Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre, and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk Saturday night's main event, a show
Speaker 2: that felt like it kind of delivered on what we
Speaker 2: thought it would, although we did set most of us
Speaker 2: I think set the bar a little bit low, so
Speaker 2: exceeding expectations isn't a huge task. But overall, I will
Speaker 2: say this, I thought it was a decent event for
Speaker 2: one that is not one they do every year. For
Speaker 2: the kind of old school feel they tried to have
Speaker 2: for this show. Bringing back Jesse the Body Vanura for commentary.
Speaker 2: He's got such a great voice for commentary, even all
Speaker 2: these years later. Was he seventy Now he's got a
Speaker 2: great voice for it, still on the ball. I like Jesse,
Speaker 2: I really do, despite what he's done outside of the ring,
Speaker 2: and if you like his career outside of it, I'm
Speaker 2: focusing specifically on wrestling. Yes, he looked one hundred years
Speaker 2: old out there, but I think he did a very
Speaker 2: nice job for not really being in commentary for I
Speaker 2: don't know how long really nice, and it brought me
Speaker 2: back those older fans out there, brought me back to
Speaker 2: the Vince McMahon Jesse Ventura days or Jesse Van Sura
Speaker 2: or Jesse Ventura, I don't care how you pronounce it,
Speaker 2: but there did have that. It did have that old
Speaker 2: school feel and I like that. So I appreciated that
Speaker 2: the referees wearing the traditional old school attire from forty
Speaker 2: years ago. I like that. It's a nice It's a
Speaker 2: nice touch. If you're gonna go Saturday night main event,
Speaker 2: they went Saturday night main event, and I thought it
Speaker 2: was well done. Again, no big surprise returns not Everything
Speaker 2: was good, okay, and this was not an event that
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about forever, although Kevin Owens
Speaker 2: did bring you give you something to talk about post
Speaker 2: main event, and we'll talk about that with him. Pile
Speaker 2: driving Cody Rhodes and what do you call that. It's
Speaker 2: not a traditional pile driver. It's like a package pile driver.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what you'd call it, but either way,
Speaker 2: still a pile driver. Kevin Owens pile driver happy and
Speaker 2: after the event, of course, we had also triple h
Speaker 2: get in the face of Kevin Owens. That video is
Speaker 2: going viral as wwe expected and wanted. Really just a
Speaker 2: nice touch to the other show. And yeah, Kevin Owens
Speaker 2: didn't win, but boy, people are talking about him. And
Speaker 2: if they wanted that to be the goal, I think
Speaker 2: they achieved it. Kevin Owens not winning is not a
Speaker 2: surprise to absolutely anyone, but it was about what they
Speaker 2: do afterwards with them. And it seems like this program
Speaker 2: is going to continue. You'd expect that Randy Orton's going
Speaker 2: to make us an appearance prior to the Royal Rumble
Speaker 2: and go after Kevin Owens for what he did. And
Speaker 2: now Cody Rhoades is maybe quote unquote on the shelf
Speaker 2: from the pile Driver, but we'll see. I just love
Speaker 2: this vicious version of Kevin and we'll talk more about
Speaker 2: that in detail. Go over to the match a little
Speaker 2: bit more in detail as the show progresses here. But
Speaker 2: I want to invite all of you first and thank
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Speaker 2: let's dive into Saturday Night's main events. I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: here with the top of the show, and we had
Speaker 2: Joe Tessitourque spoke. He was speaking while shots ered of Cody,
Speaker 2: Kevin and several others, and Jesse the Body Venteur was introduced,
Speaker 2: and then fans were shown outside the building and said
Speaker 2: Joe's store said there was a retro feel with New
Speaker 2: Age Superstars. That's not a prepared line anyway. We had
Speaker 2: old television shown, old television clips shown from old Saturday
Speaker 2: Night main event shows, which was nice, and then Pyro
Speaker 2: came off and we had Jesse Body Ventur, Joe Testatur
Speaker 2: and Ventur question whether Cody was actually the son of
Speaker 2: Dusty and then compared the difference in their abdominal muscles.
Speaker 2: Kind of weird. Pat McAfee then, of course came out
Speaker 2: if you didn't already know, and he slapped hands with
Speaker 2: the fans and greeted Michael Cole and said they would
Speaker 2: be together when Raw debuts on Netflix on January sixth,
Speaker 2: and McAfee said it was an honor to be there
Speaker 2: live on NBC, and Cole said live from New York,
Speaker 2: and McAfee said, it's Saturday night main event, all right.
Speaker 2: A lot of pomp and circumstances here, a lot of
Speaker 2: just kind of production, a lot of hype here for
Speaker 2: the show. But hey, this felt like a sprout out
Speaker 2: of nowhere. Pl I know it was on the schedule,
Speaker 2: but I know a lot of us, including myself, kind
Speaker 2: of forgot about it until it's like, oh, that's right.
Speaker 2: It doesn't just go from you know, the last pl
Speaker 2: here to the rumble, it's now this intermission rumble of intermission.
Speaker 2: PLI with the Saturday at an event, but we get
Speaker 2: Drew McIntyre versus Sammy Zain and this was a fun match.
Speaker 2: I thought it was well paced. It was a little
Speaker 2: quick for my taste because I know that these two
Speaker 2: are capable of more ten minutes. It's all they got,
Speaker 2: but it's what we expected. It was the right move
Speaker 2: for mctyre to get the victory here with a clay
Speaker 2: More and the finish was McIntyre being counted down. He
Speaker 2: went for a clay more, Sammy caught him with a
Speaker 2: kick and then Zane followed up with a blue thunderbomb,
Speaker 2: really nice near fall here, and then Zayne set up
Speaker 2: for a Hallua kick. Mctyre rolled the ringside. Then Zaane
Speaker 2: followed McIntyre to the floor, but McIntyre returned to the ring,
Speaker 2: and when Zaye returned to the ring, that's when he
Speaker 2: caught Zayane with acclaymore and got the one, two three.
Speaker 2: And Cole did say interestingly because he always has these
Speaker 2: awesome stats that no one ever really thinks about, but
Speaker 2: I do appreciate very much, And he said that Zaane
Speaker 2: has never beaten McIntyre in singles match never now, not
Speaker 2: that these two have had, you know, one hundred matches,
Speaker 2: but those kinds of things are fun stats that fans
Speaker 2: aren't thinking about, all right, So Joe McIntire gets the
Speaker 2: victory again. The way to go is McIntyre. I had
Speaker 2: a reaction video on YouTube to this to the whole
Speaker 2: f the fans or f you from bringing me on.
Speaker 2: I'm taking from the business. I'm tired of giving that
Speaker 2: whole interview he did on the Busted Open podcast that
Speaker 2: went viral. I had a reaction to that. I put
Speaker 2: it on YouTube, and I still believe that that could
Speaker 2: be a really fun launching point for Drew in this
Speaker 2: next chapter of his career. And I also appreciate him
Speaker 2: coming back and not just being even though he was
Speaker 2: successful as a heel and was going down a really
Speaker 2: fun path that not a lot of heels do, which
Speaker 2: is just being a truth teller, he took it a
Speaker 2: step further and went darker, but yet kept the foundational
Speaker 2: piece of him being a truth telling heel that just
Speaker 2: beats you or walks into luck, doesn't always need to
Speaker 2: cheat to win. I'm just a bad guy that also
Speaker 2: is really good in the ring. WWE oftentimes forgets that.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes it's I need to cheat to win, That's why
Speaker 2: I'm a heel. It's like, no, I'm just a bad
Speaker 2: guy that also can kick your ass. Makes it a
Speaker 2: lot a lot easier to hate that person, so good
Speaker 2: stuff here. Samy had to lose, it would have made
Speaker 2: no sense otherwise. Let's continue Live Morgan with Raquel and
Speaker 2: Dominic versus EO Sky with Kyrie sanding Dakota Kai. Damage
Speaker 2: Control not dissolved. That's been confirmed. I was hoping by
Speaker 2: this ple maybe they would have kind of moved on
Speaker 2: from one another. Not the case. Damage control is still
Speaker 2: a thing. I don't know why, Well, actually I do,
Speaker 2: because they have nothing else for these women to do,
Speaker 2: specifically Kyrie saying Dakota Kai. They don't know what to
Speaker 2: do with them. This group has a net negative momentum.
Speaker 2: They don't have any EO Sky is the bright light
Speaker 2: right now of the t but I refused to call
Speaker 2: them the damage control because the damage control group should
Speaker 2: have died about two years ago. All right, well, let's
Speaker 2: continue here. We had a fun match again. This one
Speaker 2: was a little bit short too, but nine minutes and
Speaker 2: five seconds and Live does retain against EO Sky. And
Speaker 2: here's the finish. We had Sky delivering double knees to
Speaker 2: Morgan in the corner. EO went up top and went
Speaker 2: for her over the moon salt finish, but Morgan put
Speaker 2: her feet up and then Morgan, who did have a
Speaker 2: legitimate bloody nose, followed up with oblivion and got the victory.
Speaker 2: So Live Morgan victorious here in a fairly straightforward I
Speaker 2: beat you match, no weird hocus pocus or outside of
Speaker 2: interference for the most part here, at least in the finish,
Speaker 2: and that's a good thing. Now. Was this Eo Sky's
Speaker 2: most impressive match? No? No, I actually did expect a
Speaker 2: little bit more from this match. It wasn't bad at all.
Speaker 2: I think that both women kicked ass in this match,
Speaker 2: but Eo seems to get better as the match goes on,
Speaker 2: and when you only give nine minutes, it's tough to
Speaker 2: tell a really good story. You can do it. But
Speaker 2: with EO and with others, her style I think does
Speaker 2: benefit from a longer match, fifteen minutes. I think even well,
Speaker 2: I'm saying five minutes longer to make it a fifteen
Speaker 2: minute match would have made all the difference here. But
Speaker 2: it was fine. Live Morgan beating Eo was the right move.
Speaker 2: But I remember in my predictions I did say Eo Sky,
Speaker 2: you could make a good case for her right now
Speaker 2: to win. The fans are behind her. She's a blo
Speaker 2: believable baby face. Right now, she hasn't had much to
Speaker 2: say as of late, but boy, when she gets in
Speaker 2: the ring, you're just you just, you know a lot
Speaker 2: of times going wow, why aren't they doing more with this?
Speaker 2: This woman can't tell you how many times she gets
Speaker 2: in the ring and you're just like, she's she's kind
Speaker 2: of like the if she was forever anyway in damage control,
Speaker 2: the background character, the extra and then when she got
Speaker 2: in the ring, You're like, whoa, why are we not
Speaker 2: getting this on a like at least a semi regular basis, right,
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't make sense. So hopefully they do
Speaker 2: more with EO and Live has been obviously having the
Speaker 2: career of her or the year of her career, should
Speaker 2: say all right, well that wasn't the end of it,
Speaker 2: because we then had Riya Ripley's music hit and she
Speaker 2: comes out and comes face to face with Morgan who
Speaker 2: held the title up, and that was kind of it.
Speaker 2: Now Ripley here doing what she's been doing really for
Speaker 2: like three months now, is just interrupting Live or after
Speaker 2: the match or like that's just Rea Ripley lately. I
Speaker 2: feel like she has she's just got her formula of
Speaker 2: making an entrance and that's it. Now. I have no
Speaker 2: problem with her making an appearance on the Saturday night
Speaker 2: main event. In fact, it makes sense. She's a big name,
Speaker 2: right one of the faces of the women's vision. I
Speaker 2: would argue even one of this is saying a lot,
Speaker 2: but I think it's true, one of the faces of
Speaker 2: the company, not just the women's division. She's she's a
Speaker 2: big star right now. So having her on this show
Speaker 2: definitely didn't hurt only issue I have because you knew
Speaker 2: there was gonna be another side of the coin here
Speaker 2: when she came out. When when Rea Ripley came out
Speaker 2: to interrupt Live Morgan's celebration as she was heading down
Speaker 2: the ramp to the backstage area, you know, we have
Speaker 2: the typical Live Morgan concern face and we have Rhea Ripley,
Speaker 2: who This is the part that really irked me. She
Speaker 2: comes out and does her performative entrance as if it's
Speaker 2: some kind of community theater act. Not that her entrance
Speaker 2: is amateur, but sometimes you need to read the room
Speaker 2: when it makes sense to do all of these choreographed
Speaker 2: moves during your entrance, and in this case, it looked
Speaker 2: very presentational and not realistic. That's the best way I
Speaker 2: can put it. What am I talking about? Specifically, when
Speaker 2: Reea Ripley comes out and she has to stomp her
Speaker 2: foot perfectly to her music, which is fine in her
Speaker 2: regular entrance, but Live Morgan's like ten feet from her,
Speaker 2: and then she does this kind of I know you're
Speaker 2: about to zoom into my face, so I'm going to
Speaker 2: give you the like the little look through my hair.
Speaker 2: It felt very produced, It felt very unnecessary. I know
Speaker 2: it's a small thing, but some of you may also
Speaker 2: be watching and thinking the same thing. Maybe maybe you're
Speaker 2: your mind is as broken as mind. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But when she did that, I'm like, does she stop
Speaker 2: her foot and then she does her little like, you know,
Speaker 2: stare down to the floor and then look through her
Speaker 2: hair like she's on a movie set. It's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Those things take me out of the moment,
Speaker 2: and I hate being taken out of the moment. Did
Speaker 2: it ruin my night? No, didn't ruin the match with Live, No,
Speaker 2: it did not Live in the oh. I think did
Speaker 2: a fine job. And I hope here's what I hope
Speaker 2: beyond all the nonsense here, Rhea and Live need to
Speaker 2: wrap this up, needs to be wrapped up. I'm ready, right,
Speaker 2: I'm sure the rest of you guys are ready. It's time.
Speaker 2: Where do they do it? I mean, I guess it
Speaker 2: could be ended in six weeks at the Royal Rumble,
Speaker 2: because don't forget Royal Rumble, guys, is in February. It's
Speaker 2: the very what the first weekend in February, it might
Speaker 2: be the first second something whatever. The first Saturday falls
Speaker 2: on on the in February, that's when the Rumble is.
Speaker 2: So maybe they can push it out another six weeks.
Speaker 2: I think they probably will, But regardless, I'm ready for
Speaker 2: Ria to stop interrupting Live and Live stop playing scared
Speaker 2: and jumping on Ria's back, and yeah, the match, when
Speaker 2: they have a match, it's fine. And the story did
Speaker 2: warrant it, with Dominic turning on on Ria and the
Speaker 2: betrayal all of it, and Ria taking out you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Live taking out Ria to injury that put
Speaker 2: her on the shelf, taking her World championship, infiltrating the
Speaker 2: judgment day. It was all a great story, but that
Speaker 2: feels like now a million years ago, and it's time.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to move on in whatever their finale match
Speaker 2: is now the question beyond that, as we continue to
Speaker 2: kind of prognosticate outwards, is when this inevitable match happens
Speaker 2: with Live in Rhea, does Riha actually recapture? That's something
Speaker 2: I was thinking about too when I was watching these
Speaker 2: two beyond Oh my god, you know, we're going back
Speaker 2: here again and again. But cool when they're when they
Speaker 2: link up again, is it time to finally put the
Speaker 2: belt back on Rhea? Maybe it's definitely not a slam dunk.
Speaker 2: Whenever these two go back, you know route rote, what
Speaker 2: do they call it? Circle back or take it back
Speaker 2: one more time? I'm ready for the match. But also
Speaker 2: it's possible that Rhea wins. So those of you who
Speaker 2: are Live Morgan fans may want to get your viewing
Speaker 2: in and you're enjoyment in and while she's champion, because
Speaker 2: I don't think Here's what I will say. I do
Speaker 2: not think Live Morgan makes it past Russellmaniaz champion. Not
Speaker 2: There's almost no chance, all right. So we then have
Speaker 2: Damian Priest comes out and Cole noting that Priests is
Speaker 2: a New York Yankees fan and he said he told
Speaker 2: him to boohoo regarding his Metts signing Juan Soto. See, guys,
Speaker 2: even the announcers, those of you that are complaining, I
Speaker 2: talk about baseball sometimes I talk about things non wrestling. Well,
Speaker 2: you have people who are actually employees of the company
Speaker 2: on a international broadcast bringing up things that are professional
Speaker 2: sports and not related to pro wrestling. Okay, it does
Speaker 2: happen occasionally. So if you want to knock on me, well,
Speaker 2: I guess then you know you may have to hold
Speaker 2: that same standard to Michael Cole, the voice of the company,
Speaker 2: who did the same thing on a pl All right,
Speaker 2: so that was great, but it's true. You know, I
Speaker 2: already went over my thoughts on the Yankees losing Sodo
Speaker 2: if you want to listen to it on my previous show.
Speaker 2: I believe, all right, gun there versus Finn Balad versus
Speaker 2: Damian Priest, a triple threat for the war World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 2: And again, this is a match that I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people at high expectations for one that did
Speaker 2: not also last that long. I don't know, maybe I
Speaker 2: need to take my expectations down for length of matches
Speaker 2: from now on. But this only lasted eleven minutes, which
Speaker 2: given all the talent in the ring is a bit
Speaker 2: mind blowing. However, here's the finish for those that are
Speaker 2: interested in it and my take on the finish. We
Speaker 2: had Baller go up for Coudigrau on Priest, Gunther Crotch
Speaker 2: tops him on the top turn buckle and Gunher went
Speaker 2: to the ropes. Priest got up and hit Gunther with
Speaker 2: a razor's edge and then Balor hit Guntherer with a
Speaker 2: coupdi gras and had the pin, but Priest broke it up.
Speaker 2: And then Priest set up Balor for a razor's edge,
Speaker 2: but Baler countered into a pin for a near fall.
Speaker 2: And then here's the final moments. Priest hits Baalor with
Speaker 2: South of Heaven, had him beat, but Gunther pulled Priest
Speaker 2: a ringside and then he hit hit Priest with a
Speaker 2: power bomb on the bottom half of the ring steps
Speaker 2: and returned to the ring and dropkick Ballart, who then
Speaker 2: hit him with the power bomb and got the victory.
Speaker 2: So Gunther retains as he should have and as it
Speaker 2: should have gone with Finn there to take the pinfall.
Speaker 2: I think this is the right booking really, from start
Speaker 2: to finish, no issues, And did you see that spot
Speaker 2: with the power bomb onto the steps, it almost was
Speaker 2: disastrous and had it not be it been for the
Speaker 2: strength of Gunther and Priest who has to hoist himself up,
Speaker 2: that could have been disastrous or embarrassing. And it really
Speaker 2: was neither other than oh no, botch, no, no, and no.
Speaker 2: They got it. Good for them, you know, That's what
Speaker 2: I saw, or I felt when I saw that, that
Speaker 2: was a little concerned that, you know, maybe some you know,
Speaker 2: something could happen that would harm especially Priest, but it didn't,
Speaker 2: and that was a nice spot. Gunther here getting the victory.
Speaker 2: Continuing his world title reign is absolutely the right course
Speaker 2: of action. I have been steadfast on when I feel
Speaker 2: Gunther should lose it, and it is not even at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: I would put it at SummerSlam twenty twenty five at
Speaker 2: the earliest you can take his world title reign in there.
Speaker 2: They're trying to make it two nights anyway. Is that
Speaker 2: happening this year? Next year? I think it's next year.
Speaker 2: That was in Indianapolis, I believe, however, that's the place
Speaker 2: I would do it, given that right now, state the
Speaker 2: Summer Slam PLI is a stadium show now, so a
Speaker 2: good place to do it if you want Gunsher to
Speaker 2: lose it on a big stage, but you want to
Speaker 2: be surprised at WrestleMania and not have every title change hands,
Speaker 2: that's where you do it. As SummerSlam, I think that's
Speaker 2: where probably drops it. Now there's the possibilities of Punk
Speaker 2: being involved, maybe Seth gets back involved in that world
Speaker 2: title scene, but for the most part, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be gun the for the next several months, which
Speaker 2: is a good thing. I just don't want to coward
Speaker 2: the gun the I don't know either the gunther being
Speaker 2: coward or rather cowering or showing weakness to words words
Speaker 2: by priest Okay. Kevin Owens was shown backstage a crew
Speaker 2: member knocked on Nick Aldos's door. The SmackDown. GM emerged
Speaker 2: and holding the US Championship, the Women's US Championship, and
Speaker 2: Joe Tessitoor and Ventura spoke from an elevated platform on
Speaker 2: the main floor and Jesse said he loves Live Morgan
Speaker 2: because he took a shot to the head that would
Speaker 2: have stopped any normal She took a shot to the
Speaker 2: head that was stopped any normal person, and she still
Speaker 2: won the match. Yeah, she had like a bloody nose.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's that she's you gotta be tough. You
Speaker 2: gotta just know these things are going to happen. But
Speaker 2: when it happens, you still got to show you know
Speaker 2: everything you've trained for. Obviously, I don't need to tell
Speaker 2: anyone in that, but you always have to humanize the
Speaker 2: wrestlers when that kind of thing happens. So all right,
Speaker 2: we then had Ventura turn and told the crowd that
Speaker 2: wrestling is even bigger today than it was forty years ago.
Speaker 2: And Ventura told the fans they should be proud of
Speaker 2: that and turn things over to Cole and McAfee, who
Speaker 2: spoke at their desk. Cole said he had a chance
Speaker 2: to work with Gorilla Monsoon early in his career, and
Speaker 2: tonight it all comes full circle by worrying working with
Speaker 2: Jesse the Body Ventura. Now, I don't know if wrestling
Speaker 2: is bigger now than it was forty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the metrics don't don't really play that out. In fact,
Speaker 2: In fact, if we want to do just a little
Speaker 2: bit of research ourselves, back in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight, Hulk Hogan versus Andre the giant thirty three
Speaker 2: million people watched thirty three million. Okay, that viewership does
Speaker 2: not exist for WWE. That's thirty three million unique eyeballs, right,
Speaker 2: that's what that's who. Remember nineteen eighty eight, there's not
Speaker 2: even dial up internet yet, So you're talking today. Some
Speaker 2: people may say, well, look, there's like, yeah, how many
Speaker 2: millions of used w gets on their YouTube or wherever
Speaker 2: on TikTok. You also have to keep in mind that
Speaker 2: that's a number. One's an aggregate. It's not unique users either,
Speaker 2: and it's not a single event. When was the last
Speaker 2: single event that WWE held that was thirty three million
Speaker 2: more than thirty three million viewers? The answer is, I
Speaker 2: don't think this happened. So a little bit of a
Speaker 2: stat correction there telling us that wrestling is bigger now,
Speaker 2: bigger by what metric exactly? I don't know. So I
Speaker 2: love you, Jesse. I had to do something. I couldn't
Speaker 2: be positive the whole night. Okay, Chelsea Green comes out.
Speaker 2: Highlights of Green's wins in the tournament to reach the finals,
Speaker 2: which at the time I made this prediction. For some reason,
Speaker 2: on WWE's on website, there was nothing about a US
Speaker 2: title matchup, at least from the perspective of you know
Speaker 2: who was going to be in it, because obviously SmackDown
Speaker 2: hadn't happened yet. So we did get the actual match
Speaker 2: here for the Women's United States Championship, which was Meechan
Speaker 2: versus Chelsea Green, and Chelsea Green wins in eight minutes.
Speaker 2: This is what happened. Nivin climbed on the apron and
Speaker 2: we then had Chelsea Green knock Meechin off the ropes.
Speaker 2: Meechin dropped kick Nibvin on the apron and then went
Speaker 2: back to Green, who slapped her and then jumped off
Speaker 2: the ropes into a position for an un prettier and
Speaker 2: got the three count. This was a fun moment, now, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: there was that spot that Chelsea Green did not sell
Speaker 2: or rather, Meechen tried to do a kick to the
Speaker 2: face and Chelsea Green oversold it like she had been shot.
Speaker 2: And then at the same time Cole was saying, oh,
Speaker 2: and she didn't get all of it because it looked
Speaker 2: like crap. Yet you had Chelsea Green sell it like
Speaker 2: a million bucks. Sounds a little awkward, but hey, I'm
Speaker 2: happy for Chelsea Green. I am shocked that she won
Speaker 2: and not Bailey in her match on SmackDown, Bailey continuing
Speaker 2: to you know, not fall into obscurity. But I would
Speaker 2: venture to argue she's on the back half or for
Speaker 2: her career. I really do believe that. I think w
Speaker 2: knows that they helped Bailey make Bailey a big star,
Speaker 2: but she never was quite at the tippy top when
Speaker 2: her and Sasha Banks were here, they ran the show,
Speaker 2: they were triple champions whatever it was at the time,
Speaker 2: and that was a fun moment and had Sasha turn
Speaker 2: on Bailey and Bailey's baby face. That was all fun,
Speaker 2: But that may have been the peak. After that, she's
Speaker 2: pretty much been at least not a non factor, but
Speaker 2: a reduced factor in her division. And I would look,
Speaker 2: I would love to talk to her and get some
Speaker 2: truth here as to hey, listen, what's been going on
Speaker 2: the last couple of years here? You know, you come
Speaker 2: back in August of twenty two. I believe it was
Speaker 2: after Bianca Belair had her match y'all attacked Bianca in
Speaker 2: the first ever Damnage Control presentation, and then after that
Speaker 2: you kind of hid behind the judgment day. There wasn't
Speaker 2: a whole lot going on the group at times felt
Speaker 2: very disconnected and disjointed. But hey, I just do wonder
Speaker 2: what is up with Bailey just generally she has not
Speaker 2: talked about enough. I feel like it's like one of
Speaker 2: those scenarios where you're thinking, maybe her contract could be
Speaker 2: up very soon and she's not sure if she's going
Speaker 2: to resign. So WWE is not putting her in a
Speaker 2: position to lead the company in any kind of way,
Speaker 2: especially as an inaugural United States Women's champion. But I
Speaker 2: could be totally wrong. Maybe she's fine with the position
Speaker 2: she's in. I don't know. I don't know her well enough,
Speaker 2: most of us don't. So let's continue Chelsea Green though,
Speaker 2: I mean happy for her, It makes total sense, total sense. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's continue More Raw to Netflix January sixth, Hype Boys,
Speaker 2: That gonna be a big show, huge, huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 2: We had Hall of FAMERUS Coco be Ware and Greg
Speaker 2: Valentine's showing in the crowd, and then we have Colon
Speaker 2: McAfee stood up and got applauded, and we then had
Speaker 2: a video package set up for the main event. So
Speaker 2: let's continue to that, and we have Cody Rhoads come out.
Speaker 2: Cody obviously still incredibly over. Just just continues to boggle
Speaker 2: the mind how fans are still into this guy who
Speaker 2: has arguably at an extremely boring run since WrestleMania. I mean,
Speaker 2: just almost a snooze fest. I know that there are
Speaker 2: some of you out there that love Cody, tired of
Speaker 2: me complaining about him. Put all that aside. Can anyone
Speaker 2: objectively tell me, as a Cody Rhodes fan, what do
Speaker 2: you feel about his run since April? If anybody says
Speaker 2: it's been exciting, I've loved it. It's been great. I'd
Speaker 2: love to know what you're basing that on beyond just
Speaker 2: trying to annoy me. I don't know how anyone can
Speaker 2: look at this and go, this is one of the
Speaker 2: greatest runs. No, No, it's been actually a very snooze
Speaker 2: fest run. I don't know, you can't run and have
Speaker 2: a suicide. But do you get my drift? It has
Speaker 2: been very haphazard, very very just kind of matter of
Speaker 2: fact I think is a better phrase. And yeah, he
Speaker 2: got the Winged Eagle Championship like we all expected. Fine,
Speaker 2: I mean, we had the presentation on SmackDown with Triple
Speaker 2: H showing Cody Rhodes the chess that was apparently glowing
Speaker 2: and you know whatever, that's part of the production. That
Speaker 2: would have never happened back in the nineties, at least
Speaker 2: if it was a serious storyline. But I digress. The
Speaker 2: last person to hold that though before it retired, was
Speaker 2: Stone Cold Steve Auston in nineteen ninety eight when he
Speaker 2: won the belt from Shawn Michaels in Boston at Wrestle
Speaker 2: Media fourteen. That was the last time that Winged Championship
Speaker 2: was brought into the television or on television screens. And
Speaker 2: now we get Cody Roads bringing it back. And yes,
Speaker 2: it's only for one night, which is I think a
Speaker 2: good thing. It's nostalgic, it fit the feel of the event,
Speaker 2: so I'm not going to get on Cody too much
Speaker 2: for that. It wasn't his call. The match up here,
Speaker 2: Cody Kevin wwe undspeed a championship and no Randy Orton,
Speaker 2: no big return from Randy. I did think he might
Speaker 2: show up. I didn't predict that in my official prediction show,
Speaker 2: but given what happened to him with a pile driver,
Speaker 2: you would think that maybe Randy Orton has something to say.
Speaker 2: But they're still waiting to have him strike. So let's go.
Speaker 2: We have let's see. Oh okay, I'm trying to I'll
Speaker 2: pick a couple of spots. I'm not just going to
Speaker 2: go to the finish. So Owens got Cody up on
Speaker 2: the broadcast table, but then Cody dropped him with an
Speaker 2: arko which really looked like a stunner. Wasn't the greatest rko.
Speaker 2: Then the table didn't break and Cody rolled Owens back
Speaker 2: inside the ring and they ran up the ropes and
Speaker 2: Cody hit a Cody cutter for a near fall, and
Speaker 2: Owens got the better of the fight when both men
Speaker 2: ended up on the ropes and he hit a fisherman's
Speaker 2: soup Fisherman's buster for a two count, and Owen's kicked
Speaker 2: Cody and set up for the stunner, but Cody countered
Speaker 2: and to cross setting him up for position to crossroads,
Speaker 2: and then Owens shoved Cody into the ref knocking Robinson
Speaker 2: out of the ring. And here's around of the ref
Speaker 2: bump guys. Owens hit Cody with a stunner and got
Speaker 2: a pinfall that you thought could happen, but you knew
Speaker 2: probably wasn't going to uh eddie orango. Another referee comes
Speaker 2: out second one, and Cody kicks out at two. We
Speaker 2: have Cody rally went up for a Cody cutter, but
Speaker 2: Owens moved and then Cody crashed onto Orango second ref bump,
Speaker 2: because that's just what happens with Cody matches, and that's
Speaker 2: let's see here when Cody did hit the Cody the
Speaker 2: cross Roads one, two three, He retains, I don't hate
Speaker 2: the outcome, but I love to see what a Kevin
Speaker 2: Owens title run looks like. Yes, I don't know if
Speaker 2: we'll everget it in his career. Suffice it to say
Speaker 2: he is a veteran. I think he could be the
Speaker 2: face of anywhere he wants to go, except apparently WWA.
Speaker 2: But Cody Rhodes held up his own as he does,
Speaker 2: great timing, great bumps, obviously in incredible shape, and I
Speaker 2: have really nothing negative to say about inside the match.
Speaker 2: It's after the match that Cody Rhodes does get plummeted
Speaker 2: on his skull after he was about to subject us
Speaker 2: to one of those you know, crowd loving makeout fests
Speaker 2: that Cody loves to host, and that didn't happen because
Speaker 2: Kevin Owens interrupted him and then ended up pile driving
Speaker 2: Cody and it was beautiful, love it I have. I
Speaker 2: have very much high expectations that this is leading to
Speaker 2: another event with Cody and with Kevin Owens. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: Triple Threat with Randy, but like I said, who knows.
Speaker 2: But right now we do have the event that they're
Speaker 2: clearly telling us is not over, and that's Cody, Kevin,
Speaker 2: Kevin and Cody, and we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2: But after the match, after the match that did happen,
Speaker 2: but Triple H comes out and he is livid at
Speaker 2: Kevin Owens. This happens after the match caught on cell
Speaker 2: phone video, which does have a more authentic, real feel
Speaker 2: to it. So I do love that piece of production
Speaker 2: and whenever they make those decisions, it's always fun. But
Speaker 2: when he got in the face of Kevin Owens and
Speaker 2: he's shoving him, and obviously the connection that Cody has
Speaker 2: with Triple H, the friendship that he has that is
Speaker 2: Paul Avec Triple H with Kevin Owens, I'm sorry, Randy Orton.
Speaker 2: So Kevin Owens pile drives two of his best friends,
Speaker 2: and Triple H is trying his best to put his
Speaker 2: emotions aside from a personal perspective, and I you know,
Speaker 2: if he didn't have that heart condition, i'd say, here
Speaker 2: we go, Kevin Owens Triple H WrestleMania. But with that
Speaker 2: heart condition, he's never wrestling again, at least to my knowledge.
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, So if he's not wrestling again,
Speaker 2: that means nobody's taking a bump. Even it's just they'll
Speaker 2: have to slice each other with words. Words will be
Speaker 2: their offense of the day because they cannot have anything
Speaker 2: physical be done to one another because of the limitations
Speaker 2: of obviously Triple H and his heart condition and everything
Speaker 2: that went down with him a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: So overall, guys, I thought it was a decent event.
Speaker 2: It was an event that took place on a Saturday,
Speaker 2: so there is that. I thought it was fine, and
Speaker 2: again I'd give it a be It was a B rating.
Speaker 2: There was a you know, sloppy spot or two. But
Speaker 2: it happens, no big surprise returns, just some nice, steady
Speaker 2: progression forward, and I think we can finally look through
Speaker 2: the forest here, no more stops along the way. It
Speaker 2: is all eyes on the Royal Rumble. Now all eyes
Speaker 2: we can start to we can start to think about
Speaker 2: who could win, we could start to think about who
Speaker 2: doesn't have a chance, who could return Big Ee. Is
Speaker 2: he one of the content, one of the entrants? I think,
Speaker 2: So it's my guess. You know what happens here. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be fascinating as we get closer to the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 2: It's always one of our favorite events. Everybody seems to
Speaker 2: have marked it as one of their favorite events, and
Speaker 2: rightfully so. It's just a genius man idea that has
Speaker 2: ended up getting better with time most of the time.
Speaker 2: So I think this will be no exception this year.
Speaker 2: We've got a really really stack card that doesn't involve
Speaker 2: Cody Rhodes in the event, in the Royal Rumble anyway,
Speaker 2: match itself, so we can start talking about it, start
Speaker 2: talking about it for real, because no other events are
Speaker 2: in our way. It is smooth sailing to the Royal
Speaker 2: Rumble and then of course beyond that has direct implications
Speaker 2: to the biggest show of the year in WrestleMania. So
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about as we move forward here.
Speaker 2: And I just want to check one more thing with
Speaker 2: the news of wrestling. No, I'm not going to talk
Speaker 2: about the drone stuff, Okay, even though I just did.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll talk about that on my separate show, which
Speaker 2: I called The War on Truth. Maybe I'll do that.
Speaker 2: I'll post that tomorrow. By the way, guys, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be doing a couple of things. YouTube is going
Speaker 2: to have some videos on it, a reaction video or
Speaker 2: maybe some more news video on YouTube. And my other
Speaker 2: show that I do call The War on Truth, is
Speaker 2: going to be another separate feed that I do and
Speaker 2: it's going to be hopefully uploaded by tomorrow. At a
Speaker 2: lot of work to do and more to come. So
Speaker 2: one last thing, I'm just looking at any wrestling news
Speaker 2: going out here. They did. Oh so, Bleacher Report is
Speaker 2: saying that Cody was hospitalized with a back injury after winning,
Speaker 2: which obviously is a work and live Morgan was busted
Speaker 2: open the hard way at the event, and let's see here,
Speaker 2: it appears she's all right. Her nose was not broken,
Speaker 2: which is always it's a good thing she would have
Speaker 2: had to miss time. So nothing major happening here. It
Speaker 2: it's just now time for WrestleMania season. I'm already here, guy,
Speaker 2: I'm already here. You could say it starts in six weeks,
Speaker 2: but we're on the road. That leads to the road
Speaker 2: to WrestleMania. So by proxy, I'm here and I think
Speaker 2: you guys are too, So you want to join me
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