Speaker 1: Night one of WrestleMania is in the books, and what
Speaker 1: a night it was. From an absolute classic between Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch and Bianca bell Air, the return of Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: and Stone Cold Steve Auston having his first match in
Speaker 1: nearly twenty years. I can't wait to talk about this, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's get it all started right now.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, Welcome to the ww podcast. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining me here, and we're gonna get into WrestleMania
Speaker 1: Night one and look a little bit ahead to night too.
Speaker 1: There's a full preview, a prediction show, by the way,
Speaker 1: that I did with Grace, and we put that up
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, so you can hear our
Speaker 1: full Night two preview, but we're mainly going to be
Speaker 1: focusing on Night one here. I did a very quick,
Speaker 1: high level, seven minute overview of my thoughts last night
Speaker 1: half asleep because I wanted to get something out there.
Speaker 1: But today We're going to dive a lot more in
Speaker 1: depth on Night one on my thoughts on it, as
Speaker 1: well as again previewing a little bit of Night two,
Speaker 1: and boy, is there a lot to discuss with Stone
Speaker 1: Cold Steve Austin. I think going to be the forefront
Speaker 1: of my conversation here in just a minute with after
Speaker 1: nineteen years, having an official match in WWE and what
Speaker 1: that could mean moving forward and something that Stone Cold
Speaker 1: said during his promo or during the KO segment in
Speaker 1: his promo that no one's talking about, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about that in just a minute as well.
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Speaker 1: So with that said, everybody, let's let's dive into night one,
Speaker 1: and yes, I'm leading off with the main event, and
Speaker 1: that was the KO show that we knew was going
Speaker 1: to turn into a brawl, but we weren't sure it
Speaker 1: was going to be a match, and it did end
Speaker 1: up being an official match. As Stone Cold Steve Austin
Speaker 1: came out with his knee braces, he came out with
Speaker 1: his shirt on. Many people have asked, well, why does
Speaker 1: he have a shirt? I can he ever wrestled with
Speaker 1: his shirt? Well, he alluded to it in the previous week,
Speaker 1: the last week or two that he did not have
Speaker 1: enough time, as much time as he would have liked
Speaker 1: to prepare for this matchup with Kevin Owens, this confrontation
Speaker 1: as it was once framed, and you know that that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that he wishes he had more time,
Speaker 1: which I would imagine he doesn't want to take off
Speaker 1: his shirt and have it not look like he did
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, you know, and you could tell through
Speaker 1: the shirt that he still had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a little bit of a gut compared to of course
Speaker 1: his prime years. But that's probably why he kept his
Speaker 1: shirt on, no doubt about it. And I don't blame him,
Speaker 1: you know I would. I wouldn't want to look like,
Speaker 1: you know, not look the part, especially after twenty years
Speaker 1: and I get it. So now, the one thing before
Speaker 1: we get into the actual matchup that I want to
Speaker 1: address is something Stone Cold said during the case show.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this, you know what, instead of talking
Speaker 1: about it, why don't I just play it for you
Speaker 1: and without me telling you what I'm going to be
Speaker 1: talking about specifically with what stone Colts said, why don't
Speaker 1: you see if you can pick it out first. So
Speaker 1: let's take a listen to this and we'll play a
Speaker 1: little game can you identify what we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about and what's very interesting to me? Here we go.
Speaker 4: I had my first match right here in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 4: I could have my last match right here in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 4: If you won't Stone call Steve Austin to compete in
Speaker 4: the match tonight to get his second get hell yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, well did you did you pick it out?
Speaker 1: Did you identify it? I think you did. If if
Speaker 1: you've been listening to the show, you know where I'm
Speaker 1: going with this. And there's one keyword in there. Could
Speaker 1: Stone Cold said this could be where I have my
Speaker 1: last match? Could now? Was he referring to if I
Speaker 1: decide in this moment to have this match, this could
Speaker 1: be my last match right now? Yeah, but very interesting
Speaker 1: choice of words. No one's talking about that. But see
Speaker 1: we're here on the ww podcast. We are smarter than
Speaker 1: everybody else. I say that very facetiously and kind of
Speaker 1: subscribed sarcastic ebit, but for real, I mean that to
Speaker 1: me was very important because it leaves the door open.
Speaker 1: He's leaving the door open. I believe he used this.
Speaker 1: This is further evidence that he used last night as
Speaker 1: as a test for his body and his mind to
Speaker 1: see how everything turned out and to see if it's
Speaker 1: indeed worth pursuing a further match or two and then
Speaker 1: calling it a complete career against Roman Reigns against brock
Speaker 1: Lesner obviously the the two top choices. You could do
Speaker 1: others as well, But to me, brock Lezzer and Stone
Speaker 1: Cold at wrest my thirty nine is we're we're of
Speaker 1: course stretching right now, but it's possible, and I really
Speaker 1: believe it's just he would have said that it's you know,
Speaker 1: this is where I had my first match, and it's
Speaker 1: appropriate this is where I will have my last match,
Speaker 1: not could So I know I'm harping on this, but
Speaker 1: it's very very important when you listen to the phrasing there.
Speaker 1: So nonetheless, besides moving forward, let's look at what happened.
Speaker 1: So Stone Cold comes out after KO just continue to
Speaker 1: run him down, and boy, Kevin Owens got some great
Speaker 1: heat and he knows how to really turn it on.
Speaker 1: And even though a guy that's beloved like Ko was
Speaker 1: able to really get some genuine heat, and Stone Cold
Speaker 1: finally comes out after Kevin Owens was running his mouth
Speaker 1: and we got a Kevin Owens and stone Cold sitting
Speaker 1: there and Kevin Owens says he you know, he lied,
Speaker 1: he tricked him, he was actually going to challenge him
Speaker 1: to match, and Austin obviously accepted as anybody would expect.
Speaker 1: And just in that moment when Austin and Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: were pacing each other around the ring before that bell rang,
Speaker 1: the significance of that moment really sank in. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think about the significance of this, it can't
Speaker 1: be overstated. Like stone Cold see of Austin nearly twenty
Speaker 1: years later we get another match from him, And hearing
Speaker 1: that bell ring and seeing stone Cold just staring across
Speaker 1: the ring at KO was a hell of a moment.
Speaker 1: They're talking about moments all the time, and I'm tired
Speaker 1: of hearing about moments. You know, WrestleMania has really become
Speaker 1: kind of a self fulfilling, obsessive, self obsessive prophecy where
Speaker 1: they're everyone in WWE, all the performers are always talking
Speaker 1: about wrestlemaniuments, WrestleMania moments, as if it's like the fourth wall,
Speaker 1: like stop talking about it, just make it a great
Speaker 1: card and have great stories elminate there. It's always like
Speaker 1: there's very self aware of how big this this pay
Speaker 1: per view is, and that I don't like that because
Speaker 1: it's just it's so I don't know how to describe
Speaker 1: it other than just it's a very just self aware,
Speaker 1: constant reminder everybody knows how big it is, but we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about how big it is all the time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get off on a tangent. But this was
Speaker 1: guys hearing that bell ring and seeing Stone Cold there
Speaker 1: and realizing, holy, you know what, Holy, we are in
Speaker 1: a match like this is a match and it wasn't
Speaker 1: an Eric Rowan rock match that was just a complete fallacy,
Speaker 1: just an insult to a match. And seeing this was
Speaker 1: just it gave me chills. And seeing hearing stone Calds
Speaker 1: music come out and seeing him come out on I
Speaker 1: mean that gave me chills. I mean, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what it was like in person. Michael Ritter, who does
Speaker 1: our SmackDown review with John, was there in person and
Speaker 1: he had said, how you know, he had got chills
Speaker 1: the entire time, and I could imagine being there much less.
Speaker 1: I mean, watching it at home was I'm watching it
Speaker 1: back and watching it back like ten times now and
Speaker 1: it's still is absolutely amazing to see. And I've heard
Speaker 1: some criticism already about stone Cold hurt some some No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like himself. Why is an he weren't
Speaker 1: taking off his shirt? Already addressed the shirt thing. Secondly,
Speaker 1: is he a step slower? Yeah, he doesn't have that
Speaker 1: same quickness that he did at thirty eight as he
Speaker 1: does at fifty eight. Okay, duh. And he hasn't had
Speaker 1: a match in twenty years. Okay, he isn't imagined twenty years.
Speaker 1: What do you think you'd be like now? It was
Speaker 1: a respectable, a respectable effort by stone Cold. In fact,
Speaker 1: I would I would argue that it was as good
Speaker 1: as it could have been for him at that age,
Speaker 1: twenty years removed from an actual match. It was as
Speaker 1: good as it could have been. Now. Again, was it
Speaker 1: a little obvious that he was slower in his punches
Speaker 1: and everything else? Yes, it was was distracting passingly, it was,
Speaker 1: But he took a bump on the concrete. When when
Speaker 1: Stone Cold took a back body drop or a sup plex,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, I think it was a super plex
Speaker 1: from Ko on the concrete, I would say, first of all,
Speaker 1: I was I held my breath. I'm like, Steve, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Man? I mean, I know the message
Speaker 1: that he was trying to send, because they're all people
Speaker 1: love sending messages in w W. I mean that has
Speaker 1: to be part of your resume, is that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna half ask this. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be something that if I'm gonna do, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you guys, I'm willing to take a bump.
Speaker 1: And he did, and I you know, message received, they
Speaker 1: got it, and it was amazing, you know, and and
Speaker 1: seeing the effort that he put in he did he
Speaker 1: did not just dish out the punishment. I mean it
Speaker 1: was about seventy thirty in terms of punishment dished out
Speaker 1: by Austin and Ko got his shots in though, and
Speaker 1: I got to give it to Steve Man, he did
Speaker 1: take some some flat back bumps. He took that shot
Speaker 1: on the concrete. Kevin Owens hit a stunner on him.
Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, Ko
Speaker 1: end up eating a stunner with the one, two three
Speaker 1: eating another stunner. I would have liked the third, but
Speaker 1: I'll except to and then, which was one of the
Speaker 1: best things ever. Byron Saxton gets stunned as well Byron Saxon,
Speaker 1: who is just, I mean, just such a distraction uncommentary.
Speaker 1: It's it's I mean, I have not gotten used to
Speaker 1: Byron at all, with his phrases and his just tropes
Speaker 1: and his corporate, corporate language that he pushes all the
Speaker 1: time and all these things. Right, I'm not a Byron
Speaker 1: Saxon fan at Also, seeing him get stunned was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, and it was it was a great time,
Speaker 1: and the crowd was with him one thousand percent from
Speaker 1: start to finish. It was awesome. There's no other way
Speaker 1: to phrase it other than it was nostalgia wrapped with
Speaker 1: a hell of an effort, wrapped with some hope for
Speaker 1: the future that perhaps perhaps we could see could see
Speaker 1: his own cold Steve Ahnston in another match. You know that,
Speaker 1: of course, will be determined in the future. That'll be
Speaker 1: something down the line that we'll figure out and hear
Speaker 1: rumors about. And it's it's also possible that hey, maybe
Speaker 1: he's actually on raw. Maybe he's here at WrestleMania, and
Speaker 1: I too, I don't know what reason I doubt it,
Speaker 1: but if anything, maybe he's there in Dallas for Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw, and he ends up hitting somebody else with
Speaker 1: a stunner, maybe Kevin Owens one last time, and leaves.
Speaker 1: I hope, so, I hope Austin's there at least for Raw.
Speaker 1: And then he goes away for a while and we
Speaker 1: hear rumors of next year's WrestleMania where he could face
Speaker 1: so and so that's hopefully what happens here. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't foresee. I don't foresee any anything major happening
Speaker 1: with Austin at WrestleMania Nite too tonight. But again, awesome effort,
Speaker 1: as good as it could have been for Stone Cold
Speaker 1: and just chills, I mean absolute chills. And I know
Speaker 1: people have talked about, well here, you know what about
Speaker 1: the current roster. They don't get a spot. Why don't
Speaker 1: they get the main event? This is the biggest draw
Speaker 1: in the history of pro wrestling. Returning to wrestling, everyone
Speaker 1: and everything takes a back seat, everyone and everything. I
Speaker 1: know that it's about building new stars, but first of all,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens is still in the prime of his career.
Speaker 1: This helps elevate us Kevin in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: Even though he took the loss that doesn't matter. He
Speaker 1: can come back and cut a promo and still talk
Speaker 1: trash and you'll want to see him get a beat up,
Speaker 1: get beat up again. I mean, Kevin Owens is not
Speaker 1: going to be hurt by this loss at all. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as being demoted by being in the
Speaker 1: main event of WRESTLEMANI with Stone Cold Steve Aouston. It's
Speaker 1: not like even if this was a squash, which it wasn't,
Speaker 1: I still would argue that it doesn't hurt Ko. But
Speaker 1: this was just it helps Ko in every sense of
Speaker 1: the word. And again, just awesome stuff. Guys. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I could go on and on about this,
Speaker 1: but all right, let's talk about another match here. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Ronda Rousey in Charlotte. I have to say,
Speaker 1: first of all, and first and foremost, the match was
Speaker 1: better than I expected. Ronda Rowsey impressed me from a
Speaker 1: just a number of moves standpoint. She was able to
Speaker 1: get out of maneuvers, she added a lot of She
Speaker 1: added some actual wrestling moves to her repertoire. She has
Speaker 1: the ankle lock that she seemingly has mastered from Kurt Angle,
Speaker 1: the armor, all that, all that stuff, and seeing her
Speaker 1: lose that match to Charlotte with a boot to the
Speaker 1: face was surprising, surprising in a way that I'm not
Speaker 1: angry about. Okay, I am elated that Ronda Rousei did
Speaker 1: not win that match. I'm shocked, but I'm elated, elated.
Speaker 1: So this was, again, honestly a good match. Was it
Speaker 1: as good as Bianca and Becky? Hell no? But be
Speaker 1: given that, a lot of fans, including myself, did not
Speaker 1: look at this match and say, WHOA the match of
Speaker 1: the night written all over this? You know, nobody did.
Speaker 1: Nobody that I've heard or listened to or even encountered
Speaker 1: on social media has said that. And I think they
Speaker 1: did a very good job of overachieving people's bar they
Speaker 1: set low, but also telling a decent story and not
Speaker 1: having the crowd completely turn on this match. You know,
Speaker 1: the crowd didn't actually crap all over this, and I
Speaker 1: thought they would. Now that said, I think that we
Speaker 1: still got a lot of indifference from the crowd at
Speaker 1: least that's how it came off of. It came off
Speaker 1: very just kind of indifferent and kind of mixed at times,
Speaker 1: I have to say, So you know that there was that,
Speaker 1: and overall, again, this was a fine match, a fine
Speaker 1: match in which both women put in hard work. I
Speaker 1: have to say, you know, I'm seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: websites that giving A like A B minus C plus.
Speaker 1: A lot of websites do that, and you know, I'd
Speaker 1: agree with that assessment. I think that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 1: I would say that it's A in the C plus
Speaker 1: B minus range. And this was just a match that
Speaker 1: I think is leading to other matches. A lot of
Speaker 1: kickouts and finishes, by the way, a lot of submission
Speaker 1: holds in which you're not sure if someone's gonna tap.
Speaker 1: Ronda did get Charlotte to tap, but the referee got
Speaker 1: knocked out. The referee gets up, boot to the face, bam,
Speaker 1: gone again. Not a bad match. It was a fine match,
Speaker 1: and that's that. I mean. Charlotte retains. Many people thought
Speaker 1: she was going away after WrestleMania. Nope, she's here to stay.
Speaker 1: She is here to stay. And I think Becky Lynch
Speaker 1: eventually will face Ronda one on one, maybe at SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: That's my thought anyway, So good stuff from Ronda and Charlotte,
Speaker 1: even though I could care less about Ronda Rowsey. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's my personal opinion. Let's see here. Ah, Okay, Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins mystery opponent, the worst kept secret in all of
Speaker 1: pro wrestling for the last month ended up being Cody Rhoads.
Speaker 1: Crowd loved it, and Jimmy Smith apparently has been living,
Speaker 1: you know, under a boulder, not just a rock, but
Speaker 1: like some kind of I don't know, some kind of
Speaker 1: iceberg he's been living under because his comment that after
Speaker 1: the pan, after he was introduced, after Cody Roads was
Speaker 1: revealed to me Seth's mystery opponent, Jimmy Smith said, and
Speaker 1: the people here in at and T Stadium can't believe it. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: are you number one? I have to believe you're trolling
Speaker 1: because people were channing Cody half the night. People have
Speaker 1: been channing Cody the last few weeks from every in
Speaker 1: every city they went when Seth Rollins came out. How
Speaker 1: exactly is this unexpected? Are you? This is the the
Speaker 1: narrative lies that they try to push that the people
Speaker 1: are shocked and they did a good job by fooling everybody,
Speaker 1: and the announcer is telling us so makes it so? No?
Speaker 1: I mean anybody with a you know, two ears and
Speaker 1: a pair of eyes were like, yeah, no, it's duh, like,
Speaker 1: of course it's Cody, and it couldn't have been anybody else.
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean, imagine if they brought out Shane.
Speaker 1: I've said that before Grace brought it up, and I
Speaker 1: just imagine if it was Shane. I would have actually
Speaker 1: loved to hear that, hear him come out and see
Speaker 1: what the crowd does, just for just you know, the
Speaker 1: pure evil intentions of hearing what that reaction would be like,
Speaker 1: and then obviously seeing Cody come out after. But this
Speaker 1: couldn't have been anybody else other than Cody. The crowd
Speaker 1: loved it. Cody was super over and I think that
Speaker 1: this match, even though Seth rollins lost, this is probably
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins's best loss to date at WrestleMania, at least
Speaker 1: in the last few years. I mean, Seth has some big,
Speaker 1: big matchups that he's lost to WrestleMania big ones. Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens for one, I mean he lost to Edge. It
Speaker 1: wasn't WrestleMania, but he lost the blowoff to Edge. Recently,
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins has not had a good outcome lately when
Speaker 1: it comes to big matches on the big stage. Seth's
Speaker 1: like Seth is does not have a good record at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania anyway. I'd love to know what the actual numbers are.
Speaker 1: But the reason I say it's his best loss, even
Speaker 1: though at this point I think the losses are actually
Speaker 1: starting to hurt Rollins. This matchup may have been Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins' best matchup in a few years. And it's not
Speaker 1: because Seth Rollins has not put in the effort, but
Speaker 1: his opponents sometimes have been limiting him for what he
Speaker 1: can do. And I then Cody Rhodes and him put
Speaker 1: on a clinic. They put on a wrestling clinic for
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes and absolutely knocked it out of the park,
Speaker 1: absolutely knocked it out of the park. I know that
Speaker 1: there were some at some points. I mean I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a review right now where somebody said that the match
Speaker 1: got a bit sloppy, especially down the stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of it had to do
Speaker 1: probably with exhaustion the moment, the adrenaline. When your body
Speaker 1: is that exhausted from taking a beating for twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're bound to have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a little bit of lack of control of your muscles
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. But that didn't to me
Speaker 1: hurt the match. It did not. Now, having Cody Roads
Speaker 1: hit Crossroads like three times, the way he did it
Speaker 1: was a little bit I get that right, Like it's
Speaker 1: a little weak the way that the Crossroads looked because
Speaker 1: it was clear that his arm was protecting Seth's head
Speaker 1: and he did it in a way that wasn't the
Speaker 1: best looking. But the narrative of it, that's my favorite
Speaker 1: word lately, narrative, But that to me was the story.
Speaker 1: There you go. The story they were trying to tell
Speaker 1: is that Cody is putting Seth down for good. It's insurance,
Speaker 1: as Corey Graves said. And Corky Graves, by the way,
Speaker 1: had some funny action, some funny commentary last night when
Speaker 1: he said that Stone Cold was like Popeye, right, Like
Speaker 1: he had an analogy of the beer was to Stone
Speaker 1: Cold as Spinach was to Popeye, something along those lines,
Speaker 1: and it made me laugh. I mean I was laughing
Speaker 1: at that. So props to Corey Graves on that. But
Speaker 1: back to the Cody and Seth, this was good. I
Speaker 1: mean there was a line where Rhodes was being told
Speaker 1: welcome back to the big leagues and all that, and
Speaker 1: I'm very fearful though, even though Cody's back and the
Speaker 1: fans love it and he'll be an immediate babyface that
Speaker 1: they'll WWE eyes him again, where it'll be very clear
Speaker 1: that corporate has their thumb on him, that they're controlling him.
Speaker 1: That it doesn't feel like Cody Roads we saw in
Speaker 1: AEW it doesn't feel like that unchained Cody Roads we saw,
Speaker 1: And it's possible. It's possible, and I'm sure they will
Speaker 1: because nobody's bigger than w WE. And that said, I
Speaker 1: do I think that this match is going to continue possibly,
Speaker 1: and in fact, I think it's likely that Cody and
Speaker 1: Seth have another match or two with the next two
Speaker 1: Premium live events or PLS or plus. That's a real
Speaker 1: catchy acronym, huh a PLU, but that is what I think.
Speaker 1: I think that these two, given how good that they
Speaker 1: performed last night, the chemistry that they have on air,
Speaker 1: the crowd reaction that ensued, I believe that it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be another couple of matches with these two. Seth
Speaker 1: needs a win here, though I mean Seth actually could.
Speaker 1: They won't do it, but he needs a big victory,
Speaker 1: a big blowoff victory, not just like these kind of
Speaker 1: intermediate You know, I lose match one, Oh, but I
Speaker 1: stormed back and win match two, and then I lose
Speaker 1: the blowoff in match three. I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: been Seth's motto for a while. So I expect this
Speaker 1: to contain you for those that are interested, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. I also believe that
Speaker 1: Cody could eventually face Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship,
Speaker 1: assuming assuming he's unsmacked down. But that's yeah, they didn't
Speaker 1: they didn't state who he where he is yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: he faced Seth, so you would think he's unraw. But
Speaker 1: eventually I think he could face Roman Reigns, So who who?
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. I don't see any way he loses the
Speaker 1: belt tonight. Okay, let's go into what do I want
Speaker 1: to talk about? What do I want to talk about?
Speaker 1: M Gable, Steveson, Gable Steveson. I'm glad, you know, for
Speaker 1: when I heard Stephanie McMahon's music, it always makes me
Speaker 1: want to vomit. I mean just immediately, without any any provocation.
Speaker 1: I just hear her music and I want to, you know,
Speaker 1: put my face in boiling water and seeing her come
Speaker 1: out and she's I know she's the chief brand operating officer,
Speaker 1: but can she take a break from being the brand,
Speaker 1: the brand, the brand, the philanthropist and just be Stephanie McMahon.
Speaker 1: You know, I just everything about her is just insufferable.
Speaker 1: Not the character, because the character Stephanie McMahon is a
Speaker 1: is one of the best deal characters of all time,
Speaker 1: and she's a really good promo. But the actual person
Speaker 1: who pushes the company as a brand officer, that actual
Speaker 1: person is the one that's insufferable on social media and
Speaker 1: just undermines her own product on a daily basis. That's
Speaker 1: the Stephanie I can't stand. But she did introduce Gable
Speaker 1: Steveson very nicely. All that in all those insults aside,
Speaker 1: I just threw her away. She did it do a
Speaker 1: nice job of introducing Gable Steveson And the fact that
Speaker 1: Stephanie was the one to come out does tell you
Speaker 1: that he's going to be a big deal. And they
Speaker 1: went through his accolades and CAA champion, all these things
Speaker 1: two time, incle like he's got a nice look. You know,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot there and I think the
Speaker 1: comment made I think by Corey's saying this is not
Speaker 1: going to be the last time we see him at
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania is very true. So we'll see what his
Speaker 1: raw his role is. Maybe it is un raw, maybe
Speaker 1: he starts a program with somebody. But we heard about
Speaker 1: Gable steveson like six months ago when he went into oblivion.
Speaker 1: Now he's back, and I think he's back for at
Speaker 1: least the foreseeable future, continuing to remind us that he's there,
Speaker 1: maybe showing us as training in the performance center or
Speaker 1: something like that. But not much more to say about that. Now,
Speaker 1: Let's get to arguably the other Match of the Night
Speaker 1: contender beyond Cody and Seth, which you can make a
Speaker 1: stronger Match of the Night candidate for that really lived
Speaker 1: up to it. Becky Lynch, Bianca bell air Man Really
Speaker 1: good here, really good. I mean to the point that
Speaker 1: I normally don't go back and watch full matches, just
Speaker 1: not because I don't want to. I just normally don't
Speaker 1: have the time, But I may make the time here.
Speaker 1: This was really good, really good. I would argue that
Speaker 1: there's a case be made that it's bigger and better
Speaker 1: than Sasha and Bianca were last year, and they blew
Speaker 1: the roof off the place. Now, yes, there was a botch.
Speaker 1: Becky's foot kicked Bianca right in the face, right in
Speaker 1: her eye as she did like a sunset flip or
Speaker 1: a kind of a I don't know what you call it.
Speaker 1: She did like a some kind of flip off the
Speaker 1: rope and her foot ended up connecting with Beanca's eye,
Speaker 1: and I thought she was doing the knocked out or
Speaker 1: orbital bone was cracked something bad. Right. Beianca powered through,
Speaker 1: but you could tell towards the end of her match,
Speaker 1: especially when she won, that her eye was swollen and
Speaker 1: it was about to swell shut. And I just hope
Speaker 1: everything's okay because that looked brutal and there's no fake
Speaker 1: in that, so that looked really really rough. But outside
Speaker 1: of that, which didn't hurt the match actually, and I
Speaker 1: think it actually helped despite the fact that Beanca was
Speaker 1: legitimately quote unquote injured, I think it did help the match,
Speaker 1: not that it was intentional, but this was really good.
Speaker 1: The four to fifty splash by Bianca was perfect. The
Speaker 1: kod was brewed. I mean the kod that she did
Speaker 1: was so intense. Anybody else noticed. You ramped up the
Speaker 1: intensity of that kod that that was just awesome. Them
Speaker 1: starting out with trying to hit finishers on one another.
Speaker 1: The manhandleslam at the beginning of the matchup actually had
Speaker 1: me wondering. It was as close to a three count
Speaker 1: as you could get repeating Summer slam for these two.
Speaker 1: Where Becky was, where Becky put Bianca down in like
Speaker 1: twelve seconds whatever it was, And let's see what other
Speaker 1: spots are there. I'm looking through the bullets of stuff
Speaker 1: I don't want to make I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I don't forget. Oh, the ring steps. That was a
Speaker 1: nice shot there. I think Becky threw Bianca into them
Speaker 1: and the crowd lost their minds here and it was
Speaker 1: absolutely one of those match of the night problem maybe
Speaker 1: match of the entire pay per view contenders. This is
Speaker 1: just this is great, and they have a true star
Speaker 1: in bel Air. I think she lost a lot of
Speaker 1: momentum going into the last few months, especially if you
Speaker 1: remember with bel Air being able to take the easy
Speaker 1: path to get to the chamber, she was the last
Speaker 1: one out. She had the easiest path as a babyface
Speaker 1: to get to this matchup. I think all of those
Speaker 1: problems and potential heel turns that were organically starting to
Speaker 1: take root have been erased because the fans looked at
Speaker 1: this match and were like, holy crap, we forgot how
Speaker 1: good this girl is. She is I think the best
Speaker 1: pure athlete WWE has right now. Don't I know? You're
Speaker 1: Rona Rowsey. No, not ron A Rowsey. Rona Rowsey's has
Speaker 1: her own style that she's morphed and kind of melded
Speaker 1: into a pro wrestling style. Plus, Bianca has the whole package.
Speaker 1: She can cut a damn good promo, She's got a
Speaker 1: great presence. She somehow takes the most obnoxious phrase ever
Speaker 1: of calling herself the est of everything and making it endearing.
Speaker 1: It's really truly amazing. Now do I think she'll eventually
Speaker 1: be a really good heel Yes? Do I think that
Speaker 1: time is sometime in twenty twenty two, probably probably later
Speaker 1: in the year after she drops her belt, maybe, But
Speaker 1: for now, she's I think established and re established herself,
Speaker 1: rebirthed herself as a babyface. I think that all of
Speaker 1: the possible issues that were coming of her, with the
Speaker 1: kind of the slowing of momentum of the fans somewhat
Speaker 1: disinterest in her character compared to last year were all
Speaker 1: erased in a matchup that her and Becky Lynch had
Speaker 1: last night. Really good stuff, guys, really good. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about this match. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see here mysterios versus the Mason Logan Paul Now we
Speaker 1: saw the Mazon logan Paul Win. I was wrong on that, wrong,
Speaker 1: on that. I was wrong. At least there were three
Speaker 1: times throughout the night. And sorry, Grace, my apologies. I
Speaker 1: told you, don't listen to me. I can sell you
Speaker 1: a bill of goods. Don't buy it. Stick by your guns.
Speaker 1: Anybody that comes out a preview and prediction show with me,
Speaker 1: and that make the case why your pick isn't good
Speaker 1: and mine is, and you end up switching your pick,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Don't do it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it because I always end up being wrong.
Speaker 1: Just ask Ashley Ashley Man who has come on the
Speaker 1: show and I've convinced her to change her pick, and
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time I end up being
Speaker 1: wrong and she wishes she stuck with her damn pick.
Speaker 1: And now Grace is the latest victim. So nobody listened
Speaker 1: to me. I'm a car salesman, all right, but the
Speaker 1: materials here in Logan Paul is I think Logan Paul
Speaker 1: did a good job. I mean, he may be an
Speaker 1: insufferable human being as a person, but he did a
Speaker 1: good job. He really did. And he did not embarrass
Speaker 1: himself nor did he embarrass the company. He put an effort,
Speaker 1: he busted his ass. He could tell he was He
Speaker 1: was huffing and puffing, and it tells. It just shows
Speaker 1: you for an athlete like Logan Paul, who was who
Speaker 1: is incredibly athletic. I mean he he was the fifth
Speaker 1: fifth in his state in actual amateur wrestling. He won
Speaker 1: his boxing matches, can't remember his opponent a few months
Speaker 1: ago or a few was that months ago? Sometime last year.
Speaker 1: And he's always working out, always doing it. He's got
Speaker 1: his own fitness line actually too, and his drink and
Speaker 1: all that prime I think, which actually is kind of
Speaker 1: a garbage drink. But and he was huffing and puffing hard.
Speaker 1: And the only thing I would say about Logan Paul,
Speaker 1: beyond him being insufferable, does he know how to sell?
Speaker 1: Did he forget how to sell? Or did he not
Speaker 1: know that that's like a major part of professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: and what I mean by that is he took like
Speaker 1: four finishers and got up within like ten seconds of
Speaker 1: each he had. He got hit with the double six, one, nine,
Speaker 1: and two frog splashes and was up within like, I'm
Speaker 1: seriously eight to ten seconds in the end of the
Speaker 1: match too, So when he got hit with this skull
Speaker 1: crushing finale, he was up within like fifteen seconds. So
Speaker 1: either he's got some superhuman ability that we don't know about,
Speaker 1: or he just simply was not informed enough about the
Speaker 1: art of selling. So now the mysterios lose. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't care the Miz turns heal this, by the way,
Speaker 1: will not turn Logan Paul babyface. Okay, if they believe
Speaker 1: that this is going to be something that Logan Paul
Speaker 1: does on a regular basis and they can somehow turn
Speaker 1: him babyface on this and he does pursue a more
Speaker 1: full time career in wrestling, I don't think he will,
Speaker 1: But if he does, ain't gonna happen. He's an inherently
Speaker 1: unlikable person, and just because he was dumb enough to
Speaker 1: trust the Miz and get hit with the skull crushing
Speaker 1: finale does not turn him babyface. Sorry, I would actually
Speaker 1: side with the Miz on this one out of all things,
Speaker 1: and I can't stand the Miz. I would side with
Speaker 1: the Miz. That's how much I dislike Logan Paul. So
Speaker 1: that said it. It was a fine match. Dom had
Speaker 1: a few botches. Dom Is is as is as interesting
Speaker 1: to me as I mean the lamp sitting next to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, the lamp next to me at least provides
Speaker 1: a purpose. It provides meaning, it sheds light on things
Speaker 1: I can see in my office. Dominic mysterio is only
Speaker 1: there because of his dad. Let's be honest. He looks
Speaker 1: like he is a high school junior and he can't
Speaker 1: talk on the mic, and that I mean, He's fine
Speaker 1: the ring, but that's it. So I mean, anyway, let's
Speaker 1: move on here. Let's go to another match, and Happy
Speaker 1: Corbyn versus Drew McIntire better than expected, better than expecting
Speaker 1: for this matchup. It was exactly what we thought the
Speaker 1: ending would be, with Happy Corbyn finally getting a loss
Speaker 1: in the Lost column and also jer McIntyre kicking out
Speaker 1: of End of Days, which myself and Grace talked about
Speaker 1: as a possible side story to this, and the announcers
Speaker 1: did bring it up, I think Michael Cole said, and
Speaker 1: I believe guys, that's the first time that anyone's kicked
Speaker 1: out an End of Days. So Corbin was shocked. They
Speaker 1: brought it up and it was something that was fun
Speaker 1: to watch, and I think they did as good of
Speaker 1: they as they could have been with this matchup. And
Speaker 1: we had mad Cat Moss accidentally cost Corbin the matchup,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I think, another slow descent into
Speaker 1: mad Cap Moss and happy Corman's splitting and again, no
Speaker 1: problem with this matchup. I think that it was a
Speaker 1: solid match. The slicing of the ropes, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to say about it anymore. The thing is with
Speaker 1: that sword. I know that that's not his staple.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know there's deep meaning to it with his mother.
Speaker 1: He named it after who died. I get all that.
Speaker 1: And then he you know, he pretends to use it
Speaker 1: as a weapon, but you know, he's never ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever ever going to use it as a weapon because
Speaker 1: he can't. So he'll do these time. He'll have these
Speaker 1: moments where he'll pretend to swing it at somebody even
Speaker 1: though they're like, you know, halfway across the arena. And
Speaker 1: they tried to sell it last night like he was
Speaker 1: going to slice Mad Cat Moss in half. It was
Speaker 1: like five seconds of a delay between Mad Cat Moss
Speaker 1: off the apron and you know Drew McIntyre swinging the sword,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is a real sword, and it
Speaker 1: did slice the ropes, two of them, which tells you
Speaker 1: they're never gonna ever use that as a real weapon.
Speaker 1: It's just there for a prop. It's there for part
Speaker 1: of his gimmick. It's and I get all that. But anyway, Oh,
Speaker 1: one thing I want to say about Becky's hair. I
Speaker 1: don't know where I thought about that. Becky's hair is badass.
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's she always knows when it kind
Speaker 1: of changed things up and when things are getting stale.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch's hair was fire, as they'd say, and it
Speaker 1: was to me a nice refresh of her character. I
Speaker 1: think it was a symbolic change to who's who she is.
Speaker 1: I think this could send her into a dissent that
Speaker 1: she has not seen in a while, where she maybe
Speaker 1: goes on a losing streak and gets darker and darker
Speaker 1: and darker. I think that's possible, So no problem here,
Speaker 1: McIntyre finally hits corbyin with the Claymore and hopefully this
Speaker 1: program's over. God help us if this continues. It's got
Speaker 1: to be over right famous last words? All right? The
Speaker 1: show open though with the usos and Shinskanakabara and Rick
Speaker 1: Boogs not a great match. I have to say. I
Speaker 1: think it's because of the legitimate injury, and it is legitimate.
Speaker 1: It's confirmed. The injury to Boogs is legit. Where he
Speaker 1: had both ussos on his shoulders and his knee buckled
Speaker 1: and he tore his squad from his ptella, meaning his
Speaker 1: quad that's attached to his kneecap snapped gone. He needs surgery.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be out for months. This is not a
Speaker 1: a work. They wouldn't have done this as a work.
Speaker 1: And I actually questioned it it first, you know, but
Speaker 1: the more I thought about it, this is not a
Speaker 1: time to do an injury angle, especially that early in
Speaker 1: the match and you have somebody as hot as Boogs.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense now, if that injury didn't happen, would
Speaker 1: they have gone home so quick, meaning any of the
Speaker 1: match so quickly and still had the outcome be USO's
Speaker 1: retaining We don't know. I guess we'll never know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that the USO should have retained it. It
Speaker 1: didn't feel right that they retained given how hot Boogs
Speaker 1: is and he opened the show. I actually said that
Speaker 1: was my other possibility for who opens the show. In
Speaker 1: terms of entrances, it's always gotta be a baby face
Speaker 1: that opens the show, and it was this time with
Speaker 1: Boogs and him super over with Shinske with his whole
Speaker 1: gimmick and his entrance, and I think people were ready
Speaker 1: to embrace Boogs as as a tag team champion and
Speaker 1: they won't get that opportunity because he was taken out
Speaker 1: fairly early in the match with a quad injury. It
Speaker 1: was real quad snapped from the potella, and unfortunately for Boogs,
Speaker 1: he is out of act for probably what is a
Speaker 1: few months at least, maybe looking towards US early summer,
Speaker 1: maybe midsummer. And that's my guess. I haven't heard anything,
Speaker 1: but based on that injury, it doesn't sound like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a quick, you know, kind of walk
Speaker 1: it off buddy kind of thing. So really, really tough,
Speaker 1: tough break for Boogs, who was positioned to get a
Speaker 1: nice victory I believe at WrestleMania and capitalize on that
Speaker 1: organic movement that is going on for Boogs. So really
Speaker 1: really tough break for him. But overall the match, I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was okay. Obviously the injury really
Speaker 1: hurt things, but it was okay. Otherwise it just kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, it could have been something on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Like if you took the the platform of AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium out of it and you stuck this match
Speaker 1: on any old SmackDown, you would never know this was
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania match. I mean it was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was okay, it was right, but okay, as far as
Speaker 1: that goes, guys, that is Night one. I believe. Did
Speaker 1: I forget anything? I'm looking through my notes here make
Speaker 1: sure I didn't miss any thing. I know somebody will
Speaker 1: call me out. I don't think I did. I think
Speaker 1: I caught everything here. Guys. What an amazing Night one,
Speaker 1: I would say is like a B plus. I mean
Speaker 1: it was, it was a B plus a minus range.
Speaker 1: It was that good amazing night one. Night two guys,
Speaker 1: as we look forward to Night two, of course, it's
Speaker 1: headlined by Roman Reigns brock Lesner, I will continue to
Speaker 1: stick by my guns that I have said over the
Speaker 1: last few months that it's Rains winning by Hooker Crook,
Speaker 1: by the USOS helping Paul Hayman helping all hands on
Speaker 1: deck to help Roman, and Roman's gonna get beat up
Speaker 1: and brutalized by Brock, but it's gonna ultimately be Roman
Speaker 1: who retains Hooker Crook, and then it has to end
Speaker 1: with the Rock confronting Roman. It has to. There's no
Speaker 1: other option here. You can't call this the biggest WrestleMania
Speaker 1: match of all time and then not deliver on that
Speaker 1: and send the Crown pissed off. That to me is
Speaker 1: not delivering on it. If you're telling me this is
Speaker 1: the biggest special Mania match of all time, then and
Speaker 1: it ends with just Roman standing with two belts over
Speaker 1: brocks beaten body, and then you know, you see the
Speaker 1: little logo in the bottom right of your screen, and
Speaker 1: then then just go off the air. How is that
Speaker 1: any different than Day one or SummerSlam or Madison Square
Speaker 1: Gardens non televised event. How exactly is this the biggest
Speaker 1: Mistlemania match of all time? Again? If it's the same
Speaker 1: finish as the last three times? Yeah, so there has
Speaker 1: to be something or I will be very disappointed in this. Now,
Speaker 1: Roman should win, Don't get me wrong. Roman should win,
Speaker 1: and I want to see Roman get his ass kicked bad.
Speaker 1: But I also understand that Roman winning is a better
Speaker 1: path moving forward for his legacy and for saving that
Speaker 1: victory for somebody else, hopefully an up and coming star,
Speaker 1: and of course leading for the Rock and Roman hopefully
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania thirty nine. I mean, think about WrestleMania thirty one. Guy,
Speaker 1: let's think about this for a minute. There's already some
Speaker 1: matches floating out there as rumors for a year from
Speaker 1: now in la April first and second, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: we have Roman and Rock. We have Brock and Austin
Speaker 1: already rumored. Now I'm also perpetuating those rumors and propagating
Speaker 1: them because I want them to happen. But those are
Speaker 1: some stretch. But some rumors out there that are aren't
Speaker 1: that aren't really that far from reality, to be honest.
Speaker 1: So think about that next year. My gosh, I'm already
Speaker 1: getting excited. But nonetheless, that is a Night one over
Speaker 1: Night two, a little bit of a preview.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: We have Sammy Zane and Johnny Knoxville. Who the hell cares?
Speaker 1: Omas and Bobby Lashley actually really interested in that match
Speaker 1: more than I feel like I should be to see
Speaker 1: how they position both guys and that other women's tag
Speaker 1: team title match. Of course, there's never a champion. There's
Speaker 1: never a match for the women without the belt belts
Speaker 1: in Bob, which is kind of a sad thing. We
Speaker 1: have Edge and AJ styles which also could be could
Speaker 1: be a match of the pay per view contender. It
Speaker 1: may not beat out Becky and Bianca, but in the
Speaker 1: men's category it has the chance to be as good
Speaker 1: as Cody and Seth, if not better, it has the chance.
Speaker 1: There's so much talent this year, guys, I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: the amount of talent matches right now is just incredible,
Speaker 1: so that I'm really looking forward to as well. So again, guys,
Speaker 1: Night two is gonna be a lot of fun. Join
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