: the bar and he was having a hell of a
Speaker 1: time getting back out his feet. So I had a
Speaker 1: nice little laugh at that. But la night, you know,
Speaker 1: he was super over and everybody in the crowd was
Speaker 1: chanting his name over and over again. That was the
Speaker 1: parting shot, you know, as they went off the air here.
Speaker 1: And that's good. That's good for him, because I don't
Speaker 1: think that he will be standing tall on Saturday in
Speaker 1: the way that he was standing tall at the end
Speaker 1: of this show tonight. I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: go his way. But that was a great main event.
Speaker 1: It's a great main event to close out a good
Speaker 1: show overall, infinitely better than the Drek that we got
Speaker 1: on Friday, which was just boring as all hell. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed this show. I wish that I could say the
Speaker 1: same for the promotion for these shows this weekend. We've
Speaker 1: got only three matches so far on the entire Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event card. You know, they could if they
Speaker 1: wanted to, they could add a women's match onto that card,
Speaker 1: because there was one champion who was actually not on
Speaker 1: the card on Sunday unless they put her in the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal, and that's the women's United States Champion. Julia
Speaker 1: does not have a match on that show. So if
Speaker 1: they wanted to do maybe a rematch, let's say, with
Speaker 1: her and Zelina Vega. I could see them throwing that
Speaker 1: on the Saturday Night's made a van card on Friday.
Speaker 1: They'll have to announce something on Friday if they're going
Speaker 1: to add anything to that show. But we only have
Speaker 1: three matches on that show, and then of course the
Speaker 1: Evolution show on Sunday. And you know, again, if I
Speaker 1: was on that roster, the women's roster that they have,
Speaker 1: I would not be happy with the way that they
Speaker 1: have promoted this show for Sunday. They were set up
Speaker 1: to fail the minute that this show was announced. They
Speaker 1: really were, especially running in the same market three times
Speaker 1: in one weekend. It's no wonder you know that they're
Speaker 1: struggling to sell tickets on Sunday. It really shouldn't be
Speaker 1: a surprise to anybody. What did you think of the
Speaker 1: Raw before Saturday Night's Main Events and Evolution? Seventy two
Speaker 1: point six percent thumbs up, twenty seven zero point four
Speaker 1: percent thumbs down. A big hoss. Thank you for the
Speaker 1: two bucks. Appreciate it. Thank you brother. Think a look
Speaker 1: at your superchats, see what you thought of this show.
Speaker 1: We are seven out of ten actually on the goal
Speaker 1: in the chat, and we are at three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty one likes, less than twenty away from a guaranteed
Speaker 1: be the booker. So get those likes up. Let's see
Speaker 1: if we can make it happen, shall we? Hey dried Chicken,
Speaker 1: getting us started here? Pair of superchats ten dollars in total.
Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, I'll add. He says, I don't like
Speaker 1: how they put together the Ria versus EO match. Will
Speaker 1: there be a disqualification finish? Dope? I just only plane
Speaker 1: polished and clean finish. I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're trying to say. Just to be clear,
Speaker 1: he says that he doesn't blame Ria or EO. I
Speaker 1: don't like the low effort. I would have added a stipulation,
Speaker 1: maybe a best of three falls match. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that doesn't bother me as much. They could have added
Speaker 1: a stipulation, I guess, but again they It doesn't bother
Speaker 1: me as much as just the overall lack of effort
Speaker 1: they put into not only how we got to this match,
Speaker 1: but just the entire show itself. It's a full card.
Speaker 1: But like you said, very low effort, very lazy. Got
Speaker 1: two more messages you're from him. One special lucky winner
Speaker 1: from the Battle Royal at WWE Evolution will not only
Speaker 1: receive a world title show, they will receive a hotel,
Speaker 1: presidential suite and a personal limo. Also, let me tell
Speaker 1: you how Naomi can get more heat. Brother Naomi sees
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill's daughter, antagonizes her and makes her cry, screams
Speaker 1: at her and tells her, I'll get you my pretty
Speaker 1: like a true villain. It's a good thing you're not
Speaker 1: booking these shows, Jace Laser. Today is my twenty seventh birthday,
Speaker 1: and I want to say I've been a fan since
Speaker 1: TV tracks. Well, then that means you've been a fan
Speaker 1: for a long time TV tracks. Then we're going back
Speaker 1: to what twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. Thank you, Jay's Happy birthday,
Speaker 1: Happy twenty seventh birthday. I hope it's great. I don't
Speaker 1: know if today is technically his birthday it's now after midnight,
Speaker 1: but happy birthday Holiday one ninety seven. Hi Solo. It's
Speaker 1: disappointing that the women's US title will be the only
Speaker 1: women's title not being defended at Evolution. They have seven
Speaker 1: matches already set, yeah, including the NXT Championship. I believe
Speaker 1: so even the NXT Women's Championship is being defended on
Speaker 1: the show, but not the women's US time. And we
Speaker 1: have hit to be the booker goal. Look at that
Speaker 1: four h two, So we'll be doing that in a bit.
Speaker 1: Fire penned U dropping the fifty dollars goonthar bomb. Actually no,
Speaker 1: that's a cold talk, says thinking about it now. If
Speaker 1: WWE had gone to Netflix in twenty nineteen twenty twenty, says,
Speaker 1: then they could have made actual full length weekly Firefly
Speaker 1: Funhouse episodes as its own separate thing. It would have
Speaker 1: been so down for that. You'd have to really go
Speaker 1: all in for it to work. Uh you know what, weekly,
Speaker 1: I think that would burn itself out pretty quick. It's
Speaker 1: one of those kind of unique, special things that you
Speaker 1: got to keep unique and special. I don't think that
Speaker 1: would have worked. GMB name one star, WWE or AEW.
Speaker 1: You want to turn face or heal. I'd like to
Speaker 1: turn John Cena face so we could be done with
Speaker 1: this heel turn. Can we do that? Duff's VIDs with
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety nine says, was I can hear Friday
Speaker 1: Night because of a health scare thought it was a
Speaker 1: mini stroke. It turned out to be Bell's palsy. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that eating and drinking is annoying
Speaker 1: and the I feel is dry sometimes. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the stream solo. It helps more than you know. I'm
Speaker 1: very sorry to hear that. I hope it clears up usually.
Speaker 1: I think in most cases. Because I had a family
Speaker 1: member who had Bell's palsy and I think it lasted
Speaker 1: six weeks, which is really what makes the Jim Ross
Speaker 1: thing so crazy. You know that he got afflicted with
Speaker 1: it in nineteen ninety four. That's why Vince fired him,
Speaker 1: and he'llly reason Vince brought him back later that year
Speaker 1: is because Vince was on trial and he needed an announcer,
Speaker 1: so he brought back Jim Ross. But that was the
Speaker 1: first time he got afflicted with it, and he never
Speaker 1: fully recovered. And then he got hit with it two
Speaker 1: more times ninety eight. I think it was the same
Speaker 1: night that he found out his mother passed away. They
Speaker 1: were in the UK to do a UK only pay
Speaker 1: per view and he had an attack while he was
Speaker 1: live on the air doing the show. And I know
Speaker 1: he had at least one more so that's a unique
Speaker 1: thing for that to happen. Hopefully, in your case it
Speaker 1: was relatively minor, and hopefully it'll resolve quickly. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad that you're here with us on the stream,
Speaker 1: and hopefully, hopefully it'll be resolved very quickly. Mister Rod.
Speaker 1: With everything going on this weekend, from w W to
Speaker 1: NXT to AW, what is your excitement level for the
Speaker 1: whole weekend. I'm pretty excited for All In because when
Speaker 1: you really look at the car there are some really
Speaker 1: strong matches on that show, and you know it's their
Speaker 1: biggest show of the year, and I'm a little concerned
Speaker 1: about the potential outcome of the main event, but I
Speaker 1: think in the end, I think in the end it'll
Speaker 1: all work out, So I'm excited for that show. My
Speaker 1: excitement level for the WWE shows is pretty low. I
Speaker 1: think the Evolution show will end up being pretty good though,
Speaker 1: but at my excitement level for those shows is not
Speaker 1: very high.
Speaker 3: I at all.
Speaker 1: Javili one hundred and thirty dollars Super cham Bomb, I
Speaker 1: love heavily. Here is that why? Yeah, that's why Vince
Speaker 1: fired Jim Ross. I think he woke up super Bowl
Speaker 1: Sunday in nineteen ninety four and he had Bell's palsy
Speaker 1: and Vince got rid of him. Hell of a guy,
Speaker 1: But Havili says, what's up? Solom Monster shout out from Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 1: Favorite PL this year so far? I don't know what
Speaker 1: is my favorite PL this year so far. It might
Speaker 1: be Elimination Chamber. Actually, I very much enjoyed Elimination Chamber
Speaker 1: this year. Probably probably the Royal Rumble or Elimination Chamber. WWE,
Speaker 1: he says, is doing a top twenty five greatest Summer
Speaker 1: Slam matches of all time? In your opinion, what will
Speaker 1: be number one? My guess is they'll put Breton Davey
Speaker 1: Boyt number one from ninety two Wembley. If I had
Speaker 1: an adventurer guest, that's probably gonna be it. Jeff Jarrett
Speaker 1: said that XPOC deserves a solo induction into the WWE
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Do you agree? I do? Thank you
Speaker 1: have YOULI justin g Sorry I missed you last week
Speaker 1: On Call Sucks anyway. Sidra said that my dad jokes
Speaker 1: are immature, how absurd, they're full grown. I like that, say,
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that punchline you caught me there today
Speaker 1: was of solo? What faction in WWE do you think
Speaker 1: would have gone on to great success? But it ended
Speaker 1: too soon? The hurt business? Uh Nico? How good was
Speaker 1: Velveteen Dream versus Matt Riddle back at NXT Takeover? I
Speaker 1: remember it had the most unpredictable ending to a match.
Speaker 1: I only vaguely remember that. The one that really stands
Speaker 1: out to me is the whole velveteen Dream Allister Black
Speaker 1: thing and their match and Black winning and then sitting
Speaker 1: next to him and saying I'm paraphrasing here but basically
Speaker 1: acknowledging him and calling him velveteen Dream, and like the
Speaker 1: pot that it got because he I wouldn't acknowledge him
Speaker 1: in the lead up to the match, but he earned
Speaker 1: his respect enough that he finally acknowledged him and it
Speaker 1: got a big pop like that. It was just such
Speaker 1: a great story, they told Dry Chicken says, you know what,
Speaker 1: New Day and Becky as a team equals Cinema h
Speaker 1: Major with the four ninety nine. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Maya Lesnar? I know Triple H is salivating at
Speaker 1: the thought of her in WWE. I can see her
Speaker 1: being the first real Paul Hayman girl. I have no
Speaker 1: idea if she even wants to get involved in wrestling.
Speaker 1: She seems like a really good athlete. I heard an
Speaker 1: interview with her, I don't remember where it was from,
Speaker 1: but I hadn't heard her speak, so I didn't know
Speaker 1: what she even sounded like. And she sounds like a
Speaker 1: very down to earth person. But whether or not she
Speaker 1: wants to get involved in wrestling, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: If she wants to, then, you know, depending on how
Speaker 1: she progresses, I could see her. Maybe she'll be on
Speaker 1: a future season of LFG if she were to ascend
Speaker 1: that high to where she would one day be on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think her being the first Paul Hamn girl would
Speaker 1: actually make a lot of sense. Just seems like a
Speaker 1: natural thing. Prince Vegetas is. In my opinion. The best
Speaker 1: Goldberg moment ever is when he answered the five minute
Speaker 1: Rodney Mack Whiteboy Challenge in Madison Square Garden and yelled
Speaker 1: white boy after the match. Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Dog Lover twenty one twenty two smells like smells like
Speaker 1: updog in here solo. Hope you're well. I'm doing very well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend JAVELI will it be Stephanie Vicaire
Speaker 1: against Ria or eo Sky at Clash Clash of the
Speaker 1: Castle Paris. I don't think that's the name of the show.
Speaker 1: That's kind of It's a very wordy title for the show.
Speaker 1: It's just Clash in Paris, Stephanie Viccaer against Ria or
Speaker 1: Eosky against Stephanie. I suspect. I suspect that assuming Stephanie
Speaker 1: wins the Battle Royal, it would be Stephanie and Ria.
Speaker 1: I think they want Ria to be the champion going
Speaker 1: into Perth when they come back to Perth for Crown
Speaker 1: Jewel in October. If Goldberg and brack Lesnar did not
Speaker 1: leave WWI in two thousand and four, what is the
Speaker 1: possibility of getting a rematch at SummerSlam in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four or Wrestle Minnia twenty one. I don't think
Speaker 1: they would have revisited that match. I think Goldberg beat
Speaker 1: him and it was terrible, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: would have gone back to it. I think they would
Speaker 1: have moved on to something else. Dried Chicken says, one
Speaker 1: day Omas may dress up as El Gaddandi. Yeah, good
Speaker 1: luck fitting him into the mask. They'll have to have
Speaker 1: a custom mass fitted for him like they did Andre
Speaker 1: when he was a giant machine just reddit things. I
Speaker 1: know that it is a way off, but I can't
Speaker 1: wait for the first time. Bronze Spears set going to
Speaker 1: be awesome. That's the play down the road. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be his Batista moment, like when he power bomb tripleates
Speaker 1: through the contract signing table stuffs VID's build to Americano
Speaker 1: versus Americano at WrestleMania forty two or Royal Rumble Saudi
Speaker 1: book it American I know against Americano. If you think
Speaker 1: about who's underneath the mask and both in both of
Speaker 1: those instances, that match could actually be pretty fucking great.
Speaker 1: Prince Vegeta, do you care that they never did an
Speaker 1: official split with Kaiser and Gunther or would you rather
Speaker 1: keep it quiet like they are doing. Why do they
Speaker 1: have to split? It doesn't bother me at all. Not
Speaker 1: everybody has to split or turn their back on the other.
Speaker 1: You know, they had an amicable sort of parting of
Speaker 1: the ways where they had that segment on TV where
Speaker 1: I think Gunther told them like, you need to stand
Speaker 1: on your own two feet and not kind of rely
Speaker 1: on me. I'm happy they acknowledged it. It's not as
Speaker 1: if they just one day were no longer together. They
Speaker 1: actually did do a segment on TV acknowledging that you
Speaker 1: need to stand on your own. I like that, but
Speaker 1: there was no need for them to, you know, split, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really know why there would be a need
Speaker 1: for that. A big hos yes, Ray and Andrade to
Speaker 1: Raw Phoenix helps Penta, Andrade joins Paul Paul doctry Man
Speaker 1: Logan Paul there for a second. Drew mackincock with the
Speaker 1: four ninety nine. Can I get a birthday shot at
Speaker 1: It was on Friday, but I was gone celebrating turning
Speaker 1: twenty six benefit since twenty fifteen thanks to TV tracks,
Speaker 1: Thank you for all the great content. Happy birthday to
Speaker 1: Drew macincock. We had a twenty seven year old birthday.
Speaker 1: Now we have a twenty six year old birthday? Do
Speaker 1: I have a twenty five? Alfonso with a nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how Triple H can book these women
Speaker 1: like this when he took so much pride in his
Speaker 1: women's division in NXT. What changed? They deserve better? Women's
Speaker 1: wrestling can be a beautiful thing it can be, and
Speaker 1: there are times where you know the women will be
Speaker 1: in main events or they'll be a good story to
Speaker 1: invest in. It just doesn't happen enough. So what happened.
Speaker 1: I think what happened is that now he's in charge
Speaker 1: of the whole thing. You know, before it was NXT,
Speaker 1: it was a small pond, and the women's division is
Speaker 1: really what was you know at times carrying the show.
Speaker 1: I mean during Black and Gold there was a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, but even then the women's division, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of talent there. But now he oversees the
Speaker 1: entire thing. So you know, his attention is on multiple things,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the women get neglected, and it's very apparent.
Speaker 1: This show, for example, on Sunday, is a great example
Speaker 1: I think of being neglected. But it's also only happening
Speaker 1: for one very particular reason, and we all know what
Speaker 1: that is. That's it. There's no I mean again, seven
Speaker 1: years and you do finally a second evolution. This weekend
Speaker 1: of all weekends, JAVELI don't forget the ROH Supercard of Honor.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, well I will be busy on Friday.
Speaker 1: There's a different show going on in Texas that night
Speaker 1: that I will be at I will be a part of.
Speaker 1: But yes, that's another show this weekend. Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: has a pay per view on Friday, So Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor on Friday, All In on Saturday, NXT on Saturday,
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's Made Event on Saturday, Evolution on Sunday. It's
Speaker 1: too much Tomatonga super fan? Can you use your fingers
Speaker 1: to show how close we were to Tomatonga becoming a
Speaker 1: world champion before he got injured? I'll use my hands.
Speaker 1: We weren't close. Jeremy Rose with the twenty two money
Speaker 1: in the bank had him champions and now this three
Speaker 1: event weekend, all in the span of six weeks. And
Speaker 1: don't forget a two night SummerSlam is coming as well.
Speaker 1: There's too many big shows with minimal bill They overbooked
Speaker 1: their schedule in spite of having solid cards. Is welcome
Speaker 1: to the TKO era. They're lucky that aw isn't better.
Speaker 1: Diego Vasquez loved the community hard day today got dumped.
Speaker 1: Well that sucks, oh Diego. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't know the circumstances behind here or how long
Speaker 1: you were with this person for Maybe it wasn't too long.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's a very shitty situation. You
Speaker 1: should be among friends right now. But this too shall pass.
Speaker 1: Just got to give it time. I'm sorry to hear that. Clanger.
Speaker 1: I solo loved the show. Do you remember El Grande
Speaker 1: Americano being escorted with security in front of Chad Gable?
Speaker 1: Who was that meant to be? It was just meant
Speaker 1: to be somebody other than Chad Gable, just to give
Speaker 1: the impression that maybe he wasn't Del Grande Americano. It
Speaker 1: wasn't really intended to be anybody. Nick Grosso, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on WWE already talking about turning Blake Monroe heel.
Speaker 1: I think she should have started out as a heel.
Speaker 1: She's been miscast as a face. They should have her
Speaker 1: take the title and the faction from jac. I'm fine
Speaker 1: with them turning her heel. I agree she should have
Speaker 1: been from the word go. I think what happened is
Speaker 1: they figured once she debuts, people look at it cheer
Speaker 1: for her because it's like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe she's here. You know, I can't believe she's an NXT.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's It's like she was never
Speaker 1: really a babyface. It could be one of those things
Speaker 1: where it turns out she was never really a babyface,
Speaker 1: but they just sort of set it up that way
Speaker 1: to establish her. Let people cheer for her because they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to do it anyway, but then show people
Speaker 1: who she really is. And you know what, if she's
Speaker 1: gonna spend some time in NXT, her taking over Fatal
Speaker 1: Influence would not be the worst idea in the world.
Speaker 1: I don't hate that idea. Nico Feliciano. Becky Lynch is
Speaker 1: like a modern day heel Roddy Piper. She mentioned champions
Speaker 1: getting the chances to pick their opponent in her promo
Speaker 1: The hypocrisy. Yeah, she was very upset that EO got
Speaker 1: to pick her challenger and Tiffany Stratton got to pick
Speaker 1: her allnger, but she just gets stuffed into a triple
Speaker 1: threat match against two women. Calling her a modern day
Speaker 1: Roddy Piper, I think might not be the best comparison.
Speaker 1: Beck Becky is very good, but I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would make that same comparison justin g with a
Speaker 1: twenty one. What do you call someone that raises hens
Speaker 1: a chicken tender, rep up those lines A chicken A
Speaker 1: chicken tender. I see what you did there, I see
Speaker 1: what you did there. Did we hit the goal? Yes?
Speaker 1: We did? Wow ten out of ten on the goal.
Speaker 1: We're going to take some phone calls. We'll take a few.
Speaker 1: We haven't done this in a while. I'll throw the
Speaker 1: number up here in a second. It is nine to
Speaker 1: eight nine two, eight to two solo. But the lines
Speaker 1: aren't open yet, So don't do nothing just yet. And
Speaker 1: we gotta be the booker.
Speaker 5: To do as well.
Speaker 6: E J.
Speaker 1: Slimp. I'm going to meet Kurt Angle at the Caine
Speaker 1: County Cougars Minor League baseball game on Thursday. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: I would be too. That's very cool, the Caine County Cougars.
Speaker 1: Never heard of that team before. Chase richardson what if
Speaker 1: Goldberg wrestled with the hair?
Speaker 7: What hair?
Speaker 1: The last time I saw Goldberg with hair, I think
Speaker 1: he was playing for the Falcons. I mean, if that's
Speaker 1: the hair you're talking about, he was a lot younger
Speaker 1: back then, but he wasn't quite Goldberg yet. Justin g
Speaker 1: That'd be like asking me what if Stone Cold Steve
Speaker 1: Austin had hair? Just wouldn't have worked justin g we
Speaker 1: need Elgrande Americano against El Grande Americana be a great match.
Speaker 1: Dried Chicken say solo, would you consider having a bald cap,
Speaker 1: a goateee and dress up as Walter White on Halloween?
Speaker 1: M probably not a bald cap of go tee and
Speaker 1: maybe a broken skull ipa and pretend to be Stone
Speaker 1: Cold Steve Austin. That might be more topical. Jeremy Rose,
Speaker 1: would wwe benefit of SmackDown and Raw had separate bookers
Speaker 1: with Triple H overseeing both of them. I think it
Speaker 1: would be interesting in that you would have a different
Speaker 1: perspective on each show, But there's so much mixing of
Speaker 1: the two shows, like the brand split doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't, so they would have to be like
Speaker 1: serious about maintaining a real brand split in that case,
Speaker 1: so that way you don't have too much mixing going on.
Speaker 1: You know, it would be interesting to see how different
Speaker 1: the shows would be if you had two totally different
Speaker 1: or even just somewhat different visions for what one like
Speaker 1: head writer thinks Raw should be and what one head
Speaker 1: writer thinks Smackmasher's and Devin from New Jersey buy Er
Speaker 1: Cell better Austin raw tag match Austin and Michaels against
Speaker 1: Owen Hart and the British Bulldog, or Austin and Triple
Speaker 1: H against Chris Benoi and Chris Jericho. I love both
Speaker 1: of those matches, but the better match is the Jericho
Speaker 1: and Bedewan match. But I love them both. I love
Speaker 1: all the chaos after that first match when the Heart Foundation,
Speaker 1: like right after the pin, the Heart Foundation attacks Austin,
Speaker 1: they attack Michaels. Brett Hard is in his wheelchair all
Speaker 1: by himself on stage. Austin sees him. He runs up
Speaker 1: the ramp, Brett stands up, you can't really go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and Austin just tackles him to the ground. Just mass chaos.
Speaker 1: That was great, But the better match was Austin and
Speaker 1: Triple H against Jericho and Benwell. I will say, all right,
Speaker 1: so this is the number that you see on the
Speaker 1: screen nine eight nine two eight two solo. I believe
Speaker 1: that's seven six five six. Lines aren't open yet. If
Speaker 1: you try calling it, you probably won't be able to
Speaker 1: get through because I haven't. I haven't opened them yet,
Speaker 1: but I will do that right now. But then we'll
Speaker 1: do be the booker and then we'll come back to
Speaker 1: the calls. So I think that's the way that we'll
Speaker 1: we'll do it. It's time to be the booker.
Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time.
Speaker 1: To be the booker. It is that time. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: it is time to be the booker. Oh yes, yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: yes it is. I see the lines were already filled up.
Speaker 1: Ah boy, all right, we get one shot at this.
Speaker 1: We get one shot at this, so let's make it happen.
Speaker 1: We've got the Miss and our Truth. No, no, not
Speaker 1: the team I wanted to start with here and be
Speaker 1: the booker, Miss and our Truth against the good Brothers.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, exciting times here and be the booker. No,
Speaker 1: women's be the booker. We should. We're booking our own
Speaker 1: evolution show here. Hey, Dervid, welcome to the channel. Just
Speaker 1: in time for the booker, Just in time for Victoria,
Speaker 1: former WWE Women's champion, not in the Hall of Fame yet,
Speaker 1: but should be, and it will be Victoria against There
Speaker 1: she is spreading her wings. Look who it is. It is,
Speaker 1: bird girl. It is Lyra Valkyrie, the former Intercontinental Champion,
Speaker 1: Lyra Valkyria and Victoria I think that would have been
Speaker 1: a well worked professional wrestling match. And in our main
Speaker 1: event of the evening we have John Bradshaw Layfield JBL
Speaker 1: is in the main event. Is there going to be
Speaker 1: two rounds to be the booker? No, that was not
Speaker 1: the goal tonight. We changed it up. We had a
Speaker 1: different goal. You get one of each. It's heavily again.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We need an opponent for JBL.
Speaker 1: Find out who it's going to be JBL against the
Speaker 1: former WCW World champion David Arquette, m H JBL and
Speaker 1: David Arquette. Even though it was actually an idea suggested
Speaker 1: believe it or not, by Tony Shavani, it did happen
Speaker 1: under the Russo administration. It's Russo has struck again. Well,
Speaker 1: they can't all be winners, now, can they? One out
Speaker 1: of three for be the Booker is pretty fucking bad.
Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty bad. Well, there's always Wednesday, although I
Speaker 1: don't know that we've done be the Booker each of
Speaker 1: the last two Wednesdays. Hopefully things will be a little
Speaker 1: more lively when it comes to aw this week. But
Speaker 1: try again. We'll try again on Wednesday. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for helping us reach the like school. Let me just
Speaker 1: get through some of these other super chats here and
Speaker 1: then we'll get into some of these calls we have dried.
Speaker 1: Chicken reopened the transfer portal after clash in Paris. I
Speaker 1: thought that they should do it this summer. That way
Speaker 1: they can do another one at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: So you have twice a year, you open the transfer
Speaker 1: portal up for a few weeks and you can move
Speaker 1: people around wherever you want them to be. They didn't
Speaker 1: do that. We didn't get a draft and we didn't
Speaker 1: get a transfer portal. We got bred Hart with forty
Speaker 1: months of channel membership. You are in a bar in
Speaker 1: Japan with Doctor Death, Stan Hansen, Terry, Gordy, Misawa, Kobashi
Speaker 1: and yakuza guys. You have to tell a Sidrow joke
Speaker 1: to make them laugh. But I'm not Sidrow. I'm not Sidrow,
Speaker 1: I'm not Dubs VIDs, so I'd be screwed. How about
Speaker 1: I just buy them all around just to keep them happy,
Speaker 1: you know, telling a joke, a Sidrow joke to the Yakuza,
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, you're kind of flying a
Speaker 1: little too close to the sun there. You're taking a
Speaker 1: big risk. I would rather just buy you know, some
Speaker 1: around asaki for everybody, keep everybody happy and buzzed. Cameron Spencer.
Speaker 1: I hate deathmatch wrestling fans with a passion. They are bloodthirsty,
Speaker 1: blood sucking vampires. They can f off for liking barbaric matches.
Speaker 1: Not a fan of John Moxley. Are you you mean
Speaker 1: you're not a fan of Nick Gage? Not a fan
Speaker 1: of the Pizza cutter. EJ. Slamp Rest in peace to
Speaker 1: former White Sox closer in two thousand and five World
Speaker 1: Series champion Bobby Jenks, forty four years old from stomach
Speaker 1: cancer and Portugal getting treatment. I did see that the
Speaker 1: other day, and he's very young. Javili favorite Undertaker return
Speaker 1: SummerSlam nineteen ninety four, Judgment Day two thousand or WrestleMania
Speaker 1: twenty oh oh easy, Yeah, Judgment Day two thousand for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Judgment two thousand is just an all time or return.
Speaker 1: That reaction he got riding in on the motorcycle and
Speaker 1: people go in nuts as the countdown clock was counting
Speaker 1: down to the final minute or whatever it was ninety
Speaker 1: seconds of the Ironman match. Just fantastic. Uh seve m
Speaker 1: my brother once explained that. And by the way, he said,
Speaker 1: the number is the number is not invalid. I know
Speaker 1: that because the lines are all lit up right now.
Speaker 1: But depending on where you are, you may need to
Speaker 1: put a one in front or a country code or
Speaker 1: a one in front of the number. So just be
Speaker 1: aware of that. Uh seve M. My brother once explained
Speaker 1: the Death Riders to me as AAW's bloodline. I said,
Speaker 1: if it was truly Aw's bloodline, Moxley would lose. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, he screamed, dude, that sounds like something
Speaker 1: I would wake up in a cold sweat from at night.
Speaker 1: Don't even suggest such a thing. And dried chicken jbl
Speaker 1: MJF L Grande and mister America invading Mexico as heels.
Speaker 1: That would get some heat. That would definitely get some heat.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, the super chance. I appreciate it. Believe
Speaker 1: we got to somebody here from Canada. I do believe
Speaker 1: so Canada.
Speaker 3: I thought that was very nice.
Speaker 1: Canada. Oh Canada, Hey, I'm good. Who am I talking with.
Speaker 7: Winston slip Aha.
Speaker 1: The Winston Slip here with us on the air. It's
Speaker 1: good to hear your voice.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir, appreciate all the hard work.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Of the Jericho thin One naturally when the titles was
Speaker 6: my favorite match of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a great match and it sucks
Speaker 1: that you know, it won't be re uploaded on the
Speaker 1: vault probably anytime soon. But it was a great match
Speaker 1: with a great crowd. Obviously, the injury at the end
Speaker 1: mart it. But it's not talked about for other reasons.
Speaker 6: That's why I downloaded it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's on Peacock though, isn't it wonder it is?
Speaker 1: It is part of the raw episode on Peacock. I
Speaker 1: mean they didn't take it off there.
Speaker 6: I mean taking I think Canada we don't have Peacock.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: I just want to ask you what the tag team thing?
Speaker 6: Uh edgend Christian, the Hardys and the Dudley's. Those tag
Speaker 6: teams were over. What is it about tag teams today
Speaker 6: that they're not getting themselves over like those guys were.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. That was the Winston slip, who we
Speaker 1: hear from quite a bit in the super chats here
Speaker 1: on the shows, and he's in the live chat usually
Speaker 1: so great to hear from him. Uh. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: great question, and I think a lot of it just
Speaker 1: has to do, frankly, with the lack of attention that
Speaker 1: is generally paid to tag team wrestling. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it gets the spotlight in quite the same way
Speaker 1: that it used to. It doesn't get the same you know,
Speaker 1: attention that it used to. I also think you just
Speaker 1: don't have as many You just don't have as many
Speaker 1: teams that really either come up together over a period
Speaker 1: of many years or that are brought in from other companies.
Speaker 1: Like if the Young Bucks were to leave aw Right
Speaker 1: and come to WWE, that would be a big deal
Speaker 1: of Some people don't like the Young Bucks, right, but
Speaker 1: the Young Bucks have been a team for their entire career.
Speaker 1: They've been a known commodity, you know, everywhere they've gone.
Speaker 1: You drop them in that tag team division with the
Speaker 1: New Day and with the Street Profits and with Phraxium
Speaker 1: and with some of these other teams, and it would
Speaker 1: really freshen things up, you know a lot. If we
Speaker 1: get the Luca brothers one day that you know, they
Speaker 1: end up back together. But like back then, you had
Speaker 1: the Heart Foundation and the Legion of Doom and Demolition
Speaker 1: and arnt In Tully and the Rougeos and edgend Christian
Speaker 1: and the Hardy's and the Dudleys. There just was more
Speaker 1: of an emphasis on real tag teams, not not makeshift
Speaker 1: teams so much, but real tag teams, you know, that
Speaker 1: are together for a long period of time and they
Speaker 1: build up a name for themselves. I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: the Hardys got so popular. That's how the Dudley's got popular,
Speaker 1: That's how the Road Warriors got popular. You don't see
Speaker 1: that as much in wrestling today. You had it with
Speaker 1: the Briscos and Ring of Honor, you have it with
Speaker 1: the Bucks, you had it with the Lucha Bros. You
Speaker 1: can find some teams here and there, some of them
Speaker 1: are not together anymore, but it's just it's not the same.
Speaker 1: The same level of focus is just not you know,
Speaker 1: on tag team wrestling as much as it used to be.
Speaker 1: And those teams prove that tag team wrestling it can be.
Speaker 1: I mean, it can be a lot of fun, but
Speaker 1: I feel like it can draw. But you have to
Speaker 1: have the right teams to draw, and you have to
Speaker 1: tell the right stories and put the focus on them,
Speaker 1: and they just don't do it. I don't think they
Speaker 1: look at tag team wrestling as something that can really draw,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, and it took a long time
Speaker 1: to get to a point where they felt that way
Speaker 1: about women's wrestling. And I'm not even sure they've convinced
Speaker 1: themselves that women's wrestling can draw in the same way
Speaker 1: the men can, just based on the way that it's promoted.
Speaker 1: But that's the best answer I can give you. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just you don't have those same caliber of teams today,
Speaker 1: and therefore the attention not paid to it like he
Speaker 1: used to be. Yeah, We're put it this way. We're
Speaker 1: not in a tag team renaissance era right now. I
Speaker 1: feel like we were kind of in the earlier days
Speaker 1: of AW there were a lot of great teams all
Speaker 1: at once in that division. But it hasn't It just
Speaker 1: hasn't been that way, you know, in a long time.
Speaker 1: Let's go to two two zero. Who am I talking to?
Speaker 3: This is a little phone call from official GTA. It's
Speaker 3: going on not much.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you can hop on and join us here.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Not too much. I do want to ask you this, so.
Speaker 9: It may be an unpopular opinion that people don't agree.
Speaker 6: But I think the SmackDown tag team division is probably
Speaker 6: as the passes Benson's two thousand two, two thousand three.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's no. I don't think that's an
Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. I mean, but I also feel like it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a bad thing too, because if you
Speaker 1: think about it, making that statement just illustrates how how
Speaker 1: poorly you know, we we have had that tag team
Speaker 1: division built up in the year since then.
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: Shocked him with my comments. He is speechless. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know what to say.
Speaker 6: I think there was only like three or four real
Speaker 6: teams on the role, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they didn't have a lot They didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of of They just didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of emphasis on the raw tag ting division there
Speaker 1: for a long time. But no, look, I mean I again,
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, now, look, I mean I I think
Speaker 1: that that comment that you made, it's I I don't
Speaker 1: disagree with the I don't think it's a hot take,
Speaker 1: but it just goes to illustrate the point that you know,
Speaker 1: the other caller made. Where where is the emphasis on
Speaker 1: the tag team division in the last ten fifteen years,
Speaker 1: you know, prior to today and even today to some extent,
Speaker 1: where is that attention? You know? Where where was that?
Speaker 1: How come we can look back on even the SmackDown
Speaker 1: six era, there were some solid teams on SmackDown back then.
Speaker 1: When you look at Los Guerrero's and the World's Greatest
Speaker 1: Tag Team and Paul London and Brian Kendrick and there
Speaker 1: were others as well. You know, why was there such
Speaker 1: a gap where if you were to ask me about
Speaker 1: tag teams in two thousand and six or tag teams
Speaker 1: in WWE in twenty thirteen, you know, like I don't
Speaker 1: recall there being some big tag team wrestling boom during
Speaker 1: that period, you know, And I don't know why. Somewhere
Speaker 1: along the way we kind of we kind of lost that.
Speaker 1: But it's just the way it is. Four oh five.
Speaker 1: You're on the air.
Speaker 7: Can heard me?
Speaker 1: I can hear you?
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, this is uh being Zacharia Sittion. I'm always
Speaker 8: comming it some from time to time.
Speaker 1: Zachari. Yeah, I know, Zacharia. Well how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3: So I'm doing good. Uh. I just kind of wanted
Speaker 3: to ask, like, what is like, what is up?
Speaker 8: With like this is it is it just like because
Speaker 8: it's summer, and like they had a lackluster just like
Speaker 8: a anti climatic WrestleMania, like the Rock coming in and
Speaker 8: just kind of ruining stuff and like the whole Seal
Speaker 8: Me your Soul just didn't go anywhere, and then we
Speaker 8: all we heard was fend for like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty bad. It's pretty bad, you know.
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of different things. I also
Speaker 1: feel like they are still coasting business wise. You know,
Speaker 1: they're still selling out arenas and they're still doing really well.
Speaker 1: And I think part of it maybe is the fact
Speaker 1: that they feel like they don't they're not being challenged
Speaker 1: in any way. So I feel like if they if
Speaker 1: they were in a position where business maybe wasn't quite
Speaker 1: as good, or if they were actually getting competition from somebody,
Speaker 1: that's when they're at their best, you know. And now
Speaker 1: it's almost like, all right, we'll give you what we
Speaker 1: give you when you're gonna like it, that that kind
Speaker 1: of attitude. Also, the summer does tend to be a
Speaker 1: little slower, but you would think, you know, WrestleMania, that
Speaker 1: main event and everything was so freaking horrible, like they
Speaker 1: would really put their best effort in because we're heading
Speaker 1: into Summer Slam, which is two nights. Summer Slam is
Speaker 1: less than a month away, and they really have it
Speaker 1: started promoting that. I mean, we know who won King
Speaker 1: of the Ring and Queen of the Rings, so like
Speaker 1: we know that. I just hope the SummerSlam build can
Speaker 1: get me excited in a way that right now I'm
Speaker 1: not terribly excited by a lot you know that's going on.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will change as the card comes together because
Speaker 1: SummerSlam is their second biggest event of the year, so
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see, it's the first two nights Summer Slam.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to put two full cards together. I
Speaker 1: hope they can get me excited. And you don't need
Speaker 1: the rock to get people excited. You just got to
Speaker 1: give people, you know, good matches, good stories, give them
Speaker 1: a reason to get excited. Jelly Roll being on SmackDown
Speaker 1: this Friday and possibly having a match at SummerSlam does
Speaker 1: not get me excited.
Speaker 8: And that's the kind of the direction I kind of
Speaker 8: hate is just you have they're doing, like you know,
Speaker 8: they're saying record gates, record Gates be it. They're they're
Speaker 8: not putting in like real fans that you know, will
Speaker 8: chant that will well, I mean, you know, just react.
Speaker 1: You get that sometime, Like tonight, the crowd they had
Speaker 1: in Providence was a great crowd. I wish they had
Speaker 1: crowds like that, you know, more often. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say they don't have that at all, but you do,
Speaker 1: you do sometimes with these shows you do have, you know,
Speaker 1: crowds like that where maybe they're not as loud because
Speaker 1: the people who were able to afford the kinds of
Speaker 1: you know, prices that they're charging for these tickets, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, what kind of people they're bringing
Speaker 1: into these shows. Sometimes there definitely are people who are
Speaker 1: priced out, who you know, used to go to shows
Speaker 1: and can't go anymore. So these people that are buying
Speaker 1: these tickets, I don't know if they're like diehard WWE fans,
Speaker 1: if they're casual fans, if they're if I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's potentially changing the makeup of you know,
Speaker 1: some of these audiences. But I still feel like at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you give people a product
Speaker 1: and a show that they can really invest in and
Speaker 1: get excited about and the crowds will reward you. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't just blame it. I don't want to blame
Speaker 1: it on the crowds all the time, because it comes
Speaker 1: down to the product. It comes down to triple H
Speaker 1: and creative. And you know what, sometimes the shows are
Speaker 1: just boring, and if I were in the building, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be I wouldn't be singing and chanting and cheering
Speaker 1: for anything either, because you know, I might be bored
Speaker 1: to tears. So you still have to give people, you know,
Speaker 1: a show that they can get excited about. But Zachary,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call very much. Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1: I want to try to get to uh a few
Speaker 1: other people here before it gets too late, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to bounce around a little bit here. Let me
Speaker 1: let me go to eight one o eight one. Oh
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Who is this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who is who is this? El Juggalo?
Speaker 10: Okay, oh yeah, yeah, I did just see what happened
Speaker 10: early night on Lunacy. Turns out, it turns out GCW
Speaker 10: decided invade, and oddly enough is going to be interesting
Speaker 10: for certain as they're building up towards the gathering, this summer,
Speaker 10: which is gonna be on pay per view two days
Speaker 10: August fifteenth and sixteenth.
Speaker 1: I believe it is that time of year, isn't it.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's definitely that time of year,
Speaker 10: of course. And funny enough, here's the kicker here. They decided, good,
Speaker 10: they'll do an episode of Monday Night. That's right, Monday Night.
Speaker 3: Right before raw.
Speaker 2: They decided to.
Speaker 4: Do how many month to get warm?
Speaker 1: Boy? I wish you know, I wish that at one
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, I can muster up the energy
Speaker 1: level that you have.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 10: I am envious, I know, right, I mean, honestly, it's
Speaker 10: like we have a weekly show on the Century. They
Speaker 10: usually are on Thursdays, but they decided for some reason
Speaker 10: the air on a Monday night.
Speaker 6: Anyways, I might as.
Speaker 10: Well go ahead and say this very about it.
Speaker 7: It comes in the great so oh.
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember that song very well. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you go. But boy, he is as excited as
Speaker 1: it can be. So there you go. You heard it
Speaker 1: from him. It's on Monday Night. I wish I could
Speaker 1: muster up that kind of excitement at one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, but I can't. I can't do that. I
Speaker 1: can't match to that. Let me go to four four
Speaker 1: three here. I want you to try to get as
Speaker 1: many people in here as I can. Four four three, Yes,
Speaker 1: you hear me, I can hear you. Who am I
Speaker 1: speaking with?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 4: This is Spriggs, first time caller of long time. I
Speaker 4: guess subscriber. I just I can watch in the streams
Speaker 4: and then, uh, you know the stuff you quit your
Speaker 4: post from the podcast. I don't really I'm not too
Speaker 4: active in chat too much. I don't know how much
Speaker 4: time I got I want to make. I want to
Speaker 4: make this short and know your bounce around.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: So the question can concerns the I guess the current
Speaker 4: state of training for the women's division. This is this
Speaker 4: is for both companies a W and WWE. Right, So
Speaker 4: we look at someone like Jade Cargill. I watched an
Speaker 4: interview she did on the Sam Roberts Raw After Show,
Speaker 4: and she was talking about, you know, she's very much
Speaker 4: aware of her criticism that she is getting online and
Speaker 4: her performance and things like that, and she was saying like, yeah,
Speaker 4: like I have people that I call, you know, and
Speaker 4: they'll tell me what I did right or what they
Speaker 4: did wrong, one of those people being Terry Taylor, because
Speaker 4: one of the big people there at Triple H looked
Speaker 4: looked underrets.
Speaker 3: My thing is this, she.
Speaker 4: Spent a good time in AW and I don't know.
Speaker 11: What they did over there to train her to.
Speaker 7: Get her ready for rates or the like thereof.
Speaker 4: Her coming into WWE. It's things are showing, right, So
Speaker 4: my question is what is the process of training for
Speaker 4: for certain women in these because like, she's been in
Speaker 4: the business for five years and still you.
Speaker 12: Know, she's still a novice, as she said in one
Speaker 12: of the streams versus Alia Vega, who's probably been there
Speaker 12: play eight to ten years, who would say probably a
Speaker 12: lunger level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's different for each person though, So
Speaker 1: like for Jade, I don't know who was directly responsible
Speaker 1: for training her, but I know you might remember this.
Speaker 1: There were reports in aw where she was training before
Speaker 1: shows or after shows with Brian Danielson, and Danielson was
Speaker 1: having some one on one time with her. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that means he trained her, but he was
Speaker 1: definitely showing her some things, and I mean, what better
Speaker 1: person to learn from than him. I don't know what
Speaker 1: her actual training look like though, because it's not like
Speaker 1: AW has a school, it's not like there's a training program.
Speaker 1: So with WWE, they have a performance center, and I
Speaker 1: just thought, well, there's probably very little chance of her
Speaker 1: going through there first because she looks like this, this megastar.
Speaker 1: They're going to want to put her on TV right away.
Speaker 1: But if you think about it, that's what the performance
Speaker 1: center is for, Like it's Taylor made for someone like her,
Speaker 1: And I think it was something it didn't help her
Speaker 1: cause to bring her in the way they did and
Speaker 1: not have her kind of run through that system first,
Speaker 1: and I think it's showing. I think that would have
Speaker 1: been the place to really either start her or you know,
Speaker 1: at least maybe on like off days or whatever, have
Speaker 1: her doing training or drills or whatever what she's been
Speaker 1: doing there, like when they shot the angle where they
Speaker 1: injured her. To my knowledge, she was doing training in
Speaker 1: those months after how much training, how many days a week,
Speaker 1: what that looked like, I don't know, but I still
Speaker 1: feel like when she first started, that's really what she
Speaker 1: needed and she probably didn't get enough of that, and
Speaker 1: it shows, I mean, and also some people just pick
Speaker 1: it up and some people don't. And I don't know
Speaker 1: that she ever has to know. Yeah, look, I mean,
Speaker 1: she doesn't have to be EO Sky. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that she has to be technically the best on the roster.
Speaker 1: But all she needs to do is just get to
Speaker 1: a point where she knows the fundamental she can go
Speaker 1: out there with anybody and have a good match, and
Speaker 1: the rest of it is just going to be charisma
Speaker 1: and her look and everything else that goes into what
Speaker 1: makes her a star. And she's still not there yet,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully she'll get there because she looks
Speaker 1: the part. But my god, I mean I'm watching that
Speaker 1: match in Saudi with her and Osca and it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, good luck to Osca because this is this
Speaker 1: is rough.
Speaker 4: You notice this, right, And there was two matches. It
Speaker 4: was that match in the match she did on SmackDown
Speaker 4: where both times her opponent targeted her leg but she
Speaker 4: still did a kipop.
Speaker 1: I pointed that out. Yeah no, no, did I pointed
Speaker 1: that out. I pointed that out of my review. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, she was selling the leg and then she
Speaker 1: does a freaking kip up. I go, boy, that's that's
Speaker 1: quite a move to do when you're selling an injured leg.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael Coley pointed that out, But yeah, bro, it
Speaker 4: probably has come down to that. And then like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I also thinking to account her age. She's in her thirties.
Speaker 4: This isn't this isn't like someone yet coming fresh that's
Speaker 4: just coming in in her twenties.
Speaker 3: And you can get because I think, yeah, with.
Speaker 4: Age, I think things you can pick up things a
Speaker 4: lot easier. But I think she's in the time where, yeah,
Speaker 4: she spent a lot of time being an athlete doing
Speaker 4: whatever she was doing, and now she's doing this wrestling thing,
Speaker 4: and it's just she's probably a slower learner and it
Speaker 4: is what it is. But you know, I would think
Speaker 4: they would understand. But you know, we know this is
Speaker 4: a very aesthetic business. The look is what's getting her
Speaker 4: the push. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, they're going to have more patience with
Speaker 1: her than they would have for the average person. So
Speaker 1: I think pretty much, yeah, she's going to be a
Speaker 1: star no matter what. Whether or not her experience level
Speaker 1: will ever, you know, get much higher than where it
Speaker 1: is now. I don't know, I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that she's going to fail. Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way they're going to make sure that they Yeah,
Speaker 1: they take her and they take her as far as
Speaker 1: they can.
Speaker 7: All right, Yeah, that was my question.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Appreciated streams tuned in when I can. Yeah, you got
Speaker 4: me back in wrestling, because what was the last show
Speaker 4: I went to?
Speaker 3: Was?
Speaker 7: Yeah, because I'm.
Speaker 4: From Baltimore, and yeah, it was the No Mercy show
Speaker 4: with Undertaker and Kurt Angles. The main event was the
Speaker 4: last show I went to. And yeah, since then, yeah,
Speaker 4: I haven't gone back in, but yeah you watched. Yeah
Speaker 4: you got me back in. I mean, I still I
Speaker 4: still can't really get into a showcause getting tickets a
Speaker 4: pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Bus Well, of course, well I'm telling you the AW
Speaker 1: tickets are a lot cheaper.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: They've showing up the both Actually they can in your
Speaker 4: shoe show.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's one thing that AW. If I'm them,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm leaning into that, you know, as far as like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you want to go to a wrestling show and
Speaker 1: not take out a second mortgage in your house, come
Speaker 1: see AAW.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you got a good night, Tellee.
Speaker 1: All right, you too, thank you for the call. It's
Speaker 1: true though, I said this on the podcast this weekend
Speaker 1: when I was talking about AAW and somebody asked about
Speaker 1: the ratings, and so I was talking about how, you know,
Speaker 1: one issue is that they're still running these smaller venues.
Speaker 1: Why did they move into the smaller venues If they're
Speaker 1: doing so great, they need to work their way back
Speaker 1: up to doing bigger buildings at some point. And you
Speaker 1: know the fact is, like right now, one advantage if
Speaker 1: you're a fan, one advantage as far as AW compared
Speaker 1: to WWE is that you can actually afford a lot
Speaker 1: easier going to an AW show. So if you want
Speaker 1: to go to a wrestling show, that is going to
Speaker 1: be a lot easier. It'll be more accessible to you
Speaker 1: than WWE would be for a lot of people today
Speaker 1: because it is just cost prohibitive, especially if you're a
Speaker 1: family and you're going with multiple people. If I'm them,
Speaker 1: I'm leaning into that. I'm leaning into the affordability edge.
Speaker 1: I'm not marketing it as hey, we're cheaper than w WE.
Speaker 1: Never use that word. You don't use the word cheap,
Speaker 1: use the word inexpensive. Uh, you know you can use it,
Speaker 1: you know, less costly. Whatever you want to come up
Speaker 1: with don't call yourself cheap. But they should lean into that,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know that they're they're
Speaker 1: doing enough of that. All right, let's take a few
Speaker 1: more and then we'll bounce on out of here. Let's
Speaker 1: go to three six.
Speaker 3: Zero by all the monster, Justin G.
Speaker 6: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Hey, Justin G. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I almost apologize for the chicken tender joke.
Speaker 3: Forget it.
Speaker 6: I actually had to be on that ben Wan jerco
Speaker 6: versus the two Jerk or not Jericho. Sorry, it's long
Speaker 6: night with Austin inter against the two Christ's. I was
Speaker 6: actually good for behind the commentary. So I actually got
Speaker 6: saw wow, not exactly the triple eight injury, but I
Speaker 6: got to see the hamstring in the wall. So that
Speaker 6: was pretty rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's right, because that was that was on
Speaker 1: top of the announced desk. That's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that was kind of scary but also kind
Speaker 6: of awesome. But I was kind of scary. I know,
Speaker 6: time is money and times important. So I guess my
Speaker 6: question is favorite two matches out of Japan.
Speaker 1: Ooh, you know, I hate to use the same match twice,
Speaker 1: but how can I not go with a couple of
Speaker 1: those Omega and Okada matches. I mean, those were honestly
Speaker 1: some of the best matches I've ever seen, So I
Speaker 1: probably would go. I probably would go. The last one,
Speaker 1: I guess was the two out of three falls one
Speaker 1: and then the sixty minute one. Those probably would be
Speaker 1: the two honestly, because I just talked about this actually
Speaker 1: when I was talking about all in this weekend, how
Speaker 1: those truly are Those are some of the best matches
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen, and as long as they were,
Speaker 1: I was never bored watching them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the last Omeha and Lucy match for
Speaker 6: me and silly as the towns Muta versus Hogan, I
Speaker 6: think those will be my keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Muda versus Hogan wasn't. It wasn't the best for me,
Speaker 1: but like it was a revelation if you had not
Speaker 1: seen New Japan Hogan, like watching him in there in
Speaker 1: ninety three doing drop toe holds and some of the
Speaker 1: other stuff he was doing. Like if I would say
Speaker 1: to anybody listening, if you haven't seen that match or
Speaker 1: any of his Japanese matches, you need to see a
Speaker 1: Hogan Japan match at least once, just to see like
Speaker 1: what he was actually capable of, because it'll blow your
Speaker 1: mind if you've never seen it before.
Speaker 6: All right, and it's felt like he was a ring
Speaker 6: technist or anything. No, you can see Ogan do an
Speaker 6: Indy Garry. Yeah that's gold right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks special monster, Thanks for everything you do and
Speaker 6: have a great night.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, you too. Uh, let's see here three
Speaker 1: two one, Hey, I actually got on here.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it man.
Speaker 1: Of course, I know you've been waiting for about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I got you.
Speaker 3: Hey man, that's because you're awesome.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: First of all, I'd just like to give you flowers.
Speaker 3: You do an amazing job.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 3: Everything that you do got me look back. It's Wrestless
Speaker 3: inspired me to start my only YouTube channel, not Restless, So.
Speaker 1: No compete all right, no competition here.
Speaker 3: But uh my biggest question for you man. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 3: here for having me on. Of course, it's nxc's book.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. They can do a great job on this show,
Speaker 3: Bring it Up News Stars showcase it like Miles Board winning,
Speaker 3: j C. James winning, where We're all is smack daw.
Speaker 3: They can take lessons from NXT. How do you feel
Speaker 3: about your TIN?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the point you're trying to make is
Speaker 1: that one thing that Shawn Michaels does pretty well with
Speaker 1: NXT is he's not afraid to take chances and to
Speaker 1: shock people by doing things that they don't expect. And
Speaker 1: one common complaint that I hear about Triple H and
Speaker 1: it's not I don't think it's unfair, is that a
Speaker 1: lot of times he plays it too safe, he plays
Speaker 1: it too safe, or he plays it too predictable sewn.
Speaker 1: Michaels is not afraid to do that with NXT. But
Speaker 1: you also got to remember NXT. I mean, some people
Speaker 1: will say, oh, it's the third brand. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like the main roster. It's not. It's still developmental,
Speaker 1: so you can you can do stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: you have the freedom to try things that maybe you
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, be able to on the main roster
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. So I feel like it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different, but I agree. I agree that it's more
Speaker 1: fun when you are kind of hit with something from
Speaker 1: out of left field, maybe a match outcome or a
Speaker 1: heel turn or something like that that you weren't expecting.
Speaker 1: He he tends to do a better job. I think
Speaker 1: of giving you that sort of thing which makes the
Speaker 1: show a little more, you know, must see in that way,
Speaker 1: and I think there are lessons that can be learned,
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to the main roster.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm glad, glad to get you on and
Speaker 1: thank you for the kind words. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7: And no problem, keep doing what you do.
Speaker 1: I will, I will as long as you stick with
Speaker 1: me yourself. A good night. Let us go to seven
Speaker 1: five seven, you're on the air.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hello there, mister Sala Monster. This is the one
Speaker 7: and only made.
Speaker 1: The Great as the Great. Yeah, I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: you in the chat. He's like taking phone calls tonight
Speaker 1: with the little eyeball emojis. I said, you might get
Speaker 1: a phone call from the Great tonight.
Speaker 7: Yes, I said, nice to hear from the best podcast
Speaker 7: during the world.
Speaker 1: Again, So what's going on? What's on your mind?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 15: As in a ways, in a way, sir, I just
Speaker 15: got I just got a few I just got I
Speaker 15: just got a couple of questions here And like I said,
Speaker 15: I said, I said excuse me, I said, one of
Speaker 15: my first questions is is that one.
Speaker 7: Is that you is that you remember? Is that do
Speaker 7: you remember? Do you remember for years on end, like
Speaker 7: when Vince was in charge with the main roster in
Speaker 7: Triple H's and charge Triple H was in charge of
Speaker 7: creative and you know, and you noticed that the main
Speaker 7: roster was dog pissed and NXT was putting an old
Speaker 7: match of the year at candidates can it is on
Speaker 7: a weekly basis and now the fun and now and
Speaker 7: now the hilarious Have you ever noticed the hilarious ironic?
Speaker 7: Is that now that trip, now that Triple AH has
Speaker 7: taken over the dog? I mean, I mean it's nowhere
Speaker 7: near Vince levels, which you noticed that, but you notice
Speaker 7: that it's not exactly what we thought. Meanwhile, down in
Speaker 7: an XT, Sean might mean not the Sean Michael that
Speaker 7: that is actually is actually doing right.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, it's like what we just talked
Speaker 1: about on the on the last call where I feel
Speaker 1: like Sean isn't afraid to take chances, so you know,
Speaker 1: he'll try things, even new matches like when they came
Speaker 1: over the Iron Survivor Challenge and some of that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that they do. I like that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, you know, Triple H does tend
Speaker 1: to play it safe with a lot of stuff on
Speaker 1: the main roster. You get a lot of people complaining
Speaker 1: about it. I was complaining about it late last year.
Speaker 1: You know, we did Survivor series and everything. Heading into
Speaker 1: the end of last year, I said, man, is he
Speaker 1: waiting until Rumble season and Wrestle, Like, is there something
Speaker 1: that he's waiting for? Because everything was so predictable and
Speaker 1: everything was just like I was waiting for something to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, there wasn't a whole lot of excitement going on.
Speaker 1: And then we actually got some excitement and elimination chamber
Speaker 1: and it went nowhere. Uh so, so yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: notice it. Obviously other people notice it because they keep
Speaker 1: bringing it up to me. But you know, is it
Speaker 1: going to change anytime soon? I don't know. He has
Speaker 1: his style, his way of doing things. I think he
Speaker 1: thinks that, you know, what he's doing is working because
Speaker 1: business is still booming and so wide change from it.
Speaker 1: But you know, it is nice to every now and then.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say just swerve people for the
Speaker 1: sake of swerving them. I'm not saying that, but just
Speaker 1: you know, don't don't be afraid to take chances. And
Speaker 1: we see more of that on the CW than we
Speaker 1: do on Netflix and USA every week. So you're not wrong.
Speaker 7: Yes, Yes, in my other court, In my other court
Speaker 7: is is that when something was always my mind is that?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 7: Medea? The answers is that what is happened? What is happening?
Speaker 16: What is happening? What has happened to Aw's Tag division?
Speaker 16: Because something you noticed that is that from is that
Speaker 16: from about like say twenty twenty one to like twenty
Speaker 16: twenty three ish, they had they had a great they
Speaker 16: had a great tag division FTR, the FDR, the Bucks Party.
Speaker 7: And all that stuff.
Speaker 17: But then sometime last.
Speaker 16: Year it's like it it's like it just it's like
Speaker 16: it just stopped and now it's really just the hurt business.
Speaker 7: But just what do you think, like what happened to
Speaker 7: AW Tag Division?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's not it's not as strong as
Speaker 1: it used to be. I think, honestly, the Trios titles
Speaker 1: didn't help. I think the Trios titles probably did more
Speaker 1: harm than good when it came to the Tag Team
Speaker 1: division because all of a sudden they became so far
Speaker 1: like hyper focused on trios and the Death Riders and
Speaker 1: like it took attention away from just the tag team division.
Speaker 1: And then they lost some teams, right, they lost the
Speaker 1: Luca Brothers, and the division just looks differ, you know.
Speaker 1: They just don't have the same level of talent stockpiled
Speaker 1: in that division that they used to. And also you
Speaker 1: have some teams the Bucks. You know, the Bucks are
Speaker 1: still great. They can still go out there and have
Speaker 1: a great match. They'll have one this Saturday. But now
Speaker 1: it's been several years, you know, and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: they're still part of that old guard, but like where's
Speaker 1: the new crop of teams? So, like you have the
Speaker 1: Hurt Syndicate and you've got FTR is still there. You've
Speaker 1: got the Outrunners and they're fun to watch. And they
Speaker 1: put Bailey together with Kevin Knight and they formed Jet
Speaker 1: Speed and I don't know if that's the long term
Speaker 1: play for them or not. Christian and Nick Wayne they're
Speaker 1: not really a team, but they've been slapped together here.
Speaker 1: It's just the level of talent is just different than
Speaker 1: it was in those early years. It's just not as
Speaker 1: strong of a division as it used to be. I
Speaker 1: still think though that the trio's titles did more harm
Speaker 1: than good and can't lay it all on that, but
Speaker 1: I think that was also, you know, part of the
Speaker 1: problem there. So you know, you go through peaks and valleys,
Speaker 1: same thing in w W E. You might have a
Speaker 1: point in time, like I'm SmackDown right now where the
Speaker 1: division is pretty you know, pretty hot and pretty healthy,
Speaker 1: and then look at raw. How is it possible the
Speaker 1: same person is booking both shows and you have a
Speaker 1: division looking the way it looks on Fridays and you
Speaker 1: have a division looking the way it looks on Mondays.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a great answer for you,
Speaker 1: but that's just the way it goes sometimes.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I say, yes you Yes you are, Yes, you
Speaker 15: are great, Yes you are career story and I I
Speaker 15: just and I just went and I just I just
Speaker 15: wanted to and I just wanted to say and I
Speaker 15: just want to say Tank it brandswer my question and
Speaker 15: like and like I said, work you are and like
Speaker 15: I said, you are the best podcast in the world,
Speaker 15: like I said, and I and I'm and I'm like
Speaker 15: I said, I'm gonna end this call with this, like
Speaker 15: I said, given what my give, given what I say
Speaker 15: in my place.
Speaker 7: To work, you know it's something you know, what's something?
Speaker 7: You know it's something Walmart customers in New York and
Speaker 7: people in New York have in common. I don't, and both,
Speaker 7: like I said, pretty much in both. Like I said,
Speaker 7: in both places, you don't need to know how to drive.
Speaker 7: Good night, everybody.
Speaker 1: And on that note, that was May's the Great. I'm
Speaker 1: glad he was able to call in. Thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: May's the Great. It's good a brand. I think this
Speaker 1: is Brandon. Is this Brandon in California?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 3: What is up? Man?
Speaker 19: Now you're doing? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I can hear you, man.
Speaker 20: I've been listening to you for a long time.
Speaker 19: I know you probably don't remember this.
Speaker 20: Years ago, when Shintskate first came to an NXT, there
Speaker 20: was like a random guy that sent you his win
Speaker 20: loss record from New Japan and he talked about it
Speaker 20: on your podcast at the time. I think he had
Speaker 20: lost like two matches in five years or something like that.
Speaker 20: So I'm gonna try to make this real, real quick, easy,
Speaker 20: get out of here.
Speaker 19: See you can keep on going.
Speaker 20: I'm very very disappointed and what they've done since shint
Speaker 20: k Knakamura.
Speaker 19: And at this point, I honestly feel.
Speaker 20: Like he should just go back to New Japan or something,
Speaker 20: because dude, Shinsky was like Michael Jackson and John Seena's
Speaker 20: love child bro, and she was like huge.
Speaker 19: In New Japan.
Speaker 20: And nowadays we got Shin's ke over here like doing
Speaker 20: the mist, you know, being like a samurai warrior. Maybe
Speaker 20: this is a hot take, okay, but why do they
Speaker 20: have to give him like a stereotypical gimmick right just
Speaker 20: to try to get him over to American fan? Why
Speaker 20: won't they let Shinsk just be Shinsky? Like this guy
Speaker 20: could be a massive star for them right now. Like,
Speaker 20: what do you think the reason is why they have
Speaker 20: absolutely no faith in this guy and why it just
Speaker 20: seems like they're just pissing all over this guy's career.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's a case where they have
Speaker 1: no faith in him. I think that he's settled into
Speaker 1: a role that they see him in, like a support role,
Speaker 1: and that's as high as it's going to go for
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he's been there now, God, what is
Speaker 1: it seven years? Eight years? He's been there for actually
Speaker 1: longer he's been there probably well, he debuted in Texas
Speaker 1: that NXT show I was there. That was twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: so it's been almost a decade. Like he's at that
Speaker 1: point now where if you're someone who's hoping for that
Speaker 1: old Shinsky knock of Moor to show his face in WWE,
Speaker 1: like it's it's not happening, Like that ship sailed a
Speaker 1: long time ago. And when he first came in, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say, you know, they didn't see the
Speaker 1: potential in him, Like he had the cool entrance, he
Speaker 1: had cool music. Maybe it wasn't exactly like you know
Speaker 1: what he was doing in New Japan, but he had
Speaker 1: a pretty badass entrance, like when he first debuted and
Speaker 1: he wrestled John sin On SmackDown once. I remember that
Speaker 1: he had the Wrestlemaniam match with AJ which really wasn't
Speaker 1: that great. They went on to have better matches. I
Speaker 1: just think you know what really kind of killed it
Speaker 1: for me is when they gave the title to Gender
Speaker 1: Mahaal and we had Gender Mahall against Knackimore and Knackamoor
Speaker 1: couldn't beat Gender Mahaal. They used him to actually help
Speaker 1: get gender mahall more over, and that's when I realized, like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying.
Speaker 20: I'm not trying really.
Speaker 19: Quick, how bad does it have to be? Exactly how
Speaker 19: bad does.
Speaker 3: It have to be?
Speaker 20: When they're like he had a mahall better than you,
Speaker 20: well maha go over like wow.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's that's when I realized that we're not
Speaker 1: getting that shinsk Nlackimore, that they just don't they don't
Speaker 1: like Vince. Let's say they don't Vince at the time,
Speaker 1: he did not see him at that level, and I
Speaker 1: think part of it was the language barrier. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that was a mark against them. I'm sure Vince saw
Speaker 1: that and said, yeah, that's that's a black mark against them,
Speaker 1: like you know, he can't cut promos. But when I
Speaker 1: saw that that he had multiple pay per view matches
Speaker 1: with gender mahaal and they were basically using this guy
Speaker 1: to help get mahall overs a heel, that's when I knew, like,
Speaker 1: that's it. It's over, Like we're not we're not getting
Speaker 1: that shit skin.
Speaker 19: Out yeore, yeah not a That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I just wish, I kind of really.
Speaker 19: Do wish he would just go back to Japan.
Speaker 7: As this point, I don't think he really does.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to. I think he I
Speaker 1: think his contract has probably come do multiple times in
Speaker 1: the years that he has been in this company, and
Speaker 1: he chooses to re sign each time. I think he's
Speaker 1: content to just do what he's doing. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he'll never go back, but I think if he really
Speaker 1: wanted to go back, and if he was as upset
Speaker 1: as you are and some of the other fans are,
Speaker 1: he would have been gone a long time ago. I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, he's older now, almost ten years
Speaker 1: older now. He worked a very hard style. Dude. He
Speaker 1: was doing shoot fights for a while, like you know.
Speaker 1: I think that in his mind, he's probably just done
Speaker 1: with it. I don't think he wants to go back
Speaker 1: to doing that full time. I don't think he could
Speaker 1: go back to doing that full time. But I think
Speaker 1: if he ever leaves WWE, he could have a homecoming
Speaker 1: there and maybe have some big matches, you know, and
Speaker 1: maybe we get to see a little bit of the
Speaker 1: old Knockamore, like he went over to Pro Wrestling Noah
Speaker 1: and he had a couple of matches there, like on
Speaker 1: their New Year's shows last couple of years, the one
Speaker 1: with Muda, like it was one of Muda's retirement matches,
Speaker 1: like he's done some stuff like that. But I just
Speaker 1: think if he really was unhappy, he would have been
Speaker 1: gone a long time ago. That tells me that he's
Speaker 1: he's happy enough to just be where he is.
Speaker 20: I just find it to be a shame because I'm
Speaker 20: I'm pretty sure. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 20: but it literally needs it, like this guy had never
Speaker 20: been a world champion, like should had never been a
Speaker 20: world champion anywhere.
Speaker 3: Back on the meat.
Speaker 19: Well, oh yeah, you're right. I forgot about NXT yah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that that would be the only one though,
Speaker 1: because he wasn't He was intercontinental champion right in New Japan,
Speaker 1: but not the not the heavyweight champion kah.
Speaker 6: Right yeah yeah, but thank you for your time.
Speaker 19: I'll s thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, you too, I appreciate it. Uh. Let's uh,
Speaker 1: I think we have a call here from Australia. Let's
Speaker 1: try this one. Is this Australia?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, I can hear you.
Speaker 21: Oh yes, this is heaven.
Speaker 3: How you doing so about stuff?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 22: Good?
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: What's your question?
Speaker 21: Uh, she just lovely ms.
Speaker 3: We could.
Speaker 1: Weapon my favorite wrestler, Well, my favorite wrestler, I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking. If I understood him correctly, I appreciate the question.
Speaker 1: My favorite wrestler all time would be Brett Hart, although
Speaker 1: I have several, you know, Mato Man is a close second.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a favorite wrestler right
Speaker 1: now though at the moment, I really can't say. There's
Speaker 1: that like that one person for me that's more Musty
Speaker 1: than anybody else. But anybody who knows me knows I'm
Speaker 1: going to go on a question like that. They know
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Brett as the answer. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a couple more. Let's go to five seven
Speaker 1: to one around the air.
Speaker 3: What's going on, Jason, hear me?
Speaker 1: I can hear.
Speaker 5: First of all, appreciate all your concept brother, you know,
Speaker 5: let subscribe it here. But I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 5: I saw a clip on a Chris Van Vlie's Future
Speaker 5: channel and you that he did with Sam Roberts and
Speaker 5: they were talking about the worst book match ever and
Speaker 5: Stark nineteen ninety seven came up. In the conversation between
Speaker 5: Sting and.
Speaker 7: The hul Kogan.
Speaker 5: I'm someone that likes to put Helm the Cell twenty
Speaker 5: nineteen with the scene and stuff Rollins in there. Yes,
Speaker 5: but I think I leaned. I leaned towards the starkad
Speaker 5: one just because the dumb quick count that they tried
Speaker 5: to pull, and then just the story that they had
Speaker 5: within what seventeen months between the nw own sting, he
Speaker 5: just culminated into that ending. That's my pick personally, But
Speaker 5: what would you say is your worst book match?
Speaker 1: I probably would tend to go with that stark match
Speaker 1: also just because Rollin's in the fiend what they did
Speaker 1: in Hell in a Sale. As awful as that was, like,
Speaker 1: that match was not nearly as important or significant as
Speaker 1: that Starkate match was. You're talking about you're talking about
Speaker 1: a Monday Night War period, which was one of the
Speaker 1: hottest periods in the history of the business, and that
Speaker 1: story was all building to that one match. Like that
Speaker 1: match was such a layup, it was such a slam
Speaker 1: dunk easy thing, and they and they screwed it up.
Speaker 1: They fucked it up, and it's just amazing even today
Speaker 1: to look back on it and realize, like, how do
Speaker 1: you screw that up? All because what because the guy
Speaker 1: didn't have a ten when he showed up, Like it's
Speaker 1: just so, it's just so ridiculous, and it made Bret Hart,
Speaker 1: who was brand new to the company, look like a
Speaker 1: fool for beating up a referee who did nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: Like everything about that finish was just so awful, and
Speaker 1: so I probably would go with the same match.
Speaker 5: Honestly, didn't they replay the count like six or eight
Speaker 5: times to like, yeah, the idea that you.
Speaker 1: Did it was it was just awful. I mean again
Speaker 1: when you just when you look at it in terms
Speaker 1: of like important matches in history, because there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of bad Adley Book matches, I mean probably
Speaker 1: hundreds thousands of them, probably, but that one is the
Speaker 1: one that really stands out and it's still talked about today.
Speaker 1: So what does that tell you? The fact that there
Speaker 1: are still podcasts and shows that are still talking about
Speaker 1: the finish to a match that happened in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: that that wasn't the screwjob. This was two months after
Speaker 1: the screwjob, or not not two months. It was a
Speaker 1: month after a month after the screwjob, and people are
Speaker 1: still talking about it to this day because of how
Speaker 1: stupid the ending was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very much in the same boat with you. I
Speaker 5: appreciate your call or taking my call rather answer my question,
Speaker 5: of course, tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, you two man have a good night. Oh
Speaker 1: it still makes me angry thinking about the finish to
Speaker 1: that dumb match. Fans were still happy though, to see
Speaker 1: Sting holding the championship at the end of the night.
Speaker 1: Uh five five nine, you're on the.
Speaker 2: Air final, Louis the Rock has come back.
Speaker 22: Book.
Speaker 17: No, no, we don't know, man, Papa Stanko here.
Speaker 1: Papa Shanko, we don't. We don't like the Rock after
Speaker 1: what he did at the elimination chamber this year.
Speaker 17: No, man, I'm coming in cold, so I didn't catch
Speaker 17: all of your chill. I came in like literally about
Speaker 17: ten thicky minutes ago.
Speaker 7: I was like, live, okay, that's new.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we're trying it. It's been a while. We've
Speaker 1: done this before, but it's been a while, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to change it up every now and then.
Speaker 1: But what's your question exactly?
Speaker 17: We can't have folks getting stale, come.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, not.
Speaker 17: All right, I'm gonna give you my little rundown. Okay,
Speaker 17: you know this, But for the benefit of the chat.
Speaker 17: Our Wrestling will call viewing demographic is odd. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 17: I'm fifty one, okay, lifelong fan. Right got a seventy
Speaker 17: six year old lifelong fan, and he's even seen like
Speaker 17: when he was younger. He remembers the match with the
Speaker 17: seeing the match with the.
Speaker 7: Oh god, oh for the movie Carrie von Eric beating
Speaker 7: Flair back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course. It's like oh, well, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: in Texas Stadium, that line.
Speaker 17: You know, when you're younger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 17: And then the new.
Speaker 7: Fan, sixty eight year old woman, you know what I mean.
Speaker 17: So it's like and we tell her, it's like, you're
Speaker 17: in the best time because of having all these companies
Speaker 17: and having three quality you know, basically, you know, do
Speaker 17: you have to take a TNA?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Aw? And we three quality.
Speaker 17: I was like, yeah, you're coming to this new fan
Speaker 17: less than a couple of years.
Speaker 4: But it couldn't be better, you know what.
Speaker 5: I mean, especially with the synergy between some of the
Speaker 5: shows and some of these other.
Speaker 3: Companies and stuff.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean today what we're seeing with the
Speaker 1: mixing of the different companies and aw did it now?
Speaker 1: WWE is doing it they bought Triple A, which I
Speaker 1: mean that that may not turn out to be, that
Speaker 1: may not turn out to be, you know, the best
Speaker 1: thing than outright buying them. But yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, we're seeing things today that
Speaker 1: even five years ago, like it would have been. I
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine, you know, that we would be seeing stuff
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 17: It's like we love telling her. It's like, oh, like
Speaker 17: when she saw the punk where punk did? Uh seeing Punk?
Speaker 17: And me and Eddie were like, oh, yeah, yeah, we've
Speaker 17: seen big show. Uh Seena, we've seen it, a big
Speaker 17: show running down with the raft.
Speaker 7: So it was like we got to kick out of that.
Speaker 17: As far as tonight, My one of the ones I
Speaker 17: like is I love to skit with Dom and AJ
Speaker 17: and Kate.
Speaker 7: I mean I was just snicker and I'm like that is.
Speaker 17: Comedy gold right there, just and Dom was like, I
Speaker 17: got don you know, I got a note. I'm like,
Speaker 17: oh man, I mean you can see why, you know,
Speaker 17: behind the scenes and like you know, his co workers
Speaker 17: and everybody's like, oh, this kid's got it.
Speaker 1: You know, he is a you know, yeah, well done,
Speaker 1: he is a star. Yeah, don Dom, Dom gets it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's from a wrestling family, so I'm not
Speaker 1: really surprised. Plus he's also twenty's twenty years pro, so
Speaker 1: I mean he's yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the little things.
Speaker 17: It's like all the little things, you know, of course,
Speaker 17: and what.
Speaker 2: Was I don't know what was going on with the
Speaker 2: think what's the girl's name, Kyrie saying in that match,
Speaker 2: you know, you know they kind of it was just
Speaker 2: they're both better than that.
Speaker 17: So that match was a little odd to me. You know,
Speaker 17: we'll see, you know, I liked where when Oka came in,
Speaker 17: you know, be picked up and you can see the
Speaker 17: Christmas between you know, but it's like, I, yeah, I was,
Speaker 17: you know, I don't know what's going on her tonight,
Speaker 17: so you know.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it was I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's she's had worse. She's had worse, people
Speaker 1: have gotten hurt in some of the other matches that
Speaker 1: she's been in. I mean, there there have been matches
Speaker 1: that she's had that have been that have been worse.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, look, I said at the end
Speaker 1: of the review, I thought, on the whole, it was
Speaker 1: a good show. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it better
Speaker 1: than smack Down on Friday. But I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that all these shows coming
Speaker 1: up this week, not counting all In, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the w.
Speaker 3: W show Brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I'm not. I can't bring myself.
Speaker 17: I just can't bring true fans holdly basically this week
Speaker 17: true fans old well.
Speaker 1: But I'm not even saying that. I'm saying like, I
Speaker 1: can't bring myself to get a excited about the WWE
Speaker 1: shows this weekend. Like when I look at them, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure the Evolution show will end up
Speaker 1: being a pretty good show. But like, I can't sit
Speaker 1: here and tell you, man, I'm super excited, like I'm
Speaker 1: excited for all In, but these WWE shows and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe maybe because there's so many this weekend that not
Speaker 1: one of them is really getting a ton of attention
Speaker 1: because the focus is on all three. Maybe that's part
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, I challenge people, if you're like all
Speaker 2: like our household like.
Speaker 17: You and like we're watching like my guilty pleasure is evolved.
Speaker 17: So then we got NXT right, you got the two
Speaker 17: AW Saturday, like if you're a true fan, be lucky
Speaker 17: not to burn out this week.
Speaker 3: And that's a very real thing.
Speaker 1: It just oh, I'm burned out. I'm burned out every week.
Speaker 1: I'm burned out every week.
Speaker 17: Like exactly, you got to show the sprinkle in between dogs.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is what it is. And we as the.
Speaker 17: Household, we all feel bad for uh Sammy's ain't like
Speaker 17: literally having to go through getting beat down by raised
Speaker 17: carrying cross and then have a brown breaker like Garb
Speaker 17: was like, Man, I feel sorry, and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: you do the short for the night man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh look, I appreciate you calling in there.
Speaker 17: We've been having get me in exactly, and the millions fans,
Speaker 17: we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: So monster, that's probably all the calls you need. Man,
Speaker 3: that's all you need.
Speaker 1: That's it. We gotta that's it. You heard it from him.
Speaker 1: We got it all right, have a good night. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 6: You're true.
Speaker 1: Well before we we we won't end with that one,
Speaker 1: I know. Uh yeah, I thinks, uh that should be
Speaker 1: the main event there. But let's it's getting late here.
Speaker 1: But let's let's see here, let's see I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get to everybody and we'll we'll we'll
Speaker 1: do this again at some point. But let's let's see this.
Speaker 1: Let's do eight to eight. Ht me try that. Let
Speaker 1: me see I can get eight on?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: Can I get it too?
Speaker 3: Eight?
Speaker 1: Here we go A two eight eight too, eight going once,
Speaker 1: going twice? We got them? There we go. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is rd H Hey alredy ah, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 9: H just chilling and listen to everybody else talk and
Speaker 9: listen to you talk. And I didn't know how I
Speaker 9: could follow the mini bit.
Speaker 1: You could, you could. You could ask your question and
Speaker 1: I'll let you know if it's better or worse.
Speaker 6: All right, I have a couple of questions.
Speaker 1: Well, let's try to let's let's pick your best one.
Speaker 1: What what's what's the best one that you got?
Speaker 6: All right? Uh?
Speaker 9: One I have right now on the top of my
Speaker 9: head would be how would the wrestling industry be like
Speaker 9: if Owen Hart, Eddie Carrero and Chris den Wat were
Speaker 9: still alive today.
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's a good one, I would say. Hmm, well,
Speaker 1: I mean the most obvious thing, and thank you for
Speaker 1: the call. That's actually that's actually a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: It would be well, First of all, it would be
Speaker 1: for the better if you are to assume that Ben
Speaker 1: Wit would not have done what he did. So that's
Speaker 1: number one. Ben wa, Eddie and Owen were some of
Speaker 1: the more well respected, you know, veterans in the business,
Speaker 1: and they're all great wrestlers. So had they lived and
Speaker 1: had they gone on to what I assumed they would
Speaker 1: have done, which is they would have gone on, if
Speaker 1: not to open their own schools, they would have gone
Speaker 1: on to train who knows, maybe they'd be working at
Speaker 1: the PC right now. The wrestling business would be far
Speaker 1: better off having them in it than not having them
Speaker 1: in it at all, simple as that. I mean, imagine
Speaker 1: the crop of talent that they could have coached, that
Speaker 1: they could have trained, that they could have given advice to.
Speaker 1: Has to say nothing of anything on screen that they
Speaker 1: would have done. Just for that reason alone, the business
Speaker 1: and the people in it would have been far better off,
Speaker 1: you know, having them around to sort of impart their
Speaker 1: knowledge on them. So obviously it sucks the way things
Speaker 1: ended up all around, but there's the reason why they
Speaker 1: were so well respected until everything went to shit there
Speaker 1: at the end. Unfortunately, let's see, let's go here, let's
Speaker 1: go to three five to two, three, five to two.
Speaker 1: You're on the air.
Speaker 14: Hey, Jason, what something?
Speaker 3: How you doing good? Pretty good?
Speaker 18: Man?
Speaker 14: Hey, I have just a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 14: Number one, are you as sick of Ukkogan's lives as
Speaker 14: I am? Because I just find them laughable?
Speaker 3: No, I can't take.
Speaker 1: It, dude. I love it because I love it because dude,
Speaker 1: I love it because it gives me so much content
Speaker 1: for my shows.
Speaker 11: Yeah, man.
Speaker 14: And number two, Man, I've been listening to you for
Speaker 14: like fifteen years now and I really enjoy your ramp
Speaker 14: and the worst raw ever, well it's a November eighteen.
Speaker 14: But let me ask you, I say, have you seen
Speaker 14: it rall that bad since? Because I have.
Speaker 1: Nice off the top of my head.
Speaker 14: Just just getting worse the words For me, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if I've seen one as bad as that
Speaker 1: one episode. There have been some bad episodes, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was as bad as that one.
Speaker 14: Well, I mean I I called you lock a couple
Speaker 14: whenever you did this before, and I said, like back
Speaker 14: in ninety eight, there was only two bad raws and
Speaker 14: those are those sincerity ones September fifth and twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh when they got when they got delayed for what
Speaker 1: was it, US Open Tennis. I think they got pushback. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 14: I'm just for me. It's just it sorted getting bad
Speaker 14: after Wresselemania seventeen. I mean, you had that wonder after Russelemania,
Speaker 14: so that down.
Speaker 17: Was still good.
Speaker 14: But to me, it just be worse the worse like
Speaker 14: for that time until now. All right, Well that's the
Speaker 14: storyline and.
Speaker 1: All right, any other questions before I let you go?
Speaker 14: Yeah, whatever happened with uh work to a a w
Speaker 14: paper You're supposed to be streaming on next for this
Speaker 14: kind of price sometime this year that Yeah, you have
Speaker 14: anything on that?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so it was supposed to. They were hopeful.
Speaker 1: The technology is still not ready yet, so whenever that
Speaker 1: technology is ready to support those types of shows, they'll
Speaker 1: have it. But they have not specified a date or
Speaker 1: anything like that because they're just not ready to do
Speaker 1: it yet.
Speaker 14: Okay. One asked question, where do you think the content
Speaker 14: content is going to go next year because of what
Speaker 14: that peacock you expires? Because Peacock is horrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a fan. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan of peacock. Either my guests, if I
Speaker 1: had a guess that goes to.
Speaker 14: Netflix for this kind of price, or do we have
Speaker 14: to pay more?
Speaker 1: You'll probably have to pay more. You're always gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay more.
Speaker 14: Oh jes, I appreciate it, man, but I enjoy the contact.
Speaker 1: Man, be safe, Thank you, man, you too. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call. We'll take one more here, why not? We'll
Speaker 1: take one more?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 1: One, three are on the air?
Speaker 22: You mean solemn monster?
Speaker 1: Oh God? Is this who I think it is?
Speaker 22: Yes, it's Louise from Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It is our friend, Luis Alejandro from Los Angeles. How
Speaker 1: are you doing, Louise?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 22: Not too happy?
Speaker 1: Really? Why is that?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: What's your question? I'm leaving you as the main event here,
Speaker 1: so I need you to give me a really good
Speaker 1: question that we can go out on.
Speaker 3: Here. Two questions.
Speaker 18: Okay, I know we're no longer getting Nikki Bella and
Speaker 18: Live Morgan at Evolution, but.
Speaker 22: If Nicki is on the Evolution card whom she faced, well.
Speaker 1: They announced tonight she's going to be in the Battle Royal.
Speaker 22: Okay, that sucks.
Speaker 1: And the other question, now I know, now.
Speaker 22: I know which one's the sleeper match.
Speaker 1: And the other question.
Speaker 22: So question number two, given that it's been six months
Speaker 22: since the wildfires, do you think that would be a
Speaker 22: great a great time to ask this question. Let's say,
Speaker 22: for example, if w P, you know, the CW affiliate
Speaker 22: over there in you and in or we're to preempt NXT,
Speaker 22: just like t t.
Speaker 18: LA did when they were covering the wildfires.
Speaker 22: What would the event be and for what reason?
Speaker 18: And how many days would that event last until like
Speaker 18: somebody higher up in the CW television network says, you
Speaker 18: know what, this this television market got screwed out because.
Speaker 22: X dt Y, We'll just reair this show one more
Speaker 22: time so everybody can see it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I have so first of all, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what you're talking about. But if we assume
Speaker 1: that there was some sort of event that would pre
Speaker 1: empt NXT, I could tell you that what they would
Speaker 1: do in New York is they would just they would
Speaker 1: air it on a different night. It would probably be
Speaker 1: on a not not Tuesday, but it would just air
Speaker 1: on a different night. I'm not really sure I even
Speaker 1: understand what the question was, but that's the best answer
Speaker 1: I could possibly give you, because the big difference between
Speaker 1: PIX and kt LA to totally different stations. I can
Speaker 1: only speak for the New York station. They would simply
Speaker 1: re air it on a different night. Maybe you need
Speaker 1: to move to me. Actually, you know what, don't do
Speaker 1: that anything else, Louise, It's good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Anything else before I let you go.
Speaker 22: No, I wouldn't well only if they if something.
Speaker 1: Were to happen to my dad, York Christ please please.
Speaker 3: To thank God good.
Speaker 1: I hope nothing. I hope he lives to be one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. I hope everything works out well. Luis,
Speaker 1: it was good to hear your voice. Let's let's do
Speaker 1: this again sometime.
Speaker 3: Okay, boys on me.
Speaker 22: Look, everybody, take care. Don't let Ice mess with y'all.
Speaker 1: There you go. You heard it from the man himself, Luise,
Speaker 1: the one and only always seems to get through here.
Speaker 1: He always manages to find a way. Drew in the chat, Drew,
Speaker 1: which one is? Which one are you?
Speaker 3: Drew?
Speaker 1: Give me the give me the first, give me the
Speaker 1: first three. I'll try to get you in real quick
Speaker 1: here before I wrap this bad boy up. I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what that last question was. He
Speaker 1: was trying to ask Are you as confused as I am?
Speaker 1: I I feel like I hope I'm not the only one. Drew, Drew,
Speaker 1: tell me that you were just as confused. Tell me
Speaker 1: the call of course, Drew Drew, tell me that you
Speaker 1: were just as confused as I was by Louise's second question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I don't know what he was talking about. Sorry.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Uh. First, I'm gonna say, oh, thanks for a
Speaker 12: birthday shout out the question the question. So, I've been
Speaker 12: buying a lot of old schools John Sena shirts. Do
Speaker 12: you have like a favorite John Sena shirt or maybe
Speaker 12: like a favorite wrestling shirt, like like a vintage one
Speaker 12: or something like that, some of your favorites, like I
Speaker 12: know the Austin DO sixteen one is probably one of
Speaker 12: your favorites, but like some like other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have a favorite John I don't own
Speaker 1: a john Sena shirt, so I can't I can't speak
Speaker 1: to him the favorite John Sena shirt of all the
Speaker 1: ones he's ever come out with, I've bought exactly zero
Speaker 1: of them, so I can't really answer that part of it.
Speaker 1: As far as favorite, is there a favorite wrestling shirt?
Speaker 1: You know? You? I'll say this, I I had the
Speaker 1: Austin I still have it, actually, the Austin three sixteen,
Speaker 1: the original one, and I had an nWo logo shirt.
Speaker 1: And I've never gotten as many reactions from people just
Speaker 1: walking around as I did waring those two shirts and
Speaker 1: specifically Austin three sixteen, So that probably would have been
Speaker 1: my answer if I had a second answer. There was
Speaker 1: an all over print shirt that WWF sold in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties that had razor ramone on it. I used
Speaker 1: to have that. I don't have it anymore. That was
Speaker 1: a pretty badass shirt. I'm kind of I'm kind of
Speaker 1: sorry I don't have it anymore. I might go with
Speaker 1: that one maybe, but Austin three sixteen, I mean that's
Speaker 1: hard to top.
Speaker 12: Oh, yeah, for sure with the bag graphic two. And
Speaker 12: then oh, do you have any like bad wrestling shirts?
Speaker 1: Like I was.
Speaker 3: I saw a Carlito one and it's the more it says,
Speaker 3: do you spit a swallow? And I was, I was
Speaker 3: looking at that one. There any bad with oh there?
Speaker 1: I mean there have been some. Of course, there have
Speaker 1: been some bad I didn't own them because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: buy them in the first place, but yeah, there have
Speaker 1: been some awful wrestling shirts. Big Show had one. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not the worst, but like he had one
Speaker 1: that had an arrow pointing down that said Big Show
Speaker 1: like ha ha. There was the uh, the infamous APA
Speaker 1: one which on the back, I think on the back
Speaker 1: of the shirt said always Pounding Ass. So that was
Speaker 1: on the back of the shirt. Yeah, I definitely don't
Speaker 1: want to walk around the streets of New York wearing
Speaker 1: that one. And then there was God, there have been
Speaker 1: some awful wrestling. There was an AJ Styles one where
Speaker 1: it looked like the font type was like uh like
Speaker 1: seamen it was. It's just like, yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: I don't know why, Like how does that go to print?
Speaker 1: Like how do they actually think that that is a
Speaker 1: good idea to to sell? I don't know. Oh, Jordan Miles.
Speaker 1: That's where somebody Andre mentioned Jordan Miles.
Speaker 3: I forgot all about that.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that's that's that.
Speaker 3: Whatever happened to him, By the way.
Speaker 1: I think he's still doing indies. I think I haven't
Speaker 1: heard his name mentioned recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I just saw a clip of him and then I
Speaker 12: remember his uh that crazy shirt that came out. Uh,
Speaker 12: but I haven't heard of him since.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, boy. I forgot about that one anyway.
Speaker 12: Thanks, thanks for the call, Thanks for picking up my
Speaker 12: call now.
Speaker 1: Of course I wanted to make sure I got you on,
Speaker 1: So have a good night.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Thank you all right?
Speaker 1: Uh, I know Arabian Night. I see your brother, I
Speaker 1: see you, I see Arabian Night. Get him in here
Speaker 1: as the main event? Shall we Arabian Night? Is that you?
Speaker 3: Yes? This is me? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 3: Not bad?
Speaker 21: Not bad?
Speaker 11: Quick comment for you.
Speaker 23: I know, I know he got good to Night fans,
Speaker 23: but uh, I'm a big Jammy's ain't that?
Speaker 11: And it have been for quite some time. And I
Speaker 11: really liked your your story about him possibly winning the
Speaker 11: title of Summerslan kind of like Daniel Bryan. But I
Speaker 11: guess now it's not happening. I started getting back into
Speaker 11: wrestling around the Bloodline starting, and I really think the
Speaker 11: Big started to boom a lot once he kind of
Speaker 11: got involved in the group and all those amazing segments
Speaker 11: that they had. So my question is, do you think
Speaker 11: he is the most deserving I guess wrestler right now
Speaker 11: who should be a world champion, because I think he's
Speaker 11: He's not only earned it, I think he's due for
Speaker 11: a world title, and I do hope that he does
Speaker 11: win the rubble next year, and not because it's in
Speaker 11: Saudi and because like he's from that area, but I
Speaker 11: really do think that he should be the one that
Speaker 11: gets either the ww Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship,
Speaker 11: either one. And do you feel the same way.
Speaker 1: I would say, I mean, for the amount of for
Speaker 1: the amount of time he's put in. Of the people
Speaker 1: I could think of right now who I think are
Speaker 1: overdue for a run, he probably would be at the
Speaker 1: top of the list because he's really one of the
Speaker 1: only ones left who hasn't really had that opportunity. So
Speaker 1: and the story is right there. They've been acknowledging it
Speaker 1: on TV. You can't win the big one, you have
Speaker 1: never been world champions. So I think it's coming. I
Speaker 1: think it's coming next year. I think it'll be the
Speaker 1: world title, not the WWE title, I think, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he would probably be you know, look, Kevin Owens is
Speaker 1: another one. People can plain like it's been years, Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens deserves a run. At least Kevin Owens had the
Speaker 1: Universal title. Sammy never had anything.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sammy hasn't had his moment, yet Kevin
Speaker 11: has like he's he's due. I know, I know he's
Speaker 11: getting older and probably doesn't have like many years left.
Speaker 11: I think like, I think he's due like next year
Speaker 11: for sure. I think it's his time and he he's
Speaker 11: definitely earned it.
Speaker 1: I feel yeah, and I don't. I don't see it
Speaker 1: being like a super long run, but I do think
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna happen next year. I think the
Speaker 1: time is right for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And then my last thing is I can see how
Speaker 11: w W is trying to groom. I feel like the
Speaker 11: next two big stars for the next decade. I feel
Speaker 11: our bron Breaker and Jacob Plot two, and I feel
Speaker 11: a lot of fans kind of think the same goes
Speaker 11: to are gonna be like the next two guys to
Speaker 11: kind of lead the charge. I am actually leaning towards
Speaker 11: a different way. I do think they're both gonna be
Speaker 11: mega like megastars, but I actually think Dominick in stereo
Speaker 11: is going to be right there with them in terms
Speaker 11: of like he's going to be a mega mega baby face.
Speaker 11: I think those three will kind of be leaving the charge.
Speaker 11: He's also younger than both of them too. He has
Speaker 11: that on his side. But I know everybody's talking about
Speaker 11: Jacob pot two Ron Breaker WrestleMania main event, you know,
Speaker 11: but I think Dominic is gonna be right there with them.
Speaker 11: What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't disagree. I think that they're older. I
Speaker 1: know how old is Bron.
Speaker 11: I think he's like twenty nine maybe.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Jacob is definitely. I think Jacob's thirty three,
Speaker 1: so Jacob is a little bit older. He's got a
Speaker 1: lot more experience. I think Jacob will hit that kind
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania main event level a lot sooner because he's
Speaker 1: just more advanced than they are. But Dominic, you know,
Speaker 1: if you would have told me that like five years ago,
Speaker 1: I would have said, eah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: But like you see the progression even just character wise
Speaker 1: in ring. I think last year it was like some
Speaker 1: crazy stat where he had more matches or more in
Speaker 1: ring time than anybody else on the rosters. So like
Speaker 1: in the ring, he's he's good. Yeah, character wise, he's
Speaker 1: very entertaining. I agree. I think he'll be a super
Speaker 1: babyface when the time is right. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. I think that he will be.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say he's going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy, but I think he'll be in that group
Speaker 1: that a few years from now is at the top
Speaker 1: of the car. I think he'll be part of that group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 23: I think the guy that might not even be in
Speaker 23: right now, I feel like m J. S could be
Speaker 23: the guy once he's there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely
Speaker 23: think he's gonna be right up for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 23: I always thought montege Ford as well. But I don't
Speaker 23: think montege Ford is gonna get the opportunity because.
Speaker 11: I always he had the black look, my skills and
Speaker 11: ring work, but I lost.
Speaker 23: With him a year and a half ago, So I
Speaker 23: don't think is gonna get that chance.
Speaker 11: But thank you for answering my call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Been following you for over a decade now, so I
Speaker 11: appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you called in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. Yeah, yeah, mont has for the
Speaker 1: potential is still there. Is it going to happen? Probably not.
Speaker 1: So there's a difference between saying that he can't do
Speaker 1: it and doesn't have the potential to do it, or
Speaker 1: that he won't get the opportunity. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's going to get the opportunity to do it. This
Speaker 1: is the last one here we got seven oh two.
Speaker 1: Is this our friend, super Pony?
Speaker 8: Yes it is.
Speaker 13: I thank you very much for letting me on. I
Speaker 13: didn't expect you to let me on. I appreciate solo.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Glad I got you in. What's what's going on? What's
Speaker 1: your question?
Speaker 13: I was you mentioned Kevin Owens earlier when Ap and
Speaker 13: Night was talking about Sam Musan getting a world title run.
Speaker 13: Kevin Owens has been my favorite wrestler on the planet
Speaker 13: since I first saw him in NXT and his Day
Speaker 13: Do Match.
Speaker 19: I love him.
Speaker 13: I think he's incredible in the ring and on the mic.
Speaker 13: My question is, I know right now he's out with
Speaker 13: the neck injury and we don't know if he's going
Speaker 13: to wrestle again. But if he ever does come back,
Speaker 13: do you do you think they're going to give him
Speaker 13: that world tyler run that think he deserves.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's so hard to say because I
Speaker 1: don't see him coming back for a long time. So
Speaker 1: you know we're talking we could be talking a year
Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, we could be talking like
Speaker 1: Randy Orton was out for eighteen months. He may be
Speaker 1: gone for that long too, So what condition is he
Speaker 1: going to be in if he does come back. Is
Speaker 1: he going to be full time anymore? These two world titles,
Speaker 1: I think the chances are pretty good that he'll hold
Speaker 1: one of them. But I'm I'm with this injury. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm less certain than I would have been before
Speaker 1: if you would have asked me this question six months ago.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, of course, at some point Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: is going to win the championship. Again, I'm less certain
Speaker 1: about that now because of his health. If he comes back,
Speaker 1: you know, healthy, like like Randy did, then yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he'll hold one of the world title. It may
Speaker 1: not be the WWE title, but I think he'll He'll
Speaker 1: be a champion at some point.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean I agree.
Speaker 13: I mean, like, when he does come back, he's he's
Speaker 13: going to be like forty two, forty three years old,
Speaker 13: and I just think it would be a shame if
Speaker 13: he never I mean, because before he got here, he
Speaker 13: was on an incredible run. Oh yeah, he was probably
Speaker 13: one of the best parts of the television show. And
Speaker 13: I think you see with him out how much he's
Speaker 13: missed that. People probably didn't realize it when he was healthy,
Speaker 13: but now that he's out, I mean, he he is
Speaker 13: definitely missed on TV. And I just I really think
Speaker 13: they should have just gave it to him when he
Speaker 13: was shooting with Cody and then they could have just
Speaker 13: had Cody went it back at the rumble. Really, I
Speaker 13: really think they should have just did that.
Speaker 1: Well they kind of did. I mean, they gave him
Speaker 1: the belt the winged Eagle to walk around with for
Speaker 1: a month. So for a month he walked around proclaiming
Speaker 1: to be the champion. So and you know, in a
Speaker 1: way he kind of was.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that was a lot of fun when he was
Speaker 13: doing that on TV. So yeah, thank you Solo for
Speaker 13: letting me on again. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to do it.
Speaker 19: And I love your show.
Speaker 13: Been watching for seven years and I love it. So
Speaker 13: thank you very much for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Man, Thank you man, it's good to have you on.
Speaker 1: Have yourself a good night. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody who called in. Man, we had some
Speaker 1: fun here. There are some weird ones Louise. We love
Speaker 1: Louise here, but I'm still trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: that second question was. Let me get to some of
Speaker 1: the final superchats that came in before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, because we got some more messages. Jeremy Rose says,
Speaker 1: with Sina's last appearance being July eighteenth, before SummerSlam, Sena
Speaker 1: Rhodes build will be crap like WrestleMania's build was. Is
Speaker 1: that when his last advertised appearances, they may add more.
Speaker 1: They have to have to add more. I don't have
Speaker 1: high hopes for this rematch after what we saw WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know right now, it's hard to
Speaker 1: imagine that match being any worse than WrestleMania as was.
Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm not having a lot of optimism
Speaker 1: about it. Jonathan Peters says, you crapped on the idea
Speaker 1: last Tuesday. But Tomatonga will join Jacob and Friday proved
Speaker 1: it when Solo said his family is finally complete. So
Speaker 1: you think they're going to break up Tomatonga and Tonga Low.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Tomatonga is coming back so quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: You're may be right. We'll find out I don't see it,
Speaker 1: but we'll find out. Power spying games late remembrance of
Speaker 1: the oh, the London bombings twenty years ago. That's where
Speaker 1: all right? That was right around this time. Zizu, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you staying up with me. Joseph Stewart, are
Speaker 1: you a fan of Missus Doubtfire and what is your
Speaker 1: favorite scene in Missus Doubtfire? I am a fan of
Speaker 1: Missus Doubtfire. It's the one where he lights his tits
Speaker 1: on fire when he's cooking. We have Lug the artist.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the convo. Keep up the great work. NXT
Speaker 1: is awesome. Thank you for the ten dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And Scumdog for twenty closing us out
Speaker 1: with a twenty dollars super chat. Today I said goodbye
Speaker 1: to my dad for the final time. This stream with
Speaker 1: some WWE two K twenty five online is really helping me.
Speaker 1: Thank you Solo. I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad the stream could could be of some help. I
Speaker 1: hear that quite a bit from people, and it's just
Speaker 1: a good way to take your mind to have some
Speaker 1: of the shitty things in life sometimes. But Scumdog I'm
Speaker 1: very happy to hear that. Oh my god. I'm very
Speaker 1: sorry to hear then not happy you could tell it's
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning. I'm very sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And I see some of the messages
Speaker 1: in the chats. So you got a lot of people
Speaker 1: thinking about Gan here and Javili. I thought that was
Speaker 1: gonna be a but Javili comes in and says, I meant,
Speaker 1: who uh oh, favorite wrestler turned singer or actor? M
Speaker 1: favorite wrestler turned actor. Batista is pretty high up on
Speaker 1: my list. He might be tops. Honestly, favorite singer. Has
Speaker 1: there been a wrestler that has gone on to a
Speaker 1: singing career that I'm not aware of? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know about singer, but I might go with
Speaker 1: Dave Batista. People talk about Batista and the Rock and
Speaker 1: John Cena. I go with Batista. That's just me. Well,
Speaker 1: this has been fun three hours. Did not expect to
Speaker 1: go three hours with this rawstream. But here we are.
Speaker 1: We talked about raw, we did be the booker, we
Speaker 1: took some phone call. We do it all here. That's
Speaker 1: why you got to be here. I'll be here on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. We'll be talking aw Dynamite on the post
Speaker 1: show before then tomorrow night, Tuesday Night, i'll be live
Speaker 1: on JD's channel for Tuesday Night Titans episode one oh two.
Speaker 1: I hope you will be as well, but otherwise I
Speaker 1: will see you guys back here for the Dynamite post show.
Speaker 1: And then we got a big weekend coming up. No
Speaker 1: SmackDown review On Friday, I'll be in Texas for House
Speaker 1: of Glory. I'm flying right back the next morning so
Speaker 1: I could be here to watch the pay per view,
Speaker 1: and we'll have a full all in review, a podcast
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and Evolution review on Sunday. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot. That's why I appreciate all the support
Speaker 1: you throw my way. Be well, stay Saife, have yourselves
Speaker 1: a great night, and I will see you back here
Speaker 1: on this channel Wednesday night for the down of my
Speaker 1: post show. Until then, take care, guys,