Speaker 1: WrestleMania is Saturday was a very dull show with an
Speaker 1: excellent ending. WrestleMania Sunday was a largely excellent show with
Speaker 1: a terrible ending. That is the best way that I
Speaker 1: can sum up WrestleMania of forty one. I don't understand
Speaker 1: how I put it this way. I'm trying to collect
Speaker 1: my thoughts here. I'm just picturing Stone Cold driving his
Speaker 1: ATV into the barricade before the main event and just
Speaker 1: thinking what a great metaphor it was for what we
Speaker 1: got in the main event tonight. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out which is worse Austin's driving or Tripleh's booking of
Speaker 1: that main event tonight. And I'm not sure I really
Speaker 1: have a straight answer for you. John Cena is a
Speaker 1: seventeen time world champion. That's really the lead story here tonight.
Speaker 1: John Cena has made history by becoming a seventeen time
Speaker 1: world champion. He did so as a heel, and he
Speaker 1: did so with the help of Travis Scott. So when
Speaker 1: they go down in history in the record books and
Speaker 1: people look back on this moment and they think, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I wonder what happened when John Cena won that record
Speaker 1: Championship of WrestleMania forty one. They're gonna see that it
Speaker 1: was Travis Scott who assisted him in doing so, not
Speaker 1: The Rock. The Rock was nowhere to be found tonight.
Speaker 1: I was stunned, absolutely stunned that we got Travis Scott,
Speaker 1: but we did not get The Rock. And I have
Speaker 1: a theory about this because it all it goes back
Speaker 1: to Bad Blood when we saw The Rock in October.
Speaker 1: You remember that when the Rock came out at the
Speaker 1: end of the show that night. That was the night
Speaker 1: that Cody Rose and Roman reigns the eight Team together
Speaker 1: against the Bloodline and The Rock comes out. We hadn't
Speaker 1: seen The Rock since the Raw after WrestleMania, and there
Speaker 1: he is, and he's out there with his Brahma bullbelt
Speaker 1: that he's very proud of over his shoulder and he
Speaker 1: just stands there and he gives the Cutthroat signal and
Speaker 1: he leaves and he's never heard from again until we
Speaker 1: see him in February when he magically reappears in the
Speaker 1: weeks leaning up to the Elimination Chamber and he has
Speaker 1: that very bizarre segment with Cody where he says, I
Speaker 1: want your soul and that became the big story. Now
Speaker 1: going into Elimination Chamber in Toronto. What does he mean
Speaker 1: by that? The Rock wants Cody's soul? This is fucking weird.
Speaker 1: So then we get to Elimination Chamber and John Cena
Speaker 1: wins the chamber. He punches his ticket to go to
Speaker 1: the main event of WrestleMania and challenge for the title
Speaker 1: of his choosing, which actually I guess jay Uso had
Speaker 1: already made his choice, so he would go to WrestleMania
Speaker 1: and wrestle for the WWE Championship. And then we got
Speaker 1: that great segment at the end of the show with Rock,
Speaker 1: Travis Scott is in the ring and Sena, you know,
Speaker 1: he nutshots Cody and we have the trio of them
Speaker 1: as the show goes off the air, the new like
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Heels. We have the Rock, we have John Cena,
Speaker 1: and we have Travis Scott And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's a really cool ending. As heel turns go, this
Speaker 1: will go down as one of the best heel turns
Speaker 1: and one of the more shocking heel turns that we
Speaker 1: have ever seen in wrestling. Boy, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see how they follow it up. And then of course
Speaker 1: we all saw what happened. We didn't see the Rock,
Speaker 1: we didn't see John Cena for two weeks. Then John
Speaker 1: Sena shows up and he's telling us how you know,
Speaker 1: he's been having all this pent up frustration with us
Speaker 1: for twenty five years and he's just healing on all
Speaker 1: the fans. Right. Two weeks of that until finally we
Speaker 1: got that great segment with him and Cody in the
Speaker 1: ring where they actually went back and forth on the microphone.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, this is more like it. This is
Speaker 1: what I've been waiting to see. And we didn't see
Speaker 1: Sena again until SmackDown on Friday night, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: they must have something big planned for this Wrestle Media
Speaker 1: main event, and surely the Rock will be there. What
Speaker 1: role will he play? What other cameos might we see?
Speaker 1: Because we saw what happened last year Wrestle Media. It
Speaker 1: was a fucking their Avengers endgame. When Cody finished the
Speaker 1: story and we saw all these different people involved in
Speaker 1: it was exciting and it was overbooked, but it was
Speaker 1: It was a great main event. And I said, I
Speaker 1: wonder what they have planned for this year and then
Speaker 1: to see what they gave us here at the end
Speaker 1: of this show. I tell you what else surprised me
Speaker 1: the fact that we have back to back nights of
Speaker 1: WrestleMania with main events that ended with nutshot finishes. Who
Speaker 1: approved this? I would like to know? We have back
Speaker 1: to back Knights of WrestleMania. The main event last night
Speaker 1: we had multiple nut shots. Some say that Paul Hayman's
Speaker 1: fist is still surgically implanted up Roman Reigns' ass. And
Speaker 1: then tonight we have John Cena and the closing moments
Speaker 1: of this championship match, kicking Cody in the balls and
Speaker 1: then pinning him to win the seventeenth World Championship. This
Speaker 1: is how that moment now is going to be remembered,
Speaker 1: the closing scene of Johnsena celebrating his win with Travis
Speaker 1: Scott and his replica belt standing in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ring. So what I am convinced of at this point,
Speaker 1: basically as far as the Rock is concerned, is the
Speaker 1: Rock shows up when the Rock wants to show up,
Speaker 1: When the rocks fancy is tickled and he decides that
Speaker 1: he wants to come back because it's fun or because
Speaker 1: he wants some attention, wants to rub shoulders with somebody
Speaker 1: like Travis Scott, you know, whatever it may be. He
Speaker 1: just decides to show up whenever he wants to, and
Speaker 1: then he vanishes, and unfortunately for the creative team in
Speaker 1: WWE and Triple H and all of them, they're then
Speaker 1: left to clean up the mess that results from it
Speaker 1: because they have to accommodate the Rock. Oh, the Rock's
Speaker 1: going to come back. The Rock's going to show up tonight.
Speaker 1: The Rock's going to do this, The Rock's going to
Speaker 1: do that. Oh great, we get the Rock on the show, right,
Speaker 1: who doesn't want the Rock on the show, But then
Speaker 1: they have to work around it, and if they have
Speaker 1: plans in place, too bad, those plans get blown up
Speaker 1: because the Rock is going to be on the show
Speaker 1: and The Rock is going to do whatever he wants
Speaker 1: to do. And that's the way. I'm convinced that that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened here. We had no Rock at WrestleMania today.
Speaker 1: He was He wasn't even barely even mentioned, if at all.
Speaker 1: This weekend played no role in the finish of this match.
Speaker 1: The whole storyline was who's who's going to sell their
Speaker 1: soul to the Rock to be his champion? I need
Speaker 1: a I need a friend, I need a brother. I
Speaker 1: don't have a brother, right, that was the whole story
Speaker 1: with Cody. Now he's got his champion, but there was
Speaker 1: no Rock on the show tonight, but Travis Scott was there.
Speaker 1: Though Travis Scott was there this WrestleMania finish, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what they were thinking. This was a horrendous finish
Speaker 1: to WrestleMania this year, and it really is a damn
Speaker 1: shame because I enjoyed much of the show. It definitely
Speaker 1: fell off towards the end there, but the opening matches
Speaker 1: of the show tonight made up for a lot of
Speaker 1: what we saw last night on Night one. Like they
Speaker 1: were kicking ass at the beginning of the show, those
Speaker 1: first three matches like boomboo boom, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is more like it. This now feels more like
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania. This is this is what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 1: Now they're cooking with oil, especially after that opener, and
Speaker 1: then it kind of steadily went down from there. John
Speaker 1: Cena got in the ring tonight and had his first
Speaker 1: singles match at a WrestleMania. Okay, the last time we
Speaker 1: saw him in a singles match of WrestleMania was against
Speaker 1: Austin Theory. That was a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: that match was fucking terrible. He had not won a
Speaker 1: singles match at WrestleMania in ten years before tonight. He
Speaker 1: had not won a singles match in WWE for seven years.
Speaker 1: Heading into tonight, what kind of John Cena were we
Speaker 1: going to get in the main event? He worked a
Speaker 1: very deliberate style, and part of that, I'm sure was
Speaker 1: the fact that he's a heel now, so he has
Speaker 1: to work as a heel. He's been working as a
Speaker 1: baby face for the last twenty years, so he had
Speaker 1: to adjust his style a little bit. What ended up
Speaker 1: happening was we got a mostly very boring main event tonight.
Speaker 1: This was a main event where it almost felt like
Speaker 1: he worked this match in a way where he had
Speaker 1: a call time, like next week he has to be
Speaker 1: on set somewhere to film his next movie. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this match and I'm like, all right, it's
Speaker 1: a very basic match, but surely it must be building
Speaker 1: to something here at the end. Yeah, what it built
Speaker 1: to was just fucking terrible, and it's a real damn
Speaker 1: shame that when people look back on this moment that
Speaker 1: John Cena broke the record in one number seventeen. It's
Speaker 1: going to be such a shit ending to this WrestleMania
Speaker 1: that people are going to be looking back on. It sucks,
Speaker 1: very unfortunate, and I know Triple H wishes that all
Speaker 1: of the critics and all of the prognosticators out there would,
Speaker 1: in his words, just fuck off and would just be
Speaker 1: a fan, Just be a fan, just shut up and
Speaker 1: enjoy it, shut up and enjoy the ride, right Because
Speaker 1: you could tell the criticism of the road to WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this year it got to him because he's not used
Speaker 1: to it. He's used to getting a lot of effusive
Speaker 1: praise from so many people, you know, Papa H and
Speaker 1: all these horrendously just ridiculous and disturbing things, frankly that
Speaker 1: people say about him. This was really the first time
Speaker 1: since he took over as the real head of creative
Speaker 1: in this company that I think the collective and not everybody,
Speaker 1: but I think collectively, he got a lot of shit.
Speaker 1: You know, he took it on the chin for what
Speaker 1: was a very mediocre build to WrestleMania this year, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what you saw this week there was
Speaker 1: a lashing out against people because they're not used to it,
Speaker 1: they're not used to getting that type of criticism. Well,
Speaker 1: he's going to be getting a lot of criticism and
Speaker 1: deservedly so for the way that main event went and
Speaker 1: the way that main event ended here on this show tonight,
Speaker 1: and it is well deserved. And like I said, it's
Speaker 1: a damn shame because most of the rest of the
Speaker 1: show I thought was very strong. We had on this
Speaker 1: show tonight. They opened this show with a triple threat
Speaker 1: match for the Women's World Championship that was as good
Speaker 1: as any match of WrestleMania this year on Night one
Speaker 1: or Night two. In fact, that's my favorite match of
Speaker 1: the weekend at WrestleMania. The story was a lot deeper
Speaker 1: and a lot richer in the main event on Night one,
Speaker 1: So if you want to go by story, sure, and
Speaker 1: the big Hayman twist at the end that was done flawlessly.
Speaker 1: It was great as a match. You're not going to
Speaker 1: beat Rio Ripley, Bianca bell Aeroneosky in that opening match Tennant,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. As a match. That was the best match
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania weekend, and it was a great way to
Speaker 1: kick off the show, and there was an energy there
Speaker 1: that just felt like it was missing from Night one,
Speaker 1: and then it just went from there. We had a
Speaker 1: fatal four way for the Intercontinental Championship that I thought
Speaker 1: was great. Randy Orton had his open challenge, which was
Speaker 1: answered not by someone who I thought it would be,
Speaker 1: but it was answered by the TNA World Heavyweight Champion,
Speaker 1: who had a WrestleMania moment that I'm sure he wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting to have, but he had it tonight, and good
Speaker 1: for him. Becky Lynch's back. She was the replacement for
Speaker 1: Bailey and the women's tag team title match. First match back.
Speaker 1: Not the first time that she's come back and won
Speaker 1: a championship in her first match back. Let's see if
Speaker 1: she gets the same criticism that Charlotte Flair gets. What
Speaker 1: I will say about this night, is it really this
Speaker 1: entire WrestleMania definitely did not match the quality of the
Speaker 1: last two years WrestleMania forty, WrestleMania thirty nine great WrestleManias.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania forty one will not be among those great WrestleManias.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say, but I will say it's better
Speaker 1: than the first Las Vegas WrestleMania. I know that's a
Speaker 1: low bar. It was better than WrestleMania nine. It definitely
Speaker 1: clears that bar. But as far as this main event
Speaker 1: tonight and just again how it all played out and
Speaker 1: how they went off the air, I thought it was
Speaker 1: fucking horrendous. I really did. I thought it was fucking horrendous.
Speaker 1: It was the worst WrestleMania main event, at least since
Speaker 1: Roman and Brock at WrestleMania thirty eight. That was nine two,
Speaker 1: I believe, and before that. I don't know how far
Speaker 1: back you would go. But yeah, not good. Not good.
Speaker 1: And I did not have an issue with John Cena
Speaker 1: winning the championship. In fact, my prediction and my hope
Speaker 1: for the main event tonight was that John Cena would
Speaker 1: win number seventeen. I'm not upset that he won number seventeen.
Speaker 1: I was hoping he would win number seventeen, and I
Speaker 1: am still hopeful if he shows up enough that it
Speaker 1: could be fun watching a heel John Cena go in
Speaker 1: there with a babyface Randy Orton, maybe even at Backlash
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, in Orton's backyard in front of his
Speaker 1: hometown fans. Right, that could be fun a heeled champion,
Speaker 1: John Cena defending his title against cmpunk, and if they
Speaker 1: could do it in Chicago, even better, but probably not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Money in the Bank is in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Summer Slam is two nights in New Jersey. Either of
Speaker 1: those events would be the perfect venue I think to
Speaker 1: do that match. That could be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Those are matches that we need to see here and
Speaker 1: scene his last how do you not have John Cenn,
Speaker 1: Randy Orton? How do you not have John Cenn Cmpunk? Right,
Speaker 1: there's a lot more fun, potential fun And I'm a
Speaker 1: little hesitant to use that word now because I see
Speaker 1: what they've done since seen Ashley turn heel, but there's
Speaker 1: potentially a lot of fun to be had with him
Speaker 1: in this role, working with these different people. Cody's been
Speaker 1: champion for a year. I think Cody's been a great champion,
Speaker 1: but he's been champion for a year. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with Cody losing the title and then struggling and working
Speaker 1: to get the belt back as long as at the
Speaker 1: end of all this, John Cena drops that title back
Speaker 1: to Cody, because that's how this story should end. It
Speaker 1: should end with John Cena losing the championship to Cody
Speaker 1: Roads and putting Cody the face of this current era
Speaker 1: over and the face of the old era does the
Speaker 1: honors for the face of the current era, whether that
Speaker 1: Summer Slammer whenever. That is so hopefully that's how it
Speaker 1: will end. And and I see the story they were
Speaker 1: telling in the main event, because there was that moment
Speaker 1: where Cody had the choice to use the title as
Speaker 1: a weapon, he opted not to and that's when seen
Speaker 1: a nutshot at him. It went on to win the title. Like, yes,
Speaker 1: they were trying to tell that story, but in execution
Speaker 1: and just in the way that that main event was presented,
Speaker 1: I thought it was hot garbage, and it really did.
Speaker 1: It brought this WrestleMania down a couple of notches, which
Speaker 1: is too bad because Night two was a lot better
Speaker 1: than Night one. I don't know what they were thinking.
Speaker 1: They probably thought it was cinema, because that's what they think.
Speaker 1: This all this is all cinema. Well guess what. Even
Speaker 1: in the cinema, I've seen some pretty shitty movies. This
Speaker 1: is your WrestleMania forty one Night number two review. It
Speaker 1: is four to twenty happy Easter. I am the Solemn Monster.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging out with me here. It is
Speaker 1: our second night in a row together. So last night
Speaker 1: it was Triple h in the ring. To open WrestleMania
Speaker 1: tonight it was Stephanie McMahon. She said the last time
Speaker 1: WrestleMania was in Las Vegas was for WrestleMania nine. At
Speaker 1: the time, she was sixteen years old. She said that
Speaker 1: she's at WrestleMania forty one now and her middle daughter
Speaker 1: is sixteen years old, and she says it's all about family.
Speaker 1: Pyro shot off very good. Michael Cole, Pat McAfee, Wade Barrett.
Speaker 1: For the second night in a row, they were our
Speaker 1: commentary team. I jinxed it. Okay, Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: If they don't win the World Series this year, you
Speaker 1: could blame me, okay, just just blame me. Could say
Speaker 1: it's my fault. They opened Night one with the triple
Speaker 1: Threat match. It's funny, you know, I should say night too,
Speaker 1: but they ended Night one is what I meant to say.
Speaker 1: They ended Night one with a triple threat match. They
Speaker 1: open Night two with a triple threat match, and those
Speaker 1: two triple threat matches were the best matches at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this year. Tonight, it was for the Women's World Championship,
Speaker 1: with Eo Sky defending her title against rear Ra Ripley
Speaker 1: and Bianca bell Air. More disrespect for the champion, she
Speaker 1: entered first. They had the champion enter first. Here in
Speaker 1: this match, Bianca bell Air comes out and she gets
Speaker 1: bowed very loudly during her entrance. She was actually bowed
Speaker 1: very loudly all throughout the match, even though she has
Speaker 1: done nothing wrong. She has done nothing wrong in this feud.
Speaker 1: The fans are the heels. Remember that, I say it
Speaker 1: all the time. The fans are the heels. There was
Speaker 1: a spot though, in this match where Bianca gave Vio
Speaker 1: three consecutive suplexes, including a delayed vertical at the very
Speaker 1: end before kipping up to her feet, and the fans
Speaker 1: couldn't help but applaud that they had. They had to
Speaker 1: applaud the athleticism of this woman. Rhea gave Vio a
Speaker 1: razor's edge into Bianca, which was cool. Ripley went to
Speaker 1: the apron early. She landed a cannonball dive out onto
Speaker 1: Bianca on the floor. Eo then hit Ripley with an
Speaker 1: asai moonsalt. A little while later, Ripley hoisted up EO
Speaker 1: and launched. That was where the razor's edge spot was.
Speaker 1: But after that, Ripley put EO in the prism lock
Speaker 1: and Bianca was able to break that up, so EO
Speaker 1: performed a springboard missile dropkick. She's playing to the crowd.
Speaker 1: Everybody is going nuts for her because everybody loves her.
Speaker 1: Every time she's like, she's like going crazy and she's
Speaker 1: like waving her arms around that everything. How can you
Speaker 1: not like this woman? Everybody just they always popped for
Speaker 1: So everyone is firmly behind Io at this point. But
Speaker 1: then she turns around and Bianca Belair pounces this woman
Speaker 1: into another dimension. She goes up top. She follows up
Speaker 1: with a four to fifty splash on EO, which Michael
Speaker 1: Cole called a shooting star press, and Wade Barrett corrected
Speaker 1: him and said that it was in fact not a
Speaker 1: shooting star press. So Ripley put Bianca down with her
Speaker 1: riptide finish, and Bianca kicked out. Ripley stood on the
Speaker 1: second rope after this, and she pulled up EO for
Speaker 1: riptide from the middle rope. EO so countered out of it.
Speaker 1: Took Rhea all the way down to the mat. She
Speaker 1: went up for her over the moon salt. Ripley, though,
Speaker 1: got her feet up as EO flew off, and Eo
Speaker 1: took this great bump. I mean, she got those feet
Speaker 1: right up in the face and Eo bumped kind of
Speaker 1: I can't even describe it, but the way she bumped
Speaker 1: it sent her backwards. She kind of stumbled backwards and
Speaker 1: into the clutches of Bianca, who hoisted her up for
Speaker 1: a kod she had the champion pinned. Ripley, though, broke
Speaker 1: it up. Crowd popped huge for that sequence, and deservedly
Speaker 1: so because it was great. Hey, Darth, have you gotten
Speaker 1: enough fien for this weekend? Fien, Fien, Fien. We heard
Speaker 1: that during the main event too, Fien. I'm gonna hear
Speaker 1: that in my sleep. I don't want to ever hear
Speaker 1: that song again. I've heard it so much. So. Bianki
Speaker 1: yells a Rhea, who was on her knees, and then
Speaker 1: Pie faces her. Ripley fires back. Bianca hits her with
Speaker 1: a big right hand. Ripley spits in Beyanka's face and
Speaker 1: then she gets Bianca on the apron. She runs her
Speaker 1: into the turnbuckle and Rio goes to the middle rope
Speaker 1: and she pulls Bianca up with her. Bianca fights Ripley.
Speaker 1: They're they're fighting up there, sent her to the floor
Speaker 1: with a head butt. Eo then went for a poison
Speaker 1: Rana on Rhea, but she stuffed the attempt. She held
Speaker 1: onto her and then what she did was she propelled
Speaker 1: her back up and over, and so Eo went face
Speaker 1: first into the top of the ring post and it
Speaker 1: made this great sound. Bianca pulled Ria down off the
Speaker 1: ropes onto her shoulders for a KOD, but Rhea landed
Speaker 1: on her feet. Bianca then avoided a riptide. She floated
Speaker 1: over and she whipped Ria with her braid and it
Speaker 1: just makes that great sound, just like with Live Morgan
Speaker 1: in the chamber. It's like a shotgun blast from hell.
Speaker 1: Whips her with the braid and then she successfully drops
Speaker 1: her with a KOD. But as Bianca had Ripley pinned,
Speaker 1: Leo hits both women with her over the moon salt.
Speaker 1: She crushes both women with it. She covers Bianca and
Speaker 1: she pins Bianca to retain the women's championship, and just
Speaker 1: like that, Eo Sky remains your Women's World champion. I
Speaker 1: loved how they kept Eo out of the shot too,
Speaker 1: so you didn't even see that she was coming. She
Speaker 1: just flew in from out of nowhere. And Bianca, interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: not Rhea. Bianca is the one who takes the losing fall.
Speaker 1: She is undefeated at WrestleMania no more, even though she
Speaker 1: really wasn't undefeated anyway. I mean, she was in a
Speaker 1: fucking Battle Royal and she lost. Okay, I mean she
Speaker 1: wasn't undefeated, but they wanted you to believe that she
Speaker 1: was undefeated because she didn't lose in a singles match
Speaker 1: she had already lost at WrestleMania. That's like saying the
Speaker 1: Undertaker was in a Battle Royal at WrestleMania eight and
Speaker 1: he lost, But he's undefeated at WrestleMania. No he's not. No,
Speaker 1: oh he's not. But now she's definitely been defeated. Now
Speaker 1: there can be no debate about this. This was an
Speaker 1: outstanding opener. I love this match. This match was great.
Speaker 1: This was one of the best openers, one of the
Speaker 1: better openers that you will find in WrestleMania history. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to rank it as the best. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say we're ranks among the best. It's among
Speaker 1: the best openers in WrestleMania history. This match right here
Speaker 1: could have made event at either night. This could have
Speaker 1: made evented Night one. This could have made evented tonight.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Had they ended the show with this,
Speaker 1: this show would have been better off for it. I
Speaker 1: know why they didn't. I'm just saying, though, had you
Speaker 1: closed the show with this, this would have been quite
Speaker 1: the way to end WrestleMania on a much higher note
Speaker 1: than they did. Never a dull moment here, crowd was
Speaker 1: super invested. The action I thought was great, never let up,
Speaker 1: and a very satisfying conclusion. You know, it just checked
Speaker 1: all the boxes. If there's one thing that surprised me,
Speaker 1: I was expecting Naomi to make an appearance here and
Speaker 1: she didn't show up. There was no and that's fine,
Speaker 1: but I thought she would. I thought she would at
Speaker 1: least show her face. There was no Naomi here. But
Speaker 1: Bianca didn't win, so she is staying on SmackDown and
Speaker 1: she will no doubt continue to be involved in this
Speaker 1: whole Naomi and Jade story on Friday night, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if the negative reactions continue for Bianca because she
Speaker 1: has been booed consistently now, going back to the European tour.
Speaker 1: During that European tour, it became very apparent that these
Speaker 1: fans started really booing her, noticeably booing her, And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll end when they come back to the States,
Speaker 1: and then it didn't end, and it has just continued
Speaker 1: from there. And part of it is a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons for this. First of all, this was a very
Speaker 1: pro heel crowd tonight. You heard it in the main event.
Speaker 1: They were booing Cody. You heard it in this match here,
Speaker 1: they were booing Bianca. They were cheering for Dominic Mysterio.
Speaker 1: So call out the WrestleMania effect, call it the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas effect. It was just the heel heavy crowd, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. That was part of it.
Speaker 1: But also, Rhea Ripley is insanely over. Rhea Ripley can
Speaker 1: stand in the middle of the ring and she can
Speaker 1: nutshot somebody and hit him with a chair and do
Speaker 1: all kinds of horrible shit, and people will still cheer
Speaker 1: for this woman and probably fantasize about her doing it
Speaker 1: to them. She's just insanely over right now. And Eosky
Speaker 1: is also very popular, so that's part of it. They
Speaker 1: love Leo, they love Rea. Bianca is almost like the
Speaker 1: odd person out here. I'm curious to see if these
Speaker 1: reactions continue, because if they do, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to have a choice but to even if it's
Speaker 1: not in their plans, but to incorporate a heel turn
Speaker 1: into their plans for Bianca bel air, and I'm here
Speaker 1: for it. I would love to see a Bianca heel
Speaker 1: turn and maybe align her and Naomi but his heels
Speaker 1: and let him go on a tear. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the plan or not, but be very interesting
Speaker 1: to see if that reaction continues for her. But you
Speaker 1: can't boo this woman for what she did tonight. Bianca
Speaker 1: was fantastic. All three women in this match I thought
Speaker 1: were fantastic. And this was right up there with that
Speaker 1: triple threat match from last night. Again, I said at
Speaker 1: the beginning, as a match, forget the story in the
Speaker 1: big twist ending for a second, just as a match,
Speaker 1: this was better than the main event last night. If
Speaker 1: you're really being objective about it, I believe this was
Speaker 1: the better match. This was the match that I enjoyed
Speaker 1: more and I loved the main event last night, but
Speaker 1: I think this was my favorite match of WrestleMania Weekend.
Speaker 1: So after this, we had Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: This was a Sin City street fight. McIntyre walked out
Speaker 1: dressed as Doomslayer while Kerrie King of the band Slayer
Speaker 1: played Priest out to the ring with a guitar solo.
Speaker 1: Kerry is out there and he's doing this guitar solo
Speaker 1: and I don't know what they did to his guitar
Speaker 1: our signal. Something sounded like it was just getting screwed up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was over modulated or what
Speaker 1: it was. But the beginning there sounded a little rough.
Speaker 1: But then Damian Priest came out. He played him to
Speaker 1: the ring and that was very cool. So they were
Speaker 1: fighting around ringside and McIntyre got the better of it
Speaker 1: and he hit Priest with the steel steps someone they
Speaker 1: identified him as McIntyre's brother, so I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: that it was McIntyre's brother. Hands him his smartphone and
Speaker 1: Drew takes like a selfie over Priest's body, and then
Speaker 1: he's typing a tweet. I assume a tweet, and then
Speaker 1: he hands the phone back to his brother and this motherfucker,
Speaker 1: let me show this to you here. This is what
Speaker 1: he posted on his Twitter and maybe his ig I
Speaker 1: didn't check his Instagram, but this was the second year
Speaker 1: in a row. This is the new annual tradition where
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre posts a photo during his match and says
Speaker 1: bored at work. This time he said, still bored at work.
Speaker 1: This man is a gem. He must be protected. So
Speaker 1: McIntyre cut off priest come back attempt. He hit a
Speaker 1: flip dive out over the top. Drew went for a
Speaker 1: Claymore kick. Priest though, threw a chair at his face
Speaker 1: and it didn't hit him with too much force, so
Speaker 1: McIntyre no soul at either that or he wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to take the chair, but he did anyway, and they
Speaker 1: just sort of ignored it. He came back anyway with
Speaker 1: the standing clay More instead of a running one, only
Speaker 1: got a two count. McIntyre wrapped a chair around Priest's
Speaker 1: head and he went for a claymore. Priest though, managed
Speaker 1: to grab him with one arm, still had the chair
Speaker 1: wrapped around his neck, and he hit a choke slam
Speaker 1: and then Priest hit McIntyre with a chair until Drew
Speaker 1: came back with a spinebuster, so Priest was able to
Speaker 1: avoid an avalanche white noise. He hit McIntyre with a
Speaker 1: razor's edge, threw a table that was set up in
Speaker 1: the ring, only got a near fall out of it.
Speaker 1: McIntyre followed with the Future Shock ddt on top of
Speaker 1: the ring steps. He had dragged the bottom part of
Speaker 1: the ring steps into the ring, so he gave him
Speaker 1: a future Shock, which he also took. You know, he
Speaker 1: took a good drubbing there from that blow and he
Speaker 1: landed back first, so that didn't work. Later on, Priest
Speaker 1: tried the Undertaker's old school ropewalk spot. McIntyre, though, shoved
Speaker 1: him off the ropes. They had set two tables up
Speaker 1: outside the ring earlier in the match that I had
Speaker 1: forgotten about, so when he shoved them backwards, Priest took
Speaker 1: this great bump through both tables and crashed through them.
Speaker 1: McIntyre then placed Priest's head against a chair that was
Speaker 1: wedged in between the ropes, and then he claimboored his
Speaker 1: face into the chair a chair assisted Claymore kick, and
Speaker 1: with that McIntyre covered him and he got the pin
Speaker 1: This was another really good match. They didn't go too
Speaker 1: crazy with all the plunder. You know, they had the
Speaker 1: steps and the chairs and the tables. That was pretty
Speaker 1: much it. I like the old school spot where Priest
Speaker 1: went through the two tables because, like I said, enough
Speaker 1: time had gone by where I had forgotten that those
Speaker 1: tables were even out there. And Priest got a good
Speaker 1: amount of offense here. But this should have been a
Speaker 1: McIntyre win. You know, Drew McIntyre, he needs to be
Speaker 1: elevated back to the main event. I can appreciate what
Speaker 1: these guys tried to do. You know. It was a
Speaker 1: fine mid card feud, and I like both these guys,
Speaker 1: but McIntire needs to be in that top mix, so
Speaker 1: I think it was more important for him to win
Speaker 1: this match. Now, you could argue the opposite and say
Speaker 1: that Priest is still trying to climb the ladder. McIntyre's
Speaker 1: kind of a made guy already. Priest could have used
Speaker 1: the win. McIntyre I think needed this win more than
Speaker 1: he did right now for where he's going. So I
Speaker 1: thought it was the right finish and hopefully with Priest,
Speaker 1: you know, he could start to get back some of
Speaker 1: that momentum that he had on Raw before he got
Speaker 1: transfer over to SmackDown because the crowds were going wild
Speaker 1: for him, and he really felt like, Okay, he's really
Speaker 1: breaking out as a true top guy, and I think
Speaker 1: he can do that on SmackDown, but the reactions just
Speaker 1: have not been the same as what they were on Raw,
Speaker 1: so hopefully he can recapture some of that. After this,
Speaker 1: we had a fatal four way match for the Intercontinental Championship.
Speaker 1: It was bron Breaker defending the title against Penta, Finn Balor,
Speaker 1: and Dominic Mysterio. This was Penta's WrestleMania debut, twenty four
Speaker 1: hours after his brother Ray Phoenix made his WrestleMania debut.
Speaker 1: This was pent His time. Dominic came out. He was
Speaker 1: wearing a white Raymisterio mask for his entrance and he
Speaker 1: struggled to pull it off, which Michael Cole thought was
Speaker 1: hilarious and he started laughing. Dominic and Balor they worked
Speaker 1: together to start. Cole emphasized that dom was zero for
Speaker 1: three at WrestleMania, which should have been assigned Penta. Domin
Speaker 1: Baler with a flip dive Breaker then came flying out
Speaker 1: of nowhere with a shoulder tackle off the Apron took
Speaker 1: out Penta. Back in the ring, Penta dove at Braun,
Speaker 1: who slammed him, and then Breaker followed with a press
Speaker 1: slam on Balor. He speared dom He had him beat
Speaker 1: Balor broke it up. Penta then performed his sacrifice arm
Speaker 1: Breaker to Finn Balor. Penta picked him up and held
Speaker 1: him up for a second. Breaker then suplex, then both
Speaker 1: at the same time, so Breaker kicked up. He pointed
Speaker 1: at Penta in the opposite corner. Breaker went for a spear.
Speaker 1: Penta moved and that caused Breaker to crash and burn.
Speaker 1: So now Carlito suddenly appears. He just he was there,
Speaker 1: came out of the crowd. I guess, so Carlito is
Speaker 1: your ringside. Dominic hit two of the three amigos. He
Speaker 1: couldn't get the third one, so Balor came over to
Speaker 1: help him finish the job on Penta. This crowd was
Speaker 1: completely pro Dominic mysterio. You would never know that this
Speaker 1: guy was such a heat magnet because these people badly
Speaker 1: wanted to see this guy win. They were completely in
Speaker 1: his camp. One hundred here and again, say it with me.
Speaker 1: The fans are the heels domin Balor. They tried to
Speaker 1: suitplex Breaker. He blocked it and supplexed them both up top.
Speaker 1: Breaker hit a Frankensteiner on Baler for a near fall.
Speaker 1: Dominic drop kicked Baler from behind at this point, and
Speaker 1: so their little their little alliance for understanding here was
Speaker 1: over and he went for a six one nine. Baller
Speaker 1: blocked it. He grabbed Dom's legs, he brought him back inside.
Speaker 1: He's looking at him like, what the fuck leg trip?
Speaker 1: Now he's putting the boots to him and he's stomping
Speaker 1: Dominic until Penta grabs Baler. He hits him with a
Speaker 1: Penta driver, and Penta had Baller pretty much dead to
Speaker 1: rights here. Breaker, they'll return to the ring to break
Speaker 1: it up. Breaker and don they squared off and bron
Speaker 1: ran the ropes. Carlito, though, pulled the top rope down
Speaker 1: and so Breaker went sailing out over the top to
Speaker 1: the floor. Penta then had dom pinned, but Carlito pull
Speaker 1: pent at a ringside and Carlito cleared off the Spanish
Speaker 1: announced desk and he was about to I think it
Speaker 1: was a Spanish one, might have been the English one.
Speaker 1: But he cleared off the announced desk and he was
Speaker 1: about to put him through the table or pull pent
Speaker 1: onto it is what he was going to do. Bron Breaker, though,
Speaker 1: was on the other announced desk, and Carlito sees this,
Speaker 1: and so here comes Bron and he sprints across both
Speaker 1: tables and he just destroys Carlito with a spear, causing
Speaker 1: the announced desk to collapse. And it's not easy to
Speaker 1: break these announced dead They're made of some harder material
Speaker 1: now metal. I think they were showing like the construction
Speaker 1: of the new curved announced desks. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is going to be a new thing, the whole curvature.
Speaker 1: I think they look cool, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was just a wrestle Mania thing or if that's
Speaker 1: the way they're going to be from now on. So
Speaker 1: it takes a lot to break these announced tables days,
Speaker 1: but it broke. I mean, it looked like a disaster
Speaker 1: area out there by the time this was over. So
Speaker 1: Breaker gets back into the ring. He spears Penta dom
Speaker 1: drop kicks Breaker from behind, hits him with a six
Speaker 1: y one to nine. Dominic is cheered as he's going
Speaker 1: up top. He's going to hit the splash, but here
Speaker 1: comes Finn Balor and Balor cuts him off. He was
Speaker 1: heavily booed. Balor hit Breaker with a sling blade, shotgun
Speaker 1: drop kick. He goes up top, he hits the Kuda
Speaker 1: grass to bron Breaker goes for the pin, but Dominick
Speaker 1: interrupts the pin from the top rope with a frog
Speaker 1: splash onto Baller and he pins Finn Balor to win
Speaker 1: the Intercontinental Championship. We were three for three so far
Speaker 1: at this point in the show. Uh, but that kicked
Speaker 1: ass and again all action. Never a dull moment here.
Speaker 1: Everybody was involved and everybody had a chance to shine.
Speaker 1: Bron Breakers in there, he's looking like a badass. Penta
Speaker 1: was able to shine himself in his WrestleMania debut, and
Speaker 1: they continued the drama. The story between Balor and dom
Speaker 1: who have been at odds. They've been butting heads now
Speaker 1: for many months in the Judgment Day and so him
Speaker 1: stealing that pin from Balor and winning the championship and
Speaker 1: effectively taking it away from him and stealing it from
Speaker 1: him clearly is going to play into this whole Judgment
Speaker 1: Day story and a very likely split that we'll have soon,
Speaker 1: which is probably more than overdue in the judgment day.
Speaker 1: But I told you, I told you coming into this,
Speaker 1: I said, this is going to be dirty doms night.
Speaker 1: I see, he's my guy, He's the guy I was
Speaker 1: going with. It just felt like it was the right
Speaker 1: time in this story to make this move. I just
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting the reaction to be what it was. You
Speaker 1: would think that this was like a huge babyface win
Speaker 1: in the main event of WrestleMania. With the reaction that
Speaker 1: this guy got, everybody was on their feet, everybody was
Speaker 1: cheering and smiling and happy. He got a tremendous reaction.
Speaker 1: And then as he's leaving, right he takes the championship
Speaker 1: and he's walking out, and they show replays when they
Speaker 1: come back from the replace, he's still like halfway up
Speaker 1: the ramp. He sprints back down to the ring like
Speaker 1: pass ballor and everybody. He sprints back down to the ring,
Speaker 1: dives into the ring to celebrate some more so, I
Speaker 1: wonder if they gave him the cue like hey, get
Speaker 1: back in the ring and go celebrate, and so the
Speaker 1: fans cheered for him all over again. Bron Breaker is
Speaker 1: protected from taking the losing fall, which I figured he
Speaker 1: would be, and that now frees him up to move
Speaker 1: up the ladder. So I don't know who he works
Speaker 1: with now, like in the immediate future, in the near term,
Speaker 1: but it does free him up now to potentially challenge
Speaker 1: for the World Championship. You know, later on in the year,
Speaker 1: maybe he wins money in the bank, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know that he needs money in
Speaker 1: the bank, and it doesn't sound like they're going to
Speaker 1: be doing King of the Ring this year, but it
Speaker 1: does free him up to do bigger things than just
Speaker 1: the Intercontinental title. The only thing is, if I had
Speaker 1: one criticism of what they did here, they did the
Speaker 1: exact same finish as what we saw in the opener,
Speaker 1: and actually this finish worked better here. So I have
Speaker 1: no issue with him doing this finish here because for
Speaker 1: this story it worked. But it was the same exact
Speaker 1: finish we got in the triple Threat match to open
Speaker 1: the show. But other than that, these two matches here,
Speaker 1: these are the two best matches on Night two. I
Speaker 1: thought this was great. That is decidedly not great, But Alex,
Speaker 1: you are great. Thank you for the twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: free Mode. Good to see Alex with us tonight. Up
Speaker 1: next with the open challenge, Randy Orton was left without
Speaker 1: a match at WrestleMania this year, his twentieth WrestleMania appearance.
Speaker 1: When Kevin Owens went down with his neck injury. Who
Speaker 1: would he be facing on this show? Who would step
Speaker 1: forward to answer the open challenge of Randy Orton? Orton
Speaker 1: gets in the ring and he says, this is his
Speaker 1: twentieth WrestleMania. Whoever his opponent is, they would get their
Speaker 1: WrestleMania fame, I guess, courtesy of an RKO. And so
Speaker 1: they waited and waited and teased it. They wanted you
Speaker 1: to just wait a little bit longer and build up
Speaker 1: the drama, you know, extra dramatic effect here. Is it
Speaker 1: going to be Nick Aldo? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: Solo Sokoa? Is it going to be Russev? Is it
Speaker 1: going to be someone else who's about to make their
Speaker 1: big debut for the company. Did Jeff Cobb fly all
Speaker 1: the way from Japan after losing to Tanahashi yesterday to
Speaker 1: be the opponent for Randy Orton? He would have come
Speaker 1: out to fucking crickets. It's a good thing it wasn't him, Now,
Speaker 1: it wasn't any of these people it was the TNA
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Champion. For the first time in WrestleMania history,
Speaker 1: the TNA World Heavyweight Champ makes it appearance Joe Hendry,
Speaker 1: who got a very good reaction. These people knew who
Speaker 1: he was. They played his video, they played the song.
Speaker 1: He comes out, He's got the championship around his waist,
Speaker 1: big smile on his face, and he's swaying his hands.
Speaker 1: He's waving his hands back and forth, swaying. Everybody in
Speaker 1: the crowd is swaying as he makes his way down
Speaker 1: to the ring. This was the biggest moment in this
Speaker 1: man's life. He walks out there. This is his WrestleMania debut.
Speaker 1: He's out there in front of sixty thousand or what
Speaker 1: they claim is sixty thousand people right packed house, fans
Speaker 1: as far as the eye can see, more fans than
Speaker 1: he has ever performed in front of his entire life.
Speaker 1: And he's got the TNA World Heavyweight Championship around his waist.
Speaker 1: He is there representing TNA. If you don't think that
Speaker 1: that wasn't the biggest moment of this man's career, you're
Speaker 1: fooling yourself. He was loving every second of this. He
Speaker 1: was taking it all in. So the fans, like I
Speaker 1: said they were, they were totally with this. Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: thought the title would be on the line. I don't
Speaker 1: know why he thought the title would be on the line.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. And so Michael Call smartened him up and
Speaker 1: said that it wasn't, which is a good thing given
Speaker 1: what ended up happening here. This did not last very long.
Speaker 1: Hendry gets in the ring and you know what he
Speaker 1: does with the pose where he turns and he smiles
Speaker 1: and the ocata zoom on his face. So he did that.
Speaker 1: Orton went for an RKO right away. I was like,
Speaker 1: they're not going to do this. I swear to god,
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was going to be RKO one,
Speaker 1: two three, But he went for an RKO. Henry fought
Speaker 1: him off and he hit a neck breaker. Hendry started
Speaker 1: stomping on the mat. He's getting the crowd into it.
Speaker 1: They're clapping Orton though. Now he was setting up for
Speaker 1: the choke slam that he does. So he he goozles
Speaker 1: Orton by the neck and Orton just no sells this
Speaker 1: and he looks down in like confusion, like what are
Speaker 1: you doing? What are you attempting? To do here, you're
Speaker 1: not the undertaker, so that he pokes him in the
Speaker 1: eye and Hendry is blinded. Orton then hits a draping DDT.
Speaker 1: He sets up for an RKO, Hendry blocks it and
Speaker 1: he hits a fallaway slam. Henry then turns and he
Speaker 1: does the zoomed in face again, right they zoom in
Speaker 1: on him. He does the face and then out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: Randy Orton comes flying in and he takes this man
Speaker 1: down with an RKO, truly out of nowhere, which was
Speaker 1: fucking amazing, Like just the camera shot, the timing of it,
Speaker 1: the reaction to it was just pitch perfect. It was
Speaker 1: high comedy is what it was. And he covers Joe Hendry,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming. Randy Orton picks up the wind. The
Speaker 1: match itself lasted about as long as Joe Hendry did
Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble. Was in the Royal Rumble for
Speaker 1: about three and a half minutes, and that's about how
Speaker 1: long this match went. This match went about three and
Speaker 1: a half minutes. I thought that, I really did. I
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna have Orton fly in and finish
Speaker 1: him off in the first ten seconds. I legitimately thought
Speaker 1: they are going to bury the fuck out of this guy,
Speaker 1: and they're literally going to ring the bell and squash
Speaker 1: him in ten seconds for that WrestleMania moment. It's like
Speaker 1: when the Heart Foundation beat the Bolsheviks WrestleMania six. But
Speaker 1: they didn't do that. They actually gave him some offense.
Speaker 1: You cannot say that it was a total squash, because
Speaker 1: it was. It could have been, but it was not
Speaker 1: a total squash. You know what they were going for here.
Speaker 1: They were going for a WrestleMania moment. This was not
Speaker 1: even this was not a match so much as they
Speaker 1: were going for the moment, right. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: They go for the moments and the memes and the
Speaker 1: viral video that they can post on social media, WrestleMania moments. Right.
Speaker 1: They talk about this stuff all the time. That's what
Speaker 1: this was, and what they we're trying to do is
Speaker 1: make the best of a bad situation. Nobody that they
Speaker 1: would put in the ring with Randy Orton. Nobody, not
Speaker 1: even like a Nick alldis right, who had been RKO
Speaker 1: twice by this man, going back a couple of years
Speaker 1: when he ate that first one. Anybody on the current roster.
Speaker 1: There was no story that was going to be there
Speaker 1: to support this match in the way that there would
Speaker 1: have been a story for a Randy Orton Kevin Owens match.
Speaker 1: You were not going to be able to replicate that.
Speaker 1: Randy Orton and Kevin Owens were friends. They were allies
Speaker 1: on TV for a good chunk of the year last
Speaker 1: year until Orton you got laid out by Owens, and
Speaker 1: then he got the pile driver. He was out for
Speaker 1: four months. He sat home for four months selling that
Speaker 1: pile driver. Everything was building to the punk kick, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, we ended up not getting a punk
Speaker 1: kick at all. I thought he was going to punt
Speaker 1: Hendry in the head. We didn't get a punk kick,
Speaker 1: but that was the story. That's what everything was building towards.
Speaker 1: As soon as Kevin Owens went down with an injury,
Speaker 1: that was it. There was no more story. So what
Speaker 1: do you do. You go for the moment. You try
Speaker 1: to give people a moment because there is no story
Speaker 1: on two weeks notice. So that's what they did here
Speaker 1: and so I didn't have an issue with it. It
Speaker 1: will end up being one of the more memorable moments
Speaker 1: of this entire weekend. And Joe Hendry gets his first
Speaker 1: WrestleMania appearance that John Alba did tweet this out. He
Speaker 1: said multiple TNA Soores has told me that Joe Hendry
Speaker 1: was supposed to work a match on the main roster
Speaker 1: on the Scotland Raw, but plans changed. One told me
Speaker 1: earlier today about a potential make good coming for him. Well,
Speaker 1: I would say that he got a pretty good make
Speaker 1: good here, being able to wrestle Randy or At a
Speaker 1: fucking future Hall of Famer in his twentieth match at
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania I'd say that's a pretty good make good.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I should show you this too.
Speaker 1: There it is on your screen right now. They have
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry merch on WWE shop right now. He actually
Speaker 1: has a T shirt say his name and he appears
Speaker 1: with the WrestleMania logo and his own little logo in there.
Speaker 1: So they have merch for him up on WWE Shop.
Speaker 1: It's a shirt, I think a hoodie. They have a
Speaker 1: hoodie up there for him as well. The only thing
Speaker 1: is they actually say it may not ship out until
Speaker 1: May twenty third, which is kind of unfortunate because it's
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania shirt. So this WrestleMania shirt may not ship
Speaker 1: out for another month, but if you want to buy it,
Speaker 1: you can go pick it up right now and place
Speaker 1: your order. Hopefully he gets a cut of that merch.
Speaker 1: But we weren't done yet. So again, I had no
Speaker 1: issue with what they had done up to this point.
Speaker 1: I know some people are going to look at this
Speaker 1: and go, they buried him. You couldn't give him more time, No,
Speaker 1: because that's not what this was supposed to be. This
Speaker 1: was not meant to be a ten minute competitive wrestling match.
Speaker 1: What don't you understand about that? And I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you too, if you are a diehard TNA fan,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I haven't looked, I haven't looked at the
Speaker 1: forums or anything like that, but I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: that the real TNA fans, the real diehard TNA fans,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna see this as a burial either. They're
Speaker 1: gonna see it for what it is, and they'll probably
Speaker 1: be happy for Joe Hendry because they recognize, you know,
Speaker 1: what this really was supposed to be. This, This was
Speaker 1: not a burial up to this point. Who weren't done yet.
Speaker 1: So Orton helps Hendry to his feet and he raises
Speaker 1: his arm, poses for the crowd on one side, raises
Speaker 1: his arm and poses for the crowd on another side,
Speaker 1: and then he drops him with a second RKO. He
Speaker 1: dropped this fucking guy twice with an RKO, and then
Speaker 1: Orton mockingly turned to do the Joe Hendry pose instead,
Speaker 1: he did his own Randy Orton douche pose that he does,
Speaker 1: and the camera zoomed in and he had a good laugh,
Speaker 1: and it was funny. It was hilarious. But when I
Speaker 1: saw that, when I saw the second RKO and then
Speaker 1: I saw that the zoomed in mocking shot, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they did my They did my men dirty here with
Speaker 1: that second RKO. They could have left well enough alone,
Speaker 1: but man, they did my They did my guy dirty here,
Speaker 1: hit him with the second RKO and stole the man's pose.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to do him like that. He'll be okay, though,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be fine. This week's episode
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Speaker 1: had AJ Styles in the very next match here, one
Speaker 1: on one with Logan Paul. By the way, shout out
Speaker 1: to the forty one hundred plus who were hanging out
Speaker 1: with me here on a Sunday night as we wrap
Speaker 1: up WrestleMania Night two. AJ Styles against Logan Paul. Logan
Speaker 1: held a drone camera in the ring and he brought
Speaker 1: it to ringside the match begins. I had high hopes
Speaker 1: for this match just given the talent involved here, Logan Paul,
Speaker 1: great athlete. Logan, Paul's had some great matches. AJ Styles
Speaker 1: has had a career of great matches, not too many
Speaker 1: of them have come at WrestleMania, and I was really
Speaker 1: hoping that I don't know how many more WrestleMania matches
Speaker 1: he even has. I was hoping that with Logan Paul
Speaker 1: as his opponent, they would go out there and have
Speaker 1: a kick ass match. A kick Ass is not a
Speaker 1: word I would use to describe this match. It was
Speaker 1: not a bad match, but it will not go down
Speaker 1: as a great WrestleMania match either. I was. I was
Speaker 1: kind of underwhelmed by this match. But it's the amazing
Speaker 1: goom thought oh, King Nator is bad. Jerry Mohler loves
Speaker 1: goom Thar a magnificent all hell, goom hey King Nator.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Man? King Nator was here with us
Speaker 1: last night. I have one pair of skinny jeans and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear them every week just to piss you off,
Speaker 1: Big Dave wearing those skinny jeans. Yeah, you know. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is the point in the show where things did
Speaker 1: start to fall off. All those kick ass matches I
Speaker 1: talked about at the beginning of the show, like they
Speaker 1: were firing those first three matches man, like three in
Speaker 1: a row. And then we had the Open Challenge, which
Speaker 1: was a fun moment, and then it just started to
Speaker 1: taper off. But here Logan tried a slingshot dive with
Speaker 1: Aj at ringside. Stiles, though trapped him in the ring
Speaker 1: skirt started firing away at him. Styles also drove him
Speaker 1: into the barricade right where Nick Kahn was sitting with
Speaker 1: his son. We'll get back to Nick con here in
Speaker 1: a little bit. So Logan gained the advantage by shoving
Speaker 1: Aj into the ring post and then he grabbed the
Speaker 1: drone camera which was sitting on top of the Prime
Speaker 1: Hydration station. Are you tired by the way after this
Speaker 1: weekend of all of these sponsors that were plastered all
Speaker 1: over the ringside area? We had the Prime Hydration station.
Speaker 1: They were showing us tonight what was the guy in
Speaker 1: the mascot costume? Minute Made right? The Minute Made mascot.
Speaker 1: They kept going back to the Minute Made match Scott.
Speaker 1: Of course, they had all the logos on the mat,
Speaker 1: they had the logos on the turnbuckles, they had logos up.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't escape it like it's all over
Speaker 1: the place. I mean they're probably making money on all
Speaker 1: this shit. Hand over fist. I know why they're doing it,
Speaker 1: but it's like sensory overload with all of this shit. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So yes, the drone was sitting over by the Prime
Speaker 1: hydration station and he sent it into the air, and
Speaker 1: so we went with the drone shot footage, which was
Speaker 1: terrible quality, and they stuck with it for like fucking
Speaker 1: ninety seconds. I'm like, can we go back to the
Speaker 1: regular feed please, I'm watching WrestleMania on a fucking drone
Speaker 1: as he's beating up AJ Styles. Styles came back with
Speaker 1: a quick flurry, including a fireman's carry, neckbreaker, sliding forearm,
Speaker 1: and a brainbuster for two. AJ set up for the
Speaker 1: phenomenal forearm, Paul grabbed him off the ropes, then hit
Speaker 1: a rolling sent on and a lion salt for a
Speaker 1: two count. That's right, the General, Yes, well, the General
Speaker 1: was one of the sponsors. They had the General Insurance
Speaker 1: logo on the mat, not the ring General who lost
Speaker 1: to the yeat Man last night at WrestleMania. So Logan
Speaker 1: avoided a Styles clash. He hit a buckshot lariot, which
Speaker 1: I believe Pat McAfee referred to it as the buckshot
Speaker 1: lariot on commentary. Styles ducked a right hand and hit
Speaker 1: a rack bomb for a two count. AJ went for
Speaker 1: a springboard four fifty. Logan got the knees up and
Speaker 1: hit a styles clash. AJ though rolls right through it
Speaker 1: after he hits it, but he rolls through it and
Speaker 1: he gets Logan up for a styles clash of his own,
Speaker 1: and now both men are down. He basically no sold
Speaker 1: his own finish, which I guess he's allowed to do
Speaker 1: because it's his move or should I say Michelle mccool's move.
Speaker 1: That'll piss some people though, But yeah, so he basically
Speaker 1: no sold his own move there. So at that point
Speaker 1: we see Logan's friend Jeff. Now I don't know who
Speaker 1: this guy is. We are told that he's a friend
Speaker 1: of Logan's. We've seen him in multiple matches. He's the
Speaker 1: guy who's always like trying to pass the brass knucks
Speaker 1: to him, like over the barricade, only this time Jeff
Speaker 1: apparently security is okay with this guy. Jeff lurking around
Speaker 1: ringside and he's kind of crouched down so the referee
Speaker 1: doesn't see him, and you could see that he's got
Speaker 1: the brass knucks and he's waiting for the right moment
Speaker 1: to pass the knucks over to Logan and he tries
Speaker 1: to do so, but before he can, Carrying Cross appears
Speaker 1: and he grabs them away from him. Now, we always
Speaker 1: saw it first was a hand come in, and then
Speaker 1: the camera pan back and we see carrying Cross. And
Speaker 1: when they showed carrying Cross, the people popped. That was
Speaker 1: the biggest pop I think he's ever gotten in all
Speaker 1: the years he's been in WWE. Now, granted, he's been
Speaker 1: a heel pretty much his entire run there, but the
Speaker 1: fans actually reacted. They popped for carrying Cross. They were
Speaker 1: happy to see him. And so he stops Jeff from
Speaker 1: passing the brass knucks into the ring and AJ comes outside.
Speaker 1: He throws Jeff Aside over into the barricade, and so
Speaker 1: now we have Cross talking to AJ and he is
Speaker 1: pleading with AJ, calling him Alan, please, Alan, use the knucks.
Speaker 1: He wants him to embrace the dark side. Use the knucks.
Speaker 1: AJ throws the knucks aside. He punches Cross in the
Speaker 1: face and you could hear booze. You could hear some
Speaker 1: booze for that. AJ is gonna do it the fair way.
Speaker 1: He ended up falling victim to the same thing that
Speaker 1: John Cena did at the end of or a Cody
Speaker 1: Road did at the end of the show. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're a young kid watching WWEE now that I
Speaker 1: think about it as I sit here and I'm going
Speaker 1: through this like it sends a horrible message to Eddie,
Speaker 1: little kid watching this show who wants to do the
Speaker 1: right thing, and they're talked for their entire life that
Speaker 1: if you want to win and you want to do good,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it the right way. Right. You don't cheat,
Speaker 1: you don't take short cuts, you don't take a backstep, right,
Speaker 1: you do it the right way, the fair fight right.
Speaker 1: Aj Styles opted not to use the brass knucks and
Speaker 1: he threw them away, and in the end it cost
Speaker 1: him because he goes back up on the apron and
Speaker 1: he's going to go for the phenomenal forearm. Logan though
Speaker 1: ducks it and then he nails him with that loaded
Speaker 1: fist and then he follows that with a Paul Verizer
Speaker 1: and he pins aj Styles. And what did we see
Speaker 1: in the main event? Cody Rhodes had a choice to make.
Speaker 1: He was going to fight fair. He got kicked in
Speaker 1: the dick and he lost his title. So remember that, kids,
Speaker 1: if you fight fair. Okay, you're a loser. Losers fight fair.
Speaker 1: If you want to win, you got to cheat. And
Speaker 1: as Al Bundy used to say, it's only cheating if
Speaker 1: you get caught. That's the message coming out of WrestleMania
Speaker 1: forty one. This year. It was actually a very, very
Speaker 1: much a heel WrestleMania. We had, I think for the
Speaker 1: first time since WrestleMania went to the two night format,
Speaker 1: we had back to back nights with the heels going
Speaker 1: over in the main event. I don't believe that's ever
Speaker 1: happened before. So again, all your little kids out there,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, learn from this. They say, don't try
Speaker 1: this at home, right whenever you tuned into WWE, But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you apply that in your life. You
Speaker 1: learned a very valuable lesson tonight. I thought it was
Speaker 1: cool to see Cross get a pop because I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting that. I didn't even know he was going to
Speaker 1: be there. And so it looks like his story with
Speaker 1: AJ is going to continue instead of him just kind
Speaker 1: of disappearing into the void, which is what I thought
Speaker 1: might happen, Like, Okay, he had his little story with AJ,
Speaker 1: and then he's going to go away and we're not
Speaker 1: going to see him again for six months. But it
Speaker 1: looks like his story with AJ is going to continue,
Speaker 1: which which is cool. I just I thought this match
Speaker 1: had the potential to be so much more than it was.
Speaker 1: And when it was over again, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say it was a bad match. Like the work itself
Speaker 1: was fine. It was just boring and the Crab was
Speaker 1: very quiet for it. It was like the Comdown match. At
Speaker 1: no point did you know it feel like they were
Speaker 1: fully invested in this match. But I'm not surprised because
Speaker 1: look at the build. It was very basic, very pedestrian.
Speaker 1: You had AJ calling him out at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: Three weeks later, Logan calls him out. It was a
Speaker 1: very very generic build to this match, and the fans
Speaker 1: treated it like a very generic match. And unfortunately, AJ
Speaker 1: Styles suffers a loss here and it's not a WrestleMania
Speaker 1: match for him that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are going to really remember much about. I don't know
Speaker 1: how this happened. This match went almost eighteen minutes, and
Speaker 1: I realized at this point that outside of the main
Speaker 1: event last night, outside of the two main events, I
Speaker 1: do believe this match Here was the longest WrestleMania match
Speaker 1: of either night outside of the two main events. I
Speaker 1: don't know how the hell that happened. I guess Logan
Speaker 1: was able to They want Logan Paul to have plenty
Speaker 1: of time to do his thing. There was no reason
Speaker 1: for this to go eighteen minutes. This went longer than
Speaker 1: the women's triple Threat match. This went longer than the
Speaker 1: fatal four way match. I believe that's crazy. That is crazy.
Speaker 1: Then we had the women's tag team titles live Morgan
Speaker 1: in Riquel Rodriguez. They walk in as the champions. They
Speaker 1: defend their titles here against Lyra, Valkyria and a mystery partner.
Speaker 1: Now why a mystery partner, because it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be Bailey and Lyra. Bailey and Lyra. They won a
Speaker 1: gauntlet match on SmackDown last week to earn the right
Speaker 1: to challenge for these titles. On the kickoff show yesterday,
Speaker 1: they shot an angle where Bailey was attacked off camera.
Speaker 1: We saw her laying there by a mystery attacker. She
Speaker 1: was holding her shoulder. We don't know who. We don't
Speaker 1: know what happened or how it happened. Adam Pearce is
Speaker 1: on the scene and he tells Lyra, oh, well, it
Speaker 1: appears that Bailey is out of WrestleMania. She hadn't even
Speaker 1: been evaluated yet. They've already made a medical decision that
Speaker 1: she's not going to be cleared in time for WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and she gave Lyra twenty four hours to find herself
Speaker 1: a partner to replace Bailey. So we had two mystery
Speaker 1: person angles on this show, one with Randy Orton and
Speaker 1: one here in this tag team match. And so enter
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch, who we have not seen in almost a year.
Speaker 1: The last time we saw Becky Lynch was on Raw
Speaker 1: last year when she lost to Live Morgan in a
Speaker 1: steel cage match. And apparently she's been waiting to come
Speaker 1: back for a while. They've just been waiting to figure
Speaker 1: out creative They just could not decide on a creative
Speaker 1: idea for her to come back until now, and this
Speaker 1: was the idea that they came up with, which brings
Speaker 1: me back to Bailey. Is Bailey really hurt? No, she's not.
Speaker 1: This is all Angle And apparently they knew at least
Speaker 1: a few weeks in advance what the plan was. Now
Speaker 1: I don't know how far in advance Bailey knew. Even
Speaker 1: if Bailey knew two or three weeks ago, it's still
Speaker 1: pretty fucked up. Yeah, that she's advertised for a WrestleMania
Speaker 1: match and then gets pulled from the show, even if
Speaker 1: she was not really, you know, intended for this spot
Speaker 1: in the first place. But she gets pulled from the
Speaker 1: show and she wasn't even on the show. She wasn't
Speaker 1: in their corner, like, she just wasn't seen at all,
Speaker 1: totally off the show. But she's one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 1: It's nothing wrong. That's that's pretty fucked up. I do
Speaker 1: feel bad for her. But Becky gets her spot, and
Speaker 1: so they kick things off here and the heels very
Speaker 1: quickly take control Live shoves Lyra off the top into
Speaker 1: a big boot by Raquel. Lyra almost made a hot
Speaker 1: tag Morgan though yanked Becky off the apron. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a direction. You can fuck That's my message to Triple
Speaker 1: H after that main event tonight. Since the Rock couldn't
Speaker 1: be here to say it himself, I'll say it for him.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is, but he was not
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas tonight, Thank you brother. Anyway, Becky, she
Speaker 1: is reaching for the tag and the way this was shot.
Speaker 1: At first, I thought that she pulled her hand away
Speaker 1: from Lyra and was turning a heel. I didn't notice
Speaker 1: it first, and then they cut and they could. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could see that Live pulled her off the apron.
Speaker 1: But at first, I'm like, oh shit, what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Becky did eventually make the hot tag, though she gave
Speaker 1: Raquel a Molly go round before hitting Live with a
Speaker 1: fallaway slam. Becky put Morgan in a disarm her Rodriguez
Speaker 1: broke it up with a boot to the face. Morgan
Speaker 1: hit Becky with Oblivion, but Lyra broke up the cover,
Speaker 1: and after Lyra took out Raquel outside the ring with
Speaker 1: a Tornado DDT on the floor, Becky hit Morgan with
Speaker 1: a manhandle slam and she pinned Live Morgan. She got
Speaker 1: her revenge for the cage match last year because Live's
Speaker 1: been gloating ever since that she retired Becky Lynch, so
Speaker 1: this was Becky's revenge. Becky Lynch and Lyra Valkyria are
Speaker 1: the new women's tag team champions. Michael Coles on commentary
Speaker 1: already calling her Lyra two belts because I can't think
Speaker 1: of a less original thing to come up with gee.
Speaker 1: I wonder where he got that from. We go from
Speaker 1: Becky two belts to Lyra two belts. She is now
Speaker 1: one half of the women's tag Team Champions and the
Speaker 1: women's Intercontinental Champion. That I was not expecting now had
Speaker 1: they gone through with the original plan in kfabe, what
Speaker 1: the original plan was, I wasn't expecting a title change here.
Speaker 1: But with Becky in there, were they really going to
Speaker 1: bring Becky back and have her lose unless she was
Speaker 1: gonna turn heel. That would have made no sense for
Speaker 1: her to come back after almost a year away against
Speaker 1: the woman who quote unquote retired her and then lose.
Speaker 1: So you had to know as soon as she came
Speaker 1: out here they're probably winning the tag team titles, and
Speaker 1: sure enough that's what happened. Now they had an average match.
Speaker 1: The crowd was not as up for this match as
Speaker 1: you would think given how big of a name Becky is,
Speaker 1: And maybe she's not at the peak of when she
Speaker 1: was at her hottest in twenty eighteen. Hottest as an act.
Speaker 1: We're talking twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: but still she's a major name. We haven't seen her
Speaker 1: in a long time. She got a great reaction coming out.
Speaker 1: The match itself though, is just kind of like eh,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of how the crowd was, eh, you know,
Speaker 1: but they were happy to see them win the titles.
Speaker 1: Lyra was obviously a static to have two championships. This
Speaker 1: is not the first time that Becky Lynch has come
Speaker 1: back her first match back and won a championship. And
Speaker 1: so over all, the people who want to throw shade
Speaker 1: at Charlotte Flair and hey, rightfully so in some cases perhaps,
Speaker 1: but you want to throw shade at Charlotte and crack
Speaker 1: jokes and everything, you gotta be fair about it. Here
Speaker 1: not the first time that we've seen this with Becky Lynn.
Speaker 1: She comes back and all of a sudden she's got
Speaker 1: gold around her waist. I just hope they have a
Speaker 1: good story to support it, and I hope Bailey gets
Speaker 1: a good spot in this and is going to be
Speaker 1: a part of this story as well, because she really
Speaker 1: got the shaft here. So the question is, does Bailey
Speaker 1: go heel? Does Becky ultimately go heel and then work
Speaker 1: a program for the IC title with Lyra, which I
Speaker 1: think would not be a bad idea. It would not
Speaker 1: be a bad idea for her to win the Icy
Speaker 1: title and work a longer program with Lyra and then
Speaker 1: put her over at the end. I wouldn't even mind
Speaker 1: that necessarily. It feels more like, if anyone's gonna go heel,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be Bailey. And if she does, I
Speaker 1: hope she gets a hell of a run, because after this,
Speaker 1: I can understand why people would be a set yeah,
Speaker 1: that she got jobbed out here by not being a
Speaker 1: part of this. So then we get to now nobody, nobody,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, got injured or seriously injured.
Speaker 1: So I can laugh about this. Let's talk about this segment.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if he might make a cameo appearance
Speaker 1: in the main event, but then the glass shattered and
Speaker 1: outcomes Stone Cold Steve Austin, and I said, well, I
Speaker 1: guess we're not going to see him in the main event.
Speaker 1: If he's coming out here, we're not going to see
Speaker 1: him in the main event. But I was happy to
Speaker 1: see Stone Cold. I hear the music, and he makes
Speaker 1: a cameo here on this show. He was at the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and he was out there last night
Speaker 1: when they had the Hall of Famers on stage, and
Speaker 1: I didn't see it at first. I saw it after
Speaker 1: the fact, so I didn't mention this in my review.
Speaker 1: But I went back and I watched it when all
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famers except Lex Luger, we're on stage
Speaker 1: and Triple H comes out and he's shaking hands with
Speaker 1: each of the inductees. After he shook Brett Hart's hand,
Speaker 1: Brett had this just priceless look on his face, like
Speaker 1: he shakes his hand and then he's looking at someone
Speaker 1: like in the other direction. He's just like he just
Speaker 1: makes this like you could just tell, like the contempt
Speaker 1: that he still has deep down and maybe not even
Speaker 1: so much deep down for Triple H. Like he really doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't much care for Triple H. And you could
Speaker 1: understand why he was the mastermind of the screwjob. It
Speaker 1: was his idea. I don't think he's ever forgot that.
Speaker 1: That was funny to me. Brett knows how to hold
Speaker 1: a grudge, I will say that. But Austin was back
Speaker 1: here for the third time this weekend, and he drove
Speaker 1: out on an ATV, not the first time he's done
Speaker 1: this at Wrestlemanie. He drove out in an ATV for
Speaker 1: the segment with Kevin Owens a few years ago before
Speaker 1: they had the match. Now that the ramp was kind
Speaker 1: of narrow, and I'm like, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: beers he's had so far tonight, but hopefully he can
Speaker 1: just you know, drive, drive in a straight line. So
Speaker 1: he safely made it all the way down the ramp
Speaker 1: and he is driving his ATV at a high rate
Speaker 1: of speed around the ring and he does one lap
Speaker 1: around the ring and so he's coming around the bend
Speaker 1: again and Michael call on commentary is talking about how
Speaker 1: you know, nervous he gets when he sees you know,
Speaker 1: Austin out here driving like this, and you can understand why.
Speaker 1: As he's turning the corner around one of the posts,
Speaker 1: he crashes into the fucking led barricade, like right into
Speaker 1: the front right and crack into the front row. But
Speaker 1: like he crashes into the wall and I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was stuck, like the wheel was I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he like he crashes into the
Speaker 1: wall and there's a woman and I watched this back, Okay,
Speaker 1: he didn't like hit the woman. There was a woman
Speaker 1: who was I think standing there and I guess the impact,
Speaker 1: It was almost like a delayed impact or a delayed reaction,
Speaker 1: and she just throwed it very slowly, just kind of
Speaker 1: fell back into her chair. It wasn't like the fucking
Speaker 1: impact knocked her down on the ground. But she falls
Speaker 1: back into her chair and she has this look on
Speaker 1: her face like she's shocked in a pull. She's angry,
Speaker 1: and Austin obviously said something, probably apologized to her, didn't matter,
Speaker 1: like she still had this fucking pissed off look on
Speaker 1: her face. So Austin just leaves the ATV. I really
Speaker 1: think maybe the wheel was stuck or something. You couldn't
Speaker 1: move it. So he just gets off the ATV and
Speaker 1: gets into the ring to do his segment. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this this woman was She was not happy. She did
Speaker 1: not look happy at all. And in fact, Nick Cohn
Speaker 1: later on he went over, he was in a different section.
Speaker 1: Nick Cohn came over to go talk to this Well,
Speaker 1: of course he did, because he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is a lawsuit waiting to happen here. Let me go,
Speaker 1: let me go, uh check out this woman to make
Speaker 1: sure everything's okay. Maybe we'll uh we'll give her tickets
Speaker 1: to fucking backlash or something. We'll give her a Joe
Speaker 1: Henry T shirt. Anyway, Austin gets in the ring and
Speaker 1: he's here to announce the attendants because last night it
Speaker 1: was Shawn Michaels who came out to announce the attendants.
Speaker 1: So they send Austin out there and he's going to
Speaker 1: announce that it's another sold out crowd. He said, See,
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by this because they announced an attendance number
Speaker 1: of a few thousand less last night and they claim
Speaker 1: that was sold out. So you're in the same building
Speaker 1: two nights in a row. You were sold out last night.
Speaker 1: I think they said sixty one thousand was not the number,
Speaker 1: but tonight they had sixty three thousand, two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty six and they were sold out. Like they can't
Speaker 1: even get their own story straight here. So he said,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that number looks right. Looks like
Speaker 1: there's more people than that in this building. And he
Speaker 1: starts counting. He's looking into the credit He goes one, two, three,
Speaker 1: He gets all the way up to eighteen, and then
Speaker 1: he stops and says that it's bullshit. Yeah, these numbers
Speaker 1: are bullshit. So then he announced a combined two night
Speaker 1: attendance total of one hundred twenty four thousand, six hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety three solid ass cats here in Las Vegas. Now,
Speaker 1: I was wondering about that, because you know, he was
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania all weekend, and so I'm wondering, who's watching
Speaker 1: Poncho and Macho back of the Broken Skull Ranch. He's
Speaker 1: got two solid ass cats. See, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be away from them for more than maybe a day
Speaker 1: or two. But anyway, so Austin drank some more beers.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling he drank some before he drove
Speaker 1: out there, and he made his way to the back.
Speaker 1: That's why I said at the beginning of the review,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's worse, Austin's driving tonight or a
Speaker 1: Triple H is booking in that main event. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I might go with Triple H on this. But
Speaker 1: that brings us to the aforementioned main event, which was
Speaker 1: John Cena in his final WrestleMania match, trying to win
Speaker 1: a record setting number seventeen, going up against Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: for the undisputed WWE Championship. John Sena had not won
Speaker 1: a singles match before tonight. In seven years. He had
Speaker 1: not won a match, a singles match of WrestleMania, they said,
Speaker 1: in ten years. Yet here he is in the main event,
Speaker 1: one last shot. This is it. It all comes down
Speaker 1: to this. It's do or die. Sina walks out first
Speaker 1: and he enters that They actually darkened the lights a
Speaker 1: little bit in the bit. It wasn't like Undertaker dark,
Speaker 1: but they darkened some of the lights. It wasn't as bright,
Speaker 1: and all you saw on the screens and on the
Speaker 1: led ramp was nothing but his name. It just said
Speaker 1: John Cena in very basic white lettering, and even his
Speaker 1: gear was dark. It was black, so stripped away all
Speaker 1: of the colors and just all of the all of
Speaker 1: the glitz and glamour. This is what he was going
Speaker 1: for here with this heel entrance, which was a nice touch.
Speaker 1: So then we have Cody's entrance, and this puzzled me
Speaker 1: and maybe somebody can shed some light on this for me.
Speaker 1: They had several dirt bikes just driving back and forth
Speaker 1: across the stage, and then Cody walked out. What is
Speaker 1: the significance of the dirt bikes. When have we ever
Speaker 1: seen Cody either come out on a dirt bike or
Speaker 1: be associated with a dirt bike. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Then he walks out there, he's
Speaker 1: got the skull mask that he was wearing last year
Speaker 1: and it opens like it opens to reveal his face
Speaker 1: like a toy. And that was it. As far as
Speaker 1: like wrestle many a main event entrances go, these were
Speaker 1: pretty fucking lame. I have to say these were very lame,
Speaker 1: much like the main event itself was. So both men
Speaker 1: got noticeable booze. When Alicia Taylor was doing the in
Speaker 1: ring introductions scene and got booed, Cody got booed. Everybody
Speaker 1: gets booed to heal crowd. That's what they do. They
Speaker 1: just hate on everybody. But it was very noticeable the
Speaker 1: booze that Cody Cody was getting here tonight. They rang
Speaker 1: the bell. I will say this, you know, when they
Speaker 1: rang the bell and the match started, it did have
Speaker 1: that big fight feel like there was a buzz and
Speaker 1: an energy in the crowd like it felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's go time, it's main event time. That energy level,
Speaker 1: by the way, that would be the peak. That was
Speaker 1: the peak of the energy level here in this match.
Speaker 1: At least my energy level my energy bar was depleting
Speaker 1: the longer this thing went here. And so this match
Speaker 1: here that has been built up for weeks and weeks.
Speaker 1: John senel horrible things that he has said about Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes the Angle of Elimination chamber in Toronto, where he
Speaker 1: kicked this man in the balls, He embarrassed him in
Speaker 1: front of the world. He bloodied him, He left him
Speaker 1: bloody in the middle of the ring. And how does
Speaker 1: this match start with a collar and elbow tie It
Speaker 1: with a collar and elbow tie up, that's how. So
Speaker 1: Cody shoulder tackled Sena out of the ring and they booed.
Speaker 1: They kept the pace very slow at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this match, and I figure they were building to a
Speaker 1: big crescendo here as the match went on. No, not really,
Speaker 1: that was basically the pace of the entire match. Cody
Speaker 1: dropped kicks Sena out of the ring, and again Sena
Speaker 1: had to regroup on the outside, so Cody launched himself
Speaker 1: out onto him with a suicide dive. He put him
Speaker 1: back inside. Sina went on the offensive at this point.
Speaker 1: The reaction was mixed slingshot to Cody throat first under
Speaker 1: the bottom rope so he booted Cody the face and
Speaker 1: he turned him inside out with back to back clothes lines.
Speaker 1: Sena was out there. Now, this is John Cena, and
Speaker 1: so if you know anything about John Cena matches, then
Speaker 1: you know that he talks a lot. He calls spots
Speaker 1: very loudly in his matches. What I will say here
Speaker 1: about this one, Cody was having a conversation with Sena,
Speaker 1: or maybe I should say Sena was having a conversation
Speaker 1: with Cody, but there was a lot of talking going
Speaker 1: on here in the middle of this match here, and
Speaker 1: he gave Cody a sidewalk slam for a two count.
Speaker 1: Then came a double axe handle off the middle rope
Speaker 1: by John Cen. Oh, he went ariel. He went to
Speaker 1: the middle rope. We haven't seen that in a while.
Speaker 1: Double axe handle off the middle rope. Then he goes
Speaker 1: over to another corner. Another double axe handle. He borrowed
Speaker 1: from the Ultimate Warriors playbook at WrestleMania. At least the
Speaker 1: Warrior went up to the top rope. Sena went up
Speaker 1: to the middle rope. But that's what Warrior did in
Speaker 1: his match with when the referee got bumped right, double
Speaker 1: ax handle here, double ax handle. There he went for
Speaker 1: a third one and Cody kicked him in the gut.
Speaker 1: Cody fought back, but Seena poked him in the eye
Speaker 1: and he got cheered and again again. I keep saying
Speaker 1: that these fans are heels. I'm gonna put it on
Speaker 1: a fucking T shirt. The fans are heels. Fans are
Speaker 1: the heels. So seeing a busted out of Tornado DDT
Speaker 1: off the ropes, that was honestly the biggest movie he
Speaker 1: did in the entire match. I wasn't expecting that. So
Speaker 1: a Tornado DDT only got a two count. He hit
Speaker 1: one shoulder tackle off the ropes. Usually he goes for
Speaker 1: like two or three in a row. He'll drop the opponent.
Speaker 1: He'll do the you can see me right, that's our truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, stole all of his moves, right, we see
Speaker 1: all the time from him. So he hit one shoulder
Speaker 1: tackle off the ropes and then another, and then he
Speaker 1: dropped Cody all of his signature spots, but he paused
Speaker 1: in between each one. It was like he was doing
Speaker 1: them in slow motion. He was doing a lot of
Speaker 1: things in slow motion, but he was doing this intentionally
Speaker 1: in slow motion here. So he went for the five
Speaker 1: knuckle shuffle. Cody poked him in the eye and the
Speaker 1: fans booed. Disaster Kick connects. Now Cody is firing up
Speaker 1: more booze. Cody Cutter connects. Scenic kicks at it tude scene.
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Speaker 1: now Sena does the you can see me. Hits the
Speaker 1: five knuckle shuffle. Another AA he's going for, but Cody
Speaker 1: slips out and he rolls him up for a two count.
Speaker 1: Cody goes up and Sena crotches him on the top rope.
Speaker 1: Sena now goes up to the middle rope and he
Speaker 1: places Cody on his shoulders. He is going to go
Speaker 1: for an avalanche attitude adjustment and he does it. He
Speaker 1: connects with the avalanche attitude adjustment he covers. Here comes
Speaker 1: the seventeenth world title. Cody kicks out and so now
Speaker 1: panic is setting in for John Cena. He's got a
Speaker 1: look on his face, very frustrated. What do I have
Speaker 1: to do to beat this guy? So he heads up
Speaker 1: to the top rope. Now he goes to the top
Speaker 1: now we're talking, and he goes for his leaping leg
Speaker 1: drop off the top rope. Cody, though, turns it into
Speaker 1: a power bomb for a near fall. Now correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but I do believe in the Summer
Speaker 1: Slam match. I want to say two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: that Sina had with Batista. Right, that was the move
Speaker 1: where they credited the neck injury that Sina had. I
Speaker 1: think it was off that move right. It was like
Speaker 1: a top rope counter into a power bomb by Batista,
Speaker 1: even though that Scena was already injured. But I think
Speaker 1: they credited it to that move. So they did the
Speaker 1: same spot here in this match, only got a near fall.
Speaker 1: Cody runs the ropes and he jumps off for a
Speaker 1: Cody cutter and he covers Scena kicks out, so now
Speaker 1: Cody sets up for crossroads. Sina though, slips out and
Speaker 1: then his a third attitude adjustment and now comes the STF. Actually,
Speaker 1: Michael Cole called called it the STFU, which I don't believe.
Speaker 1: Sena has called it that since what the thugonomics days,
Speaker 1: so he called it the STFU. Cody almost gets the ropes.
Speaker 1: Sina though, drags him back to the center of the
Speaker 1: ring and he locks it back on. Cody again is
Speaker 1: inching his way to the ropes. Sena drags him back again,
Speaker 1: but Cody kicks him away and Sena in the process
Speaker 1: he crushes the referee in the corner, Referee Chad Patten,
Speaker 1: and I say crushes not really, I mean it really,
Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of impact here, but the referee
Speaker 1: still has to sell it. So he goes down. Cody
Speaker 1: hits crossroads. Sena is down, Cody covers him, but there's
Speaker 1: no referee, so he gets the visual pin. There is
Speaker 1: no ref Sena then goes over and he pulls off
Speaker 1: one of the top turn buckle pads in the corner
Speaker 1: and he sends Cody headfirst into the turn buckle. The
Speaker 1: exposed buckle sends him into it a second time, and
Speaker 1: then he hits another attitude adjustment. That was the fourth one,
Speaker 1: the fourth attitude adjustment of this match. See now you
Speaker 1: can tell. One of the things that I absolutely hated
Speaker 1: about the second Rock Sena match was the fact that
Speaker 1: we had so much finisher spam between them. Now we
Speaker 1: get finisher spam all the time now in wrestling. We
Speaker 1: had it even in the main event last night. But
Speaker 1: the difference is that was a much better match. That
Speaker 1: was a much more exciting match. I can ignore it
Speaker 1: to a degree if there's a great match that I'm
Speaker 1: watching here and they go a little overboard with it,
Speaker 1: But when you have a match that's fucking boring and
Speaker 1: you're just constantly relying on the finishers, and the finisher
Speaker 1: spam over and over and over again. It just gets
Speaker 1: very old. And I think you tend to notice it
Speaker 1: more willing to let Moore go if you're really like
Speaker 1: into the rest of the match and you're enjoying it.
Speaker 1: But if you're in the middle of a match that's
Speaker 1: just very meh or very dull, you're definitely gonna notice
Speaker 1: it more. And I think it's gonna bother you more.
Speaker 1: And I think that was what was going on here
Speaker 1: with me, because it's like, okay, fourth one, Cody kicks out.
Speaker 1: So now at this point in the match, we hear
Speaker 1: feen feen feen in the middle of this match, and
Speaker 1: John Cena is sitting in the ring, and so here
Speaker 1: comes Travis Scott with his replica belt that he had
Speaker 1: with him an elimination chamber, and Sena is smiling and
Speaker 1: Travis Scott slowly and actually there he is. We got
Speaker 1: a super chat here from Travis Scott. Travis Scott slowly
Speaker 1: and I do mean slowly, begins to make his way
Speaker 1: down to the ring. Now, this is not the longest
Speaker 1: ramp they've ever had for WrestleMania it was actually on
Speaker 1: the shorter side compared to some of the ones they've had,
Speaker 1: but it's still a long ramp and they're in the
Speaker 1: middle of this main event match here, and he's taking
Speaker 1: his sweet time coming down. I'm like, I'm looking, I'm
Speaker 1: like looking at the clock, I'm looking at my watch.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I have the best move set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can we can we get the show on the road here.
Speaker 1: So he makes his way down, Sena reaches down. He
Speaker 1: actually helps him up like he was a little kid.
Speaker 1: He helps, he pulls him up onto the apron and
Speaker 1: he raises Travis Scott's arm and Sina holds Cody for
Speaker 1: Scott to take a shot. Cody fights him off, though,
Speaker 1: and Scott drops down off the apron to the floor,
Speaker 1: crossroads to John Cena, and so Travis Scott now pulls
Speaker 1: the referee out of the ring when Cody goes for
Speaker 1: the pin. So now the referee is out on the outside.
Speaker 1: Now he's down again. Cody is now inviting Travis Scott
Speaker 1: to get into the ring. And this is where I
Speaker 1: started to get very irritated because I was still like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Rock is probably going to show up or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody else will show up. We'll see what kind
Speaker 1: of nonsense we get here. But I'm sitting here at
Speaker 1: this moment, I'm like, wait a minute. I was one
Speaker 1: of the people who kind of defended the move as
Speaker 1: far as Travis Scott at the elimination chamber when everybody
Speaker 1: was shitting on it. I'm like, all right, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's got a name. They just wanted him to be
Speaker 1: present for it, Like it's not a big deal. Now
Speaker 1: I'm watching this WrestleMania main event, and now Travis Scott
Speaker 1: is the only one out there, and he's involved in
Speaker 1: the middle of this pretty significant, you know, historically significant
Speaker 1: championship match here at WrestleMania. I'm like, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? Like is there more to this that's yet
Speaker 1: to come? Like there has to be, right fucking Travis
Speaker 1: Scott is in the middle of this match here, Like
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? So I'm like, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: he's going to get his receipt, you know, for what
Speaker 1: he did to Cody at the chamber. So he's inviting
Speaker 1: Travis Scott to get into the ring, and so he
Speaker 1: does climbs the ring, steps, jumps over the top rope.
Speaker 1: Now he's in the ring and he's face to face
Speaker 1: with Cody, and Cody dared him. He goes, I dare
Speaker 1: you to do it? I dare you. Travis Scott is
Speaker 1: about to get his receipt from Cody Rhodes. He stops
Speaker 1: him when he takes a shot, and then he delivers
Speaker 1: a crossroads to Travis Scott. And to be fair, he
Speaker 1: took a pretty good crossroads. Obviously it wasn't really a
Speaker 1: receipt for what he did to him. He busted his
Speaker 1: fucking ear drum, gave him a black eye. But he
Speaker 1: lays out Travis Scott and he took the bump. Fine,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. Cody, though, doesn't see John Cena
Speaker 1: with the WWE championship and he tries to hit Cody
Speaker 1: with it. They wrestle for it. They're playing tug of
Speaker 1: war with the belt. I was having flashbacks here to
Speaker 1: Roman and Brock. I'm like, oh god, another tug of
Speaker 1: war with the belt. But Cody ends up getting possession
Speaker 1: of the title and Sena begins to beg off because
Speaker 1: now he's a heel, and so John Cena has to
Speaker 1: do the one thing that we are not used to seeing.
Speaker 1: John Cena do. We never used to see John Cena
Speaker 1: begging off. He's begging off. He's like, don't please, please, don't,
Speaker 1: please don't. And Cody is standing there and he is conflicted,
Speaker 1: and Michael Cole is trying to tell the story and
Speaker 1: really dumb it down and break it down for us
Speaker 1: in terms that everybody can understand on commentary about what
Speaker 1: John Cena has told Cody about how you know, are
Speaker 1: you willing to do what it takes? Are you going
Speaker 1: to be the good guy or are you going to
Speaker 1: be the bad guy? And Cody cannot bring himself to
Speaker 1: use this championship belt. And at that moment when Sina
Speaker 1: realizes that Cody has made the choice that he's not
Speaker 1: going to use the title, John Cena kicks him in
Speaker 1: the dick. He delivers a low blow and so down
Speaker 1: goes Cody roads. Cody now gets back up to his
Speaker 1: feet and Sena blast him in the head with the
Speaker 1: WWE title. He called for Chad Patten, the referee, to
Speaker 1: get back in the ring. Sena covers Cody and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: there's no way, there's no way they're going to end
Speaker 1: this match like this. There's just no way. He crawls in,
Speaker 1: he counts one, he counts two, and he counts three,
Speaker 1: and that is how John Cena becomes a record breaking
Speaker 1: seventeen time world champion. He kicks Cody in the dick,
Speaker 1: he hits him in the head with the belt and
Speaker 1: he pins him, and that's your Wrestlemaniam main event. We
Speaker 1: had Travis Scott. We had a dick kick for the
Speaker 1: third time in as many matches in the WrestleMania Made
Speaker 1: event this weekend, and then a belt shot and just
Speaker 1: like that, Cody's one year run his WWE champion. He
Speaker 1: finished the story last year, right, He's had this one
Speaker 1: year run as champion has now come to an end.
Speaker 1: And John Cena is once again on top of the
Speaker 1: mountain and Sena invites Travis Scott to get back into
Speaker 1: the ring, raises his arm and Travis Scott is celebrating
Speaker 1: with John Cena, and scene is like, hold your belt
Speaker 1: up because he still has his replica belt there and
Speaker 1: they're both posing with their respective championships in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. And that is how they went off
Speaker 1: the air. That is, honestly how WrestleMania at forty one
Speaker 1: went off the air. I have no issue with John
Speaker 1: Cena being WWE Champion and breaking the record and getting
Speaker 1: one more run with the title as a heel. Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, I think there's great potential to have
Speaker 1: some fun with this. If he's going to go in
Speaker 1: there and have matches with Randy Orton and see him
Speaker 1: punk and all these people, I would rather the dynamic
Speaker 1: be him as a heel and them as a babyface.
Speaker 1: I think it makes it more fun. I would like
Speaker 1: to see that. I have no problem with that. What
Speaker 1: I have a problem with is the way that they
Speaker 1: went about doing it. This was completely underwhelming. This was
Speaker 1: as underwhelming a WrestleMania main event finish as we have
Speaker 1: had in years, and for such a historic moment, you
Speaker 1: would think that they had something more planning. I thought
Speaker 1: there was a possibility they might try to tie in
Speaker 1: the main event ending last night with this, And now
Speaker 1: you're getting into fantasy booking territory, and I understand it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold that against them. You know, some
Speaker 1: idea that I came up with and they didn't go
Speaker 1: with the idea, and I talked it into my it's
Speaker 1: not even about that. I was waiting for something to
Speaker 1: happen here and nothing did. The match itself wasn't great.
Speaker 1: It wasn't terrible. Believe me, I've seen worse WrestleMania main
Speaker 1: events before. John Cena. What he gave us tonight is
Speaker 1: about as good as he can give us. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing he did, he did the top rope leg drop
Speaker 1: that got countered into a power Bomb's that's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest move I've seen him do in years. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get what you get now from John Cena. Yep, it's
Speaker 1: his last year. He's older now. He was never the
Speaker 1: most technically gifted performer to begin with. What you see
Speaker 1: is what you get with John Cena. What we saw
Speaker 1: tonight is as good as you could possibly expect to get.
Speaker 1: So that's why in the future, when it comes to
Speaker 1: matches with a Punker and Orton, a lot of it
Speaker 1: is gonna come down to, honestly, the atmosphere. Where are
Speaker 1: they the fans, how like how loud are they an invested?
Speaker 1: Are they in the match? It'll be about the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: I think, more than the quality of the match itself.
Speaker 1: Because he has limitations. We see what those limitations are.
Speaker 1: The match itself was nothing special. The finish was even worse.
Speaker 1: The finish was atrocious. And the fact that they sent
Speaker 1: Travis Scott out there, who I understand, he's training to wrestle,
Speaker 1: and so they they're gonna want him to get involved here.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll wrestle a match at some point. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck if he wrestles, great if he
Speaker 1: doesn't find but the fact that they send him out
Speaker 1: there and The Rock couldn't be bothered to be at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: Why was The Rock involved in this story to begin with?
Speaker 1: Explain that to me and I don't want to hear. Well,
Speaker 1: the Rock had to be involved because that was the
Speaker 1: spark that led to the John Cena heel turn. Any
Speaker 1: number of ways you could have turned John Cena hill.
Speaker 1: You could have turned John Cena heel at WrestleMania. Now,
Speaker 1: it would have made for an even more boring build
Speaker 1: because you would have had two babyface John Cena Babyface
Speaker 1: Cody Roads. They're like one of the same, right. That
Speaker 1: would have been pretty fucking boring. But looking at what
Speaker 1: they did, I'm not so sure it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: a better idea if they insisted on doing this match
Speaker 1: to just save the heel turn for WrestleMania. But then
Speaker 1: I guess it would have clashed with what they did
Speaker 1: last night, because we had a heel turn last night,
Speaker 1: right with the triple cross with Hayman and Punk and
Speaker 1: rollins and rains. But I'm not so sure it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a better idea to save the big John
Speaker 1: Cena heel turn and title change for the same night. Instead,
Speaker 1: we had John Cena as a heel on television for
Speaker 1: you know, three times whatever. It was not giving us
Speaker 1: a whole lot of anything, no mention of the Rock
Speaker 1: after that amazing angle they did at the elimination Chamber,
Speaker 1: and so you're like, well, Rock's not showing up on TV.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be a WrestleMania. I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 1: some you know, either twist to this or he'll be there.
Speaker 1: He'll be involved in some way. We'll get the next,
Speaker 1: you know, chapter of this. We got nothing. We got nothing.
Speaker 1: Everything was built around selling their soul to the Rock,
Speaker 1: and the Rock couldn't even be bothered to be there
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. He didn't have to be involved in this
Speaker 1: at all. If all he was going to do was
Speaker 1: inject himself into a story that he had no business
Speaker 1: even being a part of John Cena had already won
Speaker 1: the Elimination Chamber. He had already earned the right to
Speaker 1: challenge for the championship at WrestleMania. You didn't need to
Speaker 1: involve The Rock in this story. You got people's hopes
Speaker 1: up at the end of the Chamber pay per view
Speaker 1: for something that you were never going to deliver on,
Speaker 1: because if they were going to, we would have had
Speaker 1: more than what we got here at the end of
Speaker 1: wrestle MAANEI it's freaking WrestleMania, and this is the ending
Speaker 1: that they come up with. So I don't know what's
Speaker 1: up with the Rock. I don't know if I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's busy with something else, what his schedule
Speaker 1: is like, But I don't care, Like I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: looking at where we were and how we got here,
Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering, why did he have to be
Speaker 1: involved in this at all? If there was not going
Speaker 1: to be any follow up? And you know what's I
Speaker 1: just find this hilarious because I'm sure you're gonna have
Speaker 1: people who are going to be like, oh well, still,
Speaker 1: you got to let it play out. Maybe he'll show up.
Speaker 1: You got to let it play out, dude. The last
Speaker 1: time we saw him was March first. WrestleMania is over. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's been six or seven weeks. If it hasn't happened
Speaker 1: by now, we're not seeing him. And if we do,
Speaker 1: what's it going to be? One appearance and then he
Speaker 1: disappears again. The Rock didn't need to be a part
Speaker 1: of this. That's why I said at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this review, I think what's going on here is The
Speaker 1: Rock is who he is. He's on the board of TKO,
Speaker 1: he's a big time celebrity. And when The Rock decides
Speaker 1: he wants to come back and do something, he comes
Speaker 1: back and does it, and whatever their plans are, be damned.
Speaker 1: You know. I almost feel bad for Triple H but
Speaker 1: not really. But like, if you're on the creative team,
Speaker 1: just imagine, you know, The Rock is like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm Bad Blood Atlanta. I'm gonna be in Atlanta. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to work him into the show. Now you're
Speaker 1: getting everyone's hopes of oh shit, the Rock is here.
Speaker 1: They must have some big plan. Right then we don't
Speaker 1: see him again for what three or four months? Then
Speaker 1: he comes back out of the blue, out of the
Speaker 1: blue and he wants Cody to sell his soul to him.
Speaker 1: They're continuing that story. Ooh, let's see where this is
Speaker 1: going to go. And then they turned John Cena heel
Speaker 1: in his retirement year, one of the biggest names in
Speaker 1: the history of this company, and he turns heel for
Speaker 1: the first time in two day. Right, that's big fucking news.
Speaker 1: And he's there with the rock. Wow, this is exciting.
Speaker 1: Where is this gonna go? And it goes nowhere. It's
Speaker 1: such a cock tease with everything that they have been
Speaker 1: doing up until this point. I don't understand the point
Speaker 1: of it. And if you don't have any great idea
Speaker 1: to really follow up on that and do something with it,
Speaker 1: then don't fucking do it. That's what I don't understand.
Speaker 1: So the ending of this WrestleManias sucked, but I'm hopeful
Speaker 1: that with Sina as the champion, we'll get some fun
Speaker 1: matches out of it with some old opponents that he
Speaker 1: can work with one last time before he rides off
Speaker 1: into the sunset, before he does his redemption arc, which
Speaker 1: we all know is coming later in the year. It's
Speaker 1: just a shame that they did what they did. Tonight
Speaker 1: in this match, He's last WrestleMania match. Now, one of
Speaker 1: the odd things about John Cena is, for as long
Speaker 1: as he's been in this company, and for all the
Speaker 1: great matches that he's had, so many of them, most
Speaker 1: of them have not happened at WrestleMania. Right. He had
Speaker 1: that one great match with Sean Michaels, which wasn't even
Speaker 1: the best match they had that month, but yeah, they
Speaker 1: had a pretty good match of WrestleMania in Detroit, and
Speaker 1: he's had some good ones. But for all the great
Speaker 1: matches that this guy has been a part of, really
Speaker 1: none of them have happened at WrestleMania. And I was
Speaker 1: there for the two Rock matches. The first Rock match
Speaker 1: was a big deal. It was it was the clash
Speaker 1: of two generations. I wouldn't say it was one of
Speaker 1: his best matches though. It's kind of odd how when
Speaker 1: you look at his body of work, there's hardly, in
Speaker 1: my opinion anyway, there's hardly anything in that upper tier
Speaker 1: of what he's done that has actually happened at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately this match is not going to be added
Speaker 1: to that list either, because I didn't think this match
Speaker 1: was anything great. It's almost like Cody had to dumb
Speaker 1: things down because they worked at a very deliberately slow
Speaker 1: pace and they kept that pace for pretty much the
Speaker 1: entire like, it didn't build to anything, they just kept
Speaker 1: that pace for the entire match, because again, Sena is
Speaker 1: limited in what he can do, and so it's unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it was a huge come down from the last two
Speaker 1: years of Cody main events because we've seen Cody go
Speaker 1: out there and you know, tear it up with Roman
Speaker 1: and Seth and you know, all these different people. This
Speaker 1: was not that. And it started with such high hopes
Speaker 1: with that opening match, and it peaked. It peaked with
Speaker 1: the opening match. So I go back to what I
Speaker 1: said at the beginning of this review. WrestleMania Saturday was
Speaker 1: a very mediocre, sometimes very boring show with an excellent
Speaker 1: main event, and WrestleMania Sunday was largely a very good
Speaker 1: to great show until we got to the main event.
Speaker 1: It's like the tale of two WrestleMania shows. WrestleMania forty
Speaker 1: one will not go down as one of the great
Speaker 1: WrestleManias that they've ever done. Unfortunately. What did you think
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania Night Too let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: Twitter poll and again under fifty percent here for thumbs up,
Speaker 1: forty eight percent thumbs up, about thirty one percent thumbs
Speaker 1: in the middle, and twenty one percent thumbs down. And
Speaker 1: we already have almost four thousand votes in on the poll,
Speaker 1: so you can go vote at Solemn Monster and follow
Speaker 1: on X. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to
Speaker 1: be the Booker. We have no time to waste here
Speaker 1: because it is time to be the Booker. And then
Speaker 1: we are going to get the fuck out of here
Speaker 1: because it is very late. It is almost three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. So let's take care of around number
Speaker 1: one here. And we have got Booker T and gold
Speaker 1: Dust are kicking us off here, tag Team the Booker.
Speaker 1: This is usually how we start. It's just a fun
Speaker 1: little thing we do here at the end of the
Speaker 1: streams if we hit certain goals. It's a randomizer that
Speaker 1: I've put together here, and it's gonna be Booker T
Speaker 1: and gold Dust against the Quebecers. Bone Jones says, this
Speaker 1: stream almost as long as WrestleMania. We're getting close. We
Speaker 1: are getting close, all right, Women's be the Booker live.
Speaker 1: Morgan there. She is the former women's world champion, former
Speaker 1: tag team champion. Now too, Live Morgan. You know what
Speaker 1: I love about that world title picture or win that
Speaker 1: was in Saudi Arabia and I have it as the
Speaker 1: header photo in our Facebook group, our private group on Facebook.
Speaker 1: This great screenshot of her celebrating, imposing with the championship,
Speaker 1: and right behind her is this giant solemn monster off sign.
Speaker 1: It's awesome Live Morgan against Zaria. That's going to be
Speaker 1: a match one day when Zaria gets called up. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a match on the main roster and in
Speaker 1: our main event. Oh my god, say his name and
Speaker 1: look who appears in the main event of all Knights.
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry is one half of our main event. Can
Speaker 1: you believe this? It's like it was meant to be.
Speaker 1: Say he's having quite that, I guess he is. Oh,
Speaker 1: his night just got a lot better because Joe Hendry
Speaker 1: is wrestling Sting. How about that Joe Hendry wrestles Randy
Speaker 1: Orton and Sting in the same night. He's peaked. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that. So because you hit
Speaker 1: the other goal, we have to do a second round.
Speaker 1: I don't know if We're going to top what we
Speaker 1: just did. We're gonna try though. Joe Hendry's having a
Speaker 1: hell of a night even though it didn't end well
Speaker 1: with Randy Orton. Let's start with a tag team match.
Speaker 1: It'll be a last man standing. Has there ever been
Speaker 1: a last man's standing tag team match? I feel like
Speaker 1: there probably was. Oh boy, it is the Toxic Turtles.
Speaker 1: The Toxic Turtles have appeared in be the booker. Bonus
Speaker 1: points to you. If you know who the Toxic Turtles are,
Speaker 1: you never know what you're gonna find here, and be
Speaker 1: the booker. It's gonna be the Toxic Turtles against the
Speaker 1: Motor City machine Guns in a last man standing match.
Speaker 1: And I have to give it the buzzer for a
Speaker 1: very specific reason because it is a last man standing match,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it is not a last Turtle standing match,
Speaker 1: and so that is an automatic buzz I'm sorry. Those
Speaker 1: are the rules. Those are the rules. Any other stipulation,
Speaker 1: I probably would have given it a bell. All right,
Speaker 1: Women's be the booker. A women's tables, ladders and chairs
Speaker 1: match starring our women's World champion Eo Sky. Very successful
Speaker 1: night for her at WrestleMania. She's gonna put her title
Speaker 1: on the line here into TLC match against Trish Stratus.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, sign me the fuck up for that match.
Speaker 1: I'll take some of that. And in the main event
Speaker 1: it will be a hair match. Somebody is getting shaved
Speaker 1: bald in the main event. Who is it going to be? Though?
Speaker 1: To find out? We're ending with a hair mat after this,
Speaker 1: after all this, we're ending with a hair match. Jay Briscoe,
Speaker 1: the Late Great Jay Briscoe. He's got some hair there,
Speaker 1: and Miss Jay Briscoe, Jay brisco against the Indie God
Speaker 1: the deathmatch King Matt Cardona. Can't give it the sonic
Speaker 1: sweep though, because we fucked up the tag team match.
Speaker 1: There you go be the booker is in the books
Speaker 1: and I will be in my bed in minutes. But
Speaker 1: first I have to say thank you for everybody who
Speaker 1: stuck with me. It is almost three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning and we still are right around thirty four hundred
Speaker 1: live here on YouTube. So you guys are crazy. We
Speaker 1: had almost five thousand in here and you killed it
Speaker 1: with all the support. M Mills with that five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: by my goodness and everybody else. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: just that mill everybody. There's a lot of work and
Speaker 1: time and effort that goes into this and just everything
Speaker 1: between the prep and the graphics and the podcast today
Speaker 1: and it's a lot. So to see this kind of
Speaker 1: support that means something to me. Just know that retro. Koh,
Speaker 1: why does counting get scary after six? Because seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: and ten. See that was cute. I like that, Thank
Speaker 1: you retro. As I said before, I did a podcast today,
Speaker 1: well over two hours, episode nine to ten. If you
Speaker 1: didn't listen to it, it'll be there waiting for you
Speaker 1: in the morning. So go ahead and you can stream it,
Speaker 1: you can download it anywhere you get your podcast from,
Speaker 1: and I will see you live on this channel. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know in less than twenty four hours. Because
Speaker 1: we got the post WrestleMania Raw, maybe there'll be some
Speaker 1: big stuff that goes down. I certainly hope it's better
Speaker 1: than what we got here at the end of this show.
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