<v Speaker 1>Tonight was the SmackDown before Saturday Night's main event. Only

<v Speaker 1>have hours left to go before John Cena's final match,

<v Speaker 1>And actually we have a special countdown clock here. It

<v Speaker 1>is T minus twenty one hours until John Cena's final

<v Speaker 1>match on Saturday Night's main event. When I was putting

<v Speaker 1>the preview together for tonight's show, they were really promoting

<v Speaker 1>it around the idea of this being a celebration of

<v Speaker 1>John Cena's career. I was surprised how little focused there

<v Speaker 1>was on that. You had little packages and inserts here

<v Speaker 1>and there. Not that I mind it, I mean, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the show must go on, but the way they were

<v Speaker 1>promoting this, I thought we were going to get more

<v Speaker 1>on him than what we got. But before we get there,

<v Speaker 1>we had an actual show to get through. Tonight. It

<v Speaker 1>was the very middle of the road episode of SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>The major plus was the focus that we had tonight

<v Speaker 1>on a bunch of new faces, which was really by

<v Speaker 1>necessity because one of the things John Cena wanted tomorrow

<v Speaker 1>night was not just to focus on himself. He wanted

<v Speaker 1>there to be a focus on the future, right. He

<v Speaker 1>wanted there to be a focus on NXT. So because

<v Speaker 1>we have a bunch of these cross branded matches tomorrow night.

<v Speaker 1>We had some faces on the show tonight that you

<v Speaker 1>will see on Saturday Nights made Event. One of them

<v Speaker 1>is the NXT champion Oba Femi. Get used to it,

<v Speaker 1>because if these people know what they're doing, he'll be

<v Speaker 1>on Smackdad a lot sooner than maybe some people think.

<v Speaker 1>Actually SmackDown could use him right now, So with any

<v Speaker 1>hope we won't have to wait too long into twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty six to see him every Friday night, because Friday

<v Speaker 1>night is really where he should be long and be

<v Speaker 1>most effective. I think we, not the raw couldn't use him,

<v Speaker 1>but my god, if anybody can use some NXT talent

<v Speaker 1>right now, believe me, it is SmackDown, especially because tonight

<v Speaker 1>we got the official announcement which we already knew, but

<v Speaker 1>they themselves made it official that SmackDown is moving back

<v Speaker 1>to three hours on January second, the beginning of the year,

<v Speaker 1>the very first SmackDown of twenty twenty six. SmackDown moves

<v Speaker 1>back to three hours every single week, And no one

<v Speaker 1>is more depressed about this than I am. But this

<v Speaker 1>is the reality, and this is the way it's going

<v Speaker 1>to be for at least the first six months, if

<v Speaker 1>not longer. This year, we didn't get two hours of

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown back until Independence Day. Who knows how long it

<v Speaker 1>may go next year, But I can tell you one thing,

<v Speaker 1>I keep seeing these reports. I think bodyslam dot Net

<v Speaker 1>had another one today. The WWE recognizes the need for

<v Speaker 1>new faces on SmackDown. They recognize the need for changes

<v Speaker 1>on Friday nights going into this three hour era of

<v Speaker 1>the show. I feel like I've been seeing some variation

<v Speaker 1>of this report now off and on for months, and

<v Speaker 1>nothing ever seems to change. So excuse me if I

<v Speaker 1>will believe it when I see it, But if they're

<v Speaker 1>going to expand this show, for the love of God,

<v Speaker 1>we need Obafemi, We need people like Javon Evans, and

<v Speaker 1>we need more women in the women's division. For tonight,

<v Speaker 1>we had Obafemi making an appearance to confront Cody Rhodes.

<v Speaker 1>We had Javon Evans, who was in action ahead of

<v Speaker 1>his tag team match. Him and Leon Slater are in

<v Speaker 1>action on Saturday Night's main event. Tomorrow, we had Lash Legend,

<v Speaker 1>who is an official member of the SmackDown roster and

<v Speaker 1>still has some work to do, but she was a

<v Speaker 1>welcome addition to the women's roster on this show, so

<v Speaker 1>she was featured tonight as well. And of course I

<v Speaker 1>would be remiss if I didn't mention the one saving

<v Speaker 1>grace of this show, which is the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>It was not so much an open challenge tonight as

<v Speaker 1>much as it was just a fucking great match between

<v Speaker 1>Ilia Dragonov and Tamaso Champa where Ilia Dragonov got some

<v Speaker 1>color because these men were laying their shit in and

<v Speaker 1>I didn't even see exactly what spot had happened on.

<v Speaker 1>But Dragonov ended up bloody in this match. So whether

<v Speaker 1>it's an open challenge or not, you know, he has

<v Speaker 1>become the most reliable weekly part of the show and

<v Speaker 1>I want him to I want his reign long may

<v Speaker 1>it continue into the new year, because the minute they

<v Speaker 1>take that championship away from him, I fear for this show.

<v Speaker 1>So we got a banger of a match from him tonight.

<v Speaker 1>So it wasn't, you know, all terrible, But it was

<v Speaker 1>just a very middling show tonight that kind of fell

<v Speaker 1>off a cliff honestly, after the first i'd say hour,

<v Speaker 1>after the first forty five minutes to an hour, this

<v Speaker 1>show fell off pretty hard. We actually had a mixed

<v Speaker 1>tag team main event tonight, the Terror Twins Damian Priest

<v Speaker 1>and Rhea Ripley against Alistair Black and Zelina Vega. And uh,

<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about that match. It wasn't pretty. This is

<v Speaker 1>your SmackDown review. It is Friday Night. It is December twelfth,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five. I am the solemn Monster, closing out

<v Speaker 1>yet another week as we head into a big night

<v Speaker 1>in a big stream Tomorrow Night. Hit that like button,

<v Speaker 1>hit that subscribe button. Super chats are. You will see

<v Speaker 1>your messages popping up here and there on screen, and

<v Speaker 1>I will be reading all the ones that came in

<v Speaker 1>a little bit later on here in the stream. Let

<v Speaker 1>me also, just for the benefit of those who don't

<v Speaker 1>already know, who haven't heard me talking about this all week,

<v Speaker 1>but we do have the farewell Tomorrow night, Saturday Night's

<v Speaker 1>main event, eight pm Eastern start on Peacock here in

<v Speaker 1>the States. I believe Netflix internationally. If I'm not mistaken.

<v Speaker 1>Once the show is over, pull on up here to

<v Speaker 1>the channel, because I'm going to have a full review

<v Speaker 1>and a full recap of all the happenings on Saturday

<v Speaker 1>Night's main event John Cena against Gun There we have

<v Speaker 1>a bunch of in interpromotional cross brand I can't even

<v Speaker 1>say interpromotional cross branded matches. Tomorrow night, we'll talk about

<v Speaker 1>it all live here on YouTube. Bring those thumbs and

<v Speaker 1>your super and everything else, and we'll talk some Saturday

<v Speaker 1>Nights main event. That will lead then into episode nine

<v Speaker 1>forty two, and I got some fun stuff planned for

<v Speaker 1>that for the podcast on Sunday. Shout out to Sidrow

<v Speaker 1>who is with us tonight? Is it YouTube or is

<v Speaker 1>it Netflix? I see. I thought it was Netflix that

<v Speaker 1>was airing it internationally, and now people are saying it's YouTube. Well,

<v Speaker 1>wherever it is, all you international folks can figure it out.

<v Speaker 1>Here in the States, it's on Peacock. The one good

<v Speaker 1>thing about that it's not on NBC, which means no

<v Speaker 1>commercials in the middle of matches. But it also shows

<v Speaker 1>you how well Saturday Night's main event must have been

<v Speaker 1>doing for NBC that they didn't even bother to wait

<v Speaker 1>until John seen his last match to try to pop

<v Speaker 1>a number before they said, Nana, we're going streaming only

<v Speaker 1>on these shows. So anyway, that's where you can catch

<v Speaker 1>it now on social media. Earlier today we got a

<v Speaker 1>video from the SmackDown general manager Nick Aldis, who had

<v Speaker 1>a message. She had a plea to one Drew McIntyre,

<v Speaker 1>the very man that he kicked out of the show

<v Speaker 1>last week, the very mad who he suspended all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden, He would like to have a conversation about

<v Speaker 1>having him back. And the problem, he says, is that

<v Speaker 1>Drew has not been taking his phone calls, he has

<v Speaker 1>not been returning his text messages. So this video was

<v Speaker 1>the only way for him to get through. And so

<v Speaker 1>he has a proposition. He invited him to show up

<v Speaker 1>here on the show to try to work things out.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, we come back live backstage, Cody Rhoades crosses

<v Speaker 1>paths with all this, and now all this is claiming

<v Speaker 1>that he received a letter since then from McIntyre's attorney

<v Speaker 1>claiming unsafe working conditions, that SmackDown is an unsafe work environment.

<v Speaker 1>And he produces the letter, and Cody takes the letter

<v Speaker 1>and he crumples it up into a ball and he

<v Speaker 1>throws it away. And Cody makes his way out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring for the opening segment, so he gets his entrance.

<v Speaker 1>He comes down to the ring, and of course the

<v Speaker 1>WWE Champion like to know what people want him to

<v Speaker 1>talk about, So he tells the fans that Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>feels that SmackDown is an unsafe work environment. He said,

<v Speaker 1>none of the problem is McIntyre is only half in,

<v Speaker 1>which is why he's not the WWEE champion and why

<v Speaker 1>Cody doesn't sweat him. He says that he would fire

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre if he were his boss. Well, of course he

<v Speaker 1>would say that. I mean, I would do the same

<v Speaker 1>thing if I was the champion, I would fire all

<v Speaker 1>of my competition. Naturally, It's the only thing to do.

<v Speaker 1>Almost heelish, dare I say, But Cody said he can't

<v Speaker 1>fire McIntyre, he can whip his ass. That brings out

<v Speaker 1>the NXT champion, the Ruler Oba Femi getting his first

<v Speaker 1>formal entrance here on SmackDown, a scene that hopefully we

<v Speaker 1>will see a lot more of in twenty twenty six,

<v Speaker 1>and he rumbles on down to the ring. He does

<v Speaker 1>that little dance that he'd everybody's gonna get into, the

<v Speaker 1>Ruler dance, So he makes his way to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, he and Cody are wrestling Champion against Champion,

<v Speaker 1>non title on Saturday night's main event. Tomorrow. Oba tells

<v Speaker 1>Cody that he's worried about the wrong person, when the

<v Speaker 1>person he should be worried about is the man standing

<v Speaker 1>right in front of him, the NXT champion. He introduced

<v Speaker 1>himself and said that he was in the mountain that

<v Speaker 1>you cannot conquer. Oba said that everybody is talking about

<v Speaker 1>the future these days and acting like it's this far

<v Speaker 1>away thing, but he disagrees. He was knocking on Cody's

<v Speaker 1>front door and telling him that the future is now

<v Speaker 1>and he is the future. He said, your time is up,

<v Speaker 1>My time is now, and Cody said, well, that's a

<v Speaker 1>John Cena quote, and he's happy that Oba looks up

<v Speaker 1>to him. Also, Cody then remindsed Oba that he's the

<v Speaker 1>guy who beat Sena for the WWE Championship. Cody went

<v Speaker 1>to go leave, Oba, though grabbed him by the arm

<v Speaker 1>to stop him, and we ended up with a shot

<v Speaker 1>of both men staring each other down and holding up

<v Speaker 1>their respective championship belts. This was a basic segment in

<v Speaker 1>many ways and actually pretty short but effective, and I

<v Speaker 1>thought that Oba passed his first test here right. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>there was it a whole lot to The promo was

<v Speaker 1>very simple, but the one thing that was very clear

<v Speaker 1>to me from the moment they hit his music and

<v Speaker 1>he made his entrance, and just his presence in the

<v Speaker 1>ring and that little face to face with Cody, who

<v Speaker 1>was the top guy in this company. He belongs there,

<v Speaker 1>certainly doesn't look out of place. He belongs there, and

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown more so than Raw could definitely benefit from having

<v Speaker 1>him full time on the roster. Would be a very

<v Speaker 1>wise move on their part to move him as quickly

<v Speaker 1>as possible, which is why I didn't want to put

<v Speaker 1>the NXT Championship back on him in the first plays,

<v Speaker 1>because my fear was that that means he's going to

<v Speaker 1>be down there for a few more months at least.

<v Speaker 1>And then when I saw Javon Evans win the Iron

<v Speaker 1>Survivor Challenge, I said, okay, well, maybe he can win

<v Speaker 1>the championship from Oba at New Year's Evil at the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of next month, and then we see Oba in

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. Right, it's all perfect, and who knows,

<v Speaker 1>maybe we'll still see Oba in the Rumble. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what they were going for as far as having

<v Speaker 1>Javon bump up his title match to Tuesday, and then

<v Speaker 1>of course he lost when Ricky Saints cost him the title,

<v Speaker 1>So I don't know what they're going to do in

<v Speaker 1>New Year's Evil. They may end up doing a triple

<v Speaker 1>threat match. Still very possible that Oba may drop the

<v Speaker 1>championship without having to take a pin. Maybe that's the idea.

<v Speaker 1>As long as we get Oba in the rumble, because

<v Speaker 1>to me, that's his entryway into the main roster, then

<v Speaker 1>I'm okay with it. And I love that we're getting

<v Speaker 1>Cody and Oba tomorrow because I think it's going to

<v Speaker 1>be a fucking killer match, and what a spotlight for

<v Speaker 1>Oba Femi, right, doesn't get any bigger than this, this

<v Speaker 1>early in his career. Right, a match on a show

<v Speaker 1>where John Cen is retiring. All eyes are going to

<v Speaker 1>be on that show tomorrow. They're going to have nineteen

<v Speaker 1>thousand people sold out in that building and you're facing

<v Speaker 1>the WWE champion. So again, in short of a WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>or like a big stadium show, really doesn't get any

<v Speaker 1>bigger than that. But I am genuinely looking forward to

<v Speaker 1>that match tomorrow. I would love to see Oba pick

<v Speaker 1>up the win. I still think that we get a

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre appearance. Maybe he wins off of a Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre distraction of some kind, but I would be very

<v Speaker 1>surprised if we do not see McIntyre rearing his head

<v Speaker 1>and showing up and playing some kind of role in

<v Speaker 1>the end of that match tomorrow. Now backstage, Ilia Dragonov

<v Speaker 1>the United States Champion. He was met by Fraxium and

<v Speaker 1>they offered to help him even the odds against Tomaso

<v Speaker 1>Champa if Jonnie Gargano and Candice Larray war to get

<v Speaker 1>involved in their match tonight. Dragonov respectfully declined the invitation,

<v Speaker 1>saying that he was going to follow John Cena's example

<v Speaker 1>and bring the fight to Champa and Diy by himself,

<v Speaker 1>and that led into the United States Championship. We had

<v Speaker 1>Ila Dragonov against Tamaso Champa, no open challenge needed this week.

<v Speaker 1>Two of them got in a pretty stiff exchange early

<v Speaker 1>on Dragonov. They'll got the better of it with a

<v Speaker 1>hard boot to the jaw. Champa then targeted the surgically

<v Speaker 1>repaired knee of Dragonov with the giant brace on its

<v Speaker 1>kind of hard to miss outside the ring. Champa barely

<v Speaker 1>avoided a running charge from Dragonov, who could not stop

<v Speaker 1>himself and he went careening into the ring steps. Champa

<v Speaker 1>then delivered a suplex that ended up with Dragonov's knee

<v Speaker 1>smashing off the top of the ring steps, and he

<v Speaker 1>shrieked in agony as they went to come chel. After

<v Speaker 1>a break, Dragonov attempted a Constantine's special, but the bum

<v Speaker 1>knee buckled at the very last second. He did manage

<v Speaker 1>to ground Champa with a leaping inziguri to the side

<v Speaker 1>of the head, and the champion then connected on two

<v Speaker 1>German supplexes. He tried to lift Champa up, he couldn't

<v Speaker 1>do it because of the knee. He did finally lift

<v Speaker 1>Champa up, though with a uranagi for a near fall,

<v Speaker 1>so Dragonov now he hobbles up to the top row,

<v Speaker 1>but takes enough time where it gives Champa a chance

<v Speaker 1>to kick him outside onto the apron. Champa then hoist

<v Speaker 1>Dragonov up. He delivers an air raid crash on the apron,

<v Speaker 1>still though not enough to put Dragonov away, so Dragonov

<v Speaker 1>comes back with a missile dropkick off the top. After

<v Speaker 1>a break, we'd come back to Champa landing an avalanche

<v Speaker 1>air raid crash only for a two count sometime just

<v Speaker 1>before I don't think it was on this spot, but

<v Speaker 1>it was sometime maybe right before Dragonov got his nose

<v Speaker 1>busted open, and Corey Grays wasn't sure if it was

<v Speaker 1>coming from his lip or his nose. It was definitely

<v Speaker 1>the nose and there was a lot of blood. He

<v Speaker 1>was bleeding all over the place. Both men got into

<v Speaker 1>it again with a battle of just brutal strikes. Champa

<v Speaker 1>targeted Dragonov's knee with a dragon screw. Ilija counted a

<v Speaker 1>German supplex by Champa and hit the torpedo Moscow. At

<v Speaker 1>this point, here comes Johnny Gargano. He runs out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring, he gets up on the apron. He's running distraction. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>on the other side, referee doesn't see that. Candice Leray

<v Speaker 1>goes after Dragonov. I think she draped him neck first

<v Speaker 1>over the top rope, and this opened Dragonov up for

<v Speaker 1>a running knee strike from Champa. And still this is

<v Speaker 1>a good near fall. It was as convincing a near

<v Speaker 1>fall as we had the entire match, and there were

<v Speaker 1>a couple of them. Not enough, though, so Dragonov kicks out.

<v Speaker 1>He fin things off after countering Champa's fairytale ending into

<v Speaker 1>a pinning combination. So it was hardly a decisive win.

<v Speaker 1>It's more like he survived it. But he does survive

<v Speaker 1>and he does retain the United States Championship. After the match,

<v Speaker 1>Gargano and Champa they attacked Dragonov until Carmelo Hayes ran

<v Speaker 1>out to make the save and got a pretty damn

<v Speaker 1>good reception for doing so. And as Diy beat a

<v Speaker 1>hasty retreat, Mellow went over to Dragonov, helped him up

<v Speaker 1>to his feet, and the two of them shared a

<v Speaker 1>moment of mutual respect. You know, just think about it.

<v Speaker 1>Had TRIPLEH been open to doing five matches instead of

<v Speaker 1>four at Survivor Series, you could have put this match

<v Speaker 1>on that show and maybe even given them another five

<v Speaker 1>minutes commercial free. Would have really enhanced the show. It

<v Speaker 1>would have helped out Survivor Series a lot. But as

<v Speaker 1>it was, we got it tonight. Excellent match, excellent hard

<v Speaker 1>hitting stuff. You could tell just by looking at Dragonov's

<v Speaker 1>face there was a lot of blood coming out of

<v Speaker 1>his nose. And another great defense. I mean, what more

<v Speaker 1>is there to say? Another great defense of the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship. Dragonov is he's so damn good at this.

<v Speaker 1>He's just so damn good. I mean, he had those

<v Speaker 1>people biting on every near fall and the way he

<v Speaker 1>was selling the knee. You know, sometimes in his selling,

<v Speaker 1>I feel like he goes a little over the top,

<v Speaker 1>But for the most part, there's nobody else in wrestling

<v Speaker 1>right now who sells the way the Dragonov does, you know,

<v Speaker 1>whatever body part it might be, or just selling exhaustion

<v Speaker 1>from a match where even he doesn't have to go

<v Speaker 1>thirty minutes with Gunther, you know, he could have a

<v Speaker 1>competitive fifteen minute television match and by the end of it,

<v Speaker 1>even if he wins, you just look at the guy

<v Speaker 1>and he's like wearing the wounds of war on his face.

<v Speaker 1>It feels like this man has been in a battle.

<v Speaker 1>And there's not a lot of wrestlers, honestly, that I

<v Speaker 1>watch right now in either of the two main companies

<v Speaker 1>where I see someone who sells the way that he does,

<v Speaker 1>and it helps because it sets him apart from everybody else.

<v Speaker 1>It makes him unique in that way, Whereas I feel

<v Speaker 1>like if someone like him had come along thirty or

<v Speaker 1>forty years ago and was selling like that, he would

<v Speaker 1>have been one of many, and sadly he's one of

<v Speaker 1>a very select few now. But it does, I think,

<v Speaker 1>enhance his matches, and it does make him stand out

<v Speaker 1>more so, he's great and like I said, the people

<v Speaker 1>were losing their minds on some of those near falls

<v Speaker 1>that Kathy Kelly was backstage with the Bounty Boy from NXT,

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans, who was asked about his big match tomorrow

<v Speaker 1>where he's teaming up with the TNA X Division champion

<v Speaker 1>Leon Slater. When the Miz interrupted, we've talked about the

<v Speaker 1>Jericho Vortex before, we're in the mis Vortex now. So

<v Speaker 1>Miss shows up, he complains about how he wasn't booked

<v Speaker 1>for John Seen his final show tomorrow. This led to

<v Speaker 1>Evans challenging Miz to a match for later tonight. Miz

<v Speaker 1>said that Evans won't make it to Saturday if he

<v Speaker 1>gets hurt tonight, and Evans also in this promo or

<v Speaker 1>in this segment, kept calling him unk unk. He kept

<v Speaker 1>calling him, and so this was very upsetting to the Miz.

<v Speaker 1>At the very end, he called Evans nephew. And I

<v Speaker 1>thought about it and I said, you know, Miss is

<v Speaker 1>old enough where it kind of makes sense that he

<v Speaker 1>could be his uncle, and then I got very depressed.

<v Speaker 1>So that was a match that was made for later

<v Speaker 1>in the show. Big Vantage von Evans so anytime we

<v Speaker 1>get to see him in action, it only makes the

<v Speaker 1>show better. After this, we had the entirety of the

<v Speaker 1>Wyatt six make their way out to the ring and

<v Speaker 1>we got a rare in ring. Uncle Howdie promo showed

<v Speaker 1>a replay of the brawl last week between the Wyatts

<v Speaker 1>and the MFTs, and that's the one where Solo and

<v Speaker 1>his promo had the bowl leave line. So here we go.

<v Speaker 1>Uncle Howdy is in the ring and he's going to speak.

<v Speaker 1>He talked about Solo Socoa's attempts to discredit his family,

<v Speaker 1>saying that Solo might not have the power to look

<v Speaker 1>within himself, but howd he did? He said that Soco

<v Speaker 1>is real family, talking about the original bloodline, the og

<v Speaker 1>bloodline turned their back on him because he used and

<v Speaker 1>abused those that he claimed to love. How do he

<v Speaker 1>called Solo delusional for claiming that the MFTs ran SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>because as long as the Wyatts had the tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs run nothing. Well, I mean, they might be

<v Speaker 1>running people off from this show. How do you then

<v Speaker 1>issue a challenge the Solo in the MFTs that if

<v Speaker 1>they wanted the titles, they should come and get them.

<v Speaker 1>There It was weird. There was a moment somewhere in

<v Speaker 1>here remember which line it was, where it actually sounded

<v Speaker 1>like Bo may have forgotten what his next line was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be, at least it came off that way

<v Speaker 1>to me. But he got back on track. So we

<v Speaker 1>hear that Solo soco his entrance music, and they're waiting

<v Speaker 1>for the MFTs to come out, and there's no MFTs. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>they appeared on the Titan Tron or the led boards whatever,

<v Speaker 1>and it's Solo at the head of the table and

<v Speaker 1>all the MFTs are standing around him and behind him

<v Speaker 1>and no clown makeup. This week, Solo said that the

<v Speaker 1>Wyats didn't call the shots. He did. Then he said

<v Speaker 1>that they were going to do things his way and

<v Speaker 1>the Wyatts had better prepare for war, and if how

<v Speaker 1>He wants to keep his family safe, they should just

<v Speaker 1>hand over the tag team titles because if they don't,

<v Speaker 1>the only thing you can do is run. I wonder

<v Speaker 1>where he got that from. This was not good. This

<v Speaker 1>was not good. The Howdie promo was very just eh,

<v Speaker 1>it really wasn't that great. And I just don't care

<v Speaker 1>about anything involving the MFTs. There's nothing these people can

<v Speaker 1>do to get me to give a single solitary shit

<v Speaker 1>about what any of these people do on this show.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry if they do. If they if they can

<v Speaker 1>find a way, if they can find a way to

<v Speaker 1>make me care about these guys. Whoever is responsible for

<v Speaker 1>that should be promoted to head writer of this show.

<v Speaker 1>And I promise you will not be road Dog. But

<v Speaker 1>maybe there's a maybe there's a magic man somewhere behind

<v Speaker 1>the scenes who can do something, who could put together

<v Speaker 1>some sort of story or angle on this show next

<v Speaker 1>year to get me to give a single shit about

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs. That's the person who I want running this show.

<v Speaker 1>But right now I don't and I don't see that

<v Speaker 1>changing now after this, the show really fell off. After well,

<v Speaker 1>with this segment and then henceforth, this show really fell off.

<v Speaker 1>In the back, Charlotte Flair was hyping up Alexa Bliss

<v Speaker 1>for her match tonight when Rhea Ripley wandered over because

<v Speaker 1>she's in the main event tonight, she's not even on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>Rhea wanders over and says that she and EO they

<v Speaker 1>get the next shot at the women's tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>and Bliss says that she respects them, but she and

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte are not going to step aside for anyone, and

<v Speaker 1>RHEO wished them luck in or wished her luck in

<v Speaker 1>her match tonight. After this, we got clips of various

<v Speaker 1>athletes and celebrities congratulating John Cena on his retirement. We

<v Speaker 1>heard from Tom Brady, we heard from Peyton and Eli

<v Speaker 1>Manning separately. We heard from Snoop Dog, we heard from

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll. Eli Manning was the best. And maybe I'm

<v Speaker 1>a little bit biased still, you know the New York

<v Speaker 1>connection here, but Eli was the best. He puts Sina over.

<v Speaker 1>He says, even though he hears he's a big fan

<v Speaker 1>of the New England Patriots. But hey, I guess no

<v Speaker 1>one's perfect, including the seven Patriots. Now see Eli's got

<v Speaker 1>the jokes. It's not just you guys in the chat. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Eli's got the jokes here. But see, that was a

<v Speaker 1>great one though, that right there, Noah, no one is

<v Speaker 1>going to be able to top that one tonight. It's

<v Speaker 1>funny because it's true eighteen and one Patriots fans eighteen

<v Speaker 1>and one we don't forget. So then we had Alexobliss

<v Speaker 1>with Charlotte Flair in her corner, taking on Lash Legend

<v Speaker 1>with Naya Jackson hers Bliss sent Legend out of the

<v Speaker 1>ring with a Hurrican rana, and then as she tried

<v Speaker 1>to leap from the apron, she got caught and she

<v Speaker 1>got tossed ribs for first onto the top of the

<v Speaker 1>timekeeper's barricade. Back inside, Bliss took a hard clothes line.

<v Speaker 1>Legend jumped up for a big splash, standing splash on

<v Speaker 1>Bliss for an earfall. Bliss got a little bit of

<v Speaker 1>an offensive flurry, and then she got caught by a

<v Speaker 1>forearm shot that Lash refers to as the Lash minute

<v Speaker 1>on the apron. Jack's tripped up Bliss, so Charlotte came

<v Speaker 1>over and got involved. She took out Naya Legend then

<v Speaker 1>headed outside. It hit Charlotte with a big boot to

<v Speaker 1>take her out of the equation in the ring. Legend

<v Speaker 1>then finished off Alexa with her Lash extension finish and

<v Speaker 1>she pinned her just like that. One two three. Lash

<v Speaker 1>is still very green. She's still putting it all together.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody can doubt her athletic ability. I mean, you heard

<v Speaker 1>Michael Cole talking about it a little bit on commentary

<v Speaker 1>and the records that she set, you know, back in

<v Speaker 1>college She's gonna go far, you know. And you could

<v Speaker 1>tell they recognize that they have something special there and

<v Speaker 1>it's just a matter of bringing it out of her

<v Speaker 1>and her putting all the pieces together. It'll be a

<v Speaker 1>while yet, though, before she gets there. Alexa. You know,

<v Speaker 1>she took some hard shots here in this match. And

<v Speaker 1>I'll be honest with you, I'm watching this match, especially

<v Speaker 1>at the very beginning, and it just it looked a

<v Speaker 1>little ridiculous to me because she's just just so tiny

<v Speaker 1>compared to Lash. She's just so much bigger than her,

<v Speaker 1>and it was hard for me to just buy into.

<v Speaker 1>But it served its purpose. And what was the purpose

<v Speaker 1>of this, right What was the primary purpose of this,

<v Speaker 1>even though Charlotte and Alexa are in the hunt for

<v Speaker 1>the women's tag team titles. It was to put over

<v Speaker 1>how dominant Lash Legend is. Lash Legend is the new

<v Speaker 1>girl in town, and the objective right now is and

<v Speaker 1>should be to try to get her over as strongly

<v Speaker 1>as possible. Now, what are we seeing with Jade Cargill

<v Speaker 1>right now? Jay Cargill is the Women's I'll get to

<v Speaker 1>her in a little bit. She's the women's champion. What

<v Speaker 1>has Jade been doing since winning the title from Tiffany Stratton,

<v Speaker 1>she's been beating up people like b Fab and Meechin.

<v Speaker 1>You know what that's gonna do for Jade Cargill zero nothing.

<v Speaker 1>It's not going to do a damn thing for her.

<v Speaker 1>Because she can go around and beat up all the

<v Speaker 1>mid carters she wants to, it doesn't get her any

<v Speaker 1>more over than she already is. You can have lash

<v Speaker 1>Legend go out there, and I'm not saying you can't

<v Speaker 1>feed her people like that. I mean that's what they

<v Speaker 1>used to do back in the old days, right You

<v Speaker 1>would debut on the syndicated shows and beat up a

<v Speaker 1>bunch of jobbers and get your move over, and then

<v Speaker 1>eventually you'd graduate to the name talents. And there's nothing

<v Speaker 1>wrong with that, but that's not the way they do

<v Speaker 1>things now. But if you really want to get her over,

<v Speaker 1>you know what would be more impressive than lash Legend

<v Speaker 1>going out there and beating up Mechen. It would be

<v Speaker 1>her going in there and pinning a five time women's champion,

<v Speaker 1>which is what she did here in this match. You know,

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss has been very successful of her career on

<v Speaker 1>the main roster, and she just got played with like

<v Speaker 1>a toy in that ring and got put down one, two, three.

<v Speaker 1>That's how you start to give credibility to the new person.

<v Speaker 1>So that was the goal here, I thought. To that end,

<v Speaker 1>they accomplish what they were seeking out to do. This

<v Speaker 1>is how you make new stars, right, It's something that

<v Speaker 1>they have to do with this show, especially now that

<v Speaker 1>we're heading back to the three hour format in a

<v Speaker 1>few weeks. And frankly, even if the show wasn't going

<v Speaker 1>back to three hours, this show is in desperate need

<v Speaker 1>of a reset when it comes to the women's division, especially.

<v Speaker 1>This is the sort of thing you have to do

<v Speaker 1>to try to make new stars. But what they did

<v Speaker 1>in doing this, there's a flip side to this. They have,

<v Speaker 1>at least for the time being, taken Alexa out of

<v Speaker 1>In my opinion, they've taken Alexa out of the running

<v Speaker 1>as a potential challenger for Jade. She just went in

<v Speaker 1>there and lost pretty much clean to the new girl.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see Alexa Bliss having a very good argument

<v Speaker 1>for going in there now and challenging Jade for the championship,

<v Speaker 1>which I'm not saying that's what they were gonna do,

<v Speaker 1>But if you wanted to give her some credible challengers.

<v Speaker 1>Alexa and Charlotte are right there. They just took Alexa

<v Speaker 1>off the table as far as that goes. Although the

<v Speaker 1>match they were teasing a few weeks ago was Jade

<v Speaker 1>and Charlotte, it wasn't Jade and Alexa, but I suppose

<v Speaker 1>if they did Alexa and Jade, it would be about

<v Speaker 1>as much of a mismatch as this match was, so

<v Speaker 1>it would look just as ridiculous to be seeing the

<v Speaker 1>two of them together in the ring. After this, we

<v Speaker 1>had the miss where I'm gonna start calling him the

<v Speaker 1>gatekeeper on these shows. Right, Remember the first Ghostbusters movie,

<v Speaker 1>we had the key Master. It was the key Master

<v Speaker 1>and the gatekeeper. Right, Let's start calling Miss the gatekeeper

<v Speaker 1>who was the key master to his gatekeeper. He took

<v Speaker 1>on Javon Evans. Mis got the advantage early with a

<v Speaker 1>shoulder block, started taunting the crowd. Evans sprang up, he

<v Speaker 1>had a springboard at hurrican Raden sent Miz out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring. Miz took over after sending Evans into the

<v Speaker 1>ring post, and he had Evans trapped at a cross face

<v Speaker 1>after a commercial break, but the rookie turned that into

<v Speaker 1>a pen attempt. To escape the hold. Evans mounted a

<v Speaker 1>comeback with his rebound inziguri to Miz, but that was

<v Speaker 1>only enough for a two count. Miz started mocking John Cena.

<v Speaker 1>He did a five knuckle shuffle and then he tried

<v Speaker 1>his own version of an attitude adjustment. Evans, though, instead

<v Speaker 1>landed on his feet, or at least I mean not really.

<v Speaker 1>I mean that was the idea. Yeah, the idea is

<v Speaker 1>that he would land on his feet. Didn't really work

<v Speaker 1>out that way, but he sent Miz outside and then

<v Speaker 1>it went soaring over the top rope with a big

<v Speaker 1>dive out to the floor. Miz tried to counter an

<v Speaker 1>og cutter into a skull crushing finale that didn't work.

<v Speaker 1>Evans finally connected with the og cutter to pick up

<v Speaker 1>what Michael Cole referred to as the biggest win of

<v Speaker 1>his career. Yes, and Mis, for the record, has not

<v Speaker 1>won a singles match in all of twenty twenty five.

<v Speaker 1>Perspective always very important to keep perspective on these things.

<v Speaker 1>I understand that MS is a former WWE champion, and

<v Speaker 1>I understand that Mis not only made event at a WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>but he beat John Cena at WrestleMania don't. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>don't take my word for it. Just ask him. He'll

<v Speaker 1>tell you. Right, He's had some very He's won almost

<v Speaker 1>every title there is to win in this company. Money

<v Speaker 1>in the back like, he's done a lot of stuff,

<v Speaker 1>all right. He's going to be a first ballot Hall

<v Speaker 1>of Famer when it's time for him to go in.

<v Speaker 1>And all of that being said, a win over the

<v Speaker 1>Miz in twenty twenty five means nothing. It has been

<v Speaker 1>rendered completely meaningless. You can rattle off all the accomplishments

<v Speaker 1>that you want to, no one is going to look

<v Speaker 1>at a win over the Miss these days as the

<v Speaker 1>biggest win of anyone's career. And that's just the sad

<v Speaker 1>reality of it. You are only as strong as how

<v Speaker 1>people see you today, and only as strong as how

<v Speaker 1>you are booked today, not ten years ago. That's the distinction.

<v Speaker 1>Miss is back to playing the role of gatekeeper here.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, this was fine again. It was all about

<v Speaker 1>showcasing Javon Evans for a few minutes before the bigger match,

<v Speaker 1>which is him and Leon Slater against aj Styles and

<v Speaker 1>Dragonly on Saturday Night's Made Event tomorrow. Like all these

<v Speaker 1>new players that have matches tomorrow and even Bailey and

<v Speaker 1>soul Ruka very very brief, but they did show them

<v Speaker 1>in the crowd. I mean, they didn't really do anything

<v Speaker 1>with them, but they were at least on the show.

<v Speaker 1>So it was about shining a spotlight on most of

<v Speaker 1>these new NXT faces that are going to be on

<v Speaker 1>the show tomorrow, getting them a spot on the show,

<v Speaker 1>and doing something with them that would just give them

<v Speaker 1>that little bit of momentum and just highlight to the

<v Speaker 1>audience watching at home. Hey, this is someone to pay

<v Speaker 1>attention to. That's the only reason that this match existed. Clearly,

<v Speaker 1>whatever they were planning on doing with Mizz and Carmelo Hayes,

<v Speaker 1>that has been scrapped, and you know what, it's for

<v Speaker 1>the better. It's not anything that Carmelo Hayes honestly at

<v Speaker 1>this point, not that they couldn't go out there and

<v Speaker 1>have a good match, but what is Carmelo Hayes gain

<v Speaker 1>if they would have kept that thing going and built

<v Speaker 1>to a big match, which honestly they should have done

<v Speaker 1>for as long as they were dragging that story out.

<v Speaker 1>To not do like a big blowoff match is pretty ridiculous.

<v Speaker 1>But let's be honest here, if they had done it,

<v Speaker 1>What does he really gain from it? Not mine, that's

<v Speaker 1>my point. He gained more from coming out there and

<v Speaker 1>getting a big reaction from the crowd and saving il

<v Speaker 1>Ya dragonoff and maybe eventually building to him finally winning

<v Speaker 1>the US title. That means far more than any match

<v Speaker 1>would have with the Miz, But they have very clearly

<v Speaker 1>scrapped that because they have not interacted at all or

<v Speaker 1>talked about or mentioned each other at all in weeks.

<v Speaker 1>I will say this about Javon Evans though. The height

<v Speaker 1>that he gets on some of those jumps is unbelievable,

<v Speaker 1>and I just hope he doesn't break a leg or

<v Speaker 1>an ankle one day. There was one jump or dive

<v Speaker 1>that he did tonight where as he was coming down,

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, man, he's coming down from a pretty high

<v Speaker 1>distance there. I hope he doesn't roll an ankle. He's

<v Speaker 1>got a fucking match in twenty four hours. Boy, that

<v Speaker 1>would have sucked. So that's the only thing I worry

<v Speaker 1>about with him. Sometimes he gets he gets a little

<v Speaker 1>too high in that way, but maybe he does, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. Backstage, Rhea Ripley was confronted by Naya Jacks

<v Speaker 1>and Lash Legend. We threatened to do what they did

<v Speaker 1>to Alexa Bliss to Ripley, and Ripley was unfazed by

<v Speaker 1>their threat and told them that she and EO Sky

<v Speaker 1>were gunning for the women's tag team titles. So after

<v Speaker 1>they left, Rhea spotted someone we couldn't see, and then

<v Speaker 1>the camera panned over. It was Jade Cargill. So we

<v Speaker 1>had a very brief, uncomfortable stare between these two women.

<v Speaker 1>Perhaps foreshadowing a WrestleMania match seems unlikely. It would seem

<v Speaker 1>more likely to me if Bianca could not be back

<v Speaker 1>in time for Mania, then maybe they would do Jade

<v Speaker 1>and Charlotte on that show. But you can't rule it

<v Speaker 1>out right. You can't rule out the possibility that maybe

<v Speaker 1>Riea switches brands and Ria and Jade on the table,

<v Speaker 1>maybe as a potential WrestleMania match. So no words were

<v Speaker 1>exchanged between the two of them. Instead, Jade just started

<v Speaker 1>to make her way towards the ring for her scheduled

<v Speaker 1>match with Michin, a match that never took place because

<v Speaker 1>after a break. As Michin was delivering a promo while

<v Speaker 1>walking towards the gorilla position, she was talking a big

<v Speaker 1>talk man. She was going off on Jade and talking

<v Speaker 1>about bullying I think, and all this stuff, and all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, out of nowhere, she gets attacked by

<v Speaker 1>Jade Cargill and put down like a geek, and Jade

<v Speaker 1>throws her into the wall in the gorilla position, and

<v Speaker 1>then she calls for her music. I should point out

<v Speaker 1>to you that Jade was not even dressed for a match.

<v Speaker 1>Her match was scheduled, but she didn't look like she

<v Speaker 1>was in her usual gear. So she gets into the

<v Speaker 1>ring and she immediately demands a microphone. She said that

<v Speaker 1>what happened to Mechen is what happens when women don't

<v Speaker 1>know their place in the back. Jade said that she's

<v Speaker 1>that bitch, But as she said the word bitch, she

<v Speaker 1>got cut off by Miechen's music. She came walking out

<v Speaker 1>licking her wounds, but she had a kendo stick. She

<v Speaker 1>was being surrounded by a bunch of officials who were

<v Speaker 1>trying to convince her to go backstage. She wouldn't have

<v Speaker 1>any of it. So Jade met her in the aisleway

<v Speaker 1>and Michen worked her over with the kendo stick. Michin

<v Speaker 1>then went under the ring and pulled out a table, which,

<v Speaker 1>of course got a pop from the crowd, but before

<v Speaker 1>she could do anything with the table, she got dropped

<v Speaker 1>with a big boot and Jade rolled her inside, and

<v Speaker 1>then Jade slides the table back under the ring. In

<v Speaker 1>the crowd booed, easy heat. You want easy heat, you

<v Speaker 1>tease the table and then you don't give it to them,

<v Speaker 1>you'll be the biggest heel in the building. So she

<v Speaker 1>gets into the ring, she no sells Michin's punches and

<v Speaker 1>then she choke slams her. And I will say the

<v Speaker 1>choke slam looked great, got some good height on it.

<v Speaker 1>And then Jade left the ring and as she was leaving,

<v Speaker 1>she's looking into the camera and she's calling for some

<v Speaker 1>real competition. Yeah, that would be nice, that would be nice.

<v Speaker 1>It was a segment that happened. That's what I wrote

<v Speaker 1>in my notes. It was a segment that happened, and

<v Speaker 1>it's not one that does anything to enhance an already

<v Speaker 1>very bare bones women's division on this show. The show

<v Speaker 1>going from two hours to three hours, I know people

<v Speaker 1>have this thought in their head that oh, this is

<v Speaker 1>going to be great because now there's going to be

<v Speaker 1>an extra hour and they can feature more people with

<v Speaker 1>that extra hour, and theoretically, sure, that's true, but adding

<v Speaker 1>an extra hour to this show is not going to

<v Speaker 1>be a cure for the disease that has afflicted this show.

<v Speaker 1>The key is to get Jade some real competition and

<v Speaker 1>at the same time start building up new faces like

<v Speaker 1>Lash Legend and others, so that three, four or five

<v Speaker 1>months from now, six months from now, we could be

<v Speaker 1>having a totally different conversation about what this women's division

<v Speaker 1>looks like on SmackDown. It is doable, it is absolutely doual,

<v Speaker 1>something they should have already done by now. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why they dragged their feet for so long that

<v Speaker 1>I have to read these stupid reports about how while

<v Speaker 1>they recognized the show was in need of what took

<v Speaker 1>them so long? Why did it take them until the

<v Speaker 1>end of the year when they're on the cusp of

<v Speaker 1>three hours to realize, oh shit, we better shore up

<v Speaker 1>this show, We better shore up this women's division. Oh yeah,

<v Speaker 1>no shit, dude, I could have told you that six

<v Speaker 1>fucking months ago. Why did they drag their feet for

<v Speaker 1>so long? Now they have no choice, But it's absolutely possible,

<v Speaker 1>it's absolutely doable that this show. You could do a

<v Speaker 1>one tot eighty just on this division alone, in a

<v Speaker 1>matter of months. Look at the SmackDown Tag Team Division

<v Speaker 1>at the beginning of the year and through much of

<v Speaker 1>the year WrestleMania, even into summer slim right, it was

<v Speaker 1>one of the hottest parts of this show. They were

<v Speaker 1>cooking with oil with those tag teams, those five or

<v Speaker 1>six teams that they had in the division. And now

<v Speaker 1>it's gone cold again in a matter of a few months.

<v Speaker 1>You can take something that's cold and heated up right right,

<v Speaker 1>You do that with a fucking microwave. You can do

<v Speaker 1>that with the SmackDown Women's division, put it in the

<v Speaker 1>microwave and heat it up. But to do that takes time.

<v Speaker 1>It's not gonna happen overnight. That's why I just cannot

<v Speaker 1>understand why it took them so long to start calling

<v Speaker 1>people up from NXTA. I mean, do you think that

<v Speaker 1>these women, that any of these people are just going

<v Speaker 1>to be over on day one? You know, not everybody

<v Speaker 1>looks like an Obafemi. It takes time. You can establish

<v Speaker 1>these people in front of the NXT audience. The main

<v Speaker 1>roster audience is a different animal, and it will take

<v Speaker 1>time for people to you know, to build equity in

<v Speaker 1>these characters on this show. This is something that should

<v Speaker 1>have started a long time ago, and they're already behind

<v Speaker 1>the eight ball on this. But Jade Cargill is the

<v Speaker 1>one that I look at on this show, and honestly,

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie on Raw is not much better. They have really

<v Speaker 1>dropped the ball on coming up with compelling challengers for

<v Speaker 1>their women's champions and they're so focused, so hyper focused

<v Speaker 1>lately on those women's tag team titles that they do

<v Speaker 1>so at the expense of their two individual titles. I

<v Speaker 1>would much rather have a strong, robust list of challengers

<v Speaker 1>for Stephanie Vquer and for Jade Cargill than worry about

<v Speaker 1>who's in contention for the fucking tag team titles. Who cares,

<v Speaker 1>Let's focus on what matters here. I understand that Bianca

<v Speaker 1>being out for so long probably fucked up a lot

<v Speaker 1>of their plans, but she's not the only person they have,

<v Speaker 1>and we still don't know when they're gonna have her back,

<v Speaker 1>so they've got to shape up real quick. But it

<v Speaker 1>takes time to really build these people up. It's terrible.

<v Speaker 1>It's just terrible how they've let this fester for so long.

<v Speaker 1>I just don't under stand it. They closed the show

<v Speaker 1>with the Terror Twins, Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley taking

<v Speaker 1>on Alistair Black and Zelena Vega. Now going just by

<v Speaker 1>Zelena Black attack Priest as he you talk about a

<v Speaker 1>feud that's been going on forever, this is this is

<v Speaker 1>the case with Damian Priest and Alistair Black. And when

<v Speaker 1>they announced that Rhea Ripley was coming to smack down

<v Speaker 1>for a mixed tag with Priest to take these two on,

<v Speaker 1>it just breeked of, Okay, We've we've got to really

<v Speaker 1>try to heat this guy up. And so how do

<v Speaker 1>we heat up Damian Priest. We put him back together

<v Speaker 1>for one week with Rhea Ripley. That's that's legitimately all.

<v Speaker 1>This was Black attack Priest as he was posing on

<v Speaker 1>the top rope, so that kicked things off. Soon though,

<v Speaker 1>he found himself on the receiving end of a clothes

<v Speaker 1>line that sent him out of the ring. Priest then

<v Speaker 1>pointed towards Rhea and was going to go make a tag,

<v Speaker 1>and then Zelena jumped on his back and he just

<v Speaker 1>completely no soul this because it's like a bug on

<v Speaker 1>his back. I mean, the size difference between these two.

<v Speaker 1>So he tagged in Rhea anyway, Ripley blasted Selena with

<v Speaker 1>a clothesline, actually a series of them, followed by a

<v Speaker 1>need of the face. Zelena targeted Ripley's arm with a

<v Speaker 1>submission over in the corner coming out of a break,

<v Speaker 1>followed by a meteora from the top rope for a

<v Speaker 1>near fall. And then Zelena, I don't know, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what she was trying to do. She whiffed on

<v Speaker 1>some kind of leg scissors move that she I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what I honestly, I have no idea what she

<v Speaker 1>was attempting to do here. She opted for a DDT instead.

<v Speaker 1>Ripley got a hot tag to Priest, Zelena climbed on

<v Speaker 1>his back again. Priest ditched her, but Black took advantage

<v Speaker 1>of the distraction. He went on the offensive. Priest ended

<v Speaker 1>up in his corner and Ripley tagged herself in. So

<v Speaker 1>Black and Zelena. They end up nailing stereo moon salts

<v Speaker 1>onto their respective opponents outside on either side of the ring,

<v Speaker 1>opposite sides, and then there was a terrifying botch and

<v Speaker 1>not the only time in this match where they just

<v Speaker 1>were not operating on the same page. Rhea Ripley tried

<v Speaker 1>for riptide, Zelena ended up somehow. You know, you've all

<v Speaker 1>seen Rhea Ripley deliver riptide right where she picks the

<v Speaker 1>woman in a pump handle position and picks her up.

<v Speaker 1>In this case, she lifts up Zelena, who I guess

<v Speaker 1>was trying to counter out of this move. Zelena ends

<v Speaker 1>up on Rhea's shoulder, as if Rhea was going for

<v Speaker 1>either like a shoulder breaker or like a Ron Simmons dominator. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>so just visualize that. So that's the position that she's in,

<v Speaker 1>and I can only imagine that Zelena was a tempting

<v Speaker 1>to do some sort of reverse code red. That's that's

<v Speaker 1>my best guess as to what she was attempting to

<v Speaker 1>do here, because she she goes again. I'm trying to

<v Speaker 1>describe this in a way where you can visualize this.

<v Speaker 1>Zelena goes forward, right, She's laying out across Rhea's shoulder,

<v Speaker 1>but she goes forward so behind Rhea, and I guess

<v Speaker 1>the idea is that Riea is going to go backwards

<v Speaker 1>with her. Well, the only thing is, as Zelena goes forward,

<v Speaker 1>she hasn't fully rotated yet. Riea falls backwards. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>even sure whose fault this is, to be honest with you,

<v Speaker 1>but Ria goes backwards. Zelena had not fully rotated. She

<v Speaker 1>got folded up in like horrifying fashion. So she's lucky

<v Speaker 1>she didn't break her fucking neck on this landing. The

<v Speaker 1>referee immediately, Ryan Tran immediately went over to check on

<v Speaker 1>her and make sure that she was okay. She got

<v Speaker 1>bent in half. This looked awful, but she recovered and

<v Speaker 1>she hit a proper code read for a near fall.

<v Speaker 1>And again, there were multiple moments in this match where

<v Speaker 1>it was just it was a mess. This ended with

<v Speaker 1>Priest and Ripley delivering stereo razors edges to the two

<v Speaker 1>of them, and then Rhea finished off Zelena with a

<v Speaker 1>proper riptide and pinned her for the wind and then

<v Speaker 1>after it was over, the cherry on top. Michael Cole

<v Speaker 1>on commentary yells Priest and Zelena with the wind. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>actually a very appropriate piece of commentary for this main

<v Speaker 1>event here Priest and Zelena with the win. According to

<v Speaker 1>Michael Cole, look, I don't want to bag on Zelena

<v Speaker 1>too much here because I know she just lost her uncle.

<v Speaker 1>She just posted it yesterday on Instagram about it a

<v Speaker 1>whole post. She was very close with him. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know exactly when he passed away, if it was within

<v Speaker 1>the last few days or a week ago, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know when it was, but she lost someone she was

<v Speaker 1>very close with. Maybe her mind was elsewhere, but the

<v Speaker 1>reality is this match was a mess. This match was

<v Speaker 1>an absolute mess. The people like seeing Priest and Rihea though,

<v Speaker 1>especially Rhea, So you know, this whole Terror Twins thing

<v Speaker 1>they mentioned coming into it. I think they were six

<v Speaker 1>and oh together in mixtag matches, So you know, that

<v Speaker 1>was a fun thing for the live crowd who got

<v Speaker 1>to see Rhea Ripley on a show that normally you

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't see her on. But to go back to Priest

<v Speaker 1>and Black, Damian Priest and Alistair Black, they have been

<v Speaker 1>feuding now for what feels like centuries in reality, it's

<v Speaker 1>been months, but they've been feuding for a while. Now

<v Speaker 1>they are in and I defy you to tell me

<v Speaker 1>I'm wrong. They are in exactly the same spot that

<v Speaker 1>they were in at the beginning of all of this,

<v Speaker 1>and Priests wasn't exactly in a great spot right. He

<v Speaker 1>has cooled off tremendously since we last saw him on

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night Raw. They are in exactly the same spot

<v Speaker 1>they were in at the beginning of all of this.

<v Speaker 1>This program, this feud, this rivalry has not helped either

<v Speaker 1>one of them other than yes, it's gotten them on TV.

<v Speaker 1>So what what does it meant? What has Alistair Black

<v Speaker 1>really done since he came back earlier this year? What

<v Speaker 1>has Damian Priesce really done really since he got called

<v Speaker 1>over to SmackDown from Rada? SmackDown? Right? What has he

<v Speaker 1>really done that you can honestly look back on and go, boy,

<v Speaker 1>you know, that's a memorable Damian Priest moment, right, a

<v Speaker 1>few to with Drew, But like, he is not in

<v Speaker 1>a better position than he was in a year ago,

<v Speaker 1>and he's certainly not in any better of a position

<v Speaker 1>now than he was at the beginning of this feud.

<v Speaker 1>And he won the match, which would seem to put

<v Speaker 1>a period on this. I don't really see the need

<v Speaker 1>for this to continue on. This is a pretty decisive

<v Speaker 1>way in here for him and Rhea, But I don't

<v Speaker 1>see how this program has really helped either one of them. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>this is as cold as Damian Priest has felt to

<v Speaker 1>me since he joined the Judgment day him joining the

<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day was a turning point for him. Now, I

<v Speaker 1>know he did the stuff with Bad Bunny and all that,

<v Speaker 1>but like him joining the Judgment Day was the best

<v Speaker 1>thing that could have happened to him because it added

<v Speaker 1>character depth to him. And we all know how many

<v Speaker 1>segments the Judgment Day get on television every single week,

<v Speaker 1>So all those television segments and the stuff with him

<v Speaker 1>and Balor, and it's like it really was a huge

<v Speaker 1>positive for him. And this is as cold as he

<v Speaker 1>has been since before he joined. And for Black, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what their plans are for him heading into WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>It honestly feels to me like he may not even

<v Speaker 1>get a WrestleMania match at this rate. I'm not sure.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, priest is going to get a WrestleMania match,

<v Speaker 1>you know, and we still have a few months left

<v Speaker 1>to go, but you can kind of start seeing where

<v Speaker 1>certain people may fall in, you know, in terms of

<v Speaker 1>the card. Maybe not who they're going to face, but like,

<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, I could see this person having a match,

<v Speaker 1>this person maybe being in the main event. If you

<v Speaker 1>were to ask me, what do I see Alistair Black

<v Speaker 1>doing a WrestleMania what do I see Damian Priest doing

<v Speaker 1>a WrestleMania facing each other. I don't know. Beyond that,

<v Speaker 1>I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. I have

<v Speaker 1>no idea. This was a very, very middle of the

<v Speaker 1>road show here again with less focus on John Cena

<v Speaker 1>than I was expecting, given that was the main thing

<v Speaker 1>they were promoting really, you know, coming into tonight. But

<v Speaker 1>again I stand by this. The major plus was the

<v Speaker 1>focus on the newer faces, you know, Obafemi and Javon

<v Speaker 1>Evans and lash legend Ilia Dragon off Right. He may

<v Speaker 1>not be a newer face, oh he is still I

<v Speaker 1>would say he's relatively new still to SmackDown, but yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's been around for a while. But he continues to

<v Speaker 1>be the MVP of this show. He has been the

<v Speaker 1>MVP of SmackDown now ever since he returned, literally the

<v Speaker 1>night he returned. Ever since then, he has been the

<v Speaker 1>MVP of this show and continues to be so. I

<v Speaker 1>liked those elements of the show tonight, and the match

<v Speaker 1>he had with Shampa was fucking great. It's been a

<v Speaker 1>while since we've seen Champa have a match that great,

<v Speaker 1>you know, like a singles match like that. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>talking to TLC match he was in because we really

<v Speaker 1>haven't seen singles Champa like the one we got from

<v Speaker 1>the NXT Black and Gold days, like Goldie and all that, like,

<v Speaker 1>he hasn't emerged on the main roster. Only now we're

<v Speaker 1>really starting to see signs of that Tamaso Champa. So

<v Speaker 1>we got to see a little bit of that tonight.

<v Speaker 1>I would like to think that this is the start

<v Speaker 1>of a pattern as far as featuring some of those

<v Speaker 1>faces we saw tonight, But the reality is, why did

<v Speaker 1>we see Obafemi tonight? Why did we see Javon Evans tonight?

<v Speaker 1>Because they have matches tomorrow. If they weren't on that

<v Speaker 1>show tomorrow, if wwe got their way, if Triple Ah

<v Speaker 1>got his wish and did what he originally wanted to do,

<v Speaker 1>which was make tomorrow entirely a tribute show to John Cena,

<v Speaker 1>we don't get Javon Evans or Obafemi on this show

<v Speaker 1>to That's the only reason we got them, and so

<v Speaker 1>I don't know when we're going to see them again.

<v Speaker 1>So for tonight, it felt great. Oh it feels fresh.

<v Speaker 1>We actually have some new faces here, but that may

<v Speaker 1>not last very long, but hopefully as they flip the

<v Speaker 1>calendar to January, we will start to see some of

<v Speaker 1>these faces a little more often because it's going to

<v Speaker 1>take time for fans to really again buy into these

<v Speaker 1>newer faces. Now is the time to start getting people

<v Speaker 1>familiar with them. We know they're going to three hours

<v Speaker 1>on January second, I am dreading it. You can make

<v Speaker 1>all the points you want to make about how this

<v Speaker 1>is going to be a good thing, because there's people

<v Speaker 1>who are sitting in the back and catering who aren't

<v Speaker 1>getting chances to be on the show.

<v Speaker 2>Whose fault is that? Whose fault is that? That's Triple

<v Speaker 2>H's fault. That's Triple H and Road Dog's fault. You

<v Speaker 2>could rotate people in and out on the two hour show.

<v Speaker 2>They choose not to do it. So sure, maybe some

<v Speaker 2>of these people will will get more screen time on

<v Speaker 2>a three hour show, but it always comes down to creative.

<v Speaker 2>You could have a five hour show. I don't want

<v Speaker 2>to give them any ideas. Now you can have a

<v Speaker 2>five hour show. It doesn't matter if the creative sucks.

<v Speaker 2>So of course I'm hoping we get to see more

<v Speaker 2>of Carmelo Hayes. I hope we get to see more

<v Speaker 2>of Ray Phoenix, who's been a ghost on this show,

<v Speaker 2>and some of the tag teams who also have seemed

<v Speaker 2>to have disappeared. You know, where's Montese Ford in the street?

<v Speaker 1>Profits? But it all comes down to creative and compelling

<v Speaker 1>matches and compelling stories. I don't really have a whole

<v Speaker 1>lot of faith and trust in the brain trust there

<v Speaker 1>right now to give that to us, because I feel

<v Speaker 1>like if they had the ability to do so, we

<v Speaker 1>would be getting it already and we're not. So I

<v Speaker 1>don't have a whole lot of faith as we go

<v Speaker 1>into this new three hour era. I'm dreading it. I

<v Speaker 1>certainly hope that they can prove me wrong, but right

<v Speaker 1>now it's like I'm counting down the weeks and just

<v Speaker 1>enjoying trying to enjoy these two hour shows while we

<v Speaker 1>still have them. Not that these shows are all that

<v Speaker 1>great every week, but man, January second, I'm just good Lord,

<v Speaker 1>three hours of this Tomorrow night is Saturday Night's main event.

<v Speaker 1>It's a very short card. Let's run through it real quick.

<v Speaker 1>We've got aj Styles and Dragon Lee taking on Javon

<v Speaker 1>Evans and Leon Slater, the TNA X Division champion. I

<v Speaker 1>am very much looking forward to This match probably the

<v Speaker 1>closest that we will get to seeing AJ Styles and

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans or AJ Styles and Leon Slater in a

<v Speaker 1>ring together. AJ puts Slater over in a big way

<v Speaker 1>back at Slamniversary. Came out to the ring and after

<v Speaker 1>he won the championship from Moose and cut that great

<v Speaker 1>promo and put him over. So now we'll see what

<v Speaker 1>they can do in the ring tomorrow. I am expecting

<v Speaker 1>an AJ Styles dragonly win. I've seen conflicting things about

<v Speaker 1>whether or not now the tag team titles are on

<v Speaker 1>the line. I don't think they are, but I've read

<v Speaker 1>conflicting things about that, so I'm not sure. But AJ

<v Speaker 1>and Dragon Lee, either way, I think are going over

<v Speaker 1>in this match. We have Bailey against soul Ruka. Little

<v Speaker 1>a showcase match here, Wwe against NXT nothing you know,

<v Speaker 1>nothing on the line, as is the case in all

<v Speaker 1>of these matches, but it's a big spotlet on the

<v Speaker 1>NXT talents and sol Ruka is another one we talk

<v Speaker 1>about Oba and Javon. Soul Ruca is ready to be

<v Speaker 1>on TV right now. Soul Ruka would be a welcome

<v Speaker 1>addition to the SmackDown women's division that soul Snatcher is

<v Speaker 1>gonna get over on Week one. I don't think it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna take very long for her to get over with

<v Speaker 1>that move. I In this match, I think you need

<v Speaker 1>to have at least one of the NXT talents winning.

<v Speaker 1>While I would love to see Oba win, I'm going

<v Speaker 1>with sol Ruka. I think sol Ruka beats Bailey. In

<v Speaker 1>the Cody and Oba match, I'm not sure what the

<v Speaker 1>actual finish will be, but I don't see it being

<v Speaker 1>a clean, decisive finish because Drew McIntyre is going to

<v Speaker 1>get involved, So whether that results in a no contest

<v Speaker 1>or a disqualification, I'm not sure. I don't see Oba

<v Speaker 1>just straight up beating Cody. I don't think they want

<v Speaker 1>to go there, but I do think we see Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre and Opa. Frankly, Oba does not have to win.

<v Speaker 1>Opah's gonna get over just by going out there and

<v Speaker 1>having a killer match with Cody, even if it gets

<v Speaker 1>fucked up with the finish, a big night for him,

<v Speaker 1>and then in the main event, which is going on last.

<v Speaker 1>None of this bullshit about opening the show, which would

<v Speaker 1>have been ridiculous even if John Cena wanted to go

<v Speaker 1>on first. I would have overruled him and said, no,

<v Speaker 1>you're going on last. We built this whole fucking show

<v Speaker 1>around you. You're going on last. John Cena, last ever match.

<v Speaker 1>He is insistent that he will never wrestle again, and

<v Speaker 1>I believe him. I believe this is it. We will

<v Speaker 1>never see him back in the ring wrestling again. He

<v Speaker 1>takes on Gunther, the perfect final opponent for him. It's

<v Speaker 1>too bad we didn't get any sort of interaction on

<v Speaker 1>television between them in the week or two leading up

<v Speaker 1>to this match. So maybe, you know, in the vein

<v Speaker 1>of those old school Saturday night's main events where you

<v Speaker 1>would have me and Jeane in the back interviewing people

<v Speaker 1>before their match, maybe we'll get like one good spirited

<v Speaker 1>backstage John Cena promo one last time before his match tomorrow.

<v Speaker 1>But this is it, and I have been saying this

<v Speaker 1>now for a few weeks. I believe that John Cena

<v Speaker 1>should win this match. I think John Cena is going

<v Speaker 1>to win this match. I am picking him to win.

<v Speaker 1>I think it's the move to make I think everything

<v Speaker 1>has been set up, like even Gunther on Monday Night

<v Speaker 1>he comes out there and he also I'll put it

<v Speaker 1>up too, since I brought it up, but he put

<v Speaker 1>that countdown clock on the screen there. It is T

<v Speaker 1>minus twenty hours to go. He had the countdown clock

<v Speaker 1>up on the screen. He was telling us about all

<v Speaker 1>the things he's going to do to John Cena on Saturday.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna wrap my arms around him. I'm gonna squeeze

<v Speaker 1>every last bit of hustle, loyalty and respect that of

<v Speaker 1>his body, and I'm gonna make him do the one

<v Speaker 1>thing he is vowed to never do. I'm gonna make

<v Speaker 1>him give up. It's like he laid it all out.

<v Speaker 1>So now I feel like if Gunther goes in there

<v Speaker 1>and just does it, I don't know what a lame

<v Speaker 1>way for John Cena his career to come to an end.

<v Speaker 1>I think for this story, it works better if the

<v Speaker 1>babyface goes over. I don't give a shit that he's

<v Speaker 1>leaving and Gunther is staying for tomorrow. I think the

<v Speaker 1>right finish is John Cena winning and then sending the

<v Speaker 1>fans home happy, giving them what they want to see

<v Speaker 1>that he can cut, you know, his postmatch promo, his

<v Speaker 1>retirement speech, and just give the fans, you know, a

<v Speaker 1>night that they can smile over and look back on

<v Speaker 1>and go. Man, this was this was great. You know,

<v Speaker 1>maybe they didn't get it right, you know for a

<v Speaker 1>lot of this retirement run, but they got it right

<v Speaker 1>at the finish. And they say, you know, it's not

<v Speaker 1>how you start, it's how you finish. So you could

<v Speaker 1>squander a lot of goodwill depending on how this match goes,

<v Speaker 1>or you can really leave the people, I think with

<v Speaker 1>a happy moment. So I'm picking John Cena to win.

<v Speaker 1>Here you go, let's take a look at the Twitter

<v Speaker 1>politic countdown off the screen there, what did you think

<v Speaker 1>of SmackDown before Saturday Night's made event? Fifty nine point

<v Speaker 1>eight percent thumbs up and forty point two percent thumbs

<v Speaker 1>down for tonight's show, And you can vote at Solo

<v Speaker 1>Monster the place to go, get into your super chats here,

<v Speaker 1>and we are currently sitting at two hundred and ninety

<v Speaker 1>three likes. That's not gonna get it done. That's not

<v Speaker 1>gonna get it done. But we always have Tomorrow Night

<v Speaker 1>for be the booker. L A Night's final match was

<v Speaker 1>on Monday's right, we should be celebrating La Night's final

<v Speaker 1>match Lakers Pads. When Sena has gun thor beat and

<v Speaker 1>Fien starts playing all right Lakers pads. I'm gonna have

<v Speaker 1>to I'm gonna have to just like ban you from

<v Speaker 1>all future streams. I don't want to hear I don't

<v Speaker 1>want to hear Fiend. I hear it on the radio.

<v Speaker 1>I turned the channel. I just I don't want to

<v Speaker 1>hear it. No Fiend Holiday says I would like to

<v Speaker 1>see Ilia keep the US title until WrestleMania, given he

<v Speaker 1>has good matches. The weekly US Open challenges won't make

<v Speaker 1>it feasible, though he's likely dropping it to boring Tomatonga

<v Speaker 1>and MFTs will hold tag in the US gold. Is

<v Speaker 1>that their great plan for when SmackDown goes to three hours?

<v Speaker 1>To just put all the gold on the MFTs because

<v Speaker 1>that'll be a great way for me to stop doing

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown streams uh Prime, dried Ribs and Chicken. After the

<v Speaker 1>Street Fighter twenty twenty six Mookie trailer came out, WWE

<v Speaker 1>and TKO could be more tempted to book a Cody

<v Speaker 1>Road's Roman Reigns three at WrestleMania forty two. You can

<v Speaker 1>book whatever they want. I think that would be stupid.

<v Speaker 1>I hope not. Obafemi is Thanos dark Side and m

<v Speaker 1>Baku of WWE. Who is m Baku? Everybody in WWE

<v Speaker 1>is too clean, polished and shiny. Everybody needs to wrestle

<v Speaker 1>in the dirt. I'm going to start calling Triple H

<v Speaker 1>mister clean. Well, he certainly looks like him Broadley seven

<v Speaker 1>aside from a few Why do the women on the

<v Speaker 1>main roster wrestle in slow motion most of the time

<v Speaker 1>compared with the fast paced women from NXT? Is it

<v Speaker 1>a producer thing? I think it is. I think it is.

<v Speaker 1>I think you could see stylistically there are changes in

<v Speaker 1>the way that some of these women wrestle. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know exactly what the reason is for it. It's possible,

<v Speaker 1>you know, they just allow them to do more things

<v Speaker 1>in NXT, and when you get to the main roster

<v Speaker 1>it's just a different beast. But I know what you're

<v Speaker 1>talking about. It's like subtle changes. But I've noticed it myself.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says Vecna from Stranger Things tells Triple H,

<v Speaker 1>it's time for Melo's push in WWE. You don't need Vecna,

<v Speaker 1>It's it's been time for a Melo push in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>Aaron says by Rent Cell, who will be the bigger star?

<v Speaker 1>Oba bron Jacob and Soul Ruka, Roxan Perez, Blake Monroe.

<v Speaker 1>I hope they all get over as big star. As

<v Speaker 1>far as the biggest star, I mean, I think bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker is the one that they're positioning to be the

<v Speaker 1>biggest star, so probably him. And then on the women's side,

<v Speaker 1>I think man, I mean, the sky's the limit for Blake.

<v Speaker 1>You know, Mariah May is awesome. I mean, all three

<v Speaker 1>women are awesome. But I'm gonna say, of those three,

<v Speaker 1>who will end up being the bigger star, I'll say

<v Speaker 1>Soul Ruka, scum dog. Thank you for the ten no message,

<v Speaker 1>just showing some love. Prince Vegena says, for some reason,

<v Speaker 1>the h Man gives priest the win in every feud

<v Speaker 1>been in Black even drew this alistair blackfeud should have

<v Speaker 1>been wrapped up months ago. Yep. Don't really have much

<v Speaker 1>more to add on to what you said there the

<v Speaker 1>sheltered Kid. Why is Trick Williams still not called up yet?

<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling he will be on SmackDown in

<v Speaker 1>the new year, because he would fit right in there

<v Speaker 1>in that US title picture. And I even mentioned something

<v Speaker 1>about that maybe a month or two ago, or if

<v Speaker 1>Mello gets the championship. Actually, I think the way I

<v Speaker 1>presented it was in terms of these open challenges where

<v Speaker 1>Mello was going to come out to accept it, but

<v Speaker 1>he gets attacked by Trick, and Trick comes out instead

<v Speaker 1>and accepts like on his first night in Who Wins

<v Speaker 1>the t Title something like that. But you know, if

<v Speaker 1>Mellow ends up with the United States Championship, I would

<v Speaker 1>get Trick on Smack then, and you can build to

<v Speaker 1>a Mellow Trick feud over the US title. Plus then

<v Speaker 1>you get Trick and Lash Legend on the show together

<v Speaker 1>since they're an item. Actually just got engaged over Thanksgiving

<v Speaker 1>retro Koah, where does Cody get off saying that he

<v Speaker 1>would fire Drew when we saw him begging all this

<v Speaker 1>to reinstate Drew not long ago. He's a damn heel.

<v Speaker 1>There's a heel buried under there, Heart of Debonair. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Solo Monster, You're why I got into podcasts. That's awesome.

<v Speaker 1>We talk about the men's Mount Rushmore, Rock Hogan, Austin,

<v Speaker 1>et cetera. Wrestling ended today. Who was on your women's

<v Speaker 1>Mount Rushmore? I don't know. I mean, I I kind

<v Speaker 1>of hate the Mount Rushmore questions. Honestly, I mean they're

<v Speaker 1>just they're so played out. I mean, if I had

<v Speaker 1>to have some women in mind for a Mount Rushmore spot,

<v Speaker 1>I think Becky's on there, probably Trish, you know, I'm

<v Speaker 1>inclined to put Mercedes on there. And then as far

<v Speaker 1>as that fourth person is concerned, man, I'm tempted. I'm tempted.

<v Speaker 1>I'm tempted to put Oscar. I'm tempted to put Oscar

<v Speaker 1>on there. So yeah, maybe maybe some combination of those women,

<v Speaker 1>you know, but then you're leaving out people like Mayu

<v Speaker 1>Yuwatani and you're the Aja Kanan and you know, Dump

<v Speaker 1>Matsumoto and Manami Toyota. I didn't grow up watching those women,

<v Speaker 1>but I know how how great they are. How do

<v Speaker 1>you leave them off of Mount Rushmore? You know? But again,

<v Speaker 1>it's my Mount Rushmore, so it's all subjective. Christopher, you

<v Speaker 1>knew exactly what you were doing. Forgot that was the

<v Speaker 1>Kyrie super Chat. Thank you, Christopher. I'm gonna get to

<v Speaker 1>yours in a minute. And the heart of debonair. You

<v Speaker 1>made me think. It's not one of those questions you

<v Speaker 1>could just think of on the spot though. It's just

<v Speaker 1>there's been so many women over the years. Yeah, someone

<v Speaker 1>mentioned Sherry, Like I thought Sherry was great, but you know,

<v Speaker 1>in terms of like her in ring work and her accomplishments, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't hold a candle to what some of these

<v Speaker 1>women today have done over the last ten years. Now.

<v Speaker 1>If Sherry were a part of this era like prime Sherry,

<v Speaker 1>Sherry would have fucking killed it. And I think Sherry

<v Speaker 1>absolutely would have ended up in a Mount Rushmore spot.

<v Speaker 1>But she just came up at a different time where

<v Speaker 1>you know, she wrestled, but there wasn't really much of

<v Speaker 1>a division back then, and then the majority of her

<v Speaker 1>work that she's remembered for was as a manager. But

<v Speaker 1>I would be open to having Sherry on there. I

<v Speaker 1>think Cherry was like I look at her like the

<v Speaker 1>way I look at Bobby Heenan where Bobby could do

<v Speaker 1>it all. You know, Bobby could wrestle, That's how we started.

<v Speaker 1>Bobby could wrestle, Bobby could manage, he could commentate, he

<v Speaker 1>could do so many different things. And that's what Cherry was.

<v Speaker 1>Scherry could wrestle, she can manage, she could help get

<v Speaker 1>other people over. That's what she was doing with I mean,

<v Speaker 1>Sean Michaels has complimented her for that. You know, she

<v Speaker 1>was really helpful to him at a time when he

<v Speaker 1>was first coming up as a singles heel. But there

<v Speaker 1>was a reason they put her with so many different people.

<v Speaker 1>You know, they had her with Savage and Dbassi and

<v Speaker 1>Sean and because they, you know, trusted her in that spot,

<v Speaker 1>because she was a great manager. Hank says, what's the

<v Speaker 1>last WWE shirt that you bought? I bought the Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhoades shirt a couple of years ago he came out.

<v Speaker 1>Actually it was the design I think he got sued for,

<v Speaker 1>but it had American Nightmare in it. But it's like

<v Speaker 1>the red, white and blue design with the dog has

<v Speaker 1>Pharaoh's likeness in there. I like the way that looked,

<v Speaker 1>So that would have been the last one. Holiday says,

<v Speaker 1>we're probably getting Cody against Drew for the title on

<v Speaker 1>the January second SmackDown ge if only somebody had pitched

<v Speaker 1>that very idea last week. Says it'll be a draw

<v Speaker 1>for the return of the three hour show. Hopefully Drew

<v Speaker 1>wins the belt. I talked about all this last week

<v Speaker 1>and of the two big championship matches that week. If

<v Speaker 1>we get two of them, which one I would prefer

<v Speaker 1>to see a title change in. It's Drew. I just

<v Speaker 1>don't think he could afford to go in there and

<v Speaker 1>lose again. What's the point in even doing the match

<v Speaker 1>if you run it back just for him to lose again.

<v Speaker 1>The ufman says, eighteen wins and one giant loss. Talk

<v Speaker 1>about the Patriots. I have believe it or not, I

<v Speaker 1>should have worn it on the stream tonight. I should

<v Speaker 1>have quickly. I could change out of it right now

<v Speaker 1>now that'll be for members only. I have a T

<v Speaker 1>shirt that literally just has eighteen and one on it,

<v Speaker 1>and I wore it for quite some time after that

<v Speaker 1>after that Super Bowl. Still have it. Heart of debonair

<v Speaker 1>by rewatch delete the rivalry Austin versus Rock, Taker versus Sean,

<v Speaker 1>Cody versus Roman, Well we're deleting Cody and Roman. As

<v Speaker 1>great as a was, as great as the matches were. Uh,

<v Speaker 1>you could say goodbye to Cody and Roman. I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>rewatch Taker and Sean, and I'm gonna buy on Austin

<v Speaker 1>and Rock. Austin and Rock is is just an all timer,

<v Speaker 1>very entertaining super pony. If Cody loses to Oba, That

<v Speaker 1>means Drew is fucked. They ain't gonna have Cody lose

<v Speaker 1>two big matches in a row. Drew fan should be

<v Speaker 1>rooting for Cody. It's a good way to look at it.

<v Speaker 1>If you are a Drew McIntyre fan, you should be

<v Speaker 1>rooting for a Cody Rhads win or at least a

<v Speaker 1>no contest if Drew gets involved. Him losing two in

<v Speaker 1>a row is very unlikely. Yeah, Rectangled, thank you Rectangled Galaxy.

<v Speaker 1>Bobby means SmackDown Women's division needs call ups asap. Now

<v Speaker 1>that the show is going back to three hours. He

<v Speaker 1>would put it on par with Raw. Ruka and Bailey

<v Speaker 1>could kill it. We'll find out tomorrow. They're going one

<v Speaker 1>on one tomorrow. Jeremy Rose says main event was a

<v Speaker 1>bore lame finish as predictable. However, was hoping for something

<v Speaker 1>crazy like Alistair's fireball to Rhea making him Heal of

<v Speaker 1>the Year. Didn't China take a fireball to the face

<v Speaker 1>from Kane? I think she might have. Yeah. I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>they just they beat Alistair and that's it. This feud

<v Speaker 1>is over. I mean there's not much more they could

<v Speaker 1>do with it. But where do they go with Alistair

<v Speaker 1>Black next. Like, given the SmackDown roster as it is,

<v Speaker 1>I can't even think of who would make sense to

<v Speaker 1>put him with. Where does he even go from here?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Alexander. I wonder who did Julia piss

<v Speaker 1>off in the office. I don't think she pissed off anybody.

<v Speaker 1>I just think that they they don't have anything really

<v Speaker 1>worthwhile for her because to them, she's not a priority.

<v Speaker 1>They look at her and go someone looks at her

<v Speaker 1>and goes, we can't really make money off her, so

<v Speaker 1>we're not going to really focus on her. And I

<v Speaker 1>think that sucks. I think that's a mistake. Triple Ah

<v Speaker 1>needs to learn. You can't reheat the cold French fries,

<v Speaker 1>that is Damian priest. Yeah, trying to reheat French fries

<v Speaker 1>in a microwave, it's awful. The only way to do

<v Speaker 1>it is in the air fryer. You could take it

<v Speaker 1>from me. I've tried heating up French RECKSAGGI French fries

<v Speaker 1>in the microwave, But you put that shit in the

<v Speaker 1>air fryer. Come at all crispy, it's great. I think

<v Speaker 1>when I bought my air fryer last year, Like there

<v Speaker 1>are a few moments in life that I would say

<v Speaker 1>are truly life changing. That was one of them, because

<v Speaker 1>before that I just had a regular toaster of it,

<v Speaker 1>and then it shorted out and that went caput, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, now I have space on the counter.

<v Speaker 1>Let me buy one of these air fryer things everybody

<v Speaker 1>talks about. And it's great. It's a game changer for sure,

<v Speaker 1>bas beer Is. I wholeheartedly sympathized with you three hour

<v Speaker 1>raws and smacked it. Well, we're not quite a three

<v Speaker 1>hours of raw yet, but it wouldn't shock me if

<v Speaker 1>it ends up going three at some point, Prince Begeta,

<v Speaker 1>if you had the pen, would you have had rye

<v Speaker 1>Back win the title in twenty twelve, and if he

<v Speaker 1>did become champion, would he have stayed in the main event?

<v Speaker 1>I would have. Yes. I would have put the on

<v Speaker 1>Ryeback when he took seeing his place in that hell

<v Speaker 1>in a cell Machigan's punk, I would have put the

<v Speaker 1>title on rye Back. He was that over at that point.

<v Speaker 1>I think you go with your hot hand. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know how long it would have lasted. Maybe rye Back

<v Speaker 1>would have continued to soar, you know, maybe he would

<v Speaker 1>have fizzled out. But Punk was in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>that four hundred and I mean it ended up being

<v Speaker 1>four hundred and thirty four days. He was in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of that run. They didn't want to do that,

<v Speaker 1>and you know we had Punk and Rock at the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. Doesn't mean that rye Back had to hold

<v Speaker 1>the championship until then. Could have dropped it back to Punk,

<v Speaker 1>you know, a month or two later if they felt

<v Speaker 1>like it wasn't working out. But as over as he was, yes,

<v Speaker 1>believe it or not, I think I would have put

<v Speaker 1>the belt on Ryeback. I spoke a lot of weed.

<v Speaker 1>Eddie was right before my time, literally because the first

<v Speaker 1>thing I saw was Randy running Taker with the Lowrider

<v Speaker 1>and been hooked to rest ever since. Is what about you?

<v Speaker 1>You're asking me about what my like first wrestling memory was.

<v Speaker 1>They got me hooked. I mean, the first wrestling memory

<v Speaker 1>for me that had me scared to death was Randy

<v Speaker 1>Savage and Ricky Steamboat in nineteen eighty seven heading into

<v Speaker 1>Wrestle Mainty three. When Savage came off the top rope

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. Ricky was over by the metal guardrail

<v Speaker 1>and he got his throat knocked right into the guardrail,

<v Speaker 1>and he's grabbing his throat and he couldn't breathe. He's coughing,

<v Speaker 1>he's gasping for air. They ended up having to carry

<v Speaker 1>him out on a stretcher. I thought the man was dying.

<v Speaker 1>I thought I was witnessing at death in real time.

<v Speaker 1>So that would be my earliest wrestling memory. More says

<v Speaker 1>WWE is down thirty two percent from the last time

<v Speaker 1>in this venue fifty three hundred. Well, that's what happens.

<v Speaker 1>And you put together a show like the one we

<v Speaker 1>had tonight where people are like, eh, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not really all that interested in this that, and

<v Speaker 1>you're charging what you are charging for tickets. This is inevitable.

<v Speaker 1>This is what's gonna end up happening. Paul Carpenter Triple

<v Speaker 1>H two safe. We need more gimmick matches, more matches

<v Speaker 1>on ples, more main events stars, more title defenses from

<v Speaker 1>top champions on TV. I'll throw another one in there.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think we need every fucking title reign to

<v Speaker 1>be super long either. I'm not saying hot potatoes the thing,

<v Speaker 1>but I think we need fewer long title reigns. Make

<v Speaker 1>things a little more interesting, make things a little more exciting.

<v Speaker 1>Somewhere along the way, it just became how many records

<v Speaker 1>can we set? This person's been champion for X number

<v Speaker 1>of days, this person's been champion for I mean we

<v Speaker 1>had Roman reigns, right, thirteen hundred something thirteen sixty right?

<v Speaker 1>Was that? The number Athena over a thousand days is

<v Speaker 1>Ring of Honor Women's World Champion, and you could find

<v Speaker 1>other ones. Mercedes five hundred and something days is the

<v Speaker 1>TBS Champion, and before that it was Jade at five

<v Speaker 1>hundred and something days as the TBS champion, and Gunther

<v Speaker 1>six hundred and sixty six days as the Intercontinental Champion,

<v Speaker 1>and so on and so on, and it's like, fuck, man,

<v Speaker 1>like a few of them here and there, okay, but like,

<v Speaker 1>why does it feel like every title reign has to

<v Speaker 1>be super long in months and months and months? It's

<v Speaker 1>fucking boring. Where did this become the norm? Luis with

<v Speaker 1>a fifteen John Cena should have been Kurt Angle's final

<v Speaker 1>opponent when Kurt was having his retirement match. Screw Vince

<v Speaker 1>McMahon and bum ass Baron Corbyn. Oh yeah, that's right,

<v Speaker 1>Louise and Ashley, that's Also for the ten out of

<v Speaker 1>ten that we hit on the bonus goal in the chat,

<v Speaker 1>which guarantees at least one round of be the booker,

<v Speaker 1>although we are only twenty five likes away. Look at

<v Speaker 1>that from maybe a double a double? Can we make it?

<v Speaker 1>Thank you? Louise Face Verus with a pair of super

<v Speaker 1>chat says there isn't a definitive face of aw. Do

<v Speaker 1>you agree? Yeah, I mean, I would say Hangman was

<v Speaker 1>probably the closest thing. I kind of look at him

<v Speaker 1>as like the main character or at the moment, especially

<v Speaker 1>now that he lost the belt and swerve his back,

<v Speaker 1>Osprey's out, MJF has been out. There is no real

<v Speaker 1>definitive face of the company. I would agree with that. Also,

<v Speaker 1>techn the pro wrestler with the leopard head, Oh is

<v Speaker 1>that okay? Yeah? Yeah, I know him. Nick Grosso, what's

<v Speaker 1>your thoughts on Sarah Stock going scorched earth on all

<v Speaker 1>the wrestling companies? Now, I've only been keeping track of

<v Speaker 1>some of what she's saying. Look, I mean, more power

<v Speaker 1>to or if there's any truth to any of the stuff.

<v Speaker 1>But she's not exactly the greatest messenger. Given some of

<v Speaker 1>the things that she's said on social media, especially the

<v Speaker 1>things that she had to say about Amanda Huber and

<v Speaker 1>some of the insults, and then the stupid comment she

<v Speaker 1>made when somebody mentioned something about Vince and she was like,

<v Speaker 1>he didn't rape me. I don't care. He didn't rape me.

<v Speaker 1>He was good to me. Yeah, she's not exactly the

<v Speaker 1>most reliable messenger, and bass Bears says, fiend is everywhere. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Jeremy Rose. Where was Orton? Thought he was coming back tonight? Now,

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<v Speaker 1>Winston slip also says my first SmackDown, Big show through Mankind,

<v Speaker 1>Mankind in a grave. Dude, I remember exactly the match

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<v Speaker 1>I've ever seen. That was the only tag team buried

<v Speaker 1>a live match, might have been the only buried a

<v Speaker 1>live match we ever had on TV. I'll never forget that.

<v Speaker 1>That's like the old school SmackDown stage with the ovaltron,

<v Speaker 1>and there was some distance from the stage to the grave,

<v Speaker 1>like that mound of dirt and fucking big show Man.

<v Speaker 1>He just like projectile through and Folly is no small man,

<v Speaker 1>and he just threw Mankind from the stage. He lands

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<v Speaker 1>you would like. That's how it works. Yeah, Mick broke

<v Speaker 1>ribs on that bump. He mentioned it at one of

<v Speaker 1>his I could see why the way he landed. Surprised

<v Speaker 1>he didn't break multiple ribs. It's a crazy I mean

<v Speaker 1>he's taken crazy ass bumps his entire career, but I

<v Speaker 1>mean that one was nuts. All right, We hit ten

<v Speaker 1>out of ten on the bonus goal, and we are

<v Speaker 1>currently at four hundred and sixteen likes, which means that

<v Speaker 1>you guys are getting a double B the booker man.

<v Speaker 1>I thought we were going to have to wait until

<v Speaker 1>Saturday Night's made event for that. But you may get

<v Speaker 1>back to back nights. If you guys show up and

<v Speaker 1>show out tomorrow like I think you will, we may

<v Speaker 1>get back to back knights of double be the Booker.

<v Speaker 1>So let's do it, ladies and gentlemen, it is now

<v Speaker 1>time to be the booker. Let's do it. You know

<v Speaker 1>it's a good night when we get two rounds of

<v Speaker 1>be the Booker. Rectangle wants to know curious on the

<v Speaker 1>Cody versus orton who should be the face and who

<v Speaker 1>should be the heel. I think it would be actually

<v Speaker 1>more interesting if Cody was the heel and Randy was

<v Speaker 1>the face, just because most people were assuming the opposite,

<v Speaker 1>or maybe if they could find a way to do it. See,

<v Speaker 1>but this would be like this would be like long

<v Speaker 1>term booking here if you put the two of them

<v Speaker 1>together as both babyfaces to have like a match or

<v Speaker 1>initially a match for the Championship, but then have Cody

<v Speaker 1>go Heel, and then Cody becomes the Heel Andy Stay's babyface,

<v Speaker 1>and then you have like a whole program out of it.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like to me that would be more interesting.

<v Speaker 1>All right, we begin with Solo Monster's favorite tag team

<v Speaker 1>of all time, them and the Heart Foundation. They're right there,

<v Speaker 1>Demolition Acts and Smash if there's any justice in this world.

<v Speaker 1>They will be part of the twenty twenty six WWE

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame class, and Demolition will be taking on

<v Speaker 1>the team of Hangman, Adam Page and Kenny Omega. Two

<v Speaker 1>generations locking up Man Demolition, Hangman and Omega. That's the

<v Speaker 1>main event on any show. Right there, I'll close my

<v Speaker 1>show with that instant bell. That's what that is. That

<v Speaker 1>is an instant bell. All right, women's be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>We have Piper Niven unfortunately out with a neck injury

<v Speaker 1>right now, but Piper Niven is with us. That was

<v Speaker 1>from her Do Drop days, don't you remember Do Drop? Everybody?

<v Speaker 1>Piper Niven and Carmela not really feeling it. I mean

<v Speaker 1>we just went from Demolition against Kenny Omega and Hangman

<v Speaker 1>Page to this, so it doesn't really entice me. Our

<v Speaker 1>first of two main events tonight. Well, this man is

<v Speaker 1>not going to be any other place on the card.

<v Speaker 1>It's in his contract. Hollywood Hulk Hogan is in the

<v Speaker 1>main event. Where else would he be. You think he's

<v Speaker 1>gonna curtain jerk. Hollywood Hogan is in the main events

<v Speaker 1>here in b the booker, and Hollywood Hogan is taking

<v Speaker 1>on Yokozuna, two heels, Hollywood Hogan and yoko Zuna. And

<v Speaker 1>you guys are gonna think I'm crazy. I am giving

<v Speaker 1>that the buzz. I don't think that's gonna work. You know,

<v Speaker 1>there was always a rumor that Hogan tried to get

<v Speaker 1>Yokozuna into WCW. You know exactly why he wanted to

<v Speaker 1>get Yokozuna into WCW. To get his wind back, to

<v Speaker 1>get his wind back. You ain't getting your wind back

<v Speaker 1>on my dime, Hogan, that ain't gonna happen. I am

<v Speaker 1>depriving you of getting your win back. You lost, Alcimenia

<v Speaker 1>got squashed. Now we move on to round ten. Not

<v Speaker 1>on my watch, it's not happening. That don't work for me.

<v Speaker 1>That's right. Well, now we got some stipulations to pick

<v Speaker 1>here for round number two. All right, We're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>ourselves a good old fashioned dog collar match. These things

<v Speaker 1>can get very violent and very bloody. In fact, in

<v Speaker 1>this match here with Piper and Valentine, Piper had his

<v Speaker 1>ear drum busted by one of the chain shots. So

<v Speaker 1>it's gonna get violent. Now. I don't know about doing

<v Speaker 1>a tag match, so why don't we mean, do we

<v Speaker 1>do a women's dog collar match. We'll do a women's

<v Speaker 1>dog collar match. You'll see those too often. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think I've ever seen one. Step right here and be

<v Speaker 1>the Booker women's dog collar match with Becky Lynch. I

<v Speaker 1>mentioned Becky Lynch. She would be on my Mount Rushmore

<v Speaker 1>for the ladies. Becky Lynch. I'm gonna put that dog

<v Speaker 1>collar around her neck. And who's she going to be

<v Speaker 1>attached to? Uh oh, this is not gonna add well

<v Speaker 1>for Becky Lynch. Amazing Kanan, Awesome Kan Karma. She's had

<v Speaker 1>many names over the years, Awesome Kong and Becky Lynch

<v Speaker 1>and a dog collar match, though, I mean, that's that's

<v Speaker 1>a pretty good pick. That's a pretty good pick right there.

<v Speaker 1>And you know we should have had Awesome Cong and

<v Speaker 1>Gail Kim in a dog collar match. See now that

<v Speaker 1>that would have been something you have. Rest in peace, Becky.

<v Speaker 1>This is probably the end of Becky Lynch. We do

<v Speaker 1>this match, all right, We got ourselves a tag team

<v Speaker 1>loser leaves Town match. One of these teams is gone.

<v Speaker 1>You know, I might even have to remove them, legitimately

<v Speaker 1>remove them from Be the Booker if they lose. Although

<v Speaker 1>who's losing. We have to figure out who wins and

<v Speaker 1>who loses. All right, let's see loser Leaves Town tag

<v Speaker 1>team style. We have the natural disasters earthquake and typhoon.

<v Speaker 1>What do you think their combined weight was at that time.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say this was a total combined weight of

<v Speaker 1>seven hundred thirty one pounds. That's what I'm gonna say.

<v Speaker 1>All right, loser leaves town. Man, someone's staying, someone's going.

<v Speaker 1>Oh I know who's going. I know exactly who's going.

<v Speaker 1>That's it. We'm gonna write this down right now. Best friends,

<v Speaker 1>best friends. There you go, best friends are gone from

<v Speaker 1>Be the Booker. They're gone. They lost, they lose the match. Hey, look,

<v Speaker 1>stipulations matter. There are consequences to these stipulations. Say goodbye

<v Speaker 1>to best friends, and now we get to our main event.

<v Speaker 1>They shall be removed kennel from Hell. Oh come on, now,

<v Speaker 1>we can't do can't we can't do this. We we

<v Speaker 1>actually just had a Kennel from Hell match like two

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago. But those are the rules. Nothing I can

<v Speaker 1>do about it. We have a Kennel from Hell main event.

<v Speaker 1>This is gonna have to be one hell of a

<v Speaker 1>match for me to give this the bell. My finger

<v Speaker 1>is itching already to touch the buzzer. Oh, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>he's going to enjoy this. I'm sure he's going to

<v Speaker 1>enjoy this greatly. Jim Cornett actually, that's the look that

<v Speaker 1>he had on his face when he found out that

<v Speaker 1>he is going to be in a Kennel from Hell match,

<v Speaker 1>which is a Russo special. By the way, I should

<v Speaker 1>say that Vince Russo has struck again, and of all people,

<v Speaker 1>he has chosen Jim Cornett to be in this Kennel

<v Speaker 1>from Hell match. You know Russo is in here. It'd

<v Speaker 1>be kind of funny if you land on him. Kenny

<v Speaker 1>Omega will be wrestling Jim Cornett in a Kennel from

<v Speaker 1>Hell match. I have to see this match. Twinkle toes

<v Speaker 1>mcfingerbang is going to be wrestling Jim Cornett in a

<v Speaker 1>Kennel from Hell match. I would pay pretty decent money

<v Speaker 1>actually to see this match. And the question really isn't

<v Speaker 1>so much what is Kenny Omega going to do to

<v Speaker 1>Jim Cornett. The question is really what is Jim Cornett

<v Speaker 1>going to do to Kenny Omega in this match? Dave

<v Speaker 1>will give it five stars? Dude. I think Dave might

<v Speaker 1>be in Kenny corner. He may be managing him for

<v Speaker 1>this match. Don Kallus interferes and Jim wins, Oh, I'd

<v Speaker 1>picked Cornet to go over here. You know, when a

<v Speaker 1>Kennel from Hell, there's no rule against bringing a tennis

<v Speaker 1>racket in there. I love it. See, this is the

<v Speaker 1>kind of thing you never know what you're gonna get.

<v Speaker 1>And be the booker. Kenny Omega against Jim Cornett in

<v Speaker 1>a cage. I'm sure Jim Cornett would love to get

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega in a cage. He would love to end

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega in a cage. What a match, that's right,

<v Speaker 1>be the booker classic. You got a classic main event

<v Speaker 1>and you got the dogs outside running around, right. I'm

<v Speaker 1>glad we stuck with the stipulation. The promo Cornett would

<v Speaker 1>cut would be epic. Oh yeah, the pre match promo,

<v Speaker 1>the postmatch promo telling you may he's got that racket,

<v Speaker 1>you can't count him out. Well, look, bring that same

<v Speaker 1>energy tomorrow and we get to run it back, and

<v Speaker 1>we get to pick a whole new spate of matches,

<v Speaker 1>because tomorrow night, I'm gonna be live with you right

<v Speaker 1>here on this very channel talking John Cena's farewell. Full

<v Speaker 1>review of Saturday night's main event. As soon as the

<v Speaker 1>show is over. It's an eight o'clock start. Usually they

<v Speaker 1>are about two hours, but apparently they can go as

<v Speaker 1>long as they want, so I've seen it does a

<v Speaker 1>big long speech after the match. There's no telling. It

<v Speaker 1>could be two and a half hours, it could be

<v Speaker 1>three hours, but I would suspect by about eleven o'clock

<v Speaker 1>is when I'll be live here on the channel, So

<v Speaker 1>come join me then. I haven't stopped laughing yet. The

<v Speaker 1>Observer posted a clip on Twitter of them confirming that

<v Speaker 1>Sena versus Gunther was going on first tomorrow. I quote

<v Speaker 1>tweeted and posted a lengthy rant. Yeah, they are not

<v Speaker 1>going on first. I can believe that they were deciding

<v Speaker 1>on what the order was going to be, and then

<v Speaker 1>they ultimately decided on them going last. But honestly, it

<v Speaker 1>never should have been a thing to even consider that

<v Speaker 1>match has to go on last. That's it. The whole

<v Speaker 1>show was based around that match. I mean, this is

<v Speaker 1>just it's ridiculous. I saw people going, oh, you know,

<v Speaker 1>back in the old days of Saturday Night's main events,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes they put the main event on first. Yeah, I'm

<v Speaker 1>well aware of that. They used to do that on

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night Raw too in the early days. The difference,

<v Speaker 1>of course, is that most of the people that are

<v Speaker 1>going to be in the building tomorrow and watching at

<v Speaker 1>home on Peacock are watching to see John Cena's final match.

<v Speaker 1>So if John Cena was true to his word it

<v Speaker 1>really wanted a spotlight on the NXT talents, the last

<v Speaker 1>thing he would do is give people a reason to

<v Speaker 1>tune out when his match is over. Like that just

<v Speaker 1>never made any sense to me. So thankfully they are

<v Speaker 1>going on last. What do I think the order is

<v Speaker 1>going to be If I was laying out this show,

<v Speaker 1>if I was booking this show, I am putting that's

<v Speaker 1>a good question. I think that what I would do

<v Speaker 1>is I would go Sina, I'm sorry, Sina, Cody and Oba.

<v Speaker 1>I would open with Cody and Oba, and then from

<v Speaker 1>there I would go to the tag team match, and

<v Speaker 1>then you do Bailey and Soul Ruka, and then you

<v Speaker 1>do Sena and Gunther. That's how the match order would go.

<v Speaker 1>So we'll all find out tomorrow. Yeah, I mean Saturday

<v Speaker 1>Night's made event back then, you want to go back

<v Speaker 1>to the beginning days on NBC. I mean it was

<v Speaker 1>it was on whenever Saturday Nights or Saturday Night Live

<v Speaker 1>was preempted, so those shows were starting at eleven thirty,

<v Speaker 1>and the numbers those early shows did were sick. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it would do really good numbers. Of course, none better

<v Speaker 1>than the show which technically wasn't Saturday Night's main event.

<v Speaker 1>Pretty sure, it was a Friday, so they called it

<v Speaker 1>the main event. But the one where Andre beat Hogan

<v Speaker 1>to win the title in eighty eight. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if the entire show did this, but their match right,

<v Speaker 1>parts of the show had as many as thirty three

<v Speaker 1>million people. Think about that. Thirty three million people watched

<v Speaker 1>at least a part of that show that night. That

<v Speaker 1>is insane. So numbers that just will never be matched.

<v Speaker 1>It's not possible. How do you even measure it today,

<v Speaker 1>you know, because everything is clipped and posted on TikTok

<v Speaker 1>and Instagram and everything, and so yeah, I mean there

<v Speaker 1>are things on social media that I'll get fifty million views,

<v Speaker 1>but like, how do you really measure that shit? Today?

<v Speaker 1>Everything is so fragmented. That's what makes it more impressive.

<v Speaker 1>Back then, it was just NBC. That was it. That

<v Speaker 1>was it. There was no other network that it was

<v Speaker 1>airing on. At the same time, there was no streaming.

<v Speaker 1>Thirty three million people to watch Andre the Giant beat

<v Speaker 1>Hogan and win the championship and end a four year

<v Speaker 1>title run with a hip toss. Called it a suplex,

<v Speaker 1>but it was a hip toss bp LB punk or

<v Speaker 1>we could do bp unk right like missus Javon's unc copy.

<v Speaker 1>This be the Booker, So I can ask JD about

<v Speaker 1>it on TNT. Well, I mean, you saw the matches.

<v Speaker 1>You can just bring it up yourself. Just write down

<v Speaker 1>what the matches were retro Koah Buyer sell, Corny versus

<v Speaker 1>Kenny in the kennel or Solemn Monster against Khali in

<v Speaker 1>the Punjabi prison. I think we would go Corny and

<v Speaker 1>Kenny in the kennel. I don't think anybody wants to

<v Speaker 1>see Solomn Monster against Khali in the Punjabi prison. That

<v Speaker 1>was a horrific draw on be the booker that time. Yes.

<v Speaker 1>Then Andre gave Andre gave a great postmatch interview where

<v Speaker 1>he told me and g and I surrender the tag

<v Speaker 1>team championship to te Dbasse. I go what the tag team? What?

<v Speaker 1>That doesn't look like the tag team title? Oh? And

<v Speaker 1>then Hogan pressed Earl Hebner over his head on Earl's

<v Speaker 1>first night when they did the twin Hebner angle and

<v Speaker 1>he got a running start, he threw him out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring and threw him right over Andre and Dbass

<v Speaker 1>in Virgil's heads and I think he I think he

<v Speaker 1>got injured. And then Hogan whined and cried about the

<v Speaker 1>plastic surgery. Look at the money falling out of his pocket. Eh. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he did that a lot in his career. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>really Yeah, I look back on it now, But like

<v Speaker 1>Hogan did a lot of crying during his career. He

<v Speaker 1>cried when he lost the title in eighty eight, right,

<v Speaker 1>he cried and moaned about SIT eliminating him from the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble, which was completely legal, nothing wrong with it.

<v Speaker 1>Pulled him out of the ring too, gave Rick Flair

<v Speaker 1>the win. If I can't win, nobody can. Always said

<v Speaker 1>Hogan was a heel. He was a heel masquerading as

<v Speaker 1>a babyface. I said it for years. I just didn't

<v Speaker 1>realize it when I was a kid. Be well, stay safe,

<v Speaker 1>and I will see you for the Saturday Night's main

<v Speaker 1>event review tomorrow. Until then, take care, guys,