Speaker 1: We finally made it the final SmackDown before WrestleMania. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you guys, but I am very happy
Speaker 1: that WrestleMania is finally here and this road to WrestleMania
Speaker 1: is now complete. This road, this very lackluster road to WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: I've been ready for it to be done for at
Speaker 1: least two weeks now, so I am very happy that
Speaker 1: we have finally made it to the end of said road.
Speaker 1: And finally wrestle Media Weekend is upon us and we
Speaker 1: had John Cena back on TV one last time. He
Speaker 1: was on SmackDown tonight since they're already in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and it looks like he got a haircut too. John
Speaker 1: Cena was on SmackDown tonight for one final face to
Speaker 1: face with his opponent in the Night two main event,
Speaker 1: that of course, being Cody Rhoads, and the last time
Speaker 1: that we saw these two men in the ring together,
Speaker 1: it did not end well for John Cena. He got
Speaker 1: laid out with a Crossroads. So I thought maybe this
Speaker 1: time it would be Cody Rhoads eating an attitude adjustment.
Speaker 1: Keep people wondering, okay, one for one who's gonna win?
Speaker 1: On Sunday but they went in a totally different direction
Speaker 1: here and they actually gave us another Crossroads and for
Speaker 1: the second time in as many appearances, John Cena was
Speaker 1: the one who was left laying at the end of
Speaker 1: this segment. But this segment here at the end of
Speaker 1: the show was very interesting for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 1: The main reason being that Cody Roads got booed. As
Speaker 1: soon as he went to begin speaking, he got booed,
Speaker 1: and John Cena, you know, he also got booze. I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, implying that John Cena got wildly cheered here
Speaker 1: by this crowd. But this is the first time here
Speaker 1: in his entire title run, let alone this Road to WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: where Cody Roads has gotten this kind of treatment. He
Speaker 1: got the AW treatment. This is how the aw fans
Speaker 1: were treating Cody Rhads in the waning months of his
Speaker 1: run in that company. And so that was very interesting
Speaker 1: that it took this long. But of course, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a WrestleMania crowd, and so with a wrestle media crowd,
Speaker 1: you don't really know what to expect. But in this
Speaker 1: promo here we had Cody Roads actually winning the crowd
Speaker 1: back of one of the ways he won the crowd back.
Speaker 1: We had a reference to pale Sting from Stark ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Oh if you know, you know we got a pale
Speaker 1: Sting reference. We got a Haul and Oates reference for
Speaker 1: those of you who picked up on that, and what
Speaker 1: appeared to be Now I could be wrong here, maybe
Speaker 1: my viewpoint was not all that great, but from the
Speaker 1: camera shot they showed, it appeared as if we had
Speaker 1: a karate chop from John Cena as he karate chopped
Speaker 1: Cody and went to give him an attitude adjustment, only
Speaker 1: for Cody to slip out and deliver his second crossroads
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks. If it wasn't obvious enough
Speaker 1: before coming into tonight, the Karate Kid is leaving WrestleMania
Speaker 1: a seventeen time world champion. That was my big takeaway
Speaker 1: here from the end of this segment. He is going
Speaker 1: to set the record. He is going to make history
Speaker 1: and look part of it. Also, as far as the
Speaker 1: booze for Cody is that there are people who are
Speaker 1: going to be at this WrestleMania who understand that this
Speaker 1: is John Cena's final WrestleMania match. They are going to
Speaker 1: be there, whether he wins or loses to witness history.
Speaker 1: Because I take him at his word, he will never
Speaker 1: again have a match at WrestleMania, so they're coming to them.
Speaker 1: This feels special not only because it's his final WrestleMania match,
Speaker 1: but because he has the opportunity to go out there
Speaker 1: and make history by winning a seventeenth World Championship. This
Speaker 1: was always a possibility. This was always a fear, which
Speaker 1: is that if you did this match, whether you turn
Speaker 1: sna heel, if he kept him babyface, you run the
Speaker 1: risk of turning at least a portion of the audience
Speaker 1: against Cody because maybe they like Cody. It's not that
Speaker 1: they hate the guy. It's not like he has dominic
Speaker 1: mysterio heat or Charlotte Flair heat. But John Cena is
Speaker 1: the one going out there for the final time. John
Speaker 1: Cena is the one going out there trying to set
Speaker 1: the record, not Cody. There was always a risk to
Speaker 1: doing that. So I don't know if this is going
Speaker 1: to be the same reaction that we see on Sunday
Speaker 1: or not. I'm sure it'll be more of a mixed reaction,
Speaker 1: you know, for Cody when he comes out on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But that was how They went off the air tonight
Speaker 1: with John sena flat on his back for the second time,
Speaker 1: and Cody Roades with that smile on his face, standing
Speaker 1: there posing with the WWE Championship. Get Ready the Karate
Speaker 1: Kid getting number seventeen on Sunday or WrestleMania. Now, John
Speaker 1: Cena is heading into his twentieth WrestleMania, That's what he
Speaker 1: told us tonight. You know who else is heading into
Speaker 1: his twentieth WrestleMania, his twentieth WrestleMania match on Sunday as well.
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. Casina at Orton, they got their start right
Speaker 1: around the same time. Randy Orton at this moment does
Speaker 1: not have an opponent for WrestleMania, and we're not going
Speaker 1: to know who his opponent is for WrestleMania until Sunday,
Speaker 1: because we are getting a Randy Orton Open Challenge, and
Speaker 1: I have an idea as to who I think the
Speaker 1: opponent is going to be. It is pretty obvious after
Speaker 1: the show tonight that it will not be Solo Soca,
Speaker 1: which by the way, deserves some applause. Thank God. The
Speaker 1: way the show went off the air last week, I
Speaker 1: was a little worried because we had Randy Orton and
Speaker 1: Solo Soca fighting off into the crowd. I said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, please, all due respect to Solo Soca, I
Speaker 1: don't need to see Randy Orton and Solo Soca as
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania match, So at least we could rest easy
Speaker 1: doing that is not going to be the match. But
Speaker 1: it also doesn't appear like it's going to be Nick
Speaker 1: all this. It's going to be somebody else. And who
Speaker 1: that person is again, I have a theorist to who
Speaker 1: it may be, but we won't know for sure until Sunday.
Speaker 1: The other thing also, and this is really too bad
Speaker 1: if it works out this way, is that Raymisteria was
Speaker 1: in action tonight. There was a six man tag team
Speaker 1: match that was made during the show was Mystero, Dragon Lee,
Speaker 1: and Ray Phoenix taking on Chad Gable and the Creed Brothers.
Speaker 1: And it didn't take very long into the match didn't
Speaker 1: look like anything out of the ordinary. Raymysterio got pulled
Speaker 1: out of the ring. He was chasing Chad Gable on
Speaker 1: the outside and was sliding into the ring and Julius
Speaker 1: Creed grabbed him by the leg and he yanked him hard.
Speaker 1: I mean no harder than normal, but he, you know,
Speaker 1: give him a hard yank and he hit the floor
Speaker 1: on the outside and we did not see raymysterio again
Speaker 1: after that. He was laying on the outside for the
Speaker 1: rest of the match. Never got back in the ring.
Speaker 1: He was being tended to by a trainer. And then
Speaker 1: there was video of Ray being helped out of the
Speaker 1: ringside area to the back. He had to be carried
Speaker 1: to the back. He could not put any weight at
Speaker 1: all on his left knee, and so that is not good,
Speaker 1: especially because he's got a match tomorrow against Elgnandi Americano
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, which now appears to be in grave jeopardy.
Speaker 1: And so what a kick in the balls that would
Speaker 1: be for Ray, who didn't have to be in a
Speaker 1: match tonight, but you got three hours to fill and
Speaker 1: so he ended up in the ring on a show
Speaker 1: that he's not even on the SmackDown roster, but he
Speaker 1: ends up in a match and potentially now is out
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania. We don't know that, but it's not looking
Speaker 1: good and I would feel doubly bad, not just for Ray,
Speaker 1: but for all jokes aside for Chad Gable, who was
Speaker 1: about to head into his very first singles match ever
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, and what happens with him now if this
Speaker 1: match ends up being called off. So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: checking periodically to see if there's any updates, you know,
Speaker 1: while I'm streaming as far as the ray is concerned.
Speaker 1: But it didn't look good, so we'll have to wait
Speaker 1: and find out. We also had a tag team Championship
Speaker 1: match on the show tonight, boy to, I got some
Speaker 1: news on that. And we also had on this show
Speaker 1: the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, which we
Speaker 1: have on SmackDown every single year, and we've had many
Speaker 1: luminaries win this Battle Royal. I remember when Baron Corbin
Speaker 1: won the Battle Royal. And we've had we've had some
Speaker 1: big names too, you know, We've had big show We've
Speaker 1: had Braunz Stroman, We've had jay Usso last year it
Speaker 1: was Bronson Reid, right and look and look at the
Speaker 1: fall that he went on to have late last year.
Speaker 1: So who would walk away with the win tonight? And
Speaker 1: de Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about that just so you know. The WWE Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame is taking place in about ninety minutes. It
Speaker 1: starts in ninety minutes because again they're out west, so
Speaker 1: East coast time, it's not starting until one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, but it is taking place tonight at the
Speaker 1: Fountain Blue or whatever wherever it is that it's being held,
Speaker 1: So we have that coming up in a few hours.
Speaker 1: We also know that jay Uso is going to be
Speaker 1: challenging Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship in the opening
Speaker 1: match on Night one. That is the match that is
Speaker 1: going to open the show tomorrow night. That match is
Speaker 1: going to set the tone for the rest of the show,
Speaker 1: so that'll be WrestleMania Saturday. And also we found out
Speaker 1: by commercial tonight that Cardi B is going to be
Speaker 1: hosting SummerSlam, which I believe is new information. I remember
Speaker 1: Cardi B was I think part of the announcement that
Speaker 1: Summer Slam was going to be two nights in MetLife Stadium,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they announced that she was going
Speaker 1: to be the host. So yeah, she will be hosting
Speaker 1: SummerSlam in August. So a lot of different things going
Speaker 1: on tonight on a show that honestly it was a
Speaker 1: mix of It was a mix of good and meh again.
Speaker 1: This WrestleMania season, this road to WrestleMania has felt longer
Speaker 1: because this is the latest that WrestleMania has ever been.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania is usually it used to be in March sometimes,
Speaker 1: but typically WrestleMania is the first week of April, maybe
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the second week. We've never had
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania on the nineteenth and the twentieth of April.
Speaker 1: We've never had a four to twenty. We've never had
Speaker 1: an Easter. I don't think Easter WrestleMania before. So this
Speaker 1: is different. And I think that hurt. It hurt a lot,
Speaker 1: and this WrestleMania road has been dragging. I like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy that we're finally here. My attitude is,
Speaker 1: let's get the show on the road. Please, let's get
Speaker 1: these shows over with. I'm ready for WrestleMania, and I'm
Speaker 1: also ready for the SmackDown review, which is why you
Speaker 1: were all here. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review.
Speaker 1: We are live on YouTube. It is April eighteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for hanging out with me on what is going to
Speaker 1: be a very busy weekend, and those of you who
Speaker 1: are with me tonight, I certainly hope that you are
Speaker 1: with me tomorrow and Sunday and Monday, because we got
Speaker 1: the raw after Mania two, which also should be a
Speaker 1: big show. Super chats are open. We have a goal
Speaker 1: for Bonus be the booker going on in the live
Speaker 1: chat right now. But if you want to support, if
Speaker 1: you want to drop a question or a comment, you
Speaker 1: may do so you will see them popping up on
Speaker 1: your screen. Let me also throw this up here for you,
Speaker 1: because as I said, tomorrow is WrestleMania Night one, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to be live as soon as it's over,
Speaker 1: whatever time that may be, and then live again on
Speaker 1: Sunday night for Night two of WrestleMania. In between all
Speaker 1: of that, there will be a podcast, Episode nine to
Speaker 1: ten of the Sound Duff will be dropping sometime Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to make sure it doesn't go
Speaker 1: out too late because I don't want to interfere with WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: But that's what I mean when I say a lot
Speaker 1: of content this weekend. I'm going to be very busy,
Speaker 1: and I hope you guys will be able to join
Speaker 1: me for each of the live reviews. So let's get
Speaker 1: into this here, because when this show started tonight, we
Speaker 1: had a shot outside of Solo Socoa and Tomatonga. They
Speaker 1: were arriving to the venue. Tama went to go grab
Speaker 1: his phone out of the backseat. He got attacked by
Speaker 1: La Night, the United States Champion, who slammed a car
Speaker 1: door on his left hand, and we were told later
Speaker 1: in the show that Tomatonga was taken to a local
Speaker 1: medical facility and we did not see him for the
Speaker 1: rest of the night. This was the first step in
Speaker 1: the master plan of La Knight to take out a
Speaker 1: member of the Bloodline so that he wouldn't get involved
Speaker 1: in his business at WrestleMania. Now back inside the building,
Speaker 1: SmackDown technically opened with the man who is Actually he's
Speaker 1: the man who closed Raw on Monday night. He opened
Speaker 1: the show tonight and he is part of the big
Speaker 1: triple threatmin event. On Night one, Roman reigns CM Punk
Speaker 1: and this man Seth Rollins made his way out to
Speaker 1: the ring and what did he do? He sat cross
Speaker 1: legged in the middle of the ring, just like CM
Speaker 1: Punk said. Punk returned to the ring after ten long years,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a WWE ring Ooh Rollins asked if
Speaker 1: Punk return because the fans chanted his name for all
Speaker 1: these years or because somebody wrote him a big fat check.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say maybe a little bit of both. He said.
Speaker 1: When Punk burned that bridge like he does all the others,
Speaker 1: he came back to WWE, and Rolin said it's because
Speaker 1: they wrote him another big fat check. Tell me when
Speaker 1: I'm telling lies, he said. He said Punk didn't come
Speaker 1: back to WWE because of the fans. He called Punk
Speaker 1: a liar and a coward. Meanwhile, he said Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: doesn't even pretend to care about the fans or WWE.
Speaker 1: He said Rains is in the Roman Reigns business now.
Speaker 1: He called him mister private jet, mister limited schedule, mister
Speaker 1: handpicked opponent. Rolin said he knows everything about sacrifice, unlike
Speaker 1: his WrestleMania opponents. He said the stuff with Punk actually
Speaker 1: started twelve years ago, and it started with Paul Hayman. Said.
Speaker 1: Hayman brought himself, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose into WWE
Speaker 1: to be a shield for Cmpunk, and every single night
Speaker 1: he sacrificed everything that he had in this ring to
Speaker 1: be that shield. And did he get any of the credit.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, because everybody in the back wanted the spotlight
Speaker 1: on Roman Reins. Actually, it was one man in particular
Speaker 1: who wanted the spotlight, come hell or high water, he
Speaker 1: wanted the spotlight on Roman Reins. Crab reactions be damned.
Speaker 1: But he who shall not be named, he says it
Speaker 1: was always about Roman Rains, the next John Cena, the
Speaker 1: next cash cow for WWE. And after Cmpunk took his
Speaker 1: ball and went home, he heard little echoes of cm
Speaker 1: punk chants. Meanwhile, he was making every show, He was
Speaker 1: sacrificing everything that he had, and it all came to
Speaker 1: a head last year in the main event of WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: with his knee hanging by a thread and with his
Speaker 1: stepfather at home dying of cancer. But he made sure
Speaker 1: that he was there at the very end to be
Speaker 1: a shield, to make sure that Roman Reigns lost. This
Speaker 1: story between them started twelve years ago when Paul Hayman
Speaker 1: brought Roman and himself into WWE, and it ends tomorrow
Speaker 1: night in the most important triple threat match in the
Speaker 1: history of their industry. This is the same thing that
Speaker 1: he said on Monday night, the most important triple threat
Speaker 1: match not only in the history of the company, but
Speaker 1: in the history of all the professional wrestling, and he
Speaker 1: promises that he will do exactly what he's done for
Speaker 1: the past twelve years. He will lay it all on
Speaker 1: the line. He will sacrifice everything that he has to
Speaker 1: make sure that this business, this company, this industry moves
Speaker 1: forward in the right direction. And that's not a prediction,
Speaker 1: that's a spoiler. And then he did his Hyena laugh
Speaker 1: to close out the segment. As seth Rolin's promos go,
Speaker 1: this was one of his better ones. He laid out
Speaker 1: all of the text behind this match tomorrow night, in
Speaker 1: the history between all three of these men, and he
Speaker 1: set himself up to basically be some kind of savior, right,
Speaker 1: I need to win this match because I'm going to
Speaker 1: be the savior of this company. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: the savior of this industry, which, of course is ridiculous
Speaker 1: when you speak in hyperbole like this, it just sounds
Speaker 1: so so just fucking ridiculous. But this is how they're
Speaker 1: promoting this match tomorrow night. What they're really doing here
Speaker 1: is they're really without saying it, they're teasing this favor
Speaker 1: that rollin, says Hayman, now owes him for not stomping
Speaker 1: him into the matt last week, and in effect, they're
Speaker 1: teasing the idea that there may be some kind of
Speaker 1: association with Hayman and Rawlins. That's what they want you
Speaker 1: to think. Even the mention at the very end, though
Speaker 1: it's not a prediction, that's a spoiler. What was the
Speaker 1: final scene that we had on Monday night? It was
Speaker 1: Paul Haman cowering in the corner and Seth Rollins standing
Speaker 1: there with a chair in his hands, staring at Hayman.
Speaker 1: Not the first time that one of these segments with
Speaker 1: them has ended with Rollins standing tall, looking down at
Speaker 1: Paul Hayman. This is what they want you to think.
Speaker 1: Whether it goes that way or not, this is what
Speaker 1: they want you to think. And so does he leave
Speaker 1: with Paul Hayman at the end of the night? Right?
Speaker 1: This is certainly a possibility. I don't think that Paul
Speaker 1: Hayman and Seth Rollins run off together like Romeo and
Speaker 1: Juliet at the end of this match. But is that
Speaker 1: what we're gonna see? Are we going to see a
Speaker 1: situation where Paul Hayman, who has been stressed to the
Speaker 1: max and has been pulled again, like Gumby, like Stretch Armstrong,
Speaker 1: back and forth between Roman Reigns and Cempunk. You're my
Speaker 1: tribal cheap, but you're my best friend. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. And in the end
Speaker 1: the pressure just gets to him. And does he leave
Speaker 1: with Seth Rollins? Does he just leave? And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't mean leave with Rollins, but just leave where
Speaker 1: I'm not going to help either one of you, you know.
Speaker 1: And Rollins ends up getting the win that way. Does
Speaker 1: he not align with Paul Hayman, but he gets the
Speaker 1: win and then he plays a role in the match
Speaker 1: on night two, the main event that is on Night two.
Speaker 1: That's also a possibility here because there are people who
Speaker 1: think that Rollins is, you know, potentially going to end
Speaker 1: up as part of this heel crew. People talking about
Speaker 1: a third man, like fucking Mabel trying the nWo back
Speaker 1: in ninety six. I think Bischoff still rips it to Meltzer,
Speaker 1: saying that Meltzer claim Mabel is going to be the
Speaker 1: third man, but is there going to be a third
Speaker 1: man in that even though we've barely seen the second man.
Speaker 1: I've made that comment recently like people still talking about
Speaker 1: the possibility of a third man. Look, I can't discount it.
Speaker 1: It's just hilarious to me that people would think like
Speaker 1: that because we haven't seen The Rock in a month
Speaker 1: and a half, barely seen Sena, and people are talking
Speaker 1: about third man. Where's the other one? Could it happen?
Speaker 1: It's possible. Could seth Rawlins end up aligned with them,
Speaker 1: Could seth Rollins win Night one, get involved in the
Speaker 1: main event on Night two and cost Cody Rhodes the
Speaker 1: WWE Championship? And if so, how do you make sense
Speaker 1: of that? And then where does that go? So? I
Speaker 1: mean there are different possibilities here. Honestly, it all ends
Speaker 1: up in the execution. If the execution is great and
Speaker 1: the execution makes sense, then I'm intrigued. Then I would
Speaker 1: love to see where that goes. The idea of Rollins
Speaker 1: and Hayman becoming an on screen item, you know, manager
Speaker 1: and client. It's not something that Rollins needs. But I
Speaker 1: can't say that, Oh I would hate it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's necessary, But that doesn't mean that if it happens,
Speaker 1: I can't grow to like it. If there's a good
Speaker 1: reason for it. It's just not a pairing that I'm expecting.
Speaker 1: It's not a pairing that I think is necessary, but
Speaker 1: I do feel like there's something that's got to go
Speaker 1: down in that Night one main event, given that they're
Speaker 1: closing the show, and does what happens in Night one
Speaker 1: doesn't end up connecting Tonight two in some way. These
Speaker 1: are the questions that I don't have any answers to,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious to see if one does have something
Speaker 1: to do with the other. We'll find out now. Up
Speaker 1: next was the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal,
Speaker 1: won last year by Bronson Reid, who they then didn't
Speaker 1: do a whole hell of a lot with, But there
Speaker 1: was an opportunity for him to really get over at
Speaker 1: the end of the summer, and he took full advantage
Speaker 1: of it, and Bronson Reid became one of those musty
Speaker 1: attractions on Monday Night Raw and the matches and the
Speaker 1: matches and the segments with him and braun Stroman and
Speaker 1: you know, Godzilla and King Kong. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff that came out of that, and it's
Speaker 1: really unfortunate that he got her when he did, but
Speaker 1: he was the winner of last year's Battle Royal this
Speaker 1: year doing it on SmackDown, which they've done now for
Speaker 1: several years, it actually paid off for them because it
Speaker 1: was a good way for them to kill time because
Speaker 1: this is the first time that smack Down is three hours,
Speaker 1: so doing the Battle Royal on this show ended up
Speaker 1: working to their advantage. So they were already wrestlers in
Speaker 1: the ring who came out as they were running down
Speaker 1: the matches for the WrestleMania card. They did that again
Speaker 1: at the very end of the show. It was a
Speaker 1: little odd that they were doing it here so early
Speaker 1: in the show, but then when they came back live,
Speaker 1: it made sense because most of the wrestlers were already
Speaker 1: in the ring. Ray Phoenix and Shinsky n Alkamora were
Speaker 1: the only ones who got televised entrances. The other thing
Speaker 1: also is they said this first hour was commercial free,
Speaker 1: which for the most part it was, but not really.
Speaker 1: They didn't even make it fifty minutes in and we
Speaker 1: got our first commercial. But again because they were commercial free,
Speaker 1: we had to go through the WrestleMania car so they
Speaker 1: can get everybody down to the ring for the Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: So again Ray Phoenix, Knockamore, they get entrances and then
Speaker 1: we kick things off here. Carlito was the first one eliminated.
Speaker 1: He had his apple with him and Our Truth took
Speaker 1: it away from him and took a bite out of
Speaker 1: his apple. Carlito got dumped out, then Our Truth got
Speaker 1: dumped out Los Garza. They tried to dump Ray Phoenix,
Speaker 1: who countered out of it and dumped Burdo. Then he
Speaker 1: dumped Angel, so they were both out of there. Theory
Speaker 1: and Waller they eliminated. Both members are pretty deadly. Ludwig
Speaker 1: Kaiser was in the Battle Royal. He was eliminated by
Speaker 1: Tyler Bate or he, I should say he eliminated Tyler Bait.
Speaker 1: Santos Escobar, who has been showing a lot of respect recently.
Speaker 1: He has been very uh, I don't know, magnanimous. I
Speaker 1: guess towards Ray Phoenix. He was talking to Phoenix here
Speaker 1: in this Battle Royal, and he was trying to form
Speaker 1: an alliance with him, like, oh, let's work together, and
Speaker 1: he thought that they had an understanding, but then Phoenix
Speaker 1: ended up eliminating him. So I guess that's gonna be
Speaker 1: what kind of turns Ascabar against Phoenix, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: and we'll end up getting a match out of that.
Speaker 1: Soon the Creeds they dumped out Tozawa. That pissed off Otis,
Speaker 1: who closedline Julius and Brutus out of the ring. But
Speaker 1: in doing so, all the momentum sent Otis himself out
Speaker 1: over the top rope, so all three of them went
Speaker 1: flying out of the ring. They were all eliminated. Andrade, hey,
Speaker 1: there he is. There's Androde I've been wondering where he is.
Speaker 1: Androti was in the Battle Royal. He dumped out Grayson Waller,
Speaker 1: and then he dumped out Austin Theory, and then all
Speaker 1: the luchadors who were in the ring, Androde Dragon Le
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix, they all surrounded Chad Gable. Oh and Joaquin
Speaker 1: Wilde was in there as well, Cruz del Toro the LWO.
Speaker 1: So they all kind of gang up on Chad Gable
Speaker 1: here and Ray Phoenix ends up being the one to
Speaker 1: do the deed. He dumps Gable out of the ring
Speaker 1: Gable's gun and Gable has obviously had some terrible luck
Speaker 1: this year with the Lucha Bros. It has not worked
Speaker 1: out well for him. What a damn shame, by the
Speaker 1: way that Chad Gable didn't get a match at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this year. He is relegated to the SmackDown before many.
Speaker 1: No Chad Gable match at wrestle Mania. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Nakamura shoved Joking Wilde off the ropes to the floor
Speaker 1: when he went climbing. Carrion Cross was in the Battle
Speaker 1: Royal and he took Cruz del Toro to the floor
Speaker 1: with a forearm shot as he was setting up for
Speaker 1: some kind of springboard move. He got forearmed out to
Speaker 1: the floor and then he looked down at him and
Speaker 1: he shouted at him that Raymisterio was just using him.
Speaker 1: He's just using you, he said. Dragon Lee came back
Speaker 1: and dumped out, carrying Cross, and this actually got booze
Speaker 1: from the crowd. Remember the gimmick Battle Royal in wrestlemaniacts seven.
Speaker 1: If you don't, I don't blame you. I enjoyed it though.
Speaker 1: But we had the gimmick Battle Royal in WrestleMania seventeen
Speaker 1: and Doink the clown comes out and he gets one
Speaker 1: of the biggest pops of anybody in the entire match,
Speaker 1: and when he got dumped, I want to say maybe
Speaker 1: it was Kamala that dumped him. But whatever it was,
Speaker 1: Doink gets dumped and everybody booed like they were genuinely
Speaker 1: upset to see him go out of the Battle roy
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I
Speaker 1: was just watching it recently because they had uploaded it,
Speaker 1: I think, to the Vault channel on YouTube, and so
Speaker 1: I'm watching this and Cross. I'm not saying Cross is Doink,
Speaker 1: but you know, he gets eliminated from the Battle Royal
Speaker 1: and the people boo because they genuinely were upset that
Speaker 1: he got dumped out of the ring. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: Like it was kind of nice. I'll talk about why
Speaker 1: in a second, but it was an unexpected reaction. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For the people to respond that way means that there
Speaker 1: are people out there who care. Are they listening? Were
Speaker 1: the people in the back listening and paying attention to that?
Speaker 1: I hope? So. I know sometimes they're not too keen
Speaker 1: on the people voicing their opinions, but the fact that
Speaker 1: it wasn't online, hopefully they'll actually take that under consideration.
Speaker 1: So knock him or a dumb dragonly out of the ring.
Speaker 1: Pete Dunn pulled Kaiser out over the top rope to
Speaker 1: the floor. That kind of surprised me. Pete Dunn has
Speaker 1: not been pushed lately. Kaiser, I mean, Kaiser hasn't really
Speaker 1: been pushed that hard either, but he's been pushed more
Speaker 1: than Pete Dunn, so him going out there surprised me.
Speaker 1: The Miz and Carmelo Hayes were also in this Battle
Speaker 1: Royal and they ended up on the apron together. They
Speaker 1: weren't fighting, but they just ended up out on the apron.
Speaker 1: Pete Dunn did the fingersnap move on Mellow. Miss then
Speaker 1: saved him from falling backwards. He would have been eliminated,
Speaker 1: so the Miss saved him and Hayes kind of he
Speaker 1: pulled Mis and Mis went flying through the ropes back
Speaker 1: into the ring, so he was safe, uh, but then
Speaker 1: he ended up or or I'm sorry he did that
Speaker 1: with Mellow. Mellow ends up getting sling shotted back into
Speaker 1: the rings, so Miss was able to get him to safety,
Speaker 1: but then he took the bullet from Mello and Mis
Speaker 1: ended up getting knocked to the floor. Mello was still
Speaker 1: in though, and he came back and eliminated Pete Donne,
Speaker 1: and then we were down to the final four, which
Speaker 1: was Ray Phoenix, Shinsky, Knackimoora Androtte and Carmelo Hayes. Knackamora
Speaker 1: got dropped out. Kevin done, Kevin dunk, Kevin Dune, Kevin done,
Speaker 1: Kevin done, Kevin dun, Kevin Dune, Kevin done. Fuck Kevin done.
Speaker 1: That's right, Fuck Kevin done. Thank you King Nator for
Speaker 1: the thirty eight dollars. Fuck Kevin done. Super chat never
Speaker 1: gets old, never gets old. It's a message that needs
Speaker 1: to be communicated more off. We need to hear them
Speaker 1: more often. So knakamur goat droppkicked off the ropes and
Speaker 1: out to the floor by Androde, and so then there
Speaker 1: were three. We had Androde and Mellow. They were on
Speaker 1: the ropes. They were not in the corner, but they
Speaker 1: were kind of in the center. I think Melo went
Speaker 1: for a springboard move, but Androde met him there. So
Speaker 1: Phoenix came up behind them and shoved them both over
Speaker 1: the top. Neither man's feet hit the floor. They're hanging there.
Speaker 1: But Ray Phoenix did the dumb baby face move where
Speaker 1: he just assumes they were eliminated. So now he turns
Speaker 1: where's back is turned, and he's on his knees like yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: So he's celebrating, not realizing that these two men are
Speaker 1: still in the match. Mello clubs him from behind. Phoenix, though,
Speaker 1: made a comeback and he was running wild on both men,
Speaker 1: and he went to walk the rope he has says goodbye, Amigo.
Speaker 1: Kick right, So he's about to run the top rope
Speaker 1: when all of a sudden, who should show up on
Speaker 1: the apron to trip him up. It's El Grande Americano,
Speaker 1: who's not in the Battle Royal, but he did make
Speaker 1: a cameo appearance here tonight. So Phoenix gets crotched and
Speaker 1: El Grande Americano pulls him out to the floor. So
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix is eliminated. He's out of the Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: See that's for Chad Gable. Gable got dumped by Phoenix,
Speaker 1: and so, I guess Americano didn't like that very much.
Speaker 1: And then it was down to two. We were down
Speaker 1: to Androtte, we were down to Carmelo Hayes. Best of seven,
Speaker 1: let's make it eight. So they had this great back
Speaker 1: and forth that ended with Androte blasting him with that
Speaker 1: back elbow. I mean, it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: I don't even really want to watch it back and
Speaker 1: slow it down to like see how he does it.
Speaker 1: Every time he hits that move, even going back to
Speaker 1: when he was using it in aw It's just it's
Speaker 1: so vicious, you know, it makes that great noise he
Speaker 1: does it. It's such like a rapid fire move, like
Speaker 1: if you're an inch off, like a split second difference,
Speaker 1: and you can break someone's fucking nose. But it just
Speaker 1: it's such a great move. And so he catches him
Speaker 1: with it, and so both men now are down. We
Speaker 1: have the double down in the ring, and the fans
Speaker 1: now give both men a standing ovation. They're loving this.
Speaker 1: So they made it back to their feet. Mello dropped
Speaker 1: him with a sup plex into a cutter. Melo went
Speaker 1: for the springboard Androtte met him on the ropes as
Speaker 1: he did earlier. But Melo slipped down and he grabbed
Speaker 1: him and he dumped him out over the top rope
Speaker 1: and Androde hit the floor hard. And so Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: is the winner of the twenty twenty five Andre the
Speaker 1: Giant Memorial Battle Royal. And look at that. Look at
Speaker 1: that he actually won something Carmelo doesn't do too many,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't do too much winning here on
Speaker 1: this show. Now they have him in this tag team
Speaker 1: with the Miz, but even before that, he wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: a light in the world on fire with wins. But
Speaker 1: I got to give a shout out here to Zengetsu
Speaker 1: in the chat, who had a comment earlier that I
Speaker 1: thought was just dead on. He said, the only time
Speaker 1: Melow don't miss is when the game isn't on the line.
Speaker 1: And it's so true. It is just so true. You know,
Speaker 1: these Andre Battle Royals, they're usually throw away, you know,
Speaker 1: for me, the throwaway affairs. I enjoyed this one a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I wonder if maybe the lack of commercials.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the lack of commercials helped because usually you
Speaker 1: have the commercial breaks. We didn't have that this time,
Speaker 1: so that was kind of nice, whether it leads to
Speaker 1: a sustained push or not. For Carmelo Hayes, look, I've
Speaker 1: been fooled with this stuff before. I'll believe it when
Speaker 1: I see it. He was the number one draft pick
Speaker 1: for this show last year. They went on to do
Speaker 1: very little with him, and want I say very little,
Speaker 1: very little in the way of anything meaningful. They did
Speaker 1: not treat him like a first round draft pick, not
Speaker 1: saying he needs to go on a Goldberg undefeated streak,
Speaker 1: But you can't honestly look at what they ended up
Speaker 1: doing with Carmelo Hayes last year and said, oh, this
Speaker 1: is great for his career. It wasn't. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: Despite all the great matches that he and Androtte went
Speaker 1: out there and had, it was terrible. It was awful.
Speaker 1: So I hope that this is the beginning of a
Speaker 1: turnaround for him, because he is very talented, and whatever
Speaker 1: you think his ceiling is, he should absolutely be doing
Speaker 1: more than what they have him doing right now for
Speaker 1: his sake, I hope. So I hope that this is
Speaker 1: the beginning of something special for him. Whether it's on
Speaker 1: SmackDown or Raw, it doesn't matter. I liked how they
Speaker 1: had Phoenix dump Gable and then they had Americano come
Speaker 1: out to get revenge for the time he was in there.
Speaker 1: Phoenix looked good. You know, he was obviously one of
Speaker 1: the last ones in there there at the end, he
Speaker 1: got to eliminate a bunch of people. It also opens
Speaker 1: up the possibility of a Phoenix cameo at WrestleMania, is
Speaker 1: what I was thinking at this point, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Americano match with Raymisterio a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But before all that happened, I'm watching this thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe Phoenix will get involved, or he'll be present in
Speaker 1: some way at WrestleMania, maybe he'll get on the show
Speaker 1: in some way. But I don't want to ignore this.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to this here. Carrion Cross
Speaker 1: gets eliminated and there were loud boos. People were upset
Speaker 1: that he got dumped as early as he did, and
Speaker 1: maybe there were some people who thought he would actually win.
Speaker 1: I didn't because there's really no reason to think that
Speaker 1: he was going to win anything. But the fact that
Speaker 1: the fans cared enough to actually boo and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't like the fact that you dump this man
Speaker 1: out of this match is a good sign for him.
Speaker 1: And I talked about carrying Cross during my Raw review
Speaker 1: because he had a rare singles match on Raw against
Speaker 1: AJ Style, and so I was talking about him for
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you know, maybe maybe maybe they'll
Speaker 1: take notice of this and say, you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: there is something worth doing with this guy where we
Speaker 1: we give him not not just more consistent television time,
Speaker 1: but come up with a real story for him instead
Speaker 1: of having him go around and just get involved in
Speaker 1: other people's business and make little cryptic comments. Let's come
Speaker 1: up with something a little bit more involved for him
Speaker 1: to do, like a dedicated story, and give him a
Speaker 1: push and see where it goes. You know, they've had
Speaker 1: him under contract for so long, and it just feels
Speaker 1: like for so long, you know, he's been on the
Speaker 1: back burner. They tried the Final Testament stuff. Obviously the
Speaker 1: Final Testament is no more. Aop is gone, Paul Ellering
Speaker 1: is gone, but he remains with Scarlett because they must
Speaker 1: see something there and why they haven't tapped into it more.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it going to work or not?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it feels like we're kind of
Speaker 1: reaching this critical now where it's like, okay, now he's
Speaker 1: either gonna get some kind of a push, like a
Speaker 1: mid level push and see where it goes or not.
Speaker 1: And it was very interesting hearing the reaction tonight. I
Speaker 1: would like to see them try just try try something
Speaker 1: heel or babyface. I actually think he could probably get
Speaker 1: over as a babyface too. But that was very interesting
Speaker 1: the reaction tonight. So then they aired a sit down interview,
Speaker 1: or more accurately, I should probably say a snippet of
Speaker 1: a sit down interview filmed a few days ago with
Speaker 1: the Waldorf for Astoria, with Wade Barrett speaking with Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: who of course, is challenging for the WWE Women's Championship
Speaker 1: this weekend tomorrow. He said things have gotten personal of
Speaker 1: late with her and Tiffany Stratton. She sent Charlotte goes
Speaker 1: you don't say, he said, she was even sent away
Speaker 1: from the arena by management, and then Charlotte said, well,
Speaker 1: it's not the first time, so why have things gotten
Speaker 1: so ugly between the two of you? And Charlotte took
Speaker 1: a long pause before she spoke and said that she
Speaker 1: doesn't love it. They've moved past it. She has a
Speaker 1: chip on her shoulder and she thinks Tiffany does as well.
Speaker 1: She doesn't love it, but now people are really invested
Speaker 1: in their WrestleMania match, and if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: matters to her, it's that people are tuned in to
Speaker 1: see Charlotte Flair and her match. This is how they
Speaker 1: got here. But people are invested and that's what this
Speaker 1: business is about. Sometimes it can be insensitive but that's
Speaker 1: how you get tough skin. Certainly didn't seem like she
Speaker 1: had tough skin when she was faltering under the weight
Speaker 1: of the reaction that she got a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: in Chicago from that crowd where she got flustered and
Speaker 1: things kind of not even kind of I mean off
Speaker 1: the rails at that point. It was weird watching this.
Speaker 1: This This almost felt like an interview that she would
Speaker 1: be giving if she was being interviewed at a radio station,
Speaker 1: if she was doing one of these PR interviews like
Speaker 1: people have been doing all week and the host just
Speaker 1: asked her, Hey, you know what happened in that segment
Speaker 1: with Tiffany a few weeks ago, Like that's the kind
Speaker 1: of answer that she gave here, Like they're trying to
Speaker 1: lean into the the realness of it. We didn't get
Speaker 1: much here. That was literally the only snippet of this
Speaker 1: interview that they show, because apparently they're going to be
Speaker 1: showing the entire thing on one of the pre shows
Speaker 1: this weekend if they have enough time. Of course, because
Speaker 1: you know the pre show, the pre show on Saturday
Speaker 1: and the pre show on Sunday they were only three
Speaker 1: hours each. I don't know if there's going to be
Speaker 1: enough time two three hour I guest six hours of
Speaker 1: pre shows this weekend. You think they have enough time
Speaker 1: to air the entire interview, Hey, Rectangle Galaxy, you rule too,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Rectangle Galaxy. Anyway, the entire interview will be
Speaker 1: airing this weekend if you are interested enough to watch
Speaker 1: me personally, I have so much going on anyway, I
Speaker 1: Am not going to be sitting here dedicating three hours
Speaker 1: each night to a pre show, especially with no matches
Speaker 1: on them. But if you would like to do so,
Speaker 1: there it is. That's where you can find it. Speaking
Speaker 1: of women's championship matches, there is another women's championship match,
Speaker 1: this one on Sunday. I believe it's opening the show
Speaker 1: WrestleMania Sunday. That is Ria Ripley Eosky and Bianca bell Air.
Speaker 1: Rihea Ripley was out to the ring for a promo
Speaker 1: and she talked about this being the most important match
Speaker 1: of her career. She allowed herself to get distracted by
Speaker 1: Bianca bell Air and she lost her title before WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: She said, that's her fault, that's her bad. She could
Speaker 1: come out here and moan and complain about it, but
Speaker 1: that's in the past. Say she gets back what she
Speaker 1: wants and does what she has to do. She is
Speaker 1: walking out of WrestleMania, she says, a three time women's
Speaker 1: world champion. Eo sky interrupted, Here comes the champion. The
Speaker 1: champ is here. She makes her way out to the ring,
Speaker 1: and do you believe this bullshit, the disrespect that this
Speaker 1: woman has been shown multiple times here in this bill
Speaker 1: to WrestleMania continue tonight because she did not even get
Speaker 1: a word out before Bianca bell Air's music interrupted her,
Speaker 1: And so Bianca bell Air comes down to the ring.
Speaker 1: Bianca was immediately booed as soon as she started. She
Speaker 1: got the Cody treatment, or maybe I should say Cody
Speaker 1: got the Bianca treatment, because with Bianca it's been going
Speaker 1: on now since Europe. So she immediately gets booed. As
Speaker 1: she begins speaking, she said, tonight may actually be her
Speaker 1: last night on SmackDown for a while because at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: she's walking out as the champion, and after what the
Speaker 1: two of them put her through, she doesn't plan on
Speaker 1: letting it go anytime soon. Then Naomi's music interrupts. She says,
Speaker 1: Beanca finally decided to show up on SmackDown, and she's
Speaker 1: not even going to talk to me. You're not even
Speaker 1: going to talk to me. She's filled up her voicemail box.
Speaker 1: She's been calling Beanca like crazy and texting her, and
Speaker 1: she knows she got it because it says delivered, yes,
Speaker 1: but does it say red? Does she have read receipts
Speaker 1: on see? That's the real question, because if it says
Speaker 1: red and she didn't get back to you, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's fucked up. You know. If it's delivered, it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, she probably saw, but you really can't prove it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. She didn't specify anyway. She says,
Speaker 1: does their friendship mean so little to Bianca? She didn't
Speaker 1: even want to do this and have everybody in their business.
Speaker 1: She wanted to keep this private, but since she wants
Speaker 1: to ignore her, And then Beanca interrupted her and got
Speaker 1: booed again, and she said, Naomi knows exactly why she's
Speaker 1: not responding. She says, I said what I said, So
Speaker 1: Naomi got into the ring and said, you care about
Speaker 1: Jade that much? Huh. Jade wasn't there for Bianca like
Speaker 1: she was Tomorrow, She's gonna finish what she started with Jade,
Speaker 1: and after that, and then before she could say the
Speaker 1: next part, Jade's music hits, so Jade Cargill power walks
Speaker 1: her way down to the ring. Naomi slipped out of
Speaker 1: the ring and Bianca got in front of Jade, who
Speaker 1: was upset with Bianca for doing so. Ria then said, Jade,
Speaker 1: this isn't about you. But before she could say anything else,
Speaker 1: Naomi slipped into the ring behind Jade and shoved her
Speaker 1: into Rhea. Rhea then got shoved into Bianca. Jade attacked Naomi,
Speaker 1: Bianca attacked Ria, and the world champion is standing there
Speaker 1: with nothing to do. She is a complete afterthoughs is.
Speaker 1: She's standing there and she's looking at this brawl, and
Speaker 1: she's looking at that brawl and EO is just standing there.
Speaker 1: So she climbs to the top rope and she hits
Speaker 1: her over the moon salt to the floor. Because at
Speaker 1: that point Ria's out there, Beyanca's out there, a bunch
Speaker 1: of security geeks are out there trying to set right them.
Speaker 1: Eo hits her moon Salt wipes everybody out, including the
Speaker 1: security and everybody except Jade and Naomi. They're already elsewhere,
Speaker 1: but the rest of them fall down I'm loving this
Speaker 1: Naomi so far. I have said this last week. I've
Speaker 1: given her a lot of praise for these little vignettes
Speaker 1: that they've done with her. She came out tonight. I'm
Speaker 1: loving this scorn friend that she is portraying on TV.
Speaker 1: I think that beating Jade tomorrow night and then costing
Speaker 1: Beianca the title on Sunday is the way to go.
Speaker 1: I think that's the play here. Now. You could have
Speaker 1: Jade beat Naomi and still Naomi could do the same
Speaker 1: thing and come out on Sunday cost Beyonca the championship.
Speaker 1: It still works. I'm just of the mindset that Naomi
Speaker 1: just turned heel. She hasn't really had a major match
Speaker 1: yet and in her first major match after her heel turn.
Speaker 1: And I feel the same way about John Cena. He's
Speaker 1: going into his first WrestleMania as a heel. He's going
Speaker 1: into his first WrestleMania, his first match as a heel
Speaker 1: since the turn at Elimination Chamber, and unless it's a
Speaker 1: very short term thing with him, I feel the same
Speaker 1: way where it just doesn't make sense to send them
Speaker 1: out there and have them lose in their first real
Speaker 1: big match. Is a heel. So I feel the same
Speaker 1: way for Naomi. It's not the kiss of death if
Speaker 1: she does lose, because I still think she would get
Speaker 1: involved in the match on Sunday. But I think that's
Speaker 1: the way to go. I just don't see Bianca winning
Speaker 1: the championship, if for no other reason, because I don't
Speaker 1: see her moving to Raw. She has this story on
Speaker 1: SmackDown that is unfinished. She has unfinished business with Naomi
Speaker 1: and Jade. They're not going to move her to Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw. It's a Raw title, So Naomi getting involved
Speaker 1: makes all the sense in the world. Now, Naomi's been
Speaker 1: trying to talk to her, I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: logic behind it, right. She came out tonight, I've been
Speaker 1: trying to talk to you and texting you and calling you.
Speaker 1: You're not responding to me and all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And she says, you know, Yanka says, we're not doing
Speaker 1: this now. I'm not doing this. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: this now. I'm not addressing this now. So what better
Speaker 1: way for Naomi to get her attention than to show
Speaker 1: up on Sunday during her match and get her attention
Speaker 1: that way, and it ends up costing her potentially winning
Speaker 1: the Women's World Championship. Now there is another possibility here.
Speaker 1: They could go a totally different way with it and
Speaker 1: have Naomi come out to help Bianca if she wants
Speaker 1: to show Bianca that I'm still trying to be your friend.
Speaker 1: Instead of her coming out and being nasty about it
Speaker 1: and trying to cost her the match, she could come
Speaker 1: out try to help. Maybe Beyanka dos a wander help,
Speaker 1: but Jade comes out if Naomi's there, and it works
Speaker 1: even better if Naomi beats Jade on Saturday, because if
Speaker 1: Naomi shows up on Sunday, here comes Jade. But then
Speaker 1: Jade getting involved along with Naomi. All of this is
Speaker 1: what ends up costing Beyanca, distracts her whatever however you
Speaker 1: want to work it out, but the end result is
Speaker 1: the same, which is that she does not win the
Speaker 1: Women's World Championship. So that takes her out of that picture,
Speaker 1: plants her firmly back on SmackDown, and she is right
Speaker 1: in the middle of all of this drama because now
Speaker 1: these two women they cost her the title. Now she
Speaker 1: has beef with Jade, even though Jade didn't mean to
Speaker 1: come out and do that. If that works out that way,
Speaker 1: now Bianca has a reason to be upset with her,
Speaker 1: So that's another way they could go with it. But
Speaker 1: the end result of this, no matter what, is that
Speaker 1: Bianca Belair is not walking out on Sunday with the
Speaker 1: Women's World Championship. But listen to the reaction that Bianca
Speaker 1: got on the show tonight, Listen to the reaction that
Speaker 1: Bianca has got every single week going back to the
Speaker 1: European tour. You could argue, and some people did that,
Speaker 1: all it's just the European crowds. They're trying to be
Speaker 1: you know, contrarian or whatever their reasons were, they just
Speaker 1: don't like Bianca in this few They really love Ria,
Speaker 1: they really love Leo, and so Beyanca is kind of
Speaker 1: the odd person out. But it was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: a European thing. The European crowds just don't like her. Well,
Speaker 1: they've been back from Europe now for what two and
Speaker 1: a half weeks, almost three weeks now, and she's been
Speaker 1: getting the same noticeable booze from the crowd every single
Speaker 1: city that she's in. If they're listening to these crowds
Speaker 1: and if this becomes the norm, then maybe the way
Speaker 1: to go is to have Beanca go heal. Maybe she
Speaker 1: Maybe the story is that she was the mastermind behind
Speaker 1: the entire plot. Could that be why some of the
Speaker 1: fans are booing her. Are there fans who believe that
Speaker 1: she will be revealed to be the real mastermind behind
Speaker 1: what happened to Jade all those many months ago? Is
Speaker 1: that part of what we're hearing with these reactions. But
Speaker 1: whether it is or it isn't, Maybe in the end,
Speaker 1: Bianca and Beyonca and Naomi end up on the same
Speaker 1: side in Jade's the baby face, but those two are
Speaker 1: the heel. I don't know. I mean, look, I I'm
Speaker 1: here for a heel Bianca. I would love to see it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what they want to do,
Speaker 1: but I would love to see heel beyoncea. You saw
Speaker 1: a little bit of it tonight. You know, she had
Speaker 1: that attitude with the fans, like, I'm not here to
Speaker 1: take your shit. These two were talking about me, I
Speaker 1: got a match coming up on Sunday. You're basically like screwall.
Speaker 1: Basically was kind of the attitude and the vibe I
Speaker 1: was getting tonight because she's not wrongly, She's done nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like they're booing her, but she's done
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. But sometimes the fans react the way they react,
Speaker 1: and you have to just listen to it and go
Speaker 1: with the flow, and sometimes you gotta pivot or change
Speaker 1: directions if it makes sense. I think the fans are
Speaker 1: ready to embrace a heel Bianca. I don't know if
Speaker 1: WWI and Triple H are ready to embrace a heel Beyanca.
Speaker 1: If they are, I think it's great. I'm here for
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of different ways this could go,
Speaker 1: which I like. I like the fact that this could
Speaker 1: go three or four different ways and we're not quite
Speaker 1: sure which way they're gonna go. But if that's the direction,
Speaker 1: I'm totally fine with that. And Ray Phoenix was shown
Speaker 1: in the back when Chad Gable and the Creeds walked
Speaker 1: up and made fun of him for losing the battle.
Speaker 1: Royal Dragon ly walked in and told Gable to shut up.
Speaker 1: Ray Masterio showed up and told El Goaddonde Gable that
Speaker 1: he's going to learn some real luta libre at WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and Mysterio then challenge Gable and the Creeds to a
Speaker 1: six man tag later in the show. Unfortunately, See had
Speaker 1: this match not been made. Had this match not been made,
Speaker 1: that we wouldn't be sitting here talking about a possible
Speaker 1: injury right now. But unfortunately, I mean the look, that's
Speaker 1: the nature of the beast Men. It just sucks that
Speaker 1: it had to work out the way that it did
Speaker 1: later in the show, which again we will get too.
Speaker 1: Actually you know it before I get to it. Let
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Speaker 1: WWE Tag Team Championships against the MotorCity machine Guns. So
Speaker 1: this was not saved for WrestleMania. They announced they were
Speaker 1: doing this tonight, so they send these two teams out there.
Speaker 1: The machine Guns they jumpstart the match right away as
Speaker 1: the Profits were posing during their entrance. They come back
Speaker 1: after a break, Alex Shelley tags and Chris Saban, who
Speaker 1: fires up. He takes out both Street Profits. Saban missed
Speaker 1: the missile dropkick to montes Ford, Shelley tagged in and
Speaker 1: he worked a pair of double team moves, including a
Speaker 1: dropkickflatliner combo. Shelley goes to the top and Angela Dawkins
Speaker 1: breaks things up. Ford then hits a super kick on
Speaker 1: Saban and he landed the He says that running dive
Speaker 1: where he jumps over the ring post, so he takes
Speaker 1: everybody out. Diy shows up at ringside. I think they
Speaker 1: came out of the crowd, and they interfere and the
Speaker 1: referee calls for the bell, so we end up with
Speaker 1: a no contest here. Garganto and Champa then grab the
Speaker 1: tag team titles and they steal them. They make off
Speaker 1: with them all the way to the back. As far
Speaker 1: as the match, the action was fine. The finish sucked. Okay,
Speaker 1: the finish was really bad, really bad. But we weren't
Speaker 1: done yet because in the back later nick All just
Speaker 1: tells Di why give me the belts, and they don't
Speaker 1: want to give him up, and he's like, give the
Speaker 1: belts back, so they hand the belts over to him.
Speaker 1: Now the street profits come in. They're pissed off. The
Speaker 1: machine guns come in. They're pissed off. They're all yelling
Speaker 1: and screaming at each other, and all this is in
Speaker 1: between them, and all this makes the announcement that they're
Speaker 1: going to have a TLC match for the tag team
Speaker 1: titles with the Street Profits and the Machine Guns and
Speaker 1: DIY next week. And as soon as he said next week,
Speaker 1: like you could hear the booze from inside the eriitise
Speaker 1: people were not happy. Why when he mentioned TLC they
Speaker 1: kind of gave it a little bit of a pop there.
Speaker 1: But this match is taking place not at WrestleMania, not
Speaker 1: even on the pre show. And I know people would
Speaker 1: bitch that, oh it's on the pre show, but you
Speaker 1: know they would still be wrestling in front of I mean,
Speaker 1: people still might be entering the building, but you'll have
Speaker 1: fifty thousand plus each night in the building. You got
Speaker 1: six hours of pre show material on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: They're doing the match next Friday on SmackDown. And I
Speaker 1: am absolutely baffled. I'm baffled by the decision to have
Speaker 1: the New Day and the War Raiders for the World
Speaker 1: Tag team titles on the WrestleMania card and keep this
Speaker 1: match on television after WrestleMania simply because the WWE tag
Speaker 1: team titles on SmackDown. Whatever you want to say about
Speaker 1: the division and the constant back and forth with the
Speaker 1: same teams. Cause has been going on now for months.
Speaker 1: But you have this back and forth now for several
Speaker 1: months with the Street Profits and the machine Guns and
Speaker 1: DIY and pretty deadly. Okay, who wasn't even involved in
Speaker 1: any of this. They were in the Battle Royal, but
Speaker 1: they had their shot on TV a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: in London, I think it was. But they've actually been
Speaker 1: investing time in this story, involving these titles in these
Speaker 1: teams now for months on television. There's actual activity going
Speaker 1: on in the SmackDown Tag Team division. What has been
Speaker 1: going on with the raw tag team titles on Monday Night? Nothing?
Speaker 1: It's a dead division. There's been nothing going on. They
Speaker 1: did a match with a New Day in the War
Speaker 1: Raiders on TV last week that went a few minutes.
Speaker 1: It had a shitty DQ finish and was cold as
Speaker 1: fuck because nobody cares because they've cooled off the New Day.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I love the New Day, I love
Speaker 1: Heel New Day, but they fucked up. They dropped the
Speaker 1: ball with these guys. These guys had nuclear heat. They
Speaker 1: can melt an entire fucking city with the heat that
Speaker 1: these guys had. After the Heel turn in November or
Speaker 1: December rather, and they fucked it up. Triple Eh fucked
Speaker 1: it all up. So now they feel like just another
Speaker 1: team and they're getting a tag team title match at WrestleMania. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it'll be a good match, but you're
Speaker 1: sending a match cold into WrestleMania for those titles. But
Speaker 1: these guys don't get a spot on a TLC match,
Speaker 1: no less. And this is on smacked. I just I
Speaker 1: don't understand that maybe the finish of the World title
Speaker 1: match between the New Day and the war Raiders, when
Speaker 1: we see it, will make sense, and then in the
Speaker 1: big picture, this will all make sense. But as I
Speaker 1: sit here right now and that matches on the WrestleMania
Speaker 1: card and this one isn't, that doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: to me whatsoever. Either have both one on one night,
Speaker 1: one on the other, or if you could only have one,
Speaker 1: this would be the one that would have made sense.
Speaker 1: So I don't understand that decision at all. And I
Speaker 1: don't understand. Also, the way they've cooled off the New Day,
Speaker 1: I really don't and I don't want to hear people
Speaker 1: defending it either. There is no defense for it. They
Speaker 1: had a hot act on that show and they fucked
Speaker 1: it up. Randy Orton, he was out to the ring next,
Speaker 1: still has no opponent for WrestleMania. He reminded every one
Speaker 1: of this fact. When he came out. Orton said that
Speaker 1: he's been around town all week long, and he said
Speaker 1: that there is an excitement about WrestleMania like never before.
Speaker 1: That's a lie. Orton referenced his father being in the
Speaker 1: first WrestleMania. He said there's no way in hell that
Speaker 1: he would sit out this year's show. Noting how this
Speaker 1: would be the dth time that he would be competing
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, Orton said he will show up on Sunday
Speaker 1: boots tied baby oil on his skin, and he will
Speaker 1: be ready to deliver for the WWE universe. He said
Speaker 1: he will do it for the fans, he will do
Speaker 1: it for himself, and he will do it for the
Speaker 1: boys in the back. And speaking of the boys in
Speaker 1: the back, he said, if everyone or anyone I should say,
Speaker 1: wants to test their metal, he dares them to step up.
Speaker 1: He looked out into the crowd and said, if there's
Speaker 1: anybody on the strip who owns a pair of wrestling
Speaker 1: Boots who wants to step up, go ahead and do so.
Speaker 1: He said, whoever it is will fall victim to the
Speaker 1: three most dangerous letters in all of pro wrestling. R
Speaker 1: k oh good fire from Orton here, who made it
Speaker 1: a point to mention that it will be Sunday. His
Speaker 1: match will be Sunday, which I figured it would be
Speaker 1: because we have seven matches tomorrow. We only have six
Speaker 1: on Sunday, so of course you want to have an
Speaker 1: even seven and seven fourteen matches total. So whatever his
Speaker 1: match ends up being, that's going to be on WrestleMania
Speaker 1: Night too. They're doing the open challenge gimmick, which, honestly,
Speaker 1: at this point, I mean we're twenty four hours out
Speaker 1: from this show this weekend, forty eight hours from what
Speaker 1: would be his match, you may as well just wait.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, you may as well just wait. It's
Speaker 1: like the Seth Rollins thing a few years ago with
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes. He had no opponent. Now that wasn't an
Speaker 1: open challenge. Vince McMahon had already had a hand picked
Speaker 1: opponent for him. He just wasn't willing to tell Seth
Speaker 1: who that was going to be until WrestleMania but it's
Speaker 1: the same basic concept here, and so as long as
Speaker 1: you have a name that you know is going to
Speaker 1: get a reaction, whoever that is probably somebody who's debuting
Speaker 1: or returning to the company. You may as well just
Speaker 1: wait and make it a surprise and make it some
Speaker 1: big mystery men announcement and just wait for the show.
Speaker 1: But it's got to be someone good. It's got to
Speaker 1: be somebody good or somebody who's coming back and making
Speaker 1: a return to the company. Otherwise, if let's say Shamus
Speaker 1: walks out there, or anybody else who doesn't have a
Speaker 1: match of WrestleMania and could reasonably be viewed as an
Speaker 1: opponent for Randy Orton, you look at someone like that,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I mean, I'm sure the two of
Speaker 1: them could go out there and have a kick ass match,
Speaker 1: But like, you may as well just announce it. You
Speaker 1: know why even bother waiting and keeping it a mystery
Speaker 1: unless there's a reason you know that you're doing that.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be nick All this. If it
Speaker 1: was going to be nick All This, then they would
Speaker 1: have announced that already. It's not gonna be nick All This.
Speaker 1: There were no hints at all on this show tonight,
Speaker 1: that that would be the direction. Solo Soka was heavily
Speaker 1: teased last week. Did not at all get the vibe
Speaker 1: that it's going to be him, thankfully, because that's just
Speaker 1: that's not the WrestleMania match I want to see. So
Speaker 1: it's not going to be solo Sokoa. I'm thinking it's
Speaker 1: going to be Russev. We know Russev is back. How
Speaker 1: do we know this big e the other day just
Speaker 1: whether he let it slip by accident or he did
Speaker 1: what he was doing the other day he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's back. He announced it himself and we already knew this,
Speaker 1: but like that was the first time somebody publicly came
Speaker 1: out and actually set it. But yes, he was spotted
Speaker 1: at anyway WWE headquarters last week. He was taking part in
Speaker 1: a photo shoot for those of you who don't know. So, Russev, Miro,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call him, he is back in WWI.
Speaker 1: It is just a matter of when does he return,
Speaker 1: when do we actually see him. Kevin Owens went down
Speaker 1: with this terrible injury. It sucks and I feel bad
Speaker 1: for him right. Never a good time to get hurt
Speaker 1: with a major neck injury. No less but to miss
Speaker 1: what I know for him was going to be this
Speaker 1: huge WrestleMania match against Randy Orton. It's a shitty situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we need a plan B. Whoever the plan B is,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be some long term story. Randy
Speaker 1: Orton sat out for four months selling a neck injury
Speaker 1: to come back and have this payoff with Kevin Owens,
Speaker 1: and now we're not getting it. There was months of
Speaker 1: story there, all thrown away nobody's fault, but it's gone.
Speaker 1: So whoever ends up in this match, there ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be a story. This is no longer about story. This
Speaker 1: is about what makes sense and who makes sense in
Speaker 1: this spot, and if it's me, I don't want someone
Speaker 1: like Alistair Black, who we also know is coming back.
Speaker 1: I don't want someone like Alistair Black out there in
Speaker 1: his return match to go out there and lose in
Speaker 1: his first match back. Same thing with Russev. People might say, well,
Speaker 1: you want him to lose now. I don't want him
Speaker 1: to lose either, But honestly, he's gonna end up. I
Speaker 1: don't know if ultimately he'll be a face for a Heal.
Speaker 1: My guess would be he'll be a heel. Can't be sure,
Speaker 1: right russev Day was very popular. Maybe he'll be a babyface.
Speaker 1: But whatever he ends up being, he's not going to
Speaker 1: be a main event level guy, not out of the gate.
Speaker 1: So if he goes in there and he loses in
Speaker 1: a competitive match to Randy Orton, I don't see that
Speaker 1: as being as big of a deal as someone like
Speaker 1: Alistair Black going out there, who I think absolutely could
Speaker 1: be a top guy on SmackDown, and him losing to
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. That I think is completely counterproductive in WWE
Speaker 1: right now. By the way, I should point out, they've
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys come in. Ray Phoenix has
Speaker 1: come in, Penta has come in, Ricky Starks is in NXT,
Speaker 1: Alistair Black is coming back, Miro is coming back. It's
Speaker 1: like you have It's like this, this whole group. You
Speaker 1: can create a whole faction out of just these people
Speaker 1: that are coming in from aw to WWE. It's okay
Speaker 1: to take one of them. And if they go in
Speaker 1: there and lose a WrestleMania match to Randy Orton, believe me,
Speaker 1: they're not buried. It's not the end of their career.
Speaker 1: It's not the end of the fucking world. I'd much
Speaker 1: rather have him in this situation than throwing Alistair Black
Speaker 1: out there. And by the way, they aired another vignette
Speaker 1: tonight that with the smoky They should have thrown the
Speaker 1: smoky background and everything. And this time we got a date.
Speaker 1: It says April twenty fifth, So now we know Alistair
Speaker 1: Black will be back on SmackDown next Friday. So it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be him. So who else is it going
Speaker 1: to be? People throwing out names like fucking Goldberg, dude,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens got hurt. Whoever it's gonna be. They had
Speaker 1: to come up with a plan beyond like two weeks.
Speaker 1: Notice Goldberg, he just had I think he went to
Speaker 1: Colombia to have stem cell injections. His shoulders all fucked up,
Speaker 1: he just started a training camp. He's fifty thousand years old.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Goldberg. Okay, Gouldberg will not be
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania in a match, so it's not gonna be him.
Speaker 1: People throwing at other names I see even in the
Speaker 1: chat here, Sammy's ain, Sammy's ain is not gonna be
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. What sense would that make for sammy' z
Speaker 1: ay to wrestle Randy Orton of all people at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: Sammy's ain is not at WRESTLEMANI and some of the
Speaker 1: other names people have thrown at have also just made
Speaker 1: me shake my head. Russev is the one to be
Speaker 1: who makes sense, who I could actually see being in
Speaker 1: this spot. We want somebody out there that'll get a reaction.
Speaker 1: People will be happy to see him back. He's been
Speaker 1: missing for all these years, and he can go in
Speaker 1: there and lose, and it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: Because Randy Orton should not be losing a WrestleMania. He's
Speaker 1: going to have a big match at Backlash next month.
Speaker 1: Why would he go in there at WrestleMania and lose.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Russive. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be russe V Day on Sunday at WrestleMania. That's what
Speaker 1: I think. But you got to go with somebody the
Speaker 1: audience knows, Jeff Cobb. Thank you. I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 1: that nobody in WWE Land is going to know who
Speaker 1: Jeff Cobb is. The smart fans will know, and you
Speaker 1: do have smart fans who come in for WrestleMania. So
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say he would get crickets. But the WWE audience,
Speaker 1: by in large, they don't know who he is. Him
Speaker 1: coming out there in that spot, I just I don't
Speaker 1: see I don't see that getting such a major reaction
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get a return on that payoff. Right.
Speaker 1: It's very important when you do a gimmick like this,
Speaker 1: the mystery Man Open Challenge gimmick, there has to be
Speaker 1: some familiarity with the I don't think their audience is
Speaker 1: going to be all that familiar with who he is.
Speaker 1: He's never been in WWE before Russev. They know he'll
Speaker 1: get a reaction when he come. Maybe he'll ride a
Speaker 1: fucking tank to the ring. But Jeff Cobb is wrestling
Speaker 1: his final match actually in about two hours three hours
Speaker 1: against Hiroshi Tanahashi. He could technically make it in time
Speaker 1: for the show on Sunday, so it could be him.
Speaker 1: Do I think it's going to be him? No, And
Speaker 1: I honestly don't think that would be a great spot
Speaker 1: for him to go in And he's another one where
Speaker 1: him going in there and losing. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see him lose. I'd rather see Russev go in there
Speaker 1: and lose and he can take that loss. Jeff Cobb
Speaker 1: would be brand new. A lot of people wouldn't know
Speaker 1: who he is. I don't think sending someone like him
Speaker 1: in there and losing is a great idea. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no on that. Joe Hendry, well, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the TNA World Heavyweight Champion getting a wrestle media match
Speaker 1: against Randy Orton would be a pretty big fucking deal,
Speaker 1: especially for him. Uh yeah, I mean, I can't rule
Speaker 1: it out. It's possible. I'm still gonna say. Russep though,
Speaker 1: Daddy Yugarte says Joe Henry is champion and can't live.
Speaker 1: Joe Henry is championed and can't lose, he says. So
Speaker 1: you think, dude, they wanted him Supposedly, they wanted him
Speaker 1: to come into work a program with the mizz Give
Speaker 1: me a break. Come on, he can't lose. You don't
Speaker 1: think WWE would hesitate to bring him in and have
Speaker 1: him lose. You don't know who you're dealing with here.
Speaker 1: You think they give a shit, They don't give a shit.
Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for. Isn't he injured? I
Speaker 1: thought that was a storyline injury in TNA for him anyway,
Speaker 1: let's move on footage aired. There was a brawl earlier
Speaker 1: today at the WrestleMania kickoff with Drew McIntyre and Damian
Speaker 1: Priest who were having a Sin City street fight this weekend.
Speaker 1: So Byron Saxon interviewed Priest in the back and Priest
Speaker 1: cut Saxton off. He said, look, he wants to send
Speaker 1: a message to McIntyre. He said, McIntyre isn't a victim,
Speaker 1: not yet. Priest said Drew isn't ready for their fight
Speaker 1: this weekend. He's going to beat Drew so bad he'll
Speaker 1: wish he was future endeavored again. Oh man, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was no Drew McIntyre on this show. This was the
Speaker 1: only promo he got from either one of them. After
Speaker 1: last week's botched count out finish, they ran back the
Speaker 1: match between Chelsea Green and Zelina Vega. This was not
Speaker 1: for the United States Championship. The action spilled outside. Green
Speaker 1: sent Vega into the barricade and then she scolded Charles
Speaker 1: Robinson for counting her out the last time, even though
Speaker 1: Charles Robinson was not the referee for that match. That
Speaker 1: was Ryan Tran. Green ran at Vega. Vega back dropped
Speaker 1: her over the barricade into the timekeeper's area, so they
Speaker 1: nearly missed the ten count again. They were playing off
Speaker 1: what happened last week. They rolled into the ring at
Speaker 1: the same time to break the count. Vega set up
Speaker 1: for a six to one to nine. Vega, though, ran
Speaker 1: into a kick instead and Chelsea plays Vega on the
Speaker 1: top rope. Vega fought back, turned it into a super
Speaker 1: code red from the top rope, and she pinned the champion.
Speaker 1: Of course, it was non title, but that should now
Speaker 1: earn her a shot at the United States Championship. You know,
Speaker 1: at least Lyra Valkyria found her way onto the WrestleMania card.
Speaker 1: She's not defending her intercontinental title, but she is on
Speaker 1: the WrestleMania card. We cannot say the same for Chelsea Green.
Speaker 1: The best that Chelsea Green could hope for at this
Speaker 1: point is a skit on the show. But right now
Speaker 1: she is not scheduled for WrestleMania at all. But the
Speaker 1: other United States champion is That would be La Night.
Speaker 1: He had a match on this show against Solo Socoa,
Speaker 1: but first he had a promo and he said the
Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu, Solo Soca and Tomatonga They like to use
Speaker 1: the numbers advantage, which is why he took out Tomatoga
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show. And he's going to
Speaker 1: take out Solo so that when he gets in the
Speaker 1: ring with Jacob, it'll be one on one, no distractions,
Speaker 1: no interference, It'll be a fair fight. He said, he
Speaker 1: knows that Fatu is a force, but Fatu has never
Speaker 1: seen anything like him. And he said, someday somewhere, Fatu
Speaker 1: will be a champion in WWE. But at WrestleMania, fa
Speaker 1: Tu will eat a BFT. I almost said BLT. He
Speaker 1: might eat a BLT a a BFT in that match
Speaker 1: courtesy of the megastar. That would be kind of funny. Actually,
Speaker 1: if Jacob Fatwu is very first WrestleMania, he just comes
Speaker 1: to the ring and just he has like a a
Speaker 1: wrap sandwich and just starts eating a BLT in the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring, I think he would still get cheered.
Speaker 1: The people would still cheer for him. They like this
Speaker 1: guy who they don't like is Solo Socoa. He came out,
Speaker 1: Knight didn't even wait for him to get to the ring.
Speaker 1: He left the ring. He met him in the isleway
Speaker 1: and the fight was on so they wrestle for a
Speaker 1: little bit. They went to commercial, the show came back,
Speaker 1: Solo was working overnight on the outside. Night came back
Speaker 1: with a DDT. He went to the second rope when
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Jacob Fatu shows up out of
Speaker 1: nowhere and he trips him up on the second rope
Speaker 1: and the referee calls for the disqualification. Braun Stroman's music hits.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna stand for this. He lumbers on down
Speaker 1: to the ring, takes out both Sokoa and Fatu with
Speaker 1: a running crossbody. Knight and Stroman clear the ring and
Speaker 1: then Nick all This walks out and ge I wonder
Speaker 1: why he here, and Nick Alda says, why don't we
Speaker 1: have a tag team match. It'll be La Knight and
Speaker 1: Braunz Stroman against Solo Socoa and Jacob Fatu. Lazy shit.
Speaker 1: So the match started during a picture in picture break,
Speaker 1: Fa Twu was working over Stroman as the show came back.
Speaker 1: We did, by the way, I'd be remiss if I
Speaker 1: didn't mention this. We did, in fact during this match
Speaker 1: get the Stroman Express. Yes, we got the Stroman Express
Speaker 1: mode down. Solo Socoa on one side of the ring
Speaker 1: mode down Fa Tu on the other and blessed that man.
Speaker 1: He took this great bump into the steel steps. Then
Speaker 1: later on Stroman disposed the fa tow. He went for
Speaker 1: another train ride, but this time Fa Tu side stepped
Speaker 1: him and he sent Stroman flying over the announced desk.
Speaker 1: La Knight connected with a diving basement dropkick that sent
Speaker 1: Fa Tu on top of the announced desk. He was
Speaker 1: laying there on his belly on the desk. Night gets
Speaker 1: back into the ring. Solo missed a Simo and spike attempt,
Speaker 1: but he ate a BFT not a BLT, and he
Speaker 1: covered Solo for the one two three. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we could safely forget about Solo Socoa being a Randy
Speaker 1: Orton opponent at WrestleMania. I feel pretty content and confident,
Speaker 1: i should say, and saying that it will not be
Speaker 1: Solo Soca wrestling Randy Orton in WrestleMania. As far as
Speaker 1: the match look, it was a way to get these
Speaker 1: guys on the show to tell the story about La
Speaker 1: Knight trying to take out each member of the Bloodline
Speaker 1: so that he can get a fair fight with Jacob
Speaker 1: Fatu at WrestleMania. But honestly, what this felt like. It
Speaker 1: just felt like time filler more than anything else, which
Speaker 1: honestly is what this was. I mean, they were trying
Speaker 1: to fill time, but that's really what it felt like.
Speaker 1: Then we were treated to footage of Wade Barrett sit
Speaker 1: down interview with Tiffin and this was earlier today, so
Speaker 1: we got a snippet of his interview from earlier in
Speaker 1: the week with Charlotte Flair the Challenger. Now he was
Speaker 1: sitting down with the Champion and he asked her about
Speaker 1: the awkward in ring segment between the two of them
Speaker 1: in Chicago a few weeks ago, which he said went
Speaker 1: off the rails. I said it went off the rails
Speaker 1: that night, but he said it went off the rails.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do some rails when that match was over.
Speaker 1: So Tiffany said, over the last few weeks she felt
Speaker 1: bullied and taken advantage of. So they made a choice
Speaker 1: here to have the WWE Women's Champion in this interview
Speaker 1: talk about how she was bullied by the Challenger. She
Speaker 1: was referring to the split screen interview several weeks ago
Speaker 1: where she really did not have a good night, and
Speaker 1: so here she's talking about how she was bullied and
Speaker 1: taking advantage of. She had a moment during that split
Speaker 1: screen of insane discouragement that made her feel like she
Speaker 1: wasn't cut out for this, but she used it as motivation,
Speaker 1: and she did her research to make sure that the
Speaker 1: next time she would come prepared. And so when they
Speaker 1: had their face to face in the middle of the ring,
Speaker 1: she came at Charlotte with a kill shot, and she
Speaker 1: played Charlotte at her own game. She gave her a
Speaker 1: taste of her own medicine. Charlotte doesn't have to like her,
Speaker 1: but she damn sure has to respect her. Now, Wade says,
Speaker 1: this feels like a must win match for both these women.
Speaker 1: But what happens if Tiffy Time ends at WrestleMania and
Speaker 1: she said that's not gonna happen. She knows it's going
Speaker 1: to be a fight. She's going to channel that discouragement
Speaker 1: that she felt and turn it into motivation. She's standing
Speaker 1: up to a bully. She's walking in as the champion,
Speaker 1: and she is walking out of WrestleMania as the champion.
Speaker 1: Neither of these sit downs, And again, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the full thing yet. I'm just going by the clips
Speaker 1: that they showed here. Neither of these sit downs did
Speaker 1: anything for me anyway to get more excited for this
Speaker 1: match of WrestleMania. I just want them to go out
Speaker 1: there and have a great match. That's it. All this
Speaker 1: awkward stuff, and you know, Charlotte's bullying me. It's just
Speaker 1: I don't know, you got the champion going out there,
Speaker 1: the defending champion going into WrestleMania, you know. And I
Speaker 1: know they're portraying her as the rookie, and she is
Speaker 1: she is. I mean, Charlotte's been doing this now for
Speaker 1: over a decade. For Tiffany, this is her first big match.
Speaker 1: Does she even have a match of WrestleMania last year,
Speaker 1: I don't know if she did. This might be her
Speaker 1: first WrestleMania match, and she's going in as the champion
Speaker 1: if she's only twenty five years old. All of this
Speaker 1: is true, but it's just weird, you know, her sitting
Speaker 1: there going, oh, I was bullied. I was bullied, and
Speaker 1: I was taking advantage of Its just it's a weird
Speaker 1: tact to take for this title match. I don't know
Speaker 1: that it really works for me. It might work for
Speaker 1: some people. I don't really I just don't care. About
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff they've done with these two
Speaker 1: so far. I think, if anything, it's actually made me
Speaker 1: less interested in seeing the match. But I'm hopeful the
Speaker 1: match itself will end up being hopefully a very good match.
Speaker 1: That's all I can hope for at this point. I
Speaker 1: just want them to go out there. I want them
Speaker 1: to not only have a very good match, but I
Speaker 1: want Tiffany Stratton to come out of this looking like
Speaker 1: someone who belongs. I want her to come out of
Speaker 1: this looking better than she did going into it, because
Speaker 1: she is someone who is still very new to this,
Speaker 1: especially on the main roster, and somebody who I'm sure
Speaker 1: they look at her the same way, who is going
Speaker 1: to be in the position that Charlotte Flair is in
Speaker 1: ten years from now. You know, that's where they want
Speaker 1: her to be. She needs to go out there and
Speaker 1: have a great showing at WRESTLEMANI even if she loses.
Speaker 1: So that's all I'm hoping for. Despite all the awkwardness
Speaker 1: and all the drama and everything we've had and how
Speaker 1: much of it is a shoot and how much of
Speaker 1: it is a work, I don't give a shit at
Speaker 1: this point. I just want them to go out there
Speaker 1: and have a kick ass match. That's it. I have
Speaker 1: the best move set. Hey King Dad, thank you again.
Speaker 1: You're awesome. Raymistereo, Dragon Lee, and Ray Phoenix. So Ray
Speaker 1: Phoenix pulling double duty tonight because he was in the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal as well, taking on Chad Gable and the
Speaker 1: Creed brother. I guess, I guess they're all playing playing
Speaker 1: double duty. Did not except Raymysterio because everybody in this
Speaker 1: match was also in the Battle Royal. But we had
Speaker 1: a six man tag team match, and this is where
Speaker 1: things went awry. So Mysterio gets in the ring with Gable,
Speaker 1: and Gable bails outside. Ray goes after him. He's chasing
Speaker 1: him around the ring, and you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: I was. I went back and I watched this to
Speaker 1: see did he get hurt when he was running after him?
Speaker 1: And he wasn't really running that hard. He chased him
Speaker 1: around like one side of the ring, and Ray looked
Speaker 1: and he went to go slide into the ring and
Speaker 1: Julius Kreed grabs him by the leg and he drags
Speaker 1: him out to the floor and Ray takes a bump
Speaker 1: and he you know, he lands a little hard on
Speaker 1: the floor, but honestly, it didn't look like anything out
Speaker 1: of the ordinary. And I'm watching his knee and I'm
Speaker 1: watching his leg and when he lands, you could tell
Speaker 1: that he looks like he may have gotten hurt, but
Speaker 1: I can't really tell how or like what what did
Speaker 1: he hurt? Did he hurt his groin, did he hurt
Speaker 1: his leg? It wasn't really apparent to me. What I
Speaker 1: do know is that we didn't see him again for
Speaker 1: the rest of the match. He never got up again
Speaker 1: after that, or he did, but he ended up on
Speaker 1: a different side of the ring. But he was down
Speaker 1: on the floor and the trainer was with him the
Speaker 1: entire time. So as the match goes on, we don't
Speaker 1: see Raymisterio again. It's basically a handicap match at that point.
Speaker 1: So when they came back from a break, Dragon Lee
Speaker 1: was taking punishment from the heels. Lee was perched up
Speaker 1: top all three heels, though ended up hanging by their legs,
Speaker 1: so all three of them are basically in a tree
Speaker 1: of woe in the corner, and Dragon Lee come off
Speaker 1: with a double stomp on all three of them. Phoenix
Speaker 1: got the hot tag. He had a spinning kick on Julius.
Speaker 1: Things broke down Phoenix took out all of American made.
Speaker 1: So Ray Phoenix goes up top and he walks the
Speaker 1: top rope kicks Gable in the head with his Goodbye
Speaker 1: Amigo kick. Lee landed the Destino, which he calls Operation
Speaker 1: Dragon On Julius. Phoenix followed that with a mediora from
Speaker 1: the top rope for the win. The mediora it gets
Speaker 1: spammed so many times these days that it was weird
Speaker 1: to see it used as a finish, Like, I'm fine
Speaker 1: with it. I don't want to see Phoenix out there
Speaker 1: doing all kinds of crazy shit and killing himself, but
Speaker 1: it's just weird, you know, when you have a move
Speaker 1: like that that's never used as a finish, and then
Speaker 1: it was it was like, oh, okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: if now, look, Ray Maisterio clearly was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a part of this match. He may have been a
Speaker 1: part of the finish. That may have been the plant
Speaker 1: he couldn't get back into the match. For all we know,
Speaker 1: this was all called on the fly, and this was
Speaker 1: not going to be the original or the way the
Speaker 1: original finish went down. We don't know, but it was
Speaker 1: weird seeing that, you know, you use for the finish. Now,
Speaker 1: as soon as the match was over, Phoenix and Dragon Lee,
Speaker 1: they get out of the rain and they go outside
Speaker 1: to go check on Raymysterio, and that's when I noticed,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I didn't even notice the trainer was out there.
Speaker 1: At first. I'm like, have they been out there the
Speaker 1: entire time? And then I went back and watched, and
Speaker 1: you know, sure enough, he was laying out there the
Speaker 1: entire time, which is not good. I saw the video.
Speaker 1: He was carried to the back. He could not put
Speaker 1: any weight on his left leg. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the ankle, I don't know, if it's the knee,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it was. But
Speaker 1: obviously he was in a lot of pain and not
Speaker 1: able to put weight on that leg, and it would
Speaker 1: be a real kick in the balls if it's serious enough.
Speaker 1: And look, it doesn't even have to be a super
Speaker 1: serious injury, like the match is less than twenty four
Speaker 1: hours away, right, because I'm pretty sure they're wrestling on
Speaker 1: night one, So it could be something kind of minor
Speaker 1: but still serious enough that he's not going to be
Speaker 1: able to wrestle on twenty four hours notice. So there's
Speaker 1: a very real possibility that Ray Masterio could be out
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania, and so what do you do then, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you do with Chad Gate? Well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: el Ganandi Americana? What do you do with Americano? You
Speaker 1: still have him on the show? You've got Dragon Lee
Speaker 1: right there, like Dragon Lee would honestly make the most sense.
Speaker 1: Or you could put Ray Phoenix in that spot. I
Speaker 1: would like to see Phoenix get a WrestleMania match. I
Speaker 1: think that would be cool. You know, Penta and Phoenix
Speaker 1: each get their own WrestleMania matches in their first year.
Speaker 1: Because right now, Phoenix is not scheduled for the show,
Speaker 1: So it's not the end of the world if Mysterio
Speaker 1: goes down, because you could do that. You could do
Speaker 1: Phoenix or Dragon Lee against Elganandai Americana. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: he'll still wrestle and beyond the show, but hopefully that
Speaker 1: won't be necessary. It would be nice to find out
Speaker 1: their Ray's going to be okay and he'll be on
Speaker 1: the show, But just based on what we saw tonight,
Speaker 1: not looking too good. Now. They aired a very cool
Speaker 1: video package for the Roman Reign Cmpunk seth Rolins Triple
Speaker 1: threat match tomorrow night. It was set to Sail into
Speaker 1: the Black by machine Head and this was awesome. I
Speaker 1: saw this earlier today, but they aired it on the
Speaker 1: show tonight. This video package was awesome and I love
Speaker 1: the rock music. We need more of this. We need
Speaker 1: more rock music in these video packages. So this was
Speaker 1: very well done. And then we got the final face
Speaker 1: to face to close the show, the final hard sell
Speaker 1: for the Night two main event between Cody Rhodes and
Speaker 1: John Cena. Cody came out to the ring first and
Speaker 1: he got a fine reaction. It wasn't until he had
Speaker 1: the microphone in his hand and went to go speak
Speaker 1: that he got booed and to the point where he
Speaker 1: had a stop and sort of take it all in.
Speaker 1: And then he went to go speak again and they
Speaker 1: boot him again. Before he could say a word, he
Speaker 1: was interrupted by John Cena's music and John Cena makes
Speaker 1: his way out, gets in the ring. He tells Cody,
Speaker 1: shut your mouth, kid, this is gonna be seen his
Speaker 1: twentieth WrestleMania. He says, his twelfth title match at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: He knows you can get lost in all the noise
Speaker 1: with all these voices, there's one voice Cody should listen to,
Speaker 1: and that's the man looking at him right now in
Speaker 1: the eye. Sunday is the last time that he will
Speaker 1: ever compete in a WrestleMania ring. No one has ever
Speaker 1: had the courage to end their career the way that
Speaker 1: he has, and there is nothing he can do to
Speaker 1: prepare to face a man who knows that he is
Speaker 1: going to die. What he's doing is so unprecedented. The
Speaker 1: fans don't think it's real. They think he's going to
Speaker 1: come back, because that's what they all do, right. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a wrestling retirement. No wrestler ever
Speaker 1: truly retires. He says. The reason for that is because
Speaker 1: every other wrestler is a scared, insecure loser. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was referring to Rick Flair when he
Speaker 1: said that, but said, they need these people to care
Speaker 1: about them, to post about them, to talk about them,
Speaker 1: because the second they're away from this, they're alone. He,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, has love, joy and worth in
Speaker 1: his life. He doesn't need a single damn one of
Speaker 1: these people. The only reason he's here is to take
Speaker 1: the title away from Cody and the fans forever. Don't
Speaker 1: say I didn't warn you because he did. He says.
Speaker 1: Last year everyone was celebrating with Cody at the end
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania, but when Sina had his moment alone with Cody,
Speaker 1: he told him, every day you hold that it gets heavier,
Speaker 1: he said, Sunday, it finally becomes too heavy for Cody
Speaker 1: to He will lose because he cares about them. You
Speaker 1: people do not write history. Winners do there. It is
Speaker 1: you people. He did it again. He did it again,
Speaker 1: you people. I love it. He says. He came out
Speaker 1: here tonight to share one more thing with Cody Before Sunday,
Speaker 1: when he won that elimination chamber, he knew that it
Speaker 1: would be impossible to beat Cody in a match at WrestleMania. Now,
Speaker 1: he didn't explain why he felt this way. I assume
Speaker 1: it would if you remember when he first came back
Speaker 1: the promo on the first Netflix raw. He did address
Speaker 1: something that I had been talking about for a long time,
Speaker 1: which is his horrendous win loss record on television, at
Speaker 1: least in singles matches. He has not won a singles
Speaker 1: match in something like seven or eight years. And he
Speaker 1: did address that and was kind of joking about it
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year when he announced he
Speaker 1: was going to be in the Royal Rumble and then
Speaker 1: he lost that too, So I assume that's what he
Speaker 1: was getting at here, but he didn't really expand on that,
Speaker 1: like why does he think he couldn't beat Cody? But
Speaker 1: that's what he said. He goes he thought it would
Speaker 1: be impossible to beat Cody at WrestleMania, and then Cody
Speaker 1: changed all of that with what he said to the Rock.
Speaker 1: The Rock gave him a choice, do you want to
Speaker 1: do what's right or do you want to win? And
Speaker 1: when Cody made his choice, Sina realize Cody doesn't stand
Speaker 1: a chance. And that night all that was left for
Speaker 1: him to do was the one thing that Cody couldn't
Speaker 1: prove to the fans that they don't matter. When you
Speaker 1: stop caring about them, you can accomplish anything in life.
Speaker 1: But Cody is too weak to understand that. He says
Speaker 1: Sunday to beat him. To beat Sena, Cody has to choose.
Speaker 1: Does he do what they think is right or does
Speaker 1: he win? Does he want to win? Cody is scared, insecure,
Speaker 1: and naive. You wear this suit, you have your tattoo
Speaker 1: because you want to be somebody because he didn't need
Speaker 1: the tattoo, because Sunday he's going to make him somebody.
Speaker 1: Cody will realize that he is not the captain or
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He's still just a kid in a man's
Speaker 1: world who doesn't have the balls of the last real champion.
Speaker 1: And then it was Cody's chance to speak. And before
Speaker 1: we even get into that, let me just say I
Speaker 1: thought this was delivered well and Cody, you know, he
Speaker 1: stood there and listened to everything Sina had to say,
Speaker 1: and Sina had some good lines in there. I liked
Speaker 1: one of the first lines in there about how he's
Speaker 1: facing a man who's not afraid to die. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he's already announced that he's done. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: putting his career on the line. It's not a career
Speaker 1: ending match, like he already made his piece with it.
Speaker 1: He's made the announcement, this is my final WrestleMania match,
Speaker 1: this is my last ride. I'm done at the end
Speaker 1: of this year. I've got nothing to lose, right, That
Speaker 1: was basically what he was saying, and I thought that
Speaker 1: line went pretty hard. So again, this was good stuff
Speaker 1: from Sena, not radically different from what we've heard from
Speaker 1: him in the past. He did fall back a lot
Speaker 1: here on ragging on the fans. This feud has not
Speaker 1: really been between Cody and Sena. This has been John
Speaker 1: Sena against the fans. That's basically what this has been
Speaker 1: built on. And Cody is is a vessel of the fans.
Speaker 1: He relies on the fans. He likes the fans. He
Speaker 1: you know, he everything he does is for the fans,
Speaker 1: and so ultimately that will be his downfall. That's the
Speaker 1: story of this match. It's really John Sena against you
Speaker 1: and me at WrestleMania. I'll be waiting for my wrestlemaniat
Speaker 1: pay Day, by the way, So they really leaned into
Speaker 1: that in this probo. But then it was Cody's turn
Speaker 1: to speak, and the fans started booing again and Sina said,
Speaker 1: this is who you fight for, and Cody said. Sena
Speaker 1: said that he doesn't or remember when Cody made the
Speaker 1: about him burying talent, and Seena's response was I don't
Speaker 1: bury talent. I am talent. So he made reference to
Speaker 1: that line again here. He said, well, he knows a
Speaker 1: graveyard of talent that would disagree with that, but we're
Speaker 1: not talking about them. We're talking about WrestleMania. He asked
Speaker 1: Sena if he knows the name of the guy who
Speaker 1: handed him the mic. Do you know who that guy is? Beaues,
Speaker 1: I'll bet you don't. Or maybe that woman over there
Speaker 1: or that camera guy or this person or that person.
Speaker 1: He says, since the goat hasn't shown up since the
Speaker 1: elimination chamber, let me offer you some perspective. And he
Speaker 1: calls Cody underwhelming. He says, right, you call me underwhelming. Well,
Speaker 1: Sena is overrated, overbearing, out of touch, out of time,
Speaker 1: with a face like melting wax in a stack of
Speaker 1: dimes for a neck. I wonder where he got that
Speaker 1: line from. And he's paler than sting At Stark ninety seven.
Speaker 1: That was great. If you know, you know, If you
Speaker 1: know the story, then you get the reference. If you don't,
Speaker 1: then you won't. And Sena's sanctimonious comments about how he's
Speaker 1: an errand boy when the whole world watched him saunter
Speaker 1: out onto the Oscar stage butt ass naked for the
Speaker 1: people he runs errands for now and by god, John,
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five and you still can't wrestle. He
Speaker 1: won the crowd over with those comments. Whoever you thought
Speaker 1: won the promo. What he was able to do was
Speaker 1: turn the crowd back in his favor because as he
Speaker 1: was really getting fired up and getting into these comments
Speaker 1: and the sting line, and like, by the end of
Speaker 1: this they were cheering for Cody. He had won them back.
Speaker 1: So Sina called them all idiots. They're just like Cody.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they want. And to beat Cody,
Speaker 1: he says, he doesn't have to wrestle. And then this
Speaker 1: is the part where it looked like he gave him
Speaker 1: a karate chop. It may have been a thumb to
Speaker 1: the eye. Just the way they shot it, you couldn't
Speaker 1: tell because it was from the other like the other
Speaker 1: side of Cody's head. I thought maybe he kind of
Speaker 1: bopped him in the fucking ear and they were selling
Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, he had the busted ear
Speaker 1: drum after the elimination chamber. It may have been a
Speaker 1: thumb to the eye. It legitimately looked like he gave
Speaker 1: him a fucking karate chop. Okay, he looked like Daniel
Speaker 1: out there. Daniel. You know, I guess how old is
Speaker 1: Ralph Macchio. Now he might be the same age just
Speaker 1: scene it for all I know, but that's what he
Speaker 1: looked like. Give a fucking karate chop and Cody sold it.
Speaker 1: And then he got him on his shoulders for an
Speaker 1: attitude adjustment. Cody slips out and he ends up giving
Speaker 1: him the crossroads and so yet again the second time
Speaker 1: now in the last few weeks. Well, I guess it
Speaker 1: would have been the thirty first, right, March thirty first
Speaker 1: was the last time we saw Sina and he got
Speaker 1: laid out at the end of that segment two with
Speaker 1: an AA. So here he is yet again looking up
Speaker 1: at the lights and the show goes off the air.
Speaker 1: Cody goes back down the aisle posing with his title.
Speaker 1: That is how the Final SmackDown, the final show before WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: went off the air. I loved the little Hall of
Speaker 1: Oaths reference. Out of Touch, out of time thumbs up
Speaker 1: on that. The Sting being pale, I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: a classic, just nonsensical. Eric Bischoff's story about him and
Speaker 1: Hogan and why they felt like why they felt like
Speaker 1: Sting did not deserve to win the World Championship at
Speaker 1: Stark ninety seven. He was very pale when he showed
Speaker 1: up that day. He was not in the best shape. Yes,
Speaker 1: because when I watched Stark ninety seven, I can remember
Speaker 1: Sting walking out there thinking, my god, he's in horrible shape.
Speaker 1: He looks terrible, he looks like he just had a
Speaker 1: fucking five day bender. Oh and he's pale. So let's
Speaker 1: keep the title on Hogan, who's orange. I don't see
Speaker 1: how this show is over. You were left with any
Speaker 1: other impression than John Sena is going to win number
Speaker 1: seventeen on Sunday. John Sena turned heel an elimination chamber.
Speaker 1: He was the biggest thing in wrestling. It's all anybody
Speaker 1: was talking about. Everybody was excited, it was well done,
Speaker 1: It got people buzzing, and then he was gone for
Speaker 1: two weeks. We didn't see him. We didn't see him,
Speaker 1: we didn't see the rock. Then we saw Scena three
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. He didn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: to say those first two weeks about Cody. In fact,
Speaker 1: he didn't say anything about Cody. We got that one
Speaker 1: great segment in London between them that was actually great,
Speaker 1: and then again nothing for two weeks, and then we
Speaker 1: got what we got tonight, which was fine as sort
Speaker 1: of the closing salvo between these two. But the John
Speaker 1: ccena heel turn or He'll run so far has been underwhelming,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how long it's gonna go. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's done after WrestleMania. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna take it all the way to SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna take it to the
Speaker 1: end of the year. I don't know. Obviously he'll be
Speaker 1: he'll turn back before the end of the year. But
Speaker 1: what I was hoping to finally see from a heel
Speaker 1: John Cena, just selfishly as a fan, because we haven't
Speaker 1: seen John Cena as a heel in over two decades.
Speaker 1: What I was hoping we might be able to get
Speaker 1: out of this, we haven't gotten. And it's been very
Speaker 1: It's been very underwhelming. It's been very underwhelming, very disappointing.
Speaker 1: There are times where it even feels forced. And I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that whatever they have planned for WrestleMania, maybe it'll
Speaker 1: breathe new life into it, because for me, I can't
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you, oh my god, it's been great.
Speaker 1: Now it could have been, it could have been, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't been. That's just the reality of it. It
Speaker 1: hasn't been, but now the match is here and that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. What do they do at WrestleMania. If
Speaker 1: John Cena is going to continue to be a heel,
Speaker 1: which he should, he needs to win the WWE title
Speaker 1: of WRESTLEMANI he needs to be the one to go
Speaker 1: into St. Louis next month the Backlash and defend that
Speaker 1: championship against Randy Orton. So we get a Randy Orton
Speaker 1: John Cena match one last time. Roles are reversed this time.
Speaker 1: Seenea' is the heel, Orton's the face. What an atmosphere
Speaker 1: it'll be in Saint Louis. That'll be a huge match.
Speaker 1: Sena and CM Punk same thing. It works so much
Speaker 1: better if Sena is the heel and Punk is the
Speaker 1: baby face, especially after the comments that Punk made about
Speaker 1: him after the Chamber. You can't turn him back before
Speaker 1: you do that match. You can't. It's booking malpractice if
Speaker 1: you do that. But Sena, I feel like he has
Speaker 1: to win this championship and then you get these big
Speaker 1: title matches against all these people. If he doesn't win
Speaker 1: and he stays a heel, we're gonna get those matches anyway,
Speaker 1: and every single time John Cena goes out there to
Speaker 1: wrestle a CM Punk or a Randy Orton or an
Speaker 1: AJ Styles or anybody else that he might wrestle, it
Speaker 1: will completely overshadow everything else on the show. It will
Speaker 1: be the biggest thing on the show. And if Cody
Speaker 1: is WWE Champion, the WWE Championship is now number two
Speaker 1: on the show. That's another reason why to me, it
Speaker 1: makes sense put the belt on Sena, even if just
Speaker 1: for a few months. Put the belt on Sena. That
Speaker 1: is the right outcome this Sunday. Everything they've done so far,
Speaker 1: laying him out twice at all points to that. What involvement,
Speaker 1: if any, will The Rock have in this I don't know.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen The Rock since Toronto. I cannot imagine
Speaker 1: he won't be there. Him and Travis Scott will probably
Speaker 1: be there. What involvement, if any, in the match will
Speaker 1: they have? Is there a third man? Is the main
Speaker 1: event on Night one the finish of that match going
Speaker 1: to tie in to the main event of Night two?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is there going to be another person
Speaker 1: revealed as being part of their little click? But if
Speaker 1: Cody goes in there and he retains the championship. Where
Speaker 1: does Sena go from here? That's my question. What's next
Speaker 1: for him? Where does that story go with him as
Speaker 1: a heel. There's some people who said they would like
Speaker 1: to see a double turn. People were talking about a
Speaker 1: double turn in the chap before. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: just turn heel. You gotta turn him back. But this
Speaker 1: is this is going to be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: whether Rock is involved and who shows their face during
Speaker 1: that main event, and also what kind of match is
Speaker 1: it going to be. The last few matches John Cena
Speaker 1: has had have not been good. The match with Austin
Speaker 1: Theory was no good. The match with Solo Socoo where
Speaker 1: Solo gave him like sixteen Samo and Spikes was not good.
Speaker 1: There's no tag team situation here. It's not an elimination chamber,
Speaker 1: it's not a Royal rumble. Scene is in a one
Speaker 1: on one match, and it's a Wrestlemaniam main event match.
Speaker 1: He's going to be out there for a good fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minutes. What kind of matches John Cena
Speaker 1: gonna have? Forty seven years old, it's been a while
Speaker 1: since Sceena has gone out there. And had a real
Speaker 1: kick ass quality singles match. That's another thing. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see. What does he look like in the ring
Speaker 1: with Cody? What kind of match does Cody have with Cina?
Speaker 1: This is not the John Cena of ten years ago
Speaker 1: or fifteen years ago. The last time these two had
Speaker 1: a match together, it was I believe it would have
Speaker 1: been their Elimination Chamber qualifying match. That was in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: They had a raw match. That's fifteen years ago. Cody's
Speaker 1: in a very different place now. John Cena is in
Speaker 1: a very different place. Now. What kind of Wrestlemaniam main
Speaker 1: event are these two going to have? Find out Sunday.
Speaker 1: Take a look at the Twitter poll. What did you
Speaker 1: think of SmackDown before Maniu fifty seven point seven percent
Speaker 1: thumbs up, twenty seven point eight percent thumbs in the middle,
Speaker 1: and fourteen point five percent thumbs down For the go
Speaker 1: Home Show thirteen hundred plus votes in. You can vote
Speaker 1: at Sala Monster on x JP says better not phone
Speaker 1: it in. I hope not. This is this is go time, baby,
Speaker 1: It's the WrestleMania main event. Ain't no bigger match other
Speaker 1: than I guess his retirement match when we get to
Speaker 1: the end of the year, but they made the choice
Speaker 1: for him to be in this WrestleMania made event. Now
Speaker 1: you've got to go out there and have a big
Speaker 1: WrestleMania main event caliber match, and he hasn't had one
Speaker 1: of those in many years. So what that looks like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I hope it looks a lot
Speaker 1: better than the match you had with fucking Theory a
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Speaker 1: WrestleMania is a great pay per view and that you
Speaker 1: enjoy the show you as well. I saw the WrestleMania
Speaker 1: forty one stage reveal and it's an amazing setup, likely
Speaker 1: within the top three best WrestleMania stages with thirty three
Speaker 1: and thirty nine. WrestleMania is even better to watch with
Speaker 1: food and snacks. Yes, I have to have food when
Speaker 1: I watched these shows. Always got to have a good
Speaker 1: snack handy. I saw the stage reveal. It looks great.
Speaker 1: It's up there. It's not the best stage they've ever done,
Speaker 1: but it's in that realm. We'll see what it looks
Speaker 1: like tomorrow night, once the stadium is filled in Lakers
Speaker 1: Pats Russo swerve Jimmy turns and costs j the World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight championship. That would be fucking terrible. We had Jimmy
Speaker 1: and Jay last year and I have no interest in
Speaker 1: seeing it again after that. Did you not learn your
Speaker 1: lesson after last year? Why would you want to see
Speaker 1: that again? Chris O'Neil Russev will return Sunday and Bianca
Speaker 1: will turn heel helping Naomi. Bianca may turn heel, but
Speaker 1: she ain't helping Naomi. Not this weekend. Brother Fluff Salisbury. Well,
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Speaker 1: on punk or where they were ribbed to go to
Speaker 1: a club on crossdresser night. No, this is the first
Speaker 1: I'm hearing of it. I do remember in one of
Speaker 1: their shoots, and I think it was a Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor shoot that they did. They were talking about a fan,
Speaker 1: I think a female fan who used to drive them
Speaker 1: around and kind of do stuff for them, and how
Speaker 1: they treated her like shit, and I just thought, man,
Speaker 1: it really made them, it really made them come across
Speaker 1: not well at all. Like I remember that. But the
Speaker 1: one you're talking about, No, I don't remember seeing that.
Speaker 1: Herb Abrams, Oh my god, he is back from the dead.
Speaker 1: Herb Abrams is with us. Doesn't say if he brought
Speaker 1: the hookers and coke. He said that pale sting comment
Speaker 1: was something else. Loll Herb, you didn't bring the good stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: you disappoint me. Fire Panda with the I see the magenta,
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Speaker 1: Randy Bobandy with another twenty This is my be the
Speaker 1: Booker contribution in the hopes the legend himself greatest cruiserweight
Speaker 1: champion of all time. Billy Kidman makes an appearance. Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be very upset because Billy Kidman is not
Speaker 1: in Be the Booker. I'm sorry to disappoint you. Tony
Speaker 1: Boloney McCall, thank you for the ten no message. Herbie
Speaker 1: Abrams again, the SmackDown tag titles not being on the
Speaker 1: line at Mania is a damn travesty. It's just again,
Speaker 1: it's just bizarre to me. It's just it really is.
Speaker 1: It's just bewildering to me that of the two tag
Speaker 1: team titles. The other ones would be the ones defended
Speaker 1: at Wrestlemaine. I don't understand that Tony Boloney says, wwe
Speaker 1: can't call Charlotte Flat a Grand Slam champion counting NXT
Speaker 1: and also say that she's a fourteen time champion and
Speaker 1: not count NXT. She's going for winning number seventeen at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania forty one, not to them, and it's their record.
Speaker 1: So she's a fourteen time champion. That's the way they
Speaker 1: want it. That's the way it is. If she wins,
Speaker 1: she'll be fifteen Edwin and Garcia. I think La Knight
Speaker 1: might lose the title after Tonight's SmackDown. He could definitely lose.
Speaker 1: I have him winning, but that one's a little tougher
Speaker 1: to call than some of the other matches. I could
Speaker 1: see him losing. I just think Solo getting involved in it.
Speaker 1: Backfiring would make more sense, and then it leads right
Speaker 1: into Jacob and Solo a backlash and it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be for the US title. TK Banks. The ninety
Speaker 1: seven Stark line made me think Cody is losing then
Speaker 1: going away for a while, only to come back with
Speaker 1: black hair and be the savior. Unlike the shit Hogan
Speaker 1: Sting finish at starkad the good guy win, the good guy,
Speaker 1: the goods, he says, the good the goods guy win. Guys,
Speaker 1: you fucked me up with that super chat TK. No,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Joseph Stewart says, have you seen
Speaker 1: the Street Fighter movie with Jean Claude Van dem Believe
Speaker 1: it or not? I have not. I have not, Honey,
Speaker 1: deep Fried Chick in WrestleMania forty one stage looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's Ai generated come to life, and we're not talking
Speaker 1: about practice. It is a beautiful set z Paul. Are
Speaker 1: the conquistadors listed in the in be the booker? You
Speaker 1: know what I think they are? I don't remember. Actually
Speaker 1: I think they are. Mister Rod with the twenty hey,
Speaker 1: mister thank you, looks like a great weekend in the books.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and the start of the NBA playoffs. Let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, GMB. Tiffany's voice is so
Speaker 1: damn grating, it's insane. Are you not a fan of
Speaker 1: Tippy time? Is that what you're saying? Oh? There we okay, Duffsvids,
Speaker 1: thank you. I didn't realize we had caught up. I'm scrolling.
Speaker 1: I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling. For whatever reason, the really early
Speaker 1: super chats they don't appear, so I go through those
Speaker 1: first and then we catch up with what's on screen.
Speaker 1: So I guess we're all caught up there, Z Paul,
Speaker 1: thank you for renewing the channel membership as well. Appreciate that, brother,
Speaker 1: Justin HESSI look at this guy, forty eight months of
Speaker 1: channel membership. Honored to join the illustrious Blue Badge Club. Everyone,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. You know, not too many people
Speaker 1: have the Blue Badge. I mean, they might have blue balls,
Speaker 1: but they don't have the Blue Badge. So you are
Speaker 1: part of a very esteemed group, a very elite crew. Bace, Bears,
Speaker 1: Theory and Solo are next in line for Sina as
Speaker 1: the champion. My god, don't say that, Owen Curtis. Eight
Speaker 1: doves bids, can't miss duffs bids. What's the best part
Speaker 1: of having a twin spare parts? Ah, I see, Owen Curtis.
Speaker 1: If Sina wins on Sunday, wouldn't that make him an
Speaker 1: eighteen time champion. Universal title has not been officially retired,
Speaker 1: even if it pretty much is at this point. The
Speaker 1: universal title, as far as I'm concerned, is a thing
Speaker 1: of the past. I don't even count it. Honey, deep
Speaker 1: Fried Chicken says, this Chicken tells you how John Cena
Speaker 1: can get more heat on himself during his match, Sena
Speaker 1: does a Hogan leg drop, uses Omega's one winged Angel,
Speaker 1: and steals Rick Flair's figure four. How about he does
Speaker 1: none of those things. I don't even think Sena can
Speaker 1: do his top rope leg slice that he used to do.
Speaker 1: Like if he busts that out at WrestleMania, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Joseph Solo, you said this show is met.
Speaker 1: Didn't you listen to Triple H. We have to shut
Speaker 1: up and just enjoy the show. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: just shut up and enjoy the show. That's what he
Speaker 1: wants everybody to do. I'll bet he does. Spoken like
Speaker 1: somebody who's finally getting a lot of negative feedback on
Speaker 1: this road to wrestle Mania and isn't taking it very well.
Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like to me. Duffsvids, how many
Speaker 1: people died on the Titanic A boat load? Ah, that's awful.
Speaker 1: You suck that's awful, Timothy tell Us with the twenty
Speaker 1: dollars super chat. I hope everybody is having a great day.
Speaker 1: I worked all door dashing. Now I can get to
Speaker 1: the show. Hey, Timothy, I got your emails earlier as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate the support more than
Speaker 1: you know we got, Anthony. The build to mid card
Speaker 1: Mania made me less interested. You're not the only one
Speaker 1: I've heard that from bays Beer Duff's VID says too soon?
Speaker 1: What was that nineteen twelve? I still think it's too soon,
Speaker 1: Nick Grosso. It seems like the Tessa Blanchard experiment is
Speaker 1: failing badly. Last night in Las Vegas. Throughout the match,
Speaker 1: the crowd was channing f U Tessa. She's a racist
Speaker 1: and she's been getting the we coming for you, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we coming for you. Chance mistake by TNA. Well, look,
Speaker 1: they knew what they signed up for when they brought
Speaker 1: her back. I don't think they give a shit. I
Speaker 1: don't know what would lead you to believe that they care.
Speaker 1: But as long as that keeps up, you ain't going
Speaker 1: to see her in WWA. King Nator with the thirty
Speaker 1: eight dollars. Fuck Kevin Dunn super chat Hey solo. After
Speaker 1: watching the bill to the triple Threat match for the
Speaker 1: first time, I am pulling for Rollins to win. I
Speaker 1: think he deserves it. I've been calling for a Rollins
Speaker 1: win for weeks. That's why I'm saying he's gonna win.
Speaker 1: He's been my pick for a while. Honey, deep Fried
Speaker 1: Chicken with flavor. I predict Charlotte Flair will cheat to
Speaker 1: win against Tiffany Stratton. I could see that she struggles
Speaker 1: against the rookie. You know, Tiffany ends up being a
Speaker 1: tougher challenge than she expected, but in the end, she
Speaker 1: does what any good veteran would do. She cheats to win.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a fifteen time women's champion
Speaker 1: this weekend, and I think that these two are going
Speaker 1: to continue to feud until the Evolution pl in July,
Speaker 1: and that is where Tiffany will win the belt back.
Speaker 1: It's my prediction an Evolution show. They still haven't announced,
Speaker 1: by the way, but it does sound like it's gonna happen. Honey,
Speaker 1: deep Fried Chicken, thank you again. Duff's VIDs with the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine two blonds are standing on opposite sides
Speaker 1: of a river. The first blonde is asked, how do
Speaker 1: you get on the other side. The second blonde says,
Speaker 1: don't be stupid, You're already there. Get ready for jokes
Speaker 1: for WRESTLVANDIA forty one, Night one and two. Hope Sidrow
Speaker 1: and others help out. I don't know if I don't
Speaker 1: know where Psycho Cidrow is going to be this weekend,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you'll do your part to cover for him. Honey,
Speaker 1: deep Fried Chicken ww. We will be tempted to give
Speaker 1: Penta the Intercontinental title. They'll be tempted, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that they don't. I think Dom's gonna win Nail
Speaker 1: with a ten dollars super chat. Excuse me, Hey, Solo
Speaker 1: got a chance to tune in live on a rare occasion.
Speaker 1: Just want to say thank you for all you do
Speaker 1: and keeping me company at work during the week Been
Speaker 1: a fan for about two years now and you are
Speaker 1: the goat. Thank you, Nail. I'm glad I can keep
Speaker 1: you company during those boring hours at work. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: just need something to listen to. That's why I'm here
Speaker 1: a Rabi Knight. If Raymisterio is injured, which obviously looks
Speaker 1: like he heard his ankle badly. In my opinion, they
Speaker 1: should scrap the Gable match and put the SmackDown tag
Speaker 1: team titled TLC match. There no no, First of all,
Speaker 1: you don't fuck over Chad Gable like that. I don't
Speaker 1: like that. That's number one. Number two. How long? How
Speaker 1: long was the mysterio Gable Man's gonna be ten to
Speaker 1: twelve minutes? Max? You do a TLC match, You got
Speaker 1: to give that at least fifteen to twenty. You know,
Speaker 1: they made their bed. You know, they said the TLC
Speaker 1: match has already been announced for SmackDown next week. It's
Speaker 1: not happening a WrestleMania. Hey, eighty six Mets fan, there
Speaker 1: should be if you're watching right now, there should be
Speaker 1: a subscribe button somewhere below. All you got to do
Speaker 1: is hit it. That's it, and you'll be subscribed. It's
Speaker 1: just that simple. Yeah. I mean again, how long do
Speaker 1: you think Ray and Penta or whoever ray in Penter,
Speaker 1: Ray and Gable or anybody in Gable? If Ray has
Speaker 1: to be replaced by Phoenix or somebody, how long, honestly
Speaker 1: do you think that's gonna get I said ten to twelve.
Speaker 1: It might not even get that much, maybe eight to ten.
Speaker 1: There's no way it's going to go longer than that.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do a TLC match in ten minutes,
Speaker 1: King bling blah. Why do you think the referees put
Speaker 1: on gloves when a wrestler bleeds. The opponent doesn't put
Speaker 1: on gloves, So why is the referee And thoughts on
Speaker 1: the wrestle Mania forty one set. I already talked about
Speaker 1: the WrestleMania forty one set. As far as the gloves, again,
Speaker 1: it's a safety measure. The opponent can't put gloves on
Speaker 1: because they're in the middle of wrestling, and honestly, if
Speaker 1: your opponent is bleeding, especially if there's a significant amount
Speaker 1: of blood, you're gonna get blood on yourself. Like there's
Speaker 1: nothing you could do about it. The referee, though they're
Speaker 1: instructed to put gloves on. It is just part of
Speaker 1: the safety protocol because they're in a position to be
Speaker 1: able to do so. You know, the other wrestler isn't
Speaker 1: once they're already wearing gloves. Some wrestlers wear gloves. If
Speaker 1: Sting was in the ring, he'd already have gloves on.
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins when he used to be part of the shield, right,
Speaker 1: he had gloves on Undertai your head gloves on. But
Speaker 1: it's it's just a safety measure. Duff's viz. My uncle
Speaker 1: took my weed, so I took his wheelchair. If I'm
Speaker 1: not rolling, neither is he. That's kind of mean. I
Speaker 1: like it, Thank you, Duffs Viz. Prince Vegeta ninety five.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on WrestleMania in nineteen? My favorite WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: He says, it's got three great matches Y two JHBK
Speaker 1: Rock Austin and Angel Lesner and Vince Hogan was wild.
Speaker 1: The Booker Triple h match was also decent until the
Speaker 1: infamous ending. I like WrestleMania in nineteen. It's very surprising
Speaker 1: that it got such a low by rate, Like if
Speaker 1: you look at WrestleMania by rates, you look at seventeen
Speaker 1: eight nineteen, you see the dip. But the show was
Speaker 1: loaded with big matches, so it always was very confusing
Speaker 1: to me. But they also built the show around Hogan
Speaker 1: and McMahon, Like if you saw the advertising for the show,
Speaker 1: you would never know that Angle and Lesner was the
Speaker 1: main event on that show. They weren't pushing that they
Speaker 1: weren't pushing Rock Austin as like the biggest match. It
Speaker 1: was all about Hogan and McMahon, and so maybe people
Speaker 1: looked at that and were like, eh, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're building a show around these two old geezers wrestling
Speaker 1: each other. Maybe we don't want to see that. Maybe
Speaker 1: that had something to do with it, But there were
Speaker 1: a ton of big matches on that show. Bas Beer says, WHOA,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, of course. Wrestle Mania. I love the WrestleMania jingle.
Speaker 1: The WrestleMania song is awesome. I wish they still used it.
Speaker 1: Bes Beer says, aka Linda McMahon's theme, no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: forget her. It was the WrestleMania theme long before Linda
Speaker 1: started using it. Nick Grosso says, also, did you see
Speaker 1: bron Breaker do his own version of Steiner Math? I
Speaker 1: heard about it, I did not see it. Arabian Night
Speaker 1: or Alistair Black debuts against Gable on Night one, an
Speaker 1: easy win. Now it doesn't work. It's gonna be el
Speaker 1: Gerande Americano. He has to wrestle. He has to wrestle
Speaker 1: a luchador, otherwise it doesn't work. Alistair Black is not
Speaker 1: a luchador. Unless you know something I don't. He's the
Speaker 1: weirdest looking luchador I've ever seen. If he is, honey
Speaker 1: deep Fried Chickens says, just imagine Gunther and jay Usso's
Speaker 1: match ends with Gunther intentionally chopping the referee and causing
Speaker 1: a disqualification. Guntherer pulls an Orton versa two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight no way out finish. He chops the referee and
Speaker 1: then smiles as he calls for the DQ. You know
Speaker 1: what would happen. I think the fans would cheer. I
Speaker 1: think the fans would cheer that. Of course, that just
Speaker 1: means we would end up with another Gunther jay Uso
Speaker 1: match at Backlash. I don't need to see that. It
Speaker 1: needs to end tomorrow. This will be the fourth match
Speaker 1: they have. How many matches do you want them to have?
Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose go bold cross money in the bank winner.
Speaker 1: That is bold because I don't see it happening, But
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't necessarily be against it. There's still
Speaker 1: time between now and money in the bank, though. Let's
Speaker 1: see what they do with him. Also, it says crazy
Speaker 1: thought on Orton he loses to the mystery opponent, maybe russev.
Speaker 1: This makes him snap and complain how he was screwed
Speaker 1: for his twenty year WrestleMania Anniversary. He ends up going
Speaker 1: crazy and attacks Cody, setting up a feud at Backlash.
Speaker 1: Now I see that it's very disconnected, Like, I see
Speaker 1: what you're going for there, But what does one have
Speaker 1: to do with the other. Like if he gets screwed
Speaker 1: in his twentieth anniversary, maatche, why would he attack Cody?
Speaker 1: And you're gonna You're gonna turn him heel before they
Speaker 1: go to Saint Louis. Come on, can't do that, oznglorious.
Speaker 1: So when Vince makes his return to the FED this weekend,
Speaker 1: will the crowd boo or cheer? And how will that
Speaker 1: shameless Phil Brooks justify it? I know the fans will bow. Wow,
Speaker 1: That's usually what they do, right they do the bow,
Speaker 1: they'll bow. Bobby means what I think happens as Rio
Speaker 1: wins back the title, and I believe this is where
Speaker 1: Beanca turns heal and we get the build up with
Speaker 1: Rhea and Bianca. So that is Bobby's prediction. Lord Friza,
Speaker 1: my god, we haven't heard from Lord Friza in a while.
Speaker 1: My liver and myself are ready for WrestleMania. I hope
Speaker 1: all is well, Solemn Monster. Much love to you as well.
Speaker 1: It's good to hear from you. Eight nine Tech saw
Speaker 1: some old highlights of Raw from three Unmasked. Caine was
Speaker 1: so over as a heal monster. How WWE didn't put
Speaker 1: the belt on him back then is beyond me. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see two thousand and three Raw who had the
Speaker 1: belt at the time. I wonder that might help tell
Speaker 1: the tale. Duffs VID's what do you get when you
Speaker 1: rub two oranges together? Pulp friction? My god, my goodness,
Speaker 1: where do you come up with these? Where do you
Speaker 1: come up with these? Groovy goose? I'm sure working with
Speaker 1: Vince hurt most of them. But which WWE announcers released
Speaker 1: or left in the past decade would you like to
Speaker 1: see in the current era in the last decade? Mara Ronaldo?
Speaker 1: And when will Byron Saxton go into the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 1: Not until he's retired. King Nator b RB activated, he
Speaker 1: means bTB. It's be the booker, not be right back.
Speaker 1: But we can thank King Nator and he's he's worthy
Speaker 1: of another siren. He helped make it happen with a
Speaker 1: fifty dollars bomb and yes, we are doing two rounds tonight.
Speaker 1: Be the Booker Power Spine Games. The only booking Goldberg
Speaker 1: may get this week is be the Booker. That's about it.
Speaker 1: Duffs VID's what pronouns? Does chocolate go by her? She?
Speaker 1: Thank God? Move on here. Justin g Hot take r
Speaker 1: KO against either Joe Hendry or Steve Austin. Steve Austin,
Speaker 1: well you must be on the good stuff. I need
Speaker 1: to take part whatever you've got going on over there.
Speaker 1: Justin King Nader, that last one I botched hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go, Yes, says Be the Booker. Activated. I
Speaker 1: feel better now. He had to send another super chat
Speaker 1: to correct his mistake. I respect that Zachary Black with
Speaker 1: the twenty dollars super chat. Hey Solo, I'm stuck at
Speaker 1: work tonight, and I just want to say thank you
Speaker 1: for your review, because while I do want to watch
Speaker 1: smacketh Down, I cannot show up tired to the lunch
Speaker 1: with my sisters. Tired too, love to he means to
Speaker 1: lunch with my sister. Man, you guys are confusing me
Speaker 1: with some of these super chats. Much love, dude, peace.
Speaker 1: Well that's the most important part. Much love to you
Speaker 1: as well, Zachary. I had to read that twice. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the review. Uh Anthony says, is new
Speaker 1: day at Mania do to Biggie's surprise return? I mean,
Speaker 1: do I believe Biggie is returning WrestleMania to do? What?
Speaker 1: What's he gonna do? No? I don't think so. Justin
Speaker 1: says it's the it's the rot gut Bourbon. What the
Speaker 1: hell is that it'll rot your gut? That doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a good time. Bass Beers is round three gives
Speaker 1: no context. Yes, Steph Fox says it looks like Zach is.
Speaker 1: It looks like hold. I say, because it looks like
Speaker 1: Zach is already tired. You know what that's true? Zach?
Speaker 1: Based on your super chat, I think I think you're
Speaker 1: already very tired. Buddy Troe says, Hey, Solo, can't wait
Speaker 1: to attend my tenth WrestleMania. I'm thankful for the Facebook group.
Speaker 1: You are our tribal chief and we acknowledge you. Well,
Speaker 1: let me see the ones in the chat if you
Speaker 1: acknowledge your tribal chief. SMG kobe Ilyya Dragonov surprise return
Speaker 1: for Randy. Possibly, it's an interesting one. I hadn't thought
Speaker 1: about that. I believe he is cleared to return. I
Speaker 1: believe I just assumed they were saving him for post WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's him, but I do think that
Speaker 1: would be a kick ass match. Zachary Black Alexa Bliss
Speaker 1: against Randy Orton. Well, she did blind him once with
Speaker 1: a fireball, so it's possible. It's not like she has
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania match. Hallelujah said with a two dollars super chet,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Broley Cross Money is as a manager, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, like a callous type. Uh. You know, I
Speaker 1: think you can do more with him. You know, when
Speaker 1: I thought he was at his I want to say best,
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed it when he was sort of the
Speaker 1: bodyguard guy and he was all dressed up with the
Speaker 1: bald head in TNA Killer Cross. I think that's what
Speaker 1: I liked him the most. Base Beer is Summer Fest
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five theme Cardi B Wap by Cardi B
Speaker 1: justin g Oh God, No, what if it's rock and Orton? No,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that because it's not
Speaker 1: going to be. Also, he says, I was hoping as
Speaker 1: Cody built up. I was hoping as Cody built up
Speaker 1: and up, he was going to throw out a fine speech.
Speaker 1: But you didn't get all of it. Thanks solo Monster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: JP agrees with me. We need bald headed crossback. Base
Speaker 1: Beer's sting wore white face paint. Pale would have worked.
Speaker 1: Apparently he was too pale to win the World Championship
Speaker 1: that night. Go figure, after eighteen months of build he
Speaker 1: didn't have a ten. Bas Beer is just like AJ
Speaker 1: criticizing Hogan for not promoting TNA. I thought Rock and
Speaker 1: Sena we're going to do a lot of media and
Speaker 1: promote the business in the mainstream. Boy were you wrong? Boy?
Speaker 1: Were you wrong? Yeah? No, we didn't get any of that,
Speaker 1: did we. We didn't even get the social media promos
Speaker 1: from Sena that we got with Rock last year. At
Speaker 1: least when Rock wasn't there, he would have a new
Speaker 1: drop on Instagram every week. We have got nothing from Sena.
Speaker 1: The average grunt was the starkad reference a Jabbitts sting
Speaker 1: for not inducting Luger or am I looking too deep
Speaker 1: into it? You're looking way too deep into it. It was
Speaker 1: not a dig it sting. It was a dig and
Speaker 1: a dumb story and a dumb excuse as far as
Speaker 1: why Sting did not win the world title all those
Speaker 1: years ago. Nightmare knee with the ten dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't stand seth rawlins. He reminds me
Speaker 1: of early two thousands triple H boring promos, but cool
Speaker 1: entrance he has, go to sleep heat with me. Great
Speaker 1: in the ring though, all speaking of go to sleep
Speaker 1: heat with me. Fuck that tree. The learning Tree has
Speaker 1: crashed the party. Thank you, Michael. Number one almost safe
Speaker 1: and Wild prediction. Paul Hayman forms a new dangerous alliance
Speaker 1: with Omas Hikuleo and Tangaloa after being bullied by punk
Speaker 1: rains and rollins. That's pretty wild. That'll be the nicest
Speaker 1: thing I say about it. Dark Effect with the thirty
Speaker 1: Sena said after his match with Theory, what we saw
Speaker 1: was all he had in the tank. So if the
Speaker 1: match is going to be any good, it's due to
Speaker 1: Cody being a better wrestler than Sena ever was, or
Speaker 1: it is being very overbooked. Well, I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 1: some overbooking with the finish, I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be as overbooked. As last year's main event was.
Speaker 1: It was overbooked on purpose and it was great. I
Speaker 1: think we may need some smoking bears for this match
Speaker 1: for sure. Ricky Cornflakes. Who's winning in the playoffs? New
Speaker 1: York or Detroit, New York? Of course, Alexander says, I
Speaker 1: need to see Travis get his ass whooped by Cody.
Speaker 1: He may have a receipt coming tomorrow or Sunday. I
Speaker 1: guess he's supposed to be there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's performing, but he's supposed to be there. His song
Speaker 1: is like the WrestleMania theme song this year, so he
Speaker 1: might even perform it live. I mean, there's been talked
Speaker 1: that Slayer might perform Damien Pre's theme song alive, although
Speaker 1: that's not confirmed. Cultiv Personality is going to be performed
Speaker 1: by Living Color for CMPUNK, but I did see that
Speaker 1: there was talk that Slayer might possibly perform for a
Speaker 1: Damien presentrance. Tanga Loa super fan, Oh my god, somebody
Speaker 1: said his name and he appeared. Some argue that Tonga
Speaker 1: Loa is the modern day Brett Hart. Both come from
Speaker 1: family dynasties one tag team titles with Family and are
Speaker 1: known as the best in ring wrestlers of their generation.
Speaker 1: Maybe he should be called Tanga the hitman loa. Now
Speaker 1: you just shut your mouth with that. Okay, you keep
Speaker 1: your mouth shut or I'm gonna throw you out of here.
Speaker 1: I will not stand any of that slander. Now you've
Speaker 1: crossed the line. EJ Slam. It won't be him, nor
Speaker 1: should it be him. But imagine if Orton's opponent was
Speaker 1: Vegas native Matt Riddle. I think he's in town. What
Speaker 1: is the background song right now? That's what Nick wants
Speaker 1: to know. It's called a hard line. Hard line by
Speaker 1: Sandman retro Koh math is too hard. Fifteen plus fifteen
Speaker 1: equals thirty, but sixteen plus sixteen equals thirty two thirty
Speaker 1: Comma to yeah, okay, all right, my god, we got
Speaker 1: all these amateur comedians now hit man loa. Yeah you
Speaker 1: like that? Huh? We got the hitman emojis. In the
Speaker 1: chat for our channel members, Drew Johnson, Drew Johnson is
Speaker 1: with us? Where is the Rock? Says this story doesn't work.
Speaker 1: The Rocks started all of this. Sina winning this match
Speaker 1: is week. HBK never chased being the champion. When he
Speaker 1: got clean, he just put everyone else over. He never
Speaker 1: chased being the champion when he got clean. It's true
Speaker 1: he only won the world title once and that was
Speaker 1: because they just wanted to give him that moment at
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, and he never held another world championship
Speaker 1: after that. He was a tag team champion. I think
Speaker 1: he was a tag team champion twice. Wasn't he with
Speaker 1: Triple H and then with John Cena. Didn't they win
Speaker 1: the titles before WrestleMania twenty three? Actually, wasn't he the chap?
Speaker 1: Weren't they the tag team champions when they wrestled at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania twenty three? I thought they were Arabian night Matt
Speaker 1: Riddle returns against Randy rk Brow reunion, Timothy Tillis renewing
Speaker 1: his Channel membership. I'd love to see it, Ritchie. They
Speaker 1: made a Triple H bronze statue at the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw it. Oh No, Maybe I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: something else. You're talking about a bronze statue. I saw
Speaker 1: a wax figure of Triple H. This is the thing
Speaker 1: of this is the stuff of nightmares. I didn't see
Speaker 1: the bronze statue though. Cecil Robinson attended my first smack
Speaker 1: down looking forward to both WrestleMania and Raw Vegas is
Speaker 1: pretty cool so far. Well enjoy it, brother. I've been
Speaker 1: to Vegas a couple of times and I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: both times. I'd love to go back and didn't make
Speaker 1: it this year, but have fun, man that way. That
Speaker 1: wax figure was horrified. It's it, dude, it is you
Speaker 1: know what. I gotta find it now. Hold on a second. So,
Speaker 1: I'm sure some people didn't see it, and so why
Speaker 1: should I be the only one sharing in this? In
Speaker 1: this nightmare? This thing, this thing is just ah my god,
Speaker 1: this is just ridiculous. What is it even doing there? Like,
Speaker 1: why would they have a wax figure? God, it's doing
Speaker 1: the triple ah point? Hold on, people, people need to
Speaker 1: see this. This is absolutely terrifying. I actually have two
Speaker 1: pictures of it. I think the second one is worse. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll bring that up here in a little bit. Let's
Speaker 1: keep going here. Michael Darcy, hey, solo, do you have
Speaker 1: any interest in catching any GCW or indie events this week?
Speaker 1: Have the indie shows at wrestle Media Weekend? That jumped
Speaker 1: the shark after watching Joey Janella versus Saboo, I think
Speaker 1: so uh oh, was that as bad as I thought
Speaker 1: it would be? No, not this week, because I'm just
Speaker 1: so I'm so busy with everything else. Dude, I just
Speaker 1: haven't had I just haven't had the time to even
Speaker 1: think about any of the other ones at people reaching
Speaker 1: out to me about the Progress show the other night,
Speaker 1: I just haven't had time. It's not for lack of interest,
Speaker 1: but there's just so much going on in only so
Speaker 1: much time. Eight nine Tech Which wrestle media match did
Speaker 1: you have the least expectations for but over delivered? In
Speaker 1: which one you had high expectations for but under delivered?
Speaker 1: I definitely had higher expectations for AJ and knakham Moora
Speaker 1: at thirty four. I don't know if that's like the
Speaker 1: only one, but that's the one I always think of,
Speaker 1: the one I went into with very low expectations. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what did I go into
Speaker 1: super low expectations that kind of blew me away? I
Speaker 1: have to think about that. I don't know. If the
Speaker 1: top of my head, I don't know. Plus Ultra Adrian,
Speaker 1: my sister went to New Orleans last week and loved it.
Speaker 1: Since WrestleMania is going to be there next year. I
Speaker 1: may actually go and experience New Orleans. You should. New
Speaker 1: Orleans is great. That's another one. You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun there. I'll probably be there next year again.
Speaker 1: I've been there twice. Both times were WrestleMania. Blue Jay says,
Speaker 1: who knows sells better, Gypsy Joe or Hogan? Probably Gypsy Joe.
Speaker 1: Tangolo a superfan. The world would be a better place
Speaker 1: if everyone had a little Tangaloa in their lives. You know,
Speaker 1: I've said it before, Tangaloa. As he continues to rehab
Speaker 1: from his injury, he probably has a lot of downtime,
Speaker 1: and we found his burner account here. So everybody welcome Tangaloa.
Speaker 1: We wish you nothing but the best. Take all the
Speaker 1: time you need. Brandon Proctor with thirty five months of
Speaker 1: channel membership, hoping it's russev Day on Sunday. Also, Sina
Speaker 1: wins number seventeen and Rollins joins with Hayman calling it
Speaker 1: now very possible. Stal a monster scream going to outlast
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame tonight. How's that going? Somebody in
Speaker 1: the chat said, Michelle McCool is still talking? Has she
Speaker 1: been talking for a long time. Would you rather listen
Speaker 1: to Michelle McCool or me Doctor Scorpio. At the time,
Speaker 1: I honestly thought for some reason WrestleMania was last week
Speaker 1: until I realized it was this week. Shows how much
Speaker 1: I've been paying attention or invested in wrestling these days. Well. Also,
Speaker 1: WrestleMania usually doesn't happen this late, so, to be fair,
Speaker 1: typically by now it would have been over. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't been paying attention, it's not that surprising. Michelle
Speaker 1: McCool is still talking. Hey eighty six Mets fan, you're
Speaker 1: already here, brother, I see you. You're already here. Just
Speaker 1: you being here is enough. I appreciate the support. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to figure out how to support or subscribe.
Speaker 1: He's an older fan. Somebody help him out. Help out.
Speaker 1: One of our fellow members in the chat, is Bronson
Speaker 1: Reid ready for a return? Yet? He is not, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I don't think he will be until later this summer.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a pretty gnarly injury at Survivor Series,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be a while yet before we
Speaker 1: see him. Justin g tangaloa superfan, thought things were glittering
Speaker 1: like gold but turns out it was just Micah or Camacho.
Speaker 1: All right, well I warned you. I'm going to show
Speaker 1: you this image of this wax figure. Don't say I
Speaker 1: didn't warn you, and I have no idea whose idea
Speaker 1: this was? Me make this a little bit bigger. Here
Speaker 1: there he is, there's wax Triple H doing the finger point.
Speaker 1: And as bad as this, hey, Reekinson, what's going on man?
Speaker 1: And is as bad as that is, I'll give you
Speaker 1: one even worse. My god, this is just so much words.
Speaker 1: This looks like something out of total recall. Look at this,
Speaker 1: My god, look at the eyes. Oh my god, who's
Speaker 1: you remind me of? This is horrifying. That's terrible. I
Speaker 1: don't know whose idea this was, but yeah, this is
Speaker 1: this is pretty fucking bad. So I want this to
Speaker 1: be your lasting image before your head hits the pillow tonight.
Speaker 1: This is your new Hall of Fame inductee. This is
Speaker 1: Triple H's evil Kojak. Well Kojak didn't have a beard
Speaker 1: like that? Is this awful? Oh man? Anyway, who signed
Speaker 1: off on this? Well, probably not Triple H, I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get him out of there. Uh, power
Speaker 1: spying Games. Eight year old me loved Michelle, but she's
Speaker 1: she's taking too long. Well, this is her moment, and
Speaker 1: I guess she's going to enjoy every second. And ain't
Speaker 1: nobody gonna say anything to her because the Undertaker, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: is not going to be too happy if they give
Speaker 1: her the hook. Plus Ultra Adrian thanks Solo. Now I'm
Speaker 1: going to gouge out my eyes. Jeremy says, would you
Speaker 1: like to work for WWE after this week? No, Doctor Scorpio.
Speaker 1: That statue needs some well deserved criticism. Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 1: He may not like it, but you can absolutely go
Speaker 1: ahead and criticize that statue. All right, Well, we hit
Speaker 1: our supercheck goal much earlier in the night, and the
Speaker 1: main goal is well six hundred and twenty two likes,
Speaker 1: which is great. We could do better, though, let's beef
Speaker 1: that up towards seven hundred. Richie says they did make
Speaker 1: a bronze statue of Triple h so that he gets
Speaker 1: a statue before Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin. He got
Speaker 1: a statue and a wax figure. Interesting. I guess it
Speaker 1: pays to be the boss. Let's be the booker, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.
Speaker 1: It pays to be the boss man snow Dog. Is
Speaker 1: that true? We have some catching up to do, he says.
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame on YouTube has twenty thousand likes.
Speaker 1: We're lagging a little behind that. I would love to
Speaker 1: have twenty thousand likes. Let's see if we can. Let's
Speaker 1: see if we can get those likes up. All right,
Speaker 1: be the booker time. This is round one of two.
Speaker 1: Perhaps we will have many rounds this weekend. That's gonna
Speaker 1: depend on you guys. But here on a Friday night,
Speaker 1: early Saturday morning, let's kick off the first round here
Speaker 1: with William Regal and Tajiri where Steve Austin used to
Speaker 1: call him ty Jiri, former Raw tag team champions. Right there, Hey,
Speaker 1: Navy forty one eighty one, thank you for the super chat.
Speaker 1: That triple H statue needs a jet ski today, Yes,
Speaker 1: it does. I spied you earlier in Navy forty one
Speaker 1: eighty one. I happened to click on a live stream
Speaker 1: that Conrad was doing with Eric Bischoff, and I saw
Speaker 1: you dropped a super chat there too, So you've been
Speaker 1: making the rounds today. It's good to hear from you,
Speaker 1: regal Into Jerry against the Holly Cousins Hardcore and Crash.
Speaker 1: I was a fan of the Holly Cousins and the
Speaker 1: whole super heavyweight gimmick that Crash Ali did. And I
Speaker 1: also liked the stuff that regal Into Jerry did. I
Speaker 1: thought it was very entertaining. So that gets a bell.
Speaker 1: That gets a thumbs up from me. All right, women's match,
Speaker 1: Uh oh, Ronda Rousey wants a stipulation. She wants a
Speaker 1: stipulation added right now or else or else what you'll
Speaker 1: threaten to return? Okay, gotta pick a stip We're not
Speaker 1: even waiting for round two. We gotta pick a stip
Speaker 1: for this women's match. And it's going to be a
Speaker 1: Texas death match. Oh my god, a Texas death match
Speaker 1: with the ladies. This should be very interesting. Lida is
Speaker 1: going to be in this Texas Death match. Lda is
Speaker 1: gonna go one on one with Medusa. Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big match right there, Lida and Medusa
Speaker 1: in a Texas death match. That's box office. That's money.
Speaker 1: I like it. And our main event tonight, Main Event
Speaker 1: number one has Bobby Rude, former T and a World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight champion. Good to see Bobby Rood. I'm sure Bobby
Speaker 1: Rude will be working at WrestleMania this weekend backstage, and
Speaker 1: his opponent will be Carmelo Hayes taking on Bobby Rude.
Speaker 1: He's going to parlay his Andre the Giant Memorial Battle
Speaker 1: Royal win into a main event here in be the Booker.
Speaker 1: That's your Andre Battle Royal Winner right there. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just feeling extra generous tonight, but that's a clean sweet folks,
Speaker 1: that's a clean sweep for round one of be the Booker.
Speaker 1: And you know what we do here for round two?
Speaker 1: We pick stipulations. That's what we do. Not so not
Speaker 1: everybody is sold on that way. You know what, you're
Speaker 1: not the booker I am. So here we go. We're
Speaker 1: gonna pick stipulations for these matches. Now, we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with the tag team match and it is going to
Speaker 1: be ooh, look at this solemn monster's choice? Is Michelle
Speaker 1: mccoole still talking? You're not serious? Uh? Sol a monster's choice?
Speaker 1: I get to pick the step huh hmm. What stipulation
Speaker 1: do I want? Well, I'll tell you what We'll do.
Speaker 1: Do something a little bit different here. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: the women's match first. And the stipulation that I'm choosing
Speaker 1: is that the second woman that I land on here
Speaker 1: and be the booker sold Monster will date that second woman.
Speaker 1: It's the solemn Monster goes on a date match. How
Speaker 1: about that? That'll make things interesting? Here we go be
Speaker 1: the booker time. Remember it the second one. It's the
Speaker 1: second person I pick, not the first one. Hikarushida is
Speaker 1: in our women's match here in round number two. My god,
Speaker 1: what is this? What is this going to be? I
Speaker 1: feel like we need a I feel like we need
Speaker 1: a drum roll for this one. Oh my god. Her
Speaker 1: opponent will be Chelsea Green. You know what? Hey? I like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I liked I liked the uh. I like the Canadians.
Speaker 1: I like their bacon too. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: Canadian bacon. You might have that in comedy. I might
Speaker 1: have to fight Matt Cardona for That's okay. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that. All right? Now we pick our tag team match. Uh,
Speaker 1: we have got a hardcore match. Gonna be a hardcore
Speaker 1: tag team match. Solo Monster likes ham con for I
Speaker 1: love him. I just had a ham sandwich the other day. Actually,
Speaker 1: actually I did something last week that was I did
Speaker 1: something last week that was kind of foolish. Actually I
Speaker 1: had a ham sand was with bacon, and then I
Speaker 1: realized after I'm like, wait, what, it's kind of redundant.
Speaker 1: All right, tag team match, here we go, tag team
Speaker 1: hardcore match. Sola Monster can be an honorary Canadian any day.
Speaker 1: I would be more than happy to. I'll even sing
Speaker 1: the anthem all right, public enemy rock o'rock and Johnny
Speaker 1: Grunge very appropriate. They're going to be in a hardcore
Speaker 1: match against the faces of fear. I feel like that
Speaker 1: was a match in WCW Swine on swine sandwich. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I realized like after the fact, I go, man, this
Speaker 1: is not this is not the healthiest choice. All Right,
Speaker 1: we may be in for our first back to back
Speaker 1: clean sweep. I don't know that we've ever done this before.
Speaker 1: I should have added por you know what, You're right,
Speaker 1: I should have added pork. I could have had a
Speaker 1: ham in pork sandwich with bacon, and it's a missed opportunity.
Speaker 1: All right, main event, our stipulation is going to be
Speaker 1: what is our stipulation going to be a stretcher match? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a stretcher match. That's it. Now
Speaker 1: we know it's going to be sting. Oh look he
Speaker 1: looks too pale. He's definitely too pale to be the champion.
Speaker 1: It's crow Sting from w CW and no, nope, nope,
Speaker 1: I jumped the gun. Jump the gun. I hope I
Speaker 1: didn't just jinx it. Sting and one big s ob.
Speaker 1: Bran Stroman, dude, we're coming up aces tonight. It's appropriate
Speaker 1: this WRESTLEMANI is in Vegas. We're coming up aces. We
Speaker 1: got back to back clean sweeps. That's how you do it.
Speaker 1: That's how it's done. Now we just got to carry
Speaker 1: that momentum over into the weekend. Reacan Sunset, I thought
Speaker 1: his shirt said, oh man, reacansn is a you sure
Speaker 1: you got a little dyslexic there, he says. I thought
Speaker 1: his shirt said one. I can't even say it one
Speaker 1: big slob. No, it said one big sob. It didn't
Speaker 1: say one big slob. That's a completely different shirt. That
Speaker 1: was me when I had my my bacon and ham sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's one big slob. Oh, the sonic sound I played it.
Speaker 1: I played the sonic sound. We had our double clean sweep.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's right six for six, unlike Juan
Speaker 1: Soto's double Sonic A first, I believe it is. I
Speaker 1: can't remember a time where we did that. There's no way.
Speaker 1: Michelle mccol is still talking. Chris Manson says she's still yapping.
Speaker 1: He's still yapping. There's no way. There's no way. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I know they're on the West Coast, but it's two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and Triple H still hasn't come
Speaker 1: out on stage yet. Did I see Samantha Urban's music video?
Speaker 1: Of course I did. Somebody linked me to it and
Speaker 1: I watched it, and I enjoyed the tune power Blind.
Speaker 1: I bet that sandwich was Booker t voice good. It
Speaker 1: was good. Yep, it was. It was very good. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Soto tied the game, yes, did Yes, but
Speaker 1: he has not gone six for six now, has he?
Speaker 1: All right? Darryl says she's done. Okay, so her speech
Speaker 1: is over. This sounds like an epic speech. I have
Speaker 1: to go. I have to go listen to it. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: This was a very fun stream and we haven't even
Speaker 1: gotten into WrestleMania Night one. Yet that's coming up later
Speaker 1: today because already Saturday, so this is going to be
Speaker 1: the Night one review. Saturday night after WrestleMania, I will
Speaker 1: be live right back here on YouTube. You don't have
Speaker 1: to stray very far. And then the same thing for
Speaker 1: Night two on Sunday, and in between all that episode
Speaker 1: nine to ten of the sound Off will be dropping.
Speaker 1: I'll have a lot to say on that podcast about
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff from this week, and then of
Speaker 1: course we'll talk the fallout from wrestle Media Night one
Speaker 1: and a lot of aw stuff as well. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be a full podcast. So I definitely go
Speaker 1: ahead and check that out. Hit that like button on
Speaker 1: your way out. It always helps. We got to get
Speaker 1: these videos into the algorithm so it'll push out to
Speaker 1: other people and they'll know to come on over to
Speaker 1: this channel for WrestleMania this weekend, and I will be
Speaker 1: back with you in less than twenty four hours. I'm
Speaker 1: going to try to watch the Hall of Fame in
Speaker 1: the morning. I'm going to try to catch NXT. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm gonna be able to watch
Speaker 1: all of Stand and Deliver. I'd like to try to.
Speaker 1: I'm still doing work on my podcast notes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very busy day. Be well, stay safe, get
Speaker 1: some rest, and I will see you back here very
Speaker 1: soon for Night one of WrestleMania. Until then, take care, guys,