Speaker 1: Listen is WWE superstar Drew mcintylor And you're listening to
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Speaker 3: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Everybody, And welcome to a new show here on the
Speaker 2: ww podcast. We're going to be reviewing main events. And
Speaker 2: for those who are familiar with my Australian accent, I
Speaker 2: am Daniel. Helped out fill in SmackDown for a few weeks,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's been good to get back on the podcast.
Speaker 2: I guess presenting an idea to basically review main events,
Speaker 2: just giving myself an opportunity to obviously have a platform
Speaker 2: to speak WWE. And what better opportunity are than doing
Speaker 2: it with maybe a show that not many people really
Speaker 2: watch or I guess not really see or really care about.
Speaker 2: But I guess this gives me the opportunity to kind
Speaker 2: of discuss WWE and kind of give about some content
Speaker 2: to you guys, and hopefully you enjoyed what I put
Speaker 2: out for SmackDown in those two weeks, And yeah, I
Speaker 2: just kind of want to continue putting out content, obviously
Speaker 2: improving on the mic and proving the way I put
Speaker 2: out podcasts and most importantly giving you guys some content
Speaker 2: and maybe a few things to learn as well on
Speaker 2: the way, considering that not time to take in all
Speaker 2: the content and you guys rely on podcasts, get updates
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But yeah, as this goes, I'm just going
Speaker 2: to see how things go, if I'm honest, and then
Speaker 2: just kind of roll with it. I did want to
Speaker 2: get this out sooner, but in here in Australia, the
Speaker 2: streaming service that I use has main events that are
Speaker 2: literally like a week late, which I'm not sure why
Speaker 2: is the case for those that don't know what main
Speaker 2: event is and how it works. It's essentially for the
Speaker 2: lower to mid tier card wrestlers, it's always before London
Speaker 2: at raw, hence why they're in kind of big stadiums
Speaker 2: in the same stadiums, but they normally get taped out
Speaker 2: like three or four days later, but in my case,
Speaker 2: it turns out it's more than more than two weeks.
Speaker 2: So basically what I'm gonna try to do is see
Speaker 2: as soon as I can find the stream, and I
Speaker 2: guess the watch the main event and give you guys
Speaker 2: my content and usually with the main events as well.
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention they do have some raw snippets
Speaker 2: as well, so I guess it'll give me an opportunity
Speaker 2: to kind of give my takes and my views on
Speaker 2: what's happening over on Monday Night RUW, which is also exciting.
Speaker 2: So I guess there's a lot of room to play
Speaker 2: around with this. It'll be interesting to see how we
Speaker 2: kind of go, how things kind of work out, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess week on week open to any feedback, and yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see how I can obviously improve it as well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, a new show, something different, obviously trying to
Speaker 2: help out as much as I can, and yeah, again
Speaker 2: really looking forward to it. In the end, it is
Speaker 2: talking about WWE, so any WW contents fine for me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, without further ado, let's get underway with the
Speaker 2: first main event review. Alrighty, so we kick off the
Speaker 2: show with two NXT stars, one Wesley against Dion Lennox
Speaker 2: well the unex technically not really an NXT star, but
Speaker 2: I would assume that he'd be moving over to there
Speaker 2: as this is his first Yeah, I guess main card
Speaker 2: debut up against Wes Lee, who's had quite some decent
Speaker 2: runs in NXT with the North American Championship. He wins
Speaker 2: the match in about seven minutes with the cardiac kick,
Speaker 2: and I guess from what I saw here, if I'm
Speaker 2: quite honest and don't really watch an XT that much,
Speaker 2: trying to obviously get into it now that I'm going
Speaker 2: to be starting doing content with you guys, but yeah,
Speaker 2: matchman for seven minutes, not really much to see there,
Speaker 2: I guess, showing that the veteran is more and much
Speaker 2: more experienced than the Lenox there, who was obviously a
Speaker 2: linebacker before as mentioned in the commentary, and yeah, been
Speaker 2: new to the scene, but from what I saw from
Speaker 2: down Lennox, he looked pretty strong, pretty powerful there. Obviously,
Speaker 2: this is his first rodeo, so I don't think a
Speaker 2: loss will affect him too much, but it'd be interested
Speaker 2: to see how he goes in n XT if he
Speaker 2: does get a spot there. He did put up a
Speaker 2: pretty nice, mean looking spinebuster which turned back to clocks
Speaker 2: for me personally, so that was nice to see, and
Speaker 2: west Lee obviously showing his experience there. I think the
Speaker 2: only thing I would probably flag with him is that
Speaker 2: he's extremely undersized, so don't really know what he would
Speaker 2: do much in the main card on raws back on
Speaker 2: the main shows I'm talking about, Yeah, but I guess
Speaker 2: maybe there might be some big things for Wesley in
Speaker 2: the future on NXT, and I guess look out for
Speaker 2: that if you are, yeah, wanting to see these up
Speaker 2: and coming superstars. It was just a good display, simple match,
Speaker 2: a lot of good moves and yeah, Wesley came out
Speaker 2: with the victory there, and yeah, obviously with main events
Speaker 2: since they have a whole show but not really many matches.
Speaker 2: It moves over to I guess back to Raw where
Speaker 2: Sampunk has that promo with or addressing Seth Rowlins basically
Speaker 2: as saying that he did ghost him in the past
Speaker 2: and he wanted to move on from things. But essentially
Speaker 2: Seth Rowlins was in his shadow continuing on to yeah,
Speaker 2: make this his problem, and as we saw, they got out,
Speaker 2: got onto a wild braw and it looks like they're
Speaker 2: going to be fighting for or fighting on Netflix. My
Speaker 2: opinion on this for I guess it's good, but I
Speaker 2: feel like it's a bit more premature. I really like
Speaker 2: to see them fight at WrestleMania on the biggest stage.
Speaker 2: I think that would be the right situation. For them.
Speaker 2: It is also interesting, however, this is going to be
Speaker 2: the main event of Netflix and not the tribal combat
Speaker 2: fight between Solo and Romans. So yeah, I think they
Speaker 2: may have this match, but I feel as though it's
Speaker 2: not going to be the last time we see these
Speaker 2: two in a ring together. Punks obviously claiming that he's
Speaker 2: the bad guy, obviously a swing to get the fans
Speaker 2: on his side. We know that regular working people always
Speaker 2: going to be on the side of the rebellious and
Speaker 2: the ones that are going against the company. Was as
Speaker 2: I'm previously mentioned, with Matt Seth Rowlins being the company guy,
Speaker 2: the one that's following the rules, the one that's always
Speaker 2: been on w W side. Again, the whole feud is
Speaker 2: quite silly, Like I know that they have beef, real
Speaker 2: lovee beef, but when it came to Sampung not reaching
Speaker 2: out to Seth Rowlins being the sole reason, it's real petty, Like,
Speaker 2: let's be honest here, I imagine you just like not
Speaker 2: talking to someone and they get upset there they don't answer.
Speaker 2: Like I can understand all the other stuff with him
Speaker 2: leaving WWE, having a bad name and talking bad about
Speaker 2: the WWE when he left, then I can understan why
Speaker 2: seth Ron's getting angry, but because he didn't return your call,
Speaker 2: you're getting upset just doesn't really make sense. I think
Speaker 2: they don't really need to overpush the hate between each
Speaker 2: other because I feel as though everyone kind of knows
Speaker 2: the hate. It was well done when Sampunk came back
Speaker 2: last year or the year before almost in Surviva series.
Speaker 2: So this just has to be sorted in an orderly manner.
Speaker 2: I think how they have their match this week and
Speaker 2: maybe in the raw rumble Seth Rowlands Coross Sampunk or
Speaker 2: something where so this match can continue, and I guess
Speaker 2: there can be a clear face of hell going into WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: because I really, I really don't think that this is
Speaker 2: going to be their only match, and it'll be good
Speaker 2: to see then yeah, go at it for a few
Speaker 2: more matches as well. Yeah, whether it's elimination Chamber, someone
Speaker 2: interferes someone else, or whether I think personally that Seth
Speaker 2: Rowlins interferes with Cmpunk and kind of cuts out any
Speaker 2: of his championship aspirations, which is clear what Sampunk is
Speaker 2: showing that he's going for. But yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: where the opportunity is there because I don't really again
Speaker 2: see that the fight on Raw Deviu on Netflix is
Speaker 2: gonna It's gonna solve a lot of problems. It can't
Speaker 2: be a one undone this one. But yeah, we move on.
Speaker 2: We get a shins K Knackamoura promo. I'm loving the
Speaker 2: new Knakamura cameo as well. So yeah, again, as mentioned,
Speaker 2: main event kind of jumps in and out of Ruin SmackDown,
Speaker 2: which allows me to obviously review the main shows too,
Speaker 2: which is good. It's nice touch or us. This podcast
Speaker 2: would literally go for like ten minutes and we wouldn't
Speaker 2: have any content for you guys. And I guess give
Speaker 2: him My opinion is why not? You know, I do
Speaker 2: watch both shows, so I guess my opinion can mean something.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they do a promo of shins K Nakamore,
Speaker 2: basically him saying that La nised first, he didn't deserve
Speaker 2: to have the United States Championship and basically insinuating that
Speaker 2: this is going to be the start of something for him.
Speaker 2: And it's really good to see Nakamoor like this. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned, I really like Shinsky. I've always loved Shinsky.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's unbelievable in the ring. His promo work. Obviously,
Speaker 2: not speaking English didn't help him, but with these new
Speaker 2: dark kind of cut scenes and videos, they found a
Speaker 2: brilliant way to kind of, I guess, showcase his message
Speaker 2: and basically his new demeanor now, which is great. We're
Speaker 2: now seeing a darker side of Shinske. We're seeing a
Speaker 2: more kind of mysterious vibe and something that's really different
Speaker 2: before he was he got off the shows, he was
Speaker 2: just essentially a job by losing matches, and I feel
Speaker 2: like that's such a big waste for such a experienced
Speaker 2: wrest line and someone that's done a lot for wrestling
Speaker 2: around the whole world, especially in Japan and even coming
Speaker 2: to WWE. So it's a really good opportunity for shinsk
Speaker 2: to kind of, yeah, I guess, grow from In the
Speaker 2: United States Championship. As much as I love La and Night,
Speaker 2: I think it was a great core for she to
Speaker 2: get to win, and hopefully this gets kind of sorted
Speaker 2: and La and I can move on to bigger and
Speaker 2: better things, and to be honest, for him, that's going
Speaker 2: for world championships or having bigger feuds as well, because
Speaker 2: I definitely think La Night is more than the United
Speaker 2: States Championship, and that's not mean to say that Shunske isn't,
Speaker 2: but obviously him coming back from a big spell of
Speaker 2: live TV, I know he was doing house shows makes
Speaker 2: this just this run a little bit more interesting. And
Speaker 2: it's always much better when a Heell is a champion
Speaker 2: as well, because you get to see the dirty tactics,
Speaker 2: you get to see how they kind of defend the
Speaker 2: champion as well, and maybe there'll be a good match
Speaker 2: in the future for him. I'm making a bold prediction here.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen aj styles in a while, and I'd
Speaker 2: like to see them kind of lace it up again
Speaker 2: in a match for that US title as well. I
Speaker 2: think it would be really interesting. We then get onto Raw,
Speaker 2: so another Raw show back gone to the Intercontinental Championship
Speaker 2: match between bron Breaker and Kaiser, where we see bron
Speaker 2: Breaker win here, and let's be honest, we're not surprised
Speaker 2: that bron Breaker retained his title. They've been really trying
Speaker 2: to push Kaiser a lot this year, and I am
Speaker 2: all for it, but I still think that the only
Speaker 2: way you're really going to push Kaiser is to somehow
Speaker 2: find a way to separate him from Guntha, and I
Speaker 2: know he hasn't been involved with Guntha at all. They
Speaker 2: haven't really been showing much of them together, but I
Speaker 2: really would like to see like an official split up
Speaker 2: between the two. That way we can kind of take
Speaker 2: Kaiser a little bit more seriously. I think, because he's
Speaker 2: got potential. He's really good in the rim. He's having
Speaker 2: a lot of good feuds between superstars. That feud with
Speaker 2: Shamus is pretty solid. He showcased that he can keep
Speaker 2: up with the current superstars at the moment and make
Speaker 2: a case for the Intercontinental Championship. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: he's still I think personally viewed as gone to sidekick
Speaker 2: even though he's not being sidekick. That hasn't been in
Speaker 2: an official split up there, so it would be good
Speaker 2: to see that. It'd also be good for him to
Speaker 2: kind of, yeah, make a bit stronger case on winning
Speaker 2: a championship as well, because at the moment, I don't
Speaker 2: think brom Breakers looking like losing at all. So yeah, again,
Speaker 2: interested to see what they do with Kaiser after this.
Speaker 2: This surely doesn't really help him at all. I think
Speaker 2: it just continues that reputation that oh, yeah, he's good,
Speaker 2: he's solid. He's having good matches, but he's not going
Speaker 2: to win, So yeah, they're in a tough spot there.
Speaker 2: I think the Gunfer a future gun for feud might
Speaker 2: be good if they if they're willing to push him
Speaker 2: to the limits, but I don't think he's ready for
Speaker 2: that yet and I think Gunpher is too over at
Speaker 2: the moment. But yeah, that's what I think. I think
Speaker 2: a split there is imminent if I'm honest. We then
Speaker 2: go back to the main event, which is great, back
Speaker 2: to what we're supposed to be reviewing with the Unholy
Speaker 2: Union going against Kevin Kind and Katana Chance, and yeah,
Speaker 2: the Unholy Union. What a fall from grace they've had.
Speaker 2: Ever since they lost the titles, they've done nothing. And
Speaker 2: I think the reason why they won the titles in
Speaker 2: the first place just because it was in Scotland and
Speaker 2: they haven't fall clashed the Castle when they want it,
Speaker 2: and they haven't figured out a way to get them
Speaker 2: involved again because we're seeing them on main event shows.
Speaker 2: They get the win here, just a back and forth match,
Speaker 2: classic match. They're nothing really to talk about here. They
Speaker 2: get the win, and I don't know, I guess they
Speaker 2: could potentially get back into the tag team for both
Speaker 2: tag teams, but there really isn't much for them, if
Speaker 2: I'm honest, and I feel as though the match is
Speaker 2: a bit of a waste for main event. I feel
Speaker 2: like getting in some NXT talent would make more sense
Speaker 2: in that aspect because you're not really seeing where these
Speaker 2: superstars are going to go, like Cadan Kind and Katana
Speaker 2: Chance as tag teams, don't really see them going anywhere
Speaker 2: as singles players, not really either. They're definitely superstars that
Speaker 2: can easily be replaced with what's going on in any
Speaker 2: tea right now with Rox and Peiers, l of Ice
Speaker 2: and all that that could definitely do a better job.
Speaker 2: And even if you can't get him on the next TA,
Speaker 2: get him on main events before before Raw, so then
Speaker 2: that the audience can kind of have their eyes sudden
Speaker 2: them and see how they perform, because we've seen enough
Speaker 2: of I guess the Young Holy Union and also Katie Karida,
Speaker 2: Katana Chance, and let's face it, they don't look near
Speaker 2: ready for a title contendership. And it's pretty sad because
Speaker 2: there is a need of women's tag teams and these
Speaker 2: four haven't really shown that. The match, though, as I said,
Speaker 2: was average, back and forth. Good display, but in terms
Speaker 2: of them going forward as tag teams, there doesn't seem
Speaker 2: to be a pathway there for any success. But you
Speaker 2: never know. Maybe they'll get their opportunities back on Raw,
Speaker 2: if there's some transfers that might go on SmackDown and
Speaker 2: see if they can do anything. But again, with that
Speaker 2: one championship belt, it is also hard to kind of
Speaker 2: chop and change these superstars because they don't really have
Speaker 2: a certain destination. So yeah, it will be interesting to
Speaker 2: see what happens. Maybe back on continue to do main
Speaker 2: events shows before, but yeah, a bit difficult in that aspect.
Speaker 2: We then had the main event back on Raw with
Speaker 2: the war Raiders taking on Finnbala and JD McDonough for
Speaker 2: the World Tag Team champions and as we did see,
Speaker 2: just as I guess, Jada McDonald and Finnbala were gonna
Speaker 2: get up to their normal antics disqualifying themselves and maintaining
Speaker 2: the title, which I for one second really thought was
Speaker 2: going to happen, and quite failing, was going to be
Speaker 2: very disappointed if it did. Thankfully, Damian Priest came out
Speaker 2: stopped Finnbala from obviously using the chair, and then that
Speaker 2: led to the war Raiders winning the match, finally ending
Speaker 2: this underwhelming reign between Finndala and Jada McDonough which them
Speaker 2: defend the title about three or four times. And now
Speaker 2: we've got some actual tag teams that hopefully will defend
Speaker 2: the titles on a regular basis. I'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see watch direction they go with the new and revamped
Speaker 2: war Raiders, which are looking like to be faces of
Speaker 2: the BW now before there were heels, and obviously with
Speaker 2: a new outlook and new name to top that off,
Speaker 2: and I guess that will lead into another Damien Priest
Speaker 2: and Finnbella program where this might continue one all the
Speaker 2: way to WrestleMania, especially with the Royal Rumbill coming up
Speaker 2: with another Saturday Night Man event, we may see this
Speaker 2: storyline go all the way until then. And should we
Speaker 2: do really good things for Finnbala, I feel like this
Speaker 2: will put Damien Priest over the top and eventually he'll
Speaker 2: end up contending for heavyweight champions again in the future.
Speaker 2: But I think with that feud, I think there's a
Speaker 2: lot to go there that haven't really scratched the surface
Speaker 2: of it much. We obviously had bad blood where they
Speaker 2: had their their their fight, but it'd be good to
Speaker 2: see if there's any more. Oh, there's a stipulation added
Speaker 2: to that, and I feel like on a personal basis, actually,
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people do like one v
Speaker 2: one fighting without any additional stipulations, but I felt like
Speaker 2: there wasn't many many last year, so it'd really be
Speaker 2: good to see these two I have something involved with
Speaker 2: extreme rules, whether it's tables match, I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: I'm just seeking it at the top of my head.
Speaker 2: Some to that involves the stiplsion so that we can
Speaker 2: see this kind of more more exposed and with more violence.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that's pretty much how we're going
Speaker 2: to finish it off. I don't really see myself doing
Speaker 2: these episodes for thirty minutes or so, just because of
Speaker 2: the fact that there's not really much content on main event.
Speaker 2: But again, this is the first go at it. We're
Speaker 2: going to see how things go on a week to week,
Speaker 2: so there may be some inconsistencies with the content early on,
Speaker 2: just again trying to figure out ways to kind of
Speaker 2: bring this out to you guys, and also figure out
Speaker 2: what's going on with the streams. As I mentioned at
Speaker 2: the start, of the start of the show. Here in Australia,
Speaker 2: we have for some reason a week delay in main
Speaker 2: event shows, so I found myself being a one week
Speaker 2: behind each week. But we'll try to fix that up
Speaker 2: and get that content as soon as possible, especially because
Speaker 2: obviously these shows are filmed before Monday Night Raw, so
Speaker 2: I obviously want to get these out before the next
Speaker 2: episode of Raw there. But that's why there's been a delay,
Speaker 2: So apologies for that, and yeah, hopefully I can get
Speaker 2: some consistency on that, and yeah, continue to kind of
Speaker 2: just give out my opinions and shows and it does
Speaker 2: help with raw content. I'm able to kind of bounce
Speaker 2: off that too because they do obviously screen that on
Speaker 2: the main event show, so not really missing out on
Speaker 2: too much there. But yeah, it's been it's been a
Speaker 2: pleasure and we'll catch youse on next week's episode.
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