Speaker 1: Man, oh man, where do we even begin with Summer Slam?
Speaker 1: I really wish I could have done a Night one review.
Speaker 1: I was out of town, but we are going to
Speaker 1: be doing a full review of the entire pl I'll
Speaker 1: start with Night two and go backwards because it's the
Speaker 1: most recent thing we've seen and the most forefront on
Speaker 1: most people's minds, and we've got so much to cover
Speaker 1: with Night two. And yes, even Night one, which I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone would really agree, was a better show
Speaker 1: than Night two. Night two blew away Night one. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even close, with big returns and crazy main event
Speaker 1: that I really didn't love as much as a lot
Speaker 1: of people did. But certainly it's still very good and headlined.
Speaker 1: I mean, how can it not be headlined by the
Speaker 1: return of Kevin Owns, a guy that was out seventeen
Speaker 1: months and had a C four and C five nex
Speaker 1: fusion and never knew if he was going to come back.
Speaker 1: We didn't know. We had heard rumblings over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks that he was getting closer, but whatever
Speaker 1: was going on medically, they kept close to the vest,
Speaker 1: and that's difficult to do these days. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: weren't happy that there was rumors leak that he could
Speaker 1: be coming back soon, but for the result is the same.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens being back is just awesome and seeing him
Speaker 1: how emotional he was trying to hold back tears in
Speaker 1: his entrance, it just it's that feel good moment. And
Speaker 1: that's how I really characterize Night two is it was
Speaker 1: the feel good night of the event. It felt much
Speaker 1: more like SummerSlam. And we're not going to give them
Speaker 1: a pass for some things on Night one. But if
Speaker 1: I'm grading this entire pl as a whole and balancing
Speaker 1: out night too, I would still give this an event,
Speaker 1: maybe even a solid B. I wouldn't give it an
Speaker 1: A for some reasons we'll talk about in a little bit,
Speaker 1: But the return of Kevin Owens, yes, the return of
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. In night one, we did not get Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we'd get all three. You can't just
Speaker 1: blow it all in one event. But you got some
Speaker 1: big names, and I've even heard some people already saying, well,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't WWE. I think this was actually Vince Russo
Speaker 1: if WWE was having issues selling tickets, why wouldn't they
Speaker 1: ahead of time have said to the fans that Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens is going to be a part of the event. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe because they want to change the way people perceive
Speaker 1: the product. Fans love surprises, and you are selling tickets
Speaker 1: by doing it this way. You know why, because now
Speaker 1: people are going to think if they attend an event,
Speaker 1: there's a chance something big happens. It reminds fans that
Speaker 1: they can ken once in a while, bring back a
Speaker 1: big star and surprise you. I understand your method. I
Speaker 1: understand your process for reasoning that out that you want
Speaker 1: to let people know ahead of time so ticket sales
Speaker 1: are better. I don't know if Kevin Owens would have
Speaker 1: really sold that many more tickets. That is a surprise
Speaker 1: that fans prefer rather than ahead of time. I think
Speaker 1: the fans would actually have preferred that. I don't think
Speaker 1: that on his own he would have sold that many more.
Speaker 1: But it changes the perception of people at home too.
Speaker 1: You're speaking to the people at home, not to the
Speaker 1: people in advance that will make a decision. It's the
Speaker 1: perspective buyer that you're now trying to convince. Hey, anything
Speaker 1: could happen. So that's why surprises are a big deal.
Speaker 1: And this was really good. And yes, Gunther being added
Speaker 1: was fun too, and it made sense. It's something that
Speaker 1: I thought a lot of us thought would happen anyway,
Speaker 1: Finn Balor being involved, I mean, he did a great
Speaker 1: job to Sammy's ay and Jean dropped with the result
Speaker 1: of Kevin Owens coming out, it was just a just
Speaker 1: a great moment. It was, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: should see as much backlash as we did for Night one.
Speaker 1: And again we'll talk about Night one on the second
Speaker 1: half of the show. Normally I would do Night one
Speaker 1: to Night two in sequential order, but I mean, it
Speaker 1: just makes sense I start with night two. So if
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Speaker 1: can we start with the first match? And I want
Speaker 1: to let you know if you haven't already invested in
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Speaker 1: on ESPN for a lot less money. Because of VPN,
Speaker 1: you can get free trials but you gotta eventually pay
Speaker 1: for the VPN. I paid twenty five bucks or I
Speaker 1: will be paying twenty five bucks after my trial's up
Speaker 1: for ExpressVPN for the year, for the year of ExpressVPN,
Speaker 1: and then I just went on Netflix and watch Summer Slam.
Speaker 1: That's what I did. Express VPN. It'll say it's fifty
Speaker 1: bucks a year, but if you try to cancel the
Speaker 1: membership on your app Store subscriptions, it'll then offer you
Speaker 1: the developer offers you like fifty percent off. So that's
Speaker 1: how I got it, and I'd highly recommend it. Instead
Speaker 1: of spending thirty bucks a month on ESPN if anyone's
Speaker 1: doing that in the United States so much much, prefer
Speaker 1: the VPN, go to Netflix and bam. It's really that easy.
Speaker 1: Highly recommend, unless, of course, you already you have ESPN
Speaker 1: unlimited for other reasons with the upcoming NFL season and
Speaker 1: everything else. But let's get into it. So Darius Rucker
Speaker 1: did the national anthem. Actually like Darius Rucker, seeing him
Speaker 1: many times in concert, good stuff, and we had Finn
Speaker 1: Balor come out, Sammy's Ain come out, Nick all this.
Speaker 1: Then say he's making an executive decision to add a
Speaker 1: participant to the match, and outcomes Gunther, and Gunther and
Speaker 1: him shake hands a little bit reluctantly, putting their feud
Speaker 1: behind them, and he said, well wait, he didn't say
Speaker 1: that there will only be one edition, and bam, here
Speaker 1: comes Kevin ows massive ovation, easily pop of the night, Excellent.
Speaker 1: As I said, the feel good moment that reminds you
Speaker 1: why you're a fan. This is This was a moment
Speaker 1: that was so desperately needed for WWE and its fans
Speaker 1: who have really been shitting all over the company, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so. If you think I or anyone else takes
Speaker 1: anything back said about the criticism of TKO and WWE,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of it coming, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is not a this is not a show to
Speaker 1: blow smoke up their ass at all, you'll see. But
Speaker 1: this is the stuff that keeps us coming back. This
Speaker 1: is the drug that we crave as fans, these moments,
Speaker 1: these returns, and it was just a great, great time
Speaker 1: for Kevin Owens. Even more so, I'm sure just a
Speaker 1: cathartic moment, but I'm sure after seventeen months of unknown
Speaker 1: and actually I don't think he got surgery seventeen months
Speaker 1: ago I think they head The doctors had to wait
Speaker 1: a few months and they didn't know what to do
Speaker 1: and everything else. Got the fusion, things went well, he recovered,
Speaker 1: but imagine his brain while he's in the hospital recovering
Speaker 1: at home, and all he's thinking about is that moment.
Speaker 1: You know, fans can't appreciate that because they're not a
Speaker 1: part of it. They're not They're just living their lives.
Speaker 1: You and I, I mean, as we should be. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying we should dwell on their their progress and
Speaker 1: live through them. But once you put your brain in theirs,
Speaker 1: if you try to and see the way that maybe
Speaker 1: they saw their recovery, it puts a new perspective on it, like, hey,
Speaker 1: the I'm sure this is the way what he was
Speaker 1: envisioning while he was in pain and unsure and all
Speaker 1: the doubt and everything that creeps in. That's that moment.
Speaker 1: So good stuff. I can't say enough about it. For
Speaker 1: a guy that complains about a lot of shit in WWE,
Speaker 1: this wasn't one of them. Far from it. So we
Speaker 1: get a fatal four way the number one contender ship
Speaker 1: is on the line, and Owen's and zaying Zay was
Speaker 1: slack jawed, which was funny, and so he sold it
Speaker 1: well and it really overshadowed Gunther being a part of this,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. I don't think we really thought Gunther
Speaker 1: was gonna win this once Kevin Owens came out. But
Speaker 1: we got some some good stuff here and it ended
Speaker 1: with Owen's giving stunners to pretty much everybody and he
Speaker 1: put Zane down with a stunner and got the three
Speaker 1: count quick match. Though that was some of the backlash,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so from Wwe of the length of the
Speaker 1: matches were ridiculously short in general, not all of them,
Speaker 1: and yes the main event went on way too fucking long,
Speaker 1: but eight and a half minutes with Kevin Owens winning,
Speaker 1: this could have gone fifteen and he gets the victory.
Speaker 1: So Kevin Owens is now the number one contender for
Speaker 1: the championship and should be fun. Should be fun. He
Speaker 1: and pum unk. Oh boy, this is It's just a
Speaker 1: great feeling. Okay, So let's move on here. Because I've
Speaker 1: only got through match one of twelve, I'll go a
Speaker 1: little bit quicker. I promise every match review won't be
Speaker 1: this quick or that that long. So trick Williams versus
Speaker 1: Baron Corbin for the United States Championship. Boy, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't envy these guys for having to go after
Speaker 1: that because those kinds of returns and moments suck the
Speaker 1: life out of the building and the fans need time
Speaker 1: to recharge. I don't envy them. So yeah, the reactions
Speaker 1: for both men were down, but look at what just happened.
Speaker 1: So the match was fine. I didn't have any issues
Speaker 1: with the match itself. It was okay. I like how
Speaker 1: Cole was pointing out all of the accolades of Baron
Speaker 1: Corbin to try to legitimize him about taekwondo or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell he's doing. I can't remember, but he's a
Speaker 1: legit badass, Michael Cole said. And I do appreciate those
Speaker 1: kinds of things that fans aren't looking into, so that
Speaker 1: was good. And then having Corbin get the victory after
Speaker 1: he hit the title belt on Trick and then the
Speaker 1: three counts after end of Days and Lil Yati and
Speaker 1: Trick had some mix ups and that could be the
Speaker 1: end of that relationship. We'll see. But more importantly, Baron
Speaker 1: Corbyn wins in nine minutes. I don't think anybody expected
Speaker 1: Baron Corbyn to win. I didn't I didn't call for it,
Speaker 1: but thank god Corbyn won. And I say that for
Speaker 1: the sense of maybe this furry Championship will be banned forever.
Speaker 1: If Corbyn keeps that furry championship, it'll be a cold
Speaker 1: day in hell. There's no way Corbyn has to bring
Speaker 1: some respect back to that championship. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Trick Williams isn't gonna be a big star and that
Speaker 1: he can't get his momentum back, and no, he easily could.
Speaker 1: He's young, he's kind of bright future WWE. He has
Speaker 1: already earmarked him as one of their bigger stars coming up.
Speaker 1: But what he did and what the company decided to
Speaker 1: do with the United States Championship, as I've said, is
Speaker 1: an abomination, and I hope Corbyn will put an end
Speaker 1: to that and just bring back some respect to the championship.
Speaker 1: So it's good to see him as champion. And I
Speaker 1: want Corbyn to get on the microphone talk to us
Speaker 1: a bit. I think that'll help because one of the
Speaker 1: criticisms of Baron Corbin prior to this, when he left WWE,
Speaker 1: he's just boring the very formulaic there wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of layers to baron Corbyn. Good end ring decent on
Speaker 1: the mic, but it just was rinse and repeat. So
Speaker 1: maybe Corbyn can show us something a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So we then at Tiffany Stratton and Cargo Green Flair
Speaker 1: Legend in a five way ladder match for the Interim
Speaker 1: Women's Championship, and boy, no reaction for Tiffany Stratton, nearly none.
Speaker 1: The Internet's darling just a few months ago has really
Speaker 1: fallen off. And I don't say that in the sense
Speaker 1: that what we should get back behind her and rally
Speaker 1: behind her. No, No, quite the opposite. Everything I've seen
Speaker 1: from Tiffany, who's made it very clear publicly that she
Speaker 1: just wants to use wrestling to move into the film industry.
Speaker 1: And I know what you're gonna say, Well, Rock did
Speaker 1: that and John Cena did that. Yeah, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You don't say that while you're there. You don't say
Speaker 1: that you want to be somewhere else and that you're
Speaker 1: using the current place to hopefully open doors somewhere else.
Speaker 1: That is, to coin a phrase retarded, because then you
Speaker 1: were out in your employer and making them look bad
Speaker 1: that they have someone on the payroll. That's not really
Speaker 1: invested in helping advance the current place they're at. Rather,
Speaker 1: they're using you as a platform. So, I mean, you
Speaker 1: just look at her Instagram and her tiktoks. It's all
Speaker 1: about and actually, here's what it's not about. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: It's not about her being Women's Champion. It's not about
Speaker 1: helping put over the company, not about helping forward her
Speaker 1: matchups or her rivalries. It's about pushing forward her newest
Speaker 1: outfit or her newest tattoo that her boyfriend got, which
Speaker 1: is creepy. I mean he got he got like tattoos
Speaker 1: of her eyes or some shit. It's about making the belt,
Speaker 1: because she'll have the belt in her videos. The belt
Speaker 1: is an accessory. It's a fashion accessory to her. You
Speaker 1: don't believe me to go watch the videos. Why is
Speaker 1: this big deal? Well, because what the stars do outside
Speaker 1: of the ring shows you where their priorities lie. And
Speaker 1: it's clear where Tiffany's do. So no, I don't give
Speaker 1: a shit that she didn't get a reaction. I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I don't need people here. I don't want people here
Speaker 1: that are just using this place to go somewhere else
Speaker 1: that may be truly your agenda, but don't say it. Okay,
Speaker 1: But the match actually was pretty good. I really don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of complaints about this match. I've seen
Speaker 1: some negativity. I thought it was good. It was, and
Speaker 1: especially given that what they oh, thirteen minutes. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the match went thirteen and there were some some good bumps.
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair got a good reaction, Lash Legend had some
Speaker 1: nice power moments. Chelsea Green, we'll get to her in
Speaker 1: a minute, but she had some interesting moments too. And
Speaker 1: everybody forgets how to climb the ladder, of course, when
Speaker 1: there's that moment that they have the ladder and they're
Speaker 1: just in awe that they have a moment to climb
Speaker 1: the ladder, and then they forget how to put one
Speaker 1: foot in front of the other, and they climb like
Speaker 1: they're eighty six years old. They don't know how to
Speaker 1: fucking climb a ladder. Suddenly, but Chelsea Green, that moment
Speaker 1: where she got the everybody's down, you're thinking this could
Speaker 1: be it. Then Beefabin Mechin come in and ruin it,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, okay, well that was fun for a second,
Speaker 1: and then she gets a second chance at life, climbs
Speaker 1: bam new Women's introim champion. See as fun as that
Speaker 1: moment was, and it was fun, and then you deserve
Speaker 1: a chance. And the feel good moment, which is a
Speaker 1: theme throughout that whole the night tonight was feel good
Speaker 1: and it was I'm glad for Chelsea. She has been
Speaker 1: on the roster for quite some time. Her story is
Speaker 1: quite interesting, nearly getting fired, fans got behind her. She
Speaker 1: was this lovable loser, and now she is your interim
Speaker 1: Women's WWE Women's Champion. But see as fun as this
Speaker 1: moment is, and I'm not trying to pour cold water
Speaker 1: on it, but I'm trying to give you a real
Speaker 1: look at this. The caveat is interim. See Chelsea wins
Speaker 1: her first championship because someone else got injured, and she's
Speaker 1: not even really the true champion. She's the introm which
Speaker 1: means keep my seat warm. Now, does it mean that
Speaker 1: when Rhea Ripley returns, she's gonna have to relinquish her championship? No,
Speaker 1: you know how it's gonna go in WWE, They're going
Speaker 1: to put a matchup on between Rhea and Chelsea. If
Speaker 1: Chelsea's still champion and I have no ida, no reasona
Speaker 1: believe she won't be introm sucks. That's a hell of
Speaker 1: an asterisk to have next to that accomplishment. It's also
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what does Rhea Ripley's reaction.
Speaker 1: What is it going to be like when she goes
Speaker 1: face to face with Chelsea, who is beloved because she's
Speaker 1: number one, it's the first time she's won it. She
Speaker 1: is a lovable character because she's just so ignorant and ditzy,
Speaker 1: and the fans just connect with her. She's got that
Speaker 1: that static electricity connection that you just can't help and
Speaker 1: it can't be taught. And I do wonder what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So that's for down the line. Whatever Riea gets healthy,
Speaker 1: which I would imagine is in a couple months ish,
Speaker 1: we'll see, probably in time for a Survivor series, which
Speaker 1: they've already told you about in Houston. All right, so yeah,
Speaker 1: another feel good moment for Chelsea. All right, let's keep
Speaker 1: going here. Dan Housen and Dominic Mysterial Human Money's on
Speaker 1: a poll match whatever we had. JD come out and
Speaker 1: the Mini Housends come out and Joe Hendry come out.
Speaker 1: The usual suspects to chip in their two cents. It
Speaker 1: was all stupid. Dan Housen beats Dominic in six minutes
Speaker 1: and fifty seconds and he wins the money. So they're
Speaker 1: just going to continue this this silliness backstage where dom
Speaker 1: is still searching for the money. I would guess, I
Speaker 1: am not sure. So Dan Housen wins in six minutes
Speaker 1: and fifty seconds not that much further off from an
Speaker 1: actual match on the card. I mean this was about
Speaker 1: a minute and a half less than a lot of
Speaker 1: the matches, which is kind of said. Okay, Chad Gable
Speaker 1: and Penta Intercontinental Championship eleven minutes and ten seconds. You
Speaker 1: knew this was going to be the outcome of continuing
Speaker 1: the theme here of feel good moments. Chad Gable wins
Speaker 1: in his Intercontinental Championship bid here against Penta. A matchup
Speaker 1: that was good, really good. Was it an all time classic? No? No,
Speaker 1: I think we need to taper our expectations when we
Speaker 1: expect a matchup to be that. I mean, look at
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and see him punk last night. That was
Speaker 1: far from a five star classic. I'd give that like
Speaker 1: two and a half stars. It was okay, sometimes the
Speaker 1: magic just isn't there. Despite all of the talent and
Speaker 1: the men that are in the ring, of the women
Speaker 1: that are in the ring, sometimes it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: That night and Chad Gable and Pensa, I think, had
Speaker 1: a very good match, and Gable winning was the correct choice.
Speaker 1: The finish had a Gable pull Penta back to the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring after he had already put the
Speaker 1: ankle lock in, and then he just really cinches it
Speaker 1: in and Penta taps. And then we had Gable's wife
Speaker 1: and kids come in the ring, and Gable's son wore
Speaker 1: the same gear as his father, and you deserve it.
Speaker 1: Chant broke out, and he got on the mic and
Speaker 1: he said, my name is Chad Gable and I was
Speaker 1: born raised and I live in Minneapolis. And he said,
Speaker 1: this is the family that stood with me through the
Speaker 1: highs and lows. And he held up the belt, so good,
Speaker 1: feel good moments his family there. Finally he gets to
Speaker 1: the top of the proverbial mountain, although one of them,
Speaker 1: not the mountain, but a big mountain, and Penta shakes
Speaker 1: his hand and puts the belt around his waist. You know,
Speaker 1: you never know what's gonna happen. There, no heel turn,
Speaker 1: no no funny business, and it was all just it's
Speaker 1: all just kind of a heartwarming moment, except yeah, there
Speaker 1: was a there was something that happened at the end
Speaker 1: of this that I am gonna take issue with. We
Speaker 1: couldn't let this moment go unfettered, untouched, unblemished. Why, well,
Speaker 1: we got to make sure that TKO puts their grubby
Speaker 1: little hands on this segment and they force Chad Gable
Speaker 1: to partake in the root beer segment, the root beer
Speaker 1: sponsorship segment that was paid for. He gets on the
Speaker 1: apron after I don't know, some some fucking mascot gets
Speaker 1: on the hands Gable a couple of root beers. I
Speaker 1: didn't know there were root beer until he started. The
Speaker 1: thing came on the screen. I thought he had actual beer,
Speaker 1: but its root beer and he's chugging them and you
Speaker 1: see the sponsorship go across the screen. Fuck you, TKO.
Speaker 1: We have a moment that does not come along very often,
Speaker 1: and they use Chad Gable in this moment to be
Speaker 1: a vehicle to this root beer sponsorship that they were
Speaker 1: able to acquire. Fuck them, Okay, and that also, I
Speaker 1: mean Nick com was front and Center. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: had a big smile on his face. He can give
Speaker 1: a shit about pro wrestling. He's probably just seeing it
Speaker 1: for the first time when he acquired w WE. I
Speaker 1: there is no doubt in my mind he had no
Speaker 1: idea really what pro wrestling is. He had this general,
Speaker 1: vague concept. But every time he opens his mouth, he
Speaker 1: continues to prove us right that he has no fucking
Speaker 1: idea what pro wrestling is and when it's good, what
Speaker 1: it needs to be. And it was also funny when
Speaker 1: Dan Housen was throwing him money if he didn't notice
Speaker 1: that Nick Con was at ringside and he was throwing
Speaker 1: Nick Con and some of the people next to him
Speaker 1: the fake human monies. Kind of the irony of that,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Nick was trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: maybe tax tax Dan Housen on the fake money. I
Speaker 1: put a tweet out as well on x I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty good pat myself on the back. But
Speaker 1: break my hand patting myself on the back, as they say,
Speaker 1: But what did I say? Oh, hold on a sec, guys,
Speaker 1: bear with me. My internet is not good, so I said,
Speaker 1: Nick Con accepting fake money is the closest WWE has
Speaker 1: come to turning down a revenue stream. And you should
Speaker 1: see the look on his face. I put it on.
Speaker 1: It's one of my replies. It is just embarrassing, Nick
Speaker 1: con He is a fish out of water. He just
Speaker 1: looks so uncomfortable. Okay, let's continue. Okay. We had Roman
Speaker 1: reigns and Seth rollins for the World Championship as the
Speaker 1: sixth and final match of nine two and the match
Speaker 1: where are we? Yeah, thirty three minutes and twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1: You could have taken ten minutes off this it okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me work backwards as my brain does.
Speaker 1: Roman reigns winning is no surprise to anyone. I think
Speaker 1: the money was on Roman, and for good reason. TKO
Speaker 1: andwe trust Roman. He's a needle mover. He's their guy.
Speaker 1: And Seth is truly number two. That's exactly what Rain
Speaker 1: said him. He is, That's how the company views him.
Speaker 1: And it was apparent tonight and Roman reigns in set Delivered.
Speaker 1: They are professionals, tons of experience between them against one another.
Speaker 1: And Roman has not yet beat Seth one on one
Speaker 1: and that monkey's off his back. And when Michael Cole
Speaker 1: said that he has exercised all of his demons and
Speaker 1: there's no more skeletons in his closet. I thought for
Speaker 1: sure they were queuing up for the Rock, because that
Speaker 1: is still a skeleton in his closet. That's still something
Speaker 1: he hasn't exercised. It's still something that's out there and
Speaker 1: we didn't get it, which is fine. But I thought
Speaker 1: that was a setup and he was setting the table
Speaker 1: for it. And again I thought the match was good,
Speaker 1: very good as a general a general outcome. The pacing
Speaker 1: of the match I thought was questionable. They they took
Speaker 1: it a little bit too far, with the end of
Speaker 1: the match, slowing it down to an unbelievably painfully slow pace.
Speaker 1: That's most, not most, probably the good ten minutes I
Speaker 1: talked about they could have shaved off of it. Were
Speaker 1: them just yelling at each other, stopping the match cold,
Speaker 1: and then just yelling at each other in the middle
Speaker 1: of the match, Then I get the psychology of that.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. You don't see that too often. Typically it's
Speaker 1: just once they start fighting, they just fight, fight, fight
Speaker 1: till it's a winner. But when each man takes each
Speaker 1: other's best shot and that man's they just won't stay down.
Speaker 1: I get the psychology behind it. It's like, WHOA, what's
Speaker 1: going on here? This is this doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: What's he's saying is the match gonna stop? What's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I get that we've seen that before, it's not new,
Speaker 1: but this happened to a degree that was ridiculous, Like
Speaker 1: they were yelling at each other for the second half
Speaker 1: of the match and working at a pace that even
Speaker 1: I and I like slower paced matches, was annoyed at
Speaker 1: the Again, don't get me wrong, I appreciate what they
Speaker 1: were going for, what the goal was, and some of
Speaker 1: the bumps they took. We're good. The each each power
Speaker 1: bombing each other through an announced table, the pedigree from
Speaker 1: a spear multiple times, the stomp falls finish, the fourteen
Speaker 1: Superman punches or no, I shouldn't say he hit like
Speaker 1: one or two Superman punches. It was the spears. He
Speaker 1: went overboard with the spears. You knew that it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. That's just the way the world of bro
Speaker 1: wrestling works today anyway, with the constant kickouts of finishes.
Speaker 1: So you knew you knew that was going to be
Speaker 1: a part of it. Because that's just comes with the
Speaker 1: territory now and I get that, and it's moved for
Speaker 1: move and finish, first finish and using each other's finishes.
Speaker 1: Roman gets speared, Rollins gets stomped, and every it's every
Speaker 1: possible combination multiple finishers using each other's finishers, kickouts of
Speaker 1: like everything fine, and Michael Cole being the narrator of
Speaker 1: the story and being very heavy handed at this is
Speaker 1: the final time. This is it and I appreciate that
Speaker 1: saying this is the chapter that's closed. Fine. Good. I
Speaker 1: like that, It's definitive. I also liked the callback to
Speaker 1: Dean Ambrose, the rebound clothesline to double arm DDT, Michael
Speaker 1: Cole even mentioning him by name. He didn't say Moxley,
Speaker 1: he said Dean Ambrose, and that was something I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, is Dean in the building and we
Speaker 1: all thought it, it's possibility, So that was cool. A
Speaker 1: nice little homage to Dean. The end of the match
Speaker 1: with the fist bump in the middle of the ring
Speaker 1: that Seth agreed to no, he'll turn there. I like that.
Speaker 1: The beginning of the match with the shield teas by Rollins.
Speaker 1: I like that. The only complaint I had about this
Speaker 1: match was the damn pacing for the last thirty to
Speaker 1: forty percent of the match. It was it was too
Speaker 1: much that went too long, and the thirty three minutes
Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit skewed. You got to dig into, Okay,
Speaker 1: what was the thirty three minutes, particularly the last fifteen.
Speaker 1: So overall though, I enjoyed the match overall, other than
Speaker 1: the frustrating downtime of just staring at each other and
Speaker 1: the incredibly long amount of time that it took for
Speaker 1: Rollins to grab a chair and then Roman to stare
Speaker 1: at the chair. And I know it's part of storytelling.
Speaker 1: It just was executed a little bit too slow for
Speaker 1: my liking. And that's really the only complaint I had.
Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, out of everything that could have
Speaker 1: gone wrong in that match, fine, there was a ref bump,
Speaker 1: that's the obligatory ref bump, but they wanted that spot
Speaker 1: so that they could get to the steel chair spot.
Speaker 1: But the steel chair never came because no one ever
Speaker 1: used it. So there's that. I appreciated the story that
Speaker 1: they're telling. Going back to the beginning, the infamous chair
Speaker 1: shot that we never forget has been played hundreds of
Speaker 1: times in our brains. I understand all that. It's simply
Speaker 1: that the pacing was incredibly long. It was unnecessarily long
Speaker 1: at the end of the match. So the right person
Speaker 1: one and no interference. That's a shock, just straight up.
Speaker 1: I like that, so Cole saying it was the one
Speaker 1: of the greatest main events that we ever went he
Speaker 1: ever witnessed at SummerSlam, and Barrett spoke of how Rains
Speaker 1: decided that he had to beat Rollins in the right
Speaker 1: way to show he's the better man. The analysis says
Speaker 1: that a very good main event with big moves in
Speaker 1: big near falls. The announcers laid it on thick, but
Speaker 1: it was entertaining and the live crowd was hot. Interestingly,
Speaker 1: Cole said it was the final chapter, yet they never
Speaker 1: declared during the bill that this would be their final match.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it won't be, or at least the company
Speaker 1: doesn't want to claim it will be, when they could
Speaker 1: always revisit this down the road. But if this was
Speaker 1: the rebirth for Rollins character, where does he go now
Speaker 1: that he has lost? Yeah, that's a good point too.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that that was brought up. I forgot his
Speaker 1: costume his entrance attire, I should say, same thing that
Speaker 1: was worn by Rollins in his entrance, Cole said, was
Speaker 1: symbolic of a rebirth of himself. So Rollins is going
Speaker 1: to have some kind of character change. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a heel turn, but something's going to be different.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but we'll see. So
Speaker 1: he's gone from Seth Rollins the Shield to the corporate
Speaker 1: champion with the with Stephanie and Triple H, to the
Speaker 1: Monday Night messiah to the visionary and we'll see what
Speaker 1: this part is. I don't know. Okay, so that's night too.
Speaker 1: I know I'm backwards, but that's the way of the world.
Speaker 1: Right now. I'm gonna now quickly talk about Night one.
Speaker 1: I want somewhat quickly because there's still six matches here
Speaker 1: or more on Night one, and the show opened with
Speaker 1: Cole saying there was a capacity crowd at attendance. Really
Speaker 1: the building can hold like seventy thousand people. You guys
Speaker 1: sold thirty two. We're defining capacity quite differently. But fine,
Speaker 1: he's he's a company guy. I'm not saying for him
Speaker 1: to call out the company. Just funny the phrasing they used.
Speaker 1: I'd love them for them to define what capacity crowd means. Okay,
Speaker 1: first match, EO Sky Live Morgan. What am I going
Speaker 1: to say about this? It exceeded my expectations, exceeded by
Speaker 1: them by a long shot, because I was not particularly
Speaker 1: excited about their match at Night of Champions in Riad.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fine, and then they announced it
Speaker 1: again for Summer Slam, and you're like, huh, we just
Speaker 1: kind of saw it. But as we all know, sometimes
Speaker 1: the more you work together and oftentimes the better you
Speaker 1: should get and do get and this was really good.
Speaker 1: They opened the show hot and I think they more
Speaker 1: than delivered. The finish was excellent. Live Morgan retaining was
Speaker 1: not the expected outcome, and that's fine with me. EO
Speaker 1: Sky had a great finish with the reversal of oblivion
Speaker 1: that I don't think I've ever seen. Have you? No, Well,
Speaker 1: Live Morgan retains and the match went thirteen minutes, So
Speaker 1: no complaints. La Knight, Solo, Royce Keys, Jacob Fatu, Jimmy Usso,
Speaker 1: Jay USO six man Tag. You kind of knew where
Speaker 1: this was gonna land as well. Nothing that was going
Speaker 1: to blow you away. This match wasn't meant to blow
Speaker 1: you away. It was meant to see if Knight can
Speaker 1: finally put the goddamn bloodline behind him, and to see
Speaker 1: what Solo Socoa can do as this kind of newly
Speaker 1: formed babyface character, and it didn't really disappoint. I think
Speaker 1: you had the right guys win if you had l
Speaker 1: a Knight lose with Solo, so I think that would
Speaker 1: have really hurt them. La and A needs to put
Speaker 1: this whole bloodline thing behind them. It's not gonna hurt Solo,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Jay, I'm sorry, Jimmy Jay and Jacob. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt them. They'd be fine. Maybe this will give
Speaker 1: Jacobatu some more time to go out to the Spirit
Speaker 1: Halloween store and get another wear wolf mask that he
Speaker 1: can wear in his entrance. He is really taking that literally,
Speaker 1: isn't he. He's actually taking this literally. Maybe on a
Speaker 1: full moon, if you have a full moon where you
Speaker 1: are right now, open up your window, poke your ear out,
Speaker 1: maybe you might be able to hear Jacob howling. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll try. I don't have a full moon.
Speaker 1: I think I'm at a half half. No, it's cloudy
Speaker 1: sky's cloudy sky's so I really just I can't believe
Speaker 1: he's taking that seriously. I did not want him coming
Speaker 1: out in a werewolf mask. But here we are anyway.
Speaker 1: Solo was great. Solo was doing his comedic stuff. He
Speaker 1: has come unglued, as Michael Cole would say, Jacob Fatu
Speaker 1: or rather, Solo is really what I'm focused on here
Speaker 1: as many of you are to see where this goes.
Speaker 1: Is this sustainable? How does the crowd react tomorrow night?
Speaker 1: It's it's an interesting kind of organic shift for Solo Sokoa.
Speaker 1: Those are always some of the best turns ever as well.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's continue here Gunther and Nick Alldis. There's
Speaker 1: your feel good moment. Yeah, Nick Alldos didn't win, Who cares.
Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to. He shouldn't have either, but he
Speaker 1: pushed Gunther and all this looked awesome. This man is
Speaker 1: in shape, and I am. I was blown away by
Speaker 1: his physique. Good for him for not being in the
Speaker 1: ring for three years and still keeping his body in
Speaker 1: the shape that it was. He looked like a wrestler.
Speaker 1: He's got a great His body is like his body
Speaker 1: is incredible, and his face is it's almost as if
Speaker 1: he's able to look really old and young at the
Speaker 1: same time. He's got such a small head for a
Speaker 1: massive body. But also he's got a great voice. He
Speaker 1: looks like James Bond. He's a great eloquent speaker. And
Speaker 1: I just he's got so many unique features physically about
Speaker 1: him that are I mean, that's an asset. That's not
Speaker 1: me slighting him, and I really enjoyed what he had
Speaker 1: to bring here. He was amped up, you still got
Speaker 1: a chant was breaking out and some of the spots
Speaker 1: were Gunther. I'm sorry. All this going up and he
Speaker 1: had to jump over Gunther. He went for the big boot.
Speaker 1: All this avoided. He put gun Through down with a
Speaker 1: body slam hits the top rope elbow, and he followed
Speaker 1: up with another one applied the King's Lynn cloverleaf and
Speaker 1: he reached the ropes and eventually Gunther put him down
Speaker 1: and all this tapped out. But it's fine. You've got
Speaker 1: to put guntherro over. You can't have him lose to Nick.
Speaker 1: All this, who then was is going to go back
Speaker 1: into a GM role. That would have really hurt Gunther.
Speaker 1: So Gunther and all this have put things behind them.
Speaker 1: We shall see what's next for Gunther. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because now Kevin Owens is going after Punk, So where
Speaker 1: does that leave Gunther facing Sammy Zain who's also a heel?
Speaker 1: Is it gonna what about Finn Baler? Are the three
Speaker 1: that lost that match going to now duke it out
Speaker 1: to see who can be the next number one contender?
Speaker 1: What happens there? Don't I don't know, So they have
Speaker 1: their work cut out for them. More ads, more ads,
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Speaker 1: good moment. We then had Nick all the spring in Ni, Nikki,
Speaker 1: Mickey James and also bringing in his son. It was
Speaker 1: just a great, great moment for Nick and I know
Speaker 1: he was really emotional about it on Chris Van Vliet's show.
Speaker 1: A rare moment of emotion. Just good. I felt great
Speaker 1: for Nick, so he delivered, no doubt about it. Jac
Speaker 1: Jane Fallon, Henley and Laney Reid take on Bree, Nicky
Speaker 1: and Page and a six women tag. The match went
Speaker 1: seven and a half minutes and the right team won
Speaker 1: here as I predicted, and it's just the right call.
Speaker 1: Fatal influence wins and the implosion though of the Bellas
Speaker 1: on Page I didn't see coming, but it was also
Speaker 1: a good move. Number one, the Bellas are not exactly over.
Speaker 1: They want to think they are. They aren't. The fans
Speaker 1: remember them from the Divas era. They are the face
Speaker 1: of the Divas era, not exactly a era that you
Speaker 1: one should be proud of representing, but they brand themselves
Speaker 1: as trailblazers. And I guess if you want to pretend
Speaker 1: that you are in an era that people want to forget,
Speaker 1: you have at it girl, you go. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: coming out of this, so Page is now going to
Speaker 1: be presumably a single star, excellent, good choice. But she
Speaker 1: was going to be facing the bellas presumably maybe trying
Speaker 1: to find a partner. But now that that we don't
Speaker 1: have Breede because of the injury, apparently she has a
Speaker 1: really fucked up shoulder. We don't know, We've just been
Speaker 1: hearing phrases like it doesn't look good. That means probably
Speaker 1: broken clavical, torn tendon, maybe rotator cuff stuff that If
Speaker 1: that's true, then she's gonna be out for like six
Speaker 1: to twelve months. But if Page was going to be
Speaker 1: teaming up with somebody to help her with the bellas well,
Speaker 1: guess what Brie is now out, so she I would
Speaker 1: imagine that Paige is gonna target Nikki, which means she
Speaker 1: can't have a partner, and maybe it is one on one.
Speaker 1: My fear is that they'll find a substitute for Bri
Speaker 1: and then you'll have Page find someone and it's still
Speaker 1: going to be a fucking tag team match. So maybe
Speaker 1: I just talked myself back into Page in the women's
Speaker 1: tag team division. I hope not, but I am. I
Speaker 1: am really shedding zero tiers of Brie getting injured now
Speaker 1: on a human level, I feel for I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not that sadistic to wish injury upon her. I'm not,
Speaker 1: but I'm not as a character from a wrestling perspective
Speaker 1: on her on my television or on my iPhone as
Speaker 1: many of us are watching it through, I have no sympathy.
Speaker 1: I could get two shits that Bribella got injured in storyline.
Speaker 1: In storyline, I don't give a shit. It's great because
Speaker 1: the Bellas are insufferable and their heels now too, so
Speaker 1: kind of very natural role for me or for them.
Speaker 1: All Right, we then have Cmpunk Cody Roads for the
Speaker 1: world or the WWE Championship. And as I said earlier, though,
Speaker 1: I mean this match also went thirty minutes. Each main
Speaker 1: event went half an hour. It was fine. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of back and forth. Yes, Punk fucked up
Speaker 1: a move, who cares it's gonna happen? He fucked up
Speaker 1: what was a moon salt of sorts? Who cares for me?
Speaker 1: It was about a couple of things. One Randy Orton returning.
Speaker 1: Great to see Randy Orton. So we get Randy Orton returning,
Speaker 1: We get Kevin One's returning. No Drew McIntyre, but he's
Speaker 1: probably close in tow and he RKO's Cody Roads, which
Speaker 1: makes sense given that he was last in a rivalry
Speaker 1: with Cody at WrestleMania and he wants to exact his revenge. Cool. Now,
Speaker 1: what I also took from that is there weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of booze. There were not a lot of booze
Speaker 1: for this, for this RKO number one, because people love
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. Number two, they love the RKO no matter
Speaker 1: who's getting hit with it. And number three, they're really
Speaker 1: tired of Cody and just generally there's an exhaustion with
Speaker 1: Cody or a fatigue with Cody, just kind of like
Speaker 1: you know, it's the same old, same old rinse and
Speaker 1: repeat with Cody. So the people are ready for a
Speaker 1: change and that could come with a Cody heel t
Speaker 1: And now it didn't happen at SummerSlam, but we have
Speaker 1: another big event coming and I believe. Is it money
Speaker 1: in the bank next October tenth in New Orleans? I
Speaker 1: know they announced it as a pl happening in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: but is there an event in September? I'll have to look.
Speaker 1: And then after that, of course the Survivor Series. So
Speaker 1: we're not far away from Survivor Series, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: We're only with three or four events away. And I
Speaker 1: would imagine that it's going to be Cody Randy in
Speaker 1: a grudge match because neither have the championship? Are we
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens Cmpunk for the w W Championship And that's
Speaker 1: going to be quite interesting too, because Kevin Owens is
Speaker 1: going to be a beloved figurehead in WWE for the
Speaker 1: next several months. I mean, people want to hear from him.
Speaker 1: Cmpunk is also beloved. He's one of their top guys.
Speaker 1: He's the champion. What a fans do do? We always
Speaker 1: have to make these hard decisions, unless the idea is
Speaker 1: to turn Punk Bay heel, which I guess you could.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see it yet. It's not time
Speaker 1: yet for Punk anyway, and certainly not for Cody or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Kevin Owens, who just returned you don't want
Speaker 1: to pour cold water on that and how much merch
Speaker 1: you can sell off of that return. People want to
Speaker 1: hear the SOB story. They want to know the details
Speaker 1: about his surgery and his recovery and what he was thinking.
Speaker 1: We'll probably get some of that on air, but most
Speaker 1: of that'll be reserved for a documentary or Unreal or
Speaker 1: something along those lines where you'll really be able to
Speaker 1: dive in and hear from Kevin. But we should get
Speaker 1: some of it on air, and people aren't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: So I thought the main event here with Cody and
Speaker 1: Punk was again lackluster, okay, middle of the road, And
Speaker 1: maybe it's because these two had such sky high expectations
Speaker 1: that if you didn't put those expectations on them, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, wow, those are really really good. But it
Speaker 1: was okay. However, the takeaway is Randy's back and Punk retains.
Speaker 1: That's the takeaway. So all right, overall, Summer Slam, I
Speaker 1: say it was a B to B minus the advertisements
Speaker 1: within wrestling segments were just the Chad Gable is unforgivable
Speaker 1: in that moment fucked TKO, and the returns were good.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens is the highlight of the entire event. Randy
Speaker 1: Orton is a close second. Having the match between Rollins
Speaker 1: and Rains go the way it did again very good,
Speaker 1: but could have cut how ten minutes of the kind
Speaker 1: of slow paced nonsense and having a feel good moment
Speaker 1: for Chelsea Green who hey, what can you say? It's
Speaker 1: a fun moment while it lasts, and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens when Ria returns. That will do it for my
Speaker 1: My Summer Slam review for twenty twenty six. Of course,
Speaker 1: a huge Monday Night Raw coming tomorrow, and uh, I
Speaker 1: just wonder where they're going. Are they gonna open with
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens? They're going to open with cmpunk? What's happening? Now?
Speaker 1: We have Obafemi? Also, oh my god, I didn't talk
Speaker 1: about that match. Who that was close? I skipped over
Speaker 1: that Obafemi brock Leson, let me quickly talk about this.
Speaker 1: You know, I love brock I don't care about as
Speaker 1: outside antics. We truly don't know what was what is,
Speaker 1: what happened and what didn't? People think they do. We
Speaker 1: are so far removed from totally understanding what happened and
Speaker 1: what didn't. Okay, I'm talking about brock lesn or the performer.
Speaker 1: So love me some Brock. I love Hell in a Cell.
Speaker 1: It got me into wrestling back in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: As you all know, oba Femi, I'm becoming more of
Speaker 1: a fan. It's I'm not jumping on board as quickly
Speaker 1: as so many people are. I'm not. That's not because
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be a counter culturalist or be
Speaker 1: that guy or get attention. I just haven't connected yet
Speaker 1: with him me personally. But I understand why people do
Speaker 1: the match with Brock at WrestleMania. I was disappointed by
Speaker 1: not because of the outcome. You knew, well it was
Speaker 1: probably gonna win that, but the length of the match,
Speaker 1: you knew they could do more. So they finally do.
Speaker 1: In their second match, Brock wins. People flip out and
Speaker 1: then Obafemi challenges Brock again, and we get a Hell
Speaker 1: in a Cell match, and you're thinking, oh my god, this,
Speaker 1: I mean great. The match has to be longer. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get blood, we're gonna get violence, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: the steel cage torn up, We're gonna get the door
Speaker 1: ripped off. Help somebody may even fall off the side
Speaker 1: of the cage. Uh. We didn't get any of that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying the match wasn't physical or that
Speaker 1: they didn't put effort in. They did. But you can't
Speaker 1: tell me you're gonna have a hell in a cell
Speaker 1: match and then not use the fucking hell in a cell.
Speaker 1: This has been pointed out by so many people. I
Speaker 1: know I'm just dog piling it. I don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: a dog pile specialist, but I'm not doing it because
Speaker 1: it's safe or I don't want to ruffle feathers. No,
Speaker 1: it's truly how I feel here, Like if you're gonna
Speaker 1: use hell in a cell and you use it sparingly, now,
Speaker 1: which I also agree is a great thing, it's no
Speaker 1: longer part of this stupid schedule that Vince McMahon had.
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful that it's only brought up when needed,
Speaker 1: but if you're gonna only bring it up when it's needed,
Speaker 1: you better use it. And they didn't use it at
Speaker 1: all at all. They might as well have been in
Speaker 1: a no DQ match, or a Minnesota street fight or
Speaker 1: a no holds barred by the way, all those things
Speaker 1: mean the same fucking thing, But instead they just had
Speaker 1: a They basically had a no DQ match. Inside the
Speaker 1: cell for going anything to do with the cell. The
Speaker 1: cell might as well not even have been there, a
Speaker 1: complete non factor. And I'm not looking for people to
Speaker 1: get stitched up, cut up, blood piles everywhere and people
Speaker 1: losing stupid amounts of blood. I'm not looking for that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for just you to deliver on what a
Speaker 1: hell in a cell match expectation is. And they didn't.
Speaker 1: And I understand he tombstone over Femi on the plywood. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that came out of nowhere. That was surprising. It didn't
Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense with Brock using the tombstone.
Speaker 1: I understand there's a connection with the Undertaker, but what
Speaker 1: does the Undertaker have to do with anything here? I
Speaker 1: don't know. And having Brock, Yeah, we had your kickouts
Speaker 1: of F five's and Brocks setting up and all the silliness,
Speaker 1: no utilization of the cell, and there was also no
Speaker 1: almost no sold the tombstone on the plywood because he
Speaker 1: popped up very quickly after the two count. So not
Speaker 1: only did he kick out of it, not only was
Speaker 1: it really unwarranted for Brock to use it that move,
Speaker 1: but also Obafemi pretty much no sold it one other thing.
Speaker 1: This is just kind of a general complaint because I
Speaker 1: got to balance it out. I've been too I've been
Speaker 1: too positive. Right now the positivity is making me sick.
Speaker 1: So let me counter some things here. Number One, if
Speaker 1: a referee takes a bump, but you all know is
Speaker 1: going to be an obligatory spot in a championship match,
Speaker 1: but particularly with the seth Rollins Roman Reigns match, it
Speaker 1: is a derelict of duty on the part of w
Speaker 1: W management to not have another referee on hand to
Speaker 1: be able to continue the duties of the referee. The
Speaker 1: referee position needs to continue. The referee is an integral
Speaker 1: part of the match. And why does no one come
Speaker 1: out to check on the referee from a medical perspective,
Speaker 1: He's not even an active participant. Why does no medical
Speaker 1: staff even pretend to check on him. They just wait
Speaker 1: for him to stay down. They know he's well, it's
Speaker 1: just it's a spot, so we're gonna wait for him
Speaker 1: to count to I don't know, two hundred. That's how
Speaker 1: he knows it's time to get up, or he hears
Speaker 1: it in his ear piece. Okay, start to get up.
Speaker 1: Whatever the cue is, no medical team, no second referee
Speaker 1: on hand at the ready. It's a I know it's
Speaker 1: pro wrestling, I get it, but also some of the
Speaker 1: times it's just so egregiously bad and obvious it needs
Speaker 1: to be called out. So yeah, that was really bad
Speaker 1: in the Roman in seth match, but it's a general
Speaker 1: issue across WWE's presentation of pro wrestling anyway. But there
Speaker 1: it is, all right now, I think I've covered most
Speaker 1: of it. I might hope I didn't miss anything big,
Speaker 1: but I will leave it to you guys to tell
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Speaker 1: into late summer, SummerSlam is complete. It's now behind us
Speaker 1: and we get to look forward to a infusion of stars.
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