Speaker 1: Well, for the first time in nineteen years, Madison Square
Garden played host tonight to a Saturday Night's main event
with a car that was as weak as any MSG
card probably that we have.
Speaker 2: Seen in years.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at what was on this card
on paper coming into I mean, thankfully we at least
had the big tag team main event, but for weeks
we had one, we had two, we had three matches,
and I was like, looking at this card, I'm like,
this is a Madison Square Garden. This is pathetic, this
is really bad. And then we had the tag team
match that was added that at least, and last night
on smack Man we had actual stakes put on the
line in that tag team match, so that was good
at least, but I can't say the same for the
rest of this card. It was a bloody night. I
feel like we had more blood incidental blood on this
show than we have in a very long time in
WWE fallon Henley lyra Vela CM Punk Punk had the
least of it, but it was either from the nose
of the mouth. So we had some blood on this show.
I told you guys, last night we gathered here to
talk about SmackDown and I ran down the final card
and I said, this is a one match show. This
Saturday Night's main event is going to hinge on how
good the main event is. It's a one match show.
It all comes down to Cody Rhoads and Cmpunk against
Gunther and Sammy's A, which had the potential to be
a really fun match, and that one match delivered. I
actually thought the main event was a lot of fun,
except it ended up not being the main event. I
keep calling it the main event, but as it turns out,
it was not the main event on this show here tonight,
which is pretty crazy because they gave the main event
to Roman Reigns. In case you were wondering who the
man in WWE is. In case you were wondering who's
probably getting that night to Summer Rustlam main event, look
no further. Roman Reigns, the World Heavyweight Champion, was promoted
for a segment with the captain of the New York Knicks.
You were reigning twenty twenty six NBA Champion New York Knicks,
Jalen Brunson. We were never told what they were going
to be doing. All we were told is that Roman
Reigns and Jalen Brunson were going to be together. They
were going to be doing something on Saturday Night's main event.
They weren't going to be wrestling. They were gonna be
doing something, and they saved that for the closing segment
of the show. And Jalen Brunton comes out, he gets
a full entrance and Roman Range joins him and they
make their way down to the rain boil. Let me
tell you something. If you love this aura farming era
of WWE that we are in, they gave you exactly
what you wanted in that closing segment because you knew
as soon as Brunson started slowly walking through the backstage area,
you knew the level of aura farming that we were
going to get in the closing minutes of this show
was just off the page.
Speaker 2: It was off the charts. And so that's exactly what
we got.
Speaker 1: But to the people who I know are going to
be very upset about what that segment was, why was
it on this show? I don't disagree with you. I
don't disagree with you. It was very out of place
on this show. But you got to keep in mind
something very very important, and it's not just the TKO effect. Obviously,
the TKO effect is very real. They love their celebrity involvement.
They want their ESPN moments. That's what they got in
that closing segment today, and they're going to replay this footage.
It's going to be all over social media. And this
is I mean, they live for this shit, right WWE.
They love their celebrities are all you know. I mean,
they've been starfuckers for years. This is not news. But honestly,
did you expect that the New York Knicks were going
to win their first championship in fifty three years and
WWE was going to then come to Madison Square Garden
not long after? Knowing that there are team members on
the NIXT squad, including the MVP himself, the captain of
the team, who are WWE fans. We have literally had
Jalen Brunson appear on WWE television before as part of
an angle with a man who is not on the Knicks,
but who was actually there tonight. Again, knowing that they
have fans on the Knicks squad, knowing that they're coming
to MSG, Knowing that Dan Housen and the Dan Housen
Curse became such a big part of Knick's lore in
the postseason this year. Did you honestly expect anything other
than what we got on this show tonight. Did you
expect the WWE was not going to go all in
to try to exploit that and try to do something
like this so they can mooch off the Knicks who
just won this championship. This is such a big deal
here in New York City. This is exactly what they
were gonna do. And they were or certainly if there
were players who wanted to participate in the show, they
were gonna say no. There to be like, fuck, yeah,
let's see how we could work these guys into the show.
And Jalen Brunson was not the only Nick who made
an appearance on this show and had a role on
this show. I'm not shocked by any of this. I
think the fans in the building clearly enjoyed it. They
loved Jalen Brunson, they loved the Knicks. If you are
in New York City, if you're in New York City, person,
you know how special that championship was here to the
people of this city. And you know, even those who
maybe aren't die hard NBA fans, right, it was a
big deal here in New York. So for the fans
who were in the garden, they seem to love it.
For the fans who were watching at home, who are
not from New York, who may not even be from
this country, who may not even like basketball, then you
probably didn't give a shit about the closing twenty minutes
or so of this show. You could have turned the
show off after the actual main event and you would
not have missed anything. You missed literally nothing if you
did not see the closing segment. In fact, what was
so weird about the closing segment was it set up
a Seth Rolins run in, and Seth Rollins was booked
as the heel in this scenario.
Speaker 2: He came out.
Speaker 1: Everyone is showering Roman Reigns in Jalen Brunson would love.
They're chanting Jalen's name, They're chanting OTC. Roman Reins is
gifting Jalen Brunson a replica World Heavyweight Championship belt, which
I actually have to say, look fucking amazing. The belt
did that World Heavyweight Championship on a blue strap with
the orange trim?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So yeah, But it's basically one big circle jerk in
the middle of the ring, and then out comes Tyrese Halliburton,
a villain here in New York, and Seth Rollins with
the ambush on Roman. Reins in the ring like the
villain in this scenario, and he goes to stomp Roman,
and Jalen Brunson stands in the way and he's not
gonna let him do it, and Rollins eats a super
man punch and he gets bounced out of the ring.
I'm watching this. I'm looking at Brunson and Rains in
the ring, and I'm looking at Rollin's and Tyrese Haliburton
and they're retreating up the aisle, and I'm looking at this,
and I'm like, you know, in the month of July
many years ago, in fact, almost thirty years ago, and
then twenty eight years ago as well, there were a
couple of really big tag team matches, celebrity tag team
matches that were hosted in WCW, involving NBA players. If
this were a different era, you would almost watch that
closing segment and think that they were setting up for
a big tag match in the main event of SummerSlam.
Except they're not.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 1: They're definitely not with Jalen Brunson. If you saw the
cast on his wrist, he didn't do anything physical. Neither
did Halliburton. He's coming off a pretty serious injury too.
But yeah, we were definitely getting some Rodman and Malone
vibes from what was going on there the end of
the show. Look, I saw it for what it was,
where WWEE can tap into pop culture, where WWE can
tap into sports, right, the Knicks were all the rage
where they can tap into that and use that in
their mind to help promote their own product and their
own stars. They are going to do that, and so
this is what you end up with. You end up
with a segment on the show that felt very out
of place. It felt like if they were gonna have
a big Madison Square Gardens Super show. Perfect segment for that,
But I don't know that most people watching really gave
a flying fuck about what they saw in that closing segment.
The real main event on this show came before that.
It was Cody Rhoads and cmpunk Can they coexist? Tag
team partners against Gunther and Sammy's Ain And we had
a big stipulation added to the match last night on Smackdom,
where if the Heels won, they would be added to
the championship match at summers to make it a fatal
four way, which got a lot of people talking and thinking, well,
maybe we're gonna get a four way.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That answers the question about what Sammy's Ain going to
be doing at SummerSlam, except that it flies in the
face of the obvious match for Gunther, which was against
Nick Aldis who we saw tonight. In fact, Nick Aldas
played a direct role in Gunther and Sammy's Ain losing
the match. So, as of this moment, the championship match
at SummerSlam remains one on one for the moment. For
the moment, it remains one on one between Cody Rhodes
and cmpunk, And it makes you wonder, now we know
what Gunther's path is going to be right now, there
can be no doubt we're gonna see Nick all this
don the tights once again. He'll be wrestling Gunther. But
what does Sammy Zain do at SummerSlam. You watch this, Sammy,
through no fault of his own, once again got fun
over tonight. Sammy's Ain got screwed. Sammy's Ain is going
to blow a gasket over the general manager of his show.
This is his boss who interfered in the match and
directly cost him an opportunity to challenge for the WWE Championship.
He didn't do anything wrong. It would only be fair
for Sammy to be compensated in some way. Nor, by
the way, did he take the losing fall in this match?
Are they going to add Sammy's ain and make it
a triple threat match at Summer Slim? At the very least,
there should be a promise made, a guarantee that, Okay,
the match for SummerSlam, we ain't changing it, but you
get first cracket whoever walks out of Minneapolis with the
WWE title, maybe even that first SmackDown coming out of
Summer Slim. You earned a championship rematch, you have yet
to receive one. You got fucked over at Madame Square Garden.
You get first DIBs on that title coming out a
Summer Slim. There has to be some sort of guarantee
that is made to Sammy, especially if he's not going
to be added to the match at Summer Slim, because
I don't know what else he's doing on that show.
Probably nothing, So we'll see how that shakes out, because
it's very unfair if you really think about it. I mean,
come on, now, I understand you know Nick All, this
you know has animus towards Gunther for beating him up
a couple of weeks ago. But sammy' zaying kind of
got caught in the crossfire here, so we'll see how
that story plays out. And again they played, you know,
some tension between Cody and Punk. There were some miscommunications
during the main event. Otherwise they got along fine. I
will say when the match was over, I was watching Cody,
not even Punk. I had my eyes on Cody Roads
the way that he was acting. I thought for a
moment there he was gonna smack Punk right in the face.
It felt to me like we might actually get Cody
roades heelter and on this show.
Speaker 2: And he didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, he kind of raised Punk's hand and everything
was all hunky dory between them, and I love how
he Punk. He gives Punk the belt because he's staring
at the championship and he hands Punk the belt and
Punk goes to sling it over his shoulder and the
strap smacks Cody right in the eye, and Cody's just
standing there like he's going like this, he goes what
the fuck, dude? Like so again, little little moments like
that are going to lead to tensions boiling over. Probably
next Friday. I'm still waiting on that big, that big promo,
big promo segment between Cody and Punk. I really enjoyed
that match. It was NonStop, It never let up. It
was not sluggish at all. Really from the opening bell,
they went at it. They picked up where they left
off at the end of SmackDown on Friday, and as
I said, it was a one match show. I thought
that one match delivered. We also have new women's tag
team champions. Not a shock at all if you really
pay attention to what's been going on, and it was
absolutely the right move to make. So we have new
women's tag team champions. We had Bailey and Lyra had
a singles match. We'll get into what happened there. I
already see a lot of people who is this it
for Bailey? This was Bailey's swan song. She's done with
WW Pump the brakes, cool, your jets, don't jump the gun.
We'll talk about what happened in that match a little
bit later on. We also got some news tonight because
during the show, WWE made an announcement pertaining to WrestleMania
forty three next year, and no, they are not moving
it out of Riod. I feel like there could be
like an atomic bomb blast and they still wouldn't move
WrestleMania out of Riod because there's just too much money
to lose out on. But they did announce that on
both nights of WrestleMania next year. In New York City,
there's a venue there, the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
NXT has had some shows there before. I think, oh god,
what's the name of it now? The name has changed
so many times over the years. It used to actually
be the Theater of Madison Square Guard was it the Info
Cis Theater? These fucking stupid names now. But they're actually
hosting two shows, one after WrestleMania Night one and one
after WrestleMania Night too, because remember, because it's in Saudi,
it'll be airing probably one o'clock Eastern time here. So
when WrestleMania ends live locally in New York City, they're
gonna have a triple A show after WrestleMania. Well, actually
they didn't say which night my guess would be the
Triple A Show will take place after WrestleMania Night one,
and there will be an NXT show very likely taking
place after WrestleMania Night two.
Speaker 2: Again, that would be my guess.
Speaker 1: The Triple A show, they're calling it Triple A Eternal Glory.
The NXT show is going to be Stand and Deliver,
and they're going to be having WrestleMania Watch parties in
the theater they are actually it might actually be in
Madison Square Garden itself during each night of WrestleMania, so
they're loading up those days. Ain't nobody going to want
to be running shows anywhere either night of wrestle Media.
I think it would be very stupid for anybody to
run shows on those actual days other than WWE. I do, however,
hope that a certain someone is planning a nice week
of events or several days of events somewhere else here
in the States leading up to WrestleMania weekend. This really
doesn't have an impact on that, but we had that
breaking news tonight. By the way, speaking of breaking news,
for those of you who may be interested, WWE now
has Summer Slam tickets discounted as low as twenty five dollars.
You knew this was coming. I mean, come on now,
if you pay any attention to what the ticket sales
are for Summer Slim. For those of you who give
a shit, I know some people don't. They ain't good.
Not in a stadium that fits sixty to seventy thousand people.
They have less than twenty five thousand tickets out for
each night of Summer Slim.
Speaker 2: So this is what happens. Now.
Speaker 1: We have tickets that are discounted down to twenty five bucks.
There are lower bowl seats. If you go on ticket
Master right now, you can get certain lower bowl seats
at us Bank Stadium for as little as forty three dollars,
which is great news for the fans.
Speaker 2: So those of you, I.
Speaker 1: Mean genuinely who have been waiting or maybe you're local
and you've been thinking about going to Summer Slim, now's
your chance because prices have dropped. And that was inevitable
because when you price people out, eventually they reach their
breaking point and they're like, I can't go, or you
know what, it ain't worth it for me to go.
So if you want to get in, go ahead and
get in on that. This is your Saturday Night's Main
Event review. It is July eighteenth, twenty twenty six. I
am the solemn monster that's by the concession stand. Yeah,
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the way blocking your view. It's possible. Pay attention to
what kind of ticket it is. I didn't see what
kind of tickets they are. I just saw the prices.
Twenty five dollars tickets and forty three dollars tickets, very
unlike WWA. It could very yes, it could very well
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and find out how many likes we need for our
Be the Booker segment Saturday Night's Main Event edition. We
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Five hundred likes? It's going to be a journey to
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Speaker 2: Night for Be the Booker.
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Speaker 2: They might. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Am I excited for the return of the pain Maker?
I was feeling some pain when I watched that return
vignette on Dynamite the other night. I think he looks
completely ridiculous. That's what I think. Although I heard there
was a new stipulation added to his match tonight with
Tomaso Champa. I'll have to go back and see what
I missed. But let's talk about this first. They added
a match. Ugh, I'm sure this took everything in Paul
av I mean, he was probably twitching. He was twitching
when somebody suggested to him maybe we should have a
fifth match on this show, and he said, I'll compromise
with you. We'll put it on the pre show, which
is something WWE is not done for a very long time.
When was the last time they had pre show matches.
I can't remember the last time they had pre show matches,
but we got one tonight. It was added very late,
non title with the United States Champion Trick Williams going
one on one with Laredo Kid. Very very random, but okay, hey,
the more the merrier because we don't get enough matches
on these shows. Late in the match. This aired, by
the way, on the pre show, as I mentioned, so
either on the YouTube channel. I think it was also
airing on Peacock Is where you could go back and
watch it. Laredo Kid, he counted a bookend into a
roll up only for a two count. He then dove
out of the ring onto Trick from the top of
the ring post and he basically completely missed Trick and
he just crashed and burned on the floor. Took Trick
down anyway, and then put him back in the ring.
They ended up back inside. Trick was able to finish
him off with the trick shot knee and he picked
up the win. Not much else to say about it.
It was a match, wasn't great, wasn't terrible. At least
we got some more action. We don't get enough action
on these shows. And I also think that they should
be doing more pre show matches. I'm not saying they
have to fill them up, even if it's just one match.
You know, it's okay to have a pre show match.
You won't die unless you do dives like Laredo Kid
did where he almost died. The main card, what a
card it was. It opened with Bribella and Page defending
their WWE Women's Tag Team Championships against Vallon Henley and
Laney Reed Fatal Influence, who made their way out to
the ring with J. C. Jane Yes, comedic genius. I
couldnot have put it any better. It was a match
of all time. That's exactly what it was. The last
time we saw this match, the titles were not on
the line. It was a non title match and the
champions beat the challengers, challengers being the ones that we
had tonight, So for them to go in there tonight
and lose again would have been death death for fatal influence.
There was only one possible outcome here now. Bribella posted
a the other day on her social media of a
training session with her husband, Brian Danielson, who was teaching
her some new moves. So I was watching with a
keen eye here to see if Brie was going to
bust out any moves that I've not seen her use before.
The answer is no, unless I miss something here. I
didn't see anything out of the ordinary from her. He
was showing her some cool stuff too, but I didn't
pick up on it here. Landy made a blind tag
early in the match. She necked Page right across the
top rope and they worked her over until she eventually
made the hot tag to Brie, who dished out the
s kicks to Fallon, who was bleeding from the mouth.
Speaker 2: And I didn't see.
Speaker 1: How it happened, but it was kind of like splattered
across her face and her chin. So that was the
first incident incidents of blood here on this show. Not
the last good thing. This was on Peacock. Oh my god.
Can you imagine if this was on Netflix? On the replay,
they would put a giant blur over her head. You
wouldn't even be able to tell who it is. So
Brie screamed Bri mode, to a very tepid reaction from
the crowd in New York City, and she worked over
both heels. Eventually, though they were able to cut her down.
So Page was setting up for her finish when Jace
Jane climbed up on the apron to run distraction Fallon.
Henley ran in she closed lined Page to break up
the finish attempt. Page avoided a charging Lany Reid, who
posted herself shoulder first, and then Page tried to roll
her up fallon Henley, though was holding her partner's arms.
So Brie comes in. She takes out Fallon and that
allows Page to roll up breed Jace, though from the floor.
Actually she might have gotten up on the apron, but
Jace reaches in and she was able to push Page
kind of backwards so that Laney ended up on top
of her for the three count to win the tag
team titles. And this made Jessica Carr look like a
blithering idiot because on commentary they tried to explain, oh,
the referee didn't see it. Jessica didn't see Jace Jane interfering. Yes,
she did, and if she didn't, then she should not
be allowed to referee and she should immediately have to
undergo a medical evaluation to check her eyesight, because there
is no way that Jessica Carr did not see Jace
Jane interfere in this match, but she had to pretend
as if she didn't, and so the finish looked very bad. However,
we now have the end of a scream mode, right.
I don't know. I don't know if there's still going
to be a tag team or not. I don't see
the point. Frankly feels like they should be going their
separate ways. I don't know where Nikki Bella is in
her recovery. Maybe she's on her way back soon, but
they are no longer the tag team champions. Fallon and
Laney again. They had to win this match. They had to.
Not only did they lose in that non title match
a few weeks ago, but Jacy Jane goes into this
qualifying match on SmackDown last night against Tiffany Stratton and loses.
She can't even qualify to occupy one of the five
spots in the Women's Championship Ladder match at summerslimt. Can
you imagine if Fallon and Laney roll on into Madison
Square Garden tonight lose for a second time coming off
the JC loss, I would start asking questions about who
has it in for these three? Thankfully it went the
other way. Not that they have a ton of other
teams to really work with, but this was a title
change that was much needed. I don't have a whole
lot to say about the match itself. Again, it was
a match of all time, but it was the right
outcome for sure. Now we go backstage and we are
joined by the learning Stree. We've seed a lot of
came over the last twenty four hours. Fuck that we
have seen more of Jericho in the last twenty four
hours here on these streams than we have seen of
him so far. In twenty twenty six on AW Television,
shout out to Tone C celebrating six months of channel membership.
Kathy Kelly is in the back. Can I just say
Kathy Kelly looking amazing tonight? I just had to say
that she was interviewing Sammy's ain who said that he
hasn't been talking of late because he has to choose
his words very carefully. He's gonna have to choose his
words even more carefully after what happened tonight, said that
he's not a victim, but everything that has happened to
him has been egregious. All CM Punk and Cody Rhodes
had to say is when and they get their big
championship match at SummerSlam, where as he has had to
fight and scratch and claw for ten years. Gunther shows
up and he tells Sammy, stay out of my way
and don't ruin SummerSlam for me, and he walks off.
Then they had their favorite segment of the night. They
showed all of the influencers and all of these celebrities
that were in attendance in the house here at Madison
Square Garden for the big show tonight. They showed Terence Crawford,
a retired boxer. They showed Osha Jackson Junior. They showed
Trick Williams coming off his win earlier on the pre show,
and they showed an influencer named Neon. Neon got into
some trouble earlier today because and I think this was
at I think this was at Fanatics Fest. It could
have been backstage at the Garden, but I want to
say it was a fanatics fest and he was I
think live streaming. So there's a camera following him around.
He's filming and Penta comes walking by, but no mask.
He's maskless, and you could hear Penta tell him like,
please don't please, don't show that, please don't post that.
You know, no, I'm a mass star, and Neon's like, oh,
I'm so sorry. But I think he was live streaming.
So it kind of went out to the world and
I think and maybe that happened yesterday because I think
he showed up today and they like banned him from
streaming or there was some big controversy, there was fallout
from what had happened. I mean, it didn't seem like
anything malicious. He was live on kick okay, so that's
what it was. Anyway, I don't know too much about
this guy, but that was a pretty fucking stupid thing
to do. So anyway, fucked around, found out apparently he
was he was banned I guess today.
Speaker 2: But there he was.
Speaker 1: They showed him on TV. After this, we had Dan Hausen.
See Jalen Brunson was not the only hero in New
York City tonight. We had the true man responsible even
more than Jalen Brunson, the man responsible for the New
York Knicks ending their fifty three year drought winning the championship.
See this is what I think. Jalen Brunson apparently played
through all the playoffs and the finals with an injured
wrist for which he needed surgery when the season was over,
and I think the only reason that he was able
to make it through and play as well as he
was able to play is because of Dan Housen. So
he built up a lot of really good will with
the fans here in New York City. He had a
singles match, a rare Dan Housen singles match against j
D McDonough. Even more rare, frankly, the fact that JD
McDonough had a singles match on a Saturday Night's made event.
That's pretty fucking rare. This was no disqualification, now, Dan Housen.
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, this
story started with a segment that I do not believe
aired on the actual television show. I believe it was
shot for the Socials were the judgment Day paid him
one hundred thousand dollars to put a curse on Obafemi
and Dan Housen said, oh, hold on a second, Obafemi, Yeah,
I don't think so. But they claimed he stole the
money you owe us one hundred thousand dollars and it
was kind of born out of that. And he also
put a curse on Live Morgan and that was a
while back. So Live Morgan lost her a Queen of
the Ring match to EO Sky. So Dan Housen has
not a lot of friends in the judgment day and
that's all led to this. They had a Dan Housen blimp,
by the way, that was flying around. Remember thirty years
ago was the Stridex blimp at Summer Slam that they
had in the building. Oh my god, that was like
their title sponsor back then, stridex zippads. My god, it
just reminded myself of the Stridex blimp. You know, they
should have you know, just like most pimples, they should
have popped the blimp while it was in the air
and then the blimp would just kind of fall on
someone in the crowd. It's a horrible idea anyway, So
mcdonoughh entered with liv Morgan and Dominic mysterio. Live didn't
stick around though, Dom accompanied him to ring.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I live felt she had to go backstage. It means
notice qualification. She's basically a manager now anyway, she doesn't
do anything else. I don't know why she didn't stick around.
Dom though, had the New York Knicks jersey, the custom
jersey that was gifted to Dan Housen that has his
name on it that they stole from him a few
weeks ago. Dom had the Knicks jersey. Dan Housen entered
in his Dan Housend Mobile. He abandoned it on the stage,
and then we see the cloning Machine is back. This
is foreshadowing. Cloning Machine was just sitting there right there
on stage.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have this match and as soon as I mean, look,
dan Housen's in it. So that right there tells you
there's going to be some shenanigans. But once they made
a notice qualification, you knew that there was going to
be all kinds of high jinks and comedy and bullshit. Right,
you kind of know what to expect going into it.
The bell rings. Dan Housen. The first thing he does
is he tries to curse McDonough and he very quickly
rolls out to the floor, gonna go confer with a
dirty dom. So Dominic was able to distract dan Housen,
which allowed McDonough to ambush him from behind, and he
sent dan Housen outside. Dan Housen was being bounced off
the barricades. He was getting the shit kicked out of him.
So back inside, dan Housen got supplexed and dom was
using the Nick jersey to clean his shoes. Fans did
not like that. When they showed that on the big screen,
they started booing very They're probably booing this more than
anything else on the show up to this point. McDonough
then dropped dan Housen with the Brainbuster. So then McDonough
grabbed the jersey from Dom and he wiped his ass
with it, and that got him some heat. He went
for a moon salt. Nobody home. Dan Housen was able
to move out of the way and he was able
to get his jersey back. He put the jersey on
and he no sold some strikes. I guess the jersey
brought him some great power. I guess because he went
on offense. Dom got into the ring. Dan Housen suplexed
him McDonough went for a slam dan house encountered and
lighted him out, but then Dom attacked dan Housen from behind,
and now it's two on one and they're stomping the
crap out of this guy. So McDonough tears the jersey
off dan Housen, who rolls out of the ring and
he starts going down the aisle towards the stage like
he's leaving. Meanwhile, Dom and McDonough back at ringset, right
in front of the announcers. They go under the ring
and they pull out a slim gym table, got your
branded tables? What was the logo by the way in
the middle of the ring to Oh, it was a
KFC logo? Is that what I think? That's what I
was going to ask, Like, they had this giant logo
in the middle of the ring and I couldn't tell
it first what it was.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was KFC.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look back in the day in WCW
it was Snickers. Yeah, the giant Snickers logo on the mat.
Now it's KFC, all very healthy stuff. But they pulled
his table out from underneath the ring, and in doing so,
they pull out a bunch of many, Dan housens, I
think there were three of them, two of them, three
of them. They're tiny, so I mean my count could
be off. So Dom and JD they try to fend
them off. And meanwhile dan Hausen went back to the stage.
He has his little cage with the stuffed animal in it.
It's a cat. This goes back to his segment on
SmackDown last night where he was being interviewed by Jackie Redman,
who said, you turned down Matt Cardon is offered to
watch your back. It's Saturday night's main events. Are you
sure that's the smart move? A wise move? And dan
Hausen showed us this little cage with a with a
fake cat, stuffed animal inside, and I told you, I
told you last night exactly who it was going to be.
Because people are like cats, Oh my gods, Ernest the
cat Miller going to show up, Like what the fuck
are you talking about? And the crowd goes mild, Yeah,
that'd be great, let's send Ernest Miller out there. But
people were like, I wonder what he means by that. Well,
I mean, especially if you're if you're a fan of
the Knicks, or if you're from New York. It's really
not that hard to put two and two together about
what was going to happen here. Once I saw the
cloning machine, it was pretty clear who was popping out
of that machine. But he throws the there's like a
little compartment, a little door on the bottom of the
cloning machine. He puts the the cage in there with
the cat, and it didn't happen right away. They cut
back to ringside and again they're dealing with the little
mini dan Housens. But they were about to power bomb
one of the mini houses through the table in the
ring and the cloning machine is starting to make noise
it's working, and then it finishes and the door opens,
and there's smoke that billows out of the cloning machine,
and here comes Cat Kat Carl Anthony Towns of the
New York Knicks, who of course gets a big pot
from the crowd here in New York. This is a
giant man. How tall is Cat? He's a big guy.
It's got to be everybits six foot eight. And so
he and they shoot this in a way where like
they used to shoot andre like this, where the cameraman
would crouch down to make a look even bigger than
he really was. And so here comes Karl Anthony Towns
and he's coming down to the ring, you know, with
Dan Housen, and he steps over the top rope like
Andre used to do, and he grabs McDonough by the
throat and all mcdonah has to I mean, mcdonn's doing
all the work here, right, All JD has to do
is just jump up in the air, and he did,
and boy did he get the shit choke slammed at it.
This was a great choke slam and all credit to
McDonagh on this. But Town's got him up. Is he
seven feet Okay, yeah, I could believe it. He's seven
feet seven to one. All right, let's say he's seven
feet seven feet tall. Legit seven feet tall and you
can't teach that. And he picks McDonough up in the
air and fold him up. Gigantic choke slam. Then he
grabs dom. This was a good choke slam, a little
more tame. He choke slams him through the table and
then at that point Dan Housen hit McDonough with his
triple D finish to pick up the win. Look, this
was exactly what I expected.
Speaker 2: It to be.
Speaker 1: It was the crowd pleasing match of the night. Dan
Housen was, you know. He came out there, got a
heroes welcome. They had one of the New York Knicks
players come out of the cloning machine to the big ovation.
He was the only one really who got physical on
the show because he's not among the walking wounded. But
what they had him do was very safe. Again, all
he had to do was just grab these guys by
the throat and just go like this and they'll do
the rest. And everyone popped for it, and Dan Housen
picks up the wind. You either are a fan of
Dan Housen and his stick or you're not. There's really
no in between. And if you're a Knicks fan, then
you probably enjoyed the cat cameo. But there's really not
much else to say about it. It would have been ridiculous
to leave Dan Housen off this show, right. I said
this weeks and weeks ago. I said to build this
show around him, and they did. They built the advertising
around him until they announced the tag team match, which
was only last week. All the posters and everything had
Dan Housen in it. We didn't even know anything else
about this show. They had him in New York doing
all kinds of media leading up to it. They had
a parade earlier today. If you watch it on Peacock,
they streamed the whole thing. It was him and Our
Truth were on this little makeshift Dan Housen parade float
that was moving very very very very slowly down the
street in Midtown, Manhattan on its way to Madison Square Garden.
And it was pouring today. By the way, the weather
was just straight ass here in New York. I mean
when I say it was rainy, it was fucking downpour today.
It was I mean at one o'clock in the afternoon,
it was so dark it looked like it was eight
o'clock at night. So Dan Housen's on the float with
Our Truth. They're holding up their umbrellas, and I mean
they it was literally just them standing there and just
saying a lot of stupid shit. They just put a
camera in front of him, and there really wasn't much
to it, but everything was built around Dan Housen's so
you had to have him on the show. It made
sense for him to be on this show. If ever
there was a show that he should be on, right
this was the one, So this was fine. I might
not have not that I hated it, but like obviously
this was like, all right, can we just get this
over with?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: That was my attitude about it. Let's just do it,
get it over with, and let's kind of move on
to the next thing. These things would be a lot
more tolerable if you had cards that had more than
four matches, you know, when you have these short cards
and I know they added the fifth on the pre show,
but not counting that. When you have these small cards
and you don't have a lot of matches announced and
one of them is this comedy stuff, you feel it
a lot more. If they had six matches on this
card and one of them was the comic relief match
of the night, and you did all the Dan Housen stuff.
Speaker 2: I think that some.
Speaker 1: Of the people who maybe didn't like this shit might
have been able to tolerate it more because at least
there's other really good stuff that you can kind of
pick and choose from on the show. They don't give
you a whole lot of variety sometimes on these shows,
and so for some people, I think that's part of
the problem. You know, it's like you have this, and
then after this it's like, well we have this and
this and that's it. But this was what I expected
it to be, nothing more, nothing less. We go to
the back and she's back, Kathy Kelly is back, and
Kathy interviews a very disheveled Lyra Valkyrie. Lyra says, you
know what's funny, the last time that she was in
this building, she was competing for the women's tag team?
Speaker 2: Was she in the match?
Speaker 1: Were Oscar and Kyrie and the match I feel like
it was a multi team match for the women's tag
belts and they may have been in that match. If so,
that's incredible timing on that super chat. But she says,
the last time that she was in this building, she
was competing for the women's tag team titles. Now she
doesn't even know she can be the person that she
used to be. She said that she will get Bailey
out of her head once and for all tonight, and
then after this we had Commercial Palooza. Bailey was approached
by Jackie Redman in the back. After Commercial Palooza was over,
Bailey said that apparently she's the only one in the
locker room who's thinking straight, and she tried to give
Lyra her space. That didn't work, so tonight she's going
to end her before she even gets started. And that
led into Bailey one on one with Lyra Valkyria. Lyra
has new entrance music, which is really just her old
music slowed down.
Speaker 2: I dig it.
Speaker 1: It's got a very dark vibe to it. It works,
but this character, this heeled character that she's portraying, it works.
And it also takes the whole element out of the
song where the fans go, WHOA.
Speaker 2: No more of that.
Speaker 1: You can't do that anymore. It doesn't work. The song
is too slow, no more wooing bird girl when she
comes out. So Lyra went right after Bailey, right at
the bell, and so Bailey is trying to fight her off,
and they end up outside the ring. They're over by
the apron and Bailey throws a shot like a right
hand at her, and now Lyra is kind of kind
of covering up, and I mean it didn't look like
anything out of the ordinary at first. Lyra's crouched down
now like in a ball, on her knees on the
floor outside. When Bailey picks her up to move her,
I notice, oh shit, there's a ton of blood. On
the floor outside, and there's no way that this woman
bladed herself. So I'm like, she got hit in the
nose of the mouth. Something happened here. She got hit
in the nose. They showed the slow motion replay of it.
She got hit in the nose with an elbow, So
Bailey didn't even hit her like with a right hand shot.
She caught her with either like this part of the
forearm here, or I think it was the elbow, so
I think of when Brock opened up Sina all those
years ago, or Randy Orton with the elbow. She went off,
fucking brock lesnar on Lira's face here guarantee if she
broke her nose. There were puddles of blood in different
spots on the floor outside. I was actually kind of shocked.
They didn't wipe that up as quickly as I thought
they would. They left it there for a while, so
you see like a little blood here, blood here, blood there,
blood there, and the doctor is right there. I'm like, boy,
I'm surprised he hasn't already like sopped that shit up
because it's dangerous.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They kept going back outside, and I'm like, at one point,
Bailey was teasing doing some kind of dive or something
out to the floor like in that area, and I'm like,
she's liable to slip. You know, there's enough blood on
the floor out there where it might make it a
little slick. So she got She got hit pretty bad here,
and I thought they might stop the match. I mean,
this the way WWE operates these days, and they did
at one point, like the referee held Bailey back a
little bit, and they kept Lyra off camera because they
were wiping the nose to try to get rid of
the blood, and they did for a little bit. Eventually
it came back. Thankfully, they didn't stop the match. I mean,
come on, give me, give me a fucking break. These
women are tougher than that. So the match continued on
and referee at one point uh was holding Bailey back
as Lyra was being checked on. Bailey, though, she went
and did this low dive out onto her on the floor,
rolled her back into the ring. Bailey put Lyra in
a Boston crab right in the center of the ring.
She wasn't even close to the ropes. Lyra slipped out.
She sent Bailey to the corner and Bailey ended up
on top. Lyra she got there first delivered a neck
breaker onto the top turn buckle, and then she hit
this great looking guillotine because she had Bailey kind of
hanging over the ropes, and she hit this guillotine leg
drop she got.
Speaker 2: I mean, they showed a replay of it.
Speaker 1: She got great height on this and just came right
down on the back of Bailey's neck. Bailey, though, was
able to make a comeback when she caught Lyra's leg
off a spin kick attempt and she sent her into
the corner, and so she ends up putting her in
a cross face, which I'm sure didn't feel too good
if she did have a broken nose, or even if
it wasn't broken.
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly she had.
Speaker 1: A nose injury, and Bailey just has her in a
cross face and it's like her fucking hands are right
across the bridge of the nose and she's wrenching back
on her here. But anyway, the hole got broken. Lyra
was able to use a sling blade to take down
Bailey locked in a sleeper hole. Then she bridged up. Basically,
she had the John Moxley bulldog choke applied, and she
bridged up to apply even more pressure to the choke.
Bailey looked like she was at least on her way
to going out, and the referee call for.
Speaker 2: The stoppage and that was it.
Speaker 1: When the match was over, Lyra she was outside with Bailey.
She sent her head first into the ring post. The
led casing around the ring post reapplied the choke. Referee
was able to get her off Bailey. Lyra goes over
to the steel steps and she removes the top half
of the steps and then she set Bailey up for
a night wing onto the flat bottom part and that's
how she left her. Bailey was just sprawled out across
the steps and the camera followed Lyra down the aisle.
I do like when they have these Saturday nights made
e Bench shows, the aisleway is a lot more narrow,
so the fans can kind of reach out and they're
just they're closer to the talent, which is kind of
how it used to be, but just bringing the fans
in a little bit more like that visually, I just
think it makes it just makes for a better visual
instead of putting so much separation as they sometimes do
between the talent and the fans when they're all right
there and they're coming out and they just want to like,
you know, touch their arm or something like that. You know,
that's how it used to be.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It just felt more like the fans are more crowded
around them. Lyra's talking shit to the fans as she's
going to the back. This was good stuff. This was
good stuff. Obviously the blood was not intentional. I do
think it added to the match because you have these
two women who have a grudge issue.
Speaker 2: You know, these two women.
Speaker 1: Were friends turned enemies, and Lyra was talking about, you know,
what she's going to do to Bailey on this show.
She was right on top of her right from the
start of the match, and so I would say a
little blood goes a long way, but there was more
than more than a little blood coming out of that nose.
There were a few rough moments in this match. I
just chalk that up to Lyra trying to get her bearings,
you know, with the injury. It was like right after
it happened, there was just some back and forth with
them that was a little off. So I just kind
of chalk it up to that. But this whole issue
of like, oh is this Bailey's sendoff? Did we just
witness Bailey's last match in WWE.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Her contract status is. I know all of the talk
has been that her contract is up this year. My
impression was that it was later in the year, but
I don't think it's ever really been reported exactly when her.
Speaker 2: Deal is up. Now.
Speaker 1: When I did the sound off at the beginning of
the year, and I do my annual prediction show every year,
in my predictions, said that if there's anybody who's going
to go from WWE to AEW and not the other
way around, I think Bailey leaves before the end of
the year. She leaves WWE at the end of her
deal and she goes to AEW. And I still feel
that way. I just don't know when her contract is up.
I don't think this is the last time that we're
going to see Bailey in a WWE ring. I'm not
writing her off as if that's the end of Bailey. No,
this was an angle that absolutely felt like they were
writing her off television. But I would still expect her
to come back. And this was only the first match, right,
So my guess is we get at least one more,
if not a three match series.
Speaker 2: Between them.
Speaker 1: Maybe at the end of it, that's their way of
writing her off if she is going to leave. But
there's been nothing reported about what her current status is,
or that her contract is up and you know, imminently,
or anything like that. I wouldn't read too much into this.
This was an angle that I think writes her off television,
maybe for a couple of weeks, and then she'll probably
be back and we'll get another match between them. I
don't know that we need one. I mean, Lyra beat
her pretty decisively here. She didn't cheat, you know, there
was no ref bump, she didn't put her feet on
the ropes, there was no Tatum Pasley. I thought maybe
they were going to debut somebody new from NXT, you know,
to kind of pair them up with Lyra.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I mean they had a straight wrestling match. This woman
was leaking like a sieve, and she got the win.
She has a new finishing move and she got the win.
And so to that end, I liked it. I was
very skeptical about Lyra as a heel. If you remember
when she first turned on Bailey all those weeks ago.
I said that, I said, I don't know if she's
got a heel run in her. I've never seen Lyra
Valkyria as a heel. What kind of heel would she be?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now we're starting to see what kind of heel they
want her to be, and I like how vicious she
was here on this show, and I think that if
she's really committed to this role, this could work. This
could work for her. I mean, she's already more interesting
now just doing this stuff than she was six months ago,
so she may well have a good heel run in her.
It's not just up to her, though, you know. WWE
has to be able to program her with the right
people and really commit to it. I don't trust them.
I trust that she'll put her all into it, and
she clearly there's something there. But can WWE follow through
as always that is the question. But yeah, I wouldn't
read too much yet into the Bailey stuff, although I
do expect her to leave. I think within the next
I think within the next year we're gonna get Mercedes
and Bailey back in the ring together totally. We have
not seen the last match between them, either as tag
team partners or opponents, and the next time we see
it it will not be in WWE backstage, Kathy Kelly
interviewed the WWE champion CM Punk and Cody road side
by side if the gorilla position as they were preparing
to go out for their tag team match. Cody said
that he was surprised that she didn't ask the age
old question of whether he and punk Ken coexist. Motherfucker.
I had that shit in the thumbnail before he even
uttered the words, before this show even came on the
air tonight. What you see in the thumbnail was there
from from fucking early this morning. That's all this was.
Can they co exist? This whole thing was built on
the trope of can they co exist? So Cody was
poking some fun at it here. Cody said, of course
they could, and he added that he didn't want Punk
to have any excuses when he beats him at SummerSlam,
and Punk smiled and delivered a very similar statement about
not wanting Cody to have any excuses. And then they
bickered about who should go out first, and they played
Cody's music and so off he went first, and then
we got the main event, which actually ended up not
being the main event of this show, but it was
my main event. It was the real main event of
this show. It was an actual fucking wrestling match. It
was CM Punk and Cody Rhoades as tag team partners
taking Gunther and Sammy z Ain with the stipulation that
if Gunther and sammy's Ain could win this match, they
would be added to the WWE Championship match at SummerSlam
to make it a fatal four way. No chance of
that happening because of the nick all this stuff. Clearly
we knew that match was going to come at SummerSlam,
and so for me, for me personally, there wasn't any
real drama about how this match was going to go.
I still like that they added the stipulation. I especially
like it because, just based on some of the stuff
I saw on social media, apparently there were a lot
of people who did not pick up on the fact
that they were going to be doing GUNTHERER and nick All.
This is SummerSlam, and they legitimately the thought that we
might get a fatal four way. So for a good
chunk of the audience, I guess it probably worked.
Speaker 2: But I liked that.
Speaker 1: They added something tangible to this match instead of it
just being a tag team match. Now there was something
on the line, and there was at least a segment
of the audience who really did believe that they were
going to get a fatal four way because all four
of these men have been linked together in some way,
and logically people are probably looking at it going, well,
what else would they do? What else would Sammy Zain
be doing at SummerSlam right if they didn't do a
fatal four way match, which is a fair point. So
as soon as Sammy got to the ring, he was
the last one out, he and Punk just started going
at it, and then Gunther and Cody started going at it,
so a hot start right off the bat. There were
no collar and elbow tie ups, no theatrics, nothing, just fighting,
just picking up where they left off at the end
of SmackDown the night before. So Sammy distracted the referee
while Gunther took Punk out to the floor dropped him
onto the barricade. Cody went outside to go help Punk.
He actually picked Punk up and threw him back in
the ring because he wanted to make sure that his
team did lose. So I don't know if Punk was
fully recovered yet. Cody didn't seem to care though he
didn't want Punk to get counted out, so he threw
him back in the ring, and Sammy just starts beating
on Punk and he's screaming at him. You stole it
from me, You stole it from me. So Punk was bleeding.
Speaker 2: From the mouth.
Speaker 1: More blood on this show. I don't know if he
bit his lip or his tongue. I don't know what
he did, but there was blood coming from his mouth.
Maybe he had internal bleeding. He crawled over to tag
Cody just as Sammy tag Gunther into the ring and
Cody laid out gun Through with a disaster kick. Sammy
tried to get involved here. Rhodes, though, put him down
with a Cody cutter and sent him right back outside.
You then hit a Cody cutterund Gunther from the top
only got a two count out of it. He went
for a crossroads Gunher was able to avoid it that
We tagged Sammy and who tried for a blue thunderbomb.
Cody kicked out, so Sammy went for a halluva kick.
He did not connect with it. Cody instead tagged in
CM Punk, who came off the top with.
Speaker 2: The forearm and a bulldog.
Speaker 1: Punk dropped the flying elbow from the top rope and
then locked down the Anacon device. Gunther tried to break
the whole. Cody, though, cut him off put him in
a figure four leg locks, so now we had dueling
stereo submissions here in this match. Guntherer, though, was able
to roll over in the figure four just enough to
reach over and gouge Punk's eyes to break that hold,
and then Guntherer yelled at Sammy Sammy so Sammy could
come over and break the figure four. Sammy hit an
exploder into the corner on Punk and he was gearing
up for a halluva kick and this time it connected,
but then Cody hit Sammy with a crossroads. Gunther then
threw alhad lariat that dropped Cody and he went for Punk. Punk,
though caught him with a GTS. All four men now
are down for the reset. Gunther got up first. He
shoved Punk into Cody, who was on the apron and
not Cody to the floor. Oh oh, the two of
them collided. Yeah falcons though, man, that's a good point.
This match was all gas, no brakes. Usually these WWE shows,
at least the ones on TV, although I guess PL's
are really not that much different. Usually the WWE shows
are all breaks as in commercial breaks. This match, though,
it was all gas no brakes. So after Gunther shoved
Punk it to Cody and not Cody off the apron,
he locked the sleeper hole in on CM. Punk managed
to stand up. He tried for a GTS. Gunther though,
got him down in the hold again, but Punk he
got up close to his corner, close enough anyway that
Cody was able to tag himself in and he delivered
a Crossroads to Gunther to drop him. Cody went for
the pin. Sammy flew in though and broke things up.
So in all of the chaos that was unfolding here,
Charles Robinson the referee, he took a bump. We got
a ref bump, which meant fuckery was coming here in
this match. Punk hit a GTS on Sammy and then
he and Cody started taking turns, just throwing haymakers at Gunther.
It was two on one on Gunther. The baby Faces
were ganging up on the heel. No referee though, because
Robinson is still down. So Cody went for a Cody Cutter,
but Gunther moved and he hit Punk with it by accident.
That's the second miscommunication here between these two men in
this match. Gun left the ring. He went to go
grab the WWE Championship brings it into the ring and
he blasts Cody in the head with the belt and
then he power bombed him. No referee, so he's waving
for another referee to come on down. Here comes another referee.
He runs down to the ring, he slides in and
the camera cut to a different angle that showed us
Nick Aldos was crouched down outside the ring.
Speaker 2: Oops.
Speaker 1: I don't think they meant to show that. So we
already kind of got spoiled as far as what was
about to happen. But as the referee begins to county
counts one, he counts two and sure enough, Oh my god,
I'll act surprise here. Oh my god, look everybody, it's
Nick all this in his suit. And he pulls the
referee out of the ring and Gunther is just he's
beside himself, you know. He gets up to his feet.
All this has now taken possession of the WWE Championship belt,
and Gunther kind of that reaches outside, but he kind
of bends over like he's looking at all, this is
what are you doing? It all just reaches up and
just wallops him right upside the head with the belt.
Gunther staggers backwards and cm Punk puts him down with
a go to sleep. Punk then pulls Cody, who was
the legal man, on top of Gunther all descends the
referee back into the ring to count the one, two three. Sammy,
he tried to make that last minute safe. He just
couldn't get there in time, and Cody Rhodes and Cmpunk
they secure their main event, very likely the night one
main event at SummerSlam for the WWE Championship. It will
not be a fatal for it because it was never
going to be a fatal four way. They just wanted
you to believe that it might be. But no, it
is one on one. I really like this match. Never
let up, It was never boring. There was never a
dull moment here. It was all action from the very beginning.
Crowd was into it and again there was at least
something on the line here, so it created some dramatic
near falls towards the end. So I really liked the match.
It was a one match show really needed that one
match to deliver, and I felt like it did. There
were some miscommunications between Punk and Cody, but when the
match was over. I mean, it was nothing that derailed
the match. They still won. And that was one of
the things, Like I said this last week, like Cody
and Punk were going to win this match because I
just could not imagine them beating either one of them.
Punk is the champion, they're not going to beat him.
Cody is the former champion, the number one contender, They're
not going to beat him. It just seemed pretty obvious
they were going to win the match regardless. But it
wasn't like after the match they were at each other's
throats or anything, Hey why'd you hit me?
Speaker 2: Or why why'd you bump into me? Like everything was cool?
Was cool.
Speaker 1: I was watching Cody, he was acting a little strange.
I thought something might go down here. He was holding
the belt and I'm watching him, but hands the belt
over to Punk. Punk slings the belt over his shoulder,
and in so doing, the strap smack Cody in the face.
Punk didn't seem like he knew that.
Speaker 2: He left the ring.
Speaker 1: Cody didn't seem very happy. They're building to it. There's
gonna be an explosion, maybe on Friday next week. There's
gonna be an explosion between these two. Nick all this
costing Gunther seemed to be the obvious choice. I said
last night in the SmackDown review, does he interfere during
the match or does he make it appearance after the
match is over? And it did make more sense for
him to appear during the match and cost Gunther. But
here's the thing about that. So that's great, he gets
his revenge on Gunther. I don't know if that's gonna
cost him his job where he is permanently removed from
the GM position. I think he does a good job
as the GM. I think it's still the right role
for him. I don't see him returning to a full
time wrestling role, so I don't know if they'll fire
him in that role.
Speaker 2: But they're going to set up a.
Speaker 1: Match between them for Summer Slim right that that much
is very clear. What about Sammy's Ain. Sammy's ain just
got royally screwed by his boss who let his emotions
get the best of him and he interfered in a
match that he had no business getting involved in. In
doing that, he also fucked over Sammy's Ain, not just Gunther.
Sammy's Ain now more than ever, has a very valid
reason to show up on television and protest and say
that I need my championship match because this is ridiculous.
I never got my rematch. Everybody else gets a rematch.
I never got my rematch, and now I had the
chance to go to Summer Slim and you took it
away from me. What are you going to do to
remedy this? What are you going to do to fix this?
One thing that they could do is to say, okay,
fair enough, the match at Summer Slim is not going
to be a fatal four way because Gunther lost, but
you didn't lose, and you got the raw end of
the deal. So to make it up to you, we're
going to add you and make it a triple threat
instead of a fatal four way. I don't know that
that's what they're gonna do. I'm saying it's an option.
If the choice is Sammy in the match or Sammy
not even on the Summer Slim card, then I would
say put him in the match. It just feels to
me like the match is set, the biggest possible match
they could do. It's not a triple threat match. It's
Sammy on the outside looking in on Cody and Punk
going one on one, and so to change that now
they've tried to sell more tickets over the past week
off the weight of that match being announced, to now
go back and change the match would be kind of lame.
Some people may not want to see a triple threat.
They may want to see Cody and Punk one on one.
That's the match that they've been promoting. But if they
don't add him, there's no other obvious role for him.
To make Sammy a referee, you could do it, but
you've already done that. We've already seen Sammy Zane as
the referee. What's the point of doing that again. If
you want him involved in the match, then put him
in the match. The other thing you can do is
not put him in the match and say the decision
is final. We have a singles match. However, you are
owed a rematch, and so you get the first shot
coming out of Summer Slam. Whether it's Punk, whether it's Cody,
whoever it is, you will get them on that first
SmackDown after Summer Slam for the WWE Championship. As long
as Sammy gets his match right, that's what he wants.
He wants his rematch. He'll be very upset If it
doesn't happen, it's SummerSlam. But I'm just not convinced that
they're going to add him in there to make it
a triple threat. But it certainly is an option. If
you want them to make sense of it, that would
be the way to make sense of it. He lost tonight,
not through no fault of his own. The reason he
lost is because of Nick Aldis. So Nick has to
find a way to make it right, very simple. Otherwise,
Sammy's gonna be wrestling Johnny Gargano on top of a
crate on the pre show at Summerslim this year. They
may have a planking match. Sammy is going to be
so depressed after all this. By the way, he may
start planking. We may have a dueling dueling crates with
the two of them. That would be the pre show
attraction at Summer Slim.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: If he gets a rematch and loses, what do you
do with so well, of course he's gonna lose.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me, let's just end this right here. Okay.
Speaker 1: If sammy' zaying gets his rematch, he's not winning the
belt back. Like it's over, it's done. If he gets
his rematch, he's gonna lose. When he loses, he's gonna
he's gonna continue doing the same gimmick he's been doing.
You know, justice for Sammy, I've been screwed. You know,
everything you've seen him do on TV. He's just gonna
continue doing it.
Speaker 2: Who he'll work with I don't know. I don't know
the answer to that.
Speaker 1: But the idea that he's going to win the belt
back and get a proper rain, I don't see it.
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening. Now.
Speaker 1: If you turn the show off at this point, you
will have already seen the main event. But we weren't
done yet. They kept going because that's not how the
show ended. Are you ready? Are you ready for the
Aura farming? Everybody? I know you're ready for the aura
for we are in the Aura Farming era of WWE,
And boy did we get that here in this closing segment.
This was our main event tonight, Michael Cole and Wade Barrett.
They pitched it to a what ended up being kind
of a long video package narrated by former New York
Giants Super Bowl winning quarterback Eli Manning. And this was
a video package dedicated to the King of New York
Jalen Brunson, who will not have to pay for another
meal for the rest of his life anywhere in New York.
Brunson was introduced at the end of this They had
a camera backstage in the locker room. He's standing in
front of a knick jersey hit I think his jersey
is hanging there, and the camera just follows him as
he slowly makes the walk through the locker room out
into the hallway. It's following him, you know, through the back.
And he's wearing an OTC eleven shirt, eleven being the
number that Jalen Brunton wears, so they created a new
shirt they can sell OTC eleven. And he has his
own theme music. He got a full fucking entrance here.
He got more of an entrance on this show than
Joe Henry has gotten in the seven months or whatever
it's been that he has been in WWE. So he's
walking through the back playing this music. He's got the
cast on his wrist. He just had wrist surgery at
the end of the season. Can't be too serious. He's
expected to be back on the court by the end
of the summer, but he still has the cast. I
mean he literally just had surgery in the last like
two weeks, so still had the cast on. And he's
walking through the back and there are people lining the
sides as he's walking by a bunch of Rando's who
were just cheering for him and applauding him. And there's
Karl Anthony Towns. He can't fucking miss him. He's seven
feet seven, and so Brunson goes over and greets, you know,
greets him very warmly. And as he's walking, they're splicing
in highlights of the Knicks, like various Jalen Brunson plays
in New York Knicks plays from this past season. I'm
sure all of this was very exciting to all of
the non Knicks fans out there, or even better, all
of the non basketball fans out there. They must have
been eating this stuff up. So Roman Reigns all of
a sudden, he popped out from behind the curtain over
by the gorilla position to greet Jalen Brunson, and then
they played Romans music out in the arena, and the
two of them made their way out on stage together
throwing up the ones in the isleway, and they shot
off Piro. Michael Cole said this was Brunson's first time
stepping foot inside Madison Square Garden since the Knicks won
their championship. Once they got into the ring, even more Pyro.
They blew the Pyro budget on this show tonight. I
didn't mention that fatal Influence got Pyro after they won
the Women's tag team. I'm convinced that every title change,
no matter how low on the totem pole that title is.
You could have the speed title change hands and fucking
Pyro would be shooting out from the top of the arena.
I'd be like, I'm all about making your championships feel meaningful.
But they went a little crazy on the Pyro tonight.
These guys got Pyro in the isle, and they got
more Pyro when they were in the ring together. And
Romans said, well, this is something you don't see every day, now,
do you? And he said it was rare air that
they were in right now. Oh, that's actually, that's quite true.
If you've stepped outside of New York City this weekend,
this is very rare air. Air that's so thick you
can't even see through it, but you'll choke on it.
That's how rare the air has been. Thanks Canada. He said,
this is where greatness acknowledges greatness. Romans said, it's no
secret the New York City is the home of WWE.
He told the fans that they make him feel like
he's home whenever he goes there, and they broke that
into an OTC chant. Romans said fifty three years was
way too long, referencing how long it was since the
Knicks won their last championship. He said Brunson would say
that it's a team sport, but Roman said, this is
only one tribal chief and there's only one captain. He said,
Brunson is the NBA Finals MVP, He's an NBA champion,
and he's the king of New York. He said, every
champion in WWE needs a title, and so he made
some moves. He walked over and there was it would
be so great if it was Lard at ringside. I
couldn't tell who it was. I couldn't tell if it
was Roman's friend Lard who hands him the belt now
every time he shows up on TV. But whoever it was,
a ringside hands Roman this replica championship belt that he
presents to Jalen Brunson. It is a replica version of
Roman's World Heavyweight Championship, but instead of being on a
black strap, it is on a blue strap, right, because
blue and orange those are the Knicks colors. It's got
a blue strap, It's got an orange like stripe basically
down like the back the back of the strap. It's
got the custom side plates. It's actually a gorgeous belt.
I have to say, I don't I don't know that
I was expecting the World heavyweight title to work that
well on a blue strap, but it really does work.
So Rains gave it to Brunson, and the crowd broke
out into a chance of you deserve it. Mets and
Islanders colors too, Yes, those are the blue and orange
of the Mets colors as well, But the Mets will
not be winning a championship anytime soon. So this is
as close to a New York Mets replica champion like
true championship belt that you're gonna find, because we ain't
gonna get Juan Soto walking out at you know, Madison
Square Garden anytime in the near future to accept his
New York Mets championship belt. Okay, that ain't gonna happen.
Rain said, that Brunson doesn't just deserve it. He owned
it or earned it. I say owned it. Well, he
did own it, but he also earned it. Solo should
buy that title and hang it on the wall. Are
they selling it? Of course, stupid question. I'm sure they are.
Are they selling it and is it less than a
thousand dollars would be my question? I actually not for nothing.
I would probably consider it. It's a really good looking belt,
but I'm sure I can't afford it. That only knows,
not only knows what they're selling it for. So he
said it was time New York City acknowledge us, and
they both held up their respective titles. Seth Rollins music
interrupted instead, though we know Seth Rollins, we got Tyrese
Halliburton of the Indiana Pacers. He walked out with a chair.
Michael Cole said that the Pacers knocked the Knicks out
of the playoffs a couple of years ago, and so
New York has not forgotten it. But here Seth Rollins
does enter. He ambushed Roman in the ring from behind.
It was all a trap. It was a setup. Halliburton
stood outside on the floor. He handed the chair to Rollins.
Brunson is just standing in the corner watching all of
this with his freaking cast on his wrist. Rollins puts
Roman's head on the chair. He's setting up for a
curb stop and Brunson just very casually steps in front
of Roman to be his shield from Seth Rollins. Rollins
now is just eyeballing Brunson. He takes his jacket off.
Rains though, comes flying in out of nowhere with a
superman punch. Rollins leaves the ring and he's backing up
the entrance with Halliburton.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: They look this like if you were to watch, you
would swear that they were setting up a tag team match.
And if this was another era of wrestling, this would
be the headline match at SummerSlam. It would be Roman
Reigns and Jalen Brunson wrestling Tyrese Haliburton and Seth Rollins.
But they're actually not setting up a tag team man thankfully.
But now we have a crew member again, perhaps Lard
placing the Larry O'Brien Trophy. This is what the Stanley
Cup is in the NHL, or the Lombardi Trophy is
at the end of the Super Bowl, or the World
Series Trophy presented in baseball, right, this is the crown
jewel of the NBA, the championship trophy. They place it
in the ring, and so Roman he takes Jalen Brunson's
blue belt. He straps it around Brunson's waist and hands
brunts in his belt to hold over his shoulder, and
Brunson's like, go ahead, it's all yours. Roman reaches down
and he picks up the championship trophy. As if this
man hasn't held enough titles, let's give him some more.
Let's give him one more, why not? And he hoists
the Larry O'Brien trophy over his head. Now we get
more pyro, more fucking piro. These two men got three
different instances of Pyro in the same segment. So they
shoot off more and they closed. They closed in the
cheesiest way possible. They didn't just fade out here. The
best way I could describe that, we got a still
shot to close the show that they faded out from
of Roman reigns and Jalen Brunson in the ring holding
up their championships and the trophies and everything else. It
almost looked like a postcard. And then that's how they
went off the air. It was very, very hokey the
way they close things out here. Look as far as
this closing segment, it's going to be very polarizing and
people are going to be like, what the hell was
this doing on this show? This had no business being
on this show. This ridiculous. They didn't close with the
tag team match. This is what WWE is now. WWE
tells you what is most important to them, and what
is most important to them is when you're able to
wrangle up a bunch of star athletes or celebrities from
whatever whatever field they may be from, that will always
take priority over everything else, because if they can use
those people as a way to put more publicity on
them and get those moments on those TV shows and
on Sports Center and on all these websites and all
these social media pages, then that's what they're going to do,
and that's going to be the main event. That's going
to be the most important thing on the show. I
would say I would call it the TKO effect, But
it's not like they weren't doing stuff like this before
TKO came along. Like, you know, do you think Vince
would have put this on at the beginning of the
show like, no, they would have closed with this, but
it is very much a TKO like segment. Ayah, I
just think back to the Pat McAfee stuff from earlier
this year. Oh my god, we got to get Pat
McAfee involved here. Now we can have celebrity involvement in
the main event of WrestleMania. So they decided, well, we
can use the New York Knicks and have this celebrity
of Halliburton was out there too, but you can have
this celebrity involvement and we'll try to use it in
a way that helps promote Roman Reigns against Seth Rollins,
which is our main event, our big main event for summerslant.
Not a terrible idea, but we didn't need fucking twenty
plus minutes of it that we didn't need. This did
not need to take up as much time as it did.
I'm sure the fans of Madison Square Garden loved it.
They were allowed for it. They loved seeing Kat earlier
in the show. They love seeing Jalen Brunson. The man
is he's a made man, you know, he's if they
never win another championship, he's a made man for the
rest of his life and they just won. So of
course he was going to be greeted like a hero.
Speaker 2: He was going to be he was.
Speaker 1: Going to be greeted like Odysseus returning home. And that's great,
But for the people watching at home on TV, it
probably didn't have the same effect as it did for
the people in the building. So that's how people felt
about it. They're not wrong because I'm watching this also
and I'm like, oh my god, like how long is
this segment? This is quite ridiculous. But at least they
were able to weave Rollins and Roman in there, and
the idea was okay. The execution was very weird. Seth
Rollins was booked as the fucking heel. I mean, clearly
Roman was the babyface and Seth was the heel, even
though Roman is really a heel, but he's treated like
a babyface and Rollins, who has been a babyface up
to this point and everything comes across as the heel.
So it was it was very bizarre. It was a
very very uh strange dynamic there. But you had to
know that them coming to Madison Square Garden, they were
going to do stuff with the New York Knicks. You
can't pretend like you didn't know that something like this
wasn't gonna be coming. As soon as they said that
Roman Reigns and Jalen Brunson were going to be together
on the show, you knew something was going down with
these two. It was exactly you know what you would
expect WW to do. I mean, Jalen Brunson is a
WWE fan. He's literally been on their television show before,
except he wasn't a champion back then.
Speaker 2: Now he is.
Speaker 1: He's the toast of the town. You mean, we can
get this guy on our show. We can get him
on our show walking into Madison Square for the first
time since his team won the championship. Oh, you know what.
That sounds great and all, but you know what, I
think we're probably better off putting another.
Speaker 3: Match on the show. I think we'll pass. I think
we'll pass.
Speaker 1: I think we'll have Tiffany Stratton defend her United States
Championship against the Keana James on the show. And so,
why are you out of your fucking mind? This is
what they do. This is WWE in a nuts show.
They are telling you that this is what is most
important to them. It was a one mets show nothing
else on this show mattered. It was a nice coup
for them to be able to get these guys in,
But none of this matters if you pay attention to
the product, if you care about the wrestling, if you
care about the talent and what really matters, and who's
going to Summer Slam, right Jalen Brunson's not going a
Summer Slam. You don't give a shit about any of this.
If you're not a New York nick, if you're a
Boston Celtics fan, or if you're not even an NBA fan,
you don't give a flying fuck about anything that happened
in this closing segment. All you need to know is
that CM Punk, Cody Road, Samby's Ain't and Gunther went
out there and had a really good tag team match,
and they have set things up for their singles match
for the championship at SummerSlam. We have new women's tag
team champions in a division that is not exactly lighting
the world on fire right now, So I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Where they go to next.
Speaker 1: I mean, who's the next big challenger for Fatal Influence.
I don't think they probably even know at this point.
And that's it. It was basically a nothing show otherwise,
as most of these Saturday Nights made event shows are.
And I've said this before and I stand by it.
I think the minute that they went off NBC, they
stopped giving a shit, you know. I mean, they're they're
committed to doing these shows. They have these they're basically
quarterly specials at this point. It's some of the only
UF It may be the only stuff at this point
that's left on Peacock, right because they shifted all their
other content off Peacock. But they have this agreement with
NBC Universals, so they're committed to doing these shows. You'll
notice Jesse Venture is not invited anymore. They've retained some
of the retro elements. I'm glad they at least have some.
They didn't keep all of them. And you know, it's
like they're not on NBC. They don't have that network
television exposure anymore. It's on fucking Peacock, So they kind
of have they half assed not even kind of, I
mean they fucking half ass it.
Speaker 2: Most of the time.
Speaker 1: If you miss a Saturday Night's main event, unless it's
John cen Is retirement match, you're not missing anything. The
real show is coming up in a couple of weeks
in Minneapolis, and that's the one that they really better
start to focus on as heavily as possible, because there's
a reason why they're putting tickets on sale for twenty
five dollars. There's a reason why lower Bowl seats are
nowailable for forty three dollars a year ago that wasn't happening,
and the reason is because they're not selling as many tickets,
and so they need to focus on that and figure
out why that is. Because they have some big matches
that have been announced for Summer Slam. It's not a
bad card, but clearly they're not giving people everything that
they would like to see. That coupled with high ticket prices,
is a recipe for what we're seeing here where they
have twenty three thousand tickets out for each night of
Summer Slam in a stadium that fits well more than
double that. Focus on that you had your fun tonight
with the Knicks and everything and all your celebrity Gaga bullshit.
Now focus on Summer Slam and trying to sell tickets
for the show. That's where their focus needs to be.
Let's take a look at what.
Speaker 2: You guys have.
Speaker 1: Done on the likes end here and see where we are,
because if you recall, the Wheel said we need five
hundred likes, we are currently sitting at five hundred and
forty three. So we are in fact going to be
doing be the Booker, which just great to say, Oh
we hit the bonus.
Speaker 2: Goll.
Speaker 1: I literally just looked up. I just looked up and
saw it. SmackDown is still on people, Well, SmackDown is
airing on USA Network, but yeah, SmackDown, I guess is
the archives are on Peacock. You know, everything is so
fucking just spread out.
Speaker 2: God, I hate that.
Speaker 1: It was so much better when everything was just kind
of in one place, like on the network, and now
it's all spread out. It's like, you got this show
over here NXT on the CW, and you got this
on Peacock, and you got this on Netflix and you
got the.
Speaker 2: Oh god, the hell out of here. Man. It's awful.
Speaker 1: Old school Saturday night's main event shows still on Peacock. Yep,
there have been some really really good ones too. In fact,
I believe on the WWE Vault channel right now they
have as they have all week, they have an ongoing
Saturday Night's Made of m Marathon.
Speaker 2: It's been looping all week.
Speaker 1: I jetted into it yesterday and it was in the
middle of Octoberfest, and I believe I was watching Brett Hart,
Jim Ninheart, the Islanders. Who else was there? They were
doing I think a sausage making contest. I was more
entertained by that than most of what I saw on
this show. Let's get into your super chats here, then
we can do some be the booker. I know you
guys are waiting for that, and hit the bonus.
Speaker 2: Goal and everything.
Speaker 1: WWE Network was amazing if you think about it, I
think one of those things, man, you don't know what
you got until it's gone. I even like the original
content table for three WWE story Time, The Edging Christians
show that totally reeks of awesomeness. GMB love EO, but
Lyra might be the number one women's wrestler there. I
don't think she's number one, but she's really good. I
wouldn't mind a heel Lyra against EO. I think that
would make for a great match. How about we get that.
Maybe we can get that after EO beats Live and
takes the championship. Out of purgatory? Can we get that match?
Brody Pizza, a bag of bugles, and solo monster on
a Saturday night? What more could you ask for a
hot blonde to enjoy it all with.
Speaker 2: And send her my way?
Speaker 1: God, I sell like Vince Saint James with the two
bucks wearing my luchador mask to Fetish night tonight. I'm
going to pretend I didn't read that Venom Kitetsu.
Speaker 2: With the twelve dollars.
Speaker 1: Learning Tree says the women's tag match was as predictable
as the sun rising in the morning. Yes, but it
was the right outcome for the sake of fatal influence. Thankfully,
it was the correct outcome most of these matches. I mean,
I'm sorry to say it. It's just I don't know,
it's the style, I guess if you want to call
it that, most of these matches they don't mean anything
like you know, it just feels like they're going through
the motions. They're just doing their doing some moves and
there's nothing terribly exciting about the moves that they're doing,
and then it's over. I don't feel anything with most
of these matches on these WWE shows, except that main
event that main event was quite good, Alexander. I'm curious
if nick All this gets stripped of his role as
GM since he finally decided to do something unprofessional and
cost Gunhar his match at the very least, I think
he should be sent back home on administrative leave. Try
Chickens says, I bet Sammy's aim will cost Cody Roads
the WWE Championship by disqualification, and he probably will cost
nick All this his match against Gunther. Sammy will be
a party put well. That would be fucking terrible, by
the way, So I hope they're not listening to this
right now. He's just gonna randomly cause disqualifications across the
Summer Slam card. Maybe he should just interfere in the
women's ladder match too while he's at it. Maybe Sammy
can enter himself into the ladder match and just scale
the ladder and pull the Women's Championship down. That might
be the only belt he can win.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 1: We got thirty one Gara. I'm calling it now. Sammy
is going to beat up Adam Peers for putting him
in this situation to begin with, the last good guy
against the Last alcoholic On Night two, We'll get the
gms then in matches on both nights of Summer Slim.
Speaker 2: That'll sell some tickets.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're literally running more than half behind what we
did last year in ticket sales. How can we drum
up ticket sales for Summer Salem this year? Why do
we put the two general managers back in the ring?
How about we do that? That's a great idea. Holiday
one ninety seven says Hi Solo. I think Sammy may
miss competing at SummerSlam, but will come out at the
end of the pay per view forming an anti establishment faction.
Kevin Owens returns with Drew McIntyre to unite with Sammy,
and there is your wargames storyline.
Speaker 2: I like the way you think.
Speaker 1: See now, that is some creative thinking that I could
get behind. I could definitely get behind that. I've been
wondering where Drew has been because I thought Drew was
done filming, but maybe there was something else that he
was gonna film. Yeah, he may be filming something else.
I don't know how practical it is, but I don't
hate your idea. Anything but just another bloodline Wargames match,
but the love of God, please, anything but another bloodline war.
Can we keep the bloodline out of wargames for one year?
Speaker 2: One year? Is it possible? Can we do that? Please?
Speaker 1: Solemn Monster's Lost Son four ninety nine. Hi Dad, I've
missed you. Sorry, I haven't been here. I've been busy
with work. When are we going to the Mets game?
Like you promised? Well, when I made that promise to you,
they were actually a promising team that was at the
very beginning of the season. They are no longer a
promising team. The only promise that the Mets will make
to you is that they will infuriate you. We will
be going to know such game. A broadcaster dropped ten
dollars for the Goldhausen, which we did hit.
Speaker 2: Thank you brother.
Speaker 1: With the twenty dollars super chat. Here's a movie I
think you would like. Eighties animated classic jud Nelson, Robert Stack,
Eric Idol, and Casey Cason syntho synth score by the
guy who did Stallan's Cobra sound good. It's a little
flick called Transformers of the movie that does sound quite good.
Speaker 2: EJ slim I.
Speaker 1: Like how you set that up, by the way he
took the time to really build it up. EJ says
my brother and I leave from Milwaukee tomorrow. I'm seeing
your Mets against the Brewers on Monday for Freddy Peralta's return.
Big spenders against overachievers. Well, congrats on the wind.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Mets lost again today to the Phillies. Chris
Mike Sell, who is your favorite WWF European champion of
all time? Mine was d Loo Brown, such a nice
looking belt, short lived? Why did it fall off? I
think it was something that was just created for the bulldog, honestly,
and you know, after him and Sean, I mean they
never really took it seriously again after that. Honestly, I
did like it. I thought it was a good looking belt.
As far as my favorite European champion, I would have
to go Delo, but Dlo was very entertaining. Jeremy Rose,
if all this isn't fired, then what are we doing?
You have a very little that they do make sense,
So I don't know why we would expect this to
all of a sudden it makes sense. I said this
in the smack Dab review last night. Like Jade Car
gild breaks breaks Alexa Bliss's arm the very next week,
she doesn't even get like taken off television for a week.
The very next week, she's in a qualifying match to
potentially challenge for the women's championship at SummerSlam. Charlotte Flair
gets involved in Jade's qualifying match, and she is rewarded
with one of her own on the show.
Speaker 2: Next week against Naya.
Speaker 1: Jacks, Gunther viciously assaults his boss and gets rewarded by
being allowed to stay in a tag team match tonight
that could very well result in him ending.
Speaker 2: Up in the main event of Summer Slam, and.
Speaker 1: Then in said tag team match, the boss that he
beat up in her fears and attacks him, which also
cost a completely innocent person his opportunity to go two
Summer Slam to challenge for the championship. There are no
rules on this show. Nothing is fair, nothing makes sense, nothing,
not a single thing. We got Retro Mintman with a ten.
Speaker 2: Dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: Do you recall the first WWF event that you attended live?
Wishing you a blessed night from San Antonio. Thank you
for all that you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Retro mint Man. I do I do.
Speaker 1: First event I ever went to live was the day
after Christmas in nineteen eighty seven, and it was at
the very building that we had tonight. Saturday Night's main event,
it was Madison Square Guard. It was Randy Savage and
the Honky talk Man in the main event for the
Intercontinental Time Jeremy Rose, what match do you see Drew returning.
Speaker 2: At?
Speaker 1: What match do you see Drew returning at SummerSlam? I
don't quite understand the question. When do I see Drew returning?
I think that's the question. I kind of like the
Holidays idea from before about him showing up at the
end of Night one or whenever the Punk and Cody
matches and forming an alliance. Not that him and Sammy
is stablemates makes too much sense, but nothing makes sense
in this company, So who gives a fuck? Right Realistically,
when do I see him coming back?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm almost positive he's filming something else right now. I
think I don't know. Sooner we get him back, the better.
It'd be another big name back on the show. Jeremiah.
This goes towards the belt fund. Ah, thank you. Yes,
I have to start building up the fund for my
New York Knicks replica. But are they are they selling them?
I mean, we're talking about it is if they are
selling them.
Speaker 2: I have to check. Now, they have to be selling them.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: They're going to make a fortune of these things. Let's
take a look. Of course, the first thing I see
ONWWE shop Dan Housen Official Merchandise Saturday Nights made Event NYC.
Now it looks like they made that custom for Brunson.
But if they put that belt on sale, they're going
to make a shitload of Oh no, it is here.
I stand corrected, I stand corrected.
Speaker 2: It is here.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred dollars ships on or before December fourth, twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3: It's a good looking belt.
Speaker 2: That is a good looking belt.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that seven hundred bucks though, thank you, Jeremiah.
Jeremy Rose says Cody got in Punk's face during the
post show.
Speaker 2: They teased.
Speaker 1: Heel termed, but WWE will just end summer slang with
Cody shaking Punk's hand. I'm not going to get excited,
I said. If anybody is gonna go heal in this situation,
I would much rather be Cody than Punk. Reborn bladder.
As a non sports fan, I could not even get
past the entrance. Segments like these are why I watch
the streams. You mean to tell me a non sports
fan didn't enjoy the circle jerk there at the end
of the show tonight. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you,
Jeremy Rose. The lts Tyson's Mayweather's were used back in
the day, but the way we did it made it
seem somewhat special. Now they use any and every celebrity
quote unquote that they can get, and it's just watered
down now. Yeah, because they've leaned into the celebrity culture,
so any big name they can get, they don't really
give too much thought to is this a good idea?
How are we going to utilize them in the best way.
They just throw them out there because it makes them
feel bigger. Look who we have, Look who's a fan
of what we do. Look who's in the crowd. Right
in their mind, it makes them feel that much more special,
that much more of a hot product, even if it's
really not Cat look like a giant, because he is
a giant. He's a giant. Man Jersey authentic with another ten.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jersey.
Speaker 1: I'm becoming more of a fan of Jersey tonight than
I have at any other point in my life. Sports
Talk with Jose rodrig I assume that's Rodriguez. The name
is abbreviated, but he's coming in hot the ten dollars
super Chat. Thank you, Thank you. Brother bas Bears, God
of Seduction says, all the content being spread across different
platforms is such a disservice to WWE and fans, makes
it hard to stay invested. It's also very expensive to
have all of these subscriptions. Yeah, you kind of have
to prioritize. I mean, how many services are there at
this point. There's Netflix, Paramount Plus, Peacock, HBO Max, It's Amazon,
Apple TV. Keep hearing about that show Widow's Bay on
Apple TV. I don't have an Apple TV subscription, but
I'm gonna have to find a way to check that
show out at some point. But I still got to
watch The Penguin, which is on HBO Max. It's a lot,
It's a lot, And I'm sure that's not even all
of them. I'm sure I'm missing I'm sure i'm missing
some Hulu. There you go ESPN and say, I fucking
knew it. It's ridiculous, ridiculous. The only subscription you need
is a membership here on the solemn monster sounds off channel,
say fuck you to them, and that's all you need.
Jeremy Rose says, if we lived in bizarro world and
WWE brought back the network and charged fifty dollars a month,
would you pay that fifty dollars a month for the network?
Speaker 2: It depends.
Speaker 1: I mean when you say that they put everything on there,
I mean, are we talking because we haven't had a
complete for example, Monday Night Raw Library in years. Netflix
is absolute fucking garbage when it comes to the Raw Vault,
the Raw Vault is pathetic, it is anemic. If we
had a full Raw Vault, SmackDown Vault NXT, going back
to the early days of that, the syndicated shows, prime
time they had on there, the Colisseum videos again, a
lot of this stuff that they already had previously, although
they were not everything was up yet, they were in
the process of slowly rolling stuff out. If it was
truly access to like all of that stuff and all
of the ples and Saturday Night's main events and everything else, yeah,
I would fifty bucks a month would still be a
reach for a lot of people, but I would I
still feel like it would pay for all the pls
were on there. I feel like it would pay for itself.
Jeremy says, if we, oh, we just read that one
so Cal Chris, that sausage making contest featured bushwhackers and
the Genius, No did it? I thought I saw Haku
in there. The bushwhackers were definitely there, the Genius.
Speaker 2: I don't remember EJ.
Speaker 1: Slimpsys being from Chicago. Two movies I always think of
when I'm downtown, The Dark Knight and The Blues Brothers.
Do you have movies that are like that New York City? Yeah, Cloverfield,
That's my number one man. You get a monster movie
with a monster just clomping through the streets of New
York City. Cloverfield, Man, without a doubt. Bas Bears Rest
in peace. Daphne. I think somebody in the chat the
other night said that she would have been fifty one.
Speaker 2: That accurate.
Speaker 1: Also says another Summerfest Already time flies, it does indeed,
And Jeremy Rose, I meant, what match would you think
Drew would make his return? I think he helps all
this versus Gunther, setting up Gunther feud and then maybe
a title shot after he feuds with gun Through. Because
he helps, Why would he help all this. They basically
gave his story to Gun there. This should have been
MacIntyre against all this, but they never pulled the trigger
on it.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Diehard three, Yes, Diehard three is another one, absolutely, absolutely
definitely a New York City movie.
Speaker 2: He gott escape from New York as well. By the way, Yeah.
Speaker 1: How can I forget Diehard three? Diehard three is one
of my all time favorites. But as far as the match,
I mean, sure he can interfere in the gun through
an all this match, but I don't know why he
would be assisting. If I'm understanding you correctly, why would
he be assisting.
Speaker 2: All this.
Speaker 1: Retro Koh says uh ha long just two hours from
me is where King Kong was filmed? Well, I guess
it's also King Kong ninety eight, right, that was New
York City. I don't forget the New Friday the Thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Movie, Oka says boukock On.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no, the Bukocky Ghost.
Speaker 2: No not tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wasn't expecting an appearance from the ghost.
The ghost is back thanks to Hoveli with a sixty
nine dollars super chat drop. All right, meant Godzilla. What
did I say, King Kong? I meant Godzilla King Kong.
Ain got shpit on me. No, it was it was Godzilla.
You're right, Godzilla ninety eight. People are like, wait, was
there a new King Kong movie that I was unaware of?
Speaker 2: What is that? What is that?
Speaker 1: That's the Bukacki ghost and you better you better show
some respect or he'll be stalking you in your dreams
and you don't want that. Believe me, you definitely do
not want that. Abusika is the man responsible for that
super chat, but Javili is the one who dropped it
by sell or rent Favorite SummerSlam nineteen ninety six, two
thousand and six, twenty sixteen. Hm, well, I was at
SummerSlam in twenty sixteen, and I could tell you that
one of the greatest Summer Slim matches of all time
was on that show, which is aj Styles and seen
him and one of the best matches I've ever seen live.
Not the best, but it is. It is among the best.
As far as the rest of the show. I'm just
looking at the rest of the card here just to
jog my memory. M Yeah, I mean, not a great
show otherwise. Finn Balor got hurt that night. That was
in the universal time. I mean they actually ended up
having a really good match. I mean, honestly, for me,
I'm probably going nineteen ninety six. Sean and Vader had
a really good match. The boiler Room Brawl is a
is a personal favorite of mine. I really enjoyed the
boiler Room Brawl match. So yeah, I may I may
actually go ninety six, and then twenty sixteen and then
two thousand.
Speaker 2: And six in the order.
Speaker 1: Says if aj Styles didn't retire, would he have gone
to TNA to face Frankie Kazarian for the TNA World
Championship or Leon Slater for the X Division Championship. I'm
gonna say no. I don't think WWE wanted him to,
so that probably would have ended up not happening. Also,
what is the most likely to happen if Stephanie Vicaire?
What is the most likely to happen if Stephanie Vicaire
at SummerSlam? If Stephanie Vicaire, what you left out the
most important word? If she appears at SummerSlam, if she
doesn't appear at Summer Slam, if she storms the ring,
if she blows up the building. What would she be
doing at SummerSlam Now in storyline Live Morgan and the Judgment,
they injured her and took her out. So I guess
maybe one way to answer this question is that if
she was gonna have a role at SummerSlam, I could
see it. I could see her playing a role in
helping EO win the championship. When the other members of
the Judgment they get involved, Roxane, Perez were Cal Rodriguez,
they try to help Live win. Here comes Stephanie. Stephanie
fights him off, Live has no help. EO wins the match,
super Pony. I watched Obsession last night, very well made movie.
Don't ever want to watch it again because of how
disturbing it was. Do you agree that Bear was the villain? Yes,
Bear was the villain even And it's wild to me
when I watched some of these reactions online because at
this point, just through watching the reactions, I probably have
seen Obsession like five times at this point, and most
people get it. I think most people get it fairly
early in the movie, or at least by the halfway point.
There's there's a certain scene in the movie, after the
restaurant scene where if you don't understand that he's the
villain by that point, then you're beyond help. He is
absolutely the uh the bad guy. I'm sorry, Navy forty
one eighty one creative. How much blood does the show need?
Triple h? Yes, except all of it was hardway. But again,
it's a good thing it's not on Netflix because if
it was, they're all gonna get blurred.
Speaker 2: They're all gonna get blurred.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Thank you guys for helping us reach not only
the main goal, but the bonus goal, which means that
you have unlocked two rounds of be the Booker, which
we are going to get to right now.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the.
Speaker 2: Booker right now.
Speaker 1: That is what we are going to do. But first,
we actually have a couple more super chats coming on
in It's our boy Javili again. Avelli says, sorry, I meant,
if Stephanie Vicaire wasn't injured or Bianca didn't get pregnant,
Rea versus Bianca or live versus Stephanie Vicaire, I mean
live against Stephanie would be more likely. I mean the
Bianca thing, who.
Speaker 2: The hell knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's been gone for so long, who knows
what she might be a heel by now, but definitely
live in Stephanie. Although I think they would have gone
back to it sooner.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that being a SummerSlam. They probably
would have blown it off by now. And a super
pony Ian was also a giant douchebag. Yeah, I mean
there was a lot of uh, there's a lot of
cock blocking going on early on. Like take the hint, dude.
Speaker 2: Take the hint. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: We have the gorillas of deaths that we just landed
on them the other night, and they are back again.
The MFTs, Tomatonga and Toga Loa are kicking us off here.
Tomatonga and Toga Loa gonna get in the ring with
Enzo Amore. What great timing on this, Enzo amorey and
Colin Cassidy Big Caz, who apparently has some earwax in
this photo that he is trying to remove casen Enzo,
I mean casen Enzo against g O d Yeah, that
that don't work for me. I don't think that would
be a great match at all. Enso and Tongaaloa sharing
the ring together that sounds like a fucking disaster, maybe
in a so bad it's good kind of way. Yeah,
I don't know about that one.
Speaker 2: Women's be the boy. Uh. I can hear it.
Speaker 1: I can hear it in my head without even saying
the words. I can hear bre mode, bre Mode, bre mode,
wiping it clean. We're gonna We're gonna do another women's
match here. I'm not in the mood for bre mode.
There we go, Kyrie saying the best current elbow drop
in the business. Kyrie saying against doctor Britt Baker d
m D, the former ae W Women's World Champion. Poor Kyrie,
what do you mean, poor Kyrie, she'd probably give Britt
the best match of her career. And in our first
main event, it's the Honky talk Man. I just somebody
just asked me my first live wrestling show, and this
man was in the main event that night. He was
defending the Intercontinental Championship. Listen to the Honky talk Man.
Pick that guitar.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: I think what you need is all of you need
a little honky honky honka honk.
Speaker 2: Of love in your life.
Speaker 1: That's what the song was, right, is a honk of
honk of honkey love. I think that's what it is.
You all need some honky love, the greatest inter comment'll
champion of all time, Hockey Talk Men against Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2: I had to think about that one.
Speaker 1: See, I don't think a wrestling match is what these
two should be having. I think that there should be
a concert. That's why I buzzed it. We're not booking
a concert though, we're booking a wrestling match. But I
think I see I would pay money to see the
Hockey Talk Men and Bad Bunny compete against each other
in a concert. That would be worth the price of admission.
You gotta admit that at least would be entertaining. All right,
Now we move on to round number two, and we
have stipulations to choose from, and we have a brawl
for all. Oh boy, there are just some people who
were not cut out for this. There are just some
people who are not meant for bral for all.
Speaker 2: We'll go with the men.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, this man can go in
the brawl for all. We have Vato Sting. I think
he's gonna be a tough one to beat. I mean,
look at this guy. Would you want to be in
the ring with him in a bral for All match.
I wouldn't Vato sting in his element. Man, he's in
the Bral for All. This is perfect, This is absolutely perfect.
Oh my god, Vato sting against Jacob Fatu did a
brawl for All match. I can't pick a winner in
this one. Holy shit, I can't pick a winner. This
could go either way. This is fifty to fifty. I mean,
this man's done hard time. It's kind of hard to
vote against Jacob in.
Speaker 2: A match like this. Wow, what a match, What a match.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a hard one to be sting his toast. See,
I've rebounded with the creative here, we're making a comeback.
We go from that to a barroom brawl? Well, I mean,
I guess we'll go with the men again. I don't
know about the women in a barroom brawl. That probably
doesn't work too well.
Speaker 3: Barroom brawl.
Speaker 1: Who will be in the barroom brawl? Yoko Zuna. And
it looks from the photo here that this was him
near the peak of his size. He looks every bit
of six hundred plus pounds here. Yoko Zuna. You know
Yoko Zina was part of the Bone Street Crew, Undertaker's gang.
The BSk. He's probably been in a few barroom brawls
in his day. Yoko Zuna and the British bulldog Davy
boy Smith in a barroom brawl, and actually the two
of them were stable mats in Camp Cornett back in
ninety six. I would tap out instantly, probably.
Speaker 2: A wise move and in our main event.
Speaker 1: Unless we suddenly hit the second goal here, but this
is probably gonna be it, so we gotta make.
Speaker 3: It a good one. Oh God.
Speaker 1: Anarchy in the arena, and you know what that means?
Five on five. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna
do five on five. Take out the pencils, keep track
of these teams, because here we go. It is anarchy
in the arena. Team number one, we're booking ten men.
Christian Cage, the former TNT champion. Okay, we got Christian.
You know, I should really type this up because I
will forget all of these names. We have Christian, we
have Knwjack. Oh boy, this this team is starting to
heat up here in a major way. Christian NW Jack.
Adam Pierce says that be the booker. Oh no, oh,
Adam Pierce says that be the booker is hereby suspended.
Speaker 2: How could you? How could you?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna make I'm gonna make an executive decision here. Unfortunately,
anarchy in the arena is gone. We have to wipe
away anarchy in the arena. But because because this was
the bonus round, you get a redo, we can't go
out like that. We do lose the match though. Unfortunately
we lose the match. So Adam Pierce was quite the
buzzkill there. I was looking forward to seeing who was
going to be teaming with Christian and Nwjack. I was
starting to get excited about these teams. Yeah, he screws
over Sammy and now he screws over be the booker. Well,
who knows, Maybe we'll end up doing a better match.
A ladder match. A ladder match, okay, very simple, very basic,
but works for me. How about we up the ante?
How about we have an intergender ladder match? How about that?
I'm gonna make this interesting. Here, an intergender ladder match
with China humh Okay, she is a former Intercontinental champion.
China against CM Punk in a ladder match.
Speaker 2: Who you got?
Speaker 1: I think China might throw a heavier punch than Punk does.
That's a very interesting main event. Actually Punk and China
in a ladder match. See we redeemed ourselves like I
knew we would. Adam Pierce may take away the anarchy
in the Arita, but he cannot take away our fun.
Fuck you, Adam Pierce. China loses. Okay, I gotta go
with Punk on this one. I don't know. It's a
coin flip. Thank you guys for a fun stream. Hope
you enjoyed. It covered all of the Saturday Night's main event.
Show had a couple of rounds of be the Booker
that I think, for the most part, went well, even
though we were nearly screwed by the GM there at
the end. Tomorrow, less than twenty four hours, maybe about
twenty four hours a brand new episode of The sound Off,
including my review of the season seven Episode three finale.
It was a three parter Jeff Jarrett and the Battle
for TNA Wrestling and Part three. They got into some
very very juicy bits of TNA history, for example, the
Monday Night massacre back in twenty ten, Jeff Hardy, a
victory Road in twenty eleven, Hulk Hogan's famous departure from TNA,
and a lot more. We're going to cover all of
that tomorrow and we'll talk all the news of the week.
It is a lot of it, so I hope you'll
tune into the podcast. Try to get us up to
number one. Maybe we hit number one a few weeks ago.
Maybe we could do it again this weekend. I can't
do it without you, though, super Pony says, did you
see Cody punk backstage video they posted on social media?
Cody was being very heel. How could I see it?
I'm on the air with you. No, I did not
see it, but I sure hope it's a sign of
things to come, because you give me the book. Cody's
going heel not see him punk. It's a lot more
interesting to me if Cody goes here. So anyway, so
that's tomorrow. If you missed a SmackDown recap, we had
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