Speaker 1: This is WWE superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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Speaker 3: Gooday, everyone, and welcome to another main event show review
Speaker 3: with your host Daniel from Australia. And I'm happy to
Speaker 3: be here today on this lovely weather, enjoying this this
Speaker 3: Australian summer for sure, and also being able to have
Speaker 3: a look at what's going on in the WWE hemisphere
Speaker 3: as well. As you can probably tell, last week was
Speaker 3: not the best in terms of audio quality. I'm not
Speaker 3: really sure what happened with my microphone. However, I was
Speaker 3: able to purchase a new one and running some tests
Speaker 3: before obviously recording this today. It's a lot better and
Speaker 3: it sounds a lot better, so hopefully that will also
Speaker 3: sound good for you guys on that end, and yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll be able to hopefully continue with the episodes as
Speaker 3: as mentioned every week, just getting the flow and just
Speaker 3: understanding how we can kind of yeah, continue to give
Speaker 3: out the reviews here, especially with the main event for
Speaker 3: those that don't know, is a pre show to Montanee
Speaker 3: Raw episodes come out on Thursdays, and we normally just
Speaker 3: have two matches with a few floating Raw and SmackDown
Speaker 3: segments from our last week's show or the previous show.
Speaker 3: So yeah, continuing to review that, giving my takes on
Speaker 3: what's happening in WW We're getting close to Roller Rumble
Speaker 3: and then we're getting close to WrestleMania as well. So
Speaker 3: a lot to Netflix as well on Raw looking like
Speaker 3: it's becoming a staple. Last week's episode felt more like
Speaker 3: a proper wrestling show, which was good to see, and
Speaker 3: we've smacked Down. Also, being three hours long, we're getting
Speaker 3: a lot and a lot of wrestling content, which is great.
Speaker 3: It's great to talk about, and it's perfect for Yeah,
Speaker 3: give you my take some review on the platform, which yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm more than happy to do on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: But I guess without further ado, we can start with yes,
Speaker 3: the fourth show of this main event review, and we
Speaker 3: start with the match with the Pure Fission Collective of SHANEA.
Speaker 3: Bezo and Zoe Stark. We had shanea Beza fight last
Speaker 3: week in main Events, so this is back to back
Speaker 3: main event matches for her, this time in an attag
Speaker 3: team setting with Katana Chance and Kidan Kater who've regularly
Speaker 3: made appearances here. They don't seem to be able to
Speaker 3: get any spots on Raw at the moment or SmackDown,
Speaker 3: so not really sure what is happening with them. I
Speaker 3: guess they're going to continue to be them low cards
Speaker 3: or main event type fighters and just staying on those
Speaker 3: shows floating around here. But yet we do get a
Speaker 3: match with SHANEA Bezos always Stark with them getting the
Speaker 3: victory here. It was actually a really good match, a
Speaker 3: lot of I guess combinations working really well. Katana Chance
Speaker 3: and Cana kinda did impress me with their move sets,
Speaker 3: and it does seem like they work really well together
Speaker 3: as a tag team, and then also with Pure Fission
Speaker 3: Collective being able to kind of showcase the contrast between
Speaker 3: athleticism and pure power, which was demonstrated in the last
Speaker 3: move where we saw a pretty crazy move Katina Chance
Speaker 3: I think, jumping on top of was it SHANEA Bezos'
Speaker 3: feet and then attempting herr Kurana, but then Zolways Stark
Speaker 3: obviously conning it with her power, setting up SHANEA. Bezo
Speaker 3: for the knee to the face and getting the count here.
Speaker 3: I think it was the right decision due to the
Speaker 3: fact that if what you're seeing on Raw, they're looking
Speaker 3: like they're trying to get involved in the Intercontinental Intercontinental
Speaker 3: Championship conversations, especially with what Zoe Stark said on Raw
Speaker 3: last week which kind of sparked a bit of tension
Speaker 3: between PFC. But I much needed win here and I
Speaker 3: think the right choice. It's good to see PFC getting
Speaker 3: some momentum, hopefully that can translate onto Raw because as
Speaker 3: I mentioned last week, it would be good to see
Speaker 3: these guys just go up a bit of a level,
Speaker 3: causing havoc in the locker room. And now with the
Speaker 3: new Belts or the mid card Belts, it seems like
Speaker 3: it's a perfect spot for them, and what we'll mention,
Speaker 3: we'll go into the match between Laara Valkyria and Dakota Kai,
Speaker 3: but the winner of that, which was Lara Valkyria, has
Speaker 3: set up, I guess, a perfect few with PFC because
Speaker 3: there's not really that many heels or mid cars heels
Speaker 3: on the roster at the moment, so it'll be interesting
Speaker 3: to see what will happen next week on Raw based
Speaker 3: on that proma that we got from Zoe Stark and
Speaker 3: Sony Deville, whether they have tensions or they managed to
Speaker 3: kind of continue to be a powerhouse. I'd be a
Speaker 3: shame if they were split up, because it feels as
Speaker 3: though they were really hyped up to be something and
Speaker 3: to shut that down within like six to eight months,
Speaker 3: it would be a surprise. But again, it'll be interesting
Speaker 3: to see what happens. And again they're getting the much
Speaker 3: needed win here, the much deserved win and some momentum
Speaker 3: going into hopefully Raw in the future and what I've
Speaker 3: just mentioned as well the show moving on. The show
Speaker 3: then transitions into SmackDown a bit late on SmackDown because
Speaker 3: obviously the latest show has been reviewed and posted, but
Speaker 3: the SmackDown before that where Cody Rhodes and Jimmy Uso
Speaker 3: get into a match between Jacob Fatu and Tomatonga, And
Speaker 3: my first thinging is, why the hell is Cody Rhods
Speaker 3: again getting involved in Bloodline stuff? Like it just he
Speaker 3: was supposed to move on from that and now he's
Speaker 3: fighting Jacob Fattou and Tomatonga again, Like maybe they didn't
Speaker 3: have anyone set up for that, but it just it
Speaker 3: just really didn't make sense. I don't get it. I
Speaker 3: still think that he should be away from the Bloodline storyline.
Speaker 3: We've been dealing with this for nearly a year and
Speaker 3: a half and now he's getting another match with them.
Speaker 3: So yeah, don't really understand what the angle is here.
Speaker 3: But AnyWho, seems as though as well that Cody has
Speaker 3: become best mates of Jimmy Uso too, and they're just
Speaker 3: coming out together and fighting as a tag team. But
Speaker 3: he then abandons him because obviously Kevin Owens interferes. We
Speaker 3: all know what happens, Jacob Fattu and Tomatonga getting the victory,
Speaker 3: which was expected. I feel as though that they're starting
Speaker 3: to really push Jacob Fattu up. He's still hasn't lost
Speaker 3: the match. Well, hasn't been pinned, I hope if you
Speaker 3: can count the Survivor Series match. But he hasn't been
Speaker 3: pinned or he hasn't looked like he's been weak like
Speaker 3: Sola has at all all as Tomatonga. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: expected when here showing Jacob Fattoo's strength and hopefully we're
Speaker 3: going to see stuff moving forward with him. But yeah,
Speaker 3: due to the fact that I think Kevin Owens and
Speaker 3: Cody Rhodes. Obviously we're battling and fighting and continuing that feud,
Speaker 3: which I've been a massive fan of. We all know that,
Speaker 3: or I can't really see a world where Kevin Owens
Speaker 3: is going to defeat Cody Rhodes. But we can safely
Speaker 3: say this has probably been the most interesting or best
Speaker 3: feud that Cody has had post WrestleMania. You can see
Speaker 3: that it's they're doing a really good job to make
Speaker 3: it real personal. Every time they see each other, they're
Speaker 3: always attacking each other. There's always needs to be security guards.
Speaker 3: And then we saw at the end when they both
Speaker 3: got put through the table, which was awesome to see.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't want to see Cody Rhodes get
Speaker 3: involved with the Bloodline again. That would be great. It's
Speaker 3: enough that he's with Kevin Owens in his feud at
Speaker 3: the moment, and it just doesn't really make sense when
Speaker 3: we've got the ladder match coming up against the two,
Speaker 3: and yeah, hopefully that doesn't happen again, and if it does,
Speaker 3: we'll be really frustrated. I will touch up quickly. There
Speaker 3: was a segment on the promo that basically Paul Hayman
Speaker 3: saying that if Romarins wins the roll Rumble. He's going
Speaker 3: to challenge Cody there, which I hope I don't see
Speaker 3: that again either. I don't want to see that again,
Speaker 3: but I think it might happen because of what I
Speaker 3: saw with The Rock, and yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 3: see I don't want to see Cody Rhodes and Roman
Speaker 3: Ragins fight. As I mentioned before, I'd prefer to see
Speaker 3: Roman fight with the Rock with no titles on the line,
Speaker 3: and Cody fighting Randy, whether that's WrestleMania or not. I
Speaker 3: feel as though that that should happen too. When Randy
Speaker 3: does decide to come back, hopefully he comes back sooner
Speaker 3: rather than later. But yeah, that's all on what happened
Speaker 3: on SmackDown. Then we move over onto Raw for that
Speaker 3: Intercontinental Championship match, which is a really back and forth match.
Speaker 3: They got a lot of time here, I think it
Speaker 3: was about twelve minutes. Also a great display Lara Vakira
Speaker 3: getting the victory here, which I wasn't surprised about either,
Speaker 3: because ever since Lara Valkira has been drafted into Raw,
Speaker 3: they've been pushing her pretty highly. Her first kind of
Speaker 3: run was getting into the King of the ring final
Speaker 3: with Nia Jacks and then being a bit stale for
Speaker 3: a bit and then now getting this intercontinental title. It
Speaker 3: would have been cool to see Dakota Kai winner, and
Speaker 3: it was good to see that she did make the
Speaker 3: finals well, especially coming from injury and let's be honest,
Speaker 3: not really doing much since yeah, I guess being a
Speaker 3: face or being a part of damage control post Bailey
Speaker 3: winning the title. So yeah, it was a good match.
Speaker 3: Lara Valkiro getting the victory here. Personal note, I think
Speaker 3: she's trying too hard on trying to get people to
Speaker 3: do her chant when the song comes out. The little
Speaker 3: whoo when coming out, I feel like that needs to
Speaker 3: be done organically. Hopefully it does pick up because it
Speaker 3: does sound very creative, but you can see Laara Vlkio
Speaker 3: is really trying to push that now. And going back
Speaker 3: to what I mentioned with PFC, it does look as
Speaker 3: though there might be an upcoming feud with them and
Speaker 3: Laura Valkia, which I think would be pretty interesting. But
Speaker 3: again we'll have to see how this run goes and
Speaker 3: for all how the mid card belts will go across
Speaker 3: both Backdown and Raw, because obviously these are new and
Speaker 3: they're just finding ways to get the women's more involved,
Speaker 3: which I'm all for as well, and at the start
Speaker 3: I kind of thought maybe there was no need to
Speaker 3: get the belts in, but I feel like they're helping
Speaker 3: a lot now because you're getting more interested and encapsulated
Speaker 3: in storylines as well, and feuds are still kind of
Speaker 3: are there. You can see Meachin feuding with Chelsea Green,
Speaker 3: and you can also see yeah, PFC getting involved now
Speaker 3: with the Intercontinental Championship, which I hope does indeed happen there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So then we then move on back to main event.
Speaker 3: We have the second match of the main event card
Speaker 3: with walking While part of part of Sorry, part of
Speaker 3: l WO, coming up against Pete Dunn and an expected
Speaker 3: victory for Pete done here Walkin Wilde hasn't really done
Speaker 3: nothing in WW, which is a shame because I feel
Speaker 3: like he's a very good ing room performer, especially with
Speaker 3: his athletic attributes, but I think lacks the I guess,
Speaker 3: the personality and skills. Not to say that Pete Dunn's
Speaker 3: personality is all it, but he's running with the B
Speaker 3: name quite highly. But again, don't really see where Pete
Speaker 3: Dune goes from here. Obviously he was feuding with our truth,
Speaker 3: but not really sure what has happened. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it was a good victory with the bitter end,
Speaker 3: great finisher personally, and yeah, not really much to say
Speaker 3: with Pete done. I think they need to find a
Speaker 3: way to incorporate him in the mid cards, but I
Speaker 3: think his home will be at fighting main event matches
Speaker 3: and getting the wins, which is good for his confidence,
Speaker 3: but not being able to elevate to that to that
Speaker 3: stage where you're going to get I guess him getting
Speaker 3: victories on Raw at this moment due to the talent
Speaker 3: pool being so high. And then with Walking Wild again
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, very good in the ring, but not
Speaker 3: really much to his character at this stage. I don't
Speaker 3: know what the LWO really do if I'm honest. If
Speaker 3: they're not fighting other louchadors, they're just a big group
Speaker 3: that RAYMISTERI is somewhat mentoring, but it would be good
Speaker 3: to spice things up there. Maybe a He'll Turn or
Speaker 3: two would be nice, But I don't really think WW
Speaker 3: has plans for them. I think Walking Wild would just
Speaker 3: simply be put in like matches like this to entertain
Speaker 3: the crowd, give them energy with some few flying acrobatic moves,
Speaker 3: some jumps and flips, et cetera, et cetera. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not really much too to display there, but another
Speaker 3: decent match for an event, and yeah, I guess the
Speaker 3: crowd hype going into raw between the two, and yeah,
Speaker 3: the final thing probably to address. I know this is
Speaker 3: a quick one, but there hasn't really been much to
Speaker 3: talk about. Really. We had a bit of a promo
Speaker 3: with Seth Rowlins and Sampunk mentioning that they're both going
Speaker 3: to join the Royal Rumble, and then Drew McIntire coming
Speaker 3: and delivering a promo saying that he's going to be
Speaker 3: also going to the Royal Rumble, And again, I just
Speaker 3: don't I just don't like how he's just come up
Speaker 3: and has been just getting involved in this with like
Speaker 3: Sampunk and him are finished, like they stopped their feud,
Speaker 3: so them getting like interacting again and then even like
Speaker 3: Drew McIntire folding and not really acknowledging Sampunk there. Just
Speaker 3: it just feels weird to me. I feel like once
Speaker 3: their feud is done, they shouldn't really have many interactions,
Speaker 3: Like it had nothing to do with Sampunk. He didn't
Speaker 3: need to go and say that Roman Reins was corrupted.
Speaker 3: This could have easily just been a promo between Seth
Speaker 3: Rolins and Drew McIntyre. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I'm
Speaker 3: just being a bit picky, but I just think that
Speaker 3: once you're finished with a few that's going on for
Speaker 3: maybe ten months, I don't think there is a need
Speaker 3: for them to be involved again. And I kind of
Speaker 3: get what they're trying to do. I feel like Drew
Speaker 3: McIntire's trying to push Steph Rowlins to being a heel
Speaker 3: to the dark Side, to teaming up against one common enemy,
Speaker 3: which is which is Roman Reigns. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I just didn't see the need of it to happen
Speaker 3: in that moment. There could have been better ways for
Speaker 3: them to do that. It is obviously set up a
Speaker 3: match for them next week, so let's see where that
Speaker 3: goes there. But yeah, again, didn't see a point of it.
Speaker 3: Just basically all three of them declined for in what
Speaker 3: will be a very very very very stacked raw rumble
Speaker 3: based on the numbers and the players we got so far,
Speaker 3: all the rest as we got so far, and more
Speaker 3: to come. We've got leaks of the rock potentially coming back,
Speaker 3: Randy Ordan, maybe Bge. And one that I'm probably the
Speaker 3: most excited for, which I really really hope happens, and
Speaker 3: I think all of us hope it happens is the
Speaker 3: debut of Johanji on WWE, so it's about two weeks away,
Speaker 3: so I'm really keen for that. I love the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 3: Roy Rumbles the one thing that gets me going for WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: Seeing the unexpected superstars come back is probably the best
Speaker 3: thing about it, and then obviously seeing who wins and
Speaker 3: where the storyline goes from there. But I'll keep my
Speaker 3: Royal Rumble prediction when we get closer to the Royal Rumble,
Speaker 3: just to see how things are going to be going
Speaker 3: from now to then. With a few shows coming up
Speaker 3: as well as obviously Saturday Night's Main Event two, which
Speaker 3: hopefully I can kind of touch up on as well,
Speaker 3: we then get the main event of Raw and the
Speaker 3: final match between Damian Priest and Finnbala, with Damian Priest
Speaker 3: obviously getting the win here with the basically South of
Speaker 3: Heaven chokeslam in a street fight. I'm not a fan
Speaker 3: of the street fight on Raw. They're not as violent
Speaker 3: as they used to be. Obviously it's a different eraror now,
Speaker 3: but I would have liked to see them fighting a
Speaker 3: bit more backstage and really getting into each other hard.
Speaker 3: But yes, obviously they will put through a few tables
Speaker 3: each and it was a pretty good match back and forth.
Speaker 3: But again, Damien Priest was always going to get the
Speaker 3: victory here and this finally puts an end to I
Speaker 3: guess anything that Damien Price has with the judgment day
Speaker 3: and then Finmbala again taking another loss, Damian Priest getting
Speaker 3: the victory. I guess it's good they really evalivated him
Speaker 3: last year. He had a really really good World Heavyweight
Speaker 3: Championship run. In my opinion, I would have liked to
Speaker 3: see him have the title for a lot longer. But nevertheless,
Speaker 3: this was a good feud, obviously f in Bala costing him.
Speaker 3: And now where Priest goes is an excellent question, because
Speaker 3: I think he's in the toughest position right now as
Speaker 3: a superstar, because he's obviously very talented. He's obviously showed
Speaker 3: that he can be up in the upper tier cards.
Speaker 3: But at the moment, if you look at how deep
Speaker 3: the roster is and all the storylines that are happening,
Speaker 3: there isn't really a spot for him. And I was
Speaker 3: listening to the mail bag last week on this show
Speaker 3: and someone raised a really good point going back to
Speaker 3: the World Heavyweight Championship stakes, is that even gunther who's
Speaker 3: the World Heavyweight Champion, is not getting matches that are
Speaker 3: quantifying to the hype of what we've seen with Seth Rolins,
Speaker 3: CM Punk obviously the Bloodline, and Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens.
Speaker 3: So with all those things happening, I'm just curious to
Speaker 3: know what they're going to do with Damian Priest and
Speaker 3: how are they're going to make him kind of stay
Speaker 3: around that upper tier quality, especially with him already facing Gunthera,
Speaker 3: So there's no real World Heavyweight championship chance for him
Speaker 3: unless they want to run that back again without Finnbala interfering.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know what will happen. I think
Speaker 3: things have to settle. His time might be post WrestleMania,
Speaker 3: but I feel like he does deserve to be featured
Speaker 3: on a big card on WrestleMania, So maybe we might
Speaker 3: get him in the elimination chamber. He might declare for
Speaker 3: the Royal Rumble, But yeah, I don't know. What happens
Speaker 3: with Priest now and then in terms of Bala, it's
Speaker 3: really frustrating to see that he's just the jobber now.
Speaker 3: He just constantly loses big matches. But hopefully that will change.
Speaker 3: I feel like his time with the Judgment Day is done.
Speaker 3: I think he's got to move on bigger and better
Speaker 3: things hopefully in the future. Yeah, they do something better
Speaker 3: with Ballet as well, and I feel like, yes, he
Speaker 3: mentors j D mcnonnagh, but I feel like he's better
Speaker 3: and bigger than being a tag team as well. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see again, as I say, all
Speaker 3: the time will be interesting to see, but it really
Speaker 3: will be interesting to see what will happen with the
Speaker 3: two of them. Obviously their feud is over, and yeah,
Speaker 3: Theamian Priest is a big fighter, so if he's winning there,
Speaker 3: they must have some plans or they must have some
Speaker 3: ideas that he will be in around that championship, that
Speaker 3: championship conversations. So yeah, all in due time, We've got
Speaker 3: WrestleMania coming up, We've got the Royal Rumble coming up,
Speaker 3: We've got Elimination Chambier coming up, a lot of things happening. Yeah,
Speaker 3: to get us to where we need to be, I think,
Speaker 3: and I'm really excited for it. I don't know which
Speaker 3: direction WW is going at the moment, which also makes
Speaker 3: me excited, and I'm just hoping that it's the right direction.
Speaker 3: There's so many things in my head that I can
Speaker 3: see could happen, but you never know with creative and
Speaker 3: with what Triple H is thinking. And I do trust
Speaker 3: in Triple H. I think he's done a pretty decent
Speaker 3: job considering a lot of factors in situations. But there
Speaker 3: is always room for improvement and there is always ways
Speaker 3: where he can improve a little things. But again, lots
Speaker 3: of talent, lots of storylines, lots of spots to work
Speaker 3: with now with two shows being three hours, so yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be really interesting to see. And then I'll continue
Speaker 3: to have a look at main event and I guess
Speaker 3: see where those superstars that are on that lower card
Speaker 3: fit into to WW, to Raw and to SmackDown and
Speaker 3: then again with that transfer portal, just forgot to mention,
Speaker 3: maybe that will shake a few things up. What is
Speaker 3: going on with that at the moment, because they've been
Speaker 3: chatting it up for so long, but when's that going
Speaker 3: to close? And when's there. When we're going to see
Speaker 3: more I guess transfers. I know we've seen a few,
Speaker 3: but that hasn't as many as I thought. But yeah,
Speaker 3: hopefully that will get I guess cleared up. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that concludes episode four. Again, as I said, apologies for
Speaker 3: last week with the microphone quality. Hopefully this week was
Speaker 3: a lot better. Next week back to normal recordings as usual.
Speaker 3: Trying to get these out as early as I can,
Speaker 3: obviously considering the time zones and when I get the
Speaker 3: episodes are a little bit different to when they air,
Speaker 3: so apologies for that. If you feel like the reviews
Speaker 3: are a bit delayed, if we're one week behind on SmackDown,
Speaker 3: one week behind on Raw, that's the reason. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been it's been your boy Daniel again, signing out
Speaker 3: from Melbourne, Australia and hope you'll have a pleasant day
Speaker 3: or night wherever you're listening to this around the world.
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