Speaker 1: Nights of Champions is in the books. This was what
Speaker 1: we were told in advance coming into the show, was
Speaker 1: very likely the final match between John Cena and CM Punk.
Speaker 1: John Cena is done at the end of this year,
Speaker 1: and we have not had John Cena and CM Punk
Speaker 1: in the ring one on one in twelve years. So
Speaker 1: this entire show was built around this main event tonight
Speaker 1: for the WWE Championship. And you know, when I knew
Speaker 1: that they were doing this match a Night of Champions,
Speaker 1: I was actually disappointed because this, to me is a
Speaker 1: Summer Slam match, Like this is so much bigger than
Speaker 1: just Night of Champions or Saturday Night's main Events or
Speaker 1: you know, a show like that. And the matches that
Speaker 1: they had in the past, really all of the matches
Speaker 1: that Punk and Sena have had in the past were
Speaker 1: at least good. Some of them are just classics. You know,
Speaker 1: their money in the bank match, they're raw match. They
Speaker 1: had a great Summer Slam match many years ago. But
Speaker 1: John Cena has not had too many great matches, let's
Speaker 1: just put it that way, since he has started this
Speaker 1: retirement tour. He is not the same in ring performer
Speaker 1: that he was even just five years ago just not
Speaker 1: there anymore. Which is not to say that he was
Speaker 1: flying around the ring doing all this crazy shit even before,
Speaker 1: but clearly it all depends on who he is in
Speaker 1: the ring with and who his opponent is going to be.
Speaker 1: He had a lot of history going into Backlash against
Speaker 1: Randy Orton right. So many matches over the years, those
Speaker 1: guys shared the ring so many times. I couldn't even
Speaker 1: begin to tell you how many times it was. And
Speaker 1: they went in there at Backlash and they actually had
Speaker 1: what ended up being a really good match with Punk.
Speaker 1: I had great optimism that there was still some of
Speaker 1: that old magic left right. We got a little taste
Speaker 1: of it at the Elimination Chamber. They had a little
Speaker 1: exchange in that match, but I was hopeful that we
Speaker 1: would be able to recapture some of that on this
Speaker 1: show tonight. I am happy to say that they went
Speaker 1: in there and they had what I thought was a
Speaker 1: good match. The chemistry between them is still there. Do
Speaker 1: I think the match they had at Night of Champions
Speaker 1: is going to go down as one of the best
Speaker 1: matches that the two of them have ever had top
Speaker 1: three anything like that. No, No, not even close. But
Speaker 1: there was still something there between them, and I still
Speaker 1: feel the same way that I felt before, which is
Speaker 1: that this is a match that should have been saved
Speaker 1: for a bigger show like SummerSlam. But Tripleh obviously has
Speaker 1: a vision for Cody Rhodes going into SummerSlam. He has
Speaker 1: his story which is still unfinished unfinished business between him
Speaker 1: and John Cena. What we got in the main event tonight, Honestly,
Speaker 1: it felt to me like a diet version of what
Speaker 1: we had at WrestleMania last year between Roman Reigns and
Speaker 1: Cody Rhoads.
Speaker 2: That match was overbooked to all hell.
Speaker 1: I said, that's the Avengers endgame of WWE, is what
Speaker 1: I called it at the time, because you had so
Speaker 1: many people getting involved and so many different stories intertwined,
Speaker 1: and they all came to a head at the same
Speaker 1: time right in that match. But it all made sense.
Speaker 1: It all made for a very exciting match. We kind
Speaker 1: of got a version of that here. It was not
Speaker 1: nearly as exciting as that was, but that was my
Speaker 1: first thought. This was like a diet version of what
Speaker 1: they did at WrestleMania last year with all of the
Speaker 1: interference that we had here in this match. Because Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins came out with his new posse, and he teased
Speaker 1: possibly cashing in his money in the bank briefcase. He
Speaker 1: came out there with bron Breaker, and he came out
Speaker 1: there with Bronson Reid, and he made you think that
Speaker 1: he was going to cash in that briefcase. But then
Speaker 1: all of these other people started showing up. Penta showed
Speaker 1: up in the main event. I mean, look, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that Penta got a cameo in the main event. He
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a whole hell of a lot lately, so
Speaker 1: I mean, good to see him. But like I tell you,
Speaker 1: the first time I heard that music hit and I
Speaker 1: saw Penta come and I said, what the fuck Penta
Speaker 1: coming out during the main event. But he had his
Speaker 1: issues in recent history with again, they still have no name,
Speaker 1: call them the Hayman Alliance, okay until they come up
Speaker 1: with something better. So he's had his issues with them lately.
Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain comes back out, you know, during the main
Speaker 1: event to try to fight them off as well. Right,
Speaker 1: so all of this stuff is going on, You got
Speaker 1: the ref bump, you got all of this stuff that
Speaker 1: you would normally see at an overbooked main event, and
Speaker 1: it made sense like, you can overbook something for the
Speaker 1: sake of doing it. You could overbook it in a
Speaker 1: way that doesn't make sense, or you can overbook it
Speaker 1: in a way where, okay, at least the people who
Speaker 1: are coming out and getting involved right, like, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little sad because for what will likely
Speaker 1: end up being the final John Cena CM Punk match,
Speaker 1: it's just the sort of thing that I don't think
Speaker 1: they needed. But it was clear that CM Punk was
Speaker 1: not winning this championship, and so this was WWE's way
Speaker 1: of protecting him.
Speaker 2: How are we going to.
Speaker 1: Protect punkin defeat instead of just having him be kicked
Speaker 1: in the dick like everybody else and pinned, And this
Speaker 1: is what they came up with. We had a fake
Speaker 1: out on the cash in. There was no money in
Speaker 1: the bank cash in. In the end, he tried, Rollins tried,
Speaker 1: but in the end John sna sneaks out a win
Speaker 1: pin CM Punk and retains the WWE Championship. And there
Speaker 1: was no feeling that I had coming out of this
Speaker 1: show that would indicate to me that they're going to
Speaker 1: run this back again. We do have a show coming
Speaker 1: up in a few weeks on NBC it's called Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event. If they wanted to do a scene
Speaker 1: a Punk rematch, that would be the place to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to. I don't really see
Speaker 1: the point in doing it. If they did this to
Speaker 1: protect Punk, what are you going to run it back
Speaker 1: for and then just beat him? I think this was it.
Speaker 1: I think this was the final chapter in their feud.
Speaker 1: What they gave us here was was good. It was good.
Speaker 1: I mean there were a lot of finisher spam. I
Speaker 1: mean you have to expect that, right, Constant attitude adjustments,
Speaker 1: attitude adjustment, attempt GTS, attempt. Dude, we were seeing this
Speaker 1: in John Cena matches twelve years ago. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not really a shock. So we got a lot of
Speaker 1: that in that match as well. But when it was over,
Speaker 1: Cmpunk got fucked over once more by Seth Rollins. And
Speaker 1: I'm watching this and I'm thinking, well deserved. This is
Speaker 1: what you get this guy coming out here trying to
Speaker 1: cash in during your match. This is what you get
Speaker 1: for not costing him the money in the bank match
Speaker 1: earlier this month, we saw no Punk, we saw no
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns on that show. Seth just won the briefcase.
Speaker 1: Despite all the bullshit that he has put all of
Speaker 1: these different people through, you allowed this man to win
Speaker 1: the briefcase, and so now you paid the price for it.
Speaker 1: And it feels like we're headed towards another CM Punk
Speaker 1: seth Rollins match, and onward we go. This few you know,
Speaker 1: must continue. Well, I mean, Punk's destination for Summer Slim
Speaker 1: is a little less murky, you know now than it
Speaker 1: was coming into this show, But we still can't say
Speaker 1: for sure that that's going to be the Summer Slim.
Speaker 1: I presume that that will be the Summer Slim match.
Speaker 1: There is no debate though about what John Cenas Summers
Speaker 1: Match is going to be because it ties in directly
Speaker 1: to the King of the Ring. That was the other
Speaker 1: thing on this show. We had the finals of the
Speaker 1: King and Queen of the Ring tournaments. The winners punched
Speaker 1: their ticket to a guarantee championship match at Summerslim against
Speaker 1: the champion of their respective brand. We already knew on
Speaker 1: the SmackDown side that it was going to be a
Speaker 1: SmackDown roster person on the men's side going to Summer
Speaker 1: SLEMDA Wrestle for the WWE title. Because it came down
Speaker 1: to Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton, two members of the
Speaker 1: SmackDown roster. On the women's side, we had Jade car
Speaker 1: Gill representing SmackDown, we had Osca representing Raw and things basically,
Speaker 1: I mean things really up and down. The entire card
Speaker 1: went exactly the way that I predicted they would when
Speaker 1: we ran through the predictions the other day. So it
Speaker 1: was a very predictable show, but it basically went the
Speaker 1: way that I think most people probably expected. King Cody
Speaker 1: and Queen Jade they have their crowns. They will now
Speaker 1: be going on to Summer SLEMDA Wrestle for the championship.
Speaker 1: Cody Roads and Randy Orton went out there and had
Speaker 1: the best match on the entire show. Jade Cargill and
Speaker 1: Oscar went out there and had probably the worst. Certainly,
Speaker 1: it was nothing that I am going to have any
Speaker 1: interest in going back to rewatch again. Osca did what
Speaker 1: she could, but that was easily the weakest part of
Speaker 1: the entire show. Both United States Championships changed hands in
Speaker 1: Riha this weekend, and that goes back to SmackDown. Last night.
Speaker 1: Julia beat Zelina Vegas. She is the new women's United
Speaker 1: States Champion. But on this show, Solo Sokoa wins his
Speaker 1: first singles championship on the main roster. He unseats Jacob
Speaker 1: Fotu to win the US title. But that's not the
Speaker 1: only story coming out of that match, because we had
Speaker 1: a massive appearance during that US title match, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people were probably thinking it coming into this show.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting quite a while for this person to
Speaker 1: finally show up on television. Yes, yes, indeed, the Great
Speaker 1: Tonga Loa is back on television.
Speaker 2: I know you missed him.
Speaker 1: Tonga Loa made his return during the United States Championship match,
Speaker 1: Oh my God, and he provides an assist to Jacob
Speaker 1: fought or to Solo Soka against Jacob fat Too. And
Speaker 1: then this other guy, Hicculeo I think his name is
Speaker 1: He also made his debut during that match, although was
Speaker 1: never named. So Hickuleo is clearly dead and so whatever
Speaker 1: the new name is going to be, we'll find out
Speaker 1: soon enough. Remember a long time ago, we heard about
Speaker 1: them trademarking Talla Tonga, So I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: still going to be his name or not. But the
Speaker 1: fact that his name was never actually mentioned on the show.
Speaker 1: Is probably indicative of the fact that he.
Speaker 2: Is not going to be Hicculeo.
Speaker 1: But yes, he finally did make his debut here on
Speaker 1: this show and the Bloodline. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: Bloodline was down to two, the remnants of the bloodline.
Speaker 1: We were down to two Solo Soka and j. C. Mitteo,
Speaker 1: And it felt like, Okay, maybe this thing is petering
Speaker 1: out finally, right, Tomatonga has been hurt, Tongalo has been hurt,
Speaker 1: Hikuleo has been missing for over a year. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they're gonna put the bloodline stuff aside for now. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we went from two to one. Are
Speaker 1: the back up to like four? Right, probably five when
Speaker 1: Toma Tonga comes to We got Solo Sokoa, we got
Speaker 1: Jace Matteo, we got Hikuleo, we got tongaloa. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Bloodline has respawned and so it ain't
Speaker 1: going nowhere. But Jacob Fontunaw is gonna have to chase
Speaker 1: to get that US title back. I thought that it
Speaker 1: was a decent show. This was a very middle of
Speaker 1: the road show. Uh, definitely not their best effort. As
Speaker 1: Saudi shows go. Uh, there have been some really good
Speaker 1: Saudi shows actually in recent years. Uh. They put a
Speaker 1: lot more focus on these shows than they did at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of their relationship. Uh. This was not
Speaker 1: one of the better ones, but it was decent. There
Speaker 1: were some things I liked, there were some things I
Speaker 1: didn't like. A lot of it was very uninspiring, didn't
Speaker 1: get me terribly excited. We're going to talk about everything
Speaker 1: that happened here on this show, including all the madness
Speaker 1: of the main event, because this is your WWE Night
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Speaker 1: We'll start there. That's usually what you do, right, you
Speaker 1: start with the opening of the show. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: start with the closing of the show. That would be
Speaker 1: pretty stupid. I'm not even drinking yet, why would.
Speaker 2: I do that.
Speaker 1: The opening of the show was the King of the
Speaker 1: Ring final. We had Cody Rhodes one on one with
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. Orton entered first and they sang his song
Speaker 1: so much so that they even looped it as they
Speaker 1: continued singing his song. They did the same for Cody
Speaker 1: Rhods on his way to the ring. They sang him
Speaker 1: to the ring. All of these international crowds men, no
Speaker 1: matter where they go, it doesn't matter what country, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what continent they go to. They all think that
Speaker 1: they're on you know, America's got talent or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everybody sings. I don't go I wouldn't go to these
Speaker 1: shows to sing. Nobody wants to hear me sing. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear them sing either, But they seem
Speaker 1: to have fun doing it. So Orton comes into this
Speaker 1: match he owns. We were told a seven and three
Speaker 1: singles record against Cody. This is the first time that
Speaker 1: these two have locked up up in a match since
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen, I believe, twelve years since we've
Speaker 1: gotten a Cody Roads Randy Orton match, our first since
Speaker 1: Cody came back to the company three years ago. And
Speaker 1: they didn't do much for the first few minutes. They
Speaker 1: didn't really have to. I mean, the crowd was very
Speaker 1: loud at the beginning of this. Rhodes went to the top,
Speaker 1: Roads to the top. Rhoads went to the top for
Speaker 1: probably five minutes into this. Orton brought him down though
Speaker 1: with a superplex, and that was really the story of
Speaker 1: the match because after Orton brought him down with a superplex,
Speaker 1: immediately Randy begins selling his lower back. And he did
Speaker 1: the same thing a year ago. Remember the King of
Speaker 1: the Ring final last year where he fell to Gunther
Speaker 1: and he was selling the back there as well. So
Speaker 1: telling that story where he may haveked tworked, he did
Speaker 1: not towerk. He may tweeted, he may have tweaked. Randy
Speaker 1: Orton did not twerk during this match, but he may
Speaker 1: have tweaked the lower back that automatically became the story
Speaker 1: right there. Cody took advantage. He hit a disaster kick
Speaker 1: for two. Orton responded with a backbreaker, which is not
Speaker 1: a very smart thing to be doing if you have
Speaker 1: a bad back. So, of course, as soon as he
Speaker 1: hits the back breaker, he winces and he grabs the back,
Speaker 1: so Cody wrenched Orton's back around the ring post. He
Speaker 1: followed with a missile dropkick. Orton fought back and hit
Speaker 1: a power slam. The injured back, though, prevented him from
Speaker 1: making the cover fast enough. Cody kicked out Rhodes was
Speaker 1: delivering fore arms to the lower back and actually got
Speaker 1: some booze for doing that because Randy was super over here.
Speaker 1: He hits a Cody cutter, only gets two. Then he
Speaker 1: follows with a super Cody cutter and still only gets two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Lucy, Lucy and the Chapman. If Randy did twork,
Speaker 1: he probably would throw his back out. I would think
Speaker 1: that twerking would be probably the worst thing you could
Speaker 1: do if you have a bad don't do that. Orton
Speaker 1: came back with the draping DDT. Cody counted an RKO
Speaker 1: attempt into a crossroads for a near fall. Rhodes stalled
Speaker 1: for a little too long, though, and Orton popped up
Speaker 1: with an RKO out of nowhere for a near fall.
Speaker 1: Orton went to the corner he set up for the
Speaker 1: punt kick, and he begins to second guess himself, as
Speaker 1: she told a similar story on the show with John
Speaker 1: Cena in the main event and Randy Orton here in
Speaker 1: the opener, where there was a moment in each of
Speaker 1: these matches where they had almost a crisis of conscience.
Speaker 1: They were going to deliver a move and they stopped
Speaker 1: themselves and they thought better of it. In this case,
Speaker 1: probably caused Randy Orton the match because he's second guessing himself.
Speaker 1: Orton ultimately talks himself into it, goes for the punt,
Speaker 1: but he waited too long. Cody dodges it. He applies
Speaker 1: a figure four leg lock until Orton got a rope break,
Speaker 1: which is kind of an odd thing to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you have a guy here who was selling a
Speaker 1: bad back, I mean, why wouldn't you go for something
Speaker 1: like a bear hug. I mean it doesn't really make
Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense. I mean, if this guy
Speaker 1: has a bad back, I know what I'll do, I'll
Speaker 1: apply a figure four leg lock. It's not very smart.
Speaker 1: There By, Cody Rhodes went for another Cody cutter. Orton
Speaker 1: caught him out of midair as he sprung off the
Speaker 1: middle rope with an RKO. That was a great spot
Speaker 1: and it had the fans convinced that that might be
Speaker 1: the finish. Of course it wasn't, and Cody kicked out.
Speaker 1: So then Orton went outside and he grabs a steel
Speaker 1: chair and he brings it into the ring again another
Speaker 1: similarity with what we saw in the main event where
Speaker 1: John Cena left the ring to go grab the title
Speaker 1: belt to bring into the ring. Here, though, Orton had
Speaker 1: an ulterior motive, so he brings the chair into the ring,
Speaker 1: which would be a pretty fucking dumb thing to do,
Speaker 1: because you get disqualified, you don't win King of the Ring.
Speaker 1: Charles Robinson takes the chair away from him. When he does,
Speaker 1: Orton goes to the corner and he pulls off the
Speaker 1: top turnbuckle pad, so it was all part of the plan.
Speaker 1: Rhodes blocked Orton's attempt to use the exposed buckle and
Speaker 1: shoved Randy into it instead, ribs first, really like right
Speaker 1: under the armpit. And he goes into it the upper
Speaker 1: ribcage and Orton lets out a scream. Cody follows that
Speaker 1: with a crossroads and he covers Randy Orton for the win.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes into this match, the fans were definitely louder
Speaker 1: for Randy than they were for coming. They cheered Cody,
Speaker 1: but they were louder for Randy than they were for Cody.
Speaker 1: They still cheered when Cody won. Orton left the ring.
Speaker 1: Cody is presented with the crown by both general managers.
Speaker 1: Byron Saxton makes his way over to interview him, and
Speaker 1: Cody first said he wanted to thank Randy Orton, who
Speaker 1: he said mentored him and spoke up for him. He
Speaker 1: said this would not be Orton's final stop in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: He asked all the fans to get give him a
Speaker 1: round of applause. And you could see in because Cody
Speaker 1: had his back turn to the aisleway and you could
Speaker 1: see Orton in the aisle. So Orton turns around to
Speaker 1: you know, see this, but he did not look very happy.
Speaker 1: He did not have a very happy expression here on
Speaker 1: his face. Cody again had his back turn, so I
Speaker 1: thought that Orton was going to slip into there. He's
Speaker 1: a slither into the ring and drop him right then
Speaker 1: and there. But he didn't do that. Cody said that
Speaker 1: he would face either Cmpunk or John Cena at SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: He knew how the audience felt when he went up
Speaker 1: against these beloved characters.
Speaker 2: That's what he said, characters. I don't know what's up
Speaker 2: with this guy.
Speaker 1: Man, he's on the show here talking about characters. He's
Speaker 1: doing interviews, talking about how you know, my time is
Speaker 1: a baby face maybe coming to an NC. I'm not
Speaker 1: liking this, like I'm not liking this. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know the curtain has been pulled back like ninety five percent.
Speaker 1: Just leave me that little five percent. I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to. But then again, I mean, that Netflix
Speaker 1: show is premiering in a month.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: WWE what the hell is it called? I forgot the
Speaker 1: name of it, that new reality show. I mean, forget
Speaker 1: at that point though, the remaining five percent is basically
Speaker 1: just gone at that point. But he goes, you know,
Speaker 1: I know how all you guys feel about me when
Speaker 1: I go up against these beloved characters like Randy Orton
Speaker 1: and Jay Uso.
Speaker 2: But no matter who the.
Speaker 1: Champion was They were only holding it for him because
Speaker 1: he would get the ball back, he said at SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: and they shot off Piro behind him as he held
Speaker 1: up the crown. Never put the crown on his head.
Speaker 1: Gunther didn't last year. He held it, but he didn't
Speaker 1: actually wear the crown because it just looks goofy. At
Speaker 1: this point, you know, this is not the This is
Speaker 1: not the era of the macho King, like that era
Speaker 1: is long gone. That was the cartoon era of WWE
Speaker 1: that I grew up on. And so you had the
Speaker 1: Macho King and you had you know, King Harley Race
Speaker 1: and Brett Hart wins Kang of the Ring and puts
Speaker 1: the crown on his head, and frankly, even that looked
Speaker 1: a little goofy. It's just a different time now. It
Speaker 1: would be really stupid. Honestly, if Gunther stood there and
Speaker 1: put the crown on his head, just the kind of
Speaker 1: character that he is, it would have been dumb.
Speaker 2: And it would have been dumb for Cody to do it.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're a certain type of heel, it might
Speaker 1: make sense, but Cody is not, so he should not
Speaker 1: be wearing a crown on his head. I thought this
Speaker 1: was the perfect first match between these two. I have
Speaker 1: been waiting for these two to get in the ring
Speaker 1: together ever since Cody came back to the company. There
Speaker 1: is so much history, like rich history between these two,
Speaker 1: going back to when Cody was first coming up in
Speaker 1: the ranks and he was hand picked by Randy Orton
Speaker 1: to be part of Legacy, and they even shared the
Speaker 1: ring together at Russell Vandia one year in that triple
Speaker 1: threat match. I don't know whatever happens to that Debase guy.
Speaker 1: He may be behind bar soon, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of history there that has not even been touched. And
Speaker 1: there were a lot of teases last year in little
Speaker 1: backstage segments where yeah, they were friendly. They might be
Speaker 1: sitting in the locker room in Orton would glance over
Speaker 1: at the Championship and you just knew, like, maybe they're
Speaker 1: not going to lock up soon, but like down the road,
Speaker 1: they're already, you know, giving you a little hints of
Speaker 1: what's coming. And so now they have their first match
Speaker 1: in a match that like a week ago, we didn't
Speaker 1: even have on the card because Cody didn't even qualify
Speaker 1: for the finals until Monday. So this all came together
Speaker 1: very late in the game, and it's like, well, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do the first Cody and Randy match and
Speaker 1: hardly have any time to promote it. I looked at
Speaker 1: it as again, this is just match one, like their feud,
Speaker 1: and they will feud. Their feud has not even really
Speaker 1: started yet. But what we had here on this show
Speaker 1: was the beginnings of a longer feud between them that
Speaker 1: I think will will likely kick off coming out of
Speaker 1: Summer Slime, whether Cody wins it not coming out of
Speaker 1: Summer Slim. As far as the match itself, we had
Speaker 1: the usual overkill. You know, we had the overkill of
Speaker 1: all of the finisher attempts and kickouts, and I mean,
Speaker 1: we see this all the time in REST. This is
Speaker 1: not just the WWE issue either, but we see it
Speaker 1: a lot in WWE. I'm not a big fan of that,
Speaker 1: we get this all the time. The finish itself was
Speaker 1: a little flat too. I'm not even saying, oh, the
Speaker 1: finish was so great. That springboard into an RKO off
Speaker 1: the ropes, I mean, for a split second had me sold,
Speaker 1: even though I didn't honestly believe Randy was going to
Speaker 1: win this match. Had that been the finish of the match,
Speaker 1: you would have had people all over social media or
Speaker 1: raving about the finish and the oh my god, what
Speaker 1: a great finish that was. So the finish was definitely
Speaker 1: a little flat. But again, the match did what it
Speaker 1: was supposed to do, and what the match was supposed
Speaker 1: to do was plant the seeds for what is coming
Speaker 1: in the future. And also keep in mind, Cody didn't
Speaker 1: really do anything wrong here. Randy is the one who
Speaker 1: introduced or tried to introduce the chair into the ring, right,
Speaker 1: Randy is the one who went and removed the turnbuckle
Speaker 1: pad and tried to use that short cut and it
Speaker 1: blew up at his face. All Cody did was just
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. So I think part of the
Speaker 1: story here also is Cody finally did what he was
Speaker 1: unwilling to do at WrestleMania because he was a dumb fuck.
Speaker 2: At WrestleMania, he had.
Speaker 1: The chance to take a short cut to beat John Cena.
Speaker 1: He didn't do it, and it cost him the championship.
Speaker 1: And so now he's heading into a rematch with John Cena,
Speaker 1: and I think they're trying to illustrate that this time
Speaker 1: it's going to be a different Cody than the one
Speaker 1: we saw at WrestleMania. This time he will not be
Speaker 1: unwilling to take advantage of a situation if it presents itself.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I read into what they
Speaker 1: did here. They didn't give too much away. They didn't
Speaker 1: have to. We're gonna see this again. As far as
Speaker 1: Randy Orton is concerned for or SummerSlam, I don't know
Speaker 1: what Randy Orton would be doing at SummerSlam. You if
Speaker 1: they're going to kick things off, you know something with
Speaker 1: him and Cody. I see that coming out of Summer Slam.
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets involved.
Speaker 2: In Cody's match.
Speaker 1: If Randy is gonna go heal, maybe he goes heal
Speaker 1: at Summer Slim and cost Cody the match against Sena. Now,
Speaker 1: I know there's gonna be a lot of people going, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, maybe you're way off here, and maybe
Speaker 1: John Cena against Cody is going to end with Cody
Speaker 1: going heel. I know some people are praying for that.
Speaker 1: I know some people are hoping for that. We are
Speaker 1: going to get a heal Cody Rhodes. Cody himself is
Speaker 1: out there now publicly just flat out saying my time
Speaker 1: as a babyface is going to be coming to an
Speaker 1: end sooner than later. I don't know why he's out
Speaker 1: there saying this, especially if it's true. I don't know
Speaker 1: why you would even want to give people the hint.
Speaker 1: Just let it be a surprise. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: happening at Summer Slim. There's been nothing done, nothing to
Speaker 1: indicate that it is going to happen Summer Slim. I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot of people who are, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe sick of Cody as you know, the dominant babyface
Speaker 1: who kicks out of all these big moves, and they're
Speaker 1: sick of it, and they want to see him go heal.
Speaker 2: And that's fine, I mean, that's fair.
Speaker 1: I think it's just people reading a little too much
Speaker 1: into it because he is still the top babyface in
Speaker 1: this company. I just don't see them turning him here yet.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's going to be him. If
Speaker 1: anyone's going heel, I think it's going.
Speaker 2: To be Randy Orton. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody who is with me here on a
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, Glad to have you, nearly fifteen hundred strong.
Speaker 1: As we are going through this card here, we are
Speaker 1: talking night of Champions talk King of the Ring.
Speaker 2: We got Queen of the Ring.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about later, not nearly as good
Speaker 1: as what we got with the King of the Ring tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that, but first we got to get
Speaker 1: to this street fight. What they said was the first
Speaker 1: ever street fight in Saudi Arabia. Well, first ever wrestling
Speaker 1: street fight.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there have.
Speaker 1: Been other street fights in Saudi but not on a
Speaker 1: WWE show. We have, and this was the first Ria
Speaker 1: Ripley one on one with Raquel Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: Ria and Raquel in a street fight.
Speaker 1: They were both decked out in full body suits because
Speaker 1: Saudi Ria was wearing black latex, Riquel was in I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was black latex or black leather.
Speaker 1: What they were wearing was very similar to the point
Speaker 1: where it looked like they should be tag team partners.
Speaker 1: Ripley got tied up in the ropes early on in
Speaker 1: this match, so Rodriguez grabbed a kendo stick and she
Speaker 1: did not hold back. I feel like if you're in
Speaker 1: the ring with a good friend, you tend to be
Speaker 1: a little more, a little more violent. Like if I
Speaker 1: was in a match with my best friend, I would
Speaker 1: go to him and say, look, I'm probably gonna beat
Speaker 1: the fuck out of you, so if you want to
Speaker 1: give it back to me, that's fine, But like, let's
Speaker 1: just go out there and.
Speaker 2: Just stiff the shit out of each other.
Speaker 1: And that's what it felt like she was doing with
Speaker 1: that kendo stick, because she was wailing away on Ria's
Speaker 1: ribcage with this kendo stick.
Speaker 2: So then she grabbed the chair.
Speaker 1: And Ripley managed to kick the chair back into Raquel's face.
Speaker 1: Ripley cleared off the announced table. A little while later,
Speaker 1: she set up for a vertical suplex. Rodriguez escaped. Ria
Speaker 1: tried a cannonball off the table instead, and Raquel caught
Speaker 1: her and then muscled her up into a power bomb position,
Speaker 1: and she power bombed her over the barricade and into
Speaker 1: the timekeeper's area. I think there might have been a tap.
Speaker 1: There was a table, I think behind the barricade. She
Speaker 1: went through the table, so Raquel set the steel ring
Speaker 1: steps up on its side on the apron. Ripley, though,
Speaker 1: rammed her into them instead, then took off her belt,
Speaker 1: and Rhea began to repeatedly whip Raquel with her belt.
Speaker 1: Ripley followed in the ring with a razor's edge that
Speaker 1: folded her up and then a running kick only for
Speaker 1: a two count. Ripley applied a prism lock, which they
Speaker 1: called a prism trap. So unless they've changed the name,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they just fucked up the name because it's
Speaker 1: the prism lock. But Roxanne Perez runs in also full
Speaker 1: body suit. She runs in. She attacks Ria from behind.
Speaker 1: Ripley fought her off outside the ring and then suplexter
Speaker 1: on the floor. Ria then placed a trash can over Roxanne,
Speaker 1: who was so tiny that she could probably stuff her
Speaker 1: entire body into this garbage can, but she puts her
Speaker 1: in a garbage can and then delivers a sliding kick.
Speaker 1: Rodriguez used the distraction to drive Riha into the steel
Speaker 1: post and then into the ring steps. Rodriguez followed with
Speaker 1: a twisting elbow drop off the middle rope inside for
Speaker 1: a two count. She then placed the table across the
Speaker 1: top rope in one of the corners to create a platform.
Speaker 1: So if you remember, speaking of street fights, when Kurt
Speaker 1: Angle and Shane McMahon, who actually had their classic King
Speaker 1: of the Ring street fight, God, it was this month.
Speaker 1: How many years ago? It was two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: right or was it two thousand. I'm pretty sure it was
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, so we're talking twenty four years ago.
Speaker 1: They did a similar spot, I think for the finish
Speaker 1: in their match. I think Kurt gave him an angle slam,
Speaker 1: so that's what they did here. They ended up climbing
Speaker 1: on top of the table, which was weeebling and wobbling,
Speaker 1: and the referee was trying to hold it in position.
Speaker 1: And Ria delivered an avalanche riptide off the table and
Speaker 1: she pinned Raquel to win the match. This was a
Speaker 1: good street fight, nothing too violence here. It's what you
Speaker 1: would expect from a WWE street fight. You got your kendosticks,
Speaker 1: you got the ring steps, you got the tables. It's
Speaker 1: very similar to what we got on SmackDown last night
Speaker 1: between Tiffany Stratton and Naya Jacks.
Speaker 2: But this was better than that. The thing with Raquel, though,
Speaker 2: she hasn't.
Speaker 1: Been booked as a serious threat to any buddy on TV,
Speaker 1: so I don't think there was a single person who
Speaker 1: really truly believed that she was going to get the
Speaker 1: win here, or that she was a real serious threat,
Speaker 1: you know, coming into this match. But this was the
Speaker 1: best match that I've seen her have in forever. These
Speaker 1: two just work really well together here. The announcer was
Speaker 1: very notable that the announcers push that Rhea is wants
Speaker 1: to be going for the world Championship again, and she
Speaker 1: said the same thing on the kickoff show. They were
Speaker 1: really pushing that point hard. So on the subject of
Speaker 1: what do you do with Rhea Ripley at SummerSlam, I'm
Speaker 1: still hoping we get Osca and EO. I know Osca
Speaker 1: and we'll talk later, but Oscar didn't win tonight, big shock.
Speaker 2: But I would love to see Osca and EO for.
Speaker 1: The women's world title. And they teased it on Monday.
Speaker 1: They had a segment. I don't think it aired on
Speaker 1: the show. I think it was during the commercial break,
Speaker 1: but they had a little interaction in the back and
Speaker 1: they very clearly teased a possible match between them for SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: I would love to see that be the Women's world
Speaker 1: title match. It is hard for me to imagine that
Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley is not going to have a major match
Speaker 1: on that Summer Slam cars two nights this year. She
Speaker 1: is the biggest star in the entire division, and she
Speaker 1: has no real obvious direction right now. Do you work
Speaker 1: her back into the world title picture again? Do you
Speaker 1: do maybe a triple threat and have her and EO
Speaker 1: and Oscar? But then it's basically a carbon copy of
Speaker 1: what you just did at WrestleMania. You're only substituting Osca
Speaker 1: for Bianca.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: As great as that match was at WrestleMania, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that would just feel like a.
Speaker 2: Retread to me.
Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley against Stephanie Viquerre, who is one of the
Speaker 1: newer additions to the raw roster, fast rising star, right,
Speaker 1: very popular. That's a future WrestleMania match, you know. But
Speaker 1: you could do it, right. They're both babyfaces. If you
Speaker 1: want to just take them and put them in a feud,
Speaker 1: you could do that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what they're gonna do
Speaker 2: with Rhea, but the fact that they were.
Speaker 1: Really pushing hard the idea of her going after the
Speaker 1: world title again, that might be an indication of what
Speaker 1: they plan on doing with her. We had Sammy z
Speaker 1: Ain against Carrion. Cross came out with Scarlett, who was
Speaker 1: out there in her bodysuit looking like Catwoman. This was
Speaker 1: Cross's first ple match since last year's WrestleMania when the
Speaker 1: Final Testament took on Bobby Lashley in the Street profits
Speaker 1: and his first singles match on a ple. How's this
Speaker 1: for a stat The last time Carry and Cross before
Speaker 1: this show had a singles match with a ple was
Speaker 1: actually here in Riot. It was against Drew McIntyre inside
Speaker 1: a steel cage. That match took place three years ago.
Speaker 1: That's how long it's been. So for all the nonsense
Speaker 1: about Carrying Cross.
Speaker 2: Not wanting to take back bumps.
Speaker 1: I saw that all over social media this week and
Speaker 1: clips going around showing Cross taking these awkward bumps and oh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't take back bumps, he doesn't take bumps properly. Right.
Speaker 1: He took plenty of bumps in this match. Hopefully that
Speaker 1: will shut that shit down as far as like.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is why he's not getting.
Speaker 1: Pushed, Like, yeah, that's why, that's why he's not getting
Speaker 1: you know, a major push, you fucking break. He took
Speaker 1: plenty of but he looked like he was bumping just
Speaker 1: fine here in this match. So Cross got a good
Speaker 1: reaction for his entrance, nothing like what Sammy got coming
Speaker 1: out obviously. Here in Saudi, Cole said that Cross generated
Speaker 1: a ground swell of support online and so now he
Speaker 1: has to prove himself in the ring. And I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm listening to this and I'm thinking, oh boy, triple
Speaker 1: h now feeding scripted lines here to Michael Cole. Seeing
Speaker 1: all the online pressure and all the online support push
Speaker 1: cross hashtag push cross. This is his message back to
Speaker 1: all the fans, Well, he'd better perform. This is what
Speaker 1: you wanted. He better live up to expectations. Zain took
Speaker 1: control early on here in this match, until Cross cut
Speaker 1: him off with a doomsday Saido suplex. Later on, Cross
Speaker 1: hit a leaping death valley driver for a near fall.
Speaker 1: Cross went for the crossjacket submission, but Zayne avoided it.
Speaker 1: Cross stuff the Blue thunderbomb attempt put Sammy down with
Speaker 1: another doomsday Saido. Cross set up for the cross Hammer,
Speaker 1: but Zay ducked it and hit the Blue Thunderbomb for
Speaker 1: a two count. Zain hit an exploder suplex in the
Speaker 1: corner and then he tried for the Halluba kick Cross,
Speaker 1: They'll cut him off and applied the crossjackets submission, and
Speaker 1: he pulled Sammy down to the mat and he grapedvined him.
Speaker 1: So the referee goes over and Sammy he's struggling and
Speaker 1: he's fighting in the hole, and he's trying to fight
Speaker 1: his way out of it, and it looks like he's
Speaker 1: starting to fade. And the referee checked on Sammy's arm
Speaker 1: which fell to the mat, and then she picked it
Speaker 1: up and it fell to the mat for a second time,
Speaker 1: and then she picked it up and it fell to
Speaker 1: the mat for a third time. But then he immediately
Speaker 1: put the arm back up, so he was still in it,
Speaker 1: and eventually he got to the bottom rope to.
Speaker 2: Break the hold.
Speaker 1: I really wish that they would be more consistent with
Speaker 1: the arm drop. They're very inconsistent with it in most
Speaker 1: WWE matches, and that which, honestly, I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: grew up again watching this product at a time when
Speaker 1: the hand would have to go down three times and
Speaker 1: then the referee would call the match off right. It
Speaker 1: was very dramatic. Oh it dropped twice, if it drops
Speaker 1: one more time, like That's what I grew up on. Realistically, though,
Speaker 1: especially as they have incorporated more MMA elements into the
Speaker 1: product over the years, Ken Shamrock, you could thank him
Speaker 1: for the tap out right that we've had halpouts in
Speaker 1: this company ever since ninety seven. It really does make
Speaker 1: more sense though. If you think you're a referee and
Speaker 1: you think that somebody has just passed out unconscious, right,
Speaker 1: you check they're out, you call for the bell. You
Speaker 1: don't go, okay, let's raise the arm once, Let's raise
Speaker 1: the art like it makes more sense to do it
Speaker 1: that way. And that's what they do now for the
Speaker 1: most part. A few weeks ago, when Jay Uzo went
Speaker 1: out against Gunther, that's what they did in that match.
Speaker 1: The referee looked, he said, oh shit, Jay's out. Call
Speaker 1: for the bell, new world heavyweight champion. But here we
Speaker 1: got to raise the arm once, we got to raise
Speaker 1: the arts. It's just it's inconsistent. Just pick a lane
Speaker 1: and stick to it. It's just it's a minor thing,
Speaker 1: but it just it bugs me. So Cross asked Sammy
Speaker 1: what was wrong with him?
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: And he told Sammy to learn how to stay down.
Speaker 1: Cross hit Sammy with a running clothes line in the corner.
Speaker 1: And now at this point he is yelling at Sammy,
Speaker 1: He's telling him say it, say Cross told you the truth.
Speaker 1: Cross backed up to the corner, hit a second clothes
Speaker 1: line to Sammy in the opposite corner, And when I
Speaker 1: saw him do that, I like I could visually see
Speaker 1: what the finish was going to be. I was like,
Speaker 1: he's gonna run for a third time into the other
Speaker 1: corner again for another clothes line, and as he's running in,
Speaker 1: he's not going to realize that Sammy is running behind him,
Speaker 1: and then we're going.
Speaker 2: To get the halluva kick.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they did, and he kicked him
Speaker 1: in the face and Sammy covered him and he got
Speaker 1: the pin. Would it have been nice for Carrying Cross
Speaker 1: to get the win here? Could he have benefited from
Speaker 1: beating someone like sammy'sz Ay, of course, but it was
Speaker 1: Saudi and Sammy wasn't losing, and Sammy is just at
Speaker 1: a level in the pecking order there that Carrying Cross
Speaker 1: is not. Not to mention the fact that Sammy was
Speaker 1: due to come back out to do a run in
Speaker 1: in the main event on this show, and Sammy is
Speaker 1: is in a way feuding with seth Rawlins and his crew,
Speaker 1: So I had no expectation carry and Cross actually winning
Speaker 1: this match here. But it was competitive enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a squash, It wasn't like Sammy beat
Speaker 1: him in four minutes or anything like that. I thought
Speaker 1: that this was a fine Raw match. There was nothing
Speaker 1: terribly exciting about it, but it was solid. They told
Speaker 1: a simple story. Was it a one and done? Or
Speaker 1: this is the real question coming out of this now,
Speaker 1: was it a one and done? Are they going to
Speaker 1: do more with Carry and Cross? He's getting good reactions, right,
Speaker 1: nothing overwhelming, but like when people see him, when they
Speaker 1: show him in these backstage segments on Raw. It's not
Speaker 1: like we have crickets. There are people who will come
Speaker 1: out on these shows and they don't react. That was
Speaker 1: the issue with Zelena Vega and she was the United
Speaker 1: States champion. She would come out and nobody would react.
Speaker 1: He's getting reactions when people see him. When he came
Speaker 1: out here, he got a really good reaction. So that
Speaker 1: tells me that there are people out there who do
Speaker 1: like the guy. They like something about him, They want
Speaker 1: to see him do well, they want to see him
Speaker 1: do more. Like there is that level of support for him,
Speaker 1: a certain level of support. I would hope that he
Speaker 1: doesn't just go back to catering to hang out backstage,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of creeping on people. With Ludwig Kaiser,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Kaiser at all over the last few
Speaker 1: months until Monday, And what did he do?
Speaker 2: He popped up.
Speaker 1: He was watching, he was in the background, in the shadows,
Speaker 1: he was watching. And that's the biggest thing he's done
Speaker 1: in like three or four months. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see Cross go back to just doing that. Right, There
Speaker 1: is something there. Explore it, do something with it, see
Speaker 1: where it goes, See if this is real or not.
Speaker 1: If the fans are really behind this guy, they will
Speaker 1: get behind him. And if they're not, then they won't
Speaker 1: be and he'll fall flat on his face. But at
Speaker 1: least try so. I hope they have something in mind
Speaker 1: for him coming out of this. What that is just
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this issue with Sammy's is going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, continuing out. Don't really see a reason for
Speaker 1: it too after this, But just do something. There's something there.
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Speaker 1: solom Monster. Jacob Fatu against Solo Socoa for the United
Speaker 1: States Championship. Like I said, we had one US title
Speaker 1: change this weekend in Riod, would we have another one?
Speaker 2: Solo entered alone no j C. Matteo.
Speaker 1: He retreated out to the floor early, so Jacob went
Speaker 1: out after him, and actually he launched himself off the
Speaker 1: ring steps with a clothesline, took Solo down. Back in
Speaker 1: the ring, a couple of running sentans and Jacob was
Speaker 1: going to go for the Mighty Moonsaw Solo. They'll rolled
Speaker 1: outside again and when Fatu went for a suicide dive,
Speaker 1: so cut him off with a punch. He had a
Speaker 1: spinning Solo on the ring apron, and then he had
Speaker 1: a spinning Solo on the floor. So now Solo was
Speaker 1: on offense instead of playing defense. Jacob briefly, this was
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Jacob is laying outside the ring and
Speaker 1: he like part of his body he crawled under the ring,
Speaker 1: like he stuck his head under the ring. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's he doing that? For and then came back out
Speaker 1: and the match went on. I'm like, somebody's under that ring,
Speaker 1: right and it a fucking hornswoggle.
Speaker 2: Somebody's under this ring. I pretty much knew who it was,
Speaker 2: been telling.
Speaker 1: You for weeks when we were going to see Hiccoleo,
Speaker 1: So that right there should have told you that there
Speaker 1: was someone underneath the ring. Back inside, Solo caught him
Speaker 1: with a running hip attack and then Sokoa took him
Speaker 1: to the mat with a rear naked choke. We got
Speaker 1: to rest for a little bit. How exciting. Fatu rallied
Speaker 1: back to his feet. He fired back until Solo dumped
Speaker 1: him on what looked like on top of his fucking
Speaker 1: head with an overhead belly to back suplex. Fatu though
Speaker 1: pop right up hit a German of his own, and
Speaker 1: then Fa Tou hit an impaler DDT and he headed
Speaker 1: up top and he hit a swanton pom.
Speaker 2: Kick out by Solo at two.
Speaker 1: So Jacob now is headed up to the top rope.
Speaker 1: Here comes j. C. Matteo comes down to the ring.
Speaker 1: This distracts the referee. All of a sudden, a man
Speaker 1: decked out in all black, in like an all black
Speaker 1: hoodie hits the ring to intercept Fatu, trip him up
Speaker 1: on the top rope, and then he drops him with
Speaker 1: a spinning neck breaker off the ropes. Right he gets
Speaker 1: in the ring and then he grabs Fatu spinning neck
Speaker 1: breaker and then he reveals himself. And I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my god, it's Tonga Loa. And
Speaker 1: the crowd seemed to recognize, like once they showed his face.
Speaker 1: They actually he did recognize who it was. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that they reacted big. I mean
Speaker 1: they reacted it's like, oh, it's him, so it's like
Speaker 1: they knew who it was. But yes, the Great Tangaloa
Speaker 1: is back. We have not seen him since War Games.
Speaker 1: We were told it's been quite some time. There was
Speaker 1: a Samoan spike after this by Solo Socoa. Jacob avoided it,
Speaker 1: hit a super kick, then he knocked JC Matteo off
Speaker 1: the apron and then he fell into Tongaloa on the
Speaker 1: floor and then Jacob Fatu comes off the ropes and
Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu hits a fucking Fosberry flop out over the
Speaker 1: top row and he wipes both men out on the floor.
Speaker 2: Very impressive.
Speaker 1: When we see Will Osprey doing a Fosberry flop in
Speaker 1: a match. To see Jacob fa Tu doing a Fosberry
Speaker 1: flop is just fucking insane. I was not expecting that
Speaker 1: in this man, but there it is. Back in the ring,
Speaker 1: Fatu hits a pop up Samo and drop to Sokoa.
Speaker 1: Jace Matteo gets back in the ring. Now the referee
Speaker 1: is seeing all of this, being very lenient here. As
Speaker 1: all of this is going on, Mateo eats a super kick.
Speaker 1: Mateo then eats a running hip attack. Fatu then heads
Speaker 1: up to the top and he hits the Mighty Moonsalt.
Speaker 1: The problem is there is no referee. Now I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here and I'm thinking, why is the referee not there?
Speaker 1: And we were told, oh, the referee is over with
Speaker 1: j C.
Speaker 2: Mitteo.
Speaker 1: I assume the referee went over to check on jac
Speaker 1: Mitteo because Jace Miteo was down and that jac didn't
Speaker 1: just grab the referee. And I'm thinking, well, this is
Speaker 1: incredibly stupid because Jace Matteo should not be any of
Speaker 1: his concern He is not part of this match. He's
Speaker 1: currently down and there is a championship match in progress.
Speaker 1: So the referee is busy checking up on somebody who
Speaker 1: isn't even part of the frickin' match. But that means
Speaker 1: there's no referee to count the fall and who should
Speaker 1: reach into the ring to pull Jacob Fatu outside. They
Speaker 1: never identified him by name, but it was Hickuleo he has.
Speaker 1: I could tell just by the hair, just by the
Speaker 1: permed hair. I knew right away exactly who it was.
Speaker 1: So they never identified him by name. Hicckuleo as a
Speaker 1: name is very likely a thing of the past. Michael
Speaker 1: Cole did mention though, that he's the brother of Tomatonga
Speaker 1: and tongaloa kind of He was tripping over his words
Speaker 1: as he tried to read from what very obviously was
Speaker 1: his script that he was trying to read from. Wade
Speaker 1: Barrett called him seven feet tall, seven feet tall. If
Speaker 1: he's seven feet tall, then I'm eight feet tall. He
Speaker 1: ain't no seven feet tall, especially what he is standing
Speaker 1: right next to Jacob Fatu, and he's just a little
Speaker 1: bit taller than Jacob Fatu. But of course it's wrestling,
Speaker 1: and so that's what they do. You have to exaggerate everything.
Speaker 1: So he went to go choke slam him onto the
Speaker 1: announced desk, the desk did not break. We can't even
Speaker 1: get a table break from a seven foot tall guy.
Speaker 2: Doing a choke slam.
Speaker 1: He threw fa Tu back in the ring, where Solo
Speaker 1: picked him up and delivered a Samo and spike.
Speaker 2: Blessed Jacob. He took this inside.
Speaker 1: Out I call it the Rakishi bump because he always
Speaker 1: used to take that bump, like back in the day
Speaker 1: when he was wrestling as Fatu, before there was a
Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu, we had Fatu. He would always do this
Speaker 1: inside out bump, like on a clothesline or something, so
Speaker 1: that's what he did for the spike. You've never seen
Speaker 1: someone bump for a Samo and spike like this before.
Speaker 1: And Solo covered him and pinned Jacob to win the
Speaker 1: United States Championship. As I said at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the stream, the bloodline has respawned. It is the faction
Speaker 1: that will never die. Solo Socoa claims his first championship
Speaker 1: here on the main roster. And I told you I
Speaker 1: told two weeks ago, even before people started talking about Hicculeo,
Speaker 1: I said, put the championship on Solo Soco. That's what
Speaker 1: I would do, That's what I thought they would do.
Speaker 1: Debut Hicculeo on this show. Let him be the new
Speaker 1: heavy for Sokoa. Let him factor into the finish. That
Speaker 1: way you protect Jacob. It's not like Solo is just
Speaker 1: you know, pinning him straight up. Obviously, he's going to
Speaker 1: need a shitload of support, which is what he had here.
Speaker 1: He had the support of three guys. It took four
Speaker 1: men to beat Jacob, thought to And so now Hicculeo, finally,
Speaker 1: after being mia for so long over a year, is
Speaker 1: now on the main roster. He's part of the bloodline.
Speaker 1: And I mean, think about it. We went from having
Speaker 1: two guys left in this group. It wasn't even a
Speaker 1: group anymore, and now they have doubled in size. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't even count Tomatonga, who also got hurt. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what the injury is, but he got
Speaker 1: hurt a few months ago. I think he may have
Speaker 1: had surgery. I'm not expecting to see him anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting to see Tangaloa either, but there he
Speaker 1: was there. But this also now gives something at least
Speaker 1: for Jimmy to do. You know, now Jimmy Uso at
Speaker 1: least has some kind of a direction on this show.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bury the lead here though I
Speaker 1: know we have a new champion and I know we
Speaker 1: have a new debut, but the real story here is
Speaker 1: the return of Tangaloa. This is going to change the
Speaker 1: game now on Friday nights, Tangaloa Fan. I have to
Speaker 1: assume Tangaloa Fan is with us in the chat, although
Speaker 1: his name may be different because all the names are
Speaker 1: fucked up. But I hope you're here. You're the first
Speaker 1: person I thought of, like at all seriousness. As soon
Speaker 1: as I saw Togaloa, I thought of you. I was
Speaker 1: very hap I was happy for you in the way
Speaker 1: that I was happy for Bliss Fan at the Rumble
Speaker 1: when we saw Alexa come out, because I just knew,
Speaker 1: I could feel, I could feel the happiness. So if
Speaker 1: nothing else, I am very happy for Tangaloa Fan. And
Speaker 1: I will say this much. If Tangaloa Fan is not
Speaker 1: here with us and we don't hear from him, we
Speaker 1: will know who Toangaloa Fan really was over these past
Speaker 1: several months. It will become very clear very quickly. As
Speaker 1: far as the match itself, solid match, nothing all that
Speaker 1: great here. The referee stuff at the end I thought
Speaker 1: was very dumb. You know, that would have been better
Speaker 1: having the referee get bumped honestly, instead of being made
Speaker 1: to look like a goofball, you know, just take like
Speaker 1: a small bump and then try to get their bearings
Speaker 1: about them so that they can't see what was going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes they just make the And this goes
Speaker 1: for both companies, Like, there are ways that you can
Speaker 1: have the referee taken out of the equation for a
Speaker 1: set period of time without making all of your referees
Speaker 1: just look like a bunch of incompetent geeks. And they
Speaker 1: do it in both companies and it's funny. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's intended to be funny, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's hilarious to me. But they just make them look
Speaker 1: so inept. And this was yet another one of those examples.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why you would do that when
Speaker 1: there are other ways that you could take the referee
Speaker 1: out of the picture so that they don't see what's
Speaker 1: going on, and then they recover and then they come
Speaker 1: back to count the fall.
Speaker 2: Solo winning was the right move.
Speaker 1: Though it was the right some people might not want
Speaker 1: to hear that, but solo Soko winning here was the
Speaker 1: right move. Now, let me mention this. I feel like
Speaker 1: and we had chance tonight during the show, including in
Speaker 1: the main event when Seth came out loud chance of OTC.
Speaker 1: People thought Roman Reigns was going to come out at
Speaker 1: the end of this show, and I've been thinking along
Speaker 1: the same lines of when do we see Roman Reigns back?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: When do we see Roman Reigns back? And when is
Speaker 1: he going to go after Seth? I thought maybe it
Speaker 1: would happen at Money in the Bank, didn't happen. Maybe
Speaker 1: we're looking at this the wrong way because Seth very
Speaker 1: clearly the issues with Seth and Punk are continuing. Maybe
Speaker 1: when Roman Reigns comes back, and I have to imagine
Speaker 1: that we'll see him in time to be on the
Speaker 1: Summer Slam card, although last year I guess he came
Speaker 1: back at SummerSlam, but I presume he'll have a match
Speaker 1: two nights of Summer Slam. Are you gotta have a
Speaker 1: Roman Rains match? Are we looking at this wrong? And
Speaker 1: is Roman Reign's gonna come back to be part of
Speaker 1: this story? I kind of hope not because it doesn't
Speaker 1: get me excited. I feel like we've already been down
Speaker 1: this road before with him and the bloodline, and I
Speaker 1: was kind of looking forward to getting him away from
Speaker 1: all that, even though he was really the most important
Speaker 1: part of the bloodline stuff. He was the bloodline for
Speaker 1: so many years. But you see what's going on here
Speaker 1: where Solo now is gaining new members of his army.
Speaker 1: We have Solo Socoa, TONGALOA Hicculeo, j C. Matteo, Toma Tongda.
Speaker 1: Maybe back in a few months, four or five guys
Speaker 1: on the other side, Jacob Fatu, Jimmy Uso. They're outnumbered,
Speaker 1: They're gonna need help. Is that where Roman Reigns comes
Speaker 1: in to play. Are we gearing up for a war
Speaker 1: Games match in November Solo's army against the other bloodline
Speaker 1: with Roman, Jacob and the usos. Is that what we're
Speaker 1: looking at here?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: I can't say that that gets me overly excited. But
Speaker 1: maybe maybe when Roman comes back, it's not a seth thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's still a bloodline thing, and some of us
Speaker 1: are just looking at this the wrong way. Let me
Speaker 1: know what you think. I don't know if that's something
Speaker 1: that people are actually excited about. I did, yes, Darth Panic,
Speaker 1: I did see that he's got that role. He got
Speaker 1: the role of Akuma in this street Fighter movie. I
Speaker 1: don't know when that movie begins filming, So, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't know when the movie begins filming. I suppose
Speaker 1: if it starts soon, maybe maybe he would miss Summer Slim.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: All of this is contingent upon his his movie schedule.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess that's the wild card here. It
Speaker 1: just feels to me like maybe that's what we're looking
Speaker 1: at here, because I'm looking at Jay Uso and wondering
Speaker 1: the same thing, Like Jay's out of the World title picture. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, it's time to move on
Speaker 1: and move on to whatever else is next. I certainly
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to Jay Uso and Gunther again.
Speaker 1: So then what do you do with Jay? You know
Speaker 1: what's next for him? And that's what made me think, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe they're going to get the band back together, but
Speaker 1: with Jacob this time. So Carol says filming starts in August. Well,
Speaker 1: summer slams at the beginning of August, so if filming
Speaker 1: doesn't start until later in August, he could be at
Speaker 1: summer Slim, I suppose, But if they're kicking off filming
Speaker 1: in August, then yeah, he's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Gone for a while.
Speaker 1: He's never around though, so like you could actually bring
Speaker 1: Roman back in time for summer, Slim, let him do
Speaker 1: whatever he's going to do. He probably would disappear after
Speaker 1: that anyway, if he only needs like a couple of
Speaker 1: months to go film it. Actually, it might not make
Speaker 1: a difference. It's not like he there every week. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen him since Wrestle Media. He might film an
Speaker 1: entire fucking movie and we wouldn't even know because he's
Speaker 1: never around. So it might not even matter. It might
Speaker 1: be fine. We have the Queen of the Ring finals
Speaker 1: between Jade Cargill and Oscar. Where as Wade Barrett calls
Speaker 1: her asca Asca, sounds like something Chris Jericho would ask
Speaker 1: the referee to do if he was ever in an
Speaker 1: intergender match.
Speaker 2: Asca Ascar. Jade was booed.
Speaker 1: Oscar was the clear fan favorite here and Oscar carried
Speaker 1: most of this match. Don't be surprise you heard it
Speaker 1: here first. Don't be surprised if you read reports tomorrow
Speaker 1: that Oscar has a bad back because of how much
Speaker 1: weight she had to carry. Here In this match, Oscar
Speaker 1: kept targeting the leg, Jade kept fighting her off. Jade
Speaker 1: hit a fallaway slam in a chokes lamb for two.
Speaker 1: Oscar responded with a code breaker and a missile drop
Speaker 1: kick for two of her own. Jade ducked a kick
Speaker 1: and hit a sit out power bomb. Then she fought
Speaker 1: out of an arm bar. She hit a big boot,
Speaker 1: Oscar avoided a Jaded attempt, went for an Oscar Locke Cargil,
Speaker 1: though rolled out of it. Oscar went for a running
Speaker 1: hip attack, which is her new finishing move, right they
Speaker 1: call it the Empress Impact.
Speaker 2: Is that the new move for it? I believe Empress impact?
Speaker 1: Well, she went for the Empress Impact and it didn't
Speaker 1: work because as she came off the ropes and tried
Speaker 1: to shoot her ass into Jade's face, Jade caught her
Speaker 1: and hit Jaded to win the crown. And Jade botched
Speaker 1: the pin as well. And you know how when she
Speaker 1: hits Jaded, she sits on her opponent, hooks the leg
Speaker 1: backwards right, That's usually how she pins her opponent. She
Speaker 1: sat back so far that she actually fell over and
Speaker 1: it looked like Oscar's shoulder in doing so. She may
Speaker 1: have pulled Oscar's shoulder up off the mat. It was
Speaker 1: hard to tell because we didn't get a camera angle
Speaker 1: from that side where we could actually see Oscar's shoulder,
Speaker 1: So I can't say for sure that that's what happened here,
Speaker 1: but that's what it looked like. So yeah, even the
Speaker 1: actual finish of the match kind of get botched up
Speaker 1: a little bit there. I mean, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: you know, botch a move or be unsure of yourself,
Speaker 1: but to screw up the pin is not great. So
Speaker 1: she was presented with the crown in the ring after
Speaker 1: she was interviewed by Byron Saxton. She told people who
Speaker 1: felt down, you gotta fight through it, fight through the booze,
Speaker 1: show people who you are. She said, a storm is
Speaker 1: coming at SummerSlam. This was a very flat match with
Speaker 1: a very flat ending. It's very awkward ending. What was
Speaker 1: bad about it is it felt like people weren't expecting
Speaker 1: that to be the finish. She hit her finish, so
Speaker 1: I don't know why people wouldn't have expected it, but
Speaker 1: there was like no reaction. It was just that awkward
Speaker 1: reaction like you've seen matches where the pin feels like
Speaker 1: it comes out of nowhere and people like don't know
Speaker 1: how to react to it. That's what this felt like.
Speaker 1: Even though she had just hit her finishing move, people
Speaker 1: they didn't want that, clearly, they didn't want that to
Speaker 1: be the finish. So just everything about this just did
Speaker 1: not click. Osca did what she could Jade. You know,
Speaker 1: she had a few spots here and there, but she
Speaker 1: thing with Jade, and I noticed it here and sometimes
Speaker 1: she hides it. Well, it's not like every match Jade
Speaker 1: Cargill has is a terrible match, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to singles matches, she's still a novice at this right.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's been doing it for a little bit now,
Speaker 1: but it's not like she has all of this experience
Speaker 1: where I'm expecting her to go out there and be,
Speaker 1: you know, the top technical talent in the division or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But I noticed to hear where she
Speaker 1: looks very tentative, like she's thinking too hard about.
Speaker 2: What she has to do next.
Speaker 1: Just a vibe I get, you know, by watching her
Speaker 1: very very telegraphed in that way, and Okay, what do
Speaker 1: I have to do now or what position do I
Speaker 1: have to be in? And it just makes some of
Speaker 1: these matches very awkward. So I mean, Oscar has looked
Speaker 1: good since she came back.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: She was out for thirteen months, right, she was out hurt,
Speaker 1: and so far we've seen Oscar now in three matches
Speaker 1: since she's come back, and she's looked good, you know,
Speaker 1: in all of those matches. So that's good Naomi, though
Speaker 1: Naomi did not. I thought Naomi was going to cash
Speaker 1: in last night on SmackDown.
Speaker 2: I really did.
Speaker 1: I thought she was going to cash in at the
Speaker 1: end of that last woman's Standing match. She tried to,
Speaker 1: she teased, it didn't happen. Jade now is going to
Speaker 1: SummerSlam to challenge for the WWE Women's Championship, which is
Speaker 1: currently held by Tiffany Stratton, and I presume, I presume
Speaker 1: nothing will change between now and then. It will probably
Speaker 1: be Tiffany against Jade. If Naomi is going to cash
Speaker 1: in or try to cash in, cashing in during Jade's match,
Speaker 1: or cashing in on Jade after Jade wins the title.
Speaker 1: If she wins the title, that seems like the most
Speaker 1: likely destination here. There is a question though, of would
Speaker 1: they put the title on Naomi before SummerSlam and do
Speaker 1: the match at SummerSlam, Naomi defending against Jade. Jade has
Speaker 1: to beat Naomi to win the championship, which she already
Speaker 1: did at WrestleMania she beat Naomi. The idea that I
Speaker 1: floated a couple weeks ago was why not have Naomi
Speaker 1: cash in before SummerSlam, right like last night, win the championship,
Speaker 1: Jade wins Queen of the Ring. We get Naomi against Jade,
Speaker 1: and in that match, Bianca bell Air returns and Beyonca
Speaker 1: bell Air goes heel. That to me would be kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. I would just love to see a Bianca
Speaker 1: Belair heel turn. I don't know if they're actually going
Speaker 1: to do it or not, but she's been a babyface
Speaker 1: for so long. I think she would kill it as
Speaker 1: a heel, and then you can re you know, her
Speaker 1: and Naomi, and I don't know if they would reveal
Speaker 1: that she was in on.
Speaker 2: It all along with the attack.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to do that, but that
Speaker 1: still is an idea that intrigues me, and you could
Speaker 1: still do it, but Naomi would have to cash in
Speaker 1: sometime before SummerSlam.
Speaker 2: Evolution.
Speaker 1: We have an all women's pay per view coming up
Speaker 1: on July thirteenth. I don't know what Tiffany Stratton is
Speaker 1: going to be doing on that show. We may get
Speaker 1: a money in the bank cash in at Evolution, So
Speaker 1: don't count out the possibility that Naomi may not be
Speaker 1: the one defending against Jade at SummerSlam. If she is,
Speaker 1: I think that increases the chances of a Bianchi heeltern exponentially.
Speaker 2: I do. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill is walking out of SummerSlam as the champion.
Speaker 1: She may win the title at SummerSlam, but she ain't
Speaker 1: leaving MetLife Stadium with that belt, whether she beats Tiffany
Speaker 1: or not. Let's talk about this main event. It was
Speaker 1: for the w UWE Undisputed Championship. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: so undisputed about it, because again, we have two world titles.
Speaker 1: I still think it's kind of funny they call it
Speaker 1: the undisputed WWE Championship, but whatever, that's what they call it.
Speaker 1: And that's what was on the line here and very
Speaker 1: likely here the last time that we are ever going
Speaker 1: to see these two men in the ring together one
Speaker 1: on one. It was John Cena defending his title against cmpunk,
Speaker 1: first time that they have worked a singles match together
Speaker 1: in twelve years, so the same thing as Cody and Randy.
Speaker 1: That was the last time before this show that Cody
Speaker 1: and Randy had worked the match together. We got basic
Speaker 1: punkinomics on SmackDown last night. I talked extensively about this
Speaker 1: segment during the SmackDown review and what I thought about
Speaker 1: it and the secondhand embarrassment that I had watching him
Speaker 1: come out there dressed up, and maybe that was the intent.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was just it was it was entertaining, but it
Speaker 1: was entertaining in a so bad, it's good way. That
Speaker 1: was my take on the entire segment. Of course, I
Speaker 1: think that this guy here looks a lot better.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 1: This is basic solo nomics that you see see a
Speaker 1: little Mets logan there. I like this guy a lot better,
Speaker 1: and he is drug free. We got a thunderous reaction
Speaker 1: for CM Punk's entrance when he came out to the ring.
Speaker 1: He got into the ring, he sat cross legged in
Speaker 1: the center of the ring like he did it Money
Speaker 1: in the Bank in twenty eleven, and the building was
Speaker 1: very loud, and then they hit John Cena's music and
Speaker 1: they exploded again. They sang John Cena sucks on his
Speaker 1: way to the ring. We got the big match intros
Speaker 1: from Mark Nash. He introduced Punk, then he introduced the champion.
Speaker 1: The bell rang, the fireflies were out with their phones.
Speaker 1: They were making noise, they were flashing their phones around.
Speaker 1: It did have a big fight feel to it. We
Speaker 1: talked about like a big main event, big fight feel.
Speaker 1: It did have that. At the beginning here Punk lifted
Speaker 1: him up for a GTS. Sena slipped out, rolled to
Speaker 1: the floor a little too close for comfort for him.
Speaker 1: He got back in the ring. Punk went for something.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what he was trying to do.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was like an octopus that he
Speaker 1: was going for. Sena ended up with Punk on his
Speaker 1: shoulders for an attitude adjustment. He kind of maneuvered him
Speaker 1: onto his shoulders forward awkwardly, Punk slipped out, close lined
Speaker 1: him down. Punk tried for the move again, and at
Speaker 1: this point Wade Barrett said that it looked like he
Speaker 1: was taking a page out of aj Lee's playbook, And
Speaker 1: I said, I see, he certainly wasn't applying the hold
Speaker 1: as well as aj Lee used to do it, but
Speaker 1: I guess that is what he was going for.
Speaker 2: At least he tried.
Speaker 1: I thought of the Bart Simpson cake meme. At least
Speaker 1: you tried. He tried.
Speaker 2: He didn't do a very good job with it, but
Speaker 2: he tried.
Speaker 1: Sina hit the shoulder tackles, Punk got up and took
Speaker 1: a swing. Sena ducked it, scooped him up, slammed him down.
Speaker 1: Five knuckle shuffle connects. Here comes the attitude adjustment. Punk
Speaker 1: slips out and he connects with a heel kick, then
Speaker 1: a neck breaker by CM Punk, followed by the running
Speaker 1: knee in the corner, and then he heads up top
Speaker 1: for the not so randy savage elbow. He gives the
Speaker 1: GTS signal he hoists, Sena up for it. Sina, though,
Speaker 1: grabs his leg on the way down, punks that is,
Speaker 1: and he locks in the STF. Punk got out of it.
Speaker 1: Sina got him up though, hits an attitude adjustment only
Speaker 1: for a two count, so we got another attitude adjustment
Speaker 1: attempt a short time later, but Punk foiled it, drops
Speaker 1: him with a DDT and then Punk locks on an
Speaker 1: STF and Sina grabs the bottom rope for the break.
Speaker 1: Sena stuffed a running bulldog attempt and then pled Punk
Speaker 1: right on the ri odd season logo in the center
Speaker 1: of the ring.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just felt kind of appropriate.
Speaker 1: Here we got another attitude adjustment and another kickout by Cmpunk.
Speaker 1: Seena places Punk on the top rope. At this point,
Speaker 1: he climbs up with him and he's going to try
Speaker 1: for a super AA from the middle rope. Punk fights
Speaker 1: him off, though. Punk then flies off the top with
Speaker 1: a crossbody and John Cena rolls through with him, just
Speaker 1: like in their Money in the Bank match. I remember
Speaker 1: all of the key spots. I love that match. The
Speaker 1: twenty eleven Money in the Bank match is one of
Speaker 1: the best matches in WWE history. I mean just the
Speaker 1: atmosphere for just everything about that match clicked. Everything about
Speaker 1: that match was just magic. And so when they were
Speaker 1: doing certain things, whether it was him sitting in the
Speaker 1: ring cross legged looking at the aisle waiting for seeing
Speaker 1: his music to hit right, that was I'm sure a
Speaker 1: callback to twenty eleven, just the way they shot that.
Speaker 1: Even this move here where he came off the hot
Speaker 1: for the crossbody. Sna rolled through just like they did
Speaker 1: in that match, but Sina muscles him up onto his
Speaker 1: shoulders for another attitude adjustment and this was the third
Speaker 1: one of the match. Another pinfall attempt, Punk kicks out.
Speaker 1: So now Sena locks his sights on the WWE Championship
Speaker 1: outside because he's done three attitude adjustments. He has thrown
Speaker 1: everything that he can here at this man, nothing is working,
Speaker 1: and so he looks out to the title, which is
Speaker 1: sitting on the podium outside. So he goes outside and
Speaker 1: he retrieves the title. He brings it into the ring
Speaker 1: with him and he's gonna blast Punk with it. And
Speaker 1: we've seen him do this in multiple matches here since
Speaker 1: he won a WrestleMania. Now he's standing there and the referee,
Speaker 1: of course, is warning him that you'll be disqualified, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't give a fuck because he'll still be the champion.
Speaker 1: So he's warning him, don't do it, you'll be dcut.
Speaker 1: And the fans also don't want him to do it either,
Speaker 1: and Sena has a look on his face like he
Speaker 1: is contemplating things, and John Cena chooses to throw the
Speaker 1: championship out of the ring. He thinks better of it,
Speaker 1: he doesn't do it. He throws the title away, so
Speaker 1: he picks Punk up for an AA. Punk slips out
Speaker 1: and delivers a GTS and he covers him, he gets one,
Speaker 1: he gets two, Sena kicks out, So Sena having a
Speaker 1: crisis of conscience here seeing another seed planted. And there
Speaker 1: was something that he did at backlash, as I recall
Speaker 1: as well, that was kind of I think it was
Speaker 1: after the match was over with Orton, where he had
Speaker 1: a look on his face like maybe he was sort
Speaker 1: of contemplating what he had done.
Speaker 2: These are little hints.
Speaker 1: These are little easter eggs that are being dropped for
Speaker 1: what is eventually going to be coming, for that inevitable
Speaker 1: baby face turn. So we got the Ya Boose spot.
Speaker 1: They traded shots back and forth. Shoulder tackle by Sena.
Speaker 1: He goes for a second shoulder tackle, Punk avoids it
Speaker 1: and instead Sena accidentally collides with referee Dan Engler shoulder
Speaker 1: tackles him. Angler ends up on the floor outside the ring.
Speaker 1: So Punk delivers at GTS. He has seen it covered,
Speaker 1: he's got the visual pin. There's no referee to count.
Speaker 1: So Punk gets up and he goes over to the
Speaker 1: ropes and he looks outside and he sees Dan Engler
Speaker 1: out there, all laid out, unconscious. So he waves for
Speaker 1: another referee to come on down, but he doesn't get
Speaker 1: another referee. Instead, he gets seth Rollin's music and outwalks
Speaker 1: mister Money in the bank with Paul Haman, bron Breaker
Speaker 1: and Bronson Reed, and they take their sweet time. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's got a referee with him. He's running
Speaker 1: down to the ring. There's no referee with them, and
Speaker 1: they take their time walking down to the ring. Rollin
Speaker 1: slowly takes his glasses off, takes his jacket off. Hayman
Speaker 1: hands him the briefcase. Punk is in the ring watching
Speaker 1: all this, and he's squaring up for a fight. Rollin
Speaker 1: summons Breaker and Read into the ring, and Punk clotheslines
Speaker 1: bron Breaker out to the floor. He sidesteps a charging
Speaker 1: Bronson Reed, who goes flying through the ropes to the floor.
Speaker 1: Punk does a slingshot dive out of the ring. He
Speaker 1: was trying to dive out onto both of them. He
Speaker 1: overshot the dive. He overshot the dive, almost killed himself,
Speaker 1: but he was okay. And then the two of them
Speaker 1: grab Punk and the idea was, ok he's gonna jump up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick him up for a choke slamb put
Speaker 1: him through the table. They didn't get their timing right
Speaker 1: when they were trying to get him up, Punk I
Speaker 1: think went to go jump too soon, so they basically
Speaker 1: had to kind of muscle him up a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, and he didn't.
Speaker 1: He barely even went up, and they chokes lamming through
Speaker 1: the table. Anyway, in the ring rollin summons a referee.
Speaker 1: Here comes Charles Robinson and as I'm watching him run
Speaker 1: down to the ring, he's sprinting down to the ring.
Speaker 1: I am reminded of him sprinting down that long aisle
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania twenty four during the main event between Edge
Speaker 1: and the Undertaker. And that was in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: That was almost twenty years ago. And this man is
Speaker 1: still out there. Man, he's still out there doing the things,
Speaker 1: still charging down, sprinting down to the ring. Man, God
Speaker 1: blessed little Nature. Everything I ever hear about that guy.
Speaker 1: One of the nicest guys in all of wrestling. You
Speaker 1: would never know he's as old as he is. You
Speaker 1: know he's getting up there. But here he is again
Speaker 1: in this main event, in this title match, at a
Speaker 1: critical moment, sprinting down to the ring. He doesn't even
Speaker 1: make it inside. When he gets down to ringside. John Cena.
Speaker 1: He sideswipes him and knocks him to the ground. Scena
Speaker 1: gets and the fans popped when they realize that Sena
Speaker 1: has just foiled this cash in attempt. Seena gets into
Speaker 1: the ring and he confronts Rollins. Rollins tries to hit
Speaker 1: him with the briefcase. Sena ducts it delivers an attitude adjustment.
Speaker 1: So now here comes Bron Breaker and Bronson Reid. They
Speaker 1: get into the ring. They attacked John Sena. Then we
Speaker 1: hear that this is where things got a little weird
Speaker 1: because we hear Penta's music. The last thing I was
Speaker 1: expecting to hear other than Joe Hendry's music here in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. I hear Penta's music. I'm like fucking Pana.
Speaker 1: And so out comes Penta. He doesn't run down to
Speaker 1: the ring or anything. They show Bron Breaker in the
Speaker 1: ring and Bron's like, yeah, fuck this. He gets out
Speaker 1: of the ring and he goes to catch up with
Speaker 1: Penta on the ramp. He goes after him. Penta delivers
Speaker 1: some kicks. Breaker though, ends up picking him up and
Speaker 1: he dumps him down on the ramp. Now we hear
Speaker 1: Sammy z Ain's music. Sammy runs out to Pentas eight.
Speaker 1: He fights off Breaker and they end up off the ramp,
Speaker 1: and now they're kind of they're on the floor, but
Speaker 1: on the side of the stage. They haven't gone backstage,
Speaker 1: but they've worked their way to the side of the
Speaker 1: stage on the floor. And then we have a camera there.
Speaker 1: We look up and we see Penta and you can
Speaker 1: see he's waiting for his moment, right, and he gets
Speaker 1: their attention, and Penta does a big dive off the ramp,
Speaker 1: off the stage onto both men, so all three.
Speaker 2: Of them are down.
Speaker 1: Back in the ring, Bronson Reid is going up for
Speaker 1: a tsunami to John Cena. Punk though got back up
Speaker 1: on the apron. He shoved Reid off the top rope.
Speaker 1: Sena gets Bronson Reid up for an attitude adjustment. And
Speaker 1: so he may be a lot older than he used
Speaker 1: to be when he was picking guys like this up right,
Speaker 1: think of those WrestleMania matches with you know, Big Show,
Speaker 1: and think of all the guys he's picked up.
Speaker 2: On his shoulders over the years.
Speaker 1: And he could still do it, you know, Bronson Reid.
Speaker 1: I will say Bronton Reid, though he slimmed down when
Speaker 1: he came back from the injury. He's definitely a little
Speaker 1: bit smaller. I mean he looks as far as the
Speaker 1: shape that he's in, right, he's in great shape, but
Speaker 1: he's definitely a little slimmer than he used to be,
Speaker 1: but still a very big man. And Sina picks him
Speaker 1: up on his shoulders and he delivers an attitude adjustment.
Speaker 1: Reid rolls out to the floor. And so now we're
Speaker 1: back to Sena and Punk. We're back to one on
Speaker 1: one between these two and they're staring each other down
Speaker 1: and the crowd is is, you know, loud and starting
Speaker 1: an olaola chant. Punk extends his hand for a handshake,
Speaker 1: Sena accepts it and the two of them embrace, and
Speaker 1: then the camera zooms in on John Cena's face and
Speaker 1: it's a very similar look on his face to the
Speaker 1: one that he flashed when he hugged Cody at the
Speaker 1: elimination chamber and the uh what does Punk call him?
Speaker 1: The bald fraud gave the cutthroat sign and we all
Speaker 1: know what came next. So sure enough, he tried the
Speaker 1: same thing here to see m Punk went for a
Speaker 1: dick kick. Punk was ready for it, blocked it. Here
Speaker 1: comes to go to sleep, Sina slips out, Rollins is
Speaker 1: back in. He's got the briefcase. He blasts CM Punk
Speaker 1: in the head with the money in the bank briefcase.
Speaker 1: Then he delivers a stomp to seem Punk and then
Speaker 1: Sina grabs Rollins and throws him out of the ring
Speaker 1: and cover CM Punk Magically. Referee Dan Engler is back
Speaker 1: at exactly the right moment, how fortunate for John Cena
Speaker 1: and Dan Engler counts the one, two three, and John
Speaker 1: Cena pins Cmpunk just as he did the last time
Speaker 1: they were in the ring together in twenty thirteen. That
Speaker 1: was when John Cena earned the right to meet the
Speaker 1: Rock again at WrestleMania and won the WWE Championship back.
Speaker 1: John Cena retains the title here in a very very
Speaker 1: overbooked win in this main event. Let me tell you what,
Speaker 1: I was glad that we did not get here. I
Speaker 1: was very happy that there was no Travis Scott. I
Speaker 1: still feel like we're gonna he's gonna pop up or
Speaker 1: they're gonna do you know, we've heard about like a
Speaker 1: celebrity tag match. You know, like I'm still like fearing
Speaker 1: for my life here that there's still we're not done
Speaker 1: with this Travis Scott thing. I'm pretty sure I have
Speaker 1: PTSD post traumatic Scott syndrome. I just feel like at
Speaker 1: any moment, I'm gonna hear fiend and he's gonna come out.
Speaker 1: So thankfully we didn't get Travis Scott here. We also
Speaker 1: didn't get a dick kick, No kick to the dick
Speaker 1: to end this match. We've seen that a few times
Speaker 1: with John Cena as well. That would have been super lame.
Speaker 1: So that's good. But they felt the need to overbook
Speaker 1: this because they wanted to protect Cmpunk. They wanted to
Speaker 1: protect Cmpunk and Cmpunk still has a blood feud, still
Speaker 1: has a story going with Seth Rollins. So how can
Speaker 1: we protect Punk in a way where he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to take a direct loss, but it'll throw some more
Speaker 1: gasoline on the fire between him and Seth Rollins. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll have Seth try to cash in and it goes
Speaker 1: sideways and in the end it ends up screwing Cmpunk
Speaker 1: out of the championship. That's what they did here. So
Speaker 1: they overbooked it, Yes they did. There are times where
Speaker 1: you know you will have a match that is overbooked
Speaker 1: and it makes sense. I mentioned WrestleMania last year, right,
Speaker 1: the Avengers.
Speaker 2: Endgame of WWE.
Speaker 1: I knew going into that WrestleMania, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: an overbook fucking main event, right, But it was fun
Speaker 1: as all hell. I knew it going in. It was
Speaker 1: exactly what I expected it to be, and it was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The main event in a few
Speaker 1: weeks at all in if it goes the way that
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna go, we'll probably also be an
Speaker 1: overbooked main event. And I don't know who's gonna come
Speaker 1: out on the winning end there. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: who I want to come in out on the winning end.
Speaker 1: That will be overbooked too, But if it's done the
Speaker 1: right way, that could be a lot of fun as well.
Speaker 1: So there is overbooking that makes sense. One thing about
Speaker 1: what they did here, you can't say it didn't make sense, right.
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins wanted to cash in his money in the bank, right,
Speaker 1: You can cash in on whatever championship you want. It
Speaker 1: could be the world title, it could be the WWE title.
Speaker 1: He was electing to go after the WWE title and
Speaker 1: at the same time do it in a way that
Speaker 1: screwed his most hated rival out of winning the championships
Speaker 1: like killing two birds with one stone, right, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Penta coming out weird, but Penta has had his issues
Speaker 1: recently with Seth's group. Sammy's Ain has had his issues
Speaker 1: with Seth Rollins and his crew, and they realized that
Speaker 1: Punk is about to get screwed here, so they take
Speaker 1: it upon themselves to come out to try to do
Speaker 1: something about it, to try to at least make it
Speaker 1: a level playing field.
Speaker 2: You can't say that it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: You could say that you think it's stupid and you
Speaker 1: would rather not see them do it, but at least
Speaker 1: it made sense, like the people who came out and
Speaker 1: why they were coming out, right. We had this on
Speaker 1: RAW a few weeks ago. We had this on RAW
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when we had pent him, we
Speaker 1: had La Knight right, he came out. I forgot what
Speaker 1: the match was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't jay Uso and gunther Man.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the match was, but it made sense,
Speaker 1: So I get why they did what they did. I
Speaker 1: get them wanting to protect Punk and not wanting, you know,
Speaker 1: John Cena to just kick him in.
Speaker 2: The dick and pin him in the middle of the
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Like I understand all that, But now I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I would be lying if I told you I wasn't
Speaker 1: at least a little bit disappointed that in what is
Speaker 1: going to likely be it for John c and c
Speaker 1: I'm punk we had this whole overbook mess here, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of this match. But I thought what
Speaker 1: we got from punkin Sena was good outside of everything
Speaker 1: else that I just talked about, I thought it was good.
Speaker 1: It was not at the level of their past matches.
Speaker 1: They're both a lot older, They're not the same performer
Speaker 1: they were in twenty eleven or twenty thirteen. I get
Speaker 1: that John Cena is very limited in what he can do.
Speaker 1: What we got here was attitude adjustment, go to sleep,
Speaker 1: attitude adjustment, go to sleep. Attitude adjustment, go to sleep,
Speaker 1: attitude adjustment, go to sleep. There is a point in
Speaker 1: some of these matches where you just kind of hit
Speaker 1: that moment it's likeugh, enough already, and we did hit
Speaker 1: that moment at one point during this match. For me,
Speaker 1: it was just like an overreliance on that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: you know, to try to cover for the fact that
Speaker 1: you know they're they're limited, I guess in what they
Speaker 1: can do so that aspect of it was not great,
Speaker 1: but I thought the actual match.
Speaker 2: Between them was it was good. It was good.
Speaker 1: It was not you know, the magic necessarily that they
Speaker 1: had once upon a time. But there is still a
Speaker 1: chemistry there between the two of them that isn't going
Speaker 1: to be there with John Cena and a lot of
Speaker 1: other people. I'll tell you two people who didn't seem
Speaker 1: to have it at wrestle Many this year, Cody Rhoades
Speaker 1: in John Cena.
Speaker 2: And now that we know that we're.
Speaker 1: Getting Cody and Sena again at SummerSlam, I can only
Speaker 1: hope that they go in there and have a match
Speaker 1: that blows what they did in April out of the water,
Speaker 1: because I don't think I saw anybody nobody whose opinion
Speaker 1: I take seriously anyway, But even the people I heard
Speaker 1: from here when we did the review that night, like
Speaker 1: nobody liked that match, right. It was not a good match.
Speaker 1: It was not a fun match, It was not really entertaining.
Speaker 1: It was a dud. And so we've had so many
Speaker 1: matches since that night. Two WrestleMania main event this year.
Speaker 1: You could look at Backlash, you could look at what
Speaker 1: we had here, you could look at this match. You
Speaker 1: can look at Cody and jay Uso on Raw Monday Night.
Speaker 1: You can look at Gunther and Jayuso two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: There were so many matches that you would look at
Speaker 1: and go, man, this was better than the night too.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania main event. Well, guess what, We're running it back
Speaker 1: again in August, and I certainly hope this time they
Speaker 1: have something better planned. Whatever the outcome of the match
Speaker 1: is going to be, whether there's a cash in or not,
Speaker 1: I hope those two go in there and don't stink
Speaker 1: out the joint. I can't say those two have chemistry
Speaker 1: in the way that Punk and Sena did. I hope
Speaker 1: they can find it. Because now we know what the
Speaker 1: main event is going to be at SummerSlam. It will
Speaker 1: be John Cena defending against Cody Roads. We are getting
Speaker 1: that wrestle Media rematch. I think we all knew it
Speaker 1: was coming. Some people thought maybe it would come at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. They would have seen a
Speaker 1: run all the way to December as the champion. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's what's gonna happen. I still feel like
Speaker 1: you need time to get that title off of him
Speaker 1: and tell the story of him reverting back to being
Speaker 1: a babyface, not simply losing the championship in Boston in
Speaker 1: December and then going okay, handshake, see you guys. There's
Speaker 1: more story to be told. They've really done a very
Speaker 1: poor job so far with Sina with this heel to
Speaker 1: Its very clear they had no plan for this whole
Speaker 1: thing that they've done with him, and it all goes
Speaker 1: back to the bullshited elimination chamber with the Rock. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the original plan was going to be
Speaker 1: for John Cena before they came up with this whole idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the idea was we're gonna have
Speaker 1: him win as a babyface or WrestleMania. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the idea was, well, we'll have him win the
Speaker 1: championship and win number seventeen as a babyface, but it'll
Speaker 1: be at SummerSlam. We'll have him fail at wrestle Media.
Speaker 1: It was the idea that I pitched, have him fail
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. Doubt himself. Maybe I don't have it anymore right,
Speaker 1: and he has to earn his way back into title contention.
Speaker 1: You could have done Sena and Gunther. You could have
Speaker 1: did Seena in anybody, but he wins number seventeen later
Speaker 1: in the year. I don't know what Triple H and
Speaker 1: the creative team were going to do before they came
Speaker 1: up with this wonderful idea to turn John Cena heel
Speaker 1: in the way that they did no real follow up plan,
Speaker 1: but it has been largely a bust. You can find
Speaker 1: select segments here and there, especially in the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: I know people enjoyed like the pipe bomb two point
Speaker 1: zero a couple of weeks ago. You can find like moments,
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry this heel turned this Everything they've done
Speaker 1: with him basically has been a fucking bust up to
Speaker 1: this point. You need time to tell the story the
Speaker 1: right way. John Cena is not going to go out
Speaker 1: as a fucking heel when he spent the majority of
Speaker 1: his career as a babyface, because that would be stupid.
Speaker 1: You need time for him to lose the championship, find himself,
Speaker 1: get back in the good graces of the fans, and
Speaker 1: go out the right way. SummerSlam feels like the right
Speaker 1: time for him to drop that title, because if at
Speaker 1: Summer Slam, what are we looking at. We're looking at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, right He's not gonna retain
Speaker 1: at Summer Slam and then lose it in Paris at
Speaker 1: the end of August.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't lose it to Cody at SummerSlam, I
Speaker 1: fear like we're going until the end of the year,
Speaker 1: We're going to Survivor Series, or we're going to you know,
Speaker 1: to December, and he's gonna drop it there. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a mistake. Then you shift over to
Speaker 1: Punk and Rollins. What is Punk going to do going
Speaker 1: into Summer Slam, because I knew he wasn't gonna win
Speaker 1: the championship here. You could build to punkin Gunther for
Speaker 1: the world title if you really wanted to, But they've
Speaker 1: done absolutely nothing in that direction.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's all about Gunther and Goldberg for the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: It looks like we're heading for another punkin Rollins match,
Speaker 1: and maybe the play here is that they wrestle on
Speaker 1: one night. Punk gets, you know, his win over Seth
Speaker 1: and his revenge, and Punk gets his revenge by cashing
Speaker 1: at his money in the bank the next night because
Speaker 1: he got two nights of Summer Slim this year. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I will say this, it feels to
Speaker 1: me like these two guys have been feuding from the
Speaker 1: moment Punk came back to the company two years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just been Rollin's in Punk, Punk and Rollins.
Speaker 1: And how much longer do you want to stretch this
Speaker 1: out for? If you f CM Punk go to Summer
Speaker 1: Slim and beat Seth Rollins, and Seth Rollins ends up
Speaker 1: cashing in his money at the bank and becoming champion. Anyway,
Speaker 1: does Punk then chase Rollins to win the title? Are
Speaker 1: we really going to run this into twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like people are ready to move
Speaker 1: on from this and they're ready for Punk to do
Speaker 1: something else, you know, But here we are, We're right
Speaker 1: back to him and Rollins again.
Speaker 2: So I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, I don't know what the play is here. You
Speaker 1: got Saturday Night's main event coming up. You could do
Speaker 1: Rollins and Punk on that show. But if he doesn't
Speaker 1: wrestle Rollins at Summer Slim, I don't know what he does.
Speaker 1: He certainly has good reason to want to get, you know,
Speaker 1: his head on a platter after what happened here on
Speaker 1: this show. That feels to me like the Summer Sligh match.
Speaker 1: But at least the pieces are starting to fall into place.
Speaker 1: We now know what our main event is going to
Speaker 1: be at MetLife. It's going to be Sena, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Cody. Whether or not we get a cash in
Speaker 1: on that show or sometime before, I guess we'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. Some people think, so that's going
Speaker 1: to cash in during Goldberg and Gunther.
Speaker 2: You know, for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that doesn't mean that people think Goldberg
Speaker 1: is going to win the world title. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be hearing about that. You can shut right up
Speaker 1: with that. Let's take a look at the Twitter pool.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Night of Champions Here from
Speaker 1: Riodd seventy three percent thumbs up for this show, twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent thumbs down and that is with almost sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred votes in and counting. So go ahead, thumbs up,
Speaker 1: thumbs down. Let me know what you thought of the show.
Speaker 1: We can get into your super chats here. We did
Speaker 1: hit the likes goal. We didn't hit the bonus goal,
Speaker 1: but we hit the like skull. So we'll be doing
Speaker 1: the one round of be the Booker here in a
Speaker 1: little bit, So be the Booker on a Saturday evening.
Speaker 1: It's never a bad thing. Thank you guys for spending
Speaker 1: time with me. Of course, we have the podcast tomorrow
Speaker 1: as well. Episode nine to eighteen of the SoundOff. There's
Speaker 1: penta pop it up on screen, so it's seventy three percent.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Yeah, I'm not. I don't
Speaker 2: believe this to be a seventy three.
Speaker 1: Percent thumbs up show, but they certainly are entitled to
Speaker 1: their opinion if that's how they felt about the show.
Speaker 2: This was a very middle of the road show.
Speaker 1: I've seen worse, but I've also seen a lot better.
Speaker 2: Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: Luis Wow, Luis is actually first in Q for the
Speaker 1: first time. Here with these super chats five dollars Night
Speaker 1: of Champions more like lunchtime of Champions. The lunchtime at
Speaker 1: the bank joke I made two years ago has gotten
Speaker 1: old very fast. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna admit to
Speaker 1: you that I don't remember the joke. I believe you
Speaker 1: that you told it, but I don't remember it. Dry
Speaker 1: Chicken says, it's a super It's it's a super hot.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dry Chicken. I got a chance to watch
Speaker 1: smack Down on USA last night. I'm glad the extra
Speaker 1: cameras were able to capture the Cody and Randy segment. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm glad see I'm Punk became Gangsta Phil One Bill
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Speaker 1: Aaron thoughts on sena Cody double turn at SummerSlam.
Speaker 2: I don't see it.
Speaker 1: Got that fuckp?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: God? Fuck that tree man. That tree was really struggling there. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't see it. I don't see it. I think
Speaker 1: there's a way to do it where it could be
Speaker 1: very interesting. It would certainly shake things up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't hate the idea. I just I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. I don't think that they're ready
Speaker 1: to turn Cody yet. No matter how hard the Rock
Speaker 1: wants to see it, I don't think they're ready to
Speaker 1: do it just yet.
Speaker 2: Dry Chicken.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Randy Orton will be receiving special gifts
Speaker 1: after losing twice in King of the Ring mailed from
Speaker 1: Hawaii to Missouri.
Speaker 2: If you smell what's cooking.
Speaker 1: I think he's busy doing other things and probably we
Speaker 1: will not be seeing or hearing from the rock for
Speaker 1: some time, scum Dog or twenty Hey solo. Today I
Speaker 1: learned that my dad passed away overnight. I just want
Speaker 1: to remind everybody to hug your loved ones and don't
Speaker 1: take them for granted. You never know when things may change.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Dad, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna miss you.
Speaker 1: My condolence is scum Dog. I'm very sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: That's terrible news. So we're all we're all thinking about you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being on these streams. You're always welcome here,
Speaker 1: you know that. But I'm very sorry. Dry Chicken ten
Speaker 1: dollars super chap. This is not a prediction and this
Speaker 1: is not a spoiler. This is fighting temptations. Aw could
Speaker 1: be tempted to book Swerve, costing Hangman Page the world
Speaker 1: heavyweight title. It could be tempted to do that. I
Speaker 1: will be very upset if they do. I hope not.
Speaker 1: I would rather see them find their way to each
Speaker 1: other as a tag team for.
Speaker 2: A match, not as a permanent team.
Speaker 1: But yeah, finally put their differences aside as opposed to
Speaker 1: just reigniting their feud and just screwing him out of
Speaker 1: the championship. I just feel like that would be very lame.
Speaker 1: I mean, Swerve has been mister AW.
Speaker 2: For months now. Would he Why would he do that?
Speaker 1: I mean I know that he and Hangman they have
Speaker 1: no love for each other, but it just feels like
Speaker 1: the story that they've been trying to tell.
Speaker 2: Here is the end goal.
Speaker 1: Here is them finally putting their differences aside. In fact,
Speaker 1: if Hangman wins the championship at all, in and we
Speaker 1: do get interference from all these different people, I think
Speaker 1: that a great closing, kind of parting scene to it
Speaker 1: all would be Hangman and Swerve shaking hands a show
Speaker 1: of respect.
Speaker 2: They actually shake.
Speaker 1: Hands and Swerve, you know, basically congratulates him. That's kind
Speaker 1: of his endorsement, you know, for saving aw and rescuing
Speaker 1: the World Championship. I think for their big Texas stadium show,
Speaker 1: that would be a very cool, very appropriate way to
Speaker 1: close things out. To have him screw over Hangman I
Speaker 1: think would be super lame. Oh, we had Carlos seeing
Speaker 1: his shoulder tackle should be his finisher for how long
Speaker 1: it puts the referee down. Yeah, that man man Dan
Speaker 1: Engler was downfall like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: It felt like right.
Speaker 1: Chicken says, see, I'm Punk is going to strike down
Speaker 1: with great vengeance and furious anger on seth Rawlins. Phil
Speaker 1: is going to have a lot of bad ideas for
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins. Well maybe so, I'm sure none as bad
Speaker 1: as the idea that he had to come out dressed
Speaker 1: up the way he was dressed up on SmackDown last night.
Speaker 2: I hope hopefully not quite that bad. High Chief.
Speaker 1: I think SummerSlam is Roman Punk against Seth and Braun
Speaker 1: in a tag team match. Could be, could be you
Speaker 1: could do a tag match with Rollins on one night,
Speaker 1: have him cash in the next. Absolutely, jdf VA gifted
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Speaker 2: Thank you jdf.
Speaker 1: Evan great to be able to listen live for a
Speaker 1: change based in Scotland. Main event was no classic, but
Speaker 1: still captured some of the magic of their past and
Speaker 1: ca os it did.
Speaker 2: It had, it had its moments.
Speaker 1: It definitely had some moments in there, and I thought
Speaker 1: there were some very clear callbacks, especially to their money
Speaker 1: in the bank match. Tucky Neutron, Tama helps Jacob and
Speaker 1: we get yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what I mean
Speaker 1: promo Twisted Rister, the blood Line then, now and forever, indeed,
Speaker 1: Dried Chicken, Superman Cody or Cody Homelander at SummerSlam.
Speaker 2: I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it's Superman Cody that we're gonna get.
Speaker 2: That's what I think we got.
Speaker 1: Fuck Pro.
Speaker 2: I thought this said fuck pro Wrestling.
Speaker 1: I thought that said, hope you're ready for the all
Speaker 1: Tanga Loaan super.
Speaker 2: Chat Solo, You're gonna be a millionaire? Well not quite.
Speaker 1: I'm still wondering if tangaloa fan is even with us tonight.
Speaker 1: All the names are all screwed up thanks to YouTube,
Speaker 1: so I'm not even sure. Jeremy Rose, with the twelve
Speaker 1: dollars learning Tree props to Solo winning the title.
Speaker 2: He deserves it.
Speaker 1: He's been a more enjoyable character recently, says do you
Speaker 1: think Rikishi is good with this or is he still
Speaker 1: bitter about his favorite son losing the WWE title?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, I expect Rakishi to be filled with praise
Speaker 1: on his next podcast because his his son won the
Speaker 1: United States Championship. I hope he gives him some love
Speaker 1: on his show and the way that he usually vents
Speaker 1: about Jay Power, Spying Games UK Friendly Solo Monster stream.
Speaker 1: There are there were people who tend to be able
Speaker 1: to hang out when we have these earlier shows.
Speaker 2: Justter, Justter Benz did see him Punk wear his.
Speaker 1: Pro Live show on the pro Live shirt on the show,
Speaker 1: did he hold up a protect trans Kids sign?
Speaker 2: I don't watch these Saudi shows? Just curious? No, No,
Speaker 2: he did not.
Speaker 1: He did apologize though, he said that he was very cranky.
Speaker 1: You woke up very cranky when he tweeted what he
Speaker 1: did many years ago to the Miz. So he's genuinely
Speaker 1: sorry and he loves everyone now. He's a lovable guy.
Speaker 1: Hot Rock Hudson seventeen months of channel membership. Cody working
Speaker 1: the match heel was interesting. I thought Punk and Sena
Speaker 1: was good until see I see. I didn't see Cody
Speaker 1: working the match heel. He was working the match smart.
Speaker 1: I think there's a difference. I think people need to
Speaker 1: understand the distinction between a guy who's suddenly working heel
Speaker 1: in a match or just you know, working smart and
Speaker 1: taking advantage of a situation. If he was working heel,
Speaker 1: I think it would.
Speaker 2: Have been a little more overt. I didn't read it
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: I think the story going into SummerSlam is going to
Speaker 1: be more Okay, I'm willing to do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: and not make the same mistake that I made back
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. I didn't really look at it as
Speaker 1: him working heel. If anybody worked more heel in that match,
Speaker 1: it was Randy Orton. I mean, he's the one who
Speaker 1: tried to cheat. Can't let him off the hook also
Speaker 1: says I thought Punk and Sina was good until freaking
Speaker 1: I'll be happy when punkin Steth is over Cody and
Speaker 1: Punk restarts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, at some point.
Speaker 1: We have to get that Cody and Punk match. To me,
Speaker 1: that's far more interesting than Cody and Sena. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: saving a Cody heel turn for that Rapevine fires. Is
Speaker 1: this as good as Jade can be in the ring?
Speaker 1: It feels like her improvement has been minimal at best
Speaker 1: since joining WWE.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 1: I hope that her working with people better than her
Speaker 1: Oscar certainly is. I hope that will help her along
Speaker 1: the way. I think part of the problem, honestly, when
Speaker 1: it comes to someone like her and Jade just I mean,
Speaker 1: she looks like a superhero, you know, and this is
Speaker 1: a company that puts a premium on that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: You look at her and she just looks like a superstar.
Speaker 1: She is going to do big things no matter what. Right,
Speaker 1: maybe this is her ceiling in ring. As far as
Speaker 1: the quality of her matches, I don't know. So she's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, But I think she's someone who suffers
Speaker 1: from the lack of house shows.
Speaker 2: There are fewer and.
Speaker 1: Fewer live events now. WWE is hardly running anyhowse shows anymore,
Speaker 1: and I feel like at a different time, she's someone
Speaker 1: who greatly would have benefited from having a schedule where
Speaker 1: she would have been in the ring, not on TV,
Speaker 1: but she would have been in the ring able to
Speaker 1: work matches against veterans, whether it's people like Natty or whoever,
Speaker 1: plenty of veterans on that roster over and over, night
Speaker 1: after night after night. Being able to work those people,
Speaker 1: She's someone that would have benefited from that. She would
Speaker 1: have benefited from a proper run in NXT, really, but
Speaker 1: the fact that they run so few live events actually
Speaker 1: hurts people like her, who I think would greatly benefit
Speaker 1: from something like that.
Speaker 2: Liquid Sharing and thank you for thirty eight months of
Speaker 2: channel membership. Holy shit, it's a long time.
Speaker 1: Zizu two gifted memberships to two brand new channel members.
Speaker 1: We got Pudgy. I hope YouTube fixes these names. I'm
Speaker 1: sure these are all people like I know who they are,
Speaker 1: but like looking at their handles, I have no idea
Speaker 1: who they are, Pudgie. One of the things I like
Speaker 1: about the Saudi shows is the creativity of the ladies
Speaker 1: in their bodysuits. Well, they shouldn't have to wear them,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, they do what they have
Speaker 1: to do and they make the most of it. What
Speaker 1: was that makeup that Ryo was wearing. I feel like
Speaker 1: that was based off a character.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know who she was supposed to be, Dried Chicken.
Speaker 1: We need Oscar against EO at SummerSlam. Let's will it
Speaker 1: into existence. Brother, I've been trying to I would love
Speaker 1: to see that match. Jeremy Rose, do you think WWE
Speaker 1: taping SmackDown on Monday is the right move or should
Speaker 1: they have just did a special Tuesday or Wednesday SmackDown.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's all a lot of wrestling for one crowd. No,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. It's going to be a two
Speaker 1: hour show. It's not a three hour show. Ross two
Speaker 1: and a half hours, SmackDown will be two four and
Speaker 1: a half hours. It's not a short show. I might
Speaker 1: feel that way I SmackDown was still three hours. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a big deal. In this case, we
Speaker 1: got majed nine months of membership. Greetings from Riod. Is
Speaker 1: wonderful to see you live and I sincerely hope you
Speaker 1: were doing well well. I'm glad that you can join us.
Speaker 1: Were you at the event? I know a couple of
Speaker 1: people who were keeping me posted on the shows that
Speaker 1: the was a Kingdom arena, and someone mentioned to me,
Speaker 1: who was I think at the show at SmackDown last night,
Speaker 1: that the attendance was awful and they were just summoning
Speaker 1: people up to could look more filled in than it
Speaker 1: really was. My impression was that the show was either
Speaker 1: sold out or close to sold out for today, and
Speaker 1: he said that that wasn't the case. So I would
Speaker 1: be curious if they did the same thing for Night
Speaker 1: of Champions that they did for SmackDown, and if the
Speaker 1: attendance was not great, if they just made sure they
Speaker 1: got these sort of tight shots of the of the
Speaker 1: arena there, or maybe it was more filled in. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but he said tickets were very expensive, so
Speaker 1: that's a big part of course. I mean it's tko.
Speaker 1: Everything is expensive. Thank you to Jed, I appreciate you brother.
Speaker 1: Nine months of membership and look at this gifted five
Speaker 1: channel memberships too, bringing in five new members of the family.
Speaker 2: Did the sound up?
Speaker 1: I love it?
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Bobby's World also with a gifted membership to sik mundas.
Speaker 2: We've got GMB.
Speaker 1: Do you think Bianca would get cheered as a heel
Speaker 1: though she told Shandross Sap earlier this year that she
Speaker 1: would want to be a piece of shit heel, not
Speaker 1: a cool one, So then she could be a piece
Speaker 1: of shit heel. I mean, it all depends on how
Speaker 1: she's booked and the things that she does as a heel.
Speaker 1: If she doesn't want to be cheered as a heel,
Speaker 1: then there are things that you can do to try
Speaker 1: to make sure you don't get cheered. I mean, if
Speaker 1: she wants to be the most unlikable, contemptible heel that
Speaker 1: she can be, then she won't get cheered. I think
Speaker 1: it could work. I would like to see Bianca get
Speaker 1: a shot as a heel. Grant I miss Pat Patterson.
Speaker 1: A lot of the finishes need a lot of editing today. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Punkin Saddie was good to see. Did you hear Triple
Speaker 1: H's comments on personal growth?
Speaker 2: I did not. It was nice for him to go
Speaker 2: seek out that kid.
Speaker 1: Though at the kickoff show yesterday that he blew off
Speaker 1: the other day to go get that picture with him.
Speaker 1: I thought that was nice. Jeremy Rose, I feel like
Speaker 1: Punk wins the title against Rollin's a WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: I could see that. I do feel like Punk finally winning.
Speaker 1: The championship, if it happens, is probably a wrestlemedia moment.
Speaker 1: Bobby's World gifted membership to Low King seventy two thirty five.
Speaker 2: Hey Paul, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Paul? The storm thing with Jade is so stupid. By
Speaker 1: the way, she looked like she was wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: Her face was so caked out. I thought she was
Speaker 1: just sweating because it was very hot over there. She
Speaker 1: looked like she was just pouring buckets at the end
Speaker 1: of that match. That's what it looked like to me.
Speaker 1: Should John Cena win the Intercontinental title before retiring to
Speaker 1: become a Grand Slam Champion, he has never held the
Speaker 1: IC title. No, no at this point now Darth panic
Speaker 1: thirty eight months of channel membership. So when Cody wins
Speaker 1: the belt back at SummerSlam, what's next for him? In
Speaker 1: terms of opponents? I feel like he has faced just
Speaker 1: about Ara. Did you not hear me talking about Randy Orton?
Speaker 1: An extended feud coming up soon at Randy Orton. It's
Speaker 1: all right there, Sick Mundas with a ten dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all that you do, Solo. Hope you're having
Speaker 1: a great day so far. Mine was eventful. I got
Speaker 1: a picture framed and now it's doing time upstate for
Speaker 1: armed robbery. Thank you, Sick Mundas. We got mister bank.
Speaker 1: Do you think Sina wins his eighteenth in December? His
Speaker 1: eighteenth World Championship?
Speaker 2: No? I do not.
Speaker 1: Even know why you would suggest a thing like that.
Speaker 1: We got laid back lashar over Solo's fireplace. Hey, if
Speaker 1: I had a fireplace, I might actually hang it up
Speaker 1: on my mantle right by the fireplace, laid back lashar.
Speaker 1: I feel like Cody is getting booed at SummerSlam. What
Speaker 1: do you think is the cause of this subtle turn?
Speaker 1: I just talked about it. I just talked about it.
Speaker 1: I think it's more him beginning to show that he
Speaker 1: is willing to do whatever it takes to get the
Speaker 1: job done and get that belt back against John Cena
Speaker 1: at SummerSlam. I don't think you're wrong to assume that
Speaker 1: the crowd may turn on Cody at SummerSlam. Remember, SummerSlam
Speaker 1: is in what technically it's New Jersey, but it's like
Speaker 1: WWE New York, New York, New Jersey. They're in the
Speaker 1: tri state area, and these New York fans are going
Speaker 1: to be there, and you never know how a New
Speaker 1: York crowd is going to react. So is there a
Speaker 1: possibility that they may turn against Sena or Cody, especially
Speaker 1: with this being seen as last year as possible.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I still feel like they're not ready to turn him
Speaker 1: heel just yet. Duff's VIDs says, poop jokes aren't my
Speaker 1: favorite kind of jokes, but they're a solid number two,
Speaker 1: solid number two you always want you do want them
Speaker 1: to be solid. Very important to make sure you get
Speaker 1: enough fiber in your diet. Fox Boom, I Love you
Speaker 1: solo and four letters, one word, uh huh yat you
Speaker 1: had to eat Man was not there tonight. It's kind
Speaker 1: of surprising. New Jersey is a suburb of New York
Speaker 1: to ww WE, it is Duffs VIDs. Two slices of
Speaker 1: bread got married. The wedding was amazing until someone decided
Speaker 1: to toast the bride and groom. Oh man, damn, I
Speaker 1: hate when that happens. Rest in pieces. That's terrible. Q
Speaker 1: Dog forty nine months of membership, no message, just renewing
Speaker 1: for forty nine months. Q dog, thank you one month away,
Speaker 1: dry chicken food, WWE Evolution we need Booker T. Wade, Barrett,
Speaker 1: Vic Joseph, Cory Graves, Michael Cole, and female guest commentators.
Speaker 1: I hope there's a rotation for the commentary on that show.
Speaker 1: I'm curious why you selected those people. Why does Booker
Speaker 1: T need to be on the Evolution Show or Vic,
Speaker 1: Joseph or Wade? I mean, I guess, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: So I guess you're saying if there are NXT matches,
Speaker 1: that the NXT commentators should be there for it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Like I read that, I'm like, Booker T, Wade, Barrett,
Speaker 1: they have to be on the Evolution Show. I'm like why,
Speaker 1: I assume that if they have brand specific matches, they
Speaker 1: will have their commentators there. Bobby's World gifted another one
Speaker 1: to Joe Caseyu unfiltered twenty seven months. That's all awesome.
Speaker 1: It's a long ass time. Happy to have you. Booker
Speaker 1: T exclusively for Stephanie Vicker's Man. We got Erasia nine
Speaker 1: eight three four as the one submission in that could
Speaker 1: kill someone. Sleepers are disrespected. People don't struggle enough and
Speaker 1: wake up after being out for a two count. Jay
Speaker 1: Uso didn't when he wrestled gun Through a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Every move, honestly, every move is disrespected. You really think
Speaker 1: about it, Every finishing move is disrespected. They kick out
Speaker 1: of it with impunity, get back up. They don't sell it.
Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. I was robbed by six dwarves today. Not
Speaker 1: he was always my favorite. Actually, you know, Grumpy.
Speaker 2: Was my favorite.
Speaker 1: Big surprise, I know ed Swaggle. Why is Peter Pan
Speaker 1: always flying? He never lands? Ugh, Donni Yasu, it's late,
Speaker 1: but happy. One hundred to the Titans. Thank you, Donnie.
Speaker 1: We had episode one hundred of TNT on Tuesday. Next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it's one oh one. We begin our trek to two
Speaker 1: hundred Bobby's World. Haven't been watching much WWE lately, but
Speaker 1: didn't realize how much I missed Osca until tonight. I
Speaker 1: think she will one day go down as an all
Speaker 1: time great. I think she's already an all time great
Speaker 1: status when you look at her body of work over
Speaker 1: her career, I feel like she's already there. There he
Speaker 1: is Tongaaloa a super fan. Just read that one and Rekinson,
Speaker 1: whatever happened to Sexy Star? I think the better question
Speaker 1: is who gives a shit? Nobody really seemed to like
Speaker 1: Sexy Star, especially after she took liberties that one time.
Speaker 1: Oh God, who was it that she in the in
Speaker 1: the arm bar? Was somebody from t was Was it Rosemary?
Speaker 1: Maybe it was Rosemary? It was somebody from TNA. There's
Speaker 1: a new Sexy Star. It's not the same person who
Speaker 1: was the old one. It's a new person. She's fine,
Speaker 1: But as far as the original Sexy Star, I don't
Speaker 1: really give a shit. Anybody who would do that to
Speaker 1: another wrestler, to me, like should be blackballed from the industry.
Speaker 1: And you don't belong, you don't belong in the ring.
Speaker 1: I don't know why any wrestler would ever trust a
Speaker 1: person like that with their body to get in the
Speaker 1: ring with them? After that, When you do something like that,
Speaker 1: that should be it for you. I know, usually it's not,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a star, you'll always get booked. But
Speaker 1: to me, that was just disgusting. It was Rosemary. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Yeah, just absolutely disgusting. Fuck Sexy Star.
Speaker 1: The new Sexy Star is fine, though I have no
Speaker 1: beef with her and Duff's VIDs. Why should you never
Speaker 1: throw false teeth at your car? You might denture car? Oh,
Speaker 1: Duffs Duff's VIDs? What would we do without you? Sexy
Speaker 1: Star two is no longer a Sexy Star? Did she
Speaker 1: change her name? Am I behind the eight ball on
Speaker 1: my Sexy Star knowledge?
Speaker 2: Well? The point is though that if there is a.
Speaker 1: New Sexy Star, it may not be the original one,
Speaker 1: so don't hold it against the new person. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a terrible story. Reekin's son also forgot to share.
Speaker 1: Last Sunday met Jacob Fatu at a comedy show. Cool
Speaker 1: ass dude he is. When you meet him, he is
Speaker 1: very cool. I had a chance to meet him a
Speaker 1: few times, obviously when he was the House of Glory
Speaker 1: world champion and working for US, and guy, where was
Speaker 1: I when I?
Speaker 2: Oh, I was in Tampa.
Speaker 1: I think I was in Tampa for the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: last year and him and Zilla were just what is
Speaker 1: that bar?
Speaker 2: God, it's this huge bar.
Speaker 1: It's like right outside of or close by to where
Speaker 1: the stadium is. I guess it would be Tropicana. There
Speaker 1: was a it's like a bar, but it's this huge
Speaker 1: piece of property and they have seating inside and outside.
Speaker 1: God I forgot the name of it. But they were
Speaker 1: just hanging out there. They were just hanging out, you know,
Speaker 1: and everybody was, you know, coming over. He get a
Speaker 1: picture and they were like, yeah, no problem. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's he's super cool. Anyway, you guys hit the uh
Speaker 1: like skull, which is great. So without any further ado,
Speaker 1: you know what time it is. Christopher just subscribed, just
Speaker 1: in time. Christopher is joining us here on the channel.
Speaker 1: He has no idea how fortunate he is, because it
Speaker 1: is time to be the booker.
Speaker 2: Ladies are gentlemen. It is now time.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, the book Oh yes, it is that time.
Speaker 2: It is time to be the booker.
Speaker 1: You're on the night a champion stream. We get one
Speaker 1: round each we gotta make it special, we gotta make
Speaker 1: it count. We didn't have a great one last night,
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping we can have a rebound here. What
Speaker 1: am I adding? Managers to be the booker? I have
Speaker 1: a list of things I have to do as far.
Speaker 2: As updates to be the bookers.
Speaker 1: So a manager's round is definitely on the agenda.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna do a tag team match. Love
Speaker 1: me some tag team wrestling, but it all depends on
Speaker 1: what teams you land on. And here we've landed on
Speaker 1: what WWE would tell you is the greatest tag team
Speaker 1: of all time. Now I don't share that opinion, although
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. Jimmy and Jay, the USOS.
Speaker 2: Kicking us off here and be the booker.
Speaker 1: Look at that, Jay Usso, former world heavyweight champion.
Speaker 2: Here and be the booker.
Speaker 1: The USOS against the British Bulldogs. Now that right there,
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about fantasy warfare. You're matching up
Speaker 1: past generation current generation. That's a generational match right there,
Speaker 1: the USOS and the British Bulldogs. That is how you
Speaker 1: open up be the booker. That's what I like to
Speaker 1: see right there. That's why we do this Women's be
Speaker 1: the booker. Awesome Kong, the former TNA Knockouts Champion. Awesome
Speaker 1: Kong help put that division on the map with Gail Kim.
Speaker 1: Many battles those two had. Let's see, Awesome Kong is
Speaker 1: going to be stepping into the ring with Roxane Perez,
Speaker 1: the former NXT Women's Champion. How do you think that
Speaker 1: feud would have been rox Sane like current Roxane Perez
Speaker 1: against Awesome Kong and her prime Prime Kong against Roxanne.
Speaker 1: I actually think those two would probably have a pretty
Speaker 1: killer feud. Honestly, I like how things are going so far.
Speaker 2: This has been going pretty well. Let's end it on
Speaker 2: a high note with our main event.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, we have the British Bulldogs and tag
Speaker 1: Team be the booker and in the main event, Davy
Speaker 1: Boy comes back out. He's pulling double duty here because
Speaker 1: we have the British Bulldog, Davy Boy Smith. He's back,
Speaker 1: He's in the main event. Why is he pulling double duty?
Speaker 1: I have two hundred people in this thing. We have
Speaker 1: plenty of people. The British Bulldog we'll be taking on
Speaker 1: who the British Bulldog will be wrestling Jack Perry in
Speaker 1: our main event, and we were really building some momentum
Speaker 1: here and I was really hoping for like a big
Speaker 1: time main event. We just got done watching John Cena
Speaker 1: wrestles Sea. I'm punk. I'm like, we need a main
Speaker 1: event like Ava Caliber. And then we end with the
Speaker 1: British Bulldog and Jack Perry and just like that, clean
Speaker 1: sweet ruined ruined. In the blink of an eye, it's
Speaker 1: all over. Faisal, welcome to the channel. I've led you
Speaker 1: down with that main event. I have sinned. I hope
Speaker 1: you can forgive me. Cry me a river, oh Man,
Speaker 1: dry Chicken says, are you a fan of Jurassic Park
Speaker 1: slash World franchise? I am a fan of I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of Jurassic Park the original I saw. I actually
Speaker 1: never saw the second movie, believe it or not. I
Speaker 1: saw the third one, third or fourth one. It was
Speaker 1: not maybe the third one. It wasn't very good. I
Speaker 1: am going to try to get to the theaters to
Speaker 1: see this new one though. This new one looks interesting,
Speaker 1: so my plan is to try to go to the theater.
Speaker 1: I think it comes out on July second. I would
Speaker 1: like to go to the theater to actually see it.
Speaker 1: So if I see the new movie, I will report back.
Speaker 1: I hope it's not one of these movies where I
Speaker 1: have to have seen the recent ones, because I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the recent ones. But this one looks interesting, so
Speaker 1: I actually might go to the theater and see it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you for hanging out with me in our Night
Speaker 1: of Champions review. Final pl here for the month of June.
Speaker 1: Not the final event though, because we have one more
Speaker 1: live stream here before we go flip the calendar to July.
Speaker 1: That's on Monday. And just remember Raw is airing earlier
Speaker 1: on Netflix, so it's starting at six o'clock Eastern, so
Speaker 1: everything is bumped up two hours. Raw is bumped up
Speaker 1: two hours, and the review is bumped up two hours,
Speaker 1: so figure I will be live on YouTube probably around
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Speaker 2: So that is the plan for Monday.
Speaker 1: But before we get to Monday, we have episode nine
Speaker 1: to eighteen of the SoundOff that'll be dropping tomorrow. I'll
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