1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Welcome to the ring, it's rich and atom. 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Breaking down the fights with flair and passion. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Tag teams grappling, belts are clashing. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Finishes and factions catching action. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Hi there, I'm Adam. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Welcome to another episode of finishes and factions. 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:46,000 And on this episode we're going to be reviewing 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Saturday Night's main event from Saturday the 25th of January 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:58,000 from San Antonio, Texas out of the Frostbank Stadium. 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And as always I've got my co-host Rich. Rich, how are you doing? 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 I'm not too bad mate, how are you? 12 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Yeah, all good mate, I'm all good. 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,000 We've got an old school show, an old school show feel for 14 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Saturday Night's main event as some classic fans would know. 15 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Saturday Night's main event was a staple towards the end of the 16 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:32,000 golden era of WWE moving ever so slightly into the 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 attitude era where it dropped off and they've started bringing it back. 18 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And not only did they bring back Saturday Night's main event 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 but they also this time brought back Jesse the body of Ventura 20 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 which was nice to see. 21 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Oh, it was a complete blast from the past. 22 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:01,000 I mean Jesse Ventura is known as a wrestler and still 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 practicing politician to this day. 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 But he also served in the US Navy as a Marine at one point. 25 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:20,000 He's been a very busy boy and yeah, just really nice to see some of the old stars. 26 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I mean one of the old stars we saw in attendance on this show was 27 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,000 the million dollar man, Ted D.B. Asse. 28 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 And it was not his first appearance on a Saturday Night main event. 29 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 He was on seven of the original runs of them. 30 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So it was definitely nice to see him home on Saturday Night main event this week. 31 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And in fairness, he wasn't the only legend in place on this show. 32 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 We see throughout the show we're treated to some absolute highlights 33 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 of Hall of Fame plus fanatics. 34 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:08,000 We've got to see Jesse Ventura, we've got to see Alonzo Blaze, Mark Henry was in the building. 35 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 We've got two massive Hall of Famers right there himself. 36 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Yeah, we saw Hacksaw, Hacksaw, Jim McDougan as well as Dory Funk Jr. 37 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 WrestleMania 2. 38 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So that was a nice big blast of the past. 39 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Another Hall of Famer we saw as well was HBK, the Heartbreak Kid, Sean Michaels. 40 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Yes, we certainly did. 41 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And we also saw Arne Anderson and Tully Blanchard, the Brain Busters. 42 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Oh, that's nice to see them come back in as well. 43 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 It was, they spent a bit of time outside of WWE as well. 44 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Arne Anderson and Tully Blanchard spent some time over in AEW at one point. 45 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Both under contract there for a couple of years. 46 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Before now, they're not really under contract anywhere. 47 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 They just sort of make random appearances as and when. 48 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,000 As you mentioned AEW, one of the other Hall of Famers that was there this evening, Mark Henry, 49 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 he was under contract with them at one point. 50 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Is he still under contract with AEW or is he not doing any work with them at the moment? 51 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:29,000 He does a lot of work with a fellow wrestling podcast full of absolute legends being busted open radio. 52 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Is where he seems to spend a majority of his energies now. 53 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I don't think he's still under contract for AEW. 54 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:43,000 But yeah, we had, we, as what, I mean, the entire feel of Saturday night, 55 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 this Saturday night's main event was old school. 56 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 The ref uniforms were old school. 57 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Even the announcement microphones were the old style microphones that came down from the ceiling. 58 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 It's nice to hear that sound again as well. 59 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,000 They have those very unique audio qualities. 60 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Those older mics and it was nice to hear that sort of raspiness from them as well. 61 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Yeah, 100%. And I mean, the first time we heard it was the challenger and champion announcements 62 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:28,000 from our first match, which was the women's heavyweight championship match between Nia Jax and Ria Bloody Ripley. 63 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Oh, yeah. 64 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 And this was a match that you were particularly excited to see. 65 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,000 It was purely because I love watching Ria wrestle. She's a very talented wrestler, 66 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 but I've been really enjoying watching this Nia Jax heel run. 67 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Like we've said in the episode for SmackDown yesterday, you know, it's, she does it very, very well. 68 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And she carries on doing it into this match, but she, she hits Ria Ripley before the introductions have even finished. 69 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Yeah, drops a Glasgow kiss on Ria Ripley during the announcements and the ring is having to be right off. 70 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Oh, 100%. But the match gets started. 71 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:24,000 I mean, as we would have expected from these absolute titans of the women's division, it was a brutal match. 72 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 There was nothing left. Nothing left unsaid or undone as it goes. 73 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And Ria Ripley had a huge Samoan drop, a huge Samoan drop done to a Vynaya Jax. 74 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:48,000 And I mean, at one point I was some kind of like they referred to it as a code red, which almost looked like a standing Sunset flip. 75 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Ria is quite lucky. You know, this is the same city that she run the Royal Rumble in in 2023. 76 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,000 She's always done quite well when she's been in San Antonio. 77 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:15,000 So for her to carry on strong going into this match, especially with, you know, the, the rumble coming up. 78 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:23,000 You needed to keep her as strong as she has been, but you've also got to still try and build Naira and a strength as well. 79 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:33,000 So how was this story as far from over? Oh, 100%. This is, if they play this right, this has got the legs to take it all the way to WrestleMania, 80 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:41,000 which in a bit of a throwback to the previous episode about SmackDown from the 24th of January, 81 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I mentioned that obviously there was a Tiffany Stratton promo during that particular episode of SmackDown, 82 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,000 where Tiffany was basically making it out like she was the only choice. 83 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But I suppose she's sort of right in that sense. 84 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:07,000 If WWE play it right and get the legs off the current few between Naira Jax and Ria Ripley. 85 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Yeah, I can't see them trying to add a third person into this few because by having the women's rumble winner pick Ria, 86 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:24,000 it's essentially what they're doing or they're going to have someone try and make an alignment, 87 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,000 have the women's run up, women's rumble winner. 88 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:38,000 That's a bit of a mouthful. Try and make an alliance with Naira Jax to sneak Ria's title out from underneath her. 89 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Yeah, I mean, just wrapping match one up from here, I think. Ria retains the title in this match with a riptide to absolute rapturous applause. 90 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:00,000 It wasn't just the riptide she hit though. Like we said, she hit a code red at some point, she hit an electric chair at one point. 91 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:10,000 She was hitting power bombs from the second rope. Her and Naira, they went to war and I think just the riptide was the icing on the cake, so to speak. 92 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 That was the cherry on top. 93 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 100%. 100%. 94 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:26,000 The good thing about one of these types of shows or good and bad is that all of the story development is done in the ring. 95 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,000 So there isn't a lot of promos to bulk out the show or anything like that. 96 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:47,000 But we move on from the women's heavyweight championship match to the men's intercontinental championship match between Seamus and Bronn Breaker. 97 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 I've got a statistic for you. 98 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Oh, is it the same one as me though? 99 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I think so. 100 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I think I'm going to sneak out from underneath you. This is the first time since 1992 that the intercontinental championship has been defended on Saturday night main event. 101 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:16,000 And that match was between the heartbreak kid himself, Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog, Davey Smith. 102 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:26,000 So that was the same bit of trivia the lot of us were going to throw in there. I'll have to try and find some trivia somewhere else in this episode to throw in there. 103 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 But yeah, a few more tales of the tape here for it. 104 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:45,000 As we've highlighted and the commentary team highlight constantly, Seamus has found the intercontinental championship to be one of the most elusive championships in his career. 105 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 So it's the only one he has not won yet. 106 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I have some more stats for you. 107 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Kind of. 108 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I was going to try and bulk this out, but I got slightly sidetracked by a call of duty. 109 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 So Seamus has won the WWE Championship three times. 110 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 He's won the World Heavyweight Championship once. 111 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:16,000 He's a three time United States champion, a five time tag champion, a 2012 Royal Rumble winner. 112 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And he is the 2015 Mr Money in the Bank. 113 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Yeah, so the odd thing about all of those stats is is that he. 114 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,000 One of those you would expect him to have risen through the ranks as a lot of superstars do. 115 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Seamus won a lot of those in reverse order, so he won the big titles first and then later in the world heavyweight championship against John Cena within six months joining the company. 116 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Joining the main roster release. 117 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:06,000 This this match between him and Bron Breaker this evening marks Seamus's 10th attempt in his career to snatch the IC tag title. 118 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:15,000 That's 10 matches that Seamus has gone into and lost not being able to capture that elusive intercontinental champion. 119 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Seamus and this title start and feel a little bit like Dolph Ziggler in the world title. 120 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:27,000 One day he might get it, but he's just going to be going to play you with it until they give it to him. 121 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:42,000 I personally think if they do decide to let him have it, I think they'll have it on the ground the stage of them all just to make it, you know, if they think that him in the IC title at WrestleMania, that will be the biggest pop of the night, 122 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:50,000 apart from maybe Jey Uso pulling off a title himself at main WrestleMania. 123 00:12:50,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Yeah, this is it. But yeah, as for the actual match itself, I'll be honest, I didn't get a fantastic amount of notes because I did get really kind of sucked into it. 124 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Again, I've said before in previous episodes, Seamus is one of my absolute all time favourites. 125 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:26,000 And Bron Breaker I'm not terribly familiar with, although I do know that they did sort of, I don't know if it's a closely guarded secret. It's not something that I knew before, but they did mention something along the lines of Bron Breaker being a Steiner at one point. 126 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Do you call this a Steiner? 127 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Breaker is Rick Steiner's son. So yeah, Scott Steiner's nephew. He followed them into the line of football. He played college football. I remember who for off the top of my head, I'd have to have a little look. 128 00:13:45,000 --> 00:14:02,000 But yeah, he then went into professional wrestling afterwards. So yeah, he's definitely definitely a Steiner. And I think you can tell by the way you look at him at some point as well because he is a big boy. 129 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:18,000 But unfortunately, he's always seems I've not seen him cut much in the way of a promo. He's obviously got the wrestling pedigree, the wrestling ability, but not seen him cut much of a promo just yet. 130 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:40,000 I'd like to see a little bit more of him doing that, just to sort of give my to expose myself to more of a well rounded performance from him as a as a professional wrestler. Because we know in from past experience, you're either going to you're either going to be a fantastic wrestler with no with 131 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:56,000 no workable promo skill or little to no promo workable promo skills, or you're going to be completely the opposite. Yeah, right. So just clicking on Bronn breakers Wikipedia Bronn breaker played for the Baltimore Ravens. 132 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:14,000 And while I am here. I don't know why it is taking me to a link to Coral Jade's Wikipedia page. 133 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Well, we're not here to talk about Coral Jade. Just at the moment, maybe in a future episode somewhere we will have a conversation about Coral Jade. But right now we're here to talk about shameless and Bronn breaker and I did. 134 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:50,000 As I said, didn't take a great many notes for this. I did call out a couple of spots that I quite enjoyed. One of which there was an absolutely spear spear from Bronn breaker, which was a defining moment within this match 135 00:15:50,000 --> 00:16:01,000 in the game. And I had just before that that shameless toss Bronn breaker into the timekeepers area. 136 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:20,000 And I had available to them. Yeah, I had that beautiful spear. And how shameless got up from that I have no clue because if that was me I'd have folded up like a garden dexter. I would not have moved off that floor. 137 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:41,000 And to be able to stand up from something like that. But we know that that eventually played a part in the overall overall result of the match as it seems that during that spear shameless may have potentially injured some ribs or done some kind of internal damage to 138 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:58,000 where to himself, which ultimately led to an unsuccessful challenge on this match. Did manage to get some payback of himself though he hit Bronn breaker 16 times in the chest when he had entangled up on the ropes. 139 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Now, shameless is absolute drum. Shameless is known for having a hell of a slap on him so to and you could see Bronn break his chest at the end of it. That was redder than shameless is hair color. That was an impressive shade of ouch. 140 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:34,000 I will give you that. Oh 100%. But, but yeah, I mean, in the end, Bronn breaker retains the championship for this one. So that's two title shot. That's two title matches we've had so far during this during this 141 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:50,000 paper view. It's more of a paper view. But it's not it's more of a we've just thrown an extra program in to keep rich and out of busy. I wish we were that one but you know. 142 00:17:50,000 --> 00:18:11,000 So after after Bronn breaker retained with the three count off the spear, we got to see a hometown hero, two time Hall of Famer back to back Royal Rumble winner and the ladder match master. So who better to overlook the contracts. 143 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:24,000 So we've got one more moniker that we have that we can't we can't honestly forget as we draw closer to the the road to WrestleMania WrestleMania himself. 144 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:38,000 This is a guy though that has that many nicknames that if we were to write a book we'd need a couple of no pads over his career he's had a fair few. 145 00:18:38,000 --> 00:19:04,000 100%. This was the in ring contract signing for the WWE Championship match in Indianapolis on Saturday, the first of February at the Royal Rumble between Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens with Sean Michaels moderating the contract signing and 146 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:13,000 he he's definitely looking older than he he used to. 147 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 This is it. 148 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Definitely. We know he's getting on a bit but Jesus he looked at and after his entrance that poor guy was gassed. 149 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Yeah, 100%. He doesn't he doesn't do anything close to the amount of activities he's used to he used to be able to do. I mean we're long past the point where HBK is dressing up as Shane McMahon doing a stupid dance in the middle of the ring that probably would 150 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:58,000 lead him into some kind of asthma attack if he tried to do that now or a lawsuit or a lawsuit and he's not too far past the point of being able to switch in music Stan in the middle of the corridor or just to prove how controversial he truly is. 151 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Poor Stan. Poor Stan. Stan was never the same after that. He wrote a letter to his favourite rapper and it all went downhill from there. 152 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Yeah, this is it. But yeah, I mean HBK starts his little is his little pre-contract signing promo by taking a job at current Smithdown GM Nick Aldous. There's a reason I've said current because I've seen a rumor that Nick Aldous potentially could be being replaced as 153 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:55,000 a former Smithdown GM. I'm not 100% sure why I don't believe this is anything to do with Nick Aldous's performance as he was previously, previously NXT GM. He's then done a really good job within NXT to then move on to SmackDown. 154 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:15,000 I'm not sure what Nick Aldous's future is after this if this rumor turns out to be true, but I've heard that he could be being replaced by the whole effing show are the D Rob Van Dam could potentially be coming in as 155 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:34,000 a SmackDown GM if this rumor pans out to be true. But I was hoping you'd say it was Teddy Long. No, Fred not. I don't think there's enough superstars to fit the tag team challenge that Teddy Long will inevitably come up with player. 156 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Hello. Hello. But yeah, one thing I noticed about this once HBK had had his had his little moment in the sun was the first person he bought out wasn't the current official WWE champion being Cody Rhodes. 157 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:10,000 He bought out Kevin Owens first, which I thought was an interesting thing to do was it. I think if he'd have bought Kevin Owens out second, then that potentially could have led to some animosity and say, Well, why are you bringing him out second? 158 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I was going to say there was some ego scratching going on. It was just to shut Kevin Owens up, which 100% you would have thought with the you know after the slapping he got last night on SmackDown from Jimmy Uso that his mouth would be quite so big today. 159 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,000 But no, definitely Kevin Owens is back up to his normal standard. 160 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Yeah, this is it. But yeah, I mean, he is going to it's going to take a while to shake this heel persona off once he's once he's had his time with it. But at the moment, 161 00:22:53,000 --> 00:23:12,000 obviously, the contract signing was to make the match stipulation official, which was that they were to both surrender their titles to have them suspended above the ring for a ladder match where they were in Indianapolis on Saturday, they will be asked 162 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:27,000 they will compete in a standard ladder match where the idea is that they remove both title belts from the from their suspension above the ring to walk out undisputed WWE champion. 163 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Obviously, with the ladder match, there are no disqualifications count how pinfalls or submissions. The only way to win this match is to climb the ladder retrieve both tiles are hanging above the ring. 164 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:51,000 And my favorite part about the ladder match ladders can and will be used as a weapon. 165 00:23:51,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Yeah, 100%. It is, it is for all intent and purpose a no disqualification zone. It's there. There's very little that can that doesn't go in a ladder matching WWE as we have seen so many times in the past. 166 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 I mean, 167 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:21,000 it's been put through a ladder. Yes, so much. But with excitement. 168 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Cody shows a lot of maturity in this promo signed the contract. No issue. 169 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It's kept it's and this is going to come as a surprise to absolutely nobody. Kevin Owens that seems to kick up the most amount of fuss about getting this contract signed and honestly, I think Kevin Owens, he just comes across as very bitter and and I mean, 170 00:24:47,000 --> 00:25:02,000 he calls even says the comes across as jealous. Oh, 100%. I mean, Cody Rhodes calls him out, of course, Kevin out for making it all about him that Kevin's just bitching about lost friendships. 171 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 He is. 172 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:17,000 He for all the fact for all the times that Cody's fans have been called crybabies. It just this entire promo seem to wreak of Kevin being a bit of a Kevin crybaby. I'm not going to lie. 173 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Kevin is acting like a Karen. Let's put it that way. 174 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:33,000 But one thing I did quite enjoy was a O's references to a O's references to even the time when. 175 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Michael's lost his smile back in the attitude era where he literally took he literally took his toys at one point and went home. Only one. What's the Mr. Hulk Hogan? Or there was an occasion where where even stone cold Steve Austin refused to turn up at a TV taping at one point because 176 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:16,000 of a match decision. But at least with that one, I can understand the reasoning behind it. But yeah, Kevin Owens finally signs it, bants it firmly in Sean Michaels chest, which I think sort of just showed. 177 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Michael's. Oh, 100%. But it shows it showed Sean Michaels his age at that point because had this been a Sean Michaels in his prime, he would have kicked the living shit at Kevin Owens. 178 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:45,000 All starting with that striking of the band and we would have asked three word question first. 179 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Are you ready? 180 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Not a question that it's not a question that Sean Michaels asks. 181 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 That's a triple H question. 182 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 That's a triple H question. 183 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:05,000 There's been a few opportunities in the in the times over the years that Sean has managed to creep that one up. 184 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Yeah, this is true. But yeah, in the closing moments of this contract signing, as per the stipulation, both belts are surrendered and suspended above the ring in preparation for the ladder match in Indianapolis on Saturday. 185 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Kevin manages to work. Kevin takes no time realistically, manages to insult everybody in the ring, as only Kevin Owens can. 186 00:27:35,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Well, yeah, but he then also had the absolute the fucking balls on this guy, I tell you, to snub a handshake from Sean Michaels. Now, I would personally quite like to quite enjoy shaking Sean Michaels hand, but have the balls to snub it and then to have a pop shot at Cody afterwards. 187 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Like, yeah, so works a cheap shot to Cody and and then adding insult to potential injury. 188 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,000 He keeps adding layers of dick headness to this character, doesn't it? It's like an onion. 189 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Oh, 100% extra layer every week. 190 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:25,000 But he tries a package pile driver, but this time he's trying it to the heartbreak kid himself. 191 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:37,000 And I'd like to say that would have some repercussions, but I don't think there is enough pain meds and retirement home for Sean Michaels to have one last match. 192 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Well, let's face it, let's face it, if Sean Michaels were to get injured by Kevin Owens, I don't think Kevin Owens would be in WWE for much longer, bearing in mind who the chief content officer is of WWE at the moment. 193 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Being everybody's favorite and yours and I, it's Mr Paul LeVec, Paul Triple H LeVec himself. 194 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Still haven't had my phone calls regarding the Royal Rumble tickets that I show speed got either, Paul. 195 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:26,000 You know, I'm missing that phone call myself and we're running out of time here. It's, as we're recording this, it's it's Monday evening. You'll be getting ready for Raw shortly and I've still not received that phone call, but I'll keep the phone on load. 196 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Just in case. So, yeah, but the package pile driver. 197 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:42,000 I don't mind being stuck being packaged in a box and shipped that way, but to be quite honest, I don't mind how I make it there. I'll make it there. 198 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:58,000 But yeah, Cody falls the package pile driver attempt and KO gets gets a firsthand look at what a super kick should look like from the master himself. 199 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:12,000 Mr. Shawn Michaels comes back with a sweet chin music to finish that that little promo that little in contract in ring contract signing off. I mean, it was always going to end in chaos. 200 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000 I will be honest, I just always thought Shawn Michaels a Billy instigator. 201 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Yeah, and it was not that way to go this time, but it was nice to see Kevin Owens definitely feeling the after effects of that sweet chin music. He's a he's taken a fair few bumps to that rather large chin of his the last couple of days. 202 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000 So it's got to be feeling a little bit sore. 203 00:30:35,000 --> 00:31:02,000 All's hoping all's hoping that we move on from there to a repeat of a VT promo shown on Smackdown of the Taylor the tape between the one big SOB Braun Strowman and the Samoan were wolf himself, Jacob Fatou ahead of their singles match, which is the next match on the card. 204 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Yeah, that was the VT that basically set up like a boxing match to knit with all the statistics on it. 205 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Yeah, look at the statistics paper Braun Strowman should steam walk Jacob Fatou. 206 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000 But the Simone were wolf is not someone you want to be counting out. 207 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:28,000 So the personalities that these two guys definitely hold into this much. 208 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,000 So there were a few bits and pieces that I picked out before this match even started. 209 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:48,000 One of them was the fact that the commentary team happened to drop in there that Jacob Fatou has done three stints in prison before his 18th birthday before the 210 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:59,000 jail. Yeah, so that was a little bit later on as to why he became a professional wrestler. 211 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 So he did three stints in jail before it was 18. 212 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:16,000 He basically worked out that if he joined the family right business of being a pro wrestler, he could beat people up legally and not have to keep going back to jail because the last after the last time he came out of jail. 213 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:28,000 He was homeless sleeping on a mattress, which, you know, for some of the homeless guys is a privilege I suppose to have a mattress, but he was definitely chose to go straight in. 214 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,000 He's definitely better than myself working his way into the WWE. 215 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Yeah, this is it. 216 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:41,000 But the the other bit that I sort of cherry picked out of Jacob Fatou's entrance. 217 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:47,000 We mentioned it and Oolah Farla type thing he was wearing when he entered. 218 00:32:47,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Yeah, I sort of saw it as a different as a sort of a combination between a lay which you see in Hawaiian culture as being a symbol of welcoming and and being quite a spitable thing to do. 219 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:14,000 And the Oolah Farla that we saw in tribal combat on the first episode of Raw in Netflix era that Roman Reigns and solo so coer have been scrapping over recently. 220 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000 It was. 221 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Which you could find at the start of our podcast library. 222 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 Yes, 100%. 223 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:29,000 But the yeah, the Oolah Farla looking type thing that Jacob Fatou walked out wearing that nobody seemed to mention. 224 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:38,000 None of the commentary team seemed to pick up on it, but it was something that really stuck out at me and I'm sort of glad that it sort of stuck out at you as well. 225 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:45,000 It made me it's made me feel a little bit better about bringing it up where it was just a detail that was throw away. 226 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Because another throw a detail to do with that is Jimmy Uso is wearing one when he enters the ring for his match a little bit later on. 227 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:11,000 If you notice, I thought it was because they were Jacob Fatou was saying that Braun Strowman needs to get in where he fits in on the way to the ring. 228 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:21,000 I guess they used it to put a microphone in without having to physically give him a microphone or clip one on to him that he'd have to take off on his entrance. 229 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:27,000 So obviously at the end of the end of his entrance when he takes it off and he puts it inside the ring, the microphone is in it. 230 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 So it's already turned off. 231 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 It's just ready to go. 232 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Yeah, true. 233 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:42,000 But yeah, those were the two details that I picked out before the match and then sort of moving into the match. 234 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000 It was a very different. 235 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 What kind of a match was it? 236 00:34:48,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Oh, 100%. But it was a very different strategy to for Jacob Fatou going in against going against the Braun Strowman, the monster among monsters. 237 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:11,000 It's a case that Fatou started using speed instead of just raw power to try and bully his way through this match as we've seen him do in the past. 238 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:28,000 We are more commonly used to seeing from Braun Strowman, but these two decided they were going to mix it up in front of a maximum capacity in San Antonio of 16,406. 239 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Watching what I felt was probably a contender for much the evening. 240 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:48,000 You had some really basic moves used very, very well like Braun Strowman, here, Jacob Fatou with a couple of shoulder tackles. 241 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000 The first one into the barricade. 242 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000 The second one sent Fatou flying over the announce table. 243 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:12,000 But Strowman went to this well a little bit too often as he tried it, that he did try a third one after barging Fatou over the over the announce table and was met with. 244 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 What was that? Sorry, he got caught out trying to do it. 245 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Oh, 100%. It was scoped, reversed, no one home for that one, unfortunately. 246 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000 And that sort of shifted the momentum at that moment into Fatou's favour. 247 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Where he managed to drop Braun Strowman onto the announce table with a hefty Samoan drop. Now to be able to get someone of Braun Strowman's size up for a Samoan drop is a challenge. 248 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Like Strowman is an absolute unit. 249 00:36:49,000 --> 00:37:00,000 But again, the announce team referenced the reinforced announce table and it must be reinforced with that Samoan drop you expected Strowman to go through it. 250 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Did he? Did he help? 251 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000 No, this is it. 252 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:14,000 Bounced like a, well, I don't think I can describe something off the top of my head the way Strowman bounced off that announce table. 253 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 But yeah, the announce table was very stale. 254 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 That spoke to the beginning of the end for this match really, didn't it? 255 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 I don't think Strowman really recovered from this point. 256 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Well, after Fatou threw him back into the ring, he kind of got dumped into the turnbuckle, didn't he? 257 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:39,000 And it was just constant hemslams, repeated, repeated from one turnbuckle to the other on the hemslams. 258 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And then, you know, he got to the point where he tossed the referee out the ring because he's, you know, the ref saying, look, he's done, man, just pin him. 259 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 It's finished. 260 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,000 And then because of that, we ended up with a no DQ finish. 261 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:07,000 This actually, this was a bit of an odd finish because when we saw this a few weeks previous with the Carmelo Hayes match, 262 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000 it was put down as a no contest. 263 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,000 However, for this match, Braun Strowman was named winner by DQ. 264 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Yes. 265 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:21,000 So I'd love to understand the reason behind why Carmelo's match was down as a no contest with no winner. 266 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000 Right. 267 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 So I think I know why. 268 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:31,000 I think Carmelo's match was done, was no contest due to interference. 269 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:41,000 Where with this one, it was done as a disqualification because as soon as you put your hands on a referee, you're disqualified. 270 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000 So that's true. 271 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:51,000 So Jacob Fatou was an active combatant in the match where with the Carmelo match, he was an interference running. 272 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,000 So yeah, no, that makes sense. 273 00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:01,000 At this point, that tips the scales over the edge and Jacob Fatou goes well, Wolf mode, I suppose. 274 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:09,000 If that's the way you do it, I'd love to see if he uses it as like an alter ego in the way that Finn Balor brings out the demon. 275 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:15,000 I think that could be quite a cool aspect for a one-light only for it. 276 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000 But yeah, he grabs a steel chair. 277 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000 He lays into Braun Strowman with that. 278 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000 He's laying into security. 279 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000 He just doesn't care at this point. 280 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000 He is completely, like his cheese is completely slid off his cracker. 281 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 He's going nuts. 282 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Oh, he just goes completely unhinged. 283 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:43,000 And I mean, by the time Jacob Fatou is done with Brawl, is anywhere close to being done with Braun Strowman. 284 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Braun Strowman is literally hissing blood. 285 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:55,000 I think at one point, Jacob Fatou hits four moonsaults from the top rope consecutively on him. 286 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,000 I say Strowman got hit with a chair. He is bleeding profusely. 287 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000 So I think from beginning to end, I counted half a dozen. 288 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:12,000 So six moonsaults to an already chronically injured Braun Strowman. 289 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:20,000 I'm hoping sort of this doesn't put him back on the injured list moving forward because it was really good to see Strowman back. 290 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,000 And he's been nice and powerful as well. 291 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Yeah, this is it. I mean, he's only been back for a couple of weeks. 292 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,000 This is the first time we've seen him in any real in-ring action. 293 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Yeah, so I think he returned last week to save at LA Night, didn't he? 294 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000 And then this is the first week that we've seen him in action or in-ring action anyway. 295 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:49,000 So he returned the week before last. So two weeks ago, he returned as something that nobody saw coming. 296 00:40:49,000 --> 00:41:03,000 We didn't realise he was going to do it. He returned, teamed up with LA Night to defend themselves against the team of Tamatonga and Jacob Fatou. 297 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:17,000 This is when last night's match with Tamatonga and LA Night was made as well as the match for tonight, which we've just talked about, which was Braun Strowman versus Jacob Fatou. 298 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:30,000 The only difference, and we pointed this out, yes, with that in our last episode about Friday Night SmackDown, was that when Tamatonga faced LA Night, Jacob Fatou stayed at ringside. 299 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:38,000 It was not the same case for Tamatonga with Jacob Fatou facing Braun Strowman, which I found quite interesting. 300 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Although, Tamatonga did end up in-ring and at ringside, trying to basically peel Jacob Fatou away from Braun Strowman in an attempt to show some kind of mercy to the poor guy. 301 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Yeah, I don't think that Jacob Fatou is going to show any mercy at all. He is building one hell of a character. 302 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:16,000 A ruthless heel, which I think we need something along the lines of what we're getting with Tamatonga and Fatou. 303 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:29,000 It reminds me very much of a young shield where they are just coming in and fucking shit up because they can. 304 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:38,000 Yeah, and this was just absolute insanity, realistically. 305 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:48,000 It was almost a difficult thing to watch for Braun Strowman because I like Braun Strowman. He's got a good character about him in terms of promos. 306 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,000 He's got a good in-ring ability for a big guy. 307 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:06,000 He is the last active member of the Wyatt family as well. Obviously, we've lost Bray Wyatt, we've lost Luke Harper, Eric Rowan's not wrestling at the moment that I'm aware of. 308 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,000 It is literally just Braun Strowman. 309 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:21,000 Yeah, this is it. It seems a shame that that's the way we've gone with it, but that's life. 310 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:34,000 Right, I'm going to try and throw some statistics at you this time and see if you haven't already picked up on these with the affiliation between San Antonio and the WWE. 311 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:44,000 So San Antonio has hosted four Royal Rumbles over the course of the Royal Rumble being an event. 312 00:43:44,000 --> 00:44:02,000 The first one being in 1997, 10 years later in 2007, another 10 years later in 2017, and then just a few short years later in 2023 was the last time San Antonio hosted a Royal Rumble event. 313 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:14,000 Yep, Rio Ripley won the women's event and Cody Rhodes won the men's Royal Rumble in the last one to be held in San Antonio. 314 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000 Wow. 315 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:34,000 So and as well as that, Saturday Night Main Event has been hosted by San Antonio a grand total of 38 times, which is an insane number of Saturday Night Main Events to be hosted by one city. 316 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,000 It certainly is. 317 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:56,000 Saturday Night Main Event was definitely different when it went through the last time as the announce team mentioned that the late mean Jean Oakland spent a lot of his time doing bits and pieces on Saturday Night Main Event. 318 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:08,000 So they paid a small tribute to another Hall of Famer that unfortunately can't be with them this evening that would definitely have been so if he'd have still been with us. 319 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:16,000 Oh, definitely. He wouldn't have missed it for the world. But these things, again, this is life. 320 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:23,000 And this is where we see that. I think it was, I'm not terribly familiar with him, but I show speed. 321 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Yes. So before we had that, we had another little interview with with Jesse Ventura and he basically just said in this that, you know, wrestling when he was was around more, it was more technical wrestlers these days are a lot more vicious. 322 00:45:41,000 --> 00:46:00,000 And especially after watching that last match, which I believe it was Joe Tessitore told him it was not all like that these days that was just a that was just a bit of a a one off. 323 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:21,000 And followed closely again by another Royal Rumble VT basically just giving us another visual on those that have already declared themselves for both the men's and the women's rumbles and some of those other matches that have already been set up to take place, for example, the Cody Rhodes, 324 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Kevin Owens ladder match. 325 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:33,000 So we we got a brief tease of what we were what to expect at Royal Rumble in a week's time. 326 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:51,000 And before, so moving on, as I said, I show speed was phoned up by Triple H and basically invited to the Royal Rumble in Indianapolis on the 1st of February. 327 00:46:51,000 --> 00:47:01,000 And at which point he bases like, yeah, I'll be there, you know, am I allowed to stream it, which you told he is that's not an issue. 328 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:10,000 And then he's like, you know, kind of, I see stream senior and it's like, well, the funny little retort of if you can see him, you can stream him. 329 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:26,000 Does that mean that we could have confirmation there of a John Cena appearance at the Royal Rumble? We've not seen much of him at all on his retirement tour so far. 330 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:32,000 As far as I'm aware, we've not had him in any in ring action at all. 331 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:36,000 I don't actually think we've seen him on the Netflix era. 332 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:42,000 So we have he was on the 1st episode of Raw where he did announce his his. 333 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:47,000 Yeah, we had a promo that we've not had a match, have we? 334 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:53,000 No, we haven't had it. We've seen no in ring action from Cody Rhodes as of yet. 335 00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:09,000 But we are someone we have seen some in ring action for in recent weeks is Jey Uso and we see it again in the main event match. 336 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:18,000 I mean, this was actually a surprisingly short card for a more premium event realistically with WWE. 337 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:32,000 Especially considering Smackdown the night before was a seven match card to only have four matches on the card for this for this event was actually a little bit underwhelming. 338 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:48,000 I think the quality of match we got over the quantity of matches made it just the right fit. And for me personally, I really enjoyed watching this this overall program. 339 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:53,000 But the four matches, I think was just just enough to be fair. 340 00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:08,000 I didn't have too much kind of given us it wasn't too much information to digest. You know, it's taken a little bit of extra off next week or this week's programming with Monday Night Raw and XT and Smackdown leading into the rumble. 341 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,000 I think it was it was timed nicely to be fair. 342 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:15,000 Yeah, it was it was very nicely laid out. 343 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:31,000 But yeah, we went into this main event match. This was for the World Heavyweight Championship currently held by the ring general Gunther and being challenged for by main event Jey Uso. 344 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:56,000 Now, one last set of statistics from me. Gunther has currently held the World Heavyweight Championship for 165 days. He's also held the Intercontinental Championship at one point and he held the NXT Championship as well. 345 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:15,000 So in total, Gunther has spent over four years as champion, which is 80% of his tenure with WWE. So 80% of his tenure at WWE Gunther has had a tag strap strapped around his waist. 346 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:30,000 Yeah, which is a phenomenal statistic to to be able to hold to your name to have spent that long as a champion or that much of your tenure within a company as a champion of in one form or another. 347 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:47,000 Which is interesting because he is not necessarily a superstar that you would associate with having that much potential, I suppose they must see a lot in him to be giving him that much belt. 348 00:50:47,000 --> 00:51:01,000 But he's definitely not being as over as some other wrestlers on the roster. It's interesting to kind of see, but he does do what he does do very, very well. 349 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:18,000 This is what he said in Promo is leading up to this match is that he's not and he's not an entertainment superstar. He is a professional wrestler. He is he is there to hit us and then go home. 350 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:35,000 He's not there to shake hands, kiss babies, create trends or anything like that. He is there to go in, dominate, go home. And again, it's something that Gunther does very, very well. 351 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,000 Up until this match. 352 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:50,000 So yeah, this was a this was a surprise for me. I will be on. I wasn't. I wasn't expecting the result of the match was what I expected. 353 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:55,000 Yes, I didn't expect was how competitive this match was. 354 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:10,000 I think and I think we should be we should be clear here. We all knew in the week leading up to WrestleMania, there was not going to be not the weekly. 355 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000 It's going to be a great WrestleMania this year. 356 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:19,000 That title was not changing hands with you before we knew that. 357 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:30,000 So we can with that confirm that good the retained but the match they had leading up to that was incredible. 358 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:42,000 You saw at the end of it the amount of respect that good there had learned for J for the things that we know the spots and the works they'd had within that match. 359 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:50,000 And it was a great match and the two of them have got history anyway, which made that match even better. 360 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000 You know, Gunther was the guy who eliminated Jay from last year's Royal Rumble. 361 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:02,000 He beat when you know, and Gunther held the I.C. title when Jay was trying to get his hands on that gun to beat him there. 362 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,000 You know, he beat him in the King of the Rings semi finals. 363 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:12,000 There's a lot a lot of history between the superstars which just made this match more and more compelling. 364 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000 It's a and I don't really want to make the comparison. 365 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,000 I feel like I'm going to anyway. 366 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,000 It's one of those finish the story stories. 367 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:26,000 Eventually, J is so it's going to be allowed to finish the story. 368 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000 He will beat whichever champion he is he's feuding with. 369 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,000 I think it will be good. 370 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,000 I think J is so will be the next World Heavyweight Champion. 371 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:50,000 I don't know whether that be a Royal Rumble thing or I don't know if they're going to try and string this one out until WrestleMania and have what I believe could be the biggest pop scene at WrestleMania since Mick Foley, 372 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:57,000 Sean Michaels and Stone Cold came out against the League of Nations. 373 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:02,000 Well, if you'll allow me to speculate just for a moment. 374 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,000 We already know. 375 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:16,000 So from this match, we know that unfortunately J is so is an unsuccessful in defeating Gunther in this match after an absolute brutal war of a match. 376 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,000 J is so does not pick up the title. 377 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:23,000 So he unfortunately is unsuccessful at beating Gunther yet again. 378 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:34,000 However, this leaves J is so free to be an entrant within the men's main within the men's Royal Rumble on Saturday. 379 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:52,000 Now, if if J is so wins the men's Royal Rumble event, which is more than possible, that leave them with a main event spot at the show of shows WrestleMania. 380 00:54:52,000 --> 00:55:09,000 And if we are realistic, we know that that following up if J walks out of Royal Rumble with the 2025 Royal Rumble winner title to his name, 381 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:21,000 that the likelihood is is that he will may he may well choose Gunther as his opponent going into WrestleMania, which keeps the story going. 382 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:35,000 I think it's possible if that happens that J is so goes on after an extended program with Gunther where he showed where he begins to improve. 383 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:48,000 We come week making sure that he is finding all those little weaknesses getting really under Gunther skin, which we've seen him do in promos leading up to this match. 384 00:55:48,000 --> 00:56:00,000 It's a possibility that we could see J who so's first World Heavyweight Championship rain begin at the show of shows. 385 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:06,000 And he get and score his foot one of his first wins over Gunther. 386 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:31,000 Yeah, and I think I have just found one of the perfect ways to finish this episode, Adam. I have just been sat on scrolling through social media while we've been recording this episode and wrestling daily news have just released a story saying that Jordan race has just signed a multi year deal with 387 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:41,000 WWE. So that could be one of the entrance in the female Royal Rumble this year. 388 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:58,000 So Jordan Grace, I believe has not long but vacated a title in TNA, which is a bit of an odd move considering TNA's multi year deal to share talent between that and NXT. 389 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:13,000 So according to the article with this WWE just locked in on one of the biggest names on the free agent market after weeks of speculation, Jordan Grace is officially heading to WWE. 390 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:25,000 Apparently they wasted no time making a move for Grace saying that she wrapped up her TNA wrestling run, making it clear they weren't willing to let her test for free agency. 391 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:34,000 So she decided that basically once her contract was up she was leaving TNA so she dropped the title to do so. 392 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:45,000 Which do you know what fair play to fair play to her and I'm looking forward to seeing what how that shakes up the women's division moving forward. 393 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:56,000 I mean, yeah, we've come to the end of the show and as I say a four match card so not much to choose from. Do you have a match of the night? 394 00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:07,000 Yes, I do. I went into recording this with one of two in my mind while we've been recording this. I think I've made my choice. 395 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:18,000 For me, the match of the night was a real Ripley and Nia Jax. 396 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:22,000 Okay, that wasn't what I expected you to say. 397 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:29,000 You were expecting me to go for Jey Uso and I think I probably would have done if he'd have won. 398 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:44,000 As it stands, I'll correct you. I wasn't expecting you to go for Jey Uso for that very reason. Had he won that title, we'd have both been in agreement and both gone for that main event. 399 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:51,000 And I think you both would have done it if it was the Seamus match. If Seamus had won, we'd have both chosen between those two. 400 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:56,000 So you'd have probably won Seamus. I'd have probably gone for Jey Uso. 401 00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:11,000 As it stands, I'm still picking the Jey Uso match. That was a fantastic story told and a genuine threat has been identified for Gunther's reign as World Heavyweight Championship. 402 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:15,000 It was definitely a way of building that story. 403 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:22,000 What I expected you to come out with was actually the only non-title match in this card. 404 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:29,000 I honestly expected you to say that your match of the night was going to be Braun Strowman vs Jacob Fatou. 405 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:40,000 I'd like to have been able to pick that one and I'll explain to you why. I think they could have done a little bit more with it and I think it could have been a little bit longer. 406 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:55,000 I don't think the beatdown needed to go on for quite as much. I know they're trying to build Fatou's character, but at the same time they're taking a lot away from a lot of work they've put in with Braun Strowman over the last decade. 407 00:59:55,000 --> 01:00:01,000 And I don't think Strowman's at a point where he's looking at passing a torch. 408 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:07,000 Do you know what? I agree with that. I'm out of points. I've got nothing else. 409 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:15,000 I am pretty much done too. So thank you for hanging out and I will catch you for the next episode which will be Monday Night Raw. 410 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,000 Yeah, thank you all. 411 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,000 See you all soon. Bye. 412 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:38,000 Bye.