Speaker 1: Listen WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre, and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2: What is going on? Everybody? And welcome to this week's
Speaker 2: Main Event review hosted by your boy Daniel. This will
Speaker 2: be the last main event review before WrestleMania finally kicks off. Yes,
Speaker 2: we are less than a week away from WrestleMania, and honestly,
Speaker 2: it felt like yesterday since the last WrestleMania occurred, when
Speaker 2: we had the major events that occurred there with Cody
Speaker 2: Rootes with the title on the main event of WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: and everything that happened in between two. It has gone
Speaker 2: a full calendar year and we're now looking forward to
Speaker 2: WrestleMania forty one in what will be a very interesting
Speaker 2: WrestleMania lots of interesting matches that I'm going to offer
Speaker 2: my review and predictions for at the end of this review,
Speaker 2: and hopefully next week we'll be able to kind of
Speaker 2: review the post WrestleMania match results as well as the
Speaker 2: two matches that we have on a regular basis on
Speaker 2: main Event. But again, really excited to bring you another
Speaker 2: main event review. Being one week away from WrestleMania, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's going to be a lot to cover in
Speaker 2: this episode, but we won't spent too much time introducing it,
Speaker 2: and we'll guess kick into the first match of two
Speaker 2: being Maxine Dupre taking on Shane at Basler and max
Speaker 2: In Dupre getting a solo match, a singles match for
Speaker 2: the first time in a long time, not being actually
Speaker 2: with the support of Otis and Curtazawa, probably being the
Speaker 2: fact that they were preparing for their second match, But anyways,
Speaker 2: the match gets kicked off, Shanna Beza starts pretty well
Speaker 2: and then Maxine kind of takes control of the match,
Speaker 2: builds her momentum, and then as she as there is
Speaker 2: a kickout from Shanna Beza from the worman and elbow,
Speaker 2: Maxine Dupris goes for a sharp Shooter and as she
Speaker 2: tries to go for that, gets counted into a I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure like a Boston Crab or a langule lock
Speaker 2: or one leg Boston Crab tapping out there. And it
Speaker 2: was just interesting to see that because obviously from the
Speaker 2: events of SmackDown in the Gauntlet match that we saw
Speaker 2: the same thing occurred there Maxine Depris trying to go
Speaker 2: for Batalia's sharpshooter and then obviously costing them their opportunity
Speaker 2: to fight at WrestleMania. So Maxine showing that she's obviously
Speaker 2: still raw and lacking experience, and Natalie is just going
Speaker 2: to have to mentor her and be frustrated with her
Speaker 2: during that time. But it's great to see that there
Speaker 2: is some story with Maxine Dupris. It's finally occurring her.
Speaker 2: It's finally happening that her she's finally getting into the ring,
Speaker 2: so they're finally deciding to get her more involved in
Speaker 2: the ring. The fans have seemed to adore her and
Speaker 2: give her quite decent reactions when she's in ring as well,
Speaker 2: so this is great for the trajectory of Maxine Depri.
Speaker 2: We'll just have to see how this goes with Natalia,
Speaker 2: whether Natalie continues to stay a mentor or becomes impatient,
Speaker 2: and there might be a feud between the two of
Speaker 2: them as well, but again something to look out for,
Speaker 2: most likely post WrestleMania. The show then transitions onto Raw,
Speaker 2: where we have the opening segment of Raw with Adam
Speaker 2: Pierce in the ring with the Women's World title basically
Speaker 2: there to address the situation between the three superstars. First,
Speaker 2: he basically and apologizes as to what happened last week,
Speaker 2: putting Bianca Bellat in the situation to be the special
Speaker 2: guest referee, and he asked for everyone to come down,
Speaker 2: all of them come into the ring. He basically confirms
Speaker 2: what we've all been anticipating, and that is the triple
Speaker 2: threat match between the three superstars of Bianca Ballet and
Speaker 2: Rare Ripley. They basically all signed the contract there and
Speaker 2: we have Rea Ripley and Bianca Ballet once again getting
Speaker 2: into it and dismissing EO Sky with another pie faced palm.
Speaker 2: Eosky then retaliates, jumps up from the top rope and
Speaker 2: lands a very vicious drop kick that pretty much gave
Speaker 2: Real Ripley whiplash, and then also the impact from that
Speaker 2: whiplash onto Bianco Ballet was pretty brutal. It was a
Speaker 2: pretty realistic spot there. You could tell that that dropkick
Speaker 2: actually booked legit and there was proper damage done to
Speaker 2: both superst but a great way for erskuy To. I
Speaker 2: guess put out a statement still claiming that she's the
Speaker 2: forgotten one, in this trio and that she won't be
Speaker 2: one to mess with as well. And I really think
Speaker 2: and don't want to hold my spoilers or my predictions
Speaker 2: too late, but I definitely think there's something there with
Speaker 2: Eskuy potentially maintaining retaining the title. Sorry as Bianco Ballet
Speaker 2: and rearibly look to be in the way of each
Speaker 2: other and lack that opportunity to go for the women's
Speaker 2: title and not take advantage of that. So definitely something
Speaker 2: to look out for there. We then transition into the
Speaker 2: face to face with Guansha and jay Uso, with Gantha
Speaker 2: making his entrance and then Juso making his entrance from
Speaker 2: the crowd but obviously not being too pleased with Gantha
Speaker 2: attacking Jimmy Uso in the previous episode. Basically, jim Uso
Speaker 2: comes in pulls out a very effective promo, basically telling
Speaker 2: Guanntha if he's had a mother and he had to
Speaker 2: tell his mother that he wasn't able to protect his
Speaker 2: own brother, putting out the kind of statement originally saying
Speaker 2: that he felt afraid and hopeless and continuing to go
Speaker 2: through that kind of underdog persona, then eventually saying to
Speaker 2: Gantha that he brought the worst out of him. He's angry,
Speaker 2: he's frustrated, and he's going to basically cunt for Guantha now.
Speaker 2: So this has obviously become a lot more personal, and
Speaker 2: obviously Juso is now going to go all in on
Speaker 2: Gun through as well. And to be honest, the promo
Speaker 2: was very effective. It was probably one of the strongest
Speaker 2: promos I've seen from Juso throughout this whole segment. He
Speaker 2: hasn't done the best job, as I've mentioned before in
Speaker 2: hyping this up, but I think this promo was effective
Speaker 2: enough to get us believing and kind of rooting for
Speaker 2: Juso to win the World Heavyweight Championship as well. And
Speaker 2: it was just great how they were able to implement
Speaker 2: Jimmy Ussa into this feud. I think it was much needed.
Speaker 2: I needed to have a personal twist to it, and
Speaker 2: Gantha really played the role really well in torturing Jimmy
Speaker 2: last week. And now Jay's showing his feelings, expressing his sadness,
Speaker 2: his frustration, and all he's looking for is to give
Speaker 2: Guantha revenge. Here. Let's see what happens in next week's raw.
Speaker 2: But I think most of the tension now has been addressed,
Speaker 2: and we're going to have the wag too what happens
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania moving forward to but again sort of reviving
Speaker 2: the storyline, but still very underwhelming and definitely not worthy
Speaker 2: of a main event card. And I still kind of
Speaker 2: do hope that Gantha still wins. As I've explained before,
Speaker 2: it feels as though it's too premature for him to
Speaker 2: give it up to ja Uso, but again we'll leave
Speaker 2: that to the predictions. We then move on to a
Speaker 2: main event where we get Akira, Tazawa and Otis, the
Speaker 2: Alpha Babes, the ones that are always on main event,
Speaker 2: with Maxine dupri So despite her losing, still coming out
Speaker 2: to support the Alpha Academy. There, we have them coming
Speaker 2: up against the a Town down Under, who somehow are
Speaker 2: still a tag team. I'm still waiting for the day
Speaker 2: that they split these two up. They get a loss
Speaker 2: here again with the Alpha Academy otors doing a body
Speaker 2: slam and then a curate as that were doing the
Speaker 2: sent on from the top. So even Atown down Under
Speaker 2: can't even beat the Alpha Academy, who pretty much come
Speaker 2: on main event and lose every week or most weeks
Speaker 2: to different opponents. So they really just need to split
Speaker 2: these two up because it's becoming a joke. Now. These
Speaker 2: guys are not doing anything on Raw, they're not doing
Speaker 2: anything on main event. They're clearly no one really cares
Speaker 2: about them as a tag team. The only way we're
Speaker 2: going to get heat from the two is if these
Speaker 2: two split up. And I think it's just affecting Austin
Speaker 2: Theory's career more than it is Grayson Waller. But Austin
Speaker 2: Theory obviously being majorly pushed by Vince McMahon has resulted
Speaker 2: to taking cross body losses from JUSO and now to
Speaker 2: lose on main event to basically the Arpha Academy. And
Speaker 2: to be honest, I would consider if this keeps going
Speaker 2: for Austin Theory to just probably go somewhere else and
Speaker 2: reinnite his career because it seems like he's getting very
Speaker 2: underused and undervalued here. So definitely frustrated to see, especially
Speaker 2: given that these two have been feuding for every year now.
Speaker 2: You've seen tensions between the two as in Grays and
Speaker 2: Waller and Austin Theory, and they still haven't managed to
Speaker 2: pull the trigger on these two splitting up. So again,
Speaker 2: really frustrated for frustrating and hopefully we can see a
Speaker 2: change in that as well. We then close the show
Speaker 2: with Paul Hayman coming out to the ring basically Seth
Speaker 2: Rolins coming out. Hammond said that he will be loyal
Speaker 2: to Roman Reigns, but also claim that he'll be loyal
Speaker 2: to his best friend. See so this man. This main
Speaker 2: event is basically a match for who wants Hayman as well.
Speaker 2: But again Seth Rolins comes into the ring, makes his
Speaker 2: entrance and then asks Hayman which side is he on.
Speaker 2: So basically Seth Rowlands is playing a bit of devil
Speaker 2: on the shoulder to Paul Hayman and basically convincing him
Speaker 2: that no one needs him and that it's best that
Speaker 2: he doesn't get involved in the match. As he does that,
Speaker 2: Seth Rolans threatens to hit him, grabs him by the shoulder,
Speaker 2: and then while that happens, Punk walks out tries to
Speaker 2: attack Seth Rolinans, and then as they do get into
Speaker 2: a beef, you see Seth Rollins putting a curb stop
Speaker 2: on putting a camp stop on CM Punk and then
Speaker 2: as Paul Hayman basically lies there to protect or to
Speaker 2: look at to see if if CM punk is okay,
Speaker 2: pretends to curb stop Paul Hayman and then at the
Speaker 2: end says, now you owe me a favor, which is
Speaker 2: quite interesting. It as an extra dynamic to this. Clearly
Speaker 2: they're using Paul Hayman as the person of significance in
Speaker 2: this match, and I think that that leads that could
Speaker 2: lead to something and really give us a bit of
Speaker 2: a hint as to who can potentially win this match
Speaker 2: as well, which is going to be interesting. So now
Speaker 2: that the main event review is done, I know it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a quick flashy one. The reason why
Speaker 2: I didn't dive too deep into the storylines is because
Speaker 2: I wanted to obviously review each matches and basically justify
Speaker 2: who do I think is going to win the matches.
Speaker 2: So moving on to that, we're going to break down
Speaker 2: the card. I'm just going to have the card loaded
Speaker 2: up and I'm going to predict each winner of that
Speaker 2: from start to finish. So the first match being the
Speaker 2: war Raiders and the New Day. I'm quite proud that
Speaker 2: I kind of predicted that was going to be a
Speaker 2: match here, predict that New Day are going to win
Speaker 2: the titles. Here, I feel like this is going to
Speaker 2: kickstart their massive He'll Run and with the Tag Team
Speaker 2: Champions or the World Tag Team Champions. I believe that
Speaker 2: this will make them a bit more titles, a bit
Speaker 2: more relevant, and allow for Xaviel Woods and Covid Kingston
Speaker 2: to pull out some more promos and really take off
Speaker 2: their kind of He'll Run to Storm as well. We
Speaker 2: then have the match between La Knight and Jacob Fattou.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are predicting Jacob Fattou to win
Speaker 2: this match. However, I feel as though that maybe Solo
Speaker 2: might have something to do with this and potentially interfere
Speaker 2: the match. I've noticed that they've had a lot of
Speaker 2: tensions previously on Smackdowns, so definitely could see that happening
Speaker 2: as well. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Iatu wins
Speaker 2: the match. I think that's more favorable, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to go with La Night, retaining just to the sheer
Speaker 2: fact that Jacob Fattu will get distracted here. We then
Speaker 2: have the match between j Cargill and Naomi and this
Speaker 2: match can go either way. Will they push Jade Cargo
Speaker 2: to the moon, Will they feel as though she can
Speaker 2: be the future and take the women's division to the
Speaker 2: next level, or will they come up with an upset
Speaker 2: and really get Naomi's Hill run going here. This one
Speaker 2: is really hard to choose, and if I had to choose,
Speaker 2: I feel like wwe are going to lean towards Jay
Speaker 2: Cargo winning the match, but I'd much prefer seeing Naomi
Speaker 2: win because I feel like she's doing an extremely good
Speaker 2: job as a heel. And I have to give credit
Speaker 2: to these two because they're the first ever women's match
Speaker 2: on WrestleMania that is going to happen without a title
Speaker 2: match involved, So great credit to these two for creating
Speaker 2: a very good promo here. This is going to be
Speaker 2: a chance for us to see if Jake Cargo can
Speaker 2: wrestle for more than ten minutes, and also a point
Speaker 2: to see how Nami Naomi is as a heel wrestler,
Speaker 2: and she's doing a great job in being a hill
Speaker 2: at the moment as well, So really really impressed with that.
Speaker 2: We then get the next match between Raymusterio and El
Speaker 2: Grande Americano. I think that El Grande Americana is going
Speaker 2: to win this match. Her reason being is because obviously
Speaker 2: they've just started with the Luchador character. Gables had problems
Speaker 2: and troubles with fighting Lucha Dor's, and this is the
Speaker 2: chance for him to show that he can defeat Luchador's,
Speaker 2: especially being Ol Grande Americano all well, supposedly not being him,
Speaker 2: but we obviously know it's him, but it's still it's
Speaker 2: still quite hilarious how they're going with this angle. But
Speaker 2: I think Ol Grande Americana gets the victory here. We
Speaker 2: then have the match between Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 2: Now I do obviously want Tiffany Stratton to win because
Speaker 2: I feel like she's young, she's upcoming, and she's obviously
Speaker 2: worthy of retaining the title being that young superstar. But
Speaker 2: for some reason, I am going to say Charlotte Flair
Speaker 2: is going to win the title. And the reason why
Speaker 2: I say that is because if I think the promo's
Speaker 2: going a little bit too far, Charlotte Flair are probably
Speaker 2: going to throw her chips in and being able to
Speaker 2: take all that criticism, and it just feels as though
Speaker 2: if you are someone that is throwing those shots, someone
Speaker 2: is going to retaliate and back it up. So Charlotte
Speaker 2: losing this match won't allow her to really do anything else.
Speaker 2: In WW, Tiffany Strang has a long future ahead, and
Speaker 2: as much as I prefer her to retain, I feel
Speaker 2: like they're going to run with Charlotte being a champion,
Speaker 2: making the crowd very annoyed and upset, getting more heat
Speaker 2: on her, but her then just showing that she is
Speaker 2: the queen and no matter how much criticism she gets
Speaker 2: or what Tiffany says about her, she ends up being
Speaker 2: the champion, So I think she wins the title here.
Speaker 2: We then have the World Heavyweight Championship match between Juso
Speaker 2: and Gunfa and I did mention previous weeks and on
Speaker 2: multiple occasions that I do want Gunza to win this match. However,
Speaker 2: I feel like WW is going to pull the trigger
Speaker 2: and give Juso the title here so he can yeat
Speaker 2: the whole stadium away and finally break the barrier there,
Speaker 2: and there will be two matches in a row where
Speaker 2: Gunthera loses to the underdog after a long reign with
Speaker 2: the title, which is extremely disappointing too. But again, I
Speaker 2: think Uso wins the title here purely because of that
Speaker 2: WrestleMania moment and all the heat he had in the past,
Speaker 2: but again I really do hope Guntha wins and I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: We then have the main event between CM Punk, Roman
Speaker 2: Rains and Seth Rolins, and I feel as though that
Speaker 2: based on that promo between Paul Hayman and Seth Rowlands,
Speaker 2: I think Seth Rolins will get the victory here, reason
Speaker 2: being because of the three of them, Seth Rolins has
Speaker 2: been the most loyal company guy to WW Roman Rains
Speaker 2: obviously being a part timer doesn't make sense for him
Speaker 2: to win, and Sampunk having Paul Hayman by his side
Speaker 2: already has that advantage, and I think Seth Rollins gets
Speaker 2: the victory here. And as a hot take, I feel
Speaker 2: as though Paul Hayman will then be the wise man
Speaker 2: or self Seth Horlans manager moving forward as a massive
Speaker 2: plus tw his whole situation, and that might be the
Speaker 2: favor that now Seth Rowlins is apparently owed. Apparently everyone
Speaker 2: can get favors for fun from Paul Hayman, so Seth
Speaker 2: Rowlins will get the victory here in my prediction. We
Speaker 2: then have the tag team matches between Live Morgan Bailey
Speaker 2: and Ricua Rodriguez. I think Morgan and Rodriguez will retain
Speaker 2: the title and might spark some tension between Laya, Valkira
Speaker 2: and Bailey not being able to work together as a
Speaker 2: tag team and then eventually their feud going into the
Speaker 2: Intercontinental Women's title is probably my opinion there, but nothing
Speaker 2: too much there. We then have the Fatal four way
Speaker 2: for the Intercontinental Championship, Ron Breakers Penta fas Dominic Vasiro
Speaker 2: versus Finnbala and quite personally, I'm really proud to say
Speaker 2: that I predicted this match as well. Obviously after Penter
Speaker 2: beating Kaiser made him definitely being part of those Intercontinental
Speaker 2: Championship contendership, but again before I did think originally it
Speaker 2: was aj Styles, but I got three of the four
Speaker 2: right just after Elimination Chamber. Then as a story went on,
Speaker 2: I predicted that Penta would get involved and for this one,
Speaker 2: a lot of people and in Australia we have betting site,
Speaker 2: a lot of people are saying that Dominique Mysterio is
Speaker 2: the favorite to win this match, but I think Breaker
Speaker 2: wins the match here and retains the title. I think
Speaker 2: Dominic Mysterian and Finnbala will get in the way of
Speaker 2: each other and this will open up a feud between them,
Speaker 2: and then possibly bron Breaker and Penta going at it
Speaker 2: at Backlash or some other PL's in the future where
Speaker 2: they have the chance to just go one on one.
Speaker 2: So I think Breaker will retain here. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's the right time to give Penter the title yet,
Speaker 2: being fresh in the WWE and bron Breaker has done
Speaker 2: an excellent job for the company being his first WrestleMania
Speaker 2: match as the title holder, I just don't see him losing.
Speaker 2: We then have aj Styles and Logan Paul. I think
Speaker 2: Logan Paul wins this match. I think it's the past
Speaker 2: of the Torch moment. AJ Styles is on his last
Speaker 2: legs in WWE and a wrestler match moment won't be
Speaker 2: anything of worth to him at this stage. But again,
Speaker 2: this match is going to be extremely good. I reckon
Speaker 2: There's going to be some amazing spots there and a
Speaker 2: lot of yeah good moves and performances from the two.
Speaker 2: It's going to be really cool to see how these
Speaker 2: two work together in ring as well. We then have
Speaker 2: the Sin City Street Fight, which right now is the
Speaker 2: only match on the car that actually has a stipulation,
Speaker 2: which is really good between Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 2: I think this one's really easy to predict Drew McIntire
Speaker 2: getting the victory here. He's too good to not drop
Speaker 2: this match, especially being a non title and there's so
Speaker 2: many more plans for him, I feel for the future,
Speaker 2: competing for ww championships and having more kind of memorial feuds.
Speaker 2: This will be a reward for his excellent feud we've
Speaker 2: Ceampunk last year, So McIntyre will get the victory here,
Speaker 2: and then we've got the triple threat match between the
Speaker 2: Women's World Championship with sky Very Ripley and Bianca Ballet.
Speaker 2: A lot of people again are saying that Balair will
Speaker 2: retain the title. The fact that she's basically five will
Speaker 2: be four and no at WrestleMania. This will make it
Speaker 2: five and no. But I do think that Eosky wins
Speaker 2: the title here. The reason why I say that is
Speaker 2: because I feel like she's getting underlooked in here. Real
Speaker 2: Ripley and Bianco Ballet will get in the way of
Speaker 2: each other too much. That will give advantage to Eoskuy
Speaker 2: to maintain her title, and I feel like she's won
Speaker 2: with the fans as well. She's probably the hottest of
Speaker 2: the three right now in terms of fan love, and
Speaker 2: I think that she retains over here, and then we
Speaker 2: get the main event for WrestleMania with John Cinna versus
Speaker 2: Cody Rhodes, and this is going to be a very
Speaker 2: captivating match and extremely interesting, and with the Rock to
Speaker 2: still be in the play here, I think there's going
Speaker 2: to be room for a lot more things to occur.
Speaker 2: As I said in the previous prediction, if j Usso wins,
Speaker 2: that will kind of determine what we'll get in the
Speaker 2: main event for the second show, obviously ending on a
Speaker 2: high and then obviously the next day ending on a low. Here.
Speaker 2: So John Cena will be a seventeenth time world champion.
Speaker 2: It just makes sense given that he's got his last
Speaker 2: year here. He won't lose his first match as a heel.
Speaker 2: I don't think that would make any sense and there
Speaker 2: won't be any real significant plans for him if he
Speaker 2: doesn't win the match here. So I think John Cena
Speaker 2: will win World Heavyweight Champ, well the WWE Championship, and
Speaker 2: yes go on to get his seventeenth world title and
Speaker 2: solidifying himself as the most decorated world champion in WWE.
Speaker 2: So that wraps up my WrestleMania predictions that also wraps
Speaker 2: up the main event review. I really hope you guys
Speaker 2: enjoyed this week's main event review and hopefully you guys
Speaker 2: enjoy a WrestleMania as well. I for one certainly cannot wait.
Speaker 2: It starts at nine am here on Easter Sunday and
Speaker 2: also Monday as well, where we have a day off
Speaker 2: due to the Easter break. So extremely excited to just
Speaker 2: spend my whole morning or watching WrestleMania locking in and
Speaker 2: then after that putting out a main event review as
Speaker 2: well as a WrestleMania review to cap off everything there.
Speaker 2: So once again it's been your boy, Daniel. Thank you
Speaker 2: guys for tuning in and I will catch you guys
Speaker 2: next week. Cheers.
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