<v Speaker 1>Uh, you know, I swear these three hour shows they

<v Speaker 1>feel like they get longer every week, don't. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I know it's three hours. I know it started at eight,

<v Speaker 1>it ended at eleven, and yet for some reason, it

<v Speaker 1>feels longer than three hours. SmackDown Tonight had two more

<v Speaker 1>Elimination Chamber qualifying matches and two title matches as well,

<v Speaker 1>So there were some important matches on the show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>but the Elimination Chamber qualifying matches, they saw Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>and Alexa Bliss advance to the chamber their respective chamber matches.

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre had a plan tonight, and his plan was

<v Speaker 1>to ensure that Sammy's Ain won the Elimination Chamber qualifier.

<v Speaker 1>Because Sammy's Ain can't win a fucking match against Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre guys like zero for twelve, so of course he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to see Sammy win. He came back, he tried

<v Speaker 1>to help Sammy win. It did not work. Drew McIntyre's

<v Speaker 1>plan backfire on him and so Cody Rhodes, which should

<v Speaker 1>have been the most predictable outcome of that match, they

<v Speaker 1>stuck to their guns. Cody is going to the elimination

<v Speaker 1>Chamber where he will very likely win the Elimination Chamber

<v Speaker 1>and challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. But Jacob

<v Speaker 1>fa Twu was this close from winning that qualifying match

<v Speaker 1>were it not for a Claymore kick from Drew McIntyre.

<v Speaker 1>So I'm just saying, Jacob fa twu, even though I

<v Speaker 1>know it was noice qualification, anything goes triple threat match.

<v Speaker 1>But you can argue, if you're Jacob fought too, that

<v Speaker 1>you were screwed out of a win here on this

<v Speaker 1>show tonight. There is still hope that Jacob could be

<v Speaker 1>worked into that match and we could end up getting

<v Speaker 1>a triple threat match of WRESTLEMANI I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>that's the way it's going to work. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know that Triple H has made his mind up yet

<v Speaker 1>that he wanted to work that way, because evidently plans

<v Speaker 1>are changing by the week for WrestleMania. The one thing

<v Speaker 1>I will tell you, though, and I understand that we're

<v Speaker 1>still about two months or so out from WrestleMania. We

<v Speaker 1>are on the road to WrestleMania, and outside of that

<v Speaker 1>one segment that we had a couple of weeks ago

<v Speaker 1>between cm Punk and Roman Reigns on Monday Night Raw.

<v Speaker 1>This does not feel like WrestleMania. They got a lot

<v Speaker 1>of work to do if they want to get me

<v Speaker 1>and a lot of other people excited about this show

<v Speaker 1>coming up in April.

<v Speaker 2>They have a lot of work.

<v Speaker 1>To do, and the pieces are there, you just got

<v Speaker 1>to figure out where to put them. Doesn't help when

<v Speaker 1>you have Oba Femi show up on SmackDown again and

<v Speaker 1>they are now teasing a second match between him and

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson on the show next week. You've got Oba

<v Speaker 1>Femi on the main roster. Essentially he is feuding with

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson. What are we doing here?

<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>But Cody Roads is going to the elimination chamber. Alexa

<v Speaker 1>Bliss is going to the elimination chamber. Jade Cargill one

<v Speaker 1>hundred days as WWE Women's Champion, she finally had her

<v Speaker 1>first title defense. If you can believe it, we should

<v Speaker 1>have had a celebration here tip I would have known.

<v Speaker 1>I would have busted out the confetti and as challengers go,

<v Speaker 1>Jordan Grace not a bad person to be in the

<v Speaker 1>ring with if you're working your first title defense. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>Jade Carr Gill is still the WWE Women's Champion. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if too many people expected that to go

<v Speaker 1>any other way. The bigger question, I suppose is exactly

<v Speaker 1>who is she going to be defending that title against

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. That's another unanswered question because unfortunately, it seems

<v Speaker 1>pretty clear that Bianca bell Air is not going to

<v Speaker 1>be back in time, not to wrestle anyway at wrestleman

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's talk about her maybe having some other

<v Speaker 1>appearance or role on the show. I mean many months

<v Speaker 1>ago she was a special referee. That may be the

<v Speaker 1>closest we get to Bianca Belair WrestleManias. So they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have to find somebody else for Jade to work with,

<v Speaker 1>and who that's gonna be if it's gonna be a

<v Speaker 1>singles match again, everything just feels like it's up in

<v Speaker 1>the air right now. There are a lot of questions

<v Speaker 1>out there now. The other championship that was defended tonight

<v Speaker 1>was also on the women's side. It was the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles Riea Ripley and EO Sky. I was

<v Speaker 1>holding out hope that maybe, just maybe they would drop

<v Speaker 1>those belts tonight, not that I'm all that interested in

<v Speaker 1>seeing Naya Jackson lash Light as champions. I'm not, but

<v Speaker 1>just to get the belts off of them and allow

<v Speaker 1>them to move on to something else. But not only

<v Speaker 1>did they not lose the tag team titles tonight, we

<v Speaker 1>got the most ridiculous, nonsensical, bullshit finish to that women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team title match where it just.

<v Speaker 2>It just ended. Hell of a finished there.

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned Obfemi again, He's gonna be wrestling Kit Wilson

<v Speaker 1>again next week. You know who was not on the

<v Speaker 1>show tonight, but who was there in the building and

<v Speaker 1>actually did wrestle, But he wrestled before smacked went on

<v Speaker 1>the air tonight, Powerhouse Hobbs. We saw him in the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble Royce Keys. He made his big debut over

<v Speaker 1>there in Riod got to eliminate Damian Priest, the former

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Champion. That we didn't see him again after that,

<v Speaker 1>so I was kind of hoping that he would make

<v Speaker 1>an appearance on the show tonight. Not only did he

<v Speaker 1>not make an appearance, they had him wrestling Nathan Fraser

<v Speaker 1>on main event. He wrestled on Maine event before SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>even went on the air.

<v Speaker 2>Tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They haven't even been airing any sort of vignettes or

<v Speaker 1>video packages for him like they've been doing with Obafemi.

<v Speaker 1>We've got nothing. Why even put him in the royal

<v Speaker 1>rumble of this is how you were going to introduce him?

<v Speaker 1>Why is he wrestling on fucking main event?

<v Speaker 2>What is going on here? I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>He wasn't on the show. On the show today. As

<v Speaker 1>far as the rest of the show goes, it had

<v Speaker 1>its moments. Trick Williams. He continues to be featured on

<v Speaker 1>the show. That's encouraging. He had another promo segment tonight

<v Speaker 1>before his match with Ray Phoenix that I thought was

<v Speaker 1>very good, and you just hear it when he's introduced

<v Speaker 1>and he comes out to the ring. Yeah, we talk

<v Speaker 1>about the horrible entrance music that so many of these

<v Speaker 1>wrestlers have. I mean, Jordan Grace comes out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring tonight, I feel so.

<v Speaker 2>Bad for her. What the fuck?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, really, Zelena Vegas music was so bad she

<v Speaker 1>had to abandon it and now she's using her husband's music.

<v Speaker 1>But Trick Williams is one of the luckier ones because

<v Speaker 1>he comes out he's actually got a pretty badass theme

<v Speaker 1>and between the theme song and his promo work. Like,

<v Speaker 1>the fans are getting.

<v Speaker 2>Behind this guy.

<v Speaker 1>Even though he's supposed to be a heel. The fans

<v Speaker 1>are getting behind him in a major way. So I

<v Speaker 1>feel like he's progressing. It a good clip here, but again,

<v Speaker 1>beyond that, I look at this show tonight and again

<v Speaker 1>it was just it was a slog to sit through

<v Speaker 1>most of it. It got better in the final hour

<v Speaker 1>in terms of some of the matches that they had,

<v Speaker 1>But I'm just sitting here and I'm like, I mean, again,

<v Speaker 1>wrestle MANI is two months away. Where's the excitement. That's

<v Speaker 1>what's missing from this show. I'm still waiting for it

<v Speaker 1>to kick in. It's good that they have these elimination

<v Speaker 1>chamber qualifiers. Again, it's good to have matches that have

<v Speaker 1>meaning and purpose on these shows. But the excitement just

<v Speaker 1>isn't there. You have talked about the spark. Someone has

<v Speaker 1>to light the fuse. It hasn't been lit. You know

<v Speaker 1>that person you saw floating in the water there in

<v Speaker 1>the intro, That was me watching this show tonight talking

<v Speaker 1>about this Friday, the thirteenth, very scary episode of SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>which aired on Sci Fi tonight. I didn't have to

<v Speaker 1>worry about that because I was watching it on Netflix,

<v Speaker 1>my trusty VPN. Oh and I forgot to mention the

<v Speaker 1>Dominic Mysterio and Live Morgan were on the show tonight

<v Speaker 1>eating chicken nuggets during the Women's title match. Friday Night's

<v Speaker 1>Backdown Monday Night Raw doesn't really matter. I guess hit

<v Speaker 1>that like button, hit that subscribe button. We're gonna talk

<v Speaker 1>about this SmackDown show here tonight as we try to

<v Speaker 1>conjure up some excitement for WrestleMania Season here. As hard

<v Speaker 1>as it is to do, but we're going to try,

<v Speaker 1>So go ahead and do all of that. Super chats

<v Speaker 1>are open. I'll be reading all of your messages as

<v Speaker 1>I usually do. But let's spend the wheel here and

<v Speaker 1>to find out how many likes we're gonna need to

<v Speaker 1>do be the Booker.

<v Speaker 2>Are we going to do be the Booker tonight? I

<v Speaker 2>don't know, let's see.

<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, we'll be doing be the Booker three hundred

<v Speaker 1>and fifty likes. This is an easy homework assignment for

<v Speaker 1>you guys, three point fifty and you guys will unlock

<v Speaker 1>some B to B, so get to work on that.

<v Speaker 2>I did want to show one thing here.

<v Speaker 1>It was one of the first things I noticed when

<v Speaker 1>they came on the air tonight for this show, and

<v Speaker 1>it is one of the more or bizarre signs that

<v Speaker 1>I have ever seen at a wrestling show. So they

<v Speaker 1>showed Joe Tessitura, Wade Barrett at ringside. They're talking to

<v Speaker 1>us here as they're introducing the beginning of the show.

<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at this sign behind them in the crowd,

<v Speaker 1>and I mean, get a load of this. I don't

<v Speaker 1>really know what else to say here, but this is

<v Speaker 1>the sign Paul Hayman is hot. And it's got a

<v Speaker 1>very lifelike illustration of Paul Hayman, who looks more like

<v Speaker 1>Bronze Breaker there, and that it looks orange. Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>is hot. Those are words that I never thought I

<v Speaker 1>would be speaking. And I don't know what the I mean,

<v Speaker 1>maybe they believe that, I don't know. Maybe they just

<v Speaker 1>think Paul Hayman is hot. I don't know.

<v Speaker 2>I was very disturbed by this.

<v Speaker 1>It actually is a very appropriate sign to hold up

<v Speaker 1>at the beginning of a Friday the thirteenth episode. I thought,

<v Speaker 1>David says, where's the lie? The lies right there, It's

<v Speaker 1>circled and red.

<v Speaker 2>What are you blind?

<v Speaker 1>I put a big there's a big red circle around it.

<v Speaker 1>There's the lie my god.

<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

<v Speaker 1>It's a good way to sum up SmackDown right there.

<v Speaker 1>It looks like Hayman if he was on Family Guy.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, look, they tried. They do a better job

<v Speaker 1>of illustrating him there than I would. Wow anyway, Tiffany Stratton,

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hayman may not be hot. Tiffany Stratton's pretty hot.

<v Speaker 1>So she made her way out to the ring to

<v Speaker 1>kick things off. Here, they showed us how she qualified

<v Speaker 1>last week for the Women's Elimination Chamber match. So she

<v Speaker 1>talked about how she lost her a WWE Women's Championship

<v Speaker 1>after having a very impressive rookie year where she went

<v Speaker 1>undefeated for most of it. She goes, that's why she

<v Speaker 1>decided to qualify for the Elimination Chamber because she wanted

<v Speaker 1>to walk in to Chicago expecting to win. But before

<v Speaker 1>she could go any further in her promo, she was

<v Speaker 1>interrupted by Nya Jackx's music. So she comes out with

<v Speaker 1>lash Legend. They are scheduled to challenge for the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles here tonight on this show and so

<v Speaker 1>Naya says that Tiffany just got lucky. Last week, Stratton

<v Speaker 1>said that Naya seemed to be obsessed with her, and

<v Speaker 1>she got a replacement in the form of Lash Legend.

<v Speaker 1>Legend called herself the upgrade and said that she and

<v Speaker 1>Naya would defeat ReHO, not that ReHO for the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles here tonight, and then Nya would qualify

<v Speaker 1>for the Women's Elimination Chamber, which was terrible here because

<v Speaker 1>that meant that Nya Jax is going to be in

<v Speaker 1>a elimination Chamber of qualifying match, which she will be

<v Speaker 1>next week. So the two of them, they threatened to

<v Speaker 1>take care of their Tiffany problem right here and now

<v Speaker 1>they were interrupted Dubby the Women's tag team champions, and

<v Speaker 1>so outcomes Rhea Ripley and outcomes EO Sky, and Rhea

<v Speaker 1>said that Nya and Legends should not get too far

<v Speaker 1>ahead of themselves because they would not be walking out

<v Speaker 1>with their titles, much less make it to WrestleMania. Well,

<v Speaker 1>that was certainly a segment on television that happened. It's

<v Speaker 1>the best thing I can say to describe this here.

<v Speaker 1>Not much happened, but it did lead to the Women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team title match Rhea, Ripley and Eosky against Nya,

<v Speaker 1>Jacks and Lash Legend. After Nya held control for a

<v Speaker 1>little bit, Io blasted Jacks with a shotgun dropkick. Ripley

<v Speaker 1>tagged herself in that's what people wanted to see, and

<v Speaker 1>she sent Naya out of the ring with a dropkick.

<v Speaker 1>Legend got dumped out as well, so this led to

<v Speaker 1>EO hitting a diving moon salt from the Apron knocks

<v Speaker 1>both heels down outside the ring. Naya got brought back

<v Speaker 1>inside as EO headed up top. Lash though grabbed her

<v Speaker 1>leg which allowed Naya to hit EO with a samo

<v Speaker 1>and drop for a near fall. So Legend and Jacks

<v Speaker 1>they tried to work over EO in the corner. Nya

<v Speaker 1>missed a running attack and EO used her as a

<v Speaker 1>platform to hit Lash with a diving dropkick, so that

<v Speaker 1>allowed her to get the hot tag from rear Ripley

<v Speaker 1>and there was a little bit of a struggle here.

<v Speaker 1>Ripley hit Legend with her karana followed by a DDT.

<v Speaker 1>EO headed to the top. Nia though escaped Ripley's riptide

<v Speaker 1>attempt and she intercepted EO on top. This left her

<v Speaker 1>open though for Rhea's very impressive feet of strength here,

<v Speaker 1>and she hoisted Naya up for a power bomb. Eo

<v Speaker 1>came off the top with her over the moon salt

<v Speaker 1>and she had the match one legend, though she interrupted

<v Speaker 1>the pin, so outside the ring, Lash proceeded to slam Eo.

<v Speaker 2>She slammed her.

<v Speaker 1>All over ringside and over by the announced desk, Ripley

<v Speaker 1>hit it and so all of a sudden, Charles Robinson

<v Speaker 1>calls for the bell. He has lost control and therefore

<v Speaker 1>he is throwing the match away. And you can imagine

<v Speaker 1>the fan reaction in Dallas when they heard the bell

<v Speaker 1>ring here. They were not too happy about it. I'm

<v Speaker 1>just watching this going, what the fuck.

<v Speaker 2>I mean?

<v Speaker 1>We've seen some wild, chaotic, out of control fighting in

<v Speaker 1>brawls during matches where the referee just has no choice

<v Speaker 1>but to throw the match away. That's not what this was.

<v Speaker 1>But Charles Robinson, you know what, you get to a

<v Speaker 1>certain age, it's like, you know what, I'm too old

<v Speaker 1>for this shit. Let's just call it off. So he

<v Speaker 1>calls the match off. All four women now are brawling

<v Speaker 1>on the floor for a little bit. Ultimately, Lash Pump

<v Speaker 1>kicks Rhea down to the floor. So Lash and Naya

<v Speaker 1>they set up a slim gym table on the outside.

<v Speaker 1>Rhea is placed on top of this table and Naya

<v Speaker 1>is on the apron and she begins scaling the ropes.

<v Speaker 2>And I'm looking at this.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, there ain't no way she's doing anything

<v Speaker 1>because the table is too far away. There's this huge

<v Speaker 1>gap between the edge of the ring and where the

<v Speaker 1>table is positioned. Naya Jacks, ain't no logan, Paul, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>She's not gonna go flying through that table, No way,

<v Speaker 1>no how. So she's teasing though that she's gonna scale

<v Speaker 1>the ropes, and of course Rhea Ripley, she fights her

<v Speaker 1>way off the table. Eo comes in with a suicide

<v Speaker 1>crossbody through the ropes and she ends up spearing an

<v Speaker 1>eye off the apron. Now, the idea was that she

<v Speaker 1>would spear her through the table, which ultimately is what

<v Speaker 1>happened kind of, because what happened is she hit the

<v Speaker 1>edge of the table, but the table still broke, and

<v Speaker 1>it broke perfectly right down the middle. And this is

<v Speaker 1>not the first time that I have seen this with

<v Speaker 1>these slim gym tables where you don't even necessarily need

<v Speaker 1>to hit it with too much force, but it will

<v Speaker 1>break perfectly right down the middle. It's like they used

<v Speaker 1>to sell those toys as part of these playsets that

<v Speaker 1>they would sell with the table that would break and

<v Speaker 1>it would break perfectly right down the middle. That's how

<v Speaker 1>these tables are now. Clearly there's a new upgrade in

<v Speaker 1>the design when it comes to these tables.

<v Speaker 2>So it broke and they're laying there on the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Meanwhile, Lash tackled Rhea through the timekeeper's barricade, which is

<v Speaker 1>just such an overdone spot, but now it looked like

<v Speaker 1>pure chaos and all four women were down. The way

<v Speaker 1>they ended this match was just horrendous. I mean, that's

<v Speaker 1>how you end a title match. Obviously, they didn't want

<v Speaker 1>to have a clean winner here one way or the other.

<v Speaker 1>They wanted to keep Naya and Lash alive. I guess

<v Speaker 1>for a rematch or I don't know what the plan

<v Speaker 1>is there. They're going to take this all the way

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania and have multiple teams in there, which is

<v Speaker 1>certainly possible. The Bella Twins will be in there as well.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but that finish was fucking terrible. And

<v Speaker 1>then the postmatch chaos. I mean that was fine, but

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and I'm going They're gonna do this,

<v Speaker 1>aren't they. They're going to keep these tag team titles

<v Speaker 1>on Ria and EO going into WrestleMania and have them

<v Speaker 1>defending against the Bellas. This is going to end up

<v Speaker 1>being their big plan for these women. Unbelievable. Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>was interviewed backstage by Kathy Kelly about his chances in

<v Speaker 1>his Elimination Chamber qualifying match later tonight. He talked about

<v Speaker 1>how they there are those who are hoping that he

<v Speaker 1>and Sammy and Jacob Faught rip each other apart in

<v Speaker 1>the main event tonight. Cody said that he was two

<v Speaker 1>matches away from the dream. You know, it was the

<v Speaker 1>story a couple of years ago. Now it's the dream.

<v Speaker 1>The dream is to get to the WrestleMania main event

<v Speaker 1>to compete for the WWE Championship. So what would this

<v Speaker 1>be If Cody ends up in the WrestleMania main event.

<v Speaker 1>Let's say on Night one, this would be his fifth

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania main event, right, we have thirty nine. He was

<v Speaker 1>technically in two different main events at forty forty one.

<v Speaker 1>I guess it would be four his fourth WrestleMania main event,

<v Speaker 1>assuming he makes it. He also mentioned that he was

<v Speaker 1>in the middle of Von Eeric Country. Don't bet against

<v Speaker 1>him tonight.

<v Speaker 2>He said. Carmel O.

<v Speaker 1>Hayes was walking backstage as Matt Cardona and Apollo Cruise

<v Speaker 1>again hanging out with one. Apparently they become the best

<v Speaker 1>of friends here because every week on SmackDown, these two

<v Speaker 1>guys are just hanging out together. I guess they got

<v Speaker 1>nothing better to do in the back, So what else

<v Speaker 1>are you gonna do? You kind of form new friendships

<v Speaker 1>and relationships with people. Hey, you want to hang out

<v Speaker 1>with me. It's like school, right, I got nothing to do. Fuck,

<v Speaker 1>let's go walk around, Let's shoot the shit. So they're

<v Speaker 1>hanging out again this week, and they call their shot.

<v Speaker 1>They both want a crack at the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>They point out that both of them are former US champions.

<v Speaker 1>I had completely forgotten that Apollo Cruise at one time

<v Speaker 1>was United States Champion. So Hayes said, look, the open Challenge.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, hey, I welcome all comers, but tonight the

<v Speaker 1>Open Challenge is closed. So he kept on walking and

<v Speaker 1>he bumped into the Miz funny, I thought this was over.

<v Speaker 1>He bumps into the Miz talks about how Hayes was

<v Speaker 1>testing his three core values and I wish I could

<v Speaker 1>tell you that I cared to write down what they were,

<v Speaker 1>but I don't. So he said that he was going

<v Speaker 1>to teach him a lesson in respect, and Hayes walked off,

<v Speaker 1>telling Miz that he hoped he taught that lesson better

<v Speaker 1>than he wrestled. After this, we got a promo video

<v Speaker 1>with Alistair Black and Zelina Vega. Black said that Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton is still one of the greats. He said Orton

<v Speaker 1>showed shades of what he was like in two thousand

<v Speaker 1>and nine in their Elimination Chamber qualifier. We were seeing

<v Speaker 1>shades of two thousand and nine Randy ort He won,

<v Speaker 1>wondered what would happen if Cody Rhades qualified for the match,

<v Speaker 1>and then he wondered if we would see Orton soon,

<v Speaker 1>and then Zelina spoke about her qualifying match and said

<v Speaker 1>that change would come. Interesting that they still have Black

<v Speaker 1>talking about Randy Orton, which would seem to indicate that

<v Speaker 1>they're going to keep this. I can't even call it

<v Speaker 1>a feud, really, but they're going to keep this thing

<v Speaker 1>going with two of them.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I say, I don't see that as a WrestleMania match

<v Speaker 1>though for Randy Orton, but you would watch this and think, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>it's possible that it could be. So that's obviously going

<v Speaker 1>to be something to watch now if he gets involved

<v Speaker 1>in Orton's business. But after this, we had the United

<v Speaker 1>States Champion Carmelo Hayes, who was out to the ring

<v Speaker 1>for a promo and he was ready to address the

<v Speaker 1>crowd here in Dallas, who gave him, actually, I thought,

<v Speaker 1>a very good reception. Hayes said that for the last

<v Speaker 1>forty eight days, she's kind of funny since he has

<v Speaker 1>the first forty eight. For the last forty eight days

<v Speaker 1>he's been the US champion. He chose to honor the

<v Speaker 1>title in the same way that the men before him did,

<v Speaker 1>and he talked about how his matches were all bangers,

<v Speaker 1>and he earned the opportunity to be at WrestleMania, and

<v Speaker 1>he said that he was gonna shoot his shot for

<v Speaker 1>the main event. Well, look, I mean, it's always nice

<v Speaker 1>to have goals, But yeah, Carmelo Hayes in the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>main event. I don't know, maybe in twenty thirty one,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six, that ain't gonna happen, but he declared

<v Speaker 1>himself for an elimination Chamber qualifier next week. Before that, though,

<v Speaker 1>there's someone in the back he made a promise to

<v Speaker 1>and he owed it to him, and that man was

<v Speaker 1>Ilia draged Of. So come on out here and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have ourselves a United States Championship match. And I'm like, yes, now,

<v Speaker 1>this is what I would like to see here on

<v Speaker 1>this show. So out comes the Mad Dragon. I'm all

<v Speaker 1>pumped up and ready for this match, and then they

<v Speaker 1>blue ball because then we hear the MFTs music, the

<v Speaker 1>worst music that you could possibly hear in this situation.

<v Speaker 1>As we're getting ready for yet another banger of a

<v Speaker 1>match between Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov, we see Solo

<v Speaker 1>Sokoa and his MFTs ruin it and.

<v Speaker 2>They walk out.

<v Speaker 1>Solo says that if there's going to be any US

<v Speaker 1>title matches, it's not going to involve Ilia Dragonov. It's

<v Speaker 1>going to start with him. So Dragonov mocked Solo and

<v Speaker 1>after the MFTs abandoned him last week, that's what he

<v Speaker 1>was referring to. He was mocking him. Hay said that

<v Speaker 1>maybe I should leave Dallas tonight with two titles, basically

<v Speaker 1>saying that he and Dragonov should go after the tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles. I was, I was, I don't know. I

<v Speaker 1>was caught off guard. I guess by how Ilia Dragonov

<v Speaker 1>just sort of dismissed this whole US Championship match without

<v Speaker 1>any without really even think about it. He seemed to

<v Speaker 1>be okay with teaming up with Carmelo. Hayes he was

<v Speaker 1>literally about to wrestle for the title. He's been telling

<v Speaker 1>Carmelo every.

<v Speaker 2>Week, you owe me, you owe me, you owe me.

<v Speaker 2>I want my rematch, and.

<v Speaker 1>He was about to get it, and these these fools

<v Speaker 1>come out to the ring and he's like, oh, it

<v Speaker 1>looks like we're going to have a tag team match.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, okay, you're fucking idiot. You're about to have

<v Speaker 1>a championship match. What are you so happy about? So

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs they marched down to the ring. They launched

<v Speaker 1>an attack on the two of them. Here comes Matt

<v Speaker 1>Cardona and Apollo Cruise. They're like, finally, this is our

<v Speaker 1>opening here to get involved in something on the show.

<v Speaker 1>So they run down to the ring try to even

<v Speaker 1>the odds the MFT still have the numbers game. Here

<v Speaker 1>comes Shinsky Nakamora, he runs out. So here comes the

<v Speaker 1>general manager, Nick all This who walks out and says, ah,

<v Speaker 1>I see where this is going. I've got a great idea.

<v Speaker 1>We're gon We're gonna have to postpone this United States

<v Speaker 1>Championship match in favor of a ten man tag team

<v Speaker 1>match ring the Bell and yes, instead of a US

<v Speaker 1>title match here on this show we end up with this.

<v Speaker 1>You tease a title match with Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov,

<v Speaker 1>which I know I very much wanted to see. You

<v Speaker 1>won me over, and then instead you pull the rugout

<v Speaker 1>from under us to give us a ten man tag

<v Speaker 1>team match with the MFTs. Why do they hate their

<v Speaker 1>audience so much?

<v Speaker 2>Why?

<v Speaker 1>So we had Solo Socoa, Tamatonga, j C. Matteo, Toga

<v Speaker 1>Loa and Tallatoga. That's a lot of Tonga's in there

<v Speaker 1>against Carmelo Hayes, Ilia dragon of Of, Matt Cardona, Apollo Cruise

<v Speaker 1>and Shinsky knockingmore. They joined the match already in progress

<v Speaker 1>after a commercial break, but there was a bizarre spot

<v Speaker 1>involving Tongo. Oh well, of course it would it would happen?

<v Speaker 1>Could it be anything but bizarre? When Togaloa is involved.

<v Speaker 2>Tongalo is in the.

<v Speaker 1>Ring with Matt Cardona and he's down on his knees

<v Speaker 1>and Cardona went like he went to go move like

<v Speaker 1>he was about to hit the ropes, and Tongaloa he

<v Speaker 1>was holding onto Matt Cardona's trunks and he just refused

<v Speaker 1>to let go. So Cardona is trying to run into

<v Speaker 1>the ropes and he's basically it looks like he's trying

<v Speaker 1>to pull this man's trunks down. And it was to

<v Speaker 1>the point where even Wade Barrett on commentary here he

<v Speaker 1>even made the comment he said that he joked that

<v Speaker 1>it looked like he was trying to hijack Cardona's wardrobe.

<v Speaker 2>It almost got X rated here.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what Tangaloa was trying to go for here,

<v Speaker 1>and frankly that it's none of my business. But in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of a match here, it was a little weird,

<v Speaker 1>like let go, dude, So the MFTs they continued to

<v Speaker 1>work over Cardona, Tallatanga entered, he dropped Cardona with a

<v Speaker 1>huge samo and drop. Cardona eventually managed to tag dragonov

<v Speaker 1>In and the Big Man struck Dragonov down from the

<v Speaker 1>top rope, which sent him crashing out to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Now they returned from another commercial break, jac Matteo had

<v Speaker 1>Dragonov in a rest hold and Dragonov he missed with

<v Speaker 1>the inziguri, which allowed Mateo to tag in solo socoa.

<v Speaker 1>But Dragonov hit the kick on solo which allowed him

<v Speaker 1>to tag in. Carmelo, Hayes and Melo came in. He

<v Speaker 1>got this big flurry, so Mello's on fire here. Tama

<v Speaker 1>ate the backwards springboard leg drop by Hayes, who then

<v Speaker 1>connected with La Mistika on solo socoa. So things started

<v Speaker 1>to break down here at this point, and it's a

<v Speaker 1>good thing Charles Robinson was not the referee for this match,

<v Speaker 1>or else he would have thrown the whole fucking thing away.

<v Speaker 1>So it started to break down. All ten men were

<v Speaker 1>involved in the chaos. This is what I mean, though,

<v Speaker 1>you know I joke about this shit, But like, you

<v Speaker 1>have a match here with ten men, and you have

<v Speaker 1>a point in the match where things begin to break down.

<v Speaker 1>The previous match had four women, and you throw the

<v Speaker 1>match away. You realize how ridiculous that sounds. So Talatoga

<v Speaker 1>was left as the last man standing in the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Hazen Dragonow attempted to team up on him, and the

<v Speaker 1>two of them got dropped by a double choke slam.

<v Speaker 1>Cruise and Cardona they tried also. They almost found themselves

<v Speaker 1>the victim of a choke slam as well, until Nakamara

<v Speaker 1>got involved, and eventually the three of them managed to

<v Speaker 1>put the big guy down with.

<v Speaker 2>A whole flurry of dives.

<v Speaker 1>Tomatonga then blind tagged himself in, but he stayed outside.

<v Speaker 1>He kind of dropped down from the apron like he

<v Speaker 1>didn't want to be seen, and the announcers never mentioned it.

<v Speaker 1>Hayes didn't see it either. He hit the first forty

<v Speaker 1>eight to solo. I believe it was Toma, though he

<v Speaker 1>shoved Hayes off the ropes as he was going for

<v Speaker 1>I guess nothing, but Net shoved him off right into

<v Speaker 1>a Samoan spike and then Toma slid into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>He hit his cutthroat hidden blade on Hayes and he

<v Speaker 1>pinned the United States champion to win it for the MFTs.

<v Speaker 1>That was The MFTs tried to celebrate their win. The

<v Speaker 1>lights went out and we see when they kind of

<v Speaker 1>come back on the wyat six are gathered up on

<v Speaker 1>the concourse. They're up in the crowd looking down at

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs, and that was it. That was the end

<v Speaker 1>of that. It was Look the match itself, it was

<v Speaker 1>solid enough. It was nothing wrong with the match itself

<v Speaker 1>outside of whatever the fuck Tongaloo was trying to do.

<v Speaker 1>But man, you know, there's the potential here for some

<v Speaker 1>actual with the MFTs, with Tomatanga being the one to

<v Speaker 1>win the match and Tomatoga being the one to you know,

<v Speaker 1>likely challenge Carmelo Hayes for the United States Championship, even

<v Speaker 1>though Solo Socoa was the one who came out earlier

<v Speaker 1>and said, hey, the line begins here with me, but

<v Speaker 1>it was Tama who won the match, and tom has

<v Speaker 1>also been teasing that he was going to be coming

<v Speaker 1>after this title. So I don't know if they are

<v Speaker 1>planning to go in this direction. I would hope so

<v Speaker 1>just for the sake of having some kind of story

<v Speaker 1>here involving these guys where maybe this is kind of

<v Speaker 1>these are kind of the first cracks within the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>if Toma Tonga is going to be challenging for the

<v Speaker 1>US title. But Solo Socoa wanted to be the one

<v Speaker 1>right challenging for the US title. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>that's going to become a thing or not. I really

<v Speaker 1>don't want the MFTs to be bringing all the gold

<v Speaker 1>into their group. They have the tag team titles. No

<v Speaker 1>one gives a shit about the tag team titles because

<v Speaker 1>there's no tag team division.

<v Speaker 2>Nobody cares. Nobody cares.

<v Speaker 1>There was a point in time where the SmackDown Tag

<v Speaker 1>Team Division a lot of people cared. Nobody cares because

<v Speaker 1>WWE doesn't care enough to put any effort into tag

<v Speaker 1>team wrestling on these shows when it comes to Raw

<v Speaker 1>or when it comes to SmackDown. Outside of what they've

<v Speaker 1>been doing with the women's tag team titles. It's like

<v Speaker 1>in the last six months, all of a sudden they remembered,

<v Speaker 1>holy shit, we have women's tag team belts. We should

<v Speaker 1>probably do something with them, but at the expense of

<v Speaker 1>all the other tag team belts that they have in

<v Speaker 1>this company. So it's hard to care about what the

<v Speaker 1>MFTs are doing and the why ITTs want the belts back.

<v Speaker 1>Phraxium is in the back every week, hanging out with

<v Speaker 1>the MotorCity machine Guns. They seem more interested in what's

<v Speaker 1>going on in the Life of Johnny Gargano than they

<v Speaker 1>do challenging for the tag team titles. Street profits are

<v Speaker 1>working NXT house shows. I don't know what the fuck

<v Speaker 1>is going on, but I know one thing. I don't

<v Speaker 1>need all of this gold in the mft's vortex, so

<v Speaker 1>I certainly don't want to see the US title anywhere

<v Speaker 1>near the MFTs.

<v Speaker 2>Now we go to the back.

<v Speaker 1>Alexibiliss is warming up and here comes Charlotte Flair. She's

<v Speaker 1>apologizing for the Royal Rumble because she inadvertently helped eliminate Alexibilists,

<v Speaker 1>and Alexis said, look, it was Nya Jackx's fault. Charlotte says,

<v Speaker 1>Naya ruins everything. I don't disagree. Charlotte has come bearing

<v Speaker 1>gifts though for Alexa, and she presents her with a

<v Speaker 1>bouquet of black roses, which is interesting, and she asks

<v Speaker 1>her to be her Gallantine. The writing on this show

<v Speaker 1>is horrendous, by the way, that's what she did. Will

<v Speaker 1>you be my Gallantine?

<v Speaker 2>No elsewhere.

<v Speaker 1>Nick is in his office with Damian Priest and Our Truth,

<v Speaker 1>and he informs Damian Priest that he will be in

<v Speaker 1>an elimination chamber qualifying match on the show next week

<v Speaker 1>against Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. And I'm listening to

<v Speaker 1>this and I'm like Trick and Mellow in the same match.

<v Speaker 1>If ever there was a starting point for a WrestleMania match,

<v Speaker 1>there it is. It begins or it should begin on

<v Speaker 1>the show next week, because that should be the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>match right there for the United States Championship. You know,

<v Speaker 1>Melo was out there earlier saying I'm gonna shoot my shot.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna try to get in the main event of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>And he's not gonna sniff the main event in WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>but he absolutely should have a match on that show,

<v Speaker 1>not on the Friday before WrestleMania, but on WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 2>It stuff.

<v Speaker 1>You got two nights of WrestleMania. You've been having US

<v Speaker 1>title open challenges now for months. It's been the highlight

<v Speaker 1>of this show. There's no reason you should not have

<v Speaker 1>a match for that title on the WrestleMania card. There's

<v Speaker 1>your match, and they could plant that first seed for it,

<v Speaker 1>as far as you know, something between the two of them.

<v Speaker 1>Next week on the show, Kit Wilson storms into the

<v Speaker 1>room to complain about nick All this putting him in

<v Speaker 1>the ring last week with Oba Femi. He's got a book.

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was a purse that he had, like

<v Speaker 1>he had it looked like he had, like he had

<v Speaker 1>the strap, and I thought it was a fucking purse.

<v Speaker 2>But I guess it was a book.

<v Speaker 1>And he's got this book with him and there's a

<v Speaker 1>poem in there, and he reads this poem and it

<v Speaker 1>was like raw is red and smacked down is blue.

<v Speaker 1>And I don't remember the rest of it, but it

<v Speaker 1>is a very basic poem. But at the end he

<v Speaker 1>declares him as being toxic. So then our Truth offered

<v Speaker 1>a poem of his own, and he he mocked Kit Wilson,

<v Speaker 1>saying that he's not a real man because he's got

<v Speaker 1>a cameltoe, like, oh my god, and so Wilson stormed

<v Speaker 1>off in disgust. Wait a Women's Elimination Chamber qualifying match

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss, who had Charlotte Flair in her corner her

<v Speaker 1>Gallantine against Julia who had Keana James in her corner

<v Speaker 1>against Zelena Vega. Zelena has new music. Now, this is

<v Speaker 1>better than her previous music, which would get absolutely no

<v Speaker 1>reaction every single time she would come out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring like nobody would react. So if anybody needed new music,

<v Speaker 1>she's certainly on the list of people who could use

<v Speaker 1>new entrance music. But what they did here was the

<v Speaker 1>laziest thing that you can do. I mean, they gave

<v Speaker 1>her a good theme, but they gave her her husband's theme.

<v Speaker 1>So now she just comes out to Alistair Black's theme song.

<v Speaker 1>You know what, I'll take it over what she had before.

<v Speaker 1>It's an improvement. But I just I found this very funny,

<v Speaker 1>and I laughed when I said, Oh, okay, this is

<v Speaker 1>the new music that they gave her. Yeah, Damian Priest

<v Speaker 1>was laughing his ass.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, I mean that's what they do.

<v Speaker 1>They have that forced comedy where you have to do

<v Speaker 1>the fake laugh on the show. I'm not saying that,

<v Speaker 1>you know, there wasn't a chuckle in there to uh whatever, truth.

<v Speaker 1>I forgot what Truth said before the cameltoe line. But yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>not great. So Zelena, she fought out of his sister Abigail.

<v Speaker 1>She sent Alexa into the corners Zelena and Julia. They

<v Speaker 1>mixed it up a little bit. Bliss came back. She

<v Speaker 1>went after both women. Cannonball from the apron to Julia

<v Speaker 1>by Bliss, who herself then got taken out by a

<v Speaker 1>dive from Zelena and then that took us into a

<v Speaker 1>commercial break. Later on, Zelena headed up top, but she

<v Speaker 1>was distracted by Keana James, which allowed Julia to head

<v Speaker 1>up top and connect with the Avalanche Butterfly Soup like.

<v Speaker 1>She took her all the way down to the mat.

<v Speaker 1>Bliss recovered she had a double natural selection on both women,

<v Speaker 1>so later in the match, Bliss headed to the top.

<v Speaker 1>She was going for twisted Bliss as she came down,

<v Speaker 1>though Julia got her knees up. Then though she got

<v Speaker 1>dropped with a code read from Zelena. Bliss caught Zelena

<v Speaker 1>with a DDT. She went for the cover that got

<v Speaker 1>broken up by the Arrivederchini, which didn't connect fully, but

<v Speaker 1>she got enough of it. Julia hit the Northern Lights

<v Speaker 1>bomb on Bliss and then her cover got broken up

<v Speaker 1>by Zelena. Keana James got up on the apron got

<v Speaker 1>taken out by Zelena, who then took Julia took her

<v Speaker 1>out of the ring as Zelena tried for the running

<v Speaker 1>dive because she was going to.

<v Speaker 2>Dive out to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>As she was attempting this, Alexa Bliss stopped her and said,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think so, and she caught her imposition for

<v Speaker 1>the sister Abigail DDT and Alexa Bliss qualifies for the

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber match. Hardly a surprise. I mean, once I

<v Speaker 1>said it last week during the review, I mean, once

<v Speaker 1>you saw the lineup for this match, it was pretty

<v Speaker 1>clear who was moving on to the chamber. This was

<v Speaker 1>the best thing so far. You know, Selena, we know

<v Speaker 1>what her ceiling is. She's basically there right now in

<v Speaker 1>this company. Julia is someone who it's killed me to

<v Speaker 1>watch her for months now go out there most of

<v Speaker 1>her matches, you know, unless she's in there with Rhea

<v Speaker 1>Ripley and EO Sky to get no reaction. This was

<v Speaker 1>a little bit better, you know, especially after she hit

<v Speaker 1>that the Avalanche Butterfly suplex. You know, she's starting to

<v Speaker 1>kind of gain a little bit more momentum. She's still

<v Speaker 1>not where I would hope for her to be, but

<v Speaker 1>it feels like maybe she's you know, taking baby steps

<v Speaker 1>to get there. But Bliss, again, this was the obvious

<v Speaker 1>outcome here for this match. And if Charlotte Flare ends

<v Speaker 1>up in the elimination Chamber, then you have the obvious

<v Speaker 1>teases of tension between the two of them. You know,

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte was still coming up to her on the show

<v Speaker 1>tonight to apologize what happened, you know, for what happened

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble. You know there's going to be

<v Speaker 1>more fallout from that. It would seem that Charlotte Flair

<v Speaker 1>would end up in a spot in the elimination chamber,

<v Speaker 1>unless the idea is that Alexa Bliss is going to

<v Speaker 1>sort of inadvertently cost Charlotte her qualifying match next week,

<v Speaker 1>because Charlotte is going to be in a qualifying match

<v Speaker 1>with Naya Jacks and Keana James. Now, I don't see

<v Speaker 1>Keana James in the elimination chamber. I mean, it's not

<v Speaker 1>impossible to conceive. I think it's very unlikely, and I

<v Speaker 1>have no interest in seeing Naya Jackson the elimination chamber.

<v Speaker 1>She does not need to be in there. That leaves

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte Flair. It makes the most sense for Charlotte to

<v Speaker 1>be the one to advance. And so right now we

<v Speaker 1>have Tiffany Stratton is in, Rhea Ripley is in right

<v Speaker 1>she qualified on Monday night, and Alexa Bliss is in.

<v Speaker 1>That leaves three spots open in the women's chamber match.

<v Speaker 2>I have to.

<v Speaker 1>Imagine that Charlotte Flair is going to end up in there.

<v Speaker 1>There's a match coming up on Monday where Osca is

<v Speaker 1>my pick to win. So let's say Charlotte Oscar EO

<v Speaker 1>because if Rea is in there, why wouldn't Eo be

<v Speaker 1>in there? And so I think those are your six

<v Speaker 1>women in the women's Chamber match, and that has the

<v Speaker 1>potential to actually be a very good chamber match. I

<v Speaker 1>thought the elimination chamber match last year with the women

<v Speaker 1>was the best one they've done so far since they

<v Speaker 1>started doing the women's chamber matches last year. To me,

<v Speaker 1>that's number one. So with the right lineup, I think

<v Speaker 1>they could have a very good go at it again

<v Speaker 1>this year. And when the back Tiffany Stratton was walking,

<v Speaker 1>she found Jordan Grace and Grace welcomed her back and

<v Speaker 1>said that when I win the title tonight, she won't

<v Speaker 1>mind facing Tiffany or WrestleMania. So then off she went

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea Green and her broken foot got wheeled into frame

<v Speaker 1>by Alba Fire. Chelsea complained about losing to Tiffany. She

<v Speaker 1>had her foot in a walking boot and she complained

<v Speaker 1>about losing to Tiffany, look at.

<v Speaker 2>What you did.

<v Speaker 1>My foot is all mangled now because of you and Alba.

<v Speaker 1>She wanted apology and compensation for what she did to Chelsea.

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany says that all Chelsea needed to do was step

<v Speaker 1>up and ask for an apology, but it looks like

<v Speaker 1>she can't do.

<v Speaker 2>That right now.

<v Speaker 1>So originally the belief was that her ankle it was

<v Speaker 1>just a really bad bruise. And it sounds like her

<v Speaker 1>ankle may be broken, or at least there may be

<v Speaker 1>some sort of crack or something, and I think that

<v Speaker 1>was mentioned in the Observer that there might actually be

<v Speaker 1>a break. How serious it is or if she needs surgery.

<v Speaker 2>That I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>But that makes things a little bit more serious and

<v Speaker 1>means that Chelsea ain't going to be back as quickly

<v Speaker 1>as maybe people originally thought.

<v Speaker 2>So that sucks.

<v Speaker 1>But she was there and so you could still use

<v Speaker 1>her on TV and wheel her around right Stokely Halfaway

<v Speaker 1>is still being wheeled around at a fucking wheeled share

<v Speaker 1>on Dynamite.

<v Speaker 2>Every week.

<v Speaker 1>You can wheel around Chelsea Green. After the commercial, they

<v Speaker 1>come back to the announcers and Joe Tessitaur is talking,

<v Speaker 1>and he's he's attempting to sell the product right now

<v Speaker 1>as being unpredictable. WWE is very unpredictable right now. And look,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, what the fuck is he going to say?

<v Speaker 1>He's doing his job right It's a completely ridiculous statement

<v Speaker 1>to make, or is it?

<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, look, the wrestle of any of your plans

<v Speaker 1>apparently are changing by the week, doesn't get any more

<v Speaker 1>unpredictable than that. But the idea of that WWE is

<v Speaker 1>some kind of unpredictable product is very laughable right now.

<v Speaker 1>So he was setting up a recap about the whole

<v Speaker 1>situation with Cody Rhoads and Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre.

<v Speaker 1>So in the back after this, Ray Phoenix is warming

<v Speaker 1>up for his upcoming match with Trick Williams. Sammy's approaches him, says, look,

<v Speaker 1>I want you to go teach Trick Williams a lesson tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Phoenix says, you will. Sammy says, look, I want to

<v Speaker 1>just thank you for the words kind words last week,

<v Speaker 1>because Sammy was all downtrodden, Remember, Phoenix came up to

<v Speaker 1>him and tried to give him a little pep talk

<v Speaker 1>and You're a big inspiration to me and just keep

<v Speaker 1>your head up right. So he wanted to thank him

<v Speaker 1>for that because he didn't say it last week. He

<v Speaker 1>was all messed up, but it meant a lot to him.

<v Speaker 1>So Phoenix says, you know, Sammy is going to win tonight.

<v Speaker 1>And as this promo was going on, we hear Tricks

<v Speaker 1>music hit in the background, So we go out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring and here comes Trick Williams.

<v Speaker 2>As soon as they hit his music, it.

<v Speaker 1>Got a big pop and the entire building in Dallas

<v Speaker 1>is chanting, whoop that Trick like they are fully singing

<v Speaker 1>along with Tricks music. And he comes down to the

<v Speaker 1>ring and again I say it all the time when

<v Speaker 1>he comes out on the show ever since they called

<v Speaker 1>him up, dude's a star. He just comes off as

<v Speaker 1>a star. Some people have it, some people don't. He

<v Speaker 1>hasn't been up there very long, but he's got it.

<v Speaker 1>And it also goes to show you the power of

<v Speaker 1>having a decent piece of entrance music, which not a

<v Speaker 1>lot of people on this show have, but he does,

<v Speaker 1>and so that helps. So the crowd reaction was very noticeable.

<v Speaker 1>So he gets in the ring and he says that

<v Speaker 1>He's sure nobody in Dallas wants to hear from Sammy's ain.

<v Speaker 1>Mister can't get the job done. They don't want to

<v Speaker 1>hear him come out and tell another sob story. Said

<v Speaker 1>that Sammy begging for another opportunity made him sick. He

<v Speaker 1>said that Sammy had a big opportunity later tonight against

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhoades and Jacob fa too, but they would eat

<v Speaker 1>his ass alive. It's very important to put that in there,

<v Speaker 1>eat his ass alive. Tongaloa just got very excited if

<v Speaker 1>he kept on moping, they were going to eat his

<v Speaker 1>ass alive. So next week, however, Williams declared that he

<v Speaker 1>was ready to do whatever it took to qualify for

<v Speaker 1>the elimination chamber. Lemon Pepa, Steppa is and everything. So

<v Speaker 1>he turned his attention to Ray Phoenix, said that he

<v Speaker 1>wasn't going to lie down for him just because he

<v Speaker 1>was new here. And as he's talking, he gets interrupted

<v Speaker 1>by Phoenix's music. So again, this was a good promo

<v Speaker 1>and the fans were The fans were into this. Every week,

<v Speaker 1>you know, he gets a little more time to speak

<v Speaker 1>and a little more time to speak, or he gets

<v Speaker 1>to hang with some top names like Randy Orton or

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's Ain and it just helps elevate him that much more. Now,

<v Speaker 1>that's the importance of getting regular TV time, regular promo time.

<v Speaker 1>So this was good, you know, the vibe that I

<v Speaker 1>get from him, and I don't I know people are

<v Speaker 1>gonna hear this. They're gonna be Oh, how could you

<v Speaker 1>compare the two They're not. I'm just saying the vibe

<v Speaker 1>that I get from him. I couldn't really put my

<v Speaker 1>finger on it Hollywood Rock. When Hollywood Rock would and

<v Speaker 1>we didn't get Hollywood Rock for very long, not nearly

<v Speaker 1>long enough, but when he would come out again, there

<v Speaker 1>was just a certain I don't know, he had a

<v Speaker 1>certain vibe. He carried himself in a certain way, and

<v Speaker 1>I kind of get a little bit of that from

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams. Right, He's not the promo the Rock was,

<v Speaker 1>but he's pretty good promo. You know, He's he'll get there.

<v Speaker 1>But he gives off that vibe to me. And that's

<v Speaker 1>not a bad thing at all, because Hollywood Rock was

<v Speaker 1>fucking awesome. So if he can, let me tell you this,

<v Speaker 1>if he could ever get to that level, I think

<v Speaker 1>he'll do well. So we had Trick Williams against Ray Phoenix.

<v Speaker 1>Williams threw Phoenix down. He tried to assert his dominance

<v Speaker 1>early on here in this match. Phoenix tried for a

<v Speaker 1>rolling attack of some sort. Williams'll caught him and attempted

<v Speaker 1>to hit a shot. Phoenix recovered, though he connected with

<v Speaker 1>the missile dropkick for two. So he had Williams in

<v Speaker 1>his sights and he ended up getting turned upside down

<v Speaker 1>by this great spin kick from Williams. And the way

<v Speaker 1>it connected and they replayed it and the way Phoenix.

<v Speaker 2>Sold it was just fantastic.

<v Speaker 1>So Trick kept the momentum going with the tilta world backbreaker,

<v Speaker 1>hit a jumping neck breaker. Phoenix tried to rally. He

<v Speaker 1>came back later on with the audios amigo kick. Headed

<v Speaker 1>up top, he had a diving crossbody on Williams and

<v Speaker 1>then he instantly rolled back up and he took off

<v Speaker 1>from the other top turn buckle. He had a frog

<v Speaker 1>splash only for a near fall, so Williams rolled out

<v Speaker 1>of the ring to go catch his breath. Phoenix again

<v Speaker 1>took flight and he hit Williams with a diving crossbody

<v Speaker 1>on the floor. He brought Trick into the ring and

<v Speaker 1>again he went to the top rope, but Williams recovered.

<v Speaker 1>He cut Phoenix off and he's on the ropes with him,

<v Speaker 1>and he gets him on his shoulders and he's going

<v Speaker 1>to go for some sort of avalanche move here at

<v Speaker 1>attitude adjustment. I don't know what he's going to go

<v Speaker 1>for here. Phoenix fights back and instead he ends up

<v Speaker 1>standing on top of the ring post right behind Trick.

<v Speaker 1>Trick is sitting on the top rope and Phoenix is

<v Speaker 1>standing on the post right behind him.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know what he's gonna do.

<v Speaker 1>And he jumps up and he comes down with a

<v Speaker 1>double footstomp to the back of Trick's head. So Trick

<v Speaker 1>goes down and again, though Williams had the wherewithal to

<v Speaker 1>kick out finish, here came with Phoenix hitting the ropes

<v Speaker 1>and he's coming off the ropes and he got turned

<v Speaker 1>inside out. He took a fucking great bump for the

<v Speaker 1>trick shot knee, you know, the way you would see

<v Speaker 1>somebody get turned inside out on a clothes line. He

<v Speaker 1>went inside out off the trick shot and Trick out

<v Speaker 1>the pen to win the match.

<v Speaker 2>This was real good.

<v Speaker 1>I thought, Look, I hate to see Ray Phoenix used

<v Speaker 1>in this way, it's one thing every now and then

<v Speaker 1>to have a match like this. It's very clear to

<v Speaker 1>me at this point that this is the role that

<v Speaker 1>they have decided upon for the foreseeable future for Ray Phoenix.

<v Speaker 1>And even in the Royal Rumble, he was in the Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>he was a jobber. I mean, they use him as

<v Speaker 1>an absolute jobber in the Royal Rumble because that's what

<v Speaker 1>they think of him. Him and Russev, like you could

<v Speaker 1>just tell, the way that they're used in those situations

<v Speaker 1>says a lot about where the company sees them at

<v Speaker 1>the moment. Ray Phoenix is too good to just be

<v Speaker 1>going out there and to be used as someone to

<v Speaker 1>help get other people over. So I would certainly hope

<v Speaker 1>that at some point they pull their head out of

<v Speaker 1>their ass and they will figure out something a little

<v Speaker 1>bit better for him to be doing other than just

<v Speaker 1>using him for this and really nothing else. There's nothing

<v Speaker 1>else of any great value that they are using him for.

<v Speaker 1>At the moment. They seem content to just kind of

<v Speaker 1>keep him in this role. And ordinarily I would sit

<v Speaker 1>here and I would lobby, as I've done many times before,

<v Speaker 1>for them to finally give us that Luca Brothers reunion,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm not going to do that just because the

<v Speaker 1>more I think about it, I don't know why I

<v Speaker 1>would doom him and Penta more so Penta, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why I would doom them to the tag team

<v Speaker 1>division because WWE clearly does not give a shit about

<v Speaker 1>the tag team division on either show. So I can't

<v Speaker 1>even sit here and say that anymore, like it's a

<v Speaker 1>lateral move. If he ends up in the tag team division,

<v Speaker 1>It's not like he's going up anymore. He's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>right at the same level as at right now until

<v Speaker 1>and unless they actually put some muscle and some elbow grease,

<v Speaker 1>so okay into fixing the tag team problem. There's no

<v Speaker 1>point in wanting to see the Luca brother I mean sure,

<v Speaker 1>I mean I've been advocating for the Luca Brothers and

<v Speaker 1>the USOS or WrestleMania, but they haven't even put the

<v Speaker 1>two of them together yet, and you got two months

<v Speaker 1>left until WrestleMania. So to the WWE audience, they don't

<v Speaker 1>know what the fuck the Luca Brothers are, right, seems

<v Speaker 1>pretty clear that they're not gonna do that. So I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't even bother until they put the effort into actually

<v Speaker 1>do something with the tag division. I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>else there is for Phoenix to do because it's very

<v Speaker 1>clear to me that he is not a priority for

<v Speaker 1>them on this show.

<v Speaker 2>And if you move him.

<v Speaker 1>Over to Raw, is it really going to be that

<v Speaker 1>much better? Probably not, So it's a shame. But as

<v Speaker 1>far as Trick Williams is concerned, he's progressing very nicely.

<v Speaker 1>I think he's been doing a great job and the

<v Speaker 1>crowd has responded. There are people who the crowd does

<v Speaker 1>not respond to, they don't make that connection with them.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't have that issue, So that's good because you

<v Speaker 1>can call up Oba Femi, and you can call up

<v Speaker 1>different people and some will be successful, some will not be.

<v Speaker 1>Oh but to me is I can't miss Like if

<v Speaker 1>you fuck him up, that's on you. Prospect and Trick

<v Speaker 1>I would put in the same category. I mean, Trick

<v Speaker 1>just has that charisma to him that you would think

<v Speaker 1>they would love, and I think that will carry him

<v Speaker 1>further in WWE than it would anywhere else.

<v Speaker 2>So it's good to see.

<v Speaker 1>It's good to see, and I will give them praise

<v Speaker 1>for that where they deserve it. Just keep using him

<v Speaker 1>in this way and again. I like the idea of

<v Speaker 1>him getting that US title in the next few months

<v Speaker 1>and then giving him a run with it.

<v Speaker 2>Now.

<v Speaker 1>Eo Skuy and Rhea Ripley they were in the back

<v Speaker 1>licking their wounds. After the opening title match, Julia showed

<v Speaker 1>up with Keana James, and Julia was having a meltdown.

<v Speaker 1>She was very angry about what happened losing in her

<v Speaker 1>chamber qualifier earlier. Eo took a good look at Julia

<v Speaker 1>and she actually teased going after the Women's US title.

<v Speaker 1>She said, I pinned her last week. Maybe I'll pin

<v Speaker 1>her again and take the United States Championship. So in angry,

<v Speaker 1>Julia stormed off. When Jade Cargill walked up with her

<v Speaker 1>Women's title over her shoulder, we had a little stare

<v Speaker 1>down here between Jade and and then Jade kept on

<v Speaker 1>walking because up next was her title match, her first defense.

<v Speaker 1>She won the championship on Saturday Night's main event on

<v Speaker 1>November first, and tonight was the first time she put

<v Speaker 1>that title on the line. She did so against a

<v Speaker 1>woman who has not been on the main roster for

<v Speaker 1>very long. That is Jordan Grace, who is yet another

<v Speaker 1>victim of terrible music that will do absolutely nothing to

<v Speaker 1>help her. Theme music should not be the thing that

<v Speaker 1>gets you over, but theme music can be very helpful

<v Speaker 1>in terms of helping you get over. And she is

<v Speaker 1>still very new on the roster. What is that little

<v Speaker 1>SoundBite at the beginning, I will win or I must win.

<v Speaker 1>Everyone's got to have a little catchphrase at the beginning

<v Speaker 1>of their theme music, and then it goes into this

<v Speaker 1>like generic rock. It's just it's fucking awful. So before

<v Speaker 1>we could get the official introduction here for this match,

<v Speaker 1>Live Morgan, Oh there it is.

<v Speaker 2>Thank you. It's not over until I win. Who came

<v Speaker 2>up with that?

<v Speaker 1>That's almost as bad as role Model? It's not over

<v Speaker 1>until I win. Yes, I know she had the siren.

<v Speaker 1>She had the siren and they took it away because

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker has a siren and we can't have more

<v Speaker 1>than one siren. So let's come up with the most

<v Speaker 1>generic sounding bullshit for her to come out to.

<v Speaker 2>Role Model.

<v Speaker 1>Live, Morgan comes out the winner of the twenty twenty

<v Speaker 1>six Women's Royal Rumble. She is accompanied by Dominic Mysterio

<v Speaker 1>and Raquel Rodriguez. Morgan said that they were gonna have

<v Speaker 1>a closer. Look at this match. Attention attention to the

<v Speaker 1>siko in row four. Look, I know you're excited to

<v Speaker 1>be a dynamite tonight at your first show, but you

<v Speaker 1>can't be pulling that thing out. Okay, you gotta put

<v Speaker 1>that away. Don't think I didn't see that sign that

<v Speaker 1>you brought that said I came to see aew that's sick.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, oh the sick gos. You know you could

<v Speaker 1>be arrested for that in certain places. You better put

<v Speaker 1>that shit away. That might be the same person who

<v Speaker 1>had that sign in the crowd that said Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>is hot. Wouldn't shock me. So Liv said, they're here

<v Speaker 1>to get a ringside seat for this next match, because,

<v Speaker 1>of course, Liv Morgan is still teasing the possibility that

<v Speaker 1>she might choose to challenge for the WWE Women's Championship

<v Speaker 1>and not the World Heavyweight Championship or WrestleMania, which is bullshit.

<v Speaker 1>We all know it is, but she's got to tease it.

<v Speaker 1>Adam pretend, so she wants to have a ringside seat,

<v Speaker 1>And they had a table set up because Tom said

<v Speaker 1>that he had a very special setup for valan Time's Day,

<v Speaker 1>and at ringside they had a table set up next

<v Speaker 1>to where the announced desk was, and they had plates

<v Speaker 1>of chicken nuggets, and that's where Live and Dom took

<v Speaker 1>a seat, and Raquel just sort of stood there as

<v Speaker 1>their bodyguard or I don't know what you would call

<v Speaker 1>her matre d.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>So we got Jade and Grace. They were testing out

<v Speaker 1>their strength. Neither woman had any sort of advantage. Cargil

<v Speaker 1>found herself trapped in a sleeperhole and Jade was trying

<v Speaker 1>to get out of it. She was slamming Grace to

<v Speaker 1>the mat Grace would not let go, so the two

<v Speaker 1>of them rolled outside and Jade very gently backed into

<v Speaker 1>the ring post and finally Jordan let go of the hold.

<v Speaker 1>Cargill missed though she went to go chopper, Grace ducked

<v Speaker 1>out of the way and she chopped the ring post

<v Speaker 1>casing instead, and then Jordan hit a DDT on the

<v Speaker 1>floor outside. So now Jordan tried to lift Jade up,

<v Speaker 1>was going to go for a power bomb or what

<v Speaker 1>she was going to go for here, but instead she

<v Speaker 1>got backdropped, and she took this backdrop on the top

<v Speaker 1>part of the timekeeper's barricade and then rolled off.

<v Speaker 2>And I'm pretty sure.

<v Speaker 1>It's padded the top part, but still you land right

<v Speaker 1>on that top part of the barricade.

<v Speaker 2>That's no fun.

<v Speaker 1>So then Jade walks over to the judgment day table

<v Speaker 1>and she grabs one of the chicken nuggets and she

<v Speaker 1>took a bite and then she tossed the rest of

<v Speaker 1>it on the floor. That's the first carb that probably

<v Speaker 1>has entered that woman's body in the last five years.

<v Speaker 1>So Grace targeted the champion's injured arm because Jade was

<v Speaker 1>selling the arm from earlier.

<v Speaker 2>I guess.

<v Speaker 1>After she had chopped the post, Grace hit Cargill with

<v Speaker 1>a forearm to the face, lifted her up for a

<v Speaker 1>modified jackhammer for a near fall. Cargill hit Grace with

<v Speaker 1>a big kick, could not capital though, because she got

<v Speaker 1>caught with a spinebuster. Cargil, though after this, landed on

<v Speaker 1>her feet on a Grace power bomb attempt and connected

<v Speaker 1>with a spinebuster of her own. Jade went for her

<v Speaker 1>pump kick. Grace, though, dodged it, and then she hit

<v Speaker 1>a standing power slam on Jade only got a near fall.

<v Speaker 1>Both women got to their feet. They traded strikes. Grace

<v Speaker 1>tried for beast mode but she was countered and got

<v Speaker 1>blasted with the pump kick, and then Cargill put the

<v Speaker 1>finishing touches on her by hitting Jaded. We were told

<v Speaker 1>with one arm, I mean she got her up with

<v Speaker 1>two arms, but then she let go of the one

<v Speaker 1>arm and dropped her face.

<v Speaker 2>First and she pinned her. Look, there are some people.

<v Speaker 1>I think there was someone in the chat even after

<v Speaker 1>it happened, who said, oh, that's it, and it's like

<v Speaker 1>she hit her finish and she won. We don't get

<v Speaker 1>enough of that in wrestling. I think we're all so

<v Speaker 1>conditioned now to seeing matches where everybody kicks out of

<v Speaker 1>every fucking finisher fifteen times that when somebody actually hits

<v Speaker 1>what should be their finishing move and somebody doesn't kick out,

<v Speaker 1>people are like, what, that's it, Yeah, that's it. That's

<v Speaker 1>what a fucking finishing move is supposed to be.

<v Speaker 2>Sorry.

<v Speaker 1>So, yes, Jade retains the championship. So her first defense

<v Speaker 1>is a successful one and not a bad match either.

<v Speaker 1>Jordan was a good opponent for her to work with.

<v Speaker 1>I had no illusions about her winning the title here

<v Speaker 1>said the finish was no surprise. I mean it was

<v Speaker 1>her first title defense. Did you honestly expect her to

<v Speaker 1>lose the title and her first defense. Like I said

<v Speaker 1>the same thing about Drew McIntyre at the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>that was his first title defense. Did anybody really expect

<v Speaker 1>I know they were in Saudi, but did anybody really

<v Speaker 1>expect Sammy to win the championship in Drew's first title

<v Speaker 1>defense after he had just won the belt? You know,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, come on, use your brain. It is ridiculous

<v Speaker 1>of course that it took one hundred days for us

<v Speaker 1>to get to this point where she defended the title.

<v Speaker 1>But after she was still selling the bad arm, Jade

<v Speaker 1>goes outside that she walks over to Live Morgan, who

<v Speaker 1>was sitting at that table with Dom, and she said

<v Speaker 1>that if you pick me for WrestleMania, that is going

<v Speaker 1>to be your ass, and she walked off.

<v Speaker 2>Spoiler.

<v Speaker 1>I have a spoiler alert for everybody. I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>say it loud for all the people on the back too.

<v Speaker 1>Live Morgan will not be challenging for the WWE Championship

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania, thank you. She will be wrestling Stephanie Vicaire.

<v Speaker 1>But they have to keep up this facade disillusion that

<v Speaker 1>she might actually challenge Jade for the title. That's not

<v Speaker 1>a match I think that anybody really cares to see anyway,

<v Speaker 1>nor is there any real story behind it. So yes,

<v Speaker 1>that is not a match that we will be seeing.

<v Speaker 2>Now.

<v Speaker 1>The quest esstion then turns to who will Jade be

<v Speaker 1>defending her title against a WrestleMania because unless there's some

<v Speaker 1>big surprise where, you know, she gets into the chamber

<v Speaker 1>at the last minute, somebody gets knocked out of it

<v Speaker 1>or something, you know, Look, Bianca bell Air is clearly

<v Speaker 1>not going to be back in time to wrestle for

<v Speaker 1>the title of WrestleMania. It's just not going to happen.

<v Speaker 1>So then who does Jade defend her championship against? Now,

<v Speaker 1>they had a little tease in that backstage segment earlier

<v Speaker 1>in the show with Riea Ripley. Rihea Ripley is in

<v Speaker 1>the chamber. So if Live pick Stephanie and Rhea wins

<v Speaker 1>the chamber, Rhea could very well be challenging Jade at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Now that doesn't seem likely because I think whatever Rihea

<v Speaker 1>is doing it'll involve the yell.

<v Speaker 2>But it's possible.

<v Speaker 1>But if not, Bianca the name that makes the most

<v Speaker 1>sense and the likeliest opponent for her at WrestleMania is

<v Speaker 1>going to be Charlotte Flair. It's a match they've teased

<v Speaker 1>a couple of times before in the past, and in

<v Speaker 1>their mind, as far as Wrestlemanium matches go, that's about

<v Speaker 1>as big as you could hope for. If you're not

<v Speaker 1>going to be able to do Jade and Bianca with

<v Speaker 1>their history, then you would do Charlotte and Jade, And

<v Speaker 1>that's probably what we're looking at, because I don't really

<v Speaker 1>see a better option for them right now. Now, after this,

<v Speaker 1>we go to the back Fraxium and the Motor City

<v Speaker 1>machine Guns. They continue to laugh at the expense of

<v Speaker 1>a very depressed Johnny Gargano, who was sitting once again

<v Speaker 1>on top of one of the equipment rates. I couldn't

<v Speaker 1>tell this week if it said NXT on it like

<v Speaker 1>it did last week. But he's still he's very down,

<v Speaker 1>and he actually spoke words this week, and he told

<v Speaker 1>Candice lay that, look, everything is just everything's in the shitter,

<v Speaker 1>basically like I lost my tag team partner. He didn't

<v Speaker 1>say where his tag team partner went. He just said

<v Speaker 1>he lost his tag team partner. Then the mask right

<v Speaker 1>that Axiom got back, he said, I have nothing left,

<v Speaker 1>which Kendice took great offense to and then she said

<v Speaker 1>she would fix it, and she wheeled him away as

<v Speaker 1>he sat there on the production crate.

<v Speaker 2>So here come the MFTs.

<v Speaker 1>They're sauntering down the hallway right after their big win

<v Speaker 1>earlier in the show, and Solo's got his lantern with

<v Speaker 1>him and they look over it to Phraxium and the

<v Speaker 1>machine guns, and he taunts them and says, look, if

<v Speaker 1>you want to get a shot at the tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>you got to get your asses in line.

<v Speaker 2>So as Solo is.

<v Speaker 1>Leading his group down the hallway, they come upon their

<v Speaker 1>locker room and on the door is an illustrated photo

<v Speaker 1>piece of paper with an illustration of Solo Socoa in

<v Speaker 1>the form of the lantern. So, if you remember The Fiend,

<v Speaker 1>for example, when The Fiend first debuted, he had that

<v Speaker 1>badass looking lamp or lantern with the open gaping mouth,

<v Speaker 1>that was the illustration here, except here it was Solo Soco.

<v Speaker 1>And Solo did not like this very much and he

<v Speaker 1>ripped it off the door. It's good to see Dexter

<v Speaker 1>loomis putting his drawing skills to work. He's actually a

<v Speaker 1>very talented artist. I'm sure he's the one who drew that.

<v Speaker 1>I also can't believe that we are still keeping up

<v Speaker 1>with his wyats. I mean, I guess it was to

<v Speaker 1>be expected because Solo still has the lantern, but we

<v Speaker 1>are continuing with this shit. Johnny Gargano is now the

<v Speaker 1>only one depressed here. I may have to join him

<v Speaker 1>on that crate next week. Now, Nick All, this was

<v Speaker 1>in his office and he was chatting with Oba Femi.

<v Speaker 1>At least he wasn't chatting with our truth about his balls.

<v Speaker 1>At least we've moved on from that. But he's chatting

<v Speaker 1>with Oba Femi and he's trying to sign him. He's

<v Speaker 1>ready to sign him to a SmackDown contract. And Kit

<v Speaker 1>Wilson angrily still into the room, not realizing that Oba

<v Speaker 1>was in the room.

<v Speaker 2>And all this.

<v Speaker 1>He sees that Kit has his book and he takes

<v Speaker 1>the book from him, and Kit was like no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>he go no, no, no, no, let me see what you've

<v Speaker 1>written here in this book. He opens the book and

<v Speaker 1>he reads a poem and there were some harsh words

<v Speaker 1>in there about Obafemi, including him calling Oba a sad clown.

<v Speaker 1>So this led to Oba saying.

<v Speaker 2>I got an idea.

<v Speaker 1>How about you and me we do this again one

<v Speaker 1>on one next week here on SmackDown, and the fans

<v Speaker 1>booed because they thought they were getting the match tonight,

<v Speaker 1>but they made it official for next week's show instead.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, guys. You know I'm talking about this

<v Speaker 1>road to WrestleMania. Brock Lesner is coming back. Brock Lesner

<v Speaker 1>is scheduled for not this coming Monday, but the following Monday,

<v Speaker 1>which is the final Raw before the Elimination Chamber. That

<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be in Atlanta, Georgia, and brock Lesnar is going.

<v Speaker 2>To be on that show.

<v Speaker 1>Now, I still have hope that they're gonna do the

<v Speaker 1>right thing, and they're gonna do brock Lesner in Obafemi

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. Plus, Oba has been rumored to end up

<v Speaker 1>on the Raw roster, so if brock is showing up

<v Speaker 1>on Raw, it gives me hope. But I'm looking at

<v Speaker 1>this and I'm going, boy, you know, if Obafemi is

<v Speaker 1>gonna be the one to be wrestling brock Lesnar or WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>it sure doesn't feel like it, does it. Obafemi is

<v Speaker 1>about to be wrestling his second match next week against

<v Speaker 1>Kit fucking Wilson, and then he's gonna go right into

<v Speaker 1>what a program with brock Lesner. I mean he should,

<v Speaker 1>but what are we doing here? Like this is gonna

<v Speaker 1>be the second week now, second time that Obafemi is

<v Speaker 1>stepping into the ring with Kit Wilson. It doesn't feel

<v Speaker 1>like we're on the verge of a big Obafemi brock

<v Speaker 1>Lesnar match of WrestleMania. The backstage, Kathy Kelly is interviewing

<v Speaker 1>the WWE champion. Drew McIntyre promised that Cody Rhoades would

<v Speaker 1>be nowhere near him his title or the main event

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania. He said Jacob Fatu might have the best

<v Speaker 1>chance in the elimination chamber because he has spent most

<v Speaker 1>of his time behind bars, but he would make him

<v Speaker 1>wish that he was back in the slammer if he wins.

<v Speaker 1>So Sammy's ain't showed up before he could say anything

<v Speaker 1>nasty about Sammy, and Sammy says, oh no, no, please continue,

<v Speaker 1>don't stop on account of me. Andrew said, look, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not going to insult you. He remembered Sammy telling him

<v Speaker 1>on the night that he won the WWE Championship on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown in Three Stages of Hell that a small part

<v Speaker 1>of him wanted Drew to win that match. McIntyre said,

<v Speaker 1>a big part of him wants Sammy to win tonight,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, of course he does. He's fucking Sammy

<v Speaker 1>is zero for twelve against this man. If I'm Drew McIntyre,

<v Speaker 1>I want to face this man every week for the

<v Speaker 1>rest of the year. So McIntyre said that Sammy is

<v Speaker 1>a good man who paid his dues and he's earned

<v Speaker 1>and he has a feeling that Sammy.

<v Speaker 2>Is going to win the Big One tonight.

<v Speaker 1>And they played Sammy's music and he looked shook. He

<v Speaker 1>looked very confused and caught off guard by what Drew

<v Speaker 1>just said to him as he made his way through

<v Speaker 1>Gorilla and on out to the ring. And so it

<v Speaker 1>was time for the main event, an elimination chamber triple

<v Speaker 1>threat qualifier Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu and Sammy's Aight foughts

<v Speaker 1>it Now. I was excited about this match when it

<v Speaker 1>was first announced because we talk about predictability and unpredictability,

<v Speaker 1>and at first glance, you see all the names involved

<v Speaker 1>here and you're like, well, all three of these guys

<v Speaker 1>realistically should be in the elimination chamber. Only one of

<v Speaker 1>them can advance. So this is kind of intriguing here, right,

<v Speaker 1>Cody would seem to be the favorite. That's why I

<v Speaker 1>picked Cody to win. But there was at least the

<v Speaker 1>possibility that Cody and Jacob could get fucked over by

<v Speaker 1>Drew because remember they were the ones attacking Drew last week.

<v Speaker 1>Every time he tried to speak, he got jumped by Cody,

<v Speaker 1>he got jumped by Fatu. I'm like, all right, well,

<v Speaker 1>maybe Drew pays him back.

<v Speaker 2>This week.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy sneaks his way into the chamber, and now we're

<v Speaker 1>left to figure out how the hell they're gonna get

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes in this title match of Wrestlemedia, because we

<v Speaker 1>all know he's going to be in there.

<v Speaker 2>They opted not to do that. They opted to go

<v Speaker 2>with the obvious.

<v Speaker 1>Approach here, but it at least created this feeling of unpredictability,

<v Speaker 1>like maybe there's some big angle or swerve that they

<v Speaker 1>have in mind here, so it felt like a big match.

<v Speaker 1>So Fa Tu hit Sammy with a super kick right

<v Speaker 1>out of the gate. This led to Cody and Fatu

<v Speaker 1>going at it for a little bit. Cody tried for

<v Speaker 1>the Cody Cutter, he couldn't connect. Fatu missed with the sentan.

<v Speaker 1>He got sent over the top with a clothesline. Sammy

<v Speaker 1>gets into the ring. He hits Cody with some chops.

<v Speaker 1>He sends the former WWE champion out of the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and so Sammy builds up ahead of Steam. He does

<v Speaker 1>a dive out over the top. He wipes out both

<v Speaker 1>men and we go to brake. After the brake, the

<v Speaker 1>crowd is starting to chant for tables, so Jacob Fatu

<v Speaker 1>he goes under the table and he pulls out a

<v Speaker 1>or under the ring and he pulls out a slim

<v Speaker 1>gym table, but then he just slides it back underneath

<v Speaker 1>like a heel. Cody on the other side of the ring,

<v Speaker 1>he starts pulling a slim jim table out from under

<v Speaker 1>the ring. So Jacob goes over. He cuts off Cody

<v Speaker 1>and again he slides the table under the ring and

<v Speaker 1>the fans boo. So Sammy was down in the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Fat Tou was climbing Cody. They'll cut him off, and

<v Speaker 1>he was gonna try for a superplex. Jacob knocked him down,

<v Speaker 1>so now it was Sammy's turn to go up after him.

<v Speaker 1>He tried for a superplex. Jacob was going nowhere, so

<v Speaker 1>he got head butted down to the mat. Cody runs

<v Speaker 1>the ropes, so now he's on top, he's gonna try

<v Speaker 1>again to no avail. Jacob Fatu is not going anywhere.

<v Speaker 1>And this this took forever, like they constantly were just

<v Speaker 1>taking turns here until finally they're like, why don't we

<v Speaker 1>work together? And together the two of them were able

<v Speaker 1>to bring Jacob down with the double superplex. So after

<v Speaker 1>this it was Cody and it was Sammy. We got

<v Speaker 1>the yay boo. They start slugging it out and Cody

<v Speaker 1>charged into the corner. Sammy catches him and hits an

<v Speaker 1>exploder into the turnbuckles and so here comes the halluva kick,

<v Speaker 1>but Fat Tou cut him off with a superkick, and

<v Speaker 1>then there was a superkick for Cody as well. Sammy

<v Speaker 1>put Fatu down. Then he tried for a blue thunderbomb

<v Speaker 1>to Cody, who blocked it. Cody went for the Cody Cutter.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy caught him coming off the ropes and he did

<v Speaker 1>hit the Blue thunderbomb, only for a near fall though,

<v Speaker 1>so Fat Tu got Sammy in the corner and he's yelling.

<v Speaker 2>At him all gas, no brakes.

<v Speaker 1>So Jacob runs to the opposite corner, doesn't realize that

<v Speaker 1>Sammy is following him in and Sammy goes for a

<v Speaker 1>halluva kick, but Jacob dodges it so he doesn't hit

<v Speaker 1>the kick. Fa Tu got him down. Then he comes

<v Speaker 1>off the top with a splash, or at least what

<v Speaker 1>I think was supposed to be a splash, but the

<v Speaker 1>spot was that Sammy caught him into a small package

<v Speaker 1>only for two, so they got back up. Here comes Cody.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Cutter drops Sammy Fatu though dumps Cody out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring, and he goes up for the Mighty Moon Salt.

<v Speaker 1>He's gonna steal the pin off of Cody roads here

<v Speaker 1>he hits the Mighty Moon Salt. Jacob covers he's got

<v Speaker 1>this match in the bag and you're just waiting for

<v Speaker 1>something to happen here. I thought the referee was gonna

<v Speaker 1>get dragged out of the ring or something, but they

<v Speaker 1>shot this in a way where you couldn't see that

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre was a ringside and he delivers a low

<v Speaker 1>Claymore kick to Jacob Fatu to break up what would

<v Speaker 1>have been the three count, So he takes Jacob outside

<v Speaker 1>and he sends him flying over the announced desk to

<v Speaker 1>the floor. But watch out, here comes Cody Rhoads, sailing

<v Speaker 1>through the ropes with a suicide. He takes out Drew McIntyre,

<v Speaker 1>but then Drew ends up reversing Cody into the ring post.

<v Speaker 1>Fatuo now is back up, so Drew power bombs him

<v Speaker 1>through the reinforced announced desk and then back in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre is measuring him and the Claymore kick connects on

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes and he goes over and he grabs Sammy

<v Speaker 1>z Ain and he drags Sammy on top of Cody,

<v Speaker 1>and here comes the referee and I bought into this

<v Speaker 1>near fall. I thought this was it. Referee comes over,

<v Speaker 1>he counts one, he counts two. Cody gets a shoulder

<v Speaker 1>up and everybody cheers because I think they also thought

<v Speaker 1>the match was over. But nope, the match is going

<v Speaker 1>to continue. So now in angry McIntyre, who had already

<v Speaker 1>started to make his way to the back, he marches

<v Speaker 1>back to the ring. He starts just clubbing and pummeling Cody.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy Zain, though, comes in like an idiot. Then he

<v Speaker 1>wiped out Drew with a halluva kick in the corner.

<v Speaker 1>And now with his back turn to Cody, Cody grabs

<v Speaker 1>Sammy and he drops him with a crossroads and he

<v Speaker 1>pins him. And so Cody Rhodes is going to the

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber. He has now officially qualified. They stuck with

<v Speaker 1>the obvious outcome here. The reality is this, Cody Rhoads

<v Speaker 1>is not going to WrestleMania to do anything other than

<v Speaker 1>be involved in the WWE Championship match. Like there's nothing

<v Speaker 1>else he's going to be doing on the show this

<v Speaker 1>year that would not involve that title. So whether he

<v Speaker 1>won this match, whether he lost this match and had

<v Speaker 1>to find another way in because he got two months

<v Speaker 1>of television here, you can make things interesting and shoot

<v Speaker 1>some kind of angle, make Cody struggle a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>I thought there was a chance, but they went with

<v Speaker 1>the path of least resistance. They went with the obvious outcome,

<v Speaker 1>which was a Cody Rhoades win. And so if he

<v Speaker 1>wants to be in the title match of WrestleMania, he's

<v Speaker 1>got to win the chamber. And Cody winning the Chamber

<v Speaker 1>is much better than Cody winning the Royal Rumble. At

<v Speaker 1>least the Chamber, it's a match that he's never won

<v Speaker 1>before the Rumble. It would have been completely ridiculous for

<v Speaker 1>him to win three Rumbles in four years, like it's

<v Speaker 1>a recipe to get people to turn against him.

<v Speaker 2>The Chamber at least is a little bit better the

<v Speaker 2>main event.

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was a solid match, and I thought

<v Speaker 1>they did a good job of at least trying to

<v Speaker 1>create some drama there with Drew being involved, where it

<v Speaker 1>could have gone the other way and you could have

<v Speaker 1>had Sammy win the match. So there were a couple

<v Speaker 1>good near falls there. McIntyre's plan backfired and some people

<v Speaker 1>might look at it and go, oh, yeah, this makes

<v Speaker 1>Drew look very weak because his plan was to help

<v Speaker 1>Sammy win and it kind of backed well, yeah, that's

<v Speaker 1>the story that his plan backfired on him. He wanted

<v Speaker 1>to go with the easiest challenger of all three and

<v Speaker 1>it blew up at his face, and now he may

<v Speaker 1>have to contend with Cody again or whoever else is

<v Speaker 1>going to be in the elimination Chamber match, so his

<v Speaker 1>plan backfire. The one who looks like a fucking idiot

<v Speaker 1>out of this is Sammy's ain, and you could say, well,

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's a babyface, and Sammy didn't want help. He didn't

<v Speaker 1>want to win like that, right, But in the end,

<v Speaker 1>his righteousness was his downfall. Right, the marl superiority that

<v Speaker 1>he has doing things the right way, that's all well

<v Speaker 1>and good, but the one thing he wanted to do

<v Speaker 1>was to go to WrestleMania here and win the big one,

<v Speaker 1>and you blew it. You could have done it, and

<v Speaker 1>you blew it, and instead he was lying on his

<v Speaker 1>back looking up at the lights. So if anybody looks

<v Speaker 1>like an idiot in this situation, more so than Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre my opinion, it's Sammy's ay. And then there's Jacob

<v Speaker 1>fat too, and Jacob and this is where I think

<v Speaker 1>you could argue for making this ultimately whatever the match is,

<v Speaker 1>making it a trip threat match, or at least giving

<v Speaker 1>fought to some other opportunity to still try to get involved.

<v Speaker 2>Because he had the match.

<v Speaker 1>Won, he should have been in the elimination chamber, where

<v Speaker 1>it not for Drew McIntyre coming in and kicking him

<v Speaker 1>in the head, a man who wasn't even involved in

<v Speaker 1>this match just screwed him out of an elimination chamber spot.

<v Speaker 1>So if anybody I think has an argument for you know,

<v Speaker 1>still being involved in some way or getting a last

<v Speaker 1>chance or whatever, it's Jacob fought too, and they've done

<v Speaker 1>that before, actually have like a last chance qualifier sometimes.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they're planning on doing that with them.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think they're doing that on the men's side anyway,

<v Speaker 1>But I mean it's possible. It's possible because when I

<v Speaker 1>look at who's qualified so far, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton,

<v Speaker 1>La Knight, those are the names that have officially qualified

<v Speaker 1>for the Chamber. I have Javon Evans advancing on Monday.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think Gunther is getting it to the chamber.

<v Speaker 1>Unless Gunther is winning the chamber, he should not be

<v Speaker 1>in the chamber. Chamber guarantees that he has to be pinned,

<v Speaker 1>so you do not have him in the chamber. Let

<v Speaker 1>him wrestle Dragonly on the undercard. I think Javon Evans

<v Speaker 1>is going to get in, and then next Friday, I

<v Speaker 1>think Trick Williams is going to get in and that

<v Speaker 1>gives us five. So there's one spot left open. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know who fills that spot. Take your pick. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know because in the match on Monday is Javon,

<v Speaker 1>it's Dominic Mysterio, and it's Gunther and then next Friday

<v Speaker 1>it's Trick Williams, it's Carmelo Hayes, it's Damian Priest. So

<v Speaker 1>those are the names that are accounted for. They could

<v Speaker 1>have some sort of last chance qualifying type of situation.

<v Speaker 1>That's a good point. Actually, Tribal Chief mentioned that, fuck

<v Speaker 1>I forgot about that. Oh my god, jay Uso. Ah, well,

<v Speaker 1>they said that jay Uso was going to be in

<v Speaker 1>a qualifier. I don't think they told us the other

<v Speaker 1>two names in the qualifier, but that's it's a good point. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>jay Usa fucking jus So. I do not want to

<v Speaker 1>see jay Uso in the elimination shape. There is no

<v Speaker 1>reason for jay Usso, one half of the tag team champions,

<v Speaker 1>to be in the elimination chamber. They'll end up doing

<v Speaker 1>exactly what they did in the Royal Rumble in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the elimination chamber. We'll have to stop to yeat,

<v Speaker 1>keep him the fuck out of the chamber. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know who's going to occupy that final slot. I'm okay

<v Speaker 1>with it being almost anybody else.

<v Speaker 2>Good Lord.

<v Speaker 1>So there were some solid matches on this show, and

<v Speaker 1>again I'm enjoying the progression of Trick Williams. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know with other people on the show. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what they're doing with some of these people. I still

<v Speaker 1>have no idea why Royce Keys was not featured on

<v Speaker 1>this show. I have no idea why he was wrestling

<v Speaker 1>on fucking main event. I really don't like you put

<v Speaker 1>him in the Royal Rumble match and then you say

<v Speaker 1>nothing about him, You don't feature him, you don't show him,

<v Speaker 1>you don't have him out there.

<v Speaker 2>I don't understand it.

<v Speaker 1>He's wrestling Nathan Fraser before the show goes on the air, Like,

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck are we doing here? At a time

<v Speaker 1>where you have three hours? You obviously are trying to

<v Speaker 1>introduce new faces. This is not, by the way, the

<v Speaker 1>best time to be introducing new faces right before WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>But this is the choice they've made. So we have

<v Speaker 1>Obafemi and others who were showing up. But if this

<v Speaker 1>is what you were going to do, then why even

<v Speaker 1>put him in the Royal Rumble. He should be on

<v Speaker 1>the show. It might actually help improve the show because

<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of boring segments on this show.

<v Speaker 1>That was SmackDown from Dallas, and then we'll come back

<v Speaker 1>in two weeks and we'll do another SmackDown review because

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to be here next week. Let's take

<v Speaker 1>a look at the Twitter poll. What did you think

<v Speaker 1>of SmackDown? Clearly I am not alone. Thirty five point

<v Speaker 1>six percent thumbs up, twenty nine percent thumbs in the middle,

<v Speaker 1>and thirty five percent. Look at that, thirty five up

<v Speaker 1>thirty five down. That is the score for SmackDown tonight.

<v Speaker 1>That is an overall thumbs down, folks. As far as

<v Speaker 1>I'm concerned. Jay comes out of the pod and runs

<v Speaker 1>it back. Yeah, and then somebody should run him right

<v Speaker 1>through the glass of the pod.

<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

<v Speaker 1>But who do you think will be in that in

<v Speaker 1>that final qualifier other than Jay? You've got Jay and

<v Speaker 1>two other people who do you put in that elimination

<v Speaker 1>chamber qualifier?

<v Speaker 2>Jay Usso and who.

<v Speaker 1>Probably a member of the Vision I would imagine, right, Bronson, Reid, Logan,

<v Speaker 1>Paul probably one of them will be in there. And

<v Speaker 1>then who do you round it out with? Chew on

<v Speaker 1>that get into your messages here, Joseph Stewart ending the

<v Speaker 1>week with some messages always appreciated. It is a happy Friday,

<v Speaker 1>Bronson Reid and Russe Yeah, russev huh. Well, at least

<v Speaker 1>he's guaranteed to last longer than he did in the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble match. Did he go thirty seconds in the rumble?

<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if he went thirty seconds in

<v Speaker 1>the rumble? Chad Gable somebody said, Chad Gable Royce Keys.

<v Speaker 1>You know, if he's not going to win, I don't

<v Speaker 1>put him in. If he's not going to win his qualifier,

<v Speaker 1>I don't even bother putting him in. Honestly, Justph says,

<v Speaker 1>have you seen the movie The Bututician, The Beautician and

<v Speaker 1>the Beast with Timothy Dalton and Fran Dresser?

<v Speaker 3>No?

<v Speaker 2>You lost me a Fran Dresser. No?

<v Speaker 1>What are your top five favorite basketball players of all time?

<v Speaker 2>Well?

<v Speaker 1>As a New York guy, I mean probably should have

<v Speaker 1>Patrick Ewing on there somewhere, but Michael Jordan's number one.

<v Speaker 1>You will never hear me say Hakim Olajuan because I

<v Speaker 1>still have terrible memories of nineteen ninety four, so we're

<v Speaker 1>not going to mention him.

<v Speaker 2>I mean J. MJ. Shack and Ewing and I'll just

<v Speaker 2>leave it at that.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe Barkley, maybe Charles Barkley buy or sell Star Wars

<v Speaker 1>or Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park, Godzilla ninety eight or Battlefield

<v Speaker 1>Earth Godzilla ninety eight. My fan of sci fi movies,

<v Speaker 1>I am. Did you know Flash Gordon was an influence

<v Speaker 1>on Star Wars?

<v Speaker 2>I did not.

<v Speaker 1>Have I seen the Flash Gordon movie from nineteen eighty

<v Speaker 1>I have not. And do you remember when Brett Hart

<v Speaker 1>played the Genie in the Aladdin musical Broadway play?

<v Speaker 2>I do, I do remember that.

<v Speaker 1>Did you see the Greatest Love Story of Live Morgan

<v Speaker 1>in Dominic Mysterio on the WWE YouTube channel.

<v Speaker 2>I did not, But I saw.

<v Speaker 1>The great Mega Power story that they chronicled in a

<v Speaker 1>video on the WWE Vault channel. I was watching that

<v Speaker 1>earlier today. Joseph, thank you again. I hope you have

<v Speaker 1>a good weekend. Holiday one ninety seven says, what are

<v Speaker 1>your thoughts on reports that Brock against La Knight is

<v Speaker 1>in the pipeline for WrestleMania. Well, I hope those reports

<v Speaker 1>are wrong, is what I hope. But I think they're

<v Speaker 1>at least plausible because La Knight, if you recall, was

<v Speaker 1>one of the men who eliminated Brocklesner.

<v Speaker 2>From the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Now, I won't blame you if you don't remember that

<v Speaker 1>because people were fucking yeating when it happened. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>it was Cody and La Knight who eliminated Brock. So

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, if Brock's coming back on the twenty third

<v Speaker 1>makes sense, he would be a little upset with the

<v Speaker 1>men who eliminated him from the Royal Rumble. They do

<v Speaker 1>that match of WrestleMania that will not end well for

<v Speaker 1>La Night matches Brocklesner and Obafemi. This is not hard.

<v Speaker 1>GMB says, Worst Faction MFTs, WYATTS or Vision MFTs. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, I could go either way with MFTs

<v Speaker 1>and the WYATS. I mean, what have they really done

<v Speaker 1>with the wyats? Honestly, outside of the same videos, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the little video flashes on the screen, they really haven't

<v Speaker 1>done a whole lot to flesh them out recently either.

<v Speaker 1>But I got news for you. The vision sucks. The

<v Speaker 1>Vision ain't that much better. Holiday says. I have a

<v Speaker 1>feeling that Rhea is winning the Women's Chamber and challenging Jade,

<v Speaker 1>But where does that leave EO At WrestleMania. Osca Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>versus Alexis seems to be a WrestleMania direction. Julia will

<v Speaker 1>defend a WRESTLEMANI if it's against Tiffany Stratton, well, I

<v Speaker 1>mean EO sky Tea is the possibility tonight that she

<v Speaker 1>might challenge Julia for the US title, So I suppose

<v Speaker 1>that's at least possible. She said, maybe I'll go after

<v Speaker 1>her US title. Do Oscar and I don't see Julia

<v Speaker 1>getting a match at WRESTLEMANI. I don't even think she's

<v Speaker 1>gonna have a match. Dry Chickens says when it comes

<v Speaker 1>to Live Morgan, Dominic Mysterio and Raquel Rodriguez segments, I

<v Speaker 1>would go into business myself and be petty on purpose,

<v Speaker 1>screw polished. I have no idea what you're talking about.

<v Speaker 1>What's the context there? Lakers Pat says, get ready for

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania two thousand, booking with tickets being slow, we're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have a McMahon in every corner.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we don't need that.

<v Speaker 1>Dried Chicken says Drew McIntire to Sammy's ain after the match, misery, misery, misery,

<v Speaker 1>that's what you've chosen. I offered you friendship and you

<v Speaker 1>spat in my face. Yes, Sammy's Ain's an idiot. He

<v Speaker 1>has nobody to blame but himself. Dried Chicken says, samy'se

<v Speaker 1>Ain fell into the dumb babyface syndrome vortex.

<v Speaker 2>They all do.

<v Speaker 1>At some point, Broley says, give me Javon versus Gunther

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 2>Fuck Ray.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know where this gunther uh Raymisterio stuff

<v Speaker 1>came from. Do people think Raymisterio is retiring or WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I really don't have any interest in seeing that. First

<v Speaker 1>time I have laughed at our truth in six years.

<v Speaker 1>Mikey s kit Wilson should one hundred percent win the

<v Speaker 1>Andre Battle Royal. At this point, I would expect Royce

<v Speaker 1>Keys to be in there and then they give it

<v Speaker 1>to Royce Keys. Scott Woodford, I have no idea. Are

<v Speaker 1>you talking about something that you've eaten tonight? I don't

<v Speaker 1>even know how to pronounce that, Scott. I hope you're

<v Speaker 1>having a good night, Holliday says, really hoping Jacob gets

<v Speaker 1>added to the Drew and Cody match of WrestleMania. I

<v Speaker 1>can't sit through another singles match if Randy doesn't get

<v Speaker 1>added to make it a fatal four way. Who do

<v Speaker 1>you see Orton facing at WrestleMania, Well, I mean they

<v Speaker 1>were teasing Alistair Black still going after Randy Orton tonight.

<v Speaker 1>That might give you a hint about where they may

<v Speaker 1>be going. I wasn't really expecting that, BROI says. Someone

<v Speaker 1>gets taken out before the chamber and Bianca replaces and

<v Speaker 1>comes out last to have Eo Ria Bianca as the

<v Speaker 1>final three. Eo pins Riha and Bianca pins EO. So

<v Speaker 1>we end up with a wrestle many a forty one

<v Speaker 1>rematch there. Hey, I'd be down for that. I like

<v Speaker 1>that idea. See Falcon Star has the right idea in

<v Speaker 1>the chat too. Isn't it great to have the solamons

<v Speaker 1>through on a Friday night or what on a Friday night,

<v Speaker 1>on a Monday night, on a Wednesday night. Absolutely, you'll

<v Speaker 1>get me tomorrow night too. Chances of getting Randy against

<v Speaker 1>Cody is now as far as WrestleMania this year pretty much. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's basically dead.

<v Speaker 2>Hey, it's basic solo nomics. Thank you, link Master.

<v Speaker 1>We are closer to twenty forty than we are to

<v Speaker 1>twenty ten, and when we wake up tomorrow morning, we

<v Speaker 1>will all be one day closer to death.

<v Speaker 2>Think about that.

<v Speaker 1>Think about how you're living your life when you think

<v Speaker 1>about it in those terms. Broley says, part of my

<v Speaker 1>lack of care for Drew is that it feels like

<v Speaker 1>he has wrestled everyone in the company at least ten times.

<v Speaker 1>That three ways should not main event, and Lesner losing

<v Speaker 1>to a BFT is las. Yeah, Lesner taking a PFT

<v Speaker 1>is laughable. Get ready for Brock, Lesnar and Dean Ambrose

<v Speaker 1>all over again. If they do that match Venom Ktetsu

<v Speaker 1>for the twelve, it's the learning tree. If more star

<v Speaker 1>power from WCW was in the Invasion storyline, do you

<v Speaker 1>think they still would have had defections back and forth.

<v Speaker 1>I felt like they used those to drum up some

<v Speaker 1>steaks because of the weaker roster ads. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if they would have in the first year, but I

<v Speaker 1>think that, yeah. I mean, at some point you would

<v Speaker 1>have had defections go back and forth. I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>if they would have had more star power from the

<v Speaker 1>WCW side in the Invasion, they wouldn't have done Booker

<v Speaker 1>t against buff Bagwell and Tacoma, Washington on raw that night,

<v Speaker 1>and if they would have had a bigger main event,

<v Speaker 1>it would have gone over over probably better than that

<v Speaker 1>match did. That could change everything because they had plans

<v Speaker 1>in place to run WCW as.

<v Speaker 2>Its own traveling brand.

<v Speaker 1>They were going to give Raw to WCW and WWF

<v Speaker 1>would have smacked down, and Vince had Jim Ross putting

<v Speaker 1>together a house show, touring schedule and calling venues like

<v Speaker 1>plans were in place, and then in one night they

<v Speaker 1>saw the reaction to that match and they got spooped

<v Speaker 1>and they said, fuck it, we're not doing it. We'll

<v Speaker 1>do an angle and that was the official death of WCW.

<v Speaker 1>So it's incredible to think about it. If they would

<v Speaker 1>have just brought in two or three bigger names, how

<v Speaker 1>different things might have been. But I also can't blame

<v Speaker 1>a lot of those guys. They had guaranteed contracts from Turner.

<v Speaker 1>They were making a ridiculous amount of money to sit

<v Speaker 1>on their ass at home and do nothing. So like,

<v Speaker 1>if your choice, and at that point, these guys were older, right,

<v Speaker 1>Hogan was older, Haul and Ash were older, And so

<v Speaker 1>if you're these guys, you have the choice of sitting

<v Speaker 1>at home and getting paid very well to do nothing,

<v Speaker 1>or you could take less money and go take bumps.

<v Speaker 1>Booker T and DDP were the only ones who took

<v Speaker 1>the buy out and they went to go to work.

<v Speaker 1>I can't fault the other guys for not doing so, NJC.

<v Speaker 1>This the beginning of a new era, the satitude era.

<v Speaker 2>Now I call it.

<v Speaker 1>It's the ruthless regression era. Ruthless regression, ruthless depression. Pick

<v Speaker 1>whichever one you want. That's the era that we are

<v Speaker 1>in right now. Dry Chicken says. Triple A fears Oba Femi. No,

<v Speaker 1>he's allergic to Oba. Alexander, don't worry about Mania. It's

<v Speaker 1>a new era, says Triple H. MJC says, with the

<v Speaker 1>rumors of Brock against La, never thought I would want

<v Speaker 1>a Night versus Jericho match, But here we are. La

<v Speaker 1>deserved better if Jericho had come in. I figured that's

<v Speaker 1>what the match would have been. Ebystle zones. Maybe Triple

<v Speaker 1>H will give us Cody versus Drew in a three

<v Speaker 1>stages of iron Man match, so they wrestle for three

<v Speaker 1>hours straight on Night one of WrestleMania. And you could

<v Speaker 1>certainly do that, and I will be skipping the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>Night one.

<v Speaker 2>Review that night.

<v Speaker 1>If they do that, super Pony Sammy is not going

<v Speaker 1>to be on Mania two years in a row. That's rough.

<v Speaker 1>He falls through the cracks way too often. Feels like

<v Speaker 1>they take him for granted. I feel like they've also

<v Speaker 1>cooled him off a lot, to the point or I

<v Speaker 1>don't even have the same level of interest I had

<v Speaker 1>six months ago, and seeing him finish his own story,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, for me speak for myself on this, They're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have to heat him up all over again because

<v Speaker 1>right now, of all the options that are available, like

<v Speaker 1>as far as doing title matches and big matches are WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>he doesn't fit in. I don't really have any great

<v Speaker 1>desire to see him in there in that top mix.

<v Speaker 1>There are bigger matches they could be doing.

<v Speaker 2>Depths. I screw it.

<v Speaker 1>Have Jacob beat Drew for the title of Elimination Chamber

<v Speaker 1>and then Drew invokes his rematch and we get Drew

<v Speaker 1>Cody in fa IU. We can't have Drew Cody one

<v Speaker 1>on one at WrestleMania forty two, Sean Dee, And ironically,

<v Speaker 1>if Brock tries, I'd like Brock versus Ilya. Did you

<v Speaker 1>not see the Royal rumble. You know what, I'd rather

<v Speaker 1>see a WrestleMania since I the other night I was thinking, like,

<v Speaker 1>who does Gunther face?

<v Speaker 2>I couldn't really figure it out.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther and Ilia is the match that if you go

<v Speaker 1>back to my predictions for twenty twenty six, I think

<v Speaker 1>I had that match booked for SummerSlam. I'm okay with

<v Speaker 1>bumping it up and just give me a fucking banger

<v Speaker 1>of a match between Gunther and Ilia WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 2>Sign me up.

<v Speaker 1>I'd be okay with that. That's fine with me, Thank you,

<v Speaker 1>Falcon Star Sidrow So the man in the wheelchair that

<v Speaker 1>stole my camouflage jacket. You can hide, but you can't run.

<v Speaker 1>And a new study reveals that women who carry a

<v Speaker 1>little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it. Well,

<v Speaker 1>that is undoubtedly true. That's a scientific fact. Steve Mellow

<v Speaker 1>tongaloa your trunks. I don't know what was going on

<v Speaker 1>with him tonight. I don't know what's going on with

<v Speaker 1>him any night. I don't know, but I'm watching him

<v Speaker 1>in the ring with Matt Cardona, and I feel like, man,

<v Speaker 1>I think I just watched a sex crime on live TV.

<v Speaker 1>Dried Chicken says the Rock and seven Bucks production should

<v Speaker 1>buy WWE. I'm sure all these reports about you know,

<v Speaker 1>Paulovac being on the hot seat and everything, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>Rock is just he's just sitting back, biding his time. Sidrow,

<v Speaker 1>what do you call someone who does magic tricks in

<v Speaker 1>a gym? An abra cadabro and what gets long when

<v Speaker 1>you jerk it fits between boobs, slides in a hole,

<v Speaker 1>and loves to be pulled a seat belt ps Happy

<v Speaker 1>Friday the thirteenth. You know what happened to me earlier?

<v Speaker 1>I came back from the gym. Actually I was going

<v Speaker 1>to the gym and I went to go Has this

<v Speaker 1>ever happened to you? You go to pull the seat

<v Speaker 1>belt really quickly, but it gets stuck. Almost broke my thumb.

<v Speaker 1>Then I tried it again and it was fine. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know why that happens, because you'll go to yanket

<v Speaker 1>and jerk it and then it just it won't go

<v Speaker 1>and I almost broke my thumb. It's ridiculous. Willie Billy

<v Speaker 1>with a ten congrats on the new gig. Couldn't have

<v Speaker 1>happened to a harder worker. That is proven by your

<v Speaker 1>insistence on giving us the same amount of content even

<v Speaker 1>with new responsibility. We certainly appreciate it. Well, Willy Billy,

<v Speaker 1>I thank you for that very much. I try. It

<v Speaker 1>is a lot of work, but I hope you guys

<v Speaker 1>are enjoying it. Episode two dropping on Tuesday evening over

<v Speaker 1>on Aeriel Helwani's channel, The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. I hope

<v Speaker 1>you guys will tune in. Horseplayer was the Cardona Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>War Museum vignette them dusting off Vince's PR playbook out

<v Speaker 1>of desperation. Those segments seem to vanish under triple h

<v Speaker 1>I'm not really I mean, I didn't really think anything

<v Speaker 1>of it. It's just the sort of thing that WWE

<v Speaker 1>likes to do, you know. They sometimes they do it

<v Speaker 1>for PR and sometimes they just do it to, you know,

<v Speaker 1>have a chance to showcase some of the talents that

<v Speaker 1>are featured in the segment. Wouldn't read too much into it,

<v Speaker 1>Steve says, Oh yes, and congrats on the new show.

<v Speaker 2>My friend, thank you, thank you. Brother.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says it's Valentine's Day. Four wrestling theme songs

<v Speaker 1>would love Vibes and delete one Valvenus Godfather, Mark Henry

<v Speaker 1>or Dude Love. I'm going to delete Valvenus. I actually

<v Speaker 1>like Dude Love's theme. The Mark Henry theme was was

<v Speaker 1>actually pretty funny. And I mean, the Godfather is the Godfather?

<v Speaker 1>You talk about love vibes got to have the Godfather

<v Speaker 1>on there. You gotta come aboard. Everybody has got to

<v Speaker 1>come aboard. H duffs VIDs what do you get when

<v Speaker 1>you cross a centipede with a parrot? A walkie talkie

<v Speaker 1>bes Beerris russev has one of the strangest careers ever.

<v Speaker 1>He does, doesn't he? He really does?

<v Speaker 2>You know?

<v Speaker 1>For all the work I do and that I put

<v Speaker 1>in in a given week and then I see him

<v Speaker 1>barely ever on television or wrestling, and I'm sure he's

<v Speaker 1>getting paid very well.

<v Speaker 2>I'm like, man, what did I do wrong? But good

<v Speaker 2>for him? Mute?

<v Speaker 3>Did you? Bro?

<v Speaker 2>Sad Sack?

<v Speaker 1>Sammy might work if booked right, It's like bum ass Corbin.

<v Speaker 1>Sure it could work. Dry Chickens says after Wrestle many

<v Speaker 1>of forty two the creative team needs to reset everything.

<v Speaker 1>There needs to be new storylines, new factions, and shake

<v Speaker 1>up both the both roster brands. No more playing it

<v Speaker 1>safe for being allergic to prosperity. It's the same people

<v Speaker 1>in charge. Nothing will change. I don't know why you

<v Speaker 1>think any of that is going to change. Nothing will change.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not even necessarily disagreeing with you. I'm just saying

<v Speaker 1>nothing will change. Thank you, brother, the sickos, thank you

<v Speaker 1>for the forty dollars drop. Oba and Trick are reasons

<v Speaker 1>why theme songs matter. You can't not listen to Oba's

<v Speaker 1>theme and dance as he comes down to the ring.

<v Speaker 2>It just works for him so well.

<v Speaker 1>Devin from NJ buy er Sell, Michael Keaton or Samuel L.

<v Speaker 2>Jackson. I like them both. I'm gonna go Samuel L. Jackson.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says with the twenty eight, if the show

<v Speaker 1>wasn't too polished, I would have given Dom and Live

<v Speaker 1>Morgan some broccoli, French fries and bottle of Jack Daniels

<v Speaker 1>and pork ribs. Well, he did have a bottle of

<v Speaker 1>Dom put his He put his face on the side

<v Speaker 1>of the bottle. Retro Koh, I accidentally put my baby's

<v Speaker 1>diaper in the washing machine in a drunken stupor. That

<v Speaker 1>is what sitting through these shows is doing to me. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I don't envy the mess that you must have come

<v Speaker 1>back to Bass Bears, says Zebros.

<v Speaker 2>Death Side.

<v Speaker 1>If Steve Austin had not gone away for surgery in

<v Speaker 1>late ninety nine, would the Rock still have ascended to

<v Speaker 1>the face of the company along with Austin in two thousand?

<v Speaker 1>I think so he was so over. I actually think

<v Speaker 1>Austin probably would have wanted to go heal sooner and

<v Speaker 1>it would have been equally equally stupid. But I think

<v Speaker 1>that he just it strikes me as like he would

<v Speaker 1>have felt maybe even by like wrestle Mania time in

<v Speaker 1>two thousand, that yeah, maybe I'm getting a little stale.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe we got to shake things up a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>Because he's a heel at heart, you know, he never

<v Speaker 1>wanted to be a baby face, So I think he

<v Speaker 1>would have tried for the heel turn even sooner and

<v Speaker 1>it wouldn't have worked. Jeremy Rose says Cody should face

<v Speaker 1>Jacob or WrestleMania based on Jacob being the obstacle to

<v Speaker 1>getting a title shot. La Knight or Orton wins the chamber,

<v Speaker 1>Cody needs to have a long chase eventually leading to heal.

<v Speaker 1>Cody against Randy la Knight is in the chamber and

<v Speaker 1>La Knight is not winning the chamber, base Bears, So

<v Speaker 1>you concede no yeats in the chamber, Yes, no yeats

<v Speaker 1>and Jeremy Rose Jay yeats his way to the chamber,

<v Speaker 1>then yeats in the pod, and then when the pod

<v Speaker 1>opens he runs.

<v Speaker 2>It back Yeat. It's terrible.

<v Speaker 1>Death side imagine jay Usso yeating with the aw Sikos.

<v Speaker 1>I would just imagine like jay Usso coming out on

<v Speaker 1>an episode of Dynamite where they have like a decent crowd,

<v Speaker 1>three thousand people out there. He comes out in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd and he goes to Yeat and just the fans

<v Speaker 1>like they just swallow him.

<v Speaker 2>Up, like you can't even see him.

<v Speaker 1>They just pounce on him, and then he's just never

<v Speaker 1>heard from again. Like they body surf his like bloody

<v Speaker 1>his bloody body. He's unconscious and they just body surf

<v Speaker 1>from out of the arena so they can move on

<v Speaker 1>to the next match. That's what would happen to jay

<v Speaker 1>Uso if the Sikos got a hold of him. Bes

<v Speaker 1>Bears says, we are closer to twenty forty than we

<v Speaker 1>are to twenty ten. What he sent him before GMB

<v Speaker 1>with the four ninety nine Bianca finally gets clear to

<v Speaker 1>a week before WrestleMania, but instead of focusing on Jade

<v Speaker 1>and SmackDown, she screws over Riho for her injury full

<v Speaker 1>circle from last WrestleMania, so she screws them out of

<v Speaker 1>the women's tag team titles. I mean, I appreciate the

<v Speaker 1>effort to be consistent, but I don't really like that idea.

<v Speaker 2>Death side.

<v Speaker 1>Why is polygamy illegal? Because it's hard enough keeping one

<v Speaker 1>spouse happy?

<v Speaker 2>It's true.

<v Speaker 1>Blue Jay Revolution is the first show for the WiFi.

<v Speaker 1>She's partially into wrestling, but let's get her hyped for

<v Speaker 1>the card. She laughs at MJF and hates liv Morgan. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I hope your wife is okay with five hours of wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a long night. And manu which Scott

<v Speaker 1>wins in a battle Royal Hall, Steiner, Norton, de Moore, Putsky,

<v Speaker 1>Dawson or too hottie. Hmm, we got Scott Stanford. Scott

<v Speaker 1>Hall gets my vote. H Scott Hall for the wind

<v Speaker 1>nobody had more drip an aura than a razor ramone.

<v Speaker 1>Walking down to the ring. He was oozing machismo, one

<v Speaker 1>of my favorite things. Yeah, he wrestled Brett Hart for

<v Speaker 1>the title at the Royal Rumbland ninety three and Bret

<v Speaker 1>goes outside and he puts his glasses on like some

<v Speaker 1>little kid at ringside like he always used to do,

<v Speaker 1>and razors in the ring, and he's looking at this

<v Speaker 1>like what was going on here?

<v Speaker 2>He takes his toothpick. He throws the toothpick at the kid.

<v Speaker 2>It's perfect. I love it.

<v Speaker 1>Cameron Spencer. If WWE had had had a two hour

<v Speaker 1>episode where one two hour match takes up the entire show,

<v Speaker 1>but the match is well received, would you give that

<v Speaker 1>show an up or a down for a two hour match?

<v Speaker 1>It would get it down for me. You could get

<v Speaker 1>away with that on a one hour show. You can't

<v Speaker 1>get away with that on a two hour show. And

<v Speaker 1>actually they've done that before, like Luke Underground they had

<v Speaker 1>an all night long match which was basically like their

<v Speaker 1>version of an eye Van match and it took up

<v Speaker 1>the entire hour, and as I remember it, I think,

<v Speaker 1>I think it was great. You can't do that on

<v Speaker 1>a two hour show, especially now with all the talent

<v Speaker 1>they have on the roster.

<v Speaker 2>Can't do that. Retro says Oba's Strut.

<v Speaker 1>Is the new guile meme. It goes good with anything,

<v Speaker 1>it works with any song. I guess that's kind of true. Well,

<v Speaker 1>if you remember the wheel tonight said three point fifty

<v Speaker 1>was the goal, we have long smashed that and we

<v Speaker 1>hit the bonus goal as well, which means we are

<v Speaker 1>getting a double dose of be the booker to close

<v Speaker 1>out this week, which is awesome. So let's get to it,

<v Speaker 1>ladies and gentlemen.

<v Speaker 2>It is now time to be the booker. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>Do you know how many commercials you would get in

<v Speaker 1>a two hour match? It just it would not work.

<v Speaker 1>There's no match in WWE that I want to see

<v Speaker 1>go two hours. I don't care how great the guys involved,

<v Speaker 1>are the girls involved, I don't care.

<v Speaker 2>No, thank you.

<v Speaker 1>Choose two single stars to form a makeshift team. So

<v Speaker 1>that is how we are starting this round, to be

<v Speaker 1>the booker. With a makeshift team. We have Jacob Fatu,

<v Speaker 1>who is in the main event of tonight's SmackDown. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I hope we land on Cody. Jacob Fatu and Owen Hart.

<v Speaker 1>It's the team I never knew I needed.

<v Speaker 2>Well.

<v Speaker 1>Owen Hart held tag team titles with a Samoan once

<v Speaker 1>upon a time.

<v Speaker 2>I like that.

<v Speaker 1>I love that team. Actually, Jacob Faughtou and Owen Hart.

<v Speaker 1>Hell yeah, they're going to be taking on arn Anderson

<v Speaker 1>and Tully fucking Blanchard, the Horseman, the Brainbusters against Jacob

<v Speaker 1>Foughtu and Owen Hart. We could just stop right here,

<v Speaker 1>We could just stop right here. What a match? Alright,

<v Speaker 1>women's match? Ah, it's the Night of Stipulations. Triple threat,

<v Speaker 1>all right, we got three names to pick here, son

<v Speaker 1>of a bitch. This is the second time this week

<v Speaker 1>that we have landed on Rosa Mendez.

<v Speaker 2>It's the point.

<v Speaker 1>It's the point, that's what does It gets me every time. Now,

<v Speaker 1>to be fair, it is a triple threat match, So

<v Speaker 1>you know what you could do in this situation. I

<v Speaker 1>will pick the other two names, but you know what

<v Speaker 1>you could do in this situation. You could just have

<v Speaker 1>the two of them take out Rosa Mendez at the

<v Speaker 1>very beginning of the match, and then it just turns

<v Speaker 1>into a singles match. We have machi Eto. Are you

<v Speaker 1>a member of the ETO Army?

<v Speaker 2>You should be.

<v Speaker 1>I'm a member of the Eto Army. So I booked

<v Speaker 1>her to bring her in to Wressell shanea Basler back

<v Speaker 1>in November. Machi Eto and Niki Cross, Interesting Machi Eo,

<v Speaker 1>Nikki Cross and Rosa Mendez. Yeah, that's that's no good.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, that's a no for me, dog, all right,

<v Speaker 1>no saving that. In our first main event, we have

<v Speaker 1>the former AEW world champion, Swerve Strickland, who is wrestling

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega on Dynamite next week.

<v Speaker 2>Swerve against who Who's it gonna be? Rye Back.

<v Speaker 1>It started with so much promise too. That tag match

<v Speaker 1>was fantastic and then it just went all downhill ride

<v Speaker 1>back In the main event, Rosa Mendez. The good news though,

<v Speaker 1>is that because we hit the bonus goal, we get

<v Speaker 1>to try again. We're not done yet. Don't count us

<v Speaker 1>out yet. We got one more round. Now we actually

<v Speaker 1>get to pick this. You know what I forgot? It

<v Speaker 1>was like last Wednesday? Right, last Wednesday was an ugly night.

<v Speaker 1>Forgot about that.

<v Speaker 2>All right. We're going to start out here with.

<v Speaker 1>A Monsters ball match. It's a rough match, can't I

<v Speaker 1>don't like that stipulation though for a tag Oh, I

<v Speaker 1>guess we'll do a Monster's Ball tag match. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if there's ever been a Monster's Ball tag match. Well,

<v Speaker 1>there is now two teams Monsters Ball, Rock and Mankind

<v Speaker 1>the Rock and Sock cannet. Well, that fits Mick Foley

<v Speaker 1>to a t. That's perfect for him. Rock and Sock

<v Speaker 1>against the Luca Brothers. Oh man, we're killing it with

<v Speaker 1>the tag teams tonight. We book a better tag division

<v Speaker 1>than Paulovec could ever dream of. Alright, our women's match

<v Speaker 1>be the booker has some evil intentions. Tonight we go

<v Speaker 1>from a Monster's Ball match to a Texas Death Match.

<v Speaker 2>With the women.

<v Speaker 1>No less Texas death blood, gore, tax, broken glass, barbed wire, syringes,

<v Speaker 1>Queen Zelena. That's not who I was expecting here for

<v Speaker 1>a Texas Death Match. Queen Selina against Ivory. Come on,

<v Speaker 1>we got we We have to end with something good here,

<v Speaker 1>give me something good, a stretcher match. Can't you give

<v Speaker 1>me like a wheelchair match or something?

<v Speaker 3>Who wants to see a wheelchair match?

<v Speaker 2>I do?

<v Speaker 1>But we have a stretcher match instead? All right, this

<v Speaker 1>is it. It all comes down to this. We have

<v Speaker 1>to push the stretcher over the yellow line.

<v Speaker 2>On the ground.

<v Speaker 1>Should we should have just done tag matches to iver

<v Speaker 1>would have been better off. Brock Lesner, who actually was

<v Speaker 1>in a stretcher match once against Big show on pay

<v Speaker 1>per view. As I recall, it actually wasn't a bad match.

<v Speaker 1>That was when Brock actually wrestled. We go again, a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat stretcher match, not just a stretcher match, but

<v Speaker 1>we have a triple threat stretcher match. So we have

<v Speaker 1>Brock Lesner. How's this gonna work? Well? I mean, I guess,

<v Speaker 1>I almost feel like we should pick a different state.

<v Speaker 1>You know what, it doesn't work for a triple threat.

<v Speaker 1>Let's pick a different stipulation for this one. That's just weird.

<v Speaker 1>A triple threat first blood match. Okay, I guess that works.

<v Speaker 1>Three men, first man to bleed. Well, now that doesn't

<v Speaker 1>work either, I guess because if someone bleeds, he's still

<v Speaker 1>got two other guys. We have to try again. If

<v Speaker 1>we're going to keep the triple threats that we have

<v Speaker 1>to pick something different here. Okay, triple threat steel cage

<v Speaker 1>there you go. That's pretty self explanatory. So we have

<v Speaker 1>brock Lesnar already he's in. We need two more triple

<v Speaker 1>threat cage match. There's a great triple threat cage match

<v Speaker 1>that I can recommend to you from Breakdown in your

<v Speaker 1>House back in ninety eight, rock Mankind Ken Shamrock in

<v Speaker 1>the Blue bar cage. Great stuff. All right, we're Brock.

<v Speaker 1>We have well there he is, Oh my god, on cue.

<v Speaker 1>I could not have timed that any better Ken Shamrock.

<v Speaker 1>It's like Joe Hendry. You say his name and he appears.

<v Speaker 1>Holy shit. We have Brock Lesner and Ken Shamrock in

<v Speaker 1>a cage. I feel like we should stop right there.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to ruin it by picking a third person,

<v Speaker 1>but I guess we must. Rock Lesner and Ken Shamrock

<v Speaker 1>locked in a cage with Adam Cole. Babe, Oh, poor

<v Speaker 1>Adam Cole. Well, we know who's taking the losing fall

<v Speaker 1>in this match. We know who's getting slaughtered in this match.

<v Speaker 1>Thy name name is Adam Cole. My first instinct was

<v Speaker 1>just the crack up laughing. Which one of these doesn't

<v Speaker 1>belong Brock Lesner, Ken Shamrock, Adam Cole. Hasn't he been

<v Speaker 1>through enough? This poor man with the concussions and with

<v Speaker 1>the ankle. You want to lock him in a cage

<v Speaker 1>with those two men? Poor bastard. It'd be a bad

<v Speaker 1>night for Adam Cole. Still a great match, though, Brock

<v Speaker 1>ain't taken to a Panama Sunrise neither is Ken Shamrock.

<v Speaker 1>He ain't taken to Panama Sunrise either. Retro koh Rosa Mendez,

<v Speaker 1>Jackie Gaeta, Jenna Morasca, Joy Givonne Christi Hemy. You called

<v Speaker 1>her crusty for some reason. I don't know why you

<v Speaker 1>did that. Crusty Hemy. You only get that way when

<v Speaker 1>you pass a certain age. She still looks good, Brie

<v Speaker 1>bella Women's chamber book. It crusty hemy, dried chicken, says

<v Speaker 1>Queen Selina against Ivory and it textas death match with

<v Speaker 1>Pamela Vorhees as the referee. And retro says Adam coma

<v Speaker 1>baby basically.

<v Speaker 2>Pretty much pretty much.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Adam Coma, he just picture and he's laying there

<v Speaker 3>in that coma, and Roderick Strong is just like lording

<v Speaker 3>over him, screaming Adam at the top of his lungs,

<v Speaker 3>and he's just not waking up.

<v Speaker 1>I can't get over crust the Hemy. When she's about

<v Speaker 1>when she's maybe like seventy five, she'll be uh, she'll

<v Speaker 1>be krusty Hemy. I do like Adam Coma though. That

<v Speaker 1>was very clever. So this was this was a I

<v Speaker 1>have to say this stream was a lot more fun

<v Speaker 1>than smack that was tonight.

<v Speaker 2>That's usually how it ends up working.

<v Speaker 1>I am planning on being live tomorrow night because AAW

<v Speaker 1>has a very big show called Grand Slam Australia with

<v Speaker 1>some big matches on there. And beware of spoilers because

<v Speaker 1>it's airing on like a fourteen or sixteen hour time delay.

<v Speaker 1>But I am planning on going live when it's over.

<v Speaker 1>It's a two and a half hour show, so probably

<v Speaker 1>won't be live then until closer to eleven tomorrow night,

<v Speaker 1>but I will be here so hopefully you guys can join.

<v Speaker 2>That'll be tomorrow night.

<v Speaker 1>Sunday, big episode, a lot to talk about, well, this

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania shit especially, and a lot of AW stuff as well,

<v Speaker 1>and Dave's report from the other day. We'll talk about

<v Speaker 1>all that on Sound Up nine fifty one. It's going

<v Speaker 1>to be a very eventful Sunday and then we start

<v Speaker 1>all over again. When I mentioned before, no SmackDown review

<v Speaker 1>next week because House of Glory is actually we're having

<v Speaker 1>our first New York City show of the year, and

<v Speaker 1>it's a big one because we have the reigning AW

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Champion mjf coming in next Friday. Will he

<v Speaker 1>be the aw champion though, that's the question. He's got

<v Speaker 1>to get past Brody King tomorrow. But title or no title,

<v Speaker 1>we will have him there and we have Andrade. So

<v Speaker 1>this is very interesting because MJF is the champion, Andrade

<v Speaker 1>could potentially be the number one contender if you beat

<v Speaker 1>Hagman tomorrow at Grand Slam, and they're both gonna be

<v Speaker 1>at House of Glory next Friday. So if you do

<v Speaker 1>not have your ticket, they are going there. They're almost

<v Speaker 1>all gone. We've added a few rows. Go to hog

<v Speaker 1>wrestling dot Net. Would love to see you say hello,

<v Speaker 1>I'll be there or you can watch on Triller TV.

<v Speaker 1>But anyway, that's where I will be next Friday. So

<v Speaker 1>no SmackDown review now, you know, be well, stay safe.

<v Speaker 1>I will see hopefully some of you with your wooings

<v Speaker 1>tomorrow night for Grand Slam and then Sunday for the

<v Speaker 1>sound off and dry Chicken says Paul him.

<v Speaker 2>It is hot. Now, don't ever say that. See you

<v Speaker 2>guys tomorrow night.