<v Speaker 1>Tell you man that astronaut is doing my two hours

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown dance. That's the dance I did when I learned

<v Speaker 1>that SmackDown was going from three hours to two hours,

<v Speaker 1>and you could see why. If you watch this show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>you can see exactly why SmackDown hasn't gotten any better.

<v Speaker 1>But it's an hour or less of what we had before,

<v Speaker 1>So I will always do my dance. You know, we

<v Speaker 1>are about a week away now from SummerSlam, supposedly the

<v Speaker 1>second biggest event of the year. Does it feel like

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim yet? I don't think so. Tonight's SmackDown didn't

<v Speaker 1>do a whole hell of a lot to get this

<v Speaker 1>guy excited for Summer Slam. I don't know if you're

<v Speaker 1>in the same boat as I am, but what I

<v Speaker 1>was looking forward to was face to face between Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhoades and Cmpunk coming out of all of the drama

<v Speaker 1>from Saturday Night's main event last weekend and the Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slam kickoff event on Sunday or Punk you know, pie faced,

<v Speaker 1>and I said, finally on Friday, we're gonna get some

<v Speaker 1>real heat between these two. So I was looking forward

<v Speaker 1>most of all on this show to the two of

<v Speaker 1>them in the ring and what they were going to

<v Speaker 1>be talking about, and you know what, shots would be fired,

<v Speaker 1>so to speak between them, what we got tonight was

<v Speaker 1>actually a very tame, face to face. I thought that

<v Speaker 1>for the story they're trying to tell, which isn't really

<v Speaker 1>much of a story. Let's just be honest. But the

<v Speaker 1>best story that they could tell is probably what they're doing,

<v Speaker 1>which is that you have two people who are friends,

<v Speaker 1>they respect each other. But as Cody Rhodes told Sea,

<v Speaker 1>I'm punk tonight. I don't like you. Right, I respect you,

<v Speaker 1>you're my friend, but I don't like you. And you

<v Speaker 1>got punk telling Cody, I think you're paranoid because in

<v Speaker 1>the past, you've had people like and he said this

<v Speaker 1>at the kickoff event, Kevin Ohens and John Cena. Right,

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton, You've had people who have stabbed you in

<v Speaker 1>the back. You're paranoid. But I told you a lot

<v Speaker 1>long time ago, I'm not going to stab you in

<v Speaker 1>the back. I'm going to stab you in the front,

<v Speaker 1>and that's what I'm doing now. So they kept it

<v Speaker 1>very respectful for the most part, and I thought what

<v Speaker 1>they did was good. It wasn't this knockdown, drag out

<v Speaker 1>memorable promo. They didn't get their zingers in there the

<v Speaker 1>way that Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins did in their

<v Speaker 1>contract signing a few weeks ago. To be honest with you,

<v Speaker 1>they've done a better job of kind of I guess

<v Speaker 1>building heat for their match then Cody and Punk have

<v Speaker 1>done for theirs, which is probably why Cody and Punk

<v Speaker 1>are going to be given the Night one spot in

<v Speaker 1>the main event. If I had a venture, I guess.

<v Speaker 1>So what we got tonight was good, It was not

<v Speaker 1>enough to really kind of light a fire. I think

<v Speaker 1>under things with these two in the way that I

<v Speaker 1>was kind of hoping. But at the same time, it's

<v Speaker 1>like you only have so much to draw from because again,

<v Speaker 1>they've kept these two apart ever since Punk came back

<v Speaker 1>to the company and Cody came back to the company,

<v Speaker 1>and they don't have a whole lot of history together

<v Speaker 1>because they've never really worked together before. And the fact

<v Speaker 1>that they're putting this match together on short notice doesn't

<v Speaker 1>change that. You know, even if they had six weeks

<v Speaker 1>to promote this match, this is pretty much what the

<v Speaker 1>build up would look like. My big takeaway from what

<v Speaker 1>we got tonight was a ligne very early in Cody's

<v Speaker 1>promo where he said, and maybe I'm paraphrasing here, but basically,

<v Speaker 1>I have to beat you at SummerSlam. Now, what does

<v Speaker 1>that remind you of? What does that line remind you of?

<v Speaker 1>Because I know what it reminded me of. I immediately my

<v Speaker 1>mind went to the sit down promo many years ago

<v Speaker 1>between Steve Austin and The Rock and Steve Austin made

<v Speaker 1>it very clear to him I need to beat you.

<v Speaker 1>I need more than anything that you could ever imagine.

<v Speaker 1>That's how much I need to beat you. My takeaway

<v Speaker 1>from the segment tonight is Cody has to go heal

<v Speaker 1>at SummerSlam. Cody came out tonight, he got a very

<v Speaker 1>lukewarm response from the Crab Punk got a much more

<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of warm welcome where they were tonight

<v Speaker 1>in Oakland. And the way that Cody is behaving, the

<v Speaker 1>way that Cody is acting where he kind of does

<v Speaker 1>come off as paranoid. If anybody is going to be

<v Speaker 1>going heel, it has to be Cody Roads. Now, maybe

<v Speaker 1>nobody goes hel Punk as a heel. We know he

<v Speaker 1>can be heel. But I think in this situation. If

<v Speaker 1>somebody was going to turn, it should be Cody Roads.

<v Speaker 1>Cody Roads is going to be infinitely more interesting if

<v Speaker 1>he embraces the dark side, if he goes just full throttle,

<v Speaker 1>pedal to the metal. Let's just embrace this, let's just

<v Speaker 1>go let's go there right. None of this is half assed,

<v Speaker 1>let's he'se it kind of stuff. That's my takeaway. That's

<v Speaker 1>my hope as we go into Summer Slim and that

<v Speaker 1>way you can also prolong this or circle back to

<v Speaker 1>it and do another big match between them. Yeah, maybe

<v Speaker 1>early next year. So that was my takeaway from there.

<v Speaker 1>Face to face tonight, Also on this show, we had

<v Speaker 1>two matches added to the Summer Slim card. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what the total. What does that bring the total to? Now,

<v Speaker 1>what do we have before eight? Now we have ten,

<v Speaker 1>We're somewhere in that range. We still have a few

<v Speaker 1>more matches left to be added. Again, we have two nights.

<v Speaker 1>We still don't know what matches are going on on

<v Speaker 1>one night yet. But the two matches added tonight include

<v Speaker 1>Sammy Zain. I was getting worried that Sammy was going

<v Speaker 1>to be left out in the cold after being screwed

<v Speaker 1>over it's Saturday Night's made event. If anybody has a

<v Speaker 1>reason to be pissed at Sammy Zain, well, he's going

<v Speaker 1>to have a match at Summer Slim, and it's a

<v Speaker 1>match that has championship implications because it's going to be

<v Speaker 1>a number one contenders match for the WWE title. We

<v Speaker 1>just didn't know who his opponent was going to be

<v Speaker 1>until they decided to put together a random fatal four

<v Speaker 1>way match out of nowhere. I mean, Adam Pierce just

<v Speaker 1>pulled it out of his ass tonight, and this match

<v Speaker 1>was going to send someone to SummerSlam to wrestle Sammy,

<v Speaker 1>and the winner of that match coming out of Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slam will be the number one contender, and that man

<v Speaker 1>is going to be Finn Baller. He was Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>in the four way tonight. We had him wrestling his

<v Speaker 1>former Judgment Day brother, Damian Priest. Royce Keys, Yes, the

<v Speaker 1>same Royce Keys, who already has a match at SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>Let's throw him in there. Although I understand wanting to

<v Speaker 1>get him on the show, he was in his home right.

<v Speaker 1>He's from East Palo Alto. Apparently that's like forty minutes

<v Speaker 1>away from where they were tonight in Oakland. It's still

<v Speaker 1>a little weird because he's got a match, but okay, fine,

<v Speaker 1>and then Trick Williams. And as I saw Trick Williams

<v Speaker 1>come out for the main event in that I realized,

<v Speaker 1>I said, you know, Trick Williams has his own program

<v Speaker 1>going on right now with Carmelo Hayes. In fact, two

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago, Baron Corbin, after years away from WWE, made

<v Speaker 1>a surprise return, and everybody was talking about Baron Corbin

<v Speaker 1>for one night. Last week we had a very quick

<v Speaker 1>video promo from him. This week we had nothing. I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching Trick out there and I'm like, where the fuck

<v Speaker 1>is Carmelo Hayes, Where's Baron Corbin? Why does he not

<v Speaker 1>have a United States Championship match already announced for SummerSlam?

<v Speaker 1>We already know the women's US title is not being defended.

<v Speaker 1>They threw Tiffany Stratton in the ladder match. Where were

<v Speaker 1>those two on this show? I thought maybe there was

<v Speaker 1>a chance that Corbin was going to run in during

<v Speaker 1>the main event, you know, to kind of take Trick

<v Speaker 1>out of the equation, because Trick wasn't winning. Nowhere to

<v Speaker 1>be found, which means that next Friday, We're going to

<v Speaker 1>be twenty four hours out from this Summer Slam show,

<v Speaker 1>and maybe they can scrap something together at the last minute.

<v Speaker 1>Whether it's a triple threat, whether it's a rematch with

<v Speaker 1>Trick and Mellow, I don't know what they're gonna do.

<v Speaker 1>That's me. That's wishful thinking on my part. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>that we're even going to have a US title match

<v Speaker 1>on that show show, I would imagine we will, But

<v Speaker 1>if we're going to, we got nothing. We got nothing.

<v Speaker 1>In reference to that, on the show tonight, Nicki Bella

<v Speaker 1>is back the United States Champion. May not have a

<v Speaker 1>match yet at SummerSlam, but Nicki Bella does. Nicky Bella

<v Speaker 1>has been gone since March. She made a save tonight

<v Speaker 1>for her sister and Page, and it's going to be

<v Speaker 1>a six woman tag team match. This has also been

<v Speaker 1>added to the Summer Slam card. It's going to be

<v Speaker 1>Fatal Influence taking on the Bella Twins and Page. Speaking

<v Speaker 1>of heel turns, we'll talk about that. So that's been

<v Speaker 1>added to the Summer Slam card too. And then we

<v Speaker 1>have this women's ladder match for the Interim Championship, which

<v Speaker 1>is completely unnecessary. Five women are going to be wrestling

<v Speaker 1>for the Fake Belt at SummerSlam, and we had last

<v Speaker 1>week an epic encounter between Jade car Gill and Naya Jacks.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, this was just the Battle of the Titans

<v Speaker 1>last week. Going to be talking about this match for

<v Speaker 1>years to come. Obviously, it was god awful what they

<v Speaker 1>did last week. It wasn't even really a match. What

<v Speaker 1>they did was just it just it was just bad.

<v Speaker 1>It was just bad, bad, fucking lazy television. And Jade

<v Speaker 1>car Gill gets in by disqualification when Charlotte Flair interferes,

<v Speaker 1>the same Charlotte Flair who was so upset with Jade

<v Speaker 1>for injuring her best friend and tag team partner that

<v Speaker 1>she let her emotions get the best of her and

<v Speaker 1>she sent Jade Cargill to the championship match at SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>And so Charlotte's reward for involving herself in this match

<v Speaker 1>was to be gifted a qualifying match of her own

<v Speaker 1>tonight against Naya Jacks, who got screwed last week. Guess

<v Speaker 1>what happened. I think we all know who was gonna

<v Speaker 1>win this match. The way they went about doing it,

<v Speaker 1>this is pain bund numbers just lazy television. Charlotte is

<v Speaker 1>going to SummerSlam, Jade is in the ladder match at

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slam. Instead of having a singles match, they've now

<v Speaker 1>put them in the ladder match, where by the way,

<v Speaker 1>there is one spot left open and then we'll have

<v Speaker 1>the full field of five. But I just love how

<v Speaker 1>you know, we had Jade Cargill qualifying Charlotte Flair tonight,

<v Speaker 1>as Charlotte Flair qualified Jade Cargill last week, and so

<v Speaker 1>they're both in the ladder match. You know, we got

<v Speaker 1>a lot of short matches on the show tonight that

<v Speaker 1>still were broken up by just a ridiculous onslaught of

<v Speaker 1>ad breaks at the weirdest times. I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>was going on with the breaks tonight. So we got

<v Speaker 1>nothing in Ring tonight, I'm sorry to say we really didn't,

<v Speaker 1>and I can't even blame the talent for it. It's

<v Speaker 1>not their fault. We got nothing in Ring tonight. We

<v Speaker 1>had a decent enough main event until all of the

<v Speaker 1>interfere into the end from the people who were in

<v Speaker 1>the six man tag team match at Summer Slim La

<v Speaker 1>Night and the USOS and Solo Socoa and Jacob Fatu.

<v Speaker 1>So that was decent enough until everybody started running in.

<v Speaker 1>But that's it. And unfortunately, there really isn't anything else

<v Speaker 1>on this show that is compelling enough to really care.

<v Speaker 1>And so this is where we are right now with

<v Speaker 1>the state of Friday Night SmackDown. Where and again, maybe

<v Speaker 1>for you Gunther and nick All this, maybe that stuff

<v Speaker 1>is something you're really interested in because you want to

<v Speaker 1>see nick All this. You know back in the Ring,

<v Speaker 1>that's kind of cool. You know that's coming up at

<v Speaker 1>summer slim. But you have no good in Ring, no

<v Speaker 1>really good in Ring to sink your teeth into. Not

<v Speaker 1>like when we were having those US title matches, right

<v Speaker 1>at least we had that. We have no real good

<v Speaker 1>in Ring to sink our teeth into, and we have

<v Speaker 1>nothing really exciting story wise. So what are you really

<v Speaker 1>left with? You're left with a shit show, That's what

<v Speaker 1>you're left with, a week out from their second biggest

<v Speaker 1>event of the year. Not really a great place to be.

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

<v Speaker 1>a good place to be. This is the best place

<v Speaker 1>to be. He is right here on Friday nights, because

<v Speaker 1>even when you have a shit show, we try to

<v Speaker 1>make it entertaining. It's your Friday Night SmackDown review. It

<v Speaker 1>is July twenty fourth, twenty and twenty six. I am

<v Speaker 1>the solemn monster. That's right. Look at that? Look at

<v Speaker 1>the acknowledge emoji? Who is that? And Tran see he

<v Speaker 1>knows and Tran actually who was it in the chat?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know who it was. Somebody mentioned this before

<v Speaker 1>and it's actually a great point. I noticed it too

<v Speaker 1>when Cody was out there for his segment. He looked jaundiced,

<v Speaker 1>he looked orange. What was going on with Cody Rhoads tonight?

<v Speaker 1>I've never seen that shade of humid? Well, actually I have,

<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's funny because

<v Speaker 1>I was watching Unreal and I'm not done with it yet.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like four episodes in. I'm not going to finish

<v Speaker 1>it in time for this weekend probably, But I was

<v Speaker 1>watching got an episode three or four, Chelsea Green, Matt Cardona,

<v Speaker 1>they get featured and there's a shot in the episode

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea is complaining about her husband wearing all that self Tanner,

<v Speaker 1>and she showed a shot of their bed and it

<v Speaker 1>looked like a crime scene. You just see like all

<v Speaker 1>of the self tanner. It's like on the sheets and everything.

<v Speaker 1>I would imagine that that's probably the same with Cody Rhodes.

<v Speaker 1>You know when he gets up in the morning, you

<v Speaker 1>look and it's like, what is this? The man looked

<v Speaker 1>orange on this show. I was trying to look at

<v Speaker 1>the whites of his eyes to see if they were yellow.

<v Speaker 1>I was starting to get concerned. Yes, he's turning it

<v Speaker 1>to Chester Cheeto. Yes he is, like and subscribe super

<v Speaker 1>chats are open. We actually have a brand new fifteen

<v Speaker 1>dollars one speaking of Cody, So that is up right now.

<v Speaker 1>And we got the wheel ready. I had to I

<v Speaker 1>had to grease the wheel. It was making noise when

<v Speaker 1>I would spin it. It was starting to rust a

<v Speaker 1>little bit. So I took an oil can and it's

<v Speaker 1>all ready to go, and we're going to take it

<v Speaker 1>for a spin right now. Find out how many likes

<v Speaker 1>we need for be the booker tonight. This is a

<v Speaker 1>big spin, big spin. Five hundred and thirty likes and

<v Speaker 1>we're at two twenty four. This is going to be

<v Speaker 1>quite the undertaking. It's not impossible. We got some work

<v Speaker 1>to do here. Five hundred and thirty likes, we do

<v Speaker 1>have the bonus goal as well. I shall leave that

<v Speaker 1>up to you guys as we get into this, starting

<v Speaker 1>with Adam Pearce. Adam Pierce is going to have some

<v Speaker 1>more work on his plate because Nick Alldis, at least

<v Speaker 1>until he gets through SummerSlam, is no longer officially the

<v Speaker 1>general manager of SmackDown because that's not allowed. But he

<v Speaker 1>was in the ring with Nick Alldos to open the

<v Speaker 1>show and we were getting ready for the contract signing

<v Speaker 1>for all this's match with Gunther at SummerSlam. But we

<v Speaker 1>had some stipulations that had to be adhered to, and

<v Speaker 1>so first they went and introduced Gunther and he came

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring and he was all smiles here

<v Speaker 1>as he got in. Pierce mentioned that there are certain steps.

<v Speaker 1>So for instance, once Nick Aldis signs on the dotted

<v Speaker 1>line for this match, he will no longer serve as

<v Speaker 1>the general manager of SmackDown and his responsibility will then

<v Speaker 1>become Adam Pierce's responsibilities. He also said that there is

<v Speaker 1>a whole harmless agreement where all this will not be

<v Speaker 1>able to hold WWE responsible for whatever happens when he

<v Speaker 1>is in the ring with Gunther. Alda said he was

<v Speaker 1>ready to accept the consequences of his actions, even if

<v Speaker 1>it meant relinquishing his responsibilities as the GM. Gunh said

<v Speaker 1>that this is going to be the greatest match in

<v Speaker 1>moment in the career of Nick Alldis, but he's wasting

<v Speaker 1>his time with this instead of chasing the championship because

<v Speaker 1>all this didn't know how to do his job. Ever

<v Speaker 1>since Gunther joins SmackDown, all this has had it out

<v Speaker 1>for him and he finally figured out why said that

<v Speaker 1>all this is jealous of him. He knows all this

<v Speaker 1>is a former NWA World champion, but all this never

<v Speaker 1>really made it as a superstar in WWE. He was

<v Speaker 1>dreaming of being here, but it never happened. Meanwhile, Gunther

<v Speaker 1>showed up. He got it. All the records, the money,

<v Speaker 1>the championships, all this had to face not just being

<v Speaker 1>not good enough. But now Gunther is going to make

<v Speaker 1>all this is dream come true. So he went and

<v Speaker 1>signed the contract that he said that he'll have all

<v Speaker 1>this join the list of legends that Gunther has put down.

<v Speaker 1>He mentioned Bill Goldberg, he mentioned aj Styles, he mentioned

<v Speaker 1>John Cena. He said all of his victims were chasing

<v Speaker 1>one more moment. So now Gunther was going to add

<v Speaker 1>him to the list. So all this took the mic.

<v Speaker 1>He said, if Gunther actually believed that he wouldn't be here,

<v Speaker 1>he wouldn't still be here saying it all these things

<v Speaker 1>that he's going down the laundry list, of all these

<v Speaker 1>things that he's talking about, it's almost like he's trying

<v Speaker 1>to convince himself. So he finally figured out gun Thro.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Gunther is projecting because Gunther never thought that

<v Speaker 1>this would actually happen. He thought that he would cheap

<v Speaker 1>shot the general manager, he would pay a fine, he

<v Speaker 1>would move on with his life, all this stuff. Fought

<v Speaker 1>back and he said that Gunther can talk about Goldberg

<v Speaker 1>and Sina and Styles, but he hasn't had a match

<v Speaker 1>in three years. And he said, I've got nothing to lose.

<v Speaker 1>When I beat you at SummerSlam, you go from the

<v Speaker 1>career killer to the man who got made a bitch

<v Speaker 1>by his boss, which is true. This is kind of

<v Speaker 1>where we are now with Gunther, the man who beat

<v Speaker 1>John Cena and his final match, the man who retired

<v Speaker 1>aj Styles at the Royal Rumble, is now wrestling his boss.

<v Speaker 1>And if I had a venture, I guess Gunther is

<v Speaker 1>gonna win. But he is in a situation where he's

<v Speaker 1>wrestling his boss, and if he gets bitched out by

<v Speaker 1>his boss, considering where he was six months ago, seven

<v Speaker 1>months ago, that's going to be pretty sad. For a

<v Speaker 1>guy who hasn't even been in the ring and had

<v Speaker 1>a match in three years, it's not a great place

<v Speaker 1>for him to be. So Gunther attacked him all this

<v Speaker 1>got the better of him. Pierce to get in between

<v Speaker 1>them and separate them, and that gave Gunner the chance

<v Speaker 1>to hit him with a dick kick, and then he

<v Speaker 1>powerbombed him through the contract signing table that was in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. I thought it was an effective segment, you

<v Speaker 1>know again it was It was fine to me. How

<v Speaker 1>much physicality can you really expect between these two. I

<v Speaker 1>didn't know we were going to get much in the way

<v Speaker 1>of physicality. Yeah, but they had Gunther, you know, give

<v Speaker 1>him the power bomb. Not the first time that Gunther

<v Speaker 1>is stepping into the ring with a non active person

<v Speaker 1>in the company, with a non active member of the roster.

<v Speaker 1>Last year it was Pat McAfee. This year it's Nick Alldus, who,

<v Speaker 1>as I said, has not wrestled ever for w W

<v Speaker 1>and has not had any kind of wrestling match in

<v Speaker 1>about three years. But he is, you know, an accomplished

<v Speaker 1>wrestler in his own right. He's got the pedigree, he's

<v Speaker 1>got the resume. He's been there before right well over

<v Speaker 1>a thousand days combined as NWA champion. He's got to

<v Speaker 1>win over Cody. But this is something that most WWE

<v Speaker 1>fans who don't even know they probably be in the

<v Speaker 1>NWA's rap group. You know, they have no fucking idea

<v Speaker 1>what the NWA is. How are they supposed to know.

<v Speaker 1>The audience the WWE has these days very very different

<v Speaker 1>than the audience that they had once upon a time.

<v Speaker 1>This is not what I would call a hardcore audience

<v Speaker 1>who was in tune with all the wrestling history and

<v Speaker 1>all the wrestling knowledge. They hear these things about how

<v Speaker 1>Nick all thisis was a wrestler he wrestled, right. They

<v Speaker 1>mentioned the NWA tonight, because that's all they need to do.

<v Speaker 1>They just give the fans a sense like all you

<v Speaker 1>people need to know. You don't need to know where

<v Speaker 1>he wrestled, or who he wrestled, or what kind of

<v Speaker 1>wrestler he was. They just want you to know he

<v Speaker 1>used to be a wrestler. He never made it to WWE,

<v Speaker 1>and this is the biggest moment of his list, is

<v Speaker 1>bigger than the birth of his child. He's going to

<v Speaker 1>finally get to call himself a WWE superstar, which, in

<v Speaker 1>the context of the show, is the biggest possible thing

<v Speaker 1>that one can do in their entire life. You could

<v Speaker 1>cure cancer, you could save kids from a burning building,

<v Speaker 1>and it still wouldn't be the kind of accomplishment that

<v Speaker 1>it is for you to be a WWE superstar. And

<v Speaker 1>so Nick All, this is finally going to have that

<v Speaker 1>opportunity in Minneapolis, because there's just nothing bigger in the world.

<v Speaker 1>But look, WWE decided to bring him in and bench

<v Speaker 1>him and put him in the GM role, and I

<v Speaker 1>think he's done well, you know, I think he's excelled

<v Speaker 1>in that role. I'm surprised it took this long to

<v Speaker 1>get him in the ring, but good for him. I

<v Speaker 1>know that this is something that he has wanted for

<v Speaker 1>a very long time, you know, even back to when

<v Speaker 1>he was in TNA in the NWA, and so this

<v Speaker 1>has been a long time coming for him. And hopefully,

<v Speaker 1>you know, win or lose, hopefully he comes out of

<v Speaker 1>it healthy and hopefully the two of them can go

<v Speaker 1>out there and have a good, a good showing. Arabian

<v Speaker 1>Night says, I don't remember one great all this match. Ever, Well,

<v Speaker 1>I don't have any memorable TNA all this matches. I

<v Speaker 1>do know he beat Sting, I believe right in Sting's

<v Speaker 1>final TNA match. But in the NWA, especially the stuff

<v Speaker 1>with Cody, and they hit a couple of matches. I

<v Speaker 1>mean they had a match at the first all in

<v Speaker 1>and that was really good, as I recall, So I

<v Speaker 1>would at the very least I would go back and

<v Speaker 1>check that one out. In the back Kathy Kelly, she

<v Speaker 1>was about to give us a medical update on all

<v Speaker 1>this who was taken into the trainer's room when Sammy's

<v Speaker 1>ain hijacked the interview and he talked about winning the

<v Speaker 1>WWE championship, but the powers that be did not want

<v Speaker 1>him to be the champion. And so in just a

<v Speaker 1>matter of days after that, he's on Monday Night Raw,

<v Speaker 1>a show that he's not even on, defending his title

<v Speaker 1>against Cody Roads. And when Cody got taken out the

<v Speaker 1>second corporate poster boy, CM Punk, he showed up ready

<v Speaker 1>to go. And so now Punk and Cody they're set

<v Speaker 1>for Summer Slam. Everybody's all happy, except for Sammy said

<v Speaker 1>that he was champion for eighteen days ago. Eighteen days.

<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say he was champion for eighteen days.

<v Speaker 1>He wishes he was champion for eighteen days. He was

<v Speaker 1>championed eighteen days ago. Now he has no Summer Slam match.

<v Speaker 1>So he's yelling at Adam Pierce who appears, and Pearce

<v Speaker 1>is just fed up. He shouts him down, tells him

<v Speaker 1>to shut up because Sammy wants to be added to

<v Speaker 1>the match at Summer Slim. He says, make it a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat, and Pierce is like, no, the match is

<v Speaker 1>locked in, the main event is set, the main event

<v Speaker 1>is not being changed. But he tells him, I know

<v Speaker 1>you got caught in the crosshairs, and so tonight there's

<v Speaker 1>going to be a fatal four way match, and he

<v Speaker 1>said it's gonna be Finn Balor Roy's Keys, Damian Preez,

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams. The winner of that match will go to

<v Speaker 1>Summerslim to wrestle you, and the winner of that match

<v Speaker 1>will become the number one contender for the WWE Championship.

<v Speaker 1>So Sammy was not very happy about that he complained

<v Speaker 1>that these four men, they just had to be mentioned

<v Speaker 1>by CMPI. And so now we know why Punk name

<v Speaker 1>dropped them. You remember Punk's promo last week, he name

<v Speaker 1>dropped them. You know, he said, I'm going to defend

<v Speaker 1>my title, Sammy, you deserve a rematch. And he mentioned Priest,

<v Speaker 1>and he mentioned Keys, and he mentioned Trick, he mentioned

<v Speaker 1>everybody except Cody. Those are the four men that they

<v Speaker 1>put in this fatal four way match. So Punk just

<v Speaker 1>mentioned their name and they're getting a shot. First of all,

<v Speaker 1>it is ridiculous that Sammy has to win a Number

<v Speaker 1>one Contenders match. He was the champion, he lost his title.

<v Speaker 1>There are other champions who will lose and they'll get

<v Speaker 1>that automatic rematch. I know, for a while there years ago,

<v Speaker 1>they did away with the whole automatic rematch the thing,

<v Speaker 1>but then it sort of crept back. But then if

<v Speaker 1>you look at what happened at Saturday Night's main event,

<v Speaker 1>he got jobbed. He got jobbed, his boss interfered in

<v Speaker 1>the match and screwed him out of a Summer Slim

<v Speaker 1>Championship match. He shouldn't have to go through anybody. He

<v Speaker 1>has a legitimate gripe to file acclaim okay with upper

<v Speaker 1>management about Nick all this, and the solution should be

<v Speaker 1>that he gets a championship match coming out of Summer Slim.

<v Speaker 1>Why does he have to fight for it? Well, we

<v Speaker 1>know why. The real reason why. The real reason why

<v Speaker 1>is because otherwise he doesn't get a match at Summer Slam,

<v Speaker 1>so we have to go through this facade of there

<v Speaker 1>being a number one contenders match. But in storyline, I

<v Speaker 1>stand with Sammy. The man has a very legitimate right.

<v Speaker 1>But he says, look, because Pierces like take it or

<v Speaker 1>leave it, he goes, fine, I'll take it, but I

<v Speaker 1>don't want any shenanigans. I don't want any funny business,

<v Speaker 1>and Pierce says we're in agreement. So at least he

<v Speaker 1>got on the card. Now we know what Sammy Zane

<v Speaker 1>will be doing at Summer Slim. We had Brie Bella

<v Speaker 1>in a singles match here on this show against one

<v Speaker 1>half of the new Women's Tag Team champions, Laney Reid

<v Speaker 1>of Fatal Influence. Before the match, JC Jane had a mic.

<v Speaker 1>She cut a promo and said, it would have been

<v Speaker 1>perfect if I had a chance to go to Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slim in the latter match to become the interim women's champion.

<v Speaker 1>We would have had all the gold at Page and

<v Speaker 1>Brie Bella that medled in her match last week, and

<v Speaker 1>then she said that she was going to take the

<v Speaker 1>US Championship from Tiffany Stratton in due time. You know,

<v Speaker 1>they could have done that match at Summerslim if they

<v Speaker 1>had played their cards right. That could have been a

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim match. Anyway, they cut to a commercial break

<v Speaker 1>not even a minute into this. Laney had bri In

<v Speaker 1>positioned later for a superplex, recountered out of it. She

<v Speaker 1>dumped her face first down to the mat. Page then

<v Speaker 1>attacked jac Jane when Jace tried to interfere, and then

<v Speaker 1>Laney countered with a sun or. Brie went for a

<v Speaker 1>sunset flip bomb and Laney countered into what she thought

<v Speaker 1>was the pin. She was holding the ropes for leverage.

<v Speaker 1>The referee saw her, so she stopped her count and

<v Speaker 1>then Brie countered into a pin of her own and

<v Speaker 1>got the three. After the match fatal influence, they went

<v Speaker 1>on the attack on Brion Page. When you can look

<v Speaker 1>but you can't touch. That's what we hear. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>singing it, but we heard it, and out comes Nicki

<v Speaker 1>Bella and she ran to the ring, first time that

<v Speaker 1>we have seen her since March. She got injured on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown before WrestleMania, shattered her ankle basically or her foot.

<v Speaker 1>I think it was her ankle, but whatever it was,

<v Speaker 1>she ran down to the ring here to make the

<v Speaker 1>save for her sister. Then for Page dropped Jace with

<v Speaker 1>a rack attack and then got on the mind and

<v Speaker 1>she said, it's gonna be me, Brie and Page against

<v Speaker 1>the three of you at Summerslim. So we just added

<v Speaker 1>a new match on to the card. A. We have

<v Speaker 1>a six man tag and we have a six women tag.

<v Speaker 1>We have a men's rumble, we have a women's rumble.

<v Speaker 1>We have a men's chamber, we have a women's chamber.

<v Speaker 1>We have a men's wargames, we have a women's war games.

<v Speaker 1>We have terrible men's booking, we have terrible women's booking.

<v Speaker 1>Everything in this company is fifty to fifty. At least

<v Speaker 1>they're consistent. Most of this took place during the commercial.

<v Speaker 1>I don't even know how I can give an opinion

<v Speaker 1>on this match or grade it or rate it. How

<v Speaker 1>can I fairly do that? Right? I mean, they went

<v Speaker 1>right to commercial. Half the fucking match took place during

<v Speaker 1>the commercial break. There really is nothing to say here

<v Speaker 1>about this match. I'm not a fan of Laney taking

<v Speaker 1>the loss here coming off their title win last weekend,

<v Speaker 1>but they're probably gonna win at Summer Slam, and so

<v Speaker 1>I get it. They wanted to give the baby Faces

<v Speaker 1>something here. The Babyface has already lost their belts. They're

<v Speaker 1>probably gonna lose at the PL so they gave him

<v Speaker 1>a win here. It's really not that big of a deal.

<v Speaker 1>But my thought is this, so Nicki is back, and

<v Speaker 1>my thinking a few months ago was that when we

<v Speaker 1>there she is, I mean, the timing could not have

<v Speaker 1>been any better on that Venom Ktetsu. He's got a

<v Speaker 1>knack for it, coming in with a twenty five dollars

<v Speaker 1>pre mode. Thank you, Venom Catetsu. A few months ago,

<v Speaker 1>after Nicki was hurt, I was thinking, when she eventually returns,

<v Speaker 1>do we get a heel bella Twins where the sisters

<v Speaker 1>basically turned on pay and Page plays the role of

<v Speaker 1>baby Face. But I'm watching this and I'm like, you know,

<v Speaker 1>I would not be against the idea of a Page

<v Speaker 1>heel turn and Page linking up with fatal influence. You

<v Speaker 1>get four members instead of three, and so she goes heel.

<v Speaker 1>I do wonder if someone is turning, if it might

<v Speaker 1>not be Page instead of Nicki. But I almost feel

<v Speaker 1>like there's gotta be something. I don't know. I just

<v Speaker 1>I don't see Page and the Bella's you just kind

<v Speaker 1>of keep them together as friends and everything just you know,

<v Speaker 1>everything's fine. I feel like there has to be something here.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe it's a case where after they lose, you know,

<v Speaker 1>someone is frustrated, whether again, whether it's Nicki, your Page,

<v Speaker 1>and then that's the catalyst for one to turn on

<v Speaker 1>the other. I just feel like there may be a

<v Speaker 1>turn at the end of all this, and I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>mind it if it was Page. We go to the back.

<v Speaker 1>Kathy is talking to Finn Balor about his fatal four

<v Speaker 1>Way Tonight. Balor thinks about the twenty sixteen summer Slim

<v Speaker 1>ten years ago. Can you believe it? Twenty sixteen when

<v Speaker 1>he had the best and worst night of his career.

<v Speaker 1>Ten years later, he's been scratching and clawing his way

<v Speaker 1>trying to get that glory back. And in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of this promo, Gunther shows up and reminds Balor that

<v Speaker 1>I'm next when it comes to the World Championship and

<v Speaker 1>then he mocks Balor taking ten years for this moment.

<v Speaker 1>It is kind of pathetic, is it not. He had

<v Speaker 1>that Universal title win, he dropped at the very next night,

<v Speaker 1>and he has not touched world gold of any kind

<v Speaker 1>since then. It is quite said. After the break, we

<v Speaker 1>got a recap of the La Knight, Royce Keys, Solo

<v Speaker 1>Socoa stuff that's been going on with the Bloodline to

<v Speaker 1>set up the six man tag at Summer Slim. So

<v Speaker 1>now we go back live. Royce Keys is in the

<v Speaker 1>back and he's warming up. Here's Solo Socoa and shockingly,

<v Speaker 1>he was not wearing red. He's been wearing that red

<v Speaker 1>suit now for like a month and he finally bought

<v Speaker 1>a new one. So he shows up and he's getting

<v Speaker 1>Royce all hyped up. He's talking to him like these

<v Speaker 1>guys are a faction. Yeah, he's talking about him like

<v Speaker 1>he's his newest member of like the new MFTs and

<v Speaker 1>Key says he's happy to be home in the Bay Area.

<v Speaker 1>He's got a big opportunity tonight, Solo said, if you

<v Speaker 1>win Tonight, got a match on Summer Slim Saturday, got

<v Speaker 1>a match on Summer slim. Sunday, La Night shows up

<v Speaker 1>and he says that he hopes Keys wins tonight. He

<v Speaker 1>reminds him, though, keep your eyes open in the back

<v Speaker 1>of your head for some Bloodline bs. Keys then reminded him,

<v Speaker 1>I'm a grown ass man. I take everything I want.

<v Speaker 1>Solo says, they're all on the same team. All the

<v Speaker 1>Bloodline found is an ass whooping at SummerSlam. And he's

<v Speaker 1>cutting the promo here and he's putting over Royce, he's

<v Speaker 1>putting over La, he's putting over himself. He was talking

<v Speaker 1>like Jimmy, or not Jimmy. He was talking like Jay

<v Speaker 1>in this promo. It's almost like their brothers or something.

<v Speaker 1>But we got to see, you know again, glimpses of

<v Speaker 1>Solo Soca his personality in a way that we never

<v Speaker 1>did before when he was doing the Mftist. This is

<v Speaker 1>what I'm talking about, Like, he's just more enjoyable to watch.

<v Speaker 1>He's more fun to watch when he's in this role.

<v Speaker 1>We get happy Solo instead of stoic Solo, you know

<v Speaker 1>what I mean, where it's more serious and he's all

<v Speaker 1>buttoned up and he's got to lead, you know, he's

<v Speaker 1>got to lead his family to victory. This is this

<v Speaker 1>is a version of him that's a lot more tolerable,

<v Speaker 1>and I think it really taps into more of what

<v Speaker 1>he brings to the table that will make him entertaining,

<v Speaker 1>as opposed to before where I didn't find any of

<v Speaker 1>what they were doing entertaining in the least, So more

<v Speaker 1>of that elsewhere In the back, Tiffany Stratton was hyping

<v Speaker 1>up Chelsea Green than wishing her luck ahead of her

<v Speaker 1>qualifying match. Apparently now we have moved beyond the phase

<v Speaker 1>where Tiffany is very standoffish and doesn't really want to

<v Speaker 1>have anything to do with Chelsea. I guess Chelsea is

<v Speaker 1>just she's wonder over. I guess they're like best friends. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Chelsea goes off to get ready for her qualifying match

<v Speaker 1>and Blake Monroe shows up, and shockingly, she didn't attack anybody.

<v Speaker 1>This is all she's been doing for weeks, is just

<v Speaker 1>randomly attacking women on the roster. In the back, she

<v Speaker 1>shows up and she advised Tiffany start worrying more about

<v Speaker 1>your US title and less about Chelsea Green. You know,

<v Speaker 1>forget what I said before about Tiffany and Jase, had

<v Speaker 1>they really played their cards right? Tiffany Stratton wouldn't have

<v Speaker 1>to be in a ladder match this weekend. She would

<v Speaker 1>be defending her United States Championship against Blake Monroe. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>we have no US title match at SummerSlam, and Blake

<v Speaker 1>has not even wrestled the match, not one match on SmackDown. Yet.

<v Speaker 1>She's been showing up and attacking different people. She's been

<v Speaker 1>and cutting little short promos. We're heading into Summer Slim

<v Speaker 1>as she has no match, of course, not because she

<v Speaker 1>has yet to wrestle one. But had they taken the

<v Speaker 1>time to get her on TV, put her in the

<v Speaker 1>ring with some people, let her rack up a few wins,

<v Speaker 1>you could have set up a singles match between these

<v Speaker 1>two for Summer Slim. Again, there's been so many questionable

<v Speaker 1>booking choices. Some of them have been dictated by injuries. Right,

<v Speaker 1>injuries happen, you have to pivot, you have to adjust.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe you have great plans for this person and that

<v Speaker 1>person and they get blown to smithereens and I sympathize

<v Speaker 1>with that, but that doesn't excuse some of these other

<v Speaker 1>decisions that they have made coming into the Summer Slim card.

<v Speaker 1>Certain people who either are not on the show or

<v Speaker 1>they're on the show, but they have belts, but they're

<v Speaker 1>not defending. Like, what is going on here? How do

<v Speaker 1>we not have this as a match at Summer Slim?

<v Speaker 1>Why is Blake just still running around cutting promos and

<v Speaker 1>just beating people up? When did she show up on

<v Speaker 1>this show? Was when Julia? What was before that? Really

<v Speaker 1>in the vignettes, but like in terms of her being there,

<v Speaker 1>like really making an in ring appearance. It was after

<v Speaker 1>Julia beat Keana? How long ago was that? At this point?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's really there's no there's no rationale for it.

<v Speaker 1>There really is, There's no excuse for it. Chelsea Green

<v Speaker 1>against Keana James. This was an interim Women's Title Ladder

<v Speaker 1>Match qualifying match. Chelsea hit a rough rider that almost

<v Speaker 1>got her a win. She went for the unpretty Her

<v Speaker 1>counter though by Keana with a super kick and then

<v Speaker 1>a Falcon arrow, but Chelsea kicked out. James had a codebreaker. Chelsea, though,

<v Speaker 1>then slipped out of a samo and drop attempt, hit

<v Speaker 1>the unpretty hurt and got the win. This went three minutes,

<v Speaker 1>So that very brief summation I just gave you, really

<v Speaker 1>was it all that like off from like the full

<v Speaker 1>match it's I'm not exaggerating by that much. This went

<v Speaker 1>three minutes. I don't really have a whole lot to

<v Speaker 1>say about it. It was a match. I'll tell you what.

<v Speaker 1>I am happy to see. I'm happy to see Chelsea

<v Speaker 1>Green get a win and a significant win, because that

<v Speaker 1>win will now send her to Summer Slim. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>sorry it came at the expense of Keana James. What

<v Speaker 1>is there really to say, you know what I mean?

<v Speaker 1>Like she was together with Julia. The breakup that they

<v Speaker 1>did was overdue, but we finally got the breakup. We

<v Speaker 1>had the one match between them, and ever since then

<v Speaker 1>and Julia beat her. Ever since then, they have been

<v Speaker 1>completely directionless. In fact, Julia hasn't even been seen on

<v Speaker 1>the show. She's been Mia. She ain't getting that spot,

<v Speaker 1>that last spot in the ladder match. They're both completely

<v Speaker 1>directionless right now. And you know, again, they broke them

<v Speaker 1>up without having any real plan for what to do

<v Speaker 1>with either one of them. That's the real sin in this.

<v Speaker 1>They knew enough to finally separate them, but then they

<v Speaker 1>were like, oh, well, now, what what's planned b for

<v Speaker 1>the two of them? They're still trying to figure it out.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure, in the midst of trying to plan the

<v Speaker 1>eventual creative for Tom Brady and Logan Paul, they'll figure

<v Speaker 1>out what to do with some of these women. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I just think about the women's division right now on

<v Speaker 1>this show, and it's not just a Blake issue or

<v Speaker 1>a Keana issue or a Juliet issue. Again, you have

<v Speaker 1>these two women. Like I just said, no direction whatsoever.

<v Speaker 1>Blake Monroe is still going around stalking people in the

<v Speaker 1>back and not wrestling all of this. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>with their champion Rhea Ripley on the shelf since the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of June, which you would think would open up

<v Speaker 1>some opportunities to feature some other people on the show.

<v Speaker 1>Oh shit, we lost Rhea Ripley. We can't build everything

<v Speaker 1>around Rhea Ripley in her Summer Slam opponent. Because Rhea

<v Speaker 1>is off the table. What are we going to do?

<v Speaker 1>And I, like I could picture all the other women,

<v Speaker 1>like Paulo Vak is standing there like, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>what do we what are we going to do? And

<v Speaker 1>I just see this like horde of women behind him,

<v Speaker 1>like tapping him on the shoulder. Oh, Paul, Paul, I'm

<v Speaker 1>right here, and He's like, yeah, later later, later, we're

<v Speaker 1>trying to figure out what to do right now. But Paul, yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>leave us alone. We're busy right now some other time,

<v Speaker 1>as they all stand behind him like, hey, we're right here,

<v Speaker 1>We're right here. This is the brain trust at work,

<v Speaker 1>our Truth and Damian Priest. They were having a chat

<v Speaker 1>backstage and he was basically Priest, like Royce Keys earlier,

<v Speaker 1>was warming up because he's also part of the Fatal

<v Speaker 1>four Way. Truth comes over and we come to find

<v Speaker 1>out Truth thought their tag team match was tonight. Price

<v Speaker 1>said no, no, no, the match against the war Raiders

<v Speaker 1>for Our Belts and their Triple A tag team titles,

<v Speaker 1>that's next week. So now we have a date on

<v Speaker 1>when that match is going to be. Truth asked him,

<v Speaker 1>are you upset that I use your credit card to

<v Speaker 1>buy hot dogs for the fourth of July? And pre

<v Speaker 1>said they were free, and here comes Cody Rhodes and

<v Speaker 1>Cody says, I heard hot dogs. I like hot dogs. Hm.

<v Speaker 1>He also mentioned Punk and what he had said last week,

<v Speaker 1>and he joked about coming for their tag team titles

<v Speaker 1>because Punk had mentioned that the two of them, him

<v Speaker 1>and Cody, maybe we're going to go after the tag

<v Speaker 1>belts when Punk had his interaction with Damian Priest, so

<v Speaker 1>Cody brought that up again, kind of in a joking way.

<v Speaker 1>Truth thinks that Priest and Cody are just confused, and

<v Speaker 1>he wanders off, So anyway, Truth is out of the picture.

<v Speaker 1>Cody puts over Priests and says it he'll be waiting

<v Speaker 1>for him after he regains his championship at Summer Slim,

<v Speaker 1>and Price said, look, everybody is sick of the same

<v Speaker 1>people at the top, and if you listen, you can

<v Speaker 1>hear light cheers in the background from the fans in

<v Speaker 1>the arena at that comment. So are there are enough

<v Speaker 1>people in the audience to make noise to where they

<v Speaker 1>feel the same way. It is tiresome when you see

<v Speaker 1>the same faces over and over and over and over again.

<v Speaker 1>So that was kind of funny to hear that. Price

<v Speaker 1>said he's coming to drop the champion, whoever it may be,

<v Speaker 1>whether it's Cody or Punk coming out of Summer Slim,

<v Speaker 1>He's going to drop him. And Cody said, look, it

<v Speaker 1>might shock you to hear this, but I like that attitude,

<v Speaker 1>and he walked off. Cody Rhodes was out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring next, got one of the weaker receptions that I

<v Speaker 1>can honestly remember him getting in a very long time,

<v Speaker 1>and he got right to brass tacks. Here he introduced

<v Speaker 1>his summer Slam opponent, the WWE champion CM Punk was

<v Speaker 1>greeted a lot more warmly by the fans here in Oakland.

<v Speaker 1>So Cody. Cody had two mics and he went to

<v Speaker 1>go hand one of the microphones to Punk and he

<v Speaker 1>dropped it. Accidentally dropped the microphone on the mat. It

<v Speaker 1>says like when Hangman Page went to go hand what

<v Speaker 1>was it the trios titles to Samoa Joe and he

<v Speaker 1>accidentally dropped it and Joe flipped out. That's what started

<v Speaker 1>the fucking feud between them, because he dropped the belt. Here,

<v Speaker 1>he dropped the mic, and he was waiting for Punk

<v Speaker 1>to bend over and pick it up, like Bill Buckner

<v Speaker 1>with the tickets that Pete Rose left him in Boston

<v Speaker 1>for WrestleMania. Punk didn't want to bend over. Punk did

<v Speaker 1>not want to bend over for Cody. So he went

<v Speaker 1>over and somebody handed him a brand new microphone, and

<v Speaker 1>he said, it's sad that this is where things are

<v Speaker 1>between the two of them, because it feels like his

<v Speaker 1>friend was acting very paranoid. He didn't want the title

<v Speaker 1>to come between him and Cody. But if Cody's got

<v Speaker 1>another reason for all of this, then, by all means explain.

<v Speaker 1>Cody said they should stop with the word paranoid. He said,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not paranoid, which is exactly, by the way, what

<v Speaker 1>a paranoid person would say. So Cody said, I'm not paranoid.

<v Speaker 1>He said, what happened is Saturday Night's main event. Or rather,

<v Speaker 1>he said, what happened just now is an accident, just

<v Speaker 1>like Punk hitting him with the title belt strap when

<v Speaker 1>he put the belt over his shoulder and to hit

<v Speaker 1>Cody in the face, just like that was an accident.

<v Speaker 1>It's Saturday Night's main event. Cody said he needs to

<v Speaker 1>be Punk for himself. Punk said there doesn't need to

<v Speaker 1>be another reason other than the title, but he said

<v Speaker 1>that he was all ears if Cody had another reason

<v Speaker 1>as to why, you know, he's doing what he's doing

<v Speaker 1>and acting the way he's acting. Cody said, They've done

<v Speaker 1>a lot of these moments, and people have heard him

<v Speaker 1>say that he loves Punk and he respects Punk. Those

<v Speaker 1>two can be true, and so too can this. I

<v Speaker 1>don't like you In twenty eleven, Punk cut the pipe

<v Speaker 1>bomb promo showed everybody that there was another way, and

<v Speaker 1>Cody did everything that Punk talked about. Punk had a

<v Speaker 1>pipe bomb, but then Cody dropped a nuke on the business.

<v Speaker 1>Cody was aware though, that each step he took on

<v Speaker 1>that journey, the fans wanted it to be Punk instead

<v Speaker 1>of him. Damian Priest just told Cody that he was

<v Speaker 1>sick of the same faces on top. But Cody has

<v Speaker 1>done apologizing for everything that he's worked for. He's been

<v Speaker 1>in this ring with the very best, and he doesn't

<v Speaker 1>sweat any of them. Anybody in that locker room, he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't sweat except for one, and that one is CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk Only. Punk puts the chip back on Cody's shoulder,

<v Speaker 1>says he loves and respects Punk, but he doesn't like him.

<v Speaker 1>For this story to have a proper ending, he has

<v Speaker 1>to beat Punk at summerslim I have to beat you.

<v Speaker 1>So Punk asked if Cody just doesn't like that he's

<v Speaker 1>the champion. He knows how big of a shadow he casts,

<v Speaker 1>and a lot of people can get can't get out

<v Speaker 1>from under it. But with Cody, it's not jealousy. They're

<v Speaker 1>just brothers who fight. He's glad that Cody paid attention,

<v Speaker 1>but only history determines whether Cody did it bigger and

<v Speaker 1>better than he did. That's not for him to say.

<v Speaker 1>That's not for Cody to say. It's for the fans

<v Speaker 1>to say. It's for the history books to say, who

<v Speaker 1>did it better. Cody showed Punk that there was a

<v Speaker 1>way back. After leaving, Punk says that Cody can't handle

<v Speaker 1>the pressure of taking the title from someone who he

<v Speaker 1>actually likes, and now he's got to make himself the

<v Speaker 1>victim and everyone else's enemy. He says, if Kevin Owens

<v Speaker 1>and Randy Ord and John Cena are all his enemies,

<v Speaker 1>that makes Punk his only friend, right because those were

<v Speaker 1>all men who turned on Cody. Punk once promised that

<v Speaker 1>he would never stab Cody in the back. He would

<v Speaker 1>stab him in the front. If Cody thinks the only

<v Speaker 1>way this plays out is beating Punk, then it's SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>Punk will break his heart. So at that point, Cody

<v Speaker 1>pulled his tie off and he says, I think we've

<v Speaker 1>said all that there is to say. Two of them

<v Speaker 1>are going to be teaming up tomorrow, and I think

<v Speaker 1>he said on Sunday and all the live events. I

<v Speaker 1>guess they have a bunch of live events coming up,

<v Speaker 1>some rare live events between now all the way through

<v Speaker 1>next Thursday. He said at that event on Thursday, he's

<v Speaker 1>going to bring a gift to give to Punk and

<v Speaker 1>then at SummerSlam he's gonna whip his ass. Punk said

<v Speaker 1>that he was going to give him his own gift

<v Speaker 1>at SummerSlam, the disappointment of a loss said, they'll be

<v Speaker 1>tagging on house shows. That's true, and Cody again is

<v Speaker 1>going to have a gift for him. He's gonna save

<v Speaker 1>his gift of for Summer Slim and he's gonna whip

<v Speaker 1>Cody's ass and then he's gonna give him the lesson

<v Speaker 1>that Punk is the best in this ring on this

<v Speaker 1>microphone and not even Dusty's Kid can touch him. And

<v Speaker 1>so that was the mic drop moment for Punk and

<v Speaker 1>he went to go leave the ring and Cody said,

<v Speaker 1>hold up, hold up, Dusty's Kid said, we're really going there.

<v Speaker 1>He says, well, get Kingdom ready right, queue up his music.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm thinking, okay, this is gonna be some big

<v Speaker 1>like zinger that he's got for CM Punk It there's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be some big burn like when Roman Reigns was

<v Speaker 1>telling Seth Rollins that Triple H is his work, daddy,

<v Speaker 1>and the only times that Seth can ever win a

<v Speaker 1>world title is when he's cashing in a money in

<v Speaker 1>the bank briefcase, which I thought was a good line.

<v Speaker 1>I'm waiting to see what Cody has up his sleeve here.

<v Speaker 1>He says, come Summer Slam. Is that like von Wagner,

<v Speaker 1>come Tuesday. I don't know why I just thought of that,

<v Speaker 1>but he says, come Summer Slam, he'll win the title

<v Speaker 1>for a fourth time. And he did the horseman hands

<v Speaker 1>gesture when he did it. Not sure if there's any

<v Speaker 1>significance to that, but he made sure that we all

<v Speaker 1>saw it, and that was it. So there really was

<v Speaker 1>no big burn at the end. It was actually kind

<v Speaker 1>of underwhelming. Frankly, the way that Cody ended this promo.

<v Speaker 1>Punk Punk kind of had him licked there. I thought

<v Speaker 1>that what we what we got between them was it

<v Speaker 1>was good. This wasn't anything that's like, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>they just sold Summer Slam. It wasn't like a big

<v Speaker 1>money promo. It wasn't I don't know, even the intensity

<v Speaker 1>wasn't there. You know, you got punk and Cody talking

<v Speaker 1>about I love you, I respect you, but Cody says

<v Speaker 1>I don't like you. There was no like we We've

<v Speaker 1>seen fiery babyface promos before from Cody, and we didn't

<v Speaker 1>get that same like intensity here from him or from Punk.

<v Speaker 1>We've gotten it from Punk as well in past promos,

<v Speaker 1>whether it was a promo exchange with Drew McIntyre or

<v Speaker 1>Seth Rollins, or ahead of that World Championship match that

<v Speaker 1>he had earlier this year with bron Breaker. Remember there

<v Speaker 1>was a promo on Raw that Punk cut Breaker wasn't there,

<v Speaker 1>but Punk looked right into the camera. The camera guy

<v Speaker 1>was right in the corner of the ring and he

<v Speaker 1>got right up close. Like there were those moments where Punk,

<v Speaker 1>when you really give him something to work off, he

<v Speaker 1>can knock it out of the park on promos in

<v Speaker 1>terms of just his intensity and that fire that really builds.

<v Speaker 1>We didn't get any of that here. I mean, what

<v Speaker 1>they were saying made sense for the story. They're trying

<v Speaker 1>to tell you have two friends and each guy feels

<v Speaker 1>like he's better than the other, and Cody is telling

<v Speaker 1>him I need to beat you and all this other stuff,

<v Speaker 1>and Punk's accusing him of being paranoid because all these

<v Speaker 1>other people have turned on him, and I'm not going

<v Speaker 1>to turn on you. I'm going to stab you in

<v Speaker 1>the front and not the back. Yeah, that's the gist

<v Speaker 1>of the story they're trying to tell. It's just there

<v Speaker 1>wasn't there just wasn't anything there. I think that really

<v Speaker 1>made you go, wow, Okay, that left an impression on me.

<v Speaker 1>They just if I wasn't sold on this match already,

<v Speaker 1>I'm really sold now. We didn't really get that there

<v Speaker 1>was something missing. But my big takeaway from this is

<v Speaker 1>that Cody should go heal. Cody should go heal at Summerslim.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they have the balls to do it,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I mean, it just it feels to me

<v Speaker 1>like there have been times where people have hoped for

<v Speaker 1>a Cody heel turn. They've expected a Cody heel turn,

<v Speaker 1>and it just never felt like the right time. It

<v Speaker 1>felt like it would be a mistake. Now that you

<v Speaker 1>have punk on SmackDown, if they want to turn anybody healed,

<v Speaker 1>this would be the time to turn Cody, and I

<v Speaker 1>think you do that, And depending on what kind of

<v Speaker 1>heel Cody decides to play, everyone's oh homelander Cody, whatever

<v Speaker 1>version of Heel Cody we get, as long as it's

<v Speaker 1>not you know, dashing Cody Rhoades is going to be

<v Speaker 1>a hell of a lot more interesting than what he's

<v Speaker 1>been doing on this show, especially if he continues to

<v Speaker 1>feud with like an extended feud with Punk and they

<v Speaker 1>could kind of play off of each other, then that

<v Speaker 1>would make things a lot more interesting. So I hope

<v Speaker 1>we get to see it. Do they have the balls?

<v Speaker 1>So we had breaking news here. I mentioned before that

<v Speaker 1>there was no Carmelo Hayes, there was no Baron Corbin

<v Speaker 1>on this show, and Arabian Night says after SmackDown, WWE

<v Speaker 1>announced Trick Williams against Baron Corbin at SummerSlam. No Carmelo Hayes,

<v Speaker 1>no Ricky Saints shaking my head, Well, maybe they'll be

<v Speaker 1>added on SmackDown twenty four hours before Summer Slim next week.

<v Speaker 1>They did show Ricky. I think when Trick and Mellow

<v Speaker 1>were wrestling, right, they showed Ricky watching backstage. He's still

<v Speaker 1>tied into this, possibly kind of disappeared, hasn't he. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean it was just very, very stupid to not

<v Speaker 1>further that on the actual television show and now they're

<v Speaker 1>just throwing that out there. Baron KORbin. He interfered in

<v Speaker 1>the match, and it's weird enough, like he's being inserted

<v Speaker 1>into the Now you didn't mention is this going to

<v Speaker 1>be a championship match. I don't want to call it

<v Speaker 1>a US title match because I don't know for sure

<v Speaker 1>if the US title is on the line. Actually, let

<v Speaker 1>me check. Let's see what's being reported on whether or

<v Speaker 1>not this is actually a title match. Let's see if

<v Speaker 1>there's anything on this. I do not see anything. There's

<v Speaker 1>actually nothing on this right now, so we'll have to

<v Speaker 1>see if it's a title match or not. I can't

<v Speaker 1>I just can't imagine. Carmelo Hayes doesn't get added. He

<v Speaker 1>was getting a match against Trick when Corbin interfered, Corbyn

<v Speaker 1>put both of them down. Why would Mellow not be

<v Speaker 1>involved in this? It should absolutely be a triple threat match.

<v Speaker 1>If it's not, I don't really understand that it is

<v Speaker 1>for the title, That's what I'm being told. Well that

<v Speaker 1>makes even less sense. Yes, rewarding rewarding bad behavior. The

<v Speaker 1>guy who interfered in the match is getting a title match,

<v Speaker 1>and the guy who was in the match who got

<v Speaker 1>screwed out of a potential win, even though it was

<v Speaker 1>a non title match, is not even in the conversation.

<v Speaker 1>It barely make it make sense. Charlotte Flair against Nya

<v Speaker 1>Jacks another interim title or yes, interim title ladder match

<v Speaker 1>qualifier for SummerSlam. Speaking of rewarding bad behavior perfect timing,

<v Speaker 1>who meant you? Roderick said that in the chat perfect

<v Speaker 1>Timing Roderick, Charlotte Flair last week involved herself in Jade's

<v Speaker 1>qualifying match, which she had no business being a part of.

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte was then put in a qualifier of her own

<v Speaker 1>against Nya Jacks. This was their way of trying to

<v Speaker 1>make it up to Naya who got kind of got

<v Speaker 1>screwed last week, and so she's gonna get another chance

<v Speaker 1>to qualify here. As with most of the matches on

<v Speaker 1>this show, there really wasn't much to it. That's the

<v Speaker 1>case pretty much up and down this show. After a break,

<v Speaker 1>Nya headed up to the middle rope. She dropped the

<v Speaker 1>big leg. Flair kicked out, so Naya was looking for

<v Speaker 1>the annihilator. Charlotte got all up under her and delivered

<v Speaker 1>a power b for a near fall. Wade Barrett he

<v Speaker 1>oversold this on commentary. I mean he was. He was

<v Speaker 1>selling this like it was fucking Hogan slamming Andre in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty seven. I'm like, brother, we see this spot

<v Speaker 1>all the time. Give me a break. So Charlotte was

<v Speaker 1>headed up for a moonsaal when out comes Jade and

<v Speaker 1>the baddies. They come out for the distraction. Flair got

<v Speaker 1>thrown out of the ring by NYA, and Nya then

<v Speaker 1>turned to the batties and she didn't want them there either.

<v Speaker 1>She was talking down to them. Meanwhile, back on the

<v Speaker 1>other side of the ring outside, Charlotte took out BFAB,

<v Speaker 1>She took out Mechen by throwing her into the barricade.

<v Speaker 1>She went back into the ring, she knocked Jade off

<v Speaker 1>the apron with a punch. Then Jade got into the

<v Speaker 1>ring and she hit Charlotte with a punch, and then

<v Speaker 1>the referee called for the disqualification, and so this match

<v Speaker 1>is over. We got the lame DQ and then after

<v Speaker 1>the match, Jade laid out Charlotte with a jaded rinse.

<v Speaker 1>Repeat with this nonsense, at least we got more of

<v Speaker 1>an actual match this week between Nya and Charlotte than

<v Speaker 1>we did with Jade and Nya. Last week, Nia went

<v Speaker 1>on a rampage after this. She cleared off the announced

<v Speaker 1>desk and she was swearing up a storm. She kept

<v Speaker 1>yelling that she just got fucked. Multiple times she said this,

<v Speaker 1>and they had a censor at each time, so I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure as soon as she came through the curtain to

<v Speaker 1>the back they pulled her aside to have a conversation.

<v Speaker 1>She was dropping f bombs here like they were going

<v Speaker 1>out of style. I would be upset too if I

<v Speaker 1>were her, just like Sammy's saying, this woman has every

<v Speaker 1>right to be upset. Two weeks in a row, she

<v Speaker 1>has been screwed, or she said, fucked out of a

<v Speaker 1>spot in this ladder match, which actually makes me wonder

<v Speaker 1>now that I think about, Oh my god, I just

<v Speaker 1>realized something. She's now been screwed over twice. They may

<v Speaker 1>just put her in the match. She may be the

<v Speaker 1>one filling that fifth spot because she has a legitimate

<v Speaker 1>claim to a spot in that match. Two weeks in

<v Speaker 1>a row. Now she's been screwed. She may not even

<v Speaker 1>have to wrestle for it. They may just put her in.

<v Speaker 1>We may be looking at Naya Jacks taking off the

<v Speaker 1>fifth spot in that ladder match. You know, Bliss Fan.

<v Speaker 1>I know Bliss Fan was very hopeful, very hopeful. So now,

<v Speaker 1>so wait is she not in the match? Lash Legend

<v Speaker 1>against Julia is the final qualifier next week on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>So then Naya Jacks really did get fucked? She really did.

<v Speaker 1>Does how is this allowed to go on two weeks

<v Speaker 1>in a row? This woman got screwed. I mean, say

<v Speaker 1>what you want to about Naya Jacks. You may not

<v Speaker 1>be a Naya jackx fan, you may not want to

<v Speaker 1>see Nia Jackson this ladder match, but she has a

<v Speaker 1>legitimate gripe here. So it's Lash and so Lash is

<v Speaker 1>getting in the So lash Legend will take the last spot. Sorry,

<v Speaker 1>Bliss Fan. I know Bliss Fan was hopeful that Alexa

<v Speaker 1>Bliss would be back in time to get a spot

<v Speaker 1>in the match. It seemed pretty clear when they wrote

<v Speaker 1>her off television that was not going to happen anyway.

<v Speaker 1>The main event of this show fatal four way Damian

<v Speaker 1>Priest against Finn Valor against Trick Williams against Royce Keys.

<v Speaker 1>They were in Keys's backyard, they were not far from

<v Speaker 1>Palo Alto, and they didn't even give him a televised entrance.

<v Speaker 1>He got a jobber entrance. The winner goes on to

<v Speaker 1>wrestle Sammy's Ain at SummerSlam in a Number one Contenders match.

<v Speaker 1>We were not even thirty seconds into this main event

<v Speaker 1>and they cut to a break. Immediately killed the vibe.

<v Speaker 1>This whole show is a vibe killer. This entire two

<v Speaker 1>hours kills the vibe. Late in the match, Trick caught

<v Speaker 1>Priest with a backhand that sent him to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Balor then dumped Trick out of the ring and then

<v Speaker 1>Lowbridge keys and then Balor hit a flip dive out

<v Speaker 1>onto the pile. Solo Socoa walked out as the show

<v Speaker 1>went to another break, Jimmy and Jay they made their

<v Speaker 1>way out. They attacked Solo after the break. La Knight's

<v Speaker 1>entrance music played, but he had enough sense to come

<v Speaker 1>out of the crowd. At least he didn't slip and

<v Speaker 1>fall this time, and he attacked the ussos who were

<v Speaker 1>busy watching for him, looking towards the stage. Solo at night.

<v Speaker 1>They fought the usos to the back. Meanwhile, in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>Priest put Trick down with the South of Heaven Choked

<v Speaker 1>slim Keys, though stopped Priest from going for the pin. Keys,

<v Speaker 1>put Priest down with a spinebuster, had him beat when

<v Speaker 1>Jacob Fatu appeared at ringside and he pulled him out

<v Speaker 1>of the ring at the last minute. Fatu worked him over,

<v Speaker 1>hit Keys with a running hippotack. Keys was seated up

<v Speaker 1>against the timekeeper's barricade and Fatu built built up ahead

<v Speaker 1>of Steam. He came in with the running hip attack

<v Speaker 1>inside Balor hit Priest with a shotgun dropkick, followed up

<v Speaker 1>with the double stomp off the top Coup de grass.

<v Speaker 1>Thanks for coming Finn Balor. He leaves Pinn Balor at

<v Speaker 1>home again and actually picks up the win. I think,

<v Speaker 1>legitimately it has been years since Finn Balor has strung

<v Speaker 1>together this many consecutive wins, and it's nice that he

<v Speaker 1>got himself a match at Summer Slim. How about that

<v Speaker 1>it's actually gonna have a singles match on that show.

<v Speaker 1>Same for Sammy Zayin. I legitimately didn't think he was

<v Speaker 1>gonna have a match on the card, and so now

<v Speaker 1>you've got Baler against Zane. You know what, It's a

<v Speaker 1>I think a perfectly solid addition to the middle of

<v Speaker 1>that card with main event implications. Because the winner is

<v Speaker 1>going to get a World Championship match, and honestly, I

<v Speaker 1>could see that match going either way. You would think

<v Speaker 1>Sammy would win, but they've really teased Balor going for

<v Speaker 1>the belt. There's been some backstage interactions with Punk and

<v Speaker 1>I think Cody, so it's probably gonna be Sammy, but honestly,

<v Speaker 1>it could go either way. But at least they have

<v Speaker 1>a match on the card. The rest of this show

<v Speaker 1>didn't do a whole hell of a lot to get

<v Speaker 1>me excited for the Summer Slam Show. This Summer Slam

<v Speaker 1>Show on paper, you look at some of the matches,

<v Speaker 1>and there are matches on this card that I know

<v Speaker 1>are going to be really good matches like Cody and

<v Speaker 1>Punk is going to be really good. Roman and Seth

<v Speaker 1>is going to be really good. Oba and Brock their

<v Speaker 1>first two matches have been fun. Now you put them

<v Speaker 1>in the cell. I'm excited for that match to see

<v Speaker 1>what they can do inside the cell. Penta and Chad

<v Speaker 1>Gable is a match that I'm looking forward to. This

<v Speaker 1>should be the big crowning moment for Chad Gable, right,

<v Speaker 1>So that's why that's four matches, And then you look

<v Speaker 1>at some of the other ones on the show, and

<v Speaker 1>they have potentials. So it's one of those situations where

<v Speaker 1>I think the talent will go out there if they're

<v Speaker 1>given the time to do so. I just remember whatever

<v Speaker 1>night it was or WrestleMania this year where every match,

<v Speaker 1>not every match, but like most of the matches got

<v Speaker 1>like seven minutes. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of that.

<v Speaker 1>If they have the time to go out there and

<v Speaker 1>do what they do, they can have a really good night.

<v Speaker 1>But in terms of the storylines, in terms of all

<v Speaker 1>the hype to get you all, you know, all the

<v Speaker 1>promotion to get you hyped up for this show, and

<v Speaker 1>it's a big one. You know, it's summer slant. It's

<v Speaker 1>just it's missing. It's missing, and these shows are just

<v Speaker 1>so uninspired. SmackDown is the worst defender of mall. Nothing

<v Speaker 1>has changed in that regard. Punk's on the show now. Punk,

<v Speaker 1>I think did a lot to help elevate Raw. I'm

<v Speaker 1>hopeful that he'll be able to help out SmackDown. He

<v Speaker 1>hasn't been there long enough to really have made a

<v Speaker 1>dent yet, but I think having him on the show,

<v Speaker 1>if they I mean again, if they can get Kevin

<v Speaker 1>Owens back in the next few months. I was thinking

<v Speaker 1>about Naomi too, because they mentioned her unreal you know,

<v Speaker 1>when she had to step away for the pregnancy, and

<v Speaker 1>we're coming up on a year. You know, next month

<v Speaker 1>is going to be one full year. And even in

<v Speaker 1>her promo when she left, she said, you know, nine

<v Speaker 1>months from now, I'll be back, and you knew it

<v Speaker 1>wasn't going to be nine months. I don't know how

<v Speaker 1>far along she would have been at that point. Naomi's

<v Speaker 1>another one, though, or in the next few months potentially,

<v Speaker 1>you know, and maybe it won't be until the Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>You know, we still may be a ways off. But

<v Speaker 1>I look ahead and I just see these names that

<v Speaker 1>have been missing. Bronson Reed is another one. Some of

<v Speaker 1>them would be on Raw, but again, like Kevin Owens

<v Speaker 1>someone like that, to get him back on SmackDown, to

<v Speaker 1>get Drew McIntyre back on the show. The show could

<v Speaker 1>really use some of these faces back. And then you

<v Speaker 1>throw in maybe a Cody Heel turn right, As crazy

<v Speaker 1>as it sounds for me to even say that, like,

<v Speaker 1>there are tools in the toolbox for them to use

<v Speaker 1>to get this show going and they just don't use them.

<v Speaker 1>And then on top of that, you compound that when

<v Speaker 1>there is an injury like they've had to rear Ripley.

<v Speaker 1>So you combine just this bizarre booking and then whatever

<v Speaker 1>injuries are setting them back, and it creates havoc, and

<v Speaker 1>then there are other people missing Dragon of and I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, it just smack SmackDown sucks. SmackDown sucks,

<v Speaker 1>and I just hope they could turn it around coming

<v Speaker 1>out of Summer Slam. I don't know if that's just

<v Speaker 1>the blind hope and optimism that I'm trying to have here,

<v Speaker 1>but that's why I say when the show went back

<v Speaker 1>to two hours, I'd rather have two hours of a

<v Speaker 1>terrible show than three hours of one. Unfortunately, things haven't

<v Speaker 1>really changed, and we happen to be going into our

<v Speaker 1>second biggest of end of the year on the WWE calendar,

<v Speaker 1>not ideal. Probably also has something to do other than

<v Speaker 1>the ticket prices, with why tickets haven't sold quite as

<v Speaker 1>well for Summer Slam this year as they did last year.

<v Speaker 1>They're still gonna get their seventy or eighty thousand people

<v Speaker 1>over the course of two nights, but they ain't gonna

<v Speaker 1>hold a candle to what they did in Met Life

<v Speaker 1>last year. They ain't even gonna come close. All right,

<v Speaker 1>here we go. Let's get into your questions here. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>you guys thought of this SmackDown show or got Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slam thoughts. Lay them on me, Lay them on me.

<v Speaker 1>Bianca is still pregnant? Is beyond is she? I thought

<v Speaker 1>she would have had her baby by now. She's really

<v Speaker 1>holding onto that thing. Huh. I doesn't want to let

<v Speaker 1>go hit the bonus goal. Just literally just now hit

<v Speaker 1>the bonus goal, which is good because we're still over

<v Speaker 1>one hundred off from the main goal, which is five

<v Speaker 1>point fifty. We're four to forty seven. So whether or

<v Speaker 1>not we're going to get that bonus round is going

<v Speaker 1>to come down to whether or not we hit the

<v Speaker 1>likes goal. But at least we got the one round

<v Speaker 1>coming our way. Joseph, Happy Friday to you, brother, San Diego.

<v Speaker 1>Comic Con is this weekend. It was this past weekend.

<v Speaker 1>I thought, right, I've seen all all of this comic

<v Speaker 1>Con stuff on my timeline over the last few days.

<v Speaker 1>I know it's going on right now. Actually, they had

<v Speaker 1>they showed the old LJN figures. They've re released them,

<v Speaker 1>I guess under Mattel and they're coming out with a

<v Speaker 1>new line and they actually have a Heart Foundation two pac.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know when it's out. I'm gonna have to

<v Speaker 1>try to get my hands on that. If anybody's got

<v Speaker 1>a lead on that, let me know. Those were some

<v Speaker 1>l jns that I never got my hands on back

<v Speaker 1>in the day. I never had a Brett. I never

<v Speaker 1>had a Heart Foundation l JN. Justin says, did you

<v Speaker 1>know that Raven was responsible for bringing in Beulah to ECW? Well?

<v Speaker 1>I know now, I know. Now it's got a couple

<v Speaker 1>of birthday shoutouts here too, because I will be watching

<v Speaker 1>the Masters of the Universe and the Dolph Lungern version

<v Speaker 1>tonight for my Friday night movies. Yeah, you know the

<v Speaker 1>new Masters of the Universe movie which bombed in theaters,

<v Speaker 1>which sucks because I saw it and I really enjoyed it.

<v Speaker 1>It's on is it Prime? I think it's Amazon Prime.

<v Speaker 1>It was number one. I believe it still is number one,

<v Speaker 1>So it's a good sign make some of that money back.

<v Speaker 1>He says, how different would WWE and wrestling look today

<v Speaker 1>if Stone Cold did not turn heel at wrestle Mania

<v Speaker 1>is seventeen. Wrestling would look exactly the same that WWE's

<v Speaker 1>business wouldn't have plummeted quite as quickly as it did,

<v Speaker 1>And Joseph says, remembering Hulk Hogan today, Yes, indeed, it's

<v Speaker 1>been a year. Could they do a Dark Side of

<v Speaker 1>the Ring on bray Wires up? Fuck that tree? Hey,

<v Speaker 1>cataclysm or cataclysmic? Cataclysmic is me? Thank you for the

<v Speaker 1>twelve dollars learning trait. This Sunday we have the Painmaker.

<v Speaker 1>It's not the learning trait. I should actually I should

<v Speaker 1>do I should do a Painmaker super chat oh Man,

<v Speaker 1>dark Side of the Ring on bray Wyatt. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>mean I could see that years from now. It's it's

<v Speaker 1>way too recent to even think about doing something like that.

<v Speaker 1>Snow Dog says, I just looked up the Heart Foundation figures.

<v Speaker 1>Oh they're out now. I thought this was like a

<v Speaker 1>preview for something coming later in the year, says, I

<v Speaker 1>just looked up the Heart Foundation figures. Seventy two dollars

<v Speaker 1>at targets. That's nonsense, Joseph, thank you. Broley says only

<v Speaker 1>forty year olds can go for world titles. Apparently, seems

<v Speaker 1>like it great fatal influence versus the Bella is all

<v Speaker 1>so that the Bellas can beat them at Summer Slim,

<v Speaker 1>because fuck the new Girls. We need to get the

<v Speaker 1>Bellas over pal. Yeah. If I were betting the Bellas

<v Speaker 1>are not winning at Summer Slim, fatal Influence is gonna

<v Speaker 1>win at Summer Slim. Anything else would be ridiculous. DJ

<v Speaker 1>fifty five says here in Oakland for SmackDown, Sun has

<v Speaker 1>eighteen dollars chicken strips. Just spilled water on a guy

<v Speaker 1>in front of us. A drunk dude keeps talking to me,

<v Speaker 1>And now I'm seeing Naya Jacks come out. This is

<v Speaker 1>turning into a dream night sounds like a nightmare, not

<v Speaker 1>a dream. Justin g Win Balor, who led him in here. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I look, I was as shocked as anybody. Every now

<v Speaker 1>and then Winn Balor makes an appearance. Philip Bowman, how

<v Speaker 1>would you feel about the Dark Side of the Ring

<v Speaker 1>episode on Edge and Matt Hardy's two thousand and five feud. Also,

<v Speaker 1>what did you think of the Necro Butcher and Joe episode.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. You know what they

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that they would be able to if

<v Speaker 1>they couldn't get Copeland to sit down for it. You'd

<v Speaker 1>have to get Copeland at least, if not Copeland and Alita.

<v Speaker 1>To just have Matt you can't get You can't get

<v Speaker 1>a whole episode out of that. If you can get

<v Speaker 1>all of the parties, though, to sit down and talk

<v Speaker 1>about it, then sure you could do an episode on that.

<v Speaker 1>You'd have to really stretch it out a little bit,

<v Speaker 1>but you could do it. Misfit Wrestling Podcast after tonight,

<v Speaker 1>I never again want to hear that WWE sees more

<v Speaker 1>upside and Keana James ever again. They squashed her and

<v Speaker 1>fed her to a jobber. Yeah, I mean, they're certainly

<v Speaker 1>not using her in a way that would indicate that

<v Speaker 1>they really have any plans for Donovan d Is it

<v Speaker 1>time for someone else to lead creative Triple Ah seems

<v Speaker 1>to have lost his Nxteam magic if it was truly him.

<v Speaker 1>I watched WWF in ninety five, and even that wasn't

<v Speaker 1>as bad as today's product. Well, because today's product is

<v Speaker 1>just it's not again. We talked about this last week.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what this product is supposed to be.

<v Speaker 1>It's not really it's not really wrestling. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it's supposed to be. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know who it's supposed to appeal to. Lakers pats better

<v Speaker 1>Build staying against Hogan in ninety seven or Rockxena WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>twenty eight. Oh as far as Build, I mean stinging Hogan,

<v Speaker 1>It's not even close, Phillip says. Does Osprey say brov

<v Speaker 1>more than Russo says bro No? A misfit wrestling podcast

<v Speaker 1>with a ten says Jason Eisner, who is the co

<v Speaker 1>creator of dark Side, saw my tweet about act Yasukawa

<v Speaker 1>versus Yoshika for a future episode and liked it, So

<v Speaker 1>we might be getting a future episode on this match.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if there was a match that was worthy

<v Speaker 1>of a dark Side of the Ring episode, that would

<v Speaker 1>be it. I don't know if that episode would do

<v Speaker 1>big numbers for them, but it certainly would be worthy

<v Speaker 1>of the dark Side treatment. WWE is an advertising business, now, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, basically that's what it is. I mean, to

<v Speaker 1>some degree, it was always an advertising vehicle. It was

<v Speaker 1>an advertisement for the pay per views. But they didn't

<v Speaker 1>just assault you with just how corporate they were, because

<v Speaker 1>they weren't really corporate back then in the way they

<v Speaker 1>are today. And you know, you would get actual wrestling

<v Speaker 1>week to week on the shows and real character development,

<v Speaker 1>and it's just not a priority for them anymore. You know,

<v Speaker 1>everything else is secondary. Trick Williams against Baron Corbin for

<v Speaker 1>the US title was announced for Summer Slam after the

<v Speaker 1>show went off the air. Oh what a great time

<v Speaker 1>to announce that. Oh boy, good job guys, Leo says, man.

<v Speaker 1>This booking sucks ass. Keana James deserves so much better.

<v Speaker 1>It's incredibly frustrating to see WWE waste. Keana. I think

<v Speaker 1>I'm very close to giving up on WWE for a while.

<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad I turned off the show and decided

<v Speaker 1>to rewatch Logan from twenty seventeen. It's still one of

<v Speaker 1>the best movies I've ever seen. I didn't see that one.

<v Speaker 1>Is that the Wolverine movie? Is that another one I

<v Speaker 1>should add to my list to see before Doomsday in December?

<v Speaker 1>Alexander says Nick all this needs to call his finish

<v Speaker 1>the Pink Slip. Now. I think he should call it

<v Speaker 1>what's causing all this? I like that dry chicken without flavor.

<v Speaker 1>When I saw the Cody Roads and See I'm Punk segment,

<v Speaker 1>Cody accidentally dropping the mic towards Punk is like, don't

<v Speaker 1>drop the soap. I said punk Punk would not bend

<v Speaker 1>over for him, Alexander. If all this wins any match,

<v Speaker 1>the opposing opponent should be fired by default since all

<v Speaker 1>this is a representative of WWE management. Lol. Yeah, well

<v Speaker 1>now he's not though, say he's officially been relieved of

<v Speaker 1>his duties. Adam Pierce made that very clear. Boots with

<v Speaker 1>a ten, Kathy Kelly, Oh my goodness, easy there, big fellow,

<v Speaker 1>MVK with a ten. Hey, Sola. My younger brother, Hulkling

<v Speaker 1>ninety three, and I laid our father to rest yesterday.

<v Speaker 1>He was only sixty six, but he was a great dad. Also,

<v Speaker 1>we'd like to thank you your streams helped us get

<v Speaker 1>through a tough time. I'm very sorry to hear that, brother,

<v Speaker 1>My condolences to you. And Hulkling sixty six is way

<v Speaker 1>too young. So I hope you guys are doing okay.

<v Speaker 1>And again again, you know these streams are here. If

<v Speaker 1>you want to take your mind off things for a

<v Speaker 1>little bit, you know where to turn to. But we're

<v Speaker 1>all thinking about you, Boots says are piercing Gunther Incohoots.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe they're working together, so we're gonna turn Adam Pierce

<v Speaker 1>heel have one heel GM Is that what you're suggesting here?

<v Speaker 1>I don't like this, Boots, I don't like this idea.

<v Speaker 1>I don't like where you're going with this. No, no,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think so Venom Katatsu with the twenty five

<v Speaker 1>dollars super chat. It's margarite tonight at Casa de Venom.

<v Speaker 1>Thanks for taking another SmackDown bullet for us. Let me.

<v Speaker 1>My body is so riddle with bullets. I don't think

<v Speaker 1>I could take many more of them. Digging that shirt,

<v Speaker 1>my dude, you may want to cash in a one

<v Speaker 1>wish Willow for Live Morgan to tune in and see

<v Speaker 1>you in those threads. Now, I think she's taken. Thanks

<v Speaker 1>for looking out, brother, How do I do? I do

<v Speaker 1>have my one wish willow over here somewhere, Alexander says,

<v Speaker 1>Tony Storm sentencing Mariah May to a lifetime of mediocrity

<v Speaker 1>is now bearing fruit on this show. Shame hmm. It

<v Speaker 1>does feel more real than many of us thought. MV cases.

<v Speaker 1>How do you feel about the people calling out Cody

<v Speaker 1>about the same old, same old, same old, always just

<v Speaker 1>him in the main event? Well, because it feels that way,

<v Speaker 1>doesn't it After a while, it just gets tired. And

<v Speaker 1>Cody's not stupid. He has to realize the same thing.

<v Speaker 1>That's why I say, if ever there was a time

<v Speaker 1>for a heel turn, this would be it. You got

<v Speaker 1>a big babyface now on Fridays and see them Punk. Really,

<v Speaker 1>before Punk came over, they didn't have anybody else. That's

<v Speaker 1>why I said, you got to be out of your

<v Speaker 1>mind to turn Cody heel, because you who do you

<v Speaker 1>replace him with? Who steps into that spot on Fridays.

<v Speaker 1>You know there was a point in time where Jacob

<v Speaker 1>fought too. You could have and boy did they cool

<v Speaker 1>him off. He's a fucking stooge now on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>Bron bro me it don't even get me started. All

<v Speaker 1>the people they've cooled off ridiculous. They've put so many

<v Speaker 1>people in the meat locker, it is ridiculous. Jeremy says,

<v Speaker 1>watching Unreal has reiterated my thought that Bruce and Michael

<v Speaker 1>Hayes are a huge part of the problem. They need

<v Speaker 1>to get road dogged. Speaking of the same faces over

<v Speaker 1>and over again. I think the same would apply behind

<v Speaker 1>the scenes as much as it would to the talent

<v Speaker 1>that you see on screen. Dry Chicken says, I honestly

<v Speaker 1>can't feel sorry for the women's division in WWE anymore

<v Speaker 1>because of the other women will defend the brain trust

<v Speaker 1>of the creative team. I mean, I don't know other

<v Speaker 1>women that are going out there and interviews and defending

<v Speaker 1>this nonsense publicly? Are they defending this slop? Venom Cantetsu,

<v Speaker 1>Nita Pete Rose, How bad it? Super Chat? How bad it?

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Bernie will the Sound Off discuss reports of how

<v Speaker 1>TKO is preparing for an aw Mania week announcement. I've

<v Speaker 1>already talked about this. There's nothing to talk about. Already

<v Speaker 1>covered this last week. I mean, I've been telling you

<v Speaker 1>this for how many months? Now? You want to know

<v Speaker 1>my thoughts on it again? I talked about it on

<v Speaker 1>the show last week, literally talked about it and what

<v Speaker 1>I would do if I were him. I floated New

<v Speaker 1>Orleans as a possibility and building like a whole festival

<v Speaker 1>around it. I've already I've already pitched my idea. Tyler says,

<v Speaker 1>going to see The Odyssey tomorrow, very excited. Hey, you

<v Speaker 1>should see it in for d X. Let me let

<v Speaker 1>me know how it is in for d X. Where

<v Speaker 1>You're on the high seas and the storms and your

<v Speaker 1>seat shaking you around and spraying water in your face.

<v Speaker 1>I'm glad I didn't see this movie in for d X.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chicken says, WWE is like a plain salad meal.

<v Speaker 1>Alex says brother solo, hope you're doing great. Do you

<v Speaker 1>think WWE should grow a set and allow Cody and

<v Speaker 1>Punk to throw in some direct aw references. It's important

<v Speaker 1>to who for their audience. I mean, why would they

<v Speaker 1>Why would they encourage them to do that? You and

<v Speaker 1>I would get the references, But in the context of

<v Speaker 1>the story they're trying to tell, how does that enhance

<v Speaker 1>their How does that enhance their Summer Slam match? I

<v Speaker 1>mean it would get a rise I think out of

<v Speaker 1>a lot of people in the audience. I think enough

<v Speaker 1>people in the crowd would kind of get it and

<v Speaker 1>they would react to it. But I don't see how

<v Speaker 1>it really sells more tickets, you know, or really helps

<v Speaker 1>promote the Summer Slam match anymore than you know, like

<v Speaker 1>what they were talking about tonight. Dry Chicken says Sammy's

<v Speaker 1>A and Niajack should link up ruin SummerSlam and purposely

<v Speaker 1>interfere in the matches, Hm, Yes, and then they should

<v Speaker 1>turn to each other and passionately start making out in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of the ring. Here's your Russo swerve. That's

<v Speaker 1>how they go off the air at Summerslim, Sammy and

<v Speaker 1>Naya the pairing you never knew you needed. Hat of

<v Speaker 1>discipline with a ten dollars super chat, no message, just

<v Speaker 1>showing some love as he did the other night. Hey

<v Speaker 1>hat a nice hat you got there, Thank you, brother

<v Speaker 1>San Juan Wolf with a nineteen ninety nine. Who do

<v Speaker 1>you see replacing Nick Aldos as the SmackDown general manager.

<v Speaker 1>I'd be open to William Regal coming back to an

<v Speaker 1>authority figure role if he would be up for it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think they're replacing him with anybody. I think

<v Speaker 1>it's just temporary until summer. Slim Wade Barrett used the

<v Speaker 1>word temporary on commentary tonight, So it's still gonna be

<v Speaker 1>Nick all this. He's not being brought back as a

<v Speaker 1>full time performer. Regal would be a fine choice if

<v Speaker 1>there was suddenly an opening, but I don't believe there's

<v Speaker 1>going to be an opening. Brad. What's going on? Brad?

<v Speaker 1>Thank you for the ten dollars super chat, Brad, Vermilion

<v Speaker 1>as Sammy's wife scowls tearfully in the crowd while holding

<v Speaker 1>his child. Yes, and she gets in the ring to

<v Speaker 1>try to fight off Nya. Nya gives her the annihilator.

<v Speaker 1>Dry Chickens' wwe is pretty soulless. The Rosters sold their soul. Well,

<v Speaker 1>they're not the only ones who sold their soul this week,

<v Speaker 1>Cataclysmic says, joke question, when is Solo going to have

<v Speaker 1>his inaugural match in House of Glory? Real question, chances

<v Speaker 1>of Chelsea Green winning the ladder match. I'm gonna put

<v Speaker 1>her chances of winning the ladder match at a cool

<v Speaker 1>two percent, which is to say she has no chance

<v Speaker 1>of winning the ladder match. Well, I mean I shouldn't

<v Speaker 1>say that. Everybody has a chance. The chances are probably

<v Speaker 1>a lot better that you're gonna get struck by lightning

<v Speaker 1>three times in the next seven days than Chelsea Green

<v Speaker 1>winning that ladder match. As far as one am I

<v Speaker 1>gonna have my first match in HOGH, I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>No one's really pissed me off enough yet. If they did, though, well,

<v Speaker 1>measures would have to be taken. Alex says on that

<v Speaker 1>two dollars super chet clip was sting not aware of

<v Speaker 1>the chair placed behind him when he hit his head.

<v Speaker 1>I actually think that was I'm trying to remember he

<v Speaker 1>was wrestling Bobby Root in that clip, right, I think

<v Speaker 1>that was intentional. I think that was the planned spot.

<v Speaker 1>I could be wrong. It's just so funny watching it, though.

<v Speaker 1>Vincent Moore Amazon greenlit a sequel for Masters of the Universe.

<v Speaker 1>Did they I didn't. I wasn't so sure they would. Okay, well,

<v Speaker 1>I'm happy to hear that. Nick Grosso idea for Dark

<v Speaker 1>Side of the Ring. What about Art Barr. There's a

<v Speaker 1>story to tell with that guy, the Juicer. Hmm. I

<v Speaker 1>think I've mentioned his name before over the years. When

<v Speaker 1>I've occasionally, like at the end of each season, I

<v Speaker 1>usually list like I come up with my own list

<v Speaker 1>of like suggested episodes. I always put Larry Sweeney on there,

<v Speaker 1>Sweet and Sour Larry Sweeney. I've mentioned Art Bar before. Yo,

<v Speaker 1>there's definitely a story there. But I keep coming back

<v Speaker 1>to and again, I could do without hearing about this

<v Speaker 1>guy is just so disgusting. But if you are looking

<v Speaker 1>for a true Dark Side of the Ring episode, then

<v Speaker 1>you gotta do an episode on buck Zoom off Rock

<v Speaker 1>and roll buck zoom off. That's it right there. How

<v Speaker 1>do you not? How do you not do an episode

<v Speaker 1>on him? At Grosso says another dark side of the

<v Speaker 1>ring idea the sexy Star Rosemary incident. I think that

<v Speaker 1>would be interesting. It also would be interesting if they

<v Speaker 1>can get Rosemary to appear out of character for that.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that see that building a whole episode

<v Speaker 1>around that, I think is very unlikely. That one probably

<v Speaker 1>is a no go Hannah Kamora, That one I think

<v Speaker 1>would be worthy of the dark side treatment, even though

<v Speaker 1>I mean, what really led to her taking her life

<v Speaker 1>was a lot of criticism that she was getting that

<v Speaker 1>really didn't come from the wrestling community, but she was

<v Speaker 1>a wrestler and it was a very very sad story.

<v Speaker 1>And Joseph Brooks, would you consider why to Jay an

<v Speaker 1>underrated rival of the Rock? If you think about it,

<v Speaker 1>he could match the Rock on the mic with catch phrases,

<v Speaker 1>and I think he also has more wins against him.

<v Speaker 1>Me personally, I don't consider him an underrated rival of

<v Speaker 1>Rock because I rated their feud pretty high and they

<v Speaker 1>had great matches together, So maybe other people would underrate it,

<v Speaker 1>but I don't. He's not Rock's top rival or anything

<v Speaker 1>like that. I thought they had a good rivalry. And

<v Speaker 1>also he says, who, in your opinion, are the five

<v Speaker 1>greatest wrestlers to never come to WWE from my five

<v Speaker 1>or Bruiser Brody, Great, Muda, rock and Roll Express, and

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega. It's a good list. That's a good list.

<v Speaker 1>Brody Brody is a good one. I might put Brody

<v Speaker 1>on there. Brody and Muda, Kenny. I mean you can

<v Speaker 1>get into like Kenta Kobashi and you know people like that.

<v Speaker 1>Kobashi probably should be on that list. And then if

<v Speaker 1>you want to get into the women, I mean you've

<v Speaker 1>got uh you know, Manami Toyota. I remember watching some

<v Speaker 1>of her matches on YouTube because Meltzer always talking her up,

<v Speaker 1>and I will some of her matches the first time

<v Speaker 1>on YouTube. I was like, holy shit, imagine her like

<v Speaker 1>in the women's division in the last ten years here

<v Speaker 1>in the States. There's just too many to name, and

<v Speaker 1>to narrow it down to five. I mean, you got

<v Speaker 1>some pretty good names right there. I think Muda, Brody

<v Speaker 1>and Omega are three really good ones. And Muda in

<v Speaker 1>golden era WWE would have been fun Muda and Sting man,

<v Speaker 1>they had some great matches, all right. So the main

<v Speaker 1>goal was, as you could see, five hundred at see

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was five fifty five hundred and thirty like.

<v Speaker 1>So we are currently at five thirty two by thirty two.

<v Speaker 1>You know what that means. That means we're getting two

<v Speaker 1>rounds of be the booker. Let's do it. I'm excited.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know who we're going to hit it, did

<v Speaker 1>not know if we were going to hit it, but

<v Speaker 1>we did as we usually do. We begin with a

<v Speaker 1>tag team match. As Paul Levek, he cowers in fear

<v Speaker 1>at the mere thought of it. Again. Two sets of

<v Speaker 1>tag team belts currently not to be defended on either

<v Speaker 1>night of Summer Slim unless they add something with the

<v Speaker 1>Vision and the Alpha Academy, who I believe are having

<v Speaker 1>a non title match on Raw Monday night. It could

<v Speaker 1>lead into a title match that gets made for Summer Slim.

<v Speaker 1>You would think they would want the Vision represented on

<v Speaker 1>that show. If they do. I'm wondering if they add

<v Speaker 1>if they have a late edition and put the Vision

<v Speaker 1>on there for the world tag team titles against Alpha Academy,

<v Speaker 1>if that's where we get the return to Bronson Reid.

<v Speaker 1>But right now, as of this moment, we have no

<v Speaker 1>tag team title matches on that show, not even the women's.

<v Speaker 1>We have the Midnight Express Jim Cornett with the Dennis

<v Speaker 1>Condree and beautiful Bobby Eaton, one of the great Actually,

<v Speaker 1>you know what Joseph mentioned, the Rock and Roll Express,

<v Speaker 1>I would sub I might sub out the Rock and

<v Speaker 1>Roll Express and put the Midnight Express. As far as

<v Speaker 1>the wrestler Grace wrestlers to never come to WWA, the

<v Speaker 1>Midnight Express are going to be taking on the Gun

<v Speaker 1>Club Austin and Colton Gunn. I like it because it's

<v Speaker 1>past and present. Guns have some good athleticism, and I

<v Speaker 1>think them working with a team like the Midnight Express

<v Speaker 1>would be good for them. That's the kind of team

<v Speaker 1>you want to work with. On the lady's side, we have, uh,

<v Speaker 1>we were just talking about her. We're going back to

<v Speaker 1>the glory days of Julia, when Julia was allowed to

<v Speaker 1>be Julia. This is stardom Julia, and we have Stardom

<v Speaker 1>Julia taking on Gail Kim, the former TNA Knockouts champion.

<v Speaker 1>This is young Gail Kim with that TNA Knockouts title

<v Speaker 1>over her shoulder and our first of two main events.

<v Speaker 1>We have New Jack. I don't want to be and

<v Speaker 1>I'm in this. By the way, solom Monster is in

<v Speaker 1>be the booker. I do not. I want to have

<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with New Jack. I got no beef

<v Speaker 1>with New Jack. I got no reason to be in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with this man. I don't want no part

<v Speaker 1>of this. Drew McIntyre against New Jack, have a no

<v Speaker 1>disqualification match in the main event. Just put him in

<v Speaker 1>there with Al Bundy. Al Bundy and New Jack. Oh no,

<v Speaker 1>that's a tough one. I probably go with Al. Probably

<v Speaker 1>out in that situation. Okay, Well, we got our first sweep.

<v Speaker 1>We could be looking for the double sweep. We could be.

<v Speaker 1>It all comes down to what these stipulations are going

<v Speaker 1>to be. Our first match is going to be a

<v Speaker 1>barroom brawl, so we're going to get a little wild

<v Speaker 1>and crazy here. We're going to be outside of our

<v Speaker 1>comfort zone in an actual bar, an Irish pub with

<v Speaker 1>Jeff Hardy. I don't know that that's the place where

<v Speaker 1>Jeff Hardy should be, but Jeff Hardy is going to

<v Speaker 1>be in the bar, in the barroom brawl. I need

<v Speaker 1>a good one here. Oh that, I'd say that pretty

<v Speaker 1>much fits the bill. I don't know if the stipulation

<v Speaker 1>really makes sense for these two, but Jeff Hardy against

<v Speaker 1>Hiroshi Tana Hashi in a barroom brawl. Maybe they could

<v Speaker 1>just take a seat at the bar and have some

<v Speaker 1>you know, soda water, and they could just have a

<v Speaker 1>nice conversation. Jeff Hardy and Hiroshi a ton of Hashi.

<v Speaker 1>I like it. Match number two, we're getting close men

<v Speaker 1>to that double suite. I like where this is headed.

<v Speaker 1>An intergender match. These are always very interesting because you

<v Speaker 1>could literally end up with just so many different possible

<v Speaker 1>combinations here, and it really makes you think, like, what

<v Speaker 1>would that match look like if this match were to

<v Speaker 1>have taken place. So we'll pick the woman first, the

<v Speaker 1>women the woman, the woman in the intergender match is

<v Speaker 1>going to be Who's that? I don't know who this

<v Speaker 1>person is. Whatever happened to Mariah May? She was so great. This,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, is still to this day, in my opinion,

<v Speaker 1>the greatest ending to a dynamite. The turn on Tony

<v Speaker 1>Storm was just a work of art in terms of

<v Speaker 1>like angles, right, We've had great matches that have closed dynamite.

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega just won a world title on Dynamite a

<v Speaker 1>few weeks ago to close the show. But this ride here,

<v Speaker 1>to me is my all time number one. So and

<v Speaker 1>let me tell you, Mariah May again to the men,

<v Speaker 1>this woman, I mean, you put some weapons in her hands.

<v Speaker 1>She'll put up a fight. This could be a fun

<v Speaker 1>one here, Mariah May. Oh my god, Mariah Bay against

<v Speaker 1>Vato Sting. She may put up a fight, but I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if it's gonna be enough to overcome Vatto Sting.

<v Speaker 1>She turns on some of that charm, though she may

<v Speaker 1>be able to distract him. Tell me, you wouldn't pay

<v Speaker 1>money to see that. I'm putting together a much more

<v Speaker 1>interesting card than anything you'll see on these Friday night

<v Speaker 1>slopdown shows. I'll tell you that we technically could have

<v Speaker 1>gotten that in aw, maybe not Vato Sting. But all right,

<v Speaker 1>we got one last main event and it will be

<v Speaker 1>a Monster's Ball match Monster's Ball. I guess we're going

<v Speaker 1>with the all men here for this last round to

<v Speaker 1>be the booker. I just realized, But that's okay. Actually, no,

<v Speaker 1>we had the intergender match. I guess we're gonna skip

<v Speaker 1>the tag teams here. So we got a Monster's Ball.

<v Speaker 1>We're gonna get hardcore in this match with the Mighty Earthquake.

<v Speaker 1>Look at those guns. The man has muscles on top

<v Speaker 1>of muscles in this image. John Tenta man, what a

<v Speaker 1>what a good guy. They did a Dark Side of

<v Speaker 1>the Ring episode on him, and I was I remember

<v Speaker 1>when they announced it. I'm like, dark Side of the Ring?

<v Speaker 1>What's so dark? Well? What's dark is? Ye know? The

<v Speaker 1>way he went out was very unfortunate, but just a

<v Speaker 1>good dude. Just a good dude. I remember him from

<v Speaker 1>the Wrestle Crap forums. He was a good sport about it.

<v Speaker 1>He would engage with people on the message boards in

<v Speaker 1>the community. It was before he got sick. Earthquake. Earthquake

<v Speaker 1>was a favorite of mine. I will say, one of

<v Speaker 1>those characters from that Golden era period that maybe isn't

<v Speaker 1>your number one or two or anything like that, but

<v Speaker 1>a lot of people liked Earthquake. Earthquake and Kenoske to

<v Speaker 1>Keshta in a Monster's Ball that is the double chime

<v Speaker 1>for the first time we got the double chime for

<v Speaker 1>the double sweep here and be the booker Earthquake and

<v Speaker 1>Takeushta Monsters Ball. You know. Earthquake was a legit sumo

<v Speaker 1>he's a tough guy. I like that match, like that combination.

<v Speaker 1>I think that would have worked out really well. Mark Bannon.

<v Speaker 1>What about MASSAUA Dark Side of the Ring? Sure? Again,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that it would have the kind of

<v Speaker 1>broad appeal that some of these other topics would, But

<v Speaker 1>you could do a Missau episode and gold Matthew mount

<v Speaker 1>rushmore of tag teams in terms of drawing, well, I'd

<v Speaker 1>have to see the receipts. I mean, the Road Warriors

<v Speaker 1>would have to be on there. The Road Warriors were

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I would say the Road Warriors are number

<v Speaker 1>one on a lot of people's lists, So I would

<v Speaker 1>say the Road Warriors. You talk about drawings, I mean

<v Speaker 1>you kind of have to put the Rock and Roll Express,

<v Speaker 1>the Midnight Express on there. How do you not have

<v Speaker 1>them on there? What about the von Erics, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Danna World Class? How were they not on the list?

<v Speaker 1>I feel like when it comes to drawing tag teams,

<v Speaker 1>like high drawing tag teams, it's more of a territorial thing.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that there's any real individual tag teams

<v Speaker 1>like in WWE or I mean, you gets it. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>the Young Bucks in AW especially the early years of

<v Speaker 1>aaw But like in WWE, I don't know that you

<v Speaker 1>can really look at one tag team as like the

<v Speaker 1>big drawing tag team. You know what, the Hardys absolutely

<v Speaker 1>belong on that list. And I don't just mean for

<v Speaker 1>like the early part of their career. I'm talking now.

<v Speaker 1>I see it with my own two eyes. You know,

<v Speaker 1>there's a reason why they're the House of Glory tag

<v Speaker 1>Team champions right now. You know, we have the Hardy's

<v Speaker 1>in and I mean even just the meet and Greek

<v Speaker 1>lines before the show, it's out the fucking door, it's

<v Speaker 1>around the building. There's a reason why they're the tag

<v Speaker 1>team champions in TNA, and they're featured in TNA is

<v Speaker 1>a main event attraction. Even if you feel like, well,

<v Speaker 1>you know, there's not the hardis of old Well yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean they're a lot older and they're more beat up,

<v Speaker 1>but they can still go in there and play the

<v Speaker 1>hits and hit their big spots and there's still a draw.

<v Speaker 1>That's why they're in the spot that they're in. So

<v Speaker 1>the Hardies belong on that list. Whatever position you want

<v Speaker 1>to put them in, but it doesn't mount rushmore. So

<v Speaker 1>where on the mountain you want to position them is

<v Speaker 1>up to you, but they absolutely belong on there, so

<v Speaker 1>good questions. Now, the next time I'm going to be

<v Speaker 1>with you live you're on the streams is going to

<v Speaker 1>be on Sunday night, and that is going to be

<v Speaker 1>for the aw redemption review. So when redemption is over,

<v Speaker 1>which hopefully will not be one o'clock in the morning

<v Speaker 1>like Forbidden Door. Thankfully I did not go live for

<v Speaker 1>that one, but the pay per view is starting an

<v Speaker 1>hour earlier, seven Eastern when it's over come on by

<v Speaker 1>the channel, and we'll talk about redemption. So that'll be

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday night, and then of course back for the

<v Speaker 1>Raw post show on Monday and all I believe all

<v Speaker 1>of the usual streams Next week right Raw Dynamite SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>Sunday will be a brand new episode of the Sound

<v Speaker 1>of nine to seventy three much to discuss a very

<v Speaker 1>busy news week, final predictions for Redemption, we'll talk Summer

<v Speaker 1>Slam as well, all the news of the week, dark

<v Speaker 1>side of the Ring, probably not Unreal, because I again

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to be done with it yet. Once

<v Speaker 1>I'm done with Unreal, I'm sure i'll talk about it,

<v Speaker 1>but that's not going to be this weekend, so just

<v Speaker 1>be aware of that. Ropes and rips, ropes and is

<v Speaker 1>that John? I think it is John ten dollars super

<v Speaker 1>ched up late working on some new themes. Thanks for

<v Speaker 1>staying up late and always doing these. See when you're

<v Speaker 1>up and you have a late work night, you put

<v Speaker 1>the Solemn Monster on. I'm usually on. I'm streaming almost

<v Speaker 1>every night of the week at this point, or at

<v Speaker 1>least it feels that way. So thank you, brother, keep

<v Speaker 1>putting in the work. You do great stuff. Ricky says.

<v Speaker 1>Next weekend we'll be busy for you. Yeah. God, you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's like WrestleMania all over again. We have two nights

<v Speaker 1>of Summer Slam. I'll be live both nights and they'll

<v Speaker 1>be a sound off in the middle of it all.

<v Speaker 1>Oh Heaven help me. But this is why we do

<v Speaker 1>what we do, as Paula X says, this is what

<v Speaker 1>we do. It's what we do, it's what we've chosen

<v Speaker 1>to do. So yeah, we're gonna be super busy with

<v Speaker 1>Summer Slim next weekend. So get ready. It's gonna be fun.

<v Speaker 1>Even if Summer Slim is not. You know, you'll have

<v Speaker 1>fun here, all right. Be well, stay safe, have yourselves

<v Speaker 1>a rate weekend and I will see you for the

<v Speaker 1>sound off episode nine seventy three coming up this Sunday.

<v Speaker 1>Until then, take care guys.