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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, it's Jay. Welcome to your NXT review for
Speaker 2: the week of Nice to the show of January seventh,
Speaker 2: otherwise known as New Year's Evil. I'm coming to you
Speaker 2: tonight to talk about that event, because, let me tell you,
Speaker 2: it was a heck of an event. It was the
Speaker 2: night after the Netflix Raw debut, which I could say
Speaker 2: so many things about that, but that's not my area
Speaker 2: of expertise course as far as this podcast goes. But
Speaker 2: the the uh raw debut was amazing. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've noticed, but they did carry some things
Speaker 2: over from one to the other, which I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk about most important. Actually, i'll just talk about it now.
Speaker 2: The first thing I can say that I mentioned that
Speaker 2: they brought over was the use of drones in the arena.
Speaker 2: So Money Nay Raw used drones a lot, which and
Speaker 2: they were all four K drones and they looked the
Speaker 2: picture on Raw was amazing. Part of it, it was
Speaker 2: because of the cameras, it's part of and obviously the
Speaker 2: other part is because on Netflix. And that's unfortunately one
Speaker 2: of the things that's going to be an issue with
Speaker 2: SmackDown and an XT is they're not going to be
Speaker 2: able to have the clarity of the Netflix unless you
Speaker 2: happen to be outside of the United States. And I know,
Speaker 2: so if you are having a conversation with Dino during
Speaker 2: you know, and everybody's Dino from Scotland. He's in the
Speaker 2: Mailbag show every week, do you know. And I were
Speaker 2: having a conversation and a couple other people about how
Speaker 2: for Monday Night Raw they didn't have commercials in basically
Speaker 2: around the entire world except the United States. And they
Speaker 2: also get NXT, SmackDown and Raw and the ples all
Speaker 2: on Netflix. So they should have a much better picture
Speaker 2: quality for the shows, the same one that we have
Speaker 2: for Raw for they for all of them, and you know,
Speaker 2: do you know, if you're listening, let me know if
Speaker 2: the picture quality for NXT and then for and then
Speaker 2: for SmackDown Tomorrow night is going to be the same
Speaker 2: amazing quality. But anyway, so they had the drones, which
Speaker 2: was really cool. And I actually one of my friends
Speaker 2: and I were texting outside of the discord chat and
Speaker 2: he's the one that brought up to me like the
Speaker 2: drones and then you never could see the drone and
Speaker 2: any other camera angles, but you saw kind of flying
Speaker 2: the picture of flying through the arena, which was which
Speaker 2: was really cool. And so I say that to say
Speaker 2: that they also used drones. As matter of fact, it
Speaker 2: seemed that during the during New Year's Evil, they didn't
Speaker 2: have a hard alpha cam. They didn't have you know,
Speaker 2: the camera that goes straight to the ring as the
Speaker 2: main non movable camera they only use from what I
Speaker 2: could tell, and if I'm wrong, please let me know.
Speaker 2: But from what I could tell, they seem to only
Speaker 2: use the drones and handheld cameras that they didn't use
Speaker 2: any hard placement cameras for this event for New Year's Evil,
Speaker 2: which I thought was really fascinating and I noticed it
Speaker 2: because it's my job to notice it as a reviewer,
Speaker 2: But to be honest, I didn't think it really took
Speaker 2: away from the event itself. So yeah, it was it was, Uh,
Speaker 2: it was a good experience. New Year's EVA was great,
Speaker 2: We had a we had an appearance by Triple H
Speaker 2: in the audience, which was fine, but then also with
Speaker 2: Nick kN next to him, which I only make this
Speaker 2: point because Nick con is very rarely, if at all,
Speaker 2: on TV, and he showed up at n XT with
Speaker 2: Triple H to to basically wave, which I thought was
Speaker 2: really fascinating. I wonder what that's about. I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but this event, from top to bottom, there's five matches
Speaker 2: five I think there was five, four or five. Every
Speaker 2: match was from very good to excellent in my in
Speaker 2: my mind probably maybe maybe like a somewhere between good
Speaker 2: and very good to excellent. I can tell you which
Speaker 2: one I think it was the least entertaining of the
Speaker 2: night for me for me, and which one was the
Speaker 2: most entertaining. But I'm gonna start off just by talking
Speaker 2: about I'm gonna start off by talking about the Rock.
Speaker 2: He comes out at the end, well, so the Rock,
Speaker 2: you know. They show him pulling up in the beginning,
Speaker 2: they show the interaction with EVA, which I will talk
Speaker 2: about later, the ava Ethan Page Rock interaction, which was
Speaker 2: I thought was really cool, and then you have Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was I'm sorry, I think there was five matches. Uh,
Speaker 2: I know, I'm kind of going off on a tangent.
Speaker 2: But then you have the Rock come out at the end. Now,
Speaker 2: when he came out at the end, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: with this because this, to me is the most interesting. Uh.
Speaker 2: He comes out, and they basically tell him as soon
Speaker 2: as he comes out, they tell him, hey, dude, you
Speaker 2: only got ten minutes. And it's even in a in
Speaker 2: a smaller auditorium like that, a smaller venue like that,
Speaker 2: there are many times it takes to Rock ten minutes
Speaker 2: to come out and start talking. And and as I've
Speaker 2: said before on the CW, you have a hard stop
Speaker 2: ten o'clock PM, you're done. The news is on like
Speaker 2: so like he didn't have any time to play with
Speaker 2: and you could tell at the end of what he
Speaker 2: was saying, he was kind of kind of spit up.
Speaker 2: I was just like, if you small, rock is gond
Speaker 2: And then we went off to the air. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't that fast. I'm being I'm being facetious, but
Speaker 2: you get the point. So the Rock comes out and
Speaker 2: I want to read what he said, but dropped a
Speaker 2: bunch of f bombs. I can't imagine the person who
Speaker 2: had to be in charge of listening, and from the
Speaker 2: first F bomb, from the first one to the last one,
Speaker 2: they they got everyone. They beaped out, or they dropped
Speaker 2: the sound on every single F bomb. I didn't hear
Speaker 2: one swear word, although there was a point where the
Speaker 2: rock apologizes for swearing but then continues to swear. And
Speaker 2: I'd hate to be the guy that just is listening
Speaker 2: and going, okay, well there's another one and pushes the button.
Speaker 2: Oh there's another F bomb. He pushes the button. I
Speaker 2: do like somebody should have basically told him, dude, this
Speaker 2: isn't a p LA. You can't be swearing that much.
Speaker 2: He didn't swear that much on raw Netflix. I mean
Speaker 2: he swore, but not as much as he swore on
Speaker 2: on a Next, which is on network television, network broadcast television.
Speaker 2: Like people see this show on analog, not analog anymore,
Speaker 2: but on the airwaves, like you don't even have to
Speaker 2: have the Internet or cable in order to be able
Speaker 2: to see the show if you live in a metropolitan area.
Speaker 2: And he's dropping F bombs like okay, so anyway, he
Speaker 2: says wow, and I love you, thank you. I got
Speaker 2: fing I'll say fing instead of the word. I got
Speaker 2: fing goosebumps all over my body. This is crazy. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you mother efforts are this is all on the CW.
Speaker 2: You mother effers are getting me emotional in here. All right,
Speaker 2: we got six minutes and thirty seconds left now. They
Speaker 2: gave him ten minutes from the beginning. He just kept
Speaker 2: going through so much crap, like just like put the
Speaker 2: mic up and then people started chanting. They put the
Speaker 2: mic back down, like, dude, you got only till ten o'clock?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Sorry, I'm going I'm very intense
Speaker 2: about this because I had a lot of feelings while
Speaker 2: I was watching this, to be honest, not necessarily negative
Speaker 2: or positive, just just like what is going on? All right? Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go. This is the best six This will
Speaker 2: be the best six minutes, all right. You know, the
Speaker 2: Rock has got a lot of nicknames. I go by
Speaker 2: the People's Champ, the most electrified man in all of entertainment,
Speaker 2: the sexiest man alive, and most probably the Jabroni beaten
Speaker 2: pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow raising, electronic electric icon owns all
Speaker 2: the stock, the final Boss, the People's Champ, the Rock
Speaker 2: all right, I need you guys to help me out.
Speaker 2: I mean you guys clearly feel it. I feel you.
Speaker 2: I need you guys to help me out with something.
Speaker 2: So this time last year, the Rock the Final Boss,
Speaker 2: everywhere I went, every gym, every restaurant, every church, every
Speaker 2: strip club, the same thing I heard, the same thing.
Speaker 2: Oh why you're so mean to Cody. Don't be mean
Speaker 2: to Cody. Cody has to finish his story. Don't be
Speaker 2: mean to Cody. Oh my god. Okay, Then he says,
Speaker 2: one year later, last night, raw whoo, an amazing night. Yes,
Speaker 2: we had an historic night. Last night. The Rock wanted
Speaker 2: to give props to Cody roads give him his flowers.
Speaker 2: He's been kicking butt, not butt, he has been kicking
Speaker 2: but carrying the company on his shoulders. And then what
Speaker 2: do you say? You say you can't be nice to Cody,
Speaker 2: don't be nice to Cody, don't treat tequila with Cody.
Speaker 2: Oh f s. You can figure out what that is.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day lets hermind up.
Speaker 2: The Rock, the Final Boss is taking twenty steps ahead.
Speaker 2: So the best thing for them to do is know
Speaker 2: your role, shut your mouth, and enjoy the ride that
Speaker 2: The Rock is taking them on. So a couple things
Speaker 2: we did that last year, Rock and everything changed. You
Speaker 2: said last year you were thinking twenty steps ahead. So
Speaker 2: last year, when you were thinking twenty steps ahead, did
Speaker 2: you think that the fans were gonna ask Cody to
Speaker 2: be in the main event and not you? Okay? And
Speaker 2: as far as there's I think there's certain podcasts and
Speaker 2: radio shows that are saying, why why do this you? Basically?
Speaker 2: So basically what happened was on Monday night. He's referencing
Speaker 2: Monday night, so I'm gonna reference Monday night. Monday night,
Speaker 2: he kissed Cody's backside the entire night, except the fact
Speaker 2: that Cody was sitting in the front row and not
Speaker 2: being in the ring with him, which I don't really understand.
Speaker 2: He's the un disputed champion. He's sitting in sitting in
Speaker 2: the crowd. I don't get that. Although later on he
Speaker 2: magically came out from the from the back, but that
Speaker 2: was neither here nor there. But you spent last year,
Speaker 2: last spring before WrestleMania be rating him all the things.
Speaker 2: Beat his butt. I'm trying so hard not to swear.
Speaker 2: Beat his butt outside in the rain next to his
Speaker 2: tour bus and put blood on his weight belt, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, where's the weight belt? Pen the de
Speaker 2: side and fought him and pinned him at WrestleMania. Had
Speaker 2: the night after WrestleMania Money and the Raw that weird
Speaker 2: awkward interaction that they had together come out during Bad
Speaker 2: Blood do the cut sivil across your throat while looking
Speaker 2: at Cody and Roman. And then the next time we
Speaker 2: see you three months later, you're kissing his butt and
Speaker 2: you're upset that people are. Last year people were like, oh,
Speaker 2: don't be mean to Cody. And now now when we're
Speaker 2: when we're like, okay, cool rocks Me and a Cody.
Speaker 2: He's gonna beat Cody's butt, great broth. And then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, magically he comes on the first episode
Speaker 2: of Raw Netflix and he's his best friend. Why, Like,
Speaker 2: I understand, there's kfa there's not k fabe. Of course,
Speaker 2: the Rock was there on the first episode of Netflix
Speaker 2: Raw to basically as a commercial promoting everything. He was
Speaker 2: thanking the Netflix executives, thanking you know, the people that
Speaker 2: run WWE thanking whatever they he thanked. Everybody gave flowers
Speaker 2: to people wonderfully. I just I don't understand where so Okay, Fine, Fine, Rock, Fine,
Speaker 2: you're thinking twenty steps ahead. Fine, I'll enjoy the ride,
Speaker 2: but guess what, the whole time, I'm gonna be sitting
Speaker 2: next to you in the car going why are we
Speaker 2: doing what we're doing? Why are we driving this way?
Speaker 2: That's our job and I know, listen, don't. I don't
Speaker 2: review raw. I don't know if you've smack down. But
Speaker 2: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm every
Speaker 2: week that the Rock does something, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes and ask him where he's going with
Speaker 2: this and where he's going with that. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do. I'm not gonna take the whole time. I'm
Speaker 2: only talking about it tonight because because The Rock was
Speaker 2: on the x T. But you know what, Rock again,
Speaker 2: enjoy the ride. I'll enjoy the ride, but i'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask you. I'm gonna be a backseat driver and I
Speaker 2: ask you why we're going this way, why we're going
Speaker 2: that way. You don't have to answer, obviously, but it's
Speaker 2: our job to question things because ultimately this is for us,
Speaker 2: because we're the one paying the bills, we're the one
Speaker 2: buying the tickets, buying the merch, buying Netflix so we
Speaker 2: can watch Monday Night Raw. Not that no, not that
Speaker 2: people didn't have it already, but you get my point.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Now we got this is the Rock again.
Speaker 2: Now we have a rowdy crowd here. It says that
Speaker 2: we got about two minutes left. Look, look they say
Speaker 2: I got two minutes. I say, if all that, we're
Speaker 2: going all night. Oh their sweating, it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for the language. I apologize. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: The truth is, I knew I was coming to NXT
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. I talked to Triple H
Speaker 2: and dit Com. I said, let me come to NXT.
Speaker 2: We were in the Into It Dome on Monday. Let
Speaker 2: me come to NXT on Tuesday. What do you think?
Speaker 2: They said it'd be great. But the thing is, I
Speaker 2: didn't know what to say, right, so you think about it.
Speaker 2: I talked to Ava backstage. By the way, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that later. She said, you're going to go out
Speaker 2: there and you're gonna feel the crowd. Let this crowd
Speaker 2: inform you and you know what, and then you'll know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna say. I love you back, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. But I want to tell you something that's
Speaker 2: very important. The main thing I want to tell you
Speaker 2: is come out here, and I want to thank you.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. Because going into the last
Speaker 2: night into a dome, Monday night ron Netflix, that's the
Speaker 2: sexy ticket. That's a ticket, right, like, Hey, go to
Speaker 2: the show. You'll see celebrities, You'll see all the stars
Speaker 2: at WWE, you'll see them all. That's the one that
Speaker 2: you have to go to. Next to shrine here in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles is the one that you want to go to.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I got e f and chills.
Speaker 2: I can't stop. You have to that, you have to
Speaker 2: go to that show. But you want to go to
Speaker 2: this show, Okay, it's easy to go to the place
Speaker 2: that has all the stars. You're effing right, there's lots
Speaker 2: of stars here as well. And that's what I want
Speaker 2: to tell you. I need to tell you. You know that
Speaker 2: every single one of you, every single one of you,
Speaker 2: how important you are, how critical you are to this
Speaker 2: whole thing. Okay, because those guys back there are those
Speaker 2: girls and guys that are working there as off, they
Speaker 2: come out here in three years, who knows they could
Speaker 2: be the main event of WrestleMania, but as you know,
Speaker 2: in three years they could be out of business. But
Speaker 2: here's what it depends on. Whether you boo or whether
Speaker 2: you cheer, It all depends on how you how you react.
Speaker 2: I've been down this road. I've wrestled down in the
Speaker 2: Memphis as Flex Cavana. Look it up, flex Cavana. I
Speaker 2: know it's the worst name in the history of professional wrestling.
Speaker 2: I know what it's like to depend on the depend
Speaker 2: on the crowd. I want you to know that you
Speaker 2: that you matter more than you think. I'm here. Look, look,
Speaker 2: my job takes me a lot of places. I will
Speaker 2: always come back home to you. WWE NXT, I love you.
Speaker 2: If you smell with the rock is cooking. So after
Speaker 2: we get through the crap of the Cody stuff, then
Speaker 2: we have him saying what he wants to say. And
Speaker 2: here's the important thing to take out of that. The
Speaker 2: important thing to take out of that is and Ava
Speaker 2: said this earlier in the night. I don't really care
Speaker 2: for Ava, but but what she said was absolute one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. The fans of NXT are the most passionate fans. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're the ones that scream and holler more than any
Speaker 2: other fans. They're the ones that sang Joe Hendry's song
Speaker 2: when he came out for that Battle Royal in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, and they knew it word for word, even
Speaker 2: though he's part of TNA and they're all in XT.
Speaker 2: The fans of NXT are the diehards. Yours truly included.
Speaker 2: Everybody that's listening. If you're listening to a podcast about
Speaker 2: EDXT right now, and from what from what Matt tells me,
Speaker 2: we've got a couple thousand downloads, you are the hardcore fan.
Speaker 2: You are not that people that just watch main roster
Speaker 2: are not true fans. I'm not saying that. What I'm
Speaker 2: saying is is that the ones here, the ones that
Speaker 2: we talked that that are hereless watching NXT. We know
Speaker 2: everything that's going on in the main roster, but we
Speaker 2: know everything that's coming up from to the main roster too, right,
Speaker 2: So I mean, we have two we had three title
Speaker 2: changes last night, three three title changes last night, and
Speaker 2: I bet I will bet that at least one of
Speaker 2: those three champions that lost their titles last night, at
Speaker 2: least one of them is going to the main roster.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't know for sure who it is.
Speaker 2: And if you know what I'm talking about, then you
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. But anyway, that's my take
Speaker 2: on that, and I I decided to put that first
Speaker 2: because I know that that's the interesting part of the night. Well,
Speaker 2: everything is interesting, but that was the this cool, cool
Speaker 2: thing of the night, and I wanted to get that
Speaker 2: out first because it was let me tell you that,
Speaker 2: that whole thing with the fact, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you if you heard me just now, how many F
Speaker 2: bombs did he drop? At least eight or nine on
Speaker 2: the CW, Like, what are you doing? Okay, Oh, I'm
Speaker 2: so exhausted, already, so exhausted, and we've already been doing
Speaker 2: this for I've only been doing this for nineteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I haven't even talked about a match yet. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: talk about a match. Let's talk about the first match
Speaker 2: of the night. First match of the night was the
Speaker 2: NXT Women's title match. This was a This was a
Speaker 2: freaking awesome match. I mean, this was better. So Julia
Speaker 2: was Julia versus Roxanne Prize, but the match was This
Speaker 2: is the second time they met. They met at the
Speaker 2: first episode of nxtn the c W back in October.
Speaker 2: So this is the second time they met. This match
Speaker 2: was one hundred percent a million percent better than the
Speaker 2: first time they met. Uh it was it was so good.
Speaker 2: The ending, they were both outside the ring. Uh what's
Speaker 2: it original name? Julie gives a Northern Lights Northern Lights
Speaker 2: bomb to Roxanne outside the ring. Referees counting. Referee was
Speaker 2: counting fast uh to ten while both both wrestlers are
Speaker 2: outside the ring. Cory j comes grabs Roxanne Perez tosses
Speaker 2: her back in the ring, but before the referee you
Speaker 2: get to ten, Julie ends up jumping back in the ring. Eventually,
Speaker 2: Roxanne hits hits Julie with pop rocks. Julia kicks out
Speaker 2: because you know, well, one of the biggest complaints that
Speaker 2: Matt had about Monday Night Raw was that everybody was
Speaker 2: kicking out of everybody's finishers, and this was no different
Speaker 2: on New Year's Evil. But anyway, Julie kicks out of
Speaker 2: the pop of pop rocks, eventually gives her another Northern
Speaker 2: like Northern Lights bomb in the in the ring and
Speaker 2: gets the win, and Julia is now your new NXT
Speaker 2: Women's Champion and I think I call this if you
Speaker 2: listen to older shows that I did, I definitely said
Speaker 2: Julia was gonna win. Julia is I honestly think they're
Speaker 2: setting up so so again, Stand and Deliver is coming.
Speaker 2: It's coming in uh A Wrestlemingia Weekend is usually when
Speaker 2: they do. It's on Saturday morning of WrestleMania Weekend at
Speaker 2: ten am ten am Eastern, And uh, I think that
Speaker 2: they're setting up Julia versus and Eva Care, which they should.
Speaker 2: It's their two biggest, two best wrestlers, and the match
Speaker 2: will absolutely burn and they need to have They need
Speaker 2: to not wrestle at all between now and Stand and Deliver,
Speaker 2: and that will be a huge match, and it also
Speaker 2: should be a main event. Julia versus Stephanie mccare for
Speaker 2: Standing Deliver should be the main event of that show.
Speaker 2: Male personal opinion. So anyway, Julia is your new your
Speaker 2: new u NXT women's Champion. So, by the way, that
Speaker 2: this night was interesting because you had the first half
Speaker 2: of the night, for the first hour was all the
Speaker 2: women's matches and then for the second half was the
Speaker 2: men's matches and the Rock, which I thought was an
Speaker 2: interesting decision to be honest, I'm not exactly sure why
Speaker 2: they did that. But so the second match was so
Speaker 2: Before that, before the second match, you have Ava who
Speaker 2: catches Eddie Thorpe quote faking an injury in the backstage area.
Speaker 2: Eddie's like, no, I'm not faking this time, and Eva's
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, whatever you faked last time, why would
Speaker 2: you not be faking this time. Then you have a
Speaker 2: promo for Javon Evans and with his jaws shut, he says, Eat,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do the jaws shut thing. I'll just
Speaker 2: read it, Ethan Paige. My jaw is wired shut. I
Speaker 2: can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't talk. But I'm
Speaker 2: going to find you for what you did to Cedric
Speaker 2: last week, for what you did to me, Ethan. I'm
Speaker 2: going to make you feel my pain. So interesting second
Speaker 2: match Coora j versus Stephanie Vecer versus Colonie Jordan versus
Speaker 2: Lola Weis and a fatal four way match where the
Speaker 2: winner becomes the number one contender for the NXT Women's
Speaker 2: North American Championship currently held by Fallon Henley. Another freaking
Speaker 2: awesome match, and this was a This was a fatal
Speaker 2: four way match where all four women were constantly against
Speaker 2: each other, and it was so it wasn't two versus
Speaker 2: two two people outside, two people inside. It was all
Speaker 2: four of them going against each other the entire time.
Speaker 2: It was an awesome match. I'm not gonna get into
Speaker 2: the minutia of the match. So at the end, at
Speaker 2: the end of the match, we have basically Stephanie uh
Speaker 2: drops Vice with with eat defeat and drives Jade Jade
Speaker 2: cord j Ad face first into the top turn buckle.
Speaker 2: Stephanie with repeated headbuts to the corner in the corner
Speaker 2: of the Care with the halluva kick to to Lola Ice,
Speaker 2: Jordan tugs on Vikara's hair. Kaer pulls Jordan back into
Speaker 2: the ring and with the leg and the dragon screw
Speaker 2: leg whip, stephan In has a shotgun Meteora for the
Speaker 2: two count. Vice goes for the sleeper hole, but the
Speaker 2: care rolls her over for the two count, and we
Speaker 2: keep going on. It was just back and forth and
Speaker 2: back and forth, and then finally we get to the
Speaker 2: end where the Care with she uses the Japanese leg
Speaker 2: clutch hold for a two count. Lola dumps Stephanie out
Speaker 2: of the ring, and then Cora with a pump knee strike.
Speaker 2: Then Klanie ducks the closed life from Jade Corey. Jade
Speaker 2: Jordan hits the Olympic Slam, which was interesting, it was
Speaker 2: doing the kurd angle Olympic Slam, goes for the four
Speaker 2: to fifty splash. Okay, Klanie Jordan went for a four
Speaker 2: to fifty splash. There was nobody there like she like,
Speaker 2: how could she not have known? I mean, obviously she was,
Speaker 2: It's all like kfe But but she jumped after the
Speaker 2: after Stephanie moved out of the way, and she hit
Speaker 2: the canvas doing a summersault face first so hard, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, and you could hear it so loud. But Jade,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I was Cory j that she was trying
Speaker 2: to do it. She ducks out of the way, Vice
Speaker 2: delivers a spinning backfist and and the Corus super kicks
Speaker 2: Vice and then Stephanie connects with the SVB to pick
Speaker 2: up the victory. So the winner and the number one
Speaker 2: contender of the North American women's title is Stephanie Vekira.
Speaker 2: Which again, but it's the right call, It's the right decision.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you know, I'm still holding fast to the
Speaker 2: to the UH Stephanie and Julia match. Maybe maybe a
Speaker 2: title for title of Stephanie ends up winning the North
Speaker 2: American Championship. Maybe that'd be kind of cool. Anyway. Next
Speaker 2: you have Ava informing UH the Holy Union that they'll
Speaker 2: be battling Metaphor next week for the and the winner
Speaker 2: will be the number one contenders for the Women's Tag
Speaker 2: Team champions currently held by Bianca bel Air and Naomi.
Speaker 2: She also tells Sarah Schreiber that she's not buying Eddie's
Speaker 2: injury because the main and the main excuse and the
Speaker 2: main event will continue to be a triple threat match.
Speaker 2: Oba Femi admits that he is the one that attacked
Speaker 2: Eddie backstage because of what happened to him last week.
Speaker 2: Ava tells Oba that the match will remain the same regardless,
Speaker 2: and Oba says he has no doubt that he's going
Speaker 2: to walk out of Los Angeles the brand new NXT champion.
Speaker 2: And then we have a shot at Nick Connon Triple
Speaker 2: h in the crowds waving their hands. They have a
Speaker 2: OTM vignette, and next week we have a tag team
Speaker 2: title match between OTM and Frexium. So that should be
Speaker 2: a good match. Third match of the night is Fatal
Speaker 2: Influence versus Gigi Dolan, shot Ci, Tatum Pasley and six
Speaker 2: women Tag team match. We uh this was this was
Speaker 2: a really good match. It so far of the three matches,
Speaker 2: it's my it's my third favorite, but it's it's definitely
Speaker 2: it's definitely better than other matches of the night. It was.
Speaker 2: It was a fun match. Do you know that all
Speaker 2: the women like just rasing each other? And I love
Speaker 2: the combination of Stephanie. That's Stephanie. Oh my god, my ear,
Speaker 2: my brain is the combination of Tatum Pasley, Shatzi and uh,
Speaker 2: Gigi Doland to me is awesome. Like I love all
Speaker 2: three of them. They're so cool. So we have we
Speaker 2: have Shati was does a flying cross body block, running neckbreaker,
Speaker 2: belly to backsuitplex combination for a two count gig Dollan
Speaker 2: and Pasi toss j C. Jane and as necks out
Speaker 2: of the ring and a double indziguri to Henley shots.
Speaker 2: He connects with the welcome to the ball pit to
Speaker 2: pick up the victory. So you're so you have Shatzi
Speaker 2: and Gigi Dolan and Tanum Pasley with the wind and
Speaker 2: Shatsi pins fallon Henley, which is going to be important
Speaker 2: for later on. So after this then we have the
Speaker 2: interaction that this was really cool. Ava's backstage and she's
Speaker 2: scolding Ethan page about what he did to Javan Evans.
Speaker 2: Ethan talks about how how big tonight is and he's
Speaker 2: nowhere to be found on the card and Ava wants
Speaker 2: to make sure make something perfectly clear. This is her show,
Speaker 2: and she calls a shot and Ava says it's it's
Speaker 2: perfect timing and the Rock standing right behind Ethan. The
Speaker 2: Rock introduces himself to Ethan and he's heard a lot
Speaker 2: of things about him, not all good things. By the
Speaker 2: way Ethan broke Javon evans jaw. The Rock says that
Speaker 2: payback is going to be a b you get it,
Speaker 2: but Ethan highly doubts it. Ethan brags about Cedric Alexander's
Speaker 2: fingers and the Rock had the pleasure of speaking to
Speaker 2: nxt Roster earlier today. If anybody needed anything from him,
Speaker 2: they should give him a call, including Ethan. Ethan like
Speaker 2: the sound of that, and one more thing. The Rock
Speaker 2: reminds Ethan that he's the final boss. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to NXT Ava is the final boss. So if
Speaker 2: Ethan is going to be cool with the Rock, then
Speaker 2: he needs to be cool with Ava, who Obviously, for
Speaker 2: any of you that don't know at this point, you're
Speaker 2: all NXT viewers, so I can't imagine you don't. Ava
Speaker 2: is the Rock's daughter. If you don't know that by now,
Speaker 2: then I find that interesting. Uh. And The Rock says
Speaker 2: that he will soon see Ethan on the main roster
Speaker 2: one day, yes please. Ava can't wait for Ethan to
Speaker 2: go to the main roster either, which I thought was
Speaker 2: really funny. Tonight is about moments. The Rock has no
Speaker 2: idea what he's gonna say. Does Ava have any advice
Speaker 2: for him? The Rock has never been in front of
Speaker 2: an XT craw before. Their passion is different. The Rock
Speaker 2: may not know what to say, but when he gets
Speaker 2: out there, he's going to feel the energy and speak
Speaker 2: from the heart. And The Rock gives Ava fistmump. By
Speaker 2: the way, when when Ethan page left the Rock, the
Speaker 2: Rock slapped Ethan pages as and says it said, get
Speaker 2: your sweet ass out of here, and I was just like,
Speaker 2: what what? What? Don't understand? All right? Moving on, The
Speaker 2: fourth match of the night was Charlie Dempsey of the
Speaker 2: No Quarter Catch Crew versus Lexus King for the w
Speaker 2: w A nix T Heritage Cup Championship. This match was okay,
Speaker 2: and this was probably the match that I can say
Speaker 2: I'm saying this as in, this was a good match,
Speaker 2: but it's probably my least favorite of all the matches.
Speaker 2: I don't particularly care for the whole Heritage Cup thing,
Speaker 2: even though this was. This was done in sudden death,
Speaker 2: which basically means it's a regular match and the winner
Speaker 2: gets the cup, which is yeah. So in the end,
Speaker 2: Lexus King ends up picking up the victory and becoming
Speaker 2: the new Heritage Cup Champion. It's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 2: see where he goes with that. He's still he's still
Speaker 2: kind of playing the whole I'm trying to do the
Speaker 2: right thing spiel. So we'll see how that goes. But
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, listen, Lexus King, he deserves some flowers.
Speaker 2: I think he played a great heel and now he's
Speaker 2: playing a great heel that wants to be a babyface.
Speaker 2: So anyway, after that, we have Stephanie mccorr and Shatzi
Speaker 2: who they bicker with Ava so shots. So Stephanie says,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously she gets the next shot at the
Speaker 2: North American Women's title. But then Shatzi comes in and says, hey,
Speaker 2: I should get a shot at the XTA North American
Speaker 2: Women's Title because I just pinned Fallon Henley. Here's my
Speaker 2: problem with that. Who cares that you pinned her? There
Speaker 2: was a match where four women four had a fatal
Speaker 2: four way match and Stephanie mkerr won. I know I'm biased,
Speaker 2: but still Stephanie mccorr won. She's the number one contender.
Speaker 2: She has the next match. The same crap happened with
Speaker 2: Oba Femi wins the Island Survivor Challenge. I don't care
Speaker 2: how he got in. Whatever he wins the Island Survivor Challenge,
Speaker 2: he should have had the next shot by himself on
Speaker 2: Trick Williams. The whole Ednyethorpe thing getting in there was crap.
Speaker 2: If Shatzi gets in and now now Stephanie has to go,
Speaker 2: then Shatzi for the number one contendership for the women's
Speaker 2: title next week, which, by the way, she already got that.
Speaker 2: I don't really understand what we're doing here, Like if
Speaker 2: if somebody wins a match to become a number one contender.
Speaker 2: Then they're the number one contender, and that's the end
Speaker 2: of the story. Like, I don't understand the problem. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's just me. If it's just me, let me know.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is. Then we had the last
Speaker 2: match of the night, which was Trick Williams versus Oba
Speaker 2: Femi versus Eddie Thorpe in a triple threat match for
Speaker 2: the w w E NXT Championship. This match was awesome, Okay,
Speaker 2: then one of the I think one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why it was as awesome as it was was because
Speaker 2: Eddie Thorpe wasn't in the most most of the match.
Speaker 2: I didn't think any you as as most of you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't think Anythorpe should have been in the match
Speaker 2: in the first place. And the fact of the matter
Speaker 2: is is that you know, Oba Femily took him out
Speaker 2: and did us all a favor because then we have
Speaker 2: Trick Williams versus basically Trick Williams or Oba Femi. It's
Speaker 2: a triple threat match, but Eddie Thorpe isn't there till
Speaker 2: the very end. But Eddie Thorpe does come in in
Speaker 2: the end. So when Eddie Thorpe comes in um. He
Speaker 2: pulls the referee out of the ring and then argues
Speaker 2: with the referee. Oba throws Storp back into the ring
Speaker 2: and Femi drops Thorp with a big boot. Femmy with
Speaker 2: the backhand sends Storp into the corner. Fami hits the
Speaker 2: spine buster. Let me tell you this, all of his
Speaker 2: booms are just so bad ass, sorry but they are.
Speaker 2: Fami hits the belly of the back toss, which is
Speaker 2: basically him just lifting somebody and chucking him across the ring.
Speaker 2: Hits two running upper cuts, and then Williams delivers a
Speaker 2: trick shot for a two count so trick. Williams hits
Speaker 2: his finisher right theme of the ninth Theme of the week, Trick.
Speaker 2: Williams hits his finisher, with which Obami kicks out of,
Speaker 2: but then Thorpe counters with a chair shot in midair
Speaker 2: and Femmi plants Williams with the fall from grace power
Speaker 2: bomb and picks up the victory and Oba Femi is
Speaker 2: now your new NXT champion, which, by the way, again
Speaker 2: I'm no prosticating prosticator prosticator, but I do call this one.
Speaker 2: Not surprised that Oba Femi won, so in my mind,
Speaker 2: either Trick Williams or Roxanne Perez are probably going to
Speaker 2: the main roster at some point. I don't know for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's just happens to be right
Speaker 2: before the Royal Rumble and they're both going to be
Speaker 2: in their respective world rumbles. Maybe I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I think that one of the two of them will
Speaker 2: probably bump up. That's just my own opinion. They're both
Speaker 2: two time champions in their respective divisions, so I think
Speaker 2: it's about time. And obviously they both prove in their stuff,
Speaker 2: especially Roxanne Perez. I mean, Trick Williams has been a
Speaker 2: little bit less than a year, maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: over a year. Roxan Prez has been doing this now
Speaker 2: for two and a half years. Bump her up. I
Speaker 2: mean she, yes, she's five foot and nothing, but you
Speaker 2: know what, so's Zelena Vegan and she's awesome too. At
Speaker 2: the very end of the night, well at the very end,
Speaker 2: before the rock comes out, which we've already talked about,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk about that again. You have Oba
Speaker 2: Femi walks up the ramp and then he stands on
Speaker 2: one side, Julia comes out stands on the other. They
Speaker 2: each trip lift their belts up and one side says
Speaker 2: and the new nor NXT Champion Opathemi and the new
Speaker 2: NXT Women's Champion Julia. So this was really cool and
Speaker 2: by the way, that should have ended the show. They have.
Speaker 2: They're both standing there, both respective champions winning their win,
Speaker 2: won their match, the new champions holding the bets belts
Speaker 2: up in the air in syncresy cut to black. That's
Speaker 2: the That's a perfect spot to end the show. But
Speaker 2: obviously the Rock has to finish the show because it's
Speaker 2: the Rock again. We already talked about that. I want
Speaker 2: to I want to mention also before I before I
Speaker 2: hit the road, I want to mention that in five days,
Speaker 2: so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, in five days we
Speaker 2: had three brand new women's champions. I think that's unprecedented.
Speaker 2: Somebody somebody looked that up. For me, somebody looked that up.
Speaker 2: We had Tiffany Strott cashing the money in the bank
Speaker 2: on Friday, Saturday Sunday, then we had Monday we had
Speaker 2: Rhea Ripley win the title from Live Morgan, and then
Speaker 2: on Tuesday we had Julia beat Rox San Perez. That's
Speaker 2: pretty freaking cool. Nobody's talking about that. Three brand new
Speaker 2: w W Women's champions in the matter of five days.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty cool. That's just me. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you. New Year's Evil was awesome. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: We had the next paper view coming up soon. Can't
Speaker 2: wait for it. But in the meantime, I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see, Oh, they're gonna call up to be in
Speaker 2: the Royal Rumble. Last year we had Carmelo, we had
Speaker 2: bron Breaker, we had Tiffany Shutton. Both of them now
Speaker 2: are champions. Right last year we had bron Breaker, Tiffany
Speaker 2: Shutton come up in the in the Royal Rumble. And
Speaker 2: by the way, bron Breaker wasn't even supposed to be
Speaker 2: in the roll Rumble. At one point it was supposed
Speaker 2: to be brock Lesner, and he took over brock Lesner's
Speaker 2: spot because of the whole scandal, and now we have
Speaker 2: him as this two time intercandill champion. Less than a
Speaker 2: year later, Tiffany Shutton comes into the Royal Rumble, gets
Speaker 2: such a pop they put on the elimination chamber. She
Speaker 2: kills in the elimination chamber. It doesn't have a matter
Speaker 2: of vessel Mania which I thought was weird, and she
Speaker 2: is now the WWE Women's Champion less than a year.
Speaker 2: This could happen for anybody. Could happen for Roxanne, it
Speaker 2: could happen for Trick, It could happen for any of them.
Speaker 2: This is why we watch NXT. We want to see
Speaker 2: them develop, we want to see them get brought up,
Speaker 2: and we want to see them succeed. Iliot Dragonov would
Speaker 2: be succeeding right now if he hadn't hurt himself. Carmelo,
Speaker 2: he's kind of a comic relief, but he's doing great.
Speaker 2: As far as I'm concerned, he's doing great. Obviously, there's
Speaker 2: them people that came up that fell through. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna it's not gonna be perfect, but this
Speaker 2: we watch NXT so we can watch the heart and
Speaker 2: Soul and the next and that this way, when people
Speaker 2: come up, we know what's gonna happen moving forward. And
Speaker 2: if you think about it, it's a perfect scenario. They
Speaker 2: have us watching the people that are gonna be brought
Speaker 2: up to the main roster, and we're gonna be invested
Speaker 2: in them already and we're gonna continue to watch it.
Speaker 2: It's it's a self. It's basically just keeps picking up steam. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I should be done talking. I've been talking for a while.
Speaker 2: How long have I've been talking? Forty one minutes since?
Speaker 2: Actually not as bad as I thought, but either way,
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