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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, and welcome to another main Event review with
Speaker 2: your host Daniel and today we're going to be obviously
Speaker 2: reviewing the events of Raw that happened last week, as
Speaker 2: well as the two matches that did appear on Main
Speaker 2: Event as well. I again hope you've had a lovely
Speaker 2: weekend and I'm a.
Speaker 3: Key for the super Bowl. For those who are Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Fans, probably by the time that this comes out, the
Speaker 2: results have probably been put in, so if you're whatever
Speaker 2: an Eagles or a Chiefs fan, congratulations in advance.
Speaker 3: Personally, I hope Philly Eagles do.
Speaker 2: Win would be very good as I think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: have had their time winning three in a row and
Speaker 2: I feel like it'd be good to have someone new
Speaker 2: and refreshing win the Super Bowl. But anyways, before we
Speaker 2: get started to the actual review, I do want to
Speaker 2: mention the wrestlers that have been released by WWE this
Speaker 2: coming week, which has been a bit of a surprise,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, the superstars that have been
Speaker 2: released is not something that I guess affects anything for
Speaker 2: I think the foreseeable future, starting with by Paul Allering,
Speaker 2: the authors of Pain of Akm and Rosa Razar being Albanion,
Speaker 2: which is a bit of a sad one for me,
Speaker 2: Cedric Alexander, who I haven't seen in years, so I'm
Speaker 2: surprised that he's actually still even on the Ross, and
Speaker 2: then the big one being Sonya Deville who did have
Speaker 2: a main event match today. That one was probably the
Speaker 2: biggest shot for me. Followed by also Blair Davenport, who
Speaker 2: literally was drafted to backdown last year, so not really
Speaker 2: sure why she's got the flick there, especially being a
Speaker 2: new superstar in the main card, and then Kyl Anderson
Speaker 2: and Luke Gallas as well, which I guess was probably
Speaker 2: over due to Eiler Dawn, which is a bit of
Speaker 2: a surprise. I guess Alba Phire is going to be
Speaker 2: rolling with herself for the foreseeable future. Giovanni Vinci, which
Speaker 2: is pretty hilarious because I saw them build up like
Speaker 2: three weeks of this blow coming back and he ended
Speaker 2: up I guess not being not being in the plans
Speaker 2: for WWE. So yeah, he came back, got hyped, lost
Speaker 2: two victories to Apollo Cruise within like three seconds, and yeah,
Speaker 2: now he's out of the WWE, So that.
Speaker 3: One was interesting.
Speaker 2: And then the last one being Electro Lopez, which yeah,
Speaker 2: I think is a difficult one. Like I did, like
Speaker 2: that Legada Pantasma had a woman to kind of manage them,
Speaker 2: but I guess in terms of her wrestling that wasn't
Speaker 2: really much. I know she had that one I think
Speaker 2: qualifying match and she didn't get any heat on her whatsoever.
Speaker 2: So yeah, those are the moves that have happened, and
Speaker 2: I guess moving forward we'll see who kind of takes
Speaker 2: the main event spots for the foreseeable future. But I
Speaker 2: just thought i'd quickly mention those before we get into it,
Speaker 2: and yeah, without further or adop, let's get underway. So
Speaker 2: we had the first match ironically between as mentioned, Sonya
Speaker 2: Deville and Natalia. Natalia getting the victory here with I
Speaker 2: think a roll up up pin there, and despite all
Speaker 2: the distractions that PFC did to Sonya to try help
Speaker 2: Sonya Deville win, the match obviously didn't happen. And that's
Speaker 2: how I guess Sonya Deville goes out in WW with
Speaker 2: a loss on main event to Natalia there and that
Speaker 2: has Natalia's second win in a row as well. Last
Speaker 2: week I did mention that it would have been just
Speaker 2: a hyper up for the Raw Rumble because obviously she entered,
Speaker 2: and now this week, probably because they're not having any
Speaker 2: plans for Sonya Deville, they're just making her go out
Speaker 2: in style losing to Natalia, which again is a bit
Speaker 2: of a shame. A lot of people weren't big fan
Speaker 2: of PFC, but personally I felt that having a heel
Speaker 2: faction for the women's division was something that was super interesting,
Speaker 2: and now that they don't have Sonya Deville.
Speaker 3: I don't see how this group can move forward.
Speaker 2: I know it didn't get much heat, but at the
Speaker 2: same time, I felt like they were underutilizing Sonya Deville
Speaker 2: big time because I thought that she.
Speaker 3: Was really really good on the MIC.
Speaker 2: For the past years, she's been a women's Champion, she's
Speaker 2: been a GM of the shows. So just a real
Speaker 2: surprise that they went with this decision. And now what
Speaker 2: will happen between I guess Shaneya Beza and Sonya and
Speaker 2: Sorry and Zoe Stark is going to be something that
Speaker 2: we're going to have to figure out because I don't
Speaker 2: see PFC yeah lasting and it didn't really do a
Speaker 2: good job to begin with, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a bit of a shame that one.
Speaker 2: I was excited to see how yes a heel staple
Speaker 2: like them would go in WWA, especially since there was
Speaker 2: a bit of rumblings about the Intercontinental Championship, and there
Speaker 2: was also a little bit of diffusion between each other
Speaker 2: as well, when a couple of weeks back, Jenny Deville
Speaker 2: said that I was Zoway Stark said that she wanted
Speaker 2: to win the Intercontinental title, and Sonya Deville kind of
Speaker 2: just questioned whether she was for the team or not.
Speaker 2: So I guess, yeah, that's going to be something we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to see in the future, and maybe they
Speaker 2: go their separate ways, or maybe they become a tag team.
Speaker 2: We are in need of women's tag teams still. You
Speaker 2: can see that Naomi and Bianco Bellay haven't defended their
Speaker 2: titles it feels like in over a month now, so
Speaker 2: maybe there'll be some competition for those titles with so
Speaker 2: We Stuck and Shane the Basler. We then move on
Speaker 2: to Raw over to Raw and it starts with Jimmy
Speaker 2: Us entering the ring. And I've got to say, since
Speaker 2: Jimmy ju so.
Speaker 3: Sorry, said Jimmy. Since Jus has.
Speaker 2: Won the Royal Rumble, him coming out to every show
Speaker 2: having like an over ten minute entrance has been nothing
Speaker 2: short of awesome. And this is why I'm kind of
Speaker 2: happy he did win the Royal Rumble because he had
Speaker 2: so much heat before the Rumble and now that heat
Speaker 2: has gone higher than it's ever been before.
Speaker 3: So props to Jus for we win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 3: Props the WW with going with.
Speaker 2: A curveball move to give him the victory there despite
Speaker 2: a lot of hate, and you can see what he's
Speaker 2: doing with juson all the fans that are going out
Speaker 2: to watch him. The place is electric. So he comes
Speaker 2: into the ring looking very emotional, which makes sense because, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's worked a long time to get here.
Speaker 3: He's been in the WW for so long.
Speaker 2: He's obviously been an attack team champion and attack team
Speaker 2: wrestler for a long time with his twin brother, so
Speaker 2: having that chance for him to push over as a
Speaker 2: single star has been amazing. So he pulls out a
Speaker 2: promo mentioning that yeah, he worked really hard to get
Speaker 2: to the spot, and he was emotional with tears in
Speaker 2: his eyes. As mentioned, he said that it's he got
Speaker 2: it because of the fans, and his tears and eyes
Speaker 2: are saying thanks to the fans. He also was very
Speaker 2: emotional when the crowd was obviously cheering that of for him.
Speaker 2: He said, because of the fans, he's a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five Roll Rumble rinner and he's going to WrestleMania for
Speaker 2: the main event. And then we get Ghanzan that walks
Speaker 2: down to the stage, comes in and basically mentions that
Speaker 2: he's disappointed that Jauso won the Roller Rumble. This was
Speaker 2: a really really good angle because he did mention that
Speaker 2: he was trying to build a legacy and that superstars
Speaker 2: such as Roman Rain, Seampunk or John Cena would have
Speaker 2: added to Gansa's legacy. But now that Jay's won it,
Speaker 2: he's got essentially everything to lose and nothing to gain. Well,
Speaker 2: j Uso has everything to gain and I guess nothing
Speaker 2: to lose. The funniest line of the thing was that
Speaker 2: he told that Jay that he put him down like
Speaker 2: a disease dog and essentially was basically threatening him if
Speaker 2: he was to choose j U of J so was
Speaker 2: to choose Gunsa to fight for the title, and this
Speaker 2: one's going to be very interesting. We all know that
Speaker 2: j us He's going to choose Guntha and they're going
Speaker 2: to fight at WrestleMania. He does mention that he's going
Speaker 2: to go and see what code he's got to say,
Speaker 2: So they're obviously going to hype up Juso questioning whether
Speaker 2: he wants to fight Gunsa or not. But he is
Speaker 2: going to fight Guntha. And basically, I think the way
Speaker 2: this is going to go is guns is going to
Speaker 2: put Juso through so much before WrestleMania, not similar to
Speaker 2: kind of the KOFE Mania around, the only difference being
Speaker 2: that obviously Vince Pacmann was the one that kind of
Speaker 2: made Kofe go through all all the struggles and bits
Speaker 2: to get this championship shot. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: happen in Gunther's control, in Gunsn's ways, and I think
Speaker 2: we're all going to be set to believe that Jayusai
Speaker 2: is gonna suffer. He's not going to be able to
Speaker 2: make it to WrestleMania. He's not good enough. Gunther's a
Speaker 2: whole lot better than him, and then come WrestleMania, he
Speaker 2: might win the title. But this one's hard for me
Speaker 2: personally because I really love Gonza and I really love
Speaker 2: the run he's having with the championship belt, and I
Speaker 2: feel like it's too premature to let it go. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, I do really want Jason to
Speaker 2: win the title too, and I know that WWE, especially
Speaker 2: come WrestleMania, love giving their most overfaced baby face superstars
Speaker 2: the championship at WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: You saw it with Kofi, you saw with Daniel Bryan.
Speaker 2: You also saw it with Cody Rhodes last year, so
Speaker 2: they're looking for a similar thing for jay Uso. Do
Speaker 2: I reckon his time is now? I personally don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think that we can afford another year of a
Speaker 2: loss and US knocking ja Uso down and then him
Speaker 2: finally getting there probably the next WrestleMania, but again, we'll
Speaker 2: have to wait and see. Everyone's not too happy about
Speaker 2: the match itself, being that they've obviously versed each other
Speaker 2: multiple times. But what I'll say to that is that
Speaker 2: if we want wrestling to push forward, we need to
Speaker 2: move on with new superstars and people that are over
Speaker 2: as well. Yes, Siampung, Yes, John Cena, Yes, Roman Reigns, Yes,
Speaker 2: Seth Rowlands. On paper sound like the better matches, but
Speaker 2: at the same time, we do really need to push
Speaker 2: the new superstars as well. And we had the same
Speaker 2: complaints back at Summerstam when Gunslain Priest Versa Summer Slam,
Speaker 2: but in the end when it happened, no one really
Speaker 2: complained after so I feel like people just like to
Speaker 2: complain and just like to put in their opinions, But
Speaker 2: at the same time, it's like we need to move
Speaker 2: on with new superstars and push the new generation too.
Speaker 2: So having these two have a WrestleMania match, and it
Speaker 2: was confirmed that I think they are going to be
Speaker 2: a main event, so apologies for what I.
Speaker 3: Mentioned last week.
Speaker 2: They will be main eventing WrestleMania, whether it's Day one
Speaker 2: or Day two. I'm not sure this will be a
Speaker 2: good match, and I think what will be important here
Speaker 2: is how the build up to this match will go.
Speaker 2: And if it goes anything like I predict and I suspect,
Speaker 2: then I suppose that it's going to be a fun
Speaker 2: ride and a very rewarding one. If jay Uso decides
Speaker 2: to win or a one where we're just going to
Speaker 2: have to wait another year for ja Usa to get
Speaker 2: his to get his well deserved championship. But we got
Speaker 2: to all buy into the story and I'm certainly going
Speaker 2: to buy into this as well. So yeah, looking forward
Speaker 2: to that one.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 2: We then get confirmed news that from Adam Silver, so
Speaker 2: we move on from that segment and he announces that
Speaker 2: aj Styles is moving to Monday Night Raw, which is
Speaker 2: pretty interesting. We'll see what happens with him there. It
Speaker 2: was really cool to see him in the Royal Run.
Speaker 3: Well. I think he did a fantastic.
Speaker 2: Job, shows that he's still got it and still got
Speaker 2: his legs in him, and hopefully he'll be chasing titles.
Speaker 2: I suspect that he might push for the Intercontinental Championship
Speaker 2: and try to put over Bronze Breaker there, but I
Speaker 2: guess we'll have to wait and see what they do,
Speaker 2: and especially Crime WrestleMania, there might be there might be
Speaker 2: some stuff for him there. We then move on and
Speaker 2: continue and stay on Raw with Charlotte Prayer. Charlotte Flair
Speaker 2: Prayer coming into the to the ring. She said that
Speaker 2: she's missed the fans and to share it's been a
Speaker 2: year and two months. She also said that she missed
Speaker 2: people booing her and the ones cheering her, So essentially,
Speaker 2: I think she pushing for people to understand that she
Speaker 2: is a heel. I hope that remains the case, which
Speaker 2: I think it will since of due to that reception
Speaker 2: that she got. She also talked about how last year
Speaker 2: broke her mentally and physically, and she spoke to a
Speaker 2: point that she didn't know if she was even gonna
Speaker 2: make it to Survivor Series, Raw Rumble or even WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: and as the fans continue to booth, she said that
Speaker 2: she'll embrace all the booze because she still loves all
Speaker 2: of you ads. A direct quote, she does say, wherever
Speaker 2: you're booing or wooing, it doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 2: she is the greatest WWE superstar in the industry and
Speaker 2: mentions boomy. Now, so yeah, we've basically confirmed here that
Speaker 2: she's going to be a heel. As that happens where
Speaker 2: Ripley interrupts, comes into the ring and pretty much.
Speaker 3: Begs Charlotte to pick her.
Speaker 2: Charlotte then mentions that Ripley has jumped the gun and
Speaker 2: basically mentioning that she's going to see if she's going
Speaker 2: to be inspired by Julia and NXT and then see
Speaker 2: if she's going to be inspired by Tiffany Stratten. Basically,
Speaker 2: then Ripley said that or I didn't mention before that
Speaker 2: they were talking about how they beat each other. So
Speaker 2: the first time that reaversed Charlotte, she lost, and then
Speaker 2: Ria won the last time they versed as well, so
Speaker 2: they have a potential to have a rubber match here.
Speaker 2: But basically, Rhea did say that she respects Charlotte and
Speaker 2: wants to be picked.
Speaker 3: So that she can respect her.
Speaker 2: So that's an interesting one because I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people are suspecting that Charlotte is going to go
Speaker 2: up against Tiffany Stratton. I would rather actually have Charlotte
Speaker 2: Flair beat or versus Rea Ripley not beat her at WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: because I feel like there's a bit more tension to that,
Speaker 2: and I feel as though that they have a rubber
Speaker 2: match against the.
Speaker 3: Two Tiffany Stratton.
Speaker 2: I would have preferred her versus Nia Jackson WrestleMania, but
Speaker 2: it seems as though that they're going to end that
Speaker 2: feud next week at Mackdown when she retains the title.
Speaker 2: So yeah, This is probably the one where we don't
Speaker 2: know which direction Charlotte can go in. Both directions can
Speaker 2: be something that will be I guess interesting. Charlotte shouldn't
Speaker 2: win the title, and I don't think she will. I
Speaker 2: think her job here is to simply put over one
Speaker 2: of these two superstars. Tiffany has a bigger chance to
Speaker 2: be put over if Charlotte verses her, and I think
Speaker 2: for Real Ripley, it's cements her legacy as one of
Speaker 2: the best women's in the division. And would love to
Speaker 2: see that because my fellow Australian is doing so well
Speaker 2: and putting her her name on the map in such
Speaker 2: a big way is awesome to see. Again, I always
Speaker 2: say this that she's probably the best Australian wrestler we've
Speaker 2: ever had, and she's still young and she's still got
Speaker 2: plenty of time to continue.
Speaker 3: So whoever Charlotte chooses will be interesting.
Speaker 2: Again mentioned but I would love her to choose Rea
Speaker 2: Ripley personally, and I think that match would go for
Speaker 2: for a good booking, But again we'll have to wait
Speaker 2: and see how that that goes. We then go back
Speaker 2: to the main event and we get the second match
Speaker 2: of the night, it is the Creed Brothers with Ivy
Speaker 2: and the Chad Gable which you mentioned he was taking
Speaker 2: some leave to find the study of the undergrounds of
Speaker 2: luchador Wrestling against Alpha Academy of a curate Tozawa and
Speaker 2: otis a.
Speaker 3: Pretty decent match here.
Speaker 2: We saw the Creed Brothers getting the victory there with
Speaker 2: Brutus displaying a strong athleticism with that Moon Salt caused
Speaker 2: by the distraction of Ivy now hitting Maxine Dupre causing
Speaker 2: a curate Tzawa to be distracted looking at that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: not really too much there. They're They're fought so many times,
Speaker 2: so I'm not really sure what's going to happen with
Speaker 2: the Creed Brothers, especially with Chad Gable out. They may
Speaker 2: push for the World Tag Team champions. I know that
Speaker 2: the war Raiders are looking for a partner, so I'm opponent,
Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting there to see whether they will
Speaker 2: be able to push for that. And then when it
Speaker 2: comes to I guess a curate otis. I always mentioned
Speaker 2: they get the main event spots all the time due
Speaker 2: to their kind of entertainment, hyping up the crowd before raw,
Speaker 2: so they continue to do that successfully, but It is
Speaker 2: a shame that we're not getting that massive Otis push
Speaker 2: that I think everyone is starving to see.
Speaker 3: I know that he's he's more of a.
Speaker 2: Okay comedy act with a curate and even as a
Speaker 2: single superstar, but he really is over by the fans.
Speaker 2: A lot of the fans really love Otis, and we
Speaker 2: never got that that feud between him and Chad Gable
Speaker 2: when that was running real hot. I feel like that's
Speaker 2: been significantly delayed. They should have done a lot more
Speaker 2: with that. They should have had their their program, they
Speaker 2: should have had their match at one of the p l's,
Speaker 2: and we should have had a better reaction from Otis too,
Speaker 2: so that kind of died off. There would have been
Speaker 2: a good opportunity to just see Otis get payback from
Speaker 2: all the bullying that Chad Gable did to all of
Speaker 2: the Alpha Academy members, and it was a shame that
Speaker 2: we didn't get that, and now we're stuck with I
Speaker 2: guess having this entertainment on main event, and also just
Speaker 2: Otis and the curators are continuing to be a comedy act.
Speaker 2: It would be good to see Maxine dupre Get in
Speaker 2: the ring as well and fight on main event too,
Speaker 2: just for her to get her development up and also
Speaker 2: to just I guess see where they have their plans,
Speaker 2: because they seem to keep them around and they're doing
Speaker 2: a great job, I guess with the backstage antics and yeah,
Speaker 2: this entertainment, so not really sure what they'll do with
Speaker 2: them seriously, but again, if they continue to be a
Speaker 2: staple and main event, then I'm not complaining too much
Speaker 2: if I'm honest.
Speaker 3: And then we get the final match of the day.
Speaker 2: Back on Raw, we get seem Punk versing Samusein, seeing
Speaker 2: Punk wrestling like the heel here, a lot of trash talking,
Speaker 2: a lot of mentioning that sami Zin is not good enough.
Speaker 2: He ends up getting the victory here, and then as
Speaker 2: Punk tries to help Samusein up, we get a blind
Speaker 2: sided attack by Kevin Owens, who then puts Samusein through
Speaker 2: a package pile driver, which was not quite the surprise,
Speaker 2: but I guess not inspected after we saw what Kevin
Speaker 2: Owens did the night before. Was very surprised to see
Speaker 2: him out there and delivered that move to Samusein. We
Speaker 2: did get clearance on SmackDown as told why he did
Speaker 2: it and when I did see him attack it. It did
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense to me. Originally I thought
Speaker 2: as though, like when Cody Rhodes was climbing up the ladder,
Speaker 2: Samusein did nothing and I expected him to do something.
Speaker 2: But now you know why he didn't do anything, because
Speaker 2: it sets up the feud between the two. We get
Speaker 2: another Kevin Owens and Samusein feud, which is great because
Speaker 2: these two will put up a massive fight and I
Speaker 2: think a match that will be just as brutal as
Speaker 2: the Cody Rhods and Kevin Owens fight. Hopefully, because right
Speaker 2: now Kevin Owens has been nothing short of a beast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll have to see what happens with those
Speaker 3: two and how that feud will be hyped up.
Speaker 2: We know that obviously Kevin Owens is not happy with
Speaker 2: the fact that Samusein didn't help him, and also the
Speaker 2: fact that he supported Roman reigns at the Royal Rumbull.
Speaker 2: So again, Kevin Owens remains to be a bit twisted,
Speaker 2: a bit delusional, but to be honest, bringing up some
Speaker 2: real valid points. So I don't really see that he's
Speaker 2: fully in the wrong here either, But the way he's
Speaker 2: running with this, this heel persona has been nothing short
Speaker 2: of incredible, and I guess we see Karen Cross still
Speaker 2: trying to influence Samu z Ain, so maybe we might
Speaker 2: see rumblings of a heel term for samu'se Ain, But
Speaker 2: for now, I think in this feud with Kevin Owens,
Speaker 2: he's going to be obviously the babyface here and I
Speaker 2: think we're going to see a interesting feud and something
Speaker 2: to build up to for WrestleMania, And that pretty much
Speaker 2: wraps up. Yes, the main event review. Again, we'll have
Speaker 2: another one obviously live next week with what will happen
Speaker 2: on Raw this coming Monday for you guys, Tuesday for me,
Speaker 2: and with Elimination Chamber around the corner WrestleMania coming in
Speaker 2: less than two months, there is a little bit over
Speaker 2: two months. Actually, There's sure is to be a lot
Speaker 2: of content and a lot of things moving forward, and
Speaker 2: I for one, am very excited as always to bring
Speaker 2: out these episodes to review main Event and also to
Speaker 2: review Raw and SmackDown whatever WW decides to air on
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