Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: And Welcome back to another main event review. One week
Speaker 1: away from SummerSlam. Feels like, as I always say, these
Speaker 1: pearly's just come in so quick. WrestleMania literally happened yesterday
Speaker 1: for me. Now we're straight into Summer Slam. The match
Speaker 1: is coming up this week, two night event for the
Speaker 1: first time, which is going to be really exciting and
Speaker 1: lots of lots of stuff to get through in this episode.
Speaker 1: But before I do make a start on it, I
Speaker 1: did want to apologize to the microphone quality last week.
Speaker 1: For some reason, when I was recording it got set
Speaker 1: to my laptop microphone rather than my normal microphone, and
Speaker 1: that's why the sound quality wasn't as good as hopefully
Speaker 1: it is. Now I've double checked it and I think
Speaker 1: that I do have the correct microphone in I guess
Speaker 1: I'll find out after we do this review. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Summer Slam coming up, so we'll also be previewing that
Speaker 1: as well and essentially giving our predictions or my predictions
Speaker 1: as to what I think is going to happen there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of moving parts and a lot of
Speaker 1: potential matches as well. But before we begin, this hasn't
Speaker 1: happened on the main event, but Nick Olders has announced
Speaker 1: the six man tables, ladders and chairs tag team match,
Speaker 1: So we're finally getting the whole tag team division going
Speaker 1: up against each other, which is something that I was
Speaker 1: hoping to see at WrestleMania, but now we're going to
Speaker 1: be seeing this at at SummerSlam, which is which is
Speaker 1: quite awesome and I'm very keen for it.
Speaker 3: I think I'm the most excited for this.
Speaker 1: Match, and especially considering that we saw the triple threat
Speaker 1: match between DIY Street Profits and the Machine Guns in
Speaker 1: what was a incredible match, So if it's going to
Speaker 1: be anything like that, with all the spots that happened there,
Speaker 1: now with an extra three tag teams, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna witness a skeptical It's just a shame that the
Speaker 1: tag team division on Raw isn't as good, so there's
Speaker 1: not really much happening there on that side, but definitely
Speaker 1: on the SmackDown side. There is a lot going on,
Speaker 1: so I thought i'd addressed that before. Obviously, we talk
Speaker 1: about main Event, and we also talk about the segments
Speaker 1: on Raw, a very promo heavy main event with the
Speaker 1: Raw cuts, so we're going to be discussing those promos
Speaker 1: there as well, which which perfectly tie into Summer Slam too.
Speaker 1: But before we begin that, we'll start with the first
Speaker 1: main event match. We had Penter back on main Event, which.
Speaker 3: Was a surprise.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to actually see him here taking on Grayson
Speaker 1: Waller as well, and the match went pretty short. Actually,
Speaker 1: Pencer did get the victory here, which was not anyone
Speaker 1: surprise with the Penter Driver and also a nice sweet
Speaker 1: counter of the Mexican Destroyer too or countering into that,
Speaker 1: defeating Greyson Waller there, who was mocking Austin Theory. It
Speaker 1: does seem that as though Austin Theory is not going
Speaker 1: to be coming back, so they're officially split up, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't been in a way where we've seen them
Speaker 1: kind of feud, so maybe that will happen when he
Speaker 1: gets back, but for now, Greyson Waller becomes a solo star.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's sort of teaming up with the New Day,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't really done much on the main roster anyway,
Speaker 1: so this is not going to help his momentum. And
Speaker 1: with no Austin Theory around, I don't see anything for
Speaker 1: him at the moment till he comes back and until
Speaker 1: they have that feud that everyone's waiting for that will
Speaker 1: finally and hopefully push Austin Theory to doing something that
Speaker 1: is significant like Vince McMahon did for him. He's still young,
Speaker 1: and I think this this feud will kind of elevate
Speaker 1: him there if I'm honest. But for Penser, he gets
Speaker 1: the victory here, brings out two kids with his penter masks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're his sons or not, but
Speaker 1: they come into the ring and sort of do a
Speaker 1: bit of said Amedo stuff.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Pener's doesn't look like he's going to be booked for
Speaker 1: Summer Slam. He was literally two matches away in the
Speaker 1: Cortland match, or two opponents away from competing for the
Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship, which.
Speaker 3: Was never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But I found that he was sort of feuding with
Speaker 1: the new formed team as well of Seth Rowlands, Bron
Speaker 1: Breaker and Bronson Reid, and yeah, he's doing nothing, which
Speaker 1: is which is quite crazy, and they're not booking for
Speaker 1: Summer Slam. The only way that I would have saw
Speaker 1: him potentially go into Summer Slam is a few with
Speaker 1: Adgande a Medicano, and I think that's the only way
Speaker 1: that match could occur for him to be on SummerSlam,
Speaker 1: because it's crazy to think that Pens is not going
Speaker 1: to be on there, given that he's just arrived onto
Speaker 1: the scene and has been impactful. Yes, he's not really
Speaker 1: pushed it to the next level in terms of main
Speaker 1: eventing shows or beating the main superstars or the high
Speaker 1: level superstars, but he's done a really good job in
Speaker 1: that mid card to like high end card roaming around
Speaker 1: that area. And it's just crazy that he won't get
Speaker 1: a Summer Slam match, and I think getting one with
Speaker 1: Al Grande Americana is what will make the most sense now.
Speaker 3: And speaking on algand A Medicano.
Speaker 1: It was just crazy for me to see that he
Speaker 1: made an appearance in Triple A, which is the promotion
Speaker 1: in Mexico, and I found quite interesting that all the
Speaker 1: fans in Mexico, who supposedly Al Grande Americano is offending.
Speaker 1: Was very happy and we're giving massive pops to him
Speaker 1: as well, and he got the crowd going. It seems
Speaker 1: as though that those people in Mexico are enjoying the
Speaker 1: gimmick and the joke, so I just found that quite
Speaker 1: interesting as well. It is Kaiser, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be obviously Kaiser taking on Penter, but
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Kaiser and Chad Gable go at
Speaker 1: it against each other as like both Algrando and Medicanos.
Speaker 1: That that would be quite that would be quite a
Speaker 1: spectacle to see. But I think for Penter to get
Speaker 1: on Summer Slam, he should be able to urse Algrinde Americana.
Speaker 1: They've had their feuds, doesn't seem like they've wrestled each
Speaker 1: other since Pencer take On took on Chad Gable without
Speaker 1: the mask, So that would make the most sense and
Speaker 1: that would get Penter onto Summer Slam. But if he's
Speaker 1: not on there, that's gonna be a bit of a
Speaker 1: concern for me because on a two night event, in
Speaker 1: the biggest event of the summer, him not being on
Speaker 1: there is just is quite It's quite surprising. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we move on to Raw, where we have seam Punk
Speaker 1: entering the ring, so he opens the show. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure on Raw, but on main event it's obviously the
Speaker 1: second segment he gets his good pop. He basically mentioned
Speaker 1: that he won the Gaunt match to earn a shot
Speaker 1: at Gunster's world title. He says that Gunha is one
Speaker 1: of the best in the world and he's looking forward
Speaker 1: to locking up with him. He said he can't promise
Speaker 1: a win, but he'll promise he'll leave it all in
Speaker 1: the ring. And one thing I had to kind of
Speaker 1: comment on that was that Punk never ever has gone
Speaker 1: into a match and said that he can't promise a win.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if this promo is just trying
Speaker 1: to make Gunher stronger than hears or is he trying
Speaker 1: to just be the underdog in this. But I don't
Speaker 1: really like this angle that Punk's going with him being
Speaker 1: the underdog and sort of trying to make Gunthera look
Speaker 1: good as well.
Speaker 3: He does mention before that though, that his distractions.
Speaker 1: On the backburn and he can focus on the goal
Speaker 1: of being world heavyweight champion. But one thing I can
Speaker 1: say about this is that we haven't heard an update
Speaker 1: on Seth Rowlins' injury in any media, So it's hard
Speaker 1: to think that it is legit unless ww is doing
Speaker 1: a really good job. But normally, when the injury is
Speaker 1: legit and there isn't an actual injury, there is a diagnosis,
Speaker 1: and it's normally media outlets that are obviously not part
Speaker 1: of WWE report this, and there hasn't been any reports,
Speaker 1: So I'm leaning more to the side that Seth Rolins
Speaker 1: is going to have an involvement here. Maybe he catches
Speaker 1: in his money in the bank, or maybe he turns
Speaker 1: on cmpunk, But just something to look out for there,
Speaker 1: because there doesn't seem to be any news on it,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to downplay the fact that he
Speaker 1: could get injured. It's just unusual to not hear anything.
Speaker 1: And the way the injury happened was obviously looked legit
Speaker 1: and obviously look like he was in pain and obviously
Speaker 1: gave up the match. So just something that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of sort of saw in this, and basically, yeah, he
Speaker 1: did mention this, and then going on he said he
Speaker 1: only has two weeks to get ready for the Beast
Speaker 1: or this Beast, but he's been training his whole life
Speaker 1: and he's prepared because see and Punk is seeing Punk.
Speaker 1: But Gunthera comes out and basically dresses out in black.
Speaker 1: He's got that nice suit. I love when he wears
Speaker 1: a suit. It just means he's business. Oh anywhar the
Speaker 1: suit today? Sorry he had a black shirt, but every
Speaker 1: time he dresses black, it's so good to see. He
Speaker 1: had to stay down with Punk they had the new
Speaker 1: tapped out chance and basically went on to say that
Speaker 1: Punk has a massive ego. Guansa also has a massive ego.
Speaker 1: They're not there to make friends, there to win championships
Speaker 1: or Punk did say he was there to win to
Speaker 1: can make money as well, But then Guanha says that
Speaker 1: whatever happens on the bell, after the bell rings, he'll
Speaker 1: make Punk regret he ever stepped into the ring and
Speaker 1: basically said that Punk the only thing that Punk will
Speaker 1: have is the fans chaining for the rest of his life,
Speaker 1: and then left and yeah, they have two weeks to
Speaker 1: kind of build this promo, all this feud up and
Speaker 1: then kind of put promo on each other. But there
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to be any personal attachment to this.
Speaker 1: So it leads me to believe more that there is
Speaker 1: more value of Sephron's coming into the ring and screwing
Speaker 1: Punk over because it would just be unusual or kind
Speaker 1: of weird to see Punk just full out feud with
Speaker 1: Gunshah when there's nothing personal involved in here, and the
Speaker 1: build up to the match isn't exciting, and it's not
Speaker 1: because of these two individuals, because obviously the turnaround time
Speaker 1: from that, and also knowing that Punk is approaching this
Speaker 1: as if it's business, and Punk is much better when
Speaker 1: it comes to having personal feuds. I think when he's
Speaker 1: able to really go on the mic and pull out
Speaker 1: some crazy promos, and he could do that with Guanha,
Speaker 1: but Gunha hasn't given him a reason to yet. So
Speaker 1: maybe on the next episode of Raw this might spice
Speaker 1: up a bit, But at the moment, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Gunsa looks the more confident and the bigger
Speaker 1: man as Punk tries to do this under kind of
Speaker 1: persona as well. And then we get onto the next
Speaker 1: promo where we have Becky Lynch coming in basically flexing
Speaker 1: that should be in New York for the premiere of
Speaker 1: the new movie.
Speaker 3: She's talking about Happy Gilmore Too.
Speaker 1: Which I did watch and it was a very nostalgic movie.
Speaker 1: If this movie didn't come out with the original Happy Gilmore,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be good. But because obviously Happy Gilmore was
Speaker 1: such a good success and it was such a classic
Speaker 1: the movie. The second movie had a lot of I
Speaker 1: guess similarities to the first, and that was quite cool.
Speaker 1: It was very nostalgic, great to see Becky Lynch in it,
Speaker 1: but also great to see mjf as well, who was
Speaker 1: portrayed as one of habi Gilmore's sons, and I think
Speaker 1: he did a really good job in this and it
Speaker 1: was cool to see him there. So awesome to see
Speaker 1: wrestlers kind of hitting the acting scene and always like
Speaker 1: Adam Sandeler bringing in cameos from different parts of the world,
Speaker 1: not just from the acting world. So that was an
Speaker 1: awesome movie. I highly recommend it if you have watched
Speaker 1: the first one, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone
Speaker 1: that hasn't watched the first one because they won't really
Speaker 1: understand the nostalgic feel to it.
Speaker 3: But again, she.
Speaker 1: Said that she won and held everyone down, but at
Speaker 1: least was honest about it. She also mentioned that Lara
Speaker 1: Valka is boguarding the opportunities for this title and wondered
Speaker 1: how greedy she could be and asked if she needed
Speaker 1: who needs two titles, then ended up her bragging about
Speaker 1: the past, basically calling herself Becky two belts. Then Lara
Speaker 1: just comes into the ring because Lynch calls her out.
Speaker 1: They said that they are one one in singles competition,
Speaker 1: so this is the rubber match, and basically Lynch said
Speaker 1: that if Lara loses, she can never challenge for this title, which.
Speaker 3: Lara accepted, but also.
Speaker 1: Requested a no counters disqualifications and there must be a winner,
Speaker 1: and Lynch did respond saying yes, and we'll be having
Speaker 1: a non disqualification match for this which is going to
Speaker 1: be extremely interesting and exciting. This feud has gone on
Speaker 1: for a long time now. I think Becky has done
Speaker 1: a really good job in putting Laarra Valkyria over here.
Speaker 1: I think that Becky has done amazing on the MIC
Speaker 1: since she's become a heel and has.
Speaker 3: Really hone into her role really well.
Speaker 1: I know in the past year wasn't really the best heel,
Speaker 1: but I think she's doing a really good job in
Speaker 1: that now and it makes Larra out of eight and
Speaker 1: it makes her the biggest start, and this will obviously
Speaker 1: propel her for the future, as this is probably the
Speaker 1: most significant thing Lara has done since entering WWE as
Speaker 1: well from NXT, so really good for both fans. Becky
Speaker 1: does a really good job here in trying to put
Speaker 1: her over if I'm honest and yeah, then Bailey makes
Speaker 1: her entrance for the match. The match happens straight after
Speaker 1: between the judgment days Raquel and Roxanne for the title.
Speaker 1: The match is pretty solid. We have Dirty dom on
Speaker 1: the side ring and he comes in. He tries to
Speaker 1: make his presence known by distracting Bailey and then pretty
Speaker 1: much racal axidently kick Dominic after the Lyra move, and
Speaker 1: as he did that, the medical team came to check
Speaker 1: on and it was actually Aj Styles, And I have
Speaker 1: to say Aj Styles for this whole kind of build
Speaker 1: up to Summer Slam has been simply amazing. Him being
Speaker 1: a part of the medical team, the cleaning staff and
Speaker 1: then even doing the prayers for Dominic to get the
Speaker 1: match because obviously Dominic wasn't cleared has been so good
Speaker 1: and I think Aj has done a really good job
Speaker 1: in kind of making this feud a nice build up
Speaker 1: and also being really funny as well. But that was
Speaker 1: also another good example of that being the medical staff.
Speaker 1: Dominique does run away Becky Lynch then and the background
Speaker 1: pulls Lyra off the apron. Bailey didn't see it, and
Speaker 1: as Bailey and Roxanne tried to get some pin attempts,
Speaker 1: she hits a value to balle On Perez. Then Racque
Speaker 1: actually made the blind tag, hits Bailey with the tapahana
Speaker 1: bum and wins the match and they give the pin
Speaker 1: to Rocca Rodriguez again. So ever since Ria Ripley's match
Speaker 1: with her in that street fight, it feels as though
Speaker 1: that Roquel has kind of elevated big time and she's
Speaker 1: getting these pins and victories, and it looks like ww
Speaker 1: are making her feel as though she is a big
Speaker 1: women's powerhouse, which is great to see. They'll build momentum
Speaker 1: obviously for them to defend the title, so it does
Speaker 1: make sense as to why they won the match. I
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised there. The way they did it was perfect.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch distracting Lyra there and who knows, maybe Bailey
Speaker 1: might be frustrated because of that, And we'll have a
Speaker 1: say at SummerSlam, but we'll have.
Speaker 3: To wait and see.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty pretty solid match overall, and yet
Speaker 1: we had the judgment they retain the titles. We then
Speaker 1: go back to main event where we have the match
Speaker 1: between Keana James and me Chin. And it's been a
Speaker 1: year since Kianu Jains has been back. If I'm honest,
Speaker 1: I don't really know too much about what she's done
Speaker 1: on NXT and haven't seen her for a while, but
Speaker 1: it's great to see obviously women's talent back and this
Speaker 1: match was all about her just getting back into it,
Speaker 1: so didn't expect her to beat me Chin, and Michien
Speaker 1: did get the victory with to eat the feet, but
Speaker 1: the match went pretty long and it looked as though
Speaker 1: that Kanna James didn't miss a beat and her injury
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to affect her as much. Obviously she was
Speaker 1: wearing the knee brace. But yeah, and I think what's
Speaker 1: happening for her now is if you look at SmackDown,
Speaker 1: she's going to be representing Julia as I guess an
Speaker 1: attorney or an advisory and I think that might mainly
Speaker 1: have to do with the fact that Julia has a
Speaker 1: bit of a language barrier, so someone to be on
Speaker 1: the mic for her. I think Keana James can do
Speaker 1: a really good job at that.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 1: I just hope that she still is able to participate
Speaker 1: in the ring, or she does a really good heel
Speaker 1: job in managing and just helping out Julia get victories there.
Speaker 1: That match is not going to be at Summer Slam,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for the title. They're going to be versing on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I mean, the whole point of the titles
Speaker 1: is to really defend them on some Slam, so not
Speaker 1: really sure why that's the case. But again, maybe the
Speaker 1: match doesn't finish and they just set it up for
Speaker 1: some Slam. It might be disqualification or something. Who knows,
Speaker 1: But yeah, Michin getting the victory here. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they gave her the victory, and I still don't
Speaker 1: know why she's a single star either. She was sort
Speaker 1: of teaming up with BFAB for a bit and you
Speaker 1: thought maybe they could push for Tag Team Gold or
Speaker 1: they could be part of that division. But now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, BFAB has just decided to just team
Speaker 1: up with the Street Profits again as a manager. So
Speaker 1: don't really know how that happened. I thought they were
Speaker 1: finished working with each other, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: she becomes the manager of their team again, which was
Speaker 1: quite random, and it just kind of disregarded Mechin altogether
Speaker 1: and at that partnership that they sort of had. The
Speaker 1: only reason why I think Beefab probably went back is
Speaker 1: because of the fact that Ken Slarray is part of
Speaker 1: DIY and then you've got Nicky Cross part of the
Speaker 1: White Six, so just trying to get some female integration
Speaker 1: there to just sort of manage stuff. So I suspect
Speaker 1: that those three are probably gonna go into an altercation
Speaker 1: during Summer Slam in that tag team.
Speaker 3: Match for sure, So yeah, look out for that.
Speaker 1: But again, it's good to see new talent back and
Speaker 1: Kana James hopefully does a good role on SmackDown as
Speaker 1: the advisory for Julia. Then we get the little segment
Speaker 1: of Dominicusteria attacking aj from behind, basically saying that he's
Speaker 1: cleared and they will see each other at Summer Slam,
Speaker 1: So that's something that we obviously expected to happen and
Speaker 1: that has been confirmed. Pretty cool again that that feud
Speaker 1: has been quite awesome, especially given that they haven't even
Speaker 1: needed to sort of pull promos in a ring or
Speaker 1: even attack each other. Until that moment, it's been quite funny,
Speaker 1: and I think they did a really great job, the
Speaker 1: both of them, to sort of build that up.
Speaker 3: And then we get the final.
Speaker 1: Segment, which is Roman Rains making his entrance into the
Speaker 1: ring with his new OTC one shirt. So the ones
Speaker 1: to the sky, I like that touch on the new merch.
Speaker 1: Before that, Hayman comes out with Brombreaker and Bronson Reid
Speaker 1: basically saying that they are the future of the industry
Speaker 1: and Paul wants to have things off his chest. But
Speaker 1: then Roman just comes straight away pretty much interrupts him.
Speaker 1: He told Haymond comes in straight away, says that he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be disrespectful and rude, and he said
Speaker 1: that he didn't ever want to be where it seems
Speaker 1: like it would be disrespectful rude, like someone poorn in Texas.
Speaker 1: That was a pretty funny heel promo there. He claimed
Speaker 1: that seth Rons is going to be out of action
Speaker 1: for a long long time.
Speaker 3: It feels like a lie, so just look out for that.
Speaker 3: The way he's hyping that up.
Speaker 1: He said that their leadership's avoid so they can put
Speaker 1: this back together. He told Rains that they are better
Speaker 1: together than apart. He also mentioned that Rains will always
Speaker 1: be family because Haymond loves the tribal Chief, so just
Speaker 1: talking a bit of a bit of nonsense. Before that,
Speaker 1: Rain tells Hdown to acknowledge him, and then Haymond puts
Speaker 1: the finger up in the air. But then Roman goes
Speaker 1: on to say that those were wise words from a
Speaker 1: wise man, but he's not a wise man below, he's
Speaker 1: just a dumbass. That's when bron Breaker starts crashing out
Speaker 1: and Hayman has to hold him back. He then tells
Speaker 1: Brin that Hayman will take all the credit when he
Speaker 1: is the man around here. So basically Roman Rain's giving
Speaker 1: kind of the green light and sort of passing the
Speaker 1: torch moment to bron Breaker, saying and acknowledging him as
Speaker 1: someone that's going to be the main guy. So they're
Speaker 1: really putting the rocket on bron Breaker as well. But
Speaker 1: then he mentions that Haymond wasn't the one that created
Speaker 1: the tribal Chief. He said that he's the tribal chief
Speaker 1: because the fans still acknowledge him, and Rain said that
Speaker 1: he's the greatest champion to ever step foot in the
Speaker 1: ring and Roman Rain Haymond did say he had a
Speaker 1: part in that, but he said that the usso's had
Speaker 1: a part in it, Sola had a part in it,
Speaker 1: and Sammy even helped out. So he said that when
Speaker 1: he lost the titles, he went home to continue the
Speaker 1: blood line, the future bloodline, and said that Hayman thought
Speaker 1: the bloodline was the wrestling group, but you can't create
Speaker 1: it because it was God's work.
Speaker 3: It's obviously family.
Speaker 1: Then tells bron Breaker to back up, and when Rains
Speaker 1: did say that, he goes on to mention that what
Speaker 1: bothered him was that Hayman used to be a friend,
Speaker 1: a family and a business partner, but he betrayed him
Speaker 1: pretty much. As he goes on and to that, and
Speaker 1: then bron Breakers said that people don't want Roman reins
Speaker 1: that his old news He's the old Dog was relevant
Speaker 1: five years ago, but he's taking up bronze spot in
Speaker 1: the ring. He says that he knows that Hayman went
Speaker 1: stabbed him in the back because bron actually holds value
Speaker 1: and says that Rains is worthless and basically told him
Speaker 1: to leave, and then Roman just says they didn't hear
Speaker 1: any of the trash that Broun said, tosses the microphone
Speaker 1: and they go on to have a bit of a brawl.
Speaker 1: Rains hits the Superman punch, then hits Read with a
Speaker 1: few punches and then that's when Rains gets outnumbered. And
Speaker 1: that's when as he was about to set up for
Speaker 1: a tsunami, jay Us comes into the ring, super kicks
Speaker 1: both of them, hits a jumping kick on Reid, punches
Speaker 1: Brown and they were back.
Speaker 3: Into the ring.
Speaker 1: His spears simultaneously onto both and yeah, their song here
Speaker 1: and basically they finished the ring looking strong and standing tall,
Speaker 1: and that sets up the match at SummerSlam, which we'll
Speaker 1: go straight into.
Speaker 3: But it was a good way to end and Raw
Speaker 3: and the main event as well to build up that
Speaker 3: match as well. So we'll start with that match. So
Speaker 3: we'll have the tag team matches, and.
Speaker 1: I think that bron Breaker Bronson Reid will will take
Speaker 1: the victory here. I think it is much needed for
Speaker 1: those two to take the victory for the Heel group
Speaker 1: to be dominant, especially with Seth Rolins not being there.
Speaker 1: Whether he interferes or not, I don't know he could,
Speaker 1: but those two need to get the victory here. For
Speaker 1: the group to be taken more seriously if they end
Speaker 1: up giving it to Roman Reigns and Jus So, it's
Speaker 1: just going to be the same story of another heel
Speaker 1: group not being strong enough. I think that needs to
Speaker 1: be easily given to them, and I think that WW
Speaker 1: will do that and give them the victory for sure.
Speaker 1: Then the next match we're going to review is the
Speaker 1: Intercontinental Championship with Dominic and aj I. Suspect Dominic Pastia
Speaker 1: will retain the title whether now the Judgment Day gets
Speaker 1: involved or not. It's going to lead up to an
Speaker 1: eventual match between Dominique and Finbala for sure. I know
Speaker 1: that the Judgment Day is looking really strong at the moment,
Speaker 1: but that's due to sort of fall apart in the
Speaker 1: next few months or so, even though maybe up to WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: But will that match will happen? And I just don't
Speaker 1: see aj Styles winning the title here just doesn't really
Speaker 1: make sense. I think Dominic has a lot to offer
Speaker 1: as a heel champion and I feel like he needs
Speaker 1: to have a really solid run with the title. And
Speaker 1: it's much deserved too that Dominic has it as a
Speaker 1: heel as someone that is a cheat and dirty.
Speaker 3: It makes a lot of sense for him to have.
Speaker 1: And then we have on the opposite side of the
Speaker 1: brand with the other midcard Belt, the US Championship match
Speaker 1: between Solo and Jacob and the same thing here. I
Speaker 1: think Solo should win the match, but I think they're
Speaker 1: going to give it to Jacob Fatu. Unfortunately, as much
Speaker 1: as I do want Solo to win, I prefer him
Speaker 1: to win so his group is looking strong and his
Speaker 1: run continues. I think they'll end up giving it to
Speaker 1: the baby face here and Jacob Fatu, as they really
Speaker 1: want to push him to higher levels as well. But
Speaker 1: I'm quite enjoying Solo's gimmick and I feel like he
Speaker 1: does deserve to have that championship around his waist as well.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he does win. And if you want Fartu
Speaker 1: to kind of elevate you, you put him onto bigger
Speaker 1: and better things. You have them fighting one more time.
Speaker 1: If the outcome is for Fartu to win the championship
Speaker 1: in the end, I feel like the best way to
Speaker 1: do it is that Summer Slam. But even if not,
Speaker 1: find a way to sort of get him away from
Speaker 1: the mid Card Belt and push him on to the
Speaker 1: higher cards. Well, I think he's what he deserves. We
Speaker 1: get the Women's Tag Team Championship match between the Judgment
Speaker 1: Day Charlotte Flane Alexa Bliss. I very much think that
Speaker 1: Charlote Flairne Alexibliss will win the match. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot for them to offer with this kind of
Speaker 1: new friendship for me and Charlotte in this role just
Speaker 1: seems to be stress free and looks like she's actually
Speaker 1: having fun again, and the fans are taking her side
Speaker 1: as well, and that's something that no one would have
Speaker 1: expected to happen so quick, especially after WrestleMania. I think
Speaker 1: when Charlotte Flair is having fun and she's not too
Speaker 1: much involved in the titles, and I'm not saying she
Speaker 1: doesn't have to go for titles again, but right now,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's her time having a feud like
Speaker 1: this with someone that she's been in the business for
Speaker 1: for a long time. Two staples of the women's division,
Speaker 1: two legends and probably the most veteran leaders in the
Speaker 1: locker room right now and the longest tenured women. It
Speaker 1: makes sense for them to be together and to sort
Speaker 1: of have fun in this right and I think they're
Speaker 1: both doing a great job in there, and it's making
Speaker 1: everyone sort of love Charlotte Flair more, love Alexa Bliss
Speaker 1: even more, and I think titles around their waist will
Speaker 1: be pretty cool to see, and so I think they'll
Speaker 1: get the victory there. We have the next match, which
Speaker 1: is the Women's in Continental Championship. No counters don't just qualifications.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch and Lara Valkyria. I'm leaning towards Lara Valkira
Speaker 1: getting the victory here just because I think they've elevated
Speaker 1: her really highly in this feud, and I think the
Speaker 1: outcome should be that she beats speculating, especially with that
Speaker 1: stipulation that if she does lose, she'll never be able
Speaker 1: to challenge for the title again, I just don't see
Speaker 1: how that will be possible. Every time they put that stipulation,
Speaker 1: it never really happens. So I think Lara gets the
Speaker 1: victory here. If Becky Lynch does win, it's because Bailey
Speaker 1: gets involved somehow, but I think that will lean to
Speaker 1: something between those two. I think Becky and Bailey haven't
Speaker 1: finished their feud, so do they.
Speaker 3: Need a title to do that? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think Lara can move on to newer opponents and
Speaker 1: sort of challenge others there and whoever wants to take
Speaker 1: and I think it's truly deserved. If she does, we
Speaker 1: then have Grand Jordan and Jelly Roll taking on Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre and Logan Paul. I think Randy Ordon Jelly Roll
Speaker 1: is going to get the victory here, and the only
Speaker 1: way this victory will make sense is if Randy Orten
Speaker 1: beats Logan Paul and pins him. If anything else happens,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be extremely frustrated. I do much prefer
Speaker 1: McIntyre and Logan Portal win just because I just hate
Speaker 1: the idea of seeing Randy Orden in a match with
Speaker 1: a celebrity. And that's nothing against Jelly Roll personally, it's
Speaker 1: just the status of Randy Orden. Two Summer Slam matches
Speaker 1: that he's had and quite frankly a great match with
Speaker 1: Johanne Jury and it was awesome to see that, but
Speaker 1: it was literally a two minute match because Kevin Nolan's
Speaker 1: got injured and now he's going to do celebrity loving
Speaker 1: and taking it and helping Jelly Roll get a victory
Speaker 1: where I don't I don't think why Jelly Roll is
Speaker 1: actually in this match to begin with, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: won't talk too much about that. Hopefully Jelly Roll proves
Speaker 1: me wrong and he can perform on in the ring.
Speaker 1: But again, they'll get the victory here, I think for
Speaker 1: that feel good feeling, but I don't think it's it's deserved.
Speaker 3: Then we get the.
Speaker 1: Six man tag team match tables, ladders, and chairs. I
Speaker 1: think the White Six will retain. I just don't see
Speaker 1: who else could really win the title, and I think
Speaker 1: the fact that Eric Rowan and Uncle Howdy they're watching
Speaker 1: it leads me to believe that they will be involved
Speaker 1: in the match and out number everyone. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't really care who wins. To be honest, I'm just
Speaker 1: excited for that match. I just I'm so keen to
Speaker 1: see it. So I think that they will retain, but
Speaker 1: again we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully the match
Speaker 1: will be just as good as the Triple Threat match
Speaker 1: was when we watched that after WrestleMania. And then we
Speaker 1: get the Women's Championship match between Tiffany Stratton and Jake Cargole.
Speaker 1: I expect Jay Cargo to win here. I think WW
Speaker 1: is really pushing Jake Cargo to be the face of
Speaker 1: the women's division and walk better way to start that
Speaker 1: than getting a victory against Tiffany Stratten.
Speaker 3: But I don't really like Jay Cargo's character.
Speaker 1: She doesn't really resonate with the audience as well as
Speaker 1: a face. I think she needs to get that same
Speaker 1: treatment that Roman Reigns did as a tribal chief.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have necessarily have.
Speaker 1: The same gimmick, but to be a heel that is
Speaker 1: just got overpowered, that is just overpowered and no one
Speaker 1: can really defeat her and maybe sometimes find a way
Speaker 1: to cheat. But jed kyleg will be so much better
Speaker 1: as a heel, and I think they've got to really
Speaker 1: start doing and looking into that for sure.
Speaker 3: But I think she'll get the victory here.
Speaker 1: The belt did look really good on her when she
Speaker 1: did play that tagawar with Tiffany Stratton, so that's probably
Speaker 1: one positive thing to take out of that. We got
Speaker 1: the women's Championship, World Heavyweight Championship with a World Championship
Speaker 1: with Naomi Erskyne rear Ripley. Naomi just got the title,
Speaker 1: so I think she'll retain here. That's just I don't
Speaker 1: know too much to say about that. I think everyone's
Speaker 1: sort of tired of er Skiversuary Ripley, not them as
Speaker 1: individual women's superstars, but for them just continuing to compete
Speaker 1: for the championship, just I think it's time that we
Speaker 1: move off that. And Erskyne Ri Ripley have proven to
Speaker 1: do a lot of work and have done enough to
Speaker 1: prove that they're worth that. So don't think Naomi is
Speaker 1: going to who was, especially given that she just won
Speaker 1: the belt like two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: So name we will get the victory there.
Speaker 1: I suppose we have the World Heavyweight Championship between Gunther
Speaker 1: and Sam Punk. I'm gonna go out of the blue
Speaker 1: here and say that Seth Rowlins is going to cash
Speaker 1: in this match. That's just my hot take, especially considering
Speaker 1: that there hasn't been any news as to what's happening
Speaker 1: with Seth Rollins. There doesn't seem to be any partners
Speaker 1: lined up for guntherer. There's rumors that he might take
Speaker 1: on John Cena, So if he does keep the championship,
Speaker 1: he might take on Sena at Crown Jewel. That might
Speaker 1: be something that could occur, But I just don't see
Speaker 1: Seampunk winning the title. I think this feud hasn't built
Speaker 1: up to anything for sampunk to take it. I think
Speaker 1: if he did, it have to be a more significant
Speaker 1: feud or it'd have to happen at WrestleMania. And I
Speaker 1: just feel as though that Seth Rowlins is going to
Speaker 1: have a say in this just because I haven't heard
Speaker 1: anything that's just out of that field.
Speaker 3: It could happen.
Speaker 1: But if I was to review who will win this match,
Speaker 1: I think guns will retain if there is no cash in,
Speaker 1: So I'll put that as a backup, and my first
Speaker 1: one being that Seth Rowlins is cash in here. We'll
Speaker 1: have to wait and see that. That's going to be
Speaker 1: exciting too. Then we have to end the main event,
Speaker 1: which is the street fight between John Cena and Cody Rhodes.
Speaker 3: It's John Cena.
Speaker 1: It's got five months left, can you believe it? It's
Speaker 1: gone quick? And look, I loved when John Cena turned hell.
Speaker 1: It was massive, it was huge. I'm glad they did it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're able to see John Cena as a heel,
Speaker 1: but it's really hard to really believe that he is
Speaker 1: a true heel given that no one boos him and
Speaker 1: it's just John Sena's even struggling with it, like he's
Speaker 1: doing his best to try to get people to boo him,
Speaker 1: but when everyone knows he's about to finish his career
Speaker 1: in five months, it's really hard to not support him.
Speaker 1: So Cody Rhods obviously wants to verse that John Cena.
Speaker 1: It's good that they're sort of sprinkling that John Cena
Speaker 1: could make a return to being a babyface. The way
Speaker 1: they'll do it, We'll have to wait and see eventually
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I don't think he's going to
Speaker 1: finish his career as a heel. I think that when
Speaker 1: he turns babyface, everyone will just be will be pretty
Speaker 1: happy as well, and they kind of know that.
Speaker 3: It's just a gimmick there too.
Speaker 1: But I think John Cena wins Johnsona retains the title,
Speaker 1: especially now that and the only reason why I say
Speaker 1: this is that he is going to come to Crown
Speaker 1: Duel and I don't see John Cena not participating for
Speaker 1: that Crown Jewel Championship. I just it just wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 1: And they've had the ball on him for so long.
Speaker 1: I don't see Cody Rhodes getting the victory here. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't I just don't feel it like they could
Speaker 1: give it to Cody Rhodes, but then we'll have the
Speaker 1: same kind of insignificant run. John Cena won't get his rematch,
Speaker 1: and there really isn't anyone for Cody Roads at the moment.
Speaker 1: The only one that potentially is is that Food of
Speaker 1: Friends Ordon, But I think we can wait toll when
Speaker 1: John Cena finishes there, so John Cena will retain the title.
Speaker 1: How he'll win while was being the cheating matter, Maybe
Speaker 1: someone will return. There might be a big surprise there,
Speaker 1: but we'll have to wait and see. But it's been
Speaker 1: and that concludes. Actually the main Event review followed by
Speaker 1: the SummerSlam preview, which I'm extremely excited for two nights
Speaker 1: hopefully try to because normally record these Monday night in
Speaker 1: Australia that's when SummerSlam will finish. So once that's done,
Speaker 1: I will review the two matches on Main Event and
Speaker 1: basically review all the matches that happen on SummerSlam and
Speaker 1: see how I go with my predictions. If I've missed
Speaker 1: any matches, apologies for that. From the time of recording,
Speaker 1: there hasn't been any other matches I believe that have
Speaker 1: been set up, so I think I've covered all of
Speaker 1: them so far, but again, yeah, really excited to see
Speaker 1: SummerSlam and then next week there's probably going to be
Speaker 1: Survivor series. That's how quick WW is moving at the moment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, really exciting times for wrestling with SummerSlam being
Speaker 1: a two night event for the first time, so really
Speaker 1: keen for that. But again, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: tuning in and I'll catch you guys next week.
Speaker 3: Cheers.
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