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Speaker 2: We are winding down on this year. It is almost Christmas.
Speaker 2: Literally next week it is Christmas. So with all of
Speaker 2: that being said, that doesn't mean that wrestling isn't still
Speaker 2: trying to keep our attention and make us ready for
Speaker 2: what's in store for the next year. So yeah, it
Speaker 2: is really cool stuff. So thank you guys so much
Speaker 2: for joining me, and I just cannot wait to get
Speaker 2: into all the things. So last night was a really
Speaker 2: big night in terms of WWE content because they did
Speaker 2: have their first Saturday Night's main event for the first
Speaker 2: time in a couple of years, and it was really great.
Speaker 2: They were advertising it, of course at the Nassau Coliseum
Speaker 2: in New York and Long Island, and it was their
Speaker 2: first time having it, but they weren't trying to turn
Speaker 2: it into like this new show type of thing that
Speaker 2: we're trying to pay tribute to the past and give
Speaker 2: us more of what's going on into the future, while
Speaker 2: also paying tribute to where it once was, and for
Speaker 2: it to be a retro show with the newer stars
Speaker 2: and everything, it still felt really current and I really
Speaker 2: liked it. So of course this aired yesterday on NBC
Speaker 2: and streamed on Peacock, And of course if you were
Speaker 2: looking for that TV feeling, you could definitely watch it
Speaker 2: on NBC, but I just chose to stream it on
Speaker 2: Peacock because I'm just you know, old habits die hard.
Speaker 2: But of course, as the show goes on, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, what happened on the show and
Speaker 2: recap it a bit, and then if you're watching live,
Speaker 2: you can just tell me all of what you felt
Speaker 2: about the show, how you felt about the bookings of things,
Speaker 2: how you felt about the matches, and then you might
Speaker 2: wind up on the screen. So let's get into Saturday
Speaker 2: night's main event, which took place last night. Freaking EO
Speaker 2: Sky versus Live Morgan turned out to be a banger
Speaker 2: of a match, because y'all know, I got to talk
Speaker 2: about my women first, because ladies first. EO Sky and
Speaker 2: Live Morgan both surprised me at the very beginning of
Speaker 2: this match because these are two women who normally come
Speaker 2: out with their stable in terms of the judgment day
Speaker 2: and also in terms of damage control, but this time
Speaker 2: they decided to tell to tell their perspective people to
Speaker 2: back off and just let us do this on our own.
Speaker 2: And they were like, okay, fine, you sure, let's go,
Speaker 2: and Eo wound up, you know, fighting out there without
Speaker 2: damage control, and Live defended her title without Raquel and
Speaker 2: without dirty dom and this this was very refreshing for
Speaker 2: a change, because Laurd knows we've been so used in
Speaker 2: condition to seeing Live come out with her insurance policy
Speaker 2: and this definitely helped the match, and it helped both
Speaker 2: of these women stand on their own. These women put
Speaker 2: on a banger of a match. Eosky really gave the
Speaker 2: very best that she could to Live Morgan with her
Speaker 2: double knees as you can see in the picture over there,
Speaker 2: and also with a lot of her aerial move set.
Speaker 2: But there was a point where Live actually targeted her
Speaker 2: leg a bit and tried to wear her down, and
Speaker 2: then there was this really really rough spot where Eo
Speaker 2: actually need gave a knee strike to Live in the face,
Speaker 2: almost to the point to where a lot of viewers
Speaker 2: were almost scared that Liv's nose was broken, but they
Speaker 2: reported that it isn't broken and that she's fine. It
Speaker 2: was just a really hard hit and yet her nose
Speaker 2: was bleeding, but she fought through all of that in
Speaker 2: order to retain Hit the Oblivion and retain her Women's
Speaker 2: World Championship. And as someone who has been a huge,
Speaker 2: huge I've been very critical of Live always using dirty
Speaker 2: dim in order to as a distraction to sort of
Speaker 2: win her matches. I was really happy to see that
Speaker 2: she decided to show up for someone like Eo Sky,
Speaker 2: who is an icon in Japanese women's wrestling, and fight
Speaker 2: and fight her on her own merit and defend her
Speaker 2: title on her own merit, because it just seemed like
Speaker 2: for every person she has fought for that title, she
Speaker 2: is always just she is always cheated in order to win.
Speaker 2: But this time she did it and it was really
Speaker 2: refreshing to see that. Vaughn in the chat watching on Facebook,
Speaker 2: thank you for watching, saying Saturday Night's main event was
Speaker 2: great and Live Morgan critic Yeah, I was a Live
Speaker 2: Morgan critic, especially with the choices that she made this year,
Speaker 2: even though it helped her get to the top. It's
Speaker 2: just the principle of the fact that you know, you
Speaker 2: went through all this stole you know, Rea Ripley's boyfriend
Speaker 2: and her group and all of that, just so you can,
Speaker 2: you know, call yourself the greatest women's world champion, even
Speaker 2: though there's only been three. But whatever. Either way, Live
Speaker 2: Morgan retained her title in a very cool fashion. I
Speaker 2: love the fact that she did it all by herself,
Speaker 2: so as she was celebrating, you know, and made her
Speaker 2: interest back up the ramp, we hear this is my
Speaker 2: brutality and outcomes Ria Ripley staring her down. And usually
Speaker 2: this would be where Dominic or where maybe a Raquel
Speaker 2: would get in her face and tell Ria to back off,
Speaker 2: or maybe Live would just run away from her or whatever.
Speaker 2: But this time they just both stared at each other,
Speaker 2: just stare at each other down as if to say,
Speaker 2: I see you, I've gotten next. Because of course, Riha
Speaker 2: did penn Live as Survivor series war games after crashing
Speaker 2: her through the table, So definitely Rhea Ripley has next,
Speaker 2: and now we can do this without all the distractions,
Speaker 2: because I've beat up on Dominic at Bad Blood like
Speaker 2: a pinata. I destroyed Raquel this past week on rob
Speaker 2: which we will get into later on the show. So
Speaker 2: now there is no more glass ceiling, there are no
Speaker 2: more people for me to go through. It's time for
Speaker 2: me to fight you for the title that I want.
Speaker 2: And she stated in an interview with Jackie Redman and
Speaker 2: with Peter Rosenberg after the show that she is ready,
Speaker 2: you know, to get her title back, and that she
Speaker 2: can't change what happened in the past at SummerSlam, and
Speaker 2: she can't change what happened with Judgment Day, but she
Speaker 2: can change the fact that she isn't the Women's World Champion.
Speaker 2: And I'm definitely here for because their feud is a
Speaker 2: lot more heated and a lot more bloodthirsty and a
Speaker 2: lot more angry than oh you took my boyfriend, Like.
Speaker 2: There's more to it than that, and I'm really glad
Speaker 2: that they are possibly about to explore more of this
Speaker 2: without the distractions of the whole boyfriend thing. So I'm
Speaker 2: really pumped about where this is gonna go. I'm ready
Speaker 2: for Riha to get back her things, and I'm just
Speaker 2: ready to sort of see this version of the Josement
Speaker 2: day sort of just crackle up. But we'll get more
Speaker 2: into that later too. So yeah, that was awesome. Also
Speaker 2: in terms of the women, you had Nietzschen, Me and
Speaker 2: m going up against Chelsea Green to become the inaugural
Speaker 2: Women's United States Champion. And if it's one thing I
Speaker 2: did share a lot of on social media yesterday is
Speaker 2: the fact that I love both of these women so
Speaker 2: much and appreciate them and everything that they've given in
Speaker 2: their careers for women's wrestling. I saw the first time
Speaker 2: I saw me Andam was at the May Young Classic,
Speaker 2: and her story just really resonated with me, and I
Speaker 2: just love the idea, of course, that she is a
Speaker 2: black woman standing in her truth and being really strong
Speaker 2: and beautiful the way that she is, and also being
Speaker 2: an Asian woman in that way as well. So just
Speaker 2: seeing her representing who she is in this type of
Speaker 2: match while also representing what HBCU she attended, because the
Speaker 2: letterman jacket that she had on represented Virginia Union University,
Speaker 2: which is UH, which is which is an HBCU I
Speaker 2: had never heard of up until this point, and that's
Speaker 2: no shade because of course there are so many HBCUs,
Speaker 2: especially even here in the state of Alabama, but I
Speaker 2: had just never heard of Virginia Union, and the fact
Speaker 2: that she was out here representing them is just really amazing.
Speaker 2: I feel like HBCUs have had a stellar year when
Speaker 2: it comes to wrestling over the past couple of years,
Speaker 2: even with Bianca bell Air and with Cody Rhodes at
Speaker 2: with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and even
Speaker 2: now with this form of representation from Nia. It was
Speaker 2: just really really cool to see her represent them in
Speaker 2: that way, and it just goes to show you HBCUs
Speaker 2: creates greatness. They create all forms of greatness, even in
Speaker 2: the world of professional wrestling. So I'm really happy for
Speaker 2: Mia and what she represented here. And she also shared
Speaker 2: a picture of herself, you know, on the volleyball team
Speaker 2: at Virginia Union, so this was really beautiful. But as
Speaker 2: the match proceeded to go on, as both women fought
Speaker 2: tooth and nail, and even as Piper Niven tried to,
Speaker 2: you know, interfere with the match and everything, Chelsea Green
Speaker 2: was able to come out on top on her own
Speaker 2: as the victor and become the first ever women's United
Speaker 2: States champion after hitting Nia Yim with the un with
Speaker 2: a with an un Prettier from the top rope. Like
Speaker 2: if you were to go back and watch Saturday Night's
Speaker 2: main event and see the way that she executed that
Speaker 2: I'm prettier from the top rope, it was really smooth
Speaker 2: and sick because it looked like Mia had her you know,
Speaker 2: dead to rights on the top rope, but then Chelsea
Speaker 2: reversed it, hit that up Prettier got the one, two, three,
Speaker 2: and one. This made me so happy because if you've
Speaker 2: been watching wrestling over the past ten years, you've seen
Speaker 2: Chelsea Green off and on in so many different iterations
Speaker 2: of her character, of other characters and all the above.
Speaker 2: Like I said on social media, the first time I
Speaker 2: ever saw her was when she played the nurse who
Speaker 2: was supposedly in an affair with Brian Danielson. He was
Speaker 2: in WWE not knowing that she was even a wrestler.
Speaker 2: And then of course she came through tough enough and
Speaker 2: wound up, you know, getting eliminated in the in the
Speaker 2: more recent season, and then she wound up fighting her
Speaker 2: way to NXT, being a part of Robert the Robert
Speaker 2: Stone brand, and then getting called up and then getting released,
Speaker 2: and then making the best of this situation by going
Speaker 2: back to TNA and doing lots of other indie wrestling
Speaker 2: things and then coming back to wrestling in WWE. So
Speaker 2: in this entire year, I would also say she's been
Speaker 2: an MVP because her entire personality and all of her
Speaker 2: cookiness and craziness and sense of humor stuff has definitely
Speaker 2: given us some really memorable moments. I will never forget
Speaker 2: being at Money in the Bank and not only getting
Speaker 2: to ask her a question in the presser, well not
Speaker 2: in the presser, but in the media day when we
Speaker 2: got to interview some of the wrestlers and just seeing
Speaker 2: her sort of just soak up getting all of that
Speaker 2: attention from so many different media people asking her question
Speaker 2: after question like she was just the star. It was
Speaker 2: just really funny. Then to seeing her getting smashed through
Speaker 2: a table by Tiffany Stratton in the Money in the
Speaker 2: Bank ladder match, like a lot of us have been
Speaker 2: rooting for her to get an opportunity like this for
Speaker 2: such a long time, So the idea that she actually
Speaker 2: has it now and she's the first women's United States Champion.
Speaker 2: It's just really hilarious. And then you had Nick Aldis
Speaker 2: put the title on her and everything, and he congratulated
Speaker 2: her on social media only to say, God help us
Speaker 2: all because you know, she's about to be super duper extra.
Speaker 2: And the extra didn't even stop there because the gear
Speaker 2: that she wrestled in last night were all pictures of herself,
Speaker 2: from the hat all the way down to her half
Speaker 2: pants to her half pants half shorts. So Chelsea Green
Speaker 2: was the right choice. Actually, there would not have been
Speaker 2: a wrong choice if Nia had woned, but either way,
Speaker 2: Chelsea miss ma'am definitely deserved it after everything she's gone through.
Speaker 2: This is her first singles title n WWE, and I'm
Speaker 2: just so happy to see her get her things. So
Speaker 2: congratulations to Chelsea Green. You've made women's wrestling history and
Speaker 2: you are now the first ever Women's United States Champion.
Speaker 2: And of course, she has a T shirt that actually
Speaker 2: has her an image of her as the Statue of
Speaker 2: Liberty with the words with the word Chelsea all down
Speaker 2: behind her Statue of Liberty and it's just really cute,
Speaker 2: So big ups to her for that. I am so
Speaker 2: happy for her, and I can't wait to see more
Speaker 2: of what me and him has to offer, because even
Speaker 2: though she might not be the first, she could be
Speaker 2: the second, or she could be the third. You never know.
Speaker 2: I did not mean for those balloons to happen, but
Speaker 2: either way, she could be the third. You just never know.
Speaker 2: But I'm really happy for Chelsea now if we go
Speaker 2: to the men. I was very surprised that Drew McIntyre
Speaker 2: was able to catch Sammy's ain't slipping' with the Claymore
Speaker 2: kick and actually having him win the match. This was
Speaker 2: how Saturday Nights main events started. This match was pretty
Speaker 2: good and very hard hitting, because you know Sammy is
Speaker 2: gonna give his all. But I was just really really
Speaker 2: surprised that Drew one. But then again, how could you
Speaker 2: not be surprised because he definitely has an extra grind
Speaker 2: since the last time we saw him in a WWE
Speaker 2: ring competing was at Hell and the Cell and against
Speaker 2: seeing Punk at Bad Blood, so he really is focused
Speaker 2: on trying to get revenge on those on those who
Speaker 2: cost him, you know, his opportunities at the title, even
Speaker 2: though it's not seeing Punk this time, he's targeting the
Speaker 2: Bloodline because he also targeted jay Uso as well, So
Speaker 2: it's just really interesting to see another level of a
Speaker 2: spiteful Drew McIntyre. I was it was interesting. Then they
Speaker 2: also gave an interesting stat that Sammy's ain has never
Speaker 2: won a match against Drew McIntyre, so now he's o
Speaker 2: in two against Drew and that was just really interesting
Speaker 2: to know. But oof, yeah Drew is back and he's
Speaker 2: ready to recavoc on all of our faves again, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I just don't know. Then we had the triple threat
Speaker 2: match for the World Heavyweight title involving Wunter, Finnbaler, and
Speaker 2: Damien Priest. I'm not gonna lie. I A part of
Speaker 2: me really wanted Damien Priest to win this title back
Speaker 2: because he's Damien. But Gunter basically has like a stranglehold
Speaker 2: on the title, especially now since he's been dealing with
Speaker 2: an attack of confidence, like he's just having a huge
Speaker 2: crisis of confidence right now and he's just trying to
Speaker 2: prove that he really is the guy that he has
Speaker 2: been for the past few years. And the fact that
Speaker 2: you know, he was able to come out on top
Speaker 2: and retain his title was really cool. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: going to you're still a champion. I wasn't too mad
Speaker 2: at that because he's just a big bad like at
Speaker 2: this point, like even though a lot of people feel
Speaker 2: that he's not the big bad that he used to
Speaker 2: be when he was Walter in the UK scene, to me,
Speaker 2: I feel like they've been building him up to be
Speaker 2: this big bad you know, ever since he won the
Speaker 2: IC title and held onto it for you know, over
Speaker 2: six hundred days, and then now he's the world heavyweight
Speaker 2: champion and it seems that nobody can really beat him,
Speaker 2: beat him. But then you also have Finn thrown in
Speaker 2: the mix, and he could have just so easily cheated
Speaker 2: with the judgment day as well, but he didn't do
Speaker 2: that either, and he wanted to try and do it
Speaker 2: on his own. So I do wonder how that conversation
Speaker 2: is gonna go on Monday when, you know, because he
Speaker 2: was the one who was trying to tell Live that
Speaker 2: they need to follow his advice, you know, so he can,
Speaker 2: you know, so they can be successful. But Live wound
Speaker 2: up winning and retaining her title, whereas he couldn't get
Speaker 2: the job done. So I don't know, but either way,
Speaker 2: this match was pretty good too. I enjoyed it, and Gunch,
Speaker 2: You're still the champion, so I'm not too mad at that.
Speaker 2: And then, of course, when it comes to the nostalgia
Speaker 2: of Saturday Night's main event, I have to give props
Speaker 2: to Jessie the Body Ventura. Even though I wasn't a
Speaker 2: during his first go round as a broadcaster and as
Speaker 2: a wrestler because I wasn't born yet, I do respect
Speaker 2: the fact that he was out here doing the things
Speaker 2: last night and bringing the nostalgia vibes. His voice is
Speaker 2: still very much intact to a degree, and I loved
Speaker 2: hearing him right next to Joe test Tour and the
Speaker 2: show started with Joe Testitur's voice over, and his voice
Speaker 2: fit perfectly for the retro style of Saturday Night's main event.
Speaker 2: Joe is very current, but he sounds very professional in
Speaker 2: the way that a Gorilla Monsoon would sound, or the
Speaker 2: way that Jesse sounded back in the day, or the
Speaker 2: way that Bobby he didn't sound it back in the day.
Speaker 2: So his voice definitely fit the vibes of the show.
Speaker 2: And the fact that Jesse came out here with a
Speaker 2: snake skin coat along with all of these boas, which
Speaker 2: is really funny for me, So big ups to these guys,
Speaker 2: and also big ups to Joe Testator for having on
Speaker 2: that red bow to pay tribute to Mean Jane because
Speaker 2: me and Jane was one of my favorites growing up
Speaker 2: when he was on w W Confidential, and I just
Speaker 2: grew to respect him more the more I watched older
Speaker 2: stuff with my dad, and I know that if Mean
Speaker 2: Jane were here, he would have been there with bells on.
Speaker 2: So it was just, you know, really nice to see
Speaker 2: him pay tribute to him. And then of course you
Speaker 2: have the other wrestling stars of the past that were there,
Speaker 2: like Cocoa be Ware, Greg the Hammer, Valentine and so
Speaker 2: many others. It was just and Jess and Jimmy Hart.
Speaker 2: That was really cool too, So I love it. Katerina Hey,
Speaker 2: thank you for watching, saying as a photographer and a broadcaster,
Speaker 2: I loved the aesthetic of it all. Kept it in
Speaker 2: the essence of the original. They really did. And then
Speaker 2: I loved that they had the barricades out, but they
Speaker 2: weren't like the regular barricades that they have out for
Speaker 2: every show. They had like the barred barricades and that
Speaker 2: was really cool too. And then I loved it. They
Speaker 2: had the security out there to protect this because y'all know,
Speaker 2: us fans can get real ratchet. We can get real
Speaker 2: ratchet and jump on people, you know, and be all
Speaker 2: hyperactive or whatever, so you know, protect the superstars. But
Speaker 2: I love the nostalgia field. And then of course with
Speaker 2: the intro, they had it come on with an old
Speaker 2: school television and the old school theme song that they
Speaker 2: had called Obsession. You're my Obsession, So that was cool too,
Speaker 2: So I liked it. It was really amazing. I love
Speaker 2: the nostalgia of it all. So yeah, Katerina is saying
Speaker 2: I wanted the ratchet. No, you can't have the ratchet.
Speaker 2: We can't have the ratchet all the time. Okay, we can't.
Speaker 2: We have to protect the superstars. We have to protect them.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, as Jesse the Body, Ventur made more
Speaker 2: of his presence. Felt he was a special guest commentator
Speaker 2: alongside Michael Cole and Pat McAfee. And I was happy
Speaker 2: to see Pat McAfee back because every time I watch
Speaker 2: ESPN College Game Day and watch him be all crazy
Speaker 2: and stuff on there, I'd just be like, man, I
Speaker 2: wanted him back on wrestling, and he came back for
Speaker 2: one night, and of course college football isn't over just yet,
Speaker 2: So in the midst of all of this, I was
Speaker 2: really happy to have him back, and then to have
Speaker 2: him sit him and Michael Cole sit next to Jesse,
Speaker 2: the body of Ventura, who gave you know, such personality
Speaker 2: during his time as you know, a commentator. It was
Speaker 2: just a great mashup of the past and the present,
Speaker 2: and I just really appreciated it. Then what was so
Speaker 2: funny was Jesse was being so much of a heel commentator,
Speaker 2: like I almost wish that he was sitting next to
Speaker 2: Corey Graves instead, because Corey Graves is, whether people like
Speaker 2: it or not, he tends to be he tends to
Speaker 2: fall more so on the heel side more than any
Speaker 2: other side. So if it would have been entertaining if
Speaker 2: Michael Cole was right there in between Corey and Jesse,
Speaker 2: but it was okay. I guess they just brought Pat
Speaker 2: McAfee in because he's Pat and I don't and I
Speaker 2: don't hate that at all. And Jesse was just out
Speaker 2: there giving all the heel vibes, talking about how he
Speaker 2: was on Kevin Owens's side and all of the above.
Speaker 2: So that was hilarious. So this was cool, and then
Speaker 2: we have the main event involving Ko and Cody Rhodes,
Speaker 2: and Cody made me happy on one end, but then
Speaker 2: disappointed me on the other because he came back. He
Speaker 2: made his interest with the Winged Eagle title, and I
Speaker 2: love championship built as you can see back there. I
Speaker 2: love championship titles. So the fact that on this ventage show,
Speaker 2: on this throwback show, they actually had him wearing the
Speaker 2: Winged Eagle, I was very excited about that. I was
Speaker 2: really crunk about that. I was like, oh, Snappy's out
Speaker 2: there with the thing. And then it was amazing how
Speaker 2: they lift how the referee, Charles Robinson lifted it up.
Speaker 2: And it was also amazing to see him be a
Speaker 2: part of that because he's been at a referee for
Speaker 2: WW for so long, so the idea that this is
Speaker 2: now in the present, he's able to lift up that
Speaker 2: title for these future stars was amazing too. So I
Speaker 2: was really excited about that part, but Cody disappointed me
Speaker 2: a little bit with the way that he retained his championship.
Speaker 2: Of course, Kevin Owens was out here acting all kinds
Speaker 2: of buck in this match. I will definitely say that,
Speaker 2: and he was acting soa buck that he brought in
Speaker 2: a steel chair to try to pull the trigger on
Speaker 2: Cody the way that he didn't at Bash in Berlin.
Speaker 2: But Cody, as a babyface, you could have pushed the
Speaker 2: chair out of the way and just hit the Crossroads
Speaker 2: regular on the mat and laid him out one, two three.
Speaker 2: He didn't do that. He used a steel chair and
Speaker 2: hit the crossroads onto Kevin Owens and then wanted to
Speaker 2: match in the midst of all the shenanigans with the
Speaker 2: referees and everything. That was crazy too, but Cody literally
Speaker 2: took an evil route in order to retain his title.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was because he was just
Speaker 2: angry with Kevin or he just felt like that was
Speaker 2: the only way he could have took him out. But
Speaker 2: that really surprised me because when it happened, I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, Cody, hold on, you're my babyface
Speaker 2: and I love you right now, but Sweetie, that no, no,
Speaker 2: why are we doing this? It was really interesting and
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if they're gonna bring it up later on
Speaker 2: this week, But that disappointed me. I was just like,
Speaker 2: my babyface, hero, what's going on. Why are we having
Speaker 2: an identity crisis? What's going on? Why are we using
Speaker 2: chairs when you could have got the job done the
Speaker 2: other way. I don't know, but this did make me sad.
Speaker 2: Ugh it was Oh it was crazy. And then on
Speaker 2: top of that, it got even crazier after the cameras
Speaker 2: went off because as Cody was celebrating and as he
Speaker 2: was about to get on the microphone and talk to
Speaker 2: the people like he tends to do, Kevin Owens hit
Speaker 2: Cody with an illegal move. He hit him with the
Speaker 2: pile driver. He hit him with this pile driver and
Speaker 2: knocked him out landing on his booty, which is what
Speaker 2: you're not supposed to do, and then stepped all over
Speaker 2: him when he was on the stretcher and took the
Speaker 2: winged eagle belt away from him. And in the midst
Speaker 2: of all of this, Kevin also got to fighting with
Speaker 2: Triple H the CCO. He got to fighting with Triple
Speaker 2: Ah and got into a shoven match with him. This
Speaker 2: all happened off came But of course I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: seen it online by now. But oh my god, this
Speaker 2: version of Kevin always is really just taking people out.
Speaker 2: He took out Randy. Now he's taking out Cody and
Speaker 2: now he's carrying around the title now and it is
Speaker 2: just a mess. It is a mess. He is angry,
Speaker 2: he is surly, he is spiteful. This version of Kevin
Speaker 2: has really lost it and you hate to see it.
Speaker 2: But this is what I guess he feels. He's been
Speaker 2: pushed too, so I don't know, but either way, Saturday
Speaker 2: Night's main event was fantastic. I enjoyed it, and of
Speaker 2: course the next time they're having it, they will be
Speaker 2: having it in Texas, and I think they're having it
Speaker 2: in January, later on in January before the World Rumble,
Speaker 2: so it's gonna be really cool. I enjoy it, so yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be cool. But before we finish the Saturday
Speaker 2: Nights main event talked is something interesting that happened this
Speaker 2: week that I have to talk about. So if you've
Speaker 2: been listening to me talk wrestling on this show for
Speaker 2: the past almost five years, you know that something that
Speaker 2: I love more than anything in this world is wrestling
Speaker 2: in my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. I have been pushing
Speaker 2: and actively manifesting for a ple a WWPL to take
Speaker 2: place in Birmingham because another anniversary has passed. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the last PLI that we had here in Birmingham,
Speaker 2: which was Armageddon two thousand. It's been twenty four years
Speaker 2: since arma getting in two thousand to this day. That
Speaker 2: is the only PL that has taken place in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 2: Since then. We've only gotten raws, smackdowns, mostly smackdowns, a
Speaker 2: couple of raws thrown in there, and some house shows.
Speaker 2: And I really feel that with all the growth that
Speaker 2: Birmingham has had over the past ten years and even now,
Speaker 2: I feel like we are worthy to have a PL.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily a Big four PL because those are sort
Speaker 2: of reserved for larger, larger cities, but a POL nonetheless.
Speaker 2: And so I tweeted that I pretend that I'm okay,
Speaker 2: but deep down inside I want to stop counting down
Speaker 2: the years since there has been a WWEPL in the
Speaker 2: city of Birmingham. And I tweeted, let's bring Saturday Night's
Speaker 2: main event to Birmingham with a picture of the skyline
Speaker 2: and all the above, and the Birmingham City Council, who
Speaker 2: I didn't even know had a Twitter. I did not
Speaker 2: know the Birmingham City Council had a Twitter, they responded
Speaker 2: because I tagged the City of Birmingham Government's Twitter page
Speaker 2: in it and they said same Stephanie. Same at WW
Speaker 2: When I saw this at work, when I tell y'all,
Speaker 2: I was gagged. I was like, hold on, so you
Speaker 2: mean to tell me if the Birmingham City Council has
Speaker 2: a Twitter? And not only do they have a Twitter,
Speaker 2: they responded to me talking about a pay per view
Speaker 2: in Birmingham. What this gagged me? And then on top
Speaker 2: of that, not only did I tag WWE and the
Speaker 2: City of Birmingham, I also tagged The Rock And the
Speaker 2: reason why I did that is because The Rock is
Speaker 2: not only on the board of directors for WWE now
Speaker 2: along with TKO, he also is the co owner of
Speaker 2: our football team, the UFL champions, the Birmingham Stallions. So
Speaker 2: in the midst of that, economically it could make sense
Speaker 2: for us to have a pl and if we don't
Speaker 2: have one, we could have a Saturday Nights main event,
Speaker 2: we could have an NXT event. Either way, give Birmingham
Speaker 2: something and this was an amazing advancement in this. I
Speaker 2: don't because considering this happened on a Friday, I hope
Speaker 2: that maybe somewhere down the road once the holidays are over.
Speaker 2: I don't know how this can be pursued. I don't
Speaker 2: know what I need to do at this point, but
Speaker 2: I just know that this was an amazing advancement, you know,
Speaker 2: the idea that the City Council of Birmingham responded to it, Like,
Speaker 2: excuse me, I've been tweeting about a Birmingham pl for years.
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for years. This is the very
Speaker 2: first time the City Council of Birmingham has responded to it,
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy about that. So we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens within the next year. But this was amazing and
Speaker 2: I am still pushing and manifesting for a pl to
Speaker 2: take place here because I just feel like us as
Speaker 2: a city, you know, we have our ups and downs,
Speaker 2: but we deserve nice things. We absolutely deserve nice things,
Speaker 2: and that's a nice thing that we deserve and hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll get it. Hopefully we will get it within the
Speaker 2: next few years. So I just had to share that
Speaker 2: little tippit. Let's push for a Saturday Nights main event
Speaker 2: in Birmingham. Please please, please please please wwe please. So yeah,
Speaker 2: So that's the end of my Saturday Nights main event talk,
Speaker 2: and now we're going to move into what I liked
Speaker 2: in wrestling this week. So now I know a lot
Speaker 2: of the stuff that I'm gonna talk about right now
Speaker 2: took place before Saturday Nights main event, So I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna put that little disclaimer out there, but I just
Speaker 2: have to discuss and do like a recap of what
Speaker 2: I liked. So I was very surprised on Monday Night
Speaker 2: Raw to see Live fighting Dakota Kai because of course,
Speaker 2: Dakota Kai is moving forward in the tournament for the
Speaker 2: Women's Intercontinental Championship, so to see her having a match
Speaker 2: against Live Morgan like this was really interesting. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't too far off the beaten path logically, because of
Speaker 2: course Dakota is attached to EO and Live had to
Speaker 2: fight EO Saturday, so it wasn't too much. But something
Speaker 2: that did irritate me was the fact that as liv
Speaker 2: was fighting Dakota, she decided that she wanted to try
Speaker 2: the Three Amigos. And I'm sitting here like this gentrified
Speaker 2: Three Amigos really needs to sit down between her and
Speaker 2: Logan Paul. Y'all just don't need to do it. No, more.
Speaker 2: It's not fun, y'all stop it. Just stop it. Y'all
Speaker 2: think that just because y'all are in vicinity of these people,
Speaker 2: y'all can just do it. And I understand they do
Speaker 2: it to make us mad. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: I just be like, girl, just stop, just stop. And
Speaker 2: she didn't even do it. And she did it, but
Speaker 2: she didn't do it all the way because of course
Speaker 2: Dakota stopped her. But I was just like, okay, girl, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: we get it. And yeah, she wanted the match and everything,
Speaker 2: but then of course it ended in chaos like it
Speaker 2: tends to do. So yeah, this was a very interesting
Speaker 2: matchup for me, but I still thought it was it
Speaker 2: kind of it was. It was weird, but I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: here we are, they're fighting. That's cool, let's go. And
Speaker 2: Dakota did a heck of a job. And I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see how much further she goes in the
Speaker 2: Women's IC title tournament. Now that we have now crowned
Speaker 2: the US champion, so it's gonna be interesting. Now we
Speaker 2: get to the first round match that took place on
Speaker 2: Monday nightra between Lyra Valkyria ivy Nle and my girls,
Speaker 2: Alena Vega. This triple thread match was really good and
Speaker 2: I was definitely pushing if you watched my last episode,
Speaker 2: I was pushing for Zelena Vega to actually be given
Speaker 2: an opportunity to move forward in the tournament. She did
Speaker 2: a great job with her talent and with everything that
Speaker 2: she had going on. But in the end, Lyra Valkyria
Speaker 2: won by hitting her night wing onto Ivy Nile, and
Speaker 2: Zelena was not pinned. So we do still have that
Speaker 2: notion of the fact that she still looks strong in
Speaker 2: the sense that she wasn't pinned. But I was still
Speaker 2: very disappointed in the fact that she wasn't going forward,
Speaker 2: and it was so sad because she got on Twitter
Speaker 2: and apologized to the face she said sorry, and I'm
Speaker 2: just like, girl, don't apologize. You did the very best
Speaker 2: you could do, and I don't need you feeling sorry
Speaker 2: for yourself, because miss ma'am, you fought tooth and nail
Speaker 2: against Ivy Nile, who was like a stellar athlete, and
Speaker 2: against Lyra Valkyria, who's a former NX Women's champion. Like,
Speaker 2: do not feel sorry about anything. I could say so
Speaker 2: many other things, but I would just rather say that
Speaker 2: Zelena Vega is someone who is worthy of having more opportunities,
Speaker 2: and I just don't want to see her lose over
Speaker 2: and over again because we know that she is capable
Speaker 2: of having great matches with anyone, even with people who
Speaker 2: are bigger than her, like you know, rear Ripley, like
Speaker 2: she did in back Backlash two years ago. It's like,
Speaker 2: we know she's capable, but they just won't give her
Speaker 2: the ball. And it's just like, when are y'all gonna
Speaker 2: let this girl break out of being a manager, break
Speaker 2: out of being you know, just an LWO member. She
Speaker 2: shows you time and time again that she has the charisma,
Speaker 2: she has athleticism, she has to crossover, appeal into different fandoms.
Speaker 2: What more does she have to do to prove herself?
Speaker 2: And it's just and it makes my heart hurt. But
Speaker 2: we're not gonna give up hope. We're gonna keep hope
Speaker 2: alive from my girl because she deserves it. Zelena is
Speaker 2: everything and y'all just need to stop playing with her.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this made me a little sad, but Zelena
Speaker 2: is still my girl regardless, and I just can't wait
Speaker 2: to see how she'll move forward. So yeah, that's all
Speaker 2: I had to say about that. And then with the women,
Speaker 2: you also had rear Ripley and Raquel finding it in
Speaker 2: anything goes match in the main event of Raw, which
Speaker 2: was the first of three main event shows, three main
Speaker 2: events on all of the TV shows this week. It
Speaker 2: was insane, but this match was really crazy. They were
Speaker 2: throwing trash cans at each other, you know, murdering each
Speaker 2: other on the commentary desk, and finally, of course, rear
Speaker 2: Ripley put Raquel through the table in order to win
Speaker 2: the match, hence why Raquel didn't really like buck up
Speaker 2: at her on Saturday. So this match was fantastic. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed the craziness of it, and here again women in
Speaker 2: the main event is always a good thing. And of
Speaker 2: course having that parallel tou Trish and Lyda just celebrating
Speaker 2: their anniversary last week of when they main event in
Speaker 2: Raw for the first time was just great. So I
Speaker 2: enjoyed this match very much. It was the battle of
Speaker 2: the big mamas, and Rio wound up on top because
Speaker 2: Mommy's always on top, and it was great. So Riha
Speaker 2: is our dominant queen of life and I just can't
Speaker 2: wait to see her get her title back. Like I'm
Speaker 2: ready for it all. So yeah, now when it comes
Speaker 2: to the men on raw, CM Punk had a sit
Speaker 2: down interview with Jackie Redman, which started off with her,
Speaker 2: you know, wanting to ask a very important question, and
Speaker 2: he started off by saying, look, if it's about the
Speaker 2: Chicago Black Hearts and Hawks, I'm gonna fight you. And
Speaker 2: she said, no, it's about something a little bit more important,
Speaker 2: and he started laughing because they're hockey buddies. So she
Speaker 2: asked him, you know what was what is the deal
Speaker 2: that he's worked out with Paul Hayman, And of course
Speaker 2: he's keeping that on the hush hush. But one thing
Speaker 2: that he didn't keep on the hush hush was his
Speaker 2: feelings about seth Rawlins. And when asked about seth Rawlins,
Speaker 2: he proceeded to talk about how a long time ago,
Speaker 2: a sixteen year old seth Rawlins asked him to train
Speaker 2: him for free, and that's how passionate seth has been
Speaker 2: about this wrestling business. Affected at sixteen, he wanted a
Speaker 2: wrestler to train him for free. But he also talked
Speaker 2: about how, for a long how when he created the shield,
Speaker 2: even though he used coded language, he said that he
Speaker 2: shielded Seth Rawlins from getting fired when he came up
Speaker 2: with the concept of the shield because Seth was on
Speaker 2: a list of top ten people to be fired from WWE.
Speaker 2: And this disappointed me because I'm sitting here, like, how
Speaker 2: y'all gonna fire the first ever NX champion? What y'all
Speaker 2: were really about to let go of Seth Freaking Rawlins.
Speaker 2: He was talented as heck, Like, how could y'all do that?
Speaker 2: And he is still talented, Like, how could y'all prepare
Speaker 2: to fire him? And seam Punk was here in this
Speaker 2: interview taking credit for the fact that, look, I saved
Speaker 2: him and shielded him from being fired. And you know,
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for me leaving, then he probably would
Speaker 2: not have had to have stepped up the way that
Speaker 2: he did with the authority and all of the above.
Speaker 2: And he called Seth Rollins second string and called himself
Speaker 2: a main player, and I was like, Yo, that is nuts.
Speaker 2: That was really really disrespectful. But hey, this is a
Speaker 2: major few and all the gloves are off, so this
Speaker 2: is where we're at. But it was insane to hear
Speaker 2: seam Punk called Seth Freaking Rollins a second a second
Speaker 2: string player, ouch ouch ouch ouch the disrespect, and so
Speaker 2: Seth comes out and responds with his cookie Monster fit
Speaker 2: on and his Nickelodeon glasses. He comes out and he responds,
Speaker 2: and he says, yeah, it is true. I did ask
Speaker 2: Seampunk to trade me at sixteen for free. That is true.
Speaker 2: But something that Seeing Punk did not bring up was
Speaker 2: the fact that when everything stopped going his way in
Speaker 2: WWE and when he decided to leave and I was
Speaker 2: trying to get in contact with him and talk with him,
Speaker 2: he had cut everybody off and just said nothing. And
Speaker 2: of course this left a sour taste in Seth Wrongs's mouth,
Speaker 2: and he didn't like that, and that sort of feeds
Speaker 2: into why, you know, they have this sort of beef
Speaker 2: going on. It's the fact that him and Seth seemed
Speaker 2: to be on good terms until See Him Punk left
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen and cut everybody off, and that just
Speaker 2: I understand that level of pain because yo, like, I
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with it personally, but you know,
Speaker 2: don't just cut me off like I'm still your friend.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. But yeah, it seems like Seth really
Speaker 2: does have these really angry feelings that he's harboring towards Punk,
Speaker 2: and Punk has angry feelings that he's harboring towards Seth.
Speaker 2: And in the midst of this, of course, Sammy's ain
Speaker 2: comes out and him and Seth have a heart to
Speaker 2: heart and they apologize to each other. But it still
Speaker 2: made me feel like somewhere down the line they might
Speaker 2: fight each other again. It felt like a like a HM,
Speaker 2: not like a It felt like a genuine apology, but
Speaker 2: it didn't feel as genuine as it could have been.
Speaker 2: So I feel like they're not entirely finished with each
Speaker 2: other just yet. But that whole seeing Punk Seth's segment
Speaker 2: was fired. I enjoyed it very much. So WHOA. I
Speaker 2: feel like everything that we didn't get this year between
Speaker 2: these two, we're definitely gonna get next year, and I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. And then we have these two, these
Speaker 2: who had the audacity to show up I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: got real loud. They had the audacity to show up
Speaker 2: on raw backstage trying to wrap up everybody, and everybody
Speaker 2: was looking at him like was looking at them, like, bro,
Speaker 2: like we are not friends anymore? After what y'all did
Speaker 2: the Biggie. They turned their backs on him. Natty turned
Speaker 2: her back on them, and the Alpha Academy didn't want
Speaker 2: to talk to them, No Mo. Nobody wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to them, no MO. And then they said, look, we're
Speaker 2: gonna tell our side of the story. And then they
Speaker 2: stole a camera from backstage because they didn't want to
Speaker 2: be interviewed by Kathy Kelly on the notion that she
Speaker 2: wasn't unbiased. And they told and they wanted to tell
Speaker 2: their own story only to come out to the Wichita,
Speaker 2: Kansas crowd and they booed the crap out of them,
Speaker 2: and I mean booed the crap out of them. It
Speaker 2: felt like two years ago when Dominic turned on his daddy,
Speaker 2: except turned up to eleven. You couldn't hear a word
Speaker 2: that Koffee and Xavier were trying to say. And that,
Speaker 2: my friends, is how you know you have leffed up royally. Koffee, Xavier,
Speaker 2: y'all thought everybody was gonna be on y'all side after
Speaker 2: you broke the heart of the Powerhouse of Positivity. No,
Speaker 2: don't nobody like y'all right now? And then what's so
Speaker 2: funny is ww was hilarious because they released this footage
Speaker 2: of them doing charity work for the Boys and Girls
Speaker 2: Club of America or whatever charity that was. And I'm
Speaker 2: seeing here like y'all are hilarious for sharing that, considering
Speaker 2: after what they did, the collective of adults are angry
Speaker 2: with them of what like, sweetie, no, this is not
Speaker 2: what we're doing. We're not gonna sit out here and
Speaker 2: pretend that what you did was a good thing. And
Speaker 2: then what made it ten times worse for me, what
Speaker 2: really made me angrier was the fact that Kofi was
Speaker 2: gonna go in his narcissistic bag and talk about, oh, so,
Speaker 2: after ten years of all these good times, y'all gonna
Speaker 2: turn y'all backs on us because of this one bad night.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yes, because that bad night was horrible,
Speaker 2: and you broke the heart of your friend who was
Speaker 2: down for y'all when nobody else was down for y'all. Yes,
Speaker 2: we are turning our backs to you. Yes we are
Speaker 2: booing you, and yes we don't want to hear a
Speaker 2: word you got to say, eat it, be grown, be responsible,
Speaker 2: take accountability, and eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it,
Speaker 2: eat it, eat it, eat it up. You did that.
Speaker 2: You made your plate, not eat it, And I don't
Speaker 2: feel sorry for one bit okay, whatever, Moving on, because
Speaker 2: if I talk about it anymore, I'm gonna get even
Speaker 2: more angry, So let me move. Finn Balor shaded the
Speaker 2: crap out of Dominic Monday, and he was talking about
Speaker 2: how Dominic didn't deserve an opportunity at the World Heavyweight Championship,
Speaker 2: but he did, and it's just so funny. I really
Speaker 2: feel like if Finn had won the title last night,
Speaker 2: his ego would have been more out of control than
Speaker 2: it already is, and he probably would have been shading
Speaker 2: a judgment day more and more, and probably would have
Speaker 2: felt like he was supposed to be the leader more
Speaker 2: and more, even though their whole reasoning for kicking out
Speaker 2: Damien and Rio was the fact that they didn't want
Speaker 2: any leaders. But then you got Finn out here acting
Speaker 2: like he's Billy badass and acting like he's the leader,
Speaker 2: and it's just like, sweetie, why are you shading Dominic
Speaker 2: just because he didn't win, or because he didn't or
Speaker 2: you felt like he didn't deserve the opportunity, but you did.
Speaker 2: This is all a part of Finn crashing out because
Speaker 2: he's never won a world title since he had to
Speaker 2: give up the Universal title years ago do the injury.
Speaker 2: This is just him crashing out all because of that,
Speaker 2: and now it's fully manifesting itself in this way. I
Speaker 2: feel like it ain't gonna be long until Dominic and
Speaker 2: all the other judgment they just gonna kick him out.
Speaker 2: I feel like once him and JD lose the tag titles,
Speaker 2: that's really when the writing is gonna be on the
Speaker 2: wall and they gonna take him out. They gonna take
Speaker 2: him out, and they gonna be like, look, you're not
Speaker 2: a part of this group anymore. You're gone, And yeah,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be the end of it for Finn. But
Speaker 2: Finn is really just out here just being unfocused and
Speaker 2: crashing out, and it's just annoying. But I'm just really
Speaker 2: gonna need for the New Day. If they're out here
Speaker 2: talking all this trash and acting like what they've done
Speaker 2: is the greatest thing ever, take the tag titles off
Speaker 2: of them. Even though I know Far and JD has
Speaker 2: to fight the war Raiders, I really feel like it
Speaker 2: should be the New Day that has to take the
Speaker 2: titles off of them, because honestly, if you've gone this bad,
Speaker 2: you might as well goingate it. Back it up by
Speaker 2: taking her titles, but we'll see how that works out,
Speaker 2: but either way, Finn is a crash out and he
Speaker 2: needs Jesus. Now, moving into the NXT side of things,
Speaker 2: the women open up the show with Julia of course
Speaker 2: celebrating the fact that she's the Iron Survivor for this year,
Speaker 2: so congratulations to her for that, and she gets interrupted
Speaker 2: by Roxanne and Jade and they decide to gang up
Speaker 2: on her because of course afterward they both well. Beforehand,
Speaker 2: they attacked Stephanie of Akur, so it looked like Julia
Speaker 2: was out here by herself and didn't have a friend.
Speaker 2: But Klane pops up surprisingly to defend Julia and make
Speaker 2: the odds even because of course she's always the voice
Speaker 2: of reason when it comes to to like this, and
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed this, even though when I was looking back,
Speaker 2: I realized that Julia defeated Kilani in order to get
Speaker 2: in the Iris Survivor match. So I'm wondering if somewhere
Speaker 2: down the line this might mean that Klanie might turn
Speaker 2: heel or might be you know, having an ulterial motive
Speaker 2: or whatever. But I would love it if she just
Speaker 2: remained a babyface, because I just love cheering for Colone.
Speaker 2: She's so talented and so cool and I just love
Speaker 2: seeing her be a babyface where it seems like there's
Speaker 2: so many evil people just take it over every other brand,
Speaker 2: Like keep a baby face for me, please, and please
Speaker 2: keep Kilane as one. I just loved seeing Colonne, you know,
Speaker 2: come to Julia's defense. This was cool, and it led
Speaker 2: to them having a tag team match against Cora and
Speaker 2: Roth Saying, and it was really cool. Then on top
Speaker 2: of that, in a women's vision, you had the return
Speaker 2: of Shatzi. This made me so glad because I was
Speaker 2: Loki getting scared, like scared that Shatzi might not be
Speaker 2: ever coming back because she did have a really bad
Speaker 2: injury that she did have to recover from. And in
Speaker 2: the midst of that she was doing Haunted House stuff
Speaker 2: with Scarlet and that was really cool too. But I
Speaker 2: was just like, man, when an't we gonna see Shatzi
Speaker 2: in a ring again? She popped up on NXT to
Speaker 2: even up the odds against Fatal Influence and helping Gigi
Speaker 2: Dolan and Tatum Pasley, and this made me so happy
Speaker 2: because I'm just like, yes, shotsy, Yes. Shatzi was one
Speaker 2: of my favorites and the idea that she had been
Speaker 2: gone for so long. I was like, man, if she
Speaker 2: comes back, I wonder if she's gonna come back on
Speaker 2: the main roster or maybe in NXT. And I'm so
Speaker 2: happy she came back an NXT because she just fits
Speaker 2: the vibe of it. I'm just really happy that she's
Speaker 2: back with Gigi and Tatum. She just fits their whole
Speaker 2: vibe and I'm just pumped about it. So now it
Speaker 2: looks like there's another three woman group being formed here
Speaker 2: to go up against Fatal Influence, and I'm just really
Speaker 2: happy about it. So Yay, Shatzi's back. Love it, love it.
Speaker 2: And they're cute together too, and Tatum has a doll.
Speaker 2: Tatum has a Shatzea doll. So now we're gonna play
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be fun. And then another part that
Speaker 2: I enjoyed was the fact that Stephanie Verkerr did not
Speaker 2: let them attack, did not let Cora and Roxanne attack
Speaker 2: her without getting her lick back, and she came from
Speaker 2: behind after Roxanne and Kor won their match and attacked
Speaker 2: them and then not only attacked them, but then took
Speaker 2: Cora's stick that she loves to bring out and beat
Speaker 2: people with and broke it with her knees, and I
Speaker 2: was so happy about that because y'all not finna jump
Speaker 2: my dark angel, my dark angel named twin and get
Speaker 2: away with it. And she broke the stick and I'm
Speaker 2: so happy that she did that because Cora just be
Speaker 2: out here acting like she's just the baddest thing walking
Speaker 2: and stuff. But it's like you use, It's like you
Speaker 2: and Rock Sande are like the Terror Twins. It's like
Speaker 2: y'all are trying to help each other and y'all matches,
Speaker 2: y'all be trying to cheat for each other and use
Speaker 2: weapons that are illegal. So boom, I'm glad Stephanie broke it.
Speaker 2: I'm really glad because watching Cora out here with it
Speaker 2: was just like okay, girl, okay. And now Stephanie cracked it,
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy. I hope this means that Cora
Speaker 2: and Stephanie are gonna have a match against each other,
Speaker 2: and if so, then I'm here for Stephanie getting her
Speaker 2: revenge and getting her lick back. So yeah, Stephanie. Now
Speaker 2: Oba Femi is the Men's Iron survivor. We thought he
Speaker 2: was the one that knocked out Eddie forpe but of
Speaker 2: course that would begin to reveal itself on Tuesday. But
Speaker 2: something that I enjoyed so much was watching the interaction
Speaker 2: between Oba and Trick Williams, the NXC champion, because what
Speaker 2: they give in terms of strength and in terms of aura,
Speaker 2: it's just unmatched. These are two dominant, beautiful black men
Speaker 2: standing in this ring, staring each other down, giving an
Speaker 2: aura off, and I just cannot wait to see what
Speaker 2: this match is gonna give, because, oh my god, this
Speaker 2: their whole interaction was amazing. Their promo was fire. Ova
Speaker 2: was low key killing Trick because he was telling Trick like, look,
Speaker 2: the only reason you are the top guy here in
Speaker 2: NXC is because I let you be the top guy,
Speaker 2: and I was just like what that was so nuts?
Speaker 2: It was just really nuts for me. And then Trick
Speaker 2: wasn't backing down either. So of course, now these two
Speaker 2: have to fight at New Year's Evil. But there's a
Speaker 2: part of me that would have loved it if they
Speaker 2: had saved this match for Stand and Deliver, because these
Speaker 2: are just two powerful entities and I just feel like
Speaker 2: this is such a big money match that could just
Speaker 2: wait for WrestleMania weekend. But of course, you know, since
Speaker 2: that's gonna be the weekend of 're going to to Netflix,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be huge anyway, you know, after the
Speaker 2: New Year. I mean, of course they're doing it for that,
Speaker 2: but they just have the aura of just star quality
Speaker 2: that would have made me want to love to see
Speaker 2: this on a grander stage. But I'm happy that we're
Speaker 2: getting it regardless, because look at these two men. Look
Speaker 2: at them. They just exude strength and bad assy and
Speaker 2: I'm just so happy. I'm so happy that this match
Speaker 2: is happening. Like they're just two of the biggest stars
Speaker 2: in NXT has to offer in terms of their men's division,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna get ready to fight each other, and
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. It's gonna feed us, It's going to
Speaker 2: feed us so well. I'm so happy. I am so
Speaker 2: happy that this is happening. There's a part of me
Speaker 2: that wants Trick to retain, but if he doesn't, I
Speaker 2: won't be mad either, because Oba it's just kind of
Speaker 2: like the Thanos of NXT. He's just inevitable. So I
Speaker 2: just don't know. I'm so excited. I'm just excited about
Speaker 2: the match as a whole. And it was so funny
Speaker 2: that We're having their interaction but straight up ignoring Eddie Thorpe,
Speaker 2: and it was just so funny how that was going on.
Speaker 2: But ooh, the ore from these men and the beauty
Speaker 2: of them both just it just further solidifies why I
Speaker 2: just love black men as a whole. I love everybody
Speaker 2: but black men. Lord Jesus, I love them and I
Speaker 2: love mine too, So yeah, oh it was great. And
Speaker 2: then of course you have the falling ego of Ethan Page.
Speaker 2: Because Ethan Page is not the Iron Survivor and because
Speaker 2: he's not the NXC champion, he's not feeling his best
Speaker 2: self nowadays. He's feeling kind of not confident. He's lost
Speaker 2: his confidence, he's lost his ego, and now he just
Speaker 2: doesn't know what to do. So in the midst of this,
Speaker 2: he gets offered a North American title match by Tony DiAngelo,
Speaker 2: and he tried to act like it was beneath him
Speaker 2: because he was an NXC champion once, But then when
Speaker 2: Tony was offering it to somebody else, he was like, wait, no,
Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take it. I'm sitting here like Ethan,
Speaker 2: do not play the A championship like that, Okay, Carmel
Speaker 2: Ohayes did not fight for years on end and hold
Speaker 2: that title twice for you to just try to like
Speaker 2: put down that title as beneath you, like, stop it.
Speaker 2: That's not what we're doing here. The North American title
Speaker 2: is very much prestigious, Okay, because if it wasn't, then
Speaker 2: why would obafe me even have held it for as
Speaker 2: long as he did and treasured it the way that
Speaker 2: he did, Like, don't do that, Like that was just
Speaker 2: real rude, and he wound up losing that. So now
Speaker 2: even page he's just kind of lost. Right now, he's
Speaker 2: lost in the sauce, and I guess now he just
Speaker 2: needs to figure out what's gonna happen next with him.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's not NX me anymore. Let's play a song on
Speaker 2: the world's smallest violin. Let me stop. Okay, But yeah,
Speaker 2: he's lost, and then we do have something else that's
Speaker 2: intriguing me with Hank and Take. I want to say
Speaker 2: congratulations to Hank and Tank by the way, because they
Speaker 2: did win the Reality of Wrestling Tag Team Championship this week,
Speaker 2: so big up to them for that. But they had
Speaker 2: a match against Tyson and Tyreek and they're well it
Speaker 2: was Tyson DuPont and Tyreek Egway. That's their names. But
Speaker 2: I have a nickname for them. I call them Tye Squared.
Speaker 2: And they are really dominant ag team that me and
Speaker 2: my father have grown a liking to. My dad loves
Speaker 2: him because he says that ty Square reminds him of
Speaker 2: Doom and how big they are and everything like, he
Speaker 2: loves him and he just doesn't like it when they lose.
Speaker 2: But it almost seems as if ty and Tye are
Speaker 2: going through a really hard time right now, considering they
Speaker 2: lost their match against Tank and Tank and Tyson wanted
Speaker 2: to show sportsmanship, but Tyreek was like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to do this right now. He was like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to shake your hand, Like no, I'm sick it is.
Speaker 2: So it's looking like maybe they one of them either
Speaker 2: might have a change in attitude or they both might
Speaker 2: I don't know, or maybe they'll break up. I don't
Speaker 2: want them to break up because we're still scratching the
Speaker 2: surface on them as a tag team, So I want
Speaker 2: ty Square to stay together. But if they have a
Speaker 2: change in attitude, then that would be okay with me.
Speaker 2: But here again, we have too many people turning Hill like,
Speaker 2: let me keep some babyfaces. But in the midst of
Speaker 2: all of that, if they turned and I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: an issue with it. But yeah, they're still really new,
Speaker 2: so we're still getting to know them. But I just
Speaker 2: know every time I see them, I think they're cool.
Speaker 2: So we just gotta wait and see. But big upsit
Speaker 2: them and the good tag team match Todad because it
Speaker 2: was really fire. So yeah, and Eddie Thorpe, that man
Speaker 2: decided to be real sneaky and because he now has
Speaker 2: a championship match against Treick Williams I believe this week
Speaker 2: coming up. This week, he signed his contract with AVA
Speaker 2: and you know, so he acted like he was all
Speaker 2: grateful for it and everything. But then AVA told him, well,
Speaker 2: we're still looking into who attacked you last week, and
Speaker 2: he said, I know who attacked me, and AVA was like,
Speaker 2: what do you mean. He was like, I attacked me,
Speaker 2: so I got this championship match and didn't have to
Speaker 2: fight through hell in twenty five minutes to do it.
Speaker 2: See you in Massachusetts And I was like, oh, so
Speaker 2: Eddie Thorpe really okie dot us. He really okie dot
Speaker 2: us he's a heel now and he played in Ava's face.
Speaker 2: I feel like he is going to get some type
Speaker 2: of really horrible consequence from this, because you just do
Speaker 2: not play in the NXC general manager's face like that,
Speaker 2: all just to get a championship match. That's crazy. You
Speaker 2: stayed your own attack for a match. That is crazy.
Speaker 2: It's smart, but it's crazy. But Jesus Christ, Eddie, and
Speaker 2: then you did it while wearing the Thorpe jacket too,
Speaker 2: Like sweetie, come on, that was nuts. But we'll see
Speaker 2: how it turns out on Tuesday. But that was a
Speaker 2: really slick turn. Now, moving into the aew side of things,
Speaker 2: Winter is coming just passed by, and the biggest thing
Speaker 2: that I wanted to talk about was the fact that
Speaker 2: miss ma'am Tony Storm number one on the women's two
Speaker 2: point fifty for PWI, made her grand return to Dynamite,
Speaker 2: but not as the timeless one, but as herself with
Speaker 2: the shorts and the glasses and the hat and everything.
Speaker 2: She came back regular Tony is here, And of course
Speaker 2: this shocked the crap out of Mariah May because she
Speaker 2: was defending her title against Mina Shirakawa in the main
Speaker 2: event here again, another show that had women in the
Speaker 2: main event, the third one this week, and boom, here
Speaker 2: is Tony out here as her regular self. And I
Speaker 2: have a soft spot in my heart for this version
Speaker 2: of Tony because this is the first version of Tony
Speaker 2: that I ever saw in the May Young Classic here again.
Speaker 2: If you listen to this show long enough, you know
Speaker 2: that when it comes to a lot of the current
Speaker 2: stars and women's wrestling, the May Young Classic was sort
Speaker 2: of like my gateway drug. That and NWA's in Power
Speaker 2: were two of my gateway drugs inside of a lot
Speaker 2: of the future of women's wrestling at this stage. And
Speaker 2: it's just nuts. I think one day I should do
Speaker 2: an episode dedicated to it. But either way, Tony was
Speaker 2: always one of my favorites, and the idea that she
Speaker 2: was able to come back here with this character change
Speaker 2: and get the reaction that she got, everybody popped really hard.
Speaker 2: Thunder Rosso was holding up a sign that said WTS.
Speaker 2: She didn't know what was going on, but in Luki
Speaker 2: looks like from how even Saturday went, She's going Saturday,
Speaker 2: I think Friday and Saturday with rampage and collision. She's
Speaker 2: going through a bit of a identity crisis situation where
Speaker 2: she thinks she just made it to a w and
Speaker 2: that she's so happy to be alongside everybody else who
Speaker 2: she was wrestling beside anyway when she was the Timeless One.
Speaker 2: So it's really interesting, you know, how they're playing this
Speaker 2: character out. But I was so happy to see this
Speaker 2: version of Tony Storm back in action. This was really
Speaker 2: amazing for me because I just have a soft spot
Speaker 2: in my heart for this version of Tony, even though
Speaker 2: I love Timeless. The Timeless one, it was cool, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's time to shake things up again and she's back
Speaker 2: as her regular self, So this was really fun for
Speaker 2: me to see. I enjoyed this very much, and it
Speaker 2: was a great way to end Dynamite, So that was cool.
Speaker 2: Now now to talk about something that I probably would
Speaker 2: have talked about in news and gossip ish if Saturday
Speaker 2: Night's Man Event had not happened. I have to be
Speaker 2: real about this and talk about this, and this is
Speaker 2: probably the last time I'm going to discuss it. TNA's
Speaker 2: final resolution passed. It happened Friday and Jordan Grace had
Speaker 2: a match, and I do believe in the midst of
Speaker 2: her match she got attacked by a person who revealed
Speaker 2: themselves to be Tesla Blanchert. And for those who are
Speaker 2: new or probably don't know who Tesla Blanchert is, she
Speaker 2: is also someone else who I was exposed to via
Speaker 2: the May Young Classic, and she was someone who I
Speaker 2: really thought could have been the future of women's wrestling
Speaker 2: alongside Charlotte Flair, like because she is the daughter of
Speaker 2: Tully Blanchard, a wrestling legend, and who was also a
Speaker 2: four horseman as well. Like she was someone who I
Speaker 2: initially thought the world of and someone who I thought
Speaker 2: really could stand on all the amazingness of women's wrestling
Speaker 2: and where it was set to go over these past
Speaker 2: few years and all of the above. And she also
Speaker 2: made some moves even in TNA during her first run
Speaker 2: where she actually became the TNA Slash Impact World Champion,
Speaker 2: not the Women's champion, not the knockouts Champion, but the
Speaker 2: world champion, like the championship held by the men. She
Speaker 2: held it and actually fought men too, and I thought
Speaker 2: that was cool as well. But Mss ma'ham disappointed me
Speaker 2: when I found out that she had a racist encounter
Speaker 2: with a wrestler I believe l rosa Negra and that
Speaker 2: in the match she had fought her, called her the
Speaker 2: inWORD and spent in her face. And then not only
Speaker 2: did she do that, was she had bullying behavior towards
Speaker 2: other women's wrestlers as well. Finding out that she used
Speaker 2: the worst possible slur to a black wrestler who has
Speaker 2: since you know, forgiven her and all the above, and
Speaker 2: you know, big ups to her for that. I mean,
Speaker 2: if they've ironed out their differences, that's fine, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that has to be me, me and my journey.
Speaker 2: If you call me or any other person or black person,
Speaker 2: I know the in word, that makes me want to
Speaker 2: fight you, and it also makes me want to just
Speaker 2: cut you out of my life completely because that type
Speaker 2: of negativity has no place in my life. It has
Speaker 2: no place in my wrestling life, it has no place
Speaker 2: in any form in my life at all, because at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, I am a black woman
Speaker 2: from the South, and we don't play that. We don't
Speaker 2: play that. And Tessa fell off a little bit from it.
Speaker 2: She didn't wrestle for a while, but then got back
Speaker 2: into wrestling because a few other companies or whatever you know,
Speaker 2: hired her back to do some things, but I never
Speaker 2: thought we would ever see her back on television. Boy
Speaker 2: was I wrong. She's back here in TNA, and it's
Speaker 2: been rumored that a lot of that some people in
Speaker 2: the locker room don't even don't like this idea, including
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace, which I can only imagine how she feels,
Speaker 2: considering she's married to Jonathan Gresham, who happens to be
Speaker 2: a black man. You know, I can only imagine how
Speaker 2: she even feels doing that. So at this point TNA,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna always support the women there, but
Speaker 2: I'm not supporting Tesla Blancherd because once you use that
Speaker 2: word and once you be that disrespectful towards somebody, No,
Speaker 2: I don't like it at all. I just don't goodbye,
Speaker 2: Like it's not it's literally not the best choice. Like
Speaker 2: TNA have been doing so well this year, but then
Speaker 2: you hire her back to have this type of exposure,
Speaker 2: and it makes it seem as if there's just no
Speaker 2: consequences for your actions. It just seems like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: let's just play a low profile and it may be
Speaker 2: down the line if enough people have forgotten about it,
Speaker 2: then you can come back. No, No, ma'am, you are
Speaker 2: not a born legend. You are a born racist. And
Speaker 2: I don't trust you and I don't respect you. So
Speaker 2: that's one thing in wrestling that I did not like
Speaker 2: this week. So moving on now, I was able to
Speaker 2: catch a couple of clips from SmackDown because Friday I
Speaker 2: went out. Finding out that Bianca was almost stripped of
Speaker 2: the tag titles because of Jade's condition was really sad.
Speaker 2: But then at the same time, Naomi decided to jump
Speaker 2: in and say, look, you know, I'll defend them in
Speaker 2: Jade's absence and we can be champions together. And now
Speaker 2: they have to fight Naya Jacks and Cannice Loray next week.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people on social media were saying, look,
Speaker 2: this is Naomi sort of playing Bianca Vilair as a
Speaker 2: fiddle and saying that she could very well be turning
Speaker 2: heel and she might be revealing herself to be the
Speaker 2: one to have attacked Jay. And I hope here again,
Speaker 2: like I mentioned last week, that that's not the case,
Speaker 2: but if it is, then that's really a smart way
Speaker 2: in order to get it done. But oh my god,
Speaker 2: Bianca and Jade accomplish so much in both of their
Speaker 2: runs as tag team champions, that to see it end
Speaker 2: in this way would Loki make me sayd I'd be like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, no, what happened to my Big Three?
Speaker 2: And what makes me sad is if this is how
Speaker 2: the Big Three is gonna end. They didn't give the
Speaker 2: Big Three a T shirt. They only gave Bianca and
Speaker 2: Jade one. They didn't give all three of them a
Speaker 2: T shirt. Like that seriously sucks. So now we're about
Speaker 2: to possibly live in a world where Misfield the glow
Speaker 2: is really about to turn on our est, Like no,
Speaker 2: it's it's so sad, but we just gotta wait and see.
Speaker 2: But I just really hope that it's not Naomi that's
Speaker 2: turn heel on her, that's about to turn heel, and
Speaker 2: that she's the one that attack Je Like why why?
Speaker 2: But you know, we just gotta wait. Also, another thing
Speaker 2: that I saw on social media was this interaction between
Speaker 2: Tiffany Stratton, Candice Larray, and Naya Jack's the women's champion.
Speaker 2: Because Tiffy did not win in her beautiful Holiday outfit
Speaker 2: and was not going forward to the finals of the
Speaker 2: Women's United States Title tournament, Cannice Larray decided to chime
Speaker 2: in with her purple headedself and talk about how Tiffany
Speaker 2: might not be cut out for singles championships. And I'm
Speaker 2: just sitting here, like, girl, you're saying all that, but
Speaker 2: the only titles you've ever won have been tag teams
Speaker 2: up until this point. You were never NXC champion like Tiffany. You,
Speaker 2: I mean, you've never won Money in the Bank. Like,
Speaker 2: the only singles title you have ever won at this
Speaker 2: point was the ww Women's Speed Championship. And yes, that
Speaker 2: is a great accomplishment, you know, for women's history in wrestling,
Speaker 2: because that's great because you're the first ever. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, that's a title that you can't even
Speaker 2: carry on television. But you want to shade miss Money
Speaker 2: in the Bank, who actually accomplished which you couldn't accomplish
Speaker 2: in NXT and make it seem like she's not cut
Speaker 2: out for singles gold girl Bye. I'm really gonna need
Speaker 2: for Tiffany to put on her big girl breeches and
Speaker 2: cash in on Naya because it really looks like NYA
Speaker 2: is beginning to look down on Tiffy too, And it's
Speaker 2: just like it's so gross because every time Tiffany had
Speaker 2: your back, she had your back, even though of course
Speaker 2: she was weirded out by having the briefcase or whatnot,
Speaker 2: she still had your back. And now Kennice comes in
Speaker 2: and yeah, she's giving you this opportunity to possibly be
Speaker 2: a tag champion alongside, you know, in defeating Bianca and
Speaker 2: Naomi or whatever. But still, how you just gonna turn
Speaker 2: your back on Tiffy like that? And with that being
Speaker 2: the case, I'm really just gonna need for Tiffany to
Speaker 2: just cash in on Naya like all bets are off,
Speaker 2: all bets are off. Cash in on Naya because Cannice
Speaker 2: really has a little bit. She just has too much
Speaker 2: dip on her ship at this point, too much, way
Speaker 2: too much dip on her ship for somebody who has
Speaker 2: only seemed to have title success in tag teams. Trying
Speaker 2: to tell Tiffany Stratton that she is not cut out
Speaker 2: for singles title material. Girl, by that was horrible. That
Speaker 2: was just horrible to look at. I was just like, girl,
Speaker 2: don't let them do you like that? It was horrible.
Speaker 2: Now I lied earlier because I said that the testa
Speaker 2: thing was the only thing I didn't like in wrestling.
Speaker 2: This week I got to hear and now I realize
Speaker 2: this is another thing. Did not like Carmelo Hayes him.
Speaker 2: My fave was, once upon a time an NXC champion.
Speaker 2: I know I was there when it happened. I was
Speaker 2: screaming my voice out. It was a mess, but either way,
Speaker 2: he won NX title off a bron breaker during WrestleMania
Speaker 2: weekend in Hollywood. This man carried NXC on his back
Speaker 2: along with Trick Williams. And even though they fell out
Speaker 2: and everything, you can't deny that they held NX down together. Right.
Speaker 2: This man was also an NX North American Champion and
Speaker 2: the final NXC Cruiserweight Champion before they combined those titles together.
Speaker 2: Here again, he made the NXT North American title the
Speaker 2: A Championship before he became NX champion. This man is
Speaker 2: a thorough red through and through. I've done an episode
Speaker 2: dedicated to one of his matches that happened on my
Speaker 2: birthday against Ricochet. Like he is the man one hundred grand.
Speaker 2: He doesn't just call himself him because it sounds good.
Speaker 2: He calls himself him because he is him. So why
Speaker 2: is it in the year of Our Lord twenty four
Speaker 2: And before we even get to that, he was one
Speaker 2: half of the first black Mail main event during WrestleMania
Speaker 2: Weekend with Trick Williams at standon deliver this year here
Speaker 2: again something else. I was blessed to be there for
Speaker 2: witnessed that match. It was fantastic. So in doing all
Speaker 2: of that and also having great matches this year with
Speaker 2: Andrade with their best of seven series, you could say
Speaker 2: to a degree that was what was going on in
Speaker 2: the midst of all of that. How was he getting
Speaker 2: squashed of bron Stroman? How? How and why? And that's
Speaker 2: not to say that Carmelo did not put up a
Speaker 2: good fight, because he did. But it's like when braun
Speaker 2: Stroman came out there, I just felt like the I
Speaker 2: knew what the what the writing was and it made
Speaker 2: me so upset because I don't understand how somebody who
Speaker 2: was neck and neck in parallel to bron Breaker's career
Speaker 2: and was drafted the first male draft pick of SmackDown
Speaker 2: gets treated like he's a nothing all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: I don't like that at all. Carmelo Hayes performed exceptionally
Speaker 2: well in the Money in the Bank match. You're again,
Speaker 2: I was there, but either way, like he performed exceptionally well,
Speaker 2: why is it that he's just being pushed off to
Speaker 2: the side. I understand that he had sort of like
Speaker 2: the cocky rookie roll going on, but at what point
Speaker 2: are we going to stop pretending that he's just a
Speaker 2: cocky rookie and start realizing that this man is him,
Speaker 2: not just because he says he is, but because he
Speaker 2: actually is. I'm tired. I don't just want him just
Speaker 2: being put in matches just to be made to look like,
Speaker 2: to look weak and just lose all the time, like
Speaker 2: do something, please, please do something, like he deserves better.
Speaker 2: Carmelo deserves better. And at the risk of sounding like
Speaker 2: a weirdo or sounding like somebody who's whining and crying
Speaker 2: or whatever, Carmelo definitely deserves better. He just does. And
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe you could probably go back and
Speaker 2: think that I just am saying this, are you, Carmela,
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm standing there with her, Queen Steph Hardy.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it, Yes, let's talk about it. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. I mean, he'll always have
Speaker 2: a soft spot in my heart because of that moment
Speaker 2: this year, But even before that, Carmelo showed himself to
Speaker 2: me and I thought he was amazing. So give Carmelo
Speaker 2: his things, please, please, please please, And just I don't
Speaker 2: know if in this transfer portal they're gonna put him
Speaker 2: on Raw and maybe you'll have better look there. Please
Speaker 2: just don't embarrass him. I sound like Sabrina Carpenter, like,
Speaker 2: I hope you don't embarrass him, but whatever, I just
Speaker 2: want better for Carmelo. A's because he is him and
Speaker 2: he gonna always be him regardless. Okay, and that's it,
Speaker 2: and that's all. So of course this has been an
Speaker 2: amazing show. I'm glad that you guys tuned in for that.
Speaker 2: Oh I got one more thing I gotta discuss. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about Roman Reigns fighting solo in tribal combat
Speaker 2: to become the official tribal chief on the Raw on
Speaker 2: Netflix episode. I'm really excited about that. His promo for
Speaker 2: that was really fire and it was very heartfelt, you
Speaker 2: can tell. So I'm really excited about it. I'm really pumped.
Speaker 2: And then you have Paul Hamman back there, you know,
Speaker 2: and it was just really interesting how he was talking
Speaker 2: about how he lost his wise man, he lost his
Speaker 2: whole bloodline, and he lost his Ulafala that was given
Speaker 2: to him and stuff. And here again it pulls on
Speaker 2: your heartstrings because the while Samoans gave him that, and
Speaker 2: with everything that happened this year, it just it's just
Speaker 2: it makes it mean a whole lot more So, January
Speaker 2: is said to be a big, big month in wrestling,
Speaker 2: and I just can't wait to see what happens from
Speaker 2: that match. So yeah, that's all that I liked or
Speaker 2: did not like in wrestling this week. And now I
Speaker 2: just want to thank all of you guys for watching
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