WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.000 WWE was live in Saint Louis tonight for what they 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:08.439 said could quite possibly be the final match ever between 3 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:13.119 John Cena and Randy Orton. Thirty one World Championships between 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.119 these two men. They had their very first match in 5 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:18.719 two thousand and one before they were even in WWEE 6 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.440 this has been a long as WWE would say, a 7 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:26.640 storied rivalry between these two. They want you so badly 8 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.359 to believe this has been just an all time classic feud. 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.759 Whatever you think of these two, wherever you think this 10 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.240 feud falls in the history books of great feuds in 11 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.719 WWE history. It was never one of my favorites. But 12 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.479 I didn't know what to expect tonight because it was 13 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.439 really all about the crowd in Saint Louis. They were 14 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:50.679 in Randy Orton's hometown. You cannot pick a better place 15 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.119 to have heal John Cena defend his championship against Randy Orton. 16 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.079 I said coming into the show, it was all going 17 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:02.359 to come down to this crowd. This crowd. Are they 18 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.159 going to will this match into an all time classic? 19 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.519 Is that enough to carry this match? Because what we 20 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.920 have seen from John Cena over the last several years 21 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.640 and in particular even this year since he won the 22 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.439 championship and came back to WWE is a john Sena 23 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:21.799 that is very different in ring from the one that 24 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:24.120 we saw many years ago in those earlier matches with 25 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:28.079 Randy Orton. This is a john Sena that has a 26 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:31.079 ceiling to what he can do. That much is clear, 27 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.519 So a lot of the heavy lifting would have to 28 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.400 be done by Randy Orton in this match. And they 29 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.480 went out there tonight and they had a main event 30 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:40.519 that I will say, and I already saw some of 31 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.760 the comments earlier in the chat, and I agree that 32 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:47.280 the main event tonight was better than the main event 33 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.959 that we got on Night two of WrestleMania, and that 34 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.359 should never happen, by the way, but that is indeed 35 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:56.200 what we got tonight. We got, And I know it's 36 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.040 a low bar to set, Okay, we talked about how 37 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.040 awful that main event was one night two at WrestleMania, 38 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.799 so it's a low bar, but easily eclipsed the John 39 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.479 Cena Cody Rhodes match oft WrestleMania. So that's number one. 40 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.680 But these two went out there and they delivered a 41 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:18.680 match that was very early TNA horrific. So much so, 42 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.919 especially with the overbooking on the ref bumps that I 43 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.759 am sure Jeff Jarrett if he wasn't watching this match 44 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.719 live tonight, when he does go back and watches this match, 45 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.599 he will be standing up out of his chair and 46 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.039 applauding both men. My god, I lost track of having 47 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:41.039 between ref bumps RKO's attitude adjustments. It was out of 48 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.319 control in that main event. But think about it, if 49 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.879 you have someone in John c and even Orton. Orton 50 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.000 is older now, but Orton works a very smart match. 51 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:52.879 You know, he picks his spots. He's methodical, but like 52 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.599 he's Randy Orton, you know, so you expect it. It's 53 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.840 his style. But he knows just when to strike and 54 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.879 just when to move and do and do things in 55 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:04.039 the ring. That's what makes him so great. With John Cena, 56 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:05.639 like I said, he's limited. So what are you do 57 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.719 in a situation like this when you have two guys 58 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.800 going out there and they have thirty minutes because this 59 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.439 main event and I went on right at the top 60 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.280 of the nine o'clock hour. Yeah, some people forget there's 61 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.280 a UFC pay per view on right now. They had 62 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:21.360 a UFC pay per view on at ten pm, so 63 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.000 they probably wanted this show done before UFC went live. 64 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.319 If you're wondering, well, how come this show was so short? 65 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.240 They didn't go past the top of the hour. That's 66 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.840 why I don't know why some people are so surprised 67 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.520 about this. I've been mentioning this now for weeks, but 68 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:37.879 they went out there. It was nine o'clock and I said, man, 69 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.120 they're gonna give these guys a lot of time. So 70 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:41.960 of course the entrance has got a lot of time, 71 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:45.800 and they really milked the reaction from Orton's hometown. He 72 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.000 got a great reception. But this is exactly what the 73 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.719 match needed. They needed the smoke and mirrors, they needed 74 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.400 the bells and whistles, because what else are you going 75 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.599 to get out of these two if they have twenty 76 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.560 five to thirty minutes to go out there and put 77 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.319 on a main event. So thank god we got the 78 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.759 things that we got in the main event tonight, because 79 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.960 if we didn't, I think I would be sitting here 80 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.560 right now doing a very different review. Think back to 81 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:14.840 the Royal rumb what was it to twenty fourteen? I 82 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.560 think it was in the match these two had so 83 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.319 it needed that, it needed all of that, and in 84 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:24.720 the end what we got was actually the best possible 85 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.160 John scene of Randy Orton match that you could expect 86 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.759 at this stage of the game. Honestly, I don't think 87 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.720 that match could have gone any better for a John 88 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.600 scene of Randy Orton match in twenty twenty five than 89 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.879 it did tonight. It was exactly what it needed to be. 90 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.879 Did I need all of the ref bumps? And did 91 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.600 they go overboard with it? Sure? And I think that 92 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:52.680 your kind of overview of this main event is, or 93 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.000 maybe of the entire event top to bottom, may be 94 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.560 colored very much by what you thought of the overbooking 95 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.319 of that main event. If you didn't like it, if 96 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.360 you were in a fan of it, you're probably not 97 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:03.680 a fan overall of the show. But if you really 98 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:05.959 love the main event, because that's really what the show 99 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.720 was built around, your opinion of the show is probably 100 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.800 very different. I'm more in the middle trending up than 101 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:14.959 I am, you know, thinking that this show was no 102 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.600 good or this show was garbage. The show is not garbage, 103 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:19.720 but was it a show that when it was over 104 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.680 I sat here and felt like, man, that was an 105 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.480 excellent show. Man backlash was this huge show. No, I 106 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.279 didn't come away from it feeling that way. I look 107 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.240 at it like this. You know, this show had five 108 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.759 matches on it, and this is part of the Triple 109 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.680 eighth formula generally speaking, on these, you know, non WrestleMania 110 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.480 type shows, he likes to keep it to about five, 111 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.199 sometimes six, but usually five matches. And looking at the 112 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.920 card on paper, you had John Cena and Randy Orton 113 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.399 in the main event, right, which was a crapshoot, but 114 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.199 they had Goother and Pat McAfee. McAfee is not a wrestler, right, 115 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.639 just because he's wrestled, it doesn't mean he's a wrestler, 116 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.920 but it's Goother. So you knew whatever, whatever the layout 117 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.319 of the match was going to be, they were going 118 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.560 to find a way to make it work. Dominic Mysterio 119 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.120 and Penta for the Intercontinental title. How could that be 120 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.839 a bad match, right, Becky Lynch and lyra Velkyrie, We've 121 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.920 seen them work before. They've had a very good match before. 122 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:19.079 And then a fatal four way for the United States Championship, 123 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.480 which I think actually turned out to probably be the 124 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:23.399 best thing on the entire show. But we'll get into 125 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.360 everything here in a second. But as far as Sena 126 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.399 and Orton are concerned, I do wonder if John Cena 127 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.160 is just going to go around for the rest of 128 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.079 the year until we get the inevitable baby face turn, 129 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.959 kicking everybody in the dick until he drops the championship. 130 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.920 That seems to be the play here. He kicked Cody 131 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.879 Rhoads in the dick twice, he kicked Randy Orton in 132 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.399 the dick. Who's next? You would hope that whoever is 133 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:52.600 next is smart enough to be wearing protection. But I 134 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:55.399 said that years ago when aj Styles was getting kicked 135 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:57.800 in the dick all the time and brock Lesner was 136 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.480 getting kicked in the dick by the Undertaker ever other week, 137 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.639 nobody ever seems to learn their lessons, so I guess 138 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:08.480 why should it be any different today. But one thing 139 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.959 that was interesting, actually the most interesting part of that 140 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.279 main event is something that did not even happen on 141 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.040 the show. It happened when they went off the air. 142 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.920 Because this was the first time that we got John 143 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.759 Cena expressing some form of I don't know if you 144 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.839 would call it remorse or regret over his actions over 145 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.079 the things that he has said to the fans. Over 146 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:35.120 the way that he has behaved, the way that he 147 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.439 won this match tonight, because of course he won. You 148 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.040 knew he wasn't gonna lose. But it was that little 149 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:43.399 bit of storytelling that did not take place during the 150 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.480 actual Backlash show, but I think was the planting of 151 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.399 that initial seed for what we all know is coming. 152 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:51.439 We don't know when, we don't know how many more 153 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.399 months we're gonna have to suffer through the crotch attacks, 154 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.199 but we know that at some point John Cena will 155 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.560 go back to the good side because John is not 156 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.160 going to retire as a heel, and so whenever that 157 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.839 may be, we got our first little hint I think 158 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.680 of John Cena maybe having second thoughts, and I'll talk 159 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:11.279 more about that when we get to the main event. 160 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.800 That to me was the most interesting part of the show, 161 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.639 and it wasn't even on the actual show. But yes, 162 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.279 John Cena is still the WWE champion coming out of Backlash. 163 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.240 I know everybody is slow, King says, everybody getting kicked 164 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.199 in the balls. Nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. You know, 165 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:28.680 you would think that Nick all this might have a 166 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:30.639 little something to say to Randy Orton. He ate his 167 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.879 third RKO tonight. At what point does the general manager 168 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.320 do something about this. That's the third time in the 169 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.039 last few years that he has been dropped by Randy Orton. 170 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.000 I guess maybe Orton will have to write another check 171 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.960 after tonight. Bigger question now is where do we go 172 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.320 from here? I mean, they're talking about this being the 173 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:54.200 final match between John Cena and Randy Orton, and I'm 174 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.399 not so sure about that, But I mentioned Gounther and 175 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.279 Pat McAfee. This was the match I was at actually 176 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.799 looking forward to more than any other single match on 177 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.480 this show, believe it or not, because I think they've 178 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.080 done a very good job actually of building this thing up. 179 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.039 I thought those promos, those go home promos on Monday 180 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:14.240 Night from Pat and from Gunther were excellent and it 181 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.799 got me very interested to see how is this match 182 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.000 going to go? Because you don't want them to overstay 183 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.480 their welcome with it. But at the same time, if 184 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.759 it's the most anticipated match, or it was for me 185 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.080 anyway on this show, I don't necessarily want it to 186 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:32.519 be over in two minutes or three minutes, because that's 187 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.399 no good. But they also shouldn't be going fifteen or 188 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.960 twenty minutes and what we got from them was exactly 189 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.200 what it needed to be. Did it go a little 190 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.039 longer than it had to, Yes, I think it did, 191 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.639 but it was exactly what it needed to be. Between 192 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.879 those two, we had the Women's Intercontinental Championship. That may 193 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.840 have been the biggest surprise of the entire night for me. 194 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:55.639 I thought for sure Becky Lynch was coming out of 195 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.279 the show with gold, and in fact she did not. 196 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.360 Lyra Valkyria is she still the Intercontinental Champion? Lyra Valkeria 197 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:06.480 had what may have been the defining match I want 198 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.039 him to say, may have had. She just had the 199 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.159 defining match of her main roster run, if not her 200 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:16.639 entire career in WWE against Becky Lynch, and that issue 201 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.240 was obviously not over yet. But that was to me 202 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.919 the big surprise of the night. We also had another 203 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.039 surprise in the debut of a new star. We had 204 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.679 the debut of Jeff Cobb, who has been talked about 205 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.240 quite a bit over the last several weeks leaving New 206 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.960 Japan Pro Wrestling. Where is he going to go? All 207 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.679 the talk was focused on WWE and not AW. He 208 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:42.039 has worked for AW before, but he reportedly was leaning 209 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.639 towards WWE, or had already signed maybe with WWE fightful 210 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:47.720 I believe with the first ones. Weeks ago had that 211 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.840 report that he was His name was spotted on the 212 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.759 internal roster in WWE, and some people laughed it off. 213 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.000 What does that mean, He's not even there yet, Why 214 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.799 would his name be listed internally? Well, guess who's there now, 215 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.759 Jeff Cobb. I saw a report from PW Insider. Apparently 216 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:12.200 Jeff Cobb took somewhere either four or five different flights 217 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.519 from Japan all the way to Saint Louis from yesterday 218 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.639 to today to make sure that he got to the show. Now, 219 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:26.519 that's dedication. Five flights in two days, just to make 220 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.480 sure that he would get to the show on time. 221 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.720 So did they not reach out to him until very 222 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.519 late in the game to say, hey, we got an 223 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.519 idea for this show, we need you in Saint Louis. 224 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.000 You would think they'd give him a little bit more 225 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:40.360 of a heads up on that. That sounds like a 226 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:44.240 fucking nightmare. I went from New York at five o'clock 227 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.879 in the morning to Atlanta with a layover to go 228 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.840 from Atlanta to Chicago just to get to the House 229 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.200 of Glory Show last night, and now I feel like 230 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.600 a fucking idiot here I hear about Jeff Cobb. He's taken, 231 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:57.600 He's going from Japan to the US, He's on fucking 232 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.279 five different planes. But there he was in Saint Louis 233 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.600 and actually got a pretty good reaction. There were certainly 234 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.600 a number of people in that building who knew exactly 235 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:08.399 who he was, even though he has never been in 236 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:12.080 WWE before. What did he do? Why is he there? 237 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:13.960 We're gonna talk about that, We're gonna talk about this 238 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:18.759 entire show. I on the whole think that the matches 239 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.000 as far as like the n Ring, the opening match, 240 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:25.240 the women's Intercontinental match, And honestly, I could go either 241 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.399 way as far as the fatal four way or the 242 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.879 women's match as the best match on the entire show. 243 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:34.399 Because that women's match was excellent. I just tend to 244 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.840 lean towards the four way. I just I don't know 245 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.679 that the crowd was very hot for the opening match 246 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:41.759 and it was all action, and I just thought it 247 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.799 was fun. But I again, if you were to tell 248 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:46.559 me that you thought Becky and Lyra had the best 249 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:49.279 match on the show, I would not disagree with you. 250 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.799 It was the only women's match on the show, and 251 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.360 it was probably the best thing on the show, so 252 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.559 I enjoyed it. Overall, it did not feel like a 253 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:02.039 terribly important show. It really did feel like, Okay, we 254 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.799 have to do a show, and so let's come up 255 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.639 with a card on paper. It was far from the 256 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.679 strongest card the WWE is put together. When you go 257 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.360 into a show with low expectations, a lot of times 258 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.159 what ends up happening is when you keep your expectations low, 259 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.519 you at least meet those expectations and probably exceed them 260 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.919 a little bit. To me, that was backlash. That's how 261 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.279 I would describe Backlash tonight. We'll talk about the entire 262 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.840 show here, from top to bottom. This is your WWE 263 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:33.960 Backlash twenty twenty five review. I am the Solemn Master. 264 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:38.120 Thank you for joining me here live on a Saturday night. Hey, 265 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.080 we gotta talk about our truth as well. I was 266 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.360 talking about our truth last week, possibly having involvement in 267 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.639 that main event. He was out there too. 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They opened the show 280 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:26.679 with the fatal four way for the United States Championship, 281 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.159 Jacob fa Tou defending his US title against La Knight, 282 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.279 Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre, and I'm gonna have an 283 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:37.679 update on Drew McIntyre here in a little bit as well. 284 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:43.320 McIntyre said that if you saw SmackDown last night, and 285 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.320 I did catch up on SmackDown after I got home 286 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.480 very quickly. I just kind of breezed through it because 287 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.639 I wasn't here last night. But McIntyre said it best 288 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.720 on SmackDown that this should have been one on one. 289 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.039 Drew McIntyre really did. He got screwed again because, as 290 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.600 he pointed out on SmackDown, La Knight lost at WrestleMania. 291 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:11.080 Damian Priest lost at WrestleMania. Drew McIntyre not only did 292 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.679 he win at WrestleMania, but he beat l A. Knight 293 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.039 in a Number one Contenders match on SmackDown a few 294 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.159 weeks ago, and somehow this ends up being a fatal 295 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:25.600 four way. I'm on McIntyre side. The man got jobbed here. 296 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.000 He's right, He's one of those heels that what he 297 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.600 says makes a lot of sense, and he's right. He 298 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.639 gets booed, but he's right. So anyway, he was looking 299 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:42.440 to become a Grand Slam champion here in this match Knight. 300 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.960 He was the first one out and Knight got a 301 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.759 Monster pop, and part of it maybe was like people 302 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:50.200 were just excited the show was starting. But also he's 303 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.200 still over, so he comes out, he gets a monster pop. 304 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:57.240 Jacob Fat too though, despite that, Jacob fa to the 305 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.799 clear fan favorite here in this match, row Row Roman 306 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:05.799 reigns gently down the stream. Hey David is here, David 307 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:09.799 the Roman reigns gently down the stream. Rowan Roman. Roman 308 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.039 was not on the backlash car Roman is on vacation. 309 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.759 I don't think we're gonna see Roman again, certainly not 310 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.320 on a on a plee until the next one. I do. 311 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.240 I do believe he will be a money in the bank, 312 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.200 but we're not going to see him for a little while. 313 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.720 But with Punk being back, I think it's only a 314 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:30.840 matter of time before we see Roman back on SmackDown 315 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:35.960 in the next few weeks. But the reactions for Jacob 316 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:40.879 thought too. They get louder and louder with each passing week. 317 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.279 So even though he really is still technically a heel, 318 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.879 the fans are dictating that they want him to be 319 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.360 the chosen one. Big things are in this man's future. 320 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.399 All you have to do is listen. Put your ear 321 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.679 to the door, cup your ear brother, and just listen. 322 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.200 And it gets louder and louder and louder each week. 323 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.319 So Priest and Night they teamed up for a high 324 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.559 low style move on FA two. McIntyre went on a 325 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.319 whole run of offense, doling out neck breakers to everybody 326 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.279 he kicked up. He went for a claymore to FA two, 327 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.039 but he got cut off by La Knight. Priest then 328 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.920 went on a run of his own the crowd chanted 329 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.079 we want tables. He also threw a clothes line at 330 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.839 McIntyre that sent him over the top rope to the floor. 331 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.480 There was a spot here where Priest came charging in 332 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.880 towards Fa two. He was outside and Fatu scooped him 333 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.319 up and gave him a samoan drop on the top 334 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:38.279 part of the timekeeper's barricade just planted and boom right 335 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:41.240 on top. And then Fa Tu looks and he locks 336 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.400 eyes with McIntyre. Now McIntyre was also outside of the ring, 337 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.039 but he was on the opposite side. But they lock 338 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.240 eyes and then they slowly on either side make their 339 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.240 way into the ring. Now we have a stare down 340 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:58.240 between them and the ring, and they started exchanging fire. 341 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.119 Fa two put McIntyre down with a pop up samoe 342 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.319 and drop followed that with a running hip attack, and 343 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.519 then Fa Tu went up top got cut off though 344 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:11.200 by Drew, who gouged at Fatu's eyes. McIntyre joined fat 345 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.839 tow on the ropes. Here comes La Night though to 346 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.160 trip up McIntyre and now he's upside down in a 347 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.920 tree of woe. And Night goes up top, but he 348 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.319 got headbutted back down to the ring by Fa Tu. McIntyre. 349 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.880 Now he powers himself up upright and he pulls Fa 350 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.960 Tu off the ropes with a souplex, but in so doing, 351 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.039 fa Tu lands on Night. Then he shoots right back 352 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:39.079 up and he hits McIntyre and then dives out onto Priest. 353 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.119 At ringside, the fans went crazy for this. He went 354 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:43.839 on a run of offense here that again like these 355 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.519 people were losing their minds and they were going crazy 356 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.440 for Jacob Fatu. So Fa Tu returns to the ring. 357 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.440 He hits a Swanton bomb on McIntyre, but then Knight 358 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.359 drops Fat two with a BFT, but there was Damian Priest. 359 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:59.000 He puts Night down with the south of having chokes 360 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.440 lamb but then McIntyre he takes down Priest with a 361 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:06.240 Claymore kick. Priest, though, fell on top of Night and 362 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.079 would have had the match one had McIntyre not been 363 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.079 there to break up the pin. So McIntyre hit Future 364 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:15.599 Shock ddts on Fa two and on La Night. Then 365 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.079 he counted down. He drilled Night with a Claymore kick 366 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.640 and he had him beat. He had that Grand Slam title. 367 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.440 It was within his grasp, but Priest at the very 368 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.319 last possible second, pulls the referee out to the floor 369 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.839 and breaks the count. Michael Cole said that Priest just 370 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:37.039 screwed McIntyre out of another championship. Another screw job for 371 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.720 Drew McIntyre. This guy gets screwed more than a porn star. 372 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:46.319 So Michael Call after making mention of that, we see 373 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.720 Priest and McIntyre fighting into the timekeeper's area. They crashed 374 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:53.119 and burned on the concrete floor in the ring. Fatu 375 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.480 went for the double jump Moonsal that night was able 376 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.279 to avoid. Knight went to the ropes. He did his 377 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.400 double jump into an elbow onto a standing Fatu. Then 378 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.160 he went and did it again, this time to him. 379 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.400 He was laying down this time and he hit the 380 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.160 elbow covered him only got a near fall. So now 381 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.519 they cut back to Drew MacIntyre and Damien Priese. Now 382 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:16.279 they're in the crowd and they are brawling on top 383 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.839 of a couple of equipment cases. Priest then delivers a 384 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:24.160 South of Heaven choke slam that sends both men crashing 385 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.240 through two tables down below. It was a hell of 386 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:29.559 a spot and that was the last we saw of 387 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.759 them in this match. Both men were out. Officials came out, 388 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.920 actually medics to check on them. You know what, this 389 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:39.440 reminded me of this very similar in a very similar 390 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.720 spot in the Damien Priese Bad Bunny Street fight two 391 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:46.160 years ago in Puerto Rico. At backlash, Priest gave him 392 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:49.359 a falcon arrow off some of the equipment cases through 393 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.680 tables down below, same kind of spot, and that was 394 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.359 a spectacular spot. And so was this because they were 395 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:59.240 pretty high up there when they did this, So medics 396 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:00.799 are out there to check. I'm both men now. I 397 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.240 mentioned that I would have an update on Damien Priest 398 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.680 and Drew McIntyre. Far as I know, Priest is okay. McIntyre. 399 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.319 According to Mike Johnson on PW Insider, apparently his head 400 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.799 missed the table, so as hillacious as that bump looked, 401 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:17.960 it sounds like his head may have smacked the ground 402 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:20.559 and he was being checked on. I don't know if 403 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:24.480 they fear a concussion. Maybe it turns out he's okay, 404 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.839 but they were concerned enough that he's being checked out. 405 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.160 Apparently that's all we know right now. But yeah, that 406 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:33.960 was not good. If his head missed the table and 407 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:38.079 hit the floor with that kind of impact, that's not good. 408 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.480 So back at ringside, Priest ran FA two into the 409 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:44.079 ring post and then slammed his head on the announced desk. 410 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:47.720 Night lays Fa two. He places him on top of 411 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.119 the announced desk, and La Knight is teasing his own 412 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.440 elbow drop from the top rope onto the announced desk. Now, 413 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.599 we've seen people do this before. We've seen Shane McMahon 414 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:02.279 do this before. We've seen Logan Paul Logan. Paul makes 415 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:04.960 it look easy and he gets some distance on his 416 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.799 La Knight was far enough away, or at least from 417 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.359 the way they shot this with the camera. I don't 418 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:14.079 know why. It just looked farther away than maybe it 419 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.440 normally would be. There was no way that he would 420 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.000 have cleared that announced desk. There's no way. There's just 421 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:25.880 no way. But we'll never know. Because Solo Sokoa came 422 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.359 out I don't know where he came from the crowd, 423 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:31.720 I guess, and he pulled Jacob fought to off the 424 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:36.599 table to safety. Night went after Solo when he got 425 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.319 punched by a man on the other side of the 426 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.839 timekeeper's barricade who reached over and punched him right in 427 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.839 the face. And we couldn't tell at first who this 428 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:46.039 person was, but it turns out that it was Jeff 429 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:51.759 Cobb making his Wwe debut, fresh off the new Japan roster, 430 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:56.680 fresh from Japan, apparently very fresh from Japan, as in yesterday, 431 00:22:57.480 --> 00:22:59.599 and there he is now. At first, we didn't really 432 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:01.759 have a great look at his face and took a 433 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.960 few seconds, so the crowd didn't really react that much 434 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:07.440 at like they could tell somebody was there and they 435 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.680 attacked la night. But when they got that close up 436 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:12.839 shot of his face, he got a hell of a 437 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:17.200 pop from the crowd. So whether there were that many 438 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.720 people who really did recognize him and knew who he was, 439 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.319 or it was just a very vocal minority of people 440 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.279 in the building, he got a nice pop for his 441 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.480 first appearance. And really, if you're just a WWE fan 442 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:30.880 and you're very sheltered, you live a very sheltered life, 443 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.720 and you don't really watch any other wrestling, But even 444 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.480 if you do, if you watch TNA, maybe this new 445 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.200 partnership between them I get you watching TNA for the 446 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:43.920 first time if you watch AW even me, because he's 447 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:47.400 wrestled in AW before but not very often, Like, you 448 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.200 really shouldn't know who this man is, but there were 449 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.680 enough people who did, so that was kind of unexpected. 450 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.279 To be honest with you, Michael Cole did identify him 451 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.000 by his name. He said, that's one of the biggest 452 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:03.799 free agents on the pl planet. That's Jeff Cobb. 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Solo stepped aside as if 504 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.880 to say, okay, go ahead, finish the job, get in 505 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.079 the ring and take care of business, and fatwo. He 506 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.319 took his time. It was like a good I felt 507 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.599 like ten to fifteen seconds. He's standing there and he 508 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.000 just has this look on his face. I don't know 509 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.799 if it's confusion. I don't know if it's mistrust, but 510 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.200 clearly he was not clued in about what was happening here. 511 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:16.440 But then he did just that. He got into the 512 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:19.119 ring and he hit the Mighty Moon Salt and he 513 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:24.359 pinned l a Night to retain the championship. After the match, 514 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:27.839 Fatsu looked at Solo, he looked at Cob at ringside, 515 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:30.279 and then he walked between them and he headed to 516 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:32.920 the back. He walked right past them by himself. He 517 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:36.599 didn't leave with them, but he was looking back like again, 518 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:40.079 he either just didn't know what was going on. I mean, 519 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.799 I don't know if the story is that, like, who 520 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:43.480 is this guy? Like he doesn't know who he is? 521 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:46.079 Maybe that's going to be the story, or it could 522 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:47.839 just be that he knows exactly who he is and 523 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:51.200 he doesn't trust him, and Solo didn't clue him in 524 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:52.519 that he was going to be here and he was 525 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:55.319 going to be part of the bloodline, which evidently it 526 00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:57.640 looks like Jeff Cobb is going to be part of 527 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.759 the bloodline here. The bloodline will never die. I've told 528 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.599 this to you before. The bloodline will never die. And 529 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.640 that's just with Samoans from the actual bloodline. It will 530 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:12.359 never die. You start incorporating all of the non blood 531 00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.559 members of that family and forget about it. The bloodline 532 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:19.759 can continue on infinitely for decades. It will never end, 533 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:23.480 it will never die. Just when you think things are 534 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.880 kind of winding down a little bit, it just bubbles 535 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.000 right back up again. Now I don't think Cobb is 536 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:32.799 of Samoan descent, to my knowledge, I don't think there's 537 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.240 any connection familial connection there at all whatsoever. But then again, 538 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.240 there isn't with Tomatonga and Tonga Lowe either. I mean, 539 00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:44.119 I know that friendly with the family and they consider 540 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.359 them like brothers and members of the family, but they're not. 541 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.319 So it's not as if we haven't had bloodline members 542 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.519 other than Sammy's ain in the past who are not 543 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:56.119 technically part of the bloodline. They kind of broke that 544 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:58.920 seal a long time ago. They can pretty much add 545 00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:01.720 anybody they want to with this point. Seriously, they could 546 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:04.759 add El Grande Americano to the bloodline if they want to. 547 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.319 At this point it doesn't really matter. But Jeff Cobb 548 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:14.240 has found a role now in Solo's bloodline. I'm wondering, 549 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.599 especially if Cobb had to travel in last minute like that, 550 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:25.000 if that story is accurate. It makes me think Toma 551 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:27.680 Tonga is injured. I don't know what the injury is, 552 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.519 but he's going to be out for a while. Tongaloa 553 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:35.519 is already injured, and so they need members. If they 554 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:38.599 weren't planning on just ending the bloodline, which clearly they're 555 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.200 not going to do that, they need members because they 556 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:44.559 lost Tama and they lost Tongaloa. Was it a case 557 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.839 where we need guys, We need bodies in this group. 558 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.400 Solo needs somebody. We have to add somebody in this 559 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.039 story as we continue the slow burn as far as 560 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:58.559 Jacob and Solo, because eventually Jacob will either be kicked 561 00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:01.759 out or he'll break away. But we need somebody, and 562 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:04.519 so let's put Cob in there. And that's why they 563 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:06.359 came up with the idea to put Jeff Cobb in 564 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.000 the bloodline. That's that's where my head is out on this, 565 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:12.279 just because they lost guys and now they need to 566 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.720 replace those guys with somebody else. But you know, if 567 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:20.400 that's the case, poor Hicculeo, Hicculeo is in shambles right now, 568 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:22.960 and that lands Atawaii guy. I mean, he may not 569 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:25.200 make it, so isn't that right? 570 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:25.480 Dave. 571 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.000 But I thought this was a very good opener, very 572 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:32.480 hot crowd for it, a lot of action, and it 573 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:34.799 was an impactful debut for Jeff Cobb. You know, they 574 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.480 found a way that you know, it's fairly significant. He's 575 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:42.640 being interjected here into a pretty prominent, i would say, 576 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:45.200 middle of the card storyline right now with what's going 577 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.839 on with Jacob and Solo. But it's a good spot, 578 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:49.640 you know, for Cob to be in instead of him 579 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.799 just coming in and just kind of having a Russev 580 00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:55.119 debut where you know, he just shows up and he's 581 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.880 just on his own. Nobody really knows who he is. 582 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.640 At least Russev had the benefit of, you know, having 583 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.839 had all those years in the company before people knew 584 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:05.039 who he was. Obviously in Saint Louis there were a 585 00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:07.440 lot of people who knew who Cobb was. But the 586 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.240 wider WWE audience is going to have to be educated 587 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.440 about who this guy is, and they'll do that as 588 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.319 they've done with Fat too. They'll do that on TV. 589 00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:20.519 But very good opener. I enjoyed this this. If this 590 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:23.240 wasn't the best thing on the show Bell to Bell, 591 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.160 it was the second best thing on the show bell 592 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.400 to bell. But also I have to point this out. 593 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:32.440 The US title scene on SmackDown all of a sudden 594 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:35.559 is really cooking because you've got Jacob with the title. 595 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.680 La Knight has lost the whole bunch of times now. 596 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:40.079 I don't know what the plan is for him, but 597 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:44.559 you got La Knight, Drew McIntyre, Damian Priest, You've got 598 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:46.759 you know, obviously, you've got the members of the Bloodline, 599 00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:50.119 the other members now Cobb and Solo, and at some 600 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.960 point as things begin to break down, you know, might 601 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.039 we see one of them challenge for the US Championship. 602 00:31:57.359 --> 00:31:59.359 And there are other people as well who can be brought, 603 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.799 you know, into the US title scene as well. Alistair 604 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:05.039 Black just debuted Carmelo Hayes if they want to ever 605 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.640 give him a serious push. So you know, the US 606 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:11.759 title picture right now is looking a lot stronger than 607 00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:18.440 the intercontinental title picture is on Raw. Hopefully that can continue. 608 00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:23.400 But up next, speaking of championships, we had Becky Lynch 609 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:32.000 challenging Lyra Valkyria for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. Chris wants 610 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.880 to know where is Hicculeo. I don't know, you know, 611 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.480 when you find out, let me know, nobody seems to know. 612 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.440 Nobody really seems to have any idea where Hicculeo is. 613 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:47.119 He's being hidden away. Off It's a direction you can fuck. 614 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:49.519 And that's what I was told when I contacted w 615 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:53.160 w WE to ask about Hicculeo. The Rock literally picked 616 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:56.000 up the phone and told me that off is the 617 00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:59.119 direction that I can fuck, and then he tried to 618 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.960 sell me some Poppa Yo. Before I move on here, 619 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:04.799 the other thing about Jeff Cobb I should probably mention 620 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.960 is I first began watching his work when I was 621 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.240 watching Luca Underground. He wasn't Jeff Cobb and Lucia Underground. 622 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:17.799 He played the character in Matanza Matanza Quato and he 623 00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:21.000 was a masked star on the show, but he was 624 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.599 awesome former Lucia Underground champion, and so that was my 625 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:28.000 first exposure to him. Now, now, Cobb is not a 626 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:31.880 big guy as in tall, you know, he he's got 627 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.480 he's got a very interesting build to him, a little unorthodox. 628 00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:43.200 So Becky Lynch and Lyra Valkyria Lynch in Valkyria they opened, 629 00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:47.359 they had a little shoving match and Valkyria trapped Lynch 630 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.920 in a swinging pendulum submission, which was kind of cool, 631 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:54.000 and then from that she transitioned into a surfboard stretch 632 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:58.279 submission to maintain control. Remember what Lyra said on Raw 633 00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:02.200 in her promo, she said, I'm a better wrestler than you. 634 00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:06.319 So this was Lyra's showing Becky, look look at all 635 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:09.880 the things that I can do that you can't. So 636 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:12.480 Lynch gained control though after a while. It took Lyra 637 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:17.320 to ringside and she held Lira's face out while she 638 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:21.400 was taunting. What I thought was a fan And I 639 00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:23.440 just gonna be honest with you, what I thought was 640 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:25.960 a fan in the front row. And I would have 641 00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:29.199 never known had Michael Cole not told me that that 642 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:34.320 was Lyra's fiance or what was it? What did Elaine 643 00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.079 say on that one episode of Side Feel my fiance, 644 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.079 I've lost my fiance? Well, he was right there in 645 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:43.199 the front row, and I was like, wow, okay, and 646 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.320 then you know, I'm looking on social media and of 647 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.880 course people are just mocking this guy. And I had 648 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:50.920 no idea that he is a wrestler. He is a wrestler. 649 00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:55.679 He wrestles, I believe over in Ireland or wherever. I 650 00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:57.960 don't know where he's wrestling these days, But yes, he 651 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.760 is a wrestler, isn't just looked like a random fan 652 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.079 in the crowd. I don't know what promotions he currently 653 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.719 wrestles for, but he is a wrestler, so the more 654 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:11.599 you know. So back in the ring, Valkyria rallied with 655 00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:15.760 a fisherman's supplex, then came a superplex for a near fall. 656 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.400 Valkyria rolled Becky into a pin only for two Becky 657 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.519 reversed it, and the referee caught Becky holding the ropes 658 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.039 for leverage while she was going for the pin. I 659 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:27.480 was like, oh, come on now, I thought they might 660 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.599 do a title change off a lame finish like that. 661 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:35.079 Thankfully they didn't, so Valkyria then jumped from the ropes 662 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.119 and hit a leg drop to the back of Becky's neck. 663 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.440 Then she went for a moon saw, but Becky got 664 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:43.000 her knees up and they traded strikes in the middle 665 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.039 of the ring. Becky took Lyra down and went for 666 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.559 the disarm her. Valkyria, though, escaped and put Becky in 667 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:52.800 an arm bar. Becky rolled onto Valkyria into a pinning 668 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:56.000 position to break the hold. Becky applied to disarm her. 669 00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:58.920 Valkyria did the same thing and rolled her into a 670 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.239 pinning predicament was able to get out of that. Moments later, 671 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:04.960 Becky hit a manhandle slam, only for a near fall, 672 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.480 and this woman was shocked. She was shook. She thought 673 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:13.840 that was it, but Lyra kicked out. So Becky went 674 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.559 to ringside. She grabbed a chair from the timekeeper's area 675 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:18.559 and then she got back into the ring with it. 676 00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:21.079 Jessica Carr was the referee, and so she sees this 677 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.719 and she immediately takes the chair away from Becky. So 678 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:26.880 while the referee is getting rid of the chair, Becky 679 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.719 goes and unties one of the top turnbuckle pads. So 680 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.599 then she goes and hits another man handle slam and 681 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:36.760 then again only gets a near fall. So now Becky 682 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:41.320 is pitching a fit. She tries to run Lyra into 683 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:44.800 the exposed turnbuckle. The referee got in the way and 684 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.719 then went out to the floor to retrieve the turnbuckle pad. 685 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.599 Because it was so important here that at this very moment, 686 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:53.400 as it feels like we're about to hit the pinnacle 687 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.159 the peak of this match here, I must go outside 688 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:59.840 so that I can tie this turnbuckle pad to cover 689 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:02.679 the steel. So she goes and gets the turnbuckle pad. 690 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:05.480 While she is trying to put the pad back on, 691 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.000 Lyra of course gets Becky up for her night wing 692 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:14.159 finish and she drops her. And those first few very 693 00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:18.440 precious seconds, there's no referee. Jessica turns around, she sees 694 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.199 the pin. Nah shit, She throws the turnbuckle pad down, 695 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:25.679 goes to count the fall. Becky kicks out. So Becky 696 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.840 stuffed another night wing attempt. Then she thumbed her in 697 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.199 the eye. And I'm not sure if she thumbed her 698 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:32.519 in the eye or maybe she got her on the 699 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:35.400 bridge of the nose, because from that moment forward, Lyra 700 00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.199 was favoring her nose the entire time. But at that 701 00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:41.679 point both women traded roll up attempts. Only Lyra's was 702 00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:46.599 successful and she pins Becky and she retains the Intercontinental title. 703 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.039 So Lyra was holding her nose even after the match 704 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.199 was over. And I didn't see any blood or anything 705 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:58.519 like that, but clearly, you know, she she got bopped 706 00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.519 in the nose. I don't know again and how bad 707 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:03.199 it was. It could have just been selling. But what 708 00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:05.199 was weird about it is that when the match was over, 709 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:08.800 Becky freaked out and she locked her in the armbar, 710 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.360 and she's wrenching on Lyra's arm, and Lyra isn't screaming. 711 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:15.920 She's not really doing anything to sell the arm. Even 712 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.079 in the immediate aftermath once they officials come out, they 713 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:21.719 finally get Becky to get off of her. She's not 714 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.039 selling the arm so much as she's selling the nose. 715 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:27.320 She's still holding her nose, so it didn't really even 716 00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:29.199 make any sense unless she really did get hit in 717 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.119 the nose. So Michael Cole on commentary said that she 718 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.960 may have broken her nose. I don't know about that, 719 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:39.199 but she was definitely favoring it. We were two for 720 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:42.360 two so far at this point in the show. First 721 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.320 match was very good. This was also very good. I 722 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.840 would even say excellent. They had an excellent match. A 723 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:50.320 surprising finish because I really did think we were going 724 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.960 to get a title change here. Surprise, buten not disappointed. 725 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:57.400 I don't mind that it went the other way. I 726 00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.719 think it was a very strong match and a very 727 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:03.039 strong showing. You know, for both women, but especially for Lyra. 728 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:06.239 Becky is the established name on this roster. We know 729 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:08.360 what her resume looks like, we know she can go 730 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:11.079 out there and have great matches, because she's had great 731 00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:16.440 matches before with Lyra in NXT. But with Lyra and 732 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:20.960 with Trish and with Charlotte, I mean, you fucking Sasha, 733 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:22.840 going all the way back to the NXT days, you 734 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.920 want to run down the list of great Becky Lynch matches. 735 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:26.960 We know what this woman can do, especially with the 736 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.280 right opponent. So Lyra is the one who has been 737 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.119 really unproven so far on the main roster. You can 738 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.239 see how talented she is. You can tell the company 739 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:39.320 thinks a lot of her, and they think very highly 740 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.239 of her. They called her up last year and right 741 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:44.719 before Becky left and went away and retired. For that 742 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:48.239 roughly one year period, she was trying to give Lyra 743 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.360 the rub right. They kind of were associating on television together. 744 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:54.920 You could tell that this company really sees something in Lyra. 745 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.639 We just haven't had the chance to really see her 746 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.719 come out of her Shelle yet. Day was the first 747 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:03.079 time where I really watched her and I said, Okay, 748 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.559 this feels different. We're seeing a personality shift. We're seeing 749 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.800 a side of her in her promo when they were 750 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.480 going back and forth that we haven't seen from her. Yet, 751 00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.000 like that promo that she cut on Becky on Monday 752 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:17.280 was different than any other promo we've heard her give 753 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:21.480 on television since the day she debuted. And that's maybe 754 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.440 the biggest thing about this feud so far. It's been brief, 755 00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:28.039 but so far it has allowed Lyra, I think, to 756 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:29.800 show a side of herself that we just haven't been 757 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:33.199 able to see before. So she can talk, she can 758 00:40:33.239 --> 00:40:36.599 work her ass off, and I just think that all around, 759 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:38.480 and on top of that, she fucking won, which is 760 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.159 even better because I could be sitting here telling you, well, 761 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.280 you know, she lost, but even in defeat, she looked 762 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.480 good and she got this and that's all well and good, 763 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:50.679 But she fucking won, which is even better. So I 764 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:54.840 really did. I enjoyed this match a great deal. The 765 00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:57.360 other thing I would also mention is that just because 766 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.599 Becky did not win the championship here does not mean 767 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:01.880 that she is still not going to win the championship. 768 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:04.199 This is not over, This is not the end of this, 769 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:06.519 Especially based on what they did here in the postmatch. 770 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.159 I am thinking we get a rematch at Saturday Night's 771 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:13.119 main event in a few weeks. I do think Becky 772 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:14.880 is gonna end up winning that belt. The only thing 773 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:19.760 that might change my mind is Bailey is the wild 774 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:23.239 card here. So when Bailey comes back, we already know 775 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:26.599 Bailey is going after one person. She's going after Becky. 776 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:29.800 The only question is does she go after Becky after 777 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.840 Becky wins the title, or does she go after Becky 778 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:36.760 and effectively cost Becky the title and she never wins 779 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.679 it and then Becky goes off to feud with Bailey. 780 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.920 That's the only thing I'm not sure of. But this 781 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.400 is what I was talking about before, even by Becky 782 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:48.920 and Lyra, just by virtue of them working this match. 783 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:51.400 The reason I have said that I have no issue 784 00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:54.719 with Becky winning the Intercomental Championship, especially because in the end, 785 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:57.719 Lyra's just gonna win it back from her. Anyway, it 786 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.480 helps the championship if it is on a big your name, 787 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.440 because so far they've done I think a relatively poor 788 00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:07.320 job of really establishing both of these mid card women's championships. 789 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.960 So I look at it almost as a necessity at 790 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:13.159 this point. But even if she doesn't win it, look 791 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.480 at what we got tonight. Do you realize a little 792 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:18.719 factoid for you in all the months that this Women's 793 00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:21.679 Intercontinental title has been a thing. Okay, and this goes 794 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:24.599 back to January, the beginning of the year. This is 795 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.599 the first time that this championship has been contested on 796 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:33.320 apl E And you know why that happened because Becky 797 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:36.719 Lynch was in the match. And if Becky Lynch was 798 00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.079 not in the match, this fucking match would not have 799 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:42.519 been on this show. They didn't even get a title 800 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.840 defense to Wrestlemany, but it took a bigger name being 801 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:49.800 involved to put a greater spotlight on this match. And 802 00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.360 that was the point that I was getting at. So 803 00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:56.199 surprised but not disappointed to see the Lyra get the 804 00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.119 win here Saturday Night's main event. That's what I'm thinking. 805 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:02.960 That's when we get the rematch. Now, from one icy 806 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:09.199 title we go to another. We had Dominic Mysterio defending 807 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:13.039 the intercom Meental Championship against Penta and this is where 808 00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.039 the streak ended. I said we were two for two. 809 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:18.800 This is where the streak ended. And I don't say 810 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:21.519 that to say that this match was not good. The 811 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:24.960 match was bad. It wasn't a bad match. I'm not 812 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:26.440 saying that at all, but this was not at the 813 00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:29.000 level of the first two matches. This really did feel 814 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.480 like a raw match, especially with the finish they did. 815 00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.360 Penta hit an early backstabber Dom then crouched him on 816 00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.199 the top rope and knocked him to the floor, and 817 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:40.400 this right here was one of the two best parts 818 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.079 of the entire match. Dom follows with a suicide dive 819 00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.320 into a DDT on the floor. I've never seen him 820 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:50.800 do this before. He's adding moves, He's adding new moves 821 00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.119 to his arsenal, so that was cool. Later on, pent 822 00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.760 To hit a crossbody block onto Dom on the floor 823 00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:59.360 from the top of not even the top rope, but 824 00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:03.320 the the ring post casing, and he dove out onto him. 825 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:05.960 Back inside, pent To block the three Amigos and then 826 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.280 avoided a six y one to nine attempt. Penta used 827 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.920 a crucifix pen to get a two count. Dom came 828 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:16.360 back with liv Morgan's Oblivion finish and did not do 829 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:19.719 it justice because he did not win with it. But 830 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:23.960 then he came back with a Mexican Destroyer to Dom 831 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:28.599 on the fucking apron and then they both tumbled and 832 00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:31.400 fell to the floor. So that was the cue for 833 00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:35.440 Carlito to walk out and run distraction with the referee. Meanwhile, 834 00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.519 JD McDonough and Finn Balor they hop over the barricade 835 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:40.519 out of the crowd. Referee does not see them yet 836 00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:45.639 and mcdonoughh is holding Penta and Balor has a clear 837 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:47.440 shot at him, and he goes, oh no, no, wait, wait, wait, 838 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.519 hold on, I'm gonna get a chair. So he goes 839 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:56.000 over to the timekeepers area. Then he retrieves a chair, 840 00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:59.079 but he has now wasted so many precious seconds that 841 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.039 by the time he turned it comes back over. The 842 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.519 referee has turned around, and the referee now spots them 843 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:10.519 on the outside of the ring. So Penta then dives 844 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:13.519 over the referee because he ends up in the ring. 845 00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:17.119 He dives over the referee and hits a flip dive 846 00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:20.360 out onto Carlito and McDonough. Balor climbs up on the 847 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.440 apron argues with the referee while Penta is on the ropes. 848 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:27.599 And so now the referee is being distracted. And while 849 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:32.320 this is going on, we had someone else show up 850 00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:36.559 at ringside here for this match. The brand new speed champion, 851 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.800 fresh off of his Cinco de Mayo win. Yes, El 852 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:47.519 Grande Americano makes an appearance here and he climbs up 853 00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:50.800 the ropes and he headbutts Penta off the ropes with 854 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:55.159 the loaded mask. Penta is knocked out, he falls backwards 855 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:58.239 to the mat. Dom goes up, he hits a frog splash, 856 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:01.320 and he pins Penta to So we got the usual 857 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:04.559 Judgment day bullshit at the finish. I mean, it's like 858 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:08.039 a requisite every single fucking match with this stuff. Here 859 00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:11.800 comes Carlito, here comes Dom, here comes McDon We see 860 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:14.840 it every week. So we got the usual Judgment Day 861 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:17.320 interference here. But you had to know that it was coming. 862 00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.280 I'm not saying that that makes a good it sucks, 863 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:24.159 but you had to know it was coming, because what 864 00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:27.039 did you think? Dom just won the title at WrestleMania. 865 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.199 He wasn't losing this title. But did you honestly believe 866 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:31.960 the Dominic Mysteria was going to go in there and 867 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.599 beat Penta clean. That would make no sense. It doesn't 868 00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:36.760 even fit his character to do that. He's the chicken 869 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.599 shit heal. He needs help, he needs help from his girlfriend, 870 00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.280 he needs help from his friends. That's how he wins 871 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:46.760 matches or at WrestleMania. He'll steal the pin from somebody, 872 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:49.840 but whatever, he'll do whatever it takes. He's not going 873 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.679 in there and beating Penta clean. So you knew somebody 874 00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:57.280 was gonna get involved here, So everybody got involved, multiple 875 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.239 people got involved. And you know, look, I'm I'm not 876 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:03.440 thrilled that Penta took a loss like that. I know 877 00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:05.320 people are going to say, Oh, the bloom is off 878 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:10.800 the rose. That's it. He's buried. He's being buried. We 879 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:16.440 knew this was going to happen. Calm down, let's see 880 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.360 where things go for Penta. I will tell you this, 881 00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:21.920 Penta as over as he is right now, and I'm 882 00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:24.800 happy for him. I'm happy that he got over so 883 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.119 fast in front of this audience because you just never know, 884 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.320 right these people, they don't know who he is. You 885 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:33.079 never know how a new audience is going to take 886 00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:36.280 to him. And all the presentation is so important. But 887 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.880 his presentation is bang on and he's doing very well. 888 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:46.119 All that being said, I miss murderous Penta, I miss Pentagon, dark, 889 00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.960 Pentagon black, whatever you want to call him. I would 890 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:54.320 like to see that version of more violent, sinister version 891 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:58.000 of Penta at some point in the near future. I 892 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.760 don't want to wait two years to see it. So 893 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.440 this is all well and good, but if we're going 894 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:07.039 to continue or start to see him losing more matches 895 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.000 like this and he just sort of settles in at 896 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:13.199 a certain level, they need to do something about that, 897 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.079 because he's better than that. I don't want to see 898 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:18.280 him settle. I want to see him maintain that momentum, 899 00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.199 even if it means turning him heel. But I mean, 900 00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:23.239 like really fucking heal, Like where he's going around breaking 901 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.320 people's arms. You know, he has the sacrific he calls 902 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:29.559 it the sacrifice. He uses a sacrifice in his matches, 903 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:33.000 but I mean it's a setup spot to the finish, right, 904 00:48:33.280 --> 00:48:35.719 I want to see him going around breaking bones, is 905 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:39.280 what I want to do. At some point, we need 906 00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:42.920 to get that version of Penta. This babyface like going 907 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.079 around to the kids and everything. I mean, that's all 908 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.480 well and good, but again, you know, fuck those kids, 909 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:50.199 all right, at some point we need the darker version 910 00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:52.119 of Penta. My fear is that we're not going to 911 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.679 get it because at some point they're going to want 912 00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:58.599 to do a Lucha Brothers reunion, of course, naturally, and 913 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:03.559 that really doesn't work as a heel. So I get it. 914 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:05.519 I get it. We're probably not going to get that 915 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:10.360 anytime soon. But it's one loss, all right. I know 916 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.360 he didn't win at WrestleMania either, but he didn't get 917 00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:15.760 pinned at WrestleMania. Here he got pinned. As long as 918 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:17.880 they don't make a habit out of it, then I 919 00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:21.159 wouldn't worry too much about it. Let's not start using 920 00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:26.400 the B word. Then we had the match that, as 921 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:29.519 I said earlier, this is the one that I was 922 00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:33.440 most looking forward to coming into this show. It was 923 00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:35.440 the match that intrigued me the most, and I thought, 924 00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.079 you know, outside of Saint Louis Loving, Randy Orton obviously 925 00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:41.719 would have the most heat out of anything on the 926 00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:47.760 entire show. Michael Cole apologized to us before this even started. 927 00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:51.639 He told us that in twenty eight years of working 928 00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:54.320 in this company, of having a career in professional wrestling, 929 00:49:54.960 --> 00:50:00.599 he has never been biased. And I was like, excuse me. 930 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:05.000 Did they use the men in Black mind blanking device 931 00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.599 on him to completely wipe out the heel turn that 932 00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.679 I had to sit through and endure for years on 933 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.960 end until it finally ended after he saved Jerry Lawler's life. 934 00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:18.440 Now we didn't have to suffer through heel coal anymore, 935 00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:23.239 because I remember those days of heal Michael Cole. He 936 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:27.039 sounded pretty fucking biased to me, but he would have 937 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:29.559 you believe that in twenty eight years, he's never been 938 00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.760 biased before. But he likes to think that he's earned 939 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:36.920 the right to share his opinion. Right, he's earned that right, 940 00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:40.320 only missed three days of work in twenty eight years. 941 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.039 We should be allowed to give our opinion on things, 942 00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:47.000 and it's unfair that we have to get assaulted or 943 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.639 attacked or intimidated by people because of it. So yes, 944 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:53.480 I'm going to be biased, he said towards Pat McAfee, 945 00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:56.679 my friend, my colleague here in this match, because he 946 00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:02.760 doesn't like good So Pat entered first, as he should. 947 00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:07.880 Gunther walked out and this guy, he was rubbing his 948 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.880 hands together like he was getting ready to dive into 949 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:15.800 a nice steak dinner. He was ready for this. He 950 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:19.280 had a big smile on his face. So McAfee took 951 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:23.400 his jersey off and tossed it into the crowd. Crowd 952 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.760 chanted you tapped out at Gunther. Gunther gave McAfee a 953 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.519 clean break early in the match and patted him on 954 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:35.159 the head. McAfee struck Gunther, and then he tried to 955 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:37.159 jump into the ring. He tried to he was on 956 00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.360 the apron and he tried to jump over the top 957 00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.400 rope into the ring and he tripped. He didn't clear 958 00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.639 the rope and he tripped, but he very quick, like, 959 00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:49.039 he didn't stop for anything. He got right back up, 960 00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.360 didn't give people a chance to really digest it. And 961 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.679 Cole even on commentary, he's like, well, look that's it's. 962 00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:58.000 First of all, it's the inexperience, but also he's got 963 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.960 the adrenaline pumping. He's all fired up, he's all nervous. Like, 964 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.079 I like the way he at least explained it away, 965 00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:05.920 because it is like he's in there and he's not 966 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.440 he's not a wrestler, right, he doesn't wrestle on a 967 00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:12.360 regular basis. But he's in there and he's all full 968 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:14.639 of just you know, piston vinegar, and he's ready to 969 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:18.559 go after this guy and you're gonna make mistakes. So 970 00:52:18.599 --> 00:52:20.239 at least he didn't get hurt. At least he didn't 971 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:23.519 fucking tear anything. So anyway, he got right back up 972 00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:26.320 and he charged a Gunther who put him down with 973 00:52:26.360 --> 00:52:30.480 a big chop. Gunther chopped McAfee again, and then he 974 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:34.239 looked over at Michael Cole and he smirked. Cole asked 975 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:36.599 him because he's looking up at Gunther and it's like, 976 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.800 just cover him and end it, which I'm sure was 977 00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:44.000 very encouraging for Pat McAfee to be listening to as 978 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.320 he hears his dear friend in broadcast colleague Michael Cole 979 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:50.679 repeatedly telling his opponent just cover him and end it. 980 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.519 Gunther's not gonna end it. That he's having too much fun. 981 00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:58.719 Why would he end it? So he's toying with McAfee. McAfee, though, 982 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:01.119 Fire's back with a chop of his own. Gun Through 983 00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:04.679 immediately puts him down with a big boot. So guntherer 984 00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.199 holds the ropes open for Michael Cole. He's telling Cole, 985 00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:10.599 once you come on inside. Wade Barrett's on commentary. He 986 00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:15.639 did commentary tonight with Cole, and he advised Cole to 987 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:21.280 sit down and avoid eye contact with Gunther. Wade is 988 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.760 the only one with brains, honestly, in this entire thing here, 989 00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:26.760 he was the only one smart enough not to get 990 00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:31.360 himself involved. He's like, sit down, Okay, you're not a wrestler, 991 00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:34.320 sit down, do not make eye contact with this man 992 00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:37.000 and just mind your own business for crying out loud. 993 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.199 He's the only one with brains. McAfee threw a big 994 00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:44.400 slap at Gunther, and Gunther though put him right down 995 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.159 with a chop. So he places McAfee on the top 996 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:50.400 turn buckle and then he goes up behind McAfee and 997 00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:54.159 he's trying for a gut wrench souplex. McAfee, though avoids it, 998 00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:57.440 elbows him off the ropes, and Pat goes for a 999 00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.119 moon salt. Now Guntherer moves out of the way with 1000 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:03.480 Pat lands on his feet. Gunther goes for a German supplex. 1001 00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:07.159 Only McAfee. He kind of sort of landed on his 1002 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:10.639 feet and he threw a kick. McAfee then punt it 1003 00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:14.280 because he was a punter, so he is kicking gun there. 1004 00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:17.719 He punts gun there, you know, not like the way 1005 00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.719 Randy Orton didn't punch him in the fucking head, but 1006 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.719 threw a punk kick at him, basically covered him and 1007 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:24.960 Gunther kicks out at one. He's like, yeah, we're not 1008 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:29.000 doing this. He kicks out at one. Some moments later, 1009 00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:32.280 Guntherer puts McAfee down with a power bomb and Cole 1010 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:34.960 again outside the ring, is yelling for him, just end it, 1011 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.440 Just end the match. You know, I could recall many 1012 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:43.639 times years ago one of the John Cena Randy Orton 1013 00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.840 matches from their classic feud, where I believe I was 1014 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:50.480 muttering those very words to myself as I was watching 1015 00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:52.559 that pay per view. I don't remember which one of 1016 00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:56.599 their eight hundred matches it was, but I too was 1017 00:54:56.639 --> 00:55:02.559 sitting here, going end it please. Gunther has no interest 1018 00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:05.440 in ending it though. He puts McAfee in a Boston crab. 1019 00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:10.920 So now Cole's seen enough and Michael Cole he takes 1020 00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:15.039 off his headset and the crowd now gets loud all right, 1021 00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:19.039 because they think Michael Cole, Actually, what do they think 1022 00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:22.000 Michael Cole was going to do here? If they really 1023 00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.760 cared about this man, they would be expressing concern. They 1024 00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:28.920 wouldn't be encouraging him to get involved in this match. 1025 00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:31.159 But he puts his headset down and he goes over 1026 00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:35.639 and he's gonna play cheerleader for Pat McAfee. So Gunther 1027 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:41.119 grabs Cole, pulls him into the ring, and a commentary 1028 00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:43.760 Barrett is going on, that's a fifty eight year old man. 1029 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:48.159 What are you doing well. You know what, that fifty 1030 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:50.480 eight year old man had no business putting his headset down. 1031 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:55.920 That's what happens. Today's episode is sponsored by Factor. 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So McAfee 1071 00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:05.159 catches gun Through with a kick that allowed Cole to 1072 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:09.000 scamper back to the floor. McAfee rolls up Gunther for 1073 00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:12.679 a two count. Gunther now tries to supplex McAfee, who's 1074 00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:16.280 on the apron, and he's gonna supplex him back into 1075 00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:19.199 the ring. Now, Michael Cole is right there and he's 1076 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:21.239 kind of hunched down like he almost doesn't want to 1077 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:25.480 be seen. And Gunther tries to supplex McAfee back into 1078 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:28.840 the ring, and Cole reaches up and he trips Gunther 1079 00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:32.039 so that McAfee falls on top of him. So he 1080 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:34.880 did the Bobby Heenan spot. Okay, this is how Bobby 1081 00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:38.239 Heenen helped Rick Rude beat The Ultimate Warrior to win 1082 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:42.679 the IC title. And I'm watching this and I almost 1083 00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:45.880 had a fucking heart attack watching it because I'm just thinking, 1084 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:51.239 don't you dare, don't you dare even think about it? 1085 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.559 And thankfully they did. No, I mean, they thought about it, 1086 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:57.320 but they didn't do it. And Gunther kicked out because 1087 00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.719 I thought for sure, like at that moment, I'm like you, 1088 00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:02.199 so you better not be doing what I think you're 1089 00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:05.519 about to do. But they didn't. Then gun they kicked out, 1090 00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:08.119 So gun theer he stares down Cole on the floor 1091 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.519 like you can't believe what just happened here because referee 1092 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:13.599 didn't see it. McAfee sneaks up behind Gunther and he 1093 00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:16.320 puts him in a choke. He puts him in a sleeperhole. 1094 00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:22.159 Gunher though, gets out of it because he just destroys 1095 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:25.320 this man with the lariat, okay, turns him almost inside out. 1096 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:28.760 So then he puts McAfee in a sleeper hole, and 1097 00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:30.920 he got him down on the mat, and it looked academic. 1098 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:32.960 It looked like, okay, Pat's fading and this is going 1099 00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:35.400 to be the end of it here. But then McAfee, 1100 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:37.079 you know, his hand is kind of falling. But then 1101 00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:41.920 it's like he hulks up. He's hulking up, okay, and 1102 00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:45.559 he manages to power out of it enough that Gunther 1103 00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:48.760 actually gets back to his feet, but then Gunther ends 1104 00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:50.400 up taking him back down to the mat for a 1105 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:53.639 second time. Pat's trying to get the arm up, guntherer 1106 00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:57.400 uses his leg to trap the arm and then eventually McAfee, 1107 00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:00.599 as he should goes nighty night, and the free calls 1108 01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:03.840 for the stoppage and Gunthro wins the match, which is 1109 01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:07.199 the only outcome of this match that was possible here. 1110 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:09.239 So when the match is over, Cole gets into the 1111 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.840 ring he's gonna go check on Pat, and Gunther is 1112 01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:14.320 looking down at both men. McAfee gets to his feet, 1113 01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:18.840 So now you've got McAfee and Cole standing there and 1114 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:20.719 Gunther is standing there, and we don't know what's gonna 1115 01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:23.960 happen here. And I'm thinking, are we gonna hear are 1116 01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:27.800 we gonna hear the music? Are we gonna see him? 1117 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:31.320 Are we gonna see Goldberg make it appearance here? There 1118 01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:33.760 was no Goldberg. There was no Goldberg on the show. 1119 01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:39.199 That's good. But instead Gunther is looking at that McAfee 1120 01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:41.760 and I almost thought he was putting his hand out 1121 01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:44.360 for a handshake at first, but he was basically just 1122 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:48.079 sort of nodding to him as a show of respect, 1123 01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:52.159 and then he left and that was it. Gunther paid 1124 01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:55.320 respect to Pat McAfee. It's one of the things I 1125 01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:58.599 like about his character because for so many years. You know, 1126 01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:02.800 the top heels monster heels, not all the monster heels, 1127 01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:06.440 but it was a Vince McMahon thing where they all 1128 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:09.760 operated the same way more or less. Right, there really 1129 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:13.039 weren't a lot of shades of gray. They cheated, or 1130 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:17.079 some of them were chicken shit heels, but very rarely, 1131 01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:21.039 you know, did a match end, for example, and the 1132 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:24.320 heel would go for a handshake, or the heel would express, 1133 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:28.400 you know, outward respect for their opponent. We saw what 1134 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.159 happened last year in Saudi Arabia when Gunther lost to 1135 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:35.440 Cody Rhodes. Right, he went over to Cody, he said 1136 01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:38.000 some stuff to him, paid respect to him. I think 1137 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.719 he shook his hand and he left. It's like, huh, interesting, 1138 01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:45.119 And that's kind of what he did here. Because Gunther 1139 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:48.199 is the kind of heel where, whether you know, the 1140 01:01:48.239 --> 01:01:50.960 other guy beats him, or even if they don't beat him, 1141 01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:52.960 but they put up a hell of a fight, He's 1142 01:01:53.039 --> 01:01:56.039 not above showing respect to his opponent. So that's what 1143 01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:58.800 he did here. That's how I read it. He's done 1144 01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:02.679 it before. It's kind of his thing. You don't necessarily 1145 01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:05.320 expect it. I wasn't expecting that to happen here. I 1146 01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:08.280 thought he was going to drop him again, but he didn't, 1147 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.159 and then he left and that was it. So they 1148 01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:16.920 gave them fourteen minutes for this. Fourteen minutes is what 1149 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.039 this got and can't really argue it because the crowd 1150 01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:25.199 ate it up. The way they laid this match out 1151 01:02:25.239 --> 01:02:29.719 was exactly how this match should have gone. Send them 1152 01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:33.400 out there. You have gun the underestimate this man, even 1153 01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:36.239 though I'm raw, he said he wasn't going to. He 1154 01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:38.400 had that big smile on his face like he knew 1155 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:41.239 how this story is going to end before it even ends. 1156 01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:45.159 And then get Pat some hope spots, let him rally 1157 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:47.760 the audience. The crowd was firmly behind him. You know, 1158 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:50.800 sometimes you get that heel, that really super heel crowd 1159 01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:54.760 where they either just cheer for all the heels or 1160 01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:56.639 they decide, you know what, we want to see Gunther 1161 01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.760 murder this man. We would like to witness a murder here. 1162 01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.480 And they didn't do that. They were behind Pat, they 1163 01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.159 were behind Cole. They played their role in this match 1164 01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:10.000 and they were hot for it the entire time. McAfee 1165 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:12.639 did his part. You know, he got tripped up in 1166 01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:17.000 that one spot, but so what and Gunther is gun there. 1167 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:20.920 You know, he's always great, He plays his role exactly 1168 01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:23.679 how he needs to. He's got that smug look on 1169 01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:25.800 his face, like he knows he's better than everybody and 1170 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:27.679 it just annoys the shit out of you. But he 1171 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.559 can't really argue it. The guy's been a champion for 1172 01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:33.760 eighty five percent of his run there. I am curious though, 1173 01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:37.800 like if they don't tie this in with Goldberg's retirement match, 1174 01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:40.119 because I have to assume that Gunther is still going 1175 01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:42.320 to be the guy that they have lined up for 1176 01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:46.239 that spot, and Goldberg himself has said that he's having 1177 01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:49.440 the retirement match in the summer. Right, Summer is not 1178 01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:53.719 that far off. Summer is next month, which really only 1179 01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:59.159 leaves two options Night of Champions because it's Saudi and 1180 01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:02.599 they might want him in or SummerSlam, which is what 1181 01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:06.199 I'm thinking. So how did they get to that match? 1182 01:04:07.519 --> 01:04:10.679 I thought this would be the connection. You know, McAfee's 1183 01:04:10.679 --> 01:04:13.880 got the NFL background, Maybe he calls in some reinforcements 1184 01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:16.159 if he needs help. Not in the match, but like 1185 01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:18.519 if they were to continue this, based on what we 1186 01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:22.760 saw here, this looks like it's one and done. I 1187 01:04:22.760 --> 01:04:25.039 guess we'll find out on Monday, but certainly the way 1188 01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:28.000 he paid respect to Pat didn't lead me to believe 1189 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:30.480 that this is really going to go any further. So 1190 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:32.880 what are they going to do with Gunther now? He's 1191 01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:36.960 not in the title picture? It feels now coming out 1192 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:40.199 of this like until and unless we get to the 1193 01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:43.679 Goldberg thing, he's sort of on an island all onto himself. 1194 01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.760 Maybe he disappears again for a few weeks, I don't know. 1195 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:51.639 If not the Goldberg match, I don't know where he 1196 01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:57.000 goes next. He's just in this weird almost holding pattern 1197 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.920 right now where he just doesn't really have a spo 1198 01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:02.679 you know, certainly not for the two top titles. Those 1199 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:05.719 are occupied. And so if he's not wrestling for a 1200 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:10.840 world championship, then what do you do with him? So 1201 01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:13.159 that'll be interesting to see if we even see him 1202 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:15.559 on TV this week or if he goes away for 1203 01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:18.159 a little while. But I enjoyed this for what it was. 1204 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:19.960 I don't think it needed to go fourteen minutes. I 1205 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.880 think you could have shaved a few minutes off of it. 1206 01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:25.840 But it worked. It worked exactly the way that it 1207 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.440 was supposed to work. And then we get to the 1208 01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:36.840 main event for the final time. Maybe John Cena defends 1209 01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:41.679 the WWE Championship against Randy Orton. Right at the top 1210 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.000 of the nine pm hour is when the entrances began 1211 01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.519 for this match, so you knew they were getting out 1212 01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:51.360 of there no later than ten pm. Randy Orton comes 1213 01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:55.639 out first. They brought back the decibel meter for some 1214 01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:58.760 of the entrances, so for Randy's entrance, they had it 1215 01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.880 in the lower left corner. I don't even know how 1216 01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:04.239 accurate it is. It's just the fucking graphic they put 1217 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:08.000 on the screen. I don't know. Do they have somebody 1218 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:10.760 in the back measuring the decibel level and piping out 1219 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.119 real numbers. I don't trust anything I see with this company. 1220 01:06:14.119 --> 01:06:16.559 But they were loud. That's all you need to know. 1221 01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:19.559 They were in Saint Louis. They sang his song. I'm 1222 01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:22.119 sure Randy had his family there, his friends were there, 1223 01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:25.360 his dad was probably there, his wife, his kids. It's 1224 01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:28.039 a big night for the Orton family. Could he win 1225 01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:32.480 championship number fifteen? That was the question coming into this show. 1226 01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:38.719 And then John Cena comes out, very basic graphics, title 1227 01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:42.800 belt turned backwards. Same John Cena entrance that he's been 1228 01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:47.679 making since he went heel. Alicia Taylor did the ring intros, 1229 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.199 and we were off to the races for what very 1230 01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:53.079 well may be the final John Cena Randy Orton match. 1231 01:06:53.079 --> 01:06:56.320 And it started with a collar and elbow tie up 1232 01:06:56.519 --> 01:07:01.159 between these two into the stalemate. Then offered a handshake 1233 01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:04.960 and he poked Randy in the eye instead. Randy returned 1234 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:07.320 the favor a moment later with an ipoke of his own. 1235 01:07:07.880 --> 01:07:11.639 See that's why Cody Rhodes is no longer the WWE champion. 1236 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:16.559 Cody couldn't even bring himself to do what Randy did here. 1237 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.679 That's why he lost his title. And he got kicked 1238 01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:24.639 in the dick because he's an idiot. If he would 1239 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:26.320 have been willing to get down to the dirt with 1240 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:28.920 this man, he might still be the champion. See that 1241 01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:33.880 should be the story. Scena got frustrated, he tried to leave, 1242 01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:36.840 got about I don't know, halfway down the aisle, but 1243 01:07:37.039 --> 01:07:39.480 Orton went out to cut him off, fought him all 1244 01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:42.119 the way back to the ring, twenty punches in the 1245 01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:47.280 corner as the crowd chanted along, and then an upper 1246 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.519 cut put Scena down for two. Michael Cole says he 1247 01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:51.920 didn't really think he was gonna win with that. He's 1248 01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:55.519 just trying to wear this man down. So they traded 1249 01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:57.679 sleeper whole attempts until Orton put him down with a 1250 01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:00.639 back supplex. Sena came back with a five knocks shuffle. 1251 01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:04.079 He attempted an attitude adjustment, but Orton slipped out and 1252 01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:06.320 he dropped him with a clothes line. He dropped him 1253 01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:09.440 after that with a snap power slam. Then came the 1254 01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:13.039 draping DDT attempt Sina though rolled up Orton instead for 1255 01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:17.840 a two count. Sena now tries for the STFU, as 1256 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.439 they are once again calling it the STFU. He tries 1257 01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:24.159 for it, but he didn't have it all locked in. Honestly, 1258 01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:27.119 let's be honest here, Okay, whenever Sena does this move 1259 01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:30.960 nine times out of ten, and I don't just mean now, 1260 01:08:31.079 --> 01:08:35.199 I mean his entire career after you know, he almost 1261 01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:39.319 killed Dumaga with it, it looks like shit. And I 1262 01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:43.119 can understand it because apparently he was really And there 1263 01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:45.800 was one time I don't remember what show it was, 1264 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:49.720 it might have been their TLC match. I could be wrong, 1265 01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:53.119 had unforgiven because I think Edge talked about this early 1266 01:08:53.199 --> 01:08:55.760 in his career, Sena had a tendency. I don't know 1267 01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:57.279 if it was just a case of him not knowing 1268 01:08:57.279 --> 01:09:00.880 his own strength or him just getting a little over excited, 1269 01:09:01.239 --> 01:09:05.000 but he would lock that STF on and he was 1270 01:09:05.079 --> 01:09:08.600 choking people out with it, like legitimately choking them out 1271 01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:12.000 where it's like, okay, dude, like you know, loosen up 1272 01:09:12.039 --> 01:09:14.840 a little bit. That's what happened with Umaga when they 1273 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:16.960 had their last man standing match at the Royal Rumble. 1274 01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:18.880 I think he tied the ring rope around his neck 1275 01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:21.920 and he yanked back on it. The fucking guy passed out. 1276 01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:25.359 So I'm not saying that, you know, I want to 1277 01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:27.880 see people turning blue in the face when John Cena 1278 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:30.119 puts them in an STF. But for God's sakes, like 1279 01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:33.359 when you even have stone cold Steve Austin over the 1280 01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:37.560 years watching your matches and begging you to, as Austin 1281 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:41.439 would say, tighten your shit up, like it's just never 1282 01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:44.960 looked good. It's just never looked good. So that's just 1283 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.560 been a scene of thing for the longest time, and 1284 01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:50.840 it didn't look any better here in this match. But 1285 01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:54.640 he tried to lock it in and Orton was able 1286 01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:57.359 to get out of it. Then he got the draping DDT. 1287 01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:03.199 So then comes the set up for the RKO. Sina 1288 01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:06.520 stumbles to his feet, Sina blocks it. He got Orton 1289 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:09.399 on his shoulders for an AA and he delivers it, 1290 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:14.079 but no because on the way down Randy Orton catches him. 1291 01:10:14.119 --> 01:10:18.359 He counters out of it into an RKO. Now, it 1292 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:20.800 was a great spot. I don't know if they've ever 1293 01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:23.760 done that before. I mean, honestly, as many matches as 1294 01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:25.560 these two have had, I'm sure it's been done. Even 1295 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:27.359 if it was a TV match, I'm sure it's been 1296 01:10:27.399 --> 01:10:30.479 done at some point before. I just don't recall them 1297 01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:34.279 doing that spot offhand. But at first, like at first, 1298 01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:36.640 it didn't really get like a huge reaction because I 1299 01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:39.560 don't know how many people actually knew that Orton even 1300 01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:43.279 countered it into an RKO, especially if you're sitting up 1301 01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:46.479 in like the two hundred level seats you're watching this, 1302 01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:49.840 unless you're watching the big screen. It just looks like 1303 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:51.920 seeing it hit aen attitude adjustment. But then they were 1304 01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:53.920 both down and it's like, what the hell happened here? 1305 01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:58.640 But set, yeah, he does Orton did. Man what a counter? 1306 01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:01.920 The best move set from Randy Orton. So yeah, he 1307 01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:05.239 countered it into an RKO. But now both men were 1308 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:10.680 down and they got a this is awesome chant as 1309 01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.760 they're both laying there on the mat. So then we 1310 01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:16.600 got the A boo spot back and forth, and we 1311 01:11:16.680 --> 01:11:20.720 got a proper attitude adjustment by Sena. Orton kicks out. 1312 01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:24.439 Sina gets up, he hits a shoulder tackle. When he 1313 01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:27.840 goes for the second diving shoulder tackle, he dives right 1314 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:32.119 into an RKO by Randy Orton. So that was a 1315 01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:36.000 nice counter. Orton, though could not capitalize right away, so 1316 01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:38.319 there was no pen attempt. But then he noticed that 1317 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:42.079 Sina was in prime position for a punt kick and 1318 01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:44.199 he backs up into the corner. He goes for the punt. 1319 01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:46.159 Sena moves out of the way and then picks him 1320 01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:49.960 up for a second attitude adjustment and he covers Orton 1321 01:11:50.039 --> 01:11:54.199 and again Orton kicks out. So now Sena begins to 1322 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:58.159 mock Randy Orton. He begins to pound on the mat, 1323 01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:02.680 and you gotta be careful when you do that, because 1324 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:08.199 Randy Orton, I think he dislocated his shoulder doing that 1325 01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:10.279 in a match with I want to say triple h 1326 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:14.079 ones literally he's banging on the mat, pounding on the mat, 1327 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:16.039 and all of it says like ah shit, and his 1328 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.399 arm went out. I think he also broke his collarbone 1329 01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:21.159 a couple of times. I don't think that was a 1330 01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:24.359 broken collar bone though, I think that was a different 1331 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:27.439 shoulder injury. But he's banging on the mat and he 1332 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:30.199 backs and then he backs up into the corner Sena does, 1333 01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:31.960 and he's gonna give a punk kick of his own. 1334 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:35.359 Orton moves out of the way, though there's another RKO 1335 01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:39.760 attempt Sina those shoves him off into referee Chad Patten. 1336 01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.199 So there's your ref bump, and now I'm just waiting 1337 01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:50.000 for it. I'm just waiting for fien, fien, fien, because 1338 01:12:50.039 --> 01:12:56.239 now I'm conditioned to expect it. Referee is down and 1339 01:12:56.760 --> 01:13:01.359 Sina lands a third attitude adjustment, but there's no referee 1340 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:05.000 and Sena knows it. He's got a smirk on his face. 1341 01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:08.960 So Sena leaves the ring. He grabs the title belt, 1342 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:11.760 but as soon as he climbs back into the ring, 1343 01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:16.000 Orton drops him with an RKO. There's no referee, though, 1344 01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:20.800 but he's starting to stir, and now the referee crawls 1345 01:13:20.800 --> 01:13:23.800 over to count. Sena kicks out it too, so they 1346 01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:26.239 end up outside the ring. Orton begins moving all the 1347 01:13:26.279 --> 01:13:29.960 furniture off the announced desk. Chad Patten is suddenly now 1348 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:34.920 pleading with Randy Orton. Referee is outside the ring. He's 1349 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:38.640 pleading with Randy, don't do this. Whatever you're about to do, 1350 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:43.520 don't do it. Sena gets up and, by the way, 1351 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:45.439 whatever it is that Orton was getting ready to do, 1352 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:47.520 we'll never know, because Chad Patten was trying to talk 1353 01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:50.079 him out of it. But Sena shoves Orton into the 1354 01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:52.520 referee and Patten takes a referee I think he took 1355 01:13:52.560 --> 01:13:57.840 a bump into the steps second ref bumb. Now of 1356 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:01.319 the match, Chad Patten wants again down Sina lifts Orton 1357 01:14:01.439 --> 01:14:04.640 up on his shoulders, but Orton slips out and Orton 1358 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:08.920 delivers an attitude adjustment to John Cena onto the announced 1359 01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:13.920 desk and he bounces off the desk and the desk 1360 01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:19.159 does not break, at least not right away. It did break, 1361 01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:21.720 but it was like a delayed reaction. It was the 1362 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:24.800 weirdest thing because he drops him on the table because 1363 01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:28.680 they have these like specially reinforced announced desks. Now that 1364 01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:32.439 are like super fancy, so it didn't break, and I 1365 01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:34.399 think they cut away to Orton, but when they cut back, 1366 01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:37.560 the table was like partially broken, like I didn't even 1367 01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:41.119 see how it happened, but like one leg was still standing. 1368 01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:43.319 It was like a ramp and the other leg was 1369 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.840 down on the ground. So Orton goes under the ring 1370 01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.840 and he drags out a table, a regular wooden table, 1371 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:54.159 and he sets it up on the floor and then 1372 01:14:54.199 --> 01:14:56.640 he goes back to Sena and he delivers an attitude 1373 01:14:56.640 --> 01:15:01.600 adjustment to John Cena through that table, and I just 1374 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:04.439 it would be fucking hilarious. And actually, this is exactly 1375 01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:08.640 what I think happened. The table was supposed to break, 1376 01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:12.159 or he wanted the announced table to break, and it didn't, 1377 01:15:12.359 --> 01:15:14.439 and then it kind of broke and it looked funky, 1378 01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:16.600 and he's like, fuck this, You're going through a table. 1379 01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:18.640 So he went under because at first he went under 1380 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.600 the ring and he couldn't find what he was looking for, 1381 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:23.680 so he had to go around to a different side, 1382 01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:27.039 and then he found a table, and he brought Sena 1383 01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:29.199 over and he put him to the table. That was 1384 01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:31.159 an audible that he caught. I guarantee you that was 1385 01:15:31.159 --> 01:15:33.439 an audible in this match, He's like, you're going through 1386 01:15:33.439 --> 01:15:35.199 a fucking table. I don't care what I gotta do. 1387 01:15:36.319 --> 01:15:39.079 So that was funny. So Orton puts Scena back in 1388 01:15:39.119 --> 01:15:42.479 the ring. We still have no referee though. Orton sets 1389 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:45.000 up for another RKO and he hits it. And at 1390 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:47.840 this point I stopped keeping track. I was trying to like, Okay, 1391 01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:51.399 how many attitude adjustments? How many rkos? The answer is 1392 01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:54.319 a lot. I don't even know what the specific number is. 1393 01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:58.359 They were going into their full finisher spam mode here. 1394 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:03.600 You know, finisher spam is an interesting thing because generally 1395 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:06.439 you just get to a point where I hate it. 1396 01:16:07.319 --> 01:16:10.199 There are some matches where they go so overboard with it. 1397 01:16:10.199 --> 01:16:13.119 It's one of the biggest reasons I hate. I despise 1398 01:16:14.039 --> 01:16:16.800 the second WrestleMania match that John CNN the rock Head 1399 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:21.359 Like that's all it was. It was like attitude adjustment, 1400 01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:25.600 attempt rock bottom, attitude adjustment, attitude adjustment, rock bottom rock bottom, 1401 01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:29.760 Like how I play video games, right, it works for me, 1402 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.039 but like when you're sitting here watching it, it sucks. 1403 01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:36.119 There are certain matches though, and in both companies, really 1404 01:16:36.119 --> 01:16:41.199 in any company, because it has become a very very 1405 01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:44.399 common thing in wrestling. I would say, more so in 1406 01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:48.000 the last fifteen years than any not that it didn't 1407 01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:50.760 happen before that, because it did. I mean, it was 1408 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:53.399 happening even back in the attitude era, but it got 1409 01:16:53.560 --> 01:16:56.239 really bad like in the last fifteen years or so, 1410 01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:00.399 where they are just so heavily reliant on it in 1411 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:03.720 so many main events. Now, some people can make it work. 1412 01:17:04.680 --> 01:17:06.880 Sean Michaels and the Undertaker, they found a way to 1413 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:08.840 make it work, and they had that epic match at 1414 01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:12.520 Wrestle Minnie. It's twenty five. Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano 1415 01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:15.880 might have been that first takeover match. They had one 1416 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:17.840 of the best matches in NXT history. There was a 1417 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:19.640 lot of that in that match too. But there are 1418 01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:22.119 other matches I'll watch and it just takes me out 1419 01:17:22.119 --> 01:17:24.520 of the match. So it really depends on the situation. 1420 01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.079 It didn't bother me as much here. I mean, it's 1421 01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:31.640 kind of hilarious just how many fucking rkos and attitude 1422 01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:35.159 adjustments we got. But they had to. They had to. 1423 01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:37.399 These two guys were not going to go out there 1424 01:17:37.399 --> 01:17:42.199 and have a technical masterpiece. They needed that. That's the 1425 01:17:42.199 --> 01:17:44.079 point I was making at the beginning of the review, 1426 01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:47.319 the smoke and mirrors and the ref bumps, and you know, 1427 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:49.760 I could have done without the nut shot, but this 1428 01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:52.119 is the kind of stuff that they had to do 1429 01:17:52.239 --> 01:17:55.039 because what else are they going to do? What else 1430 01:17:55.079 --> 01:17:58.399 can Sinea do at this point if not the kind 1431 01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:01.399 of match that we saw here, But it is comical. 1432 01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:05.600 I just stopped counting because we got so many of them. 1433 01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:08.399 So anyway, Orton sets up for an RKO and hits it. 1434 01:18:08.640 --> 01:18:12.880 Here comes a new referee, referee Eddie Orengo. I believe 1435 01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:17.920 he's the Mets fan good man. Eddie comes down to 1436 01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.760 the ring, he sprints down, makes the count. Sena kicks 1437 01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:24.079 out a two, so Orton begins arguing with the referee 1438 01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:27.560 over the count. He thought it was three. Meanwhile, Sena 1439 01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:30.479 goes and grabs the belt and he goes to strike 1440 01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:34.279 Orton with it, but he dodges and Sena blasts the 1441 01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:38.560 referee with the title instead. Third ref bump of the 1442 01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:43.920 match Jeff Jarrett Man, his loins are tingling down there 1443 01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:47.479 in Nashville. Oh, he's loving this third ref bump here 1444 01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:52.039 in this match. Orton then hits another RKO. Eddie covers 1445 01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:54.720 now Nick all this runs into the ring. He's in 1446 01:18:54.760 --> 01:18:57.960 full suit. At first you think he's gonna count the fall, 1447 01:18:58.000 --> 01:18:59.800 but no, he's in there to check on the referee. 1448 01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:03.079 And there's a whole gaggle of producers that come to 1449 01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.760 the ring with him and they're checking on the referee. 1450 01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:10.520 Orton is just furious about this. There's no referee. He's 1451 01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:14.079 got the championship one. Nick Aldos comes over. He's trying 1452 01:19:14.079 --> 01:19:16.119 to talk to Orton. Orton's got his head in his hands, 1453 01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:18.640 like he can't believe what's going on here. So he 1454 01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:20.640 does the only sensible thing to do, which is he 1455 01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:23.640 drops Nick Alldis with an RKO, the third one that 1456 01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:26.920 he has eaten in the last two years. But he 1457 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:29.199 wasn't the only one who got dropped with an RKO. 1458 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:35.000 Nick Aldis got dropped. Shane Helms got dropped, Davari got dropped, 1459 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:38.199 Jamie Noble got dropped. There was some other guy in 1460 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:40.439 the ring who took this exaggerated bump. I have no 1461 01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:42.680 fucking idea who he was. I've never seen this man 1462 01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:45.720 before in my life. I don't think I didn't recognize him. 1463 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:48.560 But he took an RKO as well. He was actually 1464 01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:51.399 the first one after all this, if anybody wants to 1465 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:54.680 go back and rewatch that who was the guy who 1466 01:19:54.720 --> 01:19:59.159 took the RKO right after Nick Aldis and before Shane Helmes. 1467 01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:03.520 I don't know who that person is, but you got 1468 01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:07.000 bodies everywhere now right, They've all been rcaoed into oblivion. 1469 01:20:07.279 --> 01:20:09.560 Now Orton is setting up one more time for the 1470 01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:12.800 punt kick to John Cena, when all of a sudden, 1471 01:20:13.680 --> 01:20:17.359 Our Truth slips into the ring and he gets in 1472 01:20:17.399 --> 01:20:19.800 the line of fire and Orton has to pull up 1473 01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:22.239 and he's looking at him like what are you doing here? 1474 01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:26.119 And Truth is begging him not to do it. He's 1475 01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:29.039 got his hands like clasped toget. He's begging Randy Orton 1476 01:20:29.079 --> 01:20:32.720 not to do this. So Orton drops him with an RKO. 1477 01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:37.800 But then John Cena delivers a low blow and then 1478 01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:40.760 he grabs the championship and he blasts Orton in the 1479 01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:44.000 skull with it. He gets rid of the evidence, he 1480 01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:47.920 makes the cover and wouldn't you know, look who just 1481 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:52.640 woke up from his nap, Chad Patten. And so the 1482 01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:55.560 referee happens to come back into the ring at the 1483 01:20:55.720 --> 01:20:59.399 very moment that John Cena has the match one, he 1484 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:06.239 counts the three and John Cena retains the championship. So 1485 01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:08.920 after the match is over, scene it gets on the mic, 1486 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:10.760 he could they go through all the replays and everything? 1487 01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:13.159 Scene it gets on the mic and he says, I 1488 01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:15.079 know you can't see me, but can you hear me? 1489 01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:19.520 Cut my damn music? They cut his music and he says, 1490 01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:24.319 I don't need music. What I need is competition. And 1491 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:27.640 he says he's sure as hell doesn't need us. Drink 1492 01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:30.119 it in Saint Louis because this is what the last 1493 01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:34.680 real champion looks like. And he went from corner to corner, 1494 01:21:34.760 --> 01:21:39.560 posing as the fans showered him with booze. Was it 1495 01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:44.359 overbooked as all hell? Yes it was. Did it make 1496 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.920 the match worse? No, it probably made the match better 1497 01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:52.119 because my expectations wants the bell right. This was like 1498 01:21:52.159 --> 01:21:55.279 to me coming into this, the classic case of Orton's 1499 01:21:55.279 --> 01:21:57.800 gonna come out. He's gonna get a monster reaction scene, 1500 01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:01.359 he's gonna get booed, and then the bell rings. What 1501 01:22:01.600 --> 01:22:04.239 are you really going to get out of John Seena 1502 01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:08.520 in twenty twenty five? What have we seen from him 1503 01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:11.479 so far that would lead you to believe that he's 1504 01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:13.800 going to go in there in a one on one match, 1505 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:16.159 So we're, you know, very different from the elimination chamber 1506 01:22:16.239 --> 01:22:18.920 where the five other guys and he's not in there 1507 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:23.319 for the entire match. What do you really expect that 1508 01:22:23.439 --> 01:22:26.159 of Seena in a paper like a twenty thirty minute 1509 01:22:26.159 --> 01:22:29.359 pay per view made event. Exactly what we got here, 1510 01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:33.239 and they tried. They threw everything they could into this match, 1511 01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:37.479 all all of the the finisher attempts and the punk 1512 01:22:37.560 --> 01:22:40.399 kick attempts and the counters, and there were a couple 1513 01:22:40.399 --> 01:22:43.000 of unique RKAO counters in this match that I enjoyed 1514 01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:46.279 from Orton. You know, I thought those were very good. 1515 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:48.560 And then they got outside and they did some stuff 1516 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:51.439 outside with the tables, but then you know, the ref bumps, 1517 01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:54.880 and of course, you know, it got ridiculous with the 1518 01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:58.279 ref bumps. But this went better than I really could 1519 01:22:58.319 --> 01:23:01.760 have ever imagined it would. This was the best possible 1520 01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:04.840 John Cena Randy Orton match that we could have asked 1521 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:09.960 for in Saint Louis tonight, and that's really all that 1522 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:12.880 I could ask for. I thought this thing had the 1523 01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:16.760 potential to be a dud, especially if the crowd maybe 1524 01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:19.079 wasn't really able to carry it like I thought they would. 1525 01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:22.159 The crowd was great. Crowd was into everything they were doing, 1526 01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:26.840 you know, because it's Randy and it's Saint Louis, and 1527 01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:29.000 to them it's Randy Orton and John Cena. And it 1528 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:31.079 was marketed as the last time, even though it might 1529 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:33.960 not be, but it could be, right, So you get 1530 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:35.479 to be part of history. You get to be part 1531 01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:38.920 of the very last match between John Cena and Randy Orton. 1532 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:43.479 So the crowd was great. They threw everything they possibly could. 1533 01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:47.680 Sina wins. No surprise there, right, nobody. I don't even 1534 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:50.319 think Cowboy Bob was sitting in the crowd if he 1535 01:23:50.439 --> 01:23:53.319 was in the crowd watching this match thinking his son 1536 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:57.920 was going to walk away with the championship win. You know, 1537 01:23:57.960 --> 01:24:00.720 I talked about the possibility of our truth get involved 1538 01:24:01.239 --> 01:24:04.479 last week on the SmackDown Review, and the way that 1539 01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:08.880 I kind of looked at it is you can do 1540 01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:14.520 almost like a useful idiot story where Sina sees that 1541 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:16.880 this man is still sticking up for him even after 1542 01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:20.000 everything he's said and done, and he realizes, you know what, 1543 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.439 I'm going to lean into this because this guy actually 1544 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:27.279 buys into my bullshit, or even have seen it as 1545 01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:29.479 a look at it as bullshit, but like he believes 1546 01:24:29.479 --> 01:24:32.439 in me, he believes in my cause I could use 1547 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:35.479 this and Truth becomes like his useful idiot for a 1548 01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:39.560 few months until eventually he snaps out of it. So 1549 01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:41.760 I don't know if that's the attact they're going to 1550 01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:44.560 take with it, but we have not seen the last 1551 01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:47.760 And actually somebody did mention this before. Yeah, Bliss Fan 1552 01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:50.960 just mentioned it also seeing it turned on truth in 1553 01:24:51.039 --> 01:24:55.079 the press conference, So I guess that answers that question. 1554 01:24:56.319 --> 01:24:59.479 They're not going to go the useful idiot route because 1555 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:01.880 apparently he did. He give him an attitude adjustment at 1556 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:05.439 the press conference, That's what I heard, So whatever it 1557 01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:07.640 was that he did, apparently our truth has been attacked 1558 01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:10.560 by John Cena. John Cena wants nothing to do with 1559 01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:13.239 this man, and I did mention that also. You know, 1560 01:25:13.279 --> 01:25:15.239 when Sena first won Heel, I said, man, if you 1561 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:17.560 really want to get heat on this guy, you have 1562 01:25:17.720 --> 01:25:20.279 him go after one of the most beloved characters in 1563 01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:24.920 the entire company. But I think if you wanted to, though, 1564 01:25:24.920 --> 01:25:26.640 they could have gone the other way with it too 1565 01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:30.159 and really milt it for a while before Sina then 1566 01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:33.199 turned on him. But I wonder if you know they 1567 01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:36.920 had him do that to him because they're setting up 1568 01:25:36.960 --> 01:25:38.720 truth for the next match, Because this is what I 1569 01:25:38.760 --> 01:25:41.199 was going to get into now, which is, you know, 1570 01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:44.720 where do you go from here? Okay, he just beat 1571 01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:48.119 Randy Ort. Cody Rhodes did not show up. I thought 1572 01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:50.720 there was a chance he might. There was no Cody 1573 01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:54.520 Rhodes on the show tonight. What is next for John Cena? 1574 01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:58.319 Because before what happened at the press conference happened when 1575 01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:01.840 the show went off the air. John Cena leaves the 1576 01:26:01.920 --> 01:26:04.159 ring and he had a look on his face, and 1577 01:26:04.199 --> 01:26:07.359 the camera was right up in his face, and the 1578 01:26:07.399 --> 01:26:11.760 look on his face was one of almost regret, like 1579 01:26:11.880 --> 01:26:15.399 what have I done? What am I doing? He's looking day, 1580 01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:18.560 He's got the title on the apron, he's looking at 1581 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:21.680 it and he walks to the back. But it was 1582 01:26:21.720 --> 01:26:24.560 almost like a like an introspective look on his face. 1583 01:26:25.399 --> 01:26:27.479 And I looked at that and I said, Okay, this 1584 01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:30.960 is probably the first seed being planted for what will 1585 01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:34.560 be the eventual redemption arc. We all, I think pretty 1586 01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:36.279 much expect it is going to be coming at some 1587 01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:39.199 point in the next few months, so that we can 1588 01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:41.640 get Scena back to being the John Cena of old, 1589 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:43.800 just in time for him to have you know, that 1590 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:46.760 one last match. And I and by the way, there 1591 01:26:46.800 --> 01:26:49.600 is a little bit of news on that, and Wressell 1592 01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:53.760 votes mentioned this tonight there was a news report and 1593 01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:56.199 actually it's not even new. It was a news report 1594 01:26:56.199 --> 01:26:57.800 from like two weeks ago. I guess that kind of 1595 01:26:57.840 --> 01:27:00.439 flew under the radar, but it was a little TV 1596 01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:02.800 report from one of the stations, I think in Boston, 1597 01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:05.880 and they did a whole story on Sena and his father, 1598 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:11.199 interviewed his father, who's been you know, a wrestling manager 1599 01:27:11.279 --> 01:27:15.039 and personality on the New England independencyet for a very 1600 01:27:15.079 --> 01:27:18.760 long time, many many years. And at the very end 1601 01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:20.920 of the report when they cut back to the anchors 1602 01:27:20.920 --> 01:27:24.439 in studio, they mentioned that John Cena will be wrestling 1603 01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:29.000 his final match at the TD Garden Arena in Boston 1604 01:27:29.600 --> 01:27:33.119 in December. So for anybody wondering, you know, when and 1605 01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:37.640 where are they going to do that last match? Boston? 1606 01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:40.239 You know, obviously Boston for John Cena makes a lot 1607 01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:43.159 of sense. So I don't know if that's going to 1608 01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:46.439 be a special I think it should be a special event, 1609 01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:51.279 whether it's Peacock or Netflix, and they could even call it, 1610 01:27:51.319 --> 01:27:53.760 you know, John Cena the final match or something, and 1611 01:27:53.760 --> 01:27:56.000 they could have other matches on the show, but build 1612 01:27:56.039 --> 01:27:58.920 an entire special around it. Like when he first announced this, 1613 01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:02.359 I said, that's exactly what I would do. I wouldn't 1614 01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:05.359 just have a Saturday Nights main event or one of 1615 01:28:05.399 --> 01:28:09.279 my regular plees. I would build an entirely new event 1616 01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:12.319 around just the fact that John Cena is wrestling his 1617 01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:15.600 last match, and do that in December of twenty twenty five. 1618 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:19.119 So I don't know if that's what they're gonna do. 1619 01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:20.920 I don't know if it's because there should be a 1620 01:28:20.920 --> 01:28:24.439 Saturday Nights main event that month. This is bigger than that, though, 1621 01:28:25.239 --> 01:28:26.880 But it is going to be in Boston. It is 1622 01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:29.640 going to be at the TD Garden. So yeah, exactly. 1623 01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:33.039 JP says, like the Last Dance exactly, something very very 1624 01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:36.359 similar to that. But it will be in Boston at 1625 01:28:36.359 --> 01:28:40.520 the TD Garden arena. As far as what's next for 1626 01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:47.039 Sena opponent wise, it could be truth. John Cena has 1627 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:50.079 been advertised for Saturday Nights main event on May twenty fourth. 1628 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:52.600 We know he will be on the show. That does 1629 01:28:52.600 --> 01:28:55.000 not mean he is wrestling on the show. Jay Usso 1630 01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:58.039 is defending the World Heavyweight title it was announced against 1631 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:01.600 Logan Paul on that show. They may well close the 1632 01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:03.800 show with that. You know, if Seene is going to 1633 01:29:03.840 --> 01:29:05.399 be in a segment, they could do that in the 1634 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:08.439 middle of the show. But if Seen is wrestling, then 1635 01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:12.039 he's the main event. Well, who does you wrestle? You 1636 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:14.880 could easily do a rematch with Randy Orton. That's why 1637 01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:18.439 I kept saying, like maybe their final match, right, I mean, 1638 01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:21.000 come on, do you think you don't think there is 1639 01:29:21.359 --> 01:29:25.079 a pretty good chance they don't run this back one 1640 01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:27.159 more time, possibly on that show at the end of 1641 01:29:27.159 --> 01:29:29.159 the month. They could get one more John Seen or 1642 01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:31.399 Randy Orton match if they wanted to. I don't know 1643 01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:32.560 that it could be as good as the one they 1644 01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:36.640 had tonight. That's the only thing. Despite the finish, the 1645 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:40.439 cheap finish as a match, I don't see them having 1646 01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:43.119 a better match than the one they had at Backlash, 1647 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:45.960 So they might be better off going into Our Truth. 1648 01:29:46.079 --> 01:29:48.640 I know it sounds completely ridiculous Our Truth getting a 1649 01:29:48.760 --> 01:29:52.000 WWE championship match, Well, who says it has to be 1650 01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:56.359 for the championship. Nobody says it has to be for 1651 01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:59.039 the championship, But how do you not do that match now, 1652 01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:00.800 especially in light of what he did to him. I 1653 01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:04.680 guess at the press conference after the show, maybe that's 1654 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:07.199 the play. You know. One of the things I was 1655 01:30:07.319 --> 01:30:10.359 kind of hoping for in this last Scena run is 1656 01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:13.520 not only the big matches against Randy Orton and CM 1657 01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:16.159 Punk and people like that, but like we get him 1658 01:30:16.159 --> 01:30:20.439 in the ring with some either younger, newer faces or 1659 01:30:20.520 --> 01:30:22.520 just some people that you would never expect him to 1660 01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:25.439 be in the ring on, like a pl with. What's 1661 01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:28.399 the harm in having John Cena do an odd SmackDown 1662 01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:32.640 match or raw match here and there against somebody like 1663 01:30:32.680 --> 01:30:35.880 a Truth who's been imitating him for years now and 1664 01:30:35.920 --> 01:30:38.520 stealing all of his moves. What about one last match 1665 01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:41.760 with John Cena and Seamus? What about one last match 1666 01:30:41.760 --> 01:30:45.199 with John Cena and AJ Styles? What if he revisits 1667 01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:49.079 matches with some of his old rivals. And I'm not 1668 01:30:49.119 --> 01:30:54.199 talking programs, I'm just talking like one match, title match, 1669 01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:58.680 non title match, doesn't really matter, right, I don't know 1670 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:02.319 that they're doing that. That was something I was kind 1671 01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:04.720 of hoping for at the beginning of all this Sena 1672 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:07.880 in Truth easily could be a television match. I don't 1673 01:31:07.920 --> 01:31:11.000 see why not. And you know what, especially if it 1674 01:31:11.079 --> 01:31:13.840 was a title match, people would be behind Truth. Man. 1675 01:31:14.079 --> 01:31:17.039 You think you think Sena in there with Orton, you know, 1676 01:31:17.159 --> 01:31:19.520 because you know Orton obviously in Saint Louis was going 1677 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:23.760 to be cheered wildly. I think Truth is so beloved 1678 01:31:23.960 --> 01:31:28.000 by this audience that whatever arena or city they do 1679 01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:31.079 it in, you would have that entire crowd. It would 1680 01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:34.159 almost be like the Santino Morella thing from the Elimination 1681 01:31:34.279 --> 01:31:36.600 Chamber many years ago when it came down to him 1682 01:31:36.640 --> 01:31:38.760 and Daniel Brian. I want to say maybe that was 1683 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:43.359 twenty eleven, twenty twelve, I think twenty twelve, and you 1684 01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:47.159 had people hoping and believing that maybe Santino Morella would 1685 01:31:47.199 --> 01:31:51.000 win the WWE Championship like they bought into it so much, 1686 01:31:52.039 --> 01:31:54.600 and so maybe they could do something similar with Sina 1687 01:31:54.640 --> 01:31:57.920 and Truth and really get the crowd into it. Maybe 1688 01:31:57.920 --> 01:31:59.840 that's Saturday Night's main event. I guess we'll see. But 1689 01:32:00.279 --> 01:32:02.640 the CM Punk match has to happen. You cannot turn 1690 01:32:02.720 --> 01:32:05.840 John Cena back Babyface until we get that match with 1691 01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:08.840 him in CM Punk. You can't do that not after 1692 01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:11.119 the promo that Punk cut coming out of the elimination 1693 01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:15.319 chamber where he went off on the Rock, remember that, like, yeah, 1694 01:32:15.359 --> 01:32:18.840 the goosebumps, the bald fraud and then he went in 1695 01:32:18.920 --> 01:32:22.000 on Sena And you can't have him cut that promo 1696 01:32:22.439 --> 01:32:24.960 and not give us the match, you know, before he 1697 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:29.079 goes back Babyface. So I look at that and go man, 1698 01:32:29.119 --> 01:32:31.880 Sena and Punk, that should be the Summer Slim match. 1699 01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:34.239 I know everybody's gonna be saying money in the bank. 1700 01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:38.920 You know, Punk is all wrapped up right now with 1701 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:42.439 Seth Rollins. You know, we got to get that tag 1702 01:32:42.479 --> 01:32:44.600 team match. We got to get Punk and Roman Reigns 1703 01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:48.000 on the same side against Rollins and bron Breaker. It 1704 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:51.000 doesn't feel like we're headed for Sena and Punk for 1705 01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:53.840 at least a few months. I see that as a 1706 01:32:53.880 --> 01:32:59.880 Summer Slim match at MetLife Stadium. So truth, maybe not Truth, 1707 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:03.039 maybe a rematch with Orton. I don't really know that 1708 01:33:03.039 --> 01:33:06.840 that's completely necessary, though, Cody. You want to save Cody 1709 01:33:06.920 --> 01:33:08.800 for later because Cody needs to be the one to 1710 01:33:08.840 --> 01:33:13.520 beat him. I'm sorry all the Cody haters or the 1711 01:33:13.520 --> 01:33:15.680 people that just don't like Cody. You're not gonna want 1712 01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:19.000 to hear that. But you can't have Johnsena beat Cody 1713 01:33:19.079 --> 01:33:22.079 Roads or WrestleMania and not have Cody, who is the 1714 01:33:22.119 --> 01:33:24.520 face of your company, he's the face of your franchise, 1715 01:33:25.159 --> 01:33:26.920 and not have him be the one to come back 1716 01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:31.199 and get that win back over John Cena. Otherwise, the 1717 01:33:31.279 --> 01:33:34.479 decision for him to beat Cody at WrestleMania is just 1718 01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:39.279 mind numbingly stupid. If it doesn't end with Cody getting 1719 01:33:39.359 --> 01:33:42.439 his wind back and his belt back from John Cena 1720 01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:46.159 and putting him in the dirt, that's how it has 1721 01:33:46.239 --> 01:33:49.680 to go. But that that's not going to happen for 1722 01:33:49.720 --> 01:33:53.760 a few months at least. That's why I said, Who's next? Right? 1723 01:33:54.239 --> 01:33:57.640 How do they space this out? That's kind of how 1724 01:33:57.680 --> 01:34:00.760 it's looking to me. Could do something with Truth, save 1725 01:34:00.840 --> 01:34:03.199 the punk thing for Summer Slam. What you do with 1726 01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.680 him at Money in the Bank, it's kind of up 1727 01:34:05.720 --> 01:34:10.359 in the air. But the redemption arc is coming. We 1728 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:13.840 saw a little hint of it tonight. The redemption arc 1729 01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:15.960 is coming. It's just a matter of when they decide 1730 01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:17.800 to pull the trigger. Take a look at the Twitter 1731 01:34:17.800 --> 01:34:22.680 poll find out what you guys thought of backlash seventy 1732 01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:26.800 one point seven percent thumbs up, seventeen points seven percent 1733 01:34:26.840 --> 01:34:30.600 thumbs in the middle, and ten point six percent thumbs down. 1734 01:34:31.279 --> 01:34:34.760 With well over twenty two hundred votes in so far 1735 01:34:35.720 --> 01:34:40.119 and counting, EA says do punk at money in the 1736 01:34:40.119 --> 01:34:44.720 bank and Summer slam. I don't know, man. Money in 1737 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:46.880 the bank now is less than a month away, and 1738 01:34:47.199 --> 01:34:49.680 punk Punk has other issues going on right now that 1739 01:34:49.720 --> 01:34:52.439 would feel completely rushed if they did it at money 1740 01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:55.399 in the bank. 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Whatever you got for me? How do 1775 01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:51.359 you sleep at night? Not very well? Not after this weekend. 1776 01:36:51.399 --> 01:36:55.840 I don't. I am running on fumes and I have 1777 01:36:55.880 --> 01:37:00.399 a podcast to do in less than twenty four hours. 1778 01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:05.399 All right, let's take a look here and see what 1779 01:37:05.439 --> 01:37:09.960 we got going on. We are currently at six hundred 1780 01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:13.920 and twenty two likes. That's what I like to see. 1781 01:37:14.800 --> 01:37:18.159 Let's see if we can get seven hundred. I think 1782 01:37:18.199 --> 01:37:22.560 we can get to seven hundred. That's what I think. Hey, 1783 01:37:22.600 --> 01:37:28.199 Lakers Pats, we'll start with you wanted to know would 1784 01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:34.359 three hour Attitude era raws have worked as a fan? 1785 01:37:34.560 --> 01:37:38.159 I would as a fan at the time, I would 1786 01:37:38.159 --> 01:37:41.800 have loved it, But no, in the end, it would 1787 01:37:41.840 --> 01:37:44.680 not have worked. It would have burned the audience out. 1788 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:46.239 You give them too much of a good thing, you 1789 01:37:46.279 --> 01:37:48.000 will burn them out. And I do think that it 1790 01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:50.880 would have actually ended up being a negative thing. I 1791 01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:53.800 think initially though, Yeah, I mean, people would have been 1792 01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:58.239 excited for an extra hour of raw every week, so 1793 01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:00.600 you get three hours of crash TV instead of two. 1794 01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:07.359 It's not sustainable. One of the things Back then, I 1795 01:38:07.359 --> 01:38:11.479 guess I was. I guess I was just the right 1796 01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:15.720 age at that time. Is that when those shows generally, 1797 01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:19.720 when those shows were over, my attitude was shit, I 1798 01:38:19.720 --> 01:38:22.359 can't wait until next week, Like he didn't want them 1799 01:38:22.399 --> 01:38:26.199 to be over. So now you get people even more 1800 01:38:26.239 --> 01:38:28.560 of it, and I feel like you're taking that away. 1801 01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:31.399 You're gonna burn some people out three hours. It's just 1802 01:38:31.439 --> 01:38:38.319 too much. Every week, it's too much. JS Warrior nineteen 1803 01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:40.840 with a twenty dollars super chat. As a kid, I 1804 01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:43.840 grew up watching WWE in two thousand and four. Randy 1805 01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:46.319 Orton was my favorite, and he still is to this day. 1806 01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:49.159 This match was an homage to their many matches over 1807 01:38:49.199 --> 01:38:53.079 the years, and yes, I know, way too many, but 1808 01:38:53.159 --> 01:38:58.880 I love this main event. Well yeah, I mean especially 1809 01:38:58.920 --> 01:39:00.560 if you're if you were a fan of Johnson or 1810 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:03.159 Randy Orton feud. I mean, you have no reason not 1811 01:39:03.199 --> 01:39:05.359 to love this main event. But even if you were 1812 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:09.000 sick to death of it, it's been what eight years. 1813 01:39:09.239 --> 01:39:11.239 I think the last one before tonight that they had 1814 01:39:11.319 --> 01:39:15.760 was a SmackDown match in twenty seventeen, so it's it's 1815 01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:18.359 been a long time. And knowing it could be the 1816 01:39:18.439 --> 01:39:22.279 last time, you kind of you might be a little 1817 01:39:22.319 --> 01:39:24.720 more accepting of some of the stuff they did because 1818 01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:27.560 they were trying to throw in a lot of stuff. 1819 01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:30.119 Was it an homage to their earlier matches? It may 1820 01:39:30.119 --> 01:39:33.760 have been. I don't Again, I don't recall offhand where 1821 01:39:35.079 --> 01:39:40.159 they did that AA into an RKO spot, but I'm 1822 01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:42.560 almost positive that that was not the first time they've 1823 01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:52.960 done it. Gary Kuschuck is with us. Main event was 1824 01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:57.119 a masterclass, maybe their best match. Love the pivot to 1825 01:39:57.159 --> 01:40:01.119 the second table spot. Take note, Moxley tell story all 1826 01:40:01.199 --> 01:40:12.520 Hail Gunhar, thank you, Gary, Joseph Seena look painful. Russo 1827 01:40:12.800 --> 01:40:22.119 booked that shit four out of ten, says Joseph Holiday 1828 01:40:22.119 --> 01:40:24.760 one ninety seven high Solo. Cole was a heel tonight 1829 01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:27.079 holding Gunther's legs so it was harder for him to 1830 01:40:27.159 --> 01:40:29.840 kick out. Michael has been more heelish over the past 1831 01:40:29.840 --> 01:40:38.680 few weeks, angering Gunther with the you tapped out comment. Well, 1832 01:40:38.680 --> 01:40:40.319 Michael Cole would tell you that he's been there for 1833 01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:42.000 twenty eight years and he can do whatever the fuck 1834 01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:53.239 he wants. But yeah, Gunther did nothing wrong. So apparently 1835 01:40:53.319 --> 01:40:56.119 Johnsen and Randy Orton did that spot through a table. 1836 01:40:58.319 --> 01:41:00.199 Was it a pay per view match. I think maybe 1837 01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:03.560 it was like a raw match. Again, they had so 1838 01:41:03.640 --> 01:41:08.600 many matches. It's just it all blends together, it really does. 1839 01:41:10.399 --> 01:41:20.720 It all blends together. Oscar Fierro Cruise, what a waste. 1840 01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:24.600 The Scena Heel Turn has been an absentee champion with 1841 01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:29.479 mid matches and mid promos. Oscar is no fan of 1842 01:41:29.520 --> 01:41:32.920 the John Cena Heel Turn. Jay Rock my dog, ate 1843 01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:35.199 all the titles out of the scrabble game. I took 1844 01:41:35.279 --> 01:41:42.079 him to the vet. No word yet, thank you, Jay Rock. 1845 01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:48.079 Dried Chicken. Currently watching New Japan Resurgency after watching Backlash. 1846 01:41:48.199 --> 01:41:50.800 Triple H needs six matches in the card for Ple's 1847 01:41:50.920 --> 01:41:57.560 not five, three from Raw and three from SmackDown. I agree, 1848 01:41:58.119 --> 01:42:00.640 but again tonight, I think they wanted to make sure 1849 01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:03.199 they got out of there by ten because they don't 1850 01:42:03.199 --> 01:42:06.479 want to compete with themselves because of the UFC pay 1851 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:12.960 per view. So either you get five matches, many of 1852 01:42:13.000 --> 01:42:15.279 which you know they have time to sort of breathe, 1853 01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:18.159 or you throw an extra match in there and you 1854 01:42:18.279 --> 01:42:20.840 end up shortening most of the matches on the show. 1855 01:42:23.560 --> 01:42:27.800 So take your pick. But that's that's why we got 1856 01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:30.359 what we got tonight, where it felt like it was 1857 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:33.439 kind of going by even quicker than some of these 1858 01:42:33.439 --> 01:42:43.840 five match shows normally do. Joseph says, I want to 1859 01:42:43.840 --> 01:42:47.239 make a prediction. Jacob fought too versus bron Breaker will 1860 01:42:47.279 --> 01:42:51.359 be a WrestleMania main event in the future. Not much 1861 01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:55.399 of a prediction. I think the answer is absolutely yes. 1862 01:42:55.920 --> 01:42:58.319 And also, do you think Jeff Cobb will be one 1863 01:42:58.359 --> 01:43:02.560 of the top stars in WWE in the future top stars? No, 1864 01:43:02.920 --> 01:43:06.600 he will not be. They'll have a nice position on 1865 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:09.479 the card, he will not be a top star. Jonathan 1866 01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:14.000 Bordeaux rejoice, we are free from the sina Orton rivalry. 1867 01:43:15.720 --> 01:43:19.000 Wouldn't be so sure just yet. Let's see how Saturday 1868 01:43:19.079 --> 01:43:22.399 Nights may have been plays out before we make that prognostication. 1869 01:43:22.920 --> 01:43:26.560 Larry Jester, why couldn't the chickens start his car at 1870 01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:33.119 Olive Garden? He had no key. I'll see myself out 1871 01:43:33.119 --> 01:43:35.760 to watch what I missed while at work. I shall return. 1872 01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:39.560 I don't know if we want you back after that, Joe, 1873 01:43:40.760 --> 01:43:42.640 I don't know. I'll take a poll of the live 1874 01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:45.720 chat to see what they think. Thank you. Larry Ryan says, 1875 01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:49.359 well enough is enough and it's time for well enough 1876 01:43:49.399 --> 01:43:53.079 is enough and it's time for a change. Thank you, Brian. 1877 01:43:56.760 --> 01:44:02.359 That reminds me Owen Hart's birthday. I believe was was 1878 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:07.680 it earlier this week? I think May seventh? Owen was 1879 01:44:07.720 --> 01:44:12.319 thirty four when he passed away, and that was in 1880 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:17.760 nineteen ninety nine. How old would he have been? Doing 1881 01:44:17.800 --> 01:44:22.560 math in my head, which is not good, not good? 1882 01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:28.800 Ninety nine though, you know what I think he would 1883 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:35.560 have been. Wow, I think he would have been sixty. 1884 01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:41.439 I think that might have been his sixtieth birthday. Wow, 1885 01:44:43.560 --> 01:44:46.319 that's crazy. The antagonist. I know it's not much, but 1886 01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:51.039 you're my WWE fodder since twenty seventeen. What's your favorite 1887 01:44:51.079 --> 01:44:54.840 Seinfeld episode? Well, thank you for the four ninety nine antagonist. 1888 01:44:55.640 --> 01:45:00.079 The contest is my favorite episode. Joseph says, do you 1889 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:02.520 remember the Daredevil movie from two thousand and three starring 1890 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:06.560 Ben Affleck as the Daredevil? Remember it? Yes? Did I 1891 01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:15.479 see it? No? Zachary Black, it has been a while, sir, 1892 01:45:15.600 --> 01:45:18.520 my work headphones broke in the worst way possible for 1893 01:45:18.600 --> 01:45:20.600 the pay per view and the crowd. Here is a 1894 01:45:20.640 --> 01:45:25.399 clean twenty for be the booker. Much love, Thank you, 1895 01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:34.840 Zach Sorry about your headphones. Duff's VIDs I realize that 1896 01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:39.920 trees have no teeth. They're all bark and no bite. 1897 01:45:41.199 --> 01:45:46.960 The man himself always has one, always has one up 1898 01:45:47.039 --> 01:46:00.680 his sleeve. Bass Bears Backlash twenty twenty three quarter really 1899 01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:05.760 was special. Go back to Puerto Rico. I agree they 1900 01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:08.880 should go back to Puerto Rico very soon. That crowd 1901 01:46:08.960 --> 01:46:12.399 was awesome. Joseph says, what is your top ten favorite 1902 01:46:12.520 --> 01:46:18.800 WCW themes? I don't know about ten, but sting Man 1903 01:46:18.800 --> 01:46:23.640 called sting Man Called Sting is one of them. DDPS 1904 01:46:24.079 --> 01:46:31.560 is a Nirvana knockoff is another nWo theme is on there. 1905 01:46:32.000 --> 01:46:34.840 Chris Jericho had a god was it his first or 1906 01:46:34.960 --> 01:46:39.920 second babyface theme? Like the lion Heart theme that he had. 1907 01:46:39.960 --> 01:46:46.800 I enjoyed that. I think Rick Rude had a really 1908 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:49.920 good theme too when he was in WCW. I didn't 1909 01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:52.000 like it as much as his WWF one, though, but 1910 01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:57.159 I'd put that one on there. I think those are 1911 01:46:57.199 --> 01:46:59.880 some good choices. Oh, wolf Pack, Yeah, of course, Wolfpack 1912 01:47:00.800 --> 01:47:07.359 NW a wolf back. David Thirring with the twenty one 1913 01:47:07.399 --> 01:47:12.079 dollars super show, Don't you start with the American Males? 1914 01:47:12.680 --> 01:47:16.399 Don't you start? Thumbs up? Show? Last night at h 1915 01:47:16.479 --> 01:47:19.640 O J solo monster. Gotta love moments like the one 1916 01:47:19.760 --> 01:47:23.520 Indie Hartwell had and she won the women's title. For 1917 01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:26.039 what it's worth, Sena attacked our Truth on the post 1918 01:47:26.039 --> 01:47:32.600 show and put him through the table another table bump. Huh. 1919 01:47:33.039 --> 01:47:35.960 I'll have to go back and watch that after. Yeah, 1920 01:47:35.960 --> 01:47:38.079 it was a very cool moment last night. I was 1921 01:47:38.119 --> 01:47:42.479 able to make the announcement that the right before the 1922 01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:47.760 match that the Women's Championship would be decided in that match, 1923 01:47:47.840 --> 01:47:50.560 and then to be able to present Indie with the 1924 01:47:50.600 --> 01:47:54.239 belt when the match was over and kind of be 1925 01:47:54.279 --> 01:47:57.880 a you know, just be in the ring for that 1926 01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:00.000 moment and to see, you know how cool it was 1927 01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:02.600 and what it meant for her. That was a very 1928 01:48:02.600 --> 01:48:07.760 cool moment last night. Thank you. David Holliday says, what 1929 01:48:07.800 --> 01:48:10.800 are your thoughts on Charlotte winning the Women's US title? Up, 1930 01:48:10.920 --> 01:48:13.960 they'll keep her away from the Women's WWE title picture 1931 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:18.920 and she'll elevate the belt. I mean, if they come 1932 01:48:19.000 --> 01:48:23.640 up with a good story for it. I don't know 1933 01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:28.439 what they're gonna do with her right now. It all 1934 01:48:28.479 --> 01:48:31.359 depends on the story. I'm not gonna rule it out 1935 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:35.960 and be kind of like Becky holding the Intercontinental Title, right, 1936 01:48:35.960 --> 01:48:38.359 it's the same concept. The thing is, I wouldn't do 1937 01:48:38.399 --> 01:48:40.840 it at the same time, though, So if you're gonna 1938 01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:44.600 have someone like Becky hold the IC, I don't want 1939 01:48:44.720 --> 01:48:47.760 Charlotte holding the US on SmackDown like you do one 1940 01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:49.439 of the other, but don't do them at the same time. 1941 01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:58.640 Zachary Black, did Pat get sent off in a gurney today? 1942 01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:04.079 Jerry Lawler loves gunhar No. Not only did Pat not 1943 01:49:04.159 --> 01:49:06.359 get sent out on a gurney, he was right back 1944 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:11.199 up on his feet when the match was over. He 1945 01:49:11.239 --> 01:49:18.079 did not get murdered. Ross Lom and the female RAF 1946 01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:20.760 trying to pull Becky off Lyra had me eye rolling. 1947 01:49:21.359 --> 01:49:24.239 I show more effort and strength when booking my prostate 1948 01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:35.000 checkup TMI, my friend TMI egghead show. John just gave 1949 01:49:35.039 --> 01:49:37.479 our truth an AA through the table during the post 1950 01:49:37.479 --> 01:49:40.439 show media scrum. There's your Saturday Night's main event match. 1951 01:49:41.319 --> 01:49:44.880 That's what it sounds like. I mean, as soon as 1952 01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:47.079 they announced Sena for that show, I figured, you know, 1953 01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:51.439 he's got to be wrestling on that show, and you 1954 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:54.359 could do a rematch with Randy Orton. But they hype 1955 01:49:54.399 --> 01:49:59.319 this one up so much as the last time I 1956 01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:02.760 mean it would just it would feel fucked up for 1957 01:50:02.840 --> 01:50:13.640 them to immediately go back on that fucked up fuck 1958 01:50:13.760 --> 01:50:16.119 that tree. It would feel fucked up for them to 1959 01:50:16.159 --> 01:50:19.760 immediately go right back to it. And seeing it in 1960 01:50:19.840 --> 01:50:22.399 truth is a match that works better as a TV 1961 01:50:22.479 --> 01:50:34.319 match anyway, So I have no problem with that. Bace Beers, 1962 01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:36.560 thank you for the two el mas. Say hey, Commissioner, 1963 01:50:36.600 --> 01:50:39.000 can we get an hog show in Puerto Rico someday? 1964 01:50:39.079 --> 01:50:43.439 Much love? Hey, We're going to be expanding to some 1965 01:50:43.479 --> 01:50:49.319 different places, so never say never. All things are on 1966 01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:51.680 the table right now. We got some fun announcements coming 1967 01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:55.199 in the months ahead, so stay tuned. Going to be 1968 01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:59.800 in Texas actually in a couple of months. We got 1969 01:51:00.199 --> 01:51:02.800 presence now in Orlando with a new school down there. 1970 01:51:02.800 --> 01:51:05.880 I'm sure we're going to be running there soon. So 1971 01:51:07.119 --> 01:51:10.840 Bobby's World with the twenty one missed most of the 1972 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:17.720 pla due to my son's college graduation dinner Mechanical Engineering. 1973 01:51:17.760 --> 01:51:22.039 He says, congrats to Christian at Texas Roadhouse. It was 1974 01:51:22.079 --> 01:51:25.760 also a Christian whose name I failed to mention when 1975 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:29.760 I shouted out his birthday eight weeks ago. Well, I'm 1976 01:51:29.800 --> 01:51:33.760 sure that Christian maybe let you know about that may 1977 01:51:33.760 --> 01:51:36.840 have read you the Riot Act. I would have. If 1978 01:51:36.840 --> 01:51:39.000 you forgot my name, forgot to mention my name, I 1979 01:51:39.039 --> 01:51:47.039 would have. But congrats to Christian. That's very cool. Texas Roadhouse. 1980 01:51:47.079 --> 01:51:51.840 I don't think I've ever eaten there before. I don't 1981 01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:57.640 think so. Is Texas Roadhouse just exclusive to Texas or 1982 01:51:58.720 --> 01:52:02.399 is it a change? Do they have that elsewhere? The 1983 01:52:02.479 --> 01:52:06.560 Tonga loa hater is with us, at least Toangala wasn't there. 1984 01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:11.359 He sucks fuck him, he says, my God Toanga loa 1985 01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:15.520 super fan is not gonna be happy about this. Libido 1986 01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:21.680 Bell the ten dollars super chat introducing my nephew. My 1987 01:52:21.800 --> 01:52:24.840 nephews six and eight years old to wrestling has been 1988 01:52:25.039 --> 01:52:27.479 lots of fun. Been playing the two K series and 1989 01:52:27.640 --> 01:52:32.199 educating them of different promotions and eras while still keeping 1990 01:52:32.279 --> 01:52:37.680 kfab and keeping tradition. That is cool. I always figured, 1991 01:52:37.720 --> 01:52:41.439 like if I had a like if I had a son, 1992 01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:46.239 what I might do. So I'm a little sick in 1993 01:52:46.239 --> 01:52:51.920 the head here is just like play old wrestling videos 1994 01:52:53.039 --> 01:52:56.239 like try to do it in sequential order as if 1995 01:52:56.560 --> 01:52:58.840 he was watching wrestling for the first time, but like 1996 01:52:58.880 --> 01:53:02.359 from the eighties, like start them out with that, you know. 1997 01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:05.560 But I guess that would be wrong. You know, That'd 1998 01:53:05.600 --> 01:53:07.279 be like if I were growing up as a wrestling 1999 01:53:07.319 --> 01:53:10.039 fan of my dad would only allow me to watch 2000 01:53:10.079 --> 01:53:13.199 tapes of like fucking Gorgeous George or something. You know. 2001 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:17.800 But I still say eighties wrestling is the best wrestling. 2002 01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:20.800 Maybe I'm a little biased in that, but that's how 2003 01:53:20.800 --> 01:53:30.199 I feel. Anthony ref bumps are overdone as fuck. Need 2004 01:53:30.319 --> 01:53:33.920 a break from that. It does make the referees just 2005 01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:47.119 look completely idiotic. Is it possible a wrestler? Is it 2006 01:53:47.279 --> 01:53:52.319 possible a wrestler has chemistry with any chemistry with anyone? Yes, 2007 01:53:54.039 --> 01:53:59.319 some have chemistry, some don't. Some work well together, some don't. Now, 2008 01:53:59.399 --> 01:54:03.720 what is your dream commentary team? We already had it. 2009 01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:08.119 It was Guerrilla Monson and Bobby the Brain Heenan. We 2010 01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:10.880 were living the dream there for a while. Bace Bears, 2011 01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:12.439 thank you for the two Duff's VIDs. What do you 2012 01:54:12.560 --> 01:54:23.560 call vegetarian lesbians? A scissor salad? You suck? Oh Man? 2013 01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:28.520 Tonga loa super fan speak of the devil. Look at this. 2014 01:54:31.600 --> 01:54:34.720 I can't believe Tongala didn't return tonight in the main event. 2015 01:54:34.960 --> 01:54:40.439 Alla Allah Austin at Backlash two thousand. Such a perfect 2016 01:54:40.479 --> 01:54:44.600 opportunity missed, the reaction to his return would have eclipsed 2017 01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:51.279 Austin's in two thousand. It would have be clipped. Randy 2018 01:54:51.399 --> 01:55:01.720 Orton tonight in Saint Louis, he says, Jacob against Jeff 2019 01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:04.880 Cobb is gonna be insane when Fa Tu finally turns 2020 01:55:04.920 --> 01:55:07.520 on the bloodline or they turn on him. Obvious smoking 2021 01:55:07.600 --> 01:55:11.119 mirrors for Sina in the main event. Yeah, I mean 2022 01:55:11.119 --> 01:55:15.560 that's how it has to be at this point. You 2023 01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:18.720 get what you get, and you gotta kind of work 2024 01:55:18.760 --> 01:55:22.159 around his limitations. And I think they did the best 2025 01:55:22.159 --> 01:55:25.119 they could with the tools that they had in their toolbox. 2026 01:55:26.840 --> 01:55:28.880 Slinko says, do you think Fa Tu could end up 2027 01:55:28.880 --> 01:55:31.359 being betrayed by Solo and Cobb? This could lead to 2028 01:55:31.439 --> 01:55:34.279 Jeff Cobb versus Fa Tu and then Solo against Fa Tu? 2029 01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:42.119 Great plee buzzed cheers. Yeah, this would have been a 2030 01:55:42.119 --> 01:55:46.640 good pl to watch. Buzzed. Actually they all would be probably, 2031 01:55:48.119 --> 01:55:50.119 uh yeah, I mean it could go either way. I mean, 2032 01:55:50.159 --> 01:55:54.119 it could be fa To being excommunicated, It could be 2033 01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:57.039 Fa Tou breaking away on his own and then they attack. 2034 01:55:58.439 --> 01:56:00.920 I mean, it works either way, but I hope that 2035 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:03.520 we do get Cobb and Fatu at some point. I'm 2036 01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:06.600 sure we will, and I think it will be a 2037 01:56:06.680 --> 01:56:12.319 banger of a match. It's gonna be good. Hey, Kate, 2038 01:56:12.359 --> 01:56:15.079 thank you for the ten. Kate love just dropping some love, 2039 01:56:15.159 --> 01:56:19.239 no message. We hit our secondary goal tonight. By the way, 2040 01:56:19.560 --> 01:56:21.199 thank you for that ten out of ten, So that 2041 01:56:21.239 --> 01:56:23.600 means you're getting to be the bookers tonight. We'll make 2042 01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:25.319 up for the one we didn't have last night because 2043 01:56:25.359 --> 01:56:32.199 I wasn't here for SmackDown Duff's VIDs. What does a 2044 01:56:32.239 --> 01:56:45.079 bilingual cat say? Wolf? Thank you Duffs John with a ten. 2045 01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:49.600 Imagine you get front row tickets to the first AWWWE crossover. 2046 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:52.920 The catch every car you get into for five years 2047 01:56:52.920 --> 01:56:55.600 has no AC The windows don't roll down, but your 2048 01:56:55.680 --> 01:57:01.359 front windshield does. Would you do it? No? Why would 2049 01:57:01.399 --> 01:57:05.239 I do that. I'll just watch the show from home 2050 01:57:07.079 --> 01:57:10.079 and drive my car exactly the way it is now. 2051 01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:17.680 Thank you, John. Bobby's World with a twenty dollars super chap. 2052 01:57:17.760 --> 01:57:22.159 Benjamin Shelton, What an idiot Hogan is? Just rewatch Hogan 2053 01:57:22.159 --> 01:57:24.920 and Rock and notice Hogan was selling his ribs a lot. 2054 01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:28.159 Think Hogan tried the same thing on Rock that he 2055 01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:31.199 did on Undertaker. If so, think Taker smart and Rock 2056 01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:34.199 up No, As I recall, I think Hogan had a 2057 01:57:34.239 --> 01:57:38.279 house show match with Rakishi right before that and claimed 2058 01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:40.319 that he hurt his ribs in the match with Rakishi. 2059 01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:44.119 And it's like, I want to believe him, but I 2060 01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:47.600 don't believe anything he says. He may well have made 2061 01:57:47.640 --> 01:57:51.560 that entire thing up just to make himself look more like, Oh, 2062 01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:56.680 he overcame this injury that he had, right or maybe 2063 01:57:56.720 --> 01:57:58.840 when he showed up at WrestleMania, if he didn't like 2064 01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:00.960 what he was being told far as what the plan 2065 01:58:01.159 --> 01:58:03.279 was for the match, maybe he can use the injury 2066 01:58:03.319 --> 01:58:06.720 as an excuse to back out of it. Like that's 2067 01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:08.680 the first thing I think of when I think of Hogan. 2068 01:58:08.880 --> 01:58:15.039 So I don't trust him. I don't trust him. That's 2069 01:58:15.039 --> 01:58:17.720 the problem, you know, when you just tell so many lies, 2070 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:26.319 it just casts doubt on everything that you say. Oh, 2071 01:58:26.399 --> 01:58:31.720 you got me, brother, you got me, brother. Aaron Tucker, 2072 01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:37.600 what do Solom monster subs watch when they want to 2073 01:58:37.640 --> 01:58:45.720 work out? Buff VIDs? Dried Chicken says Becky Lynch is 2074 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:48.680 going to make lyra valcarri A bleed. I love lyra 2075 01:58:48.800 --> 01:58:51.600 but she needs dirt, mud and blood on her, like 2076 01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:53.399 a polish shoe. Dirty it. 2077 01:58:57.399 --> 01:59:14.039 Oh, I think I think he meant polish. I think 2078 01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:16.439 he meant polished shoe. 2079 01:59:17.279 --> 01:59:19.880 My god, dude, I just I read it exactly the 2080 01:59:19.880 --> 01:59:29.720 way it was written. I'm not even sure. I'm not 2081 01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:32.680 even sure what that is, like, what is a what 2082 01:59:32.800 --> 01:59:37.279 is a polish shoe? Anyway, I'm creating my own jokes here. 2083 01:59:38.079 --> 01:59:45.880 Thank you dried chicken. Yes, I realize what he said now, 2084 01:59:45.920 --> 01:59:50.479 but the way it was written. Let's move on Duff's VIDs. 2085 01:59:51.039 --> 01:59:54.880 Why did pac Man call? Or what did pac Man? 2086 01:59:58.079 --> 02:00:02.920 What did pac Man call his chocolate factory? Willie Wonka 2087 02:00:03.119 --> 02:00:11.720 Wonka Wonka Man? Duffs BID's always going in the dirt, 2088 02:00:12.760 --> 02:00:20.119 always going to the gutter, Craig. Craig McLaughlan is with us, 2089 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:22.439 and Craig says, seven out of ten show better than 2090 02:00:22.439 --> 02:00:25.720 I expected. I guess I can be entertained by about 2091 02:00:25.760 --> 02:00:28.319 anything that gets my mind off the pain of a 2092 02:00:28.520 --> 02:00:35.640 toothache or absess ouh. Yeah, that's that's not good. Catch 2093 02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:37.640 the rest of your show tomorrow, My best to you. 2094 02:00:37.760 --> 02:00:42.720 Thank you, Craig. Well, hopefully that will pass quickly because 2095 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:48.640 that is not fun. Shout out to uh loves Cats 2096 02:00:48.840 --> 02:00:52.680 in the chat, thank you. Moore says, did you watch 2097 02:00:52.760 --> 02:00:55.520 Maven's new aw video? Was a fun watch. I didn't 2098 02:00:55.520 --> 02:00:57.439 see the whole video. I did see the one. I 2099 02:00:57.479 --> 02:01:00.680 saw one clip of him talking to Tony Kahan and 2100 02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:04.199 then there was a clip of him interacting with Daniel Garcia. 2101 02:01:04.319 --> 02:01:07.640 But I've just there's a lot I have to catch 2102 02:01:07.720 --> 02:01:09.520 up on from the last few days. I've been very, 2103 02:01:09.600 --> 02:01:16.439 very busy, Devin says, buy or sell postmatch interviews or 2104 02:01:16.479 --> 02:01:21.760 post show media scrums, postmatch interviews, postmatch interviews, postmatch interviews, 2105 02:01:21.760 --> 02:01:26.039 postmatch interviews. Ritchie, did you know John Cena attacked our 2106 02:01:26.079 --> 02:01:31.920 truth after Backlash? I do now stuff's VIDs? What did 2107 02:01:31.960 --> 02:01:40.319 tennessee the same thing as Arkansas? What did tennessee the 2108 02:01:40.399 --> 02:01:51.399 same thing as our Uh? Not your best work, Holliday says, predicting, 2109 02:01:51.479 --> 02:01:54.119 Drew wins Money in the Bank and Cody beat Sena 2110 02:01:54.159 --> 02:01:58.199 at SummerSlam, then Drew cashes in on Cody, setting up 2111 02:01:58.239 --> 02:02:01.359 a feud in late twenty twenty five, Orton costs Cody 2112 02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:06.840 equals WrestleMania feud. Well, it's got to be one. Or 2113 02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:10.880 the other. But then why would Orton cost Cody. It's 2114 02:02:10.920 --> 02:02:13.039 got to be a reason. There's got to be an explanation. 2115 02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:16.199 They have to do something to set that up. But 2116 02:02:16.239 --> 02:02:18.199 if you can tell that story, that's a story I 2117 02:02:18.239 --> 02:02:25.760 would like to see play out. Bass Viera says, no fiend, no, 2118 02:02:25.760 --> 02:02:31.640 no fiend tonight. That's good. Also, Randy hit like ten 2119 02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:36.000 finishers two fus include Yeah he did. He hit not 2120 02:02:36.039 --> 02:02:38.039 only his own finisher, but he hit the other guy's 2121 02:02:38.039 --> 02:02:47.720 finished two. Oh I see okay, Tennis sees what arcan saw. 2122 02:02:48.119 --> 02:02:52.359 Oh god, how did I not get that one? I 2123 02:02:52.359 --> 02:02:54.079 don't know. Maybe because I'm running on like three and 2124 02:02:54.079 --> 02:02:56.920 a half hours sleep for the last two days. Maybe 2125 02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:01.920 that's why BW you says Sena aaid our truth at 2126 02:03:01.960 --> 02:03:08.560 the press conference tonight. So I'm told Dried Chicken, John 2127 02:03:08.600 --> 02:03:15.920 Cena's heel character gives off Anakin Skywalker vibes during his run. 2128 02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:21.279 King Nator, thank you for the twenty five much appreciated 2129 02:03:22.680 --> 02:03:25.119 Dried Chicken. Let me tell you how John Cena can 2130 02:03:25.119 --> 02:03:28.560 get more heat. Brother John Cena goes after Joe Hendry 2131 02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:32.479 and beats him up so badly, anger the wrestling community 2132 02:03:32.560 --> 02:03:40.239 more base Beers is Jericho top fifty of all time. 2133 02:03:44.000 --> 02:03:49.199 Everyone's list is going to be different, But yes, I 2134 02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:53.840 believe he is. Jeremy says, do you think punk ever 2135 02:03:53.880 --> 02:03:58.680 goes back to this? Fire burns? No, Chris lu Deck 2136 02:03:58.920 --> 02:04:01.960 with the twelve The Darede movie with Ben Affleck was awful, 2137 02:04:02.079 --> 02:04:05.600 but the Daredevil series with Charlie Cox is goat. Also, 2138 02:04:05.680 --> 02:04:13.239 Buyer Sell wasn't Oh god, the guy who played Shane 2139 02:04:13.319 --> 02:04:18.560 on The Walking Dead, Kurt Angle's brother in law. Fuck, 2140 02:04:18.800 --> 02:04:20.800 his name just popped out of my head. Didn't he 2141 02:04:20.840 --> 02:04:24.239 play Punisher in either a movie or a TV series? 2142 02:04:24.239 --> 02:04:28.720 I thought he did. Chris though, says also Buyer Sell 2143 02:04:28.840 --> 02:04:31.560 in your House, Canadian Stampede or Money in the Bank 2144 02:04:31.680 --> 02:04:35.920 twenty eleven. Those are two of the best shows that 2145 02:04:36.000 --> 02:04:42.000 the company has ever done. So You've put me in 2146 02:04:42.039 --> 02:04:49.199 a very difficult position here, but I have to go, oh, man, 2147 02:04:49.239 --> 02:04:53.960 I don't know. You know that that's tough. I'm gonna 2148 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:56.119 go Money in the Bank. I'll go Money in the 2149 02:04:56.119 --> 02:05:01.640 Bank twenty eleven, two great shows though John Burnhal, thank you, Yes, 2150 02:05:03.000 --> 02:05:09.520 isn't John Burnhal is the Punisher? I thought Dark Effect 2151 02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:13.800 with twenty with Jeff Cobb debuting tonight and being a 2152 02:05:13.800 --> 02:05:16.520 bit older. What other wrestlers who have gotten late starts 2153 02:05:16.600 --> 02:05:20.720 their career in WWE do you think have seen the 2154 02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:23.640 most success. For me, it's names like Batista and DDP 2155 02:05:24.159 --> 02:05:32.399 in WCW DDP and WCW. For sure, Batista would have 2156 02:05:32.439 --> 02:05:36.039 been my pick. I think Batista was like forty right 2157 02:05:36.039 --> 02:05:37.640 when he really I think when he won his first 2158 02:05:37.640 --> 02:05:41.199 world title he may have been forty, So I mean 2159 02:05:41.199 --> 02:05:42.680 he would have been He would have been my first 2160 02:05:42.680 --> 02:05:55.199 pick in terms of like major success. Oh man, I 2161 02:05:55.239 --> 02:05:59.920 don't know. All the guys I'm thinking of right now 2162 02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:04.079 when they first had major success were not that old. 2163 02:06:05.439 --> 02:06:07.640 They were still wrestling when they were very old, but 2164 02:06:07.680 --> 02:06:11.319 they were not that old initially, So I don't know. 2165 02:06:11.399 --> 02:06:14.960 I'd have to think about that. Roderick says, as thought, 2166 02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:17.640 how old was Yeah, I guess AJ when AJ came 2167 02:06:17.680 --> 02:06:19.640 to the company, how old was He's already been there 2168 02:06:19.640 --> 02:06:25.000 for nine years, so I mean when AJ got there, 2169 02:06:25.119 --> 02:06:28.159 was he was he that old? I mean, I maybe 2170 02:06:30.399 --> 02:06:32.439 I didn't really look at him as an old man. 2171 02:06:33.560 --> 02:06:35.560 Say the same thing about Samoa Joe. I guess, but 2172 02:06:35.640 --> 02:06:40.479 Joe never attained that level of success that I feel 2173 02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:46.960 he should have had there number one almost, Sapien says, 2174 02:06:46.960 --> 02:06:49.680 I predict Omas will show up and save Jacob Faught 2175 02:06:49.920 --> 02:06:52.439 from solo and Jeff Cobb. Also, did you hear about 2176 02:06:52.439 --> 02:06:54.960 the two guys who stole a calendar? They both got 2177 02:06:55.000 --> 02:07:04.960 six months. It's pretty good. That's pretty good, David, thank 2178 02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:08.720 you for the twenty David, theoring, always coming in with 2179 02:07:08.760 --> 02:07:15.600 the support. Aj was thirty nine in twenty sixteen. See 2180 02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:21.000 he's almost. He's fifty in a year. There's no way. 2181 02:07:22.840 --> 02:07:26.359 La Knights of course, La Knight. Yeah, Mattie says La Knight. 2182 02:07:26.479 --> 02:07:34.720 That's a good one. Uh. Dried Chicken, Alexa Bliss needs 2183 02:07:34.760 --> 02:07:38.039 to spread dark magic on Charlotte, take her to the 2184 02:07:38.079 --> 02:07:43.039 Hardy Compound and baptize her into the Lake of Reincarnation. 2185 02:07:46.520 --> 02:07:49.039 She goes into the lake as Charlotte Flair. She comes 2186 02:07:49.079 --> 02:07:54.279 out of the lake as Medusa. I like it, dried Chicken, 2187 02:07:54.319 --> 02:08:00.159 says hail Charlotte Flair, the wicked queen of nature. I 2188 02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:02.039 like her going into the lake better and then coming 2189 02:08:02.079 --> 02:08:07.159 out his Medusa. Colin, see Sola master, can you give 2190 02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:10.840 me a quick birthday shout out and have a great night. 2191 02:08:11.439 --> 02:08:16.840 Colin with sixteen months of channel membership. Happy birthday, Colin. 2192 02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:20.880 I don't know how old you are, but you're old 2193 02:08:21.000 --> 02:08:28.000 enough to be a channel member. Thank you, Colin. Jeremy 2194 02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:31.920 rose Patch should have gotten destroyed by Gunther. Him hulking 2195 02:08:32.000 --> 02:08:34.199 up and lasting twenty minutes was dumb to me. Well 2196 02:08:34.239 --> 02:08:36.119 it was fourteen minutes, but yes, it should not have 2197 02:08:36.119 --> 02:08:43.520 gone that long. Alexis Graham got me hooked on your 2198 02:08:43.640 --> 02:08:50.479 live streams. Lol. Yeah, shout out to Graham, mister Murmina, Hey, Alexis, 2199 02:08:50.479 --> 02:08:52.600 thank you. I'm glad. I'm glad he got you hooked 2200 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:56.840 on my podcast. Good. Yeah. How many people listen to 2201 02:08:56.840 --> 02:08:59.720 my podcasts and their significant other is not hooked on 2202 02:08:59.720 --> 02:09:07.359 rest podcasts? They probably hate my guts. Yuri says random thought, 2203 02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:12.239 is both Bronson and Cobb bloodline tied or does that 2204 02:09:12.359 --> 02:09:15.359 lead to something when Bronson is back? Feel like Bronson 2205 02:09:15.399 --> 02:09:18.079 would have that spot if he was not hurt. I 2206 02:09:18.079 --> 02:09:20.119 don't know what the plan was for Bronson read but 2207 02:09:20.239 --> 02:09:24.520 him those few weeks that he was there with the bloodline, 2208 02:09:24.560 --> 02:09:26.760 it just felt right, you know, it felt like a 2209 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:28.800 good fit. So I don't know if they would have 2210 02:09:28.880 --> 02:09:32.199 kept him in there or not a few more months 2211 02:09:32.199 --> 02:09:35.199 he's not. I haven't heard anything about him being medically 2212 02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:40.800 cleared anytime yet. I'm hoping that. I mean, I don't 2213 02:09:40.800 --> 02:09:43.239 even know if he'll be back in time for Summer Slam. Honestly, 2214 02:09:43.279 --> 02:09:46.279 I mean, that was a pretty gnarly injury, but it 2215 02:09:46.279 --> 02:09:48.399 would be nice to get him back by like Midsummer. 2216 02:09:49.439 --> 02:09:52.560 See where he or even which roster he ends up on. 2217 02:09:55.199 --> 02:09:58.920 EJ says who felt more out of place in WCW 2218 02:09:59.079 --> 02:10:01.800 mean Gene or Bob. I feel like Jeane should have 2219 02:10:01.800 --> 02:10:04.319 been a WWE lifer, but I can't picture him during 2220 02:10:04.319 --> 02:10:10.319 the Attitude era. Honestly, I felt like they were both 2221 02:10:10.359 --> 02:10:14.199 out of place, but more so heenid like of the two. 2222 02:10:14.239 --> 02:10:16.880 It was definitely heend. The heena that we got in 2223 02:10:17.000 --> 02:10:20.960 WCW was nothing like the heena we got in WWE. 2224 02:10:23.399 --> 02:10:26.479 Uh the Winston slip. What's your favorite SmackDown moment and 2225 02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:32.720 match moment? Is probably the first ring collapse with Brock 2226 02:10:32.760 --> 02:10:36.880 and Big Show. As far as match, I don't know. 2227 02:10:36.880 --> 02:10:39.079 There's been a lot of great SmackDown matches over the years, 2228 02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:43.800 you know, Angle, Angle and Brock, and that Iron Man 2229 02:10:43.880 --> 02:10:45.600 match is certainly one of them. I don't know if 2230 02:10:45.600 --> 02:10:52.640 that was the best, but moment I have to go 2231 02:10:52.680 --> 02:10:54.319 with that first ring collab. I mean, it's been done 2232 02:10:54.399 --> 02:10:58.960 multiple times since then, but that really was a holy 2233 02:10:59.000 --> 02:11:06.039 shit moment, the first time that ever happened. BW are 2234 02:11:06.079 --> 02:11:08.199 we getting two Dark Side of the Ring reviews this Sunday? 2235 02:11:08.239 --> 02:11:10.079 You're getting no Dark Side of the Ring reviews this 2236 02:11:10.119 --> 02:11:12.039 Sunday because I have not had time to put any 2237 02:11:12.079 --> 02:11:14.920 notes together. I was out of town. I was just 2238 02:11:15.359 --> 02:11:18.600 ridiculously busy. I've watched, I'm all caught up on the episodes. 2239 02:11:21.560 --> 02:11:23.760 But I will do a review for the Eddie Gilbert one. 2240 02:11:24.000 --> 02:11:26.760 I'll do one for I mean, how could I not 2241 02:11:27.000 --> 02:11:29.600 do one for Billy Jack Haynes. I've talked about him before. 2242 02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:35.079 He's quite the character. But I don't know when they'll 2243 02:11:35.119 --> 02:11:38.560 probably my hope is that, you know, they'll go up me, 2244 02:11:38.640 --> 02:11:41.760 even on YouTube first, you know, even if I include 2245 02:11:41.800 --> 02:11:45.640 them in the show after the fact. But unfortunately there 2246 02:11:45.640 --> 02:11:48.520 will be none tomorrow. Bace Beer is Nightmare on Elm 2247 02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:53.920 Street or Friday the thirteenth. Friday the thirteenth. I've seen 2248 02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:56.079 some of the Freddy movies, but I was never a 2249 02:11:56.079 --> 02:12:00.479 Freddie guy. I was a Jason guy. When I saw Halloween. 2250 02:12:00.520 --> 02:12:02.600 Then for the first time, I became a Michael guy. 2251 02:12:03.560 --> 02:12:07.159 So for me it's Michael and then Jason John. You 2252 02:12:07.159 --> 02:12:10.000 get to witness sting against the Undertaker, both in their prime. 2253 02:12:10.079 --> 02:12:13.800 The catch for two years, every trash can in your 2254 02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:17.159 home fills up seventy five percent faster than usual. What 2255 02:12:17.359 --> 02:12:21.319 is what these scenarios here? Again, the answer is no. 2256 02:12:24.439 --> 02:12:26.560 I was not one of those people that was dying 2257 02:12:26.680 --> 02:12:28.560 to cease thing in the Undertaker. It would have been 2258 02:12:28.560 --> 02:12:32.560 a cool match with them in their prime, but not 2259 02:12:32.640 --> 02:12:35.159 if I have to buy more garbage bags. Fuck that 2260 02:12:36.720 --> 02:12:39.319 Bace Bear as Kevin Hart should be in Travis's place, 2261 02:12:39.680 --> 02:12:43.880 Rock's BFF. Yeah, but then everything would be turned into comedy. 2262 02:12:44.479 --> 02:12:47.600 It just becomes It just becomes a joke at that point. 2263 02:12:49.520 --> 02:12:53.840 And favorite raw and SmackDown theme songs the original ones, 2264 02:12:55.600 --> 02:12:58.279 the original ones, the ones that really hadn't no lyrics 2265 02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:02.880 at all, Navy, was there any video game that made 2266 02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:05.479 you melt down and slam your controller on the floor. 2267 02:13:06.359 --> 02:13:13.159 Mine was Tecmo World Wrestling on the NES Yeah, I 2268 02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:15.720 mean there were several games. It wasn't any one game. 2269 02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:24.239 When things didn't go my way, I could give violets 2270 02:13:24.279 --> 02:13:28.279 why I don't really play games as much anymore. I 2271 02:13:28.319 --> 02:13:33.079 didn't take it. Well, what can I say? Thank you 2272 02:13:33.119 --> 02:13:38.039 for the messages, some good stuff in there. We are 2273 02:13:38.079 --> 02:13:43.920 currently up to seven hundred and twenty two likes. That's 2274 02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:46.479 what I like to see. You see what I did there. 2275 02:13:46.920 --> 02:13:49.039 Thank you for the likes and the super chats. Now 2276 02:13:49.960 --> 02:13:54.239 my reward to you is not one, but two installments 2277 02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:56.600 of be the Book or bass Beer says Mortal Kombat 2278 02:13:56.680 --> 02:14:03.560 or Street Fighter Mortal. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now 2279 02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:11.079 time to be the booker. All right, we get two 2280 02:14:11.159 --> 02:14:14.800 rounds make up for the one we didn't get last night. 2281 02:14:17.319 --> 02:14:20.680 If you're new here, it's a little fun thing we 2282 02:14:20.720 --> 02:14:22.279 do here at the end of these streams, when we 2283 02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:27.680 hit certain targets, certain goals. I've put together something here. 2284 02:14:28.479 --> 02:14:33.760 It's a randomizer. Tons of names, male female tag teams. 2285 02:14:34.239 --> 02:14:40.239 Sometimes we do stipulations. So here, for example, we have 2286 02:14:40.520 --> 02:14:44.880 Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi. Oh man, this is this 2287 02:14:44.960 --> 02:14:49.680 is like prime Ibushi here I miss this Coda Ibushi 2288 02:14:51.960 --> 02:14:57.960 code Ibushi and Kenny Omega as tag team partners. That's 2289 02:14:57.960 --> 02:15:03.880 a hell of a team right there, taking on Edge 2290 02:15:04.119 --> 02:15:10.239 and Christian Holy shit, you know, what's wild about that? 2291 02:15:10.239 --> 02:15:12.399 That is a match that we very well could get 2292 02:15:12.439 --> 02:15:16.239 in aw and it would not be nearly as good 2293 02:15:16.840 --> 02:15:19.920 as it would have been if both these teams were 2294 02:15:19.920 --> 02:15:24.399 in their physical primes. Imagine Prime Edge and Christian against 2295 02:15:24.479 --> 02:15:28.319 Prime Kenny and Coda. What a fucking amazing match that 2296 02:15:28.359 --> 02:15:33.359 would have been. Man super bell yea, I have to 2297 02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:36.840 have like a super bell button that just blows everybody's 2298 02:15:36.840 --> 02:15:45.039 eardrums out. All right, women's match, Now we begin with Lana. 2299 02:15:47.920 --> 02:16:01.840 Oh my god, god, I don't think it's possible for 2300 02:16:01.960 --> 02:16:05.159 me to have booked a worst match if like usually 2301 02:16:05.199 --> 02:16:08.960 it's one or the other, but to get them both, 2302 02:16:10.640 --> 02:16:20.439 Oh my god, uh Lana and Rosa Mendez. I mean 2303 02:16:20.439 --> 02:16:23.840 that that is just I don't even I'm speechless, Like 2304 02:16:23.960 --> 02:16:27.920 I don't know what that would look like. I don't 2305 02:16:28.000 --> 02:16:29.920 know what that is. Super Buzzer. I have to have 2306 02:16:29.960 --> 02:16:31.880 a buzzer. I have to have a I have to 2307 02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:35.319 have an actual buzzer here. I need a super buzzer. 2308 02:16:35.360 --> 02:16:39.920 I need a super bell and a super buzzer. And 2309 02:16:40.000 --> 02:16:43.120 now we move on to our main event. We try 2310 02:16:43.159 --> 02:16:51.000 to cleanse the palate from that awful match. Live Morgan 2311 02:16:51.079 --> 02:16:57.360 gives you her room key. Now, pick a stipulation. I 2312 02:16:57.360 --> 02:17:01.680 didn't see her at my hotel last night, but they 2313 02:17:01.680 --> 02:17:04.200 had a live band in the lobby playing music when 2314 02:17:04.200 --> 02:17:08.079 I got back from the show, blasting away into the 2315 02:17:08.079 --> 02:17:12.760 wee hours of the night. Oh, I guess we have 2316 02:17:12.799 --> 02:17:16.600 to pick a stipulation then for our main event. Those 2317 02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:21.520 are the rules. Our main event is going to be 2318 02:17:21.559 --> 02:17:24.799 an I quit match. As we see in the background 2319 02:17:24.840 --> 02:17:27.479 of this image here John Cena against Randy Orton. How 2320 02:17:27.479 --> 02:17:33.840 about that very appropriate? That's just how many matches they've had. 2321 02:17:35.239 --> 02:17:37.079 It's not like, oh my god, you landed on an 2322 02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:39.000 image of John Cena and Randy Orton. It's like, no, 2323 02:17:39.200 --> 02:17:43.479 they've had that many matches. It's not that rare, all right, 2324 02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:48.760 But it's going to be an equip match. Jay Lethal, 2325 02:17:49.520 --> 02:17:54.600 the former Ring of Honor world champion, is in our 2326 02:17:54.639 --> 02:18:01.319 main event and he is going to be doing battle 2327 02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:11.600 with who with Seth Rollins in an I quit match? 2328 02:18:14.680 --> 02:18:18.280 Basically Tyler Black here against Jay Lethal. That could have 2329 02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:20.319 been a Ring of Honor made event. Maybe it was. 2330 02:18:21.319 --> 02:18:22.239 Did they overlap? 2331 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:23.120 Uh? 2332 02:18:24.959 --> 02:18:28.040 I don't know now if they did, I think they 2333 02:18:28.040 --> 02:18:34.040 did in Ring of Honor. I don't know, but as 2334 02:18:34.079 --> 02:18:36.159 I said, you get two rounds, would be the booker. 2335 02:18:36.959 --> 02:18:38.760 So now we get to do it all over again, 2336 02:18:38.760 --> 02:18:41.639 but this time every match is going to have a stipulation. 2337 02:18:43.600 --> 02:18:45.440 That would be good, right, That would be a good match, 2338 02:18:47.239 --> 02:18:53.719 not Lana and Rosa Mendez, Seth Rollins and jay leth Okay. 2339 02:18:53.760 --> 02:18:55.559 So our first match is going to be a tag 2340 02:18:55.600 --> 02:19:04.239 team barbed wire steel cage match, barb weier steel cage match. 2341 02:19:04.680 --> 02:19:10.719 That's what we are heading into here with Kevin Owens 2342 02:19:10.840 --> 02:19:16.920 and Sammy Zain as one team. Then they had barbed 2343 02:19:16.920 --> 02:19:21.000 weyer in their last match against each other, Kevin Owens 2344 02:19:21.000 --> 02:19:26.079 and Sammy's Ain tag team steel cage barbed weier match 2345 02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:35.079 against the Toxic Turtles. Do not adjust your screens. This 2346 02:19:35.239 --> 02:19:39.399 was a real team, not for very long, but this 2347 02:19:39.559 --> 02:19:43.840 was a real team at one point in WWE. I 2348 02:19:43.920 --> 02:19:47.920 believe Gilberg is under one of those costumes. And the 2349 02:19:47.959 --> 02:19:51.399 reason I gave this the bell is because if you 2350 02:19:51.559 --> 02:19:54.600 say that you would not pay money to see Kevin 2351 02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.600 Owens and Sammy z Ain wrestle a couple of teenage 2352 02:19:58.680 --> 02:20:02.520 mutant ninja turtle knocks Goffs in a steel cage, barbed 2353 02:20:02.520 --> 02:20:08.079 wire match. I don't believe you you're lying to me 2354 02:20:10.280 --> 02:20:12.719 that would be a great match. You mean to tell 2355 02:20:12.719 --> 02:20:16.479 me you wouldn't want to see these turtles sliced and diced. 2356 02:20:17.680 --> 02:20:23.799 You wouldn't be sports entertained by that. Our women's match 2357 02:20:23.920 --> 02:20:26.760 is going to be an APA invitation. We just had 2358 02:20:26.760 --> 02:20:32.680 one of these last week and APA Invitational, although I 2359 02:20:32.680 --> 02:20:35.559 don't think we've ever had a women's APA Invitational, so 2360 02:20:35.680 --> 02:20:39.399 this is a little bit different. As long as we 2361 02:20:39.440 --> 02:20:42.239 know a Lanza Lana and Rosa Mendez again, I think 2362 02:20:42.239 --> 02:20:46.600 we'll be okay. Willow Nightingale, see now, I think Willow 2363 02:20:46.719 --> 02:20:50.600 would actually do very well. She had that match was 2364 02:20:50.639 --> 02:20:54.520 it all out last year with Chris Statlander? What was 2365 02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:57.920 the stipulation? Again? They beat the hell out of each other. 2366 02:20:59.040 --> 02:21:04.040 Willo would do very well in an APA invitational, and 2367 02:21:04.120 --> 02:21:11.120 she will be taking on Natalia. I think they would. 2368 02:21:11.200 --> 02:21:14.840 I think they would do well. So I'll have to 2369 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:17.200 go back and see the match that Natty had with 2370 02:21:17.200 --> 02:21:23.000 with me you in uh blood Sport. And now our 2371 02:21:23.239 --> 02:21:26.159 co main event of the evening, this is what we 2372 02:21:26.239 --> 02:21:29.239 will end on. We have to end on a high 2373 02:21:29.239 --> 02:21:33.239 note with this main event, and it's going to be 2374 02:21:33.840 --> 02:21:36.719 another Okay, we can't do that. Now we're not we're not. 2375 02:21:37.520 --> 02:21:40.600 We're not doing the same stipulation in the same round 2376 02:21:40.879 --> 02:21:46.520 of be the booker can't do that, But maybe we 2377 02:21:46.559 --> 02:21:50.040 should have, because now we have landed on I for 2378 02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:54.200 an eye. And now I regret that we did not 2379 02:21:54.319 --> 02:21:59.319 go with the same stipulation. But that's what happens sometimes 2380 02:22:01.680 --> 02:22:06.239 Kurt Angle in one half of our eye for an 2381 02:22:06.239 --> 02:22:11.479 eye main event. Now this I like Kurt Angle. He 2382 02:22:11.559 --> 02:22:16.200 might lose an eye. That's why she said, you're gonna 2383 02:22:16.239 --> 02:22:17.920 lose an eye with that thing. Put that thing away, 2384 02:22:18.000 --> 02:22:25.680 Kurt Angle. I guess the guess the British bull I 2385 02:22:25.879 --> 02:22:30.879 love this image, the British bulldog Davy boy Smith I 2386 02:22:32.680 --> 02:22:35.760 for an eye. What is that face that he is 2387 02:22:35.879 --> 02:22:42.079 making in this image? I don't know. Then you got 2388 02:22:42.079 --> 02:22:45.319 poor Andre could barely move. You see Andre in the 2389 02:22:45.319 --> 02:22:51.959 background there with his cane. This had to be ninety 2390 02:22:51.959 --> 02:22:55.719 one day. Andre was. He was not in good shape. 2391 02:22:57.840 --> 02:23:03.079 But there you have it. Two rounds to be the booker. Oh, 2392 02:23:03.120 --> 02:23:07.680 clean sweep. You're right now, you're absolutely right. I'm sorry. 2393 02:23:07.760 --> 02:23:09.559 How did I not realize that we had we had 2394 02:23:09.559 --> 02:23:13.920 a clean hold. On a second, I stand corrected, We 2395 02:23:14.040 --> 02:23:22.399 had a clean sweep. And so therefore we have to 2396 02:23:22.399 --> 02:23:27.440 play the anthem thank you for reminding me. Almost you 2397 02:23:27.479 --> 02:23:31.719 almost let me forget. You know, they they happen so 2398 02:23:31.879 --> 02:23:34.200 rarely that I have to make sure I play the 2399 02:23:34.280 --> 02:23:40.079 sound or else it doesn't count. We have Duff's VIDs 2400 02:23:42.280 --> 02:23:50.799 says which state has the most streets? Rhode Island? Very good, Yuri, 2401 02:23:51.159 --> 02:23:54.440 Kenny and Coda against E and c best random matchup 2402 02:23:54.479 --> 02:23:57.399 in a while. It is quite great, isn't it. I mean, 2403 02:23:57.440 --> 02:24:00.920 it's just one of those matches that if you take 2404 02:24:01.000 --> 02:24:03.559 from one generation and then you blend it with another, 2405 02:24:03.680 --> 02:24:06.120 what kind of like fantasy matchups could you come up with? 2406 02:24:07.159 --> 02:24:11.280 That one would have to be on there. Duff'svids Sundays 2407 02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:14.280 are a little sad at the end, but the day 2408 02:24:14.319 --> 02:24:19.559 before is a sadder day. Cameron Spencer, I've been meaning 2409 02:24:19.600 --> 02:24:26.520 to ask you, what are your three favorite great college matches. Well, 2410 02:24:26.559 --> 02:24:28.760 I'll work on that, Cameron, and I'll get back to you. 2411 02:24:29.719 --> 02:24:34.120 Bass Bears says Hell Raiser or Final Destination, Final Destination. 2412 02:24:36.280 --> 02:24:39.239 It's never really a pinhead guy. I know a few pinheads, 2413 02:24:39.239 --> 02:24:43.399 but not really a pinhead guy. Isn't there a new final? 2414 02:24:43.600 --> 02:24:45.920 I think I just saw commercial for a new final destination? 2415 02:24:48.559 --> 02:24:50.559 How many movies? I mean, I know there have been 2416 02:24:50.600 --> 02:24:53.040 at least ten Saw movies, maybe eleven, but like, how 2417 02:24:53.040 --> 02:24:57.239 many final destinations have there been? My god, they've got 2418 02:24:57.280 --> 02:24:59.079 to be up in the double digits by this point. 2419 02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:04.319 At Lana and the Rosa Mendez match was like a 2420 02:25:04.319 --> 02:25:06.799 final destination. That should have been the stipulation for that match. 2421 02:25:08.840 --> 02:25:12.799 Final destination. But you can't avoid it. You can't avoid fate. 2422 02:25:13.440 --> 02:25:16.000 You just have to learn to accept it. Six of them, 2423 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:19.840 there have been six or seven final destination movies, all right, 2424 02:25:19.920 --> 02:25:24.479 So they'll hit ten at some point. Guarantee they'll hit ten. 2425 02:25:26.840 --> 02:25:30.520 It's called bloodlines, right, Final destination. Bloodlines. It's like the 2426 02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:33.719 blood Line. It will never end. It just goes on 2427 02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:39.040 and on and on. Thank you guys for a great stream. 2428 02:25:39.120 --> 02:25:42.079 Here tonight we got power spying games coming in with 2429 02:25:42.120 --> 02:25:45.680 one last super check. You giving Ko and Sammy against 2430 02:25:45.760 --> 02:25:48.959 the Turtles The Bell is like when you gave Booker 2431 02:25:49.079 --> 02:25:53.840 t and Big Money Meltzer the Bell. I'm sorry, I 2432 02:25:53.920 --> 02:25:59.200 have no recollection of that. I have no recollection of that. 2433 02:26:02.079 --> 02:26:09.520 And bass Beers. Kurt Angle had three eyes and then 2434 02:26:09.520 --> 02:26:15.719 he has three I emojis. Santiago with the four ninety 2435 02:26:15.760 --> 02:26:19.440 nine I'm looking forward to the short Truth program. Seena 2436 02:26:19.520 --> 02:26:22.959 was actually the reason Truth lost his mind in twenty eleven. 2437 02:26:23.680 --> 02:26:28.559 Will this lead to Truth regaining his sanity? Yeah, that's right. 2438 02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:32.000 He came out there. They had that magic Capital punishment. 2439 02:26:32.120 --> 02:26:37.040 Wasn't it that one pay per view they did well? Look, 2440 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:38.479 I mean, if they're going to do it, I would 2441 02:26:38.559 --> 02:26:45.399 love to have some callbacks. But we'll see. They're doing 2442 02:26:45.440 --> 02:26:47.159 it on Saturday Night's main event. It's coming up in 2443 02:26:47.200 --> 02:26:50.840 a few weeks, and I don't know is Sena scheduled 2444 02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:55.159 for any dates between now and then? Has he? I mean, 2445 02:26:55.520 --> 02:26:58.159 I know there were dates that came out a while ago. 2446 02:26:58.840 --> 02:27:03.799 I don't remember how many, if any dates between Backlash 2447 02:27:03.840 --> 02:27:06.319 and Saturday Night's main event he scheduled for. So I 2448 02:27:06.360 --> 02:27:08.120 don't know how many times we're even going to get 2449 02:27:08.159 --> 02:27:11.760 him on TV between now and then. I don't know. 2450 02:27:13.719 --> 02:27:17.520 Mattie says solo. How long or how did it feel 2451 02:27:18.159 --> 02:27:22.559 to raise Indy's arm up when she won? It felt 2452 02:27:22.600 --> 02:27:25.600 great because it was a great moment for her to 2453 02:27:25.680 --> 02:27:29.879 be crowned champion on a night where nobody was expecting it. 2454 02:27:30.520 --> 02:27:32.559 All of a sudden we have a brand new women's champion. 2455 02:27:34.239 --> 02:27:36.799 She was all smiles. It was very happy for her. 2456 02:27:36.799 --> 02:27:39.239 It was a great moment. You can watch it on 2457 02:27:39.280 --> 02:27:42.120 Trailler TV plus her and Yamasha. I had a ringside 2458 02:27:42.120 --> 02:27:44.559 seat for it because after I came out to make 2459 02:27:44.600 --> 02:27:49.000 the announcement about the title being vacated, I sat at ringside. 2460 02:27:49.120 --> 02:27:52.920 I wanted a ringside seat with that belt and watch 2461 02:27:53.040 --> 02:27:58.280 the match and every kick. Mean me, you those kicks 2462 02:27:58.280 --> 02:28:02.399 are deadly. That she throws every kick, every strike, every forearm. 2463 02:28:04.639 --> 02:28:10.799 I could hear it so really good stuff. I'm going 2464 02:28:10.840 --> 02:28:15.000 to read you a Bender mc simpson super chat that 2465 02:28:15.040 --> 02:28:17.280 I just noticed. Here's some coin for a super bell. 2466 02:28:18.280 --> 02:28:23.639 Now I want to see Edgend, Christian Coda and Kenny badly. Thanks. Well, 2467 02:28:23.680 --> 02:28:25.559 I'm sure you could do it in the video game. 2468 02:28:25.639 --> 02:28:31.360 Now you're probably booking in there. This is why we 2469 02:28:31.399 --> 02:28:34.360 do be the booker. I get you thinking about matches 2470 02:28:34.360 --> 02:28:37.959 that you probably never even thought of. That's the beauty 2471 02:28:38.000 --> 02:28:42.639 of it. Tomorrow is episode nine to twelve, the Mother's 2472 02:28:42.680 --> 02:28:48.520 Day edition of the sound Off. Be talking more Backlash 2473 02:28:49.280 --> 02:28:53.879 and the Backlash fallout, and then some other news and notes. 2474 02:28:53.879 --> 02:28:57.559 I'm going to do what I can do. There's some 2475 02:28:57.600 --> 02:28:59.360 stuff like the dark side of the Ring stuff that's 2476 02:28:59.360 --> 02:29:01.680 going to have to wait. I just didn't have time 2477 02:29:01.719 --> 02:29:03.879 this week to dive into it the way I wanted to, 2478 02:29:03.920 --> 02:29:07.239 but that's how it goes sometimes. But yes, there will 2479 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:09.319 be a new podcast tomorrow, so keep an eye out 2480 02:29:09.360 --> 02:29:12.040 for that. Happy Early Mother's Day to all the moms 2481 02:29:12.079 --> 02:29:16.120 out there celebrating, I hope you enjoy your day. Thank 2482 02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:18.680 you for spending your time with me here for this 2483 02:29:19.000 --> 02:29:21.920 backlash review, and I will see you back here live 2484 02:29:21.959 --> 02:29:24.760 on Monday night for the Raw Post show and tomorrow 2485 02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:28.239 for episode nine to twelve of the sound Off. Until then, 2486 02:29:28.799 --> 02:29:29.479 take care, guys,