Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? Welcome to episode two of
Speaker 1: the Main Event show hosted by You're Australian Daniel.
Speaker 2: Last week I didn't get to give you his all
Speaker 2: a merry Christmas, so yeah, wishing you a merry Christmas,
Speaker 2: notse for don't celebrate.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you had a break or enjoyed your time off.
Speaker 2: Here in Australia, we actually have a summer Christmas, so
Speaker 2: I don't know the fahrenheit conversion, but it was about
Speaker 2: thirty degrees celsius on Christmas Day and if I quickly
Speaker 2: searched that up comparing that to fahrenheit, it would be
Speaker 2: approximately eighty six degrees. So yeah, we had a hot
Speaker 2: summer Christmas Day, which is quite normal here in Australia,
Speaker 2: which is cool. And yeah, I had a good time obviously,
Speaker 2: but keen to I guess. Yeah, continue the content as
Speaker 2: we close off the year, moving on to twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: and what better way to do it than have a
Speaker 2: review of what's happening in the Main Event And really
Speaker 2: hope you've enjoyed last week's episode, if I'm honest, just
Speaker 2: the first time, just seeing how things obviously work, how
Speaker 2: we can kind of I guess structure everything talk about
Speaker 2: and as you know, not many matches happen in Main
Speaker 2: Event only two, so that's where we have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to normally reviews backdown or rule mostly Raw because the
Speaker 2: show happens after Main Event. And yeah, again that allows
Speaker 2: me to kind of give my opinion. So if this
Speaker 2: is your first time listening to the Main Event show
Speaker 2: and you haven't had to look at the first episode,
Speaker 2: feel free to do so as well. And while you're there,
Speaker 2: feel free to have a look at all the other
Speaker 2: podcasts we have with the creator, the show Man and
Speaker 2: others that are doing SmackDown and an XT.
Speaker 1: But yeah, without further ado, let's begin with the show.
Speaker 2: So we started off with Pete Dunn taking on the Dragonly,
Speaker 2: so too familiar WW superstars who have probably struggled to
Speaker 2: get much airtime on Raw or have anything kind of relevant.
Speaker 2: We know Pete Dunn is just out there getting teased
Speaker 2: for his nickname, which I'm not going to say because
Speaker 2: I don't want Pete done to give me.
Speaker 1: Any grief, but we all know what it is.
Speaker 2: And then Dragonly as well, trying to fill the boots
Speaker 2: of Ray Mysterio obviously with LWO having a few matches
Speaker 2: here and there on raw, but nothing to the point
Speaker 2: where you're thinking there's something or there for either of them, if.
Speaker 1: I'm honest, But they have a match here, I'm timekeeping.
Speaker 2: This time, and this one went for about seven minutes
Speaker 2: and fifty one seconds. It was actually a pretty solid match,
Speaker 2: a lot of back and forth, a lot of incredible
Speaker 2: moves displayed if US, especially at the start. You can
Speaker 2: tell that these guys have some decent chemistry together, which
Speaker 2: was good. But it ended up Pete Done getting the
Speaker 2: victory here, and I guess that might lead to potentially
Speaker 2: Pete Done having some more opportunities next year, but I
Speaker 2: really think that there isn't going to be much for
Speaker 2: him unless there is pro anything opened up, because yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that the roster's really deep right now and
Speaker 2: Pete Done hasn't been able to I.
Speaker 1: Guess break through.
Speaker 2: The match with Seamus or the feud of Shamus was
Speaker 2: supposed to, I guess level him up there, and obviously
Speaker 2: Shamus was trying to put him over, but it didn't
Speaker 2: seem like it really worked out. And credit WW for
Speaker 2: trying that. It was a worthwhile feud. It made Pete
Speaker 2: dun turned heel. It allowed him to kind of just
Speaker 2: go into that dark side, but nothing really happened much
Speaker 2: with him after that, And maybe with this win there
Speaker 2: might be some more things for Pete done, but it
Speaker 2: does seem like he is floating between raw NXT and
Speaker 2: then also the main events, so it's gonna be really
Speaker 2: hard for I think him to get some prime time
Speaker 2: or even mid card spots on any of.
Speaker 1: The main shows.
Speaker 2: I moved to SmackDown could be in the cards, but
Speaker 2: again I don't really see him doing much there.
Speaker 1: And in terms of dragon.
Speaker 2: Ly, yeah, I guess it's big shoes to fill there
Speaker 2: with raymondstery, he does have the potential, but I feel
Speaker 2: as though that the loss here hasn't helped him or
Speaker 2: won't help him for the future. But nevertheless, a really
Speaker 2: good match like you could see like and when we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about the next next fight. The difference
Speaker 2: in kind of quality where when it comes to the
Speaker 2: w W superstars that are on the main show in
Speaker 2: contrast to new and up cunning NXT superstars. This is
Speaker 2: my personal opinion though, but they seemed a lot more
Speaker 2: comfortable together and were able to kind of showcase at
Speaker 2: a pretty decent match, so not really not really not
Speaker 2: manly many complaints about the match, sorry, but in terms
Speaker 2: of kind of where these two are going to head off,
Speaker 2: and I think that's kind of the main story with
Speaker 2: Main Event, is when we're trying to see whether there
Speaker 2: is potential for them to get off this card, or
Speaker 2: whether their talents are elsewhere in NXT or even pushing
Speaker 2: up now potentially to like a low card when reviewing
Speaker 2: these matches, because yeah, other than that, there's not really
Speaker 2: much to go off.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no promo work, there's no.
Speaker 2: Feuds, but basically just seeing how kind of they look
Speaker 2: in ring and what their characters can do outside of
Speaker 2: that will be the most important thing. And I think
Speaker 2: that's something that when they get on the shows that raw,
Speaker 2: they can improve on, because I don't think the wrestling
Speaker 2: is the issue with these two superstars. I just think
Speaker 2: the attractiveness to fans, getting people interested in their characters
Speaker 2: or being able to hold some good promos is something
Speaker 2: that I think is what's lacking with these two. But yeah, nevertheless,
Speaker 2: moving on, what I'll do is review the second match
Speaker 2: of Main Event, which was Josh Briges against Dante Chen
Speaker 2: and Dante Chen's been looking pretty popular on NXT, especially
Speaker 2: with his fan base being from Singapore and having that
Speaker 2: kind of that edge on him as well. Seemed that
Speaker 2: he was doing pretty well, winning his last two main
Speaker 2: event matches. He's been on and kind of getting on
Speaker 2: a decent hot streak, but that was kind of shut
Speaker 2: down with Josh Briggs, who, if I'm honest, don't really
Speaker 2: know too much about him from the research I've done.
Speaker 2: He's had a lot of work in Japan, but from
Speaker 2: what I've seen, it does look like a massive and
Speaker 2: a big powerhouse wrestler, someone that could potentially come into
Speaker 2: w W as a heel and do some damage. But
Speaker 2: feel as though that I think at a run on
Speaker 2: the next team might be intimate for him.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether he's been on an XT team
Speaker 1: in the past or not.
Speaker 2: But again from reviewing this match, which I went for
Speaker 2: five minutes by the way, just over five minutes, five
Speaker 2: minutes of one second, he did get win as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: and he yeah, it looked really good. I think the cockiness,
Speaker 2: that the attitude, the ego was something refreshing to see on.
Speaker 1: Main event as well.
Speaker 2: You don't really see many superstars really give a much
Speaker 2: personality or attitude inside rings and Torning and Josh Briggs
Speaker 2: definitely did that. Dante Chen at a point did kind
Speaker 2: of fall back and you thought that he would get
Speaker 2: the momentum and win the match, especially for all the
Speaker 2: trash talking Briggs was doing. I thought that that was
Speaker 2: going to get completely shut down. But again Briggs showed
Speaker 2: his power with a mean closed line and was able
Speaker 2: to finish the match.
Speaker 1: And I guess, yeah, not go to.
Speaker 2: That typical stereotype of someone that just talks trash in
Speaker 2: the ring and then ends up getting shown out when
Speaker 2: it comes to actually approving it. But yeah, again, I
Speaker 2: think Dante Chen will be fine. I think he'll feature
Speaker 2: on main event once again. But it'd be good to
Speaker 2: see him, I guess, elevate to the w W ranks
Speaker 2: and I feel like he'd bring in a very big
Speaker 2: crowd as well, given that he is of South Asian
Speaker 2: descent and there's a lot of backing there, especially in
Speaker 2: his hometown of Singapore. And Josh Briggs, I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: move to NXTE might be good and maybe just tracking
Speaker 2: his progress and seeing how he goes there and then
Speaker 2: potentially moving on to WWE on the main card Rubins
Speaker 2: backdown and being a strong heel because from what I
Speaker 2: saw he did look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess pretty good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not really much else to comment on main event,
Speaker 2: but a lot to comment on Raw, which last week's
Speaker 2: episode covered obviously by Matt and everything, So not gonna
Speaker 2: go die dive for dive on it, but essentially, yeah,
Speaker 2: Drew McIntyre coming into the ring is what obviously the
Speaker 2: main the main event show showed and then show all
Speaker 2: of Raw, but they do show some snippets, and the
Speaker 2: snippet here was Drew McIntyre coming into the ring basically
Speaker 2: saying that no one in the in the in the
Speaker 2: locker room reached out to him when the family member
Speaker 2: of his passed away or something terrible happened to them.
Speaker 2: And as he was mentioning that Sammy Zaying comes out
Speaker 2: delivers a somewhat effective promo, a good way to get
Speaker 2: onto the side of all the fans are explaining how
Speaker 2: they go through all hardship, people go through hardship.
Speaker 1: Himself has gone through hardship and he.
Speaker 2: Still had to show up to work as WW universes
Speaker 2: as we do and do not point the finger. Matt
Speaker 2: said it perfectly do they really, because I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: not everyone doesn't point the finger.
Speaker 1: I feel like that happens a lot too.
Speaker 2: So that was questionable, but I guess it's a way
Speaker 2: of kind of just making Drew look smaller than when
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 1: And yeah, going on, Drew obviously looked.
Speaker 2: A bit shocked and surprised, then replied that all his
Speaker 2: families in Scotland, so it's a lot harder for him,
Speaker 2: and that he has no issues taking Samuse out because
Speaker 2: he's the lead of his worries. And then that transitioned
Speaker 2: into a match, which is what we got towards the
Speaker 2: later end of the show, and we obviously know the
Speaker 2: result for that, Drew McIntire.
Speaker 1: Taking out the win. Sammy was a little bit protected here.
Speaker 2: I think it didn't hurt him too much because of
Speaker 2: the fact that he had that back in jury. But
Speaker 2: no surprises that Drew won the match there. But what
Speaker 2: did happen after was Drew obviously pulling out some attacks.
Speaker 2: Then Jay also coming into the ring try and obviously
Speaker 2: help Sammy out, feels as that he's the next person
Speaker 2: to go at it with Drew, and then later on
Speaker 2: we had Solo and half his bloodline come out Tomatonga
Speaker 2: and Jacob Fattu going into and laying into both Samu
Speaker 2: Zain and Jay So with Drew leaving the ring, obviously
Speaker 2: that signifying and showing that this trouble comeback is not
Speaker 2: over remains and Solo will go at it on Netflix
Speaker 2: on the debut of Netflix for Raw. And it looks
Speaker 2: as though that the bloodline feud is still going on,
Speaker 2: so continue to look out for that. It's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting to see how kind of Jew does get
Speaker 2: involved with this. Obviously his issues are with the bloodline
Speaker 2: or the original bloodline and with Roman Reigns. But the
Speaker 2: fact that you've got kind of Solo and his bloodline involved,
Speaker 2: You've also got the Rock potentially coming back. A lot
Speaker 2: of factors here, A lot of things are circled around
Speaker 2: the og bloodline, and as we get into WrestleMania, it's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting to see, I guess how that
Speaker 2: will kind of play out with so many kind of
Speaker 2: variables involved there. And yeah, I think the final mentioned
Speaker 2: the show and the final thing that they did show
Speaker 2: was the COVID Kingston Xavier Woods coming out to the ring.
Speaker 2: And one thing that I was disappointed about, which kind
Speaker 2: of annoyed me was hearing the crowd. I know that
Speaker 2: the crowd was well not hearing them itself. I'm more
Speaker 2: talking about the what WW does on TV is that
Speaker 2: they kind of make the crowd noises themselves and editor
Speaker 2: on their end. And I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: just me, let me know if you think it was
Speaker 2: the same, but it sounded shocking like it didn't match
Speaker 2: up with how they were delivering their promos. You could
Speaker 2: tell that the chants were not authentic, they weren't actually
Speaker 2: coming from the crowd. And I know that it was
Speaker 2: a double taping, so obviously the crowd was not going
Speaker 2: to have as much energy, but I felt like WW
Speaker 2: could have done a much better job in making that
Speaker 2: sound a lot more realistic because those moves were not
Speaker 2: matching up with the promo that Kofe put out.
Speaker 1: And basically, Yeah, Kovie.
Speaker 2: Comes out, Zavie Woods comes out, trying to essentially explain
Speaker 2: themselves and what they did, saying that they could have
Speaker 2: beaten down Big E, and then Kofe mentioned that he
Speaker 2: brought his mum from.
Speaker 1: Ghana all the way to his hometown.
Speaker 2: Shout the fly middle Seat, which is a really funny
Speaker 2: I mentioned there from Kovie. Not really nice putting your
Speaker 2: mum in a middle seat, especially with all the money
Speaker 2: you have, But yeah, that was that was funny, and
Speaker 2: then him going down to her to try apologize and
Speaker 2: her mum essentially walking away, And yeah, I guess my
Speaker 2: take from everything that happened because I haven't gone into
Speaker 2: the new day stuff. We all knew that Xavier Woods
Speaker 2: was eventually going to turn Hill at first, when it
Speaker 2: did happen, what happened that Covid and Xavier ended up
Speaker 2: being together, fighting against it and turning Hill together. I
Speaker 2: thought it was a bad move initially because I thought
Speaker 2: it doesn't really do much for Xavier would single run.
Speaker 2: I think I thought the whole point of Xavier splitting
Speaker 2: up was for him to elevate to a solid.
Speaker 1: Heel, getting some titles and I guess.
Speaker 2: Going on a crazy run. But seeing how Kovi Kingston
Speaker 2: has embraced his heel role has been very refreshing. Like
Speaker 2: I am very surprised of how Kingston has been on
Speaker 2: the MIC, And I don't know if it's just me,
Speaker 2: but like seeing him do it, it just kind of makes
Speaker 2: me feel.
Speaker 1: Like he's more just as evil as Zavie Woods.
Speaker 2: Is the way he's been talking, the way he's he's
Speaker 2: obviously involved his mum, and if you go on social
Speaker 2: media that he's put up a Christmas post and he's
Speaker 2: he's cut out his mum. I think, well, we've never
Speaker 2: seen Kofe being a heel, like we never seen Xavier
Speaker 2: be a heel per se, but we saw the lead
Speaker 2: up to what he could happen. But seeing Kofe just
Speaker 2: become this straight up heel when he's always been just
Speaker 2: the power positivity of the New days, always.
Speaker 1: Been someone to root for.
Speaker 2: He's he's never really scratched that surface again, has been
Speaker 2: refreshing and it's it's been great, Like I'm really happy
Speaker 2: with how it's kind of changed up, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be interesting to see what's gonna happen with those two.
Speaker 2: I suspect that they're gonna have a good title run.
Speaker 2: I feel like they're gonna win another Tag Team chairman.
Speaker 2: I would love to see what their new music will
Speaker 2: be like, because I haven't been coming out to any music,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure is done deliberately, but yeah, so much
Speaker 2: to kind of I guess uncover with these two and
Speaker 2: see where that takes us I'm not sure if Biggie's
Speaker 2: coming back. I know there's suspicions that they're gonna feud
Speaker 2: with him, and he may come back at the Royal Rumble,
Speaker 2: but maybe if that doesn't happen, if it's still true
Speaker 2: that he's not clear to wrestle, I definitely think there
Speaker 2: is an opportunity there for them to win another tag
Speaker 2: team title and continue to technically be a multiple time
Speaker 2: tag team chairman, because they haven't said they got rid
Speaker 2: of the New Day yet, so it might just be
Speaker 2: a completely different New Day obviously without Big Ee, and yeah,
Speaker 2: it will be very interesting.
Speaker 1: To see what happens there. But yeah, that's all for
Speaker 1: this week's review.
Speaker 2: Again, just continuing to try get out as much content
Speaker 2: as possible.
Speaker 1: For you guys, being able to just show what I
Speaker 1: can display here.
Speaker 2: Obviously two matches is not really much to talk about,
Speaker 2: especially with no promos or those stories behind it, but
Speaker 2: again having the platform to I guess speak about it
Speaker 2: is a plus anyway. But yeah, this is probably going
Speaker 2: to be the last show of the year until next week.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, forgot to mention this did come out
Speaker 2: a little bit late again because yeah, these episodes in Australia.
Speaker 2: They just seem to not come out on the right time,
Speaker 2: so just been waiting for episodes to come out. They're
Speaker 2: coming out a little bit later. But at least this
Speaker 2: one managed to come just three days after it was filmed.
Speaker 1: Well, this is film.
Speaker 2: Monday Night Raw, but they get this out usually on Thursdays,
Speaker 2: so I was able to view it on Saturday here,
Speaker 2: so that was a bit of a plus. Was able
Speaker 2: to get this out yeah today, So again, thank you
Speaker 2: for tuning in and we'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker 2: And I have a happy new year as well, and yes,
Speaker 2: all the best for everyone out there, and hope twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five brings some good wrestling content and some more
Speaker 2: amazing laughs as well for you all.
Speaker 1: Cheers,