<v Speaker 1>You know, I was reading earlier on one of the

<v Speaker 1>websites they had a WWE must have been a press

<v Speaker 1>release coming out of WrestleMania talking about some other record

<v Speaker 1>that they had set and I don't know, some sort

<v Speaker 1>of business announcement about how well they did and all

<v Speaker 1>the money they generated for WrestleMania this year. And it's

<v Speaker 1>always jarring to read something like that, and then immediately

<v Speaker 1>after that you have a day like today, which happens

<v Speaker 1>almost every year. There's always this Black Friday period in WWE,

<v Speaker 1>this dark cloud that hangs over and you just wait

<v Speaker 1>for the announcements of who they have cut, who has

<v Speaker 1>WWE released from their contract, and sometimes it's just this

<v Speaker 1>mass wave of releases. Sometimes it's only a handful of names.

<v Speaker 1>Many times though, they will just release people in mass,

<v Speaker 1>and you understand that, you know, no job is guaranteed,

<v Speaker 1>and they really are the ones with all the power.

<v Speaker 1>You know, you sign these contras for X number of years,

<v Speaker 1>And I always think back to the Good Brothers many

<v Speaker 1>years ago, and they had re signed with WWE, these

<v Speaker 1>big money contracts, five year deals, and then just a

<v Speaker 1>matter of months later the company cut them because at

<v Speaker 1>the end of the day you know when you signed

<v Speaker 1>these contracts, Really what you're doing is you're making a guarantee.

<v Speaker 1>You're making a promise to the company that, Okay, I

<v Speaker 1>will be under contract to you for X amount of

<v Speaker 1>time and I can't go anywhere. But of course, when

<v Speaker 1>the shoes on the other foot, the company can let

<v Speaker 1>you go at any moment. It doesn't matter if you

<v Speaker 1>have a five year contract a ten year contract, unless

<v Speaker 1>you have a no cut contract, which I'm willing to

<v Speaker 1>bet most talent in WWE do not have, but maybe

<v Speaker 1>the very tippy top talents. The reality is that your

<v Speaker 1>job is never safe, and especially if you are someone

<v Speaker 1>who is very low on the totem pole in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>And I made the comment a few weeks not even

<v Speaker 1>a few weeks ago. Last week, two weeks ago, somebody

<v Speaker 1>had sent in a question and they had asked me,

<v Speaker 1>who do I think who do I think is going

<v Speaker 1>to get you know, released from WWE, you know, with

<v Speaker 1>the post WrestleMania cuts. Yeah, And I said, I don't

<v Speaker 1>want to name any names because that's just kind of gross.

<v Speaker 1>But also I would just say that if you are

<v Speaker 1>someone who is not currently being utilized by the company,

<v Speaker 1>if you're sitting in the back, if you're flying out

<v Speaker 1>to whatever city that Raw or SmackDown is and you're

<v Speaker 1>not actively being used, and you're sitting backstage or in catering.

<v Speaker 1>You want it, you know you're hoping to be on

<v Speaker 1>the show. You're never on the show. To me, those

<v Speaker 1>are the people that should always be worried. Those are

<v Speaker 1>the people that are always on the bubble because you're expendable,

<v Speaker 1>you're not actively on the show. You're not being allowed

<v Speaker 1>to contribute in any meaningful way. So, of course, low

<v Speaker 1>hanging fruit. If people have to get cut, I would

<v Speaker 1>be worried if I was someone like that, although occasionally

<v Speaker 1>you will also find talents that are on television who

<v Speaker 1>get cut anyway. And so as I'm looking at the

<v Speaker 1>list of names as that we now have, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to get into here momentarily, there are names on

<v Speaker 1>this list that lost their jobs today in WWE and

<v Speaker 1>NXT that don't shock me. It's all sad, it's all shitty,

<v Speaker 1>no matter who you are, no matter who you like

<v Speaker 1>or don't like, no matter who you think should or

<v Speaker 1>should not be on TV, it's always a shitty situation

<v Speaker 1>when somebody loses their job and I would not advocate

<v Speaker 1>for that, and anybody who advocate for that as an asshole.

<v Speaker 1>So let me just say that first and foremost. But

<v Speaker 1>there are times where I will look at these lists

<v Speaker 1>and I will see certain names on there, and I

<v Speaker 1>just scratch my head. I am baffled by some of

<v Speaker 1>the names that will pop up on these lists, and

<v Speaker 1>all the times I've said, well, if you're not really

<v Speaker 1>being utilized, I would be worried. There are names on

<v Speaker 1>this list that were being used and still lost their

<v Speaker 1>job today in WWE, and it has me sitting here wondering,

<v Speaker 1>what the hell is going on here? How are these

<v Speaker 1>decisions being made? To my count, two dozen names have

<v Speaker 1>gotten their release or have left have departed WWE as

<v Speaker 1>of today, two dozen and yet deaf Rebel remains employed.

<v Speaker 1>Think about that. But it was fightful bodyslam Dot that

<v Speaker 1>really all the main sights now are reporting on it,

<v Speaker 1>but they were the ones that first started breaking the

<v Speaker 1>news about talent releases in WWE. And this is what

<v Speaker 1>we know so far. Now. This can and unfortunately probably

<v Speaker 1>will evolve, because there's no indication that this is it,

<v Speaker 1>that there won't be any more releases. I hope not

<v Speaker 1>but it is still possible there could be more. These

<v Speaker 1>are the people that are on the list, and I

<v Speaker 1>will say we don't know for sure of all of

<v Speaker 1>these names were necessarily released by WWE. It could be

<v Speaker 1>a case where certain contracts were all to expire. I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to guess based upon how many names are on

<v Speaker 1>this list and the fact they all happened at the

<v Speaker 1>same time, most if not all, of these are probably

<v Speaker 1>releases from the company. But two names on that list

<v Speaker 1>are Alistair Black and Zelina Vega, two names that were

<v Speaker 1>part of the SmackDown roster. They were not on SmackDown Tonight,

<v Speaker 1>and the reason they were not on SmackDown Tonight is

<v Speaker 1>because they are no longer working for WWE. This is

<v Speaker 1>the same Alistair Black who has pinfall wins in the

<v Speaker 1>last couple of months on television over Randy Orton, who

<v Speaker 1>just main evented WrestleMania, by the Way, and Sammy's Ain

<v Speaker 1>who went into WrestleMania as the United States Champion. The

<v Speaker 1>same Alistair Black, who, if the latest reports are to

<v Speaker 1>be believed, the original idea was for him to be

<v Speaker 1>the one on the phone with Randy Orton or the

<v Speaker 1>voice in the head of Randy uh and there was

<v Speaker 1>going to be a story that would have played out

<v Speaker 1>of WrestleMania involving Alistair Black and Randy Orton, potentially even

<v Speaker 1>a match at WrestleMania between the two of them. That

<v Speaker 1>Alistair Black the one that they only first brought back

<v Speaker 1>to the company one year ago, and also his wife,

<v Speaker 1>Zelena Vega gone from the company. The reason I say

<v Speaker 1>that most of these are probably releases, but we can't

<v Speaker 1>say for sure that all of them are. I'm wondering,

<v Speaker 1>and again, maybe not, maybe this is not the way

<v Speaker 1>that it worked out. But I'm looking at this and

<v Speaker 1>I'm wondering if maybe Zelena Vega got the call to

<v Speaker 1>be released. And who's to say that Alistair Black was, Like,

<v Speaker 1>if she's gone, I'm gone, right, We just don't know,

<v Speaker 1>So I don't I hesitate to say that he was released.

<v Speaker 1>We we just we don't know. We know that she

<v Speaker 1>was because she's already commented on this. Zelena Vega not

<v Speaker 1>very happy about the fact that Sean ross Sap of

<v Speaker 1>Fight for was the first one to make public her

<v Speaker 1>name as one of the releases. She claimed on her

<v Speaker 1>Twitch stream that she got a phone call not from

<v Speaker 1>Paula VEC or anybody specifically WWE. But she actually got

<v Speaker 1>a phone call from TKO. Normally, when she gets these

<v Speaker 1>calls in the past, it'll come from Stanford, It'll come

<v Speaker 1>from a WWE number. Evidently, in this case, she claims

<v Speaker 1>that she got a call from TKO. Whatever that means.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. If it said TKO on her caller ID,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But she says she got the call

<v Speaker 1>directly from TKO. So there's gonna be a whole conversation

<v Speaker 1>around who's responsible for this, who's calling the shots when

<v Speaker 1>it comes to this list of talents that have been released.

<v Speaker 1>Is this a paula Vec thing? Is this a Nick

<v Speaker 1>con thing? Is this a TKO thing? Oh, she got

<v Speaker 1>a phone call from TKO. This is now the narrative online.

<v Speaker 1>Can't blame Triple H and WWE. This is coming from TKO.

<v Speaker 1>Let me explain something to you. I'm not in the

<v Speaker 1>You are not in the room. None of us are

<v Speaker 1>in the room when these names are chosen and when

<v Speaker 1>these decisions are made. So I cannot sit here and

<v Speaker 1>tell you with one hundred percent certainty this is the case.

<v Speaker 1>But I will tell you with ninety nine percent certainty.

<v Speaker 1>People like Ari Emmanuel and Mark Shapiro are not sitting

<v Speaker 1>around in a room with a list of all the

<v Speaker 1>WWE talents in front of them, going, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>Alistair Black and Zelina Vega and this person and that person, Well,

<v Speaker 1>let's cut this part. I will keep this guy, but

<v Speaker 1>we'll let this woman go. That's not how this works.

<v Speaker 1>That's not how this works. So the idea that TKO

<v Speaker 1>is making the decision on who to release is preposterous

<v Speaker 1>to me. Now, the decision that, okay, certain cuts need

<v Speaker 1>to be made for budgetary reasons, Right, you have a number.

<v Speaker 1>You can't go past this number, So you gotta that.

<v Speaker 1>I can believe that's exactly what's going on here. That

<v Speaker 1>I can believe. But as far as who is making

<v Speaker 1>the decision on who goes and who stays, you cannot

<v Speaker 1>say that Paul Avec and people like that have no

<v Speaker 1>responsibility in this because it is impossible for me to

<v Speaker 1>conceive that these decisions are being made one hundred percent

<v Speaker 1>independent of him. He the chief content officer who is

<v Speaker 1>responsible for trying to figure out week to week, which

<v Speaker 1>talents are going to be utilized on television, Which talents

<v Speaker 1>are we going to have in this storyline or that storyline.

<v Speaker 1>And if you believe that they're mapping stories out weeks

<v Speaker 1>or months in advance, which I'm not so sure that's

<v Speaker 1>the case watching these fucking shows, it is impossible to

<v Speaker 1>conceive that they have absolutely no involvement in this process whatsoever.

<v Speaker 1>He is still in a position to be picking the

<v Speaker 1>names of the people who are going to be cut,

<v Speaker 1>even if he's not the one making the phone call.

<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day. So I'm sure more

<v Speaker 1>information will come out about the who, what, where, when

<v Speaker 1>and why and the days to come. But I already

<v Speaker 1>see this narrative for me that because Elena Vega made

<v Speaker 1>a comment about TKO owners twitch stream, this is all TKO,

<v Speaker 1>and it's not this person's fault. It's not that person's fault.

<v Speaker 1>It's a collaboration. And there is nobody sitting in the

<v Speaker 1>offices of TKO making these specific decisions on which talents

<v Speaker 1>are being cut. That is ridiculous. Me, stop yourself for

<v Speaker 1>a second and think about that. Use your fucking brain. Okay.

<v Speaker 1>But she says she got the call at five oh

<v Speaker 1>nine pm this afternoon that she was being released, and

<v Speaker 1>she was very upset that Sean Ross sap beat her

<v Speaker 1>to the punch before she had the opportunity to go

<v Speaker 1>out and make the announcement herself. Now this was five

<v Speaker 1>oh nine pm, she claimed. I think Sean got the

<v Speaker 1>announcement up. It was eight o'clock or after eight o'clock.

<v Speaker 1>All I'll say is this, I don't know if she

<v Speaker 1>has some personal beef with him. I think I saw

<v Speaker 1>him make a comment that she she already didn't like him,

<v Speaker 1>So maybe she already doesn't like the guy. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>He's in a position in this case where he is

<v Speaker 1>reporting information on people that have been released by the company.

<v Speaker 1>It is not his job to wait and sit on

<v Speaker 1>information that he may have in the event that every

<v Speaker 1>single one of these twenty four talents so far that

<v Speaker 1>got released may want to go ahead and make an

<v Speaker 1>announcement on their own, put a video out, put a

<v Speaker 1>tweet out. It's not how this works. But she's also,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure very upset, which is understandable, very emotional about it.

<v Speaker 1>But again I already see the piling on and oh,

<v Speaker 1>you know, how could he do something like that? He

<v Speaker 1>didn't do in this case. He didn't do anything that

<v Speaker 1>you wouldn't expect someone in his position to do. And

<v Speaker 1>that's what I'll say about that for now. Now. Alistair

<v Speaker 1>Black and Zelina Vega they were doing stuff on television,

<v Speaker 1>they were involved in like the Randy Yorton stuff, and

<v Speaker 1>they were in the background of certain backstage segments. And look,

<v Speaker 1>a lot of the time that doesn't lead to anything.

<v Speaker 1>It's something it gets people's jolly's going, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>look he's in the background. What does it mean? It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean anything. Okay, nine times out of ten when

<v Speaker 1>Triple H does that, it means nothing. Maxine Dupree has

<v Speaker 1>been seen in the background on Raw in recent weeks.

<v Speaker 1>I think with the Vision, does that mean that she's

<v Speaker 1>going to join the Vision? She hasn't even been on television,

<v Speaker 1>so I wouldn't get too excited about that sort of stuff.

<v Speaker 1>But nonetheless, there they were in the background, here in

<v Speaker 1>the background. There in the background. There, Sammy's ain they

<v Speaker 1>would show up and talk to Sammy's Ain and Randy Orton.

<v Speaker 1>They would show up and talk about Randy Orton. And

<v Speaker 1>I just find it hard to believe again, if this

<v Speaker 1>was their decision to let him go, that you couldn't

<v Speaker 1>find something for this man to do on this show.

<v Speaker 1>When you absolutely could have. I mean, you could say

<v Speaker 1>that about different people on this list. He was one

<v Speaker 1>of the more surprising names, not the most surprising, the

<v Speaker 1>most surprising name on this list, and the one that

<v Speaker 1>when I saw it, I thought that it was someone

<v Speaker 1>who was trolling. I said, surely this can't be true true,

<v Speaker 1>But it is is Kyrie Saane. Now, I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>sit here and tell you that, you know, Kyrie Sayne

<v Speaker 1>is someone who was being you know, prepped to challenge

<v Speaker 1>for the World Championship and the women's division or anything

<v Speaker 1>like that. No, but she has been involved in a

<v Speaker 1>very specific story now for months on Monday Night Brow

<v Speaker 1>and the pairing with Oscar the Kabuki Warriors, but the

<v Speaker 1>story that they have been telling where she has just

<v Speaker 1>been verbally and psychologically abused and manipulated by this woman

<v Speaker 1>and they want you to feel sympathy for Kyrie. Every

<v Speaker 1>time that you know, you hear Oscar shout Kyrie's name

<v Speaker 1>and she would slink away looking all terrified. And of late,

<v Speaker 1>eo Sky has been roped into this story because Eosky

<v Speaker 1>is trying to convince Kyrie you don't need to be

<v Speaker 1>associating with her anymore. You don't need her. She treats

<v Speaker 1>you like dog shit. And it all seemed to be

<v Speaker 1>building to this big moment at WrestleMania. We might get

<v Speaker 1>a match at WrestleMania between Eosky and Osco. It's almost

<v Speaker 1>like custody of Kyrie, right, But she was the central

<v Speaker 1>I mean, she was the crown jewel. She was the

<v Speaker 1>focal point of this story. And then we got no

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania match, which now makes me wonder if how early

<v Speaker 1>did they know they were going to be cutting this woman,

<v Speaker 1>and maybe that had something to do with why we

<v Speaker 1>ended up not getting that match of WrestleMania. I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be surprised, but it seemed like that was the direction

<v Speaker 1>that we were heading in. And even if they were

<v Speaker 1>to do the match of Backlash, we could get EO

<v Speaker 1>and Oscar. That's great. Well, the story that you have

<v Speaker 1>been preparing people for, the story that you have been

<v Speaker 1>telling people is out the fucking window now. So I

<v Speaker 1>would love to know what is the logic behind a

<v Speaker 1>decision like this. Do you mean to tell me that

<v Speaker 1>Kyrie Sam was making so much money that she had

<v Speaker 1>to be cut, that she had one of the more

<v Speaker 1>expensive contracts on the books and had to be unloaded.

<v Speaker 1>She was in the middle of an important story on

<v Speaker 1>that show, and we never got the payoff to it.

<v Speaker 1>This is a company that loves to talk about storytelling

<v Speaker 1>and loves to talk about your characters and building stories,

<v Speaker 1>and this has been playing out for so long and

<v Speaker 1>now we will never get the payoff to it. The

<v Speaker 1>payoff was Kyrie comes to her senses and stands up

<v Speaker 1>to Osca, and instead Kyrie saying, got fired today and

<v Speaker 1>she's gone, and Oscar now is all by herself. And

<v Speaker 1>whatever they do now on Monday night row with Osca

<v Speaker 1>and EO and look, I hope they have a great

<v Speaker 1>match if they ever actually put these two women in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. But whatever story they tell now, the story

<v Speaker 1>is dead dead. So they expect you to sort of

<v Speaker 1>invest in these characters and invest in these stories that

<v Speaker 1>they're telling. And sometimes the stories are good, sometimes the

<v Speaker 1>stories are shit. But then something like this happens and

<v Speaker 1>they kind of like they throw a monkey wrench into

<v Speaker 1>the entire thing, and you just see her going, why

<v Speaker 1>have I bothered? Why invest your time in any of

<v Speaker 1>this stuff? If this is the sort of thing that's

<v Speaker 1>going to happen, Like I am completely puzzled by that cut.

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand it. Again, I'm not going to sit

<v Speaker 1>here and try to convince you that she was the

<v Speaker 1>most important person on that show. She wasn't, but she

<v Speaker 1>was an important part of the show. I don't understand that.

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand the logic that goes into something like that,

<v Speaker 1>because there are gonna be names on this list here

<v Speaker 1>that I read to you, and you're not even gonna

<v Speaker 1>know who some of these people are. Some of them

<v Speaker 1>are nxtenams. Some of them may be talents that, oh

<v Speaker 1>they were trying with and they just came to the

<v Speaker 1>realization that this person just isn't advancing quick enough. Look,

<v Speaker 1>that's understandable. Not everybody who is brought into the Performance

<v Speaker 1>Center debuts in NXT is gonna make it. But in

<v Speaker 1>a situation like this, I have absolutely no idea what

<v Speaker 1>is going through their fucking brains when they let some

<v Speaker 1>of these people go, How the fuck do you get

<v Speaker 1>rid of Kyrie Saine in the middle of this? You know,

<v Speaker 1>Julia lost her United States Championship tonight on SmackDown. I'd

<v Speaker 1>be very worried right now if I were her. That's

<v Speaker 1>the one that's all I was thinking of when she

<v Speaker 1>lost to Tiffany Stratton tonight. Why does she lose that

<v Speaker 1>championship tonight. Not only that, but they were clearly teasing

<v Speaker 1>a split or at least some tensions between her and

<v Speaker 1>Keana James. So clearly there's a split on the way,

<v Speaker 1>or maybe there won't be. That's assuming Julie is even around.

<v Speaker 1>I hate to even think like that, but you can't

<v Speaker 1>tell me that you weren't thinking the same thing when

<v Speaker 1>that match was over. That's why I don't think these

<v Speaker 1>cuts are necessarily done. Yet the entire Wyatt six faction

<v Speaker 1>is gone from SmackDown, So not one member, not two members,

<v Speaker 1>every single member of the Wyatt six is gone. Bo

<v Speaker 1>Dallas or Uncle Howdie, whatever you want to call him,

<v Speaker 1>he's gone. Eric Rowan is gone, Dexter Loomis is gone,

<v Speaker 1>Joe Gasey is gone, Nicky Cross is gone. And so

<v Speaker 1>now it makes a lot of sense why they just

<v Speaker 1>lost in the way that they did a very anti

<v Speaker 1>climactic way to the MFTs on SmackDown last week. We

<v Speaker 1>had to sit here for the last six months it

<v Speaker 1>felt like six years, and watched the MFTs and the

<v Speaker 1>Wyatt six feud mostly over a fucking lantern. Now, I

<v Speaker 1>know you could talk about all this, it's the significance

<v Speaker 1>of the lantern. The lantern. It was Brave's lantern. It's

<v Speaker 1>the significance of it was a fucking lantern. The story

<v Speaker 1>was shit, and they dragged this thing out for months

<v Speaker 1>to where I thought they were going to put that

<v Speaker 1>on the WrestleMania car. Thankfully they didn't. So again, let's

<v Speaker 1>not sit here and pretend that what they were doing

<v Speaker 1>with the Wyatts was any good. It wasn't. Now they

<v Speaker 1>could have been doing other things with the Wyatt six

<v Speaker 1>instead of dragging this thing out for so long. Absolutely,

<v Speaker 1>that whole storyline, that whole few did nothing for either group,

<v Speaker 1>actually made the Wyatts, I think, less over than they

<v Speaker 1>were at the beginning of the whole thing. But the

<v Speaker 1>reality is this, the Wyatt six always was going to

<v Speaker 1>have a shelf life of a certain amount of time.

<v Speaker 1>I never looked at that as a sustainable gimmick in

<v Speaker 1>the long haul. I think it was cool the way

<v Speaker 1>that Bo was brought back and was allowed to pay

<v Speaker 1>tribute to his brother and continue his legacy and be

<v Speaker 1>able to carry on with some of the characters that

<v Speaker 1>he had created and thought about in his head, and

<v Speaker 1>I think he paid great tribute to him. And if

<v Speaker 1>you remember when they made their debut on Raw, remember

<v Speaker 1>when they massacred the entire roster. And I know some

<v Speaker 1>people were turned off by that, they thought the whole

<v Speaker 1>thing was ridiculous, But most people, I think were pretty

<v Speaker 1>excited about the way that they did and said, man,

<v Speaker 1>what a fucking debut this is. It was certainly memorable.

<v Speaker 1>It was a hell of a debut. And then the

<v Speaker 1>problem becomes, how do you follow up something like that?

<v Speaker 1>They massacred the entire roster. Chad Gable was laying there

<v Speaker 1>on the floor. It looked like he was shot in

<v Speaker 1>the hand. Everybody, I mean, blood on the walls. It

<v Speaker 1>was like something out of a horror movie. But you

<v Speaker 1>look at that and you go, how do you how

<v Speaker 1>do you continue on with something like that without just

<v Speaker 1>you know, you had all these guys in this group.

<v Speaker 1>It's almost like a supernatural force. And that's the problem

<v Speaker 1>with a gimmick like this is that where do you

<v Speaker 1>go next? There weren't a lot of great places to

<v Speaker 1>go with it if you wanted to kind of keep

<v Speaker 1>that aspect of it up or you can humanize them

<v Speaker 1>and go in a totally different direction, and we could

<v Speaker 1>learn more about each individual, you know, character in the group,

<v Speaker 1>and maybe some of them even branch off a little

<v Speaker 1>bit and start doing some single stuff. And they don't

<v Speaker 1>just do group stuff. They don't just do you know,

<v Speaker 1>six man tags or whatever. There were other ways to

<v Speaker 1>go about utilizing the Wyatt six, and they chose to

<v Speaker 1>go in the most basic, kind of boring, paint by numbers,

<v Speaker 1>vanilla way that they could. Would come out. They were

<v Speaker 1>an entrance, I am sorry to say, but that's what

<v Speaker 1>they ended up being. They became they were an entrance,

<v Speaker 1>and then the bell rang and they would have matches

<v Speaker 1>from time to time, not very often because they were

<v Speaker 1>an attraction. So you really shouldn't have them on TV

<v Speaker 1>every week. But when they were actually using them, what

<v Speaker 1>were they doing on the show that was exciting? What

<v Speaker 1>were they doing on the show that was interesting? We

<v Speaker 1>had these cut ins with these the VHS style vignettes,

<v Speaker 1>and after a while they all sort of blend together, right,

<v Speaker 1>They weren't really doing much at that point to think

<v Speaker 1>outside the box. It was the same basic bullshit every

<v Speaker 1>single week. And then the MFTs came along and at

<v Speaker 1>that point, I mean, it was just death all around.

<v Speaker 1>It was like they would come on my television screen

<v Speaker 1>and I would just try to do something else because

<v Speaker 1>I had absolutely no interest in seeing these people working

<v Speaker 1>together on this show. And it soured me. It soured

<v Speaker 1>me on all of them, it really did. And so

<v Speaker 1>you look at it and you go, Okay, what is

<v Speaker 1>the endgame for this group? For Uncle Howdy? Where do

<v Speaker 1>you go from here? Uncle Howdie is not wrestling Cony

<v Speaker 1>Rhodes for the WWE Championship. Joe Gacy is a talented guy.

<v Speaker 1>He had a chance to do a few different things

<v Speaker 1>in NX Team, remember the schism. He was doing some

<v Speaker 1>other stuff down there and was given the chance to

<v Speaker 1>start cutting promos and stuff like there was something there

<v Speaker 1>with him. But in the Y at six he was

<v Speaker 1>just a background player, barely ever had the chance to speak.

<v Speaker 1>He was just a guy Dexter Loomis who never spoke.

<v Speaker 1>That was his old gimmick. That sounds like death. Just

<v Speaker 1>another guy Eric Rowan they brought back. Remember when Rowan

<v Speaker 1>had that cameo on that aw pre show match, and

<v Speaker 1>I mean everybody's raving about him. He looked great in

<v Speaker 1>that match, and so when he was brought back to WW,

<v Speaker 1>he's like, Okay, you know what, that's kind of cool.

<v Speaker 1>They're giving him another chance. There's something there with him.

<v Speaker 1>He's not carrying around the dumb spider in the cage.

<v Speaker 1>Let's see what they do with him this time. They

<v Speaker 1>did nothing. They did nothing. They were an entrance. They

<v Speaker 1>didn't know what else to do with them. So it

<v Speaker 1>kind of feels like it was only a matter of

<v Speaker 1>time before we got here. But I look at like

<v Speaker 1>Nicki Cross, What the hell happened to Nicki Cross? She

<v Speaker 1>was part of this group. Do you remember the last

<v Speaker 1>time you saw Nicky Cross in a match on television?

<v Speaker 1>I bet you don't. If I asked you who was

<v Speaker 1>the last person that Nicky Cross was in the ring

<v Speaker 1>with in a singles match on television, and I'd put

<v Speaker 1>a gun to your head and I said give me

<v Speaker 1>the answer in ten seconds, you'd be fucking dead. You

<v Speaker 1>couldn't tell me. This woman hasn't worked a match on

<v Speaker 1>television in two years. To my knowledge, she wasn't injured.

<v Speaker 1>They basically put her on ice for two years. This

<v Speaker 1>woman is a wrestler. Instead, she came out in the

<v Speaker 1>funny mask and she would just be in the background

<v Speaker 1>and every now and then she would do a crossbody

<v Speaker 1>onto somebody on the floor. That was what she was

<v Speaker 1>being paid to do. She wasn't actually being used in

<v Speaker 1>the ring anymore. Maybe now she'll actually go out there

<v Speaker 1>and she'll have this big resurgence on the independency, and

<v Speaker 1>I think that would be great to see. It would

<v Speaker 1>be nice to get her back in the ring and

<v Speaker 1>have her start wrestling again. But this is what I mean,

<v Speaker 1>It's like, I don't know what the end goal was

<v Speaker 1>for this group. Just never made any sense to me

<v Speaker 1>the way they were being used. But the entire group, now,

<v Speaker 1>the entire faction gone from WWE. The tag team division

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown Fucking sucks. Okay, we have had the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>and the Wyatts doing some tag team stuff. And who

<v Speaker 1>are the tag team champions right now? Holy shit, I

<v Speaker 1>just forgot who the tag team champions are on this show?

<v Speaker 1>Is it the MFTs? I think the MFTs are the

<v Speaker 1>tag team champions. No, Damian Priest and Our Truth. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>so there you go. I swear to you. I swear

<v Speaker 1>to you. I wasn't putting on an act there, I

<v Speaker 1>for the moment forgot who the fuck. The tag team

<v Speaker 1>champions were Damian Priest and Our Truth. Okay, the tag

<v Speaker 1>team that tells you everything you need to know. The

<v Speaker 1>tag team division on SmackDown sucks, and so you have

<v Speaker 1>the MotorCity machine Guns. They were part of that tag

<v Speaker 1>team division on SmackDown. They were doing nothing on the show,

<v Speaker 1>Alex Shelley and Chris Saban. Every now and then they

<v Speaker 1>would kind of dust them off to do something. The

<v Speaker 1>last thing we saw them doing on the show they

<v Speaker 1>were with Johnny Gargano trying to convince them to not

<v Speaker 1>lay on the crate. This was the compelling television that

<v Speaker 1>they came up with for these guys, Alex Shelley and

<v Speaker 1>Chris Saban, two very talented guys. The problem is right

<v Speaker 1>out of the gate when they got on smack Down,

<v Speaker 1>they made them tag team champions within the first two weeks.

<v Speaker 1>After that, it was all downhill. Where do you go

<v Speaker 1>from there? Right? They lost the titles not long after

<v Speaker 1>that and that was it. They never got back up

<v Speaker 1>to that level. They were part of I think a

<v Speaker 1>couple of memorable TLC matches on SmackDown, I think a

<v Speaker 1>year ago, right, weren't they part I think they might

<v Speaker 1>have been part of that match, but beyond that, I

<v Speaker 1>couldn't tell you a whole hell of a lot about

<v Speaker 1>what these two guys did. They always felt like they

<v Speaker 1>were on the bubble to me. And part of the

<v Speaker 1>problem also was that they never really got over. If

<v Speaker 1>we're being honest. We would see them on the show

<v Speaker 1>and it was painful. Sometimes they'd be out there and

<v Speaker 1>it was like pulling tea to try to get a

<v Speaker 1>reaction from the audience. And yeah, you could put some

<v Speaker 1>of that maybe on WWE in terms of the way

<v Speaker 1>that they were being booked and utilized on the show,

<v Speaker 1>but you can't put it all on WWE. Some of

<v Speaker 1>it goes on the talent, and the reality is they

<v Speaker 1>just did not get over at a high level on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>That put them in a very vulnerable position where today

<v Speaker 1>they were on the cutlist. And so the MotorCity machine

<v Speaker 1>Guns no longer in WWE. Alba Fire, who has been

<v Speaker 1>playing one of Chelsea Green's secret hervist agents, is gone.

<v Speaker 1>She posted on x Kaylee Ray would batter Alba Fire

<v Speaker 1>just saying Kaylee Ray, of course is the persona that

<v Speaker 1>she was playing in NXTUK and I believe she got

<v Speaker 1>a name change. When did she get the name change?

<v Speaker 1>Because I thought she was Kaylee Ray in nxt UK

<v Speaker 1>unless they changed her name there. But basically, she's ready

<v Speaker 1>to get back out there and be Kaylee Rays and

<v Speaker 1>say fuck you to Alba Fire and I think she's

<v Speaker 1>gonna do just fine for it. I think a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people on this list, frankly, are gonna end up

<v Speaker 1>doing very well for themselves, you know, and land somewhere

<v Speaker 1>if they want to sign a contract, if they don't

<v Speaker 1>want to, I think they'll do well on the indies.

<v Speaker 1>She's one of those people. But again, she wasn't really

<v Speaker 1>being used in a meaningful way. She was there to

<v Speaker 1>wheeld Chelsea Green out in her wheelchair. That's it. That's it.

<v Speaker 1>This one, it felt like it was only a matter

<v Speaker 1>of time. Zoe Stark. Zoe Stark is a name that

<v Speaker 1>we have not heard in a very long time because

<v Speaker 1>Zoe Stark suffered a horrific knee injury on raw in

<v Speaker 1>May of last year. I mean, I think back to

<v Speaker 1>that injury and the way her leg be Oh god,

<v Speaker 1>it was awful, and the scream I still I could

<v Speaker 1>hear her scream in my head so it was a terrible,

<v Speaker 1>terrible injury. She tore her ACL, her MCL, her meniscus,

<v Speaker 1>and she was on the road to recovery. She had surgery,

<v Speaker 1>she went grueling rehab, and we hadn't really heard any

<v Speaker 1>updates on her in quite some time. I was kind

<v Speaker 1>of following her social media on Instagram from time to time,

<v Speaker 1>and she seems, you know, to be doing a lot better.

<v Speaker 1>And I had actually just mentioned her not that long ago,

<v Speaker 1>and it felt like she might be, you know about

<v Speaker 1>ready to come back very soon. And I was thinking, well,

<v Speaker 1>they have the Women's Intercontinental title, they have the Women's

<v Speaker 1>United Stage Championship, and I could see her, you know,

<v Speaker 1>being plugged into one of those divisions and she could

<v Speaker 1>be a solid addition there, you know. Well, I mean

<v Speaker 1>it was wishful thinking that won't be happening, though, because

<v Speaker 1>she has been released by WWE, and I was not

<v Speaker 1>aware of the fact that apparently just recently she was

<v Speaker 1>cleared to return. Because you hear the name Zoe Stark

<v Speaker 1>and she was let go, It's like, well, that's pretty

<v Speaker 1>fucking shitty. Woman is still out recovering from this horrendous injury,

<v Speaker 1>hoping to make a comeback and you let her go.

<v Speaker 1>Apparently she was medically cleared. I don't know how recently,

<v Speaker 1>but sometime recently she was medically cleared to return, and

<v Speaker 1>I guess was just waiting to find out how they

<v Speaker 1>were going to bring her back into creative on television.

<v Speaker 1>To me, this is almost shittier. This is almost worse

<v Speaker 1>than if they would have just let her go in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of her rehabbing from that injury, because she

<v Speaker 1>went through all of this grueling rehab and recovery and

<v Speaker 1>she made it, and she got medically cleared, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure in her head she's all excited. Man, she's ready

<v Speaker 1>to come back. She's ready to jump back in that

<v Speaker 1>ring and contribute and get another chance. And then she

<v Speaker 1>has it taken away from her because that injury has

<v Speaker 1>I mean, that has to fuck with your head. That injury,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure was just devastating to her on so many levels.

<v Speaker 1>And so imagine working yourself back up to a place

<v Speaker 1>where now you are medically cleared and ready to come

<v Speaker 1>back and they fire you. To me, that's even worse now.

<v Speaker 1>She already posted on social media as well, she said,

<v Speaker 1>thank you WWE. You made a young girl's dream come true.

<v Speaker 1>You cannot have been better and more supportive during my healing,

<v Speaker 1>and I will forever be grateful. Thank you to all

<v Speaker 1>the girls in the back, the producers, cameraman, you were

<v Speaker 1>all incredibly kind and gracious. And a special thank you

<v Speaker 1>to Terry Taylor and Coach Bloom for teaching me so

<v Speaker 1>much and being a shoulder to lean on. It's just

<v Speaker 1>the end of this chapter and the beginning of a

<v Speaker 1>new one, falling forward, onward and upward with God's plan.

<v Speaker 1>And then she listed her email address if you want

<v Speaker 1>to book Zoe Stark z Stark dot booking at gmail

<v Speaker 1>dot com. I can assure you that some people will

<v Speaker 1>be reaching out to her to book her on their shows.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that she's going to be hurting for

<v Speaker 1>work when she's ready to make her comeback. Now. It

<v Speaker 1>makes me wonder. I can't help but look at this

<v Speaker 1>and want because of me, And we're talking about we're

<v Speaker 1>talking about WWE and TKO and big corporation here looking

<v Speaker 1>at this and wondering if they were waiting until she

<v Speaker 1>was officially healed and medically cleared, if they were going

<v Speaker 1>to make a move like this. That's the cynic in me.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to believe that that's the case. And

<v Speaker 1>also they have shown in the past that they will

<v Speaker 1>let you go even if you are currently out injured.

<v Speaker 1>I have other names to get to here. In fact,

<v Speaker 1>the next name I'm gonna get to falls under that category.

<v Speaker 1>So maybe that's not what happened. Yet I just think

<v Speaker 1>that's incredibly shitty. Zoe is a talented wrestler, and Zoe

<v Speaker 1>is someone who, as I said, could be play. You

<v Speaker 1>have two women's mid car championships now in this company

<v Speaker 1>that were really only instituted a few months before she

<v Speaker 1>got hurt. She would be someone who, again you can

<v Speaker 1>easily plug in and then if she does really well

<v Speaker 1>this run and she really hits it off, then who knows,

<v Speaker 1>maybe she can climb even higher. But they evidently felt

<v Speaker 1>that it wasn't worth it. She wasn't worth it. She

<v Speaker 1>didn't bring enough value to this company, so they let

<v Speaker 1>her go. Santo's Escobar. This is another one that is

<v Speaker 1>just wild to think about. Santacobar was on SmackDown once

<v Speaker 1>upon a time, leading a small faction. It was him,

<v Speaker 1>it was Angel, it was Berdo, and again they weren't

<v Speaker 1>really lighting the world on fire. They really weren't doing

<v Speaker 1>a whole lot with them. And then his contract expired

<v Speaker 1>and he chose not to re sign with WWE, as

<v Speaker 1>I recall, and so he was about to become a

<v Speaker 1>free agent. I think for a brief period of time

<v Speaker 1>he did become a free agent. WWE apparently really wanted

<v Speaker 1>to sign him. They wanted him back, and so they

<v Speaker 1>negotiated a new deal. They apparently threw a shit ton

<v Speaker 1>of money at this guy, and he agreed to re sign.

<v Speaker 1>And I look at that, I go, hey, good for him.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that was his plan, but apparently

<v Speaker 1>he got a much better deal out of it. And

<v Speaker 1>then we didn't hear anything about Santos Escobar for months,

<v Speaker 1>for months, and then there was a report that, oh,

<v Speaker 1>he kind of fell through the cracks, and so WWE

<v Speaker 1>is hearing plans to bring him back very soon. Fell

<v Speaker 1>through the cracks, and then they bring him back in

<v Speaker 1>Triple A. Unfortunately for him, he got injured. I think

<v Speaker 1>he got injured back into January. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>he didn't know about it, didn't know the severity of it,

<v Speaker 1>hit it, I don't know what happened there, if he

<v Speaker 1>got hurt in January. It wasn't until March at that

<v Speaker 1>Triple A Rey de Reys show. He was in that

<v Speaker 1>four way match and you could tell that something was wrong.

<v Speaker 1>He just did not look great in that match. Somehow

<v Speaker 1>he worked the match, but I think it was a

<v Speaker 1>triceps tear, and so he underwent surgery to repair his arm.

<v Speaker 1>Apparently within the last few weeks he had a second surgery.

<v Speaker 1>There was some issue I think with his ulnar nerve

<v Speaker 1>I believe is what I read. So again he's going

<v Speaker 1>to be out for a while. He just had two surgeries.

<v Speaker 1>He re signed with the company because they pursued him.

<v Speaker 1>They wanted him back, and so they threw money at

<v Speaker 1>him and he agreed to come back, and now he

<v Speaker 1>is done. They have fired him. And again I look

<v Speaker 1>at this and I just go, I don't understand how

<v Speaker 1>that works. You wanted him so bad. It wasn't even

<v Speaker 1>being used on the show in any significant way. It

<v Speaker 1>was kind of weird. How we have to have him,

<v Speaker 1>we have to have him back, and it's like, all right,

<v Speaker 1>good for him. He's a talented guy. Hopefully they'll do

<v Speaker 1>more with him. But apparently not good enough to hold

<v Speaker 1>on to because now he's out of a job anyway.

<v Speaker 1>As it turned out, again, it's just one of those things.

<v Speaker 1>And again he's hurt at the time, at the moment,

<v Speaker 1>he's hurt. So that's one of those names on the

<v Speaker 1>list that I just shake my head at and I go,

<v Speaker 1>I don't understand. Make it make sense, because to me

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't. Apollo Cruz, I don't know, to be honest

<v Speaker 1>with you, I don't know how he survived the previous

<v Speaker 1>cuts because you talk about somebody who was being paid

<v Speaker 1>and showing up to work and really not being utilized

<v Speaker 1>outside of maybe wrestling on main event. That is the

<v Speaker 1>story of Apollo Cruise in his career the last few years.

<v Speaker 1>He did get a bit of a push. Years ago.

<v Speaker 1>He was even the Intercontinental Champion at one point. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>how many years ago? That was? I was five years ago.

<v Speaker 1>What have they done with Apollo Cruse in the last

<v Speaker 1>four years five years? Nothing good for him. He survived

<v Speaker 1>a lot of other waves of cuts. Unfortunately it caught

<v Speaker 1>up with him this time. He should have read jtg's book.

<v Speaker 1>See if you would have read jtg's book, he would

<v Speaker 1>have known, don't answer your phone. Unfortunately he answered his

<v Speaker 1>phone and he ended up on the list, Andre Chase

<v Speaker 1>and Dante Chen. They were also released from NXT. Chase

<v Speaker 1>he had not been on NXT television since January. I

<v Speaker 1>think the peak of the whole Chase youth thing that

<v Speaker 1>was some time ago, as it is Dante Chen. He

<v Speaker 1>was the first Singaporean wrestler ever signed to w WE.

<v Speaker 1>He tweeted saying five years, one hundred and forty seven matches,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, WWE. And I don't think he meant it

<v Speaker 1>this way. But if that isn't an argument for the

<v Speaker 1>the need for more house shows, I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>is one hundred and forty seven matches in five years

<v Speaker 1>isn't very many matches. But he was never really used

<v Speaker 1>as anything other than, you know, like a lower card,

<v Speaker 1>almost like an enhancement guy to really make the other

<v Speaker 1>person look good. I don't ever remember him being pushed

<v Speaker 1>in a serious way, even in NXT the appearances I

<v Speaker 1>remember him making, I don't believe he was ever seriously pushed.

<v Speaker 1>Tyra May Steele is gone. She won a gold medal

<v Speaker 1>in the twenty twenty Tokyo Olympics, first female winner from

<v Speaker 1>the first season of WWELFG. She is gone. This is

<v Speaker 1>this is a kind of a an eerie one. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how many of you were paying attention to this,

<v Speaker 1>but if you remember last month she tweeted. It was

<v Speaker 1>a very weird tweet and some people took it to

<v Speaker 1>mean that she had been released by WWE, and WWE,

<v Speaker 1>I guess had to put a statement out saying she

<v Speaker 1>is in fact not released and she's still under contract.

<v Speaker 1>But she had tweeted something about I guess having a

<v Speaker 1>dream or having a nightmare that resulted in her being

<v Speaker 1>released by WWE. But she was just talking about a dream.

<v Speaker 1>She was talking about a nightmare that she had. One

<v Speaker 1>month later, that nightmare has become a reality because she

<v Speaker 1>has in fact been released by WWE. So that's a

<v Speaker 1>little eerie. And the other names on this list you

<v Speaker 1>may or may not know. I only know a handful

<v Speaker 1>of them. Serena Linton, Tyson DuPont, Tyreek, Iguay, Chris Island,

<v Speaker 1>Malik Blade, Trill London, and Luca Crucifino, who I think

<v Speaker 1>had been doing stuff in Evolve. They are all gone

<v Speaker 1>from WWE. So those are the names that we know

<v Speaker 1>of so far. By my count I believe that makes

<v Speaker 1>twenty four. It's somewhere in that two dozen range and

<v Speaker 1>there could be more yet to come. This is all

<v Speaker 1>broken just in the last several hours. Sometimes these things

<v Speaker 1>will drag on into the weekend or the beginning of

<v Speaker 1>the following week. Hopefully that's all of them. Again, no

<v Speaker 1>one takes pleasure, and if you do, again, you're an asshole.

<v Speaker 1>No one takes pleasure in hearing that somebody got fired,

<v Speaker 1>so you know, randomly released, they lost their job, unless

<v Speaker 1>there's a damn good reason for it. Some people, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>if it's a disciplinary thing, that's a different story, but

<v Speaker 1>that doesn't seem to be the case here. And I

<v Speaker 1>would be very curious to find out more about the

<v Speaker 1>Alistair black one, if that in fact was a release,

<v Speaker 1>or if it was something if it was a case

<v Speaker 1>where his wife was released and he's kind of standing

<v Speaker 1>with her and opted to leave on his own volition. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that's what happened here. We'll wait

<v Speaker 1>for more information. It's just a terrible thing if you

<v Speaker 1>are in that position, because I'm sure for a lot

<v Speaker 1>of these people they've been through it before, and a

<v Speaker 1>lot of them haven't. And it's a terrible phone call

<v Speaker 1>to get and then you wonder, okay, well, what's next

<v Speaker 1>for me. It's a little bit different. If your an

<v Speaker 1>established name, you'll probably be fine. Some of these names

<v Speaker 1>that they want to continue wrestling if they were out

<v Speaker 1>of the PC, let's say, they don't know, you know,

<v Speaker 1>they don't know where their future is going to take them.

<v Speaker 1>Some of these names on this list, whether it's again

<v Speaker 1>a Kyrie Saying or Santos Escobar, Zoe Stark, someone like that.

<v Speaker 1>There are companies, whether it be a TNA or an

<v Speaker 1>AW or what have you, MLW that will absolutely be

<v Speaker 1>able to use them and hopefully they will land on

<v Speaker 1>their feet and they will do well. And who's to

<v Speaker 1>say that, you know, years from now WWE doesn't come

<v Speaker 1>calling again. That's what happens sometimes, you know, you get released,

<v Speaker 1>shit happens, You go out, you work, you make yourself

<v Speaker 1>into a bigger name and a hotter commodity, and all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden one day ww's like, hey, you know,

<v Speaker 1>let's have a conversation. And there have been ex samples

<v Speaker 1>of this before of people that have left or been

<v Speaker 1>fired and have come back, and hopefully that will be

<v Speaker 1>the case with some of these folks. You know, if

<v Speaker 1>they want to work for WWE again, hopefully that will

<v Speaker 1>be the case for them, Hopefully they'll land on their feet.

<v Speaker 1>But just some of these names are just puzzling to me.

<v Speaker 1>I would be curious to see if any news comes

<v Speaker 1>out about why someone like a Kyrie saying, in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of a story like that on Monday night, Raw

<v Speaker 1>is suddenly let go. I don't understand that. That doesn't

<v Speaker 1>make any sense to me. If there were names on

<v Speaker 1>this list that were, you know, bigger names, let's say,

<v Speaker 1>and you look at that and you hear, oh, man,

<v Speaker 1>this person was making you know, high six figures and

<v Speaker 1>they're not really being used in a high six figure

<v Speaker 1>kind of way, and WWE decided, you know what, that

<v Speaker 1>contract has to go. It sucks, But I can understand

<v Speaker 1>that at least there's a logic to that. To me,

<v Speaker 1>there's no logic in some of these names being on

<v Speaker 1>this list. I don't understand it. And in some cases, yes,

<v Speaker 1>you can look at it and go to, wwe really

<v Speaker 1>drop the ball on this person or that person. But

<v Speaker 1>then there are other names where you know what, it

<v Speaker 1>cuts both ways. Sorry to say, some of these cuts

<v Speaker 1>are not surprising at all. Sometimes there are names that

<v Speaker 1>are going to be cut and they've got to make

<v Speaker 1>room for new ones. We have new NXT call ups.

<v Speaker 1>That was something we saw on Raw Monday Night, Ethan Page,

<v Speaker 1>Soul Ruka even earlier this year, Obafemi, Javon Evans, Trick Williams,

<v Speaker 1>Jordan Grace. You have to make room for the next

<v Speaker 1>generation of stars, which also means that as new names

<v Speaker 1>come in, there are going to be names that have

<v Speaker 1>to go out. And we've talked about this issue with

<v Speaker 1>AW before. They have a gigantic roster and they signed

<v Speaker 1>and they signed, and they signed, and they sign people

<v Speaker 1>and you don't hear stories a lot about people who

<v Speaker 1>are leaving, about people who are being released, which in

<v Speaker 1>a way is is kind of good. But you can

<v Speaker 1>get to a point where the roster becomes overloaded, and

<v Speaker 1>that's not good either because then you have people who

<v Speaker 1>become unhappy because they're not being utilized because there's only

<v Speaker 1>so much television time, right, it kind of cuts both ways.

<v Speaker 1>That's why everybody on this list can't just go to

<v Speaker 1>AAW But that's why it's also good to have multiple

<v Speaker 1>places to go work aw TNA MLW. I mean you

<v Speaker 1>also have a Ring of Honor, which is technically still

<v Speaker 1>aaw but it's good to have multiple places to work.

<v Speaker 1>This is an example of why this is something WWE

<v Speaker 1>does just about every single year, and it's to be expected.

<v Speaker 1>It sucks, but it's part of life. When you work

<v Speaker 1>for that company, you have to accept that it's part

<v Speaker 1>of life. At some point, they're going to turn around

<v Speaker 1>when you're of no use to them, You're of no

<v Speaker 1>value to them anymore, and they're gonna say goodbye. And

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<v Speaker 1>and we did fatal influence the entire trio. J C.

<v Speaker 1>Jane Fallon, Henley Laney read they're officially now part of

<v Speaker 1>the SmackDown roster. We also learned tonight that Blake Monroe

<v Speaker 1>the Glamour is on her way to SmackDown. That is

<v Speaker 1>long overdue and a move that I think will absolutely

<v Speaker 1>strengthen the women's division on that show, as will fatal influence.

<v Speaker 1>Ricky Saints is on his way to smack Then. He

<v Speaker 1>did not debut tonight, but we did get a vignette

<v Speaker 1>for him, and he is going to be making his

<v Speaker 1>debut in Tulsa next week, which would mean that Ricky

<v Speaker 1>Saints and Royce Keys are going to be reunited. Two

<v Speaker 1>former members of Team TAZ going to be reunited here

<v Speaker 1>on this show. And again, these are moves that were

<v Speaker 1>were needed, especially after what we saw Monday night. SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>needed a boost. They got that boost. One boost I

<v Speaker 1>thought the show might get was the addition of Cmpunk.

<v Speaker 1>There was no mention of cmpunk on the show today,

<v Speaker 1>there was no cmpunk appearance. There was no indication that

<v Speaker 1>cmpunk is going to be SmackDown bound. He still could be,

<v Speaker 1>but for the time being, it doesn't look like that. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>what we had in the main event was Solo Sokoa

<v Speaker 1>against Jacob fa Tu, who was both on Raw Monday

<v Speaker 1>and on SmackDown tonight. And I'm all for more Jacob

<v Speaker 1>fa too. I think he's got a huge upside. I'm

<v Speaker 1>a big Jacob fa two fan. I have no issue

<v Speaker 1>with that. But we had the bloodline stuff close the

<v Speaker 1>show out on Monday night. How did they open the

<v Speaker 1>show tonight with the bloodline stuff? How much of the

<v Speaker 1>bloodline are we going to get across these two shows?

<v Speaker 1>It was jarring to see on a day where so

<v Speaker 1>many non bloodline names were released and lost their jobs,

<v Speaker 1>and they just seemed to be flooding the zone with

<v Speaker 1>more bloodline stuff on these shows. It was very noticeable.

<v Speaker 1>But Jacob is looking for an answer on Monday from

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns, so tonight what they wanted to do was

<v Speaker 1>get him in the main event and get a win

<v Speaker 1>under his belt and push the story of him in Roman.

<v Speaker 1>Is that going to be the match of Backlash or not,

<v Speaker 1>we won't know until Monday night. But that is why

<v Speaker 1>they did what they did today, and the USO's by

<v Speaker 1>the way, they crossed over from Raw to SmackDown tonight

<v Speaker 1>as well, because what brand split. There is no fucking

<v Speaker 1>brand split. They can go wherever they want to go,

<v Speaker 1>so they decided to show up on SmackDown tonight. Cody Rhodes,

<v Speaker 1>his eye is all fucked up after the WRESTLEMANI a

<v Speaker 1>Night one main event. I thought we would get some

<v Speaker 1>sort of injury update on him tonight. We didn't. He

<v Speaker 1>came out, he cut a promo, a very basic promo,

<v Speaker 1>certainly nothing as interesting as what we saw with him

<v Speaker 1>in Punk on Monday. But there was no mention of

<v Speaker 1>whether or not he suffered some sort of injury. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>beyond just what we see with our own two eyes,

<v Speaker 1>or if he's medically cleared, or when he might be

<v Speaker 1>back in the ring. There was nothing. There was nothing.

<v Speaker 1>His eye still looks all gnarly. It'll be a few

<v Speaker 1>weeks before he heals up. Doesn't look like he's probably

<v Speaker 1>going to be in the ring at Backlash, which I

<v Speaker 1>guess doesn't really matter. If they have Roman defending his

<v Speaker 1>title on that show. We had more bloodline on the show,

<v Speaker 1>and honestly, beyond that, we do have a new United

<v Speaker 1>States Champion on the women's side. We're going to get

<v Speaker 1>into that. This was not a great show. I do

<v Speaker 1>like the fact that we're getting some new faces on

<v Speaker 1>the show. I think that it's absolutely needed. I think, frankly,

<v Speaker 1>a whole fucking reset is needed with this show, in

<v Speaker 1>this entire product, and we're getting that to some degree

<v Speaker 1>with some of these new faces that have been called up.

<v Speaker 1>But this was not a great show tonight. It was

<v Speaker 1>a decent show. There were definitely things I liked, and

<v Speaker 1>there were definitely things I did like, and that was

<v Speaker 1>really the story of smack then, And we're going to

<v Speaker 1>get into all of it here because this is your

<v Speaker 1>Friday Night SmackDown review on a very newsworthy night. It

<v Speaker 1>is Friday night, April twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. I

<v Speaker 1>am the solemn Monster, like and subscribe. Thank you again

<v Speaker 1>for helping me smash ninety two thousand subscribers earlier this week.

<v Speaker 1>I very much appreciate that. Onward we go spin the wheel.

<v Speaker 1>Not a very really mood tonight, But let's find out

<v Speaker 1>how many likes we need to do Be the Booker

<v Speaker 1>later on, little thing we do at the end of

<v Speaker 1>these streams, five hundred and thirty. That is the goal

<v Speaker 1>for tonight. So get those likes up, and we're already

<v Speaker 1>at four to forty five, so I think we're going

<v Speaker 1>to do pretty well. But that is the goal for

<v Speaker 1>Be the Booker tonight. Let's take it from the very

<v Speaker 1>top here. We got a lot to get into here.

<v Speaker 1>I got a lot to say about this show. But

<v Speaker 1>it started the same way it ended on Monday Night.

<v Speaker 1>We saw Jacob fought Too close the show. He opened

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight and he made his way down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring after having just challenged Roman Reigns, the brand

<v Speaker 1>new World Heavyweight Champion, to a match at Backlash for

<v Speaker 1>the title, and I thought that that meant that Jacob

<v Speaker 1>was moving to Monday Night Row. Now maybe he is,

<v Speaker 1>we don't know, because he was right back on SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>this week, not only in this segment, but he closed

<v Speaker 1>the show in the main event. So who the fuck

<v Speaker 1>knows what brand Jacob Fought Too is ultimately gonna land on.

<v Speaker 1>But he comes out and he states that he told

<v Speaker 1>Roman that he wanted him and that he needed the

<v Speaker 1>world title, and then Roman looked at him in the

<v Speaker 1>eye and said, you're not ready. The truth is Roman

<v Speaker 1>was right because what Roman told him has been something

<v Speaker 1>that he's heard from his friends and family his entire life.

<v Speaker 1>If Roman thinks he's not ready, he better step up

<v Speaker 1>in the ring to prove it. And that brought out

<v Speaker 1>the USOS, who evidently forgot what day of the week

<v Speaker 1>it was they came out here on SmackDown, Jimmy said

<v Speaker 1>that he heard what fat I had to say on

<v Speaker 1>Monday about how he wanted to level up for his family,

<v Speaker 1>and he said, Cody defended his title, but he's slipping.

<v Speaker 1>He said that that should be his target, not Roman,

<v Speaker 1>and he warned not to go after the ot scene.

<v Speaker 1>Instead run the play with the family and the fans.

<v Speaker 1>I will point out the fans were booing there like

<v Speaker 1>these two guys were heels, and Jimmy basically said, just

<v Speaker 1>ignore them, don't listen to what these people have to say. Said,

<v Speaker 1>they're not going to give you that lifestyle, they're not

<v Speaker 1>going to give you the big money, they're not going

<v Speaker 1>to put your kids in nicer schools. So then Jay

<v Speaker 1>chimed in and he said, it's too late. He said,

<v Speaker 1>Jacob stepped up, he opened his mouth. He said that

<v Speaker 1>it was time to see if he can swim in

<v Speaker 1>the deep end, and to get respect from Roman, you

<v Speaker 1>need to walk up to him, look him in the eye,

<v Speaker 1>and get ready for war. So now the MFTs were

<v Speaker 1>out all but Tallatanga. He was never mentioned, he was

<v Speaker 1>never seen. It's as if he just didn't exist in

<v Speaker 1>this world anymore, which again has me wondering if we're

<v Speaker 1>going to see his name on a list very soon.

<v Speaker 1>Hopefully he's just sick or maybe he missed his flight.

<v Speaker 1>But on a day where you had about two dozen

<v Speaker 1>people released from this company, not a good time to

<v Speaker 1>be no showing here on this show. It's probably not

<v Speaker 1>a good sign. But the other members of the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>came out. Solo Sokoa said the usos were lying to him.

<v Speaker 1>He took credit for bringing Jacob into WWE. He said,

<v Speaker 1>fat Tu wasn't going to beat Roman alone. He's going

<v Speaker 1>to need an army in the form of the MFTs.

<v Speaker 1>Tom A Tonga then swiped the microphone out of Solo's

<v Speaker 1>hand and he asked him, why are we wasting our

<v Speaker 1>time with this? He said, fat Tow is a lost

<v Speaker 1>cause he couldn't even beat you. So Toma got super

<v Speaker 1>kicked by Jacob, who told Solo that the only one

<v Speaker 1>who should be talking to him right now is Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns and Fatu then issued the challenge to Solo to

<v Speaker 1>face him later tonight in the main event. This was

<v Speaker 1>your typical revolving Door WWE opening promo segment. As far

<v Speaker 1>as continuing the Bloodline stuff from Monday into Friday, I

<v Speaker 1>really wish we would get some more variety on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if they want to put up a some

<v Speaker 1>semblance of or pretend that there's a real split going

<v Speaker 1>on here, I don't think we need. You know, the

<v Speaker 1>bloodline stuff takes up enough oxygen as it is, and

<v Speaker 1>that's fine on Monday, but if that's where Roman's gonna be,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why we need it on this show

<v Speaker 1>as well, when there's so many other people who could

<v Speaker 1>use that time. But Jacob being featured in a title

<v Speaker 1>role like this where he's like the main player, I

<v Speaker 1>can get behind that that I do like. I like

<v Speaker 1>the added focus on him. He got that big win

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania over Drew McIntyre, who was not on this show.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe he's off filming more for his Highlander movie. So

<v Speaker 1>they sent it to Kathy Kelly in the back, who

<v Speaker 1>interviewed Julia and Keanna James about Julia's upcoming US title

<v Speaker 1>match with Tiffany Stratton, and Keanu said that they were

<v Speaker 1>both mad about the lack of respect. She said it

<v Speaker 1>only lit a fire under them to beat Tiffany. Julia

<v Speaker 1>said she feels no pressure, only anger. Julia was very

<v Speaker 1>upset about being left off the right card, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure some of that is very real emotion, because I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure she was not happy about being left off that card,

<v Speaker 1>as I believe the only singles champion right or certainly

<v Speaker 1>one of them. I mean, we know that both women's

<v Speaker 1>world titles were defended, and we know the women's I

<v Speaker 1>see and the women's tag titles were defended, so Julia

<v Speaker 1>was the only women's champion on the main roster to

<v Speaker 1>not have a title match either, not of WrestleMania. I

<v Speaker 1>would be upset too if I were her. If you

<v Speaker 1>watch their body language and listen to what they were

<v Speaker 1>saying here in this segment, they're definitely teasing a split

<v Speaker 1>between these two. Julia was not happy with Keana. Keanu

<v Speaker 1>was not happy with Julia. They were both being very

<v Speaker 1>snippy with each other, which I think is long overdue.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see this pairing has not helped either one

<v Speaker 1>of them. How has this pairing really benefited Julia. Like

<v Speaker 1>the sooner they split them, the I would like to say,

<v Speaker 1>the better off they'll be, But then again, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if that's necessarily a good thing for Julia and

<v Speaker 1>her long term future in this company, especially after what

<v Speaker 1>we saw here. In this next match, which was Julia

<v Speaker 1>defending her United States Championship against Tiffany Stratton, fast paced

<v Speaker 1>early on, they had dueling pinfall attempts from both women.

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany grabbed Keana when she tried to interfere. Julia tried

<v Speaker 1>to come in for something. She accidentally collides with Keana,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm just saying, uh oh, that's not good. Tiffany

<v Speaker 1>hit Julia with her rolling sent on. She went up

<v Speaker 1>top for the prettiest Moonsalt ever, and Julia caught her

<v Speaker 1>on the way down into what I thought was going

<v Speaker 1>to be an armbar, but she transitioned into kind of

<v Speaker 1>like a Rings of Saturn. It was actually a very

<v Speaker 1>cool counter of the pme. So Tiffany got out of it,

<v Speaker 1>but then she got blasted with the Arrivaderchi. Ni, what

<v Speaker 1>a sin it would be. By the way, if they

<v Speaker 1>let Julia go and they're a month out from their

<v Speaker 1>first show, their first plee in Italy, can you imagine here?

<v Speaker 1>I was like a month ago to moth Ago, thinking, oh,

<v Speaker 1>Julia should get a match on that show, or she's

<v Speaker 1>got some Battalion roots. She could defend her title on

<v Speaker 1>that show. She may not even be employed by the

<v Speaker 1>time they get to that show. The way things are going,

<v Speaker 1>how fucked up would that be? So Tiffany reversed the

<v Speaker 1>Northern Lights bomb into an Alabama Slam. She followed with

<v Speaker 1>the prettiest moon Salt ever. This time it connected, and

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany Stratton is your brand new United States Champion. I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was and it went about eight minutes. I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was solid for those eight minutes. But again,

<v Speaker 1>Julia losing the title today, of all days, you gonna

<v Speaker 1>tell me I'm wrong not to be worried for this woman.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's a terrible sign. I think that's a

<v Speaker 1>very bad sign for her future. But as far as

<v Speaker 1>her second run, she had two runs as the United

<v Speaker 1>States Champion, and neither of them were successful, because if

<v Speaker 1>they were successful, then she wouldn't be in the position

<v Speaker 1>that she's in right now where I feel again, I

<v Speaker 1>feel like she's on the bubble. I feel like she

<v Speaker 1>may be a lost cause on this show. They've never

<v Speaker 1>really fully gotten behind her. They've never really allowed her

<v Speaker 1>to go out there. And again, this was eight minutes.

<v Speaker 1>That's decent enough. She really hasn't had the chance to

<v Speaker 1>go out there and engage with somebody in a way

<v Speaker 1>where she can really show off what she can do.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying she has to go out there and

<v Speaker 1>stiff people and injure them. I'm just saying we really

<v Speaker 1>haven't seen Julia, the real Julia. We have yet to

<v Speaker 1>see her on SmackDown. We saw more of her in

<v Speaker 1>NXT than we have on SmackDown, and she's another one.

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned the Motor City machine Guns right, very talented.

<v Speaker 1>I like those guys. They weren't over, they weren't getting

<v Speaker 1>reactions on the show. Julia goes out there, she doesn't

<v Speaker 1>get any reactions on the show. You can be a

<v Speaker 1>Julia fan, but you can't be blind to this, and

<v Speaker 1>that's what worries me, But I just feel like they

<v Speaker 1>haven't really done a whole lot with her. She's walking

<v Speaker 1>around with a championship. That's great, but what does that

<v Speaker 1>really mean if you're not doing a whole hell of

<v Speaker 1>a lot on the show show. And I also don't

<v Speaker 1>think they trust her on promos because she'll she'll speak,

<v Speaker 1>but it's like in sound bites and if you've heard Julia,

<v Speaker 1>her English is actually not that bad. Like she could

<v Speaker 1>go out there in the back or wherever and cut

<v Speaker 1>a promo if they wanted her to cut a promo

<v Speaker 1>on somebody. But I just feel like they don't let

<v Speaker 1>her go out there and do what she can do,

<v Speaker 1>you know, to the best of her ability. She's kind

<v Speaker 1>of limited in that way. And you couple that with

<v Speaker 1>the fact that she's just not getting over with the audience.

<v Speaker 1>That's the kiss of death. I think they see more

<v Speaker 1>in Keana James than they do in Julia. I think

<v Speaker 1>of the two, if I had to say one is

<v Speaker 1>safe and the other is not, I think Keana is safe.

<v Speaker 1>I really do. I think they see Keana as somebody

<v Speaker 1>who could really be a player in that women's division.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think they see Julia the same way. It sucks,

<v Speaker 1>but I really don't. I've seen nothing that they have

<v Speaker 1>done on these shows to demonstrate to me that they

<v Speaker 1>see the value in Julia in being a real top

<v Speaker 1>tier player in that women's division. And it doesn't help

<v Speaker 1>that she was left off the WrestleMania card, the only

<v Speaker 1>champion to be left off the WrestleMania card. We got

<v Speaker 1>a pre tape vignette of Dan Hausen. I think they

<v Speaker 1>said this was earlier today or earlier this week, visiting

<v Speaker 1>the miss's house. The misses living in this palatial estate.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if this was his real house, probably not,

<v Speaker 1>but whatever, it's a beautiful home. Whoever's house it is.

<v Speaker 1>It's like when Cody Rhodes went to Drew McIntyre's house

<v Speaker 1>that that wasn't Drew McIntire's house. But anyway, so he

<v Speaker 1>goes and he rings the doorbell and miss you know,

<v Speaker 1>he opens the door. He can't believe. First of all,

<v Speaker 1>he opens the door, nobody's there. But then he turns

<v Speaker 1>around and Dan Hausen has somehow teleported into his house,

<v Speaker 1>and he asks him, you know what he you doing

<v Speaker 1>in my house? How did you find my house? And

<v Speaker 1>he orders him to leave and MS turns around. I

<v Speaker 1>think to close the door or open the door, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know whatever. But he turns back around and dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen is gone. So Mis goes walking through the house

<v Speaker 1>and he goes to the backyard and he finds Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen is lounging in his pool, and the Mis he

<v Speaker 1>does not want Dan house in the lounging in his pool,

<v Speaker 1>and he says, get out of my pool, and so

<v Speaker 1>he did. But all he did was teleport himself into

<v Speaker 1>the outer pool. It's the best way I could describe.

<v Speaker 1>It's like a main pool in the middle, and then

<v Speaker 1>there's like kind of like an outer pool. He goes, well,

<v Speaker 1>I am he told me to get out of that pool.

<v Speaker 1>So now I'm in the other pool and MS just

<v Speaker 1>comes charging at him. Of course, no one's there, and

<v Speaker 1>MS falls in the water, and it says in the

<v Speaker 1>corner of the screen to be continued. So we're going

<v Speaker 1>to get a follow up vignette later on in the show.

<v Speaker 1>I look guilt, call my guilty pleasure. I got a

<v Speaker 1>kick out of this. We come back, Tiffany Stratton is

<v Speaker 1>being interviewed by was it Kathy? I thin Kathy was

<v Speaker 1>the one who was interviewing her, not on the stage,

<v Speaker 1>but it was kind of like this was one of

<v Speaker 1>those weird things where they're filming this and you could

<v Speaker 1>see the crowd in the background, but they're kind of

<v Speaker 1>by the stage or just kind of off to the side,

<v Speaker 1>and she's going to do an interview here with Tiffany,

<v Speaker 1>the brand new champion, and Tiffany said it felt amazing

<v Speaker 1>to be on top again, she was no longer stuck

<v Speaker 1>in second place as the runner up. Said that she's

<v Speaker 1>ready to show that the WWE is operating on Tiffy time,

<v Speaker 1>but she's interrupted. She's interrupted by bre Mode. Out comes

<v Speaker 1>bri Bella with her shiny new Women's Tag Team Championship belt.

<v Speaker 1>She raises it high above her head, and then Page

<v Speaker 1>comes out, and this was Page's return to SmackDown. She

<v Speaker 1>used to the general manager on this show, I believe

<v Speaker 1>many years ago, almost a decade ago. So she comes

<v Speaker 1>out with her tag team title, and the champions made

<v Speaker 1>their way down to the ring and bre noted that,

<v Speaker 1>you know, while it's a shame that she couldn't win

<v Speaker 1>these titles with her sister, shout out to Nikki. She's

<v Speaker 1>at home recovery. She was more than happy to do

<v Speaker 1>so alongside an old friend like Page, and she welcomed

<v Speaker 1>Paige back to WWE. So Page spoke and she was

<v Speaker 1>starting to lose her voice. She apologized. She said that

<v Speaker 1>she had a hectic week when she got the call

<v Speaker 1>from Brie though about tagging with her at WrestleMania. She

<v Speaker 1>said that that was something that she couldn't say no to.

<v Speaker 1>She was more than happy to answer, and she said

<v Speaker 1>it was a rough road to get back here, but

<v Speaker 1>she was happy to be back home. SmackDown is still

<v Speaker 1>her house, she said. So that brought out Charlotte Flair

<v Speaker 1>and Alexa Bliss, and Flair said that she could speak

<v Speaker 1>for herself and Alexa and welcoming Page back, but she

<v Speaker 1>had something that belonged to them, and Charlotte suggested that

<v Speaker 1>if Page wanted to prove that she was the best,

<v Speaker 1>she and Brie could defend their women's tag team titles

<v Speaker 1>against the two of them. So the challenge was accepted.

<v Speaker 1>They called for a referee. Here comes Charles Robinson charging

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring like it's WrestleMania twenty four all

<v Speaker 1>over again, and that took us into the commercial break.

<v Speaker 1>That is, two impromptu matches on this show so far

<v Speaker 1>that had been made, which again begs the question what

<v Speaker 1>is Nick All this doing? During the week, he continues

<v Speaker 1>to make the case for the worst general manager in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>So they come back from break and the title match

<v Speaker 1>here is already in progress Bliss and Flair. They cut

<v Speaker 1>the ring in half on Brie. Brie was about to

<v Speaker 1>make a hot tag to Page when who should show

<v Speaker 1>up and pull her down off the apron and send

<v Speaker 1>her into the ring steps J C. Jane and the

<v Speaker 1>referee calls for the disqualification fallon. Henley and Laney Reid

<v Speaker 1>of Fatal Influence also show up and they beat down

<v Speaker 1>Flair and Bliss, and they left all four women laying.

<v Speaker 1>So Fatal Influence has arrived here officially on SmackDown, and

<v Speaker 1>the match itself, it wasn't a match, it was an angle.

<v Speaker 1>It was a means to get to the Fatal Influence arrival.

<v Speaker 1>That's all this was. I love the move. I think

<v Speaker 1>it is something that this roster in this show sorely needs,

<v Speaker 1>not just more talent, but more talent in the women's division.

<v Speaker 1>Although I could also sit here and tell you that

<v Speaker 1>part of the problem isn't necessarily the lack of women

<v Speaker 1>in the women's division. It is the lack of really

<v Speaker 1>understanding what to do with most of the women that

<v Speaker 1>they already have in the division, because you have people

<v Speaker 1>like Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss pages back now who

<v Speaker 1>are still doing stuff in the tag team division. Like

<v Speaker 1>if they were all gunning for the world champion, if

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss, if charlot at Flair wanted to go after

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley's title, which I would assume in time they will,

<v Speaker 1>that would make things a lot more interesting as it

<v Speaker 1>pertains to the WWE Women's Championship. But that's just not

<v Speaker 1>the case right now. So, like when you're thinking about

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley and her upcoming challengers, what do you think

<v Speaker 1>of I'm sure she's not done with Jade, right, Jade

<v Speaker 1>wasn't on the show tonight, but I'm sure Jade will

<v Speaker 1>get her rematch at some point. And then after that,

<v Speaker 1>who are we looking at? Tiffany Stratton just won the

<v Speaker 1>US title, Blake Monroe hasn't even debuted yet. So when

<v Speaker 1>I think of potential challengers in these next few months

<v Speaker 1>for Rihea Ripley, it's a short list. After Jade it's

<v Speaker 1>a short list. Jordan Grace. Now, Jordan Grace was also

<v Speaker 1>Jade's first feud. I mean, Jade went one hundred plus

<v Speaker 1>days without a single title defense, if you remember, her

<v Speaker 1>first defense was against Jordan, I believe, and then she lost.

<v Speaker 1>So I would hate for Jordan to be using the

<v Speaker 1>same role here where it's like, oh Riha needs an

<v Speaker 1>opponent and then she goes in there and loses again.

<v Speaker 1>But Rhea and Jordan, I mean, that has the makings

<v Speaker 1>of a very good match. I'd love to see that

<v Speaker 1>Keana James again. I think that they have big things

<v Speaker 1>in her future. I think we see names like that,

<v Speaker 1>you know, long before we get to a Charlotte or

<v Speaker 1>an Alexa. But I've always liked Fallon Henley. I actually

<v Speaker 1>thought at the time they put the belt on jac Jane.

<v Speaker 1>And the thing with Jace is, you know, you look

<v Speaker 1>at her rise to where she is now when I

<v Speaker 1>used to look at fatal influence or a toxic I

<v Speaker 1>guess Toxic Attraction was the first group that she was

<v Speaker 1>a part of. I never saw her as being like

<v Speaker 1>the world champion, right that was Mandy Rose. Mandy Rose

<v Speaker 1>was like she was the NXT women's champion, and then

<v Speaker 1>I would look at jac Jane and Jace maybe would

<v Speaker 1>be like, you know, North American Champion or something like that.

<v Speaker 1>And then they had her beat Stephanie Vicaire last year

<v Speaker 1>in shocking fashion, and I didn't get it. I got

<v Speaker 1>didn't understand it. I thought that Fallon Henley had a

<v Speaker 1>bigger upside. I don't know why they went with her

<v Speaker 1>and that Fallon they were part of the same group.

<v Speaker 1>And I came around. Eventually, I came around and jayc

<v Speaker 1>The more that I saw her work, she really leveled up.

<v Speaker 1>And I again, Sean Michaels obviously was a huge fan

<v Speaker 1>of her work. I've become more of a fan of

<v Speaker 1>her work over time, certainly compared to a year ago.

<v Speaker 1>So good for her. And now she's got the call

<v Speaker 1>and she's on SmackDown now. But I wanted Fallon Henley

<v Speaker 1>in that spot, if anybody so all that to say that,

<v Speaker 1>I also think Fallon could do big things on this show,

<v Speaker 1>and I like her now being on SmackDown. Lady Reid.

<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen enough of her to really form an opinion. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen too much of her work. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>she may be really good. I just I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>So I'm looking forward to seeing more of what she

<v Speaker 1>can do, not just in the ring, but even speaking

<v Speaker 1>wise on this show. So I liked the move and

<v Speaker 1>it injects some life into the division. We had Royce Keys,

<v Speaker 1>of course, he is also one of the new members

<v Speaker 1>of the SmackDown roster, and here we had a vignette

<v Speaker 1>for him. Various people from Palo Alto, which is where

<v Speaker 1>he's from, gave their thoughts on him, talked about how

<v Speaker 1>proud they were of him. His brother, I believe, was

<v Speaker 1>interviewed in here. He was also proud that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>his brother was able to make it to the top.

<v Speaker 1>And it was just one of these baby face vignettes

<v Speaker 1>where they show him, you know, kind of going back

<v Speaker 1>home and everybody's proud of him and pulling for him

<v Speaker 1>and they look up to him. So after this, we

<v Speaker 1>had the w w WEE Champion Cody Rhodes, fresh off

<v Speaker 1>his win at WrestleMania against Randy Orton. He was out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring next Black Eye and All. And he

<v Speaker 1>gets in the ring and once the music stop, he

<v Speaker 1>was showered with booze from the crowd. He said that

<v Speaker 1>he wanted to talk about how he left WRESTLEMANI of

<v Speaker 1>forty two battered, half conscious and bloodied. He still made

<v Speaker 1>the decision to walk up that long ramp at Allegiant

<v Speaker 1>Stadium to the back. Why because the moment that you

<v Speaker 1>see him take that side ramp right and go along

<v Speaker 1>the side, this run is over. Said at WrestleMania, he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to send a message to Randy Orton, who was

<v Speaker 1>not here tonight, so we didn't have Randy Orton on

<v Speaker 1>the show either. With Randy Orton who started him out

<v Speaker 1>in this sport and taught him everything he knows, he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to send a message and walking back on his

<v Speaker 1>own power that Randy Orton gave him his best shot,

<v Speaker 1>a punt to the head and he's still standing. He

<v Speaker 1>wants to send a message to a sarcastic and condescending

<v Speaker 1>Sammy Zain who called him the Golden Boy. So he

<v Speaker 1>showed up to WrestleMania draped in gold from head to

<v Speaker 1>toe because he wanted to show that he was gold,

<v Speaker 1>His family was gold, every fan of his was gold.

<v Speaker 1>And the most important message he wanted to send was

<v Speaker 1>those or to those outside forces. This is what he said,

<v Speaker 1>outside forces that keep interjecting themselves into his WrestleMania plans.

<v Speaker 1>He said, you guys are zero to three. Send your

<v Speaker 1>best or count your money and mind your damn business.

<v Speaker 1>This is the first SmackDown after WrestleMania. He says, it's

<v Speaker 1>easy to find him, whether you're from NXT, from Monday

<v Speaker 1>Night Raw or from Friday Night SmackDown, wherever it may be,

<v Speaker 1>He's easy to find, hard to beat. I was hoping

<v Speaker 1>he would say hard to kill a little tribute to

<v Speaker 1>one of the better Steven Sagal movies. Not that there

<v Speaker 1>is a great Stephen Sagal movie, but of the ones

<v Speaker 1>that he's made, that would be one of them. So

<v Speaker 1>I'm wondering, you know, him mentioning it doesn't matter where

<v Speaker 1>you're from NXT Monday Night Raw SmackDown, was that meant

<v Speaker 1>to be a veiled reference, a veiled message to cm Punk,

<v Speaker 1>one would assume. So, after what we saw from the

<v Speaker 1>two of them on Raw Monday Night, he flat out

<v Speaker 1>told Punk, you named the place right, Punk's all about, Well,

<v Speaker 1>you never know what a championship opportunity may fall out

<v Speaker 1>of the sky. He said that twice on Monday, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, So what does that mean? And we were

<v Speaker 1>talking about that on TNT the other night. JD mentioned

<v Speaker 1>money in the bank and I thought, well, could be,

<v Speaker 1>could be Punk's already won money in the bank. I

<v Speaker 1>think twice money in the bank though was not until September,

<v Speaker 1>so I mean, what you know, if it was some

<v Speaker 1>sort of money in the bank reference, then I suppose

<v Speaker 1>Punk would be walking around with it until WrestleMania next year.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not so sure they wouldn't do that much at

<v Speaker 1>SummerSlam this year if they're already teasing it so hard.

<v Speaker 1>So I assume that was a not so veiled message

<v Speaker 1>to Punk. But again, as interesting as that segment was

<v Speaker 1>on Monday and seeing the two of them in the

<v Speaker 1>ring together, Punk and Cody actually closed SmackDown last week.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I wasn't here to talk about it. I

<v Speaker 1>was coming home from Las Vegas, but they ended the show.

<v Speaker 1>It was basically like a love fest between the two

<v Speaker 1>of them. I thought they were gonna embrace and start

<v Speaker 1>tonguing each other in the middle of the ring. And

<v Speaker 1>then on RAM Monday night, we had a much better

<v Speaker 1>segment and you know, far less lovey dovey between the

<v Speaker 1>two of them that strongly hinted at an upcoming match

<v Speaker 1>at some point between the two of them, And that's

<v Speaker 1>interesting because to me, that's one of the biggest matches

<v Speaker 1>that WWE can do right now. Realistically, when you think

<v Speaker 1>of what are the biggest matches that WWE can book

<v Speaker 1>right now and not including the Rock, okay because the

<v Speaker 1>Rock ain't coming back, Cody and Punk, Cody and Punk.

<v Speaker 1>You can say Roman in Oba, you could say Roman

<v Speaker 1>and Gunther, But honestly, I think Cody and Punk is

<v Speaker 1>at the top of that list. That's a match that

<v Speaker 1>hasn't been done yet to match that I think people

<v Speaker 1>would want to see, and it's an interesting match where

<v Speaker 1>you could do Babyface and Babyface and let the fans choose.

<v Speaker 1>But also like Punk is a heel in that scenario

<v Speaker 1>would be great, Cody is a heel in that scenario

<v Speaker 1>would be great. It kind of works like no matter

<v Speaker 1>which way you want to do it. So hopefully we

<v Speaker 1>get it at Summer SLIM and they don't make us

<v Speaker 1>wait until next year. Oh, I underlooked under Siege. Yeah yeah,

<v Speaker 1>well I didn't say that was the only decent movie,

<v Speaker 1>he did. You know you mentioned under Siege? How can

<v Speaker 1>you neglect under Siege too? On the Train. One of

<v Speaker 1>my favorite quotes is from that movie Assumption is the

<v Speaker 1>mother of all fuck ups. It's one of the great

<v Speaker 1>quotes from Under Siege too, and it's quite true. The

<v Speaker 1>more you assume things, the more you're likely to fuck up. Uh.

<v Speaker 1>There was no mention here of him being medically cleared

<v Speaker 1>or what his medical status was, and you could just

<v Speaker 1>look at his face. He ain't going to be wrestling

<v Speaker 1>for at least a few weeks, so I think a

<v Speaker 1>backlash match is out the window, even if they had

<v Speaker 1>an opponent lined up for him. I mean, we're going

<v Speaker 1>to get a rematch with him and Randy. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know when we're going to see Orton again, but it

<v Speaker 1>doesn't seem to me like backlash is even going to

<v Speaker 1>be possible If his eye is looking like that. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I would imagine that they are going to need it

<v Speaker 1>to even if it's nothing broken, that eye is going

<v Speaker 1>to have to clear up a little bit before he

<v Speaker 1>gets back in the ring. But yeah, there was no

<v Speaker 1>there was no medical update, There was no hint of

<v Speaker 1>when we may see him back in the ring. But

<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to say one last thing here about

<v Speaker 1>the Pat McAfee angle. We saw what they did at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>That was their way of writing off Pat McAfee. Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee did not want to have anything to do with

<v Speaker 1>this anymore. I don't think, honestly he wanted to have

<v Speaker 1>anything to do with this at the beginning. There were

<v Speaker 1>reports that he said no initial when they pitched it

<v Speaker 1>to him, and I don't know what they did to

<v Speaker 1>get him on board. Maybe they threw a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>money at him. But I think even he realized, based

<v Speaker 1>on the reaction, like this is a mistake. He's a

<v Speaker 1>fan and he sees all the negative reaction, and as

<v Speaker 1>much as he seemed to be sort of reveling in

<v Speaker 1>it when he was on television, I would imagine someone

<v Speaker 1>like him, who probably has a big ego and cares

<v Speaker 1>about what people say about him because he's a public figure,

<v Speaker 1>is looking at his social media every single day and

<v Speaker 1>he is just getting slaughtered on social media. And then

<v Speaker 1>you have Jelly Roll, who's a genuine fan. And jelly

<v Speaker 1>Roll flat out said in his vlog that he did

<v Speaker 1>the other day he had a message for Pat McAfee said, Pat,

<v Speaker 1>I love you, brother, but like you and I, we

<v Speaker 1>really don't have any business being a part of this,

<v Speaker 1>So why don't we just stick to what we do?

<v Speaker 1>And you know what, that's a great message. And I

<v Speaker 1>think they both if you were to ask both of

<v Speaker 1>them to be as honest as possible, I think that

<v Speaker 1>they would feel the same way about what they were

<v Speaker 1>upon of as a lot of the fans did watching

<v Speaker 1>the show at home on TV or the fans on

<v Speaker 1>social media who were complaining about it. So this tag

<v Speaker 1>match that was rumored for backlash and made sense if

<v Speaker 1>you really think about it, isn't happening now because Pat

<v Speaker 1>McAfee wanted to end this as soon as possible, and

<v Speaker 1>they're just basically hitting the reset button now and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna get the Cody and Randy feud that we should

<v Speaker 1>have gotten going into WrestleMania. There are even reports that

<v Speaker 1>they were going to put the belt on Randy and WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>The plan was to make him a fifteen time world

<v Speaker 1>champion in WrestleMania, but then when Pat pulled out, plans changed.

<v Speaker 1>They decided to go a different way with it. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know why Pat pulling out would have to affect

<v Speaker 1>the outcome of that match, but I guess McAfee made

<v Speaker 1>that you know, he made that promise that if Randy

<v Speaker 1>doesn't win, you'll never see or hear from me again.

<v Speaker 1>So maybe they felt they had to have Randy lose

<v Speaker 1>the match as a way to get rid of Pat

<v Speaker 1>whatever it was. I'm glad the angle is over, but

<v Speaker 1>I think we will look back on this WrestleMania forever,

<v Speaker 1>really looking back on forty two and just saying, man,

<v Speaker 1>what could have been? What could have been with this

<v Speaker 1>story of this match going into Night one of WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>Because some of the work in the actual match, like

<v Speaker 1>down the Stretch, was actually pretty good on the whole.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't think the match was nearly as good as

<v Speaker 1>it could have been, but a lot of it again,

<v Speaker 1>like this dark cloud that just hung over it, with

<v Speaker 1>this horrendous angle. And you have Cody in this promo

<v Speaker 1>tonight referencing outside forces and you know, keep your nose

<v Speaker 1>out of my business and count your money and just

<v Speaker 1>you know, basically leave me the fuck alone. And I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if this is you know, if that verbiage

<v Speaker 1>is in that promo for a particular reason, if there's

<v Speaker 1>going to be some sort of development out of this,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure the answer is now they're just gonna move

<v Speaker 1>on from this. I wonder how much of that is

<v Speaker 1>Cody just wanting to vent his frustrations and Triple H's like, sure,

<v Speaker 1>go ahead, have at it, because you know that Cody

<v Speaker 1>is you know he's looking at all this going. Men,

<v Speaker 1>you know you fucked up my whole story here, and

<v Speaker 1>this is not the first time here going into WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>that something that should have been beautiful has been ruined.

<v Speaker 1>Like how many WrestleManias are we going to continue to

<v Speaker 1>do this? I'm sure he's legitimately as frustrated as anybody.

<v Speaker 1>How could he not be? How could he not be?

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest and Our Truth they are the Tag Team

<v Speaker 1>Champions and they defended their titles against Tomatonga and j. C. Matteo.

<v Speaker 1>Backstage before the match, though Solo Sokoa was giving marching

<v Speaker 1>orders to the MFTs. Solo said he wants them to

<v Speaker 1>get the tech titles back, don't let the family down,

<v Speaker 1>and as the others walked off, the Great Tonga loa,

<v Speaker 1>wait until I get to the main event, We're gonna

<v Speaker 1>talk more about Togala. Tangaloa looked at Solo and asked

<v Speaker 1>him about Jacob what about Jacob, and Solo said, I'll

<v Speaker 1>take care of Jacob, don't worry about him. So Truth

<v Speaker 1>got the hot tag late in the match. He did

<v Speaker 1>the the Ron Sena spots to J C. Matteo, you

<v Speaker 1>can't see me in the five knuckle shuffle, Togaloa distracted

<v Speaker 1>the referee as Toma ran in. He hit the Truth

<v Speaker 1>with a spinning neck breaker, so they covered Truth and

<v Speaker 1>the spot was that Damian Priest would dive in at

<v Speaker 1>the last possible second to break it up. He was

<v Speaker 1>a little late, so it looked like shit. Priest blind

<v Speaker 1>tagged into the match, though he and Truth hit their

<v Speaker 1>rise up Flapjack finish to retain the titles in a

<v Speaker 1>boring match. This tag team division is dead D E

<v Speaker 1>A D dead dead. No wonder they're releasing tag teams.

<v Speaker 1>They'n I'm planning on doing anything with them. They have

<v Speaker 1>a dead division. They don't give a shit, they don't

<v Speaker 1>don't care. It's not much better on Monday Night Row.

<v Speaker 1>At least we got the Street Profits back on Monday.

<v Speaker 1>We haven't seen them in months. But it's not much

<v Speaker 1>better on Monday. It's worse. On Friday, though, we got

<v Speaker 1>Part two from the Missus mansion after this is after

<v Speaker 1>he fell in the pool. Earlier, Mis was in his house.

<v Speaker 1>He was playing, or Dan Housen was actually in the house.

<v Speaker 1>He was playing Missus's virtual golf game. It's like he

<v Speaker 1>has like a giant screen and it is like it's

<v Speaker 1>clearly a game and he's golfing, and I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what it is. I don't know if that's a wee

<v Speaker 1>game or what the fuck that is some sort of

<v Speaker 1>golfing simulation. And so Mis walks into the house and

<v Speaker 1>just asking him what he's doing. And anyway, he ends

<v Speaker 1>up grabbing missus Slammy because he sees he's got a

<v Speaker 1>trophy case with belts and there's a Slammy Award. So

<v Speaker 1>he snatches the Slammy Award. The base of the award

<v Speaker 1>that black bass, it goes flying off of it. He

<v Speaker 1>goes to leave. He's gonna leave with the Slammy Award,

<v Speaker 1>and he opens the front door and he walks out,

<v Speaker 1>and he runs into Maurice, who is not very happy

<v Speaker 1>about seeing Dan house, especially coming out of her house.

<v Speaker 1>So she's not happy about this. Miss comes running out

<v Speaker 1>with a bowl of I couldn't tell if it what

<v Speaker 1>was it cinnamon? It looked like a bowl of cinnamon.

<v Speaker 1>I think, I don't know, something brown It wasn't shit.

<v Speaker 1>SOMs threw it and Dan house induct and of course

<v Speaker 1>Mis hit his poor wife in the face with this substance.

<v Speaker 1>And Dan Housen ends up on a bicycle, a small

<v Speaker 1>child's bicycle. It was their daughter's bicycle, and he's got

<v Speaker 1>the Slammy Award with him and he starts riding the

<v Speaker 1>bike away, and they cut back to Miss and Maurice,

<v Speaker 1>and Maurice is covered in brown shit, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>Miss is muttering to himself, and then they cut back

<v Speaker 1>and the the bike now is kind of off in

<v Speaker 1>the distance as Dan Housen is riding it away through

<v Speaker 1>the neighborhood. I thought it was really funny. Look, I

<v Speaker 1>enjoyed these segments. I think we need more segments like this.

<v Speaker 1>They don't all have to be with Dan Housen, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, but I like shit like this, like when

<v Speaker 1>it's done the right way and it's not like overly terrible.

<v Speaker 1>I think it's nice to break up the monotony and

<v Speaker 1>have segments like this outside of the arena, outside the ring.

<v Speaker 1>So I got a kick out of this look. Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen is perfect for this type of stuff, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>not surprised that Fanatics apparently was blown away by the

<v Speaker 1>kind of business that Dan Housen did merchwise over Wrestle

<v Speaker 1>many a week. I'm not shocked by that at all.

<v Speaker 1>And because of that, you're gonna see even more Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen on these shows. They're gonna run this fucking guy

<v Speaker 1>into the ground, But for now, I still get a

<v Speaker 1>kick out of his act. We weren't done with him,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, when I tell you that we're going

<v Speaker 1>to see more Dan Housen on these shows. He's cross branded.

<v Speaker 1>Don't be surprised if he pops up from time to

<v Speaker 1>time in NXT, but he's on Raw, he's on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>So we already had two segments, two pre taped segments

<v Speaker 1>with him on this show. We weren't done with him

<v Speaker 1>yet because he had a match later against the Miz.

<v Speaker 1>We'll get to that. But this next segment, we had

<v Speaker 1>the brand new Men's United States Champion, because we have

<v Speaker 1>two new US champions now, we had Trick Williams, who

<v Speaker 1>still has Lil YACHTI with him, and they make their

<v Speaker 1>way out to the ring, with the gingerbread man. The

<v Speaker 1>guy in the gingerbread costume was back, and so they

<v Speaker 1>make their way to the ring. They're going to celebrate

<v Speaker 1>a very successful WrestleMania. Ring was all decked out with

<v Speaker 1>balloons and they had champagne in the ring. So Lil

<v Speaker 1>Yachti talked about how the WrestleMania celebrity promo tour is

<v Speaker 1>now over, but he's still here because he's here to stay.

<v Speaker 1>Trick and YACHTI they talked about how they were like

<v Speaker 1>and they were going back and forth here, but they

<v Speaker 1>were like Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones. They're like Mike

<v Speaker 1>Tyson and Don King. They're like Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson,

<v Speaker 1>Abbott and Costello, Beavis and Butthead. They didn't mention those.

<v Speaker 1>Yati called himself the prophecy. I don't think you'll if

<v Speaker 1>Lily Yachti ever saw a single Abbit and Costello movie,

<v Speaker 1>I would be stunned. I think if he actually saw

<v Speaker 1>any of the early Beavis and Butthead episodes, I would

<v Speaker 1>be stunned. How old is Lily Yachtie in his twenties thirties?

<v Speaker 1>Can you picture Lily Yatti sitting at home watching it

<v Speaker 1>like Abbit and Costello hold that ghost. I'd become a

<v Speaker 1>big fan of his if he did. I love Abbot

<v Speaker 1>and Costello. Anyway, Yady called himself the prophecy, and he

<v Speaker 1>said that there would be no more US Title Open Challenges.

<v Speaker 1>Is they're not giving out title matches for free anymore.

<v Speaker 1>Rocky and Bullwinkle, Sigfried and Roy Ren and Stimpy, Penn

<v Speaker 1>and Teller, Penn and Teller, Oh, Keenan and Kell. I

<v Speaker 1>like Kenan and Kel. I used to watch that from

<v Speaker 1>time to time. So anyway, look, I said this months ago.

<v Speaker 1>I said, we had Sammy's Aim with the US Title

<v Speaker 1>Open Challenges. We had Ilia Dragonov with the US Title

<v Speaker 1>Open Challenges. Then we had Carmelo Hayes, who was nowhere

<v Speaker 1>to be found on this show tonight. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>uh he continued the US Title Open Challenges. When Trick

<v Speaker 1>Williams won the belt or any heel, that's when you

<v Speaker 1>stop doing the Open and the Open challenges. Giming had

<v Speaker 1>to stop at some point. So it made sense to

<v Speaker 1>stop it when a heel, even though he's not really

<v Speaker 1>being you know, treated by the fans like one. But

<v Speaker 1>it made sense that now would be the right time

<v Speaker 1>to put the kaibash on that they will be missed. Though.

<v Speaker 1>I will tell you that those US title open challenges

<v Speaker 1>were propping up this show something fierce, and the fact

<v Speaker 1>that we're not gonna have those anymore, they're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>to step up their game. There's gonna have to be,

<v Speaker 1>you know, from time to time, week to week, you've

<v Speaker 1>got to give us on a three hour wrestling show,

<v Speaker 1>some action that we can look at. And I'm not

<v Speaker 1>just talking some seven minute, fucking average throwaway bullshit match

<v Speaker 1>with interference or fucking DQ at the end, or the

<v Speaker 1>same shit that we see every single week. You know,

<v Speaker 1>this person's gonna get involved and we're gonna go to

<v Speaker 1>a commercial and so we're gonna do a dive and

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna come back and it's gonna be the same

<v Speaker 1>fucking boring match and nothing happens. Okay, that shit gets old.

<v Speaker 1>You have three hours of this show every single week,

<v Speaker 1>so sure, from time to time you're gonna have a

<v Speaker 1>match or a segment that doesn't go very long, or

<v Speaker 1>it has some sort of fuck finish of some kind

<v Speaker 1>where you're gonna do a Dan Hown type skit. That's

<v Speaker 1>fine to have variety on these shows, but you need

<v Speaker 1>to have strong wrestling as well. It is still at

<v Speaker 1>its core a wrestling show. There is a ring, you

<v Speaker 1>have wrestlers, you have a referee, you ring the bell.

<v Speaker 1>We need to have some quality matches on this show,

<v Speaker 1>and those US title open challenges were guaranteed, guaranteed greg

<v Speaker 1>wrestling on the show every single week. We can have

<v Speaker 1>two and a half hours of shit and I could

<v Speaker 1>be like Man Carmelo Hayes though Man Carmelo Hayes and

<v Speaker 1>Ray Phoenix, they had a fucking banger on the show. Man,

<v Speaker 1>you got to go out of your way to watch

<v Speaker 1>that match. Now we're not even gonna have that. So

<v Speaker 1>I hope they allow other people on the show to

<v Speaker 1>step up and at least fill the void, because that

<v Speaker 1>easily was one of the strongest things on the show

<v Speaker 1>every single week. You have now taken that away. What

<v Speaker 1>is going to replace that? And don't tell me more

<v Speaker 1>MFTs or I'm going to bang my head against the wall.

<v Speaker 1>Trick said that if you want a handout, find a clinic.

<v Speaker 1>No more open challenges. He said, if you want to

<v Speaker 1>find the chant, you find Trick Williams. So he's celebrating

<v Speaker 1>and little YACHTI is celebrating, and the guy in the

<v Speaker 1>gingerbread costume is celebrating, and all of a sudden, the

<v Speaker 1>guy in the gingerbread Man costume hits Trick from behind

<v Speaker 1>with his cane. Come to think of it, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why he had a cane, not like he's not

<v Speaker 1>fucking mister peanut. Why did he have a cane? I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, but I guess the gingerbread Man was a pimp.

<v Speaker 1>So he hits Trick in the back with the cane,

<v Speaker 1>and then he hits Yati as well. Yaty gets hit

<v Speaker 1>with the cane, and sure enough, off comes the head

<v Speaker 1>and it's Sammy's ain't in the gingerbread costume, and the

<v Speaker 1>fans boo Even on commentary, like Joe Tessitour was kind

<v Speaker 1>of like the tone of his voice. He's talking about

<v Speaker 1>Sammy like he had done something wrong here. He was

<v Speaker 1>kind of treating him like the heel in this situation,

<v Speaker 1>even though he really did he really didn't do anything wrong.

<v Speaker 1>But yeah, the fans were just raining booze at and

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's looking at them like what, like I didn't do

<v Speaker 1>anything wrong? And then he starts dancing and stuff. So

<v Speaker 1>they're going to continue this, which I figured they would,

<v Speaker 1>and that would seem to be a prime candidate for

<v Speaker 1>a match of Backlash. Backlash usually has some WrestleMania rematches

<v Speaker 1>live in Stephanie being one. This could be another one.

<v Speaker 1>But I thought, you know, as far as the segment,

<v Speaker 1>and again he ended by giving Trick a halluva kick,

<v Speaker 1>which a testitur called the gingerbread kick. I thought that

<v Speaker 1>this was this was fine for what it was supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be. I was amused by this. Again. The fans

<v Speaker 1>are the ones who are dictating this double turn. They're

<v Speaker 1>booing Sammy, they like Trick. There isn't much the WWE

<v Speaker 1>really needs to do other than just lean into it.

<v Speaker 1>So in the back Solo Socoa yet again tried to

<v Speaker 1>recruit Royce Keys as he was being interviewed about his

<v Speaker 1>Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal win on the show

<v Speaker 1>last week. You know, he eliminated Talatonga to win that

<v Speaker 1>Battle Royal. That may end up being the last time

<v Speaker 1>we see Talatonga on these shows. But Solo comes in,

<v Speaker 1>he's trying to recruit him, and I'm just thinking, man,

<v Speaker 1>run run as fast as you fucking run as fast

<v Speaker 1>as your feet will carry you away from this man.

<v Speaker 1>Do not want to be drawn into the MFT vortex.

<v Speaker 1>But then we had dan Hausen against miss Housen. Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen drove to the ring in his coffin shaped I

<v Speaker 1>guess the coffin mobile. What else do you even call

<v Speaker 1>this thing? I don't even know what this thing would

<v Speaker 1>be called. And he had Missus Slammy with him, So

<v Speaker 1>he drove down to the ring and he circled the ring.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, on the Slammy Award, he had a

<v Speaker 1>piece of paper with his name taped to it, right

<v Speaker 1>above Slammy. It said dan Hausen. I also could have

<v Speaker 1>tell me if I'm wrong. By the way, when he

<v Speaker 1>rode that car down to the ring, was there a

<v Speaker 1>fan in the front row, like right in the corner

<v Speaker 1>by the aisle who threw money into the car? Did

<v Speaker 1>I see that right? Did that person throw money into

<v Speaker 1>the car? So Kit Wilson was in Missus corner for

<v Speaker 1>this match, and Wilson grabbed Missus Slammy, which was sitting

<v Speaker 1>on top of the car. Dan Housen caught Miz with

<v Speaker 1>a crossbody and a diving hurrican rona. The announcers were

<v Speaker 1>stunned by this that he even knew that move. Wilson

<v Speaker 1>got up on the apron for the distraction that allowed

<v Speaker 1>Miz to attack dan Hausen. She did, okay, I see

<v Speaker 1>there was a fan who threw money at Dan Housen

<v Speaker 1>threw money into the car like he's like he's a

<v Speaker 1>whore or something like he's pouring himself out, Like what

<v Speaker 1>are you doing here? Oh man, guy must be doing

<v Speaker 1>something right. He's got fans literally throwing money at him.

<v Speaker 1>So where was I Dan Housen got taken out by Miz.

<v Speaker 1>So Miz and Kit Wilson are on the apron and

<v Speaker 1>they're celebrating. They got their backs turned and the camera

<v Speaker 1>is focused on Dan Housen, who's laid out flat. And

<v Speaker 1>now he does the undertaker zombie sit up and he's

<v Speaker 1>going to put a curse on these two and he goes,

<v Speaker 1>you are cursed, and when he does it, the sparks fly.

<v Speaker 1>I got that spark Pyro. The sparks fly right where

<v Speaker 1>Miz and Kit Wilson are standing. It knocks Wilson down,

<v Speaker 1>and it knocks Mis backwards, and Dan Housen rolls up

<v Speaker 1>Miz for the win. Not even two minutes into this match,

<v Speaker 1>so they kept it short. It did not need to

<v Speaker 1>be longer than this. They kept it brief. And so

<v Speaker 1>dan Housen is celebrating in the ring when the match

<v Speaker 1>is over, and Mis recovers and they end up face

<v Speaker 1>to face, and dan Housen's like, oh shit, and then

<v Speaker 1>we see the big puff of smoke and I guess

<v Speaker 1>he forgets to run away. He goes, oh shit, and

<v Speaker 1>he turns around and he leaves and Miz chases after him,

<v Speaker 1>and he ends up crawling under the ring. So Mis

<v Speaker 1>goes after him and dan Housen comes out on the

<v Speaker 1>other side. He leaps over kit Wilson. Here comes Miz

<v Speaker 1>who bumps into kit Wilson and they do like a

<v Speaker 1>double pratfall, and dan Hausen he left his slammy sitting

<v Speaker 1>on the steps by the way, but he jumped into

<v Speaker 1>the dan Housen mobile, the coffin car, and he drives

<v Speaker 1>to the back and this was all very silly. But again,

<v Speaker 1>for the most part, I'm enjoying the Dan Housen stuff.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't take up too much time on the show,

<v Speaker 1>although he did get three segments tonight, But the vignettes

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed I just wish the rest of the show

<v Speaker 1>was really strong, and then I feel like I would

<v Speaker 1>enjoy this even more. The fact that like this is

<v Speaker 1>taking up time on a show where there really isn't

<v Speaker 1>a whole lot else going on, that's terribly interesting. That's

<v Speaker 1>the problem. I don't have a problem with the silliness,

<v Speaker 1>but when the silliness is like all that you have,

<v Speaker 1>then there's a problem. That's the issue with SmackDown right now.

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<v Speaker 1>We got a Blake Monroe vignette confirming that she is

<v Speaker 1>on her way to the main roster. The glamour is

<v Speaker 1>coming soon now, they didn't say coming to SmackDown, and

<v Speaker 1>the fact that this aired on SmackDown will lead you

<v Speaker 1>to believe that she's going to SmackDown. I'm gonna wait

<v Speaker 1>until Monday and see if they air this on Monday

<v Speaker 1>because it could be one of those things where they're

<v Speaker 1>gonna air these on both shows and then decide which

<v Speaker 1>brand they want her on. So it looks like it'll

<v Speaker 1>be SmackDown, but that's not that's not confirmed yet. I'm

<v Speaker 1>guessing she ends up on SmackDown, though again, SmackDown SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>can use her. SmackDown, could definitely use her. She should

<v Speaker 1>have been up on the main roster a long time ago.

<v Speaker 1>She's more than ready. We have the brand new WWE

<v Speaker 1>Women's Champion, Ria Ripley, who was out to the ring

<v Speaker 1>for her promo. No eo Sky. She's without her BFF,

<v Speaker 1>she's all by Herselfish is her oose. And she comes

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring and she talked about how you

<v Speaker 1>know mommy is champion again. She said WrestleMania, Jake Cargill

<v Speaker 1>proved that she can go. She said, though it's her

<v Speaker 1>time now to prove that she is a fighting champion.

<v Speaker 1>She said, anybody in the back who wants to step up,

<v Speaker 1>come on down. And that brought out Fatal Influence, who

<v Speaker 1>made their debut earlier in the night, Jacy Jane Fallon,

<v Speaker 1>Henley Laney Reid. I think Joe Tessitura might have called

<v Speaker 1>her Laney Red at one point. So the crowd, let's

<v Speaker 1>talk about this crowd here. Jayce starts cutting this promo.

<v Speaker 1>She says, we get it, we get it. Ria, You're

<v Speaker 1>a star. As she begins speaking, the booze are completely

<v Speaker 1>drowning out this woman on the mic. The booze are overwhelmed.

<v Speaker 1>We talk about booze. Okay, I'm not talking I'm not

<v Speaker 1>talking about like Rick Flair, but we talk about booze

<v Speaker 1>and like Dominic mysterio nuclear heat when he was still

<v Speaker 1>getting like the peak of that nuclear heat on these shows,

<v Speaker 1>That's what this woman was getting. It was so loud,

<v Speaker 1>and so I tweeted, I said, holy shit, jac Jane

<v Speaker 1>is getting nuclear heat on this show. And then the

<v Speaker 1>longer the segment went, and then some of the other

<v Speaker 1>members spoke. Fallon spoke and she got a ton of heat,

<v Speaker 1>and then Laney spoke and she got a ton of heat.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm looking at the fans in the first three

<v Speaker 1>or four rows and they're not really they're not really

<v Speaker 1>saying anything, they're not reacting, they're not doing much of anything.

<v Speaker 1>And now I'm listening to how loud I'm like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>now I don't doubt that they were. And I had

<v Speaker 1>people who tweeted me when I said that, They're like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm in the building. I'm telling you, like, it's really

<v Speaker 1>loud in here. Yes it's loud. Of course it's loud.

<v Speaker 1>We could hear it, but like, how much of it

<v Speaker 1>was genuine heat, and how much of it was them,

<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of sweetening the crowd up a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>There was definitely a mix of both going on there,

<v Speaker 1>so I would like to think that they were genuinely

<v Speaker 1>getting that level of heat, but it didn't carry over

<v Speaker 1>into the match because the majority of the match didn't

<v Speaker 1>have a whole lot of heat at all. I think

<v Speaker 1>they were definitely cranking it up a bit, but even still, like,

<v Speaker 1>it's great to see them getting a reaction, even if

<v Speaker 1>it's close to that right out of the gate, right

<v Speaker 1>on their first night, So that was cool. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Jace cut the majority of this promo. It was hard

<v Speaker 1>to hear what some of them were saying because it

<v Speaker 1>was so loud. Rhea said, the boy I thought Jade

<v Speaker 1>was cocky. She said, I'm used to being on the

<v Speaker 1>wrong side of the numbers game, but if you are

<v Speaker 1>down for a fight, I'm ready. So jac said Fatal

<v Speaker 1>Influence is always ready to throw hands, and that brought

<v Speaker 1>out Nick all this and he said that he was

<v Speaker 1>thinking of a punishment for Fatal Influence for what they

<v Speaker 1>did earlier in the show, and she's standing in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and so he booked Rhea Ripley against j C. Jane

<v Speaker 1>right now, and that is match number three Imprompt two.

<v Speaker 1>On this show, we had an Imprompt two main event.

<v Speaker 1>We had an imprompt TUO women's tag team match tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match earlier in the show, and now we

<v Speaker 1>had an Impromp two match here with Rhea and with jac.

<v Speaker 1>So again, what does Nickoll this do over the course

<v Speaker 1>of his week other than have fun with Mickey James?

<v Speaker 1>What else does this man do? We need a day

<v Speaker 1>in the life of Nicol. We need a vlog to

<v Speaker 1>follow around Nickoll. He's on the golf course, probably right

<v Speaker 1>with his nine iron hitting holes. What does this guy

<v Speaker 1>do on a day to day basis? Get a three

<v Speaker 1>hour show to book? What was he planning on putting

<v Speaker 1>out there? Of these mas matches were not made on

<v Speaker 1>the spot, like one, I can understand three of them.

<v Speaker 1>So they went to a commercial at that point. And again,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm watching this match and people love Ria Ripley,

<v Speaker 1>but it really struck me as I'm watching this, because

<v Speaker 1>it got real quiet, you know, during certain points of this,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, if the crowd really hated jac Jane

<v Speaker 1>that much, you would think some of that heat would

<v Speaker 1>carry over into some of the stuff she was doing

<v Speaker 1>in the match, and that really wasn't the case here.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, we got soul Ruka making her ROD

<v Speaker 1>debut on Monday and her first night in She's wrestling

<v Speaker 1>the Women's World Champion Live Morgan and so Here on

<v Speaker 1>this show. Jac Jane in her first night in getting

<v Speaker 1>a non title match against the champion, Riha Ripley. So

<v Speaker 1>they ended up outside the ring. Ria got JC up

<v Speaker 1>in an electric chair position, slammed her down face first

<v Speaker 1>on the apron fallon and Laney. They distracted Rhea that

<v Speaker 1>allowed jac to hit Ria with a PK. Later on,

<v Speaker 1>Jace crouched Ria on top. Ria fought out. She hit

<v Speaker 1>Jaz with the cheeky Nandos kick, and Ria hit JAC

<v Speaker 1>with a razor's edge. She went for riptide fallon. Henley

<v Speaker 1>ran in clip Ria with a chop block for the disqualification,

<v Speaker 1>and Henley and Reid they held Ria. They were allowing

<v Speaker 1>j C to hit Ria with her rolling encore discus elbow.

<v Speaker 1>The disqualification was to be expected here. I'm actually glad

<v Speaker 1>that they did something like that instead of just beating,

<v Speaker 1>which is what they did on Monday. I mean, they

<v Speaker 1>beat soul Ruka, but they blamed it on Zaria, you know,

<v Speaker 1>for getting involved, but she still got hit with oblivion

<v Speaker 1>and pinned. So you could have done that here where

<v Speaker 1>she just took a riptide and got pinned. But why

<v Speaker 1>why beat jac that way in her first night in

<v Speaker 1>former NXT Women's Champion, Like, why would you do that?

<v Speaker 1>So I expected the DQ otherwise here. I mean, as

<v Speaker 1>far as the match, it was pretty standard fair. I'm

<v Speaker 1>happy they sent Fatal Influence back out there though, instead

<v Speaker 1>of just having them do that quick running and then

<v Speaker 1>that's it until next week. I like the fact that

<v Speaker 1>they sent them back out there, so they got multiple

<v Speaker 1>segments on the show, and even though it was hard

<v Speaker 1>to hear what some of them were saying, they you know,

<v Speaker 1>in their promos, they were able to sort of establish

<v Speaker 1>like I'm j C. Jaye, this is Laney Reid, and

<v Speaker 1>this is Fallon Henley and this is why we're here.

<v Speaker 1>So to get that promo time, you know, and send

<v Speaker 1>them back out there, I thought was important. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I'm glad finally see them on the main roster. It's

<v Speaker 1>about time. So Jacob fought too. He was warming up

<v Speaker 1>in the back when Jimmy and Jay approached and Jimmy

<v Speaker 1>said they're going to have his back tonight to counter

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs, and Jacob was very clear with them. He

<v Speaker 1>said I don't need your help, and off he went

<v Speaker 1>for the main event. But first we have to go

<v Speaker 1>elsewhere in the back where Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss,

<v Speaker 1>they were in the trainer's room. They had ice packs.

<v Speaker 1>Rhea Ripley showed up, was looking all beat up and

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte was staring at her. She looked at Charlotte and said,

<v Speaker 1>do we have a problem. So Alexi said, yeah, fatal influence.

<v Speaker 1>She's trying to calm things down. Charlotte said I'll take

<v Speaker 1>care of Jace by myself next week, unlike Ria, and

<v Speaker 1>she walked off. And then Alexa told Ria, don't worry.

<v Speaker 1>That's just how she is. So right out of the gate,

<v Speaker 1>they're putting jac Jane in the ring with some heavy

<v Speaker 1>hitters on this show. Ria Ripley tonight, Charlotte Flair next week.

<v Speaker 1>It's a good sign for Jace. Then we got the

<v Speaker 1>Ricky Saints teaser video and the announcement that he will

<v Speaker 1>be making his SmackDown debut next Friday. They're going to

<v Speaker 1>be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so he will be making his

<v Speaker 1>Blue brand debut. I'm sorry I won't be here for it.

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to be in Los Angeles next week. I

<v Speaker 1>won't be in Tulsa. I'll be in LA for House

<v Speaker 1>of Glory. So I will not be here for Smack Them.

<v Speaker 1>But Solo, Soko will always be here for you. He

<v Speaker 1>was in the main event tonight. He was taken on

<v Speaker 1>Jacob Fatu so the MFTs. They attacked on the outside

<v Speaker 1>with the referee distracted the ussos all of a sudden

<v Speaker 1>walked out on stage and they stayed there. They were

<v Speaker 1>going to observe from a distance, even though Fatu warned them,

<v Speaker 1>I don't need you, don't come out here. So Solo

<v Speaker 1>was in control heading into the final commercial break. Solo,

<v Speaker 1>coming out of the break, he delivered a release an

<v Speaker 1>overhead released German suplex, and Jacob took this bump where

<v Speaker 1>he just landed flat on his stomach and the usos

<v Speaker 1>were still watching on from the stage. J C. Matteo

<v Speaker 1>again distracted the referee, which allowed Solo to get a

<v Speaker 1>roll up for a near fall. This was basically a

<v Speaker 1>handicap match here, so Fatu dove through the ropes he

<v Speaker 1>wiped all three members of the MFTs out. Back inside

<v Speaker 1>there was a yeurinagi by Solo and then he heads

<v Speaker 1>up top big splash cannects. Fatu though gets the sh

<v Speaker 1>older up at the last second, so he goes for

<v Speaker 1>the Samoan spike and the Samoan spike misses. Pop up

<v Speaker 1>Samoan drop by Fa Tou puts him down. He sets

<v Speaker 1>them in position for the Mighty Moon salt and Fa

<v Speaker 1>Tu gets the three counts. But then the MFTs pounds

<v Speaker 1>when the match is over, and the USO's they're not

<v Speaker 1>lifting a finger to help you know, they're watching this

<v Speaker 1>all play out, and the usos are are still standing

<v Speaker 1>over there on stage. But Tangaloa, he puts a chair

<v Speaker 1>in the ring. I think he put multiple chairs in

<v Speaker 1>the ring, and I something happened here, I forgot. I think,

<v Speaker 1>what so Tangaloa. Something happened with a chair here. I

<v Speaker 1>think Tangaloa maybe hit himself with it. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>was something. I was paying more attention to what happened

<v Speaker 1>after this, but I think something happened here with Tangaloa

<v Speaker 1>that was kind of funny. But puts the chair in

<v Speaker 1>the ring Now the ussos are making their way down

<v Speaker 1>to ring side. They're in no great rush, but they're

<v Speaker 1>making their way down to the ring. But before they

<v Speaker 1>can actually get into the ring, they get up on

<v Speaker 1>the apron. But Fatu he has now taking possession of

<v Speaker 1>one of the chairs and he is wearing out the

<v Speaker 1>MFTs with his chair. He's making his own comeback. He

<v Speaker 1>doesn't need them, so he puts a chair around jac

<v Speaker 1>Matteo's neck in the corner, puts another chair around Tomatanga's

<v Speaker 1>neck in the corner, and you know, he doles out

<v Speaker 1>running hip attacks on both men. Suicide dive takes out

<v Speaker 1>Togaloa and Jacob strips the lid off of the announced

<v Speaker 1>desk and he places Togaloa on top of the announced desk.

<v Speaker 1>The idea is that Jacob Fatu is going to climb

<v Speaker 1>up on the timekeeper's barricade and he's going to do

<v Speaker 1>a splash off the barricade through the table. But too Toangaloa,

<v Speaker 1>he fell, He rolled off the table and fell on

<v Speaker 1>the floor. Poor Tongala. So Jacob had to climb back

<v Speaker 1>down and grab him and put him back on the table,

<v Speaker 1>and then he climbed up on the barricade and then

<v Speaker 1>he hit a splash through the table. See, it wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be it wouldn't be a segment here without a tongaloa moment.

<v Speaker 1>I hope this man never gets released. How could it

<v Speaker 1>be the comic value that you get out of this man.

<v Speaker 1>I hope he is employed there forever. I hope he

<v Speaker 1>signs a twenty five year contract, a no cut clause

<v Speaker 1>in his contract. It's just there forever, right on into

<v Speaker 1>the Hall of Fame induction. That's my hope. So with

<v Speaker 1>the ussos on the apron, Jacob gets back in the

<v Speaker 1>ring and he's looking at them and he tells them,

<v Speaker 1>tell Roman He'll see their asses on Monday Night Raw.

<v Speaker 1>And that is how the show went off the air.

<v Speaker 1>You know the way the MFTs are booked on these

<v Speaker 1>shows outside of Solo Socoa. It wouldn't shock me all

<v Speaker 1>if you know they were on the bubble too. I'd

<v Speaker 1>be a little worried if I were the likes of

<v Speaker 1>the MFTs on this show. Yeah. The match, really, like

<v Speaker 1>every other match on this show, like every other match

<v Speaker 1>on these shows, was perfectly solid, nothing more, nothing less.

<v Speaker 1>At least we got a clean winner, right, There was

<v Speaker 1>no dq bullshit finish here at the end, Jacob got

<v Speaker 1>to win, as you should. If he's going to be

<v Speaker 1>wrestling Roman reigns, right, shouldn't be losing to Solo Socoa again.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if Jacob is going to raw full

<v Speaker 1>time or if it's just a temporary thing until they

<v Speaker 1>do the match at Backlash and then he reverts back

<v Speaker 1>to SmackDown. They haven't really articulated that one way or

<v Speaker 1>the other because I don't think he's beating Roman, so

<v Speaker 1>I mean, we'll find out in short order exactly where

<v Speaker 1>he's going to land. It just you know, everything is

<v Speaker 1>a mess right now, Guys bouncing back and forth, and

<v Speaker 1>it's like it doesn't even feel like any of this matters,

<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean, Like people just show up

<v Speaker 1>wherever they want to, whenever they want to. The general

<v Speaker 1>managers have no issue with it. I mean, they don't

<v Speaker 1>do a draft anymore, which is good because I don't

<v Speaker 1>want to see one. But the fact that they don't

<v Speaker 1>bother doing one anymore probably tells you everything you need

<v Speaker 1>to know about the sanctity of this brand split. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think there is one anymore, Like officially, there really

<v Speaker 1>is none, right They try to keep a lot of

<v Speaker 1>the people on these rosters segregated where they really do

<v Speaker 1>only appear on one show or the other. But there's

<v Speaker 1>just this unspoken thing where it's like, Okay, yeah, you're

<v Speaker 1>kind of on Raw, you're kind of on SmackDown, but like, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>it don't matter. People can cross borders and go back

<v Speaker 1>and forth, right I mean, there's just there's no real

<v Speaker 1>rhyme or reason to it. The Ussos have family on

<v Speaker 1>this show, so they're just going to show up on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown one week. We have people that are on SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>who will go to Raw and challenge for a Raw title.

<v Speaker 1>We have people on Raw that will go to smack

<v Speaker 1>Down a challenge for a SmackDown title from time to time.

<v Speaker 1>It makes no sense. So everything just feels like a

<v Speaker 1>mess right now. This was not a great show by

<v Speaker 1>any means, but it had its moments, the call ups. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I mean that's the best part right now, because this

<v Speaker 1>show could use him. Something has to change, I said earlier,

<v Speaker 1>like hit the reset button. They kind of are you know,

<v Speaker 1>we have Roman and Ria as champions again. I know

<v Speaker 1>that sounds like old hat, but like Ria hasn't been

<v Speaker 1>a single champion in a while. Roman, who is going

<v Speaker 1>to be around at least through the summer. He has

<v Speaker 1>not been championed for a while, so they went back

<v Speaker 1>to them Tiffany Stratton, who also was a world champion

<v Speaker 1>but has not really done anything in six months, it

<v Speaker 1>feels like, and so she's now the United States champion.

<v Speaker 1>And now we have, you know, the new NXT faces

<v Speaker 1>that are being called up. So it feels like we're

<v Speaker 1>in the middle of a little bit of a reset

<v Speaker 1>on these shows, which is good. I just hope it's

<v Speaker 1>a case where they help the show and not a

<v Speaker 1>case where the show actually brings them down, which would

<v Speaker 1>be very possible, because SmackDown is a terrible show. SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>is an awful television show, and I hope that changes.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not talking about one great SmackDown and then three

<v Speaker 1>terrible ones. It's going to take a herculean effort with

<v Speaker 1>these people who write these shows to get smacked Down

<v Speaker 1>to a place where we can kind of consistently look

<v Speaker 1>at it every week and not be like, oh God,

<v Speaker 1>what are they going to do this week? Like I

<v Speaker 1>want them to get to a place where it's like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown's really gotten back together in the last like six weeks,

<v Speaker 1>and so I don't worry as much about it anymore.

<v Speaker 1>Right we're not there right now, but that's my hope.

<v Speaker 1>And what I don't want are people to be called

<v Speaker 1>up who were doing stuff in NXT and they come

<v Speaker 1>to SmackDown and now it kind of like drags them

<v Speaker 1>down into the abyss and it actually hurts them more

<v Speaker 1>than it helps them. I want them to enhance the

<v Speaker 1>show and bring the show up. That's my hope for

<v Speaker 1>Fatal Influence. That's my hope for Royce Keys, That's my

<v Speaker 1>hope for Ricky Saints, is that they can really help

<v Speaker 1>elevate this show to a level that it has not

<v Speaker 1>been at for a very long time. I think that's

<v Speaker 1>the best anybody can hope for. But not a great

<v Speaker 1>day for ww A considering all the people who unfortunately

<v Speaker 1>lost their jobs today. Take a look at your super Chats.

<v Speaker 1>There you go. That's it. A new cast of characters,

<v Speaker 1>some new stories, no more Lantern Joseph Stewart, I hope

<v Speaker 1>you're having a great Friday night. Happy Friday to you, brother.

<v Speaker 1>I did not see the Michael Jackson movie. He says,

<v Speaker 1>he saw it and it was really good. I'm seeing

<v Speaker 1>mixed reviews on it. I have no plans on seeing

<v Speaker 1>interest in seeing it. I love Michael's music. I think

<v Speaker 1>he's one of the greatest artists of all time. I

<v Speaker 1>just have no interest in seeing the movie. But I

<v Speaker 1>believe there's a second one, right, it's like two parts.

<v Speaker 1>I think there's a second one coming out. Can't you

<v Speaker 1>can't fit everything in one movie and give it ample

<v Speaker 1>time to really explore every angle of his life. I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't think. He says, what are your thoughts on the

<v Speaker 1>recent comments by Rick Flair. I'll have a lot more

<v Speaker 1>to say about that on Sunday on the sound up.

<v Speaker 1>Flair was on Ariel Helwani show on Wednesday. I was there.

<v Speaker 1>I was there. I actually had the chance to finally

<v Speaker 1>meet with Ariel face to face. I've been doing the show,

<v Speaker 1>you know, since February. But I met him and the

<v Speaker 1>team and everything. It just so happened. I came in

<v Speaker 1>that day and got the grand tour and I sat

<v Speaker 1>in in the control room. I had no idea, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, until I got there, that Rick Flair was

<v Speaker 1>on the show that day. I said, oh, okay, and

<v Speaker 1>so I sat in the control room and I got

<v Speaker 1>to watch the entire interview along with everybody else. It

<v Speaker 1>was a very interesting experience. But yeah, we'll talk about

<v Speaker 1>that on Sunday. And he says, happy birthday to Barber

<v Speaker 1>Streisand have you seen the first look of the Netflix

<v Speaker 1>live action Scooby Doo? No, I have not. Did you

<v Speaker 1>see the photo of Jack Nicholson online celebrating his eighty

<v Speaker 1>ninth birthday? I did not, But happy birthday to Jack

<v Speaker 1>mentioned that on the Dynamite Tree the other night. Somebody

<v Speaker 1>did that it was his birthday. How would you have

<v Speaker 1>booked a sting in Goldberg feud in WCW. I would

<v Speaker 1>have booked it a lot better than WCW would have.

<v Speaker 1>I think they had a TV match once, right, I

<v Speaker 1>think they did wrestle once. But as far as how

<v Speaker 1>I would book it, they would both have to be babyfaces.

<v Speaker 1>I can't see turning either one of them. Heel, I'm

<v Speaker 1>just booking for the World Championship, man, It's all about

<v Speaker 1>the world title, not unlike the way they did Goldberg

<v Speaker 1>and DDP very similar. Do you remember when Kurt Handing

<v Speaker 1>feuded with master P in WCW. Yes, that was during

<v Speaker 1>his rap is Crap phase. I do remember that. Do

<v Speaker 1>you think Sting will ever come back to WWE? No, never,

<v Speaker 1>never gonna happen. He's under contract with AW. Still. Do

<v Speaker 1>you remember the WCW Nitro commercial that had Keith David

<v Speaker 1>narrating and DDP saying that this is where the big

<v Speaker 1>boys play. Keith David narrated a WCW commercial. I don't

<v Speaker 1>remember that, but I do remember the Sprite commercial where

<v Speaker 1>Sting beats up the little kid. I did enjoy that,

<v Speaker 1>he says. I hope you go see the Michael Jackson

<v Speaker 1>movie this weekend and have a great weekend, Sloma. I

<v Speaker 1>will be working on sound off stuff and SoundOff notes

<v Speaker 1>all weekend, so I will not be seeing it. However,

<v Speaker 1>I will be seeing the Mortal Kombat movie in a

<v Speaker 1>few weeks. I'm looking forward to that. And then we

<v Speaker 1>got the back Rooms coming at the end of May.

<v Speaker 1>Browley says, call up women to help with your lack

<v Speaker 1>of depth division, only to fire the ones you already have. Therefore,

<v Speaker 1>going back to how we began, Well, that is true,

<v Speaker 1>Zelena Vega Alba fire What was it just those two?

<v Speaker 1>I don't have the list in front of me Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they got rid of a few women, but let's be

<v Speaker 1>honest here. I mean, they weren't doing anything with them,

<v Speaker 1>so it doesn't it doesn't really change things. And they

<v Speaker 1>still have beach It I did it again, Meechen Bfab,

<v Speaker 1>Candice Larray, Keana James, Julia, Tiffany Charlotte, Alexa, Naya lash Page,

<v Speaker 1>the Bellas they have the women there now, fatal influence,

<v Speaker 1>Blake Monroe. The key is what you do with them?

<v Speaker 1>What are you going to do with them? What are

<v Speaker 1>the stories that you're coming up with for them? What

<v Speaker 1>are the matches, what are the feuds. I don't trust

<v Speaker 1>these people, That's the problem. Death Size Jeff Hardy's release

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty one still boggles my mind. There's a

<v Speaker 1>lot of things that Jeff's done in his career that

<v Speaker 1>boggle the mind. Dry Chicken without Flavor. I bet people

<v Speaker 1>within AW will heavily encourage Tony Kah to sign Kyrie

<v Speaker 1>Saane once the non compete clause expires. Well, why wouldn't they,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they will. Death sythe says, wherever Kyrie goes,

<v Speaker 1>she will be safe from OSCA. Yes, no more worrying

<v Speaker 1>about OSCAR. She's free Bossmo Jackson. It's official. J C.

<v Speaker 1>Jaane in Company is on SmackDown and WWE should fire

<v Speaker 1>death He says, Death Rebel. What's Death Rebel? That's a

<v Speaker 1>that's a different band I've never heard of. Dry Chicken says,

<v Speaker 1>WWE is cutting ties with Death Rebel. But wait, that's

<v Speaker 1>an alternate twenty twenty six CMJ World. How long do

<v Speaker 1>you think it'll be before we get ads in promos

<v Speaker 1>like after I kick your ass tonight, I'm gonna go

<v Speaker 1>get the new Papa John's Ultimate, I've crossed Pepperoni Pizza.

<v Speaker 1>You know you laugh, you put lol at the end

<v Speaker 1>of that. But I don't think we're too far off

<v Speaker 1>from that. Don't you go giveing TKO any ideas? Now, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we see those Snickers commercials. At some point there's going

<v Speaker 1>to be someone who just loses their shit in a

<v Speaker 1>promo and like their partner is going to be like,

<v Speaker 1>you're not yourself here have a Snickers right in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the promo. You don't think that they wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>sell ad inventory like that if they knew they could.

<v Speaker 1>Broley fatal influence already more over than whatever the hell

<v Speaker 1>they were doing with Lash and Naya for six months.

<v Speaker 1>Laney was in NXT for only ten months. Well, that's

<v Speaker 1>why I haven't seen too much of her work. Venom

<v Speaker 1>Ktetsu with a ten dollars super chat just took sixty

<v Speaker 1>g's of shrooms. That's how you know it's a Friday night.

<v Speaker 1>That's his way of preparing for SmackDown. So the wrestling

<v Speaker 1>industry is a frustrating mess. Post Mania cuts are expected,

<v Speaker 1>but are just nonsense. Looking forward to the sound of

<v Speaker 1>been a wild week with just flare alone. Thank you

<v Speaker 1>Venom Kotetsu. It has been a very newsworthy week. Nko Samuel,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for the five. And we've got another five

<v Speaker 1>here from wait Mystic Jay hijacking with another five, Thank

<v Speaker 1>you Mystic Jay. Well, this person is like Prince, there's

<v Speaker 1>no name, it's just a dash, it says, feels like

<v Speaker 1>a waste of time to watch weekly shows when so

<v Speaker 1>many storylines are dropped or ret conned or forgotten. F

<v Speaker 1>for Kyrie's face turn against Osca. Yeah, that's a great point.

<v Speaker 1>And I kind of made a similar point at the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of the stream when I said why should we

<v Speaker 1>invest in some of these stories and characters? But I

<v Speaker 1>talked about the Now. Look, I'm glad they retconnned the

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee stuff, but that's another example where they were

<v Speaker 1>telling this story and it was so fucking awful that

<v Speaker 1>they decided the best course of action. I mean, they

<v Speaker 1>had no choice once Pat said I'm done with this,

<v Speaker 1>so they basically wreckconded and it's gonna be like it

<v Speaker 1>never even happened. And the Oscar Kyrie stuff and it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be like that never even happened. And you could

<v Speaker 1>find other examples of this, but in this case, it

<v Speaker 1>was just it was so unnecessary. It was totally unnecessary,

<v Speaker 1>and they did it anyway. Nico with a twenty Hey Solo,

<v Speaker 1>I missed SmackDown? Did I miss anything? I was in

<v Speaker 1>downtown Orlando watching the Chameleons, would watch them a thousand

<v Speaker 1>times over. Morrissey looking forward to the sound off, episode

<v Speaker 1>nine to sixty and Uncrowned. Thanks as always, Thank you, Nico,

<v Speaker 1>I got you covered this upcoming week. You were watching

<v Speaker 1>the Chameleons. Also, he says, what is the airport test?

<v Speaker 1>So the airport test, it's very simple. The idea is

<v Speaker 1>that if you see this person, whoever this person may be,

<v Speaker 1>walking through the airport, do they catch your eye, because

<v Speaker 1>if not, you fail the airport test. But let's say

<v Speaker 1>you're walking through the airport and you're just dressed in

<v Speaker 1>a very, I don't know, outlandish way, or you're seven

<v Speaker 1>feet tall, or you're all muscled up and chiseled, you're

<v Speaker 1>like something out of a comic book, whatever the case

<v Speaker 1>may be. Fucking Omas is walking through the airport. Omas

<v Speaker 1>is going to pass that airport test every single time,

<v Speaker 1>right because all the eyes are going to be on him.

<v Speaker 1>That's the airport test. You know, Sammy's Ain walking through

<v Speaker 1>the airport, other than the people who would know him

<v Speaker 1>from TV. If Sammy's Ain someone who looked like Sammy's

<v Speaker 1>Ain was walking through the airport, would people be like

<v Speaker 1>staring at him and like would their eyes be shifting

<v Speaker 1>over like, oh, who's that guy? Like, No, no one's

<v Speaker 1>to pay any attentions. Sammy's Aying would fail the airport test.

<v Speaker 1>Daniel Bryan would fail the airport test. That's what the

<v Speaker 1>airport test is. William Lopez. The first time alistair was released,

<v Speaker 1>he said not to blame Vince McMahon. I wonder if

<v Speaker 1>this time he'll say, don't blame Nick Cohn. Yeah, not

<v Speaker 1>the first time that Alistair has departed. WWA, what he's

<v Speaker 1>going to do now, I don't know. San Juan wolf

<v Speaker 1>with A nineteen ninety nine. If Sammy isn't already a heel,

<v Speaker 1>I've got a good feeling they're going to turn him

<v Speaker 1>real soon and I'm here for it. Much love from Flora.

<v Speaker 1>They're in the middle of doing it, for sure. We're

<v Speaker 1>seeing it happen right before our eyes. TGN TKO have

<v Speaker 1>lost the plot release Kyrie in the middle of a

<v Speaker 1>storyline also with Black. They decided Pat McAfee brother and

<v Speaker 1>then fire him. What a joke? Yeah, imagine, I mean

<v Speaker 1>if that report is to be believed, you know, going

<v Speaker 1>from potentially being involved in a wrestlemaniam match in program

<v Speaker 1>with Randy Orton to losing your job a week later

<v Speaker 1>after WrestleMania. It's something, isn't it. It's really something? Hulkling

<v Speaker 1>ninety three. He solo noticed Tangaloa almost smacking himself getting Oh,

<v Speaker 1>that's what I's That's what it was. He almost smacked

<v Speaker 1>himself with the chair when he was getting into the ring. Also,

<v Speaker 1>like a group of moose are called moose, a group

<v Speaker 1>of deer are called deer. I mean deer sounds that

<v Speaker 1>sounds fine, But like again, just when you say it

<v Speaker 1>out loud and you call a group of moose moose,

<v Speaker 1>it just doesn't sound right to me. That needs to

<v Speaker 1>be changed. Someone needs to get in touch with Oxford

<v Speaker 1>and get that changed, Aaron, This backdown has been bad.

<v Speaker 1>So their brilliant solution is to build the entire show

<v Speaker 1>around the MFTs. Sounds like a great idea, Rick Gonzales,

<v Speaker 1>my Rockies beat your Mets, Solo, Yikes, yeah, I heard

<v Speaker 1>they're back to their losing ways. When you lose to

<v Speaker 1>the Rockies, I mean, I just don't even know what

<v Speaker 1>to say. I don't know what to say. Where do

<v Speaker 1>you go from there? Misfit Wrestling Podcast. Today marks one

<v Speaker 1>year since my mom passed away. It's been very tough

<v Speaker 1>for me and my family. But your streams always put

<v Speaker 1>a smile on my face and put me in a

<v Speaker 1>good mood. Please continue to do so, Solo. I'm very

<v Speaker 1>sorry to hear about your mom, and as long as

<v Speaker 1>I can bring you some level of comfort for a

<v Speaker 1>few hours each night each week, then I will continue

<v Speaker 1>to do that. It's the least I can do. Thank you,

<v Speaker 1>brother Leo. I hate seeing people get released. My heart

<v Speaker 1>goes out to the people who have lost their jobs today.

<v Speaker 1>I was also a bit worried for Keana. I'm glad

<v Speaker 1>to see that she seems to be safe. Aaron says,

<v Speaker 1>buy or sell Cain and Undertaker's two thousand returns. Oh man,

<v Speaker 1>they were both great, but I gotta go Undertaker. That

<v Speaker 1>one was just mass chaos. At the end of that

<v Speaker 1>Iron Man match, Leo says, like that they are teasing

<v Speaker 1>a breakup between Keana and Julia. I just hope they

<v Speaker 1>commit to it. They also need more babyfaces on the

<v Speaker 1>women's side. The Ulfman WWE's reason for letting Kyrie go

<v Speaker 1>in Johnny Yce's voice, budget cuts. This budget cuts kid

<v Speaker 1>death side. Imagine if they cut Elizabeth before WrestleMania five, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>basically and basically now, imaginef they cut Elizabeth before WrestleMania eight.

<v Speaker 1>That whole storyline was revolved around her. They were threatening

<v Speaker 1>to drop a giant centerfold banner of her in a

<v Speaker 1>compromising position if Flair won the match. And then imagine

<v Speaker 1>a week before Elizabeth has been released by w W.

<v Speaker 1>A we got mister Rod Wyatt six is gone unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>and the aur died. They basically failed. Bray Wyatt said, I,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't really look at it like that necessarily.

<v Speaker 1>I look at it like this. You know, Bo had

<v Speaker 1>the opportunity to come back and pay tribute to his brother,

<v Speaker 1>and he did that, and I'm sure he would have

<v Speaker 1>wanted to continue the vision and just kind of see

<v Speaker 1>it through until the end. But it's not like he

<v Speaker 1>didn't get to do some cool stuff and honor his brother.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't look at it as a total loss,

<v Speaker 1>cause you know, he paid tribute to Bray, He brought

<v Speaker 1>those characters back to life. They won the tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>so I mean you can't and again, their debut is

<v Speaker 1>very memorable, So I don't think you could say it

<v Speaker 1>was a total loss. It just fizzled out and they

<v Speaker 1>didn't really know what to do with them, because it's

<v Speaker 1>it's a gimmick that had a ceiling, you know, and

<v Speaker 1>it's just there's only so much you're going to be

<v Speaker 1>able to do unless you evolve it, and you evolve

<v Speaker 1>those characters into something beyond just spooky shit, where you know,

<v Speaker 1>you're having them do supernatural type stuff for freaky type stuff,

<v Speaker 1>and they just never evolved it they just kept doing

<v Speaker 1>the same shit with them and over and over again,

<v Speaker 1>or maybe they wanted to and they didn't allow them to.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what the thought process was there. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if ideas were being pitched that were ignored

<v Speaker 1>or rejected. Now that they're all released, once their non

<v Speaker 1>competes are up, I'm sure some of them might hit

<v Speaker 1>the interview circuit and maybe we'll get some answers to

<v Speaker 1>those questions. But I wouldn't say they failed Bray. I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't say that, Aaron. I Actually, to be honest with you, Bray.

<v Speaker 1>If you think about it, Bray was released by WWE also,

<v Speaker 1>so they were kind of following in his footsteps in

<v Speaker 1>that way in terms of how he got treated by

<v Speaker 1>the company. Aaron says. Nikita Lyons has been around since

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one, hasn't improved much and got demoted from

<v Speaker 1>developmental NXT to evolve. She must have the deaf rebel leverage.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah she's got. I don't know, man, she knows maybe

<v Speaker 1>where a couple of bodies are buried. Jeremy Rose. Those

<v Speaker 1>people or these people lost their jobs because the company

<v Speaker 1>that flaunts record profits and gate records spend their money

<v Speaker 1>on old divas like the Bella's and Page and the

<v Speaker 1>Jelly Rolls and McAfee's of the world. They think those

<v Speaker 1>people are going are going to draw them money, and

<v Speaker 1>they're convinced that these are the people that we need

<v Speaker 1>to be seeing on these shows. Bissel zones going into

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania forty one, I recall you expected more from Alistair

<v Speaker 1>Black than Russev. I was about to ask who had

<v Speaker 1>the better year. I guess we have our answer. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>And it's not like Russev is not a whole lot either.

<v Speaker 1>At least he got on the WrestleMania card. Can't say

<v Speaker 1>the same for Alistair Black lost the sauce ba with

<v Speaker 1>nine ninety nine. Kyrie will be dropping Sola Monster through

<v Speaker 1>a table with an elbow drop and hog by the

<v Speaker 1>end of the year. It's not a prediction, it's a spoiler.

<v Speaker 1>You want me to take an insane elbow through a table.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I'd be willing to do that.

<v Speaker 1>That sounds very dangerous. Jeremy Rose says, we got Heal

<v Speaker 1>Sammy and Heeal bloodline and a lazy creative team. Use

<v Speaker 1>your imagination and see the vision. I'd prefer to see

<v Speaker 1>Crazy j versus Jacob instead of Jacob wasting his shot

<v Speaker 1>at Roman. Since we all know he is losing, well,

<v Speaker 1>he's definitely now winning the championship. Jeremy, Thank You, Alexander

<v Speaker 1>is wild. If Jasmine Nix was patient, she would have

<v Speaker 1>been on the show tonight with JC Jane. I think

<v Speaker 1>she complained about the money not being enough. I think

<v Speaker 1>she said it was like seventy five thousand or something,

<v Speaker 1>and I mean, look good for her if she felt

<v Speaker 1>like it wasn't enough. STANDI your ground. Sometimes you just

<v Speaker 1>have to be willing to not take what they take

<v Speaker 1>what they're going to give you. If you feel like

<v Speaker 1>you're being undervalued, or you feel like, man, I need

<v Speaker 1>to be making more than that, then say, look that's

<v Speaker 1>not good enough for me. Sorry, hey, I mean respect

<v Speaker 1>to her for that. Aaron says, I think it would

<v Speaker 1>be good to send Tiffany to RAW when she drops

<v Speaker 1>the US title. Her and Blake are very similar, and

<v Speaker 1>she's been on SmackDown since her call up. It's like

<v Speaker 1>having two Barbie Doll characters on the same show. I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be shocked if they end up putting them in

<v Speaker 1>a fucking tag team together at some point start coming

<v Speaker 1>out and matching outfits. I volunteer as a tribute for

<v Speaker 1>you solo to take the Insane elbow. A lot of

<v Speaker 1>people would be volunteering their services for that spot, Alexander

<v Speaker 1>with the fifteen Thank you, Alexander. We need to keep

<v Speaker 1>this super chat alive. On a side note, and I

<v Speaker 1>posted it in the chat earlier. The common denominated with

<v Speaker 1>the main roster releases, all of them were SmackDown talent, SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>mid card got nuked, you know, Black Vega Alba. Well,

<v Speaker 1>that's not true. Kyrie was on raw. Kyrie was not

<v Speaker 1>a SmackDown star, so that's not entirely true. Apollo Cruz was,

<v Speaker 1>though Santos Escobar really was not a WWE main roster

<v Speaker 1>talent anymore. They had moved him over to Triple A.

<v Speaker 1>The rest of them, I think you are correct, though.

<v Speaker 1>The rest of them, I believe, outside of the nxt ones,

<v Speaker 1>the rest of them I believe were SmackDown. Nico Samuel

<v Speaker 1>get while E Coyote to blow he says, wild E Coyote.

<v Speaker 1>I would love it if that was his name. It's

<v Speaker 1>wild E Coyote, to blow up, SmackDown, just saying, well,

<v Speaker 1>the problem is if you get the coyote to blow

<v Speaker 1>up smack Down, it won't work. He'll just blow himself up.

<v Speaker 1>That's the whole point of being Wiley Coyote. It's not

<v Speaker 1>gonna work. He'll try to blow up smack Down and

<v Speaker 1>it'll end up blowing up at his face. That's the

<v Speaker 1>whole point of the character. Near he says, a falafful

<v Speaker 1>on me solo, not really a falafful guy. I appreciate

<v Speaker 1>the offer, though, Jeremy Rose, could punk Cody SummerSlam happen,

<v Speaker 1>then rematch it WrestleMania. Could it happen? Sure? There have

<v Speaker 1>been times where we've gotten matches at Summer Slam and

<v Speaker 1>then they build the story all the way through WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>We got the rematch there Chicago for MBK. I asked

<v Speaker 1>earlier this week about potential releases. Seeing some of the

<v Speaker 1>names today genuinely floored me. Triple H needs to follow

<v Speaker 1>time to rebuild. Chris O'Neil. Big name that you can

<v Speaker 1>see getting released, I say, Bailey. I don't know when

<v Speaker 1>Bailey's contract is up, if it's later this year or

<v Speaker 1>next year. There's been a lot of rumors about her.

<v Speaker 1>I think I think it's more realistic that when her

<v Speaker 1>contract is up, she chooses to leave. I think if

<v Speaker 1>she wanted to go to AW I mean, she would

<v Speaker 1>be welcomed with open arms, and she's got friends there,

<v Speaker 1>and she has a whole plethora of new talent there

<v Speaker 1>to work with. If she just was looking for like

<v Speaker 1>a refresh, maybe she's not. She may be content to

<v Speaker 1>stay where she is, and then she's doing these occasional seminars,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for other women's wrestlers, and maybe she's just

<v Speaker 1>content to do that. But I don't. I think it's

<v Speaker 1>more likely that, if anything, she just opts to leave

<v Speaker 1>when her contract is up. It's been there a long time,

<v Speaker 1>broly since thirteen people have been called up since January.

<v Speaker 1>Got a feel for CW and HBK and I think

<v Speaker 1>Julia needs to turn face. They only got five faces

<v Speaker 1>and eleven heels on SmackDown. Yes, they definitely do need

<v Speaker 1>more faces. Now are you counting I assume you're counting

<v Speaker 1>some of the women that are in tag teams, like

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte and Alexa and Mystic Jay. It sucks to think

<v Speaker 1>that all the released wrestlers Triple H brought back when

<v Speaker 1>he took over creative have all been released once again.

<v Speaker 1>That is actually it's actually a good point. Right, you

<v Speaker 1>had Black, you had Well, you had Cross, you had

<v Speaker 1>Dakota Kai. Right, Yeah, Kyrie, there are a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>people Alex's brother solo. If you are evil, then are

<v Speaker 1>you canceling your WWE contract and going back to New

<v Speaker 1>Japan after today's releases? I mean, what is his potential?

<v Speaker 1>Why would he do that? He left New Japan for

<v Speaker 1>a reason because he knows he can make more money

<v Speaker 1>over here. What is his potential? He's not going to

<v Speaker 1>be a main event player in this company, but I

<v Speaker 1>don't even know if he's going to NXT first or not.

<v Speaker 1>What is his potential? I think his potential is similar

<v Speaker 1>to what you see with j. C. Matteo in the MFTs.

<v Speaker 1>That's what I think his potential is. We got Chicken Sticks, LiPo?

<v Speaker 1>What went wrong with Cross and WWE Love your show?

<v Speaker 1>He probably didn't do himself and he favors with that

<v Speaker 1>post WrestleMania promo last year, which was fucking awesome, but

<v Speaker 1>it sounds like it might have ruffled some feathers in

<v Speaker 1>a way that he didn't intend because people got all

<v Speaker 1>up in their feelings and so I don't think that

<v Speaker 1>helped his case. I also don't think that people getting

<v Speaker 1>behind him and starting to chant for him necessarily with

<v Speaker 1>something the company was expecting or hoping for. And sometimes

<v Speaker 1>they don't like that. You know. Sometimes they'll embrace it

<v Speaker 1>if they see the crowd as really rallying behind somebody.

<v Speaker 1>But I think only if they see that person as

<v Speaker 1>really having true potential, like, oh, okay, that's a person

<v Speaker 1>that we want to get behind or would have gotten behind,

<v Speaker 1>and now the fans are dictating that they want us

<v Speaker 1>to get behind this person. And I kind of feel

<v Speaker 1>like if you don't fall into that category and you're

<v Speaker 1>not part of the plan, I don't like that very much.

<v Speaker 1>They kind of resent you for it. There may have

<v Speaker 1>been a little bit of that going on retro Koah

<v Speaker 1>Buyer sell on Evil video game doctors doctor Eggman from

<v Speaker 1>Sonic or doctor Wilie from Mega Man. I gotta go

<v Speaker 1>doctor Egman and SENDPI thank you for the membership. Remember

<v Speaker 1>the wheel tonight dictated five hundred and thirty likes was

<v Speaker 1>the goal. We are currently sitting at six ninety nine.

<v Speaker 1>We're a one away from seven hundred. So you guys

<v Speaker 1>smashed the goal. Very cool to see. We did well

<v Speaker 1>on the bonus goal. We fell three shorts so far,

<v Speaker 1>seven out of ten on that, but we got one

<v Speaker 1>round to be the booker at least come in your way.

<v Speaker 1>Let's get to that right now, ladies and gentlemen, it

<v Speaker 1>is now time to be the booker. It's doctor Robotic,

<v Speaker 1>doctor robotnik. I mean this guy here talking doctor robotnic

<v Speaker 1>right here. Look at this guy. Is that what you're

<v Speaker 1>talking about? Let me some doctor Robotic. All right, here

<v Speaker 1>we go, tag team, be the Booker. We're gonna kick

<v Speaker 1>off with r K bro, Vince Russo's favorite team, Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton and Matt Riddle. They are going to be stepping

<v Speaker 1>into the ring with Bullet Club Gold, Jay White and

<v Speaker 1>Juice Robinson. I miss Jay White. When is Jay White

<v Speaker 1>going to be back? He's been gone for a very

<v Speaker 1>long time. You imagine if r K brow was managed

<v Speaker 1>by Vince Russo and he cut all their promos for them,

<v Speaker 1>that would be awful. All right, Women's be the booker,

<v Speaker 1>oh man, of all the nights we land on Queen Zelena,

<v Speaker 1>it's like be the Booker knows sometimes it's like it

<v Speaker 1>has a sixth sense for these things. Choose four women

<v Speaker 1>on then we get Nikki crossing this one. Look at that.

<v Speaker 1>Be the booker is just this is this is terrible,

<v Speaker 1>This is this is very sad. We go from Zelena

<v Speaker 1>in one image to Nicky Cross in another image. Choose

<v Speaker 1>four women and book a tag team match. All right,

<v Speaker 1>so we're gonna start over then where you have to

<v Speaker 1>start fresh. Now four women and we're going to book

<v Speaker 1>a women's tag team match. All right. So our first

<v Speaker 1>participant is Ruby Riot or Ruby Soho. I guess we'll

<v Speaker 1>call her Ruby Sojo since that was an aw image,

<v Speaker 1>Ruby Soho and her tag team partner Julia. Now this

<v Speaker 1>right here, this, this is stardom Julia. Right here, this

<v Speaker 1>is Julia, Ruby and Julia. Their opponents, Ria Ripley and Rhea.

<v Speaker 1>Ripley's tag team partner is a Zoe Stark. It's a

<v Speaker 1>fine tag team match. But man, be the booker, what

<v Speaker 1>are you doing? What are you doing tonight? We went

<v Speaker 1>from Zelina to Nikky Cross to Zoey Stark. You know

<v Speaker 1>what I think? I think this is be the booker's

<v Speaker 1>way of paying tribute. It's it's it's gotta be. This

<v Speaker 1>is be the booker's way of paying tribute, because that

<v Speaker 1>is just that's just wild that. It's just cruel. Either

<v Speaker 1>that or be the booker is like the biggest troll.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know one or the other. But I don't

<v Speaker 1>blame me. I have no control over it. I create it,

<v Speaker 1>but then it has a mind of its own. All Right,

<v Speaker 1>our main event, all right, let's not be doing Alistair

<v Speaker 1>Black in this main event please, or I don't think

<v Speaker 1>Santos is in here. We have the American dream, Dusty

<v Speaker 1>Roads with the rare red polka dots not yellow. We

<v Speaker 1>have red polka dots here, and Dusty's opponents, well, we

<v Speaker 1>got ourselves a mirror Matchy. Cody Rhodes is in tears

<v Speaker 1>somewhere looking at this match. We have Dusty Roads taking

<v Speaker 1>on Dusty Roads. The charisma, the charisma of this match.

<v Speaker 1>Imagine the promos leading up to this match. What a

<v Speaker 1>build up to this match. Yes, this is Cody's dream match.

<v Speaker 1>He's gonna have a front row seat for this one.

<v Speaker 1>Dusty couldn't have booked it. But now we just need

<v Speaker 1>a Dusty finish. Yes, we need a Dusty finish for

<v Speaker 1>this match. Was that sweep? It was a sweep? I

<v Speaker 1>was so wrapped up in this match that I forgot

<v Speaker 1>to hit the sound effect for the sweep. Dusty Roads

<v Speaker 1>against Dusty Roads honestly better than most wrestling matches these days.

<v Speaker 1>Dusty and Dusty, who goes over? Yeah, that's the question though?

<v Speaker 1>Who does the job in that match? And EJ. Slimp

<v Speaker 1>ranked these matchups from best to worst only two away

<v Speaker 1>look at that. On that TI Bonus Cape. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>eight out of ten ranked these matchups from best to worst.

<v Speaker 1>HBK Versus Missawa, Undertaker versus Kobashi, Brent versus Kowata, Owen

<v Speaker 1>versus Taue. Wow, those all sound like great matches, so

<v Speaker 1>now I have to rank them. Undertaker in Kobashi? Are

<v Speaker 1>we talking like mid two thousands like MMA Undertaker who

<v Speaker 1>was actually wrestling? Or are we talking Greg Glove nineteen

<v Speaker 1>ninety two Undertaker? Which Undertaker are we talking about? Here? Man?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's how do I vote against HBK and Missawa?

<v Speaker 1>That's like I mean, you talk about dream matches there. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I think I would buy, I would rank HBK missaua

<v Speaker 1>And then you know, Breton Kowata is an interesting one

<v Speaker 1>because Brett had a match with Tiger Mask in nineteen ninety,

<v Speaker 1>so Brett hadn't really reached his final form yet in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety. But that match was not that good. And

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it was just like if you

<v Speaker 1>did that match five years later, it may be a

<v Speaker 1>banger or just Brett not working well with some of

<v Speaker 1>the Japanese wrestlers. I don't know, because I would put

<v Speaker 1>Breton Kowa a second, but I don't know. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know how that match would go. Yeah, Brett hard hated

<v Speaker 1>working with Missawa, all right, Yeah, it's a good point. Kowata.

<v Speaker 1>He says, Kowada is the greatest seller of all times.

<v Speaker 1>So Brett versus Kowada. I'll go HBK Misawa and then

<v Speaker 1>Brett Kowata, and then Owen and Taue and then Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>in Kobashi last. I hate to put Kobashi last, but

<v Speaker 1>in this case, I feel like I have to what

<v Speaker 1>a joint card that would have been, though, I think

<v Speaker 1>Kobashi would be taking a last ride from the Undertaker.

<v Speaker 1>Brett would leave if he had to face Kowata. Why

<v Speaker 1>why would he leave? Sting and Muda was not bad.

<v Speaker 1>I think it was ninety one, No, it was eighty nine,

<v Speaker 1>and it was better than not not that not that bad.

<v Speaker 1>It was fucking great. Sting and Muda was awesome. I

<v Speaker 1>think they've posted up some of that stuff on the

<v Speaker 1>WCW channel on YouTube. If you are either not familiar

<v Speaker 1>with it or you haven't seen it in many years,

<v Speaker 1>you can find it on there. Muda in eighty nine

<v Speaker 1>was great. Anyway, thank you guys for hanging out with

<v Speaker 1>me on a very newsworthy Friday night. Unfortunately, a very

<v Speaker 1>newsworthy Friday night. I would imagine there would be more

<v Speaker 1>information that will be coming out in the days ahead

<v Speaker 1>as far as these releases and what led to some

<v Speaker 1>of them, or if there are additional ones, because they

<v Speaker 1>may not be done yet, and so I'll have all

<v Speaker 1>that information for you on the sound Off this Sunday's

<v Speaker 1>a lot of stuff to get into on the Sounduff

<v Speaker 1>this Sunday. I have one episode left, the final episode

<v Speaker 1>of the Hulk Cogan docu series on Netflix, so if

<v Speaker 1>I am able to finish that tomorrow, I will give

<v Speaker 1>you my full thoughts on that. The Flare stuff, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>there's just there, there's a ton of there's a ton

<v Speaker 1>of stuff I want to get into, so we will

<v Speaker 1>talk about all that episode nine sixty that will be

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday, and as far as the week coming up

<v Speaker 1>raw post show Monday night, we have the Uncrowned Wrestling

<v Speaker 1>show on Tuesday, Tuesday Night, Titans that night, and then

<v Speaker 1>Dynamite on Wednesday. There will not be a SmackDown review

<v Speaker 1>next Friday because I will be at that time. I

<v Speaker 1>will be doing commentary. I will be doing play by

<v Speaker 1>play for the House of Glory show. Somebody in the

<v Speaker 1>chat earlier asked me if there's tickets available. I believe

<v Speaker 1>they should still be. I know we were very close

<v Speaker 1>to a sellout. When I look at the map, it's weird,

<v Speaker 1>Like I looked at the map earlier and it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>show any like on the map available seats, but like

<v Speaker 1>you can't choose on the bottom from either some balcony

<v Speaker 1>or some general admissions. So, yes, there are still some

<v Speaker 1>tickets available if you want to go to the show,

<v Speaker 1>if you want to say hello, I'll be there. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>that's where I will be. It's a quick thing too.

<v Speaker 1>I'm flying into LA on Friday doing the show, and

<v Speaker 1>then flying back to New York on Saturday morning. So

<v Speaker 1>and then I got to get home because I got

<v Speaker 1>to sound Off to do next Sunday. Wish me luck.

<v Speaker 1>I do it all for you anyway. Be well, stay safe,

<v Speaker 1>have your sill, have seen a great weekend, and keep

<v Speaker 1>an eye out Sunday afternoon, episode nine to sixty of

<v Speaker 1>The SoundOff. I'll see you guys on Monday night.