Speaker 1: Well, welcome to another Friday Night. It is your Friday
Night SmackDown review, Week two of two hours Smackdowns. I
think someone forgot to tell WWE, based on the ending
of the show tonight and the abrupt cutoff at the
very end, that they were not going three hours tonight.
In fact, they are back to two hours for what
ended up being a very eventful, not a great, but
a very eventful episode of SmackDown, where at least there
were some things, some important things that happened. It wasn't
by any means a throwaway show, the biggest of all
being that we got not just a new Summer Slam
match announs, but arguably the biggest Summer Slam match that
will be on the card this year was made official tonight.
We had the brand new WWE Champion CM Punk in
the house tonight. He is now officially a member of
the Blue Brand for the first time since coming back
to the company three years ago, and that match is
going to be to the surprise of no one if
you've been paying attention, Cmpunk defending the WWE Championship against
Cody Rhodes. This is a match that they have held
off undoing ever since Punk came back to the company,
they've had little moments, interactions and backstage segments or in
ring segments that tease the future match between them. Absolutely
a wrestle Mania match at any Mania you want to
do it in, and we're getting it at Summer Slim
this year. The biggest reason we're getting it at Summer
Slim is because they have a shit ton of tickets
left to sell. And don't let anybody tell you any differently,
but I'm glad that we're finally getting it. You know,
it's a match I've been waiting for for a very
long time. Again, it sucks that Sammy's Ain got shuffled
to the side to do it now of all time
Samy's aim, by the way, not on SmackDown tonight. We
were told that he is taking a mental health break. However,
we do know he will be back next week. And
the reason that we know that is because we finally
got a real match made official for Saturday night's main event. Yeah,
they realized, oh shit, we have a Madison Square Garden
show coming up on Peacock next weekend. We should probably
put some star power on there, a show that desperately
needed some star Power. And now we have a tag
team match that was also made official, where it will
be Cody Rhodes and see them Punk teaming up to
take on Gunther and Sammy's a that will be our
main event on Saturday Night's made event next weekend. And
not only did we have that, We're going to get
into all of that because there was a show closing angle.
Really the most important things that happened were the beginning
and the end. The beginning is where we got the
announcement of Cody and Punk. The end of the show
is where we got the announcement of the tag team
match next weekend. But also Gunther did not take the
news very well, and Gunther attack nick All this repeatedly,
even though you had twelve people out there who couldn't
pull this man off, put him in the sleep several times.
So we got one Summer Slam match officially announced. We
have the other Summer Slam match. That's all but official.
I mean, if you needed any further indication of what
Gunther is gonna be doing on that show, you need
not look any further than that closing segment. We will
be getting the first Nick All this match in WWE
it's only a matter of when they announced it, and
so clearly they are moving forward with him and Gunther
going one on one on that show. So even though
Gunther is going to be involved in this tag team
match next weekend, anybody thinking that this is going to
be some sort of fatal four way situation at SummerSlam
and they're gonna add Sammy and they're gonna add Gunther,
that pretty much went out the window with the show
to although doing a fatal four way I don't think
was ever realistic to begin with. We also had a
non title match on this show between Carmelo Hayes and
Trick Williams, with the idea that if Mello could beat Trick,
he would earn the right to challenge him for the
United States Championship. And in the course of this man tonight,
something happened. Something happened that I was not anticipating, which
was the return of a former WWE champion, and I
don't mean world champion, but someone who has held gold
before in WWE, somebody who's been away from the company
now for several years. We got the return tonight that
I think many of us were expecting, but not in
this spot This is not where we were anticipating that
this man was going to pop up. Baron Corbin is
back on SmackDown. Baron Corbin interjected himself in the middle
of this non title match between these two US title competitors,
immediately thrusting himself into the US title picture. When a
lot of people, myself included, were led to believe that
he was going to have something to do with Dan Hausen.
I wonder who's under the sheet now in Dan Housen's laboratory.
He in fact was not under the sheet, Or maybe
he was and he just broke free. I don't know,
but I was actually very happy to see him here
because it meant that he was not going to be
involved in the silliness with all the Dan Housen stuff.
And if he's going to have a shot at a
serious push this time around, that's not the way to
go about doing it. The fact that they are putting
him immediately in the US title picture tells you that
they hope he can be a player in the mid
card on this show, and I think he absolutely can be.
It's just funny to me that for all the years
that he spent in this company and he went through
so many different gimmicks and just, oh my god, he
went through so many just different nonsensical stories and bullshit
Constable Corbin, King Corbin and Happy Corbin and bum ass Corbin.
The Lone Wolf just feels like a distant memory. Remember,
they sent him off to NXT and he actually had
a good thing going for a while with bron Breaker
the wolf Dogs, and they didn't want bron Breaker doing
the tag team thing on the main rosters, so when
they call Corbin back up, they tried to replicate it
with him and Apollo Cruise, but it just wasn't It
just wasn't the same. But that period of time there
where he was called back up and he was basically
in the babyface role was probably the first time that
he had some real legitimate fan support, and that's when
they got rid of him. So my hope is that
he can kind of recapture some of that. I mean,
this is the first and maybe the only time that
you will ever hear Baron Corbin showered by holy shit
chans from an arena full of people. This man got
holy shit chance because they were so shocked or happy
or both to see him back on this show. I
don't know that that moment for him will ever be replicated.
One can hope though, that this run will go better
for him than the last one. But that definitely shocked
the hell out of me. I was expecting him back.
I was not expecting him back in that spot. Jade Cargill,
we know that she is on a collision course with
Charlotte Flair. That is another match that is not yet
official for SummerSlam, but we all know it's going to happen,
and so tonight the sacrifice a Lamb was the bestie,
her best friend, her tag team partner, Alexa Bliss. She
was the victim. She got to play victim to Jade
Cargill and remind everybody that she is double jointed in
one of her arms, and that could be a very
useful thing. Even though this is an angle that we've
seen done at least twice before over the last decade,
it's been a while since the last one, and I'm
sure all the new fans who have no idea are
looking at this in horror. As Jade Cargill snaps Alexa
Bliss's arm and makes Charlotte Flair watch, she is helpless
to do anything but just sit there and watch as
Alexa Bliss gets taken out and what I thought was
actually a very effective angle, you know, to further things
here between the two of them. But that was kind
of the gist of SmackDown. Really. I mean, when the
show is over, it's kind of weird, like there were
a lot of things that happened, but I can't sit
here and tell you it was a great show because
it really wasn't. Things happened, but I can't. I can't
call this a great SmackDown. Smack that was basically what
SmackDown normally would be. There was bloodline stuff on this show,
which is just boring me to tears. Doesn't seem to
matter what show it is, raw or SmackDown, it's just
it ain't hitting. It ain't hitting the way that the
bloodline stuff used to. This is what happens when you
basically run a different variation of the same angle that
has been going on now for what six years? Seven years?
About six years now? Somehow this company has gotten me
to a point where I actually found myself tonight rooting
for Solo Socoa over Jacob Fatu. What have they done
to Jacob? What have they done to Jacob Fatu in
these last couple of months where I'm sitting here and
I'm like, hey, I'm actually rooting for Solo Amazing. Let's
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to the channel, brother bliss Fan. I know bliss Fan
is very upset over the treatment of Alexa Bliss. I
am sure that when Jade cranked back on Alexi's arm
on the show tonight, not only did Alexi's arm break,
but I think a piece of bliss Fan's heart broke
as he watched her writhing on the Madden pain. I
felt for you. You were the first person I thought
of when I saw that. I said, I hope he's
not watching live now. After highlights of the Sea and
Punk return in Chicago on raw Monday night and him
beating Sammy's Ain and ending his reign at nine days
to win the WWE Championship, that's how we opened the show.
We cut back live to the ring where Nick All
this was waiting SmackDown general manager who had been sent
home on administrative leave, even though he never actually left.
He was on raw Monday night in Chicago and here
he was in Oklahoma City tonight, and the first thing
he did was he apologized to all of the fans
for his part in the incident with Gunther at Night
of Champions, and while he feels justified for his actions,
he takes full responsibility for his part in the incident.
He is very happy to report that after mediation, he
has officially been reinstated as the GM of SmackDown and
he is now ready to deliver for us the SmackDown fans,
which includes this moment right now, and he introduced the
new WWE champion out to the ring, CM Punk, for
what is technically his debut as a full time member
of the SmackDown roster. Punk was sporting a black eye.
I don't know what from. Maybe it was a halluva
kick on Monday, maybe it was the GTS that Sammy
gave him, But in any event, all this welcomed him
aboard and said the floor is yours. As the crowd
began to chant for Punk, Bliss, Ben says, I'm numb.
Bliss Fan is comfortably numb tonight, Bliz Fan is hitting
the bottle hard tonight. You might want to pull yourself
away when I get to that part of the stream
a little bit later on. I don't want you to
relive the trauma of tonight. So Punk says he missed
us over the last two months, he's been negotiating with
WWE management, NBC Universal management, and the USA network, all
spearheaded by Nick All this to bring him here to SmackDown.
And there is some truth in that because the reports,
I think it was Wrestle votes that said, this is
something that you know NBC Universal wanted. They wanted Punk
on this show for as long as a year. They've
been dying to get him on the show. Now they
have him. The belief is that he's gonna have a
lengthy run as the champion. Of course, creative is always
subject to change. To me, it doesn't even matter if
he's the champion, Like, if you're NBC Universal, what do
you care if he's the champion or he's chasing for
the title. As long as he's in the mix, right,
as long as he's on the show every week you
put him on the posters you want him doing media,
Does it really matter if he's the champion or if
he's challenging for the title and chasing for the title.
They got what they wanted. They got him on SmackDown,
and not a week too soon, because if SmackDown could
use anything, Cmpunk is certainly one thing that this show
could use. Believe me, this was the right move to make.
I said that from the moment he lost that championship
at WrestleMania. Get him on Smack that he doesn't need
to be on Raw, Get him away from Roman reigns.
Speaker 2: Look, get Richie rich over here dropping all this money.
Who is I just want you to know I think
you rock. I don't mean the rock a rock, and
I just wanted you to know that.
Speaker 1: Oh it's my boy James Crawford coming in. Well, they
won one hundred dollars super Chat. Say I love you Solo,
you are my IWC tribal chief. And now he's singing
Cody's Cody's old song smoking Mirrors here were only smoking
mirrors to me is a very catchy tune. Just ask
for John Cena. He loved that song and I love
that super Chat. Thank you James. You heard from James
last week. Look at this, he's back for an encore
this week. We got a bomb. I thought for a
moment there, I'm not gonna lie. I thought it was
a Boots bomb because Boots actually was the very next
message in and I think my eyes kind of conflated
the two. I can't give Boots the bomb credit here,
but I will say thank you to Boots for the
ten he says, Kathy Kelly, Oh my goodness, calm down, Boots,
put your boots on, take a cold shower, buddy. Thank
you to you both. Back to the Punk promo, though,
he said last Monday those negotiations were expedited. He got
a phone call telling him that the WWE champion needed
a challenger. So he said, when championship opportunities fall out
of the sky, Cmpunk catches them. He put his gear
on in his house, he kissed his beautiful wife, and
he drove across town to the All State Arena. And
now he can stand here and ask is it great
to be alive on a Friday night in Oklahoma City
as the new WWE Champion?
Speaker 3: Or what.
Speaker 1: If we saw what he did on Raw with the
World Heavyweight title, so that he intends to be that
kind of champion on SmackDown as well, which includes wrestling
on TV, which includes defending the title. He does it
because it puts pressure on him, and it puts a
target on his back. He knows that locker room is
filled with hungry, talented individuals that want what he has,
so He's gonna make this very simple for anybody in
the back. If you think that he has something that
belongs to them, come and get it. He's not hard
to find. Oh, I just realized we don't have to
listen to Cody say that anymore. That's one of the
best parts of Cody Roads no longer being WWE Champy.
We don't have to watch smack that every week and
hear I'm not hard to find, but I'm hard to beat. Well,
you got beat, you got beat. So now we don't
have to hear it for a while. Thank you, Sammy.
He said he's going to defend that championship with blood,
sweat and tears for all of us. Remember said after
the the Rumble in ninety two, after he dumped Hogan
and Hogan got him dumped, and it was a whole
thing in the ring. When the match was over, they
were being separated and there was that one fan in
the crowd that had a sign that said Hulk Who,
and Sid pointed to it as he looks at Hogan,
goes olk who, holk Who. That's what James just did
to Boots. He held the sign up. He's saying, Boots
who boots, who thank you? James and James is on
one tonight. I love it Punk, said Sammy Zain. He
heard what he said about Punk on social media. He
understood how he feels. He gets it. If you want
a shot, you deserve a rematch. I'll give you a shot,
he says. Who else? Who else? In that locker room?
He says Gunther. They're not strangers, the two of them.
They both remember what happened the last time they wrestled.
He said, if you think you can beat Punk, come
and try, because he knows that he can beat Gunther.
It's true. Summer Slim last year, not even a year ago,
he beat him to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Who else, says?
Who else is there? Finn back? They went to war
two twice recently. Anytime, any place, if you think you
got what it takes, step up to the plate. Royce Keys,
he said, Damian Prize, Damian Priest. He was avoiding a
certain name. He mentioned Royce Keys and Damian Priest and
Trick Williams. And then he was interrupted by Cody Rhodes,
and Cody came out to the ring without his suit jacket.
I was stunned. I was stunned. He grabbed Punk's chin.
He wanted to get a closer look at that black eye.
Just like a little callback there too, Cody and his
black eye. After WrestleMania, when Punk looked at him and
was like, what happened to you, Cody asked him, how's
your eye? Then Punk said, you didn't come out here
to ask me about my eyes, So what do you
want to talk about? And Cody remembers Punk saying, championship
opportunities fall out of the sky last time they were
in the ring together, and there are those matches like
the one we saw on Monday, where an opportunity comes
up and he just seizes it. There's matches like that,
and then there are championship opportunities that have been building
for years. So Punk assumed he was talking about him
against Cody, maybe subconsciously. They've been avoiding each other for
some time because the two of them are friends and
he really doesn't want anything to come between them. He
always thought when this happened, though, it would be in
the main event of WrestleMania. Yeah, so did I. But
he doesn't think the two of them can run from
each other anymore. And Cody said no, I don't think
we can. But when Cody was the champion, he recalls
telling Punk just say when, and so Punk got up
at his face and said when. And so the fans
chanted ok C ok C, which they weren't doing in
the NBA finals this year because okay See was not
in the finals. But nevertheless, so they were chanting ok
see OKC, and of course Cody said Summer Slam, and
that's not what the fans and Okase wanted to hear.
And so there were some booze. But Punk put his
hand out and Cody shook it. Nick Aldos was still
in the ring and he said, it looks like it's official.
CM Punk defends the WWE Championship against Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam,
And just like that. It was very simple, It was
very quick. It was very simple. We have a main
event for I don't just say main event for Summer Slam.
If you are of the belief that the bigger main
event is the one that closes the weekend, so the
Night two main event, I give to you your Night
two main event. Because Cody Roads against CM Punk is
a much bigger deal than Roman Reigns against Seth rawlins.
That's Night one again. If you think that it matters,
that's Night one. This is Night two. This right here
is the real main event of Summer Slam Weekend. This
is a match that has not been done in many,
many years. I think the only time these two ever
wrestled each other. I know they wrestled on Raw. I'm
trying to remember what year it would have been. God,
I mean, I want to say two thousand and nine,
two thousand and eight, sometime around then. It's been a
long ass time, and those were two very different performers
back then than they are now. Right, They're a lot older,
they are a lot more experienced, they're a lot grizzled,
more grizzled than they were back then. They're both either
world champion now former world champion. So for all intents
and purposes, this is a fresh, first time ever match,
and Ciampunk being on SmackDown obviously they're making that out
to be a big deal because it is. You know,
it is a big That's why, it's why they wanted him.
That's why NBCUniversal wanted him on SmackDown. So I'm just saying,
regardless of what WWE does, and I do think that
they'll close with this. But regardless of what they do,
this right here, this is the big main event of
the weekend. Roman and Seth They're going to have a
great match. It's a retread. It's a retread, you know.
I mean, these two have been off and on, They've
been together and feuding for fucking fourteen years, you know
what I mean? Like, who cares? Give me something different?
This feels like something different because it is. They've tapped
dance around this match for a while. I thought maybe
there was a chance we might get it at WrestleMania
this year at one point, and we didn't. But we're
getting it here and I'm very happy about that. But again,
it doesn't get any more straightforward than the way they
laid this out here. And I said this on the
podcast this past weekend. I was like, if they do
this match at SummerSlam, we're less than a month out
from the show, right, We're talking really about three weeks
worth the build here for a major match like this.
Can you adequately promote this match in three weeks? And
the answer is yes, because at the end of the day,
what is going to carry the bill to this match? Right?
The promos we know Punk can hold up his end
on the mic. I mean, Punk can sell ice to
an Eskimo. When he's motivated and you give him a
great opponent or a great story, that's that's undeniable. I
mean even when the punk shit was going on with
aw and all that stuff. I mean, that was one
thing I know. You can't you can't ever say anything
bad about Punk's ability on the microphone to talk people
into the building, right, That's not something that ever left him.
So between his ability on the mic and Cody is
no slouch himself. Honestly, a lot of his promos seem
to just especially now, they sound very same y. But
when he's motivated and when he has good material to
work with, Cody is an a one promo himself. I
think these two working against each other should bring out
the best in each other. I like Cody being in
the chasing spot for a change, when most of the
time it feels like he's in the, you know, defending
champion spot. This is a little bit different for him,
and so I think in three weeks you'll have plenty
of time to you know, build this up in the
way you need to, just by having them go out
there and cut promos on each other honestly, or do
some you know, sit down interview type stuff. What I
was going to say, And it's funny because I made
a little bullet here in my notes about and this.
Mind you, this was at the beginning of the show.
I said, you can do this without all the usual
wrestling tropes. You don't need the can they coexist? Tag
team match, you don't need the contract signing. Right Meanwhile,
by the time this show was over, we already found
out we're getting the can you coexist? Tag team match?
And you know, Dan, well, we're gonna get a fucking
contract signing, so we're gonna get all the usual tropes regardless.
I'm just saying they don't need it here. And there's
a lot that can be said. I think in a
lot that can be done in three weeks to build
this matchup in the way that you you know, need
to build it up. Ideally you'd have more time. But
it's not like it isn't doable. It's not like that
isn't a big match that's gonna get people very excited
for SummerSlam. And also, here's the other thing I would
say about this. This is the first match of what
may well end up being multiple matches, and I'm not
even saying they do them consecutively. Maybe they do the
first match here, maybe they don't touch again until WrestleMania
next year, whenever it may be. My hope is that
the next time we see it, one of them is
a heel. Right now, it's Babyface against Babyface right for
the first one, for the next one, whenever that may be.
I don't even necessarily care who it is, although I
would much rather see Cody go heel right now than punk,
but a heel punk could be fun too. But either way,
the next time, hopefully one of these two is not
the you know, raw raw Babyface. You know I'm here blood,
sweat and tears. I'm here for all you guys like
fuck that shit, right, one of them will hopefully o'heal
at some point, and the next time we see it,
the whole dynamic will be turned upside down. Maybe it's
wishful thinking, but that's my hope anyway. But they've kept
them apart for long enough. These two, the two that
got away from Tony Khan, two of the biggest name,
maybe the two biggest names. Quite honestly, I was gonna
say two of the biggest name, the two biggest names
they got away from Tony Khn. There's a lot of
fun to be had here with these two, but you
can't escape the feeling that the primary reason that we
are getting this at Summer Slam this year, and this
is absolutely one hundred percent. I don't want to say
the only reason, but the main reason that we are
getting this match in three weeks time is because they
have a shitload of tickets to sell for Summer Slam.
The ticket sales for Summer Slam are not good, and
by the time we get to Summer Slam, they'll have
thirty something thousand, whatever they'll claim, of course, but they'll have,
you know, more than what they have now. I think
this match was going to move a lot of tickets.
I do think the announcement of this will will juice
up the ticket sales, but where they are now, they're
in like the mid twenty thousand range, and Wrestle Votes
had something earlier about how there's some degree of panic
or concern, not that they kind of snuck up on them.
They've known for a while that ticket sales for this
show have been very soft, but they also didn't have
a card announced. Now the card is starting to take shape,
so we'll see, you know how those sales accelerate. But
they need attractions. That's why they wanted to do Obafemi
and brock Lesner inside Hell in a Cell they have that,
They've got Roman in Seth they do their shield blowoff match,
and now we have Cody and Punk, which is a
major match, right, A lot of star power in that match.
That's the reason why they're doing it. Look, I know, oh,
wrestling promoter promotes wrestling match that they think will sell tickets. Yes, duh.
Of course all wrestling promoters book matches that they hope
we're going to sell tickets. But the reason we're getting
this match now is because they have a lot of
tickets to sell for SummerSlam. And we'll see if it works.
As far as Sammy's Ain't is concerned, he was written
off this week under the guise of he himself had
requested some mental health time. You needed a mental health
break is what he needed. Apparently. After if you saw
that crash out when Raw went off the air, he
cut a hell of a promo, very heated promo, which
they did show later in the show very heated promo
on cmpunk. We'll talk about that. We had Finn Balor
against Toma Tonga Taalatanga was out there in Toma's corner.
He grabbed Balor's leg, which gave tom a chance to
take advantage ahead of a commercial break. Balor had the
crowd very solidly behind him, so the match actually had
some pretty good heat down the stretch entirely because the
people just like Finn Balor. But Toma hit a running
splash in the corner. He was setting up for another
one when Balor charged at him and took him down
with a sling blade and then a shotgun dropkick Tallatoga.
He ran distraction which allowed Toma to hit the cutthroat
and got a near fall out of that. Balor sent
Toma out of the ring and then he took both
of them out with a flip dive out over the
top rope. He very quickly rushed Tomatonga back inside and
he finished him off with the Kuda grass pin. Balor
is no more. How about that Finn Balor actually wins
a match here on SmackDown. I'm pleasantly surprised. Now, granted,
of course, you know it was against the MFTs, so
you know, what does it really mean? Because the MFTs
don't exactly have a lot of momentum right now, or
what's left of the MFTs don't really have a lot
of momentum. But if you're Finn Balor, you kind of
take him where you can find him. So it was
nice to see him pick up a win here. It
also looked like Talatoga hurt his leg. It was on
the dive spot when Balor went sailing out of the
ring and took both of them out. As he fell
to the ground, you could see him grab his I
believe it was his left quad on the way down.
And then when the match ended and Balor quickly got
out of the ring, Talatonga stepped over the top rope
into the ring and he was walking, but he was
still grab it at that quad. So hopefully he just
if anything, hopefully he just pulled a muscle. I guess
we'll find out soon enough. Backstage, Our Truth was paying
out on a bet to axie him over Team USA's
loss in the World Cup, and Nathan Fraser said that
Americans are better off at eating hot dogs, but the
Europeans are better at real football. Which is undoubtedly true.
I don't think there's anything there's nothing factually incorrect about
anything he said. There, the war Raiders showed up, and
Eric told well, really both of them were tired of
the bullshit in the games, but Eric is the one
who really did most of the talking here. And he
told Truth that Nick, all this is here tonight. You
wanted all this, Priest had said, let's wait for all
this to come back to make this title versus title
match official. Well, all this is here tonight, so why
don't you go talk to him about us having our match.
Jimmy USO and Jacob Fatu entered, and Jimmy stood up
for Truth, and then the war Raiders took their leave.
Jimmy indicated that he was looking for Solo Socoa, and
Fatu asked Truth if he had seen Royce Keys, and
Truth got very nervous and he claimed that he had
never seen him before Damian pre showed up. Priest said
that he saw Royce Keys, so he knows that he's
in the building tonight. Jimmy and Fatu they left, and
then Truth asked Priest, why did you tell him that
Keys was here? And Priest remember telling Truth previously that
Royce Keys is not their problem. Elsewhere in the back,
Nick Alldos is on the phone and guess who he
is on the phone with. He is on the phone
with Sammy z Ain, who is not present in the
building tonight. Again he is taking a mental health break.
So they really didn't talk about much of anything. This
was just their way of having all this articulate for
us on television. That Sammy told him he's taking a
mental health break. I thought he was maybe be goin
to announce a match right then and there. I thought
he was going to give him his rematch at Saturday
night's main event against Punk. Instead, Gunther walked in and
so that conversation quickly came to an end. Gunther looks
behind all this was a TV screen that had the
match graphic on it for SummerSlam with Cody and Punk,
and so Gunther is just glancing over at it, and
then he looks at all this and he says, you
need to fix this. He wanted all this to give
him a Championshi match, and he gave him until the
end of the night. You have until the end of
the show to fix this, and all this said to him,
I'll take it under consideration. Jacob Fatu and Jimmy Uso
they were in the ring and they were requesting the
presence of Solo's soca. They didn't get Solo Soca. Instead,
they got Royce Keys. Jimmy said, you don't look like Solo.
Key said that the issue that he has with Jimmy
is last week you mentioned my name. This week you
mentioned my name. So guess what. And this is what
he said, he brought Royce to that ass. Hmmm, I
don't know about that line. I don't know if that's
gonna stick. I brought Royce to your ass, That's what
he told them. But he guesses that Jimmy's here to
handle that family business. He goes that family business is
affecting everyone around here, and it's starting to affect me.
So Jimmy said, tonight it's all about OTC business. He said,
OTC the man that you run the place for, the
man who's not even here. So Jacob objected to this,
and so Jacob stepped up to him. That's his boy, right,
That's what they've told us, that these two are just
thick as thieves. They go back a long time. So
he steps up to Keys and Fontsu says, you know
the two of us are tight, so let's keep it
that way. Keys can say anything else about anyone, but
when it comes to the OTC, he said, please, I'm
begging you, please don't go there. Jimmy told Keys that
he doesn't tell them what to do. He's not part
of his family. Key said, the blood doesn't make your
ass family. It's loyalty that makes your ass family. You
know how many family members he lost? Said, your family
has fighting brother and cousin, fighting cousin. I wish I
had family that I could text and call. But Jacob
knows this. He knows I ain't got no family. Jacob's
been a brother to him and he refuses to let
him fall. So Jimmy said the Keys was about to
cross a line that he can't come back from. Do
you understand me? And Key said, I didn't come here
to fight tonight, but guess what it looks like. There's
a line right there. And he took a step and
he said, and I just crossed it. Jimmy said that
he and Jacob will put a beating on him worse
than anyone has ever beaten on him, or beaten him whatever,
I've just completely lost my marbles here. They're gonna beat
him worse than he's been beaten before, is basically what
he said. And Jacob said we he goes there ain't
no we here, Big jim this one's on you. I'm
out and Jacob left the ring. Jimmy said, I then
Nick all this, get a referee out here. Let's make
this thing official. And he told Keys, you can't come
back from this because that line right there, and then
he went to go cheap shot him. Keys though, stopped him,
and he sent him out over the top rope with
a clothes line and they cut to commercial. This was
a very boring segment. This was a very boring television segment,
and I don't really have a whole lot to say
about it. I mean, I'm glad that Royce Keys is
getting some promo time, but this bloodline stuff. Man, Ugh,
this was very dull. But it did lead to the
next match, which was Jimmy Usso against Royce Keys. Now,
what this match should have been was Royce Keys laying
a beat down on his ass. That's what this match
should have been. That's not what this match turned out
to be. Jimmy flew out of the ring at one
point with a pretty bad suicide dive before tossing Keys
over the announced desk. They took yet another commercial break.
After that break, Keys landed a pop up power slam
for a two count, and then down came the straps
and out goes Jimmy. He rolls out to the floor.
He goes out after him. He picks him up. He
drops him not once but twice on top of the
announced desk with the world's strongest slam, and then Keys
hoisted him up on his shoulders. Jimmy, though, sent him
face first into the ring post. And now Jimmy is
leaned up against the timekeeper's barricade. He's trying to catch
his breath. He's trying to collect himself, and all of
a sudden, out from behind the barricade we see Solo Socoa.
He really loves those red the pants, right, the red pants.
He's been wearing red for weeks. I don't know why
he doesn't have blue. You wear red on Monday, you
wear blue on Friday. But red is the only color
that apparently he has in his wardrobe right now. But
there he is behind the timekeeper's barricade and he attacked Jimmy.
He was about to spike him when they played Jacob's music,
so he spared him and out comes Jacob Fatu. Solo
wasn't running away, met him right at rings. As Jacob
came down, they met outside the ring, they started going
at it. They ended up over the timekeeper's barricade. Actually
Jacob went kind of to the side of it, but whatever,
they ended up getting taken out in that area. All
of this, though, distracted Royce Keys long enough that when
he turned around, he ate a spear from Jimmy Uso,
and Jimmy Uso went ahead and pinned Royce Keys to
win the match, Good Lord. After the match, fa Tu
got Solo in the ring. He stomped him in the corner.
He spun him around and fat two didn't hit him.
He was very upset though the two of them were
actually was more Keys there was talking to him. Fatsu
looked remorseful, but then he superkicked Keys and then he
gave him a running standing sent on here, Jimmy slid
a chair into the ring. Two plays the chair around
Solo's head. Solo was sitting in the corner. Fatu backed
up and he was going to go for the running
hip attack. As he came in, though, he put on
the brakes, and I'm watching this and I'm like, I
thought he was all gassed, no brakes wit it Apparently not,
because tonight he put the brakes on and then he
knelt down in front of Solo and he said, you
better listen up on Monday when we speak to you,
because next time he won't stop. And Wade Barrett on
commentary said, the message that was being sent is that
Solo should come to Raw on Monday so that they
could speak to him on behalf of the tribal chief
and Joe Tessiturus said that Raw would be fascinating given
what just happened. No, no, it won't. There's nothing fascinating
about any of this. They actually, I said at the beginning,
they actually found a way to get me to cheer
for Solo, so coen. And it's the weirdest thing here
because I don't know who anybody is supposed to be anymore.
There's so much in the way of like shades of
great and shades of gray could be a good thing,
but like it's kind of like the Death Riders stuff.
After a while, you don't know, like, am I supposed
to like these people because I really don't like them,
but like they're putting them in there against heels or
the people in the audience are like cheering them, or
they're split, and I don't know what this is supposed
to be. That's basically where we're at right now with
the bloodline. From one week to the next. Roman never changes,
right Roman reigns has always been a heel and the
fans can cheer and they could chant otc all they
want to. He's a fucking heel. Okay, that hasn't changed.
That's very well established. He's an asshole, so we know that.
So then we have the ussos and again it seems
to change from week to week. The people love to
yeat when Jay Uso comes out, but even Jay like
sometimes he gets all like riled up about something or
he gets up in like La Knight's face or whatever
it may be. And we don't know if he supposed
to be a healer, a babyface, Jimmy, same thing, Jacob.
I don't know what the fuck is going on with Jacob.
It's sad. It's sad that I was more into seeing
what Solo Sokoa was going to do tonight than Jacob Fatu.
But this is where we are Solo like, is he
gonna go Babyface or not? I don't know, but it
seems pretty clear to me that come Summer Slam it's
going to be a six man tag because all of
these men are intertwined. Right tonight it was Solo and Keys.
The only person who was not on the show tonight
and involved in all this was La Night. And if
they're saying that they want Solo to come to RAW
on Monday, then that's probably when we see La Night
get involved in this and we'll get a six man
tag and it'll be Jacob Fatu in the USOS against
Royce Key, Solo, Socoa, and La Night at SummerSlam. Right
It's it's it seemed very likely for the past week
or so that that's the match that they're building towards here.
But you know, watching Jimmy, you know, beat Keys in
this match with a fucking spear, it was just depressing.
It was I was really hop hoping this match was
not going to go that way, and then they did
it and I was like, oh God, speaking of Oh God,
there he is. There's Vince say he loot of Vince McMahon,
everybody on your screen? Who is that? Who set that
super chat in Raheem Cody Raheem Cody says Punk's chest
hair is his waxer on leave. I don't know. I
wasn't really paying much attention to his chest, Thank you,
Raheem Cody. Sammy's ain his social media video from after All,
the one that I referenced earlier, the crash out. They
showed it here on this show. He was complaining about
cm Punk, you know, ruining not just his title, reigning me.
He said, after twenty four years, how could this guy
come back when he's been gone for two months? He
hasn't even been around. He just shows up and just
like that, he's the new WWE champion. They censored him.
He called Punk a motherfucker. So Kathy Kelly interviewed Punk
in the back and she asked him about Sammy's comments
and Gunther's comments. I just noticed we are one away
from the bonus goal. Very good. By the way, for
those of you who are joining late, there's the wheel.
Three hundred and fifty likes was the main goal. We
have surpassed that. We are now at four oh nine
so we are guaranteed one round, possibly two. We're nine
out of ten on the bonus goal. We'll see how
that goes. But Kathy asked him about the comments being
made by Zay and by Gunther, and Punk said he
hopes everyone is upset that he's wrestling Cody Road at SummerSlam.
Said that he wants everybody to be upset about it
because they can get in line behind them. And Punk
said he's been called much worse, especially on social media,
than what Sammy's aint called him. So Punk turned and
he saw Johnny Gargano what else, planking on a crate
and Candace Loray was standing right next to him. Candace
says that, you know, sammy'se a might be annoying, but
he never gave up on Johnny. There was hope for
people like them because of Sammy's ain't and Punk stole
that from them. And Punk says, you know, he hopes
that Johnny can hear him. He remembers the real Johnny,
Johnny wrestling, and Candace too. He says that they should
be in the ring doing what they do best because
this this isn't working. It hasn't been working for months.
But that hasn't stopped them from continuing to do it.
So he turned to go leave, and standing there is
Finn Balor smiling in his face, and Balor welcomes the
champion to SmackDown. I look forward to the inevitable third
encounter when Punk beats Balor again. I said before, you know,
pinn Balor is gone, but I didn't say pin Balor
was gone forever. Pin Balor is gone for one night.
He's gone for one week. He'll be back. Oh, he'll
be back, Pinn Balor. From what I understand, I got
some breaking news here. This isn't even news that Meltz
had or Sap or anybody else or Wrestle votes or
Wressel votes or anyone. I hear from my birdies and
my sources that pin Balor is actually away on vacation Ireland.
He's gone back to go you know, visit the family
and you know, just do what you do in Ireland.
I haven't been to Ireland. It is one place I
would like to go to one day. But he'll be back.
Oht believe me, he'll be back, and it won't be
very long before he's back. After this, we had Alexa
Bliss with Charlotte Flair in her corner, taking on Jade
Cargill who had the batties meechin and BFAB in hers.
Later in the match, there was an attempt by Bliss
at a high cross body. She got snatched right out
of the air, caught by Jade, but she reversed out
of that into a sister Abigail DDT attempt and when
she did boy she got a nice pop for it too.
She couldn't follow through though on the move. Jade was
able to counter out of that. The batties got involved here,
so Charlotte reciprocated, and then Meetchen went after Charlotte. Charlotte
took out Meechen, but then Bfab took out Charlotte. Bfab
at that point gets up on the apron. Alexa then
knocks Bfab off the apron, but then she turned and
walked right into a pump kick and then Jade put
her down with Jaded to win the match. Now, when
the match was over, the batties they were going on
a three on one assault here basically on Charlotte. Meanwhile,
Jade grabs a steel chair or they grab one for her.
Alexa is still down. She places Alexa's left arm in
the chair, and I thought she was gonna stomp on
it like pilmanize it. She didn't do that. She begins
to bend the chair backwards a little bit, and you
can see the angle of Alexa's elbow is. It's all
like the torque is being put on it. It's bending
at this, this disgusting angle. And again, for those of
you who don't remember, or if you weren't watching SmackDown back,
then she is double jointed. They've done a couple of
angles before. It's definitely more than once they've done the
angle where excuse me, somebody does something to her and
they try to break her arm, snap it whatever, and
then she can just kind of, I guess, you know, whatever,
like just twist it in such a way that makes
you want to vomit. Right, it looks great, It looks
devastating and looks disgusting. It looks painful. I do wonder though,
if that is uh any of our double jointed people
can tell me if there is any any real pain involved.
I don't know. I am not double jointed. Even if
I was, I don't think I would have the balls
to even try something like that. But anyway, so she
begins to wrench back on the chair and then Alexis
starts turning with her. So it didn't really like the
last thing Jay did was she gave it like one
good snap down to the mat and Alexis sold it
well and everything. But like when Alexa started moving her
own body and kind of rolling over because she was
on her stomach and now she's I don't know, it
just it felt. I don't know if it was meant
to come off that way or not. That part didn't
look too great. But at the end of it, she's
selling the arm and they're showing the arm. They get
a close up view and it's at this disgusting angle,
and it was great. I thought it was actually a
very effective way of putting heat on Jade. She went
after Charlotte's partner, She went after her best friend. They
did something very similar earlier this year. Oh yeah, with
Jade and Rhea going into WrestleMania. I said, the only
card they really have to play here, if they really
want to put some heat on Jade and get some
sympathy for Rhea wanting to get revenge, you have Jade
go after EO, try to believe is what she did
to try to get to to Ria. So they're just
running the same angle back here. They're just doing it
with Charlotte and Alexa instead. But I thought what they
did was actually very effective. Jojo says, it's not painful
for me, Okay, good, good, Well you know who it
was painful for. Although this was not double joint. This
is something completely different. But it made me think of
Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon when his shoulder goes out.
It's it's the thing where he did It's SummerSlam last
year and he has to find like a wall or
something or a pole, and he smashes his shoulder and
put his shoulder back into place that I would imagine
that has to hurt like a fucking bitch. Oh my god,
that's very different. Though I had my arm pulled out
of the socket when I was very young, it did
not from what I remember, it did not feel too good.
In the back, Uh, here we go, Here we go.
Trick Williams is in the back, and Trick is very
concerned because he seemingly has misplaced his United States Championship
Lil YACHTI comes in and he says, actually he got trick,
a new title, a legacy version of the United States Championship,
which now has a white fur strap. I want you
to look look at this thing. I have lifted these
photos directly from WWE shop dot com. Oh, they time
this out. I would imagine this went live tonight at
some point, unless it's been up for a while and
we're only first seeing it on TV. But hot off
the presses. This is what the United States Championship now
looks like. Would you look at this thing? Look at
this fucking belt. They have turned the United States Championship
into gandolf. Also, they can sell them for seven hundred bucks,
seven hundred dollars for this, and believe me, they will,
Oh they will. They're guaranteed to sell out of these things.
They just put up the Crown Jewel Championship as a
replica for two thousand dollars. They're almost sold out of those.
This is the front of the belt. Look at the back,
Look at the strap. Look at this. My god, what
an ugly fucking belt. They actually they made it worse
the United States Championship. Is that a fairly nice looking belt,
and they actually found a way to make it worse.
I know you know the champions get custom belts. I
wasn't really a fan of the Spinner all those years ago,
but there have been some custom belts that I've liked.
I mean, like the Smoking Skull is still like the
iconic I mean, I guess he's in the million Dollar belt,
but like the million Dollar belt, the Smoking Skull belt, right,
there have been some really cool custom belts. This is
not one of them. Yes, it looks like a fucking Ferbie.
Don't get this thing. Oh my god. Now, I can't
wait for him to lose this championship. But the fact
that they're selling these, you know he ain't losing that
title anytime soon. I can't wait, though, for him to
lose his belt now so we don't have to look
at this anymore. We had Trick Williams though, in a
non title match after this against Carmelo Hayes. Now, early
in this match, they showed Ricky saying, yeah, they're not
shipping it until November. It's a good point offman, so
I'm not expecting him to be dropping this title anytime soon.
These belts don't even ship out until November. Falcon Star
says the million Dollar Belt was the million dollar belt
was awesome. The million dollar belt was very very cool.
I actually know it was really cool about the million
dollar belt is when DiBiase finally went into the jewelry
shop to pick up the belt after weeks and weeks
and weeks of vignettes, and he busts into the shop
and he's wearing a cape for reasons that I still
don't understand. He's wearing a fucking cape, and he just
busts through the doors and he says, I'm here, and
everyone's all spooked. He almost gave my heart attack. And
then the guy's like, yes, mister Dibias, we finally were
finally finished. We finally have a championship belt ready for you,
worthy of you. And we never see what the belt
looks like, but they have this great shot, very over
the top. The guy is like opening the box or
whatever that it's in, and we see a point of
view shot from like looking up at DiBiase's face and
he's just looking at it and he did that maniacal
like cackle and laugh. It was like so over the
top and cheesy, but it was so fucking great. And
then they debuted the belt and it looked it looked tremendous.
It looked tremendous. Not worth a million dollars. I think
he said the belt was made for about forty thousand,
but still that's a hey to me. A forty thousand
dollars belt is still a very expensive belt. They showed
Ricky Saints on a television in the back watching this
match these two. I thought we were actually having a
pretty solid match that was building nicely. I can't fault
them for not wanting to give too much away here.
I think they gave just enough away. But I can't
fault them for not wanting to give too much away
if the plan is to run this back at SummerSlam.
But about that. About that, Hayes first forty eight got
countered into a year in Agie. Hayes the counter that
into a roll up for a two count. So Mellow
was looking for another frog splash after he had hit
a successful one earlier in the match. It was a
great one too, He got some great height on it
this time, though he crashed and burned and outside the ring.
They ended up outside the ring, Hayes shoved trick into
Lil YACHTI, and YACHTI took a bump, went down back inside,
Mellow connected with the first forty eight and he headed
up to the top when all of a sudden, we
hear this commotion from the crowd and I'm like, is
Ricky Saints coming out? Like What's what's happening here? And
Baron Corbin is on the apron. I'm like, what the fuck?
What's he doing here? We knew he was coming him back, right,
He just I think had to vacate one of his championships,
tag team title. I think in MLW it seemed pretty
clear he was on his way back. But I just
had it in my head that he was going to
be involved in some comedy bullshit and certainly was not
going to be involved in any of this. And all
of a sudden, there he is in the middle of
this match, and he is standing on the apron and
Hayes looks down at him, and Hayes ends up, you know,
getting knocked off the ropes, and the referee basically just
throws the match out. So he gives Carmelo the End
of Days. He gives Trick the End of Days. He
goes outside, he grabs the Ferbie, the Ferbie belt, and
he brings it into the ring, drops it over Trick's
body and then he leaves some generic music that they
played for him. The match was going fine, and then
he showed up, and it was a legitimate surprise to me,
not that he would come back, but that he would
come back in this spot that I did not see
coming because of the stuff with the gurney and dan
Housen's laboratory. And again there were no reports about what
he was going to be doing. It was just we
see the Dan Housen stuff every single week. There's this
long body, this big guy laying on a gurney. You
hear rumors that Baron Corbin is on his way back.
You put two and two together and you're like, oh, okay,
he must be under the sheet. And then he wasn't
under Maybe he was under the sheet. Maybe he just
finally woke up and he decided, Okay, I'm back. I
want to go after the US title. I shouldn't say
that we don't know for sure that he was under
the sheet, but it doesn't look like it's him under
the sheet. So I'm a much bigger fan of reintroducing
him in this way because at least here he's being
introduced into a serious program in the mid card, you know,
for their second biggest men's championship on the show, instead
of being reintroduced as part of some kind of comedy
goof So already, this is a much better spot for
him to be in than the one I thought they
were going to give him. What this means for Summer Slim,
We'll have to see. Now you look at this, he
attacked Trick and he attacked Mellow, So you start to
think triple threats because now they're both going to have
issues with him because he laid them both out. Is
that what we're looking at here? Right? But then they
showed Ricky Saints watching on in the back earlier. Even
though Ricky Saints got beat clean by Trick at Night
of Champions, they showed him for a reason. Does Ricky
end up being a part of this at Summer Slim.
I don't really see the need for it. He was
already beaten. You could do it like if you wanted
to do a four. I mean, we're getting ahead of
ourselves here, but I'm just saying, you have a bunch
of people now that are involved in this US title picture.
I'm sure that we're going to end up getting Trick
and Mellow in the ring together at Summer Slim. But
are they going to introduce Corbin into that and turn
it into a three way based on what we saw here,
I think that's a pretty safe assumption. As far as
Corbyn being back, you know, when he got released, he
went on an indie run. He found great success in
MLW actually as part of that team with with de Jack,
you know, like the New Skyscrapers. You know, he did
a shot for Hog, but he worked you know, different
different indies and it was doing very well for himself.
I know he had the gig on the Sirius XM,
so we had a few different things going on. I
hope for his sake that this time things will be
different than they were the last time when they called
him up from NXT to the main roster and it
seemed like that was the worst possible thing they could do.
Funny enough, I remember Donovan de Jack saying something similar
that when he was in NXT and he was chosen last.
I believe in the supplemental draft to go back to
Monday Night Raw, he knew it was over. He got
called back up and before he even made it to
Raw he knew it was over, and it was, and
so for Corbin's sake, you know, him coming back, hopefully
it'll be a little bit better for him. I'm not
expecting anything radically different for him, just like I wasn't
expecting anything radically different from Matt Cardona. Cardona is exactly
in the spot that I expected him to be in.
I suspect Corbyn will be in a very similar spot
to what I anticipate he'll be in. But like, could
he end up having a US title run and maybe
at some point. I still don't see them taking the
belt off trick anytime soon, But I mean, this is
a good spot for him to be back in, and
I think he's a perfectly solid, you know, pickup for
that mid card on SmackDown. Yeah. I've ragged on Corbin
before just because of some of the shitty gimmicks that
he had. I mean, god, it just got to a point,
like the constable stuff and the happy Corbin stuff. Dude,
it was fucking awful. I mean, he tried to make
the most of it. What are you gonna do, right,
You try to make it work. You try to turn
chicken shit into chicken salad as best you can. I
still say that I was the biggest fan of his
when he was you know, bum as Corbin in the street,
down on his luck, you know, with spaghetti sauce on
his fucking shirt, and that there was more meat on
the bone there. There was more they could have done
with that to turn him into an even bigger babyface.
But now he's back and we'll see, we'll see where
they go with him for SummerSlam. But based on what
they did here, I think it seems pretty clear where
he's going to end up. So then to close the show,
close the show, we had Gunther make his way out
to the ring and he called out Nick Aldis, who
raced out to the ring and said that he had
time to think about it and he was going to
give gun Through exactly what he wants by having CM
Punk and Cody Rhodes at Madison Square Garden next weekend,
and he announced it will be CM Punk and Cody
Rhads together as tag team partners taking on Gunther and
the last real good guy Sammy's a. Gunh told all this,
I warned you to fix this mistake. All this said.
The only mistake that needed to be fixed was me
thinking that you would not be a giant pain in
my ass after I signed you to this brand. All
this then announced the crowd that the Summer Slam main
event would remain CM Punk against Cody Rhoades for the
WWE Championship, which again should put to bed any notion
of Gunther or Sammy Zain or anybody else being added
to that match. So Gunther had enough of this shit,
and as all this was making this announcement, Gunther ambushed
him from behind. Then he picked him back up, and
he dropped him with a clothesline. Then he put him
in a sleeperhole. So here come referees and producers and
they're trying to, you know, pull this guy off, and
finally they get Gunher to release the hold. But then
Gunher laid all this out with a big boot. When
he gets back up to his feet and he reapplies
the sleeper and he refuses to let go. All of
these men are trying to pull him off and they
are unable to do so they're powerless to do anything
about this until finally we hear Cody Roads music and
Cody comes out. He did not seem in any great
rush to get to the ring and help Nick. All
this I'd be very upset if I was Nick all this.
Cody didn't sprint down to the ring. He came out
very casually. He took the time to take his track
jacket off, and as he's in the middle of making
his way, he did not even hit the ring. He
was on his way to the ring, but before he
could even hit the ring, and Joe Tessitur was in
the middle of speaking, he was in the middle of
a sentence, the show just cut off that They had
put the copyright box and the producer credits on like
a lot earlier, I think when Gunther had all this
in the sleeper hold, so that was already shown earlier,
but they just very abruptly just cut the show off again,
like oh we forgot, We're not three hours anymore now.
On social media, they have since posted the clip of
what happened when the show went off the air, which
is absolutely nothing. Gunther left the ring, Cody got the mic,
he wanted to wrestle Gunther right here, right now, send
out a referee, and instead Gunther just walked to the
back and everybody booed and that was the end of that.
So we didn't really miss much of anything. But it
was very very odd. It didn't strike me as something
they did on purpose. This is actually something we would
occasionally see back in the day on like Raw or Nitro,
especially Nitro. This was like very abrupt though. This was like,
there's no way they were anticipating going off the air
when they did with Joe tessitour in the middle of
a sentence, So that was just very very strange. They
seem to have missed time the end of the show.
But for the official Summer Slim match that we got tonight,
there's this other Summer Slim match that is not yet official,
but basically we know it's going to be based on
what we just saw because now there can be no
doubt even though he's already been reinstated, he's back in
the GM role. Nick All, this is going to wrestle
his first match in WWE unless he picks a surrogate
to take his place, but I don't see any reason
to do that. The issue was between him and Gunther,
and they've built it up now to where people are
going to want to see that match. You know, they
gave us a pl match last year between Gunther and
Pat McAfee if they could do gun Through against Pat McAfee.
They could do fucking gun Through against Nick All this,
and he'll finally get to wrestle a match. And of
all the people for him to get in the ring with, like,
there are fewer names I could think of that would
be a great opponent for him than Gunther. You know,
there was a period of time where I thought we
were going to get him against Drew McIntyre, and I'd
probably would like to see that match even more. I
think the promos would be great too, But gun Thro
is not a bad opponent for him to have if
this is going to be his one and only match.
So we're just waiting on the official announcement after what
we saw tonight because we know it's coming. Because think
about it, like what else will Guntherer even be doing
on that show? And for the people who say, well,
you know he could be he could be included into
the WWE Championship match. A no B. Why would they
give him a title match? Why would they reward him
with a championship match? Why would Nick All this reward
him with a championship match after he was physically assaulted
by this man? It makes no sense. So that went
out the window tonight. The only match that makes sense
is the obvious one. And so the SummerSlam card now
is starting to take shape. Roman and Seth Cody and
Punk Charlotte and Jade Gunther and all this trick and
mellow maybe with Corbin thrown in Live Morgan in EO Sky.
How many is that? Because I think they were saying
something about thirteen or fourteen matches this year between Oh
Well Penta. We'll find out on Monday, hopefully Chad Gable
challenging Penta for the Intercontinental title. What else do you
think we're looking You think we're looking at maybe Tiffany
Stratton defending the US title, Maybe maybe Blake Monroe. What
else do you think we're looking at? Any tag team
matches out oh the six man Tag, the blood Line
against La Night, Solo Socoa and Royce Keys. I still
feel like I'm missing something though, Am I missing? I
don't know, but that seems to be the Summer Slam
card right now that they have sketched out for this show.
If Petter be Chad Gable against Pentus, as I am
Kendall I said it on Monday after Raw, they have
one job. They have one job. This is only it's
the easiest thing in the world. In that Gauntlet match
on Monday, send Chad Gable to Minneapolis. Simple, Oh, I'm
Brock and Oba. I forgot the Oh yeah, I just
the one match I forgot is the Helen is Cell
match on the show. Sure, how could I forget that?
Gunther and Brock inside Helen is Cell. Yeah. We still
have no update on Rhea Ripley. It's so weird they
don't say anything about her on the show. Now for
the last few weeks. She's the fucking WWE Women's Champion
and we don't even have a clue she's going to
be defending the title at summerslim. We have no idea
could be j C. Jane. I was gonna mention there
was a fatal influence pre tape video promo on the show,
but I mean, you know whatever, they didn't say much
of anything, so I glossed over it. Sue me. Super
Pony says Ko against Sammy. I just have a feeling
i'd love that. I don't think so. I think you're wrong,
but I certainly wouldn't mind that. I feel like the
only hope at this point for Sammy's aying to have
a match on that show is going to be Johnny
Gargano rising from the crate and I'm sorry, but that's
not a Summer Slim match. Joseph says, do you think
Missy Hyatt is underrated in the wrestling community? I mean,
there's probably a lot of people that aren't familiar with
her work, and I think she was. Yeah, she was
a good She wasn't just a manager. She did other things,
but she was a good manager there for a while.
I don't know if I would say she's underrated, though.
D you see Keana James in ae W in the future?
I mean the future is there's a lot yet to
come in the future. It's impossible to say you're already
putting her in aw No, I think she's going to
be in WWE for some time to come. Happy birthday
to Nick Wayne. So how old is he now? Twenty
twenty one? How old is Nick wayn? I see, I
just guessed twenty one. Wouldn't that be something if I
was right? Let's see Nick Wayne is? How old is
Nick Wayne? Nick Wayne is twenty twenty? I was off
by one boy? Did they abandon that whole feud with
Christian didn't they so much for that? And Justph says,
do you know why Nick Wayne and his mom haven't
been on AW television in a while? I don't know,
but I've missed Mother Wayne on TV. I think they've
been stuck in Ring of honor. Mind the gaps is
I have shirts older than Nick Wayne. Yeah, it's even crazy.
I've almost been doing the SoundOff for as long as
Nick Wayne has been alive. November will be nineteen years
of doing the SoundOff. Nick Wayne is only one year
older than the SoundOff. So you believe that? Now? That's crazy?
That is crazy. Joseph said, did Raven and Brian Pillman
Junior ever have a match? Brian Pillman Junior? No, I
did not know that. Thank you, Joseph Buyer, Sell, Bruce
Wayne or Peter Parker. Bruce Wayne, of course says, I
am looking forward to your Dark Side of the Ring
review on TNA. I hope so, I hope. So it's
gonna be big one. It's a double episode I'm reviewing.
I got a lot to say about TNA and Jay
that'll be on Sunday. One of the many reasons to
look forward to the SoundOff every week that TNA didn't
make the mistakes they did and was very successful. Would
AW still exist? Well, that's one of those one if questions.
Isn't it very possible that AW doesn't exist? If the
stars align and TNA ends up doing a lot better
than they ended up doing, very possible AW doesn't exist.
Oh boy, we're really creeping up on that bonus bonus goal,
aren't We were three out of five. Misfit says, I
know people like to make dark side of the Ring
episode predictions. I want an episode on the Stardom incident
where then World of Stardom champion Yoshihiko off script on
act Yasukawa beating her to a pupil. Oh no, I
said Yoshihi go. I read that as Yoshihika. No, yosh Yoshiko,
not Yo. That's very I shouldn't laugh. That was a
very serious That was a very serious incident. That was
a very serious incident beating her. She beat her pretty bad,
actually fractured her her face. She did. God, I forgot
about that. I know why, I said Yoshihiko. I didn't
know Yoshihiko had done that to somebody, But I see,
I don't know that getting a whole episode out of
that one incident, though that seems like a stretch. I
feel like that that's the sort of episode they might
do at the very tail end, when they really are
just running on fumes and have no other ideas. Joseph says,
what will Deborah McMichael's legacy be and what will she
be remembered for? I think she'll mostly be remembered for,
I mean within wrestling. Me personally, I would remember her
more for being with Jeff Jarrett and WCW. But I'm
sure a lot of people would say her time with
Steve Austin and baking cookies and you know, all the
things that she did when she was part of the
Alliance period on TV. But for me, I just remember
her coming out dressed up as like, you know, the
what state was she from? I was gonna say miss whatever,
but I forgot what she look at the prom queen,
you know, coming out and everything with Jeff. She had
the gloves on and everything, the white gloves actually with
Mango and then Jeff. It was Mango and then Jeff.
Beyond that, she doesn't really have much of a legacy
in wrestling. It's not a knock on her personally, she
just didn't She didn't do anything else. She won the
women's title in WWFF, nobody remembers. It wasn't like she
was an actual wrestler. She had no business being in
the ring. Thank you, Joseph. I hope you have a
great weekend, brother, wherever you may be. Was she from Alabama?
I don't know. I don't know what state she was
from or where they were living at the time. Death
Scythe says, looking back at WrestleMania twenty five, it should
have been Edge Sina Jeff for the World Heavyweight Championship
because Edge won the WWE title back from Jeff for
the Royal Rumble, Jeff pinned Edge in the WWE title
elimination Chamber and Edgepenn Sena in the World Heavyweight Championship
Elimination Chamber. Actually, I'll do you one better. It should
have been John Cena against hul Cogan like they originally planned,
because that would have been the big match to do.
And you headlined Mania with Hogan seen in the back
of the two Generations and then Undertaker seaw Michaels, and
then you have your title matches and a what a
card that would have been but just from like a
promotional perspective, on the silver anniversary of WrestleMania, it would
have been big to have Hogan in there in a
match with Sina, and that would have been a good
match for him to go out on, but he had
back surgery and it didn't work out that way. He
also says Big Show being in the World Heavyweight Championship
triple Threat was so forced and Matt and Jeff was underwhelming.
Instead of instead have Matt cost Jeff the match and
have Matt and Jeff feud after WrestleMania and seen a
Big Show still feud after Backlash, I would never have
had Jeff in Matt feud. I wouldn't have done that
to begin with. That was that was not the way
to go. Death side with A twenty says Hbka Taker
would have still been the match of the night, but
Edge Sina Jeff would have had a better chance of
following it as the WrestleMania twenty five main events than
Triple h and Orton and we would have been spared
that stupid Edge Vicky Big Show Love Triangle. Well, I
definitely agree with that. I think it would have had
a better chance of not dying after Undertaker Sean than
Triple H and Orton did plus during the match, he says,
when Edge is briefly boy, he's really thought this out here.
When Edge is briefly taken out of the equation, I
think the moment in crowd reaction when Sena Jeff would
have got when they do their stare down and exchange yeah,
I mean again better than Triple Ah Orton the fuck yeah,
of course that would have been. That would have been
ten times better. Nick got like, look like tornado moving
in with all these super chats, look at this kind
of see Evil Dead burn tonight with my best friend.
I'll let you know how it is. Please do Somebody
else asked me about the Evil Dead movie, I'd have
to see the other ones before I see the new one.
I just never I just never saw any of them solo.
Do you think Sammy should be the one to win
money in the bank. He's definitely a favorite I think
right now for money in the bank, he's a favorite
of mine to win it. He says, I don't know
if you saw Seamus's tweets, assuming he's a free he
is a free agent. He is, indeed, and I will
leave it at that Solo. Who wins the aw Women's
World Championship at all in Tecla, Willow or Mercedes. Right now,
I'm leaning towards Willow defending against Mercedes and possibly winning
and retaining the title. Talk to me in a month,
I may feel different. I do think will I was
getting the belt though, and he says, looking forward to
your Dark side of the Ring reviews. I like hearing
that there is a lot of interest in these reviews.
You never know when, like the latest season might be
the last, and I put a lot of time and
effort into them, so hopefully you guys enjoy him. Hey,
Oscar says Punk WWE Champion, Omega ae W Champion. It's
the summer of Unks. It is actually the summer of Unks.
Roman's not too far behind them, by the way, Roman,
I would say, Roman is up there in Unk territory.
They got Nemath. There's the TNA champion. How old is Nicknameath?
He's been around for a minute. Nico says, Hey, Solo,
I'm gonna see Toy Story five tomorrow afternoon. I'll give
my review on the next live stream, please do. It
was one of my favorite movies of the Year. Not
my favorite movie of the year, but one of my
favorite movies of the year. He says. Did you know
that Billy Crystal was Pixar's first choice to voice Buzz Lightyear?
He declined, but later on regretted it to how bet
he did and then he got the voice in Monsters Inc. Yeah,
that's one of those things where you look back on
it and go, man, I shouldn't have said no to that.
Have I seen any other Pixar outside of the Toy
Story movies? Was that movie up? Was that a Pixar movie?
I'm pretty sure I saw that one. No, not too
many other Pixar movies. Though I saw Wally. Was Wally
a Pixar movie? I think it was. I saw Wally
when it came out. Browley says, I know WWE is
not great right now, but watching them after only watching
World Cup for a month feels way more depressing than usual. Lol,
I can't sit through it. You mean to tell me
that SmackDown is not as exciting to you as the
World Cup? Is that what you're telling me? Chicago for MBK, Hey,
that punkin Cody promo was not good. I mean it was.
It was not their best work for sure. There was nothing.
There was no meat to it, because I would hope
they're setting up for that in the next few weeks
they have to, But like, this was not seth Rollins
coming out a couple of weeks ago and confronting Roman
and getting into all their history, and they really just
made this as basic as possible, Like, hey, you know
when I told you a few months ago that if
you wanted a title shot, just say the word when,
and Punk was like when, and then they shake hands
and that's it. Not a whole lot to it. Prince
Begeta says Molina against Alicia Fox is the greatest match
of all time, Happy Friday. There is probably some you
know girl out there right now who would agree with you,
because it's probably the only wrestling match they've ever seen,
and so therefore it's the greatest of all time. Super
Pony with the nine ninety nine, they really fucked over
Sammy big time. At least Christian was on TV the
next week after he lost the title and got a
four month long program with Randy Orton. Feel awful for Sammy, Well,
he's taking a mental health break, super Punk and at
least he'll be in the main event of Madison Square Garden.
Where he goes after that match is the question that
I don't know the answer to. I don't know the
answer to that. It just seems to me like with
him out of that scene, I can't I mean, outside
of the Johnny Gargano stuff, what else has he even
been connected to? I mean, nothing else. That's why somebody
wrote him before and said that him and Ko that's
as good a guess as any. Not sure what else
he'd be doing. Someone's saying the chat that The Furious
is out on digital. Yeah, I wanted to see that
in the I wanted to see that in the theaters
and it was just out of the theaters when I
wanted to go see it. I'm going to add that
to my watch list. I wish I could see that
on the big screen, but I'll definitely have to check
that out if it's out on digital. Super Pony says,
welcome back Baron Korb, Welcome back Corbin Corbin. I think
he meant Baron Corbin, Mellow and tricks sounds like a
banger triple threat. I'm down for that. At Summer Slow,
I see what you said. Welcome back Corse, see you
misplaced the comma. It changed the whole meaning of the superchat,
or you're missing one. You missed the comma there. And
you see how important punctuation can be. That's why I
was so fucked up when I was reading your superchat.
Puncture proper punctuation very important. Niko says, can they coexist?
As I roll the eyes in the back of my head,
do you think this would lead to a fatal four
way Summer Slime? No, it will be no fatal four
way misfit wrestling podcast with a ten. Someone actually saw
Nick All just get the crap kicked out of him
by Gunther and said, yeah, it's a four way it's
Are you picking on Nico now? Yeah. You can't watch
the end of that show tonight and still think that
they're doing a four way at Summerslim. The answer is no,
nor should they. I gotta be honest with you, Like
like Gunther with the world title scene and everything, I'm done.
I'm done. Let him do something else. I don't want
him in that match at Summer Slim. Even if he
was available to be in the match, I would not
add him to the match. I would keep it one
on one flamethrower. Fluff's Salisbury would not ever happen. But
I would love to have Pco as Dan Housen's creation
under the sheets. So you saying under the sheets kind
of threw me off there a little bit, uh, but yeah,
I mean the gimmick would fit. Holy shit Wrestling says,
Vince is back and you cannot convince me otherwise. What
was it that gave it away to you that you
think Vince's back? Was it the return of Baron Corby?
Was it something else? Craig Humphreys, what's going on? Craig says,
I've never seen Nick all this wrestle. Is he any good? Yeah?
I mean he's he's a he's a solid wrestler. Yeah,
I mean he's good. Former NWA champion, former TNA champion,
although his run at nw A was better than his
magnus stuff in TNA, carried himself well, I thought was
the NWA champion actually has a great a couple of
matches with him, but there's a there's a great match
at all in that he had with Cody Rhodes many
years ago. Not a flashy wrestler, He's not the kind
of wrestler who's going to be out there doing all
kinds of like flips and moves that make your jaw
drop or anything like that. He's a perfectly you know, competent,
you know technical i'd say technical in ring wrestler. We
got Sea guy is here always like Korb, and he
deserves a solid mid run. Well, mid is a good
word to describe much of his last run. Hopefully this
time they'll go a different way with him. Raheem Cody
Solomonster hoping to see the Creed Brothers get a big
push suit. Now that WWE said that they are committed
to rebuilding the tag team division, Who's who? Where did
they say this? I would point me to the statement
where they said this. I don't believe it. I don't
believe they're committed to shit. Actually, shit is the one
thing they've been committed to in the tag team division.
I don't believe them. Venom Kittetsu. Every time you say
one on one, I keep expecting you to follow up
with with the great one. I've been attitude error programmed
by the Rock. I thought you were going to say
one on one with the Undertaker. That's that's ruthless aggression
era though Saint James says, can we expect an l
a night promo at CM punk next? Why would he
cut a promo on CM punk because of what he
said last week? I guess it would be consistent with
some of the other things that he has said about
people getting opportunities that they haven't earned. But no, he's
going to be a little bit busy with Bloodline Drama
and Bloodline Lore. He's still stuck in that vortex. JD
was talking about them rebuilding the tag teams a few
months ago. Well, yeah, he's out to lunch on that.
They're not rebuilding shit, Jeremy. I mean the reports about
them bringing back casen End Zone. All of a sudden,
everybody thinks they're rebuilding the tag team division. Now they're
bringing back a tag team act that was over because
they had a lot of catchy catchphrases and they could
sell a lot of merch. That does not equal them
having a desire to rebuild the tag team division. Jeremy says,
this company could have had a fire SmackDown by doing
something big like Cody or Punk Heel Turn, but instead
it was I want a title shot. Well, why would
they do the heel Turn tonight? That would be lame.
I'll just give everything away. If Cody or Punk was
gonna go heal, you do it at SummerSlam. You don't
just throw it out there on a random fucking SmackDown.
That would have been terrible. I agree, though, like them,
it was a very basic promo. I mean, there wasn't
much to it, but turning heel. No, you don't do
a heel turn on the show tonight, that would be counterproductive,
Prince Vegeta says, Jacob FAUGHTU gives me cartoon villain of
the weak vibes with this, with his stupid catch phrases
and his shaking thing or whatever the fuck you call it. Yeah,
it just it makes me sad though, that they've really
cooled him off. I mean, I'm sure at some point
the plan is to heat him back up months from
now and Roman will be back on vacation and maybe
Jacob will take a spot. But I don't like the
way they've cooled him down. I really don't. It's it's
just it's terrible, Jeremy says. So since SummerSlam, Gunther has
beaten down Cole McAfee and all this retired old guys
like Sena aj Goldberg and lost every title match. Great job.
Ww A, he's the career killer, are you not? Are
you not entertained by the career killer? He wasn't even
the one who ended McAfee's career in w W. McAfee
did that himself. He's the one that made that stipulation
for WrestleMania. James Crawford, there's that first one hundred dollars
bomb which I read earlier. James, thank you. He was
not done yet though. There was another one. This was
this was Boots losing his mind here over Kathy Kelly.
James though with that double bomb JFC, thank you, James. Yeah,
we got a bunch of Oh my god, is that
is that? Oh my god? Look who it is? Look
who just gifted a channel membership in the chat? Do
my eyes deceive me? It is Bulu? Fatulu Bulu? Where
have you been? We haven't heard from Bulu in forever?
Are we starting to fear that he left us? Thank
you for the membership, Actually, scum dog, I think gifted
a whole bunch. I think five channel memberships earlier. Scum dog?
Are you still here? Thank you? Scum dog. Brandon Procter says,
I Love You solo or almost a ninety three thousand
subscribers acknowledge the number one wrestling podcasts as we were
last week. Thank you Brendon. Yes, we are getting ever
ever so close to ninety three thousand subs, only seven
thousand away. Yeah, I do plan on resuming the classic
Sounduff uploads for the Legends Tier channel members right now.
It's the first thirteen or fourteen episodes that I ever
did of the sounduff. They're all up there. You can
listen to them if you're a Legends Tier member, and
I'm going to pick up with those. And the first
two episodes of SE Scoops Live, which many of you
are like, what's that? I was doing a call in
show with my buddy Noah, the mark for SE Scoops
after Raw on Monday nights starting in two thousand and eight.
First two episodes are also up for Legends Tier members.
We have Venom Catetsu the twenty five dollars super Chat.
There was a new trailer for Godzilla Minus zero yesterday,
shorter than the first one, so not much new stuff
to ponder. Do you have a favorite Godzilla movie Japan
or US? As a New Yorker, how was surviving Godzilla's
attack in ninety eight. I didn't see the ninety eight
one when it first came out. I saw many years later.
If I had a favorite one, man, I really enjoyed
minus one, which is why I want to see minus zero.
I might actually go minus one as my favorite one.
I didn't see all of them. There were some that
I miss but of the ones that I've seen, I'm
thinking minus one minus one was really good. And we
just hit the double bonus. The double bonus goal has
been achieved, which means that we have three. We have
three rounds. Do I even have enough left in the cup?
I don't know, but we've got three rounds. Would be
the booker coming up on tap. Hey, you guys have
just you've unlocked the Beast. Tonight for shits and giggles,
we'll put one more goal up here. We hit four,
we actually match what we did. I get was it
Monday when we did four? I believe it was. I
wish that they gave more flexibility in these in these goals,
like if you wanted to make it three three of
three of this or three of that, it's like one, five, ten, fifteen,
twenty fifth. The weird increment it will do five. What
the hell Jeremy Rose's Summer Slim has gone from fifty
seven thousand to now barely selling twenty thousand. Hello, TKO,
time to panic. Now they got to sell more furry
belts and merch because tickets don't sell. They'll sell, they'll
sell tickets. They're just not going to come close to
what they did last year. And it's a combination of
different things. You can't ignore the John Cena effect. John
Cena was on the card at least for Night Too
last year and it was his final Summer Slam. This
was announced and known in advance. We saw the effect
that Seena had on ticket sales when it came to
the weekly TVs. So that's part of it. But also
they just, you know, business was business was still booming
in a way that it is not. They're off the peak. Eventually,
you have to come down from the peak. And it's
also what happens when you price yourself out. So while
there are still plenty of people who are willing to
enable to spend on the tickets and the furry belts
and all the stuff they're putting out, a lot of
people can't, you know, And so there are people that
might normally go to SummerSlam who are going to be
priced out. That hasn't really changed, you know. The ticket
pricing is still very much an issue, even when they
have these ticket discounts twenty five percent off, you know,
like they did for the America two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
So you got the twenty five percent discount. For some
of the live events this year, they've tried to discount tickets.
It's not enough, though, and eventually their greed will catch
up to them. But it hasn't yet because they still
have plenty of people who are willing to pay those prices,
and until that changes, they don't really have any incentive
to change. But eventually it'll have to. It'll have to.
What goes up must come down. Venom Catetsu says, I
am the learning Brie. Thanks GenZ, thank you, Venom Caitetsu.
Raheem Cody, I read your message earlier. I don't have
a good answer for you, Dark Effect. When are they
going to give Jacob his manhood back? Let him get
Romans junk out of his mouth? And he puts that
this is family here. You're talking You're talking about an
incestuous relationship. Let him get Romans junk out of his
mouth and he puts down his purse before he talks
any more crap. They've completely made Jacob look like a
limp noodle. Oh nope, nope, let us not forget what
Michael Cole said after he lost to Roman Reigns the
last time. Right, what did he say the what was
the exact quote? The werewolf has been neutered, right? I
think I think neutered was the word that he used.
That's what he said on commentary. They neutered him. That's
a shoot. Boomerang says, do we see it? Drew McIntyre
return at Summerslim as a babyface to join the fight
against the Bloodline. I don't know if I'm ready for
McIntyre as a babyface. I don't think I like that.
I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that.
The Uffman says, Bonus be the booker. Let's go. Yeah,
we got three rounds coming our way. We're almost there.
Jeremy says, Well, TKO realize their shitty storylines are half
the problem with ticket sales. Got to fire the old
Vince guys like Bruce and ps Hay, I noticed you
didn't mention the Vince's son in law in that you
ignored him. You went right to the Vince guys. Is
he not technically a Vince Guy misbit wrestling podcast? So
like Big Cast is under Dan Housen's cloth, right, I'll
tell you what. And I think JD mentioned this on
TNT the other night when Dan Housen spoke to Matt
Cardona and told him that he had been on the
phone with somebody who was going to be his backup
at Saturday Night's made event. My initial thought was, okay,
well that's that's the Jalen Brunson spot. And then Jalen
Brunton went and had wrist surgery, so he may still
make it appearance, but he's not going to be able
to really play a role. He's not really going to
be able to do anything physical. And you know his
thought was, well maybe because it was in the way
Dan Housen said it, something like, oh no, no, like
the person he was on the phone with was real.
He's real, right, Well, Enzo is real. It's his name
on the NDC real one. So it could be a
spot where they're going to reintroduce casin Enzo in New York,
which would make sense, and they're going to reintroduce them
at Madison Square Garden and they're going to be part
of the Dan House and JD McDonald match segment. So
I could absolutely see that. In fact, I think that
sounds pretty likely. But why would that mean Big Cast
is under the sheet? Though? Where's Enzo? Then? Why would
only big Casts be under the sheet and not Enzo?
I don't know what they're doing with the sheet. Be
Man the champ, great Boring Corbin is back. Well, well, well,
hold on, now, let's give him a shot. Corbin did
some good stuff there at the end, and then they
just got rid of him. So I'm hopeful that this
is not just gonna of your return to the same old, boring,
boring Corbin bullshit that you know he was doing there
for a while. I'm I'm trying to be optimistic about that.
Orbin does have something he can contribute to the mid
card on that show. Misfit Wrestling Podcast. I blame Naomi
for the trend of shitty custom straps on titles, Well,
I mean, she didn't invent it, can't really just blame
her for it. Retro Koh Trick Williams new gimmick is
being a furry. Apparently his belt looks like a strawberry
that has been left out in the sun for a
few days. Trust me, I know, Philip Bowman. Jeff Hardy's
custom TNA belt looks better than the first strap. I'll
tell you what. That purple Jeff hard He belt from
TNA does look better than this. Punch Perfect says you
missed the Fatal Influence vignette solo. No, I didn't. I
intentionally skipped over it. Ragnarok with a five Happy Friday brother,
The boys and I got tickets at the g One
show in Chicago tomorrow, my first g One. Not sure
what to expect, but very excited for it. That is
very cool. What you can expect is some really good wrestling.
I believe is Takeshta going to be on that show.
I think he is. Yeah. They're kicking off the g
One this year in Hoffman Estate's, Illinois, which is where
All Out is this year, just on the outskirts of
Chicago at the Now Arena. That's where the g One
is kicking off this year, and then it should be
off to Japan for Kenoski Takeshta for the next month.
Misfit Wrestling Podcast. WWE should upload the off air promo
from Halloween Havoc ninety six from Piper and Hogan on
the WCW Vault channel as the pay per view feed
cut mid promo. They should, and I'm sure they have
it in the vault and it'll probably pop up one day.
It's just very random when they upload these things. They
just uploaded a dark match from Boston between John Cena
and Cmpunk. I don't know what the year was on
it though. I don't know if it was twenty eleven,
twenty twelve. What about the Fiend Face Belt? Oh my god,
I forgot about that. You mean the Fiend Belt that
they initially sold for six thousand dollars. I gotta tell
you there's a There was a famous phone call that
I got on one of the streams many years ago.
It was on how to Be one of the Dynamite
reviews because thunder Rose at the time was in the
NWA and I think she was the NWA Women's Champion
and she appeared on Dynamite with the belt. I'm pretty
sure it was. Was it thunder Row? I think it
was thunder Rosa. This was Alison k Now I think
it was thunder Rosa anyway, So she had the belt,
and this caller was he was insistent that the belt
was made of plastic. And he had a very extensive
belt collection, replica collection, and he just was convinced that
this belt was plastic. I can't believe they would allow
her on TV with this plastic looking belts. And I
was like, I mean, it might be plastic. I couldn't
really tell, but he was insistent that it was plastic,
and I want to say that in the course of
our conversation, he said that he had bought the Fiend belt.
I think he had the Fiend belt, which at the
time they were selling for six thousand dollars, and I
was just I was blown away by this a that
somebody would spend six thousand dollars for a belt. But
I know there were people like if you get like
an originally handmade belt, yes, there are belts that will
go for that much, obviously, but why that belt. It
was an ugly fucking belt. I wouldn't pay six dollars
for that belt. That's what blew me away, Like, why
would anyone spend six thousand dollars on that, Randy, thank
you for the fifty dollars bomb. Armchair critic ten ten
because he murdered the first nine. A favorite attitude or
rivalry outside of Austin versus McMahon slash Rock, I mean,
would undertaker a mankind count? I mean not really though
probably right because it started in the in the new era,
Rock and Triple H was was a great rivalry and
it was real. I mean there was some real competition
going on between those two Rock and Triple h Is
up there. But if I if not Austin McMahon or
Austin Rock, I have to go Rock and Mankind. Rock
and Mankind would would be my number two. James again
with another one hundred dollars bomb, telling Randall so feel
left out. Randall cutting promos on guys left and right
cuts a better promo than half the people on TV
right now. Venom cantats you, James paid for some of
your new ac hewnon or a fuel pump. I have
a new thing now where I noticed the other day
whenever I hit the the the brake pedal to decelerate,
it makes this very weird noise, like they check the
brake pads and everything ever they say everything looks okay,
I'm like, all right, as long as you say it
looks okay. I put sixteen hundred dollars into Breakwork last year.
There shouldn't be anything wrong with them. Misfit Wrestling podcast
with a fifty dollars super chat. I know some people
like to make dark Side of the Ring episode predictions,
and we read this one already. Yes, the one that
I botched when I said Yoshihiko when it was Yoshiko. Yeah.
I talked about that also on the sound off when
it happened. I talked about that whole incident. It was terrible.
What an asshole Deputy Dog thinks he's a comedian now
he says solid monster all guess no breaks, son of
a bitch. Brandon Procter talking about the million dollar title.
Whyan kfa did Debiassi make the title? Was it because
he couldn't beat Hogan? No, it was because he didn't
need it. He didn't need the WWE Championship because he
was the million dollar man. He could pay for an
even better title, one that was more expensive, one that
was more glamorous. That was the basic gist of it.
Prince Vegeta. I've watched Sopranos twice and my mom has
even started watching it and is on season two. So
what is JD's excuse? I don't know. I've been telling
him this now for a couple of years. How have
you not watched the Sopranos. It's just it's insane to me.
But he hasn't seen Obsession either. What a weird guy,
fast Eddie says Solo. I'm a big fan of your
Dark Side of the Ring reviews. When are you gonna
review this season this weekend? First episodes didn't air until Tuesday,
so this will be the first sound off coming up
this Sunday since Dark Side returns, So it's a safe
bet I'll be talking about the first two episodes on
Sunday and then every week thereafter. You know, they have
new episodes that drop on WECE every Tuesday. I will
catch up with them during the week, take some notes,
review them on Sunday, and then the clips will hit
the YouTube channel a couple of days later. I want
people to download the sound off stream it listen to
it there, but they they'll hit YouTube as well at
some point, probably on like a week delay and there's
a playlist, by the way, so if you ever want
to go back and listen to any of my previous
dark Side reviews from the previous six seasons, these will
be added to the existing playlist. This is a playlist
section here on the YouTube channel. A bunch of different
playlists my raw reviews, SmackDown reviews, pay per view reviews,
dark Side reviews, countdowns I've done. I have them all
organized there, so I'll make sure these get added to
that playlist. And Alex says brother solo. Did you see
Big Show's return before Dynamite went live? I love the guy,
but it's time to hang up the boots. Oh did
he have a match at Beach Break? I didn't see it.
Did they put it on their YouTube channel? Because how
else would I have seen it? I did not see it.
I thought he was going to bring back this whole
Captain Insano thing. Wasn't he all excited about that? And
Tony Kahm bought the rights to it? Did he come
at as Captain Insano? Tla Mark Bannon? How about a
dark side of the Ring for Hannah Hanna Kamara. It's
still a little fresh. I think it's worthy of one
for sure. I just think it's a little too fresh.
They might not want to do it just yet although
it's been has it been five years? I think it's
been five years now. At some point I would say absolutely.
I just don't know that they're in a rush to
really get to that alex Ochoa. Fun fact, Baron Corbin's
end of Day's theme was the last ever WWE entrance
theme composed by Jim Johnston. No wonder it was his
best one. Now it all makes sense, Sylvester Dog, who
just became a channel member, I believe, Thank you, Sylvester Solomoster.
If it wasn't for your content, I would stop watching
wrestling completely because it is so boring. And do you
think think Cody should turn heel? I do? I do.
For a long time there I didn't because time wise
it just didn't make any sense. Like even when the
Rock wanted his soul, the timing wasn't right. But we're
at a point now where they could pull it off
and it would make Cody a lot more interesting frankly
than he is right now. There he is Bulu fatulu ah.
That puts a smile on my face seeing Boolu back.
Now we just got to get Abk back and Fahad.
I hope they're doing well wherever they are. I haven't
heard from those guys in a while. Boulu says Oba
Femi or Jacob Fatu? Who will WWE champ first? Opa
Femi Oba Femi? Die Hard or lethal Weapon? Buy or sell?
Die Hard? Diehard is one of my favorite the original
It's one of my favorite movies of all time, but
so was the third one. Third One is great, So
many quotable lines in that one. It's really a bummer.
You know what's happened to Bruce willis super pony with
a fifty. There's a magenta bomb. What do you think
of the idea of gun the getting suspended and Sammy
needing to find a new partner and it ends up
being Kevin Owens. I don't like it because it would
be ridiculous for Owens to lose his first match back.
No Punjabi prison this time. Oh yeah, so you've you
just kind of stuck that in there. That's a be
the Booker reference. That's what we're talking about, putting Kevin
Owens and Punjabi person. Hey Kevin, I know you've been
gone for a year after serious spinal fusion surgery or
whatever whatever next surgery was. And so in your first
match back, we're gonna put you inside the Punjabi prison
because reasons. Yeah, I don't like that idea either. Sylvester
Dogg Solo Monster heard you're a big horror fan. Have
you seen it? Welcome to Derry. Only nominated for two
Emmys is shameful. Horror still gets disrespected. It's on my
list of things to see. I have not seen it yet.
And yeah, horror does not tend to get a lot
of love at these award shows. I'm hoping that is
going to change with Obsession though, because if nothing else,
I mean really, the entire cast was great, even the
actor Michael who played Bear in the movie. He was
very good. But Indian ever ready, if she doesn't, first
of all, she doesn't get a nomination, then this whole
fucking thing is rigged. Number one, number two. She should win,
but at least be nominated. She would she was incredible
in that movie. Nick Grosso says, if Ria can't get
cleared in time for Summer Slam, then she needs to
vacate the women's championship. And if that's the case, maybe
Jade versus Charlotte for the title at SummerSlam. I guess
that would It would make sense in that Jade was
the last champion, so you can, and I mean Charlotte
is Charlotte, so I mean sure you could. You could
definitely do that. You could definitely do that because realistically,
what are you gonna What are you gonna add to
the show for the women's championship, you know what I mean? Like,
if you wanted to cry on a new champion at
Summer Slam, what are you gonna do. You're gonna have
a tournament in two weeks. You're gonna have a small
little battle Royal. You're gonna have a random match between
Alexa Bliss and her one arm and JC Jane, Like,
it doesn't make any sense. They would almost have to
do that. They would almost have to put the belt
up in that Charlotte and Jade match. Super Pony says,
if Kevin Owens is back in time, he should win
money in the bank and successfully cash in on Punk
to start their feud. You can't draw it up any
better than that. To call it revenge for Sammy, I
can get behind that. Jeremy Rose with a ten. How
is Punk or Cody heel turned or hint of one
counter productive. Isn't the job to sell Summer Slim. Yes,
it's QB one versus the best in the world, but
we need more than that. Plus it makes SmackDown intriguing
for three fucking weeks. Dude, Like, you got three weeks
to build this match. You're not rushing a heel turn
on a random SmackDown. That's terrible booking. You do it
at SummerSlam to create interest coming out of the paper view.
You only have three weeks between now and then, so
you don't blow a heel turn on TV between now
and then. Yes, that's to me, that's counterproductive. So you
try to make the next three weeks of SmackDown interesting
with a heel turn when you could really set up
a major moment, and then coming out of Summer Slam,
set up and exciting next three, four or five weeks
whatever it is, until you get to wrestle Paloza and beyond.
I don't need a heal turn in the next three weeks.
I certainly didn't need one tonight. I'm okay with waiting
three weeks for the big match at Summer Slam and
not even giving us a hint about if anyone goes
hel who's it gonna be? Right? Make people wonder maybe
we're gonna get a heel turn at SummerSlam. Right, Well,
then who's it gonna be? Is it gonna be Cody?
Is it gonna be Punk? And you create some intrigue
that way. She don't just give that shit away in
a random SmackDown like this. Bulu Batulu says Solomonster. I
work at Low's. My preferred name is Sina. Everybody loves it.
You get a preferred name at Low's. You can call
yourself anything you want. Interesting if I worked at Low's,
I would I would call myself Obafemi. Do I look
like an oba fem? I feel like I can make
a work and retro koh. My pet canine had a
birthday today? Now it is a cat ten? Am I
missing something here? My pet canine had a birthday today.
Now it's a cat ten? Get it? What am I
missing here? I feel like I'm missing the punchline? What
I strut? Of course I would I If I call
myself Obafemi a lows, I would have to do the shrut.
I would be strutting through Lows like if somebody asked
me for help, like they have to pull something off
the shelf on like Aisle seventeen or something, I would
struck my way over. I mean, when you're on the job,
you got to entertain yourself somehow. Cats have nine lives, Yeah,
but what my pet canine had a birthday today? Now
it's a cat ten. I know cats have nine loves.
I I don't get it went right over my head.
Joseph Brooks, you said recently that brock Lessner is mister
Summer Slim. So does that mean that it is no
longer Brett Hart as mister Summer Slim. Well, Brett Hart
is like co mister Summer Slim. They both have great
success at Summer Slim. You can't go wrong with either one.
But I'm just looking at Brocks had more matches than
Brett at this point at Summerslim, and I have a
feeling there'll be another really great one this year because
their first two or i'd say, pretty exciting stuff. So
I feel comfortable having Brock in that spot. But if
you wanted to say that Brett was, because for me
it was for a long time, I have no issue
with that. I mean, look at the matches that Brett
had a couple of great tag team matches in eighty
nine and ninety classic matches in ninety one and ninety two.
I enjoyed the match with Jink in ninety three. Ninety
four is my favorite Summers Slime match of all time.
Ninety five was like, eh, he missed ninety six and
then ninety seven. Frankly, ninety seven was one of the
best main events in Summer Slim history. So he's got
a pretty strong case, you know. But Brock had that
great match with Rock, great match with Kurt. Then the
next one I guess wasn't until twenty they're now twenty twelve, right,
But the squash with Sina, the match with Undertaker, the
four way for the Universal title, that was great. That
was twenty seventeen. That was that was great stuff. Last
Man Standing with Roman, I know I'm missing one, and
then this year with Oba. We can't go wrong. You
really can't go wrong with either one of them. Brett
Hart against Brocklesner for Mister SummerSlam. We may book it
and be the booker tonight. They're both in there could
very well happen. Jeremy says, it's more than just three weeks.
It can set up possibly WrestleMania, a WrestleMania match. Sure,
if you do it as Summer Slim, there's your Summer
Slam moment there. It is because think about it, like
Punk's not losing the belt at Summer Slam. And if
we assume that's the case, let's say Cody win heel
right tonight, boom, he's a heel. He attacks Punk. Okay, great,
So now you go into Summer Slam and he doesn't
win the belt, Punk retains. You've already done the heel turn, Like,
what's the big moment going off the air, what's the
big moment to close off this big Summer Slam show
and be the big hook you know to tune in
for SmackDown that Friday. You've already given the heel turn away.
You gotta save it like they did with Sena. The
elimination chamber would be like doing the Scena heel turn
on a random episode of Raw. Why would you do that?
Why would you do that? I want these ples to
feel premium, and sometimes you got to give us a
premium moment on a premium live event. I'd rather we
get some more like great matches on the TV shows,
we went an entire the entire first hour basically just
one match. The second match I think kicked off like
the very end of the first hour. The one thing
these shows need more of are just fucking kick ass
matches that we can get into. I'm not saying it
has to be filled and flooded with matches the way
that they do on Dynamite sometimes, but God, these shows, man,
you can go a fucking hour with one match and
then a bunch of terrible promos, and I'm like, what
are we doing here? No wonder people are tuning out
of these shows. You gotta give us more than that.
Jeremy says, Summerslim ends with a crazy alliance like Drew
joining Cody. So then Cody goes heel by linking up
a Drew at the end of SummerSlam, united by their
hatred for cmpunk. It's an interesting twist. Hey, I'm all
in favor of anything that's gonna shake things up at
this point. Armchair critic I was surprised to know rock
Mankind drew similar often higher ratings than Austin, Vince and
Hogan in ninety eight was a bigger ratings draw than
even Austin Well. He was still Hogan Hollywood Hogan in
the nWo until Goldberg finally took him down on that
one night Troil. Hogan was still a draw super pony.
Dragonov is cooked by the way for the time being. Yes,
if I have to assume it's a visa issue, nothing
else makes sense. They would at least be using him,
and we would be complaining about the booking, but he
would be used. For them to not even use him,
it's got to be a vis issue, and other wrestlers
have had visa issues recently. We just got Mark Davis
back on Dynamite. Apparently Commander is finally over his visa issues.
We'll be seeing him back on TV soon, probably on
Collision and Ring of Honor. But like Dragon of Stephanie Vicaire,
this has got to be a visa issue. There's nothing,
There's no other way to explain it. If they're not injured,
then what else would it be? What else would it be?
I hope they can get it all worked out. And Jeremy,
this product sucks. I just want some new shit. I
do too, and in three weeks that would be a
great way to reinvigorate things. On Smackdom. But I'm not
even convinced they're going to do that. How long could
a visa issue possibly to It's a new world today.
Things aren't exactly functioning the way that they used to
when it comes to the visa process, so it could
take quite some time. It's all backed up right now.
I don't see it getting any better, all right, I
think I'm caught up on your messages. At long last,
we have arrived and what you guys have been waiting for?
Here three rounds of be the booker. Jeremy Rose with
a five. Cody creates a stable of Punk haters Cody, Ko,
Drew and Sammy. I could get behind that. That's kind
of a powerful group, though, Like how how would Punk
fight back against that? Who would punkin list on his side?
You got Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens, Sammy's Ain and Drew
McIntyre all in a group together. I mean, who does Punk?
Who does Punk come at them with? Who's his backup?
I know he's friends with Dan House. Maybe you can
get Dan House and put a curse on them. All right,
let's be the booker, ladies or gentlemen, it is now
time to be the Booker. Here we go round number
one of three. Come in your way. We give books
some incredible matches over the past week. Man, we've been
on a roll. I want to see this continue into
Raw on Monday night. We got more matches to book.
Our promotion is starting to boom. Business is starting to
pick up. We're selling more tickets than we were selling
a year ago. Business is up year over year. Here
in the be the Booker Federation. All right, we have
the Holly cousins kicking us off Hardcore and Crash the
super heavyweights. I enjoyed that act, and we stepping into
the ring home like. This is a cursed image right here,
That's what this is. I will give it the bell, though.
I will give this the bell because I do think
that this would be one hell of a match. You
got Bob Holly in there with Crash against Brett Hart
and Bill Goldberg, who were in fact, at one time
WCW Tag Team champions. This is this is Brett and
Goldberg in happier times. Brett is he's seieving right now
as he sees this image. This is the before photo,
not the after photo. Yes, yes, the good old days.
What a cursed image. That is, we have Roxanne Perez.
I'm a Roxanne Perez fan. She is going to be
stepping into the ring with Stephanie Vicaire, except she's not
because Stephanie Vicaire is not clear to wrestle because she
doesn't have her visa paperwork in order, so therefore she
has to be replaced in this match. We must replace her.
She is legally not allowed to wrestle and be the booker.
I tried everything I could, but the government works at
a snail's there's nothing I can do, too much bureaucratic
red tape. So instead, Roxane Perez will have to find
a new opponent and it will be Rhea Ripley. Except
it won't because Rhea Ripley is currently out injured and
therefore can't wrestle. So we have to find another opponent
for Roxane Perez. This is not going well. Please, let's
get an opponent for rox Enne. There we go, Well,
we have Alexa Bliss. That would not be a bad match,
except we're ever going to see it because Alexa Bliss
was taken out tonight by Jade Cargill and her arm
was out of the socket, so she is unable to compete.
This is not going well for Roxanne Perez. Can we
please get her an opponent that is legally able to
wrestle and medically cleared, please, for the love of God. Finally, unfortunately,
that's not a match that really appeals to me. But
we did land on Ivy Nile. But I have to
give that a buzzer. I'm sorry. And now, finally, eighty
four years later, we get to the main event. This
is only card number one. By the way, we got
two more of these the book. There we go. We
have the former. This feels like a lifetime ago, doesn't it,
The former WWE champion, Kofi Kingston, who was not even
in ww A anymore. But Kofe Kingston is back in
the main event here defending that WWE Championship against the TNA.
Now that's not the international title, but he is the
reigning I do believe TNA International Champion still Mustafa Ali.
And you know what, that, my friends, is actually a
hell of a wrestling match. I'll accept that we don't
get the sweep, but I accept that as my main event.
There you go, two out of three. We didn't get
the women's match, but we got two out of three
not too shabby. All right, Now we move on to
around number two. We have one more to go after this,
unless somehow we hit that other goal. But I just
I put that up for shits and giggles. But here
we go. Stipulations. We have stipulations for all of our
remaining matches. Hell in a Cell. I gotta get the
voice right for it, hell in a Cell. And after
brock Olesner kicks Obafemi in the balls again, it would
be how it is sound so Oba has been sounding
over the past week. So usually I would start with
a tag team match here, tag team Helen a Cell?
Mash that. What do you think you could do it? Yeah,
we could do that. We'll do tag team Helen a Cell?
Why not tag team Helena Sel? Why not? I make
the rules. I can book any damn match. I will
please the North Ethan Page and Josh Alexander, the former
Impact Tag Team Champions, a very good team who I
think would have done very well if they ever got
an NXT run back in the day. Helena Sell, the
North taking on Red Dragon, Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly.
How's that for a match? The North and Red Dragon.
That'd be a very good match. Where's the lie? There
is no lie. That would be a very good match.
Now we're gonna pay. Uh yeah, we have landed on
Mountain de pitch black match. We're going to glow in
the dark for this one. It is a women's match.
It is a Mountain Dew pitch black match, and it
will feature Becky two belts. Becky Lynch, who doesn't even
have a match at SummerSlam this year. Becky Lynch in
the dark against who, Becky Lynch against Mighty Molly. I'll
take some Molly. That's a fine choice. Not a fan
of the stipulation, but you know what, I'm willing to
overlook it in this case because I feel like I
feel like they would find a way to make it work.
Why was Becky on the Summer Slam poster. I don't know.
I don't make the poster. I can't tell you. Plans
change as they say. And now our main event, our
second of three main events in fact, is going to
be a hair match, so we can't land on any
bald men. Otherwise this stipulation doesn't really work, and there
are a lot of bald men in be the bookers.
So I don't know about this we're starting out with,
of course, a bald man. Fucking course, I knew it.
I fucking knew it as soon as I landed on
the stipulation. Mhm. So we're gonna pick a different stipulation
because this ain't gonna work. Wipe it clean, try again,
Inferno match. Good, that's better, more dangerous, but that's better.
We'll start over. There we go, Here we go. We
have Booker T. It was definitely not bald. In fact,
he's gonna have to be careful. He's got he's got
longer hair, so he's gonna have to tie it back
or something. I don't want it to get caught in
any of the flames. Booker T in an Inferno match
against the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes. There you go. Did
Booker T ever wrestle Cody Rhoads. I don't think so.
I don't think that's a match that ever actually happened. Hey,
shout out to Chris near Fall Podcast. Six months of membership,
six months in this fine establishment, my good sir, love
the sound Off, love TNT. Shout out to the SoundOff
crew and the OTS family as well. Yes, thank you, Chris,
super Pony says this fucking Cody guy won't go away.
You can't get rid of him. Set Cody on fire boy.
You guys are just you guys are really extreme. Tonight,
all right, we got one more round. This is it.
It all comes down to the final three. Here we go,
brawl for all. We're skipping the tag team match this time.
These stipulations lend themselves better to singles matches, So I
think we're gonna go. We'll book, we'll book, and we'll
book a few men's matches, but we'll do the men's match.
It's going to be a brawl for all, which was
a terrible concept from the mind of one Vince Russo.
So here we go. Oh this is I feel I
feel badly for whoever the opponent is, because this match
is already over. We have Al Boom Boom Bundy, Al
Bundy in a brawl for all. Man. I know who
I'm picking is a winner. I know who's going all
the way to the end of this thing. Look, he's
already got the fists up in the image. He's ready
for a fight. You want to fight this man? You
really want to step in there against this guy? I
don't think you do. Al fucking Bundy all match. Does
it get any more perfect than that?
Speaker 3: Albund Oh my god? Oh he's dead.
Speaker 1: Oh he's dead. Oh, oh my god. I have to
compose myself. Adam Cole is going to fight Al Bundy.
Adam Cole is going to die against Al Bundy in
a brawl for all mat. I forgot to hit the
bell on this. I was out of my mind. Ah,
you talk about a mismatch, You talk about a mismatch.
Poor Adam call He's gonna be right back on the
injured list. I love it. I love it. Now tell
me you wouldn't pay money, decent money. I'll pay TKO
ticket prices to be there live to see that match.
Our next match? What is our next match going to be?
Our next match? Why is this not working? Why is
this not working? I think when I leaned over, I
think I think I jammed the button. Oh there we go,
hardcore match. We have a hardcore match. I did actually
lean on the button when I lead nough. Ah. I
don't think anything is going to top what we just booked,
but we're gonna try. How about this one we make?
We make the women's match, the hardcore match. It's to
be different and then we'll go back to the guys.
We have a women's hardcore match. Ooh, we have Zaria.
See that's the face of someone who's gonna be in
a hardcore match. Got that mean look on her face
with the makeup and everything. Zaria. Well, I think this
is back from her Delta days. Zaria though in a
hardcore match against Look at this. This is uh this,
this is Natty knighthearts here. That's who this is, got
the mouth guard and everything. Those are two faces right there,
these images that are perfect for a hardcore match. This
is this is blood Sport Natty. We got blood Sport
Natty and Zaria in a hardcore match. Hey, we're doing
pretty good so far. We got one, We got one
last match to go. I'm kind of sad that we're
at the end here. We need a sweep. We need
a sweep. Oh no, why why? Why? Why you do
like landing on the stipulation? Why are you torturing me?
Punjabi prison is back? You know why? Because I was
just talking about it before. That's why. Because somebody had
to shoot their mouth off and one of the super
chats and I brought it up. I can pun Jabi
prison in the same week, by the way, where the
Great Collie was a guest on Chris Van Vliet's podcast.
It's only appropriate that we have a Punjabi prison match.
You god, it funny if we got Al Bundy against
Adam coleopis oh as if Adam Cole was not in
for it bad enough in bral for all, we'll put
him in the Punjabi prison against Al Bundy. All right,
we have Oh my god, this is not that much
better Ken Shamrock. Ken Shamrock can a Punjabi prison match.
I kind of feel the same way I did about
Al's opponent, where I don't want to be the other person.
Ken Shamrock is going to wrestle Ken Shamrock did Punjabi
prison You heard me correctly, Ken Shamrock against Ken Shamrock.
If that is not the most batshit, intense, crazy Punjabi
prison match that we have ever seen. What happens? Now,
here's my question here. If you remember Ken Shamrock when
he would get in the zone right usually in his matches,
like when he got in the zone, he got all crazy. Now,
what happens when you have Shamrock and Shamrock and they
both get in the zone. What happens then? I feel
like bad things are going to happen. Clean sweet, We
got a clean sweet. That's all that matters. That's all
that matters. He said that AutoZone, Alexandra get in the zone.
Auto Zone. Well this was certainly this was quite the
edition of be the books. Now. Aren't you happy that
we hit the goals and we were able to do that.
You will forever remember where you were on the night
that we landed on Al Bundy and Adam Cole in
a brawl for all match and Ken Shamrock wrestled himself
inside the Punjabi prison. Don't ever forget this night as
long as you live. We still got a bunch of
super chats here to get through. So let's get through,
and we have Bulu Fantulu Bulu. I don't know who
these people are, but I'm going to go with John Booger.
Joseph is back, Joseph saw Bulu. Man. If we can
get Joseph and Bulu in the same place together, how
amazing would that be? Batman Jurassic is his handle. We
know he's a big Batman guy. I'm back, solid monster
with breaking news. The Dark Order has re signed with AW.
Seems like we're getting a lot of breaking news on
AW today. You got a Hangman on Collision tomorrow. Now
the Dark Order have re signed. Do you remember when
Dustin Rhodes was Black Rain in TNA. I do, and
it sucked. It was terrible and he was not in
a good state physically or otherwise. Do you remember the
TV show Blossom? I do. I do. In fact, they
had a crossover with the with the stell Getty's Sophia
Petrillo character from from The Golden Girl? Was it Blostom?
Maybe I'm thinking of Empty Nest. I take that back.
I think I was. I think I got my shows
mixed up. I don't remember now, but the Sophia Petrillo
character definitely was on one of those two shows. And
watching Space Jam with Michael Jordan, he's talking about v
Michael Jordan, He's not talking about Michael B. Jordan. Thank you.
Joseph retro Koh says Stephanie Viquier can't be in due
to visas, but Crash Holly can be resurrected for a
tag team match. Peak booking. Yes, that's how we do things.
That's how we do things. Joseph says, could you see
them doing a space Jam movie with Hulk Hogan or
Stone Cold Steve Austin back in the day. Well, if
they did, I think that would be a terrible business
decision because it would not have made any money. Have
a good night, Solo Monster, have a great weekend, you too, Joseph.
Space Jam with Hulk Hogan. I don't think that would
have worked. Hey, Chicago for MBK, have yourself a good night, brother,
Oh Joseph. He amended his question from earlier. He said,
I met Raven against Brian Pillman SR. I don't believe
they would have wrestled, unless it was back when Raven
was Scotty Flamingo in WCW. I have no recollection of
them having a match. I can't say it never happened,
but I don't believe so venom ktetsu add Brian Zane
to be the booker. If he greases the palms a
little bit, I might add him in there. And Joseph says,
Hangman returns tomorrow night on Collision. Yes, thank you, Joseph.
I did mention that earlier. Hey, Navy, maybe forty one
eighty one, not two fifty. Count Rugan the hell does
that mean? Thank you Navy. I'm totally out to lunch now.
Claymation is an underrated animation style. I missed that. I
like claymation. The whole sequence with ED two nine in
the original RoboCop movie was I'm pretty sure that was claymation,
and I'm sorry. I still think it holds up pretty
well today. I won't say it's great, but like I
enjoyed it. I like it. It didn't take me out
of the movie or anything like that. Uh, super Pony,
I paid fifty two streams in a row for Putnjapi prison.
I'm cursed. We could blame super Pony. See if you
paid one hundred now, it would have gone the other way.
Cam stl with a five is the Albundi Adam Cole
Brawl for All match, the greatest match and be the
Booker history. It's if it's not, it's it's pretty high
up there. I gotta say, oh, stop motion, what did
I say? I said claim I say claimation. I got
claimation mixed up with stop motion. Stop motion animation is
what I was referring to. Stop motion animation was using
that movie and a lot of other ones as well,
and I like stop stop motion animation, but I like
claymation too. But anyway, so is it the greatest match
and be the booker history? Hard for me to say
it's the greatest, but it's pretty high up there. I
don't know that I've laughed harder at one than I
did that one, so it might well be the best one.
And Alexander says, do you have Dan Severn in be
the booker? I do not. I do not. I'm pretty
sure the reason he wrestled in WWF with a T
shirt is because Vince McMahon wanted him to wear a shirt.
So I just realized whenever I remember him wrestling there,
he always had a shirt on. I always just found
that strange. I'm pretty sure Vince told him to put
the shirt on. Should I add him in? What do
you think I don't have? There are some people I
leave out and there are other people. Maybe I forget
certain people. I could always add him in there, but
now Dan dan Severn is not in there, Tank Abbott
is not in there. I'm in there, though, as we
found out the other night, that's all that matters. Thank
you guys for a very fun stream here tonight. Can't
oh this, can't believe we've been two hours and forty
five minutes. My god. See that's how you know you're
having fun when you go almost three hours. SmackDown may
not be three hours anymore, but now I've taken the
mantle of being three hours. But you have to admit
three hours of solo Monster is a hell of a
lot more entertaining than three hours of SmackDown. I think
we can all agree. And one last super chat here
from Power Spying Games by Rent cell be the Booker
matches Bundy versus Cole, Hunter and McCall versus Hall and
Oates Heal Brett agains JD from New York. That was
a pretty good one. That was a pretty good one.
I think I might go with Bundy and Cole. I
think we may have peaked with Bundy and Cole. Let's
try it again on Monday. How about that? Bring the
heat on Monday and we'll do it all over again.
Next time you hear from me, though, will be Sunday,
brand new episode of the Sound of episode nine to
seventy one. And yes, I will be reviewing both episodes
of Dark Side of the Ring from this past Tuesday
and talking all the news of the week. I got
your mail, beg questions all queued up. It's gonna be
a good time. Misfit Wrestling podcast. Zaia Lee trying to
be booked on be the Booker was hilarious. What was
it that she kept popping up or something? We did
land on her the other day? But it wasn't as
Zaia Lee. It was as Lee ying Lee from TNA.
I think that was on Wednesday. I think she popped
up there on Wednesday, Misfit said. I'm talking about the
multiple times that she showed up in that one be
the book Oh okay, I was wondering. Yeah, well, I
mean for a period of time there, it was the
only way she was going to possibly get booked. It's weird, though,
Like I'm pretty sure Britt Baker is in to be
the booker and we don't even land on her here.
She can't even get booked and be the booker. It's terrible,
all right, Be well, stay safe. Check out the dark
Side reviews on the sound Off this weekend, and then
back here for the Raw Post show coming up on Monday,
where apparently Solo Sokoa is going to get an ultimatum
from the bloodline. Ooh, I'm sure he's shaking in his boots.
I'll see you Monday night.