Speaker 1: The bad old days are back. Sure feels that way,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. With each passing week watching this show, I
Speaker 1: am getting flashbacks to twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. It has
Speaker 1: gotten very bad. SmackDown sucks. And if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: Ilia dragon Off and these US title and sammy' z
Speaker 1: ay before him to give Sammy credit, But if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for them and these US title open challenges that
Speaker 1: we've been having, there would be absolutely no reason to
Speaker 1: watch these shows. You know, I cover them here, but
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many people I've heard from,
Speaker 1: and this has been you know, over a period of
Speaker 1: many months, but especially lately when it comes to the
Speaker 1: weekly shows, and SmackDown is usually cheap among them, more
Speaker 1: so than Raw who say I don't even watch the show.
Speaker 1: I just you know, tune into the review to find
Speaker 1: out what happened, and if there was anything good that
Speaker 1: happened on the show, then I'll check out the clips.
Speaker 1: But I cannot stomach sitting through the weekly shows anymore.
Speaker 1: It has gotten just that bad. SmackDown is an empty show.
Speaker 1: There is no life to this show. There is no soul,
Speaker 1: There is nothing of any real redeeming value. They have
Speaker 1: the talent. I mean, the talent is there, but of
Speaker 1: course it's always how you utilize the talent that you have.
Speaker 1: You can have the greatest roster in the world, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't make a difference if you're not fitting the
Speaker 1: pieces where they belong and actually putting together compelling stories
Speaker 1: and compelling matches week to week. So the talent being
Speaker 1: there really doesn't mean anything. They don't give you any
Speaker 1: compelling reason to really care week to week to tune
Speaker 1: into these shows, to want to tune in the following
Speaker 1: week to find out what's going to happen next week
Speaker 1: or see some big match that maybe they announce in advance.
Speaker 1: SmackDown has become the worst type of television, boring television,
Speaker 1: because when the television is really great, it's great, right.
Speaker 1: I Mean there's been times where we've gone through periods
Speaker 1: where and I go back to the pre WrestleMania television
Speaker 1: heading into last year's WRESTLEMANI in Philadelphia, When the television
Speaker 1: is exciting or interesting or really good, things are great. Right.
Speaker 1: No nobody's ever gonna like everything one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the time, but you know when the show is good,
Speaker 1: and you know when the show is bad. And I
Speaker 1: think there's this, I don't know, misguided belief that when
Speaker 1: the shows are good, you know, people like to complain
Speaker 1: and rant and rave, and so they don't like the
Speaker 1: good show. Like that's complete bullshit. Anybody who tries to
Speaker 1: tell you that as a fucking idiot, Okay, they don't
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. When the shows are good,
Speaker 1: they're great. When the shows are really really bad, but
Speaker 1: like bad in a way where it's so bad it's
Speaker 1: good or it's like hilariously bad. For someone like me
Speaker 1: who comes on here and talks about this stuff, it
Speaker 1: could be very entertaining when you're talking about bad television
Speaker 1: that's so bad it's good. That's not what this is.
Speaker 1: This is in the middle. This is in like this
Speaker 1: this purgatory. I just got done watching a show on Netflix,
Speaker 1: the season three Alice in Borderland. This is like borderland
Speaker 1: is what this is. This is like the in between between,
Speaker 1: like life and death, and you're kind of stuck in
Speaker 1: the middle where it's really not good and it's bad
Speaker 1: but in a way that's just boring and doesn't really
Speaker 1: make you feel anything. That is the worst kind of
Speaker 1: television that you could produce. It's just like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: have a show to do this week. We have our
Speaker 1: format that we're gonna stick to. We're gonna do the
Speaker 1: bare minimum that we need to do, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: slow burn this and we're gonna slow cook that. And
Speaker 1: that'd be one thing if you actually had stories that
Speaker 1: were kind of interesting. But when you don't and you
Speaker 1: slow burn and slow cook it, that's even worse. But
Speaker 1: that's what SmackDown has become every single week. The supposed
Speaker 1: creative help that we read about weeks ago that was
Speaker 1: going to be given to road Dog because road Dog
Speaker 1: is like the uh, the head writer or whatever his
Speaker 1: fucking position is one of the lead writer's lead creative
Speaker 1: voices on SmackDown. I mean, we all know where it
Speaker 1: starts at the top. Not to excuse him from any
Speaker 1: of this, but there were reports that, you know, they
Speaker 1: were going to be providing road Dog with help because
Speaker 1: they recognize that the shows can be more enjoyable than
Speaker 1: that they have issues on SmackDown. Yeah, no shit. The
Speaker 1: cracks have been showing for many months and there were
Speaker 1: some little minor changes they made that gave me hope, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: they recognized the issues with this show, and maybe we
Speaker 1: will incrementally begin to see some real changes on this
Speaker 1: show that will make the show more exciting to watch.
Speaker 1: And that was just a few weeks ago. But I
Speaker 1: can tell you from watching this show so far, it
Speaker 1: hasn't made a difference. It hasn't made a difference. It
Speaker 1: is very clear to me right now that if any
Speaker 1: change is to be made, that change will have to
Speaker 1: come from the top. Make of that what you will,
Speaker 1: but until that changes, the show itself will continue to
Speaker 1: exist in its current form. It doesn't matter. Oh, we're
Speaker 1: going to add this person in that person and try
Speaker 1: to help out the people who are already writing the show.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's an issue with the vision. No
Speaker 1: pun intended to our friends on Monday Night. It's the
Speaker 1: overall vision of this show. It's just not good. It's
Speaker 1: not working. And I'm not even gonna be one of
Speaker 1: these people who throws out there, Oh, no, MILLI last week, right,
Speaker 1: they dropped under a million viewers for SmackDown last week. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was Halloween, you had a World series game. Whatever,
Speaker 1: take that number throw to I don't even give a shit. Right,
Speaker 1: people will point to that, but again, it comes down
Speaker 1: to creative for a company that constantly batters the idea
Speaker 1: into your brain that they tell stories. And Triple H
Speaker 1: was just at a conference this past week and was
Speaker 1: talking about we don't book matches for the sake of
Speaker 1: finding out what are the best matches to book. We
Speaker 1: don't do that here. We come up with matches that
Speaker 1: are going to tell the best stories. Well, what he's
Speaker 1: doing right now is he's failing miserably. Now. They don't
Speaker 1: see it that way because to them, everything they touch
Speaker 1: turns to gold. Look at all the money been making.
Speaker 1: But I don't know how you can sit here honestly
Speaker 1: week to week and tell me with a straight face
Speaker 1: that they are putting their best foot forward with the
Speaker 1: talent that they have at their disposal. It's just an
Speaker 1: out and out lie. You say that to my face.
Speaker 1: I call you a liar to you right back to
Speaker 1: your face. I don't understand how people can put shows
Speaker 1: like these together and say, you know what, this is
Speaker 1: our best effort. I'm proud of what I put down here.
Speaker 1: I would be ashamed. I wouldn't want my name on this.
Speaker 1: We have Drew McIntyre, who lost to Cody Rhodes again
Speaker 1: at Saturday Night's main event. Right second time, we had
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre come out at the very end of the
Speaker 1: show tonight and he interfered in the main event. The
Speaker 1: main event was a match between Cody Rhodes and Alistair Black,
Speaker 1: which was good in that at least that was a
Speaker 1: fresh match that we had in the main event. Of course,
Speaker 1: it went to a non finish. Drew McIntyre runs in,
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre reeks havocy, attacks a referee, causes a no contest.
Speaker 1: Nick All just comes out at the very end and says,
Speaker 1: I've had enough. I give you an inch, you take
Speaker 1: a mile. Therefore, Drew McIntyre, you are suspended. And I said, boy,
Speaker 1: that sounds awfully familiar. And then I remember that it
Speaker 1: was last year, a little over a year ago, that
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre was suspended by Adam Pierce. So now he
Speaker 1: has a matching suspension to go with the one from
Speaker 1: Raw last year. He's got one now on SmackDown from
Speaker 1: the other general manager. And what that means for his future,
Speaker 1: his immediate future anyway, is in doubt. I know he's
Speaker 1: got a movie he's going to be filming soon, although
Speaker 1: I think that might have been pushed back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of next year at Highlander movie. I don't expect
Speaker 1: this suspension to last very long. It still feels to
Speaker 1: me like they're going to go to a third match
Speaker 1: I guess technically a fourth match between McIntyre and Cody
Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. I still think that this ends up
Speaker 1: extending out to Survivor Series and maybe at that point
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre will actually win the WWEE Championship. But at
Speaker 1: this point, who cares? Seriously, who cares? We've seen the
Speaker 1: match twice, We've seen what they've done here with these matches.
Speaker 1: They are telling the story the McIntyre is constantly getting screwed.
Speaker 1: He said it at the end of the show tonight.
Speaker 1: My back's against the wall, My backs against the wall.
Speaker 1: So let's say he goes in there at Survivor Series
Speaker 1: and wins the championship. Fine, doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 1: they still have much bigger issues here to deal with
Speaker 1: on this show. But at this point, I mean, can
Speaker 1: you honestly sit here and say that if that was
Speaker 1: something you were hoping to see that if it does
Speaker 1: finally happen in San Diego in a few weeks, not
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't be happy for Drew that he finally
Speaker 1: has the belt after all this time, but like the
Speaker 1: excitement for it. Yeah, it's like a flame that's been extinguished.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes you wait a little too long and
Speaker 1: it just doesn't hit the same way. That is, of course,
Speaker 1: if he even gets a show. God it's Survivor series.
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly when that's going to happen, but
Speaker 1: obviously that story is continuing. We have a new women's champion,
Speaker 1: Jade car Gill. She won the belt, which was the
Speaker 1: right call Saturday Night's main event last weekend. She came
Speaker 1: out tonight cut the shortest promo in the history of
Speaker 1: mankind cool, didn't have a whole lot to say. What
Speaker 1: else is there to say? Right, She's the baddest bitch
Speaker 1: and they tease the future match with her and Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: which is something they've done before. Of course, they have
Speaker 1: to go to Jade and Charlotte at some point, and
Speaker 1: Jade and Alexa, because who else do they have on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: For all the bad things I could say about SmackDown
Speaker 1: right now, of which there are many, the biggest mark
Speaker 1: against this creative team, right now is their inability to
Speaker 1: do anything with their women's division on Friday nights. It
Speaker 1: is their lack of effort to actually take what should
Speaker 1: be a strong, healthy, like what they have on Monday
Speaker 1: Night or what they have an NXT at the moment,
Speaker 1: and they refuse to do so. They refuse. Now. Tonight
Speaker 1: was the first sign that maybe we're actually going to
Speaker 1: get some new life injected into this division because we
Speaker 1: saw lash Legend made her debut on SmackDown tonight, which
Speaker 1: is good. Whether you think it should have been her
Speaker 1: or soul Ruka or Jordan Grace or Zari or whoever,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. That's at least a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: But the way they have neglected this division for so long. Again,
Speaker 1: I said this before last weekend, whether Tiffany retained, whether
Speaker 1: Jade won the championship, they have a major, major, major
Speaker 1: issue with this division where Jay doesn't have any credible
Speaker 1: challengers unless you take people in the tag division like
Speaker 1: Charlotte and like Alexa and have them work with Jade
Speaker 1: until Bianca is ready to come back, And that sounds
Speaker 1: like that's being pushed off now until early next year.
Speaker 1: So what do they do in the meantime, of course
Speaker 1: they have to go to a Jaid Cargill Charlotte Flair match.
Speaker 1: We'll probably get that by next month. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: Jade will be wrestling Beefab on TV next week. Set
Speaker 1: your stopwatch. I don't expect that to go very long.
Speaker 1: But speaking of stopwatches, we had another women's championship match
Speaker 1: on this show tonight. As you know, Julia is the
Speaker 1: Women's United States Champion. She has had a horrendous run.
Speaker 1: She has been the champion since June. This to me
Speaker 1: is the biggest indictment of this creative team because I
Speaker 1: think back to win Julia and then Stephanie Vicaire almost
Speaker 1: at the same time showed up in NXT and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of excitement around it, and they were
Speaker 1: having some great matches even against each other, even as
Speaker 1: recently as earlier this year. Remember Roadblock right, Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: the theater at Madison Square Garden, right, I think that
Speaker 1: was the night that if I remember Oba defended against
Speaker 1: Moose and I think that was then they had Julia
Speaker 1: against Stephanie, and I think back to that and I say,
Speaker 1: how is it possible that that Julia is the same
Speaker 1: Julia that we have seen here on the main roster
Speaker 1: in the months since then. How is it possible that
Speaker 1: these are the same person? How? I mean? Is it
Speaker 1: really just a case of the booking being so much
Speaker 1: better in NXT with the women as compared to the
Speaker 1: booking under Paul Avec on the main roster at least
Speaker 1: on this show. Is Shawn Michael some kind of genius
Speaker 1: or wizard as compared to Triple H. Has he unlocked
Speaker 1: some special codes? Could crack some kind of code that
Speaker 1: Triple H has been unable to do. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't understand it. This run that Julia was on as
Speaker 1: the United States Champion was absolute garbage, and in her
Speaker 1: third title defense tonight, she lost the championship to the
Speaker 1: former champion, Chelsea Agree. I love Chelsea. I don't have
Speaker 1: any issue with Chelsea. But I'm watching this show tonight
Speaker 1: and I see Julia the jobber in the ring losing
Speaker 1: the title in ninety seconds, and I say, how could
Speaker 1: this be? How is that possible? How do you fumble
Speaker 1: in that way? Because that's exactly what they've done. No
Speaker 1: good answer. Thank god, we have Dragonov in the US
Speaker 1: Title Open Challenge. That's all I'm going to say the
Speaker 1: only redeeming part of this show each in every single week.
Speaker 1: Where there may be glimmers of hope here and there,
Speaker 1: Oh hey, that was a good segment, they are few
Speaker 1: and far between these days. And considering that this is
Speaker 1: the biggest wrestling company in the world and we have
Speaker 1: this gigantic roster of people and people in the developmental
Speaker 1: that are waiting to be there is no excuse for
Speaker 1: these shows to be as lackluster as they are. People
Speaker 1: are giving you two hours of their time on Friday Night.
Speaker 1: This is what you give them. This is the best
Speaker 1: you can do. And we're getting the mis against jay
Speaker 1: Usso next week in the John Scene of Retirement tournament.
Speaker 1: That says it all. The Miz against jay Usso next week. Great.
Speaker 1: This is your Friday Night SmackDown review. It is Friday Night,
Speaker 1: hence Friday Night SmackDown. It is November seventh, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I am a very frustrated, defeated Solemn Monster. Remember last
Speaker 1: Friday Halloween, the Macho Monster was here. We had more
Speaker 1: time on that stream than we did with the show
Speaker 1: last week. Macho Monster, he's back in the box. We
Speaker 1: ain't going to see him again for another year. I
Speaker 1: wish he was here right now. That'd be more entertaining
Speaker 1: than this show. Start from the top of this show.
Speaker 1: They opened with the WWE champion, Cody Roads, fresh off
Speaker 1: yet another win over Drew McIntyre, coming to the ring Greenville,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. What do you want to talk about? How
Speaker 1: about how bad this show is? Can we talk about that?
Speaker 1: He said that we could talk about what happened on
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event last weekend, saying Drew McIntyre was
Speaker 1: the one who introduced the WWE Championship into the ring
Speaker 1: as a weapon. He said that his reluctance to pull
Speaker 1: the trigger has cost him dearly from time to time,
Speaker 1: something that McIntyre obviously had no issue with. That being said,
Speaker 1: he called Drew the most self sabotaging athlete in this business,
Speaker 1: which meant the Scotsman was now behind him. He's in
Speaker 1: the rear view, which of course means the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: And wrestling speak, Cody said that he wanted to do
Speaker 1: something a little bit different tonight. What he wanted to
Speaker 1: do was he wanted to go sit in the crowd
Speaker 1: amongst the fans, like John Cena, WRESTLEMANI at thirty four.
Speaker 1: He was going to go sit in the crowd and
Speaker 1: get a feel for who they might want to see
Speaker 1: him go up against next for the WWE Championship. And
Speaker 1: at that point the lights went out and Alistair Black's
Speaker 1: music interrupted. He walked out with Zelena Vega said that
Speaker 1: he's been ready for something new ever since he set
Speaker 1: Damian Priest on fire. He got in the ring. He
Speaker 1: said that he had a chip on his shoulder that's
Speaker 1: about the size of the WWE Championship. Cody started to
Speaker 1: remove his tie. He turned around. He was loosening his tie.
Speaker 1: When he turned back around, Zelena was standing right in
Speaker 1: front of him, between him and Black, and she told
Speaker 1: Cody that his nightmare begins now. And then she hauled
Speaker 1: off and she smacked the shit out of him, him
Speaker 1: a good slap across the face. Nick all This walked
Speaker 1: out and said he could see where things were headed,
Speaker 1: so he made it official for tonight's main event it
Speaker 1: would be Cody Rhades one on one against Alistair Black.
Speaker 1: And at that point, I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: like that at least because it is something fresh. There's
Speaker 1: a match that we haven't seen yet. In WW now
Speaker 1: we've seen him multiple times in ADW. There is history
Speaker 1: here between these two men. In fact, the biggest win
Speaker 1: of Alistair Black's AW run as Malachi Black was probably
Speaker 1: when he first debuted in the company and he beat Cody,
Speaker 1: one of the EVPs right one of the biggest stars
Speaker 1: in the entire AW roster. It was a hell of
Speaker 1: a way for his run there to begin, and the
Speaker 1: two of them ended up having three matches, two of
Speaker 1: which were won by Black. Unfortunately, the peak of his
Speaker 1: run was that early win over Cody. It was sort
Speaker 1: of like grand opening, grand closing in many ways. Not
Speaker 1: that he didn't have some success Trios, champions and all that,
Speaker 1: but he never quite got back to that peak that
Speaker 1: he was at at the very beginning of his run there.
Speaker 1: But it was also very clear based on what Cody
Speaker 1: said that he was lying to us and the issues
Speaker 1: with him and Drew McIntyre were going to continue and extend,
Speaker 1: likely into Survivor Series. Now after this was the highlight
Speaker 1: of the night because Iliya Dragonov was on his way
Speaker 1: out to the ring for the next defense of the
Speaker 1: United States Championship in the Open Challenge, not before a
Speaker 1: quick run in backstage with Tomatonga on his way to
Speaker 1: the ring, but Dragonov came out and he asked who
Speaker 1: the challenger was going to be, and it wasn't Tomatonga.
Speaker 1: Tomatonga keeps confronting this man and grunting at him and
Speaker 1: staring at him. But evidently he's not all that interested
Speaker 1: in challenging yet for the championship because he didn't come out,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. Did instead we got Tomaso Champa.
Speaker 1: He entered with Gargano and Candice Lay. Champa recalled wanting
Speaker 1: a title shot last week and Dragonov calling him a jackass,
Speaker 1: so Champa called the fans jackasses and said the title
Speaker 1: would be his. Dragonov said that he accepts the challenge
Speaker 1: from that guy, and he pointed over to Johnny Gargano,
Speaker 1: and Champa said the Dragonov was ducking him and he
Speaker 1: could only do that for so long, so we were
Speaker 1: gonna get Dragonov and Gargano for the US title. After
Speaker 1: a break, Dragonov blasted Gargano with an uppercut, and the
Speaker 1: challenger he matched the effort with an uppercut of his own.
Speaker 1: We got the Constantine special by Dragonov that connects and
Speaker 1: with Gargano stunned in the corner, he was opened for
Speaker 1: a big boot. Gargano, though used the ropes to assist
Speaker 1: himself back to his feet. He stopped Dragonovs dive off
Speaker 1: the top with a kick right to the gut that
Speaker 1: was followed by a poison RNA for a near fall.
Speaker 1: Gargano lifted dragon off to the top. Champion, though lit
Speaker 1: him up with chops followed by a headbutt. Dragonov left
Speaker 1: off the top rope with a diving sent on that
Speaker 1: was not enough though to put Gargano away, and with
Speaker 1: Gargano days, Dragonov went for the h bomb that got
Speaker 1: counter though with an upkick right to the face. Gargano
Speaker 1: could not escape Dragonov standing urinagi, though there was another
Speaker 1: attempt at a Constantine's special that got foiled by Candice
Speaker 1: Lay outside. The ring referee was distracted, so this opened
Speaker 1: Dragonov up for a Tornado DDT out on the floor
Speaker 1: by Gargano and then back inside the one final beat
Speaker 1: DDT and Dragonov kicked out at two. Gargano tried for
Speaker 1: a dive from the apron that got stopped by a kick,
Speaker 1: and the champion lifted him up in the middle. On
Speaker 1: the middle rope for a super plex and then one
Speaker 1: final h bomb to put things away, and in his
Speaker 1: third defense, unlike Julia and the other US title, Dragonov
Speaker 1: is successful. He retains the championship. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: often get to see the black and Gold Johnny Gargano
Speaker 1: very often, the guy that went out there and headlined
Speaker 1: so many of those takeover shows and had just great
Speaker 1: matches with people like Champa and Adam Cole and Andrade
Speaker 1: and countless others. Right there was that core group of guys,
Speaker 1: and Gargano and Shampa were really right there. They were
Speaker 1: the nucleus of that show for a few years. There.
Speaker 1: We got to see a little bit of that Gargano
Speaker 1: here in this match. It was very good, not one
Speaker 1: of the better ones, if only because there was really
Speaker 1: no drama, you know, as to the outcome, and we
Speaker 1: know that Shampa's going to get his shot maybe next week.
Speaker 1: We know Toma Tonga is waiting in the wings. But again,
Speaker 1: the Open Challenge continues to be the highlight of an
Speaker 1: otherwise dreadful show every single week. I hope they keep
Speaker 1: this gimmick going forever, or at least until they pull
Speaker 1: their heads out of their asses, because right now. This
Speaker 1: is all they got. Just keep it going now. Eventually
Speaker 1: they're going to run out of people. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: So this is going to end soon. We just don't
Speaker 1: know what, you know, exactly which week it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: but they're going to run out of people at some point.
Speaker 1: Unless the idea is to debut somebody new from NXT.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've mentioned you know, Oba Femi in the past.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have any plans to involve
Speaker 1: Oba and the John Cena stuff, but if not, I
Speaker 1: still think this would be a great place at the
Speaker 1: end of all this for him to debut and go
Speaker 1: in there and be the man to strike down the
Speaker 1: mad Dragon, you know, and win the championship. But hopefully
Speaker 1: not for a while now, nick All, this was backstage.
Speaker 1: He was talking to a referee. We could see the
Speaker 1: tumbler in the background that they are using to select
Speaker 1: names for this John Cena tournament. Sammy Zain walks in
Speaker 1: and he tells all this, you saw what happened last
Speaker 1: week with the MFTs. It's a numbers game. He goes,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I'm not cleared, but please let
Speaker 1: me out there tonight for the match between Ray, Phoenix
Speaker 1: and Taalatanga. All this said that Sammy is not medically cleared,
Speaker 1: which means if he's at ringside, he's a huge liability
Speaker 1: for him. All due respect, I'm not asking you, Sammy said, okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to stand by for much longer.
Speaker 1: Sammy leaves and in walks our Truth and he is
Speaker 1: all dressed up as John Cena, his idol. He told
Speaker 1: all this he wants in this last Time is Now tournament.
Speaker 1: He said he came in here to put his balls
Speaker 1: in Nick's hand and he hands him two Tumblr balls.
Speaker 1: All just said, you don't understand your name's already in there.
Speaker 1: You're in like you're you're in the Tumblr. So Truth
Speaker 1: grabbed his balls back and said, I don't want my
Speaker 1: balls touching your balls. Anyway. He left SmackDown everybody. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they all had a good laugh in the writer's
Speaker 1: room when they came up with that one good job.
Speaker 1: After a break, Johnny Gargana was trying to cheer up
Speaker 1: Tomasso Champa in the back even though Gargana was the
Speaker 1: one who wrestled and lost. He was trying to cheer
Speaker 1: up Tomasso, Nathan Fraser and Axiom walked up and they
Speaker 1: made fun of them. They called Champa a jackass and
Speaker 1: they left. This is what they're trying to get over now,
Speaker 1: trying to get the fans to chant jackass at Champion
Speaker 1: each week. After that, it was out to the arena
Speaker 1: for the arrival of the new WWE Women's Champion, Jade Cargill.
Speaker 1: She had long metal spikes coming out of her top.
Speaker 1: She said, we all saw what she did to Tiffany Stratton,
Speaker 1: and that goes for every woman in that locker room.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. That bitch Mike Drop played
Speaker 1: her music. That was the end of that, and as
Speaker 1: she was heading to the back, they played Charlotte Flair's music.
Speaker 1: The next match, and Charlotte walks out with Alexa Bliss
Speaker 1: and this is not the first time that this has happened,
Speaker 1: but they encountered one another like two passing ships in
Speaker 1: the night. As Jade was leaving and Charlotte was walking in,
Speaker 1: Jade held her title up in front of Charlotte and
Speaker 1: told her, whenever you're ready, and Charlotte and Alexa they
Speaker 1: took a few steps forward and they pose for the pyro.
Speaker 1: Then Charlotte turned around and noticed that Jade was still
Speaker 1: standing there mouthing off and holding up her belt, so
Speaker 1: she took her robe off and she went to go
Speaker 1: make a B line for Jade. Alexa, though grabbed her
Speaker 1: stopped her from doing so. Again. This is not the
Speaker 1: first time that they've done this little tease between Charlotte
Speaker 1: and Jay. I want to say this is the third time,
Speaker 1: at least a second time, but probably the third time
Speaker 1: in the last several months that they've done this. And
Speaker 1: it's a match that I could see happening as soon
Speaker 1: as Saturday Night's main event next month, you know, assuming
Speaker 1: they're gonna have more than just John Cena's final match
Speaker 1: on that show. I could see them doing the match
Speaker 1: there because after Survivor Series, there's no more plees until
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, which is at the very end of January,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at Survivor Series and thinking, well, maybe
Speaker 1: they would do the match there. It's very clear after
Speaker 1: some of the things we saw on this show tonight,
Speaker 1: Charlotte is going to be in the war Games match,
Speaker 1: and I'm not so sure that there's really room for
Speaker 1: Jade on the heel side in that match. I don't
Speaker 1: expect her to be in there, so I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 1: December thirteenth we might possibly get that match. I actually
Speaker 1: think they probably would do Jade and Alexa first, you know,
Speaker 1: and build to Jade against Charlotte, because that is the
Speaker 1: bigger match. Jade Cargill against Charlotte Flair is the bigger
Speaker 1: match of those two. But Charlotte and Alexa are absolutely
Speaker 1: going to be primed to wrestle Jade because they do
Speaker 1: not have anybody else at that level for her to
Speaker 1: work with. She can go ahead and bury BFAB next
Speaker 1: week in two minutes, she could work Mechin. I'm sure
Speaker 1: she's gonna wrestle all of them and nobody's gonna care
Speaker 1: about any of it. You know. The matches to do
Speaker 1: is Jade, Alexa, Jade, Charlotte, eventually Jade Bianca. We're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get a rematch with Jade and Tiffany, But truly,
Speaker 1: like who else is there right now on the SmackDown
Speaker 1: side of things right there aren't a lot of great
Speaker 1: options and it would have to be a babyface, So
Speaker 1: they're very limited in who they could throw out there
Speaker 1: in front of her, especially if they want her to
Speaker 1: be as dominant right now as she is, you know,
Speaker 1: b Fab and Mechin. These are people. They don't give
Speaker 1: a shit. These are people. They will put in the
Speaker 1: ring with Jade and have her squash in two minutes,
Speaker 1: three minutes. You know, the Alexas and the Charlottes of
Speaker 1: the world. That's where it gets more competitive. But you
Speaker 1: got to build to it first. But I think Alexa
Speaker 1: comes first and then Charlotte. Now after the break, Chelsea
Speaker 1: Green was backstage. She was with Alba Fire. She also
Speaker 1: had her Triple A Mixed Tag Team title over her
Speaker 1: shoulder that she just won with Ethan Page. She was
Speaker 1: talking about her match tonight with Julia when Meechen and
Speaker 1: Beefab walked in. They already know how this match is
Speaker 1: gonna go tonight with Julia. Chelsea said, Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: win and become the first and the fourth United States Champion,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have two belts and I'll become the
Speaker 1: greatest champion on SmackDown. Of course. She said this as
Speaker 1: they panned out to show Jade Cargill standing behind her.
Speaker 1: She had no idea. Jade said, oh no, no, keep going.
Speaker 1: Chelsea high tailed out of there with Alba. Jade went
Speaker 1: to go walk into the women's locker room. And I
Speaker 1: know it's the women's locker room because there's a sign
Speaker 1: on the door that said women's locker room. So she
Speaker 1: went to go walk in there and barked at BFAB
Speaker 1: to move out of the way. And then BFAB turns
Speaker 1: to Mechen and she starts, you know, talking about Ja.
Speaker 1: So Jade stops because she hears this. She's complaining to
Speaker 1: Meechin about Jade. Hey, I can't believe she talked to
Speaker 1: me like that. Jade turned back around and said, did
Speaker 1: you say something? Said if BFAB had a problem with it,
Speaker 1: she can step up and get stepped on next week
Speaker 1: on SmackDown. So BFAB said bet. So that made it official.
Speaker 1: BFAB gets to walk to the gallows next week against
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill. That's gonna be Jade's first meal next week. See,
Speaker 1: every champion needs a quick appetizer before the main entree.
Speaker 1: So that is what BEFAB will be to Jade on
Speaker 1: the show next week. Jade's gonna have herself some ordures
Speaker 1: next week, at least it'll be quick. Then we had
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair against Nya Jacks. Oh boy, Charlotte, I don't
Speaker 1: know what was going on here. It looked like Charlotte
Speaker 1: was busting out of her top multiple times here in
Speaker 1: this match, because multiple times when she was on screen
Speaker 1: inside the ring and outside the ring, the screen suddenly
Speaker 1: went black. Could hear the audio, but they blacked out
Speaker 1: the screen. Michael Cole talked about NYA working methodically in
Speaker 1: her matches and slowing down the pace, so you can
Speaker 1: imagine how the first half of this match went. After
Speaker 1: a commercial, Charlotte went up top for the diving crossbody.
Speaker 1: After that, she fired away with chops and then a
Speaker 1: running clothesline. She grounded Naya Flare, headed to the top
Speaker 1: again and connected with the Moon Salt, but only for
Speaker 1: a near fall. Charlotte attempted to lock in the figure eight.
Speaker 1: NYA responded with a sit down power bomb. She dragged
Speaker 1: Charlotte near the corners. She was looking for the annihilator,
Speaker 1: which missed. Naya's attempted a Simoan drop was countered into
Speaker 1: a Tornado DDT for a near fall. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: outside the ring lash legend from NXT, the Bougie Bully
Speaker 1: sneaks up behind Alexa Bliss and she's choking her out.
Speaker 1: She's rag dolling her. This was like China with Marlena
Speaker 1: back in the day when China made her debut, she
Speaker 1: was rag dolling this little woman around. So that was
Speaker 1: enough of a distraction for Charlotte that it led to
Speaker 1: Naya hitting the annihilator and pinning her. This did not
Speaker 1: need ten minutes of airtime, but that is what they got,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think much of it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what was going on with Charlotte's top in this match,
Speaker 1: but the sensors were working overtime tonight. They were earning
Speaker 1: their keyp they were earning their money here on this show.
Speaker 1: I didn't care for the match, but thank god they're
Speaker 1: calling new faces up from NX time, at least one.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is the first of several. It's going to
Speaker 1: take more than just lash Legend, but lash Legend at
Speaker 1: least is a step in the right direction. She's super athletic,
Speaker 1: She's made great improvements from when she first showed up
Speaker 1: in NXT. I think she'll do well. If all things
Speaker 1: being equal, I think she'll do well. Ultimately, it's not
Speaker 1: up to her. It really does come down to the
Speaker 1: creative for her and the people. Whether or not she
Speaker 1: has people in her corner who actually have something worthwhile
Speaker 1: for her to do. Case in point Julia, who I'm
Speaker 1: going to get to in a second. So she has
Speaker 1: the tools to do well. Whether or not she actually
Speaker 1: does do well, that'll be in large part up to
Speaker 1: the creative team. But they so desperately need some new
Speaker 1: blood injected into this show. I was at least, whatever
Speaker 1: you think of the pairing, you may not care for
Speaker 1: Naya Jacks and lash Legend being a pairing or a
Speaker 1: tag team whatever they're going to be, at least it
Speaker 1: is someone new. This is what was needed, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of work to be done, but it's at
Speaker 1: least a step in the right direction now. It also
Speaker 1: adds a new tag team that could challenge for the
Speaker 1: women's tag team titles. And it's another Dave Meltzer report
Speaker 1: that turned out to be accurate, because if you remember,
Speaker 1: Meltzer wasn't just the first person to mention that they
Speaker 1: were going to be doing a tournament to crown Johnsen
Speaker 1: his final opponent, which they did. He was the one
Speaker 1: when he listed out the planned teams for men's and
Speaker 1: women's wargames. You know, he mentioned Austin theory on the
Speaker 1: men's side, and we'll see what happens on Monday, because
Speaker 1: there's still time. Austin Theory could show up on TV,
Speaker 1: but we haven't seen him yet, but he had Lash
Speaker 1: Legend on the women's side. In fact, I went to
Speaker 1: go look it up. This is what Meltzer had in
Speaker 1: The Observer a few weeks ago as the original proposed
Speaker 1: Wargames match on the ladies side, aj Lee, And it
Speaker 1: doesn't really feel like aj is going to be back
Speaker 1: for Survivor series. But aj Lee, Rhea, Ripley, Eo Sky,
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss against Nya Jacks, Lash Legend,
Speaker 1: Becky lynch Osca and Kyrie Saint. And that looks mostly
Speaker 1: plausible right now. Right Lash Legend just debuted. She's with
Speaker 1: Naya Jacks. They're beefing with Charlotte and Alexa. Charlotte and
Speaker 1: Alexa have issues with Oscar and Kyrie. They're going to
Speaker 1: be wrestling them on Monday. So it sounds like all
Speaker 1: of these women are ultimately going to end up in
Speaker 1: the war Games match. Now. Later in the show, Kathy
Speaker 1: Kelly interviewed Nya and Lash in the back. She wanted
Speaker 1: to know how this pairing came about. Naya said that
Speaker 1: Alexa and Charlotte said that she needed to find a friend. Well,
Speaker 1: she found one. She faced Lash in NXT one and
Speaker 1: she knows that she's a badass. She's also a former
Speaker 1: NCAA record holder. Lash then spoke said that she's the
Speaker 1: bougie bully best believe the two of them are going
Speaker 1: straight to the top and tonight was just the beginning.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Some new talent in the women's division. Good.
Speaker 1: We got the John c and a video package that
Speaker 1: originally aired on Saturday Night's main event announcing the last
Speaker 1: time is now Tornament to decide who his final opponent
Speaker 1: will be on December thirteenth in Washington, DC. On Monday,
Speaker 1: we learned that the first two matches that are going
Speaker 1: to be taking place on Raw this coming week RUSSEV
Speaker 1: against Damian Priest and Seamus is going to be wrestling
Speaker 1: the Shinsky Nackimore. So now it was time to learn
Speaker 1: from Nick All this what the next two matches would be.
Speaker 1: These two matches will take place on SmackDown next Friday.
Speaker 1: These are the names that were chosen at random. In
Speaker 1: one match, it will be the Mizz taking on main event,
Speaker 1: jay Usso yeats boy. That's an exciting pairing right there. Now.
Speaker 1: The miss obviously has history with John Cena. I expected
Speaker 1: him to be in this tournament. I actually thought they
Speaker 1: would do Mizz and Carmelo Hayes in the fucking first round.
Speaker 1: But I guess it's supposed to be random, so that
Speaker 1: would be a little weird. But yes, the Miz against
Speaker 1: jay Usso does not excite me in the least, not
Speaker 1: at all, not even in the slightest. So I was
Speaker 1: looking to see what the other match was going to be.
Speaker 1: The other match is going to have La Knight against
Speaker 1: we don't know who, because Nick all this reached in
Speaker 1: to grab one of his balls, and he pulled out
Speaker 1: a ball, read the name, had a surprise look on
Speaker 1: his face and smirked and said, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: going to save this one as a surprise for next week.
Speaker 1: Fuck you, So now we have to wait an entire
Speaker 1: week to find out who it's going to be. Now,
Speaker 1: they don't make you wait an entire week to find
Speaker 1: out that it's gonna be Carmelo Hayes or j C. Matteo. So,
Speaker 1: although with these people, who the fuck knows? So obviously
Speaker 1: it's gonna be either someone from NXT or it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of these people they tease from outside the company.
Speaker 1: It could be a Matt Cardona, it could be a
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry. Uh, it could be a Randy Orton, I suppose,
Speaker 1: But like, it's probably going to be somebody like that.
Speaker 1: Could be a big nx T name like an Oba
Speaker 1: if Obafemi is in the tournament. But if they're gonna
Speaker 1: make you wait an entire week and save it as
Speaker 1: a surprise, then they better deliver on that surprise. My
Speaker 1: guess is it's one of these people from outside the company,
Speaker 1: probably a TNA name. And if it is, I mean,
Speaker 1: it depends on who it is really. I actually hope
Speaker 1: it isn't someone like Obafemi, because if it is, that
Speaker 1: does not bode well for La Night. You imagine La
Speaker 1: Night bounced out of the opening round of as if
Speaker 1: his luck has not been bad enough, this fucking guy
Speaker 1: gets bounced out of the opening round of this tournament.
Speaker 1: I hope whoever it is, it's a decent name. But man,
Speaker 1: I mean, La and I could use He's not gonna
Speaker 1: win the tournament, but he could at least use a
Speaker 1: win in the opening round for crying out loud, So
Speaker 1: I hope it is in someone like Oba, but that's
Speaker 1: my guess as far as who it's gonna be. The
Speaker 1: miss against jay Uso is just it's fucking awful. I
Speaker 1: mean to pick a match like that for this tournament.
Speaker 1: This has all been very underwhelming so far. We don't
Speaker 1: know what the other pairings are gonna be. I sure
Speaker 1: hope it gets better from here because what we've been
Speaker 1: given so far as far as what's coming up next week,
Speaker 1: very underwhelming. Now after a break, speaking of underwhelming, we
Speaker 1: come to the worst part of the entire show, we
Speaker 1: come to the other United States Championship match, this one
Speaker 1: on the women's side, with Julia, who has been the
Speaker 1: champion since the end of June, out to the ring
Speaker 1: with Keana James. She is going to defend her title
Speaker 1: one on one against the original the og United States Champion,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Green, who made her way out to the ring
Speaker 1: with her triple A mixed tag team title more titles
Speaker 1: on this show. She immediately went over to greet her
Speaker 1: tag team partner Ethan Page in the front row, who
Speaker 1: had his NXT North American Championship with him. As well
Speaker 1: as his Triple A Mix tag team title, and he
Speaker 1: congratulated her. He was rooting her on. Hopefully we'll see
Speaker 1: him on SmackDown soon too. Chelsea starts off with a
Speaker 1: hard slap. She got a head butt in response, followed
Speaker 1: by a sup plex, and then Julia caught her with
Speaker 1: the Arrivaderchi knee, which is one of her signature moves,
Speaker 1: right to the kisser. That was not enough for the win.
Speaker 1: Chelsea got thrown into the corner. She found herself trapped
Speaker 1: across the ropes. She ate a knee of the face. Now,
Speaker 1: at this point, Keana James got involved. She slaps Chelsea
Speaker 1: from the floor. That got her a superkick from albe Fire,
Speaker 1: who was outside in Chelsea's corner. Now, in the midst
Speaker 1: of all of this chaos here in the opening minute
Speaker 1: or so of this match, Chelsea then sneaks in a
Speaker 1: roll up, gets her feet on the ropes, which the
Speaker 1: referee does not see, and Chelsea Green pins Julia to
Speaker 1: win back the Women's United States Championship. Yes, really, if
Speaker 1: you were frozen in a block of ice, or you
Speaker 1: were frozen in carbonite, okay, whatever, and you've been frozen
Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years and they just now thawed
Speaker 1: you out, and this was the first show that they
Speaker 1: sat you down in front of the wrestling show. They
Speaker 1: statue down in the television to watch. First of all,
Speaker 1: my condolences Number one. Number two, you would watch this
Speaker 1: show and you would think nothing of it, because you
Speaker 1: would think we were still in the midst of the
Speaker 1: Divas era. With ninety second matches. These women got the
Speaker 1: sign the signal to go home before or the bell
Speaker 1: even rang. Chelsea Green once again the United States champion.
Speaker 1: This was a disgrace. This was an absolute disgrace. I'm
Speaker 1: not even mad about Chelsea being the champion again because
Speaker 1: I think Chelsea Green is great. Chelsea Green just re signed,
Speaker 1: i think a new five year deal with WWE. She's
Speaker 1: very entertaining. She's a credit to the roster. I have
Speaker 1: nothing against Chelsea Green, and I'm happy for all of
Speaker 1: her success. She has two championships now. I actually think
Speaker 1: her and Ethan Page make a great pairing. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see them bring that to the main roster. So
Speaker 1: I'm not mad about Chelsea having a belt again, another belt.
Speaker 1: The match itself was a disgrace. Julia's run as the
Speaker 1: United States Champion. Is among the worst in the history
Speaker 1: of this company. It is among the worst that you
Speaker 1: will ever see. It is a complete and utter disgrace.
Speaker 1: Julia the jobber out there being beaten in ninety seconds.
Speaker 1: This is not the same woman that I saw on
Speaker 1: the CW network at the beginning of this year wrestling
Speaker 1: Stephanie the care It can't be. It's impossible. And where
Speaker 1: did it all go wrong? It went wrong from the
Speaker 1: moment that they brought her up to television. I cannot
Speaker 1: sit here and blame it on Julia. I cannot sit
Speaker 1: here and tell you that Julia regressed. How can I
Speaker 1: blame Julia? Did it feel to you as if they
Speaker 1: gave Julia every opportunity to be booked in the way
Speaker 1: that Julia should be booked. You mean to tell me
Speaker 1: that you can't take this woman and find a way
Speaker 1: to really build her at like you see what they're
Speaker 1: doing with Stephanie right now on raw right, and Stephanie's
Speaker 1: she's very good and she's over because she does the
Speaker 1: Devil's Kiss and everybody goes wild for the Devil's Kiss
Speaker 1: and great right, She's got certain things, certain signatures, and
Speaker 1: she's having great success right now, right on the main
Speaker 1: roster on Monday nights. I'm not even saying that Julia
Speaker 1: needs to be at the exact same level, but how
Speaker 1: do you have such a gap between the two of
Speaker 1: them when you look at It's like night and day
Speaker 1: when you compare the two. The pairing with Keana James.
Speaker 1: I gave it a chance when it first happened because
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, maybe the idea here is that Julia
Speaker 1: is English. They want her to get a little bit
Speaker 1: better at it. Me she can speak it's obviously it's
Speaker 1: gonna be broken English. But maybe the idea is that
Speaker 1: promos are not going to be her strong suit. So
Speaker 1: let's take another talent who you know we're hoping to
Speaker 1: push out of this, and will allow her to be
Speaker 1: the mouthpiece and Julia will do her talking in the
Speaker 1: ring right because Julia comes out, she's got this great
Speaker 1: presence about her and a great look, and just let
Speaker 1: her go out there and do her thing right and
Speaker 1: just be dominant. And I said, if that's the idea,
Speaker 1: then maybe this could work. Obviously I was wrong, because
Speaker 1: because as the weeks went on, it became very clear
Speaker 1: to me what the goal here was. The goal was
Speaker 1: not to get Julia over so much as it was
Speaker 1: to use this as a vehicle to get Keana James over,
Speaker 1: because she was the one getting most of the television time.
Speaker 1: So that was mistake number one. Mistake number two. This
Speaker 1: was her third title defense and she already lost the championship.
Speaker 1: Do you know why? Because they have no fucking division.
Speaker 1: Because they had very few people for her to work with,
Speaker 1: and even the people they did have for her to
Speaker 1: work with, she was barely visible on television, and the
Speaker 1: weeks that she would show up on television, she was
Speaker 1: reduced to a backstage role, with Keana doing all the
Speaker 1: talking for her. She didn't do shit. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to sit here and point the finger of blame it
Speaker 1: Julia Boy, you drop the ball. Julia, you can't hang
Speaker 1: on the main roster. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: This woman was booked like shit from the moment she
Speaker 1: walked into this show. Could put every championship in the
Speaker 1: world on her. It doesn't matter. The belt doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if the person holding the belt is booked weak. If
Speaker 1: people watching the show are not given a reason to
Speaker 1: care about the person holding the championship, you can wipe
Speaker 1: your ass with it. It doesn't matter that Chelsea Green
Speaker 1: is the champion. Chelsea Green gets a lot of television time.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Belt is better off on Chelsea. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, the Belt is probably better off on
Speaker 1: Chelsea anyway. I'm not even saying that was the wrong move.
Speaker 1: They already destroyed Julie. She's gonna need a massive reset now.
Speaker 1: The best thing to do with her is to get
Speaker 1: her off television for a while and make people forget
Speaker 1: this ever happened. And when you are ready to seriously
Speaker 1: push this woman and you have an idea in mind
Speaker 1: for her, then you bring her back. But if not,
Speaker 1: you know what, Send her back to NXT, because I
Speaker 1: can guarantee you Sean Michaels will know what to do
Speaker 1: with her. You want to rehab this woman, send her
Speaker 1: back down to NXT. Let her work with Jordan Grace,
Speaker 1: Let her work with blakeman Rowe, Let her work with
Speaker 1: sol Ruka and Zaria and Tatum Pasley and all these
Speaker 1: different women. But this entire run, both as the champion,
Speaker 1: even just in the moment she debuted on the main roster,
Speaker 1: has been in absolute disgrace. The MFTs were backstage solo
Speaker 1: Socoa told Tomatonga that they were going to bring the
Speaker 1: US title back into the family. He told Tala Tonga
Speaker 1: to go crush Ray Phoenix in their match tonight, and
Speaker 1: as the MFTs left, we saw the Wyat six emerged
Speaker 1: from the shadows, all but Bo Dallas. They were keeping
Speaker 1: a watchful eye on Solo's crew elsewhere. As Charlotte Flair
Speaker 1: and Alexa Bliss were recovering in the trainer's room, one
Speaker 1: of the trainers ran off to go grab some ice
Speaker 1: for Alexa's neck, and then we saw an arm reach
Speaker 1: into the camera shot with a bag of ice and
Speaker 1: they hand the bag of ice to Charlotte, who's using
Speaker 1: it on Alexa. Alexa looks up and she looks like
Speaker 1: she's seen a ghost. We can't see who the person
Speaker 1: is that she's staring at, but the camera pans back
Speaker 1: and we see it is Osca in her clown makeup,
Speaker 1: in her Kanna Murder clown makeup, dressed as a doctor,
Speaker 1: and she pulls down her face mask and she spews
Speaker 1: blue mist right in Charlotte's face, in Alexa's face, and
Speaker 1: then camera pans out we see Kyrie is with Osca,
Speaker 1: also dressed is like a nurse and they do a
Speaker 1: little dance and then they make their escape like a
Speaker 1: couple of anime villains. Now they're gonna be wrestling for
Speaker 1: the women's tag team titles on Raw this Monday, So
Speaker 1: that is what this was all about. And also I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're going to find themselves on opposite ends of
Speaker 1: the spectrum in wargames, right, they're gonna be in the match,
Speaker 1: They're going to be on opposing sides. I'm sure, Yes,
Speaker 1: Doctor Osca, this was not exactly Doctor Austin, but seeing
Speaker 1: Oscar on the show, I'll take it. It was brief,
Speaker 1: but I'll take it. We had Ray Phoenix against Talatonga,
Speaker 1: the MotorCity machine Guns and Shinsky Nakamore or they snuck
Speaker 1: up behind the MFTs and attacked them, so that even
Speaker 1: the odds for Phoenix, even the odds, I mean, as
Speaker 1: if he stood a chance. This was the David and
Speaker 1: Goliath match, and not a particularly good one Phoenix. When
Speaker 1: they left the room, that's what Oscar should have said. See,
Speaker 1: Kyrie should have been the last one out. It was
Speaker 1: a missed opportunity there for Oscar to yell Kyrie's name
Speaker 1: so that she follows her out of the room. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they didn't do that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: this was the David versus Goliath match, not very good.
Speaker 1: Phoenix did what he could. Phoenix's attempt at a sunset
Speaker 1: flip was halted by a huge uppercut. Phoenix avoided a
Speaker 1: big boot, He hit the Goodbye Amigo kick, and then
Speaker 1: he took Flight off the top with a crossbody for
Speaker 1: a near fall. Phoenix tried to go for a dive,
Speaker 1: Talatoga caught him for a choke slam and he got
Speaker 1: the win. After the match was over, Solo Sakoa tried
Speaker 1: to get Talatanga to choke slam Phoenix again. Sammy's ain
Speaker 1: ran down with a chair even though nick All just
Speaker 1: told him not to, and the two of them backed off.
Speaker 1: Kathy Kelly interviewed the Miz backstage and asked him about
Speaker 1: I don't know where Carmelo Hayes was this week, but
Speaker 1: evidently he wasn't there. So he asked him about Carmelo
Speaker 1: Hayes and you know, attacking him to get payback. Said
Speaker 1: it wasn't payback. He said he made Carmelo relevant, and
Speaker 1: he boasted that he beat John Cena in the main
Speaker 1: event of WrestleMania. He took offense to there even being
Speaker 1: a tournament. He said that Sena is fine, opponent was
Speaker 1: staring him right in the face. Mis said that everything
Speaker 1: Jay Usso does is a highlight, but highlights fade while
Speaker 1: legacies don't. Mis said that he would beat Jay and
Speaker 1: win the tournament. He said, the critics will cry and
Speaker 1: the Internet will whine, but the headline will read that
Speaker 1: he beat John Cena at WrestleMania and then ended his career.
Speaker 1: You know, I put nothing past these people. Would you
Speaker 1: be that shocked if they did John Cena versus the
Speaker 1: miz one final time? At this point, I don't know
Speaker 1: that it would even shock me. The main event was
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes's non title against Alister Black. Cody went for
Speaker 1: a disaster kick early. He was met by a kick instead,
Speaker 1: which took us to the final break of the evening.
Speaker 1: This I don't even think this was two minutes into
Speaker 1: the match. They went right back to a break in
Speaker 1: the corner. Later, Black attacked Cody with chops and a
Speaker 1: kick to the chest. Cody fought back with a running
Speaker 1: clothes line followed by a disaster kick for an earfall.
Speaker 1: Cody sized up Black for a crossroads, but he countered
Speaker 1: with a kick to the face, and then Black attempted
Speaker 1: a back suit plex, Cody avoided it, answered with a
Speaker 1: Cody cutter for another near fall. Cody set up for
Speaker 1: a bionic elbow. Black caught him with a kick and
Speaker 1: got a German suit plex into a bridge for a
Speaker 1: two count. Black showed frustration over not getting the pin.
Speaker 1: Both men then threw simultaneous kicks that left them both down.
Speaker 1: So at this point, now Drew McIntyre flies into the
Speaker 1: ring from out of nowhere and he wipes out the
Speaker 1: referee Dan Angler with a Claymore kick, and he's wearing
Speaker 1: all white. It's wearing like a white tank top. And
Speaker 1: obviously this ends the match, even though the referee is
Speaker 1: not conscious, so he is not able to call for
Speaker 1: the bell. He is not able to render his decision.
Speaker 1: But obviously this is a no content now and McIntyre
Speaker 1: is accosting the referee. He's out laying on the map,
Speaker 1: but he's like shaking him back and forth. He's saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you're Cody's friend. This is what happens when you're Cody's friend.
Speaker 1: Cody tackles McIntyre and Black ends up getting involved. He
Speaker 1: and McIntyre put the boots to Cody, so then Damian
Speaker 1: Priest music hits It's Wet by time. He even had
Speaker 1: his It's Wet by Time shirt on, except the sleeve
Speaker 1: was cut off. You go on wwe shop dot com
Speaker 1: though the shirt he wore tonight, it's on there. It's
Speaker 1: wet by time. So mister Waipa makes his way down
Speaker 1: to the ring. I guess he was just in the
Speaker 1: back all night long, just waiting for the right time,
Speaker 1: waiting for the right moment to come out and interject
Speaker 1: himself into this. But then Damian Priest fucked it all up,
Speaker 1: I guess, but he came out now went after the heels.
Speaker 1: Black eventually gouged at his eye, the burned eye. The
Speaker 1: priest was writhing around on the ground outside in pain.
Speaker 1: As Black and as Zelena van they fled through the
Speaker 1: timekeeper's area into the crowd in the ring. Cody hit
Speaker 1: McIntyre with a Cody cutter. Drew rolled out to the floor.
Speaker 1: So Nick all this comes out and he says, I've
Speaker 1: had it. Oh, I've had it too. But he says
Speaker 1: he's had it with McIntyre. He said he gives McIntyre
Speaker 1: an inch and he takes a mile. He then announced that,
Speaker 1: effective immediately, Drew McIntyre is suspended. McIntyre got up in
Speaker 1: his face and he's yelling over and over. Then my
Speaker 1: back is against the wall. My back is against the wall. Well,
Speaker 1: at least they did the no contest and they spared
Speaker 1: Alistair Black from taking the loss. They could have had
Speaker 1: Cody just straight up beat him, but instead they did
Speaker 1: the non decision. I wasn't expecting a clean finish anyhow.
Speaker 1: This was really just a matter of who was going
Speaker 1: to get involved first. Was it going to be Drew
Speaker 1: or was it going to be Damian Priest. You knew
Speaker 1: it was going to be one of the other or both.
Speaker 1: So it pretty much went the way that I expected
Speaker 1: it to. Drew is gonna end up getting reinstated, I
Speaker 1: think in short order. He still got a few weeks
Speaker 1: left to go until Survivor Series. My guess is that
Speaker 1: Drew is gonna get reinstated just in time for Survivor Series,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get one more shot at the WWE
Speaker 1: Championship because of Cody, not because Nick All this thinks
Speaker 1: he deserves it, but Cody is gonna, of course, Oh Nick,
Speaker 1: make it happen, Nick, right, So he's gonna get reinstated,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get his championship match one last time. That
Speaker 1: might even be the stipulation. You don't win now, you
Speaker 1: never get a shot so long as I'm champion. But
Speaker 1: you notice that in the main event, Drew laid out
Speaker 1: the referee and he's yelling at the referee. You're friends
Speaker 1: with Cody, friends with Cody, so he's had such a
Speaker 1: big issue with these referees. I could envision a scenario
Speaker 1: where Nick All disappoints a special guest referee, and that
Speaker 1: special guest referee ends up being Randy Orton, who of
Speaker 1: course is friends with Cody, which would not make McIntyre
Speaker 1: very happy. But sometimes, you know, Doth protests too loudly,
Speaker 1: and maybe it comes back to bite him on the ass.
Speaker 1: Because I'm still in my head trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how you get you know, Randy Orton involved here. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I mean. Look, maybe maybe we're going
Speaker 1: about this all wrong. I don't know why. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he's on an extended vacation, maybe he got deported. I
Speaker 1: don't know where the fuck this guy is but let's
Speaker 1: assume that he's going to have some kind of involvement
Speaker 1: in this. Maybe he's not wrestling, Maybe he's not wrestling,
Speaker 1: maybe he's officiating the match. But that was a thought
Speaker 1: that occurred to me when I saw what Drew did
Speaker 1: to Dan Engler at the end of that match. I
Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier. McIntyre has a pretty important role in
Speaker 1: this Highlander reboot that they're going to be filming, and
Speaker 1: they were supposed to begin filming in the fall, like
Speaker 1: right around now, and Henry Cavill, who I think is
Speaker 1: the main character in the movie, he got injured, so
Speaker 1: they pushed the filming back to early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's January. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's March. I don't know what early twenty twenty six means. McIntyre,
Speaker 1: I think plays his brother in the movie. So I
Speaker 1: don't even know if Drew's going to be around. I
Speaker 1: don't know what his schedule is going to be, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know when he flies off to go do
Speaker 1: filming and how that might impact things. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but that is something to keep in mind because he
Speaker 1: does have that movie coming up soon. But again, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. This show is completely devoid of any emotion.
Speaker 1: It is a soulless, empty husk that is in need
Speaker 1: of just a dire, dire makeover. I don't understand why
Speaker 1: they haven't done the transfer portal like they did last year,
Speaker 1: because this show, more than raw, is in dire need
Speaker 1: of a shakeup, really just all around, not even just
Speaker 1: the women, just in general. And you don't have to
Speaker 1: do a draft show. You just open up the transfer
Speaker 1: window for two or three months and you can move
Speaker 1: people around as you see fit. The fact that they
Speaker 1: haven't done that tells me that they don't think that
Speaker 1: there's really anything all that wrong with SmackDown. They may
Speaker 1: think that the women's division can use a little more depth,
Speaker 1: and so now we're getting lash legend. But those reports
Speaker 1: that came out a few weeks ago, I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure that they think SmackDown really does need that much help.
Speaker 1: I mean, they live in fantasy land, these people, where
Speaker 1: they can do no wrong and everything's great because business
Speaker 1: is booming, right. They don't need people to tell them
Speaker 1: how to run their show. They know everything right. They're
Speaker 1: the storytellers here, they're the puppet masters. Everything's great. I
Speaker 1: don't understand how the people who are writing this show
Speaker 1: and formatting this show and putting this show together every
Speaker 1: single week can honestly look at it and think, you
Speaker 1: know what, this is a great show. I'm proud of
Speaker 1: what I've put down on paper here for this show.
Speaker 1: This is awful. This is awful, boring, dull, lifeless television.
Speaker 1: And it does a disservice to every man and woman
Speaker 1: on that roster who goes out there every week. They
Speaker 1: fly to whatever city they're in. They just they do
Speaker 1: their job. They show up and they do what they're told,
Speaker 1: and it does a great disservice to them because they
Speaker 1: take it on the chin too. You know, when you
Speaker 1: have these bad shows, they get lumped in with everybody
Speaker 1: else and the stink ends up washing off on them.
Speaker 1: It's not even their fault. But this show is in Like,
Speaker 1: if this show is a human being, the family members
Speaker 1: and friends would be you know, kind of coming together
Speaker 1: to figure out, like, we need to do some sort
Speaker 1: of intervention here. Think of Christopher on the Sopranos. Okay,
Speaker 1: this show needs an intervention. That's what's smacked down needs.
Speaker 1: But in order to have an intervention, there has to
Speaker 1: be a recognition from the people in charge that this
Speaker 1: show has a problem in the first place, and I'm
Speaker 1: not convinced that they believe there is one. And until
Speaker 1: such time, this show is going to continue to exist.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to exist. I want this show to
Speaker 1: do more than just exist. I want this show to
Speaker 1: excite and inspire, inspire me to want to tune in
Speaker 1: the following Friday to see what's going to happen. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm waiting for as a viewer. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's too much to ask, but this show is awful.
Speaker 1: What did you think of SmackDown from Greenville? Thirty percent
Speaker 1: thumbs up, seventy percent thumbs down. You know it's bad
Speaker 1: when even the folks on Twitter are giving the WWE
Speaker 1: show thirty percent thumbs up. Like, if that doesn't tell
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know, I don't know what does.
Speaker 1: They generally tend to be a little kinder to these shows.
Speaker 1: Not so much tonight. I never thought I would sit
Speaker 1: here and say that we're back in the bad old days,
Speaker 1: but it feels like that every single week that goes
Speaker 1: by twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Here we are again. Scum
Speaker 1: Dog is gonna kick us off. We hit the bonus goal,
Speaker 1: by the way, ten out of ten on the bonus goal,
Speaker 1: we're still twenty five away from the main goal, where
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five likes. Let's shoot for at
Speaker 1: least four hundred. Then we could do double b the booker.
Speaker 1: That alone will make this stream better than SmackDown tonight.
Speaker 1: Scumdug four twenty wants to know worst Match and feud
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five John Cena and Cody Roads WrestleMania
Speaker 1: forty one, especially when you consider how big of a
Speaker 1: match it was that gets my vote for worst match.
Speaker 1: Holiday one ninety seven says Hi Solo. They need to
Speaker 1: split the judgment day and give Finn a babyface singles run.
Speaker 1: He should be traded to smack Down next year. But
Speaker 1: before that, a Punk versus Balor match would be good.
Speaker 1: They've never had a match before, Well, now's the time
Speaker 1: to do it. You could set Valor up for a
Speaker 1: championship match, even if it was just the TV match.
Speaker 1: You know sometime between now and early next year. Death
Speaker 1: Side WWE nine ninety nine has not aimed well, also
Speaker 1: liked your idea for the men's war games. So here's
Speaker 1: my pitch. The Vision, along with brock Lesner, Logan Paul,
Speaker 1: and a returning Austin Theory, take out the three guys
Speaker 1: who were supposed to join Punk and Roman once we
Speaker 1: get to Survivor series. After Punk and Roman come out,
Speaker 1: they are followed by Sena and the returning Hardy Boys
Speaker 1: since their TNA contracts expire this month. Yeah. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it would get a big pot, but the Hardies don't
Speaker 1: need to be in war games. It doesn't fit. I
Speaker 1: mean it just it would be so random. Sena at least,
Speaker 1: like he's never been in wargames. You want him to
Speaker 1: wrestle at Survivor series because it would be so fucking
Speaker 1: lame for him to show up and not wrestle. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, my idea was, if you want to get
Speaker 1: Seena in wargames, the best way to do it is
Speaker 1: a week or two before the pay per view. You know,
Speaker 1: you have the vision, takeout one of the babyfaces that's
Speaker 1: already been announced. They're down a man, and then you
Speaker 1: know Booms seen his music hits or I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess he's not going to be on TV. So however
Speaker 1: they make the announcement, John Cena gets that spot, and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they do save that as a surprise announcement
Speaker 1: for the show. You know, last year or two years ago,
Speaker 1: they decided to let everybody know in advance that Randy
Speaker 1: Orton was going to be on the Babyface Squad? Would
Speaker 1: he show up? I think with Sina you could. You
Speaker 1: could save that as a surprise where they show up
Speaker 1: that night they're down a man. Right, scene has already
Speaker 1: been advertised for the show. People can sort of figure out,
Speaker 1: like who it's probably going to be, but it'll get
Speaker 1: a big pop when they hit his music and he
Speaker 1: comes out. You may as well save it as a surprise,
Speaker 1: because if you don't have Sena on TV before Survivor series,
Speaker 1: I mean you do on the tenth and the seventeenth,
Speaker 1: but like the week before, he's not going to be there.
Speaker 1: You could do that. You could do that either way though,
Speaker 1: whether you announced in advance or you save it as
Speaker 1: a surprise, it would be fairly easy to work him
Speaker 1: into that match. Dev to Dust. Tim Duncan was the
Speaker 1: Bret Hart of basketball. His nickname was the Big Fundamental.
Speaker 1: It's kind of similar to the excellence of execution. Both
Speaker 1: guys styles weren't flashy, but they got the job done. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it is Tim Duncan, the goat, and you know
Speaker 1: who gave him that nickname, the excellence of execution guerrilla Monson.
Speaker 1: Holliday says, I fear they've ruined Julia's push. What push, Holliday?
Speaker 1: What push are you referring to? There was never a push.
Speaker 1: Don't let the belt fool you. There was never a push.
Speaker 1: There was a push right into the abyss. You know,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the stream you see green Man
Speaker 1: struggling not to fall into the hole. They gave her
Speaker 1: a push right into the hole. He says. She should
Speaker 1: never have been strapped with the US belts so quickly,
Speaker 1: without a plan or any feuds. Also, I'm hoping Drew
Speaker 1: wins its Survivor series. Why else continued the Cody and
Speaker 1: Drew program. Sure, they do the match. It would be
Speaker 1: nice to see him win, but at this point, I
Speaker 1: don't even give a shit. Brole seven says, so far
Speaker 1: eight participants and seven of them are in their forties.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about the John Cena tournament? Well, priest
Speaker 1: is forty. Seamus is what forty six, Knakamora has got
Speaker 1: to be in his forties, Misses in his forties. Jay
Speaker 1: Usso is probably forty ish, like Day one Ish La
Speaker 1: Night is forty two. It's about right, though, I mean
Speaker 1: for a tournament to wrestle John Cena, who's forty eight.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they'll they'll have to get some young'ins in there, though,
Speaker 1: can't all be the old dudes dev to Does Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon hate New Jersey? It feels like every time they
Speaker 1: go there he brands it as the shadow of New
Speaker 1: York or the New York New Jersey area, Yes, because
Speaker 1: everything is just it's in the frame of New York.
Speaker 1: New York is bright lights and big time. New York
Speaker 1: was always like their home based, even though they're based
Speaker 1: out of Connecticut, so New Jersey was always viewed as
Speaker 1: less than death Side looks like we're getting Cody Drew
Speaker 1: Black Priest in a fatal four way at Survivor Series. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: what the hell is the point of running back Cody
Speaker 1: and Drew and Black and Priest? Well, because Black and
Speaker 1: Priests are going to have another match, even though they
Speaker 1: already had a last man standing match, They're going to
Speaker 1: continue to work together, and right now Drew is suspended,
Speaker 1: so we don't know, we don't know when he'll be reinstated,
Speaker 1: know when we're going to see him again. Back on
Speaker 1: TV we got Brolly seven who thought having Julia work
Speaker 1: with fucking befabs Zelina and Meetchen would make her get over.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the same for Soul and Jordan.
Speaker 1: Being sent to SmackDown is death right now. It is. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to believe it'll be any different, but
Speaker 1: I do think that it will be a little bit
Speaker 1: easier because their promo ability is going to just it's
Speaker 1: going to be better than Julia because for Julia, this
Speaker 1: is not her first language, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: more of a struggle for her than it would be
Speaker 1: for them. So that's the only real big difference I
Speaker 1: would say between them, because they're all great wrestlers, like
Speaker 1: in ring is not the issue, super Pony. Did you
Speaker 1: see Kevin Owen's post on X of him training at
Speaker 1: the PC. Does this mean he's coming back? This show
Speaker 1: desperately needs something. I hope he's eventually able to come back,
Speaker 1: but no, that does not mean he is on his
Speaker 1: way back. He had next surgery. He is not on
Speaker 1: his way back. I think the earliest that we might
Speaker 1: possibly see him back is around WrestleMania time, and I
Speaker 1: doubt he would even be ready for WrestleMania. But I mean,
Speaker 1: what am I saying if he had surgery in July
Speaker 1: unless it ended up being not as serious as we
Speaker 1: were led to believe. I mean, with WW, you never know.
Speaker 1: But he had surgery in July. Remember, they had to
Speaker 1: put the surgery off for months because of swelling. They
Speaker 1: were waiting and waiting and waiting. So that's usually a year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's not coming back anytime soon, dude. Just
Speaker 1: because he posted that clip does not mean that his
Speaker 1: return is imminent. Unfortunately, I wish it was, but we're
Speaker 1: not going to see him for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Doctor Scorpio looking forward to the new HG National title.
Speaker 1: I'm still pissed they stole our Crown Jewel Championship idea.
Speaker 1: We had the Crown Jewel title long before they did
Speaker 1: Misfit Wrestling podcast. Hey Solo, what do you think about
Speaker 1: Drew against all this at WrestleMania in Vegas? Feels like
Speaker 1: they are building towards that. Yeah, it doesn't really do
Speaker 1: much for me. I mean, it would be a huge
Speaker 1: downgrade for Drew. I mean, look, I felt the same
Speaker 1: way about Randy Orton, where I was convinced it was
Speaker 1: building to a match maybe with Borton and all this,
Speaker 1: and it never happened. I don't think they want to
Speaker 1: see all this in the ring. I'm not saying it'll
Speaker 1: never happen. I'm sure at some point he'll have a match,
Speaker 1: but they I don't think they want to see. They
Speaker 1: didn't hire Nick Alldis as a wrestler. They hired him
Speaker 1: to do something other than that. Nick All this was
Speaker 1: someone they could have signed years ago. They had no interest.
Speaker 1: If they had interest, they would have brought him in.
Speaker 1: So he does a great job as the GM. I'm
Speaker 1: sure if he wanted to get back in the ring,
Speaker 1: he can get back in the ring and he would
Speaker 1: look just fine. But I don't get the impression WWE
Speaker 1: is interested in him for that reason, because if they were,
Speaker 1: we would have seen him wrestling a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Scum Doug, which town would you hate to get a
Speaker 1: flat tire in Raccoon City from Resident Evil or Silent Hill?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to get a flat tire in either
Speaker 1: one of them a xsc shoutout, brother, good to have
Speaker 1: you with us, but scum Doug. If I had to choose,
Speaker 1: I'd probably I'd probably choose Raccoon City is the one
Speaker 1: I would not want to get a flat tyrant, Alex
Speaker 1: says brother solo. It's gotten to the point where you
Speaker 1: need to start looking after your mental health because we
Speaker 1: are concerned that this show is absolutely repugnant and revolting. Now,
Speaker 1: it's just it's more disappointing than anything else. I said.
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Speaker 1: to restructure these part time contracts. Losing interest in Orton
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Speaker 1: worked for Brock. That's another issue right now in WWE,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of people who are very, very
Speaker 1: part time, and so you feel the pain on these shows,
Speaker 1: especially on SmackDown, because they have done a very poor
Speaker 1: job of building up other people to get to that
Speaker 1: same level. So when those people are out of the picture,
Speaker 1: when Roman Reign isn't around, Randy Orton isn't around, Brock,
Speaker 1: I mean, Brock wasn't around for two years, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But even Brock. You know, they bring Brock
Speaker 1: back at SummerSlam, we don't see him again for weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks. He wrestles one match and then
Speaker 1: he disappears, and so then you end up with these
Speaker 1: shows where you have this hole at the very top
Speaker 1: where your main eventers. It's very even Cody, Cody. You
Speaker 1: had a movie, right, so Cody vanished for like a month.
Speaker 1: Drew has a movie coming up. He's going to disappear
Speaker 1: also for many, many weeks. Great for them, I'm glad
Speaker 1: they have all these opportunities, But as a viewer when
Speaker 1: it comes to these weekly shows, because they have done
Speaker 1: such a poor job of building up other people on
Speaker 1: the show, you feel their absence that much more. Arabian
Speaker 1: Night two thousand, Julia should have gone to a w
Speaker 1: with her bestie Tekla. Her strength is her in ring
Speaker 1: to objectively. AW would showcase her strong style more. She
Speaker 1: had so much hype fuck Triple H. I think Julia
Speaker 1: would have done well in AW. I'm trying to, like
Speaker 1: in my head figure out where she would be right
Speaker 1: now in the pecking order there. I still feel like
Speaker 1: she would be in a spot that would be very
Speaker 1: unsatisfying to a lot of people because they do have
Speaker 1: a lot of very talented women on that roster, but
Speaker 1: they probably would have done a better job with her
Speaker 1: than Triple H is doing right now. I think you're
Speaker 1: right about that. Boots does all this add himself in
Speaker 1: the tournament? Or is that what we're gonna find out?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine La Night comes out next week, he's
Speaker 1: waiting for his opponent, Nicko All this comes out and
Speaker 1: your opponent is and that he takes jacket off and
Speaker 1: he's got his fucking gear on underneath, and it's nick
Speaker 1: Aldus and then nick All this beats La Night like
Speaker 1: everybody else does. Nick All, this beats La Night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could totally see that, GMB. Why is Triple H
Speaker 1: afraid of Priest losing a feud? I don't know, But
Speaker 1: you know, Damian Priest on SmackDown is a different person
Speaker 1: than the one we saw on Raw. When he was
Speaker 1: in the judgment day and even in the immediate aftermath
Speaker 1: of him leaving the Judgment day, he was super over
Speaker 1: and ever since they moved him over to SmackDown then
Speaker 1: he has been pretty cold. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: ice cold, but he's been pretty cold, and they still
Speaker 1: after all these months, they have yet to really get
Speaker 1: him going on this show. I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: the crowd just feels indifferent towards him. They really need
Speaker 1: a guy like him him to be in that position
Speaker 1: where he could be one of the top players on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: I don't think people see him as that yet. I
Speaker 1: don't think they've taken to him in that way. But
Speaker 1: if you remember, like after he left the Judgment day
Speaker 1: and he was kind of still feuding with them, and
Speaker 1: Rhea had also left, so it was like Priest and
Speaker 1: Rhea like the reactions they were getting from those live crowds,
Speaker 1: they were super over. I mean, Rhea is still super over,
Speaker 1: but he's not getting those reactions on SmackDown. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it's not wet by time for Damian Priest. His star
Speaker 1: has fallen. Lakers Pat says sceneas should wear his debut
Speaker 1: gear for his last match. No, he should. He has
Speaker 1: said that this is going to be the last time
Speaker 1: you will never see him again ever. In the jorts,
Speaker 1: you know, the hat, the T shirt coming out to
Speaker 1: the ring. You can't deprive people of that one last time.
Speaker 1: There's a certain image of John scene that they have,
Speaker 1: and in his final match, you owe it to the
Speaker 1: fans to give them that image of John scene, the
Speaker 1: people who would remember even what he looked like in
Speaker 1: his debut twenty three years ago, like most people aren't
Speaker 1: even gonna remember. Most people probably weren't even watching at
Speaker 1: that time that are watching right now, Fried Chicken. The
Speaker 1: entire WWE creative should be arrested tonight for how they
Speaker 1: handled Julia. The word boring should not be near Julia whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Now disagree, bas beers, Macho Monster needs to hold the
Speaker 1: winged eagle next time. We will try to remember that
Speaker 1: for next time. You'll have to remind me. I have
Speaker 1: a winged eagle, not even the one on the wall.
Speaker 1: I have a white one. But it's like twelve poundses,
Speaker 1: so can't I can't hold that for the entire stream.
Speaker 1: We got Phil my first ever super chat here on
Speaker 1: the channel. Look at that, and it's a nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine drop. Look at that he's dropping in in style.
Speaker 1: SmackDown sucks. Thank god for your reviews, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and then I'll get comments from people. Well, and you'll
Speaker 1: see there'll be some WWE like diehards who were like well,
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, then don't watch SmackDown's great.
Speaker 1: You're just a hater. And what these people don't understand
Speaker 1: is that all that does is it just it makes
Speaker 1: me want to watch it even more, just to piss
Speaker 1: them off, Like they don't understand, Like my job here,
Speaker 1: part of my job is to watch the show and
Speaker 1: come on here and hang out with you and talk
Speaker 1: about the show. It doesn't matter if the show is great.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if the show's garbage, right, I's it
Speaker 1: could be, it could be anything. But it's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: if you don't like the show, why are you watching? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Why would I be watching this show? Gee?
Speaker 1: I wonder what could the reason be? I could think
Speaker 1: of two reasons, you know. Number one, I'm a fan
Speaker 1: who wants to see the show get better and is
Speaker 1: hoping week to week that maybe by chance I'll tune
Speaker 1: in and it'll actually be a good episode. And also, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have a fucking show that I do.
Speaker 1: But thank you, Phil dry Chicken says, turn Julia babyface
Speaker 1: they killed the heel run. Lol, dude, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They could turn her baby face. They can keep her heel.
Speaker 1: If they don't have any kind of serious plans for her,
Speaker 1: send her back to NXT. Send her back to NXT
Speaker 1: before it's too late, because the longer she stays on
Speaker 1: SmackDown and she's just sort of a background player, that's
Speaker 1: how people are gonna see her, and it's gonna be very,
Speaker 1: very hard for her to break out of that. You know, Either,
Speaker 1: you see Brie still has the flu, So either pull
Speaker 1: your head out of your fucking ass and figure out
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do with this woman fast and come
Speaker 1: up with a battle plan for her, or give her
Speaker 1: back to Shawn Michaels and let Shawn Michaels take take
Speaker 1: the reins from here before it's too late. Boots says,
Speaker 1: have you checked out Powerwash Simulator two? Very relaxing game? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: where would one play this game? I've never even heard
Speaker 1: of that Powerwash Simulator two. I'll look into it. I
Speaker 1: could use something relaxing. After the show tonight, Dry Chicken says,
Speaker 1: AEW cannot beat WWE, WWE cannot kill a W So
Speaker 1: both companies actually really need each other. Don't tell that
Speaker 1: to the Sikos on both sides. I think their heads
Speaker 1: might explode bass beers. Would they have Jade squash Charlotte,
Speaker 1: no doctor Scorpio truth All This segment sounds worse with
Speaker 1: just audio. Yeah, it was, uh their version of comedy.
Speaker 1: What can I say? Their version of comedy? What great
Speaker 1: writing they have bass beers. The RTC censored Charlotte's wardrobe malfunction. Seriously,
Speaker 1: they blacked out the screen like at least three times
Speaker 1: she was busting. Was busting tonight, Phil, Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to check out that brimde thing. Man. She she's
Speaker 1: been sick all week. She sounded awful on Monday too
Speaker 1: when she popped up. You know, you know what brimode is.
Speaker 1: When she gets into bre mode, she's you know, like
Speaker 1: blackout drunk. So she's been Yeah, she's been puking in
Speaker 1: the corner. She's been puking in the bathroom. It's been awful.
Speaker 1: I told her to drink water, but she just doesn't listen. Phil,
Speaker 1: with another nine ninety nine, says buy sell or rent
Speaker 1: Julia Live Morgan or Stephanie Viquer Julia right now, sell.
Speaker 1: We're going by them right now at the moment, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to sell Julia. Unfortunately, I'm gonna buy on Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. I'll buy on Stephanie, but like
Speaker 1: character wise, I would have to go and live. But
Speaker 1: if we're talking about kind of everything together, I'll go
Speaker 1: Stephanie live and then Julia. We got Hank Hank shanasky?
Speaker 1: Will you review Juggalo Championship Wrestling on November twenty seven?
Speaker 1: Will I review JCW on Thanksgiving night? I'll be busy
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving night? Will I review it on the sound
Speaker 1: off that weekend? Possibly? I know that's the first episode
Speaker 1: of JCW where Vince Russo pops up as an on
Speaker 1: screen character, or maybe not a character, he just pops
Speaker 1: up on screen. Can it be any worse than SmackDown?
Speaker 1: At what point do we replace smacked Down with the
Speaker 1: JCW reviews? That's how bad it's getting. I'm entertaining the idea.
Speaker 1: Braley seven says, Remember EO didn't wrestle for two months
Speaker 1: while champion. Oh I remember, I haven't forgotten. I remember,
Speaker 1: and remember Stephanie disappeared from television. Also, I know she
Speaker 1: had an illness later on, but that didn't account for
Speaker 1: why she vanished for like a month after she won
Speaker 1: that battle Royal at Evolution, Dried Chicken says, I said
Speaker 1: it before and I'll say it again. Bruce Pritchard, Michael
Speaker 1: Hayes and Rode Doug goodbye. After wrestle Mania forty two,
Speaker 1: send Triple H on a six month paid vacation, not fired,
Speaker 1: Send him away, Let Cody run creative. So let's give
Speaker 1: the world champion even more work to do. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a very wise idea red emissary of darkness
Speaker 1: for fuck's sake, I don't want to watch a match
Speaker 1: between MS and jizz Uso. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: watch jiz Uso either. I don't know why anybody would
Speaker 1: And gives a whole other meaning to the word yeat
Speaker 1: Phil Tony Kahan poops standing up and Triple HP sitting
Speaker 1: down right. Thank you, Phil bes beers three years today,
Speaker 1: since Theory had the worst money in the bank cashing,
Speaker 1: I was definite the US title. Yeah Theory another one,
Speaker 1: another one ruined by the creative team. Boots with a
Speaker 1: ten showing some love, Thank you, Boots, Jeremy rose Man.
Speaker 1: They carrying crossed, Julia, how do you look so dominant
Speaker 1: in NXT? And then book them like a joke man,
Speaker 1: Rebuilding her is gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard,
Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. I just don't trust them to
Speaker 1: do the right thing. If they knew what they were
Speaker 1: doing with her, they would have done it by now.
Speaker 1: Leopoldo can Road Doug and Shawn Michael's switch spots seriously
Speaker 1: asking I don't think Shawn Michaels wants that spot. I
Speaker 1: think he's very content to be, you know, the kind
Speaker 1: of the grandfather of NXT. Those are his kids. He
Speaker 1: sends them out into the world. As we're finding out,
Speaker 1: the world can be a very nasty place. But I
Speaker 1: genuinely think he's very happy and content where he is. Hey,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind the switch. I watch more of SmackDown
Speaker 1: than I watch NXT. It might not be good for NXT.
Speaker 1: I would take Seawn Michaels on SmackDown. Sure, Phil says
Speaker 1: road Dog eats corn the long way. He used to
Speaker 1: have corn rows in his hair. Now he has no hair.
Speaker 1: The sheltered kid. This episode ruined my birthday today. Oh man, Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully this stream helped pep you up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we helped restore some of that good birthday feeling,
Speaker 1: Jeremy says prediction WrestleMania Talatanga versus Omas. Omas is a
Speaker 1: good dude. I saw Omas started a one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: monthly recurring donation to Ridge Hollands Go fundme, as did
Speaker 1: Chelsea Green Boots with the fifty dollars Happy Birthday to
Speaker 1: the sheltered Kit. You see that, You see sheltered kid.
Speaker 1: You got everybody rallying behind you here in the chat.
Speaker 1: We're all here to celebrate your birthday with you. We
Speaker 1: got your back even when WWE doesn't. Holiday one ninety
Speaker 1: seven thoughts on reports that WWE are or will be
Speaker 1: using AI to write storylines. That is a fake report.
Speaker 1: They are not using AI to write storylines. They use
Speaker 1: AI for other reasons, but not to actually storyline. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they won't in the future, but that is not true.
Speaker 1: Although I'll tell you all watching this show every week,
Speaker 1: maybe that wouldn't be such a terrible idea. We got
Speaker 1: sick Mundis five dollars. Super Chat says Solo. If Phil
Speaker 1: drops the World Heavyweight Championship before wrestle Mania, do you
Speaker 1: see him winning the elimination Chamber some redemption for how
Speaker 1: he lost at the last one, and do you see
Speaker 1: him facing a heel Cody. I don't. I would love
Speaker 1: the punk Cody program. I think the promos would be good.
Speaker 1: The match we haven't gotten if he drops the championship
Speaker 1: before Mania, though, I could definitely see him winning the
Speaker 1: Chamber because it is in Chicago at the end of February.
Speaker 1: But like him wrestling a heel Cody, I don't see
Speaker 1: Cody going heel before WrestleMania. Base Bearris Vato solo. I
Speaker 1: already forgot what the pronunciation of that second half is.
Speaker 1: I know you guys told me, and I already forgot it,
Speaker 1: So I'm not even gonna attempt to say it because
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna say it the wrong way. Paul
Speaker 1: Carpenter Sena versus Miss twenty twenty five book it won
Speaker 1: last time? No, nope, uh sick mundus. How hilarious and
Speaker 1: sad would it be if all this is surprised is
Speaker 1: just Walter's return in the La Night losing train continues, Well,
Speaker 1: that's right. I mean, at some point Gunther is gonna
Speaker 1: have to be announced in this tournament. Well, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we all know who's winning the match if it ends
Speaker 1: up being him, so would you be shocked if they
Speaker 1: bounced La Night out of the opening room. Bobby means,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that lash Legend is on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: She is a new face in that division. If I'm
Speaker 1: booking Julia, I would send her to Raw and Rhea
Speaker 1: to SmackDown. I don't care, you know, at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't care where you send Julia, but she's got
Speaker 1: to get off SmackDown. I mean, I say, NXT just
Speaker 1: because you move her to Raw, it's the same generally speaking,
Speaker 1: it's the same fucking people writing for these shows. I
Speaker 1: know the women's division is in a better position on
Speaker 1: Monday nights. You know, she had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a partnership going on with her in Roxanne when she
Speaker 1: first showed up on the main roster. That was, you know,
Speaker 1: doing okay, and then they split them up. Sick Munda says,
Speaker 1: he stole Walter. To me, damn it, he is whatever
Speaker 1: you want him to be. See, he's not really anymore
Speaker 1: than because when I think of Walter, I associate him
Speaker 1: with like fat Walter. And now of course he's you know,
Speaker 1: slimmed down and he's lean, and he changed his whole physique.
Speaker 1: That's Gunther Walter was the big boy who would go
Speaker 1: in there and chop the shit out of people. He
Speaker 1: was a little more intimidating in the Walter days. Leopoldo says, ouch,
Speaker 1: maybe WWE should let Ai write stories. Well, like I said,
Speaker 1: maybe that wouldn't be such a terrible idea. We keep
Speaker 1: getting shows like this. Maybe not see we got here,
Speaker 1: do a little refresh here we go misstic j forty four.
Speaker 1: Maybe Julia was better off staying in Marigold. Now, I
Speaker 1: mean in Marigold, you know, where does she go from there?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean I was excited to see her
Speaker 1: eventually come to the States and come to WWE, because
Speaker 1: I always felt like, man, this this woman could really
Speaker 1: be marketable here, like she's gonna be a star. But
Speaker 1: in Marigold it's like whatever, She's kind of like a
Speaker 1: big fish in a small pond over there. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's Winkie with a two dollars super chair. Ruthless Depression
Speaker 1: era of SmackDown has begun. I like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that we may have to
Speaker 1: start calling it the ruthless Depression era. I think you're
Speaker 1: onto something here. Arabian Night two thousand. Now would be
Speaker 1: a good time to split the profits. Yeah, I forgot
Speaker 1: all about them. They haven't even been on the show.
Speaker 1: I completely forgot about the street robits Eli. Yesterday marks
Speaker 1: twenty five years of Jr's iconic quote, why Triple H?
Speaker 1: Tell me why? When Triple H reveals as the mastermind
Speaker 1: behind Rakishi's or RAKESHI running over Stone Cold. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's not as good as his rant on Triple H
Speaker 1: after he hit Seawn Michaels with the sledgehammer at SummerSlam
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. He really goes in on
Speaker 1: him after that, calls him a son of a bitch.
Speaker 1: Leopoldo love you, dev but Brett's excellence never put me
Speaker 1: to sleep, unliked Tim Duncan mac tub If you had
Speaker 1: a guess, why do you think Triple H hates La Knight?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he just said something backstage that
Speaker 1: rubbed him the wrong way. I mean, it could be
Speaker 1: any number of things. It could be any number of things.
Speaker 1: I can't get in the man's head. Arabian Night La
Speaker 1: about to lose again next week? What the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on Triple H? Maybe he uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he pissed in his corn flakes or something. Duffs
Speaker 1: it is, why can't crabs cross the road? It can
Speaker 1: only use the sidewalk? And what do you call cow's knees?
Speaker 1: Burger joints Duffs with the jokes Matt Fisher with a
Speaker 1: twelve dollars learn supporting the channel. I love to see
Speaker 1: it actually, and then at twenty five dollars re mode,
Speaker 1: look at this guy showing all the love tonight we
Speaker 1: are celebrating eighteen years of the sound of All November Long.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that man Duffs VIDs A horse walks into
Speaker 1: the bar. The bartender says hey, the horse replies, yes please.
Speaker 1: I thought the joke was going to be a horse
Speaker 1: walks into the bar. The bartender says, hey, are you okay?
Speaker 1: But I guess yours is better. Mactub. How highly do
Speaker 1: you rate Kurt overall? I think he's insanely complete, but
Speaker 1: lacks the star power to be top five ever Kurt
Speaker 1: or Triple H Kurt or HBK Kurt or Taker. I
Speaker 1: rank Kurt above them all except Sean. I think Kurt
Speaker 1: is great. I think Kurt is is like the total
Speaker 1: package as far as a professional wrestler. He didn't have
Speaker 1: the size that some guys have, but neither did Brett,
Speaker 1: neither did Sean, neither did Flair. Flair wasn't a terribly
Speaker 1: large guy. Yeah, but I mean what was Kurt? Though
Speaker 1: Kurt was probably was he even six feet I mean
Speaker 1: that might be the only mark against him, honestly. I
Speaker 1: mean he could do it all. He could work, He
Speaker 1: could switch between babyface and heel, serious and comedic. I
Speaker 1: mean the comedic shit. He had that down from day one.
Speaker 1: He was entertaining as all hell. I rate Kurt very,
Speaker 1: very highly. I don't have Kurt, you know, at the
Speaker 1: level of peak Austin or peak Hogan as far as
Speaker 1: like star power, but he as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: he's right up there with the names like Brett Hart
Speaker 1: and Shawn Michaels. The only other thing about Kurt you
Speaker 1: could say, like in WWE, his run, he didn't have
Speaker 1: the longevity that some of the bigger stars had. He
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it's still it just boggles my
Speaker 1: mind that his run in TNA was longer than his
Speaker 1: run at least his original run in WWE. That is
Speaker 1: just that will never not be wild to me, kurt
Speaker 1: is six foot even okay, Jake Hey Solo will catch
Speaker 1: up later. Rarely awake to donate, but forgot to turn
Speaker 1: my alarm clock off and was awoken at five am.
Speaker 1: Happy eighteenth anniversary to the soundof thank you, Jake, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Jeremy rose Thing. Vince tells Triple Ah to
Speaker 1: the products. I don't know how much they speak. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they speak. I don't think Vince McMahon, of all people,
Speaker 1: is anybody to tell anybody else that the show sucks,
Speaker 1: because for the most part the last oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: decade of his run there, the show is pretty fucking bad.
Speaker 1: Vince lost the magic touch a long time ago. He's
Speaker 1: not really in a position to be telling anybody that
Speaker 1: creatively the show sucks. It's like pot meat kettle Retro
Speaker 1: says bre Mode has been hanging out with Adam Pears.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're drinking buddies. At least Adam can hold
Speaker 1: his liquor. Brad Hard, haven't you thought about live streaming
Speaker 1: gaming content and just chill with us one day, at
Speaker 1: least with the channels members only. I've thought about it. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of finding time to do it. I'm
Speaker 1: working on other stuff right now that you guys haven't
Speaker 1: even seen yet, but we should do something like that
Speaker 1: one day. Phil with the nine ninety nine did you
Speaker 1: know Jackie Chan was off for the role of Simon
Speaker 1: Phoenix Wesley Snipes part, but he turned it down because
Speaker 1: he didn't want to play a villain in Demolition Man? Interesting?
Speaker 1: When did Demolition Man come out? Wasn't that like ninety
Speaker 1: three or something that was pretty early on in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Giro Sanchez, Hi, Roe, and I need to change my photo.
Speaker 1: That's a teen I'm twenty seven now. I've been listening
Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen on TV tracks. Always watched now, but
Speaker 1: lately been watching live. That's the best time to watch.
Speaker 1: That way you can get in on the action. Thank you, bro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even notice, Like in the screen I'm looking at,
Speaker 1: the avatar is very very small. So Devin from New
Speaker 1: Jersey buyer cell metalingis or cult of personality? Cult of personality?
Speaker 1: Phil with a nine, I mean Phil is running wild
Speaker 1: tonight Man says Solo Monster. I used your express VPN
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Speaker 1: worth it. One of the services I pay for. I
Speaker 1: use it every single week. I used it tonight. I
Speaker 1: watched SmackDown tonight on Netflix. That way I could see
Speaker 1: the matches during the commercials, so I got to see
Speaker 1: the US Open Challenge stuff and everything. Because yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: in these matches go to break like a minute in
Speaker 1: and it interrupts the flow of the match. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Knight and Drew need to channel Brett ninety seven. Dude,
Speaker 1: have you been watching the shows? Like That's all Drew
Speaker 1: has been doing. He's been talking about how much he's
Speaker 1: been screwed. He's like a Lady of the Night. He's
Speaker 1: been screwed so often and he gets paid for it.
Speaker 1: Broley says, imagine if Triple H booked the Attitude era. Oh,
Speaker 1: we know who the champion, we know who all the
Speaker 1: champions would be back in that. You want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Triple H of the attitude era and the
Speaker 1: ruthless aggression era. Oh boy, you think they are bad? Now,
Speaker 1: I can tell you who all the champions would be.
Speaker 1: I love how everybody is like being. There are people
Speaker 1: who are being very like, oh, it's okay, Like GTA six,
Speaker 1: we just want them to make sure they put a
Speaker 1: good game at as long as they work at all
Speaker 1: the kinks, and it's all about making sure the game
Speaker 1: is good, So I'm okay with it. Like, there are
Speaker 1: people who played GTA five and in the time since
Speaker 1: the last game came out, like, they've gotten married, they've
Speaker 1: had kids. You know, they had some terrible illness, they
Speaker 1: beat it, they're in remission. They got there starting a
Speaker 1: whole new life. Now they got divorced, their kids graduated college.
Speaker 1: These people will die of natural causes before GTA six
Speaker 1: comes out. How is that a good thing? You people
Speaker 1: are very patient. I personally don't give a shit, but
Speaker 1: I don't have any of those current modern consoles, so
Speaker 1: I won't be buying it. You're a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot more patient than I would be. Joseph Brooks with
Speaker 1: the nine ninety nine. I know, those Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Speaker 1: awards are just one's opinion. But I saw that the
Speaker 1: winner of nineteen ninety five's Worst Gimmick was gold dust.
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that gold dust was worse
Speaker 1: than a fucking hockey player, garbage men, and man tar Well.
Speaker 1: I think what he was talking about or going for
Speaker 1: at the time was in the early days of the
Speaker 1: gold dust gimmick, you know, there were a lot of
Speaker 1: homosexual overtones to it, to the point where it felt exploitative.
Speaker 1: That's why it won for Worst Gimmick. It's like years
Speaker 1: later when Goldust was doing the silly comedy gimmick where
Speaker 1: he had Tourette syndrome, but he would never say it
Speaker 1: was turets. He was on the Howard Stern Show once
Speaker 1: and they're like, you have Tourett's and they're laughing about it,
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, no, no, I don't have tourets.
Speaker 1: It's a neurological condition. Like okay, sure. The Sheriff of
Speaker 1: Patties hearing that you're giving us some new content soon
Speaker 1: has me excited. Sound of Gamer and rspw rewind are
Speaker 1: my favorites. See with the Hog Show in Chicago, I
Speaker 1: will be there as long as my flight doesn't get canceled.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get very worried if things don't kind
Speaker 1: of get back to normal in the next like seven
Speaker 1: to ten days. Still got two weeks left. I fly
Speaker 1: out on November twenty first, the week before Thanksgiving. But
Speaker 1: every day that goes by, they're canceling more and more flights.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get a little worried. But otherwise I'll
Speaker 1: be there. I'll see you there. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: rspw re want. I'm gonna I'm gonna set a good
Speaker 1: super check goal, probably on the show next week, maybe
Speaker 1: on Monday. If we hit that goal, we may have
Speaker 1: to bring back rspwe one. You may have to do
Speaker 1: a new installment. It's been three years. It's been too long.
Speaker 1: Because I got some posts, I got some links, I
Speaker 1: just haven't gotten around to it. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to set a goal next week, and then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be up to you guys. We hit that goal,
Speaker 1: you'll get it. Fill with the nine to ninety nine
Speaker 1: Solomn Monster. You ever use a wrestling T shirt at
Speaker 1: the gym and ever get complimented? I have, actually funny
Speaker 1: enough a few different times. I actually wore a sound
Speaker 1: off shirt to the gym once and somebody recognized me.
Speaker 1: That is a few people at the gym that I
Speaker 1: go to who are fans of the show that have
Speaker 1: come over, So that's cool. But yeah, I've worn I've
Speaker 1: worn some wrestling shirts of old ones too, like Austin shirts.
Speaker 1: The newer shirts don't get much of a reaction because
Speaker 1: wrestling now is not nearly as cool as he used
Speaker 1: to be back then. But I've gotten some reactions. Joseph
Speaker 1: Cheris cheris cherish, keep, borrow sell on these versions of
Speaker 1: DX OG ninety seven to ninety eight, ninety eight to
Speaker 1: ninety nine, which is the DX Army ninety nine to
Speaker 1: two thousand, the Mcmahonhelmsley regime, and the Reunion No. Six.
Speaker 1: I hated the reunion of No. Six, so that goes
Speaker 1: way at the bottom of the list. My favorite version,
Speaker 1: the best incarnation of DX was that ninety eight version
Speaker 1: ninety eight to ninety nine, funny enough, the one that
Speaker 1: Triple H took over the night after WRESTLEMANI at fourteen.
Speaker 1: That one is cherish. That one is the best version.
Speaker 1: Number two would be the original, so that'll be the
Speaker 1: keep and then the borrow would be the Mcmahnhelmsley version,
Speaker 1: but six. To me, it was just such a watered
Speaker 1: down version of what the original was. I just didn't
Speaker 1: like it. Then the glow sticks. They had to market
Speaker 1: the glow sticks right, sell glow sticks, so we had
Speaker 1: the glow sticks all the time. Whatever. Devin from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Earlier this decade, Solo had Brock Lesner in his top
Speaker 1: ten all time goat list. Is this still the case?
Speaker 1: Or has Brock damage goods? No? I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to sit here and put a whole list together
Speaker 1: right now, but if I had him in the top ten,
Speaker 1: I had him there for a reason that hasn't changed.
Speaker 1: Believe me. There are a lot of wrestlers who have
Speaker 1: damaged their reputations and are damaged goods for one reason
Speaker 1: or another over the years. It doesn't mean they fall
Speaker 1: out of the top five for the top ten necessarily
Speaker 1: shout out to Paul, He's got the gold skull next
Speaker 1: to his name. Lakers, Pats, did you cry during Shawn
Speaker 1: Michaels tell me a live video. I didn't, But you
Speaker 1: want to know what I don't want to say. It's
Speaker 1: a little embarrassing, but I didn't cry during that video,
Speaker 1: but I did cry a little bit during the Oh God,
Speaker 1: what was the name of the song? The Macho Man
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth wedding song Forever Wait Together Together Forever. Yes,
Speaker 1: that brought a tear to my eye. That whole reunion
Speaker 1: to Wrestle Many the seven was very emotional and g
Speaker 1: Barry Free. Sorry. I don't know if it's been asked,
Speaker 1: but did you see j versus Punk was four stars? Oh?
Speaker 1: I saw that. Yeah, Dave gave Jay Usso and ciam
Speaker 1: Punk four stars from Saturday Night's main event, and that
Speaker 1: right there is just a perfect example of why you
Speaker 1: should not allow the star ratings to bother you, because
Speaker 1: it really, truly is just one man's opinion, a very
Speaker 1: bad opinion, but an opinion. Nonetheless, Sure, I give the
Speaker 1: match four stars also, and then deduct two four stars
Speaker 1: minus two. All right, Well, we hit pay dirt tonight
Speaker 1: because we had the like skull and the bonus goal.
Speaker 1: So my job tonight is very simple. I have one job,
Speaker 1: that's it. My one job is to book a better
Speaker 1: show than SmackDown tonight, and then we'll get back to
Speaker 1: your final super chats. Alex, I see your message. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get to you here in a second. Well, it's
Speaker 1: time to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it is
Speaker 1: now time to be the booker. That's my only job here.
Speaker 1: We have got to book ourselves a better show than
Speaker 1: SmackDown tonight. This shouldn't be too hard. We've got two
Speaker 1: chances here. We're off to a great start because we're
Speaker 1: kicking things off with Booker T and Stevie Ray. We
Speaker 1: got Harlem Heat in b the Booker or they ten
Speaker 1: time or eleven time tag team champions in w CW.
Speaker 1: They held those titles a lot. Here we go, baby
Speaker 1: Harlem Heat. Oh no. I was like, how could it
Speaker 1: possibly be a buzzer for a Harlem Heat match? Harlem
Speaker 1: Heat against the Bushwhackers. Now, this is not the Sheepherders.
Speaker 1: If it was the Sheepherders, I would have given that
Speaker 1: the bell. But this is the Bushwhackers. The Bushwhackers in
Speaker 1: Harlem Heat. That's not a good pairing. There, doesn't work.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They go around licking people. I remember I
Speaker 1: went to the fan the first time they ever did
Speaker 1: a fan festival. Now they call it fan Access, but
Speaker 1: that's how old this was. It was their first fan festival.
Speaker 1: For WrestleMania WrestleMania ten weekend, and it was a lot
Speaker 1: more scaled down than the one you would see today.
Speaker 1: You could just walk around, you would be bumping in guys. O,
Speaker 1: can I get your autograph? Right? I mean, they had
Speaker 1: people sitting at tables with some lines, but it wasn't anything,
Speaker 1: you know, terrible. I waited in the line for Sean
Speaker 1: Michaels with my dad, and you know, we waited in
Speaker 1: the line for like what, not even five minutes probably,
Speaker 1: But the bushwhackers we were walking around and my brother,
Speaker 1: who's a little younger than me, he was scared to
Speaker 1: death of the bushwhackers because he did not want to
Speaker 1: be licked by the bushwhackers. Now, of course, today if
Speaker 1: you were to walk up to somebody and lick them,
Speaker 1: you would be arrested. But they were just licking people. Man.
Speaker 1: They were walking up to people, men, women, kids, it
Speaker 1: didn't matter, and they were licking them. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my distance, and my brother is just in tears.
Speaker 1: I think he was scarred by the whole experience. It's
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Actually, yeah, don't go around licking people.
Speaker 1: You don't know what kind of disease you might pick up.
Speaker 1: We have a Lita kick us off here and women's
Speaker 1: be the book. Jean Snitzky is very pleased with this
Speaker 1: and it will be Lyda against the Queen of Spades,
Speaker 1: one of the most dominant NXT women's champions of all time,
Speaker 1: Shana Basler. Let's get that Shana Basler in the ring
Speaker 1: with Lita. Yeah. I'm very proud of myself and my
Speaker 1: role in helping to book the upcoming match at the
Speaker 1: House of Glory show. Not this weekend, but next Saturday,
Speaker 1: Super Clash. We have a match that we have booked
Speaker 1: Shana Basler for the first time ever one on one
Speaker 1: with machi Ito. This is going to be quite the
Speaker 1: styles clash. I am looking forward to this match. Okay,
Speaker 1: our first main event, we got two of them, so
Speaker 1: this is number one. You gotta make it a good one.
Speaker 1: Here we have Darby Allen. I heard a horrific story
Speaker 1: today involving Darby Allen and Brodie King that I will
Speaker 1: share on the podcast. This guy is He's a fucking
Speaker 1: weird of this guy, but he is a big name
Speaker 1: in AW so let's see who he will be wrestling.
Speaker 1: Uh Be the booker has been repossessed. Oh, no, game over.
Speaker 1: The Repo Man has repossessed be the booker. There will
Speaker 1: be no main event. I I'll tell you this though.
Speaker 1: If we were gonna land on this, this was the
Speaker 1: time to do it. You imagine if we landed on
Speaker 1: this at the beginning, that would have been it. That
Speaker 1: would have been the end of the round. So there's
Speaker 1: a no contest because Darbi Allen has no opponent. However,
Speaker 1: this does not affect the bonus round, so we're not
Speaker 1: done yet. There is another round. I'm not gonna cheat
Speaker 1: you out of that. You guys earned that, all right,
Speaker 1: So we got the bonus round, we get to pick
Speaker 1: steps now. Tons of stipulations are in here. So let's
Speaker 1: see what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: a TLC match, all right, a TLC tag team match
Speaker 1: that works tables, ladders, and shares. Folks, here we go,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man Randy Savage,
Speaker 1: the Mega Powers are going to be in a tables,
Speaker 1: ladders and chairs match. You know who's taking all the
Speaker 1: bumps in this match? Poor Macho Macho Man is taking
Speaker 1: all of the bump There's no way Hogan is climbing
Speaker 1: that ladder. Ain't no way that Hogan is climbing that ladder.
Speaker 1: Poor match. Who are their opponents gonna be? Though? This
Speaker 1: will be interesting whole Cogan in a TLC match against
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Jay the USOS, We'll be yeating all night long.
Speaker 1: The mega powers in the USSOS. Actually, in terms of
Speaker 1: like marquee matches, is a pretty good one. Actually, that's
Speaker 1: that's one we have never seen before. Hearing be the booker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Macho used to take all kinds of dude. Macho Man
Speaker 1: took one of the most insane bumps I've ever seen
Speaker 1: for someone his age, really somewhat of any age. Remember
Speaker 1: that rickety cage they used that one year at Halloween
Speaker 1: Havoc in WCW. This tall ass freaking rickety cage. It
Speaker 1: was like Hogan against Piper. I think age in the
Speaker 1: cage and Savage climbed to the very top and he
Speaker 1: came diving off with a double axe handle and I
Speaker 1: think he missed, but he fucking destroyed his knees on
Speaker 1: the landing. I'm like, what is this? This guy's out
Speaker 1: of his mind, and I truly, I mean I think
Speaker 1: he still wrestled for several months. He had to have
Speaker 1: knee surgery the following year. But I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think he was ever the same after that. I really don't.
Speaker 1: His knees were already bad to begin with, but after that,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was thinking. All right, we
Speaker 1: got to pick a women's match. Now it is loser
Speaker 1: Leaves Town. Okay, all right, this is this is like
Speaker 1: a John Cena retirement match. Here. The loser is out
Speaker 1: of here. They're out of a job. Loser leaves town
Speaker 1: on the lady's side, and it will be oh my,
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet also at the House of Glory show next weekend,
Speaker 1: possibly collecting her thirteenth championship. Maybe she'll lose. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll see, but she might lose here. This could be
Speaker 1: the end of her run here the TBS champion. Her
Speaker 1: run is in jeopardy. Here, this is loser Leaves Town
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monette putting her title and her career on the
Speaker 1: line against Rhea fucking Ripley. Now that right, there is
Speaker 1: a marquee match. That right. I don't think we're topping
Speaker 1: that one. Hogan and Savage against the USOS was pretty good.
Speaker 1: This is actually shaping up to be an incredible round.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I'll be the booker here. We
Speaker 1: got a fucking TLC match with the Mega Power, and
Speaker 1: we have a loser leaves Town match between Rear Ripley
Speaker 1: and Mercedes Monet. I guess it's by bye Rhea. That
Speaker 1: might be the end of Ria Ripley right there. But
Speaker 1: this is shaping up to be one of the strongest
Speaker 1: rounds of be the booker that we've ever had. Let's
Speaker 1: not fuck it up, all right. We got ourselves a
Speaker 1: last man's standing match. That is what we're going for here,
Speaker 1: last man standing in the main event. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: That's a wrestle media match. You bet your asset's a
Speaker 1: wrestle media match. The loose Cannon Brian Pillman. If only
Speaker 1: this were the loose canon pre nineteen ninety six hum
Speaker 1: v wreck. I'm gonna I'm gonna pretend that it is.
Speaker 1: Brian Pillman was very talented in a last man's match
Speaker 1: against Adam Copeland. We have old edge against Brian Pillman
Speaker 1: in a last man's standing even old edge though against
Speaker 1: Brian Pillman. Pretty damn good match, right there. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that round? Mega Powers and USO's tlc
Speaker 1: Ria Ripley and Mercedes Monet, Loser Leaves Town, Adam Copeland
Speaker 1: and Brian Pillman, last man standing. You're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: SmackDown was better than that fucking card tonight, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. That's how you book a card right there,
Speaker 1: and Alex with a five dollars super chat. Do you
Speaker 1: know what event ruined Dave's reputation as a journalist? How
Speaker 1: important was he during the nineties. I don't think any
Speaker 1: event ruined his reputation, and he still, you know, is
Speaker 1: well regarded by many people. But I think he's lost
Speaker 1: sources over the years, and I think that the arrival
Speaker 1: founding of AW and his coverage of AW and perceived
Speaker 1: biases in the eyes of a lot of people like
Speaker 1: that's what sort of compromised him and ruined and ruined
Speaker 1: him for a lot of people. That's where it really
Speaker 1: began being talked about by people on social media who
Speaker 1: would rip on him and say all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I mean, he was very important. He's still an
Speaker 1: important figure, but he was very important during the nineties
Speaker 1: because there were a lot of people in the wrestling
Speaker 1: bubble who would get their news from the Observer. You know,
Speaker 1: it was the Observer in the Torch, and then in
Speaker 1: the nineties you had wrestling hotlines. I mean, there were
Speaker 1: other sources of news, but Meltzer in the Observer was
Speaker 1: still number one. And not just with fans, you know,
Speaker 1: diehard fans who were in the know, but wrestlers and
Speaker 1: people in the industry. Yeah, you got to remember, like
Speaker 1: at the beginning of all this, it were it was
Speaker 1: wrestlers contacting Dave and Wade Keller, but it was wrestlers
Speaker 1: contacting Dave probably more than anything to find out like
Speaker 1: what other people were making and stuff like that. They
Speaker 1: would get like inside information about that, like contracts and
Speaker 1: you know, to try to maybe get a better deal
Speaker 1: for themselves. Everyone had their own, I'm sure their own
Speaker 1: reasons for leaking news to Dave or being a source
Speaker 1: for Dave. But Dave had a lot of sources and
Speaker 1: he was very plugged in. Not everything he reported was
Speaker 1: necessarily accurate. Same thing today, but like even today, you know,
Speaker 1: for all the stuff he might get wrong, and he
Speaker 1: gets a lot wrong, he'll report something like the John
Speaker 1: Cena tournament or lash legend is going to be up
Speaker 1: on the main roster by the time we get the
Speaker 1: Survivor series and then boom, look at this slash legend
Speaker 1: is on TV. We have a John Cena tournament. So
Speaker 1: he was a very important figure during that period. That's
Speaker 1: really where he rose to prominence, you know, the eighties
Speaker 1: and the nineties. And here we are in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: almost twenty twenty six, and people are still talking about
Speaker 1: Dave Meltzer for better or worse right, Dave is still
Speaker 1: that guy. Must have done something right. Anyway, Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: This has been a fun stream, a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot more fun than SmackDown Tonight, which was an abomination
Speaker 1: outside of the Open Challenge, just a terror. It's just
Speaker 1: a terrible television show and as a fan, I hope
Speaker 1: it gets better. But it's like I used to say, man,
Speaker 1: people would ask me when times were really bleak, and
Speaker 1: like everything was just awful with WWE. There wasn't even
Speaker 1: an aw at the time. Why do you still watch?
Speaker 1: Like I know you do the show, but like, don't
Speaker 1: you ever want to just give up? And I'm like
Speaker 1: I always used to say this and I still believe
Speaker 1: in it. It's what I called the two h's. You know,
Speaker 1: why do I watch out of Habit and hope, Right,
Speaker 1: I watch out of Habit and I hope it's gonna
Speaker 1: get better. Right, You can't ever lose hope for all
Speaker 1: the money they make and as much as their business
Speaker 1: might be booming, and you could see where there's cracks
Speaker 1: in it and things are softening, that they're not at
Speaker 1: the peak anymore despite all of that, Like, the product
Speaker 1: is just creatively bankrupt in many respects, and there's no
Speaker 1: reason for it. You have all of these resources at
Speaker 1: your disposal in terms of talent, I don't just mean
Speaker 1: in ring talent, and this is the product that you
Speaker 1: put out, Like, put a little pride in your work.
Speaker 1: Next time I'm live will be Monday night for the
Speaker 1: Raw post show. Raw will undoubtedly be better than Smack Them.
Speaker 1: Of the two shows right now, Raw is definitely the
Speaker 1: better show. So I will be live on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Before that will be episode nine thirty seven that'll be
Speaker 1: dropping in the afternoon on Sunday, and we've got some
Speaker 1: fun stuff to cover on that show as well. So
Speaker 1: thank you for all the support here tonight. You guys
Speaker 1: crushed it, hit all the goals. We'll do it all
Speaker 1: over again on Monday. Bring the heat, I'll bring the booker,
Speaker 1: and we'll have some fun. So be well, stay safe,
Speaker 1: have your sales, a great weekend, and I will see
Speaker 1: you back here next time live on YouTube for more
Speaker 1: Solemn Monster sounds up. Thank you guys for the love.
Speaker 1: I'll see you then