<v Speaker 1>We're back with another early review. WWE's European tour continues Friday.

<v Speaker 1>They were in Berlin, so we went early, actually live

<v Speaker 1>a little bit early on Friday to talk about the

<v Speaker 1>big WWE Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>and so here on Monday. No big championship match, but

<v Speaker 1>we did have a big main event first time ever

<v Speaker 1>on TV. We had Gunther in aj Styles. They were

<v Speaker 1>in Dusseldorf, Germany, and we had an excellent match, which

<v Speaker 1>I don't think should be really a surprise to anybody

<v Speaker 1>when they announced the match, I think we all kind

<v Speaker 1>of assumed it was going to be an excellent match,

<v Speaker 1>the first, hopefully in a series of them. We know

<v Speaker 1>for a fact that we're getting at least one more

<v Speaker 1>based on the finish they did here. But I was

<v Speaker 1>looking at this and saying, you know, it's January twelve.

<v Speaker 1>Can they stretch this out to WrestleMania? And I believe

<v Speaker 1>they can. Whether or not they're going to do that,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but I certainly think there is a

<v Speaker 1>way to do that. But this was the first time

<v Speaker 1>ever on TV with these two men. For the match

<v Speaker 1>we got, I felt like it was an excellent match

<v Speaker 1>with a very controversial finish, which was of course by design,

<v Speaker 1>where Aj Styles came into this main event tonight promising

<v Speaker 1>that he would do to gun Through what Gunther did

<v Speaker 1>to John Cena. He promised that he was going to

<v Speaker 1>come in and he was going to make him tap

<v Speaker 1>like a bitch. So he was going after the leg,

<v Speaker 1>he was going after the submission, And they did the

<v Speaker 1>finish where Aj Styles let go of a calf crusher,

<v Speaker 1>believing that Gunther had tapped out, but the referee did

<v Speaker 1>not see it, and so therefore the match continued. But

<v Speaker 1>unbeknownst to the referee, we had a low blow by

<v Speaker 1>Gunther which then led to the finish and him beating

<v Speaker 1>Aj Styles, And upon seeing the replay, it was clear

<v Speaker 1>as day that in fact Gunther did tap like a bitch,

<v Speaker 1>but because the referee did not see it, it did

<v Speaker 1>not count, and so Gunther gets the first win. But

<v Speaker 1>they did the finish in such a way that clearly

<v Speaker 1>sets things up for a rematch between these two. I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was a clever way of doing the finish,

<v Speaker 1>and I could see where some people might be upset

<v Speaker 1>about what they did here and having Gunther tap out, now,

<v Speaker 1>of course he's gonna get chased down even more by

<v Speaker 1>chance of you tapped out, just like he did after

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania last year when he wrestled jay Uso. But they

<v Speaker 1>did the finish in such a way where you know,

<v Speaker 1>you look at it, and this is the way I

<v Speaker 1>looked at it. I looked at it, and you know, said, okay,

<v Speaker 1>Gunther was well aware of the fact that the referee

<v Speaker 1>couldn't see the tap. So you know, everyone's playing checkers,

<v Speaker 1>he's playing chess, that kind of thing where it's like, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>he'll let aj think he's won the match and then

<v Speaker 1>he'll take advantage. And that's that's kind of the way

<v Speaker 1>that I saw it, So I thought it was a

<v Speaker 1>clever way of going about doing it. I look forward

<v Speaker 1>to seeing what they have in store next. I I

<v Speaker 1>would assume that we're going to get a rematch between them,

<v Speaker 1>either Saturday Night's main event, which is coming up a

<v Speaker 1>week from Saturday, or at the Royal Rumble. And actually

<v Speaker 1>I could see that because if Gunther is not going

<v Speaker 1>to win the Royal Rumble, and right now I don't

<v Speaker 1>believe he is, I could see them not wanting him

<v Speaker 1>to be in the Rumble itself and giving him something

<v Speaker 1>else to do on that show. And same for aj

<v Speaker 1>by the way, you know, because if these two were

<v Speaker 1>going to continue on together, maybe they don't want either

<v Speaker 1>one of them in the Rumble match and getting eliminated.

<v Speaker 1>So we're definitely going to get that in the next

<v Speaker 1>few weeks. But that kind of swings back around to

<v Speaker 1>the original question I had, which was, are they going

<v Speaker 1>to stretch this out to let's say, a third match

<v Speaker 1>or a fourth match and get us all the way

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania, which is still a ways off. I mean again,

<v Speaker 1>we're still in not even quite mid January yet, we're

<v Speaker 1>talking about mid April, So that's the only question I

<v Speaker 1>have about it. But I was just happy to see

<v Speaker 1>Gunther doing something on this show of actual substance instead

<v Speaker 1>of coming out and just spitting out more catchphrases and

<v Speaker 1>slogans and showing his T shirt. It was nice to

<v Speaker 1>get him back in the ring with someone I would

<v Speaker 1>consider to be an equal, going out there and having

<v Speaker 1>a competitive match, and that was easily the highlight of

<v Speaker 1>the show. One of the other highlights of the show

<v Speaker 1>involved bron Breaker, who was in our main event on

<v Speaker 1>the show last week, he was unsuccessful in challenging Cmpunk

<v Speaker 1>for the World Heavyweight Championship and he beat him clean.

<v Speaker 1>Punk beat him clean last week. And what did I

<v Speaker 1>say in the review last week, what I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>be watching for this week is how they handle the

<v Speaker 1>follow up with bron Breaker. The key is in how

<v Speaker 1>they follow up on this loss. He should be showing

<v Speaker 1>up this week ready to take on the world, and

<v Speaker 1>he was, and unfortunately for Dragon Lee, he ate one

<v Speaker 1>of the most wicked spears that you'll ever see. The

<v Speaker 1>way they shot this was great, but they did an

<v Speaker 1>angle on the show where bron Breaker came out when

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't supposed to and he was attacking people and

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pearce. When all was said and done, Adam Pierce

<v Speaker 1>suspended him indefinitely. And so that I guess is going

<v Speaker 1>to be their way of keeping him off television for

<v Speaker 1>a few weeks, maybe even until the Royal Rumble, which

<v Speaker 1>he may win. By the way, again, he is one

<v Speaker 1>of the top three favorites right now, has to be

<v Speaker 1>to win the men's Royal Rumble match. But this might

<v Speaker 1>be their way of kind of keeping them away from

<v Speaker 1>television for a few weeks, kind of like that uncaged animal.

<v Speaker 1>How are we supposed to control this guy? But they

<v Speaker 1>introduced an interesting little wrinkle into things when Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>pointed out the fact that Adam Pierce put his hands

<v Speaker 1>on bron Breaker before bron Breaker put his hands on

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce. And as far as what happened, we'll get

<v Speaker 1>into exactly what happened here in a little bit, because

<v Speaker 1>you might be wandering away. He put his hands on

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce. You know what happened here, we'll talk about it.

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was a good follow up though to

<v Speaker 1>that the show overall, it was an improvement from last

<v Speaker 1>week's Stranger Things episode, which again maybe we're setting the

<v Speaker 1>bar low here, but it was an improvement. Not every

<v Speaker 1>segment on the show was terribly interesting, but it served

<v Speaker 1>a purpose in most cases. And they set up some

<v Speaker 1>championship matches for the show next week. Next week they're

<v Speaker 1>going to be in Ireland, the tour continues, and they're

<v Speaker 1>going to be in Belfast, and they actually set up

<v Speaker 1>another first time ever match which is pretty interesting for

<v Speaker 1>the World Heavyweight Championship, where CM punk is going to

<v Speaker 1>be defending his title against Finn Balor, and we can

<v Speaker 1>sit here and say, well, what has Finn Balor done

<v Speaker 1>lately to get a World Heavyweight Championship match with CM Punk?

<v Speaker 1>But Punk pointed out, as Balor did, that it was

<v Speaker 1>only a couple months ago that Punk pointed out he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to defend his title against people like Finn Balor.

<v Speaker 1>So this is Balor basically showing up and cashing in

<v Speaker 1>his chip and saying, Okay, why don't you put your

<v Speaker 1>money where your mouth is give me a shot at

<v Speaker 1>the World Championship. And it just so happens that the

<v Speaker 1>show next week is in Balor's home country, so they

<v Speaker 1>set that match up for next week. Becky Lynch obviously

<v Speaker 1>also from Ireland, she is going to be defending her

<v Speaker 1>intercontinental title next week. Again, what is this match number five?

<v Speaker 1>I believe with Maxine Dupree. So that was set up

<v Speaker 1>for next week. So again, on the whole, definitely a

<v Speaker 1>better show than the one we got last week. We'll

<v Speaker 1>take it segment by segment here as we always do,

<v Speaker 1>because this is your Raw on Netflix review. It is

<v Speaker 1>January twelve, twenty twenty six. I am the solo monster

<v Speaker 1>Pin Balor. I know Finn doesn't have a chance. Finn

<v Speaker 1>Balor does not have a chance to win the World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Championship next week. That is one hundred percent correct.

<v Speaker 1>That does not mean, though, that the two of them

<v Speaker 1>will not go out there and have an entertaining match. See.

<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling I just talked about bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>right being indefinitely suspended, and maybe that's their way of

<v Speaker 1>taking him off television. I could be wrong about that,

<v Speaker 1>and there could be a very specific spot on the

<v Speaker 1>show next week where we see bron Breaker re emerge.

<v Speaker 1>So it's possible we may not see Pinn Balor if

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker gets involved next week. If we get no finish,

<v Speaker 1>he might spare Finn Balor from eating the pin next week.

<v Speaker 1>But that's take your pick. It's either Pin Balor or

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker gets involved, because as you said, Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>has no chance of leaving Ireland to the World Heavyweight

<v Speaker 1>Champion next week. Babyface finn Or heel fin, he'll be

<v Speaker 1>a baby face next week. He gonna boo him in Belfast.

<v Speaker 1>Come on, I'm not saying they have to boot seem Punk,

<v Speaker 1>but they ain't gonna boo Finn Balord next week. Like

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<v Speaker 1>That is up right now for your listening pleasure. But

<v Speaker 1>let's get into this show here now. Last week on

<v Speaker 1>the show, they opened the show with a women's tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match. It was Rhea, Ripley and Eosky challenging

<v Speaker 1>Osca and Kyrie said and they won the women's tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles. So this week we didn't get a match,

<v Speaker 1>we got an opening promo from the new champions, Rhea

<v Speaker 1>Ripley Eo Sky talking about their win last week. Eo

<v Speaker 1>said that Oscar and Kyrie they had no respect, so

<v Speaker 1>they had to beat the respect into them. And before

<v Speaker 1>Rhea could, she was in the process of extending a

<v Speaker 1>challenge out to whoever wanted to step up next. But

<v Speaker 1>before she could even get out everything that she was

<v Speaker 1>looking to say, Live Morgan in Roxane Perez be to

<v Speaker 1>the Punch It Lives said that those titles belonged to

<v Speaker 1>her because she never actually lost them. So they can

<v Speaker 1>do this the easy way and they can give them

<v Speaker 1>to her, or they could do this the hard way

<v Speaker 1>and she will take them back. So then Bailey and

<v Speaker 1>Lyra Valkyria interrupted and they spoke from the aisle, and

<v Speaker 1>the fans sang for Bailey as they do here on

<v Speaker 1>these international shows. They love singing for Bailey. She said

<v Speaker 1>that she knows Live didn't lose the tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>but her little partner over there did that, being Roxanne,

<v Speaker 1>and she pointed out that she just beat Roxanne on

<v Speaker 1>Raw a few weeks ago, so if anyone deserves a

<v Speaker 1>title opportunity, it is her and Lyra. So Rhea piped

<v Speaker 1>up and said, look, we were here to lay down

<v Speaker 1>a challenge for anyone. Eo started screaming in Japanese. The

<v Speaker 1>Kabuki Warriors showed up. They dragged Ria and Eo out

<v Speaker 1>of the ring. They laid them out. Then they climbed

<v Speaker 1>into the ring and all of the challengers, all the

<v Speaker 1>other women that were in the ring, they started brawling

<v Speaker 1>until Ria and Eo got back inside. They cleared all

<v Speaker 1>of them from the ring. This was as basic an

<v Speaker 1>opening segment as you will ever see to open up

<v Speaker 1>an episode of Raw, but it did set up a

<v Speaker 1>number one contenders match for later in the show. So

<v Speaker 1>all of the challenging teams that we saw here in

<v Speaker 1>the opening segment, they were involved in a three way

<v Speaker 1>later on in the show. Now, so long as Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>is out heard. We actually did see Stephanie later in

<v Speaker 1>the show, but she's not going to be wrestling for

<v Speaker 1>a while yet. These women here then, being involved in

<v Speaker 1>the tag team title scene is fine. But when we

<v Speaker 1>come out of the Royal Rumble, we come out of

<v Speaker 1>the rumble, we're heading into the elimination chamber in WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>You know, when it comes to women like Riha and

<v Speaker 1>Eo and even Live quite frankly they really should be

<v Speaker 1>doing more than just tussling back and forth for the

<v Speaker 1>women's tag team titles. So I'm hoping that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>for some of them anyway, this is just a kind

<v Speaker 1>of a temporary situation. But once we get really kind

<v Speaker 1>of into the road to WrestleMania, some of these women

<v Speaker 1>they just have to be doing something else and not

<v Speaker 1>just squabbling over the tag belts. Now in the back

<v Speaker 1>after Liv Morgan took issue with Finn Balor because in

<v Speaker 1>the judgment day clubhouse, that's still what it is is,

<v Speaker 1>it's still considered a clubhouse. But they were back there.

<v Speaker 1>He was still playing two K twenty five right, two

<v Speaker 1>K twenty six is coming out soon, but he's in

<v Speaker 1>the back. He's playing the video game as himself against Cody,

<v Speaker 1>who just interviewed him on Cody's podcast. And liv Morgan

<v Speaker 1>took exception to this because he wasn't paying attention to

<v Speaker 1>what they were saying, and evidently he wasn't even paying

<v Speaker 1>attention to what they just did out in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>So she said she thought Finn had said the judgment

<v Speaker 1>they wanted to win all the gold in twenty twenty six,

<v Speaker 1>and he's not even paying attention he's more interested in

<v Speaker 1>playing games. So she left and Roxanne got up in

<v Speaker 1>Finn's face and said she has a point, and then

<v Speaker 1>she left, and Balor just told them you just watch girls,

<v Speaker 1>you just watch. Honestly, this is probably the most realistic

<v Speaker 1>segment on the entire show. I give them points for

<v Speaker 1>realism here with the woman yelling at the man for

<v Speaker 1>playing video games and not paying any attention to a

<v Speaker 1>word that she's sang. Perhaps some of the writers could

<v Speaker 1>relate to this, but this just this felt like one

<v Speaker 1>of the more realistic cut scenes that we get here

<v Speaker 1>on this show. So in the back, actually, we might

<v Speaker 1>have people watching this right now who could relate to that.

<v Speaker 1>We go to the back. Jackie Redmond is interviewing Aj

<v Speaker 1>Styles about his match tonight with Gunther. What is it

<v Speaker 1>about Gunther that makes this so personal for him? Aj said,

<v Speaker 1>this business is about respect, respect for the mat, respect

<v Speaker 1>for your opponent, and to those who came for you.

<v Speaker 1>He and John Cena, they didn't exactly see eye to

<v Speaker 1>eye on everything, but said that they bonded over that

<v Speaker 1>word respect, And week after week Gunther disrespects John Cena,

<v Speaker 1>So he slapped the taste out of his mouth. Last

<v Speaker 1>week because John could not tonight, he's going to teach

<v Speaker 1>Gunther about respect that he's going to make Gunther tap

<v Speaker 1>out like a little bitch. We had Javon Evans, the

<v Speaker 1>newest addition to the Monday Night Raw roster, who signed

<v Speaker 1>his contract last week during commercial. Javon Evans was here

<v Speaker 1>for his first official match on Raw as a full

<v Speaker 1>timer on Raw against Bravo Americano. With Ryo and El

<v Speaker 1>Grande Americano in his corner. At ringside, Rob says, I

<v Speaker 1>am playing two K twenty five right now. I relate, well,

<v Speaker 1>I hope you're playing two K twenty five, but you're

<v Speaker 1>paying attention to what's being said here. Don't pull a finballer.

<v Speaker 1>El Grande attacked Evans after Ryo distracted him. Evans fought back.

<v Speaker 1>He hit Bravo with a leaping dive and a nice

<v Speaker 1>running knee strike for a two count. Bravo responded with

<v Speaker 1>an airplane spin, which Michael Cole said looked familiar. Well,

<v Speaker 1>clearly Bravo has been watching Tyler Bait matches. And I

<v Speaker 1>don't know where Tyler Bait is, but wherever he is,

<v Speaker 1>I hope he's doing well. At least we know he's

<v Speaker 1>got a fan here and Bravo Americano. So Bravo went

<v Speaker 1>to the top. Evans, though, brought him down with an

<v Speaker 1>avalanche Spanish fly, followed by an og cutter for the win. Man.

<v Speaker 1>That og cutter, it looks great. He's twenty one, is

<v Speaker 1>that what he is? Twenty one years old. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know that the og cutter will be his finish though.

<v Speaker 1>When he's thirty one. I do question that he gets

<v Speaker 1>some really good height and he takes that flat back

<v Speaker 1>from like twelve feet up. It looks great. I just

<v Speaker 1>don't know that he'll be doing that as his finishing

<v Speaker 1>move ten years from now. We'll see, we shall see.

<v Speaker 1>But it got him the win here. El Grande attacked

<v Speaker 1>Evans after the match, threw him over the announced desk.

<v Speaker 1>Evans re emerged on top of the barricade, right behind

<v Speaker 1>the announcers, but he was cornered right. He had nowhere

<v Speaker 1>to go, and so as the Americanos tried to swarm him,

<v Speaker 1>he leapt clear over not just them, but even the

<v Speaker 1>announced desk, and he slid into the ring. They chased

<v Speaker 1>after him. He immediately left the ring and jumped out

<v Speaker 1>over the top rope. And ran down the aisle to safety.

<v Speaker 1>So this was a nice little showcase here for Evans,

<v Speaker 1>who now owns wins over Ryo and Bravo. One would

<v Speaker 1>assume we'll be getting the singles match as soon with

<v Speaker 1>him and El Grande. As far as him running away

<v Speaker 1>from these guys, I'll allow it. Three on one. He

<v Speaker 1>won't be as bouncy at age thirty. No, no, see,

<v Speaker 1>I feel like all of us were somewhat bouncy at

<v Speaker 1>twenty one. By the time you hit thirty one, you're

<v Speaker 1>not really as bouncy as he used to be. By

<v Speaker 1>the time you hit forty one. The only thing bouncing,

<v Speaker 1>you know, are parts of your body that begin to

<v Speaker 1>kind of sag and go in the other direction. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it depends on the sex. I guess what sex you

<v Speaker 1>may be. But like things, they don't bounce, or maybe

<v Speaker 1>they do bounce, but it's just in a different way.

<v Speaker 1>So he could be the bouncy boy right now. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>eventually that that's going to have to change. So we

<v Speaker 1>have Paul Hayman in the back. He approached Adam Pierce.

<v Speaker 1>Pierce told Hayman he asked him where is he? Because

<v Speaker 1>we saw the vision earlier but bron Breaker was missing.

<v Speaker 1>We saw Hayman, we saw Logan, Paul Bronton, Reid Austin theory,

<v Speaker 1>but there was no bron Breaker. So Pierce wants to

<v Speaker 1>know where he is. Where is he? It's like Batman,

<v Speaker 1>right where is he? He says, if bron Breakers to

<v Speaker 1>arrive with bad intentions, he should turn around and go home.

<v Speaker 1>Pierce said he wasn't in the mood. He wasn't going

<v Speaker 1>to tolerate it. Haymon said he would relay the message.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't sound very sincere when he said this. During

<v Speaker 1>a commercial break, Jay Usso entered through the crowd to

<v Speaker 1>his music to basically cut the same promo he and

<v Speaker 1>his brother cut from the crowd the week before. The

<v Speaker 1>only difference is this time it was during commercial and

<v Speaker 1>it was just Jay and not Jimmy, so it was

<v Speaker 1>just for the live crowd, and if you missed it,

<v Speaker 1>you didn't miss much. After this, we had the World

<v Speaker 1>heavyweight Champion. We had CM Punk out to the ring,

<v Speaker 1>singing his song and encouraging, trying to encourage the crowd

<v Speaker 1>to do the same thing because they were not as

<v Speaker 1>loud as you would expect, you know, for these international crowds,

<v Speaker 1>they tend to like to sing, Like if r Orton

<v Speaker 1>were to walk out, they probably would be singing his

<v Speaker 1>theme song. The people really again, they weren't going crazy

<v Speaker 1>or anything. So you could see Punk as he's walking,

<v Speaker 1>He's like, come on, sing along. He's trying to get

<v Speaker 1>them to sing. So he said he plans to be

<v Speaker 1>the world champion forever, which I certainly hope is not true.

<v Speaker 1>But as his good friend Cody Rhodes found out, just

<v Speaker 1>because you want that doesn't mean it's going to work

<v Speaker 1>out that way. Anything can happen. But the roads to

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania runs through him, and he's looking forward to seeing

<v Speaker 1>who's next in line to challenge him for the world

<v Speaker 1>heavyweight title. And this is where we got Finn Balor's

<v Speaker 1>music to interrupt. And who was it. I think it was.

<v Speaker 1>Robbie from Barstool made a comment which I agree with.

<v Speaker 1>If it was Balor's old music, this crowd really would

<v Speaker 1>have gotten into it. But this newer music that he

<v Speaker 1>comes out to, it's kind of hard to really get into.

<v Speaker 1>But there were a lot of fans who were happy

<v Speaker 1>to see him all the same. So he joined Punk

<v Speaker 1>in the ring right the godfather of the Bullet Club.

<v Speaker 1>I just talked about Balor on the podcast yesterday, talked

<v Speaker 1>about his significance when you consider the fact that he

<v Speaker 1>was the one who founded Bullet Club and all that

<v Speaker 1>has come out of Bullet Club in terms of some

<v Speaker 1>of the bigger names that have come out of the group,

<v Speaker 1>and some of the other things he's done in his career. Also,

<v Speaker 1>you know he'll be first ballot Hall of Famer one day.

<v Speaker 1>Not really treated like one, but he will be. So

<v Speaker 1>he gets in the ring, said that he's not waiting

<v Speaker 1>for the rumble, he's not waiting for the elimination chamber,

<v Speaker 1>and he's not here asking for a handout. But when

<v Speaker 1>Punk won that title, he named Balor as someone that

<v Speaker 1>he would want to face. So here he is, and

<v Speaker 1>Punk said that, you're right. I did mention your name

<v Speaker 1>is someone I wanted to test myself against, but that

<v Speaker 1>was two months ago. Because where have you been? Said,

<v Speaker 1>you see me, I see you in the back playing

<v Speaker 1>video games. Because you're playing video games. You're worried about Dom,

<v Speaker 1>You're worried about JD. McDonough. Some weeks he would swear

<v Speaker 1>he's just shining live. Morgan Shoes said you watched me

<v Speaker 1>go through the War Games match at Survivor Series. You

<v Speaker 1>saw me go to war last week with bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>for the World Championship. What are you looking to do?

<v Speaker 1>Pick the bones? You're gonna be facing? Uh? Am I

<v Speaker 1>gonna be facing Finn Balor? Or? Am I going to

<v Speaker 1>be facing Finn Balor? And the judgment day That was

<v Speaker 1>the question that Punk wanted to know the answer to,

<v Speaker 1>because I'm a fan of Finn Balor. And if I

<v Speaker 1>said I'm gonna be a fighting champion, then that includes today.

<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna go put my boots on and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna do this tonight right here in Dusseldorf. And oh

<v Speaker 1>the fans loved hearing that, because these fans thought, for

<v Speaker 1>a moment there they were going to get an impromptu

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Championship match. Balor said he knows that timing

<v Speaker 1>is everything. He's not jumping the line to face him.

<v Speaker 1>Anyone who has watched his career from Europe to Japan

<v Speaker 1>to NXT to Monday Night Raw knows that the line

<v Speaker 1>starts here. So you don't have to worry about Dom,

<v Speaker 1>you don't have to worry about JD. But he's not

<v Speaker 1>going to be alone. You see, he watched Punk's career

<v Speaker 1>and time and time again, Punk would get home field

<v Speaker 1>advantage in Chicago. Well, next week, Raw's going to be

<v Speaker 1>in Belfast, Ireland, and it's going to be the Punk

<v Speaker 1>against the Prince, and there's going to be a new

<v Speaker 1>Irish world heavyweight champion. So Punk told the Prince you're on,

<v Speaker 1>and he apologized to the fans and Dusseldorf because they

<v Speaker 1>wanted to see the champion work and he wants to

<v Speaker 1>take this moment to apologize to the fans in Belfast,

<v Speaker 1>to Balor's countrymen for putting Baalor to sleep with a GTS. Well,

<v Speaker 1>it's about time they gave Finn Balor something important to

<v Speaker 1>do on this show. We came into twenty twenty five,

<v Speaker 1>there were reports that WWE had plans for Finn Balor,

<v Speaker 1>that he was in line for a big singles push

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty five, and that singles push never came right.

<v Speaker 1>He was doing Judgment Day stuff. There was all kinds

<v Speaker 1>of drama with the Judgment Day throughout the year he

<v Speaker 1>was a World tag team champion. He never got any

<v Speaker 1>kind of sustained singles push though, So now people think well,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six is going to be the year, and

<v Speaker 1>he's teased it in some of his promos by talking

<v Speaker 1>about how this year is going to be different and

<v Speaker 1>he's got championship ambitions this year. Nobody believes he's going

<v Speaker 1>to go to Ireland next week and win the World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Championship, right. I gave WWE credit for at least

<v Speaker 1>trying to shake things up on SmackDown with Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>beating Cody Rhodes. I weeks ago thought maybe there was

<v Speaker 1>a chance a bron Breaker would beat cmpunk to win

<v Speaker 1>the world title. By the time we got to the

<v Speaker 1>week before last week's show, it didn't seem very likely.

<v Speaker 1>They're not going to turn around and put the world

<v Speaker 1>championship on Finn Balor, all right, that's just not gonna happen.

<v Speaker 1>But it is still an important match for him next week,

<v Speaker 1>an important singles match, and when was the last time

<v Speaker 1>we can honestly say we saw Finn Balor in a

<v Speaker 1>significant singles match with any sort of real consequence to it. So,

<v Speaker 1>and the fact that they're doing it in Ireland is

<v Speaker 1>great because we know he's going to get a Heroes

<v Speaker 1>welcome when he comes out, it's going to feel like

<v Speaker 1>a big deal and they're billing it as a first

<v Speaker 1>time ever match, which I assume it is. So I'm

<v Speaker 1>looking forward to the match. Only question really is the

<v Speaker 1>do we get a repeat of last week where Finn

<v Speaker 1>Balor loses clean to see M Punk as bron Breaker did,

<v Speaker 1>or are we going to see bron Breaker despite the suspension,

<v Speaker 1>which I'll get to it a little bit. Are we

<v Speaker 1>going to see bron Breakers show up next week and

<v Speaker 1>try to extract a measure of revenge on the man

<v Speaker 1>who beat him? Now, he didn't go after Punk tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Oddly enough, Punk was in the building. He didn't go

<v Speaker 1>after CM Punk, So maybe maybe he won't be so

<v Speaker 1>obsessed with Punk next week even if he shows up.

<v Speaker 1>But I definitely think there's a possibility that he might.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe they did the suspension angle to keep him off

<v Speaker 1>of television altogether. There's just again, anybody who has any

<v Speaker 1>thought in their head of this going Finn Balor's way

<v Speaker 1>next week, I don't know what to say other than

<v Speaker 1>not to set yourself up for disappointment. I know Baler's

<v Speaker 1>got a lot of fans out there, people that want

<v Speaker 1>to see him get pushed again people who think it's

<v Speaker 1>very unfair that in all of these years, very much

<v Speaker 1>like Kevin Owens, and the only reason Kevin Owens had

<v Speaker 1>to run with the Universal title is because Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>got injured. So Baler and Owens have a lot in

<v Speaker 1>common in that they got called up to the main roster.

<v Speaker 1>And it's been about a decade. And outside of that

<v Speaker 1>very like initial reign as Universal Champion, which for Balor

<v Speaker 1>lasted twenty four hours, neither one of these men have

<v Speaker 1>ever held a world title in this company, which is

<v Speaker 1>kind of crazy when so many other people have had

<v Speaker 1>the chance to do so, and they've and they've remain

<v Speaker 1>popular after all these years. And I can't sit here

<v Speaker 1>and tell you that it will It will never happen

<v Speaker 1>for Finn Balor. But there's a reason I call him

<v Speaker 1>pinn Balor, and I started calling him that years ago

<v Speaker 1>because that's the role that he has been designated to

<v Speaker 1>play on this show. He is pin Balor. They use

<v Speaker 1>him more often than not to help get other people

<v Speaker 1>over and elevate other people and not himself. And maybe

<v Speaker 1>they feel like he's popular enough that he can sustain it,

<v Speaker 1>and it's okay and it doesn't do too much damage,

<v Speaker 1>but he has been slotted at a certain level. Even

<v Speaker 1>though he's wrestling Punk next week. It's a television match, right,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not prepared to say that this is going to

<v Speaker 1>suddenly become a regular thing where he's featured in main events.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see that happening. Maybe eventually, when Dom comes back,

<v Speaker 1>maybe he's the one to take the Intercontinental title from Dom.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe that's the WrestleMania match. I don't know, but it

<v Speaker 1>will not happen next week that I will tell you.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe a hostile crowd though towards CM Punk. We'll see.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think they'll be very hostile towards Balor Punk though.

<v Speaker 1>Could be fifty to fifty, or it could be it

<v Speaker 1>could be a crowd that's really not there to see

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk. But we had a number one contenders match

<v Speaker 1>for the women's tag team titles the Kabuki Warriors Bailey

<v Speaker 1>and Lyra Valkyria live Morgan in Roxane, Perez. Those were

<v Speaker 1>the teams involved. The winner gets a championship match against

<v Speaker 1>Eosky and Rhea Ripley a week from this Saturday at

<v Speaker 1>Saturday Night's main event in Montreal. I'm sure Charlotte and Alexa,

<v Speaker 1>Naya and lash are very happy to see that they

<v Speaker 1>had a Number One Contenders match without them being involved.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they're just elated right now. So the team's

<v Speaker 1>all brawled outside until Kyrie wiped everybody out with an

<v Speaker 1>insane elbow off the top. There was a big stack

<v Speaker 1>power bomb spot out of the corner with everybody except Oscar,

<v Speaker 1>with Kyrie getting the worst of it. Oscar was not pleased,

<v Speaker 1>so she hit rock Sand with the German suplex, and

<v Speaker 1>then she hit Bailey and Lyra together simultaneously with a

<v Speaker 1>double German suplex. Oscar then held Lyra so that Kyrie

<v Speaker 1>could go up top and hit the assisted insane elbow,

<v Speaker 1>which she did, and then she covered her and the

<v Speaker 1>referee refused to drop down and make the count, and

<v Speaker 1>the referee is explaining that Kyrie was not legal, so

<v Speaker 1>therefore he can't count the fall, and then it sort

<v Speaker 1>of fell apart there for about a minute because Live

<v Speaker 1>jumped in to break up the not pin. I guess

<v Speaker 1>you would call it, and then you could see, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Bailey is laying there on the mat Osca and they're

<v Speaker 1>all sort of communicating with each other, talking to the

<v Speaker 1>referee trying to figure out you know where to go

<v Speaker 1>next and what to do next, so everybody starts trading

<v Speaker 1>moves until Lyra caught Kyrie as she attempted a flying

<v Speaker 1>crossbody because she weighs nothing, so she caught her with ease.

<v Speaker 1>Valkyria hit a neck breaker or a backbreaker rather, and

<v Speaker 1>then Bailey tagged in, followed with a flying elbow drop.

<v Speaker 1>Oscar broke up the cover. Perez hit Bailey with pop rocks,

<v Speaker 1>but Kyrie broke that cover up. Kyrie then tossed Perez

<v Speaker 1>out of the ring, but then Live Morgan flies in

<v Speaker 1>from out of nowhere, and Live Morgan hits oblivion and

<v Speaker 1>she gets the pin to win it for the judgment day.

<v Speaker 1>This made no sense. And I'm going to tell you

<v Speaker 1>why this made no sense. If I was following along correctly,

<v Speaker 1>this makes absolutely no sense. If Kyrie saying was not legal,

<v Speaker 1>like after that spot that I just described, she never

<v Speaker 1>tagged out, but the referee refused to count the fall

<v Speaker 1>for her because he claimed, you're not legal, so I

<v Speaker 1>can't count this far here. If she wasn't legal, then

<v Speaker 1>how the hell can Live Morgan pin? Kyrie saying, what

<v Speaker 1>sense does that make again. After the spot earlier, I

<v Speaker 1>went back and watched it a second time. Never saw

<v Speaker 1>Kyrie get tagged out blind tag no tag match just

<v Speaker 1>continued with her in the ring, and evidently the referee

<v Speaker 1>didn't have any issue with it because and I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>what happened is she was supposed to be in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and so the referee was sort of like, okay, just

<v Speaker 1>forget about what happened and let's just keep keep moving

<v Speaker 1>along here. That's realistically probably what happened, but just in

<v Speaker 1>the context of what we were watching, it didn't really

<v Speaker 1>make any sense. So like Kyrie couldn't make the pin

<v Speaker 1>because she wasn't legal, but it's okay for her to

<v Speaker 1>take the pin even though she's not legal. It's very stupid.

<v Speaker 1>So something got fucked up in translation here. But it

<v Speaker 1>will be live in Rock Sand. They will be challenging

<v Speaker 1>for the women's tag team titles that's coming up on

<v Speaker 1>the Is it the twenty fourth? I think the twenty fourth,

<v Speaker 1>they'll be in Montreal. So unless they add additional teams

<v Speaker 1>to it from the SmackDown side, right now, it's just

<v Speaker 1>gonna be two on two. We had a Becky Lynch

<v Speaker 1>video promo that aired, where she complained about Maxine Dupree

<v Speaker 1>already getting a rematch for the women's Intercontinental title even

<v Speaker 1>though it took her two months to regain her championship.

<v Speaker 1>Wasn't she boycotting the show. That's her own fault for

<v Speaker 1>not showing up. There's been a lot of incidents and

<v Speaker 1>referees lately, that is true in both companies. I still

<v Speaker 1>can't get that Paul Turner thing out of my head

<v Speaker 1>from World's End with Okata and Takesha at the end

<v Speaker 1>of their match, and how how fucking awful that looked.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, man, You know, being a referee, it's

<v Speaker 1>not it's not an easy job. But it's been a

<v Speaker 1>lot of different incidents of late, it feels like. So Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>Becky said that she's gonna be def ending her Intercontinental

<v Speaker 1>title one more time against Maxine next week in Belfast,

<v Speaker 1>in her homeland of Ireland. So we're getting this again

<v Speaker 1>that Jackie Redman was backstage with Maxine Dupree, who was

<v Speaker 1>with Otis and Akira Tozawa. She has a chance to

<v Speaker 1>win it back next week, but where is your head at?

<v Speaker 1>That's what Jackie wanted to know, So Maxine admitted that

<v Speaker 1>she was disappointed that she lost a championship, but winning

<v Speaker 1>the title proved that she belongs. And then she turned

<v Speaker 1>to Otis and Tozawa and told them that she felt

<v Speaker 1>like it was time for the two of them to

<v Speaker 1>do the same and believe in themselves and prove to

<v Speaker 1>the world that they belong. She said that Becky had

<v Speaker 1>to cheat to beat her, and she acknowledges that Becky

<v Speaker 1>is great, Becky is, you know, one of the goats

<v Speaker 1>and all this stuff. But Becky had to cheat to

<v Speaker 1>beat her in their match. So next week she's going

<v Speaker 1>to put Becky in an ankle lock and she's going

<v Speaker 1>to break her ankle. And she screamed when she said this,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for added emphasis. Back in the arena, Michael

<v Speaker 1>Cole had teleported from ringside to the stage area and

<v Speaker 1>he was there to introduce Raquel Rodriguez for a special

<v Speaker 1>interview to no reaction. He asked her why she attacked

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Vicaire last week, since Stephanie is currently injured. Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>is sporting a walking boot. They shot this angle last week,

<v Speaker 1>which to me felt like a way to write Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>off television for a few weeks while she heals up

<v Speaker 1>from what is a legitimate injury. Her ankle was all

<v Speaker 1>bruised up. She posted a photo on her Instagram. It's

<v Speaker 1>probably all swollen, So that's what I thought. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>think we were going to see Stephanie back on the

<v Speaker 1>show for a few weeks, but Raquel said that she

<v Speaker 1>remembered being the girl who politely, impatiently waited her turn

<v Speaker 1>in line for a shot at the title. But times

<v Speaker 1>change and people do too. She's tired of people feeling

<v Speaker 1>sorry for Stephanie, so fine, go ahead feel sorry for her,

<v Speaker 1>but she will not stop. She will keep coming until

<v Speaker 1>she gets her one on one in that ring. And

<v Speaker 1>when big Sexy Raquel Rodriguez stands tall as the new

<v Speaker 1>women's World champion, then they could all feel sorry for her.

<v Speaker 1>Big Sexy You say, it's kind of funny because her

<v Speaker 1>career in many ways turned around when Kevin Nash made

<v Speaker 1>that comment about how she needs to work big, like

<v Speaker 1>Raquel sells too much for her opponents who were smaller

<v Speaker 1>than her. She needs to work big, and then Raquel

<v Speaker 1>took it to heart and she started working big and

<v Speaker 1>just the way that she would carry herself in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and even it felt like she was selling less and

<v Speaker 1>she was being more dominant in her matches, and it

<v Speaker 1>made a huge difference. I feel like in her career

<v Speaker 1>last year where it really felt like she was like

<v Speaker 1>if you were to talk about most improved, like at

<v Speaker 1>the end of the year, all the year end awards

<v Speaker 1>and stuff, Raquel would win from most Improved. Now she's

<v Speaker 1>calling herself big sexy. Now, I wonder where she got

<v Speaker 1>that from. Soon, we're gonna have Kevin Nash out there

<v Speaker 1>as her manager. You imagine that towering over every everybody

<v Speaker 1>in the women's division. She's gonna have Kevin Nash in

<v Speaker 1>her corner guiding her and giving her advice. Can you

<v Speaker 1>imagine Kevin Nash having to walk down some of these

<v Speaker 1>ramps in these aisles and some of these big stadiums,

<v Speaker 1>on these stadium shows, I feel like it would take

<v Speaker 1>a while. So Stephanie's music hits, which I was not expecting,

<v Speaker 1>and outwalks the women's World champion or limps out still

<v Speaker 1>in her walking boot, and she was surrounded by referees

<v Speaker 1>who were trying to stop her. Meanwhile, Raquel is escorted

<v Speaker 1>like they kept the two of them apart. And Raquel

<v Speaker 1>very calmly being surrounded by officials as well, and they

<v Speaker 1>guide her to the back, and Stephanie looks into the

<v Speaker 1>camera and she said, this would not this being I

<v Speaker 1>guess the walking boot will not stop me. Raquel, come

<v Speaker 1>get it, she says. Evidently Raquel heard her, because two

<v Speaker 1>seconds later she gets ambushed from behind by Raquel Rodriguez,

<v Speaker 1>who ran back out and attacked her, and she again

<v Speaker 1>slammed the injured ankle. She took the foot with the

<v Speaker 1>walking boot on it and slammed it against the ground.

<v Speaker 1>And then she took the women's world title and she

<v Speaker 1>reared back with it and with all of her might

<v Speaker 1>she slammed it down across the walking boot and then

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie's on the ground, writhing around in pain. And that's

<v Speaker 1>how the segment came to an end. Well, you know,

<v Speaker 1>if you would have just stayed home and convalesced like

<v Speaker 1>you were supposed to, then this wouldn't have happened. So

<v Speaker 1>she really doesn't have anybody to blame for her but herself.

<v Speaker 1>She broke the belt, by the way, when she did that,

<v Speaker 1>Raquel swung that belt so hard and it was the

<v Speaker 1>side of the belt that the oh God, the you

<v Speaker 1>know the gold buckles, as one side of the belt

<v Speaker 1>usually does the tip the gold tip. She slammed that

<v Speaker 1>part of the belt against the walking boot in the

<v Speaker 1>ground and she broke it. She posted a picture on

<v Speaker 1>last Stephanie did of the broken gold tip, just barely

<v Speaker 1>still attached to the belt. I hope that was a

<v Speaker 1>replica and not the actual thing, because a lot of

<v Speaker 1>times on these shows you could tell when they're using

<v Speaker 1>a replica. So I mean, look, I thought, as far

<v Speaker 1>as the promo itself, not that Raquel had a whole

<v Speaker 1>lot to say here, but just in terms of the

<v Speaker 1>way that she spoke and the way that she carried herself,

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was good. I think it's the sort

<v Speaker 1>of thing we need to see more of, you know,

<v Speaker 1>her getting some promo time. I said that about Maxine Dupree,

<v Speaker 1>you know, someone who I don't think would have had

<v Speaker 1>nearly the same confidence that she has now on the

<v Speaker 1>microphone a year ago. And the only way to get

<v Speaker 1>better it is to just get more time to speak

<v Speaker 1>live in front of crowd, and not just have these

<v Speaker 1>judgment day clubhouse segments in the back. You know, it's

<v Speaker 1>good to have a segment like this every now and then,

<v Speaker 1>so she's gotten herself to a point now where I

<v Speaker 1>could believably see her as the women's world champion. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think that when they have that match finally, one

<v Speaker 1>on one, no Nicki Bella, just one on one, especially

<v Speaker 1>with Raquel getting one up on Stephanie every week and

<v Speaker 1>leaving her lying on the ground writhing around in pain.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that Raquel's winning the title from her,

<v Speaker 1>but I could envision Raquel Rodriguez at some point here

<v Speaker 1>this year being the women's World champion, and maybe that

<v Speaker 1>factors into an eventual you know, baby face turn and

<v Speaker 1>split from the Judgment day and we eventually get Raquel

<v Speaker 1>against Live. I don't see that being a WrestleMania match

<v Speaker 1>this year, but I could see that being the eventual

<v Speaker 1>direction for later in twenty twenty six. And as far

<v Speaker 1>as Stephanie is concerned, I mean, look, it's good that

<v Speaker 1>she's at least consistently television showing me just like at

<v Speaker 1>least she's consistently on television now each week. She has

<v Speaker 1>something now for her to actually sink her teeth into

<v Speaker 1>in this feud, which she didn't have any of this

<v Speaker 1>for weeks and weeks and weeks she was like just

<v Speaker 1>forgotten about here on her own show. Now she has

<v Speaker 1>a real feud, and one that doesn't involve Nikki Bella.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not even counting the Nicky Bella few that wasn't

<v Speaker 1>even a real feud. That was a match to do

<v Speaker 1>to kill time and give Stephanie something to do with

<v Speaker 1>Survivor series. But here you have somebody who, actually, unlike

<v Speaker 1>Nicki Bella these days, has some credibility built up, and

<v Speaker 1>you know, to match that, people are going to want

<v Speaker 1>to see, you know, once Stephanie is able to get

<v Speaker 1>medically cleared. So I like it. I just don't see

<v Speaker 1>Raquel being the one to take that title from her.

<v Speaker 1>You know, at this point, it feels like, you know, health,

<v Speaker 1>health permitting, Stephanie should be walking into WrestleMania as the champion.

<v Speaker 1>Quite is, who does she defend against? And to answer

<v Speaker 1>that question, we'll we'll have to wait and see who

<v Speaker 1>wins the Royal Rumble, and if it's somebody from the

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown side, then how do they decide a number one

<v Speaker 1>contender On the ROS side. They showed clips of Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre's appearance as the WWE champion in Glasgow on Saturday,

<v Speaker 1>Drew had a homecoming with the belt. Everybody was very

<v Speaker 1>happy to see him come home with that championship, and

<v Speaker 1>they promoted that he will be making an appearance on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown this Friday. They're going to be in I believe Manchester,

<v Speaker 1>so he will be there. We go backstage and Otis

<v Speaker 1>and Tozawa. They approach Jay Usso said they heard Jay

<v Speaker 1>putting the division on notice, and they asked Jay, how

<v Speaker 1>about us? And Jay said that you're my boys. You

<v Speaker 1>know what we said last week. That was more kind

<v Speaker 1>of a statement to the rest of the tag team division,

<v Speaker 1>which honestly is a very shitty thing to say. These

<v Speaker 1>are your supposedly your friends. It's like, yeah, you know

<v Speaker 1>what we were talking about, give people a title match

<v Speaker 1>and warning people about coming after these titles. We weren't

<v Speaker 1>talking about you guys like you guys were a bunch

<v Speaker 1>of fucking losers, like you guys aren't going to be

<v Speaker 1>challenging for these belts. So Otis got serious and he

<v Speaker 1>got up in his face, and Jay took his glasses

<v Speaker 1>off and he said Mary he would convene with Jimmy,

<v Speaker 1>but he warned them that they would be standing in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with the best tag team in the game.

<v Speaker 1>Otis and Tozau are going to be wrestling Broddo. I'd

<v Speaker 1>love to see it. We had Penta and dragon Le

<v Speaker 1>teaming up to take on Bronson Reid in Austin Theory.

<v Speaker 1>Dragon Ly hit Reid with a DDT coming out of

<v Speaker 1>a commercial break. Penta then made the hot tag. He

<v Speaker 1>hit Theory with a backstabber. Dragon and Penta. They handed

<v Speaker 1>out super kicks to everybody, including Logan Paul who was

<v Speaker 1>out there at ringside. Dragon Lee wiped out Logan and

<v Speaker 1>Theory with a flip dive and as Dragon Lee was

<v Speaker 1>outside the ring, and he's right there at the foot

<v Speaker 1>of the aisleway and Dragon Lee is out there and

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he was posing, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if he was just stunned. I don't know what was

<v Speaker 1>going on here, because he had plenty of advance warning

<v Speaker 1>of what was coming. He had plenty of advanced notice here.

<v Speaker 1>But out of nowhere, bron Breaker shows up. He ran

<v Speaker 1>down that ring, and the first camerangle that we saw

<v Speaker 1>we only saw him when he got there, but he

<v Speaker 1>speared the fuck out of this guy, just absolutely mowed

<v Speaker 1>him down with a spear. He speared him into the

<v Speaker 1>upside down and the referee calls for the disqualification. Penta

<v Speaker 1>then invited Braun into the ring, so Bron jumped in.

<v Speaker 1>He speared him as well. So Breaker was about to

<v Speaker 1>kill Dragonly with a running spear on the outside. He

<v Speaker 1>was about to circle the ring, but as he went

<v Speaker 1>to go begin, Adam Pierce showed up out of nowhere,

<v Speaker 1>and the general manager of Raw he he stands in

<v Speaker 1>his way and he stops him and probably saves Dragonly's life,

<v Speaker 1>and he's yelling at him, admonishing him, and as this

<v Speaker 1>is going on, and actually the way they shot this

<v Speaker 1>was well done because as he's yelling at Breaker on

<v Speaker 1>the outside and Breaker is just listening to what he's saying,

<v Speaker 1>you could see in the background in the ring Bronson

<v Speaker 1>Reid has ascended to the top rope and he comes

<v Speaker 1>diving off with a tsunami splash to Penta. So then

<v Speaker 1>Pierce hears this and sees it, and he gets in

<v Speaker 1>the ring and he walks right up to Bronson Reid

<v Speaker 1>and he admonishes him as well, and he warns him.

<v Speaker 1>So while he's doing that, Bron Breaker slips into the

<v Speaker 1>ring and he delivers another spear to Dragonly. So Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce walks over to bron Breaker and he grabs him

<v Speaker 1>by the shoulder and he spins him around and he

<v Speaker 1>gets up in his face and he's telling him, I'm

<v Speaker 1>sick of this shit. So bron violently grabs Pearce and

<v Speaker 1>he backs him into the corner and he's yelling at him,

<v Speaker 1>what are you gonna do? He's threatened. He's basically threatening

<v Speaker 1>to murder this man. So the rest of the Vision,

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hayman, they come over to try to hold back

<v Speaker 1>Breaker and Pierces yelling at Paul Hayman and the Vision

<v Speaker 1>to get him out of here. So he did, and

<v Speaker 1>they showed a replay of that running spear after the

<v Speaker 1>commercial break, and you're gonna probably see this on social

<v Speaker 1>media if you didn't see the show. But it's this

<v Speaker 1>great overhead drone shot a bron Breaker when he initially

<v Speaker 1>walked out from the very beginning of the aisleway, and

<v Speaker 1>the drone very quickly because he's going fast and the

<v Speaker 1>drone is just following from overhead and it's a long run.

<v Speaker 1>He got a real running start, and it makes it

<v Speaker 1>look so much more devastating, and then of course he

<v Speaker 1>cuts down Dragonly with a spear. Just it looked tremendous,

<v Speaker 1>absolutely tremendous. So in the back, Penta and Dragonly after this,

<v Speaker 1>they were being tended to in medical Javon Evans showed

<v Speaker 1>up to check on them and reminded them, Hey, if

<v Speaker 1>you need my help, I'm here for you. I think

<v Speaker 1>they could have used your help a few minutes ago.

<v Speaker 1>Then they cuts a bron breaker. He's walking, he looks

<v Speaker 1>like he's leaving. He's walking through the back. Adam Pierce

<v Speaker 1>shows up behind him, screaming, I'm not done. We're not

<v Speaker 1>done talking yet. So he goes up to a breaker

<v Speaker 1>in their face to face and he goes, you know,

<v Speaker 1>putting your hands on the boss. You know what, You're

<v Speaker 1>gonna get some time off because as of this moment,

<v Speaker 1>you are hereby indefinitely suspended. It's a breaker and him,

<v Speaker 1>they're like nose to nose, ey'd to eye. Here Pierce

<v Speaker 1>had this huge, like lot of spit dripping off his chin.

<v Speaker 1>He was just freaking out and screaming and losing his mind.

<v Speaker 1>Here Hayman, after a breaker finally walked off. Hayman moses

<v Speaker 1>up to Adam Pierce and he tells him, you just

<v Speaker 1>made the biggest mistake of your life. And Pierce thought

<v Speaker 1>he was talking about bron Breaker. He goes, no, I'm

<v Speaker 1>talking about you. You just made the biggest mistake of

<v Speaker 1>your life, you know, doing what you did. Because with

<v Speaker 1>all due respect, mister general manager, you know from my

<v Speaker 1>vantage point, says you put your hands on bron Breaker first,

<v Speaker 1>not the other way around. In the crowd went ooh,

<v Speaker 1>he's right, he is technically right. Adam Pierce put his

<v Speaker 1>hands on bron Breaker and spun him around before bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker ever put his hands on. Adam peers, that is true,

<v Speaker 1>and we'll see if there's any repercussions for that. We'll

<v Speaker 1>see if maybe maybe this suspension will be overturned very

<v Speaker 1>quickly as a result of that. I don't know, but

<v Speaker 1>Breaker interfering in the match. Look, the match itself was

<v Speaker 1>a waste of nine minutes. The purpose that it served

<v Speaker 1>was exactly what you saw there at the end. It

<v Speaker 1>wasn't even about the match. It wasn't about Austin theory.

<v Speaker 1>It never is about Austin theory. It wasn't about Bronson

<v Speaker 1>Reid or you know, Dragonly or anybody like that. It

<v Speaker 1>was about how can we get bron Breaker on the

<v Speaker 1>show and get him involved in a way that leads

<v Speaker 1>us to this interaction with him and Adam Pearce. He

<v Speaker 1>has to go crazy, he has to be a wild

<v Speaker 1>man out there. You have to give Adam Pierce a

<v Speaker 1>reason to come out and yell at him and reprimand him,

<v Speaker 1>and to have a confrontation between the two of them.

<v Speaker 1>And so this is what they came up with. The

<v Speaker 1>match was a means to an end. It was to

<v Speaker 1>set up the angle that came after the match, and

<v Speaker 1>the angle I thought was very well done. I think

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce's performance and all this was very good. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I already talked about the spear the Breaker gave to Dragonly,

<v Speaker 1>who of course is a smaller man than him, you know,

<v Speaker 1>ways less. And so when he goes out there and

<v Speaker 1>he kills you know, guys like that and they can

<v Speaker 1>you know, sell for it or go flying or whatever,

<v Speaker 1>that makes it even better. But when he gets that

<v Speaker 1>running head start again. I love that drone shot. It

<v Speaker 1>just made it look so much more devastating. That way

<v Speaker 1>he had to come out this week and look like

<v Speaker 1>a killer. It would not have been enough for him

<v Speaker 1>to just show up and fall in line and be

<v Speaker 1>in their corner, you know, during their tag team match. Right,

<v Speaker 1>he should be furious mostly himself for losing, but he

<v Speaker 1>should be furious about losing to see m Punk last week,

<v Speaker 1>and so this week he was uncontrollable, right, He was

<v Speaker 1>the uncontrollable wild man out there until Pierce suspended him.

<v Speaker 1>So they did what they had to do. I thought

<v Speaker 1>it was well done. And now we'll see do we

<v Speaker 1>not see him again until the Rumble? Does he show

<v Speaker 1>up again next week on the show? Where is the

<v Speaker 1>story going to go where Pierce put his hands on

<v Speaker 1>him first? Right? Is Pierce going to get into trouble

<v Speaker 1>for it? I don't know. But when he lost last

<v Speaker 1>weight to see him punk, I said it then that

<v Speaker 1>it vaulted him way up to, if not the top

<v Speaker 1>of the list, in that top two or three mix

<v Speaker 1>like Roman Reigns, bron Breaker like those, right, there have

<v Speaker 1>to be the two favorites right now. I'll even throw

<v Speaker 1>Obafemi in there, because there's always the off chance that

<v Speaker 1>they could just shock everybody and have Oba Femi show

<v Speaker 1>up in the Rumble and fucking win the whole thing.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that's gonna happen, but he's in that

<v Speaker 1>top mix right now favorites to win the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>because the way things right now are are looking and

<v Speaker 1>shaping up, I do think that all roads lead to

<v Speaker 1>probably a wrestle many a rematch between CM Punk and

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker. Maybe Seth Rollins is involved. If Rolins can

<v Speaker 1>be cleared in time for Mania, they could kind of

<v Speaker 1>slip him in there because he never lost the belt.

<v Speaker 1>He hates Punk, he hates bron Breaker for kicking him

<v Speaker 1>out of the Vision, So maybe it turns into a

<v Speaker 1>three way, but I think he's gonna be in that mix.

<v Speaker 1>That's where I think things right now are headed, because

<v Speaker 1>if they're not, then I don't know. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what else you would do with him that would make

<v Speaker 1>any sense, you know, given the way they're positioning bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker so strongly on this show, what else would he

<v Speaker 1>be doing that would be considered important on that show,

<v Speaker 1>if not wrestling for the World Championship. I wouldn't mind

<v Speaker 1>it if they did a non title like singles match

<v Speaker 1>as an attraction between him and Roman Reigns, not for

<v Speaker 1>any titles, I would be okay. With that too. I

<v Speaker 1>just I don't know that that's the direction they're going in,

<v Speaker 1>but he's gonna get his rematch for that title. He's

<v Speaker 1>got to earn it, though one way to earn it

<v Speaker 1>would be to win the Royal Rumble. We got a

<v Speaker 1>brand new video package speaking of Albafemi. We've had the

<v Speaker 1>same video package running the last couple of weeks on

<v Speaker 1>Raw and SmackDown. We got a new video package and

<v Speaker 1>again no date, no message other than his name at

<v Speaker 1>the end of it. The reports are out. The belief

<v Speaker 1>is that Obafemi is going to Monday Night Raw. They

<v Speaker 1>have not said that yet, but it looks like that's

<v Speaker 1>where he's gonna be headed. It's just a matter of when.

<v Speaker 1>At this point, I say, just wait for the Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>You may as well just debut him in the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>But it looks like he's gonna be there on Monday Nights.

<v Speaker 1>He vacated the NXT Championship after he beat Leon Slater

<v Speaker 1>last Tuesday. He left the belt sitting in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of the ring. They have announced that on NXT Tomorrow

<v Speaker 1>night they will have some sort of announcement to explain

<v Speaker 1>how they're going to handle this. Whether it's some sort

<v Speaker 1>of you know, like a series of matches that lead

<v Speaker 1>to a multimin match to crown a new champion, or

<v Speaker 1>just a tournament. Whatever they're gonna do, we'll find out

<v Speaker 1>tomorrow on NXT. And then it was time for our

<v Speaker 1>main event. First time ever on TV. I can't say

<v Speaker 1>first time ever ever, just because I've almost positive these

<v Speaker 1>two have had house show matches before. I know for

<v Speaker 1>a fact. I remember seeing an image of them in

<v Speaker 1>a steel cage match at a live event I think

<v Speaker 1>last year, but on television, never done before. AJ Styles

<v Speaker 1>one on one against Gunther. Styles was all over Gunther

<v Speaker 1>early on. He was targeting Gunther's leg with a series

<v Speaker 1>of kicks. Gunther slammed Aj on the apron. Styles fought back.

<v Speaker 1>Guntherer cut him off again with a clothesline, but AJ

<v Speaker 1>kept fighting back until Gunther finally chopped him off the

<v Speaker 1>top rope and he fell all the way to the floor,

<v Speaker 1>and that took us into a commercial break. Gunther held

<v Speaker 1>control throughout the break. When they came back, he was

<v Speaker 1>chopping the shit out of AJ. Styles, though tried to

<v Speaker 1>make a comeback, Gunther took his head off with a lariat,

<v Speaker 1>to a big pop. So I should point out here,

<v Speaker 1>like clearly Gunther was cheered by the majority of the fans.

<v Speaker 1>It wasn't anything like overwhelming or anything like that. But

<v Speaker 1>you know, when he was coming up on the independence scene,

<v Speaker 1>I think they pointed this out on commentary. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he spent quite a bit of time, you know, working

<v Speaker 1>in Germany, and I think what was it the wx

<v Speaker 1>W promotion, So you know, it's not just that he's

<v Speaker 1>he's a fellow European, like, he has a lot of

<v Speaker 1>history and a lot of experience working in Germany, and

<v Speaker 1>he has a lot of fans in Germany. AJ was

<v Speaker 1>not booed though, you know, it wasn't like he was

<v Speaker 1>booed out of the building or anything. But Gunther had

<v Speaker 1>the crowd advantage here, so when he would go on offense,

<v Speaker 1>he would have a big shop or a big move

<v Speaker 1>or a big sequence of moves, the crowd would pop

<v Speaker 1>for him. So Gunther did that you can't see me

<v Speaker 1>and killing me just like a can't I can see Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>hey dude, here, I could see you. I could see

<v Speaker 1>dude here in that thirteen dollars super chent and same

<v Speaker 1>to Callum will also drop one a little while ago.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you brother. Get to your messages here in a

<v Speaker 1>little bit, get them on in and we'll read through them.

<v Speaker 1>So here he did the uh, you can't see me bit,

<v Speaker 1>and then he told audibly, he told Aj to duck,

<v Speaker 1>and then he hit the ropes, and wouldn't you know,

<v Speaker 1>Aj ducked on the clothesline attempt. But as Aj came

<v Speaker 1>or as he you know, ducked, he took out Gunther's

<v Speaker 1>leg with a low drop kick. Three dragon screws followed.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther tried for a rain maker clothesline. Styles though countered

<v Speaker 1>with a pele kick and he got the calf crusher applied. Now,

<v Speaker 1>remember he said he was gonna not just beat Gunther

<v Speaker 1>in this match, he was going to tap him out.

<v Speaker 1>That was a story going into this. I'm gonna do

<v Speaker 1>this for John Cena and I'm gonna tap you out

<v Speaker 1>like a little bitch here in this match. So he

<v Speaker 1>got the klf crusher led and Gunther reached the bottom

<v Speaker 1>rope to force the break. Styles tried for a springboard

<v Speaker 1>and whatever he was going for, it was unsuccessful because

<v Speaker 1>Gunther chopped him as he went for it. But Aj

<v Speaker 1>went back to work on the leg and he set

<v Speaker 1>up again for a springboard, but it was a springboard.

<v Speaker 1>He wasn't going for the phenomenal Forum. He wasn't even

<v Speaker 1>going for the springboard four fifty. He did a springboard

<v Speaker 1>three sixty into a leg drop across the injured leg,

<v Speaker 1>which is kind of innovative, and I haven't seen AJ

<v Speaker 1>do that before, so that was kind of cool. I

<v Speaker 1>enjoyed that. So he went right back to working on

<v Speaker 1>that leg, and now now he is setting up for

<v Speaker 1>the phenomenal forum. He sprang off the ropes, but Gunther

<v Speaker 1>dodged it into a sleeper hole. AJ fell backwards on

<v Speaker 1>him though into a pinning combination. Gunther kicked out. Then

<v Speaker 1>he dropped AJ with a hard clothes line and he

<v Speaker 1>got a power bomb with a deep stat AJ kicked out.

<v Speaker 1>So at this point the crowd is chanting, this is awesome,

<v Speaker 1>and Gunther yelled for AJ to slap him, so like

<v Speaker 1>slap me now like he did last week. So Gunther

<v Speaker 1>slapped AJ, who at this point is on his knees,

<v Speaker 1>and he gave him another hard slap. So they traded

<v Speaker 1>chops by Gunther forearms by Aj. Styles got another roll

<v Speaker 1>through into another calf crusher to the bad leg. Guntherer, though,

<v Speaker 1>reached over right next to him, grabbed a hold of

<v Speaker 1>AJ's head and repeatedly slammed him into the mat. So

<v Speaker 1>think about the match that AJ had with Brock Lesner

<v Speaker 1>at Survivor Series all those years ago, because that's how

<v Speaker 1>Brock got out of the calf crusher. That's what Gunther

<v Speaker 1>did to him. Here. Gunher delivered a shotgun drop kick

<v Speaker 1>that sent Aj flying backwards. Aj landed on his feet

<v Speaker 1>though on a power bomb attempt that followed, and again

<v Speaker 1>again he transitioned into a calf crusher. This was what

<v Speaker 1>the third one I believe of this match. Styles rolled

<v Speaker 1>him over back to the center of the ring, and

<v Speaker 1>Gunther is he's trapped. You know, he's in pain. It's

<v Speaker 1>a painful hold and he's got nowhere to go. He's

<v Speaker 1>in the center of the ring and started telling the

<v Speaker 1>All of a sudden, Aj releases the hold and jumps

<v Speaker 1>to his feet and he starts telling the referee that

<v Speaker 1>he tapped. He's going Gumpter tapped right. People are very

<v Speaker 1>confused right now what's going on here? But Aj is

<v Speaker 1>insistent that this man tapped. He tapped on his thigh.

<v Speaker 1>But the referee didn't see it. So the referee goes

<v Speaker 1>over to Alicia Taylor to tell her the match is

<v Speaker 1>going to continue. Now, I'm not sure why he felt

<v Speaker 1>the need to do this. He could have just told AJ,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't see it, keep wrestling, but he walked over

<v Speaker 1>to the ring announcer to tell her this like, the

<v Speaker 1>match is going to continue. I don't think she ever

<v Speaker 1>made any kind of announcement either, But it was an

<v Speaker 1>excuse to divert the referee's attention because as this was

<v Speaker 1>going on, and AJ walked back over to gun Through,

<v Speaker 1>guntherro without the referee seeing gave him a low blow

<v Speaker 1>and this the crowd booed, so he gave him a

<v Speaker 1>low blow. Then came the power bomb with the stack,

<v Speaker 1>and this time Gunther picked up the wind. Now, after

<v Speaker 1>the match, they showed a replay from a different angle,

<v Speaker 1>because from the main television angle you couldn't see it.

<v Speaker 1>But they showed it from the opposite side, right, because

<v Speaker 1>they got cameras all over the place, probably have fucking

<v Speaker 1>cameras in space this company. So they showed it from

<v Speaker 1>the opposite side, and it was clear as day he

<v Speaker 1>was tapping on AJ. It looked like he was tapping

<v Speaker 1>that ass, isn't there like a meme. There's a meme.

<v Speaker 1>It's I don't know what match it's from. But Gunther's

<v Speaker 1>on the outside of the ring and he was getting

<v Speaker 1>ready to chop somebody. But he's got his hand back

<v Speaker 1>like this, and people they memed it and they use

<v Speaker 1>it all the time. He looked like he was tapping

<v Speaker 1>that ass. He's smacking aj on the ass like over

<v Speaker 1>and over, like he's enjoying himself, like multiple times. So

<v Speaker 1>of course A thought the guy tapped out, because he

<v Speaker 1>did so he released the hold. But it's clear as day,

<v Speaker 1>like on the replay, that Gunther tapped out and the

<v Speaker 1>referee couldn't see it because his view was obstructed, right,

<v Speaker 1>He wasn't on that side, so he couldn't see it,

<v Speaker 1>and so Gunher picks up the win way. Barrett on

<v Speaker 1>commentary said it was the smartest thing he had ever seen.

<v Speaker 1>And Gunther was standing on stage and he was all

<v Speaker 1>smiles and pumping his fists up in the air, and

<v Speaker 1>he was the happiest guy in Dusseldorf, and that is

<v Speaker 1>how they went off the air. I thought that it

<v Speaker 1>was a I thought that it was a clever way

<v Speaker 1>to do that finish to set up for at least

<v Speaker 1>one more match, which I think most of us figured.

<v Speaker 1>You know, this match was announced on one week's notice

<v Speaker 1>for television. It can't be the only match obviously, that

<v Speaker 1>we're going to get between these two. So I think

<v Speaker 1>most of us knew we were going to get at

<v Speaker 1>least one more. This feels like it's going to be

<v Speaker 1>more than just another match. This should be a whole

<v Speaker 1>series of them. But they did the finish in a

<v Speaker 1>way that guarantees that were going to get a rematch

<v Speaker 1>here between these two, and that's fine because what we

<v Speaker 1>got here was excellent. I thought what we got with

<v Speaker 1>these two in the time that we had before the

<v Speaker 1>fucked finish was very good. And I could see people

<v Speaker 1>taking issue with Gunther tapping at all, but as I

<v Speaker 1>said at the beginning of the stream, I saw it

<v Speaker 1>as Gunher knew what he was doing. He was in pain,

<v Speaker 1>he was trapped, and he said, you know what, I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to tap on this side so the referee won't

<v Speaker 1>see it. And then the off chance that Aj decides

<v Speaker 1>to let go of the hold, which of course he did,

<v Speaker 1>that will give him an opportunity to recuperate and when

<v Speaker 1>the referee tells him, hey, I didn't see the tap,

<v Speaker 1>Gunther could strike that. He did do the low blow,

<v Speaker 1>which is something that Gunther usually doesn't need to resort

<v Speaker 1>to when you know, take it a shortcut like that.

<v Speaker 1>But that's how tough an opponent AJ was for him.

<v Speaker 1>It puts over AJ and that Gunther was desperate. He knew, shit,

<v Speaker 1>this is not going to end well for me here

<v Speaker 1>if I don't think of something on the fly. And

<v Speaker 1>this was his way of getting out of the hold,

<v Speaker 1>a hold for which there was no escape because he

<v Speaker 1>was trapped in the center of the ring for the

<v Speaker 1>third time. So I thought it was clever the way

<v Speaker 1>they did it. He took the cheap way out, and

<v Speaker 1>now they can run this back. When do they run

<v Speaker 1>it back? You've got Saturday Night's main event coming up.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther wrestled on that show last year. He defended the

<v Speaker 1>World heavyweight title against jay Uso on Saturday Nights main event.

<v Speaker 1>I don't even think he worked the Rumble last year,

<v Speaker 1>so they could do it on that show. They could

<v Speaker 1>do it at the Rumble if they want to keep

<v Speaker 1>both of them out of the actual Rumble match, they

<v Speaker 1>could do it there. It almost has to be on

<v Speaker 1>one of those two shows. But one thing also that

<v Speaker 1>doing the finish this way shows and I like what

<v Speaker 1>they did with the calf crusher respect of it. You know,

<v Speaker 1>it establishes the calf crusher as a move where you

<v Speaker 1>can now believably look at it and go, oh, even

<v Speaker 1>guntherer he might tap out from this move, right, He's

<v Speaker 1>not going to, but they got you to buy into

<v Speaker 1>the possibility now that he might because he did, but

<v Speaker 1>the referee just didn't see it. So the next time

<v Speaker 1>these guys get in the ring and wrestle, you could

<v Speaker 1>add a submission stipulation to it. You can make it

<v Speaker 1>a submission match if you want to, because now we

<v Speaker 1>know both guys have submission holds that they can rely

<v Speaker 1>on Gun through with the sleeper aj with the calf crusher.

<v Speaker 1>But they have legitimized the calf crusher now, and the

<v Speaker 1>eyes of fans who maybe didn't buy into it as

<v Speaker 1>a potential finish before, they have legitimized it as a

<v Speaker 1>potential finish in a match with Gunther. He tapped once,

<v Speaker 1>he might tap again. So I like that they did

<v Speaker 1>that as well. Are they going to keep this going

<v Speaker 1>through to WrestleMania. That's really the question now, because it

<v Speaker 1>is January twelfth, WrestleMania is what April eighteenth and nineteenth

<v Speaker 1>or April nineteenth and twentieth. Right, we're still a solid

<v Speaker 1>three months out from WrestleMania. We've already had match number one,

<v Speaker 1>We're already talking about match number two potentially being in

<v Speaker 1>the next two or three weeks. Can they drag this

<v Speaker 1>out to WrestleMania. I believe they can, especially if this

<v Speaker 1>all culminates in AJ's final match or AJ putting his

<v Speaker 1>career on the line. And we still don't know when

<v Speaker 1>AJ is wrestling that final match. I don't want to know.

<v Speaker 1>I hope that doesn't even leak. I hope they keep

<v Speaker 1>that super secret so nobody knows for sure until it

<v Speaker 1>actually happens that it's going to be AJ's final match.

<v Speaker 1>But I absolutely think you can, you know, kind of

<v Speaker 1>drag this story out. You got to make it interesting,

<v Speaker 1>of course, but you can get this to WrestleMania and

<v Speaker 1>pay it off there. If that's even the plan for

<v Speaker 1>gun through at WrestleMania. It's also possible they're doing this

<v Speaker 1>now because they have some other idea in mind for

<v Speaker 1>what they want to do with Gunther. Maybe they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>do Gunther and brock Lesner, maybe they're gonna do gun

<v Speaker 1>Through and somebody else. But I'm just saying, if this

<v Speaker 1>was the plan for Mania, you could absolutely get you know,

<v Speaker 1>get there. It's gonna be incumbent on them, of course,

<v Speaker 1>to come up with the right story for it and

<v Speaker 1>to keep it interesting for long enough. I could see

<v Speaker 1>where some people might get tired of it, But I

<v Speaker 1>think you could definitely do it. But this was a

<v Speaker 1>fine first entry and what will hopefully be a complete

<v Speaker 1>series of matches here between these two. Are Is AJ

<v Speaker 1>gonna win any of them? I don't think so. Just

<v Speaker 1>think about it, like, do you really need Gunther or

<v Speaker 1>want Gunther to be forget tapping out just losing in general?

<v Speaker 1>Do you really want Gunther to be losing in the

<v Speaker 1>very first program he has coming out of the retirement

<v Speaker 1>match with John Cena. I mean, that really wouldn't make

<v Speaker 1>any sense. Sucks for AJ if he has three matches

<v Speaker 1>with this guy and loses all three of them. But

<v Speaker 1>I certainly would not be beating guntherer now in January

<v Speaker 1>or February or March or even April. I wouldn't be

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't even think about beating Gunther until at least

<v Speaker 1>SummerSlam put him in there with Ilia Dragonoff at least

<v Speaker 1>that long. You want to take full advantage of what

<v Speaker 1>you did last month, and you shouldn't be thinking about

<v Speaker 1>beating this man. AJ basically did beat him tonight, It's

<v Speaker 1>just the referee didn't see it. He got the visual win,

<v Speaker 1>he just didn't count in the record books. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>think beating Gunther at all in his very first feud

<v Speaker 1>coming out of Saturday Nights made event would be a

<v Speaker 1>very suspect decision. And I'm a big AJ Styles fan,

<v Speaker 1>but he should not be winning. What did you think

<v Speaker 1>of Raw from Germany? Fifty eight point five percent thumbs up,

<v Speaker 1>twenty five point four percent thumbs in the middle, sixteen

<v Speaker 1>percent thumbs down. That is an improvement from last week.

<v Speaker 1>This was a better show than last week. Last week

<v Speaker 1>was just overall not a great show. So this was

<v Speaker 1>a definite to step up from what we had with

<v Speaker 1>Stranger Things in Brooklyn. I hate to say that they

<v Speaker 1>gave my fellow New Yorkers the show that they gave

<v Speaker 1>them last week, but it can't all be winners, do

<v Speaker 1>I think that Live wins the Rumble. No, I do not,

<v Speaker 1>especially when she's going after the tag team titles a

<v Speaker 1>week before the Rumble. She's not going to win the rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Happy Monday, says Joseph. Happy Monday to everybody. We're starting

<v Speaker 1>a new week here. We got shows every night of

<v Speaker 1>the week this week. I do anyway, I should say

<v Speaker 1>I do because Tomorrow Tuesday Night, Titans will be on

<v Speaker 1>JD's channel, not this channel. But we got Raw tonight,

<v Speaker 1>we got TNT tomorrow, we got Dynamite, the Post Show

<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday. I am planning on going live on Thursday night,

<v Speaker 1>probably about eleven fifteen for the TNA on AMC debut,

<v Speaker 1>and then live on Friday, probably around eight thirty nine o'clock.

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown is going. I'm gonna probably watch SmackDown earlier in

<v Speaker 1>the day with my VPN, unlike last week. That's a

<v Speaker 1>three o'clock Eastern Star, not two o'clock. And that's, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, that is the same for Raw next Monday.

<v Speaker 1>Just be aware of that Raw's airing on Netflix next

<v Speaker 1>Monday three pm Eastern. Today it was two pm Eastern.

<v Speaker 1>Next week, it's gonna be three pm Eastern, So Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it gonna be a lot of show, a lot of

<v Speaker 1>streaming this week. Hopefully you will join me for all

<v Speaker 1>of it. I know Joseph will be here. Joseph's got

<v Speaker 1>a whole bunch of messages here. He's very happy. It

<v Speaker 1>is the sixtieth anniversary to the Batman sixty six show

<v Speaker 1>and the surfing contest. I don't remember that. Did you

<v Speaker 1>know Clint Eastwood almost played two faces in that show,

<v Speaker 1>but they cut the character. Can you imagine Clint Eastwood

<v Speaker 1>in any kind of Batman production? I can't. I can't

<v Speaker 1>even I can't even picture that in my head. I

<v Speaker 1>don't have a favorite episode, though, I just I would

<v Speaker 1>casually watch it when I was a kid, So I

<v Speaker 1>don't have a favorite one. Did I know that Gomez

<v Speaker 1>Adams himself, John Aston played the Riddler for two episodes?

<v Speaker 1>I did not know that. Have I seen the Keanu

<v Speaker 1>Reeves movie Johnny Knumonic, No, I remember it, remember hearing

<v Speaker 1>about it, never saw it. And I seen Billy Zane

<v Speaker 1>superhero movie The Phantom. I did many years ago. I

<v Speaker 1>saw The Phantom. I saw dark Man, which had I

<v Speaker 1>think Liam Neeson Bugsy the movie Bugsy. That one I

<v Speaker 1>did not see. Do you think both Mercedes Monette and

<v Speaker 1>Jean Moxley will return to WWE in the future, Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean the future is a long time Moxley I

<v Speaker 1>could see being an aw lifer. Mercedes, I believe eventually

<v Speaker 1>will be in WWE again, but not for many years.

<v Speaker 1>I think she's very happy where she is right now.

<v Speaker 1>Do I think Brian Danielson will return to WWE in

<v Speaker 1>the future again. I think he's very happy where he is.

<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna say no. And I do not remember

<v Speaker 1>that episode Joseph again. Specific episodes, I don't really, there's

<v Speaker 1>none that I could think of. It's more just sort

<v Speaker 1>of memories of general memories that I pieced together of

<v Speaker 1>that show looking back at it. Do you wish Macho

<v Speaker 1>Man had won the Royal Rumble. I think it would

<v Speaker 1>have been cool. I wish they didn't do him dirty

<v Speaker 1>in ninety three by having him look like a fucking

<v Speaker 1>geek when he got eliminated by Yoko. I think that is,

<v Speaker 1>to this day one of the worst Royal Rumble finishes

<v Speaker 1>of all time. They did him dirt. I can't believe

<v Speaker 1>he agreed to that, Honestly. What was your reaction when

<v Speaker 1>Mick Foley made his debut was Dude Love. I had

<v Speaker 1>the same look on my face that Steve Austin. Did

<v Speaker 1>you remember the look on Steve Austin's face. He had

<v Speaker 1>a look on his face like he couldn't believe what

<v Speaker 1>he was saying. He didn't really understand what he was saying.

<v Speaker 1>That was the look I had on my face. Was

<v Speaker 1>I a fan of the Dude Love theme song? I was?

<v Speaker 1>It was very catchy. Was I a fan of the

<v Speaker 1>Ahmed Johnson theme song? I was more a fan of

<v Speaker 1>the Ahmed Johnson theme song than I was of Ahmed Johnson.

<v Speaker 1>So yes. Have you seen the Brad Pitt movie, Troy?

<v Speaker 1>I have not known. What are your thoughts on what

<v Speaker 1>WWE is doing with Pete Dunn and would you like

<v Speaker 1>to see him in AW? No? I mean an AW,

<v Speaker 1>He'll be just another guy. I'm not really thrilled with

<v Speaker 1>what they're doing with him right now. I think it's

<v Speaker 1>a waste of Pete done, So no, I'm not happy

<v Speaker 1>with it. Have you seen the Vietnam War movie Platoon

<v Speaker 1>with William Dafoe and Charlie Sheen many years ago? I did? Yes.

<v Speaker 1>Were you a fan of Sean Michaels against mankind a

<v Speaker 1>Mine Games in nineteen ninety six. It's one of my

<v Speaker 1>favorite matches in Michael's matches of all time. Yes, it's

<v Speaker 1>one of my favorites as well. Terrible finish, but the

<v Speaker 1>match itself is excellent. I actually believe it's Mick Foley's

<v Speaker 1>best match, like as a match, I think it's got

<v Speaker 1>It's probably the best match of his career, and I

<v Speaker 1>think he would probably say the same thing. I think

<v Speaker 1>he was in the best physical shape also for that

<v Speaker 1>match of any match in his entire career. It's just

<v Speaker 1>a shame that it didn't have a proper finish to it.

<v Speaker 1>Do you remember Shaw Michaels against Yoko Zuna on Raw

<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety six. I actually do, and I think

<v Speaker 1>Sean beat him with a superkick. If I remember, Joseph says,

<v Speaker 1>I hope you had a great weekend and have a blessed,

<v Speaker 1>safe and wonderful week you two you as well, Joseph,

<v Speaker 1>I appreciate all the love. Death side with an orange

<v Speaker 1>super chat, you know we're getting serious when we see

<v Speaker 1>the orange ones. I predict Punk will drop the World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble. Then he goes on

<v Speaker 1>to win the Rumble by eliminating Cody. Then at the

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber, Punk puts his title shot on the line

<v Speaker 1>against AJ Styles. Why would he do that? And Cody

<v Speaker 1>wins back the WWE title and we get Punk Cody

<v Speaker 1>at wrestlemany of forty two. Well, I mean the way

<v Speaker 1>that you have outlined this entire scenario is it's creative.

<v Speaker 1>I'll give you creative points, but I'll bet you that

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't work out that way. I don't see it

<v Speaker 1>going down that way. Why would Punk? Why would anybody

<v Speaker 1>put their shot on the line in a match. It's

<v Speaker 1>just so, it's so dumb. I know we've had babyfaces

<v Speaker 1>do it before, but they're dumb. They're dumb. You earn

<v Speaker 1>that shot? Death Side says, I know I pitched it

<v Speaker 1>months ago, but I think it would be a sin

<v Speaker 1>if we don't get at least one singles match between

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk and AJ Styles before AJ quits. Yeah, I agree,

<v Speaker 1>I mean you could do it, but just him putting

<v Speaker 1>a shot on the line, don't do that. Find some

<v Speaker 1>other way to do it, even if it's like a

<v Speaker 1>random TV match, just for the sake of doing it

<v Speaker 1>like if they find out aj really is wrapping up

<v Speaker 1>at Mania and it's like, shit, we only have two

<v Speaker 1>months to do this match. I mean, you know, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know when the next Saturday Night's main event is

<v Speaker 1>after next weekend, not this weekend, but next weekend. Do

<v Speaker 1>it on there, do it on Raw. But Punk putting

<v Speaker 1>his shot on the line if he gets a shot,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't do that. JDFVA, Thank you, brother, I hope

<v Speaker 1>you're doing well. Death Sithe again says looking back at

<v Speaker 1>Wressel Palooza, the main event really should have been Brock

<v Speaker 1>sena Cody for the WWE title, and Drew could have

<v Speaker 1>tried to cost Cody and or and stops him instead

<v Speaker 1>of doing Brock and Sina. Brother, they could have put

<v Speaker 1>any match in there and it would have been better

<v Speaker 1>than doing Brock and Sina. There was no reason to

<v Speaker 1>do that match. It was a waste of a John

<v Speaker 1>Cena match. And you will never be able to convince

<v Speaker 1>me otherwise. Joey Jojo Junior. I'm pretty sure Rain's eliminated

<v Speaker 1>Breaker in last year's Rumble. I'm predicting that they are

<v Speaker 1>the final two this year with bron Breaker winning. That

<v Speaker 1>would be a nice comeback for breaker. Wouldn't it give

<v Speaker 1>it right back to Roman? I like that? Paul van

<v Speaker 1>summer And says I can totally get used to europe

<v Speaker 1>WWETV that I'm finished watching by seven thirty Eastern. If

<v Speaker 1>only I could convince the Yankees to start all home

<v Speaker 1>games by four thirty pm, it wouldn't that be nice? Oh, Cheza,

<v Speaker 1>look at Chessa's with us. Good morning, solo monster from

<v Speaker 1>South Africa. Four thirty am Tuesday. Wow, I hope you're

<v Speaker 1>getting up for work and you didn't just get up

<v Speaker 1>to tune into the stream. It's good to see che

<v Speaker 1>Chezza Teja. I'm sure I can't even talk. Chezza. I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure does not usually have the chance to join live,

<v Speaker 1>so I'm very happy to see how he is with

<v Speaker 1>US Live. Alexander thoughts on the Priscilla Kelly controversy. I'm

<v Speaker 1>not going to talk about it. I saw she deleted

<v Speaker 1>her social media. I think that's stupid. Hopefully she's okay.

<v Speaker 1>Brian Finelli says only saw the first thirty minutes of

<v Speaker 1>today's Raw, but sending love towards the goal. From the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the Atlantic en route to the Caribbean, I'm

<v Speaker 1>jealous now I wish I was en route to the Caribbean.

<v Speaker 1>Eight more people on the land can do the same?

<v Speaker 1>How many to ninety k solo? Last I checked, it

<v Speaker 1>was about eighty right around eighty more and will hit

<v Speaker 1>ninety thousand. Well, enjoy your trip, death say says, what

<v Speaker 1>do you get when you mix the little blue pill

<v Speaker 1>with spinach? A strong finish? Hmm, I'm not familiar with

<v Speaker 1>the little blue pill. I have no need for the

<v Speaker 1>little blue pill. Maybe you can relate. I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>Paul Carpenter. So can Lyra go against Becky again for

<v Speaker 1>the IC title now that she wanted back? Does it

<v Speaker 1>reset the rules of not challenging her for it? That's

<v Speaker 1>a good question. I took that to me that so

<v Speaker 1>long as Becky Lynch is the Intercontinental Champion, that she

<v Speaker 1>can't challenge her for it. But you may be right.

<v Speaker 1>See it's like a little loophole where WWE basically can

<v Speaker 1>do whatever they want, and they can always find a

<v Speaker 1>way to explain it away if they want to resume

<v Speaker 1>things with Becky and Lyra, which I don't really see

<v Speaker 1>the need for them to do, But if they wanted to,

<v Speaker 1>they could just say it reset when she lost the belt.

<v Speaker 1>It's a whole new rain. It reset. I took it

<v Speaker 1>to mean the other the other thing though, But I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be too worried about that because I don't see

<v Speaker 1>them going back to it. Callum says Hi Solo. Do

<v Speaker 1>you have a favorite short sequence from any wrestling match

<v Speaker 1>or a perfect minute or so that you find yourself

<v Speaker 1>revisiting something like Hogan hulking up against the Rock and

<v Speaker 1>Wrestle Media x eight. Well, you just named what I

<v Speaker 1>was going to give as an answer. You know, the

<v Speaker 1>moment that Rock gave him the rock Bottom and went

<v Speaker 1>to pin him, and Hogan kicked out and hulked up

<v Speaker 1>that whole sequence. Another one is when Austin did the

<v Speaker 1>run in at Backlash in two thousand, first appearing since

<v Speaker 1>the next surgery, and he ran out and mowed everybody

<v Speaker 1>down with a chair and helped the Rock win the championship.

<v Speaker 1>That would be another one. Undertaker debuting as the American

<v Speaker 1>Badass in the final ninety seconds of the Iron Man

<v Speaker 1>match with the clock ticking down, He's going in the

<v Speaker 1>ring and beating up all the members of the Mcmahelmsley regime,

<v Speaker 1>and time is ticking and people are fucking Louisville are

<v Speaker 1>losing their minds. That's another one. There were a bunch

<v Speaker 1>of like New Japan, not even just Tokyo Don't but

<v Speaker 1>like classic New Japan made events, mostly that involved Okada.

<v Speaker 1>I mean he was kind of the master of that

<v Speaker 1>final sequence. Aj Styles was part of a few of those.

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, there's a whole bunch of them, but those

<v Speaker 1>are a few. Alexander says. Last time Tozawa won a

<v Speaker 1>match on Raw was November twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.

<v Speaker 1>That's actually more recent than I would have guessed. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>here seventy three Happy New Year solo. Do you think

<v Speaker 1>we still get the Luca brothers in w WE? I

<v Speaker 1>like Dragon Lee, but I thought they would bring Phoenix

<v Speaker 1>to Raw after the New Year. Instead they put Lee

<v Speaker 1>with Penta and Mysterio to face the Vision. Yeah, we'll

<v Speaker 1>get it at some point. It's just stupid. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>they have Penta teeming with everybody except as Brother. It's

<v Speaker 1>just it's dumb at this point. And what are they

<v Speaker 1>doing with Phoenix on SmackDown? Nothing? Nothing, But yeah, we'll

<v Speaker 1>get it eventually. We were gonna get it at the

<v Speaker 1>Triple a show, but Penta wasn't medically clear yet. Dried

<v Speaker 1>Ribs and Chickens says Raquel Rodriguez is a bad woman.

<v Speaker 1>She did some damage on the Women's World belt. She

<v Speaker 1>did she she broke off the gold tip. I thought

<v Speaker 1>she cracked it down down the middle or something. She

<v Speaker 1>tweeted out like I broke the belt, And then I

<v Speaker 1>saw the video clip that Stephanie posted on her ig.

<v Speaker 1>I guess. Alexander says, Gunthar against Oba Femi will slap. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>it will, and Obah should win that match. That's why

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't do it for a while. The Mount Vernon

<v Speaker 1>kid says what was for dinner? Solo? I made my

<v Speaker 1>brother Malcolm and I lamb chops, mashed potatoes and Mexican corn.

<v Speaker 1>M Well that was a lot better than what I had.

<v Speaker 1>I had cereal, So thanks, thanks a lot, he says.

<v Speaker 1>The Gunther and aj finish was just like the Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>against Brock Summer Slam twenty fifteen. Well, I mean not exactly.

<v Speaker 1>I mean didn't they didn't somebody ring the bell or

<v Speaker 1>something during that finish. It was very similar. It was

<v Speaker 1>not exactly the same, but it was very similar. Duffsvid says,

<v Speaker 1>what do you call a cow's knee, a burger joint?

<v Speaker 1>A burger joint? Bass Barris, who is your current female wrestler? Crush?

<v Speaker 1>My current female wrestler crush? Kind of crushed is the

<v Speaker 1>right word from It's Jade. She is a gorgeous woman.

<v Speaker 1>So for me, it is Jade. Cargill want your answer,

<v Speaker 1>there's your answer. Death Side says, I watched Razor and

<v Speaker 1>Martel for the vacant Intercontinental title on Raw and I

<v Speaker 1>wish it was mister Perfect against Randy Savage, and Savage

<v Speaker 1>could have won the title. He could have dropped it

<v Speaker 1>to Raiser on the raw where HBK returns. That's not

<v Speaker 1>how they did things back then, and by that point,

<v Speaker 1>Savage was beyond the intercontinental title anyway. And Horatio Alger

<v Speaker 1>who to solo Monster Leave Jr. Or Divon? Well, I

<v Speaker 1>don't believe Devon is lying, so hopefully that answers your question.

<v Speaker 1>I don't believe Devon is a liar. Ace Ataliano says,

<v Speaker 1>mine is Eo. Sky Punch says mine is Zelina Vega. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>that works, that's cool, that's cool. Yeah. Now for me,

<v Speaker 1>it's Jade you got Bianca on that list. Of course Stephanie.

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie has to be on there as well, and Rhea.

<v Speaker 1>But Bianca and jad are right there at the top. Hmm.

<v Speaker 1>The Mount Vernon Kid. Once again, bron Breaker throws a

<v Speaker 1>temper tantrum for losing in the words, the old man

<v Speaker 1>should should angry with his Yeah, this is completely botched,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm gonna try to read this. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>this guy fucked in translation. Here, once again, bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>throws a temper tantrum for lossing to in his words,

<v Speaker 1>the old man should angry with his own crew. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>all right, I think I get what you're trying to say, though.

<v Speaker 1>H link Master says, calf crusher has always seemed incredibly painful.

<v Speaker 1>Oh it is. It is very painful, But so was

<v Speaker 1>the figure four. Like if you apply a figure four

<v Speaker 1>leg lock. I've had that applied to me when I

<v Speaker 1>was younger. It is very painful. It's like bone on bone. Marshall,

<v Speaker 1>do you like bagels? I do. I don't eat them

<v Speaker 1>much anymore, A lot of carbs and I can't have

<v Speaker 1>like cream cheese on it, so it's like I'm toasting

<v Speaker 1>them and I could put some jelly on them, but

<v Speaker 1>otherwise I'm just eating them plain. It's like, you don't

<v Speaker 1>want to be having bagels every day, but I do

<v Speaker 1>like bagels. And Bobby means this year's Women's Rumble is

<v Speaker 1>going to be unpredictable with all the questions and uncertainties,

<v Speaker 1>but the chamber is more uncertain. Uncertainty is a good thing.

<v Speaker 1>Not everything needs to be so predictable, So I like

<v Speaker 1>the uncertainty and death side buy or sell on which

<v Speaker 1>match should have made evented a pay per view the

<v Speaker 1>most Brett Owen SummerSlam ninety four or Rock Hogan at

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania x eight rock Hogan, I mean they both should

<v Speaker 1>have made invented, but rock Hogan. Like, in terms of attractions,

<v Speaker 1>outside of doing Hogan Austin, there was no bigger at

<v Speaker 1>the time attraction that you could have done, and nothing

<v Speaker 1>was going to be able to follow that match. Plus

<v Speaker 1>it's Hogan's first time in the SkyDome in so many

<v Speaker 1>years since the match Warrior, and just everything like how

<v Speaker 1>do you not close with that match? But it's this

<v Speaker 1>idea that the title has to close. Of course, they

<v Speaker 1>didn't feel the same way about SummerSlam, where the title

<v Speaker 1>did not close, but Triple H was like, uh, the

<v Speaker 1>title needs to close. Uh for the game. Uh, I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna win anyway. Thank me, uh, thank me, thank you,

<v Speaker 1>thank me too. Thank you. Death Sith Sidra type it

<v Speaker 1>out in the chat. I don't know why it's not

<v Speaker 1>showing what a pain in the ass this thing is.

<v Speaker 1>It does it doesn't want to show me. It has

<v Speaker 1>turned against me. Oh wait, you can copy and paste

<v Speaker 1>it into the chat. Hey Marshall, are you a Coke

<v Speaker 1>zero sugar or a diet coke guy? Yeah? Anything anything,

<v Speaker 1>any of that stuff. Diet tastes like absolute shit, So

<v Speaker 1>I'm not a diet coke fan, a diet pepsi fan.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not a diet anything fan. And Coke zero sugar

<v Speaker 1>also sounds just awful, so I'm not a fan of

<v Speaker 1>either one of those, don't. I don't drink a lot

<v Speaker 1>of soda. I mean, if I'm mixing it in with

<v Speaker 1>some whiskey, or if I'm it's someone's house and they're

<v Speaker 1>serving soda, fine, but like I don't go out of

<v Speaker 1>my way to drink it anymore. The Mount Vernon kid

<v Speaker 1>theory feels more irrelevant now. Should have kept the mask

<v Speaker 1>on helll You know what, as soon as he took

<v Speaker 1>the mask off, You're right, he basically became irrelevant. You're

<v Speaker 1>not wrong about that. Cidro said, condoms don't guarantee safe sex.

<v Speaker 1>A friend of mine was wearing one when he was

<v Speaker 1>shot by the woman's husband. PS. Hope you are well, solo,

<v Speaker 1>much love. You know, there's a lesson in that. Nothing

<v Speaker 1>that I can relate to, but there is a lesson

<v Speaker 1>in that. Thank you, Sidra, Hey, Oscar, what's going on.

<v Speaker 1>I'm having a great night. I hope you are too.

<v Speaker 1>Duff's VIDs what soda do blind people hate? Pepsi? Pepsi?

<v Speaker 1>Oh stupid? What do you call a selfie by an orphan?

<v Speaker 1>A family portrait? Oh my god? And how do you

<v Speaker 1>surprise a blind person in the bathroom? Leave the plunger

<v Speaker 1>up in the toilets. And that's three deplorable superchats right there,

<v Speaker 1>all in a row. By Duff's VIDs, they just seem

<v Speaker 1>to get progressively worse and link Master Drew needs his

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania moment. He has to retain at Wrestlemy brother, I

<v Speaker 1>don't think he's walking into WrestleMania as the champion. I

<v Speaker 1>think You're gonna be very disappointed. He can get his

<v Speaker 1>wrestlemann in a moment, it's just not gonna be with

<v Speaker 1>the belt, all right. So again, gonna be busy week.

<v Speaker 1>We got TNT tomorrow night and then Wednesday night back

<v Speaker 1>here for the Dynamite post show. It is maximum carnage.

<v Speaker 1>So MJF is gonna be defending the aw World Championship

<v Speaker 1>against Bendido Gee. I wonder who's gonna win that match.

<v Speaker 1>Thursday night, I'll probably be live here after eleven o'clock

<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about the debut episode of TNA on amc

<v Speaker 1>aj Styles fresh off his loss to gun Through is

<v Speaker 1>gonna be in Texas on Impact this Thursday doing what

<v Speaker 1>we don't know. But Mike Santana will also be getting

<v Speaker 1>his return match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against

<v Speaker 1>Frankie Kazarian, and who knows, who knows what other surprises

<v Speaker 1>there may be. And then Friday night will be the

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown post show, probably around eight thirty or nine three

<v Speaker 1>o'clock Easter and I'll hop on my VPN and watch

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown from Manchester and we'll go live a little bit

<v Speaker 1>earlier than usual. So I can get you out of

<v Speaker 1>here a little earlier than usual on Friday nights and

<v Speaker 1>then I can relax. Oh no, I can't because I

<v Speaker 1>have to prepare for the podcast on Sunday. So it's

<v Speaker 1>always something around the corner. But anyway, be well, stay safe.

<v Speaker 1>I appreciate all of the support. We will try to

<v Speaker 1>hit that four hundred likes and do be the booker

<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday. We're gonna have to wait. We're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>to wait and see ANDIM try again on Wednesday, but

<v Speaker 1>come on back and we'll do it all over again.

<v Speaker 1>Until then, take care, guys,