Speaker 1: It is Friday night. I am the solemn monster. It
Speaker 1: is your SmackDown review. But it's not just any SmackDown review.
Speaker 1: It is the fourth of July SmackDown review. It is
Speaker 1: pandemodium outside my window right now. It's pandemodium here wherever
Speaker 1: you may be. I hope you guys are having a
Speaker 1: good fourth keeping it safe. Not the best day of
Speaker 1: the year for pets if you have dogs and cats.
Speaker 1: I don't like the fireworks either, but it's something that
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with. But thank you for hanging out
Speaker 1: with me here on your fourth of July holiday. But
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what the best part of
Speaker 1: today is there's one thing in particular that really puts
Speaker 1: a smile on my face, and the fact that we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking about SmackDown tonight, which was not
Speaker 1: a great show. There's a fucking boring show. Not even that,
Speaker 1: it's the fact that SmackDown tonight it was the return
Speaker 1: to two hours of SmackDown. And you know what that
Speaker 1: is worth celebrating here with my flag, Happy holiday, everybody.
Speaker 1: Two hours Smackdowns are back. Yes, the three hour era
Speaker 1: of SmackDown is dead. It is over. It was long rumored,
Speaker 1: but it has finally happened. You could tell, man, I'm celebrat.
Speaker 1: I'm in a celebratory mood here tonight. This is great.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I salute two hours
Speaker 1: of SmackDown. Anybody who's upset about that, you can go
Speaker 1: piss off. Let me tell you something. Two hours of
Speaker 1: SmackDown does not a good show. Make Let me just
Speaker 1: make that very clear here of the onset. I never
Speaker 1: said that SmackDown going back to two hours was going
Speaker 1: in and of itself to make SmackDown a great show.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I would much rather have two
Speaker 1: hours of a boring show instead of three hours of
Speaker 1: boring show. And so already SmackDown is much better than
Speaker 1: it used to be. There you go, I busted out
Speaker 1: the confetti in a while. Anyway, let's get rid of
Speaker 1: that confetti here. Yes, we're gonna talk about SmackDown here tonight,
Speaker 1: A very run of the mill main event on a
Speaker 1: very run of the mill, phoned in episode of SmackDown. Tonight.
Speaker 1: We have the new bloodline the same as the old
Speaker 1: blood line, closing the show, putting Jacob fought to through
Speaker 1: the announced desk as the new bloodline stands tall what
Speaker 1: else did we have on this show tonight? Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, Actually, there was one thing in particular that
Speaker 1: I really liked, which was the return of Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: Thank god Drew McIntyre is back. I actually thought he
Speaker 1: might miss SummerSlam. I didn't think that Drew McIntyre was
Speaker 1: going to be around for a little while. But he
Speaker 1: is back and back in time for a Saturday Night's
Speaker 1: main event match on SmackDown tonight for the first time
Speaker 1: since we saw him in a cage against Damian Priest
Speaker 1: back in May. So that was one positive of the show.
Speaker 1: We have a Women's championship match that has been set
Speaker 1: for Evolution, which is a little over a week away,
Speaker 1: and so Tiffany Stratton has an opponent for that show.
Speaker 1: Before she gets to Jade car Gill at SummerSlam, she
Speaker 1: will have to contend with Evolution first, and they set
Speaker 1: it up in the laziest possible way. You know what,
Speaker 1: I love. I love how in NXT Shawn Michael sets
Speaker 1: up an entire tournament to determine a challenger for j C.
Speaker 1: Jane and her NXT Women's Championship. Right, he goes through
Speaker 1: this whole rigmarole and Jordan Grace now is going to
Speaker 1: be challenging for the title. And you look at what
Speaker 1: they've done on the main roster with both women's championships
Speaker 1: on Raw with e O Sky and on SmackDown with
Speaker 1: Tiffitty Stratton, and I love how they just come out
Speaker 1: and they get to pick their opponent. They just come
Speaker 1: out and say, I'm going to defend my title against you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to defend my title against you now on
Speaker 1: one show, I can understand it, but to do the
Speaker 1: same thing on both shows at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: a little much. But basically we have the same thing
Speaker 1: going on right now on Raw and SmackDown. I will
Speaker 1: talk about who the challenger is going to be for
Speaker 1: Tiffity Stratton, how we got there, and everything else that
Speaker 1: happened on a very very dull episode of SmackDown tonight.
Speaker 1: This is your Friday Night SmackDown review for July four,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. IM the Solomn Monster. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: again for hanging out with me on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: Like and subscribe. I hope your week is going better
Speaker 1: than mine since I ended up having to dole out
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred dollars in breakwork on my car the other day.
Speaker 1: Now they want to steal another twenty one hundred from me.
Speaker 1: I will be going elsewhere to get a second opinion.
Speaker 1: But I was not expecting this news this week as
Speaker 1: I prepare to hit the road tomorrow this holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: So I am a sad, solemn monster. But hopefully hanging
Speaker 1: out with you guys will perk me right up here. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Solo Soakoa had some car troubles himself of his own
Speaker 1: tonight SmackDown Open with the Bloodline, pulling up to the
Speaker 1: arena with the United States Champion, the brand new United
Speaker 1: States Champion because he won the title from Jacob fa
Speaker 1: Ti in Saudi this past weekend. So he was in
Speaker 1: the backseat and he was talking about how tonight we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a celebration, when all of a sudden, Jacob
Speaker 1: Fatu showed up and he tried pulling him out through
Speaker 1: the window. And the great Tongaloa who made his return.
Speaker 1: I don't want to undersell this here. I didn't mention
Speaker 1: that yet, but yes, Tongaloa is bag. He was gone
Speaker 1: for six months and Tongaloa made his return at night
Speaker 1: of Champions. He got out of the passenger seat of
Speaker 1: the car to go try to take care of Jacob
Speaker 1: fa Tou. He got thrown into the side of a bus.
Speaker 1: Jac Mitteo came around to go after Fa Ti who
Speaker 1: threw him into the car door was open and so
Speaker 1: he threw him into the car door. Five to two
Speaker 1: went back after Solo when all of a sudden, Nick
Speaker 1: all this shows up. Officials show up and they get
Speaker 1: him to back off. So after that that's how we
Speaker 1: kicked off the show. And then we go to the
Speaker 1: arena and we have the King of the Ring, the
Speaker 1: number one contender for the WWE Championship, Cody Rhodes on
Speaker 1: his way out to the ring Salamaster, going to pawn
Speaker 1: the belt for a new car. Which belt I have?
Speaker 1: I have a few of them. Now I'm pawned that
Speaker 1: I inm ponded the winged eagle. The eagle is staying put.
Speaker 1: The eagle is not flying high, staying right where it is.
Speaker 1: But Cody Rhoads was on his way out to the ring.
Speaker 1: Now this was for those who don't know, they taped
Speaker 1: SmackDown on Monday night because they wanted to give people
Speaker 1: the night off here for the holiday. So this was
Speaker 1: taped on Monday after Rall was over. So at this point,
Speaker 1: these people in the building in Pittsburgh, who were not
Speaker 1: all that loud for the show on Monday, were already
Speaker 1: an hour three of w W so with his crown
Speaker 1: in one hand and a microphone in the other, Cody
Speaker 1: gave a shout out first to a young man named
Speaker 1: Cam who was sitting up in Club sixty six, he said,
Speaker 1: who was battling leukemia. And with that out of the way,
Speaker 1: he said that the crown represented where we've been, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned past King of the Ring winners like Bret
Speaker 1: Hart and Booker t and Stone Cold Steve Austin. He
Speaker 1: said that it also stood for where we're headed, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned the main event of SummerSlam, him in a
Speaker 1: rematch one on one with John Cena for the undisputed
Speaker 1: WWE Championship. And before he could go any further, Randy
Speaker 1: Orton interrupted, or i should say his music interrupted, and
Speaker 1: he made his way down to the ring, fresh off
Speaker 1: his defeat and the finals of the King of the
Speaker 1: Ring in Riod. Orton started by reminding his good friend
Speaker 1: here that for weeks he told Cody that he would
Speaker 1: not hesitate, but at Night of Champions, he had Cody
Speaker 1: dead to rights. He was setting up for the punt kick.
Speaker 1: He was all there. I mean, he got the all
Speaker 1: clear from air traffic Control. All he had to do
Speaker 1: was launch, and he couldn't do it. He hesitated Cody, though,
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger instead, something that Orton admitted he respected.
Speaker 1: And Orton told Cody to promise him that he won't
Speaker 1: squander the opportunity to go all the way to SummerSlam
Speaker 1: and kick John seen his ass and you could see Cody,
Speaker 1: you know, nodding his head in agreement. But before he
Speaker 1: could say anything, drew McIntyre's music kit and he made
Speaker 1: his way out for the first time since Saturday Night's
Speaker 1: main event in May May twenty fourth, I believe, he
Speaker 1: mocked Randy Orton and Cody for having beta male energy,
Speaker 1: stating that the alpha had returned. McIntyre said Orton lost
Speaker 1: the psychological battle because of Cody buttering him up for
Speaker 1: months and then stabbing him right in the back. He
Speaker 1: then turned his attention to orton surgically repaired back, pointing
Speaker 1: out how Cody targeted the back. At Night of Champions,
Speaker 1: McIntyre mocked Orton for losing his Edge as the legend Killer,
Speaker 1: because that legend of Randy Orton was dead as far
Speaker 1: as he was concerned. McIntyre then turned his attention to
Speaker 1: Super Cody, stating that he wanted him to win at
Speaker 1: Summer Slim because this was a match that he's been
Speaker 1: looking forward to and because he wanted to be the
Speaker 1: one to rip that title out of Cody's hands. So
Speaker 1: as McIntyre turned around, Orton delivered an RKO out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: which I mean out of nowhere, but everybody should have
Speaker 1: seen that one coming. So down goes Drew McIntyre. Orton,
Speaker 1: and Rhodes then shared a brief staredown and Orton left
Speaker 1: the ring. It is very good to have Drew McIntyre back.
Speaker 1: He has been consistently one of the more refreshing parts
Speaker 1: of WWE programming, going back to last year and frankly
Speaker 1: even the end of twenty twenty three. You know, he's
Speaker 1: consistently one of the best parts of television. So when
Speaker 1: he's not around, as with Kevin Owens right now, Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens hasn't been around for a few months, it's noticeable,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're not around, and Owens and McIntyre
Speaker 1: in particular, are two heels who were almost i mean,
Speaker 1: not running the same angle, but they're two heels who
Speaker 1: oftentimes would go on television and would explain their actions
Speaker 1: and it would make sense, you know, they would explain
Speaker 1: things in a way that made you go, you know what,
Speaker 1: They're not wrong, They're not totally wrong. They made sense,
Speaker 1: and them both not being on TV, at least to me,
Speaker 1: was very noticeable. Now Owens were not going to see
Speaker 1: for a very long time. But that's why I'm very
Speaker 1: happy to have Drew back. I thought he might miss
Speaker 1: Summer Slam. The reports indicated that he was banged up
Speaker 1: and he was taking time off and anyway, so he's back.
Speaker 1: Question is like, are we going to get a heel
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, which is where I thought we were headed.
Speaker 1: I still kind of feel like we're headed in that direction.
Speaker 1: I did float the other idea that again, Antonio wrote
Speaker 1: it to the podcast last week, and the way he
Speaker 1: laid it out it was very convincing. I am not
Speaker 1: convinced that it is the right time for Cody Roads
Speaker 1: to go heal, but if Cody was going to go
Speaker 1: heal and Orton was not the way he laid it
Speaker 1: out I thought was very well done. I didn't get
Speaker 1: to tell one way or the other from anything they
Speaker 1: did in this segment that Orton is going heel. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a little tense stare down with Cody, but
Speaker 1: what did he do. He came out here, he admitted
Speaker 1: that I had the chance. I hesitated. That's my fault.
Speaker 1: You took advantage, you know what. I respect that now
Speaker 1: you can better go to summer slim and kick Johnson
Speaker 1: has asked for me and not squander the opportunity that
Speaker 1: you won by beating me. And then he dropped Drew MacIntyre,
Speaker 1: who was acting like a dick. So there was nothing
Speaker 1: that Randy Orton did or said that would indicate there's
Speaker 1: a a heel turn on the horizon, or that he
Speaker 1: is still harboring some sort of grudge against Cody for
Speaker 1: beating him in the King of the Ring final. The
Speaker 1: seed was planted. You know, they could come back to it,
Speaker 1: but nothing on this show that would hint at anything
Speaker 1: in his immediate future other than a mattredd for McIntyre.
Speaker 1: We got footage from earlier today show. Yes, happy fourth
Speaker 1: to Zachary and everybody in the chat. We'll have people
Speaker 1: coming in as things go on, So I just want
Speaker 1: to wish everybody a happy holiday, wherever you may be.
Speaker 1: We got footage from earlier today showing Charlotte Flair talking
Speaker 1: to Nick all This and learning that she would be
Speaker 1: in a women's tag team title qualifying match tonight against
Speaker 1: b Fab and Mechen and Alba Fire and Piper Nivid,
Speaker 1: and the winner of that match would go on to
Speaker 1: the Four Way at Evolution to challenge for the women's
Speaker 1: tag team titles. Charlotte was very confused about this whole
Speaker 1: tag team partner thing. What do you mean tag team partner?
Speaker 1: And at that point, Alexa Bliss appeared and revealed that
Speaker 1: she was going to be Charlotte's partner. She said, I
Speaker 1: know you don't want to be friends. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be your friend, but do you want to win
Speaker 1: gold or not? And ultimately Charlotte reluctantly agreed and then
Speaker 1: warned her don't get him my way. Elsewhere backstage, Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre walked up to Nick all This and demanded a
Speaker 1: match against Randy Orton. Unfortunately for him, he was informed
Speaker 1: that Orton had already left the building, but how about
Speaker 1: a match on Saturday night's main event next weekend, and
Speaker 1: Drew said that works for him. So he went to
Speaker 1: go turn away and leave and he bumped into Jacob Fatu.
Speaker 1: They stared at each other just briefly. McIntyre left all
Speaker 1: this informed Jacob that if you wanted a shot at
Speaker 1: Solo's bloodline, he could go find a tag team partner
Speaker 1: and they can meet two members of Solo's family later
Speaker 1: on tonight on the show. So Fatu started to walk
Speaker 1: when Jimmy Usso walked up to him and offered to
Speaker 1: be his partner, and so the match was made and
Speaker 1: that ended up being our main event later on in
Speaker 1: the show. So we had a qualifier for the WWE
Speaker 1: Women's Tag Team Championship match at Evolutions. So, for those
Speaker 1: who may have missed Raw on Monday night, what they
Speaker 1: are doing next Sunday at Evolution. Raquel Rodriguez, rox Sane
Speaker 1: Perez are the Women's Tag Team Champions. Roxanne has officially
Speaker 1: replaced liv Morgan is one half of the champs. The
Speaker 1: two gms got together and they decided that they would
Speaker 1: have to defend their titles against one team one set
Speaker 1: of challengers representing each brand. So obviously Raquel and roxand
Speaker 1: are from Raw, but you would have a team from Raw,
Speaker 1: a team from SmackDown, and a team from nxteam. So
Speaker 1: this was to decide the team from SmackDown. Charlotte Flair
Speaker 1: and Alexa Bliss, b Fabin, Meechen and the Secret Hervists.
Speaker 1: Match got underway with Bliss, Meechen, and Niven starting off
Speaker 1: with their respective teams. Before Bliss could do anything, Flair
Speaker 1: blind tagged herself in, so already getting off to a
Speaker 1: great start here. Meechin took out Flair out inside the ring.
Speaker 1: Nivin then took flight and took down Meechin and Bfab
Speaker 1: Alba got her turn as she jumped from the top
Speaker 1: rope wiped out Flair and Befab with a dive out
Speaker 1: to the floor, and that took us into a commercial.
Speaker 1: So they come back and Piper lands a sentan on Charlotte.
Speaker 1: A missed sentan on Meachin allowed Beefab to enter the match,
Speaker 1: and she took down Flair and Piper with kicks galore.
Speaker 1: She was doling out these spinning heel kicks like they
Speaker 1: were nobody's business. Bfab shoved Flair into her corner, which
Speaker 1: allowed Bliss to get the tag. Bliss had Bfab set
Speaker 1: up for sister Abigail, but Miechen made the save with
Speaker 1: a kick to the side of the head. Alba Fire
Speaker 1: caught Befab off guard with a Canadian Destroyer Nivin, then
Speaker 1: connected with the boss Man Slam. There was an attempted
Speaker 1: double team moved by the Secret Hervist that got intercepted
Speaker 1: by Flair and Bliss. Flair scaled to the top rope.
Speaker 1: Now Alexa Bliss is standing on the apron. Charlotte Flair
Speaker 1: has well, she's climbed to the top. Clearly she's setting
Speaker 1: up for a moon Salt because her back is turned.
Speaker 1: But she looks down at Alexa Bliss and she pats
Speaker 1: her on the head in a very condescending way. But
Speaker 1: when she does this, the referee says tag counts that
Speaker 1: as an official tag. Now I could pick nits here
Speaker 1: and say that Charlotte patted her on the head for
Speaker 1: a second time, which should mean that Charlotte tagged herself
Speaker 1: back in. But that's okay, it's fine. So Charlotte came
Speaker 1: off the top of the Moon Salt to Albert M. Piper,
Speaker 1: who were laid out parallel to each other on the
Speaker 1: mat Chelsea Green jumps up on the apron, so Charlotte
Speaker 1: went over to go boot her off, not realizing that
Speaker 1: Alexa is now the legal person. So Alexa Bliss comes
Speaker 1: off with twisted Bliss to both women who were laying
Speaker 1: on the mat, and she covers Alba fire and she
Speaker 1: wins it for her team. This was a decent enough
Speaker 1: match with the predictable finish of Charlotte and Alexa qualifying
Speaker 1: and going to evolution. I said it in my Raw
Speaker 1: review on Monday night. You know, if you go back,
Speaker 1: we talked about this, I said, figuring Charlotte and Alexa
Speaker 1: are going to qualify or be chosen to be the
Speaker 1: team for SmackDown. I think un Raw it'll be Osca
Speaker 1: and Kyrie Sane. If it's not Osca and Kyrie, then
Speaker 1: I could see the Dungeon Dolls, which is what Natty
Speaker 1: and Maxine are calling themselves. But I'm thinking Oscar and
Speaker 1: Kyrie from NXT. My first thought was Zaria and soul Ruka.
Speaker 1: If it's not then then it could be Fatal Influence,
Speaker 1: and those are the teams that we're probably looking in
Speaker 1: addition to Raquel and Roxane. Those are the teams that
Speaker 1: we're looking at, I think for the four way at evolution.
Speaker 1: As far as the pairing with Charlotte and Alexa, I've
Speaker 1: said it multiple times over the last several weeks since
Speaker 1: they started teasing it. I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that Charlotte for a while, it
Speaker 1: won't kill her to be out of the world title picture,
Speaker 1: So for her to be doing anything other than just
Speaker 1: challenging for the championship is a good thing. And now
Speaker 1: she's out of her comfort zone because she's doing the
Speaker 1: tag team thing. She's got this reluctant pairing going on
Speaker 1: with Alexa Bliss. I think it's good for Black too,
Speaker 1: because the rumor was always that Bliss was going to
Speaker 1: be associated with the Wyatt Six. Now maybe eventually she
Speaker 1: will be the Wyatt six. Right now, they just got
Speaker 1: nothing going on. I mean, they're doing their own thing,
Speaker 1: but there's just whatever magic was there before, it ain't
Speaker 1: there no more. And to me, if you associate Alexa
Speaker 1: Bliss in any major way with the Wyatt Six, it
Speaker 1: does more to drag her down than it does to
Speaker 1: elevate them. So it's good for her to be off
Speaker 1: on her own doing her own thing and not the
Speaker 1: spooky stuff. I like the pairing. It's an odd couple pairing.
Speaker 1: I think it'll work, and I absolutely think they are
Speaker 1: going to end up being tag team champions at some point,
Speaker 1: and it may not be evolution, but they are absolutely
Speaker 1: going to be the women's tag team Champions. And if
Speaker 1: it helps bring out a side of Charlotte at some
Speaker 1: point that we don't ordinarily get to see, I see
Speaker 1: that as a positive. We haven't seen it yet. Charlotte
Speaker 1: is still she's the queen and she's being herself. But
Speaker 1: if it helps pull out more of her personality, if
Speaker 1: it pulls out a side of her that we just
Speaker 1: do not get to see, I think that's a positive.
Speaker 1: Because Charlotte Flair on these shows is a very one
Speaker 1: dimensional character. If they could add a new dimension to her,
Speaker 1: if Alexic can help facilitate that, that is a plus.
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Speaker 1: com slash solo Monster now. Earlier today, nick All, this
Speaker 1: spoke in the back with the tag team division all
Speaker 1: but the Wyatts. Everyone is running down all of the
Speaker 1: things that have happened over the last several weeks. Phraxium
Speaker 1: offers to wrestle Androti and Ray Phoenix tonight, and nick
Speaker 1: All disapproves. As for everybody else, one member of each
Speaker 1: team would be selected or would decide who among them
Speaker 1: would be participating, but they would all link up as
Speaker 1: partners in a match later on. In the show against
Speaker 1: the members of the Wyat Six, and all this reminds them.
Speaker 1: He says, Look, the Wyat six is here to stay,
Speaker 1: whether you like it or not. They're here to stay,
Speaker 1: and if they win their match tonight then they will
Speaker 1: be back in title contention. And so it was the
Speaker 1: Wyat Six. It was Uncle Howdy who actually wrestled. I
Speaker 1: kind of wish that he wouldn't wear the mask when
Speaker 1: he wrestles. Maybe wear it to the ring, wrestle without it,
Speaker 1: put it back on, wear it after the match. He
Speaker 1: just wears it throughout the entire thing. But it was
Speaker 1: Uncle Howdy, Dexter Loomis, Joe Gacy and Eric Rowan against
Speaker 1: Montese Ford, Chris Saban, Johnny Gargano and Burdo Berto and Gasey.
Speaker 1: They got things going. Loomis got the tag he threw
Speaker 1: burto around. Before Gargano entered the match, Johnny tried to
Speaker 1: make peace, drawing on their history together from the way
Speaker 1: back in NXT, so quite a bit of history there actually,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't having any of it. Gargano ate a
Speaker 1: punch instead. Uncle Howdy stepped into the ring, which led
Speaker 1: to everybody stepping into the ring. And things descended into chaos.
Speaker 1: Rowan tried to choke slam Gargano and Burto. He ended
Speaker 1: up beating stereo super kicks from Sabin and Ford. For
Speaker 1: his troubles, they sent Rowan to the outside. Rowan recovered
Speaker 1: and he tossed Ford into a superkick by Loomis, which
Speaker 1: led to a commercial break. They came back with the
Speaker 1: Wyots working over Ford in their corner. Loomis held Ford
Speaker 1: in a submission hold, but he couldn't maintain it, so
Speaker 1: Saban got the tag, floored Loomis with a missile drop kick,
Speaker 1: and then actually worked with Gargano to attack Joe Gacy, Montes,
Speaker 1: Ford took flight to wipe out Gaysey and Loomis. Outside
Speaker 1: the ring, Burdo was looking to fly, but he got
Speaker 1: taken out by Uncle Howdy, who threw him over the
Speaker 1: top rope. Howdy had Saban where he wanted him with
Speaker 1: a urinagi and tagged in Rowan, who went on it
Speaker 1: went on the attack. Saban started crawling inching towards Johnny
Speaker 1: Gargano for a tag, and Gargano was on the apron
Speaker 1: and Gargano was reaching out. He was trying to make
Speaker 1: the tag, but standing behind Saban, unbeknowns to Saban is
Speaker 1: Eric Rowan, and Rowan is staring at Gargano in a
Speaker 1: very menacing way. And so as Saban is almost there
Speaker 1: and reaching for the tag, Gargano pulls back and drops
Speaker 1: down off the apron. This man right here, he pulled
Speaker 1: a sid. He pulled a sid. Rowan crushed Saban in
Speaker 1: the corner, and then delivered his iron cloth slam to
Speaker 1: give the Wyats the wing. Gargano was the one who
Speaker 1: was trying to rally the troops in the back before
Speaker 1: this match, and trying to get a whole like handshake
Speaker 1: thing going, and yet he's the one, in his partner's
Speaker 1: desperate time of need who deserts his partner, rap bastard.
Speaker 1: This was also a decent match, nothing more. It was
Speaker 1: a match. I was actually pretty bored with the show
Speaker 1: by this point. There wasn't a whole lot that changed
Speaker 1: after this. Look. I mean, there are some things that
Speaker 1: two hours simply cannot fix. There are simply some things
Speaker 1: that two hours cannot fix. But I will always maintain
Speaker 1: I would much rather sit through a dull two hour
Speaker 1: show than adult three show. We got a Julia hype
Speaker 1: package our new United States Champion. We have two of them,
Speaker 1: although she is much more beautiful. She went back and
Speaker 1: forth between Japanese and English with subtitles. She said that
Speaker 1: she knows the title matters. She worked hard to get here.
Speaker 1: Blue flames don't flicker, they burn everything down. No mercy,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no fear. Whoever is next step closer and
Speaker 1: feel the heat of her beautiful madness. Ah Julia Tiffany Stratton,
Speaker 1: the WWE Women's Champion, was out to the ring to
Speaker 1: make a very important announcement as it relates to her
Speaker 1: challenger at Evolution. Stratton said that since she became the
Speaker 1: Women's Champion, she's had a target on her back, but
Speaker 1: Naya Jackson's revenge wasn't enough to stop her from becoming
Speaker 1: the last woman's standing. She turned her attention to Jade Cargill,
Speaker 1: the winner of the Queen of the Ring and the
Speaker 1: woman that she will face at SummerSlam, but only after
Speaker 1: she defeats her opponent that she will choose to face
Speaker 1: an Evolution. Stratton was interrupted by the Queen of the Ring.
Speaker 1: Jade comes down to the ring. She talked about how
Speaker 1: she was crowned Queen by beating one of the best
Speaker 1: in Oscar. Cargill warned Stratton that she had a choice
Speaker 1: to make and if she chose wrong, Stratton might not
Speaker 1: make it to Summer Slam, but it didn't matter who
Speaker 1: Jade Mandy, Yeah, let me tell you something. Then it
Speaker 1: is bombs away outside and some of these explosions are
Speaker 1: very unnerving. I don't know how it is by you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to power through it here, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be getting any sleep tonight. Zachary is
Speaker 1: smitten with Julia. She is a very she is a
Speaker 1: very fine young woman. I can't say that I disagree.
Speaker 1: So anyway, she said that it didn't matter. Jade said,
Speaker 1: didn't matter because she'll beat whoever the champion is. Regardless
Speaker 1: of who it is, she will beat the champion, whoever
Speaker 1: it is. Stratton interrupted and revealed that she had a
Speaker 1: surprise for everyone, and that surprise turned out to be
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer, the former Women's champion right six times,
Speaker 1: seven time, I think six times, and also in the
Speaker 1: middle of her twenty fifth anniversary, Trish Stratus and the
Speaker 1: crowd goes mild. These people did not care. They were
Speaker 1: also very tired at this point, but Trish Stratus came
Speaker 1: down to the ring and once she was in, she
Speaker 1: asked what would Evolution be without some stratisfaction, and she
Speaker 1: issued a challenge for a title match at Evolution. Stratus
Speaker 1: talked about how in her day, the women had to
Speaker 1: fight just to have a single match on the card.
Speaker 1: What is this dynamite, But now at Evolution they're going
Speaker 1: to have a card of incredibly talented women. And Stratus
Speaker 1: gave thanks to Tiffany for letting her kids see her
Speaker 1: in the ring, but those kids of hers haven't seen
Speaker 1: their mom as a champion. Stratton said that this wouldn't
Speaker 1: be easy because this isn't the Attitude era anymore, and
Speaker 1: whether it was Stratus at Evolution or Jade at SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: the WWE would still be running on Tiffy time. There
Speaker 1: wasn't much point in having Jada out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: she didn't really have a whole lot to say, so
Speaker 1: she just kind of stood there for most of this.
Speaker 1: As far as Trish wrestling for the title, let me
Speaker 1: just say this, Trish Stratus needs to wrestle for a
Speaker 1: title as much as Goldberg does, which is to say
Speaker 1: that neither one of them need to be wrestling for
Speaker 1: a championship at this point. But at least here, I
Speaker 1: will say this, at least here, these two were partners
Speaker 1: earlier in the year at Elimination Chambers, so there is
Speaker 1: a connection between the two of them. But then again,
Speaker 1: you know, Goldberg had that little angle he did in
Speaker 1: Bad Blood last year with Gunther, so that's sort of
Speaker 1: the little connection between them as well. But in this
Speaker 1: case it's very clear. And this was the case with
Speaker 1: the first Evolution show as well, where we had a
Speaker 1: bunch of legends on the show. This is their way
Speaker 1: of getting a legend in a prime spot in a
Speaker 1: title match. In this case, on the show, they were
Speaker 1: going to do the same thing with Nikki Bella against
Speaker 1: Liv Morgan or maybe even a tag team title match,
Speaker 1: and that went out the window when Liv got hurt.
Speaker 1: So they're getting a legend on the show. They have
Speaker 1: tickets to sell, right, I get it. I get why
Speaker 1: they're doing it, but it is still very lame to
Speaker 1: bring these people back for title matches in the way
Speaker 1: that they have done them. It is so lazy the
Speaker 1: way that they I mean, think about the way they
Speaker 1: set both of these matches up, Like if you have
Speaker 1: a really good story. And you think of this in advance.
Speaker 1: You know what we're gonna bring so and so back,
Speaker 1: And there's a story to be told here about them
Speaker 1: trying to get one last run as champion and challenging
Speaker 1: for the title, and here's how we're gonna go about
Speaker 1: setting the whole thing up, and you kind of lay
Speaker 1: it all out. It could work, right, if there's a
Speaker 1: good story to go along with it, it could work.
Speaker 1: But look at what they've done here, Like we literally
Speaker 1: nine days nine days away from Evolution, and Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 1: comes out and says, I have a surprise. I'm going
Speaker 1: to introduce the woman I'm defending my title against that
Speaker 1: evolution And out comes Trish Stratus, who we haven't seen
Speaker 1: in fucking five months because of Devolution time. So she
Speaker 1: comes out there and it's like, okay, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a championship match now. And then the Goldberg stuff I've
Speaker 1: already talked about how they set that whole thing up,
Speaker 1: which is just ridiculous. There's no effort behind it. It's
Speaker 1: just there's no effort. It's the bare fucking minimum. The
Speaker 1: way that they're setting these title matches up, the way
Speaker 1: they just spit them out. It's just it's insulting. It
Speaker 1: really is. You know, for a company that loves to
Speaker 1: talk about we tell stories and everybody talks about the
Speaker 1: importance of story, and you have people that love to
Speaker 1: shit on everything. Aw does there's no story? Where's the story?
Speaker 1: Where's the story? Where are those people? Now? I don't
Speaker 1: hear from these people. Apparently this is acceptable to them.
Speaker 1: All I'm doing is calling it out. I don't hate
Speaker 1: I love Trish Stratt. I think Trish's great, and Trish
Speaker 1: and Tiffany may well end up having a really good match.
Speaker 1: I remember Trish came back and had a really good
Speaker 1: match at Summer Slim a few years ago against Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 1: She had that great cage match with Becky Lynn. Should
Speaker 1: pay back, right, Maybe this will turn out to be
Speaker 1: a really good match too. But you got to call
Speaker 1: things out, you know. You can't you can't say, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: this is acceptable here and it's not acceptable there. It
Speaker 1: just strikes me that we are going going into two
Speaker 1: shows on back to back nights next weekend where these
Speaker 1: title matches have been set up in a very lazy way.
Speaker 1: That's all, But in any event, this is what we're
Speaker 1: getting as the card begins to come together. At most,
Speaker 1: we'll have one more segment between these two women on
Speaker 1: SmackDown next week maybe, and then Boom Evolution will be here.
Speaker 1: We got a pre tape vignette with Solo Socoa and
Speaker 1: his family. Solo spoke from his I guess his office
Speaker 1: you would call it, I guess, I don't know, and
Speaker 1: he introduced the newest member of his family, Taula Tonga. Yes,
Speaker 1: the former Hickuleo is indeed Tala Tonga, who stood very
Speaker 1: menacingly in the background behind him, with J. C. Matteo
Speaker 1: on one side and the great Tongaaloa on the other.
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, I'm sure you heard that. My god. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Solo said, Happy birthday, America from your new United States Champion.
Speaker 1: He said, this group was nothing like a bloodline. It's
Speaker 1: way more stronger and dangerous than ever. Well, this man
Speaker 1: definitely was not an English major. He went straight into
Speaker 1: the business way more stronger. He said. These men are
Speaker 1: his MFTs, his family tree, and now his family is complete.
Speaker 1: That was the gist of the segment. Backstay, actually you
Speaker 1: might you know, you might not hear what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: You might not I improve the background blocking, So actually
Speaker 1: I may be hearing explosions that you guys are not.
Speaker 1: So if I seem a little put off in soar
Speaker 1: in places, that's why I may be hearing things that
Speaker 1: you're not. Backstage, Trish Stratis was walking and she bumped
Speaker 1: into Jade car Gil Boyd. This was very awkward. This
Speaker 1: was very awkward. They were just out in the ring together.
Speaker 1: Like if you watched this segment and didn't see what
Speaker 1: we just saw, you would think they were meeting for
Speaker 1: the very first time. Here the way that Jade was smiling, Oh,
Speaker 1: Trish Stratis, It's like, nice to meet you. It's like, wait,
Speaker 1: did I just imagine what I saw? Did I dream
Speaker 1: the segment that we just saw? So Jade warned her
Speaker 1: that if she defeated Tiffany Stratton at Evolution, she would
Speaker 1: be facing her at SummerSlam, and Trish said, well, then
Speaker 1: I guess I'll be seeing you at SummerSlam. And as
Speaker 1: she left, and Jade was just watching her walk off,
Speaker 1: Naomi and bush Jade with a shot to the back
Speaker 1: with her money in the bank briefcase. Naomi knelt down
Speaker 1: beside her and said Jade should have proceeded with caution,
Speaker 1: you know, she sounds like an evil movie villain when
Speaker 1: she after she hit her with the briefcase pursued with
Speaker 1: she sounds like something out of a cartoon. So then
Speaker 1: Naomi walked off. Nick all this rushes over. I guess
Speaker 1: he saw all of this happen. So he rushes over
Speaker 1: and he leans down to check on Jade, and Jade
Speaker 1: says she's had enough of this. She wants a match
Speaker 1: with Naomi. She wants to get Naomi in the ring.
Speaker 1: Alda said, go to the trainer's room and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it. And later in the show they made it
Speaker 1: official Naomi and Jade Cargill will go one on one
Speaker 1: at Evolution. Then it was the only thing worth watching
Speaker 1: really on this entire show. That came next Praxium against
Speaker 1: Androde and Ray Phoenix. So I guess this is going
Speaker 1: to be a long term thing now with Androte and
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix as a team until they come up with
Speaker 1: a plan for each of them. We got started with
Speaker 1: Androti and Fraser mixing it up and neither getting an advantage.
Speaker 1: Fraser dodged Androtti before making detect Axiom as Phoenix jumped
Speaker 1: into battle with a dive. All four men began to
Speaker 1: trade blows as Androti got sent out to the floor.
Speaker 1: Fraser an Axiom blasted Androtti and Phoenix with repeated suicide
Speaker 1: dives to the outside. That took us to a commercial break.
Speaker 1: Naomi needs a mustache to not you know what, the
Speaker 1: one thing of all the things you could say Naomi
Speaker 1: needs a mustache is not one of them. Now I
Speaker 1: have that image in my head. I'll get you gadget.
Speaker 1: As she sits there stroking her stroking her cat, that's
Speaker 1: what she needs needs she needs a pet cat to
Speaker 1: stroke on the show. See what they need to do
Speaker 1: is when they cut to Naomi in the back for
Speaker 1: like a backstage prom she should be sitting in a
Speaker 1: very tall chair with her back turn to the camera
Speaker 1: and all we see is like her arm and we
Speaker 1: see her petting her cat, and the money in the
Speaker 1: bank briefcase is sitting on the floor next to her.
Speaker 1: That's how they should shoot these Naomi promos from now on.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we got a commercial break. Phraxium kept Phoenix
Speaker 1: grounded for a little bit. Coming out of it, Phoenix
Speaker 1: took down Axiom with a flipping DDT before Androte got
Speaker 1: the hot tag and he was a house of fire.
Speaker 1: And then it was the Eddie Guerrero Tribute Hour when
Speaker 1: Androde did the Three Amigos. Phoenix followed with a frog splash,
Speaker 1: only got a two count. Phoenix headed up top, but
Speaker 1: he was intercepted by Fraser, so we got a fight
Speaker 1: on top that saw Fraser floor Phoenix with a superplex.
Speaker 1: It was a cover by Axiom that got broken up
Speaker 1: by Androtte. We got a second commercial break. That's how
Speaker 1: you know they got some time here because they got
Speaker 1: two commercial breaks. Fraser's Phoenix splash was dodged by Phoenix. Hey,
Speaker 1: Phoenix dodged a Phoenix splash. That's funny. Actually, how I
Speaker 1: just realized, how is that not his finish? How is
Speaker 1: that not Ray Phoenix's finish? How is it not a
Speaker 1: Phoenix splash? I don't know. I mean, it's a crazy
Speaker 1: aerial maneuver. It fits well right into his normal, you know,
Speaker 1: group of moves. I don't know anyway, the things, the
Speaker 1: things that just come to me here as I review
Speaker 1: these fucking shows. So anyway, the Fraser Phoenix splash attempt
Speaker 1: did not hit. Androde got into the ring with Fraser,
Speaker 1: stunned in the corner, Androte crushed him with the corner Meteora.
Speaker 1: Androte had Fraser in his sights and connected with a
Speaker 1: double moon salt. You know, he leaps off the top,
Speaker 1: lands on his feet and then hits the standing moon salt.
Speaker 1: Axium broke up the pin just in time. Fraxium had
Speaker 1: Androde caught with a Spanish fly and Phoenix splash. Combo Phoenix,
Speaker 1: It's made the last second saved by leaping onto Fraser,
Speaker 1: followed by a codebreaker on Axiom. Phoenix hit his audio
Speaker 1: Sigo kick to Axiom and then Androte delivered the message
Speaker 1: to Fraser for the win. This was fun, and they
Speaker 1: got time to They gave this match. I think, if
Speaker 1: you include the commercial breaks, about fifteen minutes on a
Speaker 1: two hour show. They were people who were telling me,
Speaker 1: you know, the few people who were very upset that
Speaker 1: SmackDown was being scaled back to two hours. Well, I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy. Well, you'll never see Androtti again, You'll
Speaker 1: never see Carmelo Hayes again, You'll never see Ray Phoenix again. Really,
Speaker 1: Androtti and Ray Phoenix just got fifteen minutes. They were
Speaker 1: the best thing on the entire show. By a country mile,
Speaker 1: and they need to continue to give them television time.
Speaker 1: Consistency is the key. But this was a nice shot
Speaker 1: of adrenaline from these two teams on a show that
Speaker 1: desperately needed it. And again, I don't know how long
Speaker 1: they plan to keep these two together. It just feels like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have nothing else for them to do, so let's
Speaker 1: just put them together. This, I mean, this is how
Speaker 1: makeshift teams come together oftentimes. Right we don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with this person, we don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with this person. Let's put them together. And it
Speaker 1: just so happens that right now SmackDown has the better
Speaker 1: and the hotter of the two tag team divisions, so
Speaker 1: they fit right in there and they make a good team.
Speaker 1: But it just feels wrong to me for Ray Phoenix
Speaker 1: to be in a tag team with anybody other than
Speaker 1: his brother, with his brother working for the same company.
Speaker 1: And so at some point we'll get the Luca brothers.
Speaker 1: This feels like a temporary thing until we either get
Speaker 1: that or they come up with something better for him
Speaker 1: to do. But this was fun. This was the one
Speaker 1: really truly fun thing on the entire show for me.
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Speaker 1: the back Dammian Priest found Alistair Black Price said that
Speaker 1: Black will take on our Truth next week. Black says
Speaker 1: that priest seems to be setting truth up and he
Speaker 1: warns that violence begets violence. Priest objects to that. The
Speaker 1: two of them exchanged words before Black walks off. And
Speaker 1: in the main event, we had Jacob Fatu and Jimmy
Speaker 1: Usso teaming up to take on the team of Solo Socoa,
Speaker 1: our brand new United States Champion and j C Matteo
Speaker 1: so CoA tagged out to Mateo right at the start
Speaker 1: to avoid having to deal with Jacob Fatu. Mateo took
Speaker 1: the brunt to the punishment from Fa Tu and from Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Once they got Jimmy down, Solo felt confident enough to
Speaker 1: tag back into the match, and he even mocked Fa
Speaker 1: Tu's little dance that he does, you know, fa tow
Speaker 1: he he got of you know, he convulses and does
Speaker 1: that shit, so he was mocking him here. Miteo got
Speaker 1: the tag and he flattened Uso with a standing moon salt.
Speaker 1: Jimmy made a comeback. He delivered to some and dropped
Speaker 1: to create some much needed separation, Fatu got the tag
Speaker 1: and he unleashed hell on Solo with a sentan and
Speaker 1: then followed why a splash in the corner. Fatu blasted
Speaker 1: Mateo and Solo with superkicks which left them stunned in
Speaker 1: separate corners. Fatu took both men out with consecutive hip attacks.
Speaker 1: Uso and Fatu. They flew through the ropes with dives
Speaker 1: that took out both heels. In the ring, Solo caught
Speaker 1: Fatu with a superkick and had the Samoan spike loaded
Speaker 1: and ready to go, but Fatu planted him with an
Speaker 1: impaler DDT. Fatu then hit his Mighty Moon Salt and
Speaker 1: he pinned the United States champion. After the match, Fatu
Speaker 1: took Solo outside and he clears off the announced desk
Speaker 1: and he superkicks Solo onto the desk and then he
Speaker 1: heads up top, but he got intercepted by Paula Tonga
Speaker 1: who showed up and he grabbed him and he threw
Speaker 1: him off the top ropes slammed him down to the mat.
Speaker 1: The Great to Bungaloa joined in on the attack on
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Mateo hit the Tour of the Islands and
Speaker 1: the family then turned their attention back to Jacob Fatu,
Speaker 1: so Solo dropped him with a Samo and spike. Solo
Speaker 1: then ordered his men to drag Fa Tu outside and
Speaker 1: they proceeded to deliver the shield triple power bomb to
Speaker 1: him through the announced desk, which did break. You know,
Speaker 1: most weeks these tables, now they're reinforced, they don't break.
Speaker 1: But this table broke, and the show closed with Solo's
Speaker 1: family standing tall. Even as a champion, his first taste
Speaker 1: of gold on the main roster, Solo Sokoa is still
Speaker 1: a loser. Why did he have to lose in this match?
Speaker 1: He just won the championship less than a week ago.
Speaker 1: Why was it so important to protect j C. Matteo
Speaker 1: and not have him take the losing fall and have
Speaker 1: Fa Tu pinned Solo Soko. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. I wouldn't have done it
Speaker 1: that way, but that's what happened. A very mid main
Speaker 1: event to and a very boring show. The dead crowd
Speaker 1: didn't help. But you know what sitting through five hours
Speaker 1: of television as these people in Pittsburgh did, and what
Speaker 1: does that equate to? About eighteen commercial breaks? Probably over
Speaker 1: the course of the night that these poor people had
Speaker 1: to sit through. I'll give him a pass on that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, I mean this was a very boring show.
Speaker 1: This was a very boring show. I am happy the
Speaker 1: show is back to two hours because imagine sitting through
Speaker 1: three hours of this shit. But very much A phone
Speaker 1: didn't show for the holidays is what this show felt
Speaker 1: like to me. Now, next week the wy At six
Speaker 1: they're gonna get another tag team title, Mesh. They had
Speaker 1: one a few weeks ago. They're getting one next week
Speaker 1: against the Street Profits. Our Truth is gonna go one
Speaker 1: on one with Alistair Black and maybe the big news here,
Speaker 1: jelly Roll is going to be in Nashville on Spackdown
Speaker 1: next week. Gee, I'm sorry, I'm gonna miss that. I
Speaker 1: will not be here next Friday. You guys will have
Speaker 1: to enjoy some jelly Roll on your own. That's the
Speaker 1: lineup for SmackDown next week. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll SmackDown from Pittsburgh. Fifty seven percent thumbs up,
Speaker 1: forty two percent thumbs down. What you people are awfully nice?
Speaker 1: You can vote at Sala Monster on Twitter. Let's get
Speaker 1: some patriotic music going here, got my flag. Here we go,
Speaker 1: celebrating two hours. Here we go very good. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at your super chats and then
Speaker 1: I'll get you guys out of here. Yes, it's looking
Speaker 1: like no be the booker tonight, That's what it's looking like.
Speaker 1: So we'll take your questions here and then we'll get
Speaker 1: you on out of here. We tried, We tried people
Speaker 1: out celebrating the holiday. I get it. I get it. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with Havili, who dropped a sixty dollars
Speaker 1: bomb here before I went live tonight. What's up, solo monster?
Speaker 1: It is the fifth of July already in Brisbane, Australia
Speaker 1: favorite Brett Hart versus Diesel match m you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, Survivor Series ninety five, they had a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of matches together. They had the King of the
Speaker 1: Ring in ninety four. I think doesn't get enough love.
Speaker 1: That honestly would probably be my number two. But they
Speaker 1: had King of the Ring in ninety four, Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: in ninety five, Survivor Series in ninety five, the Cage match,
Speaker 1: It in Your House in ninety six. They had some
Speaker 1: good matches together, but by far the Survivor Series match
Speaker 1: where Brett won the title is their best. Also, he says,
Speaker 1: if Corey Graves didn't retire, would he have been an
Speaker 1: NXT champion or a North American Champion? Oh, Corey would
Speaker 1: have been out of NXT by the time they introduced
Speaker 1: the North American title. Would he have been NXT champion?
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to say. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say yes. I think he would have gotten a run
Speaker 1: with it North American Champion. He would have already been
Speaker 1: on the main roster by then. So on that, I'll
Speaker 1: say no. Holiday one ninety seven, If Knight is traded
Speaker 1: to Raw, they should trade Seamus to smack down and
Speaker 1: treat him like a top star. Given his tenure, he's
Speaker 1: been underutilized. He has been underutilized. But there's no way
Speaker 1: that they're gonna move him to smack that and push
Speaker 1: him in the way that you want them to push him.
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. But I definitely think he
Speaker 1: should be featured more often. They should get him a
Speaker 1: real story, you know, once the russev stuff plays itself out.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, watch them put them together as
Speaker 1: a team. We got nothing else with these guys, that's
Speaker 1: the new thing though. We'll put them together as a
Speaker 1: team death Sith. Thank you for the super chot. What
Speaker 1: do you think of a potential Dark Side of the
Speaker 1: Ring episode on Sean O'Hare two thousand and three? This
Speaker 1: guy wins has wins over Chris ben Wa and Eddie
Speaker 1: Guerrero and they close WrestleMania twenty as WWE and World Champions.
Speaker 1: And Shawn got fired and took his own life the
Speaker 1: Shan O'Hair story, he got involved in some shit in
Speaker 1: his life that he shouldn't have. There's definitely some negative
Speaker 1: to his story and his behavior, and again thinks he
Speaker 1: was involved in and also had potential to be a
Speaker 1: much bigger star than he was. So is it worthy
Speaker 1: of Dark Side of the Ring? I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 1: a major star, but he was a television star. He
Speaker 1: was a star of the TV era, and they've done
Speaker 1: episodes on people who have far less notoriety than Sean
Speaker 1: O'Hare does, So the answer is yes, I think you
Speaker 1: could definitely get an episode out of him. Ossie of Steele.
Speaker 1: So we have Tomatonga, Tanga Loa and Talatanga can't wait
Speaker 1: until they signed bad Luck Foulet and rename him Tonga Moa.
Speaker 1: How old is Foley now he's gonna be probably is
Speaker 1: he mid forties? Been around forever. Joseph Stewart buy Er
Speaker 1: Sell the Joker or Lex Luthor The Joker, Cripple Punk
Speaker 1: says it was bound to happen. I am crippled after all. Well,
Speaker 1: this is true. Joseph Stewart also says, who is the
Speaker 1: bigger draw in W C W. Sting or Goldberg? Hm
Speaker 1: at his peak when he was white hot the way
Speaker 1: he was, it had to be Goldberg. But Goldberg's run
Speaker 1: on top was a lot shorter than Stings. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all a matter of perspective on how you how
Speaker 1: you look at it. What are you looking for when
Speaker 1: you ask? You know, how how over someone is? Goldberg
Speaker 1: had the hotter run on top even though it was shorter.
Speaker 1: Buy or Sell Catwoman or Harley Quinn Catwoman and buy
Speaker 1: or Sell The Riddler or the Green Goblin, The Riddler,
Speaker 1: Nick Grosso Rest in Peace. Michael Madison and Julian McMahon
Speaker 1: both gone too soon. Yeah, I saw the report earlier
Speaker 1: on Julian McMahon. That was kind of shocking. Actually, he
Speaker 1: wasn't very he wasn't very old. I mean he was
Speaker 1: was he early to mid fifties. Julian McMahon was an actor.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, he was on that show Niptuck.
Speaker 1: I think he was one of the doctors many years
Speaker 1: ago that show Niptuck on FX. But he was in
Speaker 1: other stuff too. And yeah, I passed away. Nobody knew
Speaker 1: he was sick. He had a private battle with cancer.
Speaker 1: They didn't say his wife didn't say what kind of
Speaker 1: cancer it was. But he just passed away on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and the news broke today. So very sad. Trill Mexican
Speaker 1: foreh five says, I was in the hospital today and
Speaker 1: by day was kind of crappy, but Sola Monster knows
Speaker 1: how to cheer me up with the playing of Ultraboss
Speaker 1: Back to Love. Thanks Solo, You're very welcome. I hope
Speaker 1: it wasn't anything too serious that you were in the
Speaker 1: hospital for, brother. I hope you're doing better. Holiday one
Speaker 1: ninety seven a Milk Toast episode of SmackDown. This week,
Speaker 1: the only highlight was Drew McIntyre returning not one singles
Speaker 1: match on the show, all tag matches. You know that's true.
Speaker 1: I didn't mention that, but that is true. We had
Speaker 1: the women's three way main event was a tag team match.
Speaker 1: Best match on the show was a tag team match.
Speaker 1: Very true. We have Manu Hakala. I don't drink for
Speaker 1: religious reasons. I drink for a completely different reasons. Hey,
Speaker 1: your reasons are your reasons. Brother, ain't nobody can tell
Speaker 1: you you're wrong? Are d beats with a twenty spot?
Speaker 1: Dylan here? Just want it to update you. I'm working
Speaker 1: in the biggest match and biggest crowd of my career tomorrow,
Speaker 1: AAPW tag team titled casket match. I've promoted the hell
Speaker 1: out of it, including the best promo on my socials.
Speaker 1: That's very cool. We'll tag me in it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'd like to check that out and good luck. A
Speaker 1: tag team title casket match. So do both members of
Speaker 1: a team have to end up in the same casket
Speaker 1: or is it just what? Is one member good enough?
Speaker 1: Curious how the rules work for this the Chicken. What
Speaker 1: is your opinion on Cody Rhoads playing guile? If it
Speaker 1: means John Cena holds onto the chainchampionship longer? I hate it.
Speaker 1: If it means if it has no impact on that
Speaker 1: then I have no opinion on it. I honestly have
Speaker 1: no I've never seen I know Cody Rhoades has a
Speaker 1: cameo in the New Naked Gun movie that's coming out
Speaker 1: with Liam Neeson. I don't think I've ever seen Cody
Speaker 1: Rhods act in anything before, So I have no idea
Speaker 1: how big of a role he's gonna have in the movie.
Speaker 1: If he's gonna have dialogue, if it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: brief fight scene, I don't know what to expect. I
Speaker 1: don't really have an opinion on it one way or
Speaker 1: the other. I just hope he's not gone long enough
Speaker 1: to interfere with whatever their creative plans are. And beyond that,
Speaker 1: I just until I see it myself, I just don't
Speaker 1: have any opinion on it. Just justter Ben's five dollars
Speaker 1: super chat. I have zero interest, zero interest in the
Speaker 1: WWE product at the moment, so I'm gonna dip, but
Speaker 1: just wanted to send some love and support solo. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Just well, certainly not after this show, I can understand.
Speaker 1: I can understand after this show, there's a fucking boring show.
Speaker 1: Randy Bubbandy, Buy, Sell, Rent, Leave on the shelf, on
Speaker 1: Michael Cole commentary partner Pat McAfee, Corey Graves, Bradshaw and Taz. Michael,
Speaker 1: Cole and Taz were a very good team. Where would
Speaker 1: I rank them? Though? You know what, I think I
Speaker 1: might put them number one. I think I might go
Speaker 1: Cole and Taz number one on my list. Cole, Taz, Cole, Pat.
Speaker 1: I'm torn between Pat second or Corey second, because Pat
Speaker 1: does bring out a side of Cole that we really
Speaker 1: hadn't heard before. Lor He just seems genuinely happy and
Speaker 1: like he's having more fun. Too much. Pat is not
Speaker 1: a good thing. Though Pat gets on my nerves very quickly.
Speaker 1: There are times I enjoy it, there are times I don't.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't mind Corey sitting in for him
Speaker 1: right now. And Corey is very good. So I'm a
Speaker 1: little torn on who to put number two. I'll go
Speaker 1: Cole Tas Cole, Pat, Cole, Corey and then Cole Bradshaw.
Speaker 1: Cripple Punk. What's a pirate's favorite letter? A writ of
Speaker 1: safe passage from his Majesty King Charles the Second of England. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a statement of fact, I guess all right, Cripple Punk,
Speaker 1: thank you groovy goose. When braun Stroman was getting pushed
Speaker 1: in the late twenty tens, a buddy of mine compared
Speaker 1: it to Luger's push. Would you say that was an
Speaker 1: apt comparison? No? I mean, I'm not sure you have
Speaker 1: to explain that comparison. I don't. I don't see the
Speaker 1: connection there. Luger, when he was at his peak, was
Speaker 1: far more popular than braun Strumman was aaron with the
Speaker 1: four ninety nine, Androtte and Zelena should be paired as heels.
Speaker 1: It would benefit both of them. Also, who do you
Speaker 1: think seen his final match will be against dude? When
Speaker 1: they brought Androde back, I was pitching him and Zelena
Speaker 1: to be put back together as a combo, especially now
Speaker 1: that Zelena had her US title run. Like they're not
Speaker 1: gonna do anything with her, sheould be lucky if she
Speaker 1: gets into the battle Royal and Evolution. For her, it
Speaker 1: would be a great thing. For him, it would be
Speaker 1: a great thing too, I think. But he's got a
Speaker 1: good thing going now with Ray Phoenix. How long is
Speaker 1: that gonna last? Though? Seen his final match? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We saw him and Punk. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are people I would love to see him in
Speaker 1: the ring with one more time before it's all said
Speaker 1: and done. Him and Seamus, him and a J. I
Speaker 1: don't see any of those guys as his final opponent.
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, that's already been done. I feel like it
Speaker 1: depends on how things go at Summer Slim. It could
Speaker 1: be Cody. They could do three matches. It could be Cody.
Speaker 1: If it's not Cody, uh, you know him and Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre is something I wouldn't mind seeing seeing. He'm gonna
Speaker 1: win his final match? Is he gonna go out on
Speaker 1: his back? I don't know. I I'll talk about seeing
Speaker 1: him briefly on the show on Sunday as far as
Speaker 1: his retirement match and and the win and where on that.
Speaker 1: Tama Tonga super fer, Oh my god, we have Tama
Speaker 1: Tonga super fan, not Tonga low. We have Tama Tonga
Speaker 1: super fan. Does Tomatonga have a top three catchphrase in
Speaker 1: WWE history with his yeah yeah yeah noise that he makes? No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. It's not a catchphrase. It's a noise like
Speaker 1: if he fucking farts or belches, that's not a cat
Speaker 1: If I sit here right now and I fucking belch
Speaker 1: into this microphone. That's not my catchphrase. Holiday one ninety seven.
Speaker 1: What topic or incident would you most like to see
Speaker 1: Dark Side of the Ring cover? Next? The most Go
Speaker 1: back and check out the episode where I covered the
Speaker 1: last episode of the last season, because I listed a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of potential episodes there, so that'll give you
Speaker 1: a better sense of what I'm hoping to see. I
Speaker 1: smoke a lot of weed dollar ninety nine. Glad that
Speaker 1: my makeshift tag team idea made it. And be the booker.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes smoking a lot of that weed could
Speaker 1: actually help your creative juice's flow. It was a good idea.
Speaker 1: Speaking of be the booker, we are at three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy likes. That's not going to cut it. Uh,
Speaker 1: And we got Common Pearson. This became a sound off
Speaker 1: super so Hey Common, Happy July fourth. I hope you
Speaker 1: have a very good weekend. Where is Tala Tonga superfan?
Speaker 1: He's too new, He's too new to have a super fan?
Speaker 1: Ian Ian Gome's five dollars super chat. It's my birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Any advice on how to get your thirty started off
Speaker 1: on the right foot? Yeah, don't get blackout drunk and
Speaker 1: wake up and be sick the next morning. Some people
Speaker 1: do that, you know, and their thirtieth birthday, Not that
Speaker 1: I would know anything about it, but to get it
Speaker 1: off on the right foot. The best advice I could
Speaker 1: give you is to if you can. Everyone's situation is different, obviously,
Speaker 1: but try to spend it with friends and or family. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The older you get, birthdays get kind of like eh,
Speaker 1: you almost don't even want to celebrate them. But at
Speaker 1: that age you should go out do something. Hang out
Speaker 1: with friends, go go out to dinner somewhere, try to
Speaker 1: do something that you want to do because it's your birthday.
Speaker 1: That would be the best advice I can give you.
Speaker 1: And happy birthday, brother, retro koh solo should leave a
Speaker 1: should leave a belichsh At the end of this week's podcast,
Speaker 1: new catchphrase it'll get over. Yeah, I don't know about
Speaker 1: that one. There are just some ideas that might sound
Speaker 1: good on paper that doesn't even sound good. And I
Speaker 1: see that we are officially at four eight on the likes,
Speaker 1: which means we are in fact going to do be
Speaker 1: the Booker. How about that? I didn't think we were
Speaker 1: gonna make it. I thought everybody was out celebrating and
Speaker 1: barbecuing and lightening themselves up and lightening themselves on fire
Speaker 1: and blowing off their fingers and doing all this stuff
Speaker 1: people do on July fourth. But you guys pulled it off.
Speaker 1: Robert forty months of channel membership is what he is celebrating. Robert,
Speaker 1: I salute you, Sir's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: It is now time to be the booker. It is
Speaker 1: now time. It is that time. It is the only
Speaker 1: time to end the week, and you do it with
Speaker 1: a little be the booker. Deputy Dog says, barely made
Speaker 1: it okay, well, very appropriate on a night where we
Speaker 1: had all tag team matches on this show, that we
Speaker 1: start out with a tag team match. How's that sound?
Speaker 1: We start out with a hell of a tag team.
Speaker 1: Tyson Kidd and Cesorrow the former Raw Tag Team champions
Speaker 1: and Natty has been there for a long time. Tyson
Speaker 1: Kidd and Cesorrow are going to be defending those raw
Speaker 1: tag team ugly penny belts against our real set of
Speaker 1: tag team champions. Look at those titles. Stone Cold Steve
Speaker 1: Austin and Dude Love. What kind of match you think
Speaker 1: that would be? Stone Cold Steve Austin and Dude Love
Speaker 1: against Cesorrow and Tyson Kidd. I'm here for it. Tyson
Speaker 1: Kidd is totally eating a stunner and getting pinned. But
Speaker 1: it's a great one. That's a great match. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it rolling. Uh. We got in Women's be the booker
Speaker 1: Jamie Hater, the former aw Women's World Champion who I
Speaker 1: was very much hoping would be going to Texas next
Speaker 1: weekend to challenge Tony Storm and didn't quite work out that.
Speaker 1: Not only did it not work out that way, but
Speaker 1: she's been hurt ever since. So best wishes to her.
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter one on one with Oh no, look who
Speaker 1: it is. It is machi Ito. Machi Ito says, go
Speaker 1: fuck yourself as she flips the double bird here to
Speaker 1: Hikarushida machi Ito and Jamie Hater. Jamie Hayter is going
Speaker 1: to turn this girl to dust with one Hater, Aid's
Speaker 1: gotta just absolutely destroy her. But machi etail is gonna
Speaker 1: put up a fight. She's scrappy and in our main
Speaker 1: event Live, Morgan gives you her room key. Now, pick
Speaker 1: a stip Morgan tells me to pick a stipulation. Then
Speaker 1: I'm picking a damn stipulation. That's what I'm doing, taking
Speaker 1: that room key, thank you very much. All right, let's
Speaker 1: pick a stip We're getting a stipulation here for our
Speaker 1: main event tonight. It will be a last man standing match.
Speaker 1: So now we know what kind of match it's going
Speaker 1: to be, last man standing. Be the booker has been
Speaker 1: reap Oh no, oh no, be the booker has been
Speaker 1: repossessed by the repo man. What is this? The repo
Speaker 1: man has repossessed be the booker. Game over, we get
Speaker 1: no main event. And here I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: booking a last man's standing match, but alas it has
Speaker 1: been repossessed. Nothing I can do. Those are the rules.
Speaker 1: Nothing I can do. That's right. What's mine is mine
Speaker 1: and what's yours is mine too. That you talk about
Speaker 1: wrestling catchphrases, that's one of the all time great ones.
Speaker 1: If we were at five hundred likes, I would say,
Speaker 1: fuck it, we'll do a second round. But we're nowhere
Speaker 1: close to that. But you know what, we were two
Speaker 1: for two. We technically did have a sweep, not the
Speaker 1: sweep we were hoping for, but we had two for two.
Speaker 1: Really good tag team match, good women's match, but we
Speaker 1: will have to wait until next week to see if
Speaker 1: we can get our main event back. That'll be on
Speaker 1: Monday night as he stole Macho Man's hat, Yes he did.
Speaker 1: Next time I am Live with you will be on
Speaker 1: Monday night for the Raw post show. Of course, Sunday
Speaker 1: will be episode nine to nineteen of the SoundOff, which
Speaker 1: will include All In Texas predictions. I'll be live on Monday.
Speaker 1: I'll be live on Wednesday for the Dynamite post show.
Speaker 1: There will be no SmackDown review next week. I will
Speaker 1: be in Texas for a House of Glory. I will
Speaker 1: rush back to New York early the very next morning
Speaker 1: so I could be here to watch All In. And
Speaker 1: I will be live after the aw pay per view
Speaker 1: next Saturday. At some point I will have to catch
Speaker 1: up with Saturday night's main events so I could cover
Speaker 1: it on the SoundOff next weekend. But that is the
Speaker 1: schedule of events heading into what is going to be
Speaker 1: a very busy weekend. I am not covering the Great
Speaker 1: American Bash. That card looks like asked to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, but I'm watching All In, so I'm not
Speaker 1: covering the Great American Bash, and I will be covering
Speaker 1: Evolution live, So there's a whole lot of shit going on.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get any sleep, but that's next weekend,
Speaker 1: so just be aware of that. Bace bears two dollars
Speaker 1: super chat says Repomen Repomen, he looked like he was
Speaker 1: having a lot of fun with that gimmick. I think
Speaker 1: he enjoyed it. I think he enjoyed himself more as
Speaker 1: Repoman than he did as Krusher Khrushchev. Just the hunch.
Speaker 1: When is Saturday Night's main event? Even it is next
Speaker 1: Saturday at eight pm on NBC, so probably as all
Speaker 1: In is ending, is when Saturday Night's main event is
Speaker 1: going to be starting. Because all In starts at three,
Speaker 1: you know that pay per view ain't going less than
Speaker 1: four hours, probably closer to five, and then I'll be
Speaker 1: live while Saturday Night's main event is on the air.
Speaker 1: So thank you. Zachary is special referee a stipulation and
Speaker 1: be the booker, Yes it is. I think I've covered
Speaker 1: all possible stipulations and be the boar I've tried to.
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to think of a new one that
Speaker 1: maybe I missed. But there's a bunch of stipulations in there,
Speaker 1: and the Juliet with a five dollars supertat. Congrats to
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander on winning the Pro Wrestling EVE International title.
Speaker 1: How about that She'll be entering number one in the
Speaker 1: Women's Casino Gauntlet match in Texas next weekend, so if
Speaker 1: she wins, she will earn a future world Championship match.
Speaker 1: At any time. Leopaldo Ripo man stealing a girl's bike,
Speaker 1: I remember that too. He stole a gres bike. He
Speaker 1: I think he stole a car out of someone's garage
Speaker 1: at night because the guy missed. I think he was
Speaker 1: one day late on his payment, so the Repo man
Speaker 1: went to his house and stole his car with glee.
Speaker 1: Did I see the Brett Hart Bambam fireball segment on
Speaker 1: the Vault? I did, yes, and I could see why
Speaker 1: that never aired. That was not a great promo from Bambam.
Speaker 1: You know that fireball that was a little too close.
Speaker 1: He got all up in Brett's face with that fucking fireball.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have taken that, and Brett put all that
Speaker 1: shit in his hair, fucking sixty five pounds of oil
Speaker 1: and grease. You get that close with a flame. That
Speaker 1: could have gone very badly, but Yeah, I had never
Speaker 1: seen that before. They never aired that The Vault had
Speaker 1: this week. Man has been the gift that keeps on giving. Man.
Speaker 1: They posted a whole bunch of new generation stuff this week,
Speaker 1: outtakes from like vignettes and stuff I'm sure you've seen.
Speaker 1: All day long. People were sharing the clip of Vader
Speaker 1: bouncing on the trampoline and doing moon salts on the
Speaker 1: trampoline like this is the stuff that I love when
Speaker 1: it comes to The Vault, Like I live for that stuff.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of content I want to see them
Speaker 1: pumping out. Have yourselves a great rest of your Fourth
Speaker 1: of July, Stay safe. I will see you for episode
Speaker 1: nine nineteen of The sound Off, dropping Sunday afternoon. Until then,
Speaker 1: take care,