<v Speaker 1>Oh my, oh my goodness, three weeks away, three weeks

<v Speaker 1>from WrestleMania. This is what they give us. This is

<v Speaker 1>what they give us. You know, when you get a

<v Speaker 1>good SmackDown every now and it's more like a comet,

<v Speaker 1>you see, like a passing meteor in the sky. That's

<v Speaker 1>kind of what a good SmackDown is. When you get

<v Speaker 1>a good SmackDown, that's great. When you get a bad

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown at three hours, it is insufferable. I feel like

<v Speaker 1>I'd have more fun waiting in line at TSA for

<v Speaker 1>three hours, and I would watching some of these SmackDown shows.

<v Speaker 1>We had a brutal first hour and actually a little

<v Speaker 1>more than that, a little over an hour to open

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight, and I am watching this going it

<v Speaker 1>can't possibly get any worse. I mean, the show can

<v Speaker 1>only get better from here, right, It's only uphill from here.

<v Speaker 1>We still don't know what Randy Orton's going to be

<v Speaker 1>doing when it comes to the main event with Matt Cardona.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes is probably going to be back at the

<v Speaker 1>end of the show. We had a big US title

<v Speaker 1>match coming up and not US Championship match tonight between

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's Ain and carmel O Hayes. That was great. So

<v Speaker 1>the show did get better because of that one match.

<v Speaker 1>And they went out there and they look, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>they tore it up. They had a great outing. They've

<v Speaker 1>worked together before, so we know what those two men

<v Speaker 1>can do in the ring together, and in fact, in

<v Speaker 1>that matcham as well mention it. Now we have a

<v Speaker 1>brand new United States Champion. And there are two ways

<v Speaker 1>to look at this. On the one hand, they have

<v Speaker 1>been telling a story with Sammy's ain. This is the

<v Speaker 1>next kind of step in the story. Sammy's match for

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania now is solidified, and we'll talk about carmel O

<v Speaker 1>Hayes and whether or not he may or may not

<v Speaker 1>be involved in that. So because I'm very torn on

<v Speaker 1>the outcome of that match, but I can't hate on

<v Speaker 1>that match, but I can honestly say that outside of

<v Speaker 1>that US title match, SmackDown was a shit show tonight.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's really no other way to put it.

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown was a shit show tonight with the absolute lamest,

<v Speaker 1>longest and in many ways heatless, pull apart brawls that

<v Speaker 1>you will ever see, certainly the longest one that I

<v Speaker 1>have seen in ages that show closing brawl with Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton and Cody Rhodes. I put in the title of

<v Speaker 1>the video here, it took five business days. It just

<v Speaker 1>kept going and going and going, and the fans weren't

<v Speaker 1>even really like there were uncomfortable periods of just silence

<v Speaker 1>as the two men in one of the WrestleMania main

<v Speaker 1>events are out there acting as if they hate each

<v Speaker 1>other's guts and they're trying to get at each other,

<v Speaker 1>and it's it's again, it's the same trope we see

<v Speaker 1>with WWE pull apart brawls all the time, and I

<v Speaker 1>think because the formula never changes, when you get one

<v Speaker 1>like this that isn't that good at all. It really

<v Speaker 1>stands out more where you have the general manager come

<v Speaker 1>out and he's waving out all of these referees and

<v Speaker 1>all of these producers and all of these security guards

<v Speaker 1>and they're all coming out, and you've got ten fifteen

<v Speaker 1>fucking people out there, and they are unable to maintain

<v Speaker 1>law and order and they're getting thrown around, and you

<v Speaker 1>get there pulled apart in each corner of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Somebody breaks free, they jump onto the other person, then

<v Speaker 1>they get separated again, then the other person breaks free

<v Speaker 1>and then they jump on them in the corner. Right.

<v Speaker 1>They have their formula all the time. They all look

<v Speaker 1>the same. This was different in that people didn't really

<v Speaker 1>seem to care. And the other thing also is like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes was bloodied

<v Speaker 1>up by this man. He was betrayed and bloodied by

<v Speaker 1>his brother, okay, by one of his best friends in

<v Speaker 1>the business, left for dead a couple of weeks ago

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown. This was the first time that we have

<v Speaker 1>seen Cody Rhodes back on this show since that heinous attack.

<v Speaker 1>And I mean, honestly, I don't know what was going

<v Speaker 1>on here. He comes out there with about as much

<v Speaker 1>intensity as a corpse, and they're just like, it's like lifeless.

<v Speaker 1>They're just rowing shots at each other and they're pulling

<v Speaker 1>them away. There's there's there's just no real urgency there.

<v Speaker 1>There's no sense of like, Okay, they're trying to convince

<v Speaker 1>us that they want to get at each other in

<v Speaker 1>the worst way. They're just going through the motions. That's

<v Speaker 1>all I could That's all I could think as I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching this. They're just going through the motions and Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I will say watching that segment, it felt like maybe

<v Speaker 1>they came up short on time and they had to

<v Speaker 1>stretch things because, oh shit, we came up short. We

<v Speaker 1>got to keep this going for a little bit longer

<v Speaker 1>before Jelly Roll finally came out, like they were stalling

<v Speaker 1>for time, almost just to get to the top of

<v Speaker 1>the hour. That's what it felt like to me. Although

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, usually they time these shows out perfectly.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if something ran short. I'm trying to

<v Speaker 1>come up with a a decent explanation for why this

<v Speaker 1>was so bad. But jelly Roll comes out and he's

<v Speaker 1>trying to keep the peace because he loves he loves

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes, and he loves Randy Orton, right, Randy's his boy,

<v Speaker 1>And you could see where this was going. And Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton again breaks free and he drops Jelly Roll with

<v Speaker 1>an RKO. And as soon as he drops Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>with an RKO, the crowd breaks out at the chance

<v Speaker 1>of Randy Randy Randy and I just sat here laughing,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't even think, not that I don't think.

<v Speaker 1>I know that was not WWE's intent. WWE is not

<v Speaker 1>booking this main event WrestleMania Maine event no less feud

<v Speaker 1>between Cody Roads and Randy Orton with the idea that

<v Speaker 1>they're trying to make it funny. But I thought this

<v Speaker 1>shit was fucking hilarious in the worst possible way, because

<v Speaker 1>it's not meant to be hilarious, But it is hilarious

<v Speaker 1>because these crows do not want to boo Randy Orton,

<v Speaker 1>and so they tried something tonight because jelly Roll. The

<v Speaker 1>fans like jelly Roll. Jelly Roll had a match on

<v Speaker 1>this show. Oh if you were worried about getting enough

<v Speaker 1>jelly in your diet, you got a lot of jelly

<v Speaker 1>in your diet tonight. Between tonight and last week, he

<v Speaker 1>had a match on the show against Kit Wilson. We'll

<v Speaker 1>talk about that. But the fans like jelly Roll. It's

<v Speaker 1>not like when he comes up, they boo him, you know,

<v Speaker 1>get the fuck out of here. And but didn't matter.

<v Speaker 1>He gets dropped with an RKO. They're trying to get

<v Speaker 1>heat on Randy Orton and it blows up in their

<v Speaker 1>fucking face and I just laugh and I just like,

<v Speaker 1>this is this is great, This is this is very entertaining.

<v Speaker 1>I am sports entertained. I just don't think I'm sports

<v Speaker 1>entertained in the way that they intend for me to

<v Speaker 1>be entertained watching this this show. This show is a disaster.

<v Speaker 1>This show is a disaster in so many different ways.

<v Speaker 1>We got two matches made for WrestleMania that are now official.

<v Speaker 1>We know Drew McIntyre and Jacob Fatu are having an

<v Speaker 1>un sanction match. I know there were rumors of Hell

<v Speaker 1>and a Cell, which is you know what I had suggested,

<v Speaker 1>maybe this may be going in that direction last week.

<v Speaker 1>I said that, and that would have made sense. But

<v Speaker 1>they're having an unsanctioned match. Notice qualification, no count out.

<v Speaker 1>Referee is only there to count the winning fall or submission,

<v Speaker 1>whatever it may be. The other match that is official

<v Speaker 1>also is Sammy's Ain't the brand new United States Champion

<v Speaker 1>is going to be defending his title against Trick Williams,

<v Speaker 1>and I am hoping that there is another name. There's

<v Speaker 1>still time, there's three weeks left that there is another

<v Speaker 1>name that gets added to that match, because if not,

<v Speaker 1>boy what a slap in his face? Is all I

<v Speaker 1>have to say about that. But there is still time

<v Speaker 1>to add that third person to that match. So we did.

<v Speaker 1>It was a Newsworthy show and that we had two

<v Speaker 1>matches made official for WrestleMania. The rest of this show,

<v Speaker 1>it is a collection of boring, heatless matches. It is

<v Speaker 1>incredible as I sit here watching this show. Whether it's

<v Speaker 1>the women's tag team match, whether it's oh, even some

<v Speaker 1>of the uh well I mentioned the jelly roll kit

<v Speaker 1>Wilson thing. Obviously that's leading to some kind of jelly

<v Speaker 1>roll match with miz I guess or WrestleMania. But whether

<v Speaker 1>it's that, whether we saw Tiffany and Julia, I'm watching

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany Stratton and Julia out there and they didn't have

<v Speaker 1>a bad match, but the crowd didn't care. They could

<v Speaker 1>not possibly have cared any less about what they were watching.

<v Speaker 1>It's sad to watch. You know, Julia is out there,

<v Speaker 1>she gets no reactions. Tiffany's out there, and I mean,

<v Speaker 1>we know the fans like Tiffany, but Tiffany is a

<v Speaker 1>terrible babyface. She's miscast as a babyface. So you take

<v Speaker 1>those two things, you put them together. People don't care.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm thinking this WrestleMania is three weeks away. Segment

<v Speaker 1>after segment after segment, Oh, we got a good one, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>segment after segment after segment, heatless, heatless, nobody cares, what

<v Speaker 1>are we doing? This is WrestleMania. Does this feel like

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania season? I mean it did when Obafemi came out

<v Speaker 1>on Raw last week to confront brock lesnar Boy. That

<v Speaker 1>felt like WrestleMania. Right. There have been segments here and there,

<v Speaker 1>that first Roman Reigns and see I'm Punk segment right

<v Speaker 1>after the Royal Rumble that felt like WrestleMania. When Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton beat the shit out of Cody Roads two weeks

<v Speaker 1>ago and bloodied him up, that felt like WrestleMania. But

<v Speaker 1>everything else that they have done so far, virtually everything.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, we could talk about Rhea Ripley and Jade

<v Speaker 1>cargild tonight as well, and it's like this, this is WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>This is terrible. Nobody seems to care. Where's the life,

<v Speaker 1>Where's the energy on the show? I don't understand. Three

<v Speaker 1>hours of television to fill and the only redeeming segment

<v Speaker 1>on the entire show is Sammy's Ain and Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>and they're out there busting their ass for the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship. Nothing else even feels all that important. Randy

<v Speaker 1>Yorton is still on the phone talking to himself probably

<v Speaker 1>that's where that's going. And there's really not a whole

<v Speaker 1>lot else to speak of that really gets you truly

<v Speaker 1>excited for wrestle maany And that's sad. You know, SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>is hard enough to sit through at three hours when

<v Speaker 1>you have a bad week or an off week. There

<v Speaker 1>seem to be more off weeks than on weeks. But

<v Speaker 1>it's even worse now because this should be the most

<v Speaker 1>exciting period of the entire year for the WWE product.

<v Speaker 1>Everything is building to these two nights that are coming

<v Speaker 1>up in Las Vegas next month. And the way, by

<v Speaker 1>the way that I felt about Cody Rose of Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton two weeks ago when Randy bloodied him up and

<v Speaker 1>all that, and then we had that one really off

<v Speaker 1>night with see I'm punkin Roman Reigns, and I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>it's amazing how it feels like the excitement level has

<v Speaker 1>flipped for these two main events. Now I feel like

<v Speaker 1>it's flipped back the other way. We'll see at the

<v Speaker 1>end of next week if it flips back. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, SmackDown's just a shit show right now. I

<v Speaker 1>don't really know what else to tell you. This show sucks.

<v Speaker 1>I hate to say it. I take no pleasure in

<v Speaker 1>saying that. But that show that we saw tonight, that

<v Speaker 1>show sucked, and this close to WrestleMania, you got to

<v Speaker 1>do a better job than that. It's just it's unbelievable.

<v Speaker 1>It really is. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review.

<v Speaker 1>It is March twenty seventh, twenty twenty six. Yeh, shittiest

<v Speaker 1>brawl ever? Yes, yes, yes it was. I mean, for

<v Speaker 1>two stars of their caliber heading into a big match

<v Speaker 1>like that, yes it was. I think they were trying

<v Speaker 1>to recreate some of the great pull apart brawls that

<v Speaker 1>we've seen. I saw somebody before mentioned to me Sena

<v Speaker 1>and Lesnar from twenty twelve. Yeah, that's not what this was.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what they were trying to recreate, but

<v Speaker 1>whatever they were attempting to do there, it did not

<v Speaker 1>work anyway. I will say thank you one thing to

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<v Speaker 1>just a little bit. But we got to get into

<v Speaker 1>this show. We have to get into this SmackDown show. Unfortunately.

<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, Before I do, I do want to mention

<v Speaker 1>that that was some news that broke late this afternoon.

<v Speaker 1>Congrats to Scott Timore and the folks over a Maple

<v Speaker 1>Leaf Pro Wrestling, which announced that they have signed a

<v Speaker 1>television deal and they will have a new weekly series

<v Speaker 1>called Maple Leaf Mayhem that's going to be airing on

<v Speaker 1>TSN in Canada, So if you are a Canuck and

<v Speaker 1>you have access to TSN, you will be able. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know when it begins. I don't have the exact

<v Speaker 1>date in front of me, but they will have a

<v Speaker 1>new weekly TV series, so that is very cool. And

<v Speaker 1>also I did see now I know, TNA had their

<v Speaker 1>Sacrifice pay per view two night and it was supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be Mike Santana in the main event defending the

<v Speaker 1>TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Steve Macklin. Obviously I was

<v Speaker 1>watching SmackDown. I did not see the show, but from

<v Speaker 1>what I did see, early on in the match, like

<v Speaker 1>within the first minute or two, apparently Macklin ate like

<v Speaker 1>a shoot super kick. I guess it connected a little

<v Speaker 1>too hard and he got injured. He might may or

<v Speaker 1>may not have gotten concussed, whatever it was. Evidently they

<v Speaker 1>stop the match to check on him, and I think

<v Speaker 1>they sent Eddie Edwards out there, and anyway, the match

<v Speaker 1>really never happened, so I don't know how serious that is,

<v Speaker 1>but hopefully he is okay. That that sounds very scary.

<v Speaker 1>You don't want to mess around with concussions or head

<v Speaker 1>blows or anything like that. So if anybody gets any

<v Speaker 1>update as we're live here, you can film me in

<v Speaker 1>in the chat SmackDown. They opened tonight's show with highlights

<v Speaker 1>of Randy Orton's very eventful night last Friday, ending with

<v Speaker 1>him breaking Matt Cardona's wrist. So Randy Orton was out

<v Speaker 1>first tonight, and he talked about Cody Rhoades telling him

<v Speaker 1>two weeks ago that he needed Orton to be the

<v Speaker 1>best version of himself that he could be. He wanted

<v Speaker 1>the best version of Randy yort And he also said

<v Speaker 1>Cody did that that's what the fans wanted him to be,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans cheered when he mentioned this, and Cody

<v Speaker 1>also said he needed him to listen to the voices,

<v Speaker 1>listen to the voices in his head, and Cody, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>did Macklin get fired and feast Or fired? It was

<v Speaker 1>a work. Yes, he got fired. He's already back wrestling

<v Speaker 1>for the world champion. Why don't they just have him?

<v Speaker 1>When feast Or fired and opened the briefcase for the

<v Speaker 1>world title shot, would that have not made more sense?

<v Speaker 1>But he said Cody needed him to listen to the

<v Speaker 1>voices in his head, but he shut those voices out

<v Speaker 1>a long time ago, he said, and Eve been thinking

<v Speaker 1>a lot about his fifteenth World championship, and he had

<v Speaker 1>been thinking about his legacy. And then Cody, out of

<v Speaker 1>nowhere gives him his blessing. Right, which is what I

<v Speaker 1>said last week when I was talking about the the

<v Speaker 1>idea behind why Randy did what he did. It was like,

<v Speaker 1>you've been given permission, right, I love you no matter

<v Speaker 1>what happens, I love you. I will always love you.

<v Speaker 1>Fucking Whitney Houston over here, And that gave Randy the

<v Speaker 1>permission to go ahead and beat the hell out of

<v Speaker 1>this guy. So now that he's listening to the voices

<v Speaker 1>in his head again, he said, he can't be responsible

<v Speaker 1>for what happens next. So the voices up here, the

<v Speaker 1>voices aren't the problem. It's everyone else's voice. And he's

<v Speaker 1>looking out at the court. There's the closest we've gotten

<v Speaker 1>to the you people promo, because it's everyone else's voices,

<v Speaker 1>all of your voices and people in the back and

<v Speaker 1>Cody or Jelly or whatever, you know. He's talking about

<v Speaker 1>every other voice, but the ones in his own head.

<v Speaker 1>That's the problem. There's one person outside of his own head, though,

<v Speaker 1>whose voice he is listening to. So Matt Cardona's music hits,

<v Speaker 1>he walks out, and he has a cast on his

<v Speaker 1>wrist because they claim he has a broken wrist as

<v Speaker 1>a result of last week's vicious attack by Randy Orton,

<v Speaker 1>where mat Cardona laid there for thirty seconds with his

<v Speaker 1>arm in a chair and looked up at Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>waiting for him to viciously stomp on the chair. And

<v Speaker 1>so because of that, he now has a broken wrist.

<v Speaker 1>So Cardona comes down, Orton shouting at him like what

<v Speaker 1>are you doing here? As he's climbing into the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and Cardona hits him in the head with the microphone.

<v Speaker 1>Orton rolls out to the floor, right in front of

<v Speaker 1>the announced desk, and in response to all of this,

<v Speaker 1>the crowd in Pittsburgh chanted, Randy, Randy, Randy, get used

<v Speaker 1>to it. You're gonna be hearing this a lot over

<v Speaker 1>these next few weeks. And then they just awkwardly cut

<v Speaker 1>to the back. That was the That was the end

<v Speaker 1>of the segment. They just awkwardly cut to the back.

<v Speaker 1>The fans, I will say. The fans were as firmly

<v Speaker 1>behind Orton here as they have ever been, like even

<v Speaker 1>when Orton was healing on them and said I don't

<v Speaker 1>care about Basically, I don't care about your voices. Your

<v Speaker 1>voices don't matter to me. They didn't even boom. They

<v Speaker 1>didn't react at all. They were just listening intently to

<v Speaker 1>what the man had to say. They're not going to

<v Speaker 1>boo this man. They're not going to do it then

<v Speaker 1>the back. Later, Orton was furious. He went over to

<v Speaker 1>Nick all This and he demanded a match with Matt Cardona,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans in the arena popped loudly when he

<v Speaker 1>asked for this match. All This was hesitant to do

<v Speaker 1>it because of Cardona's arm, but Orton said, if you

<v Speaker 1>don't give me the match, there's no telling what I

<v Speaker 1>may do to him. So Nick all This relented and

<v Speaker 1>he agreed to give Randy Orton a match against the

<v Speaker 1>man with the broken wrist. Which seems very unfair to

<v Speaker 1>not at least first consult with the man who has

<v Speaker 1>a broken wrisk before agreeing to put him in a

<v Speaker 1>match on this show, but that's how things operate apparently

<v Speaker 1>here on SmackDown. So the match was made, and so

<v Speaker 1>we knew what our main event was going to be

<v Speaker 1>right out of the gate. But that came a few

<v Speaker 1>segments later. That backstage segment before that, in the back

<v Speaker 1>Nick all This was speaking with Trick Williams and he

<v Speaker 1>told Trick he was giving him a match at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and of course Trick was just elated by this news.

<v Speaker 1>And then Sammy Zain shows up and Trick is gloating

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to WrestleMania, and Sammy congratulated him, and then

<v Speaker 1>he asked, all this, what am I doing a WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>and all this should have told him the truth. He

<v Speaker 1>should have been like, well, you're going to sweep the

<v Speaker 1>floors after the fans leave for Night one because they're

<v Speaker 1>going to be coming back for Night two and we

<v Speaker 1>need this arena clean. But he had to break the

<v Speaker 1>news to Sammy. He said, look, said, you're a major

<v Speaker 1>asset to smack them, but things haven't exactly gone your way,

<v Speaker 1>and at WrestleMania, championships need to be defended. Its valuable

<v Speaker 1>real estate and unless something changes, I don't have a

<v Speaker 1>spot for you right now at WrestleMania. Sammy had a

<v Speaker 1>look on his face like somebody just told him his

<v Speaker 1>dog died. Trick Williams looked at him and said, better

<v Speaker 1>luck next year. And he kept on talking to all this.

<v Speaker 1>He was asking for what do I get my comp

<v Speaker 1>tickets and all this stuff, and Sammy is walking away

<v Speaker 1>again the sad sack that he is. The depression continues

<v Speaker 1>here for Sammy's ain't unsmacked out. But then he stops

<v Speaker 1>and he suddenly smiles. It as if he had this

<v Speaker 1>like epiphany, He had his Eureka moment. He just thought

<v Speaker 1>of something. So he turns to go walk back towards them,

<v Speaker 1>and Trick tells him, hey, Sammy, catering's that way. So

<v Speaker 1>Sammy punched him in the face and knocked him to

<v Speaker 1>the ground, and then he smiled at all this who

<v Speaker 1>kind of had to hold him back here? He told

<v Speaker 1>all this, I'm going to have a match of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Just you watch. He walked off, and I was left

<v Speaker 1>thinking at that moment, uh oh. And the first person

<v Speaker 1>I thought of Carmelo Hayes. And the reason I thought

<v Speaker 1>of carmel O Hayes is because of what all this

<v Speaker 1>had said in the promo there where he said basically,

<v Speaker 1>I don't have any room for you at WrestleMania. It's

<v Speaker 1>valuable real estate. Championships have to be defended. So I

<v Speaker 1>immediately thought of the US title, which Sammy previously held,

<v Speaker 1>and I thought they wouldn't, not this close to WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>not after that great clean win he just secured last

<v Speaker 1>week over Ilia Dragon, of who was not even mentioned

<v Speaker 1>on the show tonight, let alone on the show. All

<v Speaker 1>the more reason to slot him in somewhere else at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I've already talked about that what I would do, but

<v Speaker 1>that's what I was thinking. I was like, uh, oh,

<v Speaker 1>this may be go into a bed place for Carmelo Hayes,

<v Speaker 1>but let's see what happens. We had Charlotte Flair, and

<v Speaker 1>we had Alexa Bliss against the Bella Twins. Around and

<v Speaker 1>around we go. We've had so many different combinations of

<v Speaker 1>these teams, and you know, the tag team Champions, and

<v Speaker 1>we've had other teams. So now it was their turn

<v Speaker 1>to wrestle Nia Jackson Lash Legend. They came out right

<v Speaker 1>before the match started to plug their title defense this

<v Speaker 1>Monday at Madison Square Garden against Bailey and Lyra Valkyria,

<v Speaker 1>and then they took a seat at ringside to watch

<v Speaker 1>the match. The fans treated the Bellas here as the

<v Speaker 1>de facto heels, not that they were really wrestling as

<v Speaker 1>heels and they're not heels, which is very weird, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, because I think even Nicky Bella may have

<v Speaker 1>said something about this on on the Bella Twins podcast,

<v Speaker 1>because Nicki Bella had turned heel a number of months

<v Speaker 1>ago on Stephanie Vvequire that she was just back to

<v Speaker 1>be in a babyface as soon as her sister came back,

<v Speaker 1>and they didn't explain it. There was no turn back,

<v Speaker 1>there was nothing. It's like, well, now you're a babyface.

<v Speaker 1>But in this match, the fans really were treating them

<v Speaker 1>more as the heels. Charlotte got a hot tag late

<v Speaker 1>in the match and took some time to deliver a

<v Speaker 1>crotch chop towards Naya and Lash in their direction. Then

<v Speaker 1>she tagged Bliss back in the Bellas gave her a

<v Speaker 1>version of the old heart attack. Flair broke up the

<v Speaker 1>count before Nikki threw her out of the ring. Alexa

<v Speaker 1>got to roll up on Brie. When Brie kicked out,

<v Speaker 1>It's the momentum sent Alexa forward refere I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what the referee was doing. The referee is standing there, okay, Now,

<v Speaker 1>the idea is that the referee did not see what

<v Speaker 1>was about to happen. Didn't exactly work out that way,

<v Speaker 1>but the momentum sends Alexa forward, lash legend from the floor,

<v Speaker 1>reaches in and just punches her right in the face

<v Speaker 1>right the referee. Daphne is standing right there. Now. The

<v Speaker 1>idea is that the referee didn't see it. Only she did.

<v Speaker 1>She was standing right there. She saw the whole thing,

<v Speaker 1>but she had to act like she didn't because then

<v Speaker 1>it would blow the spot. The whole point was the

<v Speaker 1>referee wasn't supposed to see it. So oops, down goes Alexa,

<v Speaker 1>and then Bree rolls her up and gets the pin.

<v Speaker 1>So the Bela Twins are victorious. I want to ask

<v Speaker 1>you guys a question, and I don't know if I'm

<v Speaker 1>the only one who feels this way. Why do I

<v Speaker 1>feel when I'm watching these women's tag team matches over

<v Speaker 1>the last few weeks, and I'm talking primarily about SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>why do I feel like the division has actually regressed?

<v Speaker 1>Like I know what Charlotte Flair is capable of. I

<v Speaker 1>know what some of these women are capable of when

<v Speaker 1>I see them in situations outside of these matches. But

<v Speaker 1>then I watched these matches and we've seen so much,

<v Speaker 1>many different combinations over the last few weeks. Charlotte Flare,

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss, Nya, jacks Lash Legend, Nia jacks Lash Legend,

<v Speaker 1>the Bella Twins, the Bella Twins, Charlotte Flare, Alexa blist A,

<v Speaker 1>round and around and around and around and around we go.

<v Speaker 1>We've seen so many different combinations. None of them have

<v Speaker 1>been good. None of them have been good. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if there's just some sort of chemistry issue between

<v Speaker 1>all of these women. I don't know what it is,

<v Speaker 1>but I actually I am watching some of these matches and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, why does it feel like we're sliding backwards?

<v Speaker 1>It feels like we're regressing here in this division, Like

<v Speaker 1>what is going on here? I don't understand. It's Certainly

<v Speaker 1>the stuff that we have seen over these last few

<v Speaker 1>weeks does not make it so that I feel excited

<v Speaker 1>to see them run it back again at WrestleMania, because

<v Speaker 1>we know we're all going to end up with them

<v Speaker 1>back in the ring together. It's going to be four teams,

<v Speaker 1>five teams, and the tag team titles are going to

<v Speaker 1>be on the line. They're not doing anything on television

<v Speaker 1>over the last several weeks to make me any more

<v Speaker 1>cited or interested to see them run this back again,

<v Speaker 1>which I thought was the point of all this is

<v Speaker 1>to get people excited to see a big rematch or

<v Speaker 1>a big multi team match of WrestleMania. It's the last

<v Speaker 1>thing I want to see. Very strange after the match

<v Speaker 1>Nia in Lash, they laid everybody out. They were about

<v Speaker 1>to finish off Alexa when Bailey and lyra Velkiria, their

<v Speaker 1>opponents this coming Monday, ran out to clear the champions

<v Speaker 1>from the ring. Charlotte also shoved Nicki down, or maybe

<v Speaker 1>it was Bri. It might have been Bri who the

<v Speaker 1>announcers pointed out didn't see Lash Legend deliver that knockout

<v Speaker 1>shot to Alexa Bliss. I will also mention to you

<v Speaker 1>then Nicki was noticeably limping when she got back in

<v Speaker 1>the ring to celebrate with Bree when the match was over.

<v Speaker 1>I mean she was basically hobbling around on her right leg.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't see where it happened. I mean, I'm hoping,

<v Speaker 1>you know, maybe she just twisted it a light sprain.

<v Speaker 1>Hopefully it's nothing too serious. Look, I'm not I'm not

<v Speaker 1>the biggest Bela Twins fan. I don't want to see

<v Speaker 1>anybody get hurt, whether you know we're this close to

<v Speaker 1>Wrestlevania or any other time of year. So hopefully that's

<v Speaker 1>nothing too serious. But there was a segment after this

<v Speaker 1>in the back where the Bellas confronted Charlotte and Alexa

<v Speaker 1>and asked them what the hell, What the hell are

<v Speaker 1>you guys thinking. Charlotte told them to get to the

<v Speaker 1>back of the line. You don't get another shot at

<v Speaker 1>the championships. Those titles belonged to us. Nicki said, we

<v Speaker 1>came back to become the tag team champions and we're

<v Speaker 1>going to do whatever it takes to do so. And

<v Speaker 1>it almost looked to me like Nicky may have been crying.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it was. I don't know. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it was the red nose, I don't know what it was.

<v Speaker 1>But again, hopefully it's not a situation where there's an

<v Speaker 1>injury and it was just a minor thing and she'll

<v Speaker 1>be fine. Not looking to see anybody get hurt here,

<v Speaker 1>but also can't tell you that I'm terribly excited to

<v Speaker 1>see any of this over again. I'm really not. They

<v Speaker 1>aired highlights of Damian Priest in Our Truth last week

<v Speaker 1>winning the tag team titles from the MFTs. And they're

<v Speaker 1>in the back and Truth is talking to somebody and

<v Speaker 1>Priest has no idea what's going on. He said, what

<v Speaker 1>are you doing? And Truth says, I'm building a clubhouse.

<v Speaker 1>The Judgment Day is back and Priest says, no, we're not.

<v Speaker 1>So then jelly Roll comes in. We're getting a lot

<v Speaker 1>of jelly Roll on these shows. So he comes in

<v Speaker 1>and he greets them, and Truth thought that it was Dominic.

<v Speaker 1>Mysterio goes, what happened to your mustache? So then Rhea

<v Speaker 1>Ripley walks in, and Truth thought that she and Jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll were Dominic and Rhea so dom and Mommy are

<v Speaker 1>back and I'm like, oh my god. So then Jelly

<v Speaker 1>told Ria that he knows that she can beat Jade

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania to win the Women's Championship, but he had

<v Speaker 1>to go get ready for his match with Kit Wilson,

<v Speaker 1>and then as he left, Truth chased after him, still

<v Speaker 1>thinking that it was dom comedy. So that left Ria

<v Speaker 1>and Damien. She congratulated him on becoming tag team champions.

<v Speaker 1>He said it was unexpected, but he fully expects that

<v Speaker 1>Ria is going to get hers at WrestleMania. Now go

<v Speaker 1>handle this jade business already, so she so she smiled,

<v Speaker 1>and she told him whippa and headed to the real.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, this is so bad. Oh this show,

<v Speaker 1>this show, it's wea. I'm everybody. Everybody celebrate. It's wet

<v Speaker 1>by time. You suck all right? So you know, I

<v Speaker 1>swear nobody is happier than Rhea Ripley, or nobody is

<v Speaker 1>happier rather than Damian Priest. Who see Rhea Ripley back

<v Speaker 1>on this show. He's probably looking going, please don't leave

<v Speaker 1>me again. Stay stay, I need you to stay on

<v Speaker 1>this show. Please don't leave me. You like that? Huh?

<v Speaker 1>It's wet by time, says it right there on his shirt.

<v Speaker 1>Sounds like something they'd have on a shirt. It is

<v Speaker 1>on the shirt. What do you think I got that from?

<v Speaker 1>I can't make up something that terrible. I remember the

<v Speaker 1>first time I saw that, and I asked people who

<v Speaker 1>would know more than I would. I said, is that

<v Speaker 1>a real thing where people go around saying it in

<v Speaker 1>that way? I know I whip, but I know that,

<v Speaker 1>but like it's wet by Tyler who says that? Who

<v Speaker 1>says that, yes, punch mclightning. Okay, I'm Puerto Ricans, so

<v Speaker 1>I know about weapon time LOL, But do you say,

<v Speaker 1>does it actually said that way on a regular basis?

<v Speaker 1>Do people go around saying that, Hey, it's why by time?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Rhea Ripley came to the ring after

<v Speaker 1>the commercial break. She never expected be fab in Michin

<v Speaker 1>to be so desperate that they would feel the need

<v Speaker 1>to stoop down to Jade Cargill's level, but it's WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>season and she doesn't care who she has to go

<v Speaker 1>through to get there. So she says, I'm dressed for combat,

<v Speaker 1>so why don't you come out here and join me

<v Speaker 1>in the ring? And that brought out Jade Cargill with

<v Speaker 1>her new baddies, Meechin and Beefab all had microphones, so

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, okay, we're gonna get the explanation for why

<v Speaker 1>they did what they did last week. So Jade said

<v Speaker 1>that Ria sounds real slick for someone who got dropped

<v Speaker 1>last week. They didn't join her. She said, they positioned

<v Speaker 1>themselves in power and if Ria thinks that Jade's gonna

<v Speaker 1>drag them down, she already knows what it is. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what that's supposed to mean. If you think

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna drag them down, you already know what it is.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it is. Why don't you tell

<v Speaker 1>me what it is? Beefab spoke and the fans booed her,

<v Speaker 1>so at least she got some heat. Now, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if that's heat, because they're just angry that she

<v Speaker 1>turned on Riha ripley or I don't know if it's

<v Speaker 1>heat because we don't want to hear from you. Go away,

<v Speaker 1>and it could be go away heat. I'm not sure yet,

<v Speaker 1>but they did boo and she called Ria a selfish backstabber,

<v Speaker 1>and then Meechen got all animated and she said that

<v Speaker 1>she's been grinding for decades, just like Ria. They've been

<v Speaker 1>putting in the work, just like Rhea, and while they're

<v Speaker 1>the ones that are forgotten, Rhea gets all the love

<v Speaker 1>and attention. So b Fabs said that Jade had a plan,

<v Speaker 1>and they jumped at the opportunity, and at least with Jade,

<v Speaker 1>what you see is what you get. So then Jade

<v Speaker 1>and Rio went back and forth. They were actually talking

<v Speaker 1>over each other, which I'm of two schools of thought

<v Speaker 1>on that. On the one hand, I'm sick and tired

<v Speaker 1>of these fucking promos where wrestler A speaks for an

<v Speaker 1>inordinate amount of time and wrestle and is insulting wrestler B,

<v Speaker 1>and wrestler B has to just stand there and stare

<v Speaker 1>at them and wait their turn for the other person

<v Speaker 1>to finish, and then they can speak right, Like, if

<v Speaker 1>you're having a let's say, frank discussion with someone, all right,

<v Speaker 1>or you're cutting promos on each other, are you gonna

<v Speaker 1>wait for that person to finish everything that they're gonna say, No,

<v Speaker 1>you're probably gonna cut in right. It almost makes it

<v Speaker 1>a little more realistic. So that's one way to look

<v Speaker 1>at it. The other way to look at it, also

<v Speaker 1>is if they start talking over each other the way

<v Speaker 1>that they started to do here, it could be hard

<v Speaker 1>to hear exactly what they're saying when they're trying to

<v Speaker 1>drown each other out. So we got a little bit

<v Speaker 1>of that here in this promo. I guess it's all

<v Speaker 1>a matter of a personal taste. Whether you thought that

<v Speaker 1>was a good thing or a bad thing. But Jade

<v Speaker 1>called Ria a guest. You're not even officially on SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>you're a guest. But they talked to Nick all this,

<v Speaker 1>and BFAB wants to step up, and Ria's going to learn.

<v Speaker 1>Rhea said that she's going to teach Jade that actions

<v Speaker 1>have consequences. Says that something that Jade can't protect BFAB from,

<v Speaker 1>that's Rhea Ripley. So let's get this party started. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if party is the word I would use

<v Speaker 1>for this, but yes, please, let's get the show on

<v Speaker 1>the road here. As far as the explanation, it was

<v Speaker 1>a pretty thin explanation as to why BFAB in Mitchen

<v Speaker 1>and not only turned on Riha, but they aligned with

<v Speaker 1>the woman that they were feuding with for months. And

<v Speaker 1>I don't even mind the idea of them being with Jade.

<v Speaker 1>Just come up with, you know, a good explanation. And

<v Speaker 1>really the only real good explanation that you could go

<v Speaker 1>with is the idea of if you can't beat them,

<v Speaker 1>join them. We realize, you know what we're up against here,

<v Speaker 1>and we have respect for Jade, and maybe you Ria

<v Speaker 1>did something or said something to disrespect them, and so

<v Speaker 1>between those two things, we decided, you know what, we'd

<v Speaker 1>rather be on this side than on that side. Either way,

<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be silly given the fact that these two

<v Speaker 1>women spend months of their career, you know, feuding with

<v Speaker 1>Jade car Gil. But I was waiting to see what

<v Speaker 1>they would come up with here, and I'm happy we

<v Speaker 1>at least got an explanation. I wasn't even convinced we

<v Speaker 1>were going to get one. Honestly, I didn't even know

<v Speaker 1>if they were going to put microphones in b fab

<v Speaker 1>in Mechin's hands. I thought maybe they would just have Jade,

<v Speaker 1>you know, do all the talking for them. So at

<v Speaker 1>least we got some kind of explanation here. But you know,

<v Speaker 1>Mitchen claiming that we've been putting in the work, and Ria,

<v Speaker 1>you know, she's the one who gets celebrated and gets

<v Speaker 1>all the attention, even though we're the ones who are grinding,

<v Speaker 1>and like, I'm listening to her talk about that, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you're standing next to Jade Cargill, like you've

<v Speaker 1>put the work in for a lot longer than she has.

<v Speaker 1>You're the ones out there grinding, not her. It took

<v Speaker 1>over a hundred days for her to defend her championship.

<v Speaker 1>But you're okay with standing in lockstep with her, but

<v Speaker 1>not Ria rip because Ria gets all the glory, not

<v Speaker 1>the woman standing next to you, who is the champion,

<v Speaker 1>who hasn't exactly been grinding the way that you have.

<v Speaker 1>They're okay with that. So again, a little thin on

<v Speaker 1>the explanation there, But whatever, I mean, this whole feud

<v Speaker 1>so far, all the back and forth and everything else.

<v Speaker 1>I guess we're making progress here. Nobody called the other

<v Speaker 1>person a bitch this week. That's progress. Yes, I just

<v Speaker 1>realized we didn't hear the b word. That's good. It's

<v Speaker 1>okay to give it a rest for a week. They

<v Speaker 1>went to a break, so now we know on the

<v Speaker 1>other side of this break here we're gonna get Rhea

<v Speaker 1>Ripley in BFAB boy. I can't wait for this. They

<v Speaker 1>come back from the break, the match was already in

<v Speaker 1>progress Ria and BFAB and I don't even think legitimately,

<v Speaker 1>I don't even think this went sixty seconds. This ended

<v Speaker 1>up being more of an angle, not really much of

<v Speaker 1>a match. They ended up outside the ring. Jade came

<v Speaker 1>over and threw Rhea into the ring steps in the

<v Speaker 1>referee call for the disqualification. By the way, this is

<v Speaker 1>another thing about these WWE Paul Kovec shows, okay, where

<v Speaker 1>he loves his outside interference and distractions. How many times

<v Speaker 1>did we have that tonight here on this show? We

<v Speaker 1>had it here in this match. We had it. Let's see,

<v Speaker 1>we had it in the US title match when Trick

<v Speaker 1>Williams got involved. We had it in the Tiffany and

<v Speaker 1>Julia match when Keana got up on the steps or

<v Speaker 1>the apron right for the distraction there. We had it

<v Speaker 1>in the tag team match between the Bellas and char LESA.

<v Speaker 1>That's at least four times on this show alone. Not

<v Speaker 1>every single match every single week needs to have some

<v Speaker 1>sort of interference or distraction like it's out of control

<v Speaker 1>on these shows, out of control so the match is

<v Speaker 1>called off disqualification. And honestly, this is probably about as

<v Speaker 1>long as this match should have gone between BFAB and

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley. I Am not going to see it here

<v Speaker 1>and be upset about the fact that Rhea Ripley and

<v Speaker 1>BFAB didn't go ten minutes. This went about as long

<v Speaker 1>as it needed to go. Riha and Jay they ended

<v Speaker 1>up in the ring. Ria got her in position for

<v Speaker 1>riptide Meechin and BFAB they came over and broke it up.

<v Speaker 1>BFAB mode Ria down with a bicycle kick and then

<v Speaker 1>the two of them held Ria up for Jade to

<v Speaker 1>lift her up and drop her for Jaded. This is

<v Speaker 1>pretty bad. I mean, there's just there's no other way

<v Speaker 1>to really sit here and interpret what we have seen

<v Speaker 1>over these last few weeks with Ria Ripley and Jade Cargill.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, this sucks. This is all very very bad

<v Speaker 1>so far. I still think it's a decent spot for

<v Speaker 1>Meeching and BFAB to be and it beats the hell

<v Speaker 1>out of the alternative because you know exactly where they

<v Speaker 1>would be if they weren't side by side with Jade Cargill.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, let's be honest here, Okay, you know exactly

<v Speaker 1>where they would be. So their role here they're the lackeys.

<v Speaker 1>They're the lackeys, They're the gophers. Okay, they may not

<v Speaker 1>be Patterson and Briscoe. Can I get you some coffee,

<v Speaker 1>mister MacMahon. Okay, that's not their role, but they know

<v Speaker 1>their place with Jade is to be there in the

<v Speaker 1>supporting role for her. The only problem is that has

<v Speaker 1>a very short shelf life. So I don't know how

<v Speaker 1>long that's gonna last, but come WrestleMania, they're gonna be

<v Speaker 1>coming down to the ring with Jade Cargil. They're gonna

<v Speaker 1>get their WrestleMania moment as opposed to their moment in

<v Speaker 1>catering at WrestleMania, which is where they would be if

<v Speaker 1>they were not in the corner of Jade Cargile, because

<v Speaker 1>ain't no way that Meechen or beefab are making the

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania card otherwise. So for them, not a bad spot

<v Speaker 1>to be in for now. I don't know that they

<v Speaker 1>have a lot of longevity in that role, but for now,

<v Speaker 1>good for them. Now we go backstage. Kick Wilson told

<v Speaker 1>a disheveled looking Miss he looked like he had a

<v Speaker 1>rough day or a rough week. Told Miz that he

<v Speaker 1>would be unstoppable with him in his corner tonight for

<v Speaker 1>his match with Jelly Roll, and Miss said no. Then

<v Speaker 1>he picked his shoe up and he showed him that

<v Speaker 1>he had stepped in gum. The bad luck from the

<v Speaker 1>curse has already begun, got gum on his shoe. God,

<v Speaker 1>I hate when that fucking shit happens. Don't you hate

<v Speaker 1>when that happens. I actually sat in gum once. I

<v Speaker 1>just sat in gum on my suit bad enough to

<v Speaker 1>step in it. I guess better that than dog shit.

<v Speaker 1>See the key with the gum on the shoe. Ice

<v Speaker 1>gotta rub some ice on it. That helps. So Mis

<v Speaker 1>said that Wilson didn't need him. Instead, I'm gonna hang

<v Speaker 1>back here, he said, where there's no sharp objects. I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna stay behind in the dressing room and I'm gonna watch.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna take notes, and I'm gonna watch your match

<v Speaker 1>on TV. Wilson said, couldn't be because of the curse,

<v Speaker 1>and Mis insisted that there is no curse. He said,

<v Speaker 1>a curse is when lightning strikes from above, not when

<v Speaker 1>you step in gum or drop your phone in your toilet.

<v Speaker 1>So Ms made his exit, and then Dan Housen shows

<v Speaker 1>up and he got a pop from the crowd, and

<v Speaker 1>he said he wanted to mentor Kit Wilson, and Kit

<v Speaker 1>went to call him toxic, and Dan Housen stopped him

<v Speaker 1>before he could say it, and then Dan Housen told

<v Speaker 1>Wilson that he was cursed. Now I'm sitting here watching

<v Speaker 1>this show, and we were over an hour into the show.

<v Speaker 1>We had to be seventy five minutes or so eighty

<v Speaker 1>minutes something like that into this show. And this was

<v Speaker 1>bordering on worst show of the year territory. Think of

<v Speaker 1>everything that I just got done talking about. That was

<v Speaker 1>the first hour plus of this show. The first hour

<v Speaker 1>of the show is fucking horrendous. And so I'm sitting

<v Speaker 1>here going, man, it can't get any worse. It's got

<v Speaker 1>to get better, right, It could only get better from here.

<v Speaker 1>It could only improve, Like I'm trying to convince myself

<v Speaker 1>of this. They recapped all the brawling last week between

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre and Jacob fought to which ended with the

<v Speaker 1>two of them falling off I say the building. I

<v Speaker 1>mean there was some sort of building or structure, some

<v Speaker 1>sort of edifice outside the arena last week, kind of

<v Speaker 1>in the parking lot area, and there was a ledge

<v Speaker 1>and they both fell off the ledge. We couldn't see

<v Speaker 1>them splat on the ground because there was a white

<v Speaker 1>fence in the way, but we presumed that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>they splatted on the pavement. We didn't get any sort

<v Speaker 1>of update on them throughout the entire week. They could

<v Speaker 1>be dead for all we know, but nobody said anything

<v Speaker 1>they could be just hooked up to machines and then

<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden they come back to life, which

<v Speaker 1>apparently they did because they're okay. They're okay, but it

<v Speaker 1>took a week for us to get some sort of update.

<v Speaker 1>Here we come back live. Drew McIntyre was walking into

<v Speaker 1>the building and he's all bandaged up. You would think

<v Speaker 1>he would be in a body cast, you know. Mac

<v Speaker 1>Cardona had a chair placed on his arm and Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton stomped on the chair and mac Cardon showed up

<v Speaker 1>and he had a cast on his wrist. Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>and Jacob Fatu fell off the side of a fucking building,

<v Speaker 1>presumably onto the concrete, and they both show up this

<v Speaker 1>week on the show with various bandages on their body.

<v Speaker 1>It was like, there's a disconnect here somewhere. I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>there's just there's a disconnect here. I don't really understand

<v Speaker 1>how that works. But lucky them. I guess that they

<v Speaker 1>only got away with some minor injuries. I guess some

<v Speaker 1>scrapes and cuts and bumps and bruises. So Kathy Kelly asks,

<v Speaker 1>how do you feel after last week? Which a pretty

<v Speaker 1>stupid question. Kathy McIntyre said he was in no condition

<v Speaker 1>to fight, but if Fatu wanted to start something, he

<v Speaker 1>was here to finish it. And McIntyre noted how Fatu

<v Speaker 1>took everything from him, including the WWE Championship, including WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>When a man has nothing to lose, that is when

<v Speaker 1>he is most dangerous. So from all of that, all

<v Speaker 1>the horrible stuff that I just got done reviewing, now

<v Speaker 1>it was time for Jelly Bean to come out for

<v Speaker 1>his match against Kit Wilson. Nashally let Kit Wilson come

<v Speaker 1>out last. He got the second entrance. So this was

<v Speaker 1>Jelly's first match since teaming with Randy Orton at Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slam last year, and this was the first singles match

<v Speaker 1>of his career. Now, before the match, Wilson said that

<v Speaker 1>Jelly crossed the line last week, so he had to

<v Speaker 1>come out here and defend his mother. So we got

<v Speaker 1>some more Slam poetry with Kit Wilson defending his mother

<v Speaker 1>after all the horrible things that Jelly Roll said about

<v Speaker 1>her last week, which I will not recap because I

<v Speaker 1>do not want that image in my head. So the

<v Speaker 1>fans like Jey. They were behind him, which is good,

<v Speaker 1>and they kept what he did in this match limited

<v Speaker 1>because again, he is not an athlete, he is not

<v Speaker 1>a wrestler, So you want to make sure whatever you

<v Speaker 1>have him doing, you limit it. You don't give him

<v Speaker 1>too much to do. You don't want him to get

<v Speaker 1>hurt or make himself look bad or make the other

<v Speaker 1>person look bad. So what he did was fine. Like

<v Speaker 1>I said, they kept it very limited, and I thought,

<v Speaker 1>you know, Kit Wilson was just the right person for

<v Speaker 1>him to be in the ring with because Kit Wilson

<v Speaker 1>can go in there and he can sell for him,

<v Speaker 1>and he can bump around and he's safe, right, He's

<v Speaker 1>a safe choice. So he caught Wilson at one point

<v Speaker 1>with a belly to belly supplex that Wade Barrett called

<v Speaker 1>a jelly to belly. That's what that's the phrase that

<v Speaker 1>he coined, a jelly to belly suplex. He attempted a

<v Speaker 1>choke slam Wilson, though avoided. He tried something off the

<v Speaker 1>top Jelly caught him into a power slam. Jelly then

<v Speaker 1>tried to hit Wilson with the poetry book, but he missed.

<v Speaker 1>Wilson hit him with his move. I don't even remember

<v Speaker 1>what he calls it. It's not like he ever fucking

<v Speaker 1>wins with it, so who cares. But he was unsuccessful

<v Speaker 1>in securing the three count. He tried it again, Jelly

<v Speaker 1>reversed out of it and finally hit the choke's lamp

<v Speaker 1>for the win. After the match, Jelly Roll pulled his

<v Speaker 1>son out of the crowd and they left together. So

<v Speaker 1>he didn't look bad out there. It's the best I

<v Speaker 1>can say about this. He didn't look bad out there,

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson. He did his job just fine. He knew

<v Speaker 1>what the assignment was. He went out there and held

<v Speaker 1>up his end. And so this was not terrible because

<v Speaker 1>sometimes when you bring it a celebrity, and WWE has

<v Speaker 1>had some real luck with the celebrities they brought in

<v Speaker 1>by and large over the last few years. Logan Paul

<v Speaker 1>now is a full time member of the roster. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they brought him an initial as a celebrity, you know,

<v Speaker 1>bad Bunny Jelly Roll. Uh, They've they've been very fortunate

<v Speaker 1>when it comes to bringing people in from the outside

<v Speaker 1>and putting them in these situations. But because boy, in

<v Speaker 1>the past, there are examples of people that have been

<v Speaker 1>brought in andh that was a bad idea. Even Jay

<v Speaker 1>Leno believe it or not. In WCW, j Leno wrestled

<v Speaker 1>Hulk Hogan in a pay per view made event in

<v Speaker 1>front of a bunch of people sitting on motorcycles. Sounds

<v Speaker 1>like a fever dream, but that's something that really happened.

<v Speaker 1>Hulk Hogan had to sell for Jay Leno. Think about that.

<v Speaker 1>Jelly roll don't sound so bad? Yes, Steven and mel

<v Speaker 1>Stephen emel was another one, that Stephen Emmelman. That was

<v Speaker 1>twenty god Cody was still star Dust. That had to

<v Speaker 1>be twenty fifteen. I remember Steven and l like a

<v Speaker 1>big crossbody off the top, I think out on the floor.

<v Speaker 1>I remember that. Anyway, That's the best I could say

<v Speaker 1>about this. I might be more forgiving if they had

<v Speaker 1>given us some actual good shit in the first eighty

<v Speaker 1>minutes or so of the show. But to go from

<v Speaker 1>what we got then into a jelly roll match, I'm

<v Speaker 1>just like, can we get some like, can we get

<v Speaker 1>some good television here? Can we get like a good

<v Speaker 1>wrestling match, just so I know they know still like

<v Speaker 1>how to have one? Can we can we please do

<v Speaker 1>something here to like bring the show up a little bit?

<v Speaker 1>Like I'm begging you please? Three hours give me something backstage,

<v Speaker 1>Solo Socoa, I'm like, motherfucker, give me something. What do

<v Speaker 1>they give me? What do they give me? They give

<v Speaker 1>me Solo Socoa and the lantern and he's in the

<v Speaker 1>back with the MFTs, J C. Matteo, tom Tonga, Tonga,

<v Speaker 1>Loa Tallatanga. Everything he does for them he does out

<v Speaker 1>of love. He said, he's hard on them. He let

<v Speaker 1>me start that again. Wait, take a take a drink

<v Speaker 1>here for a second, do a little reset. M Yes,

<v Speaker 1>he's uh, he's hard on his family now. He's hard

<v Speaker 1>on them because he knows how great they can be.

<v Speaker 1>So then Solo looked at Tomatonga and he said his

<v Speaker 1>job is to lead the family, but he can't do

<v Speaker 1>that when everyone isn't on the same page. He admitted

<v Speaker 1>that he went a little overboard last week, and he

<v Speaker 1>apologized for doing so. He looked at Tomatanga again while asking, uh,

<v Speaker 1>you know who wouldn't apologize. Roman reigns because if you

<v Speaker 1>remember last week on the show, he was accused by Tomatonga,

<v Speaker 1>you're behaving a lot like Roman, and Solo took great

<v Speaker 1>offense to this. So Carmelo Hayes approached Toma after the

<v Speaker 1>other MFTs walked away, and Hayes asked if Thomas finally

<v Speaker 1>going to take his shot at the US title or

<v Speaker 1>are you going to wait until Solo tells you it's okay?

<v Speaker 1>So Hayes left, and then Shinsky Nakimora showed up. The

<v Speaker 1>only job Shinsky Nakimora has when he shows up each

<v Speaker 1>week to TV is to wait and hope that they

<v Speaker 1>put the camera on Tomatonga at some point backstage, and

<v Speaker 1>then he will walk up to Tomatanga. And I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what his his interest is and that he has

<v Speaker 1>taken this great interest in trying to convince Tomatonga that

<v Speaker 1>he does not need the MFTs. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>he's trying to kind of persuade him then to become

<v Speaker 1>his tag team partner. I don't know if he has

<v Speaker 1>some sort of uh sexual interest in this man, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>teach their own. I don't know why he has taken

<v Speaker 1>such an interest, but every single week Toma Tonga turns

<v Speaker 1>around in there, shit, sky nackamore, Are you gonna let

<v Speaker 1>him treat you like that? Are you gonna be your

<v Speaker 1>own man? Fuck off? That's what Toma Tonga should say, Like,

<v Speaker 1>give me my space, man, what the this is weird? Like,

<v Speaker 1>fuck off? I'm dying for him to say something like that,

<v Speaker 1>like what's your deal? Man? You and me we're not friends,

<v Speaker 1>like you know, we used to kne each other many

<v Speaker 1>years ago, and now you're acting like you're my best friend.

<v Speaker 1>Like why are you stalking me? What do you want?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But then Talatanga came over to ask

<v Speaker 1>him if everything was okay, and Thomas said, yeah, I'm good.

<v Speaker 1>Then he walked away his young boy okay, yeah maybe

<v Speaker 1>he I don't know, I mean to taga In exactly

<v Speaker 1>as young as he used to be. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if I'd be calling him a young boy. Where was

<v Speaker 1>my head during this segment? Up my ass apparently like

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, man, I'm like, I see the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>on my screen and my mind just starts to wander.

<v Speaker 1>I start to wander, I start to hallucinate and see

<v Speaker 1>things that aren't there. Carmelo Hayes finally finally some actual

<v Speaker 1>wrestling on this show in the ring, waiting to find

<v Speaker 1>out who would accept his open challenge for the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship, and it turned out to be Sammy's Ain

<v Speaker 1>And as soon as I saw Sammy come out. I

<v Speaker 1>knew exactly where this was headed. So then the lights

<v Speaker 1>went out and Trick Williams comes out. Great ovation. He's

<v Speaker 1>going to come down to the ring. He's going to

<v Speaker 1>take a seat and he's going to watch this match

<v Speaker 1>up close and personal. So Zain comes off the top rope.

<v Speaker 1>At one point, Mellow caught him right in the face

<v Speaker 1>with his picture perfect dropkick right to the mush. He

<v Speaker 1>tried for a first forty eight, Zayn caught him and

<v Speaker 1>dropped him with a stout power bomb for a near fall.

<v Speaker 1>They ended up on the top rope together. Sammy hit

<v Speaker 1>a superplex ahead of a second commercial break. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>it's a good moment for me to give you a

<v Speaker 1>little pro tip here for those of you who are

<v Speaker 1>using Express VPN, as you all should be, and if

<v Speaker 1>you're not, I got a good deal for you. I

<v Speaker 1>got a link. Just check the description down below and

<v Speaker 1>use that link. You could thank me later. But whatever

<v Speaker 1>VPN you may be using, because I occasionally will get

<v Speaker 1>questions from people, you know, what server should I connect to?

<v Speaker 1>And I still get commercials, do yourself a favor. Connect

<v Speaker 1>to a server from the Netherlands nether Li Amsterdam, somewhere

<v Speaker 1>in that region that that's what you want to connect to.

<v Speaker 1>That way, the only commercials you'll probably see will be

<v Speaker 1>the WWE once. Otherwise you'll either get that you know,

<v Speaker 1>countdown screen, countdown until they come back with that music.

<v Speaker 1>Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do

<v Speaker 1>you know the music I'm talking about. You'll either get

<v Speaker 1>that screen or you'll be able to watch the match

<v Speaker 1>during the commercial break. And that applies not just to SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>to do that with raw as well telling you the Netherlands. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>not much happened during the commercial break. Hayes charged it

<v Speaker 1>Zayne in the corner, but he got caught with an

<v Speaker 1>exploder into the corner. Sammy had him lined up for

<v Speaker 1>the Halluva kick, but he ate a first forty eight

<v Speaker 1>instead and he got a close neer fall out of

<v Speaker 1>that one. Hayes headed up top for nothing, butnet Zaine, though,

<v Speaker 1>caught him all the way down and then reversed it

<v Speaker 1>into a blue thunderbar for a great near fall. So

<v Speaker 1>outside the ring. I mean that it was such a

<v Speaker 1>great near fall that Trick Williams popped up out of

<v Speaker 1>his chair and he's kind of pacing back and forth,

<v Speaker 1>and he walks over and he grabs the US title.

<v Speaker 1>So he walks around to the other side of the

<v Speaker 1>ring and he slides it into the ring for Samy's

<v Speaker 1>Ain to use. I guess I presume he wanted Sammy

<v Speaker 1>to get himself disqualified. Sammy hands the belt to the referee.

<v Speaker 1>Referee goes to dispose of the belt. Trick is up

<v Speaker 1>on the apron. He accidentally nails Carmelo Hayes with a

<v Speaker 1>shot that was intended for Sammy's ain, and Sammy finally

<v Speaker 1>nails the Halluba kick and he regains the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>He beats Carmelo Hayes and ends Mellow's run as champion. Tonight,

<v Speaker 1>Mello did miss another great battle here between these two men.

<v Speaker 1>I am said to see Melo's rain come to an

<v Speaker 1>end this close to WrestleMania. Couldn't even let the guy

<v Speaker 1>go to WrestleMania. So I was bummed about that. But

<v Speaker 1>I am actually glad that they did the or at

<v Speaker 1>least this is how I felt. When the match was over.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'm glad they did the finish the way

<v Speaker 1>they did and it wasn't just Sammy beating him clean.

<v Speaker 1>If Sammy just went in there and did what Melo

<v Speaker 1>did to Ilia Dragonov last week. Then that's it. It's

<v Speaker 1>a clean loss. That's it. You're at the back of

<v Speaker 1>the line, buddy. But the way they did it with

<v Speaker 1>Trick punching Melo in the face, if Melo was to

<v Speaker 1>go to Nick Alldos and say, hey, I want to

<v Speaker 1>rematch for my championship, I want in on this a WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>he's got a built in excuse, right. If I were

<v Speaker 1>Nick All this, I would be like, you're right, what

<v Speaker 1>happened out there never should have happened, and so therefore

<v Speaker 1>and then I would make sure that that man has

<v Speaker 1>a spot on the WrestleMania card. However, in the back

<v Speaker 1>when this was over, Sammy's ain's walking, he's beaming. He

<v Speaker 1>finds Nick all this and he asks him again, am

<v Speaker 1>I on the WRESTLEMDIA card now or are you giving

<v Speaker 1>me the night off? All This tells him, yes, You're

<v Speaker 1>on the Wrestle Media card and in fact, you will

<v Speaker 1>be defending your United States Championship against Trick Williams. And

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'm waiting, and they just move on to

<v Speaker 1>the next segment, and I'm like, Wow. Now we have

<v Speaker 1>three weeks left to go until WrestleMania. There is still time.

<v Speaker 1>In fact, next week on SmackDown, if Carmelo hey, we

<v Speaker 1>don't have a shot of Carmelo Hayes backstage, either walking

<v Speaker 1>up to Nick Alldos or walking up to Sammy's ain

<v Speaker 1>and demanding to be inserted into this match a wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Madi to make it a triple threat, that is fucked.

<v Speaker 1>That is fucked. This man has carried smack then in

<v Speaker 1>the way that Sammy did when he had his run

<v Speaker 1>as the United States Champion, as Iliya Dragonov did when

<v Speaker 1>he had his run as the United States Champion. Mello

<v Speaker 1>has been holding it down on this show every single week,

<v Speaker 1>getting himself over by going out there and having great

<v Speaker 1>wrestling matches. This was the best run that he has

<v Speaker 1>had so far, this most recent run here on the

<v Speaker 1>main roster. And if you're gonna end his run right

<v Speaker 1>before WrestleMania and work him into the Plan match and

<v Speaker 1>make it a triple threat, because again, he kind of

<v Speaker 1>got screwed tonight, not even kind of, he did get

<v Speaker 1>screwed out of the championship. Then that's one thing. But

<v Speaker 1>if they're really gonna leave him out in the cold

<v Speaker 1>like that's fucked up. Even story wise, it would not

<v Speaker 1>make any sense for Nick Aldis, Nick All, this shouldn't

<v Speaker 1>even need to wait for Carmelo Hayes to come to

<v Speaker 1>him asking for a rematch, like, let me ask you

<v Speaker 1>a question. I find myself asking you many questions because

<v Speaker 1>there's just some stuff that confounds me on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>Why would Nick Aldis, who saw what happen happened out there,

<v Speaker 1>reward Trick Williams by giving him a shot at the

<v Speaker 1>United States Championship, but leave Carmelo Hayes, the man who

<v Speaker 1>was screwed out of the championship, out in the cold

<v Speaker 1>when it comes to WrestleMania. Make it make sense. It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't make sense. So I'm hoping this is rectified next week.

<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying if it's not, and it really is

<v Speaker 1>just one on one, Sammy's ain't and Trick Williams, that

<v Speaker 1>ain't right because if Carmelo Hayes is not a part

<v Speaker 1>of that match at WrestleMania, Carmelo Hayes ain't gonna be

<v Speaker 1>on the WrestleMania card. And if anybody has put the

<v Speaker 1>work in on this show over these last few months

<v Speaker 1>and deserves a spot. If all these other championships are

<v Speaker 1>being defended, if all these other championships are being represented

<v Speaker 1>on one of these two nights of WrestleMania except that one,

<v Speaker 1>and now it is and he's not even a part

<v Speaker 1>of the match, that's fucking terrible. Get him in the match.

<v Speaker 1>Triple Threat, Sammy's Ain, Carmelo Hayes, Trick Williams. You want

<v Speaker 1>to get the belt on Trick Williams. I have to

<v Speaker 1>assume that's the direction that this is headed. I have

<v Speaker 1>no problem getting the US title on Trick Williams. Carmel

<v Speaker 1>O Hayes needs to be in that match, and there's

<v Speaker 1>history there between them, and I know they don't talk

<v Speaker 1>about it a lot on the main roster, but those

<v Speaker 1>of you who actually watched NXT when they were on

<v Speaker 1>the show together, when they split up, there is a

<v Speaker 1>history there, So it's not just what happened tonight. You

<v Speaker 1>can draw on that history as well. Makes all the

<v Speaker 1>sense in the world to work him into that match.

<v Speaker 1>Jacob fought too. He was limping out to the ring

<v Speaker 1>next to address what happened last week with Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>says he's limping, he's you know he was busted open,

<v Speaker 1>cracked ribs, and it all has to do with Drew McIntyre.

<v Speaker 1>The hell is wrong with you, he said. You try

<v Speaker 1>to take me out and end my career, take food

<v Speaker 1>off my kid's table. You thought kicking my teeth down

<v Speaker 1>my throat was gonna keep me down, hitting me with

<v Speaker 1>a car was gonna hold me down. You thought that

<v Speaker 1>throwing me off the side of a building. Boy, this

<v Speaker 1>is this has become quite the feud here hitting people

<v Speaker 1>with cars, falling off the edge of buildings. Yeah. The

<v Speaker 1>fact that this man was hit by a car and

<v Speaker 1>fell off the side of a building and only showed

<v Speaker 1>up with some cracked ribs is actually kind of a

<v Speaker 1>medical miracle. I would say he's a very lucky man.

<v Speaker 1>But you thought all those things were gonna hold me down?

<v Speaker 1>He goes, Hell, Nah, Drew, you did all that, but

<v Speaker 1>I'm still standing. I'm still here and as long as

<v Speaker 1>I've got air in these lungs, that means every week

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna dog walk. You are punk ass. Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>made his way out to speak from the stage. He

<v Speaker 1>told fa to you accused me of a crime I

<v Speaker 1>didn't commit. I'm already guilty until proven innocent. Right, He goes,

<v Speaker 1>you're straight guilty because you're a damn criminal. You did

<v Speaker 1>the crime, and you did the time, and since you

<v Speaker 1>got out, you stole my title. You stole WrestleMania from me.

<v Speaker 1>You stole everything from me. You talk about me taking

<v Speaker 1>food off your kid's table, that's my food. He told

<v Speaker 1>Fa Tou, screw your debt, not dead kids, screw your

<v Speaker 1>damn gil Oh my god, that way I got very dark.

<v Speaker 1>Screw your damn kids, he said, just like brock Lesnar're

<v Speaker 1>not a fan of the kids. Is Drew McIntyre. So

<v Speaker 1>those were fighting words for Fa Tu, who started to

<v Speaker 1>limp out of the ring. But Nick all this comes out.

<v Speaker 1>He calms things down, tells Fa Tou stay there. All

<v Speaker 1>this said that he figured the two of them would

<v Speaker 1>be all healed up by oh, I don't know, say

<v Speaker 1>April eighteenth. So he was giving them what they wanted.

<v Speaker 1>Do you want a match of WrestleMania, You gotta match

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania. But it's not just going to be any

<v Speaker 1>old match. The referee will only be there to count

<v Speaker 1>the fall or the submission, no count out, no disqualification.

<v Speaker 1>This match will be un sanctioned. I don't mind the stipulation.

<v Speaker 1>I think the stipulation is fine. It's basically a street fight.

<v Speaker 1>It's the same match that Drew McIntyre had with Damian

<v Speaker 1>Priest on the show last year. I thought maybe they

<v Speaker 1>would go the Helen a Cell route just because they

<v Speaker 1>wanted to do supposedly wanted to do a Hell and

<v Speaker 1>a Cell with Cody and Drew, and they pivoted in

<v Speaker 1>a different direction. So we'll just put these two right.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, think about what they've done to each other.

<v Speaker 1>He said it in the promo, hitting each other with

<v Speaker 1>cars falling off buildings, right. I mean, if that doesn't

<v Speaker 1>necessitate Helen a Cell, I don't know what does. But

<v Speaker 1>an unsanctioned match is fine. It's just another fancy name

<v Speaker 1>for a Sin City fight. They'll have access to all

<v Speaker 1>the weapons and the plunder and it'll be the same

<v Speaker 1>results in the end. But I do want to point

<v Speaker 1>out something very important because I've been harping on this

<v Speaker 1>for a long time and it came out again tonight

<v Speaker 1>where Jacob mentioned you kicked my teeth down my throat,

<v Speaker 1>and Drew McIntyre made it a point to say you

<v Speaker 1>are falsely accusing me of something I did not do

<v Speaker 1>and do you know why because he didn't do it.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't do it. Randy Orton did it. And it's

<v Speaker 1>all set up for Orton for the big reveal to

<v Speaker 1>come sometime after WrestleMania. I don't know if it'll be

<v Speaker 1>his first program coming out of wrestlemanya. I'm not even

<v Speaker 1>sure Orton's winning the title for sure, but coming out

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania, Orton is the heel. Although good luck trying

<v Speaker 1>to convince the fans of that this is going to

<v Speaker 1>be one of his first programs. I think coming out

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania, that's when we get the big reveal. It

<v Speaker 1>was me, I punt kicked your teeth down your throat.

<v Speaker 1>That's where this is going. He was never Drew McIntyre,

<v Speaker 1>So backstage, jelly roll. How many segments did he have

<v Speaker 1>on this show? He had a backstage segment with Rhea

<v Speaker 1>and Damien and Truth Okay, so that's one. He had

<v Speaker 1>this backstage segment here with Matt Cardona. That's two. He

<v Speaker 1>had the match with Kit Wilson that's three, and he

<v Speaker 1>came out of the end of the show. Four four

<v Speaker 1>segments on this show he approached Matt Cardona. He said

<v Speaker 1>he felt bad about what happened with Randy Orton last

<v Speaker 1>week because he was the one who encouraged Orton to

<v Speaker 1>go out and apologize to him. So he also said

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes was on his way, and Cardona cut Jelly

<v Speaker 1>off and told him, you tell Cody if you talk

<v Speaker 1>to him, don't get involved in my match with Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna kick Orton's ass. Said he would pray for Cardona.

<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people were praying for Matt

<v Speaker 1>Cardona heading into this main event. So then after Jelly leaves,

<v Speaker 1>Zelena Vega and Alistair Black show up. They sidle up

<v Speaker 1>next to him. Zelena said that Orton and they didn't

<v Speaker 1>look like they were talking to anybody in particular. They

<v Speaker 1>weren't really directly addressing Cardona. They were talking about him

<v Speaker 1>in his presence, and Zelena said that Orton calling Cardona

<v Speaker 1>a Marcas stooge really got to Cardona. She said, imagine

<v Speaker 1>picking a fight that you can't win. Black said to

<v Speaker 1>imagine if the fight had been with Orton with no voices.

<v Speaker 1>He said, maybe there would have been a chance. And

<v Speaker 1>they left and I'm like what the fuck is the

<v Speaker 1>point of any of this. Tiffany Stratton against Julia and

<v Speaker 1>what was originally advertised as a United States Championship match,

<v Speaker 1>and then a few days ago, all of a sudden

<v Speaker 1>the graphic changed and suddenly it was a non title match.

<v Speaker 1>And this was really I mean, the one word that

<v Speaker 1>really comes to mind is I'm watching this is this?

<v Speaker 1>This was sad. The Pittsburgh crowd died for this match,

<v Speaker 1>and they had a solid match too. The match itself

<v Speaker 1>was actually solid, but these people did not care. You

<v Speaker 1>could actually hear Tiffany in the opening minute to the

<v Speaker 1>match like kind of yelling for the crowd, trying to

<v Speaker 1>get them into it, like come on, Like she was

<v Speaker 1>trying to kind of rally them and get them, get

<v Speaker 1>them into things, and just wasn't having a lot of

<v Speaker 1>luck with it. But I've mentioned the Tiffany Stratton swantan Bob,

<v Speaker 1>You've heard me mention this before. She hits it in

<v Speaker 1>a way where she waits until the very last second

<v Speaker 1>to tuck her head on the landing. And They're been

<v Speaker 1>a few times where I I've almost had a heart

<v Speaker 1>attack watching her because it looks like she's about to

<v Speaker 1>take a header right down into the mat and then

<v Speaker 1>at the very last second she's able to kind of

<v Speaker 1>tuck her head. This this was like the closest one yet,

<v Speaker 1>like or at least from the camera angle they shot

<v Speaker 1>at at like I was I literally I like yelped,

<v Speaker 1>and then they showed the replane. You could see it.

<v Speaker 1>The very last second she kind of, you know, she

<v Speaker 1>rolls her head under and I'm like, wh why you

<v Speaker 1>are just asking for trouble. You're just tempting fate by

<v Speaker 1>doing that. You know, I don't want to see I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see her go in there and break

<v Speaker 1>her neck. But that was scary, so she hit that

<v Speaker 1>for a near fall. So then she hit the rolling

<v Speaker 1>sent on and she was going up top for the

<v Speaker 1>prettiest moon Salt ever when Keana James ran distraction long

<v Speaker 1>enough for Tiffany. When she finally did hit the prettiest

<v Speaker 1>moon salt ever, Julia got the knees up on the

<v Speaker 1>landing and then Julia hooked her into a roll up

<v Speaker 1>and she pinned Tiffany. The United States Champion actually victorious

<v Speaker 1>here in this match. Tell me again, what was the

<v Speaker 1>point of turning this into a non title match If

<v Speaker 1>Julia was just gonna go in there and win anyway.

<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm like, I'm dumbfounded by that. Why even but like,

<v Speaker 1>you advertise it as a championship match, So when they

<v Speaker 1>changed it, I was like, Okay, Tiffany's going to win

<v Speaker 1>and then she'll get a title shot at wrestle Mania.

<v Speaker 1>But then Tiffany lost, So I'm not sure why this

<v Speaker 1>had to be converted to a non title match. The

<v Speaker 1>champion won a non title match, that's it to the

<v Speaker 1>back of the line for Tiffany Stratton. That's the way

<v Speaker 1>that this is supposed to work. Very weird, very weird

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night this week. It was originally when they announced

<v Speaker 1>that first match with the USO's and the Vision, they

<v Speaker 1>said nothing about it being a title match, and then

<v Speaker 1>later in the week they announced that it was going

<v Speaker 1>to be for the World Tag Team titles. And then

<v Speaker 1>during the day on Monday, I noticed way they're not

<v Speaker 1>mentioning the titles anymore in the preview, and sure enough

<v Speaker 1>it turned out to be non title And then there

<v Speaker 1>was a report that WWE wanted to keep the belts

<v Speaker 1>on them because they were going to be at the

<v Speaker 1>MLB on Netflix premiere on Wednesday night, and I guess

<v Speaker 1>they wanted them there with the Belts. Meanwhile, and I

<v Speaker 1>didn't see it, but meanwhile I heard that Jimmy wasn't

<v Speaker 1>even there. Apparently it was Jay and Fatu. I think

<v Speaker 1>somebody said, so. I don't know what happened there, But

<v Speaker 1>now they're defending the Tag Belts in a street fight

<v Speaker 1>this Monday against Logan and Theory. But they're advertising these

<v Speaker 1>matches and then they're altering them, and I'm just thinking

<v Speaker 1>to myself, how far down to the wire are these

<v Speaker 1>plans coming for some of these shows, because it sounds

<v Speaker 1>like they have an idea on what they want to do,

<v Speaker 1>and then the day of or the day before, all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, it gets changed. I don't know why

<v Speaker 1>this had to change though, seeing what they did here,

<v Speaker 1>but it was just sad to see how heatless this

<v Speaker 1>match was. I remember when they went to commercial break,

<v Speaker 1>I was taking a moment to just put some stuff

<v Speaker 1>in my notes, and I had to look over just

<v Speaker 1>to see if people were alive, because it was so

<v Speaker 1>quiet and they're working, they're doing spots and stuff and

<v Speaker 1>just like nobody cares so Randy Orton, he was shown

<v Speaker 1>in the back once again talking on the phone with

<v Speaker 1>the mysterious voice on the other end of the phone

<v Speaker 1>who we don't know who it is, and we can

<v Speaker 1>joke that it's the voices in his head. But now,

<v Speaker 1>based on what Orton said in his promo earlier in

<v Speaker 1>the show, if it let me tell you this, if

<v Speaker 1>it ends up being something where oh, it was the

<v Speaker 1>voices in his head, I want people to remember this

<v Speaker 1>show tonight and I want you to shame WWE okay

<v Speaker 1>for a terrible, terrible reveal because the way he spoke

<v Speaker 1>about this earlier, he specifically said that there is one

<v Speaker 1>voice that's not in his head that he actually does

<v Speaker 1>listen to, So that confirms it. It's somebody. It's an

<v Speaker 1>actual human being. It's an actual person. We just don't

<v Speaker 1>know who that person is yet. But if they try to,

<v Speaker 1>you know, come up with something clever where oh, it's

<v Speaker 1>the voices in his head. No no, no, no, no

<v Speaker 1>no no. Tonight to the night where you clarified that

<v Speaker 1>and said that it is an actual person. We just

<v Speaker 1>don't know who that person is. I would like for

<v Speaker 1>it to be Kevin Owens, though I'm still pulling for Ko.

<v Speaker 1>You know, the more they kind of drag this out

<v Speaker 1>and delay. It makes me think of maybe they're he

<v Speaker 1>keeps saying see you soon, see you soon. Is he

<v Speaker 1>talking about WrestleMania? Is whoever this person is going to

<v Speaker 1>factor into the finish of that match, all the more

<v Speaker 1>reason for it to be Kevin Owens. I would love

<v Speaker 1>for it to be ko Just don't I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that he's any closer to having any sort of medical

<v Speaker 1>clearance to do anything physical or be back. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>there's really been no updates on that at all, so

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they would want to bring him

<v Speaker 1>back to TV if he couldn't actually wrestle, they would

<v Speaker 1>bring him back in like a non wrestling capacity until

<v Speaker 1>he's able to get cleared, or I don't know. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. Even if he was just a character on

<v Speaker 1>the show, though, I feel like he would really bring

<v Speaker 1>some life to the show that the show has been lacking.

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<v Speaker 1>then it was Randy Orton against Matt Cardona. Let's look

<v Speaker 1>at the bright side of it for Matt Cardona. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>this is a second week in a row now where

<v Speaker 1>Cardona has owned the closing segment on SmackDown. See, that's

<v Speaker 1>a positive way to look at it. Unfortunately, he came

<v Speaker 1>off as just a complete tool on the show last week.

<v Speaker 1>They did him no favors with the way they booked

<v Speaker 1>that entire thing where he was the only person in

<v Speaker 1>the entire building who didn't see that coming when Randy

<v Speaker 1>kicked him in the dick and then beat him up

<v Speaker 1>and then the stuff with the chair on the arm

<v Speaker 1>for twenty five seconds. So let's see if things go

<v Speaker 1>a little bit better from Matt Cardona this week. Shall

<v Speaker 1>we Orton entered first, then we got another break, then

<v Speaker 1>Cardona entered and right off the bat, he uses the

<v Speaker 1>cast as a weapon, but it had little effect on

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton, who targeted the wrist and he he just

<v Speaker 1>beat the shit out of him for five straight minutes.

<v Speaker 1>He kept targeting the wrist. He's bending the hand backwards,

<v Speaker 1>He's throwing him into the ring post. He's stomping on

<v Speaker 1>the rit he's doing everything. He's just kicking this guy's

<v Speaker 1>ass for five minutes straight. And there was one little

<v Speaker 1>glimmer of hope for Matt Cardona when he hit a

<v Speaker 1>rough rider out of nowhere and he got a near

<v Speaker 1>fall out of it. One little hope spot and that's

<v Speaker 1>all he got. Otherwise he just got his ass handed

<v Speaker 1>to him. And then finally Randy Orton hit him with

<v Speaker 1>an RKO and then to add insult to injury, he

<v Speaker 1>took forever to finally cover him and get the pin.

<v Speaker 1>Thanks for coming, Matt, Thanks for coming. Enjoy the catering.

<v Speaker 1>It'll be fine. Just use your just use your right

<v Speaker 1>hand to hold the fork. I know you got the

<v Speaker 1>cast on this one. Just just use your right hand. So,

<v Speaker 1>as Orton was celebrating, we see on the screen the

<v Speaker 1>bus has arrived and off the bus comes Cody Wrotes

<v Speaker 1>and he is walking into the building and I believe

<v Speaker 1>they went to a commercial break. Orton's coming or Orton

<v Speaker 1>standing in the ring watching as Cody is walking in

<v Speaker 1>and the officials are trying to hold him back, and

<v Speaker 1>he's he's just got tunnel vision, right, He's got one

<v Speaker 1>goal here is to get his hands on Randy ort

<v Speaker 1>So they come back and the WWE champion has arrived

<v Speaker 1>and Nick all this and security again they're trying to

<v Speaker 1>stop him. They're all impotent, every single one of them, impotent,

<v Speaker 1>unable to perform, can't get the job done. And Cody

<v Speaker 1>knows that they're not going to be able to hold

<v Speaker 1>him back. What do they have on them? They have

<v Speaker 1>no tasers. They're going to drop a net on him,

<v Speaker 1>like in a cartoon. These people are terrible at their jobs,

<v Speaker 1>completely ineffective. Walks down to the ring and the fight

<v Speaker 1>is on. He goes right after Randy Orton. They start

<v Speaker 1>getting into it, so again security tries to intervene and

<v Speaker 1>they fail. Cody is gouging at the eyes, Orton's trying

<v Speaker 1>to get away, and they end up outside the ring,

<v Speaker 1>over by the announced desk, on top of the announced desk,

<v Speaker 1>and this is just going back and forth, back and forth.

<v Speaker 1>They end up back in the ring and security finally

<v Speaker 1>gets them separated. Cody's in one corner, Orton's in the other,

<v Speaker 1>and as I said earlier, like one breaks free and

<v Speaker 1>jumps the other, and then they get broken up again,

<v Speaker 1>and then the other one breaks free and jumps on

<v Speaker 1>the other, and back and forth we go, and it

<v Speaker 1>was kind of alarming. I guess to be watching this.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhoades the WWE Champion, his big return, one of

<v Speaker 1>the main events are WrestleMania this year. Cody biggest star

<v Speaker 1>in the company, right, their biggest babyface. And I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>this crowd doesn't seem too terribly excited to be seeing

<v Speaker 1>what's going on here. And as I'm watching the segment

<v Speaker 1>drag on, I realize why, Because this segment sucks. This

<v Speaker 1>is a terrible brawl. It is a heatless, lifeless just

<v Speaker 1>the fans are apathetic as they are watching this. Apathetic

<v Speaker 1>and lifeless are actually two great words to describe what

<v Speaker 1>this segment was. People didn't seem to care, and I

<v Speaker 1>can't really blame them because as pull apart brawls go,

<v Speaker 1>this is one of the worst that I've ever seen.

<v Speaker 1>And these men are in the main event of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Like I saw what Cody and the Rock did when

<v Speaker 1>the Rock was kicking his ass and then he took

<v Speaker 1>him outside and beat him up by the bus. That

<v Speaker 1>was a great segment, right, That was two years ago,

<v Speaker 1>and we've seen other segments that are very similar where

<v Speaker 1>the fans are into it, but there's just like the

<v Speaker 1>locker room will pour out and it's mass chaos and

<v Speaker 1>these guys are just trying to get at each other,

<v Speaker 1>trying to bite each other, or someone's bleeding and it's like, man,

<v Speaker 1>these guys really want to kill each other. And you

<v Speaker 1>never got that vibe watching this. It just felt like

<v Speaker 1>they're just going through the motions here and I'm looking

<v Speaker 1>at the clock and I'm like, boyd, the segment feels

<v Speaker 1>like it's going on forever and it's still only ten

<v Speaker 1>fifty seven? Did they did they come up short? Are

<v Speaker 1>they trying to kind of stretch install for time? What

<v Speaker 1>are they waiting for? Something has to happen here. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it's the person who was on the phone with Randy.

<v Speaker 1>My god, can you imagine if it ends up being

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll and what we saw tonight was all just

<v Speaker 1>a swerve. Can you imagine? Actually, you know what, I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't put that past them. Jelly Roll goes heel at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>ends up being a heel manager for Randy Orton. Uh, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>this this anyway, This was Uh, this was not good.

<v Speaker 1>But then jelly Roll finally comes out. He got his cue,

<v Speaker 1>comes down to the ring. Orton's in one corner, Cody's

<v Speaker 1>in the other, and jelly Roll goes over to Cody

<v Speaker 1>and he's he's again. He's trying to diffuse the situation.

<v Speaker 1>He's trying to calm things down, and Orton breaks free.

<v Speaker 1>He spins jelly Roll around and he drops jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>with an RKO and Orton rolls right out of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll is generally well liked by the audience. But

<v Speaker 1>what are the fans chanting? They finally show signs of

<v Speaker 1>life here in this segment, And what are the fans

<v Speaker 1>in Pittsburgh chanting? They are chanting Randy, Randy, Randy. They

<v Speaker 1>are cheering that he dropped jelly Roll with an RKO.

<v Speaker 1>And I know it wasn't designed to elicit this type

<v Speaker 1>of reaction, but I just laughed. I thought this was

<v Speaker 1>fucking hilarious. The problem is, this segment was not supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be hilarious. Dan Housen is supposed to be funny,

<v Speaker 1>Our Truth is supposed to be funny. Kit Wilson is

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be funny. The Miz is supposed to be funny.

<v Speaker 1>Dame Cook back in the day was supposed to be funny.

<v Speaker 1>Things don't always work out that way. Cody Roads and

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton here in this segment, This was not designed

<v Speaker 1>to be comedy, but they're trying to get Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>boot and it's not working. Doesn't matter whether or not

<v Speaker 1>he's beating up Matt Cardona, he's beating up Jelly Roll,

<v Speaker 1>he's beating up Cody Rhodes, Randy Randy. They want to

<v Speaker 1>see this man win that fifteenth World Championship, just like

<v Speaker 1>last year. They wanted to see John Cena win World

<v Speaker 1>Championship number seventeen. You're just you're fighting against the waves here,

<v Speaker 1>and that may be the most entertaining part of the

<v Speaker 1>entire thing. That was the most entertaining part of this

<v Speaker 1>entire segment because what they went for, what they were

<v Speaker 1>going for here, it didn't work. The intensity did not

<v Speaker 1>match what we saw when Orton bloodied him up on

<v Speaker 1>TV two weeks ago. This was a very lame, underwhelming

<v Speaker 1>follow up, and so at least for this week, seem

<v Speaker 1>Punk and Roman Reins they get the thumbs up. This

<v Speaker 1>gets thumbs down because what they did at the end

<v Speaker 1>of the show when Roman finally went off on punk.

<v Speaker 1>What they did at the end of the show on

<v Speaker 1>Monday was better than what they did here on Friday.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe next week it'll flip it, it'll be different. But

<v Speaker 1>I thought they took a pretty big step back with

<v Speaker 1>what they did in that main event segment tonight. But

<v Speaker 1>when this show was over, I was more I was

<v Speaker 1>more frustrated, I guess than anything else that this show.

<v Speaker 1>There's no excuse for this show to be to be

<v Speaker 1>bad like this. There's no excuse for this show to

<v Speaker 1>be like men. I'm looking at the time, like, holy shit,

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe we have two more hours of this

<v Speaker 1>Where where where is just the hot angles right? Where

<v Speaker 1>are the angles that are designed to make you really

<v Speaker 1>excited to see what these people are going to be

<v Speaker 1>doing in WrestleMania, or to see these two people that

<v Speaker 1>have been at each other's throats now for all these weeks, finally,

<v Speaker 1>you know, lock up and have that big show down,

<v Speaker 1>big epic showdown at WrestleMania. Why does Jelly Roll need

<v Speaker 1>four segments on the show. Why are matches that are

<v Speaker 1>advertised as a title match or advertised you know in

<v Speaker 1>some way one week suddenly change at the last minute.

<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of weird things that have been going on.

<v Speaker 1>All I want is for them to put on a

<v Speaker 1>show that it's Look, it's hard to do a three

<v Speaker 1>hour show and keep people interest. There is no show

<v Speaker 1>that should be There's no wrestling show that should be

<v Speaker 1>three hours long every week. I don't care how hot

<v Speaker 1>the product is, and the thing is the product. The

<v Speaker 1>WWE product is not hot right now, but if it was,

<v Speaker 1>I would still feel the same way. These shows are

<v Speaker 1>not designed to be able to hold people's interest for

<v Speaker 1>three straight hours. And plus I feel like with all

<v Speaker 1>the commercial breaks and everything else in the way they

<v Speaker 1>position them in the show, that's a tough sell anyway,

<v Speaker 1>because it just feels like as soon as you come

<v Speaker 1>back from one, you're right into another and it just

<v Speaker 1>kills the momentum. So that's bad enough, right, But there's

<v Speaker 1>nothing we could do about that. You cannot watch the show.

<v Speaker 1>I don't have that luxury because we're heading into WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>and I'm obviously going to be watching the shows and

<v Speaker 1>following along to see what's going on, so I could

<v Speaker 1>talk about them and nobody would love for these shows

<v Speaker 1>to be more interesting than me, because then I have

<v Speaker 1>more to kind of synk my teeth into when I

<v Speaker 1>could be genuinely excited to see where is this going

<v Speaker 1>to go? And that's going to go and this and that,

<v Speaker 1>And then I see a show like this and it's

<v Speaker 1>almost like they're not even trying. It's like they've thrown

<v Speaker 1>the towel. And it's like, well, we're gonna sell forty

<v Speaker 1>forty five thousand tickets per night a WrestleMania anyway. You know,

<v Speaker 1>We've got Jelly Roll and we've got this person and

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get I show speed, and we're like, who

<v Speaker 1>gives a shit? Like who gives a rats ass? We

<v Speaker 1>just want a coherent, interesting, exciting product. Sprinkle in a

<v Speaker 1>few great wrestling matches in. There. Doesn't have to be

<v Speaker 1>just all wrestling matches, but sprinkle in a few of

<v Speaker 1>those as well. Give us some good compelling stories. Pay

<v Speaker 1>it off at WrestleMania or kick it Maybe there's a

<v Speaker 1>bigger story that kicks off at WrestleMania, whatever it may be,

<v Speaker 1>But just give me a reason to tune into these

<v Speaker 1>shows and not want to bang my fucking head against

<v Speaker 1>the wall. I just love, like, well, when the story

<v Speaker 1>came out a few weeks ago about road Dog. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>road Dog, he's not on the creative team anymore. Finally

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown's gonna get better. I'm like, why do you think that?

<v Speaker 1>Do you think road Dog was the head writer on SmackDown?

<v Speaker 1>Where he and I know he was the co lead writer,

<v Speaker 1>but do you honestly believe that he was kind of

<v Speaker 1>the brains behind the operation and he was coming up

<v Speaker 1>with all the ideas and he was putting you know,

<v Speaker 1>he was really connecting all the dots. He was one

<v Speaker 1>part of a larger team. And him being gone doesn't

<v Speaker 1>change anything. It's sort of the overall vision and philosophy

<v Speaker 1>and just the way they do things unless there's real

<v Speaker 1>change at the top of that, and the way they approach.

<v Speaker 1>Like again I mentioned all the interference and the distractions.

<v Speaker 1>It's like they open their playbook, like Kit Wilson has

<v Speaker 1>his poetry book. They have their rule book for how

<v Speaker 1>they do things, and they just sort of go down

<v Speaker 1>the list. Okay, we're gonna do this. We're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>this person interfere at the end of this match. We'll

<v Speaker 1>have this standard pull apart brawl. We'll have our contracts

<v Speaker 1>signing next week. It's like the WWE Greatest Hits, and

<v Speaker 1>that just doesn't cut it anymore. It's lazy. It's lazy,

<v Speaker 1>and it's boring. And the people watching the show they

<v Speaker 1>deserve better because they want to invest in your product.

<v Speaker 1>That's why they tune in. If they truly didn't care,

<v Speaker 1>if they truly just did not give a shit, then

<v Speaker 1>they would stop watching and they would drop off. They

<v Speaker 1>keep watching because they want to see improvements. They want

<v Speaker 1>to see a hot show. If you give people a

<v Speaker 1>hot show. I also think the crowds would respond better

<v Speaker 1>as well, because it makes it even more depressing when

<v Speaker 1>the crowds are just sitting on their hands, barely making

<v Speaker 1>any noise. What did you think of SmackDown from Pittsburgh?

<v Speaker 1>Twenty nine percent thumbs up, seventy one percent thumbs down. Good.

<v Speaker 1>That sounds about right. Oh, the show is fucking terrible,

<v Speaker 1>just awful, awful television. I don't know what to tell you,

<v Speaker 1>Like Big Damos Sayer, I don't know what to tell you.

<v Speaker 1>It's like I always say habit and hope watch out

<v Speaker 1>of habit, and I hope it gets better. I usually

<v Speaker 1>don't say that around WrestleMania time, though, Anyway, we're at

<v Speaker 1>five oh five on the likes. I think the goal

<v Speaker 1>was seven hundred. We had a high goal tonight, so

<v Speaker 1>we're less than two hundred away, but still about two

<v Speaker 1>hundred away if we want to do be the booker,

<v Speaker 1>just a little update on where we are there. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Joseph Stewart, what's going on? He says? Was Mariah Carey's birthday?

<v Speaker 1>How old is Mariah Carey? You know her voice can

<v Speaker 1>crack glass. Happy anniversary to when Macho Man won his

<v Speaker 1>first WWE World Heavyweight Championship. One of my favorite WrestleMania moments. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>that was WrestleMania four, four matches in one night. We

<v Speaker 1>could have had Randy Savage and Ricky steamboaut it was

<v Speaker 1>taken from us. Also, Sid should have been one of

<v Speaker 1>the top babyfaces of WWE in the nineties. I mean

<v Speaker 1>he was for a brief period of time. Sid was

<v Speaker 1>very much in and out. There was never any real

<v Speaker 1>consistency with his runs. People in my family are excited

<v Speaker 1>for the live action Moana movie and excited to see

<v Speaker 1>the rock play MAUI again, have I seen the Daredevil

<v Speaker 1>show on Disney Plus I have not did dances with wolves,

<v Speaker 1>beat out Goodfellas at the at the Oscars in ninety one.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that. Have you seen the Nicholas Cage

<v Speaker 1>movie Snake Eyes and Leaving Las Vegas? No? And Yes,

<v Speaker 1>Triple A is becoming my favorite wrestling show to watch.

<v Speaker 1>The Undertaker is doing a fantastic job well, Undertaker and

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy Borash. Undertaker is not writing the shows himself. Josh

<v Speaker 1>Alexander just announced he's having knee surgery next week. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's gonna be out for a while. That's too bad.

<v Speaker 1>It was a freak thing too. I saw what happened

<v Speaker 1>when he got hurt. It was a simple, stupid, you know,

<v Speaker 1>thing in the ring. It wasn't anything high risk or

<v Speaker 1>anything like that anyway. Joseph, thank you. I can't believe that.

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe Dances with Wolves beat out Goodfellows. That

<v Speaker 1>sounds like an injustice give me backshot. Solomonster New Y

<v Speaker 1>two j Trademark and the Next Dynamite is in Winnipeg.

<v Speaker 1>Uh oh hm, he may be coming back. Tommy Kalela

<v Speaker 1>with a twenty dollars super Chess. So I was thinking

<v Speaker 1>about the Gunther situation. He basically has the Lashly spot

<v Speaker 1>from a few years ago, Bray got sick and Raymisterio

<v Speaker 1>is hurt. I just hope they don't make him win

<v Speaker 1>the Andre Battle. Oh my god, can you imagine that

<v Speaker 1>he wins the Andre Battle Royal and his WrestleMania appearance

<v Speaker 1>is holding up the trophy. I don't even want to

<v Speaker 1>think about that. Rizzel awful SmackDown. Watching Sammy is like

<v Speaker 1>watching paint dry and he wins the belt from Mellow. Also,

<v Speaker 1>why don't these dirt sheets leak out AW spoilers? Well,

<v Speaker 1>they're not as plugged in to AW. I think Tony frankly,

<v Speaker 1>I think Tony keeps a lot of his shit just

<v Speaker 1>close to the best, and he hasn't really spread it

<v Speaker 1>around to anybody. WWE has more leaks than my roof hat.

<v Speaker 1>A couple of years ago, Luis says the Hannah Montana

<v Speaker 1>twentieth Anniversary Special was absolute garbage. Now SmackDown, no hate

<v Speaker 1>on Miley Cyrus, but in what universe are we in?

<v Speaker 1>You know? I could ask that same question that you

<v Speaker 1>sent in a super chat talking about the Hannah Montana

<v Speaker 1>twentieth Anniversary special, because that is not a universe that

<v Speaker 1>I choose to live in. But apparently it was absolute garbage.

<v Speaker 1>According to Luis, now was it worse than SmackDown? As

<v Speaker 1>long as it wasn't three hours long, There's no way

<v Speaker 1>that it could be as bad. Leo says Keana James

<v Speaker 1>with the US title just feels so right. Make it happen,

<v Speaker 1>WWE BROI wouldn't it be better if Kilani and Jada

<v Speaker 1>Parker were part of Jade's baddies instead of you know,

<v Speaker 1>the two women who have been jobbers for three years. No,

<v Speaker 1>I think they're actually going to want to push Kilani

<v Speaker 1>and Jada when they get called up. I think the

<v Speaker 1>purpose of Meechen and beefabust to just like I said,

<v Speaker 1>Lackey's their job is to just go out there and

<v Speaker 1>take bumps on behalf of Jade if they don't want

<v Speaker 1>Jade to get touched and bounce around and lose matches.

<v Speaker 1>The hope is that if Klanie Jordan and Jada Parker

<v Speaker 1>get called up to the main roster, they won't be

<v Speaker 1>treated that way. That's the difference. Also, he says, get

<v Speaker 1>NXT producers to produce the main roster women's matches depth

<v Speaker 1>to dust. When you think of the term styling and

<v Speaker 1>profile and who's the first person you think of? Rick

<v Speaker 1>Flair or Walt Clyde Fraser Rick Flair, Thank you, dev

<v Speaker 1>G Barry free with the Canadian six point ninety nine.

<v Speaker 1>It took me three attempts to get through that Julia

<v Speaker 1>and Stratton match. See, I didn't think it was a

<v Speaker 1>bad match. I just thought the crowd was very indifferent

<v Speaker 1>towards it, and it was just it was sad to watch.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, I mean, I told you why I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was like that. I don't think Tiffany is

<v Speaker 1>a great babyface and Julia. Look, I love Julia to death,

<v Speaker 1>but she's not over. She's just not over. Lakers pats

<v Speaker 1>rspw rewind of WWE buying WCW. Now there's an idea

<v Speaker 1>that might not be a bad idea, Aussie of Steel.

<v Speaker 1>Is this second Julia US title run worse or are

<v Speaker 1>they equally shit? Also fun fact, Julia has not defended

<v Speaker 1>the title since January ninth, the week after she won

<v Speaker 1>it back from Chelsea. Well, see, now that makes sense.

<v Speaker 1>They made this a championship match tonight and then they realize,

<v Speaker 1>oh shit, we can't have her defending her title now.

<v Speaker 1>We gotta quickly change it to a non title match. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you pointed that out, because, look, I pointed

<v Speaker 1>out the fact that Jade it took one hundred days

<v Speaker 1>for them to have her defend the championship. So let's

<v Speaker 1>call out the US title for the same thing. And

<v Speaker 1>to answer your first question, they're equally shit. Both runs

<v Speaker 1>had been equally shit. You can thank WWE for that.

<v Speaker 1>Mark one, nineteen seventy six. What's going on? Markwe says, Hey, Solo,

<v Speaker 1>I'm fasting today for minor surgery tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.

<v Speaker 1>I wish you all the luck, all the best. Everything's

<v Speaker 1>gonna come out just fine. That's what I'm hoping for.

<v Speaker 1>Luis Lopez with a five dollars super chest. So Sammy

<v Speaker 1>took Gables back in WrestleMania versus Gunther, and now he

<v Speaker 1>takes Mello's spot at WrestleMania. Not a fan hope Melo

<v Speaker 1>gets added to the match. He better be. He absolutely

<v Speaker 1>better be added to that match. There's no logical even storyline,

<v Speaker 1>no logical reason for him not to be Arabian Night

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany has significantly regressed. In my opinion, Tonight's match was embarrassing.

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember the last even good match that she's had.

<v Speaker 1>It's been at least a year. I don't know. The

<v Speaker 1>match didn't stand out to me as being that bad.

<v Speaker 1>There are matches I will watch on this show. I

<v Speaker 1>mentioned the women's tag team match where it looks like

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I'm watching it and I'm like, have

<v Speaker 1>these people actively regressed? I don't understand what's going on here.

<v Speaker 1>There are things that Tiffany does where and not just

<v Speaker 1>the wanton thing that I mentioned. But I think part

<v Speaker 1>of the problem is her being a babyface or having

<v Speaker 1>this very undefined role on the show where it's just

<v Speaker 1>she's in this weird spot right now. It's kind of

<v Speaker 1>hard to describe it. I don't think it's a good

<v Speaker 1>place for her to be. I think she needs to

<v Speaker 1>have a more well defined role on this show. Do

<v Speaker 1>you want her to be a babyface or do you

<v Speaker 1>want her to be a heel? I think she works

<v Speaker 1>better as a heel my opinion, that's what I think

<v Speaker 1>she works better as. Yeah, you know, not as many

<v Speaker 1>house shows. You know what, You're not wrong about that.

<v Speaker 1>I absolutely, one hundred percent think that has something that

<v Speaker 1>has at least something to do with it. They're not

<v Speaker 1>working as much. They basically just do TV, except when

<v Speaker 1>they do the international tours. They just do TV. MANU

<v Speaker 1>keep Gargano far away from Champa. Champa has a good

<v Speaker 1>thing going being lumped together with Johnny mouse face. What

<v Speaker 1>end it and turn him into interchangeable tag guy number

<v Speaker 1>five thirty one? Well, all right, then, Bobby's World twenty

<v Speaker 1>eight dollars. It's the Nick Wayne super Chat. Module two

<v Speaker 1>of management training is finished. Scored an eighty five percent

<v Speaker 1>on the test, which for me is a little disappointing,

<v Speaker 1>but it's a passing score. Got to keep putting in

<v Speaker 1>the hard work. Sending my love to you, my friend

<v Speaker 1>in the whole Green world order. Thank you, Bobby Hey.

<v Speaker 1>Eighty five percent. I would take that. Not a bad

<v Speaker 1>score at all. Leopoldo. Anybody know if Cody has made

<v Speaker 1>it to the ring yet? I know when that super

<v Speaker 1>check came in, Andre Israel, screw your kids, Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. That's better than what I almost said,

<v Speaker 1>Prince vegeta ninety five. At what point did you come

<v Speaker 1>around to Cody as a main event star? Was it

<v Speaker 1>after his Dustin match at double or nothing? I think

<v Speaker 1>that one had a lot to do with it because

<v Speaker 1>I was such a great match. I'm trying to think

<v Speaker 1>of there was like another aw pay per view match. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean I think I think I was already sold

<v Speaker 1>on it at that point because when that company first started,

<v Speaker 1>they did a pretty good job of positioning you know,

<v Speaker 1>all the EVP. I mean, Kenny Omega was already a

<v Speaker 1>huge star, but they positioned them as top stars in

<v Speaker 1>the company. The Dustin to me, if I wasn't already sold,

<v Speaker 1>sold me on it at that point, just because they

<v Speaker 1>told such a great story and it was such a

<v Speaker 1>great match, and when it was over, it was like

<v Speaker 1>an emotional rollercoaster watching that match. Venom Caitetsu with the

<v Speaker 1>twenty five. Too bad. We never got Earl and Dave

<v Speaker 1>fighting Undertaker, and Kane could have had Brothers of Destruction

<v Speaker 1>versus Brothers. Hebner, Thanks for dealing with the modern wrestling

<v Speaker 1>head on, so most of us don't have to God's

<v Speaker 1>Strongest Warrior. Oh man, you know, well Knights like tonight

<v Speaker 1>with this show, I don't know, man, Yeah, you know

<v Speaker 1>who needs to be called up? Blake Monroe. Let's get

<v Speaker 1>her on the main roster. William Valencia says, Hey, Sola

<v Speaker 1>Monster thoughts on another solo segment where they mentioned Roman.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think he and the usso's play a role

<v Speaker 1>in the main event of WrestleMania. I think the usso's

<v Speaker 1>for sure. You know, I've said I'm a little worried

<v Speaker 1>that we're just gonna get like an og Bloodline reunion,

<v Speaker 1>which I really don't want to say. Why are we

<v Speaker 1>going back to that usso's. I think are absolutely going

<v Speaker 1>to play some kind of role in that match. A

<v Speaker 1>Philip Bowman, to quote the Deadlock Podcast to WWE, this

<v Speaker 1>has got to be so devoid of any creative thought.

<v Speaker 1>May God have mercy on your soul. You've ruined wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>John Cena has achieved his objective. I see also which

<v Speaker 1>horror movie villain would work as a wrestler, Hannibal Lecter

<v Speaker 1>or John Doe. Hannibal Elector would be kind of an

<v Speaker 1>interesting promo, don't you think, Well, Jake the snake in him,

<v Speaker 1>I'll go Hannibal Lecter, tem Jen Zephyr, the tough Guys

<v Speaker 1>here fifteen dollars, super check lead, I skip SmackDown tonight

<v Speaker 1>for the gym. Your review, Well, that'll be much better

<v Speaker 1>for your health. Your reviews always make my night. Also,

<v Speaker 1>I know you had a smile on your face when

<v Speaker 1>the Mets one unopening day. Congrats on ninety one K.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, brother. It's just one day. I'll take the

<v Speaker 1>smiles where I can. But I keep telling myself it's

<v Speaker 1>just one day. It's one game. There's a lot left

<v Speaker 1>to be played. Libido Bell has a wrestler ever injured?

<v Speaker 1>Vince Yes, well, I want to say one, and Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>came back as the American badass. I mean injured. Injured

<v Speaker 1>is a strong word. I'd say hurt. If you remember

<v Speaker 1>when Undertaker got in the ring and he was kicking

<v Speaker 1>everybody's ass Vince. I don't know what Vince was doing.

<v Speaker 1>He went to go run away from the Undertaker, but

<v Speaker 1>he did it in like the funniest way where he

<v Speaker 1>I can't even recreate what he did. Really, I could try,

<v Speaker 1>but like he's standing there and he sees the Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>in front of him, so he it's like he turns

<v Speaker 1>to God. I don't know, I can't even do it.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not even gonna try. But like when he turned

<v Speaker 1>back around, I think Undertaker clipped him on the bridge

<v Speaker 1>of his nose because when Vince was leaving, he had

<v Speaker 1>blood coming from the bridge of his nose. That might

<v Speaker 1>be the only time I could really think of like

<v Speaker 1>him being hurt there. Actually there was one more time,

<v Speaker 1>the Over the Edge match in ninety eight where he

<v Speaker 1>was the referee for all Austin and Dude Love. From

<v Speaker 1>what I can recall, when Austin cracked him in the

<v Speaker 1>head with the chair shot, I mean that was a

<v Speaker 1>brutal chair shot. I believe Vince needed some dental work.

<v Speaker 1>I think he hit him so hard in the head

<v Speaker 1>with the chair and knocked out some I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if it was fillings or what, but I remember reading

<v Speaker 1>that he needed some dental work done the next day,

<v Speaker 1>But that may be it. Falcon Star Hell yeah, Solomn

<v Speaker 1>Monster is still live. Solo Monster is still a live.

<v Speaker 1>Phillips says, I work at the arena SmackDown was at

<v Speaker 1>tonight and being able to overhear Jelly role winning a

<v Speaker 1>match was disappointing to say the least. Also, you were

<v Speaker 1>working the show interesting. It's a good thing you didn't

<v Speaker 1>snap any photos or video of the rehearsals before the show,

<v Speaker 1>or else Triple H would have find you ten thousand

<v Speaker 1>dollars like they did Tomatonga. Bossmo Jackson is with us

<v Speaker 1>there he is. The brawls are getting old and tired.

<v Speaker 1>Thumbs down on creative Yeah, I mean they lean on

<v Speaker 1>them like a crutch. There's really no creativity anymore with

<v Speaker 1>these shows. They have run out of ideas. That's why

<v Speaker 1>they rely so much on like the mass Man, the

<v Speaker 1>mystery phone call, like it's all mysteries and they drag

<v Speaker 1>it out as long as they possibly can because they're

<v Speaker 1>devoid of any actual creative ideas. That's the problem. And

<v Speaker 1>it's so many of the same voices and the old

<v Speaker 1>faces and the old heads in the room that have

<v Speaker 1>been there for twenty thirty four, you know, thirty five years,

<v Speaker 1>forty years, whatever. It's been not a surprise. Mactub favorite

<v Speaker 1>Wrestlemanium match. Besides, it's take her HBK and Brett Austin

<v Speaker 1>rock Hogan wrestlemany eighteen Leopoldo trick can slap a baby

<v Speaker 1>and get whooped that trick chance. Oh the WWE audience,

<v Speaker 1>they would just chant one more time, one more time.

<v Speaker 1>Mactub buy or sell better overall performer orton or punk

<v Speaker 1>punk far more interesting, just on promos alone. Bass Beer

<v Speaker 1>is who wins in a shoot triple h or Randy Savage.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my money's on Savage. I'm going Randy Savage all

<v Speaker 1>day long. Devin from NJ buy Er sell, Cope Hogan

<v Speaker 1>or Cody Hogan. We'll go with Cody Hogan. Toya ain't nice. Orton,

<v Speaker 1>it was me. It was with me, Jacob, with me

<v Speaker 1>all along. It was with me, I think think. I

<v Speaker 1>mean it was me. I don't know what that means. Orton,

<v Speaker 1>it was with me, Jacob, it was with me all along.

<v Speaker 1>Nick Grosso with the nineteen ninety nine. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if you have been keeping up with NXT, but I've

<v Speaker 1>seen clips from the Tsaria Soul Ruka feud, and while

<v Speaker 1>the fans have really turned on Soul and sided with Zaria,

<v Speaker 1>if there was any feud that needed a double turn, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I haven't really been keeping up with a

<v Speaker 1>lot of it. Honestly. It's uh. I tried to a

<v Speaker 1>while back. It's just not that good. Hey, be Man,

<v Speaker 1>the champ, you are toxic, Bass Beers, says JIBBRONI roll,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know him. He won, he won his match tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says Yukon Huskies win Tonight Men's and Women's.

<v Speaker 1>You gotta love those husky women. H Shin, super Kick

<v Speaker 1>Akuma five dollars super Chat. What's up? Sollo just wanted

<v Speaker 1>to say, Hey, good job on everything in the new show.

<v Speaker 1>Keep pushing it. Also, shout out to Chris you know

<v Speaker 1>who you are. Thank you, Shin. I appreciate that new

<v Speaker 1>show is going very well. More. Enough's enough? When are

<v Speaker 1>you taking your first bump? Well? You must have. You

<v Speaker 1>really missed out, dude, I already did it. Pops up

<v Speaker 1>Actually as a super Chat sometimes stick around long enough

<v Speaker 1>you may see it. You're way behind my first bump

<v Speaker 1>around the holidays in twenty twenty four. I'm still recovering.

<v Speaker 1>It's been a lengthy recovery. Dry Chicken says the WWE

<v Speaker 1>creative team under Triple H loves to enjoy unseasoned chicken,

<v Speaker 1>raw meat, and plain meal. Very plain. Chin says. Is

<v Speaker 1>there a Zach Saber sor? And I don't know. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>I would imagine there must be. If there's a Zach

<v Speaker 1>Saber Junior, then there must be a Zach Saber Senior.

<v Speaker 1>Mystic Jay. They've had all these title matches on TV

<v Speaker 1>and yet barely anything ready for Mania, a two night event.

<v Speaker 1>I think we're gonna get a jelly roll concert on

<v Speaker 1>night one and then a jelly roll match on night two.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken. This is a low bar, but I would

<v Speaker 1>rather watch the House of Torture Russell over SmackDown. I

<v Speaker 1>think SmackDown is a house of torture Leo. If it

<v Speaker 1>were up to me, I would turn Tiffany heel and

<v Speaker 1>get Keana away from Julia and try Keana as a babyface.

<v Speaker 1>I think eventually she will. I kind of like Keana

<v Speaker 1>as a heel right now, but I agree that the

<v Speaker 1>pairing with her and Julia that needs to come to

<v Speaker 1>an end. It's not benefiting either one of them. If anything,

<v Speaker 1>it's actually holding Keana back. Steve, my boy, Steve Mellow

<v Speaker 1>never been this uninterested for WrestleMania. Terrible TV. It is, dude.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just it's it's bad. It's bad. It's

<v Speaker 1>very bad. Not everything on the shows is terrible, but

<v Speaker 1>there's more bad than good, and I hate it. I

<v Speaker 1>hate that that we're heading into WrestleMania and that we

<v Speaker 1>feel that way. Be Man. The chant Cody tonight was

<v Speaker 1>like that family guy meme I just want to talk

<v Speaker 1>to him. I just want to talk to him. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>but he didn't pull out the gun though. Also, who

<v Speaker 1>is Trick going to face? Originally I wonder, Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. I don't know if all this really implied

<v Speaker 1>that he had a match plan for him. He just said,

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna have a match a WrestleMania, So maybe all

<v Speaker 1>this had like a few different ideas. Actually, the idea

<v Speaker 1>probably was gonna be the US Champion, but then Sammy

<v Speaker 1>went and won the belt, so it became Sammy and

<v Speaker 1>Trick as opposed to Trick and mellow Nick Grosso with

<v Speaker 1>a nineteen ninety nine. With Punk constantly talking about Roman

<v Speaker 1>not being able to do anything on his own, maybe

<v Speaker 1>we get the USSOS helping Punk win because I still

<v Speaker 1>think Punk has one more heel run in him, and

<v Speaker 1>we don't need another Bloodline reunion. I would not mind

<v Speaker 1>another Punk heel run, but I do not see the

<v Speaker 1>USSOS helping him win. Actually, you know what, I shouldn't

<v Speaker 1>say that. It wouldn't be so much the usso's helping

<v Speaker 1>Punk as much as it might be them working against Roman.

<v Speaker 1>If Roman is not treating them in the way that

<v Speaker 1>they feel they should be treated. It would be a

<v Speaker 1>ja uso decision because Jay is just he's gone rogue.

<v Speaker 1>He was calling the shots at Roman the other night,

<v Speaker 1>so can't rule out that they would cost Rome in

<v Speaker 1>the match, but it would be more about costing Roman,

<v Speaker 1>not so much helping Cmpunk Cornell Bryant. Who would have

<v Speaker 1>thought Kaiser might have a WrestleMania match this year and

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany might not? Her fall off should be studied closely. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I'll do you one better. Who would have thought that

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser would have a match at WrestleMania on the card

<v Speaker 1>this year? And Gunther is the one where we're all wondering, what,

<v Speaker 1>if anything is he going to be doing on the show?

<v Speaker 1>Eat Lightning? The timekeeper should be ringing the bell in

<v Speaker 1>rapid bursts during pull apart brawls and postmatch beatdowns. It

<v Speaker 1>adds a more chaotic feeling. I do miss that. I

<v Speaker 1>think I agree with you. I think that they should

<v Speaker 1>still be doing that. It does get a little annoying

<v Speaker 1>the longer. I mean, can you imagine that tonight with

<v Speaker 1>that pull up? That pull up part was like fucking

<v Speaker 1>ten minutes long. I wouldn't be ringing the bell that

<v Speaker 1>for that long, but I agree that was It's just

<v Speaker 1>one of those old school things that used to be

<v Speaker 1>done and for whatever reason they don't do it anymore.

<v Speaker 1>It does add to like the chaotic feel of them all. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>that's what I got for you guys. Five ninety seven

<v Speaker 1>was it five to ninety seven? No? Five sixty? What

<v Speaker 1>am I saying? Five ninety seven? Five sixty, which is

<v Speaker 1>a which is a great likes number for the actual

<v Speaker 1>live stream, But as you can see, the wheel said

<v Speaker 1>seven hundred. So we did not hit the goal tonight unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>which means be the booker will have to be delayed

<v Speaker 1>until Monday. Perhaps hopefully we have failed, just like SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>tonight of appropriate, but I think we had more fun

<v Speaker 1>here than we did watching smack them, which is always

<v Speaker 1>the goal as long as I keep you entertained, even

<v Speaker 1>if it's at my own expense sometimes. Anyway, Episode nine

<v Speaker 1>fifty seven of the sound Off is coming up on Sunday.

<v Speaker 1>I'll be covering a lot of different things there not

<v Speaker 1>you know, not a lot of hard news like big,

<v Speaker 1>big news stories this week, but there's a lot of

<v Speaker 1>kind of smaller ones and some Hall of Fame stuff.

<v Speaker 1>I want to delve into so we'll get into all

<v Speaker 1>that and take more mailbag questions, so get those on

<v Speaker 1>in and then the next time i'll be live with

<v Speaker 1>you here on the stream will be Monday night. Let's

<v Speaker 1>blow it up, big final raw for the month of March,

<v Speaker 1>and they're in my backyard. They're at the world's most

<v Speaker 1>famous arena, Madison Square Garden. So hopefully we'll have a

<v Speaker 1>big night on Monday and a better show than they

<v Speaker 1>gave us tonight. So be well, stay safe, have yourselves

<v Speaker 1>a great weekend, and I will see you back here

<v Speaker 1>very soon for more sound off. Until then, take care, guys,