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Welcome to the ring, it's rich and atom.

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Breaking down the fights with flair and passion.

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Tag teams grappling belts are clashing.

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Finishes and factions catching action.

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Hello there and welcome to finishes and factions does Friday night Smackdown.

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This was the final weekly episodic television television show from before we hit elimination chamber.

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We find ourselves in the Scotiabank arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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And as ever, my name's Adam and with me is my ever faithful co-host Rich.

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Rich, how's it going?

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It's all good mate, yeah.

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Yeah, I'm all good mate, I'm all good.

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Good.

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So yeah, Friday night Smackdown.

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Yeah, and it started with a bit of a bang to be fair.

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We jumped right into it with a recap VT about WrestleMania's announcement of next year's

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WrestleMania being in New Orleans and then it carried on into the rock with his calling out of Cody Rhodes to basically find out that he doesn't want the championship belt.

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He wants Cody's soul and that we'd find out a little bit more from Cody about that a little bit later on before they meet at elimination chamber tomorrow night.

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Yeah, this is it.

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So and after this little sort of VT is run its course, we then see a clip of or I'm assuming it was live footage of Cody Rhodes sort of walking backstage where he is.

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Guided to his very own personal locker room.

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It's a little bit taken back by this didn't it until he gets told it was a courtesy of the final boss.

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So we kind of was getting a little taste of things to come if he chooses to accept the Rock's offer and give the Rock his soul.

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Yeah, I mean is it is a personal locker room really worth a really worth your soul or.

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I mean, I'm sure the personal locker room is probably one of the smaller of the things that is is coming for Cody if he decides to accept Rock's offer.

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I mean, we know how generous Rock can be.

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Yeah, this is true.

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We also know how vindictive he can be.

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Oh, yeah.

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But that man has enough money to be as petty as he wants to be and really not care.

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So, you know, I mean, if I had that sort of money, I'd probably be really at pay as well and not give too many fucks.

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I'm not going to lie.

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In fairness, you don't need that amount of money to be petty.

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No, you're not wrong.

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I don't need that amount of money to be petty.

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I certainly don't need that amount of money to give zero fucks.

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Yes, this is true.

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Right. We went from there to was it in ring promo?

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Yeah, we got to see Trish Stratus come into the ring to have a little conversation with the Toronto crowd.

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Obviously, it's her home crowd.

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She is a Hall of Famer and she's getting a little bit of crowd working.

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I'm guessing before her match tomorrow night with Tiffy Stratton against Nia Jax and Candice Lorette.

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Yeah. And I very much got the impression that this was she was a lot more relaxed than we see some people that are in that are on these TV shows week in week out.

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But she does mention really highlighted.

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It was only ever really highlighted to when she did this promo and it was a case that I saw how relaxed she was thinking back to even

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later on when there are other promos being cut, you can sort of see how tense everybody is.

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Yeah. Whereas I think if she was any more relaxed, she'd have been asleep.

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Well, she hasn't really got anything to lose.

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Is she like she's already a Hall of Famer.

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They can't take away the fact that she's a seven time WWE Women's Champion.

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And, you know, she's in her hometown, so they're not going to give her too much.

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They're going to give her plenty of leeway anyway.

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And she's doing never favor, I suppose.

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Like I wouldn't have said 25 years after she debuted on WWE TV that we still see Trish Stratus coming into the ring and making appearances and having matches.

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Yeah. And in fairness, despite the fact that she's had 25 years in the 25 years of WWE involvement to more or lesser degrees.

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Obviously, a lot of that has been out of the ring more recently, but she's still being involved within the business quite a lot.

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Yeah. And it can't just be me that thought, do you know what?

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Actually, considering she's knocking on for 50 years old, she don't look half odd still.

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I suppose what happens when you get Sun, sea and sand? I mean, she spent a lot of her time out in California at the moment, didn't she?

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So that's the one place where you can find all three of those.

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That is very true.

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Yeah. She basically comes out, gives herself a, well, I find it quite fitting actually, she give Lily and Garcia a thanks for her introduction.

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And she made a reference about, you know, what year is this?

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You know, the Rocks back. I'm in the ring and you've got Lily and Garcia on announcement.

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Like, this is pretty cool.

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I didn't look too much into when the last time that happened was, but I'm guessing you probably got a good sort of 10 to 15 years on it.

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Well, yeah, this is it. It's, um, yeah, it's all, it's, uh, it's, it is a bit odd.

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It's, it feels like a bit of a blast from the past because as she mentioned, it's Lily and Garcia announcing.

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Trish Stratus is in the ring and Rocks getting into it as well.

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It's, we could have, we may as well be back in the fucking attitude era.

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Well, yeah. And she did, I find it quite interesting and quite, quite a nice little sort of touch from Trish as well.

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And she pointed out to the young woman in the crowd that actually her dad probably had a poster of her on the wall.

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And the dad said, like, yeah, it's the really big one. And she's like, I know which one you're talking about.

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And she was able to even quote which one it was.

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She was. So, I mean, yeah, I think I probably had that same poster. I'm sure you did it one pointless.

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Um, and yeah, I just got a very sort of general sense of genuine gratitude for being able to have a career as long as that.

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Because there are wrestlers in the industry that don't make it to WWE that don't have a career even half that.

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I mean, I agree. I'd be more than grateful to take a career off in that sort of business if I was sort of 10 years younger.

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Yeah, you and me both.

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Yeah, I do the, the Maverick Logan Paul and buy my way in.

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I give Vince McMahon a big old bag of fuck all because that's what I had about 10 years ago.

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So that's pretty much what I've got now. So big old bag of fuck all. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.

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Um, didn't just get to see Trish stratus out at this, uh, well, and Lillian Garcia in this opportunity. We actually had a few special guests come out with this one as well.

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We've got, uh, say special guests. We got to see Tiffy Stratton for some Tiffy time. Um, I did like the custom jerseys they had on.

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I thought that was kind of cool.

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Yeah, I haven't had the goal to have a look to see how quickly they went on eBay.

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Right. They've either gone on eBay or they've gone straight and someone's slap tank.

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Oh yeah, it's one or the other.

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Let me just have a little look. Trish, Stratus, Toronto, Blue Top.

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There's lots of trading cards with Trish Stratus on eBay in America at the moment.

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There is a photograph of them from behind in the two tops last night from Smackdown, but there isn't the tops as of yet.

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Oh, fair enough. In fairness, I've got to be the one to point it out. I'm convinced that Tiffy Stratton's outfit, that Tiffy Stratton's ring gear gets smaller every week.

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There, I mean, there's every wonder that woman had had has had at least one wardrobe malfunction in the time that she's been champion of WWE Women's Champion.

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Yeah, it's every wonder she's not having one every week.

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I mean, a natural Netflix would be too impressed with that. I'm not going to lie.

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I'm surprised they've not gotten in trouble for as many as they've had recently.

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They just up the up the rating for it and just be like, yeah, okay, we've up the rating.

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You let your kids watch it. Go for it. Go for it.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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But no, so yeah, we got to see a bit of Tiffy Time talking about again, they came out talking about their match tomorrow night.

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And I must admit, I turned off a little bit when Tiffy Stratton come out. I'm getting a little bit bored of her.

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I'm not sure if it's her voice or like the gimmick that she's going with.

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But yeah, her being Women's Champion is getting very thin very quickly with me.

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Or just the amount of how much we're seeing her, which is weird because there's, you know, we get interrupted by a third person or third and a fourth person to be fair,

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who seems to also be getting shoved down our throats quite a lot at the moment, which is Chelsea Green with Piper Navin.

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And yeah, they they come out more or less to basically, well, it's more or less an opportunity for Chelsea Green to run her chops.

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I mean, she's very good at doing that. She is very good at cutting a promo.

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But yeah, she all we're getting from Chelsea Green at the moment is a lot of running a mouth and not a lot of boots to arses.

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No, and this is sort of demonstrated perfectly within this because she comes out, runs her chops, despite being Canadian herself.

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She decides to run down Canada.

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I mean, you know, it's come to something when you've got a Canadian running down Canada.

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I mean, it's a great heel move.

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Like, oh, 100% I imagine going as a Canadian just oh yeah, and rip the fuck out of the Canadians.

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And yeah, it's great, great heel material.

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It is. But I can imagine she wanted to crawl out of her skin afterwards.

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Oh, yeah, I'm sure they gave her a hot shower somewhere.

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You can't get away from that. That's on Netflix.

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But yeah, it's a case that she comes out, runs her chops, runs down everything she could possibly get her get sort of work into the conversation.

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And then the minute that Trish, Tiffany Stratton actually suggests that they go into a match tonight.

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She tries to run.

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I'm busy. I'm busy. Well, she was supposed to have a match tonight anyway, wasn't she?

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Because she was told by the general manager that she yes, she wasn't going to elimination chamber, but she was still going to Toronto and she had a match against a mystery opponent.

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Or an unknown opponent at that time.

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So she was supposed to have had a match.

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And this was what we were going to get was then that sort of sort of like her and Trish maybe or you have the the full way of them like in a tag match.

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I mean, we've obviously had that.

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I mean, Trish Stratton sort of issues the challenge to Nick Aldous is like, if you if Nick, if you're a fan of this idea, send a ref down.

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And about two seconds later, we have a ref running towards the ring and it's like, oh, shit, this is happening.

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We open the opening match of this SmackDown card was almost like an inadvertent champion versus champion match.

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Because obviously, Chelsea Green is the current women's US title holder.

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And Tiffany Stratton's got the women's SmackDown title.

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So we had a champion versus champion match to open SmackDown, which was don't get me wrong, it's a blinding way to open to open any episode of anything on paper.

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This match was better than it actually was, I feel.

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Well, it's worth mentioning because we'll come to it eventually anyway, that this this episode of SmackDown wasn't it.

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It certainly doesn't seem like it was as it was originally planned.

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So a lot of things that have been advertised to happen this week did not happen.

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And that is because they reworked some stuff for the Universal, you know, for the United States title, sorry, due to I believe you said it now being vacated since, didn't you?

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Due to Shinsuke Nakamura's brother dying.

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So there's a rumor floating around.

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I don't know how true it is because I don't think WWE have officially confirmed it yet.

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But there is a rumor going around that there has been a title vacated within WWE.

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And the the overwhelming consensus is that it makes sense because of Shinsuke Nakamura losing his brother in the last week.

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And having to take some time out.

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It's a case that he may well have vacated the title because it hasn't we've we've commented on it in the past.

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It hasn't been seen an awful lot up until recently.

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No, it's been a lot of matches building up for a shot at Shinsuke, but we've not really seen Shinsuke until he appeared.

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Was it last week on SmackDown?

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Yeah, so he's made some appearances in the last few weeks.

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And a few TV's and stuff like that.

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Yeah, but not really not had him with any sort of in ring action, which to be honest, I'm not that upset about as I'm not a huge Shinsuke Nakamura fan.

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Even when he was at the height of his hype, it was a case that I just didn't see the appeal.

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Yeah, I've always found it quite boring to be fair.

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His matches are normally the ones that I used to go and put the catalog.

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Yeah, there's just this.

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There's very little.

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There's very little to like about the guy.

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And that's not dislike him in a heel sort of way.

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There's just nothing to like.

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There's not a lot for me to like about substance to his character at all.

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And yeah, it's a case that.

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Yeah, it just it didn't work.

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So because of the rework they've done on the episode, some matches were very.

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Last minute.

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Very.

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Yeah, there was a lot of you could tell things were being changed as it was going on.

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And, you know, after I would explain a little bit more sort of how they do it a little bit later into the episode, because we've still got this Tiffy Stratton Chelsea Green match to finish.

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Discussing.

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And they did point out during the commentary did at some point during this match that they had 14,252 in attendance at the Scotiah Centre.

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This evening for Smackdown, which means they and I think they pushed it a standing room only, didn't they?

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So I don't remember them mentioning about standing room only.

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That's the one.

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But no, this one was definitely the regavers and numbers.

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They must be very close to being sold out if not sold out.

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Yeah, very much so.

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But yeah, so when the ref came down to the ring, made the match official, we then seem to have gone to an ad break.

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We came back from the ad break to see Chelsea Green in control.

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I really hate it.

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Cut the ad breaks out and we lose half of the match.

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Really bugs me.

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Well, at one point they were doing it where the Americans would go to an ad break.

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We would lose commentary but keep the picture.

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Which I enjoy.

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They've stopped doing that now.

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They have and it's annoying because we end up coming back from ad breaks and it's like, oh, what happened to the start of the match?

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And then they try and put in a really like poorly timed, oh, why you're on the ad break?

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This is what we saw.

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And you're like, well, great, you could have showed me that three minutes ago when I came back from the ad break,

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not now when I've forgotten there was an ad break.

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Yeah. And I'm going to be honest, I've got a theory that the Americans are probably the reason why we stopped getting that.

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I think there are some people online that have flapped their guns about the fact that, oh, when the Americans go for an ad break,

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we can still see what's going on so we don't miss anything.

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And they've kicked off.

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The acts have kicked off essentially saying that it's not fair that we have to suffer ad breaks because it's on cable TV or it's on a station.

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It's being broadcast on a station that requires ad breaks and things like that that we miss out and everybody else doesn't.

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Because the WWE is an American based corporation.

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It is a case that they will adhere to their home audience.

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Exactly. I wouldn't blame them.

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Oh, no, precisely.

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I mean, any business person worth assault is going to, you're going to appeal to your core audience,

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which in this case is the American audience.

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So it makes complete sense.

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It's just really annoying for us because we had a taste of what it could be like and now it's been stashed away.

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So yeah, we're a little bit bitter about it, but we're not going to say.

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Bit like Chelsea Green's elimination chamber appearance.

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It was teased and then it got snatched away.

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Yeah, it was teased and then snatched away for very good reason.

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Oh, yeah.

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But yeah, I mean, what did you make of the match itself?

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I mean, I've sort of progressed away from it.

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I've got the fact it was quite a, you know, it was a very well balanced, very athletic, technically wrestled match with, you know, some really nice sort of high spots within the match.

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I don't think they got enough time really before, you know, to actually have the match before the next stage of it came in where obviously they were interfered by Candice Leray and Nia Jax.

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Which I'm getting fed up with seeing those two as well to be fair.

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Like just let them have a match, like interfere every so often.

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Fine.

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It does not need to be every time Tiffy goes near the ring that we need to see Nia and Candice Leray.

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Well, the unfortunate thing for Nia Jax is that I struggle to remember a time when she wasn't a heel character.

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Yeah.

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The entire reason she remained relevant is because she's a bully.

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Pretty much.

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I kind of see think of a heel Nia Jax, of a face Nia Jax to be fair.

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No.

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No, and even just like, yeah, she's always been a heel and she's always been the bully heel.

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And it always means that she interferes in matches and she sort of asserts herself where necessarily she wouldn't have been cast in that role at that point.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I get the process behind it, but every match, like, come on.

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You might as well just join.

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Kind of feels like she's jealous that these people are getting more matches than she is.

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So she's having to interject herself into those situations.

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That is a lot of Nia Jax's stick in general, really, is that she's, it comes, it's born of a lot of jealousy because the, for lack of a way of putting it, the prettier people get more opportunities.

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More opportunities than she seems to, even though from a physical standpoint, she's very dominant.

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She's, she is reasonably talented.

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Yeah, but it's a case that just nobody ever seems to look away.

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So there is an element of jealousy in it.

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Yeah, I suppose.

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But yeah, I mean, there was a few hot.

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As you say, it's the match sort of, I'm assuming it ends in a no contest.

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The only reason that I'm assuming no contest is because I put it down as a DQ finish, but

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Well, the only reason I didn't put it down as a DQ fit is that normally if it's a DQ, it's announced as DQ with the winner announced.

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But that wasn't the case.

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No, so I put this down as a no contest and in fairness, despite the fact that Candice Leray and Nia Jax were the ones that ran in by the time this match ended or by the time this little running ended, they were the ones that were on the back foot.

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Yeah, they basically, they ran in, they tried causing their, well, they did start beating down on Trish Stratus who was ringside.

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Was she ringside for the match?

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Was she in the crowd?

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She was, yeah.

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Yeah, she was ringside.

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No, she was ringside.

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They started beating her down, but they still managed.

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Yeah, they basically, they got their ass handed to them on a plate and they disappeared.

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They got their asses handed to them by a nearly 50 year old woman in four inch heeled boots.

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In her home.

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I mean, she is probably one of the most well known female Hall of Famers.

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So yeah, I mean, this is the same woman.

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This is the same woman that I think it was last year managed to wrestle the Royal Rumble in.

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Oh, boots.

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Yeah, no, absolutely not.

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She turns up ready for work in whatever it is that she's wearing.

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It's a case that it really doesn't make any difference.

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Oh yeah, she's told you getting in the ring.

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She's getting in.

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She's like, oh, okay.

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I mean, my pajamas will guess what she's getting in the ring and her pajamas.

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Didn't see him punk run down to the ring one year and just a towel and a shower cap.

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And a purely event.

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Yes, he did.

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I forget why.

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I think it might have been Helen Assal.

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Possibly.

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But yeah.

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So we went from that much in ring to a backstage sort of Nick oldest.

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But it wasn't quite in his office, was it?

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I put this down as a VT because it was all sort of pre obviously pre recorded.

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This wasn't him.

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Yeah, it wasn't a live interview.

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It was pre recorded VT.

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So basically Nick oldest explains what's going to happen for the rest of the episode.

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Basically pinpointing the rework for the United States Championship and he's bringing in a tournament for the night.

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So there are six people involved in this tournament.

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We've got LA Knight who is ending up in a singles match against Santos Escobar for a qualifying match into a triple threat at the end of the evening.

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Where he's got a match.

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There's a match between Carmelo Hayes and Braun Strowman in exactly the same way.

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And also it's announced as a match between Andrade and Solo Sokoa.

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Yeah, to be the final one in the triple threat match to become the number one contender for Shinsuke Nakamura's United States title.

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Which it wasn't until we found out that Shinsuke Nakamura's brother had passed away that this sort of made sense.

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Yeah, I saw it on social media the day.

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So yeah, I saw this on social media on Saturday.

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Before I watched SmackDown.

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So.

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And the day that a few weeks prior, the only reason this didn't really sort of make sense and I don't think they really thought about it from a continuity standpoint is that LA Knight had already wrestled a match to become number one contender.

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He's then having to.

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Rewrestle in a tournament to maintain that position.

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So that was the only bit that didn't sort of.

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It didn't stick the landing for me, but the storyline work for this was that apparently there's been a lot of.

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In fighting between the six gentlemen involved in the tournament over the number one contendership for the for the US title.

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I'm calling I was one of the first to think to call bullshit on it because.

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Solo so Co has never expressed any interest in the US title on Sunday certainly hasn't Carmelo Hayes is fighting just to win matches.

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And Braun Strowman is being trotted out every week or every fortnight to to get a payday and Santos Escobar has been more focused on the on the tag team.

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The tag team division than anything else.

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Well, so I saw this and lining up in a certain way where I thought we were going to get strome and Fatou and.

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I'm not strome and solo sorry and night when it was first announced.

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As and then I thought those three people going to go into the triple threat match for the end of it.

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Obviously, the next thing we see after Nick Aldis announces these matches is that backstage conversation between Jake, Fatou, Tamatonga and solo so color.

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Where solo basically tells Jacob take my spot.

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Not really that bothered up.

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I'll help you out.

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You'd be better with the title.

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And this is solo so color still trying to sort of ingratiate himself to.

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Motherfucker.

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He had the spoon and everything ready this time.

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And then they spoke a little bit about the that's super kick that solo so color eight from Jacob Fatou last week.

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In his qualifying match.

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Was he what was the match for last week where they he ate that super kick because that was a qualifying match for something as well.

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Was it the final I want.

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I'm trying to remember myself now.

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The tag match.

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I feel like it might have been yes.

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Men's tag team it was the main event from last from last week where solo so color and Jacob Fatou versus Damian Priest and Braun Strowman.

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That's the one.

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And obviously so Jacob Fatou ends up getting told that he's having this match for the you know he's taking solo's place going into this qualifying thing.

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Once that was announced I was like right you get a night Strowman and Fatou and it's basically going to be Strowman and Fatou beating the shit out of each other and I know it's going to steal it.

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And that's pretty much how they've been having a lot of these triple threat matches go is the person who wins is the one who does the least work.

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And then which which makes sense you know they've done it with a few of the different matches and then that leads into the first one of the three matches for the United States number one contenders triple threat qualifying match.

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And which was andrade versus Jacob Fatou which I thought was actually going to be a really good match.

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Considering the two wrestling styles and how they're both bigger men if you get me.

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Like it was normally with the luchadors like Andrade they tend to be a lot smaller and sort of like more petite and very sort of like fast and sort of quick where andrade is bigger than you stand luchador but you can still pull it off just as well and actually I think he looks slightly better doing it.

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Again as it stands I think this was one of the first times that Fatou has ever had to face an opponent quite like quite like Andrade on his own with no backup from tamatonga or anybody else it's a case that it's one of the very few matches we ever see of Jacob Fatou actually wrestling solo.

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And having to wrestle solo as well so it was nice to be able to see that he wasn't just being held up by tamatonga.

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We know he can actually go when he gets his matches like this and we've started to see a lot more of him without tamatonga or ringside as well.

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Yeah and this is I mean it always happens when you have people that are bunched up together that are sort of grouped up together for a while and then one of them gets a solo push and the other one just seems to be they seem to be sort of pushed to the wayside.

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Like a spare death in a porn studio.

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Yeah pretty much and that seems to be tamatonga all over I mean it would be it would make more sense if they had him competing for something else or involved in another storyline separate and just sort of keep looping him back in with Jacob Fatou every now every now and again.

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They can quite easily do that but at the moment he is pay is.

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Well I've got a feeling we're going to see we're going to see Zilla Fatou come in soon and I think we'll end up seeing him join up with Jacob tamatonga and solo.

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And I think we'll end up seeing a tag team person tamatonga and Zilla Fatou.

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That's how I would wear I think they're going to take it anyway.

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Well as far as I'm aware Zilla Fatou is doing quite well on the independence at the moment so I don't think he's going to be too.

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Well he is not going to be coming into WWE anytime soon.

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He said in an interview that with a few months ago that I saw on Facebook and it was like someone said to him like you know WWE when and he went soon.

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Like I can't tell you when when but soon. So whether I mean and that was probably like six weeks ago.

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So we'll probably see him within the next 12 months I'm guessing I hope and they don't leave it that long but.

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Well they need to do something with Tamar if they're going to leave it that long but.

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See what happens I suppose there is always another episode.

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Because the main two out of this now we're looking at it being either it's it's solo seco and Jacob Fatou tamatonga is the cook in the corner is.

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Did you see that stare down between solo and Tamar and Jacob left that little sort of conversation.

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Those two giving each other proper eyes like there is a possibility that they work this so that solo seco is doing a lot of ask us in for Jacob Fatou.

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He's not really he's not really bothering with tamatonga.

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Just tamatonga sneak the leadership out from underneath Jacob Fatou.

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No I think we're going to see Fatou eventually forgive secoa.

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But because secoa has felt has spent so long dealing trying to ingratiate himself to Fatou and sort of ignoring.

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Tonga it's going to be a case that Tonga is going to get a going to get a little nit from the Green Eyed Monster going to get insanely jealous and just start sabotaging solo secoa every term.

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I mean I could be an interesting way to go about it.

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It's the way I see it working out but it's again I've had some fantastic theories that work out I've also had some terrible ones that work out and I've had some that don't work out as well.

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So it's a case that we've still got to wait and see what happens with this but rather than sort of digressing too far because there's a lot of this to get through and I don't want to spend too long dwelling on one thing or thing.

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We went into the first match which was Andrade vs. Jacob Fatou and then we went into a VT for WrestleMania being in New Orleans.

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And then we ended up backstage in Cody's dressing room with Cody Rhodes and our truth of all people just truth to find out where the food was man like seriously guys walking around though with a tiny ass plate with two shrimp on it.

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I think you may have skipped over a few bits and pieces here my dude.

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I have. I don't know the backs the Cody Rhodes dressing room promo you're quite right sorry it's because I've written it all out of order.

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That actually happened during the the entrance for.

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Andrade Fatou. Yeah which Jacob Fatou ended up walking out with the victory becoming the first one in the first one in the triple threat tournament at the main event at the end of the the end of the card.

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Let's face it though we're not sorry that was a really bad time to have a sneezing fit we're not going to leave that just quite there though because yes Fatou won but Andrade ended up getting his ass handed to him at the end with that running hip

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and then being hit by a spiked impaler DTT and then for that that one of those leaf the last moonsaults that Fatou does as well for a three count like he got bullied into the loss massively.

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It's in fairness and Dr. Andrade for all the work you put in realistically probably should have won that match.

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Right and he was the upper hand for most of it but you knew that Fatou was going through they weren't going to kill the push they've given Fatou by letting him lose to Andrade clean in a qualifier match for a title.

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No because that would have just killed any put it would have killed dead any push that Jacob Fatou was under at the moment. Yeah it would have any momentum he had and there would have been very little to recover from that especially if you've got no future plan at the minute for Andrade which honestly I don't think they have.

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They're just giving them a better screen time to give them some money before Charlotte Flair takes it all well takes any more after that divorce.

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Well it's again I sort of feel sort of a little bit sorry for Andrade he left WWE.

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Yeah went to AEW. Yeah.

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Did reasonably well in it did reasonably well in AEW left AEW to come back to WWE.

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And they and now he's a jobber.

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It feels like it feels like a like a massive kick to the nuts for and I'm not going to lie that's how I think that's how I'd be feeling unless they're constantly promising him like oh we've got some we've got some in the works for you just got to stick with it just stick with it we've got something in the works for you let us just let us cook a minute and.

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I thought they were going to introduce him possibly with the Rey Mysterio and not Rey Mysterio with the Chad Gable angle but.

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I'm not quite sure what what's taken quite so long without one that could be a way they push it but I don't think it will be.

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He's going to he's going to end up getting wasted if they put him in programming with Chad Gable and it would involve having to swap him over to Chad Gable Raw.

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Yes he is.

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So yeah you end up having to swap them over.

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They're outside of transfer window now so.

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It's not going to make any sense for him to to go in that direction but yeah so.

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We went from the Fatou Andrade match as Rich said to a backstage promo where we see sort of Cody Rhodes in this new dressing room which basically has a wall of wine on it it's.

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It sort of looks like they just stuck him in the middle of a restaurant and said yeah this is your locker room.

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Yeah you see all that sushi that's at room temperature now I wouldn't eat any of it but it's it's there.

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It looked very very nice but yeah like you said not not digesting any of that that is a night on this shitter waiting to happen.

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Yeah and yeah it seems it seems that our truth has just sort of let himself in he's chilling out helping himself to Cody Rhodes spread and.

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You found the sushi didn't he?

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No wonder we didn't see our truth tonight he was in the bathrooms he was eating all that shrimp that was no good.

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Yeah no I can't imagine that was freshly put out just before that promo started somehow.

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No that's been there all day that was the catering van come on.

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And our truth is talking to Cody Rhodes obviously about the Rocks offer.

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I'm not gonna lie I love the subtle nod to the Rocks dad.

397
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Rocky my via no.

398
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Yeah Rocky my via I want to say.

399
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:04,000
So he had a subtle nod to the Rocks dad he was a wrestler he trained the Rock initially.

400
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:12,000
And obviously the Rock is after Cody Rhodes' soul and the subtle nod that our truth gives is.

401
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000
To the soul man Rocky Johnson.

402
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Rocky Johnson that's it Rocky my via was was what the Rock wrestled under at one point for a very short amount of time.

403
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,000
There's a Rock Rocks granddaddy was the great high chief Peter Malvia.

404
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Yeah.

405
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Who was obviously the first generation WWE wrestler of that specific family and now it seems that that family owns or is is the WWE.

406
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:56,000
Which has been the case for longer than longer than we realize of box longer than Dwayne Johnson's been on TV.

407
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
He owns board of directors.

408
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Yes.

409
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:11,000
But yes the truth basically makes the suggestion that you know what if it's like this maybe selling your soul isn't so bad.

410
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000
I like how they've added in like other wrestlers within this storyline kind of given their input.

411
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:23,000
You know we saw Seth Rollins give his a Monday night Raw and I think he had a very good point.

412
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:30,000
You know and it's a lot of the way they've got other people coming in going you know I do this I do that.

413
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:42,000
I quite like it to be fair like it's been interesting just to serve you know for the people to have their input with the people's champion if you get me.

414
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:47,000
That's what you class themselves as he's the WWE Universe champion.

415
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Yeah this is it.

416
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:56,000
But yeah I mean anything big like this in any workplace you're going to get people who are going to want to weigh in.

417
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:02,000
Yeah you get it everywhere you go and WWE is no different it is a workplace at the end of the day.

418
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:11,000
People are going to have their opinions even if there are truth who lives in our truth land for 90% of his life.

419
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:20,000
But yeah we went from the backstage promo that then went into on Fridays versus Jacob Farthew the match.

420
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,000
We then went out of there and went into a VT promo which recapped.

421
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Recapped SmackDown from last week where the Street Profits basically laid waste to about 85% of SmackDown's tag team division.

422
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:55,000
Yeah well you got to think that last week on SmackDown Street Profits laid out DIY pretty deadly, Motor City Machine Guns and was there another team out there at the time?

423
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000
Nope it was those three.

424
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,000
Yeah and they laid them out like.

425
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,000
It was a title match between DIY and pretty deadly.

426
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,000
It was.

427
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Street Profits came out to interfere.

428
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:21,000
Motor City Machine Guns came out to, we still don't know what Motor City Machine Guns were trying to do when they came out but they came out and got a can of whupast opened on them.

429
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Yes, yes they did.

430
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:33,000
And that's when we cut to a pre-recorded backstage conversation between sort of Nick Aldous and the Street Profits.

431
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:50,000
The one thing that I'd latched onto more than I possibly should have done is the fact that despite obviously the Street Profits being upset at the fact that they were put on the shelf for three months due to injury, due to being jumped.

432
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:55,000
It's a case that they're still very respectful of the position that Nick Aldous holds.

433
00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:08,000
Which is nice because it's not something we see very often especially in, I'm guessing they're casting themselves in a heel role at the moment but I'm not 100% certain of that.

434
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Yeah no, obviously we haven't really seen much from Street Profits in rings since we started Finishers and Factions.

435
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:30,000
So the fact that all we've seen is them run in and lay waste to pretty much everyone multiple times has been interesting to me for now.

436
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,000
I'm looking forward to seeing them get in the ring.

437
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:50,000
But it's all being a little bit sort of iffy because they were promised this title and they're not going to stop until they get this title shot that they were promised three months ago.

438
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000
But time doesn't wait for no champion.

439
00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:01,000
I think if you've been out for that long you go down to the bottom of the list and you work your way back up again.

440
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Yeah, this is it. I mean Street Profits are one of the more experienced tag teams in the division.

441
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:14,000
I mean the Street Profits themselves sort of debuted back in 2016.

442
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:21,000
It's a case that they're not new kids on the block by any way, shape or form.

443
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,000
Well then they should know how it goes, surely?

444
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Well, I think that before Street Profits took all this time out I think they threw quite a lot of accusations around just based on what happens next in this little VT where we see Legardo del Fantasma come along asking for apologies for some false accusations that were made.

445
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,000
Now again, this all, everything that happened with Street Profits happened well before the Netflix era.

446
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:59,000
So the gist I got from this was they got attacked but no one saw who attacked them.

447
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:07,000
It wasn't like an in-ring attack or it was like a backstage attack and they reckon it was del fantasma.

448
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:23,000
But obviously Santos Escobar is pissed about the fact that they think it's them.

449
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:41,000
Is this, are we going to find another situation here about who killed Jade Cargill?

450
00:48:41,000 --> 00:49:04,000
Yeah, this is it. It's a case that before it gets too heated between these two teams we have Nick Alders still present sort of cuts in and says, look, Street Profits have got a match versus Los Garza later on tonight which has implications on the tag team championship picture

451
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:12,000
and Santos Escobar has at least one match to wrestle tonight and they all need to go off and start preparing.

452
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:20,000
So basically it's a case of shut up, fuck off and get ready for your matches basically.

453
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:28,000
Which was the next part of the programming was the Street Profits versus Los Garza.

454
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:36,000
Yeah, so this was match three, immense tag team match and it wasn't, honestly, it wasn't even a match.

455
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:42,000
I wouldn't even call it that. Los Garza got an entrance and Street Profits got jumped.

456
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:53,000
Yeah, and Street Profits got jumped by DIY of all people coming in for their chunk of flesh as that line was quoted.

457
00:49:53,000 --> 00:50:05,000
But so already you knew that whatever match they had planned had just gone straight out the window like Guerrilla must have just been going, you know what, fuck it.

458
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:13,000
Just how about it? Have fun. We'll be back in five minutes. I need a cigarette and a coffee because that's pretty much what happened.

459
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:19,000
It was just five to 10 minutes of pure fucking chaos.

460
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:28,000
Well, it wasn't even as though those were the only teams involved because we had pretty deadly who came down to settle their beef as well.

461
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:35,000
And then we had a shit ton of security come running out, followed by the Motor City machine guns.

462
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Well, I'm sorry that security may well have not come out.

463
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:47,000
They couldn't fucking organize a piss up and a brewery those fucked on. That was fucking diabolical.

464
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:55,000
It was about three or four guys. They all stood on one corner of the ring with their dicks in their hand basically.

465
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:02,000
They may as well have done. They may as well have literally just flopped it out in their hand and gone, yeah, that's what we're here to do.

466
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000
I'm here to strike best.

467
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,000
It was made about the much sense of what they actually did.

468
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Well, they were all stood around like I said, but they're coxing around and then for about five minutes and then all of a sudden they start getting involved.

469
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,000
At which point, you know, you've already got an eight man fucking last man standing melee in the ring.

470
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,000
They just kick and fuck out of everyone's kicking fuck out of everyone at this point.

471
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,000
Yeah, obviously, we know they're not actually kicking the fuck out of them.

472
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:31,000
We do know it's scripted and choreographed, but they're going ham in the middle of the ring.

473
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,000
Yeah, this is it. And yeah, it's just complete chaos.

474
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:41,000
The match gets completely scrapped because yeah, they were bodies are in everywhere.

475
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000
They weren't getting that back under control.

476
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,000
And then no.

477
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:50,000
So yeah, no, this was this was fucked.

478
00:51:50,000 --> 00:52:03,000
We ended up cutting backstage while the security dealt with what was going on in ring to have a sort of a little watch of an interview.

479
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Well, not even in an interview, it's a conversation between our our favorite person at the moment, Mr. Drew McIncrier talking.

480
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,000
The great Scottish cry baby.

481
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:26,000
Talking to the American nightmare Cody Rhodes about the decision that he's got ahead of him tomorrow night at the elimination chamber.

482
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:39,000
And he sympathizes a little bit with Cody, because, you know, 10 years ago, they were both so low that in the company that they'd have done anything to kind of get to where they they wanted to be.

483
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:48,000
But, you know, it was a bit of a shame he didn't offer it to Drew because Cody sold his soul years ago.

484
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:56,000
Which I've known a little bit more behind what it was specifically that he did to sell his soul about them.

485
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:13,000
Yeah, I can't be the only bit that really confused me about that is that I don't generally if somebody infers something, I mean, it generally tends to fly straight out of my head anyway, but that's it's a case that when it comes to the WWE,

486
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:32,000
it's normally something that's happened recently. So I genuinely don't know what it is that McIncrier thinks Rhodes has done to sell his soul recently that that meant that he could make that sort of a comment or whether he was just trying to say something to get

487
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:40,000
under Cody's skin, because that's a possibility as well.

488
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:51,000
But yeah, I mean, sports, he reckons that this was drew saying that Cody's already sold his soul to the rock.

489
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,000
So that he'd already possibly agreed to something maybe.

490
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:59,000
Yeah.

491
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:17,000
But that's apparently they they exchange text messages all the time and drink tequila in the back at the end of live shows. So who knows they might rock says all this but Cody doesn't look to convince Cody's kind of like the fucking chatting about bro.

492
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Have you been you on mushrooms?

493
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,000
He's maybe on the same stuff as our truth.

494
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:28,000
This is not the same stuff as that guy in the tech talk I sent you the day.

495
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Apparently you can't tell the difference between Tomasso Ciampa and Triple H.

496
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:39,000
No, no, or Shawn Michaels and Johnny Gargano.

497
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:47,000
That was a difficult one. I'm not going to lie. Like the Tomasso Ciampa one I could understand but Shawn Michaels and Johnny Gargano was a bit of a stretch.

498
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Yeah, that was it was a bit of a stretch wasn't it?

499
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000
It's definitely a bit of a stretch.

500
00:54:52,000 --> 00:55:01,000
But we then we follow that up. WWE is makes a bit of an announcement saying that they're going back to Perth, Australia this year.

501
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:07,000
They haven't said when and what for but it's apparently a weekend takeover of Perth, Australia.

502
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,000
So I'm going to take a guess.

503
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:18,000
There's going to be an XT takeover paper view there and it's going to be possibly SummerSlam over there as well.

504
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,000
You think it's going to be SummerSlam?

505
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,000
It's the elimination chamber last time.

506
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,000
It was but we've just been doing elimination chamber now.

507
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:45,000
So I think SummerSlam could be interesting because if they do SummerSlam in Australia in the like the sort of time period it is, it would actually be winter in Australia.

508
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,000
Yeah, that's true.

509
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:53,000
So SummerSlam this year apparently is the weekend at the second of August.

510
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:58,000
But it's in the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

511
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000
So I fucked that one already.

512
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:07,000
So we possibly see maybe Hell in a Cell.

513
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,000
That is a good show.

514
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:15,000
I'm going to say Hell in a Cell in Perth, Australia.

515
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:21,000
I mean, hopefully it's better than AEW did in Perth, Australia.

516
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Maybe WWE might be able to get their ring out there.

517
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:25,000
Yeah, that's it.

518
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Maybe WWE will be able to get a full size ring.

519
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,000
Hell in a Cell is no longer a paper view.

520
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,000
Finished in 2023.

521
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:36,000
It was rebranded as King and Queen of the Ring.

522
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000
That might be the way they go with it then.

523
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,000
That was changed to Knight of Champions.

524
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,000
Jesus Christ, that was...

525
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:51,000
There'll be a paper view at some point in Perth, Australia that has NXT one night on a takeover.

526
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:57,000
And then a big paper view on the Saturday.

527
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:09,000
Basically, WWE are going to pay a shitload of money to fire a bunch of people that already make a shitload of money over to Perth, Australia for a weekend of wrestling in the Netherlands.

528
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,000
Making a shitload of money and getting drunk.

529
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,000
Yeah, pretty much.

530
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000
For our privilege on TV.

531
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:20,000
So we go from...

532
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,000
WWE's announcement.

533
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,000
Well, more of DKO's announcement.

534
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:31,000
Was that into the scene of the retirement tour of ET again?

535
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000
Yeah, this bloody ET.

536
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Well, to be fair, we're not the only ones who think that at the moment because, I mean, I don't get me wrong, fucking BT.

537
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:49,000
Every opportunity they get to throw it in that it's seen as retirement tour, they're getting it in.

538
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,000
Did you know that Cena is retiring at it?

539
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,000
What?

540
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,000
You'd think they'd mention it.

541
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,000
Yeah, it's a retirement tour.

542
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,000
At least 62 times in a three hour program.

543
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Yeah.

544
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:10,000
I must have missed that one. I think I missed the fucking memo.

545
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,000
But, yeah.

546
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,000
It's all builder, I suppose.

547
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:25,000
It makes me a little bit sick to my stomach that the other person that feels exactly the same way as us about this fucking BT.

548
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Mr. McIntyre.

549
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,000
Yeah, he just came out and cried.

550
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,000
Yeah, pretty much.

551
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,000
He came out, ragged on Cena.

552
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,000
I said he was going to rag on Cena.

553
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,000
He talked about Cena being a hypocrite.

554
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,000
That bald spot.

555
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,000
Oh, mate, that bald spot that needs its own area code.

556
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,000
Oh, yes.

557
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:57,000
And what Cena from 2010, 2011 and say about present day Cena.

558
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:02,000
But is he wrong with that part? He made a lot of valid points.

559
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:09,000
He did it all to the rock. You're a part timer. You're lazy. You never hear. You don't do this.

560
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,000
What's all the things that Cena's done? Boom.

561
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000
Yeah.

562
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:19,000
And it wasn't even that long ago, which is the even more embarrassing thing.

563
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:25,000
But McIntyre doesn't stay out there on his own for very long.

564
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:33,000
As he when he starts talking about his is his 2024 season, if you like.

565
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:39,000
Damian Priest comes out and decides to tell him to shut his trap.

566
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:45,000
Drew, Drew, it's enough. All you do is cry and miss you right through you.

567
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:52,000
Yeah, the best line that Damian Priest came out with in this entire promo that he cut was, dude,

568
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,000
our truth makes more sense than you.

569
00:59:55,000 --> 01:00:00,000
After Drew tried telling everyone that he just speaks the truth and it's like, you know, fuck off us.

570
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Our truth makes more sense than you do.

571
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,000
And he's in the back with a big bag or something fun that he shouldn't have right now.

572
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:12,000
He's in the back sitting on the car, sitting on the shitter.

573
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,000
He's got too much room temperature sushi.

574
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:29,000
And yeah, Priest does his own recap of Drew's year last year and sort of he comes to the quite a valid conclusion

575
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:36,000
that Drew's just obsessed with CM Punk to the point that he's actually starting to behave like him.

576
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:46,000
It's when it's pointed out to Drew that he sat cross-legged on the announced desk trying to drop a pipe bomb.

577
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:51,000
He actually turns around and goes, I dropped the pipe bomb around here now.

578
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,000
And I'm like, no, you don't. Fuck off.

579
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Yeah, sat on that announced table like 2010 CM Punk just about to run out of SummerSlam with the World title and never return.

580
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Yeah, smart. He came back.

581
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:18,000
He just made the entire promo that he cut that day that pipe bomb completely like null and void because he came back.

582
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:29,000
Well, no, because a lot of what he said, I mean, he started getting basically from interviews that I've seen about that pipe bomb.

583
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:34,000
I'm not going to digress too far into this, but from the interviews I've seen,

584
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:40,000
basically they gave him a microphone and said, just go out and say, what's on your mind?

585
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,000
Right.

586
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:48,000
And then he got to a certain point where he started making personal comments about Vince and the family.

587
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,000
And that was it. That was when they were like, no, fucking cut him off.

588
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,000
Cut him off before he says something we're all going to regret.

589
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:02,000
And one thing you don't do is get Phil Brooks and microphone and say, here, go have.

590
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:09,000
Yeah, pretty much. I mean, but yeah, we're going to digress away from the digression.

591
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:24,000
So Damien and Damien and Drew are basically about to get into it when they are interrupted by the human pillow himself.

592
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:27,000
Seth freaking Rollins.

593
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:34,000
Honest to God, does anybody seriously tell him what he looks like when he walk when he walking around in these fucking outfits?

594
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,000
Have we missed punk bit coming in?

595
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:43,000
No, because punk doesn't come in until after Rollins has already been in.

596
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:52,000
Right. Yeah. So Rollins comes in and like I've got in my notes here that Seth Rollins is dressed like Jasmine from Aladdin.

597
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:58,000
And he was just fucking stupid.

598
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:06,000
He basically comes in, he calls everybody in the he calls priest or moron and he calls Drew a moron.

599
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:10,000
And then they basically tells them all that they haven't got a chance.

600
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:20,000
However, there's one thing that has nothing to do with Seth Rollins that I noticed in this part at this particular part that made me laugh more than I probably should have done.

601
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:31,000
Is that if you watch this part of the promo back, there is a guy in the crowd holding a sign that says Drew McIncrier wipes his arse side to side.

602
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Quoted on this sign and I'm sorry, one of the best signs I've seen in a very long time in the crowd is the one that says Drew McIncrier wipes his arse from side to side.

603
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:58,000
That is ruthless. You've got to love the WWE Universe, his ability to come out with some of these signs.

604
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:03,000
Oh, 100%. But now this is when CM Punk comes out.

605
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Yes, a punk.

606
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,000
From the personality himself.

607
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:16,000
Yeah. I've got so many notes about this specific section, but it just doesn't feel like any of them make any sense.

608
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,000
Now I'm looking at them again.

609
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:24,000
And I know punk tells Rollins that he looks like an oven mitt.

610
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Yeah, which I thought was fucking quality.

611
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Especially considering I've seen a meme online that shows Tess Rollins in that outfit and then an oven mitt that looks exactly like that outfit.

612
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,000
It looks exactly like that outfit.

613
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:45,000
It's pretty sure I've got one in the kitchen that looks exactly like that outfit, just a different colour.

614
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,000
Yeah.

615
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:56,000
And then, yeah, punk basically agrees with something that priest said in fairness, he does turn to priest at one point and just says,

616
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:59,000
I'm sorry, I don't have an issue with you.

617
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Did you notice at this point, though, that you've got Drew on the announce table, you've got Rollins and priest in the ring.

618
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:16,000
The only person who doesn't actually set foot in that ring up to now is punk.

619
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:19,000
He spends his entire time on the outside.

620
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000
Yeah.

621
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:30,000
And I kind of thought this was quite an interesting moment, he makes himself out to be the outsider and now he's really trying to sort of like push that at the moment about,

622
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:36,000
you know, he doesn't really need anyone and then he stands away from everyone else.

623
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,000
And then while the other three were kind of doing their thing.

624
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:46,000
And then the one, I'm not going to lie to you, they got me with this next bit, like they got me hooked.

625
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,000
So before we go any further,

626
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:53,000
we have to make sure that we mention this part because it's integral to what happens next.

627
01:05:53,000 --> 01:06:05,000
So punk echoes a sentiment that we knew have spoken about a lot on and off the podcast is that Cena is on this retirement tour that he's not really on.

628
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,000
Yes.

629
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:11,000
This is the point where, yes, this even got me.

630
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:16,000
I knew it was going to, I'd seen a spoiler online because I hadn't watched it live.

631
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:20,000
I watched it read, I watched it re-edited afterwards as I always do.

632
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:24,000
It's a case that I'd seen a spoiler online that this was going to happen.

633
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:30,000
So I knew it was going to happen and it still caught me off guard because the next thing we hear is seen as music hit.

634
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:31,000
Right.

635
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,000
And let me say it caught me hook, line and sinker.

636
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:44,000
I was generally waiting for the man that you cannot see to come running out with a microphone in his hand instead.

637
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:53,000
We've got the knobhead known as Logan Paul come out with a microphone in his hand, laughing his ass off at the fact that he just managed to troll.

638
01:06:53,000 --> 01:07:00,000
I mean, in fairness, the guy punked not just all of Toronto, but pretty much 90 percent.

639
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,000
I'm going to take a guess at 90 percent of the view.

640
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,000
Yeah.

641
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,000
He's got us all, bro.

642
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:13,000
Like, I don't know about you, but every time I hear seen as entry music when it comes to a match or something on those lines, I always get goosebumps.

643
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:16,000
It's just one of those, you know, you're going to get something half decent, right?

644
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:24,000
And we've watched the guy our entire lives when he's been in ring and competing.

645
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:29,000
Like, I always get a little bit of goosebumps and it got me and I was like, yes.

646
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:33,000
And then I heard Logan Paul's voice and I was like, son of a bitch.

647
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,000
Like, you could have literally done anything to me right now.

648
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,000
You could have reminded me of the game.

649
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:45,000
And I'd have been less pissed off than what I would have been.

650
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:50,000
Then what I was sorry when I heard Logan Paul's voice.

651
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,000
I can hate you.

652
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:56,000
You're a dick.

653
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,000
Right, I'm going to crack on because I'm in the fuck.

654
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,000
Yeah, no.

655
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,000
Fuck you.

656
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,000
Fuck you, your big nose prick.

657
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,000
Right.

658
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:21,000
Yeah, Logan Paul basically comes out and pushes this agenda that he is now a full time wrestler and even has the gall.

659
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:31,000
And I'm sorry, while I will stand up for the fact, stand up to the fact that we have said that Cena is more part time than part time at the moment.

660
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:38,000
It still hit a little bit different when Logan Paul decides to call him a celeb wrestler.

661
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:44,000
I mean, John Cena is currently doing the hours that a part time waitress on Sick Pay does.

662
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,000
So, you know, like there isn't a lot of time there for him.

663
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:54,000
Like you said, for him to refer to Cena as a celebrity wrestler is a bitch move.

664
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:55,000
Yeah.

665
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,000
Consider it a little bitch.

666
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:02,000
And I mean, Logan Paul just comes out and basically rags on everybody.

667
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:08,000
He takes this pop at the Toronto Maple, the Toronto Maple leaves.

668
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,000
I mean, that's a valid point.

669
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,000
He mentioned somebody else.

670
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:18,000
I don't really remember who it was, but he takes a, I'm guessing it's a local sports hero of some kind.

671
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,000
It was Austin, someone.

672
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:23,000
Something like that.

673
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:34,000
And yeah, Logan Paul basically takes a pop at each and every single person in the ring calls through Damien Priest irrelevant.

674
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:48,000
Which, yeah, I have a tough time sort of, I have a tough time being able to rebuke that because he's not the most relevant person in the ring.

675
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:55,000
He's the guy with the fewest lines and that was when Logan Paul came out last.

676
01:09:55,000 --> 01:10:10,000
And yeah, basically Logan Paul takes a run at everybody leaves punk for last and Pete keeps poking and poking and poking until punk basically makes a play for him.

677
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:14,000
And Logan Paul runs off like the bitch ass he is.

678
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:24,000
The only thing that I could think of while watching Logan Paul turn tail and run like a coward is he hasn't got anywhere to run in 24 hours.

679
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,000
No, he doesn't.

680
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:33,000
He's going to be sealed in a chamber waiting to come out because I severely doubt he's going to be the first one.

681
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:36,000
He's going to be one of the initial two in the ring.

682
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:47,000
No, but I think the way they're building this Logan Paul CM punk thing, I think that's going to be punk's WrestleMania match this year is Logan Paul.

683
01:10:47,000 --> 01:11:04,000
I know he's going into the elimination chamber in 24 hours time, but there's an elimination that elimination chamber matches got a lot of big names in it and they can't all go on to main event WrestleMania.

684
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:10,000
So I think you know that Logan Paul isn't walking out of that elimination chamber with his hand raised.

685
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:22,000
No, that's a that's a given. I'm still putting money on the fact I had a little bit of a wobble when we spoke about it and when we were doing finishes and factions does Monday night raw just gone.

686
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:27,000
That were where I said, I think it could actually be punk's year.

687
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,000
I'm going to be honest.

688
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:40,000
I still think there's a possibility, but my main if if I had to split a bet and bet money on it, it's seen a walking out of that with his hand raised 100%.

689
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:42,000
Yeah, there's no other way around it.

690
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,000
No, I can't see them doing any other way around it.

691
01:11:45,000 --> 01:12:03,000
But no, so we then end up going from that dispersing in ring into a VT for the six women tag match that we have later on in the evening.

692
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:26,000
At this point, I hadn't made a note of who it was within that match later on found out it was Roxanne Perez with Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez versus Bailey Naomi and Bianca Belair, which we get into a little bit later on in the episode.

693
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:49,000
Yeah, so the VT prep, the this six woman tag match is born of something that happened on the Elimination Chamber kickoff show that happened earlier in the day where Michael Cole was interviewing Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, our new women's tag team champions about the Jade Cargill attack.

694
01:12:49,000 --> 01:13:01,000
Yeah, there's still one. It was not there. And yeah, everyone wants to know who attacked Jade Cargill. And we got a little bit more information about it this week was I didn't actually know what happened to her.

695
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:04,000
But this week we find out she was hit by a car.

696
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:12,000
Well, she was done. Something was done to her which left her going through the windscreen of a vehicle bum first.

697
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez have been very careful about how they were their responses went asked about it. Yeah, the only time they've ever expressly said that they didn't do it was Monday night just gone during a judgment day Clubhouse promo where they did say, yeah, no, it wasn't it wasn't us.

698
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:47,000
But every other time they're asked, it's they don't say no, it wasn't us. It's a is it would we be sorry if we had done it? Not really. No, we wouldn't. No, that very much skirt around the question.

699
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:54,000
They are dropping hints that it could have been them. I still think your theory on Naomi is pretty pretty tight on that one.

700
01:13:54,000 --> 01:14:00,000
It's just it makes so much sense. No, they had the most amount to gain.

701
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:11,000
Now they've lost the titles as well. You know, the Monday night raw before elimination chamber, we're going to see a bomb drop in the women's elimination chamber much tomorrow.

702
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:12,000
I think.

703
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:16,000
Well, we end up with those two in the ring together.

704
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:25,000
I've seen something online that says that since Smackdown went out, I've seen that Jade Cargill is cleared for in ring competition.

705
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,000
I've seen that back imminently.

706
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:28,000
I've seen that as well.

707
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:33,000
Yeah. So so it's it's going to happen. I can feel it.

708
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:44,000
And if they won't tell us or don't tell us before Jade Cargill comes back from her injuries, Jade Cargill will tell us when she comes back.

709
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Oh, 100%.

710
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,000
And that's when brown stuff is going to hit the fun.

711
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:55,000
I am waiting for the word Naomi to pass her lips as it went asked, who was it who attacked you?

712
01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:05,000
If she says the word Naomi, you are going to be partying in your front room like a 13 year old because you'll be like, I called it, I called it, I called it.

713
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,000
I don't think I can masturbate that furiously.

714
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,000
I ran out of breath 30 seconds in.

715
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,000
Two sex lofty device.

716
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:32,000
Anyway, we went from that VT into match four, which was another men's singles match for the US title number one contenders triple threat, which saw a night versus Santos Escobar.

717
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:41,000
Yeah, this one didn't really this is going to sound really strange considering this is an LA night match and I really enjoy watching it.

718
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:58,000
I wasn't that interested in this one. I knew as soon as they announced LA night versus Santos Escobar, this had squash match slash just not really relevant written all over it.

719
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:03,000
One of those that you'll remember it like 12 hours later when you're recording a podcast episode looking at notes.

720
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:08,000
But once you've been to bed and come back to it, you're not remembering it.

721
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:16,000
So I actually thought this was one of the bed like out of the three qualifiers.

722
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,000
Actually think this was the better match.

723
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:29,000
In terms of because obviously we haven't yet discussed Carmelo Hayes versus Braun Strowman.

724
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:30,000
We haven't.

725
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:47,000
We'll discount that one for the moment. We have already broken down Jacob Fatou versus Andrade, which we kind of knew was going to be a bit of a beat down as soon as we realized that Jacob Fatou was replacing Sirlec Coa.

726
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:51,000
So as soon as that announcement was made, we knew where that was going.

727
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,000
We knew that Fatou was going to win.

728
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,000
Are you expected that one to be the squash match?

729
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,000
Yeah, that was a better match to be fair.

730
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,000
As we discussed, Andrade was ahead for a majority of that match.

731
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:11,000
He held the control and then Fatou just got something in really well timed.

732
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:17,000
An intense beat down in the throat ensued and he managed to pull out the win.

733
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:22,000
Other than that, he was on the back foot for majority of that match.

734
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:23,000
He was, yeah.

735
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:29,000
So that one was the most surprising result based on what happened within the match on paper.

736
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,000
We knew Jacob Fatou was walking out winner.

737
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:39,000
Like we do with this one to be fair, because like we said earlier, LA Knight is already the number one contender.

738
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:44,000
They're just beefing out his runner's number one contender with these matches, I think.

739
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:53,000
Santos Escobar has been more of the tag team title, so he's not really got a horse in this race, so why would they put him through?

740
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:58,000
No, but having said that, he didn't put up a bad match.

741
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,000
No, he had a decent match to be fair. He did have a decent match.

742
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:08,000
He pulled off a massive super, super horror conrana from the top rope on LA Knight at one stage.

743
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,000
Yeah, that looked like it hurt.

744
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Oh, yeah, it definitely was. That was probably one of the only highlights of that match, though, for high-risk maneuvers that I made a note of.

745
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:27,000
There may have been more in there. I lost a bit of interest in this match.

746
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:33,000
So the only other note that I made was...

747
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:41,000
So I made a couple of other notes here. So Knight tries to send Escobar into the ring steps, but it was reversed.

748
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:46,000
LA Knight ends up colliding with the steps himself, but head first.

749
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:50,000
I also made a note of the finish, how it finished.

750
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:55,000
So Escobar goes up top for the crossbody.

751
01:18:55,000 --> 01:19:00,000
He's caught by LA Knight in a Blood Force Trauma BFT.

752
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:03,000
In midair. Yeah.

753
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:09,000
It looked a little bit like... When he did it, I'm not going to lie, it looked a little bit RKO-ish, but...

754
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:13,000
It worked. It did. It did what it was supposed to.

755
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:20,000
But we know ultimately LA Knight advances to be the second person in the triple threat in the main event.

756
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:33,000
Yep, and we went from that match into a VT about the Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, and sanctioned match tomorrow night at Elimination Chamber.

757
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,000
And then...

758
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:41,000
Which went into an in-ring promo with Sami Zayn coming out to address...

759
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:44,000
Well, he came out to address Kevin Owens.

760
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:50,000
Yeah, he did, and he basically just kind of said to him that, you know, they've been through a lot together over the years,

761
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:54,000
but Kevin's been running and hiding like a little bitch.

762
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:59,000
And he knows that Kevin's in Toronto because they've got that match at Elimination Chamber tomorrow night,

763
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:01,000
and he told him that he'd be there.

764
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:07,000
And he was basically just saying, look, if there's anything you want to say before our match tomorrow, come to the ring, just say it.

765
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:15,000
You know, let's get it all off our chest because after our match tomorrow night, there's not going to be much left to say.

766
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:22,000
And in fairness, to Kevin Owens, he did come to a ring.

767
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,000
He did.

768
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:26,000
He just won the ring in the Scotiabank arena.

769
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:37,000
No, Kevin Owens, when he came into the camera on the on the Taitron, was actually stood in the ring in the Rogers Centre, Toronto,

770
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:41,000
which is where they are holding tomorrow night's Elimination Chamber match.

771
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:49,000
And he basically just said that he'd gone there to get his head straight and kind of prepare himself and kind of,

772
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:58,000
yeah, kind of get himself into the zone for his his unsanctioned match with Sammy the next night.

773
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:07,000
The one particularly chilling bit of what Kevin Owens said that I did take a note of was basically Kevin saying that he's going to take pleasure in watching.

774
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:15,000
Not he's not going to take, he's well, he is going to end up taking pleasure in what he does to Sammy's in in their own sanction match tomorrow.

775
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:29,000
But it's a case that he's more so thinking of taking more pleasure out of watching Sammy Zane's family struggle when he ends Sammy Zane's career and he will do nothing to help them.

776
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:34,000
Bearing in mind that these guys have been close friends for 20 odd years.

777
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:35,000
Yeah.

778
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:36,000
Yeah.

779
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:44,000
I mean, so to be able to say something like that, I think it shows the level that this is sort of some kind of,

780
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:52,000
some to and despite what Kevin Owens says himself, this is all of Kevin Owens's own doing.

781
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:53,000
Yes.

782
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:58,000
And we've put these two guys have pulled out some incredible promos for this match, but I'm not going to lie to you.

783
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,000
I just want to watch them fight.

784
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:08,000
Yeah, we're less than 24 hours removed from when they're due from when they're due to tee off against one another at the Rogers Center.

785
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:17,000
This promo fell touch flat just because we're of where we were and how we were getting.

786
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:26,000
I mean, I don't see them continuing to be friends, despite no matter what happens in that unsanctioned match at Elimination Chamber,

787
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:31,000
realistically, that friendship is done.

788
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:32,000
Definitely.

789
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:37,000
I will say that whatever does happen in that unsanctioned match,

790
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:40,000
I don't think this is the end of the storyline.

791
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:47,000
I think this is going to continue through to Mania and one of the matches at Mania will be Kevin Owens and Sammy's own.

792
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,000
Yeah, it's not going to.

793
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:53,000
It's not going to be the last we hear of it by any by any way shape or form.

794
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:58,000
No, they'll take a week or two out to try and show like, you know, they're really, really hurting that much.

795
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:05,000
And then they'll come back in two, three weeks and they'll be like, oh, yeah, no, no injuries.

796
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,000
Yeah, this is it.

797
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:20,000
So we went from there to a backstage promo, which sees one of our favorite people, the Miz and Carmelo Hayes.

798
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:29,000
And basically the Miz giving Hayes a bit of a pep talk before his match, which is coming up next, realistically.

799
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:34,000
But the one thing that I sort of didn't expect to see,

800
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:42,000
was Carmelo Hayes has really started embracing the the reality of Melo don't Miz.

801
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:48,000
I think he's got a win under his belt with Miz now and it's it's the Miz is trying bless him.

802
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,000
And I think he's just kind of rubbing off.

803
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:56,000
But what I what I found interesting is you've got the Melo don't Miz and then it's not just a lifestyle.

804
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,000
It's awesome.

805
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:02,000
Which was like, oh, dear God, they've even got a catch phrase to go with it now.

806
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:06,000
So you know, these guys are getting pushed into a tight.

807
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:09,000
It was such a cringy fucking.

808
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,000
Yeah, it was.

809
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:17,000
But you know, these guys are going to get pushed because it'll get over with some of the crowd because of our cringy ears.

810
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:19,000
Yes, I know.

811
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:21,000
And yeah, it's to be expected.

812
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:29,000
But, um, but yeah, it's it's going to be one of those.

813
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:35,000
But yeah, Hayes basically says, look, I don't need you at ringside.

814
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:40,000
Don't need you the Miz at ringside to be able to do anything else.

815
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:41,000
It's literally a case.

816
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,000
Let me take care of it myself.

817
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:49,000
And then he fucks off to go and go and take part in his match, basically.

818
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:57,000
And then goes from there.

819
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:03,000
So Carmelo Hayes leaves Cody Rhodes, Cody Rhodes comes into shot.

820
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:16,000
And the big takeaway I got is Miz saying, trying to convince him to take rocks, rocks offer before somebody else does.

821
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:19,000
And it was that last bit that got me.

822
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:27,000
Who else could rock in theory, get his claws into to fuck with Cody?

823
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:31,000
That's not Roman or punk.

824
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,000
Yeah, this is it.

825
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,000
It's it's one of those.

826
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:37,000
We're not.

827
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,000
Yeah.

828
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,000
It's just a really odd thing to say.

829
01:25:41,000 --> 01:26:00,000
It is, but we know what WWE are like, and we will probably find out either later on today, elimination chamber or at some point in the next week, sort of what Miz meant by that specific comment.

830
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:04,000
Yeah, I think they don't drop things like that in for no reason.

831
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:12,000
They love they love a line that will be a gimmick or a head start for something.

832
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:16,000
There's too much of a throwaway for it not to be.

833
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:17,000
Yeah, this is it.

834
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:26,000
So we go from there to in ring where we see the last of the number one contenders.

835
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:36,000
First round matches, which is Braun Strowman versus Carmelo Hayes. And honestly, I don't think.

836
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:42,000
I think, despite what happens in the match, I think we all sort of saw where this one was going to end up going.

837
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,000
Yeah.

838
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:51,000
Carmelo Hayes was completely outclassed completely outmatched in every aspect.

839
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:57,000
Yeah. I mean, if you just look, it takes like three Carmelo Hayes just to make Braun Strowman's leg.

840
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:02,000
So it was a bit of an interesting matchup to say the least.

841
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:18,000
But it had me on grip of hooks to see where it was going, even though I was adamant from the start that Braun Strowman was winning this and winning it pretty comfortably.

842
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:24,000
I am. But as we got through the match and we like, I didn't get a huge amount of notes for this one.

843
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,000
I'm not going to lie.

844
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:29,000
Not for any sort of major spots, so to speak.

845
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:31,000
So I'm not sure what you picked up, Adam.

846
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:38,000
So there wasn't really anything to pick up on it in when it comes to this.

847
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:53,000
Because basically Carmelo Hayes spent about three, four minutes of being ragdolled by Braun Strowman,

848
01:27:53,000 --> 01:28:01,000
at which point we see Tamatonga run down from the back to jump onto the apron to distract the ref.

849
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Well, we've got Solo Sakao coming out of the crowd with a chair to basically try and do one over on Braun Strowman.

850
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:15,000
But again, Braun Strowman is one big SOB.

851
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:20,000
It's going to take more than a punky chair shot to take the man down.

852
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:24,000
Yes, definitely.

853
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:31,000
I couldn't remember where the chair had come from, but I didn't see Solo bring it in.

854
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:39,000
I saw Tamatonga run down, so I must have been looking at the keyboard typing when Solo brought that chair round throughout the crowd.

855
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:43,000
Yeah, I saw him armed.

856
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:49,000
He was revealed to us as armed with that chair.

857
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:55,000
So it's a case that the only thing I didn't pick up on is what happens next.

858
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,000
So I don't remember how the chair ended up in the ring.

859
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:07,000
I'm guessing it got taken into the ring by Braun Strowman from the outside.

860
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:20,000
In which case, how did it end up in Carmelo Hayes' possession?

861
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,000
If Strowman slid it under the bottom rope as he got into the ring, if Hayes has picked it up or he's over slid it too far,

862
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:28,000
and Hayes has got his hands on it, what Hayes does with it though is pure naughty.

863
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:35,000
And it was nice to see another tribute to the late great Eddie Guerrero.

864
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:38,000
It's a tribute to the old man who wasn't done by Dom Mysterio.

865
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:44,000
Pretty much. They're getting a little bit boring now because Dom does them week in and week out when he stands on the ring.

866
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,000
He shakes his butt.

867
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:54,000
But to see the old fake you with the chair, bash it into the mat and toss it at your opponent and then flip yourself onto your ass going,

868
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,000
oh yeah, be with a fucking chair.

869
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:02,000
For Braun Strowman to be stood there like a twat with his dick in his hand holding a chair too.

870
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:07,000
Yeah, it's been a very long time since we've seen it done well.

871
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:21,000
So the fact that we got to see it on this occasion, as I said, done well, it's a case that, yeah, it was just nice to be able to see it come out of,

872
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:24,000
almost come out of retirement I suppose.

873
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,000
Yeah, pretty well.

874
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:32,000
So if you can do it, well do it. If you can't do it well, leave it the fuck alone.

875
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:39,000
Yeah, it's got to be done. It's got to be done in the right way. And that was just, yeah, choreograph.

876
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:50,000
Yeah, so obviously we end up in a disqualification ending to this one because the ref believes that Strowman has smashed Carmelo Hayes with a chair.

877
01:30:50,000 --> 01:31:06,000
So he disqualifies Braun Strowman, which sends Carmelo Hayes into the triple threat main event with Jacob Fatou and LA Knight to find out who is going to be the number one contender for the United States title.

878
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:18,000
But before we get into that big bundle of fun, we have a backstage VT with Naomi and Bianca Belair talking to Bailey

879
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:26,000
about the former Tag Champs wanting to get their hands on Liv Morgan for attacking Jade Cargo.

880
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:38,000
Still, I mean, we've seen it from one side, we're seeing it from the other. It happens with every sort of VT, I suppose, but just, yeah, just revealed to us who beat up Jade Cargo.

881
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:46,000
And to be fair, it's not been that long since we spoke about Jade Cargo anyway. I think it was about 20 minutes since we previously heard about Jade Cargo.

882
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:55,000
Yeah, it's one of those that they are. Have they hit the point now of overhyping it? Is that where we've is that the sort of?

883
01:31:55,000 --> 01:32:11,000
I'll tell you something. If Jade Cargo doesn't come back reveal who could like beat her up and kick some serious motherfucking ass in her return, and then the hype is not being worth it.

884
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:22,000
Yeah, this is it. I mean, like some booty needs to be battered for the for the beating that she took.

885
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:33,000
Yeah, this is it. So, yeah, we, I'll be honest, I don't feel like that that little backstage promo was really necessary.

886
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,000
No.

887
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:51,000
Didn't add anything as such. It's just, yeah, wasn't wasn't enamored by this. It wasn't something that I felt we could have quite easily given some more minutes to another match and cut that promo out completely.

888
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:58,000
Yeah. I'm not going to lie to you. I felt very similar about the next match.

889
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:11,000
I'm really not going to lie to you on paper. The next match was phenomenal. Adam, did I miss anything? Or did we go from that VT into the next match?

890
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:22,000
No, we went from that VT into the next match, which was the six woman tag team match, which saw Liv Morgan, Roxanne Perez and Rocquel Rodriguez versus Bailey Bianca Berleau and Naomi.

891
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:32,000
And yeah, I mean, for what could have been an absolutely phenomenal match, it just felt a bit lacklustre.

892
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:51,000
What I'm going to say is this entire episode to this point feels like it has gone from being phenomenal at the start. You know, we get like a great start to the episode and everything from there has kind of gone downhill.

893
01:33:51,000 --> 01:34:10,000
I kind of feel like it needs to have been reversed. So we got the naff at the start. And then when you get to the end, you get the, you know, your big match, your main event, the most interesting one of the night, which so far for me was that opening match.

894
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:25,000
Yeah, I'm in very much the same boat. I mean, don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the bit at the end of this match. I mean, there wasn't a lot that I took notes on. I did take note on the finish.

895
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:46,000
So Perez hits pop rocks on Bailey for the three count. But other than that, it was all I got for most of it was that the match was basically a brawl for 50% of it. And the other 50% of it just wasn't worth talking about.

896
01:34:46,000 --> 01:35:01,000
I put it down that the match was it was if the match was 10 minutes long. It was an opportunity for six superstars all to get their shit in.

897
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:02,000
Yeah.

898
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:09,000
Which in fairness, they did all of them got a chance to play dominant superstar.

899
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:11,000
They did.

900
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:34,000
But just wasn't it wasn't worth giving that time for what we got. The only bit of this match, as I said that I enjoyed after Perez gets the pin on Bailey and Perez Morgan and Rodriguez are in the ring celebrating winner.

901
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:45,000
It's just Perez is celebrating when one of my favorite superstars sneaks into the ring behind it.

902
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:46,000
Adam.

903
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:47,000
Yeah.

904
01:35:47,000 --> 01:36:05,000
And I have to press button before I say this next superstar or otherwise otherwise the other thing listens.

905
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:31,000
No, we have Alexa Bliss join us in ring. She seemingly comes out of nowhere and and plants Perez. I mean, plants Perez with commentary commentary describers in Abigail DET just looks very similar to a sister Abigail that the like great Bray Wyatt used to use.

906
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:36,000
I understand that they don't call it that anymore for that reason.

907
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:52,000
But now you mentioned the name Wyatt. That brings us nicely into the end of this segment where after Alexa Bliss has hit that Abigail DDT on Roxanne Perez we get a Wyatt six glitch.

908
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:57,000
And we've not had one of those for a little while.

909
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:02,000
So it's definitely been a couple of weeks since we last have one of those.

910
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:14,000
And because the last time Alexa, Alexa Bliss managed to make an appearance on on Smackdown we saw her in a backstage promo.

911
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:15,000
Yes.

912
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:25,000
And we saw one of these little these little glitches then. But previous to that we haven't seen it probably since the Wyatt six were active.

913
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:38,000
So which was before we started this podcast. So we won't actually have any episodes on the Wyatt six yet. This is their first major mention on finishes and factions.

914
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:49,000
Yeah, we've talked about Wyatt's and things like that. We've certainly mentioned them at the very least, but never really had anything to to break down for them.

915
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:54,000
And maybe this means that we're they're going to be making a return shortly.

916
01:37:54,000 --> 01:38:08,000
Talking of people that have made a return recently, we go to a backstage segment with Byron Saxton and the Queen Charlotte Flair.

917
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:32,000
Talking about sort of the strat a strat and team at elimination chamber, obviously we've got Trish and Tiffy have got their match against Nia and Candice Larray, which we'll talk about more in the elimination chamber match episodes when they go live a little bit later on.

918
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:54,000
It's basically just Charlotte saying that no matter what happens in that match, her eyes are firmly focused on Tiffy Stratton and her match at WrestleMania and, you know, in that match at WrestleMania, there's going to be absolutely no help for Tiffy and what's coming from Charlotte,

919
01:38:54,000 --> 01:39:05,000
which we can only guess was it was written into a contract that she could win the title at WrestleMania and then she can drop it again six months later and leave and come back next year and do the whole thing over again.

920
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:18,000
I'm going to be honest. I know I say again and again, I'm just bored with Charlotte Flair already. Right. She's been back since the Royal Rumble and I'm bored already.

921
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:30,000
I mean, I was bored anyway. Yeah. I was like, I wasn't mad that she wasn't around. Let's put it that way. I was quite enjoying it. Yeah, I definitely didn't miss her.

922
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:39,000
I don't think the women's division need her. That is the problem. They're so much stronger without her than they are with her.

923
01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:58,000
Yeah, this is it. It's not. We're not looking at. It's not someone like Natalia that's going to bring something to the division to amplify it, even if it's just putting over a couple of the less experienced people in the division.

924
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:06,000
Charlotte, don't do that. If it don't benefit Charlotte Flair, Charlotte Flair don't fucking care. That was a mouthful.

925
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:19,000
No, this is it. Charlotte Flair is very much out for herself in every way, shape or form. She's not there to further the business or anything like that.

926
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:26,000
She feels like the business Oza, which don't really just don't think it does. You're not your dad, Charlotte.

927
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:40,000
I was going to say it owes her dad a massive amount. But yeah, she is not her dad. The business will never be able to repay the debt to Ric Flair that he has racked up in my opinion.

928
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:47,000
Charlotte Flair, yeah. She's not collecting that debt. No, definitely not.

929
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:56,000
And thankfully, this segment didn't last too long. I think if it had lasted much longer, I'd have been asking Kurt Cobain where the shotgun was.

930
01:40:56,000 --> 01:41:06,000
It was getting quite painful with Charlotte. So we go on from there, if I am correct, into our main event of the evening?

931
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:24,000
So there was a there was a in fairness again, in light of what happens or what has happened potentially, this next VT is completely irrelevant now.

932
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:41,000
Because it's a VT promo for the at the time that this goes out, the current US champion Shinsuke Nakamura, basically giving a reaction to this number one contenders tournament and how he plans to humiliate his next challenger.

933
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:47,000
Now, as I said, if the rumors are to be believed.

934
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:55,000
That title is now being vacated. So we.

935
01:41:55,000 --> 01:42:08,000
Yeah, that promo was completely pointless, but I suppose at the time of airing, it was still a thing. He hadn't stuck down as as of yet again, if that rumor is true.

936
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:22,000
Yeah, and it's a case that I mean, again, I said this on, I think it was Monday night, last Monday night raw.

937
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:28,000
It's a case that.

938
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:39,000
I'm just looking to see if there's anything online about the fact that anything online about Shinsuke Nakamura vacating his title, but he's vacated titles before but nothing's been confirmed.

939
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:43,000
So I'm not sure how, how true that one is.

940
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:47,000
But yeah, Shinsuke Nakamura.

941
01:42:47,000 --> 01:43:02,000
I've said before it's not a like it's it's never great when you have a promo, a VT promo or any promo that requires subtitles.

942
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:04,000
No.

943
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:19,000
It's I mean, I was what I ended up watching this in between doing other things and the fact that I had to I had to sit and concentrate on it to read the sod in subtitles really just sort of took me out of it and just feel like this.

944
01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:27,000
It was a pointless promo realistically even with the subtitles it made no sense. So yeah.

945
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,000
Yeah, I mean, that's fair enough.

946
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:44,000
But yeah, now we go into the main event match, which was the men's triple threat matched for the number one contendership for the US title, which sees Jacob far to versus Carmelo Hayes versus La night.

947
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:49,000
All three men have already wrestled one Matt well.

948
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:59,000
Well, we'll use wrestled in the loosest sense of the term, especially for Carmelo Hayes who got thrown around a little bit and then one.

949
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:04,000
I think I think Bonnie blue wrestled more of her opponents than she did.

950
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:07,000
Then Carmelo Hayes did with Braun Strowman.

951
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:21,000
Yeah, we did get a quick for you to just while the entrances were going on with Triple H saying that Travis Scott would be at the arena in Toronto for elimination chamber tomorrow evening.

952
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:23,000
Yes.

953
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:31,000
And then I did notice this as he walked out dudes wearing a suit with Jordan's.

954
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:38,000
Like those shoes as he walked out the door at the end of it. That man is in full on trainers.

955
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:40,000
Fair play.

956
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:56,000
And then we had a little bit of a backstage thing between solo Jacob and Tamatonga saying that, you know, Jacob Fatou needs to go out there now and he needs to finish the job.

957
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:58,000
They've helped him get into the triple threat.

958
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:01,000
It's it's him for time for him to do this thing.

959
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:02,000
Okay. The biggest threat.

960
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:04,000
Yeah, pretty much they took up Braun Strowman.

961
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:07,000
So it was a little bit easier for him to get through.

962
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:22,000
And then obviously in his normal fashion, Jacob Fatou cuts a promo on his way out to gorilla, basically saying to Nakamura how he's going to come after him beat him down and take that take his title.

963
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:37,000
And then his music basically his everyone's favorite line at the moment hit my music as he goes through gorilla and then straight out to his music and down to the ring for his entrance.

964
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:38,000
Yeah.

965
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:42,000
And Fatou.

966
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:52,000
Do you know what the match itself wasn't that bad? There was a little bit of fatigue setting in, I think, which I don't think anybody was going to be able to begrudge.

967
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:59,000
Not considering they've all been in the ring previously. Yes, Carmelo Hayes didn't do much apart from.

968
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:00,000
Absorb damage.

969
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:01,000
Yeah.

970
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:08,000
But they've all been out there and I can imagine Braun Strowman beating on you is not an easy thing to anticipate.

971
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:13,000
So yeah, I can understand why he was no wincing a little bit. No, this is it.

972
01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:18,000
I mean, it's not as bad as the wincy had when he stuck a headbutt on Jacob Fatou.

973
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:25,000
Has anyone not learned in the WWE now you do not headbutt a Samoan?

974
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:27,000
Apparently not.

975
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:40,000
I thought they'd know, but yet like Carmelo Hayes decides to throw a headbutt at Jacob Fatou of all people. Why would you want to get close enough to headbite?

976
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:48,000
Yeah, this is it. And yeah, there's a few other bits of a few of the great I made a note of great bits in this match.

977
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:52,000
That was just the first one that came to mind that fitted.

978
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:58,000
So there was a point where Fatou was basically stacking Hayes and Knight against Time Keep.

979
01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:03,000
Has that cost himself over the barrier because they both fucked off in the opposite direction?

980
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:21,000
Yes, it was. Both Knight and Hayes dodged the last possible second and you just see Fatou fly over the barrier and it just, yeah, it was just a colossal failure.

981
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:27,000
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Jacob Fatou flying again.

982
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:47,000
Yeah, pretty much. And another point not too long after this, Carmelo Hayes takes advantage of Fatou in a prone position sort of thing and plants Fatou with some kind of springboard DDT, which Fatou just completely no sells.

983
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:52,000
He does that a lot and they just kind of shrugs a lot of these moves off.

984
01:47:52,000 --> 01:48:02,000
He no sells Carmelo Hayes a few times in this match and you just thought like, you're gonna take the piss or are you just trying to oversell yourself?

985
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:15,000
I think giving a superstar like Jacob Fatou the ability to no sell on the regularity that he does is way, way, way too dangerous.

986
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:30,000
Oh yeah. We've got to see that he is vulnerable and don't get me wrong, we're seeing it more now, but still it's just, yeah, there's far too much.

987
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:49,000
But anyway, yeah, it's a case that, I mean, there's so many bits in this match that were that I noted down, but let's see.

988
01:48:49,000 --> 01:49:07,000
Alainite hits a jumping net breaker, which only really earns him a two count. Alainite again hits a springboard cross body on Fatou, which sends Fatou onto the announced desk at one point.

989
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:26,000
Because there was a very real possibility that he could have ended up with a similar injury to one JD McDonough. But yeah, the finish for this match realistically ended up with Fatou really beating down on Carmelo Hayes,

990
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:36,000
getting Carmelo Hayes into a position to pin him, being dragged off Carmelo Hayes by Alainite possibly the last minute.

991
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:41,000
And he's the last one for Knight to run in and pin himself the cheeky prick.

992
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:47,000
Yeah, I mean, we've said before about stealing victories, I think that's about as stolen as you get.

993
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:57,000
Yeah, you couldn't have done a bad job on that one to be fair, he literally just dragged him off him and no, no, no, no, no, not today my good sir, I'll be taking that.

994
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:58,000
Yeah.

995
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,000
Fuck off you.

996
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:14,000
Very much so. And yeah, I mean, that was how that so Alainite secures himself cements himself as the de facto number one contender.

997
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:19,000
Which he was anyway, but they've just used it.

998
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:26,000
Yeah, excuse to try and boost it like boost the storyline, I suppose not knowing what was going to happen.

999
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:38,000
Obviously, they must have known that Shinsuke wasn't going to be there. He was in Japan. So they were just trying to fill some spaces, I guess was that his match was one match that should have been there that wasn't there.

1000
01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:42,000
Yeah, this is it. So.

1001
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:50,000
Yeah, we go from from there to backstage where we see Cody Rhodes and CM punk, sort of hashing it out between the two of them.

1002
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:58,000
No conversation about what punk would have done if he'd been made the offer and he puts his hands up and says, you know what, I'd have taken it.

1003
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:02,000
As a younger man, he says, yeah, I'd have taken that all day long.

1004
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:09,000
As an older man, now I'm older. Now I'm older and wiser. I would rather see you take it.

1005
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:10,000
Shine it up.

1006
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:20,000
Oh, real nice. Turn it sideways and stick it straight up the rocks part time Hollywood candy ass.

1007
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:29,000
And you know what always had that hatred for rock. They were ever since he nicked that WrestleMania spot off in 2012.

1008
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:34,000
Yeah, but to be able to turn one of the rocks phrases on him.

1009
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:35,000
Oh, yeah.

1010
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:41,000
It was just chef's kiss. Absolutely phenomenal.

1011
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:53,000
And the last section of the match that we go to is an in ring promo or an in ring interviewers, at least as it starts between Michael Cole and Cody Rhodes talking about the rocks offer.

1012
01:51:53,000 --> 01:52:03,000
And you know what, for the first time in a very long time, we've seen Michael Cole being journalistically aggressive.

1013
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:09,000
Yes, because he has quite submissive with it and he doesn't really fight too much with what he's saying.

1014
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:14,000
He kind of lets people go over and this time he was very much like, no, this is the question I want to ask.

1015
01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:21,000
And I'm asking it how I want to ask it. You're going to fucking answer it too.

1016
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:43,000
Yeah. And there was no way of no way of him skirting around the issue, apart from the fact that during this promo, a special gift of a Ford F 150 Raptor truck was wheeled into the was wheeled into the arena with Cody Rhodes is branding all over it.

1017
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,000
Very nice.

1018
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:49,000
Oh, 100%. I'd have killed for that thing.

1019
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:59,000
And then, yeah, we went into a VT from the rock in an airport next to his plane.

1020
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:05,000
Kind of telling Cody about, you know, this was a gift for him.

1021
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:15,000
And, you know, as they both like driving on dusty roads, which I thought was a cheeky little comment in there.

1022
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:23,000
Well, I took a boiling everything down in this put in this in this promo.

1023
01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:35,000
It was very much a case that I got the impression that he was doing everything he could to try and almost guilt Cody into making the decision he wanted to make.

1024
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:42,000
It was a very emotionally blackmail heavy version of getting this done.

1025
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:48,000
Yeah, it just it stretched a bit far for me personally.

1026
01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:52,000
One thing that I did.

1027
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:54,000
I didn't know what to make.

1028
01:53:54,000 --> 01:54:04,000
Like what to make of it in the long run was the bit with the belt that rocks had made saying Cody soul with the the date of Dusty Rhodes is deaf on it.

1029
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:14,000
I was a little bit like I'm not sure that was needed like that was quite a big heel move for something.

1030
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:28,000
Well, you know, they're not for someone who's not remotely direct, like directly involved in in the lead up to WrestleMania and then Cody's match at the moment.

1031
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:41,000
That was quite a big thing to try and do that's something to expect from a guy who who knows he's got a match against Cody at WrestleMania and he's just winding them up and trying to piss him off before they get in the in the ring and in Las Vegas.

1032
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:47,000
Yeah, very much so very much so.

1033
01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:58,000
But yeah, I mean, the entire thing at the end we just left with an image of Cody Rhodes just looking completely dumbfounded and more confused than ever.

1034
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:11,000
I don't know if that gifted more to cement the decision that Cody Rhodes was made is due to make in 24 hours time by the end of it or whether it just caused further confusion.

1035
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:16,000
Yeah, pretty much it was definitely confusing and the episode.

1036
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:24,000
I I'm out of notes. I'm out of things to discuss at this point when it comes to this episode of SmackDown.

1037
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:30,000
But I tell you one thing I am really, really looking forward to elimination chamber now.

1038
01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:35,000
Oh, 100% and you can catch all of our coverage for elimination chamber.

1039
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:49,000
We're breaking it down into three episodes in very much the same fashion that we did with Royal Rumble where we're doing the men's and women's elimination chamber as sort of live watch along to get our live reactions with it.

1040
01:55:49,000 --> 01:56:03,000
As we watch the episode back and then we'll do a third episode where we'll break down the unsanctioned match between Sami Zayn and every other match Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens and every other match in between as well.

1041
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:11,000
And yeah, I mean, there's nothing else to say, but to you at finishes and factions does elimination chamber.

1042
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:35,000
See you soon. Peace. See you soon.