Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hello, whatever time it
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Speaker 1: Once again. I am a man that you're host of
Speaker 1: this SmackDown review. And before we get to our SmackDown review,
Speaker 1: I just want to have a look at the sun
Speaker 1: Aslam card and make some predictions. So in no particular order,
Speaker 1: but starting with Night one, which is tonight for the
Speaker 1: undisputed WW Championship, We've got Cem Punk, the current champ,
Speaker 1: versus Cody Rhodes and I'm going for a Punk retention,
Speaker 1: but I smell Shenanigan's. I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a great match though, really looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Got the hell in a Cell match which is brock
Speaker 1: Lesni versus Over For me, I think this will be
Speaker 1: brutal but potentially quite a quick one and I'm going
Speaker 1: to go for a Fermi win with this one, and
Speaker 1: it to be done is over the Women's World Championship.
Speaker 1: Liv Morgan, our champion versus EO Sky Guys Live has
Speaker 1: had the title for over one hundred days, and has
Speaker 1: zero title defenses. What the hell are WWE doing with her?
Speaker 1: This reign could have been epic her return at the
Speaker 1: Rumble and her win was so eagerly anticipated she'd been
Speaker 1: out for a reasonably long amount of time. It could
Speaker 1: have really been absolute fire. But instead it's been left
Speaker 1: to die, and I'm saying an EO win for that
Speaker 1: reason versus Nick orders. This one is tricky. I would
Speaker 1: love to see an Ordert win just because, let's remember
Speaker 1: he was Oblivion the Gladiator. So I'm going to go
Speaker 1: for a Nick win, but not with a huge amount
Speaker 1: of confidence. We've got the six man tag team match
Speaker 1: the USOS and Jacob Fattou versus Solos, Co, La Knight
Speaker 1: and Royce Keys. Does anyone care about this? Again? Like,
Speaker 1: liv what the fuck have WWUE done to Fatou? Well,
Speaker 1: we know he's been sacrificed for this absolute bobbins of
Speaker 1: a Roman and the Bloodline storyline. And as for the USOS,
Speaker 1: I'm so done with them. I actually don't care about
Speaker 1: this match, but I am going to say one for
Speaker 1: the USOS and Fatou, so WWE can continued to push
Speaker 1: the ridiculous Bloodline rerun storylines, which I hate if you
Speaker 1: hadn't noticed already, the one shining light in this hold
Speaker 1: Barkle and this whole just absolute cluster. Is Solo's character tweak.
Speaker 1: He has become very cool our six women tag match
Speaker 1: Nikki Bella, Bree Bella and Page versus Fatal Influence. I
Speaker 1: agree with Matt here. I was listening to his prediction
Speaker 1: show and the emails the other night, and I agree
Speaker 1: with him. Let Page be free. We have been dying
Speaker 1: to have her back, and now she's not really been
Speaker 1: used very well at all. In my opinion, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to get a Fatal Influence win here. I
Speaker 1: think we're finally going to get the Bella's turning on
Speaker 1: Page and off she goes on the singles run and honestly,
Speaker 1: the Bellas, all the irrelevant twins as we like to
Speaker 1: call them, can just do one. So night two Sunday,
Speaker 1: we've got the World Heavyweight Championship. This is Roman reigns
Speaker 1: versus Seth Rawland. Now, back in springtime, Roman said he
Speaker 1: was working all summer. Now does Summer Slam mean the
Speaker 1: end of Slummer? If so, I think, and I hope
Speaker 1: we see Roman drop the title to Seph. There are
Speaker 1: loads of rumors circling about possible possible returns, and I
Speaker 1: wonder if something of that ilk could go down here.
Speaker 1: Either way, Roman to drop the belt and go away
Speaker 1: and hopefully take the whole blood line and all the
Speaker 1: story reruns back with him. We've then got the Interim Championship,
Speaker 1: a ladder match, so this is Tiffany Stratton, Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: j Cargill, Chelsea Green and Juliet or Lash Legend winner
Speaker 1: of the final qualifier. I don't know. I guess the
Speaker 1: question here is who do want to see versus Rea? Well,
Speaker 1: I know who we don't want to see, and that's Jade,
Speaker 1: so she's out. I wouldn't hate to see Flair rear again.
Speaker 1: I would like to see Flair have another title run,
Speaker 1: but I do worry that that automatically and does all
Speaker 1: the good work that's been done making Flair a face
Speaker 1: as facing no pun intended Ria, she will get booed,
Speaker 1: no doubt and be the heel in that scenario. So
Speaker 1: my actual pick is Chelsea Green. That would be epic,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go on a limb and say
Speaker 1: a Piper Niven surprise return to help her out, because
Speaker 1: we know that Piper hates Jade in real life, going
Speaker 1: by her tweets and some of the interactions they've had.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if it's going to come down to
Speaker 1: some kind of everyone else is down and out be up.
Speaker 1: We've got Chelsea versus Jade. Everyone assumes that Jade's going
Speaker 1: to roll over Chelsea, but actually Pipe and Niven comes
Speaker 1: from nowhere and helps her out. That would be awesome.
Speaker 1: We've got the undisputed WWE Championship Number one contenders match,
Speaker 1: Sammy versus Finn. I'm going to say Finn to win,
Speaker 1: Sammy to implode. We all agree that we're totally bored
Speaker 1: of this version of Sammy, Right, Dan Howis un versus
Speaker 1: Dominic Mystereo. This will be a Dan house On win.
Speaker 1: And again, I know he's not meant for me. I
Speaker 1: guess that his appeal and he is appealing to the
Speaker 1: old New Day type crowd who really appreciate the comedy elements.
Speaker 1: I wondered what his longevity is going with this gimmick.
Speaker 1: I think he potentially has got quite a limited shelf life.
Speaker 1: But again that's just my opinion, and I am well
Speaker 1: aware that this is a gimmick that isn't meant to
Speaker 1: appeal to people like me. Probably also ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the people listening to this podcast United States Championship Trick
Speaker 1: Williams versus Baron Corbyn. Well, I mean, why bring Corbyn
Speaker 1: back if you aren't going to put the title on him?
Speaker 1: On that basis my picke it is for a Corbyn win. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: is this just another version of his character that is
Speaker 1: buried before it even gets started. I'll give you the
Speaker 1: Commissioner Corbyn, the lone wolf Corbyn, happy Corbyn, bum Corbyn.
Speaker 1: They've all had potential but have all ended up actually
Speaker 1: just being buried. So I hope that Corbyn gets the
Speaker 1: title here and we've got the Intercontinental Championship. This is
Speaker 1: penter our current champion versus Chad Gable. I'm going to
Speaker 1: say this is a chadgab but when the end of
Speaker 1: his redemption story and this one could be the match
Speaker 1: that steals the show, I think it'll be a really
Speaker 1: really good match. Really quickly, before we get to the review,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some returns from various sources I've read
Speaker 1: and heard. I think probably the strongest rumor is Randy Orton.
Speaker 1: He could fit in easily, get involved. After the Punk
Speaker 1: Roads match, Punk wins, Randy comes out our KOs them
Speaker 1: both and we've got a nice setup for between now
Speaker 1: and Christmas. I guess another one which is quite exciting
Speaker 1: has been spoken about quite a lot is Ko. Ko
Speaker 1: returns been gathering more and more steam over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. He is allegedly close to return, and I
Speaker 1: would be off the chart if he came back for me.
Speaker 1: I see him inserted into the SAMI picture them joining forces.
Speaker 1: So maybe Sammy takes the loss and while he's having
Speaker 1: a hissy fit, Ko comes out picks him up. We
Speaker 1: have the start of them working together again. Another person
Speaker 1: that I've missed a lot, and I think we probably
Speaker 1: all have, is Stephanie Vcur. She's been out for what
Speaker 1: seems like forever with I think a shoulder injury, and
Speaker 1: I've really missed her. I have no idea how close
Speaker 1: she is, but could we see her involved in the
Speaker 1: ladder match. That would be awesome, but doesn't feel super
Speaker 1: likely to be honest. We've got Becky. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: her for ages. She could easily come back in and
Speaker 1: fit in anywhere, especially if we get an age a
Speaker 1: Lee return, which is the one I really want to see.
Speaker 1: Haven't heard much about the possibility of this, and I
Speaker 1: think it's probably just me wishing and hoping. Let's see
Speaker 1: how it all happens. And before we start the review,
Speaker 1: and I promise this is my last point before we
Speaker 1: start the reason why you're all here. I would be
Speaker 1: remiss if I didn't mention Raw this week, guys, I
Speaker 1: didn't even finish it. What a load of crap And
Speaker 1: what was that nonsense with Over and Rock just absolute
Speaker 1: bollocks being locked in a cage which oultimately can we
Speaker 1: lifted up? It just didn't just nonsense. I'm hoping for
Speaker 1: a better SmackDown, and so let's get to it, and
Speaker 1: maybe the SmackDown the AED thirty versts of July and
Speaker 1: was the go home show for this year's SummerSlam. And
Speaker 1: we start off with Joe Test Welcome mister green Bay,
Speaker 1: and we've got our arrivals tonight. We're getting a face
Speaker 1: to face between Cody and Punk, and then we've got
Speaker 1: Tiffy and Chelsea who team Tonight face Jade and the
Speaker 1: beat card Army eye Roll. We've then got Lash versus
Speaker 1: Julia for the last spot in the ladder match. I
Speaker 1: hope we get something interesting there, and that's not as
Speaker 1: straight as it seems. We've got priests and truth versus
Speaker 1: the war Raiders title versus title, so all in all,
Speaker 1: not a bad looking card for tonight. We start off
Speaker 1: with Finn out, who gets an amazing reaction. And I
Speaker 1: know I've said it before, but I really do like
Speaker 1: face Finn. Finn says, whenever we get to this time
Speaker 1: of year, he can't help but think of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: We have heard this before his first Summer Slam, which
Speaker 1: was the best and worst night of his career. He
Speaker 1: went from the highs and winning the title to the
Speaker 1: loads and the heartbreak of having to relinquish it through injury.
Speaker 1: He says. He spent the last ten years chlorine scratching
Speaker 1: to get back to the glory of that night. He says,
Speaker 1: but now he's got the Battle Club behind him and
Speaker 1: we're so close to get him back. And this brings
Speaker 1: out Sammy, who tells Finn he understands this is an
Speaker 1: emotional time for you, but there are some things he
Speaker 1: needs to get off his chest. He says, this number
Speaker 1: one can tend a match, which Sammy is in shouldn't
Speaker 1: be happening. The main event should be him, Rhoades and
Speaker 1: Punk in a triple threat. He says he knows everyone
Speaker 1: is happy they have their marquee match. He knows everyone's
Speaker 1: wondering who's going to win. He says he would love
Speaker 1: to see Cody win because he's already beat Cody Clean
Speaker 1: to become champ and he knows that he can do
Speaker 1: it again. He says, though, that there's also a part
Speaker 1: of him that would like to see Punk retaine, and
Speaker 1: he goes on to really slag Punk off, calling him
Speaker 1: big food, biggest hypocrite, biggest baby guy who's livered the
Speaker 1: pipe bomb and then has gone on to become the
Speaker 1: corporate post boy number two. He says it would be
Speaker 1: his pleasure to take the title off of him. He
Speaker 1: tells Finn he has respect for him, and at that
Speaker 1: Finn interrupts him and tells him, how about he shows
Speaker 1: some respect and grows some balls, come down to the
Speaker 1: ring and say what you want to say to my face.
Speaker 1: Sammy does make his way to the ring and tells
Speaker 1: him that he does have respect for him, and anyone
Speaker 1: that has seen him in the last ten years knows
Speaker 1: how great he is and that he should have already
Speaker 1: been champion four or five times already, Sammy tells him,
Speaker 1: but this moment belongs to him. He says, You've had
Speaker 1: your time, and now it's my time. He says, this
Speaker 1: is all about justice, justice for Sammy, which obviously pushes
Speaker 1: his new merch Vin says, what about justice for me?
Speaker 1: He says, he's spent ten years getting here and this
Speaker 1: is his moment. Sammy tells him, it took you ten
Speaker 1: years and you didn't even get close. You should probably
Speaker 1: take the hint. Finn says back to him, ten years.
Speaker 1: It took you longer to even get a smell of it.
Speaker 1: Finn says that he had to relinquish the title after
Speaker 1: one day because he was injured, but Sammy had it
Speaker 1: for nine days and he wasn't injured, he wasn't screwed.
Speaker 1: He just lost, and the crowd starts a really big
Speaker 1: Sammy sucks chant, doesn't he just? Sammy goes on to
Speaker 1: say that if he didn't respect Finn so much, he
Speaker 1: would have dropped him right now, but he won't because
Speaker 1: he said last good guy. Still pushing that as well,
Speaker 1: and he's going to walk away, and he tells Finn
Speaker 1: he'll see him at Summertown, sorry Summer Slam. We then
Speaker 1: get a random insertion from Guntha, who attacks them both
Speaker 1: from behind and tells him that he is the rightful
Speaker 1: number one contender. We get pierced out and Gunter tells
Speaker 1: him would I have to do to get a title shot?
Speaker 1: He says, do I need to beat your ass as well?
Speaker 1: Then Gunsh is jumped by Sammy and Finn from behind.
Speaker 1: It all breaks down and then we get Nick out,
Speaker 1: who is A's opponent obviously SummerSlam. He's throwing punches at
Speaker 1: Gumpher and Nick gets a Texas clover leaf on Gunther
Speaker 1: and has to be dragged off by officials. So let's
Speaker 1: take a breath and just break that down. First of all,
Speaker 1: we're already one hundred cent better than the raw, so
Speaker 1: that's a huge result for us SmackDown folks. Finn is
Speaker 1: very over with the crowd and they genuinely seem to
Speaker 1: be behind him. On the other hand, apart from his
Speaker 1: Let's go in his theme song, Sammy is getting loads
Speaker 1: of heat from the crowd. So this number one contender
Speaker 1: match is the perfect face versus heel situation and wwwe
Speaker 1: have done well getting Finn into this position, starting off
Speaker 1: by the judgment day turning on him over and raw
Speaker 1: and then his move over to SmackDown. That's been very good.
Speaker 1: Now the attack by Gumpher, I don't actually mind it
Speaker 1: at all. It's believable. He would be pissed off still,
Speaker 1: wouldn't he? And rightly so? I mean, one on Earth
Speaker 1: does Sammy deserve to be near the title with Gumpher?
Speaker 1: Isn't the oldest attack I really like? And the crowd,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and let's go all of us. Chance
Speaker 1: started up straight away, So actually I think that match
Speaker 1: is going to be pretty awesome. All in all, are
Speaker 1: really good to start to the show, different voices, different
Speaker 1: angles and loads of stories crossing over, so for me,
Speaker 1: properly good. Our first engling action tonight is Chelsea and
Speaker 1: Tiffy versus Meechin and Bee Fab, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: don't even get their own entrance in music. They just
Speaker 1: have to come out to Jade's music, which must be
Speaker 1: pretty rubbish if you've been around, particularly as long as
Speaker 1: Meeting has, and she's done some stuff, you know, she's
Speaker 1: worked with some legends, she's worked with aj styles. Now
Speaker 1: she is just resorted to coming out to someone else
Speaker 1: this is entrance to music, who is not a great
Speaker 1: talent anyway. Jade, the B Card Army, they could come
Speaker 1: out to anything and it still just get crickets. No
Speaker 1: one cares. This one kicks off and by all rights,
Speaker 1: if KFA wasn't a thing, we should get the Bee
Speaker 1: Card Army absolutely handed their ass. But that's not where
Speaker 1: we are. Do start off like that, and Tiffy and
Speaker 1: Chelsea actually teaming up together. They've got matching outfits. They're
Speaker 1: actually look pretty good. Of course, though we get a
Speaker 1: Jade distraction outside the ring taking out Tiffy. Chelsea hits
Speaker 1: a brilliant looking missile drop kick, but she's overcome as
Speaker 1: the Bee Card Army hit their double team move and
Speaker 1: take the win over Chelsea and Tiffy once again to
Speaker 1: absolute silence. So Chelsea and Tiffy looking good here and
Speaker 1: as the B Card Army are celebrating, and we have
Speaker 1: Flare out that allows Tiffy and Chelsea to attack the
Speaker 1: B Card Army and leave Jade alone with Flair. You
Speaker 1: get Flair and Jade and a brawl in the ring
Speaker 1: and Flair takes out Jade, with Jade's scurrying off, and
Speaker 1: I really hope. That doesn't mean we're getting a Jade
Speaker 1: win at SummerSlam. But in old school wrestling laws, if
Speaker 1: you took a loss on the go home show, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it meant that you were you were going to
Speaker 1: get the victory on the pay per view. But maybe
Speaker 1: those rules don't really apply so much anymore. To be
Speaker 1: on a stream scenario is that after a loss at SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: WWE finally realized that Jade is not the one and
Speaker 1: they send her and her Bee card army back to NXT.
Speaker 1: It's not just me. Don't think I have ever heard
Speaker 1: a crowd of reaction for this group. No cheers, no booze,
Speaker 1: no nothing, And I think that just means people don't care.
Speaker 1: Send them back down to n XT, bring back beef,
Speaker 1: ob a meechin as singles performers. I've got no beef
Speaker 1: with them as singles performers, but they're being wrecked by Jade.
Speaker 1: We go backstage to Axiom and the Phoenix and they
Speaker 1: face off with Dom and JD. Don tell's Phoenix that
Speaker 1: he JD wants a title shot, and Phoenix agrees, So
Speaker 1: that could be fun angle tonight. I wouldn't mind JD
Speaker 1: getting a Singles title, but I fear if this match
Speaker 1: happens tonight, we'll get some kind of Dan house and
Speaker 1: interference to ruin it for him. We get Tama and
Speaker 1: Tala Tonga. In a promo, Tama is saying they've forgotten
Speaker 1: who they are. He says leaving solo was the right
Speaker 1: move and they lost sight of their own goals. They
Speaker 1: say from now on, they are the family. They're going
Speaker 1: back to getting the gold. And we get Hacker out,
Speaker 1: which is a surprise. He says they are the Tonguans
Speaker 1: he needs, and he basically sends them out to kick ass. So, hmm,
Speaker 1: I wonder if bear with me on this one. How
Speaker 1: are we going to get a Tonguan elder in each
Speaker 1: corner match to finally finish off all the bloodline solo
Speaker 1: Roman stuff. Imagine like the old WrestleMania. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what number it is, but there was a WrestleMania years
Speaker 1: ago where we had a mcmahont in each corner. There
Speaker 1: was Linda, Steph, Vince and oh my god, the son
Speaker 1: who was named forgotten anyway in each corner. That would
Speaker 1: be awesome, And then could we end up with just
Speaker 1: shame shamee mc mahon and then could we just end
Speaker 1: up at the end of that with just solo, which
Speaker 1: would be just great. Next out, we've got the tag
Speaker 1: title versus Title Priest and Truth versus war Raiders, and
Speaker 1: this one kicks off war Raiders in charge. Not sure
Speaker 1: which way this one will go. The war Raiders are
Speaker 1: ridiculously strong and mobile at the same time, which makes
Speaker 1: them epic in my opinion. It ends up taking quite
Speaker 1: hardcore turn as we go out into the crowd, resulting
Speaker 1: in he finish, and then Tala and Tama Tonga show
Speaker 1: up and totally flat and everyone. They are joined in
Speaker 1: the ring by Haku and the Tonguans end up standing
Speaker 1: with all that had gold in the ring, and I think, well,
Speaker 1: that certainly took a much more interesting turn. I like it.
Speaker 1: This should be a lot of fun looking forward to
Speaker 1: the Tongue and going on absolute tear and just destroying everything. Backstage,
Speaker 1: now Kathy has Punk. She asks him about the dynamic
Speaker 1: between him and Cody and how it's become contentious. He
Speaker 1: says it's competition. He says they've been running from this
Speaker 1: match for some time. He says, all they're friends right now, No,
Speaker 1: will they be friends. When the bell rings, he says, no,
Speaker 1: this is a chance to take on all comers. He
Speaker 1: says he'll still be a champed at the end of
Speaker 1: the night, and he's interrupted by Trick, who tells him
Speaker 1: that he's coming from the championship. Punk says he wants
Speaker 1: new faces and challengers, but he tells him that he's
Speaker 1: going to whoop that Trick once he does become number
Speaker 1: one contender, And for me, I think it is why
Speaker 1: it's important that Punk retains. He has explicitly said that
Speaker 1: he wants to face new people, and I think that
Speaker 1: might be the best way to keep things fresh, as
Speaker 1: if we don't go right back down the Cody line.
Speaker 1: I know we're going to get Cody again at some
Speaker 1: point in the future, and that's fine. I have a
Speaker 1: problem with that at all. But I think in order
Speaker 1: to keep things moving and keep things fresh for now,
Speaker 1: we need a Punk retention, and I hope his number
Speaker 1: one contender is thin and not Sammy. Next out, we've
Speaker 1: got Trick and he is still without Little Yochty, which
Speaker 1: is actually quite refreshing. Trick has the mic and he
Speaker 1: says he's arrived tonight. He's got a lot on his chest.
Speaker 1: This is over the past month, Big Bull Baron has
Speaker 1: come back to SmackDown and decided to hate on Trick Williams.
Speaker 1: He tells Corby and he makes him sick. He says,
Speaker 1: this is what we were doing about it, and he
Speaker 1: called corbyin out and he duly comes out and tells
Speaker 1: Trick he bets. He loves hearing the sound of his
Speaker 1: own voice. He says that while he was away he
Speaker 1: learned a lesson about patience, which is like Trick doesn't understand,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't need to because as soon as he arrives,
Speaker 1: they strapped a rocket to him and they gave him
Speaker 1: the entrance music, which makes everyone believe that he's more
Speaker 1: important than he is. He says, you want everything now,
Speaker 1: and that's your downfall. He tells him, at some slam
Speaker 1: it will feel like he's in quicksand and he'll submit him.
Speaker 1: Trick interrupts as as he's sick of him, saying how
Speaker 1: tough for he is than when he was here last time.
Speaker 1: He asks him what he's here for and ask him
Speaker 1: if he's just here for the check. Seems like Trick
Speaker 1: wants to go at it right here and right now,
Speaker 1: and Corbyn nips that in the bud, saying he doesn't
Speaker 1: care what anyone wants, especially Trick. He's just a dumbrecky
Speaker 1: he doesn't understand, and he tells him on Sunday he's
Speaker 1: taken his title and there's nothing Trick can do about it.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really more than decent segment.
Speaker 1: I like Corbyn here. He's also speaking some serious Trick too,
Speaker 1: and Trick getting pushed too early yep. The thing about
Speaker 1: the theme music, yep, all true. And we know restling
Speaker 1: stories are at their best when they are in the
Speaker 1: gray area of being a little bit true. This should
Speaker 1: be a good match. I only hope we don't get
Speaker 1: little YoY shenanigans. I'm quite over him. Next out Ray
Speaker 1: Phoenix and j D McDonough for the tria A cruiseweight Championship.
Speaker 1: As I said, glad JD is getting the chance here.
Speaker 1: But I don't think this is going to end the
Speaker 1: way I want it to. It's not looking good as
Speaker 1: JD didn't get his entrance, not not that we saw
Speaker 1: on TV anyway, And yes called it out comes Dan
Speaker 1: Housen and his Mini housands to get rid of Dom
Speaker 1: causing the distraction. This allows Raid hit the Mexican muscle
Speaker 1: buster and get the wind, retaining the title. Honestly, as
Speaker 1: soon as the judgment day get rid of this dan
Speaker 1: House and angle, the better. It's awful. I hate it,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we're going to have to rotate
Speaker 1: through members of the roster to have a bit of
Speaker 1: a shit three months as they each work their way
Speaker 1: through the Dan House and segments. Next out, we've got
Speaker 1: the match for the final spot in the ladder match
Speaker 1: for the interim title, Lash versus Julia, and I'm still
Speaker 1: wondering if this is going to be just a straightforward
Speaker 1: match or hopefully there is something a bit more here.
Speaker 1: On paper, this one does look like a bit of
Speaker 1: a mismatch, as Lash is massive and strong, and just
Speaker 1: like that she hits the Lash extension and gets the win.
Speaker 1: It was pretty much a squash and so she gets
Speaker 1: the last spot in the match. That doesn't change my pick, however,
Speaker 1: for the winner of the ladder match, and I do
Speaker 1: wonder if we might also get some interference from NYA.
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing now that we defo know we're not
Speaker 1: going to see a j Lee at SummerSlam unless we do.
Speaker 1: Next out, we've got our quote unquote main event, which
Speaker 1: is just a face to face talking segment between Punk
Speaker 1: and Kobe, and we get Punk interrupting Cody mid entrance,
Speaker 1: which annoys Cody no end and probably the crowd as
Speaker 1: well as they do enjoy singing along with his entrance.
Speaker 1: Cody says since Chicago, they've been running towards each other.
Speaker 1: Punk says he knew it would ruffle some feathers and
Speaker 1: hurt some feelings when he got his title shot. But
Speaker 1: what was he meant to do. Was he supposed to
Speaker 1: bitch and cry like the babies in the back, or
Speaker 1: being like Sammy talking like a star player when he's
Speaker 1: actually just a bench warmer. He says, no, he was
Speaker 1: never going to be like those mediocre bumbs. He says,
Speaker 1: he hopes it does piss people off. He says, let's
Speaker 1: stop talking about fearing friends, start talking about the title.
Speaker 1: He says, we are friends right now. He says he's
Speaker 1: got to know who the better wrestler is between the
Speaker 1: two of them. Cody asked them what they want to
Speaker 1: talk about. Mostly people are chanting for seeing Punk at
Speaker 1: that point, which I'm sure probably isn't quite what Cody
Speaker 1: had in mind. He says, this isn't business, it's personal.
Speaker 1: He says they both know it's personal to everyone. He says,
Speaker 1: it means you're the best, and it's the crown, you're
Speaker 1: the king. Cody said Punk was the one who says
Speaker 1: that he isn't here to make friends, He's here to
Speaker 1: make money. Punk says he isn't here to lose friends either,
Speaker 1: but if it comes down to losing a friend or
Speaker 1: losing a title, then tomorrow night isn't going to be
Speaker 1: his night. Cody says the word that bothers him it
Speaker 1: is tomorrow, and he wants to know what Punk is
Speaker 1: going to do about it. Tonight, they start to face
Speaker 1: off in the ring and they both stripped down a
Speaker 1: little bit and they start to trade hands and we
Speaker 1: have a fight at Wingslide, which eventually brings out the
Speaker 1: production staff and the rest. They try and break it up,
Speaker 1: and that is how we go off air. So after
Speaker 1: tonight's show, I'm not changing any of my Summer Slam predictions.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to stick with what I've said. Listen,
Speaker 1: Compared to Raw, this was a masterpiece, and actually as
Speaker 1: a go home show, it was more than decent. I
Speaker 1: understand how two shows, SmackDown and Raw can be written
Speaker 1: by pretty much the same people under the same leadership,
Speaker 1: and how can they be so different. Rumor has it
Speaker 1: that the Netflix execs also weren't delighted with how Raw
Speaker 1: went down this week either, and they've spoken to WWE
Speaker 1: Creative about their concerns. I don't know if that's true
Speaker 1: or not, but I'm hopeful that after SummerSlam will get
Speaker 1: an upturn in the quality of Raw, because wrestling overall
Speaker 1: is just much better when we've got two really strong
Speaker 1: shows to watch. But as far as SmackDown goes, I
Speaker 1: think we're lucky. This was a good show tonight and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to SummerSlam very much anyway, So here
Speaker 1: we got I don't headfirst into Summer Slam weekend, and
Speaker 1: as I said, it should be a really good one.
Speaker 1: So wherever you watch it, make sure you enjoy and
Speaker 1: I'm sure we catch up next week on predictions and
Speaker 1: any surprise. Please returns that just a fact does it
Speaker 1: for this week's show. Thanks having me in your ways
Speaker 1: once again, and remember until next time to be kind.
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