WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.200 WrestleMania is Saturday was a very dull show with an 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:10.199 excellent ending. WrestleMania Sunday was a largely excellent show with 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.480 a terrible ending. That is the best way that I 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:19.679 can sum up WrestleMania of forty one. I don't understand 5 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.199 how I put it this way. I'm trying to collect 6 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.719 my thoughts here. I'm just picturing Stone Cold driving his 7 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.559 ATV into the barricade before the main event and just 8 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.039 thinking what a great metaphor it was for what we 9 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.200 got in the main event tonight. I'm trying to figure 10 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:42.679 out which is worse Austin's driving or Tripleh's booking of 11 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.520 that main event tonight. And I'm not sure I really 12 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.280 have a straight answer for you. John Cena is a 13 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:53.759 seventeen time world champion. That's really the lead story here tonight. 14 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.159 John Cena has made history by becoming a seventeen time 15 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.679 world champion. He did so as a heel, and he 16 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:06.159 did so with the help of Travis Scott. So when 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.760 they go down in history in the record books and 18 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:10.920 people look back on this moment and they think, oh, man, 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.640 I wonder what happened when John Cena won that record 20 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.959 Championship of WrestleMania forty one. They're gonna see that it 21 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.760 was Travis Scott who assisted him in doing so, not 22 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:24.959 The Rock. The Rock was nowhere to be found tonight. 23 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:31.079 I was stunned, absolutely stunned that we got Travis Scott, 24 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:33.040 but we did not get The Rock. And I have 25 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.560 a theory about this because it all it goes back 26 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.840 to Bad Blood when we saw The Rock in October. 27 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.719 You remember that when the Rock came out at the 28 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:42.040 end of the show that night. That was the night 29 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.200 that Cody Rose and Roman reigns the eight Team together 30 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.640 against the Bloodline and The Rock comes out. We hadn't 31 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.359 seen The Rock since the Raw after WrestleMania, and there 32 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.079 he is, and he's out there with his Brahma bullbelt 33 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.680 that he's very proud of over his shoulder and he 34 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.400 just stands there and he gives the Cutthroat signal and 35 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.040 he leaves and he's never heard from again until we 36 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:09.879 see him in February when he magically reappears in the 37 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.400 weeks leaning up to the Elimination Chamber and he has 38 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.919 that very bizarre segment with Cody where he says, I 39 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.080 want your soul and that became the big story. Now 40 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.719 going into Elimination Chamber in Toronto. What does he mean 41 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:27.280 by that? The Rock wants Cody's soul? This is fucking weird. 42 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.520 So then we get to Elimination Chamber and John Cena 43 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.360 wins the chamber. He punches his ticket to go to 44 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:35.919 the main event of WrestleMania and challenge for the title 45 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.719 of his choosing, which actually I guess jay Uso had 46 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:41.639 already made his choice, so he would go to WrestleMania 47 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.039 and wrestle for the WWE Championship. And then we got 48 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.159 that great segment at the end of the show with Rock, 49 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.120 Travis Scott is in the ring and Sena, you know, 50 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.840 he nutshots Cody and we have the trio of them 51 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:55.800 as the show goes off the air, the new like 52 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.520 the Hollywood Heels. We have the Rock, we have John Cena, 53 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.520 and we have Travis Scott And I said, you know what, 54 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.520 that's a really cool ending. As heel turns go, this 55 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.240 will go down as one of the best heel turns 56 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:09.639 and one of the more shocking heel turns that we 57 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.960 have ever seen in wrestling. Boy, I can't wait to 58 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.560 see how they follow it up. And then of course 59 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.919 we all saw what happened. We didn't see the Rock, 60 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.240 we didn't see John Cena for two weeks. Then John 61 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.360 Sena shows up and he's telling us how you know, 62 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.840 he's been having all this pent up frustration with us 63 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.240 for twenty five years and he's just healing on all 64 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.919 the fans. Right. Two weeks of that until finally we 65 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.240 got that great segment with him and Cody in the 66 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.599 ring where they actually went back and forth on the microphone. 67 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.840 I said, Okay, this is more like it. This is 68 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.840 what I've been waiting to see. And we didn't see 69 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:44.400 Sena again until SmackDown on Friday night, and I said, well, 70 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.479 they must have something big planned for this Wrestle Media 71 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.240 main event, and surely the Rock will be there. What 72 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.120 role will he play? What other cameos might we see? 73 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.800 Because we saw what happened last year Wrestle Media. It 74 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.879 was a fucking their Avengers endgame. When Cody finished the 75 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:02.159 story and we saw all these different people involved in 76 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:04.439 it was exciting and it was overbooked, but it was 77 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.759 It was a great main event. And I said, I 78 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.719 wonder what they have planned for this year and then 79 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:11.319 to see what they gave us here at the end 80 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.199 of this show. I tell you what else surprised me 81 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.040 the fact that we have back to back nights of 82 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:22.600 WrestleMania with main events that ended with nutshot finishes. Who 83 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:26.519 approved this? I would like to know? We have back 84 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.759 to back Knights of WrestleMania. The main event last night 85 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.319 we had multiple nut shots. Some say that Paul Hayman's 86 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:38.040 fist is still surgically implanted up Roman Reigns' ass. And 87 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.680 then tonight we have John Cena and the closing moments 88 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:45.600 of this championship match, kicking Cody in the balls and 89 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:51.879 then pinning him to win the seventeenth World Championship. This 90 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.079 is how that moment now is going to be remembered, 91 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.199 the closing scene of Johnsena celebrating his win with Travis 92 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.319 Scott and his replica belt standing in the middle of 93 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:05.319 the ring. So what I am convinced of at this point, 94 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:10.480 basically as far as the Rock is concerned, is the 95 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.000 Rock shows up when the Rock wants to show up, 96 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.959 When the rocks fancy is tickled and he decides that 97 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.800 he wants to come back because it's fun or because 98 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.000 he wants some attention, wants to rub shoulders with somebody 99 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.839 like Travis Scott, you know, whatever it may be. He 100 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.920 just decides to show up whenever he wants to, and 101 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.279 then he vanishes, and unfortunately for the creative team in 102 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:35.600 WWE and Triple H and all of them, they're then 103 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:37.879 left to clean up the mess that results from it 104 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.399 because they have to accommodate the Rock. Oh, the Rock's 105 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.120 going to come back. The Rock's going to show up tonight. 106 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:43.600 The Rock's going to do this, The Rock's going to 107 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.519 do that. Oh great, we get the Rock on the show, right, 108 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.879 who doesn't want the Rock on the show, But then 109 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.519 they have to work around it, and if they have 110 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.680 plans in place, too bad, those plans get blown up 111 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:57.199 because the Rock is going to be on the show 112 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:58.680 and The Rock is going to do whatever he wants 113 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.920 to do. And that's the way. I'm convinced that that's 114 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.120 exactly what happened here. We had no Rock at WrestleMania today. 115 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.279 He was He wasn't even barely even mentioned, if at all. 116 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.199 This weekend played no role in the finish of this match. 117 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.600 The whole storyline was who's who's going to sell their 118 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.720 soul to the Rock to be his champion? I need 119 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.480 a I need a friend, I need a brother. I 120 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.079 don't have a brother, right, that was the whole story 121 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:25.519 with Cody. Now he's got his champion, but there was 122 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.680 no Rock on the show tonight, but Travis Scott was there. 123 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:35.399 Though Travis Scott was there this WrestleMania finish, I'm not 124 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:39.720 sure what they were thinking. This was a horrendous finish 125 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.920 to WrestleMania this year, and it really is a damn 126 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:48.040 shame because I enjoyed much of the show. It definitely 127 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.720 fell off towards the end there, but the opening matches 128 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.959 of the show tonight made up for a lot of 129 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.439 what we saw last night on Night one. Like they 130 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.759 were kicking ass at the beginning of the show, those 131 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.519 first three matches like boomboo boom, and I'm like, Okay, 132 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.720 this is more like it. This now feels more like 133 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.639 a WrestleMania. This is this is what I'm talking about here. 134 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:10.240 Now they're cooking with oil, especially after that opener, and 135 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.319 then it kind of steadily went down from there. John 136 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.000 Cena got in the ring tonight and had his first 137 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.079 singles match at a WrestleMania. Okay, the last time we 138 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.319 saw him in a singles match of WrestleMania was against 139 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.279 Austin Theory. That was a couple of years ago, and 140 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.959 that match was fucking terrible. He had not won a 141 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.560 singles match at WrestleMania in ten years before tonight. He 142 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.800 had not won a singles match in WWE for seven years. 143 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:38.720 Heading into tonight, what kind of John Cena were we 144 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.040 going to get in the main event? He worked a 145 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.040 very deliberate style, and part of that, I'm sure was 146 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.399 the fact that he's a heel now, so he has 147 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:48.360 to work as a heel. He's been working as a 148 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.839 baby face for the last twenty years, so he had 149 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:52.920 to adjust his style a little bit. What ended up 150 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.920 happening was we got a mostly very boring main event tonight. 151 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.279 This was a main event where it almost felt like 152 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.560 he worked this match in a way where he had 153 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.519 a call time, like next week he has to be 154 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.240 on set somewhere to film his next movie. I don't know. 155 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:11.839 I'm watching this match and I'm like, all right, it's 156 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:13.879 a very basic match, but surely it must be building 157 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.279 to something here at the end. Yeah, what it built 158 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:19.040 to was just fucking terrible, and it's a real damn 159 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.439 shame that when people look back on this moment that 160 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.120 John Cena broke the record in one number seventeen. It's 161 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.360 going to be such a shit ending to this WrestleMania 162 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:30.560 that people are going to be looking back on. It sucks, 163 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.519 very unfortunate, and I know Triple H wishes that all 164 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.279 of the critics and all of the prognosticators out there would, 165 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.559 in his words, just fuck off and would just be 166 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.440 a fan, Just be a fan, just shut up and 167 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.360 enjoy it, shut up and enjoy the ride, right Because 168 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.240 you could tell the criticism of the road to WrestleMania 169 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:55.480 this year it got to him because he's not used 170 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.879 to it. He's used to getting a lot of effusive 171 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.279 praise from so many people, you know, Papa H and 172 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.639 all these horrendously just ridiculous and disturbing things, frankly that 173 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.200 people say about him. This was really the first time 174 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.519 since he took over as the real head of creative 175 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.360 in this company that I think the collective and not everybody, 176 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.000 but I think collectively, he got a lot of shit. 177 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.200 You know, he took it on the chin for what 178 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:21.559 was a very mediocre build to WrestleMania this year, and 179 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.120 I think that's what you saw this week there was 180 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.840 a lashing out against people because they're not used to it, 181 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.360 they're not used to getting that type of criticism. Well, 182 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.000 he's going to be getting a lot of criticism and 183 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.799 deservedly so for the way that main event went and 184 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.720 the way that main event ended here on this show tonight, 185 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:37.759 and it is well deserved. And like I said, it's 186 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.559 a damn shame because most of the rest of the 187 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.440 show I thought was very strong. We had on this 188 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.000 show tonight. They opened this show with a triple threat 189 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.039 match for the Women's World Championship that was as good 190 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.399 as any match of WrestleMania this year on Night one 191 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.399 or Night two. In fact, that's my favorite match of 192 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:00.320 the weekend at WrestleMania. The story was a lot deeper 193 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.039 and a lot richer in the main event on Night one, 194 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.039 So if you want to go by story, sure, and 195 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.360 the big Hayman twist at the end that was done flawlessly. 196 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.679 It was great as a match. You're not going to 197 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.360 beat Rio Ripley, Bianca bell Aeroneosky in that opening match Tennant, 198 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.639 I'm sorry. As a match. That was the best match 199 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.360 of WrestleMania weekend, and it was a great way to 200 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.919 kick off the show, and there was an energy there 201 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.960 that just felt like it was missing from Night one, 202 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:29.480 and then it just went from there. We had a 203 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:33.360 fatal four way for the Intercontinental Championship that I thought 204 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.679 was great. Randy Orton had his open challenge, which was 205 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.919 answered not by someone who I thought it would be, 206 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:46.440 but it was answered by the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, 207 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.200 who had a WrestleMania moment that I'm sure he wasn't 208 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:53.240 expecting to have, but he had it tonight, and good 209 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:57.559 for him. Becky Lynch's back. She was the replacement for 210 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.919 Bailey and the women's tag team title match. First match back. 211 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.639 Not the first time that she's come back and won 212 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.919 a championship in her first match back. Let's see if 213 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.480 she gets the same criticism that Charlotte Flair gets. What 214 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.000 I will say about this night, is it really this 215 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:18.159 entire WrestleMania definitely did not match the quality of the 216 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.039 last two years WrestleMania forty, WrestleMania thirty nine great WrestleManias. 217 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.159 WrestleMania forty one will not be among those great WrestleManias. 218 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.559 I'm sorry to say, but I will say it's better 219 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.519 than the first Las Vegas WrestleMania. I know that's a 220 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:39.240 low bar. It was better than WrestleMania nine. It definitely 221 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.159 clears that bar. But as far as this main event 222 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.600 tonight and just again how it all played out and 223 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:46.759 how they went off the air, I thought it was 224 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:50.799 fucking horrendous. I really did. I thought it was fucking horrendous. 225 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:54.519 It was the worst WrestleMania main event, at least since 226 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.600 Roman and Brock at WrestleMania thirty eight. That was nine two, 227 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.120 I believe, and before that. I don't know how far 228 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.919 back you would go. But yeah, not good. Not good. 229 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.320 And I did not have an issue with John Cena 230 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.320 winning the championship. In fact, my prediction and my hope 231 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.600 for the main event tonight was that John Cena would 232 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.879 win number seventeen. I'm not upset that he won number seventeen. 233 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:21.960 I was hoping he would win number seventeen, and I 234 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:26.360 am still hopeful if he shows up enough that it 235 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:29.159 could be fun watching a heel John Cena go in 236 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.480 there with a babyface Randy Orton, maybe even at Backlash 237 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.000 in Saint Louis, in Orton's backyard in front of his 238 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.039 hometown fans. Right, that could be fun a heeled champion, 239 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.480 John Cena defending his title against cmpunk, and if they 240 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.200 could do it in Chicago, even better, but probably not 241 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.720 gonna happen. Money in the Bank is in Los Angeles, 242 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.279 Summer Slam is two nights in New Jersey. Either of 243 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.519 those events would be the perfect venue I think to 244 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.600 do that match. That could be a lot of fun. 245 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.159 Those are matches that we need to see here and 246 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.039 scene his last how do you not have John Cenn, 247 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.840 Randy Orton? How do you not have John Cenn Cmpunk? Right, 248 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.080 there's a lot more fun, potential fun And I'm a 249 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:12.120 little hesitant to use that word now because I see 250 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.440 what they've done since seen Ashley turn heel, but there's 251 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.240 potentially a lot of fun to be had with him 252 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.480 in this role, working with these different people. Cody's been 253 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.840 champion for a year. I think Cody's been a great champion, 254 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.759 but he's been champion for a year. There's nothing wrong 255 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:31.720 with Cody losing the title and then struggling and working 256 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:33.519 to get the belt back as long as at the 257 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.759 end of all this, John Cena drops that title back 258 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.879 to Cody, because that's how this story should end. It 259 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.559 should end with John Cena losing the championship to Cody 260 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:43.799 Roads and putting Cody the face of this current era 261 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.759 over and the face of the old era does the 262 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:51.000 honors for the face of the current era, whether that 263 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:54.000 Summer Slammer whenever. That is so hopefully that's how it 264 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:55.879 will end. And and I see the story they were 265 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.679 telling in the main event, because there was that moment 266 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.320 where Cody had the choice to use the title as 267 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.320 a weapon, he opted not to and that's when seen 268 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.279 a nutshot at him. It went on to win the title. Like, yes, 269 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.320 they were trying to tell that story, but in execution 270 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.639 and just in the way that that main event was presented, 271 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.799 I thought it was hot garbage, and it really did. 272 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.279 It brought this WrestleMania down a couple of notches, which 273 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.440 is too bad because Night two was a lot better 274 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.279 than Night one. I don't know what they were thinking. 275 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:26.360 They probably thought it was cinema, because that's what they think. 276 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.559 This all this is all cinema. Well guess what. Even 277 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.519 in the cinema, I've seen some pretty shitty movies. This 278 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.759 is your WrestleMania forty one Night number two review. It 279 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:42.080 is four to twenty happy Easter. I am the Solemn Monster. 280 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:43.639 Thank you for hanging out with me here. It is 281 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.600 our second night in a row together. So last night 282 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.360 it was Triple h in the ring. To open WrestleMania 283 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.759 tonight it was Stephanie McMahon. She said the last time 284 00:14:54.759 --> 00:15:00.200 WrestleMania was in Las Vegas was for WrestleMania nine. At 285 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.440 the time, she was sixteen years old. She said that 286 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.440 she's at WrestleMania forty one now and her middle daughter 287 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.919 is sixteen years old, and she says it's all about family. 288 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:15.879 Pyro shot off very good. Michael Cole, Pat McAfee, Wade Barrett. 289 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.720 For the second night in a row, they were our 290 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:22.720 commentary team. I jinxed it. Okay, Well, I'll tell you what. 291 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:24.399 If they don't win the World Series this year, you 292 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:31.240 could blame me, okay, just just blame me. Could say 293 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:37.320 it's my fault. They opened Night one with the triple 294 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.639 Threat match. It's funny, you know, I should say night too, 295 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:42.639 but they ended Night one is what I meant to say. 296 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.759 They ended Night one with a triple threat match. They 297 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.960 open Night two with a triple threat match, and those 298 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.720 two triple threat matches were the best matches at WrestleMania 299 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.519 this year. Tonight, it was for the Women's World Championship, 300 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.360 with Eo Sky defending her title against rear Ra Ripley 301 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.799 and Bianca bell Air. More disrespect for the champion, she 302 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:09.759 entered first. They had the champion enter first. Here in 303 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.639 this match, Bianca bell Air comes out and she gets 304 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.639 bowed very loudly during her entrance. She was actually bowed 305 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.960 very loudly all throughout the match, even though she has 306 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.679 done nothing wrong. She has done nothing wrong in this feud. 307 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:30.120 The fans are the heels. Remember that, I say it 308 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:35.279 all the time. The fans are the heels. There was 309 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.879 a spot though, in this match where Bianca gave Vio 310 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.240 three consecutive suplexes, including a delayed vertical at the very 311 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.279 end before kipping up to her feet, and the fans 312 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:46.159 couldn't help but applaud that they had. They had to 313 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:50.080 applaud the athleticism of this woman. Rhea gave Vio a 314 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.639 razor's edge into Bianca, which was cool. Ripley went to 315 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.200 the apron early. She landed a cannonball dive out onto 316 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.759 Bianca on the floor. Eo then hit Ripley with an 317 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.759 asai moonsalt. A little while later, Ripley hoisted up EO 318 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.640 and launched. That was where the razor's edge spot was. 319 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:08.200 But after that, Ripley put EO in the prism lock 320 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:11.039 and Bianca was able to break that up, so EO 321 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.480 performed a springboard missile dropkick. She's playing to the crowd. 322 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.200 Everybody is going nuts for her because everybody loves her. 323 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.799 Every time she's like, she's like going crazy and she's 324 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.680 like waving her arms around that everything. How can you 325 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.000 not like this woman? Everybody just they always popped for 326 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.599 So everyone is firmly behind Io at this point. But 327 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.960 then she turns around and Bianca Belair pounces this woman 328 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:39.039 into another dimension. She goes up top. She follows up 329 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.480 with a four to fifty splash on EO, which Michael 330 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:45.200 Cole called a shooting star press, and Wade Barrett corrected 331 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.559 him and said that it was in fact not a 332 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.160 shooting star press. So Ripley put Bianca down with her 333 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:55.119 riptide finish, and Bianca kicked out. Ripley stood on the 334 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.200 second rope after this, and she pulled up EO for 335 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.160 riptide from the middle rope. EO so countered out of it. 336 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.440 Took Rhea all the way down to the mat. She 337 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.720 went up for her over the moon salt. Ripley, though, 338 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.559 got her feet up as EO flew off, and Eo 339 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.319 took this great bump. I mean, she got those feet 340 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.400 right up in the face and Eo bumped kind of 341 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:16.759 I can't even describe it, but the way she bumped 342 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.279 it sent her backwards. She kind of stumbled backwards and 343 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.039 into the clutches of Bianca, who hoisted her up for 344 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:27.119 a kod she had the champion pinned. Ripley, though, broke 345 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:31.559 it up. Crowd popped huge for that sequence, and deservedly 346 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:37.079 so because it was great. Hey, Darth, have you gotten 347 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:43.680 enough fien for this weekend? Fien, Fien, Fien. We heard 348 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.119 that during the main event too, Fien. I'm gonna hear 349 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.279 that in my sleep. I don't want to ever hear 350 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:53.359 that song again. I've heard it so much. So. Bianki 351 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.920 yells a Rhea, who was on her knees, and then 352 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:01.240 Pie faces her. Ripley fires back. Bianca hits her with 353 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:06.319 a big right hand. Ripley spits in Beyanka's face and 354 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:08.640 then she gets Bianca on the apron. She runs her 355 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.559 into the turnbuckle and Rio goes to the middle rope 356 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.920 and she pulls Bianca up with her. Bianca fights Ripley. 357 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:19.440 They're they're fighting up there, sent her to the floor 358 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.000 with a head butt. Eo then went for a poison 359 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.400 Rana on Rhea, but she stuffed the attempt. She held 360 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.279 onto her and then what she did was she propelled 361 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:32.240 her back up and over, and so Eo went face 362 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.960 first into the top of the ring post and it 363 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:39.200 made this great sound. Bianca pulled Ria down off the 364 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:42.440 ropes onto her shoulders for a KOD, but Rhea landed 365 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.720 on her feet. Bianca then avoided a riptide. She floated 366 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.559 over and she whipped Ria with her braid and it 367 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.200 just makes that great sound, just like with Live Morgan 368 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.000 in the chamber. It's like a shotgun blast from hell. 369 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.519 Whips her with the braid and then she successfully drops 370 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.680 her with a KOD. But as Bianca had Ripley pinned, 371 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:06.119 Leo hits both women with her over the moon salt. 372 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.640 She crushes both women with it. She covers Bianca and 373 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:14.240 she pins Bianca to retain the women's championship, and just 374 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:19.240 like that, Eo Sky remains your Women's World champion. I 375 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.279 loved how they kept Eo out of the shot too, 376 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.880 so you didn't even see that she was coming. She 377 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:28.359 just flew in from out of nowhere. And Bianca, interestingly enough, 378 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.000 not Rhea. Bianca is the one who takes the losing fall. 379 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.920 She is undefeated at WrestleMania no more, even though she 380 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.519 really wasn't undefeated anyway. I mean, she was in a 381 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.279 fucking Battle Royal and she lost. Okay, I mean she 382 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.119 wasn't undefeated, but they wanted you to believe that she 383 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.240 was undefeated because she didn't lose in a singles match 384 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.640 she had already lost at WrestleMania. That's like saying the 385 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:54.960 Undertaker was in a Battle Royal at WrestleMania eight and 386 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:59.839 he lost, But he's undefeated at WrestleMania. No he's not. No, 387 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.599 oh he's not. But now she's definitely been defeated. Now 388 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.200 there can be no debate about this. This was an 389 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.359 outstanding opener. I love this match. This match was great. 390 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:14.160 This was one of the best openers, one of the 391 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.519 better openers that you will find in WrestleMania history. I'm 392 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:18.960 not going to rank it as the best. I'm not 393 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.400 going to say we're ranks among the best. It's among 394 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:25.559 the best openers in WrestleMania history. This match right here 395 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.279 could have made event at either night. This could have 396 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:30.200 made evented Night one. This could have made evented tonight. 397 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.359 I'll tell you what. Had they ended the show with this, 398 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:35.319 this show would have been better off for it. I 399 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:38.119 know why they didn't. I'm just saying, though, had you 400 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.960 closed the show with this, this would have been quite 401 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.079