<v Speaker 1>As I sit here on another Monday night, Hi everybody,

<v Speaker 1>it's another raw review, a very boring show tonight. As

<v Speaker 1>I sit here, and I am still waiting for the

<v Speaker 1>on ramp to this supposed road to WrestleMania. When does

<v Speaker 1>it kick in? Exactly? It's almost March, still waiting. The

<v Speaker 1>good news, though, is that they did not do the

<v Speaker 1>one thing I was hoping that they would not do,

<v Speaker 1>which is put Gunther in the elimination chamber. Javon Evans

<v Speaker 1>is going to the chamber. It was Javon Evans, it

<v Speaker 1>was gun there. It was Dominic Mysterio. That was our

<v Speaker 1>main event tonight on the show. And I was surprised

<v Speaker 1>there were so many people who actually were just convinced

<v Speaker 1>that Gunther was going to the chamber. I can understand

<v Speaker 1>some people feeling that way, but like I'm looking in

<v Speaker 1>the live chat and everything, and everyone was just so

<v Speaker 1>sure that, you know, Gunther was gonna go, and it

<v Speaker 1>just seemed to me like the Dragon Lee story was

<v Speaker 1>right there. I don't know why people thought that it

<v Speaker 1>was gonna work out that way, but that would have

<v Speaker 1>been a very big mistake had Gunther gone to the chamber,

<v Speaker 1>especially if he was not going to win it. There

<v Speaker 1>was no point in him going to the chamber. And

<v Speaker 1>when you have a triple threat match like this, you

<v Speaker 1>don't have to beat Gunther directly in the chamber. You'd

<v Speaker 1>have to because it's elimination style. That's not what these

<v Speaker 1>triple threat matches are. But man, I gotta tell you.

<v Speaker 1>I have to tell you watching Dragon Lee dive off

<v Speaker 1>that barricade towards the end of the main event tonight

<v Speaker 1>with that ring bell to the anti pop, It's the

<v Speaker 1>only way I could describe it. We talk about pops

<v Speaker 1>and big reactions that things get on these shows. This

<v Speaker 1>was the anti pop, like nobody cared. It was sad,

<v Speaker 1>it was very sad, but the fans were very happy

<v Speaker 1>to see Javon Whin. I was very happy to see

<v Speaker 1>Javon Whin. He's not gonna win the chamber, of course,

<v Speaker 1>but it'll be more fun with him in it than

<v Speaker 1>it would be without him in there. So I did

<v Speaker 1>like the result of the main events. In the other

<v Speaker 1>qualifying match advances to the elimination chamber. So basically, the

<v Speaker 1>same people I told you last week who I thought

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna win this week, those are the people who

<v Speaker 1>are going to the chamber. But the other thing on

<v Speaker 1>this show, and honestly, a lot of what everything I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna be talking about here tonight and we'll go through it,

<v Speaker 1>you know, segment by segment cmpunk another promo segment. It's

<v Speaker 1>been one of the highlights of Row over the last

<v Speaker 1>several weeks. On the microphone. Tonight was the weakest of

<v Speaker 1>the bunch. It wasn't bad, but even the aj Lee promo.

<v Speaker 1>She had a promo segment with Becky Lynch to build

<v Speaker 1>up their intercontinental title match and elimination chamber. Eh, eh,

<v Speaker 1>nothing great. Not a lot of excitement on this show,

<v Speaker 1>and you're noticing it with the crowds. You can't just

<v Speaker 1>say that, oh, it's this city, it's that city. There's

<v Speaker 1>a pattern developing here or in a lot of these cities.

<v Speaker 1>These people are sitting on their hands is very noticeable.

<v Speaker 1>So it's not just me sitting here saying, oh, this

<v Speaker 1>was a boring show. I mean these Peo people are

<v Speaker 1>They're sitting on their hands and they're as quiet as

<v Speaker 1>can be because they're not being given anything to get

<v Speaker 1>terribly excited about. And it is something that I've noticed

<v Speaker 1>over the last few weeks here on the show. But

<v Speaker 1>there was a segment tonight where there was a giant

<v Speaker 1>crate sitting in the back. It reminded me if you

<v Speaker 1>ever remember the movie Creep Show, the crate are a

<v Speaker 1>good fan Fluffy. You've seen the movie. You know what

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about. I would love it if Fluffy came

<v Speaker 1>out of that damn crate went right after the creative team. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>that would be great, just take them all out. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>there was a crate that was delivered backstage to Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pearce that had a message on it saying do not

<v Speaker 1>open until February twenty eighth, which happens to be the

<v Speaker 1>same date as the elimination Chamber. So now there's a

<v Speaker 1>big mystery on this show. And I have noticed that

<v Speaker 1>Triple H is very reliant on mysteries. In fact, tonight

<v Speaker 1>on this show, we had two different mystery angles in

<v Speaker 1>back to back segments. We have the Mystery Man and

<v Speaker 1>we have the mystery Crate. He loves his mysteries, so

<v Speaker 1>we have to wait until the Elimination Chamber now to

<v Speaker 1>find out what's inside this crate. We'll talk about the crate.

<v Speaker 1>One person who I do not expect to be busting

<v Speaker 1>out of said crate is brock Lesnar. He was not

<v Speaker 1>on the show tonight, but he is being advertised for

<v Speaker 1>the show in Atlanta next week. He'll be back on

<v Speaker 1>that show and AJ Styles is going to be there

<v Speaker 1>because they are going to pay tribute to the phenomenal

<v Speaker 1>one his career. They're going to have a retirement tribute

<v Speaker 1>next week on the show to AJ Styles. So what

<v Speaker 1>does this mean? Does this mean that he and WWE

<v Speaker 1>came to a new deal for him to stick with

<v Speaker 1>the company, or is it an attempt on WWE's part

<v Speaker 1>to do everything in its power to make sure that

<v Speaker 1>Aj does not leave and does not go somewhere else

<v Speaker 1>because they feel like there's a chance he might. Sure

<v Speaker 1>got that impression listening to him when he was on

<v Speaker 1>the podcast with Stephanie McMahon, and he did not shut

<v Speaker 1>the door to getting back in the ring in the future.

<v Speaker 1>So those two will be on the show next week.

<v Speaker 1>I wish they were on the show this week because

<v Speaker 1>then maybe the show would have been a little more interesting.

<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately for me, this episode of Raw gets a thumbs down.

<v Speaker 1>But we will talk about the good, the bad, and

<v Speaker 1>everything in between. This is your Raw on Netflix review

<v Speaker 1>it is Monday Night. It is February sixteenth, two thousand

<v Speaker 1>and twenty six. Maybe the crate is AJ's coffin. AJ

<v Speaker 1>is alive and well, his career not so much, but

<v Speaker 1>his career is alive, and we'll talk about the crate.

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<v Speaker 1>This spin right now, this right here is more exciting

<v Speaker 1>than Monday Night I brought tonight. I hope it was

<v Speaker 1>as good for you as it was for me. Three

<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty is the magic number that we need

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<v Speaker 1>likes and we'll do be the booker later on here

<v Speaker 1>in this stream, Hey, Scrubby is with us. It's not fluffy,

<v Speaker 1>but I'll take it. Scrub You. Welcome to the channel.

<v Speaker 1>Let's get into this show. Here we had Jimmy and Jay.

<v Speaker 1>They were the first faces live I've in the arena

<v Speaker 1>that we saw here tonight on this show. The USO

<v Speaker 1>the World Tag Team champions making their way through the crowd,

<v Speaker 1>but their entrance was very quickly interrupted by the voice

<v Speaker 1>the uh, I mean the the disemboweled voice I guess

<v Speaker 1>of Paul Hayman, and he was trying to silence this

<v Speaker 1>crowd from all of the yeating, and he demanded that

<v Speaker 1>their music be cut so instantly. Here at the beginning

<v Speaker 1>of the show, we had a shocking babyface turn for

<v Speaker 1>the Vision. Logan Paul was out there with the rest

<v Speaker 1>of the Vision members and he wanted the fans to

<v Speaker 1>listen to Haman because his words of wisdom were as

<v Speaker 1>valuable as the most valuable trading card in the world,

<v Speaker 1>which Logan Paul legitimately just sold for sixteen million dollars.

<v Speaker 1>I believe it was a Pokemon card. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what that was. At a Pikachu. See that is the question.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know which Pokemon card it was, but at auction,

<v Speaker 1>this this was a whole big story. In the last

<v Speaker 1>couple of days, this card sold for sixteen million dollars.

<v Speaker 1>I must be doing something wrong in my life. So

<v Speaker 1>they showed a replay of the mass Man, costing Austin Theory.

<v Speaker 1>I said, dismboweled. Isn't that the right word? Yeah? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you know, we heard his voice, we didn't see the

<v Speaker 1>we didn't see his head. Did I use the wrong word?

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hammond was not disemboweled on this show. Sixteen million

<v Speaker 1>dollar trading. You know what? Now I'm kicking myself. Can

<v Speaker 1>you imagine all those years ago when I was a

<v Speaker 1>camp counselor, I told this story and I was confiscating

<v Speaker 1>all the Pokemon cards because they were not allowed to

<v Speaker 1>have them out during the day, and for all I know,

<v Speaker 1>I confiscated a sixteen million dollar Pikachu card. Unbelievable. Now

<v Speaker 1>I'm depressed. So Boston Theory. He complained because he got

<v Speaker 1>screwed out of his qualifying match last week by the

<v Speaker 1>mass Man, and so he was complaining about it until

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pearce interrupted and Pierce wanted them to go to

<v Speaker 1>his office. Let's talk about this like adults in the back.

<v Speaker 1>Theory wanted justice though right now, and Pierce said the

<v Speaker 1>Theory screwed himself. If it wasn't for Theory stablemates tying

<v Speaker 1>up all of his security, they would have handled the

<v Speaker 1>mass man before he could even get involved in the match.

<v Speaker 1>So Hayman wanted Pierce to put Bronson Reid in the

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber, and Pierce said that he knew about the

<v Speaker 1>phone calls that Haymon was making to go over his head.

<v Speaker 1>He said he had no problem with Reid in the

<v Speaker 1>chamber so long as he wins his qualifying match on

<v Speaker 1>the show next week. Pierce urged them to leave the

<v Speaker 1>ring so that they could continue with the show until

<v Speaker 1>La Knight interrupted, Ah, here we go. So La Knight

<v Speaker 1>comes out, he's in the aisleway and he said the

<v Speaker 1>visions screwed themselves. Theory wasn't going to WrestleMania. Reid was

<v Speaker 1>next on his list. Knight was praying for Bronson reed

<v Speaker 1>to qualify next week for the elimination Chamber so that

<v Speaker 1>he could kick his ass. So then logan mock Knight

<v Speaker 1>for getting put through a car by Bronson Reid, so

<v Speaker 1>Knight called him a broccoli haired bitch. Knight suggested to

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pearce, hey, why don't you make a six man

<v Speaker 1>tag team match tonight. I'll gladly team with the Ussos,

<v Speaker 1>even though he doesn't like them, they don't like him,

<v Speaker 1>but hey, we'll put our differences aside. I'll happily be

<v Speaker 1>their partners and we'll have a match. And Adam Pierce

<v Speaker 1>he liked the sound of that, and so he made

<v Speaker 1>the match official. So then the Ussos, who were waiting

<v Speaker 1>patiently in the crowd throughout all of this. Remember their

<v Speaker 1>entrance was interrupted by all this, and they've just been

<v Speaker 1>standing in the crowd saying nothing the entire time, which

<v Speaker 1>is probably for the better. But they've been in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd the entire time. So now they play their music

<v Speaker 1>and now the Ussos make their answer. Here's what I

<v Speaker 1>want to know. Why were they even coming out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring in their gear? I mean, are we supposed to?

<v Speaker 1>I guess it's the idea that they were scheduled for

<v Speaker 1>a match with the Vision, because they never made it clear.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, they weren't in the rundown for the show.

<v Speaker 1>They never really made it clear why they were even

<v Speaker 1>coming out here in the first place. And watching this

<v Speaker 1>segment here, if you saw what happened here at the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of the show, it looked like they were positioning

<v Speaker 1>Logan Paul as the de facto sort of leading force

<v Speaker 1>or face within the vision here with Bronson Reed, you know,

<v Speaker 1>right behind him. But bron Breaker is the one who

<v Speaker 1>really was being positioned as the guy in the vision.

<v Speaker 1>Right even before the Royal Rumble, it was Logan Paul

<v Speaker 1>who stood up and said, Hey, I think all of

<v Speaker 1>us should basically sacrifice ourselves to make sure that bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker wins the Royal Rumble, it was pretty clear who

<v Speaker 1>the de facto face of the faction was. Well, now

<v Speaker 1>he's hurt, he had hernia surgery. We don't know when

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker is going to be back, probably not before WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and so it felt like now they were positioning the

<v Speaker 1>Logan as the guy in that spot, which I guess

<v Speaker 1>makes sense because the dude just sold the trading card

<v Speaker 1>for sixteen million dollars. He probably should be leading this

<v Speaker 1>group sixteen million dollars, by the way, and still curtain

<v Speaker 1>Jerky and wrestling in the opening match. So after a break,

<v Speaker 1>it was Logan, Paul Bronson, Reid and Austin Theory against

<v Speaker 1>La Knight and the Ussos Read and Theory. They took

<v Speaker 1>control overnight and they got the heat on him for

<v Speaker 1>fucking ever. This just went on and on. It went

<v Speaker 1>through an entire commercial break. So finally he made a

<v Speaker 1>hot tag to Jay Usso Jay hit Logan with close

<v Speaker 1>lines and a running hip attack. Then he speared him

<v Speaker 1>theory they'll broke up the pin. Knight posted Theory and

<v Speaker 1>gave him a BFT outside the ring. But as soon

<v Speaker 1>as he got back up, Bronson Reed just comes lumbering

<v Speaker 1>in and he just rumbles on it. He tackles Night

<v Speaker 1>through the timekeeper's barricade. Gotta get at least one of

<v Speaker 1>those in every single week. It's the law. At least

<v Speaker 1>once a week we have to have that spot. That

<v Speaker 1>was also, i should say, the last that we saw

<v Speaker 1>of La Knight for the remainder of the show. He

<v Speaker 1>got put through the barricade. It was like he got

<v Speaker 1>knocked into a different dimension. We never heard from him again,

<v Speaker 1>We never saw him again. Logan blocked a superkick from

<v Speaker 1>Jay hit a zigzag for two Jimmy tagged himself in

<v Speaker 1>and the USOS hit superkicks. They dropped Logan with a

<v Speaker 1>one d Jimmy had him pinned. Reid though broke up

<v Speaker 1>the cover. Reid headbutted Jay out of the ring. He

<v Speaker 1>wiped out both usso's with a big suicide dive. Logan

<v Speaker 1>then punched Jimmy with the loaded fist and Read followed

<v Speaker 1>with a tsunami splash to Jimmy USSO to win it

<v Speaker 1>for the Vision. So I would like to recap this

<v Speaker 1>match real, real quick. Here for you to recap this.

<v Speaker 1>La Knight came out right he interrupted this segment. He

<v Speaker 1>challenged the Vision to a match, and he proceeded to

<v Speaker 1>get his ass kicked for virtually the entire duration of

<v Speaker 1>the match, and then his team lost. This guy is

<v Speaker 1>booked like a total loser, and yet I would love

<v Speaker 1>to know who these people are, if they exist, if

<v Speaker 1>they are real flesh and bone and blood. Okay, who

<v Speaker 1>believed that it would be a good idea for La

<v Speaker 1>Knight to step into the ring with Brock Lesner at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>Which is the rumor right now, and that's all it is.

<v Speaker 1>It is from Meltzer in the Observer that that was

<v Speaker 1>the match that was listed internally as of late January,

<v Speaker 1>And as I pointed out to you on the sound off,

<v Speaker 1>it is at least plausible because he was one of

<v Speaker 1>the guys who eliminated brock Lesnar from the Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>and brock is coming back next week, so there is

<v Speaker 1>at least a chance, a decent chance that the match

<v Speaker 1>at Wrestle Mendia could very well be La Knight and

<v Speaker 1>brock Lesnar. And I want you to watch this segment

<v Speaker 1>is a great example of what I am talking about

<v Speaker 1>when I will talk about La Knight, and I will

<v Speaker 1>talk about the push that he has gotten, right, all

<v Speaker 1>the push, he's still super over, but he comes out

<v Speaker 1>and this is exactly the sort of thing that happens.

<v Speaker 1>He talks a big talk, right, he's all full of himself,

<v Speaker 1>and more often than not, he goes in there and

<v Speaker 1>he loses and he gets beat and there's no follow

<v Speaker 1>up to it. He's not angry and pissed off or try.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I was shocked when they brought him back,

<v Speaker 1>you know, after he was gone for so many weeks.

<v Speaker 1>He's in the Rumble and then on Raw the following

<v Speaker 1>week that he was actually getting some measure of revenge,

<v Speaker 1>you know, on the vision. But then you watch something

<v Speaker 1>like this where he goes out there, and it just

<v Speaker 1>reminds you, like, man, this guy's a fucking loser, and

<v Speaker 1>you want me to take seriously the idea that you're

<v Speaker 1>gonna put him in the ring with Brockleisner and it's

<v Speaker 1>going to be anything other than a bad night for

<v Speaker 1>La night? Are you out of your fucking mind? Who

<v Speaker 1>wants that? Who wants that? Who thinks that's a good idea?

<v Speaker 1>Outside the ring, Logan grabbed Michael Cole's head set right

<v Speaker 1>off his head, snatched it right off his head, and

<v Speaker 1>he starts bragging about the big win that they just

<v Speaker 1>picked up. When all of a sudden, now he's like

<v Speaker 1>leaned over the announced tsk and so you can get

<v Speaker 1>a sense of like, what's he doing here? Right, He's

<v Speaker 1>just waiting for something to happen, And sure enough, the

<v Speaker 1>masked man reappears and he stomps him curb stomps him

<v Speaker 1>right on top of the announced desk. Now, the guy

<v Speaker 1>is standing there and I don't know, for a second

<v Speaker 1>I thought maybe he was going to reveal himself, but

<v Speaker 1>of course, fuck me, so, of course he jumps down

<v Speaker 1>from the announced desk and read in theory. They give

<v Speaker 1>chase and he runs through the crowd, Rinse, repeat with

<v Speaker 1>this shit. Stop me if you've heard this before. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know why we are still sitting here and why

<v Speaker 1>we are watching La Knight and the USSOS still after

<v Speaker 1>all this time feuding with the Vision. I want to

<v Speaker 1>know why are we still seeing these matches with these

<v Speaker 1>same people playing out here on this show over and

<v Speaker 1>over and over again. If you want any evidence of

<v Speaker 1>how stagnant WWE creative is right now, I give you

<v Speaker 1>exhibit A, the fact that we are still seeing La

<v Speaker 1>Night in the usso's feuding with the Vision. Do you

<v Speaker 1>realize how long La Knight has been feuding with the

<v Speaker 1>Vision for the first time that he started getting into

<v Speaker 1>the ring with members of the Vision. You can go

<v Speaker 1>all the way back to money in the Bank time

<v Speaker 1>June of last year. Money in the Bank. It is

<v Speaker 1>now almost elimination chamber. He is still feuding with the

<v Speaker 1>Vision and he certainly no better off for it. But

<v Speaker 1>this is still going on eight months, nine months. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it's almost like there's not a creative thought in their

<v Speaker 1>head when it comes to some of these people, and

<v Speaker 1>you know, I just realized something here. If that match

<v Speaker 1>happens at wrestle MANI I was gonna sit here and say, well,

<v Speaker 1>at least if he wrestles brock Lesner at WrestleMania, at

<v Speaker 1>least it's someone different, right, But technically, if he were

<v Speaker 1>to wrestle brock Lesner, would brock Lesner not be technically

<v Speaker 1>considered part of the Vision. He would still be working

<v Speaker 1>with the Vision. Fuck anyway, this was just the opening segment.

<v Speaker 1>My god, I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>make it through this review. Next week they made the

<v Speaker 1>announcement that we are going to get two more two

<v Speaker 1>more qualifying matches. The final two I guess for the

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber matches Bronton Reid, Jay Uso and El Grande

<v Speaker 1>Americano Gable. That's the men's chamber eliminator or qualifier. The

<v Speaker 1>women's is going to include Eosky, Raquel Rodriguez, and Kyrie Saint.

<v Speaker 1>Now I feel, you know, looking at who's in these

<v Speaker 1>matches here, I feel like, why wouldn't you want Eosky

<v Speaker 1>in that match? Rhea Ripley's already qualified. EO should certainly

<v Speaker 1>have a match on the show outside of just the

<v Speaker 1>kind of a throwaway comment she made on SmackDown Friday

<v Speaker 1>Night about how oh I should challenge Julia for the

<v Speaker 1>United States Championship. Unless that's what they're planning on doing,

<v Speaker 1>there's no other role for her on the show. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>you want to have EO Sky in that match. The

<v Speaker 1>only thing that's preventing me from being certain that Eoski

<v Speaker 1>will be in that match. If you look at who's

<v Speaker 1>qualified so far for the Women's Chamber outside of Osca,

<v Speaker 1>who qualified later on in this show, it's all babyfaces,

<v Speaker 1>Like if Charlotte Flair wins her match on Friday over

<v Speaker 1>Naya Jackson, Keana James, You've got Alexa, You've got Tiffany,

<v Speaker 1>You've got Charlie, You've got Rhea. It's all baby faces

<v Speaker 1>and OSCA. You gotta get some heels in there. That's

<v Speaker 1>what makes me think Raquel may have a decent shot, Right,

<v Speaker 1>it's one of the other. It's one or the other.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's either Raquel or it's EO. I would

<v Speaker 1>like for it to be EO, but man, I mean

<v Speaker 1>it's very babyface heavy, and when we get to it

<v Speaker 1>later you'll see it's the same situation on the men's

<v Speaker 1>side too. He can't just have all babyfaces in these matches.

<v Speaker 1>At backstage. Here we go backstage, a delivery guy named Eli,

<v Speaker 1>who seemed like a very nice young man, alerted Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce to a special delivery and he brought him over.

<v Speaker 1>There was a giant wooden crate, a tall wooden crate

<v Speaker 1>with delivered to WWE written on the side of it,

<v Speaker 1>as well as do not open until two twenty eight,

<v Speaker 1>twenty six, which of course is the date of the

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber. And Pierce was very annoyed because everything that

<v Speaker 1>he was asking Eli, Eli had no good answer for him.

<v Speaker 1>Eli would be like, I don't know, I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>Pierce's like, what did you know anything? Do you know

<v Speaker 1>your fucking name? Eli didn't have. I see, I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>really put it on Eli. Eli is standing there. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if you noticed, he had a clipboard in

<v Speaker 1>his hand with a blank piece of paper on it.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't think that Eli is going to have

<v Speaker 1>a whole lot of information for you. There was nothing

<v Speaker 1>written on the paper. It was blank, so of course

<v Speaker 1>Eli doesn't have any information. I mean, who even says

<v Speaker 1>that he was a delivery guy. Did anybody check his credentials?

<v Speaker 1>He's standing there, he knows nothing about the box. He's

<v Speaker 1>got nothing written on the paper in front of him.

<v Speaker 1>I see no identification on him. Did anybody check him

<v Speaker 1>when he came into the building. There could be a

<v Speaker 1>bomb in the box for all we know, but he

<v Speaker 1>didn't have any answers, so Eli went away. So then

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser America. Now, I should point out also Pierce made

<v Speaker 1>a comment here. He ordered Eli to ship the box

<v Speaker 1>to smack Down on Friday so that Nick Aldis could

<v Speaker 1>deal with it, because he didn't want to deal with

<v Speaker 1>this mystery create But Kaiser Americano and his little buddies

<v Speaker 1>Ryo and Bravo, they showed up to confront Pierce about

<v Speaker 1>him putting Gable Americano in a qualifier next week, and

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser was very upset about this. So Kaiser wanted something

<v Speaker 1>else if he couldn't be in the chamber, and he suggested, well,

<v Speaker 1>why not a shot at the Intercontinental Championship. So Pierce

<v Speaker 1>offered him a chance to earn a shot at the

<v Speaker 1>Intercontinental title tonight, which makes the second impromptu match of

<v Speaker 1>the night by the way. Of course, the opening match

<v Speaker 1>was impromptu and unscheduled, and now we had a second

<v Speaker 1>one here on this show. Now I've made this point before,

<v Speaker 1>I have to reiterate it again. What exactly do these

<v Speaker 1>general mad like Adam Pierce? What do these general managers

<v Speaker 1>do during the week that they don't take the time

<v Speaker 1>to map out the entire show. They have so many

<v Speaker 1>openings and gaps in these two and a half hour shows,

<v Speaker 1>three hour shows. I mean, you would think they would

<v Speaker 1>take greater care to put an actual card together. There's

<v Speaker 1>so many imprompt two matches on the show any given week.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, this fucking crate. They're doing the egg gimmick.

<v Speaker 1>If you know, you know, if you live through it,

<v Speaker 1>if you were a fait back then. I'm not talking

<v Speaker 1>about Vince McMahon's golden egg, his fucking Faberge egg from

<v Speaker 1>a few years ago. I'm talking about the egg from

<v Speaker 1>Survivor series that hatched and out came the gobbledy Gooker.

<v Speaker 1>They hyped that shit up for weeks. Undertaker had pissed

<v Speaker 1>running down his leg because he thought they were gonna

<v Speaker 1>debute him as the egg man on that show. When

<v Speaker 1>he saw that gimmick on TV. He said, Oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>gonna debut me out of a fucking egg. They're gonna

<v Speaker 1>make me egg man. This is gonna be the end

<v Speaker 1>of my career. But there was all this speculation about

<v Speaker 1>who or what is gonna pop out of the egg.

<v Speaker 1>It could be the Playboy Playmate of the Year, and

<v Speaker 1>it turned out to be Hector Guerrero as the Gobbledygooker.

<v Speaker 1>So they're doing this gimmick now. And as I said before,

<v Speaker 1>I mean this company appears to just be obsessed over

<v Speaker 1>mystery angles and they just did this back to back

<v Speaker 1>because we go from the mystery Man stomping Logan Paul

<v Speaker 1>in the opening segment to a segment here with the

<v Speaker 1>history crate. So when they find something that they like,

<v Speaker 1>boy do they latch onto it. Right. It's like triple

<v Speaker 1>h with all the people showing up as masked men

<v Speaker 1>in black right with hoodies and shit. He does that

<v Speaker 1>plenty of times. So what's in the box? That's the question.

<v Speaker 1>What is in the box? I love this idea. Everyone's

<v Speaker 1>throwing out ideas for who's in the box, Like we're

<v Speaker 1>supposed to believe that there's an actual person in the box.

<v Speaker 1>Who is simply going to stay in the box for

<v Speaker 1>the next twelve days without food or water. They're gonna

<v Speaker 1>ship the box to smack Down, They're gonna ship the

<v Speaker 1>box to Chicago for the elimination shape, or there's an

<v Speaker 1>actual person in the box. Can somebody throw out ideas

<v Speaker 1>about what's in the box without saying an actual living,

<v Speaker 1>breathing human being. But I guess we're all supposed to

<v Speaker 1>assume there's going to be a person in this crate.

<v Speaker 1>It would be kind of funny, you know. Obviously, if

<v Speaker 1>I had to make a guess, Chris Jericho is the

<v Speaker 1>first name that came to mind, But I so borbid.

<v Speaker 1>But I was thinking about this because again, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>make any sense for a person to be living in

<v Speaker 1>this box. It's like, can you imagine they opened the box,

<v Speaker 1>like they pry the box open at the elimination chair

<v Speaker 1>at the elimination chamber, and Jericho is just lying dead inside.

<v Speaker 1>It's not the fucking box because they forgot to fucking

<v Speaker 1>poke holes in it. It's like, ah, shit, Eli, that

<v Speaker 1>was your job. Fucking Eli. I don't know who's in

<v Speaker 1>the but a fucking box. Come on, man, what am I?

<v Speaker 1>Brad Pitt. What's in the box? I don't know. They're

<v Speaker 1>gonna use this as a hook for the elimination Shit,

<v Speaker 1>it's always something with the Elimination Chamber. Last year it

<v Speaker 1>was Cody's soul. Now it's what's in the box. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>Cody's soul is in the box. I don't know, But

<v Speaker 1>put your suggestions in the chat. Let's see what everybody

<v Speaker 1>thinks is in the is in the box? I don't know.

<v Speaker 2>I seriously though, like if I could open the box

<v Speaker 2>of Jericho shs. He's just laying there because he's been

<v Speaker 2>in a box for twelve days. You can't survive that way.

<v Speaker 2>It's impossible. It can't be done. We had a triple

<v Speaker 2>threat Elimination Chamber qualifying match.

<v Speaker 1>OSCA. Now, actually, maybe it's the career of La Knight

<v Speaker 1>is in the boxes. His final resting place, his hopes

<v Speaker 1>and yes, his hopes and dreams. The hopes and dreams

<v Speaker 1>of La Knight are in the box. Oscar. Natty and Bailey.

<v Speaker 1>Natty was introduced from being from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, representing

<v Speaker 1>the Heart Family Dungeon not very well apparently because she

<v Speaker 1>didn't win this match. I'll talk about Natty in a sack.

<v Speaker 1>I got something to say about Natty in a second,

<v Speaker 1>so Natty was allowed to shine a little bit early

<v Speaker 1>on here in this match. She had control going into

<v Speaker 1>the break. After the break, Bailey hit a diving elbow

<v Speaker 1>drop right across Bailey's or Natty's back. Natty got trapped

<v Speaker 1>in the tree of Woe and Bailey elbow dropped Natty

<v Speaker 1>and then gave Oscar superplex or a rare occasion here

<v Speaker 1>where we didn't have the obligatory tower of doom spot.

<v Speaker 1>I was shocked by this, so later on Natty gave

<v Speaker 1>Bailey a German sup plex out on the Apron spent

<v Speaker 1>too much time admiring her work, so Oscar caught her

<v Speaker 1>in the Oscar lock. Natty broke free. She hit a

<v Speaker 1>sit out power bomb. What if Jericho packed an ice

<v Speaker 1>chest with food? Yes, but still you have to poke

<v Speaker 1>holes in the box. There were no holes. You have

<v Speaker 1>to put holes in there. Natty applied to sharpshooter. Bailey, though,

<v Speaker 1>broke it up with a running knee strike. Oscar knocked

<v Speaker 1>Natty out of the ring with a running hip attack

<v Speaker 1>before Bailey hit Oscar with a belly to Bailey for

<v Speaker 1>a close near fall, and this was the first thing.

<v Speaker 1>This near fall here was the first thing that the

<v Speaker 1>crowd seriously reacted to in the entire match, because they

<v Speaker 1>were dead silent otherwise. So Bailey and Oscar they traded

<v Speaker 1>counters until Oscar shoved Bailey into the ropes, in turn

<v Speaker 1>knocking Natty off the apron in the process. Oscar then

<v Speaker 1>caught Bailey in the Oscar locket. It didn't take very long.

<v Speaker 1>Bailey tapped out, so Osca qualifies the Empress is going

<v Speaker 1>to the elimination chamber. So Maxine Dupre came out when

<v Speaker 1>Natty was over by the stage when she was leaving,

<v Speaker 1>and Maxine Dupre attacked her and threw her into the

<v Speaker 1>led boards, and the fans began chanting whoop that trick,

<v Speaker 1>which they actually ended up doing multiple times on this

<v Speaker 1>show in different situations, so they had to be pulled

<v Speaker 1>apart by officials. Here. The match itself was it was solid,

<v Speaker 1>but again the crowd didn't care. Crowd did not give

<v Speaker 1>a single solitary shit about this until Bailey hit that

<v Speaker 1>belly to Bailey, and then they actually reacted. They just

<v Speaker 1>didn't care. Now, Natty, let's talk about this. I remember

<v Speaker 1>being asked some time ago if I thought that it

<v Speaker 1>would be a good idea for WWE to bring the

<v Speaker 1>gimmick that Natty had started using, like a blood bloodsport

<v Speaker 1>Natty we called her to television, And initially my answer

<v Speaker 1>was no, because I didn't trust that they would be

<v Speaker 1>able to do the gimmick the right way and really

<v Speaker 1>make it truly feel special or truly feel different from

<v Speaker 1>what Natty had been doing previously. And then I kind

<v Speaker 1>of warmed up to it, and I said, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>there's no harm in it, because it's not like they're

<v Speaker 1>even utilizing her on television. So hey, if it gives

<v Speaker 1>them a reason to use her on TV in certain situations,

<v Speaker 1>then sure, go for it. But I still had the

<v Speaker 1>same concerns. I still had the same reservations. What you

<v Speaker 1>see on television is exactly the reason why I had

<v Speaker 1>those concerns in the first place, because they changed her

<v Speaker 1>theme music, They changed her entrance a little bit to

<v Speaker 1>where they kind of shoot her from the back as

<v Speaker 1>she's making her way out. So there's like little minor

<v Speaker 1>differences in how she's portrayed on television now as compared

<v Speaker 1>to before. Outside of that, there is absolutely nothing nothing

<v Speaker 1>about this new Natty gimmick that is going to in

<v Speaker 1>any way benefit her or anybody who works with her.

<v Speaker 1>If the idea is that, hey, we're putting some shinea Natty,

<v Speaker 1>and so if we feud her with Maxine and Maxine

<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of wins over in the end, it'll

<v Speaker 1>mean something. No, it's not going to mean anything. You

<v Speaker 1>know why because now it hasn't been very long, but

<v Speaker 1>still Natty's been doing this gimmick for a little bit. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it's a month, two months, whatever

<v Speaker 1>it's been. Do you know how many wins Natty has zero?

<v Speaker 1>She's won zero matches. So again, this is what I'm

<v Speaker 1>talking about where it's like, oh, they should totally do

<v Speaker 1>blood Sport Natty on TV, and it's like, well, they're

<v Speaker 1>doing it, and it doesn't make a lick of fucking

<v Speaker 1>difference because they haven't even had her or allowed her

<v Speaker 1>to win a match. She goes out there, she's got

<v Speaker 1>the mouthguard right, she's got her hands up, MMA, Natty's

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be all tough at everything. She still hasn't

<v Speaker 1>won a match. To get people over, they need to

<v Speaker 1>win matches. This goes to this argument and I will

<v Speaker 1>argue until I'm blue in the fucking face with people

<v Speaker 1>because it's such an easy thing. People like wins and

<v Speaker 1>losses don't matter anymore, And to that, I say, fuck off,

<v Speaker 1>you don't know what you're talking about. Wins and losses,

<v Speaker 1>I agree, are not the end all be all, it's

<v Speaker 1>not the only thing. But to suggest wins in laws

<v Speaker 1>don't matter means you don't know anything about wrestling. And

<v Speaker 1>I was very happy, by the way, when the Miz

<v Speaker 1>did that interview with Chris van Vliet I think it

<v Speaker 1>was this was within the last couple of months, he

<v Speaker 1>said the exact same thing. He disagrees wholeheart. I agree

<v Speaker 1>with the Miz okay or the mis agrees with me,

<v Speaker 1>however you want to look at it. Wins and losses

<v Speaker 1>absolutely matter, and in this case, it would help if

<v Speaker 1>they at least took the time to send Natty out there,

<v Speaker 1>even if it's with a bunch of Jabron's. You know

<v Speaker 1>that they bring in that we don't even know, some

<v Speaker 1>scrubs from developmental that haven't even they don't even have

<v Speaker 1>a gimmick yet, they're not on TV yet, and let

<v Speaker 1>Natty just like toy with them, you know, like an

<v Speaker 1>animal with their food. They have not done that, so again,

<v Speaker 1>it's hard to take her seriously when they haven't taken

<v Speaker 1>the time in the effort to establish her as any

<v Speaker 1>sort of real, intimidating, dominant force on TV. One of

<v Speaker 1>the many reasons why she and other people on the

<v Speaker 1>show continue to get no reactions when they come out.

<v Speaker 1>At least give her some wins first, especially if she's

<v Speaker 1>going into this feud with Maxine. If you want Maxine

<v Speaker 1>beating her in the end to mean something, there are

<v Speaker 1>steps that have to be taken first. You can't just

<v Speaker 1>change someone's music and have them come out in a

<v Speaker 1>different outfit and think, oh, everything's different now. No, it's

<v Speaker 1>the same shit. But they don't put the effort in

<v Speaker 1>because they do everything half assed. That was my concern

<v Speaker 1>with the whole gimmick at first, bring it to TV. Well,

<v Speaker 1>if you do it the right way, sure, where's the

<v Speaker 1>entourage when she comes out? Right? They didn't do that either.

<v Speaker 1>They have Eli in the back with the fucking crate.

<v Speaker 1>Why can't Eli be a part of her entourage when

<v Speaker 1>she comes out. It's just little things like that, and

<v Speaker 1>it drives me nuts backstage. Adam Pierce handed Obafemi. Obafemi

<v Speaker 1>was back. He wrestled by the Way tonight, not on TV,

<v Speaker 1>though he wrestled on main event, but he was here

<v Speaker 1>on the show was he handed a contract by Adam Pierce,

<v Speaker 1>who wanted him to sign with Raw. He told him

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown's not going to be able to beat this offer,

<v Speaker 1>and Oba said, I need some time to decide. He's

<v Speaker 1>very indecisive, this guy. It's like me, I'm trying to

<v Speaker 1>make a big purchase, like a computer or something. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I can't. It's like you know that meme with the

<v Speaker 1>guy who's like, you know, going like this with the

<v Speaker 1>with the frickin thing on his brow. He's like sweating bullets.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't know whether to push this button or that.

<v Speaker 1>But that's me. That's Oba Femi trying to decide between

<v Speaker 1>Raw and SmackDown. Somebody needs to take that meme and

<v Speaker 1>put his face on that guy and then put the

<v Speaker 1>Raw logo on one button and the SmackDown logo on

<v Speaker 1>the other button. So he still needs time to make

<v Speaker 1>his decision. And on his way out, he is confronted

<v Speaker 1>by Russev, which I was shocked by because I didn't

<v Speaker 1>know if Russev was still alive or not. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I haven't heard anything about him. We haven't seen him

<v Speaker 1>on TV, and sometime we haven't heard his name mentioned.

<v Speaker 1>He's been a total non factor. But there he was,

<v Speaker 1>just like it's randomly walking into Adam Pierce's office. He trapped. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>I think he lives there. I think he lives in Nashville,

<v Speaker 1>So if he's local, See that actually makes sense. If

<v Speaker 1>he's local, that he would just show up to the show.

<v Speaker 1>I know for sure. One time he and CJ. I

<v Speaker 1>guess I can't call it Alana anymore, we're living I

<v Speaker 1>think I think I remember them saying they were living

<v Speaker 1>there because it was very central, which made it a

<v Speaker 1>lot easier to fly to wherever they needed to go.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, he decided to show up to RAW. He

<v Speaker 1>never said anything, but he bumped into Obafemi and the

<v Speaker 1>two of them exchanged a glare at each other, and

<v Speaker 1>Oba walked out, and the camera just sort of lingered

<v Speaker 1>on Russev and he had this angry look on his face,

<v Speaker 1>and if you saw underneath his jacket, he was wearing

<v Speaker 1>one of his old Happy ROUSEV Day t shirts from

<v Speaker 1>like a lifetime ago. Yes, at least we know Rusev

<v Speaker 1>is not in the box. We can cross him off

<v Speaker 1>the list. It is not Russev inside the box. So

<v Speaker 1>the way Russev was glaring back at him gave you

<v Speaker 1>the impression that maybe there's gonna be a TV match

<v Speaker 1>soon between them. I really just hope they're stalling until

<v Speaker 1>Brock comes back next week and then we can just

<v Speaker 1>go from there. I mean, Oba's gonna be on SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>this Friday, wrestling Kit Wilson for the second time. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>he'll wrestle Russev next week. Hey, Brock's gonna be there

<v Speaker 1>next week. Maybe he wrestles Rusev and then they shoot

<v Speaker 1>some sort of angle after that. I don't know. We'll

<v Speaker 1>get our answer next week. We're not gonna have to

<v Speaker 1>wait longer than a week. We will know next week

<v Speaker 1>what Brock Lesner is very likely doing a wrestle media

<v Speaker 1>and whether it involves La Night or if it involves Gunther,

<v Speaker 1>or if it involves Obafemi. It is almost certainly gonna

<v Speaker 1>be one of those three, So we'll find out next week.

<v Speaker 1>After this, we got footage of Michael Cole from earlier

<v Speaker 1>in the day doing a sit down interview or getting

<v Speaker 1>ready to conduct a sit down interview with the twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty six Women's Royal Rumble winner, Live Morgan Dominic Mysterio

<v Speaker 1>showed up to sit in on the interview, and Cole

<v Speaker 1>asked her, Okay, so who are you gonna pick? Who

<v Speaker 1>are you gonna pick to challenge for the championship at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>like he was gonna get a fucking answer here and Live.

<v Speaker 1>She kind of made like she might tell him, and

<v Speaker 1>then she laughed at him and said, I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>rush my decision. I'm gonna take a little bit longer

<v Speaker 1>to decide. So many indecisive people on this show. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>Befemi can't make a decision. Live Morgan can't make a decision.

<v Speaker 1>She said, she didn't grind for ten years just to

<v Speaker 1>let this moment pass her by. Stephanie Vicaire showed up

<v Speaker 1>and she took a seat right next to Michael Cole

<v Speaker 1>and got right up in Lib's face, and she began

<v Speaker 1>to speak Spanish to Live and Dominic began to talk

<v Speaker 1>back to her in Spanish. Michael Cole had no idea

<v Speaker 1>what was going on here? Live Morgan had no idea

<v Speaker 1>what was going I had no idea what was going

<v Speaker 1>on here. This went on for a good I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>sixty seconds of her just speaking, looking very angry and

<v Speaker 1>speaking in Spanish, cutting this very impassioned promo. I couldn't

<v Speaker 1>understand a fucking word she was saying, but she was

<v Speaker 1>certainly saying it with great conviction in her voice. And

<v Speaker 1>that was it. Whatever she said, whatever it was that

<v Speaker 1>she said, Dom was translating for Live and Stephanie walked off.

<v Speaker 1>And as Dom is explaining to Live what was just

<v Speaker 1>said Live, Morgan gets very emotional and she begins crying,

<v Speaker 1>and then she and Dom they ended up leaving. She

<v Speaker 1>was too upset, I guess to continue this interview and

<v Speaker 1>so they walked off. Well, that was certainly something. See

<v Speaker 1>I have a theory of this. Maybe the shot in

<v Speaker 1>the dark here as upset as Liv got, maybe Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>broke the news to her that because of the shortage

<v Speaker 1>and all of the RAM chips, the PS six is

<v Speaker 1>likely being delayed until twenty twenty nine, and she was

<v Speaker 1>very upset about this, especially Dom. We know Dom's a

<v Speaker 1>big gamer. I don't know how big of a gamer

<v Speaker 1>Live is, but maybe maybe the PS six news was

<v Speaker 1>just too much for her to handle, and she got

<v Speaker 1>very emotional about this. They did say later in the

<v Speaker 1>show that they posted the entire segment with English translations

<v Speaker 1>on YouTube, So if you want to watch it, you

<v Speaker 1>got to go seek it out on YouTube and it

<v Speaker 1>will have all of the answers for you. I wish

<v Speaker 1>you luck. We have the World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk

<v Speaker 1>on his way out to the ring next for a promo,

<v Speaker 1>which is good because man, this show could use a

<v Speaker 1>shot in the arm at this point, and if you

<v Speaker 1>look at Raw over the last several weeks, those Punk

<v Speaker 1>promos have been the highlight of the show honestly on

<v Speaker 1>most if not all, of those weeks. And we could

<v Speaker 1>use a segment like this on this show right about now.

<v Speaker 1>But he's cut some great ones recently on Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>and Finn Balor. So he says. Adam Pierce says he's

<v Speaker 1>jeopardizing the main event of WrestleMania. He doesn't see it

<v Speaker 1>that way. He thinks that he's doing what he's always done,

<v Speaker 1>which is make everything better. He said. Sports teams go

<v Speaker 1>to the playoffs, that doesn't mean that they get to

<v Speaker 1>stop playing regular season games. Punk clearly not a fan

<v Speaker 1>of the NBA. The fans deserve a fighting champion. He

<v Speaker 1>thought Finn Balor deserved a shot at the title about

<v Speaker 1>a month back in Belfast, and now he's getting another shot,

<v Speaker 1>not because he deserves it, but because he's earned it.

<v Speaker 1>He's earned this ass beating that he's going to get

<v Speaker 1>and he ruined Punk's last chance to share the ring

<v Speaker 1>with the phenomenal AJ style. Well, good news for CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk is that AJ is going to be back on

<v Speaker 1>the show next week, so if he wants to, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he'll get to share the ring with AJ again. Punk

<v Speaker 1>said that things he says, he says things that pissed

<v Speaker 1>people off. He wouldn't be who he was. If he

<v Speaker 1>didn't often say things that would piss people off, the

<v Speaker 1>fans wouldn't love him. Punk was a fighting champion. He

<v Speaker 1>was the best in the world. That wasn't Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>and it's not Finn Balor. So he was interrupted by

<v Speaker 1>Finn Balor, who is now using his old NX team music,

<v Speaker 1>which is good. See I have to give them credit.

<v Speaker 1>This is a rare music upgrade here on this show.

<v Speaker 1>I thought maybe he used it that one time in Belfast,

<v Speaker 1>and I didn't know if it was going to be

<v Speaker 1>a weekly thing. But I'm glad he's got that music back.

<v Speaker 1>And he was flanked by Dominic Mysterio, and then out

<v Speaker 1>came JD McDonough, who we have not seen for a

<v Speaker 1>few months. He had some minor surgery to fix a

<v Speaker 1>couple of things, and so now he's back. I just

<v Speaker 1>realized that Roxanne was not on the show tonight, and

<v Speaker 1>this was second week in a row, and I believe

<v Speaker 1>last week she was out with some sort of illness

<v Speaker 1>because I saw some photo I think that she posted

<v Speaker 1>on social media, the other members of the Judgment Day

<v Speaker 1>having sent her some sort of gift or get well

<v Speaker 1>message or whatever. So I said, oh, maybe she's got

<v Speaker 1>like a I don't know, like a bad flu or something.

<v Speaker 1>But second week in a row that she was not

<v Speaker 1>on the show, so I hope she's doing okay. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>the men of the Judgment Day, they came down to

<v Speaker 1>ringside and they surrounded the ring baler said that, look,

<v Speaker 1>we're not out here to fight. He wanted to make

<v Speaker 1>something very clear. To be the best in the world,

<v Speaker 1>you had to train with the best catch wrestlers in Europe.

<v Speaker 1>You had to learn from the best luchadors in Mexico.

<v Speaker 1>You had to survive the toughest dojo's in Japan. You

<v Speaker 1>had to show up to Raw and beat Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>on your very first night. And nobody reacted to that

<v Speaker 1>line because they probably didn't know what he was talking about.

<v Speaker 1>But in fact, when he debuted on Raw, he beat

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns in his first night. That's how he got

<v Speaker 1>the shot at the Universal title against Seth Rollins at

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim. First ever Universal champion was going to be crowned,

<v Speaker 1>and he won it, and he tore his shoulder and

<v Speaker 1>he got hurt and he had to vacate the title

<v Speaker 1>the very next night. But that's how he went to

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim. He got to win over the big dog.

<v Speaker 1>It was ten years ago, ten years, ten years. That's

<v Speaker 1>why I laugh, you know when I hear comments like

<v Speaker 1>the comments that Ricochet said, you know, a week or

<v Speaker 1>two ago, and he name dropped Balor as one of

<v Speaker 1>those people like Knackamoor and Apollo Cruz who were like

<v Speaker 1>shells of what they used to be and had had

<v Speaker 1>the passion beaten out of them or whatever however he

<v Speaker 1>phrased it. It's like, dude, you know, you were on

<v Speaker 1>the main roster for five years, you didn't like it,

<v Speaker 1>and you split. Good for you, and he's you know,

<v Speaker 1>he didn't re sign at any point. He was unhappy

<v Speaker 1>and he left. If Finn Balor wasn't happy to be

<v Speaker 1>where he is, he wouldn't be there anymore. Ten years,

<v Speaker 1>you know what. He must not be that miserable. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>it's been ten years, if you can believe it. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>he said that, So, as far as I'm concerned, all

<v Speaker 1>of those things make me the best in the world.

<v Speaker 1>So he was not the way he looked at it.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not jeopardizing the WrestleMania main event. In fact, I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to beat you and make it better. So Punk

<v Speaker 1>asked him, what are these two idiots doing out here

<v Speaker 1>with you? He said, I know who you are. Goes.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, I misspoke. I know who you were. All

<v Speaker 1>those great things that you did, you did it by yourself.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't see any members of the judgment day by

<v Speaker 1>your side in those dojos, or when you beat Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns all those years ago. I didn't see these goofballs

<v Speaker 1>with you. You did it by yourself. You did it

<v Speaker 1>on your own merits. Says, you used to mean something.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Normally someone like you could elevate guys like them,

<v Speaker 1>but they were just dragging you down. He goes, look

<v Speaker 1>at Dom, this guy's got two belts and he never

<v Speaker 1>defends them. He goes JD. Mcdonney, he's got a head

<v Speaker 1>so big he needed help getting into the ring, so

<v Speaker 1>the fans chanted Bobblehead at him. Punk called himself a

<v Speaker 1>smart guy who sometimes did dumb things. He turned his

<v Speaker 1>back and he said, look, I'm gonna give you a

<v Speaker 1>free shot. He knew he was the best in the world,

<v Speaker 1>but he didn't need help to prove it. But maybe

<v Speaker 1>Balor did. And this is the second point in the

<v Speaker 1>show where we had random chance of whoop that trick

<v Speaker 1>as a Punk turned and gave his back to Ballor.

<v Speaker 1>It's like stinging in the nWo days when he used

<v Speaker 1>to put the bat down, Or he'd hand the bat

<v Speaker 1>to them and he would turn around. He did that

<v Speaker 1>the macho man once and Balor was holding back the

<v Speaker 1>other Judgment Day member, specifically JD McDonough, who wanted to,

<v Speaker 1>you know, go after Punk and Balor wouldn't let him.

<v Speaker 1>So McDonough, you know had I mean he wasn't happy

<v Speaker 1>about it, but he had no choice but to just

<v Speaker 1>sort of stand down. And Punk was out on the

<v Speaker 1>apron and he tossed the mic at Balor and hit

<v Speaker 1>him right in the chest, and then he jumped down

<v Speaker 1>from the apron and he left. So it was a

<v Speaker 1>good segment. Again, I don't think this was as strong

<v Speaker 1>as some of the other segments Punk has had on

<v Speaker 1>the show recently, But they're telling a larger story here

<v Speaker 1>with the judgment day in Finn Balor. If you remember

<v Speaker 1>the little pep talk Punk had with him a few

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago before Balor ended up, you know, jumping him,

<v Speaker 1>where Balor was very complimentary towards Punk, you know, for

<v Speaker 1>giving him the opportunity that he did in Belfast. It

<v Speaker 1>was the greatest night of my career. And Punk was

<v Speaker 1>basically saying, look, you can get rid of these losers.

<v Speaker 1>You don't need these guys. And then Live Morgan later

<v Speaker 1>on the show confronted Baler and said, oh, I saw

<v Speaker 1>you had a little chat with Punk, right, So they're

<v Speaker 1>they're telling this story and that's fine. I still think

<v Speaker 1>the direction for WrestleMania is going to be Balor against

<v Speaker 1>probably Dom, but he'll be up against at least one

<v Speaker 1>of the members of the Judgment Day and that's that's

<v Speaker 1>going to be the match. We all know he's not

<v Speaker 1>winning the championship in Chicago, nor should he. There is

<v Speaker 1>nothing that should disrupt the match that they have already

<v Speaker 1>established between CM Punk and Roman Reigns, not balor, not

<v Speaker 1>seth rollins, nobody one on one Punk and Roman. Last

<v Speaker 1>year we got a triple threat. This year, we're getting

<v Speaker 1>it one on one that's not being disrupted barring injury

<v Speaker 1>or some sort of you know something God forbid that happens.

<v Speaker 1>But barring that, nothing is going to disrupt that match.

<v Speaker 1>So for the story they're trying to tell, I think

<v Speaker 1>it's fine. Na Byron Saxton was in the back and

<v Speaker 1>he interviewed the women's tag team champions Ria Ripley and

<v Speaker 1>EO Sky. He asked how they were holding things together

<v Speaker 1>after everything they've had to go through. I mean, they've

<v Speaker 1>had tag team title defenses, Chamber qualifiers. How are you

<v Speaker 1>keeping it together? So Ria admitted that SmackDown was a battle.

<v Speaker 1>When they defended their titles on Friday against Naya Jackson

<v Speaker 1>the Lash Legend, She said that they thought they could

<v Speaker 1>take the titles from them, but they failed. They turned

<v Speaker 1>up the heat, so it was time for her and

<v Speaker 1>EO to put them out, and EO was about to

<v Speaker 1>speak about her qualifier next week when they were interrupted

<v Speaker 1>by Osca and Kyrie Sane. Kyrie said that Oscar was

<v Speaker 1>in the chamber and they would make sure that Rhea

<v Speaker 1>and EO would never win it, and Oscar got very angry,

<v Speaker 1>and she corrected Kyrie. Wanted Kyrie to make get clear

<v Speaker 1>what the real goal here is, and Kyrie said, oh no, no,

<v Speaker 1>that's right, that's right. The goal is to make sure

<v Speaker 1>that Osca wins the elimination chamber. So then Oscar spoke

<v Speaker 1>and told Ria and EO that they were not ready

<v Speaker 1>for the chamber, and then she left, leaving Kyrie behind,

<v Speaker 1>who looked absolutely petrified. And EO was about to say

<v Speaker 1>something to Kyrie, and then of course we heard Osca,

<v Speaker 1>and poor Kyrie has to go off and slink away.

<v Speaker 1>You know, what I've noticed is that when they first

<v Speaker 1>started doing these these segments like this, where Oscar would

<v Speaker 1>yell for Kyrie, you can hear the crowd in the

<v Speaker 1>arena and it would always get a reaction. It would

<v Speaker 1>get lapse from the crowd. But now they've been doing

<v Speaker 1>it for so long and they haven't changed it. They

<v Speaker 1>haven't evolved it in any kind of way. It doesn't

<v Speaker 1>get a reaction anymore. It just feels like, you know,

<v Speaker 1>once they have something that works, they keep spamming it.

<v Speaker 1>They keep hitting the spam button because they don't know

<v Speaker 1>what else to do. They just beat it to fucking

<v Speaker 1>death until it gets no action anymore. They've done nothing

<v Speaker 1>to really move this whole angle forward. It's still kyrieacting

<v Speaker 1>all scared and terrified of OSCA, and it's just they again,

<v Speaker 1>even these segments, like at least try to change it

<v Speaker 1>up a little bit, do it a little bit differently

<v Speaker 1>in some way, they don't. Put they don't. No, it's fine,

<v Speaker 1>We'll just keep doing what we're doing. Okay, go ahead,

<v Speaker 1>keep doing it. Doesn't get a reaction anymore, but hey,

<v Speaker 1>they don't seem to care. After this, we had El

<v Speaker 1>Grande Americano Kaiser against a mystery opponent, which ended up

<v Speaker 1>being Penta, so at least we know Penta is not

<v Speaker 1>in the crate. They went to a break. Sixty seconds

<v Speaker 1>into this, Kaiser tried going for Penta's mask. Penta tried

<v Speaker 1>the same thing, and Kaiser used a distraction to take control.

<v Speaker 1>Pentado yanked him off the top rope hit a Penta

<v Speaker 1>driver for a near fall, so Penta nog Ryo off

<v Speaker 1>the apron before El Grande hit a running headbutt for

<v Speaker 1>a two count ryo distracted there and meanwhile Bravo Tyler

<v Speaker 1>Bate on the outside. He was going for the metal

<v Speaker 1>plate to hand to Kaiser, and he he had to

<v Speaker 1>dig it out deep from his crotch. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what he was doing. He had his hand in his

<v Speaker 1>crotch and he was having a little too much fun.

<v Speaker 1>But then he pulled out the metal plate and he

<v Speaker 1>went to go hand it to Kaiser, when all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden, he got his legs he yanked out from

<v Speaker 1>underneath him and he falls flat on his back and

<v Speaker 1>he is dragged underneath the ring just like Fluffy in

<v Speaker 1>Creep Show. The creature from the crate grabs you, drags

<v Speaker 1>you onder the staircase. You gotta see that movie Creep Show.

<v Speaker 1>If you've never seen Creep Show, it's actually like four

<v Speaker 1>or five. It's like an anthology. It's like four or

<v Speaker 1>five different stories in the movie. It's not just one,

<v Speaker 1>but that one is my favorite. I'm just saying. So

<v Speaker 1>he gets pulled underneath the ring, and you could tell

<v Speaker 1>by who because then the og Americano emerges Americano Gable.

<v Speaker 1>He emerges from underneath the ring, and so at that

<v Speaker 1>point he gave Bravo a chaos theory suplex on the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Ryo re emerged and so he got dumped over the

<v Speaker 1>announced desk. After he crawled back out from under the ring,

<v Speaker 1>Penta flew in. He gave El Grande Kaiser a Canadian

<v Speaker 1>destroyer in the ring, and he picked up the win.

<v Speaker 1>After the match, Gable gave Kaiser a chaos theory. We

<v Speaker 1>actually had a little battle in the ring here for

<v Speaker 1>about a minute between the two Americanos, probably a WrestleMania preview.

<v Speaker 1>Gable then tried to take off Kaiser's mask, and he

<v Speaker 1>kind of partially did, but then he got pulled to

<v Speaker 1>safety by the other two. Penta got back in the

<v Speaker 1>ring and he actually fist bumped or I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>wrist bumped Grande Gable, who then danced to his mariachi music.

<v Speaker 1>I feel silly for even reviewing this, like everything that

<v Speaker 1>just came out of my mouth here, like it's just Obviously,

<v Speaker 1>this whole gimmick is very silly, but this was even

<v Speaker 1>sillier than usual. It was the usual silly nonsense. If

<v Speaker 1>you miss this, you missed absolutely nothing. If you want

<v Speaker 1>to judge these segments by whether or not you should

<v Speaker 1>take the time to go back and watch what you missed,

<v Speaker 1>you miss nothing if you missed this match. But we

<v Speaker 1>do know Michael Cole made it a point to clarify

<v Speaker 1>later in the show Penta is now in line for

<v Speaker 1>a shot at the Intercontinental title. He didn't say when.

<v Speaker 1>At some point down the road he will get a

<v Speaker 1>shot at the Intercontinental title. And so I guess if

<v Speaker 1>the match at WrestleMania does not end up being Balor

<v Speaker 1>and dom Dom and Penta would probably be the match

<v Speaker 1>of maybe Penta can get a title win at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't mind that. I just feel like the only

<v Speaker 1>thing about it is there's this sameness to it where

<v Speaker 1>you could do that match, but I just feel like

<v Speaker 1>these matches, I've seen these matches over and over and

<v Speaker 1>over again. There's just this feeling of sameness with everything

<v Speaker 1>on this fucking show. I don't mind the idea of

<v Speaker 1>Penta going on to win the Intercontinental title, but I

<v Speaker 1>feel like I've seen some form of him and Dom

<v Speaker 1>several times now. Yeah, it's one of the reasons why

<v Speaker 1>I don't have the appetite to see Cody Rhoades one

<v Speaker 1>on one with Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania, because I've seen

<v Speaker 1>it so many times, and yet it looks like that's

<v Speaker 1>probably going to be the WrestleMania match. Backstage, Dom was

<v Speaker 1>comforting Live Morgan and suggested that she go off with Raquel.

<v Speaker 1>Raquel said, okay, come with me, so Living Raquel left.

<v Speaker 1>At that point, Balor and McDonough they wandered in and

<v Speaker 1>McDonough was very upset that Balor held him back from

<v Speaker 1>beating up cm punk earlier. He said, I would have

<v Speaker 1>given you an advantage going into Chicago and going into

<v Speaker 1>the chamber. I was just trying to help you, So

<v Speaker 1>Balor said, if you really want to help, you'll let

<v Speaker 1>me do this alone. Balor left. McDonough said, fine, if

<v Speaker 1>that's how you want it, and then he left. So

<v Speaker 1>now Dom is all by himself, and he's very concerned

<v Speaker 1>because he's got a match coming up. Where'd everybody go?

<v Speaker 1>Now he's all by himself. Aj Lee was out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring next. AJ Lee was on this show to

<v Speaker 1>talk about her upcoming Intercontinental title match at the Chamber

<v Speaker 1>with Becky Lynch. But I gotta mention this. As aj

<v Speaker 1>was making her way out to the ring. Corey Graves

<v Speaker 1>on commentary he congratulates Michael Cole on winning an award

<v Speaker 1>earlier today, and Cole said, yes, it was for the

<v Speaker 1>most lying announcer in history. Calls it a it's a besy,

<v Speaker 1>it's a besy award, which is a legitimate thing. Becky

<v Speaker 1>Lynch on her social media earlier today, issued all of

<v Speaker 1>these different award her own awards that she gave out.

<v Speaker 1>She's saying, the hell with Meltzer, I'm gonna give up

<v Speaker 1>my own awards. And I guess Michael Cole won the

<v Speaker 1>award for the most lying Announcer. Cole said, yeah, twenty

<v Speaker 1>nine people voted, and then Corey Grays with the line

<v Speaker 1>of the night, says, you should have a newsletter. Corey

<v Speaker 1>with the jokes, And when they cut to a certain shot,

<v Speaker 1>you can see the announcers sitting in the background and

<v Speaker 1>you can see Cole was just stifling his life. He's

<v Speaker 1>looking at Graves like just trying to stifle his laughter,

<v Speaker 1>so AJ said, last week she walked out of Raw

<v Speaker 1>as the new number one contender for the women's Intercontinental title,

<v Speaker 1>and she had her fun getting under Becky's skin, but

<v Speaker 1>then she realized that this is serious business. Later in

<v Speaker 1>the show, when Becky rammed her face first into the

<v Speaker 1>ring post, she said that she has not had a

<v Speaker 1>singles match in over a decade, let alone challenge for

<v Speaker 1>a championship, and the last time that she held the title,

<v Speaker 1>it was a pink butterfly belt. But she made that

<v Speaker 1>title there was she goes, there was a women's division

<v Speaker 1>before her and a women's division after her. She said

<v Speaker 1>that was her gift to all of them, meaning, or

<v Speaker 1>at least I took it to me. You know, there's

<v Speaker 1>no longer a diva's division. Right before the Divas, you

<v Speaker 1>had women, and then after the Divas they brought back

<v Speaker 1>the women's title. She goes, you can thank me. She says,

<v Speaker 1>I know exactly who the hell I am. And she

<v Speaker 1>wants to fight Bailey and Lyra and Riha and Eo

<v Speaker 1>and the Kabuki Warriors and Judgment Day and Charlotte Flair

<v Speaker 1>and Alexa Bliss, the best of the very best, but

<v Speaker 1>for now all roads lead back to Becky. She doesn't

<v Speaker 1>know why Becky is so mad at her. She's maybe

<v Speaker 1>mad that her merch does better, and she's mad that

<v Speaker 1>the fans like her more. She gave the girl a

<v Speaker 1>ten year head start and she still hasn't caught up.

<v Speaker 1>But she's great. Without Becky, maybe she wouldn't have gotten

<v Speaker 1>back into this ring to prove that she can still

<v Speaker 1>go and to prove that she can still be a champion.

<v Speaker 1>And if she walks out of Chicago victorious, then she

<v Speaker 1>sure is hell going to walk into WrestleMania as the

<v Speaker 1>Intercontinental Champion. And since she knows Becky as her or here,

<v Speaker 1>she knows Becky's in the building, and Becky gave her

<v Speaker 1>such a sweet gift last week. If she wants to

<v Speaker 1>come out to the ring right now, she's got a

<v Speaker 1>little something for that ass. So Becky Lynch came out

<v Speaker 1>only as far as the isleway and said that for

<v Speaker 1>the last ten years she's been making history while AJ's

<v Speaker 1>been making comic books. But if AJ makes it through

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber, she'll be in a full body cast, but

<v Speaker 1>she can type out that she was in the ring

<v Speaker 1>with the best to ever do it. Sports Illustrated says it,

<v Speaker 1>the Bleacher Report says it, everybody says it, and maybe

<v Speaker 1>then that comic book will actually sell. So AJ invited

<v Speaker 1>her into the ring and and come on in, we'll

<v Speaker 1>throw hands right now. Becky made like she was gonna

<v Speaker 1>get in the ring, and then she took her coat off,

<v Speaker 1>and again the fans randomly broke into whooped that trick

<v Speaker 1>chance she stopped short. She said that as soon as

<v Speaker 1>I slide in, I know you're gonna sucker punch me.

<v Speaker 1>So AJ told her she would let her take the

<v Speaker 1>first swing. How about that, I'll give you the first shot.

<v Speaker 1>And so with that, Becky got in the ring, but

<v Speaker 1>she hesitated. Still AJ goaded her. She's telling her, take

<v Speaker 1>your shot. Swing, Becky. Swing. Then she put her hands

<v Speaker 1>behind her back. So she's got her hands behind her

<v Speaker 1>back and she's putting her face out right. She's given

<v Speaker 1>Becky a free shot if she wants to take it.

<v Speaker 1>And Becky says, I know the game you're playing. She

<v Speaker 1>was again trying, like she did last week, a little

<v Speaker 1>too much to just act all crazed here, and she said,

<v Speaker 1>I know the game you're playing. You want me to

<v Speaker 1>beat you up? So bad. You can't even make the

<v Speaker 1>elimination shamer, she said. And as she's saying this, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, no reaction, like there is no reaction outside

<v Speaker 1>of that whoop, that trick chant. There is no reaction

<v Speaker 1>whatsoever to any of this from this audience. And Becky

<v Speaker 1>left the ring and she got some booze for that,

<v Speaker 1>and she said, I don't fight him, Memphis. This was

<v Speaker 1>not great. This was not great. It was kind of sad, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>like this should be considered kind of a big match.

<v Speaker 1>And look, I'm sure in Chicago it's gonna get a

<v Speaker 1>great response and the fans are going to be very

<v Speaker 1>happy to see, especially if she wins the title, which

<v Speaker 1>I think she should. If the idea is for her

<v Speaker 1>to win the championship at some point, then it should

<v Speaker 1>be in Chicago because then she could drop it back

<v Speaker 1>to Becky at Mania and Becky Becky's at least around

<v Speaker 1>and Becky could go on to defend it against somebody else.

<v Speaker 1>If AJ wins did at WrestleMania, when do we see her?

<v Speaker 1>You know what I mean? Like, that's not the purpose

<v Speaker 1>of what these mid card titles are for. They're for

<v Speaker 1>the people who are here right now. So I'd rather

<v Speaker 1>her get her big moment in Chicago and then drop

<v Speaker 1>it back to Becky instead of doing it the other

<v Speaker 1>way around. But yeah, this segment didn't do anything to

<v Speaker 1>get me any more excited to see the two of

<v Speaker 1>them in the ring together. Honestly, I mean it was

<v Speaker 1>just very underwhelming. The backstage, the vision was waiting for

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce and Austin. Theory was very angry with Pierce

<v Speaker 1>for letting his brother Logan Paul get stomped like that.

<v Speaker 1>Hayman tried to calm him down, told him go to

<v Speaker 1>the jet. Go to the jet. Pierce told Hayman, the

<v Speaker 1>mass Man is as much a problem for me as

<v Speaker 1>it is for you and Bronson. Reid stepped up and

<v Speaker 1>told Pierce, when he catches the mass Man, that problem

<v Speaker 1>will be solved, and when he wins the elimination Chamber,

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<v Speaker 1>main event, Triple Threat Elimination Chamber qualifying match. Gunther the ring, General,

<v Speaker 1>Dominic Mysterio and Javon Evans. Dom ducked out to ringside

<v Speaker 1>right off the bat here he did not want to

<v Speaker 1>have any part of this, so he left the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Once Gunther had Evans in the corner, Dom stepped in

<v Speaker 1>front of him. He chopped Javan and Dom tells gun Thro,

<v Speaker 1>I'm only trying to help you out. And then Dom

<v Speaker 1>made a very very big mistake by chopping Gunther and

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why you would do that, but that's

<v Speaker 1>what he chose to do. And gun there, of course

<v Speaker 1>no sould it. He dropped Dom with a big chop

<v Speaker 1>of his own. He continued to work him over out

<v Speaker 1>on the floor Evans. As these two were fighting outside,

<v Speaker 1>over by the timekeeper's barricade, Evans does this huge dive

<v Speaker 1>out over the ring post and crashes onto both men

<v Speaker 1>and from there actually, in doing so, he knocked Gunther

<v Speaker 1>over the barricade and into the timekeepers area. Once Gunther recovered, though,

<v Speaker 1>he started putting a beating on Dom outside and then

<v Speaker 1>they went to a break come back from break, they

<v Speaker 1>showed during the commercial, Dom went over to the timekeeper

<v Speaker 1>and took the ring bell hammer. And the ring bell

<v Speaker 1>hammer is now laying on the ring steps, so they

<v Speaker 1>made it a point to let us know that, so

<v Speaker 1>you knew it was going to come into play later

<v Speaker 1>on in the match. So I thought maybe he put

<v Speaker 1>it in his boot, but then they showed a shot

<v Speaker 1>of it laying on the steps, so that's where the

<v Speaker 1>hammer is. It's not hammer time yet. Gunther there got

<v Speaker 1>a power bomb on Javon with a high stack only

<v Speaker 1>for a near fall, So some fans tried this was funny.

<v Speaker 1>I've talked about the lack of reactions up and down

<v Speaker 1>the card here, and you know, the match is going

<v Speaker 1>along here and the match is fine, nothing special, and

<v Speaker 1>some fans in the crowd attempted to start a this

<v Speaker 1>is awesome chant, which of course is one of the

<v Speaker 1>most overused and abused chance at all of wrestling. They

<v Speaker 1>chanted when we were seeing something awesome. They chanted when

<v Speaker 1>something is not awesome. They chanted during their commercial breaks.

<v Speaker 1>They chanted as they're coming into the building. They chanted

<v Speaker 1>as they're leaving the building. They chanted as they just went,

<v Speaker 1>you know, fifteen seconds with their girlfriend in bed. They

<v Speaker 1>chant at all different times. It means nothing at this point,

<v Speaker 1>but they started to chant this is awesome, and it

<v Speaker 1>just because it wasn't awesome, and most of the crowd

<v Speaker 1>knew that, and so it very quickly died out. I

<v Speaker 1>think they were hoping it would spread like a virus,

<v Speaker 1>and it did not. It was extinguished rather quickly. So

<v Speaker 1>Gunther was in control. He was chopping this shit out

<v Speaker 1>of both of these guys. Evans took him down with

<v Speaker 1>a kick to the back of the neck. The red dot,

<v Speaker 1>which is that twisting kick that he does off the ropes,

<v Speaker 1>takes down Dom Gunther. He busted out this wicked chop

<v Speaker 1>right to the back of Javan's neck, but he lands

<v Speaker 1>on his feet on the release. German does Javon and

<v Speaker 1>he takes Guntherer down with a running knee into a pin.

<v Speaker 1>Dom breaks it up. So later on, Evans took Gunther

<v Speaker 1>down with a springboard crossbody to some light applause. He

<v Speaker 1>went up top. Gunther cut him off, but he knocked

<v Speaker 1>Gunther back down and he took to the sky high moon.

<v Speaker 1>Saul lands on his feet right into the sleeper by Gunther,

<v Speaker 1>but Evans hits a jawbreaker and he breaks the hold.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, aj Styles might still have an active career

<v Speaker 1>if he would have thought of that. Who knew all

<v Speaker 1>he had to do is just fall down and just

<v Speaker 1>jammed the top of his head up into Gunther's chin,

<v Speaker 1>and he could have broken the sleeper hole. He'd still

<v Speaker 1>be wrestling, he'd be going to WrestleMania instead. He's going

<v Speaker 1>to his retirement ceremony next week. So now Javan goes

<v Speaker 1>for the og cutter, and you know when he goes

<v Speaker 1>off the top rope, he's basically sailing backwards. He flies

<v Speaker 1>backwards off the top right into the clutches of Gunther,

<v Speaker 1>who gets him in the sleeperhold again. Now he's got

<v Speaker 1>him down on the mat, but it's in a position

<v Speaker 1>where Gunther has basically his back is exposed and Dom

<v Speaker 1>sees this, and Dom comes off the top with a

<v Speaker 1>frog splash right across Gunther's back to break the hold.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther ended up in the ropes in the position for

<v Speaker 1>a six one nine. Dom went forward, but he got

<v Speaker 1>his head taken off with a lariat by Gunther. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>Dom took possession though of the ring bell hammer, while

<v Speaker 1>Gunther took Evans down with a sayudo suplex and a

<v Speaker 1>boot sends Dom off the apron to the floor. Gunther

<v Speaker 1>follows him outside. He knows that this little prick has

<v Speaker 1>the hammer, so he reaches down and he takes possession

<v Speaker 1>of the ring bell hammer. So now gun as if

<v Speaker 1>guntherre needs a hammer, but now he's got a fucking

<v Speaker 1>hammer in his hand. And you can hear a little

<v Speaker 1>bit of a commotion in the crowd to at least

<v Speaker 1>as much to indicate that, okay, someone is about to

<v Speaker 1>show up here, but it wasn't like an overwhelming reaction.

<v Speaker 1>And then the camera pans over and it's Dragon Lee

<v Speaker 1>and Dragon Lee has possession of the ring bell. He's

<v Speaker 1>standing on top of the timekeeper's barricade and he comes

<v Speaker 1>diving off and he hits gun Through in the head

<v Speaker 1>with the bell to what. As I said earlier, the

<v Speaker 1>best way I could describe it was like a negative pop.

<v Speaker 1>It just got a hilariously awful reaction for a spot

<v Speaker 1>like that, either because people maybe didn't know who it was.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there are a lot of mass men on

<v Speaker 1>this show now, and it's not like Dragon Lee is

<v Speaker 1>featured prominently every single week. More likely they just didn't care.

<v Speaker 1>But yeah, he got no reaction. Big spot like this

<v Speaker 1>climactic moment of the match, got no reaction. But he

<v Speaker 1>knocks Gunther down to the mat or to the floor

<v Speaker 1>back inside six to one nine from Dom to Javon.

<v Speaker 1>He goes for the frog splash. Nobody's home. Evans then

<v Speaker 1>comes off the top with an og cutter and he

<v Speaker 1>drops him with it, and he covers Dom and he

<v Speaker 1>gets the pin as he should have, and Javon Evans

<v Speaker 1>has punched his ticket to the elimination. Shame, He's going

<v Speaker 1>to be one of these six participants in that match.

<v Speaker 1>Good good. This was the right outcome and that did

<v Speaker 1>get a good reaction from the crowd. They were happy

<v Speaker 1>to see Javon win. There were probably a lot of

<v Speaker 1>people in that crowd too, not just this chat, but

<v Speaker 1>in the crowd who thought, well, Gumpro is gonna win,

<v Speaker 1>of course, right, And so when he didn't, they were

<v Speaker 1>surprised and they were very happy. He's gonna make that

<v Speaker 1>match more fun, you know. Yes, he does a lot

<v Speaker 1>of high risk stuff and flippy dippy do stuff. Sure

<v Speaker 1>he's the bouncy but it's in his fucking nickname. He

<v Speaker 1>calls himself the bouncy boy. In a match like this,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure there'll be some innovative cool stuff he thinks of,

<v Speaker 1>hanging from the ceiling or whatever he does, like Spider

<v Speaker 1>Man or something. He'll make the match more fun. You

<v Speaker 1>got Cody Rhodes, you got Randy Orton, you got La Knight.

<v Speaker 1>You got all of these like established older guys in

<v Speaker 1>the match, right. Randy is forty something years old, Cody

<v Speaker 1>is forty years old, La Knight's forty two or forty

<v Speaker 1>three years old, and then here's Javon Evans at twenty one.

<v Speaker 1>You gotta have some fucking youth in this match. So

<v Speaker 1>I'm happy he made it in there. He'll make the

<v Speaker 1>match more fun. And Gunther can go off now and

<v Speaker 1>have a match with Dragonly and you could do that

<v Speaker 1>at elimination chamber. I mean they may not. You know,

<v Speaker 1>four match pl ees. You're not allowed to do that

<v Speaker 1>for match Paul. So if they don't do it an

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber, they could do it on Raw and Gunther

<v Speaker 1>will destroy Dragonly And then the question becomes, what do

<v Speaker 1>you do with gun through a WrestleMania. It's been a

<v Speaker 1>real question, like there's no obvious opponent for him if

<v Speaker 1>he is if we assume he is not getting in

<v Speaker 1>the ring of WrestleMania with brock Lesner, and there really

<v Speaker 1>is nobody for him to retire. That's been his whole gimmick,

<v Speaker 1>and I think that needs to stop, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>not that he shouldn't have another one of those matches

<v Speaker 1>where he tries to retire somebody at some point, but

<v Speaker 1>you can't do every single fucking match where he's trying

<v Speaker 1>to retire somebody unless you put him in the ring

<v Speaker 1>with Eli. You know from back state, he can retire Eli.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe whoever pops out out of the crate an elimination

<v Speaker 1>chamber will be his opponent. I don't know Juan Sina,

<v Speaker 1>but like I'm looking at the roster and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I mean, you would assume he'd be

<v Speaker 1>in there with a legend. People have suggested guntherro and

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton. I don't want to see that match, and

<v Speaker 1>we've gotten it before, we have seen that before. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I don't. I don't And again, is supposed to be

<v Speaker 1>legend killer against career killer. Like that does nothing for me.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to see that. So what are you

<v Speaker 1>left with? Like, he's a raw guy. You look at

<v Speaker 1>the raw roster, who do you got? Dragon Lee's tag

<v Speaker 1>team partner was aj Styles. He's already been retired, right,

<v Speaker 1>so you can't go with him, raymisterio, I don't care

<v Speaker 1>for that either. Is that what we're looking at here?

<v Speaker 1>It's possible that doesn't get me excited for WrestleMania. I'm sorry,

<v Speaker 1>but I'll tell you what. You know. One thing that

<v Speaker 1>was very clear though from watching this show, it's like

<v Speaker 1>a night at the opera watching Raw on most weeks,

<v Speaker 1>you know, you go to the or the library, take

<v Speaker 1>your pick, the opera or the library where people go

<v Speaker 1>and they're dead silent for most of the show because

<v Speaker 1>they're just not invested in the way that you would

<v Speaker 1>want them to be invested in. These stories you could

<v Speaker 1>tell just by watching the show. When the show is

<v Speaker 1>hot and when it's not. It's not hot. Right now,

<v Speaker 1>it's not. It's been ice cold for a while. And

<v Speaker 1>they're very lucky they still do the business that they

<v Speaker 1>do because there was a point in time, many many

<v Speaker 1>years ago where when the product was not hot, business

<v Speaker 1>was not hot, and they were fighting for their lives

<v Speaker 1>and they didn't have guaranteed millions and billions of dollars

<v Speaker 1>from Netflix and NBCUniversal and all these different companies coming

<v Speaker 1>in now they do. It's just a very different world.

<v Speaker 1>It's a very different media landscape, very different business. But

<v Speaker 1>you could just tell them just watch the show. You

<v Speaker 1>feel it, you hear it, you see it. And we're

<v Speaker 1>heading into what should be the biggest show of the year.

<v Speaker 1>We talk about the road to WrestleMania, and it should

<v Speaker 1>feel like the road to WrestleMania, and it doesn't yet.

<v Speaker 1>There's still time. There's two months to go until WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>We're not there yet. WrestleMania is as late as it

<v Speaker 1>has ever been in that third week in April, so

<v Speaker 1>we got two months for them to you know, hopefully

<v Speaker 1>shape up and start moving the pieces where they belong.

<v Speaker 1>We know now in the elimination chamber it's going to

<v Speaker 1>be Cody Rhoads, Randy Orton, La Knight, Javon Evans. Two

<v Speaker 1>spots remain. We have a match this Friday, Damian Priest,

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. It's either going to be

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest or Trick Williams. I think it should be

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams because we have the same issue. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I think it should be Trick regardless. But to go

<v Speaker 1>back to what I said earlier about the women's chamber,

<v Speaker 1>it is dominated by babyfaces and you got to get

<v Speaker 1>some heels in there. And Trick Williams has been putting

<v Speaker 1>in some good work on SmackDown. I mean the people.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like the people actually like him, but you know,

<v Speaker 1>he's still a heel and he knows how to get heat,

<v Speaker 1>and you know he's all full of himself and cocky

<v Speaker 1>and arrogant. Trick Williams should absolutely be in the elimination chamber,

<v Speaker 1>and I think you will be. And so then that

<v Speaker 1>leaves one spot open, and now we know it's either

<v Speaker 1>going to be Bronson, Reid, Jay Usso or Chad Gable

<v Speaker 1>as El Grande Americano. Gable is not going to the

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber, so we're left with two realistic options here.

<v Speaker 1>Bronson Reid should be in that match. Again, he's a heel.

<v Speaker 1>They could use heels. I'm just looking at this going

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get the mass Man next week, and the

<v Speaker 1>mass Man is going to fuck him over, and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna get Jay Usso in the elimination chamber. That's what

<v Speaker 1>it feels like to me. That's what it feels like

<v Speaker 1>to me. I think I think we're looking at Cody Rhoads,

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton, l A. Knight, Javon Evans, Trick Williams, and

<v Speaker 1>Jay us So. I think that's how the elimination chamber

<v Speaker 1>shapes up, which would mean Trick Williams would be the

<v Speaker 1>only heel in the elimination chamber. So it looks like

<v Speaker 1>that's how it's stacking up right now. But this show

<v Speaker 1>is largely a bore, very boring show. No good main event,

<v Speaker 1>but very boring show. And I'm just sitting here waiting

<v Speaker 1>for this Road to WrestleMania to actually start showing some

<v Speaker 1>signs of life. Next week should be interesting. We have

<v Speaker 1>Brock Lesnar on the show, so we'll get some indication

<v Speaker 1>of what his WrestleMania direction is going to look like.

<v Speaker 1>And AJ Styles is going to be back, and they're

<v Speaker 1>going to have some sort of tribute ceremony to AJ Styles.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that's going to look like. If

<v Speaker 1>it's going to be a Rick Flair thing from two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and eight where they trot out a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>surprise faces, people from TNA. Oh my god, can you

<v Speaker 1>imagine Dixie Carter shows up next week? We don't need that,

<v Speaker 1>but maybe they'll trot out people from AJ's past. And

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I'm interested to see it. Because he

<v Speaker 1>retired and there was no fanfare, they didn't do anything.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't show up on the next show. It's like

<v Speaker 1>it can't end like that, right, I mean, unless he's gone,

<v Speaker 1>you know, unless he's getting out of there, which is

<v Speaker 1>still possible. By the way, we don't know what his

<v Speaker 1>contract status is, so I guess, you know, they decided

<v Speaker 1>to wait until they went to his home state. They're

<v Speaker 1>going to be in Georgia next week and I am

<v Speaker 1>looking forward to that, and then we'll have two more

<v Speaker 1>qualifying matches for the elimination chambers. So that's how Raw

<v Speaker 1>is shaping up for next week. Jay lays everyone out

<v Speaker 1>with super kicks and then runs it back inside the chamber.

<v Speaker 1>Says a deputy dog, did you break into the WWE

<v Speaker 1>creative offices? Because I think that sounds like something they

<v Speaker 1>would have up on the whiteboard. Jay takes everyone out

<v Speaker 1>of runs it back inside the chamber. What did you

<v Speaker 1>think of Raw tonight from Memphis and the Twitter? Paul,

<v Speaker 1>look at this razor thin margins here. Forty nine point

<v Speaker 1>six percent thumbs up, fifty point four percent thumbs down

<v Speaker 1>thumbs down is winning at this point? Frankly, I think

<v Speaker 1>that thumbs downscores should be a lot higher than that.

<v Speaker 1>But it's a it's a virtual tie at this point.

<v Speaker 1>If you want to vote at Solo, Monsters the place

<v Speaker 1>where you can go to to do so, gonna be

<v Speaker 1>a lot of yeating in the elimination chamber this year,

<v Speaker 1>Solo will be hammered before the chamber review begins. If

<v Speaker 1>Jay runs it back, I'm gonna run back the liquor.

<v Speaker 1>If he runs it back, That's what I'm gonna do.

<v Speaker 1>But it does feel that way, doesn't it. Jay uso

<v Speaker 1>over Bronton Reid because the Mystery Man or the mass

<v Speaker 1>Man focks over read next week. That's what it feels

<v Speaker 1>like to me. I mean, think about it, think about

<v Speaker 1>it right. The mass Man screwed Bronze Breaker out of

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. The mass Man screwed Austin Theory out

<v Speaker 1>of an elimination chamber spot. Last week, the mass Man

<v Speaker 1>stomped Logan Paul Tonight. There's only one person left outside

<v Speaker 1>of Hayman. There's only one person left to be screwed,

<v Speaker 1>Bronton Reid. That's next week. Hey, Joseph, what's going on?

<v Speaker 1>Joseph says, rest in peace. Robert Duval yes to wait

<v Speaker 1>today at the age of ninety five. Robert Duval from

<v Speaker 1>The Godfather among many other movies. His Happy fortieth anniversary

<v Speaker 1>to the Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which was

<v Speaker 1>released on this day in nineteen eighty six. You know,

<v Speaker 1>the Mets won a World Series in nineteen eighty six.

<v Speaker 1>The Mets have not won one since. Sure would be

<v Speaker 1>nice if we could change that this year. And Colin

<v Speaker 1>Farrell almost played Batman in the early two thousands. I

<v Speaker 1>did not know that. Buy or sell. Michael Jackson or

<v Speaker 1>Prince Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston or Madonna. Oh, I like

<v Speaker 1>him both, but I gotta go Madonna on that one.

<v Speaker 1>Joseph says, what is the difference between Triple H's booking

<v Speaker 1>and Vince McMahon's booking. I never saw Vince McMahon use

<v Speaker 1>this many mass men before. Vince was the opposite. Vince

<v Speaker 1>wanted them to take their mask off because this used

<v Speaker 1>to say this is their moneymaker. What is the difference

<v Speaker 1>between Tony Kahn's booking and Triple H's booking. Tony Kahn

<v Speaker 1>would not have a mystery crate on his television show,

<v Speaker 1>but if he did, I'm sure he would put a

<v Speaker 1>belt on it. Where do you rank Vince McMahon's theme song.

<v Speaker 1>I don't rank it anywhere. I like. It doesn't rank

<v Speaker 1>in the top ten or anything. For me, I'm a

<v Speaker 1>fan of it though, Joseph, thank you. I smoke a

<v Speaker 1>lot of weed dollars ninety nine. Ever, consider going live

<v Speaker 1>for the sound of No, that's what these streams are for.

<v Speaker 1>Could be a special show at some point, it would

<v Speaker 1>have to be like a special occasion, but week to

<v Speaker 1>week now, No, there's no point. Dried Chicken says, here's

<v Speaker 1>a WRESTLEMANI a forty two spoiler. Cody Rhodes wins back

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Championship with mixed reactions with the crowd in

<v Speaker 1>Las Vegas. I'm gonna say it's more negative than Mick

<v Speaker 1>than like down the Middle. Phil says, Okay, nothing against

<v Speaker 1>speaking Spanish, but why don't they ever put subtitles when

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Viquier is speaking Spanish. I don't know. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't have an issue. I mean, if they want

<v Speaker 1>her to cut an impassion promo in Spanish, that's fine,

<v Speaker 1>But like you know, whenever they have like the Kabuki

<v Speaker 1>Warriors or you know, Knock a Moor cutting promos in

<v Speaker 1>another language, it's usually pre taped. I mean that was

<v Speaker 1>pre taped too. I mean that wasn't live, so I

<v Speaker 1>mean they could have done the same thing there if

<v Speaker 1>they wanted to. And I don't know, I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>If you want to know what she said, though, I

<v Speaker 1>guess you can go to the YouTube channel. Uh OMG,

<v Speaker 1>it's winky Jericho is in that box right. I'm telling you, man,

<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be it's gonna be a sad sad state

<v Speaker 1>of affairs when they pry that crate open and they

<v Speaker 1>Jericho's body is just laying in their pale and stiff

<v Speaker 1>as a board. The riga mortis has set in. Forgot

<v Speaker 1>the poke holes in it. They didn't leave any food

<v Speaker 1>or water inside. Twelve days at least could be longer

<v Speaker 1>for all we know. Twelve days locked in a box

<v Speaker 1>so stupid, Like obviously someone is gonna hop out of

<v Speaker 1>that box, and it's just it's just so stupid. Look,

<v Speaker 1>it's a hook, it's a hook for the for the plee,

<v Speaker 1>but it's just so stupid. Uh Nikolai Cage and that's

<v Speaker 1>a cool name. If Brock is in a qualifier next week,

<v Speaker 1>could Oba get involved and cost him the match? It

<v Speaker 1>would be revenge for the rumble. No, Brock is not

<v Speaker 1>wrestling on TV and Oba. There's no point in Noba

<v Speaker 1>looking to get revenge because Oba Oba has been on

<v Speaker 1>television since then, and Oba doesn't seem terribly angry about anything.

<v Speaker 1>Oba has a multimillion dollar contract, two of them that

<v Speaker 1>have been put in front of him from the two

<v Speaker 1>general managers. He's too busy worrying about which brand he's

<v Speaker 1>gonna sign with. We We've already moved beyond him having

<v Speaker 1>any sort of animosity towards Brock for eliminating him. So

<v Speaker 1>it just it doesn't work, super Pony. This show has

<v Speaker 1>broken me. Tonight La has been feuding with the Vision

<v Speaker 1>since June. It's fucking February. Stop with the hooded figure attacks.

<v Speaker 1>La Night has been feuding with the Vision for almost

<v Speaker 1>a year. We just had groundhog Day a few weeks ago.

<v Speaker 1>Every week on this show feels like groundhog Day. Electric feel.

<v Speaker 1>I was hard on the Vision last week, so I

<v Speaker 1>want them to be fair and give them their flowers

<v Speaker 1>this week. Thank you for shutting down the yeat chance,

<v Speaker 1>I said. The most shocking part of the show is

<v Speaker 1>the Vision turning babyface and the opening segment on the show.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't see that coming. That was a nice surprise.

<v Speaker 1>Joseph triple fraud only idea is masked men. He makes

<v Speaker 1>Russo look smart. Also new name, call him fall Guy,

<v Speaker 1>Theory little food pun. I've been calling him the fall

<v Speaker 1>Guy since he came back. It's exactly what he is,

<v Speaker 1>but at least he gets to ride on the jet now.

<v Speaker 1>Lebryan starting to notice more that the crowds, especially in

<v Speaker 1>the US, seem to be more quiet often. Why do

<v Speaker 1>you feel this keeps recurring? You know, I could think

<v Speaker 1>of a few reasons why. First of all, you don't know,

<v Speaker 1>we don't know how the audience has changed yet. With

<v Speaker 1>the ticket prices being what they are, there are definitely

<v Speaker 1>people who would normally come to these shows who just

<v Speaker 1>are not coming to the shows anymore. They can't afford it.

<v Speaker 1>They can't afford it. The prices are too outrageous. They're

<v Speaker 1>not paying it, they're not bringing their family to the show.

<v Speaker 1>So other people buy those tickets, people who are more

<v Speaker 1>well off, right, they could afford the tickets. But I

<v Speaker 1>feel like it's just it's just a different demographic. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, if they're just more casual, I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but I do think there are changes

<v Speaker 1>that are happening right now because of the high ticket prices.

<v Speaker 1>But it's not just the ticket prices, right it's the

<v Speaker 1>fact that creative sucks. It's not good right now. It's

<v Speaker 1>not good. It's very boring, very uninspired, very paint by numbers.

<v Speaker 1>You're not giving people something to really cheer for and

<v Speaker 1>get truly excited about. And so it's a combination of

<v Speaker 1>those two things, and that has what I believe, has

<v Speaker 1>led to these reactions being what they are. It's very noticeable.

<v Speaker 1>That's why I brought it up. This is not an

<v Speaker 1>isolated thing where it's the city every now and then

<v Speaker 1>that city. No, this is like a weekly occurrence. Now

<v Speaker 1>you'll get the odd city where it's like, man, that

<v Speaker 1>was a great crowd, but it seems to be few

<v Speaker 1>and far between at this point, like the norm is

<v Speaker 1>what you saw tonight. I don't even blame the fans

<v Speaker 1>for it. It's not their fault. If the fans wanted

<v Speaker 1>to cheer for something, it had something to really go

<v Speaker 1>crazy for and cheer for and get excited about, they

<v Speaker 1>would do it. But they don't. There's a message there.

<v Speaker 1>Is it being received? I would hope so, I would hope.

<v Speaker 1>So see no indications so far that it's being received.

<v Speaker 1>But yes, it is very noticeable. All those people that would,

<v Speaker 1>you know, bring signs or would go crazy, and to me,

<v Speaker 1>those are the hardcore, die hard fans, and I do

<v Speaker 1>feel like they're chasing a lot of them away now

<v Speaker 1>if they just get replaced with somebody else who's willing

<v Speaker 1>to pay those prices and wwe doesn't care. But to me,

<v Speaker 1>that's the heart and soul of your company. They are

<v Speaker 1>killing the heart and soul of their company. Take with

<v Speaker 1>a five dollars Australian super chow. When I first saw

<v Speaker 1>the crate pull up, I'm now convinced vince is still

<v Speaker 1>booking the show through Bruce or triple fraud, and nobody

<v Speaker 1>is going to tell me otherwise. It is a very

<v Speaker 1>Vincey Vincey gimmick. Paul Van Summer and the crowd was

<v Speaker 1>dead for aj Lee and Becky, not a grats and

<v Speaker 1>not just aj Lee and Becky. Eventually the crowd will

<v Speaker 1>be replaced by AI robots. You know what, I don't

<v Speaker 1>think we're too far off from something like that, where

<v Speaker 1>they can manipulate crowd reactions to be whatever they want

<v Speaker 1>it to be. AI is advancing so fast, would you

<v Speaker 1>really be all that surprise at some point if you know,

<v Speaker 1>even in like highlight packages and stuff, if they started

<v Speaker 1>experimenting with that, would we even know the difference. If

<v Speaker 1>the technology, even as it exists now, existed five or

<v Speaker 1>six years ago when they were doing those COVID shows

<v Speaker 1>in front of no people, I think they would be

<v Speaker 1>toying around with AI and playing around with stuff like that.

<v Speaker 1>I think they'd be very tempted to try that. The

<v Speaker 1>only thing is AI doesn't pay money for tickets. You

<v Speaker 1>still have to get people to pay money to come

<v Speaker 1>to the shows. AI ain't gonna help you there, Jedi

<v Speaker 1>Joker says, Yo Solo, what's up? Don't super chat much,

<v Speaker 1>but I do listen and watch. I work third shift,

<v Speaker 1>and the product is more digestible when I don't have

<v Speaker 1>to watch and you cover it. Thank you for making

<v Speaker 1>work fly by quick. Well that's why I'm here. I

<v Speaker 1>watch so you don't have to if you don't want to,

<v Speaker 1>or if you want to, but you only want to

<v Speaker 1>know about the good stuff. I'll let you know what's

<v Speaker 1>good and what's not. A lot of people don't have time.

<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of wrestling, too much wrestling for some

<v Speaker 1>people only so many hours in a day. They can't

<v Speaker 1>watch it all, and so they rely on reviews and

<v Speaker 1>you know, streams like this. Sometimes these streams are more

<v Speaker 1>interesting than the television show for me too, And I'm

<v Speaker 1>the one hosting it. Tonight I think is one of

<v Speaker 1>those nights. But thank you, Jedi, I appreciate that. MGM

<v Speaker 1>Ball and the heat on La Night went on for

<v Speaker 1>so long because Triple xl knows was getting off to

<v Speaker 1>him looking weak, so he forgot to give the ref

<v Speaker 1>the que. Also possible he yieded himself during that entrance.

<v Speaker 1>Phil Bad Bunny in the Box, Yeah, I doubt that

<v Speaker 1>there might be a bunny in there. Again, the bunny

<v Speaker 1>would be dead at this point, but not bad Bunny,

<v Speaker 1>Alex says brother solo. I'm currently watching Summer Slim ninety five,

<v Speaker 1>specifically the Undertaker and Godfather casket match, and I'm thoroughly

<v Speaker 1>enjoying this show from thirty years ago more than today's raw,

<v Speaker 1>unreal shit. You and me both, I spend quite a

<v Speaker 1>bit of time on the vault, and it's said, it

<v Speaker 1>is said when you get more enjoyment out of watching

<v Speaker 1>that stuff, then, like I see a new video pop up,

<v Speaker 1>and especially if it's like a rare one or like

<v Speaker 1>a rare you know, coliseum video or something, and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>like the joy that overcomes me. I wish, I wish,

<v Speaker 1>Like even going back like two years when they were

<v Speaker 1>building to wrestle Mania of forty, we had weeks like

<v Speaker 1>that where Yeah, I was truly excited to tune into

<v Speaker 1>the show and see what was gonna happen, and I

<v Speaker 1>missed that feeling. You know, we hear people, We've heard

<v Speaker 1>people in the past, like with aw talk about restoring

<v Speaker 1>the feeling right I wish we could restore the feeling

<v Speaker 1>here too. I'm waiting for them to restore the feeling

<v Speaker 1>right now. The feeling is not there. I have no feeling.

<v Speaker 1>Uh Chicago for MBK says thank you for making this point.

<v Speaker 1>People like winners winning matters, And Natty doesn't even have

<v Speaker 1>the crowd behind her like La Knight. No she does

<v Speaker 1>not know she does not. But again, if you're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have this woman undergo this character transformation again, they're just

<v Speaker 1>they're so lazy with this stuff. It just drives me nuts.

<v Speaker 1>Commit to it, commit to it, or don't do it,

<v Speaker 1>but they just ay half ass it. Okay, sure, we'll

<v Speaker 1>change the music up a little bit, change a little

<v Speaker 1>you know, the camera shop, we'll change that, will change this,

<v Speaker 1>and then we'll proceed to book you exactly the way

<v Speaker 1>we've always booked you and do absolutely nothing different, and

<v Speaker 1>then wonder why nobody responds to it. Depv to Dust,

<v Speaker 1>I hate the Saint Louis Cardinals, me too, Phil So

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty three, when Hinske was facing Cody Rhodes,

<v Speaker 1>he got subtitles for his Japanese promos, But when Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>speaks Spanish, we're supposed to figure it out. Apparently. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>very weird because it went on for a while. It

<v Speaker 1>wasn't like some throwaway lines. It was like at least

<v Speaker 1>a minute long. And then her and Dom are just

<v Speaker 1>sort of arguing, and I'm like, I'm looking live and

<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at Michael Cole and they'd have no fucking

<v Speaker 1>idea what's going on, And I'm like, I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't get it either. I don't know. But Phil,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for the nine ninety nine. It's very much appreciated. Doubles.

<v Speaker 1>Can Gunther retire Dave Meltzer? Now that would be a

<v Speaker 1>very interesting match Dave. Dave's probably got bigger arms than

<v Speaker 1>some of the people on the actual WWE roster. I

<v Speaker 1>wonder what a Dave Meltzer chop would look like. MGM Ballin.

<v Speaker 1>Did we ignore that Penta was the one that took

<v Speaker 1>out Gable Americano or am I missing something? No? Nope.

<v Speaker 1>Gable talked about the rotator cuff injury being caused by Penton.

<v Speaker 1>He went away for a surgery and it's water under

<v Speaker 1>the bridge. Now it's all good now, Kristen. Inside the

<v Speaker 1>box is the Great Horned Rat or a v tuber

<v Speaker 1>the Great Horned Rat like the rat King. You know,

<v Speaker 1>we had a giant box once on SmackDown many years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Undertaker was in his big evil phase and he opened it.

<v Speaker 1>And I want to say, was Brother Love in the box?

<v Speaker 1>I know there was a dog. I remember there being

<v Speaker 1>a dog. I don't remember. I think Brother Love was.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, can you imagine Brother Love? They put

<v Speaker 1>fucking Bruce in the box. You keep them locked in there?

<v Speaker 1>My god, Brother Love is gonna pop out of the box.

<v Speaker 1>Was Kanyon, Chris Kanyon. It was a Teddy Bear and

<v Speaker 1>a dog m it was a puppy in one and

<v Speaker 1>Brother Love and it there were two boxes. Wow, they

<v Speaker 1>had two boxes. And don't forget what Undertaker did to Kenya. No,

<v Speaker 1>I haven't forgotten that that chair shot. That was pretty sickening.

<v Speaker 1>The Great Collie is with us. So the cret Man

<v Speaker 1>is either David Blaine doing a stunt or Chris Jericho's

<v Speaker 1>decomposing cadaver laid in a heap with a half eaten

<v Speaker 1>light up jacket. It would be funny if like one

<v Speaker 1>of the lights of the jacket worked and it was

<v Speaker 1>like flickering, very morbid. He dead, decompose corpse of Chris

<v Speaker 1>Jericho inside the box at elimination chamber, Toya Ate Nice says,

<v Speaker 1>thank you, mass Man and looking forward to seeing Evans

<v Speaker 1>in the chamber. Yes, I am too. Dried Chicken says

<v Speaker 1>raw tonight is like having a sponge cake no icing

<v Speaker 1>Barry MK. What if the box is just about WWE

<v Speaker 1>two K twenty six, Well, now that would be pretty

<v Speaker 1>fucking stupid, wouldn't it. That would be very dumb. What

<v Speaker 1>exactly would be in the box that would be related

<v Speaker 1>to two K twenty six. I don't even understand what

<v Speaker 1>would be in the box, Dried chickens says Michael ps

<v Speaker 1>Hazy likes these great ideas to know. He's on the squad. There,

<v Speaker 1>He's on the team. So I'm going to knock on

<v Speaker 1>the BWE Creative teams door and give them some plain salad.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah you do that? They could probably use one. Blue

<v Speaker 1>Jay says a shout out to JD from mentioning you

<v Speaker 1>in the show with coach. Yeah, he was a coaching bro.

<v Speaker 1>I believe it was the show. But he sat in

<v Speaker 1>on the show with coach Coachman the other day shout

<v Speaker 1>out or a great show there, alex I'm gonna lose

<v Speaker 1>it if inside the crate it ends up being the

<v Speaker 1>revealing of the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal trophy. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm just trying to think, if it's not

<v Speaker 1>a person, which again would be pretty silly, what sort

<v Speaker 1>of object would be in the crate. I mean, a

<v Speaker 1>trophy would actually kind of make sense, But I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. See, it is what they want. They

<v Speaker 1>want people to be asking questions about this, and they

<v Speaker 1>want people they want to drum up a discussion about it.

<v Speaker 1>So Alexander says, you'd think with all the non English

<v Speaker 1>talent they hire, WWE would pay the best English teachers

<v Speaker 1>for the talents. It would benefit vicaire EO, Julia, etc. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, as far as I know, I believe most,

<v Speaker 1>if not all, of them, I think, are already taking

<v Speaker 1>English lessons and they may be doing it on their own,

<v Speaker 1>though I don't think they're doing it through WWE. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean with the emphasis on promos in this company,

<v Speaker 1>it's a priority, like when you're working for WWE more

<v Speaker 1>than probably any other company out there. It's something where

<v Speaker 1>it will hinder I feel like, your advancement if you're

<v Speaker 1>not able to cut promos in English on TV. And

<v Speaker 1>some people can get past it if they're like just

<v Speaker 1>a super talent, super charismatic. Look at EO promos are

<v Speaker 1>not great. You know, she does the best she can,

<v Speaker 1>but they're not they're not her strong suit. But she

<v Speaker 1>gets over and people love her because she's just fucking

<v Speaker 1>fun to watch and she's got this infectious positive personality

<v Speaker 1>and she's super charismatic. Not everybody is like that, you know, Stephanie.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like Stephanie has struggled, and not just because

<v Speaker 1>of that, I mean just it's it's still weird the

<v Speaker 1>way they've they've booked her. She's had this championship now

<v Speaker 1>for months. It's just been it's been very forgettable, you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's it's not been a great run. Super Pony La

<v Speaker 1>Night against Brocklesner in its entirety German German German BFT

<v Speaker 1>Out of Nowhere, Kickout German, German German F five matchover Well,

<v Speaker 1>you just basically gave us the entire WrestleMania match. You've

<v Speaker 1>spoiled WrestleMania super Pony. What is it is Evil in

<v Speaker 1>the box from New Japan. They shipped him over to

<v Speaker 1>the States. There. You take him. If they open that

<v Speaker 1>crate and evil is in the crate, that's the reaction

<v Speaker 1>if evil is in the crate. Cameron Spencer FBI was

<v Speaker 1>my favorite group in the two thousands. They should have

<v Speaker 1>been used as a top as the top group in WWA.

<v Speaker 1>Nunzio should have been a world champion and they could

<v Speaker 1>have dominated. Now you see, this is a perfect example

<v Speaker 1>of what happens when raw is shit. Unfortunately, you have

<v Speaker 1>people like Cameron who hit the sauce a little early

<v Speaker 1>in the night and drink a little too much, and

<v Speaker 1>then they drop a super chat like that talking about

<v Speaker 1>how the FBI should have been the top faction in WWA.

<v Speaker 1>Ravens Fan ninety four with a nine ninety nine. WWE's

<v Speaker 1>number one problem is the fact that nothing is fun.

<v Speaker 1>There's nobody that makes you smile when you see them

<v Speaker 1>on TV, like a Kelly Kelly or a Santino. I

<v Speaker 1>know they're not the best wrestlers, but they were fun characters. Well,

<v Speaker 1>somebody just mentioned him in the chat. You know who

<v Speaker 1>was fun. Not a top guy or anything like that,

<v Speaker 1>but you know who's fun and probably is going to

<v Speaker 1>be coming to WWE, Dan Housen. Dan Housen can be

<v Speaker 1>pretty fun. I think Dan Hausen is in the crate.

<v Speaker 1>You know that is a possibility. His contract is supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be up around now. Dan Housen is a very

<v Speaker 1>real possibility. Navy forty one eighty one. Vince McMahon wrote

<v Speaker 1>storylines thanks to creative control. Triple H write storylines thanks

<v Speaker 1>to Control C. Well said, well, control C and then

<v Speaker 1>control V. I wish I could control all delete this show.

<v Speaker 1>Bret Hart Vicaire said that wrestling in Chile doesn't exist.

<v Speaker 1>I've been working with wrestlers for years, and wrestling has

<v Speaker 1>a rich history here, going back to the dictatorship days.

<v Speaker 1>Go to Hell. Stephanie, Oh you are there? Are you there? Okay?

<v Speaker 1>So wait a minute, Wait a minute, held, I is

<v Speaker 1>second here. So are you in Chile? Is that what

<v Speaker 1>you're saying? Okay? So he takes great offense to Stephanie,

<v Speaker 1>saying that there was no wrestling in Chile. He says,

<v Speaker 1>go to hell, Stephanie Wow, take is very personal. Johnson

<v Speaker 1>cameo eighteen says, what's Gucci solo? What happened with Raquel?

<v Speaker 1>Feeling some type of way about how Live did her?

<v Speaker 1>I remember Liv used to slap her and Raquel did nothing.

<v Speaker 1>Wwe needs to progress story and characters better now. But

<v Speaker 1>this is another issue we did Triple H way of booking,

<v Speaker 1>and the judgment Day is a perfect example of this.

<v Speaker 1>Not only Raquel and Live, Finn and dom He has

<v Speaker 1>teased and teased and dragged it out for so long,

<v Speaker 1>all in the name of cinema, right, they're telling stories now.

<v Speaker 1>The problem is they take too long telling some of

<v Speaker 1>these stories, and they dragged them out for so long

<v Speaker 1>that by the time you get to them, if you

<v Speaker 1>ever get the payoff, by the time you get to

<v Speaker 1>the payoff, it's like, well, you've already you've already jumped

<v Speaker 1>the shark with it. You know, you've waited too long.

<v Speaker 1>That's one of the issues I've also had with Triple

<v Speaker 1>H's booking. Well, there'll be like a television program. We

<v Speaker 1>kind of saw that with Damian Priest and Alistair Black,

<v Speaker 1>where it just it didn't work anyway, It didn't work

<v Speaker 1>in the beginning of it. It just by the time

<v Speaker 1>it was over, nobody was any more over than they

<v Speaker 1>were when it first started. But it just went on

<v Speaker 1>for just weeks and weeks, weeks and weeks and weeks,

<v Speaker 1>and I look sometimes I look at this stuff and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, why, you know why? This is not fun?

<v Speaker 1>This is not interesting? Can't tell me that this is

<v Speaker 1>the best you can come up with here? Devin with

<v Speaker 1>a nine ninety nine says, why did WWE use the

<v Speaker 1>exact same fake crowd noises for years, especially on taped

<v Speaker 1>episodes of SmackDown? Didn't vince care how to stray acting

<v Speaker 1>and unauthentic? It was apparently not you know what? I notice? Also,

<v Speaker 1>I notice even when I go back and watch some

<v Speaker 1>of the old stuff from like the eighties and nineties

<v Speaker 1>that I love, But if you go back and watch

<v Speaker 1>those syndicated shows or even some Saturday Nights made events

<v Speaker 1>that weren't live, you can tell. It's a lot more

<v Speaker 1>noticeable now that I'm older and I'm not watching it

<v Speaker 1>as a as a young child, that those crowds, that

<v Speaker 1>those crowd reactions in many cases were piped in, they

<v Speaker 1>were sweet. Because the telltale sign is watching the show

<v Speaker 1>and you can hear the noise and then you look

<v Speaker 1>at the crowd and they're just sitting on their hands.

<v Speaker 1>They're sitting still, they're not clapping, they're not moving, they're

<v Speaker 1>not cheering, and it's like, eh, okay, it's very noticeable

<v Speaker 1>now and I go back and watch. But then you

<v Speaker 1>also have other shows where like you could see the

<v Speaker 1>crowd and they're moving and they're jumping up and down

<v Speaker 1>and they're screaming their heads off, and I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>what happened to those crowds? You know, somebody mentioned the

<v Speaker 1>vault before and they uploaded a match. This was like

<v Speaker 1>within the last week or two. Never saw it before.

<v Speaker 1>This is what I love the vault for. And it

<v Speaker 1>was a dark match at the end of probably a

<v Speaker 1>long marathon taping the very first episode of Wrestling Challenge.

<v Speaker 1>It was at that taping, so it didn't air on TV,

<v Speaker 1>but it was hul Cogan and the Junkyard Dog against

<v Speaker 1>Paul Orndorf and I want to say Adrian Adonis and

<v Speaker 1>holy shit, the crowd for this match was unbelievable. And

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and I'm like, man, like, where have

<v Speaker 1>these crowds gone? You know, like it's just it's depressing,

<v Speaker 1>like what happened to that? And then I'll pop over

<v Speaker 1>to the WCW channel because they have their own content

<v Speaker 1>over there, and they uploaded a match recently from the

<v Speaker 1>Power Hour and I want to say maybe it was

<v Speaker 1>eighty nine, and it was. I mentioned this the other day.

<v Speaker 1>It was it had to be right before Sting got

<v Speaker 1>kicked out of the Horsemen and it was Sting, Flare

<v Speaker 1>and Arn against the Great Muda, the dragon Master and

<v Speaker 1>Buzzsawyer and I don't know where they were. I want

<v Speaker 1>to say they were in Tennessee or you know, one

<v Speaker 1>of these like Midwestern states. And again, this crowd was

<v Speaker 1>just it was so electric. It wasn't like the biggest building,

<v Speaker 1>but the crowd was so loud and so electric, like

<v Speaker 1>I would want to run there every week. It was incredible.

<v Speaker 1>And it almost ruins watching these shows now when you

<v Speaker 1>go back and you watch matches and shows like that

<v Speaker 1>that have that kind of investment from the crowd. And

<v Speaker 1>I understand. It was also a different time and people

<v Speaker 1>just you know, kfabe was still a thing and k

<v Speaker 1>fabe now was fucking dead. I mean, you're watching the show,

<v Speaker 1>you'll see it Bazilion ads for fucking Unreal season two,

<v Speaker 1>and you know it's just it's just different now. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>you know when you watch a show like the One tonight,

<v Speaker 1>it's very noticeable. It really is. It really is the

<v Speaker 1>Winston slip your most controversial pro wrestling take. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I felt like I got a lot of pushback when

<v Speaker 1>I said that the first iron Man match between Brett

<v Speaker 1>Hart and Shawn Michaels is very overrated, which I believe

<v Speaker 1>it is. Like if I had to rank what I

<v Speaker 1>feel are my favorite or like the best iron Man matches,

<v Speaker 1>it's not. It's not even top three. It may not

<v Speaker 1>even be top five, honestly, but it's it's definitely not

<v Speaker 1>top three. Like there's no way I'm ranking that Ironman

<v Speaker 1>match ahead of Rock and Triple H or MJF and

<v Speaker 1>Brian Danielson. It's like, I'm not, I'm not doing it, U,

<v Speaker 1>Super Pony. If Evil is in the crate, everything is

<v Speaker 1>in fact Evil. See what I did there? You thought

<v Speaker 1>that was a really good one and you put that together,

<v Speaker 1>didn't you. I bet you're proud of that one. Karate

<v Speaker 1>Chop Shop says, we thought it was real then now

<v Speaker 1>we are just watching a poor stage show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I mean we were younger too, to be fair, but

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, there were a lot of adults who

<v Speaker 1>were going nuts in those crowds. It wasn't just kids.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, they just they had a way to make

<v Speaker 1>you believe. You know, it's always been a show, especially

<v Speaker 1>back then with the ridiculous gimmicks and everything that Vince

<v Speaker 1>was doing. But they just they had a way to

<v Speaker 1>make you believe, you know, and when that goes away,

<v Speaker 1>and it's one of the reasons why, Like there are

<v Speaker 1>people who work for WWE who have said, like they

<v Speaker 1>hate Unreal. They don't want to have anything to do

<v Speaker 1>with it. They don't like it. They hate it because

<v Speaker 1>it just it pulls the curtain back in ways that

<v Speaker 1>they wish they couldn't. But honestly, even before Unreal, the

<v Speaker 1>curtain was pulled back so much. When you give so

<v Speaker 1>much away, it does take away so many of those

<v Speaker 1>elements when they kind of smack you in the face

<v Speaker 1>with it, And I think that's a very big part

<v Speaker 1>of it. But you also, you know, you can't ignore

<v Speaker 1>the creative, you know, issues that they've had. It all

<v Speaker 1>comes down to story. It really does. You find the

<v Speaker 1>right people to tell the right story, and you will

<v Speaker 1>be rewarded. The fans will reward you. I believe that,

<v Speaker 1>and you'll get crowds that want to, you know, cheer

<v Speaker 1>their heads off and go nuts. Of course, these days

<v Speaker 1>it's you know, this is awesome, you deserve it. And

<v Speaker 1>the crowds themselves are very different than the crowds from

<v Speaker 1>back then. Crowds have changed totally, just a totally different

<v Speaker 1>fan base now. But again, just find the right story,

<v Speaker 1>find the right people, and you will be rewarded. It's

<v Speaker 1>all about making it fun. That will never change a

<v Speaker 1>Ravens fan. And before anybody says anything, look how Joshi

<v Speaker 1>wrestlers named Kelly Kelly is their favorite wrestler. And remember

<v Speaker 1>the reactions Santino got when he won the Battle Royal

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twelve before the Chamber. I don't remember Kelly

<v Speaker 1>Kelly being a big thing. Santino was a beloved figure,

<v Speaker 1>though I'm not surprised about that. Were there a lot

<v Speaker 1>of Joshie wrestlers who named Kelly Kelly is their favorite wrestler?

<v Speaker 1>What was it about Kelly Kelly that made her their

<v Speaker 1>favorite wrestler? I find that very hard to believe. Like

<v Speaker 1>when I think of the Joshi style of wrestling, I

<v Speaker 1>don't think of Kelly Kelly. Kelly Kelly ever had a

<v Speaker 1>match like that. Bred Hart, What do you know about

<v Speaker 1>the history of Hogan's mysterious uh bother He's I think

<v Speaker 1>he meant brother Horace's dad. Yeah, they said Horace was

<v Speaker 1>his nephew. I don't. I don't know anything that everyone

<v Speaker 1>was Hogan's brother. I mean he called everybody brother. It

<v Speaker 1>could be anybody. Everybody was brother. It's a hul Cogan,

<v Speaker 1>So Horace could have many fathers. Uh, super pony. Out

<v Speaker 1>of these four, who do you think would do best

<v Speaker 1>in ae W Kevin Owens, Sammy's Ain, Finn Balor Chad

<v Speaker 1>Gable Kevin Owens. I think they'd all do well, but

<v Speaker 1>uh Kevin Owens. And bring back russev Day with Lana. No,

<v Speaker 1>we don't need we don't need Lana back. Russev Da

<v Speaker 1>was a thing. It came and went, it was ruined.

<v Speaker 1>You can't bring it back. It's over and done. You

<v Speaker 1>got to you gotta find something new. Don't just go

<v Speaker 1>back to the old. You gotta find something new. It

<v Speaker 1>was rusev Day before now it could be something different.

<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, we smashed the gold tonight, which was

<v Speaker 1>was it three p fifty? I believe we are at

<v Speaker 1>five eighty one, and actually we're eleven out of fifteen

<v Speaker 1>on the bonus goal. If we want to get bonus,

<v Speaker 1>be the booker. But we're gonna get at least the

<v Speaker 1>one round. So let's do it, ladies and gentlemen. It

<v Speaker 1>is now time to be the booker, at at least

<v Speaker 1>the one round coming your way. Yes, Russev was wearing

<v Speaker 1>a Rusev Dae or like happy rusevde shirt under his

<v Speaker 1>jacket tonight. I don't know if that was a hint

<v Speaker 1>of anything. Probably not. All right, here we go. Well,

<v Speaker 1>speaking of brother, brother, brother, Look who pops up on

<v Speaker 1>screen Hulk Hogan and Brutus the Barber Beefcake, whereas they

<v Speaker 1>called him when he came back from his parasailing accident,

<v Speaker 1>Brutus the Bionic Barber Beefcake. This is the Mega Maniacs.

<v Speaker 1>This is Hogan after he deflated. Compare Hogan from nineteen

<v Speaker 1>ninety to Hulk Hogan in nineteen ninety three, and it

<v Speaker 1>almost looks like two different people. It'll be the Mega

<v Speaker 1>Maniacs against the outsiders Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Look

<v Speaker 1>at this, the entire nWo, the original nWo represented in

<v Speaker 1>this match, and then you have the Disciple, So technically

<v Speaker 1>we have four nWo members in this match. The Disciple

<v Speaker 1>was a member of the nWo. All right, women's be

<v Speaker 1>the booker. We begin with. Boy, have we seen her

<v Speaker 1>since the incident with doctor Britt Baker. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if we have. That might have been the last time

<v Speaker 1>we actually saw her on TV with the professor over here. Hmm, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember seeing her after that. And she will

<v Speaker 1>be taking on ev or Dakota Kai. I guess. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>if you want to use her WWE name Dakota Kai,

<v Speaker 1>that'd be a good match. Dakota Kai and Serena Deep.

<v Speaker 1>It'd be a good wrestling match. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Yeah, nobody cares. We haven't seen

<v Speaker 1>Britt Baker since then. Nobody cares. It's funny how that

<v Speaker 1>worked out. We haven't seen Camille. I have a theory

<v Speaker 1>about this. I have a theory that there is a

<v Speaker 1>room somewhere at the offices there in Jacksonville, like in

<v Speaker 1>the basement somewhere where all of these women are just

<v Speaker 1>like chained to the wall or something. It's like something awful.

<v Speaker 1>You got Serena down there, Camille is down there, Britt

<v Speaker 1>Baker is down there. It's terrible, all right. In the

<v Speaker 1>main event, it is Triple H with his two belts here.

<v Speaker 1>Of course he's got two belts in his hand, Triple

<v Speaker 1>H in the main event. He ain't working the show

<v Speaker 1>unless he's in the main event. We know that Triple

<v Speaker 1>H against Rob Van Damn. Oh, it's a sweet you

<v Speaker 1>gotta bust out. The sonic emojis brand new in the chat.

<v Speaker 1>Although we know how this main event is gonna go,

<v Speaker 1>it is not gonna end well for Rob Damn. We

<v Speaker 1>know who has taken the pin in this match. There's

<v Speaker 1>really no mystery to it. And the Mount Vernon kids

<v Speaker 1>says My buddies and I have always jokingly said, man,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes ww we needs to hire some of these big

<v Speaker 1>time comic book writers to tell better stories. Yeah, it's interesting, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we've heard them. We've heard stories of them in the past.

<v Speaker 1>Bring in writers from Hollywood, from TV soap opera writers.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how often they would have hired comic

<v Speaker 1>book writers, or if they ever have hired comic book

<v Speaker 1>writers for their writing team, it might not be a

<v Speaker 1>bad idea, especially now the hell do they have to lose?

<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, bring a couple of them in. They may

<v Speaker 1>do some good. Do not hire comic book writers for

<v Speaker 1>Spider Man. Those people ruin everything. Comic book writers suck nowadays,

<v Speaker 1>is that true? That's too bad. I used to collect comics.

<v Speaker 1>I had the Archie comics, but then I had Spider Man.

<v Speaker 1>And what else did I have? Well, they had to oh,

<v Speaker 1>the Ninja Turtle comics. I had RoboCop Robo. There was

<v Speaker 1>a series of RoboCop comics I still have, I still have,

<v Speaker 1>and it was all the twenty ninety nine comics, Spider Man,

<v Speaker 1>twenty ninety nine, Punisher, twenty ninety nine, Doom Silver Surfer.

<v Speaker 1>So tomorrow, let's do some housekeeping here, just to let

<v Speaker 1>you guys know, Tomorrow is gonna be episode two. That'll

<v Speaker 1>be Uncrowned Wrestling Show. That'll be over on the Ariel

<v Speaker 1>Hellwanee Show feed wherever you get your podcast from, from

<v Speaker 1>Yahoo Sports, the Uncrowned Wrestling Show, and the one hosting

<v Speaker 1>is this guy right here, and we're going to talk

<v Speaker 1>about some of the key stories of the week and

<v Speaker 1>some other stories that maybe I did not cover on

<v Speaker 1>the sound off. It's gonna be a good time. It

<v Speaker 1>should be about an hour or so, so if you

<v Speaker 1>want some wrestling, that'll be coming your way tomorrow later

<v Speaker 1>in the day. Show will drop some time, probably early

<v Speaker 1>to mid evening tomorrow. So we'll got a huge response

<v Speaker 1>to the first episode and the announcement and everything you

<v Speaker 1>guys were were awesome. I got so many messages about that,

<v Speaker 1>so let's do it up big. Episode two is tomorrow.

<v Speaker 1>But also what I'm also very excited about is coming

<v Speaker 1>up on Friday. This is the reason why there will

<v Speaker 1>be no live SmackDown review this week. I will be

<v Speaker 1>at the NYC Arena for this House of Glory, no

<v Speaker 1>turning back. Now it's official. MJF is defending the AW

<v Speaker 1>World Championship. This is only the second time that the

<v Speaker 1>AW World title is being defended by MJF on the

<v Speaker 1>independent scene, and I believe this will be the second

<v Speaker 1>time the AW World title is defended in House of Glory,

<v Speaker 1>because previously we had swer of Strickland defending the title,

<v Speaker 1>but MJF is putting his title on the line against

<v Speaker 1>Zilla FA II, And if you didn't see the promo

<v Speaker 1>that MJF cut on Zilla the other day, you got

<v Speaker 1>to go check that out. He laced into him as

<v Speaker 1>a hell of a promo. And Andrede Ledlo will be

<v Speaker 1>on the show and he will be challenging for the

<v Speaker 1>hog World Championship. And Androde, I mean, he lost a

<v Speaker 1>hangman on Saturday. But Andrede has been on one hell

<v Speaker 1>of a role. He is putting in legitimately the best

<v Speaker 1>work of his career right now, and it's been fun

<v Speaker 1>to see. So all that and a lot more Friday night,

<v Speaker 1>seven o'clock Eastern. This is the order page right here

<v Speaker 1>on the Triller TV site. See the countdown clock right there.

<v Speaker 1>So if you can't be there live in the building,

<v Speaker 1>you can order it and watch it live on Triller TV.

<v Speaker 1>And I'll be back on commentary for this show, so

<v Speaker 1>very much looking for Friday is going to be a

<v Speaker 1>Friday's going to be in a good night. It's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be a very very interesting night. I'll just say that.

<v Speaker 1>Let me see here if we have any others that

<v Speaker 1>we missed. Believe we are all caught up. I'm just

<v Speaker 1>checking for the milestones. They'll pop up after. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why they're not listed here. It's typical YouTube, typical YouTube.

<v Speaker 1>It's entirely possible though. By the end of the week,

<v Speaker 1>Zilofa two could be your new aw World champion. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>take it from me. Sometimes strange things happen in wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>Anything is possible anyway. That's on Friday night. I mentioned Uncrowned,

<v Speaker 1>that'll be dropping tomorrow and I'll still be live big

<v Speaker 1>show Tomorrow night live on YouTube eight thirty Eastern, myself

<v Speaker 1>and JD. Tuesday Night Titans and the Dynamite post show

<v Speaker 1>coming up on Wednesday. That's got a big match too,

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega against Swerve Strickland one on one this Wednesday

<v Speaker 1>night and a face to face between Hangman and MJF.

<v Speaker 1>So a lot of wrestling, a lot of good shit

<v Speaker 1>coming up this week. I hope you will join me

<v Speaker 1>for all of it. So I'm going to get out

<v Speaker 1>of here. I got Uncrowned to do in the morning.

<v Speaker 1>Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of

<v Speaker 1>your night. Thank you for all of the support tonight,

<v Speaker 1>and I hope to see you tomorrow for Uncrowned and

<v Speaker 1>for some TNT. Until then, take care, guys, what's in

<v Speaker 1>the box,