<v Speaker 1>Man. We had Roman Reigns on the show tonight called

<v Speaker 1>Seth Rollins a lot of things in that closing segment,

<v Speaker 1>but he also said that Triple H was Seth's work daddy.

<v Speaker 1>I've never heard it put that way, but apparently Triple

<v Speaker 1>H is Set's work daddy. And Roman pointed out that

<v Speaker 1>the only way Rollins can win a World championship is

<v Speaker 1>by cashing in a money in the bank briefcase. And

<v Speaker 1>he's not wrong when he says these things. Boy, Roman Reigns,

<v Speaker 1>he brought the heat in the closing segment here on

<v Speaker 1>this show, and Seth Rollins for his part, because they

<v Speaker 1>had a contract signing hell of a lot better than

<v Speaker 1>last week's promo. Roman also needled him about that boring

<v Speaker 1>promo last week that I talked about in the raw

<v Speaker 1>review because that promo sucked. Tonight was a lot better

<v Speaker 1>because we had both of them in the same building

<v Speaker 1>at the same time. Isn't it amazing how much better

<v Speaker 1>things tend to be when you get both participants in

<v Speaker 1>the ring together at the same time to jows verbally

<v Speaker 1>instead of them just cutting promos on the camera. We

<v Speaker 1>had the contract signing tonight with Roman Reigns and Seth

<v Speaker 1>rollins for their World Heavyweight Championship match at Summerslim. It

<v Speaker 1>is now official, and I still do as I sit

<v Speaker 1>here right now, I still do feel as if when

<v Speaker 1>they put this car together and they try to figure

<v Speaker 1>out what closes Night one, what closes Night Too. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I suppose a lot of it will depend on exactly

<v Speaker 1>what's planned in these main events. Is there going to

<v Speaker 1>be some kind of big you know, big angle or

<v Speaker 1>swerve or heel turn or something like that. I still

<v Speaker 1>feel like punkin Cody get the Night Too slot, But

<v Speaker 1>they took a giant leap tonight towards getting me a

<v Speaker 1>little bit more excited about this match, more so than

<v Speaker 1>I was last week. So that was one of the

<v Speaker 1>highlights of the show tonight. It was the Roman in

<v Speaker 1>Seth exchange. The other highlight of the show, and this

<v Speaker 1>was not really a surprise, was the gauntlet match to

<v Speaker 1>crown a number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship. I

<v Speaker 1>said this last week, wwe had one job. This was

<v Speaker 1>going to be the easiest thing for them to do

<v Speaker 1>on the road to Summer Slim, more than any other

<v Speaker 1>decision that they have to make between now. In the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of August. A very simple decision is to make

<v Speaker 1>sure that Chad Gable comes out of this Gauntlet as

<v Speaker 1>the number one contender, and we set up Gable and

<v Speaker 1>pent Up for the Intercontinental title on that show, and

<v Speaker 1>that's what they did. We had what seven men six

<v Speaker 1>seven men in this gauntlet match tonight, and we got

<v Speaker 1>the right outcome. Chad Gable will challenge Penta for the title,

<v Speaker 1>his first potential singles championship in all the years that

<v Speaker 1>he has been in this company over a decade. You

<v Speaker 1>want to go back to the NX two years and

<v Speaker 1>he is on the cusps. He's on the verge of

<v Speaker 1>winning his first singles title. In an age where people

<v Speaker 1>win titles all the time, It's pretty insane to think

<v Speaker 1>that Chad Gable has yet to hold a single single

<v Speaker 1>singles a single singles championship in his career. Hopefully that

<v Speaker 1>will change. I love Penta, but that shit's got a

<v Speaker 1>change in Minneapolis, So I was very happy to see

<v Speaker 1>that that was the easiest choice. Triple H is going

<v Speaker 1>to make all summer Slim season. They also set up

<v Speaker 1>another match for the PLEE, which is one that I've

<v Speaker 1>been talking about. It seemed pretty obvious that we were

<v Speaker 1>headed for a six man tag, and now we know

<v Speaker 1>for a fact that we are getting the six man tag.

<v Speaker 1>It is going to be Jacob Fantu and the USO's

<v Speaker 1>Jay Usso has not been on the show for two

<v Speaker 1>weeks now. Ever, since all that news broke about him

<v Speaker 1>and his personal life on TMZ, we have not seen

<v Speaker 1>jay Usso. He's got to get his own house in

<v Speaker 1>order first, I guess, but he has a summer slim match.

<v Speaker 1>It's going to be him and Jimmy and Jacob taking

<v Speaker 1>on La Night, Royce Keys, and I guess the newly

<v Speaker 1>Babyface Solo's SOCOA because based on what he did on

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight, it's sure like this was supposed to

<v Speaker 1>be a Babyface turn. I don't know if the crowd

<v Speaker 1>took it that way. It's not like I got some

<v Speaker 1>big reaction, but they did set the six man tag

<v Speaker 1>up for that show, and I'm actually wondering as I

<v Speaker 1>look back on the reaction to the announcement of it,

<v Speaker 1>because it was La Knight who had the mic in

<v Speaker 1>his hand and made the announcement, I wonder if the

<v Speaker 1>people in the building in Dallas tonight thought they were

<v Speaker 1>getting the match tonight, only to find out no, it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna happen at Summer Slam, because how I mean, it's

<v Speaker 1>the sort of match that you would expect to get

<v Speaker 1>on TV and not at Summer Slam. But it always

<v Speaker 1>felt like these guys have nothing else to do on

<v Speaker 1>that show. If you don't put them in a six

<v Speaker 1>man tag, what else logically would they even be doing

<v Speaker 1>at Summer Slam? Right, They've all been beefing with each

<v Speaker 1>other now for weeks. This seemed to be the direction

<v Speaker 1>that made the most sense. So now we get Solo

<v Speaker 1>Socoa in a bit of a different role for a change,

<v Speaker 1>no longer with the MFTs, no longer with the blood

<v Speaker 1>line on his own, having to associate now with La Night.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, that could make for some interesting television. I'm

<v Speaker 1>game for anything different. I think that there's a great

<v Speaker 1>babyface not deep, not deep, it's there. It kind of

<v Speaker 1>bubbles up every now and then, but buried within Solo

<v Speaker 1>Soco as a great babyface run, and I hope we

<v Speaker 1>get the chance to see that. Unfortunately, we also had

<v Speaker 1>some terrible television tonight because there was a horrible segment.

<v Speaker 1>While it did further things along for another potential SummerSlam

<v Speaker 1>match for the world tag team titles. I mean, we'll

<v Speaker 1>see if we end up getting that on the PLA

<v Speaker 1>or if they do it on Raw. We had a

<v Speaker 1>segment with Maxine Dupre, Austin Theory, bron Breaker, and Logan Paul.

<v Speaker 1>They were out there taking a victory lap otison Tozawa.

<v Speaker 1>We got acting on the show, and not very good acting.

<v Speaker 1>We had some drama why Maxine, why this is what otis?

<v Speaker 1>And Tozawa wanted to know why. We tried to warn you.

<v Speaker 1>We tried to warn you that this man was no good.

<v Speaker 1>He's bad news. Oh, very melodramatic. I'll tell you. What

<v Speaker 1>is uh really just confounding to me is that we

<v Speaker 1>are potentially on the verge of getting an announcement that

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker is going to Summer Slam and he's going

<v Speaker 1>to be involved in a match against Tozawa. Yes, this

<v Speaker 1>appears to be the Summer Slam direction for bron Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>What have they done to bron Breaker? We got a

<v Speaker 1>tease of a return to WWE, because nothing can be

<v Speaker 1>kept secret anymore. We got a tease for Big Casts

<v Speaker 1>on his way back to WWE. No Enzo not yet

<v Speaker 1>it's early yet, but we got the date August, which

<v Speaker 1>is the Monday after Summer Slam. He's coming back with

<v Speaker 1>any luck, it would be for a singles run. But

<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling this was only the first tease.

<v Speaker 1>There'll be a tease for his his tag team partner,

<v Speaker 1>probably coming next week, and it'll all build to August third.

<v Speaker 1>So we got our first vignette for that. We're gonna

<v Speaker 1>run through this entire Raw show. We'll go through the

<v Speaker 1>whole thing all for you, guys. I am the Solemn Monster.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you for joining me here. It is a Monday Night,

<v Speaker 1>July thirteenth, twenty twenty six, and boy, you know that's

<v Speaker 1>July thirteenth. I did not realize that until just now.

<v Speaker 1>I attended my very first live Monday Night RAW twenty

<v Speaker 1>eight years ago tonight, on this very day, got to

<v Speaker 1>meet Mick Foley and Owen Hart. Boy, that was a

<v Speaker 1>fun show. That was a fun man. Those days were,

<v Speaker 1>Those days were wild. The summer of ninety eight. Oh

<v Speaker 1>what a time. Super chats are open, So if you

<v Speaker 1>get them on in, I'll be reading all of your messages.

<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, get them on in. If you

<v Speaker 1>want to support. Get them on in and we'll hang

<v Speaker 1>out and we'll have some fun, and with any luck,

<v Speaker 1>we will hit our goal for tonight. Let's find out

<v Speaker 1>what that goal is going to be. We had quite

<v Speaker 1>a bit of fun last week all week long. Really

<v Speaker 1>would be the booker. Will we be booking anything tonight?

<v Speaker 1>That's what we're going to find out. Let's take her

<v Speaker 1>for a spin, Spin it long, spin it hard. Here

<v Speaker 1>we go high way to hell. That's right. Three ninety okay?

<v Speaker 1>Is that a nine? That is a nine? Three knives

<v Speaker 1>kind of tiny there on my screen. Three ninety all right,

<v Speaker 1>three hundred and ninety likes is the goal for tonight.

<v Speaker 1>You guys know what to do. We're already at two

<v Speaker 1>forty four. I don't think that's too unreasonable. And maybe

<v Speaker 1>we will do some B to B a little bit

<v Speaker 1>later on. We're gonna talk about a different B. We

<v Speaker 1>had talk about Brock Brock, Lesnar and Paul Hayman. They

<v Speaker 1>were the ones who opened the show tonight. And Brock

<v Speaker 1>has a brand new T shirt that I'm sure I

<v Speaker 1>haven't checked, but I'm sure it's up right now on

<v Speaker 1>WWE shop Talk Shit, Get Hit, And they had a

<v Speaker 1>group of police officers walking behind them as they made

<v Speaker 1>their way down to the ring. They stood guard at ringside.

<v Speaker 1>They basically formed a human wall and the fans were

<v Speaker 1>chanting for Obafemi. Say Hayman did his usual intros, introduced

<v Speaker 1>all of the Dallas police officers outside the ring, and

<v Speaker 1>he said that Obafemi turned down a championship match with

<v Speaker 1>either champion because he is just that obsessed with Brock Lesner.

<v Speaker 1>He goes, that is stalker level. Haman called Oba the

<v Speaker 1>biggest dummy that he's ever met. He said Oba turned

<v Speaker 1>down a title match to come after Brock like a psycho.

<v Speaker 1>Ex girlfriend said Lesner is obsessed with Oba, which scares

<v Speaker 1>him half to death. He said he called Lesner when

<v Speaker 1>he was out hunting and he's obsessed with Obafemi. So

<v Speaker 1>he said he went to WWE officials. He requested a

<v Speaker 1>no touch clause, but it took a lot of lawyers.

<v Speaker 1>He said, he went to a judge in Dallas. He

<v Speaker 1>got a restraining order against Obafemi. He said he got

<v Speaker 1>another restraining order against his own client. This was news

<v Speaker 1>to brock Lesner. He looked over at Hayman and he's like,

<v Speaker 1>what what are you talking about? But He said that

<v Speaker 1>Lesner is a law abiding citizen who would abide by

<v Speaker 1>the rules of the restraining order. So the lights went dark.

<v Speaker 1>This brought out Obafemi and the police officers. They got

<v Speaker 1>into the ring. They stood in front of Hayman and Lesner.

<v Speaker 1>Oba told Hayman explain what the hell this is. So

<v Speaker 1>Hayman said that Oba violated a restraining order and he

<v Speaker 1>told the cops to go do your job. So they

<v Speaker 1>exited the ring. Lesnar and Hayman did. Oba he grabs

<v Speaker 1>one of these cops and he just hurls him out

<v Speaker 1>over the top rope. And usually there's somebody there to

<v Speaker 1>catch them. There ain't nobody there on the outside. He

<v Speaker 1>just threw him out of the ring and he crashed

<v Speaker 1>and burned on the floor. Then he grabbed two of

<v Speaker 1>them double choke slamb There was another one in there.

<v Speaker 1>He picked him up, and you know how he throws

<v Speaker 1>people halfway across the ring. He chucked this guy out

<v Speaker 1>of the ring, and at least with him, they had

<v Speaker 1>the other cops out there to catch him and break

<v Speaker 1>his fall. So he wiped out all of the phony

<v Speaker 1>cops that were at ringside. And so at that point

<v Speaker 1>it was time for Oba to speak, and he took

<v Speaker 1>issue with Hayman, calling him stupid for giving up his

<v Speaker 1>title match. Said, they both know that had he gone

<v Speaker 1>for a championship, had he gone ahead and challenged either champion,

<v Speaker 1>which is what he was entitled to do at SummerSlam,

<v Speaker 1>he said that you know that Brock would have cost

<v Speaker 1>me the match. Doesn't sound like much of a ruler,

<v Speaker 1>does it. This guy's supposed to be the ruler. He's

<v Speaker 1>the king. He doesn't sound very sure of himself. I

<v Speaker 1>gave away my guarantee championship match for Summer SLEDG because

<v Speaker 1>I just knew that your guy was going to interfere

<v Speaker 1>and fuck it up for me. What a stupid fucking

<v Speaker 1>thing to say. Weeks after the fact, Oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>Oba said, Lesnar can no longer run from him inside

<v Speaker 1>hell and his cell. No more bs, no more low blows.

<v Speaker 1>Basically at SummerSlam. This gets settled. I will say this

<v Speaker 1>always great intensity from Oba. He was on point. I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was a great promo outside of that one

<v Speaker 1>stupid line there, so you know, great stuff from Oba.

<v Speaker 1>Otherwise he looked like a world beater out there throwing

<v Speaker 1>guys around the explanation though about why he sacrificed his

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slam title show. We still have no clarity, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, on whether or not he actually completely ditched

<v Speaker 1>his championship match, and that means he gets no title

<v Speaker 1>match and he's gonna have to win the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>or something now, or if he's just kind of tucking

<v Speaker 1>it away for a later date. Because I mentioned this

<v Speaker 1>on the podcast last week, they have their own official

<v Speaker 1>like WWE post show. After all, I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>it's live, but it's got like Sam Roberts and Megan Morant,

<v Speaker 1>and I didn't hear it for myself, but I had

<v Speaker 1>somebody mention it and then I read, you know, part

<v Speaker 1>of what they said. And the night that that happened,

<v Speaker 1>they were talking about it as if Brock and Obo

<v Speaker 1>was basically it wasn't just replacing Oba's title match at SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>Oba basically gave it away. It's not like, you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's in my back pocket. I could take it out

<v Speaker 1>whenever I want. They were talking about it as if

<v Speaker 1>he sacrificed his title shot for the right to go

<v Speaker 1>after this man, which, if you think about it, the

<v Speaker 1>stipulation was that you're guaranteed a championship match at SummerSlam, right,

<v Speaker 1>it is specifically for SummerSlam. So without WWE clarifying things here,

<v Speaker 1>and even Paul Hayman has used language that would suggest

<v Speaker 1>that he gave it up completely. But I can't say

<v Speaker 1>that one hundred percent for fact because WWE just hasn't

<v Speaker 1>clarified it yet. But you know him coming out here,

<v Speaker 1>First of all, this is coming a few weeks late.

<v Speaker 1>If he was going to argue this, then this should

<v Speaker 1>have been said weeks ago. That's number one. But it's

<v Speaker 1>like he's coming out here and saying, you know that

<v Speaker 1>if I would have gone ahead with my championship match,

<v Speaker 1>that your your client would have cost me. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>just sitting here and I'm listening to this, and I'm going, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>you big dummy, because you're the one who came out

<v Speaker 1>on television week after week and poke the bear. You're

<v Speaker 1>the one who came out on television week after week

<v Speaker 1>after he beats you at Clash in Italy and called

<v Speaker 1>him all kinds of names. You called him a coward,

<v Speaker 1>you called him a bitch, You question his manhood every

<v Speaker 1>single week. So if he did come out and cost you,

<v Speaker 1>you would have nobody to blame but yourself. Like, there's

<v Speaker 1>just no way of explaining this in a way that

<v Speaker 1>makes oba Femi look good. And at this point you

<v Speaker 1>may as well not even address If you go to

<v Speaker 1>address it, you address it in week one, you don't

<v Speaker 1>address it two or three weeks later. What a stupid

<v Speaker 1>fucking thing to say. But in any event, it is

<v Speaker 1>what it is. It's done. What's done is done, and

<v Speaker 1>we have our hell in a cell match for Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slim and at this point that's all that matters. But like, again,

<v Speaker 1>I'm listening to what he's saying here, and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>if you're so concerned about this man getting involved in

<v Speaker 1>your business, maybe don't go out on television and call

<v Speaker 1>him out and call him all kinds of insults, right,

<v Speaker 1>you're only inviting trouble by doing that. You would have

<v Speaker 1>gotten exactly what you deserved. Meanwhile, you went through this

<v Speaker 1>entire King of the Ring tournament. He never showed up, right,

<v Speaker 1>he never popped up even once. I just decided to

<v Speaker 1>give it away because I knew you would fuck it

<v Speaker 1>up for me. See, he's playing three D chess. I

<v Speaker 1>didn't want to give you the chance to mess up

<v Speaker 1>my title opportunity, So I just gave away my title opportunity.

<v Speaker 1>Good job there, buddy. Michael Cole was hyping up what

<v Speaker 1>he called a multi week series on the history of

<v Speaker 1>the Shield to build to the Rollins and Rains title

<v Speaker 1>match at SummerSlam. They also mentioned that Roman Reigns, this

<v Speaker 1>was announced earlier, is going to be at Saturday Night's

<v Speaker 1>main event, but he is not coming alone. He will

<v Speaker 1>be there as well as Jalen Brunson of the New

<v Speaker 1>York Knicks, who just underwent surgery on his wrist, the

<v Speaker 1>NBA champion Jalen Brunson, so they're going to be together

<v Speaker 1>at Saturday Night's main event. This weekend, we had Eo

<v Speaker 1>Sky and Roxanne Perez one on one. Roxane had Lived

<v Speaker 1>Morgan in Raquel Rodriguez with her. EO landed a springboard

<v Speaker 1>moonsalt out on the floor and she tossed roxand back

<v Speaker 1>inside Live. Morgan distracted Eo as she was trying to

<v Speaker 1>get back in the ring, and Roxanne was able to

<v Speaker 1>blindside her heading into a commercial. So we come back.

<v Speaker 1>Roxanne is got her all tied up in a tree

<v Speaker 1>of woe, kicking at the knee and EO is able

<v Speaker 1>to get her knees up to block a moonsalt a

<v Speaker 1>temp she hits up butterfly backbreaker. There's the patented Eosky

<v Speaker 1>missile dropkick. She went for the Meteora in the corner.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody home, so the knees hit the turnbuckles. Roxanne was

<v Speaker 1>stretching her knee. EO was able to reverse into a

<v Speaker 1>cross face and that got broken up. EO went to

<v Speaker 1>the top. She was going for her moon Salt live

<v Speaker 1>in Roxanne or Raquel. Rather, they interfered. They wanted to

<v Speaker 1>try to get her to stay grounded, so at that

<v Speaker 1>point Roxanne rolled up. EO, though, was able to reverse

<v Speaker 1>it and basically in reversing it, she sat on Roxanne's

<v Speaker 1>face with the legs hooked and she got the pin.

<v Speaker 1>So when the match was over, Roxanne to live. They

<v Speaker 1>attacked Leo. Here comes Soul Ruca Women's IC champion, going

<v Speaker 1>to attempt to make the save. She went for a

<v Speaker 1>dive out of the ring onto Raquel, but she got

<v Speaker 1>caught and Raquel swung her headfirst into the barricade, then

<v Speaker 1>whipped her up into a power bomb position and very hard.

<v Speaker 1>She slammed her up against the I can't even say

<v Speaker 1>the ring post. Whatever that led casing is around the

<v Speaker 1>ring post. She slammed her into it. Back inside. Morgan

<v Speaker 1>hit oblivion on EO, and then Roxanne and Raquel. They

<v Speaker 1>held EO so liv could blast her in the head

<v Speaker 1>with the Women's Championship. Looked like she got her pretty

<v Speaker 1>good with it too. It looked like she had a

<v Speaker 1>small cut on her forehead that was starting to bleed.

<v Speaker 1>I heard like a thump when she hit her in

<v Speaker 1>the I could have sworn I heard a thump when

<v Speaker 1>she smacked her in the head with that belt. So

<v Speaker 1>it looked like she caught her pretty good, solid match,

<v Speaker 1>predictable outcome. Again. Io was the one who's going to

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slam to challenge for the championship. She wasn't losing

<v Speaker 1>a Roxane. I'm surprised they didn't just do a run

<v Speaker 1>in and give us a non finish. But of course

<v Speaker 1>she was not losing this match. I thought Raquel's attack

<v Speaker 1>actually on soul look good. I do wonder if they

<v Speaker 1>rematch them at some point. I wasn't expecting a title

<v Speaker 1>change in their first match. Just felt too soon. It's

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's still too soon, but if they wanted

<v Speaker 1>to have Raquel and Soul on the Summer Slam car

<v Speaker 1>for the ICTs, Like, if they booked that match on

<v Speaker 1>that show, they're doing a title change. Put it that way.

<v Speaker 1>If they if they run that match back, I do

<v Speaker 1>think we get a title change. It just didn't feel

<v Speaker 1>like the right time though, you know when they did it,

<v Speaker 1>was it two weeks ago? Whenever? Maybe it was last week.

<v Speaker 1>All these matches just seem to run together. I feel

<v Speaker 1>like we're just constantly seeing the same people and just

<v Speaker 1>like different combinations of the same people week in and

<v Speaker 1>week out. It could be hard sometimes to like remember,

<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, when did we get that match last week?

<v Speaker 1>Or did we get that match three weeks ago? I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, because three weeks ago and two weeks ago

<v Speaker 1>and last week they all kind of run together, right,

<v Speaker 1>Sometimes it feels that way. They all kind of feel

<v Speaker 1>the same. But I thought her attack do on Soul

<v Speaker 1>looked good, puts more heat on the judgment day, so

<v Speaker 1>it made sense what they did here. Then we had

<v Speaker 1>my least favorite part of this entire show, the worst

<v Speaker 1>thing on the show, the vision or what's left of

<v Speaker 1>the vision. We had Austin theory and Maxine Dupre new

<v Speaker 1>Couple on TV along with bron Breaker and Logan Paul

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring to celebrate regaining the world tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles from the Street Profits. And if you remember,

<v Speaker 1>we had the Maxine Dupre heel turned in that match.

<v Speaker 1>She was swaping spit with Austin theory. Logan Paul tried

<v Speaker 1>to speak first, but he handed the mic over to

<v Speaker 1>Maxine and she was getting good heat. She was kind

<v Speaker 1>of getting the dominic mysterio treatment there where they didn't

<v Speaker 1>want to let her speak. And then it was kind

<v Speaker 1>of weird because I understand that there were people who

<v Speaker 1>were booing her and she was trying to let the

<v Speaker 1>booze kind of rain out a little bit, but it

<v Speaker 1>just felt to me like they were stalling, like she

<v Speaker 1>was just stalling like crazy. I'm like, just say something.

<v Speaker 1>It's just like, come on, let's get to it already.

<v Speaker 1>And this was just dragging out and out and out,

<v Speaker 1>and like they were waiting for something. And then here

<v Speaker 1>comes Otis and Tozau, so maybe they were late on

<v Speaker 1>their cue. I don't know. They walk out and they

<v Speaker 1>just look crestfallen, whatever word melancholy, devastated. They look like

<v Speaker 1>they were mourning someone's passing. Okay, they're in a very

<v Speaker 1>bad move, very deep depression. They come walking out and

<v Speaker 1>they make their way down to the ring. Tozawa asks Maxine,

<v Speaker 1>can we talk? And Maxine says, you know what, guys,

<v Speaker 1>I got this, and she tells the other members of

<v Speaker 1>the Vision that they can leave the ring. They're like,

<v Speaker 1>are you sure? They yeah, so Breaker and Logan and

<v Speaker 1>Theory they all go outside and then give Maxine the

<v Speaker 1>ring all by herself along with Alpha Academy, and Tozawa

<v Speaker 1>asks her like, what are you doing? He said this,

<v Speaker 1>you know you're a wonderful human being. Theory is all

<v Speaker 1>wrong for you. So now Maxine had to act. She

<v Speaker 1>said that she still loves Otis and Tozaua, now the

<v Speaker 1>fans are booing and they start chanting, you sold out.

<v Speaker 1>She said that Otis and Tozawa they told her that

<v Speaker 1>she couldn't be with them anymore if she was going

<v Speaker 1>to be with Theory. She said that it's not fair

<v Speaker 1>because they don't know him. So Otis then remember telling

<v Speaker 1>Maxine the Theory is bad news, and Otis said that

<v Speaker 1>I have something that I've been wanting to get off

<v Speaker 1>my chest for a long time. So Theory starts laughing

<v Speaker 1>outside the ring and says that gets up on the

<v Speaker 1>apron first, and he says, are are you going to

<v Speaker 1>confess your feelings for Maxine tells Otis that people like

<v Speaker 1>you don't end up with people like her. So Otis

<v Speaker 1>pulled Theory from the apron into the ring. Bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>he got back inside, he put Otis down. Breaker tumbled

<v Speaker 1>out to the floor when Tozawa low bridged him out

<v Speaker 1>over the top rope. Tozawa did a dive, a suicide

<v Speaker 1>dive out of the ring at bron Breaker, and Breaker

<v Speaker 1>was supposed to catch him and he didn't. He just

<v Speaker 1>kind of I know, it's kind of weird, like these

<v Speaker 1>suicide dives look worse and worse and worse and worse

<v Speaker 1>and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse

<v Speaker 1>by the week. I'm sorry. More often than not, I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching these suicide and for every good one that we see,

<v Speaker 1>it's just a guy flying through the ropes, taking this

<v Speaker 1>completely unnecessary risk to do what exactly. He throws his

<v Speaker 1>arms out and the other guy puts his arms up

<v Speaker 1>to block him, but then he's got to sell it

<v Speaker 1>like it had some sort of impact like it's it

<v Speaker 1>looks fucking horrendous and I wish, God, I wish, I

<v Speaker 1>wish it was a fucking moratorium on these dives. So anyway,

<v Speaker 1>he was supposed to catch him and he didn't, so

<v Speaker 1>then he picks Tozawa up and he grabbed him and

<v Speaker 1>get him the belly to belly overhead suplex. He gave

<v Speaker 1>him a sup plex so hard. I don't believe Tozaua

<v Speaker 1>touched the table one time. He went over the table,

<v Speaker 1>never touched it, and then hit the whatever hit the

<v Speaker 1>office chairs or whatever. So then back in the ring

<v Speaker 1>Otis he ended up getting the better a breaker in Theory.

<v Speaker 1>Otis took a step towards Theory. Theory is kind of

<v Speaker 1>down cowering in the corner, and Otis takes a step

<v Speaker 1>towards him, and Maxine steps in front of Otis, and

<v Speaker 1>Maxine is acting like, you know, oh, she's being nice

<v Speaker 1>to him. No no, no, no, no, I wish I

<v Speaker 1>knew that you would have felt this way, And she

<v Speaker 1>made it look like she was about to give him

<v Speaker 1>a kiss. But before they could kiss, Theory comes up

<v Speaker 1>from behind Otis and delivers a low blow and then

<v Speaker 1>you could see the smile on Maxine's face, and she

<v Speaker 1>pie faces Otis, you know, down to the map. Breaker

<v Speaker 1>gets back in the ring, he puts Otis down with

<v Speaker 1>a spear. Breaker held Otis while Theory put on a

<v Speaker 1>pair of brass knuckles and punched Otis in the face

<v Speaker 1>with him, and Theory also held up Otis for a

<v Speaker 1>super spear. Breaker hit the ropes back and forth, back

<v Speaker 1>and forth to build up speed, and then he took

<v Speaker 1>them down with a spear. This was not good. This

<v Speaker 1>was not good. I kind of gave you the nuts

<v Speaker 1>and bolts of what happened here, but boy, I sped

<v Speaker 1>it up a little bit. I felt like I was

<v Speaker 1>watching this segment on point five x speed. This was

<v Speaker 1>just terrible television. Like, I know what they were trying

<v Speaker 1>to do here, get more heat on Maxine, get more

<v Speaker 1>heat on the vision. And I'm not saying that there

<v Speaker 1>was no heat on them. I mean the fans were

<v Speaker 1>booing her, but I don't know, just they were like

<v Speaker 1>stretching this thing out. Even at the end there, like

<v Speaker 1>after they took out the baby faces and they're kind

<v Speaker 1>of standing around and then nothing's happening instead of them

<v Speaker 1>just sort of posing and then leaving there just standing around,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, are they waiting for something? Like something

<v Speaker 1>was off here with this segment and I just didn't

<v Speaker 1>think it was very good. But I'm also like, I'm

<v Speaker 1>looking at bron Breaker, just like, what have they done

<v Speaker 1>to bron Breaker? I mean, this guy went from being

<v Speaker 1>a World championship contender to being the third wheel in

<v Speaker 1>his own group. Someone in my mentions and I wish

<v Speaker 1>I would have jotted the name them, because that's all

<v Speaker 1>I posted. At the end of the segment. I said,

<v Speaker 1>what have they done to bron Breaker? And there was

<v Speaker 1>somebody of my mentions and it's actually very true. He said,

<v Speaker 1>it's literally the toy story you meme said, Bron is

<v Speaker 1>woody and Oba is buzz And I'm like, yes, that's

<v Speaker 1>exactly what it is. Oba is the shiny new toy.

<v Speaker 1>It's not bron anymore. And again, if you were to

<v Speaker 1>put Bron and Oba next to each other, and you

<v Speaker 1>were to say to me, we want to elevate somebody

<v Speaker 1>as our next megastar, you have these two choices, who

<v Speaker 1>do you go with. I'm going with Oba Femi. I'm

<v Speaker 1>not even saying they got it wrong by pushing Obafemi.

<v Speaker 1>But by pushing Obafemi, that doesn't mean that you have

<v Speaker 1>to take bron Breaker and break him down as if

<v Speaker 1>like we're gonna break him down to the eventually we'll

<v Speaker 1>just build him back up again. I'm just like, looking

<v Speaker 1>at this going they just set up a potential Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slim Tag Team championship match. We are looking at a

<v Speaker 1>situation where bron Breaker at this year's SummerSlam is going

<v Speaker 1>to be occupied in a fucking match with Otis and Tozaua.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, compare that to what you know he was

<v Speaker 1>doing just any number of months ago. That's quite the

<v Speaker 1>come doown. And it's not like they haven't had opportunities

<v Speaker 1>to do more with him and really bust him out

<v Speaker 1>as like a true badass on the show. And boy

<v Speaker 1>is he taking a back seat. I guess when they're

<v Speaker 1>ready for him, they'll they'll put that extra effort in,

<v Speaker 1>but that's certainly not happening right now. This this feels

<v Speaker 1>like a title match for Summer Slim. You got two nights,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm sure they're gonna want to have the

<v Speaker 1>Vision represented on the Summer Slam card. They could do

<v Speaker 1>it on Raw, doesn't I mean This doesn't exactly feel

<v Speaker 1>like a PL match, but you got two nights. If

<v Speaker 1>they'd want to do thirteen fourteen matches, I could see

<v Speaker 1>this being one of them. I know the tag team

<v Speaker 1>titles on either brand typically they don't get a lot

<v Speaker 1>of shine, they don't get a lot of attention. Did

<v Speaker 1>we even have a tag team title match of WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>this year? I don't even remember. I don't even remember.

<v Speaker 1>What I do remember is last year the SmackDown Tag

<v Speaker 1>Team division was cooking, and even they couldn't get a

<v Speaker 1>match or WrestleMania, so they gave them TLC on TV instead.

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember what they did with the tag team

<v Speaker 1>titles this year. Better question is who gives a shit?

<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Usso he came out during the commercial break. He

<v Speaker 1>was asking where Solo Socoa was when all of a sudden,

<v Speaker 1>Royce Keys jumps him from Okay, everyone is telling me, no,

<v Speaker 1>that's what I thought. I was pretty sure that neither

<v Speaker 1>championship was defended this year. You have two sets of

<v Speaker 1>tech team titles. I don't remember either of them making

<v Speaker 1>the wrestlemaniaccur there, there, there is, There's Solo Scow that

<v Speaker 1>was the reaction right there from WWE Creative when one

<v Speaker 1>of the writers suggested, why don't we do a tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match WrestleMania this year? That was that was

<v Speaker 1>a visual representation of Triple H's reaction. Anyway, Jimmy comes out,

<v Speaker 1>they're they're at commercial, where's solo? Royce Keys from SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>jumps him from behind. No reaction for this. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>sure most of the people in the building even knew

<v Speaker 1>who it was at first. So they're brawling and Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce comes out and he says, if you guys want

<v Speaker 1>to fight, I'll get a referee out here and you

<v Speaker 1>guys can fight. And so the match started during commercial.

<v Speaker 1>When they came back, it was joined already in progress. Amazing.

<v Speaker 1>They were not back on the air for more than

<v Speaker 1>two and a half minutes, maybe three at the most,

<v Speaker 1>and then they went to another commercial break. God. After

<v Speaker 1>the break, Keys caught Jimmy with a power slam. They

<v Speaker 1>cut to a split screen all of a sudden, and

<v Speaker 1>they show an SUV pulling up to the building and

<v Speaker 1>Jacob Fatu gets out and the camera stays with him.

<v Speaker 1>So we have a split screen. We have the match

<v Speaker 1>on one side, we have fa Tu walking through the back,

<v Speaker 1>through the crowd down to the ring. He gets in

<v Speaker 1>the ring, he jumps Keys for the disqualification. I want

<v Speaker 1>to say the match itself went five or six minutes.

<v Speaker 1>Three of it actually aired, so I can't say anything

<v Speaker 1>about the match itself. The match was nothing. The match

<v Speaker 1>was a backdrop to get Jacob to come down and

<v Speaker 1>do what they were going to do. When the match

<v Speaker 1>was over, Jacob said Royce in the corner for a

<v Speaker 1>hip attack with the chair placed around his head, and

<v Speaker 1>the entire time he's telling him, I didn't want to

<v Speaker 1>do this. I didn't want to do this right because

<v Speaker 1>these two are tight and they go back many years.

<v Speaker 1>I think they even mentioned here the Keys was trained

<v Speaker 1>by Rakishi. That's his connection to the bloodline's connection to

<v Speaker 1>the family. So he was going to come in for

<v Speaker 1>the running hip attack. Before he could come in though,

<v Speaker 1>we hear the voice of Solo, not me, Solo Soko.

<v Speaker 1>He's over by the timekeeper's area and he's telling Jacob,

<v Speaker 1>you know, don't do it, don't do it. He gets

<v Speaker 1>in the ring and he tells him, you know, blood

<v Speaker 1>is thicker than water, and I'm coming home to the family.

<v Speaker 1>So then he holds up the ones. Jimmy comes over,

<v Speaker 1>he puts up the ones, and Jacob comes over and

<v Speaker 1>he puts up the ones. It's like old times. And

<v Speaker 1>then Solo flashes a smile and he turns on Jimmy

<v Speaker 1>and drop some of the Samoan spike. And I'd be

<v Speaker 1>lying if I told you that this got like some

<v Speaker 1>big reaction like oh, the big baby face turned for

<v Speaker 1>Solo Socoa. Yeah, didn't really get as much of a

<v Speaker 1>reaction as you would expect a moment like that might get.

<v Speaker 1>And I think part of a big part of it,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that people know who to root for

<v Speaker 1>in this situation, like they like La Night. Beyond that, though,

<v Speaker 1>who are they supposed to be cheering here? Like when

<v Speaker 1>the usos come out and Jay Uso in particular, they

<v Speaker 1>love to yeat right, so they'll do the yeating and

<v Speaker 1>everything that they'll want him to run it back and

<v Speaker 1>they're cheering him like a babyface, but in this situation

<v Speaker 1>he's really not. Jacob had a lot of fans support

<v Speaker 1>and then they beat him in May right a backlash,

<v Speaker 1>and then they beat him again in Italy. He lost

<v Speaker 1>twice in the same month to Roman reigns and now

<v Speaker 1>he's his lap dog in the Bloodline. So Jacob's another one,

<v Speaker 1>Like what have they done lately to Jacob Fatu? And

<v Speaker 1>so the reaction to him is very mixed now when

<v Speaker 1>he comes up, some people cheers, some people booz some

<v Speaker 1>people don't know how to react Solo Soca. They want

<v Speaker 1>to turn a babyface. I think that he could be

<v Speaker 1>a good babyface. But it you know, people don't know

<v Speaker 1>what to make of this right now. You know, it's

<v Speaker 1>like they're kind of confused on Okay, where should we

<v Speaker 1>be aligned here, Who's in the right, who's in the wrong,

<v Speaker 1>what's going on here? We like La Knight, but like

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, and we don't know much about Roy's

<v Speaker 1>Keys and what's going on with these. It's all very

<v Speaker 1>like weird. It's just a very weird dynamic right now.

<v Speaker 1>So they start ganging up on Solo SoC and Royce Keys.

<v Speaker 1>Here comes La Night and he's got a chair, so

<v Speaker 1>he backdropped Jimmy to the floor. He attacked Fatu with

<v Speaker 1>the chair. So the blood Line is sent into retreat

<v Speaker 1>down the aisle. Night gets on the mic and yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's going through all of his usual cat phrases, We're

<v Speaker 1>going to smack you back to factory settings and all

<v Speaker 1>this other stuff, and he lays down the challenge for

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slam. Three you against the three of us in

<v Speaker 1>a six man tex and I do wonder how many

<v Speaker 1>people in the building thought they were setting this up

<v Speaker 1>for like after commercial, but they set this up for

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slam. Yeah. Again, this is the match that I

<v Speaker 1>was expecting. I've been talking about this now for probably

<v Speaker 1>a couple of weeks now that this is what we

<v Speaker 1>were headed for, and now they made it official. All

<v Speaker 1>the segments that they've been doing with these guys, especially

<v Speaker 1>La n I La and I's been ragging on the

<v Speaker 1>bloodline now for weeks and weeks. It was building to this,

<v Speaker 1>and it's a way to get all six of them

<v Speaker 1>on the show together. Now, is Solo Soco We're going

<v Speaker 1>to turn on his partners? Is he going to pull

<v Speaker 1>a horseman? You know when Flair used to turn on

<v Speaker 1>Sting when Sting would make the mistake of trusting him,

<v Speaker 1>and then Solo ends up with the family. Because I'm curious,

<v Speaker 1>coming out of SummerSlam, what do they do with Solo Soko?

<v Speaker 1>Does he stay on SmackDown does he end up on raw,

<v Speaker 1>Is he going to be on his own? Is he

<v Speaker 1>going to be more of a babyface? Do they want

<v Speaker 1>him as part of another group. I don't know. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. There's things that you can do with him.

<v Speaker 1>He can be very entertaining. The stuff with the MFTs

<v Speaker 1>was just a complete, absolute waste. I think of his personality.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, he's a naturally funny, entertaining guy. He wasn't

<v Speaker 1>allowed to show that when he was in the Bloodline

<v Speaker 1>initially because he was the silent enforcer. He didn't say anything.

<v Speaker 1>And then with the MFTs, he had to play it

<v Speaker 1>very stoic and very straight, and every now and then,

<v Speaker 1>you know, he would kind of crack jokes and he

<v Speaker 1>would laugh and everything like that. But he was like

<v Speaker 1>Timu Roman unsmackdown. It's like this doesn't work, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>suit him. So we know what we're getting at Summerslim.

<v Speaker 1>But I'm wondering what's next for him. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I'm curious to see how they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>use him, if they're just gonna lump him back in

<v Speaker 1>with another group. But I think Solo the Babyface, Solo

<v Speaker 1>the Babyface is it's going to work a lot better

<v Speaker 1>because it's really something we haven't seen from him on

<v Speaker 1>the main roster. We saw it at NXT, remember Next

<v Speaker 1>when he initially debuted, he was like the street fighter,

<v Speaker 1>Uh not really a funny guy, but he was a

<v Speaker 1>baby face. The fans were behind him. He's got that

<v Speaker 1>in him, LA And I don't even ask me what

<v Speaker 1>they would do with him coming out of Summer Slam.

<v Speaker 1>Probably back to the doldrums with him. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>want to venture. I guess about what's next for he

<v Speaker 1>may bee eating the fucking pin at Summer Slam, for

<v Speaker 1>all I know, I wouldn't be surprised. We go backstage, Oh,

<v Speaker 1>this was great. This was great. So we go backstage

<v Speaker 1>and the Vision are walking along, very proud of you

<v Speaker 1>know what happened in their segment earlier on, and they

<v Speaker 1>bump into Paul Hayman, and Paul Hayman is applauding the Vision,

<v Speaker 1>and Theory wondered, does that mean that we're all back together?

<v Speaker 1>Hayman said, Maxine was so magnificent tonight, What the hell

<v Speaker 1>do you need me for? And he walked away, and

<v Speaker 1>on commentary, Corey Graves wondered if Paul Hayman had just

<v Speaker 1>handed the reins of the Vision to Maxine Dupree. This

<v Speaker 1>is where we are now. This is where we are now,

<v Speaker 1>where Maxine Dupree may well be the new leader of

<v Speaker 1>the Vision. She may be leading bron Breaker and the

<v Speaker 1>rest of the Vision here. I laughed because my interpretation

<v Speaker 1>of what we saw here this was this was the

<v Speaker 1>write off of Paul Hayman and the Vision. Now there's

<v Speaker 1>been talk about they would wwe would want to keep

<v Speaker 1>Hayman with bron Breaker if nothing else that could still happen,

<v Speaker 1>And we don't know what's gonna happen when Bronson Reid

<v Speaker 1>comes back. I feel like Bronson Reed, we're in that

<v Speaker 1>range right now where he should be coming back, not

<v Speaker 1>all that long from now. I mean, he could probably

<v Speaker 1>be back in the next few weeks, I would think.

<v Speaker 1>But this was a way to get Hayman away from

<v Speaker 1>the Vision. And if you're Paul Hayman, you're probably looking

<v Speaker 1>at this going, thank God, get me out of here,

<v Speaker 1>get me away from this. This ain't working no more.

<v Speaker 1>I want nothing to do with this. So I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>we may be looking at a brand new leader here

<v Speaker 1>of the Vision. Hayman was the oracle, right, he was

<v Speaker 1>Seth's oracle. He's been the advocate, the wise man, the oracle.

<v Speaker 1>What would Maxine do Pre be, what would her nickname

<v Speaker 1>be if she was the new leader of the Vision?

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce he was having a phone conversation backstage with somebody.

<v Speaker 1>He told whoever it was that he was on the

<v Speaker 1>phone with, that he would be there if he was needed,

<v Speaker 1>which is very interesting. And then Oba Femi showed up.

<v Speaker 1>Pierce told him that Hayman was bluffing those restraining orders.

<v Speaker 1>He talked about they don't exist, and Oba said he knew.

<v Speaker 1>He said, it tells him that Hayman and Brock are scared.

<v Speaker 1>I do wonder if the beginning of that phone conversation,

<v Speaker 1>if he was on the phone with Nick all this

<v Speaker 1>and this was some kind of reference to something that's

<v Speaker 1>happening with all this, And I'm here if you need me,

<v Speaker 1>because I think we know, after what happened on Friday,

<v Speaker 1>all this is going to have some sort of I

<v Speaker 1>can't even say wrestle. It may end up being a brawl,

<v Speaker 1>it may be something non sanctioned, but I think it's

<v Speaker 1>safe to say that what is gunther going to be

<v Speaker 1>doing at Summerslime, He's going to be fighting Nick all this,

<v Speaker 1>so maybe he was on the phone with Nick all this,

<v Speaker 1>and all this was like, look, I got some business

<v Speaker 1>to tend to. I got to do what I gotta do,

<v Speaker 1>and I may need you to kind of take the

<v Speaker 1>reins for a little bit. That was kind of how

<v Speaker 1>I read that. Now. After this, during the commercial break, actually,

<v Speaker 1>Byron Saxton had Bailey come over and he wanted to

<v Speaker 1>ask her about Lyra Valkyria, and Bailey said, you know,

<v Speaker 1>I said last week that I would address Lyra in

<v Speaker 1>the ring, and I think that's what I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>go do right now. So they played her shitty music

<v Speaker 1>and she made her way to the ring. This was

<v Speaker 1>during the commercial break, by the way, she came out

<v Speaker 1>during the commercial break, you know, Byron introduced her out

<v Speaker 1>into the stage area, and again very little reaction. I'm

<v Speaker 1>listening to the beginning of this music. I mean, we

<v Speaker 1>hear it every time Bailey comes out, but like, I

<v Speaker 1>can't believe she's still coming out to this music. Has

<v Speaker 1>she been the role model? When was the last time

<v Speaker 1>that she was even the role model on this show?

<v Speaker 1>Is that still supposed to be her gimmick role model.

<v Speaker 1>This is the garbage that they're sending her out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring with. I can't believe she's still coming out

<v Speaker 1>to this trash. Comes down to the ring, come back

<v Speaker 1>from commercial, she's already there. She wants Lyra Valkyrie to

<v Speaker 1>join her in the ring. Lyra comes out and certainly

<v Speaker 1>certainly a new look for Lyra. I said when when

<v Speaker 1>she turned, somebody called her, she's an angry bird. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I said, yeah, she's an angry bird. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what kind of this is like, I don't know. She

<v Speaker 1>looked like she hadn't slept in a while. She looked

<v Speaker 1>very unkempt, no makeup on. She looked like one of

<v Speaker 1>the unwashed masses. As she made her way down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring, she actually kind of looked and somebody said

<v Speaker 1>she looked like oh god, somebody said, Daphne. I looked

<v Speaker 1>at her. I thought she looked like crazy, the crazy

<v Speaker 1>nicky Cross days. She comes down to the ring, Bailey

<v Speaker 1>wants an apology. Lyra thinks that she's the one who

<v Speaker 1>deserves an apology. If Bailey could realize that her own problems,

<v Speaker 1>she would realize why so many people turn on her.

<v Speaker 1>She could just recognize her own issues. Lyra says that

<v Speaker 1>she's always lied to make Bailey feel good because the

<v Speaker 1>reality is that Bailey is nothing more than a doormat.

<v Speaker 1>Her face shouldn't beyond the posters. She drags everybody down.

<v Speaker 1>She's not a locker room leader, and you're always been

<v Speaker 1>the worst of the four horse women. That's the big

<v Speaker 1>burn there in that promo. A lot of people who

<v Speaker 1>feel that way. She's a diseased bird or the bird

<v Speaker 1>flo who said that, yes, yes, how come I didn't

<v Speaker 1>think of that. Lyra has bird flu. That's exactly what

<v Speaker 1>she Oh my god, that's perfect. That's fucking perfect. She

<v Speaker 1>walked out there, she looked like she had h one

<v Speaker 1>n one. She looked like she had bird flu. So

<v Speaker 1>Bailey she shoots back with some of her accomplishments, you know,

<v Speaker 1>first Grand Slam champion, one half of the first women's

<v Speaker 1>tag team champions, and she's going to add to that

<v Speaker 1>resume beating Lyra Valkyria in Madison Square Garden because the

<v Speaker 1>two of them are going to have a match at

<v Speaker 1>Saturday night's main event. So Lyra threw a cheap shot,

<v Speaker 1>got blocked. She ended up dropping Bailey anyway with her

<v Speaker 1>own Bailey to Belly Suplex and so there you go.

<v Speaker 1>That's the setup for a match now on Saturday. Look,

<v Speaker 1>we needed more matches. We had what three of them

<v Speaker 1>officially announced coming into tonight. We needed at least one

<v Speaker 1>more announced for Saturday show. Not the match I was expecting,

<v Speaker 1>not exactly a marquee addition to the card, but it's

<v Speaker 1>a match. It was either going to be here. It

<v Speaker 1>was going to be summer slim. Now. The way that

<v Speaker 1>Lyra was out there dressed up looking again, I said,

<v Speaker 1>she kind of reminded me of crazy crazy Nicky Cross.

<v Speaker 1>Was H one N one the swine flu? I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I got my flus confused. I thought it was H

<v Speaker 1>one N one. Did I get the wrong strain of flu?

<v Speaker 1>She did not. She did not have swine flu. It

<v Speaker 1>was swine flu. Okay, well, well then what the hell

<v Speaker 1>was bird flu? I diagnosed her with the wrong condition.

<v Speaker 1>I could be sued for medical malpractice. Anyway. We've had

<v Speaker 1>reports recently about Tatum Paxley and Tatum. I think, didn't

<v Speaker 1>Tatum just lose Tazaria that the Great American Bash? It's

<v Speaker 1>sure felt like that was going to be her write

<v Speaker 1>off from the NXT brand. Would not at all be

<v Speaker 1>surprised if we get a Tatum Paxley appearance on Saturday

<v Speaker 1>and she helps Lyra win the first match, and then

<v Speaker 1>maybe they run it back with a second match at

<v Speaker 1>summer Slim I could see that. But if they were

<v Speaker 1>going to debut Tatum Paxley, that would not be a

<v Speaker 1>bad place to do it. And Madison Square Garden, you know,

<v Speaker 1>it was part of this feud, I would say, probably

<v Speaker 1>something I would consider doing. And then you can kind

<v Speaker 1>of pair her off with Lyra and they can do

<v Speaker 1>something together and Bailey Bailey may have have to enlist

<v Speaker 1>some help of her own. We had another Rains and

<v Speaker 1>Rollin's retrospective here, part two, the Breakup, and they showed

<v Speaker 1>clips from twenty fourteen of Seth putting the chair in

<v Speaker 1>Romans back on Raw, breaking up the Shield, and a

<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of other things. Then we had the teaser

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

<v Speaker 1>We had an it was a silhouette, but then you

<v Speaker 1>could clearly see it was big casts. They had some

<v Speaker 1>close up shots in his eyes right. They were kind

<v Speaker 1>of just barely obscuring it, but you could see who

<v Speaker 1>it was, and you heard a voice. It was his voice.

<v Speaker 1>What happens when the whole world calls? You can't miss

<v Speaker 1>what happens when they're wrong. And at the very end

<v Speaker 1>we see the date eight three August third is a Monday.

<v Speaker 1>It is the Monday after Summer Slam. I don't I

<v Speaker 1>don't know where that show is. Probably probably in Minneapolis,

<v Speaker 1>I would imagine, not at US Bank Stadium, but I

<v Speaker 1>would imagine they're not going to stray too far from

<v Speaker 1>where they're going to be. So Big Cast is coming back,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm watching this and I'm like, man, like, they're

<v Speaker 1>just giving that shit away, because I have every expectation

<v Speaker 1>that next week or the week after, we're going to

<v Speaker 1>get a similar vignette and it's going to have Enzo OMOI.

<v Speaker 1>Enzo Moray was not seen, he was not heard. They

<v Speaker 1>were just showing old clips of you know, Big Casts,

<v Speaker 1>and they were signs, you know, so oft they were

<v Speaker 1>showing all of that. But no Enzo here doesn't mean

<v Speaker 1>Enzo is not coming in. It doesn't mean Enzo is

<v Speaker 1>not going to be part of this. He's absolutely going

<v Speaker 1>to be part of this, I'm sure in some way.

<v Speaker 1>So maybe next week we'll get the Enzo portion of it.

<v Speaker 1>They'll put the date up again, so I wouldn't read

<v Speaker 1>too much into the fact that he wasn't a part

<v Speaker 1>of this segment here. It got me a little like

<v Speaker 1>excited watching this just because I was like, oh, well,

<v Speaker 1>maybe they're actually going to push him as a single.

<v Speaker 1>But then I thought about it. I said, that's it's

<v Speaker 1>probably just week one, right, Enzo will be there in

<v Speaker 1>week two in the promos and they'll just build to it.

<v Speaker 1>But like they're gonna come out, I don't even know

<v Speaker 1>if they would have the rights to use their old music.

<v Speaker 1>They change everybody's fucking music that they had back at

<v Speaker 1>NXT back then maybe for the initial appearance, you know,

<v Speaker 1>we'll hear that music, and believe me, people are gonna

<v Speaker 1>know and it would have gotten a great rein. Look,

<v Speaker 1>it'll still get a good reaction. But why why spoil this?

<v Speaker 1>Why not save this for for a surprise? August third

<v Speaker 1>is in des Moines, Iowa. You're going from summerslim in

<v Speaker 1>Minneapolis to des Moines, Iowa. That's weird, What a weird

<v Speaker 1>place to bring back casin Enzo. Okay, he's coming to

<v Speaker 1>des Moines. Still, I would have saved this as a surprise. Look,

<v Speaker 1>I stand by what I said. You're going to get

<v Speaker 1>huge reactions initially for them in different cities. You're gonna

<v Speaker 1>be able to coast on that for a few months,

<v Speaker 1>and then after a certain number of months, the question

<v Speaker 1>becomes what's next, because you're bringing them into a situation

<v Speaker 1>where if they're coming in as a tag team, they're

<v Speaker 1>coming in as you know, a team and a dead division.

<v Speaker 1>And I just don't know why you would want to

<v Speaker 1>put a ceiling on this guy. He's very tall, right,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't be putting a ceiling on him. He could

<v Speaker 1>be doing some stuff as a singles Maybe they want

<v Speaker 1>to reintroduce him as part of a team and then

<v Speaker 1>transition him eventually into a singles push. Maybe I hope,

<v Speaker 1>I hope. So I don't think there's any grand plan

<v Speaker 1>to stock up on tag teams or anything like that.

<v Speaker 1>So it's just going to get to a point where,

<v Speaker 1>you know, you get to a fork in the road,

<v Speaker 1>it's like, well, now what. I just hope they don't

<v Speaker 1>keep them there for too long. They may come back

<v Speaker 1>and be the ones to eventually beat the Vision to

<v Speaker 1>win the tag team titles. But again, what does that mean?

<v Speaker 1>It's kind of crazy to think they never won the

<v Speaker 1>belts the first time. If they were to come in

<v Speaker 1>and win the tag team titles, it would be their

<v Speaker 1>first reign together, I believe. But then what then? What?

<v Speaker 1>Who's next? Finally we got something real good on this show.

<v Speaker 1>It was time for the start of the Gauntlet Match

<v Speaker 1>to crown a new number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship.

<v Speaker 1>The winner would go on to Summer Slam for the

<v Speaker 1>right to challenge Penta. First fall here of this match,

<v Speaker 1>there's Dominic Mysterio, who had JD McDonough in his corner

<v Speaker 1>taking on Joe Henry. And I'll give you one guess

<v Speaker 1>if Joe Henry got an entrance on this show. The

<v Speaker 1>answer is no. They came back from commercial and they

<v Speaker 1>were in the middle of playing his music. So the

<v Speaker 1>streak continues of no real true entrance for Joe Hendry

<v Speaker 1>on Monday Night Raw. Maybe it's in his contract that

<v Speaker 1>he's not allowed to get one. Maybe they're contractually obligated

<v Speaker 1>to send him out there during the commercial break, so

<v Speaker 1>dom got the advantage early sent him into the ring

<v Speaker 1>steps when they were fighting outside. Back inside, Henri though

<v Speaker 1>caught him and dumped him with a fallaway slam. J

<v Speaker 1>D McDonagh distracted Henry though, which allowed Dom to hit

<v Speaker 1>a six one nine. He followed with the frog splash. Adios, Joe,

<v Speaker 1>see you later. Joe Hendry is bounced in the opening

<v Speaker 1>round here of this Gauntlet match. Thanks for coming. The

<v Speaker 1>next match Javon Evans taking on Raymisteria or Dominic Mysterio.

<v Speaker 1>Javan Evans against Raymisterio would have been a much better

<v Speaker 1>match than this was, so they joined this coming back

<v Speaker 1>from the break already in progress. Evans dumped Mysterio on

<v Speaker 1>the floor, hit him with a dive. McDonough tried to

<v Speaker 1>interfere in the match again the referee they'll caught him.

<v Speaker 1>This time Evans knocked McDonough to the floor. So then

<v Speaker 1>Dom caught Evans with a six to one night and

<v Speaker 1>he was headed up to the top. But we're going

<v Speaker 1>to get the same finish that we got to the

<v Speaker 1>first match, until Dan Hausen came out. He rolled out

<v Speaker 1>onto the stage and his magic mobile and he's sitting

<v Speaker 1>there in his little Again tank or whatever the fuck

<v Speaker 1>it's supposed to be, and he puts a curse on Dom.

<v Speaker 1>Now Dom is standing on the ropes right because he's

<v Speaker 1>getting ready to hit the frog splash, but he's looking

<v Speaker 1>over at Dan Housen and when he gets cursed, there's

<v Speaker 1>a burst of pyro, but it's from the wrong ring post.

<v Speaker 1>So Dom sees this and he's like what And he

<v Speaker 1>looks over at McDonough at ringside. He's like, go get

<v Speaker 1>him right. He's sending McDonough after him, but in doing so,

<v Speaker 1>this is distracting Dom and Dom has no idea that

<v Speaker 1>Gravan is preparing for an og cutter, and he catches

<v Speaker 1>in with the og cutter on the way down and

<v Speaker 1>he pins Dom. So Dom is eliminated. See so the

<v Speaker 1>curse worked after all, It just has different ways of working.

<v Speaker 1>His match with JD McDonough. By the way Dan House

<v Speaker 1>and I'm talking about on Saturday Night is now a

<v Speaker 1>no disqualification match. So let the fuckery commence. Maybe the

<v Speaker 1>Miz and Kit Wilson will do their zombie walk down

<v Speaker 1>to the ring and they'll help Dan Housen win third

<v Speaker 1>fall here in this gauntlet match, and the best fall

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans one on one against Dragonly funny. Like once

<v Speaker 1>Dom was eliminated, this is where the match actually got

<v Speaker 1>good now, as Jim Ross would say, and good luck

<v Speaker 1>to Jr. Who may be going in for surgery as

<v Speaker 1>early as this week for brain surgery. Business is about

<v Speaker 1>to pick up between these two. There was a spot

<v Speaker 1>outside the ring that I actually shouted, Holy shit, I

<v Speaker 1>saw it because we had Javon Evans outside. Dragonly came

<v Speaker 1>in and Javan hip tossed him over the timekeeper's barricade

<v Speaker 1>like it was in such a way where he was

<v Speaker 1>flying so fast off the hip toss he almost landed

<v Speaker 1>headfirst on the floor. But man, he fucking vaulted him over,

<v Speaker 1>and it's just all exposed, you know, concrete outside over there,

<v Speaker 1>it's some mats or anything. So he took this hillacious

<v Speaker 1>bump on the floor. And now Javon he is going

<v Speaker 1>to circle around the entire length of the ring outside

<v Speaker 1>he's kind of walking, and then he's walking, he's picking

<v Speaker 1>up speed and he charges at Dragonly, who now is

<v Speaker 1>back to his feet in the timekeeper's area, and he

<v Speaker 1>just goes he like he collided with him, but the

<v Speaker 1>momentum carried Javan over the barricade into the crowd, and

<v Speaker 1>I think dragon Ly tried to like get himself over

<v Speaker 1>the barricade with him, but he couldn't say he just

<v Speaker 1>fell to the floor. But these guys were just going

<v Speaker 1>nuts here. They were cutting loose here in this fall.

<v Speaker 1>So back inside, Lee went for a Tornado DDT and

<v Speaker 1>he spiked him with it, and the crowd is chanting,

<v Speaker 1>this is awesome. A little while later, Evans was draped

<v Speaker 1>over the middle rope, Lee hit him with a double

<v Speaker 1>stomp from the top. So Lee was setting up for

<v Speaker 1>something else. Javon hooked him into a cradle and he

<v Speaker 1>got the flash pin. This was a lot of fun,

<v Speaker 1>and this was the point where the crowd was really

<v Speaker 1>like getting into it here. Then it led into the

<v Speaker 1>fourth fall, which was a Javan Evans against Russev. Now

<v Speaker 1>remember last week they kept Russev looking very strong. He

<v Speaker 1>actually won a match, and then he was putting everybody

<v Speaker 1>into the accolade and it's like, of course, they're setting

<v Speaker 1>him up to be like the final boss of the Gauntlet,

<v Speaker 1>which actually technically he wasn't the final boss. Ethan Page

<v Speaker 1>was the final the final one. But Russev's music hits

<v Speaker 1>dragon Ly is still out there right. He's shaking hands

<v Speaker 1>with Javon and he's kind of taken forever to leave

<v Speaker 1>the ring. It's got his back turned now. And then

<v Speaker 1>we found out why because Russev ambushed, you know, ambushed

<v Speaker 1>Evans from behind, knocked him into Dragonly, and so Dragonly

<v Speaker 1>got knocked out of the ring. So Russev he just dominated.

<v Speaker 1>During the commercial break here, Evan sent Russev to the

<v Speaker 1>floor though he landed a dive out onto him. Then

<v Speaker 1>he dove into off the top rope. He jumped, landed

<v Speaker 1>right into a urinagi. He got planted. Russev then got

<v Speaker 1>the accolade applied. Evans though he's fighting it. He's fighting it,

<v Speaker 1>and he's struggling. He's trying to crawl over to the ropes,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans are with him. Man, the fans are

<v Speaker 1>trying to cheer him on, and they're trying to get him,

<v Speaker 1>you know, go ahead, get out of it, Get out

<v Speaker 1>of it. So he's struggling to make the ropes and

<v Speaker 1>he does, but then Russev locks in the accolade for

<v Speaker 1>a second time, and it looks like okay, he's gonna

<v Speaker 1>go out, but he doesn't go out. He starts twitching

<v Speaker 1>and flailing and fighting in the crowd is really getting

<v Speaker 1>up for it because they want to see him break

<v Speaker 1>out of his hold. And he's slowly getting to his

<v Speaker 1>feet with Brucev on his back, and now the fans

<v Speaker 1>are really into it. And then Javon falls backwards and

<v Speaker 1>breaks the hold. So this was just a great struggle

<v Speaker 1>here that he was putting up and there was a

<v Speaker 1>moment in here where I just thought for sure, okay,

<v Speaker 1>the match is ending right here, and it didn't, and

<v Speaker 1>he fought out of it again and again. They just

<v Speaker 1>the way they worked this, I thought was very smart

<v Speaker 1>and it was a great way the fans were fully

<v Speaker 1>invested in behind javan here. Evans went for the og cutter,

<v Speaker 1>but you could see he's on rubber legs, like he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't have a whole lot left. Goes for the og

<v Speaker 1>cutter Russev as he's coming off the top there. Russev

<v Speaker 1>kind of late, but he kind of threw a shot,

<v Speaker 1>caught him with it. He tagged him with a punch

<v Speaker 1>on the way down. He got the accolade applied for

<v Speaker 1>a third time, and this time there was no get out.

<v Speaker 1>He tried Rusev at one point he kind of put

<v Speaker 1>his arms crossed, both of his arms right over Javon's face.

<v Speaker 1>He couldn't even see his face, He's just wrenching back

<v Speaker 1>on it. And then the referee finally calls for the stoppage,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans sounded genuinely surprised and disappointed and started

<v Speaker 1>booing Russev. So that was the end of Javon Evans.

<v Speaker 1>If there was any doubt up to this point about

<v Speaker 1>what WWE was going to do as far as the

<v Speaker 1>outcome of this gauntlet, because the only other thing that

<v Speaker 1>could have happened here would have been a Javon Evans win.

<v Speaker 1>Once Javon Evans was eliminated, I breathe a sigh of relief.

<v Speaker 1>I said, there's no way they can fuck this up.

<v Speaker 1>There's no way, no. Now, there might have been some

<v Speaker 1>people out there actually thinking that Ethan Page was gonna

<v Speaker 1>win this in the end, but I was not one

<v Speaker 1>of those people. So at this point I'm like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>they made the right decision. Well it's not over yet,

<v Speaker 1>but they made the right decision. But we had Russev

<v Speaker 1>against Chad Gable and here he cuts speak of bad music.

<v Speaker 1>Here he comes, he comes down to the ring German

<v Speaker 1>sup plexes. There was an overhead throw Gable came off

<v Speaker 1>the top. Russev, though, caught him with a yuranagi. That's

<v Speaker 1>as good a time as any for them to go

<v Speaker 1>to another commercial. But you know that you expect that

<v Speaker 1>with these Gauntlet matches because they go for so long.

<v Speaker 1>Russev went for a superplex. Gable fought out of it.

<v Speaker 1>He flew off the top the big flying clothesline and

<v Speaker 1>he was trying for an angle slam, and Russev got

<v Speaker 1>out of it. He locked in the accolade. Gable fought

<v Speaker 1>out of it. Suit plex Russev German style backwards into

<v Speaker 1>the top turn buckle, and then Gable climbed the ropes,

<v Speaker 1>caught Russev with a victory roll and he got the pin.

<v Speaker 1>A little Brenton Bambam action from the King of the

<v Speaker 1>Ring Finals in ninety three. I like it. I like it.

<v Speaker 1>Russev didn't like it, so he attacked Gable even though

<v Speaker 1>he lost, put him in the accolade. Meanwhile, Ethan Page

<v Speaker 1>is making his way down to the ring because he

<v Speaker 1>is the next and last in the Gauntlet, and here

<v Speaker 1>his boy Russev is softening him up. He's making his

<v Speaker 1>job easy. So Page had the advantage early on here

<v Speaker 1>and it looked like he was gonna it's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>a layup for him. Of course, though Gable made a comeback.

<v Speaker 1>He escaped an ego plex, he hit an angle slam

<v Speaker 1>for a near fall. Gable went to the top. Page

<v Speaker 1>caught him though, and he was trying for an avalanche

<v Speaker 1>power slam. Gable slipped out. He got the ankle lock applied.

<v Speaker 1>Page tried to escape Gable, though he held on like

<v Speaker 1>a bulldog man. He rolled through and eventually Paige had

<v Speaker 1>no choice but to tap out to the ankle lock

<v Speaker 1>and it got a good reaction to Gable winds. People

<v Speaker 1>are happy, this is great. I was a little worried

<v Speaker 1>there because they were so into Javon. I was like, man,

<v Speaker 1>I hope they don't rebel against everybody else in this match.

<v Speaker 1>But they were with Gable. They were very happy to

<v Speaker 1>see him win. And Pente came out afterwards. They had

<v Speaker 1>a brief stare down and they shook hands when it

<v Speaker 1>was over to make it official for SummerSlam and Chad

<v Speaker 1>Gable will now go to his hometown of Minneapolis and

<v Speaker 1>his home state of Minnesota to challenge for what may

<v Speaker 1>well be his first singles championship in WWE, and if

<v Speaker 1>they know what they're doing. I love Penta, but man,

<v Speaker 1>there will never be a better time to put that

<v Speaker 1>championship on Gable than now. And I probably said that

<v Speaker 1>years ago when he wrestled Gunther for the championship, when

<v Speaker 1>his little girl was in the front row. But here

<v Speaker 1>we are, years later, years later. There will never be

<v Speaker 1>a better time to put the IC title on him. Now.

<v Speaker 1>Don't make the same mistake you made with Seamus. They

<v Speaker 1>waited and they waited and they waited, and now he's

<v Speaker 1>not even in the company anymore, and he will never

<v Speaker 1>win that championship. You're in his hometown. This man is

<v Speaker 1>coming off arguably the best match of the entire year

<v Speaker 1>in Tripa A certainly one of them. So I said,

<v Speaker 1>coming in, there's only one job as far as I'm concerned.

<v Speaker 1>You got one job at Summerslim. I love Penta, but

<v Speaker 1>you got one job at Summer Slim. Don't fuck this up.

<v Speaker 1>Most important thing here. Though they got the outcome right,

<v Speaker 1>I might have had Gable enter the Gauntlet, maybe a

<v Speaker 1>match earlier, but I get it. You know they wanted

<v Speaker 1>to give Javon the rub. He wasn't going to win.

<v Speaker 1>So let's use the gauntlet as a way to try

<v Speaker 1>to elevate him a little bit. We'll let him go

<v Speaker 1>out there and survive for a while. I don't have

<v Speaker 1>any issue with that. The most important thing is that

<v Speaker 1>the right man. One after this, we had an suv

<v Speaker 1>pull up backstage and outcomes Roman reigns. Isn't it amazing

<v Speaker 1>how he manages to show up at just the right

<v Speaker 1>time at the end of the show. What if he

<v Speaker 1>hits traffic on the way from his hotel to the building?

<v Speaker 1>What happens? Then? It's a good thing they weren't in La.

<v Speaker 1>You know, I've been to La a couple times. I've

<v Speaker 1>never had the displeasure of driving in La. I've heard

<v Speaker 1>horror stories, though, you know, about people who want to

<v Speaker 1>go out to the restaurant, and the restaurant is I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, typically maybe five or six minutes down the

<v Speaker 1>road from where they are. They get in the car.

<v Speaker 1>Thirty five minutes later they arrive. I guess they didn't

<v Speaker 1>have that issue in Dallas, Texas. Tonight gets out of

<v Speaker 1>the suv and he puts his hand out and here

<v Speaker 1>comes Lard, his friend. Lard has the championship and hands

<v Speaker 1>the World heavyweight title to Roman so that he can

<v Speaker 1>make his way into the Now. Is it Lard or

<v Speaker 1>is it Lord? Maybe it's Lord. We had this debate

<v Speaker 1>last time. I think I called him Lord Mark. That

<v Speaker 1>might have been what Roman called Lord Mark. Is what

<v Speaker 1>I said. I was going to call this guy, so

<v Speaker 1>we'll call him Lord Mark. He was back and he

<v Speaker 1>handed Roman his championship. Meanwhile, Adam Pierce was in the

<v Speaker 1>ring to introduce Roman out to the ring first, and

<v Speaker 1>he asked Dallas, Texas to acknowledge him. Seth Rollins was

<v Speaker 1>out next to burn it down. As Roman took his

<v Speaker 1>seat at the head of the table in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>Seth took a seat right next to him. This would

<v Speaker 1>be like the equivalents of like if you go into

<v Speaker 1>the bathroom of the men's room somewhere, you got a

<v Speaker 1>whole row Sorry, ladies, you might not be able to

<v Speaker 1>relate to this, but you've got a whole row of urinals, right,

<v Speaker 1>and they're pretty much all open, and you go to

<v Speaker 1>the far end. You're gonna use the urinal all the

<v Speaker 1>way at the far end. And then some other guy

<v Speaker 1>walks into the bathroom and he decides, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take the urinal right next

<v Speaker 1>to you. What the fuck are you doing? You have

<v Speaker 1>all of this space, Why are you standing next to me?

<v Speaker 1>Roman is sitting at the head of the table here

<v Speaker 1>and Rollins takes a seat as close to him as

<v Speaker 1>he possibly caseled, getting all up at his personal space.

<v Speaker 1>What are you doing here? And he immediately signs the contract.

<v Speaker 1>He's not wasting any time here. So he gets on

<v Speaker 1>the mic says he knows that this has to be

<v Speaker 1>tough for Roman, but look, there are just some things

<v Speaker 1>in life that are certain death taxes and seth. Rollins

<v Speaker 1>beats Roman reigns every single time. Cruising cruising, Yeah, probably Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>if you're in the bathroom and somebody does that, they

<v Speaker 1>are probably crude. They're cruising for a bruising, is what

<v Speaker 1>they're doing. You need to back up. You need to

<v Speaker 1>not invade my personal space. You get splashed on. So

<v Speaker 1>he goes sign on the dotted line and let's get

<v Speaker 1>this over with, which is which is my saying when

<v Speaker 1>it comes to these contracts signing, He's just sign the

<v Speaker 1>contract and get this over with, because there's no sense

<v Speaker 1>in delight saying the inevitable Seth kicked his feet up

<v Speaker 1>on the table like he owned the place, band sang

<v Speaker 1>his song. Roman said he wishes Seth would have come

<v Speaker 1>out and did that last week before he bored the

<v Speaker 1>crowd half to death. I said, that's a shoot, that's

<v Speaker 1>a shoot. See Roman didn't come to work last week,

<v Speaker 1>but he was clearly watching the show and he felt

<v Speaker 1>the same way that I felt, which is that promo

<v Speaker 1>last week from Seth Rollins was a fail. It was boring.

<v Speaker 1>And now you don't have to take my word for it.

<v Speaker 1>You could take it from the champion. He said the

<v Speaker 1>same thing. But he says, Seth Wright Rollins is his

<v Speaker 1>number one hater, but that's the only thing that he

<v Speaker 1>is number one at. He somehow has these people confused,

<v Speaker 1>thinking that they're on the same level. So at Summerslim,

<v Speaker 1>he shows the difference between the two of them. He

<v Speaker 1>ends any of this nonsense about Seth ever competing with him.

<v Speaker 1>He shows him what number one looks like and with

<v Speaker 1>that and went and he signed the contract. So Seth

<v Speaker 1>thanked him for keeping his title warm since WrestleMania, says

<v Speaker 1>he'll be taking it from him at Summerslim and he'll

<v Speaker 1>see him next time. That Roman wants to show up

<v Speaker 1>for work, and with that, Seth exited the ring and

<v Speaker 1>he began to make his trek to the back. Roman

<v Speaker 1>didn't look too thrilled with that comment. As Seth is leaving,

<v Speaker 1>he says, where do you think you're going? So that's it,

<v Speaker 1>You're just gonna sign and run. Okay, how about we

<v Speaker 1>play your game. What if you do win? Then what

<v Speaker 1>what happens next? Well, you're gonna carry it for a

<v Speaker 1>couple of months and get hurt again. I mean, don't

<v Speaker 1>act shocked. That's what happens every single time. Some would

<v Speaker 1>say that it's self sabotage because some people just can't

<v Speaker 1>handle the weight and the burden and the pressure of

<v Speaker 1>being the top guy around here. So Seth turns around.

<v Speaker 1>He begins to walk back towards the ring, comes face

<v Speaker 1>to face, almost nose to nose with Roman in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the ring, and Roman is smiling and saith

<v Speaker 1>not so much. Rollin says, you got something to say,

<v Speaker 1>just say it, So come on, spit it out, say it.

<v Speaker 1>I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere. Roman says, He'll

<v Speaker 1>say it because everybody's thinking it. He said, you want

<v Speaker 1>to know how I know that you're number two because

<v Speaker 1>after all these years, you still need a money in

<v Speaker 1>the bank briefcase to become champion. And if you thought

<v Speaker 1>that that was bad enough, you had to fake an

<v Speaker 1>injury to even use the damn thing. Because let's just

<v Speaker 1>be honest here, if there was ever a time for

<v Speaker 1>this guy to be a number one, I mean, come on,

<v Speaker 1>your your work, daddy, Triple A damn near runs this joint.

<v Speaker 1>They pretty much gave you all my stuff and you

<v Speaker 1>still couldn't walk in my shoes. No Number two said,

<v Speaker 1>your number two always going to be a number two.

<v Speaker 1>I'm number one, always going to be a number one.

<v Speaker 1>Just acknowledge it, bitch, bro I will say Roman, Roman was,

<v Speaker 1>he was on a role here, Roman was, he was

<v Speaker 1>he was cooking this guy here, Rollins asked him, is

<v Speaker 1>that all you got? Said, that's all you can come

<v Speaker 1>up with. He goes, Come on, Roman, tell me how

<v Speaker 1>I'm never going to be you tell me how I'm

<v Speaker 1>never going to draw as much money as you tell me.

<v Speaker 1>I'm never going to make an event as many WrestleManias

<v Speaker 1>as you Anything you can tell me, I've told myself

<v Speaker 1>every single day for the past fifteen years, but you

<v Speaker 1>and me, we're not fighting the same fight. But he

<v Speaker 1>had to look in the mirror and be proud of

<v Speaker 1>what he fights for. He being sad because and then see,

<v Speaker 1>up until this point, everything was going really well. And

<v Speaker 1>then he goes because I'm a I'm a revolutionary, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, okay, now you lost me. I every time

<v Speaker 1>he goes into this visionary revolutionary spiel, he loses me

<v Speaker 1>because now he's going into stick. Up until this point,

<v Speaker 1>you had a good back and forth, and they're trading barbs,

<v Speaker 1>and he's kind of weaving in like maybe real life

<v Speaker 1>feelings or feelings that you could believe that you know,

<v Speaker 1>he might be really feeling, and so it's like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>this is going well. And then as soon as he

<v Speaker 1>hit that, I'm like, all right, that's I'm out enough

<v Speaker 1>with the visionary of the revolutionary stuff. I've always said this, like,

<v Speaker 1>what is so visionary and revolutionary about anything that Seth

<v Speaker 1>Rollins has done in WWE Nothing? His wardrobe, that's about it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. What

<v Speaker 1>makes him so revolutionary? Where did this come from? When

<v Speaker 1>did this start? I don't know, but I wish he

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't have said it here in this prom because now

<v Speaker 1>it just became any other wrestling promo. But he did

<v Speaker 1>say he's very glad that he's not Roman raids. Rollins

<v Speaker 1>tagged him with a right hand shot, and he cheap

<v Speaker 1>shot at him, basically, and now Roman is down. He's

<v Speaker 1>putting the boots to Roman here in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>the ring. Chris says, I think of you, solo when

<v Speaker 1>Seth does that every fucking time, dude, every single time. Ah. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>the architect, he's an architect, he's a revolutionary architect. But yes,

<v Speaker 1>he cheap shots Roman raigns, and now he's putting the

<v Speaker 1>boots to him. Not really getting much of a reaction either,

<v Speaker 1>because people, you know, they like Seth, but they like

<v Speaker 1>Roman more. Let's just be honest here, and I think

<v Speaker 1>if you give them the opportunity and you say, you

<v Speaker 1>can only really cheer for one negative, cheer for Roman

<v Speaker 1>over Seth. Even the Roman's a total heel every time

<v Speaker 1>he's out there, they weren't really reacting much to it.

<v Speaker 1>He mounts him, he starts raining blows. Now where's your

<v Speaker 1>blood line? Now? He says, I know who I am,

<v Speaker 1>you piece of shit? I know who I am. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>maybe Netflix will edit that out the way they edited

<v Speaker 1>out the Cody Rhodes blood from the beginning of Did

<v Speaker 1>you hear about this? So I mentioned that story that

<v Speaker 1>on the replay of the Night of Champions pl E

<v Speaker 1>they had the cage match with Seth Rollins and Bron

<v Speaker 1>Breaker and Bron got busted open right in the course

<v Speaker 1>of that match, hard way, and it was great because

<v Speaker 1>it added to the match, and like half his face

<v Speaker 1>was kind of covered in blood. It wasn't anything overly

<v Speaker 1>egregious or anything, but it was a good visual And

<v Speaker 1>so then and again it airs on Netflix internationally. I

<v Speaker 1>don't believe they made any edits on the ESPN version.

<v Speaker 1>People started to talk talking about how on the Netflix

<v Speaker 1>version though, after the fact, they put a giant blur

<v Speaker 1>over Bron's face because they wanted to cover up all

<v Speaker 1>the blood, and I guess they felt like they didn't

<v Speaker 1>have a really like good enough way of just editing

<v Speaker 1>part of his face, so they put a fucking blur.

<v Speaker 1>He looked like he looked like an entity, like a

<v Speaker 1>demon of some kind, and this is how they And

<v Speaker 1>so if you watched the last half of that match,

<v Speaker 1>it's literally a blur and it's just the most preposterous thing.

<v Speaker 1>So then I saw earlier today. If you remember, at

<v Speaker 1>the beginning of Raw last week, gun Through Attack, Cody

<v Speaker 1>roads backstage and he slammed a car door on his head,

<v Speaker 1>and then Cody comes up bleeding, and again it's like

<v Speaker 1>trickles of blood from you know, the top of his

<v Speaker 1>head or whatever. Apparently now on the Netflix version, which

<v Speaker 1>I mean Raw airs on Netflix. Of course it would

<v Speaker 1>be on Netflix. But if you go back, and I

<v Speaker 1>have not gone back and looked yet, I just read

<v Speaker 1>this before, there's some sort of glitch effect to hide

<v Speaker 1>the fact that Cody was bleeding. What in the world

<v Speaker 1>is going on here? What is going on with Netflix?

<v Speaker 1>This is awful, This is so ridiculous. What are these

<v Speaker 1>I have to imagine if I had a venture A guess,

<v Speaker 1>I have to guess that there's some sort of and

<v Speaker 1>this is just me spitballing here. I could be completely

<v Speaker 1>wrong because I'm just trying to figure out what the

<v Speaker 1>hell's going on here that in certain countries or markets

<v Speaker 1>that sort of thing has to be censored, and so

<v Speaker 1>therefore it has to ends up being censored for everybody.

<v Speaker 1>But again, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me,

<v Speaker 1>because does raw even get a rating anymore? What would

<v Speaker 1>this show be rated as compared to some of the

<v Speaker 1>other content on Netflix that shows far worse than just

<v Speaker 1>trickles of blood on someone's face. I would love to

<v Speaker 1>know the rules that govern censorship, what gets censored and

<v Speaker 1>what doesn't on netfl flicks because none of this makes

<v Speaker 1>any sense to me. But yes, now, now you have

<v Speaker 1>glitched out Cody Rhodes, you have blurred out Bronze Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>What's next? Who's going to be erased next? See? Now

<v Speaker 1>you would if this was airing on television and you

<v Speaker 1>had your VCR and you popped your VHS tape in

<v Speaker 1>and you push record, you would have that physical media

<v Speaker 1>that nobody could ever censor. You would have the original

<v Speaker 1>OG copy of it that nobody could ever take away

<v Speaker 1>from you. See. I have a theory here because what's

<v Speaker 1>old usually becomes new again, And like collecting vinyl records

<v Speaker 1>has become like a big thing. Apparently vinyls are like

<v Speaker 1>back in style. You watch VCRs and VHS. Technology is

<v Speaker 1>going to make a comeback one day. I'm not saying

<v Speaker 1>on like a massive mainstream scale, but it's pendulum's gonna

<v Speaker 1>swing back, and there's gonna be tons of people who

<v Speaker 1>are gonna want to have like VCRs and vhs. Right,

<v Speaker 1>what's old is new again. It always comes back around.

<v Speaker 1>Especially as you take more physical media away from people,

<v Speaker 1>they're going to gravitate. I feel like towards some of

<v Speaker 1>these older technologies, I threw away a lot of them,

<v Speaker 1>but I still have a lot of my VHSS, and

<v Speaker 1>I at the moment, I don't really have anything to

<v Speaker 1>play it on. I actually do have one. I have

<v Speaker 1>one VCR somewhere. But even if I never watch those

<v Speaker 1>tapes again, like some of these paper views, like they're

<v Speaker 1>so valuable, like I would never I would never give

<v Speaker 1>them away because you just never know. It's because of

<v Speaker 1>shit like this. Anyway, Off my soapbox here. Back to this.

<v Speaker 1>So he's yelling at Roman. He's cursing up a storm.

<v Speaker 1>Finally the fans are kind of singing his song. He

<v Speaker 1>goes to leave, but he notices Roman is on his knees,

<v Speaker 1>so he comes in for the stomp instead. Though when

<v Speaker 1>he comes in, he eats a superman punch. Roman then

<v Speaker 1>moves the table over. He gets Rollin's up in a

<v Speaker 1>power bomb position, but Rollins has the mic in his

<v Speaker 1>hand and he bashes Roman in the head of the mic,

<v Speaker 1>so Roman drops him. Seth delivers a pedigree. Now he's

<v Speaker 1>waiting for it. He's waiting for Roman to get back

<v Speaker 1>on all fours, and then when he does, he flies

<v Speaker 1>in for the stomp and Seth Rolins stands tall to

<v Speaker 1>close out the show. I thought this was a great segment,

<v Speaker 1>and as I said before, it's almost it's almost like

<v Speaker 1>these things work better when you have somebody to play

<v Speaker 1>off of and you're not just talking to a blank slate.

<v Speaker 1>That promo last week was terrible. This segment here, this

<v Speaker 1>contract signing was great, was great, and it's going to

<v Speaker 1>get a lot of people, I think that much more

<v Speaker 1>interested in seeing Seth Rollins against Roman Reigns at Summer Slim,

<v Speaker 1>which should be the point when you do a segment

<v Speaker 1>like this. You want to get people excited, right, You

<v Speaker 1>want to get people to think, man, I can't wait

<v Speaker 1>to see these two guys just go at it. You

<v Speaker 1>don't want to scare them off and be like, man,

<v Speaker 1>this was terrible. I have no interest in seeing this

<v Speaker 1>match now. So mission accomplished. You know, they did what

<v Speaker 1>they had to do here with this. They got some

<v Speaker 1>stiff shots in there, or Roman did. Anyway. I think

<v Speaker 1>that money in the bank crack was that was a

<v Speaker 1>nice little low blow there. It was a little weird

<v Speaker 1>that Jimmy and Jacob didn't come out. I think Seth again,

<v Speaker 1>he even mentioned to Roman when he was beating him down,

<v Speaker 1>like where's your bloodline? Now? I asked the same question,

<v Speaker 1>like where the hell did they go? It's not like

<v Speaker 1>they got chased out of the building. But you know what,

<v Speaker 1>they have their own issue going on. They have their

<v Speaker 1>own match for Summer Slam, so it's fine to leave

<v Speaker 1>them out of it. They have their own issues to

<v Speaker 1>deal with. The last hour or forty five minutes maybe

<v Speaker 1>or so of this show, which was really the gauntlet

<v Speaker 1>in the contract signing, best part of the show. So

<v Speaker 1>again like that I say third hour, it's not a

<v Speaker 1>full third hour. They did go longer than usual though,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think the show went off the air until

<v Speaker 1>about a quarter to eleven, so they did almost go

<v Speaker 1>three hours tonight. First ninety minutes plus not that great,

<v Speaker 1>not that great at all, very very missible, But the

<v Speaker 1>closing stretch of the show I thought was very good.

<v Speaker 1>All right, where are we on the likes? Let's take

<v Speaker 1>a look here. Three ninety was the goal. We are

<v Speaker 1>at five three very good, so we got some be

<v Speaker 1>the booker coming up here in a little bit. Thank

<v Speaker 1>you guys for being with me here tonight and hanging

<v Speaker 1>with me. We ain't done yet. We still have the

<v Speaker 1>Dynamite post show coming up on Wednesday, SmackDown on Friday,

<v Speaker 1>Saturday Night's Made event coming up on Saturday. I'm going

<v Speaker 1>to do a whole preview tomorrow on the Uncrowned Wrestling Show.

<v Speaker 1>We got a lot yet to discuss, but we're going

<v Speaker 1>to start this discussion with death Syth. This is hey,

<v Speaker 1>sol a Monster. Got to ask what if Jeff Hardy

<v Speaker 1>never left WWE in two thousand and nine, because I

<v Speaker 1>could see him in Batista in a program instead of

<v Speaker 1>Batista feuding with Ray and the Undertaker. Well, if you remember,

<v Speaker 1>Jeff got into some trouble right when he left WWE,

<v Speaker 1>you know nine, So if he didn't leave, he would

<v Speaker 1>have gotten into trouble regardless. So I don't know, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what he would have been doing because that

<v Speaker 1>would have had an effect on things. Would he have

<v Speaker 1>worked with Batista if he's going to stick around for

<v Speaker 1>a few more years, then very likely. Yes, the two

<v Speaker 1>of them would have worked together, but it doesn't change

<v Speaker 1>the fact that he got into some legal problems that

<v Speaker 1>would have happened regardless. We got a death side. Plus,

<v Speaker 1>it is bizarre that Batista and Jeff never had a

<v Speaker 1>proper program or singles match. Yeah again, eventually everybody wrestles.

<v Speaker 1>Everybody who would have stuck around, they would have worked together.

<v Speaker 1>It is inevitable. Also, he says now that I can

<v Speaker 1>say that out loud, if Jeff Hardy thought CMPUN gave

<v Speaker 1>him problems that year, heal Batista would have given him

<v Speaker 1>a lot worse. Hollywood. Batista against the Jeff Hardy could

<v Speaker 1>have been fun. Could have been a fun program, Robbie.

<v Speaker 1>So I guess we have our answer about King of

<v Speaker 1>the Ring. Oba completely relinquished his title opportunity for this

<v Speaker 1>because brock quote would have cost him anyway. Dude, it's

<v Speaker 1>it's so actually made Oba look worse by saying that

<v Speaker 1>they actually made him look worse. I won King of

<v Speaker 1>the Ring. I went through the first round, I went

<v Speaker 1>through the semi final round, I flew all the way

<v Speaker 1>to Saudi Arabia and won the finals. I earned the

<v Speaker 1>right to challenge for a championship at SummerSlam, but I

<v Speaker 1>gave up my shot because I just knew Brock was

<v Speaker 1>gonna fuck me over. You know what a dweeb that

<v Speaker 1>makes him sound like. Also, they were trying their best

<v Speaker 1>to keep Dean Ambrose's face out of those flashbacks. I

<v Speaker 1>noticed that too. He slipped in there a few times.

<v Speaker 1>Though they did their best to hide the Ambrose's face

<v Speaker 1>in those retrospectives. You can't ignore it. He's part of

<v Speaker 1>that Shield history, whether they like it or not. The

<v Speaker 1>lunatic Fringe Aaron says Roxanne can't win a match. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that's right, she has that streak going for her too.

<v Speaker 1>Who's the bigger loser on raw right now? Joe Hendry

<v Speaker 1>or Roxanne Perez. Did Roxanne get an entrance? I think she? Uh?

<v Speaker 1>I think she did. If Roxanne, if Roxanne got an

<v Speaker 1>entrance tonight, then she she's at least better off than

<v Speaker 1>Joe Hendry is. Uh. We gotta give me backshot Sola Monster, Hey,

<v Speaker 1>you were that guy in the bathroom. Bron needs to

<v Speaker 1>shoot fight Triple h Roman and Hayman. He needs to

<v Speaker 1>go all Steiner on them. You got me wrestling fucking

<v Speaker 1>Tozawa at SummerSlam. So their grand plan for Broun Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>Uh dried Chicken So the police protecting brock Lesner says,

<v Speaker 1>damn triple h It's true. He overprotects his favorites. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>don't don't call him pop age. That just sounds fucking ridiculous.

<v Speaker 1>He does. Look, he has favorites, I'm sure, just like

<v Speaker 1>anybody else does, and he will protect them at all costs.

<v Speaker 1>Super pony. So thank god they took the layup. So

<v Speaker 1>happy for Chad. They give him impenta at least fifteen minutes.

<v Speaker 1>We're looking at a match of the year. Dude, if

<v Speaker 1>they give them twelve minutes, you don't think those two

<v Speaker 1>aren't going to go out there with their working shoes

<v Speaker 1>on that night looking to steal the show, right, Chicken

<v Speaker 1>says rip Sam Neil, Yes, he passed away today. I

<v Speaker 1>did see that. Drew Mackincox says, when will title matches

<v Speaker 1>be added? To be the booker would love to see

<v Speaker 1>Brett Versus angle for the twenty four to seven title

<v Speaker 1>in a Punjabi prison match. You may be getting belts

<v Speaker 1>very soon. You may be getting built very soon. John

<v Speaker 1>with the ten dollars, super chet. Then we'll get to Nick.

<v Speaker 1>I jumped onto X to check out the IWC. Always

<v Speaker 1>a dangerous thing to do, John, and my god, it's insufferable.

<v Speaker 1>I know the tribalism is bad on all platforms, but

<v Speaker 1>X is honestly exhausting. Anyways, thank you Solo for all

<v Speaker 1>you do. I appreciate you. I appreciate you as well.

<v Speaker 1>Yeahs you compare all the different platforms, x X is

<v Speaker 1>by far the worst. It's addicting you. People will try

<v Speaker 1>to pull themselves away from it, and they get sucked

<v Speaker 1>back into it and they follow certain accounts maybe or

<v Speaker 1>they have a lot of contacts and trade dms with people.

<v Speaker 1>There's different reasons for staying on there, but it is

<v Speaker 1>an absolutely just just a fucking cesspool of garbage on there.

<v Speaker 1>You are not wrong about that, Nick says, Now the

<v Speaker 1>Gable has his title match, maybe before or after SummerSlam,

<v Speaker 1>Penta goes heel and we get dark Penta. We are

<v Speaker 1>not getting dark Penta. Penta is not going heel that

<v Speaker 1>I can tell you. Penta is not going hel Penta.

<v Speaker 1>Penta enjoys being a babyface. Wwe I think likes him

<v Speaker 1>being a babyface. They send him out there to do

<v Speaker 1>media and stuff, and he's meeting kid Penta is for

<v Speaker 1>the kids. Now, they're not going to to trade that

<v Speaker 1>in Fore heel turn also does Tatum Pasley debut at

<v Speaker 1>MSG to help Lyra? I would guess yes, I think so.

<v Speaker 1>I think that'd be a good spot for her to debut.

<v Speaker 1>Dried Chicken says I would love to buy Maxine and

<v Speaker 1>Lyra double bacon cheeseburger and chili cheese fries on the side.

<v Speaker 1>That sounds disgusting, getting heartburn just reading that. I would

<v Speaker 1>rather watch the elegance brand over the vision, so would I.

<v Speaker 1>You and me both Chicago for MBK. The mismanagement of

<v Speaker 1>bron is criminal. Yes, they should be brought up on charges.

<v Speaker 1>I agree. Dried Chicken says Bron Breaker and Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>should be sent to triple A. Aaron says bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>is on the Rye back trajectory, so he'll be shooting

<v Speaker 1>tiktoks and doing food challenges. I sure hope not. Is

<v Speaker 1>he on tikto I don't even know if he's on TikTok?

<v Speaker 1>Alexander says, does Maxine gain two hundred pounds and start

<v Speaker 1>does Maxine gained two hundred pounds and start wearing a

<v Speaker 1>penguin like suit to Mimickhaman as the new leader of

<v Speaker 1>the All she has to do is waddle back and

<v Speaker 1>forth when she walks out. I would not advise the

<v Speaker 1>whole gaining two hundred pounds thing. That would be bad.

<v Speaker 1>But she has abs. She has she has abs. I

<v Speaker 1>mean she does want to get rid of those. Lyra

<v Speaker 1>was hanging out with Tyrone Bighams. Paul Carpenter says, give

<v Speaker 1>Lyra the hearing voices gimmick that Bailey was supposed to have.

<v Speaker 1>My opinion, it would work better the way Lyra's mannerisms are.

<v Speaker 1>How about we don't give anybody the voices gimmick because

<v Speaker 1>it's just dumb. How beut we don't do that. Although

<v Speaker 1>I don't disagree with you. When she walked out there

<v Speaker 1>kind of looking and acting the way that she was,

<v Speaker 1>she did sound like maybe she had some voices in

<v Speaker 1>her head. She looked the part more than Bailey did

<v Speaker 1>when she was doing the gimmick. But I think we

<v Speaker 1>could just leave the gimmick out altogether. Alexander, Lyra should

<v Speaker 1>come out with the crow face paid a sting version.

<v Speaker 1>Huh wow, a sting. Is she going to be up

<v Speaker 1>in the rafters at Madison Square Garden this weekend? She'll

<v Speaker 1>be She'll be up in the rafters watching all the

<v Speaker 1>earlier matches and then coming down eventually for hers. Saint

<v Speaker 1>James says, the ad breaks tonight were so bad, I

<v Speaker 1>should give all my Netflix money to you and cancel

<v Speaker 1>my subscription. Fifteen to twenty minutes of ads for the

<v Speaker 1>Gauntlet match. Look, here's the reality of it. Ads are

<v Speaker 1>you know? They're a necessary evil? Everybody does them. It's

<v Speaker 1>it's the way that they spread them out during the matches.

<v Speaker 1>During a Gauntlet match, you have to expect it because

<v Speaker 1>the Gauntlet is gonna go twenty twenty five thirty minutes.

<v Speaker 1>They've done Gauntlet matches that are forty plus. Right, of

<v Speaker 1>course you're gonna have commercials. I'm just talking about in

<v Speaker 1>some cases regular standard like six or seven minute matches

<v Speaker 1>that just get literally cut in half or more by

<v Speaker 1>a commercial break. And not everybody is using a VPN

<v Speaker 1>to watch it during the break, So what are you

<v Speaker 1>even watching? What are you actually getting with some of

<v Speaker 1>these matches. You're seeing the opening ninety seconds and if

<v Speaker 1>you're lucky you'll get a few minutes at the end.

<v Speaker 1>You know, they butcher the matches themselves and it takes

<v Speaker 1>you out of it, or just you know, sometimes during

<v Speaker 1>the breaks is when some of the high spots happen

<v Speaker 1>and you don't even see him because most of the

<v Speaker 1>time they don't replay them when they come back. There

<v Speaker 1>have been times where I'll have the VPN on it

<v Speaker 1>and I'm watching a match. I can tell they're going

<v Speaker 1>to commercial, but I can continue to watch and they'll

<v Speaker 1>be like some big spott of off the top. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>holy shit, And then they'll come back and they don't

<v Speaker 1>bother replaying it. They just they have to do a

<v Speaker 1>better job of just managing them or spreading them out.

<v Speaker 1>Or if you know you're gonna have like a big

<v Speaker 1>main event, maybe you front loaded a little bit so

<v Speaker 1>that you can go commercial free for the main event.

<v Speaker 1>That's one thing I will I will give him credit

<v Speaker 1>for if he had any say in the matter. You know,

<v Speaker 1>when Russo was writing and booking in the late nineties,

<v Speaker 1>you know, he has said that like we would never

<v Speaker 1>like have commercials during the main events, like absolutely not,

<v Speaker 1>Like during our main events. You let that main event

<v Speaker 1>play out, And I thought about that, and I was like,

<v Speaker 1>there may have been times where some of those raw

<v Speaker 1>main events would have a commercial break, but he's not wrong.

<v Speaker 1>I can't really remember it being a regular occurrence, Like

<v Speaker 1>you would watch those main events and a lot of

<v Speaker 1>them would go over time, you know, they would they

<v Speaker 1>would go into like an overrun, and I don't remember

<v Speaker 1>them having commercials. So how is it that they were

<v Speaker 1>able to get away with that back then but they

<v Speaker 1>can't now? Or is it just the fact that there's

<v Speaker 1>so many more so, so many many more that it

<v Speaker 1>just makes it impossible for them to do so, you

<v Speaker 1>know that's that's the issue. Yeah, Ze, Racis, you didn't

<v Speaker 1>even see the opening of the gym of the Jimmy

<v Speaker 1>and Royce match. Yeah, that match literally started during the

<v Speaker 1>commercial break. The angle to set it up, and then

<v Speaker 1>the actual beginning of the match all happened during a

<v Speaker 1>commercial break, and then when they came back in progress,

<v Speaker 1>they went to another commercial ninety seconds later. How do

<v Speaker 1>you review a match like that? That's why I say, like,

<v Speaker 1>it was a match, What do you want me to

<v Speaker 1>say about it? There's nothing to say. They were out

<v Speaker 1>there doing moves, waiting for the referee to tell them okay,

<v Speaker 1>we're at commercial, and then waiting for the referee to

<v Speaker 1>tell them Okay, we're back. That's it, that's all. It was.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says we need to will it into existence.

<v Speaker 1>If Leo Rush talks about the rain, Wembley crowd needs

<v Speaker 1>to sing have you ever seen the rain by Creeden's

<v Speaker 1>clear Water? Yeah? I mean why would he talk about

<v Speaker 1>the rain? He would talk about him. He's fine, it's fine,

<v Speaker 1>it's fine. The oracle is Braun on a ride back

<v Speaker 1>slash Braun trajectory, I hope not. What a waste? What

<v Speaker 1>a waste? That would be pseudo tpk raw on Netflix,

<v Speaker 1>Monday nights at eight pm, rated TVBS. How did you know?

<v Speaker 1>How did you know? That? That was the show's new rating?

<v Speaker 1>Ashley I called the Oba stuff on X and was mocked.

<v Speaker 1>Which Oba stuff? Are you referring to the ridiculous explanation

<v Speaker 1>that was given? You gotta be more specific? An EJ

<v Speaker 1>Slamp with a four ninety nine? When does Lolavice get

<v Speaker 1>called up? If wwe cut her or J C. Jane.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like they would thrive in aew Tony Kahan

<v Speaker 1>would love them like Storm and Monet. Well, I hope not.

<v Speaker 1>I hope they'd get a chance on the main roster

<v Speaker 1>before they would get cut. Boy, that would suck to

<v Speaker 1>not even give them a chance. I have no idea

<v Speaker 1>when Lola gets called though. Lola's another one who feels

<v Speaker 1>like they're just waiting for the right moment, you know,

<v Speaker 1>to get her on. Most likely SmackDown. Would be my

<v Speaker 1>guess that when she gets called up, she will be

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown. And HEJ says, you ask which crush I

<v Speaker 1>would pick for my boy stable, He'll crush ninety three

<v Speaker 1>to ninety five with mister Fuji Fuji was so bad.

<v Speaker 1>He was awesome. He just threw salt every match. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Fuji Fuji was. It was funny because at that point

<v Speaker 1>somebody would throw a punch and he would take a bump,

<v Speaker 1>but it would be like the slowest fall down onto

<v Speaker 1>the april. You would throw a punch at him, and

<v Speaker 1>then it was like a tree that was tipping over

<v Speaker 1>ever so slowly, and he is he would fall down

<v Speaker 1>to the mat. Ninety three to ninety five crush. Really,

<v Speaker 1>I'm more of a Kona crush guy myself. Shaka bra right,

<v Speaker 1>he would do the crush he was wearing the yellow

<v Speaker 1>and the purple and the orange Chakabra. All right, we're

<v Speaker 1>currently sitting at five hundred and forty one likes, so

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get one round. We're gonna get one shot.

<v Speaker 1>That be the booker today. Let's make the most of it.

<v Speaker 1>Here we go, gentlemen, it is now time to be

<v Speaker 1>the booker. We're gonna have to make this a good

<v Speaker 1>one because we only have one round tonight. Start with

<v Speaker 1>tag teams Triple Ah's Biggest Nightmare, Power and Glory, Hercules

<v Speaker 1>and Paul Roman. There he is the Slickster. Doesn't get

<v Speaker 1>enough love. Slickster, Actually, this team doesn't get enough love.

<v Speaker 1>What a great finish, the power Plex, that power Plex combo.

<v Speaker 1>It's a fantastic tag team finish. I'm glad that FTR

<v Speaker 1>adopted it. I just wish that they would use it

<v Speaker 1>as a finish occasionally and not just as a setup

<v Speaker 1>to the shatter Machine. Actually says you retweeted my comment

<v Speaker 1>about Oba picking bra. I don't remember that, but I

<v Speaker 1>believe you. And then we have Ooh Stone Cold, Steve

<v Speaker 1>Austin and Sean Michael wearing his Homer Simpson shirt. Power

<v Speaker 1>and Glory against Austin and HBK. Sign me up. I

<v Speaker 1>dig that women's be the booker. We have the Queen

<v Speaker 1>of Spades, the most dominant champion in the women's division

<v Speaker 1>in the history of NXT, Shane Basler, who it was

<v Speaker 1>just announced today the deal has been done. The deal

<v Speaker 1>is official. Shane Basler will be challenging for the HOG

<v Speaker 1>Women's Championship Friday night, August seventh, the NYC Arena live

<v Speaker 1>and free on YouTube against Shatzi. This will be her

<v Speaker 1>warm up match for the Hog Show. Wouldn't it be

<v Speaker 1>something if we landed on Shatzi. Oh my fucking god.

<v Speaker 1>I swear, I swear to you. I swear to you.

<v Speaker 1>I did nothing. I pushed a button, That's all I did.

<v Speaker 1>I am. This thing can hear me. I don't know how,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how it's possible, but this thing can

<v Speaker 1>hear me. I'm convinced that this thing is has a

<v Speaker 1>mind of its own. There's no fucking way that that

<v Speaker 1>just happened. There's no way that that just happened. The

<v Speaker 1>words had barely left my mouth and I see Shatzi

<v Speaker 1>in a tank on my screen. Are you fucking kidding me?

<v Speaker 1>Hashtag rigged. It is not, it is not. Well, there

<v Speaker 1>you go. I mean, look, it was. Sometimes these things

<v Speaker 1>are just meant to be. Sometimes these things it's just

<v Speaker 1>fate and there's really nothing you can do about it.

<v Speaker 1>But if you want to see that match, it does

<v Speaker 1>not have to be a fantasy warfare scenario. This match

<v Speaker 1>will be a reality next month. Oh my god. That

<v Speaker 1>that's that's fucking creepy. That is creepy as shit. How

<v Speaker 1>many dozens of women are in be the booker in

<v Speaker 1>that round? Ah? Oh my god. So here we go.

<v Speaker 1>All right, we got our main event here, yes, and

<v Speaker 1>more and more people will be watching it than you

<v Speaker 1>at any point in your life, Johnny, And you know

<v Speaker 1>it's true. Here we go. We got Russev who was

<v Speaker 1>in the Gauntlet today. He didn't have a lot of luck.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't have a lot of success. I don't suspect

<v Speaker 1>he will have a lot of success here either. But

<v Speaker 1>we have to pick an opponent for him. All depends

<v Speaker 1>on who he lands. Son is his opponent. Here we go. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>he's definitely not winning this one, that's for damn sure.

<v Speaker 1>It ain't gonna work out too well for this guy. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it ain't gonna be Rusev Day when he is in

<v Speaker 1>there with the immortal Hulk Hogan. This is gonna be

<v Speaker 1>one of those old school eighties matches where Hulk goes

<v Speaker 1>in there and sells and sells and sells for the

<v Speaker 1>Foreign Menace, but then in the end he just he

<v Speaker 1>falls to the Hulkster. This this is a match right

<v Speaker 1>out of Saturday Night's main Event in nineteen eighty seven.

<v Speaker 1>That's what this is. Well, there you go Hulk Hogan

<v Speaker 1>and Russev closes out the night. Hogan must pose, He'll

<v Speaker 1>have his chance to pose here at the very end,

<v Speaker 1>Russev Day don't work for me, brother, unless, of course,

<v Speaker 1>you know, Russev decides to drop Hogan on his head

<v Speaker 1>or something, and then oh, you get Linda and the

<v Speaker 1>kids on the phone. Brother, get the rosary beads. Thank you,

<v Speaker 1>guys for another fun stream. Tonight, The work continues. We

<v Speaker 1>got a brand new episode of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show

<v Speaker 1>coming up tomorrow. Tomorrow night, we'll have a brand new

<v Speaker 1>Tuesday Night Titans as well, and then Wednesday we have

<v Speaker 1>the Dynamite post show, the first Dynamite since Kenny Omega

<v Speaker 1>won back the aw World Championship. We'll get a better sense,

<v Speaker 1>hopefully of what the hell is going on at Redemption

<v Speaker 1>later this month. SmackDown on Friday, and then we have

<v Speaker 1>Saturday Night's main events. I will be live on YouTube

<v Speaker 1>for that. That'll be on Saturday night as soon as

<v Speaker 1>the show is over, and then it leads right into

<v Speaker 1>a brand new SoundOff. You guys know the Drill episode

<v Speaker 1>nine seventy one went up yesterday, so be sure to

<v Speaker 1>go check that out if you have not already done, so,

<v Speaker 1>leave a light on your way out. Have yourselves a

<v Speaker 1>good rest of your night, super Pony. I just spotted

<v Speaker 1>super Pony. Shouldn't Gunther get suspended for what he did

<v Speaker 1>on Friday? Also, remember when Braun was the favorite to

<v Speaker 1>win the Rumble no longer than a few months ago. Hmm?

<v Speaker 1>It feels like a lifetime ago, doesn't it. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>don't think anybody is picking him to be a favorite

<v Speaker 1>for anything right now. As far as Gunther, should he

<v Speaker 1>be suspended? Of course, he should be fired for what

<v Speaker 1>he did. He should be fired for being realistic. Here

<v Speaker 1>Cecil coming in late, Cecil Robinson here four ninety nine

<v Speaker 1>and Glad. I was at Madison Square Garden for Seena

<v Speaker 1>and Seamus's last raw appearances seamous against Big Show at

<v Speaker 1>Helena Sel twenty twelve for the world title. Was a

<v Speaker 1>good match? Was that the one where Big Show had

<v Speaker 1>the oversized chair? Or was that their chairs match? That

<v Speaker 1>was the chairs match? I think, yeah, Shamey's some Big Show.

<v Speaker 1>I think had a I had a good chemistry when

<v Speaker 1>they were in the ring together. I remember them having

<v Speaker 1>a couple of good matches. The oversized chair I'll never

<v Speaker 1>I'll never get over that though, the biggest chair I've

<v Speaker 1>ever seen in my life. I said, that's funny. That

<v Speaker 1>was actually well done. Aaron. Who would you trust between Hogan,

<v Speaker 1>Nick Con and the Rock? I mean, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that I would trust any of them. If I had

<v Speaker 1>to pick one, who I would put my faith and

<v Speaker 1>trust in. Of the three, I would have to go Rock.

<v Speaker 1>Rock is getting into Hogan territory, though. I think my

<v Speaker 1>favorite recent Rock story it's not even that recent. I

<v Speaker 1>think it was a reused clip from when he was

<v Speaker 1>on Joe Rogan. I don't know how long ago it

<v Speaker 1>was that this might have been a couple of years

<v Speaker 1>ago now, but he he told that story about how

<v Speaker 1>he almost became a fighter and pride. Just the way

<v Speaker 1>he tells the story, I'm like so full of shit.

<v Speaker 1>Oh man, am I going to be a fanatics Fest

<v Speaker 1>this week? I No, I will not. I will not

<v Speaker 1>be a fanatics Fest. I gotta work, brother, We got

<v Speaker 1>smack down, we got Saturday nights made event. I got

<v Speaker 1>other shit to do. Where am I going to Fanatics Fest?

<v Speaker 1>If I wanted to get a Jalen Brunson photo or

<v Speaker 1>autograph or whatever, it's like nine hundred dollars. I will

<v Speaker 1>not be able to attend fanatics Fest. But if you

<v Speaker 1>are going have fun, I know they're gonna have a

<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of different people there, and celebrities and athletes

<v Speaker 1>and all kinds of stuff. They're invading New York this week. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we got that's right. Ricky says, we got the sound

<v Speaker 1>off this week. I have shows basically from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

<v Speaker 1>at least one show every day, So I ain't going nowhere.

<v Speaker 1>All right, Be well, stay safe again, have yourselves a

<v Speaker 1>great rest of your night. Thank you for hanging out

<v Speaker 1>with me on another Monday night, and come on back

<v Speaker 1>for the data my post show right here live on

<v Speaker 1>YouTube until then take care guys.