Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: work your ass is my eye. You're going to acknowledge me.
Speaker 3: What is going on?
Speaker 4: Everybody, and welcome to another week of the Main Event
Speaker 4: Review with your host Daniel as always, and as you
Speaker 4: can probably tell from my voice, it is a little
Speaker 4: bit different this weekend. I actually did lose it and
Speaker 4: have been a bit sick, so you might notice a
Speaker 4: bit of a muffle in my voice. Here in Australia
Speaker 4: we are transitioning into winter, while all you people are
Speaker 4: in the Northern Hemisphere transferring into the lovely hot summer,
Speaker 4: which I'm extremely jealous about. But again, we're still got
Speaker 4: a task to do, and that is to review the
Speaker 4: events that happened across the Main Event and also the
Speaker 4: events that happened across Monday.
Speaker 3: Night Rule as well.
Speaker 4: But before we do that, we need to address the
Speaker 4: latest news with WWE and some releases that have occurred,
Speaker 4: the first one being Carlito, which comes at a big surprise.
Speaker 3: To me as well.
Speaker 4: I know he did win his Puerto Rican championship that
Speaker 4: I expected him to carry around and flex with the
Speaker 4: Judgment day, but that's not going to be the case.
Speaker 4: He has been released from WWE. He's not going to
Speaker 4: be getting a new contract. Wishing the best for Carlito.
Speaker 4: He offered some good laughs on the judgment day and
Speaker 4: gave that group kind of breath of fresh air, and
Speaker 4: now they're not going to continue for his contract. So
Speaker 4: it looks as though that they're trying to mitigate and
Speaker 4: remove kind of that gimmick and focused on talent that
Speaker 4: are actually consistently performing in ring. But still I feel
Speaker 4: as though that car leader offered a lot for WWE,
Speaker 4: so it's really sad to let him go. The next
Speaker 4: one is, as we all know and has blown up
Speaker 4: on the internet, is Our Truth, which has come to
Speaker 4: a complete shock to every single person.
Speaker 3: Personally.
Speaker 4: I think this is just such a ridiculous move, extremely
Speaker 4: unnecessary release from the WWA, given that he's got a
Speaker 4: massive relationship with the fans. Everyone loves Our Truth. He
Speaker 4: is a national treasure. He's someone that adored by a
Speaker 4: lot of people, and not to mention, he's served the
Speaker 4: company forever twenty five years. Personally, I have a big
Speaker 4: attachment to Our Truth. Reason being is as a kid,
Speaker 4: I did go to one of two house shows ever
Speaker 4: live and Our Truth was performing on the main event,
Speaker 4: and this was when he was a heel, going up
Speaker 4: against John Cena and it was a really fun match
Speaker 4: and it was really good to see Our Truth perform
Speaker 4: live as well. So yeah, taking my personal at touchment
Speaker 4: from that, He's given so much to fans and I
Speaker 4: just don't understand it because he literally had this match
Speaker 4: with his childhood hero John Cena that got a lot
Speaker 4: of got a lot of praise, and he really he
Speaker 4: was really fun in that match as well, just showing
Speaker 4: the face side of John Cena and obviously his new
Speaker 4: T shirt that got released that I was so keen
Speaker 4: to purchase. I whish I can't because the tariffs laid
Speaker 4: on on Australia at the moment, but was so keen
Speaker 4: to purchase his merchandise there the Ron sena parody John
Speaker 4: Cena top which which got a lot of which got
Speaker 4: a lot of well, So in saying that it did
Speaker 4: see that Truth brought a lot of money to the company.
Speaker 4: Maybe he wouldn't have been able to perform consistently in
Speaker 4: the ring with anything significant. He still managed to pull
Speaker 4: off a decently interesting storyline with the John Cena hero
Speaker 4: phase and trying to get John Cena back to the
Speaker 4: good side, and we all kind of overlooked it. But
Speaker 4: when he brought the taler and said the last time
Speaker 4: is now, that probably was the truth. And yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just crazy how they managed to do it, And all
Speaker 4: that I'm seeing online is that a lot of people
Speaker 4: and executives were really surprised at the decision and it's
Speaker 4: given a lot of unsettling feelings to a lot of
Speaker 4: the current roster and the current talent as well, which
Speaker 4: is something that you don't really want to have as
Speaker 4: a collective and as a company to have your superstars
Speaker 4: feel as though their job is not secure. And the
Speaker 4: fact that Our Truth, of all people, had their contract
Speaker 4: not renewed really shows that. And I think it's it
Speaker 4: was a massive mistake.
Speaker 3: Triple H and t K are.
Speaker 4: Getting a lot of backlash from fans and it's gone
Speaker 4: all over X and I'm not surprised about it, but again, I.
Speaker 3: Really wish the best for Our Truth.
Speaker 4: I hope that he has an opportunity elsewhere, but it
Speaker 4: really isn't going to be the same without him, and
Speaker 4: I feel like it won't be the same anywhere he
Speaker 4: goes because he's he's been such a valuable asset to
Speaker 4: the company, and yeah, it's a shame that it's a
Speaker 4: shame that they released him. I'm actually lost for words
Speaker 4: and quite upset about it, to be honest. But in
Speaker 4: saying that the show must go on, we must move
Speaker 4: on and continuing reviewing the show, I thought I just
Speaker 4: addressed those two latest releases, but again yep. Moving on
Speaker 4: to main event, we had the first match with Natalia
Speaker 4: taking on Maxine dupre You're not sorry, Maxine Depri's accompanied
Speaker 4: by her taking on the prodigy Roxanne Perez, who is
Speaker 4: such a talent that I feel like is going to
Speaker 4: go beyond her ceiling here with wwe are now recently
Speaker 4: signing onto RAW, she gets a chance to showcase her
Speaker 4: talents on main event, which she does getting the victory
Speaker 4: here kind of cheating in a sense. Natalia went for
Speaker 4: a sharp shooter. Roxanemerez rolled to the ropes, lifted up
Speaker 4: the apron, and as the ref went to obviously fix
Speaker 4: the apron, his back was blindsided and Roxane Perez raked
Speaker 4: the eyes and the Tilia rolled her up and got
Speaker 4: a three count here, which was a fantastic victory. And
Speaker 4: again this is simply just a momentum push for her
Speaker 4: going into Money in the Bank and also as she's
Speaker 4: a new superstar, getting that main event exposure as well.
Speaker 4: But this really just shows that WWE are taking Roxanne
Speaker 4: part of their future plans and I'm not going to
Speaker 4: be surprised to see her push for titles going forward.
Speaker 4: And she's showing unbelievable strides in early stages and a
Speaker 4: great start with being a part of this judgment they
Speaker 4: feud and kind of unsettling Dominique.
Speaker 3: And rear Ripley.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great start for her career as well.
Speaker 4: I just hope she's able to kind of compete for titles.
Speaker 4: That has a really good Money in the Bank match
Speaker 4: as well. I don't expect her to win the briefcase,
Speaker 4: but I do expect her to have a pretty decent
Speaker 4: run there and make us feel like she is close
Speaker 4: to win it. But yeah, a really good job for
Speaker 4: rox Sanperez just getting in some momentum.
Speaker 3: For that and that's for Natalia.
Speaker 4: Not really much to go for there, but I think
Speaker 4: these two need to start having tag team matches even
Speaker 4: on main event, to just get their momentum going because
Speaker 4: as individual stars, nothing's happening for the two of them,
Speaker 4: for Maximum Depriz who I'm talking about and Natalia, So
Speaker 4: definitely something that should be looked upon. I think the
Speaker 4: singles run from the it's truly.
Speaker 3: Well and over.
Speaker 4: I am truly truly sorry about my voice, guys. It
Speaker 4: was a lot worse two days ago. So it's enough
Speaker 4: for me to kind of just continue to review this,
Speaker 4: but yeah, bear with me on this. We do have
Speaker 4: our next match, which is the Triple Threat World Tag
Speaker 4: Team Championship match between the war Raiders, American Made and
Speaker 4: the New Day, in which, to no surprise and New
Speaker 4: they retained the titles through Xavier Wrulds rolling up Julius Creed. There.
Speaker 4: Hopefully this is the end of the feuds with those
Speaker 4: two at tag teams and finally we can see the
Speaker 4: New Day take on something more significant. I know that
Speaker 4: SummerSlam is around the corner, so just something there would
Speaker 4: be very, very exciting. I would love to see a
Speaker 4: lot of segments of them just pulling out promos on
Speaker 4: a regular basis. I think that's something that we need
Speaker 4: from this group and it's something that will take them
Speaker 4: to higher levels as well, or should. We haven't heard
Speaker 4: anything from Big E, but if he is to return,
Speaker 4: that could be something big there, but there's no signs
Speaker 4: of that actually happening.
Speaker 3: So the New Day continue to show.
Speaker 4: Some heat and claim themselves is one of the best
Speaker 4: tag teams, but this run continues to remain insignificant with
Speaker 4: the opponents they're coming up against and with the lack
Speaker 4: of promos they're doing. Again, as I mentioned last week,
Speaker 4: I feel like the division in Raw is needing of
Speaker 4: a tag team that is built from a faction or
Speaker 4: too high level solo superstars teaming up together. Maybe we
Speaker 4: might see Bronson Reid and bron Baker push for those titles.
Speaker 4: You never know, since they've they've got nothing to do
Speaker 4: but besides protect Steth Rollins, So look out for that.
Speaker 4: But again the New Day continuing to retain the title
Speaker 4: and hold on hold on to those belts there as well.
Speaker 4: We then stay on Raw with Jay Usso coming out
Speaker 4: into the ring, who basically came and did a promo
Speaker 4: mentioning how busy he's been that he's going to be
Speaker 4: teaming up with Cody Rhodes against John Cena and Logan
Speaker 4: Paul and as he was about to finish, Guntha made
Speaker 4: his way down.
Speaker 3: To the ring.
Speaker 4: The fans continue to chap chance you tapped out to
Speaker 4: Guntherha but came onto the ring to basically congratulate jus
Speaker 4: basically saying that he possesses great qualities as a human being,
Speaker 4: but possesses terrible qualities of being a champion. He said
Speaker 4: that Jay didn't know better because unlike Gunfa, the position
Speaker 4: doesn't really come natural to him. Gunthah always said he
Speaker 4: was able to be championed for a year because the
Speaker 4: only person he cares about is himself. He also said
Speaker 4: that Jay doesn't have the intellect to be a great
Speaker 4: champion and said that he's going to choke him out,
Speaker 4: take his world heavyweight title and put the belt back
Speaker 4: where it belongs in his waist. Then j Uso delivering
Speaker 4: quite a sketchy promo. He had to pause a lot
Speaker 4: of times to get his words out. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: if you're doing that to suspend the crowd or he
Speaker 4: was really trying to think about what to say, but
Speaker 4: I found that quite baffling. He said that he was
Speaker 4: done if everyone's saying his days of Championship as Chamber unnumbered.
Speaker 4: He said that he does have family and friends, so
Speaker 4: he fights for them and they fight for him. He
Speaker 4: also said that what Gunther is fighting for is less
Speaker 4: than what Jay's fighting for because he's fighting for the fans.
Speaker 4: He did say that in two weeks he's going to
Speaker 4: make tap gun to tap out again and basically went
Speaker 4: with his catchphrase four that is one word yeat and that.
Speaker 3: Was pretty much the end of that promo.
Speaker 4: And again, as mentioned, I did think that this was
Speaker 4: going to be a significant match, but they are pretty
Speaker 4: much hyping this match too high for the fact that
Speaker 4: it's in RAW, and that can be for only one reason,
Speaker 4: and one reason only. This is the raw straight after
Speaker 4: Money in the Bank. So I suppose that this, especially
Speaker 4: if it's put as the main event, which it most
Speaker 4: likely will be for Raw, that a cash in of
Speaker 4: some sort is most likely to occur in this match,
Speaker 4: and I think that's going to happen. I think, without
Speaker 4: giving my predictions too early, Seth Rowlinans is gonna well,
Speaker 4: I can do it because obviously by the time this
Speaker 4: has done, Money in the Bank will be over. But
Speaker 4: I feel as though that Seth Orwans will win the
Speaker 4: money in the bank briefcase, and go on to cash
Speaker 4: in the next day. It's the only way that I
Speaker 4: think makes sense that they're promoting this match so heavily,
Speaker 4: given that it is just a simple raw and in
Speaker 4: Phoenix there's no significant event occurring. To what I can remember,
Speaker 4: the only thing that I can see is that it's
Speaker 4: positioned straight after money in the bank, So wherever you
Speaker 4: take from that, that's what I take from it. But
Speaker 4: it doesn't seek my jus is going to be champion
Speaker 4: for that long, but if not, it might just be
Speaker 4: a regular defense. But it's hard to really think that
Speaker 4: that will be the case because they've already had their WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: I don't see Raw being the place where Jasu has
Speaker 4: the opportunity to eat and celebrate with the crowd defending
Speaker 4: the championship, And to be honest, I don't seek Gunfa
Speaker 4: defending the title either. I definitely see Gunfa going on
Speaker 4: the road of versus Goldberg at Summer Slam. We know
Speaker 4: that that promo hasn't been finished and that feud hasn't
Speaker 4: been done, and Goldberg is said to have one more match,
Speaker 4: So that's where I think that's going to be positioned
Speaker 4: and yeah, to take out what's happened in the promo
Speaker 4: nothing too effective. I think this feud is well and
Speaker 4: truly over and I think we need to move on
Speaker 4: to bigger and better things with Jay us So probably
Speaker 4: focusing on the new kind of movement and generation, with
Speaker 4: Seth Rolins and Gunfah focusing on beating legends I believe
Speaker 4: based on what's been done in this field as well.
Speaker 4: We then go on to the main event again we
Speaker 4: had the new Catch Republic taking on a town down Under.
Speaker 4: Pete Dunn looking quite different with his new haircut. He's
Speaker 4: got a mullet vade remove his long hair. To be honest,
Speaker 4: it does look a lot nicer and hopefully some new
Speaker 4: things for the Catch Republic. They do get a victory
Speaker 4: here against Atown down Under. And before I get to
Speaker 4: the match as well, I have to say that the
Speaker 4: fans were giving a crazy pop for Austin Theory when
Speaker 4: he got tagged in. A lot of the fans were
Speaker 4: cheering him. There were Austin Theory chants happening before the match,
Speaker 4: and it seems as though the face turn is organically
Speaker 4: happening and we're about to see these two split up
Speaker 4: with Austin Theory being the face that comes out of this,
Speaker 4: and I hope this is something that pushes Austin Theory
Speaker 4: to what Vince McMahon saw of him a few bit
Speaker 4: years back, because Austin Theory has a lot of potential
Speaker 4: to do a lot of things in this industry, and
Speaker 4: I think with the crowd going on his side, that
Speaker 4: might move that a lot quicker and Grace and Waller
Speaker 4: being the perfect heel and person to make that push occur,
Speaker 4: because as I've mentioned previously, these guys are due for
Speaker 4: a big, long, good old split up that's been dragged
Speaker 4: for nearly over a year now, So hopefully that does happen.
Speaker 4: And for the New Cautch Republic getting a victory.
Speaker 3: Here, maybe, just maybe they.
Speaker 4: Might go into contending for the World Tag Team Championships. Obviously,
Speaker 4: given that what I mentioned before, the new they probably
Speaker 4: don't have another opponent coming up, so maybe the New
Speaker 4: Cautch Republic might have an opportunity there to fight for
Speaker 4: some gold, so look out for that on Raw moving
Speaker 4: forward too. We then get the final I Guess segment
Speaker 4: with main event starting with Seth Rowlins coming into the ring.
Speaker 3: He was getting a lot of booze heavily, so it.
Speaker 4: Kind of cut out the first part of the promo,
Speaker 4: but he went straight to the part where people started
Speaker 4: channing you sold out to Seth Rollins, which at first
Speaker 4: didn't make sense. So then Rowlands addressed this, which was
Speaker 4: good and what was mentioned before that who do he
Speaker 4: sell out to? He said that he hasn't changed. He
Speaker 4: said that he was going to do what he did
Speaker 4: at WrestleMania, and then fans started channing few Rollins and
Speaker 4: he continued to kind of address this and say that
Speaker 4: the morons don't know what's.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
Speaker 4: For you that act like Seth is the bad guy
Speaker 4: that doesn't deserve power, but Rolins said that there's the
Speaker 4: only one capable of leing this, coming to the future.
Speaker 3: And needing that power.
Speaker 4: He said that he would have been World Everywhere Champion
Speaker 4: if it wasn't for Samy'zay and c and Punk, and
Speaker 4: Roland said that Punk found out what happens when you
Speaker 4: underestimate him. He also said that Zay will find that
Speaker 4: out later tonight because Roland says that he has something
Speaker 4: more powerful than championships.
Speaker 3: He has the money.
Speaker 4: In the briefcase, mentioning that he will qualify, win the
Speaker 4: contract and cash in whenever, and however he once then
Speaker 4: essentially with a few trailers and kind of teasers as
Speaker 4: we all used to wear Ripley promo and kind of
Speaker 4: preview of the men's money in the bank match, we
Speaker 4: get to the main event, which is samyzay And taking
Speaker 4: on Finnbala and Seth Rowlans. We see that bron Breaker
Speaker 4: and Ronson Reed come into the match to distract Seth Rowlands,
Speaker 4: and then jay Uso comes in and puts his thoughts
Speaker 4: in as well to interfere. Then we get Dominic Mysterio
Speaker 4: coming out of nowhere to pretty much throw a chair
Speaker 4: into the middle of the ring, to which, as Bala
Speaker 4: was calling for, Seth Rowlands curve stomps Finnbala onto this chair,
Speaker 4: getting the victory here. So this was a great way
Speaker 4: to end the match. It obviously included the feud with
Speaker 4: dom and with Finnbala, which was awesome. Being able to
Speaker 4: obviously integrate that together was great.
Speaker 3: And then you had.
Speaker 4: Obviously Seth Rowlans and Sammy Zain's few with ju So
Speaker 4: involved as well, so kind of double edged sword there,
Speaker 4: Seth Rowlands getting the victory, which was probably the right
Speaker 4: decision in hindsight, Finn Baler getting screwed over by Dommasterira
Speaker 4: and Sammy Zain getting nothing in this match but just
Speaker 4: a main event spot. However, after the match, though, seems
Speaker 4: Punk's music basically comes on and pretty much Seth Rowlands
Speaker 4: told Bron Breaker and Runs to meet Yeah Punk at
Speaker 4: the isle, So as they walked out, the music came out.
Speaker 4: Punk ended up going behind Rowlands and giving him a
Speaker 4: go to sleep, and basically, while Breaker and Read went
Speaker 4: back to the ring to check on Rolins, Punk was
Speaker 4: celebrating with the crowd.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of how the show ended.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sam Punk has a match to qualify for money and
Speaker 4: bank with a J Celes and Al Grande Americano, and
Speaker 4: it seems as though Seth Siampunk will qualify based on
Speaker 4: that and we'll go into the match too.
Speaker 3: I still see.
Speaker 4: Seth Rowlands winning the match, but again, they have a
Speaker 4: chance to continue they're very long lasting feud and Issus
Speaker 4: disappointing another missbooking here carrying Cross not even getting an
Speaker 4: opportunity to qualify for the match. I really did expect
Speaker 4: that he would get a chance to win money in
Speaker 4: the Bank or even be in the match, but they're
Speaker 4: not even putting him in a qualifying match, which is
Speaker 4: extremely disappointing. I think they're doing it just to hype
Speaker 4: him up a bit more and get the crowd kind
Speaker 4: of uneasy with the fact that Cross keeps getting ruled over.
Speaker 4: But we'll have to wait and see what happens with him.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I digress. The match ends with Sampunk coming
Speaker 4: into the ring and Seth Rowlands getting the victory and
Speaker 4: really excited for Money in the Bank next week. Obviously,
Speaker 4: when the next episode comes out, concluding this one, we'll
Speaker 4: be reviewing the events that happen in Main Event and
Speaker 4: then the Money in the Bank results. The reason why
Speaker 4: I do that is because obviously the events of Raw
Speaker 4: have already transpired, and the events of Money in the
Speaker 4: Bank have also already transpired the same day that Main
Speaker 4: Event gets released onto YouTube. So again, that does conclude
Speaker 4: another main Event review. Thank you so much for tuning
Speaker 4: in and listening. Again, really looking forward to Money in
Speaker 4: the Bank and my review next week where I kind
Speaker 4: of review that as well, so I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 4: Hopefully by then my voice improved significantly and I hope
Speaker 4: you guys enjoy the rest of your week as well.
Speaker 3: Cheers.
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