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Speaker 1: Tell you man that astronaut is doing my two hours

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SmackDown dance. That's the dance I did when I learned

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that SmackDown was going from three hours to two hours,

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and you could see why. If you watch this show tonight,

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you can see exactly why SmackDown hasn't gotten any better.

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But it's an hour or less of what we had before,

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So I will always do my dance. You know, we

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are about a week away now from SummerSlam, supposedly the

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second biggest event of the year. Does it feel like

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Summer Slim yet? I don't think so. Tonight's SmackDown didn't

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do a whole hell of a lot to get this

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guy excited for Summer Slam. I don't know if you're

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in the same boat as I am, but what I

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was looking forward to was face to face between Cody

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Rhoades and Cmpunk coming out of all of the drama

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from Saturday Night's main event last weekend and the Summer

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Slam kickoff event on Sunday or Punk you know, pie faced,

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and I said, finally on Friday, we're gonna get some

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real heat between these two. So I was looking forward

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most of all on this show to the two of

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them in the ring and what they were going to

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be talking about, and you know what, shots would be fired,

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so to speak between them, what we got tonight was

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actually a very tame, face to face. I thought that

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for the story they're trying to tell, which isn't really

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much of a story. Let's just be honest. But the

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best story that they could tell is probably what they're doing,

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which is that you have two people who are friends,

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they respect each other. But as Cody Rhodes told Sea,

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I'm punk tonight. I don't like you. Right, I respect you,

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you're my friend, but I don't like you. And you

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got punk telling Cody, I think you're paranoid because in

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the past, you've had people like and he said this

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at the kickoff event, Kevin Ohens and John Cena. Right,

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Randy Orton, You've had people who have stabbed you in

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the back. You're paranoid. But I told you a lot

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long time ago, I'm not going to stab you in

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the back. I'm going to stab you in the front,

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and that's what I'm doing now. So they kept it

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very respectful for the most part, and I thought what

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they did was good. It wasn't this knockdown, drag out

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memorable promo. They didn't get their zingers in there the

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way that Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins did in their

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contract signing a few weeks ago. To be honest with you,

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they've done a better job of kind of I guess

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building heat for their match then Cody and Punk have

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done for theirs, which is probably why Cody and Punk

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are going to be given the Night one spot in

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the main event. If I had a venture, I guess.

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So what we got tonight was good, It was not

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enough to really kind of light a fire. I think

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under things with these two in the way that I

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was kind of hoping. But at the same time, it's

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like you only have so much to draw from because again,

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they've kept these two apart ever since Punk came back

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to the company and Cody came back to the company,

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and they don't have a whole lot of history together

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because they've never really worked together before. And the fact

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that they're putting this match together on short notice doesn't

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change that. You know, even if they had six weeks

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to promote this match, this is pretty much what the

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build up would look like. My big takeaway from what

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we got tonight was a ligne very early in Cody's

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promo where he said, and maybe I'm paraphrasing here, but basically,

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I have to beat you at SummerSlam. Now, what does

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that remind you of? What does that line remind you of?

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Because I know what it reminded me of. I immediately my

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mind went to the sit down promo many years ago

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between Steve Austin and The Rock and Steve Austin made

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it very clear to him I need to beat you.

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I need more than anything that you could ever imagine.

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That's how much I need to beat you. My takeaway

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from the segment tonight is Cody has to go heal

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at SummerSlam. Cody came out tonight, he got a very

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lukewarm response from the Crab Punk got a much more

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you know, kind of warm welcome where they were tonight

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in Oakland. And the way that Cody is behaving, the

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way that Cody is acting where he kind of does

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come off as paranoid. If anybody is going to be

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going heel, it has to be Cody Roads. Now, maybe

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nobody goes hel Punk as a heel. We know he

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can be heel. But I think in this situation. If

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somebody was going to turn, it should be Cody Roads.

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Cody Roads is going to be infinitely more interesting if

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he embraces the dark side, if he goes just full throttle,

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pedal to the metal. Let's just embrace this, let's just

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go let's go there right. None of this is half assed,

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let's he'se it kind of stuff. That's my takeaway. That's

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my hope as we go into Summer Slim and that

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way you can also prolong this or circle back to

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it and do another big match between them. Yeah, maybe

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early next year. So that was my takeaway from there.

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Face to face tonight, Also on this show, we had

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two matches added to the Summer Slim card. I don't

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know what the total. What does that bring the total to? Now,

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what do we have before eight? Now we have ten,

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We're somewhere in that range. We still have a few

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more matches left to be added. Again, we have two nights.

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We still don't know what matches are going on on

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one night yet. But the two matches added tonight include

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Sammy Zain. I was getting worried that Sammy was going

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to be left out in the cold after being screwed

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over it's Saturday Night's made event. If anybody has a

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reason to be pissed at Sammy Zain, well, he's going

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to have a match at Summer Slim, and it's a

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match that has championship implications because it's going to be

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a number one contenders match for the WWE title. We

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just didn't know who his opponent was going to be

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until they decided to put together a random fatal four

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way match out of nowhere. I mean, Adam Pierce just

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pulled it out of his ass tonight, and this match

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was going to send someone to SummerSlam to wrestle Sammy,

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and the winner of that match coming out of Summer

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Slam will be the number one contender, and that man

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is going to be Finn Baller. He was Finn Balor

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in the four way tonight. We had him wrestling his

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former Judgment Day brother, Damian Priest. Royce Keys, Yes, the

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same Royce Keys, who already has a match at SummerSlam.

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Let's throw him in there. Although I understand wanting to

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get him on the show, he was in his home right.

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He's from East Palo Alto. Apparently that's like forty minutes

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away from where they were tonight in Oakland. It's still

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a little weird because he's got a match, but okay, fine,

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and then Trick Williams. And as I saw Trick Williams

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come out for the main event in that I realized,

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I said, you know, Trick Williams has his own program

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going on right now with Carmelo Hayes. In fact, two

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weeks ago, Baron Corbin, after years away from WWE, made

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a surprise return, and everybody was talking about Baron Corbin

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for one night. Last week we had a very quick

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video promo from him. This week we had nothing. I'm

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watching Trick out there and I'm like, where the fuck

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is Carmelo Hayes, Where's Baron Corbin? Why does he not

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have a United States Championship match already announced for SummerSlam?

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We already know the women's US title is not being defended.

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They threw Tiffany Stratton in the ladder match. Where were

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those two on this show? I thought maybe there was

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a chance that Corbin was going to run in during

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the main event, you know, to kind of take Trick

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out of the equation, because Trick wasn't winning. Nowhere to

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be found, which means that next Friday, We're going to

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be twenty four hours out from this Summer Slam show,

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and maybe they can scrap something together at the last minute.

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Whether it's a triple threat, whether it's a rematch with

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Trick and Mellow, I don't know what they're gonna do.

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That's me. That's wishful thinking on my part. By the way,

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that we're even going to have a US title match

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on that show show, I would imagine we will, But

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if we're going to, we got nothing. We got nothing.

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In reference to that, on the show tonight, Nicki Bella

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is back the United States Champion. May not have a

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match yet at SummerSlam, but Nicki Bella does. Nicky Bella

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has been gone since March. She made a save tonight

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for her sister and Page, and it's going to be

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a six woman tag team match. This has also been

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added to the Summer Slam card. It's going to be

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Fatal Influence taking on the Bella Twins and Page. Speaking

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of heel turns, we'll talk about that. So that's been

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added to the Summer Slam card too. And then we

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have this women's ladder match for the Interim Championship, which

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is completely unnecessary. Five women are going to be wrestling

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for the Fake Belt at SummerSlam, and we had last

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week an epic encounter between Jade car Gill and Naya Jacks.

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I mean, this was just the Battle of the Titans

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last week. Going to be talking about this match for

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years to come. Obviously, it was god awful what they

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did last week. It wasn't even really a match. What

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they did was just it just it was just bad.

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It was just bad, bad, fucking lazy television. And Jade

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car Gill gets in by disqualification when Charlotte Flair interferes,

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the same Charlotte Flair who was so upset with Jade

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for injuring her best friend and tag team partner that

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she let her emotions get the best of her and

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she sent Jade Cargill to the championship match at SummerSlam.

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And so Charlotte's reward for involving herself in this match

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was to be gifted a qualifying match of her own

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tonight against Naya Jacks, who got screwed last week. Guess

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what happened. I think we all know who was gonna

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win this match. The way they went about doing it,

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this is pain bund numbers just lazy television. Charlotte is

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going to SummerSlam, Jade is in the ladder match at

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Summer Slam. Instead of having a singles match, they've now

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put them in the ladder match, where by the way,

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there is one spot left open and then we'll have

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the full field of five. But I just love how

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you know, we had Jade Cargill qualifying Charlotte Flair tonight,

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as Charlotte Flair qualified Jade Cargill last week, and so

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they're both in the ladder match. You know, we got

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a lot of short matches on the show tonight that

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still were broken up by just a ridiculous onslaught of

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ad breaks at the weirdest times. I don't know what

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was going on with the breaks tonight. So we got

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nothing in Ring tonight, I'm sorry to say we really didn't,

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and I can't even blame the talent for it. It's

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not their fault. We got nothing in Ring tonight. We

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had a decent enough main event until all of the

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interfere into the end from the people who were in

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the six man tag team match at Summer Slim La

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Night and the USOS and Solo Socoa and Jacob Fatu.

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So that was decent enough until everybody started running in.

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But that's it. And unfortunately, there really isn't anything else

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on this show that is compelling enough to really care.

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And so this is where we are right now with

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the state of Friday Night SmackDown. Where and again, maybe

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for you Gunther and nick All this, maybe that stuff

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is something you're really interested in because you want to

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see nick All this. You know back in the Ring,

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that's kind of cool. You know that's coming up at

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summer slim. But you have no good in Ring, no

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really good in Ring to sink your teeth into. Not

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like when we were having those US title matches, right

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at least we had that. We have no real good

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in Ring to sink our teeth into, and we have

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nothing really exciting story wise. So what are you really

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left with? You're left with a shit show, That's what

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you're left with, a week out from their second biggest

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event of the year. Not really a great place to be.

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This is your Friday Night SmackDown review. This is actually

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a good place to be. This is the best place

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to be. He is right here on Friday nights, because

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even when you have a shit show, we try to

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make it entertaining. It's your Friday Night SmackDown review. It

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is July twenty fourth, twenty and twenty six. I am

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the solemn monster. That's right. Look at that? Look at

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the acknowledge emoji? Who is that? And Tran see he

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knows and Tran actually who was it in the chat?

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I don't know who it was. Somebody mentioned this before

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and it's actually a great point. I noticed it too

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when Cody was out there for his segment. He looked jaundiced,

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he looked orange. What was going on with Cody Rhoads tonight?

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I've never seen that shade of humid? Well, actually I have,

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but yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's funny because

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I was watching Unreal and I'm not done with it yet.

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I'm like four episodes in. I'm not going to finish

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it in time for this weekend probably, But I was

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watching got an episode three or four, Chelsea Green, Matt Cardona,

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they get featured and there's a shot in the episode

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Chelsea is complaining about her husband wearing all that self Tanner,

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and she showed a shot of their bed and it

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looked like a crime scene. You just see like all

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of the self tanner. It's like on the sheets and everything.

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I would imagine that that's probably the same with Cody Rhodes.

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You know when he gets up in the morning, you

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look and it's like, what is this? The man looked

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orange on this show. I was trying to look at

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the whites of his eyes to see if they were yellow.

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I was starting to get concerned. Yes, he's turning it

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to Chester Cheeto. Yes he is, like and subscribe super

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chats are open. We actually have a brand new fifteen

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dollars one speaking of Cody, So that is up right now.

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And we got the wheel ready. I had to I

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had to grease the wheel. It was making noise when

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I would spin it. It was starting to rust a

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little bit. So I took an oil can and it's

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all ready to go, and we're going to take it

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for a spin right now. Find out how many likes

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we need for be the booker tonight. This is a

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big spin, big spin. Five hundred and thirty likes and

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we're at two twenty four. This is going to be

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quite the undertaking. It's not impossible. We got some work

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to do here. Five hundred and thirty likes, we do

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have the bonus goal as well. I shall leave that

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up to you guys as we get into this, starting

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with Adam Pearce. Adam Pierce is going to have some

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more work on his plate because Nick Alldis, at least

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until he gets through SummerSlam, is no longer officially the

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general manager of SmackDown because that's not allowed. But he

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was in the ring with Nick Alldos to open the

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show and we were getting ready for the contract signing

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for all this's match with Gunther at SummerSlam. But we

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had some stipulations that had to be adhered to, and

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so first they went and introduced Gunther and he came

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down to the ring and he was all smiles here

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as he got in. Pierce mentioned that there are certain steps.

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So for instance, once Nick Aldis signs on the dotted

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line for this match, he will no longer serve as

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the general manager of SmackDown and his responsibility will then

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become Adam Pierce's responsibilities. He also said that there is

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a whole harmless agreement where all this will not be

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able to hold WWE responsible for whatever happens when he

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is in the ring with Gunther. Alda said he was

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ready to accept the consequences of his actions, even if

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it meant relinquishing his responsibilities as the GM. Gunh said

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that this is going to be the greatest match in

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moment in the career of Nick Alldis, but he's wasting

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his time with this instead of chasing the championship because

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all this didn't know how to do his job. Ever

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since Gunther joins SmackDown, all this has had it out

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for him and he finally figured out why said that

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all this is jealous of him. He knows all this

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is a former NWA World champion, but all this never

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really made it as a superstar in WWE. He was

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dreaming of being here, but it never happened. Meanwhile, Gunther

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showed up. He got it. All the records, the money,

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the championships, all this had to face not just being

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not good enough. But now Gunther is going to make

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all this is dream come true. So he went and

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signed the contract that he said that he'll have all

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this join the list of legends that Gunther has put down.

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He mentioned Bill Goldberg, he mentioned aj Styles, he mentioned

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John Cena. He said all of his victims were chasing

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one more moment. So now Gunther was going to add

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him to the list. So all this took the mic.

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He said, if Gunther actually believed that he wouldn't be here,

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he wouldn't still be here saying it all these things

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that he's going down the laundry list, of all these

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things that he's talking about, it's almost like he's trying

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to convince himself. So he finally figured out gun Thro.

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He said, Gunther is projecting because Gunther never thought that

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this would actually happen. He thought that he would cheap

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shot the general manager, he would pay a fine, he

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would move on with his life, all this stuff. Fought

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back and he said that Gunther can talk about Goldberg

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and Sina and Styles, but he hasn't had a match

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in three years. And he said, I've got nothing to lose.

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When I beat you at SummerSlam, you go from the

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career killer to the man who got made a bitch

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by his boss, which is true. This is kind of

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where we are now with Gunther, the man who beat

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John Cena and his final match, the man who retired

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aj Styles at the Royal Rumble, is now wrestling his boss.

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And if I had a venture, I guess Gunther is

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gonna win. But he is in a situation where he's

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wrestling his boss, and if he gets bitched out by

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his boss, considering where he was six months ago, seven

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months ago, that's going to be pretty sad. For a

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guy who hasn't even been in the ring and had

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a match in three years, it's not a great place

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for him to be. So Gunther attacked him all this

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got the better of him. Pierce to get in between

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them and separate them, and that gave Gunner the chance

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to hit him with a dick kick, and then he

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powerbombed him through the contract signing table that was in

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the ring. I thought it was an effective segment, you

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know again it was It was fine to me. How

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much physicality can you really expect between these two. I

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didn't know we were going to get much in the way

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of physicality. Yeah, but they had Gunther, you know, give

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him the power bomb. Not the first time that Gunther

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is stepping into the ring with a non active person

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in the company, with a non active member of the roster.

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Last year it was Pat McAfee. This year it's Nick Alldus, who,

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as I said, has not wrestled ever for w W

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and has not had any kind of wrestling match in

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about three years. But he is, you know, an accomplished

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wrestler in his own right. He's got the pedigree, he's

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got the resume. He's been there before right well over

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a thousand days combined as NWA champion. He's got to

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win over Cody. But this is something that most WWE

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fans who don't even know they probably be in the

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NWA's rap group. You know, they have no fucking idea

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what the NWA is. How are they supposed to know.

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The audience the WWE has these days very very different

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than the audience that they had once upon a time.

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This is not what I would call a hardcore audience

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who was in tune with all the wrestling history and

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all the wrestling knowledge. They hear these things about how

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Nick all thisis was a wrestler he wrestled, right. They

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mentioned the NWA tonight, because that's all they need to do.

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They just give the fans a sense like all you

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people need to know. You don't need to know where

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he wrestled, or who he wrestled, or what kind of

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wrestler he was. They just want you to know he

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used to be a wrestler. He never made it to WWE,

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and this is the biggest moment of his list, is

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bigger than the birth of his child. He's going to

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finally get to call himself a WWE superstar, which, in

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the context of the show, is the biggest possible thing

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that one can do in their entire life. You could

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cure cancer, you could save kids from a burning building,

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and it still wouldn't be the kind of accomplishment that

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it is for you to be a WWE superstar. And

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so Nick All, this is finally going to have that

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opportunity in Minneapolis, because there's just nothing bigger in the world.

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But look, WWE decided to bring him in and bench

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him and put him in the GM role, and I

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think he's done well, you know, I think he's excelled

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in that role. I'm surprised it took this long to

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get him in the ring, but good for him. I

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know that this is something that he has wanted for

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a very long time, you know, even back to when

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he was in TNA in the NWA, and so this

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has been a long time coming for him. And hopefully,

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you know, win or lose, hopefully he comes out of

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it healthy and hopefully the two of them can go

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out there and have a good, a good showing. Arabian

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Night says, I don't remember one great all this match. Ever, Well,

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I don't have any memorable TNA all this matches. I

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do know he beat Sting, I believe right in Sting's

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final TNA match. But in the NWA, especially the stuff

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with Cody, and they hit a couple of matches. I

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mean they had a match at the first all in

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and that was really good, as I recall, So I

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would at the very least I would go back and

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check that one out. In the back Kathy Kelly, she

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was about to give us a medical update on all

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this who was taken into the trainer's room when Sammy's

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ain hijacked the interview and he talked about winning the

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WWE championship, but the powers that be did not want

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him to be the champion. And so in just a

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matter of days after that, he's on Monday Night Raw,

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a show that he's not even on, defending his title

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against Cody Roads. And when Cody got taken out the

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second corporate poster boy, CM Punk, he showed up ready

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to go. And so now Punk and Cody they're set

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for Summer Slam. Everybody's all happy, except for Sammy said

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that he was champion for eighteen days ago. Eighteen days.

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I was gonna say he was champion for eighteen days.

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He wishes he was champion for eighteen days. He was

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championed eighteen days ago. Now he has no Summer Slam match.

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So he's yelling at Adam Pierce who appears, and Pearce

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is just fed up. He shouts him down, tells him

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to shut up because Sammy wants to be added to

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the match at Summer Slim. He says, make it a

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triple threat, and Pierce is like, no, the match is

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locked in, the main event is set, the main event

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is not being changed. But he tells him, I know

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you got caught in the crosshairs, and so tonight there's

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going to be a fatal four way match, and he

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said it's gonna be Finn Balor Roy's Keys, Damian Preez,

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Trick Williams. The winner of that match will go to

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Summerslim to wrestle you, and the winner of that match

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will become the number one contender for the WWE Championship.

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So Sammy was not very happy about that he complained

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that these four men, they just had to be mentioned

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by CMPI. And so now we know why Punk name

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dropped them. You remember Punk's promo last week, he name

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dropped them. You know, he said, I'm going to defend

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my title, Sammy, you deserve a rematch. And he mentioned Priest,

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and he mentioned Keys, and he mentioned Trick, he mentioned

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everybody except Cody. Those are the four men that they

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put in this fatal four way match. So Punk just

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mentioned their name and they're getting a shot. First of all,

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it is ridiculous that Sammy has to win a Number

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one Contenders match. He was the champion, he lost his title.

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There are other champions who will lose and they'll get

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that automatic rematch. I know, for a while there years ago,

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they did away with the whole automatic rematch the thing,

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but then it sort of crept back. But then if

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you look at what happened at Saturday Night's main event,

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he got jobbed. He got jobbed, his boss interfered in

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the match and screwed him out of a Summer Slim

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Championship match. He shouldn't have to go through anybody. He

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has a legitimate gripe to file acclaim okay with upper

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management about Nick all this, and the solution should be

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that he gets a championship match coming out of Summer Slim.

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Why does he have to fight for it? Well, we

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know why. The real reason why. The real reason why

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is because otherwise he doesn't get a match at Summer Slam,

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so we have to go through this facade of there

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being a number one contenders match. But in storyline, I

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stand with Sammy. The man has a very legitimate right.

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But he says, look, because Pierces like take it or

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leave it, he goes, fine, I'll take it, but I

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don't want any shenanigans. I don't want any funny business,

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and Pierce says we're in agreement. So at least he

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got on the card. Now we know what Sammy Zane

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will be doing at Summer Slim. We had Brie Bella

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in a singles match here on this show against one

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half of the new Women's Tag Team champions, Laney Reid

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of Fatal Influence. Before the match, JC Jane had a mic.

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She cut a promo and said, it would have been

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perfect if I had a chance to go to Summer

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Slim in the latter match to become the interim women's champion.

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We would have had all the gold at Page and

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Brie Bella that medled in her match last week, and

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then she said that she was going to take the

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US Championship from Tiffany Stratton in due time. You know,

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they could have done that match at Summerslim if they

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had played their cards right. That could have been a

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Summer Slim match. Anyway, they cut to a commercial break

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not even a minute into this. Laney had bri In

473
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,160
positioned later for a superplex, recountered out of it. She

474
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,400
dumped her face first down to the mat. Page then

475
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,559
attacked jac Jane when Jace tried to interfere, and then

476
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,359
Laney countered with a sun or. Brie went for a

477
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,960
sunset flip bomb and Laney countered into what she thought

478
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:16,440
was the pin. She was holding the ropes for leverage.

479
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,880
The referee saw her, so she stopped her count and

480
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,000
then Brie countered into a pin of her own and

481
00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:27,480
got the three. After the match fatal influence, they went

482
00:27:27,519 --> 00:27:30,960
on the attack on Brion Page. When you can look

483
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:34,400
but you can't touch. That's what we hear. I'm not

484
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,559
singing it, but we heard it, and out comes Nicki

485
00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:39,839
Bella and she ran to the ring, first time that

486
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,720
we have seen her since March. She got injured on

487
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:48,480
SmackDown before WrestleMania, shattered her ankle basically or her foot.

488
00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:50,240
I think it was her ankle, but whatever it was,

489
00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:53,359
she ran down to the ring here to make the

490
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,920
save for her sister. Then for Page dropped Jace with

491
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,359
a rack attack and then got on the mind and

492
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,160
she said, it's gonna be me, Brie and Page against

493
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,799
the three of you at Summerslim. So we just added

494
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:12,119
a new match on to the card. A. We have

495
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,680
a six man tag and we have a six women tag.

496
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,200
We have a men's rumble, we have a women's rumble.

497
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,480
We have a men's chamber, we have a women's chamber.

498
00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:29,480
We have a men's wargames, we have a women's war games.

499
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:34,599
We have terrible men's booking, we have terrible women's booking.

500
00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:38,160
Everything in this company is fifty to fifty. At least

501
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,799
they're consistent. Most of this took place during the commercial.

502
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,519
I don't even know how I can give an opinion

503
00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:49,640
on this match or grade it or rate it. How

504
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,400
can I fairly do that? Right? I mean, they went

505
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,079
right to commercial. Half the fucking match took place during

506
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:58,119
the commercial break. There really is nothing to say here

507
00:28:58,119 --> 00:29:00,319
about this match. I'm not a fan of Laney taking

508
00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:03,400
the loss here coming off their title win last weekend,

509
00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:06,559
but they're probably gonna win at Summer Slam, and so

510
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,480
I get it. They wanted to give the baby Faces

511
00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:13,799
something here. The Babyface has already lost their belts. They're

512
00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:16,160
probably gonna lose at the PL so they gave him

513
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,160
a win here. It's really not that big of a deal.

514
00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:22,039
But my thought is this, so Nicki is back, and

515
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,640
my thinking a few months ago was that when we

516
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,160
there she is, I mean, the timing could not have

517
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,640
been any better on that Venom Ktetsu. He's got a

518
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,519
knack for it, coming in with a twenty five dollars

519
00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:49,440
pre mode. Thank you, Venom Catetsu. A few months ago,

520
00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:53,799
after Nicki was hurt, I was thinking, when she eventually returns,

521
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,680
do we get a heel bella Twins where the sisters

522
00:29:58,759 --> 00:30:01,319
basically turned on pay and Page plays the role of

523
00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:03,440
baby Face. But I'm watching this and I'm like, you know,

524
00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:07,839
I would not be against the idea of a Page

525
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,200
heel turn and Page linking up with fatal influence. You

526
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,799
get four members instead of three, and so she goes heel.

527
00:30:16,079 --> 00:30:18,400
I do wonder if someone is turning, if it might

528
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,359
not be Page instead of Nicki. But I almost feel

529
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,000
like there's gotta be something. I don't know. I just

530
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,839
I don't see Page and the Bella's you just kind

531
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:30,920
of keep them together as friends and everything just you know,

532
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:35,519
everything's fine. I feel like there has to be something here.

533
00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:39,519
Maybe it's a case where after they lose, you know,

534
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:42,440
someone is frustrated, whether again, whether it's Nicki, your Page,

535
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,039
and then that's the catalyst for one to turn on

536
00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,240
the other. I just feel like there may be a

537
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,880
turn at the end of all this, and I wouldn't

538
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,640
mind it if it was Page. We go to the back.

539
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,079
Kathy is talking to Finn Balor about his fatal four

540
00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:03,400
Way Tonight. Balor thinks about the twenty sixteen summer Slim

541
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,400
ten years ago. Can you believe it? Twenty sixteen when

542
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,680
he had the best and worst night of his career.

543
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,640
Ten years later, he's been scratching and clawing his way

544
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,920
trying to get that glory back. And in the middle

545
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:20,720
of this promo, Gunther shows up and reminds Balor that

546
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,119
I'm next when it comes to the World Championship and

547
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,640
then he mocks Balor taking ten years for this moment.

548
00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:30,799
It is kind of pathetic, is it not. He had

549
00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,319
that Universal title win, he dropped at the very next night,

550
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,599
and he has not touched world gold of any kind

551
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,240
since then. It is quite said. After the break, we

552
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:46,519
got a recap of the La Knight, Royce Keys, Solo

553
00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:49,119
Socoa stuff that's been going on with the Bloodline to

554
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:52,640
set up the six man tag at Summer Slim. So

555
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,519
now we go back live. Royce Keys is in the

556
00:31:54,559 --> 00:31:58,519
back and he's warming up. Here's Solo Socoa and shockingly,

557
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,000
he was not wearing red. He's been wearing that red

558
00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:04,400
suit now for like a month and he finally bought

559
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,880
a new one. So he shows up and he's getting

560
00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:10,519
Royce all hyped up. He's talking to him like these

561
00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:13,480
guys are a faction. Yeah, he's talking about him like

562
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:17,759
he's his newest member of like the new MFTs and

563
00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:20,559
Key says he's happy to be home in the Bay Area.

564
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,240
He's got a big opportunity tonight, Solo said, if you

565
00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:27,079
win Tonight, got a match on Summer Slim Saturday, got

566
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:31,079
a match on Summer slim. Sunday, La Night shows up

567
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,599
and he says that he hopes Keys wins tonight. He

568
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880
reminds him, though, keep your eyes open in the back

569
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,279
of your head for some Bloodline bs. Keys then reminded him,

570
00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,319
I'm a grown ass man. I take everything I want.

571
00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:49,119
Solo says, they're all on the same team. All the

572
00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:52,599
Bloodline found is an ass whooping at SummerSlam. And he's

573
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,319
cutting the promo here and he's putting over Royce, he's

574
00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:58,519
putting over La, he's putting over himself. He was talking

575
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:00,799
like Jimmy, or not Jimmy. He was talking like Jay

576
00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:04,000
in this promo. It's almost like their brothers or something.

577
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:07,960
But we got to see, you know again, glimpses of

578
00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:11,440
Solo Soca his personality in a way that we never

579
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,599
did before when he was doing the Mftist. This is

580
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,880
what I'm talking about, Like, he's just more enjoyable to watch.

581
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:21,680
He's more fun to watch when he's in this role.

582
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:26,000
We get happy Solo instead of stoic Solo, you know

583
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:28,119
what I mean, where it's more serious and he's all

584
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,000
buttoned up and he's got to lead, you know, he's

585
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:33,920
got to lead his family to victory. This is this

586
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,079
is a version of him that's a lot more tolerable,

587
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,279
and I think it really taps into more of what

588
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:43,119
he brings to the table that will make him entertaining,

589
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,480
as opposed to before where I didn't find any of

590
00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:48,799
what they were doing entertaining in the least, So more

591
00:33:48,839 --> 00:33:52,079
of that elsewhere In the back, Tiffany Stratton was hyping

592
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,039
up Chelsea Green than wishing her luck ahead of her

593
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:58,599
qualifying match. Apparently now we have moved beyond the phase

594
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,240
where Tiffany is very standoffish and doesn't really want to

595
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:05,240
have anything to do with Chelsea. I guess Chelsea is

596
00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:08,039
just she's wonder over. I guess they're like best friends. Now,

597
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,119
Chelsea goes off to get ready for her qualifying match

598
00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:16,400
and Blake Monroe shows up, and shockingly, she didn't attack anybody.

599
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,280
This is all she's been doing for weeks, is just

600
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:21,760
randomly attacking women on the roster. In the back, she

601
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,320
shows up and she advised Tiffany start worrying more about

602
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:30,719
your US title and less about Chelsea Green. You know,

603
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:37,840
forget what I said before about Tiffany and Jase, had

604
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,679
they really played their cards right? Tiffany Stratton wouldn't have

605
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,519
to be in a ladder match this weekend. She would

606
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:48,360
be defending her United States Championship against Blake Monroe. Instead,

607
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,119
we have no US title match at SummerSlam, and Blake

608
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:57,119
has not even wrestled the match, not one match on SmackDown. Yet.

609
00:34:57,159 --> 00:35:00,159
She's been showing up and attacking different people. She's been

610
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,840
and cutting little short promos. We're heading into Summer Slim

611
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,519
as she has no match, of course, not because she

612
00:35:06,559 --> 00:35:10,440
has yet to wrestle one. But had they taken the

613
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,800
time to get her on TV, put her in the

614
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,039
ring with some people, let her rack up a few wins,

615
00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:19,480
you could have set up a singles match between these

616
00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:23,800
two for Summer Slim. Again, there's been so many questionable

617
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,400
booking choices. Some of them have been dictated by injuries. Right,

618
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,960
injuries happen, you have to pivot, you have to adjust.

619
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,039
Maybe you have great plans for this person and that

620
00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:37,920
person and they get blown to smithereens and I sympathize

621
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,000
with that, but that doesn't excuse some of these other

622
00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:45,199
decisions that they have made coming into the Summer Slim card.

623
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,280
Certain people who either are not on the show or

624
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,199
they're on the show, but they have belts, but they're

625
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,239
not defending. Like, what is going on here? How do

626
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,239
we not have this as a match at Summer Slim?

627
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,159
Why is Blake just still running around cutting promos and

628
00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:04,440
just beating people up? When did she show up on

629
00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:07,920
this show? Was when Julia? What was before that? Really

630
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,119
in the vignettes, but like in terms of her being there,

631
00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:13,199
like really making an in ring appearance. It was after

632
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,199
Julia beat Keana? How long ago was that? At this point?

633
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:23,039
I mean, there's really there's no there's no rationale for it.

634
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:27,400
There really is, There's no excuse for it. Chelsea Green

635
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,000
against Keana James. This was an interim Women's Title Ladder

636
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,039
Match qualifying match. Chelsea hit a rough rider that almost

637
00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:39,000
got her a win. She went for the unpretty Her

638
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,679
counter though by Keana with a super kick and then

639
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,719
a Falcon arrow, but Chelsea kicked out. James had a codebreaker. Chelsea, though,

640
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,159
then slipped out of a samo and drop attempt, hit

641
00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:52,119
the unpretty hurt and got the win. This went three minutes,

642
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,280
So that very brief summation I just gave you, really

643
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,360
was it all that like off from like the full

644
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,920
match it's I'm not exaggerating by that much. This went

645
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,719
three minutes. I don't really have a whole lot to

646
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,960
say about it. It was a match. I'll tell you what.

647
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,360
I am happy to see. I'm happy to see Chelsea

648
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,480
Green get a win and a significant win, because that

649
00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:16,679
win will now send her to Summer Slim. And I'm

650
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,719
sorry it came at the expense of Keana James. What

651
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,000
is there really to say, you know what I mean?

652
00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:26,400
Like she was together with Julia. The breakup that they

653
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,280
did was overdue, but we finally got the breakup. We

654
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,320
had the one match between them, and ever since then

655
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,639
and Julia beat her. Ever since then, they have been

656
00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:37,440
completely directionless. In fact, Julia hasn't even been seen on

657
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,280
the show. She's been Mia. She ain't getting that spot,

658
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,880
that last spot in the ladder match. They're both completely

659
00:37:46,599 --> 00:37:52,800
directionless right now. And you know, again, they broke them

660
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,559
up without having any real plan for what to do

661
00:37:55,599 --> 00:37:59,280
with either one of them. That's the real sin in this.

662
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,519
They knew enough to finally separate them, but then they

663
00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:08,400
were like, oh, well, now, what what's planned b for

664
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:13,440
the two of them? They're still trying to figure it out.

665
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,559
I'm sure, in the midst of trying to plan the

666
00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:20,079
eventual creative for Tom Brady and Logan Paul, they'll figure

667
00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:25,840
out what to do with some of these women. Again,

668
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,840
I just think about the women's division right now on

669
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,360
this show, and it's not just a Blake issue or

670
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,159
a Keana issue or a Juliet issue. Again, you have

671
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,480
these two women. Like I just said, no direction whatsoever.

672
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,880
Blake Monroe is still going around stalking people in the

673
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,280
back and not wrestling all of this. By the way,

674
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,039
with their champion Rhea Ripley on the shelf since the

675
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:53,519
beginning of June, which you would think would open up

676
00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:56,480
some opportunities to feature some other people on the show.

677
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,079
Oh shit, we lost Rhea Ripley. We can't build everything

678
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:03,920
around Rhea Ripley in her Summer Slam opponent. Because Rhea

679
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,400
is off the table. What are we going to do?

680
00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:09,159
And I, like I could picture all the other women,

681
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,039
like Paulo Vak is standing there like, oh my god,

682
00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:14,440
what do we what are we going to do? And

683
00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:17,559
I just see this like horde of women behind him,

684
00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:20,599
like tapping him on the shoulder. Oh, Paul, Paul, I'm

685
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:22,920
right here, and He's like, yeah, later later, later, we're

686
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:27,039
trying to figure out what to do right now. But Paul, yeah, yeah,

687
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:31,800
leave us alone. We're busy right now some other time,

688
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,840
as they all stand behind him like, hey, we're right here,

689
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,440
We're right here. This is the brain trust at work,

690
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,599
our Truth and Damian Priest. They were having a chat

691
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:56,400
backstage and he was basically Priest, like Royce Keys earlier,

692
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,440
was warming up because he's also part of the Fatal

693
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:03,159
four Way. Truth comes over and we come to find

694
00:40:03,199 --> 00:40:06,119
out Truth thought their tag team match was tonight. Price

695
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:08,599
said no, no, no, the match against the war Raiders

696
00:40:09,079 --> 00:40:11,480
for Our Belts and their Triple A tag team titles,

697
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,400
that's next week. So now we have a date on

698
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,599
when that match is going to be. Truth asked him,

699
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,360
are you upset that I use your credit card to

700
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,519
buy hot dogs for the fourth of July? And pre

701
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:33,800
said they were free, and here comes Cody Rhodes and

702
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:39,880
Cody says, I heard hot dogs. I like hot dogs. Hm.

703
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:46,239
He also mentioned Punk and what he had said last week,

704
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,840
and he joked about coming for their tag team titles

705
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,679
because Punk had mentioned that the two of them, him

706
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:53,400
and Cody, maybe we're going to go after the tag

707
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,519
belts when Punk had his interaction with Damian Priest, so

708
00:40:56,639 --> 00:40:58,920
Cody brought that up again, kind of in a joking way.

709
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:03,360
Truth thinks that Priest and Cody are just confused, and

710
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,400
he wanders off, So anyway, Truth is out of the picture.

711
00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:09,760
Cody puts over Priests and says it he'll be waiting

712
00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:13,159
for him after he regains his championship at Summer Slim,

713
00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:18,320
and Price said, look, everybody is sick of the same

714
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,159
people at the top, and if you listen, you can

715
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,639
hear light cheers in the background from the fans in

716
00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:30,360
the arena at that comment. So are there are enough

717
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,719
people in the audience to make noise to where they

718
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,519
feel the same way. It is tiresome when you see

719
00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:38,519
the same faces over and over and over and over again.

720
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,559
So that was kind of funny to hear that. Price

721
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:46,880
said he's coming to drop the champion, whoever it may be,

722
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,559
whether it's Cody or Punk coming out of Summer Slim,

723
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,400
He's going to drop him. And Cody said, look, it

724
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,320
might shock you to hear this, but I like that attitude,

725
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:02,079
and he walked off. Cody Rhodes was out to the

726
00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:05,280
ring next, got one of the weaker receptions that I

727
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,960
can honestly remember him getting in a very long time,

728
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,800
and he got right to brass tacks. Here he introduced

729
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:18,320
his summer Slam opponent, the WWE champion CM Punk was

730
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,880
greeted a lot more warmly by the fans here in Oakland.

731
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:25,320
So Cody. Cody had two mics and he went to

732
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,119
go hand one of the microphones to Punk and he

733
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:33,480
dropped it. Accidentally dropped the microphone on the mat. It

734
00:42:33,519 --> 00:42:37,440
says like when Hangman Page went to go hand what

735
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:41,239
was it the trios titles to Samoa Joe and he

736
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,519
accidentally dropped it and Joe flipped out. That's what started

737
00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:49,400
the fucking feud between them, because he dropped the belt. Here,

738
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,639
he dropped the mic, and he was waiting for Punk

739
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:57,639
to bend over and pick it up, like Bill Buckner

740
00:42:57,679 --> 00:42:59,760
with the tickets that Pete Rose left him in Boston

741
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,480
for WrestleMania. Punk didn't want to bend over. Punk did

742
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,719
not want to bend over for Cody. So he went

743
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:11,559
over and somebody handed him a brand new microphone, and

744
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:14,239
he said, it's sad that this is where things are

745
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,360
between the two of them, because it feels like his

746
00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:20,920
friend was acting very paranoid. He didn't want the title

747
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,119
to come between him and Cody. But if Cody's got

748
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:27,039
another reason for all of this, then, by all means explain.

749
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,239
Cody said they should stop with the word paranoid. He said,

750
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,280
I'm not paranoid, which is exactly, by the way, what

751
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:39,320
a paranoid person would say. So Cody said, I'm not paranoid.

752
00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:44,320
He said, what happened is Saturday Night's main event. Or rather,

753
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,639
he said, what happened just now is an accident, just

754
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,880
like Punk hitting him with the title belt strap when

755
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,559
he put the belt over his shoulder and to hit

756
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:56,599
Cody in the face, just like that was an accident.

757
00:43:56,639 --> 00:43:59,760
It's Saturday Night's main event. Cody said he needs to

758
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,440
be Punk for himself. Punk said there doesn't need to

759
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,440
be another reason other than the title, but he said

760
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,480
that he was all ears if Cody had another reason

761
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,559
as to why, you know, he's doing what he's doing

762
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:16,199
and acting the way he's acting. Cody said, They've done

763
00:44:16,199 --> 00:44:18,960
a lot of these moments, and people have heard him

764
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,599
say that he loves Punk and he respects Punk. Those

765
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:26,199
two can be true, and so too can this. I

766
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,760
don't like you In twenty eleven, Punk cut the pipe

767
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,840
bomb promo showed everybody that there was another way, and

768
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,760
Cody did everything that Punk talked about. Punk had a

769
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,480
pipe bomb, but then Cody dropped a nuke on the business.

770
00:44:42,039 --> 00:44:44,079
Cody was aware though, that each step he took on

771
00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:47,840
that journey, the fans wanted it to be Punk instead

772
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,960
of him. Damian Priest just told Cody that he was

773
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,719
sick of the same faces on top. But Cody has

774
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,320
done apologizing for everything that he's worked for. He's been

775
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,119
in this ring with the very best, and he doesn't

776
00:44:59,159 --> 00:45:01,400
sweat any of them. Anybody in that locker room, he

777
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,199
doesn't sweat except for one, and that one is CM

778
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:09,079
Punk Only. Punk puts the chip back on Cody's shoulder,

779
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,320
says he loves and respects Punk, but he doesn't like him.

780
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,559
For this story to have a proper ending, he has

781
00:45:14,639 --> 00:45:17,000
to beat Punk at summerslim I have to beat you.

782
00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:20,119
So Punk asked if Cody just doesn't like that he's

783
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:23,039
the champion. He knows how big of a shadow he casts,

784
00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:25,440
and a lot of people can get can't get out

785
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,599
from under it. But with Cody, it's not jealousy. They're

786
00:45:28,639 --> 00:45:31,960
just brothers who fight. He's glad that Cody paid attention,

787
00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:34,760
but only history determines whether Cody did it bigger and

788
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,639
better than he did. That's not for him to say.

789
00:45:36,679 --> 00:45:38,840
That's not for Cody to say. It's for the fans

790
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,599
to say. It's for the history books to say, who

791
00:45:41,599 --> 00:45:46,400
did it better. Cody showed Punk that there was a

792
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,679
way back. After leaving, Punk says that Cody can't handle

793
00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:52,920
the pressure of taking the title from someone who he

794
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,440
actually likes, and now he's got to make himself the

795
00:45:56,519 --> 00:46:00,119
victim and everyone else's enemy. He says, if Kevin Owens

796
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,360
and Randy Ord and John Cena are all his enemies,

797
00:46:05,679 --> 00:46:09,960
that makes Punk his only friend, right because those were

798
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:15,400
all men who turned on Cody. Punk once promised that

799
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,599
he would never stab Cody in the back. He would

800
00:46:17,599 --> 00:46:20,440
stab him in the front. If Cody thinks the only

801
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,119
way this plays out is beating Punk, then it's SummerSlam.

802
00:46:23,199 --> 00:46:26,599
Punk will break his heart. So at that point, Cody

803
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,159
pulled his tie off and he says, I think we've

804
00:46:31,159 --> 00:46:34,559
said all that there is to say. Two of them

805
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:38,360
are going to be teaming up tomorrow, and I think

806
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,079
he said on Sunday and all the live events. I

807
00:46:41,079 --> 00:46:42,840
guess they have a bunch of live events coming up,

808
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,119
some rare live events between now all the way through

809
00:46:46,159 --> 00:46:50,199
next Thursday. He said at that event on Thursday, he's

810
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,039
going to bring a gift to give to Punk and

811
00:46:54,079 --> 00:46:57,760
then at SummerSlam he's gonna whip his ass. Punk said

812
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,119
that he was going to give him his own gift

813
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:03,719
at SummerSlam, the disappointment of a loss said, they'll be

814
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,559
tagging on house shows. That's true, and Cody again is

815
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:09,119
going to have a gift for him. He's gonna save

816
00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:12,960
his gift of for Summer Slim and he's gonna whip

817
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,360
Cody's ass and then he's gonna give him the lesson

818
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,760
that Punk is the best in this ring on this

819
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:24,880
microphone and not even Dusty's Kid can touch him. And

820
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,079
so that was the mic drop moment for Punk and

821
00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:29,800
he went to go leave the ring and Cody said,

822
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,320
hold up, hold up, Dusty's Kid said, we're really going there.

823
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,519
He says, well, get Kingdom ready right, queue up his music.

824
00:47:41,039 --> 00:47:43,079
And I'm thinking, okay, this is gonna be some big

825
00:47:43,159 --> 00:47:46,400
like zinger that he's got for CM Punk It there's

826
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,079
gonna be some big burn like when Roman Reigns was

827
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:51,719
telling Seth Rollins that Triple H is his work, daddy,

828
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,079
and the only times that Seth can ever win a

829
00:47:55,119 --> 00:47:57,000
world title is when he's cashing in a money in

830
00:47:57,039 --> 00:47:59,039
the bank briefcase, which I thought was a good line.

831
00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:02,599
I'm waiting to see what Cody has up his sleeve here.

832
00:48:03,559 --> 00:48:07,239
He says, come Summer Slam. Is that like von Wagner,

833
00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:11,000
come Tuesday. I don't know why I just thought of that,

834
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,400
but he says, come Summer Slam, he'll win the title

835
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,360
for a fourth time. And he did the horseman hands

836
00:48:18,599 --> 00:48:22,320
gesture when he did it. Not sure if there's any

837
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,320
significance to that, but he made sure that we all

838
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,920
saw it, and that was it. So there really was

839
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,800
no big burn at the end. It was actually kind

840
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,400
of underwhelming. Frankly, the way that Cody ended this promo.

841
00:48:34,119 --> 00:48:37,159
Punk Punk kind of had him licked there. I thought

842
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:40,199
that what we what we got between them was it

843
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,679
was good. This wasn't anything that's like, oh my god,

844
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,440
they just sold Summer Slam. It wasn't like a big

845
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:51,039
money promo. It wasn't I don't know, even the intensity

846
00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:54,440
wasn't there. You know, you got punk and Cody talking

847
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,800
about I love you, I respect you, but Cody says

848
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,159
I don't like you. There was no like we We've

849
00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:05,920
seen fiery babyface promos before from Cody, and we didn't

850
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,079
get that same like intensity here from him or from Punk.

851
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,039
We've gotten it from Punk as well in past promos,

852
00:49:12,079 --> 00:49:15,440
whether it was a promo exchange with Drew McIntyre or

853
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,039
Seth Rollins, or ahead of that World Championship match that

854
00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:22,480
he had earlier this year with bron Breaker. Remember there

855
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,199
was a promo on Raw that Punk cut Breaker wasn't there,

856
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:29,320
but Punk looked right into the camera. The camera guy

857
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,159
was right in the corner of the ring and he

858
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,800
got right up close. Like there were those moments where Punk,

859
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,920
when you really give him something to work off, he

860
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,960
can knock it out of the park on promos in

861
00:49:41,039 --> 00:49:45,000
terms of just his intensity and that fire that really builds.

862
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,000
We didn't get any of that here. I mean, what

863
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:50,840
they were saying made sense for the story. They're trying

864
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,280
to tell you have two friends and each guy feels

865
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,519
like he's better than the other, and Cody is telling

866
00:49:56,599 --> 00:49:58,719
him I need to beat you and all this other stuff,

867
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,199
and Punk's accusing him of being paranoid because all these

868
00:50:01,199 --> 00:50:03,000
other people have turned on him, and I'm not going

869
00:50:03,079 --> 00:50:05,280
to turn on you. I'm going to stab you in

870
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,360
the front and not the back. Yeah, that's the gist

871
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,639
of the story they're trying to tell. It's just there

872
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:17,119
wasn't there just wasn't anything there. I think that really

873
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:20,719
made you go, wow, Okay, that left an impression on me.

874
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,960
They just if I wasn't sold on this match already,

875
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,920
I'm really sold now. We didn't really get that there

876
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,320
was something missing. But my big takeaway from this is

877
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:36,079
that Cody should go heal. Cody should go heal at Summerslim.

878
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:37,719
I don't know if they have the balls to do it,

879
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:40,880
you know, I mean, it just it feels to me

880
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,599
like there have been times where people have hoped for

881
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,760
a Cody heel turn. They've expected a Cody heel turn,

882
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,119
and it just never felt like the right time. It

883
00:50:50,199 --> 00:50:52,639
felt like it would be a mistake. Now that you

884
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:57,679
have punk on SmackDown, if they want to turn anybody healed,

885
00:50:57,679 --> 00:50:59,440
this would be the time to turn Cody, and I

886
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,159
think you do that, And depending on what kind of

887
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:07,320
heel Cody decides to play, everyone's oh homelander Cody, whatever

888
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,800
version of Heel Cody we get, as long as it's

889
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,800
not you know, dashing Cody Rhoades is going to be

890
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,880
a hell of a lot more interesting than what he's

891
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,400
been doing on this show, especially if he continues to

892
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,920
feud with like an extended feud with Punk and they

893
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,920
could kind of play off of each other, then that

894
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:28,440
would make things a lot more interesting. So I hope

895
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,239
we get to see it. Do they have the balls?

896
00:51:34,039 --> 00:51:37,000
So we had breaking news here. I mentioned before that

897
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:40,119
there was no Carmelo Hayes, there was no Baron Corbin

898
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:47,800
on this show, and Arabian Night says after SmackDown, WWE

899
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:55,880
announced Trick Williams against Baron Corbin at SummerSlam. No Carmelo Hayes,

900
00:51:56,159 --> 00:52:03,599
no Ricky Saints shaking my head, Well, maybe they'll be

901
00:52:03,639 --> 00:52:07,039
added on SmackDown twenty four hours before Summer Slim next week.

902
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,920
They did show Ricky. I think when Trick and Mellow

903
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,519
were wrestling, right, they showed Ricky watching backstage. He's still

904
00:52:15,559 --> 00:52:21,400
tied into this, possibly kind of disappeared, hasn't he. Yeah,

905
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,400
I mean it was just very, very stupid to not

906
00:52:24,639 --> 00:52:26,960
further that on the actual television show and now they're

907
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,360
just throwing that out there. Baron KORbin. He interfered in

908
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:34,360
the match, and it's weird enough, like he's being inserted

909
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,119
into the Now you didn't mention is this going to

910
00:52:36,119 --> 00:52:40,679
be a championship match. I don't want to call it

911
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,840
a US title match because I don't know for sure

912
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,639
if the US title is on the line. Actually, let

913
00:52:44,679 --> 00:52:48,840
me check. Let's see what's being reported on whether or

914
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,440
not this is actually a title match. Let's see if

915
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:57,159
there's anything on this. I do not see anything. There's

916
00:52:57,159 --> 00:53:01,559
actually nothing on this right now, so we'll have to

917
00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:04,440
see if it's a title match or not. I can't

918
00:53:04,559 --> 00:53:08,000
I just can't imagine. Carmelo Hayes doesn't get added. He

919
00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:10,840
was getting a match against Trick when Corbin interfered, Corbyn

920
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:12,679
put both of them down. Why would Mellow not be

921
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:17,880
involved in this? It should absolutely be a triple threat match.

922
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:25,719
If it's not, I don't really understand that it is

923
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,519
for the title, That's what I'm being told. Well that

924
00:53:29,559 --> 00:53:39,840
makes even less sense. Yes, rewarding rewarding bad behavior. The

925
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,760
guy who interfered in the match is getting a title match,

926
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,800
and the guy who was in the match who got

927
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,119
screwed out of a potential win, even though it was

928
00:53:50,159 --> 00:53:53,280
a non title match, is not even in the conversation.

929
00:53:53,320 --> 00:54:03,320
It barely make it make sense. Charlotte Flair against Nya

930
00:54:03,519 --> 00:54:10,000
Jacks another interim title or yes, interim title ladder match

931
00:54:10,079 --> 00:54:15,519
qualifier for SummerSlam. Speaking of rewarding bad behavior perfect timing,

932
00:54:15,559 --> 00:54:18,079
who meant you? Roderick said that in the chat perfect

933
00:54:18,079 --> 00:54:22,960
Timing Roderick, Charlotte Flair last week involved herself in Jade's

934
00:54:23,039 --> 00:54:25,559
qualifying match, which she had no business being a part of.

935
00:54:26,159 --> 00:54:29,599
Charlotte was then put in a qualifier of her own

936
00:54:29,639 --> 00:54:32,360
against Nya Jacks. This was their way of trying to

937
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,000
make it up to Naya who got kind of got

938
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,039
screwed last week, and so she's gonna get another chance

939
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,920
to qualify here. As with most of the matches on

940
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,280
this show, there really wasn't much to it. That's the

941
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,920
case pretty much up and down this show. After a break,

942
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,199
Nya headed up to the middle rope. She dropped the

943
00:54:51,199 --> 00:54:54,840
big leg. Flair kicked out, so Naya was looking for

944
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,800
the annihilator. Charlotte got all up under her and delivered

945
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,559
a power b for a near fall. Wade Barrett he

946
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,119
oversold this on commentary. I mean he was. He was

947
00:55:07,159 --> 00:55:10,159
selling this like it was fucking Hogan slamming Andre in

948
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,559
nineteen eighty seven. I'm like, brother, we see this spot

949
00:55:13,599 --> 00:55:18,400
all the time. Give me a break. So Charlotte was

950
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,480
headed up for a moonsaal when out comes Jade and

951
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:24,840
the baddies. They come out for the distraction. Flair got

952
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,679
thrown out of the ring by NYA, and Nya then

953
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,880
turned to the batties and she didn't want them there either.

954
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,920
She was talking down to them. Meanwhile, back on the

955
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,679
other side of the ring outside, Charlotte took out BFAB,

956
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,639
She took out Mechen by throwing her into the barricade.

957
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,880
She went back into the ring, she knocked Jade off

958
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,800
the apron with a punch. Then Jade got into the

959
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,480
ring and she hit Charlotte with a punch, and then

960
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,519
the referee called for the disqualification, and so this match

961
00:55:51,599 --> 00:55:55,079
is over. We got the lame DQ and then after

962
00:55:55,119 --> 00:55:59,079
the match, Jade laid out Charlotte with a jaded rinse.

963
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,840
Repeat with this nonsense, at least we got more of

964
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,559
an actual match this week between Nya and Charlotte than

965
00:56:05,559 --> 00:56:09,480
we did with Jade and Nya. Last week, Nia went

966
00:56:09,519 --> 00:56:12,880
on a rampage after this. She cleared off the announced

967
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,639
desk and she was swearing up a storm. She kept

968
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,800
yelling that she just got fucked. Multiple times she said this,

969
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,559
and they had a censor at each time, so I'm

970
00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:24,320
sure as soon as she came through the curtain to

971
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,719
the back they pulled her aside to have a conversation.

972
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,480
She was dropping f bombs here like they were going

973
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,039
out of style. I would be upset too if I

974
00:56:32,119 --> 00:56:36,320
were her, just like Sammy's saying, this woman has every

975
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,280
right to be upset. Two weeks in a row, she

976
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:45,119
has been screwed, or she said, fucked out of a

977
00:56:45,159 --> 00:56:48,039
spot in this ladder match, which actually makes me wonder

978
00:56:48,079 --> 00:56:49,760
now that I think about, Oh my god, I just

979
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:54,639
realized something. She's now been screwed over twice. They may

980
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,719
just put her in the match. She may be the

981
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:01,159
one filling that fifth spot because she has a legitimate

982
00:57:01,199 --> 00:57:03,440
claim to a spot in that match. Two weeks in

983
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,639
a row. Now she's been screwed. She may not even

984
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,440
have to wrestle for it. They may just put her in.

985
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,199
We may be looking at Naya Jacks taking off the

986
00:57:13,199 --> 00:57:16,440
fifth spot in that ladder match. You know, Bliss Fan.

987
00:57:16,679 --> 00:57:23,000
I know Bliss Fan was very hopeful, very hopeful. So now,

988
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:26,360
so wait is she not in the match? Lash Legend

989
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,440
against Julia is the final qualifier next week on SmackDown.

990
00:57:33,599 --> 00:57:39,079
So then Naya Jacks really did get fucked? She really did.

991
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,400
Does how is this allowed to go on two weeks

992
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,400
in a row? This woman got screwed. I mean, say

993
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,199
what you want to about Naya Jacks. You may not

994
00:57:49,239 --> 00:57:50,920
be a Naya jackx fan, you may not want to

995
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:55,199
see Nia Jackson this ladder match, but she has a

996
00:57:55,280 --> 00:58:01,159
legitimate gripe here. So it's Lash and so Lash is

997
00:58:01,159 --> 00:58:05,440
getting in the So lash Legend will take the last spot. Sorry,

998
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,880
Bliss Fan. I know Bliss Fan was hopeful that Alexa

999
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:09,760
Bliss would be back in time to get a spot

1000
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,599
in the match. It seemed pretty clear when they wrote

1001
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:18,000
her off television that was not going to happen anyway.

1002
00:58:18,039 --> 00:58:21,679
The main event of this show fatal four way Damian

1003
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:26,760
Priest against Finn Valor against Trick Williams against Royce Keys.

1004
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,000
They were in Keys's backyard, they were not far from

1005
00:58:30,039 --> 00:58:34,800
Palo Alto, and they didn't even give him a televised entrance.

1006
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:39,639
He got a jobber entrance. The winner goes on to

1007
00:58:39,639 --> 00:58:45,559
wrestle Sammy's Ain at SummerSlam in a Number one Contenders match.

1008
00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:49,960
We were not even thirty seconds into this main event

1009
00:58:51,039 --> 00:58:55,920
and they cut to a break. Immediately killed the vibe.

1010
00:58:56,199 --> 00:59:01,119
This whole show is a vibe killer. This entire two

1011
00:59:01,239 --> 00:59:06,159
hours kills the vibe. Late in the match, Trick caught

1012
00:59:06,239 --> 00:59:08,559
Priest with a backhand that sent him to the floor.

1013
00:59:08,679 --> 00:59:10,679
Balor then dumped Trick out of the ring and then

1014
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,800
Lowbridge keys and then Balor hit a flip dive out

1015
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:18,159
onto the pile. Solo Socoa walked out as the show

1016
00:59:18,199 --> 00:59:21,440
went to another break, Jimmy and Jay they made their

1017
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,280
way out. They attacked Solo after the break. La Knight's

1018
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,239
entrance music played, but he had enough sense to come

1019
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,800
out of the crowd. At least he didn't slip and

1020
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,440
fall this time, and he attacked the ussos who were

1021
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,639
busy watching for him, looking towards the stage. Solo at night.

1022
00:59:37,719 --> 00:59:40,239
They fought the usos to the back. Meanwhile, in the ring,

1023
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,599
Priest put Trick down with the South of Heaven Choked

1024
00:59:42,639 --> 00:59:46,719
slim Keys, though stopped Priest from going for the pin. Keys,

1025
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:50,159
put Priest down with a spinebuster, had him beat when

1026
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,800
Jacob Fatu appeared at ringside and he pulled him out

1027
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,639
of the ring at the last minute. Fatu worked him over,

1028
00:59:57,079 --> 00:59:59,599
hit Keys with a running hippotack. Keys was seated up

1029
00:59:59,639 --> 01:00:04,039
against the timekeeper's barricade and Fatu built built up ahead

1030
01:00:04,039 --> 01:00:06,639
of Steam. He came in with the running hip attack

1031
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:11,000
inside Balor hit Priest with a shotgun dropkick, followed up

1032
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,400
with the double stomp off the top Coup de grass.

1033
01:00:13,519 --> 01:00:17,960
Thanks for coming Finn Balor. He leaves Pinn Balor at

1034
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:23,239
home again and actually picks up the win. I think,

1035
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,800
legitimately it has been years since Finn Balor has strung

1036
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:32,599
together this many consecutive wins, and it's nice that he

1037
01:00:32,639 --> 01:00:34,840
got himself a match at Summer Slim. How about that

1038
01:00:35,639 --> 01:00:37,679
it's actually gonna have a singles match on that show.

1039
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,960
Same for Sammy Zayin. I legitimately didn't think he was

1040
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,639
gonna have a match on the card, and so now

1041
01:00:43,639 --> 01:00:47,199
you've got Baler against Zane. You know what, It's a

1042
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,440
I think a perfectly solid addition to the middle of

1043
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,480
that card with main event implications. Because the winner is

1044
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,679
going to get a World Championship match, and honestly, I

1045
01:00:56,719 --> 01:00:59,559
could see that match going either way. You would think

1046
01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:04,119
Sammy would win, but they've really teased Balor going for

1047
01:01:04,159 --> 01:01:06,719
the belt. There's been some backstage interactions with Punk and

1048
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:11,239
I think Cody, so it's probably gonna be Sammy, but honestly,

1049
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,199
it could go either way. But at least they have

1050
01:01:14,199 --> 01:01:16,800
a match on the card. The rest of this show

1051
01:01:17,039 --> 01:01:18,639
didn't do a whole hell of a lot to get

1052
01:01:18,639 --> 01:01:21,519
me excited for the Summer Slam Show. This Summer Slam

1053
01:01:21,559 --> 01:01:24,760
Show on paper, you look at some of the matches,

1054
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,960
and there are matches on this card that I know

1055
01:01:29,039 --> 01:01:31,119
are going to be really good matches like Cody and

1056
01:01:31,159 --> 01:01:33,559
Punk is going to be really good. Roman and Seth

1057
01:01:33,639 --> 01:01:36,360
is going to be really good. Oba and Brock their

1058
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,320
first two matches have been fun. Now you put them

1059
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:44,039
in the cell. I'm excited for that match to see

1060
01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:48,159
what they can do inside the cell. Penta and Chad

1061
01:01:48,199 --> 01:01:51,360
Gable is a match that I'm looking forward to. This

1062
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,159
should be the big crowning moment for Chad Gable, right,

1063
01:01:54,199 --> 01:01:57,679
So that's why that's four matches, And then you look

1064
01:01:57,719 --> 01:01:59,079
at some of the other ones on the show, and

1065
01:01:59,119 --> 01:02:02,360
they have potentials. So it's one of those situations where

1066
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,280
I think the talent will go out there if they're

1067
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,920
given the time to do so. I just remember whatever

1068
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,400
night it was or WrestleMania this year where every match,

1069
01:02:09,719 --> 01:02:11,800
not every match, but like most of the matches got

1070
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:15,880
like seven minutes. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of that.

1071
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:18,559
If they have the time to go out there and

1072
01:02:19,159 --> 01:02:22,199
do what they do, they can have a really good night.

1073
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:26,000
But in terms of the storylines, in terms of all

1074
01:02:26,039 --> 01:02:27,599
the hype to get you all, you know, all the

1075
01:02:27,639 --> 01:02:30,039
promotion to get you hyped up for this show, and

1076
01:02:30,079 --> 01:02:33,199
it's a big one. You know, it's summer slant. It's

1077
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,400
just it's missing. It's missing, and these shows are just

1078
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:40,599
so uninspired. SmackDown is the worst defender of mall. Nothing

1079
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:44,400
has changed in that regard. Punk's on the show now. Punk,

1080
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,559
I think did a lot to help elevate Raw. I'm

1081
01:02:46,599 --> 01:02:49,320
hopeful that he'll be able to help out SmackDown. He

1082
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,440
hasn't been there long enough to really have made a

1083
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,599
dent yet, but I think having him on the show,

1084
01:02:54,639 --> 01:02:56,199
if they I mean again, if they can get Kevin

1085
01:02:56,239 --> 01:03:00,320
Owens back in the next few months. I was thinking

1086
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,559
about Naomi too, because they mentioned her unreal you know,

1087
01:03:03,599 --> 01:03:07,679
when she had to step away for the pregnancy, and

1088
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,559
we're coming up on a year. You know, next month

1089
01:03:10,639 --> 01:03:12,440
is going to be one full year. And even in

1090
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,519
her promo when she left, she said, you know, nine

1091
01:03:14,519 --> 01:03:16,840
months from now, I'll be back, and you knew it

1092
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,599
wasn't going to be nine months. I don't know how

1093
01:03:18,599 --> 01:03:21,840
far along she would have been at that point. Naomi's

1094
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:24,400
another one, though, or in the next few months potentially,

1095
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,280
you know, and maybe it won't be until the Rumble.

1096
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,079
You know, we still may be a ways off. But

1097
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:32,559
I look ahead and I just see these names that

1098
01:03:32,599 --> 01:03:35,079
have been missing. Bronson Reed is another one. Some of

1099
01:03:35,079 --> 01:03:39,559
them would be on Raw, but again, like Kevin Owens

1100
01:03:39,559 --> 01:03:42,239
someone like that, to get him back on SmackDown, to

1101
01:03:42,239 --> 01:03:45,559
get Drew McIntyre back on the show. The show could

1102
01:03:45,559 --> 01:03:48,920
really use some of these faces back. And then you

1103
01:03:49,039 --> 01:03:52,199
throw in maybe a Cody Heel turn right, As crazy

1104
01:03:52,199 --> 01:03:55,400
as it sounds for me to even say that, like,

1105
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,280
there are tools in the toolbox for them to use

1106
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:03,199
to get this show going and they just don't use them.

1107
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,159
And then on top of that, you compound that when

1108
01:04:06,199 --> 01:04:09,599
there is an injury like they've had to rear Ripley.

1109
01:04:10,519 --> 01:04:16,440
So you combine just this bizarre booking and then whatever

1110
01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:20,400
injuries are setting them back, and it creates havoc, and

1111
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,480
then there are other people missing Dragon of and I mean,

1112
01:04:23,519 --> 01:04:29,440
I don't know, it just smack SmackDown sucks. SmackDown sucks,

1113
01:04:29,599 --> 01:04:32,119
and I just hope they could turn it around coming

1114
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:34,039
out of Summer Slam. I don't know if that's just

1115
01:04:34,159 --> 01:04:38,960
the blind hope and optimism that I'm trying to have here,

1116
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,039
but that's why I say when the show went back

1117
01:04:42,079 --> 01:04:45,360
to two hours, I'd rather have two hours of a

1118
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:49,239
terrible show than three hours of one. Unfortunately, things haven't

1119
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:53,280
really changed, and we happen to be going into our

1120
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,840
second biggest of end of the year on the WWE calendar,

1121
01:04:57,039 --> 01:05:03,199
not ideal. Probably also has something to do other than

1122
01:05:03,239 --> 01:05:07,239
the ticket prices, with why tickets haven't sold quite as

1123
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,159
well for Summer Slam this year as they did last year.

1124
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,840
They're still gonna get their seventy or eighty thousand people

1125
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,800
over the course of two nights, but they ain't gonna

1126
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:17,679
hold a candle to what they did in Met Life

1127
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:23,840
last year. They ain't even gonna come close. All right,

1128
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:29,079
here we go. Let's get into your questions here. Maybe

1129
01:05:29,159 --> 01:05:33,360
you guys thought of this SmackDown show or got Summer

1130
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:40,119
Slam thoughts. Lay them on me, Lay them on me.

1131
01:05:45,199 --> 01:05:47,719
Bianca is still pregnant? Is beyond is she? I thought

1132
01:05:47,719 --> 01:05:51,199
she would have had her baby by now. She's really

1133
01:05:51,199 --> 01:05:53,840
holding onto that thing. Huh. I doesn't want to let

1134
01:05:53,840 --> 01:06:05,599
go hit the bonus goal. Just literally just now hit

1135
01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:08,760
the bonus goal, which is good because we're still over

1136
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,079
one hundred off from the main goal, which is five

1137
01:06:12,079 --> 01:06:16,119
point fifty. We're four to forty seven. So whether or

1138
01:06:16,119 --> 01:06:17,719
not we're going to get that bonus round is going

1139
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:19,079
to come down to whether or not we hit the

1140
01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:21,800
likes goal. But at least we got the one round

1141
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:29,039
coming our way. Joseph, Happy Friday to you, brother, San Diego.

1142
01:06:29,119 --> 01:06:34,559
Comic Con is this weekend. It was this past weekend.

1143
01:06:34,559 --> 01:06:38,239
I thought, right, I've seen all all of this comic

1144
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,599
Con stuff on my timeline over the last few days.

1145
01:06:42,239 --> 01:06:46,920
I know it's going on right now. Actually, they had

1146
01:06:47,679 --> 01:06:53,760
they showed the old LJN figures. They've re released them,

1147
01:06:54,239 --> 01:06:58,239
I guess under Mattel and they're coming out with a

1148
01:06:58,239 --> 01:07:01,400
new line and they actually have a Heart Foundation two pac.

1149
01:07:03,119 --> 01:07:05,119
I don't know when it's out. I'm gonna have to

1150
01:07:05,119 --> 01:07:08,760
try to get my hands on that. If anybody's got

1151
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:13,960
a lead on that, let me know. Those were some

1152
01:07:14,159 --> 01:07:16,280
l jns that I never got my hands on back

1153
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,079
in the day. I never had a Brett. I never

1154
01:07:18,119 --> 01:07:25,880
had a Heart Foundation l JN. Justin says, did you

1155
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:32,760
know that Raven was responsible for bringing in Beulah to ECW? Well?

1156
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:40,320
I know now, I know. Now it's got a couple

1157
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:44,480
of birthday shoutouts here too, because I will be watching

1158
01:07:44,519 --> 01:07:48,079
the Masters of the Universe and the Dolph Lungern version

1159
01:07:48,159 --> 01:07:51,559
tonight for my Friday night movies. Yeah, you know the

1160
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,960
new Masters of the Universe movie which bombed in theaters,

1161
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,960
which sucks because I saw it and I really enjoyed it.

1162
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,079
It's on is it Prime? I think it's Amazon Prime.

1163
01:08:01,159 --> 01:08:04,039
It was number one. I believe it still is number one,

1164
01:08:04,159 --> 01:08:11,199
So it's a good sign make some of that money back.

1165
01:08:14,719 --> 01:08:17,359
He says, how different would WWE and wrestling look today

1166
01:08:17,359 --> 01:08:19,880
if Stone Cold did not turn heel at wrestle Mania

1167
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:23,960
is seventeen. Wrestling would look exactly the same that WWE's

1168
01:08:24,039 --> 01:08:26,520
business wouldn't have plummeted quite as quickly as it did,

1169
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:37,359
And Joseph says, remembering Hulk Hogan today, Yes, indeed, it's

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01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:39,520
been a year. Could they do a Dark Side of

1171
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:51,960
the Ring on bray Wires up? Fuck that tree? Hey,

1172
01:08:52,239 --> 01:09:01,479
cataclysm or cataclysmic? Cataclysmic is me? Thank you for the

1173
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,199
twelve dollars learning trait. This Sunday we have the Painmaker.

1174
01:09:05,239 --> 01:09:07,880
It's not the learning trait. I should actually I should

1175
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:14,039
do I should do a Painmaker super chat oh Man,

1176
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,479
dark Side of the Ring on bray Wyatt. Yeah, I

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01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,640
mean I could see that years from now. It's it's

1178
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,560
way too recent to even think about doing something like that.

1179
01:09:31,079 --> 01:09:34,720
Snow Dog says, I just looked up the Heart Foundation figures.

1180
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:36,520
Oh they're out now. I thought this was like a

1181
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:41,439
preview for something coming later in the year, says, I

1182
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:45,319
just looked up the Heart Foundation figures. Seventy two dollars

1183
01:09:45,319 --> 01:09:53,479
at targets. That's nonsense, Joseph, thank you. Broley says only

1184
01:09:54,239 --> 01:10:00,920
forty year olds can go for world titles. Apparently, seems

1185
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:06,760
like it great fatal influence versus the Bella is all

1186
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,680
so that the Bellas can beat them at Summer Slim,

1187
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,760
because fuck the new Girls. We need to get the

1188
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:17,359
Bellas over pal. Yeah. If I were betting the Bellas

1189
01:10:17,359 --> 01:10:20,640
are not winning at Summer Slim, fatal Influence is gonna

1190
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:25,560
win at Summer Slim. Anything else would be ridiculous. DJ

1191
01:10:26,079 --> 01:10:30,680
fifty five says here in Oakland for SmackDown, Sun has

1192
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:34,000
eighteen dollars chicken strips. Just spilled water on a guy

1193
01:10:34,079 --> 01:10:37,399
in front of us. A drunk dude keeps talking to me,

1194
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:41,239
And now I'm seeing Naya Jacks come out. This is

1195
01:10:41,279 --> 01:10:45,159
turning into a dream night sounds like a nightmare, not

1196
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:52,720
a dream. Justin g Win Balor, who led him in here. Yeah,

1197
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,800
I look, I was as shocked as anybody. Every now

1198
01:10:56,840 --> 01:11:02,800
and then Winn Balor makes an appearance. Philip Bowman, how

1199
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,319
would you feel about the Dark Side of the Ring

1200
01:11:04,399 --> 01:11:07,479
episode on Edge and Matt Hardy's two thousand and five feud. Also,

1201
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,159
what did you think of the Necro Butcher and Joe episode.

1202
01:11:10,239 --> 01:11:14,640
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. You know what they

1203
01:11:15,359 --> 01:11:18,960
I don't know that they would be able to if

1204
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,520
they couldn't get Copeland to sit down for it. You'd

1205
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:25,880
have to get Copeland at least, if not Copeland and Alita.

1206
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,960
To just have Matt you can't get You can't get

1207
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,560
a whole episode out of that. If you can get

1208
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:33,920
all of the parties, though, to sit down and talk

1209
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:35,760
about it, then sure you could do an episode on that.

1210
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:39,800
You'd have to really stretch it out a little bit,

1211
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,600
but you could do it. Misfit Wrestling Podcast after tonight,

1212
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,880
I never again want to hear that WWE sees more

1213
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:50,399
upside and Keana James ever again. They squashed her and

1214
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:57,840
fed her to a jobber. Yeah, I mean, they're certainly

1215
01:11:57,880 --> 01:11:59,960
not using her in a way that would indicate that

1216
01:12:00,159 --> 01:12:05,079
they really have any plans for Donovan d Is it

1217
01:12:05,199 --> 01:12:08,560
time for someone else to lead creative Triple Ah seems

1218
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:12,239
to have lost his Nxteam magic if it was truly him.

1219
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,840
I watched WWF in ninety five, and even that wasn't

1220
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,359
as bad as today's product. Well, because today's product is

1221
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:24,640
just it's not again. We talked about this last week.

1222
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,640
I don't know what this product is supposed to be.

1223
01:12:28,359 --> 01:12:32,239
It's not really it's not really wrestling. I don't know.

1224
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:39,119
I don't know what it's supposed to be. I don't

1225
01:12:39,159 --> 01:12:45,439
know who it's supposed to appeal to. Lakers pats better

1226
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:50,560
Build staying against Hogan in ninety seven or Rockxena WrestleMania

1227
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:54,479
twenty eight. Oh as far as Build, I mean stinging Hogan,

1228
01:12:55,680 --> 01:13:02,960
It's not even close, Phillip says. Does Osprey say brov

1229
01:13:03,359 --> 01:13:13,039
more than Russo says bro No? A misfit wrestling podcast

1230
01:13:13,119 --> 01:13:17,199
with a ten says Jason Eisner, who is the co

1231
01:13:17,319 --> 01:13:21,279
creator of dark Side, saw my tweet about act Yasukawa

1232
01:13:22,039 --> 01:13:25,520
versus Yoshika for a future episode and liked it, So

1233
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,000
we might be getting a future episode on this match.

1234
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:32,439
I mean, if there was a match that was worthy

1235
01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:34,199
of a dark Side of the Ring episode, that would

1236
01:13:34,199 --> 01:13:36,880
be it. I don't know if that episode would do

1237
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:42,079
big numbers for them, but it certainly would be worthy

1238
01:13:42,079 --> 01:13:52,600
of the dark Side treatment. WWE is an advertising business, now, yeah,

1239
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:58,760
I mean, basically that's what it is. I mean, to

1240
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,279
some degree, it was always an advertising vehicle. It was

1241
01:14:01,319 --> 01:14:05,680
an advertisement for the pay per views. But they didn't

1242
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,520
just assault you with just how corporate they were, because

1243
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:11,479
they weren't really corporate back then in the way they

1244
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:14,920
are today. And you know, you would get actual wrestling

1245
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:23,960
week to week on the shows and real character development,

1246
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,760
and it's just not a priority for them anymore. You know,

1247
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:36,720
everything else is secondary. Trick Williams against Baron Corbin for

1248
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:39,399
the US title was announced for Summer Slam after the

1249
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,000
show went off the air. Oh what a great time

1250
01:14:42,079 --> 01:14:52,760
to announce that. Oh boy, good job guys, Leo says, man.

1251
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:56,920
This booking sucks ass. Keana James deserves so much better.

1252
01:14:57,079 --> 01:15:01,720
It's incredibly frustrating to see WWE waste. Keana. I think

1253
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:05,000
I'm very close to giving up on WWE for a while.

1254
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,640
I'm so glad I turned off the show and decided

1255
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,680
to rewatch Logan from twenty seventeen. It's still one of

1256
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:16,880
the best movies I've ever seen. I didn't see that one.

1257
01:15:18,399 --> 01:15:22,640
Is that the Wolverine movie? Is that another one I

1258
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:27,560
should add to my list to see before Doomsday in December?

1259
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,159
Alexander says Nick all this needs to call his finish

1260
01:15:34,279 --> 01:15:41,880
the Pink Slip. Now. I think he should call it

1261
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:48,720
what's causing all this? I like that dry chicken without flavor.

1262
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,119
When I saw the Cody Roads and See I'm Punk segment,

1263
01:15:52,119 --> 01:15:55,479
Cody accidentally dropping the mic towards Punk is like, don't

1264
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,399
drop the soap. I said punk Punk would not bend

1265
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:08,079
over for him, Alexander. If all this wins any match,

1266
01:16:08,119 --> 01:16:11,279
the opposing opponent should be fired by default since all

1267
01:16:11,319 --> 01:16:14,680
this is a representative of WWE management. Lol. Yeah, well

1268
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,840
now he's not though, say he's officially been relieved of

1269
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:23,279
his duties. Adam Pierce made that very clear. Boots with

1270
01:16:23,359 --> 01:16:29,680
a ten, Kathy Kelly, Oh my goodness, easy there, big fellow,

1271
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:37,960
MVK with a ten. Hey, Sola. My younger brother, Hulkling

1272
01:16:38,039 --> 01:16:41,239
ninety three, and I laid our father to rest yesterday.

1273
01:16:42,039 --> 01:16:45,680
He was only sixty six, but he was a great dad. Also,

1274
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:48,239
we'd like to thank you your streams helped us get

1275
01:16:48,279 --> 01:16:52,520
through a tough time. I'm very sorry to hear that, brother,

1276
01:16:53,319 --> 01:16:58,439
My condolences to you. And Hulkling sixty six is way

1277
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:02,920
too young. So I hope you guys are doing okay.

1278
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,800
And again again, you know these streams are here. If

1279
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,359
you want to take your mind off things for a

1280
01:17:07,359 --> 01:17:10,920
little bit, you know where to turn to. But we're

1281
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:18,800
all thinking about you, Boots says are piercing Gunther Incohoots.

1282
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:24,239
Maybe they're working together, so we're gonna turn Adam Pierce

1283
01:17:24,319 --> 01:17:27,359
heel have one heel GM Is that what you're suggesting here?

1284
01:17:27,359 --> 01:17:30,800
I don't like this, Boots, I don't like this idea.

1285
01:17:33,239 --> 01:17:40,159
I don't like where you're going with this. No, no,

1286
01:17:40,199 --> 01:17:43,640
I don't think so Venom Katatsu with the twenty five

1287
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:53,239
dollars super chat. It's margarite tonight at Casa de Venom.

1288
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:58,439
Thanks for taking another SmackDown bullet for us. Let me.

1289
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,039
My body is so riddle with bullets. I don't think

1290
01:18:01,039 --> 01:18:05,359
I could take many more of them. Digging that shirt,

1291
01:18:05,399 --> 01:18:07,279
my dude, you may want to cash in a one

1292
01:18:07,279 --> 01:18:09,800
wish Willow for Live Morgan to tune in and see

1293
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:17,520
you in those threads. Now, I think she's taken. Thanks

1294
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:23,680
for looking out, brother, How do I do? I do

1295
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:28,720
have my one wish willow over here somewhere, Alexander says,

1296
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:33,079
Tony Storm sentencing Mariah May to a lifetime of mediocrity

1297
01:18:33,199 --> 01:18:41,760
is now bearing fruit on this show. Shame hmm. It

1298
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:46,520
does feel more real than many of us thought. MV cases.

1299
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:48,760
How do you feel about the people calling out Cody

1300
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:54,359
about the same old, same old, same old, always just

1301
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,520
him in the main event? Well, because it feels that way,

1302
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,359
doesn't it After a while, it just gets tired. And

1303
01:19:01,399 --> 01:19:03,880
Cody's not stupid. He has to realize the same thing.

1304
01:19:05,119 --> 01:19:06,680
That's why I say, if ever there was a time

1305
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:08,319
for a heel turn, this would be it. You got

1306
01:19:08,319 --> 01:19:12,760
a big babyface now on Fridays and see them Punk. Really,

1307
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:15,079
before Punk came over, they didn't have anybody else. That's

1308
01:19:15,079 --> 01:19:16,800
why I said, you got to be out of your

1309
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,279
mind to turn Cody heel, because you who do you

1310
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:23,640
replace him with? Who steps into that spot on Fridays.

1311
01:19:25,359 --> 01:19:27,079
You know there was a point in time where Jacob

1312
01:19:27,119 --> 01:19:30,319
fought too. You could have and boy did they cool

1313
01:19:30,399 --> 01:19:33,199
him off. He's a fucking stooge now on these shows.

1314
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:37,640
Bron bro me it don't even get me started. All

1315
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:43,840
the people they've cooled off ridiculous. They've put so many

1316
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:52,079
people in the meat locker, it is ridiculous. Jeremy says,

1317
01:19:52,119 --> 01:19:55,960
watching Unreal has reiterated my thought that Bruce and Michael

1318
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,359
Hayes are a huge part of the problem. They need

1319
01:19:58,399 --> 01:20:06,279
to get road dogged. Speaking of the same faces over

1320
01:20:06,319 --> 01:20:09,600
and over again. I think the same would apply behind

1321
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,439
the scenes as much as it would to the talent

1322
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,640
that you see on screen. Dry Chicken says, I honestly

1323
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:17,479
can't feel sorry for the women's division in WWE anymore

1324
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,560
because of the other women will defend the brain trust

1325
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:26,479
of the creative team. I mean, I don't know other

1326
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:28,960
women that are going out there and interviews and defending

1327
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:39,479
this nonsense publicly? Are they defending this slop? Venom Cantetsu,

1328
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:43,920
Nita Pete Rose, How bad it? Super Chat? How bad it?

1329
01:20:48,039 --> 01:20:52,000
Johnny Bernie will the Sound Off discuss reports of how

1330
01:20:52,039 --> 01:20:57,800
TKO is preparing for an aw Mania week announcement. I've

1331
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:00,000
already talked about this. There's nothing to talk about. Already

1332
01:21:00,079 --> 01:21:03,239
covered this last week. I mean, I've been telling you

1333
01:21:03,279 --> 01:21:08,439
this for how many months? Now? You want to know

1334
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:10,159
my thoughts on it again? I talked about it on

1335
01:21:10,199 --> 01:21:15,960
the show last week, literally talked about it and what

1336
01:21:16,039 --> 01:21:17,960
I would do if I were him. I floated New

1337
01:21:18,039 --> 01:21:22,920
Orleans as a possibility and building like a whole festival

1338
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:29,560
around it. I've already I've already pitched my idea. Tyler says,

1339
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:32,640
going to see The Odyssey tomorrow, very excited. Hey, you

1340
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:36,199
should see it in for d X. Let me let

1341
01:21:36,239 --> 01:21:38,520
me know how it is in for d X. Where

1342
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,439
You're on the high seas and the storms and your

1343
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:44,520
seat shaking you around and spraying water in your face.

1344
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,039
I'm glad I didn't see this movie in for d X.

1345
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,880
Dry Chicken says, WWE is like a plain salad meal.

1346
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,800
Alex says brother solo, hope you're doing great. Do you

1347
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:04,680
think WWE should grow a set and allow Cody and

1348
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:11,199
Punk to throw in some direct aw references. It's important

1349
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:19,920
to who for their audience. I mean, why would they

1350
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,600
Why would they encourage them to do that? You and

1351
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:25,640
I would get the references, But in the context of

1352
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:27,760
the story they're trying to tell, how does that enhance

1353
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:33,159
their How does that enhance their Summer Slam match? I

1354
01:22:33,159 --> 01:22:34,640
mean it would get a rise I think out of

1355
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,640
a lot of people in the audience. I think enough

1356
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:38,439
people in the crowd would kind of get it and

1357
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:40,720
they would react to it. But I don't see how

1358
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:45,920
it really sells more tickets, you know, or really helps

1359
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,680
promote the Summer Slam match anymore than you know, like

1360
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:54,600
what they were talking about tonight. Dry Chicken says Sammy's

1361
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,279
A and Niajack should link up ruin SummerSlam and purposely

1362
01:22:58,319 --> 01:23:04,720
interfere in the matches, Hm, Yes, and then they should

1363
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:07,720
turn to each other and passionately start making out in

1364
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,920
the middle of the ring. Here's your Russo swerve. That's

1365
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:13,640
how they go off the air at Summerslim, Sammy and

1366
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:21,239
Naya the pairing you never knew you needed. Hat of

1367
01:23:21,359 --> 01:23:25,720
discipline with a ten dollars super chat, no message, just

1368
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:27,760
showing some love as he did the other night. Hey

1369
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:32,000
hat a nice hat you got there, Thank you, brother

1370
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:36,359
San Juan Wolf with a nineteen ninety nine. Who do

1371
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:40,720
you see replacing Nick Aldos as the SmackDown general manager.

1372
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:44,159
I'd be open to William Regal coming back to an

1373
01:23:44,159 --> 01:23:46,479
authority figure role if he would be up for it.

1374
01:23:47,279 --> 01:23:49,119
I don't think they're replacing him with anybody. I think

1375
01:23:49,119 --> 01:23:51,760
it's just temporary until summer. Slim Wade Barrett used the

1376
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,039
word temporary on commentary tonight, So it's still gonna be

1377
01:23:55,119 --> 01:23:58,640
Nick all this. He's not being brought back as a

1378
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:04,119
full time performer. Regal would be a fine choice if

1379
01:24:04,159 --> 01:24:06,279
there was suddenly an opening, but I don't believe there's

1380
01:24:06,279 --> 01:24:14,640
going to be an opening. Brad. What's going on? Brad?

1381
01:24:15,239 --> 01:24:19,760
Thank you for the ten dollars super chat, Brad, Vermilion

1382
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:29,439
as Sammy's wife scowls tearfully in the crowd while holding

1383
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:36,560
his child. Yes, and she gets in the ring to

1384
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:41,079
try to fight off Nya. Nya gives her the annihilator.

1385
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:53,479
Dry Chickens' wwe is pretty soulless. The Rosters sold their soul. Well,

1386
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:55,560
they're not the only ones who sold their soul this week,

1387
01:24:56,520 --> 01:25:00,119
Cataclysmic says, joke question, when is Solo going to have

1388
01:25:00,159 --> 01:25:05,840
his inaugural match in House of Glory? Real question, chances

1389
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:11,159
of Chelsea Green winning the ladder match. I'm gonna put

1390
01:25:11,199 --> 01:25:14,439
her chances of winning the ladder match at a cool

1391
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:18,199
two percent, which is to say she has no chance

1392
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:24,159
of winning the ladder match. Well, I mean I shouldn't

1393
01:25:24,159 --> 01:25:29,079
say that. Everybody has a chance. The chances are probably

1394
01:25:30,399 --> 01:25:33,159
a lot better that you're gonna get struck by lightning

1395
01:25:33,359 --> 01:25:36,880
three times in the next seven days than Chelsea Green

1396
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:40,439
winning that ladder match. As far as one am I

1397
01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:43,960
gonna have my first match in HOGH, I don't know.

1398
01:25:45,039 --> 01:25:51,720
No one's really pissed me off enough yet. If they did, though, well,

1399
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:59,880
measures would have to be taken. Alex says on that

1400
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:02,680
two dollars super chet clip was sting not aware of

1401
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:06,119
the chair placed behind him when he hit his head.

1402
01:26:07,399 --> 01:26:12,680
I actually think that was I'm trying to remember he

1403
01:26:13,199 --> 01:26:15,319
was wrestling Bobby Root in that clip, right, I think

1404
01:26:15,319 --> 01:26:18,720
that was intentional. I think that was the planned spot.

1405
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,439
I could be wrong. It's just so funny watching it, though.

1406
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:28,319
Vincent Moore Amazon greenlit a sequel for Masters of the Universe.

1407
01:26:28,359 --> 01:26:34,960
Did they I didn't. I wasn't so sure they would. Okay, well,

1408
01:26:35,079 --> 01:26:42,199
I'm happy to hear that. Nick Grosso idea for Dark

1409
01:26:42,239 --> 01:26:44,439
Side of the Ring. What about Art Barr. There's a

1410
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:48,439
story to tell with that guy, the Juicer. Hmm. I

1411
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:51,000
think I've mentioned his name before over the years. When

1412
01:26:51,039 --> 01:26:53,439
I've occasionally, like at the end of each season, I

1413
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:55,880
usually list like I come up with my own list

1414
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:59,439
of like suggested episodes. I always put Larry Sweeney on there,

1415
01:27:00,479 --> 01:27:05,279
Sweet and Sour Larry Sweeney. I've mentioned Art Bar before. Yo,

1416
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:08,920
there's definitely a story there. But I keep coming back

1417
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:12,159
to and again, I could do without hearing about this

1418
01:27:12,199 --> 01:27:16,600
guy is just so disgusting. But if you are looking

1419
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:19,199
for a true Dark Side of the Ring episode, then

1420
01:27:20,079 --> 01:27:23,079
you gotta do an episode on buck Zoom off Rock

1421
01:27:23,119 --> 01:27:27,359
and roll buck zoom off. That's it right there. How

1422
01:27:27,359 --> 01:27:32,199
do you not? How do you not do an episode

1423
01:27:32,199 --> 01:27:39,119
on him? At Grosso says another dark side of the

1424
01:27:39,199 --> 01:27:43,399
ring idea the sexy Star Rosemary incident. I think that

1425
01:27:43,399 --> 01:27:45,600
would be interesting. It also would be interesting if they

1426
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:48,439
can get Rosemary to appear out of character for that.

1427
01:27:51,319 --> 01:27:53,600
I don't know that see that building a whole episode

1428
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:58,920
around that, I think is very unlikely. That one probably

1429
01:27:59,159 --> 01:28:05,000
is a no go Hannah Kamora, That one I think

1430
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:07,760
would be worthy of the dark side treatment, even though

1431
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:12,199
I mean, what really led to her taking her life

1432
01:28:12,399 --> 01:28:14,520
was a lot of criticism that she was getting that

1433
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:18,640
really didn't come from the wrestling community, but she was

1434
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:22,920
a wrestler and it was a very very sad story.

1435
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:33,479
And Joseph Brooks, would you consider why to Jay an

1436
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,920
underrated rival of the Rock? If you think about it,

1437
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:39,439
he could match the Rock on the mic with catch phrases,

1438
01:28:40,199 --> 01:28:42,840
and I think he also has more wins against him.

1439
01:28:44,359 --> 01:28:48,479
Me personally, I don't consider him an underrated rival of

1440
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:51,840
Rock because I rated their feud pretty high and they

1441
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:55,399
had great matches together, So maybe other people would underrate it,

1442
01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:59,479
but I don't. He's not Rock's top rival or anything

1443
01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:04,720
like that. I thought they had a good rivalry. And

1444
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:06,800
also he says, who, in your opinion, are the five

1445
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:12,560
greatest wrestlers to never come to WWE from my five

1446
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:15,319
or Bruiser Brody, Great, Muda, rock and Roll Express, and

1447
01:29:15,399 --> 01:29:22,720
Kenny Omega. It's a good list. That's a good list.

1448
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,279
Brody Brody is a good one. I might put Brody

1449
01:29:26,319 --> 01:29:37,279
on there. Brody and Muda, Kenny. I mean you can

1450
01:29:37,319 --> 01:29:44,199
get into like Kenta Kobashi and you know people like that.

1451
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,840
Kobashi probably should be on that list. And then if

1452
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:49,279
you want to get into the women, I mean you've

1453
01:29:49,319 --> 01:29:54,000
got uh you know, Manami Toyota. I remember watching some

1454
01:29:54,039 --> 01:29:57,720
of her matches on YouTube because Meltzer always talking her up,

1455
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,760
and I will some of her matches the first time

1456
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:05,359
on YouTube. I was like, holy shit, imagine her like

1457
01:30:05,399 --> 01:30:07,760
in the women's division in the last ten years here

1458
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:14,239
in the States. There's just too many to name, and

1459
01:30:14,319 --> 01:30:16,920
to narrow it down to five. I mean, you got

1460
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:19,920
some pretty good names right there. I think Muda, Brody

1461
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:28,960
and Omega are three really good ones. And Muda in

1462
01:30:29,079 --> 01:30:36,520
golden era WWE would have been fun Muda and Sting man,

1463
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:42,199
they had some great matches, all right. So the main

1464
01:30:42,239 --> 01:30:45,800
goal was, as you could see, five hundred at see

1465
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:49,159
I thought it was five fifty five hundred and thirty like.

1466
01:30:49,279 --> 01:30:55,479
So we are currently at five thirty two by thirty two.

1467
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:01,279
You know what that means. That means we're getting two

1468
01:31:01,359 --> 01:31:05,199
rounds of be the booker. Let's do it. I'm excited.

1469
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:10,840
I don't know who we're going to hit it, did

1470
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:14,159
not know if we were going to hit it, but

1471
01:31:14,279 --> 01:31:23,039
we did as we usually do. We begin with a

1472
01:31:23,119 --> 01:31:27,800
tag team match. As Paul Levek, he cowers in fear

1473
01:31:28,119 --> 01:31:33,840
at the mere thought of it. Again. Two sets of

1474
01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:38,840
tag team belts currently not to be defended on either

1475
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:41,479
night of Summer Slim unless they add something with the

1476
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:45,000
Vision and the Alpha Academy, who I believe are having

1477
01:31:45,079 --> 01:31:47,199
a non title match on Raw Monday night. It could

1478
01:31:47,359 --> 01:31:49,800
lead into a title match that gets made for Summer Slim.

1479
01:31:50,199 --> 01:31:52,319
You would think they would want the Vision represented on

1480
01:31:52,359 --> 01:31:59,399
that show. If they do. I'm wondering if they add

1481
01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:02,399
if they have a late edition and put the Vision

1482
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:04,960
on there for the world tag team titles against Alpha Academy,

1483
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:06,840
if that's where we get the return to Bronson Reid.

1484
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:10,560
But right now, as of this moment, we have no

1485
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:14,800
tag team title matches on that show, not even the women's.

1486
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:25,079
We have the Midnight Express Jim Cornett with the Dennis

1487
01:32:25,119 --> 01:32:29,359
Condree and beautiful Bobby Eaton, one of the great Actually,

1488
01:32:29,359 --> 01:32:34,439
you know what Joseph mentioned, the Rock and Roll Express,

1489
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:36,520
I would sub I might sub out the Rock and

1490
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:42,800
Roll Express and put the Midnight Express. As far as

1491
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:52,680
the wrestler Grace wrestlers to never come to WWA, the

1492
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:58,159
Midnight Express are going to be taking on the Gun

1493
01:32:58,199 --> 01:33:04,720
Club Austin and Colton Gunn. I like it because it's

1494
01:33:05,279 --> 01:33:09,800
past and present. Guns have some good athleticism, and I

1495
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:12,640
think them working with a team like the Midnight Express

1496
01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:15,600
would be good for them. That's the kind of team

1497
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:23,960
you want to work with. On the lady's side, we have, uh,

1498
01:33:24,239 --> 01:33:27,079
we were just talking about her. We're going back to

1499
01:33:27,119 --> 01:33:30,560
the glory days of Julia, when Julia was allowed to

1500
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:38,720
be Julia. This is stardom Julia, and we have Stardom

1501
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:47,359
Julia taking on Gail Kim, the former TNA Knockouts champion.

1502
01:33:50,680 --> 01:33:54,039
This is young Gail Kim with that TNA Knockouts title

1503
01:33:54,079 --> 01:34:02,880
over her shoulder and our first of two main events.

1504
01:34:03,399 --> 01:34:08,359
We have New Jack. I don't want to be and

1505
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:10,600
I'm in this. By the way, solom Monster is in

1506
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,319
be the booker. I do not. I want to have

1507
01:34:13,359 --> 01:34:18,720
nothing to do with New Jack. I got no beef

1508
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:23,680
with New Jack. I got no reason to be in

1509
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:31,159
the ring with this man. I don't want no part

1510
01:34:31,159 --> 01:34:43,439
of this. Drew McIntyre against New Jack, have a no

1511
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:52,800
disqualification match in the main event. Just put him in

1512
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:57,560
there with Al Bundy. Al Bundy and New Jack. Oh no,

1513
01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:03,319
that's a tough one. I probably go with Al. Probably

1514
01:35:03,319 --> 01:35:09,880
out in that situation. Okay, Well, we got our first sweep.

1515
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:15,439
We could be looking for the double sweep. We could be.

1516
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:19,760
It all comes down to what these stipulations are going

1517
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:21,680
to be. Our first match is going to be a

1518
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:30,000
barroom brawl, so we're going to get a little wild

1519
01:35:30,079 --> 01:35:32,760
and crazy here. We're going to be outside of our

1520
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:40,600
comfort zone in an actual bar, an Irish pub with

1521
01:35:41,079 --> 01:35:43,600
Jeff Hardy. I don't know that that's the place where

1522
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:46,960
Jeff Hardy should be, but Jeff Hardy is going to

1523
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:57,840
be in the bar, in the barroom brawl. I need

1524
01:35:57,880 --> 01:36:03,479
a good one here. Oh that, I'd say that pretty

1525
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:07,720
much fits the bill. I don't know if the stipulation

1526
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:11,119
really makes sense for these two, but Jeff Hardy against

1527
01:36:11,199 --> 01:36:19,000
Hiroshi Tana Hashi in a barroom brawl. Maybe they could

1528
01:36:19,039 --> 01:36:20,880
just take a seat at the bar and have some

1529
01:36:21,319 --> 01:36:23,039
you know, soda water, and they could just have a

1530
01:36:23,079 --> 01:36:29,760
nice conversation. Jeff Hardy and Hiroshi a ton of Hashi.

1531
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:36,159
I like it. Match number two, we're getting close men

1532
01:36:36,239 --> 01:36:42,560
to that double suite. I like where this is headed.

1533
01:36:44,159 --> 01:36:49,600
An intergender match. These are always very interesting because you

1534
01:36:49,600 --> 01:36:53,600
could literally end up with just so many different possible

1535
01:36:53,640 --> 01:36:56,640
combinations here, and it really makes you think, like, what

1536
01:36:56,640 --> 01:36:58,520
would that match look like if this match were to

1537
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:03,680
have taken place. So we'll pick the woman first, the

1538
01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:10,000
women the woman, the woman in the intergender match is

1539
01:37:10,119 --> 01:37:13,159
going to be Who's that? I don't know who this

1540
01:37:13,239 --> 01:37:18,479
person is. Whatever happened to Mariah May? She was so great. This,

1541
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,840
by the way, is still to this day, in my opinion,

1542
01:37:20,840 --> 01:37:26,800
the greatest ending to a dynamite. The turn on Tony

1543
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:30,600
Storm was just a work of art in terms of

1544
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:33,960
like angles, right, We've had great matches that have closed dynamite.

1545
01:37:35,039 --> 01:37:37,479
Kenny Omega just won a world title on Dynamite a

1546
01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:39,920
few weeks ago to close the show. But this ride here,

1547
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:43,880
to me is my all time number one. So and

1548
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,680
let me tell you, Mariah May again to the men,

1549
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:52,399
this woman, I mean, you put some weapons in her hands.

1550
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:58,000
She'll put up a fight. This could be a fun

1551
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:08,000
one here, Mariah May. Oh my god, Mariah Bay against

1552
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:13,279
Vato Sting. She may put up a fight, but I

1553
01:38:13,279 --> 01:38:19,880
don't know if it's gonna be enough to overcome Vatto Sting.

1554
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:27,119
She turns on some of that charm, though she may

1555
01:38:27,159 --> 01:38:32,279
be able to distract him. Tell me, you wouldn't pay

1556
01:38:32,319 --> 01:38:35,800
money to see that. I'm putting together a much more

1557
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:38,359
interesting card than anything you'll see on these Friday night

1558
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:45,279
slopdown shows. I'll tell you that we technically could have

1559
01:38:45,279 --> 01:38:50,760
gotten that in aw, maybe not Vato Sting. But all right,

1560
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:57,159
we got one last main event and it will be

1561
01:38:58,079 --> 01:39:04,159
a Monster's Ball match Monster's Ball. I guess we're going

1562
01:39:04,199 --> 01:39:07,000
with the all men here for this last round to

1563
01:39:07,039 --> 01:39:09,079
be the booker. I just realized, But that's okay. Actually, no,

1564
01:39:09,119 --> 01:39:13,159
we had the intergender match. I guess we're gonna skip

1565
01:39:13,159 --> 01:39:16,760
the tag teams here. So we got a Monster's Ball.

1566
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:22,079
We're gonna get hardcore in this match with the Mighty Earthquake.

1567
01:39:22,239 --> 01:39:26,800
Look at those guns. The man has muscles on top

1568
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:31,520
of muscles in this image. John Tenta man, what a

1569
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:33,880
what a good guy. They did a Dark Side of

1570
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:36,520
the Ring episode on him, and I was I remember

1571
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:38,520
when they announced it. I'm like, dark Side of the Ring?

1572
01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:43,039
What's so dark? Well? What's dark is? Ye know? The

1573
01:39:43,039 --> 01:39:46,920
way he went out was very unfortunate, but just a

1574
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:50,840
good dude. Just a good dude. I remember him from

1575
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:55,319
the Wrestle Crap forums. He was a good sport about it.

1576
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:58,720
He would engage with people on the message boards in

1577
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:05,359
the community. It was before he got sick. Earthquake. Earthquake

1578
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:14,359
was a favorite of mine. I will say, one of

1579
01:40:14,399 --> 01:40:18,199
those characters from that Golden era period that maybe isn't

1580
01:40:18,199 --> 01:40:20,239
your number one or two or anything like that, but

1581
01:40:22,119 --> 01:40:27,800
a lot of people liked Earthquake. Earthquake and Kenoske to

1582
01:40:28,039 --> 01:40:38,880
Keshta in a Monster's Ball that is the double chime

1583
01:40:39,199 --> 01:40:41,640
for the first time we got the double chime for

1584
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:46,079
the double sweep here and be the booker Earthquake and

1585
01:40:46,119 --> 01:40:51,680
Takeushta Monsters Ball. You know. Earthquake was a legit sumo

1586
01:40:53,960 --> 01:41:00,960
he's a tough guy. I like that match, like that combination.

1587
01:41:02,399 --> 01:41:07,680
I think that would have worked out really well. Mark Bannon.

1588
01:41:08,039 --> 01:41:12,319
What about MASSAUA Dark Side of the Ring? Sure? Again,

1589
01:41:12,399 --> 01:41:13,920
I don't know that it would have the kind of

1590
01:41:13,920 --> 01:41:16,680
broad appeal that some of these other topics would, But

1591
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:24,399
you could do a Missau episode and gold Matthew mount

1592
01:41:24,479 --> 01:41:28,399
rushmore of tag teams in terms of drawing, well, I'd

1593
01:41:28,439 --> 01:41:31,640
have to see the receipts. I mean, the Road Warriors

1594
01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:33,720
would have to be on there. The Road Warriors were

1595
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:36,600
I mean, I would say the Road Warriors are number

1596
01:41:36,600 --> 01:41:40,399
one on a lot of people's lists, So I would

1597
01:41:40,439 --> 01:41:43,239
say the Road Warriors. You talk about drawings, I mean

1598
01:41:43,279 --> 01:41:45,239
you kind of have to put the Rock and Roll Express,

1599
01:41:45,279 --> 01:41:47,159
the Midnight Express on there. How do you not have

1600
01:41:47,199 --> 01:41:49,840
them on there? What about the von Erics, you know,

1601
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:54,680
Danna World Class? How were they not on the list?

1602
01:41:55,319 --> 01:42:00,000
I feel like when it comes to drawing tag teams,

1603
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:06,000
like high drawing tag teams, it's more of a territorial thing.

1604
01:42:07,199 --> 01:42:11,800
I don't know that there's any real individual tag teams

1605
01:42:12,840 --> 01:42:17,199
like in WWE or I mean, you gets it. Maybe

1606
01:42:17,199 --> 01:42:20,399
the Young Bucks in AW especially the early years of

1607
01:42:20,399 --> 01:42:23,800
aaw But like in WWE, I don't know that you

1608
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:26,239
can really look at one tag team as like the

1609
01:42:26,279 --> 01:42:31,840
big drawing tag team. You know what, the Hardys absolutely

1610
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:35,359
belong on that list. And I don't just mean for

1611
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:38,279
like the early part of their career. I'm talking now.

1612
01:42:39,359 --> 01:42:42,319
I see it with my own two eyes. You know,

1613
01:42:42,319 --> 01:42:44,560
there's a reason why they're the House of Glory tag

1614
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,800
Team champions right now. You know, we have the Hardy's

1615
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:52,600
in and I mean even just the meet and Greek

1616
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:56,039
lines before the show, it's out the fucking door, it's

1617
01:42:56,079 --> 01:43:00,520
around the building. There's a reason why they're the tag

1618
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:03,920
team champions in TNA, and they're featured in TNA is

1619
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,520
a main event attraction. Even if you feel like, well,

1620
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:09,279
you know, there's not the hardis of old Well yeah,

1621
01:43:09,319 --> 01:43:11,279
I mean they're a lot older and they're more beat up,

1622
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:14,319
but they can still go in there and play the

1623
01:43:14,399 --> 01:43:17,520
hits and hit their big spots and there's still a draw.

1624
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:20,680
That's why they're in the spot that they're in. So

1625
01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:25,039
the Hardies belong on that list. Whatever position you want

1626
01:43:25,039 --> 01:43:28,760
to put them in, but it doesn't mount rushmore. So

1627
01:43:29,079 --> 01:43:30,960
where on the mountain you want to position them is

1628
01:43:31,039 --> 01:43:36,800
up to you, but they absolutely belong on there, so

1629
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:40,279
good questions. Now, the next time I'm going to be

1630
01:43:40,319 --> 01:43:45,319
with you live you're on the streams is going to

1631
01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:48,560
be on Sunday night, and that is going to be

1632
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:52,840
for the aw redemption review. So when redemption is over,

1633
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:55,640
which hopefully will not be one o'clock in the morning

1634
01:43:56,760 --> 01:43:59,079
like Forbidden Door. Thankfully I did not go live for

1635
01:43:59,119 --> 01:44:02,039
that one, but the pay per view is starting an

1636
01:44:02,039 --> 01:44:05,640
hour earlier, seven Eastern when it's over come on by

1637
01:44:05,680 --> 01:44:08,960
the channel, and we'll talk about redemption. So that'll be

1638
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:12,640
on Sunday night, and then of course back for the

1639
01:44:13,079 --> 01:44:15,840
Raw post show on Monday and all I believe all

1640
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:18,720
of the usual streams Next week right Raw Dynamite SmackDown

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01:44:19,079 --> 01:44:20,920
Sunday will be a brand new episode of the Sound

1642
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:24,720
of nine to seventy three much to discuss a very

1643
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:29,840
busy news week, final predictions for Redemption, we'll talk Summer

1644
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:34,159
Slam as well, all the news of the week, dark

1645
01:44:34,199 --> 01:44:37,720
side of the Ring, probably not Unreal, because I again

1646
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:39,760
I'm not going to be done with it yet. Once

1647
01:44:39,800 --> 01:44:41,720
I'm done with Unreal, I'm sure i'll talk about it,

1648
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:43,720
but that's not going to be this weekend, so just

1649
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:50,560
be aware of that. Ropes and rips, ropes and is

1650
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:52,840
that John? I think it is John ten dollars super

1651
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:55,439
ched up late working on some new themes. Thanks for

1652
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:58,760
staying up late and always doing these. See when you're

1653
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:01,159
up and you have a late work night, you put

1654
01:45:01,159 --> 01:45:06,159
the Solemn Monster on. I'm usually on. I'm streaming almost

1655
01:45:06,239 --> 01:45:08,560
every night of the week at this point, or at

1656
01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:14,800
least it feels that way. So thank you, brother, keep

1657
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:19,640
putting in the work. You do great stuff. Ricky says.

1658
01:45:19,760 --> 01:45:23,520
Next weekend we'll be busy for you. Yeah. God, you know,

1659
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:27,079
it's like WrestleMania all over again. We have two nights

1660
01:45:27,079 --> 01:45:29,439
of Summer Slam. I'll be live both nights and they'll

1661
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:31,000
be a sound off in the middle of it all.

1662
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:36,680
Oh Heaven help me. But this is why we do

1663
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:40,000
what we do, as Paula X says, this is what

1664
01:45:40,039 --> 01:45:43,880
we do. It's what we do, it's what we've chosen

1665
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:46,760
to do. So yeah, we're gonna be super busy with

1666
01:45:46,800 --> 01:45:52,399
Summer Slim next weekend. So get ready. It's gonna be fun.

1667
01:45:53,279 --> 01:45:55,680
Even if Summer Slim is not. You know, you'll have

1668
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:59,279
fun here, all right. Be well, stay safe, have yourselves

1669
01:45:59,319 --> 01:46:02,359
a rate weekend and I will see you for the

1670
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:06,159
sound off episode nine seventy three coming up this Sunday.

1671
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Until then, take care guys.