Speaker 1: Listen is WWE superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the WWE podcast show.
Speaker 2: The one that everybody wants met for sixteen. So guy,
Speaker 2: just well, your ass is mind. You're going to acknowledge me.
Speaker 3: What is going on? Everybody back again here with the
Speaker 3: Main Event review, hosted by myself Daniel. I hope you
Speaker 3: guys have had a lovely week, this one recording live
Speaker 3: on the twentieth of February, and yes, reviewing on typical
Speaker 3: Sunday night when she is probably Sunday morning for most
Speaker 3: of most of you all that's listening from this around
Speaker 3: the world. But yeah, lots to get through this week's
Speaker 3: Main Event episode. First, I would, I guess, start by
Speaker 3: touching by the events that happened on SmackDown last week,
Speaker 3: which I kind of I guess mentioned in the previous
Speaker 3: episode with Charlotte choosing Tiffany Stratton, and that's obviously going
Speaker 3: to be leading up to WrestleMania. I basically already gave
Speaker 3: my opinions on that, and we also have obviously Raw
Speaker 3: to get across, and the two matches that happened again
Speaker 3: on Main Event next week will be the Elimination Chamber
Speaker 3: I hope you guys are really excited for that. I'm
Speaker 3: sure am. A reason being is that I don't know,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned last week, who's going to be Cody
Speaker 3: Rhodes's opponent come WrestleMania. And we obviously all saw what
Speaker 3: happened with the Rock Primo, which I guess if I
Speaker 3: want to touch into that now, it's possibly a heel
Speaker 3: turn there, but I don't see Cody doing it either.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to take the Rocks offer,
Speaker 3: but it'd be unbelievably interesting if he did, and I
Speaker 3: think there would be kind of lots of ways to
Speaker 3: go about it. I'm not sure if you guys have
Speaker 3: watched The Boys, but there's a lot of people comparing
Speaker 3: Cody Rhoads to the Homelander. And for those that don't
Speaker 3: know who the Homelander is, he's the main villain of
Speaker 3: the Boys. He is actually perceived as the company guy
Speaker 3: for fort, which is the superhero company there, and he
Speaker 3: very much resembles the same look as Cody Rhodes, the
Speaker 3: bleach blonde hair, the dressing of the red, white, and
Speaker 3: blue with the American stripes here, and I feel like
Speaker 3: this angle kinda is extremely similar to that of Homelander,
Speaker 3: with VT being The Rock as the final boss and
Speaker 3: him trying to I guess low Cody to be a
Speaker 3: company guy, but a company guy of The Rock. So
Speaker 3: that's kind of my I guess opinion for that when
Speaker 3: especially when he mentioned that he wanted to take Cody's soul,
Speaker 3: and I think that's where they're trying to tease is
Speaker 3: a potential Cody Rhodes Homelander type he'll turn, which again
Speaker 3: I don't think that Cody is going to take. But
Speaker 3: it's very interesting because it will lead to I guess
Speaker 3: what will happen for WrestleMania and the main event card
Speaker 3: depending who he verses or not, and we're going to
Speaker 3: see how The Rock kind of gets his hands into
Speaker 3: this one. It does seem as though that he's not
Speaker 3: really wanting to pursue the WWE Championship, but more to
Speaker 3: take Cody Rhods's soul, which for this angle I do
Speaker 3: find interesting, but at the same time, I'm still not
Speaker 3: really happy about how The Rock all of a sudden
Speaker 3: decided to thank Cody Rhoads on the debut Our Roy
Speaker 3: episode of Netflix, and now, all of a sudden, we're
Speaker 3: meant to believe that these guys are friends and the
Speaker 3: Rock is not seeking for any I guess championship aspirations
Speaker 3: or revenge whatsoever. But again, that could all change at
Speaker 3: the Elimination Chamber, so keen to look out for that one.
Speaker 3: And speaking of the Elimination Chamber, I thought i'd give
Speaker 3: also my predictions for next week, given that I think
Speaker 3: by the time this goes out, we'll all know the
Speaker 3: results of the Elimination Chamber and finally we'll have a
Speaker 3: clear path to WrestleMania too. So the first match I'm
Speaker 3: going to talk about is the Kevin Owens and Samusein match,
Speaker 3: and I'll tie that into what happened on Monday Night
Speaker 3: Raw as main event does actually speak about it there. Yes,
Speaker 3: on Raw, we get Samu Zain making his entrance looking
Speaker 3: pretty banged up from that package pile driver, saying that
Speaker 3: it's been a rough couple of weeks, feels good to
Speaker 3: be here, and he thanked all the fans for that.
Speaker 3: This time, Zayan has said that there is no forgiving
Speaker 3: and forgetting because it wasn't about as he mentioned in
Speaker 3: his previous promo careers or just trying to get over
Speaker 3: to the top of we this one was personal as
Speaker 3: he tried to end his career, and he also told
Speaker 3: Owens that he wasn't able to do it and his
Speaker 3: neck isn't one hundred percent, but he's going to have
Speaker 3: enough in the tank for a fight. Adam Pierce basically
Speaker 3: then comes out basically says that he is not available
Speaker 3: to do the match. He said that he's not medically
Speaker 3: clear and the answer is no. And then Zaye responds
Speaker 3: by saying that he's obviously not going to leave the
Speaker 3: ring until the match has been made, and Pierce then
Speaker 3: just mentioned that he can't sanction the match, therefore declaring
Speaker 3: that the match will be unsanctioned, and that's going to
Speaker 3: be simply incredible. You guys should literally go on YouTube
Speaker 3: now and have a look at one of the fights
Speaker 3: these two had on the independent circuit. It's a small
Speaker 3: reel on YouTube that I've watched with basically Sammy Zay's
Speaker 3: wearing a mask and he's versing Kevin Owens back over
Speaker 3: a decade ago, and the spots that these guys had
Speaker 3: was simply unbelievable. So if we're going to have a
Speaker 3: non sanctioned match at Elimination Chamber, it might not be
Speaker 3: to the levels of that independent circuit match. But these
Speaker 3: two work really well on the ring together. They obviously
Speaker 3: have a long history, and this match is simply going
Speaker 3: to be unbelievable. So I'm keen for the spots that
Speaker 3: are going to happen in that and in saying that,
Speaker 3: for my predictions, I believe this match is just probably
Speaker 3: not going to have a contest, So no contest result here.
Speaker 3: We may see Randy Orden coming in to fear the match,
Speaker 3: or we may see these two not finish up there
Speaker 3: their match, and that will lead on to potentially another
Speaker 3: WrestleMania feat there. But I think that Randy Orden is
Speaker 3: most likely going to come back, So I feel like
Speaker 3: their program between Kevin Owens and Randy ordon hasn't occurred,
Speaker 3: and that's most likely going to happen, and if it
Speaker 3: does happen, it'll probably be at WrestleMania. And then we
Speaker 3: might potentially see samuse Ain go up against Carrying Cross.
Speaker 3: And I know that does sound underwhelming, but it feels
Speaker 3: as though that Carrying Cross is much deserving of a
Speaker 3: push now, especially with the Final Testament members being released
Speaker 3: from WWE. This may allow Carrying Cross to kind of
Speaker 3: push forward into a role that I think he deserves.
Speaker 3: I feel like caring Cross is extremely good on the mic,
Speaker 3: and there still gives a match for Samusein, maybe not
Speaker 3: to the magnitude that people expect, but there is something
Speaker 3: available for Samuzin at WrestleMania at this point. I think
Speaker 3: there's nothing to complain about that. But again, this will
Speaker 3: be a no contest, and I guess we'll have to
Speaker 3: wait and see what happens with any interferences that do occur.
Speaker 3: We then get Tiffy and Trishy time against Naya Jacks
Speaker 3: and cannas Lay. This one was weird because I feel
Speaker 3: like the last time those two spoke, as mentioned Trish
Speaker 3: Stratus was literally like feuding with Tiffany Straten after money
Speaker 3: in the banks. So now they've just all of a
Speaker 3: sudden become friends. They're probably going to get the win here,
Speaker 3: most likely, given the fact that tiff is the champion
Speaker 3: and trist Status is obviously a Hall of Famer wrestling
Speaker 3: in her own hometown, so not surprised with this one.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: We may see Charlott Flair come after and do a
Speaker 3: little bit of a to make the feud a bit
Speaker 3: more interesting or to make the program a bit more
Speaker 3: interesting and kind of say a few words or interfere.
Speaker 3: Who knows, But again, I think Tiffany Stratton and Trish
Speaker 3: Status get this one done as well. For the women's
Speaker 3: elimination Chamber match, I honestly have no idea who the
Speaker 3: hell is going to win this match. I'll be honest.
Speaker 3: I think I'm leaning towards John Cena only because I
Speaker 3: feel like seam Punk and Steph Rolins are going to
Speaker 3: have their kind of beef at WrestleMania, and somehow Rains
Speaker 3: is going to find his way to get involved in that.
Speaker 3: I think Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest are going to
Speaker 3: have their kind of internal feud within the chamber as well,
Speaker 3: So that leaves basically Logan Paul and John Cena, and
Speaker 3: I don't see Logan Paul winning the chamber. If that
Speaker 3: was to happen, I feel like the ww universe would
Speaker 3: have an extreme meltdown. I think Logan Paul's simply there
Speaker 3: to display some spots and have some good athleticism moments,
Speaker 3: and that will be something interesting there, because yes, Logan
Speaker 3: Paul does risk his body, as much as I probably
Speaker 3: don't like him as a person. I have to say
Speaker 3: he's very good in ring for someone that hasn't trained
Speaker 3: wrestling his whole life, as in performing on a WWE stage,
Speaker 3: and given the fact that he's extremely athletic and he's
Speaker 3: willing to put his body on the line to create
Speaker 3: a moment for us. So got to give him credit
Speaker 3: where that's due. And I think that covers the elimination
Speaker 3: chamber from memory of I think it's those four matches.
Speaker 3: If I have missed one, I'll go back to it,
Speaker 3: but I think it's just those four matches for now.
Speaker 3: All the women's one apologies. So for the women's I
Speaker 3: would have to say, oh, that's a tough one too.
Speaker 3: I think for some reason, my heart is leaning towards
Speaker 3: Live Morgan. I don't really like that, but I feel
Speaker 3: as though it's the only one that makes true sense
Speaker 3: because of the fact that you've got Bianco Balat, You've
Speaker 3: got Naomi who have their kind of tag team going on.
Speaker 3: You've got Bailey. But I don't see Bailey having a
Speaker 3: feud with Real Ripley, especially with Roxanne Perez being there.
Speaker 3: And I feel like Roxanne Perez being in there is
Speaker 3: to obviously elevate her as well, but also to continue
Speaker 3: that that feud that's going on with Bailey as well.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I just and Alexa Bliss. I think there's
Speaker 3: some Wyat program White six program going on and happening there,
Speaker 3: So I don't see Alexa Bliss winning either. So for me,
Speaker 3: by default, the only one that really makes sense is
Speaker 3: Live Morgan. But am I too excited about that? Not really,
Speaker 3: But then again, there really isn't an opponent for Rea Ripley,
Speaker 3: and this is why I would have much preferred Charlotte
Speaker 3: Flair getting it and then potentially Nia Jacks winning the
Speaker 3: Elimination Chamber and actually having that match with Tiffany because
Speaker 3: of the fact that she did take the title off her.
Speaker 3: But again I don't I'm not too upset about how
Speaker 3: it's been booked. I just hope that they find a
Speaker 3: way to kind of rectify this, and with that match
Speaker 3: that's happening with er Sky and rear Ripley for the
Speaker 3: Championship belt the next day, we might see some feathers
Speaker 3: ruffled with I guess that WrestleMania card and that title match,
Speaker 3: so just look out for that. It's going to be
Speaker 3: extremely interesting. But now we'll I guess move on to
Speaker 3: yes the main event matches, the first one being our
Speaker 3: main event Staples Alpha Academy, the team of Otis and
Speaker 3: Akira Tazawa coming up against Atown down Under, who just
Speaker 3: came off a loss to Oberfemi, and for those that
Speaker 3: watch the match, incredible match in my opinion, well booked,
Speaker 3: and you could see that with Grace and Willer putting
Speaker 3: the stunner on Austin Theory, there might be hints of
Speaker 3: a breakup here, but that didn't look like it was
Speaker 3: the case here on main event, as Austin Theory got
Speaker 3: the victory. All the tag team got the victory, with
Speaker 3: Austin Theory putting an a town down on a Kira
Speaker 3: Tozawa clearly, with Grace and Waller taking the pin on Obafemi.
Speaker 3: This looks as though that when hopefully these two eventually
Speaker 3: split sorry, we're going to see Austin Theory Holp hopefully
Speaker 3: get pushed and take up to the next level, and
Speaker 3: the Aussie Icon will hopefully help this out. But again,
Speaker 3: I think the push for Austin Theory to take it
Speaker 3: to the next step is while overdue, because it feels
Speaker 3: as though these two are literally doing nothing together. It's
Speaker 3: just a shame that they're not getting a program on
Speaker 3: Raw to discuss this feud and to have kind of
Speaker 3: rumblings of them breaking up, because I feel like they
Speaker 3: can offer a lot of potential there and I feel
Speaker 3: like there'd be a lot of space on the card
Speaker 3: for that. I'm also surprised that Raw's only filming for
Speaker 3: two hours and thirty minutes. You'd think on Netflix they'd
Speaker 3: be able to increase to three hours, and I feel
Speaker 3: like an extra thirty minutes would perfectly help would help
Speaker 3: this as well, allowing these kind of feuds to be
Speaker 3: programmed on the main show as well. So again, they
Speaker 3: get the victory here. I'm not sure if it means
Speaker 3: much for them as a tag team, but it definitely
Speaker 3: reignites the feud that we've had last year when these
Speaker 3: two were I guess on the verge of breaking up,
Speaker 3: but it didn't end up happening. So let's see how
Speaker 3: that kind of transfers over to Raw where they've been
Speaker 3: transferred to, because we've obviously seen them now on Main
Speaker 3: Event and also on NXT as well. As mentioned, we
Speaker 3: touched off on the Sammu Zain promo that happened on Raw,
Speaker 3: which was also aired on this main event episode. We
Speaker 3: then get the match between Alba Faire and Layra Valkyra.
Speaker 3: These two have a big history back in NXT Europe, well,
Speaker 3: one from Ireland and one from Scotland, so competing there,
Speaker 3: and they get a match here on main event. Which
Speaker 3: was surprising to me to see Layra Valkyrira on the
Speaker 3: card as well, especially being the Intercontinental Champion, but nevertheless
Speaker 3: an interesting feat It's also weird to see Albafayer without
Speaker 3: Eiler Drn as a tag team, and for her not
Speaker 3: featuring in the Rumble Eiladorn getting the flick. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure what they're really going to be doing with her.
Speaker 3: Larra getting the victory here obviously gives her a lot
Speaker 3: of momentum going into the Intercontinental Championship match with Dakota Kai,
Speaker 3: which one hundred percent certain she will win. It's just
Speaker 3: going to be I guess, a mysterious guess on who's
Speaker 3: going to be her opponent come WrestleMania, and I'm also
Speaker 3: I guess intrigued to see what's going to happen with
Speaker 3: those midcard belts and who's going to be yeah, part
Speaker 3: of that WrestleMania feuds between both yeah, Michin and I'm
Speaker 3: not meeching sorry, Chelsea Green and Laara of Valkyria. As
Speaker 3: I guess, since they've had the belts, they haven't really
Speaker 3: defended them to the levels that I've expected, and it
Speaker 3: would have been nice to kind of see them find
Speaker 3: them out on some prls, just because I think they
Speaker 3: need to kind of make these belts a bit more significant,
Speaker 3: not just being I guess defended on the main shows.
Speaker 3: And I know Triple H has been booking a lot
Speaker 3: of these title defenses on the main brand shows, but
Speaker 3: I do kind of miss when they were there on PL's.
Speaker 3: Especially with WrestleMania, I'm interested to see how they're going
Speaker 3: to build up feuds for those titles as well. Maybe
Speaker 3: this match between Dakota and Kay and Laura Valkyria might
Speaker 3: spark a bit of another heel tern for Dakota, but
Speaker 3: I highly doubt that because she's just turned face. So
Speaker 3: I think Laara's going to defend the title here and
Speaker 3: then we're going to see what her rot to WrestleMania
Speaker 3: will be, because I'm pretty sure that they're going to
Speaker 3: have to defend the titles on WrestleMania, So I for
Speaker 3: the first time in probably a long time. I really
Speaker 3: can't predict exactly what the WrestleMania card is the only
Speaker 3: way we really did predict that was from I guess
Speaker 3: the raw rumble. But again we didn't even know that
Speaker 3: Jay Usso was going to Verse Gansa, so that match
Speaker 3: was kind of a surprise to us so lots to
Speaker 3: really look forward to as we As we passed through
Speaker 3: elimination Chamber, we then have yes that final match on
Speaker 3: Monday Night Roll with the main event with Seth Rolins
Speaker 3: against Finnbala the last qualification spot to enter the chamber,
Speaker 3: and as we all guessed and probably knew, Seth Rowlins
Speaker 3: getting the victory here in what was a pretty incredible
Speaker 3: match went for I think over twenty minutes there and
Speaker 3: just shows the chemistry that these two have. They obviously
Speaker 3: have a long history together dating back to when Finnbala
Speaker 3: won the first Universal Championship and since then has done
Speaker 3: absolutely nothing and he has become just nothing but a jobber,
Speaker 3: which is extremely frustrating for me. It is frustrating because
Speaker 3: Finnbala is exceptional in the ring and I feel as
Speaker 3: though that he's not getting any programs that he deserves.
Speaker 3: He rightfully deserves. Seth Rolins is obviously the correct candidate
Speaker 3: to take into the elimination chamber, but I feel like
Speaker 3: they really need to do something for Finnbala what I
Speaker 3: did here, and this one's kind of out of the
Speaker 3: cards take for I guess the next potential WrestleMania match,
Speaker 3: but I'm hearing that Finnbala might come up against AJ
Speaker 3: Styles And this one is interesting to me because I
Speaker 3: already see AJ Styles and ron Breakers sort of feuding
Speaker 3: as well. I also see Finn Bala and Dominique Mysteria
Speaker 3: having a few tensions within the Judgment day, and we
Speaker 3: also did see AJ Styles and Dominique Mysterio also feuding,
Speaker 3: and finally we did see ron Breaker spearing Dominique Mysteria
Speaker 3: as well. So, if we can find a way to
Speaker 3: get as many superstars as possible into WrestleMania, because I
Speaker 3: do feel like all of them deserve a WrestleMania feature,
Speaker 3: what better way to do it than make a fatal
Speaker 3: four way for the Intercontinental Championship. And that's kind of
Speaker 3: my I think extreme hot booking take on WrestleMania is
Speaker 3: having that Fatal four way for the title. It made
Speaker 3: complete sense, it would give finmballean opportunity to feature in WrestleMania. Obviously,
Speaker 3: him and Don are not seeing eye to eye exactly
Speaker 3: at the moment, and as might as I mentioned before,
Speaker 3: bron Breaker and AJ Styles potentially having their program Dominique
Speaker 3: Masterira being involved with AJ Styles and bron Breakers spearing
Speaker 3: Dominique as well, that would make DO four an interesting
Speaker 3: interesting match to say the very least, And I think
Speaker 3: that does it for this week's episode of the Main Event. Again,
Speaker 3: as mentioned, I'm really excited for Elimination Chamber and once
Speaker 3: that's done, hopefully we're able to clear up the road
Speaker 3: to WrestleMania. As I mentioned at the start of the episode,
Speaker 3: so extremely extremely keen for that. But in saying that,
Speaker 3: wishing you all a fantastic rest of the week and
Speaker 3: hope you all take care as well. Cheers.
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to the WWE podcast. Don't forget to
Speaker 4: subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss
Speaker 4: a show, or head to wwepodcast dot com and for
Speaker 4: all of these shows add free head over to Patreon
Speaker 4: dot com slash WWE podcast. Until then, we'll see you
Speaker 4: next time.