Speaker 1: Well, we got one night down, one night to go.
Speaker 1: Night one is in the books, and my takeaway again
Speaker 1: as I just said, is that Summer Slam definitely does
Speaker 1: not need to be two nights. I would like to
Speaker 1: hope that we can all agree on this because it
Speaker 1: is very clear the only reason that SummerSlam is two
Speaker 1: nights at this point is so that they can fit
Speaker 1: in all the ads. There's no other reason. There really
Speaker 1: is no other reason there. It really hit me when
Speaker 1: it was over, like, you know what, you could have
Speaker 1: had one big mus saying it has to go five
Speaker 1: hours either, one big night of Summer Slam, that's all
Speaker 1: you need. But they want to sell as many tickets
Speaker 1: in one weekend as they possibly can, and so this
Speaker 1: is what we are left with. And Night one actually
Speaker 1: was the stronger of the two nights on paper coming
Speaker 1: into this weekend. I'm not sure what that says about
Speaker 1: how SummerSlam is going to end up, but we shall see. Championship.
Speaker 1: You would think coming into this show that that was
Speaker 1: going to be the main event of the show that
Speaker 1: was going to headline. I was very surprised when I
Speaker 1: read earlier that in fact, the Helen a Cell match
Speaker 1: was going to get top billing on this show. And
Speaker 1: it told me also that the likelihood of there being
Speaker 1: a Cody Rhodes heel turn was probably slim to none.
Speaker 1: If there was any real hope of anything like that happening.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing that if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it, you close the show with it. And so
Speaker 1: that kind of gave away to me, all right, maybe
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be expecting anything like that here tonight. And
Speaker 1: it became very clear in the main event why that
Speaker 1: WWE Championship match did not go on last. When I
Speaker 1: watched brock Lesner tearing up the ring Matt, he was
Speaker 1: ripping up the canvas, he was exposing the boards underneath.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, okay, now it makes sense why this
Speaker 1: match is going on last. So they headlined with Helen
Speaker 1: is Cell. This was a big endorsement for Obafemi. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's get the good out of the way first.
Speaker 1: The fact that they put this match on the last,
Speaker 1: and you knew Oba was going over because this could
Speaker 1: end no other way. That was a big endorsement of Obafemi.
Speaker 1: We got an actual endorsement when it was over from Brocklesner,
Speaker 1: who hugged him, got on the mic who verbally put
Speaker 1: him over. He didn't even do that with Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: three years ago after Cody beat him and then he
Speaker 1: raised Cody's arm. I don't remember bra getting on the
Speaker 1: mic and basically cutting a short promo and putting the
Speaker 1: guy over. So they did that for Oba. They left
Speaker 1: the ring to him. They closed the show Night one
Speaker 1: with him tonight. They've made it very clear up until
Speaker 1: this point that Oba they see him as the future.
Speaker 1: He got a win over Brocket WrestleMania, they made him
Speaker 1: king of the ring, and tonight he got to be
Speaker 1: the man to end the undefeated streak of Brocklesner inside
Speaker 1: Hell and hisself. So they're all in on Obafemi. But
Speaker 1: as I reflect back on what we got in the
Speaker 1: main event tonight, I was left very disappointed. Even though
Speaker 1: we got the right ending, we got the right outcome.
Speaker 1: All of that was exactly what it needed to be.
Speaker 1: They went out there, though, and had effectively the same
Speaker 1: match they had at WrestleMania and Clash in Italy. This
Speaker 1: one was a little bit longer than the last one.
Speaker 1: This one had a little bit of plunder. It had
Speaker 1: a giant cell surrounding the ring. But really, was this
Speaker 1: match all that different than the other matches these two
Speaker 1: men have had. It really wasn't. This was the blowoff,
Speaker 1: This was the payoff. This was the final time that
Speaker 1: we're likely ever going to see these two men in
Speaker 1: the ring together. They've been playing this feud out now
Speaker 1: since March and then when they announced the hell in
Speaker 1: a Cell stipulation, especially given that the last time we
Speaker 1: had a hell and a Cell match was that five
Speaker 1: star affair that CM punk and Drew McIntyre had. That
Speaker 1: was a violent, bloody match that really did live up
Speaker 1: to the stipulation that was two years ago. Excellent Helen
Speaker 1: is best Helen a Cell match that we've had in many,
Speaker 1: many years. When they announced Helena Cell, I wasn't really
Speaker 1: expecting it to live up to those expectations, But I said, men,
Speaker 1: I really hope that they at least give them more
Speaker 1: time and that they can give us something special and
Speaker 1: they can give us something memorable here, because if they're
Speaker 1: going with that stipulation, they must have something up their sleep,
Speaker 1: you know, they must have something planned here for it.
Speaker 1: The hell and of Cell was not needed. As we
Speaker 1: look back on what they did here tonight. This was
Speaker 1: a complete waste of the Helen of Celle stipulation. Cell
Speaker 1: never even came into play at any point during the match.
Speaker 1: It's very clear. The only reason that they actually even
Speaker 1: advertised the Helen of Cell match when this easily could
Speaker 1: have been by the way, like Last Man Standing, you
Speaker 1: could have done something out and we saw Brock many
Speaker 1: years ago here on this show have a quality last
Speaker 1: man Standing match with Roman Reigns. I would even argue
Speaker 1: it may have been the best match those two have
Speaker 1: ever had, and they've wrestled like fifty thous times. They
Speaker 1: got creative in that match. They did some pretty unique
Speaker 1: stuff in that match, and that's why that match is memorable.
Speaker 1: You could have done something like that. The cell was
Speaker 1: not needed. The only reason they did it is because
Speaker 1: they wanted Oba to be able to say I am
Speaker 1: the man who ended Brock Lesnar's undefeated streak inside Helen
Speaker 1: his cell. And when I say undefeated streak, I should
Speaker 1: put air quotes around it. Because the man had two
Speaker 1: matches in his entire fucking twenty five plus year career
Speaker 1: inside Helen is cell. I don't need I mean, does
Speaker 1: two matches really constitute a streak. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to me that it does. But that's
Speaker 1: why they did it. Why did they make oba Femi
Speaker 1: King of the Ring if they weren't going to live
Speaker 1: up to the stipulation that the winner of the King
Speaker 1: of the Ring gets to choose the champion that they
Speaker 1: want to challenge at summerslim because they didn't give a
Speaker 1: shit about that. They wanted him to have the title
Speaker 1: of King of the Ring. They want to be able
Speaker 1: to call him the King of the Ring. That's the
Speaker 1: only reason we got a Hell and a Cell match
Speaker 1: on this show. So it sucks because I had high
Speaker 1: hopes for what they could potentially do inside or outside
Speaker 1: the cell. Two big guys like that, You know, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be difficult to imagine they would do a spot
Speaker 1: where they would kind of go barreling through the cage wall.
Speaker 1: They would end up outside and do some stuff outside.
Speaker 1: But you know, they kind of exhausted the announced desk
Speaker 1: spots in the previous match, and you got two guys here.
Speaker 1: They're not climbing into the tay. You see how tall
Speaker 1: that cell is, They're not climbing to the top of that.
Speaker 1: So this is what we were left with, and that
Speaker 1: was just very underwhelming. But you know what, even more
Speaker 1: than that, my biggest gripe with what they did here
Speaker 1: in that main event. Right when it felt like the
Speaker 1: match was about to kick into that next gear, he
Speaker 1: was about to elevate into that next gear, it was over,
Speaker 1: Brock exposes the boards underneath the ring, and now the
Speaker 1: fans are coming to their feet like, oh shit, what
Speaker 1: do they have planned here? What are they going to do?
Speaker 1: And people are getting excited, and sixty seconds later the
Speaker 1: match is over. Right when it was starting to get good,
Speaker 1: it ended, and it was just it was very it
Speaker 1: was very flat because I was expecting more and then
Speaker 1: it was over. So to me, that was my biggest
Speaker 1: disappointment here with what they did in this match, not
Speaker 1: even twelve minutes that main event, when they could not
Speaker 1: even squeeze fifteen minutes out of that main event. Now,
Speaker 1: the WWE Championship match went just shive half an hour,
Speaker 1: so that got plenty of time, but this one, unfortunately
Speaker 1: couldn't even get fifteen minutes. And I'm not even saying
Speaker 1: that this should have gone twenty minutes or anything like that,
Speaker 1: because look, you got two guys like this, Brock is
Speaker 1: very limited in what he's going to do. You know
Speaker 1: that Brock is not going to go in there and
Speaker 1: do anything too crazy, Right, He'll take bumps, but he's
Speaker 1: not going to take like big bumps, and he's not
Speaker 1: going to wrestle the way that he used to wrestle
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. It's going to be a lot of suplexes.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a lot of the same shit
Speaker 1: that you always see. Brock. Do Oba also is limited
Speaker 1: in what he can do because he's a big guy.
Speaker 1: You know what's he gonna do. He's gonna be in
Speaker 1: there doing technical matt wrestling. He's not, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to go absurdly long. But unfortunately, you know, when
Speaker 1: it was over, it was just like, man, there was
Speaker 1: more meat on the bone, especially if this is their
Speaker 1: last time working together. And I just wish we would
Speaker 1: have gotten more out of it because for a main event,
Speaker 1: it was over and I just felt very underwhelmed. It
Speaker 1: was just very disappointing to me. The outcome, though, was
Speaker 1: the correct outcome as far as that goes. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did exactly what they needed to do. Anything other
Speaker 1: than that would have been completely ridiculous. I don't give
Speaker 1: a shit where this show was. Oh it's Minnesota, who
Speaker 1: gives a fuck. The only outcome here that made sense
Speaker 1: to close out the feud was Oba Femi beating Brock Lesnar, because,
Speaker 1: as Brock himself said when the show was over, I'm
Speaker 1: the past, you're the future. He's not just the future,
Speaker 1: he's the hero and now. Right. He's getting pushed now
Speaker 1: in a big way. And if he isn't world champion
Speaker 1: by wrestlemanian year or at WrestleMania next year, he'll be
Speaker 1: champion before that. So he's the hero and now and
Speaker 1: Brock is the past. So he was right, you know
Speaker 1: when he said that, And you want to get over
Speaker 1: the future. Brock has nothing left to gain by, you know,
Speaker 1: winning a big match like this. It would serve no purpose.
Speaker 1: So they did what they had to do. As far
Speaker 1: as that goes. I don't know if this is it
Speaker 1: for Brock. There's been a lot of rumor and speculation
Speaker 1: that this could be his retirement. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: is buying into any of that bullshit. After the stunt
Speaker 1: he pulled at WrestleMania this year, taking off the gloves,
Speaker 1: taking off the boots crying in the middle of the ring.
Speaker 1: And so even if you had come out tonight and
Speaker 1: said that I'm done, right, I'm officially done, would anybody
Speaker 1: even believe him? Probably not. Do I believe that Brockleisner
Speaker 1: is done? No? I don't. I don't. They'll be an
Speaker 1: offer for him to come back and do another WrestleMania
Speaker 1: or do some other big match, and he'll come back
Speaker 1: or make a cameo or whatever it may be. But
Speaker 1: if it was going to be the end, and for him,
Speaker 1: he went out exactly the way that you would hope
Speaker 1: he would. He went out putting over the future and
Speaker 1: doing the honors on the way out, and at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, that's really all you can ask for.
Speaker 1: We did have the WWE Championship on the line. It
Speaker 1: was Cody Rhodes challenging Cmpunk first time ever, first time
Speaker 1: ever since both these men returned to WWE. The one
Speaker 1: time they wrestled each other again, it was like eighteen
Speaker 1: years ago something like that. I mean, it may as well.
Speaker 1: It may as well have been their first time in
Speaker 1: the ring together. I mean, the two men you saw
Speaker 1: in the ring tonight not the same people that were
Speaker 1: in the Ring on Monday Night Raw. Okay back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, so for all intents and purposes,
Speaker 1: first time ever match here. I was at one time
Speaker 1: very bullish on this being one of the WrestleMania Maine
Speaker 1: events this year, and I think it could have been,
Speaker 1: you know, had creative gone in a different direction, that
Speaker 1: could have been a wrestle Media made event this year.
Speaker 1: We got it on pretty short notice here for SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: and I think all you really needed to do to
Speaker 1: sell this match was to have one or two really
Speaker 1: good promos, right, because these are two good promo guy. Punk,
Speaker 1: Punk's a great promo guy. We never really got that.
Speaker 1: We had this kind of manufactured thing where Punk accidentally
Speaker 1: hit him in the face with the belt strap at
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event, and then this house showed the
Speaker 1: other day where Cody didn't know who it was and
Speaker 1: he gave this really phony looking back elbow, like, come on,
Speaker 1: you knew exactly who it was. That it all just
Speaker 1: felt very forced and very manufactured, and even the end
Speaker 1: ring promo worked between the two of them, it just
Speaker 1: it just fell very flat to me. So coming into
Speaker 1: the show, this match just didn't feel like as big
Speaker 1: of a deal as it should have, which is too
Speaker 1: bad because I still feel like, even now, I still
Speaker 1: feel like this could be a really big match at
Speaker 1: some point, but by that point, maybe better off if
Speaker 1: one of them is a heel and not both of
Speaker 1: them being babyfaces, because that also kind of hurts it
Speaker 1: a little bit. But we had the title match tonight,
Speaker 1: and we did get a big return at the end
Speaker 1: of that title match factor actually into the finish of
Speaker 1: the match, and that is Randy Orton. We have not
Speaker 1: seen Randy Orton since he punk kicked Cody Rhoads in
Speaker 1: the skull at the end of WrestleMania Night one and
Speaker 1: then he vanished. He went away, and there was a
Speaker 1: lot of speculation about him being injured. They've Meltzer reported
Speaker 1: that there was a back injury. Randy Orton chimed in.
Speaker 1: People took that to mean it was a denial. It
Speaker 1: was never a denial. I'm sure the man was hurt.
Speaker 1: Whether it was his back or not, who knows, but
Speaker 1: he was hurt. That's why he disappeared, and I hope
Speaker 1: he's healthy now. I hope he's healthy enough to stick
Speaker 1: around and not disappear again because him kicking Cody in
Speaker 1: the head and then vanishing really seemed to fuck up
Speaker 1: their creative plans whatever they were, as if TKO didn't
Speaker 1: fuck it up enough for WrestleMania. So now Randy Orton
Speaker 1: is back and he costs Cody Rhoads the Unbeknownst to
Speaker 1: CM Punk, who didn't see any of this, Cody gets
Speaker 1: dropped with an RKO and it leads directly into the finish.
Speaker 1: CM Punk is still the WWE champion, which I completely expected,
Speaker 1: and now we're looking at a Cody Roads Randy Orton feud,
Speaker 1: non title I have. I mean, there's so much I
Speaker 1: could say about this, going back to WrestleMania. You talk
Speaker 1: about feuds that I had been looking forward to because
Speaker 1: there was a lot of history there and it was
Speaker 1: just untapped. They had stayed away from it for so long,
Speaker 1: and that this was gonna be the year finally we're
Speaker 1: going to visit the whole Cody and Randy thing. And
Speaker 1: they had little like teases of it over the years
Speaker 1: and little backstage segments on the television show, but we're
Speaker 1: finally going to get it this year, and they fucked
Speaker 1: it up. And it takes a lot to fuck up
Speaker 1: a Cody Roads Randy Orton story, but they managed to
Speaker 1: do so, and yes, there was a very good reason
Speaker 1: why we can't put that all on Triple Ah and
Speaker 1: the creative team, but nonetheless, they fucked it up and
Speaker 1: when it was over, I didn't have any interest in
Speaker 1: seeing it again. So now all these months have gone by,
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee is but a distant memory, and now they're
Speaker 1: going to try it again. We're going to go back
Speaker 1: to the well once more with Cody and Randy, and
Speaker 1: I'll give it a shot, but my interest level ain't
Speaker 1: nowhere near what it was at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year to see that match. I really hope they could
Speaker 1: put something together to heat things back up and get
Speaker 1: me excited and get me invested in this again, because
Speaker 1: they did a lot of damage with what they did
Speaker 1: going into WrestleMania this year. But that's the direction we're
Speaker 1: going in as far as those two, I don't know
Speaker 1: how long it'll be before we see Cody and Punk
Speaker 1: back in the ring together. But this was only the
Speaker 1: first match, and it ended up being a good match,
Speaker 1: but they clearly were holding back in certain in certain
Speaker 1: regards and leaving a lot more for the future. Maybe
Speaker 1: the future isn't until WrestleMania, you know, in Saudi next year,
Speaker 1: because right now Cody is going to be occupied Randy Orton, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, that opens up c I'm punk to,
Speaker 1: I say, feud with. But he can have a lot
Speaker 1: of little mini feuds. I mean, he can defend that
Speaker 1: championship against any number of people on SmackDown. Look at
Speaker 1: all the people he name dropped a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: right not just Sammy's aying. He names dropped Damian Priest.
Speaker 1: He names dropped Trick Williams, and he might have mentioned
Speaker 1: Royce Keys, I don't really remember. But there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people where he could sort of branch off
Speaker 1: and he can have a little mini feud with this
Speaker 1: person and he can wrestle that person and defend the
Speaker 1: title against this guy. And don't forget there's another big
Speaker 1: name that is rumored to be on their way back
Speaker 1: very very soon. I don't know if it'll be tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He is in Minneapolis because he had some signings, and
Speaker 1: that is Kevin Owens, and I'm dying to see a
Speaker 1: feud between Sea I'm punk and Kevin Owens. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I would go right into it is owens
Speaker 1: first feud and then he loses his first feud. I
Speaker 1: don't think he needs to jump right into it, but
Speaker 1: I would hope when he comes back, he's on SmackDown
Speaker 1: and they can build a punkin Owens. That's a feud
Speaker 1: that's a first time ever met that I am very
Speaker 1: much interested in seeing. So for Punk, he's got plenty
Speaker 1: of people that you could put pair him off with
Speaker 1: and then circle back around to Cody at some point,
Speaker 1: maybe early next year. But this was only match number
Speaker 1: one between them. I thought it was good. Speaking of good,
Speaker 1: we had a Women's World Championship match on this show
Speaker 1: between Live Morgan and EO Sky that they actually opened
Speaker 1: with that I thought was very good. No title change
Speaker 1: is on the show tonight. WWE Championship did not change.
Speaker 1: Women's World Championship did not change. We also had the
Speaker 1: debut of Nick Aldis in ring. All this is. I said,
Speaker 1: it's weird saying the debut of Nick Alldis. All this
Speaker 1: has been on the roster is the GM for three
Speaker 1: years now, but it took this long for them to
Speaker 1: put him in the ring. We had not seen him
Speaker 1: wrestle in WWE until tonight. This was the man's dream.
Speaker 1: He wanted to come here years ago, and finally he
Speaker 1: came and they didn't have any interest in putting him
Speaker 1: in the ring. So three years go by, he's three
Speaker 1: years older. You don't know what you're going to expect.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this all came together on relatively short notice.
Speaker 1: And you know, he keeps himself in good shape, but still,
Speaker 1: I mean, it takes a while to get yourself in
Speaker 1: ring shape, and you don't know what the guy's going
Speaker 1: to look like. He showed up tonight, he was in
Speaker 1: great shape. It's not like he got gassed out or
Speaker 1: anything like that. He looked great in the ring with
Speaker 1: Gunther tonight. Gunther was just the perfect, you know shit
Speaker 1: heel opponent for him. They went out there. I was
Speaker 1: very happy for all this that he was able to
Speaker 1: get that moment. His wife and son were at ringside
Speaker 1: to watch the match. The crowd was super into it.
Speaker 1: They were fully behind him, They were fully invested in
Speaker 1: seeing Nick all this. They want him to beat Gunther.
Speaker 1: So it all worked out very well. And when the
Speaker 1: match was over, I was wondering, Okay, well where to now?
Speaker 1: Does he want to wrestle full time? I don't know
Speaker 1: if they want him wrestling full time. You know, he
Speaker 1: does a very good job in the GM role. Why
Speaker 1: would they want to replace him? And we got our
Speaker 1: answer when the show was over. For those who didn't
Speaker 1: see on the post show, there was a segment in
Speaker 1: the back where all This confronted Triple H and he
Speaker 1: handed him his letter of resignation because he said, look,
Speaker 1: I was the GM, but I had to fight Gunther
Speaker 1: and I was relieved of my duties and I understand
Speaker 1: what I did, and so here's my letter of resignation.
Speaker 1: And in the end, Triple H basically ripped it up
Speaker 1: and said, I'm reinstating you as the General Manager of SmackDown.
Speaker 1: So everything's back to normal. Nick All, this is back
Speaker 1: as the GM. It doesn't mean that we'll never see
Speaker 1: him back in the ring ever again, but if he
Speaker 1: wasn't coming back full time, it just is very awkward.
Speaker 1: How do you like? Storyline wise? How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Just to have the one match with Gunther, right, he
Speaker 1: had to temporarily resign his position as the GM. So
Speaker 1: what does that mean every time he wants to have
Speaker 1: a match with somebody, he's got to temporarily resign as
Speaker 1: the general manager. You kind of have to shit or
Speaker 1: get off the pot. You got to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Do you want him as a full time wrestler do
Speaker 1: you want him as a GM. I think there's more
Speaker 1: value to him as a GM. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: the roster, they so desperately need Nick all this on
Speaker 1: the show. They don't. He'll serve them better in the
Speaker 1: GM role. And then if a storyline comes up, or
Speaker 1: if you you know, cameo in the Royal Rumble or
Speaker 1: something like that, he can be back in the ring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he'll get a WrestleMania match one day, but we
Speaker 1: have our answer. Now he's back to being the GM,
Speaker 1: and at least he got his one moment. Well. Then,
Speaker 1: it was also the tale of two trios matches on
Speaker 1: this show, one for the men, one for the women.
Speaker 1: I had fun with the men's match. I had whatever
Speaker 1: the opposite of fun is is what I had with
Speaker 1: the women's match, and it was colored by a potential
Speaker 1: injury to Brebella. It's very clear that she was hurt.
Speaker 1: I think the only question is how badly is she hurt.
Speaker 1: There's no way she wasn't hurt, and so that didn't
Speaker 1: help matters. This was a good show. It was a
Speaker 1: good show. I can't I can't say it was anything
Speaker 1: more than that, because I can't sit here and tell
Speaker 1: you it was a band show. I enjoyed more than
Speaker 1: I disliked. The opening match I thought was very good.
Speaker 1: The men's six man I thought was very good, The
Speaker 1: oldest match I enjoyed that. The punkin Cody match started
Speaker 1: very very slow. Crowd was very quiet, but it built
Speaker 1: because they knew they were going thirty minutes and it
Speaker 1: built nicely to the end. We got the big Randy
Speaker 1: Orton return and even in the main event in Helen
Speaker 1: a cell While I was disappointed in the match that
Speaker 1: we ended up getting and this absolutely did not need
Speaker 1: to sell, I cannot impress upon you how much this
Speaker 1: did not need to be inside Hell and a cella.
Speaker 1: What a waste of the stipulation it was. But still
Speaker 1: it was Oba Femi doing what he needed to do,
Speaker 1: which is beat Brocklesner in the main event, with Brock
Speaker 1: putting him over at the end, and I can't shit
Speaker 1: on that that's exactly what they should have done. But
Speaker 1: when the show was over, this is SummerSlam, and it
Speaker 1: didn't feel like a big Summer Slam. To me, it
Speaker 1: felt very safe. It felt very underwhelming in many ways.
Speaker 1: If I had a grade this on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to ten, I'd probably go six. I think that's fair,
Speaker 1: maybe six and a half. I would not go higher
Speaker 1: than that. And again, think about it. This was on paper.
Speaker 1: I think most people would agree on paper, this was
Speaker 1: the stronger of the two nights, and this was a
Speaker 1: six out of ten. What does that mean for Night two?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll talk about night too tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm here to talk about Night one. This
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Speaker 1: were in US Bank Stadium, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: made of the attendance coming into this show, and the
Speaker 1: attendants compared to what they did at MetLife Stadium last year,
Speaker 1: far far below what they did last I mean to
Speaker 1: the tune of like fifteen to twenty thousand tickets less.
Speaker 1: I don't believe, now, correct me if I'm wrong. I
Speaker 1: don't believe they mentioned the attendant once tonight. They certainly
Speaker 1: weren't gloating about it. Gee. I wonder why Usually they're
Speaker 1: all about they put the graphic up, or they have
Speaker 1: somebody make the announcement. They have a legend out there
Speaker 1: making the announcement. I didn't hear a single word said
Speaker 1: about Actually, the only thing that I did here, Michael
Speaker 1: Cole multiple times said a capacity crowd is what we
Speaker 1: have here in Minneapolis today. Apparently capacity doesn't mean what
Speaker 1: he used to me. So we did have Michael Cole
Speaker 1: lying to us multiple times and telling us it was
Speaker 1: a capacity crowd. It was not a capacity cred but
Speaker 1: they still had something like thirty seven thousand people there.
Speaker 1: That's still a healthy crowd. Now, US Bank Stadium, it's
Speaker 1: not an open air stadium, but I guess it must
Speaker 1: have like a transparent roof because the sunlight was shining through.
Speaker 1: For even during the main event, we had sunlight. Hell
Speaker 1: in a cell doesn't hit quite the same way when
Speaker 1: it's still light outside. It's like when Sting wrestled it.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania has one Wrestlemanium match. It's Sting. He's a dark character.
Speaker 1: He comes out and it's just fucking sunshine. The clouds
Speaker 1: are out, it's bright and sunny. It just doesn't hit
Speaker 1: the same way. So I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: entire roof for just a portion of the roof, but
Speaker 1: you could see the light shining through the stage look
Speaker 1: good though. The setup looked good. Before the show started,
Speaker 1: we had Vaughan Evelyn performing God Bless America. And if
Speaker 1: you're wondering, well, who is Von Evelyn, that would be
Speaker 1: Von Evelyn Leveck, the fifteen year old daughter of Triple
Speaker 1: H and Stephanie McMahon. I don't believe they ever identified
Speaker 1: her as being their daughter, but she sang before the show.
Speaker 1: They opened the show with the Women's World Championship on
Speaker 1: the line, Live Morgan. This was a landmark day because
Speaker 1: this was Live Morgan's first title defense since she won
Speaker 1: the championship at WrestleMania in April. Over one hundred days
Speaker 1: of no defenses and finally she defended her title and
Speaker 1: it was against the Queen of the Ring, Eo Sky.
Speaker 1: So Morgan hit a three amigos. This was pretty early
Speaker 1: on in the match. There was a sunset bomb spot
Speaker 1: where liv got power bombed off the apron to the floor.
Speaker 1: Back inside, EO headed up top. Here comes Roxanne Perez
Speaker 1: and Raquel Rodriguez. This is a little deeper into the match,
Speaker 1: and so you knew the judgment Day was going to
Speaker 1: rear their heads at some point. So Roxanne distracted the
Speaker 1: referee while Raquel shoved Eo off the rope. She took
Speaker 1: a flat back into the center of the ring, but
Speaker 1: Eo made a comeback and she took out Perez and
Speaker 1: Rodriguez with a moon salt out to the floor. And
Speaker 1: then a few moments later, EO hit an avalanche Spanish
Speaker 1: fly and dropped Live all the way down, covered her
Speaker 1: for a near fall. EO then hit a backbreaker. Live
Speaker 1: rolled to the corner and EO went for the bullet
Speaker 1: train knees. Live moved out of the way, so she
Speaker 1: hit the turn buckle. EO hit Live with her own
Speaker 1: oblivion finish, only for a near fall. Then she went
Speaker 1: for her over the Moon salt, landed on her feet
Speaker 1: though when Live moved out of the way, EO sold
Speaker 1: it like maybe she jammed her knee or her ankle
Speaker 1: on the landing. Lived then jumped from the middle rope.
Speaker 1: She hit a code breaker for a two count. EO
Speaker 1: was able to dodge an oblivion attempt, got Live on
Speaker 1: the apron, and she delivered a German suplex on the apron.
Speaker 1: And now it Live sitting up against the ring post.
Speaker 1: Here comes EO and she comes charging in with the
Speaker 1: bullet train, knees back inside. Now EO goes up. She's
Speaker 1: gonna go again for the over the Moon salt, but
Speaker 1: Live got her feet up and then she went for oblivion.
Speaker 1: And it looked at first like she hit oblivion, and
Speaker 1: I get I mean, I guess EO blocked it. She
Speaker 1: ended up landing on her feet. She like propelled herself
Speaker 1: back up onto her feet, and she starts like screaming.
Speaker 1: She's all fired up, and like the crowd is into it.
Speaker 1: But then Live quickly followed up with a code breaker
Speaker 1: and then one last oblivion, and this time she got
Speaker 1: the pin to retain the title, and so liv Morgan
Speaker 1: remains undefeated at SummerSlam. This was either her third or
Speaker 1: fourth match at SummerSlam. She was undefeated coming into this show.
Speaker 1: She is still undefeated, which also means the dan Housen
Speaker 1: curse has been broken. Dan Housen cursed her, he never
Speaker 1: uncursed her, and she won. That means the dan Housen
Speaker 1: shit is dead. The curse has been broken. It has
Speaker 1: been rendered ineffective. Maybe we can start to quiet down
Speaker 1: the various dan Housen appearance. It just dial it back
Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe I thought this was a very
Speaker 1: good opener, a great closing sequence, and they got time too.
Speaker 1: You know, Actually, now that I think about it, what's
Speaker 1: kind of said? This got more time than Brock and
Speaker 1: Obad inside the cell? It did? It got like a
Speaker 1: minute minute and a half more. This got about thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Brock Andoba had just shi of twelve. See that's what's
Speaker 1: ridiculous about it. Okay, again, I'm not saying that Brock
Speaker 1: Andoba had to go twenty plus, but I mean, for
Speaker 1: God's sake, does Eosky and Live Morgan really need to
Speaker 1: go longer than Brocklesner and Oba Femi when you have
Speaker 1: a hell in a cell stipulation, I mean, that's pretty
Speaker 1: fucking ridiculous. What I'm happy about, though, is that Live
Speaker 1: In Stephanie got like seven minutes if that at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: So at least she got five or six minutes more
Speaker 1: for this match than she did in Mania. And now,
Speaker 1: I look, I just hope I was pulling for a
Speaker 1: title change, mostly because I'm just sick and tired of
Speaker 1: Live walking around with the title as a fashion accessory.
Speaker 1: They had nobody for her to work with. She became
Speaker 1: the de facto manager of the Judgment day. Okay, she retained,
Speaker 1: Now what, right? I don't want them to just go
Speaker 1: back to the way and let another one hundred days
Speaker 1: go by or fifty days go by, right, No more
Speaker 1: of this shit. She needs to get in the ring.
Speaker 1: She needs to defend the title every now and then, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even think they have another pl
Speaker 1: E until when is the next pl E. I don't
Speaker 1: even know they have a Saturday they have a Sunday
Speaker 1: Night's main event at the beginning of next month. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what. I don't even know when the
Speaker 1: next pl E is. Honestly, they haven't announced wrestled Palooza yet.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine they don't bring it back. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were so in love with it last year, so
Speaker 1: I would think the Wrestle Palooza announcement for September is
Speaker 1: probably coming very soon. But for God's sake, just line
Speaker 1: up two or three women. I mean, maybe, with any luck,
Speaker 1: Stephanie Vicaier will reappear on RAW on Monday. Maybe she'll
Speaker 1: be back. Maybe she'll be back on TV this Monday,
Speaker 1: you know, and they can resume the feud, reignite that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, otherwise, you know, line a few people
Speaker 1: up and get her in the ring and let her
Speaker 1: defend the championship. No more of this bullshit where people
Speaker 1: are just hoarding belts and they don't do anything with them.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, it makes for boring television. If
Speaker 1: you want the television to be more exciting and more interesting.
Speaker 1: You've got to line up some challenges for these people.
Speaker 1: Even if EO had won, if EO won the belt,
Speaker 1: to that it would have been the same thing. You
Speaker 1: have to have people lined up for them to work with.
Speaker 1: So that's my only hope. If they have people lined
Speaker 1: up for live, great, then I have no problem with
Speaker 1: her retaining. But Monday would be a great time for
Speaker 1: a Stephanie Vickier return. Now they plugged, I mean they
Speaker 1: had a lot of different commercials here during the show.
Speaker 1: By the way, this show it started at six and
Speaker 1: it was over a little over three hours, like nine
Speaker 1: oh five. Maybe I think the show was over. I
Speaker 1: like it. Very economical. I will not complain about that.
Speaker 1: That's great. There's certain other pay per views that I
Speaker 1: wish would would also be you know, around that length
Speaker 1: three and a half hours, maybe top out around there
Speaker 1: would be nice. But we had a lot of ad
Speaker 1: breaks in between the matches, and one of them was
Speaker 1: they were advertising the new line of LJN figures. They've
Speaker 1: brought the ljns back, like last year. I think they
Speaker 1: brought them back. They had like Hogan and Dusty and
Speaker 1: Logan Paul and John Cena, right, I think those are
Speaker 1: the first four. So then there was like another line
Speaker 1: of figures and they announced, and this might have just
Speaker 1: been announced it to a comic con, that they're coming
Speaker 1: out with a Heart Foundation two pack, and that drew
Speaker 1: my attention because when I was a kid, I never
Speaker 1: did have the Heart Foundation ones with a Brett one
Speaker 1: and I was like, hmm, I don't know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'd be interested in that. And apparently today was
Speaker 1: the pre sale on Target. They're a Target exclusive, and
Speaker 1: so somebody reminded me of this earlier and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: they just open up the pre sales and they're available
Speaker 1: and they're discounted for like forty bucks if you want
Speaker 1: to jump on there and buy them. I'm like, oh shit.
Speaker 1: So I jump on Target dot Com earlier today, and
Speaker 1: there they are. They got the Heart Foundation, they got
Speaker 1: Brother Love. Who gives a fuck about Brother Love? And
Speaker 1: I click on the Heart Foundation one and it looks
Speaker 1: like it's in stock, and I go add to cart
Speaker 1: and it won't let me add to cart. It says
Speaker 1: items sold out. These are for pre orders. By the way,
Speaker 1: I said items sold out. It was just available that quickly. Gone, Gone,
Speaker 1: gone with the wind. Actually, I was shocked at the
Speaker 1: ship day. They're not even shipping until May of next year.
Speaker 1: What the fuck fucking ten months away? But it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter because they're already gone. Fuck off, LJN ridiculous, doesn't
Speaker 1: even look like Brett. I was very mad about this,
Speaker 1: and then they have to have a commercial for it.
Speaker 1: Fuck off. We had the six man tag team match.
Speaker 1: It was La Knight. It was Solo, Socoa and Royce
Speaker 1: Keys against Jacob fought To and the USOS. The blood
Speaker 1: Line got a special Gears of War a video game
Speaker 1: entrance or it was like a video game sponsored entrance,
Speaker 1: and Jacob thought to He entered wearing a werewolf mask.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen him wear that mask in a while.
Speaker 1: He's warned a few times before, so the mask is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Solo and Jay they ended up in
Speaker 1: the ring together and Solo he turns, He turns to
Speaker 1: the hard can. He turns to the heart. Solo is great,
Speaker 1: fuck that tree, Ah hate Chief, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for the luring tree and super super Trabo with the subscribe.
Speaker 1: Thank you brother, appreciate it. Solo looks to the hardcam
Speaker 1: and he gives the signal to run it back and
Speaker 1: they start playing Jay Usso's music and fucking Solo Sokoa
Speaker 1: is standing in the middle of the ring and he
Speaker 1: starts yeating, and the entire crowd, like on the Hard Camp,
Speaker 1: you see everybody just standing up and yeating along with Solo,
Speaker 1: and Jay is looking at it. It's like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck do you do? Jack in my entrance here you're
Speaker 1: jacking my shit. But this was this was hilarious, Like
Speaker 1: the look the giant smile on Solo's face amazing. How
Speaker 1: was this man ever? A heel? Solo dropped fa too
Speaker 1: with a Samoan drop, but Jacob no soul that got
Speaker 1: right back up to his feet and he ended up
Speaker 1: dropping Solo with the pop up samo and drop and
Speaker 1: then a running sent on. So the Bloodlin worked over Solo.
Speaker 1: In the corner. Crab was chanting, let's go Solo. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to hear that more and more. We heard that
Speaker 1: on Monday night when he was in the crowd. They
Speaker 1: started chanting let's go Solo. Let's they were chanting for me.
Speaker 1: It's very possible. I'm sure you're all at home right
Speaker 1: now when you tune into these streams and you're chanting
Speaker 1: that same thing. In fact, I want you to type
Speaker 1: that out in the chat. We got to get some
Speaker 1: let's go solo chance going so FA two hit solo
Speaker 1: with a running hip attack in the corner, but then
Speaker 1: the two of them ended up colliding. They closelined each other.
Speaker 1: We got a double down. So anyway, Royce Keys tagged
Speaker 1: in and Jimmy Uso tagged in and Keys planted him
Speaker 1: with the world's Strongest Slam. I guess that was maybe
Speaker 1: a little tribute to Mark Henry who was in the crowd.
Speaker 1: They showed him in the crowd. In fact, the entire
Speaker 1: Busted Open crew was in the crowd. They had a
Speaker 1: shot of them later on right there was Dave Lagreca,
Speaker 1: Tommy Dreamer, Bully Ray, big smile, big cheesy smile on
Speaker 1: his face. Yeah. So there was a spot where Keys
Speaker 1: was on the ropes with Jimmy and he was trying
Speaker 1: to pick him up again like almost in a World's
Speaker 1: Strongest Slam position, but from the middle rope. But he
Speaker 1: was struggling, man, I mean, it was it was tough.
Speaker 1: I don't know what if it was just like his
Speaker 1: positioning on the ropes or he just couldn't get a
Speaker 1: good grip or whatever it was. This was taking forever,
Speaker 1: and then finally he was able to power slam him
Speaker 1: off the ropes. Jimmy does look bigger. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that had something to do with it, but La
Speaker 1: Knight and Jay they got tagged in and Jacob tried
Speaker 1: to jump into things. Night knocked him off the apron
Speaker 1: hit a big elbow for a near fall, and Jay
Speaker 1: came back with a spear for a near fall of
Speaker 1: his own. So Jay went up top. Night though he
Speaker 1: popped up, did the leap up to the top that
Speaker 1: he does and brought him down with a superplex. But
Speaker 1: Jimmy was on the top rope in the opposite corner
Speaker 1: and he came diving off with an USO splash. So
Speaker 1: then Solo took out Jimmy with a Yuranagi. FA two
Speaker 1: took out Solo with an implant DDTDI impaler. Royce keys
Speaker 1: he drove FOT two into the mat with a spinebuster,
Speaker 1: and then they ended up outside and this was the
Speaker 1: big spot of the match right here, because Jacob charged
Speaker 1: in towards Royce, who was over by the timekeeper's barricade.
Speaker 1: So here comes Jacob Fatu Keys catches him as he
Speaker 1: comes charging in. He catches him for a power slam,
Speaker 1: and he power slams him over the timekeeper's barricade to
Speaker 1: the floor on the other side, which is exposed. It's
Speaker 1: the concrete on the other side of the barricade. Keys
Speaker 1: goes over the barricade with him and nearly spikes himself
Speaker 1: face first down into the ground. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: a crazy spot and that could have ended very badly.
Speaker 1: So that was like the one big holy shit spot
Speaker 1: of the match. Back inside, j hit Knight with a spear.
Speaker 1: Jimmy came off the top with an USO splash and
Speaker 1: he covered Night though kicked out it too, And so
Speaker 1: the USO set up for the one D solo was
Speaker 1: on the apron and he reaches over and he delivers
Speaker 1: the Samoan spike to Jimmy. La Knight then catches Jay
Speaker 1: with a BFT and man, I'm kind of under selling it.
Speaker 1: He got all of that BFT. He fucking planted him,
Speaker 1: and I will say Jay sold this great and La
Speaker 1: Knight pins j Uso to win the six man tag
Speaker 1: team messie that I wasn't expecting that. That was a
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise, And I have to say this, I feel vindicated, Okay,
Speaker 1: for all the times, and you guys know, for all
Speaker 1: the times over the last several months that I have
Speaker 1: said that deep within there is a babyface run, a
Speaker 1: great babyface run buried within Solo's socoa. Why is he
Speaker 1: continuing to do the shit that they have him doing
Speaker 1: on TV? Why is this MFT stuff still going on?
Speaker 1: Why are the MFT still feuding with the Wyat's six right?
Speaker 1: How many times did we talk about this over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, and now it is starting to
Speaker 1: bear fruit. You are seeing. This is why I was
Speaker 1: saying it the entire time. It's amazing sometimes how if
Speaker 1: you just let somebody be more like themselves, how they
Speaker 1: can get over. The guy is a natural babyface. He's
Speaker 1: naturally charismatic and naturally funny. If you just let some
Speaker 1: of that shine through on TV, he will get over.
Speaker 1: He will get over. The only regret I have is
Speaker 1: that I had this whole idea in mind for the
Speaker 1: entire MFT. He's not just Solo. Yeah, they could have.
Speaker 1: You could have gotten the whole group over. Instead you
Speaker 1: fired half of them, and now Tallatoga and Tomatonga are
Speaker 1: going to be doing something with Haku and we'll see
Speaker 1: where that goes. But solo on a zone as a babyface.
Speaker 1: This is how it needs to be. Any consideration to
Speaker 1: turning him back or there being a swerve, or you know,
Speaker 1: we don't want him to be a babyface for the
Speaker 1: long run, Like that's bullshit. You gotta put that idea
Speaker 1: out of your mind. If they're thinking about that, they
Speaker 1: need to not think about that and just keep riding
Speaker 1: this wave. Let him go out there, let him be himself,
Speaker 1: and he will continue to get over and the crowds
Speaker 1: will continue to chant his name, and you see how
Speaker 1: far you can take it. So that is great to see.
Speaker 1: I was surprised the bloodline lost, pleasantly surprised even more
Speaker 1: so that La Night got the pin on jay Usso again,
Speaker 1: I was not expecting that to take place. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it leads anywhere worthwhile. I gave up a
Speaker 1: long time ago getting my hopes up assuming that there's
Speaker 1: really anything of substance in store for this guy, that
Speaker 1: they have some sort of big grand plan for him.
Speaker 1: They don't, but you never know. Right, you're only one
Speaker 1: injury away, A spot opens up and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden la and getting a big push. Not that I'm
Speaker 1: advocating for anybody to get hurt, but I have no
Speaker 1: faith whatsoever they have any real grand plans for him
Speaker 1: beyond what he's doing right now. For one night though,
Speaker 1: for one night, he beat the yeat Man and he
Speaker 1: got the win for his team, and he wasn't looking
Speaker 1: up with the lights. I'll take it. Fun match, fun match.
Speaker 1: They kept up a good pace. I thought everybody had
Speaker 1: a chance to shine at different points, and the bloodline
Speaker 1: ate shit for a change. This was an easy thumbs up.
Speaker 1: Then we had Gunther, the Ring General, taking on the
Speaker 1: National Treasure Nick All this this was all. This is
Speaker 1: in ring WWE debut. This was his first match in
Speaker 1: three years he's been out of the ring, and they
Speaker 1: actually paid for Oasis not to perform live, but they
Speaker 1: paid for Morning Glory, which was a little difficult to
Speaker 1: hear when he initially came out, but then it became
Speaker 1: very clear listening to it what it was. And I'll
Speaker 1: be damned, I'm sure that didn't come cheap. I'm also
Speaker 1: sure that this is going to be edited off the
Speaker 1: replays on ESPN and or Netflix. I would be shocked
Speaker 1: if they keep that song in there, but they had
Speaker 1: to pay something for it, and I'm sure it wasn't cheap.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people they're going to have
Speaker 1: to release in the next wave of cutbacks to pay
Speaker 1: for the song, but it just added to kind of
Speaker 1: the special nature of the occasion. And I'm sure for him,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had to say in the song.
Speaker 1: I mean he must have. But that was very unexpected
Speaker 1: because I was worried they were going to deaf rebel him.
Speaker 1: I started thinking about, like, oh, man, when he comes out,
Speaker 1: like what is he gonna come out to? Yeah, God
Speaker 1: only knows what god awful song they're going to have
Speaker 1: him come out to. So him coming out to that
Speaker 1: was a relief. And they introduced him as the National Treasure,
Speaker 1: which is the nickname he used to go by when
Speaker 1: he was the NWA World's Heavyweight Champion. He looked incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean he really did, like he got himself. I
Speaker 1: mean he was already in shape, but like whatever work
Speaker 1: he's put into things over the last several weeks, it
Speaker 1: paid off just cosmetically. He looked like he can just
Speaker 1: you know, he could be on the active roster right now.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't look out of place at all, so he
Speaker 1: was in great shape. They also acknowledged him on the screen.
Speaker 1: They put a graphic up showing some of his past
Speaker 1: accomplishments and they acknowledged him as a I think a
Speaker 1: two time TNA tag team champion, but said nothing about
Speaker 1: him being an NWA champion, which was I just found
Speaker 1: that funny. His wife, Mickey James and their son Donovan
Speaker 1: were in the front row for this match. I popped
Speaker 1: at Michael Cole talking about all This's appearance last week
Speaker 1: on Chris Van Vliet's podcast, which is a great interview
Speaker 1: by the if he didn't see it, but wait, according
Speaker 1: to Cole, it was the NWE. Is that what he said? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cole is he's just been awful lately. The NW. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there is a promotion out there called NWE. I
Speaker 1: don't think they can all this ever wrestle for them,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure they exist somewhere. What I was gonna
Speaker 1: say is I popped at Michael Cole. He was talking
Speaker 1: about all disappearing on Chris's podcast and never acknowledge the
Speaker 1: fact that in the front row on the hardcam right there.
Speaker 1: I think as he was saying it let alone all night.
Speaker 1: He was right there in the front row was Chris
Speaker 1: van Vliet. He was sitting right there. Never even acknowledged him,
Speaker 1: but he did mention that he was on his podcast.
Speaker 1: I should have texted Chris during the show, just to
Speaker 1: fuck with him, and then while I'm watching, I'll see
Speaker 1: him look down at his phone and know that it
Speaker 1: was me. See, but I didn't do it though I
Speaker 1: didn't want to bother. There was a very impressive spot
Speaker 1: early on here in this match where all this he
Speaker 1: caught Gunther out of mid air and then muscled him
Speaker 1: up into a vertical suplex. All this went to the ropes.
Speaker 1: Gunther came over though he chopped him off the ropes,
Speaker 1: and all this took a hard bump down to the floor.
Speaker 1: So gun the he went over and got in Mickey's
Speaker 1: face in the front row a ringside. See. I thought
Speaker 1: they were setting up for a spot late in the match,
Speaker 1: you know, where like he would saunter on over to
Speaker 1: Mickey and then Mickey would like slap him in the
Speaker 1: face or something. They didn't do anything like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: put you know, go to put the kid in the sleeperhold,
Speaker 1: and then Mickey smacks him or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. When they show the family on screen,
Speaker 1: immediately you think angle alerts, right. I'm just it's kind
Speaker 1: of ingrained in me as a wrestling fan to think
Speaker 1: okay and Mickey obviously herself being a wrestler, but they
Speaker 1: never did factor into the match. So a little bit
Speaker 1: later on Gunther he escaped a clover leaf attempt, he
Speaker 1: locked in a sleeper. All just sent Gunther into the
Speaker 1: turn and buckles to break the sleeper hold, but Gunther
Speaker 1: then mowed him down with a hard lariat and he
Speaker 1: tried to go up top. All this though, cut him
Speaker 1: off with a superplex, and at this point the crowd
Speaker 1: was shedding. You still got it? Or, as Michael Cole said,
Speaker 1: you still have it? Does he just make shit up
Speaker 1: as things go? He just I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is with him. Man, how long has
Speaker 1: he been doing this for? Now? Thirty years? Hm? So
Speaker 1: All this caught gun Through with a flying clothesline, then
Speaker 1: he hit a British Bulldog style power slam for a
Speaker 1: near fall. All this put Gunther down with a slam
Speaker 1: before hitting a top rope diving elbow. Then he followed
Speaker 1: up with another top rope elbow and then he got
Speaker 1: the clover leaf applied. And the crowd was invested in
Speaker 1: this man, because when he got that submission locked on,
Speaker 1: and it's not like he's ever wrestled for them before.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's been established that this is his
Speaker 1: move sets and this is his finishing move, and people
Speaker 1: were popping for it, man, I mean they were fully
Speaker 1: into it. Gunn There eventually grabbed the bottom rope for
Speaker 1: the break. Gunther There got another sleeper, replied all this,
Speaker 1: though quickly reversed it to a big pop, and Gunther
Speaker 1: broke the hold with a Sayito suplex and then locked
Speaker 1: in yet another sleeper. This time he has him down
Speaker 1: on the mat and that's not the place to be.
Speaker 1: All this was able to fight up to his feet.
Speaker 1: Gunther takes him back down again and then eventually all
Speaker 1: this is forced to tap out. After Gunther left, they
Speaker 1: stopped the music and all this got to his feet,
Speaker 1: nice respectful ovation, standing ovation and applause from the crowd.
Speaker 1: Mickey comes into the ring along with young Donovan and
Speaker 1: we have a nice little family celebration in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. And again, you know, for the fans
Speaker 1: who want a chance. You still got it. You still
Speaker 1: got it. One thing that all this proved in the
Speaker 1: ring tonight, in this match, he never lost it. It's
Speaker 1: always been there. He was just waiting for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: If you watch the interview with Chris van Vlie, he
Speaker 1: got very emotional when he was talking about this match
Speaker 1: coming up and starts crying. He can barely speak, and
Speaker 1: he just says, after like a minute of not being
Speaker 1: able to speak, he just goes, this is in so
Speaker 1: many words, it was like, this is special, Like this match,
Speaker 1: this means a lot. He basically said, like, this is
Speaker 1: my shot. This is the shot he's been waiting for
Speaker 1: for years. He's getting it now. I don't know how
Speaker 1: old is he, thirty nine, forty, he's in that range.
Speaker 1: It took this long, but this was his shot. So again,
Speaker 1: him going out there and the presentation with the music
Speaker 1: and everything, and him coming out being in shape like
Speaker 1: that and towel around the neck, you know, the national treasure.
Speaker 1: Everything just had to be pitch perfect because he doesn't
Speaker 1: know when or if he's going to have another chance
Speaker 1: to go out there in WWE and do this. This
Speaker 1: may be it, you know, we don't know. Took him
Speaker 1: three years to get this guy in the ring. If
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the only shot he has, he
Speaker 1: wants to make the most of it. Well, he can
Speaker 1: be very proud of what he did today. There was
Speaker 1: nothing in this match that would lead you to believe
Speaker 1: that this man shouldn't be in the ring. He didn't
Speaker 1: embarrass himself, he didn't gas himself out, he didn't you know,
Speaker 1: slip on the ropes or I mean, there was nothing.
Speaker 1: Everything was Everything was pitch perfect. You know, when the
Speaker 1: match played out exactly the way I figured it would.
Speaker 1: You know, he got some hope spots in there, he
Speaker 1: had the crowd behind him. But in the end, gunther
Speaker 1: took him to the mat and he put him out
Speaker 1: because there was no other outcome here. I know, for
Speaker 1: the sake of like the story and making people happy.
Speaker 1: It would have been great to give him a happy
Speaker 1: moment with his family there. But what is that accomplish
Speaker 1: if he's just gonna go back in the suit and
Speaker 1: tie and become the GM again. And now you got
Speaker 1: gunther On SmackDown and it's like, okay, you've been beaten
Speaker 1: by the general manager of the show. Oh boy, that
Speaker 1: really helps Gunther, like there could be no their outcome here.
Speaker 1: It played out exactly the way that I expected it to,
Speaker 1: in the way that it should have now, I said
Speaker 1: earlier when the show went off the air for those
Speaker 1: of you who are joining late all this, confronted Triple
Speaker 1: H and tried to hand him a letter of resignation
Speaker 1: as the GM of SmackDown, and he said, look, I
Speaker 1: accept my fate. I may not be able to be
Speaker 1: the GM anymore because I wanted this match. It's been
Speaker 1: an honor and a privilege to serve. And Triple H said,
Speaker 1: not so fast. I'm reinstating you. So he is going
Speaker 1: to stay on as the GM of SmackDown, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if he wrestles again at some point, maybe a
Speaker 1: cameo and a rumble or something. I could see that,
Speaker 1: but it would be very awkward, you know, to have
Speaker 1: to shoot an angle every single time he's going to
Speaker 1: feud with this person or that person to you know,
Speaker 1: kind of pull him from the GM position. So if
Speaker 1: you got to make a decision, I think the right
Speaker 1: decision is to keep him in the GM spot. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as Gunther, who picked up the win, here,
Speaker 1: where does he go? Coming out of this, right, probably
Speaker 1: not the WWE title picture. Frankly, I don't really want
Speaker 1: him in the title picture. Been there done that. We
Speaker 1: already did that a few months ago. There is a
Speaker 1: number one contenders match coming up tomorrow in Night two
Speaker 1: between Sammy's A and Finn Balor that I believe Finn
Speaker 1: Balor is winning. I mentioned that last week, and so
Speaker 1: Gunther on Friday yesterday attack both of them, making it
Speaker 1: very clear that he wants to be the number one contender.
Speaker 1: That could be setting up something between Gunther and Finn
Speaker 1: Balor Balor if he wins. I mean, he may get
Speaker 1: his title match first, but like coming out of that,
Speaker 1: I would love to see something with Baler and Gunther. Right,
Speaker 1: they've had maybe one match before on TV on Raw
Speaker 1: many years ago, but they've never had a proper feud,
Speaker 1: so that could be. To me, that's actually the likely
Speaker 1: direction if I had a guess for Gunther as we
Speaker 1: go forward after this, we had more six person tagg
Speaker 1: team action. This was quite the departure from the one
Speaker 1: that we had earlier. This was the opposite of the
Speaker 1: six person tag we had earlier. This was fatal influence,
Speaker 1: J C. Jane and the women's tag team Champions fallon
Speaker 1: Henley and Lany Reid taking on Page and the now
Speaker 1: reunited Bella Twins now that Nikki Bella is back. This
Speaker 1: was a mess, That's what this was. This was a mess,
Speaker 1: and the crowd was quiet for most of it. But
Speaker 1: there was an early cannon ball outside the ring by J. C.
Speaker 1: Jane to Bree Bella up against the ring steps, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is where she got hurt because
Speaker 1: Brie immediately clutched her right shoulder. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was the shoulder the collar bone, but there was
Speaker 1: some injury that took place. And yeah, how about it?
Speaker 1: How about it? Venom Kaitetsu with the fourteen dollars super chet. See,
Speaker 1: this is a very this is becoming a very popular one.
Speaker 1: Sy guy is here. Thanks for the content, man, I
Speaker 1: will thank you. I'm glad you enjoy it. But from
Speaker 1: that cannonball spot, from that point forward, she kept clutching
Speaker 1: that shoulder. She would not let go of it. It
Speaker 1: was clearly bothering her for the rest of the match.
Speaker 1: So whenever she tagged back in, she was basically useless
Speaker 1: in the ring. She was like a one armed woman
Speaker 1: in there. She couldn't do anything. She could barely take
Speaker 1: any bump. She was trying to protect her arm. It
Speaker 1: was very clear to me as a fan, as an
Speaker 1: observer just watching at home, you know, on my fucking
Speaker 1: iPad watching this show. I can't imagine that. You know,
Speaker 1: there weren't people in the back who could tell that
Speaker 1: she was hurt. You have two other women that are
Speaker 1: on her team, and it's not like they were doing
Speaker 1: any sort of like convoluted spots that well, we need Bree, like,
Speaker 1: let her just tag out. Why was she still in
Speaker 1: there doing stuff that she clearly was in no condition
Speaker 1: to do. I don't know why she was able to
Speaker 1: stay in the match, and the referee didn't just communicate
Speaker 1: to her, like get out of the ring and let
Speaker 1: the doctor go check on you. But there was an
Speaker 1: embarrassing spot late where she was supposed to throw Jace
Speaker 1: Jane out of the ring, but she couldn't do anything
Speaker 1: except move out of the way, and Jace basically had
Speaker 1: to throw herself out of the ring to the floor.
Speaker 1: Page got a blind tag, caught Jace with a sunset
Speaker 1: flip for a near fall, but then after a distraction,
Speaker 1: Jace caught her with a rolling encore and she pinned
Speaker 1: Page to win the match. So even though she lost
Speaker 1: the match for her team, the Bella's, they embraced Page.
Speaker 1: They said it's okay, and they gave her a hug.
Speaker 1: And then when that was over, predictably, the Bella Twins
Speaker 1: attacked Page and turned heel and the process, Bree threw
Speaker 1: a few very weak kicks because that's really all she
Speaker 1: could do. It was mostly just Nicky beating the crap
Speaker 1: out of Page, and she dropped her with a rack attack.
Speaker 1: Triple H announced that on the post show, Brie is
Speaker 1: now injured. Well yeah, I mean, I didn't need Triple
Speaker 1: H to tell me that. I could tell she was injured.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not too serious. I don't like to see
Speaker 1: anybody get hurt. But it was pretty clear, I mean,
Speaker 1: ninety seconds or whatever it was into the match, it
Speaker 1: was pretty clear. The shoulder Demon again I said, collar
Speaker 1: bom potentially probably it looked like more of a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: The shoulder Demon, it looks like may have taken another
Speaker 1: one tonight. He's been on vacation. We haven't heard from
Speaker 1: the shoulder Demon in a while. I guess we were overdue.
Speaker 1: But then after Nicki lays out Page and the Bellas
Speaker 1: are leaving together, and Brie looks very upset. That was
Speaker 1: the other giveaway, like she knew something was probably badly,
Speaker 1: badly wrong. She didn't seem very happy about that. But
Speaker 1: Nikki is just kind of like muttering to herself and
Speaker 1: just talking out loud, and she says, don't ever take
Speaker 1: my spot. And I'm like, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: You're the one who chose Page to be in the
Speaker 1: spot that was supposed to belong to you, but you
Speaker 1: got hurt. You chose Page, you made the phone call
Speaker 1: to bring her in, and that's why she won the
Speaker 1: Tag team championships with your sister. How did she take
Speaker 1: your spot? I mean, that's that's on. You didn't really
Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense to me. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I mean maybe it's a sign. You know,
Speaker 1: one Bella gets hurt, she's gone for months, literally her
Speaker 1: first match back, and her sister gets hurt, and she's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be gone for weeks at a minim them
Speaker 1: because it didn't look good. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means now for whatever their plans are. You know,
Speaker 1: there was somebody in the chat yesterday, I think on
Speaker 1: the stream who suggested that maybe the direction is the
Speaker 1: Bellas turned on Page. Page then brings in aj Lee.
Speaker 1: You know her old friend aj Lee. They were tag
Speaker 1: team partners at WrestleMania, weren't they WrestleMania thirty one, I believe,
Speaker 1: And then we end up with Page and aj feuding
Speaker 1: with the Bellas. I'm not sure who was asking for that,
Speaker 1: but I said, yeah, you know what, I could see that. Well,
Speaker 1: now what I'm not saying that was the plan. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I could see that being the plan. And
Speaker 1: whatever the plan was for the Bella is, if you're
Speaker 1: one Bella down, do they put Nicki on ice or
Speaker 1: what do they do here? I don't know. It would
Speaker 1: seem to me like we may get Paige and Nicki
Speaker 1: in a one on one feud. Again. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone is asking for this or itching to see this,
Speaker 1: but they may not have a choice. Now. So already
Speaker 1: it was time for the WWE Championship match. It was
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes challenging Cmpunk and I have to show you
Speaker 1: this image because Cody had a very special end. Now,
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know Cody Roads is
Speaker 1: going to be in a movie coming out in October,
Speaker 1: a little movie called street Fighter. Roman Rains is in
Speaker 1: that same movie. Roman Rains plays a Kuma and Cody
Speaker 1: is going to play Gile. I saw the Mortal Kombat movie. Well,
Speaker 1: I saw Mortal Kombat two when it came out a
Speaker 1: few months ago, and I enjoyed it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a fun movie. I will see street Fighter. I
Speaker 1: saw the trailer for it. It looks like dumb fun.
Speaker 1: I was a big Street Fighter fan, you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day, and played street Fighter two, Turbo and
Speaker 1: some of the other ones. And they took the graphics
Speaker 1: for this intro here right out of Street Fighter two
Speaker 1: because they had a like a main menu screen and
Speaker 1: then it went to your character select screen, which is
Speaker 1: what you see right now. I actually thought this was
Speaker 1: very cool. I love this retro shit. I mean, you
Speaker 1: look at the intro I use for the stream tonight,
Speaker 1: can't you tell. I'm a big fan of the eight
Speaker 1: bit days, so they put this up. But I was
Speaker 1: looking at the character selection screen, which I will draw
Speaker 1: your attention to right now, and obviously here they chose
Speaker 1: Cody Rhoades and see I'm punk and that was cool.
Speaker 1: But look at the other characters that they included here.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at this and I see Javon Evans
Speaker 1: is there, and Jade car Gill is there. There's Gun there.
Speaker 1: There's Dan Housen because a fucking course he's everywhere. And
Speaker 1: there's Cody and Becky and Sammy and Ray. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, is that is that Ricky? Is that Ricky Saints?
Speaker 1: I believe it is? And I thought to myself, that
Speaker 1: was totally Cody. Now what makes sense why Ricky Saints
Speaker 1: would be in there? It was Cody's entrance. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Cody was like, Hey, you know what, let's get Let's
Speaker 1: get my boy Ricky in there. He's not getting a
Speaker 1: lot of love on TV these days, so let's get
Speaker 1: Ricky in there. I'll tell you what, though, if this
Speaker 1: I would play the shit out of this game. If
Speaker 1: this was real, I would I'd be all over. That
Speaker 1: gives me TJ. Perkins vibes. If anyone remembers out here,
Speaker 1: I do remember that, yes, old TJP. So Cody comes
Speaker 1: out and he is wearing his skull mask, but the
Speaker 1: skull mask has like gile hair attached to it, or
Speaker 1: it was part of the mask or whatever, because that's
Speaker 1: the character he plays in the movie. This whole thing.
Speaker 1: Cody just sort of appeared on the stage, got like
Speaker 1: no reaction. The crowd was very very quiet for all this,
Speaker 1: which is kind of the way they were for Cody, honestly.
Speaker 1: As he came to the ring, then we got to
Speaker 1: see him Punk entrance and they followed him the long
Speaker 1: walk through the back and through Gorilla and then out
Speaker 1: onto the stage no music. They did the same thing
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania this year, and the camera's behind Punk, so
Speaker 1: you see his back and then you kind of look
Speaker 1: out into all the vast sea of fans right thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand or whatever they have there, and then the
Speaker 1: music kicks in and then he makes his way down
Speaker 1: to the ring. I would say that nearly nearly the
Speaker 1: first half of them. I can't even say quarter of
Speaker 1: the match. I would say close to the first like
Speaker 1: half of the match. Very slow, very dull, very plodding
Speaker 1: at times. But they knew they were working thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and so they started slow, and the idea was to build.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it doesn't make sense. They were
Speaker 1: working body parts and sometimes in matches like this, when
Speaker 1: you take the time to work a body part and
Speaker 1: to work a limb, psychologically, it might make sense and
Speaker 1: it might factor into things that are going to happen
Speaker 1: later on in the match, but in the moment it
Speaker 1: can be pretty fucking boring. And that's what this match was.
Speaker 1: Long stretches of just nothing where they're just working over
Speaker 1: a body part and then they get you know, kind
Speaker 1: of shunned away, and then they go back to it again.
Speaker 1: They repeat the same spot over again, dragon screw or
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the case may be. So with Cody,
Speaker 1: it was Punk working over Cody's left arm, and then
Speaker 1: Cody started working over Punk's left knee. So finally things
Speaker 1: started to pick up a little bit here because I
Speaker 1: was getting very restless as I'm watching this match, and
Speaker 1: it's time for Cody to go to sleep. All right,
Speaker 1: now we're going Now we're going into the finisher spam
Speaker 1: phase of the match here. They didn't go too too
Speaker 1: hard on that, but he went for the GTS. Cody
Speaker 1: elbows his way out of it, still favoring the arm.
Speaker 1: He goes for the Cody he drops. Punk goes for
Speaker 1: the pin to count only so Cody follows that with
Speaker 1: the disaster kick for another near fall. Now he's setting
Speaker 1: up for a super Cody Cutter and he nails it
Speaker 1: and he covers again. Punk kicks out, So now he's
Speaker 1: teasing the crossroads and you could hear fans booing. They
Speaker 1: certainly weren't cheering. There were definitely booze that were noticeable.
Speaker 1: Punk avoids the attempt Schoolboy only for two. Punk goes
Speaker 1: for a GTS. Cody, though, catches the leg on the
Speaker 1: way down and he gets punked down and he locks
Speaker 1: on the figure four leg lock and he's been working
Speaker 1: over the leg, he's been working over the knee, so
Speaker 1: now he's going to the figure four and when he
Speaker 1: gets the figure four applied, now the crowd is starting
Speaker 1: to come alive. Now the crowd is responding and they're
Speaker 1: starting to really get into it here. And Punk is
Speaker 1: screaming and he's trying to reverse out of the hold,
Speaker 1: and finally he's able to roll over and he forces
Speaker 1: a row break. So Cody went forward again. Punk pulled
Speaker 1: him forward though I thought he was pulling him forward
Speaker 1: into a small package, but he transitioned into the Anacon
Speaker 1: device and Cody very easily gets his foot on the
Speaker 1: bottom up to force the break. So then Cody, this
Speaker 1: was kind of a weird spot. Cody gets him up
Speaker 1: in an Alabama Slam position. I'm like, oh, he's hearkening
Speaker 1: back to his tag team days with Hardcore Holly. Here.
Speaker 1: It's like when Steve Austin was feuding with Brett and
Speaker 1: he was still using the million dollar dream that he
Speaker 1: took from Ted Dbiassi. So he gets him in position
Speaker 1: for the Alabama Slam, which I guess now is it's
Speaker 1: Tiffany Shratton's move, so can't use it now because it's
Speaker 1: her move. But instead of giving him an Alabama Slam,
Speaker 1: he starts spinning and he gives him an airplane spin
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure why. I mean, the airplane spin
Speaker 1: spot was always funny to me because you make yourself
Speaker 1: just as dizzy. But he gives him an airplane spin
Speaker 1: and then Punk just transitioned out of it and back
Speaker 1: into the Anacon device. So it was kind of a
Speaker 1: stupid spot and I'm not really sure what the point
Speaker 1: of that was. But he got out of it. He
Speaker 1: drops Punk with the Crossroads. He covered him, Punk kicked out,
Speaker 1: and he got a big pot for doing so. So
Speaker 1: Now Cody is standing over Punk and he reaches down
Speaker 1: to pick him up, and he places Punk on the
Speaker 1: top rope and Cody follows him up. Punk, they'll fights
Speaker 1: him off, and he back elbows him all the way
Speaker 1: down to the map. And then CM Punk is on
Speaker 1: the ropes and he's looking back at Cody and I'm like, hmm,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do here? Is he gonna go for
Speaker 1: his top rope elbow? I mean, what are we about
Speaker 1: to see here? CM Punk, at forty eight years old, decides,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I've never done in
Speaker 1: my career. You know, this would be a really good
Speaker 1: time to debut a new move off the top rope. Now,
Speaker 1: I could sit here and lie to you and tell
Speaker 1: you that, oh, CM Punk went or a spiral tap,
Speaker 1: or he went for a fucking phoenix splash, and that
Speaker 1: would have been pretty crazy. This was just as crazy, though.
Speaker 1: He went for a moon salt. Now. The closest thing
Speaker 1: I could compare it to is when Terry Funk would
Speaker 1: do those moon salts and they were kind of crooked,
Speaker 1: like they never looked pretty right, but he would hit them. Cempunk.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe he went for his own vert because
Speaker 1: we know he's a big Terry Funk fan. He went
Speaker 1: for his own version, I guess, of a Terry Funk
Speaker 1: moon salt. It was very clear to me that he
Speaker 1: had never even tried this with like a crash pad
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I mean, it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: if right before they went out there he's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think I'm gonna try a moon salt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he almost killed Cody on the way down. Cody was
Speaker 1: able to like narrowly avoid Punk landing on top of
Speaker 1: his head. That's how far off the mark Punk was.
Speaker 1: And even in doing the moon salt. Like I when
Speaker 1: I tell you that he did a moon salt, in
Speaker 1: your head, you probably picked him doing a moon salt
Speaker 1: and just missing. No. I can't even describe to you
Speaker 1: like the direction that his body went in as he
Speaker 1: attempted this move. It was the worst moon salt that
Speaker 1: I have ever seen in my entire life. I've never
Speaker 1: seen it, truly, I cannot, off the top of my
Speaker 1: head remember ever in my life seeing a moon salt
Speaker 1: worse than this. And I use that word moonsalt very lightly,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not sure what else to call it.
Speaker 1: If I don't call it a moon salt, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know what else to call it. But yes, he
Speaker 1: nearly killed himself. He nearly killed Cody. I'm sure his
Speaker 1: life flashed before his eyes. The first thing I thought
Speaker 1: of was the Bart Simpson meme, right with the birthday cake.
Speaker 1: At least you tried. At least you tried. I wish
Speaker 1: he hadn't. That's a very dumb thing for him to try.
Speaker 1: It's like Seth Rollins a crown jewel last year, Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins of the World Heavyweight Champion, and he's wrestling Cody
Speaker 1: and he's like, he's going to do a coast to
Speaker 1: coast but it's not enough to do a regular coast
Speaker 1: to coast drop kick. He has to do a coast
Speaker 1: to coast headbutt, which sounds really fucking stupid because you're
Speaker 1: really putting yourself in danger when you land, and just
Speaker 1: you got to brace yourself just the right way. And
Speaker 1: so what did he do? He landed on his shoulder.
Speaker 1: He blew shoulder out. Now you have to vacate the championship.
Speaker 1: You're out for months. Storylines go out the window. WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this year would have looked very different had seth not
Speaker 1: gotten hurt all because he had to do a move
Speaker 1: that I've never seen him do before, and Punk's even
Speaker 1: older than him. Don't do that again. The unk Salt?
Speaker 1: Is that what you could call it? The unk salt?
Speaker 1: A cartwheel off the top? Yeah, a sidewinder. He's lucky
Speaker 1: he didn't hurt himself. I mean, seriously, you're the fucking champion, dude.
Speaker 1: The entire brand is now built around cm Punk. Let
Speaker 1: me go do a moon stone. My grandmother could do
Speaker 1: a better moon salt than him, Okay, and she's been
Speaker 1: dead for twenty five years. Don't do that again. So
Speaker 1: then there was a GTS attempt and he nailed it,
Speaker 1: but Punk hurt his knee on the on the landing right,
Speaker 1: he Cody's head collided with Punk's left knee, which is
Speaker 1: the knee that was being worked over earlier, so took
Speaker 1: him a few extra seconds, but he crawled over to
Speaker 1: make the cover, and when he did, Cody kicked out
Speaker 1: and Cody rolled out to the floor and Punk followed
Speaker 1: him outside. He bounces him off the Spanish announced desk
Speaker 1: a few times, and Punk then clears off the desk.
Speaker 1: He climbs on top of it. Cody, though, sweeps the
Speaker 1: lake and then he sends Punk very weakly into the ring.
Speaker 1: Steps Cody suddenly realized that, like he hears Charles Robinson
Speaker 1: is up to like eight. He's like, oh shit, So
Speaker 1: he rolls into the ring very quickly to break break
Speaker 1: the count, and then he rolls back out to the
Speaker 1: floor or he takes a part the English announced desk,
Speaker 1: but he rolls Punk back into the ring instead, and
Speaker 1: when Cody follows him in, Punk hoists him up for
Speaker 1: another GTS and he covers him and Punk grabs the
Speaker 1: bottom rope to save the match. So back out to
Speaker 1: the floor they go. Punk lays him flat on top
Speaker 1: of the announced desk and then he turns and he
Speaker 1: stares at the top rope and I'm like, did you
Speaker 1: not learn your lesson after the fucking moon salt that
Speaker 1: we just saw? So he thinks he's Logan Paul now
Speaker 1: and he goes into the ring. I think he did
Speaker 1: this to Roman at WrestleMania. The one thing I look,
Speaker 1: you got to say this about Punk, Okay, all due credit,
Speaker 1: he doesn't hold back in these matches. It would be
Speaker 1: very easy for him to just play it safe and
Speaker 1: don't do anything too risky, right, because just coast on
Speaker 1: my name and people look at a cheer for me
Speaker 1: no matter what I do. But he's out there doing
Speaker 1: fucking moon salts. He's doing diving elbows from the top
Speaker 1: rope through the announced desk. He's tempting fate every time
Speaker 1: he does this, but he certainly doesn't hold back. So
Speaker 1: he climbs up to the top rope and he dives
Speaker 1: for the elbow. Cody, though, rolls off the desk and
Speaker 1: Punk took this horrible bump just crashing through the desk.
Speaker 1: He took it mostly knees first, which I think was
Speaker 1: the idea because Michael Cole on commentary just wouldn't shut
Speaker 1: up now, like, oh, he landed on the bad knee.
Speaker 1: He landed on the bad knee, even though he really
Speaker 1: landed on the right knee more so than the left one.
Speaker 1: But I guess he had that in his notes, So
Speaker 1: that was the idea anyway, that he landed on the
Speaker 1: bad knee. But I mean, that was just it was
Speaker 1: just a fucking terrible landing. It looked like it sucked.
Speaker 1: So Cody very quickly gets him back in the ring
Speaker 1: and he goes for a super Cody cutter. Punk, though,
Speaker 1: moves out of the way and Cody collides with Charles Robinson.
Speaker 1: Poor little nature. How old is he now? God, he's
Speaker 1: been around forever. He's great. He's got to be at
Speaker 1: least sixty though, mid sixties, maybe got to be around
Speaker 1: sixty ish. He'll always be a little nature to me though,
Speaker 1: no matter how old he gets. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if the idea was that Cody was going to like
Speaker 1: drop him with the cutter. He didn't really hit him
Speaker 1: with the cutter. He just sort of collided with him,
Speaker 1: and that's really all he needed to do. And so
Speaker 1: down goes Charles Robinson. Punk then gets Cody yup for
Speaker 1: another go to sleep Cody. He hits it. Cody staggers
Speaker 1: backwards into the ropes, bounces off and just falls back
Speaker 1: on top of punk shoulders. So he's going to go
Speaker 1: for another GTS this time, though, Cody slips out and
Speaker 1: he hits the crossroads and Punk rolls out to the floor.
Speaker 1: He's got the presence of mind to roll out to
Speaker 1: the floor. We have he's sixty two sixty one, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's somewhere in that ring. Robinson is either sixty one
Speaker 1: or sixty two. God bless him, man, he's still out
Speaker 1: there doing it. Truly, one of the nice guys in wrestling.
Speaker 1: You will not find anyone to say a bad word
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah. What I also think is cool about
Speaker 1: Charles Robinson. He is a big collector of horror memorabilia.
Speaker 1: He's got like a bunch of it in his basement,
Speaker 1: and I think that's pretty cool. I think he and
Speaker 1: I would get along very well. Would love to say
Speaker 1: I would love to see what his collection looks like.
Speaker 1: But Punk rolls out to the floor, So you knew
Speaker 1: something was about to go down because the ref got bumped.
Speaker 1: Punk just rolled out to the floor, and here's Randy Orton.
Speaker 1: I know why I sounded like meat Loaf there for
Speaker 1: a second. Randy Orton that still lives rent free in
Speaker 1: my head. God, when Meatloaf was unraw. Randy Orton hits
Speaker 1: the ring. The reports were true. Is anybody gonna give
Speaker 1: Uncle Dave credit for that? Of course not. But he
Speaker 1: gets into the ring, Cody turns around and Randy Orton
Speaker 1: drops him with an RKO out of nowhere, and then
Speaker 1: Orton looks into the hardcam when he gets up, gives
Speaker 1: it a little wink and then he slips out of
Speaker 1: the ring and back into the crowd and Charles Robinson
Speaker 1: rolls back into the ring. CM Punk rolls back into
Speaker 1: the ring none the wiser. He has no idea what
Speaker 1: just happened. He didn't see any of this and gts
Speaker 1: to Cody covers him. Here comes Robinson one two and three,
Speaker 1: and CM Punk retains the World Heavyweight Champion or the
Speaker 1: w W Championship. I should say, got my titles mixed up.
Speaker 1: You know, Punk was the World Heavyweight Champion earlier this year.
Speaker 1: So what we ended up with here, no post match angle,
Speaker 1: which was a little surprising obviously, no turn, no heel
Speaker 1: turn for Cody or anybody. Really the match itself, it
Speaker 1: started out very slow, but it built nicely and the
Speaker 1: crowd really locked in there for that final stretch. I
Speaker 1: don't know how long it was. I mean the final
Speaker 1: like five or six minutes at least. They were really
Speaker 1: locked in. They were hanging on to the near falls. Again. Punk,
Speaker 1: he just threw it all out there, man, that moon salt,
Speaker 1: the diving elbow Cody. I guess Cody really didn't do
Speaker 1: anything two out of the ordinary, and they ended up
Speaker 1: having a good match. It really did feel like the
Speaker 1: first It felt like they were holding back in some respects.
Speaker 1: Even though they went thirty minutes or almost thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: it was still the first match, and you have to
Speaker 1: imagine they're going to run this back at least one
Speaker 1: more time. I don't know if it'll end up being
Speaker 1: a whole series where they do three or four of them,
Speaker 1: or if we're not going to see this again until
Speaker 1: WrestleMania in Saudi next year, right, and they just sort
Speaker 1: of get away from it for a while, which I
Speaker 1: think is very possible because obviously, you know, we have
Speaker 1: Cody taking the loss here, which is the right outcome.
Speaker 1: By the way, there is a very real thing called
Speaker 1: Cody fatigue. I know many of you have been feeling
Speaker 1: it already for many months, even before I started feeling it,
Speaker 1: and now a lot more people are feeling it. And
Speaker 1: it's good to have a break from him as the champion.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need the belt. Cody's already a made guy
Speaker 1: in this company. He finished his story. He's been the
Speaker 1: champion three or four times now, and it's okay to
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll still be He'll always be in the mix.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not going to be feuding with Baron
Speaker 1: Corbin in the mid card, but he doesn't need the title.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just a sameness to it after a while.
Speaker 1: He's not stone cold Steve Austin at the height of
Speaker 1: his popularity in the Attitude era, where you can get
Speaker 1: away with keeping the belt on him because he's super
Speaker 1: over even someone like him. Rock At Austin, they never
Speaker 1: had any long title reigns. They were constantly being beaten
Speaker 1: and having the title taken away from them and being screwed.
Speaker 1: Because the money is in the chase, and so if
Speaker 1: the fans want to see Cody chase for the belt,
Speaker 1: they'll let you know that. Right now, the crowds, they're
Speaker 1: not responding the same way to Cody as they wore
Speaker 1: six months ago. You can hear it. You can hear
Speaker 1: it each week on SmackDown, right, he gets cheered, but
Speaker 1: it's not like as vociferously as it might have been
Speaker 1: a year ago. And now Punk is the new guy
Speaker 1: on SmackDown. He's going to be your top babyface. Now.
Speaker 1: Cody now moves into a non title feud seemingly with
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, And as far as my thoughts on that,
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, they did a lot of damage
Speaker 1: for me anyway, as someone who is really looking forward
Speaker 1: to that match or wrestle many of this year. The
Speaker 1: whole inclusion of McAfee and the departure from the whole
Speaker 1: just departure from what the story was supposed to be
Speaker 1: to what they ended up doing, really soured me on it.
Speaker 1: But now months have gone by, McAfee is a distant memory,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna try again with Cody and Randy. They're
Speaker 1: gonna pick things back up. They're going to resume things.
Speaker 1: I understand it because the way they left it the
Speaker 1: last time we saw Orton, he kicked this guy in
Speaker 1: the head. He punted him in the head. So why
Speaker 1: wouldn't Cody want to go after him. Now he's been
Speaker 1: given a really good reason to because Randy just fucked
Speaker 1: him out of the championship. So you're gonna go off
Speaker 1: and do that non title which I think is fine.
Speaker 1: And then as far as punk again, he name dropped
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people on the show a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago that he would love to get in the
Speaker 1: ring with and defend the title against, almost like little
Speaker 1: side quests. He was just had a segment on SmackDown
Speaker 1: last night in the bag with Trick Williams. You know
Speaker 1: they were teasing that at some point you could do that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a number one contenders match tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be Balor or Sammy. I would imagine that's going
Speaker 1: to lead to a television match. So you can have
Speaker 1: Punk doing other things in the meantime, and then there's
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens. I hope Kevin Owens is on some back
Speaker 1: down when he comes back, and I would love for
Speaker 1: them to build something with punkin Owens. I would love it.
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Owens fans would end up being very
Speaker 1: disappointed if they don't put the belt on him. They
Speaker 1: feel like kind of like Ballor where so many years
Speaker 1: have gone by, and I mean, I guess there's a
Speaker 1: lot of similarities between them really because Baalor was never
Speaker 1: WWE champion, he was Universal champion. Kevin Owens was never
Speaker 1: WWE champion, he was Universal champion, and then all these
Speaker 1: years have gone by. Actually Kevin Owens only became the
Speaker 1: Universal Champion because Finn Baalor got hurt. Holy shit, I
Speaker 1: forgot about that. So here we are ten years later.
Speaker 1: People have been clamoring for a Kevin Owens title run.
Speaker 1: It's not fair. How come Ko can't get a run right? Well?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Maybe now he can, you know, maybe you
Speaker 1: do an extended feud with him in CMPUNK. I hope
Speaker 1: we get to see that match, I really do. Do
Speaker 1: we see Owens pop up tomorrow night during Night two? Possible?
Speaker 1: But I mean in what way though? What would he
Speaker 1: be doing on the show? You know, maybe he comes back.
Speaker 1: He's not going to go after Punk right away, let's say,
Speaker 1: but like, who would he be working with? Who would
Speaker 1: he be feuding with on SmackDown? Would he tie in
Speaker 1: with Sammy's ain in some way? I don't know. We
Speaker 1: saw Orton tonight, we could see Owens tomorrow. I just
Speaker 1: don't know where he really I don't know where he
Speaker 1: really fits into the picture with the people who were
Speaker 1: on that show tomorrow unless he's on Raw, unless they
Speaker 1: move him to Raw. Maybe we see him after the
Speaker 1: Roman and Seth match, but I don't see that. I
Speaker 1: don't see that. And let's not forget Drew McIntyre is
Speaker 1: also still, you know, on his way back soon. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine they put orton Owens and McIntyre all on SmackDown,
Speaker 1: plus he already got Cody and Punk. I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: be pretty pissed if I was Netflix. You would think
Speaker 1: one of them would have to end up on Raw,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Drew. But then we had the main event,
Speaker 1: which was brock Lesner in his home state of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Actually I say home state. He wasn't born in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but went to college and wrestled in Minnesota. He is
Speaker 1: forever linked to the state of Minnesota. I think he
Speaker 1: was a Gopher. Was he a Gopher? I think he was.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he was because I think he and
Speaker 1: Shelton they went to school together, and I know Shelton
Speaker 1: Benjamin was a Gopher. Anyway, brock Lesner back home against
Speaker 1: Oba Femi and this was contested inside helen a Cell.
Speaker 1: This was only the second helen a cell match in
Speaker 1: Summer Slam history, the first one being Undertaker and Edge
Speaker 1: eighteen years ago. Oba was out to the ring first.
Speaker 1: Can't be the only one who looks at that necklace
Speaker 1: around his neck and notices that it seems to be
Speaker 1: getting bigger every time he comes out here for a match.
Speaker 1: Tony Chevanni says. Hometown of Minnesota, ah Tony Yes, Tony Schevanni,
Speaker 1: who on Wednesdays Dynamite said that Androte was going to
Speaker 1: have a match in his hometown of Mexico. That's what
Speaker 1: he said. His hometown of Mexico A big town. That's
Speaker 1: a very big town. Brocklesner came out. First thing I
Speaker 1: noticed about Brock when he came out with Hayman, he
Speaker 1: had elbow pads on. And I realized, I said, I
Speaker 1: don't think I've seen Brockolesner wearing elbowpads since his first
Speaker 1: run in like two thousand and four. So I immediately
Speaker 1: thought he must be wearing them for a reason, like
Speaker 1: they must have something, some big spot planned and he
Speaker 1: wants to protect his elbow or something. But yeah, he
Speaker 1: looked weird. He looked a little weird wearing elbow pads.
Speaker 1: Michael Cole on commentary gave a shout out to his
Speaker 1: old partner Taz, and he dropped the line here comes
Speaker 1: the pain when Brock came out. So that was kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Cole and Taz, by the way, very underrated,
Speaker 1: announced duo. So we have the entrances and then they
Speaker 1: finally lowered the cell. The cell was like halfway down.
Speaker 1: They waited until after they were both in the ring.
Speaker 1: They did the end ring intros, and then they finally
Speaker 1: lowered it and everything here. It just took forever. The
Speaker 1: bell sounded to start the match. It was eight point
Speaker 1: fifty one PM, a good twenty five minutes had passed
Speaker 1: since the end of the last match. So Brock out
Speaker 1: of the gate here one German suplex, two Germans, three Germans.
Speaker 1: But Oba bounces right up to his feet and he
Speaker 1: clos those lines. Brock out over the top to the floor.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of room there between the cage and
Speaker 1: the ring, but again in a hell and a cell
Speaker 1: met you can obviously brawl outside the ring. So Lesner
Speaker 1: ends up sending him shoulder first into the steel steps,
Speaker 1: and he tried to supplex Oba on the floor, just
Speaker 1: a regular supplex, not a German. Oba stuffed it. He
Speaker 1: ended up superplexing Brock on the floor, and then he
Speaker 1: sent Lesner into the steps. Oba pulls out a slim
Speaker 1: gym table and he props it up against the side
Speaker 1: of the cell, which, now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: this may have been the only spot technically in the
Speaker 1: match to actually make use of the cell. And they
Speaker 1: weren't even really making use of the cell. I mean
Speaker 1: they were making use of the table more than they
Speaker 1: were the cell. But he props the table up against
Speaker 1: the cell. He goes back and actually he throws Brock
Speaker 1: into the table. So Brock crashes through the table. He
Speaker 1: gets Brock back into the ring and Lesner hits Oba
Speaker 1: with three straight shots with the steel steps. I didn't
Speaker 1: even notice that he put the steps in the ring
Speaker 1: hits him, and he hits him hard too, three straight
Speaker 1: times with the ring steps right in the skull. Then
Speaker 1: we got a fourth German. We got a fifth German.
Speaker 1: The Welts were showing on Lesner's pale body. Now Brock
Speaker 1: takes a chair right to Oba's back and then he
Speaker 1: hits him again. And at this point I just wrote
Speaker 1: in my notes, I just noticed the fucking chare has
Speaker 1: a wingstop ad on it. This is the first time
Speaker 1: I noticed this. Now they have branded chairs on this show.
Speaker 1: There's just there's no end. There's no end to it.
Speaker 1: We have the fireball ladder, we have the slim gym table,
Speaker 1: we have the wingstop chair. What's next. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: branding on the ring steps. It's inevitable. We'll have the
Speaker 1: KFC steps. They could put something on the ring bell.
Speaker 1: Perhaps they could put ads on the lids of the
Speaker 1: announced desks. I don't think they've done ads on there yet,
Speaker 1: but they put other logos on there. We'll have that right.
Speaker 1: We already have ads on the ring posts, we have
Speaker 1: ads on the mat, we have ads on the the
Speaker 1: led barricades. Actually, during the Cody match, they had a
Speaker 1: street fighter ad on there. What other objects can they brand? Unbelievable?
Speaker 1: Panda Express Kendo sticks. Oh, it's only a matter of time.
Speaker 1: You give it time, give it time. Fucking wingstop chairs.
Speaker 1: You have got to be kidding me. Now, the Calshi
Speaker 1: Kendo sticks. I like that. That's better. So Brock went
Speaker 1: for an F five. Oba countered out and he caught
Speaker 1: Brock coming off the ropes into a giant choke slane.
Speaker 1: We got a brief double down here. Then they repeated
Speaker 1: the same spot with the F five attempt. Oba slips
Speaker 1: out and delivers a chokesla. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: redid that again. I don't really understand that. But he
Speaker 1: picks up Brock, he beels him. He didn't beel him
Speaker 1: the way that he bealed. JD McDonogh on TV the
Speaker 1: other week. But you know, he threw Brock and then
Speaker 1: he was setting up for a fall from grace and
Speaker 1: he popped Brock up into the air and he dropped him,
Speaker 1: and Brock kicked out at two, which I believe makes
Speaker 1: him the first person to kick out of the fall
Speaker 1: from grace. I don't remember if he kicked out of
Speaker 1: one in Italy Clash in Italy, I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: think this was the first time. So then he followed
Speaker 1: that with an F five and then a second F five.
Speaker 1: Oba staggers back up to his feet into a third
Speaker 1: F five. There's the cover. Oba kicks out, So Brock
Speaker 1: goes back to the wingstop chair for more shots to
Speaker 1: the back. He bends the chair across Oba's back, and
Speaker 1: now Brock starts ripping up the canvas, and then he
Speaker 1: pulls up the padding underneath the canvas to expose the
Speaker 1: wooden boards, the wooden the support beams, the boards underneath.
Speaker 1: And so now we know why this match went on last.
Speaker 1: You can't rip up the ring and then send the
Speaker 1: main event out to the ring. This has to be
Speaker 1: the main event. So this is at least one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why this match went on last Brock gets
Speaker 1: him up for another F five. It's gonna give him
Speaker 1: an F five on the boards. As he's holding Oba
Speaker 1: up in the air, Brock looks straight ahead into the camera.
Speaker 1: He does the Undertaker throat slash, and then he maneuvers
Speaker 1: Oba into position for a tombstone pile driver, and he
Speaker 1: delivers a tombstone pile driver onto the exposed boards, and
Speaker 1: then he crosses Oba's arms and he sticks his tongue
Speaker 1: out and he does the Undertaker pin and Oba kicks out.
Speaker 1: Oba kicked out of an Undertaker tombstone from brock lesner
Speaker 1: onto the wooden beams. Look at that he kicked out.
Speaker 1: He kicked out of a tombstone on the wooden boards.
Speaker 1: I guess this was like Brock's tribute to the one
Speaker 1: man he's ever wrestled inside Hell and a cell. The
Speaker 1: only two cell matches Brock ever had coming into tonight
Speaker 1: were both with the Undertaker, So I guess that was
Speaker 1: his little tribute tribute to the aew Nosa. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: very possible that's what it was. This was Brock his
Speaker 1: little redemption tribute for the pay per view last week
Speaker 1: and all the kickouts we got on that show. So
Speaker 1: Brock grabs the chair, he gets it punched back into
Speaker 1: his face, and then Oba hits the fall from Grace.
Speaker 1: Not on the boards though, and I'm watching this, I'm like,
Speaker 1: did he not intend to do it on the boards.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure Brock at one point I thought
Speaker 1: I saw him kind of glance back at the boards
Speaker 1: as if he was like making sure he was in
Speaker 1: the right position. Oba hit the fall from Grace and
Speaker 1: it was not on the boards. So my guess is
Speaker 1: that the intent was to do it on the boards,
Speaker 1: and they just missed, and he just dropped him on
Speaker 1: the mat. But then he pinned him one two three. Now,
Speaker 1: on the one hand, I'm glad that Brock only kicked
Speaker 1: out of his finisher once, right, I mean, I it
Speaker 1: would have sucked to see him kick out of it
Speaker 1: for a second time. But like it just ended, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's it. That's like, we're barely twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: We're like eleven minutes and fifty something. I timed it
Speaker 1: on my phone. I was curious how long this match
Speaker 1: was gonna go. Eleven minutes and fifty three seconds is
Speaker 1: what it came out to here for this main event,
Speaker 1: they were done. Now. The bell rang at eight fifty one.
Speaker 1: The match was done by nine oh three, and my
Speaker 1: first I had a lot of thoughts going through my
Speaker 1: head when this was over. My first thought was this
Speaker 1: did not need hell in a cell. Now, my guess
Speaker 1: is the reason they did it is because Brock was
Speaker 1: undefeated in the cell. And it's another notch in the
Speaker 1: cap of Oba Femi to be able to say that
Speaker 1: he not only beat Brocklesnar twice, but he became the
Speaker 1: first man and only man ever to beat him inside
Speaker 1: hell in his cell. And that sounds all impressive and shit.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I'm watching this
Speaker 1: match and I'm expecting to see something special from these two.
Speaker 1: You've told us that this is going to be inside
Speaker 1: the cell. These men have been trying to get at
Speaker 1: each other in the worst way. Like Oba on Monday night. Man,
Speaker 1: he couldn't get to Brock because the cage was between them.
Speaker 1: He wanted to tear this man to shreds. And I'm expecting, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why this is a cell match. That's
Speaker 1: going to be all kinds of chaos. Something's going to happen.
Speaker 1: They had a regular fucking match. Like we see plunder
Speaker 1: matches on TV all the time, kendo sticks and chairs
Speaker 1: and ladders and stairs. We didn't see anything out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary when we saw punkin MacIntyre. They got blood
Speaker 1: in that match that made that match unique. In this match,
Speaker 1: there was nothing. There was nothing out of the ordinary
Speaker 1: that you could not have done in any typical notice
Speaker 1: qualification match or if you wanted to do a last
Speaker 1: man standing match. The cell served no purpose in terms
Speaker 1: of the match. Okay, forget them being able to say,
Speaker 1: oh but be probably who gives a shit As far
Speaker 1: as hell and a cell matches go, one of the
Speaker 1: more underwhelming ones that you will ever see. I can't
Speaker 1: say it's the worst hell in a cell match they've
Speaker 1: ever done. It wasn't a bad match. It just it
Speaker 1: didn't serve any purpose, which I think is the worst
Speaker 1: thing that you could say about a hell and a
Speaker 1: cell match when the cage doesn't even really come into
Speaker 1: play and you're left saying, Wow, this really didn't need
Speaker 1: to be a hell and a cell match. It's not
Speaker 1: a bad match, but it's a bad hell and a
Speaker 1: cell match. It didn't make use of the cell. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't have to climb up to the tippy top.
Speaker 1: But my god, you know, the cell is its own
Speaker 1: like living, breathing thing. It's like the third man out there,
Speaker 1: and it just never came into play. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, the match was just getting good, it was
Speaker 1: just about to kick into high gear, and then it ended.
Speaker 1: You could have gotten another four or five minutes or
Speaker 1: three or four minutes out of this match, right, they
Speaker 1: would have had to come up with some other big
Speaker 1: spot to do instead of doing the same shit over
Speaker 1: and over again, because honestly, how many more times are
Speaker 1: they going to kick out of an F five or
Speaker 1: a fucking fall from grace? But it's like that's that's
Speaker 1: all they had in mind here, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, wham bam, thank you ma'am, And that's all
Speaker 1: she wrote. And I was just very underwhelmed when it
Speaker 1: was over. I'm glad Oba won, but I had higher
Speaker 1: expectations for this and this did not meet those expectations, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: And when I saw they were putting it in the
Speaker 1: main event and only reinforced my thought that they must
Speaker 1: have something planned here. I guess what they had planned
Speaker 1: was brock ripping up the canvas ooh, okay, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that's not enough. So you got an eleven minute you know,
Speaker 1: plunder match for your main event. Oba wins, which was
Speaker 1: the predictable outcome. It was the right outcome. And they
Speaker 1: have the closing credits, Paul Levec leaf fitting like they're
Speaker 1: going off the air. But we're not done yet because
Speaker 1: Brock and Hayman they come back down to the ring.
Speaker 1: Right the music stops, They climb into the ring. Broc
Speaker 1: goes over and he hugs Oba and then he raises
Speaker 1: his arm and then he asks for the microphone, and
Speaker 1: he said, Minnesota and the whole wide world watching this
Speaker 1: shit tonight. This is the future of WWE goes, come here,
Speaker 1: Oba goes, congratulations. He goes, this is the past, and
Speaker 1: he points to himself and then he points at Oba
Speaker 1: and he goes, this is the future. And I believe
Speaker 1: I spied Paul Haman also shaking hands with Oba Femi.
Speaker 1: We don't necessarily need to read too much into that, right,
Speaker 1: Brock shook his hands, so did Hayman. But if Brock
Speaker 1: is going away for a while, it could open up.
Speaker 1: And people have floated this idea that you know, it
Speaker 1: could open up. Paul Hayman to you know, take on
Speaker 1: Oba Femi as his newest client, to which I would
Speaker 1: say it's not needed. Oba is doing just fine on
Speaker 1: his own without having to, you know, work Paul Hayman
Speaker 1: into everything. I mean, you want to do it, you
Speaker 1: could do it. I don't think it's going to necessarily
Speaker 1: hurt Oba. But Oba comes down to the ring by
Speaker 1: himself doing his strut. He can cut a promo on
Speaker 1: his own. He doesn't need anybody doing any talking for him.
Speaker 1: I don't see where Hayman really brings value that you're
Speaker 1: not already getting from this guy. He doesn't need it.
Speaker 1: Could they do it? Sure? If Hayman needs a guy,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a Roman anymore. Brock might go away.
Speaker 1: He's no longer with the Vision. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're going to keep him with bron Breaker or or
Speaker 1: if he's going to be with Bronson Reid when Bronson
Speaker 1: Reid comes back, which could be any week now. I
Speaker 1: don't know who that next big Paul Hayman guy is.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be bron Breaker. Bron Breaker is in
Speaker 1: a real bad way right now. They ain't doing shit
Speaker 1: with him, so I don't know who that next big
Speaker 1: Hayman guy is gonna be Maybe it's Cody. Maybe Cody
Speaker 1: eventually goes heal. I mean him and Cody have been
Speaker 1: chummy in the past. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I saw I saw the handshake and people have
Speaker 1: mentioned that before. What maybe maybe Paul switches and he
Speaker 1: goes with Oba. Yeah, I just why, Right, That's what
Speaker 1: John Cena talked about on this new season of Unreal. Right,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out your why. What's the why? Why?
Speaker 1: Why would why would Oba need Hayman to get a
Speaker 1: title shot? He already had one. He gave it up.
Speaker 1: Oba Femei, by the way, had a guaranteed World Championship
Speaker 1: match on this show, and he gave it up willingly
Speaker 1: for an eleven minute match to beat Brocko Lesnar, which
Speaker 1: he already did at WrestleMania. I hope it was worth it.
Speaker 1: I hope it was worth it because they were sure
Speaker 1: talking about it like it was just it was gone.
Speaker 1: But he'll win the Royal Rumble, he'll go to WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: he'll probably win the belt next year. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not like he's not going to be the champion, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny to me now, like you gave
Speaker 1: up a world title match on this show for what
Speaker 1: ended up being a very underwhelming match. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was worth it. The endorsement, though, is very cool.
Speaker 1: You know, to have somebody like Brock who's been dominant
Speaker 1: for so long, he's been positioned to the top of
Speaker 1: the food chain, when he goes in there and he
Speaker 1: gives you the big handshake, gets on the mic and says, look,
Speaker 1: I'm the old guy, you're the young guy. I'm the past,
Speaker 1: you're the present or the future. Yeah, that means something.
Speaker 1: So it was nice to get that endorsement there at
Speaker 1: the end. The show overall a very mixed bag. There
Speaker 1: were some good things on the show. There were some
Speaker 1: very underwhelming things on the show. So it was very
Speaker 1: middle of the road. I would say it was a
Speaker 1: solid six out of ten, you know, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: Not great, but not terrible. Now we have Night two,
Speaker 1: which was not as strong on paper. This is what
Speaker 1: the Night two lineup looks like for tomorrow. We have
Speaker 1: Sammy z Ain and Finn Balor number one contenders match
Speaker 1: for the WWE Championship. I'm going with Baler in that match.
Speaker 1: Trick Williams and Baron Corbin for the United States Championship.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Corbin to win the title. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a flyer on him. Dan Hausen in a human
Speaker 1: money He's on a pole. Match is going to wrestle
Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio. Anything but Dominic Mysterio winning this match, it
Speaker 1: would be fucking ridiculous. We have the Interim Women's Championship
Speaker 1: ladder match Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill, Tiffany Stratt and Chelsea
Speaker 1: Green and Lash Legend. Call me crazy, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Lash Legend to win the title. Penta defends his Intercontinental
Speaker 1: Championship against Chad Gable. Remember one job, they have one
Speaker 1: job tomorrow. This should be very easy. And we have
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns against Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship,
Speaker 1: and I expect that to be a win for Roman Reigns.
Speaker 1: We could put this shield stuff to bed once and
Speaker 1: for all fourteen years of this shit. It all comes
Speaker 1: to an end tomorrow night. Somebody said that Oba called
Speaker 1: out Punk on the post show. So is Oba gonna
Speaker 1: be like brock in that he's not really attached to
Speaker 1: a brand. He's like a big enough attraction on the
Speaker 1: show that he could just bounce around wherever he wants
Speaker 1: to go. That's interesting. I mean, we could potentially be
Speaker 1: looking at Punk and Oba coming up next. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that too. I feel like he would just break
Speaker 1: Punk in half if he hit him with a fall
Speaker 1: from Grace. Just break. I don't know, though. After tonight,
Speaker 1: some of the bumps he took, he kind of came
Speaker 1: off as indestructible. I'm surprised he didn't explode into a
Speaker 1: pile of ash when some of the bumps he took tonight. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's your night two card for tomorrow. We'll be back
Speaker 1: here again. We'll do it all over again tomorrow. We're
Speaker 1: not done here yet, but we'll be back for the
Speaker 1: full recap tomorrow. And by the way, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a full podcast tomorrow as well. When I wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning, I'll be recording episode nine to
Speaker 1: seventy four of the sound Off, which will include I
Speaker 1: got some stuff to say. Oh, it's going to be
Speaker 1: an animated morning, I could tell. I got some stuff
Speaker 1: to say about Triple H's comments. I'm busted open. This
Speaker 1: past week, the Grace and Waller promo that everybody was
Speaker 1: raving about from NXT. I'll talk about that and my
Speaker 1: Dark Side of the Ring review on the Big boss
Speaker 1: Man episode. So all of that is coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at your super chats.
Speaker 1: Let's see what you guys thought of Summer Slam, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate all the support. Get him on in. We
Speaker 1: got a bonus goal going on right now. In the chat,
Speaker 1: when is night three? Bruce? Don't get me don't don't,
Speaker 1: don't get me started, Bruce, he's talking about night three
Speaker 1: of Summer Slim. Don't even get me started, Bruce, a
Speaker 1: three night extravaganza. We got Bossmo Jackson with us, solid show.
Speaker 1: Night two will out do Night one? Really? Okay? Well,
Speaker 1: we got Froed at seventy nine talking about all kinds
Speaker 1: of sodas. Here the chat awaits the response under the
Speaker 1: solo learning tree. This is what we were talking about
Speaker 1: during Summer Slam. Sprite seven up, Sierra mist or Mellow Yellow. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to disappoint all
Speaker 1: of you or not, but I have never drank any
Speaker 1: of those four. I think I tried Sprite once and
Speaker 1: never again. I was not a sprite guy. I was
Speaker 1: not a seven up guy. I don't even I don't
Speaker 1: even think I know what mellow yellow is. Terms of soda,
Speaker 1: I was a coke and pepsi guy, more so coke.
Speaker 1: I'm not really a pepsi fan, but you know, you
Speaker 1: go to some of these, like stadiums or movie theaters
Speaker 1: and restaurants, sometimes all they have is pepsi, and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll have pepsi. I'm a coke guy. I
Speaker 1: like coke clip super Poty was really hoping for Ko
Speaker 1: and got Randy instead. Disappointed. I think Punk might not
Speaker 1: want to work with Ko. They have real life heat. Brother,
Speaker 1: this this is not going to be an issue. They
Speaker 1: will work together. They've already done segments together on the show.
Speaker 1: Do you think they avoid each other in the hallway backstage?
Speaker 1: Dr Pepper, Yeah, Doctor Pepper is another one. I don't
Speaker 1: like Doctor Pepper. I don't like any of that sh all.
Speaker 1: That shit is fucking terrible for you shouldn't be drinking
Speaker 1: any of it. You should not be drinking any of it.
Speaker 1: Jack and coke is fine. Jack and coke is acceptable
Speaker 1: death side. Honestly, I would rather see a feud between
Speaker 1: heel Orton and Babyface punk over the title because Cody
Speaker 1: versus McAfee featuring Orton was no good. Yeah, it really
Speaker 1: was Cody against McAfee, wasn't it? Holiday one ninety seven
Speaker 1: with a ten dollars Australian Oba shit cash in his
Speaker 1: King of the Ring reward shot on Roman and money.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have it anymore. Brother, I think it's gone.
Speaker 1: It's gone. He gave it up. He's not holding on
Speaker 1: to it for a rainy day. He gave it away.
Speaker 1: It no longer exists. Says it probably won't happen. But
Speaker 1: in Oba versus Bronz, Breaker versus Fat two World title manager,
Speaker 1: WrestleMania could be good. No, it's not that it probably
Speaker 1: won't happen. It won't happen. Would it be good? Though?
Speaker 1: Of course it would be good. Donovan d says, can
Speaker 1: we go back to the days when one finisher actually
Speaker 1: finished a match? Also, Michael Cole needs to go? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael Cole and Tony Shiavanni both have just been h
Speaker 1: It's not been good lately. It's not been good. Death
Speaker 1: Site says the Bellas could say. The only reason that
Speaker 1: page was relevant in WWE the first time was because
Speaker 1: of fighting with my family. When she came back and
Speaker 1: doesn't have that anymore, she tried to leach off of
Speaker 1: us brother. I could not possibly care about any feud
Speaker 1: involving Page in the Bellows against each other. I just
Speaker 1: I don't care. I appreciate you trying to at least
Speaker 1: attach some sort of story to it, but it ain't
Speaker 1: for me. Punk mentioned that he wants o But to
Speaker 1: choose him over Romans, so I don't think it's gone okay,
Speaker 1: So they're making it up as they go along. Then
Speaker 1: they literally had people on their own podcast. It was
Speaker 1: with Sam Roberts Omega Morant talking about it after it happened,
Speaker 1: as if he had given it away, Like, they don't
Speaker 1: even know what they're doing. They're just making it up
Speaker 1: as they go along. So I guess now they're going
Speaker 1: back on they're going back on things, and now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, magically Obo will still have the shot. Great,
Speaker 1: no one knows what they're doing, he says, I mean
Speaker 1: the Bells are heels now, so they would say something
Speaker 1: stupid like that. Well, they may not be saying anything
Speaker 1: if Bree is going to be out for a while.
Speaker 1: The sheltered Kid says, do you think WWE would ever
Speaker 1: allow a celebrity to have a five star match if
Speaker 1: they were able to, or would they see it as
Speaker 1: anyone can do? What do you mean allow them to
Speaker 1: have a five star man? What does that even mean?
Speaker 1: Allow them to have a five star match? I think
Speaker 1: we saw one with Bad Bunny a few years ago,
Speaker 1: so the answer is yes, yes they would, But I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure how you would define a five star match.
Speaker 1: You think they give a shit with Dave Meltzer things.
Speaker 1: What kind of five star scale are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: Death Site says Oba should win the World Heavyweight Championship
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Don't wait until Wrestle many of
Speaker 1: forty three because they did the same thing with Lex
Speaker 1: Luger and what happened They wait, dude, are you comparing
Speaker 1: Lex Luger and the reaction that he was getting at
Speaker 1: that time to Oba Femei and the reactions that he's
Speaker 1: been getting. I mean, dude, it's night and Day Brody.
Speaker 1: I thought Night one was overall pretty good, aside from
Speaker 1: the two to six person tag matches. Main event was great,
Speaker 1: he says, a solemn moster, I love your intros to
Speaker 1: live streams. They're awesome. Thanks for all that you do. Well,
Speaker 1: I have good resources that I'm able to pay for
Speaker 1: and pull them from, So no, I'm not sitting here
Speaker 1: and creating them myself. I'm not that talented. I do
Speaker 1: a lot of the art. I do all the art
Speaker 1: now that you see here on the channel, but like
Speaker 1: the thumbnails and stuff, but that stuff was a little
Speaker 1: above my pay grade. But I'm glad you enjoyed them,
Speaker 1: and try to liven things up with some of the intros.
Speaker 1: Death Side says Night two, Dan Housen versus Dominic Mysterio
Speaker 1: and a human Money's on a Pole match. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would rather travel to the Safari wearing all red and
Speaker 1: have my butt impaled by an angry charging rhinoceros. Well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't because that sounds awful. I think you're exaggerating.
Speaker 1: Donna Yasu brocks streak may be over, but I will
Speaker 1: remind you that Michael Cole's undefeated streak at WrestleMania lives on. Well,
Speaker 1: then I guess that'll have to be the next Oba
Speaker 1: streak that he conquers. Oba Femi against Michael Cole at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania forty three. At least it'll take him out of
Speaker 1: the booth for the show, but then we'll just end
Speaker 1: up with Joe Tessitur talking about Jade Cargole when she
Speaker 1: comes at for her match. Uh, we got two, we
Speaker 1: got hey, link Master, thank you, brother boomerang with a ten.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when Max said that he pitched the
Speaker 1: idea of tearing up the canvas for his Hell and
Speaker 1: a Cell match against Seth Rollins that was shot down
Speaker 1: by Vince and Triple H. It's not I roll In
Speaker 1: due singing for Triple H. Now well, Triple H wanted.
Speaker 1: He wanted to save it for either himself or for
Speaker 1: someone not named din Ambrose. Wasn't a good idea back then,
Speaker 1: but it's a great idea now we have got Chief
Speaker 1: running Wolf, says Russo voice Solomon's to Bro, thank you
Speaker 1: for suffering through all these wwepls for us Bro. You're welcome, Bro.
Speaker 1: It's just wrestling, Bro, It's just wrestling. Nick Grosso, I
Speaker 1: don't agree with Live retaining EO should have won, and
Speaker 1: the real reason Live one and Rhea kept her title
Speaker 1: is because that's the match they want for Crown Jewel.
Speaker 1: Who wants to see that in twenty twenty six. Apparently
Speaker 1: Paula vec Ragnarock props to WWE for doing literally anything
Speaker 1: possible to keep from turning Cody heel. It's actually impressive
Speaker 1: at this point. Hats off. They're holding out as long
Speaker 1: as they possibly can. Death Sithe. Even though Rock was
Speaker 1: champion heading into WrestleMania fifteen, he was nowhere near the
Speaker 1: same guy heading into WrestleMania seventeen and made his match
Speaker 1: with Stone Cold feel like a first time Well, I
Speaker 1: can't disagree with you on that, David says, I like
Speaker 1: the Live Morgan match more than the Cody Rhodes match.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's like a hot take. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that match too. I thought it was very good. The
Speaker 1: Cody and Punk match got what died to get, probably
Speaker 1: an extra sixteen or seventeen minutes more. But I also
Speaker 1: thought it was very boring for the first portion of it.
Speaker 1: I was never bored by Live and EO Alexander with
Speaker 1: a four ninety nine says Live Morgan was caught fiddling
Speaker 1: with the four leaved clover in a rabbit's foot in
Speaker 1: the back before the match. Is that what broke the curse?
Speaker 1: So now we know how to break the Danhausen curse.
Speaker 1: If only Wemby knew that san Antonio might have won
Speaker 1: the championship. Venom Caitetsu says, maybe if Live sported a
Speaker 1: Solo Monster shirt, you would be enduring her title reign
Speaker 1: much easier. Happy weekend man, thanks for what you do. Cheers.
Speaker 1: She's welcome to wear one anytime. I'll send a free
Speaker 1: one if she wants one. Maybe I'll shoot a DM
Speaker 1: over see if she wants. When she follows me, so
Speaker 1: I could DM her now, I'm not gonna bother. I
Speaker 1: can only imagine. I can only imagine that kind of
Speaker 1: DMS that this poor woman must get. SI guy is
Speaker 1: here says thanks for the content. Fourteen dollars super chat. Hey, siguy,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's the brand new fourteen dollars superchat drop
Speaker 1: we got, Brodie. Let's go solo, Let's go solo. Let's
Speaker 1: go solo. I love that chant rarely even with a five.
Speaker 1: How is the anacond device legal in WWE? It is
Speaker 1: literally a choke hold. You're strangling your opponent. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you asking me for? I don't make the rules.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree. Arnold PJ. Michael Cole, also called libs
Speaker 1: three amigos as the three Omego's. Maybe maybe he was
Speaker 1: referencing three of Kenny Omega's friends. How bout it? How
Speaker 1: bad it is that what Omega calls his friends? Would
Speaker 1: that be the young Bucks and Hangman? Are they the
Speaker 1: three Omegos? I think Michael cole Is is pretty burnt out,
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Yeah, it's funny because in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, I think he's taken a few
Speaker 1: days off, but like, up until a few years ago,
Speaker 1: he talked about it with such pride that he only
Speaker 1: took like three days off in twenty seven years. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not something to celebrate, dude, Like that's awful.
Speaker 1: That is awful. I could, I guess understand in some
Speaker 1: weird warped way, like this is a source of pride
Speaker 1: for people who work for that company, who could be like,
Speaker 1: I've never taken any day. I've missed three days in
Speaker 1: twenty seven years, Like why would you ever want to
Speaker 1: work for a company where you feel like you have
Speaker 1: to work and only miss three days in twenty seven
Speaker 1: Like it's just insane to me. That's not something to
Speaker 1: be celebrated. You end up burning yourself out. Don't do
Speaker 1: that Grand Prairie Cobra. Just like player manager in MLB
Speaker 1: and NBA fifty years ago, this is a perfect angle
Speaker 1: for all this, much like Hall versus Zubisco, build heat,
Speaker 1: then use him to settle a score. That probably would
Speaker 1: be the best role for him. Honestly, you were going
Speaker 1: to have him get back in the ring for any feuds.
Speaker 1: Darryl Strawberry is with us. Want me to make your
Speaker 1: day even worse than the tooth. Thousand and six NLC
Speaker 1: has Game seven. If Beltron walk off Wainwright with the
Speaker 1: bases loaded, it would have been a grand slam. Darryl,
Speaker 1: you need to just you need to cool it. Brother.
Speaker 1: You're putting me in a very bad headspace. If you
Speaker 1: take me back to two thousand and six, in that
Speaker 1: series Tried Chicken says, can you imagine see I'm punk
Speaker 1: attempting to do a Maide in Japan move during a
Speaker 1: WWE may You wouldn't be doing that to me. I
Speaker 1: would never agree to that, Bruce. The show was mediocre,
Speaker 1: but these Michelobe ultras are making it better, with everybody
Speaker 1: saying yeah, it's gonna be there, It's gonna be their
Speaker 1: new sponsor on the ring steps Michelobe. Actually, maybe they
Speaker 1: could put them on the microphones instead of having like
Speaker 1: the raw what they call like a bug the wrap
Speaker 1: around of the microphone, it'll just be the Michelobe logo,
Speaker 1: the Michelobe mic Yeah, we'll have the calci Cando sticks,
Speaker 1: the Michelobe microphones. What else can we brand? Plus Ultra
Speaker 1: Adrian Cody. Fatigue may be a thing, but solo monster
Speaker 1: fatigue will never be a thing. Thank you for all
Speaker 1: that you do. That's right, There was no such thing
Speaker 1: as solo monster fatigue. It would be impossible. Actually, solo
Speaker 1: monster fatigue is a very real thing, but it's literally
Speaker 1: the solomn monster is just very fatigued because he doesn't
Speaker 1: get enough sleep. But you guys, there should be no
Speaker 1: such thing as solo monster fatigue. Bass Beer says moon salt.
Speaker 1: He wrote that, like like literal moon salt, there's salt
Speaker 1: on them. We may find out soon. Supposedly SpaceX is
Speaker 1: blowing up a rocket or something on the Moon. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that'll end well. When pieces of the Moon end
Speaker 1: up landing on Earth and killing people, that'll be great.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Roe, says Cody. Ko versus Orton Punk feud incoming.
Speaker 1: So Ko is going to be back to being friends
Speaker 1: with Cody. Why would he do that after everything they
Speaker 1: went through? Bruce says Mickey James was the highlight of
Speaker 1: the aldest match. I like the aldest match. Abystle Zones
Speaker 1: looked like Brocks sat up and laughed after the first
Speaker 1: fall from Grace. I figured it was his tribute to
Speaker 1: his summer slim matches in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: are about that? Or is that just a tribute to him?
Speaker 1: No selling and yelling and laughing in Ilia Dragadov's face,
Speaker 1: and no selling his chop his chops from the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 1: Bass Beer says Blue Choo adds on the Kendo sticks. Now,
Speaker 1: I think when the wrestlers start branding their boots it'll
Speaker 1: be the Blue Choo boot. Venom Catetsu Captain Morgan Tonight
Speaker 1: with no mixer staying healthy hm, hm, you always need
Speaker 1: a mixer would be nine out of fifteen on the
Speaker 1: bonus call. HM. We're definitely doing the one round to
Speaker 1: be the bookers, so we are we are at least
Speaker 1: safe with the one round. Solemn Monster's lost son is
Speaker 1: with us with a four ninety nine. Dad, I for
Speaker 1: sure thought Brock was hiding a blade in one of
Speaker 1: those elbow pads. Low key disappointed main event punk Cody
Speaker 1: should have main evented every now and then, you know,
Speaker 1: he chimes in and reminds me that I raised him
Speaker 1: right with a take like that Pseudo with a five
Speaker 1: I chose. I chose sleep and five star GP over SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: Seems like I made the right choice. Well you did,
Speaker 1: And I mean, now you're here with the reviews, so
Speaker 1: I could just tell you everything that you missed. You
Speaker 1: didn't miss much, bas Beer says was Triple H. Was
Speaker 1: Triple H versus Nash in Helena cell better than tonight?
Speaker 1: I mean, from what I can remember, I don't remember
Speaker 1: really liking that Matt was that the one with Fully
Speaker 1: as the referee? Was Fully the referee for that match?
Speaker 1: I remembering the same match it probably was. I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that match in years. I just was
Speaker 1: not a big fan of a lot of those Triple
Speaker 1: H matches during that era. Solo Monsters lost Sun again.
Speaker 1: Where are you getting all this money from Solo Monsters?
Speaker 1: So I cut you off a long time ago. You
Speaker 1: back out on the street. If any celebrity can have
Speaker 1: a five star match, it would be Tom Holland. I
Speaker 1: grew up with Toby, but I can confidently say after
Speaker 1: the new movie, he is my favorite. You know, Out
Speaker 1: of curiosity, I just checked to see what all the
Speaker 1: showings were at my local movie theater and they were
Speaker 1: all sold out for that Spider Man, even until like
Speaker 1: one p thirty in the morning. They were all sold
Speaker 1: out for Spider Man. I mean that movie is going
Speaker 1: to do record monster business by the time this week
Speaker 1: and this is just the opening weekend. Did seventy two
Speaker 1: million on Thursday previews alone, seventy two million on Thursday crazy,
Speaker 1: and then we got Haavely, we got that red Bomb.
Speaker 1: I love seeing that Red. Brett Hart said that he
Speaker 1: was supposed to drop the Intercontinental title to Sean Michaels
Speaker 1: at SummerSlam in DC. If this was true, what would
Speaker 1: Davy boy have done if SummerSlam was one night this year?
Speaker 1: What would be the main event? Brock versus Oba, Roman
Speaker 1: versus Seth or Punk versus Cody and Favorite Summer Simpoll.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of questions here. Favorite Summer Slam
Speaker 1: in eighty ninety what there was no Summer Slam in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. What are you talking about Summerslim eighty ninety
Speaker 1: or I dude, I don't know where the eighty came
Speaker 1: from in that, but of the options that you presented
Speaker 1: to me, the answer is ninety Summer Slim ninety. If
Speaker 1: Summer Slim was one night this year, the main event
Speaker 1: would have been Oba and Brock if they insisted on
Speaker 1: doing the ring spot, because you can't rip up the
Speaker 1: ring and then send another match out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you could, but it would take a while
Speaker 1: to repair. So it probably would still be Brock and Oba,
Speaker 1: but if not, then it would be Roman and Seth
Speaker 1: over Cody and Punk And as far as the first story,
Speaker 1: so that is true. The original plan for Summerslim in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, they were going to run Washington, DC
Speaker 1: and Sewn Michaels was going to challenge Brett and probably
Speaker 1: win the Intercontinental title. They made the decision to go
Speaker 1: to Wembley, which was very ambitious because business wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: booming in ninety two, but overseas their business was really
Speaker 1: really good, and they legit had eighty thousand people in
Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium like the legitimate number of people they had
Speaker 1: in Wembley in ninety two. The old Wembley was more
Speaker 1: than AW had and they had a lot of people
Speaker 1: their first time in Wembley. But once they made that decision,
Speaker 1: they decided to go with the Bulldog. What would Bulldog
Speaker 1: have done if they did Summer Slim in DC, Nothing
Speaker 1: of note. You know, It's not like he would have
Speaker 1: been wrestling for a championship. The only reason they put
Speaker 1: the belt on him when they did was because they
Speaker 1: were going to Wembley. So that one decision changed everything.
Speaker 1: You know, people still talk about Breton Bulldog as being
Speaker 1: the greatest Summer Slim match of all time, and it
Speaker 1: almost didn't happen just because they could have just gone
Speaker 1: with a different location for the show that year. I
Speaker 1: don't remember why they ultimately, like what it came down to,
Speaker 1: and why they made the call to take it Overseas.
Speaker 1: My guess would be that again, they were doing really
Speaker 1: big business on those international tours back then, and they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, we could probably fill up the stadium
Speaker 1: doing it, And oh my, I just noticed m Mills
Speaker 1: just came in like a tornado and absolutely wrecked the goal.
Speaker 1: The bonus goal we have hit fifteen out of fifteen
Speaker 1: on those ten dollars superchats, and so we are going
Speaker 1: to be doing a double round of be the booker
Speaker 1: round of applause for m Mills. M Mills is awesome.
Speaker 1: Ul Cogan was there now, Hulk Cogan, Despite what he
Speaker 1: may have told people, ul Cogan was not at Wembley
Speaker 1: Stadium for SummerSlam. He was there. He was there in spirit. Brother, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well be there in spirit now too. Anyway, Havili, thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: very very generous of you. I appreciate it. Don't be
Speaker 1: afraid to show your face more often. Cameo Johnson with
Speaker 1: the nine ninety nine Phil should have practiced that top
Speaker 1: rope with the time off that he had and hit
Speaker 1: up Raymisterio about that stem cell Lol. Live should have lost.
Speaker 1: But to Raquel, why does she have the Intercontinental Belt?
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Solo for the content. Cameo, I wish I
Speaker 1: had a better answer for you. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: seemed a few months ago like that's the direction we
Speaker 1: were headed in. They were going to do something with
Speaker 1: Live and Raquel, and things were headed down, you know,
Speaker 1: a breakup between them or even Rock Sande Lived. They
Speaker 1: were kind of building tension between them, and they've completely
Speaker 1: just gotten away from that. All right, I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: that goal and just throw up a different one. We
Speaker 1: did this the other night. If we hit this one,
Speaker 1: we'll have three rounds to be the booker. Let's throw
Speaker 1: that one as a double bonus up there. Hey Darryl
Speaker 1: Shrubberry again, thank you, brother, coming in with another super chat.
Speaker 1: Robert Peterson. Do you think WWE could have made a
Speaker 1: push for ravishing Rick Rude to be the world champion
Speaker 1: in his time? Sure they could have. I think he
Speaker 1: would have made for a fight. Look, he was a
Speaker 1: great champion in WCW. He had more success there than
Speaker 1: he did in WWA, EJ Slam Baseball News, my White
Speaker 1: Sox trade for Luis Castillo and the Dodgers somehow get
Speaker 1: even richer by landing Tarik School. Oh my goodness, it's
Speaker 1: fucking Dodgers, man. Something has to be done about them.
Speaker 1: Something must be done about these Dodgers. They're an absolute
Speaker 1: menace to the game. Tucky Neutrons speaking on your ad
Speaker 1: rant Taco bell ring bell. They could call it the
Speaker 1: taco ring Bell. Give me backshots, solo monster. I will
Speaker 1: not live winning makes Roxanne money in the bank favorite
Speaker 1: in my I hope so, because then that'll make me
Speaker 1: look really smart because I picked her at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year when I did my predictions, I picked
Speaker 1: her to win money in the bank all the way
Speaker 1: back in like December. And then we had m Mills
Speaker 1: coming in with all of these nine to ninety nine
Speaker 1: super chats to get us to the bonus goal. M Mills,
Speaker 1: I salute you. I hope you're having a great night.
Speaker 1: I love it, Boots with a five solo monster. You
Speaker 1: watch Raw, SmackDown and the Ple so we don't have to.
Speaker 1: Will you be joining Club WWE and give us the
Speaker 1: first hand beats? I will not, will not. I was
Speaker 1: not planning on joining Club WWE. I don't even what
Speaker 1: are all the perks of Club WWE. Do I get
Speaker 1: a cool patch like Cody had on his jacket on
Speaker 1: SmackDown last night. Can't wait for the MLB lockout? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the lockout is coming. Unfortunately it is inevitable. You
Speaker 1: know the last time we had an Mlbut the last
Speaker 1: time we had an MLB lockout, we ended up with
Speaker 1: Abe Knuckleball Schwartz on TV. Joseph Brooks with a four
Speaker 1: to ninety nine. You get to give TKO more money.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's just what I want to be doing.
Speaker 1: Joseph says by rent sell on hbk's rematches of great
Speaker 1: matches that he had HBK against Razor ramone Summer Slam
Speaker 1: ninety five, HBK against Undertaker, WrestleMania twenty six, HBK against
Speaker 1: Sena on Raw in the UK. I'm gonna go HBK
Speaker 1: Razor from SummerSlam ninety five. I actually like that ladder
Speaker 1: match more than their WrestleMania ten ladder match, and I
Speaker 1: love that match, so I'm buying on that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rent on the WrestleMania twenty six match, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to sell on the Raw match with Sina
Speaker 1: Super Pony. Ko should help Sammy win tomorrow. I think
Speaker 1: that it would be a slap in the face to
Speaker 1: have Sammy lose the belt and lose to a guy
Speaker 1: that has zero chance of winning a world title. Again,
Speaker 1: I love Finn, but that is the reality. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess that would be the only way that I
Speaker 1: would see Owens returning tomorrow is if he was to
Speaker 1: help Sammy win, which I then would I imagine, would
Speaker 1: then set up an automatic feud with Owens and valor
Speaker 1: Darryl Strawberry the Dodgers. Just yes, we just talked about that.
Speaker 1: Darryl Strawberry is very excited about this and Dried Chicken
Speaker 1: with a five you're going to hate me for this,
Speaker 1: bright orange ladders during pleas to sponsor home depot. I
Speaker 1: could absolutely see that. I could totally see that Dry Chicken,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Darth ridiculous with a five, hot tip. Want
Speaker 1: to see Spider Man with no crowd? Get a ticket
Speaker 1: to a showing with closed caption? Saw it Thursday? Only
Speaker 1: six people in there? Do it all the time. How
Speaker 1: was that the trick? People don't like seeing the closed
Speaker 1: captions on the screen. That's interesting, and we have Javili says,
Speaker 1: I meant in the eighties, nineties, two thoys, tens, and twenties. Okay,
Speaker 1: in the eighties, I thought you were saying nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: They didn't have pay per views back then. Brother favorite
Speaker 1: Summer Slam in the eighties, well, there were only two
Speaker 1: of them, so not a huge sample size. I gotta
Speaker 1: go eighty nine though. Eighty nine was a favorite of mine,
Speaker 1: so that one's easy. In the nineties, hmmm, gets a
Speaker 1: little bit harder. There were some really good summer slams,
Speaker 1: My boy, I think I might have to go ninety one.
Speaker 1: I might have to go ninety one. I probably would
Speaker 1: go ninety or ninety one. Two thousand's two thousands, two thousands,
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, and then twenty ten. I probably
Speaker 1: would go twenty thirteen, and then of the twenty twenties,
Speaker 1: you know, that may be the hardest one, and those
Speaker 1: are the most recent ones. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know which man, I don't that's a tough one. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe twenty two, maybe twenty two. PAVELI the
Speaker 1: thirty six months of Channel membership. Any chance of getting
Speaker 1: the Demon tomorrow against Sammy's Ain, No no, I would
Speaker 1: say very little. There's no reason for it. You bring
Speaker 1: out the Demon when there's a reason for it. This
Speaker 1: is a random match. I mean, there's no reason to
Speaker 1: have the Demon out there. We have Shift and Shive.
Speaker 1: Post show, Triple H saying that he loves all the
Speaker 1: wrestlers working hard to get themselves over with the fans,
Speaker 1: why so he can bury them in catering hilariously hypocritical. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of stuff he says that
Speaker 1: is very hypocritical. So there's stuff he said on WWE
Speaker 1: Radio this week that I'm gonna be talking about tomorrow
Speaker 1: that was very hypocritical. But see, he didn't answer the
Speaker 1: most important question though, Schiff. At some point during the
Speaker 1: Post Show did he a call this the beginning of
Speaker 1: a new era? Or b did he say it's what
Speaker 1: we do? There has to be at least one reference
Speaker 1: to that every single time he talks on the Post Show,
Speaker 1: it's what we do. The Juliet says, rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Vincent past story. Yes, Big Pusss passed away. I think
Speaker 1: he was eighty one years old. It pus from the Sopranos.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been into a lot of different stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw he passed away. So I was bummed to
Speaker 1: hear that. Someone tell Carmelo Hayes that triple ah statement.
Speaker 1: Did you see the picture that Carmelo Hayes posted yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's either during SmackDown or after SmackDown. It was just
Speaker 1: a picture of Steph Curry just sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that guy is not happy. I don't blame him.
Speaker 1: It's thinking, what do I have to do? What do
Speaker 1: I have to do? You leave me off WrestleMania, You
Speaker 1: leave me off Summer Slim. What do I have to do?
Speaker 1: Link Master? What's worse? Seene of beating Ray? Or Brock
Speaker 1: beating Kofee, Brock beating Kofe. I know Ray only had
Speaker 1: the belt for an hour. Kofe had it for six months.
Speaker 1: It was not nearly as bad as the way in
Speaker 1: which Koffee was just discarded like he was nothing. Cooffee
Speaker 1: was worse. All right. We got two rounds to be
Speaker 1: the booker now coming our way, thanks to all of you.
Speaker 1: And it's a very special addition too. It's the Summer
Speaker 1: Slam edition, so we gotta we gotta do a good
Speaker 1: one here. I got high hopes for this. It's time
Speaker 1: to be the booker, Ladies and gentlemen, It is now
Speaker 1: time to oh no, Matt Scales. Matt Scale says, the
Speaker 1: dude wipes fire extinguish. Sure, it's only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before the wrestlers themselves are forced to wear advertisements
Speaker 1: on their gear. It's only a matter of time. Dried Chicken,
Speaker 1: says Carmelo. Hayes needs to call the undertaker for Triple A.
Speaker 1: This goes on for much longer. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: call an undertaker for his career like Julia. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Tag team match. We did not have
Speaker 1: a straight tag team match at all, and I don't
Speaker 1: believe we have one tomorrow night either. We had two
Speaker 1: six person tags tonight though, but no tag team title
Speaker 1: defenses this weekend. Hollywood Hogan and the Worm Dennis Rodman
Speaker 1: are kicking us off here and be the booker. We
Speaker 1: landed on these two a few weeks ago, a lot
Speaker 1: of star power there headlined a Bash of the Beach
Speaker 1: pay per view many actually two of them, I believe.
Speaker 1: I think it was ninety seven and ninety eight Hogan
Speaker 1: and Rodman against Tito Santana and Rick Martell. Interesting. Interesting,
Speaker 1: I mean, who's doing the job. But interesting match there,
Speaker 1: totally going to be carried by Strike Force. Tito was great.
Speaker 1: I mean Martell was great too, but Tito is awesome. Man.
Speaker 1: Tito is so underrated. Doesn't get enough love. We have.
Speaker 1: We have that Butterfly belt. Look at that monstrosity. We
Speaker 1: have the former Divas Champion Michelle McCool. This was back
Speaker 1: during that phase of her career. Where she was just
Speaker 1: loving life. Remember those vignettes. It would show her doing
Speaker 1: various things. We rollerblading. Michelle McCool is loving life. She's
Speaker 1: loving life. Michelle McCool defending the Diva's title. Up. We
Speaker 1: have a triple threat stipulation. Look at that. We have
Speaker 1: a bonus stipulation. We have landed on a bonus stipulation,
Speaker 1: which means we have to pick two more people. We
Speaker 1: have a Divas Championship triple threat. So we have Michelle McCool,
Speaker 1: we have who do we have? Ah? Now I'm depressed.
Speaker 1: Now I am depressed. I said her name. See I
Speaker 1: don't recognize this woman. This is not the same woman
Speaker 1: that we see on Friday Nights back then. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened to her, but I want this Julia back.
Speaker 1: This is stardom, Julia stardhom Julia would absolutely just assassinate
Speaker 1: Michelle cool. I mean, this is not even a fair fight.
Speaker 1: We have to add one more person because it is
Speaker 1: a triple threat. I'm telling you, man, be the booker
Speaker 1: is self aware and it hears things. It's very very
Speaker 1: eerie how we land on some of these things. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: now hold on, is that not now. Now, now we
Speaker 1: have been transported from a triple threat to a fatal
Speaker 1: four way. We're just gonna keep adding women here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have our own little harem. So we have Michelle McCool,
Speaker 1: we have Julia, and now we need two more women.
Speaker 1: Now it has turned into a Divis Championship four way. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is evolving. Teagan knocks Julia, Tigan Knox and Michelle McCool.
Speaker 1: We need a drum roll for this. We got to
Speaker 1: pick our fourth and final lady here in this match,
Speaker 1: and it will be EO Sky and I am gonna
Speaker 1: give that the automatic bell because we have Julia and
Speaker 1: EO Sky in the same match. That's an automatic bell.
Speaker 1: Tiga Knox and Michelle McCool. They can go fight off
Speaker 1: out to the floor. Give me Eo and give me Julia.
Speaker 1: It's all that's all we need here. It's all we
Speaker 1: need alright, our final match here of round number one.
Speaker 1: We need a good main event. It is SummerSlam Night one.
Speaker 1: Give me a good main event. Next spin is the
Speaker 1: guest referee. Well this is new okay, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have so the first person we're gonna spin for is
Speaker 1: going to be the special guest referee, which means this
Speaker 1: person has to call this match right down the middle.
Speaker 1: Whoever it is that we land on. Man, that's a
Speaker 1: hard slap right there. I think Sammy's ay, he looks
Speaker 1: like he should be trying out for power slap. All right,
Speaker 1: so the guest referee for this main event contest will
Speaker 1: be ah, wait, what is going on here? You get
Speaker 1: to pick the mystery man. I get to pick the
Speaker 1: mystery man. Huh. You know what that means. Since we
Speaker 1: basically doubled up on stipulations here, that means I get
Speaker 1: to pick the special referee. Okay, so I need some
Speaker 1: input from you guys who should be the special guest
Speaker 1: referee for this match. I'll give you a few seconds. Think,
Speaker 1: think hard about this. Chime in in the chat, and
Speaker 1: whoever I pick, I'm just gonna like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: pick the person and that will be the referee for
Speaker 1: the match, and then we'll pick the actual participants. Ariel Helwani,
Speaker 1: Nick All this JD from Ny boss Man, Jim corn Boy.
Speaker 1: This is look at the look at Dave Meltzer. Look
Speaker 1: at all these My god, Solomonster. Of course I could
Speaker 1: pick yeah, but see if I pick myself though. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's like a conflict of interest A lot. I
Speaker 1: see a lot of albundies in the chat. All Right,
Speaker 1: I gotta make I gotta make a decision here. Uh
Speaker 1: you know what I will go. I will go with JD.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go. JD from NY is going to be
Speaker 1: the special referee here for this match. Okay, so now
Speaker 1: we know who the official is going to be. Now
Speaker 1: we have to pick the participants. The Jets, the reigning
Speaker 1: T n T champion in a e W Kevin Knight.
Speaker 1: He was just in a main event. He was just
Speaker 1: in a pay per view main event last weekend. In fact,
Speaker 1: we got the Jet Kevin Knight the main event against
Speaker 1: Psycho said, and you know, and actually I believe that
Speaker 1: was a clean sweep, a clean sweep. SID is going
Speaker 1: to power bomb not only Kevin Knight. He's going to
Speaker 1: power bomb JD. For shits and giggles. He's gonna leave
Speaker 1: them both laying with a power bomb and everyone's gonna pop.
Speaker 1: He's taking a ref bump. Now, he's taking a He's
Speaker 1: taking a power bomb, is what he's taking. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be biased towards Sid. Now, we need a referee that
Speaker 1: can call it right down the middle. He's gotta be
Speaker 1: able to call balls and strikes. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: that was a wild round, and we got one more
Speaker 1: left to go. I don't know if we can top
Speaker 1: what we just did. Now it's all stipulations here. So
Speaker 1: the first stipulation is gonna be a barroom brawl. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have ourselves a good old fashioned Donnybrook like, all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a barroom brawl tag team match. I
Speaker 1: don't believe we've had one of those. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: enough with the fucking shield. My god. Oh, I can't
Speaker 1: get away from them. This, by the way, is your
Speaker 1: main event tomorrow night. You want to know your Summer
Speaker 1: Slam Night two main event. There it is right there,
Speaker 1: staring you, rent your face, Roman Reigns and seth Rawlins.
Speaker 1: I mean they look so young, they're so much older.
Speaker 1: Now we have the Shield in a barroom brawl against
Speaker 1: the Bang Bangang, Jay White and Juice Robinson. I can
Speaker 1: that's right. I cannot escape the shield vortex. None of
Speaker 1: us can. I'm just glad that the Bang Bang Gang
Speaker 1: is going to be away from the dogs. I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Match number two is going to be Oh, grave consequences.
Speaker 1: This is how a casket match ought to be done.
Speaker 1: This is not just any casket match. This is a
Speaker 1: very violent, bloody casket match. Let's stick with the men
Speaker 1: on this one. It's a little too violent for the ladies.
Speaker 1: We'll stick here to the guys for this one. Grave consequences.
Speaker 1: He uh, good morning brother, DDP, Diamond Dallas Page. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be on one side of the ring here in
Speaker 1: grave consequences. DDP, Yo, it's me, It's me. It's DDP
Speaker 1: against l A night. Yeah, grave consequences. The BFT very
Speaker 1: similar though, isn't it? The BFT and the Diamond Cutter
Speaker 1: a little too similar? Little too similar. And now our
Speaker 1: main event, our main event of the evening. What kind
Speaker 1: of match are we gonna have? It's going to be
Speaker 1: a of course, it's going to be a blindfold match.
Speaker 1: This is how they book in WWE. They have all
Speaker 1: their creative meetings or fucking blindfold matches. The two men
Speaker 1: will have a bag over their heads. They will be
Speaker 1: unable to see. It's pretty simple. It's basically how the
Speaker 1: match works. Not the best stipulation, but that's what we
Speaker 1: landed on Logan Paul in a blindfold match, and here
Speaker 1: I thought that we might actually be able to pull
Speaker 1: off the double sweep. But it's not looking too good.
Speaker 1: Well Logan Paul against I mean, this is not just
Speaker 1: Eddie Kingston. This is like zombie Eddie Kingston, which I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Eddie Kingston in the ring, this version
Speaker 1: of Eddie Kingston in the ring with Logan Paul. That
Speaker 1: is a double sweep. We pulled it off. We did it.
Speaker 1: I was ready to hit the buzzer on that match.
Speaker 1: As soon as I saw Logan Paul and blindfold match,
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I don't like where this is headed.
Speaker 1: But then we saw Eddie Kingston. Eddie Kingston, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Mad King, Bloody Kingston. I liked that. See I
Speaker 1: like that, Nobdy says, Bloody Kingston. The Mad King is
Speaker 1: going to be coming to the NYC Arena. We have
Speaker 1: him in the main event of House of Glory next
Speaker 1: Friday against Charles Mason for the World Championship. You can
Speaker 1: see it live and free on YouTube next Friday, unless
Speaker 1: you care that much to watch SmackDown, Otherwise you can
Speaker 1: watch hog I'm just saying, well, we ended well I
Speaker 1: like how that ended. I like that. Yeah, we ended
Speaker 1: up doing two men's matches instead of the women's match.
Speaker 1: I made a judgment call that we were not going
Speaker 1: to get too overly violent with the women in grave consequences.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I gotta tell you man that
Speaker 1: card next Friday that what we put together is stacked.
Speaker 1: It is stacked. All right, let's get back to your
Speaker 1: super chats here, because we are not done yet. We
Speaker 1: have hmmm, try chicken, says Martel and Tito against Hogan
Speaker 1: and Rodman Eric Bischoff as the referee. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think we need him. JAVELI buy sell or rent says
Speaker 1: Favorite Summer Slam of the Undertakers ninety six against Mankind,
Speaker 1: ninety seven against Brett Or, ninety eight against Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: And are they saying Stephanie Vicaires? Are they saving Stephanie
Speaker 1: if he cares returned for Raw? I've been waiting for
Speaker 1: Stephanie to come back since WrestleMania, So unless there's some
Speaker 1: reason why she cannot work, Yes, it would seem to
Speaker 1: me like Raw would be the perfect place for them
Speaker 1: to bring her back. As far as favorite Summer Slim
Speaker 1: of the Undertaker. Let me tell you something, man, those
Speaker 1: were three great matches he had back to back to
Speaker 1: back like that, but I don't think any of them
Speaker 1: were as good as the ninety seven match with Brett,
Speaker 1: and the finish of that match was just a work
Speaker 1: of art. I gotta go ninety seven. I will go
Speaker 1: ninety six because I'm a fan of that boiler room brawl,
Speaker 1: and then I'll put ninety eight against Austin on the bottom.
Speaker 1: Even though the hype and the promotion for that match,
Speaker 1: the Highway to Hell stuff, I mean, clears them all.
Speaker 1: The match itself, I'd have to put that third JS
Speaker 1: js J swag ninety three home from Summer Slim. It
Speaker 1: was six point eight out of ten to me, that's
Speaker 1: about in line with what I said. I said about
Speaker 1: six out of ten, maybe six and a half, middle
Speaker 1: of the road trending up. Se yea. And that's from
Speaker 1: someone who was there in the stadium. Tried chicken, says
Speaker 1: Michelle McCool. Stardom, Julia Tigan, Knox and Eosky Winner gets
Speaker 1: a Lamborghini. You know, I what was I gonna say
Speaker 1: about Julia just forgot well, I said, I said, a
Speaker 1: year from now, if she's not in stardom. She'll be
Speaker 1: back in Marigold. I mean the writing, the writing with
Speaker 1: her is on the wall fast Eddie solo. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the I Play Rocky trailer? That movie is gonna
Speaker 1: be phenomenal. I have not. I have not. Is it
Speaker 1: worth watching? They have not seen the trailer? Maybe forty
Speaker 1: one eighty one CM punk with the un prettiest moon saln.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it CEM punk with the
Speaker 1: un prettiest moon salt ever, CM punk the grievous of
Speaker 1: the sky. I like the unprettiest moonsalt ever. Actually a
Speaker 1: great way to describe it. Dry chickens, says Logan Paul
Speaker 1: against Eddie Kingston. Max Dupree Low blows Eddie to help
Speaker 1: Logan for more heat. Well, it's a good thing you're
Speaker 1: not booking. You kill the territory. E CW original ECW
Speaker 1: with the three fifty seven been listening since twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. You kind of taught me the English language.
Speaker 1: Thank you for always being unbiased in your reviews. Well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Is that a good thing or a
Speaker 1: pathic that I taught you the English language? I probably
Speaker 1: taught you a few words you shouldn't be using. But
Speaker 1: that's a long time, man, that's well over a decade.
Speaker 1: I appreciate all the support. You've stuck with me for
Speaker 1: a very long time. You know we're getting very close.
Speaker 1: We're getting awfully close to episode one thousand of the
Speaker 1: Sound of You know what happened when Raw hit episode
Speaker 1: one thousand it went to three hours. I promise you,
Speaker 1: I promise you. I make this vow. I will not
Speaker 1: do that. I will not do that. If anything, I'll
Speaker 1: shave an hour off. And link master X says I
Speaker 1: pay thirty dollars a month for C plus pay per views.
Speaker 1: Why are you paying thirty dollars a month? Do you
Speaker 1: not have ESPN Unlimited or Netflix at a VPN? I
Speaker 1: don't think these shows are worth thirty dollars a month.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry to hear that, brother. I only now
Speaker 1: got access to ESPN U Limited through YouTube TV. I
Speaker 1: finally got it to work so I was able to
Speaker 1: watch it on there. Finally, it only took a year.
Speaker 1: Better late than never, I guess, man, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of longtime listeners in the chat. Chris is twenty ten.
Speaker 1: Next year is going to be twenty years for the
Speaker 1: sound of Yes. Next year is the twenty year anniversary
Speaker 1: next November. We got episode one thousand coming up, twenty
Speaker 1: year anniversary. There's a lot of milestones coming up. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for hanging out with me for Night
Speaker 1: one of Summer Slim. Tonight, I thought that we pretty
Speaker 1: much covered all the important stuff. I think I pretty
Speaker 1: much called it fairly, some good stuff, some not so
Speaker 1: good stuff. And tomorrow we'll do it again. Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: better than tonight. Night two, headlined by Roman Reigns and
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins. We'll see if they're saving any surprises. If
Speaker 1: we're gonna get any title changes, it's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the Intercontinental match. Obviously we're gonna have a new interim
Speaker 1: Women's champion, but I'm not counting that. But we should
Speaker 1: have at least the IC title change tomorrow. That's the
Speaker 1: match I'm actually looking forward to most on that card,
Speaker 1: Roman and Seth, I'm sure they're gonna have a quality
Speaker 1: main event. It's just again, fourteen years of this. It's like,
Speaker 1: can we move on, please? You know, it's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six and we have they're building this whole main event around,
Speaker 1: like the Shield and nobody loved the shield as much
Speaker 1: as I did back then. But my god, can we
Speaker 1: can we move on from this? Please? Let's let this
Speaker 1: be the end and link Master Kubrick or Tarantino. Tarantino, Hey, Alex,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Necro says it's going to blow tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I love the attitude. I love the optimism, Dry Chicken.
Speaker 1: There is one way for Julia to get out of
Speaker 1: her contract. Take a picture with Tony Kahan. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: take a picture with the Elite. She'll She'll be gone
Speaker 1: pretty quickly again. Sound off nine seventy four. We'll be
Speaker 1: dropping tomorrow sometime, hopefully early afternoon. I don't want to
Speaker 1: wait until we get too close to summer, Slim, and
Speaker 1: then we have night two. I'll get the page up
Speaker 1: just like I did today. We'll be here probably around
Speaker 1: the same time nine thirty nine forty five tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap everything up. Hit that like button on your
Speaker 1: way out, leave a comment, thank you again for all
Speaker 1: the love. Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great
Speaker 1: rest of your night. Bring all that support tomorrow so
Speaker 1: we can do be the booker again, and I'll see
Speaker 1: you there. We ain't done yet, night too. I'll see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow,