<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there have been times over the years. I've been

<v Speaker 1>watching WWEE television for a very long time, and there

<v Speaker 1>have been many occasions over the years where I have

<v Speaker 1>been embarrassed to watch this television show, whether it be Rawsmackdown,

<v Speaker 1>whatever it may be. You know, Katie Vick for example,

<v Speaker 1>comes to mind. That's sort of at the top of

<v Speaker 1>the list, right, Katie Vick. That doesn't really get any

<v Speaker 1>worse than that. There's been some bad, god awful television

<v Speaker 1>over the years. I don't know that I have ever

<v Speaker 1>seen a segment as embarrassing, just on all levels as

<v Speaker 1>the one that we saw tonight on this SmackDown show.

<v Speaker 1>I really don't when you really take everything together collectively,

<v Speaker 1>like when you consider what the segment was, when you

<v Speaker 1>consider that this was a segment that was promoting a

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania main event, We're not just talking about some random program.

<v Speaker 1>We're not talking about some random feud, We're not talking

<v Speaker 1>about some random pl main event. We're talking about one

<v Speaker 1>of the WrestleMania main events which has been hijacked, hijacked

<v Speaker 1>by an outsider being brought in for reasons that have

<v Speaker 1>absolutely nothing to do with the story that was being told.

<v Speaker 1>Between the two men that are actually in the main event,

<v Speaker 1>because that's really what's happened here, right, whoever you want

<v Speaker 1>to lay the blame on for this, This main event,

<v Speaker 1>which was going along, you know, perfectly fine, was hijacked

<v Speaker 1>and now it has turned into something completely I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I don't even recognize what this match is. I don't

<v Speaker 1>even recognize what this match between Cody Rhodes and Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton at WrestleMania is supposed to be. I really don't.

<v Speaker 1>But I'm watching this segment and like the word embarrassed,

<v Speaker 1>the word pathetic comes to mind. They were trying so

<v Speaker 1>hard tonight to sell tickets to a show that is

<v Speaker 1>not sold out. And the reason we know this is

<v Speaker 1>because they have beaten us over the head with it

<v Speaker 1>over the past week on their own television show. They

<v Speaker 1>did it last Friday, they did it on Monday, they

<v Speaker 1>did it again tonight. WrestleMania is not sold out, and

<v Speaker 1>so to incorporate this, I mean, what they did last

<v Speaker 1>week was bad enough, but to continue to incorporate that

<v Speaker 1>into the story and do what they did tonight was

<v Speaker 1>sheer desperation on the part of this company, the likes

<v Speaker 1>of which I cannot ever, recall seeing as we build

<v Speaker 1>to a WrestleMania main event, like I've seen some bad

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania builds before, to a main event, nothing like what

<v Speaker 1>we saw tonight. This was a truly historic night here

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown. And I'm not even talking about the fact

<v Speaker 1>that you know, we've talked about SmackDown just as the

<v Speaker 1>drizzling diarrhea shits right now. It is the worst show

<v Speaker 1>on television, certainly in terms of wrestling shows, the worst

<v Speaker 1>show on television. But just watching Pat McAfee out there

<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the ring doing his shtick, you know,

<v Speaker 1>which is what he is being told to do. This

<v Speaker 1>is not even a personal on Pat McAfee. The funny

<v Speaker 1>thing about all of this is that Pat McAfee, up

<v Speaker 1>until last week was actually a beloved figure by and

<v Speaker 1>large by the WWE audience. You know, he had been there,

<v Speaker 1>he had been commentator, he had been on television for

<v Speaker 1>a number of years, and I think by and large

<v Speaker 1>the audience they respected him, They liked him. They could

<v Speaker 1>plug him in wherever they needed him, like they did

<v Speaker 1>last year with that match with gunthri if they needed

<v Speaker 1>a you know, a babyface to plug in there and

<v Speaker 1>so now they've they've taken someone who the fans previously

<v Speaker 1>liked and they said, okay, we're going to make you

<v Speaker 1>a heal now. And now the fans are, you know,

<v Speaker 1>shitting all over him. Okay, fine, I guess, but he

<v Speaker 1>is now the focal point of WrestleMania this year. I

<v Speaker 1>want you to think about that. Pat McAfee is the

<v Speaker 1>focal point for WrestleMania. And this is where we are

<v Speaker 1>right now. Now. They had an opportunity after last week

<v Speaker 1>because we know this is the this is something that

<v Speaker 1>was run up the flag pole. This goes higher than

<v Speaker 1>WWE creative, right, We've heard all the stories over the

<v Speaker 1>past week. We know where this originates from. This goes

<v Speaker 1>beyond anybody in the writer's room. This goes beyond just

<v Speaker 1>the creative brain trust in WWE. But even still ari

<v Speaker 1>Emanuel himself. They had a week to look at the

<v Speaker 1>situation and abort mission. To abort the mission, you can

<v Speaker 1>still push ticket sales, you can still lower ticket prices

<v Speaker 1>and push ticket sales. You could do all of that

<v Speaker 1>stuff if you want to. But they had a week

<v Speaker 1>to look at this and go, Okay, we see the reaction.

<v Speaker 1>We see that people have been shitting all over this

<v Speaker 1>all week long, and yes, last week's show apparently did

<v Speaker 1>better ratings than SmackDown has done in a very long time,

<v Speaker 1>which is not surprising because they had advertise coming into

<v Speaker 1>the show that we would get the reveal for the

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton phone call angles, so of course nobody knew

<v Speaker 1>what the reveal was going to be, but they built

<v Speaker 1>this up over a period of weeks. I'm not at

<v Speaker 1>all surprised to find out that last week was a

<v Speaker 1>highly rated episode of SmackDown. Even still, there was still

<v Speaker 1>time for them to abandon ship and salvage this WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>main event that they had been building between Cody Roads

<v Speaker 1>and Randy Orton. And it would have been as simple

<v Speaker 1>as Randy Orton coming out this week because the man

<v Speaker 1>is a viper, the man is a snake, and Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee's out there acting like a fool and he gets

<v Speaker 1>you dropped with an RKO. Never trust the snake, and

<v Speaker 1>we could all just forget that any of this shit

<v Speaker 1>ever happened. Now. Of course, what that would have accomplished

<v Speaker 1>is it would have put Randy Orton in a position

<v Speaker 1>to be cheered even more than he was already being cheered,

<v Speaker 1>so they didn't do that. Instead, they doubled down on

<v Speaker 1>what we saw last week. They didn't read the room,

<v Speaker 1>and we ended up what we ended up with tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee coming into the show promised a massive surprise,

<v Speaker 1>massive surprise. Now, of course, you should know better than

<v Speaker 1>to trust WWE when it comes to any sort of

<v Speaker 1>massive surprise or any sort of mystery angle that they

<v Speaker 1>may be doing in terms of what the payoff might be.

<v Speaker 1>And if you were left disappointed tonight, then you have

<v Speaker 1>nobody to blame for that but yourself. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck you've been paying attention to. This is

<v Speaker 1>WWE that we're talking about here. What did you expect? Truly,

<v Speaker 1>what did you expect tonight? The big surprise to be

<v Speaker 1>the rock Give me a break, But he promised a

<v Speaker 1>massive surprise for this show. Do you want to know

<v Speaker 1>what that surprise was? Would you like to know what

<v Speaker 1>the massive surprise was for SmackDown tonight? Pat McAfee, in

<v Speaker 1>the course of his promo, mentioned that Ram Trucks the

<v Speaker 1>official sponsor of WrestleMania. He made a phone call to

<v Speaker 1>Ram Trucks and he got them to agree to cover

<v Speaker 1>twenty five percent of all night one only only Night

<v Speaker 1>one WrestleMania tickets that are purchased from now up until

<v Speaker 1>the end of Raw this Monday night. And as soon

<v Speaker 1>as he said it, men, they couldn't get that fucking

<v Speaker 1>graphic up on that screen quick enough twenty five percent off.

<v Speaker 1>So hey, the good news is that if you would

<v Speaker 1>like to go to WrestleMania, they did, in fact drop

<v Speaker 1>ticket prices, because now you've got twenty five percent off

<v Speaker 1>for WrestleMania Saturday now through Monday. Get your tickets now.

<v Speaker 1>So for everybody who wants to be there live to

<v Speaker 1>witness Pat McAfee against Cody or Randy Orton against Cody Rhodes,

<v Speaker 1>I presume with Pat McAfee in his corner at ringside,

<v Speaker 1>because he's in the graphic. In fact, the graphic for

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown tonight, I'm convinced they're trolling us at this point.

<v Speaker 1>The preview graphic for SmackDown Tonight had Cody Rhodes and

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee and Randy Orton was literally relegated to the background.

<v Speaker 1>He has been relegated, And if you watch the television

<v Speaker 1>show tonight, it actually makes all the sense in the

<v Speaker 1>world because Randy Orton was a background player tonight. He

<v Speaker 1>was in the background. We were one week away from WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>One half of the WrestleMania main event is now a

<v Speaker 1>bit player in the background. The real players here are

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee and Cody Rhodes. That is what this has become.

<v Speaker 1>But that was the big surprise tonight. The majority of

<v Speaker 1>the people who were watching this television show all over

<v Speaker 1>the country and all over the world, they're not even

<v Speaker 1>attending this fucking event. But boy, they made sure that

<v Speaker 1>you knew they were twenty five percent off for all

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania Night one tickets. Thanks Ram, ram it up your ass.

<v Speaker 1>That was the big surprise tonight for those of you

<v Speaker 1>who are wondering what it was. But that wasn't the

<v Speaker 1>only surprise that we got. Oh no, wwe was full

<v Speaker 1>of surprises tonight because Jelly Roll was back on the show. Now,

<v Speaker 1>the last time we saw jelly Roll was a couple

<v Speaker 1>of weeks ago. He got dropped with an RKO by

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton. And I told you last week. I said,

<v Speaker 1>don't be surprised. Don't be surprised if the main event

<v Speaker 1>of Backlash turns out to be a tag team match

<v Speaker 1>with Randy Orton and Pat McAfee against Cody Rhodes and

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll and now Dave Meltzer and The Observer this

<v Speaker 1>week had that very report that the current plan for

<v Speaker 1>Backlash on May ninth, which I believe is in Tampa,

<v Speaker 1>is to do a tag team match with Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>and Jelly Roll against Randy Orton and Pat McAfee. The

<v Speaker 1>same Pat McAfee who reiterated tonight that if Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>does not leave Las Vegas as the WWE champion, that he,

<v Speaker 1>being McAfee, will never again appear on wrestling television, which

<v Speaker 1>would seem to telegraph the outcome of the main event

<v Speaker 1>of Night one. So Jelly Roll was back on the

<v Speaker 1>show and he was angry. Oh, he was very angry.

<v Speaker 1>He was very angry. He wanted to get his hands

<v Speaker 1>on Randy Orton for what he did. He literally put

<v Speaker 1>his hands on Pat McAfee. They're building a few between

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll and Pat McAfee. Yes, And in fact, at

<v Speaker 1>the end of the segment with Pat McAfee and Cody Rose,

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton finally popped up on the tron about five

<v Speaker 1>hours after the fucking promo started and we see Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton and he had off camera. He had assaulted Jelly Roll,

<v Speaker 1>he had laid him out. Evidently, this is supposed to

<v Speaker 1>get heat because they're trying to get Randy Orton booed.

<v Speaker 1>Do you know what they accomplished tonight, Randy Orton? They

<v Speaker 1>accomplished one thing. Randy Orton is no longer getting cheered,

<v Speaker 1>at least he wasn't tonight in San Jose, So good job, guys.

<v Speaker 1>But guess what, Randy Orton barely got any kind of

<v Speaker 1>reaction at all, whatsoever. He went from getting overwhelming sheers

<v Speaker 1>and these great ovations when he would come out because

<v Speaker 1>the people wanted to see him win number fifteen at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and he comes out tonight and he gets nothing, nothing,

<v Speaker 1>He gets no reaction. You know who's getting all the

<v Speaker 1>heat right now, Pat McAfee is getting all the heat.

<v Speaker 1>And now what they've done is they've taken Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>He's coming out and the fans don't know what the

<v Speaker 1>fuck to think. So good job, guys, good job. And

<v Speaker 1>when the segment was over, guess who walked away with

<v Speaker 1>the WWE championship over his shoulder, not Randy Orton, not

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhoades, Pat McAfee, because he is now officially the

<v Speaker 1>center of attention here on this show. He is the center,

<v Speaker 1>the central focus of this story. I have nothing against

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee as a performer. He has been used in

<v Speaker 1>rolls before, even the Gunther stuff, which I didn't mind him. Pat. Look,

<v Speaker 1>he's done a good job with that stuff before. We've

<v Speaker 1>seen him play heel before many years ago in NXT

<v Speaker 1>if you remember, I think he was on one side.

<v Speaker 1>Adam Cole in the Undisputed Error were on the other side.

<v Speaker 1>We've seen him do this before. And I already saw

<v Speaker 1>some comments in the chat and in other places from

<v Speaker 1>people saying, oh, well, this is the reaction that Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee is talking about. He's talking about the IWC. He's

<v Speaker 1>getting everybody riled up. It's getting the reaction that it's

<v Speaker 1>desired to get. There are people who I swear to God,

<v Speaker 1>I swear to God, they will defend every fucking thing

<v Speaker 1>this company does until they're dying breadth. They will take

<v Speaker 1>that WWE cock and they will shove it down their

<v Speaker 1>throat until they fucking gag, and their dinner will be

<v Speaker 1>all over the fucking floor. They feel compelled to defend

<v Speaker 1>every move that this company makes. The point is not

<v Speaker 1>whether or not Pat McAfee goes out there and gets heat.

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee can go out there and get heat because

<v Speaker 1>he's annoying. Of course he can get heat. That's not

<v Speaker 1>the point. How do you not look at this and

<v Speaker 1>understand what the problem is though? How do you defend that?

<v Speaker 1>Don't you realize the real problem here is that you

<v Speaker 1>have taken the focus away from the two performers in

<v Speaker 1>the match. They are no longer the central focus of

<v Speaker 1>this match at WrestleMania. What WWWE has done in one week, okay,

<v Speaker 1>we now have two episodes of SmackDown in one week.

<v Speaker 1>They have ruined one of the main events of WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>And it started last week when Pat McAfee went out there.

<v Speaker 1>And again is part of this angle brilliant idea that

<v Speaker 1>they came up with, whether or not he was unscripted

<v Speaker 1>and they didn't know what he was gonna say. The

<v Speaker 1>fact is they sent him out there. They sent him

<v Speaker 1>out there, and he cut a promo in an effort

<v Speaker 1>to hype up WrestleMania talking about how everything sucks. Now

<v Speaker 1>it's one thing if I come on here every week

<v Speaker 1>and I tell you how everything sucks, because guess what,

<v Speaker 1>it fucking sucks. I'm not gonna come on here and

<v Speaker 1>lie to you. I'm telling you like it is. You

<v Speaker 1>watch the same fucking show that I don tell me

<v Speaker 1>I'm lying. You know, everything out of my mouth is

<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent true. Every time I come on here

<v Speaker 1>and talk about SmackDown, the worst television show right now

<v Speaker 1>going in all of wrestling. It's been this way for

<v Speaker 1>most of the year. It gets progressively worse week by week.

<v Speaker 1>I am not telling any lies when I talk about that,

<v Speaker 1>but it's one thing for me because I'm totally divorced

<v Speaker 1>from all of this. Right, I'm an independent party here.

<v Speaker 1>I have no connection to any of this shit. I

<v Speaker 1>can come on here and give my honest opinions. Very

<v Speaker 1>different when you have somebody go on the show and

<v Speaker 1>as part of your main event angle, he goes out

<v Speaker 1>there and says everything sucks, the product sucks, the roster sucks,

<v Speaker 1>the champion sucks, the show isn't sold out, and we're

<v Speaker 1>here to save wrestling. Right, everything's the shits, but we're

<v Speaker 1>here to save wrestling. You don't see the issue with this.

<v Speaker 1>How does that sell tickets? But what they've done is

<v Speaker 1>they've taken a match that I was genuinely looking forward to,

<v Speaker 1>and I've been waiting a few years to see WWE

<v Speaker 1>finally do this match, and they have managed to ruin it.

<v Speaker 1>They have taken a match that I was genuinely looking

<v Speaker 1>forward to seeing at WrestleMania for a long time. And

<v Speaker 1>now I find myself in a position where I sit

<v Speaker 1>here and I'm like, I just can't wait for this

<v Speaker 1>shit to be over with? Can we just get this

<v Speaker 1>over with? Can we fast forward to the end of

<v Speaker 1>this so we could be done with this? That's where

<v Speaker 1>I am right now in this for Cony Roads and

<v Speaker 1>Randy Yorton. Like, if you've listened to any of the

<v Speaker 1>shows I've done over the last couple of years, you've

<v Speaker 1>heard me talk about how man, I can't believe they

<v Speaker 1>haven't done this match yet. I can't believe it. I

<v Speaker 1>can't wait for them to finally do a proper story

<v Speaker 1>between these two. There's so much history there to build on,

<v Speaker 1>and now I find myself in a situation a week

<v Speaker 1>out where it's like, I just can't wait for this

<v Speaker 1>shit to be over with. That's fucking sad, and I

<v Speaker 1>guarantee you I'm not the only one to feel that way. Now,

<v Speaker 1>if you're somebody who actually likes what's going on, or

<v Speaker 1>you think, oh man, this is adding a level of

<v Speaker 1>excitement to WrestleMania that wasn't there before. Look, I'm not

<v Speaker 1>even shitting on you for that, Like, whatever the fuck

<v Speaker 1>you want to like, but don't sit here and tell

<v Speaker 1>me that, oh, well, you know, the IWC only hates

<v Speaker 1>it because they're getting worked, or the iw like, seriously,

<v Speaker 1>fuck off, seriously, fuck right off with that. You have

<v Speaker 1>to understand where these people who are watching this show

<v Speaker 1>are coming from when they talk about how awful and

<v Speaker 1>how counterproductive this angle is. That's set And by the way,

<v Speaker 1>besides all of that, let's put that all on the

<v Speaker 1>side here for a second. That segment tonight was fucking terrible.

<v Speaker 1>It was a fucking awful, awful, fucking segment, just objectively

<v Speaker 1>bad television. So it sucks that my interest level in

<v Speaker 1>this match has plunged into the depths of hell. At

<v Speaker 1>least we still have Roman Reigns in cmpunk on Night two.

<v Speaker 1>That's honestly the best thing I can say about it.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't announce officially the Jelly Roll is going to

<v Speaker 1>be at WrestleMania in Cody's corner, but it stands to

<v Speaker 1>reason that more than likely Jelly Roll will be a

<v Speaker 1>part of this main event in some way, to which

<v Speaker 1>I say, I don't give a shit. I don't give

<v Speaker 1>a shit. I can't wait for all of this shit

<v Speaker 1>to be over with. This is so like I'm watching

<v Speaker 1>this segment with him rolling down the window as McAfee

<v Speaker 1>is driving away out of the parking lot at the

<v Speaker 1>end of all this, and he's talking about Marx and

<v Speaker 1>he's talking about the IWC, and it's what I said

<v Speaker 1>last week. This is WCW two thousand levels of fucking

<v Speaker 1>russo bullshit, and that's not a good thing. It is.

<v Speaker 1>It is cringey, awful, tryhard television where they are trying

<v Speaker 1>to come off I guess as cool and inside, and

<v Speaker 1>they just they're trying. They're taking an approach that is

<v Speaker 1>just all wrong and was completely unnecessary and has made

<v Speaker 1>this match something where I kind of look away and

<v Speaker 1>I shudder. Now when I see him come out there

<v Speaker 1>and he's doing his shtick and he's I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know how he's cutting these promos, the way he enunciates

<v Speaker 1>certain words what we're talking about, running the ort, running

<v Speaker 1>in the art. Like I love those reports of Ari

<v Speaker 1>Emmanuel apparently thinking that he could be the next Sylvester stilllone.

<v Speaker 1>You've got a lot of work to do, buddy, on

<v Speaker 1>that front. I've never seen Pat McAfee act in anything

<v Speaker 1>in my life. But if these promos that he has

<v Speaker 1>cut so far are any indication this brother has a

<v Speaker 1>long way to go. It's gonna be a fucking struggle

<v Speaker 1>for this guy if you think he's gonna be your

<v Speaker 1>next big movie star. But we have to be subjected

<v Speaker 1>to this now on television every week because we get

<v Speaker 1>all these guys coming out here who are playing wrestler.

<v Speaker 1>Now you know they're coming out here. It's fantasy camp

<v Speaker 1>for them. WrestleMania main event this year is basically the

<v Speaker 1>fantasy Camp main event. And it's sad. It's sad, it's pathetic,

<v Speaker 1>and to see them basically groveling on television begging people

<v Speaker 1>to buy tickets to their show without realizing the reasons

<v Speaker 1>why people are not buying tickets to your show. People

<v Speaker 1>aren't buying tickets to your show because a, Yes, prices

<v Speaker 1>are elevated, and they're not willing to spend or they

<v Speaker 1>can't spend that kind of money on tickets to a

<v Speaker 1>show probably of any kind, let alone WrestleMania. But also,

<v Speaker 1>your show sucks right now. Your show is fucking terrible,

<v Speaker 1>and so who's going to spend four or five hundred

<v Speaker 1>dollars on nose bleed seats to go to your fucking

<v Speaker 1>terrible show? Like this is a terrible television program. They

<v Speaker 1>did nothing tonight on this show. Throughout all of the

<v Speaker 1>segments on this three hour program, even forgetting the Cody

<v Speaker 1>and Randy stuff, they did nothing on this show tonight

<v Speaker 1>that I can honestly think anybody who is not a

<v Speaker 1>pod person from another planet or a bot to get

<v Speaker 1>anybody legitimately excited any more so than they may have

<v Speaker 1>already been for WrestleMania, which should be the objective of

<v Speaker 1>these shows a week out from WrestleMania is to get

<v Speaker 1>people really hyped up and amped up. Man, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>I was kind of looking forward to WrestleMania, but now

<v Speaker 1>I can't wait for WrestleMania. The best thing I could

<v Speaker 1>say say about it, I can't wait for the train wreck.

<v Speaker 1>That's your WrestleMania hype for this year. Our main event

<v Speaker 1>tonight was Jade Cargill against Eo Sky. Eo Sky at

<v Speaker 1>the moment, has no match at WrestleMania. Now, maybe that'll

<v Speaker 1>change on Monday. There's a lot of balls that are

<v Speaker 1>hanging in the air right now. We don't know where

<v Speaker 1>they're gonna land. Maybe she'll end up with a match

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania. We were saying that last week about Carmelo Hayes.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe he'll end up with a match of WrestleMania. The

<v Speaker 1>answer to that, no, he'll have to wait until next year,

<v Speaker 1>so we know that already. Eo we don't know, but

<v Speaker 1>she had this may have been her WrestleMania main event tonight.

<v Speaker 1>She went one on one with Jade all in the

<v Speaker 1>furtherance of the story between Jade and Rhea and EO

<v Speaker 1>went in there and she lost. She lost clean to

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Women's Champion, and then we had a standoff

<v Speaker 1>between Rhea and Jade, and I looked at my clock

<v Speaker 1>and I said, huh, it's eleven O three. It's kind

<v Speaker 1>of out SmackDown getting an overrun. I don't want to

<v Speaker 1>watch the actual three hours of this show now, they're

<v Speaker 1>going into an overrun. No, we don't need more of this,

<v Speaker 1>We need less of this. We don't need more SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>Don't ever do that again. If Raw goes over, fine,

<v Speaker 1>but SmackDown absolutely not. We don't need to see that again.

<v Speaker 1>No overrun is necessary. The best thing I could say

<v Speaker 1>about this show tonight, if I try to be nice,

<v Speaker 1>The best thing I could say about this show. We

<v Speaker 1>finally got the debut, the television debut of Royce Keys.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why it took this long. We're a

<v Speaker 1>week out from WrestleMania. Now we get his debut on TV.

<v Speaker 1>But at least now he's on TV. And honestly, I

<v Speaker 1>think the reason we got him on TV this week

<v Speaker 1>is because he's winning the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle

<v Speaker 1>Royal next week. Otherwise, I don't know why they didn't

<v Speaker 1>just wait another two weeks. We're a week out from WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Why else would he debut tonight other than the fact, yes,

<v Speaker 1>they were in San Jose, which is basically his backyard.

<v Speaker 1>But I think he ought to be the winner in

<v Speaker 1>the Andre Battle Royal next week. Not that doesn't not

<v Speaker 1>that it means anything. Of course, it doesn't mean Jack's shit,

<v Speaker 1>but it would be a nice little feather in his cap.

<v Speaker 1>It would be something. It would be something. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>carmel O Hayes was on the show tonight. He did

<v Speaker 1>not wrestle He is not at WrestleMania. The Women's United

<v Speaker 1>States Championship will not be defended at WrestleMania. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know where Julia was. Tiffany Stratton, she went into WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>last year. I believe as the champion on SmackDown as

<v Speaker 1>EO did on Raw right now, both women. They have

<v Speaker 1>no match of WrestleMania and the tag team titles as

<v Speaker 1>far as the men goes, you know Ron SmackDown. Don't

<v Speaker 1>even get me started. We know the World Tag Team

<v Speaker 1>Champions on Raw. They have a match at WrestleMania. The

<v Speaker 1>titles are not on the line. Nobody gives a shit

<v Speaker 1>because the tag team division is dead on SmackDown. Damian

<v Speaker 1>Priest and Our Truth they are the tag team champions.

<v Speaker 1>Our Truth was on the show tonight, as was Damian Priest.

<v Speaker 1>They were in the back. Our Truth was the spokesperson

<v Speaker 1>for ESPN and he was doing his cringey little plug

<v Speaker 1>that they always have him do for all of the

<v Speaker 1>brain damage people apparently out there who have no idea

<v Speaker 1>how to use their phone and how to use the

<v Speaker 1>ESPN app. Got our truth there to show you. But

<v Speaker 1>of course, the WWE tag team titles, they are not

<v Speaker 1>defended at WrestleMania this year either because the tag team

<v Speaker 1>division is dead. Neither set. They have two sets of

<v Speaker 1>men's tag team titles, Neither of them are being defended

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. Neither of them should be defended at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>I have no issue with that. The women's US title.

<v Speaker 1>That's a shame because all of the other singles titles

<v Speaker 1>are on the line except that one. Let's talk about

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

<v Speaker 1>is Friday, April tenth, twenty twenty six. I am the

<v Speaker 1>Solemn Monster. Do me a favor like and subscribe. That

<v Speaker 1>would make me happy. Super chats are open as well.

<v Speaker 1>We have a bonus goal going on in the chat.

<v Speaker 1>As far as that goes, get them on in. You

<v Speaker 1>will see them popping up on your screen. Let me uh, oh,

<v Speaker 1>we're not going there yet. Let me bring up the wheel.

<v Speaker 1>The Wheel oh fun. See how many likes we need

<v Speaker 1>for it be the Booker tonight and then we're gonna

<v Speaker 1>get into this. Oh boy, just what I needed. That's

<v Speaker 1>what I needed. Thank you, Brandon. Three point fifty. We

<v Speaker 1>need three hundred and fifty likes. I'm pretty sure that

<v Speaker 1>we have already slammed past this. We were four forty one,

<v Speaker 1>so we are guaranteed at least one round of be

<v Speaker 1>the Booker tonight. I'm done with this show. I'm so

<v Speaker 1>done with this show. This show is so fucking bad.

<v Speaker 1>This show is so fucking bad. Like, I'm personally offended

<v Speaker 1>by how awful this television show is. I really am, Like,

<v Speaker 1>you have the talent that they have. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>how it's possible to put together a television show every

<v Speaker 1>single week that seems to get progressively worse like that

<v Speaker 1>takes a special talent, and I'm not really sure why

<v Speaker 1>that is the case. I'm not really sure why this

<v Speaker 1>is happening. But this show is awful. I will fight

<v Speaker 1>anybody who tries to defend this piece of shit show. Now,

<v Speaker 1>after recapping last week's terrible angle, they cut to Cody Rhodes.

<v Speaker 1>He is walking in through the parking lot and he

<v Speaker 1>encounters Nick All. This Cody wants to know where Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee is. I was hoping kidnapped him Bogata somewhere. But

<v Speaker 1>all this said, the McAfee wasn't here yet. But he

<v Speaker 1>warned Cody. He said, look, when he gets here, you're

<v Speaker 1>not allowed to put your hands on it him, no

<v Speaker 1>physical contact. He's under strict orders from above. This is

<v Speaker 1>above his head. So then fucking jelly Roll shows up

<v Speaker 1>out of nowhere. There he is, and he's all pissed

<v Speaker 1>off after what happened to him a couple of weeks ago,

<v Speaker 1>because the last time we saw him, he was dropped

<v Speaker 1>with an RKO. And so jelly Roll was looking for

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton and Pat McAfee and he was told the

<v Speaker 1>same thing, don't put your hands on them. Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>is not even a fucking contracted talent. He just shows

<v Speaker 1>up whenever he wants to. You have no control over him.

<v Speaker 1>What are you gonna do you put your hands on

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton or Pat McAfee. What could they possibly do

<v Speaker 1>to him? Suspend him? He's not under contract. Jelly Roll

<v Speaker 1>could do whatever. Jelly Roll could show up with a

<v Speaker 1>fucking barbed wire baseball bat. He could have beaten Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee's brains in tonight. There isn't a damn thing that

<v Speaker 1>Pat mac or nick All does ort Pat McAfee could

<v Speaker 1>do to jelly Roll over it. But apparently he's bound

<v Speaker 1>by the same rules. He's a guest in their house,

<v Speaker 1>so he has to abide by the same rules. Right,

<v Speaker 1>you want to come into the house, you got to

<v Speaker 1>take your shoes off like everybody else. So off goes

<v Speaker 1>all this, and then Jelly Roll turns to Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>and it's time for him to cut one of his

<v Speaker 1>inspirational He's going to cut one of his inspirational promos,

<v Speaker 1>which he's very good at. We've seen him do this

<v Speaker 1>a few times over the last several weeks. And he

<v Speaker 1>tells Cody, this isn't about Pat McAfee. This is about

<v Speaker 1>twenty years of friendship between Cody and Randy being flushed

<v Speaker 1>down to toilet, and he told Cody not to get

<v Speaker 1>distracted because this isn't about Cody's story anymore. Oh, it's

<v Speaker 1>not Cody's story anymore. All right, I don't know whose

<v Speaker 1>story it is. It's definitely not Cody's story, that is true.

<v Speaker 1>So the show opened proper with rheo Ripley coming down

<v Speaker 1>to the ring, and she was pissed off. Yeah, she's

<v Speaker 1>not the only one. She said, this isn't about physiques,

<v Speaker 1>this isn't about any of that said, not anymore, not

<v Speaker 1>after Jade attacked her EO, so she said, get your

<v Speaker 1>ass out here. Instead, EO came out. She was holding

<v Speaker 1>her ribs, which were injured on Monday night. She was

<v Speaker 1>beaten about with a Kendo stick by Jade Cargill, so

<v Speaker 1>she did get EO chance. People still like Eosky and

<v Speaker 1>Rio wanted to know, you know, why are you out here?

<v Speaker 1>You're still hurting everything? And EO said that she knows

<v Speaker 1>Ria is angry, and so is she. A lot of

<v Speaker 1>angry people coming out of SmackDown tonight. I guess angry

<v Speaker 1>is better than depressed, which is how it usually is

<v Speaker 1>with these people on Smack. Then everybody always seems so depressed.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm not really a surprise why tonight everybody

<v Speaker 1>was angry. She knows Rio will beat Jade at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>but she wants to face Jade tonight. And Rhea said

<v Speaker 1>that EO's not one hundred percent after Monday, you sure, like,

<v Speaker 1>are you sure this is what you want, and so

<v Speaker 1>there were more EO chants and EO said yes, I'm sure.

<v Speaker 1>So she's gonna go talk to Nick all this if

<v Speaker 1>she has to, but she wants Jade tonight, and that

<v Speaker 1>brought out Nick all This, who confirmed it tonight in

<v Speaker 1>San Jose in the main event, it will be Jade

<v Speaker 1>Cargill one on one with Eosky. So the good news

<v Speaker 1>is that we got Eosky in the main event. The

<v Speaker 1>bad news is we had Jade Cargill and just a

<v Speaker 1>non title main event here on SmackDown that I don't like.

<v Speaker 1>During the commercial break, I will point out they accidentally

<v Speaker 1>played the NXT will be right backscreen. I was a

<v Speaker 1>little confused, you know, they were showing images of Ethan

<v Speaker 1>Page and Lolavice Zaria, Like, am I watching the right

<v Speaker 1>show here? I wish I was watching NXT tonight, and

<v Speaker 1>then midway through they switched it to the correct screen.

<v Speaker 1>I was watching on an Italian server, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>because my usual Netherlands server or I was not able

<v Speaker 1>to get smacked Down tonight. I think it's funny. I

<v Speaker 1>think they're playing a whack a mole and they're trying

<v Speaker 1>to kind of crack down on things with certain servers

<v Speaker 1>or countries or whatever. So I took a trip to

<v Speaker 1>Italy and I was able to watch SmackDown that way.

<v Speaker 1>So then we had San Jose's own Bailey, who got

<v Speaker 1>a nice reaction coming out along with her partner Lyra Valkyria.

<v Speaker 1>We had Bailey against Alexa Bliss, who had Charlotte Flair

<v Speaker 1>in her corner. Two of the four teams that are

<v Speaker 1>scheduled to battle for the women's tag team titles at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and it sounds like if Nicky Bella is not cleared,

<v Speaker 1>it's still very unclear she'll be able to wrestle next week.

<v Speaker 1>It sounds like if Nicki Bella is not cleared, what

<v Speaker 1>they may do is they may swap Osca and Kyrie

<v Speaker 1>Sane into the match, which I don't understand at all.

<v Speaker 1>I really don't either Nicki Bella can go or she can't.

<v Speaker 1>If the Bella Twins aren't able to wrestle, then take

<v Speaker 1>them out the match and make it a triple threat.

<v Speaker 1>What is this obsession that it has to be a

<v Speaker 1>four way? Look, if these reports are to be believed,

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand that you have a match between Eosky

<v Speaker 1>and Oscar, which now it sounds like they may hold

<v Speaker 1>off until Backlash to do it again. It's up in

<v Speaker 1>the air right now as far as WrestleMania. But you

<v Speaker 1>have a match that you've been building to. Osca cut

<v Speaker 1>a video promo on her. On Monday, EO one on

<v Speaker 1>social media and said see you in Vegas and cut

<v Speaker 1>her own promo on Oscar like you've you've been building

<v Speaker 1>to an actual match between the two of them. Whether

<v Speaker 1>or not Nikki Bella can go next weekend should have

<v Speaker 1>no bearing on whether EO and Oscar have a match.

<v Speaker 1>I mean to me, that's just stupid. We have Bailey

<v Speaker 1>and we had Alexa. I was having flashbacks here too.

<v Speaker 1>This is your life from twenty seventeen. You talk about

<v Speaker 1>bad television. I'll watch that segment from twenty seventeen. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>the bay this is your lie. I'll watch that five

<v Speaker 1>times straight. Yeah, that's right, you tell them, I'll watch

<v Speaker 1>that five times straight. Before I watched that McAfee segment

<v Speaker 1>ever again, Bailey counted a sister Abigail ddt attempt from

<v Speaker 1>Bliss with a Bailey to belly. Bliss tried to get

<v Speaker 1>a pin using the ropes. Referee caught it, though Bailey

<v Speaker 1>headed up top. She connected with her diving elbow for

<v Speaker 1>a very close near fall. I mean, Alexa she waited

<v Speaker 1>until the last possible second to get her shoulder up

<v Speaker 1>on that. Bliss rolled out of the ring. Charlotte was there.

<v Speaker 1>Bailey went out after Alexa Lyra Valcarria. She got up

<v Speaker 1>in Charlotte's face and they were arguing, and this distraction

<v Speaker 1>allowed Alexa to sneak up behind Bailey and roll her

<v Speaker 1>up for the flash pin, and Alexa Bliss picks up

<v Speaker 1>the wind. Of course, they had to beat Bailey in

<v Speaker 1>her hometown, because of course they did. Now she was

<v Speaker 1>wrestling a heel, you'd be like, okay, well put more

<v Speaker 1>heat on whoever the person was that beat her. Fine,

<v Speaker 1>but it's two babyfaces. Did you really have to beat

<v Speaker 1>Bailey in San Jose? The answer is no. I'm really

<v Speaker 1>genuinely starting to wonder if Vince is back. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>some of these decisions are just mind boggling to me.

<v Speaker 1>This was a classic vincesm here you got to beat

<v Speaker 1>him in their hometown, pal. So yeah, tough tough night

<v Speaker 1>there for Bailey. Otherwise, I thought the match itself, I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was solid nothing too memorable, but it was

<v Speaker 1>nice to not have Nya Jackson Lash Legend run out

<v Speaker 1>to ruin the match, so at least we didn't get

<v Speaker 1>a fuck Actually we did get a fuck finish. Instead

<v Speaker 1>of getting a fuck finish with Naya and Lash, we

<v Speaker 1>got a fuck finish off the old distraction roll up.

<v Speaker 1>I'd call that a fuck finish. So they replayed what

<v Speaker 1>happened last week when samy' zane beat Carmelo Hayes in

<v Speaker 1>their United States Championship match, and then it was to

<v Speaker 1>the back, and I was hopeful at this point, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>they're replaying it. We're about to get mellow. Maybe they're

<v Speaker 1>going to find a way, even though it doesn't make

<v Speaker 1>any sense at this point because he lost clean last week.

<v Speaker 1>I had people who were trying to explain to me, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>like I don't know, like like I watched wrestling twice

<v Speaker 1>in my life. Well, last week wasn't clean. That wasn't

<v Speaker 1>a clean win for Sammy's A. Evidently because Carmelo Hayes,

<v Speaker 1>who had injured his leg in the course of the match,

<v Speaker 1>was in the corner and the referee was in the

<v Speaker 1>corner asking him if he was okay, and Sammy came

<v Speaker 1>flying in with the Halluva kick, and I guess he

<v Speaker 1>wasn't ready, So therefore it was unclean what people were

<v Speaker 1>trying to tell The only thing unclean is your ass. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>he beat him clean last week. So as much as

<v Speaker 1>I would have loved to have seen Carmelo Hayes somehow

<v Speaker 1>added into this match of WrestleMania, at this point would

<v Speaker 1>not have even made any sense. He would have been

<v Speaker 1>a charity case, like, all right, we'll throw you a

<v Speaker 1>bone here, We'll give you a WrestleMania spot, like, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, it's probably better off at this point, it

<v Speaker 1>doesn't even make any sense. But they cut to the

<v Speaker 1>back and he's in the trainer's room. He's rehabbing his

<v Speaker 1>knee and Matt Cardona is there with him, and Cardona

<v Speaker 1>is telling him, you know, you'll you'll have to wait patiently.

<v Speaker 1>I've been there before. You'll get your WrestleMania moment one day, right,

<v Speaker 1>that day will not be today, but you will get

<v Speaker 1>your WrestleMania moment. You just have to be patient. It's

<v Speaker 1>totally worth it. It's worth the wait. So Trick Williams

<v Speaker 1>walks in with Lil YACHTI he was back too, So

<v Speaker 1>we had Pat McAfee and we had Jelly Roll and

<v Speaker 1>we had Lil YACHTI we have anybody else tonight, just

<v Speaker 1>those three. I think it was just those we had.

<v Speaker 1>I show speed on Monday. Lil YACHTI was wearing a

<v Speaker 1>white T shirt with a gingerbread man on it because

<v Speaker 1>last week they were calling Sammy's ain, you know, a

<v Speaker 1>gingerbread man because he's a ginger. So Hayes told him

<v Speaker 1>to get out of his face. I got to rehab

<v Speaker 1>my knee, and YACHTI told Melo, you can watch WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>from your couch. Melo told Trick, you know what, I

<v Speaker 1>hope you do win a wrestle Media because on the

<v Speaker 1>other side, I look forward to beating you and taking

<v Speaker 1>my title back. And then he left. And so at

<v Speaker 1>that point I knew this guy ain't going to wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Mania because the way this segment was scripted, he's already resigned.

<v Speaker 1>He's already resigned to the fact that he's not getting

<v Speaker 1>a WrestleMania match. So it was very clear from this like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>he's out of the picture. He's not going to wrestle Mania.

<v Speaker 1>He could always win the Andre Battle royal. I guess

<v Speaker 1>for a second year in a row, right, he could win, Dre.

<v Speaker 1>What happened to the necklace that he was wearing, right, Dre, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>maybe he can do that. So Melo leaves and Trick

<v Speaker 1>at Cardona and he goes, what the hell are you

<v Speaker 1>looking at? And Cardona said that he was tired of

<v Speaker 1>all these guests running their mouths like they owned the place.

<v Speaker 1>And Trick said, usually he doesn't have the time for this,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm going to wrestle mania. So then Yati speaks

<v Speaker 1>up and Yachty said that no, you know what, you

<v Speaker 1>can whoop on this guy tonight. And Trick was caught

<v Speaker 1>off guard by this this guy speaking for him, and

<v Speaker 1>Cardona liked the idea, and he said, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go find Nick all this and I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to go make it official. And Trick looked annoyed

<v Speaker 1>and Yachty, you know, they went back and forth. I

<v Speaker 1>will say this, as much as the celebrity mania, I

<v Speaker 1>have total just celebrity fatigue at this point. Lil YACHTI

<v Speaker 1>and he like he and Trick. They play well off

<v Speaker 1>of each other. He doesn't need Trick doesn't need him though,

<v Speaker 1>like if this was going to be a long term thing.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't need him because Trick is a great talker

<v Speaker 1>on his own. So that's the thing about it, Like

<v Speaker 1>they don't need to really be a pairing, but they

<v Speaker 1>do play well off of each other. I'll say that. Look,

<v Speaker 1>I had praise for I Show Speed. I think what

<v Speaker 1>Speed's done so far is great too. I just I

<v Speaker 1>don't need to be seeing Liul Yati and I Show

<v Speaker 1>Speed and Jelly Roll and Path McAfee and they're trying

<v Speaker 1>to get Tom Brad like I don't need this, Like

<v Speaker 1>we don't need this, We don't need all of this

<v Speaker 1>at once, overwhelming the show going into WrestleMania. After the break,

<v Speaker 1>we got a Drew mac entire video and he was

<v Speaker 1>talking from behind bars, which is where every single person

<v Speaker 1>responsible for this television show belongs. So he's cutting his

<v Speaker 1>promo in a jail cell. Said tonight, we're close to

<v Speaker 1>Fat Two's hometown. And he revealed that at this point

<v Speaker 1>that he was speaking from a jail cell. We didn't

<v Speaker 1>see that at first. He knows Fat two spent a

<v Speaker 1>lot of time here. This cell is who fought two

<v Speaker 1>is and will always be. He's a convict his family

<v Speaker 1>needed a father and a provider, while all Fought two

<v Speaker 1>gave them was a war. Talking Mugshot said, unsanctioned to

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania means he'll beat FOT two within an inch of

<v Speaker 1>his life. Just so Far Too can screw up again

<v Speaker 1>and wind up right back here. He said. The system

<v Speaker 1>failed Drew, and Fat Too has been stealing from him

<v Speaker 1>ever since. At WrestleMania he's fought Two's judge, jury an executioner.

<v Speaker 1>So then we cut to the back and we saw

<v Speaker 1>Jacob was watching this on a flat screen. Kathy Kelly

<v Speaker 1>was right there to ask for his immediate opinion on

<v Speaker 1>what he just saw, and before Fat two could really

<v Speaker 1>say much, Solo Sokoa and the MFTs approach Jacob Fatu. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>the last people I was looking for at this point

<v Speaker 1>in the show, as I was preparing myself for what

<v Speaker 1>we were about to get with Pat McAfee and I

<v Speaker 1>get the MFTs. So they exchanged words and Fat two says, hey,

<v Speaker 1>we could on this back again later, if you know,

<v Speaker 1>if you want to, and I'm like, no, I don't

<v Speaker 1>think we need that, please No. So Solo brings up

<v Speaker 1>this being the same place here in San Jose all

<v Speaker 1>those months ago when Jacob had all eleven teeth kicked

<v Speaker 1>out of his mouth. Yeah, he's sticking his tither's ah, like,

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck? Yeah, he's sticking his toil Who's ah,

<v Speaker 1>like what the fuck? And Solo accurately pointed out, we

<v Speaker 1>still don't know what happened, which is kind of crazy

<v Speaker 1>because I had people, you know, telling me, well, you know, Solo, monster,

<v Speaker 1>they already established that it was Drew MacIntyre and I

<v Speaker 1>keep telling you people, no, it wasn't, it was Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>Just give it time. We'll find out. But Solo's like, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we never did find out exactly who was responsible for

<v Speaker 1>that or you know what happened there. So he said

<v Speaker 1>that Tomatonga might do something about it, and Toma got

<v Speaker 1>caught off guard by this, but he steps up to

<v Speaker 1>Fatu and we find out that the two of them

<v Speaker 1>were going to have a wrestling match later on in

<v Speaker 1>the show. So we are back to Fatu and the MFTs,

<v Speaker 1>at least for one night only. We're back to this again,

<v Speaker 1>and we just achieved the bonus goal. So that's very good.

<v Speaker 1>See we are very active tonight. I can tell. That's good.

<v Speaker 1>That's good. It'll keep the blood pumping as we go along.

<v Speaker 1>Here we got a video package introducing us to Royce

<v Speaker 1>Keys as he talked about his own past and you know,

<v Speaker 1>all the drug issues and growing up you know, in

<v Speaker 1>the mean streets of Palo Alto, in a very dangerous

<v Speaker 1>area out there in California, and he visited his childhood home.

<v Speaker 1>So this was just a quick segment to get us

<v Speaker 1>prepared for the in ring SmackDown debut of Powerhouse Hobbs.

<v Speaker 1>Here on this show, it was time for Royce Keys

<v Speaker 1>and he was going to be takinging on one half

<v Speaker 1>of Los Garza. It was Berto Tough Challenge tonight for

<v Speaker 1>Royce Keys. Angel was out there with him, but it

<v Speaker 1>was burto Burdo got to play victim tonight next week.

<v Speaker 1>Oh maybe not next week, but maybe the week after that.

<v Speaker 1>It'll be Angel tonight. Though it was Berto's turn, this

<v Speaker 1>was almost all Royce Keys, as it should be. There

<v Speaker 1>was one moment in the match they were outside and

<v Speaker 1>Keys got distracted by Angel and he got shoved into

<v Speaker 1>the ring post by Burdo, and that was about the

<v Speaker 1>only real bit of offense that Berto had here in

<v Speaker 1>this match. This was a situation where Burdo got to

<v Speaker 1>show off some flashy offense for you know, maybe ninety

<v Speaker 1>seconds or so, and then he got caught off of

<v Speaker 1>a diving crossbody and then he got dumped with a

<v Speaker 1>fallaway slam. Keys hoisted him up onto his shoulders for

<v Speaker 1>the running power slam Angel tried to interfere, he got

<v Speaker 1>dropped on the apron with a clothesline. Down came the straps,

<v Speaker 1>and Keys finished him off with an arn Anderson esque spinebuster,

<v Speaker 1>and he picked up the win in his debut. And

<v Speaker 1>as I said at the beginning of the review that right,

<v Speaker 1>there should be your Winter next week and de Andre

<v Speaker 1>the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, because if not, I don't

<v Speaker 1>really understand what the purpose was in debuting him now.

<v Speaker 1>You could have debuted him a month ago, because remember

<v Speaker 1>he was in the Rumble. He technically debuted in the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. That was the what was that February first

<v Speaker 1>or January thirty first, and then we haven't seen the

<v Speaker 1>work in dark matches ever since against Berdo and fucking

<v Speaker 1>Nathan Fraser, and this is all he's been doing now

<v Speaker 1>for like six weeks. They had six weeks to debut

<v Speaker 1>him on TV before tonight, and now we're so close

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania, it's like, all right, he's not on the

<v Speaker 1>wrestle Media card. You can debut him maybe on the

<v Speaker 1>first SmackDown coming out of WrestleMania. I think they chose

<v Speaker 1>to do it tonight in part because of where they were,

<v Speaker 1>But I also think that by debuting him tonight, you've

<v Speaker 1>now set him up to be the obvious Winter next week,

<v Speaker 1>because why not, like you would expect him to be

<v Speaker 1>in the match. Why would he be in the match?

<v Speaker 1>He already was in the rumble and lost, Like, at

<v Speaker 1>least let him win the Battle Royal. You're trying to

<v Speaker 1>establish this guy on the on the roster as a monster.

<v Speaker 1>Let him go in there and win. That's what I

<v Speaker 1>would do. I'm picking him to win. Outside the arena,

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee arrives. Oh joy, here he is. Pat McAfee

<v Speaker 1>is here. He's in his pickup truck all by himself,

<v Speaker 1>and he runs into Nick all this on his way

<v Speaker 1>into the building, and he verified with all this. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>you did tell them, right, You told them that no

<v Speaker 1>one is allowed to put their hands on him tonight,

<v Speaker 1>and all this said, yes, I told them so. Then

<v Speaker 1>he tossed his keys to him like he's a valet.

<v Speaker 1>He dropped him on the floor, so he had to

<v Speaker 1>pick him up, and he gave his keys to all this,

<v Speaker 1>and he starts walking into the building and he gets

<v Speaker 1>approached by Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll's been waiting all night

<v Speaker 1>for this moment. Jelly Roll wanted to know, were you

<v Speaker 1>the one who's told Randy Orton to drop him two

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago? With that? RKO pat denied it, but he

<v Speaker 1>told him, you know, you shouldn't have been there anyway, dude,

<v Speaker 1>like you shouldn't have been in there in between Randy

<v Speaker 1>and Cody to begin with. And Jelly said, well, you're right,

<v Speaker 1>I shouldn't have been there, but you had no business

<v Speaker 1>being there either. He goes, why are you here? Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's a really good question. Why are you here? So

<v Speaker 1>he tells Jelly Role, Look, it's a lot bigger than

<v Speaker 1>you could ever imagine. He called Jelly an outsider who's

<v Speaker 1>not supposed to be a part of their business. So

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll threatened to check him right now since he

<v Speaker 1>didn't see Randy Orton around anywhere, and then he grabbed

<v Speaker 1>him by the shirt and he backed McAfee up against

<v Speaker 1>the wall. Nick Alldos was over quickly to stop him,

<v Speaker 1>so Jelly shoved Nick Alders too. May as well again

<v Speaker 1>he doesn't work there. And then McAfee told foreign Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce to get that ex con out of the building,

<v Speaker 1>and then he proceeded to make his way towards the

<v Speaker 1>ring because he and Randy Jordan we have to save

<v Speaker 1>the business. We have to save the business. After the break,

<v Speaker 1>Kathy Kelly was in the back to talk to Royce Keys,

<v Speaker 1>and Keys talked about making his SmackDown debut here in

<v Speaker 1>the Bay Area. He was all pumped up until Solo

<v Speaker 1>Sakawa showed out. Boy, he's just interrupting segments left and

<v Speaker 1>right tonight, isn't he. He just goes around backstage waiting

<v Speaker 1>to see it. Who's being interviewed? Which interview can I crash?

<v Speaker 1>First it was Jacob Fatu, Now it's Royce Keys. So

<v Speaker 1>he walks up to Royce and he says he runs

<v Speaker 1>things around here, so if Keys ever needs anything, his

<v Speaker 1>door is always open. So they already have Keys now

<v Speaker 1>working with the MFTs. I mean, God, give me strength,

<v Speaker 1>give me strength with this fucking show. But it gets

<v Speaker 1>worse much much worse because after that it was time

<v Speaker 1>for Legitimately, I'm not being hyperbolic here. I've seen a

<v Speaker 1>lot of bad television on SmackDown over the years, but

<v Speaker 1>when you take everything into account, this was legitimately one

<v Speaker 1>of the worst segments in SmackDown history. And it's Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee on his way to the ring by himself to

<v Speaker 1>play pretend heel, which is what this entire thing feels like.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, it is so forced, It is so

<v Speaker 1>forced and so out of left field, like some people

<v Speaker 1>can pull it off. And again I'm not saying Pat

<v Speaker 1>can't be a good heel, but this seems so forced.

<v Speaker 1>It feels like he's out there putting on a performance

<v Speaker 1>and he's trying so hard. He's trying too hard to

<v Speaker 1>be just the big shthead heel. And I think people

<v Speaker 1>are still looking at this and still wondering to themselves

<v Speaker 1>they don't really even get why this is happening. It

<v Speaker 1>still really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But

<v Speaker 1>McAfee comes out to the r As soon as he

<v Speaker 1>comes out, immediately he is flipping off the crowd. So

<v Speaker 1>on Netflix, I was watching a Netflix feed, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>it was like this on USA as well. They blacked

<v Speaker 1>out the screen, can't see the double bird. So McAfee

<v Speaker 1>gets into the ring and immediately he says, San Jose,

<v Speaker 1>what a shithole. So they booed him. They booed him.

<v Speaker 1>Lost my connection there for a second. Even my connection

<v Speaker 1>is pissed off at this show. I think my obs

<v Speaker 1>is trying to tell me, dude, don't even talk about

<v Speaker 1>this show. Let's just end it right here. I think

<v Speaker 1>it's trying. I think my soft where is trying to

<v Speaker 1>send me a message. There's a reason why it buffered

<v Speaker 1>right when I'm about to start talking about the McAfee segment.

<v Speaker 1>But I must this is my job, it's my obligation.

<v Speaker 1>I must go on. I didn't sit through three hours

<v Speaker 1>of this horseshit tonight to keep it all to myself.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to keep it all bottled up. We're

<v Speaker 1>all gonna talk about it here now. So anyway, McAfee

<v Speaker 1>is in the ring and they're booing him, and so

<v Speaker 1>he climbs the ropes and again he flips off the

<v Speaker 1>crowd with the double bird. Hey, at least they got

<v Speaker 1>somebody some heat. It wasn't Randy Orton getting the heat.

<v Speaker 1>But at least someone's getting heat, someone other than Cody.

<v Speaker 1>He said, It's crazy that they boo him. He's the

<v Speaker 1>hero in this entire thing, he said. The fans cheer

<v Speaker 1>for these spineless bums like cmpunk. Did you like what

<v Speaker 1>he had to say on Monday? When Punk called him

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee for him, it's hard to take serious because,

<v Speaker 1>as Punk was talking the other night about a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people more important and in better shape than he is,

<v Speaker 1>it was hard to get past the fact that he

<v Speaker 1>was wearing a WWE officially licensed cmpunk jacket with an

<v Speaker 1>officially licensed WWE T shirt on underneath the jacket. He's

<v Speaker 1>got two hundred and eighty three things for sale to

<v Speaker 1>all of you on WWE shop dot com. And he

<v Speaker 1>wonders when that TKO merch check comes through, who does

<v Speaker 1>it go to? Does it go to the needy families

<v Speaker 1>who can't afford WrestleMania tickets? Or does it go right

<v Speaker 1>into the bank, into the bank account called I'm sorry

<v Speaker 1>Saudi Arabia. So I want you to I want I

<v Speaker 1>want to stop right here for a moment. So several

<v Speaker 1>minutes of this segment were dedicated to Pat McAfee responding

<v Speaker 1>to the guy who was in the other WrestleMania main event.

<v Speaker 1>This for a little bit here morphed into Pat McAfee

<v Speaker 1>versus Cmpunk. Even we're supposed to be promoting Cody Roads

<v Speaker 1>against Randy Yorton. So he called Punk a fraud. He

<v Speaker 1>continued to cut a promo on cm Punk, who was

<v Speaker 1>not a part of this match, by the way, he

<v Speaker 1>called him a fraud. Goes like a politician, says all talk,

<v Speaker 1>no action, said a man who has the chance to

<v Speaker 1>change things. But he gets into the ring, he sits down,

<v Speaker 1>he rolls over like the little bitch that he is.

<v Speaker 1>Him Pat McAfee. He says, I'm an agent of change.

<v Speaker 1>And when Punk mentioned that the ticket prices are too high,

<v Speaker 1>he couldn't help but agree with him. If it wasn't

<v Speaker 1>for Randy Orton, why would anyone want to spend their

<v Speaker 1>money to watch WrestleMania. So he decided to be our hero.

<v Speaker 1>He called a fan in the crowd Fatso at this point,

<v Speaker 1>now he's channeling his inner nineteen eighty seven Rick Flair.

<v Speaker 1>He's looking over in the crowd, Hey, fat boy, goes,

<v Speaker 1>even though none of you disgusting bums deserve it. He

<v Speaker 1>decided to help them out. He called Ram Trucks. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Ram Trucks is the official sponsor, he says, of WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>this year. See he called Ram Trucks and asked them

<v Speaker 1>if they want to help wrestling fans get to WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and they said absolutely, so he asked them, why don't

<v Speaker 1>you pick up twenty five percent of the bill. This

<v Speaker 1>is how bad things have gotten in terms of their greed, okay,

<v Speaker 1>and the prices of these tickets. It's one thing to

<v Speaker 1>just lower the ticket prices. What they have done here,

<v Speaker 1>if you really stop and think about it, is they

<v Speaker 1>are having one of Now this is I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if they're actually doing this or not, but like in storyline,

<v Speaker 1>at least they're having one of their sponsors pick up

<v Speaker 1>the tab and shave twenty five percent off tickets that

<v Speaker 1>are sold for WrestleMania Night one between now and Monday night.

<v Speaker 1>We'll have Ram Trucks cover the cost of twenty percent

<v Speaker 1>of everyone's tickets because the prices are so fucking high.

<v Speaker 1>Instead of just lowering them, Ram Trucks has agreed to

<v Speaker 1>pay a portion of everyone's ticket for WrestleMania Night one.

<v Speaker 1>That's how bad things have gotten. This is now part

<v Speaker 1>of the storyline. This is part of the story now

<v Speaker 1>of this match. That's pathetic. And Pat McAfee is coming

<v Speaker 1>out and he's flipping everybody off, and he's calling them marks,

<v Speaker 1>and he's calling them fat soos, and he's calling them scum,

<v Speaker 1>and he's calling them all all sorts of horrible things. Right,

<v Speaker 1>and yet he's babyfacing everybody by saying, guess what, I

<v Speaker 1>made one phone call and so all of you now

<v Speaker 1>can get a twenty five percent discount on your WrestleMania tickets.

<v Speaker 1>You're welcome. So I don't know, I mean, he's supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be a healer, who's supposed to be a babyface.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's going on here.

<v Speaker 1>This entire situation is very weird. He's gone babyface here

<v Speaker 1>in this moment. So immediately as soon as you mentioned this,

<v Speaker 1>a graphic shows up in the corner of the screen.

<v Speaker 1>Twenty five percent off all WrestleMania Saturday tickets now through Monday,

<v Speaker 1>go to ticketmaster dot com. Like they couldn't get that,

<v Speaker 1>you know how, Like when you're watching Dynamite and there

<v Speaker 1>are two guys and they're like, hey, you know we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have a match tonight. And then five seconds later, oh,

<v Speaker 1>Tony Kahan has made it official and they have the

<v Speaker 1>graphic already and then it's like boom right there at

<v Speaker 1>the corner, and I'm like, really that quickly? Huh? Oh?

<v Speaker 1>They could wait to get that graphic up on the screen.

<v Speaker 1>This basically just turned into a commercial to try to

<v Speaker 1>sell more tickets for WrestleMania, because they are desperately, desperately

<v Speaker 1>trying to move tickets. But you would think they had

<v Speaker 1>ten thousand tickets sold for WrestleMania this year. Like the

<v Speaker 1>desperation could not be more obvious. And apparently with all

<v Speaker 1>the things that they've done over the last couple of weeks.

<v Speaker 1>They announced John Cena as the host of WrestleMania, they

<v Speaker 1>had this angle with Pat McAfee last week, the number

<v Speaker 1>of tickets that they have moved since these announcements have

<v Speaker 1>been minuscule. Like I look at the current numbers for

<v Speaker 1>where they are, they really haven't moved. It's not like, well,

<v Speaker 1>they were at thirty nine thousand, now they're up to

<v Speaker 1>forty five forty seven. No, they barely dude, It's like

<v Speaker 1>thirty nine forty forty one. They've barely even made a dent.

<v Speaker 1>It has made no difference whatsoever. Now maybe this twenty

<v Speaker 1>five percent off discount will make a difference. And then

<v Speaker 1>you'll have the idiots who will justify this entire stupid

<v Speaker 1>angle by saying, oh, look, see their ticket discount worked,

<v Speaker 1>because they'll find any way they can to justify this

<v Speaker 1>horrendous bullshit. But I'm watching this and I'm like, this

<v Speaker 1>is sad, Like this is really sad. Randy Orton, he says,

<v Speaker 1>we'll be a fifteen time world champion in Las Vegas.

<v Speaker 1>After he demoralizes and pummels the puppet, and before he

<v Speaker 1>could go on even further, we hear, well, here comes

<v Speaker 1>the puppet and his music. Here comes the WWE champion,

<v Speaker 1>Cody Roads, and mercifully he cut off McAfee here. But

<v Speaker 1>he took a sweet time coming down to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>And he gets inside of prolonged the pain of this segment.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, can we speed this up please? So he

<v Speaker 1>gets up in McAfee's face and he got some light

<v Speaker 1>Cody chants. This was not like Cody Cody. He was

<v Speaker 1>not getting some overwhelming Okay, now they're fully behind Cody Roads,

<v Speaker 1>but there were some Cody chants, and he said, I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to go out on a limb and say, I

<v Speaker 1>don't think Pat McAfee belongs here. He knows he can't

<v Speaker 1>touch him, but why don't we get him a Fanatics

<v Speaker 1>replica belt. They look just like the real thing. He

<v Speaker 1>could do one of the wrestler entrances. He could live

<v Speaker 1>out his superstar experience and then he can go back

<v Speaker 1>to whoever sent him here and he can tell them,

<v Speaker 1>thank you, daddy. There's this old term in pro wrestling

<v Speaker 1>where someone says, oh, he's a play wrestler. He didn't

<v Speaker 1>know what it meant until last week when he saw

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee doing catchphrases talking about the Attitude Era. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>that was thirty years ago. Randy Yorton debuted in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and two. He was a teenager during the Attitude Era.

<v Speaker 1>He watched the Attitude Era in high school. Then he

<v Speaker 1>mentioned there was an old promoter named Paul Bosh, And

<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you what, I never would have expected that

<v Speaker 1>in the span of one week we would get to

<v Speaker 1>Paul Bosh mentions on two different WWE shows. But here

<v Speaker 1>we are because they were in Houston on Monday Night

<v Speaker 1>and if you remember, seam Punk mentioned Paul Bosch and

<v Speaker 1>his promo and tonight Cody Rhods came out and Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhoads mentioned Paul Bosh. You know what's missing in wrestling

<v Speaker 1>right now? You know what's missing in this company A

<v Speaker 1>Paul Bosh. That's what's missing. Paul Bosh is rolling over

<v Speaker 1>in his fucking grave right now hearing his name mentioned

<v Speaker 1>on some of these god awful shows. That's what this

<v Speaker 1>company is missing right now? Where's Paul Bosh when you

<v Speaker 1>need him? We could use Paul Bosh right about now.

<v Speaker 1>But he goes Paul Bosh he used to because McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>you know, talks about Marx and he talks about you know,

<v Speaker 1>the IWC and making the business great again. He goes,

<v Speaker 1>you know what Paul Bosh used to say about people

<v Speaker 1>that would call the fans Marx. He goes, they're not Marx,

<v Speaker 1>they're customers, and they're not even customers to Cody. To Cody,

<v Speaker 1>their family. Pat has a gift. For the centuries that

<v Speaker 1>pro wrestling has been around, they have never agreed on

<v Speaker 1>anything except what he's about to tell. For the first

<v Speaker 1>time ever, the entire Hire fandom agrees on one thing.

<v Speaker 1>At WrestleMania. They want to see Randy Orton and they

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see Pat McAfee and the fans let

<v Speaker 1>out a cheer. See so Cody, Cody got a cheer here,

<v Speaker 1>he got cheered. Cody told him go home, Pat. So

<v Speaker 1>Cody went to go leave and McAfee said, I am home, dipshits.

<v Speaker 1>Cody was born into this business, he says, silver spoon,

<v Speaker 1>and all he sees is the fakest dude on earth.

<v Speaker 1>Spray tan dyed hair, fake teeth, lispie lips, and a

<v Speaker 1>ten thousand dollars suit that you think makes you look

<v Speaker 1>good because Rick Flair said it's the right thing to do.

<v Speaker 1>He called Cody a cosplayed champion, and he has a

<v Speaker 1>message for Cody and his inbred family here. If Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton doesn't walk out of WrestleMania as a fifteen time

<v Speaker 1>world champion, then we will never see or hear from

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee on wrestling television ever again, will never be

<v Speaker 1>in this business again. So the fans chanted go home, Pat.

<v Speaker 1>Cody told him, Hey, Pat, why don't you take your

<v Speaker 1>shades off? Bud? Or wait? Are you too high to

<v Speaker 1>remember that? You were standing on that table for the

<v Speaker 1>last three years yeating your brains out. He says, oh, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>you must really hate this place. And Pat said, I'm tired.

<v Speaker 1>Oh you're tired. Oh there's Cody talking to him. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Oh you're tired. You said you're tired. Well, why don't

<v Speaker 1>you take a nap? He goes, let's get Gunther out

<v Speaker 1>here to put you to sleep once and for all.

<v Speaker 1>And I was like, yeah, we already saw that. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if Cody remembers that we already saw that,

<v Speaker 1>but we already saw that once before. We don't need

<v Speaker 1>to see it again. So Cody left the ring and

<v Speaker 1>McAfee asked him, Hey, where are you going? And he

<v Speaker 1>called him He's trying to get him to come back. Now.

<v Speaker 1>He calls him star Dust and he goes, where are

<v Speaker 1>you going, Cody? You gonna go suck Triple H's ass.

<v Speaker 1>This is what he said. Are you going to suck

<v Speaker 1>Triple H's ass? He says, are You're gonna spread Levec's cheeks.

<v Speaker 1>I can just picture some of the people in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd who are not really like chronically online or on

<v Speaker 1>social media. They don't follow all of this stuff, like

<v Speaker 1>listening to this fucking like garbage, Like, what are we

<v Speaker 1>even doing here? Now he's out there talking about Cody

<v Speaker 1>sucking Paul Leveck's ass cheeks? What are we doing? How

<v Speaker 1>did we go from Cody Roads against Randy Orton to this?

<v Speaker 1>And by this point we still had not seen Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton on this show. So Cody pulls his jacket off,

<v Speaker 1>he pulls his tie off, and he begins to make

<v Speaker 1>his way back down to ringside. Suddenly, finally Randy Orton

<v Speaker 1>appears on the screen and he says that Cody should

<v Speaker 1>come get his boy, and we see him kneeling over

<v Speaker 1>the dead body of Jelly Roll, who was taken out

<v Speaker 1>on who's taken out off screen. He goes better yet,

<v Speaker 1>I'll bring your boy out to you, and Orton drags

<v Speaker 1>out Jelly Roll out to the stage. McAfee tried to

<v Speaker 1>sneak attack on Coddy, who turned to face McAfee, but

<v Speaker 1>Orton ambushed him from behind, So we got a double

<v Speaker 1>team attack here on Cody. Now, Jelly Roll recovers and

<v Speaker 1>he stumbles his way down to the ring and he

<v Speaker 1>gets up on the apron and at one point he

<v Speaker 1>had he had goozled McAfee right, he grabbed him by

<v Speaker 1>the throat to not much of a reaction. Orton comes over,

<v Speaker 1>he punches jelly roll and tumbles off the apron to

<v Speaker 1>the floor. McAfee hands Orton the WWE title and he

<v Speaker 1>blasts Cody in the head with it. And then it

<v Speaker 1>was very appropriate that at the end of all of this,

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee has the WWE championship draped over his shoulder,

<v Speaker 1>not Cody Roads, not Randy Orton, Pat McAfee and McAfee

<v Speaker 1>and Orton they leave the ring, and then after a

<v Speaker 1>commercial break, we cut to the back. Orton and McAfee

<v Speaker 1>are leaving the building. McAfee is still holding the WWE

<v Speaker 1>title and he gets back at his pickup truck. Orton's

<v Speaker 1>in the passenger seat and McAfee rolls the window down

<v Speaker 1>and he says, hey, IWC and wrestling fans or marks

<v Speaker 1>if you will, you're welcome, and then he speeds away.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that I can adequately put into words

<v Speaker 1>how fucking terrible all of this is. And if you're

<v Speaker 1>somebody who finds some sort of kind of twisted pleasure

<v Speaker 1>or enjoyment out of all this, I mean, God bless you.

<v Speaker 1>God bless you. This has taken a Wrestlemaniam main event

<v Speaker 1>that I was genuinely looking forward to, and it is.

<v Speaker 1>It is a situation now where I'm trying to look

<v Speaker 1>ahead to what comes next and look beyond what's coming

<v Speaker 1>up next weekend, and it doesn't get any better because

<v Speaker 1>of the rumors are to be believed, We're we're heading

<v Speaker 1>for a tag team match where it's going to be

<v Speaker 1>Cody and Jelly against Randy Orton and Pat McAfee. So

<v Speaker 1>this is only going to continue, at least for another month.

<v Speaker 1>It's only going to continue. It doesn't end at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>It just goes on from there and it just continues.

<v Speaker 1>This is this is genuinely bad television. This is embarrassing.

<v Speaker 1>It's the sort of thing that, again, if I saw

<v Speaker 1>this in another promotion, and I have, you know, at

<v Speaker 1>times before, I would just I would cringe watching it.

<v Speaker 1>But this is the WrestleMania main event. This is Cody Rhoades,

<v Speaker 1>their top babyface, the WWE champion, you know, this is

<v Speaker 1>this is their top angle right now, and it's all

<v Speaker 1>being done in the name of trying to a get

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee in a role that's going to get him

<v Speaker 1>added visibility for whatever other roles his agents may have

<v Speaker 1>in mind for him, but also because WrestleMania the first

<v Speaker 1>hour of each night is airing on ESPN this year

<v Speaker 1>and they want to use an ESPN personality to try

<v Speaker 1>to get as many eyeballs on the show as possible.

<v Speaker 1>Storyline be damned, it doesn't matter to them. These people

<v Speaker 1>that are making these decisions, above Paul Lavac and whoever

<v Speaker 1>would normally be making these types of creative decisions, Their

<v Speaker 1>main priority right now is not story. You know, for

<v Speaker 1>a company built on story, we tell stories, we're storytellers.

<v Speaker 1>It is in the background now, like it is not

<v Speaker 1>the priority. The story doesn't matter. It's not about that.

<v Speaker 1>A they want to sell tickets because they're pissed off

<v Speaker 1>they haven't sold as many as they did last year.

<v Speaker 1>And B they have so many ulterior motives and intentions

<v Speaker 1>in mind here that it is clouding what had been

<v Speaker 1>otherwise the potential to be a very good story. And

<v Speaker 1>that's really the great sin. I think of this entire thing,

<v Speaker 1>like it didn't have to be this way. But you

<v Speaker 1>have you know, a TKO executive who's sitting up in

<v Speaker 1>his penthouse who has jelly for brains and who doesn't

<v Speaker 1>really give a shit about any of this. But if

<v Speaker 1>you're someone who watches the show's week to week, if

<v Speaker 1>you're a fan who will buy a ticket to go

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania or tune in on the ESPN app, and

<v Speaker 1>you're paying attention week to week to what's going on here,

<v Speaker 1>there's no justification for this. It's bad television, it's embarrassing,

<v Speaker 1>it's and frankly, again, it's pathetic to see them groveling

<v Speaker 1>this way on their own show, and they've incorporated it

<v Speaker 1>into the storyline because they're so unhappy with ticket sales.

<v Speaker 1>They're begging people, begging them to buy tickets. We'll do anything,

<v Speaker 1>you know. We'll have this discount, and we'll have ram

<v Speaker 1>Truck sponsor a twenty five percent discount, and on three

<v Speaker 1>sixteen day, we'll have another discount. Buy one, get one

<v Speaker 1>for Like, they're trying everything they can right now, and

<v Speaker 1>tickets aren't moving at the pace that they were hoping for.

<v Speaker 1>You've got to give people a reason to actually want

<v Speaker 1>to tune in and actually show up and pay money

<v Speaker 1>to go to the show. And they have done a

<v Speaker 1>terrible job with one of the key matches on their show.

<v Speaker 1>It's it's just it's unforgivable what they have done with

<v Speaker 1>this match here did not need to be this way.

<v Speaker 1>Blame whoever you want to blame for, but this is

<v Speaker 1>where we are now. This is now the Pat McAfee show.

<v Speaker 1>This has nothing to do with Randy Orton. This has

<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with Randy Orton winning Number fifteen. May

<v Speaker 1>well win number fifteen, but that's not even the story here.

<v Speaker 1>The story is no longer Randy Orton or Cody Roads.

<v Speaker 1>It's Pat McAfee and Jelly Roll. This is twenty twenty

<v Speaker 1>six WWE, and I've seen some bad build ups to

<v Speaker 1>matches in main events. I vividly remember the tug a

<v Speaker 1>War back in twenty eighteen over the WWE Championship heading

<v Speaker 1>into WrestleMania between Roman Reigns and brock lesnar Like. There's

<v Speaker 1>still some stuff like that that stands at in my mind.

<v Speaker 1>And we're not even at the final like go Home

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown yet, But I've seen enough. I don't even need

<v Speaker 1>to know what they do now, I've seen enough. This

<v Speaker 1>is among the worst I've ever seen, just the absolute

<v Speaker 1>drizzling shits. Nick All. This was confronted backstage by the

<v Speaker 1>Mizz and Kit Wilson, who complained about what happened to

<v Speaker 1>referee Dan Engler last week. There was a tag team

<v Speaker 1>championship match and the referee was about to count three

<v Speaker 1>and then all of a sudden, it's like, ooh, he

<v Speaker 1>was cursed and his arm. He couldn't count the three

<v Speaker 1>and something was going on with his arm, like the

<v Speaker 1>fucking berserker. And so they were very upset about this,

<v Speaker 1>and they said there had to be consequences for what happened.

<v Speaker 1>So all this said that Kit Wilson is going to

<v Speaker 1>face Dan. He thought he was gonna say Dan Engler,

<v Speaker 1>but he goes, Dan Housen, You're gonna have a match

<v Speaker 1>with Dan Housen tonight here on the show, And I

<v Speaker 1>thought to myself, wait a minute, that's the fourth match

<v Speaker 1>that was made tonight. During the show. We had EO

<v Speaker 1>Sky and Jade Carga. Apparently we had no main event,

<v Speaker 1>so we had Eo and Jade that was signed at

<v Speaker 1>the beginning of the night. For the main event. We

<v Speaker 1>had Jacob Fotu right in action. Who did Jacob graw?

<v Speaker 1>My guy, I can't remember, Trick williams Now Tomatoga. The

<v Speaker 1>fucking know he wrestled Tomatonga. Matt Cardona went to go

<v Speaker 1>find all this so that he could wrestle Trick Williams

<v Speaker 1>later in the show. And now this Dan Housen against

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson. Four fucking matches? What does Nick all this

<v Speaker 1>do all week? Other than of course, you know, I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure he, you know, has some some happy time

<v Speaker 1>with his wife and that's great, good for him, But like,

<v Speaker 1>beyond that, what else does this man do? Is that

<v Speaker 1>all he does during the week? As if so, I mean, hey,

<v Speaker 1>good for you man, high five, But my god, four

<v Speaker 1>fucking matches? Did he have anything booked other than Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee tonight when he came to the fucking building in

<v Speaker 1>San Jose? What does he do all week? Jacob fought

<v Speaker 1>against Tomatonga. Crowd was dead silent through the commercial break.

<v Speaker 1>Here they got into Fatu late in the match. We

<v Speaker 1>had a moment here where he had hit the pop

<v Speaker 1>up Samoan drop, and then we had Tama looking for cutthroat,

<v Speaker 1>which is his finish. There was a kick from fat

<v Speaker 1>Tu that met him instead, and then we got the

<v Speaker 1>Mighty Moon Salt and the people pot for the moon salt,

<v Speaker 1>because you always pot for the mighty Moon salt, and

<v Speaker 1>with that Jacob Fatu was able to pick up the win.

<v Speaker 1>This was on the slow side Fatu, though he looked

<v Speaker 1>good here and the crab pot for again the finish.

<v Speaker 1>I would imagine Solo Suko is not going to be

<v Speaker 1>very happy that Tomatanga went in there and he lost

<v Speaker 1>on behalf of the MFTs. And so if there are

<v Speaker 1>people who are actually invested in this story, then maybe

<v Speaker 1>they'll care. But I can't imagine most people really give

<v Speaker 1>a shit about this. When the match was over, though,

<v Speaker 1>fa Tu he got on the mic, didn't really get

<v Speaker 1>a chance to say too much until he was attacked

<v Speaker 1>from behind by Drew McIntyre. So fat Tuo hit him

<v Speaker 1>with a superkig, but then he got dropped with the

<v Speaker 1>claymore McIntyre threw him out of the ring. He sent

<v Speaker 1>him headfirst into the steps, and then he grabbed a

<v Speaker 1>chair and he slammed it across Fatu's back. McIntyre planted

<v Speaker 1>in with a future shock ddt on the floor and

<v Speaker 1>then he grabbed a pair of handcuffs. Look at this,

<v Speaker 1>we're getting kinky now between these two. So he grabs

<v Speaker 1>handcuffs and it's like the long chain, right, So what

<v Speaker 1>he does, and this actually turned out to be maybe

<v Speaker 1>the funniest segment of the entire show. He handcuffed him

<v Speaker 1>to the ring post, but he did it in a way.

<v Speaker 1>And now we've seen this before, if you remember the

<v Speaker 1>way Randy Orton cuffed John Sena to the posts and

<v Speaker 1>there I quit match many years ago at breaking point.

<v Speaker 1>Or to use an example that was given to us

<v Speaker 1>on Raw Monday Night by one cmpunk, if you remember

<v Speaker 1>the infamous dog food segment on this show when Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns got Cup to the ring post by King Corbin

<v Speaker 1>and was forced to eat dog food the way that

<v Speaker 1>we're forced to eat dog shit every single week that

<v Speaker 1>we watched this television show. That's what they did here.

<v Speaker 1>So he placed the chain over the ring post and

<v Speaker 1>the idea was that Fat two would be Cup to

<v Speaker 1>the post and he would be defenseless, right except except

<v Speaker 1>I guess the chain broke. I don't know what happened here,

<v Speaker 1>And so after like one shot that he gave him,

<v Speaker 1>the cups broke and Fatu fell to the floor. So

<v Speaker 1>he did it again. He cuffed him around the ring

<v Speaker 1>post and then he gave him another shot, and for

<v Speaker 1>a second time, the cups broke, I guess, and he

<v Speaker 1>fell to the floor. The cuffs went into business for themselves.

<v Speaker 1>So back in the ring, there was one final Claymore

<v Speaker 1>kick from McIntyre that put fat Tu down for good.

<v Speaker 1>Officials and producers. They flooded into the ring and tried

<v Speaker 1>to stop McIntyre, but he shoved them away. Then he

<v Speaker 1>was whipping Fatu with his belt. It broke three times,

<v Speaker 1>says Anobie. Oh well, well, all right, I thought it

<v Speaker 1>was twice. It might have actually broken three times. The

<v Speaker 1>cups were not cooperating. So this was the final bit

<v Speaker 1>of hype for their unsanctioned match. I would imagine next

<v Speaker 1>week with a lot of this stuff, we're gonna get

<v Speaker 1>a lot of video packages. So for all intents and purposes,

<v Speaker 1>unless they have like a contract signing or something, this

<v Speaker 1>was really it. And you know, I thought what they

<v Speaker 1>did was fine. I mean, I'm not terribly I'm just

<v Speaker 1>not terribly excited for a lot of what's going on

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown right now. I'm really not. But Drew and

<v Speaker 1>Jacob I have every expectation they're going to go out

<v Speaker 1>there and have a kick ass match, despite you know,

<v Speaker 1>the segments week to week or the story that they're

<v Speaker 1>trying to tell with them. Once the bell rings and

<v Speaker 1>they go out there and they do their thing, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not worried about the match. I'm sure the match is

<v Speaker 1>going to be very good. Now we go to the back.

<v Speaker 1>Our Truth is doing his monthly shilling of the ESPN

<v Speaker 1>Unlimited app and how to use it again for everybody

<v Speaker 1>who was too brain damage to figure it out on

<v Speaker 1>their own, here's what you. So he's talking to somebody,

<v Speaker 1>we can't see who it is. They're off camera, and

<v Speaker 1>then the camera pans over and we see that it's

<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen. He says he's going to become the Missus

<v Speaker 1>Apprentice after beating Kit Wilson tonight. So Damian Priest walks

<v Speaker 1>in and Truth is denying that he confused Dan Housen

<v Speaker 1>with Oscar last week, and comedy ensues. Then we hear

<v Speaker 1>a commotion nearby. Rhea Ripley throws beefab into some equipment

<v Speaker 1>and then we see Ria and she goes one down,

<v Speaker 1>one to go. Then after this, it was out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring with the United States Champion. No not Julia,

<v Speaker 1>She's banned from the building. But the men's United States

<v Speaker 1>champion Sammy's ay, and he is getting booed badly like

<v Speaker 1>he's a heel to these fans like this is not like,

<v Speaker 1>oh man, he got some light booze, Like no, he

<v Speaker 1>went out there and he was fucking booed out of

<v Speaker 1>the building. He goes he had, of course, he acknowledged it.

<v Speaker 1>He goes interesting reaction, Yes, very interesting, he said, Well,

<v Speaker 1>I think it's about time we nip this in the bud.

<v Speaker 1>He could hear the winds of change, he says. All

<v Speaker 1>everyone talks about is change these days. Even his friends

<v Speaker 1>like Cody Rhodes Randy Orton have told him that he

<v Speaker 1>should change and he should, you know, become a different

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's Ain. But out here, by the sound of it,

<v Speaker 1>the people want to see change as well, and they're

<v Speaker 1>just booing the shit out of him. More booze raining

<v Speaker 1>down upon poor Sammy's Ain. So Sammy says he's built

<v Speaker 1>his career around giving people something more than a T

<v Speaker 1>shirt or a phrase or a viral moment. He's tried

<v Speaker 1>to give us himself. He wants to be himself. He

<v Speaker 1>wants to be real, and he wants people. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he knows that people are gonna boo, but there's also

<v Speaker 1>people that will cheer because he's got fans out there

<v Speaker 1>that still care about him being able to give them

<v Speaker 1>something real tho. Those are the fans he cares about.

<v Speaker 1>The kids that he meets who believes in him boo.

<v Speaker 1>He just going on. He goes the people who found

<v Speaker 1>inspiration in him boo. That's basically the crowd tonight towards

<v Speaker 1>Poort Samy's Ain. He says he still loves us and

<v Speaker 1>he's not going to betray us. As for the ones

<v Speaker 1>booing him, he doesn't even know what he What did

<v Speaker 1>I do? He said, like, what did I do to

<v Speaker 1>deserve this? But that's okay because he doesn't care. His

<v Speaker 1>real fans will always have his back. He knows there

<v Speaker 1>are ride Ride or Die Sammy's Ain fans out there.

<v Speaker 1>He goes, where are you at? Where are those rider

<v Speaker 1>die fans? And they just continued to boom. If they

<v Speaker 1>were there, they were drowned out by the fans who

<v Speaker 1>were booing. He goes. In nine days he enters WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>as the champion and he will leave as champion boo.

<v Speaker 1>So that brings out Trick Williams, who definitely he gets

<v Speaker 1>the opposite of booze. He gets applause. The fans are

<v Speaker 1>very happy. Yes, the fans are very happy to see

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams. They chant whoop that Trick as he makes

<v Speaker 1>his way out to the ring with his side chick

<v Speaker 1>Lil YACHTI So Trick thinks that the people are tired

<v Speaker 1>of hearing Sammy talk. That gets a big pop. All

<v Speaker 1>Sammy does is whine and cry. Trick didn't need twenty

<v Speaker 1>years to get to this spot. But whether you like

<v Speaker 1>it or hate it, He's going to beat Sammy's ass

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. Everyone loves Trick Williams. Sammy disagrees. He says,

<v Speaker 1>the people don't love Trick. Love takes time to build.

<v Speaker 1>What have you been here for six months? If that?

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, uh, it's more like half that. It

<v Speaker 1>hasn't even been anywhere close to six months that he's

<v Speaker 1>been on TV on the main roster. He goes, the

<v Speaker 1>fans have a crush on Tricky. He may even be

<v Speaker 1>a little infatuated, and for good reason. But here's the thing.

<v Speaker 1>You can make jokes at his expense, but to WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>Trick has to wrestle a main eventter and Trick will

<v Speaker 1>drown in deep waters. Trick hasn't shown anything, and at

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania he'll find out real quick whether or not he

<v Speaker 1>can hang. So out comes Matt Cardona for the next match,

<v Speaker 1>and with that we go to the commercial. As far

<v Speaker 1>as the reaction to Sammy, I mean this has been

<v Speaker 1>building now for a while. This was not like an

<v Speaker 1>overnight thing. People have liked Trick from the moment he

<v Speaker 1>showed up on SmackDown. They hear that music, they want

<v Speaker 1>to chant, whoop that Trick. I would say, within two

<v Speaker 1>weeks if that right of him being on the main roster,

<v Speaker 1>he was already getting more cheers than Booze. It's just

<v Speaker 1>been building and building and building ever since then. And

<v Speaker 1>for Sammy it's exactly the opposite where the fans kind

<v Speaker 1>of started booing him, and now it's just full blown

<v Speaker 1>like fucking boo we don't like you. You know, you're

<v Speaker 1>too weak, And I mean how many times we have

<v Speaker 1>to sit through segments on that show where Sammy was

<v Speaker 1>like second guessing himself and he was depressed and he

<v Speaker 1>was smacking water bottles around, and I mean, you know,

<v Speaker 1>after a while, fans will like, I don't want cheer

<v Speaker 1>for this guy. This guy's fucking pathetic. This guy over

<v Speaker 1>here he looks cool, right, he's fun, will cheer for him.

<v Speaker 1>So it's been a it's been a gradual thing. And

<v Speaker 1>I'm you know, watching this, and I mean, I certainly

<v Speaker 1>hope that was the anticipated reaction. Yeah, you had Sammy going, wait,

<v Speaker 1>hold on a second, what did I do? Like, I

<v Speaker 1>would certainly hope that was all part of the plan

<v Speaker 1>here and not him just genuinely like, hey, hold on,

<v Speaker 1>admitted here I got my rider. Die fans, what are

<v Speaker 1>you booing me for? Never? Never, in all these weeks

<v Speaker 1>that we've been seeing this play out, has it felt

<v Speaker 1>to me like a better time. And I've said this before,

<v Speaker 1>to do a double turn at WrestleMania than it does

<v Speaker 1>right now, you could pull it off. You could pull it.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, the fans were already kind of doing it

<v Speaker 1>for you. But I think there's a way to do

<v Speaker 1>it at WrestleMania where Sammy is willing to go to

<v Speaker 1>a place and do something that he normally would not

<v Speaker 1>be willing to. Like Babyface, Sammy's a would not be

<v Speaker 1>willing to take a short cut. He would not be

<v Speaker 1>willing to take the low road if that's what it

<v Speaker 1>takes to keep his championship. And I think we're going

<v Speaker 1>to see something like that at WrestleMania. That'll be sort

<v Speaker 1>of the inflection point and call it a double turn

<v Speaker 1>or whatever, but I think that's the moment where everything

<v Speaker 1>kind of gets flipped because it just makes all the

<v Speaker 1>sense in the world, and Trick doesn't have to win

<v Speaker 1>the belt to WrestleMania. Like you could just have that

<v Speaker 1>moment where Sammy finally realizes, like, okay, you want me

<v Speaker 1>to change, and he, like I said, he takes that shortcut.

<v Speaker 1>He's able to keep his championship, and then coming out

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania, you can build to Trick eventually getting the belt.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that's what they're gonna do, But

<v Speaker 1>Trick doesn't necessarily have to win the title of WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>is what I'm saying. But again, if it wasn't clear

<v Speaker 1>earlier on the show, it's certainly clear now. No Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>Hayes added to this match of WrestleMania. But we had

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams against Mac Cardona. This did not need thirteen minutes.

<v Speaker 1>This probably went about five minutes too long. Cardona made

<v Speaker 1>a comeback. He lined up trick for a Brosky boot

<v Speaker 1>he pulled out at Chelsea Green un prettier for a

<v Speaker 1>near fall. Williams responded by sending Cardona face first into

<v Speaker 1>the turnbuckle hit a neck breaker. So Cardona again, he

<v Speaker 1>made a comeback and we had like a little run

<v Speaker 1>of offense here from him, Lil YACHTI. At this point,

<v Speaker 1>Samy's ain got up on the apron because they were

<v Speaker 1>all out there to watch what was going on here,

<v Speaker 1>and Williams had challenged Samy's Ain to come fight him,

<v Speaker 1>So Sammy got up on the apron. Lil YACHTI tripped

<v Speaker 1>him up. He was all happy and proud of himself,

<v Speaker 1>but then as he's walking away when he turned around,

<v Speaker 1>he ate a halluva kick and so down goes Lil YACHTI.

<v Speaker 1>In the ring, Williams avoided a roll up and then

<v Speaker 1>he finished off Cardona with the trick shot. So yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, we got our one on one match at

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania for the US title, and I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>they're gonna do, but it is right for a double turn.

<v Speaker 1>If anybody could really use a shake up in their character.

<v Speaker 1>Right now, it is Sammy's ay. He's just in this

<v Speaker 1>weird place where people they're gonna want to boo him now.

<v Speaker 1>But for a while there, they didn't really know how

<v Speaker 1>to react. He wasn't getting these overwhelmingly positive reactions either

<v Speaker 1>over the last few months. So I think you need

<v Speaker 1>to make a decision one way or the other. Do

<v Speaker 1>you want him to be a babyface or do you

<v Speaker 1>want him to be a heel? And I think right

<v Speaker 1>now him being a heel is what makes sense and

<v Speaker 1>trick Williams in the long run. Being a babyface. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he's already kind of a babyface, but I wouldn't change

<v Speaker 1>anything radically about his character, his personality. He shouldn't be

<v Speaker 1>going around kissing babes and sucking up to the fans

<v Speaker 1>or anything like that. Just sort of let him do

<v Speaker 1>his thing, and I think the fans will just continue

<v Speaker 1>to naturally, you know, gravitate towards him, just sort of

<v Speaker 1>stay the course. The story here really is Sammy. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he's the one undergoing this sort of transformation right now.

<v Speaker 1>But then it was time for the in ring debut

<v Speaker 1>of Dan Housen. He actually had a match against Kit Wilson,

<v Speaker 1>and they announced Dan Housen as hailing from thirteen eleven

<v Speaker 1>Mockingbird Lane, which I thought was very clever. If you're

<v Speaker 1>too young to know what that reference is all about,

<v Speaker 1>the Monsters used to live at thirteen thirteen Mockingbird Lane.

<v Speaker 1>The Monsters was a TV show from the sixties. No,

<v Speaker 1>I was not born in the sixties, but I did

<v Speaker 1>used to watch Monsters reruns. It was a very popular

<v Speaker 1>show there for a couple of years. I think it

<v Speaker 1>was only a couple of years too. I don't think it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think it went on for like years and years,

<v Speaker 1>and maybe it was like two years. Anyway, they lived

<v Speaker 1>at thirteen thirteen mocking Bird Lanes, so Dan Housen apparently

<v Speaker 1>is neighbors with the Munsters. For those who get the reference,

<v Speaker 1>So dan Housen hits a drop kick and then he

<v Speaker 1>hits a bridging supplex for a two ken. The announcers

<v Speaker 1>play it up like, Wow, we didn't know he had

<v Speaker 1>this sort of wrestling ability, even though I mean, he's

<v Speaker 1>been here now for what month and a half, and

<v Speaker 1>he is a wrestler, right, I mean, why else is

<v Speaker 1>he here? Has anybody asked the question up to this

<v Speaker 1>point of like who this guy is and why he's here,

<v Speaker 1>one would assume he's a wrestler. He knows some wrestling holds.

<v Speaker 1>So Miz was outside with his back turned. He was

<v Speaker 1>playing to the crowd. He thought that Kit Wilson was

<v Speaker 1>in control. Dan Housen does a baseball slide out to

<v Speaker 1>the floor and he sort of just sidles up to

<v Speaker 1>him and poses besides the mis and the mist first

<v Speaker 1>doesn't realize that it's Dan Housen, and then when he does,

<v Speaker 1>he gets all freaked out. So they did the Shawn

<v Speaker 1>Michaels and Molina spot from Survivor series. But then Wilson

<v Speaker 1>comes flying in from out of nowhere with his leaping

<v Speaker 1>charging elbow that actually looked really good, and he wiped

<v Speaker 1>out Dan Housen. Back inside, Wilson headed up top for

<v Speaker 1>a diving elbow, but before he could dive off, Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen sat up. He did an undertaker sit up, and

<v Speaker 1>then he looked up at Kit Wilson. He did the

<v Speaker 1>you know, whatever it is, I don't know what the

<v Speaker 1>fuck this is. I don't know what I'm doing. That

<v Speaker 1>thing he does, you know where he just goes like this.

<v Speaker 1>He cursed the entire show, but he cursed Kit Wilson,

<v Speaker 1>and as soon as he curses him, a burst of

<v Speaker 1>pyro like a sparkler, shoots up. He almost shot up

<v Speaker 1>his ass. It shot up from the ring post where

<v Speaker 1>he was standing. It may have gone up his ass,

<v Speaker 1>and then he ends up crouching himself on the top rope.

<v Speaker 1>Miz got knocked off the apron by Dan Housen, who

<v Speaker 1>finished Wilson off with a running boot for the wind.

<v Speaker 1>But then when the match was over, the Miz was

<v Speaker 1>sizing him up. He was gonna give him a skull

<v Speaker 1>crushing for now. The lights go out, and when the

<v Speaker 1>lights come back on, Dan Housen is in the process

<v Speaker 1>of running up the aisleway, so he was able to escape.

<v Speaker 1>This man is a magician. He has magical powers. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>the jokes on Dan Housen, SmackDown is already koyah. There's

<v Speaker 1>nothing he could do. You can't double curse SmackDown. SmackDown's

<v Speaker 1>already been cursed. Look with the Dan Housen stuff, I'm

<v Speaker 1>fine with there being comic relief. I get a kick

<v Speaker 1>out of his stick. Like I said last week with

<v Speaker 1>the referee. You know he got cursed and he couldn't

<v Speaker 1>count the three and like, it's one of those things

<v Speaker 1>where I wish the overall show was so much better

<v Speaker 1>than it is, and then you kind of have that

<v Speaker 1>one comic relief or two comic relief segments and that's fine,

<v Speaker 1>but the show is so fucking atrocious to go from

<v Speaker 1>all the stuff that I just described and everything I

<v Speaker 1>just talked about, you know, into something like this, and

<v Speaker 1>you just sort of sit there and go, what are

<v Speaker 1>we doing here? You know? I like Dan Housen, I

<v Speaker 1>just he's on a terrible television show and it's not

<v Speaker 1>like he's really he's not meant to be the kind

<v Speaker 1>of person who is going to take an awful television

<v Speaker 1>show and make it better. That's not his role on

<v Speaker 1>the show. So it doesn't make the show better. But again,

<v Speaker 1>it's amusing enough doesn't bother me. Backstage, Jade Cargill is

<v Speaker 1>getting ready to come out for her main event and

<v Speaker 1>she doesn't have her baddies with her, but she finds

<v Speaker 1>Mechen laid out on the floor and she goes what

<v Speaker 1>happened and Michen says, Jade or not Jade? She looked

<v Speaker 1>up at her and goes, well, Jade, she goes Ria.

<v Speaker 1>Ria got to her, and so Jade says she knows

<v Speaker 1>what she has to do. So in any event, Rhea

<v Speaker 1>Ripley is about to come out here. Actually, no, after

<v Speaker 1>what am I saying? We have to go to the announcers. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>this is great, You're gonna love this. So they go

<v Speaker 1>to a break and we have Joe tested to our

<v Speaker 1>hyping that on SmackDown next week we will have the

<v Speaker 1>Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal And I've told you,

<v Speaker 1>if it were up to me, Royce Keys would be

<v Speaker 1>the winner. And get ready, it's the MFTs against the

<v Speaker 1>Wyatt six. I told you we weren't done with this.

<v Speaker 1>I told you we weren't that. And we're not gonna

<v Speaker 1>be done with the next week either. I'm not convinced

<v Speaker 1>that we're gonna be done with the next week either.

<v Speaker 1>But they're gonna have a street fight. They're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>a Las Vegas street fight. So if you thought we

<v Speaker 1>were done with this because they got the lantern back,

<v Speaker 1>we ain't done with it yet. We got to wrap

<v Speaker 1>this up with a street fight next week. Gee, I'm sorry,

<v Speaker 1>I won't be here for that one. I won't be

<v Speaker 1>here for Dynamite or SmackDown next week. Oh man, I'm

<v Speaker 1>so bummed about that. What will I ever do? I

<v Speaker 1>may have to join a support group. But then Joe

<v Speaker 1>and Wade are running down all of the matches for

<v Speaker 1>the WrestleMania Night one card and the WrestleMania Nite two card,

<v Speaker 1>and they're going through the matches and they come upon

<v Speaker 1>Demon Finn Balor because they gotta sell tickets, so they

<v Speaker 1>just went and told you it's gonna be Demon Balor

<v Speaker 1>one on one with Dominic Mysterio. And I'm listening to

<v Speaker 1>this and they actually had Wade Barrett, I hope they

<v Speaker 1>had him say this, and he didn't just say this

<v Speaker 1>on his own. They had Wade Barrett say it's the

<v Speaker 1>Demon version, perhaps unbeatable. Unbeatable, Yes, unbeatable except for the

<v Speaker 1>last two matches that we've seen the Demon in that

<v Speaker 1>he lost. You lost the Roman Reigns, and he lost

<v Speaker 1>the edge inside Hell and hisself. So except for the

<v Speaker 1>two matches that he fucking lost, Yes, I suppose you

<v Speaker 1>could say he's unbeatable. They just say shit on this

<v Speaker 1>show like they there's no like they don't care, they

<v Speaker 1>don't give a shit. It's like Hey, if it sounds good,

<v Speaker 1>we'll just say it, even if it's not true, even

<v Speaker 1>if it doesn't make any sense. Whatever. We got to

<v Speaker 1>make this guy sound intimidating, so we'll just call him unbeatable. Sure, amazing.

<v Speaker 1>Jade car Gill in the main event, one on one

<v Speaker 1>against the Yo Sky God Bless EO. I mean, she tried,

<v Speaker 1>she tried, She tried to get the people into this.

<v Speaker 1>She pointed at herself. You know, this is what EO does, right, right,

<v Speaker 1>this is what EO does. I feel like doing that

<v Speaker 1>to myself when I'm watching this show, only my head

<v Speaker 1>in the wall, just go back and forth like that.

<v Speaker 1>So she's doing that, and the fans love doing this,

<v Speaker 1>so of course everybody cheers. It's an easy way to

<v Speaker 1>get the people to pop. But there was no heat

<v Speaker 1>to be had here in this match Jade. There was

<v Speaker 1>a nice little blue thunderbomb by Jade. Then she had

<v Speaker 1>EO in position for a choke slam. EO turned it

<v Speaker 1>into a double stomp. Jade rolled outside. She got dropped

<v Speaker 1>by a moon salt from the apron by EO. Jade

<v Speaker 1>then dropped her face first onto the steel steps with

<v Speaker 1>a wheelbarrow, and then came the pump kick and then jaded,

<v Speaker 1>like me, when this show is over, I'm very jaded.

<v Speaker 1>And she got the win, and of course she was

<v Speaker 1>going to because she's the WWE champion and she's the

<v Speaker 1>one who has a WrestleMania match and not EO's guy,

<v Speaker 1>So it made sense that Jade would win. But it

<v Speaker 1>was still sad though that EO ended up being used

<v Speaker 1>as a pawn in someone else's story. You know, this

<v Speaker 1>is a woman who went out there last year as

<v Speaker 1>the defending World Heavyweight Champion and had the best match

<v Speaker 1>all weekend of WrestleMania. In my opinion, I think I

<v Speaker 1>had it on my list as my favorite match, my

<v Speaker 1>top match of twenty twenty five, and as of this moment,

<v Speaker 1>as of this moment, eight days out from the show,

<v Speaker 1>she does not have a match. So instead we'll use

<v Speaker 1>her to get this other story over. This other story

<v Speaker 1>which has been horrendous. By the way, that hasn't been

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's still better than this Pat McAfee bullshit,

<v Speaker 1>but it's not like that story's been lighting the world

<v Speaker 1>on fire either. So she took the l here in

<v Speaker 1>this match. When it was over, Jade goes outside. She

<v Speaker 1>grabs a chair and she brings the chair into the

<v Speaker 1>ring with her and Rhea Ripley. She runs down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring and jumps inside, and now they're circling each

<v Speaker 1>other right around EO's carcass, just laying in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of the ring. And Jade drops the chair out to

<v Speaker 1>the floor like Sting when he would drop the baseball

<v Speaker 1>bat and then he would go beat up the nWo.

<v Speaker 1>She drops the chair and then she leaps, She goes outside,

<v Speaker 1>she sets the chair up, she opens a chair on

<v Speaker 1>the floor, but then she just walks away and she

<v Speaker 1>heads down the aisle and she says, I'll see you

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. And that was it. Very anticlimactic ending to

<v Speaker 1>the show here. But they go off the air, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, they went three minutes overtime, which is very

<v Speaker 1>unusual for SmackDown. SmackDown does not typically get an overrun,

<v Speaker 1>nor should it because you have three hours, so what

<v Speaker 1>the hell do you need an overrun for? But they

<v Speaker 1>got a three minute overrun, And I'm just like, I'm

<v Speaker 1>looking at this and especially what we got an overrun for.

<v Speaker 1>It's not like anything happened at the end the last thing.

<v Speaker 1>This three hour pile of shit needs is an extra

<v Speaker 1>three minutes. Fuck this show and fuck anybody who had

<v Speaker 1>anything to do with producing it. Those are my thoughts

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown tonight. They found somehow they found a way

<v Speaker 1>to take an angle from last week in that horror

<v Speaker 1>segment we had on the show last week, all the

<v Speaker 1>McAfee stuff, and they found a way to maga worse.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't think that was possible. As bad as last

<v Speaker 1>week was, I didn't think it was possible, But they

<v Speaker 1>keep proving me wrong every single week. They somehow found

<v Speaker 1>a way to make it worse. Because this dragged on

<v Speaker 1>even longer, and this, unlike last week where McAfee came

<v Speaker 1>out towards the end of the segment like he was

<v Speaker 1>the big reveal, he was the big surprise this week.

<v Speaker 1>Who was the Pat McAfee show. From the moment he

<v Speaker 1>strolled into the building in the back and had his

<v Speaker 1>confrontation with Jelly Roll to the moment he went out

<v Speaker 1>there in the ring and had his confrontation with Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhoades to the moment he left the building and got

<v Speaker 1>in his car and called everybody marks and then drove off.

<v Speaker 1>It was the Pat McAfee show. Through and through, and

<v Speaker 1>you know he's out there, you know, using all of

<v Speaker 1>the insider terms and doing the work shoot stuff and

<v Speaker 1>talking about Punk who has nothing to do with this

<v Speaker 1>fucking match, and he's half the fucking promo is cut

<v Speaker 1>on CM Punk, Like they're out there shooting on each other.

<v Speaker 1>How is that supposed to get me excited for Cody

<v Speaker 1>Roads against Randy Orton? Like, shouldn't that be the goal here?

<v Speaker 1>So this week was far worse in terms of what

<v Speaker 1>they did, far worse and far more counterproductive than even

<v Speaker 1>what they did last week? What did you think of? SmackDown?

<v Speaker 1>Ten percent, thumbs up? Ninety percent went for the shit emoji.

<v Speaker 1>I thought about putting it for the thumbs up too,

<v Speaker 1>That way you'd have no choice but to pick the

<v Speaker 1>poop emoji. The poop emoji is actually a just the

<v Speaker 1>perfect representation of this show. But I think that Poul

<v Speaker 1>says it all. How did we get to this point?

<v Speaker 1>How did it get so bad? How does this show

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think McAfee is going to mention the cage

<v Speaker 1>match rating? Oh? That was Yeah, that was great too

<v Speaker 1>last week when he alluded to the cage match rating

<v Speaker 1>for SmackDown when SmackDown got its worst ever rating on

<v Speaker 1>cagematch dot Net. I never want to hear anybody make

<v Speaker 1>fun of Tony Kahan ever again for bringing up cage

<v Speaker 1>match after we had Pat McAfee go on television last

<v Speaker 1>week and allude to a cage match rating. At first,

<v Speaker 1>when he first made that comment last week, I thought

<v Speaker 1>he was talking about one of the recent television ratings,

<v Speaker 1>but when I had checked, that's actually not true. SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>did not get its lowest television rating recently, but it

<v Speaker 1>did get its lowest cage match rating, And then I

<v Speaker 1>realized this is even worse than I thought. Death side

<v Speaker 1>to buy or sell on which TV match was better?

<v Speaker 1>And deserve to have a proper program. John Cena versus

<v Speaker 1>Jeff Hardy on the June second, two thousand and eight

<v Speaker 1>episode of Raw or CM Punk against AJ Styles on

<v Speaker 1>the January twenty sixth, twenty twenty sixth episode of Raw

<v Speaker 1>Punk and AJ. They should have had a proper pl match,

<v Speaker 1>but again, you know, AJ was winding down and unfortunately

<v Speaker 1>there just wasn't enough time to do it. What was

<v Speaker 1>that his second to last match. That's what happens when

<v Speaker 1>you wait, sometimes you run out of time. Unfortunately, super

<v Speaker 1>Pony Kenny Omega was right. The main event of WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>next year will be Mister Beast against I Show Speed

<v Speaker 1>hashtag fuck TKO, hashtag Ruthless Depression Chicago for MBK, Pat

<v Speaker 1>and Jelly squaring off n WWE. What a joke. It's amazing,

<v Speaker 1>and there are people that will lap it up. That's

<v Speaker 1>your main event feud and people will lap it up.

<v Speaker 1>Death Sithe says on Monday, Roman should go full Jason

<v Speaker 1>Vorhees on Punk like Rock did Dacody in twenty twenty four,

<v Speaker 1>because there's no way he can come back at punk

<v Speaker 1>on the mic, I think that you're disrespecting Jason Vorhees

<v Speaker 1>when you say that. Let's not downplay how brutal Jason

<v Speaker 1>could be. A workingman says A finger poke of Doom

<v Speaker 1>was better than this. Yes, you know why, because it

<v Speaker 1>was quick. It's like ripping off a band aid. At

<v Speaker 1>least it was quick. This is like a prolonged death

<v Speaker 1>Chicago for MBK, it's getting worse every week. WTF, I know?

<v Speaker 1>Brother Chaotic says, rip this ish apart and fans boycott Mania. Well,

<v Speaker 1>they're not going to boycott Mania. Not if they paid

<v Speaker 1>already for their ticket. They're not going to can only

<v Speaker 1>imagine what they paid for that ticket. They're going to WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>That adin't get a change. Uh, super Pony, what's going on?

<v Speaker 1>Brother says they had Pat hold the fucking title up,

<v Speaker 1>not the guide challenging for it on the biggest show

<v Speaker 1>of the year. What the fuck is happening? I think

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee is going to become WWE Champions soon Chicago

<v Speaker 1>for MVK, is this the worst WrestleMania build ever for

<v Speaker 1>a match? If it isn't, it's it's definitely top three, absolutely,

<v Speaker 1>especially for a match of this importance, a main event

<v Speaker 1>level match. Yes, mactubb Triple H still deserves most of

<v Speaker 1>the blame. Not TKO deserves blame as well. You can

<v Speaker 1>blame them both. We're not excusing TKO Super Pony Ari

<v Speaker 1>Emmanuel is evil, Yes, Prince Vegeta says as it comes

<v Speaker 1>to celebrities in the Cody Randy feud, as Leon says

<v Speaker 1>in one of the Greatest games of all time, Resident

<v Speaker 1>Evil for no thanks Bro? Is that like his signature quote?

<v Speaker 1>No thanks Bro? Is that what Vince Russo says when

<v Speaker 1>he gets a call from a telemarketer? No thanks, Bro?

<v Speaker 1>We got Josh Stockton mulletman. Get that clown McAfee off

<v Speaker 1>of TV. I haven't watched the weekly shows for years.

<v Speaker 1>I can't stommach them, so I just watched clips on

<v Speaker 1>YouTube first time ever. I won't be tuning in to WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Sole Monster. You are doing God's work. It's

<v Speaker 1>getting harder and harder. Josh Metal Ghost zero. That was

<v Speaker 1>the worst promo I've ever seen. Cody could not save it.

<v Speaker 1>It just kept going. I quit. I don't care anymore.

<v Speaker 1>Pat told us not to watch Night two. Why even

<v Speaker 1>watch any of it? Solo? You Rock? I don't blame you, man,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's just a lot of people who are

<v Speaker 1>very disillusioned with the product overall, but especially you know

<v Speaker 1>the way they've sabotaged this MATCHI and whoever you want

<v Speaker 1>to blame for it, I don't really give a shit

<v Speaker 1>who you blame. But this is happening. This is a

<v Speaker 1>thing that's happening in real time and we're watching it

<v Speaker 1>play out, and it's just very sad that they have ruined.

<v Speaker 1>They have ruined one of the WrestleMania made events. And

<v Speaker 1>I feel like, even if they shot some kind of

<v Speaker 1>major angle at the show, let's just let's just throw

<v Speaker 1>the name out there, the Rock. Let's just say the

<v Speaker 1>Rock right shows up at the end of WrestleMania Night one,

<v Speaker 1>right and everybody's gonna cream themselves and everyone, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>the final bass is back, like at this point, like

<v Speaker 1>even that can't save this, Like that can't save this.

<v Speaker 1>What would that even accomplish? Because there are still some

<v Speaker 1>people who and we heard it on commentary tonight where

<v Speaker 1>they were kind of alluding to or maybe Nickol was

<v Speaker 1>a way bare Wade Bearer made a comment about how

<v Speaker 1>there's some sort of like invisible shield around Pat McAfee,

<v Speaker 1>like because it was ruled that nobody could put their

<v Speaker 1>hands on him tonight, Like where is that coming from?

<v Speaker 1>And assuming ari Emanuel is not becoming an on air character,

<v Speaker 1>which fuck right off with that? What could that be

<v Speaker 1>leading to? Right? So people naturally think the Rock because

<v Speaker 1>he's very tight with McAfee, he's on the board, he's

<v Speaker 1>got history with Cody storyline wise, it would actually make

<v Speaker 1>a lot of sense. I don't see what that even accomplishes.

<v Speaker 1>Like that can't even save this at this point because

<v Speaker 1>we know he's not going to be around. He's not

<v Speaker 1>going to be a focal point of the television show

<v Speaker 1>the way that McAfee and Jelly role have been. You know,

<v Speaker 1>the guy's got at least two movies coming up to film,

<v Speaker 1>including a Martin Scorsese movie. What the fuck do you

<v Speaker 1>think he's coming back and actually doing if the Rock

<v Speaker 1>shows up? Like, really, just take a second and stop

<v Speaker 1>and think about what you're even saying. The people who

<v Speaker 1>I still hear the Rock Rock Rock, Like, what do

<v Speaker 1>you think that actually looks like? Josh Stockton says, do

<v Speaker 1>you think the product would be better with Paul Hayman

<v Speaker 1>his head of creative or is WWE a lost cause

<v Speaker 1>under TKO? Regardless much love from Newcastle UK, I mean

<v Speaker 1>I think Hayman is I mean, he's part of the

<v Speaker 1>brain trust there, so I'm sure he contributes ideas. If

<v Speaker 1>you watch Unreal, he's in the writer's room. I mean

<v Speaker 1>he's contributing. If he was the head of Creative, I

<v Speaker 1>think things would in some cases probably be better, and

<v Speaker 1>he would have his people that he would want to push.

<v Speaker 1>I think Carmelo Hayes would have a WrestleMania match this year,

<v Speaker 1>but he would have to answer to the same masters

<v Speaker 1>that Levec does like And if TKO is going to

<v Speaker 1>medal in Creative, it doesn't matter who's running Creative. It

<v Speaker 1>could be Levec, it could be Bruce, it could be

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hayman, it could be road Dog, it could be you,

<v Speaker 1>it could be me. It doesn't matter. That wouldn't even

<v Speaker 1>make a difference that syth after wrestle many of forty

<v Speaker 1>two they should move gunther La, Knight, Obafemi and even

<v Speaker 1>Punk to SmackDown because the wrestling gods know this show

<v Speaker 1>can use them more than Raw. Well, you can't move

<v Speaker 1>all of them. You have Royce Keys, they debuted him

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown, Obafemi is on RAW. I would not have

<v Speaker 1>them on the same brand. And you can't move all

<v Speaker 1>those guys, all the ones from one brand to the other.

<v Speaker 1>And who do you move to raw warm corn with

<v Speaker 1>a par of super chats jelly roll with Cody? Who's

<v Speaker 1>next Apple Fritterman. Pat McAfee looks like a right wing

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Bravo. He doesn't have the Johnny Bravo hair. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Pepper Saint, welcome to the channel. You picked a hell

<v Speaker 1>of a knight to join. Death Site, says the Cody

<v Speaker 1>Randy fud should have been Randy trying to make a

<v Speaker 1>hat out of Cody's entrails and terrorizing his family, not

<v Speaker 1>having PC Principle as his wingman. Yeah, I mean it's

<v Speaker 1>basically Cody Roads against Pat McAfee with Randy Orton in

<v Speaker 1>his corner. That's the feud. Now, think of how long

<v Speaker 1>we spent watching Pat McAfee in the ring tonight as

<v Speaker 1>compared to how long we spent watching Randy Orton on

<v Speaker 1>this show. And you're gonna have people defending this and

<v Speaker 1>saying this is great, this is great television, This is

<v Speaker 1>the way it should be. That's why the product is

<v Speaker 1>in the shape that it's in Because people lap this

<v Speaker 1>shit up. They're part of the problem. They actually have

<v Speaker 1>caused this to some degree. They bear some of the

<v Speaker 1>responsibility when we see bullshit like this. Jeremy thunderstrikes Cody

<v Speaker 1>and Punk needs chokes lamp. Pat offn Dried Chicken says,

<v Speaker 1>here's a new nickname for Pat McAfee. Duke Nukem. He

<v Speaker 1>nukes and bombs on the mic. Josh says fen fiend.

<v Speaker 1>Fiend involved in the main event of WrestleMania forty one,

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee involved in the main event of WrestleMania forty two,

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania forty three in Saudi What next? I don't want

<v Speaker 1>to know. I'm kind of scared. Frankly, I'm afraid to ask.

<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine what that reveal is gonna be? Venom

<v Speaker 1>Ktetsu Hope your stresses are tamed and your worries are minimal.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like all escapism has turned on me except

<v Speaker 1>retro games. Thanks for what you do. If you played

<v Speaker 1>retro games tonight instead of watching SmackDown, you made the

<v Speaker 1>right choice. Death Site says, imagine if we got CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk against Stone Cold and The Rock against either Cody

<v Speaker 1>or Roman a wrestle many of forty three. I would

<v Speaker 1>not trust Triple h and TKO to projectile vomit or

<v Speaker 1>not to on the builds stone Cold against CM Punk.

<v Speaker 1>How old would Austin be next year? Sixty one, sixty two?

<v Speaker 1>I guess Sting was what sixty four when he had

<v Speaker 1>his last match. Yeah, I think the time for Punk

<v Speaker 1>and Austin passed about a decade ago. There was a

<v Speaker 1>moment in time where it would have made sense to

<v Speaker 1>do it twenty thirteen, right somewhere around there, and they

<v Speaker 1>didn't do it. We missed out. Promos would have been great,

<v Speaker 1>Promos would have been fire. He says, sorry, I meant

<v Speaker 1>to say not projectile vam and I swear I haven't

<v Speaker 1>been drinking. Well, if you were drinking during this show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't blame you. It might make it more tolerable.

<v Speaker 1>Only HOGI guilty letting you continue to watch this direk

<v Speaker 1>without giving you something. Thank you for your sacrifice, Salomon, Well,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for the five dollars super chat. I appreciate that,

<v Speaker 1>only Hogy. Aaron says, those main event ads were great.

<v Speaker 1>Less match please, Yes, I agree, I think those main

<v Speaker 1>event advertisements were great. I too would like less action.

<v Speaker 1>I want less action and more commercials on my wrestling shows. QB.

<v Speaker 1>I wonder if Cody now regrets not taking the match

<v Speaker 1>with Rains at WrestleMania. Kung Fu Joseph says, Oh god,

<v Speaker 1>I hope this doesn't get turned into a TKO against

<v Speaker 1>WWE storyline. You mean you're not excited. You're not excited

<v Speaker 1>by TKO being incorporated into the story here, Ragnarok EO

<v Speaker 1>went from world champion to damsel in distress. Another jelly

<v Speaker 1>roll speech, little yachty, terrible ad libs in McAfee, cutting

<v Speaker 1>a terrible promo. Yes, welcome to SmackDown, Welcome to SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>He says, A blunt and a gummy couldn't make this

<v Speaker 1>good for me. Not be Friday, brother, but this show

<v Speaker 1>is poop from an ass and shit from a butt.

<v Speaker 1>Thank god for Oba versus Brock. Yes, somehow, despite all

<v Speaker 1>of this awful television and awful build for some of

<v Speaker 1>these matches, they managed not to fuck up Oba and

<v Speaker 1>Brock like that. That has been flawless. What they've done.

<v Speaker 1>The one thing they've managed not to fuck up here

<v Speaker 1>Chicago for MBK WW and TKO should feel embarrassed. But

<v Speaker 1>they won't. No, TKO won't. I mean to them, this

<v Speaker 1>is what they wanted. They're getting what they want. Give

<v Speaker 1>me backshot Slo Monster ReHO or Rio talk about Riha

<v Speaker 1>and EO damaged EO more than it helped her. I

<v Speaker 1>just think it went on for too long. Nick Grosso

<v Speaker 1>with the nineteen ninety nine First, the EO and Oscar

<v Speaker 1>match was up in the air because of an injury

<v Speaker 1>to Nikki Bella, and now it's because of time constraints.

<v Speaker 1>Which is it. I really think they don't want to

<v Speaker 1>do the match and they are looking for an excuse

<v Speaker 1>not to. Well, they have seven matches on Night one,

<v Speaker 1>and they have six on Night two. But remember they

<v Speaker 1>have the Hall of Famers that they trot at on stage.

<v Speaker 1>I figure they'll do that on night two. So is

<v Speaker 1>that gonna leave time for a match. It's two it's

<v Speaker 1>two nights, like there should be plenty of time. But

<v Speaker 1>I have a funny feeling that they may end up

<v Speaker 1>holding it off until Backlash. That's my fear, not that

<v Speaker 1>we have to wait very long. I mean it's like

<v Speaker 1>two and a half weeks later, but still, I mean

<v Speaker 1>that's if EO and Oscar don't have their match on

<v Speaker 1>that show. I mean, that's just you have two fucking nights, dude,

<v Speaker 1>you have six matches on night two. You have two nights.

<v Speaker 1>You can't find a room for EO Sky versus Oscar

<v Speaker 1>on that show, like it's pathetic. It's just pathetic. Hopefully

<v Speaker 1>we'll get the announcement of the match on Monday. I'm

<v Speaker 1>still holding out hope. Alex says at this point it's

<v Speaker 1>more entertaining to watch the commercials and then the actual show.

<v Speaker 1>This show is horrid from start to finish. Brandon Proctor

<v Speaker 1>with a twelve. That's the learning tree. I went to

<v Speaker 1>a local wrestling show tonight. Safe to say it was

<v Speaker 1>better than SmackDown. Oh, I'm sure it was. I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>it was. I'm sure it didn't offend you. Daniel. The

<v Speaker 1>Miz versus Sena had better build than Cody versus Randy.

<v Speaker 1>You know what to say, nothing of the match itself,

<v Speaker 1>You're probably right, You're probably right. Warm Corn says, you

<v Speaker 1>know it sucked when Solo starts with you know, yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Alexander says, Julian not getting a match at Mania is blasphemy. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, look, that's what happens when you're not over.

<v Speaker 1>She's not over on the show, and so she's not

<v Speaker 1>a priority. She was going out there and people were

<v Speaker 1>jumping up and down or they were yeating or whatever.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, she'd have a role on the show, but

<v Speaker 1>she's not, and so she's just not. Even though she

<v Speaker 1>has a title, she's not a priority for them. You

<v Speaker 1>would hope on the Italy PLA next month that she

<v Speaker 1>would at least have a match. I'm not even sure

<v Speaker 1>about that retro. Koh, imagine making Randy Orton a background

<v Speaker 1>player in his WRESTLEMANIAM main event program. WWE is at

<v Speaker 1>early ninety nine WCW levels. I don't know about two thousand,

<v Speaker 1>not yet anyway. Oh, it's in that territory, brother, it

<v Speaker 1>may not be there yet, but it's definitely hanging around

<v Speaker 1>the edge of the territory there. We got the Oofman

<v Speaker 1>Punk to announce buy one, get four free on Monday.

<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm kind of half expecting them starting on

<v Speaker 1>Monday to have like their key guys going out there saying, hey,

<v Speaker 1>you buy a ticket between now and tomorrow night. You know,

<v Speaker 1>we'll pay you a visit at your house. We'll come

<v Speaker 1>hang out and have dinner with you one night. Please,

<v Speaker 1>please buy tickets, Please buy one, get six free. They're

<v Speaker 1>going to paper the shit out of those shows. It's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be WrestleMania eight all over again. They had sixty

<v Speaker 1>two thousand people at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. I

<v Speaker 1>think the paid number was like forty seven thousand. So

<v Speaker 1>it looked good. It looked full, like if you watch

<v Speaker 1>that WrestleMania. But like business in ninety two, at least

<v Speaker 1>domestically was not great, so it was kind of shocking

<v Speaker 1>to see that many people in the building. But they

<v Speaker 1>papered the shit out of that show. I mean, they

<v Speaker 1>must have been hot as fuck in the UK that

<v Speaker 1>year to get eighty thousand people legit in Wembley Stadium,

<v Speaker 1>that's impressive. But those brits men, those UK fans, you

<v Speaker 1>guys love your wrestling. The working man, this product is

<v Speaker 1>pure torture at this point. To try to watch drizzling

<v Speaker 1>Shits is putting it far too nicely. Only match I

<v Speaker 1>care about his brock and Obafemi the Sheltered Kid was

<v Speaker 1>what you saw tonight, more embarrassing than aw promoting CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk and Jack Perry's brawl. I still think that's my

<v Speaker 1>favorite show from you. You were funny as fuck. Oh

<v Speaker 1>that was that was also pathetic. That was a pure

<v Speaker 1>rating stunt. I think he even admitted to it, because

<v Speaker 1>they did pop up a bit, like they haven't had

<v Speaker 1>a rating that large since that show. I think they

<v Speaker 1>did like eight hundred thousand viewers that night or something.

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I mean that was that was very embarrassing.

<v Speaker 1>But to me, this is worse. This is this is

<v Speaker 1>far worse because again, you're going out there and actively

<v Speaker 1>telling people how much like you're shitting on your own product,

<v Speaker 1>and you're begging people to buy tickets. Like, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>get any it doesn't get any worse than that. It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't get any more pathetic than that. Like, pathetic is

<v Speaker 1>the first word that came to mind. I'm watching this

<v Speaker 1>play out in front of my eyes, I go, this

<v Speaker 1>is this is sad on a level I haven't seen before.

<v Speaker 1>Death Side says Cody, and Randy is giving me triple

<v Speaker 1>H y two J at WrestleMania eighteen vibes. Yeah, it's

<v Speaker 1>not a spot you want to be or or a

<v Speaker 1>triple H and Randy ort in a WrestleMania twenty five

<v Speaker 1>having to go on after that, Shawn Michael's Undertaker match,

<v Speaker 1>the working Man twenty five percent Off hardly puts a

<v Speaker 1>dent in these prices. Lol. No, it really doesn't. It

<v Speaker 1>really doesn't, but I guess that's all that Ram Trucks

<v Speaker 1>can Ford death side. Can we please get Cody Drew,

<v Speaker 1>Randy and Jacob for the WWE title, A match I

<v Speaker 1>had been pitching for months. Instead of Cody and Jelly

<v Speaker 1>against Randy and Magnan, dude, we could have gotten that

<v Speaker 1>four weight WrestleMania. That could have been the WrestleMania match.

<v Speaker 1>Jonathan with the two bucks Rock can't even save the

<v Speaker 1>WWE title match? Can he? No? No, he can't. San

<v Speaker 1>Juan Wolf with a nineteen ninety nine once again, I

<v Speaker 1>miss SmackDown, and based on the reviews, I'm not even

<v Speaker 1>mad here is nineteen ninety nine to compensate you for

<v Speaker 1>watching that match, I should be compensated by WWA. I

<v Speaker 1>feel like what I watched some of these shows, and

<v Speaker 1>I feel like I should be compensated for my time

<v Speaker 1>that I can never get back anyway. Much love from Florida,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, sending one Wolf. I appreciate that Eric Newton says,

<v Speaker 1>watching this garbage makes me realize I never understood how

<v Speaker 1>good we had it during the Monday Night Wars. I

<v Speaker 1>was more of a WCW guy at the time, but

<v Speaker 1>I would switch back and forth and now we get

<v Speaker 1>this garbage. It's sad. Yeah, and they go on television

<v Speaker 1>and they still glorify it. You literally had Cody Rhodes

<v Speaker 1>go out there tonight and basically tell Pat McAfee, dude,

<v Speaker 1>you're talking about an era in the Monday Night Wars

<v Speaker 1>that's thirty years ago. Randy Orton was a fucking kid

<v Speaker 1>in high school. Because that's what he did. Last week.

<v Speaker 1>He starts glorifying and glamorizing the Monday Night War era,

<v Speaker 1>Austin and Rock and the Attitude era. It still gets

<v Speaker 1>talked about to this day. I don't hear people going

<v Speaker 1>on television and talking about, oh man, the Bruno era,

<v Speaker 1>you know, or the Backland era, or even the Golden Era.

<v Speaker 1>They just they always talk about the Monday Night Wars

<v Speaker 1>and the Attitude era and how much better it was,

<v Speaker 1>and we gotta restore that feeling. We gotta bring wrestling

<v Speaker 1>back to the way it was. Why don't you just

<v Speaker 1>come right out and tell your fans that your product

<v Speaker 1>fucking sucks and you wish you could take it back

<v Speaker 1>to the way it was. That's basically what they're saying,

<v Speaker 1>Toya ain't nice. I love angry solo, moll, I'm glad

<v Speaker 1>someone was entertained tonight, Alexander, even excluding McAfee, the whole

<v Speaker 1>Babyface versus Healed dynamic with Cody and Randy's ass backwards.

<v Speaker 1>Randy was getting the cheers and Cody was getting booed,

<v Speaker 1>and you know what, if that's the way it was

<v Speaker 1>gonna be, then that was fine because the fans wanted

<v Speaker 1>to see Randy Orton win number fifteen and they were

<v Speaker 1>getting fatigued of Cody, and it would have made for

<v Speaker 1>a very interesting and it still might, but it would

<v Speaker 1>have made for a very interesting dynamic of rest Mania

<v Speaker 1>for the actual match, But you still would have had

<v Speaker 1>the focus kept on the story, right, But then it

<v Speaker 1>got hijacked and now it's not about Cody and Randy anymore,

<v Speaker 1>because you know that McAfee's going to be there and

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Roll is going to be there, and so now

<v Speaker 1>it's just turned into like, Okay, well, when are they

<v Speaker 1>going to get involved and what are they going to

<v Speaker 1>do and how are they going to factor into the finish.

<v Speaker 1>They've ruined it, like they've ruined the whole premise of

<v Speaker 1>the match, has been completely corrupted. Now, Alexander, thank you

<v Speaker 1>brother again for the four ninety nine. He says, Jeremy

<v Speaker 1>does so all this put the truck keys back in

<v Speaker 1>the truck. Dude, I wasn't even paying attention to what

<v Speaker 1>he did with the keys. I can tell you what

<v Speaker 1>they should do with those keys. The oracle would Hulk, Hogan,

<v Speaker 1>Stone Cold, Steve, Austin and Rock let this happened to them, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I Rock maybe, I you know Austin as protective as

<v Speaker 1>Hogan and Austin were of their creative and their characters. No, No,

<v Speaker 1>I think they would pitch a fit. I think for

<v Speaker 1>first of all, Hogan would always have creative controls. So

<v Speaker 1>the answer is no, it depends what role he's in, though,

<v Speaker 1>you know, maybe if he was in the the Orton role,

<v Speaker 1>and then Pat McAfee could be to him what Dennis

<v Speaker 1>Rodman was at one time. But no, like so much

<v Speaker 1>of the bullshit that we've seen here about now, like no,

<v Speaker 1>some of these guys that there's no way, there's no

<v Speaker 1>way they would have tolerated this shit. Yeah, Austin literally

<v Speaker 1>walked out when he didn't like creative Golden Boy. Did

<v Speaker 1>you see Damian Priest's interview. A lot of wrestlers were

<v Speaker 1>upset with the whole McAfee involvement. I sent you the link.

<v Speaker 1>He also said he'll probably get in trouble for saying it.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think it's a shoot? I think me personally,

<v Speaker 1>I think that they are legitimately upset about what's going on.

<v Speaker 1>Those reports I think are one hundred percent true. I

<v Speaker 1>think that there are a lot of people in the

<v Speaker 1>locker room who are very upset about this. But when

<v Speaker 1>you hear these comments being made publicly in interviews, that's

<v Speaker 1>where I tend to like, Okay, yeah, they're being told

<v Speaker 1>to say some of these things, I think just to

<v Speaker 1>make it feel more real. So I did hear those comments.

<v Speaker 1>I saw the comments that he made, and yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>just the vibe I get is that that was planned

<v Speaker 1>that way, But he may feel that way legitimately. Retro

<v Speaker 1>says the Awful Wrestlemany A thirty two tug of war

<v Speaker 1>between Brock and Roman was a better build than this,

<v Speaker 1>and I mentioned that one four Jeremy Rose. They didn't

<v Speaker 1>even balance the WrestleMania nights. Sunday is stacked, Saturday is

<v Speaker 1>Whack Hot Take Triple Ah won't be booking wrestle Mania

<v Speaker 1>of forty three. Now he will. He'll still be here

<v Speaker 1>a year from now, he'll still be here. Beyond that,

<v Speaker 1>that's a lot. Dice here, Andrew Lima with the nine

<v Speaker 1>ninety nine years ago, I brought up that my grandpa

<v Speaker 1>died and Raw was still the worst thing that happened

<v Speaker 1>to me that week. Dude, I still that was a

<v Speaker 1>legendary super chick. I still remember that one. I actually

<v Speaker 1>brought that up recently. I don't remember why, but I

<v Speaker 1>brought that one up recently. He says, tonight his ghost

<v Speaker 1>came to me and told me to stop watching wrestling. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if a grandpa's ghost comes and tells you

<v Speaker 1>that SmackDown is so horrendous that you should stop watching,

<v Speaker 1>then you have to stop watch it. Don't stop watching me, though,

<v Speaker 1>Just stop watching SmackDown, listen to Grandpa and leave it

<v Speaker 1>to me. Alexander Tiffy was on the WrestleMania promos and

<v Speaker 1>is not on the Plee. Yeah, she has no match

<v Speaker 1>a WrestleMania death side. To try to make you feel better,

<v Speaker 1>I recommend the Overlord anime. It's really good and my

<v Speaker 1>favorite character is Evil. I in fact, I have her

<v Speaker 1>on my bed sheets. Well have her on your bed sheets?

<v Speaker 1>Or do you have her in your bed sheets? Because

<v Speaker 1>that would be pretty cool. Super pony, they never learn

<v Speaker 1>and they don't care. No, they don't. Misfit Wrestling Podcast

<v Speaker 1>with a ten WWE just posted a video package on

<v Speaker 1>Twitter about the tag titles featuring the Bella's indicating Nikki

<v Speaker 1>is cleared good. I'm happy for her. Now. We gotta

<v Speaker 1>get Io Sky her fucking match with Oscar on night too.

<v Speaker 1>Mystic Jay Julian not being a WrestleMania maybe a blessing

<v Speaker 1>in disguise. It's bad enough she gets no reaction on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>I'matching her getting no reaction in media. That's why I

<v Speaker 1>said before she's not She has not gotten over, and

<v Speaker 1>I don't think she's been helped by her booking and

<v Speaker 1>positioning on the show, even though she's got the US title.

<v Speaker 1>But the reality is she's not over. She's just not.

<v Speaker 1>Death Site says, let me rephrase that my duvet is

<v Speaker 1>a picture of evil eye. Sorry, I'm having a bad night.

<v Speaker 1>I've got a cold and SmackDown did not make me

<v Speaker 1>feel any better. Hey, brother me, you can have whatever

<v Speaker 1>bed sheets you want to have. When I was a

<v Speaker 1>little kid, I used to have a little Ninja Turtles

<v Speaker 1>on my bed sheets. That was the ship back then.

<v Speaker 1>Colin says, if there's any reason for WrestleMania to go

<v Speaker 1>back to one night, it is definitely this year's event. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, yeah yeah, I mean WrestleMania this year. This

<v Speaker 1>did not need to be a two night show. I

<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent agree Mike with a ten dollars super chat.

<v Speaker 1>The fact that Carmelo and Dragonov carried that show pretty

<v Speaker 1>much all of twenty twenty five and they're not on

<v Speaker 1>the show, but McAfee is makes me want to puke.

<v Speaker 1>Dynasty is going to be better than WrestleMania bookt Dynasty

<v Speaker 1>on paper is a very strong card and I will

<v Speaker 1>be watching it, but I'm not going live for that

<v Speaker 1>because it ends too damn late and I got a

<v Speaker 1>big week coming up. I'm traveling. I'm not doing it,

<v Speaker 1>So just be aware of that. No live Dynasty review

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday night. I'm gonna save it for the Uncrowned

<v Speaker 1>Wrestling Show on Tuesday. It will be an exclusive. Larry

<v Speaker 1>Jester ranked these rors four to one. Now COVID guest

<v Speaker 1>host and ninety five. I don't know. COVID is COVID

<v Speaker 1>is four. COVID will always be the worst because wrestling

<v Speaker 1>in front of nobody is just awful, and I have

<v Speaker 1>no interest or desire to go back to me. It

<v Speaker 1>has no replay value whatsoever, except maybe like the Boneyard

<v Speaker 1>match or some of the cinematic stuff. COVID is automatically

<v Speaker 1>number four. But man, the guest host era was it

<v Speaker 1>was bad. The guest host era was very bad. But

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go COVID this era guest host and I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna put ninety five and number one Boots. Thank you

<v Speaker 1>for the ten. Hope to see Boots around for our

<v Speaker 1>big WrestleMania weekend next week. Doctor Lawrence Jacobi, we got

<v Speaker 1>a doctor in the house. Doctor. I'm not feeling good

<v Speaker 1>after this show tonight. What should I do? Sas, I'm

<v Speaker 1>really hoping for Mania to be a total disaster, hopefully

<v Speaker 1>the worst in history. As a casual viewer, these times

<v Speaker 1>where everyone is losing their minds over the horrible product

<v Speaker 1>are the most fun. Maybe not for my mental health,

<v Speaker 1>but yes, I think you're onto something there. Justin with

<v Speaker 1>a nine ninety nine. Could you see Oba losing to

<v Speaker 1>brocket Mania, but Gunther wins its SummerSlam against Brock and

<v Speaker 1>later Oba beats Gunther to gain the momentum from him. Also,

<v Speaker 1>who is your early pick for King of the Ring?

<v Speaker 1>Do we even know if they're doing King of the

<v Speaker 1>Ring this year? I don't even know if they're doing it.

<v Speaker 1>I haven't really thought about King of the Ring. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I don't really have an early pick. I'd have to

<v Speaker 1>I'd have to first think about it. I could see

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams potentially, I could see that, but I'd have

<v Speaker 1>to give that some thought. As far as your first idea,

<v Speaker 1>it's not a bad idea, right, because the question is

<v Speaker 1>after all these retirement or with no retirements, but like

<v Speaker 1>these final matches that they have gifted to Gunther. Right,

<v Speaker 1>we already knew John Cena was retiring, but in his

<v Speaker 1>retirement match he loses to guntherro Goldberg loses to Gunther.

<v Speaker 1>Aj Styles loses to Gunther. What's the end game here? Right?

<v Speaker 1>Who beats Gunther and gets the rub? Oba would be

<v Speaker 1>a great candidate. I'd rather Oba beat Brock, But if

<v Speaker 1>Brock is winding down, let's say in Minneapolis, they're not

<v Speaker 1>gonna want Brock to lose his last two matches. It's

<v Speaker 1>not gonna happen. So if he really is wrestling, let's

<v Speaker 1>say his last match for now at Summerslim, then I

<v Speaker 1>think he's almost definitely beating Oba in WrestleMania, and Oba

<v Speaker 1>may not get that win back. Then if Brock then

<v Speaker 1>goes on to lose to Gunther and he disappears, at

<v Speaker 1>that point, Oba would almost have to beat Gunther. I

<v Speaker 1>think he'd be the right guy for it because if

<v Speaker 1>not him, then who If he doesn't get the win

<v Speaker 1>over Brock, I think he has to beat Gunther. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>Oba beats Gunther in the King of the Ring final,

<v Speaker 1>dum m. I don't know, because if you win King

<v Speaker 1>of the Ring, you get a WWE Championship match, don't

<v Speaker 1>you or World Heavyweight title. I guess if he's un raw,

<v Speaker 1>so I don't know if they want him challenging for

<v Speaker 1>the championship that's soon. Yeah, I think people need to

<v Speaker 1>be very much prepared for the likelihood of Brock Lesnar

<v Speaker 1>getting the win on ESPN. I wouldn't do it, but

<v Speaker 1>I think there's a very real possibility. But we have

<v Speaker 1>ladies and gentlemen Bimby. Bimb is with us with a

<v Speaker 1>fifty dollar super chat. Bimb is our King of the Ring.

<v Speaker 1>We just crowned our King of the Ring, King Thimby

<v Speaker 1>with a fifty bucks supersticker. Look at this, it's a

<v Speaker 1>nice sticker. Thank you, brother EJ. Slamp. I hate Pat McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>He's the worst changing gears. I hated Elizabeth in the nWo.

<v Speaker 1>With Savage there would Sherry have been a better fit

<v Speaker 1>with him. Sherry would have been a great fit in anything.

<v Speaker 1>Sherry was fantastic. Yeah. I never really liked Liz in

<v Speaker 1>the nWo. Never really made sense to me. I agree, DJ,

<v Speaker 1>Greetings from Disneyland, solo, drinking my twelve dollars water, resting

<v Speaker 1>my legs and catching up on your stream. Well, don't

<v Speaker 1>let this awful SmackDown ruin your Disneyland experience. I'd be

<v Speaker 1>a lot happier too if I was a Disneyland right now,

<v Speaker 1>the working man. I'd rather relive David Arquette winning the

<v Speaker 1>WCW title again over this shit. Be careful what you

<v Speaker 1>wish for, Doctor Lawrence Jacoby Tko intervene because the show

<v Speaker 1>is shit and making no money. They didn't help, but

<v Speaker 1>it was never their job to make good TV. I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure they wish they could stay out of it. Fire

<v Speaker 1>Triple Oh No, I disagree. No, they're not doing this

<v Speaker 1>to try to save the show. They're doing this because

<v Speaker 1>they're trying to move more tickets to a show that

<v Speaker 1>they thought they would be selling as much as they

<v Speaker 1>did last year and they're not, so they're trying to

<v Speaker 1>move tickets. And again, Pat McAfee was chosen because Ari

<v Speaker 1>Emanuel has ulterior motives involved here beyond just WWE business,

<v Speaker 1>and he's trying to kind of like double dip in away. Right.

<v Speaker 1>WWE owns it, but he just took Pat McAfee on

<v Speaker 1>as a client in the last two months. That's not

<v Speaker 1>a coincidence. Says very little to do with them going, boy,

<v Speaker 1>you know you got to save w and they are

<v Speaker 1>making money. Can't say they're not making money. They are

<v Speaker 1>making money, they're just not making as much money. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Bota Bang and Sugar Asian have joined the chat. What

<v Speaker 1>a married couple that would be? Yuh, maybe we can

<v Speaker 1>get the Miz to marry you too. Apparently the Miz

<v Speaker 1>is an ordained minister. Now whatever I think he's doing,

<v Speaker 1>marriage ceremonies in Vegas this week. The working Man. I'd

<v Speaker 1>rather rewatch Cody as Stardust. At this point, nothing about

<v Speaker 1>current Cody is authentic to me. He's so phony. He

<v Speaker 1>will make a great senator one day, he will, he will.

<v Speaker 1>He does seem like he has a future in politics.

<v Speaker 1>If you've heard of the Cody lies, that right there

<v Speaker 1>tells you he's a perfect fit for politics. Spartan sprinkles

<v Speaker 1>with a five. I enjoy McAfee's humor slash stick. I

<v Speaker 1>am the point zero zero one percent who enjoys. This

<v Speaker 1>should have been saved for after a Cody winning media though.

<v Speaker 1>Randy snaps and brings him pat under no circumstances should

<v Speaker 1>this have been done as part of this wrestle media build.

<v Speaker 1>Just absolutely awful. The working Man next stallone's a lot

<v Speaker 1>of it's a lot of laughing emojis. There gets funnier

<v Speaker 1>every time it's broad Oh it's it's the fucking hilarious.

<v Speaker 1>It's absolutely I think it was bloomberg when the report

<v Speaker 1>initially came out that mentioned that people have been told

<v Speaker 1>he sees him as or he's trying to get him

<v Speaker 1>to be the next ste It actually is very very funny.

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching him out there tonight, I go, oh, this

<v Speaker 1>guy's a master thespian. Yeah, because when I see that,

<v Speaker 1>that's the first thing I think of is the next

<v Speaker 1>Sylvester Stallone. Aaron loves wrestling. Thank God for aw NW,

<v Speaker 1>Japan and House of Glory. See, even Aaron, who legitimately

<v Speaker 1>has this great love for all wrestling, is not attempting

<v Speaker 1>to defend this shit, because even he has his limits

<v Speaker 1>and he realizes that this is terrible trash. Thank you, Aaron.

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Frances, Considering how desperate they sound for ticket sales,

<v Speaker 1>I'm expecting a Craigslist ad for seat fillers and it

<v Speaker 1>go fund me by early next week. Tragic stuff. How

<v Speaker 1>far they have fallen. Devin from NJ two thousand to

<v Speaker 1>Solo agree with JD's guarantee that Triple eight will be

<v Speaker 1>out from running Creative within the next eighteen months. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know about eighteen months, but I do think that

<v Speaker 1>he will be on the hot seat sooner than later.

<v Speaker 1>Like a year. Someone said before a year from now,

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania is Saudi. I think he'll still be in that

<v Speaker 1>chair two years from now. That's a lot harder to say.

<v Speaker 1>I think that his future is tenuous. Long term future

<v Speaker 1>is tenuous at best. Super Pony I will always have

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's back. People who don't appreciate him, don't like pro wrestling. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>he got bland. He got bland. People they don't want bland.

<v Speaker 1>That's also part of the reason why they're kind of

<v Speaker 1>getting Cody fatigue or they're turning on Cody. You got

<v Speaker 1>to know when to change it up. And Cody or

<v Speaker 1>Sammy rather didn't really have a great story up until recently.

<v Speaker 1>At least now this stuff is kind of interesting, like

<v Speaker 1>where are they going to go with it? He was

<v Speaker 1>just too bland that he had no real direction, and

<v Speaker 1>so I'm not really shocked by people's reaction, like there

<v Speaker 1>was nothing to really cheer for. It was kind of boring.

<v Speaker 1>And Daniel Bryan wasn't totally wrong years ago when he

<v Speaker 1>said the fans are fickle. They are fans are fickle.

<v Speaker 1>Mike says, have Oba beat Brock, Trick, beat Sammy and

<v Speaker 1>javon winning the Intercontinental title in the ladder match. Let's

<v Speaker 1>start the future now, It's fine with me. Let's do it.

<v Speaker 1>Let's make it happen. Actually, eh, I hate to end

<v Speaker 1>pent his rain though this soon maybe I wouldn't take

<v Speaker 1>it off Pent yet. But the other two I'm fine

<v Speaker 1>with the other two dead Kirby twenty two. Are they

<v Speaker 1>trying to turn Pat into Jimmy Hart. Pat is no

<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Hart. He is no Jimmy Hart. He is no

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Heaton. Mike says Cardona was the king of the

<v Speaker 1>Indies for how many years? Now? He is a jobber

<v Speaker 1>again in the WWE. The bro never should have come back, dude.

<v Speaker 1>He always wanted to go back to WWE like that

<v Speaker 1>was always the goal was to build himself up so

<v Speaker 1>he can get back to WWA. He's right where he

<v Speaker 1>wants to be. Now. Do I think that he wishes

<v Speaker 1>that they were actually pushing him in a meaningful way? Yes,

<v Speaker 1>But don't get it twisted like he went back there

<v Speaker 1>for a reason because he always wanted to go back there,

<v Speaker 1>and he got his wish. He got to go back,

<v Speaker 1>and he's using his real name and he works, you know,

<v Speaker 1>in the same brand as his wife. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that he's unhappy with that. He knew what he was

<v Speaker 1>getting into when he went back. Dead Kirby says, Paul

<v Speaker 1>is sabotaging Randy like he did with Sina. So he's

<v Speaker 1>just like secretly, I guess not so secretly, sabotaging all

<v Speaker 1>of his old rivals one by one. Who's next, Who's left?

<v Speaker 1>Who's left on the roster that he would have feuded

<v Speaker 1>with back when he was active. Uh, I don't know. Punk.

<v Speaker 1>I guess Punk is going to be next. I think

<v Speaker 1>Punk better watch out. We got electric feel with a

<v Speaker 1>ten dollars super chat. I thought Stephanie was full of

<v Speaker 1>shit at first, but she was right. This version of

<v Speaker 1>Randy is quote diabolical, so much so he's giving us

<v Speaker 1>one plus months of Pat McAfee absolutely diabolical. Yeah, we

<v Speaker 1>just didn't know what she meant by that, but I

<v Speaker 1>think it's becoming clear by the week. This is pretty diabolical,

<v Speaker 1>George with the four ninety nine. Only thing that could

<v Speaker 1>salvage this is Sylvester Stallone literally coming out in tko

<v Speaker 1>ing Pat McAfee in the middle of the ring pun

<v Speaker 1>intended more celebrities? Are you arguing for more celebrities on

<v Speaker 1>this show? Now we're gonna go to Wrestlemdia. We're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have Lil YACHTI show up in trick Williams corner. We're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have I show speed wrestling in the opening match

<v Speaker 1>of night one. We're gonna have Pat McAfee and Jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll in the respective corners of Cody Rhoads and Randy

<v Speaker 1>ort In to WrestleMania until Sylvester Stallone runs out and

<v Speaker 1>he drops Pat McAfee with a TKA in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of the ring, only for Tom Brady to then make

<v Speaker 1>a special surprise appearance call them cute and then kicked

<v Speaker 1>them in the dick and run away. And that is

<v Speaker 1>how WrestleMania will go off the air, The working Man,

<v Speaker 1>The Bloodbath missing Kevin Nash on Thunder was better than

<v Speaker 1>this episode of Smackdow Dude. At least that was entertaining.

<v Speaker 1>That was funny as fuck. He's just casually standing there

<v Speaker 1>waiting for the bloodbath to come down and then it's

<v Speaker 1>missed them by a bouts five or six feet. That

<v Speaker 1>was great. George says, why do you think Raw is

<v Speaker 1>so much more bearable? Other than the length? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I wish I had a good answer for you. I

<v Speaker 1>really don't. It is half an hour shorter, but there's

<v Speaker 1>also different writers on the show and different I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>just the different vision. No pun intended a different vision

<v Speaker 1>that they have for the show. I don't know. It's

<v Speaker 1>still the same basic team though, so I'm not sure

<v Speaker 1>why that is. Diego Vasquez. Sorry, I rather watch Sabrina

<v Speaker 1>Carpenter at Coachella. So what I the working Man says

<v Speaker 1>finger Poke of Doom was better than this? May's the

<v Speaker 1>great with a five. With how bad these shows have

<v Speaker 1>been and will continue to be, I can't help but

<v Speaker 1>think that the SmackDown post show review days might be numbered.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, they keep up with shows like this. Would

<v Speaker 1>you blame me? No? We got a soldier on here.

<v Speaker 1>I have to be here because as people fall off

<v Speaker 1>of SmackDown, they're gonna want to know what happened. So

<v Speaker 1>I need to be here to fill them in on

<v Speaker 1>all the details. Silver Tower, what's going on? Silver Tower?

<v Speaker 1>I don't have to worry about SmackDown being awful, going

<v Speaker 1>to the aw pay per view this weekend with my

<v Speaker 1>family looking forward to Well, I hope you enjoy it.

<v Speaker 1>I hope you enjoy the show. Let me know how

<v Speaker 1>the live experience ends up. Again. I'm not going to

<v Speaker 1>be live for it on Sunday night, but I'll be

<v Speaker 1>reviewing it. On Tuesday on on Crowned. That'll be the

<v Speaker 1>last show we actually no, I'll be the last show

<v Speaker 1>that I do before I leave for Vegas on Wednesday.

<v Speaker 1>But we are doing Tuesday Night Titans on Tuesday Night

<v Speaker 1>and then I fly out the next morning. Golden Boy.

<v Speaker 1>So do the people who had tickets get a discount?

<v Speaker 1>It's a slap to their face. Oh, they get no discount.

<v Speaker 1>Ram Trucks has drawn a line in the sand. You

<v Speaker 1>ain't getting no discount. If you already bought your tickets.

<v Speaker 1>You could sell your ticket and then buy a new

<v Speaker 1>one in the next few days and get twenty five

<v Speaker 1>percent off. That's the best you could hope for the workingman.

<v Speaker 1>Roman calling Punk old was hilariously dumb, as he's also

<v Speaker 1>forty Yay, two forty somethings in the main event? Fuck

<v Speaker 1>this Jerusalem, Shit two forty somethings in the main event.

<v Speaker 1>Which night are you talking about? I mean that could

<v Speaker 1>apply to either night. Jarret Moose Rodriguez random question. I

<v Speaker 1>was a child and had just begun watching around the

<v Speaker 1>time Punk won the World heavyweight title for the first time.

<v Speaker 1>Was the reaction to his og reign? Really that lukewarm

<v Speaker 1>overall kinda yeah. I mean I don't remember his his

<v Speaker 1>OG run. It didn't last too long, right, It only

<v Speaker 1>lasted a three four months, and that would have been

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and eight. It was not the same cmpunk

<v Speaker 1>that we would see a few years later, So yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean it was pretty lukewarm. It was nothing overwhelming.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if it was, he would have been champion

<v Speaker 1>for longer. So it was not a terribly memorable run.

<v Speaker 1>In fact, from what I can remember, I don't even

<v Speaker 1>think he got beat for the belt. I think he

<v Speaker 1>got taken out in a backstage segment, right, and they

<v Speaker 1>put the belt up in that stupid scramble match. I

<v Speaker 1>think that Chris Jericho won. Aaron says, would you keep

<v Speaker 1>Ethan Page and Ricky Saints as a team on the

<v Speaker 1>main roster? And what are your thoughts on the Blake

<v Speaker 1>Monroe Vanity Project faction. I think their characters go hand

<v Speaker 1>in hand. I think it's probably, you know, probably a

<v Speaker 1>good combo, but Blake should be on the main roster.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why she's still hanging around in NXT.

<v Speaker 1>I don't get it. As far as Ethan or Ricky,

<v Speaker 1>I you know, I wouldn't mind them being a team.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think their value is in being a tag team, though,

<v Speaker 1>if you want to introduce them that way, I guess

<v Speaker 1>that'd be fine, especially if they were part of the

<v Speaker 1>same let's say, faction with a couple of other people.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I wouldn't mind it d quint with a

<v Speaker 1>five dollars super check KFA. Wise, why would Gunther go

<v Speaker 1>through the trouble of fighting Seth to reach Brock instead

<v Speaker 1>of just answering the open challenge first? You're making too

<v Speaker 1>much sense now. You can't be asking questions like that

<v Speaker 1>we got Deebo Roy. I know, I butchered that one.

<v Speaker 1>I think if this bullshit goes on and the crowd

<v Speaker 1>reaction understandably continues to remain lukewarm at best, TKO will

<v Speaker 1>eventually make Triple H escapegoat and fire him. I wonder

<v Speaker 1>who they would replace him with. I mean, there may

<v Speaker 1>be somebody on an interim basis from the current team,

<v Speaker 1>like a Hayman or a Bruce Pritchard. But I think,

<v Speaker 1>and I've talked about this before, you know Rock being

<v Speaker 1>on the board and Brian Goertz being his guy. Brian

<v Speaker 1>Gortz was the head writer for Monday Night Raw for

<v Speaker 1>years and years, and I think if they needed a

<v Speaker 1>permanent replacement for Levek, if he was removed or if

<v Speaker 1>something happened, would not at all be shocked to see

<v Speaker 1>Brian Gowertz in that spot, and then Rock would have

<v Speaker 1>his guy. He would have his guy installed as the

<v Speaker 1>head of the creative team. Mike says, your opinion of

<v Speaker 1>the worst Wrestlemanium of all time? Mine is Uncle Uncle

<v Speaker 1>Elmer against Adrian Adonis a WrestleMania two or Brett versus

<v Speaker 1>Vince or WrestleMania twenty six. Horrible. Yeah, that was That

<v Speaker 1>was just sad. But look, I'm glad Brett got his closure.

<v Speaker 1>I guess he got that one more WrestleMania match. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it was. It was bad. Uncle Elmer against Adrian Adonis.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I could see where you would think that

<v Speaker 1>would be the worst WrestleMania match of all time, but uh,

<v Speaker 1>there's a lot to choose from, dude. There were a

<v Speaker 1>lot of really terrible undercard matches in those early years

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania, so I don't even remember them all. I

<v Speaker 1>think more in terms of the WrestleMania main events. So

<v Speaker 1>in terms of WrestleMania main events. I think of John

<v Speaker 1>Cena and the Miz. I think of John Cena and

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes in terms of just the worst WrestleMania match

<v Speaker 1>of all time. I mean Brett and Vince would be

<v Speaker 1>up there. You know, there was another match that Brett

<v Speaker 1>had and there he heard we were talking about him.

<v Speaker 1>He just popped up on screen. That was me, by

<v Speaker 1>the way. The guy next to him was me watching

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown tonight, a guy in the electric chair. Brett had

<v Speaker 1>a horrible match with Bob Backland at WrestleMania eleven. I

<v Speaker 1>think Brett has even said it's his worst wrestle media

<v Speaker 1>match of all the WrestleMania matches he ever had. Jeremy says,

<v Speaker 1>so they are gonna take the hit and announce forty

<v Speaker 1>five thousand both nights, or fudge it up and announce

<v Speaker 1>higher numbers than last year sixty k in the house

<v Speaker 1>both nights. I don't think they're gonna fudge it by

<v Speaker 1>that much. They're definitely gonna fudge it, though they'll probably

<v Speaker 1>announce in the range of fifty k for both nights.

<v Speaker 1>They ain't getting fifty k, they ain't coming close to

<v Speaker 1>fifty k, but that doesn't mean they won't announce like

<v Speaker 1>I don't know forty eight one night, fifty one the next,

<v Speaker 1>that'd be my prediction, plus Ultra Adrian. I only care

<v Speaker 1>for three matches at WrestleMania, Oba Brock the latter match

<v Speaker 1>and punkin Roman. Thank you for all you do, Solo.

<v Speaker 1>Sorry you had to watch SmackDown. I'm sorry too. I'm

<v Speaker 1>sorry too, but I got a job to do, damn it.

<v Speaker 1>Kung Fu Joseph Buyer, Sell, Baseball Hall of Fame, Bonds

<v Speaker 1>or A rod Well. I mean, given the circumstances, I

<v Speaker 1>don't think either one belonged in there. But if I

<v Speaker 1>had to choose one, it's Barry Bonds, Jeremy Thunderstrikes, Punk Stured,

<v Speaker 1>invade Pat's house like Triple H did once. Super Pony.

<v Speaker 1>Is this worse than twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one?

<v Speaker 1>I think it might be. I don't know if it's worse.

<v Speaker 1>It's it's pretty fucking bad, dude. It's bad. It's very bad.

<v Speaker 1>It's all just it's all just so terrible. Hydro grad

<v Speaker 1>with a tend. The people of New Orleans that were

<v Speaker 1>upset about getting screwed out of WrestleMania are probably looking

<v Speaker 1>at this build, like, yeah, nah, Vegas can have this

<v Speaker 1>shit good. It's what they get for not running New

<v Speaker 1>Orleans this year. I'd be more upset because if they

<v Speaker 1>were running New Orleans this year, I would be there.

<v Speaker 1>I was all ready to go. I was having talks

<v Speaker 1>with my friends. All Right, we get the Airbnb, and

<v Speaker 1>then they switched it. Mike says, a New York street

<v Speaker 1>fight between you and Pat McAfee. Who wins solid monster.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see. I don't know where is Pat from. Is

<v Speaker 1>Pat's not from New York. Pat's from Indiana, right, See,

<v Speaker 1>I'm from New York. I know Pat may be a

<v Speaker 1>former punter, but I got a few tricks up my sleeve.

<v Speaker 1>Unpopular opinion. Gunther kind of bores me in the ring

<v Speaker 1>and on the mic. Just not my cup of tea.

<v Speaker 1>I guess, hey, different strokes. It's all good. Carlos Galvaan

<v Speaker 1>with the nine ninety nine. I just went to my

<v Speaker 1>break at work so I can join the stream and say,

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck is going on over at the FED?

<v Speaker 1>Copy and paste from last year is insane? Yeah, it's bad, dude,

<v Speaker 1>It's bad. Ej Slamp. I'd rather have Jeremy Piven, whose

<v Speaker 1>Entourage character was inspired by Ari Emanuel mentioned Summerfest on

<v Speaker 1>TA than Pat McAfee. I would rather watch summer Fest

<v Speaker 1>than this WrestleMania made event. We got the lore Maestro

<v Speaker 1>Hey Solo showing some love. See you on TNT. I

<v Speaker 1>will be there. We've been putting up some big numbers,

<v Speaker 1>so I will see you there. Venom Caitetsu Live will

<v Speaker 1>come visit you. But a Mania if you buy a

<v Speaker 1>Mania ticket, well then they would undoubtedly start moving tickets.

<v Speaker 1>They would they would be able to hit that sixty

<v Speaker 1>k mark if they did that. Mike says, worst WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>booking decision of all time minus triple H pinning booker

<v Speaker 1>t Clean at WrestleMania nineteen still makes me mad to

<v Speaker 1>this day. Yeah, I mean that's awful, but that's not

<v Speaker 1>the worst. I think. I think last year has to

<v Speaker 1>be up there. I really do. Like you had one

<v Speaker 1>job you have and you only have one chance to

<v Speaker 1>set the rec which was number seventeen last year, in

<v Speaker 1>the final year of the man who led your company

<v Speaker 1>for what ten, twelve, fifteen years? How do you fuck

<v Speaker 1>that up? Like it was on a platter, it was

<v Speaker 1>handed to you. How do you fuck that up. They

<v Speaker 1>fucked up number seventeen last year. It's insane to me.

<v Speaker 1>Super Pony wish Ko was here to shit on this

<v Speaker 1>like Punk did. Yes, he has missed. He has definitely missed.

<v Speaker 1>Toya says, I'm excited for be the booker. Yeah, we

<v Speaker 1>got two rounds. We got to get to Jeremy Rose

<v Speaker 1>hypothetically off Triple H got removed and Tony offered him

<v Speaker 1>a job at AW Would he take it? No, he's

<v Speaker 1>not going to go work for Tony Khan. That will

<v Speaker 1>never happen. I'll make it a prediction right now that

<v Speaker 1>ain't never gonna happen. And Cameron Spencer. Sometimes wrestling can

<v Speaker 1>be so bad that it's funny. What was funnier Katie

<v Speaker 1>Vick segment or rollin'son Wyatt Helen is Cell. I personally

<v Speaker 1>didn't really find the humor in either one of them,

<v Speaker 1>to be honest with you, looking back at it, which

<v Speaker 1>one was funnier? I mean, I guess I would go

<v Speaker 1>for the Helen a Cell just for the reaction, like

<v Speaker 1>trying to process that we had that sort of decision

<v Speaker 1>rendered in a Hell and a Cell match. But then

<v Speaker 1>you kind of look back and you realize, like We've

<v Speaker 1>had other hell and of cell matches that had horrendous endings.

<v Speaker 1>I vividly recall one involving Roman Reigns and Braunze Stroman

<v Speaker 1>where brock Lesner I think broke the door down and

<v Speaker 1>ran in and I think laid them out with an

<v Speaker 1>F five and apparently they were crippled and they were

<v Speaker 1>unable to move and the match was just thrown away.

<v Speaker 1>There's been some bad endings to some of those matches,

<v Speaker 1>but I did not derive any pleasure from either one

<v Speaker 1>of those things. They were both terrible, and Alex says

<v Speaker 1>at this point, give me Tozawa versus the Great Kalie

<v Speaker 1>in a Punjabi prison match. Over this, well, you'll be

<v Speaker 1>happy to know on that note, because we are due

<v Speaker 1>for two rounds of be the booker that the Punjabi

<v Speaker 1>prison match is an option, we may well book one tonight.

<v Speaker 1>You may get your wish. So let's see, let's be

<v Speaker 1>the booker. Let's not waste any more time. We got

<v Speaker 1>two rounds coming, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time

<v Speaker 1>to be the booker. Now you guys killed it on

<v Speaker 1>the likes. We are what are we twenty? We were

<v Speaker 1>twenty somewhat likes away from a thousand. We might hit

<v Speaker 1>one thousand live for a SmackDown review. Let's see if

<v Speaker 1>we can hit a thousand here while we're in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of doing be the Booker, weren't a thousand likes.

<v Speaker 1>Unlike WWE with their men's tag team titles. This year WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>we're going to book a tag team match. They got

<v Speaker 1>all the goal. Look at this, Bubba Ray and Devon.

<v Speaker 1>The Dudley Boys, one of the most decorated tag teams

<v Speaker 1>of all time. Just ask Bubba, he'll tell you. The

<v Speaker 1>Dudley Boys are going to be defending one of those titles.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know which ones against the Rockers. The Rockers

<v Speaker 1>and there was a demolition of my brain. They're going

<v Speaker 1>into the Hall of Fame a week from tonight. I'll

<v Speaker 1>be coming home from Vegas that night, just in time

<v Speaker 1>to tune into the Hall of Fame, which apparently is

<v Speaker 1>airing on YouTube and I believe possibly ESPN from what

<v Speaker 1>I understand. All right, women's be the Booker. You guys

<v Speaker 1>never know what kind of matches we're going to get here.

<v Speaker 1>This is always a crapshoot. Charlotte Flair it's been doing

<v Speaker 1>the tag team thing, but she's got to be in

<v Speaker 1>singles action. Here it'll be Charlotte Flair going one on

<v Speaker 1>one with Bianca Belair. Still waiting on that pl match

<v Speaker 1>between these two. I think the only time they wrestled

<v Speaker 1>was I think, wasn't it on an episode of Raw

<v Speaker 1>years ago? I don't think they ever had a proper

<v Speaker 1>program together. Well, there's a hell of a match right there, dude.

<v Speaker 1>We're on a roll so far. Charlotte and Bianca and

<v Speaker 1>the Rockers and the Dudley Boys. Diamond Dallas Page DDP

<v Speaker 1>is in the main event of round number one DDP

<v Speaker 1>against La Knight. Yeah, there you go. All right. See now,

<v Speaker 1>if they won't put him in the main event, I

<v Speaker 1>will there go DDP and l A Night. Bang yeah, bang, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's right, that's right, all right. So now round number

<v Speaker 1>two is going to include stipulations. This is where the

<v Speaker 1>Punjabi prison could very well come into play. I hope not.

<v Speaker 1>I like this Big Blue cage. Now. I know it

<v Speaker 1>sucks for these guys because apparently that cage hurt like hell,

<v Speaker 1>But this is the cage I grew up on. I

<v Speaker 1>love Big Blue. I love me a big Blue cage match.

<v Speaker 1>So we're gonna have a big blue tag team cage

<v Speaker 1>match because we're gonna start with the tag teams. Be

<v Speaker 1>nice to have back to back sweeps. We have top

<v Speaker 1>flight Darius and Dante Martin in the big Blue Cage.

<v Speaker 1>We'll do drum rolls for all these How about that

<v Speaker 1>top flight against the two dudes with attitude, Diesel and

<v Speaker 1>Shawn Michaels in the Big Blue Cage. I think I

<v Speaker 1>know who's going over this match, and it ain't top flight,

<v Speaker 1>but actually, you know, Dante Martin In there with young

<v Speaker 1>Shawn Michaels, mid ninety Shawn Michaels. That could be a

<v Speaker 1>lot of fun. And then at the end of all

<v Speaker 1>of a Diesel can just power bomb the shit out

<v Speaker 1>of him. I like it all right now our second match, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we know exactly who's going over in that match. We

<v Speaker 1>go from a big blue cage to a barbed wire

<v Speaker 1>steel cage. A lot of cages tonight, so unfortunately this

<v Speaker 1>falls on the ladies to have a barbed wire steel

<v Speaker 1>cage match. So someone's getting cut up. Willow at Nightingale,

<v Speaker 1>she could throw down. We've seen Willow that Willow and

<v Speaker 1>the Statlander at all out. A few years ago, they

<v Speaker 1>had that street fight Willow Nightingale inside the barbed wire cage.

<v Speaker 1>Feeling very cagey tonight. Oh, Bliss fan at gonna like this.

<v Speaker 1>This is not gonna end well for Alexa Bliss, but

<v Speaker 1>I gotta give it the bell Alexa Bliss and Willow Nightingale.

<v Speaker 1>Poor Alexa, though she's gonna be all scarred up by

<v Speaker 1>the time this match is over. Well, Bliss fan like

<v Speaker 1>Alexa anymore? If she's all scarred up and she's not

<v Speaker 1>so pretty anymore, he may move on to someone else.

<v Speaker 1>And our main event. Hey, Paul Carpenter, thank you for

<v Speaker 1>thirty six months, CEA says, thirty six more membership. Let's

<v Speaker 1>fucking go. That's right, Okay, here we go main event time. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>this again. Someone's losing an eye? Eye for an eye?

<v Speaker 1>Is that our main event? Here? And beat the booker?

<v Speaker 1>It is I for an eye, Ladies and gentlemen. It

<v Speaker 1>all comes down to this. We have Androte Eldolo, who

<v Speaker 1>will be wrestling Darby Allen on Sunday Night at Dynasty.

<v Speaker 1>Will the lady still love him if he has an

<v Speaker 1>eyepatch on? Though? Andrade against Bandido how about this. Holy

<v Speaker 1>shit said, look at this. We just had this match

<v Speaker 1>at Revolution. We're getting it again. See. I think this

<v Speaker 1>is gonna work out really well though for Bandido because

<v Speaker 1>he's got the mask on. How are you gonna pluck

<v Speaker 1>the eye out of the mask? Doesn't really work? Andrade

<v Speaker 1>against Bandida. Now you tell me that the cards I

<v Speaker 1>just booked for you here, that these wouldn't be shows

<v Speaker 1>that you would you would pay TKO ticket prices to

<v Speaker 1>CD shows. Fuck WrestleMania. WrestleMania just came tonight. A double

<v Speaker 1>kill went six for six tonight. It's the power of

<v Speaker 1>all of you guys, all your support tonight. You powered

<v Speaker 1>me through. I love it. We're not done. We got

<v Speaker 1>a few more messages here, get them on in. Actually

<v Speaker 1>did we I believe we did. We smashed a thousand

<v Speaker 1>likes and super Pony Alberto Dell dipshit or Pat McAfee.

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee, never Alberto del dipshit. Not when he's going

<v Speaker 1>around allegedly smacking women around. He could go fuck off.

<v Speaker 1>Take Pat McAfee over him any day. Just not. In

<v Speaker 1>the main event of WrestleMania, Duffsvid's Hall of Fame is

<v Speaker 1>booked better than WrestleMania can't wait. It's a strong class.

<v Speaker 1>I mean just for AJ Demolition and SIT alone, it's

<v Speaker 1>a strong class this year. Question is who do they

<v Speaker 1>main event with? Who main events the Hall of Fame,

<v Speaker 1>AJ Styles or Stephanie McMahon. I don't know. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I think it's I think one is going to open

<v Speaker 1>and one is going to close. So if I had

<v Speaker 1>to venture a guess, I'm gonna say Stephanie opens and

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say they close with AJ. If I had

<v Speaker 1>to make a prediction. Uh and Recinson fifty three months

<v Speaker 1>of Channel membership. Thoughts on the Mets so far, hot

<v Speaker 1>and cold. I mean there's things to like, things to

<v Speaker 1>not like. You know, Boba Schetts. I mean, we'll see

<v Speaker 1>where things go with him as we get a little

<v Speaker 1>bit deeper into the season. I think the pitching buy

<v Speaker 1>and large has been good. I mean again, there's things

<v Speaker 1>to like, there's things to not like. It's just you know,

<v Speaker 1>we'll we'll see in h we'll see month where they are.

<v Speaker 1>And Larry Jester Eye for an eye solo Soca versus

<v Speaker 1>Eric Rowan equals erk or skoa get it. He removed

<v Speaker 1>the eye from their names. That's a terrible joke. And

<v Speaker 1>Mike says, when are we ever gonna get Batista in

<v Speaker 1>the Hall of Fame When he's available. I think it

<v Speaker 1>just comes down to his schedule and his availability. But

<v Speaker 1>it will happen. It will happen with him. It'll be

<v Speaker 1>the same thing with Rock and Sina. You know, it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna come down to their availability more than anything else.

<v Speaker 1>And then as far as like Jericho and Big Show,

<v Speaker 1>that just comes down to when they are no longer

<v Speaker 1>under contract to the other company, because as long as

<v Speaker 1>they are, they ain't going nowhere. So there's still some

<v Speaker 1>big names out there that are a name. My god,

<v Speaker 1>she's getting angry. You know why because she has no

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania match yet. That's why she's so angry. That's well,

<v Speaker 1>now with a fifteen dollars super chat late to the party.

<v Speaker 1>But here's my weekly solo. Love Hope you had a

<v Speaker 1>good stream. Brother had to be better than SmackDown. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>it was very cathartic. Batista is a headliner and it

<v Speaker 1>will be huge. Yeah. I mean when he when he

<v Speaker 1>goes in, he should he should be the headliner. I

<v Speaker 1>can't imagine that they or who they would put in

<v Speaker 1>the same class. I mean, look, unless he goes in

<v Speaker 1>in the same class with Sena, any class that Sena

<v Speaker 1>goes in, he's the headliner. You know. Same thing with

<v Speaker 1>rock we got Sam Riza solo, buy er Cell, bring

<v Speaker 1>Dustin Rhodes back as seven and Sean Waltman as six six'. Seven,

<v Speaker 1>Ah i'm going to. Sell i'm going to, sell and

<v Speaker 1>That joe guy with a five dollars Super chet. Solo

<v Speaker 1>did you happen to See demolitions tag team entrance in

<v Speaker 1>TWO k twenty? SIX i? Did and do my ears deceive?

<v Speaker 1>Me or did they lay down a cover of their theme?

<v Speaker 1>Song doesn't sound, terrible BUT i noticed it right. Away

<v Speaker 1>it's not the actual theme, music which makes me wonder

<v Speaker 1>if that's what they're coming out to at The hall Of.

<v Speaker 1>Fame Super pony Says sina should induct. AJ i think

<v Speaker 1>he would be the appropriate. ONE i, Agree and we

<v Speaker 1>know he'll be in town because he's hosting the, show

<v Speaker 1>SO i think there's a very good chance That sina

<v Speaker 1>will do the. Induction oh, Anyway i'm pooped like this.

<v Speaker 1>Show this television show is. Poop, WELL i hope you

<v Speaker 1>at least enjoyed the. Review even if you did not

<v Speaker 1>Enjoy SmackDown. Tonight SmackDown. SUCKS i don't have any other

<v Speaker 1>eloquent way to say. It the show is fucking. GARBAGE

<v Speaker 1>i hope it gets, better but it seems to get

<v Speaker 1>worse by the. Week it's just. Awful i'm going to

<v Speaker 1>be back with you live On monday, night but before,

<v Speaker 1>that we have the sound off On, sunday episode nine.

<v Speaker 1>Nine we got a lot to talk, about Including WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>predictions for night one And night, two and then there

<v Speaker 1>was a lot of other news during the, week so

<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about all of that On. Sunday No dynasty

<v Speaker 1>live stream On sunday, Night i'll be watching. It i'm

<v Speaker 1>going to save my review for the Un crowned show On.

<v Speaker 1>Tuesday monday, night we'll be live here on the channel FOR.

<v Speaker 1>Raw i'm flying out On wednesday morning To Las vegas

<v Speaker 1>because we have The house Of glory show On thursday,

<v Speaker 1>night which we'll be streaming if you can't make it

<v Speaker 1>live streaming On TRILLER Tv. Plus if you are going

<v Speaker 1>to be In vegas The thursday night eight pm at

<v Speaker 1>The Palm Casino resort at The Pearl. Theater it's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be a big. Show we got a loaded. Lineup it'd

<v Speaker 1>be great to see some of you. There and so

<v Speaker 1>that's Where i'm gonna. Be so there's not gonna be

<v Speaker 1>A dynamite review On, wednesday AND i will not be

<v Speaker 1>home in time For, SmackDown so just be aware of.

<v Speaker 1>That but of course next weekend is a big weekend

<v Speaker 1>because we Got WrestleMania night one and we Got WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>night two for better or. Worse so it's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>a very busy week coming. Up Hopefully i'll see some

<v Speaker 1>of you In. Vegas remember what they, say what happens

<v Speaker 1>In vegas stays In. Vegas Drew mackincock thirty eight months

<v Speaker 1>Of channel, membership didn't go To SmackDown in my city

<v Speaker 1>today because it is so. BAD i think you made

<v Speaker 1>the right. CALL i think you made the right. Call

<v Speaker 1>Doctor scorpio, says lolwwe take, Care, solo appreciate, You thank.

<v Speaker 1>You And luis fifty eight months Of channel membership Says

<v Speaker 1>dodgers Versus mets at THE nlcs book, it, yeah, yeah

<v Speaker 1>and then we'll kick their ass Beat. OTANI i like.

<v Speaker 1>IT i like the way that sounds, anyway have a good,

<v Speaker 1>night go check out the other content on the, channel

<v Speaker 1>AND i will see you guys on the audio download

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<v Speaker 1>One until, then take, care, Guys thanks for the. Love