<v Speaker 1>Last week I said SmackDown was a shit show, and

<v Speaker 1>it was. Last week smackdn was just fucking horrendous. And

<v Speaker 1>it seems to me like, as we are only a

<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks away from WrestleMania, WWE is intent to

<v Speaker 1>try to top themselves each week. How can we make

<v Speaker 1>this show exponentially worse with each passing week? We're two

<v Speaker 1>weeks away from WrestleMania. That is where this show can go.

<v Speaker 1>You can flush this show right down the commode. As

<v Speaker 1>somebody in the reply said when I posted a link

<v Speaker 1>to this stream on my x account, call it eleven

<v Speaker 1>o'clock PM Eastern time, time of death tag the toe.

<v Speaker 1>This show is dead on arrival. You know. The sad

<v Speaker 1>thing is when I found out that they were pivoting

<v Speaker 1>to Cody Roads against Randy Orton at WrestleMania. And I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>you've heard me talk about this before many, many many

<v Speaker 1>times in many SmackDown reviews over the last couple of years.

<v Speaker 1>But that is a match that I was actually looking

<v Speaker 1>forward to seeing. I'm not talking about a one off

<v Speaker 1>last year. I'm talking about a proper match between Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhoads and Randy Orton. What more, d in need, right,

<v Speaker 1>You've got Cody and Randy. Two are the biggest stars

<v Speaker 1>on the brand. You've got Cody and Randy, two guys

<v Speaker 1>that have a lot of history that goes back many

<v Speaker 1>many years to when Cody first started his career in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>You've got Randy Orton, a man. Fifteen world championships is

<v Speaker 1>what he's looking for. He hasn't been a world champion

<v Speaker 1>in six years. Everything you need, the building blocks for

<v Speaker 1>a great WrestleMania main event were there just with those

<v Speaker 1>two guys. That's really all you needed, Like, you don't

<v Speaker 1>have to reinvent the wheel with this stuff. So it

<v Speaker 1>was going to be Cody and Roman. That was one

<v Speaker 1>of the rumors, Cody Roman three, and then it was

<v Speaker 1>going to be maybe Cody and Drew, and then maybe

<v Speaker 1>it was going to be Cody, Drew and Jacob. We

<v Speaker 1>had all these different stories and all these different rumors

<v Speaker 1>and all these everything that was being talked about in

<v Speaker 1>the last couple of months as we were building to

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania and what that WrestleMania main event on Night one

<v Speaker 1>would look like. And we end up with Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>and Randy Orton, and it's like Okay, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>not a bad place to be a proper program between

<v Speaker 1>these two men. Finally, for the first time since Cody

<v Speaker 1>came back to the company in twenty twenty two, I'm

<v Speaker 1>sold Roman Reigns and c im Punk that first Raw

<v Speaker 1>after the Royal Rumble, that first face to face between

<v Speaker 1>them on Raw, I'm sold. And all of a sudden,

<v Speaker 1>I was feeling pretty good about where this company was

<v Speaker 1>in terms of the main events going into their biggest

<v Speaker 1>show of the year. I was feeling pretty good. And

<v Speaker 1>then last week we had whatever the fuck that was

<v Speaker 1>at the end of the show with the big pull

<v Speaker 1>apart brawl that would never end. That was the first

<v Speaker 1>real misstep when it came to Cody and Randy on

<v Speaker 1>this road to WrestleMania. Boy, did they hit a fucking

<v Speaker 1>speed bump on the roads to WrestleMania last week. But

<v Speaker 1>I said, you know what, they still have time. They've

<v Speaker 1>got a couple of weeks to course correct here. We'll

<v Speaker 1>forget about that segment. We'll see how they follow it up,

<v Speaker 1>and then what do we end up with. We end

<v Speaker 1>up with the phone call. Randy Orton has been talking

<v Speaker 1>to somebody on the phone now for the last couple

<v Speaker 1>of weeks, So we don't know who this person is, right,

<v Speaker 1>another mystery angle. Wwe loves doing mystery angles. Here at

<v Speaker 1>least we didn't have anybody dressed up in all black

<v Speaker 1>from head to toe as a ninja. Randy Orton's on

<v Speaker 1>the phone. Who's Randy Orton on the phone with? Is

<v Speaker 1>he on the phone with Cowboy Bob with the cast

<v Speaker 1>on his arm? Is he on the phone with Kevin Owens?

<v Speaker 1>Is Kevin Owens going to factor into this in some way?

<v Speaker 1>He may not be ready to come back to the rain,

<v Speaker 1>but boy, there's history there with Kevin Owens and Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton and Cody Roads. It would kind of make sense

<v Speaker 1>to work Ko into things. Maybe it's Kevin Owens. Then

<v Speaker 1>we watched Raw Monday night, Stephanie McMahon shows up. Has

<v Speaker 1>he been on the phone with Stephanie McMahon. God, I

<v Speaker 1>hope not. That you have all these brain dead, fucking

<v Speaker 1>idiots on social media. Maybe it's Vince mcmire, not one

<v Speaker 1>functioning brain selling their fucking heads so believe me. As

<v Speaker 1>bad as tonight was, it could always be worse. But

<v Speaker 1>there were so many names being thrown around about who

<v Speaker 1>could have been the one on the phone with Randy Orton, right,

<v Speaker 1>Rick Flair, Batista, all these names that people were thrown around,

<v Speaker 1>And the problem is when you do an angle like this,

<v Speaker 1>unless you unless you stick the landing, more often than not,

<v Speaker 1>it blows up in your face more often than not.

<v Speaker 1>You can't possibly please all of the people that have

<v Speaker 1>built up these expectations, these unreasonable expectations in their mind

<v Speaker 1>for what they are expecting. Of course, the Rock was

<v Speaker 1>another name that was floated, and the Rock would have

<v Speaker 1>been a big one. The Rock would have been a

<v Speaker 1>big one. There's the connection to Cody. Not for a

<v Speaker 1>second that I honestly believe that Dwayne was going to

<v Speaker 1>come back to wrestle Mania this year in this way.

<v Speaker 1>But I could see where people would put two and

<v Speaker 1>two together and say, hey, maybe he's on the phone

<v Speaker 1>with you know, look, Rock is on the board. So

<v Speaker 1>everyone had their own ideas for what this was going

<v Speaker 1>to be. And then we found out that we were

<v Speaker 1>going to get the reveal on the show tonight, so

<v Speaker 1>they weren't going to wait until Wrestlemanie. We were going

<v Speaker 1>to find out tonight who that person was. You know,

<v Speaker 1>I said, bring back the punt kick, bring back the

<v Speaker 1>punt kick. I didn't say bring back the punt kicker.

<v Speaker 1>Two totally different things. Yes, Pat McAfee is back the announcer.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I know he's done some matches in WWE before,

<v Speaker 1>but he's a fucking announcer and hasn't even been around

<v Speaker 1>for a while. He did a IG Q and A

<v Speaker 1>a few weeks ago where he was answering questions and

<v Speaker 1>he said that, you know, I think my time in

<v Speaker 1>WWE has come and gone. I think my time has passed. Basically.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he's got all these other things going on.

<v Speaker 1>He's got his ESPN show, and he's got I think

<v Speaker 1>he's got another kid on the way, he's got college

<v Speaker 1>game day. He doesn't need this. His time has come

<v Speaker 1>and gone. And you know what, I'm completely indifferent towards

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee as an announcer. I've heard worse. Do I

<v Speaker 1>miss him on commentary? No? I don't. Did I hate

<v Speaker 1>him on commentary? I would? I hate a strong word.

<v Speaker 1>I could take it or leave it with Pat McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>but I thought that was the end of it, and

<v Speaker 1>apparently not. There's always a plan. It might be a

<v Speaker 1>shitty plan, but there's always a plan. Randy Orton and

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes, they're out there. They're brawling, two brawling birds

<v Speaker 1>in the opening segment here Tonight on SmackDown. And then

<v Speaker 1>who is it that I see shows up in the

<v Speaker 1>ring wearing shades and a Randy Orton shirt. It is

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee who kicks Cody Rhodes in the dick. And

<v Speaker 1>if that sounds familiar to you, it's because a year ago,

<v Speaker 1>a year ago, on the road to WrestleMania, we sat

<v Speaker 1>through the exact same thing. We had John Cena kick

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhoads in the dick, and then he did it again,

<v Speaker 1>by the way at WrestleMania, and we had the alliance

<v Speaker 1>of John Cena and The Rock and Travis Scott and

<v Speaker 1>everybody was all excited with the talk of the town,

<v Speaker 1>right the biggest angle in years in WWE. Except The

<v Speaker 1>Rock decided, you know what, I don't want to be

<v Speaker 1>a part of this anymore. I think I'll go home

<v Speaker 1>and I'll watch on TV with everybody else. And then

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania we had Feen Fien Feen, and Travis Scott

<v Speaker 1>comes out and factors into the finish of the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>main event. That is what we were left with a

<v Speaker 1>year ago. And do you remember the whole John Cena

<v Speaker 1>thing where he went heel and the whole story was

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna ruin wrestling. He turned heel, he said he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to ruin wrestling. He had his celebrity sidekick, and

<v Speaker 1>he kicked Cody Roads in the dick and he won

<v Speaker 1>the championship. And now here we are, one fucking year later,

<v Speaker 1>and instead of just giving us Cody Roads and Randy Orton, no, no, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>it's not good enough. We need to have another celebrity

<v Speaker 1>involved here. We have to introduce another celebrity figure to

<v Speaker 1>try to excite people because they're not excited enough. We're

<v Speaker 1>not selling as many tickets as we would have liked to.

<v Speaker 1>We're eighteen percent behind where we were last year. They

<v Speaker 1>announced Johnsen as the host of WrestleMania to try to,

<v Speaker 1>you know, jazz up the ticket sales. Apparently it didn't

<v Speaker 1>make much of a difference. They're barely over forty thousand

<v Speaker 1>tickets sold for either night, which is not exactly a

<v Speaker 1>terrible number, but it's behind where they were last year.

<v Speaker 1>So what can we do to try to jazz up

<v Speaker 1>ticket sales. What can we do to try to jazz

<v Speaker 1>up the excitement for WrestleMania this year. Oh, I know.

<v Speaker 1>We'll bring back Pat McAfee and we'll make him Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton's manager. We'll make him Randy Orton's sidekick, and we'll

<v Speaker 1>make it that he was the one who was on

<v Speaker 1>the phone with Randy Orton Randy or and said last week,

<v Speaker 1>I don't listen to any voices other than the ones

<v Speaker 1>in my head except one. There's one more voice that

<v Speaker 1>I listened to, and apparently that voice is Pat McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>And now he is back on WWE television. So to

<v Speaker 1>recap the last few weeks on WWE television, including tonight,

<v Speaker 1>we have Pat McAfee. We have jelly Roll, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>not even sure jelly Roll will be at WrestleMania, but

<v Speaker 1>he's certainly been all over this fucking show the last

<v Speaker 1>few weeks. He wasn't there tonight, but we have Pat McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>we have jelly Roll, we have I Show Speed, and

<v Speaker 1>tonight we had Lil YACHTI who was hanging around with

<v Speaker 1>Frick Williams. WWE has become Fantasy Camp. That's what this

<v Speaker 1>company has become. This product has become fantasy camp. You know,

<v Speaker 1>they have like baseball fantasy camp. You could pay like

<v Speaker 1>three thousand dollars or whatever the fuck it is, and

<v Speaker 1>you can go and you can live out your dreams

<v Speaker 1>as a baseball player for two or three days and

<v Speaker 1>hang out with some players. WWE has become fantasy camp

<v Speaker 1>for influenza and people, celebrities on social media. If you

<v Speaker 1>have a large following on social media, if you are

<v Speaker 1>an influencer, if you are a celebrity, if you have

<v Speaker 1>a name, you can be on WWE television and do

<v Speaker 1>exactly what the WWE superstars do, and they will glom

<v Speaker 1>onto you and try to suck you dry of whatever

<v Speaker 1>it is that you can do, whatever it is that

<v Speaker 1>you can bring to the product, whatever sort of attention

<v Speaker 1>that they crave so much, whatever sort of attention you

<v Speaker 1>can bring, you can come in and you can be

<v Speaker 1>a part of the WWE family. That's what it's become now.

<v Speaker 1>I know, it's WrestleMania season and there's always celebrities involved

<v Speaker 1>in WrestleMania. That's not really the issue. That's fine, that's cool.

<v Speaker 1>There have been some very important celebrities that have been

<v Speaker 1>involved in WrestleMania history. But I cannot remember a period

<v Speaker 1>of time in the history of this company, and I fully,

<v Speaker 1>but one hundred percent believe this is all TKO. This

<v Speaker 1>is all TKO. I cannot remember a period of time

<v Speaker 1>where we have had this many celebrities influencers that are

<v Speaker 1>all like all at the same time. I have celebrity

<v Speaker 1>fatigue on this show. There's so many talents that aren't

<v Speaker 1>even on the WrestleMania card. Now I know why, because

<v Speaker 1>we have to make room for all the celebrities and

<v Speaker 1>all the influenzers. And that's and it's not even WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>We're getting it on television every single week. It didn't

<v Speaker 1>really hit me until the show was over to now

<v Speaker 1>we didn't even have anything related to the United States

<v Speaker 1>Championship on the women's side. I mean, there's still a

<v Speaker 1>couple of smackdowns left. I suppose they could still add something,

<v Speaker 1>but as things stand, there will be no women's US

<v Speaker 1>title mager WrestleMania, which would make it the only championship

<v Speaker 1>not being defended on that show, which that would be

<v Speaker 1>quite the decision. But they think that by dressing this

<v Speaker 1>product up as something that is the hot thing, right

<v Speaker 1>the WWE product is super hot right now, and all

<v Speaker 1>the celebrities they want to be involved, they want to

<v Speaker 1>be a part of it. It's the hip cool sort

<v Speaker 1>of you know, one thing to do, you can do that.

<v Speaker 1>You could dress it up anyway you want. It's like

<v Speaker 1>putting lipstick on a pig. You can do it. But

<v Speaker 1>you cannot change the fact that at the end of

<v Speaker 1>the day, this show is dog shit. Dog shit. That

<v Speaker 1>is what SmackDown has become. This is not a one off.

<v Speaker 1>This is not well they had a bad week. Every

<v Speaker 1>fucking week is a bad week. And all the times

<v Speaker 1>to shit the bed, you shit the bed weeks before WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Good job. Doesn't change the fact that by bringing in

<v Speaker 1>all of these outside names and doing all the shit

<v Speaker 1>that they have been doing, it is not making the

<v Speaker 1>show better. It is actively making the show worse. It

<v Speaker 1>is actively dragging this show down into the dumps. Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee comes out there, he admits on television that's turning

<v Speaker 1>it into a storyline that the current product is dog shit.

<v Speaker 1>He's out there reminiscing about the attitude era. What what what?

<v Speaker 1>It just smell? How many other fucking wrestlers could he

<v Speaker 1>have imitated tonight. Maybe he could roll his eyes in

<v Speaker 1>the back of his head like the Undertaker. Maybe put

<v Speaker 1>a fucking sock on his hand like Mankind, put a

<v Speaker 1>mask on like Caine, make fire, shoot out of the

<v Speaker 1>ring posts. How about instead of airing SmackDown every week,

<v Speaker 1>you just run three hours of an Attitude era marathon.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, the ratings may actually go up. He's

<v Speaker 1>out there admitting that the product sucks, and he's talking

<v Speaker 1>about what has happened the days of Stone Cold and

<v Speaker 1>The Rock and all those fans that major product what

<v Speaker 1>it is today and you're chasing away you know, all

<v Speaker 1>of these fans, they've been forgotten about. And he says,

<v Speaker 1>this is what he's saying, goes, now, I have to

<v Speaker 1>watch two five foot five guys do a forty five

<v Speaker 1>minute iron Man match ten weeks straight for no rhyme

<v Speaker 1>or reason. And he's out there talking about how and

<v Speaker 1>he said this on TV. We have WrestleMania coming up,

<v Speaker 1>and somehow we're not sold out for WrestleMania. We're not

<v Speaker 1>sold out in Las Vegas. This is what he said.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Randy Orton is standing right here, yet we're

<v Speaker 1>not sold out for WrestleMania, and I know what they

<v Speaker 1>were trying to say, but you're out there admitting that

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania is not sold out and you're struggling to sell tickets, which,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, the reason you're struggling to sell tickets

<v Speaker 1>is because you've overpriced everybody out of buying those tickets.

<v Speaker 1>But put that aside for a second. You're admitting that

<v Speaker 1>wresse does he like Randy Orton is in the main

<v Speaker 1>event of WrestleMania, Like, do you not realize how this

<v Speaker 1>comes off and how this sounds. You have built this

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania around one of two main events that involves Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>And yet, yes, you're right, WrestleMania is not sold out,

<v Speaker 1>it will not sell out, it is not close to

<v Speaker 1>selling out. But that is with Randy Orton in the

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania Maine event, not exactly the flex that they thought

<v Speaker 1>it was. But they're incorporating this into the storyline how

<v Speaker 1>shitty the product is and how they can't sell out

<v Speaker 1>their biggest show of the year because they're shooting. It's

<v Speaker 1>a worked shoot. They're taking the Russeau crash TV approach

<v Speaker 1>here in this angle because they're trying to be like

<v Speaker 1>the Attitude era, except they will never ever be like

<v Speaker 1>the Attitude era, and everybody knows the product will never

<v Speaker 1>go back to that because it can't go back to that,

<v Speaker 1>and in many ways it shouldn't go back to it.

<v Speaker 1>But all the things that did make that era so

<v Speaker 1>much fun are dead and buried. There is no going

<v Speaker 1>back to it. And people know that WWE will never

<v Speaker 1>go back to it because they serve too many masters now,

<v Speaker 1>there's too many sponsors, there's too many things that exist

<v Speaker 1>today when it comes to the WWE product that did

<v Speaker 1>not exist back then, you cannot go back to the

<v Speaker 1>way things were doing. An angle like this is not

<v Speaker 1>gonna make things all of a sudden go back to

<v Speaker 1>the attitude there. I remember when Raw moved to Netflix,

<v Speaker 1>and there were so many people who were like, oh,

<v Speaker 1>Raw's gonna go to Netflix. Now, the handcuffs are going

<v Speaker 1>to be off, man, gonna be dropping f bombs on

<v Speaker 1>TV every week and be like no, no, And of

<v Speaker 1>course they didn't. And there were some people, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>who were shocked by this and couldn't understand this was Netflix.

<v Speaker 1>How come they can't be more risque? How come we

<v Speaker 1>can't have a TV fourteen product on Netflix, Like, what

<v Speaker 1>do they think is going to be accomplished by pointing

<v Speaker 1>out all of these things on the actual television show?

<v Speaker 1>And when WrestleMania comes and goes and this angle is over,

<v Speaker 1>you're going to be right back with the same current

<v Speaker 1>product that you have now, Like, I don't understand it.

<v Speaker 1>The reason they're doing this, at least in part, is

<v Speaker 1>because what they are trying to do, they are trying

<v Speaker 1>to get Cody Rhoades cheered and Randy Orton booed. And

<v Speaker 1>it is something even tonight in Saint Louis, of all places,

<v Speaker 1>they did this in Saint Louis, which is Randy Orton's hometown.

<v Speaker 1>So it was never gonna work tonight, and it's not

<v Speaker 1>going to work at WrestleMania. If it works, it'll work

<v Speaker 1>a little bit, but it's not going to get the

<v Speaker 1>reaction that they're hoping to get. So they're hoping that

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee can go out there and he can heal

<v Speaker 1>on the hometown. He can he can talk about all

<v Speaker 1>this stuff, and he can insult people, and it's going

<v Speaker 1>to get more heat on Randy Orton. People are going

<v Speaker 1>to cheer Randy Orton regardless but in terms of like

<v Speaker 1>why did they do this? Whose ideas you could put

<v Speaker 1>all on Paul Levec, you really can't. Now I'm not

<v Speaker 1>going to sit here and defend Triple H because I

<v Speaker 1>think the mask has slipped and people see Triple H

<v Speaker 1>is not the end all be all. He's not the savior,

<v Speaker 1>and I think people have realized that for a while now.

<v Speaker 1>But I did notice a tweet that Dave Meltzer posted

<v Speaker 1>during the show tonight when I don't even know what

<v Speaker 1>the tweet was that he was replying to, but I

<v Speaker 1>did see that Meltzer tweeted it was an ARI call,

<v Speaker 1>meaning that the decision to have Pat McAfee involved in

<v Speaker 1>this angle and the decision to have Pat McAfee revealed

<v Speaker 1>as the caller was an ARI am manual decision. And

<v Speaker 1>I think I saw something else. I don't know where

<v Speaker 1>it was from, what the source was that it was citing,

<v Speaker 1>but it seems like this was not something that the

<v Speaker 1>WWE creative team came up with. And I'm not even

<v Speaker 1>sure that means who the reveal would be. This whole

<v Speaker 1>angle sounds like was the brainchild of Ari Emmanuel. Why

<v Speaker 1>would that be? Why would that be? There was a

<v Speaker 1>story about a month or two ago in the New

<v Speaker 1>York Post. Guess who's representing Pat McAfee super agent Ari Emmanuel.

<v Speaker 1>He's Pat McAfee's agent. He's the one who said he

<v Speaker 1>wants to turn Pat McAfee into the next Sylvester Stallone.

<v Speaker 1>He's been trying to get him more acting roles. So

<v Speaker 1>I can one hundred percent believe that this was an

<v Speaker 1>Ari Emmanuel call. Again, I feel like deja vous all

<v Speaker 1>over again. We heard about this a year ago. It

<v Speaker 1>was Ari Emmanuel. The Rock admitted it. Ari Emmanuel is

<v Speaker 1>the one who picked up the phone and called the

<v Speaker 1>Rock and said, Rock, we need you. We got to

<v Speaker 1>sell some more tickets to the Elimination Chamber. Tickets are

<v Speaker 1>not selling as well for the Elimination Chamber as we thought.

<v Speaker 1>We got a gin up ticket sales, so we need

<v Speaker 1>you to come back. And thus the Rock wanting Cody's

<v Speaker 1>soul was born, which then led to the John Cena

<v Speaker 1>heal term, which was fucking terrible. We don't have to

<v Speaker 1>re litigate that whole thing. This is the second year

<v Speaker 1>in a row now that Ari Emanuel, if this report

<v Speaker 1>is to be believed, has effectively sabotaged one of, if

<v Speaker 1>not the top angle on the television show going into

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania in the name of I don't know, trying to

<v Speaker 1>gin up ticket sales. Pat McAfee show is on ESPN.

<v Speaker 1>This is the first year that WrestleMania is airing in

<v Speaker 1>part on ESPN. I'm sure there's a tie in there.

<v Speaker 1>That's why this is happening. This is not some great

<v Speaker 1>creative idea. Oh, we've got this great long term story

<v Speaker 1>that we've come up with. No, it's short term bullshit.

<v Speaker 1>That is completely fucking up one of the main stories

<v Speaker 1>on this television show. So they had to create this

<v Speaker 1>story around well, we got to get Patent involved somehow,

<v Speaker 1>and so this is how we'll do it. Nothing good

<v Speaker 1>comes from TKO and the upper management, the upper hierarchy

<v Speaker 1>at TKO getting involved creatively in WWE. Which is not

<v Speaker 1>to say that the creative was so great beforehand. But

<v Speaker 1>when you start hearing stories about upper management than the

<v Speaker 1>CEO or the president of the company making phone calls

<v Speaker 1>and getting involved in the creative aspect of the company,

<v Speaker 1>we have gone off the rails here. Nothing good is

<v Speaker 1>going to come from that. And it sounds like that's

<v Speaker 1>what we're dealing with here. Pat McAfee is going to

<v Speaker 1>be the next Sylvester Stallone. Good luck with that. I

<v Speaker 1>guess he's trying out his acting chops now on WWE,

<v Speaker 1>at least until we get to WrestleMania. So then later

<v Speaker 1>on there was a tweet that was put out by

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee after he had left the building. He was

<v Speaker 1>driving Randy Orton away from the building, and McAfee tweeted

<v Speaker 1>a little video and he said, I will make a

<v Speaker 1>deal with the IWC now getting inside. Now, deal with

<v Speaker 1>the IWC. If Randy Orton doesn't win at WrestleMania, I

<v Speaker 1>will never be seen or heard from again on wrestling television.

<v Speaker 1>They're that desperate to try to get Cody over as

<v Speaker 1>the good guy and get him cheered at WrestleMania that

<v Speaker 1>they have Pat McAfee not only involved here, but they

<v Speaker 1>have Pat McAfee making a promise here that he will

<v Speaker 1>disappear forever. You will never see his face again or

<v Speaker 1>hear his voice again on wrestling television if Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>does not walk out of Las Vegas as the WWE champion.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's very tempting. You gotta admit it is

<v Speaker 1>very tempting. Can we get Randy Orton to lay down

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania second year in a row. Now I feel

<v Speaker 1>like I'm sitting here and it's like deja vous all

<v Speaker 1>over again. It's like they just they don't learn. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I get it if there's pressure put on them, like, look,

<v Speaker 1>this is what we have to do. Like the Tony

<v Speaker 1>Khan thing an aaw with Warner Brothers discovery it came

<v Speaker 1>from above. Apparently now WWE has their own version of

<v Speaker 1>it came from above, So now they have to work

<v Speaker 1>within the confines of what they've been given here. But

<v Speaker 1>still it's like these people don't learn. They don't learn,

<v Speaker 1>or they don't care. This story did not need this.

<v Speaker 1>This is completely unnecessary. You have taken what should have

<v Speaker 1>been a very basic story that could have worked on

<v Speaker 1>its own, and now you've inserted something into it that

<v Speaker 1>it did not need. So these are the great ideas

<v Speaker 1>that they've come up with now for back to back

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania main events. I would say these people have lost

<v Speaker 1>the plot. I don't think they had it to begin with,

<v Speaker 1>so they had nothing to lose. And we'll get more

<v Speaker 1>into this here in a second. But also that wasn't

<v Speaker 1>the only thing that happened on this show, Teddy, This

<v Speaker 1>was just the opening segment. By the way, that wasn't

<v Speaker 1>the only thing that happened on this show today. Carmelo Hayes,

<v Speaker 1>he lost the United States Championship last week to sammyse Ain,

<v Speaker 1>this close, three weeks away from WrestleMania. This guy's been

<v Speaker 1>carrying this show for months on end these open challenges.

<v Speaker 1>He's gotten himself over in a way that he was

<v Speaker 1>not go back a year ago, right, He's gotten himself

<v Speaker 1>over through these open challenges and title defenses, and he

<v Speaker 1>lost the title to Sammy's Ain. Now, they have had

<v Speaker 1>a story that has been building now for a few

<v Speaker 1>months with Sammy's Ain and Trick Williams, and it seemed

<v Speaker 1>like that was probably going to be the direction for WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>To be this close to Mania and have Hayes lose

<v Speaker 1>the championship would seem to mean that he's not going

<v Speaker 1>to be on the WrestleMania card. And so I said

<v Speaker 1>last week, I said, I sure hope the way they

<v Speaker 1>did that finish last week because Trick Williams got involved,

<v Speaker 1>He's the one who blasted Carmelo Hayes in the face.

<v Speaker 1>I sure hope that this week Carmelo Hayes. The first

<v Speaker 1>thing he does is he pays a visit to Nick

<v Speaker 1>all this and he gets added to that match, and

<v Speaker 1>they make a triple threat match of WrestleMania because even

<v Speaker 1>in storyline, he has ever every reason, every right to

<v Speaker 1>want to be in that match of WrestleMania, and you

<v Speaker 1>turn it into a three way because for him to

<v Speaker 1>not be on that show would be a disgrace. So

<v Speaker 1>what did they do? Well? They did have Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>come out and plead his case as he should, and

<v Speaker 1>we had a main event tonight of Sammy Zain in

<v Speaker 1>a rematch with Carmelo Hayes for the United States Championship.

<v Speaker 1>What did they do? Sammy z Ain pinned Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>clean one, two three in the middle of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>And so it appears now there's still time left. But

<v Speaker 1>what are they going to do? He lost clean tonight.

<v Speaker 1>He's lost two weeks in a row. Now, last week

<v Speaker 1>we had interference. This week we had no interference. Trick

<v Speaker 1>Williams was sitting right there at ringside. He was sitting

<v Speaker 1>right there at ringside with his yacht friend didn't lift

<v Speaker 1>a muscle, didn't get involved, didn't do anything. Sammy's ain

<v Speaker 1>pinned him. That's it. It's over. And so it'll be

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's Ain' and Trick Williams of WrestleMania. And it appears

<v Speaker 1>that Carmelo Hayes is shit out of luck and it

<v Speaker 1>looks like he will not be involved in the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship Match of WrestleMania. Good job, good job the Wyatts,

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs. The saga continues. Good news, bad news. The

<v Speaker 1>good news is Uncle Howdie got the lantern back. That's

<v Speaker 1>the good news. The bad news is this feud is

<v Speaker 1>not over. This feud is going to continue. Solo Soca said,

<v Speaker 1>So backstage titles aren't involved anymore. It's just a grudge

<v Speaker 1>war between these two factions. So the Wyatts and the

<v Speaker 1>MFTs will continue. You know, I saw the trailer the

<v Speaker 1>other day for the back Rooms. If you're not familiar

<v Speaker 1>with the back rooms videos on YouTube, especially Cane Pixels,

<v Speaker 1>you should look them up. They're very good. Young kid

<v Speaker 1>twenty years old a twenty four came to him and said,

<v Speaker 1>we want you to direct a backup backrooms film, and

<v Speaker 1>now it's coming out. At the end of May. It's

<v Speaker 1>pretty fucking cool. I saw the trailer the other day.

<v Speaker 1>The back Rooms. It's basically this infinite maze, and it

<v Speaker 1>just goes on forever. You go from room to room

<v Speaker 1>to room, and it just never ends. It keeps just

<v Speaker 1>creating within itself brand new rooms. That's the why it's

<v Speaker 1>in the MFTs. It is a never ending maze that

<v Speaker 1>goes on and on and on and on forever. They

<v Speaker 1>are like the back Rooms, only not nearly as enjoyable.

<v Speaker 1>And also I should mention that Dan Housen put a

<v Speaker 1>curse on the referee tonight during the Tag Team Championship match,

<v Speaker 1>and the curse prevented the referee from counting the three

<v Speaker 1>to give the tag team titles to The Miz and

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson. So Damian Priest and Our Truth are still

<v Speaker 1>the Tag Team champions. This is a horrendous television show.

<v Speaker 1>It is the worst show on television. I admit that

<v Speaker 1>I don't know all of the different reality shows that

<v Speaker 1>are out there. I know they have The Real Housewives

<v Speaker 1>of Orange County and the Real Housewives of I don't

<v Speaker 1>fucking know, Trenton, New Jersey, the Real Housewives of Oshkosh Bagosh,

<v Speaker 1>Wisconsin or whatever the fuck. I'm sure every single one

<v Speaker 1>of those shows are light years ahead of Friday Night SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>This is the worst show on television, bar Nunn. And

<v Speaker 1>on top of all of that, Juan Soto got pulled

<v Speaker 1>in the first inning of the Mets game tonight with

<v Speaker 1>some calf tightness. What are we seven games into the season.

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I'm in a mood. This is your Friday

<v Speaker 1>Night SmackDown review. I don't know why I bother, but

<v Speaker 1>I figure it's got to be more entertaining than the

<v Speaker 1>actual fucking show. It's Friday, April Actually, now it's after midnight.

<v Speaker 1>It's Saturday already. Look at that. I haven't even started

<v Speaker 1>the review yet. It's already Saturday. But this is for Friday,

<v Speaker 1>April third, twenty twenty six. I am the solemn Monster.

<v Speaker 1>Like and subscribe. Super chats are open. I'm sure you

<v Speaker 1>guys have a lot to say about tonight's show as well.

<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, Vent, I want to hear from all of you.

<v Speaker 1>I've got a whole bunch of messages that already came in. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>big money, Wan Sodo. Let's hope it's nothing too serious.

<v Speaker 1>First inning, he gets pulled from the game just what

<v Speaker 1>I needed to see tonight. I was hoping for some

<v Speaker 1>good news. All this did was just add to the

<v Speaker 1>bad news of the night. Spin this wheel. Find out

<v Speaker 1>how many likes we need. I have a feeling where

<v Speaker 1>we're not going to have any issues hitting his goal tonight.

<v Speaker 1>What the goal is for our be the Booker segment later.

<v Speaker 1>Seven hundred, seven hundred likes is what we need for tonight.

<v Speaker 1>We are currently four point thirty already should not be

<v Speaker 1>an issue. What do we need? Three hundred more less

<v Speaker 1>than three hundred? Have at it, have at it. Let's

<v Speaker 1>get into this show here, because we opened with, of course,

<v Speaker 1>the best part of the entire thing. We had Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton coming out here in Saint Louis thunderous ovation. As

<v Speaker 1>you would expect, these people are not gonna boo Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>I don't care what. It doesn't matter what you do.

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton could set fire to the Saint Louis arch

<v Speaker 1>and he could burn to the ground and they would

<v Speaker 1>chant one more time. So he comes down to the

<v Speaker 1>ring and he says, so, Saint Louis, Missouri, what do

<v Speaker 1>you want to talk about? Said? It's no secret this

<v Speaker 1>is his hometown. He still calls Saint Louis home, and

<v Speaker 1>the next time they see him in this arena, he

<v Speaker 1>is going to have that fifteenth World championship around his waist.

<v Speaker 1>But he's not doing this for each and every single

<v Speaker 1>one of the fans in the building. Said, he's doing

<v Speaker 1>this for himself. Now, that's a line that was meant

<v Speaker 1>to elicit booze from the crowd. The crowd did not boo.

<v Speaker 1>In fact, I heard some cheers because they ain't gonna boo.

<v Speaker 1>They ain't gonna boo. Rany Orton said, he's doing this

<v Speaker 1>for his family and his real home, which is not

<v Speaker 1>Saint Louis. Said, it's the six people. He pointed to

<v Speaker 1>the six people in the front row, which were his

<v Speaker 1>what they showed his wife and his kids, including his daughter.

<v Speaker 1>I forgot his daughter's name from his first marriage. She's tall,

<v Speaker 1>she was towering over all the other kids. So he's

<v Speaker 1>pointing to his family in the front road. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>that's what it's all about. Hell of a heel promo. Here,

<v Speaker 1>said Cody Rhodes is leaving wrestlemany of forty two empty handed,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans all cheered. Cody gave him his blessing

<v Speaker 1>said he gave him the green light. It's not personal

<v Speaker 1>between them. Cody said that he could be the viper.

<v Speaker 1>Cody said that he can still listen to the voices,

<v Speaker 1>and he saw the voices are talking to Cody too.

<v Speaker 1>He saw him on Raw with Stephanie McMahon and she

<v Speaker 1>wasn't lying to him when she said that Cody could

<v Speaker 1>not beat him because Cody is not a killer. So

<v Speaker 1>that brought out Cody Rhodes to booze from the Saint

<v Speaker 1>Louis crowd, and Cody wasn't smiling. He pulled his jacket off,

<v Speaker 1>he got in the ring and they started brawling right

<v Speaker 1>off and with each punch. Now, by the way, I

<v Speaker 1>will point out, it is funny to me when we

<v Speaker 1>watched Raw on Monday night and they showed later on

<v Speaker 1>the full recap of what happened when Brock Lesnar and

<v Speaker 1>Oba Femi on Monday, and you have all of these

<v Speaker 1>officials and security guards that are sent out to try

<v Speaker 1>to get between them. Triple h himself has to get

<v Speaker 1>into the ring to get in between them because he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't want them to touch before wrestle media. That match

<v Speaker 1>is so important to him at WrestleMania, he cannot risk

<v Speaker 1>losing it. But evidently he doesn't feel the same way

<v Speaker 1>about his main event, because nobody came out to separate

<v Speaker 1>these two men. So they're in the ring and they're fighting,

<v Speaker 1>and with every punch and every stomp and every kick

<v Speaker 1>that Cody is giving him, these fans are booing him,

<v Speaker 1>and all of a sudden in the ring there's a

<v Speaker 1>person in the ring. It's Pat McAfee. He's got shades

<v Speaker 1>on and he's wearing a Randy Orton shirt. And Cody

<v Speaker 1>turns around and he gets kicked in the dick, which

<v Speaker 1>is going to continue to happen. And so like people

<v Speaker 1>before him, like aj Styles and like brock Lesnar, Cody

<v Speaker 1>Roads will never learn because you would think he would

<v Speaker 1>wear some support down there at this point he cup on,

<v Speaker 1>but apparently not, so he got kicked in the dick

<v Speaker 1>and down goes Cody Roads. And now Pat McAfee spoke,

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton had a chair and he was attacking Cody

<v Speaker 1>with the chair, and McAfee he dissed the Saint Louis

<v Speaker 1>Sports teams for some cheap heat said that also I

<v Speaker 1>should point out Nick All, this is coming out now Finally,

<v Speaker 1>Nick all, this is out there with producers and everything.

<v Speaker 1>They don't get in the ring though. They stay outside

<v Speaker 1>the ring. I guess they're very afraid of Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>at his chair, so they stay outside the ring. And

<v Speaker 1>McAfee continues. He says, a month ago he was asked

<v Speaker 1>about returning to WWE and he said he felt the

<v Speaker 1>business had passed him by. He thought the current product

<v Speaker 1>was absolute shit. Well he's not wrong about that, Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee and I can agree on one thing. Randy called

<v Speaker 1>him up and said the business is gone in a

<v Speaker 1>direction that he didn't like. And so now he brings

<v Speaker 1>up the attitude era and he's doing a stone cold

<v Speaker 1>what chant impression? Okay, and he can get the fuck

<v Speaker 1>off my TV for that alone. What Then he's impersonating

<v Speaker 1>the Rock He's doing the Rocks catchphrase, and he says

<v Speaker 1>all those fans that had launched WWE had been forgotten.

<v Speaker 1>WWE had forgotten about all the fans that made them

<v Speaker 1>who and what they are. Now he has to watch

<v Speaker 1>two five foot five guys do a forty five minute

<v Speaker 1>Ironman match ten weeks straight for no rhyme or reason.

<v Speaker 1>When you've got Randy Orton right here, he brings up

<v Speaker 1>WWE unreal, and he says, you've got guys in a

<v Speaker 1>circle jerk backstage at Gorilla, when you've got Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>right here. He said, WrestleMania tickets are still somehow still

<v Speaker 1>available when you've got Randy Orton right here. And again,

<v Speaker 1>that's a hell of a thing to bring up when

<v Speaker 1>you've got Randy Orton advertised for your WrestleMania main event

<v Speaker 1>and apparently you still can't sell out WrestleMania again. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what they thought that was something that should

<v Speaker 1>be brought up here in this context. I thought that

<v Speaker 1>was kind of silly. He said, Oh, we weren't even

<v Speaker 1>done yet, because then McAfee pointed out that they were

<v Speaker 1>coming off their worst rated episode of SmackDown of all

<v Speaker 1>time with a puppet for a champion representing everything that

<v Speaker 1>those fans hate, and as Randy continued to attack Cody,

<v Speaker 1>Pat informed him that he's the one who has been

<v Speaker 1>on the phone with Randy Orton, so all the people

<v Speaker 1>who maybe you're thinking, well, this can't possibly be it, right,

<v Speaker 1>there's got to be some gold at the end of

<v Speaker 1>that rainbow there, right, Pat McAfee, This is a decoy.

<v Speaker 1>He's not really the guy who's been on the phone

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton, Oh yes, oh yes he is. And you

<v Speaker 1>can try to cope and rationalize it any way you

<v Speaker 1>want to. But they revealed that it was Pat McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>of all people, after all these weeks, that was on

<v Speaker 1>the phone with Randy. Uh, don't try to excuse it

<v Speaker 1>away by saying, well, there's got to be something better.

<v Speaker 1>There's nothing better. We always do this. Well, there's got

<v Speaker 1>to be some endgame here. There's got to be something

<v Speaker 1>really good plan. There's nothing, They have nothing. What you

<v Speaker 1>saw tonight is what they thought was the best way

<v Speaker 1>to go, or at least TKO did, and they had

<v Speaker 1>to figure out a way. Okay, how can we make

<v Speaker 1>this make sense? So they constructed a story around this

<v Speaker 1>to try to make it make sense. There is no

<v Speaker 1>goal at the end of the rainbow. The only thing

<v Speaker 1>at the end of the rainbow is a pile of shit.

<v Speaker 1>Sorry to break the news, so he said, Pat's been

<v Speaker 1>on the phone with him telling him to go kill everything,

<v Speaker 1>including SmackDown, apparently not just for his fifteenth world title,

<v Speaker 1>but because the business that Cody is leading is terrible,

<v Speaker 1>and Randy Orton is going to save the fucking business.

<v Speaker 1>So that was the promo. But then back stage after

<v Speaker 1>the break, Orton and McAfee were walking. McAfee was saying

<v Speaker 1>mission accomplished. They said they're here to save the business,

<v Speaker 1>and they got in his suv. Orton got in the

<v Speaker 1>passenger seat and McAfee drove off. There are some people,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure I get the sense that the vast majority

<v Speaker 1>of people who are watching this or that are on

<v Speaker 1>by Timeline are also not too happy with this segment.

<v Speaker 1>They're very nonplused. Okay, let's just say that about the

<v Speaker 1>big reveal of what they're doing here. But you also

<v Speaker 1>have people who probably are going to go, well, I

<v Speaker 1>kind of liked it. I like Pat McAfee, or this

<v Speaker 1>is really exciting, right, Oh my god, look at this.

<v Speaker 1>He's kind of shooting a little bit, and he's making

<v Speaker 1>a lot of really valid points about the WWE product

<v Speaker 1>right now whatever else is going on in their warped brains,

<v Speaker 1>and they're talking about this stuff and you're not realizing

<v Speaker 1>that again by him bringing up all of this stuff

<v Speaker 1>and how shit the product is and they can't sell out.

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania Worse Rated episode of SmackDown in Forever the other week,

<v Speaker 1>all of this stuff, and again he's invoking the Attitude

<v Speaker 1>Era as this just romanticizing the Attitude era. Is this

<v Speaker 1>great era with all these big name stars and you know,

<v Speaker 1>all these fans that became WWE fans because of the

<v Speaker 1>Attitude Era, and basically insinuating that we need to get

<v Speaker 1>a return back to that. We have to return, we

<v Speaker 1>have to restore things back to our former glory. Like

<v Speaker 1>it's all bullshit, Like, what do you think the end

<v Speaker 1>result of this is going to be? You're gonna chat

<v Speaker 1>everybody up and get their hopes up and talk about

<v Speaker 1>how great things were and we can bring that back. No,

<v Speaker 1>you can't, Like, what is the end goal here? What

<v Speaker 1>is this going to lead to? That's going to be

<v Speaker 1>some sort of great renaissance for SmackDown, especially if it

<v Speaker 1>really was something that was forced upon them. You know,

<v Speaker 1>you have your marching orders. We're gonna Pat McAfee's got

<v Speaker 1>to come back, find a way to get him back

<v Speaker 1>on the show. Oh well, okay, I guess we have

<v Speaker 1>to get through this somehow. Got to turn John Cena

<v Speaker 1>heel in his final year. A few weeks before WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>let's try to figure it out. And by the way,

<v Speaker 1>the rock went home. Never learn, Never learn. Some people

<v Speaker 1>will find this exciting. Some people will think, oh man,

<v Speaker 1>this is really gonna spice things up here on the

<v Speaker 1>roads to WrestleMania. Yeah, there's a good spice and a

<v Speaker 1>bad spice and an old spice. This is not a

<v Speaker 1>good spice. So the fans went back and forth in

<v Speaker 1>this opening segment between cheering the guy who is supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be booing and also other moments where they just

<v Speaker 1>it felt like they didn't really know how they were

<v Speaker 1>supposed to react, and they were kind of indifferent to

<v Speaker 1>some of the things that were being said. But they

<v Speaker 1>are betting and hoping that this will put more heat

<v Speaker 1>on Randy Orton going into WrestleMania. It won't. And again,

<v Speaker 1>my biggest issue with this besides the lackluster, lame fucking reveal,

<v Speaker 1>don't give me this bullshit about it. Oh what a

<v Speaker 1>great reveal. Okay, fuck off. You got to learn to

<v Speaker 1>call shit when it's shit. I mean, come on, seriously,

<v Speaker 1>I know there were some people out there and this

<v Speaker 1>goes for you know, all companies, not just WWE. They

<v Speaker 1>will cling to every little little positive grain that they

<v Speaker 1>possibly can no matter how shit, no matter how shit

<v Speaker 1>something is, they will try to find the good in

<v Speaker 1>it when sometimes you got to call it out for

<v Speaker 1>what it is. This was a terrible reveal, and as

<v Speaker 1>I said before, it is something that was completely unnecessary.

<v Speaker 1>It was a it was it was just like a

<v Speaker 1>self inflicted wound. But I could see in Ari Emmanuel's

<v Speaker 1>head two things. Number One, he represents this guy, so

<v Speaker 1>the more you can get him on television, and you've

<v Speaker 1>got this big event coming up that's gonna be broadcasting

<v Speaker 1>on ESPN. We have energies and we have tie ins here. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>that's one aspect of it, and the other aspect of

<v Speaker 1>it also is you know, when it comes to this,

<v Speaker 1>they're looking at it from I guess the ESPN perspective

<v Speaker 1>and figuring that this might actually help draw in some

<v Speaker 1>lapse fans. I don't see how that's possible, because all

<v Speaker 1>of the people that were watching the product back then,

<v Speaker 1>when it was really exciting and you had all these

<v Speaker 1>larger than life characters or whatever it was that motivated

<v Speaker 1>you to really watch wrestling and be a fan of

<v Speaker 1>the product back then, That's not what WWE is today.

<v Speaker 1>If you took a lapse fan from that era of WWFWCW, which,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, even the idea of that is just

<v Speaker 1>it's so laughable, like we're talking about an era of

<v Speaker 1>thirty years ago. Those people are long gone, like they're

<v Speaker 1>not coming back, Like we've got to stop, like we

<v Speaker 1>gotta stop talking about this, like they're done if they're

<v Speaker 1>not watching anymore or they quit, you know, twenty twenty

<v Speaker 1>five years ago, like they're they're not coming back. But

<v Speaker 1>if those people were to tune into WWE now, and

<v Speaker 1>I say, this is somebody who was watching wrestling then

<v Speaker 1>and I watched wrestling today, Like they're gonna take one

<v Speaker 1>look at like half the shit on this show and

<v Speaker 1>they're gonna be like like, why did you tell me

<v Speaker 1>to watch this? This is fucking garbage, Like this isn't wrestling,

<v Speaker 1>what is this? There's no lapse fan that's gonna come

<v Speaker 1>back and watch this shit. Not one, I'm sorry, not

<v Speaker 1>a single one. But I guess they figure, well, if

<v Speaker 1>we can try to at least get Pat McAfee over

<v Speaker 1>as somebody big right, got it, do me a solid, guys,

<v Speaker 1>get him on the show. And meanwhile, we have to

<v Speaker 1>sit here and we're gonna be subjected to this, and

<v Speaker 1>then what happens when we get to WrestleMania and we

<v Speaker 1>get out of WrestleMania, and then what it's the same

<v Speaker 1>thing with seen it with the heel turn. Then what

<v Speaker 1>they got their big viral moment last year an elimination chamber.

<v Speaker 1>Tonight was not the elimination chamber, but tonight was like

<v Speaker 1>again that big viral moment, and they'll spread it around

<v Speaker 1>on social media. This company it's all about. It's all

<v Speaker 1>about viral moments. It's sickening. It's absolutely nauseating. That is

<v Speaker 1>what WWE has turned into. Nothing else matters. The characters

<v Speaker 1>don't matter, the stories don't matter, shows don't matter. It's

<v Speaker 1>all about viral moments. And it's all about aura and

<v Speaker 1>aura farming and long entrances and posing and stalling and

<v Speaker 1>not saying anything and looking around and trying to kill

<v Speaker 1>for time because we got three hours to kill every

<v Speaker 1>single fucking week. It's like, it's nauseating. We had Ria

<v Speaker 1>Ripley against Meechen. Jade Cargill made her way out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring in the middle of this match as Ripley

<v Speaker 1>tossed Meechen with a fallaway slam and with Rhea's attention

<v Speaker 1>diverted to Jade on the outside, Meechin caught her with

<v Speaker 1>a German suplex. So anyway, Rhea came back, she dropped

<v Speaker 1>her with a razor's edge. She got Meechin in position

<v Speaker 1>for a riptide, couldn't connect. Miechen went for a running

<v Speaker 1>cannonball in the corner. Riha, though moved out of the way.

<v Speaker 1>Poison Rana took her and then eat defeat only for

<v Speaker 1>a near fall. So Ria got Mechin locked in the

<v Speaker 1>Prism trap or the Prism lock for the submission, so

<v Speaker 1>she wins the match. When the match is over, Bfab Mechin,

<v Speaker 1>they pounce on Riha. Eo Sky comes out and she

<v Speaker 1>makes the save. She came all the way from Monday.

<v Speaker 1>She ran all the way from Monday Night Raw to

<v Speaker 1>make it to SmackDown to come to Ria's aid. And

<v Speaker 1>then Ria recovered and she and Eo hit stereo dropkicks

<v Speaker 1>that sent Bfab and Mechin packing outside the ring with Jade.

<v Speaker 1>I actually thought what we got in the match here

<v Speaker 1>was I mean, I was still reeling from the shit

<v Speaker 1>that we sat through in the opening segment, but I

<v Speaker 1>thought what we got here from these two was solid.

<v Speaker 1>You know, Ria, she needed bodies to be able to

<v Speaker 1>handle on the road to WrestleMania before she got her

<v Speaker 1>hands on Jade. That is the only role that Mechin

<v Speaker 1>and bfab play. They are warm bodies for Ria Ripley

<v Speaker 1>to get in the ring and to throw around, and

<v Speaker 1>so Michen did her job here. They served their purpose. Now,

<v Speaker 1>EO Sky, let me talk about this. Eoski came out,

<v Speaker 1>and it makes sense that she would come to her

<v Speaker 1>friend's aid. I get that. When this was over, I

<v Speaker 1>thought that this was setting up maybe a tag team

<v Speaker 1>match for SmackDown next week, Rhea and EO against b

<v Speaker 1>Fabin Mechin. They made no mention of there being a

<v Speaker 1>tag team match. What they did mention later in the show,

<v Speaker 1>when they were running down the WrestleMania card and they

<v Speaker 1>put the graphic up for Riha and Jade, they mentioned

<v Speaker 1>that now Ria has backup at WrestleMania, implying that EO

<v Speaker 1>Sky is going to be in her corner. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think they use those words, but that was the implication

<v Speaker 1>that she would be in Rihea's corner at WrestleMania. Now,

<v Speaker 1>that doesn't necessarily prevent them from putting EO in a

<v Speaker 1>match of her own, because it's sure seemed like we

<v Speaker 1>were heading for an EO in Oscar match or WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>But now this makes me wonder is she even gonna

<v Speaker 1>have a match at all? Or have they decided to

<v Speaker 1>not do EO and Oscar at Mania and instead EO's

<v Speaker 1>just gonna be in fucking Ria Ripley's corner to watch

<v Speaker 1>b Fabin Mechin at ringside. That would be as much

<v Speaker 1>of a disgrace as just not even having Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>on the show at all. So I sure hope that

<v Speaker 1>you know, based on what they said on commentary when

<v Speaker 1>they were running this card down, that that's not the case.

<v Speaker 1>So maybe I misunderstood, But if they've made the decision

<v Speaker 1>to not even have her in a match on the show, disgraceful. Backstage,

<v Speaker 1>Alistair Black and Zelina, they approached Matt Cardona. Black said

<v Speaker 1>that Randy Orton didn't change, He just embraced who he

<v Speaker 1>really is, and it says if all is right with

<v Speaker 1>the universe, and this led to Cardona saying that he

<v Speaker 1>would speak to Nick all this about making a match

<v Speaker 1>between them later on on the show, and Black said

<v Speaker 1>Cardona is a fan of making bad decisions. He's not

<v Speaker 1>the only one making bad decisions here on this show.

<v Speaker 1>Elsewhere in the back. Oh, it gets better. Solo's Sokoa

<v Speaker 1>is standing there with his lantern. He sleeps with this thing.

<v Speaker 1>He probably showers with it. He takes it everywhere he

<v Speaker 1>goes with him, when he goes to the gym, when

<v Speaker 1>he goes to the bank to make a withdrawal, when

<v Speaker 1>he goes to the supermarket. He's in Trader Joe's right.

<v Speaker 1>He's got his wagon, he's got all of his bread

<v Speaker 1>and flour and bullshit. He's got that lantern right there

<v Speaker 1>with him. So he's got the lantern. And he said

<v Speaker 1>Uncle Howdie challenged him to fight for the lantern, so

<v Speaker 1>that he wasn't going to let the lantern out of

<v Speaker 1>his sight after what happened with the tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>so he needed one of his men to step up.

<v Speaker 1>Tomatonga spoke up and he said, why are we fighting

<v Speaker 1>for the lantern? Good question, smart guy, that Tomatanga. Why

<v Speaker 1>are we fighting for the lantern? He said? He said,

<v Speaker 1>it has been nothing but problems for us. So Solo suggested

<v Speaker 1>that tom of them be the one to fight Howdy

<v Speaker 1>for the lantern. And Toma told him, I will, but

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go out there alone, and Solo said,

<v Speaker 1>you better not mess this up too late. The fact

<v Speaker 1>that we're still sitting here talking about this storyline, you've

<v Speaker 1>already messed up. But that led into Tomatanga against Uncle Howdy,

<v Speaker 1>and this was about as exciting as you would expect,

<v Speaker 1>which is to say not at all, because I am

<v Speaker 1>done with the Wyatts against the MFTs. It's been months

<v Speaker 1>of this. I was done a long time ago with this,

<v Speaker 1>and yet here we are. So Tama got caught with

<v Speaker 1>the man of Claw as Solo Soka made his way

<v Speaker 1>out with the lantern midway through the match, even though

<v Speaker 1>Tomatana told him I don't want you out there. I

<v Speaker 1>want to go out there by myself. I don't want help.

<v Speaker 1>So he tried to hit Howdy with it, and the

<v Speaker 1>referee stopped him. So Tama looks outside at Solo Sokoa

<v Speaker 1>and now they're arguing and he's explaining to Solo Soka

<v Speaker 1>like I don't need you. But then as soon as

<v Speaker 1>he turned around, he walked into sister Abigail and Uncle

<v Speaker 1>Howdy picked up the win. Now, after the match was over,

<v Speaker 1>Solo and Toma they bickered, and then they had their

<v Speaker 1>hands on the lantern, and Tama pulled the lantern away

<v Speaker 1>from Solo. He walked over to like where the apron was,

<v Speaker 1>and he set the lantern down on the mat over

<v Speaker 1>by the ropes, and Solo Soko is looking down, like

<v Speaker 1>what are you doing? Uncle Howdy is outside the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and Uncle Howdy just reaches over and grabs the lantern,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans let out a little cheer. I'd like

<v Speaker 1>to think they let out a little cheer because they thought,

<v Speaker 1>oh my god, this is finally over. And a single

<v Speaker 1>tears streamed down Sola Monster's eye as he watched this.

<v Speaker 1>Although it was not lost on me how fucking lame

<v Speaker 1>and anti climactic an ending this was for him getting

<v Speaker 1>the lantern back. He just reached over and just like

<v Speaker 1>all right, if I'm just gonna take this and I'm

<v Speaker 1>just gonna leave. So Uncle Howdy has regained possession here

<v Speaker 1>of the lantern. And I wasn't buying it, okay, because

<v Speaker 1>I have PTSD when it comes to this feud, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'm looking around, like, oh my god, one

<v Speaker 1>of them, it's gonna be j C. Matteo. It's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be Tongaloa. Probably not Tongaloa. He'll probably trip and fall

<v Speaker 1>and break his fucking skull open. But somebody, somebody from

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs is gonna sneak up from behind and take

<v Speaker 1>the lantern. Tala tong is gonna come out, boot him

<v Speaker 1>in the fucking face and take the lantern back. Thankfully,

<v Speaker 1>that didn't happen, and so Uncle Howdy actually left with

<v Speaker 1>the lantern, and I was like, man, this bullshit seems

<v Speaker 1>like it's finally over. I'm impressed. But we were not

<v Speaker 1>done yet, because later on in the show, in the back,

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs are together and Solo Soco is grilling Tomatonga

<v Speaker 1>on giving the lantern back to the Wyatts. Why would

<v Speaker 1>you do that? Toma told him I did it so

<v Speaker 1>that we can focus on taking over SmackDown all the titles,

<v Speaker 1>and Solo said we would finish the Wyatts off first.

<v Speaker 1>So if you thought that we were done with this feud,

<v Speaker 1>think again. The feud continues. Hence the backrooms analogy that

<v Speaker 1>I used before. Actually, you know what, I can't even

<v Speaker 1>say that the MFTs and the Wyatts, or the back

<v Speaker 1>room SmackDown SmackDown itself is like the back rooms. Once

<v Speaker 1>you get trapped in there, you ain't coming out. You're

<v Speaker 1>just gonna go from room to room and you're stuck

<v Speaker 1>until you die. That is SmackDown. And so the first

<v Speaker 1>hour of SmackDown was over another wretched hour of television

<v Speaker 1>on a Friday night. This was the first hour of

<v Speaker 1>the show. I want you to think back to everything

<v Speaker 1>I've just reviewed, was there anything good in there? That

<v Speaker 1>was the first hour. So in the back a disheveled

<v Speaker 1>Miss is walking with Kit Wilson. He looked like me

<v Speaker 1>at the end of the first hour of SmackDown, and

<v Speaker 1>he's complaining about the Dan Housen curse. Kit Wilson is

<v Speaker 1>Miss still does not believe in the curse. So they

<v Speaker 1>come upon our Truth, and Truth says the new judgment

<v Speaker 1>day is full because again he doesn't recognize anybody. He

<v Speaker 1>mistakes people for somebody else. Miss says that Truth hasn't

<v Speaker 1>earned anything or hasn't learned anything. I don't I have

<v Speaker 1>paid attention to these backstage segments here when it comes

<v Speaker 1>to this shit, because who the fuck cares? Especially after

<v Speaker 1>the first hour that we had on this show. I

<v Speaker 1>felt like I had a concussion. I could barely keep

<v Speaker 1>track of what was going on. All I can tell

<v Speaker 1>you is that our truth mistook something that miss said

<v Speaker 1>is a challenge, and he said, fine, We'll have a

<v Speaker 1>challenge tonight for the tag team titles. And he went

<v Speaker 1>off to go make the match official, and Kit Wilson

<v Speaker 1>is like, wait, did we just get a tag team

<v Speaker 1>title match tonight? Okay, so yes, we had a tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match made for later on in the show.

<v Speaker 1>Whatever we had the new United States Champion Sammy's ain.

<v Speaker 1>He met with Nick all this backstage and asked him

<v Speaker 1>if he understood correctly that I had some new Pyro

<v Speaker 1>that was queued up for me tonight, and all This

<v Speaker 1>told him, yes, indeed, you have some Pyro waiting for

<v Speaker 1>you out there, Champ. And before Sammy could actually make

<v Speaker 1>his way out, we hear Trick Williams music. He beat

<v Speaker 1>him to the punch and Trick Williams made his way

<v Speaker 1>to the ring a company Lil Yati. More celebrities on

<v Speaker 1>this show. Like I said, wwwe has used celebrities throughout

<v Speaker 1>their entire existence. Okay, going back to Muhammad Ali when

<v Speaker 1>Guerrilla mons Soon gave him a freaking airplane spin, There's

<v Speaker 1>a time and a place for it. And when you

<v Speaker 1>have one really good one, that's fine. If you have

<v Speaker 1>one that makes sense, that's fine. WWEE just goes so

<v Speaker 1>overboard of late with all of the different celebrity appearances.

<v Speaker 1>I have celebrity fatigue. I have celebrity fatigue on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to see any of these people. I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see any of these people. There's too

<v Speaker 1>many of them. They're like little moles that keep popping up,

<v Speaker 1>and you like, whack a mole, you whack one another

<v Speaker 1>one pops up. Trick was here to celebrate his first

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania match, but he couldn't help but notice with all

<v Speaker 1>the stars coming out like Pat McAfee and Jelly Roll,

<v Speaker 1>that it was only right that he brought his pal

<v Speaker 1>Lil Yachtie. See. He said, they go way back. He

<v Speaker 1>said he wasn't going to take no lip off, no

<v Speaker 1>gingerbread Man, referring to our United States Champion Sammy's ain

<v Speaker 1>who is a ginger and so therefore gingerbread Man, And

<v Speaker 1>he asked for Sammy's pyro, which they then shot off

<v Speaker 1>as he posed on the ropes. So not only did

<v Speaker 1>Sammy get beat to the punch in terms of making

<v Speaker 1>an entrance here, but Trick Williams stole all of his pyro.

<v Speaker 1>He's definitely he's definitely not the fan favorite here in

<v Speaker 1>this segment, I will tell you the fans were into Trick,

<v Speaker 1>Sammy not so much. But Sammy's ain came out to

<v Speaker 1>mild Booze said that Trick was getting a little ahead

<v Speaker 1>of himself in WrestleMania. Williams was going to go up

<v Speaker 1>against one of the best to ever do it, and

<v Speaker 1>there's going to be fifty thousand seats filled up. It

<v Speaker 1>won't be. They may say that there are fifty thousand

<v Speaker 1>seats filled up, but they're not going to be filled up.

<v Speaker 1>They're barely over forty thousand right now. It says all

<v Speaker 1>the fur coats and rappers won't help save Trick from

<v Speaker 1>Sammy at WrestleMania. He will be humbled. So Trick pointed

<v Speaker 1>out the only reason Sammy was even the champion right

<v Speaker 1>now was because of him. That brought out him the

<v Speaker 1>former United States Champion Carmelo Hayes. He says he just

<v Speaker 1>can't sit back and watch all of this. He brings

<v Speaker 1>up the history that he has with a Trick. He

<v Speaker 1>promised him a receipt. As far as Sammy goes, the

<v Speaker 1>way that he won the belt doesn't sit right with him,

<v Speaker 1>and he doesn't think it sits right with any of

<v Speaker 1>these people in this building. And they agreed, so he

<v Speaker 1>said for months he carried SmackDown on his back, all

<v Speaker 1>for Sammy to swoop in and take it away from him.

<v Speaker 1>He wants his rematch, and the fans roared with approval.

<v Speaker 1>So Sammy says, he thinks the world of mellow. But look,

<v Speaker 1>you issued an open challenge and you lost. And he's

<v Speaker 1>sorry that you know, you lost your WrestleMania match and

<v Speaker 1>that I got it at your expense. But if you

<v Speaker 1>want to rematch, it's going to have to wait until

<v Speaker 1>we're on the other side of WrestleMania. So Trick mocks

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's lack of integrity and his double standards, and all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, Sammy agrees. Now he's had a change

<v Speaker 1>of heart, apparently, and Sammy says that, you know the

<v Speaker 1>truth is that if Trick didn't get involved, I might

<v Speaker 1>have lost that match. The same thing has happened to

<v Speaker 1>Sammy countless times, and he admits it's a little bit hypocritical,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't feel very good about this. So Sammy

<v Speaker 1>looks up at the WrestleMania sign and he's contemplating, you know,

<v Speaker 1>what he wants to do, and ultimately he gives Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>Hayes the match, but it's the last time he wants

<v Speaker 1>to hear about this. And then Trick started mocking Sammy,

<v Speaker 1>so Sammy close lined him out of the ring. This

<v Speaker 1>dragged on for far too long, but this is the

<v Speaker 1>kind of segment where when you have a three hour show,

<v Speaker 1>they will try to stall for time, and this is

<v Speaker 1>one of those segments where it was like, all right,

<v Speaker 1>a lot of standing around and contemplating and not a

<v Speaker 1>whole lot going on because we have time to kill.

<v Speaker 1>The more important thing though, as I'm watching this, is

<v Speaker 1>that it sets up Carmelo Hayes to potentially I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>expecting him to win the championship back, but it sets

<v Speaker 1>him up to get back into the mix at WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>when it comes to the US title. And I said, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>I can get behind this. We've got Carmelo Hayes in

<v Speaker 1>the main event. Surely they're going to shoot some sort

<v Speaker 1>of angle here, where like last week, Trick Williams, who's

<v Speaker 1>probably gonna be out there doing commentary, which he was

<v Speaker 1>he's gonna get involved, or you know, a little shorty

<v Speaker 1>is gonna or Yadi or whatever the fuck he's gonna

<v Speaker 1>get involved. There's going to be some sort of you know,

<v Speaker 1>non finish or disqualification or something, and then Mellow will

<v Speaker 1>be worked into the match and we'll get a triple

<v Speaker 1>threat at WrestleMania. That was my feeling when this segment

<v Speaker 1>was over. Of course, I'm applying logic to a typically

<v Speaker 1>illogical situation here on this show, but that's what it

<v Speaker 1>felt like coming out of this. More on that later.

<v Speaker 1>So a good half hour had passed until we got

<v Speaker 1>the next match here. They interrupted the show with some

<v Speaker 1>actual wrestling between Alistair Black and Matt Cardona. Now remember

<v Speaker 1>Matt Cardona has the broken wrist and he was checked

<v Speaker 1>out by a trainer beforehand who said you're all good

<v Speaker 1>to go out there, but he was selling the bad hand.

<v Speaker 1>So Alistair avoided a rough rider. He placed Cardona up

<v Speaker 1>on top, and Cardona ended up fighting him off and

<v Speaker 1>hitting a dropkick, and then he hit a tiger driver

<v Speaker 1>for a two count. So Cardona missed with a second

<v Speaker 1>Brosky boot. He got dropped with a brainbuster, and the

<v Speaker 1>two men are exchanging strikes on until Cardona gets caught

<v Speaker 1>with a black mass and he goes ninety Night Matt

<v Speaker 1>Cardona the knockout blow down, he goes and Alistair Black

<v Speaker 1>wins another match. This was fine. It was a match

<v Speaker 1>here on the show. Didn't have a lot of heat,

<v Speaker 1>didn't really have any heat because no one's been given

<v Speaker 1>a real reason to care much about either of these

<v Speaker 1>two men. And I say that, you know, Alistair Black,

<v Speaker 1>he has two big wins in the last month, month

<v Speaker 1>and a half. He's pinned Randy Orton and Sammy's Ain.

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton is going to the main event of WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>sammy's An is the United States Champion. He has pinfall

<v Speaker 1>wins over both of them. Now, they didn't really register

<v Speaker 1>all that much because the reason he won it was

<v Speaker 1>really more of a means to an end to a

<v Speaker 1>bigger angle that was going on. It was almost kind

<v Speaker 1>of overshadowed completely by that. But he still has two

<v Speaker 1>big wins. So coming out of WrestleMania, it would make

<v Speaker 1>sense for him to challenge for the US title, or

<v Speaker 1>maybe even challenge Randy Orton if he wins the WWE

<v Speaker 1>Championship because he has a pinfall win over him. Are

<v Speaker 1>they going to follow up on that and actually do

<v Speaker 1>the match? I have no idea. I'm just pointing out

<v Speaker 1>the facts. Anyway, the match was fine. In the back,

<v Speaker 1>Kathy Kelly was talking to Bailey and Lyra Valcarry. Bailey

<v Speaker 1>mentioned losing her WrestleMania match last year. She was supposed

<v Speaker 1>to have one got taken away from her, but she's

<v Speaker 1>built a career off fighting with her back against the wall.

<v Speaker 1>Lyra says WrestleMania is about making things up to Bailey

<v Speaker 1>for what happened last year. Charlotte and Alexa they hadn't

<v Speaker 1>gone through anything like what the two of them have

<v Speaker 1>been through over the past year. Elsewhere, Our Truth was

<v Speaker 1>with Johnny Gargano and Candice Lray, who plugged Gargano's match

<v Speaker 1>at Stand and Deliver, which is now Later tonight, Johnny

<v Speaker 1>Garganta was challenging Miles Bourne for the North American Championship.

<v Speaker 1>They said that tomorrow night, Johnny Wrestling is back. After

<v Speaker 1>they left, Namian pre showed up and he asked Our Truth,

<v Speaker 1>what's up with you giving Kit Wilson and Miss a

<v Speaker 1>tag team title? Match tonight. This is our first defense,

<v Speaker 1>and Truth said that it was because Kit, Wilson and

<v Speaker 1>Miz were cursed by Oscar. I thought he said Oscar

<v Speaker 1>at first, I'm like, who the fuck is Oscar? He

<v Speaker 1>was talking about Oscar, so he mistook Dan Hausen for

<v Speaker 1>Oscar because they both wear face paint and they're both

<v Speaker 1>very scary. So Price tried to explain that Dan Housen

<v Speaker 1>and Oscar are two different people, and then after a

<v Speaker 1>while he just gave up. I'm about ready to give

<v Speaker 1>up on this show. I'm still hanging in there, but

<v Speaker 1>I'm getting pretty close. Charlotte Flare and a Lexiblist. They

<v Speaker 1>took on Bailey and Lyra Valkyria. They showed a shot,

<v Speaker 1>a still shot from last week of the moment where

<v Speaker 1>Nikki Bella injured her ankle. It was actually something that

<v Speaker 1>it didn't happen outside the ring. It happened in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and her ankle the way it bent it looked gnarly.

<v Speaker 1>That's not broken. I believe it was a bad sprain.

<v Speaker 1>They said that she's doing everything in her power to

<v Speaker 1>make sure that she is back in time for Wrestlemanie.

<v Speaker 1>Lyra was isolated as she tried to make the tag

<v Speaker 1>to Bailey. She finally did. Bailey sent Charlotte backwards into

<v Speaker 1>the turnbuckles with a running sunset flip bomb, so Bailey

<v Speaker 1>and Charlotte they end up on top, and Lyra gave

<v Speaker 1>her the assist that allowed Charlotte to get shoved off

<v Speaker 1>Bailey with the big diving elbow drop not enough to

<v Speaker 1>secure the wind, so Valkyria tagged in. She went up

<v Speaker 1>top and they had a double team Samoan drop block

<v Speaker 1>buster combo for a near fall. Lyra again went up top.

<v Speaker 1>She went for a dive. Charlotte caught her, though ended

<v Speaker 1>up locking her in the figure eight. Bailey was able

<v Speaker 1>to break that up, so then Alexa Bliss tagged into

<v Speaker 1>the match and things broke down, all four women going

<v Speaker 1>back and forth, and finally Bliss and Flare they hit

<v Speaker 1>stereo natural selections and they get the win. And when

<v Speaker 1>it was over, Naya Jackson lash Legend they attacked both

<v Speaker 1>teams and left them laying. I have dragged these women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team matches for weeks now because they just haven't

<v Speaker 1>been very good and I don't know what's going on.

<v Speaker 1>You have some good wrestlers in these matches. And it's

<v Speaker 1>just not clicking like these matches. The matches have not

<v Speaker 1>been very good in the finishes have been horrendous because

<v Speaker 1>they just don't want to beat anybody because they want

<v Speaker 1>to save it for the multi team match of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>So I was pleasantly surprised that they actually gave Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>and Alexa the clean win. We got a clean win,

<v Speaker 1>an actual finish to what I thought was a good match,

<v Speaker 1>honestly easily the best of all the women's tag matches

<v Speaker 1>that we've seen on TV, going back probably three or

<v Speaker 1>four weeks between these two teams, Damnian Priest and Our Truth,

<v Speaker 1>they defended their WWE tag team titles against The Miz

<v Speaker 1>and Kit Wilson. Now backstage before the match, the Miz

<v Speaker 1>told kit Wilson that the curse is a myth, doesn't exist,

<v Speaker 1>and he asked, how did we end up getting a

<v Speaker 1>tag team title shot if the curse was real. Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen showed up and he offered to join the ringside

<v Speaker 1>and Mis told them to get lost, stay away from

<v Speaker 1>the ring. So after a commercial break in this match,

<v Speaker 1>Mis attempted a skull crushing finale on Our Truth, No Dice,

<v Speaker 1>Truth got the tagged a priest who cleaned house on

<v Speaker 1>the heels. Truth TechEd back in. He tried for an

<v Speaker 1>attitude adjustment, couldn't get it. Truth and Kit Wilson. They

<v Speaker 1>end up down and dan Housen's music hits and he

<v Speaker 1>comes out and the fans cheer. He gets up on

<v Speaker 1>the apron on the heel side and he wants to

<v Speaker 1>tag into the match, a match that he is not

<v Speaker 1>legally a part of, but he wants the tag from

<v Speaker 1>the Miz. When the Miz gets up and he realizes

<v Speaker 1>what's going on here, Mis tells him to get out,

<v Speaker 1>and Mis goes and he's arguing with the referee. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>Truth makes it back to his feet and he looks

<v Speaker 1>over and he sees dan Housen on the heel side

<v Speaker 1>reaching for a tag, and he tags dan Housen into

<v Speaker 1>the match and the fans pop and dan Housen gets

<v Speaker 1>him Miss again yells at him to leave, but then

<v Speaker 1>dan Housen was about to put a curse on him,

<v Speaker 1>and he goes, you ah, and the fans are chanting

<v Speaker 1>along you are, and before he could curse the Miz,

<v Speaker 1>he pulls the referee Dan Engler, I believe it was

<v Speaker 1>Dan Angler pulls him in the way and so dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen curses the referee. Instead, Miz was about to hit

<v Speaker 1>a skull crushing finale to Dan Housen. The lights go

<v Speaker 1>out and when they come back on, he's gone. They

<v Speaker 1>cut to the aisle. They actually show him running towards

<v Speaker 1>the back. Truth got dropped with the skull crushing finale though,

<v Speaker 1>and Mis had the match one. He had a pinned

<v Speaker 1>and the referee counted one. The referee counted two, and

<v Speaker 1>before he could count three, he got a cramp in

<v Speaker 1>his arm. Something happened to his I hate the eye.

<v Speaker 1>Oh I hate those cramps. I don't get them in

<v Speaker 1>the arm. I usually get them in the quad or

<v Speaker 1>the foot, and let me tell you, they fucking suck.

<v Speaker 1>But he went to go count three and all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden he couldn't do it, and he held his

<v Speaker 1>hand and now he's like, he's got pain in his arm.

<v Speaker 1>It's from the curse and Mis can't believe this. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest has tagged into the match. He hit South

<v Speaker 1>of Heaven on the Miz and they beat the Miz

<v Speaker 1>and Kit Wilson to retain the tag team titles. Now look,

<v Speaker 1>I can sit here and shit all over this because

<v Speaker 1>of course it was fucking dumb, but it's Dan House.

<v Speaker 1>This is what he does, like the Dan Housen gimmick.

<v Speaker 1>Everything about Dan Housen is silly, so of course this

<v Speaker 1>was silly. The fans liked it. I will admit I

<v Speaker 1>got to chuckle out of it when they did the

<v Speaker 1>referee spot as goofy as it was, I was amused.

<v Speaker 1>It's goofy shit. But again, that's why Dan Housen is

<v Speaker 1>here to do goofy shit like, he's the comic relief

<v Speaker 1>on the show. The only thing is I'd be able

<v Speaker 1>to tolerate it a little bit better if the rest

<v Speaker 1>of the show wasn't such shit. But because we get

<v Speaker 1>a show like we had tonight, where it's just from

<v Speaker 1>one bad thing to the next, and then you see

<v Speaker 1>something like this and this is just the cherry on

<v Speaker 1>the shit Sunday, I'd be able to tolerate it a

<v Speaker 1>little bit better if we had this great, interesting, exciting

<v Speaker 1>show and then it's like, all right, now we have

<v Speaker 1>some time for some comic relief. All right, you know,

<v Speaker 1>let's bring the mood down a little bit, let's laugh

<v Speaker 1>a little bit. And then we'll get back to the

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<v Speaker 1>slash harmony. But when the match was over, they tried

<v Speaker 1>something a little bit different. Cody roadstorms out, no music

<v Speaker 1>or anything. It's just like here he is, and he

<v Speaker 1>storms out and he delivers a Crossroads to Kit Wilson

<v Speaker 1>lays him out. So now Cody gets the microphone and

<v Speaker 1>he said that he's all fired up. So he got

<v Speaker 1>all dressed up to find out who Randy Orton's been

<v Speaker 1>talking to on the phone, and there were fans booing.

<v Speaker 1>Cody compared the McAfee reveal. He goes Pat McAfee being

<v Speaker 1>revealed as the one on the phone would be the

<v Speaker 1>equivalent to Scott Hall and Kevin Nash at Bash at

<v Speaker 1>the Beach when they were revealing who the third man was,

<v Speaker 1>and instead of Hulk Hogan coming out, it was Disco Inferno.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Roads will never miss an opportunity to stick it

<v Speaker 1>to Disco Inferno. That was actually one of the best

<v Speaker 1>moments on the entire show. I had a nice little

<v Speaker 1>laugh at that. Cody will never miss an opportunity, whether

<v Speaker 1>it's on social media or whether it's on the television show,

<v Speaker 1>to bury Disco Inferno. And he did it again here tonight.

<v Speaker 1>So Cody called McAfee a stoner grifter, logan Paul without muscles,

<v Speaker 1>and a human hat rack. Cody said McAfee had a

<v Speaker 1>receipt coming just like Travis Scunt. He said he felt

<v Speaker 1>it and he should have because McAfee is a former

<v Speaker 1>NFL punter. He said that McAfee and everyone who represents

<v Speaker 1>him could kiss his ass. So, I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>that was supposed to be shot at Ari Emmanuel or

<v Speaker 1>the Rock or I don't know. I don't know. Aria

<v Speaker 1>Emmanuel does literally represent Pat McAfee though, So then Cody's like,

<v Speaker 1>oh no, is that too far? What are you gonna do?

<v Speaker 1>Fire me? Now? He thinks he's Rick Flair. What are

<v Speaker 1>you gonna do? Fire me? I'm already fired fire me? Now?

<v Speaker 1>What are you gonna do? Fire me? He says? It

<v Speaker 1>sure worked out the last time. He said, that's what

<v Speaker 1>Randy Yorton wants for his legacy. Cody said Orton was

<v Speaker 1>his mentor and his hero. He said, Stephanie McMahon told

<v Speaker 1>him he needs to go to a dark place to

<v Speaker 1>become a bad guy. Cody said, he hears it right,

<v Speaker 1>the dark hair. You want me to go back to

<v Speaker 1>the dark hair. The whole thing, he said. The truth is,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I know how to do that anymore.

<v Speaker 1>I've got two kids, I've got my dream job here

<v Speaker 1>in front of this audience tonight. And he talked about wrestling,

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns and John Unsena and The Rock, but he

<v Speaker 1>said they were also wrestling him because basically he's bringing

<v Speaker 1>up like all of these WrestleMania main events and all

<v Speaker 1>of the big business that those WrestleManias did. So he

<v Speaker 1>had Seena, he had the Rock, he had Rome, he

<v Speaker 1>had all these big names, but the common denominator is

<v Speaker 1>that they were all in the ring wrestling Cody roads. So.

<v Speaker 1>Cody said, it's a wrestling match with twenty years of

<v Speaker 1>history with the two very best wrestlers to do it.

<v Speaker 1>He said, finally, hearing the voices inside his head or

<v Speaker 1>he is hearing the voices inside his head, but you

<v Speaker 1>don't want to know what they have to say. And

<v Speaker 1>he dropped the mic and he stormed off. Cody is

<v Speaker 1>very good when it comes to kind I've said this

<v Speaker 1>before cutting the Fiery Babyface promo, and he was very

<v Speaker 1>good here in this segment. I could do without the

<v Speaker 1>mentions of like, oh, I know people want me to

<v Speaker 1>beat the bad guy again, that's just when you're on

<v Speaker 1>when you're watching the show. I know we're in the

<v Speaker 1>age of unreal and k Fabe is mostly dead, and

<v Speaker 1>I get all that. I don't want to be watching

<v Speaker 1>Rars SmackDown and have people in the ring on the

<v Speaker 1>show talking about heels and babyfaces being a good guy

<v Speaker 1>or a bad guy. I just think that's fucking lame.

<v Speaker 1>I think that has no place on the actual television show.

<v Speaker 1>You know. I know that's something you know from the

<v Speaker 1>Russeau playbook. It's fucking bullshit. It should not be on

<v Speaker 1>the show. So whoever's saying it, that doesn't matter whether

<v Speaker 1>it's Cody or anybody else. It's stupid. And I just

<v Speaker 1>think that's dumb. As far as the you know, the

<v Speaker 1>other stuff here, him getting darker he's teasing it again.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see Cody going heel. If he wants to

<v Speaker 1>show a harder edge, if he wants to show a

<v Speaker 1>more sinister side, that's fine. A lot of what he

<v Speaker 1>said here in this promo though, talking about twenty years

<v Speaker 1>of history, Randy or used to be my hero, he

<v Speaker 1>used to be my mentor him coming out and cutting

<v Speaker 1>the angry, fiery babyface promo that he did tonight. You

<v Speaker 1>did not need the stuff with Pat McAfee to get here.

<v Speaker 1>That's my point. And again, I know they may have

<v Speaker 1>been forced into it because they had to work him

<v Speaker 1>into the show somehow. I'm just saying one of the

<v Speaker 1>reasons I hate what they did is because it is

<v Speaker 1>totally unnecessary. You could have had Cody come out and

<v Speaker 1>cut this promo after he was bloodied up by Randy Yorton. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>they came out and had that very lazy, very lame

<v Speaker 1>pull apart brawl last week. This is the promo that

<v Speaker 1>Cody should have come out and cut after Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>bloodied him and caved his head into a chair. And

<v Speaker 1>you didn't need Pat McAfee or a phone call to

<v Speaker 1>do that. So they take something that again, you don't

<v Speaker 1>have to overcomplicate it, and they feel the need to

<v Speaker 1>overcomplicate it and add things to it that don't need

<v Speaker 1>to be added, and it just kills it. That's my

<v Speaker 1>biggest gripe with this Randy Orton and Cody Roads as

<v Speaker 1>like a big match should sell itself. You don't need

<v Speaker 1>all the extra rainious bullshit. Sammy's Ain and Carmelo Hayes.

<v Speaker 1>They were in the main event tonight for the United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship Trick Williams and Lil YACHTI. They came out

<v Speaker 1>during the commercial break. They stayed ringside for the match,

<v Speaker 1>which again only made me think Trick's gonna get involved

<v Speaker 1>here that before the break, Sammy rolled out of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>He got dropped with a Fosberry flop by Hayes out

<v Speaker 1>over the top row to the floor, but he was

<v Speaker 1>selling that. He tweaked his knee on the landing, so

<v Speaker 1>late in the match he tried for the first forty eight,

<v Speaker 1>it got blocked. Sammy caught him with an exploder into

<v Speaker 1>the corner. He tried for a Halluva kick ate a

<v Speaker 1>super kick. Instead, Sammy tried for a blue thunderbomb and

<v Speaker 1>he got caught with the first forty eight. Hayes headed

<v Speaker 1>to the top trying for nothing, but net Zane, though,

<v Speaker 1>avoided it, and that caused Melow to come down on

<v Speaker 1>the bad leg and he reaches down and he's selling

<v Speaker 1>it and the referee comes over to check on him.

<v Speaker 1>So now they're in the corner and the referee is

<v Speaker 1>in the corner with his back turn. Sammy's in the

<v Speaker 1>opposite corner and he's getting set up for the halluva kick.

<v Speaker 1>Referee is checking on Carmelo Hayes. Sammy's not waiting, so

<v Speaker 1>he comes charging in for the halluva kick. Referee got

<v Speaker 1>out of the way it just barely at the last moment,

<v Speaker 1>and he caught Mellow with the kick right to the

<v Speaker 1>face and he covered him. So he took advantage of

<v Speaker 1>the situation. Carmelo Hayes was busy with the referee and

<v Speaker 1>he got caught off guard by Sammy. Although there's nothing

<v Speaker 1>illegal about that, right. He didn't cheat, He didn't roll

<v Speaker 1>him up with a fist full of tights, he didn't

<v Speaker 1>use brass nuts, he didn't put his feet on the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams never left his seat. This is as clean

<v Speaker 1>of a win as you could possibly ask for and

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's aim pins Carmelo Hayes second straight week and he

<v Speaker 1>retains the United States Championship. Now, after the match was over,

<v Speaker 1>Lil Yachti got back on the mic more of this,

<v Speaker 1>and he introduced Trick Williams in the ring. Samby took

<v Speaker 1>exception to Lil Yachti calling him gingerbread Man, and Williams

<v Speaker 1>hit him from behind before hitting the trick shot knee

<v Speaker 1>and then he posed with the US title. And that

<v Speaker 1>is how SmackDown, one of the worst episodes of this

<v Speaker 1>show that you will see, went off the air. So, yes,

<v Speaker 1>they beat Carmelo Hayes in the main event. No mention,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I guess they wouldn't mention it now anyway,

<v Speaker 1>If anything, it would be on the show next week.

<v Speaker 1>As far as potentially him still trying to work his

<v Speaker 1>way in, I don't see it. I don't see the

<v Speaker 1>path I did this week. It would have been very

<v Speaker 1>easy to add him to that match of wrestle Media.

<v Speaker 1>And that also tells me what they did tonight tells

<v Speaker 1>me that he's not going to be added, because if

<v Speaker 1>he was, it would have happened tonight. His two Smackdowns left.

<v Speaker 1>But He's now lost twice in a row. It's like

<v Speaker 1>there were people who were saying after last week, Oh,

<v Speaker 1>you can add Ilia Dragonov and you could just make

<v Speaker 1>it a four way and you can have Sammy and

<v Speaker 1>Dragonov and Hayes and Trick, And I'm like, sure, that

<v Speaker 1>would be a great match. And I would love for

<v Speaker 1>Ilia Dragonov to find his way on the WrestleMania card.

<v Speaker 1>It's not gonna happen. And you know what, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>make any sense because he lost clean to Carmelo Hayes.

<v Speaker 1>So why would Ila Dragonov be added to this. Well,

<v Speaker 1>you got to apply the same logic now to Carmelo Hayes.

<v Speaker 1>Why would Carmelo Hayes be added? He lost twice. That's it,

<v Speaker 1>It's over. And so him being left off the WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>card is a fucking disgrace because what he said in

<v Speaker 1>his promo earlier was one hundred percent true. He has

<v Speaker 1>been carrying in many ways this show for months with

<v Speaker 1>these US title open challenges, as did the people that

<v Speaker 1>came before him. That this consists instantly the best part

<v Speaker 1>of the show, going back to the fall when Sammy

<v Speaker 1>had that championship the first time and he went to

<v Speaker 1>John Cena and said, do I have your blessing to

<v Speaker 1>bring back the Open Challenge? And ever since then, it's

<v Speaker 1>been the highlight of the night most weeks on this

<v Speaker 1>television program. He's been putting in the work. He's been

<v Speaker 1>having really good matches, and you know, you have a

<v Speaker 1>two night car that's gonna have fourteen matches probably and

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna have a US title match on this show,

<v Speaker 1>and you can't find a spot for him even in

<v Speaker 1>that match, at least story wise, it would make all

<v Speaker 1>the sense in the world for him to be worked

<v Speaker 1>into that match, even if they have some sort of plan,

<v Speaker 1>which I think they very well might for WrestleMania to

<v Speaker 1>do a double turn, like officially do a double turn

<v Speaker 1>with Sammy z Ain and Carmelo hay or Sammy's ay

<v Speaker 1>and Trick Williams. Doesn't mean you can't have Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>in the match and still do a double turn with

<v Speaker 1>the other two. You could still do that, and I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't expect Melo to win. But for him, if he

<v Speaker 1>really is just off the show, it's a disgrace. It's

<v Speaker 1>an absolute slap in the face, and it would make

<v Speaker 1>the match better by having him in there. This show sucked.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what else you want me to say

<v Speaker 1>about this show. This is the worst wrestling show of

<v Speaker 1>the entire week. Of all the wrestling shows on television,

<v Speaker 1>this is easily the worst one of the week. RAW

<v Speaker 1>will have bad shows. Raw'sal can be inconsistent, but by

<v Speaker 1>and large, Raw is nowhere near as bad as SmackDown NXT.

<v Speaker 1>I don't watch NXT on most weeks. I've heard conflicting

<v Speaker 1>things about NXT, although I'm planning on checking out stand

<v Speaker 1>and Delivered tonight, so I'll reserve judgment. I guess on NXT,

<v Speaker 1>Dynamite has its good weeks and bad weeks. I think

<v Speaker 1>more good than bad. Dynamite is certainly nowhere near as

<v Speaker 1>terrible as SmackDown has been lately. I don't give a

<v Speaker 1>shit what you say Collision when I dip in and

<v Speaker 1>I check out Collision. To me, it's an inoffensive show.

<v Speaker 1>You get some good wrestling on there. It feels very unimportant,

<v Speaker 1>but it's not a terrible show. It's not terrible the

<v Speaker 1>way SmackDown is actively bad. So I don't want to

<v Speaker 1>hear this. Well, Collision is on the air, Yeah, that's okay.

<v Speaker 1>Fine haha, No, Collision is not nearly as bad as SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown is the worst wrestling television show of the week

<v Speaker 1>when I check in with TNA Impact. And by the way,

<v Speaker 1>they had a really good opening match on Impact this week,

<v Speaker 1>really hot finishing sequence, too good weeks, bad weeks, not

<v Speaker 1>a bad wrestling show. SmackDown is a terrible show. Road

<v Speaker 1>Doug quitting leaving whatever didn't change a thing. This show sucks.

<v Speaker 1>This show needs just an overall. You got to stick

<v Speaker 1>dynamite in this show, and I don't mean aw dynamite,

<v Speaker 1>actual dynamite and blow the whole fucking thing up and

<v Speaker 1>start all over again, because I don't know. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what else to say. I really don't. You have

<v Speaker 1>all of these minds sitting in a room coming up

<v Speaker 1>with ideas on what to do on this show every

<v Speaker 1>single week, and the fact that consistently on this road

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania, these shows are progressively getting worse. It's like

<v Speaker 1>they're actively trying to find ways to make the show bad,

<v Speaker 1>which I assume they're not, but that's how it feels.

<v Speaker 1>And you have all of these people who sit around thinking, yep,

<v Speaker 1>you know what got I think we got a winner here.

<v Speaker 1>What does that say about those people? Maybe those people

<v Speaker 1>need to leave blow that room up too. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure what the answer is beyond that. But

<v Speaker 1>it got off to a terrible start tonight with that

<v Speaker 1>terrible conclusion to the angle, the big phone call angle,

<v Speaker 1>and it didn't get much better from there. Now we

<v Speaker 1>have two smackdowns left before WrestleMania. I'd love to sit

<v Speaker 1>here and tell you that it can only get better

<v Speaker 1>from here. That's what I thought last week, and somehow

<v Speaker 1>it how worse, and next week it may go even lower.

<v Speaker 1>What celebrity will they trot out next week? Who else

<v Speaker 1>can they trot out next week? What other influencer can

<v Speaker 1>they trot out on the show next week? Let's come

<v Speaker 1>up with a list of names as if that will

<v Speaker 1>somehow make the show better. What did you think of?

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown from Saint Louis almost eighty six percent thumbs down

<v Speaker 1>for tonight's show fourteen percent thumbs up. That's actually higher

<v Speaker 1>than I thought it would be. Tom Brady, Oh, God,

<v Speaker 1>Tom Brady, you know what I forgot about him? God?

<v Speaker 1>You know they are actually trying to get Tom Brady

<v Speaker 1>for WrestleMania. We may soon be adding Tom Brady to

<v Speaker 1>the list. Oh man, whatever, this show is fucking, fucking awful,

<v Speaker 1>fucking drek. It's good to see we're one away from

<v Speaker 1>the bonus goal. One more super chat. We'll do a

<v Speaker 1>double B the Booker at least if nothing else, we

<v Speaker 1>may get a double B the Booker tonight. That'll be

<v Speaker 1>the one saving Grace Lynnette. Was the purpose of putting

<v Speaker 1>Chris Min, Juan de Malenka and the Four Horsemen to

<v Speaker 1>get them over as the next young stars of WCW.

<v Speaker 1>I would like to tell you the answer is yes,

<v Speaker 1>but no, no, I don't think that really was the

<v Speaker 1>main reason of putting them in the Horseman. I think

<v Speaker 1>the main reason I think they were inserted into the

<v Speaker 1>Horsemen was the end. They were looking for talents that

<v Speaker 1>kind of fit that gritty, technical, sort of in ring style.

<v Speaker 1>You know, arn Anderson was traditionally the enforcer of the Horsemen,

<v Speaker 1>so I think they were looking for somebody to kind

<v Speaker 1>of be in that type of role. And you got

<v Speaker 1>two great technical wrestlers, and you know Ben Wabb of

<v Speaker 1>course can work that tough style, a stiff, rugged in

<v Speaker 1>ring style. I think that's the reason why they went

<v Speaker 1>with them. I don't think they ever had any plans

<v Speaker 1>on well, we got to put them in the Horsemen

<v Speaker 1>because they're gonna one debut world champions for us, Like

<v Speaker 1>that didn't factor into it. PJK with a nine to

<v Speaker 1>ninety nine. We did, by the way, just hit the bonus,

<v Speaker 1>going hell, yeah, thank you guys, keep them coming. We're

<v Speaker 1>getting a double tonight. Anyway, says a question. Had a

<v Speaker 1>discussion in a group chat what is more important longevity

<v Speaker 1>or lightning in a bottle. My friends were saying Austin

<v Speaker 1>was more important than Undertaker, But I said Austin had

<v Speaker 1>two maybe three years on top. Yeah, but you're looking

<v Speaker 1>at it the wrong way. Austin was so important to

<v Speaker 1>that company turning a corner when they did. Undertaker could

<v Speaker 1>have been there for fifty years and he would not

<v Speaker 1>have been as important as Austin was getting hot and

<v Speaker 1>over at the time that he did. He got over

<v Speaker 1>at the right time and with the right person in

<v Speaker 1>the right place at the right time, and it led

<v Speaker 1>to this explosion for the company and this influx of

<v Speaker 1>new fans, to the point where people, as we saw tonight,

<v Speaker 1>are still reminiscing about the era that Austin is the

<v Speaker 1>face of. We literally had Pat McAfee on television tonight

<v Speaker 1>talking about how terrible the product is today and doing

<v Speaker 1>a stone cold Steve Austin impression and reminiscing about the

<v Speaker 1>attitude era. Right, he wasn't out there, you know, mimicking

<v Speaker 1>the Undertaker. So I mean that really tells you something,

<v Speaker 1>right there. Austin's run on top was not that long,

<v Speaker 1>but it was far more impactful. So to answer your question,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes lightning in a bottle can be far more important.

<v Speaker 1>Death sythe Gunther's reason could be punk In himself left

<v Speaker 1>everything in the ring for the World Heavyweight Championship. Punk

<v Speaker 1>was the better man that night. Seth made a mockery

<v Speaker 1>of their match by faking an injury, cashing in and

<v Speaker 1>stole what Punk rightfully won from him. Yeah, I don't

<v Speaker 1>think that works. I don't think that works. So now

<v Speaker 1>nine months later, he's coming for revenge on Seth rollins.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't work. I see what you're saying, but I

<v Speaker 1>don't like that as the reason. Ragnarok with a five.

<v Speaker 1>That opening segment was straight out of WCW. Nitrop Pat McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>Thank God for oba against Brock and Happy Friday brother Solo.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you Ragnarok, Same to you, super Pony. I live

<v Speaker 1>in Vegas and was considering going to the night Cody

<v Speaker 1>versus Randy would be on. Now I'm not going to

<v Speaker 1>either night. This company is dog shit. Save your money,

<v Speaker 1>just watch it from home, Roca Thrilla twenty three. Aj

<v Speaker 1>Styles wasn't lying when he said WrestleMania has lost its luster.

<v Speaker 1>The build up this year is horrible and not exciting

<v Speaker 1>at all. Looking forward to aw Dynasty though it's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be a good show Chicago for MBK, says orton McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>That was awful, just awful, gmb with the four ninety nine.

<v Speaker 1>If Bianca returns to help Ria at WrestleMania, it makes

<v Speaker 1>her look like a clown. Bianca has no beef with Jade,

<v Speaker 1>while there's obvious beef with Rhea. Well, we don't got

<v Speaker 1>to worry about that now, because apparently Rhea is gonna

<v Speaker 1>have EO Sky in her corner to watch her back,

<v Speaker 1>so she doesn't need Bianca. Britton Millhouse not catching the

<v Speaker 1>stream tonight, Pat McAfee inserted into your main event story

<v Speaker 1>made me go out and drink. See you Monday, brother

<v Speaker 1>have a shot for me or three Dry Chicken says,

<v Speaker 1>screw it. Orton McAfee as a duo, I'll call them

<v Speaker 1>the Apex Punters. Robbie, I honestly didn't believe this company

<v Speaker 1>could do as bad or worse than that abomination of

<v Speaker 1>a main event with Travis Scott last year, and Creative said,

<v Speaker 1>hold my beer, lessons were not learned. Lessons were not

<v Speaker 1>learned from last year. Paul Van Summer and Pat McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>Was certainly a choice, Yes, it was, Yes, it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was certainly a choice. Also, it says wrestling has

<v Speaker 1>more than one royal punter. Drew Mackincock, Sexy Red turned

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown into STD all that that's right. That was another

<v Speaker 1>celebrity appearance we had tonight. They showed Sexy Red in

<v Speaker 1>the crowd because NXT is in town. She's like the

<v Speaker 1>residence celebrity, like what Poppy used to be when Triple

<v Speaker 1>H was in charge of NXT. Now it's sexy Red.

<v Speaker 1>Sean Michaels love Sexy Red, so she was in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd tonight. Death Site says, what are the Creative team smoking, snorting,

<v Speaker 1>injecting and drinking? When they booked this shit. The answer

<v Speaker 1>is yes, all of the above. Sickoh aw. When is

<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen gonna curse Triple No's I think he already did.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe that's why the shows have gotten so much worse.

<v Speaker 1>It's the dan Housen curse. Dried Chicken says, would you

<v Speaker 1>like to say see Dan Housen and City Field throw

<v Speaker 1>at Cityfield throwing out the first pitch? No, Now, the

<v Speaker 1>Mets have been cursed for years. We don't need the

<v Speaker 1>we need. We need the anti curse is what we need. Gabe,

<v Speaker 1>what's going on? Gabe? Dixie Carter would have been a

<v Speaker 1>better reveal than Pat Chicago For MBK, best thing on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown was Oba and Brock recap. Yes, yes, you are correct.

<v Speaker 1>The Meal slayer with a nine ninety nine. Some people

<v Speaker 1>said it was Ko, others said it was the Rock,

<v Speaker 1>others said DBIASI who do we get the punter turned

<v Speaker 1>commentator and occasional resident and don't forget actor now he's

<v Speaker 1>going to be the next Sylvester Stallone says that segment

<v Speaker 1>infuriated me to near nausea. It was very lame. Even

<v Speaker 1>lamer will be having to listen to the people who

<v Speaker 1>are going to heap praise upon it, because you know

<v Speaker 1>those people are out there and they're going to heap

<v Speaker 1>praise upon it is how great of a promo it

<v Speaker 1>was and how cool it was and shakes things up.

<v Speaker 1>Now for WrestleMania, now we're going to be subjected to

<v Speaker 1>all that. It's great. Dry Chicken says, I'm rooting for

<v Speaker 1>Jade car Gil to beat up in Dirty at Maria.

<v Speaker 1>Before WrestleMania, Mac Tubb Brett was right about Triple H's

<v Speaker 1>lack of creative ideas. You could have just ended your

<v Speaker 1>super chat after the first three words. Brett was right.

<v Speaker 1>Holiday one ninety seven, Hi Solo. I've taken a WWE

<v Speaker 1>hiatus since Cody won the belt back. WrestleMania this year

<v Speaker 1>is looking lack l us through with no long term booking,

<v Speaker 1>and Cody is the Golden Boy. The downside is missing

<v Speaker 1>your reviews. But I need a total WWE cleanse. You

<v Speaker 1>can have a total WWE cleanse but still tuned into

<v Speaker 1>and hang out on the streams. You do know that, right,

<v Speaker 1>You're always welcome here. You don't have to leave us,

<v Speaker 1>you don't have to go cold Turkey. You just don't

<v Speaker 1>have to put the TV on Philip says, to be

<v Speaker 1>a bit positive. It's cool hearing Hikarushida came back. It

<v Speaker 1>is Yes, she came back to Russell Willow, I believe

<v Speaker 1>on a collision. But with her, I always wonder like

<v Speaker 1>she'll come back and then she'll disappear, so like is

<v Speaker 1>she back for good? Or is she only back for

<v Speaker 1>a few weeks and then she vanishes again. Death Site

<v Speaker 1>says people have wondered if Cody ever turned heel, who

<v Speaker 1>would take his spot, and nobody had an answer. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I got one, Oba Femi. Yes, well Obafemi is on Raw.

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about SmackDown, and Oba Femi could one day

<v Speaker 1>be that guy kind of overall as the top babyface.

<v Speaker 1>But it's too early for that. You know, you don't

<v Speaker 1>become the top like face of the promotion after three months, Like,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't work that way. But if he's on Raw,

<v Speaker 1>you still have the issue of you're taking your top

<v Speaker 1>babyface and turning him heel on SmackDown. So if let's

<v Speaker 1>say Trick Williams one day could end up in that

<v Speaker 1>spot again, you're not there yet. That was my whole

<v Speaker 1>point in talking about why turning Cody heel right now?

<v Speaker 1>Wouldn't make a lot of sense to me. Holiday says,

<v Speaker 1>I learned that Pat McAfee returned and turned heel to

<v Speaker 1>side with Orton against Rhodes. Not that I was enthusiastic

<v Speaker 1>about their feud, but this was a dreadful direction for

<v Speaker 1>THEE and this ruined it. WrestleMania keeps getting worse. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, no lies detected in anything you said there,

<v Speaker 1>Phillip says by herself. Seven or No Country for Old Men?

<v Speaker 1>Oh Man, two very good movies, two very good movies.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go seven, but I do love No Country

<v Speaker 1>for Old Men, Ossie of Steele, no other way to

<v Speaker 1>put it. This was putrid. Also, no Julia, Tiffany or

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea on the show tonight. Got a feeling they might

<v Speaker 1>get bumped to the go home SmackDown. That's exactly what

<v Speaker 1>it feels like. It feels like there's gonna be a match,

<v Speaker 1>and it's gonna be on the Friday before that and

<v Speaker 1>the Andre Battle Royal death side. Speaking of Oba, it

<v Speaker 1>would really be Would it really be so bad if

<v Speaker 1>not only does he stand tall throughout the build but

<v Speaker 1>also beats Brock at WrestleMania forty two. That is a statement,

<v Speaker 1>that's what they should do, but that's not how they operate.

<v Speaker 1>Very unlikely that that would happen. Nick Grosso with the

<v Speaker 1>nine ninety nine horrible creative to leave Mellow out of WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>just got Sammy go away heat. Also, why is EO

<v Speaker 1>getting involved in the Ria in Jade feud? Please tell

<v Speaker 1>me she's gonna have a match and not just be

<v Speaker 1>in Ria's corner. They didn't clarify it, but it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>look good based on the way that they were talking

<v Speaker 1>when they were previewing the show, unless she's gonna have

<v Speaker 1>a match and also be in Ria's corner, which is possible,

<v Speaker 1>especially if her match maybe is on a different night.

<v Speaker 1>See if her match against Oscar. Let's say they do

<v Speaker 1>the match, If that's on Night one, and then Ria

<v Speaker 1>and Jade is on Night two, then it's fine. Then

<v Speaker 1>we get EO on both nights, which I wouldn't mind,

<v Speaker 1>But they didn't clarify and so I'm not sure, but

<v Speaker 1>it's not sounding too good. Mactub I always thought giving

<v Speaker 1>Triple H credit for Vince's ideas plus Rock's Final Boss

<v Speaker 1>run was stupid and that he should be judged after

<v Speaker 1>Cody wins he can't book, he books again for the moments,

<v Speaker 1>he books for the moments again cinema, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>the mystery angles, one after the other after the other,

<v Speaker 1>back to back to back, becoming clear with each passing year.

<v Speaker 1>You know what his style is like. And I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it's just it's like he's devoid of any great ideas.

<v Speaker 1>That's why, that's why I'm I'm not really sure that

<v Speaker 1>he wouldn't go back to kind of re re engaging

<v Speaker 1>the whole bloodline angle. The OG bloodline could very well

<v Speaker 1>be what we're left with the end of WrestleMania, and

<v Speaker 1>I really hope not. I really hope not, because just

<v Speaker 1>going back to that and we have a brand new

<v Speaker 1>version of the bloodline would be so ridiculously stupid. Instead

<v Speaker 1>of trying to create something new to fall back again

<v Speaker 1>on the old, well, we still have TMU bloodline on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>I think that would say a lot, honestly about Triple

<v Speaker 1>H and his booking if he feels the need to

<v Speaker 1>fall back on the bloodline stuff again. And that's just

<v Speaker 1>one example. But the bloom has been off the rose

<v Speaker 1>with Triple H for a while now. There was the

<v Speaker 1>honeymoon phase because he wasn't Vince, and Vince was fucking terrible.

<v Speaker 1>But the balloom has been off the rose for a while.

<v Speaker 1>This is not really something new Dried Chicken says. Here's

<v Speaker 1>TKO dried Chicken. Pat McAfee is the greatest wrestler of

<v Speaker 1>all time. McAfee. That's a TKO's perspective. Thank you, brother.

<v Speaker 1>It's just kidding. The WWE creative team has an unhealthy

<v Speaker 1>obsession with using Pat McAfee on TV. I need to

<v Speaker 1>send Triple h Fried Chicken with well, you know why,

<v Speaker 1>he's getting paid so much money. They probably feel like

<v Speaker 1>they want to return on their investment, so they got

<v Speaker 1>to feature him in as many different places as possible.

<v Speaker 1>Venom Catetsu. Maybe Stephanie will side with Cody and instead

<v Speaker 1>of a McMahon in every corner, we'll just get a

<v Speaker 1>Mick on both sides instead McAfee and McMahon, and then

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre does a run in. Johnny Burnie can't believe

<v Speaker 1>I live to see two guest host eras of WWE

<v Speaker 1>feels that way, doesn't it, Hank? Did they bump Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>from Mania? It's a cruel business. Well, I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>there's two weeks left to go. But it sure looks

<v Speaker 1>that way. Sucks. It really sucks. Venom Caitetsu. What did

<v Speaker 1>Disco ever do to Cody that was rough? You gotta

<v Speaker 1>go look up the old twitter exchange. It was a

<v Speaker 1>tweet that Cody was replying to the way he cooked

<v Speaker 1>him the first time, all those years ago. I think

<v Speaker 1>it was when Cody was still on the independent scene,

<v Speaker 1>in between WWE and eventually starting up AW. Let me

<v Speaker 1>see if I can find it. Actually, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if he ever commented on Disco before that. Oh, this

<v Speaker 1>is okay, so here it is. This is what it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was from twenty eighteen. Hold on a second, Hold

<v Speaker 1>on a second. Here you see that on screen? Can

<v Speaker 1>I I can't. I can't drag it down like maybe

<v Speaker 1>I can. Maybe I can't. No, I can't. Anyway, that

<v Speaker 1>tweet you see up there, that's the Disco tweet says

<v Speaker 1>nobody knows how to work anymore. They would rather kill

<v Speaker 1>each other to get Dave Meltzer to put their match over.

<v Speaker 1>This is a problem that needs to be put front

<v Speaker 1>and center. Guys are going to keep getting a hurt.

<v Speaker 1>There were a bunch of other things as well. This

<v Speaker 1>is not the only thing that got people riled up.

<v Speaker 1>But Cody's response was stop, you know nothing. You have

<v Speaker 1>drawn zero dollars. No fan has ever left the show

<v Speaker 1>thinking about you. You were lucky to be a juiced

<v Speaker 1>up double lifer over with the boys type in an

<v Speaker 1>era where you hit in plain sight, coasting on other success.

<v Speaker 1>Couldn't hang then can't get booked. Now there there had

<v Speaker 1>to be something that either happened or was said. Ah,

<v Speaker 1>beyond that, because that that does sound deeply personal, So

<v Speaker 1>beyond that, I don't. I don't know what else it

<v Speaker 1>was that may have set Cody off, But that's the

<v Speaker 1>famous tweet. That's the famous tweet where he burned disco Inferno. Well,

<v Speaker 1>they had a catchy theme song. If nothing else, Mac Tubb,

<v Speaker 1>no hate. Uh. Why do you and most creators always

<v Speaker 1>mention Hogan's scandal His privacy was breached by the way

<v Speaker 1>I love, I love when people cite that. I have

<v Speaker 1>to mention that every single time his privacy was breached,

<v Speaker 1>as if it's some sort of fucking excuse while discussing him,

<v Speaker 1>but never Austin's domestic violence. I've mentioned Dawson's domestic VirB

<v Speaker 1>I've gotten mailbag questions over the years about it. But

<v Speaker 1>so I can't speak for other creators, but the Hogan.

<v Speaker 1>The thing about the Hogan thing I love is where

<v Speaker 1>when Hogan apologized to the locker room, which was not

<v Speaker 1>so much said to be an apology as much as

<v Speaker 1>don't get caught, just be careful, don't get caught when

<v Speaker 1>you're speaking in private. And you wonder why a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people didn't really trust Hogan's apology, you can understand

<v Speaker 1>why they would be upset. A Crimson slice, what's going on?

<v Speaker 1>Thank you for the four ninety nine Misfit Wrestling podcast

<v Speaker 1>going on with a five. Fu Ba bah Ari lied

<v Speaker 1>when he said he wouldn't get involved with the creative

<v Speaker 1>aspect of the show. What a load of horseshit, dry chicken.

<v Speaker 1>It's a good thing. You asked me to stay away

<v Speaker 1>from the WWE creative team, and you need me in

<v Speaker 1>the chat. I would probably fight everybody in that room

<v Speaker 1>and get myself arrested. And you don't want you want

<v Speaker 1>to be in that room. It's a bad place to be.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Moore is TKO in control of what's going on,

<v Speaker 1>and Triple h has to do his best to make

<v Speaker 1>it work because I don't know what the fuck has

<v Speaker 1>happened to Triple H creatively. This is ridiculous. Yeah, look,

<v Speaker 1>I mean there are clearly select decisions when it comes

<v Speaker 1>to certain top angles or top stories where I feel

<v Speaker 1>like there's a phone call made, whether it's you know,

<v Speaker 1>something that is communicated through Nick Kahn or directly to

<v Speaker 1>Paul Leveck or whatever it is, or however the process works,

<v Speaker 1>and it's Ari or somebody from TKO who says, hey,

<v Speaker 1>we want this person involved, we want the Rock involved,

<v Speaker 1>we want Pat McAfee involved, or we want to do

<v Speaker 1>we want to do an angle on this show to

<v Speaker 1>try to pop a big number for ESPN whatever it is.

<v Speaker 1>But they're not sticking their nose in every single creative decision.

<v Speaker 1>And it's not like this is the only terrible thing

<v Speaker 1>on the show. So that's that's the quandary here, right.

<v Speaker 1>How much of this do you want to attribute to

<v Speaker 1>levec in his team and how much of it do

<v Speaker 1>you want to credit to TKO. We can't just blame

<v Speaker 1>everything on one of the other, but you can't blame

<v Speaker 1>everything on TKO. Triple H still has other ideas that

<v Speaker 1>he oversees and storylines on Ryan's SmackDown, and there's a

<v Speaker 1>lot of shit on SmackDown beyond what we saw tonight.

<v Speaker 1>That is fucking all and he deserves one hundred of

<v Speaker 1>the blame for that, so he's not to be excused.

<v Speaker 1>There may be certain things that are you know, he's

<v Speaker 1>kind of forced into a certain position where he has

<v Speaker 1>to do this or he has to use this person,

<v Speaker 1>but can't explain the rest of it. The rest of

<v Speaker 1>it's pretty awful too. It's just not good television. It's

<v Speaker 1>just not And with the talent they have and the

<v Speaker 1>resources they have, there's no reason for it. There's no

<v Speaker 1>reason for it to be this bad. The man who

<v Speaker 1>knew too much Solo Monster and Jad she set up

<v Speaker 1>a wrestling company. We've talked about it. That ain't gonna happen.

<v Speaker 1>That ain't gonna happen. John says, I think it's safe

<v Speaker 1>to say collision is better than smack them, dude. I

<v Speaker 1>think a hangnail is better than smack them. I think

<v Speaker 1>a yeast infection is better than SmackDown. At least that

<v Speaker 1>can get better. The Joker's voice with a ten spot.

<v Speaker 1>Both Women's World Champions coming out of WrestleMania forty one

<v Speaker 1>still have no match for this year. If I am

<v Speaker 1>Carmelo Hayes has wwe just told me that there is

<v Speaker 1>a ceiling and I just hit it. This show sucked.

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say that this is his ceiling. I just think,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for all of the time that they have

<v Speaker 1>spent over the last several months letting him go out

<v Speaker 1>there and do just do what he does best and

<v Speaker 1>try to get himself over, to then leave him off

<v Speaker 1>the WrestleMania card and take that title from him right

<v Speaker 1>before WrestleMania and leave him off the card entirely when

<v Speaker 1>Sammy and Trick did not need to even have a championship.

<v Speaker 1>That's what sucks about the same situation. It doesn't mean

<v Speaker 1>that he's not going to go higher up on than

<v Speaker 1>where he is now. It just means that for this year,

<v Speaker 1>for this WrestleMania, unfortunately, it's looking increasingly likely that he

<v Speaker 1>will be left off the card and screwed out of

<v Speaker 1>a spot that frankly, he should have had on a

<v Speaker 1>fourteen match show. There's no excuse for that. Dry Chicken

<v Speaker 1>says TNA or lol, TNA has more passion than SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>La Brian. This is where Vince is missed. No, he's not.

<v Speaker 1>He's not. He's not missed. He says, he, to the

<v Speaker 1>most part, did a better job of making the writers

<v Speaker 1>do a better job of storytelling. Vince is not missed.

<v Speaker 1>Vince is not missed. That may have been true of

<v Speaker 1>Vince's booking many years ago, but I think sometimes people

<v Speaker 1>forget just how bad things got with him in charge

<v Speaker 1>there towards the end. I'm sorry he has not missed.

<v Speaker 1>That version of Vince is not missed. Donovan d I

<v Speaker 1>think Triple H had nothing to do with the great

<v Speaker 1>creative with Black and Gold ten years ago, but somehow

<v Speaker 1>he took credit for it. For twelve months, the creative

<v Speaker 1>has been downright awful. Yeah, I mean it has he

<v Speaker 1>By the way, you know, on the NXT thing, Triple

<v Speaker 1>H was not writing the shows Triple H had. I

<v Speaker 1>wish I could remember who it was. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if it was Ryan Ward, it could have been somebody else,

<v Speaker 1>Ryan katz Got, I don't remember who it was. There

<v Speaker 1>was a main writer during that Black and Gold period,

<v Speaker 1>and I feel like I agree. I feel like Triple

<v Speaker 1>H gets more credit. He deserves credit, but he probably

<v Speaker 1>gets more credit than he deserves for a lot of

<v Speaker 1>the good stuff that took place during that era, because

<v Speaker 1>there were other people who were assisting in terms of

<v Speaker 1>the writing of the show, and they don't usually get mentioned,

<v Speaker 1>they don't get shouted out, they don't really get credit,

<v Speaker 1>and they probably should. Paul Carpenter, we want Rocky, we

<v Speaker 1>want Rocky. You got them, you got them. Yeah he's here,

<v Speaker 1>you got Pat McAfee, the famous words of Triple Ah.

<v Speaker 1>We want Cross, we want Cross, you want Brock, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>you got him. Dry Chicken says Triple H is quotes

<v Speaker 1>from last year. Don't be a critic, just be a fan.

<v Speaker 1>Shaking my head, the Rock was right to step away

<v Speaker 1>to avoid the shit show. I think the Rock stepped

<v Speaker 1>away because he was gonna just let Triple H kind

<v Speaker 1>of hang himself, figuring the implosion would come at some point,

<v Speaker 1>and when it does and the numbers get low enough,

<v Speaker 1>that may be when the Rock makes his move. It's

<v Speaker 1>definitely some political gamesmanship that's being played there between those two,

<v Speaker 1>for sure. For sure, alex says brother Solo and Chad.

<v Speaker 1>I have three words for all of you. Fuck this company.

<v Speaker 1>Say it loud, say it proud, Alexander, My memory may

<v Speaker 1>be bad. But when was the Women's US Belt last

<v Speaker 1>defended on a pl since Chelsea won it for the

<v Speaker 1>first time. I don't think it has been. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think it has been, and honestly, I would not have

<v Speaker 1>expected it to be on this WrestleMania show if every

<v Speaker 1>other championship wasn't being defended, if it ends up not

<v Speaker 1>being defended, because again, there's still time left to add

<v Speaker 1>it to the show. I mean, look, we have Dynasties

<v Speaker 1>coming up in what is it, eight days, AW has

<v Speaker 1>a pay per view coming up in a little over

<v Speaker 1>a week, and they've got six matches, which for a

<v Speaker 1>WWE show would be overload. For an AW show, that

<v Speaker 1>is a very incomplete pay per view, which means at

<v Speaker 1>least half the matches on that show aren't even going

<v Speaker 1>to get officially made until the week of the show.

<v Speaker 1>So when it comes to WrestleMania, we could be looking

<v Speaker 1>at a situation where maybe something gets added next week

<v Speaker 1>and maybe Julia and Tiffany, But how are you going

<v Speaker 1>to have every other championship and every other women's championship

<v Speaker 1>defended at WrestleMania but leave that one off the show.

<v Speaker 1>That's the insulting part otherwise I wouldn't even blink an eye.

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't even expect the women's mid card belts to

<v Speaker 1>be defended on the show at all. Quite frankly, now,

<v Speaker 1>the workingman, I do not care about Mania this year.

<v Speaker 1>This blows. Wait until Saudi Mania next year and all

<v Speaker 1>of the the discourse around that Terrence. I've tried and

<v Speaker 1>tried and tried to give WWE the benefit of the doubt,

<v Speaker 1>But after tonight I am broken. Screw TKO and screw

<v Speaker 1>triple fraud. Well now they fifteen dollars superchat. My call

<v Speaker 1>for Kyrie to take me away back to watching stardom

<v Speaker 1>for a palate cleanser. Tonight. Cannot believe they found a

<v Speaker 1>way to fumble this much. Love is always solo, still

<v Speaker 1>the best at what you do. Thank you, brother, appreciate

<v Speaker 1>that death side. Cody and Randy do not need pat

<v Speaker 1>just like Rock and Austin did not need Debra. See

<v Speaker 1>but the difference there is that they realized that they

<v Speaker 1>did not need Debra and she disappeared after like two

<v Speaker 1>weeks if you can believe, you know, some people don't

<v Speaker 1>remember that. But as iconic as that, WrestleMania seventeen main

<v Speaker 1>event is with Rock and Austin. They developed a story

<v Speaker 1>based around Austin's wife being in the Rocks corner, and

<v Speaker 1>it was very dumb and it did not They just

<v Speaker 1>didn't need to do it, and they recognized there or

<v Speaker 1>somebody got in Vince's ear and they dropped it. And Deborah,

<v Speaker 1>she didn't factor into that WrestleMania match at all. So

<v Speaker 1>they at least came to their senses here. We're not

<v Speaker 1>going to be so lucky. They're not going to come

<v Speaker 1>to their senses here because you know it came from above.

<v Speaker 1>They got their marching orders, so they're going all the

<v Speaker 1>way to Mania with this. That's the difference, Mike says

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee having a spot on the Mania card. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>Mellow and Dragonov is an absolute joke the working men.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't matter how bad the product is. WWE knows

<v Speaker 1>their diehard fans will watch them pay for anything, so

<v Speaker 1>this shit will never end with the bad booking. They

<v Speaker 1>definitely have their core base of fans that will always

<v Speaker 1>be there. Also, the only match I care for and

<v Speaker 1>want to see is Brock and Oba, So you're basically

<v Speaker 1>looking forward to about six minutes of WrestleMania. This year,

<v Speaker 1>six minutes across two nights. Hey Larry Jester, thank you,

<v Speaker 1>brother David. Shows like this make me thankful that my

<v Speaker 1>application to be on the creative team ended with Bruce

<v Speaker 1>in my Facebook suggestions, dreadful, sackable conduct Leo. Thank god

<v Speaker 1>for Dan Housen. He was the only thing about this

<v Speaker 1>show that I enjoyed. He is the comic relief. He's

<v Speaker 1>supposed to make you laugh. Ye, not a whole lot

<v Speaker 1>to laugh about and be happy about on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>Richie says Chris Jericho made the right decision after this show. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I will be doing my Dynamite, my usual Dynamite review

<v Speaker 1>on the sound off, so I will have full thoughts

<v Speaker 1>on Chris Jericho this weekend. The last Quincy ten dollars

<v Speaker 1>super chat. To be fair to, Pat McAfee is likely

<v Speaker 1>just doing what his super agent is asking him to do.

<v Speaker 1>Same thing with The Rock last year. He was just

<v Speaker 1>helping the actual boss of TKO out. Yeah, but what

<v Speaker 1>does that have to do with what we're talking about here.

<v Speaker 1>We're not attacking Pat McAfee personally. We're attacking how fucking

<v Speaker 1>awful this segment was. Has nothing to do with McAfee himself.

<v Speaker 1>Has everything to do with a just bad television and

<v Speaker 1>bad creative going into their biggest show of the year

<v Speaker 1>for one of their main events. I think we all

<v Speaker 1>understand why this is happening. Pat McAfee did not book

<v Speaker 1>his own angle, The Workingman. This booking makes WCW two

<v Speaker 1>thousand look amazing. Easy there, easy there, don't, don't, don't,

<v Speaker 1>don't step over that line Bobby's World. From your comments

<v Speaker 1>on TNT, I don't believe Cody sleeps in his suit.

<v Speaker 1>I believe Cody sleeps in pajamas patterned in a suit.

<v Speaker 1>Now with the little footies right, I could see that

<v Speaker 1>the little footies look like shoes. I could see Cody

<v Speaker 1>sleeping in suit pattern pajamas. Derek J. Speaks. No one

<v Speaker 1>asks for a mystery in the first place. Cody and

<v Speaker 1>Randy one on one was enough on its own. Unneces

<v Speaker 1>necessarily added this random mystery, hyped it up, and then

<v Speaker 1>shit the bed on the payoff idiots, all of them.

<v Speaker 1>It makes me wonder if this came from Ari and

<v Speaker 1>this was something that he wanted to do. If we

<v Speaker 1>didn't get Cody and Randy, if we were gonna get Cody,

<v Speaker 1>Drew Jacob, maybe if you threw Randy and they were

<v Speaker 1>made it a fatal four way, like whatever the alternative

<v Speaker 1>main event would have been on SmackDown, would they have

<v Speaker 1>done the same angle? How would McAfee have been worked

<v Speaker 1>into that? I guess he still could have been with

<v Speaker 1>Randy in a four way, but I don't know, Like

<v Speaker 1>he doesn't fit into any of these scenarios. It is

<v Speaker 1>so it is so tacked on and shoehorned in there.

<v Speaker 1>It's just it's just laughable. The whole thing is laughable.

<v Speaker 1>They're trying so hard to be cool and it's having

<v Speaker 1>the opposite effect. Leo, I have officially given up on

<v Speaker 1>Keana making Mania this year, but hey, there's always next year.

<v Speaker 1>She was never making Mania this year. I could have

<v Speaker 1>told if you would have asked the question six weeks ago,

<v Speaker 1>I could have given you an answer. Then. She was

<v Speaker 1>never making Mania this year. She hasn't even been on

<v Speaker 1>the main roster for a full year yet, he says, now,

<v Speaker 1>after Mania, I want to see WWE let her go

<v Speaker 1>on a singles run and build her up for next

<v Speaker 1>year's Mania. EJ. Slim as Pat McAfee's biggest longtime hater.

<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the bandwagon. I won't be watching WrestleMania now. Also,

<v Speaker 1>Illinois is in the final four, so I am okay, Well,

<v Speaker 1>congrats on that. I didn't check to see if the

<v Speaker 1>Mets won or lost, but the way things were trending

<v Speaker 1>for tonight, it wasn't looking good. Hopefully they won. Philip Bowman,

<v Speaker 1>I'd personally watch a forty five minute iron Man match

<v Speaker 1>for ten weeks straight over Pat McAfee any day, fair enough.

<v Speaker 1>Depends who's in the iron Man match, though, the working man.

<v Speaker 1>But I'll tell you what the working man has been

<v Speaker 1>working overtime tonight, you'd better get a bonus from his boss.

<v Speaker 1>WWE will never care about actual wrestling fans. They catered

<v Speaker 1>to the normy Marx who think this shit is actually

<v Speaker 1>good personally, glad I have an archive of eighties, nineties,

<v Speaker 1>and two thousands wrestling to fall back on. The Vault.

<v Speaker 1>Brother the Vault. It's the best thing WWE has created

<v Speaker 1>since the Network. The Mets won ten to three. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>good now, we just got to hope that Soto is

<v Speaker 1>gonna be okay. The Mets won. See, we got some

<v Speaker 1>good news tonight. We got some good news tonight. That side, also,

<v Speaker 1>I take it Bob Holly wasn't available to be the

<v Speaker 1>mystery callers since he also had history with Cody. They

<v Speaker 1>were tag team champions, weren't they. What is the reason

<v Speaker 1>for it being McAfee. Is it just to get Orton booed?

<v Speaker 1>Maybe they thought if it was Owens, nobody would boo

<v Speaker 1>him and Orton together. Thank you, super Pony. I think

<v Speaker 1>we've talked about that. As far as why it was McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>it sounds like it was a TKO decision and part

<v Speaker 1>of it. Yes, they're trying to use this as a

<v Speaker 1>way to get Randy Orton booed, and he may get

<v Speaker 1>some very limited booze, but it's it's not gonna work.

<v Speaker 1>It's not gonna work the way that they think it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna work. The working Man WWE didn't like Cross, let

<v Speaker 1>him go and in return we get I Show Speed,

<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen and Pat McAfee. I hope he never comes back.

<v Speaker 1>He is better off now. Yeah, I mean Cross is

<v Speaker 1>doing good stuff right now in the independent scene won

<v Speaker 1>some championships. Prince Vegeta with a nine ninety nine. They

<v Speaker 1>should have kept the WWE title match a four way

<v Speaker 1>in my opinion, more chaos and unpredictable. Plus, if he's

<v Speaker 1>in the ring with three other individuals, Cody would not

<v Speaker 1>get booed as much. I wouldn't be so sure about that.

<v Speaker 1>I think you'd have a lot of people cheering for

<v Speaker 1>Jacob and Randy because they're they're sick of Cody. It

<v Speaker 1>may not have been as bad, but they would still

<v Speaker 1>be fans booing Cody who would not want to see

<v Speaker 1>him leave that fatal four away with that title. People

<v Speaker 1>want to see Randy Orton win fifteen. They want to

<v Speaker 1>be a part of history. You know, It's it's been

<v Speaker 1>a while since Orton's held the championship. I think people

<v Speaker 1>are ready for it. They like that story. They like Orton.

<v Speaker 1>He's the elder statesman. Now that John Seen is gone.

<v Speaker 1>There's very little that they're going to be able to

<v Speaker 1>do to turn the tide against him. Pat McAfee alone

<v Speaker 1>is not going to be enough. They may boot Pat McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean they're going to boo Randy Orton. The

<v Speaker 1>working Man, Solid Monster and Stevie Richards the two best

<v Speaker 1>wrestling podcasts. Slash shows way more entertaining than WWE's product.

<v Speaker 1>I try. Somebody has to be I appreciate that though EJ. Slimp,

<v Speaker 1>this is worse than jay Leno, I mean w CW well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean at least that jay Leno wasn't involved in

<v Speaker 1>the main event of their biggest show of the year,

<v Speaker 1>Prince Begeta. Sammy's Ain is kind of insufferable. I could

<v Speaker 1>tell you right now that I don't care at all

<v Speaker 1>about him becoming a world champion next year. If he

<v Speaker 1>is the choice to win the Rumble, well, he is

<v Speaker 1>kind of insufferable. The character has been and a lot

<v Speaker 1>can happen in a year. I'm kind of in the

<v Speaker 1>same boat with you, but they could change my mind

<v Speaker 1>depending on how the story goes. The working Man Hollywood

<v Speaker 1>Hogan selling a hold from Jay Leno at WCW Roadewild

<v Speaker 1>ninety eight was better than this slot. Did the wcwutube

<v Speaker 1>page just post that match or something. That's the second

<v Speaker 1>time it's been mentioned here. Hydro grad that Trick Williams

<v Speaker 1>and Sammy's Ain segment. It got rid of Travis Scott

<v Speaker 1>for Travis not Philip Bowman death and Cody trashing Disco

<v Speaker 1>Inferno then now and forever. Jake Readings from the UK

<v Speaker 1>not sure what's more embarrassing Pat being the one on

<v Speaker 1>the phone, or people defending this bs on X, I

<v Speaker 1>hope you're doing well. There will always be defenders. There

<v Speaker 1>will always be defenders for bad TV. I will say this.

<v Speaker 1>I will say this, if the idea is that this

<v Speaker 1>is going to lead to Randy Orton recruiting a couple

<v Speaker 1>of new talents from NXT, and whether it's a Ricky

<v Speaker 1>Saints or an Ethan Page or whoever you know deaf.

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton of course is the NXT North American champion

<v Speaker 1>right now. But if the idea is to get some

<v Speaker 1>NXT people aligned with Orton, almost like a new legacy

<v Speaker 1>type of group, I don't hate that idea. I still

<v Speaker 1>just don't think Pat mcafhee needs to be a conduit

<v Speaker 1>to that. You know, he's not Paul, he's not don Kallis,

<v Speaker 1>so I wouldn't have an issue with Randy Orton having

<v Speaker 1>his own little group. But it doesn't change the fact

<v Speaker 1>that this McAfee shit being shoehorned into this WrestleMania angle

<v Speaker 1>is just garbage. Doesn't change that the Meal Slayer. I

<v Speaker 1>usually don't like when the fans shout from the rooftops

<v Speaker 1>about how they're flipping to the other channel. But WWE's

<v Speaker 1>product has been so damn dry. Yes, I don't disagree.

<v Speaker 1>The Working Man Alex writes Berlin gimmick was better than

<v Speaker 1>this the last Quincy. In my opinion, almost anyone people

<v Speaker 1>were theorizing about being on the phone what Randy would

<v Speaker 1>have been a lot better than Pat being the guy.

<v Speaker 1>Even seen as heel Turn was better at its worst.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know about better at its worst the actual

<v Speaker 1>He'll Turn at Elimination Chamber, for sure, it was fifteen

<v Speaker 1>times better. You know, a part of it also, I

<v Speaker 1>feel like it just felt like a cheap retread of

<v Speaker 1>that you know again, Cody getting kicked in the crotch

<v Speaker 1>and all that. They were trying to go for the

<v Speaker 1>cool factor, and it just it doesn't work. It doesn't

<v Speaker 1>come off as cool, It comes off as desperate. It

<v Speaker 1>comes off as desperation. Heading into WrestleMania, The Working Men says,

<v Speaker 1>I can't wait to see fans melt down even more

<v Speaker 1>when I show Speed beats La Knight. You know they

<v Speaker 1>want to finally kill him off for good. I like

<v Speaker 1>the angle that they did at his house. Say Speed

<v Speaker 1>won me over with that one, But yes, he should

<v Speaker 1>not be beating La Knight, the meal Slayer. Let's be

<v Speaker 1>the booker twice. We will momentarily here we are doing

<v Speaker 1>two rounds. The working Man says Mania is in Saudi

<v Speaker 1>Arabia next year. If we think it won't get get

<v Speaker 1>worse next year, lol. I can only imagine the names

<v Speaker 1>they're gonna want in the main event next year. Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee better not be one of them. Hbkac eighty three.

<v Speaker 1>If there's a liquor in that mug, I would not

<v Speaker 1>blame you. I wish there was liquor in this mug tonight, tonight,

<v Speaker 1>I have all the nights I should have had liquor

<v Speaker 1>in the mug, but I don't. San Juan Wolf, the

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety nine just got off work and miss SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>Was it really that bad? Yes? It was. To answer

<v Speaker 1>your question, the answer is yes. Also much love from Florida.

<v Speaker 1>Keep up the great work. Thank you, San jan Wolf.

<v Speaker 1>The answer is yes, it was terrible. Don't waste your time.

<v Speaker 1>Just the poet, Christ loves you and died for our wrongdoings. Amen,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, just the poet, Thank you the two bucks

<v Speaker 1>appreciate it. Super Pony Summers. I assume that means summer Slim,

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim twenty twenty two to wrestle Many of forty

<v Speaker 1>will not be forgot what happened reality set in. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what happened, but the fall off will have

<v Speaker 1>to be studied. Toya Ate and Nice hit the reset

<v Speaker 1>button on SmackDown, please, I said, blow it up, blow

<v Speaker 1>it up, clean them out, start all over again. The

<v Speaker 1>rot is from the inside. Remember when we heard at

<v Speaker 1>the beginning of the year that they were doing a

<v Speaker 1>little bit of a minor shakeup. They recognized that there

<v Speaker 1>were issues with SmackDown and they were going to be

<v Speaker 1>making some changes to improve the show. Remember that. Remember

<v Speaker 1>those reports was that three months ago? Actually four months,

<v Speaker 1>four months ago? Whatever happened to that? Kung Fu Joseph,

<v Speaker 1>You're right about attitude era fans never coming back. Me

<v Speaker 1>and my brother both became fans in ninety nine. I

<v Speaker 1>was nine and he was eight. By two thousand and one,

<v Speaker 1>he was done and never came back to it. And

<v Speaker 1>for me, I'm still here watching Tko ruin WrestleMania. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, you don't hear about it as much like

<v Speaker 1>trying to claw back the lapsed fans from the Attitude

<v Speaker 1>air because WWE tried that for many years, but at

<v Speaker 1>this point it's just laughable. It's twenty twenty six. Like

<v Speaker 1>those people, if they haven't come back by now, they

<v Speaker 1>ain't coming back. They're gone, They're done. You just got

<v Speaker 1>to try to create new fans. And the new fans

<v Speaker 1>have no concept of the Attitude era, and I think

<v Speaker 1>if you gave them a concept of the Attitude era,

<v Speaker 1>they would want that over this. And I don't know

<v Speaker 1>why they would want to do that. Why would WA

<v Speaker 1>We want to do that when you know that you're

<v Speaker 1>not going back to that. Nick Grosso, just to follow

<v Speaker 1>up on EO Sky, I didn't see how bad she

<v Speaker 1>landed on that dive until I saw another clip of

<v Speaker 1>it on social media, and my god, how does she

<v Speaker 1>not break her neck? I'm just glad she's okay. Do

<v Speaker 1>you think Danny Luna goes to AW or WWE? I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. If she, you know, kind of grew up

<v Speaker 1>a WWE fan and has a dream of going there,

<v Speaker 1>I believe. I mean, I'm just my opinion here. I

<v Speaker 1>think she ends up in AW but if she has

<v Speaker 1>a long term goal of ending up in WWE, she

<v Speaker 1>may decide to go there. I'm going to say, aw, though, Hank,

<v Speaker 1>who would you have booked the reveal to be Kevin Owens.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that would have helped their booing Cody problem,

<v Speaker 1>but Kevin Owens would have been the sensible reveal, and again,

<v Speaker 1>the Rock would have made sense. But I don't want

<v Speaker 1>to hear about Rock because Rock is not going to

<v Speaker 1>be able to commit, so I just don't care. Final

<v Speaker 1>Boss character was great, but at this point, I just

<v Speaker 1>don't care. But like story wise, he would have made sense,

<v Speaker 1>and Owens would have made sense, but I wouldn't have

<v Speaker 1>done the angle to begin with. If we're being honest,

<v Speaker 1>there wouldn't have been a mystery phone caller, so I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't have even done it. Jeremy says, do you think

<v Speaker 1>the highlight of McAfee's segment gets more dislikes than Rock

<v Speaker 1>did when WWE had to pivot their Wrestlemantia plans years ago?

<v Speaker 1>That's a good qual You mean the segment with Cody

<v Speaker 1>willingly giving up his WrestleMania title match to The Rock. No,

<v Speaker 1>I feel like that will end up getting more dislikes.

<v Speaker 1>Super Pony they said road Dog was the problem loll

<v Speaker 1>he was a problem. He was not the problem. We

<v Speaker 1>the ones with the ten. Listen to the Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>interview with Chris van Vliet and he said during his

<v Speaker 1>feud with Brock that he got the best of him

<v Speaker 1>every week and one at Mania. So there is hope

<v Speaker 1>that Oba does the same. Eh, there's hope, But I

<v Speaker 1>still think it's I still feel like it's very unlikely.

<v Speaker 1>It's a good interview. By the way, anybody who hasn't

<v Speaker 1>watched it. The final Boss, speaking of which, look at this,

<v Speaker 1>say his name and he appears he's like Joe Hendry,

<v Speaker 1>Triple H feels on his last legs. Rock is watching

<v Speaker 1>on definitely watching from the sidelines. I've always believed that

<v Speaker 1>there is a plan between Rock and Brian Gowertz that

<v Speaker 1>when the time is right, they have positioned themselves where

<v Speaker 1>if the axe ever falls on Levec, like Levec and Bruce,

<v Speaker 1>even to the extent that Rock could be involved in

<v Speaker 1>the process. I don't see Rock sitting in the chair

<v Speaker 1>every week at Gorilla like Triple H does, but Rock

<v Speaker 1>and Gorts will move into that spot like their influence

<v Speaker 1>will will increase and they will effectively be running things.

<v Speaker 1>I do believe that Doctor Scorpio says, to quote Alan Iverson,

<v Speaker 1>We're not talking about wrestling. We're not talking about Mania.

<v Speaker 1>We're talking about Pat McAfee. How silly is that man?

<v Speaker 1>Not wrestling, We're talking about celebrities like Paton McAfee. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>it's celebrity media every week. They should just start their

<v Speaker 1>own little side promotion like NXT weill with nothing but celebrities,

<v Speaker 1>you know, and people who want to get in the

<v Speaker 1>ring and you know, pretend to be wrestler for a match.

<v Speaker 1>Then they can go back to their social media channel

<v Speaker 1>or their Twitch or whatever, and they can vlog about

<v Speaker 1>it and they can tweet about it. WWE would love

<v Speaker 1>that the Meil Slayer. At this point, I'm dialing back

<v Speaker 1>my WWE intake until Kevin Owens returns. Unfortunately, it takes

<v Speaker 1>more than one guy for the product itself to improve.

<v Speaker 1>It does, and it really starts from the top and

<v Speaker 1>the vision of whoever that person is. There's nothing, like,

<v Speaker 1>there's no creativity, there's nothing. I mean, there's the same

<v Speaker 1>shit over and over again. I feel like that's one

<v Speaker 1>of the reasons I really took to Lucha Underground many

<v Speaker 1>years ago. I mean, you guys know if you listen

<v Speaker 1>to the sound off for any number of years. I

<v Speaker 1>was reviewing every episode of all four or five seasons

<v Speaker 1>whatever it was, every week, and I loved it. Like

<v Speaker 1>it was just it was different. You know. You had

<v Speaker 1>the cinematic stuff in between the way it was filmed

<v Speaker 1>and the characters. Then you had these kick ass matches,

<v Speaker 1>but it was a different concept. It was a different

<v Speaker 1>concept that worked, and nobody is being different. It's all

<v Speaker 1>the same shit. Mystic Jay, with everything that they've been

<v Speaker 1>doing as of late tonight, actually has me looking more

<v Speaker 1>forward to Stand and Deliver than Mania. I feel like

<v Speaker 1>these nxtpls are usually pretty good, so you're probably not

<v Speaker 1>alone in feeling that way. Devin from NJ will Jade

<v Speaker 1>retain at Mania to establish her new heel faction? I

<v Speaker 1>think it's less about the faction and more just about

<v Speaker 1>they're not ready to take the belt off of Jade.

<v Speaker 1>Do I think she's going to retain at Mania? Yes?

<v Speaker 1>I do. I'm also not sure they want to keep

<v Speaker 1>Riha on SmackDown, so if she loses, she may well

<v Speaker 1>go back to Raw Super Pony. I know this has

<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with any of it, but it is

<v Speaker 1>funny how as soon as Owens went away for his

<v Speaker 1>neck surgery, the product went downhill and draws a straight

<v Speaker 1>line from one to the other. He is missed on

<v Speaker 1>this show. He is definitely missed. Hank I discovered Billy

<v Speaker 1>Jack Haynes because of you. Is there a more tragic downfall?

<v Speaker 1>The story of it? The forty five minute shootout is wild. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>there have been tons of tragic stories in wrestling and

<v Speaker 1>downfall to look at the fucking von Eric family. Billy

<v Speaker 1>Jack is not even close to being the most tragic

<v Speaker 1>downfall in wrestling. Larry Jester, what do you see Elton

<v Speaker 1>Prince doing upon his return? My sense is that Elton

<v Speaker 1>Prince is if he's able to come back, is not

<v Speaker 1>going to be back for a very long time, So

<v Speaker 1>it is impossible to say whether he will get a

<v Speaker 1>singles push. I think that the idea would be to

<v Speaker 1>put pretty Deadly back together, unless Kit Wilson is just

<v Speaker 1>so super over and catches fire as a singles in

<v Speaker 1>a way that he hasn't yet that they don't want

<v Speaker 1>to do that, I would think we get a pretty

<v Speaker 1>deadly reunion. It's what I think we have. The Meal

<v Speaker 1>Slayer on a more positive note. It's so cool to

<v Speaker 1>see Dan House and win over the WWE audience, especially

<v Speaker 1>when you consider how hard it can be to please us.

<v Speaker 1>I always felt like he was a much better fit

<v Speaker 1>for WWE than he was for AW Like, I never

<v Speaker 1>felt like he would fail. Like he just seems like

<v Speaker 1>the kind of person even if Vince was still in charge.

<v Speaker 1>He feels like the kind of goofy comedy character that

<v Speaker 1>he would love. I feel like if Vince were still

<v Speaker 1>in charge, we would have even more Dan Howe, Like

<v Speaker 1>he'd have Dan House in a like seven or eight

<v Speaker 1>different segments on the show doing just the stupidest shit.

<v Speaker 1>But he just fits into that sports entertainment, you know,

<v Speaker 1>genre that WWE has sort of cornered. But it's good

<v Speaker 1>to see him finding success. Jimmy Fingers says how much

<v Speaker 1>wrestling knowledge could have had dropping on Randy to give

<v Speaker 1>him the edge to beat Cody or do you think

<v Speaker 1>it was punting advice? This is so bad that I

<v Speaker 1>am just going to think it is a swerve. I

<v Speaker 1>don't believe it's a swerve. I'm sorry to say the

<v Speaker 1>Meil Slayer. I'll never forgive WWE for axing the network.

<v Speaker 1>It was so convenient and easy to use. Yeah, the

<v Speaker 1>network actually just shut down for good this past week.

<v Speaker 1>It was still available in certain countries and now it

<v Speaker 1>is officially dead. Rest in peace, WWE Network, You will

<v Speaker 1>be missed. Ohm too cool. At this point, I would

<v Speaker 1>much rather stick to the Vault channels. I am done

<v Speaker 1>with modern wrestling. Cameron Spencer, be honest with me. How

<v Speaker 1>long do I have to wade for my boy Omas

<v Speaker 1>to be a world champion? Well put it this way, Cameron,

<v Speaker 1>you will be dead before Omas is a world champion

<v Speaker 1>in WWE. You will not be among the living anymore.

<v Speaker 1>None of us will. We will all be long gone.

<v Speaker 1>Omas probably will be too, I'm sorry to say. Kung

<v Speaker 1>Fu Joseph, My Mariners won tonight. Haven't felt this pump

<v Speaker 1>for a season since I was a kid. Well, congrats,

<v Speaker 1>Larry Jester. Do you think they would give Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>a mid or tag team title? No? Why would you

<v Speaker 1>bring that up? No titles for the celebrities, Jeremy Rose.

<v Speaker 1>If Rock is in charge, who's sitting with the headsets

<v Speaker 1>on in Gorilla? Rikishi, Brian Gowartz? And then he would

<v Speaker 1>bring in his own team, his own people, The Meal Slayer.

<v Speaker 1>Were you ever a fan of the Resident Evil games.

<v Speaker 1>If so, what's your favorite? Mine is the original Ari

<v Speaker 1>four from two thousand and five. I was a fan

<v Speaker 1>of the original game, and I played the second game

<v Speaker 1>until the dog Doberman whatever the hell it was, came

<v Speaker 1>through the window and I said, peace out. I'm done. Well,

<v Speaker 1>first I shrieked like a girl, and then I said

<v Speaker 1>I'm done. And that was Resident Evil too, and I

<v Speaker 1>never went back. I haven't seen any of the movies,

<v Speaker 1>either believe it or not. I feel like I would

<v Speaker 1>love those movies. I don't know why I've never seen one,

<v Speaker 1>and Arabia nine two thousand, Mellow Ilia, Julia, and even

<v Speaker 1>Black being left off WrestleMania is a slap in the

<v Speaker 1>face to the young core. Triple H doesn't deserve talent

<v Speaker 1>with a strong work rate. Fuck Triple H. Well tell

<v Speaker 1>us how you really feel. You gotta be honest with

<v Speaker 1>your feelings. Here a JB five with a pair of

<v Speaker 1>super chats, thank you, no message and Lexus Nexus. Oh man.

<v Speaker 1>I used to use that all the time when I

<v Speaker 1>was working in public relations. We had a subscription to

<v Speaker 1>it and everything. Lexus Nexus. You can look up old

<v Speaker 1>newspaper and magazine articles going back decades, TKO expect yearly increases,

<v Speaker 1>not annual decline. Would it be fair to assume that

<v Speaker 1>meetings are being held about the efficiency of Triple H

<v Speaker 1>in that role? Well, I mean perhaps, but let's not

<v Speaker 1>leave out Nick Con. You know, he's the president of

<v Speaker 1>the company. So can you put all of that on

<v Speaker 1>Triple H or should those conversations be held about Nick

<v Speaker 1>Con as well? Although Nick Con has a track record

<v Speaker 1>of helping this company make a hell of a lot

<v Speaker 1>more money than Triple H as I mean, just the

<v Speaker 1>media rights money alone, that Nick Con was responsible for

<v Speaker 1>helping bring in, I think it's a lot more likely

<v Speaker 1>Triple H would be gone before Nick Con would be

<v Speaker 1>I think that's why Vince hired Nick Conn in the

<v Speaker 1>first place. I think he was instrumental in their media

<v Speaker 1>rights deals in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, and I think

<v Speaker 1>Vince was so impressed he said, why don't you come

<v Speaker 1>work for me? And that's how he got the job.

<v Speaker 1>And to see his ascent over the last five or

<v Speaker 1>six years is it's pretty incredible. JB five says CINDI

<v Speaker 1>lauper face palming so hard. You talk about people who

<v Speaker 1>should be in the Hall of Fame. How the hell

<v Speaker 1>is she not in the Hall of Fame And she's

<v Speaker 1>already admitted in the past she was never invited, so

<v Speaker 1>and he kind of rumors about her saying no or

<v Speaker 1>declining her all bullshit. She's doing a residency in Las

<v Speaker 1>Vegas this year. Her residency in Vegas starts the week

<v Speaker 1>after WrestleMania. Like, of all the years, you put Dennis

<v Speaker 1>Rodman in this year instead of Cindy Lauper. Could do

<v Speaker 1>Dennis Rodman in the next year two years from now.

<v Speaker 1>You could do Dennis Rodman when WrestleMania eventually goes to

<v Speaker 1>North Korea. This year should have been Cindy Lauper. Could

<v Speaker 1>have Kim John Gunn do the induction for Dennis Rodman.

<v Speaker 1>They're like best buds and my face for it tactical

<v Speaker 1>butt cheek with the nine to ninety nine. It took

<v Speaker 1>me a few months, but I finally saved enough to

<v Speaker 1>send this super chat. How are you, Sola Monster? See

<v Speaker 1>you in another few months when I save enough for

<v Speaker 1>another super chat. Sola Monster is the goat. I haven't

<v Speaker 1>heard from you in a while. I was hoping everything

<v Speaker 1>was okay, but I appreciate the support I'm doing. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>I've had better nights when it comes to these television shows.

<v Speaker 1>This one was god awful tonight. But then I get

<v Speaker 1>to spend time with all of you and we get

<v Speaker 1>to entertain each other, so it's all good. We get

<v Speaker 1>to entertain each other. With the well over twenty two

<v Speaker 1>to twenty three hundred we had earlier, we still have

<v Speaker 1>two thousand here and two fifteen in the morning with

<v Speaker 1>two thousand of you, we all get to commiserate together.

<v Speaker 1>But you guys also got two rounds of be the

<v Speaker 1>booker because you killed it on the likes O seven

<v Speaker 1>hundred was the goal. We are currently at nine twenty four.

<v Speaker 1>We actually, we should be able to do a thousand

<v Speaker 1>likes live before I end the live stream. We got

<v Speaker 1>over two thousand in here still, so let's try to

<v Speaker 1>hit a thousand likes. How about that. In the meantime,

<v Speaker 1>while you guys work on that, let's be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Let's work on this. We got two rounds to book

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna make a guarantee right now. Okay, you could

<v Speaker 1>tell I'm a baby face, because I don't make guarantees

<v Speaker 1>that I can't keep. I guarantee you I'm gonna book

<v Speaker 1>between these two cards a better show for you than

<v Speaker 1>wwe did tonight. I know it's a low bar. The

<v Speaker 1>bar is in hell, but I make that vow to you.

<v Speaker 1>We've already won. We've already won. We have Terry Gordy

<v Speaker 1>and Doctor Death Steve Williams. For those of you who

<v Speaker 1>don't know, maybe you're a little young, or you're a

<v Speaker 1>newer fan. These two, while they had very established singles careers,

<v Speaker 1>they were a tag team in Japan especially, but they

<v Speaker 1>were a tag team called the Miracle Violence Connection. They

<v Speaker 1>were a great tag team and they are one of

<v Speaker 1>the new editions to be the bookers. So I'm glad

<v Speaker 1>we landed on them. We need a celebrityund oh, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, you know what, You're not wrong. I'm going

<v Speaker 1>to write that down. I know I still have to

<v Speaker 1>add the managers. I have so many ideas, I just

<v Speaker 1>haven't had time to get to them all. Well, there's

<v Speaker 1>a lot of new editions and rounds that are going

<v Speaker 1>to be added to be the booker. I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>take that under advice. Maybe if it's not a we

<v Speaker 1>may have to add them to the actual be the

<v Speaker 1>booker as far as celebrities that have appeared anyway, Miracle

<v Speaker 1>Violence Connection, oh man, I was like, this has got

<v Speaker 1>to be a guaranteed bell, and then we land on

<v Speaker 1>the bushwack. But you know what, I'm gonna give it

<v Speaker 1>the bell anyway because I feel like watching the Miracle

<v Speaker 1>Violence Connection, do really mean horrible violent things to the

<v Speaker 1>Bushwhackers would be fun? And if it was the Sheepherders,

<v Speaker 1>so not the cartoony bushwhackers that Vince McMahon came up with.

<v Speaker 1>I think actually the sheep Herders and the Miracle Violence Connection,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, you talk about a violent match that's gonna

<v Speaker 1>get violent and bloody. That would be a great match.

<v Speaker 1>See if you only watched WWE, you never got to

<v Speaker 1>see the Sheepherders. I didn't either, or until many years later,

<v Speaker 1>So I had no idea that these guys would go

<v Speaker 1>around in like blood baths and everything we have. Mommy

<v Speaker 1>is mad. Pick a stipulation to make her happy. Man,

<v Speaker 1>I was saving that for the second round, but I

<v Speaker 1>guess we got to pick a stipulation right now, all right,

<v Speaker 1>we need a stipulation for our women's match, It's going

<v Speaker 1>to be a women's fight pit. Has there ever been

<v Speaker 1>a women's fight pit? The answer is no, I cannot

<v Speaker 1>recall there being a women's fight pit, but there's about

<v Speaker 1>to be, and Tessa Blanchard is going to be one

<v Speaker 1>of the participants inside the fight pit. Who is Tessa

<v Speaker 1>going to be locked in the fight pit with? Find out?

<v Speaker 1>This is exciting. Tessa Blanchard in the fight pit, locked

<v Speaker 1>in with Carmela. I mean, this could have gone so

<v Speaker 1>many different ways, but well we'll settle with Carmela. And

<v Speaker 1>the main event for Night one of a buy one,

<v Speaker 1>get one free extravaganza, Dude Love. Dude Love is in

<v Speaker 1>our main event. Dude Love had a hell of a

<v Speaker 1>pay per view made event with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying, Dude Love and Kota Ibushi. I'm giving

<v Speaker 1>that the bell. This is this is prime Ibushi right here.

<v Speaker 1>This is murder Ibushi. Now think about the things that

<v Speaker 1>he Boushi dies, how crazy this guy is, and think

<v Speaker 1>of how crazy Foley is. What would a Mick Foley,

<v Speaker 1>Coda and Bushie match have looked like? Would they even survive?

<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure somebody might die in that match. I'm

<v Speaker 1>pretty sure at least one of them would die. But

<v Speaker 1>now we get round two, and as you know, round

<v Speaker 1>two we do stipulations for all the matches. So let

<v Speaker 1>us find out what our stipulation. Our first stipulation is

<v Speaker 1>going to be. It is going to be an eye

<v Speaker 1>for an eye match. This is taking us back to

<v Speaker 1>the covid era eye for an eye, an eye for

<v Speaker 1>an eye tag team match. It's a little strange, but okay,

<v Speaker 1>somebody's losing an eye shouting Benjamin in Charlie has the

<v Speaker 1>world's greatest tag team on one side of the ring

<v Speaker 1>and on the other with your drum rolls for all

<v Speaker 1>three matches, top flight and the world's greatest tag team.

<v Speaker 1>Eye or an eye, Darius Martin, he's going to be

<v Speaker 1>wearing an eye patch. I've chosen you, Darius. You are

<v Speaker 1>losing an eye. We'll get you fitted for a patch.

<v Speaker 1>You'll be good to go. Our women's stipulation mimosa mayhem.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure there's some ladies on this list here that

<v Speaker 1>like a good mimosa. Sure the Bella twins are in

<v Speaker 1>here somewhere, So let's find out who the two women

<v Speaker 1>will be in Mimosa Mayhem, Beyonce bel Air. She's all

<v Speaker 1>healed up, the knuckle is healed. She's back. We got

<v Speaker 1>her back in the ring, Mimosa Mayhem and Tiffany Stratton,

<v Speaker 1>Bianca bel Air and Tiffany Stratton, Mimosa Mayhem. There it

<v Speaker 1>is for the WWE Women's Championship. That's a big match.

<v Speaker 1>That is a big match. The Mimosa Whip. Oh my god.

<v Speaker 1>You know, for all the noise that the braid makes,

<v Speaker 1>imagine if it was wet and then you took that

<v Speaker 1>braid and you smack somebody right across the flesh with it.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, that make it worse. All right, ladies

<v Speaker 1>and gentlemen. In our main event to night, CM punk

<v Speaker 1>is going to be the special referee, So this should

<v Speaker 1>be very interesting. Now depending on who we land on.

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk is going to be the referee and on

<v Speaker 1>one side of the ring El Grande Americano. Hm, oh,

<v Speaker 1>this is this is unfair. CM Punk is going to

<v Speaker 1>be the special referee for a Kevin Nash match. O MG,

<v Speaker 1>I thought you were dead L O L. I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>give it the bell because I think this would be

<v Speaker 1>very entertaining Kevin and El Grande Americano with CM Punk

<v Speaker 1>as the special guest referee. There's a history there. There's

<v Speaker 1>a history there. They never did have their singles match.

<v Speaker 1>I'm going with El Grande. I think El Grande is

<v Speaker 1>gonna pull out the win here. That's what I think. Now. See,

<v Speaker 1>I defy you to tell me that that wasn't more

<v Speaker 1>entertaining than that shit show we had on USA Network tonight,

<v Speaker 1>or for me anyway, as I was watching it on Netflix,

<v Speaker 1>so I didn't have any of the commercials. I got

<v Speaker 1>to see all that was going on during the commercial

<v Speaker 1>breaks with my trust the Express VPN cheap Plug, Punk

<v Speaker 1>and a fast count Nash in the match. Oh wait, no, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>do we have Was it a sweep? Oh? It was

<v Speaker 1>a sweep? There you go. I watched. I watched it.

<v Speaker 1>I watched it suck. I do, I do? I watched

<v Speaker 1>it happens to the best of us. You got your

<v Speaker 1>clean sweep. Thank you guys for hanging out with me

<v Speaker 1>here on a Friday nights. And we had well north

<v Speaker 1>of two thousand in here tonight, so you could tell

<v Speaker 1>people were very animated, very upset. People are usually very

<v Speaker 1>happy or very angry when they all pile in at once,

<v Speaker 1>maybe forty one eighty one, trying to get the last

<v Speaker 1>word in here on the road to WrestleMania minus zero?

<v Speaker 1>Any chance that will be the sign hanging on your wall.

<v Speaker 1>You'll notice there's no sign this year. I usually have

<v Speaker 1>the WrestleMania sign right there in the corner, and I

<v Speaker 1>had I don't know, I had a sinking suspicion, a

<v Speaker 1>sneaking is it's sinking. Yeah, it's a sinking ship this

<v Speaker 1>fucking company, A sneaking suspicion about this WrestleMania not being

<v Speaker 1>up to snuff. Maybe that's why I didn't put the

<v Speaker 1>sign up this year. Yeah, WrestleMania minus zero. That sounds

<v Speaker 1>about right. Oh my god, is that demean It is Demeter.

<v Speaker 1>That is Demeter Bullion who just dropped a super chat.

<v Speaker 1>Usually don't see Demeter Bullion around these parts, but there

<v Speaker 1>he is. No message though, no wild message. Demeter Bullion.

<v Speaker 1>Doggie shout out to him, and super Pony says, the

<v Speaker 1>Strokes are the greatest band of all time. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>stalling you so to catch you to a thousand likes. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we almost made it. We fell short. You have failed me.

<v Speaker 1>We got to nine hundred and eighty six likes. We

<v Speaker 1>came close, though it'll have to It'll have to happen

<v Speaker 1>later tonight we will pass a thousand likes. Thank you,

<v Speaker 1>guys though for all the support tonight, I appreciate it.

<v Speaker 1>I hope you guys at least enjoyed the stream, even

<v Speaker 1>if you didn't enjoy SmackDown. I am going to be

<v Speaker 1>live again with you on Monday. That will be for

<v Speaker 1>the Raw post show. It is impossible to conceive of

<v Speaker 1>Raw being worse than this SmackDown show. Tonight. I'm gonna watch.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna try to watch stand and deliver tomorrow night.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna go live, but if I watch it,

<v Speaker 1>I will give you my thoughts and review on the SoundOff,

<v Speaker 1>along with my dynamite thoughts and the return of Chris Jericho,

<v Speaker 1>and we'll talk WWE and whatever else I feel like

<v Speaker 1>talking about. That'll be episode nine point fifty eight of

<v Speaker 1>the sound Off that'll be coming up on Sunday, So

<v Speaker 1>that is what you have to look forward to. Be well.

<v Speaker 1>Stay safe, Luis Demeter, thank you for that second super chat.

<v Speaker 1>Louis says, anyone else had a brief blackout here in

<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles just a few minutes ago. Well, I'll let

<v Speaker 1>other people answer that because I'm not in Los Angeles.

<v Speaker 1>I will be in Los Angeles on May first, but

<v Speaker 1>I am not there now, so I cannot answer that question.

<v Speaker 1>I got a trip to Las Vegas, and then I

<v Speaker 1>got a trip to La coming up. Within the next month.

<v Speaker 1>We're going to be doing some traveling, and then we're

<v Speaker 1>about to announce another show elsewhere coming up in June.

<v Speaker 1>More on that soon. Oh we hit a thousand now

<v Speaker 1>that deserves a yes. Chance, we hit a thousand likes.

<v Speaker 1>Look at that. Yes, sons of bitches, you did it.

<v Speaker 1>You did it. Now I gotta do I'm gonna do

<v Speaker 1>the SmackDown review all over again from the beginning. Here

<v Speaker 1>we go. So it opened with Randy Ort Yeah, fuck

<v Speaker 1>that shit. I'll see you guys back for the sound

<v Speaker 1>off on Sunday, and then we're aw live on Monday night.

<v Speaker 1>Until then, take care, guys,