Speaker 1: Man. We had Roman Reigns on the show tonight called
Seth Rollins a lot of things in that closing segment,
but he also said that Triple H was Seth's work daddy.
I've never heard it put that way, but apparently Triple
H is Set's work daddy. And Roman pointed out that
the only way Rollins can win a World championship is
by cashing in a money in the bank briefcase. And
he's not wrong when he says these things. Boy, Roman Reigns,
he brought the heat in the closing segment here on
this show, and Seth Rollins for his part, because they
had a contract signing hell of a lot better than
last week's promo. Roman also needled him about that boring
promo last week that I talked about in the raw
review because that promo sucked. Tonight was a lot better
because we had both of them in the same building
at the same time. Isn't it amazing how much better
things tend to be when you get both participants in
the ring together at the same time to jows verbally
instead of them just cutting promos on the camera. We
had the contract signing tonight with Roman Reigns and Seth
rollins for their World Heavyweight Championship match at Summerslim. It
is now official, and I still do as I sit
here right now, I still do feel as if when
they put this car together and they try to figure
out what closes Night one, what closes Night Too. I mean,
I suppose a lot of it will depend on exactly
what's planned in these main events. Is there going to
be some kind of big you know, big angle or
swerve or heel turn or something like that. I still
feel like punkin Cody get the Night Too slot, But
they took a giant leap tonight towards getting me a
little bit more excited about this match, more so than
I was last week. So that was one of the
highlights of the show tonight. It was the Roman in
Seth exchange. The other highlight of the show, and this
was not really a surprise, was the gauntlet match to
crown a number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship. I
said this last week, wwe had one job. This was
going to be the easiest thing for them to do
on the road to Summer Slim, more than any other
decision that they have to make between now. In the
beginning of August. A very simple decision is to make
sure that Chad Gable comes out of this Gauntlet as
the number one contender, and we set up Gable and
pent Up for the Intercontinental title on that show, and
that's what they did. We had what seven men six
seven men in this gauntlet match tonight, and we got
the right outcome. Chad Gable will challenge Penta for the title,
his first potential singles championship in all the years that
he has been in this company over a decade. You
want to go back to the NX two years and
he is on the cusps. He's on the verge of
winning his first singles title. In an age where people
win titles all the time, It's pretty insane to think
that Chad Gable has yet to hold a single single
singles a single singles championship in his career. Hopefully that
will change. I love Penta, but that shit's got a
change in Minneapolis, So I was very happy to see
that that was the easiest choice. Triple H is going
to make all summer Slim season. They also set up
another match for the PLEE, which is one that I've
been talking about. It seemed pretty obvious that we were
headed for a six man tag, and now we know
for a fact that we are getting the six man tag.
It is going to be Jacob Fantu and the USO's
Jay Usso has not been on the show for two
weeks now. Ever, since all that news broke about him
and his personal life on TMZ, we have not seen
jay Usso. He's got to get his own house in
order first, I guess, but he has a summer slim match.
It's going to be him and Jimmy and Jacob taking
on La Night, Royce Keys, and I guess the newly
Babyface Solo's SOCOA because based on what he did on
the show tonight, it's sure like this was supposed to
be a Babyface turn. I don't know if the crowd
took it that way. It's not like I got some
big reaction, but they did set the six man tag
up for that show, and I'm actually wondering as I
look back on the reaction to the announcement of it,
because it was La Knight who had the mic in
his hand and made the announcement, I wonder if the
people in the building in Dallas tonight thought they were
getting the match tonight, only to find out no, it's
gonna happen at Summer Slam, because how I mean, it's
the sort of match that you would expect to get
on TV and not at Summer Slam. But it always
felt like these guys have nothing else to do on
that show. If you don't put them in a six
man tag, what else logically would they even be doing
at Summer Slam? Right, They've all been beefing with each
other now for weeks. This seemed to be the direction
that made the most sense. So now we get Solo
Socoa in a bit of a different role for a change,
no longer with the MFTs, no longer with the blood
line on his own, having to associate now with La Night.
I mean, that could make for some interesting television. I'm
game for anything different. I think that there's a great
babyface not deep, not deep, it's there. It kind of
bubbles up every now and then, but buried within Solo
Soco as a great babyface run, and I hope we
get the chance to see that. Unfortunately, we also had
some terrible television tonight because there was a horrible segment.
While it did further things along for another potential SummerSlam
match for the world tag team titles. I mean, we'll
see if we end up getting that on the PLA
or if they do it on Raw. We had a
segment with Maxine Dupre, Austin Theory, bron Breaker, and Logan Paul.
They were out there taking a victory lap otison Tozawa.
We got acting on the show, and not very good acting.
We had some drama why Maxine, why this is what otis?
And Tozawa wanted to know why. We tried to warn you.
We tried to warn you that this man was no good.
He's bad news. Oh, very melodramatic. I'll tell you. What
is uh really just confounding to me is that we
are potentially on the verge of getting an announcement that
bron Breaker is going to Summer Slam and he's going
to be involved in a match against Tozawa. Yes, this
appears to be the Summer Slam direction for bron Breaker.
What have they done to bron Breaker? We got a
tease of a return to WWE, because nothing can be
kept secret anymore. We got a tease for Big Casts
on his way back to WWE. No Enzo not yet
it's early yet, but we got the date August, which
is the Monday after Summer Slam. He's coming back with
any luck, it would be for a singles run. But
I have a feeling this was only the first tease.
There'll be a tease for his his tag team partner,
probably coming next week, and it'll all build to August third.
So we got our first vignette for that. We're gonna
run through this entire Raw show. We'll go through the
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Thank you for joining me here. It is a Monday Night,
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I attended my very first live Monday Night RAW twenty
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we will do some B to B a little bit
later on. We're gonna talk about a different B. We
had talk about Brock Brock, Lesnar and Paul Hayman. They
were the ones who opened the show tonight. And Brock
has a brand new T shirt that I'm sure I
haven't checked, but I'm sure it's up right now on
WWE shop Talk Shit, Get Hit, And they had a
group of police officers walking behind them as they made
their way down to the ring. They stood guard at ringside.
They basically formed a human wall and the fans were
chanting for Obafemi. Say Hayman did his usual intros, introduced
all of the Dallas police officers outside the ring, and
he said that Obafemi turned down a championship match with
either champion because he is just that obsessed with Brock Lesner.
He goes, that is stalker level. Haman called Oba the
biggest dummy that he's ever met. He said Oba turned
down a title match to come after Brock like a psycho.
Ex girlfriend said Lesner is obsessed with Oba, which scares
him half to death. He said he called Lesner when
he was out hunting and he's obsessed with Obafemi. So
he said he went to WWE officials. He requested a
no touch clause, but it took a lot of lawyers.
He said, he went to a judge in Dallas. He
got a restraining order against Obafemi. He said he got
another restraining order against his own client. This was news
to brock Lesner. He looked over at Hayman and he's like,
what what are you talking about? But He said that
Lesner is a law abiding citizen who would abide by
the rules of the restraining order. So the lights went dark.
This brought out Obafemi and the police officers. They got
into the ring. They stood in front of Hayman and Lesner.
Oba told Hayman explain what the hell this is. So
Hayman said that Oba violated a restraining order and he
told the cops to go do your job. So they
exited the ring. Lesnar and Hayman did. Oba he grabs
one of these cops and he just hurls him out
over the top rope. And usually there's somebody there to
catch them. There ain't nobody there on the outside. He
just threw him out of the ring and he crashed
and burned on the floor. Then he grabbed two of
them double choke slamb There was another one in there.
He picked him up, and you know how he throws
people halfway across the ring. He chucked this guy out
of the ring, and at least with him, they had
the other cops out there to catch him and break
his fall. So he wiped out all of the phony
cops that were at ringside. And so at that point
it was time for Oba to speak, and he took
issue with Hayman, calling him stupid for giving up his
title match. Said, they both know that had he gone
for a championship, had he gone ahead and challenged either champion,
which is what he was entitled to do at SummerSlam,
he said that you know that Brock would have cost
me the match. Doesn't sound like much of a ruler,
does it. This guy's supposed to be the ruler. He's
the king. He doesn't sound very sure of himself. I
gave away my guarantee championship match for Summer SLEDG because
I just knew that your guy was going to interfere
and fuck it up for me. What a stupid fucking
thing to say. Weeks after the fact, Oh my god,
Oba said, Lesnar can no longer run from him inside
hell and his cell. No more bs, no more low blows.
Basically at SummerSlam. This gets settled. I will say this
always great intensity from Oba. He was on point. I
thought it was a great promo outside of that one
stupid line there, so you know, great stuff from Oba.
Otherwise he looked like a world beater out there throwing
guys around the explanation though about why he sacrificed his
Summer Slam title show. We still have no clarity, by
the way, on whether or not he actually completely ditched
his championship match, and that means he gets no title
match and he's gonna have to win the Royal Rumble
or something now, or if he's just kind of tucking
it away for a later date. Because I mentioned this
on the podcast last week, they have their own official
like WWE post show. After all, I don't know if
it's live, but it's got like Sam Roberts and Megan Morant,
and I didn't hear it for myself, but I had
somebody mention it and then I read, you know, part
of what they said. And the night that that happened,
they were talking about it as if Brock and Obo
was basically it wasn't just replacing Oba's title match at SummerSlam.
Oba basically gave it away. It's not like, you know,
it's in my back pocket. I could take it out
whenever I want. They were talking about it as if
he sacrificed his title shot for the right to go
after this man, which, if you think about it, the
stipulation was that you're guaranteed a championship match at SummerSlam, right,
it is specifically for SummerSlam. So without WWE clarifying things here,
and even Paul Hayman has used language that would suggest
that he gave it up completely. But I can't say
that one hundred percent for fact because WWE just hasn't
clarified it yet. But you know him coming out here,
First of all, this is coming a few weeks late.
If he was going to argue this, then this should
have been said weeks ago. That's number one. But it's
like he's coming out here and saying, you know that
if I would have gone ahead with my championship match,
that your your client would have cost me. And I'm
just sitting here and I'm listening to this, and I'm going, yeah,
you big dummy, because you're the one who came out
on television week after week and poke the bear. You're
the one who came out on television week after week
after he beats you at Clash in Italy and called
him all kinds of names. You called him a coward,
you called him a bitch, You question his manhood every
single week. So if he did come out and cost you,
you would have nobody to blame but yourself. Like, there's
just no way of explaining this in a way that
makes oba Femi look good. And at this point you
may as well not even address If you go to
address it, you address it in week one, you don't
address it two or three weeks later. What a stupid
fucking thing to say. But in any event, it is
what it is. It's done. What's done is done, and
we have our hell in a cell match for Summer
Slim and at this point that's all that matters. But like, again,
I'm listening to what he's saying here, and I'm like,
if you're so concerned about this man getting involved in
your business, maybe don't go out on television and call
him out and call him all kinds of insults, right,
you're only inviting trouble by doing that. You would have
gotten exactly what you deserved. Meanwhile, you went through this
entire King of the Ring tournament. He never showed up, right,
he never popped up even once. I just decided to
give it away because I knew you would fuck it
up for me. See, he's playing three D chess. I
didn't want to give you the chance to mess up
my title opportunity, So I just gave away my title opportunity.
Good job there, buddy. Michael Cole was hyping up what
he called a multi week series on the history of
the Shield to build to the Rollins and Rains title
match at SummerSlam. They also mentioned that Roman Reigns, this
was announced earlier, is going to be at Saturday Night's
main event, but he is not coming alone. He will
be there as well as Jalen Brunson of the New
York Knicks, who just underwent surgery on his wrist, the
NBA champion Jalen Brunson, so they're going to be together
at Saturday Night's main event. This weekend, we had Eo
Sky and Roxanne Perez one on one. Roxane had Lived
Morgan in Raquel Rodriguez with her. EO landed a springboard
moonsalt out on the floor and she tossed roxand back
inside Live. Morgan distracted Eo as she was trying to
get back in the ring, and Roxanne was able to
blindside her heading into a commercial. So we come back.
Roxanne is got her all tied up in a tree
of woe, kicking at the knee and EO is able
to get her knees up to block a moonsalt a
temp she hits up butterfly backbreaker. There's the patented Eosky
missile dropkick. She went for the Meteora in the corner.
Nobody home, so the knees hit the turnbuckles. Roxanne was
stretching her knee. EO was able to reverse into a
cross face and that got broken up. EO went to
the top. She was going for her moon Salt live
in Roxanne or Raquel. Rather, they interfered. They wanted to
try to get her to stay grounded, so at that
point Roxanne rolled up. EO, though, was able to reverse
it and basically in reversing it, she sat on Roxanne's
face with the legs hooked and she got the pin.
So when the match was over, Roxanne to live. They
attacked Leo. Here comes Soul Ruca Women's IC champion, going
to attempt to make the save. She went for a
dive out of the ring onto Raquel, but she got
caught and Raquel swung her headfirst into the barricade, then
whipped her up into a power bomb position and very hard.
She slammed her up against the I can't even say
the ring post. Whatever that led casing is around the
ring post. She slammed her into it. Back inside. Morgan
hit oblivion on EO, and then Roxanne and Raquel. They
held EO so liv could blast her in the head
with the Women's Championship. Looked like she got her pretty
good with it too. It looked like she had a
small cut on her forehead that was starting to bleed.
I heard like a thump when she hit her in
the I could have sworn I heard a thump when
she smacked her in the head with that belt. So
it looked like she caught her pretty good, solid match,
predictable outcome. Again. Io was the one who's going to
Summer Slam to challenge for the championship. She wasn't losing
a Roxane. I'm surprised they didn't just do a run
in and give us a non finish. But of course
she was not losing this match. I thought Raquel's attack
actually on soul look good. I do wonder if they
rematch them at some point. I wasn't expecting a title
change in their first match. Just felt too soon. It's
I mean, it's still too soon, but if they wanted
to have Raquel and Soul on the Summer Slam car
for the ICTs, Like, if they booked that match on
that show, they're doing a title change. Put it that way.
If they if they run that match back, I do
think we get a title change. It just didn't feel
like the right time though, you know when they did it,
was it two weeks ago? Whenever? Maybe it was last week.
All these matches just seem to run together. I feel
like we're just constantly seeing the same people and just
like different combinations of the same people week in and
week out. It could be hard sometimes to like remember,
wait a minute, when did we get that match last week?
Or did we get that match three weeks ago? I
don't know, because three weeks ago and two weeks ago
and last week they all kind of run together, right,
Sometimes it feels that way. They all kind of feel
the same. But I thought her attack do on Soul
looked good, puts more heat on the judgment day, so
it made sense what they did here. Then we had
my least favorite part of this entire show, the worst
thing on the show, the vision or what's left of
the vision. We had Austin theory and Maxine Dupre new
Couple on TV along with bron Breaker and Logan Paul
out to the ring to celebrate regaining the world tag
team titles from the Street Profits. And if you remember,
we had the Maxine Dupre heel turned in that match.
She was swaping spit with Austin theory. Logan Paul tried
to speak first, but he handed the mic over to
Maxine and she was getting good heat. She was kind
of getting the dominic mysterio treatment there where they didn't
want to let her speak. And then it was kind
of weird because I understand that there were people who
were booing her and she was trying to let the
booze kind of rain out a little bit, but it
just felt to me like they were stalling, like she
was just stalling like crazy. I'm like, just say something.
It's just like, come on, let's get to it already.
And this was just dragging out and out and out,
and like they were waiting for something. And then here
comes Otis and Tozau, so maybe they were late on
their cue. I don't know. They walk out and they
just look crestfallen, whatever word melancholy, devastated. They look like
they were mourning someone's passing. Okay, they're in a very
bad move, very deep depression. They come walking out and
they make their way down to the ring. Tozawa asks Maxine,
can we talk? And Maxine says, you know what, guys,
I got this, and she tells the other members of
the Vision that they can leave the ring. They're like,
are you sure? They yeah, so Breaker and Logan and
Theory they all go outside and then give Maxine the
ring all by herself along with Alpha Academy, and Tozawa
asks her like, what are you doing? He said this,
you know you're a wonderful human being. Theory is all
wrong for you. So now Maxine had to act. She
said that she still loves Otis and Tozaua, now the
fans are booing and they start chanting, you sold out.
She said that Otis and Tozawa they told her that
she couldn't be with them anymore if she was going
to be with Theory. She said that it's not fair
because they don't know him. So Otis then remember telling
Maxine the Theory is bad news, and Otis said that
I have something that I've been wanting to get off
my chest for a long time. So Theory starts laughing
outside the ring and says that gets up on the
apron first, and he says, are are you going to
confess your feelings for Maxine tells Otis that people like
you don't end up with people like her. So Otis
pulled Theory from the apron into the ring. Bron Breaker
he got back inside, he put Otis down. Breaker tumbled
out to the floor when Tozawa low bridged him out
over the top rope. Tozawa did a dive, a suicide
dive out of the ring at bron Breaker, and Breaker
was supposed to catch him and he didn't. He just
kind of I know, it's kind of weird, like these
suicide dives look worse and worse and worse and worse
and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse
by the week. I'm sorry. More often than not, I'm
watching these suicide and for every good one that we see,
it's just a guy flying through the ropes, taking this
completely unnecessary risk to do what exactly. He throws his
arms out and the other guy puts his arms up
to block him, but then he's got to sell it
like it had some sort of impact like it's it
looks fucking horrendous and I wish, God, I wish, I
wish it was a fucking moratorium on these dives. So anyway,
he was supposed to catch him and he didn't, so
then he picks Tozawa up and he grabbed him and
get him the belly to belly overhead suplex. He gave
him a sup plex so hard. I don't believe Tozaua
touched the table one time. He went over the table,
never touched it, and then hit the whatever hit the
office chairs or whatever. So then back in the ring
Otis he ended up getting the better a breaker in Theory.
Otis took a step towards Theory. Theory is kind of
down cowering in the corner, and Otis takes a step
towards him, and Maxine steps in front of Otis, and
Maxine is acting like, you know, oh, she's being nice
to him. No no, no, no, no, I wish I
knew that you would have felt this way, And she
made it look like she was about to give him
a kiss. But before they could kiss, Theory comes up
from behind Otis and delivers a low blow and then
you could see the smile on Maxine's face, and she
pie faces Otis, you know, down to the map. Breaker
gets back in the ring, he puts Otis down with
a spear. Breaker held Otis while Theory put on a
pair of brass knuckles and punched Otis in the face
with him, and Theory also held up Otis for a
super spear. Breaker hit the ropes back and forth, back
and forth to build up speed, and then he took
them down with a spear. This was not good. This
was not good. I kind of gave you the nuts
and bolts of what happened here, but boy, I sped
it up a little bit. I felt like I was
watching this segment on point five x speed. This was
just terrible television. Like, I know what they were trying
to do here, get more heat on Maxine, get more
heat on the vision. And I'm not saying that there
was no heat on them. I mean the fans were
booing her, but I don't know, just they were like
stretching this thing out. Even at the end there, like
after they took out the baby faces and they're kind
of standing around and then nothing's happening instead of them
just sort of posing and then leaving there just standing around,
and I'm like, are they waiting for something? Like something
was off here with this segment and I just didn't
think it was very good. But I'm also like, I'm
looking at bron Breaker, just like, what have they done
to bron Breaker? I mean, this guy went from being
a World championship contender to being the third wheel in
his own group. Someone in my mentions and I wish
I would have jotted the name them, because that's all
I posted. At the end of the segment. I said,
what have they done to bron Breaker? And there was
somebody of my mentions and it's actually very true. He said,
it's literally the toy story you meme said, Bron is
woody and Oba is buzz And I'm like, yes, that's
exactly what it is. Oba is the shiny new toy.
It's not bron anymore. And again, if you were to
put Bron and Oba next to each other, and you
were to say to me, we want to elevate somebody
as our next megastar, you have these two choices, who
do you go with. I'm going with Oba Femi. I'm
not even saying they got it wrong by pushing Obafemi.
But by pushing Obafemi, that doesn't mean that you have
to take bron Breaker and break him down as if
like we're gonna break him down to the eventually we'll
just build him back up again. I'm just like, looking
at this going they just set up a potential Summer
Slim Tag Team championship match. We are looking at a
situation where bron Breaker at this year's SummerSlam is going
to be occupied in a fucking match with Otis and Tozaua.
I mean, compare that to what you know he was
doing just any number of months ago. That's quite the
come doown. And it's not like they haven't had opportunities
to do more with him and really bust him out
as like a true badass on the show. And boy
is he taking a back seat. I guess when they're
ready for him, they'll they'll put that extra effort in,
but that's certainly not happening right now. This this feels
like a title match for Summer Slim. You got two nights,
you know, I'm sure they're gonna want to have the
Vision represented on the Summer Slam card. They could do
it on Raw, doesn't I mean This doesn't exactly feel
like a PL match, but you got two nights. If
they'd want to do thirteen fourteen matches, I could see
this being one of them. I know the tag team
titles on either brand typically they don't get a lot
of shine, they don't get a lot of attention. Did
we even have a tag team title match of WrestleMania
this year? I don't even remember. I don't even remember.
What I do remember is last year the SmackDown Tag
Team division was cooking, and even they couldn't get a
match or WrestleMania, so they gave them TLC on TV instead.
I don't remember what they did with the tag team
titles this year. Better question is who gives a shit?
Jimmy Usso he came out during the commercial break. He
was asking where Solo Socoa was when all of a sudden,
Royce Keys jumps him from Okay, everyone is telling me, no,
that's what I thought. I was pretty sure that neither
championship was defended this year. You have two sets of
tech team titles. I don't remember either of them making
the wrestlemaniaccur there, there, there is, There's Solo Scow that
was the reaction right there from WWE Creative when one
of the writers suggested, why don't we do a tag
team title match WrestleMania this year? That was that was
a visual representation of Triple H's reaction. Anyway, Jimmy comes out,
they're they're at commercial, where's solo? Royce Keys from SmackDown
jumps him from behind. No reaction for this. I'm not
sure most of the people in the building even knew
who it was at first. So they're brawling and Adam
Pierce comes out and he says, if you guys want
to fight, I'll get a referee out here and you
guys can fight. And so the match started during commercial.
When they came back, it was joined already in progress. Amazing.
They were not back on the air for more than
two and a half minutes, maybe three at the most,
and then they went to another commercial break. God. After
the break, Keys caught Jimmy with a power slam. They
cut to a split screen all of a sudden, and
they show an SUV pulling up to the building and
Jacob Fatu gets out and the camera stays with him.
So we have a split screen. We have the match
on one side, we have fa Tu walking through the back,
through the crowd down to the ring. He gets in
the ring, he jumps Keys for the disqualification. I want
to say the match itself went five or six minutes.
Three of it actually aired, so I can't say anything
about the match itself. The match was nothing. The match
was a backdrop to get Jacob to come down and
do what they were going to do. When the match
was over, Jacob said Royce in the corner for a
hip attack with the chair placed around his head, and
the entire time he's telling him, I didn't want to
do this. I didn't want to do this right because
these two are tight and they go back many years.
I think they even mentioned here the Keys was trained
by Rakishi. That's his connection to the bloodline's connection to
the family. So he was going to come in for
the running hip attack. Before he could come in though,
we hear the voice of Solo, not me, Solo Soko.
He's over by the timekeeper's area and he's telling Jacob,
you know, don't do it, don't do it. He gets
in the ring and he tells him, you know, blood
is thicker than water, and I'm coming home to the family.
So then he holds up the ones. Jimmy comes over,
he puts up the ones, and Jacob comes over and
he puts up the ones. It's like old times. And
then Solo flashes a smile and he turns on Jimmy
and drop some of the Samoan spike. And I'd be
lying if I told you that this got like some
big reaction like oh, the big baby face turned for
Solo Socoa. Yeah, didn't really get as much of a
reaction as you would expect a moment like that might get.
And I think part of a big part of it,
I don't think that people know who to root for
in this situation, like they like La Night. Beyond that, though,
who are they supposed to be cheering here? Like when
the usos come out and Jay Uso in particular, they
love to yeat right, so they'll do the yeating and
everything that they'll want him to run it back and
they're cheering him like a babyface, but in this situation
he's really not. Jacob had a lot of fans support
and then they beat him in May right a backlash,
and then they beat him again in Italy. He lost
twice in the same month to Roman reigns and now
he's his lap dog in the Bloodline. So Jacob's another one,
Like what have they done lately to Jacob Fatu? And
so the reaction to him is very mixed now when
he comes up, some people cheers, some people booz some
people don't know how to react Solo Soca. They want
to turn a babyface. I think that he could be
a good babyface. But it you know, people don't know
what to make of this right now. You know, it's
like they're kind of confused on Okay, where should we
be aligned here, Who's in the right, who's in the wrong,
what's going on here? We like La Knight, but like
I don't know, and we don't know much about Roy's
Keys and what's going on with these. It's all very
like weird. It's just a very weird dynamic right now.
So they start ganging up on Solo SoC and Royce Keys.
Here comes La Night and he's got a chair, so
he backdropped Jimmy to the floor. He attacked Fatu with
the chair. So the blood Line is sent into retreat
down the aisle. Night gets on the mic and yeah,
he's going through all of his usual cat phrases, We're
going to smack you back to factory settings and all
this other stuff, and he lays down the challenge for
Summer Slam. Three you against the three of us in
a six man tex and I do wonder how many
people in the building thought they were setting this up
for like after commercial, but they set this up for
Summer Slam. Yeah. Again, this is the match that I
was expecting. I've been talking about this now for probably
a couple of weeks now that this is what we
were headed for, and now they made it official. All
the segments that they've been doing with these guys, especially
La n I La and I's been ragging on the
bloodline now for weeks and weeks. It was building to this,
and it's a way to get all six of them
on the show together. Now, is Solo Soco We're going
to turn on his partners? Is he going to pull
a horseman? You know when Flair used to turn on
Sting when Sting would make the mistake of trusting him,
and then Solo ends up with the family. Because I'm curious,
coming out of SummerSlam, what do they do with Solo Soko?
Does he stay on SmackDown does he end up on raw,
Is he going to be on his own? Is he
going to be more of a babyface? Do they want
him as part of another group. I don't know. I
don't know. There's things that you can do with him.
He can be very entertaining. The stuff with the MFTs
was just a complete, absolute waste. I think of his personality.
I mean, he's a naturally funny, entertaining guy. He wasn't
allowed to show that when he was in the Bloodline
initially because he was the silent enforcer. He didn't say anything.
And then with the MFTs, he had to play it
very stoic and very straight, and every now and then,
you know, he would kind of crack jokes and he
would laugh and everything like that. But he was like
Timu Roman unsmackdown. It's like this doesn't work, it doesn't
suit him. So we know what we're getting at Summerslim.
But I'm wondering what's next for him. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm curious to see how they're gonna
use him, if they're just gonna lump him back in
with another group. But I think Solo the Babyface, Solo
the Babyface is it's going to work a lot better
because it's really something we haven't seen from him on
the main roster. We saw it at NXT, remember Next
when he initially debuted, he was like the street fighter,
Uh not really a funny guy, but he was a
baby face. The fans were behind him. He's got that
in him, LA And I don't even ask me what
they would do with him coming out of Summer Slam.
Probably back to the doldrums with him. I don't even
want to venture. I guess about what's next for he
may bee eating the fucking pin at Summer Slam, for
all I know, I wouldn't be surprised. We go backstage, Oh,
this was great. This was great. So we go backstage
and the Vision are walking along, very proud of you
know what happened in their segment earlier on, and they
bump into Paul Hayman, and Paul Hayman is applauding the Vision,
and Theory wondered, does that mean that we're all back together?
Hayman said, Maxine was so magnificent tonight, What the hell
do you need me for? And he walked away, and
on commentary, Corey Graves wondered if Paul Hayman had just
handed the reins of the Vision to Maxine Dupree. This
is where we are now. This is where we are now,
where Maxine Dupree may well be the new leader of
the Vision. She may be leading bron Breaker and the
rest of the Vision here. I laughed because my interpretation
of what we saw here this was this was the
write off of Paul Hayman and the Vision. Now there's
been talk about they would wwe would want to keep
Hayman with bron Breaker if nothing else that could still happen,
And we don't know what's gonna happen when Bronson Reid
comes back. I feel like Bronson Reed, we're in that
range right now where he should be coming back, not
all that long from now. I mean, he could probably
be back in the next few weeks, I would think.
But this was a way to get Hayman away from
the Vision. And if you're Paul Hayman, you're probably looking
at this going, thank God, get me out of here,
get me away from this. This ain't working no more.
I want nothing to do with this. So I don't know,
we may be looking at a brand new leader here
of the Vision. Hayman was the oracle, right, he was
Seth's oracle. He's been the advocate, the wise man, the oracle.
What would Maxine do Pre be, what would her nickname
be if she was the new leader of the Vision?
Adam Pierce he was having a phone conversation backstage with somebody.
He told whoever it was that he was on the
phone with, that he would be there if he was needed,
which is very interesting. And then Oba Femi showed up.
Pierce told him that Hayman was bluffing those restraining orders.
He talked about they don't exist, and Oba said he knew.
He said, it tells him that Hayman and Brock are scared.
I do wonder if the beginning of that phone conversation,
if he was on the phone with Nick all this
and this was some kind of reference to something that's
happening with all this, And I'm here if you need me,
because I think we know, after what happened on Friday,
all this is going to have some sort of I
can't even say wrestle. It may end up being a brawl,
it may be something non sanctioned, but I think it's
safe to say that what is gunther going to be
doing at Summerslime, He's going to be fighting Nick all this,
so maybe he was on the phone with Nick all this,
and all this was like, look, I got some business
to tend to. I got to do what I gotta do,
and I may need you to kind of take the
reins for a little bit. That was kind of how
I read that. Now. After this, during the commercial break, actually,
Byron Saxton had Bailey come over and he wanted to
ask her about Lyra Valkyria, and Bailey said, you know,
I said last week that I would address Lyra in
the ring, and I think that's what I'm going to
go do right now. So they played her shitty music
and she made her way to the ring. This was
during the commercial break, by the way, she came out
during the commercial break, you know, Byron introduced her out
into the stage area, and again very little reaction. I'm
listening to the beginning of this music. I mean, we
hear it every time Bailey comes out, but like, I
can't believe she's still coming out to this music. Has
she been the role model? When was the last time
that she was even the role model on this show?
Is that still supposed to be her gimmick role model.
This is the garbage that they're sending her out to
the ring with. I can't believe she's still coming out
to this trash. Comes down to the ring, come back
from commercial, she's already there. She wants Lyra Valkyrie to
join her in the ring. Lyra comes out and certainly
certainly a new look for Lyra. I said when when
she turned, somebody called her, she's an angry bird. Now,
I said, yeah, she's an angry bird. I don't know
what kind of this is like, I don't know. She
looked like she hadn't slept in a while. She looked
very unkempt, no makeup on. She looked like one of
the unwashed masses. As she made her way down to
the ring, she actually kind of looked and somebody said
she looked like oh god, somebody said, Daphne. I looked
at her. I thought she looked like crazy, the crazy
nicky Cross days. She comes down to the ring, Bailey
wants an apology. Lyra thinks that she's the one who
deserves an apology. If Bailey could realize that her own problems,
she would realize why so many people turn on her.
She could just recognize her own issues. Lyra says that
she's always lied to make Bailey feel good because the
reality is that Bailey is nothing more than a doormat.
Her face shouldn't beyond the posters. She drags everybody down.
She's not a locker room leader, and you're always been
the worst of the four horse women. That's the big
burn there in that promo. A lot of people who
feel that way. She's a diseased bird or the bird
flo who said that, yes, yes, how come I didn't
think of that. Lyra has bird flu. That's exactly what
she Oh my god, that's perfect. That's fucking perfect. She
walked out there, she looked like she had h one
n one. She looked like she had bird flu. So
Bailey she shoots back with some of her accomplishments, you know,
first Grand Slam champion, one half of the first women's
tag team champions, and she's going to add to that
resume beating Lyra Valkyria in Madison Square Garden because the
two of them are going to have a match at
Saturday night's main event. So Lyra threw a cheap shot,
got blocked. She ended up dropping Bailey anyway with her
own Bailey to Belly Suplex and so there you go.
That's the setup for a match now on Saturday. Look,
we needed more matches. We had what three of them
officially announced coming into tonight. We needed at least one
more announced for Saturday show. Not the match I was expecting,
not exactly a marquee addition to the card, but it's
a match. It was either going to be here. It
was going to be summer slim. Now. The way that
Lyra was out there dressed up looking again, I said,
she kind of reminded me of crazy crazy Nicky Cross.
Was H one N one the swine flu? I don't know.
I got my flus confused. I thought it was H
one N one. Did I get the wrong strain of flu?
She did not. She did not have swine flu. It
was swine flu. Okay, well, well then what the hell
was bird flu? I diagnosed her with the wrong condition.
I could be sued for medical malpractice. Anyway. We've had
reports recently about Tatum Paxley and Tatum. I think, didn't
Tatum just lose Tazaria that the Great American Bash? It's
sure felt like that was going to be her write
off from the NXT brand. Would not at all be
surprised if we get a Tatum Paxley appearance on Saturday
and she helps Lyra win the first match, and then
maybe they run it back with a second match at
summer Slim I could see that. But if they were
going to debut Tatum Paxley, that would not be a
bad place to do it. And Madison Square Garden, you know,
it was part of this feud, I would say, probably
something I would consider doing. And then you can kind
of pair her off with Lyra and they can do
something together and Bailey Bailey may have have to enlist
some help of her own. We had another Rains and
Rollin's retrospective here, part two, the Breakup, and they showed
clips from twenty fourteen of Seth putting the chair in
Romans back on Raw, breaking up the Shield, and a
whole bunch of other things. Then we had the teaser
that I mentioned here at the beginning of this review.
We had an it was a silhouette, but then you
could clearly see it was big casts. They had some
close up shots in his eyes right. They were kind
of just barely obscuring it, but you could see who
it was, and you heard a voice. It was his voice.
What happens when the whole world calls? You can't miss
what happens when they're wrong. And at the very end
we see the date eight three August third is a Monday.
It is the Monday after Summer Slam. I don't I
don't know where that show is. Probably probably in Minneapolis,
I would imagine, not at US Bank Stadium, but I
would imagine they're not going to stray too far from
where they're going to be. So Big Cast is coming back,
and I'm watching this and I'm like, man, like, they're
just giving that shit away, because I have every expectation
that next week or the week after, we're going to
get a similar vignette and it's going to have Enzo OMOI.
Enzo Moray was not seen, he was not heard. They
were just showing old clips of you know, Big Casts,
and they were signs, you know, so oft they were
showing all of that. But no Enzo here doesn't mean
Enzo is not coming in. It doesn't mean Enzo is
not going to be part of this. He's absolutely going
to be part of this, I'm sure in some way.
So maybe next week we'll get the Enzo portion of it.
They'll put the date up again, so I wouldn't read
too much into the fact that he wasn't a part
of this segment here. It got me a little like
excited watching this just because I was like, oh, well,
maybe they're actually going to push him as a single.
But then I thought about it. I said, that's it's
probably just week one, right, Enzo will be there in
week two in the promos and they'll just build to it.
But like they're gonna come out, I don't even know
if they would have the rights to use their old music.
They change everybody's fucking music that they had back at
NXT back then maybe for the initial appearance, you know,
we'll hear that music, and believe me, people are gonna
know and it would have gotten a great rein. Look,
it'll still get a good reaction. But why why spoil this?
Why not save this for for a surprise? August third
is in des Moines, Iowa. You're going from summerslim in
Minneapolis to des Moines, Iowa. That's weird, What a weird
place to bring back casin Enzo. Okay, he's coming to
des Moines. Still, I would have saved this as a surprise. Look,
I stand by what I said. You're going to get
huge reactions initially for them in different cities. You're gonna
be able to coast on that for a few months,
and then after a certain number of months, the question
becomes what's next, because you're bringing them into a situation
where if they're coming in as a tag team, they're
coming in as you know, a team and a dead division.
And I just don't know why you would want to
put a ceiling on this guy. He's very tall, right,
I wouldn't be putting a ceiling on him. He could
be doing some stuff as a singles Maybe they want
to reintroduce him as part of a team and then
transition him eventually into a singles push. Maybe I hope,
I hope. So I don't think there's any grand plan
to stock up on tag teams or anything like that.
So it's just going to get to a point where,
you know, you get to a fork in the road,
it's like, well, now what. I just hope they don't
keep them there for too long. They may come back
and be the ones to eventually beat the Vision to
win the tag team titles. But again, what does that mean?
It's kind of crazy to think they never won the
belts the first time. If they were to come in
and win the tag team titles, it would be their
first reign together, I believe. But then what then? What?
Who's next? Finally we got something real good on this show.
It was time for the start of the Gauntlet Match
to crown a new number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship.
The winner would go on to Summer Slam for the
right to challenge Penta. First fall here of this match,
there's Dominic Mysterio, who had JD McDonough in his corner
taking on Joe Henry. And I'll give you one guess
if Joe Henry got an entrance on this show. The
answer is no. They came back from commercial and they
were in the middle of playing his music. So the
streak continues of no real true entrance for Joe Hendry
on Monday Night Raw. Maybe it's in his contract that
he's not allowed to get one. Maybe they're contractually obligated
to send him out there during the commercial break, so
dom got the advantage early sent him into the ring
steps when they were fighting outside. Back inside, Henri though
caught him and dumped him with a fallaway slam. J
D McDonagh distracted Henry though, which allowed Dom to hit
a six one nine. He followed with the frog splash. Adios, Joe,
see you later. Joe Hendry is bounced in the opening
round here of this Gauntlet match. Thanks for coming. The
next match Javon Evans taking on Raymisteria or Dominic Mysterio.
Javan Evans against Raymisterio would have been a much better
match than this was, so they joined this coming back
from the break already in progress. Evans dumped Mysterio on
the floor, hit him with a dive. McDonough tried to
interfere in the match again the referee they'll caught him.
This time Evans knocked McDonough to the floor. So then
Dom caught Evans with a six to one night and
he was headed up to the top. But we're going
to get the same finish that we got to the
first match, until Dan Hausen came out. He rolled out
onto the stage and his magic mobile and he's sitting
there in his little Again tank or whatever the fuck
it's supposed to be, and he puts a curse on Dom.
Now Dom is standing on the ropes right because he's
getting ready to hit the frog splash, but he's looking
over at Dan Housen and when he gets cursed, there's
a burst of pyro, but it's from the wrong ring post.
So Dom sees this and he's like what And he
looks over at McDonough at ringside. He's like, go get
him right. He's sending McDonough after him, but in doing so,
this is distracting Dom and Dom has no idea that
Gravan is preparing for an og cutter, and he catches
in with the og cutter on the way down and
he pins Dom. So Dom is eliminated. See so the
curse worked after all, It just has different ways of working.
His match with JD McDonough. By the way Dan House
and I'm talking about on Saturday Night is now a
no disqualification match. So let the fuckery commence. Maybe the
Miz and Kit Wilson will do their zombie walk down
to the ring and they'll help Dan Housen win third
fall here in this gauntlet match, and the best fall
Javon Evans one on one against Dragonly funny. Like once
Dom was eliminated, this is where the match actually got
good now, as Jim Ross would say, and good luck
to Jr. Who may be going in for surgery as
early as this week for brain surgery. Business is about
to pick up between these two. There was a spot
outside the ring that I actually shouted, Holy shit, I
saw it because we had Javon Evans outside. Dragonly came
in and Javan hip tossed him over the timekeeper's barricade
like it was in such a way where he was
flying so fast off the hip toss he almost landed
headfirst on the floor. But man, he fucking vaulted him over,
and it's just all exposed, you know, concrete outside over there,
it's some mats or anything. So he took this hillacious
bump on the floor. And now Javon he is going
to circle around the entire length of the ring outside
he's kind of walking, and then he's walking, he's picking
up speed and he charges at Dragonly, who now is
back to his feet in the timekeeper's area, and he
just goes he like he collided with him, but the
momentum carried Javan over the barricade into the crowd, and
I think dragon Ly tried to like get himself over
the barricade with him, but he couldn't say he just
fell to the floor. But these guys were just going
nuts here. They were cutting loose here in this fall.
So back inside, Lee went for a Tornado DDT and
he spiked him with it, and the crowd is chanting,
this is awesome. A little while later, Evans was draped
over the middle rope, Lee hit him with a double
stomp from the top. So Lee was setting up for
something else. Javon hooked him into a cradle and he
got the flash pin. This was a lot of fun,
and this was the point where the crowd was really
like getting into it here. Then it led into the
fourth fall, which was a Javan Evans against Russev. Now
remember last week they kept Russev looking very strong. He
actually won a match, and then he was putting everybody
into the accolade and it's like, of course, they're setting
him up to be like the final boss of the Gauntlet,
which actually technically he wasn't the final boss. Ethan Page
was the final the final one. But Russev's music hits
dragon Ly is still out there right. He's shaking hands
with Javon and he's kind of taken forever to leave
the ring. It's got his back turned now. And then
we found out why because Russev ambushed, you know, ambushed
Evans from behind, knocked him into Dragonly, and so Dragonly
got knocked out of the ring. So Russev he just dominated.
During the commercial break here, Evan sent Russev to the
floor though he landed a dive out onto him. Then
he dove into off the top rope. He jumped, landed
right into a urinagi. He got planted. Russev then got
the accolade applied. Evans though he's fighting it. He's fighting it,
and he's struggling. He's trying to crawl over to the ropes,
and the fans are with him. Man, the fans are
trying to cheer him on, and they're trying to get him,
you know, go ahead, get out of it, Get out
of it. So he's struggling to make the ropes and
he does, but then Russev locks in the accolade for
a second time, and it looks like okay, he's gonna
go out, but he doesn't go out. He starts twitching
and flailing and fighting in the crowd is really getting
up for it because they want to see him break
out of his hold. And he's slowly getting to his
feet with Brucev on his back, and now the fans
are really into it. And then Javon falls backwards and
breaks the hold. So this was just a great struggle
here that he was putting up and there was a
moment in here where I just thought for sure, okay,
the match is ending right here, and it didn't, and
he fought out of it again and again. They just
the way they worked this, I thought was very smart
and it was a great way the fans were fully
invested in behind javan here. Evans went for the og cutter,
but you could see he's on rubber legs, like he
doesn't have a whole lot left. Goes for the og
cutter Russev as he's coming off the top there. Russev
kind of late, but he kind of threw a shot,
caught him with it. He tagged him with a punch
on the way down. He got the accolade applied for
a third time, and this time there was no get out.
He tried Rusev at one point he kind of put
his arms crossed, both of his arms right over Javon's face.
He couldn't even see his face, He's just wrenching back
on it. And then the referee finally calls for the stoppage,
and the fans sounded genuinely surprised and disappointed and started
booing Russev. So that was the end of Javon Evans.
If there was any doubt up to this point about
what WWE was going to do as far as the
outcome of this gauntlet, because the only other thing that
could have happened here would have been a Javon Evans win.
Once Javon Evans was eliminated, I breathe a sigh of relief.
I said, there's no way they can fuck this up.
There's no way, no. Now, there might have been some
people out there actually thinking that Ethan Page was gonna
win this in the end, but I was not one
of those people. So at this point I'm like, Okay,
they made the right decision. Well it's not over yet,
but they made the right decision. But we had Russev
against Chad Gable and here he cuts speak of bad music.
Here he comes, he comes down to the ring German
sup plexes. There was an overhead throw Gable came off
the top. Russev, though, caught him with a yuranagi. That's
as good a time as any for them to go
to another commercial. But you know that you expect that
with these Gauntlet matches because they go for so long.
Russev went for a superplex. Gable fought out of it.
He flew off the top the big flying clothesline and
he was trying for an angle slam, and Russev got
out of it. He locked in the accolade. Gable fought
out of it. Suit plex Russev German style backwards into
the top turn buckle, and then Gable climbed the ropes,
caught Russev with a victory roll and he got the pin.
A little Brenton Bambam action from the King of the
Ring Finals in ninety three. I like it. I like it.
Russev didn't like it, so he attacked Gable even though
he lost, put him in the accolade. Meanwhile, Ethan Page
is making his way down to the ring because he
is the next and last in the Gauntlet, and here
his boy Russev is softening him up. He's making his
job easy. So Page had the advantage early on here
and it looked like he was gonna it's gonna be
a layup for him. Of course, though Gable made a comeback.
He escaped an ego plex, he hit an angle slam
for a near fall. Gable went to the top. Page
caught him though, and he was trying for an avalanche
power slam. Gable slipped out. He got the ankle lock applied.
Page tried to escape Gable, though he held on like
a bulldog man. He rolled through and eventually Paige had
no choice but to tap out to the ankle lock
and it got a good reaction to Gable winds. People
are happy, this is great. I was a little worried
there because they were so into Javon. I was like, man,
I hope they don't rebel against everybody else in this match.
But they were with Gable. They were very happy to
see him win. And Pente came out afterwards. They had
a brief stare down and they shook hands when it
was over to make it official for SummerSlam and Chad
Gable will now go to his hometown of Minneapolis and
his home state of Minnesota to challenge for what may
well be his first singles championship in WWE, and if
they know what they're doing. I love Penta, but man,
there will never be a better time to put that
championship on Gable than now. And I probably said that
years ago when he wrestled Gunther for the championship, when
his little girl was in the front row. But here
we are, years later, years later. There will never be
a better time to put the IC title on him. Now.
Don't make the same mistake you made with Seamus. They
waited and they waited and they waited, and now he's
not even in the company anymore, and he will never
win that championship. You're in his hometown. This man is
coming off arguably the best match of the entire year
in Tripa A certainly one of them. So I said,
coming in, there's only one job as far as I'm concerned.
You got one job at Summerslim. I love Penta, but
you got one job at Summer Slim. Don't fuck this up.
Most important thing here. Though they got the outcome right,
I might have had Gable enter the Gauntlet, maybe a
match earlier, but I get it. You know they wanted
to give Javon the rub. He wasn't going to win.
So let's use the gauntlet as a way to try
to elevate him a little bit. We'll let him go
out there and survive for a while. I don't have
any issue with that. The most important thing is that
the right man. One after this, we had an suv
pull up backstage and outcomes Roman reigns. Isn't it amazing
how he manages to show up at just the right
time at the end of the show. What if he
hits traffic on the way from his hotel to the building?
What happens? Then? It's a good thing they weren't in La.
You know, I've been to La a couple times. I've
never had the displeasure of driving in La. I've heard
horror stories, though, you know, about people who want to
go out to the restaurant, and the restaurant is I
don't know, typically maybe five or six minutes down the
road from where they are. They get in the car.
Thirty five minutes later they arrive. I guess they didn't
have that issue in Dallas, Texas. Tonight gets out of
the suv and he puts his hand out and here
comes Lard, his friend. Lard has the championship and hands
the World heavyweight title to Roman so that he can
make his way into the Now. Is it Lard or
is it Lord? Maybe it's Lord. We had this debate
last time. I think I called him Lord Mark. That
might have been what Roman called Lord Mark. Is what
I said. I was going to call this guy, so
we'll call him Lord Mark. He was back and he
handed Roman his championship. Meanwhile, Adam Pierce was in the
ring to introduce Roman out to the ring first, and
he asked Dallas, Texas to acknowledge him. Seth Rollins was
out next to burn it down. As Roman took his
seat at the head of the table in the ring,
Seth took a seat right next to him. This would
be like the equivalents of like if you go into
the bathroom of the men's room somewhere, you got a
whole row Sorry, ladies, you might not be able to
relate to this, but you've got a whole row of urinals, right,
and they're pretty much all open, and you go to
the far end. You're gonna use the urinal all the
way at the far end. And then some other guy
walks into the bathroom and he decides, you know what,
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take the urinal right next
to you. What the fuck are you doing? You have
all of this space, Why are you standing next to me?
Roman is sitting at the head of the table here
and Rollins takes a seat as close to him as
he possibly caseled, getting all up at his personal space.
What are you doing here? And he immediately signs the contract.
He's not wasting any time here. So he gets on
the mic says he knows that this has to be
tough for Roman, but look, there are just some things
in life that are certain death taxes and seth. Rollins
beats Roman reigns every single time. Cruising cruising, Yeah, probably Yeah,
if you're in the bathroom and somebody does that, they
are probably crude. They're cruising for a bruising, is what
they're doing. You need to back up. You need to
not invade my personal space. You get splashed on. So
he goes sign on the dotted line and let's get
this over with, which is which is my saying when
it comes to these contracts signing, He's just sign the
contract and get this over with, because there's no sense
in delight saying the inevitable Seth kicked his feet up
on the table like he owned the place, band sang
his song. Roman said he wishes Seth would have come
out and did that last week before he bored the
crowd half to death. I said, that's a shoot, that's
a shoot. See Roman didn't come to work last week,
but he was clearly watching the show and he felt
the same way that I felt, which is that promo
last week from Seth Rollins was a fail. It was boring.
And now you don't have to take my word for it.
You could take it from the champion. He said the
same thing. But he says, Seth Wright Rollins is his
number one hater, but that's the only thing that he
is number one at. He somehow has these people confused,
thinking that they're on the same level. So at Summerslim,
he shows the difference between the two of them. He
ends any of this nonsense about Seth ever competing with him.
He shows him what number one looks like and with
that and went and he signed the contract. So Seth
thanked him for keeping his title warm since WrestleMania, says
he'll be taking it from him at Summerslim and he'll
see him next time. That Roman wants to show up
for work, and with that, Seth exited the ring and
he began to make his trek to the back. Roman
didn't look too thrilled with that comment. As Seth is leaving,
he says, where do you think you're going? So that's it,
You're just gonna sign and run. Okay, how about we
play your game. What if you do win? Then what
what happens next? Well, you're gonna carry it for a
couple of months and get hurt again. I mean, don't
act shocked. That's what happens every single time. Some would
say that it's self sabotage because some people just can't
handle the weight and the burden and the pressure of
being the top guy around here. So Seth turns around.
He begins to walk back towards the ring, comes face
to face, almost nose to nose with Roman in the
middle of the ring, and Roman is smiling and saith
not so much. Rollin says, you got something to say,
just say it, So come on, spit it out, say it.
I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere. Roman says, He'll
say it because everybody's thinking it. He said, you want
to know how I know that you're number two because
after all these years, you still need a money in
the bank briefcase to become champion. And if you thought
that that was bad enough, you had to fake an
injury to even use the damn thing. Because let's just
be honest here, if there was ever a time for
this guy to be a number one, I mean, come on,
your your work, daddy, Triple A damn near runs this joint.
They pretty much gave you all my stuff and you
still couldn't walk in my shoes. No Number two said,
your number two always going to be a number two.
I'm number one, always going to be a number one.
Just acknowledge it, bitch, bro I will say Roman, Roman was,
he was on a role here, Roman was, he was
he was cooking this guy here, Rollins asked him, is
that all you got? Said, that's all you can come
up with. He goes, Come on, Roman, tell me how
I'm never going to be you tell me how I'm
never going to draw as much money as you tell me.
I'm never going to make an event as many WrestleManias
as you Anything you can tell me, I've told myself
every single day for the past fifteen years, but you
and me, we're not fighting the same fight. But he
had to look in the mirror and be proud of
what he fights for. He being sad because and then see,
up until this point, everything was going really well. And
then he goes because I'm a I'm a revolutionary, and
I'm like, okay, now you lost me. I every time
he goes into this visionary revolutionary spiel, he loses me
because now he's going into stick. Up until this point,
you had a good back and forth, and they're trading barbs,
and he's kind of weaving in like maybe real life
feelings or feelings that you could believe that you know,
he might be really feeling, and so it's like, Okay,
this is going well. And then as soon as he
hit that, I'm like, all right, that's I'm out enough
with the visionary of the revolutionary stuff. I've always said this, like,
what is so visionary and revolutionary about anything that Seth
Rollins has done in WWE Nothing? His wardrobe, that's about it.
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. What
makes him so revolutionary? Where did this come from? When
did this start? I don't know, but I wish he
wouldn't have said it here in this prom because now
it just became any other wrestling promo. But he did
say he's very glad that he's not Roman raids. Rollins
tagged him with a right hand shot, and he cheap
shot at him, basically, and now Roman is down. He's
putting the boots to Roman here in the middle of
the ring. Chris says, I think of you, solo when
Seth does that every fucking time, dude, every single time. Ah. Yes,
the architect, he's an architect, he's a revolutionary architect. But yes,
he cheap shots Roman raigns, and now he's putting the
boots to him. Not really getting much of a reaction either,
because people, you know, they like Seth, but they like
Roman more. Let's just be honest here, and I think
if you give them the opportunity and you say, you
can only really cheer for one negative, cheer for Roman
over Seth. Even the Roman's a total heel every time
he's out there, they weren't really reacting much to it.
He mounts him, he starts raining blows. Now where's your
blood line? Now? He says, I know who I am,
you piece of shit? I know who I am. Hey,
maybe Netflix will edit that out the way they edited
out the Cody Rhodes blood from the beginning of Did
you hear about this? So I mentioned that story that
on the replay of the Night of Champions pl E
they had the cage match with Seth Rollins and Bron
Breaker and Bron got busted open right in the course
of that match, hard way, and it was great because
it added to the match, and like half his face
was kind of covered in blood. It wasn't anything overly
egregious or anything, but it was a good visual And
so then and again it airs on Netflix internationally. I
don't believe they made any edits on the ESPN version.
People started to talk talking about how on the Netflix
version though, after the fact, they put a giant blur
over Bron's face because they wanted to cover up all
the blood, and I guess they felt like they didn't
have a really like good enough way of just editing
part of his face, so they put a fucking blur.
He looked like he looked like an entity, like a
demon of some kind, and this is how they And
so if you watched the last half of that match,
it's literally a blur and it's just the most preposterous thing.
So then I saw earlier today. If you remember, at
the beginning of Raw last week, gun Through Attack, Cody
roads backstage and he slammed a car door on his head,
and then Cody comes up bleeding, and again it's like
trickles of blood from you know, the top of his
head or whatever. Apparently now on the Netflix version, which
I mean Raw airs on Netflix. Of course it would
be on Netflix. But if you go back, and I
have not gone back and looked yet, I just read
this before, there's some sort of glitch effect to hide
the fact that Cody was bleeding. What in the world
is going on here? What is going on with Netflix?
This is awful, This is so ridiculous. What are these
I have to imagine if I had a venture A guess,
I have to guess that there's some sort of and
this is just me spitballing here. I could be completely
wrong because I'm just trying to figure out what the
hell's going on here that in certain countries or markets
that sort of thing has to be censored, and so
therefore it has to ends up being censored for everybody.
But again, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me,
because does raw even get a rating anymore? What would
this show be rated as compared to some of the
other content on Netflix that shows far worse than just
trickles of blood on someone's face. I would love to
know the rules that govern censorship, what gets censored and
what doesn't on netfl flicks because none of this makes
any sense to me. But yes, now, now you have
glitched out Cody Rhodes, you have blurred out Bronze Breaker.
What's next? Who's going to be erased next? See? Now
you would if this was airing on television and you
had your VCR and you popped your VHS tape in
and you push record, you would have that physical media
that nobody could ever censor. You would have the original
OG copy of it that nobody could ever take away
from you. See. I have a theory here because what's
old usually becomes new again, And like collecting vinyl records
has become like a big thing. Apparently vinyls are like
back in style. You watch VCRs and VHS. Technology is
going to make a comeback one day. I'm not saying
on like a massive mainstream scale, but it's pendulum's gonna
swing back, and there's gonna be tons of people who
are gonna want to have like VCRs and vhs. Right,
what's old is new again. It always comes back around.
Especially as you take more physical media away from people,
they're going to gravitate. I feel like towards some of
these older technologies, I threw away a lot of them,
but I still have a lot of my VHSS, and
I at the moment, I don't really have anything to
play it on. I actually do have one. I have
one VCR somewhere. But even if I never watch those
tapes again, like some of these paper views, like they're
so valuable, like I would never I would never give
them away because you just never know. It's because of
shit like this. Anyway, Off my soapbox here. Back to this.
So he's yelling at Roman. He's cursing up a storm.
Finally the fans are kind of singing his song. He
goes to leave, but he notices Roman is on his knees,
so he comes in for the stomp instead. Though when
he comes in, he eats a superman punch. Roman then
moves the table over. He gets Rollin's up in a
power bomb position, but Rollins has the mic in his
hand and he bashes Roman in the head of the mic,
so Roman drops him. Seth delivers a pedigree. Now he's
waiting for it. He's waiting for Roman to get back
on all fours, and then when he does, he flies
in for the stomp and Seth Rolins stands tall to
close out the show. I thought this was a great segment,
and as I said before, it's almost it's almost like
these things work better when you have somebody to play
off of and you're not just talking to a blank slate.
That promo last week was terrible. This segment here, this
contract signing was great, was great, and it's going to
get a lot of people, I think that much more
interested in seeing Seth Rollins against Roman Reigns at Summer Slim,
which should be the point when you do a segment
like this. You want to get people excited, right, You
want to get people to think, man, I can't wait
to see these two guys just go at it. You
don't want to scare them off and be like, man,
this was terrible. I have no interest in seeing this
match now. So mission accomplished. You know, they did what
they had to do here with this. They got some
stiff shots in there, or Roman did. Anyway. I think
that money in the bank crack was that was a
nice little low blow there. It was a little weird
that Jimmy and Jacob didn't come out. I think Seth again,
he even mentioned to Roman when he was beating him down,
like where's your bloodline? Now? I asked the same question,
like where the hell did they go? It's not like
they got chased out of the building. But you know what,
they have their own issue going on. They have their
own match for Summer Slam, so it's fine to leave
them out of it. They have their own issues to
deal with. The last hour or forty five minutes maybe
or so of this show, which was really the gauntlet
in the contract signing, best part of the show. So
again like that I say third hour, it's not a
full third hour. They did go longer than usual though,
I don't think the show went off the air until
about a quarter to eleven, so they did almost go
three hours tonight. First ninety minutes plus not that great,
not that great at all, very very missible, But the
closing stretch of the show I thought was very good.
All right, where are we on the likes? Let's take
a look here. Three ninety was the goal. We are
at five three very good, so we got some be
the booker coming up here in a little bit. Thank
you guys for being with me here tonight and hanging
with me. We ain't done yet. We still have the
Dynamite post show coming up on Wednesday, SmackDown on Friday,
Saturday Night's Made event coming up on Saturday. I'm going
to do a whole preview tomorrow on the Uncrowned Wrestling Show.
We got a lot yet to discuss, but we're going
to start this discussion with death Syth. This is hey,
sol a Monster. Got to ask what if Jeff Hardy
never left WWE in two thousand and nine, because I
could see him in Batista in a program instead of
Batista feuding with Ray and the Undertaker. Well, if you remember,
Jeff got into some trouble right when he left WWE,
you know nine, So if he didn't leave, he would
have gotten into trouble regardless. So I don't know, I
don't know what he would have been doing because that
would have had an effect on things. Would he have
worked with Batista if he's going to stick around for
a few more years, then very likely. Yes, the two
of them would have worked together, but it doesn't change
the fact that he got into some legal problems that
would have happened regardless. We got a death side. Plus,
it is bizarre that Batista and Jeff never had a
proper program or singles match. Yeah again, eventually everybody wrestles.
Everybody who would have stuck around, they would have worked together.
It is inevitable. Also, he says now that I can
say that out loud, if Jeff Hardy thought CMPUN gave
him problems that year, heal Batista would have given him
a lot worse. Hollywood. Batista against the Jeff Hardy could
have been fun. Could have been a fun program, Robbie.
So I guess we have our answer about King of
the Ring. Oba completely relinquished his title opportunity for this
because brock quote would have cost him anyway. Dude, it's
it's so actually made Oba look worse by saying that
they actually made him look worse. I won King of
the Ring. I went through the first round, I went
through the semi final round, I flew all the way
to Saudi Arabia and won the finals. I earned the
right to challenge for a championship at SummerSlam, but I
gave up my shot because I just knew Brock was
gonna fuck me over. You know what a dweeb that
makes him sound like. Also, they were trying their best
to keep Dean Ambrose's face out of those flashbacks. I
noticed that too. He slipped in there a few times.
Though they did their best to hide the Ambrose's face
in those retrospectives. You can't ignore it. He's part of
that Shield history, whether they like it or not. The
lunatic Fringe Aaron says Roxanne can't win a match. Yeah,
that's right, she has that streak going for her too.
Who's the bigger loser on raw right now? Joe Hendry
or Roxanne Perez. Did Roxanne get an entrance? I think she? Uh?
I think she did. If Roxanne, if Roxanne got an
entrance tonight, then she she's at least better off than
Joe Hendry is. Uh. We gotta give me backshot Sola Monster, Hey,
you were that guy in the bathroom. Bron needs to
shoot fight Triple h Roman and Hayman. He needs to
go all Steiner on them. You got me wrestling fucking
Tozawa at SummerSlam. So their grand plan for Broun Breaker.
Uh dried Chicken So the police protecting brock Lesner says,
damn triple h It's true. He overprotects his favorites. Hey,
don't don't call him pop age. That just sounds fucking ridiculous.
He does. Look, he has favorites, I'm sure, just like
anybody else does, and he will protect them at all costs.
Super pony. So thank god they took the layup. So
happy for Chad. They give him impenta at least fifteen minutes.
We're looking at a match of the year. Dude, if
they give them twelve minutes, you don't think those two
aren't going to go out there with their working shoes
on that night looking to steal the show, right, Chicken
says rip Sam Neil, Yes, he passed away today. I
did see that. Drew Mackincox says, when will title matches
be added? To be the booker would love to see
Brett Versus angle for the twenty four to seven title
in a Punjabi prison match. You may be getting belts
very soon. You may be getting built very soon. John
with the ten dollars, super chet. Then we'll get to Nick.
I jumped onto X to check out the IWC. Always
a dangerous thing to do, John, and my god, it's insufferable.
I know the tribalism is bad on all platforms, but
X is honestly exhausting. Anyways, thank you Solo for all
you do. I appreciate you. I appreciate you as well.
Yeahs you compare all the different platforms, x X is
by far the worst. It's addicting you. People will try
to pull themselves away from it, and they get sucked
back into it and they follow certain accounts maybe or
they have a lot of contacts and trade dms with people.
There's different reasons for staying on there, but it is
an absolutely just just a fucking cesspool of garbage on there.
You are not wrong about that, Nick says, Now the
Gable has his title match, maybe before or after SummerSlam,
Penta goes heel and we get dark Penta. We are
not getting dark Penta. Penta is not going heel that
I can tell you. Penta is not going hel Penta.
Penta enjoys being a babyface. Wwe I think likes him
being a babyface. They send him out there to do
media and stuff, and he's meeting kid Penta is for
the kids. Now, they're not going to to trade that
in Fore heel turn also does Tatum Pasley debut at
MSG to help Lyra? I would guess yes, I think so.
I think that'd be a good spot for her to debut.
Dried Chicken says I would love to buy Maxine and
Lyra double bacon cheeseburger and chili cheese fries on the side.
That sounds disgusting, getting heartburn just reading that. I would
rather watch the elegance brand over the vision, so would I.
You and me both Chicago for MBK. The mismanagement of
bron is criminal. Yes, they should be brought up on charges.
I agree. Dried Chicken says Bron Breaker and Carmelo Hayes
should be sent to triple A. Aaron says bron Breaker
is on the Rye back trajectory, so he'll be shooting
tiktoks and doing food challenges. I sure hope not. Is
he on tikto I don't even know if he's on TikTok?
Alexander says, does Maxine gain two hundred pounds and start
does Maxine gained two hundred pounds and start wearing a
penguin like suit to Mimickhaman as the new leader of
the All she has to do is waddle back and
forth when she walks out. I would not advise the
whole gaining two hundred pounds thing. That would be bad.
But she has abs. She has she has abs. I
mean she does want to get rid of those. Lyra
was hanging out with Tyrone Bighams. Paul Carpenter says, give
Lyra the hearing voices gimmick that Bailey was supposed to have.
My opinion, it would work better the way Lyra's mannerisms are.
How about we don't give anybody the voices gimmick because
it's just dumb. How beut we don't do that. Although
I don't disagree with you. When she walked out there
kind of looking and acting the way that she was,
she did sound like maybe she had some voices in
her head. She looked the part more than Bailey did
when she was doing the gimmick. But I think we
could just leave the gimmick out altogether. Alexander, Lyra should
come out with the crow face paid a sting version.
Huh wow, a sting. Is she going to be up
in the rafters at Madison Square Garden this weekend? She'll
be She'll be up in the rafters watching all the
earlier matches and then coming down eventually for hers. Saint
James says, the ad breaks tonight were so bad, I
should give all my Netflix money to you and cancel
my subscription. Fifteen to twenty minutes of ads for the
Gauntlet match. Look, here's the reality of it. Ads are
you know? They're a necessary evil? Everybody does them. It's
it's the way that they spread them out during the matches.
During a Gauntlet match, you have to expect it because
the Gauntlet is gonna go twenty twenty five thirty minutes.
They've done Gauntlet matches that are forty plus. Right, of
course you're gonna have commercials. I'm just talking about in
some cases regular standard like six or seven minute matches
that just get literally cut in half or more by
a commercial break. And not everybody is using a VPN
to watch it during the break, So what are you
even watching? What are you actually getting with some of
these matches. You're seeing the opening ninety seconds and if
you're lucky you'll get a few minutes at the end.
You know, they butcher the matches themselves and it takes
you out of it, or just you know, sometimes during
the breaks is when some of the high spots happen
and you don't even see him because most of the
time they don't replay them when they come back. There
have been times where I'll have the VPN on it
and I'm watching a match. I can tell they're going
to commercial, but I can continue to watch and they'll
be like some big spott of off the top. I'm like,
holy shit, And then they'll come back and they don't
bother replaying it. They just they have to do a
better job of just managing them or spreading them out.
Or if you know you're gonna have like a big
main event, maybe you front loaded a little bit so
that you can go commercial free for the main event.
That's one thing I will I will give him credit
for if he had any say in the matter. You know,
when Russo was writing and booking in the late nineties,
you know, he has said that like we would never
like have commercials during the main events, like absolutely not,
Like during our main events. You let that main event
play out, And I thought about that, and I was like,
there may have been times where some of those raw
main events would have a commercial break, but he's not wrong.
I can't really remember it being a regular occurrence, Like
you would watch those main events and a lot of
them would go over time, you know, they would they
would go into like an overrun, and I don't remember
them having commercials. So how is it that they were
able to get away with that back then but they
can't now? Or is it just the fact that there's
so many more so, so many many more that it
just makes it impossible for them to do so, you
know that's that's the issue. Yeah, Ze, Racis, you didn't
even see the opening of the gym of the Jimmy
and Royce match. Yeah, that match literally started during the
commercial break. The angle to set it up, and then
the actual beginning of the match all happened during a
commercial break, and then when they came back in progress,
they went to another commercial ninety seconds later. How do
you review a match like that? That's why I say, like,
it was a match, What do you want me to
say about it? There's nothing to say. They were out
there doing moves, waiting for the referee to tell them okay,
we're at commercial, and then waiting for the referee to
tell them Okay, we're back. That's it, that's all. It was.
Dry Chicken says we need to will it into existence.
If Leo Rush talks about the rain, Wembley crowd needs
to sing have you ever seen the rain by Creeden's
clear Water? Yeah? I mean why would he talk about
the rain? He would talk about him. He's fine, it's fine,
it's fine. The oracle is Braun on a ride back
slash Braun trajectory, I hope not. What a waste? What
a waste? That would be pseudo tpk raw on Netflix,
Monday nights at eight pm, rated TVBS. How did you know?
How did you know? That? That was the show's new rating?
Ashley I called the Oba stuff on X and was mocked.
Which Oba stuff? Are you referring to the ridiculous explanation
that was given? You gotta be more specific? An EJ
Slamp with a four ninety nine? When does Lolavice get
called up? If wwe cut her or J C. Jane.
I feel like they would thrive in aew Tony Kahan
would love them like Storm and Monet. Well, I hope not.
I hope they'd get a chance on the main roster
before they would get cut. Boy, that would suck to
not even give them a chance. I have no idea
when Lola gets called though. Lola's another one who feels
like they're just waiting for the right moment, you know,
to get her on. Most likely SmackDown. Would be my
guess that when she gets called up, she will be
on SmackDown. And HEJ says, you ask which crush I
would pick for my boy stable, He'll crush ninety three
to ninety five with mister Fuji Fuji was so bad.
He was awesome. He just threw salt every match. Yeah,
Fuji Fuji was. It was funny because at that point
somebody would throw a punch and he would take a bump,
but it would be like the slowest fall down onto
the april. You would throw a punch at him, and
then it was like a tree that was tipping over
ever so slowly, and he is he would fall down
to the mat. Ninety three to ninety five crush. Really,
I'm more of a Kona crush guy myself. Shaka bra right,
he would do the crush he was wearing the yellow
and the purple and the orange Chakabra. All right, we're
currently sitting at five hundred and forty one likes, so
we're gonna get one round. We're gonna get one shot.
That be the booker today. Let's make the most of it.
Here we go, gentlemen, it is now time to be
the booker. We're gonna have to make this a good
one because we only have one round tonight. Start with
tag teams Triple Ah's Biggest Nightmare, Power and Glory, Hercules
and Paul Roman. There he is the Slickster. Doesn't get
enough love. Slickster, Actually, this team doesn't get enough love.
What a great finish, the power Plex, that power Plex combo.
It's a fantastic tag team finish. I'm glad that FTR
adopted it. I just wish that they would use it
as a finish occasionally and not just as a setup
to the shatter Machine. Actually says you retweeted my comment
about Oba picking bra. I don't remember that, but I
believe you. And then we have Ooh Stone Cold, Steve
Austin and Sean Michael wearing his Homer Simpson shirt. Power
and Glory against Austin and HBK. Sign me up. I
dig that women's be the booker. We have the Queen
of Spades, the most dominant champion in the women's division
in the history of NXT, Shane Basler, who it was
just announced today the deal has been done. The deal
is official. Shane Basler will be challenging for the HOG
Women's Championship Friday night, August seventh, the NYC Arena live
and free on YouTube against Shatzi. This will be her
warm up match for the Hog Show. Wouldn't it be
something if we landed on Shatzi. Oh my fucking god.
I swear, I swear to you. I swear to you.
I did nothing. I pushed a button, That's all I did.
I am. This thing can hear me. I don't know how,
I don't know how it's possible, but this thing can
hear me. I'm convinced that this thing is has a
mind of its own. There's no fucking way that that
just happened. There's no way that that just happened. The
words had barely left my mouth and I see Shatzi
in a tank on my screen. Are you fucking kidding me?
Hashtag rigged. It is not, it is not. Well, there
you go. I mean, look, it was. Sometimes these things
are just meant to be. Sometimes these things it's just
fate and there's really nothing you can do about it.
But if you want to see that match, it does
not have to be a fantasy warfare scenario. This match
will be a reality next month. Oh my god. That
that's that's fucking creepy. That is creepy as shit. How
many dozens of women are in be the booker in
that round? Ah? Oh my god. So here we go.
All right, we got our main event here, yes, and
more and more people will be watching it than you
at any point in your life, Johnny, And you know
it's true. Here we go. We got Russev who was
in the Gauntlet today. He didn't have a lot of luck.
He didn't have a lot of success. I don't suspect
he will have a lot of success here either. But
we have to pick an opponent for him. All depends
on who he lands. Son is his opponent. Here we go. Oh,
he's definitely not winning this one, that's for damn sure.
It ain't gonna work out too well for this guy. Yeah,
it ain't gonna be Rusev Day when he is in
there with the immortal Hulk Hogan. This is gonna be
one of those old school eighties matches where Hulk goes
in there and sells and sells and sells for the
Foreign Menace, but then in the end he just he
falls to the Hulkster. This this is a match right
out of Saturday Night's main Event in nineteen eighty seven.
That's what this is. Well, there you go Hulk Hogan
and Russev closes out the night. Hogan must pose, He'll
have his chance to pose here at the very end,
Russev Day don't work for me, brother, unless, of course,
you know, Russev decides to drop Hogan on his head
or something, and then oh, you get Linda and the
kids on the phone. Brother, get the rosary beads. Thank you,
guys for another fun stream. Tonight, The work continues. We
got a brand new episode of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show
coming up tomorrow. Tomorrow night, we'll have a brand new
Tuesday Night Titans as well, and then Wednesday we have
the Dynamite post show, the first Dynamite since Kenny Omega
won back the aw World Championship. We'll get a better sense,
hopefully of what the hell is going on at Redemption
later this month. SmackDown on Friday, and then we have
Saturday Night's main events. I will be live on YouTube
for that. That'll be on Saturday night as soon as
the show is over, and then it leads right into
a brand new SoundOff. You guys know the Drill episode
nine seventy one went up yesterday, so be sure to
go check that out if you have not already done, so,
leave a light on your way out. Have yourselves a
good rest of your night, super Pony. I just spotted
super Pony. Shouldn't Gunther get suspended for what he did
on Friday? Also, remember when Braun was the favorite to
win the Rumble no longer than a few months ago. Hmm?
It feels like a lifetime ago, doesn't it. Yeah, I
don't think anybody is picking him to be a favorite
for anything right now. As far as Gunther, should he
be suspended? Of course, he should be fired for what
he did. He should be fired for being realistic. Here
Cecil coming in late, Cecil Robinson here four ninety nine
and Glad. I was at Madison Square Garden for Seena
and Seamus's last raw appearances seamous against Big Show at
Helena Sel twenty twelve for the world title. Was a
good match? Was that the one where Big Show had
the oversized chair? Or was that their chairs match? That
was the chairs match? I think, yeah, Shamey's some Big Show.
I think had a I had a good chemistry when
they were in the ring together. I remember them having
a couple of good matches. The oversized chair I'll never
I'll never get over that though, the biggest chair I've
ever seen in my life. I said, that's funny. That
was actually well done. Aaron. Who would you trust between Hogan,
Nick Con and the Rock? I mean, I don't know
that I would trust any of them. If I had
to pick one, who I would put my faith and
trust in. Of the three, I would have to go Rock.
Rock is getting into Hogan territory, though. I think my
favorite recent Rock story it's not even that recent. I
think it was a reused clip from when he was
on Joe Rogan. I don't know how long ago it
was that this might have been a couple of years
ago now, but he he told that story about how
he almost became a fighter and pride. Just the way
he tells the story, I'm like so full of shit.
Oh man, am I going to be a fanatics Fest
this week? I No, I will not. I will not
be a fanatics Fest. I gotta work, brother, We got
smack down, we got Saturday nights made event. I got
other shit to do. Where am I going to Fanatics Fest?
If I wanted to get a Jalen Brunson photo or
autograph or whatever, it's like nine hundred dollars. I will
not be able to attend fanatics Fest. But if you
are going have fun, I know they're gonna have a
whole bunch of different people there, and celebrities and athletes
and all kinds of stuff. They're invading New York this week. Yeah,
we got that's right. Ricky says, we got the sound
off this week. I have shows basically from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
at least one show every day, So I ain't going nowhere.
All right, Be well, stay safe again, have yourselves a
great rest of your night. Thank you for hanging out
with me on another Monday night, and come on back
for the data my post show right here live on
YouTube until then take care guys.