<v Speaker 1>What is going on? Everybody? It is another Friday night.

<v Speaker 1>Look who is in the corner of the screen. Karen

<v Speaker 1>is joining us tonight. I think I figured out who

<v Speaker 1>was on the phone with Randy Orton. This right here

<v Speaker 1>is where he is getting all of his instructions from.

<v Speaker 1>I finally figured it out. She's gonna join us for

<v Speaker 1>the remainder of the show here tonight, So don't mind

<v Speaker 1>her in the corner of the screen. You know. Last

<v Speaker 1>week's SmackDown had that big angle at the very end

<v Speaker 1>with Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes and the heel turn

<v Speaker 1>or what we thought was the heel turn, and the

<v Speaker 1>rest of the show was basically garbage. Last week's SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>was fucking terrible. So where do you go from fucking terrible? Right?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, on the scale of like in terms of

<v Speaker 1>quality of the show, fucking terrible is pretty much at

<v Speaker 1>the bottom, right. It'd be hard to be any worse,

<v Speaker 1>I think than that show was last week. So I

<v Speaker 1>thought tonight's show was an improvement from where we were

<v Speaker 1>last week, which is not to say it was a

<v Speaker 1>great show, but there was good, there was bad. I

<v Speaker 1>think there was certainly a lot more to like about

<v Speaker 1>this show. There were three main things as I see

<v Speaker 1>it when it comes to tonight's show. First of all,

<v Speaker 1>we had a wild open and a wild close to

<v Speaker 1>the show. There was a lot of chaos on this show.

<v Speaker 1>Chaos is not a bad thing. I mean, it can

<v Speaker 1>be a bad thing, but chaos in this case, because

<v Speaker 1>everything is just felt so boring and so lifeless, chaos

<v Speaker 1>is a good thing. So we had that at the beginning,

<v Speaker 1>and we had that at the end. Three things. Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton had a story thread that ran throughout the entire show,

<v Speaker 1>or at least from the moment he came out for

<v Speaker 1>his promo, which maybe was at the top of the

<v Speaker 1>hour right the first hour heading an hour number two,

<v Speaker 1>And there was a story thread with him because we

<v Speaker 1>got him on multiple segments, a couple of backstage segments.

<v Speaker 1>They closed the show with him. Will basically closed the

<v Speaker 1>show with him. I like that. That's good. When you

<v Speaker 1>can thread things along throughout the three hours like that

<v Speaker 1>and try to keep people hooked in to find out

<v Speaker 1>what's going to happen next, that's a good thing. We

<v Speaker 1>had that with Randy Orton. Tonight. We had Jacob Fotu

<v Speaker 1>and Drew McIntyre. We were promised to match tonight. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>we were scheduled to have Jacob Fatu one on one

<v Speaker 1>with Drew McIntyre. Now, if you've been paying attention, Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre and Jacob Fatu have no other obvious opponent for

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania other than one another. So I was not expecting

<v Speaker 1>much more beyond honestly an angle basically on tonight's show.

<v Speaker 1>If we had gotten a match, we weren't going to

<v Speaker 1>get a definitive winner anyway, so I wasn't too bothered

<v Speaker 1>by that we had them, though all throughout the entire

<v Speaker 1>show they were beating the crap out of each other

<v Speaker 1>in the parking lot. At the beginning of the show,

<v Speaker 1>we had a car accident, then they brawled that into

<v Speaker 1>the building, and then throughout the night they were brawling

<v Speaker 1>in the back. And then the show closes with the

<v Speaker 1>two of them outside on some kind of fucking structure.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what the hell this thing was, if

<v Speaker 1>it was an oil rig or what, but they're up

<v Speaker 1>there and they're fighting on the ledge of this thing,

<v Speaker 1>and then they plummet to their deaths down below, and

<v Speaker 1>they go off the show with Nick All this frantically

<v Speaker 1>calling for medical Oh my god, these two men have

<v Speaker 1>just killed one another, right, he's thinking of just all

<v Speaker 1>the insurance issues he's gonna have now. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>WWE security fucking useless up and down this, whether it's

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton, whether it's Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre. How

<v Speaker 1>are these men going to be allowed to brawl continuously

<v Speaker 1>for three hours? They were in a car accident in

<v Speaker 1>the parking lot, and from the moment the show went

<v Speaker 1>on the air to the moment the show went off

<v Speaker 1>the air tonight, they never stopped fighting. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what the purpose of security is on this show at all.

<v Speaker 1>To begin with, they are completely inept. I think that

<v Speaker 1>Nick all this needs to pick up the phone to

<v Speaker 1>make a phone call to Atlas Security. In fact, Karen

<v Speaker 1>in the corner there is gonna call Atlas Security and

<v Speaker 1>get them in for the show next week. That was

<v Speaker 1>my other big takeaway from the show. How useless these

<v Speaker 1>security geeks are here on this show. But I did

<v Speaker 1>like the constant chaos between the two of them, and

<v Speaker 1>the other thing also is this, I don't recall there

<v Speaker 1>being a single match on the show last week that

<v Speaker 1>was really worth going out of your way to see.

<v Speaker 1>Usually on these shows you get at least that one

<v Speaker 1>really good like US Title Open Challenge match. He gets

<v Speaker 1>something I can't remember anything last week. This week we

<v Speaker 1>had Carmelo Hayes and Ilia Dragonov. It is impossible to

<v Speaker 1>send those two men out to the ring and have

<v Speaker 1>anything but an excellent match, which is what they had tonight,

<v Speaker 1>because Ilia Dragonov has been having self doubts and he's

<v Speaker 1>been in his own head. No, I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>I'm good enough. I have to find the Mad Dragon.

<v Speaker 1>Well apparently he found the Mad Dragon and he went

<v Speaker 1>out there and he fucking lost. He was unsuccessful tonight

<v Speaker 1>in regaining his championship. But they went out there and

<v Speaker 1>that match was fucking awesome. And you know what, I'll

<v Speaker 1>even throw the match in there with Phraxium and the

<v Speaker 1>MotorCity machine Guns. Not nearly as awesome as the Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>Hazelia Dragonov match, But I thought that was a good

<v Speaker 1>tag team match tonight as well, So we had some

<v Speaker 1>good in ring as well, the Randy Orton stuff. Look,

<v Speaker 1>there was no Cody Rhads tonight, right, It would have

<v Speaker 1>been stupid for him to be on the show. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>it sounds like he's going to be back next week

<v Speaker 1>in Pittsburgh. Randy Orton came out tonight and the objective, really,

<v Speaker 1>there were two objectives here because on raw Monday night,

<v Speaker 1>they established this phone call that Randy Orton had gotten

<v Speaker 1>or we presume, I mean, when they cut to him

<v Speaker 1>on Monday, he was already on the phone with somebody.

<v Speaker 1>So whether he called them they called him, it doesn't matter.

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton was in his garage being filmed apparently on

<v Speaker 1>a potato on Monday night, and we don't know who

<v Speaker 1>he was on the phone with, but he was being

<v Speaker 1>very chummy with them. And everyone's been speculating all week

<v Speaker 1>long about who was on the other end of the phone,

<v Speaker 1>right if it wasn't our friend Karen over here, who

<v Speaker 1>was on the other end of the phone. So there

<v Speaker 1>were the two things I was looking for coming into

<v Speaker 1>tonight's show. Number one, what is the explanation that Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton is going to give for what he did to

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes. We cannot have him come out and Paula

<v Speaker 1>John Cena and look out at the fans and go,

<v Speaker 1>you people, you people, you people. You made me do this, right, no,

<v Speaker 1>we can't have that. That's lazy bullshit. What is the

<v Speaker 1>explanation for why Randy did what he did? And then, also,

<v Speaker 1>are we going to get an answer to the mystery caller?

<v Speaker 1>Are we going to find out who was on the

<v Speaker 1>phone with Randy Orton? Those are the two things I

<v Speaker 1>was looking for tonight. The good news is we did

<v Speaker 1>not get the you people promo, so that's good. The

<v Speaker 1>bad news is, just because I'm an impatient person, we

<v Speaker 1>did not get our answer to the phone call mystery.

<v Speaker 1>It's actually probably a good thing that they drag it

<v Speaker 1>out for another week or two or however long it's

<v Speaker 1>going to be. But we did not get an answer

<v Speaker 1>to the question. So we will keep speculating, We'll keep

<v Speaker 1>waiting and wondering. But no, we do not have any

<v Speaker 1>answers yet as to who was on the other end

<v Speaker 1>of the line. We had a women's tag team championship

<v Speaker 1>match tonight the Bella Twins. This is the first time

<v Speaker 1>that the Bellatwins have even teamed up together in eight years,

<v Speaker 1>and their first match is for the tag team titles.

<v Speaker 1>Don't ask me how they swung that or who they had.

<v Speaker 1>A politic or a lobby but they got themselves a

<v Speaker 1>championship match, and I thought this match was fucking terrible.

<v Speaker 1>Everything about the match, the match itself, the finish, and

<v Speaker 1>I wasn't expecting a title change, nor was I clamoring

<v Speaker 1>for one, but just the way it all played out,

<v Speaker 1>it was just it was so predictable, but just it

<v Speaker 1>was no good. It just was no good. You know,

<v Speaker 1>you would want them to highlight the best that you

<v Speaker 1>have of the women's tag team division, which has been

<v Speaker 1>i will say on fire, but just in terms of

<v Speaker 1>the attention that they have given it over the last

<v Speaker 1>six months plus, you would want to put your best

<v Speaker 1>foot forward. They did not do that tonight with the

<v Speaker 1>match that they gave us on this show. It is

<v Speaker 1>very clear, though, if it wasn't already coming out of SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>we are going to get multi team madness of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>The only question is do we get five teams? Do

<v Speaker 1>we get six teams. I'm not sure exactly what the

<v Speaker 1>number is going to be. I'm not sure if they're

<v Speaker 1>going to make it a ladder match an elimination style match.

<v Speaker 1>That we don't know, but it seems pretty clear that's

<v Speaker 1>the direction that we're going in. Here, and then we

<v Speaker 1>had Kit Wilson and Jelly Roll. Kit Wilson had called

<v Speaker 1>out jelly Roll. We were told he was going to

<v Speaker 1>be calling him out this week, and so they share

<v Speaker 1>the ring together and they had not a sing off,

<v Speaker 1>They didn't have a match or anything like that. They

<v Speaker 1>basically did like a what do you say? A deaf

<v Speaker 1>Jam poetry edition? I forgot how he phrased it. And

<v Speaker 1>so they're out there and they're trading barbs on the microphone,

<v Speaker 1>and I have to listen. And this is unfortunately an

<v Speaker 1>image that I'm going to have to live with for

<v Speaker 1>quite some time. I had to sit here and listen

<v Speaker 1>to Jelly Roll talk about how Kit Wilson's mother knows

<v Speaker 1>all about his little Willie because when he was fat,

<v Speaker 1>he took the belly fat that he had in his

<v Speaker 1>midsection and put it on her back. We have someone

<v Speaker 1>who watches these streams and you'll see him. Our good

<v Speaker 1>friend GMB, you know who I'm talking about, give me

<v Speaker 1>backshot Solo Monster who's here almost every stream. He's dropping

<v Speaker 1>super chats and I see the name and I just

<v Speaker 1>I put my head in my hands. I'm semi repulse

<v Speaker 1>by it. That's nothing compared to the image of Jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll porking Kit Wilson's mom with his belly fat draped

<v Speaker 1>over her back.

<v Speaker 2>Eh, excuse me, Eh, I'm gonna try to hold it in.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna try to hold it in. I'm gonna do

<v Speaker 1>my best. I make no promises. I want you to

<v Speaker 1>think of all the people who were not yet slotted

<v Speaker 1>in at WrestleMania, all the people that we were wondering,

<v Speaker 1>well are they gonna have a place on the WrestleMania card.

<v Speaker 1>They don't have a match. The fuck is gun they

<v Speaker 1>gonna do it WrestleMania. But we got Jelly Roll. He

<v Speaker 1>was in multiple segments here on the show. He's coming

<v Speaker 1>back next week, and clearly they're pushing towards some sort

<v Speaker 1>of tag team match of WrestleMania. A lot of focus

<v Speaker 1>in television time being dedicated to Jelly Roll on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>With a card that just seems very incomplete right now.

<v Speaker 1>The card is filling in nicely, but there are some

<v Speaker 1>glaring omissions to that WrestleMania car. But I gotta watch

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll out there talking about pork and Kit Wilson's mom.

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<v Speaker 1>you had to join at a time where I was

<v Speaker 1>talking about something so so horrible and so awful. I

<v Speaker 1>promise you It's not always like that. Anthony, you as well.

<v Speaker 1>What a what a terrible image? By the way, what

<v Speaker 1>a horrific image? Yeah, EO, thank you. That's another one

<v Speaker 1>right there. I mentioned gun the fucking gunther Julia EO Sky,

<v Speaker 1>but we got jelly roll all over the place. Spin

<v Speaker 1>the wheel.

<v Speaker 2>I have one pair of skinny jeans and I'm gonna

<v Speaker 2>wear them every week just to piss you off.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Big Dave. Hey Asca the two dollars super chair.

<v Speaker 1>We're gonna spin the wheel because we need to know

<v Speaker 1>what our likes. Goal is going to be Tonight's or

<v Speaker 1>our be the booker segment later, let's find out five

<v Speaker 1>hundred likes all right, So that is the goal. We

<v Speaker 1>are already at three forty three. This should be a

<v Speaker 1>slam dunk. Before I'm even halfway done with this review.

<v Speaker 1>We should already hit the goal. I want to do

<v Speaker 1>six hundred. Anyway, if we hit the goal, we will

<v Speaker 1>do be the booker. A little bit later on in

<v Speaker 1>the stream, you know Karen in the corner there is

<v Speaker 1>kind of intimidating. I feel like she's looking at me.

<v Speaker 1>She's kind of unnerving, isn't she. The show opened with

<v Speaker 1>a recap of last week's WrestleMania contract signing and the

<v Speaker 1>vicious attack that Randy Orton, the vicious beat down that

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton laid upon Cody Roads. So we see jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll there he is again, arriving. I'll never be able

<v Speaker 1>to look at jelly Roll the same way as long

<v Speaker 1>as I live. He walks out of his uh, I

<v Speaker 1>guess the car or whatever. And from the opening segment

<v Speaker 1>of the show, jelly Roll was on my screen. And

<v Speaker 1>so he arrives at the building and a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>referees in official they blow right by him. Something's going

<v Speaker 1>down behind him in the parking lot. So the cameraman

<v Speaker 1>begins to run and we see that there was a

<v Speaker 1>car accident. One car has slammed into another, and Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre is fighting on top of the hood of one

<v Speaker 1>of these cars with Jacob Fatu. I think he pulled

<v Speaker 1>him through the windshield even and he's beating him on

<v Speaker 1>top of this car, just beating him off. So Drew

<v Speaker 1>gets dragged away by the officials. Fatu is bleeding from

<v Speaker 1>the forehead, which is very interesting because that means that

<v Speaker 1>we had blood in back to back segments here on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>Going back to last week, we ended the show with

<v Speaker 1>blood and we opened this week's show with blood. And

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and I'm like, what is this? Aew?

<v Speaker 1>What am I watching here? I thought I already watched

<v Speaker 1>Dynamite the other night. So, in angry Drew McIntyre he

<v Speaker 1>storms down to the ring, into the building and down

<v Speaker 1>to the ring and he said, what happened to Fatu

<v Speaker 1>is because his WrestleMania main event was taken away from

<v Speaker 1>him yet another week where we have to listen, did

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre come out and bitch about being screwed? So

<v Speaker 1>he's interrupted by Nick Aldos who asks Drew what his

<v Speaker 1>problem is, and he talks about how he's never seen

<v Speaker 1>someone as self sabotaging as McIntyre. He said, McIntyre wants

<v Speaker 1>to be on his way to WrestleMania, but the only

<v Speaker 1>thing he's on his way to is unemployment. So Drew

<v Speaker 1>says that Aldus's son Donovan should be a shame to

<v Speaker 1>have a corporate stooge as a father. There's a commotion though,

<v Speaker 1>because here comes Jacob Fatu. He's making his way down

<v Speaker 1>to the ring. Now the officials are trying to block

<v Speaker 1>his path. They don't want him to come down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring. And he gets into the ring and he stepped.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, he just launches Drew McIntyre over the announced

<v Speaker 1>desk and into the ring post outside the ring. He's

<v Speaker 1>got him laid out on top of the desk. Finally

<v Speaker 1>the officials get him away. Fatu, though, charges back in

<v Speaker 1>and he leaps off the barricade and he splashes McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>through the announced desk, which does break. You know, sometimes

<v Speaker 1>these things don't break. But the announced desk collapsed, and

<v Speaker 1>so I thought to myself, that's more like it. You know.

<v Speaker 1>I saw Jacob Fatu getting his ass handed to him

<v Speaker 1>in the parking lot at the beginning of the show,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, man, he better get his revenge here

<v Speaker 1>before the show is over. I want to see Jacob

<v Speaker 1>Fatou the mad man. I want to see Jacob Fatu

<v Speaker 1>the killer. I want to see the Jacob Fotu that

<v Speaker 1>goes out there and goes like that, you know where

<v Speaker 1>he has that freak outfit that he does. Right, that's

<v Speaker 1>what Jacob Fatu died. It's like he's possessed or something,

<v Speaker 1>and that's what he That's what we got. That's what

<v Speaker 1>he did. Right, we got Jacob Fatu fucking up Drew McIntyre.

<v Speaker 1>I said, that's more like it. And again, we didn't

<v Speaker 1>get the match that we were promised. We didn't get

<v Speaker 1>the match that we were scheduled to get. We all

<v Speaker 1>know we're going to get it at WrestleMania. This was

<v Speaker 1>more of an angle that little did I know, we

<v Speaker 1>were not done with this yet. This was the beginning

<v Speaker 1>of it. This would carry on throughout the entirety of

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight. But in the end, this accomplished the

<v Speaker 1>same thing that any match would have accomplished. We all

<v Speaker 1>know this is going to Mania with a stipulation of

<v Speaker 1>some kind. I have a theory about what that stipulation

<v Speaker 1>may be, and we'll get to that later. We had

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest. You know what's funny. Of all the things

<v Speaker 1>that I mentioned here at the beginning of the of

<v Speaker 1>this review, I mentioned almost everything that happened on this show,

<v Speaker 1>the one thing I forgot to mention was the fact

<v Speaker 1>that we had a tag team title change on this show.

<v Speaker 1>It is so inconsequential that I completely forgot that. You

<v Speaker 1>have to excuse me anyway, because these shows are like

<v Speaker 1>seven hours long, but I had completely forgot that we

<v Speaker 1>had new tag team champions Crown tonight. But we had

<v Speaker 1>a tag team title match to open things up, Damian

<v Speaker 1>Priest and Our Truth against the MFTs comprised of Tomatonga

<v Speaker 1>and j. C. Matteo. So apparently it is or was

<v Speaker 1>free bird rules with the tag team titles. So they

<v Speaker 1>got the heat on Priest for a while, which led

<v Speaker 1>to a hot tag to Truth, which is kind of weird.

<v Speaker 1>It's a little weird. No, you would think that they

<v Speaker 1>would beat down Truth and then let Priest get the

<v Speaker 1>hot tag, but they did it in the opposite order.

<v Speaker 1>The Truth tags it. But then again, honestly, the fans

<v Speaker 1>probably care more about our Truth than they do about

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest these days. Sad to say, considering this man

<v Speaker 1>as a former world heavyweight champion, But that's kind of

<v Speaker 1>where we're at. So anyway, Ron Sena gets into the

<v Speaker 1>ring because he was doing all of John Cena's moves.

<v Speaker 1>Couldn't hit the AA though to Tomatanga, but Truth hit

<v Speaker 1>Toma with a stunner. I guess from one bald guide

<v Speaker 1>to another, Truth got the STF applied to J. C.

<v Speaker 1>Matteos Solo Sokoa. He goes and distracts the referee and

<v Speaker 1>that allows Toma to hit a choke slam on the apron.

<v Speaker 1>Truth was able to kick out though on the pin attempt. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>James Ward, what's going on? Brother? Right back at you?

<v Speaker 1>Say hello to Karen so the Wyatt Six they come

<v Speaker 1>out from the back in the middle of this match,

<v Speaker 1>all the members except Howdy. I didn't see howd Hey

<v Speaker 1>there at first. They all come out and they brawl

<v Speaker 1>with the MFTs. Uncle Howdy shows up at ringside. He

<v Speaker 1>puts the mandible claw on Solo Socoa until J. C.

<v Speaker 1>Matteo rolls outside. He sends Howdy into the barricade and

<v Speaker 1>then he hands the fucking Lantern. Back to Solo Socoa,

<v Speaker 1>back inside. Priest lays out Tamba with a clothesline and

<v Speaker 1>Truth drops j. C. Matteo with an AA and pins

<v Speaker 1>him to win the tag team titles. Is that true?

<v Speaker 1>Is okay? So that would make sense. They were in

<v Speaker 1>ar Truth's home state. They were in North Carolina. They

<v Speaker 1>were in Raleigh, North Carolina tonight, so that makes sense.

<v Speaker 1>And they gave him the win too. He got the

<v Speaker 1>win to win the tag team titles. So that was

<v Speaker 1>a nice surprise seeing the titles change hands here. I

<v Speaker 1>actually wasn't really thinking that there would be a title

<v Speaker 1>change coming into this show. I didn't really pay any

<v Speaker 1>mind to it, like, Oh, we're definitely going to get

<v Speaker 1>a title change. I was like, Eh, probably not. You know,

<v Speaker 1>the Wyatts will get involved, it'll get thrown away or

<v Speaker 1>some bullshit like that. So for me anyway, it was

<v Speaker 1>a nice surprise because, and this is the most important thing.

<v Speaker 1>It gets the tag team titles away from the Wyatts

<v Speaker 1>and the mft's nonsense. It gets the championships away because

<v Speaker 1>this few doesn't even need to take It's not even

<v Speaker 1>about the tag team titles. It's about a fucking lantern.

<v Speaker 1>What do the titles need to be involved. The titles

<v Speaker 1>are secondary to this other inanimate object. So good get

<v Speaker 1>the titles away from these two teams and then they

<v Speaker 1>can go ahead and they can you know, kill each

<v Speaker 1>other and end this. So I can't hate on that

<v Speaker 1>the fans popped for Truth winning a title. It does

<v Speaker 1>make more sense though, if that's true that they were

<v Speaker 1>in his home state, so good for him. It gives

<v Speaker 1>him a cool little moment there. Priest had a look

<v Speaker 1>on his face when this was over. I think he

<v Speaker 1>even mouthed the words like, well, I don't believe it,

<v Speaker 1>Like he was a big smile on his face, but

<v Speaker 1>he was shocked that they had even won these titles.

<v Speaker 1>And I've always said Damian Priest works better I think

<v Speaker 1>when he has other people to play off of, you know,

<v Speaker 1>when he was part of the Judgment day and his

<v Speaker 1>interactions backstage with them, playing off the other members, that's

<v Speaker 1>when Damian Priest was at his best. We have not

<v Speaker 1>seen that version of Damian Priest since he came to

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown so him, you know, associating with our Truth and

<v Speaker 1>there's some comedy in there and interacting with him. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that that's the worst thing in the world. Uh,

<v Speaker 1>maybe that could help kind of bring out what's what

<v Speaker 1>I feel anyway, has been missing in Damian Priest since

<v Speaker 1>he came over to SmackDown. Now, there was actually some

<v Speaker 1>news that ties into the MFTs that I would like

<v Speaker 1>to mention here very quickly and shout out to Andrews

<v Speaker 1>Aarian of the Matt Men podcast because he's the one

<v Speaker 1>who broke the news, and he tweeted earlier today that

<v Speaker 1>word going around at SmackDown is that Tomatonga was fined

<v Speaker 1>by WWE for posting a video of rehearsals last week.

<v Speaker 1>Said that he was told it was a significant fine.

<v Speaker 1>WWE has an unwritten rule about not recording or posting

<v Speaker 1>during rehearsal. I had seen that photo. It was I

<v Speaker 1>didn't realize it was Tomatonga who took it, but it

<v Speaker 1>was from someone in the aisleway and this was before

<v Speaker 1>the show last week, and you just see all the

<v Speaker 1>wrestlers are just sitting around. Some of them are in

<v Speaker 1>the ring, some of them are in the aisleway, and

<v Speaker 1>they're just kind of shooting the shit, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's kind of cool to see. But I can understand

<v Speaker 1>WWE not wanting these, you know, images to get out there.

<v Speaker 1>You know, it's one thing because I saw some people

<v Speaker 1>mention WWE Unreal, and yes there is hypocrisy involved here,

<v Speaker 1>of course, But when they filmed WWE Unreal, right, it's

<v Speaker 1>very controlled what they want you to see. WWE does

<v Speaker 1>not like not having control, So there's a difference there.

<v Speaker 1>That's number one. Number two, the shit that you see

<v Speaker 1>on Unreal is filmed months in advance. So this is

<v Speaker 1>a little bit different because you have somebody who's there

<v Speaker 1>and they're snapping photos that they're shooting video and then boom,

<v Speaker 1>you know, it hits social media. Now the thing with

<v Speaker 1>Tomatonga and a lot of people may not know it.

<v Speaker 1>This is not the first time that he's been posting

<v Speaker 1>stuff like this, Like he's been posting videos and photos

<v Speaker 1>and stuff on his ig or his TikTok maybe both

<v Speaker 1>for a while. Now. I'm kind of surprised it took

<v Speaker 1>this long for us to hear that he was, you know,

<v Speaker 1>admonished by the company. I think it was within the

<v Speaker 1>last few weeks. He had posted a photo it looked

<v Speaker 1>like it was backstage of catering and Ray Phoenix was

<v Speaker 1>in the photo and he was completely unmasked, And I

<v Speaker 1>gotta be honest with you, when I first saw the photo,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't even really recognize who it was. Like, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what I imagined because you could kind of

<v Speaker 1>see his face through the mask when you see him

<v Speaker 1>on TV. Whatever I imagined Ray Phoenix looking like it

<v Speaker 1>was not what I saw in that photo. But there

<v Speaker 1>he was. And it's like, okay, you know what, For

<v Speaker 1>all we know, I don't know if wwe may have

<v Speaker 1>said something to him before warned him not to do it.

<v Speaker 1>He did it anyway, Like we don't have all the details,

<v Speaker 1>but evidently it was a significant fine and I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>he will not be doing it again after that. So anyway,

<v Speaker 1>that's your mft's update. The Bella Twins. They were interviewed

<v Speaker 1>backstage by Kathy Kelly about their tag team championship match tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss show up and they're eating

<v Speaker 1>ice cream. This is the new thing now where we

<v Speaker 1>see this every week, one or both of them are

<v Speaker 1>usually eating ice cream here on this show. And Arlot

<v Speaker 1>accuses them of being selfish for cutting the line. Right,

<v Speaker 1>they're cutting the line. They deserve a shot of the titles,

<v Speaker 1>not the Bella Twins, which honestly no lies detected. This

<v Speaker 1>is the first fucking match they had tonight in eight years,

<v Speaker 1>and they're getting a tag team championship match. So Nikki

<v Speaker 1>Bella invites them to come sit ringside for their match,

<v Speaker 1>and they say that they'll show them how real legends

<v Speaker 1>get it done. And then Brie steals Alexis spoon that

<v Speaker 1>she was eating the ice cream with. Ugh, this is

<v Speaker 1>wonderful television. Isn't as riveting television? She stole her spoon. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>we go from that wonderful segment to another wonderful segment

<v Speaker 1>because we go back to Johnny Gargano. And I'll give

<v Speaker 1>you one guess what Johnny Gargano was doing. If you said,

<v Speaker 1>laying on a crate, congratulations. I don't have anything to

<v Speaker 1>give you, but you win. Laying on a fucking crate,

<v Speaker 1>as he's been doing every week for at least the

<v Speaker 1>last month and a half. I don't know how long

<v Speaker 1>it's been, really Ever since he lost his tag team

<v Speaker 1>partner and Tomaso Champa left to go to aw Johnny

<v Speaker 1>Gargano has been in a deep depression. I would be

<v Speaker 1>too if I was booked the way that Johnny Gargano

<v Speaker 1>was on this show. So he was laying on this

<v Speaker 1>cradle depressed, and Candice Larray is still trying to figure out,

<v Speaker 1>you know, a solution to all this, trying to figure

<v Speaker 1>out what to do here. I mean, at this point,

<v Speaker 1>I would say divorce should be on the table. Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen shows up and he offers to help, but he's

<v Speaker 1>gonna need twenty bucks, and Candice obliges. She gives him

<v Speaker 1>the money and then he vanishes. So evidently Dan Housen

<v Speaker 1>is a modern day buzz sawyer. Hey, I'll train you kid,

<v Speaker 1>Just pay me three thousand dollars. Then you pay him

<v Speaker 1>and he just kind of up and leaves town. Go

<v Speaker 1>ask the Undertaker, he'll tell the story in the back.

<v Speaker 1>So I guess that means that Dan Housen is a carnie. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's perfect for the wrestling business. We go to Kathy

<v Speaker 1>Kelly and she was there to interview Sammy's Ain speaking

<v Speaker 1>of depressed. Why does it feel like everybody on this

<v Speaker 1>show is depressed? Sammy's Ain has looked depressed for weeks

<v Speaker 1>and weeks he's smacking water bottles around. Johnny Gargano is

<v Speaker 1>just comatose, basically catatonic, laying on top of a fucking box.

<v Speaker 1>Every week Drew McIntyre goes around talking about how screwed

<v Speaker 1>he is. Everyone's so fucking miserable on this show. She

<v Speaker 1>wanted his thoughts on what happened last week to Cody Rhodes.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy has a match with Alistair Black tonight, he said,

<v Speaker 1>but he can't stop thinking about what happened last week.

<v Speaker 1>It's hard. Look, I don't disagree with you in the chat.

<v Speaker 1>It's hard not to be depressed about SmackDown. You know what.

<v Speaker 1>I think you're on the right track here. I can't

<v Speaker 1>really blame any of these people. I'd be depressed too

<v Speaker 1>if I had anything to do with this show. I'm

<v Speaker 1>depressed just sitting here reviewing it on most weeks. This

<v Speaker 1>week wasn't as bad as usual, but this show is

<v Speaker 1>pretty fucking bad. But he can't stop thinking about what

<v Speaker 1>happened to Cody Rhoads. He said that he's said a

<v Speaker 1>lot about Cody recently. He has said a lot to Cody,

<v Speaker 1>but Cody always tries to be good. Cody always tries

<v Speaker 1>to do everything he can for the fans and be

<v Speaker 1>a good person and Look what happened. Look what it

<v Speaker 1>got him. It got him all bloodied up and stretchered out,

<v Speaker 1>and it's made Sammy rethink everything he believes in. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>the world he believes in simply doesn't exist. So Trick

<v Speaker 1>Williams shows up, puts himself over for beating Jacob Fatu

<v Speaker 1>last week. Sammy says, you know, we don't have to

<v Speaker 1>keep talking. We could basically we could throw hands right

<v Speaker 1>here and now, and Trick says, hold up, you got

<v Speaker 1>a match tonight. If I have time, maybe I'll come

<v Speaker 1>check it out. So that led into Phraxium. They took

<v Speaker 1>on the MotorCity machine Gun. MotorCity machine guns, lots of

<v Speaker 1>fast paced action as you would imagine, especially Nathan Frasier,

<v Speaker 1>who I mean he is just he's like a bullet

<v Speaker 1>out there. He did a dive out of the ring

<v Speaker 1>at one point onto the machine guns where he basically

<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if he barely touched them, but

<v Speaker 1>he basically was like right in front of the announced desk,

<v Speaker 1>and he basically did a flip out of the ring

<v Speaker 1>and landed over that. He like vaulted over them, almost

<v Speaker 1>ran right into the announced desk. This guy's out of control,

<v Speaker 1>But as you would imagine a lot of fast paced

<v Speaker 1>action here from two teams that frankly are very underutilized

<v Speaker 1>here on this show. You know, the tagting division has

<v Speaker 1>been in shambles for a while, but these two teams

<v Speaker 1>are very much underutilized. And before people say, oh, well

<v Speaker 1>they're not over, they're not over, Yeah, well, how are

<v Speaker 1>you gonna get over if you don't come up with

<v Speaker 1>good stories for them to be involved in and consistently

<v Speaker 1>feature them here on these shows? Of course they're not over.

<v Speaker 1>How are they supposed to get over if they're either

<v Speaker 1>never on the show or when they are finally on

<v Speaker 1>the show, you have them in the back playing therapist

<v Speaker 1>to Johnny Gargano who's laying on a box, or they're

<v Speaker 1>stealing a mask scrim the whole mask angle with Gargano

<v Speaker 1>stealing Axiom's mask. Oh compelling TV. Why don't you come

<v Speaker 1>up with some good shit for them to do and

<v Speaker 1>give them a reason to actually go out and do

<v Speaker 1>what they do best. The only way these teams are

<v Speaker 1>ever gonna get over is in the ring, because let's

<v Speaker 1>be honest, here we're talking about phraxium, We're talking about

<v Speaker 1>the MotorCity machine guns, two very talented teams. Okay, personality wise,

<v Speaker 1>character wise, there's nothing going on there. Okay, none of

<v Speaker 1>these guys are ever gonna go out there, and no

<v Speaker 1>one's gonna ever mistake them for being the most compelling

<v Speaker 1>characters on the show. What are these guys known for.

<v Speaker 1>They're known for going out there, you ring the bell,

<v Speaker 1>and they have great wrestling matches. So now it's up

<v Speaker 1>to you, if you're on the writing team, to come

<v Speaker 1>up with compelling stories to wrap around those matches, to

<v Speaker 1>give them a reason to go out there and do

<v Speaker 1>what they do best, because we don't want them just

<v Speaker 1>going out there having random matches, right, You want to

<v Speaker 1>have a reason for them to go out there and

<v Speaker 1>fight this team and that team. Right. But you got

<v Speaker 1>to work cohesively here. You gotta help these guys out here.

<v Speaker 1>You sign them, you brought them into the company because

<v Speaker 1>you saw something in them. Now do something with them.

<v Speaker 1>Don't just discard them because well, the fans aren't really

<v Speaker 1>reacting to them. So hey, you know, hey, we tried.

<v Speaker 1>No you didn't, No, you didn't. I mean the motor

<v Speaker 1>City machine Guns. What have they been doing over the

<v Speaker 1>last few months. We know they've been there. Street profits

<v Speaker 1>have just completely vanished off the face to the fucking earth.

<v Speaker 1>Di why is not a thing anymore? So they lost

<v Speaker 1>some teams right, pretty deadly. They've lost a whole bunch

<v Speaker 1>of teams Los Garzo. I mean, how often are they

<v Speaker 1>on TV? Of course nobody cares about these guys. Candace Lray,

<v Speaker 1>she appeared in the aisleway late in this match, and

<v Speaker 1>she wanted to get an up close view of the match.

<v Speaker 1>But the question is why why is she out here?

<v Speaker 1>So we got a suicide dive party from Phraxium to

<v Speaker 1>the machine guns outside before Candace then walks down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring and she nails Nathan Fraser with a cheap

<v Speaker 1>shot and that knocks him backwards into a Chris Sabin

<v Speaker 1>roll up and he wins it for the machine guns.

<v Speaker 1>So they played it like Sabin had no idea what

<v Speaker 1>Candace did. Alex Shelley clearly did. He was looking at her.

<v Speaker 1>He was standing behind Sabin. Saban's celebrating, and you can

<v Speaker 1>see Shelley in the background like looking over at Candace

<v Speaker 1>looking look at it, Saban, look at it. Canvas back

<v Speaker 1>in the aisle, say he was well aware of what

<v Speaker 1>had happened. There and look, the best I can say

<v Speaker 1>about that. It may not be the best story, but

<v Speaker 1>at least they are finally coming up with some kind

<v Speaker 1>of story. I mean, we got to move this shit

<v Speaker 1>along though with Gargano, but some kind of story where

<v Speaker 1>they're making you think, is this going to drive a

<v Speaker 1>wedge between the members of the machine Guns. Saban didn't

<v Speaker 1>know what happened, but Shelley did. It's very weak, but

<v Speaker 1>it's something. It's something. Something is better than nothing. Something

<v Speaker 1>at least you can work with, something you can build

<v Speaker 1>on right and hope that you could turn it into something.

<v Speaker 1>So at least they're trying something with these guys. I

<v Speaker 1>gotta tell you, though, on the Johnny Gargano stuff, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how long he has left on his contract.

<v Speaker 1>I haven't heard anything or read anything about his contract

<v Speaker 1>being up imminently or anything like that or any sort

<v Speaker 1>of expectation he's going to join his partner in aaw

<v Speaker 1>But boy, you know, Johnny garganoo is dead in the

<v Speaker 1>water in this company. He's done. He's done. Yeah. We

<v Speaker 1>talk about people that have a certain ceiling, like he's

<v Speaker 1>already hit his ceiling in this company. It's very clear like,

<v Speaker 1>what is there for him to do? He is still

<v Speaker 1>hanging out with the tag teams. He's not a tag

<v Speaker 1>team wrestler anymore. He lost his tag team partner, but

<v Speaker 1>yet he's still doing this silly angle and hanging out

<v Speaker 1>with Phraxium and with the machine guns. Why where is

<v Speaker 1>this leading? Like, what's the end goal with this? Eventually

<v Speaker 1>he won't be depressed anymore. Okay, great, so then he'll

<v Speaker 1>be back to his normal self, where again he'll be

<v Speaker 1>on television maybe once a month, and he won't be

<v Speaker 1>doing anything of substance. I don't see a future for

<v Speaker 1>him in this company. I really don't. At least if

<v Speaker 1>his contract was up and he wanted to leave and

<v Speaker 1>go somewhere else, he could look he could reunite with Shampa,

<v Speaker 1>and there is a tag team division that I think

<v Speaker 1>those teams that they have over there, honestly would fit

<v Speaker 1>their se a lot better. And I think you know

<v Speaker 1>that's true, the teams they have over there in aw Dy,

<v Speaker 1>working against those guys, it would fit like a glove.

<v Speaker 1>That would be his best option at this point, because

<v Speaker 1>you cannot honestly sit there and tell me that at

<v Speaker 1>the end of all of this, Johnny Gargana was going

<v Speaker 1>to be in a spot that's any better than the

<v Speaker 1>one he's in right now. Very clear to me that

<v Speaker 1>whatever Triple H saw in him in Black and Gold

<v Speaker 1>n XT, and I mean, he was such an important

<v Speaker 1>pivotal part of that brand. This Triple H on the

<v Speaker 1>main roster with all the other big names they have,

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Gargana just don't fit in there. But if he's

<v Speaker 1>content to just lay around on a crate every week,

<v Speaker 1>fly himself all over the country and just lay on

<v Speaker 1>a crate, then hey, you know, hey, make that shedder.

<v Speaker 1>I hope the money is good. I don't really know

<v Speaker 1>what else to say. Then it was time to hear

<v Speaker 1>from the man of the hour. It was time to

<v Speaker 1>hear from Randy Orton Cinematics says Shelley and Gargana will

<v Speaker 1>be a new tag team and they will kick out

<v Speaker 1>Chris Saban. Ah. Okay, so then that's the end of

<v Speaker 1>Chris Saban. There's no good there's no good outcome in

<v Speaker 1>any of these scenarios for any of these guys. That

<v Speaker 1>would be a terrible idea. It keeps the lights on. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I guess. So I'm just saying he'd be able to

<v Speaker 1>keep the lights on there too. But I think for

<v Speaker 1>the style of match that he became so well known

<v Speaker 1>for having in Black and Gold, it would be a

<v Speaker 1>better fit for him. That's all I'm saying. Not that

<v Speaker 1>AW needs to just keep filling their roster of with

<v Speaker 1>more people, but I'm just saying in terms of like

<v Speaker 1>a fit, that would seem to be the better fit.

<v Speaker 1>So Randy Orton was out to the ring next, and

<v Speaker 1>he was by no means booed during his entrance. In fact,

<v Speaker 1>the fans cheered and they sang his song as he

<v Speaker 1>made his way down to the ring. And I'm watching

<v Speaker 1>this and I'm just thinking to myself, poor Cody Man

<v Speaker 1>was massacred, he was left in just a bloody heap

<v Speaker 1>last week. And these people, they just want to sing

<v Speaker 1>for Randy Orton, That's all they want to do. So

<v Speaker 1>Orton grabbed the chair he sat in the ring and

<v Speaker 1>he said, you know, for years the fans would sing

<v Speaker 1>along to my entrance music. What a feeling it is.

<v Speaker 1>The love that you people show me means so much

<v Speaker 1>to him. So he tries to give it back, and

<v Speaker 1>he signs autographs and he signs their posters and their

<v Speaker 1>replica belts and whatever they put in front of him.

<v Speaker 1>When he comes down to the ring, he'll see a

<v Speaker 1>little kid that says, Randle, it's my birthda. So he'll

<v Speaker 1>go over and he'll wish them a happy birthday. And

<v Speaker 1>you know, he knows that kid is going to remember

<v Speaker 1>that moment for the rest of his life. He loves that.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he can put a smile on his face.

<v Speaker 1>That smile, he says, though, smile that all of this

<v Speaker 1>puts on Randy Orton's face, he says, is the emptiest

<v Speaker 1>feeling that he has ever felt in his entire life. Now,

<v Speaker 1>you would think at that moment the fans would go boo,

<v Speaker 1>but not really. The fans were not interested in booing

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton even though, and maybe they didn't realize that

<v Speaker 1>he was insulting them, I don't know, but they didn't care.

<v Speaker 1>So he said, he's been doing this longer than most,

<v Speaker 1>but nothing lasts forever. So when the time comes that

<v Speaker 1>he has to hang up the boots, he doesn't want

<v Speaker 1>that to be his legacy. What he wants to be

<v Speaker 1>his legacy is how many championships, how much championship gold

<v Speaker 1>he's put around his waist, And he got cheered. They

<v Speaker 1>cheered it. They were agreeing with everything this man is saying. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>it should be about championships. That's what your legacy should

<v Speaker 1>be based on, not signing autographs with a little snot

<v Speaker 1>nose brat in the front row. Now wrong with my brother,

<v Speaker 1>So I'm my car I go fuck you. It's not

<v Speaker 1>about that. It's about championships. He look over my shoulder.

<v Speaker 1>It's about championships. The fans agree. Not long ago, he

<v Speaker 1>said he won the elimination Chamber. He was going to

<v Speaker 1>fight Drew McIntyre for the title, but then Cody came

<v Speaker 1>into the picture and he beat Drew. He took the title,

<v Speaker 1>and he didn't know if he could be who he

<v Speaker 1>had to be to beat Cody. Says he loves Cody

<v Speaker 1>like a brother, still does. He still loves Cody, But

<v Speaker 1>last week Cody took all that weight off his shoulders

<v Speaker 1>when Cody told him he needed Randy to be the

<v Speaker 1>best version of himself. He needed Randy to listen to

<v Speaker 1>the voices and he goes sometimes and this is what

<v Speaker 1>Cody doesn't understand. Says, sometimes he's not in control of

<v Speaker 1>the voices that are in his head, but he knows

<v Speaker 1>that he needs that killer instinct to add number fifteen

<v Speaker 1>to his legacy and going to do it with an

<v Speaker 1>RKO at WrestleMania, and he got loud RKO chants from

<v Speaker 1>the crowd. He says, I hear voices in my head.

<v Speaker 1>They counsel me, they understand, They talk to me. They

<v Speaker 1>tell me that I'm going to beat Cody Rhodes, and

<v Speaker 1>the fans cheered. They tell him he is going to

<v Speaker 1>beat Cody Rhoads for the WWE Championship. He's getting more

<v Speaker 1>and more intense now, like he is beat red. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>like he his head looks like it's going to pop

<v Speaker 1>off his shoulders. He's getting so intense now. And with that,

<v Speaker 1>he placed the microphone down on top of the chair

<v Speaker 1>that he was sitting in and he gazed up at

<v Speaker 1>the WrestleMania sign. There was not a single mention by

<v Speaker 1>Orton here in this promo or by the announcers. It

<v Speaker 1>was never even broached, to the best of my knowledge

<v Speaker 1>here by the announcers of what we saw Monday night,

<v Speaker 1>the segment they inserted into the sho show with the

<v Speaker 1>phone call, which is one of the things I was

<v Speaker 1>waiting to see if was going to be addressed or

<v Speaker 1>resolved here on this show, right who was he on

<v Speaker 1>the phone with? There was no mention of it, which

<v Speaker 1>was very odd that it wasn't even just mentioned by

<v Speaker 1>Joe Tessitur Wade Barrett. It just wasn't even a topic

<v Speaker 1>of conversation here, and obviously Randy didn't you know, address

<v Speaker 1>it in the promo either. We did get a small

<v Speaker 1>follow up to it though later on in the show,

<v Speaker 1>so it was addressed kind of. It was addressed later on.

<v Speaker 1>But as I'm sitting here watching the promo, I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>one of the things I was most looking forward to

<v Speaker 1>seeing him talk about, and I don't know if it

<v Speaker 1>was going to be revealed, but at least address you know,

<v Speaker 1>who he was on the phone with on Monday night

<v Speaker 1>and hearing this one that never came up the rest

<v Speaker 1>of the promo. Honestly, it was about what you would

<v Speaker 1>expect it to be. I was watching some people in

<v Speaker 1>the chat earlier and there was some divided I think

<v Speaker 1>there was some divided opinion on you know, the nature

<v Speaker 1>of the segment. You know it was boring or oh

<v Speaker 1>it's pretty good. Everybody was pretty much unified in the

<v Speaker 1>idea that Randy. He looked like he was about to explode,

<v Speaker 1>because when he gets all wound up like that, that's

<v Speaker 1>what happens to me. It wasn't great, and it wasn't terrible.

<v Speaker 1>I think that all. And we didn't learn anything new.

<v Speaker 1>There was no new information really in this promo that

<v Speaker 1>we did not already surmise by watching the end of

<v Speaker 1>the show last week or what I talked about in

<v Speaker 1>the review and on the podcast, as far as you know,

<v Speaker 1>the kind of the idea I think behind what they

<v Speaker 1>were going for here. He struggled with, how am I

<v Speaker 1>going to be that old Randy Orton if I have

<v Speaker 1>to do it against this guy? Right? This is my bro.

<v Speaker 1>I love this guy. I don't want to kill this guy,

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre. I'll kill him, but I don't want to

<v Speaker 1>kill Cody. How am I going to do this? Remember?

<v Speaker 1>And then Cody cut him off before he could even finish,

<v Speaker 1>and Cody's like, I want the best Randy Orton. I

<v Speaker 1>love you, I'll always love you no matter what. And

<v Speaker 1>I said, as soon as he said that, it was

<v Speaker 1>a weight off of Randy's shoulders, like okay, I'm glad

<v Speaker 1>you said that, And then boom, right, kicked him in

<v Speaker 1>the dick, bloodied him up, fucking smashed his head in

<v Speaker 1>with the chair. It's almost like Cody gave him permission

<v Speaker 1>when he said that to do what he needed to do,

<v Speaker 1>and that's basically what he reinforced, you know here in

<v Speaker 1>this promo. He gave him permission to be that version

<v Speaker 1>of himself that he needed to be, because the only

<v Speaker 1>thing that matters to Randy Orton right now is winning

<v Speaker 1>number fifteen. I said, it's been like six years since

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton has been WWE champion. He has not been

<v Speaker 1>a world champion in six years, so this is something

<v Speaker 1>that is long overdue, and everything is about number fifteen.

<v Speaker 1>It's everything that I was waiting for and hoping for

<v Speaker 1>Sina to talk about going into WrestleMania last year right

<v Speaker 1>where it's all about number seventeen. It's all about cementing

<v Speaker 1>his legacy. Not because I want to ruin wrestling, but

<v Speaker 1>because this is so important to me, I'm willing to

<v Speaker 1>go the extra mile and do whatever it takes to

<v Speaker 1>get there to be that version of myself that I

<v Speaker 1>need to be. So again, it's exactly I think what

<v Speaker 1>many of us figured the story behind his actions would be.

<v Speaker 1>He just articulated it here, but we didn't glean anything

<v Speaker 1>new from it or anything like that. I'm just very

<v Speaker 1>happy we didn't get the obligatory you people promo where

<v Speaker 1>he just went out there and healed on the fans

<v Speaker 1>and blamed the fans it's all your fault, because that

<v Speaker 1>would have been fucking lazy. We got it last year.

<v Speaker 1>We get it almost all the time from so many

<v Speaker 1>people when they turn heel. You know, you can't just

<v Speaker 1>run back the same play over and over again. So

<v Speaker 1>I was at least happy they didn't go in that direction.

<v Speaker 1>He was not overly heal in this promo. Now you

<v Speaker 1>watch what happened last week. It's the Randy Yorton heel turn.

<v Speaker 1>They're playing it in a very interesting way though, where

<v Speaker 1>it really wasn't a heel turn per se. It was

<v Speaker 1>just Randy allowing his kind of evil thoughts to intrude.

<v Speaker 1>Because you can see even when he attacked Cody or

<v Speaker 1>Cardona tonight, kind of he stops right, he puts his

<v Speaker 1>head in his hands like, oh my god, I can't

<v Speaker 1>believe I did this. Oh my god, I just I

<v Speaker 1>lost myself there for a second. He's crazy he's crazy.

<v Speaker 1>He's still coming down to the ring and smacking hands

<v Speaker 1>with little kids and they're singing his song. And he

<v Speaker 1>hasn't fully gone heel just yet. Right, We've had flashes

<v Speaker 1>of it so far, but he hasn't fully taken the

<v Speaker 1>leap yet. So they're playing it, I think in a

<v Speaker 1>very interesting way. The thing is that these fans are

<v Speaker 1>not going to boo him. It's going to be a

<v Speaker 1>challenge if the goal is to get them to boo

<v Speaker 1>Randy and cheer Cody and not have like a split reaction.

<v Speaker 1>And I would imagine they had to already know this,

<v Speaker 1>but it's very clear from watching TV the last two

<v Speaker 1>weeks you're not gonna get You're not gonna get that

<v Speaker 1>kind of reaction where it's all or nothing, you know,

<v Speaker 1>one one over the other. It's gonna be challenging. But look,

<v Speaker 1>I have seen Cody Rhodes before, and he did this

<v Speaker 1>actually with John Cena last year. Come out and cut

<v Speaker 1>that fiery baby face promo. He did it with the

<v Speaker 1>drewmacintyre feud as well. He can win those people over

<v Speaker 1>with a good fiery babyface promo, and if he can

<v Speaker 1>pull that out of himself, I think that that will help.

<v Speaker 1>That will go a long way to just make sure

<v Speaker 1>you can kind of coalesce those fans around Cody, even

<v Speaker 1>if they still, you know, some of them cheer Randy.

<v Speaker 1>That's fine, boy. You don't want is just everybody booing

<v Speaker 1>Cody going into WrestleMania. LUs. The idea is to and

<v Speaker 1>this would be very interesting. Again, I don't see them

<v Speaker 1>doing this. I've talked about all the reasons why I

<v Speaker 1>don't think they should or that they won't don't. But

<v Speaker 1>the idea of a double turn where if you do

<v Speaker 1>believe Randy has turned and embrace the dark side, Cody

<v Speaker 1>ends up embracing the dark side of WrestleMania. And since

<v Speaker 1>the people don't want to boo Randy anyway, it wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be much of a stretch to kind of get them

<v Speaker 1>back on his side and you do a double turn

<v Speaker 1>in Mania. Now, that would be bold, That would be

<v Speaker 1>a bold move on their part. And in a perfect

<v Speaker 1>world where they had somebody already lined up, not Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton to slide into that top baby face position, I

<v Speaker 1>would say, fucking go for it. What an incredible ending

<v Speaker 1>to that night of WrestleMania. But they don't have anybody else.

<v Speaker 1>They don't have anybody else who's ready to step up

<v Speaker 1>and be that guy. If you take that away from Cody.

<v Speaker 1>Somebody has to be ready to step into that spot.

<v Speaker 1>So that's the only reason I think that it's not

<v Speaker 1>going to happen anytime soon, really, but that would be

<v Speaker 1>a bold move if they wanted to try. I had

<v Speaker 1>to pull that off. At WrestleMania Now backstage after the

<v Speaker 1>commercial break, Orton was walking backstage and he came upon

<v Speaker 1>Matt Cardona, whose job apparently is him just standing around

<v Speaker 1>doing nothing in the back on most weeks. Some weeks

<v Speaker 1>he's back there talking to Apollo Cruz. Other weeks he's

<v Speaker 1>just standing around just you know what it was like.

<v Speaker 1>These are real life cut scenes in the back from

<v Speaker 1>the WWE two K video games. Now. I haven't played

<v Speaker 1>two K twenty six. I don't know if it's even

<v Speaker 1>worth it or if it's that radically different from two

<v Speaker 1>K twenty five, but I remember playing two K and

<v Speaker 1>I'm in the back and you have options of who

<v Speaker 1>you can walk up to and talk to. They're just

<v Speaker 1>randomly standing there. They're not doing anything, and you're like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>my choice is the MIZZ or fucking Jay Uso. It's like,

<v Speaker 1>all right, fine, I'll talk to Jay Uso. It'll be

<v Speaker 1>a short conversation. And so you Mosyana and but Jay

<v Speaker 1>is just standing there. So you walk up to Jay

<v Speaker 1>and you say hi, and he goes yea, and that's

<v Speaker 1>the end of the conversation. But that's what this is like,

<v Speaker 1>for random people just standing around in the back waiting

<v Speaker 1>for someone to walk up to them so they can

<v Speaker 1>engage and have a conversation. So he bumps into Matt Cardona.

<v Speaker 1>Orton said, look, I got no beef with you. You

<v Speaker 1>got something to say, clearly, spit it out. And Cardona

<v Speaker 1>wanted to know what the hell was that about last

<v Speaker 1>week with Cody, Orton exploded on him. How dare you

<v Speaker 1>you've got the nerve to talk to me like that?

<v Speaker 1>He asked, Cardona, don't you have any action figures to

<v Speaker 1>go play along, to go play around with? And he

<v Speaker 1>said he called no, this was this was something. He

<v Speaker 1>called him a mark ass stooge and an indie nerd.

<v Speaker 1>She just fucking buried this guy six ways to Sunday

<v Speaker 1>back there, a Mark ass stooge and an indie nerd.

<v Speaker 1>Go play with your action figure? He should have said

<v Speaker 1>dolls to really put it over the top. He should

<v Speaker 1>have said, go play with your dolls. Well, my balls

<v Speaker 1>are action fuckings. See, he made a mistake there that

<v Speaker 1>would have made it even better if he would have

<v Speaker 1>called them dolls. So then he says, you're wasting my time,

<v Speaker 1>and he went to go walk off. But then he

<v Speaker 1>came back and he gave Cardona a cheap shot, and

<v Speaker 1>then he looked down at him and he told him,

<v Speaker 1>stay out of my business. You wouldn't understand not the

<v Speaker 1>last time we would see these two together on this show. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's just very He just buried him. He had secondhand

<v Speaker 1>embarrassed been watching. Yeah, I'm not surprised you Mark ass stooge,

<v Speaker 1>indie nerd geek, go play with your dolls. We had

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's ain speaking of Marc ask Geeks, Sammy's ay one

<v Speaker 1>on one with Alistair Black. The crowd was pretty pretty

<v Speaker 1>dead for Sammy's entrance. I don't think he has ever

<v Speaker 1>been colder than he is right now, at least not

<v Speaker 1>on the main roster since he joined WWE, even though

<v Speaker 1>I have to say some of the backstage segments he's

<v Speaker 1>been involved in, especially his interactions with Cody honestly have

<v Speaker 1>been some of the more compelling things on this show

<v Speaker 1>in recent weeks. I don't know what that says. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what that says about this show, that those

<v Speaker 1>are some of the more compelling segments they've done. But

<v Speaker 1>when he comes out here now you could sense it,

<v Speaker 1>you know, with these audiences, they're just they're not behind

<v Speaker 1>him in the way they used to be. And I

<v Speaker 1>don't think it should be all that surprising because I

<v Speaker 1>don't know that people really know where he stands right now.

<v Speaker 1>He's having all this self doubt and it's like every

<v Speaker 1>week is a fucking pity party with this guy. Nobody

<v Speaker 1>wants to get behind someone who feels sorry for themselves.

<v Speaker 1>Like every week again he's depressed like half the people

<v Speaker 1>on this show, and he's smacking water bottles around and

<v Speaker 1>he just he doesn't, you know, believe in himself. You know,

<v Speaker 1>I know I could be a world champion, but never

<v Speaker 1>works out for me. But you look at you, Cody,

<v Speaker 1>You got the belts, You're the golden bat, Like shut up, dude,

<v Speaker 1>Like you're fucking loser. Like no one wants to cheer

<v Speaker 1>for that. So something has to give very soon. With him.

<v Speaker 1>Either he has to go heal or he just has

<v Speaker 1>to find a backbone and get a harder edge to him,

<v Speaker 1>because right now everyone's just sort of apathetic towards him,

<v Speaker 1>you know, when he comes out here. So the lights

<v Speaker 1>went out just as the match was about to begin,

<v Speaker 1>and Trick Williams came out to ringside to observe. Now

<v Speaker 1>there's a man who gets a reaction every week. They

<v Speaker 1>went to commercial about ninety seconds into this, and during commercial,

<v Speaker 1>Tricks stay up on the announced desk and he begins

<v Speaker 1>to gyr. He's looking at at the crowd and he

<v Speaker 1>just begins to gyrate, and the crowd is channing. Whooped

<v Speaker 1>that trick and they these people cannot possibly care any

<v Speaker 1>less about the match that is happening inside the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and Sammy's like glancing over at him to see what's

<v Speaker 1>going on. So late in the match, Sammy connected with

<v Speaker 1>an exploder into the corner and the fans began to

<v Speaker 1>boo him. Okay, they began to boo Sammy's ain as

<v Speaker 1>he started to mount some offense here. I think that

<v Speaker 1>says it all. He tried for a halluva kick. Alistair

<v Speaker 1>rolled out of the ring. Sammy went outside and he

<v Speaker 1>smacks Trick's leg off the announced desk. A Trick was

<v Speaker 1>being a little too comfortable out there. He smacks his

<v Speaker 1>leg off and he puts Black back in the ring

<v Speaker 1>before he could go back in the ring with him. Though,

<v Speaker 1>Trick stands up, he splashes his drink right across Sammy's back.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy turns around and he's staring at him, and he

<v Speaker 1>looks like he's about to attack him. He looks back

<v Speaker 1>at the ring. He see the referee is counting. He's

<v Speaker 1>up to five or six, and he's got to make

<v Speaker 1>a decision. Do I go back in the ring or

<v Speaker 1>do I risk being counted out and beat the piss

<v Speaker 1>out of this guy. So he makes like he's going

<v Speaker 1>to go back in the ring, but then he turns

<v Speaker 1>around and he attacks Trick and he begins to rain

<v Speaker 1>blows down upon him. He's pummeling this man. By the

<v Speaker 1>time Sammy gets back in the ring, though, he got caught,

<v Speaker 1>and I do mean caught. They showed a slow mo

<v Speaker 1>replay of this. It looked fucking fantastic. He caught him

<v Speaker 1>right on there him. He rocked his jaw with a

<v Speaker 1>black mass kick, and Sammy just crumbled in a heap

<v Speaker 1>on the mat, and that allowed Alistair Black to secure

<v Speaker 1>yet another big win. I say another because remember a

<v Speaker 1>month ago on this very show, Alistair Black pinned Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>Now that sounds great, right, He's got pinfall wins now

<v Speaker 1>over Randy Orton, who could very well be extra champion.

<v Speaker 1>He's got to win now over Sammy's aim, Right, man,

<v Speaker 1>this guy's going places. Except he's probably not, because both

<v Speaker 1>in both cases, if you remember the match with Orton,

<v Speaker 1>it was more about Drew McIntyre coming out and Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre getting involved or just kind of distracting from what

<v Speaker 1>was going on in the ring, and that led to

<v Speaker 1>Orton losing, and he was kind of an afterthought Alistair was.

<v Speaker 1>In this case. It was the same thing where it

<v Speaker 1>wasn't even really about Alistair winning. It was more about

<v Speaker 1>the stuff with Sammy and Trick, and Sammy allowing Trick

<v Speaker 1>to kind of get in his head and get to him,

<v Speaker 1>and Alistair was an afterthought. So he's winning matches, But

<v Speaker 1>what does it really mean if he's an afterthought and

<v Speaker 1>all of it, You know, I don't know where it's

<v Speaker 1>necessarily going to lead to anything of any significance for him.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's great that he's winning matches, but if

<v Speaker 1>you're not the focal point, it doesn't matter. Like you

<v Speaker 1>could go out there and win all of your matches,

<v Speaker 1>but if you're sort of background noise to the larger

<v Speaker 1>story that's going on, yeah, it doesn't really matter. And

<v Speaker 1>that's kind of where he is right now. So Sammy

<v Speaker 1>against Trick, I mean that seems pretty evident at this

<v Speaker 1>point to be a direction for WrestleMania. I mean they've

<v Speaker 1>been teasing it since January. Really, when Trick came to

<v Speaker 1>the main roster, Sammy was one of the first people

<v Speaker 1>he interacted with. They haven't gotten along since. So at

<v Speaker 1>one time I thought maybe Trick would be in line

<v Speaker 1>for a US title match. Honestly, after tonight maybe he

<v Speaker 1>still will be. I'd love to see it, but they've

<v Speaker 1>done nothing in that direction, and we are four weeks

<v Speaker 1>actually less than four weeks away now from WrestleMania. Everything

<v Speaker 1>points to Sammy and Trick on that show. But again,

<v Speaker 1>with Sammy, they're gonna have to come up with something

<v Speaker 1>real quick. As far as this character is concerned, it

<v Speaker 1>feels to me like it's going somewhere soon for his sake.

<v Speaker 1>I hope they get there, and I hope whatever they

<v Speaker 1>got planned is really good, because he's dying on the

<v Speaker 1>vine out there. Fans just aren't reacting to him in

<v Speaker 1>the way they used to. It's sad, you know, he

<v Speaker 1>used to be one of those guys on the show.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm not even talking just with the bloodline stuff,

<v Speaker 1>but he was. He's always been someone that the fans

<v Speaker 1>could relate to. Was like an underdog. He's a great

<v Speaker 1>underdog on the show. You can only play that card

<v Speaker 1>for so long, though, you know, and he's been there

<v Speaker 1>for so long. Sometimes you gotta find that harder edge,

<v Speaker 1>right or you just got to make some kind of

<v Speaker 1>a move. Maybe it's a heeled to I don't know

<v Speaker 1>about even turning him heel like. I'm not even sure

<v Speaker 1>if that's the answer, but you got to do something different.

<v Speaker 1>In the back, Matt Cardona was very upset about his

<v Speaker 1>interaction earlier with Randy Orton, and he went to Nick

<v Speaker 1>all this and he demanded a match tonight and he

<v Speaker 1>was told, no, I don't even think all this really

<v Speaker 1>had a great an answer for him. He was basically

<v Speaker 1>just shut him down, and Cardona walked off, So then

<v Speaker 1>Carmelo Hayes shows up and he's like, what is this.

<v Speaker 1>I hear about the open Challenge tonight being closed? All

<v Speaker 1>this tells him, yeah, well somebody stepped up and made

<v Speaker 1>a compelling argument for a match tonight. Hayes turns around

<v Speaker 1>and there's Ilia Dragon of and he's ready for combat.

<v Speaker 1>He's dressed and ready to go. And he says he

<v Speaker 1>might always be fighting himself because he's been talking about

<v Speaker 1>how every week with him like, it's a struggle in

<v Speaker 1>my own head. And you know, I'm either I'm at

<v Speaker 1>a ten or I'm met like a two, and I

<v Speaker 1>just I can't really find that perfect, like you know,

<v Speaker 1>level that I need to be at. Here, it's all

<v Speaker 1>this nonsense, Like all of a sudden, he's doubting himself.

<v Speaker 1>All these people having self doubts on this show? What

<v Speaker 1>is going on here on this on this show, I'm raw.

<v Speaker 1>You've got brock Lesnar and Oba Femi, you know, going

<v Speaker 1>after each other. You got Seth Rolin and the Putty

<v Speaker 1>Patrol running around. You've got the Judgment Day. There's always

<v Speaker 1>drama with the Judgment Day. I don't see people moping

<v Speaker 1>around all depressed though and getting in their fucking heads. Unwraw.

<v Speaker 1>There's something about this show. I don't know what it is.

<v Speaker 1>There's something you would think on Fridays, people would be

<v Speaker 1>happy it's Friday, right tgif it's the end of the week.

<v Speaker 1>Monday was always the depressing day. I don't see any

<v Speaker 1>of this shit on Monday, though it's only on Friday.

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand. Oh, it's a direction. You can fuck hey, Luis,

<v Speaker 1>look at this twenty two dollars super Jet's right, you

<v Speaker 1>tell them where they can go. I think we need

<v Speaker 1>some mental health counselors backstage at SmackDown each week. Get

<v Speaker 1>some couch time. I think that would be a big benefit.

<v Speaker 1>So the WWE Women's Champion, oh boy from depression. We

<v Speaker 1>go to a Jade Cargill who came out with the

<v Speaker 1>world's largest neck pillow. I don't know what was going

<v Speaker 1>on with that. As soon as she gets in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>she said that she knows Ria is in the back,

<v Speaker 1>and she demands that Ria Ripley come out to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley comes out. She gets the loudest reaction of

<v Speaker 1>almost anybody on the entire show, and she wondered, look

<v Speaker 1>are we gonna keep talking and doing this or are

<v Speaker 1>we gonna throw down? And Jade says, it's not about

<v Speaker 1>what you want. She said, I don't need the title

<v Speaker 1>and I don't need the fans. She goes with or

<v Speaker 1>without wrestling. I'm that bitch. She says this every week.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, I'm that bitch. I'm that bitch. I'm

<v Speaker 1>that bitch every week. She's not here to make friends,

<v Speaker 1>she's here to make money. So now she's lifting lines

<v Speaker 1>from other people's promos. Rhea said that Jade's already been

<v Speaker 1>pretty successful on the no friend's part. She said that

<v Speaker 1>she didn't need the title. The title needed her. Basically,

<v Speaker 1>Rio was here to rescue the title from Jade, and

<v Speaker 1>then she said to Jade, welcome to the big leagues. Bitch.

<v Speaker 1>Ripley told Jade that I'll even give you the first shot,

<v Speaker 1>and she's begging her, she's begging her fire the first

<v Speaker 1>shot here hit me and Jade said, nah, on my time,

<v Speaker 1>and she goes to leave the ring. Now, as Jade

<v Speaker 1>is leaving, we see me Chin me Chin with her

<v Speaker 1>trusty Kendostick and Befab, a very intimidating duo, and they're

<v Speaker 1>in the aisleway and they're blocking Jade's path, so she

<v Speaker 1>can't go. Jade realizes she's stuck. She turns around. She

<v Speaker 1>sees Riha in the ring, and all of a sudden,

<v Speaker 1>this look of concern on Jade's face turns to a smile,

<v Speaker 1>and Beachen and Bfab they stand beside her. It's a swerve.

<v Speaker 1>And I remember I mentioned last week in one of

<v Speaker 1>the backstage segments in the back in the background, you

<v Speaker 1>could see Jade having a conversation with Bfab, and then

<v Speaker 1>they ended up walking off together. And I said, I

<v Speaker 1>wonder if we're gonna get I don't know if she's

<v Speaker 1>gonna call them batties, but basically her own version of

<v Speaker 1>the batties that she had in AAW she had leis

<v Speaker 1>La Gray. I always forget the name of the other bell,

<v Speaker 1>Kiera Hogan, I think was the other one. Why not

<v Speaker 1>have her, you know, have something similar here in WWI,

<v Speaker 1>And now she does. She's got Meechen and she's got Bfabs.

<v Speaker 1>So now they surround the ring. Rihea is out numbered

<v Speaker 1>here and they all climb into the ring and Rihea

<v Speaker 1>is trying to fight them off, but Meechen hits her

<v Speaker 1>with the kendo stick. Right across the ribs. So they

<v Speaker 1>all are holding Rhea for Jade to deliver a kick

<v Speaker 1>with her high heels. By the way she kicks, and

<v Speaker 1>then she drops her with Jaded and they all pose together.

<v Speaker 1>And so now Jade has a crew of her own.

<v Speaker 1>Venom says PMS. But without Sean, Yes, Sean Staysiac. Now

<v Speaker 1>you gotta get it right, it's meat. Well. I'll tell

<v Speaker 1>you what, if Sean Staysiac was part of this group,

<v Speaker 1>you'd have meet Chin and you'd have meat Chin. There

<v Speaker 1>you go. I don't know what he's up to these days,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm sure he'd love to be a part of

<v Speaker 1>this crew. As far as the promo goes, Jay's not

<v Speaker 1>very good at them, and I feel like for the

<v Speaker 1>last three weeks we have just heard some variation of

<v Speaker 1>the same shit from these two over and over again.

<v Speaker 1>So this promo was not good. Again, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what Jade was wearing around her neck. It was bizarre.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, I will say one nice thing about

<v Speaker 1>this though, I actually think taking the tack of her

<v Speaker 1>saying I don't need wrestling, Like she's the champion and

<v Speaker 1>she's out there saying I don't need the belt I

<v Speaker 1>don't need the belt, I don't need wrestling. I'm going

<v Speaker 1>to be a star with or without wrestling. Right, they're

<v Speaker 1>basically just kind of playing off of what I think

<v Speaker 1>a lot of people feel about her. They're playing off

<v Speaker 1>people's perceptions of her, and I don't know that that's

<v Speaker 1>a bad thing. Why not lean into that? You know

<v Speaker 1>it might get her more heat that way, So I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I'm fine with them taking that approach. And as far

<v Speaker 1>as her having Meechin and b Fab with her, Meechin

<v Speaker 1>and b Fab weren't doing anything else on the show.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, they've been feuding for months. These women have

<v Speaker 1>been feuding for months, so you look at it and go,

<v Speaker 1>what has changed. It's preposterous that all of a sudden

<v Speaker 1>they would be willing to be Lackey's for this woman.

<v Speaker 1>But it's the old expression, if you can't beat them,

<v Speaker 1>join them. How many people that were beaten up by

<v Speaker 1>the nWo back in the day ultimately join the nWo.

<v Speaker 1>Now why would they do that? Right? They would do

<v Speaker 1>it because they're tired of getting their asses kicked and

<v Speaker 1>they see no other recourse here other than to simply

<v Speaker 1>join up with the nWo. In this case, Mechin and BFAB.

<v Speaker 1>They weren't beaten Jade for that championship. No matter how

<v Speaker 1>many times they got in the ring together, it wasn't

<v Speaker 1>going to work out for them. So maybe they just said,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, we might just be better off hanging

<v Speaker 1>out with the champion. I agree. I mean, it's preposterous.

<v Speaker 1>I look forward to there being a rational explanation for this.

<v Speaker 1>If they go on TV next week and explore social

<v Speaker 1>media or whatever and they explain why they decided to

<v Speaker 1>link up with Jade right now and help protect that title, great,

<v Speaker 1>I'd love to hear it. But I mean, we can't

<v Speaker 1>pretend we haven't seen this thing in wrestling before. We've

<v Speaker 1>seen it all the time over the years. Sometimes it

<v Speaker 1>makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. I don't mind them being

<v Speaker 1>paired off with Jade, and here's the other reason why,

<v Speaker 1>because it means they're no longer feuding. We no longer

<v Speaker 1>need any Jade Cargill Meechin matches or Jade Cargill BFAB matches.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, two women who I think have worked

<v Speaker 1>with Jade and both got injured working with Jade. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I'd rather be on the same side with her too. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>I don't really have anything else to say about this segment.

<v Speaker 1>This feud hasn't been hitting. This feud has not been

<v Speaker 1>hitting since they kick started it. Maybe now Jade has

<v Speaker 1>some people to boss around. It's a new obstacle for

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley to overcome that. Try not to laugh when

<v Speaker 1>I say that, because it's meechin and b fab that

<v Speaker 1>we're talking about here. I know, I'm sure Rhea Ripley

<v Speaker 1>is shaking in her boots, but don't laugh. But it

<v Speaker 1>does kind of stack the deck a little bit against

<v Speaker 1>Rhea heading into WrestleMania. And here's the other thing. It

<v Speaker 1>gives Ria people that she could just go in there

<v Speaker 1>and be and toss around if they want to keep

<v Speaker 1>her and Jade a part as much as possible, She's

<v Speaker 1>got to work with somebody. We can't we can't have

<v Speaker 1>three weeks of these promos. I'm sorry, Like, I can't

<v Speaker 1>do it. We can't have three more weeks of them

<v Speaker 1>coming out and going hit me, I'm not bitch, hit me,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not bitch, and then run it back again the

<v Speaker 1>week after, like we gotta we gotta change it up.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, we can't just keep doing this over and

<v Speaker 1>over again, Oh my god, and said, you wonder why

<v Speaker 1>I'm so like depressed about Bianca bell Air not being

<v Speaker 1>back by now the boy as she needed on this show.

<v Speaker 1>Holy shit. We go backstage, the Miss and Kit Wilson

<v Speaker 1>are deep in conversation talking about how Miss should approach

<v Speaker 1>the jelly rule situation, and Dan Housen shows up, so

<v Speaker 1>Miss said, uh, I'm not gonna mentor you, and all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, there was a ladder behind them that fell,

<v Speaker 1>because you see, he was cursed last week, He's still cursed.

<v Speaker 1>So after Kit Wilson left, there was another ladder that fell,

<v Speaker 1>but it fell on the Mizz and whatever. So elsewhere

<v Speaker 1>in the back, Solo Sokoa is with the MFTs and

<v Speaker 1>he is pissed. He's pissed at them for losing the

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles. Tamatanga tells Solo give the lantern back,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, yes, listen to Tomatanga. Okay, listen to

<v Speaker 1>Tama Tanga. Give the lantern back. That's all you need

<v Speaker 1>to do. And this whole situation goes away and I

<v Speaker 1>don't have to watch this anymore. So he tells him,

<v Speaker 1>give the lantern back. You haven't been yourself in fact,

<v Speaker 1>you're starting to sound like Roman. Sola doesn't like that

<v Speaker 1>very much. He wants to know what did you just

<v Speaker 1>say to me? And before things can get any more

<v Speaker 1>tense between them, all of a sudden, Jacob fought too

<v Speaker 1>and Drew McIntyre they brawl into camera view. They're still brawling.

<v Speaker 1>They've been fighting this entire time. Remember the Slammy Awards.

<v Speaker 1>Old all you old heads in here, you'll know what

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about if you remember, there was a Slammy

<v Speaker 1>Awards show they used to do a whole show. This

<v Speaker 1>was the one they did in eighty seven. There was

<v Speaker 1>a brawl you talk about wild brawls with Harley Race

<v Speaker 1>and Hacksaw Jim Duggan and they fight off stage into

<v Speaker 1>the backstage area. I would love to know if and

<v Speaker 1>when they pre taped all of this, because I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>they did. They fight into the back and dude, there

<v Speaker 1>are wild animals. There's chickens, and there's roosters, and there's

<v Speaker 1>just all kinds. I don't know what was going on

<v Speaker 1>back there. And the fight continues on and they're fighting

<v Speaker 1>all throughout the building, throughout the entire show, into the

<v Speaker 1>makeup room. Bobby Heenan's running around and the bit ends

<v Speaker 1>with them kind of falling through or blasting through like

<v Speaker 1>the wall, and and they end up back on stage.

<v Speaker 1>But it was like almost like a show long brawl.

<v Speaker 1>That was basically Drew McIntyre and Jacob fought toot And

<v Speaker 1>I've been not nearly as entertaining as that was. But

<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you look it up Slammy Awards eighty seven

<v Speaker 1>You'll see what I'm talking about. Yes, hey, didn't got

<v Speaker 1>dragged into a pig pen. I actually there were some

<v Speaker 1>animals I think that were harmed in the filming of that.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure they killed a whole bunch of chickens.

<v Speaker 1>But in any event, they had to be separated again

<v Speaker 1>by officials and the MFTs. They just vanished too, because

<v Speaker 1>when they kind of fought back over to the area

<v Speaker 1>where they were all standing, they were just gone. The

<v Speaker 1>MFTs were just gone. Then we had Carmelo Hayes one

<v Speaker 1>on one with Ilia Dragonov for the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>We didn't even have to wait until wrestle Mania for it.

<v Speaker 1>There was a spot here where Dragonov went for a

<v Speaker 1>coast to coast and he comes flying in and Hayes

<v Speaker 1>catches him with the first forty eight and he kind

<v Speaker 1>of bounces up and he's all groggy, but then he

<v Speaker 1>quickly collects himself and he falls on top of him

<v Speaker 1>and smashes him with an h bomb and he's got

<v Speaker 1>him covered and Carmelo Hayes gets his foot on the

<v Speaker 1>bottom rope at the last possible second and saves his championship,

<v Speaker 1>and then they went to commercial. So these two were

<v Speaker 1>cooking here at this point in the match. The fans

<v Speaker 1>were chatting, this is awesome. The people were into it.

<v Speaker 1>Hayes attempted a DDT on the apron, Dragonov lifted him

<v Speaker 1>into a death valley driver instead. Dragonov attempted a superplex later,

<v Speaker 1>but Hayes turned it into a basically like a spinning

<v Speaker 1>cutter on the way down. For the closest of near falls,

<v Speaker 1>Dragonov had Hayes in his sights for Torpedo Moscow, but

<v Speaker 1>the champion caught him coming in with the first forty

<v Speaker 1>eight only got a near fall out of it. So

<v Speaker 1>Hayes misses a dive from the top rope, Dragonoff blasts

<v Speaker 1>him with Torpedo Moscow. Dragonoff hoists him up for a

<v Speaker 1>power bomb, and Hayes turns that into a sunset flip

<v Speaker 1>bomb and pins him to retain the title. This was

<v Speaker 1>the usual excellent outing here from these two besting on

<v Speaker 1>the entire show. Certainly in terms of the inn ring.

<v Speaker 1>It is impossible for these two men to go out

<v Speaker 1>there and have anything other than a bad match, and

<v Speaker 1>they've had enough matches by now where you know, they

<v Speaker 1>got their rhythm down. These guys know how to work

<v Speaker 1>one another, and so this was just excellent stuff and

<v Speaker 1>another great outing for Carmelo Hayes, who I think has

<v Speaker 1>had a really great run for himself as the champion,

<v Speaker 1>where at least he's wrestling almost weekly, if not weekly,

<v Speaker 1>putting his title on the line, and he's going out

<v Speaker 1>there and having banger matches, and look what's happened. He

<v Speaker 1>has slowly but surely over time gotten himself over based

<v Speaker 1>on his work. So I think, you know, whatever their

<v Speaker 1>intent was when they put the championship on him, I

<v Speaker 1>would call it a pretty big success so far in

<v Speaker 1>terms of the run that he's had. But I was

<v Speaker 1>affecting this to possibly take place in WrestleMania. Everything seemed

<v Speaker 1>to be geared towards that. It's like Okay, if Mello

<v Speaker 1>is going to put his belt on the line on

<v Speaker 1>that show, who is it against Dragonoff? Because they've been

<v Speaker 1>delaying it, Like every time he thinks Dragonoff is going

<v Speaker 1>to come out to accept the open challenge, he goes

<v Speaker 1>in the back. He's like, what are you doing? You're

<v Speaker 1>not dressed? And Dragonoff had every excuse under the sun.

<v Speaker 1>I don't deserve it. I'm not ready for it. I'm

<v Speaker 1>in my own head blah blah blah. So I'm like, okay,

<v Speaker 1>they're going to try to extend this out to Mania.

<v Speaker 1>This I don't know. This felt to me like for

<v Speaker 1>now they're going to get away from this. He beat

<v Speaker 1>him fair and square. I mean, there was no ambiguity

<v Speaker 1>about it. You know, he pinned him one, two, three,

<v Speaker 1>fair and square in the middle of the ring. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. It just felt to me like now they're

<v Speaker 1>going to move on to something else. But if that's

<v Speaker 1>the case, then you know, what is what does Melo

<v Speaker 1>do at WrestleMania, you know, if not Trick Williams, because

<v Speaker 1>Trick is probably going to be working Sammy, then a

<v Speaker 1>what does Melo do with media? And then you have

<v Speaker 1>dragon Off? Now, if dragon is not wrestling for the

<v Speaker 1>US title. Then he's not on the WrestleMania card. He'll

<v Speaker 1>be in the Andre Battle Royal the night before. Unless

<v Speaker 1>the idea that I floated. I floated this on social

<v Speaker 1>media the other day. It got a pretty good reception,

<v Speaker 1>and having seen what they did tonight, if they truly

<v Speaker 1>have gotten this match out of the way and they're

<v Speaker 1>done with this, you know what, maybe I'm onto something

<v Speaker 1>and maybe it opens the door for a match at

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania between Gunther and Ilia Dragonov. And in terms of

<v Speaker 1>how you explain it, it's very simple. He's been having

<v Speaker 1>this almost like an identity crisis right again, where he's

<v Speaker 1>just lost confidence in himself. Dragonov went out there, had

<v Speaker 1>a great match, and he lost again. So what does

<v Speaker 1>he have to do? Let him show up on Raw

<v Speaker 1>with permission from Nick All this because he came to

<v Speaker 1>the realization that the man that he needs to step

<v Speaker 1>into the ring with is the man that has tested

<v Speaker 1>him in between those ropes more than any other man

<v Speaker 1>that he has ever set foot in a wrestling ring with.

<v Speaker 1>And you have a few weeks to educate or re

<v Speaker 1>educate people about the history between these two men from

<v Speaker 1>their battles in NXT and NXT UK because there are

<v Speaker 1>people who probably have no concept of the history between them,

<v Speaker 1>but there is history between them. And it sure doesn't

<v Speaker 1>look like Gunther has anything lined up. We don't know

<v Speaker 1>if Raymysterio is going to be his opponent. If he is,

<v Speaker 1>raym Asterio's got a couple of broken ribs, one on

<v Speaker 1>the left side, one on the right side. We don't

<v Speaker 1>know if he's going to be healed up in time

<v Speaker 1>for WrestleMania. Do you really want to take the chance

<v Speaker 1>with someone like Gunther that you get to the finish

<v Speaker 1>line and his opponent is not medically cleared and you

<v Speaker 1>leave this man off the show, the man who handed

<v Speaker 1>John Cena a loss in the last match of his career,

<v Speaker 1>the man who ended the career of AJ Styles at

<v Speaker 1>this moment, has no clear direction for your biggest show

<v Speaker 1>of the year. That is absurd. So the idea, well

<v Speaker 1>Dragon off and Gunther, you know that doesn't really make

<v Speaker 1>any sense, or it's beneath Gunther he should be doing more. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>well guess what, motherfucker right now, he's not doing shit.

<v Speaker 1>So I would say doing something is better than nothing.

<v Speaker 1>And if you're just gonna have him do something on

<v Speaker 1>the show. I would love for him to be able

<v Speaker 1>to go out there and have a great fucking match,

<v Speaker 1>if nothing else. I'm just saying it's not a bad idea,

<v Speaker 1>especially because Dragon of Now may not have a direction either,

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<v Speaker 1>and Truth are talking to Jelly Roll. Jelly congratulates them

<v Speaker 1>on their win se he walks off and he comes

<v Speaker 1>upon Randy Orton, his old friend who shoved him down

<v Speaker 1>on his ass last week. Goes over to Randy and

<v Speaker 1>Randy apologizes for what happened, and Jelly says, I'm just

<v Speaker 1>worried about you. He knows what it's like to be

<v Speaker 1>the worst version of himself. He's not going to judge Randy,

<v Speaker 1>but he does wonder if Randy still knows what it

<v Speaker 1>means or what he means to this entire place, all

<v Speaker 1>the people who work here. He asks why he's trying

<v Speaker 1>to become a version of himself that he already overcame.

<v Speaker 1>And Jelly says he knows the husband and the fun

<v Speaker 1>Randy Yorton. It's got a beautiful soul. He doesn't know

<v Speaker 1>the guy who did what he did last week. He

<v Speaker 1>still loves Randy. Randy says he knows he was out

<v Speaker 1>of line earlier with Matt Cardona, and he doesn't know

<v Speaker 1>what to do. What should I do? And Jelly tells

<v Speaker 1>him go find Cardona and do the right thing. Do

<v Speaker 1>the right thing, he says. Randy agrees to this and

<v Speaker 1>thanks him. And undoubtedly this means bad things are about

<v Speaker 1>to happen to Matt Cardona. But I will say, you know,

<v Speaker 1>not for nothing, Jelly roll. I thought cut a hell

<v Speaker 1>of a promo there. I thought it was a great

<v Speaker 1>little motivational speech that was a lot of dialogue for

<v Speaker 1>him to remember. I mean, he was going on and

<v Speaker 1>on and on with his promo, and there were a

<v Speaker 1>couple moments there where it looked like Randy was about

<v Speaker 1>to cut in and Jelly just kept going. He was

<v Speaker 1>into it. So, hey, he's a better promo than most.

<v Speaker 1>It's a better promo than Jade, and she's a champion

<v Speaker 1>on this show. Wilson was out to the ring next

<v Speaker 1>to call out the aforementioned Jelly Roll. I told you

<v Speaker 1>he had multiple segments. If I had to count all

<v Speaker 1>of the segments that Jelly Roll had, every backstage segment

<v Speaker 1>and the stuff in the ring with Kit Wilson. He

<v Speaker 1>opened the show, he had the segment with Randy, he

<v Speaker 1>had this segment here, and then he had a segment

<v Speaker 1>later in the back with Nichol. So at least four

<v Speaker 1>at least four segments on this show. Kit Wilson gets

<v Speaker 1>into the ring and he said that Jelly Roll crossed

<v Speaker 1>the line last week by starting the fight. He's here

<v Speaker 1>to finish it. So where he comes from, they settle

<v Speaker 1>it like men. So he proceeded to call Jelly out,

<v Speaker 1>and Jelly Roll comes out and he is power walking

<v Speaker 1>his way to the ris the fastest I've ever seen

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll move in my entire life. And he power

<v Speaker 1>walks down to the ring and he gets in and

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson of course, rolls outside as Jelly roll gets in.

<v Speaker 1>Jelly says that Wilson called him out for a fight,

<v Speaker 1>and he was ready for so he called for a

<v Speaker 1>referee and he got the crab pumped up and everything.

<v Speaker 1>All these fans in you know Raleigh, they want to

<v Speaker 1>see a fight. So he calls for a referee. Wilson

<v Speaker 1>said that I don't fight with my fists. I fight

<v Speaker 1>with my words. I don't fight with my fists. You're

<v Speaker 1>in the wrong business, buddy. But he's got his poetry

<v Speaker 1>book with him. Says there's not gonna be a rap

<v Speaker 1>battle though. Instead, first time we're gonna do some slam poetry.

<v Speaker 1>So he says, Jelly has no class. I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna fucking wrap it for you, but I'm

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to read this for you. Said,

<v Speaker 1>Jelly has no class, just ugly face, tats and a

<v Speaker 1>criminal passed. Well done on losing the weight and looking thin.

<v Speaker 1>Now you look like a melted blob of skin. You're fat,

<v Speaker 1>phobic and toxic, maybe even a jerk. But your proof

<v Speaker 1>that ozempic really does work. He ended it with a

<v Speaker 1>dick joke talking about Jelly's little Willie and how he

<v Speaker 1>can see it now because he's no longer fat, you see,

<v Speaker 1>so he could see his dick. So then it was

<v Speaker 1>jelly Roll's turn. See I told you, man, hey, I

<v Speaker 1>got some bars. I should have grabbed my hat. Jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll had a hat. I shouldn't tear my hat if

<v Speaker 1>you put my backwards hat on. Fuck? You know, I

<v Speaker 1>forgot something. Did they think they were gonna be clever

<v Speaker 1>with the slam poetry on a wrestling show, actually on

<v Speaker 1>the actual show. God, this is going back many years.

<v Speaker 1>The best, the best one I ever saw Halle Berry.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how many years ago this was. She

<v Speaker 1>fucking killed it on that. She was great. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>she's great anyway. But anyway, so now it was Jelly's turn.

<v Speaker 1>So jelly Roll said, Wilson tried to destroy him, but

<v Speaker 1>he doesn't have to see his dick because Wilson's mother

<v Speaker 1>sees it for him. I mean, that's that's a bad

<v Speaker 1>enough visual. But it's like, okay, all right, we went

<v Speaker 1>the mom route here. It's actually worse than what Cmpunk

<v Speaker 1>said to Roman when he mentioned burying him next to

<v Speaker 1>his dead father. So now we have jelly Roll talking

<v Speaker 1>about porking Kit Wilson's mom. So, but then it got worse.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't know if it would get worse, and it did.

<v Speaker 1>It did. He said, said, you talk about ozempic that's original,

<v Speaker 1>saying he's fat. But speaking of Kit's mom, he put

<v Speaker 1>that belly fat on her back and he kind of

<v Speaker 1>pantomimed it. He was doing the motion, lot of motion

<v Speaker 1>in the ocean there, and I I just felt like

<v Speaker 1>I wanted to puke up my dinner as I try

<v Speaker 1>to get this visual out of my I mean, he

<v Speaker 1>was trying to reenact it, and I'm trying to get

<v Speaker 1>this visual out of my head. Yeah, I had some

<v Speaker 1>Chinese food for dinner and I wasn't interested in fucking

<v Speaker 1>low maine and fried rice being puked up all over

<v Speaker 1>the place here. It was a close call, let me

<v Speaker 1>tell you. So then Kit Wilson attacked Jelly Roll, as

<v Speaker 1>he should have, because this man is out there saying

<v Speaker 1>these just horrendous, horrendous things about the men's mother, which

<v Speaker 1>is completely uncalled for. So he attacks Jelly Roll and

<v Speaker 1>turns babyface in the process, and he hits him with

<v Speaker 1>a running upper cut in the corner. Jelly Roll goes

<v Speaker 1>down Kit Wilson goes up and he lands on top

<v Speaker 1>of Jelly Roll with the diving elbow drop, and they

<v Speaker 1>played his music and they let Kit Wilson stand tall

<v Speaker 1>at the end of a segment here over, Jelly rolls

<v Speaker 1>so great for Kit. For the rest of us, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not so sure. Again. I just think Jelly Roll he's

<v Speaker 1>a fan. He's not a bad bromo at all. We've

<v Speaker 1>had celebrities that I have no interest in seeing them

<v Speaker 1>ever again on my screen on a wrestling show. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>I don't feel that way about Jelly Roll. I'm cool

<v Speaker 1>with Jelly Roll, but I just can't help but think

<v Speaker 1>of some of the names that are still unaccounted for

<v Speaker 1>on this WrestleMania card. But we have all of this

<v Speaker 1>effort and time being dedicated week in and week out

<v Speaker 1>to segments with Jelly Roll and Kit Wilson and the

<v Speaker 1>Miss weekend and weekend, and clearly this is building to

<v Speaker 1>a tag team match of some kind figure Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>and Dan Housen maybe against the Miz and Kit Wilson.

<v Speaker 1>There was a report, a rumor about internal discussions it

<v Speaker 1>might have been wrestle votes happening as to the possibility

<v Speaker 1>of Royce Keys being introduced to the main roster this way,

<v Speaker 1>you know, and Jelly role having these sympathetic backgrounds in

<v Speaker 1>their lives, their upbringing and everything and where they were

<v Speaker 1>and what they'd become, and so that would kind of

<v Speaker 1>unite them. It would be something that they share in common,

<v Speaker 1>like a common bond, and then they would wrestle. I

<v Speaker 1>guess Kit Wilson in the maze and I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if that's something It may have just been discussed, but

<v Speaker 1>not something that they ended up deciding, Okay, we're going

<v Speaker 1>to do this, And I'm not even sure that would

<v Speaker 1>be a terrible way to introduce Roy's Keys, you know,

<v Speaker 1>in a prominent role like that. Doing a tag team

<v Speaker 1>match with a celebrity. Great, but we're clearly heading in

<v Speaker 1>that direction. But we need to get all of our

<v Speaker 1>ducks in a row as far as some of the

<v Speaker 1>other names that are mia so far on this wrestle

<v Speaker 1>media card, because there's more effort being put into this,

<v Speaker 1>it seems, and some of the other shit, and there

<v Speaker 1>should be more focus on that stuff as well. And

<v Speaker 1>it's kind of silly that I'm sitting here talking about

<v Speaker 1>a poetry battle on this three hour program. With Jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll and Kit Wilson, where I have to listen to,

<v Speaker 1>you know, Jelly role making my and there's Dick jokes

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, what are we doing here? Backstage, Julia

<v Speaker 1>and Keana James were arguing over Tiffany Stratton. What happened

<v Speaker 1>last week? Alba Fire wheeled Chelsea Green into the picture.

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea asked if there was trouble in Paradise and she

<v Speaker 1>proposed working together to go after Tiffany, but the two

<v Speaker 1>of them just blew her off. They have since announced

<v Speaker 1>that on SmackDown next week it is going to be

<v Speaker 1>Julia defending her United States Championship against Tiffany Stratton. So

<v Speaker 1>again we're not waiting until WrestleMania. We're going to do

<v Speaker 1>the match next week. I hear this and I think

<v Speaker 1>to myself, okay, kind of like I did with the

<v Speaker 1>announcement of MacIntyre against Fatu, not going to get a

<v Speaker 1>clear winner. Maybe they will insert somebody else into the equation.

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea is still being wheeled around in a wheelchair. As

<v Speaker 1>far as we know, she still has a broken bone

<v Speaker 1>in her ankle. Maybe she's healed and they just haven't

<v Speaker 1>told us yet. And Chelsea is going to get involved,

<v Speaker 1>and it's going to end up being a triple threat

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. There's another possibility, which is that Julia loses

<v Speaker 1>the US title to Tiffany Stratton next week, and then

<v Speaker 1>either next week or sometime shortly thereafter, Chelsea Green does

<v Speaker 1>get medically cleared and we get Tiffany and Chelsea and

<v Speaker 1>Julia is fuck out of luck. Now. I hope that's

<v Speaker 1>not the case, but those are the two possibilities as

<v Speaker 1>I see it right now. My guess Chelsea Green is

<v Speaker 1>about to be cleared if she isn't already, they just

<v Speaker 1>haven't told us yet, and we end up with a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat match of WrestleMania. Because Tiffany has been interacting

<v Speaker 1>a lot with Chelsea and Alba for weeks now, it's

<v Speaker 1>not just with Julia, and there has to be a

<v Speaker 1>reason for that, so it may just come down to

<v Speaker 1>whether or not she can be cleared now. Jordan Grace,

<v Speaker 1>there was one report, and this might have been the

<v Speaker 1>Self Made Crew a couple of weeks ago, mentioned that

<v Speaker 1>the original idea was a triple threat with Tiffany, Julia

<v Speaker 1>and Jordan Grace. Jordan Grace injured her ankle a few

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago, and I've seen no updates since then, but

<v Speaker 1>I saw what happened to her ankle. It was disgusting.

<v Speaker 1>She ain't gonna be back for a while. She certainly

<v Speaker 1>I would be shocked if she was back in time

<v Speaker 1>for WrestleMania. So I think she's off the board. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea takes her place. Yeah, she's got to get healthy,

<v Speaker 1>but maybe Chelsea takes her spot and we get a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat. I hope Juliet is able to make it

<v Speaker 1>hunt to that card. Imagine being this they could have

<v Speaker 1>pulled a Drew MacIntyre on her this close to WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>take the title off of her, and then she does nothing.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I suppose then they could just take her

<v Speaker 1>in Keana, plug them into that multi woman tag team match.

<v Speaker 1>Not the greatest spot to be in, but I guess

<v Speaker 1>that would give them one more team. Speaking of teams,

<v Speaker 1>and speaking of the women's tag team titles, they were

<v Speaker 1>on the line tonight the Bella Twins Nicki and Brie

<v Speaker 1>Mode taking on Ayah Jackson Lash Legend for the women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles. This was the first time the Bella

<v Speaker 1>Twins have teamed up together since two thy eighteen. Do

<v Speaker 1>you know what else happened in twenty eighteen. There were

<v Speaker 1>a few things that happened in twenty eighteen, but the

<v Speaker 1>one that stands out to me, I'm pretty sure it

<v Speaker 1>was the end of the year is when we got

<v Speaker 1>that infamous segment on Monday Night Raw. Actually we might

<v Speaker 1>have gotten the now that I think about it, I

<v Speaker 1>wonder if we got the Bobby Lashley Sisters segment that year.

<v Speaker 1>But at the end of the year, we had all

<v Speaker 1>the McMahons, including Paul Paul McMahon in the ring together

<v Speaker 1>talking about how shitty Monday Night Raw was and how

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do better, We're gonna make changes. We listen

<v Speaker 1>to the fans and they blamed the terrible quality of

<v Speaker 1>the show on Baron Corbin. Remember that they blamed Constable

<v Speaker 1>Corbin for how how terrible the show was. That's always

<v Speaker 1>very rich to me. We'll pretend like the character Baron

<v Speaker 1>Corbett is the one who's responsible for how fucking terrible

<v Speaker 1>this show is. Give me a break. So that was

<v Speaker 1>the last time the Bella Twins were together in a

<v Speaker 1>tag team match. So the Bellas were getting the better

<v Speaker 1>of Nia Jacks here when they were distracted by Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>Flair and Alexa Bliss making their way down to the

<v Speaker 1>ring entrance music and all right in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>this match. You know what I think they should do.

<v Speaker 1>They should they should drive the Good Humor truck and

<v Speaker 1>play the jingle. Since they love ice cream so much,

<v Speaker 1>let them just go all the way with it. One

<v Speaker 1>of these weeks they should go do do do Do

<v Speaker 1>Do Do Do do do do do do like which drives

<v Speaker 1>me nuts, by the way in the summer when I

<v Speaker 1>hear it, And just have them drive a Good Humor

<v Speaker 1>truck down to the ring. That's what I think they

<v Speaker 1>should do. So the ice cream girls come out and

<v Speaker 1>they take a seat at rings sing Jesus fucking Christ.

<v Speaker 1>Uh hey, Leo, thank you. I was not expecting that

<v Speaker 1>ice cream and wooings. Maybe you could put some ice

<v Speaker 1>cream on the wooings. That's like putting pineapple on pizza.

<v Speaker 1>That just doesn't work. Anyway, they take a seat at ring.

<v Speaker 1>That really that scared the crap out of me. So

<v Speaker 1>they take a seat of ringside. Now late in the match,

<v Speaker 1>Brie and Nya, they fought their way to They fought

<v Speaker 1>their way to ringside. NICKI put the Fearless lock On

<v Speaker 1>in the ring on Lash Legend, which is just John

<v Speaker 1>Cenas f STF NYA grab one of the tag team

<v Speaker 1>title belts and she was about to hit Brie with

<v Speaker 1>it when Charlotte cut her off. She stepped in the

<v Speaker 1>way and she prevented her from using the tie is

<v Speaker 1>a weapon and she punched her, which caused a disqualification,

<v Speaker 1>presumably to the Bellas. So the Bellows have now been disqualified.

<v Speaker 1>They will not be the tag team champions. And so

<v Speaker 1>the Bellotwins are not very happy about this, and they

<v Speaker 1>get up in Charlotte and Alexi's face outside and they

<v Speaker 1>start pushing over and I think Nikki through a punch,

<v Speaker 1>and so now they're scuffling outside the ring and they

<v Speaker 1>all end up inside Naya and Lash. They basically lay

<v Speaker 1>waste to all of these women and they stand tall

<v Speaker 1>at the end of all this. Now, next week they

<v Speaker 1>announced they are gonna do Alexa and Charlotte around and

<v Speaker 1>around and around and around we go. They're gonna be

<v Speaker 1>taking on the Bellatwins next week in another match that

<v Speaker 1>will have a fuck finish, because we all know where

<v Speaker 1>this is leading to. So that's gonna be in Pittsburgh

<v Speaker 1>next week because we're gonna get multi team Mayhem at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>It is gonna be five or six teams in that match.

<v Speaker 1>They're just gonna be like a dumping ground. They're gonna

<v Speaker 1>put them all in one match. I mean, whatever, this sucked.

<v Speaker 1>This was fucking terrible. The match was bad, The segment

<v Speaker 1>was horrible. No chemistry whatsoever with these two teams. And

<v Speaker 1>you know Nicki and Brie. I know it was their

<v Speaker 1>first match together since twenty eighteen, but I mean, let's

<v Speaker 1>not pretend that those matches were any great shakes either,

<v Speaker 1>even eight years ago. But ye, this was just nothing,

<v Speaker 1>and the finish was kind of the cherry on the

<v Speaker 1>shit Sunday here. I just didn't think much of this segment. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I've seen Nyan Lash have some decent matches before. This

<v Speaker 1>was not one of them. I don't know what else

<v Speaker 1>there is to say about it, but bre Mode. We

<v Speaker 1>go backstage. Randy Orton was on his phone here we

<v Speaker 1>got I mentioned earlier, there was no mention of the

<v Speaker 1>phone call from Raw Monday night. Randy Orton is on

<v Speaker 1>the phone and he's talking to this mystery person, we

<v Speaker 1>presume the same person from Monday. He said, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>I'm happy I picked up and he told the caller,

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to the ring right now to fix it off,

<v Speaker 1>he went. So that was the extent to which we

<v Speaker 1>had any follow up on the phone call stuff tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They want to know again. They love their mystery angles.

<v Speaker 1>Triple H loves his mystery angles. And not everybody has

<v Speaker 1>to be dressed up like a ninja or a putty person, right,

<v Speaker 1>although we've had plenty of mass men, but we've had

<v Speaker 1>the mass men. We had even Jade Cargill, right, who

<v Speaker 1>killed Jade when she got knocked off the thing and

<v Speaker 1>who kicked Jacob fought in the mouth. We still never

<v Speaker 1>got a real resolution to that story. But yeah, the

<v Speaker 1>whole like who done it? Mystery angle? Now we have

<v Speaker 1>another one here who is on the phone. I still

<v Speaker 1>say Kevin Owens. Everybody has their thoughts and their ideas

<v Speaker 1>about who it was. I've had so many different names

<v Speaker 1>right there. Oh, the rock Rick Flair, which would be

<v Speaker 1>fucking horrendous. You imagine, God, Oh my god, I know

<v Speaker 1>this history there from evolution, but guys, please, for the

<v Speaker 1>love of God, Kevin Owens, someone said, Shane McMahon. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>just what we need. Randy Orton, though, was on his

<v Speaker 1>way out to the ring to close this three hour

<v Speaker 1>program and he's slapping hands with various young fans as

<v Speaker 1>he makes is. There was one little boy on the

<v Speaker 1>along the aisle, and I don't want to say that

<v Speaker 1>Randy was like yelling at him or anything like that,

<v Speaker 1>but yeah, he wasn't being overly chummy with him, and

<v Speaker 1>he went to go continue and I feel like he

<v Speaker 1>felt bad because he went back to the kid and

<v Speaker 1>he was he was a little nicer to him. But

<v Speaker 1>you know, he's slapping hands, taking his time coming down

<v Speaker 1>to the ring, being you know, kind of jovial Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>So he hasn't gone all the way heel, just he

<v Speaker 1>hasn't fully snapped just yet. He called Matt Cardona out

<v Speaker 1>to the for an apology. Cardona comes down, He's always ready.

<v Speaker 1>Orton said, Look, I've been out of my head for

<v Speaker 1>the last few weeks. I'm legitimately sorry about what happened.

<v Speaker 1>He thinks, look, I think action figures are cool. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>look at me, I love video games. Okay. He apologizes

<v Speaker 1>for how he treated him, and he goes, look, you

<v Speaker 1>and I have known each other for twenty years. We

<v Speaker 1>go way back, and he's got an apology that he

<v Speaker 1>needs to make to Cody next week, and there's a

<v Speaker 1>lot going on. He goes, Matt, will you forgive me?

<v Speaker 1>Orton then drops the mic. The two of them shake

<v Speaker 1>hands and they embrace, and I'm thinking, well, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Matt Cardona has been around for a while. Matt Cardon

<v Speaker 1>is a veteran man. He's been in the business for

<v Speaker 1>at least two decades. He's been a wrestling fan longer

<v Speaker 1>than that. Matt cardonah more than any other person that

<v Speaker 1>building knows exactly what is about to happen to him,

<v Speaker 1>but he's got to pretend like he's, Hey, I think

<v Speaker 1>this is great, Randy, I forgive you right, he's shaking hands,

<v Speaker 1>they're a hugging, They're like buzzom buddies here. And then

<v Speaker 1>Randy goes in. He puts his hand out for another handshake,

<v Speaker 1>and at that point he kicks Cardona in the dick

<v Speaker 1>and then he drops him with an RKO. Now he

<v Speaker 1>rips Cardona's shirt off, sends him out to the floor,

<v Speaker 1>just like he did with Cody. He places him on

<v Speaker 1>top of the announced desk. He starts hammering away. He

<v Speaker 1>grabs the ring steps, he brings them over, he leans

<v Speaker 1>them up against the announced desk. Now, officials in security

<v Speaker 1>and Nick all this. They all spill out to ringside,

<v Speaker 1>trying to calm him down, and the fans are watching

<v Speaker 1>on just in horror, and they're like, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>this is terrible. Don't do this now. I'm just I'm

<v Speaker 1>bullshitting you. They were chanting for Randy Orton. They were

<v Speaker 1>chanting Randy, Randy. They were loving it. They were loving it.

<v Speaker 1>Orton backs off. He puts his head in his hands

<v Speaker 1>and he's like he couldn't believe what he was doing.

<v Speaker 1>He lost control again. He goes back over though to

<v Speaker 1>grab Cardona. The voices have taken over again, throws him

<v Speaker 1>back in the ring and he starts pummeling him. And

<v Speaker 1>this was the best part. So he places Cardona's left

<v Speaker 1>arm in a chair like he's going to pelmanize it. Right,

<v Speaker 1>So he's got his arm in a chair laying there,

<v Speaker 1>and the officials with Nick all this, they pour into

<v Speaker 1>the ring and they are physically holding Randy Orton back

<v Speaker 1>and they get him up against the ropes and I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching this and I'm like, okay, you're Matt Cardona. You're

<v Speaker 1>laying there and he's looking up at everything that's going on.

<v Speaker 1>He's dude, he's laying there, his arm is in the chair.

<v Speaker 1>He could easily just pull the fucking chair off your arm.

<v Speaker 1>He laid there with the chair in his arm, on

<v Speaker 1>his arm. Whatever. Thirty fucking seconds, What do you think

<v Speaker 1>happened next? Randy Orton breaks free. Randy Orton stomps on

<v Speaker 1>the chair and breaks this fucker's arm. And you know what,

<v Speaker 1>good he got exactly what he deserves. Now he can

<v Speaker 1>play with his action figures with his right arm. He

<v Speaker 1>could play, He could do everything with his right hand.

<v Speaker 1>He ain't gonna be using his left one for a while.

<v Speaker 1>Thirty seconds, he laid there like he should have at

<v Speaker 1>least taken it off, and then Randy breaks free, comes over,

<v Speaker 1>puts his arm back in it, and stops. It's just

<v Speaker 1>little things like that. I know it's not a big

<v Speaker 1>deal in the big picture, but my god, it just

<v Speaker 1>makes these people look like fucking idiots. Thirty seconds, twenty

<v Speaker 1>five set, whatever it was. He was laying there like that,

<v Speaker 1>like oh no, oh no, so stupid. What are you

<v Speaker 1>laying there for? At least make an attempt to remove

<v Speaker 1>the fucking chair from you, or I'll take Orton two

<v Speaker 1>seconds to put the chair back on his arm. So

<v Speaker 1>now he's got a broken arm and he deserves it.

<v Speaker 1>And again the fans were so mortified by this. They

<v Speaker 1>felt so bad for Matt Cardona. They were horrified that

<v Speaker 1>they all chanted one more time. They wanted him to

<v Speaker 1>break the other arm. So they backed Orton into the

<v Speaker 1>aisle and Orton has his hands up because don't touch me,

<v Speaker 1>don't touch me, and they're not touching him, but they're

<v Speaker 1>backing him down the aisle, and nick All, this is

<v Speaker 1>looking at him. This is not you. It's not you. Right,

<v Speaker 1>All of a sudden, in the background on the screens

<v Speaker 1>and on the tron, they cut to something that's happening

<v Speaker 1>in the back. There's a commotion, there's more chaos in

<v Speaker 1>the back. And at that point, nick All, this and

<v Speaker 1>all the officials that were holding Randy Orton back they

<v Speaker 1>flee and they go they just go running to the back, which,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, now that I think about it, what

<v Speaker 1>was stopping Randy Orton from running back to the ring

<v Speaker 1>and breaking his other arm. All these great security people

<v Speaker 1>they just ran off to go ten to the next incident,

<v Speaker 1>and the cameras, you know, follow to the back and

<v Speaker 1>we go outside. Right, so they're outside the building. Now

<v Speaker 1>we see Drew MacIntyre and we see Jacob Fatu and

<v Speaker 1>they are brawling. They are still brawling. We are three

<v Speaker 1>hours into this show. They're outside and I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what this thing is. It's some sort of structure in

<v Speaker 1>the parking lot I said earlier, as like an oil rig.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it was. But they're on the

<v Speaker 1>there's like a platform, like an outer platform or a balcony,

<v Speaker 1>and they're fighting up on this thing, and then of

<v Speaker 1>course they climb over the railing and now they're hanging

<v Speaker 1>off the edge and they're punching each other. They're headbutting

<v Speaker 1>each other all this, and all of the security and

<v Speaker 1>all of the officials are just watching this helplessly because

<v Speaker 1>in between them and this area where this structure is

<v Speaker 1>is this white fence. So they're watching it. Oh my god, don't, don't, don't.

<v Speaker 1>And then finally they both go tumbling off the edge

<v Speaker 1>of the platform and they plummet to their death. We

<v Speaker 1>didn't hear the splat. It would have been nice if

<v Speaker 1>they would have inserted that little sound effect. But then

<v Speaker 1>Nick all, this is freaking out. He's calling a medical

<v Speaker 1>you know, my god. Of course, conveniently, the fence was there,

<v Speaker 1>so we couldn't see the actual moment of impact, but

<v Speaker 1>you can use your imagination. So these two men apparently

<v Speaker 1>killed each other. I guess that means no WrestleMania match

<v Speaker 1>for either one of them. But now I'm watching this

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, you know, I was wondering if they

<v Speaker 1>were going to do a street fight, they could do

<v Speaker 1>a false count anywhere. Falsecout Anywhere could be final, although

<v Speaker 1>they never really fully take advantage of the st They'll

<v Speaker 1>brawl into the crowd, they'll go on stage, you know,

<v Speaker 1>gives a fuck like you canna have a falsecant anywhere match.

<v Speaker 1>You gotta go onto the concourse, you gotta go into

<v Speaker 1>the boiler room. You gotta go outside the fucking building

<v Speaker 1>if you're gonna have fun with it. I love the

<v Speaker 1>false count anywhere stipulation, but I hate it when they

<v Speaker 1>use it most of the time because they don't take

<v Speaker 1>full advantage of it. That's not what this felt like.

<v Speaker 1>This felt like we may end up getting that Hell

<v Speaker 1>and a Cell match that was rumored for Cody and

<v Speaker 1>Drew with the idea that these men, because they're always

<v Speaker 1>fighting everywhere, the only way to contain them is inside

<v Speaker 1>the cell. Because really at WrestleMania, I don't know that

<v Speaker 1>they want to be having these guys fighting out of

<v Speaker 1>the building and into the backstage. I think they want

<v Speaker 1>to keep it contained to the ring. And how do

<v Speaker 1>you do that. You put them in a cage. Now,

<v Speaker 1>you can have a traditional cage match, but I think

<v Speaker 1>they may be setting up for a hell and a

<v Speaker 1>Cell match as the kind of the ultimate payoff here,

<v Speaker 1>and the only way to really contain these men is

<v Speaker 1>inside the dreaded cell and you know, blow off the

<v Speaker 1>feud there. That's what it kind of felt like to

<v Speaker 1>me when this show was over. They didn't get the

<v Speaker 1>cell with Cody and Roman, that was another rumor. They

<v Speaker 1>didn't do it with Cody and Drew, thank god, but

<v Speaker 1>we may get it with these two. That's what it

<v Speaker 1>felt like to me. So it was a pretty wild,

<v Speaker 1>you know ending to the show. Yeah, Texas Death, No,

<v Speaker 1>let's do Texas Death in Las Vegas. Let's do Texas

<v Speaker 1>Death in Las Vegas with a with a Scotsman and

<v Speaker 1>a Samoan. Sure, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

<v Speaker 1>We got a wild ending to the show because he

<v Speaker 1>had Orton snapping on Cardona and breaking his arm and

<v Speaker 1>the fans cheering for more, and then segueing right into

<v Speaker 1>another just out of control brawl, you know, between MC

<v Speaker 1>and Tyre and Drew, which is how we started the show.

<v Speaker 1>So really it was chaos from start to finish, at

<v Speaker 1>least with those two. And that's not really a bad

<v Speaker 1>thing as far as all the Orton segments. Then, I

<v Speaker 1>like what they did with Orton. You know, again, it's

<v Speaker 1>not just a clear cut like I'm the bad guy now,

<v Speaker 1>you know. They're playing it in a way where he's

<v Speaker 1>sort of teetering on that edge. He hasn't totally fallen

<v Speaker 1>off the cliff yet, and now they're promoting that next

<v Speaker 1>week he's got to apologize to Cody. I guess, Cody,

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

<v Speaker 1>So I like how they played it with Orton tonight,

<v Speaker 1>and I like how they had him in multiple segments

<v Speaker 1>where they were able to kind of hook you in,

<v Speaker 1>like you better stay tuned because Randy's gonna come back

<v Speaker 1>out later and he's gonna, you know, apologize to Cardona.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see what happens there. And you kind of knew

<v Speaker 1>where that was going. So I like that. I like

<v Speaker 1>what they did there. The US title match was excellent.

<v Speaker 1>The tag team match earlier in the show was pretty

<v Speaker 1>good also. The rest of the show was just I

<v Speaker 1>didn't really have any any use for it, honestly, but

<v Speaker 1>I but look, the thing about this show was there

<v Speaker 1>were things that were going on, you know, besides the

<v Speaker 1>great US title match, Like I said, the Orton stuff,

<v Speaker 1>the McIntyre drew stuff, even the Jade thing. You know,

<v Speaker 1>we're beat beat. I was gonna say, I almost said,

<v Speaker 1>I almost said Beachin. I kind of fused them together, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>Beachin and me fab but you know again them linking

<v Speaker 1>up with Jade, a little little twist, a little swerve there.

<v Speaker 1>Even this smaller stuff like with the machine guns and Candice. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>there were there were some story things that they moved

<v Speaker 1>along here on this show. Tomatonga, you know, going to

<v Speaker 1>Solo Socoa and saying, look, give the lantern back. I said,

<v Speaker 1>this whole thing is probably designed in part to split

<v Speaker 1>Tomatonga away from the MFTs and for all of the

<v Speaker 1>Wyatt six and MFT stuff. I'm sorry, it's still not

<v Speaker 1>worth it for us to sit through months of this

<v Speaker 1>just to get to a tomatonga. You know, babyface turn

<v Speaker 1>but you kind of saw tonight. I think it gave

<v Speaker 1>you a sense of where they're going with that, So

<v Speaker 1>they did. They move things along here on The show

<v Speaker 1>was definitely better than last week. Not a great show

<v Speaker 1>by any means, but definitely an improvement over what we

<v Speaker 1>got on last week's show, that's for sure. We talked

<v Speaker 1>about the show missing Bianca, we are also missing Naomi.

<v Speaker 1>We are, but I mean that situation is really out

<v Speaker 1>of everybody's control, so there's a reason why we don't

<v Speaker 1>have Naomi around. Bianca should have been back by now,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm sure she's more frustrated than anybody. That's what

<v Speaker 1>makes her situation so sad. What did you think of

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown from Raleigh? Almost sixty five percent thumbs up, thirty

<v Speaker 1>five percent thumbs down with nearly a thousand votes and

<v Speaker 1>so far, so you you like that I have a beachin,

<v Speaker 1>She's beachin beachin and me fab there you go. Somebody

<v Speaker 1>mocked that up. Oh man, Thank you guys for the laughs,

<v Speaker 1>it's going to see your super chats here, and I

<v Speaker 1>presume that we are going to be doing Be the

<v Speaker 1>Booker seven hundred and twenty eight likes. Yeah, I'd say

<v Speaker 1>we're going to be doing some Be the Booker. I

<v Speaker 1>think that's a safe bet. You got to get through

<v Speaker 1>these first though. Hey, Joseph Stewart, thank you very much,

<v Speaker 1>he says, rest in peace. Chuck Norris, Yes, it's going

<v Speaker 1>to talk about him briefly on the show on Sunday.

<v Speaker 1>Chuck Norris eighty six years old, He says. So were

<v Speaker 1>you a fan of Walker Texas Ranger? Only in clips?

<v Speaker 1>Only in the clips I saw on Conan O'Brien show.

<v Speaker 1>Otherwise no super Mario Brothers shout out to you. Six

<v Speaker 1>three eight zero, Thank you brother. Do you remember when Sting, Hogan,

<v Speaker 1>Savage and Piper appeared on episodes of Walker Texas Ranger.

<v Speaker 1>I don't because I didn't watch. I did, however, see

<v Speaker 1>Sean Michaels on a show called Pacific Blue back in

<v Speaker 1>the day. Do you remember Chuck Norris appearing on WCW

<v Speaker 1>Monday nightro No, I don't remember that ever happening. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>I remember Chucky the Doll interacting with Rick Steiner. Do

<v Speaker 1>you have a favorite Chuck Norris movie Delta Force? Happy

<v Speaker 1>birthday to the legend and icon Sting. Isn't this his

<v Speaker 1>sixty fifth birthday this year? I thought he turned sixty

<v Speaker 1>five this year. Happy birthday, Sting. Who were Sting's top

<v Speaker 1>five greatest rivals? Rick Flair, Vader, Rick Rude, Hulk Hogan.

<v Speaker 1>Look at that. I just fired four of them off

<v Speaker 1>without even thinking about it. Who's the fifth, though? Sting, Vader,

<v Speaker 1>Rude Hogan, Who's number five? That's a good question. Who's

<v Speaker 1>number five? I don't know as your favorite Sting moment

<v Speaker 1>of all time? Do I have a favorite Sting moment

<v Speaker 1>of all time? Yeah? You know what I do? Actually,

<v Speaker 1>of all those moments, and he had a ton of

<v Speaker 1>moments with the nWo. There was one episode of Nitro

<v Speaker 1>in particular where he came out. Actually there was a

<v Speaker 1>bunch of Stings in Sting masks, but he ended up

<v Speaker 1>being one of them. Just casually walked into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Buff Bagwell was doing his buff pose and Sting just

<v Speaker 1>grabbed him and gave him the scorpion death drop. That

<v Speaker 1>would be one of them. There was another one where

<v Speaker 1>Sting came out to the ring and he just holds

<v Speaker 1>the bat out and he drops it outside the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and then the nWo like Savage I think, is the

<v Speaker 1>first one to come at him, and he without I

<v Speaker 1>don't need the bat and he just starts beating him up,

<v Speaker 1>and the entire crowd just exploded. Those are the Those

<v Speaker 1>are like the golden moments right there, that stand out

<v Speaker 1>where he just had that crowd in the palm of

<v Speaker 1>his hand. Man, it was just it was It was

<v Speaker 1>certainly a time to be alive as a wrestling fan.

<v Speaker 1>If you lift through it, you know what I'm talking about.

<v Speaker 1>I'm very happy I was a younger fan watching during

<v Speaker 1>that era. Man, it doesn't get any better than that.

<v Speaker 1>Did you know? Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn attended the

<v Speaker 1>Academy Awards this past weekend. I did not, but I'm

<v Speaker 1>glad to hear that Kurt's doing well. I like Kurt

<v Speaker 1>Russell anyway. Joseph, thank you for all the support. As always,

<v Speaker 1>I appreciate it. We got the bottom right pick and

<v Speaker 1>the thumbnail killed me. You like our friend Karen, She's

<v Speaker 1>hanging out with us tonight. Hey, Andre Jefferson, thank you,

<v Speaker 1>Tiny Tim with A four ninety nine. What do you

<v Speaker 1>think about Hayman calling on Gunther to kill the career

<v Speaker 1>of Seth Rollins if bron Breaker is not available, Gunther

<v Speaker 1>and Rollins. I like Gunther and Dragon now better. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean you could do it. I mean Gunther he

<v Speaker 1>needs to be he needs to be in a match

<v Speaker 1>on the cards. You can't just leave him off the card.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's just ridiculous if that's their only idea

<v Speaker 1>and they're not open to the other idea that I pitched,

<v Speaker 1>And sure you could do it, but I'm more enthusiastic

<v Speaker 1>about the other match than I am that one Big

<v Speaker 1>Money Jackson is that the boss? Is that Bossmo Jackson.

<v Speaker 1>It's official Drew versus Jacob at WrestleMania. I'm still laughing

<v Speaker 1>at truth a haircut with no hair and Priest just

<v Speaker 1>laughs at him. I'm telling you, this is probably gonna

<v Speaker 1>end up being a positive for for Drew, for Damien,

<v Speaker 1>just because he's better when he has somebody to kind

<v Speaker 1>of associate with and play off of Gunther and Cardona.

<v Speaker 1>The One Armed Men. Yeah, no, the Meal Slayer. They're

<v Speaker 1>teasing a Sammy heel turn. Just a few months before

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Owens is due for another neck evaluation. Smells like

<v Speaker 1>a joint return heel turn angled for TV in the

<v Speaker 1>summer or fall. What say you? I just love how

<v Speaker 1>Sammy and Kevin Owens they always have to be attached.

<v Speaker 1>They don't always need to be attached. I'd be down

<v Speaker 1>for it, but it's just funny to me how everybody

<v Speaker 1>always is coming up with ideas to have them either

<v Speaker 1>against each other or together. Prince Bgeta. There's a rumor

<v Speaker 1>that in a single day, Chuck Norris survived a plane crash,

<v Speaker 1>a bear attack, and getting hit with a nuclear warhead.

<v Speaker 1>It walked away without a scratch. What a legend, you know.

<v Speaker 1>It's been said that Chuck Narris's tears cure cancer. It's

<v Speaker 1>too bad the man never cried. Dry chicken, says logan.

<v Speaker 1>Paul really can't help himself. Tom Brady is having a

<v Speaker 1>great time roasting WWE. It's a work, bro, They're working you, Bro.

<v Speaker 1>Cornell Bryant, apologize the dbass Junior. My boy is free,

<v Speaker 1>Legacy will reunited Mania. The story has written itself. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how he pulled it off, but hey, good

<v Speaker 1>for him. Acquitted on all charges today. Very interesting that

<v Speaker 1>All the other people I think who were indicted have

<v Speaker 1>pleaded guilty, but he got himself off. Venom Katatsu Randy

<v Speaker 1>with the Mark ass Stooge and Black Mouthing Lemon pepper

<v Speaker 1>Steppers were funny as hell. The Mark ass Stooge needs

<v Speaker 1>to be a super chat. He should put that on

<v Speaker 1>a T shirt, is what he should do. I kind

<v Speaker 1>of like the T shirt that he was wearing tonight.

<v Speaker 1>It's the RKO Everybody shirt, but it had some red,

<v Speaker 1>like some blood on it. I thought that was actually

<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. The Sheltered Kid, what's going on? Sheltered Kid?

<v Speaker 1>He says, are you a fan of the weekend? And

<v Speaker 1>if so, what is your favorite song for the weekend?

<v Speaker 1>I am a fan of the Weekend. I'm a fan.

<v Speaker 1>I'm a fan of the weekend and the Weekend the

<v Speaker 1>music group for me, I think it might be timeless.

<v Speaker 1>It's either timeless or heartless. I like both those songs.

<v Speaker 1>Let me refresh this here we got a bunch more.

<v Speaker 1>Let's refresh the list and scroll back down. Make sure

<v Speaker 1>I don't miss any of you guys. Here we go,

<v Speaker 1>Here we go, And the Sheltered Kid says, if you

<v Speaker 1>like the Weekend, scold Lucky Dog eighty nine for being

<v Speaker 1>a hater that does Lucky Dog not like the Weekend.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna hate on Lucky I like Lucky Dog.

<v Speaker 1>The Weekend is a singer. Yes, well, you do realize

<v Speaker 1>there are other people who are also playing various instruments

<v Speaker 1>while he sings. You do realize this, right. We're kind

<v Speaker 1>of picky knits and splitting hairs here. You get the point.

<v Speaker 1>Dev to Dust is Hogan versus Savage equivalent of Larry

<v Speaker 1>Bird versus Magic Johnson In the eighties, Hogan Savage led

<v Speaker 1>to big business like Bird and Magic did in the NBA. Sure,

<v Speaker 1>who's the Bird and who's the Who's the Magic? I

<v Speaker 1>kind of go Savage as magic. Hey, Oscar says Jeff

<v Speaker 1>job instead of Jeff Cobb the Joker's voice. Oh boy,

<v Speaker 1>a new faction because Jade needs muscle. We already have

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs, now we have the NFC's nobody fucking cares.

<v Speaker 1>You mean you don't care about Beach and then me,

<v Speaker 1>fab you don't care? I care so much. I got

<v Speaker 1>their names mixed up, That's how much I care. Alexander

<v Speaker 1>the beefab me a yim turn made no sense to me,

<v Speaker 1>Jade beat their asses every time since her heel turned

<v Speaker 1>just to join her in the end, did Jade blackmail them?

<v Speaker 1>Like I said, if you can't beat them, join them.

<v Speaker 1>You know what the sad thing is, they probably won't

<v Speaker 1>even bother with an explanation. They'll just show up next week,

<v Speaker 1>They'll all be together and it'll probably never be mentioned again.

<v Speaker 1>But it would be nice to get some sort of

<v Speaker 1>explanation on the show to see what they go with.

<v Speaker 1>We got more new Japan Cup is cooking. Have you

<v Speaker 1>been watching? I have not. No, I have a wrestling

<v Speaker 1>overload as it is. I have not been keeping up

<v Speaker 1>with it. Unfortunately. Andre Israel security geeks are always bad,

<v Speaker 1>but tonight they were pretty ass. Got to be the

<v Speaker 1>worst security I've seen in a long time. Between WWE

<v Speaker 1>and AEW. It's pretty bad, dude. I mean it's it's embarrassing. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>these guys have been fighting for three hours. I think

<v Speaker 1>they need to start arming these security guards with tasers,

<v Speaker 1>is what I think they need to do. Clearly, these guys,

<v Speaker 1>these men are out of control and the only way

<v Speaker 1>to stop them is to taser them, or they could

<v Speaker 1>do with what Kurt Angle did to Big Show many

<v Speaker 1>years ago. He could shoot him with one of those darts,

<v Speaker 1>Tranquilizer darts. I just loo can't believe they did that.

<v Speaker 1>The shoulder demon as working for security, I could tell

<v Speaker 1>you that both AW and WW Security are an embarrassment

<v Speaker 1>to my profession, totally useless. They should be fired. Ali, Hey,

<v Speaker 1>solo monster. Since Teddy Biassi Jr. Is found not guilty,

<v Speaker 1>do we see him back on TV and see Legacy reunion? No?

<v Speaker 1>Dbasi has been out of wrestling for a very long time,

<v Speaker 1>and uh, I don't see the need for him to

<v Speaker 1>be introduced into this. Sidrow friends sad because he didn't

<v Speaker 1>know the lyrics to y MCA, I said, young man,

<v Speaker 1>there's no need to feel down. And how did Samuel

<v Speaker 1>Adams get down the mountain? Bruceki's boy, you thought that

<v Speaker 1>one was probably like your best one, right. I could

<v Speaker 1>see the big smile on your face as he's typing

<v Speaker 1>it up. Oh man, he's gonna love this. He's gonna

<v Speaker 1>love Bruskies. Thank you, Sidro. First time we've we've gotten

<v Speaker 1>one from Sidro in a while. That big money Jackson,

<v Speaker 1>I like your Jacob Fatu impression needs needs work, not bad.

<v Speaker 1>What he does. It's like he's having an aneurysm or something.

<v Speaker 1>The shoulder Demon. I wanted to see Gunther versus Chuck Norris.

<v Speaker 1>The Shawnathan says, rest in peace, Chuck Narris. I'll always

<v Speaker 1>remember having him be the enforcer for the Undertaker Yoko

<v Speaker 1>Zuna casket match at Survivor Series in nineteen ninety three. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what Survivor series you were watching that year,

<v Speaker 1>but it was actually nineteen ninety four. Sorry, that's the

<v Speaker 1>that's the nerd in me coming out. Well, actually, actually,

<v Speaker 1>there he is. Give me backshot solo Monster SmackDown Women,

<v Speaker 1>speaking of DEBIASI there he is. That's how they see.

<v Speaker 1>That's how Ted Junior got off. Se Dibiassi showed up

<v Speaker 1>with the money gun. There it is. There's your answer,

<v Speaker 1>he says. SmackDown women only have three faces, and Tiffany

<v Speaker 1>is an awful baby face. She is. The SmackDown Women's

<v Speaker 1>division is still very much in shambles. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>why they haven't taken better steps to correct this. I

<v Speaker 1>just I don't understand it. Joseph Heath, it's time to

<v Speaker 1>end the Johnny Gargano, it's time to I think you're

<v Speaker 1>missing a word there. He says. It's time to end

<v Speaker 1>the Johnny Gargano. I'm gonna end the guy. I'm just

<v Speaker 1>he says. But if being depressed and cancel what it's

<v Speaker 1>time to end the Johnny Gargano. But if being depressed

<v Speaker 1>and cancel the Uncle Howdie Gimmick, turn Cody and Sammy heel,

<v Speaker 1>h E A L and get it over with. So

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna turn Cody and Sammy heel, then, I mean, boy,

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna have a real hole as far as top

<v Speaker 1>babyfaces on this show. That's that's not a good IDEA

<v Speaker 1>big money Jackson Tag Division needs refocus and restructure and story.

<v Speaker 1>I agree. Thoughts on Howie Rose retiring this year, you

<v Speaker 1>have the Mets longtime radio announcer. He's going to be

<v Speaker 1>calling his final season, and I think it's well deserved.

<v Speaker 1>He's gonna be missed. He's an institution here in New

<v Speaker 1>York where Gary Cohen came from from radio to TV.

<v Speaker 1>More All in twenty twenty six sold twenty thousand tickets

<v Speaker 1>after a four day presale, compared to All in twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty four with thirty three thousand tickets after a three

<v Speaker 1>week presale. Nice to see the upward trend. They could

<v Speaker 1>sell forty. I think they should be happy for that show.

<v Speaker 1>Fifty would be better, but at least forty because you're

<v Speaker 1>not doing the numbers that you did for the first one.

<v Speaker 1>That's just not going to happen. Jeremy says Cody heal

<v Speaker 1>and strap the gold rocket on Oba. Yes, Oba's gonna

<v Speaker 1>end up on Raw? What do you do on SmackDown?

<v Speaker 1>Andre says, please make Randy going off on Matt a

<v Speaker 1>super Chat super Chat Jeremy with a five. Sammy needs

<v Speaker 1>to find a partner and win those tag straps. Priest

<v Speaker 1>in bald truth, Ain't it a partner? You say? Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean there's a certain partner who may be back

<v Speaker 1>later this year, but it's going to be a while

<v Speaker 1>before he's back. Who would you team Sammy with? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>who would even really make sense? Oh, we got Luis

<v Speaker 1>with a twenty two dollars super chat. There is always

<v Speaker 1>going to be another mountain. I'm always gonna want to

<v Speaker 1>make it move, always going to be an uphill battle.

<v Speaker 1>Somebody's gonna have to lose. Sorry if I'm using Miley

<v Speaker 1>Cyrus song lyrics Love the Climb for Randy Orton, I

<v Speaker 1>would like to know what possessed you to use Miley

<v Speaker 1>Cyrus lyrics here, Cornell Bryant, Samuel will pull a Brett

<v Speaker 1>Hart WrestleMania thirteen double turn, A double turn with who Trick?

<v Speaker 1>That could work. Actually, you know what, I'm very hesitant

<v Speaker 1>to make any significant alterations to tricks, gimmick and what

<v Speaker 1>he's doing now because it's working, I think organically without

<v Speaker 1>WWE meddling in it. But that's interesting. The idea of

<v Speaker 1>a Sammy and Trick double turn at WrestleMania, I don't

<v Speaker 1>hate it. David Rice with a nine ninety nine Sammy

<v Speaker 1>and Trick is where the double turn? Well, there we go.

<v Speaker 1>Sammy and Trick is where the double turn is. They

<v Speaker 1>have a match at Mania where Sammy blatantly cheats, Trick

<v Speaker 1>cries foul and a baby face way at the next

<v Speaker 1>TV fude continues at Backlash. I can fuck with that.

<v Speaker 1>Just don't change too much about Trick, kind of let

<v Speaker 1>him be himself. But the idea that Sammy would do

<v Speaker 1>something underhanded just to get a win, and the fans

<v Speaker 1>like Trick, so I think that they would sympathize with

<v Speaker 1>him because I think with trick like. He's been in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with some big names, and I don't think

<v Speaker 1>he's done much in the way of like blatant cheating.

<v Speaker 1>So it's one thing for him to be overly cocky

<v Speaker 1>and arrogant. But if he's going out there and wrestling

<v Speaker 1>and winning matches pretty fairly and then Sammy suddenly, you know,

<v Speaker 1>has to cheat to win, I think that could work.

<v Speaker 1>We got Lavelle thoughts on Ted Dibiassi Junior being found

<v Speaker 1>not guilty. Yeah, I'll be talking about that on the

<v Speaker 1>sound off. Yeah, I mean apparently equitted on all all charges,

<v Speaker 1>which I was not expecting. But he's off the hook.

<v Speaker 1>Can't retry him for that, so good for him. Big

<v Speaker 1>Money Jackson aw has bad B level, C level characters.

<v Speaker 1>It's dry, stale, and it feels off. MJF is awesome,

<v Speaker 1>but all else feels terrible. Not everyone fits WWE, and

<v Speaker 1>it shows they do, so is WWE. We saw some

<v Speaker 1>of them on TV tonight. Jeremy says buy or Sell

<v Speaker 1>Wrestle many appearance for rock or Debias Junior, Cell Mactubb.

<v Speaker 1>What happened to Triple H after two thousand, two thousand

<v Speaker 1>and one? From what I've read, he was t two.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that means, but always generally boring

<v Speaker 1>and forced. What happened to him after two thousand and

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and one he tore his squad. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think he was ever the same after that. Whose body

<v Speaker 1>of work do you prefer, Triple H or Sina? Wait? Look,

<v Speaker 1>they have an impressive body of work in terms of

<v Speaker 1>some of the big matches they've had against different people.

<v Speaker 1>Triple H with Sean Michaels, Triple H with you know, mcfoley,

<v Speaker 1>Rock Undertaker, Sena. Though, you know, his catalog of matches

<v Speaker 1>is pretty impressive. I mean the matches that he's had

<v Speaker 1>with punk and AJ styles and seth rollins, and I

<v Speaker 1>mean I've talked about what I think are seen as

<v Speaker 1>best matches. He's had a lot of great matches with

<v Speaker 1>a lot of different people, and he was never the

<v Speaker 1>best in ring wrestler, but you can't deny that he's

<v Speaker 1>you know, when you look back at his body of work,

<v Speaker 1>he went out there and had some great fucking matches,

<v Speaker 1>you know, especially on like big pay per views and stuff.

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Owens, I think personally, I man, I think I

<v Speaker 1>go Sina. I think I go Seena Leo says, I

<v Speaker 1>like what I saw tonight with them teasing a breakup

<v Speaker 1>between Keana and Julia. As soon as they break up,

<v Speaker 1>I say, the better. I want to see Keana get

<v Speaker 1>a singles push. Well. I think of the two of them,

<v Speaker 1>the one who stands to benefit the most, honestly from

<v Speaker 1>a breakup and probably get pushed more is Keana. So

<v Speaker 1>if you're a Kiana fan, then that's probably what you

<v Speaker 1>should be hoping for. Says I feel like Keana is

<v Speaker 1>a future world champion. I hope WWE realizes what they

<v Speaker 1>have in her. I thought she looked good in the

<v Speaker 1>elimination chamber. It's still very early though. She hasn't really

<v Speaker 1>been thrown into the fire yet, like in a major,

<v Speaker 1>major match or with a major program, so time will tell.

<v Speaker 1>It's still too early to say. I can't sit here

<v Speaker 1>and say she's a future world champion. I'm not. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. I'm not feeling it yet, but I think

<v Speaker 1>she could get there. Ice cream for more. Did Randy

<v Speaker 1>take Cody to his home in Falacio states I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>You have to ask JD that it was flacial by

<v Speaker 1>the way his Falacial estate. Oh, I wish I had

<v Speaker 1>one of those back in the day. Man invite all

<v Speaker 1>the ladies out to my falacial estate. I had to

<v Speaker 1>call him out on that. I was like, excuse me,

<v Speaker 1>what did you say? Chicago for MBK fighting the flu

<v Speaker 1>but wanted to stay up to the end. Well, I'm

<v Speaker 1>very sorry to hear that you're sick. The flu sucks.

<v Speaker 1>Get well soon, get rest, chicken soup, lots of liquids.

<v Speaker 1>Andre Jefferson Hayman pays a Gunther Gunther versus Rollin's at

<v Speaker 1>WRESTLEMANI but Hayman Hayman might be willing to pay Gunther,

<v Speaker 1>but it doesn't really fit Gunther's m Oh, I mean

<v Speaker 1>Guntherer might be willing to do it for free. I

<v Speaker 1>mean he's not a paid assassin. Brock is because for

<v Speaker 1>Brock it's all about money. But you know, I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't really fit Gunther's m O. Donovan pain any

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on the Triple A Mega title redesign? Did they

<v Speaker 1>redesign the Mega title? Let me see here? Oh, I

<v Speaker 1>mean it looks I don't know, it doesn't look radically different.

<v Speaker 1>It looks nice. I think it looks nice. I like

<v Speaker 1>it big hoss thoughts on Statlander in WWE. With the

<v Speaker 1>recent rumors, I think NXT could finally find her character

<v Speaker 1>slash promo and new fresh faces to work with. Yeah. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen anything solid about her contract being up

<v Speaker 1>anytime soon or that she's going to be departing, so

<v Speaker 1>that's all speculation right now. But I think that it

<v Speaker 1>probably is something that she could benefit from. I think

<v Speaker 1>she'd have new people to work with. I think that.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, God, you mentioned NXT, but that SmackDown Women's

<v Speaker 1>division could really use somebody like her, you know, because

<v Speaker 1>it takes time, you got to really build up somebody

<v Speaker 1>knew who the audience wouldn't be familiar with, and boy

<v Speaker 1>they could. They could, sure you someone like her right

<v Speaker 1>now the hoofman Jesus can walk on water, but Chuck

<v Speaker 1>Narris could swim through land. Another favorite of mine is God,

<v Speaker 1>how did it go? Oh? Man? I forgot? I forgot

<v Speaker 1>if it was a specific person. But it's like people,

<v Speaker 1>you know, pee in the snow, like in the winter,

<v Speaker 1>but like to create, like if you are peeing in

<v Speaker 1>the snow to create snow angels or whatever. Like I

<v Speaker 1>forgot exactly how it goes. But the punchline is that

<v Speaker 1>Chuck Narris pee's on concrete and does the same thing.

<v Speaker 1>Or Chuck Norris doesn't do push ups, he's pushing the

<v Speaker 1>earth down. That's another one. Jeremy Rose says, what do

<v Speaker 1>you think about Punk turning Heel, joining Hayman and becoming

<v Speaker 1>the leader of the Vision despite seth rollins and keep

<v Speaker 1>that feud going. I'm glad you put the laughing emoji

<v Speaker 1>at the end, because I was about to scold you.

<v Speaker 1>You think Brock would have learned his lesson going back

<v Speaker 1>to Hayman fucking twice after Hayman turned his back on him.

<v Speaker 1>How many times? I don't need Punk doing the same thing.

<v Speaker 1>Punk's already been betrayed twice by Hayman third times. On you, buddy,

<v Speaker 1>Robert Peterson with a nine to ninety nine. Thank you, Robert. Unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>the consequences of not turning Cody Heel are showing the

<v Speaker 1>crowd is one hundred percent behind Randy Orton hates Cody.

<v Speaker 1>I've been listening to you since twenty eighteen. Love your work,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, brother. I don't think they're one hundred percent

<v Speaker 1>against Cody would I wouldn't say that, but they're definitely,

<v Speaker 1>you know, not gonna really be booing Randy Orton. I

<v Speaker 1>do think if Cody shows up next week with a

<v Speaker 1>fiery babyface promo, I mean, he could win people over.

<v Speaker 1>But when you walk into WrestleMania, you're gonna you're gonna

<v Speaker 1>hear the cheers for Randy and the booze for Cody.

<v Speaker 1>They're gonna be there. I don't know that there's anything

<v Speaker 1>they could do to change that, but at this stage,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's really not a whole lot they can do.

<v Speaker 1>You know, this is the match, and again, they don't

<v Speaker 1>have anybody lined up to really step into Cody's spot,

<v Speaker 1>and he's got to be that guy. You know, he's

<v Speaker 1>got to be the hero who goes out there. And

<v Speaker 1>maybe it's a John Cena thing where he's got to

<v Speaker 1>just sort of accept that half the audience is gonna

<v Speaker 1>hate him and half the audience is gonna want to

<v Speaker 1>cheer for him. Seen his whole thing was well, as

<v Speaker 1>long as they're making noise, that's all that matters. They

<v Speaker 1>don't really have another card to play right now. Dry

<v Speaker 1>Chicken says Matt Cardona and Chelsea Green need a vacation

<v Speaker 1>trip to can Kun. Yeah. Him with his arm and

<v Speaker 1>her with her ankle. The walking wounded retro Koah, you

<v Speaker 1>want to hear real nitpicking? I got one. Why are

<v Speaker 1>you using the Sonic two life icon as an emoji

<v Speaker 1>but playing the Sonic one extra life jingle in be

<v Speaker 1>the booker? Holy shit, that is that is a level

<v Speaker 1>of just nerdom and geek them that I am just

<v Speaker 1>in awe of you are like the uber geek with

<v Speaker 1>that super chat. Bass Beers says Sidrow is a zebro.

<v Speaker 1>Mystic Jay says, where the hell is Eo? It's a

<v Speaker 1>good question. She's another one. Probably gonna have a singles

<v Speaker 1>match with Raquel at WrestleMania. It's really the best we

<v Speaker 1>can come up with for EO. Sky On that show,

<v Speaker 1>Cameron Spencer, Gargano and Zane should team up since both

<v Speaker 1>of them are depressed and after oh after Sammy goes hill,

<v Speaker 1>they should team up. It could save Gargano's career. They

<v Speaker 1>could be an interesting team. Yeah, but the Gargano stuff

<v Speaker 1>is being played up as comedy. Sammy is not. It's

<v Speaker 1>it's not the same. It would do more to bring

<v Speaker 1>Sammy down. I think then elevate Gargano. Honestly, Yeah, the

<v Speaker 1>whole the whole depression angle with Gargana was rooted in humor.

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Gargano needs some special brownies, says dried Chicken. Jeremy Rose,

<v Speaker 1>I'd bring back Cross to be Sammy's partner and complete

<v Speaker 1>that story. That could make sense, But they're not bringing

<v Speaker 1>back Cross, so that's not an option. Bes Bears. Remember

<v Speaker 1>when Arnold smacked Triple H good times, Yeah, and then

<v Speaker 1>he drank a cold one with Stone Cold to promote

<v Speaker 1>his movie The End of Days. Remember that The End

<v Speaker 1>of Days. The whole reason he was on SmackDown was

<v Speaker 1>to promote the End of Day. I think Gabriel Byrne

<v Speaker 1>was in that movie. I saw that movie many years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says a spoiler, Randy Orton's next move will

<v Speaker 1>be kidnapping Pharaoh with two heel heat options shave the

<v Speaker 1>dog's fur or feed. Oh that's terrible. Yeah, that's fuck.

<v Speaker 1>That's a fucking dumb idea. Uh And Jared Moose Rodriguez

<v Speaker 1>just something funny to share. I once told someone that

<v Speaker 1>my oldest wrestling memory was legitimately Vince McMahon in a

<v Speaker 1>do rag. Dude just laughed and said, Nah, you might

<v Speaker 1>as well be a fetus. That makes me feel old.

<v Speaker 1>That your oldest wrestling memory. Oh man, there she is again.

<v Speaker 1>Here's Karen. Jared also says, based on what you have

<v Speaker 1>seen of them, which woman in NXT do you feel

<v Speaker 1>has a higher ceiling? Tatum Paxley or j C Jane? Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>JC Jane, I've come around on JC Jane. I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>have said that before she won the championship, but I

<v Speaker 1>think of the two of them, she's got the higher ceiling.

<v Speaker 1>Retro koa Chuck Norris didn't die. He's just relieving the

<v Speaker 1>Grim Reaper's shift. He didn't have a heart attack. His

<v Speaker 1>heart had a Chuck Norris attack. And Corona boy putting

<v Speaker 1>my cat of twelve years to sleep tomorrow and this

<v Speaker 1>stream is what I needed tonight. Thank you Solo for

<v Speaker 1>all that you do. Hashtag fuck cancer. I can definitely

<v Speaker 1>back that up hashtag fuck cancer. Indeed, I'm very sorry

<v Speaker 1>to hear that. That's that's a tough thing. I remember.

<v Speaker 1>I remember being confronted with that same decision, only in

<v Speaker 1>my case it was eighteen years instead of twelve years,

<v Speaker 1>and I just I couldn't I couldn't do I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I was in the end I was going to have to,

<v Speaker 1>but like I struggled with that decision and ended up

<v Speaker 1>not having to make that decision myself. It happened naturally.

<v Speaker 1>But it's tough, you know, it's a very tough situation

<v Speaker 1>to be and I'm sorry to hear that, brother, But

<v Speaker 1>if we can take your mind off it for a

<v Speaker 1>few hours, then I'm glad we could at least do that.

<v Speaker 1>That's the one thing about cats and dogs that just sucks.

<v Speaker 1>They don't live long enough, right they just they did?

<v Speaker 1>They don't anyway, we are currently sitting at eight one

<v Speaker 1>hundred likes. Man, we could have smashed every single goal

<v Speaker 1>on that wheel tonight. But as it was there, you say,

<v Speaker 1>five hundred was the goal? Oh? Do we smash the

<v Speaker 1>shit out of that? Love to see it. Let's do it.

<v Speaker 1>Let's be the booker, Ladies and gentlemen. It is now

<v Speaker 1>time to be the booker. Had a dog for seventeen years,

<v Speaker 1>says mind the gap. That's a good long time. I

<v Speaker 1>mean again, I was very fortunate to have in my

<v Speaker 1>last cat eighteen years. That's pretty damn good. And yet

<v Speaker 1>it still doesn't feel long enough. All right, here we go,

<v Speaker 1>tag team, be the Booker. This is fun. We do

<v Speaker 1>this at the end of most streams when we hit

<v Speaker 1>the goal. See if we can book a better card

<v Speaker 1>than the one we saw tonight. It's always the objective here,

<v Speaker 1>and we already have because Terry, I see Terry Funk

<v Speaker 1>on my screen. I already know it's a better card.

<v Speaker 1>Terry Funk and Cactus Jack. Did they have a team

<v Speaker 1>I don't think they had a team name. We'll have

<v Speaker 1>to come up with one for him. Terry Funk Cactus

<v Speaker 1>Jack against Cain and Daniel Bryan. Here you go. That's

<v Speaker 1>a feature match right there. I got Daniel Brian in

<v Speaker 1>there with Terry Funk. Alright, we got two more. We

<v Speaker 1>need a ladies match. We need a good ladies match,

<v Speaker 1>better than the tag team title match we had tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Thunder Rosa, former a e W Women's World champion working

<v Speaker 1>her way back, just came back recently from an extended

<v Speaker 1>break due to injury. Solo in a do rag solo monster.

<v Speaker 1>That would be something. Thunder Rosa against Bailey, two former

<v Speaker 1>women's world champions. I don't believe they've ever been in

<v Speaker 1>the ring together. That would be an attraction. And in

<v Speaker 1>our main event, here we go, mister Brodie Lee, the

<v Speaker 1>former TNT champion, once destroyed Cody Rhoads in what three

<v Speaker 1>minutes I believe it was still on the aw roster.

<v Speaker 1>They still have him listed on the roster against the

<v Speaker 1>former TNA and reigning NXT champion, Joe Hendry. Always love

<v Speaker 1>me a good clean sweep here and be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>That's how it's done. Joe Hendry and mister Brodie Lee.

<v Speaker 1>There you go. See that makes up for the lack

<v Speaker 1>of be the booker on Wednesday, got ourselves a clean

<v Speaker 1>sweep on Friday. Thank you, guys. So I wanted to

<v Speaker 1>also just remind you that tomorrow or I should say

<v Speaker 1>later today, eight pm Eastern, if you can't be there,

<v Speaker 1>you can tune in and buy it on Triller Plus

<v Speaker 1>House of Glory SuperClash. I'm going to be on the

<v Speaker 1>call with JD. We'll be doing commentary for our big

<v Speaker 1>Long Island show in conjunction with the Big Event. So

<v Speaker 1>the Big Event is having their convention tomorrow from ten

<v Speaker 1>am to four pm. Guess who's at the convention tomorrow.

<v Speaker 1>I'm actually going to try to get there early enough

<v Speaker 1>where I could at least see them strikeforce. More importantly,

<v Speaker 1>Rick Martel is going to be there. Rick Martel has

<v Speaker 1>not done very much wrestling related in recent years. We

<v Speaker 1>got a Strikeforce reunion. They're doing a signing at the

<v Speaker 1>big event, talk about people who belong in the Hall

<v Speaker 1>of Fame. But anyway, the convention goes from ten to

<v Speaker 1>four and then we'll get things all set up. Eight

<v Speaker 1>pm is the big super Class show. We got Amazing

<v Speaker 1>Red against Sammy Gavara first time ever, Charles Mason putting

<v Speaker 1>his title on the line against die Jack the Acclaimed,

<v Speaker 1>or making their Hog debut against Main and look who

<v Speaker 1>it is. It's Mina Mina sheer Cow. I got a

<v Speaker 1>big win on Dynamite the other night against Marina Shaffir

<v Speaker 1>and now she's gonna be taken on Shatzi. So a

<v Speaker 1>lot of cool shit eight pm Triller TV Plus or

<v Speaker 1>you can get your tickets even better. You can see

<v Speaker 1>the event live. You can come say hello to me.

<v Speaker 1>Just go to Hog Wrestling dot Net. Still got some

<v Speaker 1>good seats available for that one, so that's gonna be fun.

<v Speaker 1>Oh one more thing I wanted to point out to you.

<v Speaker 1>I talked to Ariel about this today. First of all,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for all the support with the Uncrowned Wrestling

<v Speaker 1>Show every Tuesday, so you know, if you search on

<v Speaker 1>your podcast platform of choice, Apple, Spotify, wherever it may be,

<v Speaker 1>The Uncrowned Wrestling Show now has its own dedicated feed

<v Speaker 1>exclusively for the Uncrowned Wrestling Show. It will still be

<v Speaker 1>on the Ariel Helwani Show feed, so you could still

<v Speaker 1>listen to it there, that's not changing, but now we

<v Speaker 1>also have a separate dedicated feed that you could subscribe to,

<v Speaker 1>so if you just search for it, it should come. It

<v Speaker 1>should be populated by now, but I just wanted to

<v Speaker 1>let everybody know the shows will be popping up there

<v Speaker 1>as well from now on. Anyway, thank you guys for

<v Speaker 1>all the love. Oh Venomktetsu celebrating seven months of membership.

<v Speaker 1>Current cat at six years going on seven in September.

<v Speaker 1>Best friend will be the worst break one day. Thanks

<v Speaker 1>for your previous sharing of cat shelter support. Absolutely. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they say dogs are a man's best friend, but cats men,

<v Speaker 1>They just have their own personality. They're very independent. You

<v Speaker 1>still got to clean up after them, but you don't

<v Speaker 1>have to. There's a lot of things with cats you

<v Speaker 1>don't have to do that you have to do with dogs.

<v Speaker 1>But also depends on the kind of cat. Those orange

<v Speaker 1>cats are crazy. I've never had one, but they're fucking nuts.

<v Speaker 1>I had a tabby myself, so that'll be my last one.

<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately it was with allergies and stuff. It doesn't make

<v Speaker 1>any sense for me to, you know, bring a new

<v Speaker 1>one into the home. I do miss it, though. They

<v Speaker 1>just bring a special like joy into your life that

<v Speaker 1>you do like when they're gone. This is very empty

<v Speaker 1>feeling all the funny shit that they would do. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>you know you want to just film it or take

<v Speaker 1>pictures or whatever. I do miss that Navy forty one.

<v Speaker 1>Who should induct Dennis Rodman into the Hall of Fame?

<v Speaker 1>I would say either Eric Bischoff or Kevin Nesh would

<v Speaker 1>make the most sense. Yep, I'm gonna talk more about

<v Speaker 1>him going into the Hall of This is a ton

<v Speaker 1>of shit I'm gonna be talking about on the podcast.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god. Yeah, it's gonna be a big show

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday, late later in the afternoon. I'll probably still

<v Speaker 1>be working up on my notes on Sunday morning since

<v Speaker 1>I'll be in a hog mode tomorrow. But yeah, Episode

<v Speaker 1>nine fifty six is gonna be a good one. On Sunday.

<v Speaker 1>I got a lot to say about the Ricochet stuff,

<v Speaker 1>which kind of happened immediately after last week's show. I

<v Speaker 1>kind of touched on it a little bit on TNT,

<v Speaker 1>but I'll get more into that on Sunday among other topics.

<v Speaker 1>So anyway, be well, stay safe. Thank you to everybody

<v Speaker 1>for hanging out with me, all the new people people

<v Speaker 1>who hung out because I know JD was at a

<v Speaker 1>family dinner tonight and he wasn't streaming, so we had

<v Speaker 1>some people migrate over here. You guys are awesome. Thank

<v Speaker 1>you for hanging out with us. Hopefully you'll do it

<v Speaker 1>again soon and I will be live with you here

<v Speaker 1>on the channel again on Monday night for the raw post.

<v Speaker 1>I'll we had a huge night on Monday this week.

<v Speaker 1>Let's try that again. We got a lot of shows

<v Speaker 1>coming up and hopefully you guys will be here with me.

<v Speaker 1>So have a good weekend and I'll see you for

<v Speaker 1>JOG tomorrow night. Take care, guys,