<v Speaker 1>Oh r, and you happy that we are not getting

<v Speaker 1>the match that was rumored that we all thought that

<v Speaker 1>there was a very real possibility, even just a little

<v Speaker 1>while ago, that we may be heading towards Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>and Cody Rhodes Part three at WrestleMania this year. And

<v Speaker 1>it did not take very long after Roman Reigns won

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble on Saturday to find out which championship

<v Speaker 1>he would be challenging for in Las Vegas or WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>of forty two. And it will not be the WWE title.

<v Speaker 1>So regardless of whether or not Cody Roads wins the

<v Speaker 1>Belt back between now and then, which you probably won't,

<v Speaker 1>we do not have to worry that we are gonna

<v Speaker 1>get Roman Cody three at WrestleMania here for the third

<v Speaker 1>time in four years. We're not getting it, and that

<v Speaker 1>is a good thing. Roman Reigns and Live Morgan, we're

<v Speaker 1>your Royal Rumble winners this year. They were both on

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight and we didn't get a decision one

<v Speaker 1>way or the other as far as Live Morgan what

<v Speaker 1>her plans are, although we got a hint. I think

<v Speaker 1>we all know which championship she's gonna be challenging for

<v Speaker 1>We had Roman Reigns in decline closing segment on what

<v Speaker 1>I thought was an otherwise very dull show, and he

<v Speaker 1>comes out in the last fifteen minutes of this show.

<v Speaker 1>He and CM Punk were able to single handedly turn

<v Speaker 1>the ship around here and give us what we did

<v Speaker 1>not have for the rest of the night, which was

<v Speaker 1>a truly memorable segment that sold me on their match

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. We are getting the Zebros at WrestleMania this

<v Speaker 1>year will be Roman Ranged challenging for a championship that

<v Speaker 1>at one time, he said, was nowhere near the level

<v Speaker 1>of the WWE title. It was little brother compared to

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Championship. And he also made the comment that

<v Speaker 1>if you wanted to add value to the championship, the

<v Speaker 1>way that you go about doing that is you have

<v Speaker 1>me challenged for it. Now he's going to have the

<v Speaker 1>opportunity to because he is going to be challenging CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk for the Big Gold Belt to wrestle Mania this year.

<v Speaker 1>And as far as Roman Reigns winning the Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>I made my thoughts very clear on that whole show

<v Speaker 1>the other night, and Roman Reigns winning the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>from the perspective of someone who is part time at best.

<v Speaker 1>These days, we don't get to see Roman Reigns very often.

<v Speaker 1>To have Roman Reigns go in there and win the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble and claim what will be a record eleventh

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania main event, He's going to break his own record

<v Speaker 1>this year in terms of WrestleMania main events. It just

<v Speaker 1>felt to me like, is this a situation that we

<v Speaker 1>want to find ourselves in where we have someone going

<v Speaker 1>into the WrestleMania main event and we can't even count

<v Speaker 1>on the fact that we're going to have him on

<v Speaker 1>television in the lead up to WrestleMania. You look back

<v Speaker 1>to last year with John Cena, we kind of had

<v Speaker 1>the same problem where Sena had a certain number of dates,

<v Speaker 1>so he made some appearances, but he wasn't around as

<v Speaker 1>much as you would like, especially in the aftermath of

<v Speaker 1>the heel turn, and it can really have a sour

<v Speaker 1>effect on the build up and on the promotion of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what the future looks like over these

<v Speaker 1>next couple of months with Roman Reigns. I don't expect

<v Speaker 1>him on TV every week, but how often are we

<v Speaker 1>going to have him on the show between now in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of April. I don't know, that's my fear.

<v Speaker 1>Tonight was a home run. But what are the next

<v Speaker 1>two months looked like? Right? That remains to be seen.

<v Speaker 1>This is not the first time that Roman reigns and

<v Speaker 1>see them Punk are going to find themselves in the

<v Speaker 1>ring together of WrestleMania. It was just last year they

<v Speaker 1>were in the Night one main event together, but there

<v Speaker 1>was Seth Rollins who was also thrown in there, and

<v Speaker 1>Seth Rollins was the one who actually walked away the

<v Speaker 1>winner in that match. So Punk and Roman, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>forget their pass from many years ago in the Shield days.

<v Speaker 1>Neither man can claim to have a real victory over

<v Speaker 1>the other here. So at least this year it does

<v Speaker 1>feel fresh because one on one, it's just a totally

<v Speaker 1>different dynamic. The focus can be on the two of them.

<v Speaker 1>The focus last year was on Haman. Where does his

<v Speaker 1>allegiance lie? Right? Everyone was vying for the heart of

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hayman. That was the story going into WrestleMania this year.

<v Speaker 1>The story this year has nothing to do with Paul Haman.

<v Speaker 1>The story is very much about the two men who

<v Speaker 1>are wrestling for the title and the history that the

<v Speaker 1>two of them have together, and that was at the

<v Speaker 1>heart of the promo that closed Monday Night Robed Tonight.

<v Speaker 1>It was, in my opinion, the greatest promo of Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reign's career, and it just so happened that he was

<v Speaker 1>in the ring with somebody who is still very much

<v Speaker 1>one of the best promos in all of wrestling. And

<v Speaker 1>you could talk about Punk's and ring work, and he's

<v Speaker 1>older and he's slower, and all of that is true,

<v Speaker 1>but Punk, you know, one thing that still works is

<v Speaker 1>the guy's mouth when he's got a microphone in the ring. Right.

<v Speaker 1>He's still one of the best promos in wrestling. So

<v Speaker 1>when you're in there with him, you need to be

<v Speaker 1>on your a game. And we've seen some great promo

<v Speaker 1>stuff from Punk, we Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins, but

<v Speaker 1>we just haven't heard a lot from Roman Reigns. He

<v Speaker 1>needed to be in the ring with someone like Cmpunk

<v Speaker 1>to help up his game, to have somebody to play

<v Speaker 1>off of, and there's a lot of history there for

<v Speaker 1>the two of them to play off of. And we

<v Speaker 1>heard that and saw that in the closing segment here

<v Speaker 1>and in one promo here we heard them talk about

<v Speaker 1>their history, going back to the Shield days, and Punk

<v Speaker 1>talking about how I brought you in here when you

<v Speaker 1>were part of the Shield. I love going back in

<v Speaker 1>time and talking about how all of this came together,

<v Speaker 1>tying all of this history together. And then you got

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns turning around and putting it back on him

<v Speaker 1>and saying, you leaving ten, eleven, twelve years ago, whatever

<v Speaker 1>it was, I guess twelve years ago now at this point,

<v Speaker 1>that made my life so much harder than it needed

<v Speaker 1>to be. He actually made life very hard for a

<v Speaker 1>lot of people who had to go out there a

<v Speaker 1>week after a week and contend with chance of CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk during their promos and during their matches for many years.

<v Speaker 1>And Roman was the poster child of that, because Roman

<v Speaker 1>was the chosen one, and Roman was the one who

<v Speaker 1>was being shoved down people's throat votes, and there was

<v Speaker 1>an all out rebellion by a certain segment of the

<v Speaker 1>audience who just didn't want it. They rejected it, and

<v Speaker 1>they rejected it in part because he wasn't CM Punk,

<v Speaker 1>because he wasn't Daniel Brian. Right. We can go back

<v Speaker 1>in the history, you know, in the history Bank and

<v Speaker 1>talk all about that. So I like the fact that

<v Speaker 1>they were drawing off a lot of their history here

<v Speaker 1>and the intensity that we saw, in particular from Roman Reigns,

<v Speaker 1>because Punk was doing his thing out there when things

<v Speaker 1>got started, but it was when Roman had the opportunity

<v Speaker 1>to respond and throw it right back in his face.

<v Speaker 1>You could see where it's sort of built, it built,

<v Speaker 1>until finally he was able to just go all out

<v Speaker 1>at Punk. And Punk did fine. I mean, Punk was

<v Speaker 1>great here, but the real highlight of this segment was

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns, who made it very clear I don't like you.

<v Speaker 1>I hate you, and you talk about, you know, following

<v Speaker 1>in my footsteps. He's talking about the fact that you know,

<v Speaker 1>you come back after all these years and you my

<v Speaker 1>wise men, and you try to brainwash my family and

<v Speaker 1>you almost had me brainwashed. And there's just an intensity

<v Speaker 1>in his voice that we have not seen in a

<v Speaker 1>very long time, where he was getting viscerally angry. And

<v Speaker 1>they worked the Pat McAfee interview the other day into

<v Speaker 1>the promo. Now, I said, when I talked about Roman's

<v Speaker 1>comments the other day from that interview, I said, you know,

<v Speaker 1>sounded like he was mostly you know, in character but

<v Speaker 1>there were still some things that he said in that

<v Speaker 1>promo that I think were valid in terms of WWE creative.

<v Speaker 1>There was definitely some truth laced into that little promo

<v Speaker 1>that he cut there, but clearly it was designed as

<v Speaker 1>storylined and something that they were going to bring up

<v Speaker 1>here on this show, especially when Punk brought up the

<v Speaker 1>fact that Roman was talking about, you know, you talk

<v Speaker 1>about the roster needs to step up, you take your

<v Speaker 1>quarterly vacations. I'm being very magnanimous, I'm stepping away. I'm

<v Speaker 1>giving people a chance to step up, and that all

<v Speaker 1>came into play in the promo here tonight. Again, it's

<v Speaker 1>no surprise that Roman would go out there and be

<v Speaker 1>able to cut the best promo that I have ever

<v Speaker 1>heard him cut when he was face to face with Cempunk,

<v Speaker 1>who tends to bring the best that of people when

<v Speaker 1>they are going at it on the microphone, and we

<v Speaker 1>saw that in the feud we Drew McIntyre. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it was the perfect foil. That's a big part of

<v Speaker 1>what made that whole feud so great that in the

<v Speaker 1>social media stuff that Drew was doing right, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it was just on point. But it's been a while

<v Speaker 1>since Punk has really had someone like this, someone great

<v Speaker 1>like this to spar with. I would love to have

<v Speaker 1>more of this on the road to WrestleMania. I would

<v Speaker 1>love to have at least a couple more segments like

<v Speaker 1>this between now in mid April, and I really hope

<v Speaker 1>that this is not the best that we're going to

<v Speaker 1>get before we get to Las Vegas. And if we

<v Speaker 1>can get more of this sort of thing, and if

<v Speaker 1>we can get more compelling segments like this, then you

<v Speaker 1>know what, it'll be worth it. But it's still a

<v Speaker 1>fear of mine that we don't know how much of

<v Speaker 1>Roman reigns we are going to see. Now there's another

<v Speaker 1>question here that comes along with this. Now that we

<v Speaker 1>know what the wrestle A main event is going to be,

<v Speaker 1>there are people who will look at last year and go, well,

<v Speaker 1>you know, see, I'm punk got the headline his first WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>but that's not really the WrestleMania Maine event. It's Night

<v Speaker 1>one and that doesn't count. Now, I think that's bullshit,

<v Speaker 1>but there are a lot of people who feel that way.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think you're gonna need to worry about that

<v Speaker 1>this year, because not yet knowing what the Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>match is going to be for the other belt. Seem

<v Speaker 1>pretty clear to me watching this show here tonight what

<v Speaker 1>the nighte two main event of WrestleMania is going to be.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that there is a match they can

<v Speaker 1>do on the SmackDown side that is going to be

<v Speaker 1>able to in terms of the star power that they

<v Speaker 1>have in this match, And then you watch this promo here,

<v Speaker 1>there's no match that I could think of in terms

<v Speaker 1>of Cody and Drew, Cody and Drew and Jacob, Cody

<v Speaker 1>Andrew and Drew and Jacob and Randy. Maybe right it's

<v Speaker 1>going to be some combination of that. God forbid, it's

<v Speaker 1>just another singles match between Cody and Drew because we've

<v Speaker 1>had enough of those. This right here is your Night

<v Speaker 1>two WrestleMania Maine event. So for the first time, I

<v Speaker 1>epect to see the World Heavyweight Championship truly headlining of

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania because that is typically the spot that Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>is in. It wasn't last year, but typically that is

<v Speaker 1>the spot you would expect to find him in any way,

<v Speaker 1>So that is what I expect the Night two match

<v Speaker 1>to be this year. But you know, again, Roman telling

<v Speaker 1>Oshae Jackson Junior on his podcast last year that if

<v Speaker 1>you want to make the world title mean something, you

<v Speaker 1>have me fight for it. You know, if Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>was to go in there and win the World Heavyweight Championship,

<v Speaker 1>which there's certainly a possibility that it could happen, what

<v Speaker 1>does that look like if Roman actually goes in there

<v Speaker 1>and wins the bell. How often are we going to

<v Speaker 1>see Roman Reigns coming out of WrestleMania. Because if Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns goes in there this year and loses at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>that would be three straight WrestleManias that Roman has lost.

<v Speaker 1>Do we really expect to see Roman Reigns losing in

<v Speaker 1>three straight WrestleManias. That's the question. That's why I sit

<v Speaker 1>here and say, you know what, there's there's definitely the

<v Speaker 1>possibility that they could put that championship on him, and

<v Speaker 1>if we got this version of Roman Reigns more often

<v Speaker 1>on TV. This is what I'm talking about. The rest

<v Speaker 1>of this show was largely a bore. It was a

<v Speaker 1>bore until we got to the closing segment and you

<v Speaker 1>see the greatness that is there if you can just

<v Speaker 1>find the right story to pull it out. It's this

<v Speaker 1>sort of thing that these television shows are missing. Now,

<v Speaker 1>you can't do a promo like this every single week,

<v Speaker 1>but this is the sort of thing that this show

<v Speaker 1>is lacking. And that's one of my biggest gripes about

<v Speaker 1>some of these big names that come in and they're

<v Speaker 1>not you know, they're there for two weeks and they

<v Speaker 1>disappear for two months. It just drags the shows down.

<v Speaker 1>You know, there's a reason why they were in the

<v Speaker 1>spot they're in, but when they're not on the show,

<v Speaker 1>but the show is still kind of built around them

<v Speaker 1>and we're watching week to week. I mean, when was

<v Speaker 1>the last time we had a promo segment like this,

<v Speaker 1>Probably going back to the Drew MacIntyre cmpunk stuff and

<v Speaker 1>that was two years ago at this point. Maybe some

<v Speaker 1>of the John Cena stuff last year, but it's few

<v Speaker 1>and far between. So that was another takeaway. When I

<v Speaker 1>was done watching this, I'm like, man, this right here

<v Speaker 1>is the sort of thing that Raw desperately needs more of.

<v Speaker 1>Because I'm watching this promo and as great as it is,

<v Speaker 1>you got the impression watching it, and it's just they

<v Speaker 1>were just very good at what they did, but you

<v Speaker 1>got the impression watching it, like, man, you know, this

<v Speaker 1>guy really doesn't like this guy. You know, it comes

<v Speaker 1>off as like this genuine hate between them, and it

<v Speaker 1>feels like there's some real tension there. That's what this

<v Speaker 1>show is lacking. This show is lacking that feeling of

<v Speaker 1>real tension between the different people on the show. And

<v Speaker 1>we got that in the closing segment outshined everything else

<v Speaker 1>so that we had on this television show. Now, we

<v Speaker 1>had a Women's World Championship street fight. They were in Philadelphia,

<v Speaker 1>and the Philadelphia fans could not be bothered to give

<v Speaker 1>a single solitary shit about most of that match or

<v Speaker 1>really a lot of different things on the show, and

<v Speaker 1>it was not a great match. They had a WWE

<v Speaker 1>style hardcore plunder match. I feel like if you've seen one,

<v Speaker 1>you've seen them all. There were certain moments in the

<v Speaker 1>match that did not exactly go according to plan. Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>is still the World Champion Live Morgan laid her out.

<v Speaker 1>We had that parting shot of her holding up the

<v Speaker 1>world title. She's going to SmackDown on Friday Night to

<v Speaker 1>survey the WWE champion in Jade Cargil. But again, it

<v Speaker 1>seems pretty clear where things are going to land. As

<v Speaker 1>far as the women's world title matcher WrestleMania is concerned.

<v Speaker 1>How Raquel fits into that after losing tonight, that's another thing.

<v Speaker 1>We'll have to see how that plays out. The show

<v Speaker 1>started off in what I thought was a great way.

<v Speaker 1>I actually had high hopes when this show came on

<v Speaker 1>the air tonight because they had this cold open with

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker just going absolutely fucking nuts. After what happened

<v Speaker 1>to the Rumble, I'm like, again, this is the sort

<v Speaker 1>of thing we need to see more of on this show.

<v Speaker 1>You know, they're stepping outside there their comfort zone here

<v Speaker 1>and the way they opened things, and it gave me hope.

<v Speaker 1>And then I saw the rest of the show up

<v Speaker 1>until the closing fifteen minutes and I was like, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>psych they faked me out because what we got again

<v Speaker 1>was very uninspired. But we didn't get any sort of

<v Speaker 1>further clarity on the whole mass man angle from the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. I mean, they're gonna drag that out as

<v Speaker 1>long as they possibly can. Obafemi still has not made

<v Speaker 1>his decision on where he's going to land. The story

<v Speaker 1>is that both general managers are just tripping over themselves

<v Speaker 1>trying to sign him as they should. What they did

<v Speaker 1>with him tonight was very curious. I would be very

<v Speaker 1>worried if I were the people that were in the

<v Speaker 1>ring with him. So we're going to talk about that

<v Speaker 1>and the other things that happen on this show. Not

<v Speaker 1>a whole hell of a lot, but we're going to

<v Speaker 1>talk about it. This is your Raw on Netflix review.

<v Speaker 1>It is the post Royal Rumble edition of Raw. It

<v Speaker 1>is Groundhog Day twenty twenty six. I am the sol Monster. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't even check. I thought I saw that the

<v Speaker 1>groundhog saw his shadow, that furry little fucker. I think

<v Speaker 1>that means six more weeks of winter, just what we need.

<v Speaker 1>But if I'm wrong, let me know. I think he

<v Speaker 1>saw his shadow though, So that's that sucks. Like and

<v Speaker 1>subscribe super chats are open and we have a bonus

<v Speaker 1>goal going on in the chat. Well, let's get into

<v Speaker 1>the beginning of this show here instead of the usual start,

<v Speaker 1>and again, I really like the way they opened the

<v Speaker 1>show instead of the usual open to Raw or going

<v Speaker 1>right into a Royal Rumbull highlights video. The show opens

<v Speaker 1>and there's bron Breaker and he's standing at ringside and

<v Speaker 1>he's walking. He's already at ringside. He's walking towards the

<v Speaker 1>area where the announced desk is and Michael Cole is

<v Speaker 1>on commentary talking about what's going on here, and he

<v Speaker 1>marches over there. He tears up the announced desk. He

<v Speaker 1>threatens Michael Cole, he threatens Corey Graves. Then he overturns

<v Speaker 1>the announced desk. We haven't even gotten to the first

<v Speaker 1>match yet. The announced desk is gone, the flat panels

<v Speaker 1>are on the ground. Everything is on the ground. He

<v Speaker 1>demands a microphone. He didn't demand a microphone as forcefully

<v Speaker 1>as his uncle did when he debuted at the Survivor

<v Speaker 1>series in two thousand and two. If you remember what

<v Speaker 1>Scott Steiner said when he asked for a microphone. Oh man.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, Breaker got into the ring and he starts speaking,

<v Speaker 1>and the other members of the vision, no music or anything.

<v Speaker 1>They're just they're marching down to the ring to try

<v Speaker 1>to calm him down. So they get into the ring

<v Speaker 1>and he calls out Adam Pierce, Paul Hayman in the vision.

<v Speaker 1>They're begging him to calm down. Breaker accuses Pearce of

<v Speaker 1>ruining his Royal Rumble appearance, so he threatened to ruin

<v Speaker 1>night raw. He's going to ruin the whole show if

<v Speaker 1>you missed the Royal Rumble and don't know what this

<v Speaker 1>is in reference to bron Breaker entered at number two

<v Speaker 1>on Saturday. Before he even got to the ring, he

<v Speaker 1>got jumped by a masked man. Triple h loves his

<v Speaker 1>hooded figures, and this individual gave him a curb stomp

<v Speaker 1>on the floor, put him in the ring and then

<v Speaker 1>he was promptly eliminated by Obafemi. Pretty embarrassing. So bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker was the first man eliminated in the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that he spent more than ten seconds

<v Speaker 1>in the ring, so he was very upset about this.

<v Speaker 1>Hayman took the microphone. The vision is trying to talk

<v Speaker 1>Breaker down. Hayman said that this was all Adam Pearce's fault.

<v Speaker 1>Pierce has to approve every visa for this trip to

<v Speaker 1>Saudi Arabia, so he had to know who the mass

<v Speaker 1>man was. And he also accused Pierce again of making

<v Speaker 1>Braun the number two entrance. He blamed him for that.

<v Speaker 1>Breaker grabbed the microphone and he gave Pierce until the

<v Speaker 1>count of three to come out. And he counted one.

<v Speaker 1>He counted two. Adam Pierce then comes out. He's just

<v Speaker 1>guarded by a wall of security standing in front of

<v Speaker 1>him in the aisle, and Pierce reminded them that the

<v Speaker 1>rumble drawing was random. You chose number two, okay, so

<v Speaker 1>you can't blame me for that. It was random. You

<v Speaker 1>picked the number. That's on you. He also brought up

<v Speaker 1>the mass man stuff, and he said, now, the last

<v Speaker 1>time we saw the mask man, it turned out to

<v Speaker 1>be Austin theory. And Breaker turned to theory like he

<v Speaker 1>was wondering, Hey, wait a minute, and you see Bronson

<v Speaker 1>reed just you know, talking to Breaker, going it's not him,

<v Speaker 1>don't worry, it's not him. Pierce said, though, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>give you a gift and I'm gonna let you keep

<v Speaker 1>your job after that piss poor performance at the rumble,

<v Speaker 1>So Breaker snapped. At that point, he scrambled up the aisle.

<v Speaker 1>He actually in getting out of the ring. He was

<v Speaker 1>so intent on getting to Adam Pearce. He actually tripped

<v Speaker 1>getting out of the ring and almost fell flat on

<v Speaker 1>his face, but he got back up to his feet.

<v Speaker 1>He went down the aisle and he was stopped by

<v Speaker 1>Bronson Reid before he could tear through the security. Pierce

<v Speaker 1>at that point disappeared. All of a sudden, we hear

<v Speaker 1>La Knight's music and La Knight he appeared from the

<v Speaker 1>crowd in the ring. He blindsides Austin Theory and Logan

<v Speaker 1>Paul with chair shots. Bronson rechased them off, and a

<v Speaker 1>very upset bron Breaker still in the aisle is looking

<v Speaker 1>at Paul Hayman and going what are we doing here?

<v Speaker 1>What are we doing here? And at that point security

<v Speaker 1>sort of part of the Red Sea and they allowed

<v Speaker 1>Breaker to head to the back without incident, and then

<v Speaker 1>at that point they pitched it to the the Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble Highlights video. So I thought that this was a

<v Speaker 1>great start to the show. I love this cold open.

<v Speaker 1>I love it when they go outside the box in

<v Speaker 1>terms of how they opened these shows. They do something different.

<v Speaker 1>They make it feel like man, something like a very

<v Speaker 1>tense situation. Here. This guy he's gonna snap, There's no

<v Speaker 1>telling what he's gonna do. It kind of reminded me

<v Speaker 1>there were many years ago, if you remember, after Wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Mannie at thirty one, that was where seth Rollins cash

<v Speaker 1>in his money in the bank. Brock Lesner came out

<v Speaker 1>on Raw the very next night, and he was already

<v Speaker 1>in his I remember being in the crowd and when

<v Speaker 1>Brock came out, the pop that he got just for

<v Speaker 1>being in his gear, just the idea that, holy shit,

<v Speaker 1>he's gonna wrestle on Raw. People couldn't believe it. But

<v Speaker 1>he was just so beside himself after what happened the

<v Speaker 1>night before. He was ready to murder somebody. And they

<v Speaker 1>gave us that phony match with him and Rollins that

<v Speaker 1>never really got started, and Rollins ran off and Brock

<v Speaker 1>was just looking for people to kill. Remember he gave

<v Speaker 1>Michael Cole and F five a shoe went flying, he

<v Speaker 1>beat up this planted camera and so it's been a

<v Speaker 1>while since we've had a a segment like that on

<v Speaker 1>the show. Here and Breaker. I thought he was very

<v Speaker 1>you know, menacing out there as he should be, as

<v Speaker 1>he should be. This is exactly the sort of thing

<v Speaker 1>I wanted to see them do with him coming out

<v Speaker 1>of the rumble, because why wouldn't he be embarrassed. He

<v Speaker 1>should be ready to murder Adam Pierce or whoever the

<v Speaker 1>mass man is. Again we still don't know, So I

<v Speaker 1>thought they handled this very well here. Again, we didn't

<v Speaker 1>get any more clarity on who the mass man is.

<v Speaker 1>That'll come in due time. They're gonna milk that for

<v Speaker 1>a little while longer. I also love how Adam Piers

<v Speaker 1>could not have possibly given less of a shit about

<v Speaker 1>how upset bron Breaker was and just mouthing off to

<v Speaker 1>him like a wise ass. He's got some brass balls,

<v Speaker 1>you know, when the GM has some balls and stands

<v Speaker 1>up to these guys. I liked that, you know, I

<v Speaker 1>like that. I think that's great. I think Adam Pierce

<v Speaker 1>is actually great in this role. He's already been doing

<v Speaker 1>this for what five years. I think he's been in

<v Speaker 1>this role going back to the thunderdel era, and even

<v Speaker 1>I think before that he's been the raw I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if they were calling him the GM at that point,

<v Speaker 1>but he's basically been the raw GM, probably longer than

<v Speaker 1>anybody else has been. Right, We've had a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>people in this role. I don't know that any of

<v Speaker 1>them have been in that position longer than Adam Pierce.

<v Speaker 1>So he certainly has an argument for being the best

<v Speaker 1>GM they've ever had here on this show. I used

<v Speaker 1>to say it was Eric Bischoff, but even Bischoff was

<v Speaker 1>only in that role for what three years before Vince

<v Speaker 1>put him in the back of the garbage truck and

<v Speaker 1>off he went. So I thought Pierce actually here was great.

<v Speaker 1>I would say that he's got a beating coming, but

<v Speaker 1>that would require them to then at least suspend him,

<v Speaker 1>and we already got the angle where he was suspended,

<v Speaker 1>so I don't really see the point in doing that again.

<v Speaker 1>But it just feels like they're building to some sort

<v Speaker 1>of confrontation between him and Adam Pierce, and I don't

<v Speaker 1>think it's a match, So I'm not sure what else

<v Speaker 1>short of him killing him. I'm not really sure what

<v Speaker 1>else can be done here. But I just loved how

<v Speaker 1>sarcastic he was. So he had Javon Evans. He was

<v Speaker 1>out there for the opening match against El Grande Americano.

<v Speaker 1>This was the match if you remember, that was stopped

<v Speaker 1>two weeks ago when it looked like Evans might have

<v Speaker 1>been injured, which thankfully he wasn't. Evans had a rap

<v Speaker 1>on his right elbow, he had some kinisio tape on

<v Speaker 1>the back of his neck, he was holding his ribs,

<v Speaker 1>and he was like the walking wounded out there, but

<v Speaker 1>he didn't wrestle like it. He was wrestling like nothing

<v Speaker 1>was wrong, but you would think that he had various injuries.

<v Speaker 1>He was the Iron Man and the Men's Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>this year, which was forty one minutes, which I mean

<v Speaker 1>it's you know, it's a decent amount of time. Usually

<v Speaker 1>when you think of these Ironman records, you know it's

<v Speaker 1>closer to an hour. Charlotte Charlotte, Actually she didn't. She

<v Speaker 1>won the Rumble last year. Charlotte was probably in the

<v Speaker 1>women's Rumble for about an hour. Roxan Perez was in

<v Speaker 1>the final two last year she was in there for

<v Speaker 1>like sixty seven minutes. So forty one minutes was the

<v Speaker 1>longest in the men's rumble this year. That belonged to

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans. There was a quarkscrew kick at one point

<v Speaker 1>here to Americano's spine as he was down on all

<v Speaker 1>fours and he just came down on him with this kick.

<v Speaker 1>So the red dot connected, which is that rebound kick

<v Speaker 1>that he does off the ropes. Later on, it looked

<v Speaker 1>like he was going coast to coast, and I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I guess he did. He did a swanton from one

<v Speaker 1>corner to the other in his foot caught Kaiser in

<v Speaker 1>the head on the way down, and with Kaiser down,

<v Speaker 1>Evans went to the top when Ryo Americano he got

<v Speaker 1>up on the apron to distract a referee, Chad Patten,

<v Speaker 1>which allowed Bravo to crotch Evans and then he fell

<v Speaker 1>down into the ring. Ryo then slipped the metal plate

<v Speaker 1>to Kaiser and as this was going on, we hear

<v Speaker 1>the og El Grande Americanos music as we did during

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble on Saturday, and outwalks Gable Americano, who

<v Speaker 1>again is sporting a goatee or a beard you could

<v Speaker 1>see under the mask. This was his raw return for

<v Speaker 1>the first time in many months, and all he did

<v Speaker 1>was come out and he posed and you know, he

<v Speaker 1>put his fingers in the air, thank you, and he's

<v Speaker 1>standing on stage and this of course distracts the other Americanos,

<v Speaker 1>and the referee during all of this sees the metal plate,

<v Speaker 1>so he confiscates it. That allows Evans to come off

<v Speaker 1>the top, way off the top, and he catches Kaiser

<v Speaker 1>Americano coming down with a cutter, the og cutter for

<v Speaker 1>the wind. Nothing happened after the match, I mean the

<v Speaker 1>three Three Amigos, the three Americanos in the ring, they

<v Speaker 1>just made mean faces under their masks and they pointed

<v Speaker 1>at Gable Americano in the aisle. There were some aw

<v Speaker 1>word periods of silence during this match, which was kind

<v Speaker 1>of strange. It almost felt like Cole and Graves thought

<v Speaker 1>they were going to a commercial break and then they didn't.

<v Speaker 1>But to be fair, I mean, I don't know that

<v Speaker 1>they had yet reconstructed the announced desk. I don't think

<v Speaker 1>they had their desk and their monitors back yet, so

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure that probably had something to do with it.

<v Speaker 1>As far as where this goes, First of all, let

<v Speaker 1>me just say finally, good to have Chad Gable back,

<v Speaker 1>and this guy is fucking ripped him. He is just

<v Speaker 1>ripped to shreds. Obviously we're going to get a mask

<v Speaker 1>versus mask match. I mean, that has to be where

<v Speaker 1>this is ultimately leading. Now. The only thing is Kaiser

<v Speaker 1>is super over as a babyface doing this gimmick in Mexico.

<v Speaker 1>Whenever he shows up in Triple A, I cannot imagine

<v Speaker 1>that they're going to want to take that mask off

<v Speaker 1>of him many time soon. So the earliest we get

<v Speaker 1>this match this should be a WrestleMania match. But if

<v Speaker 1>we get that match of WrestleMania, I would think that

<v Speaker 1>probably Kaiser is going to win, because again, he's just

<v Speaker 1>so over. I wouldn't think that they're ready to abandon

<v Speaker 1>the gimmick just yet. And there's another reason also to

<v Speaker 1>not abandon the gimmick for him, which is that Chad

<v Speaker 1>Gable does not need to be El Grande Americano anymore.

<v Speaker 1>You know, it was like, haha, it was kind of

<v Speaker 1>cute at first, and now it's gone on for so long.

<v Speaker 1>I know, he just came back. Let Chad Gable be

<v Speaker 1>Chad Gable, do this stuff until get to WrestleMania. Let

<v Speaker 1>him get the WrestleMania match out of it. You could

<v Speaker 1>do mask versus mask. I think if you do it,

<v Speaker 1>Gable should be the one who gets unmasked. That way,

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser can keep doing his thing in Triple A and

<v Speaker 1>Chad Gable can move on to something else and let

<v Speaker 1>the man be himself because this is beneath him at

<v Speaker 1>this point. So tie up this loose end, finish out

<v Speaker 1>this story, get that mask off of him. Let Kaiser

<v Speaker 1>run with it because he took the ball with this

<v Speaker 1>thing and he ran with it, so let him keep

<v Speaker 1>doing it and get gable the hell out of that mask.

<v Speaker 1>Hopefully that's the same eye that they have in their

<v Speaker 1>head now. After a commercial break, this was great. They

<v Speaker 1>played AJ Styles music and I'm like, oh, he wasn't

<v Speaker 1>advertised for the show, but this makes sense. If he

<v Speaker 1>is retired, we should hear from him. We got no speech,

<v Speaker 1>we got no prombo. We have not heard a word

<v Speaker 1>from Aj Styles since the Royal Rumble when he lost

<v Speaker 1>to Gunther. So they play his music and it's not

<v Speaker 1>AJ Styles, it is Gunther. The only thing I wished

<v Speaker 1>about what they did here is that Gunther would have

<v Speaker 1>had special gloves made like with his logo on them

<v Speaker 1>to do the thing that aj does with his hands.

<v Speaker 1>That's the only thing that would have made this better.

<v Speaker 1>But he walks out and he does the AJ pos

<v Speaker 1>and he's just got this huge shit eating grin on

<v Speaker 1>his face. It was fucking great. He just he trolled

<v Speaker 1>the shit out of these people and then they transitioned

<v Speaker 1>into his themes. So he got more heat for this

<v Speaker 1>than he did for tapping out John Cena. Okay, he

<v Speaker 1>got a good amount of heat for this. And also

<v Speaker 1>now when he comes out. They have the words career

<v Speaker 1>Killer on the side screens next to the entrance way,

<v Speaker 1>and of course that's what they trademarked last week or

<v Speaker 1>the week before. That's what he's calling himself now, the

<v Speaker 1>career Killer. Every time he would try to speak, they

<v Speaker 1>would drown him out with booze. Just like Bill Goldberg,

<v Speaker 1>he said, just like John Cena, AJ Styles found out

<v Speaker 1>that when you step into the ring with the career Killer,

<v Speaker 1>your career and your legacy dies. He started speaking Austrian.

<v Speaker 1>I guess as a dragon Le ran out to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>No music, They just cut to the isle and you

<v Speaker 1>see Dragon Lee is running down in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>this promo and he attacks Gunther and he knocks gun

<v Speaker 1>Thro out of the ring, and then he catches him

<v Speaker 1>with his wild old suicide dive and then a hurt

<v Speaker 1>conrada off the barricade that sent guntherer careening into the

<v Speaker 1>ring post. Then he sent gun Through over the barricade

<v Speaker 1>into the timekeeper's area. So now Dragon Lee, who of

<v Speaker 1>course was Tag Team Champions with AJ Styles, so he's

<v Speaker 1>very upset that gun Through is out here, you know,

<v Speaker 1>gloating about this. He backs up and he's getting ready

<v Speaker 1>to charge in towards the barricade. As he comes charging in,

<v Speaker 1>Gunther pops up from behind the barricade and smashes him

<v Speaker 1>in the head with the ring bell. So then after

<v Speaker 1>that he locks on a sleeper hold on Dragonle on

<v Speaker 1>the ground. Referees and producers they run out to try

<v Speaker 1>to pry him off. They did get him off. They

<v Speaker 1>got gun through into the ring and then guntherer reaches

<v Speaker 1>out through the ropes, grabs a hold of Dragonly, brings

<v Speaker 1>him up on the apron, and reapplies the sleeper hold

<v Speaker 1>until his legs just they just I mean, they just

<v Speaker 1>go go limp, and he is just dangling there. And

<v Speaker 1>then he lets go and Dragon Lee he goes splat

<v Speaker 1>on the ground outside like a dead body. And then

<v Speaker 1>Gunther puts his jacket back on and he proceeds to

<v Speaker 1>walk to the back. Although he did not have the

<v Speaker 1>smile on his face that he had when he initially

<v Speaker 1>came out here. Shit got Sirius real quick. He wasn't

<v Speaker 1>laughing anymore. But he looked like a killer out there,

<v Speaker 1>which is good because he should. That's how he should look.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, Gunther is great when he's trolling and he's again,

<v Speaker 1>he's just such a great scumbag. You know, he's just

<v Speaker 1>he has that look to him, and when he's smirking

<v Speaker 1>and smiling, he's got that face you just want to

<v Speaker 1>punch him in the face. But there are times where

<v Speaker 1>you know he should get serious, and this is exactly

<v Speaker 1>how he should be portrayed. He should be portrayed as

<v Speaker 1>a killer. So I like what they did here. I

<v Speaker 1>assume we're going to get a match out of this

<v Speaker 1>on TV in the next couple of weeks. I'll tell

<v Speaker 1>you what I was surprised by, and I and we'd

<v Speaker 1>better get something. No speech or promo or follow up

<v Speaker 1>or anything from AJ Styles. We still don't know what

<v Speaker 1>the future holds for AJ Styles. There's a lot of

<v Speaker 1>different explanations for us not hearing from him. If his

<v Speaker 1>contract was up and he truly is done with WWE,

<v Speaker 1>there is still the possibility that we will see him

<v Speaker 1>pop up somewhere else and wrestle more matches. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know that I am as confident about that now as

<v Speaker 1>maybe I was a few days ago. A lot of

<v Speaker 1>people are saying he's really done. He got people in

<v Speaker 1>WWE who were there with him in Saudi Arabia, saying, oh,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I talked to him and I take him

<v Speaker 1>at his word. Triple H said it. No, he's done.

<v Speaker 1>He's done with the Ian Ring. I think he just

<v Speaker 1>wanted to be done. We thought we would have him

<v Speaker 1>for longer. But he's done. Maybe he is, but especially

<v Speaker 1>if that's the case, because if it's not the case,

<v Speaker 1>then he's leaving and going somewhere else. And I totally

<v Speaker 1>understand it, and we may not see him on TV again.

<v Speaker 1>But if he's done, we got to hear from him,

<v Speaker 1>Like at some point, you got to send him out

<v Speaker 1>there and let him address the audience one last time.

<v Speaker 1>Let him get that sendo, let him give that closure. Right.

<v Speaker 1>We have to hear from him. I thought it might

<v Speaker 1>happen tonight. He was not on the show. So if

<v Speaker 1>he is not going to continue his career elsewhere, then

<v Speaker 1>I do hope we get that segment very soon. They

<v Speaker 1>replayed the angle from a few months ago where the

<v Speaker 1>vision beat up La Night and he got a tsunami

<v Speaker 1>splash on top of the car. We come back live

<v Speaker 1>in the back, Paul Hayman tells Adam Pearce, you're gonna

<v Speaker 1>book a match tonight bron Breaker against La Knight. Pierce said,

<v Speaker 1>can't do it, Jim, and says, why not, because because

<v Speaker 1>he just walked La Knight out of the building. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>you can't. I can't have people disrupting my show. So

<v Speaker 1>he's not here anymore. He told Hayman, if you know

<v Speaker 1>what's good for bron Breaker, you'll do the same, and

<v Speaker 1>you'll scored him out of the building. And he goes, also,

<v Speaker 1>let Bronson read know that he should go get ready

<v Speaker 1>because he's got a match with Penta. Hayman asked him

<v Speaker 1>if he had a clue as to whom you are

<v Speaker 1>speaking to and in what city you are speaking to

<v Speaker 1>him in. Of course, the city they were in tonight

<v Speaker 1>is a city that Paul Hayman will forever be associated with,

<v Speaker 1>the city of brotherly love, the city that booeds Santa

<v Speaker 1>Claus once upon a time. And Pierce told him fafo,

<v Speaker 1>which the significance of that is that's the same line

<v Speaker 1>that Hayman used on him. I think it was on

<v Speaker 1>the pre show on Saturday. So Pierce threw it right

<v Speaker 1>back in his face. Pierce, Adam Pierce has had enough

<v Speaker 1>of the Vision's shit. That is one of the big

<v Speaker 1>takeaways of this show tonight, he has had it with

<v Speaker 1>the Vision shit. And it's a little awkward because if

<v Speaker 1>you think back to last week when he invited bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker back to the show from his suspension and he

<v Speaker 1>reinstated him, I figured he would reinstate him and then say, hey,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, you're going to be number one right

<v Speaker 1>in the Rumble. He reinstated him, he was very nice

<v Speaker 1>to him and Hayman and all the members of the Vision,

<v Speaker 1>you're all going to be in the Royal Rumble. And

<v Speaker 1>there was no shoe that dropped, there was no like, oh,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, and it was like, huh does this

<v Speaker 1>have to do with that mysterious phone call that he got,

<v Speaker 1>you know, says he's gotten to and he was just

<v Speaker 1>being very nice to the Vision. There was never any

<v Speaker 1>real follow up to it, and then this week it's

<v Speaker 1>the complete opposite where he doesn't have a care in

<v Speaker 1>the world. He's like, you're lucky I don't fire you

<v Speaker 1>for embarrassing yourself with the Rumble and being eliminated. Now

<v Speaker 1>you can leave the building FAFO. It's the big change

<v Speaker 1>in the demeanor for Adam Pierce from one week to

<v Speaker 1>the next. But I mean, I like the story they're

<v Speaker 1>telling with him. I think he's very good in the role.

<v Speaker 1>And as far as the vision goes, the most interesting

<v Speaker 1>part about the vision right now is actually the Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce bron Breaker stuff. I want to see where it goes.

<v Speaker 1>After the break, Breaker was freaking out backstage as Hayman

<v Speaker 1>tried to calm him down, and he said no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>I don't care, I don't care, and Breaker he exited.

<v Speaker 1>I presumed he exited the arena, which I guess he

<v Speaker 1>did because we didn't see him again for the rest

<v Speaker 1>of the show. As far as the mass Man stuff,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know where it's going to lead. My guess is,

<v Speaker 1>first of all, it was not Seth Rollins in Saudi Arabia.

<v Speaker 1>Whoever played the role in Saudi. It almost doesn't even

<v Speaker 1>matter because it's going to be it could potentially be

<v Speaker 1>someone completely different when we get the reveal. It literally

<v Speaker 1>could be anybody, anybody, although that person would have to

<v Speaker 1>have facial hair because the man from Saturday had facial hair.

<v Speaker 1>I joked on the stream the other night during the

<v Speaker 1>Rumble review, I'm like, watch it be Logan Paul, because

<v Speaker 1>Logan Paul last week was very deferential towards the bron Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>He was the one who stood up in that backstage

<v Speaker 1>segment and said, you know who I think should win

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble, bron Breaker, so like they were all

<v Speaker 1>in solidarity that like, we're not gonna win, we think

<v Speaker 1>bron should win, which is like the opposite of what

<v Speaker 1>you would expect someone like Logan Paul to say. So

<v Speaker 1>if it ended up being him, I actually wouldn't be

<v Speaker 1>terribly so I only threw it out there like half joking.

<v Speaker 1>But who knows. It could end up being him. It

<v Speaker 1>could end up being Seth Rollins, and they're just gonna

<v Speaker 1>drag it out until Seth is medically cleared. It could

<v Speaker 1>very well be Seth, and we don't get the reveal

<v Speaker 1>for another, you know, month and a half. Who knows.

<v Speaker 1>It's kind of pointless to to speculate on it because

<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if they I don't even know

<v Speaker 1>if they have settled necessarily on who they want it

<v Speaker 1>to be. But it definitely gets people talking. Now back

<v Speaker 1>in the arena, this right here was quite the segment.

<v Speaker 1>It was the big show, says Punjabi. Playboy. Really, maybe

<v Speaker 1>if you put him in the dryer for a few hours.

<v Speaker 1>Then maybe it would be the Big Show. Let me

<v Speaker 1>tell you something, Big Show. Big Show didn't move like

<v Speaker 1>that when he was younger, and if you've seen the

<v Speaker 1>Big Show move around these days, he don't move around

<v Speaker 1>like that. In the arena, the war Raiders got the

<v Speaker 1>jobber entrance. They were already in the ring. Eric and Ivar.

<v Speaker 1>When was the last time we even saw them on TV?

<v Speaker 1>I don't hear. It feels like it's been a couple

<v Speaker 1>of months. They're in the ring, they're waiting for their opponents.

<v Speaker 1>There is a scheduled match. I don't think they ever

<v Speaker 1>told us who the scheduled opponents were. They get the

<v Speaker 1>jabber entrance and instead of their scheduled opponents, they play

<v Speaker 1>Obafemi's music. Now, Oba has been rumored to be landing

<v Speaker 1>on Raw, but they're doing the gimmick where wait, what's

<v Speaker 1>he doing here? He's not supposed to be here. He's

<v Speaker 1>a free agent. Adam Pierce and Nick all this they're

<v Speaker 1>fighting over, you know who's going to sign this man,

<v Speaker 1>but he'll probably end up being Unraw. But he comes out,

<v Speaker 1>gets his full entrance. He's not supposed to be there.

<v Speaker 1>This is completely unscheduled, so he dances down to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>I guess this is his official raw debut, and Oba

<v Speaker 1>immediately goes to work on Eric and Ivar like a

<v Speaker 1>one man wrecking crew, and he hits the Fall from Grace,

<v Speaker 1>which is like that pop up power bomb that he does,

<v Speaker 1>drops Eric like he's a lightweight. I mean, he's lighter

<v Speaker 1>than Ivar, but he's still a big guy. So he

<v Speaker 1>drops him like a lightweight. And I thought they were

<v Speaker 1>gonna do some more. I thought he was going to

<v Speaker 1>go do something to Ivar. That was it. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he stood there and made some weird faces and they

<v Speaker 1>played his music and he posed and that was the

<v Speaker 1>end of that. And the first thing I wrote down

<v Speaker 1>in my notes as soon as this was over, I said,

<v Speaker 1>if I'm the Viking Raiders or the war Raiders, I

<v Speaker 1>would be very worried about my job. This like, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm not even joking, like this segment. It felt like

<v Speaker 1>the kind of segment that you would see on a

<v Speaker 1>Monday and then on Tuesday or Wednesday you would hear

<v Speaker 1>like so and so has been released and is wished

<v Speaker 1>well in their future, and we've seen them do this before.

<v Speaker 1>We've seen them do what with not just people on

<v Speaker 1>Ron SmackDown, but on NXT, where they'll be in a

<v Speaker 1>match on like a Tuesday, and within a day or

<v Speaker 1>two they're gone. They get that one last match out

<v Speaker 1>of them, they use them to put somebody else over,

<v Speaker 1>and then they're gone. That's what this felt like to me.

<v Speaker 1>It felt like, you know what, we don't have anything

<v Speaker 1>planned for these guys, so let's just use them and

<v Speaker 1>have them get demolished to help get this other guy over.

<v Speaker 1>I hope that doesn't happen. I'm not trying to will

<v Speaker 1>anything into existence, but and usually it's the post wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Mania cuts. We're not quite there yet, but I would

<v Speaker 1>be very concerned if I were them. But it also

<v Speaker 1>to me shows just how little they care about an

<v Speaker 1>already very depleted tag team division that they have not

<v Speaker 1>lifted a finger to put any sort of effort into.

<v Speaker 1>I mean the tag team divisions on both shows. On

<v Speaker 1>the men's side, the women's tag team division is actually

<v Speaker 1>the strongest tag ting division of any in all of WWE,

<v Speaker 1>and how the fuck did that happen? But that's where

<v Speaker 1>we are right now. The SmackDown Tag team division is putrid.

<v Speaker 1>The raw tag team division is also putrid. I think

<v Speaker 1>that's a good word for it. There's just nothing going on.

<v Speaker 1>They're building to a tag team title match, I believe

<v Speaker 1>next week with the Ussos again, Otis and Tozau that

<v Speaker 1>is the big match that they are promoting. It is

<v Speaker 1>dreadful right now. And I'm not saying the Viking Raiders

<v Speaker 1>have been a very big part of that division recently,

<v Speaker 1>but they are one of the few teams in the division.

<v Speaker 1>You just sent them out there to be demolished by

<v Speaker 1>one man. When you send a credible tag team out there,

<v Speaker 1>and credible maybe stretching it the way they've been booked lately,

<v Speaker 1>but you know, look, they've been a team for many years,

<v Speaker 1>former tag team champion, so they have some degree of

<v Speaker 1>credibility on this show when you send them out there,

<v Speaker 1>and I know Oba's a big guy, he's a special talent,

<v Speaker 1>but still it's one on two and he beats an

<v Speaker 1>established tag team. I mean, what does that say A

<v Speaker 1>about the team and b about your tag team division?

<v Speaker 1>You know, I never understood that. I remember years ago,

<v Speaker 1>when Ryeback started to get hot on TV, they had

<v Speaker 1>him going out there and he was beating jobbers, then

<v Speaker 1>he would beat two jobbers, then he would beat three

<v Speaker 1>of them. He was beating guys three on one handicap matches,

<v Speaker 1>and it got over. He got over doing that stuff.

<v Speaker 1>You could always do something like that with OBA. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you got plenty of people that are down there in

<v Speaker 1>developmental who nobody would even know who they are right now,

<v Speaker 1>you know, or people who are just getting started, and

<v Speaker 1>this would be a great role for them to send

<v Speaker 1>them out there like lambs going to the slaughter and

<v Speaker 1>it would be fun just to see Oba throwing these

<v Speaker 1>guys around to use the Viking Raiders in that spot

<v Speaker 1>at a time when you need to be strengthening the

<v Speaker 1>tag team division. All they did here tonight was weaken it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't really understand that, but I guess if they

<v Speaker 1>were to be on their way out, I guess it

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't matter. But we'll see where Obafemi ultimately lands. I'm

<v Speaker 1>assuming it will be Monday night raw. We got a

<v Speaker 1>Finn Balor video promo talking about being taken for granted,

<v Speaker 1>so what happened in Belfast that wasn't a one off.

<v Speaker 1>That great match that he had, even though he lost,

<v Speaker 1>but he had a great match with CM Punk, because

<v Speaker 1>that wasn't a one off. I've been showing up and

<v Speaker 1>showing out my entire career. Yet Adam Pierce tells me

<v Speaker 1>that the Royal Rumble is full. Says, so it looks

<v Speaker 1>like the respect only gets you so far in this business.

<v Speaker 1>He wants the World Heavyweight Championship. He doesn't think that

<v Speaker 1>he's a bad guy, but at this stage, CM Punk,

<v Speaker 1>I'm willing to do bad things. So it looks like

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get that, probably at the Elimination Chamber. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I guess they could do a TV match, but you

<v Speaker 1>got Punk in Chicago. He's going to be on that

<v Speaker 1>Elimination Chamber show. What else would he be doing. He

<v Speaker 1>doesn't have to be. He's not gonna be in an

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber match because we now know who he's defending

<v Speaker 1>the title against a WrestleMania that's already been established. So

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk against Finn Balor sounds like the elimination Chamber match.

<v Speaker 1>And then after this we had the Bella Twins. Now,

<v Speaker 1>if you missed the Royal Rumble, Nikki Bella was in

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble, and you know who else was in

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble Bribella. We've not seen Bribella on TV

<v Speaker 1>in many years. Bribella seemed to be of the impression

<v Speaker 1>that the reason WWE wouldn't hire her and bring her

<v Speaker 1>back was because her husband worked for AAW. Evidently that's

<v Speaker 1>no longer an issue, or she was wrong, because now

<v Speaker 1>she's back. She came out there as a surprise at

<v Speaker 1>number twenty nine in the Women's Royal Rumble and got

<v Speaker 1>the biggest pop of anyone on the show. People went

<v Speaker 1>nuts when she came out. They were putting their fingers

<v Speaker 1>in the air. I mean, no, Joe, this is what

<v Speaker 1>you heard when Bribella came out at the Royal Rumble. Curiosity. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that's what you didn't hear, macho man, But you heard

<v Speaker 1>people chanting guests, And so I said, like, if this

<v Speaker 1>was supposed to be a one off, there's no like

<v Speaker 1>I figured it probably wasn't going to be a one off.

<v Speaker 1>But if it was, ain't no way that was gonna

<v Speaker 1>be a one off. After the reaction she got in Riod,

<v Speaker 1>so here comes Nicky Bella. She comes out first to

<v Speaker 1>her music and then we hear Brimaud and outcomes. Bribella

<v Speaker 1>did not get the kind of reactions she got in

<v Speaker 1>Saudi Arabia, but they got a positive reception and they

<v Speaker 1>make their way down to the ring. Now I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>have to hear this every single week on TV. Nicki

<v Speaker 1>pointed out that this was their first time in the

<v Speaker 1>ring together in seven years. She says that they're all

<v Speaker 1>very happy that brem mode is back. Who is this

<v Speaker 1>so we who's this old that she's referring to? Don't

<v Speaker 1>speak for me, you don't speak for me. Breathing spoke.

<v Speaker 1>Then she said she's finally home and she's sure that

<v Speaker 1>we're all wondering why come back? Now? The reason why

<v Speaker 1>she came back? Nikki and her they're the original tag team.

<v Speaker 1>They are the Ogs. This is what she said. They're

<v Speaker 1>the Ogs and the division is better than it's ever

<v Speaker 1>been and they want in. It's time for them to

<v Speaker 1>go for the Women's Tag Team Championships. That was it.

<v Speaker 1>That was the end of the segment. This could have

<v Speaker 1>been an email, This could have been a tweet. This

<v Speaker 1>could have aired during commercial break like they did to

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans all those times. This was a waste of time,

<v Speaker 1>is what This was. The OG team the way I

<v Speaker 1>love how they were just whitewashing the history in this company.

<v Speaker 1>There were never any women's tag teams that existed before

<v Speaker 1>the Bella Twins came along. Now, if you wanted to

<v Speaker 1>say that they're the OG tag team of female twins,

<v Speaker 1>you could certainly say that that would not be inaccurate.

<v Speaker 1>But the Ogs, that's stretching it quite a bit. I

<v Speaker 1>would say. In fact, there's a tag team right now

<v Speaker 1>that has been lobbying, and that usually doesn't work out

<v Speaker 1>too well. If you're lobbying for it, they're less likely

<v Speaker 1>to give it to you. But there's a tag team,

<v Speaker 1>a women's tag team that's been lobbying on social media

<v Speaker 1>with a petition to try to get people to sign

<v Speaker 1>their petition for induction into the WWE Hall of Fame

<v Speaker 1>this year. And that team is called the Jumping Bomb Angels.

<v Speaker 1>And so if you want to support the Jumping Bomb Angels,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know the handle, I don't remember the handle

<v Speaker 1>off hand, but go find their petition and sign it

<v Speaker 1>because they were a great fucking tag team back in

<v Speaker 1>the day and they deserve an induction into the Hall

<v Speaker 1>of the Bellas are already in the Hall of Fame.

<v Speaker 1>The Jumping Bomb Angels should be in the Hall of

<v Speaker 1>Fame as well. But as I said, that was the

<v Speaker 1>extent of the entire segment. I love. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>how it was two months ago that Nikki Bella turned

<v Speaker 1>on Stephanie Vcaire and now she's just back to being

<v Speaker 1>a babyface. It's all forgotten about. It's like it never

<v Speaker 1>even happened. And I am sure they are going to

<v Speaker 1>go to WrestleMania. They are going to challenge for the

<v Speaker 1>women's tag team titles, and they're gonna win the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles because the Bella Twins have never been

<v Speaker 1>women's tag team champions. However, the idea that this might

<v Speaker 1>well be the best they could do for Rhea, Ripley

<v Speaker 1>and EO Sky on the WrestleMania card this year, that's

<v Speaker 1>no bueno. That's terrible. That can't be. That can't be

<v Speaker 1>the only thing they could come up with for Rhea,

<v Speaker 1>Ripley and Eosky to be doing on the WrestleMania card

<v Speaker 1>this year. So I hope they drop those belts before

<v Speaker 1>we get to Las Vegas. But if they don't, and

<v Speaker 1>if that's the match for WrestleMania, that's fucking sad. If

<v Speaker 1>that's the best you can come up with for those two.

<v Speaker 1>In the back the Alpha Academy, speaking of Sad, we

<v Speaker 1>go to the back and the Alpha Academy Otis and Tozawa.

<v Speaker 1>They are talking to Bert Kreischer, who was a comedian,

<v Speaker 1>used that word loosely. He pops up on raw every

<v Speaker 1>now and then. His whole gimmick is that he takes

<v Speaker 1>his shirt off. I don't know why he does this.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how this became a thing, but that's

<v Speaker 1>what he does. So they're talking to him, and they're

<v Speaker 1>talking about their upcoming tag team title match against the USOS.

<v Speaker 1>Maxine Dupre shows up and she's gonna be wrestling Natty

<v Speaker 1>next week. She's gonna make her tap out. She screamed,

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna make her tap aust she like screamed at

<v Speaker 1>the top of her lungs. And then of course the

<v Speaker 1>guys took their shirt, so Chrysler took his shirt off.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, the fuck is this? And then later in

<v Speaker 1>the show, they cut to the crowd and they shower again,

<v Speaker 1>sitting in the audience, and he stands up and he

<v Speaker 1>takes his shirt off again. Why we had Penta against Bronson?

<v Speaker 1>Reed who had the vision out there with him, all

<v Speaker 1>but bron Breaker. They went to commercial almost immediately after

<v Speaker 1>this match started, as is customary for this show. You

<v Speaker 1>can set your watch to it. So Reid hit a

<v Speaker 1>power bomb into a power slam for a two count. Penta,

<v Speaker 1>though back stabbed him down. Austin Theory jumped up on

<v Speaker 1>the apron, so Penta took him out and in the

<v Speaker 1>process the referee got bumped. Now, Penta hits a big

<v Speaker 1>dive out to the floor. He charges into the ring,

<v Speaker 1>right into the jagged edge, which is that death valley

<v Speaker 1>driver that Reid hits. He drags him over to the corner.

<v Speaker 1>He goes up top tsunami splash. There's no referee. The

<v Speaker 1>referee is still on the outside and he's woozy. He's

<v Speaker 1>laying on the ground, So Reid heads outside to go

<v Speaker 1>grab a chair over by the timekeeper's area. Picks up

<v Speaker 1>this chair and you could hear a commotion in the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>We can't see what it's about. We don't know exactly

<v Speaker 1>where it's coming from. It's La Knight. La Knight has

<v Speaker 1>re emergd. We thought he was gone, but he's back

<v Speaker 1>and he ends up delivering a bft onto the chair,

<v Speaker 1>and now Reid is laid out outside, and then Knight

<v Speaker 1>retreats into the crowd, and we have Austin theory and

<v Speaker 1>we have Logan Paul chase after him into the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>So now, of course, the referee gets back into the

<v Speaker 1>ring and Reid is down outside. He's old, groggy. The

<v Speaker 1>referee begins to count. Paul Hayman is trying to explain

<v Speaker 1>to him what happened here, but the referee is just counting.

<v Speaker 1>He don't care, and Bronton Reid tries to get back

<v Speaker 1>to his feet, and he does, and he's about to

<v Speaker 1>get back into the ring before ten, but then he

<v Speaker 1>just crumbles back to the ground and Penta wins by

<v Speaker 1>count out. Actually got a pretty good reaction and he

<v Speaker 1>picks up the win, which is good as opposed to

<v Speaker 1>him just fucking losing to the vision. It was hardly

<v Speaker 1>any sort of decisive win here over Bronson reed, but

<v Speaker 1>a win is a win, a win is better than

<v Speaker 1>a loss at least. So they were trying to protect

<v Speaker 1>both guys, you know, they didn't want to do a

<v Speaker 1>clean finish here. But the story was about La Knight,

<v Speaker 1>and I like that La Knight should be getting revenge

<v Speaker 1>on the Vision for what they did to him, so

<v Speaker 1>he was making them look foolish all night long. Although

<v Speaker 1>this was the last we we saw of him here,

<v Speaker 1>so it was good to see him get his revenge

<v Speaker 1>on them for what they did to him. But beyond that,

<v Speaker 1>not a whole lot to say about this. At least again,

<v Speaker 1>at least the crowd was happy to see Penn to

<v Speaker 1>pick up a win, even if it was because of

<v Speaker 1>someone else. After this we heard Dirty Doms music. Dominic Mysterio,

<v Speaker 1>who has been nursing an injury to his arm from

<v Speaker 1>the Triple A show back in December, missed the royal rumble.

<v Speaker 1>He is actually going to be on the Triple A

<v Speaker 1>show coming up this weekend. I think they said he was.

<v Speaker 1>Is he wrestling? I think he might be wrestling on

<v Speaker 1>the show, But anyway he comes out. We haven't seen

<v Speaker 1>him in a while. And again the mustache. The mustache

<v Speaker 1>is getting bigger and bushier. Tom Sellek would be very

<v Speaker 1>proud of this mustache that dom has been rocking here.

<v Speaker 1>But he's out there, the hair is longer, he's got

<v Speaker 1>glasses on, and he gets into the ring. So the

<v Speaker 1>only reason he would come to a place like Philly

<v Speaker 1>Is so that he can introduce the winner of the

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six Women's Royal Rumble match, and that, of course,

<v Speaker 1>is Live Morgan. And Live Morgan comes as she runs

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring and jumps up into Dom's arms,

<v Speaker 1>and she said that choosing an opponent for WrestleMania has

<v Speaker 1>such a big decision, so that I need time to decide.

<v Speaker 1>I might even have to show up on SmackDown on

<v Speaker 1>Friday night to assess all of my options. But one

<v Speaker 1>thing that I do know is that tonight we are

<v Speaker 1>going to crown a brand new women's World champion. And

<v Speaker 1>with that, she introduces her best friend, her sister, Big

<v Speaker 1>Sexy Raquel Rodriguez. Raquel gets into the ring. She says,

<v Speaker 1>it's been an amazing week for the Judgment day, but

<v Speaker 1>we haven't addressed something that happened at the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>and Live says what? And she said, why did you

<v Speaker 1>eliminate me? And Liv said, look, I know you better

<v Speaker 1>than anybody else says You're not the selfish type. You

<v Speaker 1>had a title opportunity scheduled for tonight and now I

<v Speaker 1>have a title opportunity at WrestleMania, So a win for

<v Speaker 1>one is a win for all, and Raquel agreed, and

<v Speaker 1>then she said to her stay in the back tonight.

<v Speaker 1>She said, it's going to make my win over Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>that much sweeter when I win the championship on my own.

<v Speaker 1>So liv said, uh, okay, noo, go get it, and

<v Speaker 1>she left, which made way for Stephanie's entrance. Except I

<v Speaker 1>didn't realize at first that it was Stephanie coming out.

<v Speaker 1>And the reason I didn't realize that it was Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>coming out is because they changed her fucking music. Who

<v Speaker 1>was asking for this? Who was asking for her music

<v Speaker 1>to be changed? They do these things sometimes and I

<v Speaker 1>just I sit here and I just I shake my

<v Speaker 1>head and I go, why why did that happen? What

<v Speaker 1>was the purpose of this? Of all the things that

<v Speaker 1>could be tweaked and changed and improved on this show,

<v Speaker 1>they take things that really have It's like things that

<v Speaker 1>aren't broken, and they break them so that they could

<v Speaker 1>rebuild and repair them. There's an expression, if it ain't broke,

<v Speaker 1>don't fix it that applied to Stephanie. Now. Look, Stephanie's

<v Speaker 1>music was generic before, but it was actually kind of

<v Speaker 1>a good generic theme. So they have now taken her

<v Speaker 1>good generic theme and they have replaced it with a

<v Speaker 1>bad generic theme for no apparent reason. She has been

<v Speaker 1>deaf rebeled. After the break, we got our Women's World

<v Speaker 1>Championship street fight. It was Stephanie defending the title against Raquel. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I think they do do it on purpose. How can

<v Speaker 1>we make this worse? How can we figure out a

<v Speaker 1>way to make this worse? And then they go and

<v Speaker 1>they do it. That's it, and Nobie, that's it because

<v Speaker 1>here we go another generic rock music number four oh six,

<v Speaker 1>just like the late days of WCW. So this Philly crowd,

<v Speaker 1>let me tell you, this Philly crowd was church silent

<v Speaker 1>for this match until a few minutes in when Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>finally went to go pull out some plunder from underneath

<v Speaker 1>the ring. As soon as she picked up the ring skirt,

<v Speaker 1>there were signs of life here from this crowd, and

<v Speaker 1>she pulled out a slim je table. Raquel, though, cut

<v Speaker 1>her off before she could do anything with it, so

<v Speaker 1>Raquel set the table up herself outside. Stephanie came flying

<v Speaker 1>off the ring steps with a her conrana, but Raquel

<v Speaker 1>muscled her up into a power bomb position and planted

<v Speaker 1>her through the table and then it was right to commercial.

<v Speaker 1>So when they came back, Raquel was working over the

<v Speaker 1>previously injured ankle of Stephanie, which, by the way, this

<v Speaker 1>did not come into play at all for the remainder

<v Speaker 1>of the match. She wasn't selling the ankle, it didn't

<v Speaker 1>play into the finish nothing, but she was working it

<v Speaker 1>over here. So Stephanie fought back with a kendo stick.

<v Speaker 1>She dragged the flat part of the ring steps over

<v Speaker 1>kind of towards the announcers, but then she turned around

<v Speaker 1>right into the The top lid of the announced desk

<v Speaker 1>was being launched at her head, so then she got

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie on her shoulders, did Raquel, and she rammed her

<v Speaker 1>into the ring post. She rolled her back inside, she

<v Speaker 1>covered her for a near fall only and the crowd

<v Speaker 1>was still for all of this. I mean, it was

<v Speaker 1>like pulling teeth out there to get a reaction out

<v Speaker 1>of these people. And honestly, I mean, again, I don't

<v Speaker 1>blame the crowd. I mean there wasn't a whole lot

<v Speaker 1>here for them to really get super excited about and

<v Speaker 1>think about this. Also, the reason they did this is

<v Speaker 1>because it was Philadelphia. This was their ode to Philly.

<v Speaker 1>But think of all of the street fights and hardcore

<v Speaker 1>matches that Philadelphia has seen over the years. Like I

<v Speaker 1>get this as kind of a different audience, but still

<v Speaker 1>think of all of the of the hardcore, plunder garbage

<v Speaker 1>matches that you will see in Philadelphia over the course

<v Speaker 1>of wrestling history. And then you get a match like

<v Speaker 1>this and it's one of those WWE sanitized style matches

<v Speaker 1>that always it's the same shit all the time, right,

<v Speaker 1>the kendo sticks, the slim gym tastes always the same stuff.

<v Speaker 1>It's like a formula. It's like a program that someone

<v Speaker 1>has written, like a template, and it's just very easy

<v Speaker 1>for to just plug different faces into the template. So

<v Speaker 1>what are they supposed to do? I mean, what is

<v Speaker 1>there for them to really get super cheerful about here?

<v Speaker 1>People are gonna shit on the crowd for being quiet.

<v Speaker 1>I don't blame them. I would just be sitting there

<v Speaker 1>on my hands too. And then you had Raquel grab

<v Speaker 1>a chair and she wedged it in between the ropes

<v Speaker 1>and she went to go ram Stephanie headfirst into the chair. Unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>the chair came loose and it fell out of the

<v Speaker 1>ring all the way to the floor, so instead, Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>picked up a kendo stick and she hit her with it.

<v Speaker 1>Then came the Devil's kiss or not, because Raquel powered

<v Speaker 1>her up onto her shoulders and then dropped her throat

<v Speaker 1>first on the top rope. Kendo sticks have been done today, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>of course they've been done to death. It's it's absurd.

<v Speaker 1>It's their go to weapon of choice, dude. It's like

<v Speaker 1>every type of match like this that they do with

<v Speaker 1>the women. Primarily the men use them too, but especially

<v Speaker 1>with the women. Look at any war games match like

<v Speaker 1>it's always with the kendo sticks. It just gets tired

<v Speaker 1>after a while. Stephanie, though, after being draped over the

<v Speaker 1>top rope, came right back with a kick and both

<v Speaker 1>women were down. Raquel then tossed a bunch of chairs

<v Speaker 1>into the ring, like half a dozen chairs at least. Stephanie, though,

<v Speaker 1>came off the top with a crossbody got caught and

<v Speaker 1>Raquel delivered a fallaway slam onto the chairs. Then she

<v Speaker 1>tried her corkscrew vader bomb. Stephanie moved and Raquel landed

<v Speaker 1>on the chairs. Then we got a proper devil's kiss,

<v Speaker 1>which got you got a decent enough reaction not a

<v Speaker 1>great reaction. He got a decent reaction. So they rolled

<v Speaker 1>out to the floor, and then Stephanie delivered another devil's kiss,

<v Speaker 1>this one on the flat part of the ring steps.

<v Speaker 1>And then if you were missing the commercials, I know

<v Speaker 1>at this point you were like, man, you know, it's

<v Speaker 1>been too long, it's been too long since we've had

<v Speaker 1>a commercial break. Then guess what, you got a commercial break,

<v Speaker 1>so now you could be happy. So when we came

<v Speaker 1>back from AED seven of seven, that's what it said

<v Speaker 1>for me, seven of seven, Like there is nothing that

<v Speaker 1>happens during these commercial breaks lately, Like it is just

<v Speaker 1>so boring and pointless. I forgot to even use my

<v Speaker 1>VPN tonight, so the commercials. I actually had the commercials playing,

<v Speaker 1>and it just was every break was like seven out

<v Speaker 1>of seven, six out of six, eight out of eight.

<v Speaker 1>I just wait for the countdown to go down and

<v Speaker 1>assume that nothing of note happened during the commercial break,

<v Speaker 1>which I don't believe it did. So they came back.

<v Speaker 1>They were outside on the other side of the ring

<v Speaker 1>now by the aisleway. Raquel hoisted up the ring steps

<v Speaker 1>on that side. Stephanie, though knocked her down before she

<v Speaker 1>could use them. Back inside, Stephanie grabbed the trash can

<v Speaker 1>and she placed it over Raquel's head. She was sitting

<v Speaker 1>in the corner and then she came charging in with

<v Speaker 1>the double knees. The mediora by Stephanie, so the champion

<v Speaker 1>covered challenger kicked out. Stephanie tried for the SVB. Raquel, though,

<v Speaker 1>took her down with a clothesline. Then she booted the

<v Speaker 1>trash can back into Stephanie's face. And now Raquel is

<v Speaker 1>getting frustrated because she tried to cover her and Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>got a shoulder up and she doesn't know what to

<v Speaker 1>do now, so she's getting very upset about this. The

<v Speaker 1>fans started chanting, use the chair. This is like six

<v Speaker 1>of them laying in the ring. I mean, maybe she

<v Speaker 1>didn't see them. She actually is the one who introduced

<v Speaker 1>them into the ring, but I don't know. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>there were only six chairs in the ring, so maybe

<v Speaker 1>she just missed them. Instead of using the chairs, she

<v Speaker 1>decided to go ahead and grab another slim gym table.

<v Speaker 1>She slid it into the ring. She set it up.

<v Speaker 1>Raquel tried for the tehanabaumb Stephanie was able to avoid it.

<v Speaker 1>Both women ended up down when Live Morgan showed up,

<v Speaker 1>even though she was explicitly told do not come out.

<v Speaker 1>I want to do this on my own. She doesn't

<v Speaker 1>listen very well. Live Morgan grabs the Women's World championship

<v Speaker 1>off that little podium, that little stand that they have.

<v Speaker 1>She grabs the belt and she hands it to Raquel

<v Speaker 1>in the ring, who obviously is very surprised to see

<v Speaker 1>Live Morgan at ringside. So she's distracted. Now Stephanie comes

<v Speaker 1>up from behind and she stands Raquel into the chair.

<v Speaker 1>I guess there was another chair that got wedged in

<v Speaker 1>the corn Maybe that happened during commercial, so there was

<v Speaker 1>a chair wedged in the corner. She threw her headfirst

<v Speaker 1>into the chair. Then she knocked Lived Morgan off the apron,

<v Speaker 1>so on top of the table and Stephanie climbs to

<v Speaker 1>the middle rope. Roxane Perez shows up on the apron,

<v Speaker 1>tries to stop her. Stephanie head butts her off the

<v Speaker 1>apron and Roxanne goes crashing through another table outside the

<v Speaker 1>ring on the floor. Raquel climbs up with her. Now

<v Speaker 1>she got off the table. Now she's on the ropes

<v Speaker 1>with Stephanie. She tries a gut wrench suplex off the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie is able to avoid that and stop her from

<v Speaker 1>doing so. She head butts her way out of it.

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie then tries to take her down with a head scissors.

<v Speaker 1>Raquel was having none of this, so instead she muscled

<v Speaker 1>her up. She tried for a power bomb. Stephanie, though

<v Speaker 1>turned it into a rana. It was a slow rana.

<v Speaker 1>It was slow enough that when Raquel came flying off,

<v Speaker 1>she bounced and rolled off the table. The table did

<v Speaker 1>it broke, but it didn't really break. She landed on

<v Speaker 1>the table with enough force that there was a crack

<v Speaker 1>down the middle of the table and it slightly bent,

<v Speaker 1>but she just rolled off the table, so unfortunately, the

<v Speaker 1>spot did not go according to plan. Stephanie then moved

<v Speaker 1>the table out of the way, climbed to the top,

<v Speaker 1>landed her corkscrew splash, and retained the Women's World Championship.

<v Speaker 1>And then after the match, at a bunch of highlights,

<v Speaker 1>liv Morgan got back into the ring and she dropped

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie with an oblivion and then picked up the Women's

<v Speaker 1>World title, big smile on her face, and she posed

<v Speaker 1>with the championship, giving you a pretty good indication of

<v Speaker 1>which title she's coming after a WrestleMania without actually saying so.

<v Speaker 1>And she didn't look too terribly upset about the fact

<v Speaker 1>that her best friend and her sister just lost in

<v Speaker 1>her World Championship match. In factually had a big smile

<v Speaker 1>on her face. So I'm sure that's going to call

<v Speaker 1>are you ready for it? Drama in the ranks of

<v Speaker 1>the judgment day. I'm sure that's not going to go

<v Speaker 1>over too well with Raquel. Raquel. I want to say this, Raquel.

<v Speaker 1>I like Raquel, and Raquel I think I had her

<v Speaker 1>as my most improved in wrestling in twenty twenty five.

<v Speaker 1>Raquel was in the Royal Rumble on Saturday. I want

<v Speaker 1>to say she was in there for about thirty five minutes.

<v Speaker 1>She had a good run in the Rumble. Then she

<v Speaker 1>had a fly halfway around the world back to the States.

<v Speaker 1>Probably didn't even go home because you gotta go to

<v Speaker 1>raw So she probably just went right from Saudi Arabia

<v Speaker 1>to Philadelphia into a street fight weapons garbage match with

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Vcaire. So she's had quite a bit of work

<v Speaker 1>over the last few days, and I'm sure she's probably

<v Speaker 1>also exhausted from all the traveling, so I have nothing

<v Speaker 1>bad to say about her. There were things that she

<v Speaker 1>and Stephanie did in this match that just did not

<v Speaker 1>go according to plan right. The chair fell out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring, the table didn't break. But the biggest sin

<v Speaker 1>of this match is that it just went too long.

<v Speaker 1>It just got to a point where they were it

<v Speaker 1>felt like they were repeating the same shit with the

<v Speaker 1>same weapons over and over again. Nobody was reacting, nobody

<v Speaker 1>sounded like they really cared, and it was just it

<v Speaker 1>was a match. It was solid, but it's the standard

<v Speaker 1>WWE extreme rules match. That's basically what it was. You

<v Speaker 1>can call it a Philadelphia street fight. It was an

<v Speaker 1>extreme rules match, wasn't particularly violent. They used the same

<v Speaker 1>weapons they always use. Some shit got messed up and

<v Speaker 1>it didn't work out. Didn't get the reaction they were

<v Speaker 1>probably hoping for, didn't have a lot of heat. We

<v Speaker 1>don't get to see Stephanie wrestling on this show very often,

<v Speaker 1>so it was nice to at least see the Women's

<v Speaker 1>World title defended, but not really anything great. There's no

<v Speaker 1>great shakes here. I wasn't expecting a title change, so

<v Speaker 1>that didn't surprise me. I was hoping for more out

<v Speaker 1>of this match, though, and what we got was pretty

<v Speaker 1>standard stuff. But then in the back an suv pulled

<v Speaker 1>up into the arena, and emerging from the suv is

<v Speaker 1>the winner of the twenty twenty six Men's Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>someone we don't get to see on this show very often.

<v Speaker 1>In fact, when he declared for the Royal Rumble, it

<v Speaker 1>was via graphic, but there he was in the flesh.

<v Speaker 1>Roman reigns and he proceeds to make his way out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring, but first one last commercial break. It

<v Speaker 1>come back from break. Roman is in the ring. He's

<v Speaker 1>wearing a jacket, He's looking like Sting in the final

<v Speaker 1>days of aaw and he asked Philly to acknowledge him.

<v Speaker 1>You know, we've had highs and lows here in Philly.

<v Speaker 1>I won my first WWE championship here, but I also

<v Speaker 1>lost my last WWE championship in this city. And then

<v Speaker 1>he pointed out that he actually won his first Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble right here in Philly. I talked about that the

<v Speaker 1>other night won the Royal Rumble, and Philly got booed

<v Speaker 1>out of the building. Got the rock Bood. Takes a

<v Speaker 1>lot to get the rock back then takes a lot

<v Speaker 1>to get the rock bood, but he got booed. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that was in Philly. That was in twenty fifteen. That

<v Speaker 1>was the Great Royal Rumble where they had Big show

<v Speaker 1>and Kine dumping out Ray Wyatt and Dolf Ziggler and

<v Speaker 1>got how many other people did they dump out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring unceremoniously in that like every person that the

<v Speaker 1>fans liked or had hopes to maybe win the match,

<v Speaker 1>And it wasn't even like anything dramatic. They literally would

<v Speaker 1>just pick them up like garbage and just gently dump

<v Speaker 1>them out of the ring, and you can feel like

<v Speaker 1>a piece of their soul was dying with each elimini

<v Speaker 1>as they realized, Okay, we can see where this is

<v Speaker 1>going and we don't like it. That was the reaction

<v Speaker 1>that you heard that night. But that was eleven years

<v Speaker 1>ago and a lot has changed in the last eleven years.

<v Speaker 1>And that's what Roman Reigns mentioned here in this promo says,

<v Speaker 1>what better city to help me make a decision on

<v Speaker 1>which champion to challenge your WrestleMania. So the crowd chanted

<v Speaker 1>cm Punk, but he asked them, He goes, so you

<v Speaker 1>don't want me to go after Drew McIntyre and they

<v Speaker 1>booed or do you prefer CM Punk? And they cheered

<v Speaker 1>and then they hit Cult of Personality Big Pop. Punk

<v Speaker 1>took his time coming out. He was wearing his own

<v Speaker 1>jacket as Roman took his off. So Punk took his

<v Speaker 1>jacket off as he climbed into the ring, and Punk

<v Speaker 1>made like he was about to address Roman. He was

<v Speaker 1>like looking at him, he was about to open his mouth,

<v Speaker 1>and then he turns and he looks dead in the camera.

<v Speaker 1>He walks over to the cameraman. He addresses Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>the ultimate disrespect. He leaves Romans standing there because first

<v Speaker 1>he has something to say to Finn Balor, who's not

<v Speaker 1>even there, and he tells Balor. He goes, Uh, you're

<v Speaker 1>gonna find out how bad of a guy I really

<v Speaker 1>am when I get my hands on you. Roman says

<v Speaker 1>that you're interrupting my segment talking about Finn Balor. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Pin Balor, I'd be upset too. Yeah, the last time

<v Speaker 1>Roman was in the ring with Pinn Balor, you all

<v Speaker 1>remember what happened. Need I remind you of what happened?

<v Speaker 1>I think you all remember what happened. He goes that's

<v Speaker 1>funny though, he says, well Punk, he said pump Punk

<v Speaker 1>said I interrupted. You goes, that's funny, seeing is how

<v Speaker 1>you're a visitor on my show. Said maybe you thought

<v Speaker 1>you were on SmackDown or something. But this is Netflix

<v Speaker 1>and I'm the champion and I call the shots. Heard

<v Speaker 1>Roman asking Philly for some help. So he goes, what

<v Speaker 1>about it? Roman reigns against Drew McIntyre, and the fans

<v Speaker 1>boo or Roman reigns versus the best in the world,

<v Speaker 1>CM punk and they cheered. They cheered. So he goes,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Roman, what do you think do you

<v Speaker 1>need their help? Drew McIntyre boo, CM punk Yay. So

<v Speaker 1>he did that a couple of times, because yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>think the choice is pretty clear. He knows who Roman

<v Speaker 1>is picking. Take the easy way out. Go ahead and

<v Speaker 1>pick Drew McIntyre. So Roman said, look, I don't like

<v Speaker 1>the guy, but you're talking crazy, said Drew McIntyre is

<v Speaker 1>the easy way out. Drew's like four times bigger than you.

<v Speaker 1>Drew is a big man. Drew is a dectively large

<v Speaker 1>And he goes, and the last time you fought, he

<v Speaker 1>had you crying over a little plastic bracelet, and then

<v Speaker 1>he looks down at Punk's wrist. He goes, as a

<v Speaker 1>matter of fact, I think that's the bracelet, and I'm like, no,

<v Speaker 1>it's not. Didn't Drew destroy the bracelet. He ripped it apart.

<v Speaker 1>The bracelet, the beads when't flying everywhere. There's no way

<v Speaker 1>that's the same bracelet. Or they had Drew destroy a

<v Speaker 1>dummy bracelet, and maybe that is the real bracelet, but

<v Speaker 1>I do vividly remember him destroying it though. At some

<v Speaker 1>point during that angle, so Punk told him be careful

<v Speaker 1>because they ran out of staples that they were trying

<v Speaker 1>to put in his big dumb ass back together. He

<v Speaker 1>put him in the dirt inside Hell and his cell

<v Speaker 1>and Roman told him to take a number. I beat

<v Speaker 1>Drew like three years straight. I love, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>how they were just very casually burying Drew mcinto. I

<v Speaker 1>was like, why is Drew catching strays here? At this segment,

<v Speaker 1>they're both in there just talking about how they beat

<v Speaker 1>this guy's ass. Punk put him in the dirt, Roman

<v Speaker 1>beat him three years in a row, just casually burying

<v Speaker 1>him six feet under. Punk said, yeah, you and how

<v Speaker 1>many of your cousins? And Roman told him watch how

<v Speaker 1>you talk about my family. He says, Remember this, They're

<v Speaker 1>the only reason that this place is where it's at.

<v Speaker 1>They're the only reason that Punk even has a show

<v Speaker 1>and a company to have come back to. Don't ever

<v Speaker 1>forget that. Maybe Punk put it back together after hell,

<v Speaker 1>what is sell? He scrounged up all the beads and

<v Speaker 1>strung them back up himself. Punk says that Roman thinks

<v Speaker 1>he's the reason they're in the spot that they're in

<v Speaker 1>right now. Oh the big business this company is doing,

<v Speaker 1>and he goes, he's sort of right. He manipulated his

<v Speaker 1>cousins thinking that he's this great messiah, but all he

<v Speaker 1>really did was hold the show hostage. This is an ESPN.

<v Speaker 1>I heard what you said on McAfee's show about you

<v Speaker 1>being gracious with your quarterly vacations, talking about how no

<v Speaker 1>one has stepped up to fill his shoes, his shoes

<v Speaker 1>being Roman shoes. No one is trying to follow in

<v Speaker 1>his footsteps. Once upon a time, Punk was the champion

<v Speaker 1>for four hundred and thirty four days with Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>at his side. Does that sound familiar? Because you took

<v Speaker 1>it and you ran with it. You followed in my footsteps,

<v Speaker 1>and yet you were the champion for what thirteen hundred days.

<v Speaker 1>Just because you did it longer doesn't mean you did

<v Speaker 1>it better. So I want you all to take that

<v Speaker 1>lesson away from this promo here cmpunk live in Philadelphia

<v Speaker 1>on a Monday night, reminding everyone longer it does not

<v Speaker 1>equal better. You just remember that because you're a box

<v Speaker 1>office WrestleMania main events superstar, so you've earned the right

<v Speaker 1>to call your shot and show up when you want.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not mad at you. You choose to be a

<v Speaker 1>part timer. I choose to go to ten countries in

<v Speaker 1>three weeks and see all the fans worldwide. I choose

<v Speaker 1>Poland and Scotland and Denmark and Belgium and London and

<v Speaker 1>Toronto makes me want to go listen to the Joe

<v Speaker 1>Henry theme song now. And I choose to come back

<v Speaker 1>here to Philadelphia so I can say things like doesn't

<v Speaker 1>it feel great to be alive on a Monday night

<v Speaker 1>in Philadelphia? Or what I choose to be a fighting champion,

<v Speaker 1>just like I choose to bring you into this company

<v Speaker 1>with the rest of the shield, and you chose to

<v Speaker 1>follow in my footsteps. You learn from the best. I'm

<v Speaker 1>proud of you, but you've got a decision to make.

<v Speaker 1>On one side is a guy that you think you

<v Speaker 1>can beat, and on the other is a guy that

<v Speaker 1>you know, on your best day you can't touch because

<v Speaker 1>he's the best in the world. You can go after

<v Speaker 1>the man that has made this title and held it

<v Speaker 1>down in your absence as the heavyweight champion of the world.

<v Speaker 1>Roman said that Punk's making all these towns because he

<v Speaker 1>took a ten year of vacation. I'd be trying to

<v Speaker 1>get in as much as possible too. And the second

<v Speaker 1>thing I learned from you, said, the only thing I

<v Speaker 1>learned from you is what not to do. Let's get

<v Speaker 1>one thing straight here, Phil, you wouldn't be here without

<v Speaker 1>me two years ago, whenever it was when they asked

<v Speaker 1>to sign you back. Who do you think they came

<v Speaker 1>to to ask if it was all good? Me ten

<v Speaker 1>years ago or so. I'll never forget you going on

<v Speaker 1>your best friend's podcast, running your mouth, making my life

<v Speaker 1>harder than it ever should have been. And then I

<v Speaker 1>let you back here. And what do you do? You

<v Speaker 1>screw me, You take my wise men, you brainwash my cousins,

<v Speaker 1>You almost brainwash me because at Wargames I shook your

<v Speaker 1>hand like a man. And then at first I didn't

<v Speaker 1>even realize what he was talking about, and then I

<v Speaker 1>realized I did that movie together the voices in the movie.

<v Speaker 1>He goes, what do we say, zebros or some stupid

<v Speaker 1>shit like that, and that got to react. See now

<v Speaker 1>he's getting angry. Now, this is where he was getting

<v Speaker 1>really intense in his promo. He goes, nah, I shook

<v Speaker 1>your hand like a man, and you mock me behind

<v Speaker 1>my back when we're walking up the ramp like some

<v Speaker 1>little young boy. Goes, well, guess what I've made my choice.

<v Speaker 1>I'm picking you because I hate you. He says, I've

<v Speaker 1>always hated you. And WrestleMania is going to be the

<v Speaker 1>best day of my life because in the main event,

<v Speaker 1>you will acknowledge me. Mike drop and off, goes Roman Reigns.

<v Speaker 1>And it's not very often in these type segments that

<v Speaker 1>when it's over, you say, oh, CM Punk got shown up.

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk did great. He held up his own in

<v Speaker 1>this segment. But this was Roman Reins's segment. Here. This

<v Speaker 1>was the best promo I have ever seen from Roman Reigns.

<v Speaker 1>And he's been a lot better in the last few

<v Speaker 1>years and he was. I mean, it's like night and

<v Speaker 1>fucking day. You go back and look at some of

<v Speaker 1>those big dog promos. Oh my god, it's like I

<v Speaker 1>had secondhand embarrassment watching it. It's almost incredible to think

<v Speaker 1>when you're watching this, I know a lot of time

<v Speaker 1>has gone by almost a decade, but still like every

<v Speaker 1>now and then it'll pop up on my YouTube. Recommended

<v Speaker 1>the twenty seventeen segment with Roman Reigns in John Sena

<v Speaker 1>before their first match. It is it is almost like

<v Speaker 1>he is indistinguishable in that segment from the Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>that we see on TV today. It is almost unfathomable

<v Speaker 1>that it is the same person. But with experience and

<v Speaker 1>with time, and then when you're working with the right people,

<v Speaker 1>you would hope that over time, you know, you get

<v Speaker 1>better at it. This is a very different Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>in the Roman Reigns we saw in twenty seventeen. Back

<v Speaker 1>then he also had a crazy old irishman who was

<v Speaker 1>writing a lot of his material and that didn't help.

<v Speaker 1>It's come a long way in terms of his promos

<v Speaker 1>and just the way that he carries himself, his confidence

<v Speaker 1>in the microphone. But this right here, I think is

<v Speaker 1>probably the best that I have seen from him on

<v Speaker 1>the mic. He was convincing, he was intense. It came

<v Speaker 1>across like he really doesn't like this guy. He threw

<v Speaker 1>it right back in his face. Everything that Punk said,

<v Speaker 1>he threw it right back in his face and said, wait, wait, wait,

<v Speaker 1>wait wait. I followed in your footsteps. And then he

<v Speaker 1>came right back with it and he drew from their history,

<v Speaker 1>and he mentioned the podcast with col Cabana and the

<v Speaker 1>impact it had on people like him as he was

<v Speaker 1>getting pushed. It made his life more difficult and made

<v Speaker 1>his career in WWE more difficult as he was trying

<v Speaker 1>to get over. But all he had to hear about

<v Speaker 1>was CM Punk, CM Punk, or people resented him because

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk was gone and Roman Reigns was the chosen one.

<v Speaker 1>You made my life difficult, Cult. I never forgot that

<v Speaker 1>and all the other things that he talked about here

<v Speaker 1>in this segment. I love drawing from that history and

<v Speaker 1>all the ground that they were able to cover to

<v Speaker 1>really make it feel personal, like it's not just another

<v Speaker 1>wrestling match. Yeah, for a WrestleMania main event. That's what

<v Speaker 1>you should strive to do, right there should be at

<v Speaker 1>its core wrestling is best when there is a personal

<v Speaker 1>issue to draw from, and it's at its best when

<v Speaker 1>it's just one on one. Last year it was a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat match you had seth Rollins involved. Those three

<v Speaker 1>guys went out there last year and had an excellent match.

<v Speaker 1>That and the triple threat that opened night too. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>technically you could say they back to back matches right

<v Speaker 1>the way they ended Night one and the way they

<v Speaker 1>opened Night two, two of the best triple threat matches

<v Speaker 1>in WWE that you'll ever see. But it was still

<v Speaker 1>it wasn't about Roman in Punk. The focus was not

<v Speaker 1>Roman in Punk, even though it was their first time

<v Speaker 1>in the ring together. It was about Paul Hayman. So

<v Speaker 1>this year it's a very different type of match now,

<v Speaker 1>where the focus can be more on these two guys,

<v Speaker 1>their history and their inflated egos because they have gigantic egos.

<v Speaker 1>They both think they're the best. Before Punk came back,

<v Speaker 1>the Needle Mover comments, remember that, I think Punk was

<v Speaker 1>still in aw at that time, and Roman had made

<v Speaker 1>some sort of comment about Needle Mover, like there's history

<v Speaker 1>there that you can draw from in this feud. So

<v Speaker 1>they hit a home run with this segment here, this one.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to say this save the show because

<v Speaker 1>this one segment couldn't save the entire show. I thought

<v Speaker 1>this show, outside of the cold open that they did

<v Speaker 1>with bron Breaker and then what we saw here in

<v Speaker 1>the last fifteen minutes or so, those were the best

<v Speaker 1>parts of the show. Everything in the middle very much

<v Speaker 1>a mixed bag, mostly boring. It just did not grab me.

<v Speaker 1>As far as what they were doing in the matches

<v Speaker 1>that we saw, there was just nothing that was terribly good.

<v Speaker 1>But this segment made you forget about all of that

<v Speaker 1>because it was all about what we saw here and

<v Speaker 1>we didn't have to wait. I thought they were gonna

<v Speaker 1>make us wait and find out, Okay, who's he gonna pick?

<v Speaker 1>Are they gonna make us wait until after the elimination chamber? No,

<v Speaker 1>they didn't. I like that. They went right to it

<v Speaker 1>and said, fuck this, I pick you. I pick you

<v Speaker 1>because I don't like you. That's it. That's all you need.

<v Speaker 1>I pick you because I don't like you. And here's why.

<v Speaker 1>When wrestling is kept simple is when it is at

<v Speaker 1>its best. But you need to have the right personalities

<v Speaker 1>to make it work, and in this case, they do

<v Speaker 1>so again, coming out of the Royal Rumble, I was

<v Speaker 1>not overly enthusiastic about. Okay, Roman Reigns wins the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Here we go again, and the only match that really,

<v Speaker 1>as I looked at it, that I cared to see

<v Speaker 1>given the options available, was Roman in Punk. But then

<v Speaker 1>you they wonder like, how are they going to promote

<v Speaker 1>the match? If this is a sign of how they

<v Speaker 1>intend to promote the match, then we're in for a treat.

<v Speaker 1>But can they sustain this? Can they sustain this for

<v Speaker 1>the next two I guess two months, it is, right,

<v Speaker 1>two and a half months. That's the question. How often

<v Speaker 1>will we get to see Cem punkin Roman Reigns on

<v Speaker 1>television together? Now for the next few weeks, he really

<v Speaker 1>doesn't have to be around because it's gonna be about

<v Speaker 1>Punk and Finn Balor. But as soon as they get

<v Speaker 1>beyond the Chamber in Chicago, they got to go right

<v Speaker 1>back to this and hopefully we'll be able to see

<v Speaker 1>Roman a little more often to justify him being back

<v Speaker 1>in the Wrestlemanium main event again, because that was my

<v Speaker 1>issue with this from the beginning. If the guy makes

<v Speaker 1>half a dozen appearances over the course of a year.

<v Speaker 1>It's a lot, and sure he earned that schedule, but

<v Speaker 1>it also just it drags down the show. You know,

<v Speaker 1>when he's not around. If we get to see this

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns on television more often, I have no issue

<v Speaker 1>with that. Him winning the championship, that's a different story.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think he needs to win the championship, especially

<v Speaker 1>if he's not going to be full time. I still

<v Speaker 1>I have an issue with that, And because we've been there,

<v Speaker 1>we've done that already, you know, part time champions. It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't work. It actively drags down the show that I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see. But they sold me on the

<v Speaker 1>match with this one segment. This was great stuff. This

<v Speaker 1>is the sort of thing that makes wrestling fun and enjoyable.

<v Speaker 1>When you can really sink your teeth into a story

<v Speaker 1>like this and a rivalry like this, that's when it's

<v Speaker 1>at its best. So five stars for this closing segment here.

<v Speaker 1>Not a great show, but a great closing segment. Let's

<v Speaker 1>take a look at the Twitter polsee what you guys thought.

<v Speaker 1>A raw from Philly fifty six percent thumbs up. And

<v Speaker 1>I will say the majority of that fifty six percent,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure stems from that closing segment, twenty six point

<v Speaker 1>three percent thumbs in the middle, seventeen points seven percent

<v Speaker 1>thumbs down, and that is with fourteen hundred votes and counting.

<v Speaker 1>So to go vote at Solo Monster on X, Aaron says,

<v Speaker 1>do you think the career killer gimmick would have been

<v Speaker 1>better suited for Logan Paul? I think he'd have much

<v Speaker 1>more heat than Gunther has. The cocky promos and wanting

<v Speaker 1>legends gone, disrespecting them fits him more. Yeah, But the

<v Speaker 1>idea of him going around beating all these legends and

<v Speaker 1>being John seen his last match, and AJ's last match

<v Speaker 1>and all these people's last match, Like, I don't I

<v Speaker 1>don't like that. I mean, it would make more sense

<v Speaker 1>for him to be going around gloating about it. That's

<v Speaker 1>the sort of thing he would do. But I don't

<v Speaker 1>want him. I really don't care for him in that role. Hey, Emoji, Matt,

<v Speaker 1>thank you buy or sal Jay Lethal's impression of Rick

<v Speaker 1>Flair or Jay Lethal's impression of Macho Man, says Victor.

<v Speaker 1>For me, it's Macho Man. They're both very good, but

<v Speaker 1>I gotta go Macho Man, And he says, as a fan,

<v Speaker 1>which era of WWE means more to you Golden Era

<v Speaker 1>or Attitude Era. For me, it's the Golden Era. I

<v Speaker 1>find myself even now, Like we mentioned the Vault a

<v Speaker 1>moment ago, and they have some like if I'm putting

<v Speaker 1>it on, let's say a night before I go to bed,

<v Speaker 1>pop onto the Vault, see what's going on. Sometimes they

<v Speaker 1>have like a live stream going on if it's Golden

<v Speaker 1>Era stuff, like I'm watching it. If it's Attitude Era stuff, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's fifty to fifty, And that right there tells you.

<v Speaker 1>It's just there's something about that Golden Era because I

<v Speaker 1>grew up with it, so I just have more of

<v Speaker 1>an affinity for it. And I'm grateful I grew up.

<v Speaker 1>I was still young enough where the Attitude Era was great.

<v Speaker 1>If you were watching during that Monday Night War period,

<v Speaker 1>it was the most fun time to be a fan.

<v Speaker 1>It was great. But I just have a certain nostalgia

<v Speaker 1>for the Golden Era that it has a lot more

<v Speaker 1>replay value for me at any given moment. It's just

<v Speaker 1>one of those things like if you have a favorite

<v Speaker 1>movie and you're flipping channels and it's on, like you'll

<v Speaker 1>stop and watch it. That's me and the Golden era stuff.

<v Speaker 1>Super Pony says they've officially turned Braun into a geek.

<v Speaker 1>That opening segment was embarrassing for him. Him slipping on

<v Speaker 1>his way out of the ring didn't help either. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean that didn't help. I like the way the

<v Speaker 1>segment was done. I'll tell you what bothered me more

<v Speaker 1>the fact that I can remember the segment where he

<v Speaker 1>excommunicated seth Rollins from the vision and it looked like

<v Speaker 1>he was really going to take the reins of the

<v Speaker 1>group and everybody, like even Hayman was walking around on

<v Speaker 1>eggshells around this guy. And I kind of had like

<v Speaker 1>a sense of where they might be going with it,

<v Speaker 1>and they went in a totally different direction. Like they

<v Speaker 1>had the opportunity to turn him into a fucking killer

<v Speaker 1>and really make something out of this guy, and they

<v Speaker 1>totally dropped the ball with it. They were like, Nope,

<v Speaker 1>this is not in our plans right now. We can't

<v Speaker 1>deviate from our plans. Like, even if you ended up

<v Speaker 1>not putting the championship on him, the follow up to

<v Speaker 1>that angle was atrocious. It was such a great angle

<v Speaker 1>and then they did nothing with it. They did nothing

<v Speaker 1>to follow up on it, total waste that bothered me more.

<v Speaker 1>I remember being so excited about it when I was

<v Speaker 1>reviewing it and talking about it that night, and the

<v Speaker 1>possibilities of where it could go and everything. And it's

<v Speaker 1>just like, man, you talk about being handed gold and

<v Speaker 1>just throwing it away. Dry Chicken says, the Bela Army

<v Speaker 1>is back. They want to finish their story. Let them

<v Speaker 1>win it go away. Bronze voice crack was funny. His voice.

<v Speaker 1>His voice is actually cracked in a few different promos.

<v Speaker 1>He'll be cutting this like serious, like intense promo and

<v Speaker 1>then he'll be like, eh, I don't know why it

<v Speaker 1>sounded like Paul Barrett there for a second. Dry Chicken says,

<v Speaker 1>I know you don't want me in the WWE creative room,

<v Speaker 1>but after watching Unreal, I would give the creative team

<v Speaker 1>beer wings and pizza in marijuana. Yeah, I don't. I

<v Speaker 1>don't need you in that room. I need you here.

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<v Speaker 1>Row feels so lifeless nowadays. There's just no heat for

<v Speaker 1>any of the matches. I don't understand it. It's like

<v Speaker 1>people just pay to see the entrances. You just hit it,

<v Speaker 1>You just hit the nail on the head, brother, That's

<v Speaker 1>exactly what they paid for. This is what happens when

<v Speaker 1>you overcharge for tickets. You price out a lot of

<v Speaker 1>the longtime fans who either can't afford to go or

<v Speaker 1>they're just not dumb enough to spend those kinds of

<v Speaker 1>prices on some of these stupid shows. And so what

<v Speaker 1>you end up with. And this is what my fear

<v Speaker 1>was the entire time, and I even talked about this

<v Speaker 1>on the sound off, Like, as time goes on and

<v Speaker 1>they continue to price fans out of these shows, what

<v Speaker 1>is the makeup of the audience going to look like?

<v Speaker 1>How is the audience makeup going to change? You're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have a completely different type of fan base sad of this,

<v Speaker 1>Like the really hardcore, diehard fans will still be there,

<v Speaker 1>but you're gonna change what a typical WWE audience looks like.

<v Speaker 1>And what you're left with now a lot of the

<v Speaker 1>time is an audience that's there for the stars and

<v Speaker 1>the entrances. That's exactly what they're there for and to sing.

<v Speaker 1>They want to sing Robin Ren Cody Cody ra like this,

<v Speaker 1>that's what they want to do. That's it, that's it.

<v Speaker 1>So you hit the nail right on the head there.

<v Speaker 1>They're not paying for the wrestling anymore. They're not paying

<v Speaker 1>for the show. They're paying for the experience, Phil, not

<v Speaker 1>the plastic bracelet. Lol. This segment ain't bad, Paul Van

<v Speaker 1>Summer and now that was a fucking promo. Great back

<v Speaker 1>and forth and both guys speaking truth. Chris O'Neil deaf

<v Speaker 1>Rebel strikes again. Alexander Grees deaf Rebel committed a hate

<v Speaker 1>crime against Stephanie. It's awful, just awful. Dry Chicken says

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns. Being unfazed is dangerous. I really want Roman

<v Speaker 1>to bury Triple H and his favorites six feet under

<v Speaker 1>to the damn ground. He is one of Triple H's favorites.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what you're talking about. You do realize that,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I know he was really Vince's favorite, but

<v Speaker 1>I look at Roman as a Triple H guy. Let

<v Speaker 1>me tell you something, Triple H taking over creative when

<v Speaker 1>he did. He owes everything to Roman Reigns because he

<v Speaker 1>inherited the Bloodline story, and Triple H has relied very

<v Speaker 1>heavily on the bloodline. That's why he was getting a

<v Speaker 1>lot of praise for his booking. Why do you think

<v Speaker 1>that was because the Bloodline story was in full effect?

<v Speaker 1>He inherited that story, and I think that it colored people's,

<v Speaker 1>you know, sort of vision of his creative prowess in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>I definitely think there was some of that going on.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe he got a little too overpraised for it. And

<v Speaker 1>then when the Bloodline story finally ran its course, which

<v Speaker 1>it did, all of a sudden, the blooms started coming

<v Speaker 1>off the roads a little bit. So if anybody should

<v Speaker 1>be in great debt and appreciation to Roman Reigns, it

<v Speaker 1>is Triple H. Super Pony says, I'm begging Roman to

<v Speaker 1>show up for the entirety of the build because that

<v Speaker 1>promo was incredible. Please, my tribal chief, my OTC, don't

<v Speaker 1>ruin this for us. Oh we got Alec his brother solo.

<v Speaker 1>What's up with these conflicting reports on Jericho's aw contract

<v Speaker 1>status at this point? Would you expect to see him

<v Speaker 1>return to WWE the Raw after Mania? I don't know when,

<v Speaker 1>but I expect to see him back in WWI. At

<v Speaker 1>this point, I don't know when, and I don't really

<v Speaker 1>give a shit, but I'm still thinking he ends up

<v Speaker 1>back in WWI. William Valencia solo. Something doesn't feel right.

<v Speaker 1>Where is the WrestleMania sign behind you? You have to

<v Speaker 1>start pointing at the sign. We ain't got no WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>sign this year, not yet anyway, I'm getting my WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>Saudi sign ready for next year. Brian ah De Green Boy.

<v Speaker 1>I really enjoyed that CM Punk and Roman Reigns promo.

<v Speaker 1>Battle Punk is one of the goats on the mic,

<v Speaker 1>but Roman more than held his own. I think Roman

<v Speaker 1>not only more than held his own. If I had

<v Speaker 1>to give the edge to one or the other, I

<v Speaker 1>would give the edge to Roman in that segment. Dev

<v Speaker 1>to Dust the two thousand and six Chicago Bears is

<v Speaker 1>one of the worst teams to play in the Super Bowl. Also,

<v Speaker 1>Game seven of the twenty sixteen World Series is one

<v Speaker 1>of the best games ever. We're putting that New York

<v Speaker 1>Rat groundhog in the friar that is from Emperor Comet.

<v Speaker 1>You can have him. You can have him and cook

<v Speaker 1>him up. Be Man the champ Our Canadian Groundhog didn't

<v Speaker 1>see his shadow. I guess that means we get spring

<v Speaker 1>early suckers. We'll put him in the friar too. Justin

<v Speaker 1>g thank you for the twenty five. How about the

<v Speaker 1>women's rumble though, well it was definitely better than the men's.

<v Speaker 1>And then Justin with the thirteen says, the best super

<v Speaker 1>chats always rise to the top. Dig It death scythe

<v Speaker 1>here's an idea in the elimination Chamber match. It comes

<v Speaker 1>down to Cody and Jacob and they do a spot

<v Speaker 1>where it ends in a double pinfall, and that's how

<v Speaker 1>we get Cody Drew Jacob at wrestle Mania of forty two. Well,

<v Speaker 1>then where does Randy fitt in? I think they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>leave Randy Orton off the WrestleMania card in a relatively

<v Speaker 1>big match. What does he do if he's not part

<v Speaker 1>of it? I mean, look, he has been in the scene,

<v Speaker 1>Cody dropped him in the rumble with a Cody cutter.

<v Speaker 1>Does he not factor into this in some way? So

<v Speaker 1>you think they're doing a triple thread and not a

<v Speaker 1>fatal four way, because if they don't do a four way,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not quite sure where Orton lands in this retro

<v Speaker 1>koh says, all we needed was Stephanie coming out and

<v Speaker 1>yelling at bron Breaker put him down. He's a civilian.

<v Speaker 1>Forgot that. She said that about the cameraman in the

<v Speaker 1>brock Angle Golden Boy. The mass man is Logan, Paul.

<v Speaker 1>You know, it would be kind of it would be

<v Speaker 1>kind of funny if it ended up being him. I

<v Speaker 1>was half joking about it the other night. But whoever

<v Speaker 1>did it, somebody zoomed it on the face has a

<v Speaker 1>has a beard. So Logan is at least in contention

<v Speaker 1>for the spot Chicago for MBK CM Punk and Roman

<v Speaker 1>was Fire and seeing a truly angry Gunther just manhandled

<v Speaker 1>Dragon Lee with Lee hanging limp in Gunther's grip. Need

<v Speaker 1>more of it? Yeah. It reminded me of when Brody

<v Speaker 1>King did that to Darby Allen. They had that Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rampage match a few years ago. He got him in

<v Speaker 1>a sleeper over the ropes and he just choked him

<v Speaker 1>out and Darby just went limp and then he let

<v Speaker 1>go and Darby just went right down on the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Tito lies I saw so many commercials. It's not funny anymore.

<v Speaker 1>It was never funny, it's even less funny. Now it

<v Speaker 1>feels like I'm watching commercials featuring raw as opposed to

<v Speaker 1>raw featuring commercials. Mactub I remember you used to rate

<v Speaker 1>Breaking Bad is your goat show, but recently said Sopranos. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean it's interchangeable. Top three are Sopranos, breaking Bed

<v Speaker 1>in the Shield. Those are my top three, and Better

<v Speaker 1>Call Saul is not too far behind. Better Call Saul is.

<v Speaker 1>It's definitely in that breaking bed territory. Navy says AJ

<v Speaker 1>should have saved that Mark Henry speech for twenty twenty six.

<v Speaker 1>Well apparently not. I mean, if he's serious about being done,

<v Speaker 1>then there's no need for Mark Henry speech. Justin g

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser knowing Spanish was the biggest shock to me. Kaiser

<v Speaker 1>knowing Spanish is a big part of why he is

<v Speaker 1>so over in TRIPLEA. The lesson here is that it

<v Speaker 1>could be very beneficial to learn another language. You never

<v Speaker 1>know it might come in handy for you. Tyler Cole,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for the ten. Tyler says if Roman made

<v Speaker 1>some of those points against twenty ten punk, would he

<v Speaker 1>have held his own The bracelet line from the guy

<v Speaker 1>who's had necklace matches for three years alone, was priceless.

<v Speaker 1>The Ula Falla matches Come on Now Lala, though, is

<v Speaker 1>a tribal custom. Though you can't compare the Uhla Falla

<v Speaker 1>to the plastic bracelet. That is funny though. Det Sithe says,

<v Speaker 1>I know they're not younger guys, but if guys like

<v Speaker 1>La Knight and Alistair Black were elevated to the main

<v Speaker 1>event level, they would still feel new and fresh in

<v Speaker 1>that scene, just like DDP and WCW in the late nineties. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I mean it's less of that age and more just

<v Speaker 1>when you elevate somebody new into the main event picture,

<v Speaker 1>it can feel fresh. When Batista got over as a

<v Speaker 1>headliner and won the world title for the first time,

<v Speaker 1>he was already forty. You know, age, age is less important.

<v Speaker 1>It's a matter of if you can get somebody new

<v Speaker 1>over in that spot. The reality is, you know you

<v Speaker 1>mentioned Alistair Black. Alistair Black ain't over nearly as much

<v Speaker 1>as La Night is, Like it just has not clicked

<v Speaker 1>for him. La Knight, despite not being viewed as someone

<v Speaker 1>who can be in that position by the company, clearly

<v Speaker 1>continues to be over. Alistair Black is not over. I

<v Speaker 1>would not I would not be comparing the two Mactubbs says,

<v Speaker 1>AJ after his first one and a half years was underutilized. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean they had him been a tag team with

<v Speaker 1>Omas and they were doing a bunch of things with him,

<v Speaker 1>half of which I can't even remember, honestly. And then

<v Speaker 1>he was injured a few times, so there were some

<v Speaker 1>injuries in there too. His best year in WWE is

<v Speaker 1>still the first year he showed up, like his twenty

<v Speaker 1>sixteen is unmatched in his WWE run. Paul Carpenter, did

<v Speaker 1>you know one Man Gang had a tryout in the

<v Speaker 1>attitude there? I did know that. I did. Some of

<v Speaker 1>those guys had, like Earthquake. Earthquake had a dark match

<v Speaker 1>during a smack On taping in two thousand and one,

<v Speaker 1>if you could track it down on YouTube. It's wild

<v Speaker 1>to see him out there, and I think they had

<v Speaker 1>the ovaltron and I don't know if it was the

<v Speaker 1>ovaltron or maybe they had the fist at that point,

<v Speaker 1>but I think it was the ovaltron, and there's Earthquake,

<v Speaker 1>and obviously they ended up not picking him up. But

<v Speaker 1>it's just weird, like this doesn't really belong, This doesn't

<v Speaker 1>really fit. Death Site says if they do Gunther against

<v Speaker 1>Brock Lesner at SummerSlam. Then Gunther should do to Brock

<v Speaker 1>what Lesnar did to John Cena at SummerSlam in twenty fourteen.

<v Speaker 1>He should, but they're not going to that will not happen.

<v Speaker 1>Mass Man. Somebody asked about the mass Man. Jeremy Rowe says,

<v Speaker 1>Raw is in Atlanta on February twenty third. AJ gives

<v Speaker 1>his speech, then followed by Hall of Fame announcement buy

<v Speaker 1>er Cell Logan Paul masked man, I could buy on that.

<v Speaker 1>I could buy on it as far as like believing

<v Speaker 1>it'll end up being him AJ in the Hall of Fame.

<v Speaker 1>It's funny. At the beginning of the year, I said

<v Speaker 1>that AJ would be going into the TNA Hall of

<v Speaker 1>Fame this year, but I just assumed he would still

<v Speaker 1>be active through at least WrestleMania, So I never thought,

<v Speaker 1>like WWE Hall of Fame, I didn't think he'd be

<v Speaker 1>done this soon. If he really is done, then I

<v Speaker 1>could see that. I could definitely see that if he

<v Speaker 1>really truly is done and he's not going anywhere else.

<v Speaker 1>Death Side buy sell Rens on these fans driven roads

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleManias. The s movement for thirty, Kochy Mania for

<v Speaker 1>thirty five, or Cody's story for forty. Cody's story ended

<v Speaker 1>up being a lot more interesting because of the way

<v Speaker 1>everything kind of got blown up. So I would go

<v Speaker 1>forty and then thirty and then thirty five. Prince Vegeta,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't be fucking with Adam Pierce. The man is

<v Speaker 1>a former five time NWA World champion. That's right. You

<v Speaker 1>don't fuck with a man with a drinking problem. Jeremy

<v Speaker 1>Rose says. So the Bellas say the women's tag division

<v Speaker 1>is stacked, but it's just the top women paired as teams. Well,

<v Speaker 1>that's why I feel so stacked, because you've actually got

<v Speaker 1>some big names in the division, Rhea Ripley and Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>Flair and EO Sky, Oscar mactub. Why do people use

<v Speaker 1>the longevity argument against the Rock but not Austin and

<v Speaker 1>Rock was more versatile and adaptable across eras who uses

<v Speaker 1>the longevity argument for against Rock but not Austin. I've

<v Speaker 1>always talked about how white hot Austin was, but how

<v Speaker 1>short that run was, So I don't know why other

<v Speaker 1>people would not mention that with Austin, I mean his

<v Speaker 1>run on top. It depends when you say it started.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think it started in ninety seven or ninety eight.

<v Speaker 1>Really it started in ninety eight, and you you know,

<v Speaker 1>you almost can't even count most of two thousand because

<v Speaker 1>he missed most of that year. So if you take

<v Speaker 1>most of that year out, you have ninety eight, ninety nine,

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and one, two thousand and two, four and

<v Speaker 1>a half years at best. At best Rock was a

<v Speaker 1>little bit longer. But Austin was just that guy. He

<v Speaker 1>was the right guy in the right place at the

<v Speaker 1>right time, with the right feud against the boss, and

<v Speaker 1>it's just this iconic feud. It's iconic. It's like Hogan

<v Speaker 1>and Andre WrestleMania three. Not the best match, but it's

<v Speaker 1>iconic because it was the right match to do at

<v Speaker 1>that time and that Slam and you know that all

<v Speaker 1>the people in the Pontiac Silver Dome. It's just sometimes

<v Speaker 1>there are just moments and there are just people at

<v Speaker 1>the right time who come along and they're that guy.

<v Speaker 1>And that's who Austin was. He is the face of

<v Speaker 1>an era that you could say business wise, they're making

<v Speaker 1>more money now, but he is and will forever be

<v Speaker 1>the face of the most successful era in the history

<v Speaker 1>of that company period. End of story. Certainly the most

<v Speaker 1>fun death side is Adam Pierce and bron Breaker are

<v Speaker 1>gonna end up fighting like Sid and Arn I hope not.

<v Speaker 1>They almost die in that fight and one guy got

<v Speaker 1>fired because of it, Prince Begeta. Another thing that was

<v Speaker 1>weird about the Oba segment is that he is a

<v Speaker 1>babyface and the Vikings are faces, so he's just attacking

<v Speaker 1>other baby faces. Yeah, and the fans don't care because

<v Speaker 1>they're not over so it doesn't matter. And I'll guarantee

<v Speaker 1>you that somebody made that argument in the creative meeting,

<v Speaker 1>like no one's gonna care because the problem with the

<v Speaker 1>war Raiders is that every time they come out and

<v Speaker 1>they play their music and they come out on TV

<v Speaker 1>and it's sad, you know, I feel bad for them,

<v Speaker 1>Like the crowd just doesn't react. They come out to crickets.

<v Speaker 1>I remember when they came out for their title match

<v Speaker 1>or WrestleMania last year, nobody cared, Like they just don't

<v Speaker 1>react to them. So I don't think the company looked

<v Speaker 1>at it and thought, well, we got to be careful

<v Speaker 1>here because they're babyfaces and so if we have him

<v Speaker 1>beat up baby faces. They made boo Obafemi. They're not

<v Speaker 1>gonna boo Obafemi because he beat up the Viking Raiders

<v Speaker 1>like they don't care. Javeli says, yes, you say no

<v Speaker 1>to aj Lee returned to team up. Would see him

<v Speaker 1>punk to face Seth and Becky and it was Facebook

<v Speaker 1>not me. I was face. Okay, I think I understand

<v Speaker 1>what you're saying. This is from the other night. Let's

<v Speaker 1>just say Jericho doesn't return before WrestleMania, who will La

<v Speaker 1>Knight face? Well, the better question is if La Knight

<v Speaker 1>does not wrestle Chris Jericho WrestleMania, do they even give

<v Speaker 1>l A. Knight a singles match at WrestleMania. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it would probably make sense for it to be a

<v Speaker 1>member of the Vision. We've already seen him in Logan,

<v Speaker 1>Paul though, right, that was a Summer Slim match, and

<v Speaker 1>I think they were part of the same WrestleMania match, Right,

<v Speaker 1>wasn't it a wasn't it a triple threat? Was it?

<v Speaker 1>Orton Knight in Logan? But those are three guys. I

<v Speaker 1>think those are the three guys. But then La and

<v Speaker 1>I got that big win for the US title over

<v Speaker 1>him at Summerslim. Yeah. I don't know either remember of

<v Speaker 1>the vision or he may not get on the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>card this year unless it's some sort of multiman match.

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy says, Bailey and bird Girl got to win the

<v Speaker 1>tag belts to job to the Bellas. Won't be the

<v Speaker 1>first time the Bellos get over on Bailey at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I hope so. I hope Ria and Eo lose those

<v Speaker 1>belts to Bailey and Lyra before WrestleMania. I don't want

<v Speaker 1>to see Rhea, Ripley and Eo Sky trapped with the

<v Speaker 1>Bellas as their big WrestleMania match. A ratia. When did

<v Speaker 1>this thing start where the heels get punished and kicked

<v Speaker 1>out of the building for doing heel things. It started

<v Speaker 1>years and years and years ago. Heels have been getting

<v Speaker 1>kicked out of buildings for decades. There were lots of

<v Speaker 1>heels who were kicked out of buildings, even during the

<v Speaker 1>Attitude era we were just talking about in the Nitro era,

<v Speaker 1>that actually is around the time that it's stuck. I

<v Speaker 1>think the first angle I can remember well, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>unless you want to count the night that Bobby Heenan

<v Speaker 1>got thrown out of the building by Guerrilla mon Soon.

<v Speaker 1>That was in ninety three, But I was going to

<v Speaker 1>say was around the mid nineties that I probably saw

<v Speaker 1>the first angle in WWE anyway, where Guerrilla mond Soon

<v Speaker 1>threw maybe it was Austin out of the building. It's

<v Speaker 1>been done a lot over the year. They do it

<v Speaker 1>more often now. But Bas Beers, Oba and Brocs should

<v Speaker 1>have been in the final four. Oba Femi should have

<v Speaker 1>eliminated brock Lesner from the Royal Rumble, and the way

<v Speaker 1>they did Brocklesner's elimination was a complete and utter fucking waste.

<v Speaker 1>So if that's how they were going to eliminate brock

<v Speaker 1>there was no reason for them not to have Oba

<v Speaker 1>dump him out of the ring. That was a wasted opportunity.

<v Speaker 1>There were a lot of very head scratching decisions as

<v Speaker 1>far as how things were booked in that rumble, and

<v Speaker 1>you could tell they don't have anybody like Pat Patterson

<v Speaker 1>as far as the mind that he had for these rumbles.

<v Speaker 1>They ain't got nobody like him backstage. When he died,

<v Speaker 1>it all went with him. They don't have anybody like

<v Speaker 1>that back there, that's for sure. Erasia says, why does

<v Speaker 1>Hayman envision keep holding bron Breaker back or trying to

<v Speaker 1>keep him in check. Man should be a vicious killer. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's kind of how they were trying to

<v Speaker 1>portray him in the opening segment, and that's part of

<v Speaker 1>it's part of portraying him that way is that it's

<v Speaker 1>too extreme even for his partners, and they're trying to

<v Speaker 1>control him and he's like uncontrollable. That's why they do that.

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy says, Brock La Knights at WrestleMania. I'm sorry, I

<v Speaker 1>know that's not the reaction you were you were looking

<v Speaker 1>for there, but that's that's funny. That's funny. Are you

<v Speaker 1>seriously asking me would they do Brock Lesner and La

<v Speaker 1>Night at WrestleMania if you're an La Night fan? I

<v Speaker 1>have a better question. If you are an La Night fan,

<v Speaker 1>why and gods in God's name would you want him

<v Speaker 1>to wrestle Brock Alesna or WrestleMania. You know exactly how

<v Speaker 1>that match is gonna go. It ain't gonna end well

<v Speaker 1>for La Night. There's no La Night fan out there

<v Speaker 1>that should be hoping for a Brock Alesnar La Night

<v Speaker 1>match at WrestleMania. Not unless you have it out for

<v Speaker 1>this guy, Alexander Sis. Stephanie said on Chris Van Vliet's

<v Speaker 1>show that she begged Sean to keep her music when

<v Speaker 1>she went to the main roster. They wanted to change

<v Speaker 1>it back then, Well they finally got their wish. Congratulations,

<v Speaker 1>you made it worse. The Mount Vernon kid, Christopher Bennett,

<v Speaker 1>I wish Adam Pierce said to him, and if you

<v Speaker 1>don't get out of my face, I'll bounce you, just

<v Speaker 1>like your checks used to in Philly. No less imagine

<v Speaker 1>him making that comment in Philly. Death Side says, imagine

<v Speaker 1>if deaf Rebel tried to deaf Rebel brock Lesner. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I think they know better than that. That's the one

<v Speaker 1>person they will not be deaf rebeling. The Viking Raider

<v Speaker 1>was such a Vince move, something I always hated. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's just generally no good reason to do

<v Speaker 1>that and kill one of your tag teams, unless again,

<v Speaker 1>unless they're on their way out, and then it doesn't matter. Carlos,

<v Speaker 1>Why do I have a feeling that seth Rollins will

<v Speaker 1>be added to Roman versus Punk? Yeah? I mean I

<v Speaker 1>get him wanting his title back, but what you just

<v Speaker 1>proposed is literally the match we got last year. You

<v Speaker 1>cannot do that. You cannot add Seth Rolins to the

<v Speaker 1>match and do the same match they did at WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>forty one. That makes no sense. The match at WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>is probably if he's back in time, it's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>Seth Rollins against bron Breaker. Because now we know bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker is not wrestling for a championship or WrestleMania. What

<v Speaker 1>the hell else is he gonna do. What other match

<v Speaker 1>even makes sense other than Seth Rollins That that would

<v Speaker 1>be banking on the fact that Seth Rollins is going

<v Speaker 1>to be medically cleared in time to wrestle At WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>then you do Seth Rollins against bron Breaker. You do not

<v Speaker 1>add him to Roman Reigns and Cempunk. We got a

<v Speaker 1>twenty dollars super chat here from Powerful One. What would

<v Speaker 1>really get the World Heavyweight Championship over is if Roman

<v Speaker 1>loses first time he goes for Little Bro, he fails.

<v Speaker 1>Punk can say to be the world heavyweight champion, you

<v Speaker 1>got to beat the best. Roman, you aren't good enough

<v Speaker 1>to be the best, and not good enough to be

<v Speaker 1>the world heavyweight Champion. I don't think I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that would harm Roman's ego they did that. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know that he's he's not. It's too early to make

<v Speaker 1>a prediction. I'm not saying he's gonna win. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>saying he's not gonna win. Probably not gonna win the title.

<v Speaker 1>He's not gonna be around after WrestleMania. He usually takes

<v Speaker 1>his Mania a SummerSlam vacation. But I don't think they're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have Punk go out there and bury Roman quite

<v Speaker 1>that badly. Justin g they were literally doing ab testing

<v Speaker 1>with a live audience. That tells me one thing. They

<v Speaker 1>don't know what they want to do or where they're going.

<v Speaker 1>Who's the heel, who's the face? What did the fans want?

<v Speaker 1>You could tell when they're trying to get a response here,

<v Speaker 1>like where do you think we should go? Should we go?

<v Speaker 1>And Drew McIntyre, should we go? With Cmpunk? I'm I'm

<v Speaker 1>fairly certain they had their mind made up on that

<v Speaker 1>at least a few weeks ago. But sometimes they do that.

<v Speaker 1>They did that with Bretton Lueger in the ninety four Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>It's exactly what they did once they heard the reaction

<v Speaker 1>to Brett. It just affirmed, Okay, we gotta go with Brett,

<v Speaker 1>So Lex never won the belt, justin g they were

<v Speaker 1>oh we just read that. One Death's Side says Punk

<v Speaker 1>and Roman both lost to seth Rollins or wrestle Many

<v Speaker 1>of forty one. So now it's like Punk and Roman

<v Speaker 1>are going to find out who the bigger loser out

<v Speaker 1>of the two of them is. Yeah, but you know what,

<v Speaker 1>after the promo tonight, you get a segment like that,

<v Speaker 1>ain't nobody going to be thinking about WrestleMania forty one

<v Speaker 1>last year? Like that segment tonight was a money segment

<v Speaker 1>and it washes all that other Well, that stuff doesn't

<v Speaker 1>even matter now, but you got to keep it up.

<v Speaker 1>One good segment on the road to WRESTLEMANI is not

<v Speaker 1>gonna be enough. You're gonna have to have more in

<v Speaker 1>the vein of what we saw tonight. That's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>the key. A shout out to Abbas all the way

<v Speaker 1>from Iraq in the Chat Javeli with an Australian twenty

<v Speaker 1>In your opinion, why Tamina Snook never won the WWE

<v Speaker 1>Women's Championship because she wasn't that great. They had plenty

<v Speaker 1>of other women on the roster who were better than her.

<v Speaker 1>Very simple. Besides the scene of match at SummerSlam, favorite

<v Speaker 1>AJ match for twenty sixteen. Probably it was one of

<v Speaker 1>the Roman Reigns matches. It was right after WrestleMania. They

<v Speaker 1>headlined two pay per views, and I think it might

<v Speaker 1>have been their second match that was better than the

<v Speaker 1>first one. But it was definitely one of those Roman matches.

<v Speaker 1>They had a couple of really good matches on pay

<v Speaker 1>per view that year. Justin says, a suffering fuck a

<v Speaker 1>path amazing Matt Fisher, what type of blood is disagreeable? Oh? Negative?

<v Speaker 1>Death Side Matt was really you were really proud of

<v Speaker 1>that one, weren't you? Yeah? Death Side all seriousness. I

<v Speaker 1>hope Punk and Romans feud is a lot like the

<v Speaker 1>feud between CM Punk and Jeff Hardy. They had a

<v Speaker 1>memorable feud back in eight and did not like each other.

<v Speaker 1>Javelis has thought of thoughts on A and E replacing

<v Speaker 1>Undertaker and Michelle with Naddy and Kevin Owens for season

<v Speaker 1>three of LFG. I think Kevin Owens being on that

<v Speaker 1>show is instantly gonna make that show better. I approve

<v Speaker 1>of that move. Are we getting Randy versus Gunther at

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania of forty two. I don't think so, because I

<v Speaker 1>don't think Orton is going anywhere. I think Orton still

<v Speaker 1>has got a few years left, and unless he's losing,

<v Speaker 1>there's no point in doing the match because you're not

<v Speaker 1>going to have them go to WrestleMania and just have

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton be Gunther. That would be very dumb. So

<v Speaker 1>I don't see that happening. M Mills with a nine

<v Speaker 1>to ninety nine. Thank you, M Mills, and thank you

<v Speaker 1>again for your great support. Much appreciated this weekend. I

<v Speaker 1>hope you're having a great night, Super Pony, old fraud voice.

<v Speaker 1>You know, the one thing I hate about what we

<v Speaker 1>do is fans acting like critics and not fans just

<v Speaker 1>shutting up and being a fan. Don't be a critic.

<v Speaker 1>Bass beer is Roman has main evented so many WrestleManias. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>this will be number eleven eleven WrestleManias. Imagine if I

<v Speaker 1>was sitting here in twenty twenty two. Okay, so that

<v Speaker 1>would have been WrestleMania thirty eight in Dallas, right the

<v Speaker 1>last like Vince WrestleMania. You remember the main event of

<v Speaker 1>that WrestleMania Roman reigns against brock Lesner, Champion against Champion.

<v Speaker 1>I remember that. Imagine I'm sitting here on the podcast

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty two and Roman had just made a

<v Speaker 1>end to the WrestleMania before as well. But if I

<v Speaker 1>was sitting here, I'm like, Hey, guess what, guys in

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six, guess who's going to be made of

<v Speaker 1>ending WrestleMania roaming reigns. What do you think the reaction

<v Speaker 1>would have been? Well, here we are, so you can

<v Speaker 1>understand why like it just after a while, it's like,

<v Speaker 1>this is kind of ridiculous. From Punk Satani, From Punk

<v Speaker 1>Satani to Hell with the Groundhog, says h clay VMan.

<v Speaker 1>We got Dan. If you would have told me three

<v Speaker 1>months ago the Solemn Monster would be wondering where Kit

<v Speaker 1>Wilson is during the Royal Rumble, I would ask what

<v Speaker 1>you're smoking? And I'm still gonna sit here and wonder

<v Speaker 1>where was Kit Wilson during the or Kit will Soon?

<v Speaker 1>Where was Kit will Soon during the Royal Rumble? Makes

<v Speaker 1>no sense. Matt Fisher Dom should play Orco in the

<v Speaker 1>New Masters of the Universe movie. Orco never had a

<v Speaker 1>mustache quite that great and ranked these three, uh for me,

<v Speaker 1>Van Hammer, Rick Fuller, Scoot Andrews. I mean the only

<v Speaker 1>I'm only gonna rank one because the only one from

<v Speaker 1>that list that really matters is Van Hammer. Enough said

<v Speaker 1>death Sithe Roman Reigns went from Jack and the Beanstalk

<v Speaker 1>to if y'all keep wadding me, I'm gonna smash all

<v Speaker 1>y'all like I would smash Steve Austin. See what he

<v Speaker 1>should have said is I'm gonna smash all y'all like

<v Speaker 1>I would smash your mom. That would have gotten a

<v Speaker 1>reaction warm corn with a five dollars super chap, buy, sell, rent, layaway.

<v Speaker 1>Most cursed Bald Brett Hart, Seth Rogan as Batman undertaker

<v Speaker 1>with the spinner belt, Skinny Yoko Zuna in jeans. That

<v Speaker 1>was a real rumor undertaker with a spinner belt. By far,

<v Speaker 1>is the most cursed Bald Brett Hart would be would

<v Speaker 1>be very bad. Bald bred Hart just doesn't work. And

<v Speaker 1>then I'll, I don't know, I'll rent on Seth Rogan

<v Speaker 1>as Batman and buy on Skinny Yoko Zuna. He was skinny,

<v Speaker 1>he'd probably still be alive today. Death Side that will

<v Speaker 1>forever be the best receipt to the what chant. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I'm still partial to the undertakers. I still think he

<v Speaker 1>has the best one. Say what if you sleep with

<v Speaker 1>you sister? What that sounds about, right, Yuki? Oh rules.

<v Speaker 1>We didn't hear anything yet, but I hope Kyrie is okay.

<v Speaker 1>I think Oscar just murdered her and just buried her

<v Speaker 1>in the in the desert out there in Saudi and

<v Speaker 1>then flew home. We haven't heard from Kyrie since the rumble.

<v Speaker 1>I am I am concerned about her well being. Oscar

<v Speaker 1>was not happy with her. Hey, mister Taylor made solo.

<v Speaker 1>I just joined as a member, and you didn't acknowledge me. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I'm acknowledging you now you are hereby acknowledged. Thank you,

<v Speaker 1>brother bas Beers. I thought Jericho was signed until like

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine. Apparently not, Otherwise we

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be getting all these reports over the last six

<v Speaker 1>months that he was going to be a free agent

<v Speaker 1>potentially in twenty twenty six. Obviously, something must have either

<v Speaker 1>happened or if someone got their lines all across. He

<v Speaker 1>is still listed on the aw roster page. You know,

<v Speaker 1>when Hobb's contract expired, they got him off there that

<v Speaker 1>that day at midnight. Last I checked, Jericho is still

<v Speaker 1>listed on that page. So I don't know what's going

<v Speaker 1>on now. Vernon Kid with forty five months of membership,

<v Speaker 1>Punk was holding back tonight. And you know what he's

<v Speaker 1>going to kill is when the raw logo is off

<v Speaker 1>the mic. Hey, he's got to pull that logo off

<v Speaker 1>the mic, then he means business. I think he pulled

<v Speaker 1>it off the mic that night that he called Dwayne

<v Speaker 1>a bald fraud. That didn't happen tonight. Death side. By

<v Speaker 1>the way, I had been advocating for a Cody Drew

<v Speaker 1>Orton Jacob match before Survivor Series. I just didn't think

<v Speaker 1>it would happen to WrestleMania. It just seems like they're

<v Speaker 1>primed for it at WrestleMania this year. Matt Fisher, the

<v Speaker 1>mass man was clearly Bronson Reichsteiner. Yeah. I had some

<v Speaker 1>people in my mentions telling me that it was Jake Paul.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, do we need this? Do we need this?

<v Speaker 1>Who asked for this? We just got the Bella Twins back.

<v Speaker 1>Now you want to give us the Paul Brothers, Jarrett

<v Speaker 1>Moose Rodriguez. Do you think Javon really needs to put

<v Speaker 1>on wait to eventually be a main event or someday

<v Speaker 1>or does that not matter as much in the present day.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think it matters as much, but I do

<v Speaker 1>think if you want him to be taken seriously as

<v Speaker 1>a world heavyweight champion, yeah, he's gonna have to bulk

<v Speaker 1>up a little bit. I'm not saying he's gotta get

<v Speaker 1>like ginormous, but he's got to put some meat on

<v Speaker 1>those bones. I think if he's gonna be taken seriously

<v Speaker 1>in that spot, and when I say taken seriously, I

<v Speaker 1>mean by the creative team as well, like seeing him

<v Speaker 1>as a main event star. He's only twenty one years old,

<v Speaker 1>so he's still very young. But I do think as

<v Speaker 1>the years go on, he's gonna have to bulk up

<v Speaker 1>a little bit. We have a death sithe. Fuck it,

<v Speaker 1>let's put myself and Adam Pierce in a drinking contest.

<v Speaker 1>Place your bets and also my real name is Adam

<v Speaker 1>so was he man? Thank you that sith. We got

<v Speaker 1>jodyn l A. Knight and the Ussos against the Vision

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. No, the Usso's against the Luca Bros. At WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna keep saying it. I've been saying it for months.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna keep saying it. Bass Beerus, whatever happened to

<v Speaker 1>the New Day storyline got dropped, Biggie ain't coming back,

<v Speaker 1>Bass Beers, Thank you again, Ray Righten. At this point,

<v Speaker 1>Montese needs to give Bianca one of his knuckles. It's

<v Speaker 1>not like he's doing anything important. I miss my girl. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>look I miss her from TV, too, But I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what's going on. We've got no updates. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I thought you were I started reading the super chat,

<v Speaker 1>I thought you were gonna say Montes needs to give

<v Speaker 1>Bianca a baby. I was like, you know, if she

<v Speaker 1>would have known she was going to be off for

<v Speaker 1>this long, she probably could have had a baby by now.

<v Speaker 1>She wants to start a family, that's gonna be another

<v Speaker 1>year and a half, at least a year and a

<v Speaker 1>half gone. You know, that's the thing with some of these,

<v Speaker 1>uh you know, the women's wrestlers. They gets super especially

<v Speaker 1>the ones that are super successful. It's very different from

<v Speaker 1>the men because they're if they want to start a family.

<v Speaker 1>And I don't know what her plans are, but you know,

<v Speaker 1>their window is very limited and they have to make

<v Speaker 1>a decision like what's more important, you know, starting a

<v Speaker 1>family or my career, because if you do that, your

<v Speaker 1>career is on hold for at least at least eighteen

<v Speaker 1>months two years. Bianca has already missed a year of

<v Speaker 1>her career. Sucks, Jeremy, says brock La Night WrestleMania. We

<v Speaker 1>already laughed that one out of the out of the stream.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Jeremy. You have to see the baby. You

<v Speaker 1>have to see the baby, Jerry, you have to see

<v Speaker 1>the baby. Furious Nation nine ninety nine, what's up? Solo?

<v Speaker 1>Happy Groundhog's Day? What's so happy about it? He saw

<v Speaker 1>his shadow? Six more weeks of this shit? After watching

<v Speaker 1>WWE Unreal Season two, Yeah, throw Road, Dug and Bruce

<v Speaker 1>in the bin, Ronda was right saying nothing will change

<v Speaker 1>as long as Bruce is still there. She really doesn't.

<v Speaker 1>She doesn't like Bruce. She really doesn't like Bruce. She

<v Speaker 1>called him Vince's avatar. He's still there. Ailey is on

<v Speaker 1>her retirement tour, but she didn't tell anybody. It really

<v Speaker 1>feels like she might leave when her contract is up,

<v Speaker 1>says Edward. That was one of my predictions actually for

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six is that she will leave and end

<v Speaker 1>up in AW. We'll see if I'm right. Jeremy Rose

<v Speaker 1>is La Knight, Broun WrestleMania, La Knight and Braun bron Breaker,

<v Speaker 1>M No, No, I think bron and Seth. If Seth

<v Speaker 1>is not cleared, then at that point you could do

<v Speaker 1>Braun and La Knight. That doesn't feel like a WrestleMania match.

<v Speaker 1>Though we've gotten that match on TV already. I hope

<v Speaker 1>Seth can be back, That's all I'm gonna say. I

<v Speaker 1>think it's gonna screw things up for bron Breaker if

<v Speaker 1>Seth's not back, death Sithe. Also, here's a way to

<v Speaker 1>elevate the World heavyweight title. Add the two thousand and

<v Speaker 1>two to twenty thirteen lineage to the current championship. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think anybody gets it about that. I hadn't even

<v Speaker 1>thought about the lineage of that belt. I mean, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter. Bass Bears. I don't feel like I'm

<v Speaker 1>sitting at twelve o'clock. I don't feel like I'm sitting

<v Speaker 1>at twelve o'clock. The hell does that mean? Adam Schroeder

<v Speaker 1>been listening since Money in the bank twenty eleven. You're

<v Speaker 1>amazing at what you do. Thank you, Adam. So are

<v Speaker 1>they going to just have Finn Valor lose again at

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber? That is exactly what they're going to do.

<v Speaker 1>But then it won't matter if they just end up

<v Speaker 1>having him bring back the Demon to wrestle Dom. At WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>all will be forgotten because the Demon is back. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>he's going in there at elimination Chamber and he's losing,

<v Speaker 1>and William Valencia. Can we get Gunther retied the Bella Twins?

<v Speaker 1>You know, I like that idea. I think gun I

<v Speaker 1>think the next Hall of Famer that Gunther should retire

<v Speaker 1>is Briebella Maybe maybe maybe she's the next one. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>she's the next one. Super Pony. If you go back

<v Speaker 1>and watch Kevin Stein in ROH and PWG, it's no

<v Speaker 1>wonder his neck gave out on him. It's a miracle

<v Speaker 1>it didn't happen sooner. Yeah, I mean, when you see

<v Speaker 1>some of those matches, there was a ladder war that

<v Speaker 1>he had with this El Generico guy who who retired

<v Speaker 1>many years ago. I don't know what happened to that guy,

<v Speaker 1>but I mean, the the latter war they had was incredible,

<v Speaker 1>but you take a lot of abuse, a lot of

<v Speaker 1>hard bumps in that match. Matt Fisher, the masked man

<v Speaker 1>was clearly JD from New York. I never see JD

<v Speaker 1>move around like that. The beard was also a different

<v Speaker 1>color the beard. If you go back and zoom in,

<v Speaker 1>the beard was more blonde. It wasn't a salt and pepper.

<v Speaker 1>Matt Fisher, thank you, Leopoldo says, yes, solo. When you

<v Speaker 1>asked where Kit Wilson was for like the fifth time yesterday,

<v Speaker 1>you were starting to enter Rikishi. Where's Jay's title match territory?

<v Speaker 1>I remember he wanted he wants the usso's and the

<v Speaker 1>hard Ease and the new day to main event wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Mania this year. Good luck with that, Good luck with that.

<v Speaker 1>I think we're all caught up now with all of

<v Speaker 1>your message, and no we're not. Actually I jumped the

<v Speaker 1>gun here Bass Barris's Buy or Sell, Get Out or Misery.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed both films, but I gotta go Misery. Misery

<v Speaker 1>is a classic. I actually watched it again not that

<v Speaker 1>long ago. I watched it last year at some point,

<v Speaker 1>and I hadn't seen it forever and death. Syth says,

<v Speaker 1>hopefully if they do, Cody, Drew, Orton and Fatu or

<v Speaker 1>Wrestle Media, what do you think of them doing a

<v Speaker 1>segment where after the contract signing, all four men get

<v Speaker 1>arrested on the Go Home Show, like Becky, Ronda and Charlotte.

<v Speaker 1>So basically just copied the same angle they did what

<v Speaker 1>five or six years ago? They all get arrested for what. No,

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to see that. I have no problem

<v Speaker 1>with them having some kind of knockdown, drag out peer

<v Speaker 1>six brawl. That's fine, just like mass chaos. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think they need to get arrested, though. What is Cody

<v Speaker 1>gonna do that's going to get him arrested? Give me

<v Speaker 1>a break. Cody ain't gonna do nothing that's going to

<v Speaker 1>get him arrested. It's going to ruin his future political career.

<v Speaker 1>He can't get arrested. Can't do that. He's got to

<v Speaker 1>have a clean record. Carlos Galvan, Hey, Sola, have you

<v Speaker 1>seen Nurse Jackie just finished it and I think it

<v Speaker 1>was great. I have not. I know Edie Falco is

<v Speaker 1>apparently very good. She might have even won possibly an

<v Speaker 1>award for it. I don't know. I've never seen the

<v Speaker 1>show though. Paul Carpenter, how did you feel about Brett

<v Speaker 1>hart entrance songs in WCW. Hated it. I did not

<v Speaker 1>like his WCW and it never felt like Brett Hart

<v Speaker 1>to me. I can never get into it. And honestly,

<v Speaker 1>same thing with Macho Man, but more so, like I

<v Speaker 1>would say, from when he joined the nWo onward, I

<v Speaker 1>try to like, especially when he got hurt and came

<v Speaker 1>back and he was all roided up. I hate that

<v Speaker 1>Macho Man run. I just tried to pretend that it

<v Speaker 1>never happened. Uh, link Master. I agree with Rikishi regarding

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea Green. Agree with Rikishi on Chelsea Green. Disagree with

<v Speaker 1>Michael Hayes on Chelsea Green Super Pony. Let's get an

<v Speaker 1>lol TNA solo. Well, it was LOL WWE the other

<v Speaker 1>night when they spoiled their own royal Rumble entrant on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how the fuck that happened. Oops, let's

<v Speaker 1>just move bron from number one to number two. Picture Ocatta.

<v Speaker 1>I hit the wrong button somebody in the truck. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how you fuck that up, Leopoldo. Misery is

<v Speaker 1>bre mode on a loop. Well, I mean, except that

<v Speaker 1>I actually enjoy watching Misery. It's kind of actually a

<v Speaker 1>very appropriate thing to say with some of these shows

<v Speaker 1>that I watch week to week. I apparently I enjoy misery,

<v Speaker 1>and you're all with me here because misery loves company.

<v Speaker 1>See now it all makes sense. Are you excited about

<v Speaker 1>Scream Scream seven? When does it come as of February

<v Speaker 1>twenty seventh? Is that when it comes out? I am

<v Speaker 1>actually going to the movies this week. I'm very excited

<v Speaker 1>about this. I am going to see this movie. This

<v Speaker 1>is the new Sam Raimi movie Send Help. But I

<v Speaker 1>am seeing it in four D X, which I have

<v Speaker 1>never seen a movie in four DX before. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>even know what it was. But the time I wanted

<v Speaker 1>to go it was a four DX showing. So apparently

<v Speaker 1>four DX is this immersive experience where your chair moves

<v Speaker 1>and they I don't know if they spray shit at you.

<v Speaker 1>It's I mean, apparently there's a lot involved here because

<v Speaker 1>the ticket was like twelve dollars more than a regular ticket,

<v Speaker 1>so there better be something going on in my seat

<v Speaker 1>as I'm watching this movie for an extra twelve dollars.

<v Speaker 1>But I'm very excited. Now. I've never seen a movie

<v Speaker 1>in four DX before, so I shall report back to

<v Speaker 1>you and let you know how it is. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>apparently your seat moves, and if there's like a lot

<v Speaker 1>of action in the movie, you know, you got these

<v Speaker 1>like sudden movements, and I don't know, we'll see I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. Apparently it might be in three D also,

<v Speaker 1>which I don't really care for that, but I guess

<v Speaker 1>we'll find out. But the movie is getting great reviews,

<v Speaker 1>so I'm looking forward to it. But I forgot that

<v Speaker 1>Scream comes out in a few weeks. And then we

<v Speaker 1>still got the Street Fighter movie, the Mortal Kombat movie,

<v Speaker 1>and the Masters of the Universe movie. So have I

<v Speaker 1>ever seen the twenty twenty one stop motion movie? Mad God?

<v Speaker 1>I never heard of that before. What's it about? You'll

<v Speaker 1>let me know. We got two rounds though, be the

<v Speaker 1>booker to get into here, because you guys killed the goal,

<v Speaker 1>so let's do it, ladies or gentlemen. We hit the

<v Speaker 1>bonus goal too. Time to be the booker. Even hit

<v Speaker 1>the bonus goal. You guys really want be the booker here,

<v Speaker 1>don't you. Roman Cody three in the theaters? Good, keep

<v Speaker 1>it there, Keep it off WrestleMania and keep it in

<v Speaker 1>the Street Fighter movie. We have Daniel Brian and Cain

<v Speaker 1>Team hell No kicking us off here in Be the

<v Speaker 1>Booker former tag team champions. Oh wow, Cain and Daniel

<v Speaker 1>Brian against the mega powers of Hulk Hogan and the

<v Speaker 1>macho Man Randy Savage. Now there's a marquee match. You

<v Speaker 1>imagine Hogan doing a job for a little Brian Danielson.

<v Speaker 1>I always enjoyed it when Hogan would be asked about

<v Speaker 1>the Montreal Screwjob whenever he was doing an interview. This

<v Speaker 1>was years ago, and he was trying to explain to

<v Speaker 1>or maybe he was trying to explain to someone like

<v Speaker 1>a non fan about the Montreal screw job, and he

<v Speaker 1>was like, yeah, it was a little teeny Shawn Michael's pin.

<v Speaker 1>Brett Hart. I'm like, what, nothing, that didn't even happen.

<v Speaker 1>What are you talking about? I will miss the Hogan

<v Speaker 1>Tall tales though, It's the one thing I'll miss, all right,

<v Speaker 1>Women's be the Booker. Good morning? Who said good morning?

<v Speaker 1>Who is that? Yes, good morning to you as well?

<v Speaker 1>Where are you that it's morning? We have Wendy Richter,

<v Speaker 1>second time in a week We've landed on Wendy Richter.

<v Speaker 1>Be the booker really likes Wendy Richter apparently, and Wendy

<v Speaker 1>Richter is going to be taking on Lash Legend, who

<v Speaker 1>had a dominant performance in the Royal Rumble the most eliminations,

<v Speaker 1>including Charlotte Flair, Eo Sky, Jordan Grace, both Bella Twins,

<v Speaker 1>and in our main event, link Master says, did you

<v Speaker 1>see the substance with Demi Moore? It is on my

<v Speaker 1>list of things to watch. I have not yet seen

<v Speaker 1>the substance. We have the Undertaker, but not just any Undertaker,

<v Speaker 1>original gray glove, apparently permed hair Undertaker. When I think

<v Speaker 1>of Undertaker, this is the first image that comes to mind,

<v Speaker 1>This version of the Undertaker against Caine. I love it. Undertaker,

<v Speaker 1>original gray glove Undertaker against original Cain. It don't get

<v Speaker 1>no better than that. Who wins that match between original

<v Speaker 1>Caine and original Undertaker? I'm going Original Caine. There's an

<v Speaker 1>Undertaker in Caine match that we never got. How about that?

<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I was so wrapped up with the Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>in Caine. I forgot to do the sonic sweep. We

<v Speaker 1>got ourselves another sweep. Let's keep it going we're not

<v Speaker 1>done yet. We got some stipulation. Is not a pick

<v Speaker 1>in round number two beat a booker. All right, we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have ourselves, Oh boy, uh oh, a Yappa Pie

<v Speaker 1>strap match. The strapation is coming. Hogan has the Yappa

<v Speaker 1>Pie strap in his hand, all right, So we can't

<v Speaker 1>start with a tag match, so we'll just start with

<v Speaker 1>the with the men's match, then that's what we'll do.

<v Speaker 1>This is going to be a Yappa Pie strap match, everybody.

<v Speaker 1>And if you're asking me, what is the difference between

<v Speaker 1>a Yappa Pie strap match and any other strap match? Fuck?

<v Speaker 1>If I know, I have no idea Sting is one

<v Speaker 1>half of the Yappa Pie strap match. People like, what

<v Speaker 1>what is this? You people weren't watching Late Stage WCW.

<v Speaker 1>I could tell Sting and Moose this kind of feels wrong.

<v Speaker 1>But in a strap match, Okay, all right, Sting and Moose.

<v Speaker 1>You know what, though, it's a Surfersting no less surfers

<v Speaker 1>Thing and Moose in a strap match, I think could

<v Speaker 1>be a good piece of business. Not the best stipulation though.

<v Speaker 1>All right, So we have Mimosa Mayhem. Mimosa Mayhem. That's

<v Speaker 1>Jericho right now. By the way, is he's in between jobs,

<v Speaker 1>he's enjoying his time off here before he makes his

<v Speaker 1>decision on what he wants to do next, and he's

<v Speaker 1>a laying in a of Mimosa. What is with these stipulations?

<v Speaker 1>We go from the Yappa Pie strap match to fucking

<v Speaker 1>Mimosa Mayhem. This is what in the world is going

<v Speaker 1>on here? Uh? Oh no, I don't want to be

<v Speaker 1>in a Mimosa Mayhem match. Why do I have to

<v Speaker 1>be in a Mimosa Mayhem match? Why did I have

<v Speaker 1>to land on me with the most ridiculous stipulation? Are

<v Speaker 1>you fucking kidding me? It's ridiculous, This is ridiculous. Well

<v Speaker 1>who am I facing? Oh wonderful, that's even better. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>fucking great, that's just wonderful. Me against Alberto del Dipshit

<v Speaker 1>in a Mimosa Mayhem match. Yeah, that's great. That's just

<v Speaker 1>what people wanted to see. That's just great. That's just great.

<v Speaker 1>You know, first you put me in a Punjabi prison

<v Speaker 1>match against the great colleague, and now this thing puts

<v Speaker 1>me in a Mimosa Mayhem match against this guy. Do

<v Speaker 1>you know what he's going to do to me? After

<v Speaker 1>all these years of calling him Alberto del dipshit. He's

<v Speaker 1>going to drown me in the vat of Mimosa. He's

<v Speaker 1>going to hold my head underneath and drown me. And

<v Speaker 1>now we have an iron Man match. Yeah. I think

<v Speaker 1>Be the booker has it out for me. Every time

<v Speaker 1>it lands on me. It's some ridiculous stipulation. Alright, this

<v Speaker 1>is it. This is our main event. We're doing all

<v Speaker 1>men's matches. That's it. I'm done with this. We have

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Rude, the former TNA World Heavyweight Champion and NXT Champion,

<v Speaker 1>in a sixty minute iron Man match against Kofi Kingston.

<v Speaker 1>You know, we've been doing pretty well with the clean

<v Speaker 1>sweeps and everything, and everything just fell apart here at

<v Speaker 1>the end. Yeah. If you put Kofe and you put

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Root in the ring for like eight minutes, twelve minutes,

<v Speaker 1>I think that would be a solid match. Sixty minutes. No,

<v Speaker 1>thank you, no, thank you? Not interested. I can't believe.

<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm still smarting from this Mimosa Mayhem massacre that

<v Speaker 1>I booked myself into here against Alberto. Yeah. If you

<v Speaker 1>think Bobby Root against Kofee Kingston and an Ironman match

<v Speaker 1>is the main event, then it's a good thing you're

<v Speaker 1>not booking. That's a buzz, that's not a bell. Jeremy Thunderstrikes.

<v Speaker 1>Have you seen Falling Down? Excellent movie? Is that with

<v Speaker 1>Michael Douglas? I forgot his name for a second. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>I saw that many years ago. How would you book

<v Speaker 1>the ending to the Mimosa Mayhem match? I wouldn't book

<v Speaker 1>the match at all in the first place, but if

<v Speaker 1>I had to book the ending, I would pay off

<v Speaker 1>Ricardo Rodriguez to do a run in and then he

<v Speaker 1>would hit him in the back of the head with

<v Speaker 1>a tire iron and then he would just fall unconscious

<v Speaker 1>into the bottom of the vat of Mimosa and I

<v Speaker 1>would climb out and I would win. Actually, I don't

<v Speaker 1>even think that's the way the stipulation works. I think

<v Speaker 1>you throw the person into the mimosa. But that's how

<v Speaker 1>I would book it, and then Ricardo Rodriguez would be

<v Speaker 1>my new manager and he would do all my ring

<v Speaker 1>introductions for me. My personal ring announcer A West Coast James.

<v Speaker 1>What's going on celebrating fifty five months of membership? What

<v Speaker 1>kind of wrestler are you? You? In a Punjabi prison

<v Speaker 1>match against Khlie and now this super pony that was

<v Speaker 1>absolutely a bell Bobby was glorious. Yeah, well not with

<v Speaker 1>Kofe Kingston for sixty minutes. He's not. Boy. You people

<v Speaker 1>have you're being awfully nice. You're being awfully nice with

<v Speaker 1>some of these matches. Holy shit, Solo against del Ria

<v Speaker 1>would be an awesome comedic match, comedic for who not

<v Speaker 1>for me? Handling Master with thirty eight months of membership,

<v Speaker 1>excellent stream tonight, thank you, I aim to enter and

<v Speaker 1>we had a solid two thousand plus I think almost

<v Speaker 1>twenty one hundred in here. So big night here for

<v Speaker 1>the raw review. Hopefully we can repeat this on Wednesday.

<v Speaker 1>But it's a dynamite, so I mean, I'm under no

<v Speaker 1>illusions about this, but we have a pretty big dynamite.

<v Speaker 1>We have MJF in a it's non title, but MJF

<v Speaker 1>is wrestling Brodie King and Kenny Omega is wrestling on

<v Speaker 1>rode and that actually is a match I'm looking forward to.

<v Speaker 1>So at least we know of two big matches that

<v Speaker 1>are already announced. They're in Vegas. I think they're at

<v Speaker 1>the Palms that is on Wednesday, tomorrow night. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>JD and I will be doing TNT a lot of

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble fall out to talk about, and then Friday

<v Speaker 1>night is going to be SmackDown, the first SmackDown coming

<v Speaker 1>out of the Royal Rumble. Liv Morgan has said that

<v Speaker 1>she will be there and perhaps we'll find out some

<v Speaker 1>other things about elimination. Elimination Chamber qualifying matches, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>are starting on Raw next week. That much we know

<v Speaker 1>who will be in them. We don't know. Maybe they'll

<v Speaker 1>say something on Friday, but I'll be here for all

<v Speaker 1>the streams. I hope you will be too. Power Spying games,

<v Speaker 1>says by Sell Rent. You versus Collie, you versus Goldberg

<v Speaker 1>in a scaffold retirement match, and you against Del Rio

<v Speaker 1>in a Yappa pie strap match. Sell Sell Sell, how

<v Speaker 1>about that this is not a by Rent cell, This

<v Speaker 1>is a cell Sell Sell. Goldberg on a scaffold, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, is like a hilarious image to me. He

<v Speaker 1>would go to spear me and I'll just like I'll

<v Speaker 1>do the Samoa Joe Nope spot and I'll just kind

<v Speaker 1>of step to the side and he'll just go plummeting

<v Speaker 1>off the scaffold and then I win. Super Pony says

<v Speaker 1>I live in Vegas, debating if I should go or not.

<v Speaker 1>You should go, You should go. I'm sure it'll be

<v Speaker 1>a lot cheaper than going to a WWE show, but

<v Speaker 1>it's looking like a fun show. If I was in Vegas,

<v Speaker 1>I would go, Oh man, all right, be well, stay safe.

<v Speaker 1>I will see you back here on this stream on

<v Speaker 1>Wednesday night. Even if you're not watching Dynamite, Come hang out.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe we'll do be the booker again. Maybe I'll book

<v Speaker 1>myself into a freaking Molotov cocktail match. Maybe that'll be next. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that'll be great, me and Alex Riley in a Molotov

<v Speaker 1>cocktail match. If you know, you know. I'll see you

<v Speaker 1>guys Wednesday for the Dynamite stream. Take care, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>go train for my Mimosa Mayhem match. I'll see you

<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday.