Speaker 1: It's been a hot day here in New York. Too hot.
This show was not too hot tonight, but it was
the first two hour SmackDown of the year. I'm very
happy about that. I am not complaining about the fact
that we had a two hour SmackDown tonight. I always
said the time may change the quality of the show,
though that's a different story. Honestly, you know what this
show felt like tonight. This felt more like a ninety
minute show that they stretched out to two hours. And
I'm sure part of the reason for that, anyway, is
because they taped Raw on Monday and then immediately taped
SmackDown because they were giving everybody off of the Fourth
of July holiday this weekend, so this was a tape show.
They did two shows in one night, so I'm sure
they piped in some crowd noise. We got some crowds sweetening,
especially during that page. That page Bribella and Lany reidmatch,
And so we ended up with the show that we
ended up with here tonight's. It was not a very
good show, as his part for the chorus would SmackDown
not a good show, but it was instantly better than
every other three hour episode because there was one hour
less of it dyes see, and we get to enjoy
it now for the next six months. That's great. We
do have a new number one contender for the WWE Championship.
It was Cody Rhodes and Jay Usso in the main
event of tonight's show, and the winner would go on
to Monday Night. We're on next week in Chicago to
challenge Sammy Zain for the WWE title. So Sammy's ain
got to come out tonight here on this show. He
got to revel in being champion for the first time
in his career. It may be the only time that
Sammy z Ain walks out on SmackDown as the WWE champion,
because it sure feels like he ain't gonna have that
championship after Monday. So I sure hope Sammy has the
chance to enjoy it, however brief it may be, because
it sounds like it's coming to an end on Monday.
We had Cody, like I said in Jay in the
main event tonight, and I'm watching this match, and you know,
they're doing what they do, They're going through the motions
and they're hitting all their usual spots, and I'm like
this doesn't feel like a major Number one contenders match,
and then I laugh at the people who actually and
there were some people I'm sure out there who thought
there was at least a possibility the WWE might do
Cody and Jay at SummerSlam because Jay was gonna win
King of the Ring, Brock was gonna screw Oh, but
we were gonna end up with King J And I'm like,
this isn't even a SmackDown main event, And there were
actually people who convinced themselves the WWE was going to
go with that as a night one stadium show main event.
Are you out of your fucking mind? It was barely
a main event here on this show, and it was
the only outcome that you knew we were going to
get because they were going to run back Cody and
Sammy as soon as possible. Chicago is obviously a very
interesting place to do it. And so as we go
along here, we'll talk a little bit more about that. Honestly,
the highlight of this show was and I feel like
this is the second or third time now that I'm
saying this, but the highlight of the show was Ray
Phoenix defending his triple A cruiserweight Championship. We've seen him
defend it now against Axiom against Nathan Fraser. Tonight it
was against VIKINGO, and they didn't get a lot of time.
They got about eight minutes. We got to see half
of it because there was a commercial in the middle.
But what we got from that was very good because
they're trying to push Triple A as hard as possible, so
we had two Triple A champions in fact in that match,
only for Ray Phoenix's title. I'll have an update on
VIKINGO as well here in a little bit, and they
have made a United States Championship match for next Friday
show will be Trick Williams defending his title against Carmelo Hayes.
Now that Trick Williams has vanquished Ricky Saints, who was
not on the show tonight, we were moving on to
Trick and Mellow, which may well also end up being
a Summer Slam match. All Mellow has to do is
beat Trick next week because that is a non title match,
the championship will not be on the line. So I
guess the question is, is Ricky Saints done with Trick Williams.
He may not be. He may show up again. Next week,
he may get involved. We may yet end up with
a triple threat match involving all three men at some point,
so they set that up for next week. Outside of that,
they moved some other things ahead. There were other stories
programs that they move forward, but they were all largely
boring things. Happy Fourth of July weekend, everybody. This is
your Friday Night SmackDown review. It is Friday Night, July third,
two thousand and twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster
where it topped one hundred degrees today here in New
York City. Real feel a lot more than that, And
of course, as I am just trying to survive the
day and I am trying to get some work done,
and I'm seeing all of these clips of all of
the closures, the street closures all over the city because
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey are getting married at Madison
Square Garden, I'm sure with lots and lots of air
conditioning inside MSG my living room air conditioner the compressor
died and so it's just blowing hot air on the
hottest day of the year. So yes, I'm certainly in
a mood today, But I hope wherever you may be
that you are staying safe from this heat, because this
heat kills, especially when it comes to elderly neighbors, family members.
I mean, this is serious stuff here. Certain some of
you may be used to it in certain parts of
the country. Although who was a venom Catetsu? I think
I saw in the chat before it says he lives
in the desert and it only got maybe you didn't
even get into the nineties. It was hotter here than
it was there, and so this is not the kind
of weather that we're necessarily used to. So be sure
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If we could at least do three to fifty, then
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goal for tonight. Now let's get into this program here. Hey,
there's Teensen Zephyr activating super scene to thank you for
the ten spot teen Gen, I appreciate. Happy Fourth of
July to you, brother and super both of you. I
see everyone has their heat stories. It's crazy. It's like
hell on Earth, it really is. I made the mistake
of earlier in the week buying these valued naturals. I
forgot the exact brand. There's a certain brand of these,
like dark chocolate almonds, and I can't do the milk chocolate,
but these dark chocolate almonds. They're so fucking good, and
I made the mistake. I shouldn't have even bought them
this week. I buy them almost every week. I bought
them this week. I have like a little fucking dish
that they're in. I don't put them in the fridge.
I keep them out. I forgot all about them. Boy,
was that a mistake. I no longer have dark chocolate almonds.
What I do have, though, is dark chocolate soup, if
anybody would like some. They open with highlights from Night
of champions in Riod this weekend and Sammy Zain winning
the WWE Championship, which evidently has made certain people in
the community. It has made their heads explode. You love
to see it, you love to see it. There are
some people who simply have had a meltdown over the
fact that this man has won the WWE title, like
it is the end of civilization as we know it,
crime more so. SmackDown then opened with the new WWE champion.
Did I mention that Sammy's ain making his way down
to the ring, and he got a pretty good reaction.
All things considered, it was mixed but mostly positive, and
Sammy talked about how people in the building are here
to ride or die with the last real good guy.
Said that all the support that he has received has
touched him truly from the bottom of his heart, thanks everybody,
and he acknowledged how he's been booed out of the
building for the past few months, said that it was
ironic because those same people that were booing were people
wanting to see him become champion only a few years ago.
Said that he can be petty to all of those
people who turn their backs on him, and he could
tell all of them to kiss my ass, but he's
not going to do that because he's a good guy.
Sam He said he's holding it because he won't change,
said that people told him to be meaner. They told
him to be cutthroat, said that he didn't listen to them.
He said he did it his way, and he did
it the right way. He said that he can be
petty to all those doubters who don't think that he's
championship material. He could tell all of them to kiss
my ass, but he's not going to do that because
this is a celebration. He said that he will go
down now as one of the all time greats. He
has headlined WrestleMania. He is a Grand Slam champion. No
amount of booing, no amount of hate, no amount of
noise is going to take that away from him. And
that brought out the former WWE champion. Cody wrote after
he got in the ring, Sammy mockingly asked him, what
do you want to talk about. Cody said that Sammy
talked about how when Cody won the championship at WRESTLEMANI
of forty that he was the first in line to
congratulate him. So he wanted to be the first to
come out here and congratulate Sammy on winning the WWE title.
And the two of them shook hands and Cody went
to go leave, and so he stopped him. He told
Cody get back here. He said Cody wasn't just here
to congratulate him. It had to do with him having
what Cody used to have, which, by the way, as
this promo went on, we found out that Sammy was
right and Cody was just lying through his teeth, because
Cody said later in this very same segment that he
was out here looking for his rematch, and so he
wasn't just walk it off expecting nothing here. But he said,
you know again, I have what you used to have.
And before tensions could boil over, we heard Jay USO's
music and he did not come yeading through the crowd.
He came like a normal person walking down the aisle
to the ring. Fans wanted him to run it back.
He said he's not going to run it back because
tonight it's not about him, it's about his oose, It's
about Sammy, and he said he was proud of Sammy
for earning what he deserved. But Jay said he was
out here on bloodline business and that this was his
warning shot to Sammy, said he needed to bring the
gold back to the family. Cody interrupted, He asked, what
year is this? I actually could relate a lot in
this moment. To Cody Rose, I find myself asking this
very question quite often recently, fucking Roman Reigns and seth
Rollins in the main event of SummerSlam. We have edgend
Christian his tag team champions in wrestling at the same
time that the Hardys are the tag team champions in
another promotion in wrestling. I sometimes have to pinch myself
and ask myself that same question, what year are we
living in? So, Cody said he wanted to know. When
Jay reverted back to being an errand boy for Roman Reigns,
Cody said, it's time to talk about his rematch. Sammy's
ears perked up. He pointed out that Cody's had his chance.
This is Sammy's time to be champion. He told Jay
that the title is already in the family with him
being an honorary USINOL, and it's gonna stay with him.
Sammy started to leave when the new interim acting general
manager of SmackDown walked out at Pierce has assumed the position.
Because Gunther and Nick all this, they got into a
little tiff after Night of Champions on Saturday. They had
to be separated, and so Gunther was sent home. Nick All,
this was sent home and we were told that he
was placed on administrative leave and that in his absence
for the time being, Adam Pierce will assume the GM
responsibilities for both Raw and SmackDown, which should be easy
enough to do. I mean, look, we've had presidents before
that have run everything and they did just fine. The
esteem Jack Tunney, Guerrilla, mon Soon, Rowdy, Roddy Piper, all
of these men have run WWE. They didn't just run Superstars,
they didn't just run Wrestling Challenge. They didn't just run
Monday Night Raw. They ran the whole thing. I think
Adam Pierce will be okay. What he does on SmackDown
is largely the exact same thing he does on Raw.
We constantly have people crossing over from Raw to SmackDown
to Raw. What difference does it make. It's just one
big giant show. Anyway, this is easy. So he walked
out there and he said his first order of business
is to find Sammy's next challenger. And Sammy wondered if
as the champion, he has any saying who that first
challenger is going to be at SummerSlam, and he said, uh,
I didn't say anything about Summer Slim So No. Sammy,
as it turns out, is going to defend his championship
on Raw this coming Monday. Raw is in Chicago and
Sammy will have his first defense of the WWE title.
All got fucked up up. There goes the tree, There
goes fuck that tree. Yeah, I knew that was coming.
Hey Brandon Proctor, thank you brother. He is destroying the tree.
How we are going to decide the challenger for Sammy's
championship is very simple. In the main event of this
show tonight, it will be Cody Rhodes going one on
one with Jay Usso and the winner will get Sammy
on Monday. So Sammy was not pleased about this development,
and neither am I because I know exactly where this
is headed, and I know all of you know exactly
where this is headed. First of all, in this segment here, Sammy,
he was straddling that line here between heel and Babyface.
He got a decent amount of cheers, you know, coming
out his first night as champion came out. He's thanking
the fans from the bottom of his heart. Thank you
very much, all my rider Die fans. You know he's
been doing this, you know, tweeter thing of late trending
more towards Heal than face, but still kind of straddling
that line. So that's what he was doing here. In
this segment Cody came out. Cody's reaction was more mixed.
Wasn't really overwhelmingly positive or negative one way or the other.
If I had to choose between a match this Monday
between Cody Rhoads and Sammy's Ain or Sammy's Ain and
Jay Usso in this circumstance, I wouldn't have said this
about SummerSlam, But in this circumstance, I would go with
Jay and Sammy. And the reason I would go with
Jay and Sammy is because Jay Usso has no fucking
shot at winning the championship, nor did he before. Cody,
on the other hand, is the favorite going into that
match on Monday. I would actually be quite surprised if
Cody Rhods does not leave Chicago on Monday night as
the new WWE champion. So at least if we had
Jay and Sammy, I wouldn't worry nearly as much in
this case. If you're a Sammy's Ain fan, you have
very good reason to be worried. About how this is
going to turn out on Monday. But I'm a lot
more sure about Cody in this spot than I am.
I'm Jay you. So, now look, I made the comparison
previously that they're going to do to Sammy what they
did to Christian fifteen years ago. Now, at least with
Christian or Randy Orton, we ended up with a really
great summer program out of it. They had some really
great matches, They flip flopped the belt back and forth
a few times. They paid it off at SummerSlam. And
so I'm not going to say, even if Sammy does
lose the championship this soon, that he's going to be
out of the main event scene and that's it. You know,
He's kind of back down to the mid card and
that's the end of Sammy challenging for the title. But
it probably is. I don't see him following Christian's same
path where he flip flops the belt back and forth,
and you know, I don't see it. I don't have
that same kind of faith that that's what would happen here.
But it feels like we are headed for a very
christian Esque moment come Monday night, at least in the
case of Sammy, he will have held the championship for
longer than Christian did Christian Christian had the title technically
for forty eight hours, even though that smack that where
he lost it didn't air for a few days until
after that. But it feels very much like that's exactly
where we're headed. And that's assuming, of course, Cody Rhodes
is the one who is going to ra on Monday night.
I won't give it away yet. We haven't gotten to
the main event yet. We'll talk about that a little
bit later. Let's go on with the rest of this show. Here. Oh,
she's coming up later, Venom Katatsu, you've jumped the gun.
She's coming up a little bit later on. You almost
timed it right. Did I not make myself clear death side?
Apparently I did not, thank you to the both of you.
Longer than Cain. Well, yes, it is longer than Cain.
Cain had it for twenty four hours. I suppose it
could be worse, could be a lot worse. He could
have lost it the same night if they had a
money in the bank. Breave case flow around. Still, he
may have been champion for three minutes. It could always
be Worse Michael Cole. Speaking of Worse Michael Cole and
Corey Graves. They checked in at the desk and pitched
it over to Kathy Kelly, who interviewed Charlotte Flair in
the back and Kathy asked her, why did you interfere
in Jade's US title match a Night of Champions. Charlotte
said that she just returned the favor after Jade got
involved in her business, which is true. I mean, hey,
what one good turn deserves another, right. Jade arguably cost
her a spot in the Queen of the Ring tournament
because of the bad knee, and so Charlotte flew halfway
across the world just to get revenge, because revenge is
the greatest motivator of all that in anger, they are
great motivators. She got on a plane, I don't even
know how many hours that it was at fourteen hours,
whatever it is. She flew all the way to Riod
just to whack Jade in the head with the US tie,
and so she cost her her shot to be champions.
So now they're even. Alexa Bliss showed up. She didn't
seem very happy because she said it would have been
nice to get a heads up that you were actually
going to be at Knight of Champions. Charlotte talked about
Alexa teaming up with Tiffany Stratton without informing her, So
there is trouble. There's trouble here between these two people.
There's trouble in paradise. This led into Charlotte Tiffany, so
she just did it again. She's teaming up with Tiffany
and Chelsea Green against Jade, Cargill, Meechen and Beefab. Charlotte
tagged in a little bit deeper into the match. She
was having her away with the batties until Jade put
her down took control ahead of a commercial break. After
the commercial and Beaching and Bfab they were double teaming Charlotte,
Jade tagged in. She hit her fall away slam into
the kip up that she does. She missed a charge
into the corner though, that allowed Charlotte to get the
tag to Chelsea, who hit a rough rider. Befab, though
was able to break up the pin attempt, so things
broke down. Chelsea avoided Jade's pump kick her unpretty. Her
attempt got reversed into a Jaded attempt that Chelsea then
turned into a roll up bfab ran distraction on the apron,
but she got punched in the face knocked off the apron,
but that momentary distraction was all that Jade needed to
sneak up behind Chelsea, and this time she managed to
hit Jaded and she pinned her to put it away.
So they're still keeping Jade strong as they prepare for
the inevitable showdown at SummerSlam, which is still not official yet,
but you know it's coming. It's going to be Charlotte
Flair one on one with Jade Cargill. It is getting
very tiring seeing these same combinations every single week, and
you know, you look back sort of in the history
of this company and in the history of wrestling. There
are people who are you know, quote unquote married to
each other on television who work together a lot. Right,
These programs that we see and they stretch out over
a period of weeks, sometimes months, with the bloodline years.
If it's good though, if you got people who were
super over, or if you have a story that's really
super compelling and interesting, you can excuse it. Right. There
are certain people who I'm sure you would be you
would consider your favorites. I would consider my favorites, and
I wouldn't mind seeing them work a three or four
month program and go back and forth a few times. Right,
That sounds like fun. Unfortunately, fun is not a word
I associate with this show, because this show is generally
fucking terrible. And I mean it's certainly not a case
where everybody on the show is super over. Very few
people on this show are what I would consider to
be super over. And get their programmed together for weeks
and weeks and weeks and weeks and sometimes months on end,
and it just gets tiresome. You see the same combinations
over and over again. It wasn't that good of the beginning,
it's not that good now all to try to get
to whatever the ultimate goal is here, and the ultimate
goal here is Charlotte and Jade, and that's a big
enough match for them to do as Summer Slim. But
in the meantime, we have all these weeks of television
where we're seeing the same combination of Charlotte and Tiffany
and the Baddies and Jade and Meechen and BFAB and
singles matches and tag matches and trios matches, and I
just feel like it's this infinite loop, and it's just
not that interesting. It's just not happy to see Chelsea
green Though getting more reps in the ring as a babyface.
You know, that's nice to see she took the loss
again here. You would think that at some point Tiffany
Stratton might get tired of seeing her take the l's
and who knows, maybe that leads to a heel turn
for Tiffany. We could end up getting that. I don't
know now that they want to turn Tiffany heel though
before they eventually feud her with Blake Monroe. So I
don't know that the end goal here is for Chelsea
and Tiffany to have a program together and with Tiffany
maybe is the heel and Chelsea is the baby face.
I thought maybe that was potentially the plan before, but
now I'm not sure, because I'm sure they're going to
want Blake and Tiffany to work together. Blake is the heel,
I'm not sure where that leaves Chelsea. Backstage, Adam Pierce
was confronted by Sammy Zain, who was very upset that
he had to defend his title on Monday. He was
very upset that he had to go to work on Monday.
Pierce said that Sammy should be honored that he is
defending on a great show such as Monday Night Raw,
and maybe he would even invite some SmackDown stars to
Chicago to make it a real super show. He left
Samby was about to smack another water bottle when he
spotted Johnny gargano planking. He smacked the water bottle anyway,
went over to Johnny. He was so happy, happy to
tell Johnny that he did it, he won the championship.
And then he asked Candice Lay to take a selfie,
although I guess if she's taking it, it's not really
a selfie, but she he wanted her to take a
photo of him and Johnny. I have to assume maybe
I'm being naive here, maybe I'm giving them a little
too much credit. I have to assume that they this
is leading somewhere. They have something in mind for where
this is going with Sammy and Johnny, gargano I said.
Coming out of a night of champions on Saturday actually
brought up gargano I said, well, where does that go? Right?
It's a minor part of this character makeover that Sammy
has gone through. Is Johnny finally going to wake up.
Is he going to be a lackey for Sammy? Is
that going to be the role for him? Usually Sammy
would be the lackey. Maybe Samue'll have his own lackey.
You'll be Johnny Gargano. Johnny Gargano was still planking. Nothing
has changed. M He won the championship on Saturday, almost
a week ago. Now, nothing has changed. Johnny Gargana was
flying himself around the country and he is laying on
top of boxes. I don't remember when this started. He
has been doing this literally for months, and at first
I can't even say, well, at first it was kind
of funny, Like, no, it was never really all that funny.
It was stupid when they started it. It's even dumber
now because I never would have expected that fucking three
or four months later we would still be doing this shit.
And I'm not really sure. Is he like the mascot
of SmackDown. I have to imagine that there is some
sort of end goal here to him being buried in
this way, because that's what's happening here. You know, What's
the one thing that Johnny Gargana was really good at
other than laying around, literally laying around every Week Wrestling.
We saw it an NXT. We have yet to see
that version of Jonny Gargano on the main roster. But
I have to remind myself also, like all those great
Johnny Gargano Black and Gold matches and this stuff with
Shampa and everybody else he work with, it's almost a
decade ago now, and I don't know that we're ever
going to see that Johnny Gargano ever. Again. He's the
thing with him is he has never been over on
the main roster. Even as a fan of his work,
I can sit here and tell you that it's always
been a struggle for him when he's out there, either
in a singles or a tag, to get any sort
of real meaningful response from an audience. And maybe they
looked at this and they thought, because of that, we
have to go in a different way and this will
be something entertaining and maybe he can get over in
this kind of goofball, cornball type of way. But they're
not doing anything. He's literally laying around doing nothing every
single week, and I'm just like, what is the point
of this. Months of this, months of this, I don't
understand for this. It's just it's it's beyond ludicrous at
this point, what is the point of this? Are they
just running down the clock on his contract? Like I
don't understand. We had Ray Phoenix defending his Triple A
Cruiserweight Championship against the Triple A Latin American champion, Elijo
del Vikingou. They are really in full push Triple A
mode right now. We had a battle here between two
champions from Triple AU. VI Kingo got the jobber entrance
for this Phoenix. He missed a spin kick, but he
caught the Kingo with the lethal injection for a two count.
But Kingo's cell job on this, by the way, was tremendous.
Phoenix went for a baseball slide, but he got trapped
in the apron skirt by the Kingo, who caught him
with a kick and then a springboard moon salt to
the floor. That was ahead of the commercial break, so
they took a break. They were gone for like four minutes.
This was an eight minute match. VI Kingo later hit
Phoenix with a very impressive six point thirty raana off
the top only for two. They ended up on the
top rope. VI king Goo dropped Phoenix with an avalanche
poison Raana only for a near fall. VI Kingo then
missed with the springboard four fifty that gave Phoenix the
opening to hit the Mexican Musclebuster, and he was able
to get the pin to retain the championship. Very much
like the match that Phoenix had with Nathan Fraser, this
was a fun sprint. It had more energy than just
about everything else I would say on this show any
given week. But they got eight minutes. They tried to
make the most of the eight minutes that they were getting.
To be honest with you, if this show was still
three hours like it was last week, I don't think
they would have gotten much more than eight minutes. Even then,
they got eight minutes. The problem is they took a
commercial in the middle of the match, so really it
was a four minute match, and they tried to pack
what they could in four minutes. But what the fuck
are you going to do in four minutes? What we got, though,
I thought was fun, even though we missed half the match. Now,
unfortunately the Kingo, who was the only Triple A star
under contract to WWE, he went to NXT on Tuesday,
and I believe he was supposed to be wrestling is
it e K Prosper I believe his name is. He
was supposed to wrestle on that show on Tuesday, and
evidently I am left to assume that they were rehearsing spots.
I don't think he was just walking on by. He
probably was in the ring with him before the show.
They were working out spots for their match. I would
assume he got hurt. VI Kingo got hurt and he
was not able to wrestle on Tuesday. That's why they
shot that angle in the back where he was attacked
I think by Keanu Carver, and that took him out
of the match. He injured his knee and then he
is still swollen pretty bad. I don't know if he's
already undergone an MRI, if they're waiting for the swelling
to go down and then he's gonna have an MRI.
But the fact that he even needs an MRI on
his knee is not good. There is some sort of injury.
Hopefully it's not too serious, even though it sounds serious.
Uh so that's pretty fucking terrible, So all the best
of it can go. I mean, he's had knee issues before,
but this just sounds like a freak accident. You know,
they were going over stuff before the show. They weren't
even on the air, and he got hurt. That's what
happens sometimes. Kathy Kelly interviewed Julia backstage about getting attacked
by Blake Monroe after her win last week over a
Keana James. Julia said that she doesn't back down from
a fight. She said, if Blake stops being a coward,
she'll fight her anytime, anywhere. So Keana James showed up,
she did a little golf clap. She said that Julia
only got lucky in their match. All of a sudden,
Blake Monroe she shows up out of nowhere and she
attacks Julia from behind. She threw her heart into a
nearby production case. And then Keana is trying to gloat
on Julia like haha, except Blake then grabbed her and
threw her into the equipment case and so both ladies
were down and at that point Blake walked off. That
was That was Blake Monroe's role on SmackDown tonight. So
I don't know if this is leading to it individual
singles matches with Blake and Keana, Blake and Julia. If
you're going to put all three of them in the
ring together. I don't know. Obviously, we're going to get
Julia in Blake at some point, maybe we get her
and Keana. First, they recapped the Roman Reigns seth Rollins
segment that closed Raw on Monday night to set up
their championship match at SummerSlam, and then it was to
the live I put that in air quotes since this
show was not live, but we'll pretend that it is
with Jacob fa TWU and Jimmy Usso Jacob fa Tu
stood there. He did not utter a single word on
this show, but he was there. Jimmy said, the OTC
calls the play, we gonna run it, right, I guess
we picked up in the middle of their conversation. All
of a sudden, Royce Key shows up and he sees Jacob.
Now before Jacob left SmackDown to go to Raw. If
you remember, we got a couple of segments in the
back where they were all buddy buddy and they were
talking about how they have history together and they go
back a ways, right, they go back a long ways.
They're both I think from the West Coast, and so
Keys walks in, he sees Jacob and he said, let
me guess. I guess Roman tells Jacob. Now, it was
hard for me to understand what he was saying. Here.
I think he said, Roman tells Jacob who's pot this is?
Now they say pot he is a place? What does
that even mean? I don't know, but he said that
I don't know whose pot is this? I don't know.
You tell me, Jimmy said, hold up. The OTC sent
them on a mission to find Solo. Now, can you
help us find him? Because if you can't, we're just
going to handle our family business. He said. Family. Blood
don't make you family. Loyalty makes you family. He told
Jacob he's been his day one for the last fourteen years.
He's been loyal to him, So guess what. As far
as he's concerned, he is Jacob's family. Jimmy took his
glasses off. He said, not no more right, Jacob off,
goes Jimmy, and then Jacob followed suit. Two things here,
Number one, I just realized that these two schmucks showed
up on the show here on a mission to find
Solo Socoa, and they apparently did fulfill their mission. We
didn't see them again for the rest of the show.
We didn't see Solo, we didn't see Jimmy again, we
didn't see Jacob again. So them being on the show
ended up being completely pointless other than them wanting to
get this interaction that that was the real point of it,
to get this interaction with Roy's Keys, and the reason being.
I think what we're looking at for Summerslim is going
to be a six man tag. I think what we're
gonna get is the USOS teaming up with Jacob Fatu
to take on Solo's Sukoa La Night and Royce Keys,
the two men that Solo has been trying to recruit
now for weeks, and they've turned him down every single time.
He doesn't have his MFTs anymore. Eventually, these two were
gonna come around and we're gonna get a six man
tag on that shows. That's what it feels like. This
is all building too. It would be kind of funny though,
if he finally convinces these guys to trust him and
be partners with him, only for Solo to then turn
on them and just side with Roman Reigns in the bloodline. Anyway,
that sounds like something that wwe would do. Next up,
we got the United States champion Trick Williams out to
the ring with Lil Yachty before they could say boo
the former United States champion Trick Williams. He made his
way out to the ring or Trick Williams. Carmelo Hayes
made his way out to the ring to join them.
Melo noted that Ricky Saines couldn't get the job done
on Saturday and it was time to run things back
with him and Trick pointed out that Trick won't answer him.
He said, he'll give Trick his flowers. The title looks
great on him and the crowd loves him, but that's
only because Mello hasn't taken it from him yet. Melo
said that he made the championship into a championship, Trick
made the title into an accessory. He said that if
Trick and Yachty want a title, he'll give them a
discount code for a replica on WWE's shop. Mello said
the US title is the workhorse. It's the match of
the night title. Mello said Tricks out there like he's
had too much to eat, so prove him wrong. Mello
asked Trick to put the title on the line against
somebody who knows him better than anybody. He said, Trick
may walk the walk and talk to talk with them,
but he has two left feet and a mouthful of
marbles when he's in there with him. Not a bad
promo here from Mellow. Not bad now, Yachti spoke, Yaty
spoke more than Trick did. Here said the Trick has
been nothing short of pure great and he's making a
short joke now at Carmelo's expense, But Trick has been
nothing short of pure greatness. Yady asked the crowd if
they should give this young small man a match. They
all chanted yes. Yati told Mellow don't blow a blood vessel.
He said Mellow could have his match next week, but
not for the title. Said titles are earned and not given.
He's making the match so that he can get Trick
his reps. And Yadi said that when things get tricky,
Mellow will have no excuses as to why he can't
get the job done. So Trick finally spoke for himself,
and he said that he knows Mellow like the back
of his hand, and then he backhanded him. He bitch
slapped him, and down goes Carmelo. Hayes, Trick and YACHTI.
They exited. They were dapping it up outside when Mello
hit a flip dive out over the top rope on
to Trick to take him out. So we are getting
the match next week. It will be non titled between
these two men, which is fine because I think ultimately
you do the title match at SummerSlam. I mean, look,
they could always do it as Saturday Night's main event,
but I think this is a Summer Slim match because
I don't know, there's not enough time to really build
up another program for Trick on that show. If he's
going to defend, it's going to be against either Mello
or Mellow and Ricky Saints. It's gonna be one of
those two matches. I do have to say this. I
want to pay a compliment here to Lil YACHTI because
he came in around the time they were doing Celebrity
Mania in this company, and we had Pat McAfee and
we had Jelly Roll and it was like and then
all of a sudden, Lil YACHTI is out there and
I'm like, this is just celebrity overload here, this is ridiculous.
And Pat McAfee went away, Jelly Roll went away. Lil
Yachti state he signed a deal to basically be full
time for them. Now he is a full time manager
in WWA. You'll notice tonight here on this show, maybe
more than any other time that we've seen him so far,
he did most of the talking for Trick. And it's
not like Trick needs help on the mic, so he's
out there doing the talking for him. Yachti does a
really good job in this role. He knows what he
needs to do when he's out there, he speaks on
behalf of Trick. Is almost like he's his agent or something.
He makes all the decisions, he signs the contract, he
gets the deals done, and I think they make for
a good combo. They're in a weird place right now,
where like even here in this segment, they were kind
of more heelish, and we've seen that a few times recently.
The fans still love to chant you know, whoop that
Trick when Trick comes out. He's still booked as a babyface.
I would say, I wonder if they kind of shift
back into more of the heel direction, Like how do
the fans take to Carmelo Hayes if they're going to
play this out, let's say, until summer slim. Are the
fans going to be more behind mellow or are they
going to be behind trick because they just think he's cool.
That was the issue earlier this year. He was supposed
to be a heel, and the fans just organically started
cheering him because he was cool. He was the new
face on the brand. He's super confident. He's coming out
there with his you know, white fur coats and everything.
He's got the catchy phrases when he's on the mic.
But now it's like, Okay, there's got to be more
to it than that. They added Yati to the act.
Would it be better for them to trend more in
the heel direction or should they just kind of stay
the course and run the risk of kind of burning
the act out because it almost kind of feels like
it's already kind of burning itself out. This is where
I say it's a little risky. You got to really
be careful, I think, with where you go with this now,
and you don't want to go too far into babyface
territory because then he's not cool anymore. So I'm curious
to see how this evolves in the weeks to come
if he does take more of a heel approach, which
I think might be the better way to go. You
don't want to force anything, but just kind of naturally
let it kind of run its course. So then it
was backstage two dan Housen's lair with the Miz and
Kit Wilson still shitting there. You know, they are sitting
there looking very zombified and lobottomized, and it is entirely
possible that they are shitting themselves. We just can't see it.
They may well have, I mean, they were electrocuted, so
they may well have lost all control of their bodily functions.
They were sitting there lobottomized. Matt Cardona showed up. He
told dan Housen he saw what happened on Raw with
the judgment day, and Dan Housen told him not to worry.
He got a match with the guy with the big
head who always follows Dominic Mysterio around. They're gonna have
a match on Saturday Night's main event at Madison Square Guarden.
Cardona told them, Hey, if you need backup, I'm your guy.
Dan Housen told him, I just got off the phone
with my backup, and Cardona questioned this because Dan Housen
when he walked in was talking on one of these
old timey the candlestick phones. It just from like the
Abbott and Costello days, but the phone wasn't connected to anything,
so he was wondering, are you sure about this? And
Dan Housen assured him this person is real. He's from
New York, so he's going to take the train down there.
He's going to explain the whole plan to him. So
there you go. They did all but come out and
tell you that Jalen Brunson is going to be Dan
Housen's backup. It's Saturday Nights made it. It can't be
anybody else. It can be nobody else. It has to
be Jalen Brunson, who is going to be there and
is going to be in Dan Housen's corner for this match.
I am certain of this, So Dan hasn't told Cardona. Look,
while I have you here, you can help finish this experiment.
So he had him twist the knob and all of
a sudden, his machine started smoking and malfunctioning. He said
the judgment, they must have sabotaged his experiment. While mis
and Wilson are sitting there in the background and they
start shaking uncontrollably like something is going wrong here, So
we have to stop here for a moment, and we
have to keep score. For those keeping score, we have
one mute person on this show every single week who
just planks and lays there while his wife watches helplessly.
And then we have a couple of dudes, one of
whom I should point out as a former two time
WWE champion and wrestle Mania headliner, who sits there every week,
also mostly mute, but for the occasional grunt, because these
two men were previously electrocuted weeks ago and never recover.
By the way, the fact that miss is a two
time WWE champion and wrestle Media headliner, I don't want
to hear anybody ever complain about fucking Sammy Zay ever
again the fuck out of here. But these two men
are on the show every single week and they seem
to be in some state of distress here, and nobody
seems terribly concerned about this. Just for those keeping score,
Then we had Bribella, Oh Joy Bribella against Laney Reid
of fatal Influence somebody asked before about the goal. The
goal is three hundred and fifty likes because the wheel.
The wheel is not working tonight, so I set the goal.
So the goal for be the booker is three fifty.
We have a bonus goal going in the chat, which
we're already halfway there. So there's the update for the
people who were wondering. So we got Bribella. Where's my
bre mode here? We got two of them earlier. Now
Bribella shows up and it's silent Bribella against Laney Reid.
Nearly thirty minutes had gone by since the last match
on this show. We finally get a match and it's
Bribella against Laney Reed. Laney got her chance to shine
here a little bit for the first time in a
singles situation. The match wasn't anything special. Bree got the
yeslock applied fallon, Henley tried to get involved. Paige got
into it with her and jac Jane on the floor.
Bree tried to help, but all that did was put
her in the path of a running knee strike by Lane,
who got the pin and picked up the win. Best
thing I can say about this is at least fatal
influence actually got a win because whatever momentum that they
had when they first arrived on the scene got stunted
by back to back losses here to Page and to
the combination of Page and Bribella in non title action.
So finally, Fatal Influence gets one in the win column.
And they have also announced that they are going to
get their rematch. This time it will be for the
Tag Team Championships at Saturday Nights Made Event on July eighteenth.
It will be Paige and Bribella defending their titles against Fallon,
Henley and Laney Reed. Now how we came to them
getting a championship match, I don't know, because, as I said,
the last time they were in the ring together at
a tag match, the champions won in a non title match.
And yet here we are, and they're gonna get a
tag team title match and probably win the belts as
they should on Saturday Night's main event. And here I
thought that earlier in this show, I mean, Lil Yachtie
told me that title matches are earned. Apparently he lied.
Did he not just say that in the previous segment?
Literally at the previous segment he said, tit titles or
title shots? Are earned, they're not given away. Maybe it
only applies to the US title that Trick is holding now.
As far as j C. Jane is concerned, j C.
Jane was rumored to have been Rhea Ripley's opponent either
at Night of Champions had she now gotten hurt, or
possibly SummerSlam. It is still possible that she could get
a title match at SummerSlam. The fact that we still
have not seen Rhea Ripley and there's been no word
on her status is troubling. So we don't know what
her status is going to be for SummerSlam. If there's
even going to be a Women's Championship match on that show,
we don't know. Jac Jane is in the conversation though,
with somebody who could potentially be challenging for that title.
If she is, then what they should be doing right
now is putting her in the ring. It's more important,
I think, to get her in the ring than Landy Reid,
although I understand this was to push the tag title match,
but if jac is possibly going to be involved in that,
and you know we're now a month out from that,
ple let's start getting her in the ring on this
show and let her rack up some wins. We go backstage.
Our Truth, one half of the Tag Team Champions, and
Nathan Fraser are having a hotel gating contest as Damian
Priest and Axiom look gone. Truth won and he offered
Priest a dog. The war Raiders showed up the Triple
A Tag Team Champions, and Eric wanted an answer to
their challenge from last week when he said that they
should wrestle Champions versus Champions title for title, So he
wanted an answer. Ivar snatched Truth's hot dog away from
him and he bit into it, and Truth told Priest,
he just bit your wiener. Ivar then spat the food
out and Truth said, you're supposed to swallow good lord.
So Truth agreed to a hot dog eating contest with
the tag team titles on the line. I mean you
may as well. At this point the titles don't mean anything.
I mean, shit, what the fuck right? I mean, you
may as well do a hot dog eating contest, the
fucking arm wrestling contest, the dick measuring contest. I mean
you may as well. Can't get any of these titles,
can't get any lower than they are already, Priest told Eric.
He said, look all, this isn't here this week, so
he doesn't know when, and it has to be on SmackDown,
but we accept your challenge. So at some point we
don't know when. It will be Champions against Champions, title
for title. And if they actually have a decisive winner
in this match, this is going to be so fucking terrible.
This is such an awful fucking idea, just an awful, awful,
terrible idea, because again, if we're going to have a
decisive winner, and this is not a way to introduce
some new team that's going to take them both out,
you know, and we get a no contest or something,
then it's going to be Damian Priest and Our Truth
who are going to walk away the winners, and they're
gonna have tag belts from SmackDown. They're going to have
the Triple A tag belts all for what to get
them on Triple A? Send them to Triple A anyway,
you don't need tag team titles around their waist to
send them to Triple A. Or send Damian Priest if
you want to to Triple A. I'm sure Undertaker would
love to do some booking for Damian Priest, but I'm
looking at this, and I'm like, is this the only literally,
the only reason why they put the belts on Eric
and Ivar was to then transition them over to a
SmackDown team. By the way, Joey Chestnutt going for his
eighteenth championship tomorrow in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
It is going to be ninety three degrees tomorrow, which
is actually a cool down from what it was today.
But it's gonna be ninety three degrees in New York
City tomorrow. His goal is to eat at least seventy
six hot dogs. He wants to eat more than seventy
six hot dogs. If I ate three hot dogs on
a ninety three degree day, I would just puke it
all up. I cannot imagine. I cannot fathom stuffing seventy
six hot dogs into my gullet under any conditions, let
alone ninety three degrees outside. But somehow, every year this
guy finds a way to do it. He's looking for
his eighteenth championship. He's he's like fucking the Rick Flair
of the Nathan Tot Dog Eating Contest. Hopefully he doesn't
pull his out and do the helicopter with it after
a break we got our second raw recap of the night,
this time for the Obafemi brock Lesner stuff from Raw
on Monday. In the back, Cody Rhodes was walking and
he runs into Finn Balor. I uh, look there it
is here. It is basic solo nomics. There you go.
Thank you be man the champ, thank you for the five.
He's walking, he bumps into Finn Balor. This always like
amuses me because Finn Balor is just randomly standing around
in the back. Finn Baler did not wrestle on this show.
Finn Baller did not have a promo on this show.
Finn Baller didn't do a damn thing on this show.
I guess if you kind of just look at it
from a cafe perspective, he's just randomly standing around backstage.
And he's not only that, he's in his gear. So
I guess that's why sometimes I say it's almost like
a two K cut scene where you know you're in
the back and people are just standing there. You have
to decide which person you want to walk up to
and engage in conversation with. I just imagine that Finn
Balor shows up to work and you know, he gets
all dressed and he's just standing around in the back
with nothing to do. He's probably the happiest man in
the world that Cody Rhads came over to talk to him,
because otherwise he wouldn't have had anybody to talk to.
Cody Rhoads is getting ready to come out for his
main event. He walks over to Balor and basically Balor
said to him, you're the reason I came to smack Down,
not just to wrestle you, but I wanted to wrestle
you for the championship. So he told Cody go get
your belt back, and Cody walked off. Toma Tonga shows
up and he says to Finn, I was thinking about
what you said last week or whenever. It was that
they interacted in the back and they spoke with the elders.
They got to go through the elders now, I guess
to get permission to to do anything, I guess, you know,
to feud with someone or wipe their ass or whatever
it may be, they gotta go to the elders. I
don't know who the elders are, well, I guess wouldn't
the Rock be the elder at this point? Right off
and Seeker are no longer there. Who would the elders be.
I don't know, if not the Rock, but anyway, maybe Tongalow,
maybe Toangalo is the elder. But they went to the elders,
and he was about to tell Finn what the elders said.
But as he's saying this, Tallatga sneaks up from behind Balor.
He ambushes him, holds him down like he's choking him
on top of an equipment case, and tom A leans
in and he tells him he's closing the book on
his past, and that includes Balor. You know, outside of
a passing comment here and there from Shinsky Nakamura when
they were doing all these segments that ultimately really went
nowhere with Nakamora and Talatanga, they may have done a
TV match that nobody really remembers, but outside of like
Knakamura and Taalatanga or Tama Tangka briefly interacting and kind
of referencing their past in Japan, very very briefly and
without any context whatsoever. Outside of that and a comment
like this where they're alluding to Balor and Tama having
a history together like in Japan, WWE has not bothered.
They have not taken any measures whatsoever to educate their
audience about the history, the real history here between these
two men. They have not done a damn thing that Look,
I understand they don't have access to the footage from
New Japan if they wanted to show highlights from the
Bullet Club days or of past you know, interactions between
these two men. And frankly, even if they did have permission,
I'm not convinced they would care enough to even go
to New Japan and ask for permission to run anything.
They think it's sufficient enough to just tell people about Japan.
That's like the keyword for them. Just say Japan. We
have history in Japan, and so in their minds people
will fill in the blanks. Oh okay, they must have
wrestled each other, or oh okay, they must have been
partners or have been part of the same group, or
they were in a tag team. Right, we don't know
because WWW doesn't bother to tell you. They just sort
of dance around it and they're like, oh, well, there's
there's history here between these two men. And you're talking
about an In terms of WWE fans who buy and
large have no fucking idea what that history would be.
They don't know what Bullet Club is. They don't know.
They don't know, right, they don't know what they don't know,
but they want to bring it up without actually telling you.
I look at this, and maybe I'm aware of it, right,
but I'm looking at this and I'm like, well, okay,
I don't give a shit. Who cares. They're not doing
anything to really get you excited about the fact that, oh,
my goodness, there's history here between these two men. It's like,
is that's supposed to impress me? Is that? Is that
the level of storytelling that we have here where it's
okay to just say, oh, these two have history. Don't
worry about what that history look like, don't worry about
what that actually means. Well, we're just telling you that
they have history together, and so you should care. Why
should I care? Who gives a shit? Who cares? They're
gonna have a match next week? They announced that on
SmackDown next week, Finn Balor is going to wrestle Tomatonga.
Who gives a shit? Who cares? Why should I care
that these two men are gonna have a match on
SmackDown Last week? Because Tomataga has attacked him backstage and
said the elders have sent him after finnbat What does
that mean? What does that even mean? The bare minimum
level of effort that they can put into this is
what you can expect to get out of these people.
When it comes to these mid card stories on SmackDown,
they cannot even be But like even I mean even
the Royce Keys and Jacob Fatu stuff, and in that situation,
I'm not even sure what they would have to show us.
They're just telling us that these two have been friends
for fourteen years. I don't even know if that's true.
But they're telling us that these two friends they go
back aways and everything. It's like, we have the same thing.
It's the same fucking story on the same show. It's
the same story on the same show where they are
telling us that these two people have history together and
we're supposed to just look at that and filling the
blanks ourselves with whatever that's supposed to mean. Royce Keys
is showing up on this show and he's looking at
Jacob and saying, you and I, you and I were
like Thicke as thieves man fourteen years. That's family, right,
blood is not family. It's about loyalty, and you're my family. Okay,
I'm taking his word for it. And so here now
we have Tomatonga and Finn Balor, and then we have
history too. Everything's such a big fucking secret on this show.
I don't know what they're doing is not working in
terms of getting people excited. I'm sorry, it's not. I
don't see anybody getting overly excited about any of this shit.
They closed with Cody Rhodes against Jay Usso and number
one contenders match for the WWE Championship, and again, some
people actually were concerned that the match for SummerSlam might
just be Cody Roads and Jay Usso. Are like, again,
I'm just blown away by Look. Look, I was worried
that we were gonna get jay Uso maybe against Roman
Reigns or something. But give me a fucking break. They
have a stadium to fill on back to back nights.
Do you honestly believe they were gonna do Cody Roads
against jay Ussotse? Do you do you believe you understand
something right now? That SummerSlam last year? Not to be fair,
they had John Cena on Night two, and so John
Cena sold a lot of tickets for them last year,
but they had between fifty and sixty thousand seats sold
for SummerSlam last year both nights. I think the number
they claimed for Night two is like sixty legitimately, though
it was in that fifty thousand range. Right now, they're
tracking at like twenty three thousand each night for SummerSlam.
For one of the reasons why they wanted to do
Obafemi and brock Lesnar and a hell in a Cell
match on one of these shows Cody Roads and Jay Usso,
I mean that was that was not going to cut.
It's probably one of the reasons why Sammy's Ain may
not end up in the main event a SummerSlam either.
But it's not up or shut up time now. He
got a month ago and they got a lot of
tickets to sell. Although they'll make their money because the
tickets are still very high. So even if they don't
sell fifty thousand seats to SummerSlam this year, they're still
going to make quite a lot of money. But Jay
went for a superkick that was avoided though into a
Crossroads attempt. Jay countered out of that, Cody got sent outside.
Jay hit a suicide dive. So late in the match,
Jay hit the USO splash. That wasn't enough though for
the win. Neither was the Cody cutter that followed. There
was a disaster kick attempt that was met by a
superkick followed by a spear by Jay only for a two.
Jay headed to the top. Cody rolled out of the way, though,
and then hit Jay with a spear, followed by a Crossroads,
which looked good too. It looked like he really spiked
Jay with it on the landing that should have been it,
like he hit his finisher. It looked good, and Jay
still kicked out. This is one of those things where
I think we're so conditioned in wrestling today where every
finish has to be kicked out of that when I
see something like this where Cody hits his finish and
even Jay Usso has to kick out of it, I
just sit here and I just shake my head, like,
was it really necessary for Jay Usso to kick out
of the Crossroads or could you not like hold off
on the Crossroads until later in the match, Because we
see Cody so many times, he's got to hit it
fucking two three, four times before somebody finally goes down.
Did we really need to waste a near fall on this,
Jay Usso? Really? Cody headed to the top for what
looked like his own version of it USO splash, Jay
got the knees up. Both men struggled to their feet.
They exchange strikes. Jay got a sleeper applied. Cody backed
into the corner to break it, and then he hit
Across Roads again and this time, thankfully, he was able
to pick up the win. And so Cody Roads, to
the surprise of absolutely nobody, is going to Chicago on
Monday night. He will challenge Sammy's Ain and he will
likely beat Sammy's Ain to win back the WWE Championship.
As far as this match, it was a very mid
main event. This is, you know, exactly what you would
expect it to be. It was ten minutes of Cody
Roads and Jay Usso. They had exactly the kind of
match you would expect Cody Rose and Jay Usso to have.
Nothing special. Cody wins. Cody is going to run Monday Night.
I can see Cody winning straight up. You know, if
it's a matter of does somebody get involved, you know,
what are they going to do the finish of this match?
I really don't think we need to overthink this. I
think that they're going to be in Chicago. I think
there's been talk for a while now that you know
CM punk is going to either come back on the show,
or that he's been pushing and lobbying to make his
return on that show, even though he's going to be
a SmackDown star most likely when he does come back,
which he should be, but it doesn't matter because he
had Adam Pierce for Christ's sake in the Back to
Night talking about, well, maybe we'll make it a super
show on Monday, and we'll have talent from Raw and
we'll have talent from Smackdowns. So see, it's okay now
for CM punk to show up, even if he's going
to be on SmackDown. I don't think we're looking at
a situation where CM punk gets involved in this matter.
Why would he get involved, Why would CM punk interfere
in this match? It doesn't even make any sense. Cody
Roads is going to go in there and probably beat
sammy' z ain straight up, prove that Saturday was a fluke,
and then we're going to hear cult of personality when
the match is over and CM punk is going to
come out. It's going to be the exact same thing
that they did fifteen years ago in twenty eleven, when
Punk beats Senif to win the WWE Championship, and he
went away for all of like a week, but when
he returned and he showed up on Raw, which I
believe was the night that John Cena ended raymis STEREO's
rain as WWE champion. After an hour, he beat him,
he won the belt back, and then you heard for
the first time, actually the first time in WWE, you
heard Cult of Personality, and Punk walked out, and Punk
came to the ring. He still had the belt. They
had made a new one, and they both held up
their belt. We're gonna get something similar on Monday. I
think Cody beat Sammy. We hear the music and outcomes
Punk and they set up what will likely be the
main event for one of the two nights of Summer
Slim this year, Cody Rhodes defending the WWE Championship against
CM Punk and that is a match that I have
wanted to see for some time. I think it's one
of the biggest matches outside of Rock and Roman and
Roman and Oba. It is one of the biggest match.
It probably is the biggest match outside of those two
were right alongside Roman and Oba. That they could do
is Cody Roads against CM Punk. I want to see
that match. If that is going to be the main
event of Night one or Night two of Summer Slim,
I think that's great. I think that's fine. To do
so at the expense of sammys Ain one week basically
roughly one week after winning the WWE Championship, that would
be disappointing. I'm sure that would be upsetting, probably to
a lot of people who even work there, who genuinely
love Sammy'sey, They love working with him, They think the
world of him and his in ring work, and so
to see him get his moment the way that he
has and then take it away from him a week
later would be very shitty because I'm not convinced he'd
be getting it back maybe. Ever, the reason that it
would be disappointing, though, is also because I don't see
another spot for him on the Summer Slim card. It
is entirely possible that if Sammy's Ain loses the WWE
title on Monday, he will not be at SummerSlam. I
don't know what else he would be doing, or where
else he would fit in on that card if not
for the WWE title picture. So would he be involved
in a match with the two of them, I think
that's certainly a possibility. But I think the match that
they're gonna want to do is Cody and Punk because
that is a big attraction. That is an attraction that will
help really sell tickets for SummerSlam. I can understand the
desire to want to do that match, but if it happens,
it's going to be at the expense of Sammy's an
unless you can sort of worm him in there somehow.
I don't like what the future holds for him comes
Summer Slam if he loses that championship on Monday, and
I think right now there's a very very real possibility
that's exactly what's going to happen. So I'm glad he
got his moment, and I knew it wasn't going to
be a long run to begin with. But men, he
may not thought that he may not even make it
to Saturday Nights, may event let alone Summer Slam as
a champion. That's pretty shitty. But Punk is coming back,
and I'm expecting him to show up as a surprise
at the very end of the show. Assuming they do
that as the main event and they close the show
with it, I expect him to walk out when that
match is over and we get that big face to
face and all right, buy your tickets. Now you got
Roman and Seth on night one, you got Cody and Punk.
On night two, you got Brock and Oba inside hell
in a cell, Sorry Sammy. How long did Sammy hold
the NXT Championship? Not very long, not very long at all.
How long did he hold the NXT Championship? Three months?
Two months? He wanted in December at our Evolution. I'm
pretty sure he lost it to Kevin Owens in February.
Two months. Yeah, I don't even know if he defended
it against anybody other than the Kevin Owens. Yeah, that's
the way it goes sometimes. But that's SmackDown. We got
the first two hour show out of the way. It's
two hours the rest of the way here until the
end of the year before we have the return of
the three hour Nightmare. So even though these shows are
still largely not good, I will appreciate the fact that
we have one hour less of SmackDown every week. This
is good. This is a good thing. All right, let's
go ahead and check out your superchats here because we
got a bunch of them to go through. Thank you
guys for hanging out with me here on the eve
of July fourth, on a very hot day. I hope
wherever you are you are staying cool. We are doing
one round to be the Booker. By the way, the
goal was three fifty. We were at four, which is great.
And uh oh, we're nine out of ten. Look at that,
nine out of ten on the bonus goal. We might
do two rounds of be the Booker. We'll see. We'll
see how that goes. Joseph Stewart, who is not with
us on Wednesday, but he's with us here on Friday.
What's going on, Joseph? Oh my goodness, it's six in
the morning in Norway. G boujar Are you in Norway?
You're in Norway? Wow? Six am. What's the weather like
in Norway? I'll bet it's not ninety eight degrees like
it was today. That's ninety eight fahrenheit. By the way,
I have to remember we have a lot of international viewers.
Some of them are in Celsius ninety eight fahrenheit. What
would ninety eight fahrenheit be in Celsius, I don't know offhand. Gabriel,
Boss Gabriel is the bows. He says after the Willow
Nightingale Vignette from Collision, it is confirmed that Willow against
Monette will be the match at all in and the
outcome will be a mess, with neither woman affording to lose. Well,
I mean, it's not official, but I said this in
my Dynamite review. I think Willow is returning in the
Casino Gauntlet next Wednesday. I think she's gonna win it,
and I think she's gonna beat Teckler for the Belt
of Redemption, and I think she's going to defend against
Monette at all In. But he says, you can't have
Willow lose again a title after only one month, and
Monette can't just keep coming short of the world title twice,
wasting the owen. I agree on her wasting the owen twice.
That would be a waste of the owen. And I
am expecting Mercedes is going to get the championship at
some point and probably a Wembley. But if you were
to ask me, is there a better chance of Willow
losing or Mercedes losing. I'm not convinced that Mercedes is
gonna win the championship. I don't know what her long
term plans are. Who's to say that this doesn't become
her story, you know, where every time she challenges for
that title she falls short. But the Owen thing, I mean,
you got a good point on the Owen thing. To
have her win two years in a row, even though
this year she was supposedly not even gonna be in
the tournament, and that everything worked out the way it did,
that was not the plan, so she would not have won.
Willo probably would have won for the second time. But
to have the same person win the Owen twice, you know,
and then lose, that would be pretty lame. I don't
disagree with you on that. This week's episode is sponsored
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I guess I should be happy. On one hand, I
was really convinced Keana was not going to be seen
for a very long time after last week, because on
the other hand, I don't really know how to feel
about her booking still, and that's kind of where I'm
at right now. And guess, given the booking in WWE,
you have every right to not know how things are
going to end up for Keana James because everything is
just sort of all over the place right now. He says,
Thank god for the Daredevil Born Again season three leaks.
They have been cheering me up, which I've needed because
WWE has been letting me down lately. Wasn't there some
sort of Avengers endgame leak? What was it that leaked?
Was it the script that leaked? Something leaked? It was
like a major Hollywood leak recently. Everybody was freaking out
about it. Broley says they hot shot of the Cody
and Sammy title match because the US faces Belgium in
the knockout stage in the World Cup at the same
time as Raw. Yeah. I don't know if that's the
reason why. I think they're timing it with the return
of cmpunk. That's what I think. I think that has
a hell of a lot more to do with why
we're getting that match on Monday. Bossmo Jackson, what's going on? Brother?
He says, what's up? My guy? Hope all as well.
Sammy's ain't as champion is quite refreshing, he says. I
love it. Well, you can love it for a few
more days. It may not be so refreshing after Monday night.
You may not feel so refreshed anymore, says Top three
most hated or disliked sitcoms. Oh, disliked sitcoms. I don't
really have any because the sitcoms that I tried to
watch and didn't like, I just I didn't stick with it.
I didn't watch them, so I can't tell you how
awful they really are there. I mean, there have been
some sitcoms over the years that I've tried and I
just never even gave them a chance because they just
didn't appeal to me. It's a lot easier for me
to tell you which sitcoms I liked, were loved, you know,
or like what my favorite ones would be. I tell
you right now. Seinfeld married with children, curb your enthusiasm,
and I'll throw Golden Girls on there too. Golden Girl,
don't make fun of me. Golden Girl's a great fucking show.
I will fight anybody who denies that. That just tells
me you've never watched. There you go, he says my
Mount Rushmore of aw. Oh, he said, I thought you
were gonna tell me what yours was. I think he
means Mount Rushmore of aaw. I hate the Mount Rushmore question.
Fuck Mount Rushmore. I would blow it up with dynamite
if I could all these Mount Rushmore questions. I'll give you.
I'll give you the w CW one, though, because the
WW one for me is a lot easier. Sting Flair Hogan.
I think Hogan has to be on there as important
a piece of that company as he ended up becoming
Sting Flair Hogan, and honestly, probably Goldberg. He was the
one through White Hot Star that they ever made. It's
odd to say on the fourth I would like to
blow up Mount rut Well, if you got your seventy
seventh email with Mount Rushmore questions or forty eight super
chat with Matt Rushmore questions, you two would want to
blow up Mount Rushmore. Uh, one eight seven Trapper Die
does punk turn heel Monday and cost Cody the title?
Or just come out after the match as the new
He just comes out after the match. He's not getting
involved in the match, has no reason to. He's not
a heel shapey. It should be the usso's and Jacob
against Solo, La and Keys at SummerSlam. That's exactly what
I said her all rights, fuck a lot and great
minds think alike. I think that's exactly what the match
is going to be. Fuck that tree, Suck that tree.
That's right, you tell them Death's sithe. Drew mackincock is
back with us with the four ninety nine. My birthday
is July fourth? Can I get a birthday shout out
from the legend? Been a fan for ten years and
we'll be a fan for ten more. Well, I guess
I have to do the show now for another ten years.
Now that you went and said that, do you realize
that if I do the podcast for another ten years,
I will be one year shy of thirty years doing
the sound though. That's crazy, that's crazy, and I don't
look a day over thirty, especially with this hat. Let's
put a backpack on my back. I look like I'm
going to college of all Drew A Happy birthday, Happy fourth,
May the fourth be with you. I know it's not
the right month to be saying that, but I hope
you have a great birthday. A what a great day
to celebrate it too. You're gonna have fireworks and shit
going off. You could pretend that it's all for you.
I hear it outside my window right now. We already
have fireworks going off here. I don't know why anybody
would want to be outside. Although I think it rained
a few hours ago, so I think it. I think
it broke the temperature. I think it's down to like
only eighty now. Literally, up until like two or three
hours ago, it was still like ninety three degrees outside,
just sickening temjin Zepha is with us with a nine
ninety nine. I look like a frat boy. What's that
group in Evolve? I well, I guess they're an n
XT now Brad Baylor and those guys, what's what's what's
the name of that group? I could be part of
that group. I could be part of that faction. Tempgen
says saw Obsession last night. What a movie reminded me
of a time my mom went to see The Exorcist
when it came out. Would you consider Obsession to be
this generation's version of the Exorcist. I can't say that
because I of the Vanity Project. Thank you, Yes, I
should be part of the Vanity Project. Yeah, I think
they do. They have a similar group in a Ring
of Honor. I believe it might be called the frat
House now that I think about it. Yeah, I didn't.
I was not old enough to go. I don't think
I was here when it came out in movies. But
I didn't see The Exorcist in a movie theater, so
I can't vouch for what that experience was like seeing
that movie in the theater. It may have been a
similar kind of experience where people were just like shocked.
I don't really have anything to compare it to. It's
a very unique movie going experience. I kind of wish
I would have gone to see it again in theaters,
But the way these movie tickets are these days, it's
so fucking expensive, and I have so many movies that
I want to see this year, I couldn't. In my mind,
I'm like, I can't justify paying for another ticket to
go back to the theater just to see it amongst
other people to get their react, Like, you know what,
I'll wait until if I'm not concerned about like other
people's reactions to the movie, I'll wait until it's out
on digital. And you have these like YouTube movie reviewers
that do reaction videos to movies they've never seen before,
or they claim they've never seen before. If I'm so
interested in people's reactions, I'll just watch those reaction video
for free. We'll just do that, super Pony says. So
they pretty much gave Sammy the title and said here
you go, but we don't really mean it. That's what
they think of one of the best wrestlers of his generation.
Fucking assholes. Well, he hasn't lost the belt yet. I'm
just saying I think he's going to lose it. I
think he's on borrowed time, but he has not yet
lost the championship. But you had look when they put
the belt on him in the first place. You had
to know that this is where it was going to
end up. I said it the night he wanted I said,
this is this wonderful moment for him and this character
that he's kind of evolved over the past few months.
This last real good guy stick. But he was never
going to have it for an extended period of time.
He was never going to be the guy on SmackDown.
He was always going to be the guy right below
the guy. That was never going to change. You could
put all the belts, you could put all the belts
on him, like that Triple H meme from many years
ago where he's posing on the ropes. He's doing that
pose and he's got like the Diva's belt is on him,
and ever you could put all the gold on Sammy's am.
He will never be the guy. He will never be
that lead performer who's going to be headlining all the
plees and maybe one or two and that's gonna be it.
You know. The WrestleMania main event that he got that
one year was a Night one tag team match, and
that's about as good as it's going to get for
him when it comes to WrestleMania. That's just how it is.
But for him to even win the belt at all
and get that moment was very cool. It was very
for him. You could tell it meant a lot to him.
But it's not a matter of well, let's just give
it to him as like a participation trophy because he
deserves it. It was like he has been consistently the
most entertaining thing on SmackDown now for a few months,
and so Cody can win and lose the belt another
five times, it doesn't really matter. Why do we need
the championship on Cody right now? Let's put it on
Sammy and give things a little bit of a shakeup
heading into summer, Slim, what's so wrong with that? You
know what's so bad about that? But I don't think
that you ever should have really been expecting for him
to have it for very long. A week would be ridiculous,
but at most maybe Summerslim. I never really expected him
to hold it longer than that. Fast Eddie Happy fourth solo,
looking forward to Dark Side of the Ring Season seven's reviews.
Always a big fan of your reviews every season, Well,
I'm glad you enjoy them. There was a clip that
they posted on the YouTube channel, like a seven minute
kind of teaser clip talking about Karen then Karen Angle
meeting Jeff Jarrett and how they ended up in a
relationship together in this misconception that she was still married
to Kurt and she had an affair and that's how
her and Jeff ended up together. But she sat down
for an interview to set the record straight for the
first time as she was talking about it. So that's
going to be part of these initial TNA episodes that
are going to be airing. The show is back on Tuesday,
and I have every intention of watching them and reviewing
them as I do every season. So I just got
to figure out where I'm going to watch them because
I do not have Vice TV. But we'll figure something out.
We'll figure it out. Uh, super Pony says, how do
these people book Cody like this and expect the fans
not to turn on him? These people cannot book a
face of the company babyface for shit. I mean, look
at Roman. They got Roman going around and the fans
are chanting no TC and they're you know, acknowledge me,
and they go nuts and everything and the guy's a
fucking heel up is down? Left is right? Nothing makes
any sense anymore. But yes, they have done a very
bad job over the years when it comes to booking
a lot of their baby faces and really forcing it
or staying with the pat hand for too long until
people just sour on them Bosmo Jackson with the four
ninety nine. Frankly, I'm sick of Cody. I'm burned out
on him. It's always Cody all the time. I love Cody,
but I'm tired of seeing him in the title programs.
WWE is killing me. Yeah, I mean, look, I wouldn't
I wouldn't be opposed to keeping the belt on Sammy
a little bit longer. But if the plan is to
go with Cody and Punk at Summer Slam, I mean, look,
that's a big match to do. I can understand them
wanting to do it. Our cook one. What sense does
it make to have a SmackDown title match on Raw?
It just goes to everything I was just saying. Where
in WWE they don't sweat the small details. To them,
it doesn't matter. That's why we have guys going back
and forth constantly between the two shows. There's no rules
that they enforce. We just had a King of the
Ring tournament where the winner was supposed to get a
championship match of their choosing at Summer Slam, not a
championship match of their choosing period, a championship match at
Summer Slam, And evidently they knew going into it that
they wanted o But to win, but not give him
the title match. They don't give a shit, they don't care,
they don't care. Why Sometimes do we have a referee,
a second referee run out because someone had their foot
on the rope or someone cheated, and a second referee
come out to tell the first referee, and the first
referee goes ahead and continues the match or reverses the decision.
But then other times, oh, the referee's decision is final. Well,
which is it? Is the referee's decision final or not?
I don't know. It's it's just whatever's convenient for them
in the moment. They don't give a shit, they don't care.
To them, it doesn't affect their bottom line, so they
can they can just pretty much do whatever they want. Yeah,
king of the bank. It's king of the bank. Now.
The only difference is Oba can't like I don't think,
I mean, I shouldn't say, I don't know, but like
Oba can't literally cash it in like any time he wants.
But he'll be able to basically just go to the
GM and say, you know what, I think I'm ready
for that title match. Let's do it at Survivor Series.
I'm ready, let's do it at the Rumble. I have
expect them to just forget about it at this point
and just have Oba win the Rumble and then he'll
just go to WrestleMania anyway to challenge for the title.
Brandon Proctor actually super Pony. Super Pony says Mike Ko
versus Sammy prediction has come true now, or has to
come true now, has to come true now. If that's
not the match at Summer Slim, Sammy won't be on
the show. There's nothing else for him to do. Yeah,
I just I just said, like, if he loses that
title on Monday, unless you keep him in that mix
and do a triple threat, there is no other obvious
role for him at Summer Slim. There's no other title
for him to challenge for. And so if he's not
in a title match, it would be a regular singles match.
And what regular singles match would there even be for
him on that show? What would that be? Now? Now,
we had a segment and it may be inative of
absolutely nothing. But when Chad Gable came back to Ron
SmackDown after the Mask versus Mask match, the first time
we saw him on TV was backstage at SmackDown, and
the first person that he had a little face to
face interaction with was Sammy's ain't They literally came face
to face and it was very brief. I don't know.
Maybe they revisit that they're on different brands though, so again,
that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that
never stopped them from doing that before, so who knows. Yeah,
I mean, if Chad's not wrestling for the Icy title,
super Pony, I agree, I mean, what the fuck are
we doing here? I half expected to be a multiman
match at this point, so it wouldn't even just be
Chad and Penta, which I think it should be just
Chad and Penta, but they'll probably throw everybody in. Then
they'll have Chad, they'll have Penta, they'll have Russev, they'll
have Ethan Page, they'll have McDonough. Well, we'll just put
Dragon Lee, We'll just put every buddy and the Raymistereo.
Brandon says, we don't get enough learning tree these days.
Thanks guys. In all seriousness, I hope Sammy is champion
until Summer Slam, but I won't hold my breath at
this point. Well that's good. I don't want you to
because if you do, you'll probably die. Do not hold
your breath when it comes to WWE booking. It is
bad for your health. Venom Ktetsu with the twenty five
happy Fourth of July weekend. My dude, hope the AC
gets fixed sooner than later. I hope it fixes itself.
I'm just kind of hoping that the compressor switched off
because it was just so hot. I think they're built
to maybe do that automatically if they overheat, or because
I don't think these like these window and wall air conditioners,
we're not talking about central air here, Like, I don't
think these units were really designed for this kind of heat.
I could be wrong, so I'm hoping that it's just
kind of a temporary thing. I already paid four hundred
and fifty bucks to fix it. It was either try
to fix it for four point fifty or buy a
new one for sixteen hundred dollars. That's how much it
would it cost for the same one. By the way,
it's the same exactly air conditioner. Those were my options.
I said, I think we'll try to fix it. Let's
do that. So on May nineteenth, they reinstalled it and
it's worked fine ever since until today when it was
one hundred degrees outside and then it stopped. Said, did
you catch Stevie Richards and Peanuts Peanuts Show talking about
how the Rains and Rollins promo felt more like a
go home angle to a pay per view than a
feud starter. Well, it's not really a it's not a
feud starter. I mean, my god, they've been feuding off
and on for years. I didn't look at it as
a feud starter. I looked at it as, Okay, we're
we're revisiting something that kind of was left open ended,
and now it's time to end it. Rolin said it
in his promo, this may be the last time, you know,
they're they're closer to the end than the beginning. This
may be their last time to dance together. So I
didn't I didn't look at it as a feud starter.
As far as it being more like a go home
angle to a paper, I mean, I could see that,
I could see where they would have felt that way,
but it's it's definitely not a feud starter with these two.
I've been feuding for fucking how many years now? Yes,
sixteen hundred dollars for an ac I said, I said
May nineteenth. I only said it once, though, I guess
that's twice. No debt sith. I was thinking, what if
MJF actually beats Omega next week? Then Kenny convinces MJF
to give him one more shot than MJF agrees, but
under one condition and says that Redemption, when I beat you,
your career is finished. Yeah, I don't. I just don't
like this idea that we're gonna do MJF and Kenny
OMEGANX Wednesday and then we're just gonna run it back
again at Redemption. I don't know why they're doing this.
It's very weird. I don't know why they're doing this.
We already saw it once this year, and so Redemption
was the obvious place to do it in Montreal. So
they're gonna do it on Wednesday and then probably run
it back again, whether it's Kenny defending or MJF defending
for a second time. It's like, why are you doing
it twice in one month? Why would you do that?
Just save it for the pay per view. I'm hoping
after Wednesday it'll all make sense. Takeshta and Fletcher just
being randomly announced for Beach Break next week. At least
I can understand that because Takesha is about to go
to Japan for an entire month. He's in the g one.
He's not going to be at Redemption, so this is
it for him. Probably gonna take the belt off of
him and then when he comes back, he'll fight to
get it back. That would be my guess, be Man
the champ. I guess Corey for good that Samy's held
other titles because he said that this is the first
time he's been the hunted, like no one wanted the
titles that he had before. Well, I mean to be fair,
at the time he held the Intercontinental title, I think
that well he had he had it three times, but
like there were different points where he would have been
the Intercommental champion where that championship really didn't mean much.
But when he was the US champion last year doing
the open Challenge stuff, that was everybody was fighting for
that belt. Man, it was a pretty coveted belt. I
would say, yeah, they kind of buried their other championships
by saying that we got death Sithe with a bomb.
Since WrestleMania forty three is in Saudi how much money
do you think WWE is gonna throw at Steve Austin
to do one more match, possibly with cmpunk. We can't
rule out that possibility since they want that show loaded.
If by some chance it happens, how would you book it.
I don't think you need to do much. It's the battle.
Just let them battle in the lead up to the
show on the mic and their promos basically just cutting
promos on how one is better than the other. Punk's
whole shtick is best in the world. Austin's thing is
the best of all time. Some people look at him
as the best of all time. Right, it's the best
in the world against the best of all time. They
could even brand it that way. For me, I mean,
that ship sailed a long time ago, and Austin seems
very content in retirement with his cats and his cars
and on his ranch doing his thing. And you know,
he got back in the ring at thirty eight against
Kevin Owens, and I think that was a great sendoff
in the same city where his career started. I think
for the right money, anybody will come out of retirement
and wrestle if you throw enough money at them. Can't
tell you it's not absolutely positively gonna happen. No way.
I don't think it needs to be done. I think
that ship it's like Undertaker and Sting. You just get
to a point where there was a point in which
maybe it still could have happened, but it was like
it's it's over, like the time passed. You gotta let
it go. It's not gonna be what it could have been.
Randy Bobandy, thank you again for that fifty dollars bomb.
Just showing love O message be Man the champ Boys.
Saturday Night's main event seems like it's shaping up to
be a weekly main event show. Sounds like a must miss.
You mean you don't want to see Jalen Brunson in
the co owner of Dan Housen, Saturday Night's main event
is largely amiss now once they took it off NBC,
it's like it killed their libido. They have no reason
to perform anymore. They've lost all their mojo now that
it's not on TV anymore. It's just they got to
fulfill the Peacock contract. By doing these, they took away
a lot of the retro elements. Some of them are
still there. A lot of them are gone. They don't
even bring Ventura in anymore. Whatever charm the show had
is fucking gone. They have some other garbage theme now
that they're using for it. They still have the microphone
that they lower though from the ceiling, which actually will
be appropriated this next show because that's the old Madison
Square Garden microphone they used to lower for like Howard Finkel,
and they're back at Madison Square Garden for this show.
So I kind of feel like if there was ever
a time to really emphasize those retro elements again, this
is the show to do it. Ossi of Steele. Hypothetically,
let's say we get Ria JC at SummerSlam. Do you
belt j c Up? I say yes. I don't think
she's been established enough yet. I don't mind them doing
the match. I just I don't know that I feel
like now is the right time, especially if they are
going to do another Crown Jewel show let's say in October,
I would think that they would want a bigger name
in that match. I e Rea to wrestle whoever the
raw champion would be, which by the way, could very
well be Eo Sky. So you are potentially setting up
a match for Crown Jewel where we get Ria in
EO non title, but they have the story of Rhea's
never been able to be d O and then she
could finally go in there and be too right. So
you have that story that you could tell. It's a
lot more powerful than just j C. Jayne going in
there as the SmackDown Women's Champion. So I mean, I'm
all in on JC eventually winning the belt. I don't
know that SummerSlam is the best time for it. I
think you got to wait a little longer because they really,
if you think about it, they really haven't done much
with her. You know, she came in and I like
the way that they debuted them, and then they've really
cooled fatal influence down a lot since then. Reea is
not even around right now because she's still trying to
get better. If she gets healthy, we don't even know
when she'll be back on TV. Can you imagine if
Ria is not ready to come back until two weeks
before SummerSlam. So she hasn't even been around, and now
you're putting her in there against somebody who's unproven in
that spot on SmackDown, who's still basically a new beet
and hasn't even really racked up all that many wins
on TV. Doesn't seem like the right time to me.
MGM ballin with a nine nine, says Hope. Tony Soprano
was included in the updates. His curb stump is more
devastating than Robin. Now, you know what I should That's
actually not a bad idea. I should put Tony Soprano
and al Bundy him be the booker. We should put
Tony Soprano in there. His curb stump was pretty devastating.
He is not in there though. Nick Grossoa and Talatoga
keep mentioning the elders. Maybe it's leading to Roman's bloodline
against the elders. And oh my god, why in war
Games later this year? Oh god, loll he should put lol.
I was I thought you were being serious. I was
about to throw you right out of here. Roman's blood
line against the elders. Roman is the elder at this point.
You look at Roman when he first came in, bright
eyed and bushy tailed. You look at him now and
he looks he looks like the elder now and some shit,
Francis Loop newsflash, my world is on ring of Honor
TV tonight. Ring of Honor does not have TV. They
have a streaming show. Mayo World needs to be on
Collision as she was this week, and she needs to
be on Dynamite. That's where she needs to be. She'll
be on Dynamite next week. As a matter of fact,
she's gonna be in that women's Gauntlet. I believe it's
Athena and My World starting the Gauntlet at number one
and number two. Devin from NJ two thousand. Why doesn't
bron Breaker or Jacob Fatu have the same protective booking
as Oba. Why is WWE allergic to pushing more than
one person at a time to be their top star
because they're focused on Oba being the top guy right now.
You can only focus on one at a time. You
also can't give everybody the Brock push or the Oba push.
That is something that you really do want to say
for someone special who you have more immediate, big plans for.
Can't do that with everybody. And by the way, you
can book people strong and protect them even if they're
not getting the Obafemi push. There's different ways of like
booking people strong, but beating Jacob faught to twice in
the same month is not how you book somebody strong.
Having bron Breaker lose his few to seth Rollins is
not how you book someone strong super pony with a
nine ninety nine. God forbid they let Sammy hold the
belt until Summer Slim and drop it to Punk. That's
too much to ask for. God for Big Cody sit
out one major plee, because if that happens, the world
will end. Cody's their guy. They're not leaving him off
Summer Slim, and nobody should have expected that Cody was
going to be anywhere other than the main event at SummerSlam.
It was always going to be in one of the
two main events. Ron talks table top with a ten.
Too busy watching great FIFA World Cup action and playing
games to watch SmackDown. Felt like I missed nothing. You
miss nothing. You missed absolutely nothing. That's why I'm here
to fill you in death, Sithe says in horror, which
is worse the killer or the monster slowly heading towards you,
or them appearing out of nowhere to give you a
big fat boo. I kind of feel like it's I mean,
the jump scares. Of course, the jump scares can get
to you. But I kind of feel like it's that
moment where let's say the monster is kind of stalking
towards you, or you see Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers
and they're coming towards you, right that moment of dread.
I feel like if I was in that position, that
would be worse, the anticipation that I'm about to get killed,
as opposed to just popping out of nowhere and just
doing it. I feel like the first one would be worse.
Nick Rosso with a nineteen ninety now one idea for
the title match on Monday, Punk comes out for commentary,
Sammy gets mad, provokes him, causing Punk to hit Zane
in front of the referee, causing a d Q, which
upsets Cody and he gets in Punk's face, and then
we get a three way at Summer Slim, you could
do that. Punk would have to come out at the
beginning of the show as a surprise instead of saving
him as a surprise for the very end of the show.
You could do that. That would if you wanted to
get to a triple thread, then there's no reason for
really Sammy not to go in as the champion, so
to keep the belt on him. You got to get creative.
How do we do this, you know, in a way
where we can get punk involved, and that would be
one way of doing that. Sammy feels like the title
is slipping away. He gets desperate and then you kind
of go into what you just suggested you could do that.
Death Side says, I watched Lake Placid for the first
time in years, and I gotta say this is I
gotta say this will always be the best crocodile horror movie.
Rest in Peace. Betty White. Yeah, that little role she
had in that movie. She was great, feeding the alligators,
getting them all big and fat. HEJ. Slamp Brett was
better looking, had better hair, a nicer smile, and did
more charity work than O Cogan, Do you agree. I
don't know that he did more charity work than Hogan.
Did a lot of make a Wish and charity stuff
at the height of Hulkamania, So I can't I can't
say that for sure. Was he better looking, That's not
for me to say. Did he have better hair, absolutely,
without a doubt. That site says John Cena went from
Helena Sale twenty eleven to WrestleMania twenty nine a year
and seven months without holding the top title. Roman Reigns
went from Money in the Bank twenty sixteen to SummerSlam
twenty eighteen, two years and two months without holding the
top title. Yeah, and if Cody did the same, he
would still be in a very good spot, right, But
they keep this whole QB one nonsense. They always have
him talking about QB one. QB one's got to be
in the title hunk. QB one's got to have the belt.
That's just their their philosophy, it's their way of doing things.
If Cody went six months without the championship, would it
really hurt him all that much? No? I actually feel
like it might help him. But it's almost like they're
not incapable because they did it with Punk and Drew.
But like it's hard for them to book a really
good feud that isn't based around the championship. But we
see this a lot in the mid card. We see
this a lot with the women if there's no title involved.
They don't know how to book a real feud, a
real feud that you can invest in. They just don't
know how. And it shouldn't be that hard. You just
got to come up with a story that can really
grab people. It doesn't always have to involve the championship,
but they do a very poor job of doing that.
Death Side says, So Cody Rhodes is not going to
crumble to dust if he went the same amount of
time without holding the top title. No, he will not.
He will not crumble into sta dust. See what I
did there? He also says, I mentioned Steve Austin earlier,
but I also have to mention the Rock which is
more like? Which is more likely? And if he ends
up having a match of WrestleMania of forty three, who
would you rather see him wrestle the most? Roman or Cody?
I would rather have him wrestle Roman, just so people
shut up about it already. Just give him their damn
match that they'll fucking shut up about this Rock and
Roman nonsense. Just get it over with. I also say Roman,
because then it doesn't have to involve the championship. If
Cody is involved, chances are Cody will be the champion.
And EJ. Slimp, What do you know about Joe McHugh,
the WWWF Allentown ring announcer. I kind of like him.
Why was Allentown used for so many tapings? It seems random.
I think they must have had some sort of deal
with the building. And they also, I mean, they were
running a lot of East Coast places back then, so
it wasn't just Allantown. They ran White Planes and you know, Boston,
but they would do these marathon TV tapings in Allentown,
so it was something about it was something about that venue.
I don't know too much about Joe McHugh, honestly, I
can't really. I don't really remember much about him, and
I can't tell you too much about him. He stumped
me on that. I may have to look more into
his work. And if you worked for any other promotions,
all right, Well, the like skull was smashed and the
bonus goal was smashed, which is awesome because that means
we get two rounds of be the booker, just like
we did the other night. What a great way to
ring in the fourth of July. Let's do it, ladies
and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.
Let's do it. And we still got a thousand people
in here to join us for it. Have I seen
the comedy horror twenty fifteen slasher movie The Final Girls?
I have not never heard of it. All right, here
we go be the booker tag team action going on. Here.
We're booking our own Saturday night's main event, That's what
we're doing. And we have got the Mean Street Posse,
Peak Gas, we got Rodney, and we got the fuck
is his name? Joey Abs? There you go. I'm staring
at his face and I'm like, the name is escaping me.
The Mean Street Posse. I enjoyed the Mean Street Posse.
What a great gimmick. And the Mean Street Posse is
gonna get their asses handed to them by the Midnight Express,
Sweet stand Lane and beautiful Bobby. I can't bring myself
to buzz the Midnight Express. If I do, Cordnet may
come after me from the mean streets of Greenwich, Connecticut.
All right, women's be the booker now, good squash you
mean the Midnight Express is gonna get squashed. We have
Becky Lynch. Where's Becky Lynch been? Becky Lynch is on
all these posters, and Becky Lynch is nowhere to be found.
Is Becky Lynch even gonna have a match at Summer Slim?
We don't know. Becky Lynch against two ooh, Becky Lynch
against Techla. See, now that's one of those inter promotional
matches that that would be very cool to see Becky
Lynch cutting promos on Techla tech TECHL. I feel like
we're just trounce her and Becky can be a good promo,
but Becky's gonna go into the hole. You know, I'm
not the only one saying. You don't have to take
my word for it. Sports Illustrated said it the bleacher
and Tecla would just be like, shot the fuck, like
she would just start cussing up a storm. Shut off,
you bitch when I'm speaking, that is that's a forbidden
door match. We just booked more of a forbidden door
match than we got frankly on most of the actual
forbidden door card this year. That is a forbidden door
match that people would like to see. And our first
of two main events tonight, let's see what we're dealing
with here. We have the viper Randy Orton, who totally
is not injured, and Dave Meltzer doesn't know what he's
talking about. Even though Randy Orton, when he responded to
those reports, if you paid any attention to it, never
actually refuted anything that Dave Meltzer said that kind of
got lost in the conversation there, and it just so
happens that Randy Orton is still nowhere to be found
after punt kicking Cody Roads in the head at WrestleMania.
But that totally has nothing to do with any kind
of injury. I'm sure sure. Well, guess what, Randy, you
may be hurt, but you have to come back to work.
So I am forcing him back into the ring and
in this main event he is going to be taking
on Tired Mike Tyson. That you may ask yourself, why
would I give that a bell? Because it's Randy Orton
against Mike Tyson. Even if it's tired Mike Tyson and
not iron Mike Tyson. That's a match that'll sell some tickets. Ah,
interesting card. Becky Lynch against Tekla is my favorite of
the bunch, but that is a that's a weird card.
It's about to get weirder though, because now we have
to pick some stipulations. It's about to get very wild
in here be the Booker. Not Wednesday, but it was
either Monday or maybe it was last Friday. Got very hardcore.
We had hardcore, we had Monster's Ball, we had all
kinds of just fucked up stipulations, So I am kind
of curious what we're gonna end up with here. We're
going to start with a casket match, and the problem
is I can't do a tag team casket match. It
just doesn't really work. So we're gonna start with the ladies.
This time. We're gonna have a women's casket match. How
does that sound? It was the Monday stream, Thank you, Ricky.
It was the Monday stream. We have Camille. Very appropriate
that Camille would be in a casket match, considering how
she has been buried in aw She has been buried
so deep we don't even know where she is anymore.
Her career belongs in a casket, so it's quite appropriate
that she would end up in this match. Let us
find out who her opponent is going to be. Is
going to be Camille against China, And you know, that
is a very interesting match because Camille's whole gimmick for
years when she was in the NWA was basically honestly
Nickol whatever the faction that nick all this had, it
was basically their version of China. She never spoke. She
was like the enforcer of the crew. A lot of
similarities between China and Camille from the early days of
that Camille character. I kind of liked that. Nope, HITCHI
trigger finger. I may have just jinxed it. I thought
we're headed for a double sweep, and I jumped the gun,
and now I feel like I may have drink it.
We're doing well so far, though, we got the first one.
Now we're gonna have ourselves a barroom brawl. But not
just any barroom brawl. We're gonna have a tag team
barroom brawl, because that's the next match here, a tag
team barroom brawl with Randy Orton. Man. Let me tell you,
this guy's back is in bad shape. I forced him
back into the ring against Mike Tyson of all people.
He's still recovering, and I'm like, get back to work.
You're gonna earn that contract. So now he's in a
tag team match and it's a barroom brawl of all things,
Randy Orton an edge. I'm trying to end this man's career. Oh,
I'm definitely gonna end this man's career against the macho man,
Randy Savage and the ultimate Warrior, the ultimate maniacs See.
I would imagine I see Randy Savage is somebody who
I could see as having a few barroom brawls back
in his day. The ultimate Warrior, I can't envision that.
I can't even envision the Warrior just kind of hanging
out at the bar like with the boys and stuff.
I don't know. I just he feels more of like
a loaner to me, based on all the stories that
people have told, young Randy Orton would probably just tear
up the bar and incur thousands of dollars in damage.
We're two for two so far. We may well be
heading or the rare double sweep doesn't happen very often.
Kind of match what we're gonna have. We're gonna have
a lions Den match. We're gonna enter the lions Den
and then we're gonna be reading the final superchats. So
if you have any messages to send, get them on in.
I'm here with you for as long as we got messages.
I'm gonna leave anyone and no man left behind. All right,
who's going into the lions Then it all comes down
to this. We have the tribal chief. Everyone put your
fingers in the air. It is Roman reigns for the
first time in his career is going to enter the Lions.
Then this is already a major main event here, Randy
Orton against Dave Bautista. Well, we did it, we got
the double sweep, we pulled it off. How are we
feeling about that main event? By the way, Randy Orton?
Not Randy Orton. Roman reigns against the Dave Batista in
a Lions then match who wins? Who wins the Lions?
Then that's the question. Drats the destroyer. Roman ain't beaten
the animal Dave Dras will kill a Roman. Wow. Roman
doesn't get a lot of votes here for this. Cameron
Spencer four ninety nine. Sanity is the goat stable of NXT,
slightly ahead of the Undisputed era. I'm a huge fan.
Talk about what Sanity meant to you and how they
entertained you weekly. I would if they actually entertained me weekly,
which they did not. I did not like Sanity. I
was not a Sanity fan. I I just wasn't a fan.
Got nothing against them. I think they were definitely screwed
over on the main roster. They were never really even
given a chance. They deserve that much, but I never
really I can't even say I hated them, but I
just I was not. I was not a big Sanity fan.
I'm glad you were, though, I just I can't. I
can't say the same. Eric Newton celebrating two months of
channel membership. When is the time for Triple H to
be fired? His booking is no better than Vince and
I'm really tired of the bloodline and the same shit
week after week. I think they're off their business peak.
They already peaked business wise, they already peaked. Ticket sales
are down. They're still very strong, but they're down, and
so it depends on how much further they decline. Right now,
I think his job is safe. If business really starts
to take more of a downturn, I feel like he
will be in the hot seat. You know, he, more
than Nick Con for example, would be the one to
fall first if anybody was going to fall, and he's not. Really,
He's not anywhere close to that right now. I can't
say that it won't happen at some point. This is
not a family owned business anymore. T KO runs the
show and Triple H is not grandfathered in there. If
they become dissatisfied with the job, he's doing. If the
numbers aren't reflecting the performance that they're looking for, he
may be out of a job at some point, but
the idea that he is going to be gone anytime soon. Look,
I'm not saying that the booking right now is not
very dull, boring, paint by numbers, over reliance on the bloodline,
all those things. Check check check, you're you're right about
all that stuff. What's it going to take though, It's
just going to take. It's going to take the numbers
going down right now. The numbers aren't going down enough
for them to make any kind of move. Uh, super pony.
Why would they have Randy punt Cody if they knew
he was hurt and would be going away for a while.
Do they not think before they do stuff? Yeah, I
don't know why they did that. Maybe they just didn't
know It's entirely possible they didn't know that his Let's
assume there is a back injury. It's possible they didn't
know how severe it was, so they wanted to kind
of keep the program alive by doing that. I saw
the punk kick and I said, Okay, well, Cody's got
to be off TV for a little bit and then
he wasn't, so even like right away, they basically just
disregarded the entire thing and Cody, Cody had a black eye,
but it wasn't, and they tried to make it like
it was from the punt kick. It wasn't. It was
from an errant punch that Orton had thrown at him.
They credited it to the punt kick, so it kind
of all worked out, but they basically ignored it, you know,
having Cody come back as if nothing really had happened,
and yeah, Orton hasn't even been mentioned since, so what
sense did it make. That's the only thing I could
think of is that they didn't realize that the injury,
if he has let's say a back injury, was as
severe as it was that he would have to be
out for an extended period of time. The punk kick
is like the tonguan death grip. Now it's useless. I look,
I still laugh about that, Like they work their asses
off to get that tongue in death grip over as
like this lethal maneuver, and to this day, I don't
believe Jacob Fatu has won a single match with the
tongue in death grip. But You're also dealing with a
company that doesn't think wins and losses matter anymore. So
that's kind of what happens. Uh. Don Stony Esquire shout
out to Don Tony Wrestling Soup and Spitball Media and
as always, rip Kevin Castle, Cheers, Don Stony, Absolutely happy
fourth Sean Dee twenty nine months of channel membership. You
might as well add Randy the ram to macho man
Randy versus Randy. I should put Randy the ram and
be the booker, now that I think about it, Actually
that's not a bad idea. Maybe I will. Maybe I'll
put Randy the ram from the wrestler and be the booker.
What do you think? Gotta give him the uh, gotta
give him the ram, Jam Navy forty one eighty one.
Buy or sell Jeff Jarrett putting Beetlejuice in the figure
four leglock or Scott Steiner putting Beetlejuice in the Steiner recliner.
Neither neither. I'm gonna buy on Jeff Jarrett smashing a
guitar over Beetlejuice's head. Beetlejuice used to be about three
foot eleven, and then after Jeff smash him in the
head with the guitar. He was about three foot four.
E J. Slimp. Speaking of Batista, how many times have
you been asked that infamous you shoot Batista question via
email or on social media? Zero zero? Because I don't
have a good answer for you. I'm not clued in
on the answer to that question, nor do I care
to be. I'm the wrong person to be asking about that.
But it's a funny. I'm pretty sure it was a
you shoot. And I mean there have been some great
there have been some great you shoot moments in history,
but still my my all time favorite one, my my
all time favorite you shoot moment, UH was when Al
Snow was on and UH and the question came in
and it sounded like a very serious question at first,
and he said, you know you've you've commented before. I
don't want I don't want to I don't want to
bungle this. I want to look it up and I
want to make sure that I recite this exactly exactly
the way that it was written, because I think the
name it was a fake name, but like the name
that the person used also was kind of funny. I
want to make sure I do this the right way
it is. It is still the greatest. It's the greatest
question ever submitted in the history of you shoot. Let
me see here Neville Neville, South Hall from Merseyside, England
and al. You have been quoted as saying a good
match is one that draws, is the one that draws
the most money. By your own very logic, is it
fair to say that you haven't had a good match
in your entire career? I could not believe. And the
look on their face as they're kind of looking at
the screen as the question is like put on the
screen and they're reading it. That is the greatest question.
It is the greatest question of the history of you shoot.
I don't think there will ever be There will never
be a better question asked than one of those. I
don't even think he's doing the U shoots anymore, Sean Oliver,
But my god, it was so great. His reaction was
just so great. You've been quoted as saying a good
match is one that draws the most money. So by
your own logic, is it fair to say you've never
had a good match in your career? Holy shit? What
a question? Ah and Mikey Claiman says Are you going
to play the new Halloween game? Yeah? I think that
comes out in September. I would like to, I would
like to. I'm gonna say yes, We'll wait until it
comes out and see. But I saw the trailer for
it and it looks pretty good. Looks pretty good. So yeah,
now that's how you troll. That's right, That's that's what
you call a roast. Actually, you know what I was
gonna say, roasting. That's not a roasting. That's a that's
what that is. Forget the roasting. Halloween game. Yeah, there's
a Halloween. There's a Michael Myers Halloween game coming out. Yeah. Again,
I want to say, it's in September. Look it up.
Looks pretty good. Do you need some alo vera for
that burn? So the sound Off this weekend is episode
nine to seventy. That will be dropping as per usual
on Sunday afternoon, brand new episode of the SoundOff, And
then next week, I believe is a normal week. Right,
there's no more international shows, there's no more weird Wacky Times.
Raw Monday night is a big one in Chicago, the
likely return of cmpunk and possibly Sammy z Ain's final
night as the WWE Champion. Tuesday will be a brand
new on Crown, brand new TNT Wednesday. Actually, Wednesday's a
big dynamite. They're loading up that Beach Break episode. We
have Kenny Omega and mjf for the world title. We
have Takeshtan Fletcher for the International title. We have a
women's casino Gauntlet. We have Jericho and Champa. It's their
Beach Break show and they're at this interesting venue in Florida.
So I'm hoping that one of these matches is gonna
fill outside and maybe into a nearby body of water.
I don't know. We'll see Falcon Star. Go ahead, you
keep asking me, you can you ask me a question,
Just ask your question. So that's a big raw, it's
a big dynamite. And then SmackDown next week is back live.
I don't know if it's a big SmackDown, but yeah,
we should be hitting all of our usual streams, so
should be a big week. I'm hoping you guys come
up and show out. I want to have a I
want to blow June June was I don't know. I
felt oft in June. I want July to blow June
out of the water. That's what I'm hoping for anyway.
Falcon Star says, how you know? That was his question,
how you know? I just do? I know everything? All right?
There has been a great stream, a lot of fun,
great week. We had a great dynamite stream on Wednesday too.
I am going to get out of here. I'm going
to try to cool down here again. Be safe wherever
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the heat can be fatal. So make sure you check
on elderly neighbors and family members if you have any.
It's very easy even for a non elderly person to
get dehydrated in this kind of weather. I was going
to go to the gym earlier today to do cardio.
I'm like, what are you out of your fucking mind.
I'm like, that would have been me. I would have
been passed that on the floor. So just stay safe
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