<v Speaker 1>Happy Labor Day, everybody. I hope you guys had a

<v Speaker 1>restful day off. If you did not have to work today,

<v Speaker 1>hopefully you all had the day off. Clearly the writing

<v Speaker 1>team had the day off. You know, the Usos rental

<v Speaker 1>car was not the only thing that went up in

<v Speaker 1>flames tonight. That show felt like it would never end.

<v Speaker 1>And it didn't even hit two and a half hours.

<v Speaker 1>It was actually on the shorter side of what Raw

<v Speaker 1>typically is. But I just thought, man, this thing is

<v Speaker 1>never going to end. They were live again tonight. First time,

<v Speaker 1>I think, in about two weeks that WWE was live.

<v Speaker 1>And they had the first two qualifying matches for Money

<v Speaker 1>in the Bank, which I was looking forward to seeing

<v Speaker 1>who was going to be in these matches because they

<v Speaker 1>didn't bother to tell us in advance. So you watch

<v Speaker 1>the show to find out. Bron Breaker and Sol Ruka.

<v Speaker 1>They're the first two names that are moving on in

<v Speaker 1>their respective leagues. Money in the Bank matches. We had

<v Speaker 1>a Women's World Championship match in the main event tonight.

<v Speaker 1>It didn't close the show, but it was the main

<v Speaker 1>event of the show that was a lot better than

<v Speaker 1>their WrestleMania match. And why wouldn't it be? Because at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>they had six minutes. Here tonight, they had a whole

<v Speaker 1>11 minutes more to play with. So it would have

<v Speaker 1>been difficult for them to go out there and have

<v Speaker 1>a worse match than the one they had at WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>just because they didn't have the chance to really do anything.

<v Speaker 1>on the big show this year. And if you were

<v Speaker 1>thinking that we might have a new Women's World Champion,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why you would think that. We do not.

<v Speaker 1>Liv Morgan's reign continues. We also had the return of

<v Speaker 1>a former Women's World Champion. I will tell you who

<v Speaker 1>that is. Although if you follow some of the reports online,

<v Speaker 1>you could probably figure out who it was. She made

<v Speaker 1>an appearance tonight. And 946... which is how many times

<v Speaker 1>I bang my head against the wall watching this show tonight.

<v Speaker 1>946 is the name of Royce Keys' new group, him

<v Speaker 1>and OTM. That's going to be their name. And they

<v Speaker 1>taunted the bloodline all night long. They're out in the

<v Speaker 1>parking lot. They're calling him out. They're calling him bitches.

<v Speaker 1>And the Usos, man, they have a pipe and they

<v Speaker 1>have a bat and they're ready to go confront these

<v Speaker 1>men and Jacob Fatu. has to be the voice of

<v Speaker 1>reason here. And Jacob Fatu has to tell them, listen,

<v Speaker 1>you got to run the play. The play is to

<v Speaker 1>not give him what he wants. Blood will be spilled.

<v Speaker 1>You can't do it. You can't fall into that trap.

<v Speaker 1>You got to stand down. And that's what they did.

<v Speaker 1>So by the time we got to the end of

<v Speaker 1>this show and we saw Royce Keys and Bronco Nima

<v Speaker 1>and Lucian Price out in the parking lot, they were

<v Speaker 1>over by the Uso's rental car. And they poured gasoline

<v Speaker 1>in the car. And Royce Keyes set the car on fire.

<v Speaker 1>Not the most impressive fire, but still damaging all the same.

<v Speaker 1>All while the Usos stood by in the ring and

<v Speaker 1>simply watched. Which only reinforces the idea that Jacob Fatu

<v Speaker 1>is in cahoots with this group. And basically is destroying

<v Speaker 1>the bloodline from within. Because he still has yet to

<v Speaker 1>put his hands on Keyes and OTM. Keyes and OTM

<v Speaker 1>have yet to put their hands on Jacob Fatu. And

<v Speaker 1>Jacob is the one who convinced them to stand back

<v Speaker 1>and not go out there and confront them. So what

<v Speaker 1>else are you supposed to believe? It's all just a

<v Speaker 1>little bit suspicious. But we waited two and a half

<v Speaker 1>hours for a payoff to this show-long angle here. After

<v Speaker 1>that big beat-down angle last week. Blood on the floor, right?

<v Speaker 1>They put the Usos in the hospital. It was so

<v Speaker 1>savage was this attack that Netflix had to pixelate it.

<v Speaker 1>They had to censor it. Our virgin eyes. We couldn't

<v Speaker 1>see what was going on. It was such a savage beatdown.

<v Speaker 1>And this was the follow-up to that. We waited two

<v Speaker 1>and a half hours to see Royce Keys set their

<v Speaker 1>rental car on fire. And that is how Raw went

<v Speaker 1>off the air tonight. And that wasn't even the worst

<v Speaker 1>of it, because on top of all of that, we

<v Speaker 1>had The Miz and Kit Wilson on this show. Over

<v Speaker 1>from SmackDown, for reasons that were not explained, but they

<v Speaker 1>were there. They were in Alabama tonight. They were in

<v Speaker 1>the building. And we had the two of them on

<v Speaker 1>the show to beat up a comedian who apparently is

<v Speaker 1>famous for doing farm-themed videos on TikTok. I'd never heard

<v Speaker 1>of this person before. They said he was a comedian,

<v Speaker 1>but evidently that is... how he became famous. It's got

<v Speaker 1>like 8 million people following him on TikTok, and he

<v Speaker 1>does farm-themed videos. He got beat up tonight by The

<v Speaker 1>Miz and Kit Wilson. Mexico City cannot come fast enough.

<v Speaker 1>Everything is really being built up for this show next week.

<v Speaker 1>Everything is being built around Mexico City. Roman Reigns defending

<v Speaker 1>the World Heavyweight Championship against Penta. Chad Gable is going

<v Speaker 1>to be defending his title. There's going to be a

<v Speaker 1>lot going on in Mexico City, not only next Monday,

<v Speaker 1>but they're in Mexico City this Friday for SmackDown, so

<v Speaker 1>we're going to get a glimpse into what we can

<v Speaker 1>expect from all the fans in Mexico City. Fans tonight,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there were matches on this show, especially that

<v Speaker 1>Women's Money in the Bank match, but even the, I'd

<v Speaker 1>say the first half of that main event, where, again,

<v Speaker 1>they just didn't seem to care, and I can't blame them.

<v Speaker 1>Look at the show they gave you tonight. How is

<v Speaker 1>anybody supposed to get excited about this? How are you

<v Speaker 1>supposed to keep your energy up and be like, oh man,

<v Speaker 1>this is really fun. This is really great. No, it's not.

<v Speaker 1>And again, I already see people blaming the crowd for it.

<v Speaker 1>This is not one of those times. I don't blame Alabama.

<v Speaker 1>Alabama got the show that they got. They reacted accordingly.

<v Speaker 1>Simple as that. I have a feeling it's going to

<v Speaker 1>be a very different situation in Mexico City next week.

<v Speaker 1>But my God, that show cannot confess enough. What a

<v Speaker 1>fucking borefest this was. Monday Night Raw is what we're

<v Speaker 1>here to talk about, though. We'll try to make it

<v Speaker 1>a little more interesting than WWE did tonight. It is Monday,

<v Speaker 1>September 7th, 2026. Happy Labor Day. Glad you could be

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<v Speaker 1>in the recommendeds. So let's start from the top of

<v Speaker 1>this show. We got a recap of Braun Breaker's battle

<v Speaker 1>with Obafemi last night in Atlanta. It was a battle

<v Speaker 1>to figure out who the future was in WWE. And

<v Speaker 1>we have the return of Bronson Reed. Looking very different

<v Speaker 1>than the last time we saw him on TV, which

<v Speaker 1>was all the way back in February when he got injured.

<v Speaker 1>So he has gotten himself into tip-top shape. And so

<v Speaker 1>we had The Vision making their way out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring to open the show. All the members now. The

<v Speaker 1>Vision is united. Bron Breaker, Bronson Reed, Logan Paul, Austin Theory,

<v Speaker 1>Maxine Dupree. And Breaker said The Vision is here. The

<v Speaker 1>Vision is complete. Complete. And The Vision runs WWE. No

<v Speaker 1>wonder the show is so fucking boring tonight. That explains it.

<v Speaker 1>So the crowd chanted for Obafemi. Breaker said the crowd

<v Speaker 1>could chant all they want. He is not medically cleared.

<v Speaker 1>He is not coming. He said last night he took

<v Speaker 1>his spot as the future of WWE. All because of

<v Speaker 1>his brother, his best friend, the master of the tsunami

<v Speaker 1>and the tribal thief, Big Bronson Reed. Reed took the mic.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Oba Femi, you thought that you were untouchable.

<v Speaker 1>As the fans began chanting even louder for Oba. Femi

<v Speaker 1>thought that he was a force of nature until he

<v Speaker 1>felt the force of the tsunami. And now that he's back,

<v Speaker 1>there is no place for Oba on Monday nights. The

<v Speaker 1>vision is now complete and they do not ask what

<v Speaker 1>happens around here. They decide what happens around here. So

<v Speaker 1>Logan Paul took the mic. He got booed just by

<v Speaker 1>his mere presence. Austin Theory, he spoke. He said, Oba who?

<v Speaker 1>Said that we all hate to see them shine, but

<v Speaker 1>too bad because they're just getting started. They're taking all

<v Speaker 1>the gold. They already have the tag team championships. Breaker

<v Speaker 1>is going to qualify later tonight for money in the bank.

<v Speaker 1>As will his vision queen, Maxine, he said. Maxine said

<v Speaker 1>the fans are just jealous that she's finally with a

<v Speaker 1>real man. Yes. I'm sure we are all very jealous.

<v Speaker 1>So she was interrupted by Akira Tozawa. Awesome. Theory laughed

<v Speaker 1>at him and offered to fight him. Tozawa, though, said

<v Speaker 1>he was only there as a decoy. And he said,

<v Speaker 1>you're not wrestling me, you're wrestling this person. And out

<v Speaker 1>comes Otis. And that's how we got him out. Now,

<v Speaker 1>we haven't seen Otis in many, many weeks. They took

<v Speaker 1>him out on television some time ago. And so this

<v Speaker 1>set up the opening match here for Raw, which was

<v Speaker 1>Otis against Austin Theory. I will spare you the gory

<v Speaker 1>details of the match itself and let you know that

<v Speaker 1>at the finish, Otis, he dropped down. He started doing

<v Speaker 1>the Caterpillar. And as he was doing the Caterpillar, Bronson

<v Speaker 1>Reed got in the ring and he dropped an elbow

<v Speaker 1>on him for the disqualification. So Breaker and Reed, they

<v Speaker 1>put the boots to him. Tozawa then got in the ring.

<v Speaker 1>He jumped on Breaker's back. He just flicked him away

<v Speaker 1>like he was nothing. I mean, give me a break.

<v Speaker 1>So then they held Otis for Breaker to hit the

<v Speaker 1>ropes a few times. He hit the super spear. Tozawa

<v Speaker 1>was trapped all by himself, one on three. He was

<v Speaker 1>in there. Logan Paul was outside the ring. But Breaker, Reed, Theory,

<v Speaker 1>all stalking him, going in for the kill. Reed delivered

<v Speaker 1>a jagged edge, which you recall is his Death Valley driver.

<v Speaker 1>And they stood over Tozawa's body as they showed Oba.

<v Speaker 1>On the Tron, he was marching through the backstage area.

<v Speaker 1>Who was that? Was it Pat Buck? I always forget

<v Speaker 1>if Pat Buck still, if he works for AEW or

<v Speaker 1>if that's him, who we saw tonight. I think he

<v Speaker 1>works for WWE. Whoever it was, he got pushed aside.

<v Speaker 1>Obafemi was not to be denied. And he made his

<v Speaker 1>way through the back, through Gorilla, out to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>No music, no nothing, no fanfare, no strutting. He was

<v Speaker 1>a man possessed after what happened to him last night

<v Speaker 1>in Atlanta because he got crushed last night. Four, five

<v Speaker 1>tsunami splashes, multiple spears. He was embarrassed. He was hurt.

<v Speaker 1>He had tape on his ribs. He was pissed. He

<v Speaker 1>wanted to murder somebody. So he came down to the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and he gets inside, and he went to work on

<v Speaker 1>all three men, back and forth with the running uppercuts

<v Speaker 1>in the corner, on Breaker, on Reed, on Dancer, on Prancer. Sorry.

<v Speaker 1>He knocked Breaker out to the floor, and now Logan

<v Speaker 1>Paul was in the ring. And he was begging off

<v Speaker 1>when Theory smashed a chair across his back. And he

<v Speaker 1>no-sold it because, I mean, it's Theory. And so he

<v Speaker 1>had no effect on Obafemi. Oba then punched the chair

<v Speaker 1>back into Theory's face, and then he beeled him halfway

<v Speaker 1>across the ring. But then as soon as he got up,

<v Speaker 1>or not got up, but he turned around, he got

<v Speaker 1>taken down by a vicious spear by Bron Breaker. So

<v Speaker 1>at that point, Breaker held Oba's legs, Reed went up,

<v Speaker 1>hit the Tsunami. and then a second one. Then we

<v Speaker 1>got one last spear from Breaker as Kurt Angle's son

<v Speaker 1>and various referees hit the ring to tend to Braun,

<v Speaker 1>or tend to Oba, I should say. Reed wasn't done yet,

<v Speaker 1>though he hit one last tsunami splash. So this was

<v Speaker 1>really just an extension of what we saw last night.

<v Speaker 1>They beat up Obafemi last night. They beat him up

<v Speaker 1>again tonight. They're trying to really get the division, now

<v Speaker 1>that they're back to full strength. They're really trying to

<v Speaker 1>get them over as a threat. They're trying to get

<v Speaker 1>them over as I was going to say the top

<v Speaker 1>heel group. I don't know what the fuck the bloodline

<v Speaker 1>is supposed to be anymore, so we'll call the Vision

<v Speaker 1>the top heel group on Monday Night Raw. That is

<v Speaker 1>what they are trying to get them over as. And again,

<v Speaker 1>this is going to be an obstacle for Oba for

<v Speaker 1>the next few months. He's going to have to go

<v Speaker 1>through Reed. He's going to have to go through Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>They are in a position now where they are trying

<v Speaker 1>to kill time until they can get closer to the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. I honestly, I don't really see Obafemi working

<v Speaker 1>with anybody else except the Vision for the remainder of

<v Speaker 1>the year. Then maybe he ends up in war games

<v Speaker 1>in some capacity. But I think his main program, his

<v Speaker 1>main issue is going to be with these guys. Because

<v Speaker 1>there really is nobody else outside of Roman Reigns for

<v Speaker 1>him to work with on this show. So they have

<v Speaker 1>a few months now to kill time with him trying

<v Speaker 1>to run through the Vision program. And eventually, maybe we

<v Speaker 1>get one more match even before we get to the Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe we get one more match between him and Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>But I imagine we'll be getting him and Reed a

<v Speaker 1>lot sooner than that. Otherwise, pretty standard opening stuff. Not

<v Speaker 1>much to say about Otis against Theory as your opening

<v Speaker 1>match tonight. Well, the Vision is the only faction worse

<v Speaker 1>than the Judgment Day. Who said that? Well, I can't disagree.

<v Speaker 1>I'm no Vision fan. I don't really think that Braun

<v Speaker 1>Breaker or Bronson Reed have any real need to be

<v Speaker 1>a part of this group. After this, Joe Tessitore, he

<v Speaker 1>set things up for a video from Royce Keys talking

<v Speaker 1>about what Tessitore called his Oakland area crew. Now, I

<v Speaker 1>believe that Bronco Nima is from Oakland. And Royce Keys

<v Speaker 1>is either from Oakland or he's from somewhere in that area. However,

<v Speaker 1>is it Lucian Price? I think Lucian Price is from Maryland.

<v Speaker 1>We'll pretend, though. Pretend we don't know that. Put that

<v Speaker 1>out of your head. Let's pretend he's from Oakland as well.

<v Speaker 1>So the video was in black and white. And they

<v Speaker 1>were showing Keyes sitting outside a house somewhere, I guess,

<v Speaker 1>supposedly in the Oakland area. OTM was there. They had

<v Speaker 1>a dog. I think it was a pit bull outside

<v Speaker 1>with them. Keyes said that it ain't about family. It's

<v Speaker 1>about loyalty. Look what type of play he could call. Solo. L.A. Jimmy. Jay.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody safe. Look who he's got with him. Bronco Nima.

<v Speaker 1>Lucian Price. This ain't a game. They live in these streets.

<v Speaker 1>Ain't nobody safe. Sounds like a song. Sounds like lyrics

<v Speaker 1>to a song. They flashed the numbers 946 on the screen.

<v Speaker 1>Because again, that's going to be the name of the

<v Speaker 1>faction now. There is, by the way, there is no

<v Speaker 1>946 area code. So maybe it has to do with

<v Speaker 1>some zip codes that are in the area. I thought

<v Speaker 1>maybe that was the area code for Oakland. And then

<v Speaker 1>I realized it's not. So it doesn't have anything to

<v Speaker 1>do with that. But I like the way they filmed this,

<v Speaker 1>at least. As an introductory vignette, you do more of these.

<v Speaker 1>It was very gritty. I thought it was well done.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's kind of the vibe they're going for

<v Speaker 1>here for this group. So, I mean, this was fine.

<v Speaker 1>But they come back live, and the Usos are marching

<v Speaker 1>through the back. Jimmy has a pipe. Not that kind

<v Speaker 1>of pipe. He has a lead pipe. And Jay has

<v Speaker 1>a baseball bat. They ran into Jacob Fatu. And They

<v Speaker 1>told him they were on their way out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring to call their asses out. And Fatu asked, why?

<v Speaker 1>This is exactly what they want them to do. He

<v Speaker 1>says this with respect to them. In this world, we

<v Speaker 1>got it locked down. But outside of this world, they

<v Speaker 1>got nothing to lose. He said last week they spilled

<v Speaker 1>Jimmy and Jay's blood. Jacob knows how they roll with it.

<v Speaker 1>He knows it because he's on the same side that

<v Speaker 1>they're from. So Jay asked him, call the play, Jacob.

<v Speaker 1>What are we doing? Fatu said, Lay low. Play it slow.

<v Speaker 1>Their next move has to be their best move. Let's

<v Speaker 1>roll to the locker room to call the play. And

<v Speaker 1>off they went. Boy, we have really just... I don't know, man.

<v Speaker 1>With this bloodline stuff, I just don't know. We've come

<v Speaker 1>a long way from those really humorous, interesting bloodline segments...

<v Speaker 1>You know, when they had Sammy with them, it's just,

<v Speaker 1>it's not the same. It's not the same. I'll just

<v Speaker 1>say that. Stephanie Viqueira was in the back. She was

<v Speaker 1>getting all warmed up for her match when Becky Lynch

<v Speaker 1>walked in. Becky had a proposition for her. She said

<v Speaker 1>that Stephanie was going to go back to Chile to

<v Speaker 1>wrestle in front of her friends and family on Saturday.

<v Speaker 1>And they make a play here that Stephanie goes back

<v Speaker 1>as champion. This is her proposition here, because she wants

<v Speaker 1>to help her win the title. Or, you don't take

<v Speaker 1>my help, and you go back as someone too proud

<v Speaker 1>to take a helping hand. It's true, by the way.

<v Speaker 1>They have a live event coming up this Saturday in Santiago, Chile,

<v Speaker 1>which is right in between the two nights of Triple Mania.

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie didn't want to hear it, though. Becky cut her

<v Speaker 1>off and said, you can beat Liv, I can beat Liv,

<v Speaker 1>but there are five of them. You can take that

<v Speaker 1>title and you can give me the first crack at

<v Speaker 1>it and then everybody is happy. So Stephanie said Becky

<v Speaker 1>doesn't know her. She always has to do everything on

<v Speaker 1>her own because every time she puts her trust in somebody,

<v Speaker 1>they betray her. So she respects Becky, but she will

<v Speaker 1>not ask for her help. And Becky told her, well,

<v Speaker 1>go back to Chile as a loser then. And she left.

<v Speaker 1>I will just say this. Not the last time we

<v Speaker 1>would see Becky Lynch on this show. Oh, we have

<v Speaker 1>some insight here from Dorian. Dorian says 946 means a

<v Speaker 1>tow truck is needed at the scene. Police? Is that

<v Speaker 1>the police code for a tow truck? Well, I guess

<v Speaker 1>the Ustos need a tow truck for their fucking rental

<v Speaker 1>car at the end of the show. Maybe that kind

<v Speaker 1>of makes sense, I guess, for 946. They'll fuck up

<v Speaker 1>your ride. That's their gimmick. Everybody they feud with, they...

<v Speaker 1>ruin their car out in the parking lot. And then

<v Speaker 1>you got to call a tow truck to come pick

<v Speaker 1>it up. We got to call the play. The bloodline

<v Speaker 1>has turned into like a football team now. Every week

<v Speaker 1>we hear about calling the play, calling the play, right?

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhodes is QB1. The Bloodline is out there calling plays.

<v Speaker 1>What is with all the sports lingo on these shows?

<v Speaker 1>They're a fucking sports team. Quickly, it was back out

<v Speaker 1>to the arena where Jackie Redman was standing in the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>This segment. Okay, great. Wonderful. So Jackie Redman is in

<v Speaker 1>the crowd. And she's standing there with a person that

<v Speaker 1>she identified as As Alabama's very own comedian, as if

<v Speaker 1>he's the only one from the state, Alabama's very own comedian,

<v Speaker 1>Matt Matthews, is in the front row. Never trust a

<v Speaker 1>person with the same name twice. When the first and

<v Speaker 1>last name are the same, don't trust that person. But

<v Speaker 1>we had Matt Matthews in the crowd. And he said

<v Speaker 1>that he grew up as an Attitude Era baby. And

<v Speaker 1>it was... Oh, boy. Well, I'm sure he misses those shows.

<v Speaker 1>Said that it was an honor to be here in

<v Speaker 1>his hometown. And I'm just wondering, okay, who's coming out, right? Like,

<v Speaker 1>where is this going? What is the purpose of this?

<v Speaker 1>Who from the Monday Night Raw roster is about to

<v Speaker 1>come out and confront Matt Miller? Or Matt Matthews. Whatever

<v Speaker 1>the fuck his name is. Matt Matthews. We know the

<v Speaker 1>guy's name. Well, it wasn't anybody from Monday Night Raw.

<v Speaker 1>It was The Miz and it was Kit Wilson who

<v Speaker 1>were on SmackDown. And they don't even come out from

<v Speaker 1>the back. They come out through the crowd, like through

<v Speaker 1>one of the tunnels and through the crowd. And they

<v Speaker 1>make their way down to ringside. Miz talked about this

<v Speaker 1>week being the 20th anniversary of his in-ring debut. And

<v Speaker 1>they're going to give his earned airtime to this Yeehaw

<v Speaker 1>from Alabama. And he just mocked all the fans in Alabama.

<v Speaker 1>Like when Jerry Lawler had that feud with Andy Kaufman. Mr. Lawler.

<v Speaker 1>I'm from Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Lawler. He didn't do it

<v Speaker 1>as good as Andy Kaufman does. So he comes over

<v Speaker 1>the barricade. He confronts Matt Miller in the front row.

<v Speaker 1>Walks right up to him. And Kit Wilson told him that,

<v Speaker 1>you know, when you disrespect the 20-year vet, then you

<v Speaker 1>are toxic. Matthew said, you know, I think I do

<v Speaker 1>know who you are, because he pretended like, who are

<v Speaker 1>you at first? He goes, you know what, I think

<v Speaker 1>I do. I think I do know who you are,

<v Speaker 1>but I thought you were retired. And so at that point,

<v Speaker 1>Miz grabs him and pulls him over the barricade, put

<v Speaker 1>him in the ring, and he ended up taking Kit

<v Speaker 1>Wilson down with a tilt-a-whirl headscissors. Just probably like standard

<v Speaker 1>celebrity move that they teach you on day one. Like, okay,

<v Speaker 1>the first move we're going to teach you is how

<v Speaker 1>to do either like a standing hurricanrana or like a

<v Speaker 1>head scissor takedown. And then everybody will pop. So he

<v Speaker 1>takes down Wilson with this move. But then Miz sneaks

<v Speaker 1>up from behind him and drops him with a skull

<v Speaker 1>crushing finale. So basically this was more pointless celebrity slop

<v Speaker 1>on this show. As we get quite often here in

<v Speaker 1>the TKO era. More pointless celebrity slop. I will say

<v Speaker 1>this about Miz, though. Forget Marty Matthews over here. Let's

<v Speaker 1>talk about Miz. So I didn't realize that this week

<v Speaker 1>is the 20th anniversary of his in-ring debut in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>And that is very impressive because there are a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people who do not survive, like as far as

<v Speaker 1>talent goes, who survive as long as he has on

<v Speaker 1>the roster. And I know there's a lot of stories

<v Speaker 1>lately about pay cuts and 50% pay cuts and people making, well,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure the Miz took one, right? People have been

<v Speaker 1>joking about that. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. But even before all of these pay cut

<v Speaker 1>stories started popping up, Miz was there for an awful

<v Speaker 1>long time. He is like the quintessential company guy. Whatever

<v Speaker 1>you need him to do, he'll go out and do it.

<v Speaker 1>Any kind of media, any kind of movies, he's hosted

<v Speaker 1>TV shows, which reminds me, I still have to check

<v Speaker 1>out that American Gladiators reboot that he hosted. But comedy matches,

<v Speaker 1>if they wanted to do something a little more serious

<v Speaker 1>every now and then, he is the ultimate utility player.

<v Speaker 1>And he's willing to do whatever they want him to do.

<v Speaker 1>That's right, he's a loyal soldier. And that's why he's

<v Speaker 1>lasted as long as he has. And look, he has

<v Speaker 1>a very impressive resume. He's won all these championships and

<v Speaker 1>all these accolades, right? He won money in the bank,

<v Speaker 1>I believe, right? Yeah, he did. Money in the bank.

<v Speaker 1>Main event at WrestleMania. Beat John Cena in the main

<v Speaker 1>event at WrestleMania. WWE champion. Intercontinental champion. Tag team champion

<v Speaker 1>multiple times. United States champion. You name it, he's done it.

<v Speaker 1>And we need to take a moment to show respect

<v Speaker 1>to The Miz for surviving in a sea of sharks.

<v Speaker 1>He has survived as long as he has. He has

<v Speaker 1>figured it out. Whatever the formula is. Maybe the formula

<v Speaker 1>is that when they call you on your phone, you

<v Speaker 1>see the 203 area code. He was smart enough not

<v Speaker 1>to answer the fucking phone. Can't release you if they

<v Speaker 1>can't get you on the phone. It's like Ryan Nemeth

<v Speaker 1>apparently is running around avoiding all these process servers. AEW

<v Speaker 1>is trying to serve him some sort of lawsuit. And

<v Speaker 1>they're like, well, we need an extension judge because we

<v Speaker 1>haven't been able to find him to serve him the papers.

<v Speaker 1>Here's an idea. Go ahead and check the TNA schedule.

<v Speaker 1>Show up outside the arena. Very easy to find out

<v Speaker 1>where that guy's going to be. Anyway, congrats to The

<v Speaker 1>Miz on his 20th anniversary. We had our first Money

<v Speaker 1>in the Bank qualifying match of 2026. Bron Breaker, Rey Mysterio,

<v Speaker 1>and Ethan Page. They love doing their triple threats. This

<v Speaker 1>is how they do qualifying matches now. Singles qualifying matches

<v Speaker 1>are a thing of the past in WWE. They don't

<v Speaker 1>do them anymore. It's all triple threats. Maybe every now

<v Speaker 1>and then a fatal four-way. So Rey went for a

<v Speaker 1>six-win-nine on Page. Breaker, though, was outside the ring at

<v Speaker 1>the time. And so when Rey went to go swivel around,

<v Speaker 1>Breaker caught his legs. And he sent him into the barricade.

<v Speaker 1>Breaker then took Page out over the top rope with

<v Speaker 1>an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. And then he did the big

<v Speaker 1>flying clothesline spot off the apron to Ethan, who was

<v Speaker 1>on the announce desk. Both men went tumbling over the

<v Speaker 1>desk and down to the floor. Yeah, exactly. Ricky, find

<v Speaker 1>him on AMC. Every Thursday, TNA Impact on AMC. You

<v Speaker 1>can serve him with whatever papers you need to serve

<v Speaker 1>him with. I could just see Ryan Nemeth walking around

<v Speaker 1>with a friggin' mustache and glasses like Bobby Valentine years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Trying to avoid the process server. Come find me, Tony Khan.

<v Speaker 1>Come find me. Anyway, Paige goes ass over tea kettle

<v Speaker 1>over the announced desk to the floor. And as Breaker

<v Speaker 1>is celebrating, Ray Mysterio is outside. He comes off the barricade,

<v Speaker 1>diving off with the West Coast pop onto the desk.

<v Speaker 1>That takes us into a commercial break. So Breaker tried

<v Speaker 1>to spear both men on the floor. They moved out

<v Speaker 1>of the way, though. Breaker collided hard with the steel steps.

<v Speaker 1>They did a cool spot here where Paige had Ray

<v Speaker 1>on his shoulders while he was on the robes. Breaker

<v Speaker 1>then ran the ropes to the top to hit the Breakensteiner.

<v Speaker 1>And he takes Page all the way off the top

<v Speaker 1>rope while he's holding Rey Mysterio. So both men go

<v Speaker 1>flying through the air and land hard on the mat.

<v Speaker 1>All in one motion. Very impressive. So after that, Breaker

<v Speaker 1>destroyed Rey with the super spear and he pinned it

<v Speaker 1>to become the first man to qualify for Money in

<v Speaker 1>the Bank. That's right. Miz blocked the Connecticut area code

<v Speaker 1>from Stanford. He's like, I will not accept any phone

<v Speaker 1>calls from area code 203. And I'll just look up

<v Speaker 1>every other area code in Connecticut and I'll block those

<v Speaker 1>two while I'm at it. Can't fire me if you

<v Speaker 1>can't call me. So this was the obvious outcome here,

<v Speaker 1>given what's happened on the show up to this point.

<v Speaker 1>all the vision stuff at the very beginning of the show, right?

<v Speaker 1>They're back to full strength. They just left Oba Femi

<v Speaker 1>left for dead again at the beginning of the show.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I suppose now that I think about it,

<v Speaker 1>I suppose Oba could have come back out and cost

<v Speaker 1>Bron the mat. They could have like brawled into the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>And then you could have had Ethan Page qualify for

<v Speaker 1>money in the bank. But I just never felt like

<v Speaker 1>the outcome was in doubt. It just seemed obvious that

<v Speaker 1>Bron was going to pick up the win here. We

<v Speaker 1>go backstage and, And L.A. Knight is speaking with the

<v Speaker 1>general manager, Adam Pierce. Made it very clear to Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce that coming out of Mexico City next week, whoever

<v Speaker 1>the world heavyweight champion was between Roman Reigns and Penta,

<v Speaker 1>he wants next. And Pierce said, look, let's get through

<v Speaker 1>Mexico City. And then, as I've told you, my word

<v Speaker 1>is good. He had previously told L.A. Knight, let's get

<v Speaker 1>past Mexico City and then we'll talk about you getting

<v Speaker 1>your opportunity. He said, I'm a man of my word.

<v Speaker 1>So Pierce walked off and then Solo Sokoa showed up.

<v Speaker 1>And Knight was actually all smiles and he's dapping him

<v Speaker 1>up like he's his best friend. Solo had a bandage

<v Speaker 1>on his forehead after he was also attacked in the

<v Speaker 1>parking lot last week and bloodied up and had half

<v Speaker 1>a fucking pixelated face. Thanks, Netflix. So he has this

<v Speaker 1>big bandage on his forehead now. And he said, we

<v Speaker 1>got to get our hands on Royce Keys and OTM.

<v Speaker 1>Knight told him, look, let the bloodline handle that. They

<v Speaker 1>can pick the bones after the fact. Solo said, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not waiting anymore. Look at what they did to me.

<v Speaker 1>Knight told him, though, look, we need to pick our spots.

<v Speaker 1>Solo wouldn't have it. He asked Knight. I need to know,

<v Speaker 1>do you have my back or not? And Knight said

<v Speaker 1>he does, but they just got to be smart about this.

<v Speaker 1>Pick our spot, we'll pick the bones, right? Let's just

<v Speaker 1>use your head here. Let's just be smart about this.

<v Speaker 1>And Solo told him, with all due respect, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if I can wait. Evidently he can, because they

<v Speaker 1>were out in the parking lot, and Solo Sokoa never

<v Speaker 1>went after him. So he did in fact wait. But

<v Speaker 1>how long is he willing to wait, though, before he

<v Speaker 1>gets his hands on these people? So after a commercial break,

<v Speaker 1>we got a subtitled Penta promo in Espanol talking about

<v Speaker 1>the importance of his match with Roman Reigns next week

<v Speaker 1>in Mexico City and how he respects him, but he

<v Speaker 1>does not fear him. I'm looking forward to this match.

<v Speaker 1>We all know how it goes. We all know how

<v Speaker 1>this match is going to end and how it's not

<v Speaker 1>going to end, which is with a brand new World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Champion. But still, that doesn't mean that it's not

<v Speaker 1>going to be a fun match Probably with a very

<v Speaker 1>hot crowd in Mexico City next week. So I am

<v Speaker 1>looking forward to that. We had our second qualifying match

<v Speaker 1>for Money in the Bank. This one on the women's side.

<v Speaker 1>We had Sol Ruka, Lyra Valkyria, and Maxine Dupree. Now

<v Speaker 1>they mentioned that the women have a 100% success rate

<v Speaker 1>of cash-ins. Every single Women's Money in the Bank match

<v Speaker 1>that WWE has had so far. With women, they always

<v Speaker 1>win the championship. Which... I guess if that's the case,

<v Speaker 1>it creates this feeling, I guess, going into the women's

<v Speaker 1>match next month that, not that it's more of an

<v Speaker 1>urgent thing, but greater emphasis on that. Like, whoever wins

<v Speaker 1>this is guaranteed to win the title. You never know

<v Speaker 1>with the men. I don't know what the percentage is

<v Speaker 1>on the men's side. I'm sure it's better than 50%,

<v Speaker 1>but it's not perfect. On the women's side, it's perfect.

<v Speaker 1>It's almost like The person who pulls down that briefcase,

<v Speaker 1>you're looking at a future women's world champion. So the

<v Speaker 1>crowd here for this match, even with the stakes that

<v Speaker 1>are on the line, D-E-A-D, dead. They were dead. Check

<v Speaker 1>the pulse. And they just... could not bring themselves to

<v Speaker 1>care about anything that they were seeing here in this match,

<v Speaker 1>and I can't even blame them. There wasn't a whole

<v Speaker 1>lot here to get excited about because this wasn't very good.

<v Speaker 1>It wasn't. And there were a couple of things in

<v Speaker 1>this match involving Maxine, whether she was out of place

<v Speaker 1>or something she did, where I just winced watching this.

<v Speaker 1>Ruka went for the Soul Snatcher to Maxine. Lyra was outside.

<v Speaker 1>She grabbed her from the outside to stop her, prevent

<v Speaker 1>her from doing the move. Maxine then pulled Ruka out

<v Speaker 1>of the corner into an electric chair and then fell

<v Speaker 1>backwards into a bridging pin, which got broken up by Lyra.

<v Speaker 1>Valkyria dumped Ruka and then hit Dupree with a Nightwing,

<v Speaker 1>had the match won, had the leg hooked. But then

<v Speaker 1>before Jessica Carr could count three, she gets dragged outside

<v Speaker 1>and the camera pans over and who do we see?

<v Speaker 1>We see Bayley. That's the former women's champion I referred

<v Speaker 1>to earlier. We have not seen Bailey in almost two months.

<v Speaker 1>The last time we would have seen her was mid-July

<v Speaker 1>in Madison Square Garden, Saturday night's main event being beaten

<v Speaker 1>by Lyra Valkyria. And there were a lot of reports

<v Speaker 1>recently about Bailey and what is she going to do?

<v Speaker 1>She's got a deal coming up later this year. Is

<v Speaker 1>she going to resign? Is she going to leave? Are

<v Speaker 1>they going to let her leave? Are they going to

<v Speaker 1>tack on injury time? Nobody knew exactly what was going

<v Speaker 1>to happen. It didn't help that Mercedes Monet was on

<v Speaker 1>social media. She was teasing and posting memes and stuff.

<v Speaker 1>Remember the WrestleDream one? Somebody created a very realistic looking

<v Speaker 1>WrestleDream match graphic that showed Davina Rose, which I think

<v Speaker 1>was her independent name, Bailey, against Mercedes. It's like a WrestleDream. People,

<v Speaker 1>they had already made up their mind that she was leaving.

<v Speaker 1>And she is in fact not leaving. The fact that

<v Speaker 1>they've been mentioning her and name-dropping her on TV in

<v Speaker 1>recent weeks should have been a dead giveaway. But she's back.

<v Speaker 1>And Lyra Valkyria is not going to Money in the Bank.

<v Speaker 1>At least not in the Money in the Bank match.

<v Speaker 1>Because Bayley ruined her opportunity. And as she was looking

<v Speaker 1>down at Bayley outside the ring, she had her back turned.

<v Speaker 1>In comes Sol Ruka. She hits the Soul Snatcher. And

<v Speaker 1>she picks up the win. So Sol Ruka becomes the

<v Speaker 1>first woman to qualify for Money in the Bank this year.

<v Speaker 1>It was a struggle to get there, let me tell you.

<v Speaker 1>It was a struggle. But once Bayley showed up and

<v Speaker 1>then Soul hit the Soul Snatcher, the crowd woke up. Unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>they woke up for the final, what, 20 seconds, 30

<v Speaker 1>seconds of the match? And that was about it. But

<v Speaker 1>like I said, if you give the people something to

<v Speaker 1>cheer for and something to be excited about, they will

<v Speaker 1>make noise. And if they don't, then it's on you

<v Speaker 1>to evaluate where it all went wrong, right? If you're WWE,

<v Speaker 1>what are we doing? What are we doing wrong that

<v Speaker 1>the people don't seem to care? You can't, like there

<v Speaker 1>may be times where you can go, man, that was

<v Speaker 1>a great match. Well, that was a really great segment.

<v Speaker 1>How come the crowd was so quiet for it? But

<v Speaker 1>most of the time, especially if there's a pattern of

<v Speaker 1>this on these shows, and there is, there is a

<v Speaker 1>pattern of this on these shows. It's not always tied

<v Speaker 1>into just what city you're in, right? Sometimes. But when

<v Speaker 1>they go international on most of those shows, the crowds

<v Speaker 1>are on fire because they don't get Monday Night Raw

<v Speaker 1>very often. So if they go to the UK or

<v Speaker 1>they go to France or they go somewhere where you

<v Speaker 1>normally wouldn't see Raw, typically the crowd is hot and

<v Speaker 1>they're singing and chanting and doing all sorts of stuff.

<v Speaker 1>I'm expecting that next week. But at least here on

<v Speaker 1>these domestic shows. These crowds, I mean, they just, it's

<v Speaker 1>like pulling teeth trying to get a reaction out of them.

<v Speaker 1>And you can't just put the blame on them. There's

<v Speaker 1>a message that's being sent here. Whether it's the fact

<v Speaker 1>that we don't care about these matches, we don't care

<v Speaker 1>about some of these people, we don't care about the

<v Speaker 1>programs and the combinations of people that you're putting together

<v Speaker 1>or whatever. We're just not buying what you're selling. They're

<v Speaker 1>buying tickets to the show. I mean, they're literally buying

<v Speaker 1>tickets to the shows. But when they sit down and

<v Speaker 1>they're watching it, You can tell a lot by whether

<v Speaker 1>or not the crowd is either invested in what they're

<v Speaker 1>seeing or they're not. And there are a lot of

<v Speaker 1>things on WWE television right now that they're simply not.

<v Speaker 1>But you can't just put the blame on the crowd

<v Speaker 1>for it. You got to look in the mirror and say, okay,

<v Speaker 1>what can we be doing better? Try to get a

<v Speaker 1>different reaction out of people. Now, after the match, Bayley

<v Speaker 1>got in the ring. She pummeled Lyra some stiff forearm shots.

<v Speaker 1>And then she gave Lyra a Nightwing on the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Then she cleared off the announce desk and she was

<v Speaker 1>going to powerbomb Lyra on it, but Valkyria was able

<v Speaker 1>to scamper away. As far as Bayley re-signing with WWE,

<v Speaker 1>presumably re-signing with WWE, whatever she's happy with, she made

<v Speaker 1>the decision that she felt was going to make her happy,

<v Speaker 1>or maybe it was the deal that financially made the

<v Speaker 1>most sense, or maybe she has it where Promises have

<v Speaker 1>been made that she can contribute in other ways. She's

<v Speaker 1>running these women's seminars, and I could see her wanting

<v Speaker 1>to maybe have some sort of role, training at the

<v Speaker 1>PC at some point. I could see that. Maybe there's

<v Speaker 1>other things in mind for her beyond just her being

<v Speaker 1>on TV and wrestling. I don't know what went into

<v Speaker 1>her decision. Maybe she's been there for so long. Again,

<v Speaker 1>this is home to her. Without hearing from her directly,

<v Speaker 1>we can't be sure. I think that she would have

<v Speaker 1>had an endless supply of opponents to work with had

<v Speaker 1>she left to go to AEW, which is what a

<v Speaker 1>lot of people, myself included, thought was going to be

<v Speaker 1>the end result of this. And it would have been

<v Speaker 1>like a new lease on life. She could work with

<v Speaker 1>some familiar faces, but all these different faces. Because if

<v Speaker 1>you watch the last couple of years in WWE, it's

<v Speaker 1>very clear that Bayley has been phased down. She is

<v Speaker 1>not a priority in the way that maybe she was

<v Speaker 1>several years ago. And when I say several years ago,

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking like three, four, five years ago. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>You go down, sometimes you come back up. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if she comes back up to that level. She

<v Speaker 1>made the decision to stay. She's not a stupid person.

<v Speaker 1>She knows, right? She has to. She has to know, like, okay,

<v Speaker 1>this may not happen again. I may never be in

<v Speaker 1>that position again, but this is where I belong, right?

<v Speaker 1>This is where I need to be. And look, she

<v Speaker 1>also had a very devastating knee injury. And she's not

<v Speaker 1>exactly the same performer that she was prior to the injury,

<v Speaker 1>which is not to say that she's a bad wrestler.

<v Speaker 1>She's not. But again, there's a lot of different things

<v Speaker 1>that may go into that decision. In due time, maybe

<v Speaker 1>we'll find out what the deciding factor was for her. Yes, yes, CVV.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe CVV will get the scoop. He's interviewed her before, right?

<v Speaker 1>We'll find out with the next interview that Chris does

<v Speaker 1>when he sits down with Bailey. We got a Bronco

<v Speaker 1>Nima and Lucian Price video that aired. They were outside

<v Speaker 1>the building and they were talking about The bloodline. Then

<v Speaker 1>Royce Keys appeared. And he told Jacob Fatu to let

<v Speaker 1>the two bitches off their leash. So then we go backstage.

<v Speaker 1>And the Usos are itching to go to the parking

<v Speaker 1>lot and fight these guys. Fatu says, though, that's what

<v Speaker 1>he wants you to do. And he told the Usos,

<v Speaker 1>you have to trust me on this one. So Jay

<v Speaker 1>said that, dude, we have their location. We know where

<v Speaker 1>they are. Keys just called us a couple of bitches.

<v Speaker 1>Are we just supposed to sit back and do nothing?

<v Speaker 1>And Jacob says that blood would be spilled again if

<v Speaker 1>they responded. And he asked them to just trust him.

<v Speaker 1>And Jay said, we trust you. And Jimmy laid down

<v Speaker 1>his pipe and he looked very frustrated. This whole dynamic

<v Speaker 1>felt very backwards to me because it's usually Jay. Like

<v Speaker 1>Jay doesn't like Jacob and Jacob doesn't like Jay. And here,

<v Speaker 1>it felt like the opposite. All of a sudden, Jay

<v Speaker 1>is like, Jacob, what should we do? Like, what's the play?

<v Speaker 1>And Jacob tells him what to do, and he does it.

<v Speaker 1>And Jimmy is the one who is showing frustration. Usually,

<v Speaker 1>Jimmy and Jacob are very chummy with each other. So

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. The whole dynamic was a little bit

<v Speaker 1>different here. After this, what are you talking about in

<v Speaker 1>the chat? That's what I said. I said, Jimmy, he

<v Speaker 1>laid down his pipe. He put his pipe down. The

<v Speaker 1>hell do you want from me? I can't help it

<v Speaker 1>if your minds are in the gutter. Jimmy has been

<v Speaker 1>laying down a lot of pipe. That's why we haven't

<v Speaker 1>seen Naomi in 13 months. So at this point in

<v Speaker 1>the show, they aired a Joe Hendry music video where

<v Speaker 1>he sang about J.D. McDonough's Fathead. 36 years ago, J.D.

<v Speaker 1>'s mom met a giant Funko Pop head and fell

<v Speaker 1>in love. This was the story they told here in

<v Speaker 1>this video. They had somebody walking around with a picture

<v Speaker 1>of J.D. McDonough's face as their head. And then they

<v Speaker 1>had somebody in a literal giant Funko head costume. And

<v Speaker 1>the story here is that JD's head is so big

<v Speaker 1>because his dad was a literal Funko Pop. And so

<v Speaker 1>they had somebody, again, in the video wearing the head. Look,

<v Speaker 1>this is what brought Joe Hendry to the dance in TNA, right?

<v Speaker 1>He would write these songs. He would write these jingles

<v Speaker 1>where he was mocking and insulting his opponents. And many

<v Speaker 1>of them were, I think he did one on AJ Francis.

<v Speaker 1>Many of them were very entertaining. And so that and

<v Speaker 1>the songs that he was writing is what really put

<v Speaker 1>him on the map and made him popular in wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>We haven't really seen him do much of that since

<v Speaker 1>he came to WWE. So this is actually more in

<v Speaker 1>line with the kind of stuff, not exactly, but I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it's more in line with the kind of stuff he

<v Speaker 1>was doing in TNA. The song itself, it wasn't any good.

<v Speaker 1>The video was harmless enough. It was amusing, sort of.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, this is the sort of thing where he

<v Speaker 1>usually shines. even if he didn't really shine here. The

<v Speaker 1>best I can say about it is that at least

<v Speaker 1>they're doing something with him. He usually doesn't get very

<v Speaker 1>much television time at all on these shows, unless he's

<v Speaker 1>being destroyed by the Vision or somebody, or the Judgment Day,

<v Speaker 1>I guess. But it also led into a match between

<v Speaker 1>Joe Hendry and J.D. McDonough. Now, of course, McDonough made

<v Speaker 1>his entrance before the commercial break, and so coming out

<v Speaker 1>of the commercial break, Hendry was already in the ring

<v Speaker 1>with the song playing and everybody waving their hands back

<v Speaker 1>and forth because we have to keep the streak alive,

<v Speaker 1>which meant no full ring entrance again for Joe Hendry

<v Speaker 1>on this show. Now, I mentioned when I reviewed Sunday

<v Speaker 1>Night's Main Event last night because they didn't tell us

<v Speaker 1>that there was a match on the pre-show. Like, at

<v Speaker 1>the very last minute, they added a match between Joe

<v Speaker 1>Hendry and Dominic Mysterio. And so I caught the tail

<v Speaker 1>end of it, and Dom won, which he had to

<v Speaker 1>because he's defending his title at TripleMania next weekend. For

<v Speaker 1>fuck's sake, just give the guy a win. So he

<v Speaker 1>went from Joe Hendry to Job Hendry last night. Tonight,

<v Speaker 1>here in this match, he actually won. But, you know, again,

<v Speaker 1>you go back to last night, I asked everybody, I said,

<v Speaker 1>did he actually get an entrance? I missed it. Sure enough,

<v Speaker 1>he did. He got an entrance on Peacock. which doesn't

<v Speaker 1>count because it's not Raw. So the very first Raw,

<v Speaker 1>after he actually got an entrance to his music from

<v Speaker 1>start to finish on Peacock, he shows up on Raw

<v Speaker 1>and he doesn't get an entrance. So the streak continues. Zero,

<v Speaker 1>zero times since he's made his main roster debut has

<v Speaker 1>he had a full proper entrance on Monday Night Raw.

<v Speaker 1>Got to keep the streak alive. Late in the match,

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans music hits. We weren't done with all the

<v Speaker 1>hilarity here. Because out comes Javon Evans to his music.

<v Speaker 1>But Javon Evans walks out with the giant Funko head on.

<v Speaker 1>He's wearing the Funko head. And he's gyrating, like ravishing

<v Speaker 1>Rick Rude. And then he's crotch chopping. So Dom, the

<v Speaker 1>AAA Mega Champion, meets him halfway down the aisle. He

<v Speaker 1>takes one headbutt from the giant Funko head, and down

<v Speaker 1>goes Dom. In the ring, Joe is able to avoid

<v Speaker 1>a moonsault by McDonough, and then he hit a move

<v Speaker 1>that he calls the sound effect, which is really just

<v Speaker 1>a side effect, and he picked up the win. And

<v Speaker 1>then after the match, Javon, who was wearing the Funko head,

<v Speaker 1>places the head on Joe Hendry. and Joe Hendry is

<v Speaker 1>wearing the Funko head, and then takes it off, and

<v Speaker 1>he continues to sway his hands through the air. And

<v Speaker 1>this was supposed to be very funny. Hmm. Okay. Sure.

<v Speaker 1>Sure thing. Liv Morgan. Let's move on. Liv Morgan was

<v Speaker 1>in the back, getting ready to come out for her

<v Speaker 1>main event. She ran into Becky Lynch. As she ran

<v Speaker 1>Becky down, she called her selfish... She brought up Seth Rollins.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody likes your husband and nobody likes you. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to win tonight and I'm going to prove myself

<v Speaker 1>to be the greatest women's world champion of all time.

<v Speaker 1>Abyssal Zone says Joe Tessitore seemed to think that this

<v Speaker 1>was the greatest thing ever. Well, that's his job. His

<v Speaker 1>job is to act like everything on the show is

<v Speaker 1>the best thing ever. Do you hear some of the

<v Speaker 1>words that he uses on commentary? Like, he's on Raw now.

<v Speaker 1>He was on SmackDown before. But I guess college football season,

<v Speaker 1>now he's doing Mondays. But there could be a segment

<v Speaker 1>on SmackDown that is hot garbage, right? Just terrible. Fucking

<v Speaker 1>dreadful segment. Or even just a regular nothing segment. It's

<v Speaker 1>like a fucking transition from one to the next. And

<v Speaker 1>he'll use words like fantastic or electric or again, come

<v Speaker 1>up with whatever superlative you want to come up with.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, can you at least save the exaggerated

<v Speaker 1>words for a segment where something meaningful actually happens instead

<v Speaker 1>of just, it's like, again, it's just like automatic. We'll

<v Speaker 1>just use these big words. We have a list of

<v Speaker 1>them that we can use. And so, okay. The Miz

<v Speaker 1>got electrocuted by Dan Housen in the back and they'll

<v Speaker 1>cut to the announcers and, Well, from one hilarious segment

<v Speaker 1>to the next. And that's how you kill credibility with

<v Speaker 1>your top play-by-play guy. They had Michael Cole doing that

<v Speaker 1>for years. He had no credibility. But I can't even

<v Speaker 1>blame the announcers because they're just doing their job. They're

<v Speaker 1>doing what they're told to do. They have their buzzwords.

<v Speaker 1>They have their terms that they have to use. And again,

<v Speaker 1>you know that off the air. You just know, like

<v Speaker 1>they're sitting at the desk and they're probably just looking

<v Speaker 1>at each other sometimes after these segments and they're like,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Having a beer in the back later, boy,

<v Speaker 1>that was brutal. You know, like I'm sure those conversations

<v Speaker 1>happen from time to time. Yeah, no, yeah, he is

<v Speaker 1>not vintage Michael Cole. Save those for Michael Cole. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>let Michael Cole do it. Anyway, elsewhere in the back.

<v Speaker 1>The Vision. More Vision. I hope you're a big fan

<v Speaker 1>of The Vision. because they were all over the show tonight.

<v Speaker 1>The Vision found Paul Heyman, who was doing what Paul

<v Speaker 1>Heyman does, standing around in the back doing absolutely nothing.

<v Speaker 1>They found him. They were all smiles, even though Maxine lost.

<v Speaker 1>And it's like they were looking for his approval. Like,

<v Speaker 1>you know, you want dad to show you love. You

<v Speaker 1>want to get approval from the old man. So that's

<v Speaker 1>what they were looking for. Heyman just went face to

<v Speaker 1>face with Bronson Reed and he hugged him and he

<v Speaker 1>told Reed, he put over what a great job he's

<v Speaker 1>done his first couple of nights back and said he's

<v Speaker 1>very proud of him. And then Bron Breaker with a

<v Speaker 1>big smile on his face, right? He butts in and says,

<v Speaker 1>Oba is finished. My brother is back and the future

<v Speaker 1>of WWE is secure. And Heyman says, can I ask

<v Speaker 1>you a question? He says, Obafemi is still breathing? And

<v Speaker 1>then he just sighs and walks away. Kind of like me,

<v Speaker 1>watching this show tonight. So Breaker cannot win the love

<v Speaker 1>and affection back of Braun Breaker, no matter how hard

<v Speaker 1>he tries. The main event of this show was for

<v Speaker 1>the Women's World Championship. It was Liv Morgan defending her

<v Speaker 1>title against Stephanie Viqueur. This was the first time That

<v Speaker 1>the Women's World Championship has been defended on Monday Night

<v Speaker 1>Raw since February. And it is only the second title

<v Speaker 1>defense that Liv Morgan has had since winning the championship

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. That is pathetic. Pathetic. No excuse for that.

<v Speaker 1>Wade Barrett had the audacity here. You know, we talk

<v Speaker 1>about Joe Test and people were making fun of him

<v Speaker 1>in the chat before and We talk about Michael Cole.

<v Speaker 1>It's very easy to make fun of Michael Cole. I

<v Speaker 1>like Wade Barrett. I think Wade Barrett is a very

<v Speaker 1>good commentator. He's got a great voice for it. Brings

<v Speaker 1>the perspective of a former wrestler to it, which is

<v Speaker 1>always helpful. But Wade Barrett had the most embarrassing moment

<v Speaker 1>of the night on commentary here. Because there was a

<v Speaker 1>spot where Liv Morgan did the three amigos thing. And

<v Speaker 1>a lot of people do the three amigos. Liv does it.

<v Speaker 1>Eddie does it. Eddie does it. Dom. I meant Dom.

<v Speaker 1>Liv does it. Dom does it. Mercedes does it. I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure other people do it, too. Andrade. Andrade does it.

<v Speaker 1>She did the three amigos, and Wade Barrett had the

<v Speaker 1>audacity to utter the following words after Liv Morgan executed

<v Speaker 1>this move. She's like the female Eddie Guerrero, he said.

<v Speaker 1>She's the female Eddie Guerrero. He should be automatically expelled

<v Speaker 1>from the desk for that. His commentary privileges should be revoked.

<v Speaker 1>She's like the female Eddie Guerrero. In what way? Because

<v Speaker 1>she's having sex with the man's son? In what way

<v Speaker 1>is she like the female Eddie Guerrero? I would like

<v Speaker 1>for him to answer that question. I was floored when

<v Speaker 1>I heard this. I'm like, is he suddenly now a

<v Speaker 1>heel commentator? Like, what is this? I don't understand this.

<v Speaker 1>Crowd was quiet until, you guessed it, Stephanie did the

<v Speaker 1>devil's kiss and then they woke up. They ended up

<v Speaker 1>outside the ring. Vicar tried to clear off the announce desk.

<v Speaker 1>Morgan jumped her, though, and then climbed onto the table. Stephanie, though,

<v Speaker 1>was able to trip her. Vicar then gave Morgan the

<v Speaker 1>devil's kiss on top of the announced desk, which got

<v Speaker 1>a reaction. So as is Wade and Be the Booker,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't know if Wade Barrett is in

<v Speaker 1>Be the Booker. I should expel him from Be the Booker, though,

<v Speaker 1>as a result of that comment that he made. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think he's in there, though. He should be, though. Well,

<v Speaker 1>now I won't put him in, though. If he was

<v Speaker 1>in there, I would expel him from Be the Booker.

<v Speaker 1>So Morgan rolled back inside. Stephanie met her with a

<v Speaker 1>crossbody off the top for a near fall. As Stephanie

<v Speaker 1>attacked her in the corner, Morgan powerbombed her out of

<v Speaker 1>the corner, got a near fall of her own. Morgan

<v Speaker 1>went to the top. Vicar, though, caught up to her

<v Speaker 1>and delivered a superplex and then rolled through into the

<v Speaker 1>SVB backbreaker, only for a two count. So Vicar hit

<v Speaker 1>the double underhook lung blower, and then she went to

<v Speaker 1>the top, at which point the Judgment Day ladies arrived

<v Speaker 1>on the scene, as they always do. The referee noticed

<v Speaker 1>Raquel Rodriguez trying to interfere and immediately ejected her. Becky

<v Speaker 1>Lynch runs out. She gets a big pop and she

<v Speaker 1>takes her out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring,

<v Speaker 1>Roxanne Perez shows up and she hands the Women's World

<v Speaker 1>Championship to Liv Morgan. And Becky Lynch then gives chase

<v Speaker 1>to Roxanne, chases her through the crowd. While the referee

<v Speaker 1>is distracted by this, while the referee is distracted by

<v Speaker 1>the two people Who aren't even in the match. Nor

<v Speaker 1>are they in the ring. But the referee is distracted

<v Speaker 1>by this. Liv Morgan then has the opportunity to blast

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie in the head with the women's championship. And then

<v Speaker 1>hits oblivion for the win to retain the title. Even

<v Speaker 1>though Stephanie's shoulder was clearly up off the mat. They

<v Speaker 1>got almost 20 minutes for this. I can tell you

<v Speaker 1>that the fans were very quiet for the first half.

<v Speaker 1>I can tell you that we had the usual bullshit

<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day interference in this match, and I was not

<v Speaker 1>a fan of the finish. I can tell you all

<v Speaker 1>of these things. At the end of the day, they

<v Speaker 1>gave these two women almost 20 minutes, which was a

<v Speaker 1>hell of a lot longer than they got at WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>where they got six bordering on seven minutes for a

<v Speaker 1>world championship match at WrestleMania. Inexcusable. And then I have

<v Speaker 1>to watch Unreal, I almost said Uncrowned. I have to

<v Speaker 1>watch Unreal where Liv Morgan comes backstage after her match

<v Speaker 1>and the only thing that she's concerned about was, did

<v Speaker 1>we make good time? Like, we didn't go over time? Like,

<v Speaker 1>everything's cool? Like, groveling for approval because they cut their time.

<v Speaker 1>And she just wanted to make sure that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>she got exactly the time that they were looking for

<v Speaker 1>and they didn't go over. Like, are you kidding me?

<v Speaker 1>I'd be fuming. You put me in a world championship

<v Speaker 1>match in your biggest show of the year. She won

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. Goes to WrestleMania and gets six minutes.

<v Speaker 1>So at least tonight, they got a lot more. They

<v Speaker 1>got like 17 minutes on this show. And they had,

<v Speaker 1>even though, again, the crowd at different points was not

<v Speaker 1>really super into this. And we had the usual brigade

<v Speaker 1>of interference at the end. It was a good match.

<v Speaker 1>It was a better match than the one they had

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. So I'll give them that. I was not

<v Speaker 1>expecting a title change here. Maybe some of you were.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe you might be upset. Or the way that it

<v Speaker 1>went down. We've seen this same song and dance so

<v Speaker 1>many times before when it comes to the Judgment Day.

<v Speaker 1>The outcome didn't surprise me. I wasn't expecting a new champion.

<v Speaker 1>It looks to me like Liv is not losing this

<v Speaker 1>title before Money in the Bank. Which only reinforces my belief.

<v Speaker 1>If you remember on the Prediction Show back in December...

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned men's and women's money in the bank winners.

<v Speaker 1>And I believe my early prediction for the men was

<v Speaker 1>Logan Paul, which was scuttled by this injury. But on

<v Speaker 1>the women's side, I said Roxanne Perez. However many months ago,

<v Speaker 1>nine months ago, whatever it was, 10 months ago. Now

<v Speaker 1>that we're here and Liv is still the champion coming

<v Speaker 1>out of tonight, it only reinforces my belief that Roxanne

<v Speaker 1>is going to win money in the bank and probably should.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, There's other potential candidates as well I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be upset about. But probably should win Money in the Bank.

<v Speaker 1>Because Roxanne Perez is a talented wrestler. She's spinning her

<v Speaker 1>wheels right now. She's a face in the crowd when

<v Speaker 1>it comes to the Judgment Day. And she's not doing

<v Speaker 1>much of anything. The best thing for her would be

<v Speaker 1>to go in there and win Money in the Bank.

<v Speaker 1>And then what you do in that situation... is you

<v Speaker 1>revive the tensions between her and Liv Morgan, which I

<v Speaker 1>don't know why they got away from it in the

<v Speaker 1>first place, although maybe now we have our answer. Money

<v Speaker 1>in the Bank was originally supposed to be in August.

<v Speaker 1>If you remember, Money in the Bank was actually rescheduled

<v Speaker 1>two other times. I think it was in August, and

<v Speaker 1>then it was going to be in September, and then

<v Speaker 1>it was finally moved to October. So whatever their original

<v Speaker 1>plans were, they got scuttled. And maybe it's as simple

<v Speaker 1>as we just have to wait until we get to

<v Speaker 1>money in the bank so they stopped teasing the possibility

<v Speaker 1>of there being a fallout between Liv and Roxanne months

<v Speaker 1>ago like six months ago nine months ago there were

<v Speaker 1>subtle hints of it in these backstage segments in the

<v Speaker 1>clubhouse and you know Roxanne never came right out and

<v Speaker 1>said anything like overtly but like they led you to

<v Speaker 1>believe like okay Liv's kind of bossing her around and

<v Speaker 1>not talking to her as if she has any respect

<v Speaker 1>for this woman And Roxanne, it seemed like, was maybe scheming.

<v Speaker 1>and then it got dropped and there was no follow-up

<v Speaker 1>to it. And she's just been a loyal soldier ever since.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe it was as simple as, you know what, we

<v Speaker 1>got to kill some time before we get to money

<v Speaker 1>in the bank. And once we get to money in

<v Speaker 1>the bank, we can kind of get back to what

<v Speaker 1>we were doing before. I hope so. Her winning money

<v Speaker 1>in the bank and kind of having that briefcase and

<v Speaker 1>To lord over live. Unless she cashes in the same night.

<v Speaker 1>Has a lot of good storyline potential. And it would

<v Speaker 1>probably help shake up the judgment day too. Which desperately. Desperately.

<v Speaker 1>Needs a shake up. If not a total disbandment. But

<v Speaker 1>at the very least needs some sort of shake up.

<v Speaker 1>I mean they're just hanging on to the remnants of something.

<v Speaker 1>That at one time they had a good thing with it.

<v Speaker 1>And now it's just. It's like the bloodline. With the bloodline, though,

<v Speaker 1>there's this infinite number of family members that they could

<v Speaker 1>just plug in there. And to them, it's still their

<v Speaker 1>cash cow. It's their golden goose. That's not what the

<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day ever was. The Judgment Day had a purpose

<v Speaker 1>on this show, which was to elevate certain names like

<v Speaker 1>a Damien Priest or a Rhea Ripley. It gave J.D.

<v Speaker 1>McDonough something to do on the shows because what the

<v Speaker 1>fuck else would he be doing on these shows were

<v Speaker 1>it not for the Judgment Day? But because they have

<v Speaker 1>this refusal to sort of blow up the group and

<v Speaker 1>create a new group out of it, or add some

<v Speaker 1>new members, there's a sameness to it, and I don't

<v Speaker 1>really see how this group is benefiting anybody at this point.

<v Speaker 1>Other than Liv Morgan, because she's the de facto leader.

<v Speaker 1>They got more women in the faction anyway than the men.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see how it's benefiting Dominic Mysterio anymore. If anything,

<v Speaker 1>it's like a fucking albatross around the guy's neck. How

<v Speaker 1>is being in the Judgment Day benefiting Dom at this point?

<v Speaker 1>It's not. I'd rather they just blow the whole fucking

<v Speaker 1>thing up. But they got to do something. That would

<v Speaker 1>be one way to shake things up a little bit

<v Speaker 1>with this group. We got a Big Cass video, which

<v Speaker 1>is good because after the stuff earlier with Javon Evans,

<v Speaker 1>I was wondering, wait a minute, where's Big Cass? It's

<v Speaker 1>been two weeks. You know, he only recently came back. Consistency.

<v Speaker 1>Consistency is key. You got to keep him on these shows.

<v Speaker 1>So there he was in this video promo. He's standing

<v Speaker 1>in a stairwell. Ever since he came back here, he's

<v Speaker 1>been stacking bodies, he said. But really what he came

<v Speaker 1>back to do was win titles. He looks like a champion.

<v Speaker 1>He acts like a champion. He talks like a champion.

<v Speaker 1>He is everything that a champion should be. He walks

<v Speaker 1>through an airport. He walks into a room. And everybody

<v Speaker 1>turns and says, who's that guy? Ah, the old Vince

<v Speaker 1>McMahon airport test that we used to hear about. The

<v Speaker 1>airport test, if the Great Khali, it used to go

<v Speaker 1>that if the Great Khali and Chris Benoit, who were

<v Speaker 1>in the company at the same time, were walking through

<v Speaker 1>an airport, who would people turn to look at? Would

<v Speaker 1>they turn to look at Benoit, or would they turn

<v Speaker 1>to look at the Great Khali? Ten times out of ten,

<v Speaker 1>they're going to turn to look at the Great Khali.

<v Speaker 1>And if that's the case, that's your attraction. That was

<v Speaker 1>the logic behind it. Big Cass says he would pass

<v Speaker 1>the airport. Now, to be fair, if Cass was walking

<v Speaker 1>through an airport and Javon Evans was walking with him,

<v Speaker 1>or J.D. McDonough was walking with him, who are the

<v Speaker 1>people going to look at? They're going to look at

<v Speaker 1>the seven-foot-tall guy. Right? I mean, that's true. That doesn't

<v Speaker 1>always mean that's the person that you should push, but

<v Speaker 1>there is a certain logic to it. Anyway, he says,

<v Speaker 1>soon enough, they'll all find out. We go backstage. The

<v Speaker 1>Usos are... Telling Jacob Fatu that they are ready to

<v Speaker 1>hit the ring to call out 9-4-6. So out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring they go. This is exactly what they wanted

<v Speaker 1>to do earlier in the show. They ended up doing

<v Speaker 1>it anyway at the very end. So they go out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring. Jacob goes with them to join them.

<v Speaker 1>They're in the ring. They throw down the challenge. Where

<v Speaker 1>are you at? Royce Keyes then appeared on the big screen.

<v Speaker 1>And it showed various security geeks laid out on the

<v Speaker 1>ground outside. He told the Usos, all this used to

<v Speaker 1>be yours, right? And he shows OTM in the background with,

<v Speaker 1>I thought it was sledgehammers. It was actually pickaxes that

<v Speaker 1>they had. Not quite sure why. So they have some pickaxes.

<v Speaker 1>And Bronco Nima was actually standing on top of the SUV.

<v Speaker 1>And Keyes gave him the signal to destroy it. So

<v Speaker 1>they each take their pickaxes. They blow out the windows

<v Speaker 1>with them. I mean, again, it's their rental car. It's

<v Speaker 1>not like it's their car. So Lucian Price, he passes gas.

<v Speaker 1>Hold on. Hold on a second. Let me back up

<v Speaker 1>a little bit. Lucian Price. Look, I don't know. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>he did. I don't know. Lucian Price passes a gas can. God. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>my God. I told you I have to find ways

<v Speaker 1>to entertain myself during these segments. He passes a gas.

<v Speaker 1>He passes a gas. I don't know. Look, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what they're serving these guys in catering. I don't

<v Speaker 1>fucking know. Maybe they had some rice and beans. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he probably might have been passing gas. A good thing

<v Speaker 1>he didn't get too close to that car. He passed

<v Speaker 1>a gas. I'm going to get through this. He passed

<v Speaker 1>a gas can. Oh, man. To Bronco Nima, who poured

<v Speaker 1>gasoline into the car. I guess through the sunroof, I guess.

<v Speaker 1>Then he hopped down and Keyes looked into the camera

<v Speaker 1>and he said, y'all thought I was crazy. And he

<v Speaker 1>pulled out a lighter. Right? He sparks it up. He

<v Speaker 1>spikes it up. And he chucked it into the car.

<v Speaker 1>And the car went up in flames. The Vince McMahon

<v Speaker 1>limo explosion, this was not. But it did, you know,

<v Speaker 1>there were flames in the car. And Key said, like

<v Speaker 1>I said, nobody is safe. And the show ended with

<v Speaker 1>a shot of the car with flames shooting out of it.

<v Speaker 1>The flames had kind of died out a little bit,

<v Speaker 1>and then all of a sudden there was like an explosion,

<v Speaker 1>and the flames kind of blew out of the car

<v Speaker 1>a couple of times. That's how they went off the air.

<v Speaker 1>This was the big payoff here. to this two-and-a-half-hour-long angle

<v Speaker 1>that began at the very beginning of the show, where

<v Speaker 1>the Usos showed up with a pipe and a bat,

<v Speaker 1>and they wanted to go out either to the parking

<v Speaker 1>lot or the ring, whichever one, to call out 9-4-6

<v Speaker 1>and confront these men. And it was Jacob Fatu who said, no, no, no.

<v Speaker 1>That's what they want. You've got to show restraint. You've

<v Speaker 1>got to let me call the play, right? Meanwhile, they

<v Speaker 1>ended up going to the ring anyway. And so... The

<v Speaker 1>payoff to this is that they set the Usos' rental

<v Speaker 1>car on fire as the Usos stand idly by in

<v Speaker 1>the ring watching all of this. Did they even cut

<v Speaker 1>back to the ring to show their reaction? I don't

<v Speaker 1>even remember if they cut back to the ring to

<v Speaker 1>show the Usos' reaction to all this. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that we ever saw them again. A very lame fucking

<v Speaker 1>payoff to this story. I mean, look, as long as

<v Speaker 1>they got insurance, they're good. Not only that, they have

<v Speaker 1>Royce Keys on TV, on Netflix, setting fire to their car.

<v Speaker 1>So they could just go after him for whatever the

<v Speaker 1>damages are. The Usos don't have anything to worry about.

<v Speaker 1>There's this little thing called Lyft and Uber that they

<v Speaker 1>can call to get back to their hotel. But what

<v Speaker 1>an awful thing that their rental car was destroyed. This

<v Speaker 1>show felt like it lasted a thousand years tonight. Even

<v Speaker 1>though it clocked in at just under two and a

<v Speaker 1>half hours. Just a slog to sit through. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>glad that they're trying with Keys and they called up

<v Speaker 1>these young guys in OTM. I mean, Lord knows we

<v Speaker 1>could use some new teams in WWE if you want

<v Speaker 1>to try to have some semblance of a tag team division.

<v Speaker 1>We haven't seen them wrestle yet. So, I mean, I

<v Speaker 1>think it's great that we have some new talent up

<v Speaker 1>there and they're trying something. There's this main event program

<v Speaker 1>now that Royce Keys is a part of. Doing this

<v Speaker 1>stuff tonight was just fucking lame. And honestly, this felt

<v Speaker 1>like a lame duck show, even though it was the

<v Speaker 1>first live show in a couple of weeks. It almost

<v Speaker 1>feels like this should have been the Mexico City show.

<v Speaker 1>But the calendar didn't work out that way. So it

<v Speaker 1>felt like a lame duck show because everything is being

<v Speaker 1>built around this show next week. Mexico City cannot come

<v Speaker 1>soon enough. It cannot come soon enough. Next Monday, though,

<v Speaker 1>should be a big help. It doesn't hurt to get

<v Speaker 1>a rare Roman Reigns title defense on TV. We haven't

<v Speaker 1>had one of those in four years. The last time

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns defended a championship on television, it was against

<v Speaker 1>Matt Riddle. Matt Riddle still worked for the company. Matt

<v Speaker 1>Riddle still had his hair, which he has since cut off.

<v Speaker 1>It's been a long time. And on that show next Monday,

<v Speaker 1>here's what we got. Roman Reigns defending the World Heavyweight

<v Speaker 1>Championship against Penta. We have Chad Gable defending Defending his

<v Speaker 1>Intercontinental Championship against Dragon Lee, we have two more Money

<v Speaker 1>in the Bank qualifying matches, one of which, on the

<v Speaker 1>women's side, it is the debuting Lola Weiss. So now

<v Speaker 1>all of you can drool over somebody else other than

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Viqueur. Lola Weiss is going to be debuting, and

<v Speaker 1>it's in a Money in the Bank qualifying match. match.

<v Speaker 1>And she's going to be up against Raquel Rodriguez. And

<v Speaker 1>then I'm looking at the graphic and I see fucking

<v Speaker 1>Kalani Jordan, who just won the NXT Women's Championship from

<v Speaker 1>Kendall Gray at Heat Wave. And she's in a fucking

<v Speaker 1>Money in the Bank qualifying match. I'm like, what? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>good for her, but where the fuck did that come from?

<v Speaker 1>For Lola, we've been getting vignettes building up her debut.

<v Speaker 1>She's being moved to the main roster. That makes sense.

<v Speaker 1>I'm looking. I'm like, is that Kalani Jordan on there?

<v Speaker 1>Are they so desperate for women to use on this

<v Speaker 1>show in these qualifying matches that we have to bring

<v Speaker 1>in the NXT Women's Champion to be a part of this?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it should make for a very good match.

<v Speaker 1>I saw that. I didn't really understand that. I will

<v Speaker 1>say Roxanne Perez is... is actually going to be in

<v Speaker 1>a qualifying match as well. They did announce that during

<v Speaker 1>one of the commercial breaks. It just won't be next week.

<v Speaker 1>But she will be in one of the qualifying matches.

<v Speaker 1>So my prediction may yet come true. It may yet

<v Speaker 1>come true. On the men's side next week, Javon Evans,

<v Speaker 1>Big Cass, and Austin Theory. The winner will go on

<v Speaker 1>to the men's money in the bank match. So what

<v Speaker 1>are we looking at here? We're looking at Lola Weiss.

<v Speaker 1>and I got to think Javon Evans. Javon Evans in

<v Speaker 1>a Money in the Bank match. I mean, come on.

<v Speaker 1>It makes a little too much sense, right? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he's got to be. He's got to be. Big Cass

<v Speaker 1>already beat him on television a few weeks ago. Big

<v Speaker 1>Cass already got his win. He doesn't even have to

<v Speaker 1>take the losing fall here. You've got Austin Theory is

<v Speaker 1>in this match. Austin Theory, the fall guy for The Vision.

<v Speaker 1>That's his job next week. Take the losing fall. Send

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans to money in the bank. This is all

<v Speaker 1>very simple. That should be a much better show next week.

<v Speaker 1>And a much louder crowd, I'm sure, because they are...

<v Speaker 1>When was the last time Raw was in Mexico? It

<v Speaker 1>was probably 15 years ago. It was a long time ago.

<v Speaker 1>I think they're going to be hot for that show

<v Speaker 1>in a way that Alabama was not going to be.

<v Speaker 1>This show was not good. This was not a good show. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>the eater of pins of the vision is Austin. I

<v Speaker 1>told you when he first joined the group, I said,

<v Speaker 1>call him the fall guy because that's his job. I

<v Speaker 1>know he's walking around with a tag team title belt,

<v Speaker 1>but who gives a shit? His role in the group

<v Speaker 1>is to be the fall guy when push comes to

<v Speaker 1>shove and he's in a match of any sort of

<v Speaker 1>real significance or importance. He's the fall guy. And that's

<v Speaker 1>what he should be next week. All right, here we go.

<v Speaker 1>Let's get to your messages here. Look at that. We're

<v Speaker 1>up to 8 out of 10 on the bonus goal.

<v Speaker 1>Two more and we actually will do Be The Booker tonight.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't know if we would make it. Bossmo Jackson

<v Speaker 1>is with us. He's got a couple of super chats.

<v Speaker 1>I love seeing Oba jumped by the vision. It's great television.

<v Speaker 1>He's no longer this super wrestler. I want to see more.

<v Speaker 1>I love Oba, but he deserves this. I mean, there's

<v Speaker 1>nothing wrong with having him struggle from underneath. Otherwise, people

<v Speaker 1>may start to resent him if he feels invincible. You

<v Speaker 1>gotta make him look human from time to time. Also,

<v Speaker 1>he says, I love the way Liv laughs. It's very cute.

<v Speaker 1>I think it's fucking annoying. But she's a heel, so

<v Speaker 1>that's the point. TheWinstonSlip, please book your top five heels

<v Speaker 1>and top five faces for a 10-man tag. Today? Today?

<v Speaker 1>I know most of the time who the fucking heel

<v Speaker 1>and face is supposed to be on these shows. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, man. Ten-man tag, I mean, take your pick.

<v Speaker 1>I'd have an easier time doing all time, right? Put

<v Speaker 1>fucking D.B. Ossie on the heel side, Mr. Perfect on

<v Speaker 1>the heel side, Crockett-era Flair, like Horseman Flair, can have

<v Speaker 1>him in there. Piper was at his best as a heel, realistically.

<v Speaker 1>But he wasn't a heel for very long in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>He was really only a heel for like two years.

<v Speaker 1>Most of his time there was as a babyface. Some

<v Speaker 1>combination of those guys. You want to go Golden Era? Oh,

<v Speaker 1>we did. Oh, we did do it. Oh, my goodness. Sidro.

<v Speaker 1>Shout out to Sidra. We did do it. We hit

<v Speaker 1>the goal. Look at that. 10 out of 10. Be

<v Speaker 1>the booker. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. TheRealCS02 with a 999.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, brother. Joe Tessitore is literally one of the

<v Speaker 1>worst commentators in wrestling. He shows zero emotion or enthusiasm

<v Speaker 1>for anything. He's the lead play-by-play and sounds like a robot.

<v Speaker 1>Kind of like Kevin Patrick when he was in that role.

<v Speaker 1>Just didn't feel like the play-by-play voice for Raw because

<v Speaker 1>I feel like so many of these guys are judged

<v Speaker 1>by the greatness of JR in that spot for so

<v Speaker 1>many years, which is kind of unfair to them, but

<v Speaker 1>it's so hard to go from that to what we

<v Speaker 1>have today. And part of it is just the way

<v Speaker 1>that the modern style of announcing is in WWE. It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't lend itself to having a... Like, if Jim Ross

<v Speaker 1>was there, Jim Ross would be doing exactly what these

<v Speaker 1>guys are doing. And plugging all their shit and doing

<v Speaker 1>all the things that you're supposed to do. It's not

<v Speaker 1>organic anymore. None of this shit is organic. It's all manufactured.

<v Speaker 1>Bossmo Jackson says, Liv Morgan has one of the best

<v Speaker 1>themes in the W... Oh, I see what you're doing now.

<v Speaker 1>I see your shtick now, Bosmo Jackson. Robbie H5. What's

<v Speaker 1>going on, Robbie? Pouring gas in the front, throwing the

<v Speaker 1>lighter in the middle, and the fire starting from the

<v Speaker 1>back is crazy. I didn't even really notice where he

<v Speaker 1>threw the light. He just tossed the lighter in. I

<v Speaker 1>didn't even notice where it landed. I have to go

<v Speaker 1>back and watch it now and see. That makes it

<v Speaker 1>even more ridiculous than it already was. Ollie says, do

<v Speaker 1>you think the car had real glass? Cry me a river, Ollie.

<v Speaker 1>Real glass. Cry me a river. I would imagine it did.

<v Speaker 1>When's the next SoundOffGamer? You know, I believe as of

<v Speaker 1>20 minutes ago, right? It is now officially Tuesday. The

<v Speaker 1>new Halloween game is out. Literally today. It drops. So

<v Speaker 1>I may have to look into that. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know how much it is or if it's available on Steam.

<v Speaker 1>I think it is. I don't know. I feel like

<v Speaker 1>it's calling my name. That new Halloween game looks pretty good.

<v Speaker 1>It could be soon. San Juan Wolf with a $ 20 drop.

<v Speaker 1>I'm calling it now. I see Braun Breaker winning the

<v Speaker 1>men's Money in the Bank. Possible, but I need to

<v Speaker 1>know who else is going to be in that match.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty certain Javon Evans is going to make it in.

<v Speaker 1>But then we have, what, four? It's going to be six, right?

<v Speaker 1>Four other spots. I got to see the full field. Sidro. Sidro.

<v Speaker 1>Sidro remembered that we exist too. He says, what do

<v Speaker 1>you get when you cross marijuana with a potato? A

<v Speaker 1>baked potato. And got fired from the clock factory. I

<v Speaker 1>thought putting in extra hours was a good thing. The

<v Speaker 1>marijuana one was better. Daryl Strawberry. Why does Joe Buck

<v Speaker 1>sound comatose on commentary? Because he's old. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>remember the last time I heard Joe Buck do commentary.

<v Speaker 1>Is he really that bad? Venom Katetsu, do all Jersey

<v Speaker 1>girls laugh like Liv? I dig it. I've known a few,

<v Speaker 1>and not all of them do. Some of them do.

<v Speaker 1>Not all of them. Jason Tarr says, just trying to

<v Speaker 1>do my part for the $ 9. 99. Well, Jason, you were

<v Speaker 1>part of helping us attain the goal. So thank you.

<v Speaker 1>As was the Ufman. Jason is awesome and so is

<v Speaker 1>the Ufman. Miz is the type of talent that if

<v Speaker 1>TKO asked him to take a 75% pay cut, he

<v Speaker 1>would tell them he would work for free. Hey, Miz is...

<v Speaker 1>willing to do whatever it takes. He is a WWE

<v Speaker 1>guy through and through. He knows where his bread is

<v Speaker 1>buttered Alex Ochoa with a 10 any chance that we

<v Speaker 1>get Brock back to tag with Oba against The Bronze

<v Speaker 1>maybe a Saudi payday I think if he was to

<v Speaker 1>come back it would be for a singles match it's

<v Speaker 1>not going to be for a tag I was shocked

<v Speaker 1>he even did war games last year. You ain't ever

<v Speaker 1>going to see Brock Lesnar do an attack team match.

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy Rose, crazy to fathom. OTC losing, but who's to

<v Speaker 1>say either LA Knight or 946 cost Roman giving the

<v Speaker 1>WWE champion or giving WWE their Mexico moment that they

<v Speaker 1>crave with Penta winning the title. There's no way, dude.

<v Speaker 1>There's no way. With L.A. Knight waiting in the wings,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, why would L.A. Knight cost him the championship?

<v Speaker 1>Doesn't he want to wrestle Roman for the time? I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he's like, whoever comes out as champion, it doesn't matter

<v Speaker 1>to him. So I don't really know why he would

<v Speaker 1>get involved. 9-4-6 could get involved. Very possible. L.A. Knight

<v Speaker 1>getting involved, to me, unless Solo Soko was to get involved.

<v Speaker 1>But Solo's issue is with keys and his crew his

<v Speaker 1>issue is no longer with roman reigns uh jason tarr

<v Speaker 1>bailey needs new music especially if she is staying yeah

<v Speaker 1>i would hope that as part of the negotiation she

<v Speaker 1>said okay i'm not coming back unless you give me

<v Speaker 1>new music and get rid of that role model shit

<v Speaker 1>and i want that in writing that's what i would

<v Speaker 1>have asked for She's needed new music for years now.

<v Speaker 1>It's fucking awful. Dorian Moore, have you seen the WWE

<v Speaker 1>Street Fighter toys? I have not. I didn't even know

<v Speaker 1>they existed. Spray JC. What's going on, brother? I need

<v Speaker 1>those giant JD cardboard heads or Triple H giant heads

<v Speaker 1>all throughout the crowd until Raw or SmackDown can book

<v Speaker 1>consecutive halfway decent shows. I see he's growing his hair

<v Speaker 1>out again. People were posting pictures. I think it was

<v Speaker 1>WrestleOps or whatever. The pictures. He got out of a

<v Speaker 1>car or something. He's walking by. He's growing his hair

<v Speaker 1>out again. I think the bald fraud comments finally got

<v Speaker 1>to him. Eric the Sean says, what do you call

<v Speaker 1>a group of chubby babies? Heavy infantry. Sidro, I think

<v Speaker 1>you have some competition. Venom Katetsu, apparently Cole can pack

<v Speaker 1>in some beers. Is he known for that? See, I

<v Speaker 1>knew the stories about Mean Gene. He had a very

<v Speaker 1>particular taste when it came to his liquor and He

<v Speaker 1>could throw it back himself. I haven't heard any stories

<v Speaker 1>about Michael Cole. Eric says, why do cows have hooves

<v Speaker 1>instead of feet? Because they lack toes. Oh my God. Oh, Eric. Eric.

<v Speaker 1>And then Eric with a 10. No message. To redeem himself.

<v Speaker 1>I think Eric knew. I think he's like, you know what?

<v Speaker 1>I fucked up with that one. Let me redeem myself. Eric,

<v Speaker 1>you have been redeemed. You are the redeemer. It is

<v Speaker 1>no longer Miro. Abyssal Zones. The fact that Liv's title

<v Speaker 1>defenses have been good matches makes the overall... I mean,

<v Speaker 1>she hasn't had very many of them, but yes, they've

<v Speaker 1>been good. Makes the overall lack of them even more egregious.

<v Speaker 1>Hope she gets a few more under her belt. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying she should be defending the championship every

<v Speaker 1>other week, but my God, what the fuck? Part of

<v Speaker 1>it also is just like, if you look at the

<v Speaker 1>women's roster on the Raw side, what are we looking

<v Speaker 1>at right now? We're looking at Becky, Stephanie, and they're

<v Speaker 1>clearly saving Becky for like a PLE or something. Becky, Stephanie,

<v Speaker 1>and Liv. Beyond that, you have Raquel and Roxanne. You

<v Speaker 1>have Maxine, Sol Ruka, Lyra Valkyria, Bailey is back now.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's not like they don't have any names.

<v Speaker 1>It's just this inability to do anything of any real

<v Speaker 1>substance with them. Alex Ochoa with a 10. The only

<v Speaker 1>way Liv is the female Eddie Guerrero is that the

<v Speaker 1>only way she can keep her title is if she lies, cheats,

<v Speaker 1>and steals. Has she had any clean wins recently without

<v Speaker 1>help from the Judgment Day? I'm trying to remember what

<v Speaker 1>happened at SummerSlam. Did she cheat at SummerSlam? Offhand, I

<v Speaker 1>don't remember if any of the Judgment Day women got involved.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure they did. But you say, you know,

<v Speaker 1>has she had any clean wins recently? She's barely had

<v Speaker 1>any matches recently. Title or no title, that's the problem.

<v Speaker 1>She barely wrestles. Alex, with a couple of more $ 10 drop-in,

<v Speaker 1>Alex really wants to be the booker. You guys better

<v Speaker 1>say thank you to Alex. He played a very big

<v Speaker 1>part in getting us there. Four Hill with a 999.

<v Speaker 1>Or four T-Hill. Heyman has been playing hard to get

<v Speaker 1>the vision lately. To get with the vision. I think

<v Speaker 1>Breaker wins money in the bank. And that is when

<v Speaker 1>Heyman comes crawling back to him. Also, Braun cashes in

<v Speaker 1>on Oba next summer and takes the world title. He's

<v Speaker 1>going to hold it for almost a year. Really? You

<v Speaker 1>think he's going to hold it for a year? I

<v Speaker 1>don't think they're going to wait that long. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think he's walking around with that lunchbox for a year.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Sidro. I appreciate it. I miss you, brother.

<v Speaker 1>We'll be back there. Don't worry about it. And Z-Ray. Hey, Solo,

<v Speaker 1>I just watched Unreal, and I was thinking with how

<v Speaker 1>WWE micromanages their talent, how is a talent supposed to

<v Speaker 1>get over on their own the way he says they

<v Speaker 1>are supposed to? Some people will. Some people are just

<v Speaker 1>naturally charismatic. But it's hard, man. I would imagine it's

<v Speaker 1>a lot harder now than it would have been years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Because everything, like you said, it just feels so micromanaged now.

<v Speaker 1>And commercial as well. Fucking Austin Theory opening the show

<v Speaker 1>last night. Plugging fucking steak nuggets from Arby's. There's so

<v Speaker 1>much of that stuff going on. And everything just feels

<v Speaker 1>so inauthentic. It's harder. It has to be. It has

<v Speaker 1>to be harder than it was traditionally. So when you

<v Speaker 1>hear stuff like that, Triple H is like, you know,

<v Speaker 1>just go out there and get over. Just go get

<v Speaker 1>over on your own. Yeah, well, sometimes I feel like

<v Speaker 1>the company actually works against them in that regard. You

<v Speaker 1>would think the company would help them along and nurture them.

<v Speaker 1>And sometimes it feels like it's just the opposite. And

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure some of the talents have to feel that way. Sure,

<v Speaker 1>they have all sorts of ideas on what they could

<v Speaker 1>be doing to try to stand out more or improve

<v Speaker 1>their gimmick or whatever may be going on. A, it's

<v Speaker 1>hard to do if you're not getting consistent television time.

<v Speaker 1>And B, I don't know, it just feels like everything

<v Speaker 1>is so constrained. It has to be frustrating for some

<v Speaker 1>of these people. I don't see how it can't be.

<v Speaker 1>Sidro says, got caught stealing Viagra from the pharmacy where

<v Speaker 1>I work. Thought I was going to get fired. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>I got a big raise. Sidro's going to be laying

<v Speaker 1>pipe like Jimmy Uso was tonight. Eric Deshawn, hey there, Solo,

<v Speaker 1>since you're a fan of synth music, says, I highly

<v Speaker 1>suggest Beast in Black. They combine synth with metal and

<v Speaker 1>the lead singer's range is insane. True Believer is my

<v Speaker 1>favorite of them. I have never heard of them before.

<v Speaker 1>I'll have to check that out. I love synth music. Synthwave, Retrowave.

<v Speaker 1>The Winston Slip. Your all-time favorite heels and faces. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I could just start naming heels and faces.

<v Speaker 1>I don't. Put them all in the match. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's hard to do on the spot. Like

<v Speaker 1>I said, I named Dibiase imperfect and Jake as a

<v Speaker 1>heel was so fucking good. Savage was a great heel.

<v Speaker 1>Enjoyed more of his work as a heel. than I

<v Speaker 1>did as a babyface. And, you know, on the other side,

<v Speaker 1>you can put in Stone Cold. Obviously, he was not

<v Speaker 1>the white meat babyface kissing babies and posing and all

<v Speaker 1>the stuff Hogan did back in the 80s. But you're

<v Speaker 1>going to have a very difficult time finding A bigger

<v Speaker 1>babyface than Stone Cold Steve Austin was. So, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you got to have him on that list. Brock Lesnar.

<v Speaker 1>I'd probably have Brock on the heel side. You could

<v Speaker 1>have Austin and Rock on the babyface side. 80s Hogan. Brett.

<v Speaker 1>I think I named some good ones there. Wink the

<v Speaker 1>Cosmic Grandma. Did you see Oba got pissed about Bronson

<v Speaker 1>putting his foot on him? I did not notice that, no.

<v Speaker 1>I did not. Well, then he'll get a receipt, I guess,

<v Speaker 1>the next time they're in the ring together. There's always

<v Speaker 1>time for a receipt. There's always time for one. We

<v Speaker 1>actually have time now for Be The Booker because we

<v Speaker 1>did hit the bonus goal. If you remember from the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of the stream, The Wheel told us that we

<v Speaker 1>were only going by the bonus goal and you guys

<v Speaker 1>made that happen so with that any further ado let's

<v Speaker 1>go ahead and let's be the booker we got some

<v Speaker 1>matches to book yes we do it is now time

<v Speaker 1>to be the booker yes indeed Hey, Drew McIncock, what's

<v Speaker 1>going on? 42 months of channel membership. Will you be

<v Speaker 1>buying the Halloween or Wolverine game? The Halloween game I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to have to look into. I didn't even know

<v Speaker 1>there was a Wolverine game. There's a Wolverine game. Is

<v Speaker 1>it out now? Graphics-wise, does it look good? I need

<v Speaker 1>to know these things. Beatabooka, yes. Shawn Michaels and Big

<v Speaker 1>Daddy Cool Diesel, the two dudes with attitude. They had

<v Speaker 1>all the gold here. What was this, September 95? It's

<v Speaker 1>going to be very difficult for another tag team here

<v Speaker 1>to win this match. Politically speaking, whoever I land on

<v Speaker 1>right now, clearly they are doing the job. They are

<v Speaker 1>looking up at the lights here in this match. And,

<v Speaker 1>oh my God, it is the great Tonga Loa and

<v Speaker 1>Tama Tonga. Tonga Loa is going to have to do

<v Speaker 1>a job to show. Well, you know what? If I'm

<v Speaker 1>Shawn Michaels and Diesel. Come on. Tonga Loa is going

<v Speaker 1>to be in there with Shawn Michaels. Tonga Loa is

<v Speaker 1>going to be eating a jackknife powerbomb is what he's

<v Speaker 1>going to be doing. I'm sorry, Tonga Loa, even you

<v Speaker 1>are not able to overcome the politics that would be played,

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure. Can you imagine, like, them trying to fight

<v Speaker 1>against the clique? It's going to end badly for them.

<v Speaker 1>Then again, all they got to do is snap their

<v Speaker 1>fingers and bring in Haku, and I think they would

<v Speaker 1>be on their best behavior. Shawn Michaels would take one

<v Speaker 1>look at Haku, he would immediately turn around and walk

<v Speaker 1>the other way. Where is Tonga Loa superfan when you

<v Speaker 1>need him? Yeah, whatever happened to him? He just ended

<v Speaker 1>up in a deep depression after Tonga Loa was released.

<v Speaker 1>And we never heard from him again. I hope he's okay.

<v Speaker 1>We have... Riho! What the hell ever happened to Riho?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. We haven't seen Riho in... In ages. Yes.

<v Speaker 1>I know that's everybody's favorite wrestler. Riho is going to

<v Speaker 1>be taking on Zarya. Riho and Zarya. I gave it

<v Speaker 1>the bell. And in our main event of the evening. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know whatever happened to Riho. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Hey, shout out to Good Vibes Chris.

<v Speaker 1>With eight months of membership. Eight months in this fine establishment.

<v Speaker 1>Happy to be here as a member of the Sound Off.

<v Speaker 1>Can't wait for Penta and Roman. Also, Fletcher and Red

<v Speaker 1>was a banger. Yes, it was. It was one of

<v Speaker 1>the best matches I've seen all year. Very happy I

<v Speaker 1>got to be on the call for that one. Be

<v Speaker 1>the Booker is cursed. Game over, says Dan Housen. However, however, yep,

<v Speaker 1>we've been beamed. We have been beamed into a new round. Yes, indeed,

<v Speaker 1>we have, ladies and gentlemen. Do you know what that means?

<v Speaker 1>That means that we wipe the slate clean and we

<v Speaker 1>move on. And the reason that we move on is

<v Speaker 1>because that was a bonus. Be the Booker. Because you

<v Speaker 1>guys put in the extra effort to get us Be

<v Speaker 1>the Booker, I cannot deprive you of your main event.

<v Speaker 1>So I am making an executive commissioner decision to resume

<v Speaker 1>Be the Booker. And I'm going to say no to

<v Speaker 1>the Danhausen curse. And we are going to soldier on here.

<v Speaker 1>And we are going to have the monster abyss with Janice.

<v Speaker 1>In his hand. The multiverse be the book. The Monster Abyss.

<v Speaker 1>Against Terry Funk. Terry Funk and Abyss is going to

<v Speaker 1>be a very violent, very bloody affair. There will be tax.

<v Speaker 1>There will be barbed wire. There will probably be C4 explosions.

<v Speaker 1>Abyss and Terry Funk, they're going to tear down the

<v Speaker 1>entire establishment. Be the Booker will never be the same again.

<v Speaker 1>The whole place is going to get wrecked. Blood will

<v Speaker 1>be spilled. Now that's a main event. Who wins? Terry Funk.

<v Speaker 1>I think Terry would get the win. Bread Heart with

<v Speaker 1>54 months of channel membership. I want Stephen Borden to

<v Speaker 1>have a theme song with the lyrics, He does this,

<v Speaker 1>he does that. Just for the hell of it. It's

<v Speaker 1>one of the great songs of all time. He does this,

<v Speaker 1>he does that. Don't you dare cross him or get

<v Speaker 1>in his way, because if you do, you're going to

<v Speaker 1>have to pay to the man called Sting. Boy, they

<v Speaker 1>don't make theme songs like they used to. I got

<v Speaker 1>to tell you, you know, when Stephanie Viqueur came out

<v Speaker 1>for that main event tonight, she came out first. They

<v Speaker 1>played her music. I had no idea who was coming out.

<v Speaker 1>I had no idea who was coming out. It took

<v Speaker 1>me a good five seconds to Because then it kind

<v Speaker 1>of kicks into that next verse or whatever. And it's like, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>that's that. But I was lost. I was like, who

<v Speaker 1>the fuck is this? Entrance music now is... It's never

<v Speaker 1>been as bad as it is today in WWE. It's

<v Speaker 1>fucking awful. It is awful. I just don't understand it.

<v Speaker 1>Surfer Sting is still my favorite version. Probably mine too. Honestly.

<v Speaker 1>Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash against Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.

<v Speaker 1>Who has the most political power? Hogan. Because Hogan has

<v Speaker 1>the one thing that the other two don't have. The

<v Speaker 1>other three don't have. He has creative control. If he

<v Speaker 1>wants to win the match, his team is winning the match.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why any promoter would ever agree to

<v Speaker 1>something like that. That's it. It doesn't matter how political

<v Speaker 1>you are. If you have creative control, that's it. You're

<v Speaker 1>all set. Can you imagine if they tried to change

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton's music? They tried to. They wanted to. And

<v Speaker 1>Orton said, nope. You ain't changing it to that. Orton's

<v Speaker 1>music at this point is kind of like Shawn's music.

<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine Shawn Michaels coming out to anything other

<v Speaker 1>than Sexy Boy. It's just he's so identified to that song.

<v Speaker 1>And for Cena, right, with the trumpets, Orton, it's the

<v Speaker 1>same thing. You can't change the music. Bayley, you can

<v Speaker 1>change the music. I would be okay with them even

<v Speaker 1>going back to her NXT theme. Her NXT theme was infuriating.

<v Speaker 1>better than the garbage she comes out to now. Infinitely.

<v Speaker 1>Bring back the music and bring back the wacky wailing

<v Speaker 1>inflatable tube men. That's what I say. Stephanie liked hers.

<v Speaker 1>I wonder if she fought to keep her old one. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>she really wanted to. She wanted to keep the old.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know all the logistics and what went into

<v Speaker 1>her needing to change her theme song, but she really

<v Speaker 1>liked her old theme. It was better than the one

<v Speaker 1>she has now. Russo seemed to find a way around

<v Speaker 1>Hogan's creative control. Sure. And then a lawsuit ensued. Pay

<v Speaker 1>for Paramore, you lazy bastards. Are you asking TKO to

<v Speaker 1>actually pay to license a theme song? I mean, they

<v Speaker 1>did for Nick Aldis. That was a one-off, though. They

<v Speaker 1>did for Nick Aldis. They got Nick Aldis' Oasis for SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>That's very, very rare for WWE to do that, but

<v Speaker 1>that was like a special occasion kind of thing. They

<v Speaker 1>ain't paying Paramore to give Bayley new theme music. Do

<v Speaker 1>you think Randy Orton will use his original theme in

<v Speaker 1>his retirement run? Why would he use his original theme?

<v Speaker 1>He fucking hates that song. He's talking about burning my light.

<v Speaker 1>He hates that song. Despises it. He's never going to

<v Speaker 1>use that song ever again. I didn't hate it. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he hates it. I didn't think it was that bad. Wink. Wink.

<v Speaker 1>with a $ 4. 99 how cool would it have been if

<v Speaker 1>Sting pushed his kid off the ladder at all end

<v Speaker 1>and then coffin dropped oh I thought you were talking

<v Speaker 1>about Sting turning heel on his son I was like

<v Speaker 1>what a terrible idea that would have been pushes his

<v Speaker 1>son off the ladder he takes a table bump I'm

<v Speaker 1>glad Sting climbed down from the ladder I was getting

<v Speaker 1>very worried I'm like this is this is going to

<v Speaker 1>end very badly He's been out of the ring for

<v Speaker 1>two years. He's 67 years old. He hasn't stretched. What

<v Speaker 1>the hell are you thinking? And then, thankfully, he climbed down.

<v Speaker 1>Would you like to see Punk come out to This

<v Speaker 1>Fire Burns one more time? Yeah, I mean, I think

<v Speaker 1>that would be cool. Again, it's not going to happen.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, this song that he uses now, this is

<v Speaker 1>it for him. Like, that's the song that he will

<v Speaker 1>be identified with. but as a one-off on some kind

<v Speaker 1>of retro show that they do. Remember they used to

<v Speaker 1>do the throwback episodes of Raw? What the hell did

<v Speaker 1>they call them? Oh, they had a name for them.

<v Speaker 1>I forgot what they used to call them. But they

<v Speaker 1>had these throwback episodes of Raw, and then they just

<v Speaker 1>stopped doing them. So maybe if they do something like

<v Speaker 1>that one day, maybe he'll come out to it. Evolution

<v Speaker 1>theme is Orton's best theme. The Evolution theme was very good.

<v Speaker 1>Old school Raw, yes. Old school Raw. A lot of

<v Speaker 1>the old school elements of Saturday Night's Main Event, not

<v Speaker 1>all of them, but a lot of them, they've already

<v Speaker 1>gotten rid of it. They had the music. They were

<v Speaker 1>bringing Jesse. They don't bring in Jesse anymore ever since

<v Speaker 1>he criticized them. They have Quavo now doing the opening

<v Speaker 1>theme for the... Who the fuck cares? I mean, come on, man.

<v Speaker 1>We have... Soy with the $ 2 super chat. Do you

<v Speaker 1>think that Oba is cuter than Bron Breaker? I think

<v Speaker 1>that might be a better question for Sarah in the chat.

<v Speaker 1>Not a word I would use to describe either one

<v Speaker 1>of these individuals. Alexander says, Def Rebel and Nikita Lyons

<v Speaker 1>knows where the skeletons are located at WWE headquarters. The

<v Speaker 1>only explanation as to why they are still there. I mean, supposedly. Supposedly.

<v Speaker 1>Tamina is still under contract. I'm just saying. Anybody knows

<v Speaker 1>where the bodies are buried? There you go. EJ Slamp

<v Speaker 1>coming in late here with a $ 4. 99. I hate crowd

<v Speaker 1>sing-alongs more than Solid Monster hated MJ's death coverage. Dead

<v Speaker 1>Man Taker would get sing-alongs too, and it would be all... Oh,

<v Speaker 1>everybody would. Like, again, we were talking about this on

<v Speaker 1>the stream last night. We got into a whole thing

<v Speaker 1>about if the Golden Era and if the Attitude Era

<v Speaker 1>were as commercialized as the TKO Era. All the different

<v Speaker 1>products that stone cold and hogan and savage and piper

<v Speaker 1>and all these people would be promoting back then and

<v Speaker 1>you know as far as i'm just like i'm just

<v Speaker 1>looking at the chat oh yes drew mack is kind

<v Speaker 1>of keep forgetting about drew uh but anyway so about

<v Speaker 1>the sing-alongs it's the same thing where Undertaker would come

<v Speaker 1>out with Paul Bearer, and the crowd... I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know what they would be singing. But they would come

<v Speaker 1>up with some sort of sing-along chant, you know, for

<v Speaker 1>The Undertaker. And they would have a sing-along for... I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you name the top names, they would all... Mankind would

<v Speaker 1>have a sing-along, and The Rock would have a sing-along,

<v Speaker 1>and Stone Cold would have a sing-along. It's the evolution

<v Speaker 1>of crowds. They like to sing. It's a European thing.

<v Speaker 1>And it could be fun... But then after a while,

<v Speaker 1>it gets very annoying. Like the what chant. I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>the what chant was very fun for a lot of

<v Speaker 1>people at first. It still is for some people. I

<v Speaker 1>have no idea why. After a while, it gets annoying.

<v Speaker 1>And you stop doing it and you move on to

<v Speaker 1>whatever the next thing is. But people just never stop

<v Speaker 1>doing it. They just never did. And B Money 04,

<v Speaker 1>do you think Roman takes a Mexican destroyer next week,

<v Speaker 1>or does Roman tell Penta that doesn't work for me, brother?

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to say that he does. I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>say he takes a Mexican destroyer next week. I actually

<v Speaker 1>think there's a better chance of him taking a Mexican

<v Speaker 1>destroyer than a Penta driver. I hold my breath every

<v Speaker 1>time he hits the Penta driver because it's on the

<v Speaker 1>opponent to tuck their head at the very last second.

<v Speaker 1>It's more of like a sudden... And I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>I look at that, I think that's a far more

<v Speaker 1>dangerous move. It might sound counterintuitive because the penta driver

<v Speaker 1>is basically a rolling pile driver. But I actually look

<v Speaker 1>at that and think it's a safer move than the

<v Speaker 1>penta driver. It looks less scary to me than when

<v Speaker 1>I see people having to tuck their head on the

<v Speaker 1>penta driver. Because if they tuck it too late, it's

<v Speaker 1>not going to end well. Can you imagine the reaction, though,

<v Speaker 1>if Roman takes a Mexican destroyer and people think he

<v Speaker 1>actually has a shot, Penta does, of winning? Like, they

<v Speaker 1>would lose their fucking minds. That has to be a

<v Speaker 1>near-fall spot in that match. Has to be. Oh, my God.

<v Speaker 1>Danny says, hey, hey. Hey, Taker. Ooh. Ah. I wanna

<v Speaker 1>know if you'll rest in peace. Yes, I'm telling you,

<v Speaker 1>they would come up with some fucking stupid chant for

<v Speaker 1>The Undertaker. They'll come up with some dumb chant for anybody.

<v Speaker 1>He's not immune to it. Uh, Devon. It says, why

<v Speaker 1>was Hogan so prone to mispronouncing the names of people

<v Speaker 1>and places? Was it old age, head injuries, or was

<v Speaker 1>he just a tool? I think he was just a tool.

<v Speaker 1>He used to call Orndorff Orndoff. Every time. He could

<v Speaker 1>not say the word Orndorff. He would always say Orndoff.

<v Speaker 1>So that was one example of it. God, who else?

<v Speaker 1>What other names did he mispronounce? Hogan had these weird

<v Speaker 1>things he would do. Like, he was never the million-dollar man.

<v Speaker 1>It was always the multi-million-dollar man. That's what he would

<v Speaker 1>call him. I was just to laugh at the way

<v Speaker 1>he would say the word got. He couldn't say the

<v Speaker 1>word got. He would say gut. I've got to have it.

<v Speaker 1>Just little things like that that would just make me

<v Speaker 1>fucking laugh. Multi-million-dollar man. All right. Sounds more impressive somehow.

<v Speaker 1>Instead of just saying million-dollar man, he's the multi-million-dollar man.

<v Speaker 1>EJ says, the older I get, the more I appreciate

<v Speaker 1>Japanese wrestling crowds. Yes. Very quiet, but in a respectful

<v Speaker 1>way where you know they're being attentive. And then if

<v Speaker 1>the match is good enough and exciting enough, as it

<v Speaker 1>builds to a big climactic finish, they get very loud.

<v Speaker 1>They're not always quiet. They get very loud. But if

<v Speaker 1>they're into it, they will get loud. Otherwise, they're just

<v Speaker 1>watching respectfully. Wouldn't make for a great television show, though.

<v Speaker 1>You know. That's the reason why there's no weekly New

<v Speaker 1>Japan shows where they go from week to week. They

<v Speaker 1>go to different venues and they air it in an

<v Speaker 1>episodic way the way we have here in the States.

<v Speaker 1>If you had nothing but quiet, silent crowds, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>really make for an exciting television show. Bret Hart says

<v Speaker 1>the SummerSlam. He also would call it the WCW. Now,

<v Speaker 1>you call it the WWF, and that makes sense. It's

<v Speaker 1>the World Wrestling Federation. The World Championship Wrestling doesn't make

<v Speaker 1>any sense. Imagine how angry they were when Vader squashed Inoki. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>they rioted. They were banned from that venue for a

<v Speaker 1>year because the fans rioted. That's how angry they were

<v Speaker 1>about that. That's when they believed. When people still believed.

<v Speaker 1>That's when your life was in danger trying to get

<v Speaker 1>out of the building. Paul Orndorff used to drive me

<v Speaker 1>crazy with Hogan. He just, he could not pronounce that

<v Speaker 1>man's name correctly. It was always Orndorff. It was like,

<v Speaker 1>you do realize there's an R in there. See, I'll

<v Speaker 1>bet that if you would have told Hogan that there's

<v Speaker 1>a hard R in Orndorff's name, he would have said it.

<v Speaker 1>We have Jay Vargas from the Bronx. The WWE Elimination

<v Speaker 1>Chamber 2014 was the final WWE pay-per-view event to air

<v Speaker 1>exclusively on traditional pay-per-view outlets before the launch of the network. Interesting. Luis,

<v Speaker 1>63 months of channel membership. Hurricane Marie gave Southern California

<v Speaker 1>a love tap, yet WWE continues to book Liv Morgan

<v Speaker 1>as a cheater. There are so many things wrong with

<v Speaker 1>the Judgment Day. There are. Hey, Devin. Thank you for

<v Speaker 1>the $ 4. 99. Also, did Solo ever speak in carny or

<v Speaker 1>have a secret language with Papa Monster? No, no, no

<v Speaker 1>carny language. No carny at home when I was a kid.

<v Speaker 1>That was the other thing that Hogan did. He spoke

<v Speaker 1>carny all the time, even into his old age. He

<v Speaker 1>spoke carny on those jailhouse tapes with his son. That's

<v Speaker 1>how much of a carny he was. My favorite thing

<v Speaker 1>with Hogan was at the Royal Rumble in 91. He

<v Speaker 1>was backstage doing a promo with Mean Gene before the Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>and Mean Gene was getting word in his earpiece. This

<v Speaker 1>was after Slaughter had beaten the Warrior to win the

<v Speaker 1>championship that night, which was fucking hilarious because you have

<v Speaker 1>Sergeant Slaughter doing this Iraqi sympathizer gimmick, and he just

<v Speaker 1>won the belt from the Warrior, but the Warrior came

<v Speaker 1>out that night with like a lavender strap. So the

<v Speaker 1>one time that Sergeant Slaughter, the evil Iraqi sympathizer, won

<v Speaker 1>the world title, he leaves with this fucking belt that's

<v Speaker 1>like lavender. But anyway, so after he won the championship,

<v Speaker 1>Gene gets word in his ear that they were burning

<v Speaker 1>the American flag, and we get an instant reaction from Hogan.

<v Speaker 1>And it's the only time in a live promo that

<v Speaker 1>I can ever remember Hogan getting flustered. And he stumbled

<v Speaker 1>over his words, and then he got stuck. And he

<v Speaker 1>didn't know what to say. And this really was a

<v Speaker 1>great example of the greatness of Mean Gene Okerlund. Because

<v Speaker 1>it wasn't just that he was very good at his

<v Speaker 1>job as an announcer. He was very good at trying

<v Speaker 1>to get the train back on the tracks. If it derailed.

<v Speaker 1>And helping the wrestlers out when they needed help. Hogan

<v Speaker 1>doesn't know what to say. He gets stuck. And I

<v Speaker 1>forgot exactly what Gene said. But Gene was like he

<v Speaker 1>didn't miss a beat. He got right in there to

<v Speaker 1>kind of save him. And they quickly got out of

<v Speaker 1>the segment. But it's like the only time I can

<v Speaker 1>remember Hogan really getting flustered on a promo. And he

<v Speaker 1>mispronounced Saddam Hussein's name too. Shit. God, what did he

<v Speaker 1>call him? Satnam Singh. Yeah, whatever it was, he botched

<v Speaker 1>Saddam Hussein or whatever the hell he called him. It

<v Speaker 1>was not a great promo. Navy4181. I did a side-by-side comparison.

<v Speaker 1>Lyra is starting to look a lot like Violet. The

<v Speaker 1>kid who chewed gum and turned into a blueberry at

<v Speaker 1>the Wonka factory. I mean, I just think they have

<v Speaker 1>her looking like a crackhead on television every week. She's

<v Speaker 1>going to start scratching herself soon, like Billy Kidman used

<v Speaker 1>to do when he was in the flock. EJ says,

<v Speaker 1>I came up with my own Be The Booker random tag,

<v Speaker 1>Templario and El Desperado against Ron Garvin and Shad Gaspard,

<v Speaker 1>Bell or Buzzer. That's a buzzer. I don't think any

<v Speaker 1>of those people are in Be The Booker. Exactly zero

<v Speaker 1>of the people you just named are in Be The Booker.

<v Speaker 1>That was another one, yes. Hogan on SmackDown talking to

<v Speaker 1>Vince in 03. I was just the right gay guy

<v Speaker 1>at the right... Let me repeat myself. He tried like

<v Speaker 1>three or four different times. But back then, like the

<v Speaker 1>satellite feed, I never knew how these people got the

<v Speaker 1>satellite feed. I guess, whatever, there was some channel. And

<v Speaker 1>when they would tape SmackDown back then on Tuesdays, you

<v Speaker 1>could get the live feed through the satellite feed. So

<v Speaker 1>people would take those segments, they would take the shows

<v Speaker 1>and just upload them online in the old message board

<v Speaker 1>forums and stuff. And I remember watching that. And then

<v Speaker 1>I watched it on television when it aired, and they

<v Speaker 1>did a hell of a job editing that thing together.

<v Speaker 1>But if you watch the live version, and it's out there. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he called himself a gay guy, and then he stopped himself,

<v Speaker 1>and then he botched it again, and then he had

<v Speaker 1>to start over again. And the whole time Vince is

<v Speaker 1>listening to this from the stage and like they keep

<v Speaker 1>cutting back to his facial expressions. And it's just the

<v Speaker 1>whole thing is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Oh, yes,

<v Speaker 1>that's right. He called him Sudan. He called him Sudan Hussein. Yes.

<v Speaker 1>Saddam was from the Sudan, apparently. Like Abdullah the Butcher.

<v Speaker 1>That would have been an interesting match. Hogan against Abby.

<v Speaker 1>That fork don't work for me, brother. I remember it

<v Speaker 1>was at WrestleMania X7, actually, in the TLC match. And

<v Speaker 1>Lita came out, and I think she pulled Edge off

<v Speaker 1>the ladder. I remember Jim Ross on commentary was like,

<v Speaker 1>Lita just jerked Edge off the ladder. And there was

<v Speaker 1>Triple H that year at the King of the Ring,

<v Speaker 1>you know, making the comment. It was during the finals

<v Speaker 1>between Rock and Shamrock. And somebody said something about bilingual.

<v Speaker 1>Somebody was bilingual. And Triple H basically called himself bi.

<v Speaker 1>And then there was a long pause. And then he

<v Speaker 1>realized what he said. I did notice when they uploaded

<v Speaker 1>that match to the Vault channel, they edited that out

<v Speaker 1>of the commentary. It's not even in there anymore. Cowards.

<v Speaker 1>JR had a premonition. He may have. We need Crow

<v Speaker 1>Lyra soon. Lyra with the face paint, just like up

<v Speaker 1>in the rafters. Brought to you by DiGiorno. It wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>hit quite the same way. Can you imagine Sting is

<v Speaker 1>up in the rafters? He's got the crow on his hand.

<v Speaker 1>And Tony Schiavone, they're showing him up there. And Tony

<v Speaker 1>Schiavone goes, you know. Nitro was presented by DiGiorno. And

<v Speaker 1>then they put Sting in like a little box with

<v Speaker 1>the DiGiorno logo on it. I don't think that it

<v Speaker 1>would have hit quite the same way. Kind of takes

<v Speaker 1>you out of the moment. Here comes the NWO. And

<v Speaker 1>they've got some DoorDash in their hands as they're coming down.

<v Speaker 1>And fucking Scott Hall's chowing down on DoorDash as they're

<v Speaker 1>coming down to the ring. Give me a fucking break.

<v Speaker 1>What has happened to my wrestling? What has happened to

<v Speaker 1>my wrestling? Ah. Crow Sting brought to you by Louisville Slugger.

<v Speaker 1>It's so awful, dude. Oh, it's so it's so awful

<v Speaker 1>it's Sting sponsored by Louisville Slugger scan the QR code

<v Speaker 1>on your screen jokes aside Lyra with the crow face

<v Speaker 1>paint would slap They'd turn her into a clown. You

<v Speaker 1>really honestly think they would push her as any sort

<v Speaker 1>of serious character on the show? They would turn her

<v Speaker 1>into a clown doing comedy segments with Dan Housen. That's

<v Speaker 1>about the worst thing that could happen to her. Does

<v Speaker 1>Solid Monster like IHOP? So, it's funny you say that.

<v Speaker 1>I remember I came, I went on a vacation, so

<v Speaker 1>this I went on vacation. This had to be at

<v Speaker 1>least 10 or 11 years ago. But I came home

<v Speaker 1>from a vacation where it was great. It was like

<v Speaker 1>a destination wedding for one of my friends. And so

<v Speaker 1>we were staying at this all-inclusive resort. And so I'm

<v Speaker 1>like eating like a pig. It's great. One night we're

<v Speaker 1>doing this and then something completely different the next night.

<v Speaker 1>But like breakfast was great. You have these pancakes with

<v Speaker 1>powdered sugar and strawberries on there and then muffin, all

<v Speaker 1>kinds of stuff. So I came home and I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>I'm really still in the mood for some pancakes. I mean, look,

<v Speaker 1>waffles were cool back in the day, but I'm a

<v Speaker 1>pancake guy over waffles. So I go to IHOP. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go. I have not been to IHOP

<v Speaker 1>since I was a kid. So I go into IHOP

<v Speaker 1>and I get a stack of like the silver dollar

<v Speaker 1>pancakes and I pour the syrup on and I'm putting

<v Speaker 1>some powdered sugar on there. Not impressed. Not impressed. I've

<v Speaker 1>had better. I've been to diners where I've had better

<v Speaker 1>pancakes than I had at IHOP. So that's a no

<v Speaker 1>from me. I have not returned to IHOP since. Don't

<v Speaker 1>turn your back on the Wolfpack. And this segment is

<v Speaker 1>brought to you by Tote Bag. Pancakes are awesome. They

<v Speaker 1>have no redeeming health value for you. So it's not

<v Speaker 1>the sort of thing you should be doing all the time.

<v Speaker 1>But every now and then, you know what? It's good

<v Speaker 1>to treat yourself. If you want pancakes, you get yourself

<v Speaker 1>some pancakes. The world is a very dark place. The

<v Speaker 1>least you could do is get yourself some pancakes. That's

<v Speaker 1>how I look at it. Waffle house is better. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>there's no waffle house around here. Ever have whole wheat pancakes?

<v Speaker 1>I have not. I will say, I don't remember where

<v Speaker 1>it was. The best pancakes I ever had were banana nut.

<v Speaker 1>Banana nut pancakes. Ugh. So fucking good. So good. Solid

<v Speaker 1>Monster won't be sponsored by IHOP now. Yeah, I guess

<v Speaker 1>I lost that IHOP sponsorship. That's okay. Okay. I'll regroup.

<v Speaker 1>We'll find someone else. Alex. Brother Solo. After that price increase,

<v Speaker 1>I had to cancel that trash-ass ESPN subscription. Time for

<v Speaker 1>that VPN, brother. See, now you're thinking. You should have

<v Speaker 1>been doing that a long time ago. You got ESPN

<v Speaker 1>Plus and you got Peacock, and you got Netflix. You

<v Speaker 1>got HBO Max if you want to watch the AEW stuff.

<v Speaker 1>And now there's MyAEW. Ring of Honor is behind a paywall.

<v Speaker 1>It's a lot. WWE used to have their content on Hulu.

<v Speaker 1>Don't you miss when everything was on the WWE Network

<v Speaker 1>for one low price of $ 9. 99 a month? We didn't

<v Speaker 1>know how good we had it. There's a fight every

<v Speaker 1>week at the two Waffle Houses that we have. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I keep hearing about how Waffle House is known for...

<v Speaker 1>Why do people fight at Waffle House? Is the food

<v Speaker 1>that good? Are they fighting over the food? Or are

<v Speaker 1>they fighting over nonsense? I would cancel Netflix, but Seinfeld

<v Speaker 1>is on every night when I sleep. You want to

<v Speaker 1>try something good. It has commercials, but that's the price

<v Speaker 1>you pay for it being free. Pluto TV is awesome.

<v Speaker 1>Pluto TV has some of the most obscure channels, too.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't realize until I was in L.A., and I

<v Speaker 1>got back to my hotel. This was on Friday night

<v Speaker 1>after the Hog Show. And I get back to the hotel,

<v Speaker 1>and it's like 1230 in the morning, and my flight

<v Speaker 1>is at like 530, and I'm like, fuck. So I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm barely even going to sleep. But I put the

<v Speaker 1>TV on in the room and they have the Pluto

<v Speaker 1>TV app. I'm like, oh, great. So I go into

<v Speaker 1>Pluto and the first channel that it opens up. So

<v Speaker 1>whoever was in the room before me was clearly watching this.

<v Speaker 1>There is a Three's Company channel. It is a channel

<v Speaker 1>that is entirely devoted to episodes of the old television

<v Speaker 1>sitcom Three's Company. I didn't even know there was a

<v Speaker 1>Three's Company channel. So guess what I fell asleep to

<v Speaker 1>that night? suzanne summers a young suzanne summers chrissy on

<v Speaker 1>three's company that's what i mean like they whatever whatever

<v Speaker 1>you could think of i guarantee you they have a

<v Speaker 1>channel for it they're actually they do have a wrestling

<v Speaker 1>channel it might be um god it was it wow

<v Speaker 1>women of wrestling i think at one point anyway they

<v Speaker 1>had a pluto channel on there They have a Law

<v Speaker 1>& Order channel if you want to watch reruns of

<v Speaker 1>Law & Order. They have different game show channels like

<v Speaker 1>The Price is Right. Two different Price is Right channels.

<v Speaker 1>One that is exclusively old Bob Barker episodes. And then

<v Speaker 1>one with Drew Carey episodes, which I never watch. But

<v Speaker 1>I mean, you name it, they got it. But the

<v Speaker 1>tradeoff is that there are commercials. But there's no subscription.

<v Speaker 1>There's no fee. There's no... There's nothing. You can download it,

<v Speaker 1>install it for free. It's great. Which means at some point,

<v Speaker 1>somebody will fuck it all up. And then they'll figure

<v Speaker 1>out a way to screw it up. It's only a

<v Speaker 1>matter of time. Who owns... I want to say it

<v Speaker 1>might be Paramount that owns it. They'll fuck it up.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they will. Yeah, they did. They had a

<v Speaker 1>TNA channel on there. I don't know if they do anymore,

<v Speaker 1>but there was. There was a TNA channel on Pluto

<v Speaker 1>there for a while. The problem is there's so many

<v Speaker 1>of them. I don't even have a channel directory. I

<v Speaker 1>don't even know. There's hundreds of channels. It's hard to

<v Speaker 1>kind of sift through them all. I'm sure there's channels

<v Speaker 1>that exist that I don't even know are there. Did

<v Speaker 1>you know that John Ritter's son was in Freddy vs. Jason?

<v Speaker 1>I did. Jason Ritter. I did. Yes, there is a

<v Speaker 1>Judge Judy channel. I'll pop over there sometimes, too. I'm like, oh,

<v Speaker 1>she used to be so much younger, but she was

<v Speaker 1>still old. But I forget sometimes. Judge Judy has been

<v Speaker 1>on the air since, like, 96. You know? It's kind

<v Speaker 1>of crazy. But yeah, they have an entire channel devoted

<v Speaker 1>to old episodes of her show. TNA channel is there.

<v Speaker 1>I was on Pluto last night. Oh, there you go.

<v Speaker 1>So if you want to watch some old TNA content,

<v Speaker 1>you pop on over to Pluto TV. You might be

<v Speaker 1>able to find some old school X Division action on there.

<v Speaker 1>The only thing that I've noticed is that it seems

<v Speaker 1>like they only have the rights to certain seasons or

<v Speaker 1>certain years. I've noticed that with some of the content.

<v Speaker 1>I'll pop over there. It's not even like I'm watching

<v Speaker 1>every day and I'm like, wait, I already saw this.

<v Speaker 1>Like they were just showing this a few weeks ago.

<v Speaker 1>And then I'll pop over again. I'm like, wait, they

<v Speaker 1>just showed that last week. I noticed that with the

<v Speaker 1>Law & Order episodes. So I don't know that they

<v Speaker 1>have the rights to all the seasons. I think it's

<v Speaker 1>only a certain amount of content. Did I ever see

<v Speaker 1>the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sure.

<v Speaker 1>I wasn't like a big regular watcher of it or anything.

<v Speaker 1>I would check it out from time to time. Wayne

<v Speaker 1>Brady used to be on there. They have a Married

<v Speaker 1>with Children. Oh, you know what? They have a Bob

<v Speaker 1>Ross channel. So if ever you want to just watch

<v Speaker 1>something that's going to just kind of calm you down,

<v Speaker 1>you want to fall asleep to something, go find the

<v Speaker 1>Bob Ross channel. It's nothing but just episodes of Bob Ross.

<v Speaker 1>24 hours a day and him just painting. It's great.

<v Speaker 1>It's actually great. You know what I learned from watching

<v Speaker 1>old episodes of Bob Ross? Like he would mess up

<v Speaker 1>maybe in a painting every now and then. Or he

<v Speaker 1>would be telling people it's okay. Like don't be intimidated

<v Speaker 1>if you mess something up. There's no such thing as

<v Speaker 1>like messing up. It's just happy accidents. I'm like, you

<v Speaker 1>know what? It's an interesting way to look at it.

<v Speaker 1>You would never know by watching Jim Ross. By watching

<v Speaker 1>Bob Ross, you would never know that. I think he

<v Speaker 1>was like a drill instructor in the army when he

<v Speaker 1>was younger. I have a theory about that, that he

<v Speaker 1>was in the army. He probably did a lot of

<v Speaker 1>yelling and screaming. And so after a while, he just

<v Speaker 1>got sick of yelling at people and he became this

<v Speaker 1>Incredible human being who just was so kind and gentle

<v Speaker 1>and quiet and peaceful. But you would never know. I'm

<v Speaker 1>pretty sure he was a drill instructor back when he

<v Speaker 1>was younger. Yeah, I have been plugging Pluto for you. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Pluto TV, if you're watching this, or if this gets

<v Speaker 1>to you, come talk to me. It's a natural sponsorship.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'll plug you for free, but If there's

<v Speaker 1>business to be done, let's have that conversation. Bob Ross

<v Speaker 1>was ASMR before ASMR was a thing. It's his voice.

<v Speaker 1>Didn't he serve in Vietnam? I don't know. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if he served in Vietnam or not. It might

<v Speaker 1>have been an urban legend. Yeah, give me a Pluto channel.

<v Speaker 1>24 hours of Solomonster content on Pluto TV. I like that.

<v Speaker 1>I got plenty of content I could provide to them

<v Speaker 1>that they could just replay over and over again. He

<v Speaker 1>said in a rare interview that he yelled a lot

<v Speaker 1>and that wasn't him. He needed to act like that,

<v Speaker 1>but he hated it. Yeah, I remember hearing about that

<v Speaker 1>and that's why on his show he was very soft-spoken

<v Speaker 1>because he didn't like raising his voice. So it's kind

<v Speaker 1>of crazy to imagine him doing that. I can't picture it.

<v Speaker 1>It's just so unnatural to think of him as someone

<v Speaker 1>who would just yell and scream at people. He was

<v Speaker 1>always such a quiet guy. And he had a dope-ass afro. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it was very sad when he got sick. Again, I

<v Speaker 1>didn't really realize the greatness of Bob Ross until... I

<v Speaker 1>was a lot older, and he had already died. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>he died in, like, 95, but... Yeah, he got cancer, and...

<v Speaker 1>Towards the end there, he was still doing his shows, but, like,

<v Speaker 1>the hair... At that point, the hair was fake. And, um... Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's just awful. He's still very young when he died.

<v Speaker 1>Did he die? Yeah, oh, yeah, no. Bob Ross passed

<v Speaker 1>away a long time ago. Bob Ross passed away... Probably

<v Speaker 1>30 years ago now. Which is, again, kind of crazy

<v Speaker 1>that here we are in 2026 and we have, you know,

<v Speaker 1>technology is what it is, streaming and everything else. There's

<v Speaker 1>a whole YouTube channel. Also, like Bob Ross, the company,

<v Speaker 1>I guess, Bob Ross, like they have a full YouTube

<v Speaker 1>channel with his episodes as well. But his content, those

<v Speaker 1>shows that he did, and there's a finite number of shows,

<v Speaker 1>but those shows he did will live on forever. Long

<v Speaker 1>since he's passed away. He vowed to never raise his

<v Speaker 1>voice once he left the service. Well, maybe tomorrow on

<v Speaker 1>Tuesday Night Titans, I'll talk to JD about that. I'll say, JD,

<v Speaker 1>that's going to be you in 10 years. You're going

<v Speaker 1>to be like Bob Ross. You're going to be very

<v Speaker 1>soft-spoken from all the screaming. You got to calm down. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>thank you guys for hanging out with me here. Fun

<v Speaker 1>times on a Monday night, as is usually the case.

<v Speaker 1>I had a lot more fun here talking about the

<v Speaker 1>show and hanging out with you guys than I did

<v Speaker 1>watching the television show tonight. So we get to do

<v Speaker 1>it all over again on Wednesday. That's going to be

<v Speaker 1>the Dynamite Post Show, Friday. They're in Mexico City on

<v Speaker 1>Friday 1st, and we have a WWE Championship match between

<v Speaker 1>CM Punk and Sami Zayn, finally. Again, I'll be here

<v Speaker 1>for another WWE title match. It's amazing. Let's keep this

<v Speaker 1>streak going. Tomorrow, though, a brand new episode of the

<v Speaker 1>Uncrowned Wrestling Show will be dropping later in the afternoon.

<v Speaker 1>Late afternoon, early evening usually is when they've finally edited

<v Speaker 1>it and they push it out on their end. And

<v Speaker 1>then tomorrow night will be a brand new installment live

<v Speaker 1>of Tuesday Night Titans. All right, I'll see you guys

<v Speaker 1>for all the content tomorrow and then back here on

<v Speaker 1>this channel live on Wednesday night. Until then, take care, guys.