Speaker 1: Hey, you got me a little bit earlier tonight. It
Speaker 1: is a Monday night. I am the solemn Monster. This
Speaker 1: is your Raw on Netflix Review June thirtieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: A little bit earlier tonight because Raw aired two hours
Speaker 1: earlier than normal on Netflix. There as we speak, taping
Speaker 1: SmackDown that will air on July fourth, The first two
Speaker 1: hours SmackDown that'll be for this Friday. So you may
Speaker 1: see spoilers abound on social media this week. Just be
Speaker 1: aware of that. So here we are. We are here
Speaker 1: for the final Raw review here for the month of June.
Speaker 1: This was the fallout from Night of Champions. They were
Speaker 1: in Rhea this weekend and the interference that we saw
Speaker 1: in the main event between John Cena and cmpunk. We
Speaker 1: saw a lot of people get involved in that main event.
Speaker 1: As it turned out, it led into the main event
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, which was samby Zan and Penta
Speaker 1: as tag team partners against bron Breaker and Bronson Reid.
Speaker 1: So at least that made sense that we got a
Speaker 1: match out of what we saw on Saturday. And we
Speaker 1: also had some follow up with CM punk and seth Rawlins.
Speaker 1: CM Punk was screwed out of the WWE Championship by
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins. This is the few that will never die
Speaker 1: here between these two men, their rivalry continues. They were
Speaker 1: going at it again here on this show tonight. But
Speaker 1: we also had and I wasn't actually expecting him to
Speaker 1: be back this soon. We had an appearance by La
Speaker 1: Knight and actually we now know a new match that
Speaker 1: has been made official for Saturday Night's made event, which
Speaker 1: we will talk about. We have new tag team champions
Speaker 1: Finn Balor and JD McDonough have brought the gold back
Speaker 1: into the Judgment Day actually ended up being a hell
Speaker 1: of a match. Seamus and Russev had a hell of
Speaker 1: a match as well here on this show started slow,
Speaker 1: but it turned into a good battle. I would say
Speaker 1: in ring wise, this was a good show if nothing else,
Speaker 1: purely from an inn ring perspective, because the main event
Speaker 1: was actually very good match. Seamus and Russev turned into
Speaker 1: a battle that turned into a really good match and
Speaker 1: the tag team title match actually that in the main event.
Speaker 1: But the tag team title match probably had more heat
Speaker 1: than anything else on the show. This Pittsburgh crowd was
Speaker 1: big time into Finn Balor. I have not heard it
Speaker 1: was a little weird because I've not heard Finn Baalor
Speaker 1: get a baby face reaction like he was getting in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh tonight. And there were some segments on the show
Speaker 1: where it was like pulling teeth to get a reaction
Speaker 1: out of these people, but not everything on the show.
Speaker 1: They were big into Finn Balor, so a newsworthy show
Speaker 1: in that regard. Also because we had our first batch
Speaker 1: of Evolution announcements, which we needed because Evolution is coming
Speaker 1: up in less than two weeks. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big wrestling weekend. We got a lot of wrestling the
Speaker 1: weekend of July twelve and July thirteen, so we now
Speaker 1: know some of the matches at Evolution. We now know
Speaker 1: what the Women's World Championship match is going to be
Speaker 1: that likely will be your main event at Evolution, that
Speaker 1: was made official. We know that there will be a
Speaker 1: triple threat match for the women's tag team titles on
Speaker 1: that show, and we know that there will be a
Speaker 1: Battle Royal and there are some stakes as well in
Speaker 1: that Battle Royal. So we're going to talk about all
Speaker 1: of that and also the return of El Grande Americano.
Speaker 1: You know, poor Chad Gable is going to be out
Speaker 1: for a while. He had either had or is about
Speaker 1: to have shoulder surgery. But there he was tonight, El Grande.
Speaker 1: Is it the same person though, that's the question. Looked
Speaker 1: a little bit different to me underneath the mask. So
Speaker 1: the N ring is really what carried this show. This
Speaker 1: was not the most exciting episode of RAW. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that it was mailed in. We've had
Speaker 1: more exciting episodes of the show. But the N ring
Speaker 1: is really what carry the day for me. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the entire thing. Is or WWEE RAW review. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned, it is June thirtieth. I am the solo monster.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging out with me one last time
Speaker 1: here live in the month of June. This is it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Corey Graves loves it because he was
Speaker 1: back in the seat next to Michael Cole tonight. He
Speaker 1: was in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Doles. This is a
Speaker 1: homecoming for Corey Graves, filling in yet again for Pat McAfee,
Speaker 1: who has been feeling burned out lately. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: too if I had three or four different gigs. No shit,
Speaker 1: this was bound to happen, So he's going to be
Speaker 1: out for a while. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: while because this is the first week since McAfee has disappeared.
Speaker 1: I don't think Michael Cole mentioned him by name at all.
Speaker 1: It was just Michael Cole and Corey Graves unless I
Speaker 1: missed it. So we're gonna be getting these two, I
Speaker 1: think for a little bit. I certainly have no issue
Speaker 1: with that. Rhea Ripley, she got a big win over
Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez in a street fight on Saturday in riaz
Speaker 1: so she was out to open the show. She had
Speaker 1: a mess for the audience. One would assume that this
Speaker 1: would be tied into Evolution, and she said that she
Speaker 1: hoped to be done with Raquel Rodriguez and the judgment
Speaker 1: they once and for all, you and me, both, you
Speaker 1: and me both, Yes, that would be nice. Then she
Speaker 1: questioned what was next for her. She says she needed
Speaker 1: to get her priorities straight. Enter Eosky, the Women's World
Speaker 1: Change in case you forgot, because it's not as if
Speaker 1: she's been getting a whole lot of television time. So
Speaker 1: Eosky comes to the ring and she says, you can't
Speaker 1: have Evolution without her, And I just thought, oh, no, really,
Speaker 1: I think you can. You take a look at some
Speaker 1: of the recent pls. There have been plenty of them
Speaker 1: without her on them. She said, Ria Ripley was wrong
Speaker 1: about one thing. Rio was not on top. Mommy is
Speaker 1: not on top, she said, not without the title. Adam
Speaker 1: Pierce told Leo. She said that she could defend her
Speaker 1: championship against the opponent of her choosing at Evolution, and
Speaker 1: she wants to defend against the very best, and that
Speaker 1: meant defending against Rho Ripley. And Rhea said that she
Speaker 1: had nothing but respect for EO, but she warned her
Speaker 1: that she would stop at nothing to get that title back,
Speaker 1: and she accepted the match at Evolution and that was it.
Speaker 1: So this was a very basic, very straightforward way of
Speaker 1: making it official and making the announcement. But that is
Speaker 1: the first big match set now for that Evolution card.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been asking the question on some of
Speaker 1: the recent shows. I've been saying, you know, what's up
Speaker 1: with Rheo Ripley for SummerSlam, Like, what is she going
Speaker 1: to be doing on that card? Because obviously she's going
Speaker 1: to be in a major match on that show, But
Speaker 1: what do you do at Rhea Ripley at SummerSlam. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we have our answer. Now you have Rheo
Speaker 1: Ripley likely going into SummerSlam defending the world championship. That's
Speaker 1: probably what we have against two. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: a rematch with Eo, maybe Osca. I think the chances
Speaker 1: of Rio Ripley walking out of evolution and as the
Speaker 1: champion though, are pretty damn high. And there is a
Speaker 1: very real problem right now in the women's division on
Speaker 1: this show, and it actually has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the women themselves. It actually centers primarily around one person,
Speaker 1: and that person is EO Sky. EO Sky is the
Speaker 1: women's World Champion. She has been now for several months.
Speaker 1: It has to be said, Eosky has had an absolutely horrendous,
Speaker 1: horrendous run as the women's world champion. That's not a
Speaker 1: reflection on the quality of her work. It's not a
Speaker 1: reflection on her at all. Actually, EO is still one
Speaker 1: of the more popular stars on the roster. EO is awesome.
Speaker 1: Eo is one of the best wrestlers in the entire company.
Speaker 1: I have absolutely nothing against Eosky. Triple H has done
Speaker 1: a piss poor job with her, and it reminds me
Speaker 1: actually of the title run that Mariah May had in
Speaker 1: aaw Maria May had such a great story and build
Speaker 1: up to the match where she won the championship at Wembley,
Speaker 1: and then the actual period of time where she was
Speaker 1: the champion was terrible. It was awful, and yet it
Speaker 1: was still better than the run that EO Sky has had.
Speaker 1: It was better, and it was more competitive, and she
Speaker 1: was actually more active than EO has been. So think
Speaker 1: about that. Okay, as awful as the Mariah May run
Speaker 1: his champion was until she got back in the ring
Speaker 1: with Tony Storm, it's still better than what Triple H
Speaker 1: has done with the EO Sky over the last few months.
Speaker 1: EO has been champion for four months now. In those
Speaker 1: four months, she has defended her title twice twice, and
Speaker 1: the last time she defended her title was WrestleMania, and
Speaker 1: WrestleMania the match of the weekend was her match. Her
Speaker 1: match with Rha and Bianca stole the show. That was
Speaker 1: the best match at WrestleMania this year. You can fight
Speaker 1: me on that. I don't think I'm gonna have too
Speaker 1: many takers. I think most people would agree with that.
Speaker 1: And even still, that was the last time that we
Speaker 1: saw her defending a championship on a pl If you
Speaker 1: wanted to go back, and this is a larger reflection
Speaker 1: of a world championship itself, you would have to go
Speaker 1: back all the way to Bad Blood in October to
Speaker 1: find another ple where the Women's world title was defended.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the Intercontinental title. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about the United States Championship. We're talking about one of
Speaker 1: the world titles here. Forget WrestleMania for a second. You
Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to October. What
Speaker 1: are we doing here. I understand if it's not defended
Speaker 1: on every show, but certainly you've heard of switching off,
Speaker 1: You've heard of rotating, you've heard of skip one one,
Speaker 1: skip one do like, apparently that doesn't apply to the
Speaker 1: Women's World Championship. It's pathetic. It is absolutely pathetic, and
Speaker 1: you know EO has First of all, EO has not
Speaker 1: even had a match since May twelfth on Raw that
Speaker 1: was a tag team match, and it's not like she's
Speaker 1: been hurt. So this is a problem with the title,
Speaker 1: but it's also a problem with the way that EO
Speaker 1: herself has been utilized. And if she goes into evolution, right,
Speaker 1: she goes into evolution and just loses to Rhea Ripley.
Speaker 1: I mean, it would almost just be the cherry on
Speaker 1: the shit Sunday for her run to end that way,
Speaker 1: after not even really being utilized, to just go in
Speaker 1: there and lose to Rehea. But as I sit here
Speaker 1: right now, it just feels to me like that's probably
Speaker 1: what we're going to see on that show in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: probably going to see Rhea Ripley win the championship. I
Speaker 1: would love it if EO could at least take it
Speaker 1: to Summer Slim, because you know, they teased in a
Speaker 1: backstage segment last week during commercial they actually tease the
Speaker 1: possibility of EO against Oscar. Even if we don't get
Speaker 1: EO against Oscar one on one, maybe we end up
Speaker 1: with a triple from it. Maybe they could work Oscar
Speaker 1: into this in some way. I would love to see
Speaker 1: that Oscar had her work and shoes on on Saturday,
Speaker 1: because she, again, she took ninety five percent of that
Speaker 1: match with Jade. I mean, it was basically all all
Speaker 1: Oscar virtually on Saturday. She did what she could. Oscar
Speaker 1: has looked good since she came back. I would like
Speaker 1: to see her back in the Hunt as well. But
Speaker 1: I reflect back on this run, which feels like it's
Speaker 1: coming to an end very soon for EO Sky, and
Speaker 1: I just shake my head. I just shake my head
Speaker 1: that they have been unable to come up with a
Speaker 1: way to, even if she's not active in the ring,
Speaker 1: let's say she had a minor injury, you know, to
Speaker 1: factor her into things in some way. She's been such
Speaker 1: a non entity on the show. It's just sad. But again,
Speaker 1: I've heard and read nothing about her having an injury.
Speaker 1: She's been on the show and little backstage segments here
Speaker 1: and there, so it's not like she hasn't been at
Speaker 1: the buildings. You know, she's there. But I don't see
Speaker 1: how anybody could look back and reflect back on this
Speaker 1: run so far and see, you know, anything in it
Speaker 1: to praise or look back on and go, man, you know,
Speaker 1: that's gonna really be a memorable run that she had there.
Speaker 1: Even if she loses it, at least she had this
Speaker 1: incredible spade of matches. It's unfortunate, But the answer is no.
Speaker 1: It all really just goes back to the WrestleMania match.
Speaker 1: That WrestleMania match was excellent, and she'll have you know,
Speaker 1: she'll have that match at least to hang her hat on.
Speaker 1: But it's just been really, really sad the way that
Speaker 1: she has just been completely overlooked in all this and
Speaker 1: now at least, you know, Evolution, she has a big
Speaker 1: match on that show, but feels like that's probably coming
Speaker 1: to an end now. Backstage, Dominic Mysterio wished good luck
Speaker 1: to Finn Valor and Jad McDonough ahead of their tag
Speaker 1: team title match tonight because they were challenging the New
Speaker 1: Day after they left, Dom was confronted by AJ Styles.
Speaker 1: Now they were supposed to wrestle yet Night of Champions.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen. They claimed Dom has a rib injury.
Speaker 1: Again I'm not sure I buy that, But the match
Speaker 1: didn't happen, and so Dom here produces a doctor's note,
Speaker 1: or what he claims is a doctor's note. It looked
Speaker 1: like a letter, and he presented it proving that he
Speaker 1: is still not medically cleared, and in fact, he said
Speaker 1: that he's had a stepback, So it's going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit, he says, before AJ can get his
Speaker 1: title match. So he wondered if AJ needed glasses before
Speaker 1: he read the note, and In fact, aj did pull
Speaker 1: out his glasses. He had these black frame eyeglasses that
Speaker 1: he pulled out. Looked like doctor AJ or a Grandpa AJ.
Speaker 1: And he put the glasses on and read the note
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, this note says that you're a
Speaker 1: punk ass. Styles warned Dom that he would do a
Speaker 1: lot worse to him once he got his hands on him.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to wait a little bit longer to
Speaker 1: get our championship match the New Day against Finn Balor
Speaker 1: and JD McDonough for the World Tag Team titles. You know,
Speaker 1: as bad as EO's title run has been, the New
Speaker 1: Day says, Hi, Wow, you talk about a tag team
Speaker 1: championship run for the ages, Look at the New Day,
Speaker 1: Look at the competition that they have thrown their way
Speaker 1: since they won those titles of WrestleMania. This was only
Speaker 1: their second title defense since WrestleMania. And this was a
Speaker 1: weird one because, as I mentioned earlier, Finn Balor was
Speaker 1: super over with this crowd in Pittsburgh the Judgment day.
Speaker 1: They worked the match basically like Babyfaces, and so JD
Speaker 1: McDonough also was getting cheered, but not quite like Finn Balor.
Speaker 1: He was very much the crowd favored here, and the
Speaker 1: match started with Kofi Kingston offering Balor a piece of bread.
Speaker 1: He offered him a piece of bread so that he
Speaker 1: could get some car herbs in his body. This man
Speaker 1: thought he was in church. Balor shoved it away. New
Speaker 1: Day worked over McDonough through a commercial break. Balor made
Speaker 1: a hot tag which got a nice pop, and he
Speaker 1: ran wild on the New Day. Balor hit a sling blade.
Speaker 1: He went for a dropkick. Kofe cut him off with
Speaker 1: a leaping double foot stomp. They tagged out and McDonough
Speaker 1: hit Woods with an Assagai moon salt, thankfully not on
Speaker 1: the side of the ring by the announcers. Woods though,
Speaker 1: got his his boots up as mcdonoughh came down because
Speaker 1: again this moon salt was in the ring. Every time
Speaker 1: I say a Saii moon salt, I think of the
Speaker 1: moon salt on the outside, but this one was thankfully
Speaker 1: far away from where Cole and Corey were. Balor made
Speaker 1: a blind tag. He went for a coup of grass
Speaker 1: on Woods, but Woods moved and Balor hit McDonough by accident,
Speaker 1: and Woods rolled up. Balor only for a near fall,
Speaker 1: so that was a good near fall actually because you think, okay,
Speaker 1: that might be the finish, stirring up some more tension
Speaker 1: than the judgment day, but the match goes on new
Speaker 1: day hit Ballor with their midnight hour finish, also for
Speaker 1: a close near fall. Each team took turns cheating behind
Speaker 1: the referees back, which led to Woods hitting Balor with
Speaker 1: one of the tag title belts from behind. Balor kicked
Speaker 1: out yet again. Big cheer McDonough got back in hit
Speaker 1: Woods with an avalanche Spanish fly off the top. Kofe
Speaker 1: broke up the pin, Balor gave Kingston a sling blade
Speaker 1: on the floor outside the ring. McDonough hit Woods with
Speaker 1: a moon salt on the inside, and then Balor went
Speaker 1: up top and hit the Couda grass to win the
Speaker 1: tag team titles. This got a huge baby fit, Like,
Speaker 1: if you don't watch this show week to week, you
Speaker 1: would watch this and you would think that these two
Speaker 1: guys were total babyfaces, and so when they won, the
Speaker 1: Crab was very happy to see them win. Or either
Speaker 1: that or they were just very happy to get a
Speaker 1: title change on the show. But anyway, they shot Pyro
Speaker 1: off in the back. When they went to the aisle,
Speaker 1: Dom joined them, and they all held up their titles.
Speaker 1: So now they have all the gold. They have the
Speaker 1: men's tag team titles, they have the women's tag team titles,
Speaker 1: although the women were not out there with them. But
Speaker 1: Dom has the Intercontinental title. And again big Pyro celebration
Speaker 1: in the background, So the Judgment Day is draped in gold.
Speaker 1: You know, you think the bloodline will never die. Take
Speaker 1: a look at the Judgment Day here. Every time I
Speaker 1: feel like this thing is winding down, they add another
Speaker 1: chapter to the story. And it's hardly the best book
Speaker 1: that I've ever read, but they just keep adding to it.
Speaker 1: This is an example. This match is an example, though,
Speaker 1: of how great tag team wrestling can be. This was
Speaker 1: a fun match, and it helps when you have the
Speaker 1: crowd invested, you know, in the way that they were here.
Speaker 1: But y'all said, four guys in the ring who work
Speaker 1: their asses off, like these are four great wrestlers, and
Speaker 1: they were out there and they were working a great match,
Speaker 1: and so the crowd loved it and they were hanging
Speaker 1: out to every near fall. The New Day's run is over.
Speaker 1: It was every bit as bad as EO Sky's run
Speaker 1: has been. But there isn't much. Look I say there
Speaker 1: isn't much of a division on Raw. Right. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this. It's not even a fair statement to make.
Speaker 1: If I sit here and I tell you, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not really much of a division. Right on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: I can name off the top of my head four
Speaker 1: or five teams on SmackDown. Right, you got the Street Profits,
Speaker 1: you got Phraxium, you got Dy, you got the Wyatts,
Speaker 1: you got the MotorCity machine Gun. Right, like I can
Speaker 1: name a bunch of teams off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: Los Garza pretty deadly. And then you look at Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw New Day were the tag team champions, right,
Speaker 1: they beat the war Raiders at wrestlemania'll win the belts.
Speaker 1: Who else is there? There actually are teams on this show,
Speaker 1: Finn Balor and JD McDonough right, as one of example,
Speaker 1: the Creed Brothers Alpha Academy, although Otis is out injured apparently,
Speaker 1: so right now there is no Alpha Academy. Uh, but
Speaker 1: you've got those teams. You've got Grayson Waller in Austin Theory,
Speaker 1: You've got the LWO. You can't say that there aren't teams.
Speaker 1: The teams are there. The difference is that the majority
Speaker 1: of these teams are not pushed, they're not doing anything,
Speaker 1: they're not featured. There is no there is no I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't do like a top five rankings or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So it's kind of hard to hard to
Speaker 1: see it, but there are teams there. So it's not
Speaker 1: even really accurate to say, well, there's no teams on
Speaker 1: Row they have no competition. There's plenty of competition to
Speaker 1: Triple H cared enough about tag team wrestling to really
Speaker 1: build it up. Now on SmackDown, they have been you know,
Speaker 1: at times, they've been firing on all cylinders with their
Speaker 1: tag teams. Now it's starting to feel like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: kind of running the same teams over and over again.
Speaker 1: It could use maybe another team grown in there, but like,
Speaker 1: how do you have what we see on Friday and
Speaker 1: then you see what we have on Monday. And despite
Speaker 1: what we see on Friday, it still feels to me,
Speaker 1: in terms of tag team wrestling, for the tag team titles,
Speaker 1: there's no real premium put on it by Triple H
Speaker 1: that really is all that different than what we got
Speaker 1: with Vince McMahon, and it's kind of sad. I like
Speaker 1: tag team wrestling I think tag team wrestling, what it's
Speaker 1: done right, is a lot of fun. There are some
Speaker 1: people that don't think it sells. They don't think you
Speaker 1: can headline with it that you know, it's it's all
Speaker 1: about the singles feuds, and I kind of understand that,
Speaker 1: but like, I love really good tag team wrestling when
Speaker 1: we get it, and I just don't feel that there's
Speaker 1: enough attention paid to it. And it's not all that
Speaker 1: different under Triple H than it was under Vince McMahon,
Speaker 1: and so that makes me a little sad. But when
Speaker 1: I see like Waller in Theory, like come on, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's nothing there. They don't do anything with them.
Speaker 1: Pete Dunn and Tyler Bait, I think one or both
Speaker 1: of them are injured. I don't know exactly what is
Speaker 1: going on with those two or why they vanished. Because
Speaker 1: Tyler Bate came back, remember he came back. He had
Speaker 1: one match. We haven't seen them since, So that's another
Speaker 1: example of I don't know what's going on with them.
Speaker 1: They would be a nice, you know, a little addition
Speaker 1: there to the division, but it's kind of a mess
Speaker 1: right now. The new day, My god, what can I say?
Speaker 1: Imagine just imagine thinking back to the level of heat
Speaker 1: that those two men had six months ago, right six
Speaker 1: and a half months ago, and where we are now,
Speaker 1: and it's not and I can't even say where we
Speaker 1: are now, where we were two months later, like it
Speaker 1: was already gone after two months. Like I understand if
Speaker 1: Biggie was not cleared, so Biggie couldn't come back and
Speaker 1: get his revenge. But there was something there that you
Speaker 1: could have capitalized on to really milk that heat that
Speaker 1: these two guys had, and they squandered it. They just
Speaker 1: let it go and New Day is just two guys
Speaker 1: on the show. Now. You know, it's a shame, But
Speaker 1: I will remember that brief period of time where they
Speaker 1: were coming out every single week and those two guys
Speaker 1: were getting nuclear heat on these shows. It didn't last
Speaker 1: very long. It didn't last long. It was squandered, But
Speaker 1: I'll remember Pepperidge Farm will remember. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Triple H and wwe will, but we'll always have that now.
Speaker 1: Jackie Redman was in the back interviewing Bailey. Asked if
Speaker 1: she was still focused on the Intercontinental Championship. Bailey said
Speaker 1: that she is, and she said that she would be
Speaker 1: the champion right now? Had it now been for Lyra
Speaker 1: Valkyria because Lyra got involved in her business, she said,
Speaker 1: So Lyra showed up right on cue. She took offense
Speaker 1: to those comments. Valcyrious that it's personal between her and
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch and Bailey talked about how things between her
Speaker 1: and Becky are also personal. So then Bailey and Lyra
Speaker 1: they began to bicker and shout loudly over each other.
Speaker 1: They were talking over each other and yelling and very annoying,
Speaker 1: like they would not shut up. And then Adam Pierce
Speaker 1: showed up and he finally got them to pipe down,
Speaker 1: and he booked Bailey against Lyra tonight so the winner
Speaker 1: would get a shot at Becky in her title. So
Speaker 1: that came later on in the show, during a commercial break,
Speaker 1: Byron Saxton interviewed Grason Waller up on the concourse somewhere.
Speaker 1: Waller said that he was inspired by The New Day
Speaker 1: cutting dead Weight and turning on Biggie. I thought for
Speaker 1: a second that maybe they took I say the tape, boy,
Speaker 1: I'm dating myself now, that they took a segment that
Speaker 1: they filmed six months ago and accidentally spliced it into
Speaker 1: the show. Here during this commercial break. He's out here
Speaker 1: talking about the dead weight and respecting New Day for
Speaker 1: the dead weight that they cut in Biggie. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was six months ago. What relevance does that have right now?
Speaker 1: None said he thought he could learn something. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what the point of any of these segments are. Okay,
Speaker 1: I really I don't. I don't know what the point
Speaker 1: of any of these segments are that they do with
Speaker 1: Waller and theory or theory without Waller. Waller without theory.
Speaker 1: It is the very definition of time filler. Doesn't It
Speaker 1: does not forward any kind of story. It does not
Speaker 1: help get anybody over. They are not interesting. They are
Speaker 1: a waste of everybody's time, including Grayson Wallers. Like legitimately,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we got two and a half minutes
Speaker 1: to pad before we come back from this commercial break,
Speaker 1: so let's have Jackie or let's have Byron interview Waller
Speaker 1: about the most inane bullshit that doesn't matter. Just kill
Speaker 1: time and then we'll come back and we'll move on
Speaker 1: with the important parts of the show. Just irritates the
Speaker 1: shit out of me, and it irritates the shit out
Speaker 1: of me. For him, what must he be thinking. If
Speaker 1: you're Grayson Waller and you show up to these shows
Speaker 1: every week, you're flying all around the fucking country. You
Speaker 1: show up, Okay, what am I doing tonight on the show? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're not even really technically on the show,
Speaker 1: but you'll be during one of the break segments and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna have you talk about some random bullshit
Speaker 1: that happened six months ago. Oh great. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess the check is the same, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like his pay is any different. Right, He's got
Speaker 1: his downside guarantee, he's got whatever he makes, so you know,
Speaker 1: he makes his money, he goes home. But it's gotta
Speaker 1: be frustrating, right, It's got to be frustrating to just
Speaker 1: be wasting away doing absolutely nothing, Like do you look
Speaker 1: at yourself in the mirror and say, what am I
Speaker 1: doing with my life? I just I don't understand it. It
Speaker 1: would drive me nuts if that was me, drive me nuts.
Speaker 1: You know, these are professionals who want to advance in
Speaker 1: their career. They see everybody around them getting pushed, getting
Speaker 1: pl matches, getting merch. You can't tell me that it
Speaker 1: doesn't annoy the fuck out of them. I truly like
Speaker 1: I just snapped during this segment because I'm watching this
Speaker 1: going what is the point of this? Please? Today's episode
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Speaker 1: slash solo monster. I'll tell you what wasn't a waste
Speaker 1: of time. I'll give them some praise for this. They
Speaker 1: aired a video package for Goldberg. I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: praise a Goldberg segment here. This was exactly what we
Speaker 1: needed to see. I think most fans watching this show
Speaker 1: have been exposed to Goldberg, even if it's only in
Speaker 1: the last few years, they know who he is. For
Speaker 1: the ones who don't, this is even better because they
Speaker 1: haven't seen him in his natural habitat, which was twenty
Speaker 1: seven years ago in WCW when he was at his peak.
Speaker 1: But they had a video package here set to Dominate,
Speaker 1: which is a song by Three Days Grace with highlights
Speaker 1: from his white hot run in WCW and then his
Speaker 1: not so white hot run in WWE. But they had
Speaker 1: a mix of clips, so it's good. This is the
Speaker 1: sort of thing they should be doing to try to
Speaker 1: get people invested in what is supposed to be his
Speaker 1: final ever match. So I enjoyed this video. I thought
Speaker 1: it was well done. Footage aared from earlier in the
Speaker 1: day of Chad Gable with his arm in a sling
Speaker 1: telling Julius Creed, Brutus Creed an Ivy Nile that they
Speaker 1: would need to hold down the fort while he's gone.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know. Again, Gable, if he has
Speaker 1: not already had it, needs surgery on his shoulder. Last
Speaker 1: time he wrestled it was at a speed taping on
Speaker 1: June seventeenth, So I don't know if the injury happened
Speaker 1: during the World's Collide match with the Kingo and maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't know how bad it was or it got worse,
Speaker 1: or if the injury happened on June seventeenth, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but it happens sometime during that period. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how bad the injury is. Could be out for six months,
Speaker 1: he could be out for half that. It sucks that
Speaker 1: he's going to be out at all, because you know,
Speaker 1: he was wrestling as Chad Gable. Some people think he
Speaker 1: was wrestling as someone else. He was getting a lot
Speaker 1: of television exposure. My guess is they were building to
Speaker 1: a mask versus mask match against Pent at SummerSlam, and
Speaker 1: that's off the table now. I don't know what pent
Speaker 1: is going to do now, and again that's just my guess,
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like this Americano thing only has
Speaker 1: legs to it for so long. Clearly, you have to
Speaker 1: build to a mask match, and a mask match against
Speaker 1: pented SummerSlam would have made total sense, so unfortunately it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that's going to happen now. So anyway,
Speaker 1: as the members of American Major talking here in the back,
Speaker 1: Ludwig Kaiser could be seen creeping around, lurking in the
Speaker 1: shadows behind them. Adam Pierce showed up. He wished Gable
Speaker 1: the best of luck with his surgery. Gable said he's
Speaker 1: an Olympian, said that he makes his own luck. Pierce
Speaker 1: assumed that this would also mean the end of El
Speaker 1: Grande Americano for a while. Gable said Americano was the
Speaker 1: world's greatest lutrador. He keeps a very busy schedule, but
Speaker 1: you never know. Elsewhere in the back, we had a
Speaker 1: very jubilant Finn Balor and Jad mcdonoughh approaching Adam Pearce
Speaker 1: and Nick Alldis, who were talking. Balor said he imagined
Speaker 1: that they were discussing what to do with the women's
Speaker 1: tag team titles, and he said, Riquel Rodriguez has worked
Speaker 1: very hard to be the champion and it would be
Speaker 1: very mean to strip her of the titles because of
Speaker 1: Live Morgan's injury. So Baalor suggested that they give her
Speaker 1: a new partner, just let her pick somebody else to
Speaker 1: defend the titles with. And they said, well, do you
Speaker 1: have anybody in mind? And he said, well, as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, Roxane Perez, right, who's been his new
Speaker 1: buddy over the last several weeks. So Pierce and all this,
Speaker 1: they said, let's just give us a second, and they
Speaker 1: huddled over the idea and they agreed. They said, okay,
Speaker 1: we will allow Roxane Perez to step in for Live
Speaker 1: Morgan and be one half of the Women's Tag Team Champions. However,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a catch. Said that they wanted Rodriguez
Speaker 1: and Perez to prove themselves as a team, so they
Speaker 1: would have to defend the belt at Evolution in a
Speaker 1: triple threat match, and well, actually no, I guess it
Speaker 1: would be a fatal four way because he said that
Speaker 1: they're going to have to defend against a team from Raw,
Speaker 1: a team from SmackDown, and a team from NXT, so
Speaker 1: that would be a four way. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I thought. I don't know why I thought. He said
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a triple threat match. NXT is involved,
Speaker 1: so I guess it'll be a fatal four way. So
Speaker 1: a team from each brand is who they're going to
Speaker 1: have to defend those titles against. And Balora McDonough initially
Speaker 1: were caught off guard by this, but then they agreed
Speaker 1: and they said that's fine. I will say I am
Speaker 1: surprised that we are not getting the Bells involved here.
Speaker 1: I'm not heartbroken, I'm not devastated by but it just
Speaker 1: felt like the destination here may have been putting the
Speaker 1: tag team titles on Nicki and Brie, because they've talked
Speaker 1: for years about how man we wish we want to
Speaker 1: hold those tag team titles, you know, just one time,
Speaker 1: and we saw Nicki come back. Brie has said that
Speaker 1: she hasn't been contacted at all by WW if you
Speaker 1: believe her. I still wonder if you know we were
Speaker 1: not actually going to get Live Morgan against Nicki, but
Speaker 1: we were gonna get Nicki and Brie wrestling live in Raquel.
Speaker 1: We'll never know now, but I am surprised though that
Speaker 1: they didn't go in that direction, because you know, when
Speaker 1: you think about it, like you could have had Raquel
Speaker 1: and Roxanne defending the titles against the Bella Twins at Evolution.
Speaker 1: You can even have the Bellat Twins win the titles
Speaker 1: at Evolution, just so they can say that they were
Speaker 1: Tag team champions one time. A few weeks later as
Speaker 1: Summer Slim, they turn right around and they lose the
Speaker 1: titles at Summer Slim. You can have them drop the
Speaker 1: belts to Charlotte, Alexa, Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss. I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for what a month, month and a half now, right,
Speaker 1: they're going to be Tag team Champions. I do believe
Speaker 1: at some point very soon you could have done that.
Speaker 1: You could have had Charlotte and Alexa win the titles
Speaker 1: off Nicki and Brie. Charlotte and Alexa, though in this
Speaker 1: four way match that we're gonna have an Evolution, they
Speaker 1: may well be the team from SmackDown, so they may
Speaker 1: they may end up winning the tag titles there for
Speaker 1: all we know. Because I was thinking, like, who are
Speaker 1: these teams going to be on SmackDown? You have a
Speaker 1: few different options. You've got the Secret Herbsts, You've got
Speaker 1: Meechen and BFAB, so okay, doesn't really doesn't really get
Speaker 1: me excited, right, but Charlotte and Alexa, like Charlotte's been
Speaker 1: telling Alexa to want to be your friend. I don't
Speaker 1: need I don't need friends, and yeah, very standoffish, but
Speaker 1: is there enough time for them to come together and
Speaker 1: agree to be a team because Evolution is less than
Speaker 1: two weeks away. Charlotte has given no indication that she
Speaker 1: wants anything to do with Alexa Bliss. All it would take, though,
Speaker 1: was one backstage segment where Alexa approaches her and says, look,
Speaker 1: I know what you said. I know you don't need
Speaker 1: a friend, but the women's tag team titles are going
Speaker 1: to be defended at Evolution, and I think that you
Speaker 1: and I should be in that match. We could represent SmackDown,
Speaker 1: bring tag Team gold Over to SmackDown, and then boom,
Speaker 1: You've got yourself a tag team from SmackDown. To me,
Speaker 1: that would be more interesting than just sticking any of
Speaker 1: those other teams in there. So like, I would envision
Speaker 1: this as Raquel and Roxane, Charlotte and Alexa from Raw.
Speaker 1: You could have Oscar and Kyrie, right, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know Natty and Maxine, we haven't really seen them in action.
Speaker 1: They have put together their own team. I think they're
Speaker 1: calling themselves the Dungeon Dolls. They haven't really been doing anything.
Speaker 1: I would think Oscar and Kyrie would make sense as
Speaker 1: far as NXT I don't know. I mean NXT, I
Speaker 1: know Lash Legends and Jakara Jackson are no more because
Speaker 1: Jakara Jackson is no longer there. Uh, you could do
Speaker 1: fatal Influence, you could you could do soul. Ruka and
Speaker 1: Zaria could do that. Make them a team they could
Speaker 1: represent an next day. Seamus and Russev one on one,
Speaker 1: both victims of the Deaf Rebel curse. By the way,
Speaker 1: really hit me watching Russev come out. His music now
Speaker 1: is just so inferior to his old theme Seamus's music.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't even get me started. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, so fucking Terri. It's just so awful. God,
Speaker 1: you would think someone with that level of tenure that
Speaker 1: he has had in this company like he would at
Speaker 1: least have some say in his music. How is it
Speaker 1: possible that his music is so bad? It's just so bad. Anyway,
Speaker 1: from the time Russev made his entrance to the time
Speaker 1: this match began, ten minutes had gone by. They sent
Speaker 1: this guy out to the ring to stand there through
Speaker 1: commercial breaks and videos, so finally the bell rings. This
Speaker 1: was their first singles match since twenty fourteen. They clabbered
Speaker 1: each other until Seam has caught Russev diving off the
Speaker 1: apron turned it into a power slam on the floor.
Speaker 1: Russev took over during a break after Seamus went shoulder
Speaker 1: first into the ring post. Seamus started no selling Russev's
Speaker 1: kicks and inviting him, you know, bring it. You know
Speaker 1: we've seen him do that in matches and usually that
Speaker 1: fires up the crowd, and it didn't really work here
Speaker 1: on this crowd here in Pittsburgh, but they did eventually
Speaker 1: win them over. Seamus got to his feet, he fired up.
Speaker 1: He had a backbreaker followed by a diving knee drop. Russev,
Speaker 1: though kicked out at one, Russev came back with a
Speaker 1: spinning heel kick at a fallaway slam for a two
Speaker 1: count a superplex ahead of yet another commercial break. Brucev
Speaker 1: maintained control during the break until shame has hit a
Speaker 1: white noise just in time for them to return. This
Speaker 1: is this is their formula. You know, if you watch
Speaker 1: during the commercial breaks, if you are using a VPN
Speaker 1: or maybe you're international, like to a t, virtually every
Speaker 1: single match, the heel will get heat on the babyface
Speaker 1: and there's a little countdown clock in the corner of
Speaker 1: the screen, so you know when the break is about
Speaker 1: to fade out, and then they're back live, and they
Speaker 1: come back live, and you know it's like the referee says,
Speaker 1: all right, it's time, and the babyface goes and makes
Speaker 1: us come back every fucking time. It never fails. Just
Speaker 1: change it up a little bit, I mean, that'd be nice. Well,
Speaker 1: shame has hit a white noise. Then he hit fifteen
Speaker 1: beats of the bod. When he went for a bro kick,
Speaker 1: Rusev avoided it. Russev landed a urinagi and then a
Speaker 1: leaping kick he applied the accolade. Seamus, though, managed to
Speaker 1: get to his feet with Rusev on his back, and
Speaker 1: that got a nice reaction from the crowd. They spelled
Speaker 1: out of the ring. Seamus hit a broad kick on
Speaker 1: the outside and it took nine and a half seconds
Speaker 1: for Russev to get back in the ring. He almost
Speaker 1: got counted out, so they battled on the apron until
Speaker 1: Russev thumbed Shamus right in the eye, right in front
Speaker 1: of the referee, and the referee even admonished him for it,
Speaker 1: which is why it was very strange when after the
Speaker 1: match was over, Corey Graves made the comment that the
Speaker 1: referee didn't see it, his view was obstructed, when clearly
Speaker 1: not only did he see it, but he acknowledged that
Speaker 1: he saw it, and he yelled at Russev for it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Corey got thumbed in the eye during all of this,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Russev then exposed the top turnbuckle strut
Speaker 1: that connects the ring posts to the ring to the rope,
Speaker 1: and also did that right in front of the referee,
Speaker 1: and then he reached underneath. He grabbed Seamus by the
Speaker 1: arms and he yanked him forward, so he went chest
Speaker 1: first into the steel strut, and then he followed in
Speaker 1: the ring with a Machka kick and he pinned Shamus
Speaker 1: to win the match. The match definitely dragged at times,
Speaker 1: but it did pick up in the second half. It
Speaker 1: got real good. This turned into a hell of a battle.
Speaker 1: You know. There's one thing, though, I will say, there
Speaker 1: is one thing that I don't quite understand, so maybe
Speaker 1: you can help you with this. I'm aware that throwing
Speaker 1: someone into the steel steps is not technically a disqualification
Speaker 1: because they have said it's part of the ring, so
Speaker 1: you can't be disqualified for that. Now, if you would
Speaker 1: pick up the ring steps and throw them at somebody
Speaker 1: or use them as a weapon in that way, then
Speaker 1: you can be disqualified. So I get that, Like I
Speaker 1: understand that now here with steel strut like the beam
Speaker 1: write in full view of the referee, he pulls Shamus
Speaker 1: into it, and that's not a disqualification. So then let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. Why is it that in most
Speaker 1: wrestling matches, for years and years and years, whenever somebody
Speaker 1: goes to expose the top turn buckle pad, which is
Speaker 1: very much a part of the ring right like the
Speaker 1: steel underneath, why is it that they always have to
Speaker 1: hide it from the referee. Well, they wait until the
Speaker 1: referee gets bumped or or the referee's back is turned,
Speaker 1: and they go and they cover up. And they gotta like,
Speaker 1: if it's if it's perfectly illegal, why do they give
Speaker 1: a shit If they're worried about the referee seeing it
Speaker 1: and putting the pad back on, Just take the pad
Speaker 1: off and stick it down your trunks or throw it
Speaker 1: into the crowd like it's just weird. Why do they
Speaker 1: care if that's technically illegal? Who cares? I would grab
Speaker 1: the referee and say, hey, come here for a second.
Speaker 1: I want you to watch me, and then I would
Speaker 1: do it right in front one of those wacky wrestling rules.
Speaker 1: I guess in any event, this turned into a good match.
Speaker 1: Given the finish, they're going to run it back. I say,
Speaker 1: run it back, Let's do it again. I'm ready for
Speaker 1: round two. We got another Evolution announcement pre taped announcement
Speaker 1: here from the two gms. They announced a Battle Royal,
Speaker 1: with the winner going on to a championship match at
Speaker 1: Clash in Paris on August thirty first. So I guess
Speaker 1: there you go. That's how they're going to get some
Speaker 1: of these legends into this match. Tristratus, I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: be in there. Remember she is in her twenty fifth year.
Speaker 1: This is still her twenty five year anniversary. This year,
Speaker 1: all year is her twenty fifth anniversary, so I would
Speaker 1: expect her to be in there and probably throw Nicki
Speaker 1: Bella in there, since apparently she has no match now,
Speaker 1: Nicki Andorbrie probably in that Battle Royal. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: somebody else who's going to be in the Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: Stephanie Vecer. She was not on the actual show tonight,
Speaker 1: but she was there. During one of the commercial breaks,
Speaker 1: she was interviewed up on the concourse by Byron Saxton
Speaker 1: and he was asking her about the Battle Royal, and
Speaker 1: she talked about, you know how important it is, so
Speaker 1: she's going to be in it. They're sticking her in
Speaker 1: a Battle Royal. I wish there was something better for
Speaker 1: her to do on that show, but at least there's
Speaker 1: a future World Championship match on the line, Like there
Speaker 1: is something tangible at stake, something kind of important. So
Speaker 1: at least there's something in there for her to fight for.
Speaker 1: Hopefully she wins and then she can challenge whoever the
Speaker 1: champion is in Paris. How about ariar Ripley Stephanie the
Speaker 1: care match at Clash in Paris. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that could be a WrestleMania match one day, but I'd
Speaker 1: love to see it could happen. Backstage, Jackie Redman interviewed
Speaker 1: American maid Ivy Nile talked about winning the Battle Royal
Speaker 1: at Evolution. That's kind of funny, Yeah, she's gonna win
Speaker 1: the Battle Royal, she said that Evolution. Yeah, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden as she's speaking, who shows up.
Speaker 1: But El Grande Americano. And he looks a little bit different.
Speaker 1: He looks a little bit leaner, a little taller, and
Speaker 1: Brutus Creed is just I mean, all the members of
Speaker 1: American Maid and Jackie, they're all blown away by this.
Speaker 1: And Brutus went to go make a comment and Ivy
Speaker 1: stopped him and said, you know, don't basically, don't say anything,
Speaker 1: but yeah. He walked off after that, and it was
Speaker 1: very clearly Ludwig Kaiser. So now we have a German luchador.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be Ludwig Kaiser's new gimmick now, at
Speaker 1: least until Chad Gable gets back. He is now playing
Speaker 1: the role of El Grande Americano. And on the one hand,
Speaker 1: I thin it's kind of hilarious that they took of
Speaker 1: all people, the German guy on the roster and are
Speaker 1: going to make him a Mexican luchador. Okay, that's kind
Speaker 1: of amusing. On the other hand, it's also an indictment
Speaker 1: that this is what they have come up with for
Speaker 1: him to do, because he has no role on the
Speaker 1: show whatsoever. He was getting pushed to the extent that
Speaker 1: he was at least getting TV time, and he was
Speaker 1: working matches, and then one day it just ended. No
Speaker 1: rhyme or reason, no explanation, no reports of him being
Speaker 1: injured or punished or any As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: you can trace it all the way back to when
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair mentioned Kaiser that awful segment with Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 1: and their lead up to WrestleMania. I don't think he
Speaker 1: has really been on television up until last week when
Speaker 1: he was creeping in the background. I don't think he
Speaker 1: had been on television since then. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: when Tiffany Stratton threw out the first pitch for the
Speaker 1: Mets and they've sucked ever since. They've won like two games.
Speaker 1: They have been on a horrendous losing streak. I blame her.
Speaker 1: She threw that first pitch. She overthrew the pitch. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like she put a friggin voodoo curse
Speaker 1: on this team. Ridiculous. So anyway, it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: amusing and it could be entertaining, but it's also pretty
Speaker 1: fucking sad. When this guy could be competing for the
Speaker 1: Intercontinental Championship with the US Championship on the other he
Speaker 1: could be doing something you know, meaningful as like a
Speaker 1: serious star, and it's like, well, we're not doing anything
Speaker 1: with him, so why don't we put him in the mask?
Speaker 1: It'll be funny. He could be a comedy guy in
Speaker 1: the show, all right. At least they found a way
Speaker 1: to keep the gimmick alive. Like I was wondering after
Speaker 1: the initial segment with Gable, which I'm sure was tape
Speaker 1: last week, that initial segment in the back with Gable,
Speaker 1: I actually was thinking, like, how can they keep this going?
Speaker 1: Is there somebody else on the roster, maybe at the
Speaker 1: PC or from NXT that kind of has a similar
Speaker 1: build to Gable? And then this guy showed up and
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, well I guess that idea is out
Speaker 1: the window. Okay, well we'll see you. Forgot about that
Speaker 1: whack ass promo? Oh I haven't, I haven't. I remember
Speaker 1: all the Tiffany Charlotte stuff in the build up to WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Tiffany is to blame for your bullpen collapse.
Speaker 1: She's to blame for all of it. I'm putting it
Speaker 1: all on her. This is all her fault, and so
Speaker 1: her punishment is that she has to lose her Championship.
Speaker 1: That's her punishment. No later than SummerSlam, Tiffany Stratton will
Speaker 1: no longer be the women's champion. I'm putting a curse
Speaker 1: on her right now, remember my little voodoo doll. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull it out after. I'm gonna put a curse
Speaker 1: on Tiffany Stratton that she loses her title. No later
Speaker 1: than SummerSlam Evolution or Summer Slam. She's done. She's finished
Speaker 1: until this team starts winning again. Ridiculous. So then Jackie,
Speaker 1: after all this Americano stuff, she spots Sammy's Ain off
Speaker 1: in the distance, so she goes over to talk to Sammy.
Speaker 1: He's getting his fists all taped up in preparation for
Speaker 1: the main event later and before he could say anything,
Speaker 1: he gets attacked by Carrying Cross, who of course lost
Speaker 1: to Sammy's Ain at Night of champions so Cross was
Speaker 1: still wanting him to say it. He's yelling at him
Speaker 1: say it. Sam I was right, and he picked up
Speaker 1: a pipe that was laying on the floor nearby, hit
Speaker 1: Sammy in the midsection with it, and then officials came
Speaker 1: over to separate them. So it's like, all right, then,
Speaker 1: at least we know this is not a one and done.
Speaker 1: This feud is going to continue, and there's a very
Speaker 1: good chance Sammy is going to beat him for a
Speaker 1: second time. But right, hey, there's always hope. If there's
Speaker 1: going to be a second match, maybe he wins one.
Speaker 1: Probably not, but maybe. But I was thinking, Okay, it
Speaker 1: might be one and done, and I just hope that
Speaker 1: they have something else in mind for Cross. And then
Speaker 1: I saw him attack Sammy and I said, this is good.
Speaker 1: This is good because that means this is going to continue.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get a maybe he'll get a Summer Slam
Speaker 1: match or a Saturday Night's main event match out of it.
Speaker 1: It may not have a happy ending for Cross, but
Speaker 1: at least it's going to continue for a few weeks longer.
Speaker 1: After this, we had the World Heavyweight Champion Gunther out
Speaker 1: to the ring to address his Saturday Night's main event
Speaker 1: match against Goulberg, and he has to say he's very impressed.
Speaker 1: We all saw the video highlighting Goldberg's greatest career moments.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite part. He said. It was violent,
Speaker 1: it was brutal, destructive, but like his matches, all summed
Speaker 1: up for you in three minutes, look at this gun
Speaker 1: through with the jokes gun through with the jokes on
Speaker 1: this show, he has very like low Key, turned into
Speaker 1: one of my favorite promo guys on either show. Like
Speaker 1: obviously he's not in the category with the rock or
Speaker 1: you know, some of the great promo. He's not fucking
Speaker 1: Paul Hayman out there, But just like low Key, very like,
Speaker 1: very subtle, he has turned into a very entertaining promo,
Speaker 1: very sarcastic, very dry wit. Right that fucking grin on
Speaker 1: his face, I love it, says Bill Goldberg has every
Speaker 1: right to claim that he's the most feared man of
Speaker 1: his generation, but he is not afraid of what's left
Speaker 1: of Bill Goldberg. He's a fifty eight year old man
Speaker 1: who wants to ride out his career on his coattails,
Speaker 1: one last hurrah at his expense. Says that is definitely
Speaker 1: not going to happen. Oh, Goldberg is not capable of
Speaker 1: winning the world title from him, and he knows that
Speaker 1: he's very capable of beating Goldberg in under three minutes,
Speaker 1: But beating him in under three minutes is not his goal.
Speaker 1: His goal is to take his time and blow him up,
Speaker 1: outclass him, and embarrass him in front of everybody that
Speaker 1: is near and dear to him. So he heard Goldberg
Speaker 1: say that he doesn't like bullies. So Bill, too bad,
Speaker 1: you bumped into the biggest bully around here at Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's main event. I'm going to bully you. I'm going
Speaker 1: to push you around and treat you like a piece
Speaker 1: of crap and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: And for anybody wondering if Goldberg still has it, he's
Speaker 1: going to expose that he never had it, and it'll
Speaker 1: be on Gunther to ask the question, who's next. And
Speaker 1: at that point we heard burn it down outwalk mister
Speaker 1: Money in the Bank seth Rawlins definitely not one of
Speaker 1: my favorite promos on this show. He walked out with
Speaker 1: his oracle, Paul Haim and they have a brand new
Speaker 1: Money in the Bank briefcase. By the way, they've given
Speaker 1: it a makeover. It is now black and gold. It
Speaker 1: looks much better. Black and gold my favorite era of NXT.
Speaker 1: Gunther made fun of Rollins for traveling so far, all
Speaker 1: the way to Saudi Arabia to accomplish nothing, and Rollins
Speaker 1: laughed and said that we didn't go to Night of
Speaker 1: Champions to cash in Money in the Bank. On John Cena.
Speaker 1: So for the last two years I have said that
Speaker 1: if there is breath in my lungs, CM Punk will
Speaker 1: not be a world champion in this company. And they
Speaker 1: flew all the way across the world to stand on
Speaker 1: that business. But when they won the money in the
Speaker 1: bank contract, he told the world that it was going
Speaker 1: to be an all out assault on both world titles.
Speaker 1: So let me repeat, congratulations, Champ. And he looked down
Speaker 1: at the title around Gunther's waist. Then we heard Cult
Speaker 1: of Personality. Out came CM Punk. He ran down to
Speaker 1: the ring. Gunther backed into the corner just to take
Speaker 1: it all in and watch as Punk and Rolin started
Speaker 1: slugging it out. He knock Seth down. Rollins retreated into
Speaker 1: the crowd. Punk stood on the ropes and watched him
Speaker 1: and called him a coward. And then Punk climbed down
Speaker 1: and he went to go leave the ring, and in
Speaker 1: doing so, because Gunh had moved to the middle of
Speaker 1: the ring, he walked right past guntherro but Gunther grabbed
Speaker 1: him by the arm to kind of spin him around,
Speaker 1: and Punk shoved him down to the mat, and then
Speaker 1: he looked down at gun Through and he told him
Speaker 1: to stay out of his business. Now, Rollins was amused
Speaker 1: by all this because he's watching from the stands and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can see behind him and
Speaker 1: he is completely oblivious to this, and unaware of this
Speaker 1: is La Knight, La Night. He's eating some popcorns, so
Speaker 1: when Rollins turns around, he throws the popcorn in his
Speaker 1: face and they start fighting, and Rollins is trying to
Speaker 1: get away, so they fought over. We were into the
Speaker 1: concourse area outside where all the concessions are, and conveniently
Speaker 1: both sides blocked off. You see rows of fans, but
Speaker 1: it's blocked off so they can fight. And Rollins grabbed
Speaker 1: a drink from one of the concessions. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a beer, if it was a soda,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, he threw it in Knight's face and
Speaker 1: then he ran away. And they did announce later in
Speaker 1: the show, they made it official that a week from Saturday,
Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event. Yes, it's coming up pretty quick.
Speaker 1: It will be La Night one on one against Seth Rowlins.
Speaker 1: But let me go back to what we saw here
Speaker 1: in this segment. Right. Other than Gunther's very entertaining promo,
Speaker 1: this feels to me. The other question I was asking,
Speaker 1: other than what does Rhea Ripley do at SummerSlam, I've
Speaker 1: been wondering what does Gunther do at SummerSlam? God forbid
Speaker 1: he loses to Goldberg at Saturday Night's main event, because
Speaker 1: that would be about the worst thing they could do.
Speaker 1: So let's hope and assume that he's going to walk
Speaker 1: into SummerSlam as the defending champion. Who does he defend against?
Speaker 1: And then they might kept coming back to with Cmpunk
Speaker 1: because nobody else seemed to really make sense. This feels
Speaker 1: to me like we may be heading for a triple
Speaker 1: threat match. Now you look at that and go, well,
Speaker 1: you could do that, but Rollins has the money in
Speaker 1: the bank briefcase. Yeah, but so what like My response
Speaker 1: to that is, so, what triple threat match makes all
Speaker 1: the sense in the world After what we saw here
Speaker 1: in this segment. Rollins has interrupted Gunther now multiple times,
Speaker 1: and we all know Punk wants his hands on Seth.
Speaker 1: Seth wants his hands on Punk, and now for the
Speaker 1: first time, we had an interaction between Punk and Gunther.
Speaker 1: So all three are now connected. There's connective tissue now
Speaker 1: between all three of these men. Rollins may have the briefcase,
Speaker 1: But so what, that's his insurance policy. Just because he
Speaker 1: won money in the bank doesn't mean that he can't
Speaker 1: work his way into the world title picture for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. He still has the briefcase. He
Speaker 1: could lose at Summer Slam and still cash in money
Speaker 1: in the bank at some point to win the world title,
Speaker 1: or if he wants to, he could try to win
Speaker 1: both belts. He could win the world title at Summer
Speaker 1: Slim and then cash in for the WWE title if
Speaker 1: you wanted to. So him having the briefcase I don't
Speaker 1: think precludes him from being included in a triple threat
Speaker 1: match at SummerSlam without cashing in. That's the match. That
Speaker 1: is the match as I look at it now, that
Speaker 1: makes sense as your raw main event for Summerslim this year.
Speaker 1: What they do with the money in the bank briefcase
Speaker 1: is it's almost inconsequential. It almost doesn't even matter. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it'll factor into things, but that shouldn't stop them
Speaker 1: from including Seth in this. I am more interested in
Speaker 1: that than just doing another punkin rollin singles match, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you even end it? Helena Sell? We already
Speaker 1: did that less than a year ago with punkin MacIntyre.
Speaker 1: That was an incredible match. I find it hard to
Speaker 1: believe that these two are going to be able to
Speaker 1: top what we got with punkin McIntire. You throw Gunther
Speaker 1: in the mix. I find them more appealing than just
Speaker 1: doing the singles match between Seth and Punk. You could
Speaker 1: do punkin gun through one on one, but Rollins is clearly,
Speaker 1: you know, going to be involved here in some way.
Speaker 1: Had they not announced him in La Night for Saturday
Speaker 1: Nights Made Event, I might have said, well, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: you do punkin Gunther and do Rollins against Night at SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: and then Punk will probably cash in during punkin Gunther.
Speaker 1: But you know they're doing the matches Saturday Nights Made Event,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that's going to happen. Backstage, the
Speaker 1: judgment day was celebrating. They were in a celebratory mood.
Speaker 1: Roxane Perez happily held up her new women's tag team
Speaker 1: title belt. Raquel was very upset that they were replacing
Speaker 1: liv Morgan so quickly. She just went down. See this
Speaker 1: is why Hook has issues with the Ops, because he
Speaker 1: got hurt and they replaced him so quickly with Powerhouse
Speaker 1: Hobbs and they won the trios titles, and he feels
Speaker 1: like the odd man out here. So Raquel was very upset.
Speaker 1: She says, Lives is already rehabbing, very hard, trying to
Speaker 1: come back. Baler said, look, I know from experience how
Speaker 1: hard it is to recover from a shoulder injury. She's
Speaker 1: going to be out for a while. He said, I
Speaker 1: was just concerned that you stay champion. I thought it
Speaker 1: was very unfair for them to try to strip the
Speaker 1: title from you. And so she reluctantly agreed. She understood
Speaker 1: where he was coming from. Balor called for a vote,
Speaker 1: So let's take a vote to declare Roxane Perez an
Speaker 1: official member of the Judgment tee. Which is rich coming
Speaker 1: from someone who, for weeks and weeks and weeks on
Speaker 1: television many months ago, was telling Dominic Bisterio no new members.
Speaker 1: Finn Balor was all too eager to add a new
Speaker 1: member here. And they voted, and they all voted yes.
Speaker 1: Dominic and Raquel very reluctantly did but they did vote yes,
Speaker 1: and Balor was very happy about this. Roxanne Perez is
Speaker 1: now an official member of the Judgment Day See the
Speaker 1: Ground Hug saw his shadow and so that means at
Speaker 1: least six more months of the Judgment Day, because there's
Speaker 1: no way the Judgment Day can end now until liv
Speaker 1: Morgan comes back. They're guaranteed to exist at least until
Speaker 1: she comes back. So if you're sick of the Judgment Day,
Speaker 1: too bad, because they're not going anywhere. We had Bailey
Speaker 1: one on one with Lyra Valkyria. Bailey targeted Lyra's back
Speaker 1: apply to Boston Crab until Lyra got a rope break.
Speaker 1: They collided with dueling crossbody attempts ahead of a commercial.
Speaker 1: Lyra took over, but if you weren't watching this with
Speaker 1: your VPN, you missed all of it because her offense
Speaker 1: was contained exclusively to the commercial break. As soon as
Speaker 1: they came back, Bailey hit a superplex. Lyra spilled outside
Speaker 1: the ring after a backsuplex by Bailey, and Bailey followed
Speaker 1: with a leaping elbow drop off the ring steps. Valkyria
Speaker 1: responded with a swinging neck breaker, but Bailey hit a
Speaker 1: sunset flip power bomb out of the corner or into
Speaker 1: the corner for a two count. Valkyria hit a gut
Speaker 1: wrench set out power bomb that looked cool for a
Speaker 1: two They traded cradles that led to a double pin
Speaker 1: spot with both women shoulders down on the mat. Referee
Speaker 1: Jessica Carr called the match a draw. Bailey grabbed Valkyria
Speaker 1: after the match. Lyra, though, turned around and hit a
Speaker 1: clothes line, and they wound up brawling into the crowd
Speaker 1: until officials intervened. As soon as Adam Pierce made the
Speaker 1: announcement and said that the winner of this match would
Speaker 1: get Becky Lynch next, you had to know that this
Speaker 1: was going to be the outcome here. It was going
Speaker 1: to be some kind of a draw or a no contest,
Speaker 1: so that the finish was very predictable. The match was okay.
Speaker 1: The finish though, fell very flat, but it's very clear
Speaker 1: where heading for a triple threat match at Evolution. Jackie
Speaker 1: Redman caught up with see On Punk backstage. Punk said
Speaker 1: that he had receipts for Rollin's, Hayman, bron Braun, Gunther,
Speaker 1: and anyone else who got in his way. Punk then
Speaker 1: confronted La Night nearby. He told Knight that Rollins belonged
Speaker 1: to him and to get to the back of the line,
Speaker 1: and Knight said that Punk could have him six out
Speaker 1: of the seven days of the week, but it's Saturday
Speaker 1: night's main event. Rollins is his He is the line,
Speaker 1: he says, and then he yells yeah, right in Punk's
Speaker 1: face and he walked off. And the main event Sammy
Speaker 1: Zain and Penta against bron Breaker and Bronson Reed. Penta
Speaker 1: checked in with Sammy in the back before the match
Speaker 1: to make sure that he was still okay to wrestle. Zay,
Speaker 1: who had his ribs all taped up, indicated that he
Speaker 1: was ready to go. Hell of a medical staff they
Speaker 1: have there, but off he went out to the ring,
Speaker 1: so they entered first. Then backstage at the Gorilla position,
Speaker 1: Paul Hayman was on the phone with Seth, Rollins and Bronson.
Speaker 1: Reid asked him, where's the visionary, which is a totally
Speaker 1: normal thing that a normal human being would say in
Speaker 1: the course of a conversation, Where's the Visionary? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why don't you ask the oracle? This is the reality era,
Speaker 1: this is now real people talk. Where's the visionary? Well,
Speaker 1: Hayman said that Rollins was already on a jet perfecting
Speaker 1: Plan B, and when Reid wanted to know what Plan
Speaker 1: B was. Before Hayman could answer, bron Breaker walked in
Speaker 1: said the plan is for him to smash whoever got
Speaker 1: in their way. Hayman wasn't sure that was the plan,
Speaker 1: but Breaker didn't care. He told some guy hit my music,
Speaker 1: and now they have a mashup of a bron Breaker's
Speaker 1: theme in Bronson Reid's theme. So early in the match,
Speaker 1: Penta and sam they did the Penta Dance before wiping
Speaker 1: out both opponents with stereo dives. Later on, Zane wiped
Speaker 1: out both men with an Arabian press out to the floor.
Speaker 1: There was a battle in the corner a few minutes
Speaker 1: later that led to Sammy hitting Bronson Reed with a
Speaker 1: Sunset flip power bomb for a near fall. Reid came
Speaker 1: right back with a death valley driver for a two count.
Speaker 1: Breaker knocked Zane over the announced desk with that usual
Speaker 1: leaping clothesline off the apron that wipes both of them
Speaker 1: out went to another commercial. Sammy fought back the moment
Speaker 1: they returned from the break. Who would have predicted such
Speaker 1: a thing, but there it is. The baby Face makes
Speaker 1: his come back and made a hot tag to Penta.
Speaker 1: Hit bron with a flying crossbody, kicked his leg out
Speaker 1: of his leg, hit a sling blade, Penta hit a
Speaker 1: drop kick in the corner and did the arm snap
Speaker 1: to bron Breaker. You know, it's so weird, isn't it.
Speaker 1: How Penta does the arm snap to check a Gable
Speaker 1: in the back last week, and Chad Gable shows up
Speaker 1: this week with his arm in a sling in need
Speaker 1: of surgery, and we're not going to see him for
Speaker 1: a while. And yet here in this match, and basically
Speaker 1: every single match that he's in, he does the arm
Speaker 1: snap and it has no effect on the other person.
Speaker 1: The other person is fine. In fact, not only was
Speaker 1: the other person fine here. Immediately following the arm snap,
Speaker 1: bron Breaker got this man up with a military press
Speaker 1: that got turned into a DDT by Penta, but he
Speaker 1: got him up in a military press after the arm snap.
Speaker 1: So anyway, after the DDT, Paul Hayman sees that things
Speaker 1: are not going their way, so he distracts the referee
Speaker 1: that allowed Bronson Reid to knock Penta down because he
Speaker 1: was up on the top rope. Breaker then followed with
Speaker 1: the Frankensteiner, and Reid followed with the stout power bomb.
Speaker 1: Sammy though broke up the cover Penta of he did
Speaker 1: a tsunami splash, and then he tagged in Sammy's Ain,
Speaker 1: who hit Bron with an exploder into the corner. Zay
Speaker 1: went for a halluvakick Bron though clotheslined him. Instead, Breaker
Speaker 1: went for a spear. Sammy booted him in the face, though.
Speaker 1: As he came off the ropes, Zay tried a vertical
Speaker 1: suplex on Bronzon Read, which seems like a very stupid
Speaker 1: thing for someone with bad ribs to do. His ribs
Speaker 1: are all taped up. I know what I'll do. I'll
Speaker 1: try to supplex the three hundred pound man. And that
Speaker 1: wasn't working out too well for him. Penta, though attacked
Speaker 1: Red from the apron. He gave him a hangman basically
Speaker 1: across the top rope, and then Zain managed to lift
Speaker 1: up Reed and he delivered a sup plex and he
Speaker 1: got a big reaction. There he is. Look how happy
Speaker 1: he is, Sammy Zay popping up on screen. Look at that.
Speaker 1: That's the look he had on his face after he
Speaker 1: suplex is three hundred pound men. Actually he should I
Speaker 1: mentioned this the other day. He's trimmed down, you know,
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid, He's slimmed out a little bit. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a cool two ninety four now, so anyway big for
Speaker 1: that spot, but it didn't matter because bron Breaker the
Speaker 1: Legal Man, followed that with a spear and then he
Speaker 1: pinned Sammy to win the match, so it didn't matter
Speaker 1: in the end. After the match, Penta went to go
Speaker 1: check on Sammy, so bron speared him as well. Reid
Speaker 1: went up for a tsunami, but the yeat Man's music hit.
Speaker 1: I forgot all about this guy. I forgot all about
Speaker 1: this man. But he got a huge reaction and he
Speaker 1: walked out and he had a steel chair in his
Speaker 1: hand and he hit bron Breaker with the chair in
Speaker 1: the aisle. He used the chair as a weapon on
Speaker 1: Bronson Reid in the ring, including chucking it at his face,
Speaker 1: and Reid ended up falling out of the ring through
Speaker 1: the ropes to the floor, and Jay stood tall to
Speaker 1: close out the show with Sammy's ain and with Penta,
Speaker 1: and they kind of gave you the impression that maybe
Speaker 1: we were going to get a six man tag soon,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's the case or not.
Speaker 1: In ring, there was some good stuff on this show
Speaker 1: that really is what carried this show. They moved certain
Speaker 1: stories along. It was not a very interesting show to me.
Speaker 1: It was kind of dull in parts, but the main
Speaker 1: event the tag team title change, which was really fun
Speaker 1: and the best thing on the entire show, and the russev.
Speaker 1: Seamus match, what that turned into. That really was the
Speaker 1: highlight of the show. Those three matches were the highlight
Speaker 1: for me. We got some evolution announcements, but we had
Speaker 1: to because again the show is less than two weeks away.
Speaker 1: It's all built around the women. You got to let
Speaker 1: people know what's going on here, Rhea, Ripley and EO. Sky.
Speaker 1: That should close the show, That should be the main
Speaker 1: event of the show. It sure feels like that Belt's
Speaker 1: going back to Rhea. Maybe not right, Maybe something happens
Speaker 1: that carries over and bleeds over into SummerSlam. But we
Speaker 1: got those announcements, and again, as I speak, they are
Speaker 1: taping SmackDown, which is why Raw aired two hours earlier tonight,
Speaker 1: so beware of spoilers. SmackDown is also two hours this Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm got check and see airing earlier on Netflix in
Speaker 1: other countries. I'll probably stream in my normal time since
Speaker 1: I'll be streaming an hour earlier anyway, since it's two hours,
Speaker 1: but maybe I can watch it earlier in the day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's airing in
Speaker 1: its normal time. I don't know. If the check and see,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the twitter, Paul, why don't
Speaker 1: we check that? What did you think of Raw coming
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Speaker 1: you know what that means. SmackDown is going to be
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Speaker 1: Was one segment they were hot, the next segment they
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Speaker 1: it could be tiring. I just don't want them to
Speaker 1: feel like they have to add all that fake crowd
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Speaker 1: on this final Monday night here for the month of June,
Speaker 1: he says. With Survivor series retaining the wargames concept, what
Speaker 1: do you think WWE should do this year to keep
Speaker 1: it fresh? Not do wargames. It's okay to skip a year,
Speaker 1: bring it back next year. But since they're doing it,
Speaker 1: put a top on the cage. I don't need high
Speaker 1: spots in a Wargames match. Put a fucking top on
Speaker 1: the cage. Death Scythe says, once John Cena drops the
Speaker 1: WWE title and turns babyface, he should try to win
Speaker 1: the one title that he has never held, the Intercontinental title,
Speaker 1: and check that off his bucket list and he can
Speaker 1: drop it to someone like Seamus or La Night. No,
Speaker 1: John Sena is not holding the Intercontinental time, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have no interest in seeing it, and I absolutely
Speaker 1: do not believe that that is something they have any
Speaker 1: interest in doing. He will go down as Hogan did,
Speaker 1: as someone who held all of these championships but not
Speaker 1: the intercontinental titles. I don't think hul Cogan pined to
Speaker 1: hold the IC title, and I don't think John Cena
Speaker 1: cares either. Shamus cares. I'd like to see Shamus get
Speaker 1: that title at some point, I don't think Scena cares.
Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says, can we please have the WWE draft.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for a huge shakeup for the Raw and
Speaker 1: SmackDown rosters. I am not hoping for a draft, but
Speaker 1: I am hoping for a transfer window. What does it matter? Honestly,
Speaker 1: like we had La Night Show up on Raw tonight,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. They can move people around whenever they want to.
Speaker 1: I agree there is some shaking up that needs to
Speaker 1: be done, but not with a draft, at least not
Speaker 1: with a draft the way they do them. Daniel Carlos, though,
Speaker 1: could you explain to me why it would be a
Speaker 1: bad idea to have a three man booth with Corey,
Speaker 1: Pat and Cole. Corey adds so much to the show.
Speaker 1: I know you dis like three men boots just want
Speaker 1: to hear why. I mean, there are some three man
Speaker 1: boots that have been good over the years. I just
Speaker 1: think it's unnecessary. You don't need three people in the booth.
Speaker 1: You can do it, but I don't think that. I
Speaker 1: don't think Graves and McAfee are that different enough that
Speaker 1: we need both of them on commentary at the same time.
Speaker 1: Like when WCW had a three men booth. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: back to the Nitro days, right. If you go back
Speaker 1: to those days, you had Tony Shavanni, you had I mean,
Speaker 1: and they had different teams, so it could be Larry's Abisco,
Speaker 1: it could be you know, different people. But let's say
Speaker 1: you had Shavanni, you had Bobby Heenan, and you had
Speaker 1: Mike Tenay. Shavanni was the play by play guy. He
Speaker 1: was like the host Bobby Heenan, who did sometimes go
Speaker 1: back and forth between heel and babyface in w CW,
Speaker 1: especially during the nWo stuff. But you know, he would
Speaker 1: have some comedic relief or he would play the heel role. Today.
Speaker 1: Was there specifically because of his knowledge of Lucha libre.
Speaker 1: That's what they brought him in, you know, when they
Speaker 1: started using the cruiser weight. So they all had a
Speaker 1: very distinct role to play on the announced team, and
Speaker 1: that made sense. Vince McMahon, Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross
Speaker 1: similar thing. Vince McMahon and Jr. They overlapped. Not necessary
Speaker 1: per se to have them both on there, but like
Speaker 1: Vince was the straight man, Jr. Was the guy who
Speaker 1: would share more kind of details about people's backgrounds, and
Speaker 1: Lawler was there for comic relief and to be the
Speaker 1: heel and to you know, yell puppies, and that was
Speaker 1: his role. Tell me why we need to see Michael Cole,
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee and Corey Graves on commentary? Does that really
Speaker 1: sound like a necessary trio? Are they really that different?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But they got three guys in
Speaker 1: NXT right. They have Vic Joseph, they have Corey Graves,
Speaker 1: and they have Booker T. Would I do that? Probably not.
Speaker 1: But we got to put Corey somewhere because Corey got
Speaker 1: taken off the main roster. So he's too good to
Speaker 1: not be doing you know something on these shows, so
Speaker 1: I get it they had to put him somewhere. As
Speaker 1: a general rule, I don't think that these three man
Speaker 1: boots are necessary, but sometimes they make sense in this case.
Speaker 1: I just don't see the point in doing it. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's needed. Zachary says when WCW brought Mark
Speaker 1: Madden in, that was bat well. Mark Madden was just terrible.
Speaker 1: TNA is bringing back Mark Madden for a show. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I certainly won't be watching it. Dry
Speaker 1: Chicken says the New Day heel turn on RAW has
Speaker 1: been a bust. It's time for a change of scenery.
Speaker 1: Send them to TNA, Triple A or Pro Wrestling. Noah,
Speaker 1: The New Day in TNA would be kind of interesting
Speaker 1: when you consider some of the teams there, including the
Speaker 1: Hardys New Days against the Hardys. Say New Days, New Day,
Speaker 1: New Day, New Day against Hardy's. It's a Slammiversary. Oh
Speaker 1: that reminds me there has been a change. There has
Speaker 1: been an update to the Slammiversary main event. It is
Speaker 1: no longer Joe Hendry against Trick Williams for the TNA
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship. Shockingly, I know it is now a
Speaker 1: triple threat match with Mike Santana against Joe Hendry against
Speaker 1: Trick Williams. So Santino Morella made that official on Twitter
Speaker 1: earlier for those of you who may have missed it.
Speaker 1: Dried Chicken says, let me tell you how seth rollins
Speaker 1: can get more heat bro us. He breaks into CM
Speaker 1: Punk's house, steals Larry for ransom and burns it down,
Speaker 1: says Rhea. Ripley defeats the O sky via DQ due
Speaker 1: to Oscar's interference and sets up a triple threat at SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: Why would Oscar get involved? Why would Oscar interfere? I
Speaker 1: don't I need a reason? Death's I shame we never
Speaker 1: got a feud between Rick Rude and Randy Savage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have been awesome. I can imagine Miss Elizabeth's
Speaker 1: face on Rude's tights. Oh, that would have sent Savage
Speaker 1: over the edge. Are you kidding me? He would have
Speaker 1: been He would have lost his mind, he says. At
Speaker 1: the time, would have been Royal Rumble eighty nine. Savage
Speaker 1: could have still been in the rum and Rude Warrior
Speaker 1: could have had their pose down on the second main
Speaker 1: event show. I think I want to say, maybe they
Speaker 1: had some house show matches, but yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: would have been great. Stupid we never got it, Avili
Speaker 1: with the two hundred dollars bomb? What's up? Solo Monster.
Speaker 1: It is officially Tuesday, July first shout out from Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 1: When you consider the first time the fans started booing
Speaker 1: John Cena in two thousand and five, was that the question? When? When?
Speaker 1: When do you consider the first time the fans started
Speaker 1: booing John Cena? I think that I think he's asking
Speaker 1: me when they started booing him. Well, I want to
Speaker 1: say it was weren't they already bo him when he
Speaker 1: wrestled Chris Jericho at SummerSlam that year? Right? Those were
Speaker 1: Jericho's final matches before he left for two years. Right,
Speaker 1: he wrestled Seeing at SummerSlam, and then I think they
Speaker 1: had a raw match right where Bischoff fired him. I
Speaker 1: think it was right around that time that the booze started.
Speaker 1: Favorite pizza place he says, Well, it's a local place
Speaker 1: here in New York called Original Original Pizza. They have
Speaker 1: great pizza. But when I was younger, I did have
Speaker 1: I did have a thing for pizza Hut in their
Speaker 1: personal pan pizza, a little small pizza. I used to
Speaker 1: like that when I used to have pizza. In your
Speaker 1: opinion on why WWE doesn't mention Tamna Snooka as part
Speaker 1: of the Samoan dynasty. Why would they I mean, did
Speaker 1: they do like a Samoan roll call every week? I
Speaker 1: mean what context? Would they have a real need to
Speaker 1: even mention her. I don't know when her name would
Speaker 1: even come up. But thank you Havili. I know he's
Speaker 1: got some more questions coming up here. Death Sithe gifted
Speaker 1: membership to Slasher. Yeah, I see YouTube still hasn't uh
Speaker 1: oh wait, maybe they have. They have fixed the names.
Speaker 1: Have they fixed the names? You know? That's funny because
Speaker 1: earlier the names were still fucked up. It still had
Speaker 1: the AT symbol. But I think the names are fixed
Speaker 1: now I'm seeing everybody's names. Let me know. If you're
Speaker 1: seeing your names back to normal, that's great. I thought
Speaker 1: they were going to keep them that way permanently. But
Speaker 1: I'm seeing everybody's names normal now. What a stupid change,
Speaker 1: Unless that was a glitch uh Uffman Entertainment. I know
Speaker 1: in the list, in the super chat list, it's still
Speaker 1: it's not fixed, but in the actual live chat it
Speaker 1: looks like it's fixed. What are the odds that both
Speaker 1: Chad Gable and El Grande Americano are both injured at
Speaker 1: the same time? What are the odds, you know it is.
Speaker 1: It is kind of strange, But then again, we've been
Speaker 1: hearing about so many injuries in wrestling. Is it really
Speaker 1: that surprising. I don't know. It just feels like everybody's
Speaker 1: getting hurt. WWE and AW Alexander Siraya's run with the
Speaker 1: belt was horrible compared to Mariah May's AW title run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was atrocious too. I can't remember a
Speaker 1: single thing that she did. They literally just I mean,
Speaker 1: they gave her the belt because it was it was Wembley.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason she got the belt. I can't
Speaker 1: remember a single thing she did during her run. Dried
Speaker 1: Chicken says Triple H is playing too safe when it
Speaker 1: comes to booking Eo Sky. No, he's not playing at all.
Speaker 1: There's playing it safe and then there's not even playing
Speaker 1: the game, which is funny because his nickname is the game.
Speaker 1: They haven't been doing anything with yo, So I disagree
Speaker 1: with that statement. Alexander finn Balor shall now be christened
Speaker 1: winn Balor. Well, this week he was Yes, this week
Speaker 1: he was winn Balor. Very soon he will return to
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Speaker 1: Who will end first Judgment Day or Bloodlined Judgment Day? Friends?
Speaker 1: Vegeta says. I know everyone is saying how one day
Speaker 1: braun Breaker is going to be Man of NY twenty WrestleManias,
Speaker 1: But to be honest, I'm not feeling it. Barely any
Speaker 1: character and not a good promo. Well, it's a little
Speaker 1: hard to tell when he's, you know, part of a
Speaker 1: faction where his his primary role is to stand in
Speaker 1: the background as an enforcer and not really speak and
Speaker 1: just bark and go Wolf. Eventually there will be a
Speaker 1: break breaker, will break free from Seth Rollins and his crew.
Speaker 1: I think he's in the Batista spot, and I think
Speaker 1: we'll get to see more of his personality at that point.
Speaker 1: He is going to be very limited right now in
Speaker 1: how much talking they allow him to do because he's
Speaker 1: with Hayman. I think this will be good for him
Speaker 1: in the end. But yeah, I mean the role he's
Speaker 1: in right now, he's not really going to be able
Speaker 1: to show off too much of his personality because that's
Speaker 1: not the role they have him in. He's the enforcer,
Speaker 1: He's the ass kicker, He's the silent ass kicker. He
Speaker 1: did a little bit of talking tonight though. In the
Speaker 1: back before the main event, Alexander called me crazy. But
Speaker 1: if Maxine is still training, I think she might be
Speaker 1: an okay heel. She finally snaps because no one takes
Speaker 1: her seriously. I you know, do the tag thing with Natty.
Speaker 1: It's probably the best thing for her right now. Focus
Speaker 1: on that. I wouldn't be turning her heel almost Sapien says,
Speaker 1: why are vampires so easy to fool? Because they are suckers?
Speaker 1: That is true. Alexander plot twist? What a Vinci is
Speaker 1: al Grande Americano when Kaiser wrestles. I don't know if
Speaker 1: those rumors are true. I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: Kaiser is gonna won Vinci around, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened to Vinci. I think Vinci Vinci got let go.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's wrestled a single match since then
Speaker 1: that I'm aware of. Nick Grossol. My prediction for Tiffany
Speaker 1: at Evolution is a match with Trish. Also, does Julia
Speaker 1: defend her title at Evolution? She should. Every women's champion
Speaker 1: and ship should be on the line on that show.
Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. What do you get when you mix ducks
Speaker 1: with fireworks? You get fire quackers, not a brutal Nick Grosso.
Speaker 1: Where is Blake Monroe? She hasn't been on TV since
Speaker 1: Toxic Attraction two point zero put her through a table?
Speaker 1: Is she even going to be at Evolution? Well, isn't
Speaker 1: JC Jane defending her title on that show? She may
Speaker 1: come back on that show. That might be where she
Speaker 1: shows up. Noel Mulligan, thank you for the two bucks.
Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. What do you call a parrot that flew
Speaker 1: away a polygon. A polygon Yes, terrible dried chicken oscar
Speaker 1: causes a DQ during Ria and EO. So she can
Speaker 1: be the one to take EO's world title belt. Well,
Speaker 1: who cares? I mean, she could get the winner of
Speaker 1: the match, regardless of who wins. What does it matter
Speaker 1: if it's EO or Rhea. I just I don't see
Speaker 1: her just randomly interfering in the match. I just think
Speaker 1: that would be dumb. Bobby means, what is your favorite
Speaker 1: fall brawl of all time? I don't have a favorite
Speaker 1: fall brawl of all time. That was not one of
Speaker 1: my favorite events, So I can't say that one really
Speaker 1: stands out to me. I mean, I know, I mean
Speaker 1: I know of the nWo ones that they did in
Speaker 1: like ninety seven and ninety eight, I don't remember them
Speaker 1: being anything really great. I don't think I have one.
Speaker 1: Joseph Brooks Cherish keep borrow Sell on the fantasy WCW
Speaker 1: versus WWE matches that we should have gotten Stone Cold
Speaker 1: Steve Austin against Bill Goldberg, Undertaker against Sting DX against
Speaker 1: the nWo and the Rock against DDP DX against the
Speaker 1: nWo Undertaker and Sting. Actually, you know what I would
Speaker 1: I would I would cherish Undertaker in sting keep nWo
Speaker 1: against d X, I would borrow Rock and DDP, and
Speaker 1: I would sell on Austin Goldberg too. Similar Arabian Night
Speaker 1: two thousand triple h ruined two great heel turns Sena
Speaker 1: and New Day. It's a crime with how he's booked
Speaker 1: New Day. What a wasted opportunity. I would be pissed
Speaker 1: if I were them two. I can't imagine they're terribly thrilled.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're pissed, but I don't see
Speaker 1: how they could be totally happy with how things have done.
Speaker 1: Leopard Toes, the backshots Braun could give me would be ungodly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Leopard Toes blatch that one. And Jeremy
Speaker 1: Rose sad that Seamus is hanging out with bums of raw,
Speaker 1: calling Russev a bum. One of his best friends Guy
Speaker 1: was probably at his wedding calling him a bum. Well,
Speaker 1: we are currently sitting at four hundred and thirty one likes,
Speaker 1: so you get one round to be the booker. We
Speaker 1: gotta make it count, That's what we gotta do. So
Speaker 1: it is time. Let's do it, ladies and gentlemen, it
Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. We gotta make
Speaker 1: it count because it is indeed time to be the booker.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you know who likes tag team wrestling, even
Speaker 1: if Triple H doesn't love it? This guy right here.
Speaker 1: So that's why we always start with tag teams here
Speaker 1: and be the booker. That's what we're gonna do. Let's
Speaker 1: see what tag team match we could come up with. Hey,
Speaker 1: look at this. We got the Hollywood Blondes. It's so weird.
Speaker 1: Never will not be weird. To look at Austin with hair.
Speaker 1: It's just wrong. It's just wrong. Austin and Brian Pelman
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Blondes. And we've landed on a stipulation choose
Speaker 1: two single stars to form a makeshift team. So we
Speaker 1: have to pick a makeshift team. Is that what we
Speaker 1: have to do? I guess, so that's what the rule says. Okay,
Speaker 1: what tag team? This will be very interesting. We are
Speaker 1: basically creating a tag team here that has not existed.
Speaker 1: Most likely we have Ron Killings, Ron Killings and who
Speaker 1: Ron Killings and Diamond Dallas Page as a tag team
Speaker 1: against the Hollywood Blondes. I will give them the best yes,
Speaker 1: it is a can they co exist? Team? You know what?
Speaker 1: I think DDP and Ron Killings would probably make a
Speaker 1: pretty good tag team, especially if it was like young
Speaker 1: ar Truth, like NWA champion Ar Truth. I think the
Speaker 1: potential there is quite good for that to be a
Speaker 1: worthwhile match. Talk about a random team, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: Triple H might not, but maybe we could book e
Speaker 1: Yo Sky. I know she's in there. Let's see women's time. No,
Speaker 1: not a Yo Sky, this is very different. We're booking
Speaker 1: Tessa Blanchard. Here in be the booker. We have booked Tessa.
Speaker 1: I know that'll stir some emotion here. Let's see who
Speaker 1: she's getting in the ring with. It's gonna be Tessa
Speaker 1: Blanchard against Britt Baker. Two people, two figures in women's
Speaker 1: wrestling that I would say have been controversial at different times,
Speaker 1: Britt Baker and Tessa Blanchard. It's a first time ever match,
Speaker 1: never done before. To be the booker exclusive now our
Speaker 1: main event Sammy Gavara. Sammy Gavara in the main event.
Speaker 1: Here in be the booker. Former TNT champion, three time
Speaker 1: TNT champion. I believe uh oh, breaking news, we got
Speaker 1: some breaking news. Everybody alert the authorities. Nails has escaped prison.
Speaker 1: He is armed, he is dangerous. Lock the doors, keep
Speaker 1: the kids inside. You don't want to mess with this guy.
Speaker 1: He's bad news. He tried to kill his boss. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Nails has escaped prison. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: bring you that very important update. A Vince's sweating as
Speaker 1: we speak. We got breaking news now here and be
Speaker 1: the booker. Sammy Gavara will take on the Rock and
Speaker 1: that gets us to a clean sweep. Not just the Rock,
Speaker 1: but this is the Rock right here. This is Attitude
Speaker 1: Error Rock from the early days of SmackDown. That's his show.
Speaker 1: So we had the Rock against Sammy Gavara, we had
Speaker 1: Britt Baker, Pritt Baker against Tessa Blanchard, and we had
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Blondes against Ron Killings and Diamond Dallas Page.
Speaker 1: That is our card. Yeah, Vince, Vince better be careful, man, better,
Speaker 1: he better hire some security here. Nails is coming for him.
Speaker 1: He's going to finish the job. Couldn't happen to a
Speaker 1: nicer guy. Well, anyway, we'll all be on the lookout.
Speaker 1: Wrap up with these final super chats here Hulkling ninety three,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with the DQ finish. I could see
Speaker 1: WWE having Oscar take issue with EO not choosing her
Speaker 1: for Evolution. Leo didn't hesitate with her choice. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll see that that makes sense. But see when they
Speaker 1: had their I'm trying to remember now when Oscar and
Speaker 1: EO had that little backstage not really confrontation, but they
Speaker 1: had the little backstage run in last week. Didn't SummerSlam
Speaker 1: come up right? Because Oscar, if she had one Queen
Speaker 1: of the Ring, she would have gotten a title match
Speaker 1: at Summer Slam. So I don't remember if the focus
Speaker 1: was really on Summer Slam because Oscar could still potentially
Speaker 1: get a championship match at SummerSlam. Uh Leopoldo coming in
Speaker 1: with a forty dollars drop. The idea of John Cena
Speaker 1: becoming Intercontinental Champion got me thinking about all or nothing
Speaker 1: champions like Brock, Lesnar other than him, anybody else you
Speaker 1: can think of, Hulk, Flair, Taker, They've all won tag titles,
Speaker 1: at least Goldberg as well. It may just be Brock
Speaker 1: Brock was WWE champion, he was universal champion. He was
Speaker 1: never ic, he was never a tag champ, he was
Speaker 1: never universal he was King of the Ring. Does that
Speaker 1: count he won a royal rumble, he won King of
Speaker 1: the Ring. Otherwise, yeah, no other, no other titles for
Speaker 1: other than the UFC title. Of course. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: So were there any other Yoko? Well, no, Yoko's in
Speaker 1: it as a tag team champion. Hmm. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: must have been. I just I don't know. I'd find
Speaker 1: it hard to believe if he was the only one, though,
Speaker 1: that can't be. I mean, you can count Bruno. What
Speaker 1: about Bruno? Did Bruno hold any other titles in the
Speaker 1: WWWF I don't recall him ever being a tag team champion?
Speaker 1: Maybe Bruno? Rick Flair and no, Rick Flair was a
Speaker 1: tag team champion in two thousand and six with Roddy Piper.
Speaker 1: Actually that that's what saved Piper's life was around that time.
Speaker 1: I think he had his bloodsheck the found out that
Speaker 1: he had Oh god, was it lymphoma? That tag team
Speaker 1: title run saved his life. Bob Backlan I think Bob
Speaker 1: Becklan was a tag champion as well. Duff's VIDs. What
Speaker 1: planet isn't single Saturn? It already got a ring on it.
Speaker 1: Angel O Laga seven months of membership, so happy SmackDown
Speaker 1: will be two hours again, three hours is way too long,
Speaker 1: especially for that show hasn't been very exciting for most
Speaker 1: of the last several months, has it? And Paul Carpenter,
Speaker 1: Savage versus Rude happened in Memphis, just checked again. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if it did happen on some house shows,
Speaker 1: but maybe Memphis was it. Yeah, the think about the
Speaker 1: WWF back then, there were, especially in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: there were so many feuds that were started like on TV,
Speaker 1: and we never got payoffs or like a like a
Speaker 1: pay per view match or even doing a big match
Speaker 1: like on Superstars. Like there were a lot of feuds
Speaker 1: like that. Actually Nails in the Undertaker is one example,
Speaker 1: but he something happened and he was no longer in
Speaker 1: the company, so that's why that didn't happen. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like Undertaker in Berserker Berserker, he tried to murder him
Speaker 1: with a sword once, and I can't remember them ever
Speaker 1: having any kind of a big match together other than
Speaker 1: probably howse shows. But there were a lot of examples
Speaker 1: of that, you know, and like back then there weren't
Speaker 1: as many pay per views. He had like three of
Speaker 1: them the whole year, maybe four, But because they'll show
Speaker 1: stuff on the vault or they'll have like old episodes
Speaker 1: of Superstars, and I see some of this stuff and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, they really built this thing up, but
Speaker 1: there was never any payoff to it. Yeah, but back then,
Speaker 1: you know, it was the house show business was so
Speaker 1: important back then. That's why they were running an A crew,
Speaker 1: a B crew, a C crew, sometimes a D crew,
Speaker 1: all on the same night, fanned out all over the country.
Speaker 1: Like in many ways, you still lived and died at
Speaker 1: the Gate. And today's just a very different wrestling business. Today.
Speaker 1: It's all about media rights. WWE and AW can get
Speaker 1: you know, high off the hog just from the money
Speaker 1: they make from those media rights deals. And it almost
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter what kind of product they put out
Speaker 1: on TV. It's like they're absolved because they have guaranteed
Speaker 1: money coming. And back then you didn't have that, So
Speaker 1: it was very important to save your best stuff for
Speaker 1: those live events to get people to pay for a
Speaker 1: ticket to come out. It's a very different business now,
Speaker 1: unless you know you're an independent promotion, it's a very
Speaker 1: different business now. Blue Jay says, if Cornett invited you
Speaker 1: to his pah, would you I thought they said pad
Speaker 1: like the Castle. I'm not going to Kentucky. But if
Speaker 1: Cornette invited you to his pod, would you accept. I
Speaker 1: don't know why he would. He's not going to but sure,
Speaker 1: terrible dry Chicken. This dried Chicken has a prediction. Tiffany
Speaker 1: Stratton and Blake Monroe will be a tag team act
Speaker 1: in two years. All right, you heard it here first
Speaker 1: with Sergeants, Slaughter and all or Nothing. He probably was.
Speaker 1: I don't remember him being a tag team champion, so
Speaker 1: he probably was. Did he hold the hardcore title at
Speaker 1: some point? I feel like everybody held that fucking title
Speaker 1: during that period. I don't. I don't think so, though
Speaker 1: you know Patterson and Brisco did. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think he did. So. Slaughter probably would qualify Velvet Floor.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the ten dollars. It's getting close to
Speaker 1: ten years since Finn Balor has won a world title.
Speaker 1: Do you think Finn Balor is completely out of the
Speaker 1: world title picture. I can't tell you he's out of
Speaker 1: the world title picture, as in, he will never get
Speaker 1: a title shot. Do I think he will ever be
Speaker 1: a world champion again? I don't. I think his time
Speaker 1: has come and gone, and the oracle not the visionary.
Speaker 1: We have the oracle with the dollar ninety ninety. You
Speaker 1: know if wrestlers listen to your podcast, yes, I know
Speaker 1: of several. I'm not going to tell you who they are,
Speaker 1: but do I know that some listen and pay attention
Speaker 1: to certain things? Yes, yes, some have reached out. Some
Speaker 1: have reached out. We've had some very spicy discussions because
Speaker 1: they occasionally hear things that they don't like. But that's
Speaker 1: okay and we can talk it out. In fact, there
Speaker 1: was somebody on the show tonight who would qualify anyway, Oracle,
Speaker 1: thank you. The next time I am live with you
Speaker 1: will be on Wednesday. That will be for the Dynamite
Speaker 1: post show, and then I will be here on Friday,
Speaker 1: probably normal time, normal being when SmackDown is over, which
Speaker 1: if it's eight to ten, which that's when it will
Speaker 1: be airing. I did say I would try to watch
Speaker 1: it earlier if I could. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: airing earlier elsewhere, but even if it is eight to
Speaker 1: ten on Friday, I will be live around ten thirty.
Speaker 1: So that's the way it'll be from now on. Now
Speaker 1: that SmackDown is two hours instead of three, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: I will be live on JD's channel tomorrow. That'll be
Speaker 1: episode one oh one of Tuesday Night Titans, so you
Speaker 1: can join us there. We had a hell of a
Speaker 1: show last week, so I'm sure it'll be no different tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So full week of content coming up. Going to be
Speaker 1: a very busy month of July. I hope you will
Speaker 1: join me for it. I hope you will also go
Speaker 1: back and check out episode nine to eighteen of The SoundOff,
Speaker 1: which dropped yesterday on all the usual podcast platforms. That
Speaker 1: is up for your listening pleasure. Be well, stay safe.
Speaker 1: I will see you back here right on this channel,
Speaker 1: this very channel on Wednesday or the aaw Dynamite post show.
Speaker 1: Is we inch closer to all in Texas. This Wednesday
Speaker 1: is Dynamite three hundred. We've got Kazuchka Okada against Kota
Speaker 1: Ibushi and I am sure the return of Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: on that show as well, so it should be a
Speaker 1: good time. I'll see you guys there. Take care,