Speaker 1: Oh, we knew it. We knew it. We knew it.
We knew it. We knew it. We knew it. As
soon as they announced that Sammy's Ain was going to
be defending the WWE Championship on Monday on a show
that he really had no business putting the title on
the line anyway, because he's a SmackDown star. But as
soon as they announced this match on SmackDown, as soon
as we realized that Raw was in Chicago this week,
you knew something was going to happen. Now, I didn't
know it was going to go down exactly the way
that it did, But I said this on the sound
of and I think most people probably had that feeling
in their stummach and the pit of their stomach if
they were a Sammy's Ain fan, that this championship run
was not going to last very long. Enjoy it while
you can. Sammy's Ain's taking pictures of himself eating pizza
with the title sitting on the table, he's drinking his coffee,
he's riding around town and his convertible with the championship
sitting next to him. It's as if he knew, I
need to enjoy life while I still can because it
will only be a fleeting moment before this championship ends
up on somebody else. Nine days ago, Sammy Zayin won
the WWE Championship and he won it in Riod that
he had contested for the title earlier this year in
Saudi Arabia and he lost, so he went into Saudi
a second time and he won. For the first time
in his career. He won a world championship here on
the main roster. And I had people saying, well, you know,
the only reason they put the belt on him was
because they were in Saudi, and I said, well, I mean,
that's not the only reason they put the belt on him,
but I'm sure they looked at where they were going
to be and they said, hey, if we're going to
do this right, this is as good a time and
as good a place as ever, because you know the
kind of response he's gonna get. And he won the
championship and everybody there went crazy, and it was this
great moment for him. And now tonight Raw was in
Chicago and there's another superstar who happens to be from Chicago.
All of a sudden, WWE is about these great hometown moments.
Maybe This bodes well for Chad Gable in Minneapolis at
summerslim Let's hope. But they made the match. It was
gonna be Sammy's Ain and Cody Rhoades for the WWE title.
We got a bait and switch. We did not get
Cody Rhodes wrestling Sammy's Ain in the main event of
tonight's show like we were supposed to, because Gunther showed
up and he took out Cody Roads at the very
beginning of the show. He slammed a car door on
his head and Cody had blood coming down part of
his face. This was a show long storyline tonight. Cody
ended up not being medically cleared, and so all of
a sudden we had an opening in the main event.
And wouldn't you know if you think back to a
promo that CM punk had with Cody Roads after Wrestle
many of this year, what was it again? Hmm? What
was it that CM punk said to Cody Rhods in
that promo? You never know when a championship opportunity may
fall out of the sky, and many of us were thinking, Hm,
money in the bank. What does this mean? Right? Obviously
it's a foreshadowing of something yet to come. We just
didn't know exactly what it was. I had no idea
they were going to go with my idea for the
Kick of the Ring Finals. I wasn't too far off,
as it turned out, when I was talking about bouncing
Obafemi or bouncing this person out of the King of
the Ring and then CM Punk would show up as
a surprise and win the entire tournament so he could
go to SummerSlam and he could challenge for the WWE Championship.
I was only off by about a week. They went
with the fucking idea. I was only off by a week.
Cody Rhads gets taken out of the main event. We
end up with Cmpunk just coming back on this show,
wrestling in the main event of this show. And you
got to remember, the last time we saw cm Punk
in a wrestling match, he was defending the World Heavyweight
Championship in the main event of WrestleMania as a raw star,
And so the very next time we see cm Punk
in a wrestling ring, he's challenging for the WWE Championship,
which effectively, now that he's won it spoiler, we have
a new WWE champion that now officially puts him on SmackDown.
So this was their way of basically getting him off
of Raw and making him the new face of Friday Nights,
unless you want to say QB one and QB two
with him and Cody Rhoads. I can't even before I
even talk about Sammy and everything that happened on this
show and everything that happened in the main event tonight,
I can't even sit here and really be too mad
because look at the main event that we got on
this show. How fucking great was that main event tonight?
I mean, I can't go any further without putting that
match over that. This is the kind of Raw main
event that I am starved for. Can I just say
that right off the bat, regardless of how I or
you or anybody else feels about the decision to do
a title change tonight, I feel like we are in
an error right now of WWE Television, and this goes
for Raw and SmackDown, where so many times, so many weeks,
I come on here and I talk about the show
and I'm like, either it was just a straight up
bad show, or it was a good show, or it
was a show, and it just feels like rarely does
anything of any great significance actually happen. Rarely do you
see a crowd as loud and electric as this crowd
was in Chicago. And I've said before I think Chicago
is the greatest wrestling city in the world, just consistently
over the years. I say that as a New Yorker,
I think Chicago is the best wrestling crowd. Obviously, CM
Punk is beloved because he's, you know, Chicago made, Chicago born,
Chicago Bread. This was his big return. He was gonna
get a big reaction regardless. But from the moment he
got into that ring and the bell rang and that
main event started, the atmosphere in that building it felt
like a pay per view main event. And I can't
remember the last time I watched a Monday Night Raw
and saw a match that had that kind of atmosphere
for a main event. I wish we could get that
more often. I wish you could just bottle it up
and they could take it with them from city to
city every Monday Night. They had a just an excellent
main event. When it was over, it was the predictable outcome,
the moment seem Punk walk down to the ring. I
even pointed out when the match began, you could see
the Pyro laying on the stage in preparation for something
that was going to happen at the end of this show.
And I don't think they were gonna give Cody Rhoades
his full entrance if he was to come out at
some point during this main event, So that kind of
gave it away as far as what the outcome of
the main event was gonna be. Cmpunk is once again
a world champion here in WWE, almost fifteen years to
the day that he won his first WWE championship from
John Cena at Money in the Bank. I believe it
would have been in that building in Chicago. Here we
are in twenty twenty six and Punk. It's like bar hopping,
right and Punk a straight edge that he doesn't even drink.
You're just you're hopping from one bar to the next. Right.
A few months ago, it was the World Heavyweight Championship.
Now he's got the WWE title. Does CM Punk need
the WWE Championship, No, he doesn't. He didn't need the
World Heavyweight Championship, but he ended up having what I
thought was a strong run with it heading into WrestleMania.
So now they put the title on him. Why did
they do this? They did it because they have Summer
Slam coming up at US Bank Stadium and they are
lagging behind what they were doing for last year Summer Slam.
I pointed this out of the podcast yesterday. Now it's
two different stadiums. This one's a little bit smaller. But
when SummerSlam rolled around a year ago, they had over
fifty thousand tickets sold for Night one and about sixty
thousand for Night two, and at last count, they were
in the mid twenties for each night of SummerSlam. This year,
we're less than a month out. It's a two night
stadium show. WWE wants to go with what they feel
are going to be the biggest possible attractions on that show,
the biggest main events that they could do. We got
Roman reigns in seth Rollins going one on one. It's
twenty twenty six. We still have Roman reigns in seth
Rawlins wrestling in the main event. That's ridiculous. We have
CM punk in main events. Kind of ridiculous, right, you
gotta admit. And I know a lot of people are
gonna look at this and go, man, why can't we get.
We gotta get something new. We got to get somebody
younger in there. I will point out to you, by
the way, Okay, you can't. You can't talk about age
in this case. Sammy' z aye's forty one years old. Okay,
everybody's talking about La Knight. La Knight's what forty three?
It's less a matter of age and more a matter
of people being sick and tired of the same shit
over and over and over again. It's like WWE is
allergic to giving new people and new faces opportunities to
hold the title or be in these main events. So
we get Roman Reigns, and we get Seth Rollins, and
we get cmpunk, and we get Cody Rhodes and we
get brock lesnar Rinse repeat, right. It's hard to break
the cycle. This, this idea of Cody fatigue, that people
are just so sick and tired of people calling him.
They're calling him the Golden Boy now on television they've
actually turned it into a fucking nickname on TV, always
the Golden Boy. Right, But that's how a lot of
fans field they're sick and tired of Cody Rhads. They
were very happy to see Cody Rhoads lose the championship
at Night of Champions. Maybe not so happy about Sammy
zan winning the belt because there was a lot of
hate coming Sammy's way for winning that belt. But people
are looking for something new, They're looking for something different
in the main events scene. This is a spot that
Sammy's Ain had never been in before. Sammy z Ain
has been with this company at least in terms of
being on the main roster for a decade, and in
that time, he had never been a world champion before,
and at times it felt like maybe it was never
gonna happen. Right, So, even though he's been around forever,
him winning the World Championship was something different, and there
were a lot of people who embraced it, and at
the same time they also felt really happy for him
because here's a guy who worked his ass off, had
great matches, was always very reliable, very entertaining in whatever
role they would put him in. And so finally he
had his moment of glory. Right, he had his moments
than the Sun. And I never expected it to be
a long I mean, I told you guys, man, I said,
don't expect anything long. By summer, Slim he's going to
drop the belt if he even makes it to summer. Slim.
I was thinking maybe Saturday Night's main event. He may
not make it beyond Madison Square Garden. I had no
idea that they were going to take the belt off
of him nine days later. Even I have to sit
here and look at that, and I go, you couldn't
give the guy one successful title defense, not one. He
did not get one successful title defense. And yet there
have been worse. Talk to raymis Stereo. Raymisterio knows what
it's like to go from the highest of highs an
hour one, to go to the lowest of lows an
hour two. Okay, it could have been worse. It's kind
of hard to believe, but it could have been worse.
But I think a lot of the anger that you're
going to see from people, it's not even a matter
of oh, Sammy Zain. It's a matter of we're tired
of Cody Roads. We're tired of the same old, same old,
And it was nice to just get the belt onto
somebody else and let's give somebody else an opportunity to
run with it and see where it goes. And they
never even thought to extend it out until SummerSlam, because
for SummerSlam they want the biggest possible match they can do,
which is very clearly going to be CM Punk and
Cody Roads. Although I would argue there is no reason
that Sammy's ain should not be a part of that match.
My hope coming into this show tonight was that when
it was over, somehow, even though I wasn't I wasn't
expecting it, But my hope was that somehow Sammy Zin
could could squeak by and then maybe we get a
triple threat match. Punk's gonna come back. You get Punk,
you get Cody, you get Sammy triple threat at SummerSlam.
Why not you still get Cody and Punk in the
ring together. They can still do that. Cody Roads is
gonna end up being in a championship match at SummerSlam,
and he wants his rematch, Well, then why would Sammy's
ain not deserve a rematch? Now? Knowing WWE, They'll just
have Cody against Sammy in a non title match on
television in a few weeks and Cody w'll fucking beat
him and that'll be the end of it. As if
this isn't bad enough, they'll shovel some more dirt on
the corpse and they'll do the singles match they want
to do at SummerSlam. But honestly, if you just look
at it, logically, both men deserve a rematch. It should
be a triple threat. That's the only way that Sammy's
Ain is gonna get on this Summer Slam card unless
Johnny Gargano stops planking and he rises from the dead
and they want to do fucking Sammy's Ain and Johnny Gargano,
you fucking I mean, it's a fucking main event match. Okay,
they're not doing that at Summer Slim. The only way
Sammy's Ain gets on that Summer Slam card at this
point is if they turn this into a triple threat scenario.
Otherwise we are looking at a very real possibility that
he doesn't even make SummerSlam this year, which would be
a huge slap in the face because he's been the
best part of that Friday night show now for a
few months. So you really want to kick the guy
in the dick, that's how you do it. So I
get it. I get there's gonna be people very upset.
I said coming into this. I'm torn. I'm torn because
On the one hand, I fucking hate that they took
this championship off Sammy in nine days. Yes, there have
been worse. You could have given him a little more time.
There was no reason not to put the belt on
him and at least let him run with it and
get one or two defenses under his belt. There was
no reason for it, So I hated the idea of
him losing the championship this soon. On the other hand,
the fact that they want to do Cody Rhades and
see him punkin Summer Slam, I get it. It's one
of the biggest matches that they could do. It's a
match I want to see. I was hoping we would
get it at WrestleMania this year. Didn't pan out that way.
If that's the match they're going to do in Minneapolis,
I'm cool with it. It's a big match, But I still
feel like Samy needs to be worked into that match.
Story Wise, it would not be very hard at all
to get him involved instead of just sort of shunning
him to the side. And that's that's my hope now
coming out of this, is that he's not just forgotten about. Okay,
you know, we gave him his little run we gave
him his token title run, so everybody in Riod can celebrate,
and all the people on the internet who love Samy's
ay and they could rejoice. He got his moment, and
now his moment is over, you know, off to the side.
I hope that's not what happens here. Even though I
will tell you this was it for sammy's Ain, his
WWE champion, because he ain't winning his belt back again
that much. I will tell you I don't believe for
a second that samy's Ain is getting his belt back.
So it sucks that the run came to an end
as quickly as it did if it was going to
end tonight though he went out with a bang, because,
like I said, that match, I thought it was just
an excellent main event. There are worse ways that that
run could have ended, in terms of a roll up
something in thirty seconds, some kind of bullshit finish right,
some overbooked mess. These two guys went out there in
the main event tonight. They had a fucking great wrestling match.
It's the kind of match that if you're a performer,
I would imagine that you live for this. You live
for this. So at least they were able to go
out there and have a great match, one of the best, frankly,
if not best TV matches all year. Maybe not the best,
but one of the best television matches of the year.
But I'm torn because they did him dirty tonight. At
the end of the day, they did Samby's Ain't dirty,
and I knew it going in. I was hoping, though,
you know, I was holding out hope. Now here we
are we have another summer of punk. I don't know
how many this is. This is what the third one now,
I guess maybe fourth. We had the one in Ring
of Honor many years ago, we had the one in
WWE in twenty eleven, we had one kind of I
guess in aaw this this would be one number four.
I don't know, but they mentioned that I think on
commentary that we have another summer of punk here. I
just think, you know, in terms of Sammy's ain Sammy
is one of those guys where if you, you know,
keep the belt on him for a little while longer
and have him defended against a few different people, a
lot of people would have expected that he was going
to drop it quickly. I think it was also a
missed opportunity to have some drama, you know in some
of these title matches where there would have been an
expectation going in that he could lose this championship at
any given moment, on any given night, and you've also
taken that away now that could have made for some fun,
you know, title defenses on TV, you know, maybe between
now and SummerSlam. So as I think about this now
my head, that's also something else that we that we
miss out on. CM Punk being back obviously is a
big feather in their cap. It's a big name for
them to get back. There are other people right now,
including your world heavyweight champion on Raw who can't be
bothered to wrestle on TV. Roman Reigns has his belt,
he comes out on television, he wants people to acknowledge him,
and he defends on some of the pls and that's
the best you're going to get at this point. With Punk,
I could see him defending the championship here and there
on television, having some TV title defenses, So that could
be good. SmackDown certainly could use the boost. Look, if
you're talking in terms of sheer star power, Cmpunk gives
SmackDown a boost that Sammy z Ain does not give
that show because Punk is a bigger star than sammy'se Ain.
Is Punk going to SmackDown is the right move. It's
going to inject some new life into this show. I'm
happy that they've made that move, and the match with
Cody would seem to be the play. And by the way,
whatever the title matches at SummerSlam, it will involve Cody.
Cody should not win the championship back because we have
now seen the title change hands twice recently, and I'm
okay with that. I'm not one of these people that's like, oh,
why are you playing hot potato with the bet? Now?
You know what, hot potato with the WWE title would
be changing at three, four or five times in the
span of a few months. We're not there yet, but
I'm sorry, Like, these are shows that for the longest
time have been a fucking bore. So you know what,
if they want to spice it up a little bit
and have a title change here and there, I'm not
opposed to that, but I also don't want them to
go overboard with it. And like we go to Summer
Slam and Punk defends the title and Cody gets the
belt back we can't be doing that. You took the
belt off Cody, keep it off of him. What they
did was they wanted to use Sammy as a transitional
champion to get the belt on Punk without Punk beating
Cody for it. Sammy was the conduit for that. He
is the definition of a transitional champion. That is what
he will go down in history. But now that Punk
has the belt, you got to keep it on him
for a while. I don't want to see Cody Roads
with his belt back at Summer Slam. I'm willing to
bettle out of you have no desire. They have no
appetite to see Cody Rose. Just get the belt back
at Summer Slim to me, if that's where we end
up at the end of all this, then what the
fuck was the point of any of this? What would
the fucking point of any of this be if at
the end of Summer Slam Cody Roads is standing there
with the WWE title. So this is going to be
a very interesting period. Now, if they can control themselves
and not have a belt on Cody, what do they
do with him when he's not the champion? Are they
more open to the idea all of a sudden of
a Cody roads Heel turn. Certainly feel like we're closer
to it now than we were six months ago, where would,
in my mind, would have been completely stupid. Now can't
discount the possibility that maybe we could finally build to
something like that that would certainly add a new dimension
to his character and make him a little more interesting
to people. But I just think, again, at the end
of all this, they put the belt back on Cody,
then I have absolutely no idea what the point of
any of this was. It was certainly a very eventful
close to the show tonight. There'll be a big post mortem,
I'm sure on this title reign, if you can call
it that of Sammy's ain. But we have a new
WWE champion, and that was not the only title that
changed hands on this show tonight. We also have new
tag team champions the Vision. This is not what I
was hoping for. In fact, there have been reports of
like that the Vision could potentially be going the way
of the Dinosaur, that there is an internal discussion, and
maybe there still is an internal debate in WWE about
do we split them up, do we keep them together?
Either way, bron Breaker and Paul Hammer are going to
be kept together, which is fine. I think the Vision
it's past its expiration date. Let me fuck you could
say the same thing about the judgment at this point,
just blow him all up. What they did tonight on
the show was the exact opposite. They made it seem
like the Vision is going to be not only kept together,
they're gonna add new members to the Vision and try
to make it even stronger. They put the tag team
belt right back on them. Maxine Dupree turn heel, so
I guess Maxine Duprie now was the first official female
member of the Vision, so the Vision ain't going nowhere
for a while. Bron Breaker was back on the show tonight.
I was hoping to see him out there spearing theory
out of his boots. Instead he's I mean, he's just
doing what he usually does. I mean, he lost to
seth Rollins. He doesn't seem terribly bothered by it. He
didn't seem terribly pissed off or upset, and the focus
wasn't even on him tonight. The focus was on Maxine Dupree.
Of everybody in the vision, the focus tonight was on
Maxine Dupree and bron Breaker like Logan Paul was just
sort of in the background, not a fan of that.
I am a fan of them doing this gauntlet match
on the show next week. We're gonna find out next
Monday who the number one contender is going to be
for the Intercontinental title at SummerSlam. And there's like seven
guys in this gauntlet. One of those men is Chad Gable.
And I will tell you now if anybody and Javan
Evans is in there too, and Dragon Lee and Russev
and Ethan Page, if anybody but Chad Gable wins that
gauntlet next week, I don't know what the fuck we'red
and that includes Javon. I don't know what the fuck
we're doing here. Javan Evans should not be going to
Summer Slam to wrestle Penta for the Intercontinental Championship. One
man should be going to Minneapolis, in his hometown to
wrestle for that championship, coming off all the momentum he
had with the Triple A match, which was only a
couple not even a couple of months ago. That man
is Chad Gable. They have one job next week on
the show, which is to put Chad Gable over in
the Gauntlet and send him to Minneapolis to wrestle for
the Intercontinental Championshipfully that is the way that will play out.
But that Gauntlet next week, considering some of the talent
that's in there, that should be really good. Like they've
done gauntlet matches on Raw before, some of them have
been eh, kind of a bore, and then some of them,
some of them could go the length of an entire hour,
and some of them have been really good. There was
actually a really good one many years ago that Seth
Rollins was in. I don't think he won, but I
don't remember what the what the match was or what
the circumstances were. So that's coming up on the show
next week. We had no Roman Reigns, we had no
Brocklesner on the show tonight. We did hear from their
Summer Slam opponents they were on the show. I will
also point out it was yet another week without a
single Women's World Championship defense by liv Morgan since she
won the title of WrestleMania. They have just completely given
up on the idea of her putting the belt up
against anybody. They're just gonna wait until SummerSlam. She'll defend
it against EO Sky and hopefully she will fucking lose
because this is by far the worst Women's Championship run
that I have ever seen. Like, this is awful. This
is absolutely all they have given her, nothing, nothing to
work with. Stephanie Viquier is unavailable, whatever the issue is, visa,
whatever the fuck it is, She's unavailable. They have no
idea what to do with this woman. You talk about
being caught flat footed. I could just imagine when the
news was delivered to them in the meeting. Hey, we
don't have Stephanie. We may not have her back for
a while. What do we do, Well, We'll just have
her come out with the other members of the judgment
day every week. She'll be a manager. We got nothing
better for her to do. It's unbelievable. Yet another week
of no title defenses. Amazing, We got a lot to
get into here. It was a very eventful show. I
will say that that we need more raws like this.
I actually thought on the whole I would say it
was a good show because it didn't bore me. This
is how I grade these WWE shows now, because so
many of them are just so lackluster and it just
feels like, if I missed this show, I really didn't
miss anything, right. I like it. When shit goes down,
that's important that we can talk about. Whether it makes
you happy or it pisses you off. At least something happened,
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So that was twenty nine years ago on this date,
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get into this show. We're gonna take it from the top, because,
like I said, there was a lot that went down here.
It was basically a show long storyline with the Sammy's
and Cody road stuff, and it started right from the top.
It started right Oh thank god, we had no Bremode tonight.
We saved that for SmackDown. You know, Brie was very upset.
I know on her podcast she talked about only getting
three minutes for her match with You know, at this rate,
I think she may get more airtime on this stream
than she does on WWE television. Actually, I think we
just did we Yes, we did. Oh my god, we
hit the bonus goal. Son of a bitch. How about that?
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here's what we're gonna do. Because we already hit the
bonus goal, we got we have to uh, we have
to up the ante here. So before I before I
move on here, it's kind of anti climactic if we
already we already got the job done. We set a
new goal. Maybe we'll get three rounds to be the
booker tonight. Let's see if we could start a new one.
Steve lets me here we go. All right, this is
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So Sammy's aying he arrived to the arena in a convertible.
He's been riding around in a convertible now for a while.
You can follow him on social media. You'll see all
the I think he posted a video or images of him,
and the belt is in the driver's seat, or he's
in the driver's seat, the belt in the passenger seat. See.
Arrives at the building and Cody was standing backstage. Sammy,
of course, was all smiles. Things got heated between the
two of them when Gunther showed up. Now, Gunther was
not supposed to be there. Gunther was supposedly sent home
after his little brujaha with Nick all this after night
of Champions. But here he is, and so Gunther is there.
He power bombs Cody through a table that happened to
be nearby, and he looks at Sammy. He goes, you're welcome,
and he tells Sammy that Cody is no longer your problem.
I am Gunh told Sammy that he was coming for him.
So then Gunther looks over, he sees Cody is crawling
towards Sammy's car, and he goes over and he kicks
the driver's door, the driver's side door, right into Cody's head,
and Cody had some blood kind of you know, coming
down his head a little bit there, and yeah, I'm
looking at this and I'm like, uh oh, angle alert.
Are they going to swap him out for somebody else
in the main event? Michael Cole and Corey Graves wondered
the same thing. They wonder what does this mean for
the main event here on this show seth Rollins was
then out to the ring to address the Chicago crowd.
He was promptly met by chance of CM punk. You know,
my favorite thing on this show was listening to Michael
Cole and or Corey Graves have to feign surprise when
CM punk showed up at the end of the show
and also talk about how Sammy's ain seemingly had no idea.
He's he's shocked, he is absolutely shocked that CM punk
would be on the show, even though the fans have
been chanting CM Punk the entire night off and on,
including when Sammy's ain came out to the ring. So
I always love it when they have to just play stupid.
They just have to play dumb. But yes, they were
chanting for CM Punk here. In this segment, Rolin said
he couldn't care less about him because Punk is not
his business right now. The World Heavyweight Championship is. Roman
Reigns is his business, and the fans didn't like hearing that.
The fans the fans are the fans are funny man.
Obviously you would expect them to cheer for Punk here
in Chicago, but they cheer for Roman Reigns even though
he's a heel. They chant otc anybody who speaks ill
of Roman Reigns. They boo that person. La Night got booed.
I don't know where they were, but a few weeks
ago on TV. He hates Roman Reigns, he hates the bloodline,
and they love La Night except when he bashes Roman
and then they bow him, and then he's got to
turn it around and be like, oh, I get it,
I get why you guys would like him. I got it.
But you know he's up there a little bit. He said,
Roman Reigns is not here tonight. Man. He doesn't like
it either. But Roman didn't show up because he didn't
think it benefited him. Either that or the check wasn't
big enough. From day one, Roman has been the chosen one.
Nobody ever wants to hold him accountable. The Shield debuted
as a trio, but it was made very clear that
Roman was the chosen one. Roman was the one who
was going to be the big star, no matter if
he couldn't cut a promo or wrestle his way out
of a wet paper bag. That didn't sit right with Seth.
He points out a little boy in the crowd somewhere
in the front row. He goes, that was me. I
was that boy he sat in the stands. He wanted
to be a pro wrestler his entire life. He wanted
to main event wrestle Mania is he wanted to be
the biggest star in the industry. To watch those dreams
be handed off to somebody else broke something in him.
Every decision he made after that is in response to
watching his dreams get handed to somebody that he didn't
think deserved it. He broke up the shield he cashed
in at WrestleMania in the main event to stick close
to Roman raids. He believed that if he put in
the work and believed in himself, that he could still
achieve those dreams. But they weren't running in the same race.
A couple of years ago, Roman said something about him
that changed everything for him. He admitted that Seth worked
ten times harder, but Roman made ten times the money
that Seth did. Isn't that the thing about life? You
could have somebody who doesn't work nearly as hard as
you do, and yet somehow they'll find more success than you,
or they'll make more money than you. Right. I think
that's a wrestling thing. I think that's a life thing.
Believe me, there's a lot of very frustrated people out
there who could probably relate to that. So in this case,
it just it just irked him to no end. He
said that he was bullshit, is what he called it.
It wasn't about the money. He wasn't about living in
a mansion. The reward was the work, the ability to
come in and make something of himself. Roman has to
beat Seth at Summerslim because he needs to justify what
he's been trying to prove to himself for the last
fifteen years. And that's not a case of him being
the tribal chief for the OTC or anything like that.
To Roman, Roman has to prove that he is not
a fraud. He has to do the one thing he
hasn't been able to do in a big match, beat Seth.
If he can't beat Seth and he's a fraud, Seth
needs to beat Roman just as much. He needs to
prove to himself and his five year old self that
through sacrifice, hard work, and dreams you can still achieve greatness.
And I'm not gonna lie. This promo was boring me.
I was surprised I didn't start dozing off here. This
was not the most exciting Seth Rollins promo that we've
gotten out of him. Not that anything that he was
saying here was wrong. I mean, he's trying to throw
some more gasoline on the fire for his summer Slam match,
and there's only so much you can do when your
opponent doesn't show up to work. So he did what
he could hear in this promo to make the key
points he wanted to make. But yeah, this wasn't working,
and it wasn't working in Chicago because again, you know
CM punk chants during a Seth Rollins promo. Seth Rollins
doesn't like ciampunk. He's cutting a promo on Roman rains.
Roman reigns super popular with the crowd. Fans didn't want
to hear it. They're very quiet. They did not want
to hear what this man was trying to sell them. Thankfully,
it was boring La Knight as well, who interrupted and
he came out to save the day. He said that
there was no way that for two weeks in a row,
he was just gonna sit there and listen to this again.
He said, Roman and Seth bore everyone to sleep every
week with the same old trash. Yip be Skippy, he said,
put that on a T shirt. I'll buy that Yip
be Skippy with the La Night logo on the back.
He said. They bloviated all over each other. What a
great cheat code. All they had to do was talk
about how great they were, and Seth gets a title shot.
Night remembers when you had to win matches in tournaments
to get title shots. They both lost in the first
round of the King of the Ring, but the difference
between them is that Knight's not making a claim to
the title for nostalgia's sake. These two guys come out there, brother, brother, brother, brother,
I gotta beat you brother, brother, brother. He was morphing
into Hogan here for a second that or Russo. I
don't know. I guess Russeau would be bro. Yeah, morphin
into Hogan. You don't. You don't do that. You don't
want to morph into Hogan. Say he's mocking them, you
know again, brother, brother, brother, brother, this brother, that they're
the greatest of all time, greatest of what he said.
Night hasn't been here as long as Seth has, and
he'll never catch him as far as world title shots go.
But when business was starting to peak a couple of
years ago, who is the man on top? He said,
He'll give some credit to Cody Rhodes. But everybody was
saying and everybody chants, la Knight. He said he was
making his rise, but he got cut off by the
blood Line, and he got cut off by the Vision.
Here we are again. The Bloodline is trying to hold
him down again, but they can't. Roman and Seth are
the two biggest vomits in the business. They can't stop
La Night because he must rise. So Seth goes, are
you done? He says, I don't like you, but I
respect Knight is a shining example of everything that he described,
hard work, hustle, and grind. He believes his time will come.
That's very very optimistic of him. Right now, Seth can't
worry about La Night because he has to go to
SummerSlam and get the belt back that he never lost.
But after he gets it back, Night can be the
first person he puts in the dirt and so Rollin's
He goes to leave, and after Night turns around, Jimmy
Usso is in the ring and Jimmy is waiting for him,
and Knight eats the foot off the superkick, and then
Jimmy retreated into the crowd. He was mouthing off as
he was leaving. You know, keep my family's name out
of your mouth. I should point out to you that
it was already twenty five minutes past the top of
the top of the hour. Really since the show started,
it was like eight twenty five. We had a lot
of a lot of talking on this show. We had
yet to have any actual match. I guess we had
some action in terms of Cody getting bloodied up backstage.
We got a power bomb through a table backstage by Gunther.
That was the extent to which we had any action
up to this point on the show. Seth Rollins. Here's
the thing about the Seth Rollins promo. Seth Rollins is
the the de facto babyface, right, got fut fuck that tree.
That's right, You tell him, you tell him death sith,
Thank you brother. What I was gonna say is that
in this segment, Rollins was only the fourth most over
guy who was mentioned or appeared Punk Roman La Knight.
Rollins was number four. Rollins is the one who's going
to Summer Slam to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship.
It was a bad look. It was a bad look
that he was only the fourth most over guy in
this entire segment. Looks It's hard for me to sit
here and get excited about, oh, you know La Knight
is you know, giving it to Seth Rollins because the
promo that night cut here was so much better than Seths.
And I'm looking at this and I'm like, maybe they're
positioning him for some But then I catch myself and
I'm like, you got to stop doing that because we've
been here before, Like we have been here before multiple
times where Night comes out in the middle of a
segment like this, or he confronts you know whoever it is,
the top heel or babyface or whatever, and it's like, Okay,
maybe they're maybe they're planning something with him, right, maybe
maybe there's something in the works. There's nothing in the works.
You know what's in the works. A six man tag
is in the works. That's what's in the works for
him at summers and coming out of summer, Slim, I
don't expect anything to be any different. For if it
is great, I'll be the first to come on here
and say I didn't see it coming. But you know,
when you would like to see someone kind of elevated
to a position higher than the one that they're in,
doing something more meaningful to what they have them doing,
and time after time after time, it just doesn't happen.
Despite the reactions that he continues to get, after a while,
you're like, Okay, you know, fool me ones, fool me twice,
fool me seven times after that. Yeah, I'm not really
going to expect much out of it. So he was
the star of this segment here. But beyond that, do
I think it's actually leading to something tangible, meaningful for him?
I don't. I don't. We go to the back Adam Pearson, guntherer.
They were arguing as Gunther was being escorted out of
the building. But hold on a second, Nick, All this
is here. It's as if he was he never sent
home in the first place, even though he was he
was sent home on administrative leave. He showed up to work.
Anybody who does that, who gets sent home and just
shows up to work anyway, if you're sent home on
administrative leave, I guess technically you're still being paid, I
would guess. But anyway, So here he is, and so
he's yelling at Gunther. Pierce is getting in between them,
trying to keep the two of them apart. Gunh says,
all this was a failed wrestler and now he's a
failed general manager. So after Gunther left Pierce and all
this they got into it. All this was very upset
that Pierce poached his main event and was doing it
on Raw instead of doing it on SmackDown, which he's right,
by the way, the WWE Championship, there's no real reason
for it to be defended on this show other than
it was going to be CM Punk in the match.
So he was very upset about this, and Pierce said, well,
I'm running both shows now because of you and all
this said yeah, and you're doing a really crappy job,
he said, Cody getting injured and potentially being out of
tonight's main event. That's on you. Where has this been,
by the way, where we need more of this? We
have these general managers that are generally they're very deferential
to each other. They work together, they don't really do
a lot in terms of trades and things of that nature.
We need more, you know, we need more animus like
this between the two gms, right, it sparks good competition
between the brands. We need to see more of this
between these two. We have the Street Profits finally a match,
Street Profits defending the World Tag team titles against bron
Breaker and Austin Theory representing the Vision. During the commercial break,
the Street Profits they got the jay usso interests they
were they were or the death Rider's entrance. They were
coming through the crowd and I don't know what was
going on with montez Ford. He gets to the barricade
at ringside, and the security guard is sitting there right
right up against the barricade in a chair, and Ford
gets right up in his face. Basically, his crotch is
level with the security guard's face and he starts thrusting himself.
He's thrusting his pelvis into the security guard's face. He
is gyrating in this man's face. I think he was
trying to break him. And the security guy is just
looking at him and he's just kind of shaking his head.
He has no idea, you know what's going on here.
Dawkins is looking at Ford. He's got to look on
his face like, what the fuck are you doing? He
was on something. I don't know what was going on here.
So in the back after the break, Jackie Redman was
about to interview bron Breaker Austin theory logan. Yes, another
NDA is about to be signed here in WWE. We
already have a lot of them. We probably have somebody
more than we don't even know about. What's another non
disclosure agreement. But Jackie is about to interview the vision
when Paul Hayman shows up. He tells bron Breaker, don't
worry about that. Spear through the barricade a few weeks ago,
tell Breaker, you didn't even take out seth Rollins. Then
he looked at Austin Theory and he said, you you
didn't even take out Joe Hendry, as if they can't
bury Joe Hendry any more than they already have with
the way he's been used tag team titles. He says
street profits. He says, come back with something worthy of
your wise men, or don't come back to me at all,
and he walked off. Late in the match, the Prophets
hit the Doomsday blockbuster to Theory. Bron Breaker broke up
the pen attempt that followed. Logan Paul was out there
and he tried to pass the brass knucks to Theory.
Referee was right there, so the referee caught him. Referee
put his foot on the knucks and he went to go,
uh remove them. But it was all a decoy because
Logan passed another set of knucks to bron Breaker. Dawkins,
though was able to get them before he could use them.
He was about to use them on Theory, referee was distracted.
I don't remember exactly where the referee was at this
exact moment, but Maxine Dupre crawls into the ring from
behind Angelo Dawkins and delivers a low blow and Austin
Theory then covers Dawkins one two three, and the Vision
are once again the world Tag Team Champions. Bron Breaker
is yet again a tag teamampion, as if he needs
that tag team champion with Austin Theory. As they're leaving,
they're in the isleway, Maxine races over, the Theory jumps
up in his arms, and they start making out. They
are swamping spit. They're smooching right there in the isleway.
So they're the new it couple, I guess in WWE,
And again the focus was on Theory in Maxine, focus
was not on bron Breaker here. That's why I said
bron Breaker just felt like a bit player in the
background here. So the Street, you know, we talk about
Sammy Zain being the WWE Champion for nine days. The
Street profits, they got the titles for two weeks, and
now the Vision has the belts back, which means, unfortunately
they are not being disbanded anytime in the near future,
which is terrible. That's a double whammy of suck right there,
because this is not a group that needs to be
together anymore. As far as Maxine finally going heel, I'll
say this, this may be the best role for her.
She may excel in this role. I'd rather see her
in this role than have her back in the ring
attempting to have you know, matches every single week that
are not going to be very good because she's just
not getting enough time in the ring to improve and
get better at the rate that she would need to.
This might be a role that she excels in. I'm
just happy they paid off all of these little, you know,
backstage teases and these little backstage segments that they've been
kind of dropping on us over the last few months.
At least we finally got some kind of payoff to it.
So it's the best I could say about that as
far at least as far as she goes. Not a
bad role for her to be in. I do wonder,
I do wonder if they got the Belts off the
street profits. Bianca bell Air I think is due any week.
Right when she when she showed up a WrestleMania, she
was six months alone, so she's probably due to give
birth very soon, and so I wonder if maybe that
played a role in them losing the Belts if we're
we're not going to be seeing the street profits on
TV for a bit. I know Angelo Dawkins and his wife,
they were also expecting their third child, I think, but
I don't think that's until September. But they both have
they both have you know, babies on the way. That
could have factored into you know, them getting the belts. Yeah,
let's put the belts on them and get them a
win and then get the belts off because they may
not be available soon. That's just my that's my Austin
theory about this. So anyway, there was a doctor in
the back who was checking on Cody and Adam Pierce
comes in and the doctor looks at Pierce and he goes, sorry,
I I can't I just I can't sign off on this.
I can't clear him. And Cody of course is like no, no, no, no,
I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine, And Pierce says, okay, look,
we have to get scans. Now. We have an ambulance outside.
Maybe we can get him to the ambulance. We can
do the scans here and let's see before you make
a final diagnosis or a final decision, let's get him
into the scans. And see what they say. And so
off they went. But it didn't look good Elsewhere in
the back, the Vision is in a very celebratory mood.
Logan Paul tells the other Vision members how happy he
is and proud he is of them. Paul Hayman shows up.
He says, that's a good first step. But it's only
a first step. But he admits, you know, maybe I'm
being too harsh. At least somebody accomplished something tonight in
Theory looks at him and goes, thank you, Paul, and
Hayman tells him, I wasn't talking about you, I was
talking about her, and off he goes. So Haman left
and then the other members of the Vision they got
into their suv. As soon as the suv pulled away,
that's when Otison tells Zawa SHOWEDO. They came running out.
They watched as the suv drove off. They were they
were crestfallen. They were devastated at this turn of events.
With Maxine Dupree, I can't wait until they confront her
next week, and she smacks the She pulls a Stephanie
McMahon and smacks the shit out of them. So yes,
the Alpha Academy is uh greatly dismayed at this turn
of events. A Melick Gayman screams for Kyrie, thank you
for the twenty bucks brother theory accomplishing something. Yes, you
had a good laugh at that, didn't you. Roderick oh
Man Alpha Academy Vision feud for the rest of the summer.
Why why, why why even bring that up up? Theory
is so much better as a babyfit. I don't disagree
with you on that. I think he's been miscast for
a while now. I thought, coming out of the Waller stuff,
we were gonna get a babyface, right, that would have
made a difference and worked. Who knows. I think he's
got a good babyface run in him, but they just
insist on keeping him as a heel. Now next week,
this is where they made the announcement on the show.
Next week, we're gonna be getting a gauntlet match to
crown a number one contender for Penta's Intercontinental title at SummerSlam.
And in this gauntlet we have Chad Gable, Dragonly Joe Hendry,
which means he's actually gonna get a fucking entrance next week.
Holy shit, I just realized his first official entrance, so
I'm not counting tonight. We'll get to him in a
little bit, but Joe Hendry will be in there, Javan Evans,
Dominic Mysterio, Ethan Page and Russev. One of those men
will challenge Penta for the intercontinental title of SummerSlam. There's
only one option here. They have one job. Don't fuck
this up. Jackie Redman interviewed the Intercontinental champion Penta, who
was interrupted by Ethan Page and Russev. Paige said that
Raymisterio is not going to be in the Gauntlet because
he's on the shelf. After being in the ring with him,
what was it, Raymisterio just on the triple aishaw looking fine,
introducing Damian Priest. He looks okay to me. Wouldn't call
that on the shelf. So Dragon Lee showed up and
he told Paige, watch what you say about Ray. Russev
said that Dragon Lee better learn English or he would
squash him too. Chad Gable showed up, he got in
Russev's face, Page pulled Rusev. He said that they could
talk to Adam Pierce about making a tag team match tonight,
which actually ended up being up until the main event
was the best thing on the show in ring wise.
Obviously this ended up being number two best thing on
the entire show. But they set that matchup for a
little bit later on in the night. And oh, my goodness,
we have got another goal unlocked. You guys got to
help me keep track of this. You guys have already earned.
You guys have earned five. God got five rounds to go.
My goodness, Oh my god. Soul Ruka, let's talk about
Soul Ruca against Raquel Rodriguez for the Women's Intercontinental Championship.
Soul missed the moon, salt to the floor, landed on
her feet, though then she hit a springboard twisting body
press onto Raquel, who was on the floor. Back in.
Soul flipped out of a choke's limb attempt, but she
got wasted, I mean absolutely wasted. Holy shit, this clothes line.
She got wrecked by a clothes line by Raquel, and
that took us into a commercial break. They showed a
slow mow replay of it. Man, it looked it looked brutal.
So Roxanne Perez showed up late in the match. She
got up on the apron to distract the referee. Meanwhile,
Lived Morgan tripped up Soul on the ropes when she
went for a soul snatcher. Raquel then dropped Soul with
a side slam that was a good in near fall.
I thought she might have it there. Eo Sky's music
hit and she came from the crowd to take out
Perez and Morgan. She got Raquel's attention briefly as she
was standing on the apron, and when Raquel charged at her,
Eo hit an Asaii moonsol and she wiped out the
other two members of the judgment day out on the floor.
It all always scares me when she does that, especially
when she does it on the side where the announcers are.
You know, I don't like that. You got that podium
there with the belt, you got the edge of the
announced desk. She always comes like so close to it.
She's gonna hit the back of her head on there.
One day, so she took them out, and then Soul
came out of nowhere and hit the soul snatcher to
put it away. I like how the camera angle for
this was zoomed out in the event that she fucks
up the move. I'm almost positive that's why they did that.
But she didn't fuck it up, she nailed it, and
she retains her championship. This was a solid match here
from these two. You know, if Soul was not so
early into her reign as champion, because she's had the
belt since what clash in Italy, I believe, so it's
been a little over a month, as sammy' zane weeps somewhere,
but she's still very early into this run. I would
say put the belt on Raquel, but the timing just
isn't right for it. I don't think the timing is
right anyway for this story that they seem to be telling.
What the Judgment Day. I always think like things are
going to finally blow up between Live and Raquel. And
the thing with the Judgment Day is they just they
drag everything out. Everything is just dragged out until it
either doesn't happen or it doesn't mean anything. And the
Judgment Day has been around now for literally for years.
I mean, you talk about a faction that has outlived
its usefulness. It was very useful for a while, very
very beneficial to Damian Priest where Ripley dom JD McDonough Raquel.
I think Raquel really benefited, you know, from being a
part of this crew. I mean it benefited Live. I
don't know that Live needed it per se. But again
it's it's mostly a women's faction. Now you know you
got Dom and you got JD and that's it, and
it's like all right, it's kind of like running on
fumes now. So we highlights of the brockles Ner Oba
Femi stuff from the show last week. When Obo was
about to talk about which championship he was going to
challenge for at Summerslim. Oh, psych, there will be no
title match for him at Summer Slim. He will challenge
brock Lesnar inside hell in his cell. So fuck the
King of the Ring. We come back live after a break.
Paul Hayman is already in the ring. He's by himself.
He says, I'm out here to talk about now. I
gotta say it the way he says it, Oba fem me.
I love how Hayman talks to us like we're all
four years old. He's been doing this for years. We're
all toddlers. So he has to over enunciate every single
word and stretch for time as he cuts these promos.
Paul Haman is the best guy you could possibly send
out there to do promos in WWE because he I mean,
he could talk all night, but he doesn't even have
to have a lot to say. He just says it
really really slow, you know, and pauses a lot. So
he's out here talk about Oba Femi. Oba came into
WWE like he owns the joint, which he does. He
saunters down the aisle like he's King Schlong. That's what
he called him, King Schlong until he got punted in
the Little Femis by brock Lesnar. But the bad news
for Oba is that's nothing compared to the pain he's
going to suffer inside hell in a cell. Yes, Aaron
says Paul Hayman's promos are at zero point five speed.
It's a good point. They are. They are at half speed.
And lives in a relationship. So she's breaking up with
Dom on TV, guarantee, What does that have to do
with anything? You know, how many people are in relationships
on TV and real life at the same time. That
doesn't mean anything, Maxine dupre I think she might be married.
If not, I know, she's definitely in a relationship. And
there she is on TV. She's, you know, playing tonsil
hockey with Austin theory doesn't mean anything. They'll keep LIVDM
together for another year if they want to. So. Obafemi,
he says, has inspired Brocklesner. Obafemi has compelled the beast
to emerge from brock Lesner. Obafemi has motivated brock Lesner.
He has made Oba has the biggest mistake of his
life by accepting this challenge. You're not coming out of
helen a cell. He said, no way, no how, brock
Lesner will destroy Obafemi inside Helen is cell. And then
he flipped his mic like he was about to leave.
So again he said nothing. He said nothing in this promo.
He's about to leave and the lights go out. Oba
comes out and he struts down to the ring and
he said he felt bad for Paul. He wanted to
at least give him a face that he could talk
to when he's out here. Hayman said, Oba learned last
week talk shit, get hit, but he'll talk facts. You
know why I'm valuable because I prevent people from making
bad mistakes. Not at WrestleMania, he said, at WrestleMania, you
prove to the world that brock Lesner is beatable. And
then in Italy, brock Lesner proved that Oba Femi is
also beatable. So now comes the trilogy match, and they
have to find out which one of them goes on
to be that unbeatable superstar, even though they've both already
been beaten. So let's examine who's stepping into the cell.
He says, Oba is stepping into the cell with Brock Lesner,
who was a UFC heavyweight champion. There's no one who
fights in a cage like Brock Lesner. He ended the
Undertakers on defeated streak at WrestleMania. Undertaker the man who
invented hell and his cell, and Brock didn't just beat
him once inside the cell, he beat the Undertaker twice
inside hell cell. Oba didn't accept a challenge for a
cage or for a cell. That cell is the broctagon,
and inside that broctagon, Lesner is the bringer of pain,
the beast Oba cannot beat, the mountain that Oba cannot climb.
Only one man will leave SummerSlam with that reputation intact
that he is truly the unbeatable superstar in WWE, and
that man is Brock Lesner. And the beatable one is
going to be Oba Femi. And again Hayman chucked the microphone,
Oba said. Brock Lesner showed up last week. After weeks
of Oba calling him out and calling him names, Brock
finally shows up. He says, that tells me that every
word that I said got to him, every single thing
I said about him got under his skin. And now
he can pretend like he doesn't watch the show. The
fact that he showed up tells me he definitely watches
the show. Uh oh, but I got news for you.
He don't watch the show. He definitely doesn't watch the show.
But then Hayman here is doing his usual damage control,
and he's writing all of these checks that Brock probably
can't even cash. Hayman is less than an advocate. He's
just a mouth. And that's the thing about a mouth.
Mouths need to be fed, But how can you feed
one if you have no head. I don't know if
he was trying to rhyme here. I have some Doctor
Seuss shit going on here. He's out here talking about
Randy Catore and the Undertaker when neither of those men
are Oba Femi. Hayman is scared. Every man knows when
his time has come, whether it's the beginning or the end,
and he goes, trust me, Paul, this is the end.
This is the final chapter. This is where the book closes.
And what bigger stage to do it than summerslim in
Minneapolis in front of his friends, in front of his family,
in front of Brock's wife. He'll beat him in front
of his children. And he's learned a very valuable lesson.
You have to walk through hell to get to heaven.
So tell your client, I'll see him in hell. So
good promo, the Hayman stuff, by Hayman's standards, was very
paint by numbers. OPA's a very good promo. It's one
thing that he has showed on the main roster this year.
You know, he doesn't come across as being timid. He doesn't,
you know, seem to get nervous or lose his train
of thought or trip over his words or anything like that.
He's very he's very focused. He brings a level of
intensity to his promos that not everybody does. And again,
he's a very intimidating guy to look at if you're
in the ring with him, right, I mean, you might
shit a brick if a guy like that was getting
really really pissed off at you, Right, he plays the
part well, he carries himself well, so I thought this
was good. Now brock is going to be back on
the show next week, so we'll see, you know, if
there's any sort of physical interaction or do we just
get another very basic, you know, Paul Hayman Brock Lesnar promo.
If you've seen one, you pretty much seen most of them.
I thought when Lesner was on the show last week,
not that he had a ton to say, but I
actually thought his delivery and everything was one of the
better Brock Lesnar promos that I've ever seen, which is
wild considering how long he's been around for. We'll see
what he does on the show next week. At least
they'll be back in the same building. In the back,
Sammy's ain was taping up his fists. He was getting
ready for the main event tonight. Jackie Redman broke the
news to him that it's now been confirmed Cody Rhoades
will not be medically cleared for the main event. Sammy
was shocked. His mouth was a gape. He asked her,
is he really out? He goes that's terrible. I was
looking forward to testing myself against QB one, but he
goes this night. Honestly felt cursed from the start, and
to to be honest with you, I'm not sure why
I had to defend my title on raw to begin with.
So it's best to wait until Friday and we'll regroup.
Adam Pierce walks in, he tells him, we promised the
fans in Chicago a championship match, and that's what we're
going to give them. So it is official. And so
at that point you could hear the CM Punk Chance
ring out inside the arena. It was it was very
clear where this was headed. And the fans of the building,
they were here for it, they were waiting for it.
We had Chad Gable and Dragon Lee against Ethan Page
and Russev. We got Rusev day chance. Who chanced that anymore?
Why are we getting Rusev day chance in twenty twenty six?
So there was a crazy spot here ahead of the
commercial break where Gable gave Dragon Lee an overhead belly
to belly out of the ring and he wiped out
russevn Page on the landing outside the heels got the
heat on Gable for a while until he made the
hot tag to Dragonly Lee caught a Page with a
tornado DDT. At one point, he missed the ropes as
he was trying to push off the ropes. He missed him,
and somehow he was able to build up enough momentum
to spin around and hit the DDT anyway. Lee hung
Page upside down and then came off the top with
a double stomp. Things broke down at this point. Gable
caught Page with an angle slam, Russev hit him with
a Machka kick. Dragon Lee caught Russev with a snap German.
He came off the top rope. Russev caught him on
the way down and planted him with a Urinagi. Russev
hit him Maschka kick and then locked in the accolade
and Dragonly very quickly tapped out. I can't believe that
Russev won a match. See, I should give that. I'm
not gonna do it, but I should. I should give
this the the air horn for that alone, Russev actually
won a match on TV. It's pretty transparent why that is.
They want you to believe that he is going to
be the monster that's just gonna tear through this gauntlet
next week, so it's like, oh, we better give him
a wing on TV. We better give this guy some credibility.
We haven't been doing much of that lately, so at
least here they made him look like a monster. He
won the match. When the match was over, he refused
to release the hold. Gable came in. He tried to
help break it up. Ethan Page jumped Gable, russev denlock
Gable and the Accolade, but Joe Hendry ran out to
make the save. Now they played his music. He came
out from the back. He raced down to the ring.
This is not a proper entrance, but it's the closest
thing to an actual entrance that Joe Hendry has been
given since he debuted on this show a few months ago.
It's the first time that I can remember his music
actually being hit and him coming out. It's July. I
don't know why it took this long, but he ran
down to the ring. He got inside, and he very
quickly got overwhelmed. I mean he got a few moves off,
he did the fallaway slam. They did the camera zoom
in on him. He was setting up for I think
the standing ovation. I don't know. It almost looked like
he was gonna give him a rock Bottom or something.
But anyway, he got overwhelmed and he ended up being
trapped in the accolade as well. This was a good match,
like this was a good tag team match. They kept
Russev strong because he's in this gauntlet next week and
he clearly is going to be the destroyer. Right, He's
not going to win. But if let's say Gable, who
I think Gable should open the gauntlet. I mean Gable
should be one or two, but they have seven guys
in this gauntlet. If Gable is anything but one or two,
I think it's a mistake. You I think would want
him to work from underneath and have to overgo maybe
not number one necessarily doesn't have to be number one,
but he should have to overcome a shit ton of
adversity in this gauntlet, and he'll have to run through
Russev at some point. They just wanted to build him
up strong. But again, there's only one option for this gallet.
It's gotta be Gable, Gotta be get That could be
his new catchphrase, It's gotta be Gable. You get one
shot at this Minneapolis SummerSlam, the title that he could
never win, right, Seamus will never get his moment, Chad
Gable should get his for the IC title and plus
Chad Gable and Penta is a singles match at Summer Slam.
Is fucking awesome. That was Pentce's first match on TV
when he debuted was against Gable. Talk about a full
circle moment. What a great match that would be. We
got highlights of La Knight beating Jimmy Usso on Raw
last week with an unexpected assist from Solo Socoa, and
then they showed the super kick from earlier tonight when
Jimmy's superkick Knight in the face backstage live. Jackie Redman
is actually outside the building. She's racing to catch up
with Jimmy as he was leaving, and she asked him
what kind of message were you trying to send? And
Jimmy said, it's time for Big Jim to step up
for the Bloodline. He's going to go to SmackDown to
get his hands on Solo Soca. La Knight could be
seen coming out of the building. He's in the background.
He's coming towards Jimmy. Before he could get to him, though,
he gets cut off by Jacob Fatu who comes from
out of nowhere and he lays Night out on the ground.
Jimmy and Jacob they left together, clearly operating on the
same page. So it looks like La Night he's gonna
need some help if he wants to fight back here
against the Bloodline and enter Solo's Socoa and enter Royce Keys.
That's what we're gonna get at SummerSlam. We're gonna get
a six man tag team match because La Knight and
Solo Socoa they're all by themselves even though they want
to have anything to do with each other, right strange.
Speaking of strange, strange, strange bedfellows, that's going to be
a tag team at Summerslin. They're gonna wrestle Jacob Fatu
and the Ussos. It's not official yet. By the way,
I may as well mention this here. No jay Usso
on this show. He is dealing with a personal matter
that broke today on TMZ, so you can look that
up if you care to do so. But no yeat
for jay Uso. We had a video promo from Bailey
where she talked about how Lyra Valkyria waited in line
for hours to meet her when she was younger, and
they even had the photo Lyra became her best friend
and was there for her during one of the toughest
years of her career. Helped her become the best version
of herself every single week. She never questioned Lyra's trust
and wanted to help her. They couldn't have an honest conversation.
She took the easy way out. Bailey is gonna give
Lyra one chance to show that she's not like everybody
else and meet her in the ring next week. And
so for RAW next week in Dallas, they have announced.
This always pops me when they do this. Roman Reigns returns.
How many returns are we up to over the past
year for Roman Reigns, Like he misses one week, maybe two,
and then he's back and it's like the return of
Roman Raigns, the return of Roman Reigns. I mean, he
hasn't been gone for that long, the return of Roman Reigns.
So he'll return again next week. Braka Lesner will also
be back. That'll be in Houston. We have the Gauntlet,
as I mentioned, and then we have Roxane Perez is
gonna wrestle Eo Sky and I guess Bailey is going
to wait for Lyra Valkyria to come out to confront her,
and we'll get our first real opportunity to see Lyra
like in a live in ring promo setting as a heel.
I'm very curious if she's got the chops to be
a heel. I don't know the WWE is going to
really give her the opportunity to really run with it.
They're not giving her a whole lot of TV time
to begin with. I don't see Lyra as a heel.
I would like to see if she can make this work.
I'm curious what kind of heel she's going to portray.
In the back, Nick all this walked up to Adam Pears,
he's still hanging around, said that I placed a phone
call to a certain someone while you're off talking to nobody,
and I found a replacement for Cody Rhoades in the
main event tonight. That superstar is in the building right now.
All Adam needs to do is say you're welcome. And
that led into our main event and the Champion entered first,
his one and only entrance for a match as the
WWE Champion. I hope he soaked it up. I hope
he enjoyed it. As he made his way down to
the ring, it was Sammy's saying. He gets in the ring,
the music stops. Who's it gonna be? Chance? Ring out
in the arena of CM Punk. They cut to the
back and of course it is cmpunk. He was standing
outside the arena, like right where the SUVs and everything
come down the ramp and pull into the building. I
think the door was down and they kind of raised
the garage door and he's standing there in his wrestling gear,
no music, and he starts to walk through the back.
Finally they hit his music. Everybody in the building is
losing their minds. He comes out just an electric entrance
place going nuts. His first appearance since the Raw after WrestleMania,
and they're in Chicago. So he gets in the ring
and things got a little salty. Sammy got up in
his face, he kind of face washed him. Referee had
to get in between them. He took the championship, he
held it up for all all to see, rang the bell,
and the crowd was just again. They were molten hot
here for the beginning of this match. And this is
where I noticed, Oh shit, they got the pyro set
up on stage. They're not setting the pyro up for
sam Be's aying to retain the WWE title. So right there,
I mean, if I didn't already know, right there, I
knew this is not gonna end well for Sammy's ain,
it is. It is preordained. So for those curious, for
those who may not have seen the show yet, you
remember there were a lot of stories about CM Punk
and his physical condition and Jim photos going around from
people who were just being creepers and taking pictures of
him at the gym without him knowing, talking about oh
my god, Punk is swollen. Man. Look at Punk. He's
all jacked up. He's on steroids, this guy. But we
know what he's been doing in his time off. And
it was just soberdging and I said, wait until Punk
comes back. And he doesn't look really any different than
he did the last time we saw him. I can't
tell you he looks. He doesn't look like fucking Bruce Banner. Okay,
he doesn't look radically different. He's in good shape. He
clearly has not just been sitting at home on the
couch eating ice cream for the past two months. He's
been putting the work it. He's in good shape. Nothing outrageous,
nothing like all these dingbats online. Oh he's uh, you know,
he's shooting up. You know, he's a wrestler who's in
good shape. News at eleven there was a commercial break
here in the middle of his main event, and after
the break, Punk was looking for the GTS. Sammy slipped
out standing switched by Punk into a big clothesline, and
I mean he reached deep for that one. Only got
a two count loud cm Punk chance as he made
the slow climb up to the top, Sammy, they'll cut
him off, and Samy took him down with a massive superplex.
This then took us into a second commercial break in
the middle of this main event. And I'm like, dude,
they have got to do I have no problem with
there being ads. It's kind of the necessary evil. I
get it. You got to do a better job of
spreading this shit out, like you can't be doing this
during your main events. You know, you got a two
and a half hour show here. This is your main event.
I'm sure that, And maybe it would make things a
little miserable in other parts of the show if you
had to move things around. If they even have control
over it, I don't know, But in the middle of
the main event, dude, like come on, man, come on.
I will say this. It is one thing I will
always give Russo credit for because he's talked about this before.
And it's true if you think back to those main
events in the Attitude era, and we had some big
television matches in the Attitude era on TV, and it's
not like those shows didn't have commercials. Very rarely, if ever,
did they have commercials during the main event. And I
think he even said, like to the extent that he
had any sing in the matter, because he wasn't a
TV guy. He would make sure there were no main
event breaks like you have big like Stone Cold Undertaker
main event. They weren't going to fucking commercial in the
middle of the match, you know what I mean. Like,
there were just some matches that you should not constantly
be interrupting, and I just wish they would do a
better job of spreading it out. Now. Look, I I'm
using the ExpressVPN, so I can see what goes down
during the commercial breaks, but it's still ridiculous for the
people who don't. Sammy came off the ropes. This was
during the break. Came off the ropes and Punk Drop
kicked him out of mid air on the way down.
Then Punk came off the top with a high cross
body for a near fall, and then the two of
them had a collision, ribs first coming off the ropes
at the same time just as the break ended. So
when they came back live, both men were down. I
just realized I used the word collision when I was
talking about CM Punk here, and now Sammy's Ain is
banned from collision? Is that joke still still things? Is
that joke still work in twenty twenty six. So now
they're slugging it out from their knees. Now they're on
their feet. He's going for a GTS but nope, Slammy Slammy.
Well I like that Slammy's Ain. He elbows his way out.
He went for a blue thunderbomb that got stuffed. Punk
hit the step up knee in the corner. He was
going for the running Bulldog, but Sammy turned it into
a blue thunderbomb for a near fall, and it didn't
look pretty. He had to really muscle him up for
that one, but he did land it. So then there
was another step up knee by Punk and he hit
the running Bulldog. Now Punk races to the top in
his Hitman colors, as Michael Cole said, and he hit
the very un hit man like diving elbow. Brett. To
be fair, there were times where Brett would hit a
diving elbow from the middle rope. I mean he did
the okay, So to be fair, he did the diving
elbow from the middle rope in pretty much every match,
and then he would do it in a different way
where you knew he was gonna miss it. I never
saw Brett hard hit an elbow off the top rope.
That's something that was not in his arsenal. That was
very unhit man like. But he came off with the
diving top rope elbow. Now, the Anacon device is locked
in and I'm just I'm watching this. I'm going reach,
reach Sammy, reach, and he's in the middle of the
ring so there's nothing to really reach for it. He's
flailing around and I'm like, don't tell me, they're gonna
have him fucking tap to the anacon device. But he
uses his legs, he wraps him around Punk's head to
break free. Punk did go for a sharpshooter Sammy, though
very quickly, you know, he fought out of that. So
here comes the GTS, but no again, Sammy slips out.
He got the same roll up now on Punk that
he used to pin Cody to win the championship in Riod,
but this time he only got a close two count
out of it, so that was a very good near fall.
So again GTS no. Sammy gets Punk up on his
shoulders and he hits the GTS flush. Sammy covers Punk
kicks out. Punk ended up down in the corner. Fans
are booing because they know what's coming up next. Sammy
is setting up for the halluva kick. Punk catches him though,
as he charges in and he hits a Sammy move.
He hits an exploder into the corner. Now we have
CM Punk in the opposite corner and he is setting
up for something. He's setting up for a halluva kick
of his own. Sammy though, catches Punk with another GTS.
He nails it in to a blue thunderbomb and he's
got him pinned and Punk kicks out. Punk kicked out
of a GTS Blue Thunderbomb combo, and I'm like, what
am I watching him? I feel like I'm watching aew
Sammy starts ripping off the wrist tape. Now he smacks Punk,
smacks him a second time. He smacks him across the
face for a third time. He's telling him, I'm the champ.
Now do you understand that I'm the champ. Now he's
punching Punk. Punk now has a bloody mouth. Now Punk
is pissed, and he starts the fireback another step up knee.
Then Punk runs into the opposite corner. Sammy, though followed
him in, but Punk moved out of the way when
Sammy went for the hallula kick. Punk comes in though,
He nails a hallula kick of his own, and then
comes the go to sleep. All it took was one
although to be fair, he hits Sammy with his own
finisher first, then he hit his own and then he
covered him and he gets the one, two, three and
CM Punk for the eighth time in his career is
world champion. I say eighth time in his career, not
counting aew is an eight time champion, because now this
is his third I believe, right, third WWE championship. And
I want to say, the original version, the OG version
of the World Heavyweight title, did he hold that three times?
And then I think the most recent version twice? Right,
So that adds up to eight. I believe that's what
they're counting. Michael Cole on commentary referred to Sammy Zane's
run as the shortest World Championship reign in five years.
He almost certainly had to mean WWE title, because we
have had World Heavyweight Championship reigns in the last five
years that are a lot shorter than this. Drew McIntyre WrestleMania, Hello,
oh cm Punk a year ago, not even a year ago.
It's summerslim. We beat Gun there. He got cashed in
on fucking five minutes later he lost the championship, So
in terms of the WWE title, that may well be
the case. Punk hops the barricade very reminiscent of what
we saw fifteen years ago in that very building Money
in the bank twenty eleven. After he beat John Cena, right,
he retreated over the barricade into the crowd, up into
the stands, swarmed by all of the Chicago fans and
celebrating with his people as they go off the air.
This was an incredible main event. The atmosphere, I mean,
even just as a match, forget the atmosphere for a second.
It was a fucking really good match. But then you
got a factor in just the energy and the building.
Of course, everybody they were dying to see Punk win
this belt, and they were hanging onto every near fall,
and it was just it was so good. It was
so good. That's why it's hard for me to be
too angry about anything or upset about it. I mean,
I am upset that, you know, Samy only had nine days.
I mean, I think that's bullshit. But what a great
fucking match to go out on, you know what I mean,
Like if this was gonna be his one and only
title defense, he went out in like the best possible
way in terms of en ring because probably wasn't gonna
have a better match than this. So I love the match.
There's the best match on Raw in a very long time.
But again, nine days, after ten years of chasing the
dragon and finally capturing the dragon, and then he dropped
it and just like that, it's gone and it ain't
coming back. Because I got news for you. I don't
see Samy's in winning this championship back. I don't. I don't.
I think they put the belt on him not just
to give him a moment, but in the process of
giving him a moment. It served a purpose, and the
purpose was to trans position that belt onto somebody else
for a much bigger program and a much bigger match
that they have in mind and the real money in
their eyes, and I'm not even saying they're wrong about this.
The real money here is in Punk and Cody, because
they are two of the biggest stars outside of Roman
Reigns in the entire company, and whatever order you want
to put them in, it's Roman, it's Cody, It's Punk.
Those are the three. Those are the three guys. And
you would hope in the next three years or less,
Frankly Oba, Femei, bron Breaker, at least those two, Jacob Fatu,
maybe Trick Williams, maybe his inn ring has to catch up,
but you would hope that we have some new faces
in the mix and we're not still talking in three
years about Roman Reigns, Cody Rhoades, brock Lesnar, CM Punk
hogging up the same fucking spots. The money match right
now to do is one that has not been done yet.
It's Cody Rhods and CM Punk and they've teased this
match off and on now for a few years. They've
had some backstage interactions. They had an in ring promo
after WrestleMania this year. It's very interesting to think about
is it just going to be straight Babyface against Babyface?
Is one guy gonna lean more into the heel role,
even if it's just for the one match. You know
who's going to play heel? Is there going to be
a heel turn? If so, who's it going to be.
We've seen Punk play heel. We know Punk could be
a heel. We haven't seen Cody in that spot since
he became the guy, right. I mean, we've had pass
versions of Cody star Dust and you know, the grooming tips,
like that's like a whole other person. That person doesn't
even exist anymore. This version, the American Nightmare version of
Cody Rhodes has yet to go heal and play bad
guy in ww A, and it would be very interesting
to see him in that role. It would freshen him
up in a way that I think he could definitely use.
But they've just got to have somebody there to take
that spot. I don't know that Punk is that guy,
not that he's not a big name, but ideally you
would replace Cody with somebody who can really take that spot.
Is the top babyface on the brand for the future.
You know, Punk punk is not the future. Do they
have another babyface who can kind of step into that role?
You know? On SmackDown right now? The answer is no,
they don't, So turn Cody heel at your own risk.
It's not like I wouldn't love to see it. But
what's the plan for SmackDown? If you do that, it
can't just be cmpunk. Who else are you going to
rely on or try to elevate or have in that spot,
lean on as the top babyface on Fridays and be
that guy. That's something they have to figure out is
who they want that person to be. If they can
figure that out. Fuck, I would love to see Cody
Rhods go heel. I would love to see what that
looks like. And maybe the fans will just sort of
naturally gravitate towards Punk. If they do punkin Cody, they
may boot Cody anyway because they like Punk just that much.
The dynamic will be very interesting. But you can't deny
that that is the biggest possible match they could do
right now on SmackDown. Unfortunately, that leaves Sammy's Ain't out
in the cold. Because if they don't include him in this,
if he's not involved in that match, to turn it
into a three way situation. I don't see another obvious
path for him to even be on the SummerSlam card
this year, and to go from winning the WWE Championship
at the end of June to literally not even a
full two months later, be completely left off the card
would be To call it a slap in the face
would not even be adequate. I don't even think that
those words are adequate enough to describe what a show
of disrespect that would be for someone who has really
elevated SmackDown in recent months, which is a shit show,
but elevated it in a way where if he wasn't there,
I don't know what the fuck I would be looking
at on that show. It's like the best thing on
SmackDown to look forward to every week. Johnny Gargano planking,
I mean, you tell me now. I guess you could
argue it's this occasional Ray Phoenix triple A cruiserweight title defense.
It's defending a championship that doesn't even belong on the
main roster, doesn't even it belongs to a different promotion.
You know, you try to pick and choose the things
that you like, and you look forward to the most.
Carmelo Hayes, let's get him going again, you know, Dragon
of hopefully they'll get him back soon wherever he's been.
I mean, my god, So of course it's great now
to have CM punk on SmackDown. Thank God. You know,
they could use that shot in the arm. Sammy just
doesn't fit into that, seemingly doesn't fit into that. We
know what the direction is going to be. But I
do think it's a missed opportunity. You could have had
title matches with Sammy where it's like man every night
that he's defending that belt be his last, but somehow
he finds a way to hang on. They didn't have
any interest in doing that. They never did. We know
that now, so it sucks. I do feel bad for
him that he never had a chance to really run
with it. I think that I think he would have
done fine. I understand people who were not a fan
of putting the belt on him. They don't like him,
they don't think he looks the part. They think it's unrealistic,
or you know, whatever their thoughts and opinions are on it.
But again, you can find examples of people over the
years that have held the championship in this company that
would fit the same mold, you know, and some of
those cases they did just fine. I have no doubt
that Sammy's ain could have carried the belt for a
couple of months. He got nine days. Now we'll see
what the Summer Slide match is going to be. For
his sake, I just hope they don't blow it off.
It's Saturday Night's main event, you know, because if they do,
then he ain't going to Summer Slim, not in anything
meaningful anyway. But it was a great main event. I
will say that. I will say that that was Monday
Night Raw kind of a big deal. With Punk being
back and now having the championship, that that certainly takes
things in a different direction than they were a week
ago when we were talking about this show. Well, we
blew past all of the early goals and you guys
were on fire, and I've lost track. I want to say,
we have five rounds. I believe it would be the
Sammy planking with Gargano at SummerSlam. You actually think Johnny
Gargano would get a Summer Slam match. What drugs are
you on? I want what he's having. Maybe they could
have a planking match. I may have to add that
stipulation to be the booker a planking match. At the
end of the day, it becomes a lot easier to
understand when you look at it from the perspective of
they go where the stars are, WWE and TKO. They
go where they feel the money is going to be,
and for their second biggest show of the year, the
money is going to be in CM Punk and not
Sammy's a. The money is going to be in CM
Punk against Cody Rhodes. Although you could have kept the
belt on Sammy and had him defending against Punk and
or Cody, they felt differently. They wanted that belt more
important to them to have the championship on Punk, even
though him just walking in and getting a title shot
is kind of ridiculous, But in their view, he's Cempunk,
so you can excuse it. And that's just the reality
of it, all right. So I think we're doing four.
I think it's four rounds of be the booker. You
guys will keep you posting on that. Hey, Joseph Stawer,
thank you brother for being with us. Tonight, A Happy
Monday to you as well. I did read through these
messages that you sent in earlier, because you were the first,
so I am aware of everything that you have written here.
I didn't actually not know about any of this. I
get my Batman updates from you on what's going on
with this new movie and some of these past trivia facts.
I did want to mention this one though, the nine
ninety nine I've mentioned to you before. I have not
seen the animated series, but I definitely want to watch
it before the clay Face movie comes out in October,
because apparently on the animated show, I think in the
first two or three episodes, right, they have a double
I think a double episode covering the clay Face character.
And apparently the new movie is based or inspired by
those episodes of Batman the animated series. So I would
like to check out the series at some point. It's
got a pretty high score too on IMDb. Yeah, Batman
the Animated Series. Happy eightieth birthday to sel Val. Are
you serious? Is Sylvester stallone eighty years old today? Oh?
My god? Eighty years old looking the way he does?
And eighty first for Bert, I didn't even know Bert
Ward was still alive. Today's the anniversary of Goldberg beating
Hogan at the Georgia Dome. I did mention that from
the very top of the review tonight, buy or sells
Sting against Hogan, it's star K ninety seven or Goldberg
against Hogan on Nitro? I mean, how is this even
a question? Joseph? Come on now, how is this even
a question? Are you kidding me? Goldberg and Hogan in
ninety eight is one of the best matches in the
history of the company, not because of anything that they
did in the ring per se, but just it is
truly one of the biggest, if not the biggest match
that they have ever done. Sting and Hogan meant more
to the by rate, but the match was fucking terrible. Obviously,
I'm selling on that. Do you remember when Raven had
his therapy sessions with his family on nitro? Sandman appeared
during the therapy session, says Raven's best for I actually
don't remember. I don't remember that. I don't remember Sandman
being there for that. Man Bain Bain's pretty high up
there on my list of Batman villas. Where I rank
him is probably something like maybe like four maybe anyway,
I hope you had a wonderful fourth a July solo
monster and have a blessed in safe day today you
as well, Joseph, I hope you had a happy fourth.
Philip Bowman was Swerves blade Job at Forbidden Door worse
than Eddie Guerrero's Judgment Day Blade Job? I would say
yes it was. It was quite disgusting how much blood
he and Osprey lost, but Swerves was much worse. Death side.
How does Sonic get a hold of the ladies. He
gives them rings? Gives them rings? The real CS two
with a nine ninety nine, with guys like new Day
and Shamous leaving due of refusing to accept a pay cut.
I wonder how long until names like Natty, miss is
It Truth, et cetera are either cut or asked to
take a pay cut. I would be willing to bet
that some of them have already been asked to take
a pay cut, and if they're still around, they probably
said yes. I'm sure there are talents that have said yes.
We hear about the ones that say no. That doesn't
mean that there aren't that have said yes, and they're
probably still making very good money. They're just making a
lot less than they used to make. But you know,
some of these people that have been working there for
so just so many years, they're probably making a lot
of money, to the point where even taking a forty
or fifty percent pay cut is more than they would
make pretty much anywhere else. We don't hear, but we
don't hear about the ones that said yes. We only
hear about the ones that say no. Uh gmb with
a fort ninety nine. I think the profits dropped the
titles is because Bianca and Dawk's wife are due soon.
I feel bad for bron though he's above this awful
faction he is. I just feel like it's it's just
diminishing him. Every week that goes by, it's just diminishing him.
It's beneath him. Thank you. Brother Rizzo says, yes, Sammy
lost the belt. He's very excited that Sammy's Ain is
no longer the champion. Death Side says Stan Stasiac, who
was also a Canadian, held the WWE championship for nine days. Interesting,
so Sammy's Ain is not the first Canadian to hold
the belt for nine days. Johnny Bernie says, for me,
the action is in the juice. He has this in quotations,
a quote from someone. He says, Yeah, we can tell
Big Papa Punk, Big Papa Punk crazy says, I laugh
my so off when Michael Cole said we are all
shocked at Punk's return. Well, I mean, Michael Cole is
an idiot, so he has said you kind of expect
that he's gonna say a lot of stupid shit on TV.
None of this should be surprising. Andre Jefferson. Actually, Johnny
Bernie says, watch Sammy end up on a crate like
Johnny for months? Oh my god, I hadn't thought about that.
What if Sammy's new gimmick is that he is so
depressed over losing the belt he's planking next to Gargano
every week. Andre Jefferson says, Triple H's booking is so atrocious.
We were so focused on Sammy. Who knew the street
profit Oh, who knew the street profits were about to
suffer the same thing. Well, I told you earlier why
I think they may have dropped the belts. I think
they may be going away soon. And if they do,
congrats to them. You have to go away. It's not
a bad reason to go away. Unlike Kyrie saying that
was a very bad reason that she went away. They
never even finished their own story. Death Sithe dropping some
bombs here. You've got a magenta bomb this guy. On Friday,
you mentioned that Punkin Austin a wrestlemanie of forty three
would be best in the world versus the best of
all time. All they need now is the best there is,
the best, there was, the best there ever will be
to be the moderator for the contract signing. I think
if he was asked, he would do it. I think
Punkin and Austin are probably two of his favorite people
in wrestling. But again, I see no need to do
the match. I see no need to do the match
at all. I was just asked the hypothetical. I said,
if you were going to do it, this is how
it should be builled and promoted. I think that ship
sailed a long time ago. Everyone's talking about wanting something new,
something fresh. I know, let's do Stone Cold and CM
punk your WrestleMania. Sure, fifteen years ago we got the
working Man. I love you, Solo Monster, he says in
the Jacob Fatu voice, Thank you, my friend. The working
man is always hard at work. Bucky freaking dent with
a five dollars super chat. When you hear the phrase
the Big Red Machine, do you think of Cain or
the Cincinnati Reds. I think of I think of that gum.
Oh my god, what was that gum? And they're red
and white. It was a brand of gum. I actually think, oh,
big Red duh. I think of big Red gum, and
then I think of Kane. Death Side says Drew McIntyre
won the WWE title in an empty warehouse at wrestle
Mania at thirty six, he failed to win it back.
At WrestleMania at thirty seven, he won the World Heavyweight
Championship and then had his moment immediately ruined at WrestleMania
of forty. It feels like they're giving Drew Nito's ten
year Wrestle Kingdom story arc with WrestleMania. Well, let us
hope that by the time we get to the payoff
for his arc, he can move a little bit better
than Nito does, because Nito is washed. You know what,
I just realized, if McIntyre is going to be back
soon and Sammy has nothing to do, he could just
lose to Drew McIntyre again. He can go like zero
for twelve. Death Site says, hopefully a baby Phace Drew
will win the WWE Championship in the WrestleMania of forty
six nine two main events, and his opponent should be Cody,
because I believe Drew was supposed to be the one
to de throne Roman and become the FOTC. If Cody
did not the FOTC, what does that mean the Sheltered Kid?
Remember the John Cena classic? Neither do? I? Yeah, whatever
happened to that? I mean, we were told it was
gonna happen at the end of the year, so I
guess they're they're working on it. Why did it need
to be announced so early in the year. They had
absolutely nothing planned out for it. It's like, quick, we
got to make the announcement. So then they go and
they have seen him make the announcement and they talk
about fan voting and stuff, and then a few weeks
ago I see seen as an interviews talking about how
we really have to figure out this fan voting concept
because I really don't want people to like hijacket and
troll the shit out of it. And I'm like, well,
why didn't you think this out before you went and
publicly announced that you were going to have fan voting.
Alexander says punk should wear an Uffa Lafa on SmackDown.
Now that's La Knight's gimmick. Spooky Electric thirty one, twenty one.
It wasn't until I saw an interview with Raimi Sebby
that I realized what a great character Sammy's saying. The
person and the wrestler are very different. He has created
a fabulous character, serious props. He tries to pay attention
to a lot of the like nuances, like he ever
listened to him talk about wrestling. He's very cerebral. He
clearly puts a lot of thought into what he does
and how he presents himself, even even when he was
doing the bloodline stuff. You know, the the honorary used
and all that. The sheltered kid. What is something that
WWE does all the time that makes no sense logically?
For example, I hate when the gms don't plan for
the fucking main events. Oh I hate when they are
hold on a second. The fresh Makers carry your mentos
always see this is why Sammy Zan lost the WWE Championship.
If he had one of these in the middle of
the match. Tonight with punk. He could have been like ah,
and then he could have just busted out his mentos
and he would have kept the title. He would have
figured out some ingenious way to like roll him up
or something and keep the belt. You need your mentos,
Hey Yuki Oh rules with the thirty dollars mentos the
fresh Maker super Chat. It's still one of my favorite
all time commercials. I said, I got to make a
super chat, thank you brother. But to go back to
the Sheltered Kid in his question here, I did a
whole video. It was a segment actually on the sound
of but I pulled the video for the YouTube channel,
so you should go check it out if you missed it.
This was months ago on Common Wrestling. Trappes that just
bug the shit out of me or just make me laugh,
So go check out that video. But like for example,
there are so many times on these shows where the
GM will make multiple matches throughout the night for the show.
Like it's one thing. If let's say you make one match,
there are legitimately weeks where like Nick all this usually
it's all this, but it could be Adam Pierce. They
will legitimately make three or four new matches in the
middle of the show, and it's like, did they not
have anything planned? Who got bumped? Do they just sit
around all week doing nothing, hoping that during the course
of the show every week matches will just naturally sort
of materialize. Like, what a terrible general manager. It makes
no sense to me, you have all week to plan
a card g Barry Free. I don't know if I'm overreact,
but that Seth promo was excruciating. Never been more happy
to hear La Knight's music. I wouldn't say excruciating. It
was boring. It was a boring promo. You know, he
didn't have anything of any real interest to say. It
doesn't help that his opponent wasn't on the show. What's
he supposed to do? Thankfully we had La Night come
out to interrupt San Juan Wolf with the nineteen ninety
nine in k fabe. Adam Pierce is the worst general
manager in WWE history. Dude can hardly run his own show,
hardly has his world champions defend their titles, yet decides
it's only fair that Sammy's ain defends his he should
be fired. So then you're gonna have no general manager
for any show. He's running both shows. You're gonna fire him?
You going to replace him with gotta have a backup plan?
Holy shit wrestling. I have CM punk in Chicago fatigue. Yeah,
well I have more Cody fatigue than I do CM
punk in Chicago fatigue death sithe. At least Brock and
Roman have the excuse of being part timers. What is
Live Morgan's excuse? Terrible booking in kfab But I don't
know what her excuse is. She's not injured, She's just
a terrible champion. Aaron says Live should have feuded with
Bailey and Lyra and she could have been the catalyst
to cause Lyra to turn against Bailey. Well, you've just
done a better job than WWE did and trying to
think of something for Live Morgan to do. Congratulations, You've
just put more thought an effort into it then Triple
Ah and his merry band of misfits? Did Prince begeta
ninety five? I gotta say bron Breaker is absolutely neutered.
Dude went from being the Royal Rumble favorite and a
possible WrestleMania main event position this year to being stuck
in a tag team and barely getting Mike time. That's
why I said, man, like this, this whole vision thing,
for the sake of bron Breaker, it needs to end.
It's not benefiting him in any meaningful way at all
at all. He was neutered. People may disagree with me.
I would have put the World Championship on him in November.
I would have just taken it. I would have taken
a flyer and said, Okay, look he's he's still a younger,
newer guy, but so what this is what we need?
Fuck it. You can argue, oh, when he's not ready yet,
or you got a way to give him his big
moment at wrestlem it a fuck that fuck that. You
could have put the belt on him on Saturday Night's
main event November first, twenty twenty five, right after he
booted Seth Rollins out of the vision. You could have
scrapped the rocket to him. You could have ran with it.
You could have ran with it. What's the harm? What's
the harm? They didn't do that. He's been neutered ever since.
Paul Carpenter says, if you build it, it will come.
Congrats on the story. Yes, I finish my story. Fill
fill with the nine ninety nine Hey, Solo, would you
be open to sammy' z ain being added to the
SummerSlam main event with Cody and Punk. I would save
Cody versus Punk for a later date. Also, I think
Maxine Dupries still sucks. Thank you, Phil, Yes, I would
as much. As much as I really do want to
see Cody and Punk one on one, I really hope
they add Samy ts that match. If Cody it deserves
a rematch. There's no good reason why Sammy doesn't, because
Cody lost Farren Square a Night of Champions and Sammy
lost Farren Square's and why does Cody need a rematch
and not Sammy. My guess is we're gonna get Cody
against Sammy at Madison Square Garden. Cody's gonna win, and
then he's gonna get Punk at SummerSlam. They need some
big matches for that Saturday. I mean that Saturday Night's
main event show is dying on the vine, like fucking
Dan Housen against j D McDonough and Paige and Bribella
against Fatal Influence. That's all they have announced so far.
That's it. So they have to be saving some kind
of big match for the main event at least fucking
Madison Square Garden. What are you kidding me? Shows less
than two weeks away. That's the card you put together?
Oh we got Hassen Cargbow with a magenta bomb. Sammy
deserves better. He summed it up very succinctly. I'm sorry, brother.
I know he didn't enjoy the outcome of that main event,
and that I could tell. Phil says, hey, Solo, did
you ever get your AC fixed? I figured out what
the issue was. Once the heat wave ended, it started
functioning again. I don't think these window and wall AC
units are really equipped to deal with one hundred degree
heat waves and running constantly for twenty four to forty
eight hours. I feel like they overheat and they probably
shut the compressor off just to kind of protect itself.
It's like a self preservation thing. So thankfully I didn't
have to bring it in anywhere. I just had to
sweat it out a little bit. Thankfully the heat wave
has broken. Justin g why not do the bonus while
we're He contributed to the bonus, which one though we
had like four bonuses, we have four rounds. I believe
be the booker coming still to come. Don't go nowhere.
Phil says, we ain't playing around tonight solo. We want
Double be the Booker. Oh my god, he wanted double
How old is this message? How many? How many more
do we have? Says Come on, let's get Triple Be
the Booker. I got a long day of work tomorrow.
I need this review to be long. The sheltered kid,
you have no idea how happy I'm proud I am
of you being number one. I literally watch you every day.
You're my favorite podcast and YouTuber. All the Monster sounds
up for life. I love hearing that. Man, that's really cool.
I appreciate that. I'm glad you enjoy the content. It
can be a slog sometimes I enjoy it. It's not hard,
it's just it's very time consuming. So it's nice to
know at least that people do like it and appreciate it.
So when I get a message like that, it's very cool.
Justin says Yippy Skippy versus suffering Sucketash book it, brother.
I'll take Yippie Skippy over suffering suck Atash any day
of the week. Justin activated Triple Be the Booker, so
you're the one I can credit. Death Side says when
it comes to La Night. It pains me to say.
The only way I can see him winning the WWE title.
Best case scenario, he holds onto it for a month.
Worst case scenario, he is immediately cashed in on. I
think the only way that La Night is gonna win
the WWE Championship is if he accidentally wins it in
the referee fucks up the count. It's gonna be the
only way. At this point, it would have to be
by accident. Fill with a nine ninety nine. Imagine being
at a company for thirteen years, finally getting the promotion
that you've always wanted and then having it taken away
just nine days later. That's exactly how I feel about Sammy. Well,
yes and no, it's not like he's making any less
money now than he was twenty four hours ago. It
is important to keep perspective on these things, though. I
think when you're the champion or you're involved in the
main events scene, you get more screen time, which means
you get more opportunities to be on the show and
maybe do stuff outside the ring as well. So you know,
wins and losses in championships they do mean something, right,
They're not real, You're not winning anything. We know this right,
it's all a work, not a real sport. We get it.
But it does mean something, so you're not wrong about that.
But at the same time, like you get a promotion,
usually get a pay raise. It's not like they took
his pay raise away. He's still making the same money
he was making. Well, I guess unless TKO comes to
him asking for a fucking pay cut, he's still making
what he was making before. I just hope that he's
not shunned away so quickly. He should still be in
that main picture on Smackdow Phil, thank you again for
the nine ninety nine we got melic gaming. Would this
make sense? Says Punk beats Cody at SummerSlam, Cody then
turns Homelander after Cody feud. Punk feuds with Gunther after
Gunther finish off twenty twenty six, with him losing to
Sammy or returning Drew McIntyre. Would it make sense? Sure?
Do I want to see it play out that way? No,
We've already seen punkin McIntyre. You blew it off in
the best possible way inside hell in a cell. I
don't want to see them go back to it, Sammy.
I think Sammy is done as far as the world
title this year, at least this year. He's not getting
that belt back. I don't think he's gonna get the
belt back again, so cross that off the list. Cody
and gunh are a Punk and Gunther. We've seen it already.
I honestly don't really want to see it again. We
saw it at Summerslim last year. That's good enough for me.
I need something something better than this. I need something different.
You can make it make sense what you've just laid out,
but it's not what I really want to see. You
know what I really would love to see now that
Punk has the belt, if he's gonna have it for
a while, we need a Kevin Owens return, like in
the worst way on SmackDown. And I know they've been
very off and on over the years, but as happy
and proud as he was of his friend winning that championship,
now you've given him a reason to have beef with
CM Punk for showing up unannounced and taking the championship
away from Sammy's ain. Or maybe he comes at it
from from a different perspective and says it should have
been me taking the belt away from Sammy's inane and
so there you go. You got you already have an
inspiration for a CM punk. Kevin Owens viewed. I really
hope we get him back soon. Death Site says, can
we get all this in Piers in a bar fight
at SummerSlam? See that's unfair though, because all this all this.
I don't know if he's a teetotaler, but Pierce is
clearly an alcoholic, so he would be distracted in a
bar fight. That doesn't really feel fair to me. Prince
Maga says, I gotta say thank you Seamus Main event,
upper mid card or tag team. He always knocked it
out of the park. In my opinion, he deserved the
IC at least once. Whatever role you put in men,
he always excelled. Randy Bobandy with a forty nine to
ninety nine. Well, I missed the show, got drunk, started
to rewatch shameless while making some viscous spaghetti. Hmm. Just
wanted to drop in, show some love and send a
bow bandy bomb. He's gonna try to get that over.
You're gonna try to get a bull bandy bomb over
as a thing works for me. I love the bow
bandy bombs. Enjoy your viscous spaghetti. It's kind of an
odd way of putting it. Jeremy Rose says, Pierce will
accuse all this of stealing punk from Raw Good. Let's
get a feud going between the two general managers. Not
for this, mister nice guide bullshit death Side says Maxine
and Theory as the IT couple. There's only one IT
couple in WWE all time, and that's Macho Man and Elizabeth.
Come on, man, we went from the days of Macho
Man and Elizabeth now to the the even better days
of Austin Theory and Maxine Dupree. Jeremy says this leads
to more contention between the gms. I'm all for it.
Let's build it up. I'm sure all this has indulged
in the occasional pint of the London fog. Freddie McCrae, congratulations,
Sola Monster. Like Sammy's a, nobody can ever take this
moment from you. That's right, No one's gonna be beating
me for this moment. I can fall back down to
number two, number five, it don't matter. I got that
number one spot. Unlike Sammy's Ain, nobody can take that
away from me, he says, a transitional champion is still
a champion. The Summer of SoundOff. I like that. I
like that Summer of SoundOff. As we rapidly approach episode
one thousand. Thank you, Freddy Jim. Oh I thought this,
said Jim JM. Maybe his name is Jim. I don't
know what'll claim JM. Knowing WWE, they'll have Cody beat
Punk so they can run Cody versus Roman. It crowned jewel.
Oh God, what is your crown jewel predictions for men's
and women's Well, I mean I would hope EO beats
Live so we can end this horrendous reign. And Rhea
I don't know what her injury status is, but I
would love to see EO and Rhea a crown jewel.
As far as the World Heavyweight Championship, Roman will be
the champion. God, I mean, the Roman and Punk seems
very likely to me. Right now. I don't want to
see the belt back on Cody, Not right now. I
just I don't want to see that to take the
belt off Cody, to put it on Sammy, to put
it on Punk, to put it back on Cody. Like
I'm getting dizzy just saying that out loud. What is
the purpose of this? James Crawford with the one hundred
dollars Red of the night. So I love you Solo,
You're my IWC tribal chief. It's mutual, James, thank you
for the love. Who place my ula falla around your neck?
As Roman did to Jacob? Can we talk about that too?
By the way, Jacob fat to someone who actually had
real momentum after beating Drew McIntyre coming out of WrestleMania,
went on to get beat twice by Roman Reigns, and
Jacob Fotu has been a complete non factor on television
ever since. He's just another guy on the show. It's terrible.
Jeremy Rose says, Saturday Night's main event is looking like
it is now WWF Superstars, not even superstars, dude, it's
freaking velocity. They better shape that card up real quick.
I have to imagine they have something up their sleeve,
because for a Madison Square Garden show, that is an embarrassment.
Death Side says it's funny how Dan Housen says he's
very evil. I think nineteen ninety one. Jake Roberts two
thousand and three, brock Lesner two thousand and eight Chris
Jericho and two thousand and nine Randy Orton would disagree.
Nobody says he's very nice as well. He goes back
and forth. He's very nice, very evil. There was nothing
nice about any of the men you just mentioned. Freddy
Ciampunk lost his first championship when Cody and Legacy attacked
him in the head before he could defend his title
that night hashtag poetic justice. Oh that was the night
they did the scramble right and Chris Jericho won a
terrible scramble match. Never a fan of that stipulation. The
Shaunathan I think as of right now, with Sammy's Ain
kind of playing between face and heel, should be a
favorite for Money in the Bank in October by evolving
the last good guy. Sammy's Ain winning the briefcase actually
does make a lot of sense. But honestly, like they
probably would have him cashing to lose, I don't see
him getting it back, dude. Bass Beers says, hell in
a Sale seems like a big escalation. It is. It's
the perfect blowoff to a feud. That's why I said before,
like to go back to punk and McIntyre, like no
been there done that, you had the perfect ending to it.
Leave it alone. Base bears. Thank you for the the two,
and there's another two, he says. Hey Yo Desai says
buyer sell on these two matches that should have gotten
five stars from Meltzer, but on one match of the
year in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated. The other one match
of the year in the Observer Rock versus Hogan at
WrestleMania eighteen, or Angle Ben Wir versus Edge and Ray
at No Mercy. Oh, that was two thousand and two.
That was a great match, Rock Hogan. I mean, you
just want to if you want to go based on
work rate, then you go with the tech match. If
you want to go based on what I think is
an example of a five star professional wrestling match, it's
Rock Hogan WrestleMania eighteen. Just the psychology of it, the
way they were able to just play the crowd, Rock
having to sort of a adapt as the match went
on once he realized that he was the villain, even
though he really wasn't the villain in the story, but
he sort of went with it and just building to
that moment where Hogan hulked up and nostalgia it's a
hell of a drug. Man, everything just the stars aligned,
Like that match is pro wrestler, it's great, super pony.
How do you think Sammy feels right now? Not too good.
You know, he got a lot of really genuine messages
all week long from colleagues, probably tons of phone calls
and text messages and dms and people who work with
him who were genuinely happy for and I'm sure they're
all bummed. I mean they they're all wrestlers, they all
work there, they get it, they understand it, and yes
it's a work, but they know him, they obviously like
him and respect him, and they probably all feel really
shitty for him right now. You know, he should feel
really good about that match he had tonight. But I'm
sure a big part of him is also like, man,
you know, like nine fucking days, really nine days? Nick
Grosso with the nine ninety nine. I think I'm gonna
like unhinged Lyra. Also next week, she goes face to
face with Bailey in Texas, where Tatum Pasley is from.
Does Tatum make her main roster debut and beat down
Bailey with Lyra? I actually like that idea a lot.
I think that would be a great way to debut
Tatum Pasley. I like it super Pony. After tonight, I
realized I shouldn't get excited about Ko coming back. They're
not going to do anything good with him. He's forty
two coming off a neck injury. Who's to say they
don't ask him to take a pay cut. It's true,
That's why they went to Seamus and asked him to
take a pay cut. Older guy out with an injury,
not really doing a whole lot making really good money,
as I'm sure Owens is. I wouldn't be shocked if
Owens was asked to take a pay cut at some point.
Death Si says, just like Mankind, Sammy won the title
in a triple threat and then dropped it on bra.
That's right. He wanted it to SummerSlam the new one.
I'm calling it now. Brock will lose to Oba in
the Hell in a Cell. An undertaker will come out
after the match and in Duck Brock Lesner into the
WWE Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty seven. I'm
gonna say no, I don't think they've ever announced the
Hall of Fame induction that early. I mean, look, I
mean being in Minnesota. I guess, I mean, it could
make for a nice moment for him if he gives
a shit. I'm gonna say probably not, though. Retro Koh
says Trivia, how long was Sammy's ain WWE champion Tony Kahan?
Nine days, nine days, nine days? Yeah, what what was
up with him that night? Man? Yeah? Those are the
early days of the Dynamite reviews. Those are those are
the COVID Dynamite reviews. From Daily's place, nine days you
have nine days. Death Side says Oba should be the
guy if Cody turns heel. Yes, Oba's on raw, But
let's be honest, the brand split is about as meaningful
as the Andre Battle Royal. I feel you, but they're
building to Roman and Oba, so Oba's not going to
be the guy who would have to take Cody's place
as the top babyface on SmackDown. They probably have him
already slotted in. On the other side, Devin from NJA says,
buy your cell. Fans sing Roman Reigns or they sing
Cody Rhodes. Dude, I am fucking done with both of them.
I'm at the point now where I just I can't
stand either one when they sing, when they sing the names.
It's very annoying, not not not annoying like the what chant,
but it's it jumped the shark with me a while ago.
We have Hercules. Hernandez is with us. Wow, from from
the great Beyond, I have my Hercules Hernandez LJN somewhere
in a box twenty dollars super chat. Just want to
ask if you are sick of Roman in the Bloodline
and how long are we going to keep getting Roman
headlining WrestleMania listener since twenty eleven, Thank you, Hercules. Am
I sick of Roman in the Bloodline? I'm I'm kind
of over it, or at least I wish they would
evolve the story into something actually interesting. Roman headlining WrestleMania,
He's going to headline a whole bunch of more WrestleManias.
We're not anywhere close to being done. In fact, I
dare say we're in the oh. I don't know, sixth inning.
Maybe he's probably got at least four or five more
WrestleMania main events. Yu ki oh Rules, Thank you for
everything you do solo. Also, does your brother have any
favorite wrestlers from when you uh, when you all grew
up together? Or currently from when we were growing up.
I mean he was I think pretty much a fan
of a lot of the same people I was, as
far as you know, macho man, you know, mister perfect
people like that. I don't think he had any like
one person that like head and shoulders above the rest
that he was like a massive fan of. Today he doesn't,
I mean he barely pays attention to. He doesn't give
a shit. So death Site says f OTC means face
of the company. Okay, I don't know why some people
were shocked. I didn't know what that means. I mean,
does everybody know what FOTC means? Am I like the
only one? Some of you make me feel like a leper.
How do you not know what FOTC means? There was
somebody before fuck me out of g I don't know.
I thought it meant fuck the OTC. And keep track
of all these acronyms, He says, buy cell rent. What
would hurt worse being bitten by a vampire, a zombie
or a werewolf? What would hurt worse? I mean, I
would imagine being bitten by a werewolf right beyond the
actual bite. Like then when you have to like change
into the werewolf. If you've seen somebody these like werewolf
transformations in movies, like with the cgi effects and everything,
it looks it looks awful, looks like looks like torture.
I wouldn't want to have to turn into a werewolf.
Edward Brooks Bailey said Lyra was the person that kept
her level headed. Perhaps voices come back and we will
get Crazy Bailey against Angry Bird at SummerSlam Boy. They
forgot all about Crazy Bailey and the voices, didn't they? EJ.
Slump I consider you a top wrestling historian into history
beyond wrestling? Am I into history beyond wrestling? Did you
like history in school? I was a history major, and
that's why I asked I did like history in school?
I did? Yeah, I took even in college, I think
I took I took politics history. Yeah, not like a
savant or anything like that, but I took an interest.
It's too bad more people don't. Mystic J forty four.
Do you think that we'll get evolution again this year?
No Deaths says why did Sonic dump Amy because she
wanted to take things slow? Hmm. Paul Carpenter says, Lyra's
not a bird girl anymore. She's a call call girl,
a caca. I see, I see what you're saying. Don't
quit your day job, Paul. I gotta leave it to
the experts. Super Pony says, do you think Owens and
Zane would get proper world title runs in ae W?
I mean maybe not. They'd have a better chance at it,
but not necessarily. There's so many more belts in aw
that they don't have to be a world ship. Tony
would just put the continental title on them. He'd have
like Owen to win the Continental Classic or something. I
wouldn't mind seeing Shamus in there. I'm not gonna lie
in the C two. Death Size says if Amy Rose
was a villain, I guarantee her theme song would be
hammer smashed face by Cannibal Corpse. And super Pony says
Kevin Steen MJF promo battles. I need it. That would
be something, wouldn't it. Oh my god, those promos would
be incredible. Death Size says, speaking of werewolves, I highly
recommend the horror movie Dog Soldiers. I've not heard of
that one. You know what? Movie actually kind of stuck
with me for a while. I'm not even saying it's
like a great movie. It's not like a horror movie.
Actually at all. The situation is kind of a horror.
But it was a movie with Justin Timberlake that came
out probably like six or something. Maybe maybe it was earlier,
Alpha Dog, which was either inspired by or based on
an actual story, which makes it even worse. Man that
movie that fucked me up. Man, just knowing that was
a real life situation if you know the premise of
the movie. That movie stuck with me. Actually Timberlake was
not bad in that movie, but that movie, I know
you mentioned you mentioned dogs. For some reason, I thought
of Alpha Dog. I haven't seen that movie in forever,
but yeah, that movie messed me up for a while. Anyway,
I think we have gotten through. I believe all of
the messages, all of the super chats man you got. Guys.
We had a big week last week, and you guys
have started this week off in a way that I
don't know that we're gonna be able to top, although
we do have a big dynamite coming up. Beach Break
on Wednesday. Kenny Omega MJF for the aw World Championship
and the Women's Casino Gauntlet should be a big show
on Wednesday as well. But we have I believe, correct
me if I'm wrong, four rounds, four rounds of be
the booker to do. So we're not gonna waste any
more time. Let's get into it. Here we go, exciting,
exciting time to be the booker. Oh, I'm excited. We're
gonna book some matches. We're gonna book some good matches too.
I can feel it. I got a good feeling about this.
We're gonna get started with the Butcher and the Blade,
who were no longer employed by AW by the way,
I believe they are free agents. Never won the tag
team titles in AW For as many titles as they
have in that company, they never were able to capture
those championships. They were there in the early days and
then they kind of fizzled out after a while. The
Butcher and the Blade. Oh, this this is a I mean,
this is a fucking rampage match against the Outrunners. I
mean that's I like the Outrunners at all, But my god,
I mean, can we can we book something above the
level of rampage? That's this is a straight out of
that show. Come on now, man, wwe is doing a
terrible job of booking Saturday Nights made event. I would
like to take over and the show at Madison Square Garden.
So I need I need some big matches here. Man,
we got to do better. Choose four women and book
a tag team match. Okay, we can do that. We
can do that Women's tag team belt. Hey Brian in
the chat, what's going on, Brian? I see you. We
have Ruby Soho. This is all aw talent so far.
We need a WWE person in here. Ruby Soho and
Mako Sadamora are going to be a tag team. She's
retired by the way. Ruby and Mako are going to
be taking on Shana Basler, who we just announced is
coming into House of Glory for High Intensity coming up
on August seventh, the Queen of Spades. It's coming back SHANEA.
Basler and not Timeless, but Tony storm Man. We have
not had a single like WWE main roster star yet
through two rounds, but I do like that match. Tony
storm and SHANEA. Basler is a tag team against Mako
Sotamora and Ruby. That's a good match right there. All right, now,
we have our first of four main events, four of
them this is what you guys have unlocked tonight. That's
basically a full Saturday Night's Made event card. When you
think about it, it's four matches right. Yes, this has
been very aw heavy. We need we need some WWE
influence here. Well, I don't know, I mean, what do
you what do you say? This is kind of still aw.
We have the American Nightmare. We can't escape him, Cody Rhodes.
Is it fair to say now that we have some
WWE flavor because it's kind of it's kind of still aw.
He was, he was an EVP. He's one of the
founding fathers. You may not like him, but you can't
escape him. He may not be hard to find, but
he's hard to beat. Cody Rhodes is going to be
stepping into the ring with John Moxley. John Moxley, this
is wow. Be the Booker is I think Be the
Booker has has been converted into a sicko. I think
Be the Booker has gone full sicko tonight. Wow, Be
the Booker has made its choice on which side of
the fence it wants to go. Well, that's only round
number one. Now we have stipulations. The whole rest of
the way. But remember before we get to that. If
you remember the first Superjack goal, it was for an
intergender round of Be the Booker. So before we actually
get to the stipulations, we actually have to book an
intergender match. Don't think I forgot about that. Retro says,
Be the Booker is all elite. All right, we get
one intergender match and then we move on to round
number two. It's going to be well. I mean, we
call her Daria where we call her Sonia Blaze, Sonia Blade,
Sonya Deville, Sonia Deville against who against VIKINGO. I feel
bad for VIKINGO. I'm going with Sonya to win this match.
I think Sonya would actually probably give him a pretty
tough fight. It's unfortunate though, it's kind of funny. Actually,
oh not funny. But like we land on VIKINGO. Here
we got an update. We got an update on VIKINGO.
It's not good. He injured himself last week prior to
the NXT show, like earlier that day. I guess maybe
going over his match or something, and he hurt his knee.
He had wrestled Ray Phoenix on SmackDown the night before,
which was taped, and they had a really good match.
He was fine. He got hurt during the day on Tuesday,
had an MRI done. Don't have an actual diagnosis, but
he's having surgery. So whatever it is, it's serious, because
if it wasn't serious, he wouldn't be having surgery. So
I don't know if it's a torn acl or exactly
what the injury is. His leg is in a brace.
He posted pictures on his social media and he's going
to be having surgery. So I don't know what that
means for the Triple A Latin American title, but he's
gonna be gone for a while. I don't know what
that means for Omas. Omas has nobody to look after
now in Triple A. All right, now, let's move on
to round number two and from here on out we
have stipulations that we will pick at random for each
of these matches. So we're going to begin with man.
I'm telling you mail is what is going on? Would
be the booker tonight first stipulation, and we see a
hangman just drenched in blood. It is a Texas death match.
This this is just this is out of control tonight. Uh, well,
we'll start with the men then, I mean we're gonna
do a Texas Death Match. We'll do it with the
with the men, Big Bronzon Reid. If you've seen pictures
of him online, he's not quite as big anymore. But hey,
we finally got a WWE guy man Big Bronson reading
at Texas Deathmatch. Oh oh no, this is this is
very depressing. This is very depressing. How can we land
on this tonight? Oh man? Ah, this is just a
bummer of an image here, man, I mean, look, this
is happier times. This is much happier times for Sammy's day.
This was only a few days ago. This be the
booker is very cruel, man, this is like a sick joke.
Oh man, that is very very cruel. Tonight of all nights.
All right, we need a stipulation now for a women's match.
Oh my god, first ever female Punjabi is in match.
Are you ready? Are you ready for some Punjabi prison
with the ladies. Jordan Grace? Who's that? I don't know
who this person is. Who's Jordan Grace? Is she a wrestler?
I don't know, but she's in the Punjabi prison. Well,
there she is again, Jordan Grace against makeup Sodomore in
a Punjabi prison match, and despite the awful stipulation, I
actually think that would be a very good match. I
think they would just sort of, you know, have themselves
a great wrestling match and when the time was right, Now,
what is the stipulation, you gotta climb out, right, We'd
get a great wrestling match out of it, and then
when the time was right, they would they would climb out.
She's pulling double duty tonight though she's supposed to be retired.
Not only is she out of retirement, now she's put
pulling double duty on this show. We're going in reverse
if you couldn't tell, because now we're going to do
a tag team match. This tag team match is going
to be a tag team lions Den match. Hmmm, now
these are I'm still on the stipulations. All right, here
we go. We have a lions Den tag team match
with Big Show and Miss Miss show Biz. I don't
remember their tag team name, and they will be taking
on the Street Profits. Also did not have a very
good night like Sammy's Ain. But here we are with
the with the Street Profits. I have to bel that one,
just because of how fascinated I am at the prospect
of a tag team Lions. That match doesn't seem like
there would be a whole lot of room to maneuver
with four people, especially if you had someone like Big
Show in there. Oh Show Miz. I was totally wrong.
I was totally wrong. What a terrible name. How fucking
lazy have they gotten with tag team names in the
last decade? Good lord? All right, Well we're halfway there.
We are halfway there. We have round number three? Was
that a sonic? Oh? Right? Okay, I'm sorry I could
have sworn I buzzed one of them. I guess not.
All right, so we got one sweep. We have tribal combats.
Oh boy, it's gonna be the Battle of the Ulafalla everybody.
Tribal combat is about to go down. And even better,
we're doing tribal combat with the ladies because we're gonna
start with the women this time. I don't even know
if that's allowed. Are the women allowed to have tribal combat?
I mean, there may be rules against this sort of thing.
I don't know. Oh, it's Ley ying Lie, the former
Zaia Lee and the now former TNA Knockouts champion Okay
in tribal combat against MEDUSA Nothing about this match makes
any sense. Why would they be in tribal combat. Yeah,
that's a that's a miss. That's a misfire, is what
that is. We have a tables match. See this, This
is one we could do with the tag teams. We
have a tag team tables match. Here we have Hollywood
Hogan and the Worm Dennis Rodman, both WWE Hall of Famers,
by the way, in a tables match with Met Johnson
and Stevie Ray. There's Clarence may Who is that in
the background? I asked, Clarence Mason in the fourth that's
not master ps Uh, Clarence Mason there in the foreground. Man,
this is not going well. This might be the first
reverse sweep that we have of the night. This is
not going well. Oh, we have another intergender you know,
I just realized that tag team match is like Hulk
Cogan's worst nightmare, if you know, you know, intergender match.
We have an intergener We just didn't intergender match. Now
we get to do another one. Aren't you excited? Well,
we should be able to do better than Sonya Deville.
What was the one we just did? Sonya Deville? Thank god?
I already forgot what the match was well, whatever that
match was that we booked three minutes ago, Zoe Stark,
there's another one here. Never really got the chance to
come back and tell that comeback story in WWE. It's
going by Zoe Serrano on the independen scene. Now, oh VIKINGO,
thank you. Yes, we had Sonya Deville against the King Goo.
This time we were going to have Zoe Stark just
back from a devastating injury, about to be put on
the shelf with another devastating injury. Oh, this was just
oh man, this round was just all over the place.
This was what round number three? This? This was this
was not it? This round was not it. Poor Zoe Stark,
by the way, just came back from injury. Now in
there with the world's strongest man, the Hall, the Hall
of Pain. It will not end well for Zoe Stark.
All right, this is it round number four. We need
to come back, We need to come back. Here we're
kicking off with a tag team parking lot brawl. Here
we go. The fuck is wrong with Be the Booker.
I don't know. Something something off with Be the Booker.
Tonight we have pretty deadly Kit Wilson and Elton Prince
poor Kit Wilson is just sitting around now after being
electrocuted a few weeks ago. Nobody seems to give a shit.
Elton Prince, I don't know when he's going to wrestle again.
Tag Team parking Lot Brawl with pretty Deadly against the
Judgment Day, Damian Priest and Finn Balor. The parking lot
brawl is I think a potentially very fun stipulation if
it works the way that the original one worked with
Cina and Eddie. You have all these cars in a
circle and everybody is just kind of hanging around. They're
honking the horns and they're chairing them on and you
just have a giant brawl. Now. They had a parking
lot brawl in aw that was really good with I
want to say, what was it? Best Friends against Lax?
Is that what? Or Proud and Powerful? I think that
was the match. I remember that one being very good,
So I mean this one has potential. I give that
a bell. Yeah, that's a that's a total Judgment Day
win right there. You guys got to be picking winners
as we go along. Here we have all the dread
Oh my god, oh my goodness, Oh you're the dreaded
Yappa pie strap match. Get ready for the strapation, everybody.
I hope the ladies are ready. We have a women's
Yappa pie strap match on the way. Nobody wins here.
There are no winners, only losers. We have Koraje Aide
Korra What is that? Don't you know what? If you
don't know what a Yappa pie strap matches, don't even
bother asking. It's very real though. Ronda Rousey in a
Yappa pie strap man. God, that sounds absolutely awful, absolutely dreadful.
Coorage Aide against Ronda Rousey a in a Yappa pie
strap match. It all comes down to this. This is it.
We're almost three hours in. This would be like the
main event of a three hour SmackDown. You've made it
this far. We need to make it worth your while.
We need a good stipulation. We have a submission match,
not a bad stipulation. Could be a lot worse. I
like it. So here we go, no pin falls, submissions only.
This is the longest and largest, by the way. Addition
to be the booker that we have ever done. This
is tremendous.
Speaker 2: We have oh no, oh boy, oh boy, it's back Yoshihiko.
Speaker 1: Yoshihiko the blow up Doll is in the main event
of be the Booker in a submission match. I cannot believe.
I cannot believe that Yoshihiko has We just had Yoshihiko
a few weeks ago, ring the bell. No, no, no, no,
we got to find an opponent first. What is that?
There's so many people who are uncultured in this shadow
of no idea. Fuck this, he's getting a second drum roll?
How do you not know Yoshihiko. Gotta know your wrestling history.
Yoshihiko and Shingo Takagi. There you go. What a fucking
main event. Yoshihiko and Shingo in a submission match. That's it.
That's it. What do you think of the overall card?
Is it better than Saturday Night's main event? I think so.
I would say so yes. Super Pony says, would they
ask Randy to take a pay cut? No? There are
certain people who I think they know better, and I
cannot imagine going to Randy Orton and asking him to
take a pay cut. Who goes over Yoshihiko. Clearly, Yoshihiko
strikes the main event seen again. You know Yoshiko is
going over. Kevin says, CM Punk, CM Punk. I like Sammy,
but I'm glad that Punk won. So is everybody else
in Chicago based on the sounds of it. Tonight, super
Pony says, am I wrong to feel like bron Breaker
and Gunther are dead characters? I don't feel anything when
I see either one of them on TV anymore. No,
you're not wrong. I wouldn't say I don't feel anything
like when Gunther's on screen, but he's definitely lost a
lot of the aura that he had earlier in the year.
He just feels he's lost something, and Breaker has absolutely
lost something. Jacob Fatu, I mean he's worse off now
than he was going into that feud. But Roman, I mean,
this is this is a problem. This is a problem
with multiple people right now in WWE. It's not good
and Navy forty one eighty one. Send Sammy to Triple
A as l Generico. It did wonders for Kaiser. Plus
he'll be in good hands with the under Taco. I
don't know why he called him the under Taco, but
that is fucking hilarious. That would be the most hilarious
auto correct in the history of auto correct the under Taco. Wow.
I don't even know what to say to that. EJ.
Slim says, as Yoshihiko's number one fan is much which
is I love Shingo and Okada. I wish Yoshi Yoshihiko
is facing American talent instead. Well, maybe Yoshihiko could go
on the excursion. Send Yoshihiko on excursion to the States.
The only thing is like to get Yoshihiko's work visa
taken care of. It might take some time. I don't
I don't know where that that's what it says. It's
what it says in the super chat Mikey claiming why
don't we see submission matches anymore? I don't know. I
mean there's a decent number of people I feel like
who who have submission finishers gun through with the sleeper.
Look at Russev tonight he won with the Accolade Punkasniana
con device. I mean, there are others, so if they
could do it, it's just not a very popular stipulation.
You have to save it for I guess, the right
occasion and preferably have two people who are either submission
specialists or they have a submission move and then you
can do it. But it's not a very sexy stipulation.
You're not gonna sell any tickets or ESPN app purchases
with a submission match. Ooh book Yoshihiko to h Og.
That's interesting. Could be some tough negotiations going on. I'm
gonna need an interpreter first. I may have to look
into that. And Super Pony, we never got Ko again
Seamus one on one that sucks. That does suck, and
they spent many years together on the main roster and
they never they never had a singles match. That's crazy,
Holy shit wrestling. Have you ever seen the one hundred
and eight man Japan Rumble in twenty eleven? I have not.
I am unaware of this. That's a lot of people anyway,
Thank you guys. This has been a blowaway stream here.
We just passed the three hour mark. It is almost
two fifteen in the morning here on the East Coast.
Big raw and we got a big dynamite coming up
on Wednesday again. MJF Kenny Omega. If Omega does not win,
he can never again challenge for the AW World Championship.
Why are they doing this on television and not saving
it for Redemption. Hopefully that will become clear at the
end of the show on Wednesday, because on the surface
it seems very stupid. Takeshta is defending his international title
against Kyle Fletcher. Takesha is on his way to Japan
very soon to be a part of the g One,
so I would keep an eye out for a title
change there. Jericho and Shampa and then the Women's Casino
Gauntlet Athena enters in number one, Maya World enters in
number two. The winner will challenge Tekla for the Women's
World Championship at Redemption. So big show coming up on Wednesday.
Any new movies that you are going to be seeing soon.
I have my tickets already purchased for The Odyssey next week,
I believe on Thursday. Wish me luck. It's a three
hour movie. You know how long it took me to
finally see The Batman. I was very intimidated by the
runtime of that movie. But I will be seeing The
Odyssey in It's not even real Imax. I mean, it's
what they call limax. It's an Imax screen, but it's
not like it's not real imax. It's like maybe a
slightly bigger regular screen. It's the best I could do.
So anyway, that'll be the next movie I see, so
I'm looking forward to it in Nolan, I trust. I'll
just say that it's Christopher Nolan movie in Nolan. I
trust that'll be the next one. All right, be well,
stay safe. Thank you guys again for this. Again, we
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We got more clips from the pod hitting the channel
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