<v Speaker 1>You know, I was actually having a pretty good day.

<v Speaker 1>I saw a little teaser from wrestle Votes that they

<v Speaker 1>were going to have some news later in the day,

<v Speaker 1>news that was going to make some people want to

<v Speaker 1>tear their hair out, and I said, oh, this should

<v Speaker 1>be interesting. So then I tuned in and went over

<v Speaker 1>to my feed late in the afternoon, I saw the

<v Speaker 1>update which you saw in that graphic there at the

<v Speaker 1>very beginning of the stream, that in fact, on January second, Buffalo,

<v Speaker 1>New York will play host to the first SmackDown of

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six, and that SmackDown will be three hours long.

<v Speaker 1>But not only on January second. The show is moving

<v Speaker 1>back to three hours starting at the beginning of the year,

<v Speaker 1>and it will run through WrestleMania season and very likely

<v Speaker 1>will run at least through June at least. So three

<v Speaker 1>hour Smackdowns are back, coming off of last week when

<v Speaker 1>I absolutely lost my mind over that show that they

<v Speaker 1>gave us on Friday, and I cannot believe that I

<v Speaker 1>might be sitting here in a few months reminiscing about

<v Speaker 1>the good old days. This right now, what we are

<v Speaker 1>in right now, this being the good old days of SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>I just can't. I can't wrap my head around that.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't know if there's going to be the

<v Speaker 1>new annual thing. We're going into the Rumble and WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>They add another hour onto the show, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>for the most part, there are a lot of people

<v Speaker 1>who obviously do not like this decision. There were people

<v Speaker 1>who loved the decision and who think, oh, this is great,

<v Speaker 1>this is great, more time for talent on this show.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm just I'm floored by some of these reactions

<v Speaker 1>because to me, and I'm going to get more into

<v Speaker 1>this on Sunday, but to me, maybe I'm crazy. The

<v Speaker 1>issue here is not one of oh, this show is

<v Speaker 1>not long enough. That's not the issue here. This is

<v Speaker 1>what some people don't really understand. The issue is not

<v Speaker 1>that the show is not long enough. The issue is

<v Speaker 1>that in the time that they have for this show

<v Speaker 1>each week, in the two hours that they are given

<v Speaker 1>every Friday on USA on SmackDown, they are not making

<v Speaker 1>the most of the time that they have. And this

<v Speaker 1>idea that the show cannot be as good as it

<v Speaker 1>can be unless we have three hours, that it's not

<v Speaker 1>possible for SmackDown to be all that it could be.

<v Speaker 1>Unless the show is expanded by another sixty minutes. Is

<v Speaker 1>just it blows my mind that this is how some

<v Speaker 1>people think. And I really think people have been brainwashed.

<v Speaker 1>I really do. I think there's a lot of newer fans.

<v Speaker 1>I think there's a lot of younger fans who didn't

<v Speaker 1>become fans of WWE until the last decade, right ten, twelve,

<v Speaker 1>fifteen years, and so they have been conditioned by three

<v Speaker 1>hour raws that we had for so many years to

<v Speaker 1>believe that this is the way that wrestling shows should be,

<v Speaker 1>That the show has to be three hours, and if

<v Speaker 1>it's not well, then it can't possibly be as great

<v Speaker 1>as it can be. And it is just such flawed

<v Speaker 1>logic to me. My philosophy is very simple. If two

<v Speaker 1>hours is not enough for you to put out a

<v Speaker 1>consistently good television show and you feel the need to

<v Speaker 1>expand that show in order to make it good, you're

<v Speaker 1>doing something wrong. Something is very wrong in that situation.

<v Speaker 1>Because I don't know about you, but I grew up

<v Speaker 1>for a very long time watching wrestling shows that were

<v Speaker 1>two hours every single week, in some cases, wrestling shows

<v Speaker 1>that were not even two hours, and there were a

<v Speaker 1>lot of really good ones in there. There were some

<v Speaker 1>shitty ones, but there were a lot of really good

<v Speaker 1>wrestling shows in there. Two hours is more than enough

<v Speaker 1>time two and a half if you watch Raw on

<v Speaker 1>Monday nights, to tell stories that are compelling, to tell

<v Speaker 1>stories that are interesting, and to tell stories that people

<v Speaker 1>are going to want to tune in the following week

<v Speaker 1>to watch, and to rotate talent in and out, even

<v Speaker 1>if they're not on the show consistently every single week.

<v Speaker 1>That's okay because not everybody has to be on every

<v Speaker 1>single show. And I don't know why some people are

<v Speaker 1>incapable of admitting the WWE has done a very poor

<v Speaker 1>job these last several months when it comes to SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>more so than Raw. Raw also has weeks where it's

<v Speaker 1>like eh. But for the most part, Raw it feels

<v Speaker 1>like it's a show that's being written by a completely

<v Speaker 1>different writing team. It feels like Raw is in a

<v Speaker 1>totally different universe on most weeks as compared to what

<v Speaker 1>we see on Friday nights. And I don't really understand why,

<v Speaker 1>but this is where we are right now. A show

<v Speaker 1>that at one point was the A show and not

<v Speaker 1>all that long ago, has been anything but so excuse

<v Speaker 1>me if I'm sitting here and I'm not terribly excited

<v Speaker 1>about the news that this show is going to expand

<v Speaker 1>and get even longer in a few months, because there

<v Speaker 1>are some very very big changes that need to be

<v Speaker 1>made to smack Down before I will ever get excited

<v Speaker 1>about getting more smacked Down. Now. I am of the impression,

<v Speaker 1>I am of the belief, I am of the opinion.

<v Speaker 1>I've always said this that there is no wrestling show.

<v Speaker 1>I don't care what company, I don't care a quality

<v Speaker 1>of the show. There is no wrestling show that needs

<v Speaker 1>to be three hours long every single week. I've always

<v Speaker 1>been consistent about that, and I still feel that way.

<v Speaker 1>But if WWE, if USA network, whoever made the call,

<v Speaker 1>might have been a USA call, But it doesn't matter, right,

<v Speaker 1>WWE loves getting the extra content. Reality of the situation

<v Speaker 1>is this, This is going to happen, and we're all

<v Speaker 1>going to be tuned in because we're heading into Rumble season,

<v Speaker 1>We're heading into WrestleMania season, right, That's part of the

<v Speaker 1>reason why this is happening. I don't know what that

<v Speaker 1>means for braun stroman show that's on after SmackDown. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it's the off season for the show because he just

<v Speaker 1>got informed that his show was renewed, I believe or

<v Speaker 1>or no, No, it wasn't rendered. I'm sorry. He was celebrating

<v Speaker 1>the ratings went up for the most recent episode and

<v Speaker 1>he was hoping the show would get renewed. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what this means for the Stroman show that airs

<v Speaker 1>immediately after Smack. This is going to happen. There's nothing

<v Speaker 1>anybody can do about it. And what I would like

<v Speaker 1>to see what has to happen. Changes have to be

<v Speaker 1>made to this show. You watch the show every week.

<v Speaker 1>You know where the weaknesses are, You know where the

<v Speaker 1>holes are in the show. You know where they need

<v Speaker 1>to shore up the roster. You can tell just by

<v Speaker 1>watching the show consistently every single week what a lot

<v Speaker 1>of those changes are that need to be made. The

<v Speaker 1>women's division, right, tag team division, We're going in circles

<v Speaker 1>with a lot of the same faces over and over

<v Speaker 1>and over again. It's been a long time since we've

<v Speaker 1>had any kind of roster shakeup on this show. A

<v Speaker 1>move here and there, but that's not enough. Lash Legend

<v Speaker 1>called up from NXT to the main roster last week. Great,

<v Speaker 1>that's not enough. Major changes have to be made, and

<v Speaker 1>if this move helps facilitate those changes, then great. But

<v Speaker 1>I have been given no reason to have fate that

<v Speaker 1>this grand change is going to wash over SmackDown overnight.

<v Speaker 1>It's going to take time. It has to happen. We

<v Speaker 1>cannot get this show that we are seeing now every

<v Speaker 1>single week but with a few extra MFT segments sprinkled in.

<v Speaker 1>I can't do it. I can't do There's a wall

<v Speaker 1>over here, a perfectly good wall, and bang my head

<v Speaker 1>against the wall. Changes need to be made to this show.

<v Speaker 1>The only good thing that could come out of this

<v Speaker 1>is if it forces them to make those changes. But

<v Speaker 1>it all goes back to creative. So again, don't assume

<v Speaker 1>that just because the show is moving to three hours

<v Speaker 1>it means that everything's going to be great again, because

<v Speaker 1>at one time when the show was three hours, it

<v Speaker 1>was actually really good. It comes down to the writing

<v Speaker 1>and the creative and what you are doing with the

<v Speaker 1>talent that you have on the show. But the talent, again,

<v Speaker 1>there's so many different areas of this show that need

<v Speaker 1>to be improved upon, fixed, shaken up. That's my hope.

<v Speaker 1>That's really all we can do is sit and wait

<v Speaker 1>and hope that the show improves on its own so

<v Speaker 1>that when the show gets longer, it'll be easier to digest.

<v Speaker 1>I'll have a lot more to say about the three

<v Speaker 1>hour stuff on the podcast this weekend, but that's my

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on three hours. Not happy about it because this

<v Speaker 1>show is in dire need of help. Hopefully they get

<v Speaker 1>the help it needs. But tonight it was two hours.

<v Speaker 1>We're not there yet. We still have several weeks before

<v Speaker 1>the show moves to the three hour format. Cody Rhades

<v Speaker 1>defended his WWE Championship on the show tonight. Didn't you

<v Speaker 1>know that? It was unannounced, It was an impromptu match,

<v Speaker 1>It was made earlier in the night. He defended his

<v Speaker 1>title against Bronson Reid, who was not a contracted SmackDown talent.

<v Speaker 1>But that was the main event and boy, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Cody comes out first, then Bronson the challenger comes out next,

<v Speaker 1>and it didn't feel like a WWE championship match. It

<v Speaker 1>was very cold, not a lot of enthusiasm for it,

<v Speaker 1>and honestly, it was more of an angle than a match.

<v Speaker 1>The match got thrown out dq. They never bother announcing

<v Speaker 1>the actual finishes to these matches, but the match was

<v Speaker 1>thrown out. When the other members of the Vision team

<v Speaker 1>Vision heading into Survivor Series, they came out, including the

<v Speaker 1>newest edition to the Heel team at Survivor Series, Drew McIntyre,

<v Speaker 1>the same Drew McIntyre who was suspended by Nick allD

<v Speaker 1>this one week ago. So it lasted all of a week.

<v Speaker 1>But yes, Drew McIntyre is now back, and now that

<v Speaker 1>leaves one spot open on the heel side. On the

<v Speaker 1>baby face side, we pretty much know what the Wargames

<v Speaker 1>team now is going to be. Cody Road, seem Punk,

<v Speaker 1>Jay Usso. We already knew about them. They're in there.

<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Usso has added his name to the list. That

<v Speaker 1>leaves one spot open on the men's Wargames team, and

<v Speaker 1>g I wonder who's going to fill that spot in?

<v Speaker 1>Perhaps we'll find out of Madison Square Garden this Monday.

<v Speaker 1>Who oh, who oh? Who is missing from TV right now?

<v Speaker 1>Who could help fill in a spot on the babyface side?

<v Speaker 1>I wonder? Yeah, so the babyface side is complete. The

<v Speaker 1>only thing we need to find out, really honestly, is

<v Speaker 1>who takes the fifth and final spot on the heel side.

<v Speaker 1>And I think we have a pretty good sense of

<v Speaker 1>who that's probably going to end up being. Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>has a friend he'll call in a favor, and there's

<v Speaker 1>j Men's War Games match. And one of the things

<v Speaker 1>they did on the show tonight, which by the way,

<v Speaker 1>was marginally better than last week's show. I know that's

<v Speaker 1>a very low bar, but it was a better show

<v Speaker 1>than last week. Not great, but it was a better

<v Speaker 1>show than last week. But what they did tonight was

<v Speaker 1>take steps to help fill the gaps in some of

<v Speaker 1>the gaps anyway, in terms of the war Games matches

<v Speaker 1>coming up at Survivor Series. So on the women's side,

<v Speaker 1>they actually injected some drama into things because all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden, even though they were all standing united at

<v Speaker 1>the end of Raw Monday night, Charlotte Flair realized, Hey,

<v Speaker 1>you know what I just remembered. I don't like you

<v Speaker 1>Ria Ripley. I don't like you, I don't trust you,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't want a team with you. So we

<v Speaker 1>had Charlotte Flair walking out on her teammates, which means

<v Speaker 1>that they are in need now of not just one

<v Speaker 1>but two partners now because it is going to be

<v Speaker 1>five on five. And the reason they did that is

<v Speaker 1>because they have a few weeks left until the PL

<v Speaker 1>and they want to build some drama an intrigue. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte Flair is going to be in wargames now. We

<v Speaker 1>have to wait and see what it takes to bring

<v Speaker 1>her back into the fold, so that is why they

<v Speaker 1>shot that angle tonight. We also had two more matches

<v Speaker 1>tonight in the John Cena Last Time Is Now tournament,

<v Speaker 1>including the return of a former WWE superstar the return

<v Speaker 1>of a former WWE Intercontinental Champion on the show tonight

<v Speaker 1>to wrestle La Knight. We had another United States Championship

<v Speaker 1>Open challenge with Ilia Dragonov putting his title on the line,

<v Speaker 1>still consistently the best thing on this show. And we

<v Speaker 1>are getting a traditional five on five Survivor Series elimination

<v Speaker 1>style match, not at Survivor Series, but they are suscitating

<v Speaker 1>the old traditional Survivor Series elimination format, which is something

<v Speaker 1>that I was hoping Triple H would start doing. I

<v Speaker 1>think doing one traditional match on the actual pl each

<v Speaker 1>year would be cool. They've chosen to do it on

<v Speaker 1>TV the night before. At least we're getting one. I

<v Speaker 1>can't say that the lineup is terribly exciting, but I

<v Speaker 1>was hoping we would at least get one. We'll talk

<v Speaker 1>about how they set things up on that end tonight

<v Speaker 1>as we get into this two hour edition of SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>It is Friday night, November fourteenth, twenty twenty five. I

<v Speaker 1>am the Solemn Monster. Thank you for spending your Friday

<v Speaker 1>night with me here on the channel. Please subscribe and

<v Speaker 1>like hit those buttons. We are celebrating eighteen years of

<v Speaker 1>the sound off all November long. You guys have been

<v Speaker 1>killing it so far. We're almost basically halfway through the

<v Speaker 1>month already, and before we get into this review, I

<v Speaker 1>needed to this up and show you guys something because

<v Speaker 1>this was going around today. I saw this and I

<v Speaker 1>didn't think it was real at first, but then I

<v Speaker 1>laughed my ass off when I realized that it actually was.

<v Speaker 1>Ye know, the last time that I visited the Empire

<v Speaker 1>State and I live in New York my whole life,

<v Speaker 1>so of course the Empire State Building is in New York.

<v Speaker 1>The last time I visited the Empire State Building Observatory.

<v Speaker 1>It's funny because I actually remember exactly the day that

<v Speaker 1>I went up there and visited the observatory, because it

<v Speaker 1>was June of twenty ten, And the reason I remember

<v Speaker 1>that is because it was a Monday Night Funny enough,

<v Speaker 1>it was a special three hour episode of Monday Night Raw,

<v Speaker 1>but it was the night that the Nexus attacked John

<v Speaker 1>Cena in the main event, right, one of the more

<v Speaker 1>memorable angles in Raw history. I made it home just

<v Speaker 1>in time to see that whole thing play out. And

<v Speaker 1>I can tell you that what I'm about to show

<v Speaker 1>you definitely wasn't there, because this is going back again

<v Speaker 1>fifteen years. But this this is actually in the Empire

<v Speaker 1>State Building and they have this as part of a

<v Speaker 1>whole display of different items. This is a WWE replica

<v Speaker 1>Championship belt. Now, I want to draw your attention to

<v Speaker 1>the placard in the lower left corner of your screen.

<v Speaker 1>There you see it says WrestleMania thirty five has a

<v Speaker 1>few wrestler names on there, Becky Lynch, Daniel Bryan. But

<v Speaker 1>then I will point out to you the name in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of the name plate where it says Boble Lashly. Yes, yes,

<v Speaker 1>Boble Lashly. What the fuck is a Bobly Lashly? Can

<v Speaker 1>somebody plays explay this to me? And how this wasn't

<v Speaker 1>noticed to have this hasn't been fixed because apparently this

<v Speaker 1>has been this has been up for a while apparently,

<v Speaker 1>or again again it wasn't there when I was last

<v Speaker 1>up in the observatory. But I don't know bobbly. Now. Look,

<v Speaker 1>if AW doesn't jump on this and start marketing some

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Lashley bobbleheads and calling them bobbly lashly, then I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what the fuck we're doing here. But then again,

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand how they haven't started selling those monette puppets,

<v Speaker 1>even if they're just you know, cheap material bobbly. Look,

<v Speaker 1>I think it could always be worse, right, it could

<v Speaker 1>have been blobbly, could have been blobby lashly. Can you imagine?

<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I don't get it. Man, you had one job.

<v Speaker 1>The disrespect is just unbelievable. Bobbly lashly, it's ridiculous, all right.

<v Speaker 1>They recap enough of that. They recap the end of Raw.

<v Speaker 1>On Monday night, when the Kabooki Warriors won the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles, we had the return of Rhea, Ripley

<v Speaker 1>and Eosky. They came out to make the save and

<v Speaker 1>so that was where Ria said war games and we

<v Speaker 1>had a sense of what the Women's war Games match

<v Speaker 1>was going to be at Survivor Series. Why those three names, Leopoldo,

<v Speaker 1>That's a great question. I have no idea. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why they selected Becky Lynch, bob Le Lashley and

<v Speaker 1>Daniel Bryan's. That is very weird. I don't even remember

<v Speaker 1>bob Lee Lashley had a match at Wrestle Mini at

<v Speaker 1>thirty five. Was even on the card? I was there,

<v Speaker 1>I should know. I don't even remember. I don't remember

<v Speaker 1>him having a match. That's all I'm going to think

<v Speaker 1>now when I see him on TV like a bobblehead

<v Speaker 1>bobb Ley Lashley. Anyway, Eosky and Rhea Ripley, they were

<v Speaker 1>the first ones out to the ring. Rhea said the

<v Speaker 1>Kabuki Warriors thought that they were untouchable since she's been

<v Speaker 1>out with a broken nose. If you add Naya Jackson

<v Speaker 1>lash Legends in the mix. They think they have the

<v Speaker 1>numbers advantage, but all they've ended up with are more enemies.

<v Speaker 1>Eo said, making enemies always catches up to you, and

<v Speaker 1>then she shouted war game. Everyone loves doing that. Everyone's

<v Speaker 1>got to shout war games at the top of their lungs.

<v Speaker 1>Oh man, poor Bobby, did he face Balor on that show,

<v Speaker 1>Demon Balor, Are you sure about that? God, I have

<v Speaker 1>no memory of this. Bobby Bobby Lashley wrestled Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>at Wrestle MANI at thirty five. Like I was in

<v Speaker 1>the building that night. I have no recollection of this whatsoever.

<v Speaker 1>I know they stuck a match in there kind of

<v Speaker 1>last minute between Roman Reigns and Drew MacIntyre because Roman

<v Speaker 1>had just come back. He had been, you know, in

<v Speaker 1>remission from the leukemia, so he came back kind of

<v Speaker 1>close to many. I remember that Kofe right, Kofe Mania,

<v Speaker 1>the women's main event, Randy Orton and aj Styles. I

<v Speaker 1>remember all that. That's a match I don't remember. Apparently

<v Speaker 1>it didn't leave a very big impression on me. Ria

<v Speaker 1>then introduced two of their teammates for Wargames Outcomes, Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>Flair and Alexa Bliss. Alexi said, the Kabooki Warriors, Naya

<v Speaker 1>and lash they started it, We're going to finish it.

<v Speaker 1>The second that Ria said Wargames on Monday, she knew

<v Speaker 1>they were in. Charlotte then told Ria, look, I can't

<v Speaker 1>I can't do this. I can't pretend anymore. She says,

<v Speaker 1>I don't like you, I don't trust you. I think

<v Speaker 1>you're a snake. Charlotte said that there was too much

<v Speaker 1>history between them to look past it. She told Alexa, look,

<v Speaker 1>if you want to do it, you can, but you're

<v Speaker 1>going to have to count me out. And with that,

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte left the ring and she walked to the back,

<v Speaker 1>and everybody in the ring was confused. I was confused

<v Speaker 1>because why would you wait? I'm thinking about this in

<v Speaker 1>like k fape sends, why would you wait until you're

<v Speaker 1>live on TV four days later to then blow the

<v Speaker 1>whole fucking thing up? But that's Charlotte. So now they

<v Speaker 1>are down a teammate for wargames. It was very awkward

<v Speaker 1>how they did this, Like Charlotte just walked out and

<v Speaker 1>that was it. They just cut to the announcers, and

<v Speaker 1>the announcers were kind of flustered, and then they just

<v Speaker 1>previewed what was coming up tonight on SMACKDOWNE. That was it. Now,

<v Speaker 1>later in the show, in the back, the Babyfaces were

<v Speaker 1>talking amongst themselves, what are we gonna do? We need

<v Speaker 1>two more teammates, and then they were ambushed by the

<v Speaker 1>members of the Heel team, or some of them anyway,

<v Speaker 1>lash Legend Nya Jacks. So they got jumped and left

<v Speaker 1>for dead. So why did they do this? They did

<v Speaker 1>it because they're trying to create drama on the babyface side, right.

<v Speaker 1>They want the babyfaces to be at a distinct disadvantage

<v Speaker 1>and they want you for the next week or two

<v Speaker 1>to wonder what are they going to do? Is Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>gonna come back into the fold. Of course the answer

<v Speaker 1>is yes, she will, but they made it very clear

<v Speaker 1>because Riha made a comment here like we need two

<v Speaker 1>more so because I was a little unclear if we're

<v Speaker 1>doing four on four or five on five. They're gonna

<v Speaker 1>stick to the five on five format. You know, when

<v Speaker 1>you look at the women's side, who do we know?

<v Speaker 1>We know Oscar, Kyrie, Naya, and Lash. Is one spot open?

<v Speaker 1>I think that spot is going to Becky Lynch. On

<v Speaker 1>the baby face side, we have Rhea Eo, Alexa. Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>will end up in the match, and then that leaves

<v Speaker 1>one spot open. And I still feel like they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have aj Lee on that baby face side. I know

<v Speaker 1>she hasn't been around since wrestled Palooza. I think we

<v Speaker 1>could see her as soon as Monday night at Madison

<v Speaker 1>Square Garden, but Becky has that title defense against Maxine Dupre.

<v Speaker 1>It could go to Maxine. I just think in a

<v Speaker 1>match like this, they probably would want Aj on the

<v Speaker 1>baby face side, but it's one of the other you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's got to be somebody that Becky has been beefing

<v Speaker 1>with and working with if Becky is going to be

<v Speaker 1>on the heel side, and I just can't imagine they

<v Speaker 1>leave Becky out of wargames when she's right there. So

<v Speaker 1>that's I think going to end up being the final

<v Speaker 1>configuration for both those teams. Now, the opening match on

<v Speaker 1>the show, there's punk k Clayton, Welcome to the channel.

<v Speaker 1>So Ufman came in with a supertatus. Now Finn defeated

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Lashley. That's Bobby by the way, at Wrestle Minnie

<v Speaker 1>at thirty five for the Intercontinental Championship. I can confirm

<v Speaker 1>this as I was there. I also confirmed that Bobby

<v Speaker 1>Lashley was not there. Oh, bobb Lely, I'm sorry, I've

<v Speaker 1>read that wrong. I'm like, boy, you just contradicted yourself.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Bobbly Lashly was not there. Okay, So that's

<v Speaker 1>good to know. That's very good to know. The opening

<v Speaker 1>match on the show was the Mizz going one on

<v Speaker 1>one here with Jay Usa. This was the John Cena

<v Speaker 1>last time is now torn in. At least they got

<v Speaker 1>this out of the way early. Jay yeaeded through the

<v Speaker 1>crowd on his way to the ring. They went to

<v Speaker 1>a commercial break. When they came back, he was in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. He was still yeating and this guy was

<v Speaker 1>ready to run it back, but he was interrupted by

<v Speaker 1>the missus music. Thank you, miss Let's get the show

<v Speaker 1>on the road here, okay, let's get things started. Usso

<v Speaker 1>escaped an early skull crushing finale attempt. He closedlined Miz

<v Speaker 1>out to the floor. Then he took off with a

<v Speaker 1>suicide dive, and then they took off into a commercial break.

<v Speaker 1>Another one. When they came back, Mis had the advantage.

<v Speaker 1>He had a spike DDT that wasn't enough to pick

<v Speaker 1>up the wind. So Mis is kicking at this guy's chest.

<v Speaker 1>He went for that last kick. Jay countered it into

<v Speaker 1>a neck breaker for a near fall. As Miz scurried

<v Speaker 1>to the corner, he avoided the running hip attack and

<v Speaker 1>then he started mocking John Cena. He was doing the

<v Speaker 1>John Scena mannerisms. He did the shoulder tackles. He did

<v Speaker 1>the U Can't scene me and the five knuckle shuffle.

<v Speaker 1>Jay though recovered he's super kicked Miz. Then he tried

<v Speaker 1>to lift him up on his shoulders. Miz, though, wiggled

<v Speaker 1>out and he delivered a skull crushing finale and that

<v Speaker 1>got a rise out of the crowd, so they were

<v Speaker 1>able to get a good near fall out of that.

<v Speaker 1>Mis then lifted Usso up on the top turn buckle.

<v Speaker 1>He was trying for an avalanche skull crushing finale. Jay

<v Speaker 1>escaped and he dropped me. He hit some sort of

<v Speaker 1>drop as he came down from the rope, so he

<v Speaker 1>basically dropped Miz down face first on the top turn buckle.

<v Speaker 1>Jay followed that with a spear and then an USO

<v Speaker 1>splash to advance to the next round of this tournament

<v Speaker 1>against who. We don't know. We have no idea, but Jay, Usso, Seamus,

<v Speaker 1>and Russev up to this point in the show have

<v Speaker 1>all qualified for the next round of the tournament. I thought,

<v Speaker 1>as far as the match is concerned, it was a

<v Speaker 1>perfectly solid match, a perfectly solid, if unspectacular match. It

<v Speaker 1>wasn't anything more than that. It had the predictable outcome. Look,

<v Speaker 1>Jay Uso is in War Games, okay, the Miss is not.

<v Speaker 1>And the only plausible way Jay Usso doesn't win this

<v Speaker 1>match is if the Vision got involved and screwed him

<v Speaker 1>out of his spot, which was certainly possible because obviously

<v Speaker 1>they were there. They were in the building tonight. But

<v Speaker 1>like during the match, at no point did I get

<v Speaker 1>the feeling that, you know, Jay was not going to

<v Speaker 1>win this match. There was no Carmelo hay who was there,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, we heard from Hayes later in the show,

<v Speaker 1>because he's going to be in the tournament two. That's

<v Speaker 1>the only reason I was thinking, maybe they give Miss

<v Speaker 1>a win and the Vision screws Jay, you do Miss

<v Speaker 1>and Mellow in the next round, But that's out the window.

<v Speaker 1>If they do Miss and Mellow, it's gonna have to happen.

<v Speaker 1>Some other times, I could see Miss screwing Mellow, jealous

<v Speaker 1>that you know he lost his shot and if I

<v Speaker 1>can't have it, you can't have it either. I could

<v Speaker 1>see something like that happening. Next week, we had the

<v Speaker 1>United States champion Ilia Dragonov. He was in the back.

<v Speaker 1>He was speaking to Nick all this when d I

<v Speaker 1>Y and Candice Lay interrupted Champa was still very upset

<v Speaker 1>about Dragonov calling him a jackass. He wanted to know

<v Speaker 1>how it made sense that he was dodging him. Dragonov said, look,

<v Speaker 1>I made a promise to do things the right way,

<v Speaker 1>and the right way was to not give opportunities to jackasses.

<v Speaker 1>Said I'm going to give them to warriors to fight honorably,

<v Speaker 1>and there's nothing honorable about Tamaso Champa. So someone honorable

<v Speaker 1>that he respects is going to get the next shot.

<v Speaker 1>Champa had a meltdown about this. They walked off Axiom

<v Speaker 1>and Nathan Fraser walked in. Axiom shook his hand and said,

<v Speaker 1>thank you. So obviously he was going to be next

<v Speaker 1>up in the open challenge. Way to spoil it, guys,

<v Speaker 1>they spoiled it. Although, to be honest with you, I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>if if it was going to be Axiom, all due

<v Speaker 1>respect to Axiom, it's okay. It's okay to spoil that

<v Speaker 1>surprise in the back. I don't think anybody was waiting

<v Speaker 1>for the big pot, you know, when he came out.

<v Speaker 1>But after that all this walked off and the camera

<v Speaker 1>is following him and he stops because when he gets

<v Speaker 1>to his office, standing outside of his office are Paul

<v Speaker 1>Hayman and Bronson Reid, and Hayman has a contract binder

<v Speaker 1>in his hand that he tells all this, I need

<v Speaker 1>to talk to you for a minute. So they headed

<v Speaker 1>into the office and the show went to a commercial break.

<v Speaker 1>Now after the break, they're in the office. All this

<v Speaker 1>is on the phone and he is alerting security that

<v Speaker 1>he needs them make your way to my office. And

<v Speaker 1>then he hung up with them and he told Hayman,

<v Speaker 1>speak your peace. Security is on their way. He said

<v Speaker 1>what he had in his hand was the agreement for Wargames,

<v Speaker 1>and he said that he's allowed. Hayman said he's allowed

<v Speaker 1>to take any talent under WWE contract across all brands

<v Speaker 1>that includes SmackDown. So he said this was just a

<v Speaker 1>friendly heads up and all this said, well, thank you

<v Speaker 1>for coming all this way to remind me about what

<v Speaker 1>was in the agreement when I already knew what was

<v Speaker 1>in the agreement. He said, this could have been an email.

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<v Speaker 1>So at that point, Cody Wrotees showed up. Security showed

<v Speaker 1>up also, but Cody walks in and he got up

<v Speaker 1>in Hayman's face. Haymond said, I want to talk about

<v Speaker 1>Cody getting involved in vision business. Cody said that he

<v Speaker 1>put his friends to the fire, which means he's next

<v Speaker 1>through the flames. What does he come up with this shit?

<v Speaker 1>He's always like so dramatic in everything that he's as

<v Speaker 1>you put my friends in the fire, now I will

<v Speaker 1>walk through the flames. I don't know. I just laughed.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that was the reaction that was

<v Speaker 1>intended there for that line, but I'm like, who fucking

<v Speaker 1>talks like this? So anyway, he was getting all up

<v Speaker 1>in Hayman's grill and he told Bronson Reid, look, if

<v Speaker 1>you're not here to fight, then you should leave. And

<v Speaker 1>Cody told all this, Bronson Reid, Cody Rhodes tonight because

<v Speaker 1>Reid was up for a fight. So he goes all this,

<v Speaker 1>make it happen. So then Hayman pipes up and he says,

<v Speaker 1>why would you make that match and not have the

<v Speaker 1>title on the line. So Cody, of course the dumb

<v Speaker 1>babyface that he is too much pride. He took the

<v Speaker 1>bait and he said, Nick tonight make it happen Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhodes Bronson Reid for the WWE Championship, and all this

<v Speaker 1>was trying to talk him out of it, but Cody insisted.

<v Speaker 1>So that was our main of I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>Nick Aldus would have done had this impromptum match not

<v Speaker 1>been made here in this segment, I have no idea.

<v Speaker 1>That's what's always funny about this, because later in the show,

<v Speaker 1>all this was telling Chelsea Green she wanted her championship celebration.

<v Speaker 1>He was like, there's no time, there's no space on

<v Speaker 1>the show. Had this match not been made, Chelsea would

<v Speaker 1>have been able to have her celebration. I guess somebody

<v Speaker 1>said that he used that line in Street Fighter. Cody

<v Speaker 1>probably listened to Through the Fire and Flames by Dragon Force. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, maybe it is something he lifted from

<v Speaker 1>Street Fighter. Could be I don't know how much dialogue

<v Speaker 1>though Gile has in the movie. I'm not sure. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think people are going to be watching that Street

<v Speaker 1>Fighter movie for the dialogue from Cody Rhodes or Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns or Hiroki Goto's playing I Honda in the movie.

<v Speaker 1>They cut to the arena as soon as the segment

<v Speaker 1>was over. We cut to the arena and already in

<v Speaker 1>the ring the United States Champion Ilia Dragonov an Axiom.

<v Speaker 1>This was the US title Open Challenge. They gave them

<v Speaker 1>the jobber entrances here. But hey, I guess if the

<v Speaker 1>show goes three hours, well then everybody can get an entrance,

<v Speaker 1>and that makes things great. There you go three hours,

<v Speaker 1>everybody can get an entrance. Right. We got some chain

<v Speaker 1>wrestling to start. The champion missed on a shot. Axiom

<v Speaker 1>rolled underneath and that seemed to impress Dragonof. He went

<v Speaker 1>for a back elbow, Axiom dodged it and hit a

<v Speaker 1>dropkick that sent him out of the ring, and as

<v Speaker 1>Axiom tried to go up top, Dragonov intercepted him. He

<v Speaker 1>left him sitting on the top rope and they had

<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a skirmish. Dragonov headbutted Axiom down

<v Speaker 1>to the mat. He followed that with a sent on

<v Speaker 1>for a near fall. They came out of a break.

<v Speaker 1>Dragonof connected with the German suplex. Axiom came right back

<v Speaker 1>would they released Northern lights. Both men struggled to their feet,

<v Speaker 1>Axiom blasted him in the face with a strike and

<v Speaker 1>then he jumped from the top rope with a shotgun

<v Speaker 1>missile dropkick. Dragonov went for a Constantine special that got

<v Speaker 1>reversed into an arm bar by Axiom, and the champion

<v Speaker 1>broke free with a dead lift power bomb. Axiom, though,

<v Speaker 1>got ahead of an attempted h bomb, and in the

<v Speaker 1>highlight of the match, this is what woke everybody up.

<v Speaker 1>Because the crowd was pretty quiet for the majority of

<v Speaker 1>and I watched even through the commercial break, they were

<v Speaker 1>pretty fucking silent from most of this match. This right

<v Speaker 1>here woke everybody up out of their slumber. So he

<v Speaker 1>turns this move here Axiom does into this incredible leaping

<v Speaker 1>springboard DDT for the nearest of near falls, and everybody

<v Speaker 1>is just buzzing after this spot, including the announcers. They're

<v Speaker 1>going nuts forward too, But you gotta see this, so basically,

<v Speaker 1>if you could visualize it, they're standing up and Axiom

<v Speaker 1>has Dragonov's arm, and you need some cooperation on a

<v Speaker 1>spot like this. You see this in a lot of

<v Speaker 1>Luca matches where Phoenix does this a lot. He'll grab

<v Speaker 1>the guy's arm he'll you know, scale the ropes or

<v Speaker 1>you know, jump up to the top rope and then

<v Speaker 1>do some sort of arm drag takedown. Axiom jumps up

<v Speaker 1>on the rope and he does a backflip, but he

<v Speaker 1>does a backflip into this great spike DDT and Dragonov

<v Speaker 1>just sold the shit out of it. It was totally safe,

<v Speaker 1>the way he landed and everything, but it looked great.

<v Speaker 1>So that was the highlight of the match right there.

<v Speaker 1>This is awesome chance followed after this. Stunned in the corner,

<v Speaker 1>the champion is Axiom lifted him up on the top rope.

<v Speaker 1>He was looking for an avalanche Spanish fly. Dragonov tried

<v Speaker 1>to fight back. Axiom though, got the Spanish fly right,

<v Speaker 1>big avalanche Spanish fly off the top rope. But man,

<v Speaker 1>you know, top rope Spanish flies. I guess they just

<v Speaker 1>don't hit like they used to. Because Axie him backed

<v Speaker 1>up into the corner he was setting up for his finish,

<v Speaker 1>the golden ratio. Dragonov, though, intercepted him with a torpedo Moscow.

<v Speaker 1>So so much for the avalanche dragon dragon that what

<v Speaker 1>the fuck was the move? Spanish fly? I was gonna

<v Speaker 1>call the dragonfly, So I think I just invented a

<v Speaker 1>move so much for the avalanche Spanish Fly. I guess

<v Speaker 1>it wasn't very effective. Dragonoff followed that up with an

<v Speaker 1>h bomb for the win, and he retained the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship. That should be a move though the dragonfly.

<v Speaker 1>We have the Spanish fly. There should be a dragonfly,

<v Speaker 1>and Dragonov is the mad Dragon, so it should be

<v Speaker 1>his move. I just don't know what the move would

<v Speaker 1>look like. After the magic, Dragonov showed respect for the

<v Speaker 1>challengers' effort, helped him to his feet. Two of them

<v Speaker 1>shook hands. This was another good outing here for dragon

<v Speaker 1>of I mean, this guy's on a roll, been killing

<v Speaker 1>it ever since he came back, ever since they put

<v Speaker 1>that championship on him. He took the mantle from Sam

<v Speaker 1>Bes who had this incredible series of matches, and they

<v Speaker 1>haven't skipped the beat, you know, dragging up, picked up,

<v Speaker 1>they passed the baton, he grabbed the baton and he's

<v Speaker 1>been running with it ever since. Again, the crowd was

<v Speaker 1>not buying Axiom until the DDT spot. That's what got

<v Speaker 1>them into the match, But that came in the last

<v Speaker 1>like ninety seconds of the match. Up to that point,

<v Speaker 1>they were having a solid match, probably the weakest though

<v Speaker 1>of all the matches we've seen so far, but then

<v Speaker 1>it picked up a lot in that last ninety seconds,

<v Speaker 1>so good effort here. After a break, they showed a

<v Speaker 1>replay of what happened during commercial. Axiom got jumped at

<v Speaker 1>ringside by Tamaso Champa until Nathan Fraser came over to

<v Speaker 1>chase him away. So Champa is on a rampage as

<v Speaker 1>he waits to get his shot at the US title,

<v Speaker 1>which is coming. They've also been teasing that Tomatonga is

<v Speaker 1>going to get a shot. There was no further movement

<v Speaker 1>or development on that tonight, but we already know who

<v Speaker 1>two of the next challengers, whenever that may be. We

<v Speaker 1>know who two of the next challengers are likely going

<v Speaker 1>to be in the back. Our truth was with Nick

<v Speaker 1>Alldis and he was imploring the general manager to allow

<v Speaker 1>him to be in the John Cena Last Time is

<v Speaker 1>Now tournament, and he had two balls in his hand

<v Speaker 1>for Nick to put into the tumbler. He was begging

<v Speaker 1>all this to take his balls. So all this did.

<v Speaker 1>Truth left. Chelsea Green walked in with Alba Fire. Chelsea

<v Speaker 1>had both belts around her waist. She had her brand

<v Speaker 1>new Women's United States Championship that she regained after a

<v Speaker 1>herculean effort in that long iron woman match last week

<v Speaker 1>against Julia. And then she also had her Tripa a

<v Speaker 1>Mixtag team title belt around her waist. She was wearing

<v Speaker 1>a bathrobe. She had some girl shit under her eyes.

<v Speaker 1>She looked like she just came out of the spa

<v Speaker 1>and she's standing there, and she was very upset that

<v Speaker 1>all dis canceled her championship victory celebration tonight, but all

<v Speaker 1>will be forgiven, she said if he allows her to

<v Speaker 1>have her celebration next week with Pyro. And Aldus said,

<v Speaker 1>I think I can make that work, and then he

<v Speaker 1>handed Truth's balls to Chelsea. Comedy Sammy's Ain was out

<v Speaker 1>next to address the crowd and the MFTs. Speaking of comedy,

<v Speaker 1>Sammy said he was in his spiffy flannel modern incarnation

<v Speaker 1>of Mick Foley. This guy is said that since he

<v Speaker 1>came to SmackDown, there were some extremely high highs and

<v Speaker 1>there were some extremely low lows. Oh, you don't have

<v Speaker 1>to tell me, Sammy, I've sat through it. I'm well

<v Speaker 1>aware of the extremely low lows of SmackDown. He talked

<v Speaker 1>about how he beat Solo Socoa for the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>He did some incredible things with that title, like facing

<v Speaker 1>John Cena in his last ever SmackDown match. Zain mentioned

<v Speaker 1>that the last four weeks have been incredibly rough on

<v Speaker 1>him and he was not medically cleared, so he was

<v Speaker 1>forced to watch Solo in the MFTs attack all of

<v Speaker 1>his friends and attack people that he had great respect for.

<v Speaker 1>But that ends tonight and he challenged Solo Siccoa to

<v Speaker 1>come on out here and face me. Manda Man. Solo

<v Speaker 1>Sokoa walks out surrounded by his juggalos. Sokohas said that

<v Speaker 1>he knew the real Sammy's aines, someone who was pathetic,

<v Speaker 1>someone who was a selfish liar. He claimed that Zay

<v Speaker 1>didn't care about the people in the back. He didn't

<v Speaker 1>care about the people here in Albany, so that was

<v Speaker 1>in contrast to himself. He said, he cares about his

<v Speaker 1>family and their loyalty to him. Co Ha told Zaye

<v Speaker 1>that he knew nothing about loyalty. He knew nothing about

<v Speaker 1>love of family, and so Solo threatened to do harm

<v Speaker 1>to Sammy, who was still wounded. He said. He motioned

<v Speaker 1>for the MFTs to come to the ring, but then

<v Speaker 1>he stopped them from attacking, and he said, they know

<v Speaker 1>what I want you to be at one hundred percent.

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to wait until you're medically cleared, but he

<v Speaker 1>made it very clear I'm coming for you. Sammy then

<v Speaker 1>revealed that as of today, he is officially medically cleared

<v Speaker 1>and that if Solo wanted to do something about it,

<v Speaker 1>then he could do something about it right now. But

<v Speaker 1>then Sammy said, I didn't come alone. So right as

<v Speaker 1>he said this, Shinska, by the way, what there's some

<v Speaker 1>weird kind of undertones here in this segment. You know,

<v Speaker 1>you got Solo saying I'm coming for you. This is

<v Speaker 1>after a segment where ar True handed his balls to

<v Speaker 1>all This and Nick Alldis then handed those balls off

<v Speaker 1>to Chelsea Green. We go into a segment here where

<v Speaker 1>Solo Sokoa is telling Samby's Ain I'm coming for you,

<v Speaker 1>and then Sammy's Ain responds by saying, I'm not coming alone.

<v Speaker 1>What is road Doug doing on this show? Who thought

<v Speaker 1>this was a good idea putting him in charge? But

<v Speaker 1>just as he said that He's not coming alone. Shinsky, Nakamora,

<v Speaker 1>Ray Phoenix, and the MotorCity machine Guns. They showed up.

<v Speaker 1>They attacked the MFTs to even the odds, and then

<v Speaker 1>we had poor Ray Phoenix. So Ray Phoenix goes up

<v Speaker 1>to the top rope. All the MFTs are all bunched

<v Speaker 1>up outside in a pile, and Ray Phoenix hits a

<v Speaker 1>corkscrew plancha, And of course the idea is that all

<v Speaker 1>of these men are going to catch him on the

<v Speaker 1>way down or at lease cushion the blow from the fall.

<v Speaker 1>This man is twisting in mid air. Well, they didn't

<v Speaker 1>catch him, and so Ray Phoenix basically splatted on the

<v Speaker 1>floor outside. But I took note of who was in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of that pile, who was standing right there,

<v Speaker 1>and who failed to catch Ray Phoenix. It was the

<v Speaker 1>great Tongaloa. I know this will come as a great

<v Speaker 1>shock to all of you, but yes, Togaloa and the

<v Speaker 1>rest of them didn't exactly catch Ray Phoenix. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure that landing didn't feel too good, but he seemed

<v Speaker 1>to be okay, and he had a look on his

<v Speaker 1>face when he landed like that must have sent some

<v Speaker 1>shockwaves through the man's body. But he popped up and

<v Speaker 1>he got in the ring and he celebrated and stood

<v Speaker 1>tall with the baby faces. And then in the back

<v Speaker 1>later just to follow up on this very angry Solo

<v Speaker 1>Socoa had confronted Nick Alldos and all this informed him

<v Speaker 1>that in two weeks, the night before Survivor Series, there

<v Speaker 1>will be a traditional five on five Survivor Series elimination

<v Speaker 1>style match where Solo and his MFTs will face all

<v Speaker 1>five of the men who we just saw out in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. So you've got Sammy Zain, You've got Ray Phoenix,

<v Speaker 1>You've got Shinskey Nakamora, and you've got the MotorCity machine guns.

<v Speaker 1>And then we got some Wyatt six style VHS glitches

<v Speaker 1>and then again all this had left, Solo had left,

<v Speaker 1>but they kept the shot that particular backstage shot and

<v Speaker 1>off in the background to the left you could see

<v Speaker 1>Uncle Howdy was standing there. First time we've seen Uncle

<v Speaker 1>Howdy on this show in a very long time now,

<v Speaker 1>if you remember, the Wyatt six were seemingly on a

<v Speaker 1>collision course with the MFTs, and I know you are

<v Speaker 1>all very excited to see how this story was going

<v Speaker 1>to unfold. And then Bo has had some family issues

<v Speaker 1>with his father. He's been unavailable. We have not seen

<v Speaker 1>him on the show in a very long time, so

<v Speaker 1>things got put on the back burner, and I do

<v Speaker 1>wonder if that would have been the traditional Survivor series

<v Speaker 1>elimination match that we would have gotten, although I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if there are are there even enough Why it's

<v Speaker 1>six members, Let's see, you got Uncle Howdy, You've got

<v Speaker 1>Joe Gacy, You've got Dexter Loomis, and you've got Eric Rowan,

<v Speaker 1>So no, you would have to have a fifth guy.

<v Speaker 1>I assume that would have been Sammy's ain. So I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how they're going to factor into this, or

<v Speaker 1>if they're going to factor into this at all. The

<v Speaker 1>match is made, so they're not going to have anything

<v Speaker 1>to do with the match, but maybe they'll have something

<v Speaker 1>to do with the finish. Maybe they'll have something to

<v Speaker 1>do after the match, and they'll pick up with the

<v Speaker 1>Wyatt's and the MFTs. We'll see. I wish I could

<v Speaker 1>tell you I cared more about this. I don't. I've

<v Speaker 1>outlined all of the issues I have with the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>and the way they've been presented in portrayed on this show.

<v Speaker 1>It could have been something more than what it is,

<v Speaker 1>but it's very low effort on Wweast Park. This is

<v Speaker 1>a classic example. The MFTs are a classic example of

<v Speaker 1>we're just gonna just We're gonna feed you this very

<v Speaker 1>bland meal, gonna put any kind of seasoning on it.

<v Speaker 1>We're not gonna try to spice it up for you

<v Speaker 1>at all. It's like, here's your fucking gruel. Like we're

<v Speaker 1>in prison. It's like a plate of prison food. That's

<v Speaker 1>what it is. Now. Cody Rhodes was in the back,

<v Speaker 1>Cody's getting ready for his match. Jay Usso walks up

<v Speaker 1>to him and he wishes him luck. He says, I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna have you back tonight. Jimmy Usso then shows up

<v Speaker 1>and he tells them both, I talked to CM Punk

<v Speaker 1>already and I'm in for war games. So again, you

<v Speaker 1>look at what this team is shaping up to be.

<v Speaker 1>You've got CM Punk, You've got Cody Rhodes, and you've

<v Speaker 1>got the Usso's. That's four out of five right there.

<v Speaker 1>And we're not looking at John Cena. I don't believe.

<v Speaker 1>I think we're looking at Roman Reigns. I mean, what

<v Speaker 1>else even makes sense here in this situation? Of course, Roman,

<v Speaker 1>they were chanting OTC tonight at the end of the show,

<v Speaker 1>but they know the people know what this is setting

<v Speaker 1>up for. Even though Roman the last time we saw

<v Speaker 1>him he said he didn't want to see his cousins

<v Speaker 1>until Christmas. But there are no big shows around Christmas.

<v Speaker 1>The big show is Survivor series and then the next

<v Speaker 1>big show for Roman will be the Royal Rumble because

<v Speaker 1>I don't see Roman having any kind of role on

<v Speaker 1>December thirteenth. That's all about John Sena, that's not about

<v Speaker 1>Roman reigns. So we know what Wargames now is looking like.

<v Speaker 1>La Knight will not be in Wargames, but he is

<v Speaker 1>in the John Seena Last Time is Now tournament and

<v Speaker 1>he was facing a mystery challenger tonight. So La Knight

<v Speaker 1>comes out, he gets the first entrance. He's waiting for

<v Speaker 1>his opponent to come out, and it turned out to

<v Speaker 1>be mister Chelsea Green, Matt Cardona, or shall I say

<v Speaker 1>zach Ryder wu wu wu. He even had the old

<v Speaker 1>music or a the remixed version of his old zach

<v Speaker 1>Ryder music wasn't exactly the original. But he was back

<v Speaker 1>on the main roster tonight for the first time in

<v Speaker 1>five and a half years, and he got a good reaction.

<v Speaker 1>It was definitely a case where I think most of

<v Speaker 1>the people or a good number of people in the

<v Speaker 1>building seemed to know who he was. It's not the

<v Speaker 1>kind of reaction he would have gotten, for example, had

<v Speaker 1>he come out this Monday in Madison Square Garden, or

<v Speaker 1>if he came out on Long Island at the Nassau Coliseum,

<v Speaker 1>which is where you know, I'll be out on Long

<v Speaker 1>Island tomorrow. This was Albany, Allbany for those who don't know.

<v Speaker 1>Albany is quite a distance away from these places. So

<v Speaker 1>he got he got a respectful reaction. It wasn't anything overwhelming,

<v Speaker 1>but he got a good reaction. And it's just it's

<v Speaker 1>so silly, you know it is. It is just it

<v Speaker 1>is so silly that he can wrestle week literally weeks ago,

<v Speaker 1>just recently on behalf of TNA Wrestling in NXT again

<v Speaker 1>Josh Briggs as Matt Cardona, but he can't be Matt

<v Speaker 1>Cardona on the main roster. Zach Ryder was such an

<v Speaker 1>important entity on the main roster that he must be

<v Speaker 1>Zack Ryder back on TV. He cannot be Matt Cardona,

<v Speaker 1>even though he was on one of our television shows

<v Speaker 1>only a few weeks ago, as Matt Cardona, It's just

<v Speaker 1>it's stupid. I mean it, really, it really does feel

<v Speaker 1>like they want this to just exist in its own

<v Speaker 1>little universe, unto itself. That's what it feels like. So

<v Speaker 1>Ryder went for an early schoolboy roll up, which shockingly

<v Speaker 1>did not work. And I'm only being partially sarcastic when

<v Speaker 1>I say that, because I mean the way Triple H

<v Speaker 1>has been booking La Night for the last few months.

<v Speaker 1>Would you really be shocked if he did La Night

<v Speaker 1>like that? Because I wouldn't. So after a break night

<v Speaker 1>of void A clothesline, he unleashed a flurry of punches

<v Speaker 1>followed by the neck breaker for a near fall. Night

<v Speaker 1>continued on offense, but a scoop slam reversal led to

<v Speaker 1>Rider picking up some momentum. As Knight was down and

<v Speaker 1>out in the corner, Rider hit the old Brosky boot

<v Speaker 1>and then they buried him a little bit. On commentary

<v Speaker 1>for playing with toys and for being the Internet champion.

<v Speaker 1>Both Michael Cole and Corey Graves were having fun at

<v Speaker 1>his expense. On Commentary, Night countered and attempted an unprettier

<v Speaker 1>into a reverse DDT Rider avoided the elbow drop from

<v Speaker 1>the top. He connected on a rough rider for a

<v Speaker 1>good near fall. Rider headed up top, but his attempt

<v Speaker 1>at a standing leg drop was countered into a power

<v Speaker 1>bomb by La Knight, who then finished things off with

<v Speaker 1>a BFT to advance to the next round of the tournament.

<v Speaker 1>Solid match. I'm happy for Cardona that he got the spot,

<v Speaker 1>or got a spot in the tournament. He does have

<v Speaker 1>history with John Cena. I think you do want some

<v Speaker 1>people at least in this tournament, you know, at least

<v Speaker 1>a few who have some sort of documented history with Sina.

<v Speaker 1>I think that makes sense. You want to have a

<v Speaker 1>mix of newer talent younger talent. I will tell you

<v Speaker 1>all the talent that we have seen so far, and

<v Speaker 1>even a lot of the talent coming up in some

<v Speaker 1>of the matches they've announced outside of the javan Evans

<v Speaker 1>Gunther match that they announced for Monday, which I'm very

<v Speaker 1>much looking forward to. Not a lot of like younger

<v Speaker 1>talents in this tournament, and I'm not even sure how

<v Speaker 1>many slots are left. There aren't that many spots left

<v Speaker 1>in this tournament, and honestly, Javon Evans is basically like

<v Speaker 1>the only one, and now Carmelo Hayes is in there too.

<v Speaker 1>He's a bit older, He's like ten years older than

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans. But not a lot of youth in this tournament,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for a guy in John Cena, who even

<v Speaker 1>on Monday, you know, has talked about, you know, the

<v Speaker 1>up and coming generation and wanting to provide opportunities to them.

<v Speaker 1>And I know he's I'm sure he doesn't have a

<v Speaker 1>hand in the booking of this tournament, but you I

<v Speaker 1>think there would be a better mix of some newer

<v Speaker 1>and younger faces in here, and that's really not been

<v Speaker 1>the case so far, which is kind of disappointing. I'm

<v Speaker 1>not gonna lie, but I'm happy Cardonah at least was

<v Speaker 1>able to get his face here on SmackDown. He has

<v Speaker 1>been very vocal about, you know, wanting the opportunity to

<v Speaker 1>come back to WWE, and I'm sure he would love

<v Speaker 1>to also be able to travel and work with his wife,

<v Speaker 1>you know, like Alistair Black and Zelina Vegan now were

<v Speaker 1>able to do on SmackDown, or Seth and Becky Punk

<v Speaker 1>and AJ all these different couples. But he's been busting

<v Speaker 1>his ass on the indies now for a few years

<v Speaker 1>and he's been doing phenomenal as the Indie God, but

<v Speaker 1>you could tell like he would love to have another shot,

<v Speaker 1>you know, on the main roster in WWE. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>get the feeling from this, and I don't know, but

<v Speaker 1>I didn't get the feeling that this is going to

<v Speaker 1>lead to a full time contract or anything like that.

<v Speaker 1>It was probably a one and done at least for

<v Speaker 1>the time being. But the way I look at it,

<v Speaker 1>this was a win win. You know, you got Cardona

<v Speaker 1>a spot in the tournament and he got to be

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown Tonight, and it's cool. You know that we

<v Speaker 1>have some talents in here, hopefully more that are not

<v Speaker 1>on the main roster, that are not even necessarily with

<v Speaker 1>the company per se, who are able to participate in this.

<v Speaker 1>And then on the flip side, La Night got a win,

<v Speaker 1>which for him is good because he hasn't been getting

<v Speaker 1>very many of those. So I look at this as

<v Speaker 1>a win win. And as far as Monday, we have

<v Speaker 1>Gunther and Javon Evans, but we also have Solo Sokoa

<v Speaker 1>against a mystery opponent who likely will end up being

<v Speaker 1>Joe Hendry, and I'm sure that'll get a big reaction

<v Speaker 1>to Madison Square Garden. There was another idea that I

<v Speaker 1>had as far as how you could go with Joe

<v Speaker 1>Hendry on Monday, and I'll talk more about that on

<v Speaker 1>the podcast on Sunday, because there is another way that

<v Speaker 1>you could go with this. We have the WWE Women's

<v Speaker 1>Champion Jade Cargill title, of course, one on one against BFAB.

<v Speaker 1>I wish I knew where I saw the video. It

<v Speaker 1>was on Instagram. I don't remember what account it was.

<v Speaker 1>I think it was one. It was like a makeup artist,

<v Speaker 1>but it was a video of her working on Jade's scar.

<v Speaker 1>So like when they zoom in on Jade's scar sometimes

<v Speaker 1>it looks you all gnarly and stuff, and I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>sure it's totally a makeup job. I saw the scar

<v Speaker 1>without all the makeup on. It's actually healing really well,

<v Speaker 1>but they color it in and put some makeup on

<v Speaker 1>it to make it look even more badass. So if

<v Speaker 1>you were wondering, like is that scar real? Is it

<v Speaker 1>not real? It's not real, or at least it's very

<v Speaker 1>very embellished. But you know what it works for Jade.

<v Speaker 1>It makes her look like even more of a badass.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, Befab escaped an early choke slam attempt. She

<v Speaker 1>hit Jade with a dropkick and elbows in the corner,

<v Speaker 1>but her attempt at a pump kick up met by

<v Speaker 1>an elbow to the face by Jade, who followed that

<v Speaker 1>up with a fallaway slam and then a kip up.

<v Speaker 1>Jade then delay her the chokes lamb which was followed

<v Speaker 1>by a power bomb, but she was not satisfied with

<v Speaker 1>just one, so she gave her another power bomb and

<v Speaker 1>then she hit Jaded and got the decisive win in

<v Speaker 1>two minutes and if anything, I think this actually went

<v Speaker 1>longer than I expected. Michen then got in the ring

<v Speaker 1>to check on Bfab. Jaye took notice of this, she

<v Speaker 1>went face to face with her, and then Jade shoved

<v Speaker 1>Michin down on her ass. So they're setting up a

<v Speaker 1>match in the next few weeks between these two, which

<v Speaker 1>seemed like the likely destination because who the fuck else

<v Speaker 1>do they have for Jade to work with? Right, you

<v Speaker 1>feed her some easy, quick wins on TV, and then

<v Speaker 1>you build to whoever that next challenger, that real competitive

<v Speaker 1>challenger is going to be. And I think it was

<v Speaker 1>the right move to take the tag belts off of

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte and Alexa because you almost have no choice but

<v Speaker 1>to go to them next. And I think it would

<v Speaker 1>be in the reverse order. I think, if anything, we

<v Speaker 1>would get Jade Alexa and then build to Jade and

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte because Jade and Charlotte is going to be the

<v Speaker 1>bigger match in their view. You could tell because that's

<v Speaker 1>the match they've teased now multiple times on TV. I

<v Speaker 1>haven't teased Jade and Alexa. They've had multiple face to

<v Speaker 1>face confrontations over the last several months, including one just

<v Speaker 1>that was the last week with Jade and Charlotte. That's

<v Speaker 1>the bigger match that they're going to be building to.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that's the Rumble match or you know,

<v Speaker 1>a Saturday Night's made a met match in January. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. You almost have no choice. It goes back

<v Speaker 1>to what I talked about at the beginning of the review,

<v Speaker 1>where this roster needs a refresh, This roster needs help,

<v Speaker 1>the women's division needs help. Jade needs challengers. Right, even

<v Speaker 1>if Bianca was on the show, you're not going to

<v Speaker 1>Jade and Bianca until probably WrestleMania. What do you do

<v Speaker 1>in the meantime and that's if Bianca's even back in

<v Speaker 1>time for WrestleMania. Who does Jade work with? You need

<v Speaker 1>Alexa and Charlotte in that role because there's nobody else

<v Speaker 1>to the back where Nick All this announced the next

<v Speaker 1>two matches and the John Cena Last Time Is Now tournament,

<v Speaker 1>which is coming up on SmackDown next Friday. These are

<v Speaker 1>the matches Carmelo Hayes will go one on one with

<v Speaker 1>Bronson Reid. I don't suspect that's going to end very

<v Speaker 1>well for Carmelo Hayes, although you know what, given what

<v Speaker 1>happened at the end of SmackDown tonight, I could see

<v Speaker 1>him back dooring his way into a win because one

<v Speaker 1>of the last images we saw on the show tonight

<v Speaker 1>was Bronson Reid pancaking Cody with a tsunami splash. So

<v Speaker 1>I actually can see Carmelo Hayes advancing in the tournament,

<v Speaker 1>but what a lame way to advance though. That's about

<v Speaker 1>the only way he moves on in this tournament is

<v Speaker 1>if Cody comes out and gets revenge on Bronson Reid.

<v Speaker 1>So that's one match. In the other match, we have

<v Speaker 1>Finn Balor one on one against Penta and Honestly, after

<v Speaker 1>they announced these two matches, my reaction was meh, meh.

<v Speaker 1>I'm happy that you know Hayes got a spot in

<v Speaker 1>this tournament. I mean, I think that's cool. But they

<v Speaker 1>I think, and that correct me if I'm wrong. I

<v Speaker 1>believe that they said it. Michael Colemy have said it

<v Speaker 1>that Balor and Penta is the end of the opening round,

<v Speaker 1>so that may be it. Like whoever this mystery meant

<v Speaker 1>is against Solo Socoa on Monday. I don't know that

<v Speaker 1>there's any other surprises left to be had in this tournament.

<v Speaker 1>I don't have a fucking bracket, so I can't tell

<v Speaker 1>you if I'm missing another match or two. But I

<v Speaker 1>think that's it. I think Balor and Penta next Friday,

<v Speaker 1>and that's the end of the opening round. Mah. I

<v Speaker 1>have not been impressed by this tournament. Gunther and Javan

<v Speaker 1>is legitimately the only thing in this tournament I'm looking

<v Speaker 1>forward to. That's why when I pitched that idea, I

<v Speaker 1>pitched Gunther and Jevon Evans. I talked about this on

<v Speaker 1>TNT a few weeks ago. My idea was to have

<v Speaker 1>that and actually build to it as the finals of

<v Speaker 1>the tournament, Like, what an intriguing final that would have been,

<v Speaker 1>and you tell the underdog story with Javon, they chose

<v Speaker 1>to do it in the opening round. I'm just happy

<v Speaker 1>we're getting the match. Like that match intrigues me. I

<v Speaker 1>wish we had more intriguing matches in this tournament now.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe as the tournament progresses and we actually get some

<v Speaker 1>kind of a bracket, maybe we'll end up with a

<v Speaker 1>couple of interesting matches. But I'm not seeing it, you know,

<v Speaker 1>right now, I'm just not seeing it. But they gave

<v Speaker 1>Mellow a quick promo backstage after this with Kathy Kelly.

<v Speaker 1>He addressed John Cena. He said that if he gets

<v Speaker 1>the shot against him, he won't miss. Bronson Reid showed

<v Speaker 1>up and said that he was going to go out

<v Speaker 1>there right now and end Cody's reign is the WWE Champion,

<v Speaker 1>and then he would end Mellow on his way to

<v Speaker 1>ending John Cena his career. Good luck with that. We

<v Speaker 1>got another Alistair Black and Zelena Vega promo video talking

<v Speaker 1>about Damian pre this never ending feud. It feels like

<v Speaker 1>and I know it hasn't and look, it's a solid

<v Speaker 1>mid card feud, but why does it feel like this

<v Speaker 1>has been dragging on for a thousand years. At this point,

<v Speaker 1>we just get on with this. They had a last

<v Speaker 1>man's standing match. That's when he took the fireball to

<v Speaker 1>the face, Like, where do you go after you do

<v Speaker 1>a last man's standing match? I feel like they did

<v Speaker 1>things in reverse here. But in this video he talked

<v Speaker 1>about Damian Priest and Zelena said that they've corrupted him,

<v Speaker 1>and Black said that they forced Damien to break his

<v Speaker 1>code and now he had greater things in mind, namely

<v Speaker 1>those who hold championships on SmackDown. Okay, then, but yeah,

<v Speaker 1>let's let's move this along. Then it was time for

<v Speaker 1>our main event for the WWE Championship. It was Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhodes defending the title against Bronson Reid Monday Night Raws.

<v Speaker 1>Bronson reed, he's not even a contracted SmackDown talent, and

<v Speaker 1>yet Nick all this approved this WWE Championship match here

<v Speaker 1>tonight because I guess Cody wanted it. So all right,

<v Speaker 1>there you go. But think about this, right, Bronson Reid

<v Speaker 1>against Cody for the title. If Bronson Reid wins the

<v Speaker 1>WWE Championship, are we to believe that Bronton Reid is

<v Speaker 1>no longer in the vision on Raw and he's just

<v Speaker 1>gonna be on SmackDown from now on, Like, how does

<v Speaker 1>that work? I don't know. It was never explained because

<v Speaker 1>there isn't a person in the world, not even Missus Reid,

<v Speaker 1>who honestly believed that this man was going to win

<v Speaker 1>the championship. But that's not why this match was happening.

<v Speaker 1>It served a different purpose. Cody nailed Reid with a

<v Speaker 1>disaster kick. Reid came back with a jagged edge death

<v Speaker 1>valley driver, but he missed on the follow up tsunami.

<v Speaker 1>This left if Reid opened for a Cody cutter for

<v Speaker 1>a close near fall. As Reid scurried out to the floor,

<v Speaker 1>Cody went for a suicide dive. Read, though, cut him

<v Speaker 1>off with an elbow strike just as he was about

<v Speaker 1>to come through the ropes outside the ring. Reid had

<v Speaker 1>Cody in sight for a running charge and he was

<v Speaker 1>going to knock this man through the timekeeper's barricade. Cody, though,

<v Speaker 1>could smell him coming from a mile away, so he

<v Speaker 1>moved out of the way and Reid went flying over

<v Speaker 1>the barricade. He landed on the concrete outside. So after this,

<v Speaker 1>Cody clears off the announced desk and wouldn't you know, surprise, surprise,

<v Speaker 1>guess who showed up the Vision? Well, the other member

<v Speaker 1>of the vision bron Breaker and Logan Paul Logan. Paul

<v Speaker 1>is part of the Vision until November twenty ninth, and

<v Speaker 1>then he won't be. But it was bron Breaker and

<v Speaker 1>Logan Paul, and they attacked Cody Roads for the disqualify

<v Speaker 1>or what should be a disqualification. Knowing this company, they'll

<v Speaker 1>just call it a no contest. Even though the babyface

<v Speaker 1>was attacked by the heels. So the ussos ran out

<v Speaker 1>to make the save. They cleared the ring of Paul

<v Speaker 1>and Breaker. They dropped Logan with a one D Jimmy

<v Speaker 1>then went outside. He went under the ring and he

<v Speaker 1>pulled out a Slim Jim table. This is a preview

<v Speaker 1>of what we can expect in wargames. If you thought

<v Speaker 1>it was nuts in blood and guts everybody bringing in

<v Speaker 1>a weapon, you wait until wargames. Everybody will have their

<v Speaker 1>Kendos stick, they'll have their chairs, they'll have their tables,

<v Speaker 1>same weapons we got every single year. They'll have the

<v Speaker 1>Slim Jim logo on them. Because it's not official unless

<v Speaker 1>it says Slimjim so he slides the Slimjym table into

<v Speaker 1>the ring. Jimmy sets Logan down across the table and

<v Speaker 1>the ussos go to opposite corners. They're going to hit

<v Speaker 1>a double USO splash. But who should show up on

<v Speaker 1>the apron to knock Jimmy off the top rope? Why

<v Speaker 1>it is Drew McIntyre screwed for the better part of

<v Speaker 1>really the entire year suspended a week ago by Nick

<v Speaker 1>All this. They got into a cussing match in the back.

<v Speaker 1>Remember they showed that on their social media after the

<v Speaker 1>show went off the air. They were dropping f bombs.

<v Speaker 1>They were making fun of Ridge Holland. Drew McIntyre's talking

<v Speaker 1>about how am I gonna feed my fucking family and

<v Speaker 1>all this is telling him shut the fuck up and

<v Speaker 1>get the fuck out of here. This is a real

<v Speaker 1>conversation between the two of them. It lasted all of

<v Speaker 1>one week and Drew McIntyre is back. He shoves him

<v Speaker 1>off the top rope. Now here comes in angry Nick

<v Speaker 1>All this and he marches down to the range. What

<v Speaker 1>are you doing here? He goes over to Paul Hayman.

<v Speaker 1>He gets up in Hayman's face and he's yelling at Hayman,

<v Speaker 1>and Hayman has the binder but the contract, and he

<v Speaker 1>is just yelling over and over in his face. Anybody,

<v Speaker 1>anybody remember I could sign anybody from any brand to

<v Speaker 1>be on my team for Wargames. So breaker speared, Jay

<v Speaker 1>Ussa threw the table in the ring, got propped up

<v Speaker 1>in the corner, and it mostly broke. Wasn't a clean break,

<v Speaker 1>but it mostly broke. Logan. Paul hit Jimmy with the

<v Speaker 1>loaded punch. Cody tried to get involved, but McIntyre hit

<v Speaker 1>him with a Claymore kick, and then Bronson Reid followed

<v Speaker 1>up with a tsunami to flatten Cody. McIntyre shook Paul

<v Speaker 1>Hayman's hand and now officially joined their team for war Games.

<v Speaker 1>All the bad guys posed to close the show. Oh

<v Speaker 1>my god, what are the Babyfaces? I gotta do my

<v Speaker 1>Kevin McAllister face? What are the Babyfaces going to do?

<v Speaker 1>They're one man short. If only there was some other

<v Speaker 1>big star on the roster who can make his seventeenth

<v Speaker 1>return this year and come to the aid of the

<v Speaker 1>Babyfaces to ward off Paul Hayman's team. I wonder who

<v Speaker 1>it can be. Madison Square Garden a Monday night. We

<v Speaker 1>will find out, you'll hear the music, he'll make his

<v Speaker 1>way out, and we'll have our Wargames team, and then

<v Speaker 1>the Heels just have to find one more person because

<v Speaker 1>they're down a man, and we can probably surmise that

<v Speaker 1>that man is going to end up being Brocklesner. Because

<v Speaker 1>we have not seen Brocklesner since Russell Palooza. There's no

<v Speaker 1>reason to think that Paul Hayman would not reach out

<v Speaker 1>to Brock as a friend and say, hey, we need you.

<v Speaker 1>Brock's not exactly a team player, but I think it's

<v Speaker 1>safe to say that he's the likeliest choice to fill

<v Speaker 1>out that final spot in the war Games match, and

<v Speaker 1>then we'll have our teams. The main event itself, it

<v Speaker 1>was nothing special. It was a means really just to

<v Speaker 1>get to the postmatch angle to set up the return

<v Speaker 1>of Drew McIntyre. How they brought him back, the Hayman stipulation.

<v Speaker 1>That was the story. They went with him and said, look,

<v Speaker 1>I the rule is that I could pick anybody who

<v Speaker 1>was under contract with this company across all three brands,

<v Speaker 1>and technically he was suspended, but he is still under contract,

<v Speaker 1>so that nullifies the suspension in theory, that would should

<v Speaker 1>really only mean the McIntyre's back for one night. Nick

<v Speaker 1>Alldos can still go wait a minute, you're still suspended now,

<v Speaker 1>Are they going to do that? Probably not, but he

<v Speaker 1>is going to be back for Wargames. And look, it

<v Speaker 1>makes sense. As soon as they announced that Cody Roads

<v Speaker 1>was going to be in war Games, it only makes

<v Speaker 1>sense that Drew McIntyre is on the opposing side. Plus

<v Speaker 1>Drew has history with cmpunk, so it's not like him

<v Speaker 1>and Cody the only people that have history together. So

<v Speaker 1>to that end, it makes sense. And they did what

<v Speaker 1>they had to do tonight to fill things out a

<v Speaker 1>little bit more. Still incomplete, but they still have two

<v Speaker 1>weeks left to go until we get to Wargames. This

<v Speaker 1>was not a great show. It was a slight improvement

<v Speaker 1>from last week. It was better than last week. It's

<v Speaker 1>a very low bar. We had another solid entry in

<v Speaker 1>the US Title Open Challenge tonight. They continued the story

<v Speaker 1>between DRAGONOV and Tamaso Champa, which gives Champa and Diy

<v Speaker 1>something to do. It was nice to see Cardona, if

<v Speaker 1>only for one night, back on the main roster. They

<v Speaker 1>gave La night to win, which is good. We don't

<v Speaker 1>get too many of those, so when you get one,

<v Speaker 1>if you're an La Night fan, you got to kind

<v Speaker 1>of cling to it and hang on to it like

<v Speaker 1>like a fucking child, because it could be ripped out

<v Speaker 1>of your arms at any second. It could be kidnapped

<v Speaker 1>by the evil Paulovc. But for tonight, La and I

<v Speaker 1>got a win. He moves on to the next round

<v Speaker 1>against who we don't know, and we had some progression

<v Speaker 1>on the wargames front right, Charlotte causing drama with the women.

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre makes his return, so he's back on TV now,

<v Speaker 1>and that's where we are heading into Madison Square Garden.

<v Speaker 1>You want to do three hours of this huh? You

<v Speaker 1>want to do three hours of this show here every

<v Speaker 1>single week. There are some big changes that are going

<v Speaker 1>to have to be made by January if they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>make this work, if they're gonna make this a quality

<v Speaker 1>program in three hours. You cannot take SmackDown in its

<v Speaker 1>current form. You cannot take SmackDown in its current incarnation,

<v Speaker 1>in the state that it's in right now, and stretch

<v Speaker 1>it out to three hours and expect to put on

<v Speaker 1>a good show. Every week. I don't give a shit

<v Speaker 1>how many matches get more times. It's not about that.

<v Speaker 1>It's not about that. You could take any two members

<v Speaker 1>or two teams. You want to a lot of talented

<v Speaker 1>men and women on this roster and put them out

<v Speaker 1>there and give them an extra fifteen minutes to have

<v Speaker 1>a banger match on the show every week. Okay, it

<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter if the creative that is supporting them and

<v Speaker 1>the stories that you're trying to tell and the feuds

<v Speaker 1>that you're trying to put together are not interesting. There

<v Speaker 1>have to be changes now that we know this show

<v Speaker 1>is actually getting fatter. They're feeding it. This show needs changes,

<v Speaker 1>and I just hope to God that they can start

<v Speaker 1>to implement them now so that by the time we

<v Speaker 1>get to January they might be in a pretty good state.

<v Speaker 1>Don't wait until January. Start now you have more people

<v Speaker 1>to call up. Do it now and get them prepped

<v Speaker 1>and ready to go heading into twenty twenty six. Man,

<v Speaker 1>that news put me in a sour mood. What did

<v Speaker 1>you think of SmackDown from Albany tonight? Sixty one point

<v Speaker 1>seven percent thumbs up for tonight's show. That is a

<v Speaker 1>stark contrast to the poll from last week thirty eight

<v Speaker 1>point three percent thumbs down. Can vote at Solemn Monster

<v Speaker 1>on X is the place to go. I did want

<v Speaker 1>to before I get into all your questions and we

<v Speaker 1>have some fun here. I did to just mention because

<v Speaker 1>this is where I will be tomorrow. If you are

<v Speaker 1>in the area, there's a big convention in New York

<v Speaker 1>tomorrow out on Long Island. The big event, the biggest

<v Speaker 1>autograph expo in the state. Not just wrestlers, a lot

<v Speaker 1>of wrestlers going to be there, past the President, but

<v Speaker 1>also celebrities, athletes. Mike Tyson was going to be there,

<v Speaker 1>he had to cancel. Brett Hart also was going to

<v Speaker 1>be there. He had to cancel. But a lot of

<v Speaker 1>people are going to be there. And then at night

<v Speaker 1>after the expo ends, that goes from ten to four

<v Speaker 1>at eight pm, House of Glory has SuperClash. And this

<v Speaker 1>is just some of the names on the card right here.

<v Speaker 1>Mercedes Monet challenging for another championship, Nick Namath against the

<v Speaker 1>Amazing Red, We got Killer Cross against a mystery opponent

<v Speaker 1>on the show. Shanna Basler against Machi Itto might be

<v Speaker 1>my favorite. I am very much looking forward to calling

<v Speaker 1>that match. So I'll probably be walking around the floor

<v Speaker 1>during the expo earlier in the day if anybody's going

<v Speaker 1>to be around, and then we have the big show

<v Speaker 1>at night. So tickets are still available, they are going quick.

<v Speaker 1>So you go to hog Wrestling dot Net and pick

<v Speaker 1>one up or two or three. Bring your friends. It's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be a fun night tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it.

<v Speaker 1>Get into your super chats here, Victor. Who do you

<v Speaker 1>see winning the Women's Royal Rumble next year? I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>depends who's in there. If liv Morgan is in there,

<v Speaker 1>she's got to be one of the favorites. But I

<v Speaker 1>could see Rhea. I could see Bianca. If I had

<v Speaker 1>to go with an early favorite right now, assuming she's

<v Speaker 1>backed by then, I would go with Bianca bell Air

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on the Dark Side of the Ring episode on

<v Speaker 1>Mister Perfect I think that you could definitely do one.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, as someone who was obviously taken from the

<v Speaker 1>world earlier than he should have been, and he had

<v Speaker 1>a drug problem there towards the end played a role

<v Speaker 1>in his death. I think that fits the criteria for

<v Speaker 1>Dark Side of the Ring by sell Rent jay Z,

<v Speaker 1>James Brown, Britney Spears. Oh my god, buy on James Brown,

<v Speaker 1>rent on Jay Z and sell on Britney Spears, or

<v Speaker 1>just sell Britney Spears and also buy or sell Hogan,

<v Speaker 1>Piper Edge, John Cena. I'm just gonna buy on I mean,

<v Speaker 1>what was that? Even mean, Victor, There's no criteria for this.

<v Speaker 1>It's kind of a weird question. It's impossible to answer.

<v Speaker 1>Hogan was the man for me as a kid. Then

<v Speaker 1>I got smartened up and I came to appreciate other

<v Speaker 1>talents who did not get the same level of attention

<v Speaker 1>or maybe didn't sell quite as many tickets as Hogan didn't.

<v Speaker 1>But Hogan was that guy in the eighties. Piper was awesome.

<v Speaker 1>You know, those were my guys. How come Macho Man

<v Speaker 1>wasn't a bigger star than Hogan. He just wasn't as

<v Speaker 1>big of a box office draw, and Vince chose to

<v Speaker 1>put all of his muscle behind behind Hogan. Hogan was

<v Speaker 1>his golden goose. Savage had a great run, he really did.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, especially when he was the champion that first time.

<v Speaker 1>They did good business with him as the champion. But

<v Speaker 1>Hogan was Hogan, simple as that. Why wasn't he a

<v Speaker 1>bigger star? Because Hulk Hogan existed. That's why super Pony says, update,

<v Speaker 1>that's not gonna work for me. Brother. That's after he asked,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure this Miss versus j match will be cinema.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, super Pony. We got our boy. I smoke

<v Speaker 1>a lot of weed with the four ninety nine. That

<v Speaker 1>might be the only way to get through SmackDown. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I think he's got the right idea. He did it

<v Speaker 1>with the US and WWE belts final scene of redesign

<v Speaker 1>for the Intercontinental title, but it's the classic ic belt

<v Speaker 1>with a black or maybe a blue strap, just an idea.

<v Speaker 1>He's not going to have that championship long enough to

<v Speaker 1>redesign it though, that's the thing. But if he was

<v Speaker 1>going to, I think that the classic Intercontinental title design

<v Speaker 1>on a white strap. I know they use white straps

<v Speaker 1>now for the women's belts, but the old Intercontinental belt

<v Speaker 1>on a white strap, now, that was a thing of beauty.

<v Speaker 1>I would bring that back. That's what Cody brought back.

<v Speaker 1>When Cody brought back some version of the old design

<v Speaker 1>in like twenty eleven, I think it was it was

<v Speaker 1>on a white strap, like when Miz was holding that

<v Speaker 1>championship and having actually some pretty good matches with it

<v Speaker 1>back in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. It was

<v Speaker 1>on a white strap. Nothing wrong with that. Give me backshots,

<v Speaker 1>Solemn Monster. No, I really believe they refuse to disband

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs because that would be the end of Solo

<v Speaker 1>getting real TV time. Big cousin Roman wouldn't like that.

<v Speaker 1>I can't say that. There's no truth in that. Would

<v Speaker 1>they have any ideas for Solo? Cause Solo could be

<v Speaker 1>a funny guy, but they have him as like acting

<v Speaker 1>as like the mob boss here, and that's not him.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't work. He looks like a poser. He's not Roman.

<v Speaker 1>Holiday one ninety seven says Hi Solo. I was seriously

<v Speaker 1>considering skipping SmackDown tonight and just watching your review an

<v Speaker 1>hour into watching the show, and I am regretting it.

<v Speaker 1>You should have just stuck with me, brother. I could

<v Speaker 1>have told you what the good stuff was and then

<v Speaker 1>you can go watch it. The boss moo Jackson, who's

<v Speaker 1>your early money in the bank? Money in the bank predictions?

<v Speaker 1>Are you out of your mind? Money in the bank

<v Speaker 1>is the end of August, dude? Early money in the

<v Speaker 1>bank predictions. I fucking know. I mean, I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know who's gonna be on the main roster at that point.

<v Speaker 1>My early money in the bank prediction. On the men's side,

<v Speaker 1>I'll shit my god. I mean, I'll go Trick Williams.

<v Speaker 1>On the women's side, I'll go lash legend Funny enough

<v Speaker 1>if the two of them are a couple. Josh Carlo's

<v Speaker 1>better film The Rundown or The Condemned. I enjoyed The

<v Speaker 1>Rundown more, Osmo Jackson. I'd like to have seen Oba

<v Speaker 1>instead of Zack. Well. Oba just returned at the end

<v Speaker 1>of NXT on Tuesday night, so apparently he is not

<v Speaker 1>done with NXT yet. Oba Femi will not be in

<v Speaker 1>the tournament. Also, he says, we need to see a bracket.

<v Speaker 1>Random matches, isn't it. Oh, you will get a tumbler

<v Speaker 1>and you will enjoy it. You don't enjoy the random tumbler.

<v Speaker 1>What are your early Royal Rumble predictions men and women? Well,

<v Speaker 1>I said before, I think Bianca would be my early

<v Speaker 1>prediction on the women's side. On the men's side, that's

<v Speaker 1>a little bit tougher. There was a time a few

<v Speaker 1>months ago where I would have said samy' zayin, but

<v Speaker 1>they just have gotten completely away from that story about him.

<v Speaker 1>You know, I know I can be a world champion,

<v Speaker 1>like he hasn't said anything about that in months, So

<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking man Breaker, Maybe I go bron Breaker is

<v Speaker 1>like an early favorite pick for the Rumble, But honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I could see Roman reigns Arabian Night next NXT two

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago, he's Matt Cardona in TNA, and tonight we

<v Speaker 1>see Zack Ryder. I bet deep down he's gutted that

<v Speaker 1>he had to go buy this again after reinventing himself

<v Speaker 1>the last five years. It didn't He's say in that

<v Speaker 1>interview he did with Chris van Vliet that he would

<v Speaker 1>never be met or he would never be a Zach

<v Speaker 1>Ryder again. Believe me, I'm sure it wasn't his choice.

<v Speaker 1>The Bossmo Jackson says, I get so much pleasure seeing

<v Speaker 1>Cody smashed at the end. I love the way Bronson

<v Speaker 1>does his finish, But Logan does not look like a wrestler.

<v Speaker 1>Let me read some of these member chats here. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>the member chats do not show on this particular screen.

<v Speaker 1>So I have to go fish. I have to go

<v Speaker 1>fish for them on a different tab here. It's a

<v Speaker 1>pain in the ass thanks to YouTube, but I'll find

<v Speaker 1>them here. Let's see. We got one here from Sidrow

<v Speaker 1>sixteen months from our boy Sidro. This was from an

<v Speaker 1>hour ago. My door was a jar, so I added jelly.

<v Speaker 1>Now it's a door jam this guy. And I'm trying

<v Speaker 1>to remember what the French word for white is. My

<v Speaker 1>mind just keeps going blanc. Look at this guy trying

<v Speaker 1>to be sophisticated. Bobby means with twenty one months, he's

<v Speaker 1>got Sidro trump by five months. There there was a

<v Speaker 1>rumor that WWE is considering the Caare against Rhea for

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania or Vicare against Becky Lynch. If that's the case,

<v Speaker 1>then who would you have winning the rumble Bianca Bella,

<v Speaker 1>because whoever challenges Stephanie Vicaire if she is still the

<v Speaker 1>champion in WrestleMania, could win the elimination chamber, and I

<v Speaker 1>think that person is Rhea Ripley. And again Jamie from earlier,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for those five gifted memberships. You're awesome. All right,

<v Speaker 1>let's get back to these now. Prince begeta ninety five

<v Speaker 1>as a fellow Sopranos fan, what do you think happened

<v Speaker 1>to Valerie the Russian after the Pine Barons episode? He

<v Speaker 1>was an interior decorator after he was Yes, he was

<v Speaker 1>an interior see I like to I like to believe

<v Speaker 1>that he went into an actual career. He had a

<v Speaker 1>career change and he actually became an interior decorator. Like

<v Speaker 1>in my mind, that's that's what I see, that's what

<v Speaker 1>I envision as his future. I have to believe this.

<v Speaker 1>Joseph with the two bucks says, thought you could use

<v Speaker 1>this after SmackDown moving to three hours. Thank you, Joseph,

<v Speaker 1>although after this news, it's uh, I could use more

<v Speaker 1>than three bucks. You know, a bottle of whiskey costs

<v Speaker 1>a lot more than three three bucks or two bucks

<v Speaker 1>two bucks. I think bottle of whiskey's not cheap. But

<v Speaker 1>thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for looking out. Refresh

<v Speaker 1>this list here so that you guys can see all

<v Speaker 1>the new ones. Ragnarok, he says, really Carmelo against Bronson,

<v Speaker 1>I wonder who's going to win anyway, my prediction Joe

<v Speaker 1>Hendry shows up on Raw and they debut Obafemi in

<v Speaker 1>the rumble. Well again, I said, Carmelo could stand the

<v Speaker 1>chance if Cody gets revenge and then he could backdoor

<v Speaker 1>his way into the next round, which again I just

<v Speaker 1>think would be incredibly lame if that happened, but it

<v Speaker 1>would get him into the next round. So for him,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I guess a win is a win, but

<v Speaker 1>what a lame way to win, you know, Super Pony

<v Speaker 1>smack down back to three hours. That's what we do

<v Speaker 1>in the triple Ah voice. Yeah, he's very fond of

<v Speaker 1>saying that's what we do. It's what we do. This

<v Speaker 1>what we do. I've seen the compilation video. It's amazing

<v Speaker 1>how many times he says that. Prince Vegeta says with

<v Speaker 1>a nine to ninety nine logan, Paul might be the

<v Speaker 1>most undeserving part timer WWE has ever had. He has

<v Speaker 1>two good matches every four months, disappears and then comes

<v Speaker 1>back in a main event program. He pinned Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>big deal. He's like some of their are other top

<v Speaker 1>guys that barely show up when they have a need

<v Speaker 1>for him. They dust them off, they bring them in

<v Speaker 1>to most of the time lose. I mean all the

<v Speaker 1>championship matches, like World championship matches. He's had multiple ones.

<v Speaker 1>Now he's lost every single one of them, lost to Roman,

<v Speaker 1>lost to Cody. If he wrestles Punk, he's gonna lose

<v Speaker 1>that one too, as he should because he's not full time.

<v Speaker 1>And if he's not not able to commit full time,

<v Speaker 1>that's fine, But then I don't want to see him

<v Speaker 1>anywhere near the World Championship. Like, I'm done with that.

<v Speaker 1>We've had enough of that over these last few years.

<v Speaker 1>We don't need more of that. Sees. What's your favorite

<v Speaker 1>EO SKY match this year? I mean, it's one of two.

<v Speaker 1>It's either the WrestleMania Triple Threat or the match of

<v Speaker 1>Rea at Evolution. H Man, That match of Rio was

<v Speaker 1>so good. I might lean towards the Ria EO match,

<v Speaker 1>but it's tough. You can't go wrong with either one

<v Speaker 1>of those matches. It's one of those two. It's one

<v Speaker 1>of those two. When I do my end of the

<v Speaker 1>year like Match of the Year list, I'll have to

<v Speaker 1>figure out what goes where. But I think I'm leaning

<v Speaker 1>towards that Evolution match JDFVA for the five dollars super Chat.

<v Speaker 1>I've always been advocating for cross branding women's and tag

<v Speaker 1>team Division. Am I wrong? Tag Team Division? Yes, Women's Division? No.

<v Speaker 1>You just have to supply an equal number of women

<v Speaker 1>for each show, which they have not done. There's an

<v Speaker 1>imbalance between the two shows right now. The tag team division,

<v Speaker 1>though I agree with you on that at least the

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles are cross branded. I think that the

<v Speaker 1>men's tag team titles should be reunified and that you

<v Speaker 1>should have floating champions there. That's what I think. Mac

<v Speaker 1>tub better overall performer in ninety nine, Austin or Rock,

<v Speaker 1>I mean overall performer in ninety nine. Probably Austin, I'm

<v Speaker 1>sorry Rock, Probably Rock. True Crime on Leash. Dakota Kai

<v Speaker 1>is set to debut in AW aligned with Mercedes Monette

<v Speaker 1>as Charlie Girl. I don't know if that's just supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be a joke or I don't know anymore. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if that's a joker, if that's real. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think that's real. Maybe Charlie Angel. Then Mercedes can

<v Speaker 1>add somebody else and they she'll have Charlie's Angels. See

<v Speaker 1>there you go. How do you like that? Sidro? The Shaunathan,

<v Speaker 1>in your opinion, is triple h hate the traditional Survivor

<v Speaker 1>series elimination match feels like since he took over he

<v Speaker 1>just refuses to do one on the pl Well, he's

<v Speaker 1>doing one on SMACKDD in two weeks, so he must

<v Speaker 1>not hate it that much. I don't think he cares

<v Speaker 1>for it, but he obviously doesn't despise it because he

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't bring it back Both Men Entertainment. Finn defeated Bobby

<v Speaker 1>Lashley at maybe a thirty five for the Intercontinental title.

<v Speaker 1>I can confirm this as I was there. I can

<v Speaker 1>also confirm that Bobbly Lashly was not there. Really, I

<v Speaker 1>just have no memory of that match. Where were you sitting,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, you might have been sitting near each other. Leopouldo.

<v Speaker 1>How long before the crowd chance shut the fuck up

<v Speaker 1>to Cody? They're not going to Chance shut the fuck

<v Speaker 1>up until he goes heal. You might start hearing some

<v Speaker 1>booze eventually, but they're not going to Chance shut the

<v Speaker 1>fuck up at him. Sees. What would you have Eo

<v Speaker 1>doing at WrestleMania next year? I don't know. She probably

<v Speaker 1>will not be challenging for a championship, but I definitely

<v Speaker 1>want her on the card in some form. For her

<v Speaker 1>to not be on the card after having the year

<v Speaker 1>that she's had would be a huge slap in the face.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't know. I just hope she's on the

<v Speaker 1>actual show, preferably in a singles match. But if it

<v Speaker 1>was a triple threat, I could accept that Holiday one

<v Speaker 1>ninety seven. Shouldn't Bronson read be upset that bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>and Logan Paul caused a DQ in his WWE Championship match.

<v Speaker 1>This is going to make Reid look clueless. Well that's

<v Speaker 1>how they like doing it. No, he's not going to

<v Speaker 1>be upset because evidently he was about to lose and

<v Speaker 1>so therefore he got saved. And nothing matters in this company.

<v Speaker 1>So there you go. There's your answer. Nothing matters perfectly

<v Speaker 1>fine question to ask, why would Paul Hayman go through

<v Speaker 1>the exercise of convincing him to make it a championship

<v Speaker 1>match and then seemingly not care that the match was blown.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but Triple H would tell you just

<v Speaker 1>shut up and enjoy the ride and don't ask questions.

<v Speaker 1>They don't like it when you do that. Mactub who

<v Speaker 1>is the WrestleMania who has the WrestleMania match catalog besides

<v Speaker 1>HBK and Taker match catalog? Oh? I could think of

<v Speaker 1>a few people Randy Savage has a pretty good catalog.

<v Speaker 1>Brett Hart has a pretty good catalog. So those are

<v Speaker 1>two names right there. Ron was killed. Guess WWE can

<v Speaker 1>only handle the truth, says Leopoldo. Yeah, Ron Killings didn't

<v Speaker 1>last very long. He cut his hair off and that

<v Speaker 1>was the end of Ron the Truth killings. Oh well,

<v Speaker 1>at least he got his job back. Griga, thank you

<v Speaker 1>for the two bucks. Appreciate it. Leopoldo says, what if

<v Speaker 1>Big Shows finisher was the small package? I would think

<v Speaker 1>that that would be a little difficult for him to

<v Speaker 1>pull off, especially with smaller opponents. He would crush them.

<v Speaker 1>Alex and WWE just released Zack Ryder shirts on their store.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, gotta make as much money as you can

<v Speaker 1>while you can. I don't know that that's indicative of anything,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm not surprised. Leopoldo says, I thought Alexander said

<v Speaker 1>WWE just released Zach Ryer. Sadly, I would not have

<v Speaker 1>been surprised. Yeah, you know, as I look at that

<v Speaker 1>super chat again, that is the first thing that you

<v Speaker 1>see when you read it. WWE just released Zack Ryder

<v Speaker 1>man as quickly as they as quickly as they brought

<v Speaker 1>him back. He's already been released. They brought him back

<v Speaker 1>just to release him. Grand opening, Grand closing, Matt Fisher says,

<v Speaker 1>why don't pirates shower before they walk the plank because

<v Speaker 1>they wash up on shore later. Well done, Thank you, Matt.

<v Speaker 1>It's not a bad one. Le Poldo with a thirteen

<v Speaker 1>dollars macho man, super chat. Cody might as well add

<v Speaker 1>GM to his name. He's sure his comfy, demanding matches.

<v Speaker 1>From all this, he's becoming a bit insufferable. And why

<v Speaker 1>the hell was reading not pissed that Division aka bron

<v Speaker 1>Vision interfered. Yeah, just talked about that. Don't have a

<v Speaker 1>good answer for you. You're not supposed to ask questions,

<v Speaker 1>Jamie Dorsh with an orange chat, you go from yellow

<v Speaker 1>to code orange here. Thank you for painfully watching SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>each week to keep us up dated so we don't

<v Speaker 1>have to watch. What is Caine's best match? Does he

<v Speaker 1>have one? Caine's best match? Hmm, I don't know, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. You stumped me. I think the one that

<v Speaker 1>will probably be the most memorable. I mean it could

<v Speaker 1>be the first Undertaker Caine won from WrestleMania, but I

<v Speaker 1>always think of the one where he won the championship,

<v Speaker 1>the first Blood match, King of the Ring ninety eight.

<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty memorable match quality wise. Probably not his

<v Speaker 1>best match though, TLC four Yeah, I mean that's kind

<v Speaker 1>of cheating, but no, I mean he was part of

<v Speaker 1>that match TLC four on Raw that was back in

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and two. Yeah, I mean probably that. By default,

<v Speaker 1>Caine doesn't really have a catalog of like great matches.

<v Speaker 1>You know, He's had some memorable matches that he's been

<v Speaker 1>a part of, but I don't think anybody's making a

<v Speaker 1>list of like the top fifteen, top twenty Kine matches.

<v Speaker 1>I do remember there was that one match on Raw.

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember the date, but he had a match

<v Speaker 1>with the Big Show and they were trying something different.

<v Speaker 1>They were doing chain wrestling, and I wish I can

<v Speaker 1>remember when that was it. I remember watching that being

<v Speaker 1>like holy shit, like what are they doing? You know,

<v Speaker 1>they were trying something different. That's why I still remember

<v Speaker 1>that match all these years later. I just can't remember

<v Speaker 1>the actual like year or the date that it took place.

<v Speaker 1>Furious Nation with A nine ninety nine joining us tonight,

<v Speaker 1>What's Up Solo Raw and SmackDown. Legit is night and day.

<v Speaker 1>Feels like Triple H is more hands on with Raw

<v Speaker 1>and Road Doug is more hands on with SmackDown. Like

<v Speaker 1>you said, feels like Raw is more consistent. Yeah, and

<v Speaker 1>I don't really understand why, but you can tell just

<v Speaker 1>from the rosters. Raw has the stronger roster right now

<v Speaker 1>and that helps. And you know why they haven't bothered

<v Speaker 1>in these last few months to extend that same assistance

<v Speaker 1>to Smack then. I just don't really understand it, but

<v Speaker 1>it really does. I mean, it really does feel like

<v Speaker 1>night and day on most weeks between these two shows.

<v Speaker 1>Eight nine Tech. Why Gunther isn't the guy in WWE

<v Speaker 1>right now? Why is he not the guy? He's been

<v Speaker 1>out with an injury and he's still a heel, and

<v Speaker 1>a heel is never going to be the guy in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>So that's why he's great in the heel role. One day,

<v Speaker 1>if he goes Babyface, you know, maybe some people will

<v Speaker 1>see him as the guy, but he's never gonna be

<v Speaker 1>positioned as like in the role that Cody is in

<v Speaker 1>right now or the role that Roman was in. That's

<v Speaker 1>just that's just not him. They're not going to have

<v Speaker 1>him in that role. Diego ASKI has a real question

<v Speaker 1>Lady Gaga or due lupa Lady Gaga. Mount Vernon Kidd says,

<v Speaker 1>did you hear about Santana losing the TNA title? Yeah?

<v Speaker 1>I had no idea. Yeah, I'll be talking about that

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday as well. Jeremy Rose, do you see Jade

<v Speaker 1>is the type of heel that wants to face Bianca

<v Speaker 1>because she thinks she's unstoppable or tries everything to avoid her.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think she's going to try to avoid her.

<v Speaker 1>I think that I don't know that they to portray

<v Speaker 1>her that way. I think that I think option one,

<v Speaker 1>not option two. Paul Carpenter, who wins brock Lesner or

<v Speaker 1>Sid Vicious in any era? Brock Lesner. I'm a big

<v Speaker 1>Sid Mark. I love Sid, but back in the day,

<v Speaker 1>man Sid was the guy. Man Sid was awesome. But

<v Speaker 1>I gotta go Brock. See the real match that we

<v Speaker 1>missed out on was like prime Brock against Prime Vader,

<v Speaker 1>like big Van Vader, like ninety two ninety three Vader.

<v Speaker 1>That would have been something. Or imagine them as a

<v Speaker 1>tag team. I love cats or loves Cats the Sunday shows,

<v Speaker 1>they don't drop it any specific time. I record them

<v Speaker 1>as early as I can in the morning. I'm still

<v Speaker 1>collecting news and stuff. It takes. It's like an all

<v Speaker 1>day effort. I try to get them out as early

<v Speaker 1>in the mid afternoon as possible. Push him out hits

<v Speaker 1>the feed. Sometimes they don't go out until three o'clock,

<v Speaker 1>four o'clock. You just got to be subscribed to the feed. Man,

<v Speaker 1>Apple Podcasts or Spotify, Spreaker, wherever you get your podcasts from.

<v Speaker 1>Just make sure you're subscribed, and as soon as a

<v Speaker 1>new show pushes through. It may take a few minutes,

<v Speaker 1>but you'll say, keep refreshing, it'll pop up. Jeremy says,

<v Speaker 1>I disagree with your take on Cardona. Don't you think

<v Speaker 1>he was Zach Ryder tonight because he has history with Sina. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter. Like he's Matt Cardona. Now you know,

<v Speaker 1>Zach Ryder has been dead for fucking years. Matt Cardona

<v Speaker 1>had history with Scene. It's I mean, now we're just

<v Speaker 1>being we're picking nits here, but like it's the same person, dude,

<v Speaker 1>you know. I mean you could say Cardona back in

<v Speaker 1>his Zack Ryder days had history with John Cena. So

<v Speaker 1>Believe me, it would have been fine if they would

<v Speaker 1>have called him by his real name. I'm sure there

<v Speaker 1>was some sort of legal reason that they didn't want

<v Speaker 1>to call him Matt Cardona. I just think it's silly

<v Speaker 1>that he's Matt Cardona on their own television show like

<v Speaker 1>a month ago, and now he's Zack Ryder. It's just stupid,

<v Speaker 1>furious Nation. Also, my grandma is going for partial hip

<v Speaker 1>replacement surgery tomorrow as she fell this past Wednesday. Hoping

<v Speaker 1>for the best. I'm hoping for the best for her.

<v Speaker 1>I hope it all works out. It's very tough, especially

<v Speaker 1>when you get older. You hear a lot about that

<v Speaker 1>you take a fall, you know, you have a grandparent

<v Speaker 1>or an aunt or an uncle. You know, we're kind

<v Speaker 1>of going through that right now my family, where you know,

<v Speaker 1>someone falls and it's never a good thing. So I

<v Speaker 1>hope it all works out. Man, Hey, blue Jay, with

<v Speaker 1>seven months of membership here, you need to listen to

<v Speaker 1>Jesse's idea of blood and guts from Wednesday, the idea

<v Speaker 1>of the match having a purpose in the title picture.

<v Speaker 1>These matches need sense. I talked about blood and Guts

<v Speaker 1>in my in my review on Wednesday and gave you

<v Speaker 1>my thoughts on that if you want to go check

<v Speaker 1>that out. Jonathan Peters twelve months of membership, Seamus shinsk

<v Speaker 1>Russev Priest, Gunther Evans, Solo mystery Man, jami is La Cardona,

<v Speaker 1>Penta Balor Re just reading all the fucking names in

<v Speaker 1>the tournament. That's all sixteen mystery Hendri, Hendri wins it all, okay,

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, the mystery Man. That's it. Like it's the

<v Speaker 1>last mystery spot in the tournament. On Monday, it probably

<v Speaker 1>will be Hendry. I still feel like Gunther wins the

<v Speaker 1>whole thing. That's just how I feel. But it also

<v Speaker 1>I would like to see like where these people are

<v Speaker 1>going to actually land. So hopefully once they're through this

<v Speaker 1>entire first round, we will get like a visual bracket

<v Speaker 1>so we know who's facing who. Like it's ridiculous, like

<v Speaker 1>you gotta give us something so we could see what

<v Speaker 1>the different like match configurations are actually going to be.

<v Speaker 1>Cameo Johnson, Hey, solo, hope all is great. I imagined

<v Speaker 1>you were swinging the air like tray from Boys in

<v Speaker 1>the Hood when you heard that they were expanding SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>back to three hours. Yes, I was punching the air.

<v Speaker 1>I had a double check to make sure I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>reading wessel votes, and then when I realized that it

<v Speaker 1>was wrestle votes, I just sank into a deep depression.

<v Speaker 1>This afternoon, Leopoldo says, what's your early WrestleMania fifty prediction?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, to this point, it's going to be solemn

<v Speaker 1>Monster against the whoever is running the USA network. The

<v Speaker 1>Mount Burning Kid Macaulay Culkin reprised his role as an

<v Speaker 1>older Kevin in another commercial and he met an older

<v Speaker 1>granddaughter of old man Marley. Wow, that's right. He wasn't

<v Speaker 1>some kind of commercial. So is that the one I'm

<v Speaker 1>thinking of? Or was there a new one? Chris Bellow?

<v Speaker 1>What is Mark Henry's favorite Eddie Murphy movie? The True

<v Speaker 1>Crime Unleash? Wwe move money in the bank to the

<v Speaker 1>end of September? Oh no, they moved it to the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of September, not the end. Luis with a five.

<v Speaker 1>Speaking about Obafemi, KTLA decided to cut into the ten

<v Speaker 1>o'clock news when Obafemi was making his grand return on Tuesday.

<v Speaker 1>Do you mean to tell me that your local TV

<v Speaker 1>station placed a higher priority on the local news than

<v Speaker 1>the return of Obafemi at the end of NXT. I

<v Speaker 1>mean I would just I would. I would ban the

<v Speaker 1>whole network. I would ban the entire channel. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>earlier tonight, I did see that the news broke that

<v Speaker 1>YouTube TV and Disney reached an agreement to reinstate all

<v Speaker 1>Disney owned channels on YouTube TV. I have been without

<v Speaker 1>ABC and ESPN for a couple of weeks now, and

<v Speaker 1>it hasn't really had any impact on my life. So

<v Speaker 1>the only thing I really give a shit about is

<v Speaker 1>that I'm still paying the same price for a service

<v Speaker 1>that now has fewer channels that I have an issue with.

<v Speaker 1>So I got my twenty dollars credit, but now apparently

<v Speaker 1>the channels are in the process of being restored. So

<v Speaker 1>if you are a YouTube TV customer, just be aware

<v Speaker 1>of that. Now you can watch your football again. Uh oh,

<v Speaker 1>it's John Laurinidis dropping a dollar ninety nine. You know, John,

<v Speaker 1>you should probably save that money for your legal fees. Buddy,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why you're sending it to me, says

<v Speaker 1>this show needs a little more people power. People power,

<v Speaker 1>cameo Johnson with a four ninety nine. What do you

<v Speaker 1>think of Mariah May in nx T how they fumbled Julia.

<v Speaker 1>I am afraid Mariah will get the same treatment once

<v Speaker 1>she hits the main roster. WWE is two soulless, yes,

<v Speaker 1>because the Rock took its soul when he couldn't get Cody's.

<v Speaker 1>I think that Mariah May is gonna do very well.

<v Speaker 1>Mariah May has a lot of sex appeals. She's blonde,

<v Speaker 1>she's already I mean, she's already right there, She's right

<v Speaker 1>where she needs to be, and she hasn't even hit

<v Speaker 1>the main roster yet. She already checks the boxes. Believe me,

<v Speaker 1>they're not going to fumble her the way that they

<v Speaker 1>fumble Julius. So far, Phoenix downs the greatest match during

<v Speaker 1>the Thunderdome era, Dude, I honestly like I try to

<v Speaker 1>block that era out as much as possible. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I know they had some dramatic stuff with like Roman

<v Speaker 1>and Jay. You know they did that hell in a

<v Speaker 1>cell match. Roman and Ko had that match at the

<v Speaker 1>Rumble that was in the Thunderdome was a false count

<v Speaker 1>anywhere offhand, I don't know, maybe the Boneyard match, if

<v Speaker 1>that counts, Maybe the Boneyard match or Wrestle Mini at

<v Speaker 1>thirty six. There were some good matches during that era.

<v Speaker 1>I just I don't have any interest in going back

<v Speaker 1>and watching him, and I've blocked a lot of that out,

<v Speaker 1>Like wrestling is not meant to be held in that

<v Speaker 1>kind of environment. You need to have fans in the buildings.

<v Speaker 1>So they made the most of a bad situation. But

<v Speaker 1>it's not like I have some sort of burning passion

<v Speaker 1>to go back five years ago. Oh I got to

<v Speaker 1>go back and watch this, Like No, I think five

<v Speaker 1>or ten years from now there might be some novelty

<v Speaker 1>in going back and checking some out. But yeah, I'm

<v Speaker 1>probably leaning towards either one of the Roman Ko matches

<v Speaker 1>or the Boneyard match or wrestle Mania Paul Carpenter with

<v Speaker 1>a five. I watched Hulk Hogan versus Mister Wonderful on

<v Speaker 1>YouTube in Canada. They teased Wonderful winning. I think he

<v Speaker 1>should have won the championship at least once. You know what,

<v Speaker 1>if they wanted to, that could have been saved for

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania three. But I would say they made the right decision.

<v Speaker 1>Not that Hogan andre was some great technical masterpiece, but

<v Speaker 1>there's no bigger attraction that you could have done than

<v Speaker 1>Hogan Andre but that was right around the time that

<v Speaker 1>Hogan and Orndorf were still feuding. They had that blowoff

<v Speaker 1>in the cage on Saturday Night's main event. That was

<v Speaker 1>only two months before WrestleMania three. If they wanted to,

<v Speaker 1>they could have pushed it back. They could have put

<v Speaker 1>the belt on Orndorf in late eighty six and had

<v Speaker 1>Hogan win it back wrestle Media three. But timing just

<v Speaker 1>didn't work out. You know, they went with the bigger match.

<v Speaker 1>I would have done the same thing, you know, I

<v Speaker 1>would have done exactly what Vince did. Jeremy Rose wwe

<v Speaker 1>once again fumbling this SNA tour. If the point of

<v Speaker 1>his last match is to get someone new over Oba

<v Speaker 1>or trick, he says, Well, he says obi Obi wan Kenobi.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think he needs the push, says not a

<v Speaker 1>made man in Gunther. Well, you say that if the

<v Speaker 1>point of his last match is to get someone new over,

<v Speaker 1>maybe that's not the point of his last match. That's

<v Speaker 1>what you say the point might be, but that's not

<v Speaker 1>what they may feel. I mean, I don't disagree. If

<v Speaker 1>the point is to get somebody new over, then sure

<v Speaker 1>it shouldn't be Gunther, But who said that that was

<v Speaker 1>the point of the match. That's the point of the

<v Speaker 1>other matches that John Cena has said that he wants

<v Speaker 1>to have on that Saturday Night's made a venture. That's

<v Speaker 1>why they're doing a whole series of WWE versus NXT matches.

<v Speaker 1>You know, that may not be the point of his

<v Speaker 1>last match. The Mount Vernon Kidd rank these four Stone

<v Speaker 1>Cold segments, the Pilman incident, paging doctor Austin Tyson and

<v Speaker 1>Austin brawl on Raw and Stone Cold versus Booker t

<v Speaker 1>in the Supermarkets. I mean, they are all classic segments

<v Speaker 1>in terms of my personal level of enjoyment. For me,

<v Speaker 1>it's different. You got two comedy segments and then you

<v Speaker 1>have two more serious ones. So for me, I mean

<v Speaker 1>the supermarket one is a classic, But I mean Austin Tyson,

<v Speaker 1>that's a mean and that kicked everything off in ninety eight.

<v Speaker 1>You know, that made all the newscasts. I remember watching

<v Speaker 1>my local news like Luis probably was actually back then,

<v Speaker 1>Luis I don't even know the Luise may have been

<v Speaker 1>a twinkle in his father's eye for all I know,

<v Speaker 1>but it was a big deal when they had that

<v Speaker 1>shoving match, between Austin and Tyson. That was a big deal.

<v Speaker 1>You know, you left off what probably would be my

<v Speaker 1>favorite one. You didn't even include it here in your list,

<v Speaker 1>which is the Zamboni incidents, still one of the greatest

<v Speaker 1>segments of all time. But if I was going to

<v Speaker 1>rank them, I would go Tyson, Austin paging doctor Austin,

<v Speaker 1>supermarket gun incident, super pony. What's more miserable being a

<v Speaker 1>Mets fan or a fan of one of the two

<v Speaker 1>New York NFL teams? Generally, speaking of being a fan

<v Speaker 1>of New York sports, I mean the Knicks. The Knicks

<v Speaker 1>are the best of the bunch, but otherwise they all

<v Speaker 1>pretty much suck. Hoffman says Satin section three twenty three

<v Speaker 1>for wrestlemanting at thirty five. All right, I don't remember

<v Speaker 1>what section I was in, but I know it was

<v Speaker 1>better than three twenty three. Barry says, Honestly, Sina deserved

<v Speaker 1>better than what he got this year. Yeah, they fumbled

<v Speaker 1>a good part of this final run for sure. Duff's VIDs.

<v Speaker 1>Did you know if you boil a funny bone, you

<v Speaker 1>get a laughing stock. Isn't that humorous? I have a

<v Speaker 1>It's like a square It's not framed or anything, but

<v Speaker 1>it's like a square tile on the wall in the

<v Speaker 1>living room. It's a picture of a cat, uh holding

<v Speaker 1>up a bone, and it just says, I found this humorous.

<v Speaker 1>We're on the We're on the same wavelength as far

<v Speaker 1>as our humor. Matt Fisher, why did the wrestler bring

<v Speaker 1>a ladder to the match because he heard the competition

<v Speaker 1>was on another level? Duffs Vince says, what happened to

<v Speaker 1>the turkey that got in a fight? He got the

<v Speaker 1>stuffing knocked out of him? Some Thanksgiving humor. We have

<v Speaker 1>Thanksgiving coming up in two weeks. Leopoldo. I think Caine

<v Speaker 1>had great moments more so than matches. I agree, a

<v Speaker 1>lot of memorable Cane moments over the years. Wayne the

<v Speaker 1>Cosmic Grandma with a nineteen ninety nine just got back

<v Speaker 1>from Southern Honor Wrestling main show of the Year and

<v Speaker 1>AJ Styles was there to hand over the championship. I

<v Speaker 1>can't believe I've been watching him wrestle for twenty five years.

<v Speaker 1>What is your favorite Aj Styles match? Probably the Wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Kingdom match with knockamoor Z, Paul Senti, buy Er Sell,

<v Speaker 1>Lemons or Limes Uh, don't like either one. Sorry, Alexander

<v Speaker 1>plot twice. What of Gable is the mystery opponent? He's not.

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Owens with the four ninety nine says solo fear not.

<v Speaker 1>I will be coming back soon to save this shit

<v Speaker 1>show that is SmackDown. Can't come back a day too soon.

<v Speaker 1>We missed you, Ko Camo Johnson with a four ninety

<v Speaker 1>nine Elimination Chamber will be at the United Center instead

<v Speaker 1>of All State. What are your thoughts do you think

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania or any other big pay per view will

<v Speaker 1>start being at the United Center. I'm gonna I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>do a whole segment on this on the soundof The

<v Speaker 1>only reason it's happening is because All State is booked.

<v Speaker 1>There's some sort of monster jam show there. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think they're gonna start running at the United Center on

<v Speaker 1>a regular basis, so again, I'll I will definitely talk

<v Speaker 1>more about this on Sunday though. Uh, we've got the

<v Speaker 1>HM D quante. I want to make sure I pronounce

<v Speaker 1>that right. Hey, Sola have been following since TV tracks?

<v Speaker 1>Can you see the Gunther and Evans match next week?

<v Speaker 1>Ending like the one two three Kid and Razor match

<v Speaker 1>years ago. Hmmm, I don't, you know, kind of like

<v Speaker 1>that slip on a banana peel type finish. I don't.

<v Speaker 1>I can't rule it out, you know, and then Guntherer

<v Speaker 1>just murders him after the match is over. I can't

<v Speaker 1>rule it out, but I just don't see it happening.

<v Speaker 1>It would be I'll tell you what though, if it

<v Speaker 1>worked out that way of Javon beats Gunther, which I

<v Speaker 1>don't think he will, how is that not the upset

<v Speaker 1>of the year. How's that not the upset of the

<v Speaker 1>decades so far? Matt Fisher with a twelve thank you

<v Speaker 1>no message, just showing some love, and Dove's VIDs with

<v Speaker 1>the four ninety nine If you date an FBI agent

<v Speaker 1>and break up, do they become your FedEx? Thank you

<v Speaker 1>Dev's viz. My aunt is still in the hospital and

<v Speaker 1>I actually uh visited her last week, hoping to get

<v Speaker 1>her into a rehab center in the next week or two.

<v Speaker 1>So that's the hope. But she's been there now for

<v Speaker 1>we're going on two months. Actually, I think as of

<v Speaker 1>yesterday it was exactly two months since she landed in

<v Speaker 1>the hospital. So she's still you know, in rough shape.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, one day at a time. But thank

<v Speaker 1>you for asking. I appreciate that. So that was fun,

<v Speaker 1>a lot of good questions in there. Always appreciate that.

<v Speaker 1>And we had, of course a long time ago we

<v Speaker 1>had passed the four hundred lights school. We're actually sitting

<v Speaker 1>at six thirteen. So you guys killed it, and that

<v Speaker 1>means that, of course it is time for be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>So let's not waste any more time. Ladies and gentlemen,

<v Speaker 1>it is now time to be the booker. Let's not

<v Speaker 1>waste any more time. Except we have Hulkling ninety three.

<v Speaker 1>I heard from your brother earlier five dollars super chat.

<v Speaker 1>How can you retire a man who's retiring? Lol, I've

<v Speaker 1>been hearing that phrase, the one to retire John Cena.

<v Speaker 1>He's retiring, win, lose or draw. Yes, But the idea

<v Speaker 1>is that you get to be the person who retired him.

<v Speaker 1>He is retiring. Question is who is going to be

<v Speaker 1>the man that will always be able to say that

<v Speaker 1>if they beat him, if they win in that final match,

<v Speaker 1>they can say that I retire John Cena. See that's

<v Speaker 1>the point, all right, tag team be the booker. We

<v Speaker 1>have the ussos Jimmy and Jay shout out to almost

<v Speaker 1>safe and yeah brother. They don't always show up. The

<v Speaker 1>superchats show up sometimes the Yellow ones don't, but drop

<v Speaker 1>it in the chat. If I see it, I'll try

<v Speaker 1>to answer it. So we got the USO and all

<v Speaker 1>their tag team How many tag team titles are they

<v Speaker 1>won over the years? Right, it's got to be at

<v Speaker 1>least seven or eight the USO. Oh my goodness? Did

<v Speaker 1>we am I crazy? Or did we not have this

<v Speaker 1>match last week? The USSOS against Techno Team two thousand.

<v Speaker 1>I could have sworn we had this match before. I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't want to have this match once, let alone twice.

<v Speaker 1>I was all ready to hit the bell. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>all right, who are putting the USOS against Man the

<v Speaker 1>Heart Foundation Demolition fucking Techno Team two thousand. Man, I've

<v Speaker 1>already booked them more times than Vince ever did. Oh

<v Speaker 1>my god, because I hit the wrong button. I don't

<v Speaker 1>even know what I'm doing. I just gave her every

<v Speaker 1>sound effect I have. Let's play every sound fucking brebella.

<v Speaker 1>We have bre mode in the super chat sometimes we

<v Speaker 1>have bre mode and be the booker. It is inescapable,

<v Speaker 1>It is absolutely inescapable. I don't know what the point is.

<v Speaker 1>I'll pick an opponent any way, But I mean, I

<v Speaker 1>don't really think it's gonna change much. Yeah, jazz, God

<v Speaker 1>bless jazz. But I mean, it's not changing anything. It's

<v Speaker 1>not changing anything. I just went full soundboard there on

<v Speaker 1>that one. Alright, main event, we have the world's most

<v Speaker 1>dangerous man, Ken Shamrock. He should be in the Hall

<v Speaker 1>of Fame. He had a good run. Not very long,

<v Speaker 1>but he had a good run. Ken Shamrock against Milmoretes. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>how about that? And we'll add a stipulation to it too,

<v Speaker 1>because why not in a blindfold match? I just I

<v Speaker 1>just ruined that made event, didn't I of all the matchup. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>we have lions, then you could didn't land on lions?

<v Speaker 1>That we we landed on lions then on Monday or Wednesday,

<v Speaker 1>I forget which day it was. Why couldn't we land

<v Speaker 1>on it tonight? We had Ken Shamrock in the main event. No,

<v Speaker 1>we have to land on blindfold match. We had it.

<v Speaker 1>We had a bell for the main event, and amazing

<v Speaker 1>did we go oh for three? We didn't go oh? Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we did go oh for three? I guess that. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we were gonna go one for three, but now we

<v Speaker 1>went over oh for three. I'm sorry, guys, I like,

<v Speaker 1>oh shit, you know what I forgot. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know what I'm doing tonight. I forgot we had the sweep,

<v Speaker 1>we have the sweet it's the reverse sweep. That's the

<v Speaker 1>worst kind of sweep that you can have. That's not

<v Speaker 1>the one that you want. Tomorrow again, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>it's the best and biggest women's card that we have

<v Speaker 1>ever had in House of Glory. It's not only women's matches,

<v Speaker 1>but it is by far the strongest women's card that

<v Speaker 1>we put together, and plus all those other guys as

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<v Speaker 1>eight pm. If you can't be there, we will be

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<v Speaker 1>call and it should be a fun night. And anybody's

<v Speaker 1>going to be at the big event Expo tomorrow, maybe

<v Speaker 1>we'll bump into each other. I'm going to try to

<v Speaker 1>get there before it ends. Our show is not until

<v Speaker 1>eight o'clock at night. But maybe around the two o'clock,

<v Speaker 1>three o'clock, maybe I'll be walking around. I'll be the

<v Speaker 1>guy in the suit kind of hard to miss. I

<v Speaker 1>won't be wearing my Mark Henry Salmon suit. I just

<v Speaker 1>wore that. I can't wear that again. I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>be in my Macho Man costume either, but I'll be there.

<v Speaker 1>And then when I'm back with you Live again, it

<v Speaker 1>will be Monday Night. That's gonna be a big night.

<v Speaker 1>It's John seen his last ever match in Madison Square Garden.

<v Speaker 1>We don't know who he's gonna face. We'll find out

<v Speaker 1>who Solo Siko's mystery opponent is going to be in

<v Speaker 1>the tournament. So it's gonna be a big night. And

<v Speaker 1>Becky Lynch defends her intercontinental title against Maxine Dupree. And

<v Speaker 1>I suspect that we're gonna get the return of a

<v Speaker 1>certain OTC. So come on back here and we'll talk

<v Speaker 1>about all of it on Monday night. Before that, though,

<v Speaker 1>you've got episode nine thirty eight of the sound Off

<v Speaker 1>that's gonna be dropping sometime on Sunday afternoon. That'll be

<v Speaker 1>my hangover from the Hog Show. So a lot of

<v Speaker 1>good stuff coming up. Be well stay safe, have yourselves

<v Speaker 1>a great night, have yourself a great weekend, and I

<v Speaker 1>will see you back here very soon. Live on YouTube

<v Speaker 1>for more sound Duff thanks for hanging out with me

<v Speaker 1>on a Friday night. Guys, I appreciate it. I'll see

<v Speaker 1>you then